The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1876-01-14
DO EVERYTHING WILL.

felt by the publishers as well as readers.
Do EVERYTHING WE'LL.
1t is the result of practical, every day
experience that steady attention to matters
Of detail lies at the root of human progress,
and that diligence, above all, is the mother
Of good luck. Accuracy also is of "a much
Importance. and as invariable mark of good
training in a man accuracy in observation,
accuracy in speech, accuracy in the transac-
ton Of affairs. What is done in business
must be done well, for it is better to accom-
plish perfectly a small amount of work than
to half do ten times as much. Yet, in bus
mess affairs. il is the manner in which even
small matters are transacted that often de-
ciaes men for or against you With virtue,
capacity, and good conduct in other respects,
the person who is habiually inaccurate can
not be trusted hi. work has to be gone over
again, and he thus causes annoyance, yexa-
ton, and trouble.
TRUSTEES SALE.-Yesterday morning the
Trustees Of the mortgage on the Hancock Steel
at public sale at the Court House at this place,
Sheriff Young acting auctoneer The frat
bid was 80, ,000 which was run up to 100000
when the property was struck off to Mr.. Pope
the bidder being Mr. Kramer. We understand
the real purchaser to be Mr.. Roach. The last
named gentleman is the great shp-builder
whose works are at Chester, below Philadelphia,
where he empoys some three thousand hands,
is man of great enterprise, being also the OWN
er Of the Morgan Iron Works, situated in New
York City. Mr. Roach il the owner Of all the
bonds issued by the Hancock Steel and Iron
Co, amounting to 100000. This leaves the
properly still subject to a mortgage of $2500OO,
held by the Hancock estate.
This sale, we are pleased to state, enls all lit
gaton in respect to these works, and the pur-
chase is regarded as essentially in the interest OF
onr borough. We learn from Mr. Roach that
Just as soon "a practicable it Is his intention 10
put the two furnaces in running ORDER and the
other works will follow at the first sign of Il re-
vival in the iron trade.-Danpilis HtcligGicer.
Among our business men there are few
who have shown more enterprise than the
firm Of Rollins & Holmes, Though young
~ business house, they have built up 4
large trade and are competent to attend to u
kind of work that heretofore our citizen.
have been obliged to send to the city to have
lone. We refer particularly to house-warm-
ing apparatus, and plumbing Last fall
they put heaters in the Fiflh-street school
house, which have given entire satisfaction
and now they have completed Il conf mplicated
'ct of machinery for warming tho Normal
school buildings. The engine or steam gen
.rator is in thu cellar Of the lower building,
iad from it pipes are laid to the new board
ing hall and tho Model School. Not being
practical mechanics, we are unable to de-
scribe the working of the machine, but the
contractors are confident that it will heat all
the buildings. 1t has self-regulating at
lachmcnt that keeps up uniform tcmpera-
Gure by opening or closing the draught ac-
tOrding to tho pressure of steam. Messrs
Rollins & Holmes took the contract for ST.
POO, the necessary apparatus being furnished
by Baker, Smith & Co., of New York, The
brick work on the new hall is about com
pleted, aud when finished the building, wit!
Ibis improved heater, will be the most per-
feet of aay of the kind in the State.
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a'.dt amJ I,o ,yrntn :, roem He did nat adon
| new measure. IIi- New Years address il il
lhe popular style, OF Mother G2ose'' II 'h'
'trltlc ana Mo'ner uooS7 'o" q0"'''' wv
The annual address of the Republican ha
been universally admired, It il SAID to be 'h'
oT7' au"TH'7 III w. le'iIa'',oa, ,
J;,s, cam get nm the ncate.t and best lob worL
| in this section. Republican Of last ueck
We regret that the above obIiges us to say
any thing about Carriers Addresses, for we haC
not intended to call attention to the stuff force'
upon the public by our neighbor in the shape o
a Christmls ldress-an original ido,, by the
vay-lest some one might read 1t, aud smile a
its peculiar construction. We feel sorry for AN,