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New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-09-14


was prepared to make proper use of it +?
Such is not the rule in the courts of JUS
tice.
The wisdop Of educating these wards
and freemen is analogous to that of pre-
pairing the heir for his Inheritance; but
suffrage should have been granted at once,
and not withheld through timidity of
trust. The emancipated may have been
deceived in their inexperience. They
may have chosen bad advisers or fidu-
Charles. Have they not suffered for their
errors? Does not indirect taxation rest
upon them? Have they not been scourged
and shot for the infdelity of their agents?
Are they not now threatened with the as
tendency Of party which may here, as
elsewhere, nullify the right Of suffrage
and condemn them to perpetual servitude?
May not, indeed, their representative
ratio be changed. All these are ques-
tons which, answered in the affirmative,
would show the emancipated the dangers
which beset him. That they have be-
come with added experience better quail
fed to execute this high trust confided to
them is shown by the Democratic solicita-
ton Of their votes. Suffrage, universal,
unqualified by any condition save the
commission Of crime, is the only guar
antee of liberty. The chief qualification
Of this trust should be the universal in
telligence of the voter. Universal educa-
lion should, then, accompany universal
suffrage. We are pleased to see the De-
nocracy acknowledging the public duty
# educating alike the whole people, with
,ut regard to color or condition. With
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The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1876-01-28
A Dead Man Dying Again.
AN EXTRAORDINARY STORY FROM PARIS.

A man has just died in the Rue Lcmercier
Batgnolles, who at one time had q criminal
notorety in the United States at New York,
and after many vicissitudcs had come to
seek oblivion in our great city.
This man was named Chas. Colt, and he
was the father Of the inventor of the revol-
yer which bears that name. In 1S47 he
lived in New York, on the Harlem road, in
wooden house surrounded by a garden and
remote from every habittaion. He lived with
a mistress, with whom he often quarreled.
One evening, in a fit of anger, Colt killed
this woman by a blow with bottle on the
temple.
In the presence of the corpse the unfortu-
nate man only thought how he could make
away with it the quickest. An internal
thought passed through his mind he cut
the body in pieces, and, after sailing it,
buried it in another one and transported the.
funeral load on dray to n vessel which
sailed for New Orleans. Colt had taken
care to keep the head which he had buried
in the garden, and to give a false address in
~'Nh SllSdis, IOhNNdllhS hlSO lllo ONll HdlllC
as consignor. On reaching its destination,
the box could not be delivered, as the ad-
dress was fictitious. 1t was sent back to
NewYork, opened and the corpse discovered.
Thanks to a mark on the bosom Ia tuft of
hair toward the neck,) justice overlook the
guilty one. The buried head was found
in short, Colt, was condemned to be
hanged.
1t is unnecessary to say that the family
of the unfortunate Colt made all possible
efforts to procure his pardon they were not
even listened TO. The evening before the
day on which Colt was to be executed in
the prison, fire broke out in the interior of
the Tombs-the celebrated prison of New
York in the Egyptian style-and the fire.
man penetrated to the interior of the Jail
where one of them-won over by Colts
family-carried to him fireman's dress, by
means of which he disappeared in the midst
of the tumult
When they noticed his fight, it was to
late Colt had left New York and was lost
in the desert wilds of America. Thus he
came to Utah, to San Francisco, to Mexico,
and from there to France, where he lived un-
known in Paris under the name of Charles
kavanagh, the latter having been his
mothers name.
Before dying, Colt, who was Protestant,
sent for his pastor, and in his presence, and
before one of his neighbors-from whom
we get these details-revealed the true story
Of his life and his identity.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1876-01-28
Regarding Diphthcria.
SOME SUGGESTIONS ABOUT IT'S REGULATION
AND TREATMENT THAT ARE TIMELY.

| The following rules for the prevention OF
extirpation of diphtheria form the conclu-
ding sentences of report submitted by DIR.
stephen Smith to the Chicago board OF
health.
Cleanliness in and around the dwelling
and pure air in living and sleeping rooms
are Of the utmost importance wherever any
contagious disease is prevailing, as cleani-
ness tends both to prevent and mitigate it.
Every kind and source of filth around and in
the house should be thoroughly removed;
cellars and foul areas should be cleaned and
dlsiniected; drains should be in perfect re-
pair; dirty walls and ceiling should be lime
washed, and every occupied room should be
thoroughly ventilated. Apartments which
have been occupied by persons sick with
diphtheria should be cleansed with disin-
fectants, ceilings limewashed and wood.
work painted, the carpets, bedclothes, up
hoIstered furniture, etc., exposed many DAYS
to fresh air and the sunlight (all articles
which may be boiled or subject to high
degrees of heat should be thus disinfected).
such rooms should be exposed to a current
of fresh air for at least one week before
reoccupation. y
When diphtheria is prevailing no child
should be allowed to kiss strange children
nor those suffering from sore throat, the
system of compelling children
to kiss every visitor is a we'll contrived meth
cd of propagating other grave diseases than
nor should it sleep with or be
confined to rooms occupied by, or use artic-
les, as toys taken in the mouth, handker-
chiefs, etc, belonging to children having
sore throat, Group, or catarrh. If the weather
is cold, the child should be warmly clad
with hannels.
When diphtheria is in the house or in the
family, the well children should be scrupu-
-ousIy kept apart from the sick, in dry, well |
aired rooms, and every possible source of
injection through the air, by personal con-
TACT with the sick, and by articles used about
hem or in their rooms should be rigidly |
guarded. Every attack ofsore throat, Group |
md catarrh should be at once attended to. |
The feeble should have invigorating food |
md treatment.
The sick should be rigidly isolated in |
(the air being entirely changed at |
east hourly), unlighted rooms, the outflow
'fair being, as far as possible, through the |
external windows by depressing the upper
md elevating the lower sash or chimney |
heated by a fire in an open fireplace; all |
discharges from the mouth and nose should |
De received into vessels containing disinfec-
ants, as solution of carbonc acid or sui
'hate Of zinc, or upon cloth which are i'm
nediately burned; Or if not burned, thor
'ughly boiled, or placed under a disinfec-
ing fluid.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1876-01-28
A Glimpse of Gen. Washington.

One other scene may properly be added
to this brief record of the struggles and
triumphs Of old New York. There came a
sunshiny day in April, 1889, when George
Washington, President-elect of the United
States by the unanimous voice of the people,
stood on balcony in front of the Senate
Chamber in the old Federal Hall on Wall
street, to take the oath of office. An i'm
mense multitude filed the streets, and the
windows and roofs Of the adjoining houses.
Clad in a suit Of dark brown cloth of Ameri-
can manufacture, with hair powdered, and
with white silk stockings, silver shoebuokles
and stee-hilted dress sword the hero who
had led the colonies to their independence
came modestly forward to take up the bur-
dens that peace had brought. Profound
silence tell.upon the multitude as Washington
responded solemnly to the reading of the
oath OF Office, 81 swear-so help me God"
Then, amid cheers, the display of flags, and
the ringing Of all the bells in the city, our
first President turned to face the duties his
countrymcn had imposed upon him. In
sight Of those who would have made an idol
OF him, Waahington's first act was to seek
the aid of other strength than his own. In
the calm sunshine of that April afternoon,
fragrant with the presence of seed-time and
the promise of harvest, we leave him on his
knees in Old st, Paul's, bowed with the
simplicity of a child at the feet of the SUI
preme Ruler ofthe Universe. john r. Mines,
ScriJaer Jor fe6fUary.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1876-01-28

THE OLD FoLKs.-We often reflect that
the bent and feeble forms of the aged whom
we meet in our daily rounds, once bore
hearts as blithe and gay and were as full of
childish ioibles as those Of the more youth
iul. They have all passed through the same
dream of happiness, and the pure romance
that thrilled the heart of the beardless boy
when love S young dream enraptured him BY
the soft check and languishing glance of
lovely woman each could tell his tale of
school-boy life, and relate the scenes of that
era crowded with more of love, of passion,
and more of spiritual truth than any of the
tales he had read in after life He could tell
of tender lays he had penned at midnight by
the light of a "tallow Dip" and contrast the
bright days of his youth with those later in
life, and even praise the maidens of his gen.
Grafton as being more fair than modern
maids. When young, they had whispers in
willing ear, kisses upon a blushing cheek,
and think the kiss and whisper of that early
day ionder than modern lips can now impart.
Ihey have recollection of passions sighted
and betrayed, of youthful friends early gone
to the spirit land, and prospects that only
opened to deceive. The eyes that are bright
and tho lips that talk of love and all the fair
forms that we behold, must, in the natural
order Of time, come to this. Ere long, all
that we value on earth will fade from oul
sight, and the treasures that we now so dear,
ly regard must be surrendered. We are all
growing old
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1876-01-28

1t is remarkable and most interesting
fact that the very first use to which the dis
covery of printing was applied was the pro-
duction of the Bible. This was accomplished
at Mentz between 1440 and 1445. Gut
enburg was the inventor of the art and Faust,
a goldsmith, furnished the necessary funds.
Had it been single page, or an entire sheet,
which was then produced, there might have
been less occasion to have noticed it ; but
there was something in the whole character
of the affair which, if not unprecedented,
rendered it singular in the usual current of
human events. The Bible was in two vol
umes, which have been justly praised for the
strength and beauty of the paper, the exact
ness Of the register, and the lustre of the ink.
The work contained twelve hundred and
eighty-two pages, and being the first ever
printed, of course involved a long period of
time, and an immense amount of mental and
mechanical labor; and yet for a long time
after it had been finished and offered for sale
not being save the artists themselves knew
how it was accomplished OF the first
printed Bible eighteen copies are known to
be in existence, four of which are printed on
vellum. Two of these are in England, one
being in the Greenvlle collection, one in the
Royal Library of Berlin, and one in the Roy
al Library of Paris. OF the fourteen re-
naming copies ten are in England-there
being copy in the libraries of Oxford, Ed
inburg and London, and several in the col
lections of different nobemen. The velum
copy has been sold as high as e1,30O.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1876-01-28
The London Human Hair Market.

For one prime natural product the emissa-
ries of fashion must go to Mincing Lane
Judging from the quantities in which it is
imported this article must be in considerable
demand, The ''lot' with which we are more
intimately concerned is lying in Cross Lane
and weighs some five thousand pounds-a
tolerably large consignment of an article
which is-well NOT necessary, perhaps, but
apparently finds customers readily enough.
1t is human hair, The great bulk of it
| comes from China, is black as coal and coarse
as cocoanut fibre, but of magnificent length
Many Chinese head has been shom to pro-
duce these tons of material, to be sold in lots
of two cases (of about four hundred pounds
each, and is expected to realize about one
half crown a pound in swholesae trans
action. Skilled experts are weighing and
feeling the long tresses, but soon leave them
to investigate the various shades and quail
ties of one bale of European, worth ten or
eleven times as much as the Chinese.
Whence comes this? ? From Germany main
ly-from Russia and from France sometimes.
Here lies a heap of samples cullel from this
valuable bale, with the weights of each col
or carefully attached With what variety
and richness Of hues glow these long, fine
silky tresses, ranging from the deepest brown
through every shade of ruddy auburn and
sunny chestnut to the purest gold and fairest
tlaXen. What monument of selfabnega-
tion is here? what picture of scli-sacrifce!
for when woman parts with her hair she per-
forms an act far more trying than when she
parts with her jewels That maiden must
be poor indeed who parts with her crowning
charm for few shillings. Legends to the
contrary Notwithstanding, how can she get
more than pitiful sum when cheice bale
after passing through the hands of the shear
er, the local merchant and the importer, and
paying cost Of transport, will fetch no more
than seyen-and-twenty shillings per pound?
The blonde madchen whose superb tresses /
hold in my hand, did not, | apprehend, get
much for them. Perhaps few forins lit
tie enough, according to our estimate of
money, but yet sufficient to keep the wolf
from her mothers door for Il little space
But this silken crown, which brought its
original owner so little, must pass through
many hands before it adorns the still hand
some head of Lady Barepoles, who is not
quite the woman she was when Barepoles be-
came the captive of her bow and spear in her
first season-but is yet leader of fashion,
Al the Year ROuad
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1876-01-28
Dull Great Men.

Descartes, the famous mathematician and
philosopher. La Fountaine, celebrated for
his witty fables, and Button, the naturalist.
were all sngularly deficient in the power of
conversation. Mormontel, the novelist, was
so dull in society that his friend said to him
after an interview, 81 must 90 and read his
tales, in recompense to myself for the weari-
ness of hearing him." As to Corneille, the
greater dramatist of France, he was COM
pletely lost in society so absent and en-
barrassed that he wrote of himself witty
couplet, importing that he was never intelli-
glble but through the mouth of another.
Wit on paper seems to be something widely
different from that play of words in CONVEX
sation, which, while it sparkles, dies for
Charles H., the wittiest of monarchs, was so
ch9rmcd with the humor of "Hudibras, ,"
that he caused himself TO be introduced in
the character of private gentleman to But
ler its author. The witty king found the
author very dull companion, and was of
opinion with many others, that so stupid a
fellow could never have written so clever n
book. Addison, whose classic elegance has
long been considered the model of style, was
shy and absent in society, preserving even
before single stranger formal and digniiied
silence. In conversation Dante was taci-
turn and satirical Grey and Alfer seldom
talked or smiled. Rousseau was remarkably
trite in conversation, without word of fancy
or eloquence in his speech. Milton was un-
social and sarcastic when much pressed by
strangers.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1876-01-28

The CHGNAMAN's NoAH.-It is believed
that Fohi, the first King of China, is identi.
cal with Noah The Chinese themselves
claim that Fohi has no father; and Noah,
although subsequent to the flood the great
progenitor Of the race was himself at that
time iatherlcss. The mother of Fohi is said
to have borne him encompassed with a rain
bow-an evident alluSion to the bow fprom-
ise revealed to Noah as the sign of Gods
covenant, Fohi is represented to have rear
ed seven kinds or creatures, which he sacri-
nee to the Great Supreme, Noah also took
into the ark clean beast and fowls by seyens,
which he offered to the God of heaven ~
offerings Fohi is represented as drawing off
the waters which had deluged the earth, ,
thus identifying him with the flood.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1876-01-28
POetiCal.
PARSON KELLY.

Old rarson Kclly's fair young wife Irene
Died when but three months wed,
And no new love has ever come between
Ills true heart and the dead,
Though now for sixty years the grass has grown
Upon her grave, ana on Its simple stone
The moss
And yellow lichcns creep her name across.
outside the door, In the warm summer air.
The old man sits for hours,
The idle wind, that stlrs his silver hair,
Is sweet with Juncs first flowers;
But duh his mind and cloudcd with the haze
OF llfe's last weary, gray November days;
And dim
The past and present look alike to him.
The sunny scene around, confused and blurred,
The twitter Of the birds,
Blend in his mind with voices long since heard
Glad chldhoods careless words,
Old hymns and Scripture texts; while lndlstnct
Yet strong, one thought with all fair things is
linked
The bride
or his lost youth is ever by his side.
BY It's sweet weight OF snowy blossoms bowed,
The rOse-trce branch hangs low,
And IN the sunshine, like lcccy cloud,
Sways slowly to and fro.
And smiles, and fanclcs that her face he's seen
Beneath
The opening roses OF bridal wreath
Down from the gambrcl roof q white dove flts,
The sunshine on It's wings,
And lighted close to where the dreamer sits,
vision with 1t brings
golden CLEAN from some long vanished day,
"Dear love-" he calls then, "Why will you not
stay?"
He signs,
For at his voice, the bird looks up and flies.
Oh, constant heart whose falling thoughts cling
fast
To one long laid in dust,
sun seeing, turned to thine, as In the past,
Her look of perfect trust
Her soft voice hearing in the south winds breath.
Dream on Love pure as thine shall outllye
death,
And when
The gates unfold, her eyes meet thine agalnl
-liarj9a Douglas, IN Tie Galdry for
FsbmaiS.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1876-01-28

Scene at Brooklyn wedding breakfast
Company all seated about the table, Apausc
in the general conversation. Happy hus,
band, to his wite's soyen-year.old sister at
the other end Of the room swell, Julia, YOU
have new brother now" Julia: "Yes,
but mother said to papa the other day that
she was afraid you would never amount Il
much, but that it seemed to be Sarah's last
chance" Intense silence for moment, fol.
lowed by rapid play OF knives and forks.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1876-01-28

Without decision of character no man or
woman is ever worth button, or ever can
be, Without it, man becomes at once Il
good natured nobody, the poyorty-strlckon
possessor of but one solitary prinriple-that
OF obligng everybody under the sun merely
for the asking.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1876-01-28

A young gentleman got neatly out of a
fine scrape with his intended. She taxed
him with having kissed two young ladies
at some party at which she was not present
lie owned up to it, but said that their united
ages only made twenty-one. The simple
minded girl thought of ten and eleven, so
laughed off her pout, He did not explain
that one was nineteen and the other two
years of age. Wasn't it artful?
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1876-01-28

The other day Vicksburg father gently
SAID Don't stuff victuals into your mouth
IN that way, my son; George Washington
didn't cat after that fashion," The boy,
after pondering for Il while, remarked to
himself; "And l don't believe that Geo,
Washington licked his boy for finding a
bottle Of whiskey in the shed when he was
hunting after horse shoe, either"
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1876-01-28

Aeo Crumment says old Deacon Ransom
went to a circus and took his grandchild,
remarking to every acquaintance he met
that the boy wantedt to see the sacred an
imals, and he couldn't find it in his heart
to refuse him. Arriving at the tent he
cried to go home, and the Deacon spanked
him to make him go in
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1876-01-28

MARY-"Please ma'am,is it true as you're
agoing to buy grand piano? win it be
real grand one like they as at the ALP
Mistress-"Well, yes, Mary; | believe so,
but-'why2" Mary-''You see, MN, cos
when yon went out | could play it to keen
the children quiet"
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1876-01-28
BLOOMSBURY, PA, FRIDAY, JANUARY %. 1876

Vincent on his lap; but she indignantly de-
clined the familiarity, wheroupon the stran
ger discovered himself to be her husband,
when the prohered courtesy was ioyfully ac-
cepted.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1876-01-28
CHURCH DIRECTORY,
BAPTIST CHURCH.

Rev. j. =. Tustln, (Supply)
sunday scryccs-lO}5 a. IN: ana GH p,m
sunday SchOOl-9 u. IN.
Prayer Meeting Every Wednesday evening at CJG
clock
Seats free The public are invited 10 attend.
ST. MATTHEW'S LUTHERAN CHURCH.
Mns'er-Rev. j. McCron.
sunday ServlCCs-10T a. IN. and SID. m.
sunday SchoOl-9a. IN.
PRAYER Meeting-Eycry Wednesday evening at GE
Seats free. Nopews rented. All are welcome.
PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH.
Mlnlsler-Rev. stuart MITCHELL
sunday SerylcesnlOll a. m. and 81 p. m.
PRAYER Meetlng-Eyery Wednesday evening at o.
Seats free. No pews rented. Strangers welcome.
METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH.
Presiding Elder-Rev. n. S. buckingham.
Mlnister-Rev. j. II. McGarrah.
sunday Servlces-10k and GE p. m.
Bible Class-Every Monday evening at GT o'clock
Young Young Mems Prayer Meoting-Evcry Tuesday
General Prayer Mecting-Every Thursday evening
o'clock.
REFORMED CHURCH.
Corner of Third and Iron streets.
rastor-Rev. 4. f. Honmeler.
RcSldenCc-EaSt street, opp. Third street.
Sunday Serviccs-lO% a. IN. and p, IN.
Sunday Schools p. IN.
Prayer Meeting pm.
All are invited There Is always room.
Services every sunday afternoon at 2 o'clock at
heller's church, Madison township,
ST. PAULs CHURCH.
Rector-Rev. John Hewitt.
sunday SeTvlCcS-10k a. M, G% .. m.
sunday School, n. m.
First sunday In the month, Holy Communion.
services preparatory to Communion on Friday
evening before the lst sunday in each month.
PcwS rented; but everybody welcome
Persons desiring to consult the Rector religious
matters Will md him at the parsonage on Rock
Street.
EVANGELICAL CHURCH.
Presiding Elder-Rev. A. l.. Reeser.
MnlStcr-Rev j. A. Irvine.
Sunday serylce-3 p. m, in the Iron Street Ch uch.
PRAYER Meeting-Eyery sabbath at p. m.
All are invited. All are welcome.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1876-01-28

u never get mad at fool was the cut
ting remark of man who fancied himself
ailronted by another, THAT accounts 70,
your always being on such amicable terms
with yourself" was the rejoinder.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1876-01-28
THE COLUMBIAN
Columbia County Official Directory

president Judge-Willlam Elwcll
Associate Judgcs-Iram Derr, George Scott.
lfOlhOhotary, &C-B Frank Zarr.
Register a Observation-Disclosures H. Jacohv
District Nturney-JOhn NJ. Clark
ShcriT-Mchacl Grover.
SnrvcyOr-lsaac Dewitt.
Tfeasurer-Dr. IL. W, MCRcynOlds
Joseph Sands. - w. ''
commissioners Clcrli-Wlllihm Krckbaum
Auditors-M. V. u. Kline. j. Is. Casey - b. Brown
COrOncr-Charlcs q. Murphy.
UT. " oN' "iiii''iii ii'
G9nnty Supcrlntendcnt-W William H. Snyder.
,hioon POor Distrlct-DlrcCtors-O. Z. Ent. Scott,
mhl' hIaner B00msburg and Thomas CTCyGling,
scott, o. T.. Ent, Secretary. o.