The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1876-06-30
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Last Sabbath very large concourse assem-
bled at Buck Horn TO show their last tokens OF
respect to the mortal remains of an old and re-
spected friend and neighbor, Mr. George Hart
man. Several things connected with the de-
ceased ma!e him an object of interest and are
worthy Of II passing natice.
lie was born in Berks county, January 30th,
1892 and died ut the residence OF his son, Amos
Hartman, i'll Buck Horn, June %, 1876, aged
81 years, 4 months, and - days His father
moved to this part Of the country toward the
close OF Washington's administration, when it
was an almost unbroken forest. They settled
down in the woods, and had wagon cover for
house and tied their horses to the trees until
they could construct other shelter for themselves
and their beasts He spent eighty years of his
life within four miles of Buck Horn, where he
died. Having been born nine years after the
contamination of peace between the colonies and
the mother country, he has witnessed the admin
istraton Of every President of the United States
and has voted at every Presidential election
since the days of Madison.
lie was the father of fifteen children, Of whom
tlcNtl sOla llNcu 10 De men
and women and heads of families. He leaves
behind him thirteen children, eighty grand
children and thirty'eight grandchildren.
The multitude gathered at his funeral was the
largest of the kind ever witnessed at Buck
Horn,
Services were held at the NJ. L. church in
Buck Horn by Rev. John Thomas
The Sentinel man in his able argument of last
week comes to the following conclusions: lst,
That "a port ion of our citizens are deprived
from receiving the benefits (if there are any,
arising from gas" For the information Of the
gentleman we would say that an odor sometimes
arises from gas, but benefits never although
there are few thousand cities and towns in the
nation that are laboring under the hallucination
that they are benefited by the use of gas but it
is not the kind furnished by the Sentinel. ID,
That town lighted by gas is "a bob.tailed form
of aristocracy." That is right We believe
some dictionaries do thus define an aristocracy,
but they fail to say anything about the "bOb-
tailed FORM" so we do not know exactly what
that means. Sd, "When company or corpor-
alton attempts to grasp money from private
citizen without compensa,ing that citizen for the
same, they become robbers in modified form."
Does he mean the Gas Company? If SO, we
have only to say that the Company manufactures
gas and sells il to the town at lower rates than
almost any other town in this State pays for it,
and it is not their duty to Inquire wEo is bene-
| fitted by its use, If the town corporation
"grasps" money from private citizens without
compensation, the citizens have remedy,
| Hadn't the Sentinel man better tell them what
that remedy is, il he knows And at the same
time inform us what are "robbers in u modified
form p We had always supposed robbery to
be robbery, but we confess ignorance as to the
"modiGed form" Of that crime. From the legal
opinion expressed at the end of the article in
question II looks very much rs though some one
! was fishing ior a case.