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

The screw propeller has been in practical
use less than forty years, and yet its ideal
origin runs much farther back. Thomas
Jefferson, writing from Paris in 1895, des-
cribes vessel then recently invented, which
he examined while in operation. He says
the inventor did not know himself the prin-
ciple Of his own invention ''It is a screw
with very broad or thin worm. or rather it
is thin plate with its edge applied spiraly
round an axis. This being turned, operates
on the air as a screw does, and may be liter
ally said to screw the vessel along. = \
The screw, think, would be more etfectual
if placed below the surface Of the water"
Mr.. Jefferson adds his note to this invention
that he thinks Mr.. Bushnell, of Connecticut,
has prior claim to the invention of the
screw as a metiye power for vessels. During
the Revolutionary war he invented a subma-
rine torpedo vessel to be driven by screws.
This torpedo was the original of FultOn's,
and may have been the first instrument of
its kind, but the screw had been suggested
as a motive power for vessels long before the
time of Bushnell. Brandes Dictionary says
that "The screw propeller is probably as old
as the wind mill, and windmill of the con-
struction now usually employed is represent
ed in the nth proposition of Hero's Spiritd-
Tia, work written l3O years before the
Christian era" For century and half
efforts were made to introduce the screw as II
propeller of vessels before Ericsson and
Smith successfully demonstrated the utility
of the screw, and its advantages over paddle
wheels. The history OF this,as of most other
inventions, shows that the world must wait
for its laggards that it cannot advance rap
idly along one line Of discovery or of IL eiul
applications until it has advanced or is ready
to advance along others. Abnormal or pre-
mature growths are sure to be"nipped in the
bud"
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BLOOMSBURY. PA, FRIDAY, JANUARY H. 1876.

| Honor's orders to lay before you just and
| distinct account, which is as follows: April
| the seventeenth / set out from home and
went by the way of John Harriss and Thom-
| as McKee's, being afraid of the two high
| mountains and the bad road that leads from
them to Shamokin. arrived at Shamokip
the twentieth of April, found that two of the
Shick Calamys being about thirty miles of
on the northwest branch Of Sasquehannah,
commonly called 2Machson, sent mes
sage for them, there being great number
of Indians at and abou. Shamokin. !
thought fit to send my son with James Lo.
gan, the lame son of Shick 'Calamys, with
another Indian to Oskohary, Nishkibeckon
and Woyamock, three Indian towns on the
Sasquchannah North East Branch), with
your Honors message They set out from
Shamokin on the twenty-second, by water, be-
cause therowas no fodder to he had by the way
for horses. On the twenty-sixth they came
back again and reported that they lodged the
first night at Oskohary VITA Lapackpitton,
the chieftain, and Sammy interpreted your
Honor's message in MOhock to James Lo-
gan, and he TO Lapackpitt0n in Delaware
That Lapackptton was well pleased with
the message, thanked them very kindly, and
gave them the string of wampum back again
which they had given him, and told them
that 1t was best to leave the string at Niski-
beckOn, where there were more Indians,
with old Nutimus, their chief. When they
arrived at Niskibeckon, old Nutimus was
from home, but the rest of the Indians re-
ceived the message very kindly, and said
they would lay it before Nutimus and the
rest of their Indians after they should come
home AT Woyamock it was Just the same,
Paxanosy, the chief man there, was from
home also the message with another string
of wampum was taken well by those that
were at home"
There is abundant evidence that the points
mentioned are Catawissa, Nesocpeck and
Wyoming; and also that Oskohary was
Delaware name of the place, as are also the
other two names.
No two men spell the same Indian name
alike, and the same man scarcely ever spells
it twice the same way. The different tribes
called the same place by different names, as
Catawissa and Oskohary, as Wyomock and
Seahautowano and Maug hwauwame for wy
oming distances are given by mere guess,
and seem to depend on the strength of the
rover or the swiftness of the horse making
the journey,
Fifty years ago much was known which is
now lost; but amongst old letters aud old
newspapers some things may yet be recover
ed and made to contribute to the personal
interest and local and chronological correct
ness of this attempt. Such, for instance, as
Mr.. Rhawn's contribution of last week, Civ
ing dates and names, and making record
permanent and trustworthy.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1876-01-14

HALFWAY HONESTY. The other day
a crowd in attendance at horse sale in De-
troit were greatly astonished to hear an au-
tioneer say:
Gentlemen, l can't lie about the horse
he is blind in one eye"
The horse was soon knocked down to a
citizen who had been greatly struck by the
auctioneer's honesty, and after paying for
the horse he said:
"You we're honest enough to tell me that
this animal was blind in one eye. Is there
any other defect?"
"Yes, sir, there is He is also blind in
the other eye" was the prompt reply.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1876-01-14

SAVE DAT POCKET BOOK. A negro plan
ter came up to Vicksburg the other day, sold
his cotton, put his money in his pocket-book
and started down the river. Leaning over
the guards as the boat backed out, he fell
overheard. His port-monaie, which was in
his side pocket, floated out and rode with
his hat on the surface of the water, while
the current carried the negro away. The
yawl was lowered, assistance at once started
toward the drowning man, who, perceiving
his treasure floating OFF, raised his voice and
shouted:
Save dat pocket-book
HIS head went under and he disappeared,
AS he rose up again he gasPed:
"Dars $llS in dat pocket-book"
Scarcely had he uttered the words before
he sank second time,
The yawl came within reach just in time
to rescue the drowning African as he came
tp the surface for the last time. As soon as
the water was wiped from his nose aud
mouth so that he could see and speak, he
asked;
"Did-you save dat pocket-boolsl" !"
"No," was the response.
"Well, den," said the negro rcgretfully
"what de debbil was the use OBJ sayin' me|
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1876-01-14

WHY UNCLE DANIEL SKINNED EN-
1t is known that Uncle Daniel Drew gave
100000 to found new Methodist college.
The good old man, We learn from the st.
Louis Globe Democrat, recently told a friend
all about it. "Well, sir" he said, ~ didn't
know where the money would come from. 1
was worried over it, and so made it subject
of prayer. After fasting and praying over the
matter for one day, l went down on Wall
street, and in less than twenty-four hours I
skinned those fellows out of 5000, ,0O0."
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1876-01-14

The following, intended to commemorate
the fate of a tract peddler who sat down on a
can of nitro-glycerine to rest himself, was
submitted to the poet Childs and pronounce
ed contraband:
To the azure depths of the upper air
His body has fewn, tlewn, fewn;
And over the landscape everywhere
A bit OF him here, and bit of him there
1t now lies strewn, strewn, strewn;
But his soul, believe and am willing to
swear,
Is grandly climbing the golden stair,
To an anti-giycerine tune;
Gone where they don't put it up in cans.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1876-01-14

A powerfully built young lady from Ghosts
Gulch walked into dry goods store at Cam
on City, Col, the other day, and blowing her
nose and wiping it on her shoe-heel, inquired
of the bachelor clerk, "Do you keep hoes,
young feller?" eyes, ma am, all kinds, was
the reply; and pulling down couple of
boxes of hose he held pair up to view.
She looked straight at him, turned red, and
overfowed with the remark, "You blasted
fool, them's stockin's-I want hoe" He
referred her to the hardware store,
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POetical.
ALLAN PERCY.
cARoIlNg NoRroN.

II was hequteous lHdy richly dressed;
Around her neck are chains Of Jewels rare;
A velvet mantle shrouds her snowy breast
And young child Is softly slumbering there,
In her own arms. beneath that glowing sun,
She bears him onward 10 the green wood tree:
Is the dull heath, thou fair and thoughtless
one,
The place where an earl's son should Graded
be?
Ipnabyi
Though proud earl he father TO my child,
Yet on the sward my blessed babe shall lie;
Let the winds ul him with their murmurs wild,
And toss the green nough upward to the sky,
We'll knows that earl how long my spirit pinod,
loved n forester, glad hold. and free;
And had welded as my heart inclined,
My child were Graded meath the greenwood
tree
Lullaby!
slumhcr thou stn my lnnocent-mine own
While coll back the dreams of other days,
In the deep forest feel less alone,
Then when those palace splcIdors mock my
gaze.
Fear not! my arm shall bear thee safely back;
need no squire, nor mage with hended knee,
To bear my baby through the wildwood track,
Where Allen Percy used to roam with me.
Lullaby
Here can SIT and while the frosh winds blow
Waving the ringlets OF thy shining hair.
Giving my check a deeper tinge Of rose
! can dream dreams that comfort my despair
can make visions Of q different home,
such as we hoped in other days might be;
There no proud earls unwelcome footsteps
come
There, Allan Percy, am safe with theel
Lullahyl
Thou art mine own-T1l bear thee where
list
Far from the dull, proud tower, and donjon
keep;
From my long hair the pearl chains I'll un-
twist;
And with PEASANTS heart sit down and
weep,
Thy gllttering broidered robe, my precious
one,
Changed for a simpler covering shall be-
And will dream thee Allan Percy's son,
Ana think poor Allan guards thy sleep with
me.
Lullaby!
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covery the shoreless infinite of the unknown
will still extend beyond them, and the hopes
and fears of what may lie in that impenetrs-
BILE region must ever have an influence
stronger than reason on the spiritual convic-
tions of humanity. Lucretius boasted that
he had trampled religion under his feet. and
that natural philosophy would sit hence
forth triumphant on the throne from which
God had been deposed. The especial as
pect of religion which had been chosen to
illustrate its hatefulness was on the eve of
becoming the soul of creed which was to
remodel human society and open new era.
The doctrine Of human sacrifice, which had
exerted so strange and growing facination,
was to lose its horrors while retaining its
ennobling influence y A. Froude.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1876-01-14

A fellow somewhat "boozyp had seated
himself by the stove in a church, and on be-
coming somewhat affected by the heat, and
making adisturbance, was shown to the door
by the usher, when he turned around, taking
a good look at the minister, and, in slow,
loud voice said ; such preaching,s that's
enough to make dog sick"
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1876-01-14

He sat in railway car. His head was
thickly covered with mass of red hair. Be-
hind him in seat sat a man with hardly
any hair on his head. He said to him. 81
guess you wasn't around when they dealt out
hair" "Oh, yes, / was" replied bald head,
"but they offered me lot of red hair, and I
told them to throw it in the ash bin"
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1876-01-14

Two persons were once disputing so loud
" on the subject of religion that they awoke
a big dog, which had been sleeping on the
hearth before them, and he forthwith barked
most furiously. An old divine present, who
had been quietly slipping his tea while the
disputants were talking, gave the dog kick
and exclaimed Hold your tongue, you
silly brute! You know no more about it
than they do"
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1876-01-14

Jones had prepared himself for home
dinner to his liking. He sat down in his
dining-room at peace with all the world and
said, "Now, Hannah, bring the cold mutton.
No hot meat Tor me this hot weather" Han
nah hestated for minute and said, "But
I've done give it away, SIR" Give it away
Give my dinner awayY" "Yes, sir. You
said il any tramps called was to give them
the cold shoulder"
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1876-01-14

1t is related of Paris portrait painter who
having recently painted the portrait of la
dy, critic who had just dropped in to see
what was going on in the studio, exclaimed,
at is very nicely painted, but why did you
take such an ugly model?" at is my moth.
err" calmly replied the artist. "Oh pardon
thousand times" from the critic, in great
confusion "you are right, ought to have
perceived it. 1t resembles you completely"
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1876-01-14

A little boy in II Scotch Sunday school
was asked if he did not wish to be born
again Born again said Tommy; mo,
wadns. You woaldno, cried the teacher.
sadly ''why not2" "FJr fear rdbe born
lassie, ," said Tommy.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1876-01-14

An apprentice sailor hoy fell from the
"round top to the deck, stunned, but little
hurt. The captain exclaimed in surprise,
"Why, where did yoa come from?' "From
the north Of Ireland, was the prompt reply,
us the poor fellow gathered himself up.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1876-01-14

THIS ONs.-A little five year old friend
who was always allowed to choose the pret-
test kitten for his pet and playmate, before
the other nur.linps were drowned, was taken
to his mothers ,ick-room the other morning
to see the tiny, twin babies lie looked re-
Aectively from one to the other for minute
or two, then pobrg his chuhhy finger into
The cheek of the plumpcst baby, he said de-
cidedly, "savc this one"
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1876-01-14

"Now, said Secretary Chandler, going
into the Interior GspsHment, here is An
item charg,as sAe Fort Dick agency with
two sAgr'ls OF sin aud four loaves Of read.
What's the IRE y. four l,ayos OF bleadg'
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Religion and Human Nature.

The Epicurean philosophers, as religion
waned, threw themselves into the study OF
natural phenomena. They believed that ss
man became acquainted with the physical
laws ofthe universe, superstition would dis
appear and a code of practical rules could
be created on theories Of expediency. Sci
ence might plume itself on its splendid dis
coveries; but human nature was stronger
than science, and in spite of it, and bv the
side Of it witchcraft, magic, necromancy,
with their attendant denominations, develop
ed out of the putrescent corpse of Faganism.
Lucretius would not have selected the sacri-
fee of Iphigenia as an illustration of the
Atrocities which could be provoked by relig-
ion, unless the spirit which had presided at
Aulis had been alive and active. Those
who would draw the horoscope of the spir-
itual future of mankind from the progress
of knowledge will find their forecasts defeat
ed by forces which thev disdain to recognise.
Far as they may extend the confines of dis
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CIIUR. T DIRECTORY.

NAi'i' 40 iNs'' t''lN
BArrt,r cuuRcu
Rev, J. P. Tus In rpplvJ
Slnlly rylc's i a m aniGH p. m.
PRAYER Meeting -Ey'ry Wcdnesiu evening at ~
sea 5 free The public are lnyt ed 60 Attend
ST. MATTHEW'S LUTHERAN cnrRCH.
Minis cr-Rrv J. "rCron.
sunday Services 10y a. IN. and Gilp. m.
SUNDAY ~cho0l-ga N.
pra cr Nee ing-Eyery wcdncsda, evening a. 6h
Seats free. Nopcw5 rented. All are welcome.
PWEsBl rsRIAS CHURCH.
Minis er-Rev. Stuarl Michel.
sunday Servlc,s-!o| Il. hl. and 6H p. m.
.pra er Nee ng-Etery Wednesday evening G4
o'clock
Sea 5 free. No pews rented. Strangers welcome.
METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH.
Presiding Elder-RCy n. $. puckinpham
Minis er-Rev. j. II McCarrah.
SUNDAY Scryccs-1 4. and ~ =. IN.
pi6le class Ever N5ndav evening a, 81 o'clock
Young liens Pro er Nice lnS-Ever' Tuesday
evening a GH O'Clock.
Geucr'l Prayer Mcctng-Every Thursday evening
REFORMED CHURCH.
Corner OF Talrd and Iron streets.
Pastor-Rev. 7. f. Ho1meier.
Rc,ilence-East street, opp. Third street.
sunday ScrvlCes-l0q a. IN and p. IN.
Suuda Schools p IN.
PRAYER Neetlng-Sgturday, n. m.
All are Invited There is always room.
Services every sunday afternoon at 2 o'clock at
deller's church. Madison township.
ST. FAUI's CHURCH.
RcCtOr-Rev. John Hewitt.
SUNDAY SrrviCeS-lIia ia a. ln 81 p. m.
SUNDAY SChOOl-0 n. IN.
First sun lay in the month, Holy Communion.
Services preparatory to Communion On Friday
evening before the 81 sunday In each month.
Pews rented but cveTybOd welcome.
Persons desiring to consult the Rector on religious
ma tcrs viii lind him at the parsonage on Rock
Street.
EVANGELICAL CHURCH.
Presiding Eldcr-Rev. \. L. Reeser.
Mini -ter-Rev. j. \. Irvine.
Sunda. Services p. M, in the Iron street Church.
prl er Nretng-ENCry sabbath at p. N.
All are invited. All are welcome.
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Bio msbo,g Official Directory.

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Prg'li"u ID. ~. or. 4. cashier.
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], T.. Ng~tir. tusNl,r
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as l1 ia ID. 3D. l', rresiden c., ~. Miller
hl'o.3 'Hle Wyu and WING Fund '.-lca len
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Boon b '- In U'' Nlyin- Fund ASS .t iJu--I.
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of every description both plain and fancy.
Portable Top Bugges open Buggies, Plain and
Fancy Platform Spring Wagons all OF the latest style
and made Of good material and fully warranted.-
give me can before purchasing elsewhere, as can
not be undersOld. claim that make the best wag-
Ons for the least money.
also do painting, trimming and repair old work
at the shortest notice. old springs welded and war
ranted to stand or no pay. I VIII exchange norta
bic top buggy for any Kind OF lumber, such as hen
lock, pine ash linn hickory and poplar to bcdelvei
ed at my shop by the tirSi OF February, 1873. IRON
dale orders taken and McKelvy, Neal cos for re-
pairi as cash. a. ;. CROSSLE1.
Oct s, ISIS,
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Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1876-12-07
aammatory speech from Thomas, and cries Of

: J. 80
"question."
'Ferriter demanded call of the House, evi
IDENTIFY hoping that no quorum was present
and Mackey, after consulting with the clerk
ruled that call of the house was not in or
der, after the call Of the previous question
until the Speaker had ascertained for himself
whether quorum really was present { Note
It is always in order.)
Hamilton now boldly rose to point Of or.
der, claiming that the House was trying to
exclude the real members from Barnwell, and
that two-thirds vote was required.
Mackey instructed the clerk to proceed,
and ruled Hamilton out Of order. ~ !
Hamilton "I call for the yeas and nays,
This thing won't do" " ,..3,s.. ~ . .
Ferriter insisted upon his demand for q call
of the House, when call was ordered and
the doors were barred. Fifty-nine members
were found present, and the vote, when ia.
ken, stood As yeas and IA nays, SO the report
was adopted. .ts5r 81 81 .5,s. S. !:
Mackey then said that, if the gentlemen
from Bsrnwell we're present, they would please
step forward and be sworn in. Five big black,
vacant.faceds negroes, in dirty.shirts, headed
by Fred Nix, appeared at 1.-The desk. While
waiting for the oath, Thomas, Of Newberry,
moved to reconsider the vote and lay that mo-
ton on the table, thus clinching, as far as that
concern could, the Infamous and unconstitu.
tional act. The BarnwelI negroes were then
sworn in, and Mackey said "The gentlemen
having been sworn in the sergeant-at-arn,s
will provide them with seats;" andthey we're
seated. :, ;s5,.. ....i Is =. E.j5;i;
Hamilton gave notice that be would file 9
protest against the proceeding. s.t... q
The House then adjourned till ~, Thursday.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1876-12-07

Immediately the rule to adjourn at 3 clock
was suspended. Meyers, colored, held that
the report should lie over, and made such q
motion, but the motion was lost, and the re-.
port Immediately taken up for adoption.
Meyers and Hamilton, of Beaufort, made
long and earnest speeches against the adop-
ton of the report, and did all they could to
get the matter delayed. Hamilton said he
knew the whole thing was cut and dried, and
there was hardly any use to talk against time.
He protested against the conduct of the COM
mittee in presenting such report without ev-
idence, and no authority at all, but the ''say-
80" of the defeated candidates themselves
The Democratic members from Barnwell, he
said, had received certificates from the Secre
tary of State, and had been adjudged elected
by Republican board of canvassers, who
certainly would not have so declared if they
could, by any means, have acted differently.
After Hamilton had concluded bis speech,
W. H. Thomas, the chairman Of the com.
mittee on privileges and elections, called the
previous question on the adoption OF the re-.
port. The call was secondeds and Miller, Of
Beaufort, "a member Of the committee ask
ed for fifteen minutes time, which was grant
ed. He said he had refused to sign the re-
port because he thought the Democratic con-
testees ought to have been heard before the
committee; but he had determined since that
it was their own fault if they were not there,
and he was prepared to vote for the report.
Then followed the usual indecent harangue.
Straker, colored, read one affidavit, and said
he had fifty more to the effect that the Re-.
publicans were kept away from the polls at
Allendale and went to Beaufort to vote.
(Whether they did vote or not was not sta.
ted.)
Ferriter, of Sumter, asked to be allowed to
give bis reasons for voting against, the report.
he warned the members solemnly against
pressing the measure II am Che said) Re-
publican of longer standing than any present,
even since the days of John G. Fremont, and
speak to you now as a Republican. We are
nothing more than Rump Parliament at
best, and now, when the legality of your or
panisation is being contested, beseech you
not to do this which will be the last straw
that will break the camel's back. The eyes
of the whole country are upon us. Pass this
iniauitous measure, and the moral support OF
the Northern people, upon which alone we
rely for countenance, will be withdrawn, and
those bayonets withdrawn from iyonder door.
1 say unto you, BewarelH In conclusion, be
entered protest against the measure, which
be thought was unconstitutional and void.
His speech seemed to have somee8ect, which
was speedily counteracted by short and in.