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, 1877-03-18
Almost sthe Dullest Week in the
Loan Market Since the
Fire.
Builders and Other Borrowers Wait
ing for .Spring---Payments
Better.
Small Amount OF Sales for the Week
1.-The Principal Transfers.
Rents in Chicago and New York;
Need Of More Apartment
Houses.

The mast week shows the smallest amount oil
actual transactions notesl since tho great fire.
Rcs1-estate operations are largely Influenced By
tho state OF the weather Since the 1st of March
the meteorological arrangements hare been
c1ecrahle. and have produced deadenfng effect
upon real estate Investments and loans. Dur
ing February builders and spcculators were
reused BY the promise of au early spring, and
applied to the loan agents. Offices in large
numbers. For the present their enterprises
aayc been frozenup- There is good promise
of business as soon as spring fairly opens. The
prices for money continue at about the same
rate, s per cent being about the usual figure.
4 lower rate Of interest must be accompanied
with extraordinary Inducements Payments
.have vastly improved. and show an advancement
soycr new loans
The following transactions Of the past week
West Taylor street, SO feet, north front, 100
Eject west OF Desplaines street, 5000, at per
sccnt-
i; West Madison street, 20 feet, north front, 50
Eeet west Of Canal street, 81, 600; five years at
r per cent
:: Halsted street, northeast corner Of Wright
street, 50 feet, west front, also three lots on
astate street. between Forty-fourth and Forty
Aifth streets, $40, 600; i've years at 10 per cent
1hirty-seventh street, northwest front, no
deet, between Lake and Ellis avenues, 5000;
ziyc years at s per cent
Blue Island avenue, ~ feet, southeast front,
between Eleventh and Twelfth streets, ST. 500;
:7hree years at per cent.
Erie street, II feet, south front, northeast
corner Of Market street, 5000; five years at
per cent.
DespIafncs street, 20 reet, west front, between
Washington and Madison streets. $4,000; five
years ut per cent
Fifth avenue, 50 feet, east front, between
washington and Madison streets, 81, 600; four
[ Thtty.ninth street, 10 feet, north front,
southeast corner Of Prairie avenue, $40 600; fiye
gears at per cent
Prairie avenue, 100 feet, east front, southwest
corner OF Twenty dth street, $13, 100; s1 months
at 10 per cent
Aberdeen street, 50 feet, east front, between |
}Monroe and Adams streets, $4,000; three years /
!0t 9 per cent
Twenty sixth street, No IS, $4,000; three |
Eears at 9 per cent.
Blue Island avenue, near Sixteenth street,
&lG,0 600; five years at 10 per cent
West Washington street, near Western ave-
innc, $500; five years at 10 per cent
EoMPAEAI1yE STATEMENT FOR TIE wEEK EEDC0 ]
MARCH II.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1877-03-30

A very peculiar feature in life insur-
ance business has been brought out by
the testimony in the case OF the insol-
vent Continental Life Insurance COM
pany of New York. Ono Hammond
was employed as an agent on salary
of $4,000 year, to travel in the South
and West and freeze out polioy-holders.
He represented that the company was
insolvent, and, by creating a panic
among the policy-holders, bought up
the policies Tor 25 cents on dollar, or
thereahouts. This effected an enor-
nous saving to the Company on policies
nearly due, and was done for that pur-
pose. Mr.. Hammond says that risks
amounting to S2O0,O 900 in California
were extinguished by this process and
policies outstanding to the amount ol
$4,000, 900 were brought down to $780,.
900 in two years.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1877-03-30

The only question now interfering
with peace is said to be whether Russia
or Turkey shall disarm first.
Turkish reforms which have been de-
manded will probably be secured with
out resorting to military measures.
Ebenezer Large and his son John
were robbed and then burned at Ben
nings Station, near Washington, on the
18th.
1t is not proper to pick your teeth
with a jackknife unless you are the agri-
cultural editor of city paper and want
to assert your rights.
Southern Republicans say that if
Hayes does not recognize Packard in
Louisiana, the next election will give
$4,000 Democratic majority.
Red Horse, sub-chief and council
man OF the Minneconious gives Sheridan
an account of Custer's death, in which
be pays the dead General high com.
piiment for bravery.
Kingan, the missing member of the
New York Produce Exchange, who
was found dead in New Brunswick, il
SuppOS0O 10 nave UGGIl IAuIuCICO iOl
money which he was known to have
had.
Edward Wells, the negro who mur
defed VIM. O'Brien, was taken fror
Jail at Waynesboro, Ga, on the 21st
by unknown parties and hanged.
Ben Mickey, Kentucky desperate
who has killed four men, has been sen
fenced to imprisonment for life for tht
murder of J. p. Wilson, in Oldham
county.
Bret Harte and Mark Twain's new
play called the ssHeathen Chinee," is il
four acts. 1t has to do with the disa
greements between Mongolians ant
Caucasians.
The Typographical! Union of Chicago
has reduced the price OF composition
: from AZ to 40 cents on morning paper
5 and from SO to IS cents a thousand o.
evening papers.
, a riot occurred at Berlin on the 21s
between strikers and laborers. Th
strikers defeated the police, but wer
driven from the streets by the military
A delegation of prominent colore'
men visited Hayes mn the 21st, to than
him for the appointment to office {
Fred Douglas.
Democrats do not want a committe
from Washington to investigate tn
I claims of the rival Louisiana Governor
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1877-03-30

scientists, who are now experimenting
with the blue glass. What results have
been obtained is not known. All sci
entisIs admit that electricity is a force
regarding which very little is known.
They are all striving to learn more re-
garding it, and to make it more subser-
Went to the will of man. Perhaps Gen.
Pleasonton has got
A STEP IN ADVANCE
OF all of them, and holds the key of the
puzzle in bis grasp. should add, how
ever, that he is exceedingly modest re-
garding his discovery, and says: ssI do
not profess to teach any one; but as a
human atom among the masses OF man.
kind, for whom all knowledge should
be disseminated, venture to impart tc
to the public the conclusions to which
have arrived on these subjects, and
that public may attach to them what
ever value they please.' When l se'
near and dear relative daily advanc
ing from sickness to health, gaining
strength and Vigor from the application
of his theory, 1, for one, attach yer,
considerable weight to it. In the hop
that others may be induced to expert
ment in this direction, where no posi-
BILE harm can follow, and much goo'
may result, 1 have written this letter.
| N. Y. Ece7ai7tg 1NaI.-DUTToN.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1877-03-30

PorAro DUMPLINGs.-Boil 5 or 6
good-sized potatoes; let them get cold,
then peel and CRATE into a large dish /;
do not crush or mash them together,
but keep them light and flakey; then
peel about the same quantity of raw po-
tatoes, CRATE, and put into cloth, press
out all the water, and put the potatoes
IN a dish; cut up an onion very fine,
put in or 3 eggs, and a small handful
of salt; cut some stale bread into small
squares and fry in hot lard or butter
until they are brown and crisp; thor.
oughly mix the raw potatoes, anions
eggs, and salt; put in the bread, and
lastly the boiled potatoes, handling as
little as possible, roll the mixture into
balls and put them in pot of boiling
water, into which you have thrown :
handful of salt; after they have beer
in about 90 minutes take one out ane
try it.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1877-03-30

If you want to stuff girl as full of
vanity as billy-goat is of deYilment
put her inside of a red pettiooat, plant
big hustle upon the small of her back,
and turn her loose on First street when
the s'monkeys are thick on the street
corners"
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1877-03-30

Stephen S. Jones, editor of the Re.
ligio Philosophical Journal of Chicago,
was shot and killed on the 18th by n.
G. Pixies, who claims improper inti-
macy between Jones and his wife
prompted the act. Friends OF Jones
say that he was incapable of the crime
charged by Pike.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1877-03-30
Agents for the Register.
PUMPKIN PIES.


I've tried the best
In East and West,
I've. lunched meath tropic sun,
I've tested all
The fruits that fall,
And like them every one
But North or South
No human mouth,
will the world apprise,
E'ef tasted food
One-half so good
As our own pumpkin pies.
Upon the vine,
In rain and shine,
Through fragrant day and night,
The yellow globe
The emerald robe
Drinks up the Summer light.
oh, golden sweet,
The suns repeat
To mould thy luscious size,
That we may come
And roll thee home,
And make our pumpkin pies.
Our lovely girls.
With shining curls
Put neatly in a cap,
Cut slice on slice
And peel it nice,
And stew it to pap;
Then milk is had,
And eggs they add,
And sweeten as is wise,
While others haste
To spice to taste
These homemade pumpkin pies.
Oh, pure and fair,
This food so rare,
Made up of all that's best
No creatures pain
Goes to its gain,
But only natures zest
For Summer days
And Autumn haze
AIlu OSGo
Are in the dish,
Mixed to our wish,
That we call pumpkin pies.
No wonder, then,
That loyal men,
From Florida to Maine,
Their quarter eat,
The same repeat,
And pass their plate again ;
That exiIes fret
With vain regret,
And vex the air with sighs,
When forced to stay
In climes away
From their own pumpkin pies.
So to our boast
give toast,
Embroidered all in rhyme !;
May pumpkins round
With us abound
Through future Autumn-time
And may our girls,
With shining curls
And tender beaming eyes,
All learn by heart
The happy art
OF making pumpkin pies!
Hmper's Bd<0
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1877-03-30

A colored man named Jim White.
who attempted to murder Mrs. Stock
well near Union Ridge, Tennessee, on
the 18th, was taken from jail by mob
AMI hanged.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1877-03-30

When young Miss Briggs importuned
her mother, the other day, for permis-
sion to 90 down and ride on the ferry
boat, the mother sat down and said
"Now Miss Nellie, if you were riding
on the boat and nice young man stared
at you, what would you do?"
''I'd turn my head, n1other.''
"Well, if he took out his handker-
chief and gave it tiirt, what would
you do %
ssI'd pretend didn't see him.
every good; but if this nice young
man, III spite of your contemptuous
treatment, should have the impudence
to walk over and sit down beside you,
what would you do ?''
cpd take another meat."
"That's right my darling. But sup
pose, again, that he should follow you,
and be bold enough to offer you fan,
what then?''
"Do you mean young man?"
eyes,
ga real nice young man ?''
eyes,
Gone with brown moustache and
chestnut awful pretty and sweet
looking ?''
eyes"
"Then, oh, mother you'd better not
let me 90 on the boat, tor Pm so very
weak, / know I'd take the fan!''
PIcKLETTE.-Ch head of cabbage
very fine, and number of onions ac-
cording to the size of the cabbage; put
them in stone jar with salt stirred
through them; let stand over night,
when drain all the water off them take
cider vinegar sufficient to cover them,
and boil adding to 1 quart of vinegar
l pound brown sugar, 1 tablespoonful
ground mustard, = tablespoonful black
pepper, tablespoonfuls ground CHINA
mou, 2 2tablespoonfulsg ground celery seed
1 tablespoonful allspice, tablespoonful
mace, tablespoonful pu1verized alum.
and 2 tablespoontuls horse-radish pour
boiling over the cabbage and onions
let stand over night, when strain the
vinegar off and scald again pouring
over as before; repeat this three morn.
iDgs, and on the fourth boil all together
cabbage, onions, vinegar and spice
when cold pack in small jars. It is fiji
for use at once but will keep quiet q
time.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1877-03-30
BLUE GLASS.

SOMETHING ABOUT GEN. PLEAsoNToN's
BLUE GLASS EXPERIMENTS. THE
WONDERFUL EFFECT OF ASSOCIATED
LIGHT UPON ANIMAL AND VEGETABLE
LIFE. SICK PEOPLE CURED OF LONG.
SEATED DISEASES BY SITTING UNDRR
BLUE GLASS. A GREAT BLESSING
CONFERRED UPON THE HUMAN PAN.
ILY WITHOUT COST.
Some months ago, number Of the
papers in the country criticised, gener.
ally with some degree of facetiousoess,
q book written by Gen. A. J. Pleason.
ton, of Philadelphia, entitled ''Blue and
Sun Light; their influence upon Life
Disease, etc" Some Of the ideas sci
forth by Gen. Pleasonton are calculated
TO startle reading and thoughtful per
sons, and falling to comprehend hi
theories, it is no wonder that the cgitici
poked considerable fun at them. Dis
attention was recently directed to th.
ssblue glass; treatment by an old friend
who recommended its use in q case 0
sickness in my family. Having conf
dence in my friend, / wrote to Gen
Pleasonton regarding it, and in sspl,
received copy Of his book, and inetrpc
tions regarding the application of th'
blue light in the easel recited to him
Having practical evidence before ne Q
the benefits to be derived fonn theap
plicstion Of the 'sblue light" !" propos
En- this letter to give some general idel
Of Gen. Pleasontop's theories regarding
the
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1877-03-30

thus lighted, the pains from which she
was suffering almost Immediately ceas-
ed. They would return in modified
form on leaving the room, but grew less
from day to day. Very soon her con-
dition began to improve, her appetite
returned and with it her strength she
began to gain flesh, her sleeplessness dis
appeared, , and, in short, she was speedily
restored to health.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1877-05-18

The usual meeting Of the Town Council was
held on the 9th inst. all the members present
The Park committee reported that the Park
had been leased to T. j. Vanderslice for three
years. Third street burial ground committee
reported that the contract for removing the
bodies had been completed.
A number of bills were presented and allow
ed The report of the street commissioner was
received and approved.
The pay for daily labor was fixed at SllO
and the pay for teams was fixed at not more
than 50 90 for one horse, and $500 for two hor'
ses. f. c. Jones, A. Noble, Daniel LAycock
Norman Pursell, Wesley Shut, Thomas Hick
ey and E. B. Bidleman were appointed police
men,
A petition asking for grading and paving o
Rock street, was granted. ltwas ordered tina
| Town bonds to the amount Of $4,000 be issued
| for the purpose of refunding about $4,000 OF tn
old debt, and funding the floating debt Ihi
does not increase the Indebtedness Of the town
Meeting adjourned.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1877-05-18
ROLL OF HONOR.



The following named pupils were neither
tardy nor absent during the month ending
April 80, 1877.
Room No. 1.-Sophie Nannatta, Medic Lea
cock, Lula Potter, Ellen Beaghan, Mary Hen
dershott, Grace Harman, Mary Rupert, Nettie
Stiles, Ida Heist, linus Penrose, Matte Hen
dershott, Susie Saunders, Chas, Jones, Clark
Hagenbuch, Eddie Rslston, w, D. Beckley,
Alfred Koons.
Room No. Augusta Friend, Lille Gill
more, Bertha Hagenbuch, Jennie Harmanr
Clara Hagenbuch, Cora Hagenbuch, Mertie
Hover, Flora Jones, Laura Nuss, Hattie Pea
cock, Dilie Robbins, Laura Viets, Rosa Van
natta Willie Fenstermacher, Harry Freas, Har'
ry Row.
Room No. 3.-George Beaghan, Samuel Bi
dleman, Willie Brewer, Eddie Diefienbach
Boyd Evans Theodore Garrison, Wm. Lloyc
Garrison, Thos. B. Graul, Lee Harman, Georg'
Hasserl, Otis Herring, John Hughes, PhiliI
| Miller, Chas. Rsewick, Eddie Row, John Ira
cy, Lena Gesghan Ida Bernhard, Minnie Crea
sy, Helen Leacock, Annie Reeser, Cassie Struth
ers, Jennie Stiles.
Room No. 4.-Della Brink, Nellie Crotty
Agnes Garrison, Luiie Jones, Annie Lockard
Emma Pollok, Sallie Welliver, Chas. Brink
Clinton Fornwald Walter Herring, Jane
struthers, Eddie Reiswick, Charles Snyder
Louis Townsend, George Williams, Clark ZarI
Grace Harman and Chas. Jones of No.
George Beaghan Of No, 8, and Eddie Risewic
of No. 4, have been neither tardy nor absen
during the whole term of l7O days.
GEo. L. WILBUR, Principal.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1877-05-18

Another feature of the Jail combination is the
fact that the adoption of the Wetzel plan, and
all contracts to be made under it were farmed
out in advance, Wezel being leader of the Ring,
and Krug but the figure head. The most ex-
pensive item,,is the stone work-over one half
which was given to Hauck, who sublets with
JOSH Fetterman for the limestone who goes
Krug's bail Lime. stone should not be used a'
it is too soft. A prisoner with good tools car
easily work through it. Besides, it is not dur
| able. After certain time it begins to crumble
Railroad companies have been compelled to
remove it from their structures, and the cana
company is doing the same. 1t is anothe
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1877-05-18

We have received the first number of the
weekly Ne,c Era, published at Lancaster by
ex-senator John B. Warfel, and edited by }.
NJ. w. Geist the veteran editor and founder of
the Erpress The paper is Republican but not
Of the Cameron stripe-in fact the transfer oil
the U. S. Senatorship from Simon to Don was
the occasion of Mr.. Geist's withdrawal from the
Express, and the beginning of the Ne'o Era The
paper is beautifully printed and well edited
journal of eight pages and with so good con
ductor can hardly fail of success.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1877-05-18
Jan AND DEMOCR AT BI OOMSBURG, COLUMBIA COUNTY pa

The Colossal Bronze Statue Of Victory which
stands in the Park, at Lowell, before the tomb
Of the fist soldiers that fell in the revolution,
is a lasting and beautiful tribute Of art. 1t is
one of the first objects sought by strangers visit
ting our sister city, which indeed many vi-i-
purposely to see this elegant object of high art.
1t was obtained from the King of Bavaria by
DR.. j. c. Aver, to whom his mpie'ty was es.
his remedies are reputed to have done for the
suffering sick. 1t was donated by the Doctor
to the City of Lowell as a permanent and speak
ing emblem of the victories both Of Science and
Arms Hagersto,cn Md.l Press
| Mnv 4w
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1877-05-18

1t is unnecessary for any one to call our at
tenton to the mechanical appearance OF the
COLUMBIAN for few weeks past. We are pain
fullv aware of the fact that it has not been at
all creditable. We must plead in excuse. first,
the miserable quality of paper furnished us,
and second delay in getting new rollers. The
supply of poor paper is exhausted and we dc
not propose to have any more of it. Our new
rollers viii! be done before next week, and then
we shall try to maintain our former reputation
for beauty and neatness in mechanical make
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1877-05-18
A Centennial Decision.

Competent Judges representing the civilized
people of the world appointed for the knowl-
edge of particular art or sciences, convened at
Philadel phia for six months to decide upon the
comparative merits of the various inventions Of
mankind. awarded to themanuiacturers OF Ben
sons Capcine Porous Plaster, after careful test
and comparison of this remarkable remedy with
ordinary porous and other kinds of plasters, the
highest and only medal above all foreign and
American competitors, on the ground OF Its
great superiority over other plasers, and its
wonderful pain relieving strengthening and Gu
rative properties. Remember that this decision
was made by iour practical and skilled physi'
clans
Remember that no nostrum was allowed TO be
exhibited at the Centennial. Remember wher
you are suffering from any ache or pain that Ben
sons Capcine Plaster is the best remedy eyel
devised for all external difficulties
SEABURY & JOHNSON,
PHARMACEUTICAL CHEMISTS, n. 7.
May 10, '76 ly.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1877-05-18

The Supreme Court has affirmed the iudg-
ment of the lower'courts, IN the cases of james
Carol, james Boyle, Hugh McGahan and
James Roarity, convicted Of the murder Of
Benjamn +. Yost, in 1875, Alexander Camp
bell convicted ol the murder Of John z. Jones,
and Thomas Curley convicted OF the murder of
a woman in Montgomery county. These six
men will probably be hang ed
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1877-05-18

The expense and annoyance Of an extra
sion forced upon the country by Dem O.
cratic majority, led by the economist, Sam uel
j. Randall Gazette " Bulletin.
Not at ALL A Republi can Senate made an
extra session necessary by insisting that the
people should pay for so diers to be used in car
rying elections in the South for the Republican
party You've got the thing mixed.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1877-05-18

Owing to the constant sessions of court since
the argument of the injunction restraining the
commissioners from proceeding under their
contract for new Jail, there has been no time
for the preparation of decision. The ques-
ton will probably be settled the latter part oil
this week aud the opinion will appear in our
next issue.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1877-05-18

The war map epidemic is raging feariully
and the papers are filled with plans of the seat
of war, whicn, like man, are "iearfnlly and
wonderfully made" Nobody will get from these
maps any kind of an idea to the characteris-
tics OF the country where the fighting is to take
place, and many Of them are drawn in the rough
est manner and with but little regard to respec'
tive distances or locations of prominent points.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1877-05-18

A large number of the fish known as Sus-
quehanna salmon have been taken this Spring,
on both the North and West Branches. They
are of large size, weighing from three to eleven
pounds. Most of them have been taken in
nets
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1877-05-18
MURDER WILLOUT.

A few years ago august Flower" was dis
covered to be certain cure for Dyspepsia and
Liver complaint, few thin dyspeptlcs made
known to their friends how easily and quickly
they had been cured by its use. The great
merits of Green's August Flower became her
aided through the country by one sufferer to
another, until, without advertising its sale
has become immense, Druggists in EVERY
TOWN in the United States are selling it.
No person suffering with sour stomach, sick
headache, eostiveness, palpitation Of the
heart, indigestion, low spirits, etc, can take
three doses without relief Go to Meyer
Bros, and get bottle for rs cents and try it.
Sample bottles 10 cents, April 20, '77-lyjl
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1877-05-18

The COLUMBIAN speaks of the fine musicians
in the Bloomsbury Jail And the editor thanks
them for a serenade-DdnriAe Record
The above is contemplate. The inference so
be drawn from it is that the prisoners are the
musicians whereas the COLUMBIAN stated dis
tinctly that the policemen on duty furnished the
music. The statement that a sere.iade was CIV
en- and acknowledged is false and malicious, and
the Record Man knew it when he wrote it. lt''
like Brover-that sort of stuff.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1877-05-18

The famous Swedish Quartette who have
been in Willamspou giving one of their de-
lightlul musical entertainments were in town
on Saturday, Oh their way to Wilkes Barre.
Mr. Mishler who has the ladi in charge re-
gretted thai he could rot give an evening here,
but may do so hereafter.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1877-05-18

The Annual examination at the Normal
School will begin at eight o'clock a. m. on
Tuesday June 18th. Prof. Brooks, Superin
tendepts Burns and Garman are on the exam
lining committee. RJof Griswold will attend
the examination at West Chester on Thursday
June 7th.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1877-05-18

If you desire cheeks with roses of health up
on them, if you want that peculiar briliancy of
complexion so priced by ladies and admired by
everybody, if in a word, you want that perfec
ton of physical appearance that pure blood in
sures, use Dr. Bulls Blood Mixture.