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The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1877-04-13

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$l.25 Foxed Caters at McKinney's.
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4 UDITOR'S NOTICE.

April 6, iS7Iiw
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good salaries while occupying almost
sinecure positions, are not new. They
have been made for years; and a
morning paper charges that one fam
lily in this city draw salary of about
$1,000 monthly for various members
under government pay.
Governor Chamberlain is here, and
has had several interviews with the
President, probably preliminary to
the more exhaustive hearing to be
given after Hampton's arrival, which
is looked for tomorrow. The inti-
nation that Chamberlain is willing to
surrender his cause does not appear
to be supported by any of his public
utterances.
There is a very strong desire to see
Brigham Young promptly investi-
gated and if found guilty of any
participation, either vicariously or
otherwise, in the Mountain Meadow
butchery, to see him as promptly and
effectually punished as his leaky lieu
tenant Lee has been.
Two warm, sultry days last week
were followed Sunday by a violent
wind and rain storm from the East
which continued till this morning.
The wind is now bowling with fury
as it comes tearing down from the
Northwest with a velocity hardly
equalled this past winter.
Sunday at the White House is a
quiet day, all unnecessary business
being avoided, and only intimate
friends venturing to intrude. Mrs,
Hayes astonished the languid and
fashionable church goers by her con
slant attendance in modest dress, al
| most devoid of ornament, and wholly
guiltless of the extravaganza that
marks the get UP of good society"
SENTINEL.
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DONALDsONvILLE SATURDAY APRIL T. 1877

of his troubles is fading out gradually.
Whether guilty or not, Mr.. Beecher
has recovered his partially lost stand
ing. His church is crowded regularly,
as of yore, and his recent lecture tour
was the grandest ovation ever given
man. Every where his halls were
crowded, people coming hundreds of
miles to see him. He stands as we'll
as ever he did, in the popular esti-
nation, though the loss of friends
worried him immensely. Tilton is
lecturing in California, with no re-
markable success; Mrs. Tilton is keep
in boarders with her mother, and is
very poor. Bessie Turner is entirely
forgotten and is, no one knows where.
Frank Moulton has gone back to his
old business, the salt trade, to re-
build his fortunes, which were terri
bly, impaired by his chivalroas stand
ing by his friend; and Carpenter is
painting pictures. The great scandal
is dead, and is never thought of ex-
cept when divines like DR.. Budding
ton refuse to affiliate with Mr.. Beech
er, as he did last week.
By the raid made by Mr.. Anthony
Comstock on the lottery shops one
thing is made very plain-that there
is not, and never was, an honest draw
ing of any regular lottery in the
country. The books of one concern
show that the practice was to send
money in small amounts to such men
as, from the tone of their letters, they
considered the best advertising me-
diums with which they could rope
others in. Every shop which Com
stock has raided had circulars and
schemes of all kinds of lotteries, To-
Gated everywhere, which they were
sending out miscellaneously, and
gathering in money from all sources.
He has demonstrated there is moth
ing honest in it, and that every one,
no matter how advertised, is a fraud
of the worst kind. The simpletons
,,l,r cc,, 4 tbo:, n, ona,- tnl-o hbo aho \, "a,
of having their names known, for their
names and post.ofice addresses are
all registered, for use in other ways.
Consequently when the police capture
the books they also capture a com
plete list of the concerns victims
Keep out of lotteries.
PIETRO.
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Weekly News Summary.
Foreign.
The Pope is better.

The Pope is better.
Count Henry Won Arnim has be.
come blind from erysipelas.
Prince Antoine Bonaparte, nephew
of Napoleon the First, is dead.
At Creditor, Ontario, Henry Silly's
residence burned with three children.
An insurrection is reported to have
broken out in Armenia popula-
tion resisting the enforcement of the
conscription.
Minister Simon, before leaving for
Italy, ordered the prefect of police to
declare the Catholic committee of
Paris dissolved.
The Prince of Montenegro has re-
fused to command the Bosnian insur-
gents, alleging that consideration for
Austria obliged him to do so.
The protocol proposed by Russia
relative to Eastern affairs was signed
at London by representatives of the
six leading European powers.
A Constantinople dispatch says
that the Montenegrins have modified
their demands and will be satisfied
with the cession of portion of the
Nicsics district.
A military riot occurred III Mayence
on the birthday of the Emperor Will
liam. There was afight between some
Prussian and Hessian soldiers. Sew
eral were killed and forty wounded.
A Il So I'D
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How Tt Feels to be Guillotined.

It has been reserved for NJ. Mon
date, an Italian gentlemen, to let the
world know what it feels like to be
guillotined. He was in 1873 con-
demned to death for a crime of which
he was innocent, and it was not the
fault of Italian justice that he escaped.
The blade of the guillotine fell, but
the wood in the grooves of which it
ran had swollen slightly, and the knife
stopped barely two centimetres from
his neck. While they were repairing
this defect a reprieve arrived-the
true murderer had been found and had
confessed his crime. /" 1t was at eight
A. NJ, Aug. II, 1873," says NJ. Mon
date, I" that my confessor, PAbbe Fer
MIA, entered my cell to announce to
me that | must die. When at the
touch of his hand upon my shoulder
l awakened, l comprehended at once
the nature of his errand, and despite
my own confidence it seemed that |
turned horribly pale. would have
spoken, but my mouth contracted and
no saliva moistened it. A mortal chill
suddenly invaded the lower part of
my body. By supreme effort sue
ceeded in gasping, 1t is not true p
The priest answered I knew not what.
I heard only a confused buzzing.
Then a sudden thrill of pride shot
through me. For some minutes |
felt no fear; / stood erect; said to
myself that if / must die l should
,Lo,,, tIap, that on inpooapt ,,,ar, d.aJ
with courage. | spoke with great
rapidly / was horribly afraid to be
silent or to be interrupted thanked
the Governor of the prison and asked
for something to eat. They brought
me cup of chocolate, but | refused
it. Again l had become fully pos
sessed with the horrors of my situa-
tion. / had visions of what the scat
fold would be like, and mechanically
asked the attendants, Does il hurt
much y Not bit, answered some.
body, and | saw before me new per-
sou in a gown of black woolen-the ex-
ecutioner. / would have risen, de-
Tended myself, asserted my innocence
but l tainted, and when returned tc
concionsuess | was pinioned in the
cart which was entering the death
place. | cast shudderiDg look at the
horrible machine. l had no more con.
nected or coherent thought, and the
nprights between which the knife runl
seemed as high as the masts of a ship
| was lifted up to the platform hat
but one fixed idea--that of resistance
| But how could resist | was seizet
and flung down upon the plank.
felt as if | were paralyzed, and la,
there for an immense time. Thel
there was a sharp blow on my neck
and tainted again with. the instinctiv,
idea that the knife had struck me.
was not the knife but the upper par
of the lunette. When | came to my
self was in the prison hospital"
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TEACH ME TO FORGET.
Oh, ask me not to sing the sengs
l sang IN former years;
could not sing those songs tonight,
Except through falling tears.
In calmer hours their tones may dwell,
Within my memory yet,
But oh, to-day my heart is sad,
And fain would l forget.
You tell me to forget the past,
And all its wrongs fozgive,
And never shall a thought unkind,
Within my memory live.
But still the thought of happier years
Will linger with me yet;
Tis easy to forgive the past,
But not SO to forget.
Tis vain to think of former years
We now can know no more,
Or seek again the happy hours
That passed in days of yOre.
The sorrow that dims mine eye with tear
Will linger with me yet,
As thou hast caused these tears to flow,
Now teach me to forget.
Miss F. w. PUGH.
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The House That Sam Built.

The Republic-This is the house
that Sam built.
The Ballot-This is the malt that
lay in the house that Sam built.
The Intelligent Contraband-This
is the mouse that liked the malt that
lay in the house that Sam. built.
The BulIdozGr-fhis is the cat that
made an assault OH the sable mouse
that liked the malt that lay in the
house that Sam built.
The Returning Board-This is the
dog that was fed by the State that
made the cat hop up OH the gate, the
quarrelesome cat that made an assault
on tire ebon mouse that gobbled the
malt that lay in the house that Sam
built.
The Democratic Party-This is the
COW whose sharp horns roweled that
Creole dog till he rose and howled, +,
that dutifui dog that got i'll Il huff and
drove to the peak of the gable "rutf'
that sputtering cat whose principal
fault was chasing the mouse that nib
bled the malt that lay in the house
that Sam built.
The Democratic Office Seeker-This
is the maid that set on harrow and
tried to milk the COW that was farrow,
the cow that didn't know what she
wis at when she tossed the dog that
worried the cat that hastened over
| the fence to vault to catch the mouse
that nibbled the malt that lay in the
| house that Sam built.
House of Representatives-This is
the priest with the ugly mug that gave
the maid an encouraging hug in try
ing to milk the COW chat appears to
have run dry now some twenty years,
that tossed the dog till it lost its
breath that frightened the cat almost
| to death, the Ku-Klux cat whose
principal fault was teasing the mouse
that nibbled the malt that lay in the
house that Sam built.
The Senate-This is the cop that
put the priest in cave of gloom be-
cause he kissed the maid with the
milking pail who tugs at the promis-
ing COW with the sterile dugs that
tossed the dog till he yelpt kiyi!
that chased whenever she fingered
nigh the furious eat that made the as
sault on the timid mouse that liked
the malt that lay in the house that
Sam built.
The Electoral Commission-This is
the Constitutional law that put it's
puissant and pontlerous paw on the
officers arm that caught the priest
that kissed the maid that i" milked ,
the beast that tossed the dog till il
almost ceased to worry the cat that
made an assault on the freckled mouse
that liked the malt that lay in the
| house that Sam built.
Cronin-This is the man with the
stalwart nose that over the land like
a beacon glows, that lights his path
wherever he goes with pillar of fire
for friends and foes, and a glare like
q cleaning bonfire throws to the fal
off realm where " Gable" grows, thai
shines on the priests and nIaiden's
woes, on the farrow COW who for of.
fee lows on the dog that delights to
discompose the querulous cat at hel
meal of crows, who when she couldn't
get any of those just arched her back
and made an assault on the musky
mouse that liked the malt that lay il
the house that Sam built.-NeU Y0rl
Graphic.
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H Shreveport Times: The house
of Moses Solomon, colored, was de-
stroyed by fire aud his infant child
burned to death.
1 Mansfield Reporter: We have
been handed a skein of silk made by
n young lady, Miss Ware of Lincolu,
from COCOON grown in that parish.
1 Marksville Bulletin: Laborers
in this parish are giving general salts
faction. Planters are very well sat
isfied, and say that the crop this year,
the season permitting, will he much
larger than any since the war.
tB Catalonia Ne,rs: There has
been another shooting affair i'll Col
umbia. 7. w. Duke was shot by ia
cob Humble. The cause of the diff
Guilty was a prosecution instituted by
Duke against Humble's father.
1 Riclland Beacon: Mic. Collins
of this parish has received letters
patent on a cotton press invented by
him. johnny Girod killed a very
large wolf, over ON Bee bayou, five or
six miles southeast of Rayville.
B Baton Rouge AdUocate: David
King, colored, who was convicted of
murder, obtained 4 new trial and
plead guilty of manslaughter, has
been sentenced to imprisonment for
twenty years in the penitentiary.
E Plaquemines Observer Orange
trees are beginning to bud out, with
every prospect of full yield The
river is coming up, and gladdens the
heart of the rice planter The small
pox has almost entirely disappeared
from this community.
D Morgan City Register: A third
fire company organized here last week
under the name of American Bucket
Company No. g :. -Anguste Baptiste,
colored, drowned in Bayou Long.
, Zebulon Pike Gathright, one of the
earliest settlers of this place died on
Sunday morning.
r. West Baton Rouge Sugar
Planter: There are serious fears as
TO the condition of the stubble cane
of our parish. In some places it has
been found quite decayed, or rather
the "mother cane has rotted so far
as to be unable to furnish nutriment
to the young shoots.
II st. Charles Herald: At Boutte
Station John Williams, white, and
Joseph johnson, colored, quarreled
about ten cents which one accused the
other of cheating for in a game of
cards. Williams got gun, and load
ing it with slugs and balls, shot john
son in the head, killing him instantly.
The murderer was arrested.
~ Pointe Coupee Pelican: DR..
C.. C. Cyfreo, native of Italy and
for 25 or so years resident of this
parish, was accidentally drowned
March 15.-.-A young man named
John Baker, resident of Carrollton,
engaged in rafting timber at Hog
Point, in this parish, was struck by
lightning and instantly killed.
~ Ouachita Telegraph: Judge r.
j. Caldwell has declined the appoint
ment as Disbursing Agent and Re-
ceiver of Public Moneys at Monroe.
THE planting prospects continue
excellent. The plows are kept busy
and the land is in splendid condition.
Early corn is up and doing well. The
cotton lands are generally ready for
the seed,
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Domestic.


The Grant house, Wheeling, Va,
burned.
The State Bank, Harrisonburg, Pa,
has suspended.
The British brig Harriet was lost
with all on beard except two.
VIM. Holden, crazed with drink,
committed suicide at Memphis.
The concern known ds Kentucky
Cash Distribution Co. has failed.
Heavy fires occurred at Eminence
and Ederia, Ind, and Monroeviles
Ohio.
A tenement house burned at Pough-
keepsie, and five persons perished in
the flames.
A general strike of engineers on the
Philadelphia and Reading railroad is
anticipated.
The village of Staffordville, Conn.,,
was almost entirely washed away by
the bursting of its reservoir.
The steamer Utah burned opposite
Vicksburg, and the Ella sunk in Swan
Lake with 80 bales cotton and IS bar
rels oil.
A fast freight train, with twenty
cars of Chinese silks and teas, ran
from San Francisco to New York in
ten days.
l.. H. C0e fatally shot NJ. NJ. Beach,
a sewing machine agent, at Memphis.
Coe alleges that his wife was insulted
by Beach.
The bulkhead of dam at Rainbow,
Conn, gave way, but the water was
turned in such direction that it did
little harm.
Parker Mayo, a negro who at
tempted to outrage woman and lit
tie girl near Walton, KY, was hung
by citizens.
State Senator Alexander B. Cochran
was stricken with paralysis in tho
Virginia Senate chamber, while max
ing speech.
Minister Russell has arrived from
Venezuela and says he can sustain his
charge of general corruption of Vene-
zuelan officials.
The brig Roanoke wrecked at sea,
and only one sailor was rescued.
Three passengers were lost with the
officers and crew.
An avalanche of snow at Summit
hills, Va, buried two houses. One
man and five children We're taken
from the ruins dead.
The southwestern part of Chicago
was flooded by rain storm, IN some
cases rendering the lower stories OF
houses nninhabitable.
George w. Adair, real estate agent
at Atlanta, suspended. Liabilities
$4,000; assets sufficient to pay in
full, if properly managed.
Charles Lamm, clerk in the Amer
ican Express Office at Cleveland, em-
bezzled a package containing $l557
in currency and decamped.
The st. Charles Hotel, Paterson,
N. j., was destroyed. by fire, and a
number of guests narrowly escaped
BY jumping from the windows. Sew
| eral had limbs broken,
Governor Mccormick, secretary of
the Republican National Committee,
becomes assistant secretary of the
treasury, vice Conant, who goes to
Europe on treasury business.
At West Boyden, Me-, Alfred Cox
was shot and killed by his son. aged
IA years, while returning from church.
At church the father hal reproyed
his son for tiisorderly conduct.
! An internal revenue collector, ac-
companied by deputy marshal and
six men, raided an illicis distillery in
Watauga county, N. G. The collector
was wounded and tive of the posse
killed.
/ Ex-senator Cragin of New Hamp-
shire, ex- Representative Coburn 81
Indiana and ex Governor Stearas oi
! Florida, have been appointed COM
mission to take charge of tue Hot
Springs reservation.
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Nearly 1000, 900, of national bank
notes were issued in March, being the
largest issue during any month for
over two years.
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AGENTS FOR THE CHIEF.

ASCENSION PARISH.
WIN g. Wilkinson, Donaldsonville, La.
Dr. John Dominique, Dominique's Landing
j. b. Hebert, New River.
Alex. Meyers, Manchac and Port Vincent.
ELSEWHERE.
r. II. Bloomfield, Bayou Goula. La.
j. Curtis Waldo, New Orleans, La.
Geo. p Rowell & Co., New York.
Rowell & Chesinan, st. Louis, Missouri.
C. A. Cook g. Co., Chicago, Illinois.
Bates & Locke, New York.
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Transient advertisements ST. 90 persquare
first insertion; each subsequent insertion,
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publication.
Editorial notiees-in local columns, 20
cents per line.
Brief communications upon subjects OF
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No attention paid to anonymous letters.
The editor is not responsible for the views
of correspondents.
Address: CHIEF, DOnaldsonville. La.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1877-10-27
BUDGET OF FUN.
Hint for Poverty Curved Bellies.

The other day grocerymaa at Vallejo gave
large party, at which the daughter of Tao
carriage painter who lived next door created Il
decided sensation. 1t was not that she was
more handsomely attired than the other ladies
present, but thai when she gyrated in the
dance Of death" she was observed to display
the only pair ol pink silk stockings in the
room. She left the house for few moments
vt the expiration of the dance, and in the next
waltz exhibited pair of light blue dittos An
hour later her crushed and exasperatel female
friends beheld these supplemented by further
hose of delicate chocolate shade. And so il
went on until her miserable rivals determined
to follow her the next time she disappeared
They traced her to her fathers paint shop in
the back yard, where she was discovered, brush
in hand, and about ornamenting her neither en-
tremitics with final artistic coat of light sal
mon. The eXulting spies rushed back with
the damaging news, but il was too late. The
men were all too tight to understand, the music
had gone home and the lights were being put
out. Thus il is that fraud and duplicity tri-
umph, while honest simplicity walks around
with darn on its calf and IA hole in its heel.
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John Bright gave good advice to the work.
ingmen of ROchdale on September 81 in re-
gard to education. Concerning reading he
said; "Look at the heads | see before me
they are strong heads and intelligent heads
and they can do anything as stone-masons, car
penters, mechanics engineers, weavers, spin.
ncrs-in all the occupations there are in the
neighborhood. Here see men who can do
all those things so well that no one in the
world can do them better, and if they were to
Just give a little of that energy and hard-head.
edness that they have in their ordinary occu.
pations for an hour or two to the pursuit of
knowledge in the evening, they would find, in
Il short time that they had travelled a long dis
lance, and that which was difficult at first
would become. week by week and month by
month, easier and every day more a pleasure
to all concerned. | don't say that we should
have from Rochdale great number of great
inventors, and that greater things would be
done. 1t might remain still that you would
find that YOU would never be rich, and that you
would always find il necessary TO work steadi
" and honestly for your daily bread. Butyou
would discover this-tlIat God has given many
of His gifts, and one Of His chief gifts, 80 free
ly and SO abundantly that the humblest are moi
shut ont from the table which He has spread
for all His creatures"
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a rather good looking young woman stepped
up to Justice Wandell, in the 57th street police
court, yesterday afternoon. II would like to
have my case against James Theobold tried
now" said she, with winning smile.
Your case against Theobold?" said his
honor, gracously Certainly, madam, just
look up that case against Theobold," turning
to his clerk
The clerk found the paper Case against
Theobold before Justice Murray last Sunday,
said the clerk, land dismissed, as nocomplain-
ant appeared" ..
Your case has been dismissed" said his
honor to the lady. You were not present
when it was called"
"Wel, sir, couldn't come then. Can't the
case be taken up nOw?'
mo, it has been settled"
But why can't it be taken up:"
Justice Murray has passed upon it already"
II know that, but why can't it be taken up
now"
"Well, madam, said his honor, "you demand
to know the reason; you must not find fault
with me for being frank with you; remember
that should not have told you this had you
not insisted upon it, The reason why your
case cannot be taken up is that it is now a res
adjudcata"
"Oh," said she with blush, "can it be pos.
sible?' and at once left the courtroom salts
fed.-N. y. WorM.