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The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1877-07-20
Brigham YOnng's Guilt.


Captain John Tobin formerly a resident
Of California, later of st. Louis, and still
later of Springfield, H., will be one of Dis
trct Attorney Howards principal witnesses
to prove Brigham Youug's personal connec-
tion with the massacre of the Gentiles. His
name is mentioned in Lees confession. He
tells long story, which is in substance that
having gained the confidence of Young by
aiding Mormon emigrants he was appointed
instructor of the Territorial militia, which
position he resigned because the cavalry
were used as avengers. Subsequently he
undertook to guide party of three strong
outspoken anti-Mormons to California, but
the party was overtaken by band of mount
ed Mormons, led by Brigham Young, Jr.,
and compelled to stop, under the pretence
that they were going to California to mis-
represent Mormonism. They finally pro-
ceeded, but were continually dogged by
Mormons, who at length fired upon them as
they were encamping at night. The party
were left for dead, and the Mormons taking
their horses, rode away. Sixty hours after
wards the United States mail wagon and a
party en-route to San Bernardino took them
up, but two of their number died soon after
Tobin received shot in the right eye which
made him nearly blind. He claims to have
important documentary evidence of plot
tings against the Government and the Gen
tiles on the part of Brigham Young.
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Is There a Job in 1t?

The Inspectors of the Montgomery Coun-
ty Prison on Monday last made application to
the Commissioners for an appropriation to
extend the walls, &c, of the Montgomery
County Prison. They ask the sum of $40, 900.
There may be need of some more room at the
prison now, but this is a large sum of money
and the Commissioners should give the mat
ter close investigation. The Montgomery
County Prison cost large amount of money
and it has always been considered that the
job was an inferior one. Every now and then
front wall or something else has to be
Strengthened or repaired that costs the county
a clever round sum of money. $4,000 is a
big sum Of money, and now that wages are
low there may be and very probably is a large
sum OF money in it that will 60 into some
body's pocket, that every now and then need
replenishing at the expense of the county.
The Prison has been and is now costing big
round sum of money, and whilst the Commis-
sioners probably should not refuse to keep
needful requirements, they should give every
proposition of the kind the closest scrutiny
The county has paid within fifteen years past
immense sums in the way of taxes and COM
paratiyely few individuals have managed to
get large portion Of it during that time
Now let things be closely watched. Norris
| torn Register.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1877-07-20
TIL, NEW JAIL.

Joseph f. Sands and John Herner, two OF
the County Commissioners, last week made
contract with d. j. Waller, Sr., for lot
on which to erect the new Jail. Mr.. Wal
Ter gives one hundred feet front, and will
give another hundred When needed for coun-
ty purposes. What those county purposes
may be we are not informed, unless it mean
that the Court House is TO be removed there
one of these days. When this agreement
was made 5. W. McHenry, the other Com
missioner, was not present, having received
no notice that any such an arrangement was
TO be made al that time, and is therefore in
no way responsible for the action of major
ity of the board. This new lot is below the
railroad on Iron street between Seventh and
Eighth streets. We do not desire to be cap
tious or critical on this subject, but when it
is the universally expressed desire of the
people of the county to have the new Jail
erected on the old site we confess we cannot
understand the persistency with which the
majority of the Commissioners cling to the
idea of putting it somewhere else. There is
another feature that we do not like. When
the injunction was obtained it restrained the
missioners from building on the Pursel
lot, and rcscinded the krug contract, the
latter for the obvious reason that S57 900
was too much to pay when the work could
be done for less. Both of these orders the
Commissioners complied with, in form at
least. The Pursel lot was abandoned, the
Krug contract annulled, but then they pro.
ceed at once to select another site equally as
Objectionable and instead of taking new bids
for the contract they decide to build by the
day. The objection to this is that they have
employed the same parties who were inter-
ested in the Krug contract, one of whom at
the former letting intimated to a certain
county Official that he could make fve hun
dred dollars by using his influence for them
and the cost of the Jail instead of being linn
tied to $57 900 as before can now be made
to reach any sum not exceeding 81 0000 ,and
even more than that if skjJa2y managed.
Scarcely public building has been erected
within this State during the past ten years
where there have not been strong reasons to
suspect that all the money paid by the peo-
pie was not expended in its erection, and
hence all taxpayers guard the public Golfers
with 4 jealous eye. We charge no man
with intention to defraud, but when a GER
tain individual interested in furnishing ma
terial offers to buy up influence at five hum
dred dollars head, and that fact is known
to the Commissioners, they should be very
careful to see that they pay such price for
material as will not enable any contractor
to make enough out OF the people so that he
will have many sums of like amount to
squander in that way
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NEMMYER.

Some of our exchanges publish the express
sions of Newmyer, of Allegheny now Speak
er of the State Senate, upon national topics.
Interyiewers must be hard up for material
when they attach importance to anything he
may say. While in the lower House at
Harrisburg, he was remarkable only for his
devotion to Bob Mackey ,bombastic speeches,
and lack Of influence On one occasion he
was placed in the Chair for the purpose of
rushing through Mackey's Treasury bill, as
Elliott, the Speaker, declined to do the dirty
job. Newmyer made the effort, but the in
dignation of both sides at his "bulldozing"
was so intense that he was compelled to
come back to the rules, or he would have
been thrown out of a window. Such men
may be able to run a Pittsburg ward, but
their opinions can have no weight in the
| State or Nation.
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HAYES HYPOCRISY.

Consistency is jewel While Mr.. Hayes
pretends to be civil service reformer, and
opposed to political assessments, the follow.
ing from the New York Sun shows that he
believes that money thus collected and used
is good thing to help him into office, but
now that he is in he is endeavorng to pull
the wool over the eyes of the people to con-
vince them of his purity and honesty. Here
are the facts:
"Zachariah Chandler. formerly a United
States Senator from Michigan, and, after
having been rejected by that State as can
didate for reelection, Secretary of the Inte-
rior in lS76-a swearing and drinking but
patriotic citizen-was also, while occupying
y seat in the Cabinet, Chairman of the Ma.
tional Republican Committee. Instead of at.
tending to his official duties at Washington,
he spent his time at the headquarters of the
committee, in the Fifth Avenue Hotel in
this city.
The Presidential election was pending
Mr. Chandler collected money by assess
ment on Federal of6ceholders. R. B. Hayes
was the Republican candidate for President
Mr.. Chandler sent this money, so collected
by the assessment of Federal officeholders,
to R. B. Hayes, the Republican candidate
for President, in Ohio and r. B. Hayes, the
Republican candidate for President, expend-
ed this money and paid it out to promote
his own election.
Along with purchased, false, and forged
return by the Louisiana Board, this was
the means by which our Civil Service Re-
form President made his way into the White
House
What is our proof? That the money was
largely collected by assessment on Federal
oficeholders is universally known, and has
been proved by sworn testimony before a
Congressional committee.
That r. B. Hayes received this money
from Mr.. Chandler and drew it out through
bank in Ohio, appears by the certificates
of deposit and the endorsements thereon.
The Second National Bank, where the mon
ey was deposited, is in the corner of the
Fifth Avenue Hotel, where Mr.. Chambers
committee had their headquarters. =
Of course Mr.. Hayes paid this money out
for election purposes. If he did not do that,
he embezzled it; and nobody suspects him OF
embezzlement. If he paid it out for election
purposes, he paid it out to promote either
his own election or that of Mr.. Tiden
Does any one imagine he paid it out to pro-
mote Mr.. Tilden's election?
Under his own hand the great civil ser
vice reformer stands convicted of hypocrisy
The halo of honesty popularly supposed T.
surround his head has all disappeared, an
like the unveiled prophet of the poet, h
stands forth revealed in the deformity whic
belongs to false pretensions."
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1877-07-20
THP BAU6HMAN CASE.

Four men named respectively, Lynch,
Hess, Boyce and Wright were recently tried
in Philadelphia for committing an outrage on
girl of fifteen named Baughman. The
young lady was out walking with young man
named Gabriel Myers, when they were at
tackled by these roughs The boy ran away
leaving his companion to her fate. When
Myers was being cross-examined on the wit
ness stand he testified to something that as
tonished the counsel foI the Commonwealth
whose witness he was. 1t was that he had
''just made an improper proposal to the
girl when they were attacked" 1t is gem
eral rule Of law that no party can contradict
his own witness, but in this case the Cour
allowed the Commonwealth to prove that the
boy when questioned by the District Attorney
in private had denied that anything imprope
had been proposed OF taken place, and tina
he had said nothing of the kind before til,
committing magistrate. The young man re
tired very much disconnected. The prisoner
viii undoubtedly be convicted.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1877-07-20
CIVIL SERVICE REFORM,


If any body believes that the much talke'
of civil service reform is any thing but
humbug, let him read tho following con
corning the manner in which the examina
tions are conducted and he will see at one,
that it is only thin veil To secure appoint
ments for isvorites.
Mr.. Blank, recently a teacher of mathe
mates in Western college, and earlier an
officer in the United States service during
and after the war, tried to gain admission tc
an examination. lie was told that he could
do so only as an applicant, and he went
accordingly, in that capacity. The examin-
alton, he found, was conducted in large
room in the basement of the Interior De-
partment, where some forty men were writ
ing, five or six at a table--no examiners
no proctors, no watchmen. A colored mes
senger brought in list of fifty printed ques-
tions, drawn to test general knowledge, and
with request appended that the answers be
sealed in an envelope by each individual
with his application and papers. The group
mined to pool their information, and he
wrote the answers, which the Others para
phrased. When it was over six sets of sub
stantially the same answers were written
and sealed The result was curious. Mr..
Blank went without line of political intlu-
ence. He has heard nothing of his answers.
Another applicant BLACKWELL ot New York,
clergyman's son, himself fresh from clas-
steal school, with no political backing-has
been told that he did not pass. A third,
Arthur of Philadelphia, who had strong en-
dorsements from politicians in the city Ring
of Philadelphia, was also plucked. He
went to Philadelphia, gathered up little
moreinfluence, and is now in the Indian
Bureau.
John I. Clements, a former pension agent
at Macon City, Missouri, was another man
at the table, and will be remembered as fig
urng in the testimony at the Belknap trial +,
where it was shown that he paid Mrs. Boggs,
wife of one Of Grants old partners, eleven
hundred dollars for a place, which scandal
Gus disclosure forced him to resign He
came to this examination backed by Hen
derson and two dozen prominent Missouri
politicians. He passed and is now in the
Pension Office at twelve hundred year.
The last man was Christiancy, son of
the Senator. He passed and was appointed
to clerkship in the land Office month
ago, at a salary of $1,000. Since then he
has committed penal offence by drawing it
in person and writing an order for it, which
he sold to a broker, who now threatens him
with prosecution unless his father makes
good the loss. The son was just recovering
from spree when last heard from at Provi-
dence Hospital. 1t would be interesting to
know how the other tables Jared.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1877-07-20
BLOODY INDIAN FIGHT,
GENERAL HOWARD ATTACKS CHIEF JOSEPH
SEVEN HOURS CONTINUOUS FIGHTING.
SOUTH FORK. July II,
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SOUTH FORK. July II,
| Via WAILA WALLA, July II, 1871
Lieutenant Fletcher and 4. ID. Chapman
| with guide, found the Indian chief Joseph
and his full force here to-day in hollow
between the mountains at the mouth of Cot
tonwood Greek. General Howard engaged
him at once He crcled his force around
the pack train aud attacked Joseph with
three howitzers and several Gatlng guns
The fight lasted from one p. m. to eight p.
m. There were 400 men under General
Howard, and 800 under Joseph. The fight
ing was very careful on both sides, the 1ndi-
ans lying in the grass ond shooting from be-
hind rocks and timber like sharp-shooters,
while our men fred rapidly 50 as to ap-
proach through the open table land.
There were eleven killed and twenty mine
wounded on our side. Among the latter were
Captain Bancroft, of the Fourth Artillery,
badly wounded in the left side while gallant
ly charging the Indians, and Lieutenant
Williams wounded in the arm and leg while
courageously holding disputed point Both
these gentlemen will recover
We charged the Indians twice, driving
them past the rifle pits AT dark we held
all the positions on the hill. Joseph was
strongly intrenched on the canyon below.
A detachment of Indians tried to cut off
pack train which was coming to us, but
they were driven back. Some of the In
dans tried to divert attention from their
stock and families by riding in full view
along our entire line, believing in derision
at our Intellectual attempts to hit them. Both
sides fought with great determination. The
soldiers, under Captain Miller charged the
Indians in the pits, driving them to and
across the river, snd they are now supposed
to be in full retreat toward Camas Prairie
and the Snake country.
Our troops captured the entire camp,
which was very rich with plunder. We also
captured a squaw, who says seven Indians
were killed outright and that the number
wounded was very great. Thirteen are known
to have been killed. She says the chiefs
wanted to fight and die at the river, but the
squaws urged them to move away.
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B0TT AGAIN.

Preacher Bott Of Philadelphia who was re-
Gently tried in the criminal court of that city
resulting in disagreement of the jury, is in
trouble again. He was charged with improp-
er intimacy with member of his flock, and
during the trial his wife clung to him. But
since then he is said to have treated her
badly, and continued his criminal intimacy,
and his wife quietly moved out while he was
passing an evening with his other love. The
facts of this new departure were published il
the Times, with statements made by ont
Rink, the sexton of Bolts church, whereupou
Bott called meeting Of his congregation t.
deny the whole thing, He had in his pos
session written denial signed by all the par
ties mentioned including Rink Now Rink
denies that he ever signed it. When Mr.
Bot is again tried for adultery there may b
an indictment against him for forgery.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1877-07-20


Venus of Milo, the statue about which so
much has been written, was again brought
before the public few weeks ago by re-
port of the discovery of its arms on the island
of Melos, near the place where the statue it.
self was found. Following that report,
States Minister Resident at Athens, was Civ.
en- character above that of mere rumor, came
a denial from the authorities of the Louvre
where the statue is) of any such "fud."
The New York HerGM has since obtained
from Athens further particulars, from which
it appears that after several false stories
about the discovery of arms had been put in
circulation, one of which credited the dis
covery to Il party of French students sent
out by the Government, a dealer in antiqui-
ties produced the left arm and the hand of
| a statue, and he declared that this arm and
hand belonged to the Venus of Milo. The
hand holds a mirror of marble, and is said to
be finely executed. There is no eUidence
that this arm and hand belong to the Venus,
the only declaration to that effect being that
of the dealer III antiquities who says he
found them. Between the critics who think
that the Venus never hal any arms, and
those who think that the arms were found
with the statue but were broken and lost, the
| dealer in antiquities will find it difficult to
establish his claims especially as other
learned critics have demonstrated to their
own satisfaction contrary positions in which
| the arms must have been when the statue
was intact The restoration of the original
arms to the Venus of the Louvre would sim
| ply serve to mutilate the works of writers
who hare felt called upon to speculate dog
matically as to the posture of the missing
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1877-07-20
EcleCiic Magazine.

In the frontspece TO the August number
the Eclectic pays an amiable compliment to
its Southern patrons by reproducing in fine
steel engraving portrait OF Mr.. Paul II.
Hayne, the most prominent of living South
ern poets and men-of.letters, and almost the
only one who has won general recognition
from the most cultured Northern critics and
readers. An appreciative biographical sketch
accompanies the portrait in which appropri-
ate mention is made of difficulties with which
Mr.. Hayne has had to contend in pursuing
his chosen career. The literary contents of
the number are fully up to the usual high
standard of the magazine, and comprise the
following articles "The Contest of Church
and State in Italy," Twenty Years of
African Travel :" "Genius and Vanity !"
''To Victor Hugo,"a Sonnet by Alfred Ten
nyson; Life and Times of Thomas Beckett"
by James Anthony Froude; "Pera,"a Sketch
of Constantinople "Is the Moon Dead ?"
"George Frederick Cooke" the actor "Ex-
Noto," by Charles Agernon Swinburne /;
"Young Musgraye," three chapters of nov
ell by Mrs. Oliphant "George Sand" by
Matthew Arnold "Ave Maria Breton
Legend" by Alfred Austin Amongst the
Cossacks of the Don !" Teaching to Read
by James SPEEDING and 'Lines on Beau
tiful Girl The instructive and the enter
tanning are happily commingled in the fore
going list tand copious editorial notes on cur
rent literature, science, and art complete Ian
interesting number.
Published by E. RPilton, 25 Bond Street
New York. Terms, So per year; single
number, 45 cents. The Eclectic and and anS
81 magazine to one address for $S.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1877-07-20
SuPREME JIDGE.

Judge Ludlow of Philadelphia has written
letter declining to allow his name TO be
used before the democratic State Conven-
ton as candidate for the Supreme Bench,
aud refusing to accept the nomination, if
rendered HIM. If we remember rightly,
Judge Ludlow wrote similar letter Just be-
fore the Wilkesbarre convention, and secur-
ed the nomination in the same way But
he is an excellent Judge, and will probably
be reelected to the Common Pleas without
opposition, while there is a little doubt as
to the result in the State, so that his conclu-
sion is wise one if he means it.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1877-07-20
A Luzerne County Mine Burning,

A fierce fire is raging in the Roaring Brook
colliery at Dunmore, in the suburbs of
Scranton, and it is feared that the mine will
have to be flooded in order to save it. The
fire broke out sometime during the night of
the 18th inst, in the stable situated in the
lower vein 800 feet below the surface of the
earth, and was discovered before six o'clock
in the morning by the watchman, who found
all the mules ten in number burned to death
A gang of men have been busy all day try
ing to ex tinguish the flames. A fireman was
carried out in state of unconsciousness
The heat and smoke are intense, and the
men can work only in very brief relays.
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An Imnnrtant lecisinn.

Building and Loan Associations will find
the case of Walbach and wife VS.. The Le-
high Building Association, recently decided
by the Supreme Court, of special interest to
them. 1t is there held that a married wo-
man cannot become a member of building
association, nor bind herself to them by
bond or mortgage for the repayment of a
loan, together with premiums, fines and
dues. In this case Mrs. Walbach had bor-
rowed money from the association for the
improvement of her separate estate, to secure
the repayment of which she and her hus-
band executed mortgage, and the wife as
signed as collateral security certain shares
of stock of the association, held in her
name, and agreed to pay the dues thereon
or in default thereof certain fines to the as
sociation. A sctre .fdciGs WAS issued on the
mortgage, on which judgment for the full
amount:was entered in the Court below. This
was reversed. The Supreme Court holds
that the wife is bound only to the extent OF
the actual money received by her, and legal
interest," that the act 18th April, 1859, pro-
viding that the pre- mum and fines accrung
to building ass ociation should not be
deemed usl riou,, do es not apply to loan
made by married woman. The Court
holds that married woman is incapable oi
incurring the liabilities she undertakes ia
assume in becoming member of building
association that it might with equal pro-
priety be held that she could unite with
Others in a contract to build railroad or
any other adventure or speculation, and
pledge her separate property for the pay.
ment of her portion of the outlays and ex,
penses. This decision will likely startle
building and loan associations
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1877-07-20

Judge Wright, the colored expounder Of
the law in South Carolina, who has been
suspended from the bench because of his
fondness for stimulating drink has dicovered
an original way for escaping a temperance
pledge. They got him into temperance
meeting and tried to induce him to sign, but
he refused on the ground that if he signed
everybody would say it was confession that
he drank, whereas the truth was he never
took anything stronger than "tharthsrparil-
la, and that wouldn't hurt anybody"
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BOILER EXPLOSION,

A terrible explosion occurred in the ore
mines some nine miles from Macunge this
State, on the morning of the l4th inst Twen-
ty-six men were employed at the time, Of
whom three were instantly killed, FIVE fatally
and three seriously injured All of those
killed leave families. The cause of the ex,
plosion has not been ascertained The boiler
had been in position over four years and il
steady operation for the past six months. The
works are operated by the Lehigh Iron com
pany.