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The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1877-07-06
Important Land Decision,

The Cameron Press says that in 1864, w.
J. Robinson and j. r. Clark had contro-
vorsy about the title to two tracts of unseat-
ed land in Shippen township, and the same
were sold at treasurer's sale in 1864 and bid
off by Robinson. From this sale Clark re.
deemed in 1866, paid the redemption money
and the amount of taxes that had been paid
by Robinson for 1864 and 1865, to the coun-
ty treasurer. In 1874 the parties settled
their claims and Clark was authorized to re-
ceive the redemption money. After de-
mand, and refusal on the part of the county
to pay, this suit was commenced The
county claimed that it was not liable, for
the reasons that this redemption money had
never been audited and the commissioners
had therefore no control over it, also because
the claim was barred by the statute of limit
ations. Judge Wilson held, when the case
was tried before him at January term last,
that the statute of limitation was good de-
fence and directed the jury to find for the
defendant. Upon writ of error taken by
plaintiff the case was argued in the Supreme
Court on Monday last and the judgment OF
the court below affirmed. This decision
saves the county of Cameron about one thou
sand dollars
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County Fairs.

The Spirit Of Berks, in discussing the sub
ject of the approaching Berks county agri-
cultural fair, makes the following suggestions
which are worth thinking about
by way of adding as well to the attractive
ness as the utility of the coming and subse-
quent fairs, the features which give interest
and importance to the annual fairs of the
market towns of England and the Jairmdrk-
ten of the provincial towns of Germany
should be adopted with us. We mean, the
making of the fairs market in the real sense
of the word, for the sale and exchange of
the various fruits the soil improved breeds
of live stock and products of domestic in
dustry. No impediment in the way of muni-
cipel licenses and government taxation ex-
lists to prevent or obstruct the free sale or
interchange of such commodities as are actu-
ally produced and raised by the exhibitors
themselves residing within the county in
which the fair is held. The payment of a
small fee to the society by those who wish
to sell what they bring to the fair, might or
might not be asked for that privilege, as the
consideration of the question in all its bear
ings would show to be expedient. Our fair
ground, apart from TIE other incidents which
| have hitherto commended its exhibitions t.
the public favor, would put on fresh and
novel attractions as a grand farmers tasaa'
which could not fail to popularize it more
! and more and materially enlarge the sphere
Of its usefulness. This was the leading ideG
and purpose of the fairs of the olden time
and although they were since abandoned, il
would be untimely or proftless. Many o
the most popular of our modern contrivance
for the public benefit and improvement ar,
but ancient customs under another phase.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1877-07-06
HONEST MR.. HAYES.

A correspondent of the New York Sun
says that 1T was an open secret at Wash
ington last winter that two certificates of
deposit, five thousand dollars each (s5000,)
payable to Zach Chandler, and by him en-
dorsed, and made payable to r. B. Hayes,
and endorsed by R. B. Hayes and paid, were
in existence" The correspondent asks, SIS
it not the first time in the political history of
this country that any candidate for the Pres
idency was ever the recipient of money from
the campaign fund.-"
We fancy it is. Such charge was never
laid at the door of u. S. Grant, than whom
no man in public life ever evinced more
utter contempt for public opinion, law, or
the proprieties of life. Mr.. Hayes is in
more particulars than one, an unique speci-
men. His whole administration is founded
on hypocrisy and canting professions of a
reform which is broken to fragments before
the words have fallen on the ears of the peo-
Pile. He is one of the "goody' kind of men
and we have no doubt if those two $4,000
| certificates Of deposit were to be Investigated
he would prove to the satisfaction of his
admirers that they conduced to the we'll be.
ing and existence of some Sunday Schoo
organization. So good" man as he would
never have used money for naughty politics
Not he.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1877-07-06

Mr.. Hayes has been down East, in "Bos
ting and in Rhode Island, and the people
have made much of him. Rhode Island the
most hide bound and intolerant of all the
States, is just the spot where his Fraudulen-
cy might expect homage. Massachusetts,
did not enthuse quite. so much, probably be-
cause Mr.. Charles Francis Adams bitter
words concerning Mr.. Hayes are still fresh
in the minds of the people. Mr.. Prince, the
Mayor of the city and also chairman of the
Democratic Committee, fell over his chin in
intense anxiety to toady to Mr.. Hayes.
Prince had better take q back seat in Demo-
cratic councils after this, and the chairman
ship he now holds should be declared vacant
at once
George Boutwell,, the Groton grocer" is
a resident of Massachusetts, and presumably
has admirers, as he was asked to deliver a
speech on Decoration Day, and did so, but
we do not remember to have seen in it any
expression of intense admiration for Mr.
Hayes or his policy. Which of the two
frauds do the Boston people prefer-Bout-
we'll or Hayes?
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HOW WAS CHRIST CRIlCIEIEn 2

A San Francisco correspondent of the
Baltimore Sun writes as follows to that pa
per- "An admirable picture of the cruoi-
fxion on Calvary has been exhibited for
criticism and correction before taking it
abroad. 1t is full size The cross differs
from all extant pictures. In height it is but
little taller than a man. Midway is a pro-
jecting saddle, upon which the person sits
astride. Ireneus, Justin and Tertullian so
describe it. Modern artists have omitted
this, but it is obvious that the outstretched
arms could not maintain nor could the nail
ed hands have supported, the body as usual
ly represented. All historians say the legs
were tied to the cross, and afterward spikes
were driven through the feet, as through the
hands There is no mention of foot rest,
but the artist has supplied one, because the
feet cannot be spiked without. The inscrip-
ton on the cross, affixed to the top, is pur-
posely and ingeniously illegible, because
each of four gospels gives it differently.
There being no record of personal appear
ance, every one is at liberty to draw on his
Imagination. Here the artist exhibits con-
summate skill. A more spiritual counte-
nance we never saw. The head is reclined,
as expiring. The hair is auburn, long, and
in ringlets. The person is spare and of
short stature. At the foot of the cross are
only the executioners of the law. No one
is represented as piercing the side with a
spear. Nor are there any connections, as
Mary and John, present, this being direct
contradiction of the three synoptic gospels
1t is usual to show blood flowing from
the wounds in the hands and feet, This
is omitted, because history tells us that
wrought iron, being our best styptic,
instantly stops the flow of blood. 1t is
popularly supposed that the ssacrifice
consisted in the shedding of blood. Paul
makes this indispensable. Yet it is a mis-
take. A slight cut on schoolboy's finger
sheds more blood Death results from ex-
haustion, not from bleeding.
There are several marginal pictures illus
trating various miracles and other scriptural
stories. Perhaps the most striking, and GER
tainly the most artistic, represents Jesus es-
corted to the place of execution by lowly
multitude exulting in His fate The central
figure is clothed in scarlet, according to Mat
thew, in preference to purple, which Mark
and John say was the color. And the man
of Nazareth walks majestically as to vol
untary sacrifice. 1t is usual and almost in
| dispensable to public taste, to show him
| bearing His cross and bowed down beneath
the burden, according to John. But the ar
tist, following the three synoptic gospels,
which deny Johns story, shows Simon car
rying the cross, a stout plebeian, who walks
upright with it. The artist considers it one
great merit of his painting over others, that
it is true to history according to the plain
est and most consistent non.sectarian inter-
| pretatiOn.
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Death of a Centenarian.

The funeral of Joseph Mishow, who died
Friday night, took place Sunday afternoon,
and was largely attended. The deceased had
reached the extraordinary age of l03 years,
months and % days, and ut the time of
his death was, without doubt, the Oldest man
in northern Pennsylvania, if not in the
state. He was of French origin, and was
born in the village of Madawaska, now en-
braced in the state of Maine, in March, IVA,
where he resided for period of nnety-one
years. Mr.. Mishow was married i'll 1894,
and his wife died in 1864, after they had
lived together for seventy years. In 1873
he removed to Williamsport. He was the
father of fifteen children, only four of whom
attained to manhood. The youngest of the
family died in that city about two years ago,
aged fifty years. The oldest of the three
survivors is about seventy seven years OF
age, and they all reside in one of the west
ern states. Mishow enjoyed remarkably
good health for about l0l years, when the
infirmites of age gradually began to show
themselves, and from that time forth his de-
cline was steady. He was not afflicted by
any disease, but died purely Of old age, be-
ing reduced to a mere skeleton, and resemb-
ling an Egyptian mummy more than liv-
| ing being months before death came to claim
him. He died devout Catholic, and was
| buried with the forms and ceremonies of that
church. Rev. Father Garvey officiating.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1877-07-06

In various parts of this State there seem
to be organized bands of scoundrels who
make it their business to rob farmers and
others occupying houses in the rural dis
tricts. These pests have long been an an
noyance and as their thetts are perpetrated
at night but few of them have been appre-
hended. One Of these marauders, Benton
Mitchell, was shot and killed by farmer
named Cranston, living near Hackettstown,
while in the act of robbing Cranston's house.
This may, and probably will, put a stop to
plundering in that neighbOrhood for time,
and we are not sure that the community is a
loser by Cranstons act, unlawful as it was.
1t is not very likely that Grand Jury will
be found that will indict him for murder, as
he was defending his property and perhaps
his life from an unlawful assault. If these
robberes do not cease, and cease promptly,
there will be more cases like this to chroni-
Gle and more scoundrels like Mitchell put
out of the way,
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1877-07-06

Ii the opposition to Mr.. Hayes increases
in the time between now and the next Con-
gress as it has here in the last week, he will
have no personal backing except from those
who desire his favor. He has gotten out
with the extreme radical wing of his party,
and has made this separation certain by his
recent order directed to Federal officials.
This is evident by the way that the people
talk at this headquarters of Federal official
life. This loss would not count for so much
were not Mr.. Hayes losing every day the
support Of better class by his outrageous
violations of his own civil service protesta-
tions. Those who were his most earnest
supporters when he promised to reform the
civil service are now against him, since
most of his late appointments are on par,
if not below, Grants worst selections. With
this peculiar action there comes great frank
ness upon the part Of certain Republicans.
Said one Republican prominent in Ohio
politics to the Times correspondent recently,
"Hayes is u fraud" Another from the same
State said that he never believed that he
was elected, and that he was illegally count
| ed in, but at the same time he thought the
| end justified the means Chicago Times.
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One of the most significant papers brought

One of the most significant papers brought
to light by the HerddS Mormon campaign
has been found by investigating the records
of Brigham Young as an Indian agent.
Among the accounts appears voucher for
goods distributed to the Indians September
30. 1857, at Mountain Meadows. The mas
sacre at the place where these goods were
sworn to be delivered was only fourteen
days before, and this place was three hum
dred and twenty miles from Salt Lake City.
Among the items are remarkable number
of coats, pantaloons, hats, shirts, leggings,
blankets and tobacco, exactly the sort OF
goods which would form part of an emf
grants outfit The total value represented
by this voucher is $500, and it is the larg-
est of all the l44 turned in by Brigham
Young. the average of all the others being
only 5000. More than this, the certificate
of witnesses to the delivery of the goods is
signed by John ID. Lee. This is certainly
strong circumstantial evidence that these
are the goods taken from the murdered emf
grants, and important developments may be
looked for if John d. Lee has told District
Attorney Howard about the affair. .-PhHa
Times.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1877-07-06
TUITION.

Collector Tutton of Philadelphi seems
to be an ass of unusual and surprising size,
even for Republican federal ofiice-holder,
and gifted with an obstinacy and stupidity
not altogether to be expected even in one of
his dimensions. Tuition is apparently per-
meated and pervaded by the conviction that
the Collector of the port of Philadelphia is
an absolute and uncomfortable despot whose
word is law and whose will is not to be
thwarted by any one or under any circum- :
Stances. To such an extent did Tuition be-
lieve in this doctrine of omnipotence that,
regardless of the Secretary of the Treasury,
he proceeded to remove Assistant Collector
Arnold, of Chester, and to put in his place,
man of his own. Quite oblivious of a sug-
gestion from Secretary Sherman, that it
would be we'll to pause in his wild career,
Tuition attempted to oust Arnold and induct
the other fellow. Suddenly to Tutton's i'm
mense disgust there came despatch from
Secretary Sherman to the effect that Tuition
was not Secretary of the Treasury, but that
he, Sherman, was that Tuition would do
well to mind his own business and that
Arnold was Assistant Collector at Chester
and would remain so. And now Tuition, ,hav-
ing been set down hard enough to loosen his
teeth has probably changed his views re-
garding his own Importance. If there is
any such thing as reform about the civil SER
vice very good place for its application
would be in the Collectors office at Phila-
delphia. Tuition is machine politician,
placed in Office for political services-and
those, too, of not particularly savory de-
scripton-and is capital fellow to kick out
in the interests of reform. He is very much
too much of a fool for his present place,
that's evident, and, if the Adminst ration
must employ him foreign mission would
suit. This country is used to being repre-
sented abroad by men of about the common
sense calibre of Tuition.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1877-07-06
The Milk in the COcOanut.

WAsHlNGToN, June 30.-It has been
known that the recent order Of the resident
forbidding Federal officers from participating
in political conventions or taking an active in
terest in politics received the approval of all
the members of the Cabinet. Some members,
notably Mr.. Sherman, maintain that the Pre-
sdent has no idea of adopting policy which
would exclude those persons from Federal APP
pointments who make themselves efficient as
political workers.
In reply to question by your correspond
ent whether the Presidents order would not
result in thoroughly disorganizing the polti
cal machinery in the several States, Secretary
Sherman said very decidedly that it would
not that the order would have beneficial
effect, in that it would force out of politics an
Objectionable set of Federal officers, who have
been manipulating the elections for their own
personal interest, and would attract a new ele-
ment to political organizations standing near
er to the people. The new men who take
hold to manage the party interests will work
harder and more efficiently, because they will,
he said, be stimulated by hope Of reward
for their services, and, added the Secretary
the outs are always stronger than the ins. u
Mr., Sherman approves the Presidents order
because he regards it as displacng inefficient
political workers and substituting class OF
men who will go into politics solely for the
reward they expect to receive for their politi
cal shrewdness. This is the drift of his con
versation with many persons, and also the in
ference to be drawn from his recent appoint
ments in the Treasury Department.-N. Y
EUeaiHg IOst
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1877-07-06
TRAMPS

The outrages committed by vagrants are
becoming more frequent and more serious
lhe minor offences of pifering and robbery
nave been supplemented by the crimes of
niuroeh rape and arson, and prompt and Sc
Ve'',s measures must be adopted to prevent
the continuance of these atrocities If the
officers of the law are powerless to arrest
and punish offenders the day is not far dis.
tant when the people will, in self defense,
take the law into their own hands and mete
out stern justice to these villains. Vigilance
committees, though not to be encouraged,
have at different periods in the history of
this country, certainly put down criminals
with strong hand, and, for the time at
least, eflectually suppressed outrages, Lynch
law is savage remedy at the best, but it is
an open question whether its admins tration
at times is not justified by the condition of
affairs. In districts where dwellings are
isolated and where tramps are to a certain
degree free from that immediate arrest and
punishment they would be certain to receive
for their crimes in more populous places, the
residents are the greatest sufferers. Justices
of the peace and constables do not move
with the celerity of their city brothers and
the travelling ruflians, fully aware of this,
commit their shameful deeds and too fire.
quently make good their escape. Assuredly
if the the legal authorities do not take steps
at once to protect the people, there will be
impromptu courts and speedy hangings
without aid from the Sheriff. While the of
fences went no further than robbery the
law abiding citizens were fain to submit, but
when embodened by immunity from pun
ishment these .outlaws imbrue their
hands in blood, destroy valuable property
and outrage women, forbearance ceases to be
virtue. This tramp question has become
the most serious of our social problems and
it has now reached point where the law
must assist itself or be overwhelmed by the
torrent of popular indignation and wrath.
The day is fast approaching when the tramp
will be the hunted and not the hunter.
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IIunbug.

While the Fraudulent. President was hur.
rying East, with Evarts, Schurz, Devens
and the inevitable Key, as aides-dc.camp in
waiting las the illustrious Badeau, Consul
General at London, dubs himself in his re-
ations to Grant, ITO participate in a prepared
iollifcation with wine, his de facto Secretary
of War, McCrary, was rushing in the oppo-
site direction, so as to reach Des Moines in
time for the Republican Convention, and
prevent hostile manifesto against the Ad-
ministraton from being issued.
Both were fresh from the canting circular,
declaring mo officer should be required or
permitted to take part in the management
of political organizations, caucuses, conren-
tions, or election campaigns" The only
business that took Mr.. McCrary to Iowa was
to manage the convention of his party, and
to shape its action against the known views
of the majority. Hayes knew well, if he
did not actually suggest, the object of this
mission, with the selfish idea of saving him
gave the Republican ticket sixty thousand
majority in round numbers last Novem-
Der.
He had Just written: "Ths rule is appli-
cable to erery department Of the civil service.
1t should be understood by eyery officer of the
general Government that he is expected to
conform his conduct to its requirements"
Before the ink was dry, ,McCrary was hurried
off to set an example of the sincerity and
earnestness of the order by doing his best,
chinery of convention and to falsify or
silence the true sentiments of its mem
bers.-N Y. Sun
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1877-07-06

RAND's New YORK CITY BUSINESS d.
REcToRY.-The second volume of this valu-
able and indispensable work has just been is
sued by the Publishers, Messrs Walter Heugh
& Co., of Park Place, New York. No
pains or expense has been spared in the pro-
duction of the present volume, to make it
complete and reliable In typographical ap-
pearance and binding, certainly it is a fine
specimen of book-making. 1t contains over
one hundred pages more matter than the last
years volume, which has added largely to the
cost of the production of the work, and COM
PEELED the Publishers to issue hereafter only
the full cloth bound edition at One Dollar
per copy, upon the receipt of which sum they
will forward the work to any address in the
United States or Canada, by mail, postage
prepaid.
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Preparations to Rescue Pat Hester.
Special Dispatch TO ''The Times"


PoTTsvILLE, June 20.-On Sunday night
a meeting of Mollie Maguires was held in
the tavern of Dooley, a son-in-law of Pat
Hester, at Mahanoy Plane. Loud speeches
were made, and at the conclusion of the
meeting thirty men filed out of the room.
1t is supposed Pat Hester, who is to be hung
at Bloomsbury August 5,is to be rescued un-
less precautionary measures are at once ad-
opted.
AS a rule the Philadelphia Times is not given
to sensation, nor is it necessary that it should
be to ensure it circulation. The above dis
patch is utterly untrue, and the Times we'll
knew that a writ of error had been taken to
the Supreme Court in the Hester case, and
that he is not to be hanged August 9th.
nor was he even sentenced to be hanged at
that date.
1t is the mission of certain class of news
papers to get up all the Observation-Disclosures
yarns they can and the recent accounts OF
Molle Mcguire outrages, which have since
proven to be untrue, show how reckless such
publications are.
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The Patriot says "Grangerism is said to be
on the decline in different sections of the
State The rise and spread of the patrons
of Husbandry" was really wonderful In a
very short time thousands of oranges were
organized throughout the Union, and the
membership aggregated hundreds of thou
sands. 1t was power in the northwest,
where it carried all before it, Candidates for
Office were swept along with the tide, and
even governors conniyed at questionable legis-
lation to gain its influence. All this is over.
Starting out as an organization entirely freed
from politics, it was nevertheless captured by
the politicians; in fact, too much politics did
the work, and the grange is only another in
stance of an untimely death at the hands of
the politicians"