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The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1877-04-20

1t is said that Chamberlain, the broken
down carpet-bag Governor of South Carolina,
has been offered foreign mission and has
refused it. This may be true, as all things
are possible with this Administration, even to
rewarding miserable scouudrel who has as
sisted in robbing State and keeping the
whole Union in disguft and alarm for months
It's civil service reform we suppose, Cham
berlain if he refused the appointment is wor-
thy of more respect than Hayes who offer
ed il.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1877-04-20

Old Ben Wade has been heard from and
in a characteristic way. He has written let
ter strongly condemning Hayes Southern
policy, and says in conclusion that some per-
sons excuse the President on the ground of
good intentions, but "hell is paved with good
comfort to Ben, to know that he has never
contributed to the macadamizing of that sui
phmous region.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1877-04-20

That the last Legislature was the worst we
ever had in the State, seems to be the uni
versal newspaper expression, Republican as
well as Democratic. The exact amount of
mischief it perpetrated will not be Known
until the hidden deviment of some of the
laws passed is exposed. PHsJurg Post
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1877-04-20

In the large cities on the Atlantic coast
there has been of late, a large amount of in
discriminate and wanton clubbing of citizens
by policemen, As none of them are appa-
rently ever punished there is not:much prob
ability that the abuse will cease until the
manners and customs of the Pacific slope are
adopted. A few dead policemen will work q
wondrous change-and it will come to thai
before long
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1877-04-20

Twenty three States have Democratic
Governors. There is majority III the
House, The Senate is nearly equally diyi-
ded, aud in two years will be controlled by
the Democrats. There is a white majority
of more than a million Democrats in the
United States, aud an absolute majority
OF quarter of million. A Repub.
iean who was not elected President,
holds the office through fraud. A hundred
thousand Republicans hold the minor Fed
eral sfices through the same fraud, This is
the political situation in a nutshell, and il
is well to remember the leading facts
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1877-04-20

They do some things in style at Williams
port. Last week the poor overseers of that
city imagined that poor man with large
family would probably become a charge, and
as the poor devil had not acquired legal
residence he was ordered to mot stand upon
the order of his going, but go at once" Not
complying with this reasonable demand the
aid of the police was invoked, the door OF
the humble dwelling was kicked in, and the
head of the family arrested for resisting an
officer. ."-lMtncy Lnm,inary.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1877-04-20

The Times refuses to remain silent when
the assertion is made that John j. Patterson
is Simon Cameron's son-in-law and remarks,
''That's cutting it too fat, and is unmitigated
malice" HIN 1t strikes us that Patterson
is all that's needed to round off the honorable
and altogether lovely career of the ancient 81
mon. It's toss up as to character-Simon
has the most money and that is the only ad-
vantage he has of j ohm j. .gr. q
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1877-04-20

The Republican State officials of South
Carolina have refused 20 surrender their Of
fees, claiming that they were lawfully elect
ed. Governor Hampton thereupon ordered
the rooms occupied by them to be sealed up
and access denied them, pending the deci-
sion of the cases of quo paraato to deter
mine their titles to the offices claimed.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1877-04-20

Hayes doesn't read the papers, hasn't the
time" he says, This is bad indeed. There's
but little hope Of anything good coming from
a man who doesn't read the news of the day
Why, Hayes will never know how bad hi,
blunders are until it's too late to redeem
them. And here's all Forney's abuse of him
gone to waste. Dear dear
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1877-04-20

David Dudley Field prints pamphlet
exposing the facts in the Louisiana return
ing board fraud. Neither Congress nor the
electoral commission" he says, "eouid give
an honest title without investigating the
honesty of the transactions on which the
title was founded and yet President has
been installed in the face of offers to prove
frauds, the gfossest, the most shameless and
the most corrupting in all our history"
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1877-04-20

1t may be wicked thing to say, but SEN
ator Patterson seems to be unduly appre-
hensive about the penitentiaries which Gov
ernor Hampton is about To build He seems
to think also that equal apprehension pre-.
walls in the Republican party lest he should
leave it. This is an amiable delusion. -
Men York Tribune.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1877-04-20

General Hawley having said that the de-
scendants of the attn races cluse all the
trouble in Louisiana, the Mobile Register
says the General is an ess, and that Kellogg
Packard, Wells, Anderson and Warmoth
haven't drop of Latin blood in their veins.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1877-04-20
MIR. HAYDEN's HORRIBLE DEATH

Is there anybody in Ohio who has not got
an Office? If so does he know that there is a
vacancy in the Supreme Court Of the United
States? rPossibly it may be held in re-
serve to aid in settling the Southern question
or the speakership, but Ohio ought to have
some more representation any how and il
Hayes isn't using the Justioeship itcan be had
doubtless.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1877-04-20

Peysert, the Bethlehem postmaster whose
accounts were found to be 81 800 out Of the
way, and whose Office was shameiully mis-
managed, has come out all right under the
civil service reform rules, One of his bonds
men is to have the appointment and Peysert
-izilo be deputy and run the Office The citi
zens, whose letters and money had been tam
pered withstrenuously objected-but Pcyser
was Cameron man and so the reform wa
carried out
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1877-04-20

That splendid bass voice" with which
President Hayes is said to have sung "Coro-
nation" at church the other Sunday, the
Ohio State Journal pronounces a myth :
"Hayes cant sing any more than ca
nal-boat He stampeded Averll's whole
cavalry division once, trying to sing "John
Browns Body" They thought it was tn,
long roll
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1877-04-20
TROUBLE AHEAD.

There may be those who werc convinced
that Mr. Blaine of Maine, after his upsuccess-
f,,l o,to,n,,t 70 ro,so rho r,r,;son r,,sons of
N..,,sa,, p...,Li;osas l., liz -, =. Al.
No''hc'" i'c,uo''o"'iS' Wy nus speeoh III 'ho
Senate, would accept the situation and no
longer maintain position Of antagonism to
Mr. Uavos and his Southern policy. Ifthero
IL -. a., I;,,lo a.. ,;..a.
"0 'uO' peVp'0 ny MY ,"0" '"O 0',,.' ~,
ness and malice OF that arch demagogue. The
following letter recently sent to the Boston
Herald will omen the ewes of Mr.. Blaine's adj
r,irs,.s ~ his t,,,e nosi,;o,.
n, n. n,,,o.ot -, u,.a,J.
". CaIu.. Il. ,,,.,,.nan1o..;. :. - -
his statement hat ! 'aia conference with
Governor onln9yiI'uH u new ork, lnaVe
yoor o,j ,b,, T,s in tho nr;yoto C,b;net
room O. pre,i,icnt HAYES ON the 9th of
Marsh, Nor have written or teleglaphed
him or heard from MN IN any way lhe
orcart vn in tho G mntter Of one TELEGRAM received
from him. which | read publicly in the Uni
ted States Senate But am sure that Govs
ernor Chalnoerlaln KNOW. t'iat ne has my pro-
G iUonuc1; srooo pos w wb;oh ,ov ho h,s s"v nJr
south Carolina for civil liberty and constitu.
tional government | am equally sure that
GGvcrnor PACKARD feels 'hat my heart ana
J JIlgliGu, are p',n mnm n u ',,t oJds G''T' c'r
the Cioyornor.bip that he holds by a title as
valid that which Justly and lawfully seated
Rutherlo4d IS. H,nyes IN the Pre'idontlaI
fnam u .L p, a,sp, 'ia1 ns "ol" . "u,ra"Ues ra.yo
senps thc s,alwort Rennbcon lealing IF New
England on the pending issues than the sam
prass dill when 7 demanded ji,a en'oN'menf
oI 'no iu1',so s'''c Jaw ~ A''i'
'ory Respectfully,
Augusta April w. j. w. BLAINE
Mr.. Blaine stand, up,n the same platform
of intolerance As Wendell Phillips aud Ben
Butler. The recent proceedings Of the New
England Methodist Conference shows the ex.
is,ence Of th, same feeling in tho breasts Of
the preachers Of = Formidable religious holy,
and the radical Organs IF IN: party have
caught the tone Of the above ietter aol the
eloquent words of Phillips anl have enlisted
in this campaign against peace,
This mans war in the Republican cam
and war to the kuife. Mr., HAYES is not to bt
permitted to cast aside the men who raised
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1877-04-20

When New York thief gets hold of an
ex.member of the Pennsylvania Legislature
he gets his hands full. The Hon. A. B,
Dunning had a room at one of the down
town hotels in New York on Thursday, He
also had the rheumatism, and while asleep
in his bed thief entered the room. Mr.
Dunnng awoke and collared the intruder
when lively figure through the halls en-
sued, to the great damage and demoraliza-
ton of chambermaids and slop buckets 1t
seems enough to say that the thief did not
get away with Mr.. Dunning or any of hi:
| valuabes, and is now in Jail. 1t will do the
Pennsylvania heart good to learn that 6
Keystone statesman has thus summarily in.
terrupted one little plundering scheme. IT.
pity he couldn't have remained in the
| legislature Times
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1877-04-20
AGONIZING SCENES.

at three o'clock the scene was horrible
and thrilling in the extreme. The hotel was
wrapped in flames, and, though most OF
those who had made themselves visible had
been saved by means of ropes and ladders,
yet here and there an agonized face leaned
from fire-lit window to give last appeal
for help. Men and women rushed about
wild with excitement, calling frantically for
missing friends and kinsmen, and the fire
men stood appalled, and unnerved before the
terrific holocaust in progress. The heavens
were aglow with rolling waves of fire, dark
ened here and there with black columns of
smoke. Myriad sparks rose up into glitter
ing canopy, and particles of burning debris
were hurled by the hot air upon the adjacent
buildings and pavements. Inside only a
guess could be made of what was going on
Escape by means of doorways was no longer
possible, the upper floors being in absolute
possess ron of the flames and the lower halls
and stairways being enyeloped in black
smoke that would have make suftocatiOn in
stant. Not one of the 5000 spectators dareo
go toto that seething mass of suoke anC
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1877-04-20

The suit of Myra Clark Gaines, which has
been in progress for forty years has just been
decided in her favor. 1t involves the pos
session of property in New Orleans worth
millions of dollars.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1877-04-20

War is imminent between Russia and
Turkey, and the formal declaration may be
made any day. All the diplomatic m easures
resorted to by the other great powers have
proved unavailing to secure peaceful ad'
justment of the difficulties, and the situation
is grave indeed. Turkey stubbornly refuses
to make any promises to protect her Chris
tian subjects and the atrocities perpetrated
by her troops have rather increased than de-
creased. 1t is this failure to secure the lives
and properties of Christian subjects, in vio-
lation of the Treaty of Paris, which is the
main cause of the trouble.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1877-04-20

Hayes has been Grating again, this time at
the Deaf and Mute College, Washington.
The result would have been more satisfactory
it he had been mute and his hearers deaf
His eloquence is Of the fomth-rate- sunday
school-superintendent order, and is painful tC
read. His friends should interfere to prevent
his going into voluntary mental bankruptcy
On all occasions
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1877-04-20
THE FIRST VICTIM,

one of the first men to reach the ladder
ON the Walnut street side was George Frank
Gouley, grand secretary of the Masonic fra
ternity in Missouri. He had to descend a
knotted rope of blankets from the sixth to
the fifth story. He had not passed more than
Il half dozen rounds when he reeled aud fell,
his skull being crushed by striking cornice
and both legs being broken, producing in
stant death.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1877-04-20

Hon. John A. .Kasson, formerly member
of Congress from Iowa. has been rendered
and has accepted the position of United
States Minister to Spain.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1877-04-20

Hayes is said to have an extraordinary
memory, and the Philadelphia Chronicle
hopes "he'll never forget that he wasn't
elected"
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1877-04-20

The Gar of Russia inelines to repose upon
an Ottoman, imbibe Port, and dsyour Tur-
key. His Russian Majesty is man OF de-
cided taste.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1877-04-20

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The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1877-04-20

The admirers of Wendell Phillips delg ht
in styling him "the silver tongued orator" /"
We move to amend 80 that the phrase will
read nitrate -of. silver. tongued."
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1877-04-20

The steamer Leo, from Savannah bound to
Nassau, has been burned at sea and twenty
one persons are thought to have been lost.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1877-04-20

Another man appeared at an adjoiu ~
window in his night attire aud tranNc1liy
called out Nv hat shall 1 do 90 The flames
were ieaping all about him sud seemed ready
to envelop and consume him. "Jumpl'
"Jumpp answered back dozen threats
The man looked down at the pavement, as il
hesitating what to do, but the scorching
flames were closing in on him fast, and he
bounded from the window, turning over twice
and whirlng to the stones below, striking
upon his shoulders and head. He was i'm
mediately picked up and carried into an ad
joining saloon, and lived long enough to say
that his name was J. E. Stevens, when hi
Immediately expired.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1877-04-20
LICENSE NOTICE.

Notice is hereby given that the following nameC
persons have filed IN the Ofce OF the Court Of quar-
ter Sessions their petitions for Tavern, Eatinl
House, or Liquor store License which viii be pre-
sented TO the Court on Wednesday, May 9TH A. ID.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1877-04-20
Let us be clean, In order that we may be

Let us be clean, in order that we may be
healthy. To be thoroughly so, and to counter
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Soap. No eruption can Withstand 1t. Depot
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Hills Hair u Whi,ker Dye, black or brown
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Deaths.

KELLER.-In orangeyille on the 9th last, Ira
Frank Keller aged 10 months.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1877-04-20
MOTHER AND DAUGHTER,

Some men were putting up Ladder
endeayoring to reach the fifth story wind
ows, where there were an elderly and young
lady, mother and daughter, The former
shouted to the men,
"Saye my daughter"
The woman then tied two blankets to-
gether and fastened one end to something
in the room. The ladder reached only TO
the fourth story; but by means Of the blank
ct the young woman reached the ladder, not
however, until she mad almost fallen, having
slipped her hold. She got down in safety
and her mother endeavored to follow. She
clambered down almost to the end of the
blanket, but evidently lost control of her
self, let go, struck the ladder and fell to the
root below. A couple of men carried her
off, She had apparently been killed in
| stantly.
MR.. HAYDEN's HORRIBLE DEATH.
Mr., Sidmore Hayden, superintendent of
the American Express, met horrible death.
He occupied a room ON the fifth floor, i'm
mediately over the second balcony on Wal
nut street. Being awakened from a sound
sleep by the cry of fire, he rushed to the win
dow and shouted for assistance. A ladder
was soou brought out and stood up with the
foot resting on the balcony and the TOP
reaching to the window of his room. He
got out on to the ladder, but he had scarcely
got footing on the top rung when the lad
der slipped and he was precipitated heao
first on to the ground. His head was spill
open and death was instan ntaneous.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1877-04-20

A most pathetic scene was witnessed by
many of the spectators on the Fourth street
side just as the danger appeared most inmi-
nent. In the fifth story window, upon a
background of lurid flame, might be seen
the profiles of man and woman shaking
hands and taking last farewell of each
other. They had stood at the window and
appealed for aid until hope gave out, and
just when they felt the volumes of smoke
overcoming them and saw the flames ap-
parently stretching toward them with rapid
strides, they fell into each others arms pre-
pared for the worst.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1877-04-20
THE ST. LOUIS FIRE.
THRILLING INCIDENTS.

The disastrous burning of the Southern
Hotel, at st. Louis, was attended by many
terrible scenes, some of which we give, but
the loss of life will moi, probably, be 50 great
as at first reported. The number now known
to be dead is onl, about twelve, though there
may be other bodies buried beneath the
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1877-04-20
A THRILLING SPECTACLE.

As soon as all ON the fifth story had been
rescued by means of the rope, the ladder was
run up 20 the upper story, and the first one
taken out was a young lady dressed in white.
The solitary fireman away up at the head OF
the ladder could be seen taking the young
lady as she swung by means Of rope from
the window and guiding her carefully to the
ladder The smoke cloud again blew across
the topmost stories and the scene was again
shut out from below. AS soon as the crowd
were able to discern what was going on, the
brave fireman could be seen slowly moving
down along the ladder, rung after rung, bear
ing upon his back the young lady he had so
gallantly rescued. She was clingipg to him
with her arms about his neck, and was evil
IDENTIFY so intent on escape that when several
of the freman's comrades came to his rescue
and offered to relieve him of his charge she
absolutely refused to let 60 her hold
Others were rescued from the upper story
and all were taken to the saloons across the
street, and there kept until their fright had
passed away.
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ALLEN MANN, !
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JouN PATTERSON,)