The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1877-03-16
ANOTHER REPORTER.


Fielders Is pretty good fellow is rather
good looking parts his hair in the middle
thinks he Is uncommon smart, and reports for
the Shenandoah Herald. But like most repor.
ters he draws altogether too much on a vivid
imagination, and consequently he comes to
Dloomsburg and writes letters to the Herald
about all sorts of things that never occurred
here. During the murder trial he amused
himself by calling the jury stupid lot of
ignoramuses, fair samples of the general au-
dience over which the Court could exercise
no control. He criticised our County Com
mssioners most unjustly, and still has so
much to say about the county clerk, that we
have been led to the inevitable conclusion
that tieders must have been kicked out of
the com missioners' Office by the said clerk
on account of his impertinence. Hence,
this bitterness. We. would suggest right here
that if that operation has not yet been per-
formed it would be good plan to carry it
into effect at the earliest opportunity. An
insult to the clerk is an insult to the COM
missioners; and an insult to them In their
official capacity is direct fling at the people
who elected them.
But Fielders knows all about our affairs
up here Fielders is wise. Fielders talks
about our borough twenty years old, and our
supervisors and our Chief Burgess, and finds
fault with our roads and walks Let us sug-
gest that we never had a borough /; that our
incorporated torn il not half of twenty years
old that we have so supervisors, but a
street commissioner; and that in tho last
four years we have put down over seven
miles Of sidewalks, graded all our streets
and paved the principal ones. To be sure
we have no waterworks, owing to the fact
that clause in the New Constitution pre-
vents the town from erecting them "a munie-
ipal property, but Fielders has no knowledge
of the Constitution. Within eight years we
Schools, and in the dulles, of times have
prospered as town to as great an extent as
any municipal corporation in the State, not
excepting even .be great city Of Sheuando-
III WHfIr tHS HSFuH" Is puniisuc", auu
whence Ficlders is sent forth TO gather the
news, and grind out sensational letters to
keep that journal in matcrisl. But Field
ers says we are old fogies, therefore, We are
cid foges.
Let us give sample of bis accuracy. 10
The Herald of the 18th inst, he reports q Wis.
it to his friend Kelly in Jail.
"About nine o'clock 10 the evening ss
Kelly was giving us his experience of sailing
in the neigkborhood of the banks of New.
foundland the Chief Burgess made his ap
pearapce with II batch of prisoners who haC
been arrested tor appropriating bivslves u
which they had no claim" We have no
Chief Burgess, but our worthy President O
the Town Council will be surprised to lesrr
that he has been performing the duties Of
Chief of Police. Another little difficulty j,
that at nine O'Clock after the prisoners hat
been heard before Justice Brewer, they wer,
admitted to bail and were not in the iail q
all. We publish in this connection, lette
from the members of the guard denying sew
eral statements made by this same Fielders
This letter was sent to the Herald with ths
request to publish it, and appeared ON th
18th:
BLOOMSBURY, March II, 1877.
Mr.. FosTER--.Sr. In your issue of Fri
day the 9th, there appeared under the hea,
of brevities statement concerning Heste
and the Coal and Iron Police on guard q
the Bloomsbury Jail, which was incorrec,
The statement was that one of the officer
gave Hester a black eye on account of hi
becoming obstreperOus. Now Hester nc
; any of the others have ever made us an
trouble OF the kind, and it would be D
more than justice to the prisoners, ourselve
and all concerned to publish this statemen
and you will oblige US by 30 doing In you
issue Of Saturday the 10th, there appeare
q statement that we were cOoped up in jai
that the sheriff's household WAS Overworket
and that it was the fault of the commits
sioners that it was so, and we are blame
for giving this statement to Mr. Fielder
which We did not do. 1t would be imposs
BILE to be treated more kindly by any bod
than we have been by the Commissioner.
Clerk, Sheriff and the citizens of BlOoi
generally. And we weuld further state tbs
it would be exceedingly unhealthy for Nj
Fielders to put in an appearance just nov
for we are informed that he would be riddle
on rail. BY giving this correction plse
in your columns, you will OblIge.
CAPT. ANDERSON,
b. w. HORN,
X. RowBorTAM,
n AI Pol;co,ran