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The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1879-12-12
Columbia County Offcia Directory.

President Judge-Wiam Elwell
Associate Judges-I. X. Krickbaum, F. L. shuman
ProthOnotary, &c.-Willian Krickbaum.
Court Stenographer-S. N. Walker.
Register q Observation-Disclosures II. Jacoby.
. District Attorney-Robert X. Little
Sherin-John w. Hoffman.
Surye sor-S samuel NeYhqrd.
Treasurer-II A. Sweppenbeser.
Commissioners stephen Pohe, Charles Richart.
A. II. Herring.
commissioners Clerk-J. u. Casey.
AuditOrs--S. H. Smith, W. Manning, G. d. See
sholtz. -. ...
smith, -
county Observation-Disclosures II. Snyder
Bloom Poor District-Drectors-R S. Ent, Scott,
wm Kramer, Bloomsbury and Thomas Reece,
scott,
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PROFITABLE PATIENTS.

The most wonderful aud marvellous sue
cess in cases where persons are sick or
wasting away from a condition of miserable
ness, that no one knows what ails them,
profitable patients for doctors is obtained
by the use OF Hop Bitters. They begin to
cure from the first dose and keep ii up until
perfect health and strength is restosod. Who
ever is afflicted in this way need not suffer,
when they can gel Hop Bitier. See other
column. ...,
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1879-12-12
Bloomsburg Official Directory.

President OF Town Council-I. S. KUHN.
Clerk-Paul 4. Writ.
chief of Police-D. Laycock.
President of Gas Company-S. Knorr.
Secretary-C. W. Miller.
bloomsbury Banking Company-,John A. Funston
President H. II. Grotz Cashier, John Peacock, Tel
Ter.
First National Bank-Charles II. Paxton, PRESIDENT
]. Il. Tustin Cashier.
columbia County Mutual Saving Fund and Loan
AssociatiOn-E IL. Little, President, c. W. Miller,
secretary
bloomsbury Building and Saving Fund Association
VIM Peacock, President, J. b. Robson, Secretary.
bloomsbury Mutual Saving Fund Assoclatlon-J.
J Brewer, President, p. E. Writ, Secretary.
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"Dr. Sellers Cough Syrup will insure
you good nights rest, 1t is the best
cough medicine in the market Price 25'
cents.
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EIRE INSURANCE.

CHRISTIAN F. KNAPP, BLOOMSBURY, PA.
BRITISH AMERICA ASSURANCE COMPANY.
GERMAN FIRE INsu RANCE COMPANY.
NATIONAL FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY.
UNION INSURANCE COMPANY. -
These OLD CORPORATIONS are well seasoned by age
and FIRE TESTED and have never yet had loss set
tied by any court or law Their assets are all invest
ed In SOLID SECURITIES and are liable 10 tine hazard
OF FIRE only
Losses PROMPTLY and HONESTLY adjusted and paid
as soon as determined by CHRISTIAN Il. kSAPP SPEC
AL AGENT AND ADJUsTER, BLOoMsBuRG, PA.
The people OF Columbia C Ounty should patroniZe
the agency where losses II any are settled and paid
by one OF their own citizens. - ...
PROMPTNEss, EQUITY, FAIR DEALING
Nov, 10 so
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Endorsed by the people as q safe, reliable.
harmless and cheap remedy. Or. Bulls
Gugh Syrup.
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ID +. HARTMAN
REPRESENTS THE FOLLOWING
AMERICAN INSURANCE COMPANIES:
Lyeoming or Muncy Pennsylvania.
North American OF Philadelphia Pa
franklin OF
Pennsylvania OF
Farmers OF York, Pa.
Hanover OF New York.
Manhattan OF
ofilce on Market Street No. O. Bloomspurg, Pa,
oct. 26, T9-ly.
Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1879-09-25

The man who didn't throw away money
on worthless securities.-A Detroiter who
has the reputation Of being hard pay VIA
waited on the other day by man who be
gan:
"Mr. Blank, l hold your note fol
$75. 1t is long past due, and l want
to see what you would do about it,"
my notep All! yes, yes, this is my note
For value received | promise to pay and SC
forth. Have you been to the note. .shayers
with this?"
81 have, but none of them would have
it."
wouldn't Ohp And you tried the
banks2"
"Yes sir, but they wouldn't look att. -
Wouldn't, eh2 And l suppose you
went to a justice to see about suing me?'
81 did, but he said judgment
wouldn't be worth dollar"
"Did, ehp And now what proposition
do you wish to makep"
"There is your note for SIS. Give me
S. and you can have it,"
give dollarsl No, sir! No, sir!
have no money to throw away sir!"
"But it is your own note"
True, sir, very true, but I'm not such
an idiot as to throw away money on worth.
less securities, no matter who signs them.
| deal only in first class paper, sir. and
when the note has negotiable value
will be pleased to discount it Good day,
sir-looks like settled weather again!"-
Detroit Free Press.
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From the Chicago Expre1.

No man will dispute the fact that the
great bulk Of our circulating medium Of
exchange must remain paper, and that
this paper must be either greenback OF
United States notes, based upon the wealth
and credit Of the government; or national
bank currency, based upon the public
bonded debt OF the government.
II the national bank currency is finally
adopted, it establishes the necessity OF
perpetuatlng the bonded debt, not only to
the extent of the pre-, eat circulation, but
sufficient for any necessary expansion in
the future, which cannot safely be reduced
below $l,500,0J0,000. Such a reserve Of
public debt as would be necessary for any
possible emergency would cost the people
in interest at per cent, $60,G00,000 an.
nually, or ten per cent on $500, ,000,GJ0 Of
currency. This is more than the business
and industries Of any nation on the globe
can afford to pay for their circulating
medium.
United States notes are equally as good,
cost no interest, and every dollar issued
saves so much taxation, and all the bene-
fits of their issue go the government and
the people, while the benefits of bank
currency go to the banker and bondhold-
crs, many Of whom are aliens and foreign.
ers.
The volume of bank currency is placed
beyond the control Of the government or
the people, as the law now stands, giving
the power to few men not particularly
in the interest of American industry, to
place any price they see proper upon labor
and commodities, and denyingto congress
its constitutional prerogative to regulate
the value of money.
A currency composed wholly Of United
States notes would be under the control
OF the people, for whose use and benefit it
was intended, and its volume and value
could always be regulated to meet the Just
and wholesome demands Of trade, COM
merce and industry.
Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1879-09-25
Stray Thoughts.

From the Western Rural
l get right up on my dignity when l
hear people talk of farmers wives and
daughters being slaves and drudges; that
their life is one monotonous treadmill;
that it is displeasing and uncongenial
to the truly refined and cultivated mind.
To some it may be, but to me it is a grand
and glorious life! | love every sight and
sound of the farm; the busy hum of the
honey bee admonishes me TO labor; the
noise Of the reaper and threshipg machine
is music to my ear, and the loads of gol-
den grain, the fields of waving corn,
make me thank the gracious Giver for
them all. love the freedom and indie.
pendence have as a farmers girl.
| delight in going to the barn and with
my own hands harnessing and hitching
the best and fastest horse to drive, or to
ride on horseback after the cows. | en-
Joy the privilege have to cultivate flow
ers. want them where they will look
into the kitchen window, to cheer me
while at my work, love the delicious
fruit that / can gather with my own
hands. Yes, truly | love the farm and its
independence, and when hear any one
wish she were Hottentot or Esquimau,
anything but a farmers girl, | heartily
wish she were for such one is not worthy
the position she occupies.
About pies, if my "father wanted pie
three times day." want would be his
master On the cider question | agree
with you; let anti-cider societies be or
Il l..
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1oqiw
THE LAND OF NOD.

Last night went to the Land of Nod;
What do you think saw there?
Why, all the babies in all tho world
Yellow-haircd, dark-haired, frOwsy, and curl
ed;
Some black, some tawny, some fair
what is the way thcrei" On and on
Over the vclvety sod;
First you go up and then you go down,
And then you come into Sh Shut-eye-town,
Away in the Land of Nod.
The houses are made of ia jubc paste,
And the doolI Of plum-cake sliced;
And if you are hungry by day or night
You may go to the door and nibble a bite,
All plummy and iced and spiccd.
The fountains, you know, run lemonade,
And their playing, it never stops;
And whenever it rains in that fortunate town
Torrents of honey and cream come down,
And lemonade and chocolate drops.
On, it SHOWS white sugar and pink ice.cream
And it freezes lemon-icc;
Tall sugar-losf hills all round you see;
And cookies and tarts grow on every tree,
And they taste remarkably nice.
Tell you some more?" Oh, haven't the
time;
But maybe, If each little elf
Will run and climb into mamma's lap,
And cuddle right down for forty winks nap,
He may see the land himself
The NurseryJ for September.
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Serpa Pinto's White Africans

FROM the Kansas Clty Scientific Review
Among the many interesting particulars
of discovery brought from Africa by the
gallant Portuguese explorer, Major Scrpa
Pinto, none is more absorbing than his
story of the white people encountered be-
tween the rivers Cubango and Cuando.
Senior Pinto found in these districts a
tribe absolutely European in tint, yet no.
wise Of the Albino type, for their hair was
black and woolly. He describes them as
uglier than the plainest negroes, and
lower in civilization than any race met
with. Two of the tribe he captured, and,
having tanned them by kindness, induced
them to take HIM to Il village of these
paleiaced Cassaqueres, where the explorer
passed two days. They wander over the
country, living upon the chase. Having
rcCeding tOrehCads, slanting eyes like the
Chinese, prominent check bones and hang
ing lower lips, their general appearance
fails to do much credit to the white man,
whom they resemble. In hunting they
are mavelously skillful, and can bury one
Of their reed-arrows in the body Of the
elephant up to the middle of its shaft.
The traveller saw a girl among them tairer
than himself, and those who have the
pleasure OF Major Pinto's acquaintance
will be aware that he is by no means
dark man for Portuguese. Who, then,
and whence are these people so strangely
recalling the tribe spoken of by Mr.. Stan
ley between the Equatorial Lakes? The
African whites, the Anthropophagi and
the Dwarfs have now all been found, and
it only remains to discover the people with
tails, the peculiar tribe that shade them
selves from the heat with their enormous
feet, and those remarkable beings who
"eat their parents and curse the sum-" to
have completely verified the widest stories
of Hcrodotus,
Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1879-09-25
THE FARM.
Farmers Wives and Their Work.

Farmers wives generally have the pity
and commiseration of every ease-loving
and ease.taking woman of any class Of
society. Thanks; we don't ask your SYM
pathy, we need not have such woeful hard
times. Any womon by calculating, and
using good deal of tact, may very often
diminish her work by half. See each day
that things are in order for the getting Of
an easy breakfast; if it is to be potatoes,
have them nicely prepared beforehand
meat and every snch thing that is possi-
ble-the table set, etc, have u nice clean
cover toi it, and don't be guilty of sweep
ing just the last thing before covering
your table. So many people cook and eat
in the same room; if you wish to do your
self great credit with your meals, do have
them in cool room. They will look, taste
and be better than If they must be eaten
in room so warm that it almost STILES
one to enter. Can you not arrange it some
way? Have you not some boards that
will do tirst-class to make summer kitch-
en- large enough for your stove? You
will surely find some. II you cannot pos
slbly do better, set your table in the sit
ting-rOom; yes, even if it is newly paper.
ed. Have coarse piece of canvas to
spread over the carpet before putting out
the table, and one can afford to sacrifice
something to secure comfort these days,
when we get so weary under hot sun.
We seldom cook anything for tea-do all
that in the morning-make tea at noon,
and have it cold and arrange it so as to
have cold meat and even cold vegetables.
Your men folks won't eat such II mcal?"
Well, Try it. Perhaps ours have been ed
ucatcd to it, but they really prefer it. |
really hope you have screens, for nothing
is more annoying than the tedious buzz
ing OF flies, and how much work they
make. Mosquito netting costs but little,
though if one has the wire screen it will
last long enough to pay the difference.
Early in the morning darken all the win
dows and doors except one sunny door;
the flies will soon alight on that screen
and you can brush them out easily. You
will find that you can get them nearly all
out, and it is such tiresomc work to fight
HES the way some do. If you can take
the time to lie down, if only for twenty
minutes in the afternoon, it will be time
we'll invested YOU will find.
Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1879-09-25
The Nature of MalariaI Poison.

A writer in the Practitioner finds Q
general consensus of opinion among Sails
bury, Tomasi. .Crudeli, Cohn, Lanzi, and
Tcrrigi as to the vegetable nature Of ma.
larious poison, although they differ as tc
the exact species OF algG composing it,
Besides the curious intermissions of ague
there are other points about malaria which
seem very puzzling. One of these is the
way in which malarial may again exert its
power after long interval, when the sys-
tenn becomes depressed from other causes.
Lussana observed that poisons taken into
the stomach do not at once pass into the
general circulation, and indeed when
taken IN small quantities may never get
into it at all. When the poison in the
portal circulation is too great, the liver is
unable to retain the whole of it, md so a
part of it passing into the systemic circula.
ton, will reach the nerve centers and
thus produce its poisonous effects. What
is true of metallic poisons Lussana be-
lleves is also true of ague polsons. If he
is correct, an explanation is afforded Of
such cases as men who escape illness when
in malarial districts but died afterward
of malarial fever in places where there is
no malaria. Some reaction or depressing
influence had been at work which favored
the development in their systems Of the
diseases spores and their passage into the
general circulation. The beneficial action
of emetic and purgatives as aids to qui-
nine is due to the removal they effect Of a
quantity Of bile, and with it probably a
number of spores, leaving those spores
that remain quite controllable by quinine.
In Morocco, where quinlne is not readily
obtained, ague is cured by emetics and
alone.
Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1879-09-25
Texan Society.

HihINi ioi OeeopSis
A journey of several weeks duration in
the Lone Star State revealed the fact that
in the eyes of every true Texan the par
ticular location where he has taken root is
the focal attraction, the garden center Of
the earth, while the next town is the an
tipodes of all that is good, great, and
prosperous. The native, and the man
who came down in 46 as n soldier, re-
naming in the State through It's short
lived era as republic, and ever since,
held themselves as a sacred aristocracy,
and however kindly their sentiments to-
ward later occupants of the soil, they can.
not refrain from frequent allusion to the
peculiarly constructed laws, such as the
Homestead Act" which makes Texas a
desirable refuge for those who cannot
afford to live IN a State where creditors
can squeeze hapless debtors between the
jaws of the legal wise. 1t Is true that on
account Of such laws the modern popula-
tion contains large percentage of men
who have tested the bitterness Of debt, Of
seizure and distraint, and not liking the
flavor, have sought the friendly shadow of
Texan statutes, and builded anew.
The significant initials sc. T. T." (Gone
to Teyasl, inscribed on the bolted door Of
an involved merchant, are accepted as
primd Jdcie evidence that he, too, has
bolted. 1t must not be inferred from this
that all who have located within the do
main of the Lone Star are to be suspected
of financial shortcomings. Through the
northern and central portions Of the State
many well.to-do farmers and merchants
are found who have emigrated from the
frostlands Of Minnesota and Wisconsin to
a region which, at the worst, knows but
few days of cold and snow in the course
of a twelvemonth. Such men have built
upa condition Of society of which they
are justly proud, and jealous lest the sins
OF the frontier, which have too often made
the name of Texas a synonym of lawless
ness, be brought to their doors. In the
cottage homes OF such cities as Dallas,
Austin, Houston, and the metropolis of
the Western Gulf, Galveston, the chance |
guest will find about the current litera- |
ture of the two worlds. Libraries will be |
found repletc with the more erudite forms |
Of publication, and the daughters of the
family may treat friend to selections
from the newest opcratic compositions OF
.he season. In point of fashion, the CO.'S
.umes of the ladies conform quite as close
y to the edicts of the modistes as do those
If their metropolitan sisters. The richly |
'tocked shelves of the merchants in wear.
ng apparel prove that the finest produc-
ions Of the loom are quite as active de-
nand here as in the East.
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Tho Money Power.

| bIOHl inc OHlC3bO ENiItthi
This is said to be a "free country
and perhaps it is so-that man has q
right to make himselfa slave to the Mon
led Power, il he prefers that to leaving an
old rotten political party, provided no one
but himself is affected or injured by it.
But no man has right to do any act
which, while dragging himself down car
ries othe.s IS along with him in the general
ruin. No man has the right to desert Q
interests OF his family, or even of his
neighoors, simply to crafty hostile par.
ty spirit. Some men, when foiled and
discom6ted In their battles with the out
side world, go home and vent their rage
upon their helpless families, cursing the
wife and beating their children. This is
not particle worse than to vote with Il
party that is robbing his children and i'm
poverishiRg his wife through process Of
law, only because he wants to beat this
or that party" The man who deserts his
children, and proves false to the wife that
he has sworn toprotect, merely because he
must "stick to his party" is worse than q
beast. Not one in a hundred OF them can
tell what PRINCIPLES are involved, or what
issues are pending, Or whether there is
any principle at stake OR not, neither do
they care, only that they hate a certain
party and want to beat EN-" Since
that is all, instead Of voting the bread out
OF their childrens' mouths, and the calico
off the wife's back, let them go out and
whip some one OF that hated party, or get
whipped themselves. This would answer
I he purpose lust as well, and there would
be some little homo; abour it.
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Joy that Kills.

fInn tic NcW Oiloann iiea1uho.
A telegraph clerks wife had for some
time been in failing health. She went,
by advice of physicians to spend the sum.
mer at a farm house in Normandy where
boarders were taken. She wrote her hus-
band almost daily, and gave favorable
bulletins of her health. Recently he re.
ceived letter bearing the post-mark Of
the village where she was staying. II
was written by neighbor. II announced
the wiie's death. The poor husband
swooned away, fell into an armchair, and
was completely stunned by the blow.
This stupefaction lasted three or four
hours. He was reused from it by the
door-bell. He opened the door. His
wife, the very picture of health, stood be-
fore him. His surprise and joy were too
sudden, too great. He muttered incoher-
ent phrases, Historically laughed and
sobbed alternately. He was insane. The
physicians fear his death will speedily fol-
low
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CAPITAL, under the pretext of benefit
ting Public Credit, has robbed the public
first, by the "Credit-Strengthenina
Act" that outrage which Bondholdinp
impudence forced upon corrupt Oh
shamefully imbecile Congress to rob the
people of $500, 100000, and force then
into purely gold means and measure Of
payment. Following the atrocious out
rage came the second step, the demonetizd,
tion Of Silrer, a suicidal villiany by which
Congress, without even reading the bill,
Under The suggestion, and probably pay, o.
an Agent Of The English; German, ana
Nep York Bondholders, demonetized Sill.
yer. Thus, at one stroke, taking sixty
millions yearly produced from our mines
from US as resource to pay our Bonds,
without even shadow of reason, without
possible idea Of benefit to the American
people, for the sole purpose of enhancing
the profits Of the Usurers who had pur.
chased our Bonds at fifty cents on the dol.
lar. Third step was the act providing fol
Specie Payment, which frightened bust
ness men and active men in all parts oil
the Union. 1t was the placing Of all bus.
iness and all enterprise under the control
Of Realized Capital. The result was ia
make Contraction and Cremation neces,
sity. 1t forced everybody to draw in thei,
sails. Itforced the Secretary of the Treas
ury into the very policy.
Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1879-09-25

From the Chic 'go Express.
Money, abstractly considered, no matter
upon what it may be stamped, is the mcst
useless OF all substances, and only as il
n be used in exchange for those thing,
acc Isary to mans necessities and COM
) is 1t necessary at all. This is evident
n ITS very nature. Suppose the entire
lation of a state or nation should be
piled individually with gold coin If.
mt to purchase ample supplies for one
r, and the entire products of labor
nd at once be annihiated, it is evi.
that suffering and death Of the en-
tre community would Immediately follow.
al IN the other hand supply them with
d.. Nmfolts and necessities, and annihi-
.u'..r the last vesI ge of money, and COM
l. ely little inconvenience would be
felt is time that the masses Of the
people should know that money is a
crl,I1, Of the law power, and created
fl lh, onvenience Of the law makers, and
not a he Shylocks would have us be.
uUva mat it Is something over which the
aw rns 10 power, but that it derives its
power nom the fat of the Almighty in
vag, they tenn its intrinsic" value.
boy bay the government cPnnot stamp
nl.late value into a substance Of
a. ;.r paper, for instance. Well,
H n. e. Suppose man should
@Ga IN some post master $50
,'. postage stamps at their face
., L could not be arrested, because
r. l,' ken nothing but worthless
tHa,, per. Is that a factp No, GER
talniy not. He would be imprisoned the
same as il he had taken 50 in gold or sill
yer coin. Now was there any value legis
lated into those stamps.
Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1879-09-25
One Man who wouldn't Stand 1t.

From The MILWAUKEE, Sun,
After reading about the interviews
Or royal courtship of Alfonso Of Spain and
Marie of Austria, we firmly declare that
it would never do for us to be prince
royal and have to court girl in the pres
ence Of an ambassador. We should throw
HIM out Of the window. There is little
pleasure in being Q prince, and no young
American with any sand in him would
take the position and court a girl with an
ambassador looking on.