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The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1882-02-17
The Work of MOllie MaguIres.

George II. Wagner, a wealthy farmer,
who lived near Mifflin, Schuylkill county,
some time ago received letter warning
him either to leave that part of the coun-
try or to prepare to go to the lower re-
gions; that if he did not get out his barn
and live stock would be burned, his
house destroyed, and he would be shot,
No attention was paid TO the warning,
and the supposed Molies, after waiting
ten days, proceeded to carry out their
threats. AT l o'clock in the morning
Mr. Wagner was aroused from sleep to
find his barn on fire. BY hard work he
and his daughters saved thirty horses
and cattle, and, with the assistance of
the Rev. Mr.. Hay, who was staying
there for the night, the dwelling was also
saved, but the barn and its valuable con-
tents were destroyed. During the fire a
number of shots were heard on the
mountain, supposed to have been fired
by the incendiaries. About fifty neigh
bors went in pursuit of them, but up to
last accounts none of the guilty parties
had been apprehended. Mr., Wagner
does not know whom he has offended
unless it is number of roughs whom
he refused to employ recently. His
home,will be guarded hereafterts prevent
its destruction.
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A fumOr Weighing liz Pounds.
REMARKABLE SURGICAL OPERATION


Pale and pinched in features,a woman
of large proportions was carried into the
clinic room of the University Hospital
yesterday afternoon, where DR.. William
Goodell was busy arranging u case of
glittering surgical instruments subse-
quently employed in an operation of an
unusual character The subject was a
woman thirty one years OF age, the
mother of three children, who had come
from her home in the little hamlet of
Blanchard, Centre county, to have deter
mined by the knife the question of her
existence. There were about thirty phys
icians present, including DIR. Carello, L.
S. n, DIR. Parker, U. S. N, and Drs. G.
w. Smith and Rolla, of Hollidaysburg,
and a group of students, who watched
the operation with interest. The patient
was about feet, ) inches in height, and
by actual measurement five feet one and
ahalf inches in girth, or within three inches
as great around as she was in stature.
The cause of her abnormal condition was
an ovariaon tumor, which had already
attained weight much greater than her
body and was slowly and surely sapping
her vitality. The tumor made its APP
rearance nine years ago, and from the
start grew with amazing rapidity. For
some time the woman has been unable
to assume any other than a sitting pos
ture, the very act of lying down making
death certain by suffocation.
DR.. Goodel, after administering ether,
placed the insensible subject in the best
position her great bulk would admit and
made the incision. The keen-edged
knife sank deep into the flesh and the
deft fingers of the skilled surgeon were
busy in separating the tumor from the
life it was feeding upon. When the mass
had been completely taken Away it was
placed in tub of the largest size and
filled the vessel within three inches from
the top. The tumor was then placed
upon the scales and it was ascertained to
weigh one hundred and twelve pounds,
the largest, it is believed, ever removed
from human being. Subsequently the
patient, now reduced to mere skeleton
and hanging to life by the merest thread
was gently lifted to the scales and was
found to weigh but seventy five pounds,
or thirty-seven less than the mss Just
taken from her body.
On recovering consciousness she
could scarcely express the sense of relief
she experienced The absence of the
weight that had been a burden to her
for so many years was so novel and yet
so pleasant that she was comparatively
buoyant in spirit. DR.. Goodell, when the
woman had been carefully placed in bed,
expressed the belief that she would live.
.Phila. Times.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1882-02-17

Representative Willets OF Michigan
on Tuesday submitted to the house the
bill heretofore agreed upon by the house
Judiciary committee to prevent persons
living in bigamy or polgamy from hold
ing any civil Office of trust or profit in
any of the territories of the United States
and from being delegates in congress.
Accompanying the bill is a report which
declars that no person shall. under au-
thority of congress, hold office who vo-
lates a statute that is justified and de-
manded by the positive sentiment of
civilization.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1882-02-17

STUDY THAT FATIGUEs \ CHILD Is NOT Only
USELESS But HURrFUI.

| fear many children are sent to school
merely to keep them out of mischief and to
accomplish this purpose they must probably
begin very early indeed But nothing can
well be more unfair and injudicious than to
| subject child to irksomc confinement and
premature study for the sake of convenience
or to supplement defective methods of home
| training 1t is clear also that no fixed are
can be adapted as the proper one for sending
| all children to school, There are people who
with rash consistency light fires in their
houses on the 1st of November and put by
their overcoats on the 18th of April, though
Vennor or some more reliable prophet should
forctcll a.glowing Indian summer or success
sion of Arctic waves late in May. SO, too,
there are many parents who seem to put
their children to school when the prcdeter-
mined birthday comes without the least con-
sidcration of the mental and physical deycl-
opment of the subject of their experiment.
The plain truth is that each child should be-
gin school when he is fit for school-that is,
when he is physically strong enough to bear
the confinement and the mental effort Few
uppIcCldlc llt SlTdln lnul even TWO OT lllIcC
hours attendance daily, and the effort to
master two or three simple little lessons, cX-
ert onh the sensitive organization of your
children. Their brain and nerves are cx.
quisitively delicate and it is Il period of such
rapid growth that the power of nutrition is
taxed in supplying material for the forma-
tion of perfect tissue. The thousand objects
that daily attract the keen observation of the
child, the new words and phrases, the nur-
scry rhymes and games afford stimuous
enough to quicken the development of
the mental faculties Abundant out
door exercise, leisurely meal times
and long hours of unbrokcn sleep are abso-
lutely necessary to promote appetite, diges-
tion and nutrition. Many eases of indiges-
tion, of nervousness, of general weakness,
even of apparent backwardness of intellect,
are due to insufficient outdoor exercise and
premature study. Children vary greatly rs
to the age at which they can begin to bear
restraint on the freedom of their movements
and strain upon their attent ion and memory
Hunter did not know his alphabet at seven.
The one thing certain is that any study or
any attendance ut school before the child
can bear it without effort or fatigue is not
only useless but hurtful, and will surely re-
tard the education and lessen the future Wig
or and capacity,-[Dr WM. PEPPER IN Our
Continent.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1882-02-17

There is scarcely ever q time when at
least enc of our larger cities is not en-
gagged in a controversy over the Sunday
question San Francisco is Just now
engrossed by the efforts of League of
Freedom to keep open the theatres, gar
dens, and saloons on Sundays, and by
The counter efforts of most Of the clergy
to close them. The largeness of the
audiences at meetings to discuss the
subject proves The public interest.
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!, BLOOMsBURG, COLUMBIA COUNTY, PA.

The net proceeds of the recent per
formancc of "Patcuce' in New York
city was divided as follows; Orthopedic
Hospital, $1,000; Samaritan Home for
the aged, $1,000; ST. Mary Free Hos
pital for children, $500: sending poor
children TO the scashorc, S7jO down
town mission. $3.50.
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Unfit for SelcGOyernment.
SOME RLAsoNs WHY DAKOTA SHOULD NOT
rE ADMITTED As a STATE.

Some of the holders of the bonds of
Yankton county, Dakota, have prepared
a protest against the admission of Dako-
Ia as a State, which will soon be for
warded TO Washington. The allegations
therein contained, if true, show a remark
ably bad record for the citizens of that
county, 1t is set forth that in 1872 the
county issued 100000 in bonds to aid
the Dakota Southern Railroad, under an
act of Congress, which bonds are widely
distributed: that under the lead of some
of the men now pushing the admission
at Washington the county stopped the
interest upon these bonds and tried to
repudiate them, but after several years
litigation the United States Supreme
Court in May, 1880, decided that they
must be paid Since then, by various
disreputable expedients, aided by the
Territorial Legislature, they have avoid
ed the payment of interest. which now
amounts to Sl5O,0O0. One expedient
was law permitting the County Com
missioners to resign Immediately by fiji.
ing paper BY so resigning, the Com
missioners escaped service last summer,
and when the affairs of the county de-
manded some attention, new Commis-
sioncrs were appointed early one Mon
day morning, who met secretly, trans.
acted some business, and resigned before
daylight to avoid process. This trick
was approved by the voters, who re-elect-
ed them, but they feared to qualify.
Finally two of them qualified secretly,
transacted some business, and then re-
signed. In view of this condition of
affairs the bondholders will protest that
Dakota is not ready for self-government,
and that the Federal power, which au-
thorized the bonds, should protect the
holders and not encourage reputation.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1882-02-17

Hon. Samuel A. Purviance died at
his residence in Allegheny City Monday
morning, after protracted illness. MI
Purviance was member of congress for
two terms, and enjoyed the distinction
of having been member of the last two
constitutional conventions held in this
state, and also of having been attorney
general of the state during the beginning
of Governor Curtins first administration.
He was seventy-three years of age and
leaves a wife and three children.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1882-02-17

The accounts that reach us of the sui
ferings endured by the crew of the Jean
nctte ought to have the effect of deter
ring any one else from engaging in such
a hazardous and improbable enterprise
as the exploration of the Polar sea. Yet
there is little room to hope that this will
be the case. Arctic navigation seems to
have charm which adventurous spirits
are unable to resist, and the hardships
which Captain DeLong and his compan
ions suffered will not prevent others
from following their example.
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.STATEME ENT
UNDER OATH.

az HAVE been anllcted for twenty years with an
! obstinate SKIN disease, called by some NJ, D.S
Psoriasis ana others leprosy; GonhenGing on S ihS
Of the most sklfu doctors 1t slowly but surely ex-
tended until year ago this winter IL covered my
entire person In the form OF dry scales. For the
last three years have been unable TO do any labor,
and suffering intensely all the time. Every morn
Ing there could be nearly dustpanful OF scales
as large as the envelope containing this letter. In
the latter part OF the winter my skin commenced
could be thought Of, without any relief The 18th OF
June started west, In hopes could reach the Hot
Springs. reached Detroit,and was so low thought
Should have to go to the hospital but finally got as
far as Lansing, Mich where had a sister living.
one Dr. - treated me about two weeks, but dld
Inc no good. All thought had but short time to
live. lcarncstly prayed TO die. Cracked through
the skin all over my back, across my ribs, arms,
hands, limbs feet badly swollen toe nails came on
finger nails dead and hard as bone, hair dead, dry
and lfeless as Old straw. On, my God! how did
"My sister. Mrs. E. II. Davis. had small part OF
sboX OF Cutlcura In the house. she wouldn't give
up said we VIII try Cutlcnra some was applied
stopped the terrible burning sensation from the
word go. They Immediately got the Cutcur0 Re-
solvent blood purller) Cutcura and Cuticura SOAP
tablespoonful OF Resolvent three times day, after
meals had a bath once a day, water about blood
heal used GutSEra soap freely appd GGcH9 ~ @
home in Just six weeks from the time left, and my
skin as smooth as this sheet q paper ,,,.,,,,,,
Henderson, jefferson co., MY.
sworn to before me this 10Th day OF January, 1850.
A. NJ. 1EFFtNGWELL,
Justice Of the Peace.
Cutlcura remedies are for sale by all druggists Price
ot CutCura Medicinal Jelly. small boxes 90 cents
large boxes 81. Cutlcura Resoyent, the new Blood
iurincr q per bottle. Cuticura Medicinal Toilet
Soap, Is cents Cutcura Medicinal shaving Soap
IS ccnt7 IN bars for BARRIERS aud large consumers
35 cents Principal depot,
WEEKS 4 Potter, Boston, MASS.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1882-02-17

John Z. New has been pamed for as.
sistant secretary of the Treasury. He is
stalwart of the stalwarts, and now after
looking around for an office for long
time, he has drawn prize in the "lottery
of assassination" He was one of the
3O6 Grant supporters at Chicago.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1882-02-17

Some of our Democratic contemporaries
are suggesting the name of Hon. S, p.
Wolverton as a suitable candidate for
Governor. Mr.. Wolverton is a gentle.
man of fine abilities, sound Democrat
and an indefatigable worker.-DanciHe
InteUi0encer.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1882-02-17

Charles S. Wolfe says that the Inde-
pendents are growing in importance
throughout the state. He declares that
they will be prepared to show a compact
and determined front against boss rule
when the time comes for them to put
their candidate for Governor in the field.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1882-02-17

A fierce war of words is being waged
between the Scranton Republican and
the Wilkesbarre Record 1t originated
in the fight for the post office at Wilkes
barre, but has gradually descended to a
personal matter and the editor of each
paper is threatening to tell what he
knows about the other Whatever may
be the result of the post office contest, it
has made breach in the Republican
ranks of Luzerne and I.ackawanna coun-
ties that will not be soon bridged over.
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The Sleeping Hungarian.

1t may be of interest to many of our
readers to know that John Gyumber, the
Hungarian who achieved national fame
last year by taking prolonged nap at
the Lehigh County almshouse, has been
again heard from, and is at present
working in the rolling mill at Allentown
1t will be remembered that after John
had slept continuously for seventy days,
he awoke one morning and almost killed
himself by jumping from a window
twenty-five feet to the ground, aud when
taken back to his room went to sleep
again until three weeks later, when he
recovered and gave history of his life.
He was then taken into the family of an
upholsterer, and under good care
and treatment he improved so
much that he felt able to sup,
port himself, and he therefore went to
work in the rolling mill He works
steadily, is good hand and earns fair
wa ges. lie has regained his form and
is as straight rs an arrow. His memory
is still defective, but is gradually i'm
proving, He is popular with his fellow
workmen, owing no doubt to the sngu-
lar afiliction under which he labored for
so long time Quite a number of Hun
garians are at work in the rolling mill.
Owing to their unpronouceable names
they are known by their numbers which
are pinned to their coat lapels. The
famous eX-sleeper is known as No 80.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1882-02-17

Should the present apportionment bill
pass Pennsylvania will gain two mem
bers OF congress Under any apportion-
ment that is likely to pass Pennsylvania
will gain at least one member, who will
have to be elected by the state at large.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1882-02-17

The financial crash in Paris caused
the husband of Nilsson, the great opera
singer, to go mad, and he is now con
fined in a private asylum in that city, He
lost heavily in stocks, and as insanity ran
in his family, the heavy reverses caused
his mind to give way.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1882-02-17

The country just now has a talking
congress. Every fellow seems to be
loaded up to the muzzle with speech on
some subject or other, and at the slight
est ,provocation pops up and shoots him
self off. There is this consolation in it
however, that while they are talking
they are not likely to do anything else.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1882-02-17

Mr.. Scoville is back to Washington,
engaged in collecting material to be used
in his bill OF exceptions. Guiteau is re-
ported as being perfectly composed and
sanguine of his ultimate release.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1882-02-17

The body of Jacob Boughrey, a shoe
maker was found lying in his shop at
Lehighton on Tuesday. He had been
dead for several days. There is suspic-
ion of murder.
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A DMINISTRATORS NOTICE.
ESTATE OF ABRAHAM FORCE DECEASED,

Letters OF administration on the estate OF Abraham
solce lhte OF orange township, Columbia couhtli
EeaSea nave been granted by The Register OF sai
persons having claims against the estate OF SAID
ueoeuent are requested t0present them for set.e,
nieht M ~ aha those Indebted TO make payment 10 VuV
Undersigned administrator without delay.
Flshingcreek. HENRY FULLMRR,
Jan 2O6w Administrator
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Friday, Feb. II, 1889.

Mayor King of Philadelphia has re
fused to permit either party to assess
the policemen for campaign purposes.
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9@ ACRE
and slxty-si2 perchas, more or less, on which are
erected
LARGE 3-STORY PULLING MILL,
ID good runnlng order, q

In good running order
NEW FRAME HOUSE; BARN, as good as new
and all necessary rNoutbulldings water at the house,
and Green creek along the edge of the farm and
supplies the mill wi water, a young orchard OF
choice fruit on the place,
TERMS OF SALE.-Ten per cent. Of one-fourth Of
the purchase money shall be paid at the striking
down OF the property the one-fourth less the ten
per cent. at the confirmation nisi, and the re-
naming three-tourths IN one year thereafter with
interest from confirmation nlsl.
feb lots d. SLOAN, Executor
Orangcye, Pa,
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COURTS, JURORS PAY, AND CoNsTABLEs RE
$6ll o.
DAMAGES


Sundry persons as viewers................. $40 35
Washington knOdSe, jackson (damageS) is 90
j ii CrevclinG. Scott (damageS) .....,,,... 4i9 35
Henry Yost, Bloom (damages) ......... 1895 95
Samuel johnson, Mt Pleasant (damageS) 20 90
Emanuel Savage, Jackson (damages),.. 100 90
Susan JacOby, Bloom (damages) ......,..... 80 30
VIM Long, Fishingcreek (damages) .......... 26 80
John Savage jackson (damages) ............ Is 10
Benjamin Hess. FshtngCreek (damages) 2OC
John McMlchae Fishingcreek (damages) 5000
John Herring, orange tdamages) ........... 25OO
Jesse summers, Fishlngcreek (damageS) 10 90
John Savage, jackson (damage>) ............ 500
David Achenblch, orange (daInages) )..... 1000
John Beates, CatawlsSa (damages). ... -. 80 90
Wesley Nuckle Scott (damagcs) ............. 25 90
VIM Abbott, Scott (damages) .... ... ....... 80 90
w Keller, orange (damages) .......... $50 90
Mm III Snyder, Orange (damages). ....... $50 90
Isaac Mcbride, Madison (damageS). .... I5 90
Isaac Yount, Pine (tamages) ...,.....~..... 1000
stephen Pohe, Commissioner attending
VIEWS ~ ~
charles Rechurt commissioner attend
Ing NleWS."....,. 81 30
B Herring, Commissioner attending
Views, ...,,..... % 80
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MIsCELLANEos EXPENSES.

4 II Ent, serving wrlts on election officers. S42
L II Ent, cost advertising special election. 10 i6
Buckingham, auditing public accounts. 1000
Geo Clark, bill endered"."."........." ca
VIM Krickbaum, recording names Of town.
snip officers. 33 W
VIM c. Mckinney, eXpresSage." 90
Meyer Bros, eSpressage age....................,. %
w Mann, indexing mortgage dockets,
ccOrders onlce........ .......".......... 5S 65
Knlttle. indeXng mortgage dockets,
Recorders office ce......"................. G03I
Guy Jacooy, indexlng mortgage dockets,
Recorders office.......... b.. ,..,.... G5 90
II Jacoby, ct. al. comparing mortgage
dockets, Recorders oflice.. 80 90
Philip crawford, pavement on Centre
street, (old jaiD. l03 GS
u COfIman, repairing pump &c....... 52l
John W Holman, costs Columbia county
VS. Person, et al. ...... .....,..........., II 10
Layton RunyOn, door lock old jail ll.......... $50
Little, telegraphiug Sc...... ...."...... 70
NJ Grover, decd, costs Columbia county
VS. Geraghty,............. ................ G GO
Il Maize, acknowledging deed made to
AChelbaCh ................ .. ct. ............ 90
Wm Krickbaum, Prothouotary bill .......... 1870 II
ID II CGilman, on fence contract old jail. G7.9
j Grimes, bill for Teachers Instltute.... 1876 92
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COMMISSIONERS, OFFICE AND COURT

AOh NlSSlONEho OFfICE AND COURI b.
J.cob Metz, rera ring stove, Recorders
Samuel Il Smith, auditor .... ............... 2500
Wm Manning, auditor. r.................... 250
Seesholt2, auditor, ........."...... .... $500
NJ II Fry, repairing commissioners Office. 90
NJ Drinker, repairing vault door Sherln's
OIlCc. II 50
JACOB Dlefen0ach, DroOmS mS................... 800
&C Galgnan, repairing at Court House. 212
Wm hltter, painting steeple, fence, &C.,
court house. $50
John Casey, stating accounts for 1850 ... % 90
Meyer Bros bill rendered. ................... 1862
j ]. Thomas boxes pens... ............... 400
II hartman, mating for Court room. ... 81
Mn ChrlStman for work at office. ....... 400
ROBERT buckingham, for work at oillce,.. 1900
Eplralm Parks, work at Court House ..... 50
Conman, work at Court House,. 49,. 100
ElJdn smut work at Court House .......... so |
Thomas Corey, repairing locks, ,........ / 90
vas company, Tor % 50
NJ E Cox Cleaning Court House, &c..... 1850
Is POast agent, for COAL. ............... 81 90
II IL sands, for wood ............. 200
IL kahler, desk for Commissioners
VlhCu. IL 90
Layton Runyon a Co ;, bill rendered $50
Harman HaSsert iron gate post &C.. 5000
neteT blLneyer, Dill rendered...... ....... SIG
lkeler, attorney. 100 90
stephen P0he, Commissioner ,,,,,.,,,,,,,, 9S5 90
Charles Reichart, Commissioner ........,. 2T4OO
Herring, Commissioner. ..........,,. 822 |
oohu ID Oasey, Clerk. 500 co
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s!7.35 y 1871 so 900 Al 1OG36 so l44d

By duplicate OF Aaron Person COLT of
COnyugham FOR lsII. .......... ....... 800 so 800
duplicate OF Aaron Person COLT
COnyngham Tor lS56.."......,..,..~,. 1854 9 90
Which amO lnts are unC0lleCtable and
struck from the charges against --- -
the next Treasurer".. $!s5 o. 81 90
II a Sweppcnheiser, Treasurer OF Columbia coun-
ty In account with said county on county funds.
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By commissions eXoncrl tlons and returns allow.
ed collectors TOR i,sO and previous years.
Districts; Com, EX, Districts. Com Ex.