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The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1882-12-08
An Actress Shot.

On the afternoon of the 30th ult., at
theatre in Cincinnati, Frank Frayne
and company were playing "Si Slocum. y
The theatre was full. All the sitting
and standing room was taken and the
audience became wonderfully demon.
strative. The play had proceeded to
the end of the fourth act Frayne
personated 81 Slocun and Miss Annie
Won Behren took the role of Ruth
&ocuna, Isl Slocum's" wife. Just at
this point, THE VUlian required 81
&0cune to shoot an apple off his wife's
head, and remarked, sit must be with
the backward shot" The arrange
ments were made, the rifle cracked and
Ruth &ocuna fell to the floor without
uttering an audible sound. Frayne
turned almost with the flash of his gun
and rushed toward the PROSTATE girl,
and, swooning, fell by her side, with an
arm across her body. The curtain
dropped, and the audience, who saw no
blood heard no cry and therefore
imagined it was a new turn in the play,
were not aware of the situation. The
manager came to the front and said it
was only case of slight accident, that
soon all would be well, but that the
play would end here, with the omission
of the fifth act
Behind the scenes the girl was taken
to her room and Frayne was carried to
his. Surgical aid was called in, but in
fifteen minutes the girl was dead. She
never uttered word or a moan be-
tween the time she was struck and
when life went out. Frayne's wife,
who used to do this act, is dead, and
Miss Won Behren has filled the part for
two seasons. The ball took effect on
the hair-line. couple of inches above
the left eye and near the middle of the
forehead. The rifle used was a breech,
loader, Stevens make, of twenty-five
calibre. 1t had been in use six years.
Just as Frayne pulled the trigger he
felt the catch on the snap, which holds
the barrel down at the breach, give
way. The cartridge was blown partly
or wholly out, and the flame of the
powder from the breach burned Frayne's
shirt collar The distance over which
he shot was thirty feet. On the girl,
head was a hat on which the apple was
placed, The bottom of the apple was
four inches above the head. Frayn'
was arrested, and after a hearing dis
charged. He was engaged to MARI,
the lady he shot
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Professional Resurreotionists,
WHOLESALE GRAVE ROBBERY IN A PHILA-
DELPHIA CEMETERY.

PHILADELPHIA, December 5.-Frank
McNamee, "Dutch" Pillet and Levi
Chew, the latter a colored man, were
arrested last night while driving a
wa son containing five dead bodies to
the Jefferson college. The bodies had
been stolen from the Lebanon ceme-
terry in the lower part of the city. The
prisoners are professional ''resurrec-
tionists" and their operations have been
carried on for long time. Two more
arrests were made this morning when
detective visited the cemetery ground
and arrested Robert Chew its super
intendent and Andrew Mullen. The
prisoners were this afternoon held in
$4,000 each for further hearing on
Friday next. The arrests were made
by Press reporters.
After the hearing the crowd of
colcred people made rush for the
prisoners with evident intentions of
lynching them, and number of police
men were sent for to protect them.
They were locked up at Central Sta
ton.
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NEWS ITEMS.
Allentown has electric lights.


The Archbishop of Canterbury, DR..
TAFT, died on the 3rd inst.
The Democratic State Committee
will meet at Harrisburg for organiza-
ton on the third Monday of January
under the rules adopted by the last
democratic state convention.
Governor-elect Waller, of Connect
cut, has just received from admiring
friends small edition of the ''Demo-
cratic rooster" in gold, with diamond
eyes. to be worn as scarf-pin.
The blast furnaces in the Shenango
Valley are greatly inconvenienced by
reason of the difficulty in getting coke.
Inefficient transportation facilities is
the trouble.
Judge Cummin of Lycoming coun-
ty has refused to call another judge to
try the case of the ex-county commits
sioners of that county. A change of
venue was asked for, but the petition
was withdrawn.
Copper mines are being operated
with some success in the South Noun
tain region of Adams and Cumberland
counties. Several companies have al
ready been formed to develop the min
eral.
Since the railroad has gone through
the heart of Forest county the army OF
winter hunters has been greatly in
creased. 1t is said that there are over
seven hundred deer hunters roaming
through the wilds of Forest county.
The following are the amounts al
lowed by the Garfield Board of Audit
to the physicians for services rendered
during the sickness of the late Presi.
dent Dr. DIV, Bliss, $6,56O DR.. ID.
Hayes Agnew, $4,000; DIR. Frank III.
Hamilton, $4,000; DIR. Robert Rey
burn, $4,000; Dr. Silas A. Boynton
$4,000; DIR. Susan A. Edison, $4,000
Total, S27,560.
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Salaries VS.. Fees,

The Lancaster Mtetligencer makes a
very proper suggestion to the several
candidates for speaker of the house
that they consider the propriety and
feasibility of reducing the cost of the
Legislative machinery. 1t is to be hop
ed that those gentlemen will lay this
sound advice to heart 1t will perhaps
not be out of place to supplement the
InteVigencerS suggestion with anoth-
er of a similar character. Now that
the business of making a cabinet for
Governor elect Pattison is going on the
people who have it in hand should in.
form the prospective Attorney-General
and Secretary of the Commonwealth
that there will be fine opportunities for
both of those functionaries to reform
abuses which have obtained in The de-
partments over which they are to pre-
side. The Attorney General, for in.
stance, has been taking illegal fees to
the extent of $1,000 per annum. The
act of assembly under which he has
pocketed that sum as his share of the
fund produced by the five per cent.
penalty on delinquencies to the state, is
clearly and indisputably unconstitu-
tional. The object of the act Gf it be
to give the Attorney-General the fees
referred toy is not expressed in the title,
as required by the constitution. Be-
sides it is only in strained construc-
ton of the language of the act that the
Attorney. General finds warrant for the
acceptance of those fees The cabinet
makers should therefore break the news
to the Acknowledgement of their choice
that nnder Democratic administration
he will probably be obliged to content
himself with salary of $3,500 per
annum and his pay as a member of the
several State boards. The Secretary of
the Commonwealth might also as well
be told that the fees taken by that
officer for atfixing his signature to GER
tain corporation papers will most likely
cease to be his perquisite, as a Demo
cratic reform administration will see to
it that they are paid into the treasury.
AS those fees have averaged from
$4,000 to $4,000 per annum the Com
monwealth may be the gamer and the
secretary the loser to just that extent.
All of which prompts us to repeat,
what has frequently been suggested in
these columns, that State officers should
be paid by salaries specifically fixed
and that they should not be allowed to
take for their own use any fees or per-
quisites of any sort whatever. If it be
possible for the Legislature to fix the
salaries of the Attorney-General and
Secretary of the Commonwealth before
those officers shall have been sworn in
that body should not hesitate in the
premises. Such course on the part
of the legislature would relieve the new
administration from a very delicate
position and would at the same time
iDaugurate proper and necessary re-
form in the compensation of public
officials.--Harrisburg Patriot.
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Presidential Candidates.

The crop of aspirants for the Pres
become unusually large. The stimulus
of great victory seems to have acted
as artificial heat does on greenhouse
plants,
Tens of thousands of honest Repub-
lican voters supported Democratic can
didates openly, as in this State, in or
der to emphasize their rebuke of the
existing system. In plain words, they
took Democratic club to break the
heads OF the offensive party as close
corporation, after the example of the
Credit Mobiier Construction Compa-
ny.
The new Democratic House of Rep
resentatives will take possession of
power on the first Monday in Decem-
Der, 1888. They will find the regular
appropriations already made for 1888
'S4. But the opportunity of 1875 will
be repeated, aud they can cut off ex,
crescences which now cost many mil
lions, without disturbing the public SER
vice.
The internal revenue abomination
must be abolished. The tariff must be
revised, with just consideration of all
interests affected by its operation No
more money must be collected than
can be properly expended, and taxa
tion in every form must be adjusted to
distribute the burdens equally. Glass
legislation must be stopped. Sinecures
must be repealed. The lobby must be
starved out.
These reforms will be difficult to a.
chieve with Senate controlled by two
repudiators like Malone and Riddle
berger, and an Administration run by
a machine. But if they are faithfully
pursued and resolutely adhered TO, the
opposition must finally succumb, and
at least partial triumph will be assured
The present outlook is not encouraging
for Republican Senators in 1885, and
the incumbents who seek reelection
then will be more careful about votes
than they have hitherto been.
The Democrats have fine opening
for success at the coming Presidential
election. The future depends entirely
upon the conduct of the next House of
Representatives, and of the Governors
and Legislatures just elected in North
ern States. If they shall prove worthy
of confidence, the field is clear When
the country shall see by acts, and not
by professions, that its trust has been
deserved, will be the time to set up
oandidates.-M y. Sun.
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TO THE PUBLIC.
CIVIL SERVICE REFORM ASSOCIATION.
263 South 4TH. STREET,
PHILADELPHIA.
November 29th, 1882.

26o S0UTH 4TH. STREET,
PHILADELPHIA.
November 29th, 1882.
1t is hardly
possible to exaggerate the Importance
of Civil Service Reform in this coun-
try. 1t is essential not only to good
government, but to the continued ex
istence of popular sovereignty and re-
publican institutions.
The object of the Civil Service
Reform Association is to secure laws
enacting:
1st. That appointments to and
promotions in subordinate offices must
be given only to those who have
shown ability, honesty and genera
fitness as ascertained by proper
competitive examinations and tests
open to all, and by periods of proba
ton and
End That no removal shall bt
made except for misconduct or incom
potency.
The effect of such regulations would
| be:
1st. A rapid improvement in the
character of the officials and of theil
| work.
End. Fewer office holders and re-
duced expenses.
3rd. And most important: The
puritication Of our entire political at.
mosphere by making it impossible fol
bosses or parties to use appointments
or removals as bribes, rewards or pun
ishments, and then to turn the power
and resources of the nation into foun.
tains of corruption for the demoraliza-
tion of the people.
If we wish the employees of Govern,
ment to be the servants of the people
we must make them feel that their
positions depend solely upon their
merits and not upon the success of a
party or the favor of its chiefs.
This Association is actively engaged
in the printing and diffusion of infor-
nation and arguments supporting the
measures alluded to, and showing
that they are not mere theories but
that they have upon them the stamp
of tested excellence and efficacy.
The time seems favorable TO secure
definite legislation on these important
subjects.
The public attention has been eff
fectually aroused to the fact that in
our country progress in administration
has not kept pace with excellence in
institutions, and that the latter have
come to be imperiled by faults of ad-
. ministration which are easily remedia
bic and which have actually been
remedied wherever devotion to coun-
try has proved stronger than adherence
to party
Therefore all citizens who favor
Reform of the Civil Service are ear
nestly invited to become members Of
this association, because united action
and concentration of effort tend most
promptly to support the efforts OF
patriotic legislation and accomplish the
reforms desired.
By order of Executive Committee.
(SigneD j. A. HARRIs,
Chairman.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1882-12-08

The Republican of last week con-
taned an article which is intended to
afford consolation to its party for the
great defeat throughout the country
this year. 1t shows by figures which
may or may not be correct, that not
withstanding the tidal wave of 1874
when the Democrats carried everything
by storm, it did not break up the Re
publican party, and winds up with the
statement that "the Republicans elected
their President in 1876. The infer
ence drawn would be all right if the
facts stated were correct. 1t is now
admitted by all honest and intelligent
people regardless of party, that Tilden
was elected President in 1876 by an
overwhelming majority, and that the
Inauguration of Hayes was fraud up,
on the American nation. Most of the
conspirators in that crime of stealing
the Presidency have been retired from
public by the people, many have come
to grief, and even poor Hayes is re.
membered by his own party with con-
tempt for the part he acted. The Re
publicaa's comparison is an unfortunate
one
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A Monster Hurricane.
PROF. wIGGINs PREDICTS THE GREATEST
STORM EVER KNOWN IN THE his
TORY OF OUR COUNTRY

The President has received com
munication from Prof. Stone Virgins,
LII. d., astronomer in the Canadian fl
nance department, saying: "On the 23d
of September / announced through the
Canadian press, that great storm
would occur March next, that it would
first be felt in the Northern Pacific
and would appear in the Gulf of Mex
leo on the night of the 9th, aud being
reflected by the Rocky mountains,
would cross the meridian from the
west at noon of Sunday, March IL,
1888. No vessel, whatever her di-
mensions, will be safe out of harbor,
and none of small tonnage can hope to
survive the tidal wave and fury of this
tempest AS the wind will blow from
the southeast the planetary force will
be sufficient TO submerge the lowlands
of the American coast, especially those
bordering on the Gulf of Mexico and
washed by the gulf stream, while the
air currents for several hundred miles
along the east side of the Rocky
mountain range, owing to the great
atmospheric pressure in those regions,
will spread universal destruction. The
New England states will also suffer
severely from wind aud floods. No
point outside of harbor on the whole
area of the Atlantic, Especially north
of the equator) will be place of safo.
ty; for this will preeminentlv be the
greatest storm that has visited this
continent since the days of our illustri-
GUS first President
In view of this event, therefore,
take great liberty Of representing to
your excellency the advisability of
ordering all United States ships into
safe harbor not later than the 9TH of
March till this storm has passed.
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Illiteracy in Pennsylvania,

The Census Bureau has issued bull
letin containing the statistics of litter
acy as returned at the Tenth Census.
The statistics for Pennsylvania are as
follows
Number of population ten years of
age and upwards, 3,203,2l5; Returned
rs unable to read, l46,l3S; as unable
to write, 228,0l4; Total number of
white persons ten years of age and up
wards, 3,l36,56l; number unable to
write, 200,98l; Number of native
whites above ten years, 1862, ASS, Tn,
able to write, l23,206; Number of for
eign born whites above ten years, 574
l03; Unable to write, S6,775; Number
of colored persons above ten years, 66,
654; Unable to write, 1903.
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AND DEMOCRAT, BLOOMSBURY, COLUMBIA COUNTY, PA.

The trial of Arab Pasha has con
clnded, and he was sentenced to DEATH
but the Khedive commuted it to exile
for life. IL he ever returns to Egypt
the death penalty will be inflicted.
Clayton McMichael of Philadelphia
has been appointed Marshal of the
District of Columbia in place of Henry,
removed
The deepest coal mine in America is
the Pottsvile, in Pennsylvania. The
shaft is 1876 feet deep. From its bot
tom, almost a third of a mile down,
200 cars, holding four tons each, are
lifted daily.
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Statistics of American Agriculture.

George B. Loring, Commissioner of
Agriculture, has submitted his annual
report to the President. Two and a
half million packages of seed have
been distributed and two hundred and
sixty thousand copies of special reports
printed by the department. The stat
istical division estimates the following
as tho yield of 1882; Corn, 1,635,Oo0,,
900 bushels; wheat, 100000, 900 bush
els; oats 470,00O,000 bushels barley,
45,000,O00 bushels rye, 20,OOO,OO0
buckwheat, l2,000,000 bushels.
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The last session of a republican con-
gress failed to reduce taxation. The
people held an election last month and
put the stamp of condemnation most
emphatically upon them by defeating a
majority of the present congress. The
leaders have now suddenly wakencd to
the fact that something must be done,
and it is likely that internal revenue
taxes will be abolished at his session
just to prevent the Iew Democratic
congress from doing it. The Demo
Gratis are entitled to the credit for it, all
the same.
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The Garfield fair at Washington
has proven failure financially. A
military company known as the Scran-
ton City Guards, attended the fair for
the purpose of competing for prizes
amounting to three thousand dollars,
which were offered by the managers of
the fair, but upon their arrival they
were informed by Major Clapp who
had the matter in charge, that the
prizes would not be awarded, the rea.
son given being that the fair had
proved a failure, and had no money
for prizes. The Scranton company
was of course indignant, having gone
down at their own expense. The
cause of the failure does not appear.
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Law, Collection and Real Es-
tate office Of VIM. Chrisman,
Bloomsbury, Pa.
Properties for sale in Bloomsbury

Properties for sale in Bloomsbury
and elsewhere.
farm OF 100 acres, near Stonytown, in q good
state OF cultivation, brick house, barn nearly new,
frame tenement house, lne fruit, water, &C.
Terms easy.
80 acres OF excellent land, bordering noFlshng-
creek, ~ miles from orangeville, 6h acres being
woodland, good buildings, 2 wells, q splendid
home, healthy and desirable. Cheap.
% acres, q mue from Light Street, plenty OF
fruit' buildings, water, healthy location.
lou OF l'h acres, Ia miles from Bloomsbury
and = mile from Espy good house, frame barn,
nhe Huit' plenty OF water for raising poultry 1ne
land for trucking. Price $1,000.
A hne Hotel In the town OF Espy, lately repair
ed' gopd trade, rent more than pays per cent.
interest Cheap, and terms to suit purchaser.
Grlst MIL on Little Fishingcreek, miles from
Bloomsbury, Turbine water Wheel full water
power, dwelling house, including 20 acres of land,
paying trade. Terms easy.
brick dwelling on East street, corner lot, well,
stable, pleasant location.
a frame dwelling, on double corner lot, on
hast street, with line fruit, lawn, stable, out
Kitchen, grounds and buildings In best OF order,
frame dwelling on East street, line fruit,
wafer grounds and residence In splendid condi-
| tlon.
sneat properties on Main street, with stables,
| good fruit, &c.
frame dwelling on corner OF West ana Fourth
streets' terms easy; one on Catharine street,
WIN wafer plenty OF fruit, stable &C., cheap |;
one on 1h'rd street, with good fruit water stable
ana mousse above the usual size; one on Centre
street. Wish all conveniences, desirable location,
cheepi one on Seventh street. terms part down
ano balance In monthly installments TO suit pur-
chaser, another on Seventh street, with two lots
nearly new house price tlO5O.
| desirable Brick on Centre street. with stable
ana all conyeniences, also one ON Main street on a
corner lot
MOST OF these properties can be secured by pay
ing portion down and the balance In yearly In
lstallments.
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CPECIFIC PERFORMANCE OF CON-
~ TRACT.
ESTATE OF cATHARINE r. BARsHART. DECEASED.


~ TRACT.
ESTATE OF CATHARINE r. BARNHART, DECEASED
CoLuaBIA COUNTY IS ...
The Commonwealth of
Pennsylvania, to the following nephews and
nelces OF Catharlne II. Barnhart late OF Madison
township, deceased:
Simon Reichard, residing In Hemlock township,
Columbia county, Elias Relchard. residing IA
Hemlock township, Jacob Rechard residing In
MADISON township, Amos Kelchard, residing In
Chillls1uaque township, Northumberland COUNTY
Ellen, intermarrlei with Andrew Beagle OF Hem
lock township, Harriet. lntermarried With
Houck, residing in Luzerne county, the above
being the children OF Samuel Reichard, decea Sed
Cyrus Relchard, residing In Madison township
sylvester Reichard, residing In Chilllsquaque
township, Northumberland county, Jonas Reich
ard residing IN Northumberland county, Abraham
Reichard residing at Berwick Sarah Wife of BE o.
lamln Deiterck residing In Madison township,
Mary wire OF ,,,, residence un.
township, and sarah Jane Reichard reslding In
Madison township. Also ellen Relchard a minor
Ghiid OF Hiram Relchard, deceased, said Hiram
Relchard being deceased nephew OF the said
CatharlDe Birnhart, deceased having William
Masteller, OF Madison township for her guardian
at the Instance OF solomon iarnhart, admnistra.
tor OF Catharine X. Barnhart, deceased You and
each or you laying aside all business and excuses
whatever are hereby cited TO be and appear be
fore the Orphans Court OF Columbia county, on
the second Monday OF December next at the
Court House In Bloomsbury. then aud there 10
show cause why specific performances OF contract
shall not be decreed In the estate OF the said Oath
arlne H. Barnhart, deceased, for a tract OF land,
situate IN Jordan township, Lycoming county,
sold TO the said solomon Barnhart as PRAYED for
In the petition OF said solomon Barnhart admin.
istrator OF said Catharine Barnhaft, aforesaid
Herein fail not
Witness the Honorable William Elweu, aresi.
dent OF ou' said Court at Bloomsbprg, Pa, this
| Eleventh day OF November, A. D., 1854
wM. KRICKBAUM, Clerk.
| q, M. QUICK, Deputy.
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Governor.elect Cleveland of New
York follows in the footsteps of Gov
ernor elect Pattison, and has declined
military escort on the occasion of
his Inauguration. He wants as little
ceremony as possible. The example
of these two gentlemen is worthy of
imitation. The people have been pay
ing good deal of money for fuss and
feathers on State occasions. for some
years, and the sooner it is ended the
better. This is the beginning of ie-
form
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1882-12-08

Trouble has grown out of political
crookedness in the management of the
campaign in the Forth-Sixth senatorial
district, in which Franklin H. Agnew,
Esq, and Daniel NJ. Donehoo were
candidates respectively of the Republi-
can and Democratic parties. The re-
turns show that Agnew was elected, he
having received 255 votes more than
Donehoo, Mr.. Donehoo prefers charges
of fraud, etc, ,on the part of Mr., Agnew
and hi, friends, and proposes to contest
the election. He claims to be able to
show where certain glaring frauds were
perpetrated in both Beaver and WASH
ington counties, more particularly
among the labor element in Washing
ton county, which it is claimed was
procured for Agnew in questionable
manner, and it is possible that some
spicy development will ensue.