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POETICAL.
GOOD BYE, PROUD WORLD.

Goodbye, proud world I'm going home:
Thou art not my friend I am not thine;
Too long through weary crowds roam
A river ark on the ocean brine;
Too long am tossed like the driven foam
But now, proud world, am going home:
Goodbye to Flattery's fawning face,
TO Grandeur with his wild grimace;
TO upstart wealth's averted eye,
TO supple office, low and high;
To crowded halls, to court and street,
TO frozen hearts and hasting feet
To those who 60 and those who come,
Goodbye, proud world, I'm going home
Igo to seek my own hearthstone,
Bosomed In yon green hills alone,
A secret lodge in pleasant land,
Whose groves the frolic fairies planned,
Where arches green the llvelong day
Echo the blackblrd's roundelay,
And evil men have never trod
A spot that is sacred to thought and God.
Oh, when am safe in my sylvan home,
mock at the pride OF Greece and Rome;
And when am stretched beneath the pines,
Where the evening star 80 holy shines,
laugh at the lore and pride OF man.
Al the sophist schools, and the learned clan;
For what are they all in their high conceit,
When man In the bush with God may meet?
Emerson 1882
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LEGAL BLANKS,

AT THIS OFFICE !
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RATss OF ADveRTlsIte

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Legal advertisements two dollars per Inch foi
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Executors, Administrators, and Audltor nc nouces
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transient or Local notices. ten cents line, regu-
lar advertisements half rates.
Cards in the "Business Directory" column, one
dollar per year for each line.
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DIRE INSURANCE,
CHRISTIAN r. KNAPP, BLOOMSBURY, PA.

BRITISH AMERICA ASSURANCE COMPANY.
GERM AN FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY
NATIONAL FIRE INsURANCR COMPANY.
UNION INSURANCE COMPANY.
These OLD CORPORATIONS are Wen seasoned by
age and FIRE TESTED and have never yet had a
loss settled by any court OF law. Their assets
are all invested In SOLID sKcURITIgsand are liable
10 the hazard OF FIRE only.
Losses PROMPTLY and HONESTLY adjusted and
paid as soon as determined by CHRISTIAN II.
KNAPP, SPECIAL AGENT AND ADJUsTgR BLOOMS
BURG, PA.
The people OF Columbia county should patron
ize the agency where losses II any are settled
and paid by one OF their own citizens.
PROMPT NESS, EQUITY, FAIR DEALING.
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FROM EMPORIUM,

Geo. Dodge, ST., well-known citi
zen OF Emporium, writes that one
his men (Sam Lewis whilst working in
the woods so seyerly sprained his ankle
that he could scarcely get home, but
after one or two applications of Thomas
Eclectric Oil lie was able TO 90 to work
next day.
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TO NACATE.

In the matter OF ths petition OF sundry free
holders OF Centralia Borough, TO vacate that por-
tlon OF Laurel street In the borough OF Centralia
extending East from Locust avenue 70 an alley.
And now TO wit May 9Th A. ID. 20 on rea1lng OF
foregoing petition aud motion made by VIM. A,
Mari attorney for the Locust Mountain Coal and
Iron Company and others, the Court grant a RUE
to show cause why referred to highway as set
forth In foregoing petition shall not be vacated
and closed up and that said rule hall be publish
ed In the CoLuMBIAS for four weeks and Shall be
returnable to Adjourned Court on the s9rd day Of
June next.
BY THg COURT.
Certified from the records May 9th, A. ID 1SS2.
q. NJ. QUICK. VIM. KRICKBAUM,
Dputy. Clerk
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Tasting nm Elpuhnnt.

The following extract is from "a
Hunters Wanderings in Africa" by
Selous: The huge carcase Of the ele'
plant, or rather what remained OF it,
lay on one side, as it had fallen, with
the legs extended. Behind the ribs
and just over the belly the Katlirs had
peeled of a large slab of skin about
three feet square, and through the
trap.door thus formed dragged out the
stomach and intestines; they had also
cut out the heart, liver and lungs, so
chat what was left was merely O hollow
shell, in the lower part Of which the
blood had formeda pool . foot deep.
Into this cavity they and the bushmen
now kept entering by twos, disappear
ing entirely from sight, searching
eagerly for small pieces OF fat along the
backbone and about the kidneys, and
bathing in and smearing themselves all
over with the blood. This is a COM
mon practice among the natives of the
interior of Africa whenever large game,
sucn as elephants or rhinoceroses, are
killed, particularly if they Happen to
be thu first of the season. Whether
they imagine that this bath OF blood
gives them courage or not I cannot say.
They do not wash it off again, but let
it dry on them and remain there till it
gradually wears or gets rubbed off.
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The Discouraged Man.

a newspaper once contained al ad
vertisement for q man to fill a certain
position, which concluded with enc
discouraged man need apply" There
wa deep worldly wisdom in this, fol
encouragement is a terrible drawback
in fighting life's battle. The discour
aged man is defeated in advance. he
carries failure about with him; he faints
when he needs most to be strong; he
falters where decision is most needed;
he halts where he ought to hurry for
ward; he cannot stand up under The
strain and burden of the race. It is
hard that it should be so-harder still
that so little real sympathy is felt for
encouragement. The world does not
need such a man, and has little mercy
for him; and so he falls into the ranks
of the unsuccessful, while he of high
hope. who is yet new in the struggle,
who has not supped the bitter cup OF
disappointment and found out that all
is vanity and vexation, strides before
him and is accepted where the much
tried man fails. There is something
contagious in a buoyant, happy, ener'
getic spirit, which carries those who
como in contact with it away, and sue.
cess is as often the result OF this strong
animal force as of perseverance and con
tinued effort. All the experience in the
dworld will not carry the man of dee
discouragement successfully through an
enterprise.
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Where the Money Went.

In July last George sands, a well't1'
do farmer living near Milan, Ohio, took
home $500, and handing it t. his wife
requested her to take charge of it. She,
with the thoughtfuiness of the average
housewife, considered that the straw
bedtick wolld ha about as safe a hiding
place as she conld find for the wealth.
Accordingly she placed the roll of bills
among the straw. The money not being
needed for any purpose it was forgotten
until several weeks after the house had
been cleaned, when Mr.. Sands inquired
OF his wife il she had that money. The
thought came to her at once that she
had emp.ied the straw-bed in the
orcha,l, and of purse the roll OF bills
had been dumped out too. A visit to
the orchard showed that the swine aud
poultry had been very industrious
there, and ten and twenty-do!lar bills
were found scattered by the wind and
torn by the aforesaid farm stock. Care
fol search brought back about $3.50.
leaving seventy dollars as the price Of
the c.relessness. Mr.. Sands does not
put his money in straw-ticks any more.
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JOHNNY and the Sour Apples.

Johnny" said a lady living IN Aus
tin avenue, to her ten-year-old son,
stake a basket, 60 to the grocery on
the corner, md bring me a dozen nice
apples. Be sure and taste them, and
see they are not sour ones"
eyes, mother, l will try and remem-
Der to taste thep," said Johnny, cheer
fully, taking up the basket and saunter-
ing out the gate. In about half an hour
he came hack and placed the empty,
basket on the table.
"Didpt the grocer have any aprles!"
asked the anxious mother.
"Yes, nam I bought q dozen. They
were not sour"
"Where are they 2" asked the fond
mother, taking another squirt into the
empty basket.
"You told me to be sure and see that
they were not sour, SO [ had to taste
evely one Of them, you know, ma; l
had TO bite each apple, You know"
"Where are they = shrieked the now
thoroughly aroused woman.
"They were all little apples, ma, aud
one of them didn't make more than a
sood bite, but they wasn't sour, ma, in.
deed they wasn't"
judging from the way Johnny VIZ ks
the apples did not agree with him, cen
il they were not sonr.-Teras Sift'n3S.
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Foreign News

TIE Holy League, q society formed to ooun-
teract nihilism, will be recognized as . branch
of the Russian police.
The insurgents in the Balkan provinces have
slaughtered O detachment Of ten Austrian
soldiers and defeated ..nother body Of Aus
TRANS near Bledagora.
A TRIBE occupying a region near the South
African diamond fields aid which is allied to
Great Britain has suffered a loss Of $50 men
from an attack made by another tribe which
Vas aided by Boer mercenaries.
MANY small engagements have taken place
between the Austrian troops and the insur-
gents in the Balkan provinces.
THREE thousand French troops are reported
to have died in Tunis, North Africa.
THE panic in Paris financial circles has
spread to Vienna, and many cases Of suicide
are reported.
THERE are 70, 900 claims for tho fixing Of
fair rent before tho Irish land courts.
Two hundred revolving Arabs we're killed in
an engagement with Turkish troops in Arabia.
A CALcUTTA..dispatch says that the ameer oil
Afghanistan has executed Mahomed Jan and
several other state prisoners.
COPIES of London Punch have been confls-
Gated in Berlin in consequence of a cartoon OBJ
noxious to the authorities.
TWENTY depredating Indians were killed by
Mexican troops in Mexico.
NJ. RoUzAUD, husband of Christine Nilsson,
the famous prima donna, has become insane,
owing to the financial panic in Paris.
LEADING English journals express satlsfac'
ton at the conviction Of Guiteau, but severely
~criticise the conduct of the trial.
THE French chamber Of deputies having re-
jected the government revision scheme by a
vote of 3O5 to III, NJ. Gambetta and the other
members of the cabinet thereupon resigned.
FRESH arrests of Nihilists have been made in
Russia in consequence Of the discovery OF a
large quantity of dynamite and secret printing
presses in Moscow. February 81 thirty-slz
Nihilists are to be tried at st. Petersburg.
THE financial crises in Paris aud Vienna have
extended to Genevs, Switzerland, where hume
rous failures-one for 81, 600, O0O-have taken
place.
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From WASHINGTON.

THE Senate select committee on the rights oil
women gave a hearing to a large delegation Of
the members of the National Woman's Suffrage
convention.
COLONEL DUDLEY, commissioner Of pensions,
in an address to tho House committee on pen
sions, said if he had 400 men to place in the
field as special agents he could eliminate all
pension frauds within three years time. he
thought such special agents should receive
about 81, 400 per year and expenses.
THE national board of health has at its meet.
ing declared smallpox to be epidemic in the
United States. The inspection has been or,
dered Of several of the most important quar-.
antine stations, to determine if the rules ant
regulations of the board, approved by the
President November II, 1851, are being prop
erly enforced.
THE secretary OF the navy has received thu
following dispatch, datel 1rkutsk, Russia, from
Engineer Melville, Of tho lost Jeanette
melville. D%anenhower and eleven men al
we'll. Melville returned to Arctic ocean; fount
log books, instruments and four records loft BY
De Long. No tidinSs Of second cutter, Lieu
tenant Caipp. Search continued during the
winter by Cossack commandant Of Bolun and
Iakutsk, under directions Of General Tcher
naief. Word from Kolyma river that no boa
had arrived to date, November 10. an &C
uuainted with the country where De Long ani
party are, and request orders to remain, will
H. .,ro, 81 n - ~,h - tY.s,l ru-.-
hover and nine men to return to the United
States. Danenhower's sight partly recovered
Secretary Hunt replied, giving Melville the or
ders he asked.
COMMISSIONER OF AGRICULTURE LoEISG ask:
500, 600 for collecting and distributing month
iv crop reports. Last year the appropriation
for this purpose was SO, 600.
COMPTROLLER KNOX has authorized the Hud
son, Mas; the Springfield, o., and the Mer'
chants, of Dunkirk, N. Y, national banks to
begin business. Each has q capital of 100000
GENERAL ROBERT B. MITCHELL, ex-governor
of New Mexico, died the other day at the
national capital, aged f~fty-three years.
GutrEAU, on the day after his conviction,
issued another address "to the American peo'
pie" in which he af1i,ms that he gives himself
''no anxiety on account of the verdict" says
he is Gods man in this matter" and appeals
for money to employ more legal talent in his
defense.
An estimate has been made OF the expenses
of the Guiteau trial. 1t is thought they will
amount to about $50, COO. OF this Mr.. Dayidgc
and hIr. Porter will receive, it is thought, about
SIS, 900 each. Witnesses have been paid q little
over So, 200. The board bill OF the jury will
reach So, 500. The expense of printing the
testimony will he about S., 1000, and the fees for
jurors will amount to about 81, 500.
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How Comets Affect the Earth.

The following extract is from the
prize essay on comets, won by Professor
Boss, of Albany: The influence OF
comets upon the earth is in all proba-
bility Insignificant. They may, like
the sun, afe ct the earth's magnetic
condition, and thus to some
extent, possibly, its meteorology. No
such effect has eSer been perceived. In
spite of some chance condolences be-
tween the apparitions of great comets
and remarkable public events, no we'll
informed person now believes that there
is adv real connection between them.
By q liberal and credulous interpreta-
ton of any frequently occurring celes.
tial phenomenon, similar condolences
could be shown.
When a comet is converted into me-
teoric bodies, which impinge upon the
earth's atmosphere, there is some direct
though probably minute effect. Some
have thought that a sensible portion Of
the heat when the earth receives it is
generated in this way; but the weight
of scientific opinion seem to be against
that hypothesis. The impact OF the
meteors upon our atmosphere must add
some matter to it, and this is probably
in the form of dust. This must be the
origin of the 80 called cosmic dust,
which has been collected at sea in re-
cent times. The fuer PARTICLES Of it
may have some influence OF cloud for
nations, and other meteorological phe-
nomena; but all this is merely c~oDiec.
ture.
A more remote effect may be sought
in the possible fall of meteors and com
cts upon the surface of the sun. Owing
to his vast bulk, the sun would. attract
an immense number of those bodies;
but it is quite certain that their effect
upon the suns heat is quite insigniti-
cant. 1t is now generally admitted
that we must look for the origin OF the
suns heat in a constant, though to us,
imperceptible sbrinkage Of his vast
bulk.
Some connection between the fire.
quency of sun spots and comets he's
been rather vaguely suspected. Were
the search for comets Systematically
pursued with equal persistence for a
long period, we might have some data
for the formation of a sound opinion.
Yet it would still bN an open question
whether comets cause the spots or
whether greater activity OF the sun
tends in some way to render comets
brighter, SO that more will be visible,
with probability in favor of the latter
proposition.
Finally, it may be said, with all due
respect to scientific decorum, that the
appearance OF u great comet does
exert one most happy influence on the
earth, in that it stimulates the curiosity
of mankind and dire CTS their thoughts
to the more particular contemplation OF
the glorious universe which surrounds
them.
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Fables from Bret Harte's New Book.
THE KMD.HEARTED sHE-ELEPHANT.

THE hlND'dEA6I6h LAM
A kind hearted She Elephant, while
walking through the jungle where the
spicy breezes blow soft DER Ceylon's
isle, heedlessly set foot upon q Partridge,
which she crushed to death within a
few inches of the nest containing its
callow brood. "Poor little things |"
ssid the generous Mammoth, II have
been a mother myself, and my affection
shall atone for the fatal consequences
of my neglect" So saying, she sat
down upon the orphaned birds.
Moral.-The above teaches us what
home is without a mother also. that it
is not every person who should be in
trusted with the care of an orphan
asylum.
THE PRUDENT TIGER.
A prudent Tiger having observed a
procession bearing the remains of q
sainted Brahmin to the tomb, communi.
Gated he intelligence to his wife, who
said, my dear, we are almost out of
meat, and though the deceased, from
the austerities Of his pious life, was in
poor condition, l make no doubt that
among his surviving friends we may en-
counter others nor %succulent."
miserable Tigress," exclaimed her
lord, "cannot you see that if we permit
the deceased to be c%annonised, pill.
grimages will be instituted to his tomb,
and the producer and consumer will be
brought together in accordance with
the true principles of political econo-
my2 Rather let US, then, offer a chro-
mo for each new pilgrim" This
prudent advice being followed the
Tiger enjoyed O free breakfast table to
the end of his days.
Moral Beware of breaking the egg
that matches the golden goose.
THE WOLF AND THE u NIB.
A Wolf one day, drinking from a run
ming stream, observed q Lamb also
drinking from the same stream, at some
distance from him.
81 have yet to learn" said the Wolf.
addressing the Lamb with digni6ed
serverity, "what right you have to
muddy the stream from which l am
drinking"
"Your premises are incorrect" re.
piled the Lamb. with bland politeness,
"for if you will take the trouble to e1-
anime the current critically. you will
observe that it flows from you to me,
and that my disturbance of sediment
here would be, SO far as you are con-
cerned, entirely local."
POSSIBLY You are right" returned
the Wolf; "but, if I am not mistaken,
you are the person who, two years ago,
uGed some influence against me at the
University"
Impossible" replied the Lamb ;
"two years ago I was not born"
"Ah, WE'LL" added the Wolf, COM
posedly, 81 am wrongagain; but it must
convince every intelligent person who
has listened to this conversation that I
am altogether insane, and consequently
not responsible for my Actions"
With this remark he at once dis
patched the Lamb, and was triuL-
phantly Acquitted.
MoRA1.-This fable teaches Is how
may be the popular impress.
sion in regard to the distribution Of
alluvium, and the formation of river
deltas.
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By the seethil.g main,
Neposits of StrOntianite in Prussia.

The fortunate owners of petroleum
lands in the Lunebe:g district of Prus-
sia had scarcely lee overed from their
establishment at the possession of I'M.
expected wealth, when the peasant
farmers about Munster awoke to find
themselves rich il deposits Of stron-
~:ianite, for which there is a great de-
mand in all tie German sugar refining
centers, particularly at Madgeburg,
Dessau, Attenburg and Wagnausel,
where it is now permanently used in
the extraction of the sugar from the
molasses. Some of these sugar re-
6neries are said to date from the six
teenth century. The mineral which is
now fonnd so abundautlv in Westphalia,
aud which promises to be the source Of
immense wealth to that part of Prussia,
owes it's recognized scientific name to
the village of Strontian, in Scotland,
where it was first found. 1t occurs,
though only in small quantities, in other
parts of Germany, on the Hartz noun
taips, also in Salzburg in Poland, and
at Tavetsch, in the Grisons, the place
which boasts of producing the yer!
finest honey in Europe. The capital of
the growing strontianite trade is Hamm,
in Westphalia. More, than 800 mines
are now engaged in working it in that
neighborhood.
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NEWS
Eastern and Middle States.

An explosion on board a steam tug at daVer-
straw, N. Y, resulted in the death OF the second
engineer, fireman and cook, and tho total de-
s%truction Of the tug.
CHARLES DANA & Co., wholesale provision
dealers of Boston, have failed with from $780,
600 to $50, 900 liabilities.
Hon. GARRISON y. POTTER, the prominent
New York lawyer, best known to the country as
chairman Of tho "Potter Congressional COM
mittee," charged with iuqu;ring into alleged
frauds connected with the presidential election
of 1876, died suddenly the other day at his
home in the metropolis, aged ffty-siS years.
While arguing a case before the. court OF ap-
meals at Albany he was taken sick, and his
SYMPTOMS assuming an alarming phase he was
conveyed to his home in New York, where he
fingered but q few days before death relieved
him of his sufferings. In 1879 Mr.. Potter was
defeated Tor Acknowledgements OF Now York
by only 800 votes in a poll exceeding you, Wo.
In August last he was elected president OF the
American Bar association.
The Hartford Comm high school has been
destr yed by fire. Loss, $4,000; insurance,
SO, 900.
A PHILADELPHIA lawyer was fined $50 for
not reporting a case Of smallpox which proved
fatal.
GOVERNOR HoYT, Of Pennsylvania, has
signed the death warrants of six men and fixed
the 9th of March for their hanging.
In New York and vicinity the thermometer
recorded all the way from forty degrees below
zero-at Lake Saranac-to three degrees below
zero-at New York city-and many cases OF
prostration caused by the intense cold were re-
ported. Three men were found frozen to death
-one in New York, one in Greenpoint, Long
Island. and one in Newark, n. J.
JAY GOULD has gobhled another railroad
the st. Louis and San Francisco road.
A FIRE destroyed the Providence and Woon'
socket passenger station at Woonsocket, R. l.
and damaged ether property there, involving q
loss Of about 500, 600.
A INVENT Of farmers interested il
ensilase was held in New York, and discussed
subjects connected with the use Of ensilage as
food for cattle.
The jury in the coroner's investigation Of
the Spuyten Duyvil railroad disaster gave a
verdict fixing the blame on Melius, the brake
man of the Chicago express; the two engineers
and conductor of the same train: the engineer
of the Tarrytown train :; Mr.. John NJ. Toucey,
the superintendent, and the managers and
officers of the Now York Central and Hudson
River railroad.
PROFESSOR THEoPH1LUs PARSONS, Dane pro-
fessor of law at Harvard college, and a we'll
known writer, died q few days ago, aged
eighty-four years.
An ice gorge at Bradford, Pa, caused the
water in the river to rise over ten feet, flooding
a portion of the city and causing great damage
to property.