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The Informer Carey Shot.

LONDON, July 80.
1t was announced in Parliament this
evening that james Carey, the Phoenix
Park informer, had been shot at Port
Elizabeth, Africa, yesterday. The ru.
mors tlat he has been hiding in Mont
real are thus disposed Of The report
of the shooting of Carey caused intense
excitement in the west end of London
and in the House of Commons.
According to the news received here
Carey was shot by man named ODon-
nell, while landing from o steamer at
Port Elizabeth. Carey sailed on Messrs.
Donald, Currie & Co.'S mail steamship
kigfauns Castle, which left Dartmouth
on the 9th instant for Cape Town.
ODonnell took passage on the same
steamship. At Cape Town she trans
ferred her passengers who were de.
stined to Port Elizabeth, Natal, and
other coast ports to the steamship Mel
rose, ODonnelly followed Carey up
on theMelrose and as he was leaving
the vessel shot him. ODonnelIy is in
custody. The government has taken
special and expensive measures to pro-
tect Carey.
The joy caused in Ireland by the
informer's death is proof that many
elements of danger will exist there,
Three class berths on the steamer Kin
fauns Castle were secured on June 80
at the Dublin Office of Messrs. Donald,
Currie & Co., for Port Elizabeth for a
''Mr. Power and his wife and seven
which it is well known, was
the exact number of james Carey's
family. On July 2 ODonnell secured
passage for himself and wife on the
same steamer, Messrs. Donald, Currie
& Co., were not aware until the shoot
ing of the identity of "Power' with
james Carey" Carey died without
speaking after he was shot ODon.
nell is am Irish-American. He denies
hat he knew who Carey was previous
% his arrival at Cape Town. 1t is re
ported that an internal machine was
found in ODonnell's possession.
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Montgomery Blair Dead.


Hon. Montgomery Blair died at his
residence at Silver Springs near Wash.
ington, ID. q. on the morning of July
27th, after long illness. He was the
son of the late Francis Preston Blair, In
his day famous Washington journalist
and politician; and brother OF the late
General Francis =. Blair, jr, soldier
and politician. The Blairs were all
slave owners, and yet for four genera
tions they were anti slavery in principle.
They always taught their slaves to read
and write, and never sold them. Some
of the former slaves were working for
Montgomery Blair, on monthly wages,
up to the time of his death. Mont
gomery Blair was born in Franklin
county, Kentucky, on May 10, 1918.
He graduated in 1885 at the military
academy at West Point, standing eigh
teen in class of tifty-six, and ranking
immediately above the late General
Meade. The only military service he
ever saw was in the Seminole war as a
brevet second lieutenant of artillery,
and on May 20, 1886, he resigned from
the army. He then studied law, and
was admitted to the bar in st. Louis,
where he resided up to his removal to
Maryland in 1852. Like his father and
brother, he was democrat in those
days, and in 1889 he was appointed
United States district attorney for Mis-
souri,. In 1912 he became mayor of
st. Louis, and from 1S43 to 1850 was
Judge of the court of common pleas.
In 1852, when he removed his residence
to Maryland, he was appointed solicitor
OF the United States in the court of
claims. On the repeal of the Missouri
compromise he Joined the republican
party, and was subsequently removed
from Office by President Buchanan. In
1860 Mr.. Blair presided over the re-
publican state convention of Maryland,
and after the election of Mr.. Lincoln
to the presidency he was selected to
represent Maryland in the cabinet as
postmaster general. He resigned some
time afterward and parted company
with the republican party. He figured
very conspicuously in the democratic
party up to 1880. Up to his death he
was democrat. In personal appear
ance Montgomery Blair was tall and
thin. His head was large above the
ears, his face thin and closely shaven,
and his hair, light as to quality, some
what sandy. He dressed plainly, was
affable in manner, and free from affec-
tation, despite the domestic inclinations
of his latter years. His family at the
time of his death consisted of his wife
"a daughter of Judge Levi Woodbury.,
of New Hampshire) and four children,
three sons and an unmarried daughter
The eldest son, Woodbury., is lawyer
and a great favorite in society, and the
younger sons are law students. Besides
these, he leaves surviving him sister
who is the wife of Admiral Lee.
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The Sorrows of Clergymen's Widows.

Recent discussions as to the scarcity
of ministers have led to the wholesome
exchange of opinion as to the causes of
the alleged scarcity. A shrewed OBJ.
server of ministerial affairs throws light
on the subject by exposing the scanti-
ness of the provision made for the
clergy in old age and when disabled
by shattered health. 1t is commonly
supposed by those who are not well in.
formed that aged ministers and minis
ters widows are provided for by funds
set apart for the purpose by each of
the denominations. There are, indeed,
such funds, but they are so meagre as
to reduce their beneficiares almost to
starvation point The case is given of
widow whose husband had served the
Church. faithfully for forty years. The
good man had, for long time before
his death, been an invalid, and his i'll
ness had eaten up all the slender saw
ings of his life, including his little
home. After his death the widow ap.
piled to the aboard for pecuniery aid.
She received in the course of a year
$3.50. Out of this she had to pay her
husbands funeral expenses and to live.
A crippled son added to her expenses,
without being able to afford any assis-
tance, AT times she had been without
fuel, and almost without food. But
for the kindness of neighbors this ex-
cellent woman would have starved.
Her experience is calculated to quench
rather than to stimulate the desire in
the minds of thoughtful young men to
enter the ministry No man wants TO
devote himself TO life of possible pow
erty with the distinct knowledge that
those whom he has served will let his
widow and orphans 90 hungry and
half-clad, OF late years attention has
been given to making proper provision
for the disabled and the widowed. But
the churches are not yet half awake to
the Importance of the matter, and com
paratively little has been done. A lib
eral provision, if ever made, will work
radical change.-Prsss,
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A London dispatch tells of terri
BILE loss of life from an earthquake in
Italy. 1t says: The town of Casamic-
ciola, on Ischia, near Naples, was al
most entirely destroyed by an earth
quake last Sunday night. The neigh.
boring towns of Forio and Lacceameno
were greatly damaged. 1t is impossi-
BILE, as yet, to give the number Of the
dead In the latest accounts the num-
ber is estimated at 5000. The Hotel
Piccola Sentinella sank in the earth
and buried many of its inmates. Some
of the inhabitants of the town escaped
to the sea at the first shock and made
their way to Naples with the news of
the calamity. The centre Of the area
OF the shock was the same as that of
two years ago, but the radius was wider.
The shock was felt at sea, and, accord
ing to some accounts, even at Naples
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Capt. Webb's Body Found.
PICKED UP IN THE RIVER BELOW LEWIS
T0N-A FATAL CASH IN THE HEAD.

A dispatch from Buffalo, N. Y. dated
July 20, says: All speculation as to
the fate of Captain Matthew Webb, the
courageous swimmer who tried to pass
through the Niagara whirlpool, is now
at rest, the body of the unfortunate
man having been found at noon yester-
day in the Niagara river, mile and a
half below Lewiston. Richard W.
Turner, mason, residing at Y oungs-
town, was rowing in small boat
searching for driftwood. When in a
small eddy near the shore between
Apre's and Grady's landings, he discov-
cred the bloated body of man float
ing in the water. The tattered red
trunks convinced him that it was the
corpse of Capain Webb, and he went
back to Lewiston for help. Getting as
sistance he returned to the spot and
towed the body to the dock. 1t was
there fully identified. The corpse was
much swollen and was rigid in the posi-
tion of man swimming, both arms
and legs being extended. There were
no fractures or dislocations of the limbs,
but on the top of the head was a con-
fusion which was the evident cause of
death. The scalp was gashed as though
the captain in diving had struck against
a rock. There were gashes on his right
shoulder, on the left hip and over the
right eye, and several bruises. Coroner
Eisenheimer, of Suspension Bridge, was
notified and went to the scene with a
jury. Manager Kyle was telegraphed
to at Boston. After being viewed by
the jury the remains were placed in the
vault at Oakwood cemetery. DR.. E. w.
Smith, of Lewiston, and DR.. G. w.
Clark, of Niagara Falls, will make q
post mortem examination of the re-
mains. In conversation nearly all the
physicians present agreed that the blow
on the head had caused instantaneous
death, and the opinion prevailed that
the injury had been received in the
rapids before the captain had reached
the whirlpool. Thele are large crowds
in Lewiston, an excursion train having
brought in load. Much excitement
prevails, and much sympathy is express
ed for the wife of Webb. The reward
of 500 offeerd by Manager Kyle will
be paid to Turner, who found the body.
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SAh iaiN hoDEhA lAppAhl, VI w WARhfN,
FOR AUDITOR GENERAL
Captain Robert Taggart, the demo-
cratic candidate for auditor general,
was born in Pittsburg, May, 1886. He
received his education in the public
schools of that city and served an ap.
premiership at pattern making. At
the close of his apprenticeship Mr..
Taggart connected himself with the
Pittsburg Commercial Journal but
left that paper to take charge of a
night school. He taught but one term,
giving it up to enter the army as a pri-
vate in company G, Ninth regiment,
Pennsylvania. reserves, in 1861. Dur
ing the three years service he was pro-
NOTED to the captaincy of his company
and participated in all the battles in
which his regiment was engaged Cap
tain Taggart was breveted major of
the regiment when that body was mus
tered out of service in May, 1864. At
the close of his military career Captain
Taggart returned home and from there
went to the oil country, taking ven
lures in oil fields of Venango and War
rem counties, and he has for the past
fifteen years been an oil producer. Cap
tain Taggart settled in Tideoute, War
rem county, and has always labored in
the interest of the oil men.
HON. JOSEPH POWELL, TREASURER.
Hon. Joseph Powell, the democratic
nominee for state treasurer, is native
also of the Keystone state, and was
born at Towanda, Bradford county,
June 23, 1928. He received the ad-
vantage of an academic education, after
wards entering into mercantile pursuits,
which he has followed all his life. He
started out on his own account in 1852.
In 1870 he was elected president of the
First National bank of Towanda, a
position he still holds Mr.. Powell is
part owner in the Shredder bitumonious
mines near Towanda and treasurer of
the company. He never held any pub.
lie position until chosen representative
to congress from the strong republican
district of Bradford, Susquehanna,
Wayne aud Wyoming counties, a dis
trict that has been represented by the
Hon. Galusha A. Grow and the Hon.
Ulysses Mercur, now justice of the
state supreme court. He was a strong
supporter of Lincoln's administration,
but cast his first democratic vote for
Horace Greely in 1872. He was elect
ed as a democrat to the Forty fourth
congress in 1874 over Bartholomew
LaPorte, having l0l majority in dis
trict that is republican by 4,50O-serv-
ing from December 6, 1875, to March
8, 1877. lie was beaten by only few
hundred for reelection in the exciting
presidential year of 1876, by Edward
Oyerton, jr.
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Charles Parrish of Wilkes Barre,
who has been operating the mines of
the Lehigh and Wilkesbarre Coal Com
pany under contract, has given notice
of his intention to quit. The follow
ing notice was tackled up on the of
fee doors of the different collieries of
the Lehigh & Wilkes. Barre Coal Com
pany Tuesday afternoon.
WnKEs-BARRE, July 81, 1888.
To the men of the Lehigh g. Will
kes Barre Coal Company My con-
nection with the company ceases to-
morrow. cannot leave you without
few words of farewell. You have
my earnest wishes for your prosperity
and happiness. hope your relations
with your employers in the future may
be as pleasant as they have been with
me during the past twenty years. l
shall always have the kindest recollec,
tions of our associations and hope l
may be always able to call myself your
friend
CHARLES PARRISH.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1883-08-03

DR.. Mary Walker has been discharg
ed from the Pension office at Washing
ton, and is making it lively for the
clerks, during the absence of commits
sioner Dudley. She believes they are
responsible for her dismissal, and does
not hesitate to tell them So
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1883-08-03

Francis Murphy, the temperance
worker, will return to his home in Pitts
lmrg in September. He is well satisfied
with his visit to Scotland.
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Democratic State Convention.

The work of the convention on We'd
nesday was well performed, resultingin
the nomination Of Capt. Robert Tag
gart of Warren county for auditor gen.
eral, and Hon. Joseph Powell of Brad
ford county for state treasurer. Rob
ert K. James, Esq, of N orthampton
presided over the body, and made a
ringing speech on taking the chair.
Addresses were also made by Senator
Gordon, Chairman Hensel, and others.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1883-08-03

Governor Pattison's sixty vetoes have
saved to the state Sl60,000. This is
more than enough to pay the expenses
to the extra session forced by the re-
fusal of the stalwarts to vote for fair
apportionment bills.
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FRIDAY, AUGUST 8, 1888.

Robert b. Beath of Philadelphia, has
been elected Commanner.in-C Chief of the
Grand Army of the Republic.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1883-08-03

The number of deaths from Cholera
in Egypt is on the decline; there are
now an average of about 250 deaths
per day. The Custom House authori-
ties continue to give clean bills of health
TO vessels leaving London, The in
spection ordered by the American Con
sulate 80 far has shown no case of chol-
era or contagious disease on vessels
sailing for America.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1883-08-03

NIIays lnIammNIl0n, pIOtCCts the membrannl
linings OF the head from additional colds com
pletely heals the sores and restores the sense OF
taste and smcl. Beneficial results are realized by
a few applications. A thorough treatment viii
cure. unequaled for colds In head Agreeable TO
use, send for circular. sold by druggists BY
mail 50c. a package--sta mps
july i34wd ELY BROTHERS, owego, N. Y.
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TRAyERSE JURORS FOR 4TH WEEK
IN SEPTEMBER
Berwick. S. P. Hanley, J. II. Hoy, j. B. Lock-
ard.
Benton. Andrew stlne, j. D. Cole, Henry Brow.
Beaver. Thomas Hoffman.
Bloom; James Commons Joseph Decker, J. X.
Eyer j. j. Hagenbuch Thomas Hartman H. C.
Nagle, John Yost Fred Beagle.
Catawissa. Christian Clewell, Jacob Klinger-
Centre z; T, Fowler, silas Hone, Geo. Hagen
Gentralia. Edward James Manus McBrerty.
fishlngcreek. A.C. Drum, Elias NJ. Laubach,
Moses McHenry, Geo. Pennington.
Greenwood. l. b. keller, A. Stauder
Hemloek ~ Reuben Bomboy, G. W. Hartman,
jackson. Frank Derr.
Locust. Washington George.
Madison. X. NJ. Butler.
Main. n. H. w. Brown, John w. Shuman.
Miniln. Lewis Greasy, John Michael.
M M Pleasant; Pleasant stephen Crawford, Isaiahw How
Orange Camden aears, P. ", classen, Marion
Scott. Calvin Kressler, A. b. White.
sugarloaf Il. Q. shultL.
TRAVERSE JURORS FOR FIRST WEEK IN oC.
ToBER
Beaver. Charles Michael, Frank Rhoads.
Benton X. NJ. Davis, Thos. Davis, Thos Hart
mon Stoat L. Galley.
Berwick, $; T. Bowman, II; @. Crispin.
Bloom. John Kleckner, Wesley Knorr, Isaac
Kitchen, j. j. laval
Briarcreek. II. NJ. Evans
Catawissa NJ. e.. Hughes, John Huber, NJ. v. b.
Kline. " "
Centre, Hiram Heller, John Miller,
Centralla. John H. Jones.
Flshingcreek Amos White, j. Y. Hutchison j.
NJ. Buckalew.
Greenwood. Theodore Parker.
FRANKLIN. Henry Gutshall Jonathan foreman.
Madison. Erastus Hendershott
heiser
Locust John Gable.
Orange. l. X Dlldlne, Geo. Appleman, ]. b. Har-
man.
Pine. WIN. Pursell.
R0arlngcreek. ID. X. Hover
Mont0ur. Henry Aldrich.
MI. Pleasant. IL. w. Melick.
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Apply by little fin
ger Into the nOstrils.
by absorption It eject
ually cleansCs the na-
sal passages OF ca
tarrhal virus, causing
healthy secretlOns. II
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The Candidates.

CAPTAIN ROBERT TAGGART, OF WARREN,
FOR AUDITOR GENERAL
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HAY FEVER.

] have been amicted
for 20 years, during Au-
gust and september,
with Hay Fever, and
tried various remedies
without relief. ] used
Ely's Cream Balm with
favorable results, and
can recommend II TO
all afiilcted. r. W.
T0wSLEY, (eX-MayOrl
Elizabeth, N. j.
Daily Los Angeles herald., 1883-06-10
JUN E 18th

Two hundred pieces 1914 bleached New York mills
al Soc. Regular price 81 yard.
One hundred and fifty IA heavy white toilet quilts at
S. each. Regular price so.
One hundred and fifty white fringed toilet quilts at
S5c each. Regular price $I.25.
Twenty-Five pieces unbeached table lnen sixty inches
wide at 35c yard. Regular price 50 cents.
twenty-five pieces unbeached table linen damask sixty
inches wide at IS cents Regular price IS cents.
Twenty pieces bleached table damask at As cents a
yard Regular price o5 cents.
Twenty pieces beached table damask sixty inches wide
at S. yard Regular price rs cents.
Fifteen pieces bleached table damask satin finish sixty
inches wide at $.7o yard. Regular price $I.5o.
Ten pieces bleached table damask satin finish,
heavy, seventy inches wide at $I.25 yard, Regular
price $500.
| One hundred and fifty dozen bleached lined damask
napkins Csc dozen. Regular price $I.5o.
! One hundred dozen bleached linen damask napkins
$loo dozen. Regular price $I.5o.
Seventy five dozen beached linen damask napkins
$I.25 dozen. Regular price $I75.
Two hundred and fifty dozen Turkish towels in plain
and striped IS cents each. Regular price IS
One hundreddoze all linen huck towels ats 80 doz.
Regular price $I.75.
One hundred dozen all linen bleached huck towels at
$I.o5 dozen. Regular price $500
Fifty dozen size 22x44 all linen huck towels at
$500 a dozen. Regular price $500
Fifty dozen extra size % I2x47 all linen huck towels
| at 1915 dozen. Regular price 5000.
Also at reduced nen.crashes and glass towengs
These prices good for two weeks only.
Daily Los Angeles herald., 1883-06-10

preston Of the popular Indignation than
would rip.rap built OF straw have In
repclling the waves of the ocean. The
truth OF the matter Is that, while there
is general feeling amongst the masses
that the Commissioners have been
dilatory, there is by no means an equally
general belief that they have been cor
rupt. The masses are disposed to give
the Commissioners fair trial. Should
nothing be done as result of their for
bearance, say by the Autumn, there
might then be real and formidable agi-
tation. As far as it has disclosed itself
so far, the present movement seems to
aim at giving prominence to number OF
polite ans who have not been very sue
cessful in attaining place and power.
There are not even wanting those who
think that Gen. II. NJ. Naglee might
not be averse to be Governor Stoneman's
successor. II this distinguished gentle.
man has any such aspirations he @suld
do well to remember the old saw thai
lightning never strikes twice in the same
place
Daily Los Angeles herald., 1883-06-10

THE present year, even in California,
has been characterized by remarkably
capricious weather. The other day the
first authenticated instance of suu-stroke
in the history of California was reported
from the up country by telegraph. 1t
has been one of the wonders of this
strange land that, although the ther-
mometer has recorded sensational figures,
we have been hitherto free from this
curse. From the East we hear every
day of snow storms, even thus late in
June. In few DAYS we shall be told
that the mercury at Hudnutt's, on
Broadway, is registering upwards OF a
hundred degrees Fahrenheit, and the
Eastern people will be dropping in their
tracks by the score. For years past the
average of sunstrokes in New York and
st. Louis has, in midsummer, reached a
daily total which would represent, in
mortality, the casualties OF quite con.
siderable battles, Strangely enough, in
California. the Summer opens much
warmer in the northern than in the
southern portion of the State. San
Francisco and Oakland seem to have
been specially selected as TIE theater for
the torrid freaks of the weather-clerk,
and never .before has the fact been so
plainly borne in upon the people OF that
city that their sewerage is specially de.
fectiya than during the past three
weeks. Mephitic exhalations Heretofore
undreamed OF have affronted the Golden
Gate nostril, and it is plainly seen that a
months continuance of such weather
would mean a defamation Of the inhabi-
tants OF San Francisco.
Daily Los Angeles herald., 1883-06-10
Theater Burned.
Silk Culture.

This subject Is now creating more inter
est than 1t has for years before in Cali
fornia. There was quite a stir in the
matter years ago, but it died out owing
to the sparseness Of our population and
the high cost of labor. A telegram in
the EXPRESS last night announces thai
two San Francisco firms will pay good
prices for cocoons. The following from
the San Francisco Dry Goods Reports,
is timely;
There is at present more profit in
raising eggs for the markets of France,
Italy and thts country, than in making
cocoons Of reeled silk. The female motl
lays 800 to 400 eggs, and an ounce will
be produced by every 200 to $50 moths,
The worms from an ounce Of eggs, which
az has been stated, will yield from IS Il
45 pounds OF cocoons at 81 % TO " {
pound will produce 100 to 100 ounces O
eggs at 50 to $5 per ounce. But this re
qnires much care in raising and pre-
serving, and more detailed instructions
than can here be given; and moreover
it requires special selection OF eggs tt
begin with. An ounce of eggs contains
40, 900, and this number of worms will
produce 100 to 100 pounds of fresl
cocoons, or one.third of that weight !
dry.