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The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1884-07-25

Gen Logan has written letter of
acceptance. Among other things he
says that 'ofiicial dishonesty should be
promptly and relentlessly punished.
If this proposition should be carried
out, the government prisons will have
to be greatly enlarged, and it will
largely reduce the Republican vote.
But does anyone believe that the party
that accepted Belknap's resignation to
prevent his being punished, and that
suffered the Star Route thieves to es.
cape, will carry out Logan's idea ?
Such talk is good for campaign pur-
poses, but in view of the history of the
Republican party, it won't wash.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1884-07-25

In selecting delegates to the county
convention, representative Democrats
should be chosen from each township.
This is an important year, aud the con-
vention should be composed of its very
best elements.
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Observation-Disclosures,
RIcuARD VAUx, b. j. MCGRANN,
III. B. PLUMER.
DEMOCRATIC COUNTY TICKET,
CoNGREssMAN-AT-LARGE,
w. w. III. DAVIS.

Republicans argue that Cleveland
cannot be elected because his record is
too short. Before the campaign is
over they will find that Blaine's is too
long.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1884-07-25

Blaine says in his letter of accept
ance that not dollar of the public
money has been wasted. Quite cor
rect. 1t has been put where it would
do the most good for the republican
party.
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WANTED IMMEDIATELY rGSs %e

20 learn telegraphy. II, 40 miles or wire now be-
ing extended by the b. & o. Telegraph Co, The
National Tel co. Organized. The bankers 4
ing ahead with new lines The Standard Multi
plex Tel Co, recently Incorporated, extends East
West, North and South. Good positions now
stamp, The Penna. & New Jersey Telegraph,
shorthand q Type Writing Instruction Company,
Main once, VIC Chestnut street, Philadelphia,
Penna. July 264 d
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WAsnINGroN, July 2O.-The follow
ing has been issued by the president of
the United States
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CANDIDATES.

All persons whose names are announced as can
didates, Ia this column, are expected 70 abide by
the action OF the Democratic county convention,
70 be held on Tuesday, August 18TH 1884.
rhe price for announcing names in this column
Is taoo for any ONCE, and must be paid positively
In advance.
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Proclamation by the President.

REGULATIONS IN CITIES AND TOWNS
OF TIE UNION.
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SHERIFF'S SALE.

OF Common Pleas OF Columbia county, and to me
directed will be exposed to public sale at the Court
House, In Bloomsbury, Pa, on
Saturday, Aug. q, '84,
at O'Clock p m, all that certain lot or piece Of
ground situate in the Borough of Centralia Pa,
bounded and described as follows: on the north
by lot OF Alexander Black, on the east by an alley
on the west by Locust Avenue, and on the south
by lot OF David c. Black, being lot OF II In block "a
whereon Is erected a two-story frame dwelling
house and out-buildlngs
Seized, taken In execution at the suit OF David
G. Black against William II. James and to be sold
as the property of william II. James
b. b. & b. Attys. Fl. Fa.
ALSO,
The following real estate situate In the village OF
Espy, Scott township, Columbia county, Penn'a-,
bounded and described as follows, to-wit Be-
ginning at corner OF lot number 10 In plan OF said
village OF Espy, belonging to Cyrus Barton, thence
eastward by Main street eighty-two and one-half
feet To corner OF lot number l8 belonging to Isaac
McKamie. thence southward by the same one hun
dred and seventy three and one-fourth feet to an
alley, thence by same eightytwo and one-half feet
to OF lot number 10 aforesaid thence by the
same northward one hundred and seyenty-three
and one-fourth feet TO the place OF beginning be
ing lot number II In said plan.
ALSO,
Lot described as follows: Beginning at corn
er the north side OF Main street In line OF lot OF
Jacob Hess, formerly w. Ruckle, thence along said
street south sixty-slx and one-fourh degrees west
sixty feet, thence by lot OF George Ruckle north
twenty-three and threefourth degrees west one
hundred and seventy three and one-fou tn feet to
alley No. I, thence by said alley north sixty-six
and one-fourth degrees west sixty feet to corner
OF said lot OF Jacob Hess thence by said lot south
twenty.three and three-fourth degrees east one
hundred and seventy-three and one-fourth feet TO
place OF beginning, containing iOa95 square feet,
whereon is erected tive story frame dwelling
house and Out-buildings
Seized, taken In execution and TO be sold as the
property OF George NJ Baker at the suit OF M. A.
Baker.
X. &w. Att'ys Al Fl IA
JOHN MoUREY,
June 8, IT, Sherin.
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The New York Times has always
been republican paper, and has sup
ported every republican candidate for
president since 1860. But now that IL
cannot gulp down the nomination OF
Blaine, il is called free trade British
organ, and the republican party says it
is glad to get rid of il. IL the Times
is for free trade now, it has been so for
twenty years, but our inconsistent OPP
ponents were willing to swallow that
40 long as it stood by their ticket IL
ID too late now, for .hem TO cry "wolf.
In calling to mind the stealings that
have recently come to light in the sew
eral departments at Washington, the
county is TO be congratulated on the
fact that there is surplus Of $780,
100000 left in the Treasury. IT the
republican party should be continued
in power for four years longer there
will be no necessity for a revision Of
the tariff. Only give the Washington
officials fair chance and they can re-
ducc that surplus by populations With
out troubling congress to repeal the in
ternal revenue system.
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A PARSEE FUNERAL.
Disposal of the Dead in the Towers of
Silence.

Silence.
Moncure D. Conway, in San Francisco Chronicle.
By the kindness OF Parsee gentleman l was
enabled to visit the Towers of Silence. There is
a strange, almost mystical, solemnity about this
garden, in which, at sunrise, l stood for a time
alone gazing at the towers from the distance of
thirty yards beyond which must pass who
would return to the abodes of men This rule
is so vigorously observed that ugly stories
naturally rife of persons coming to life on the
tower only to be slain by the carriers of bodies,
themselves forever separated from the outside
world. AS soon as body is dead 1t becomes
the possession of Ahriman A demon tenant of
his occupies IL. The dying are deserted by the
holders of this uncanny creed in q heartless way.
A chant reached my ear and presently group
of men in snow-white garments and turbanS
entered the gateway, bearing their shrouded
burden They passed silently and very quickly
upwards towards the towers. Presently there
appeared, twenty yards behind them, another
group in snow-pure robes chanting as they rap
idly moved, their chant being very different from
any had heard about Hindu temples. 1t was
entirely from minor whining notes.
Everything about this funeral was light quick
and cheerful, insomuch that | remembered a
picture of Egyptian festivities on the entrance
of soul into a paradise never doubted. 1t is
still forbidden every Parsee to weep for one
dead. The singers speedily returned to the gar
den, where they formed regular group and in
toned their conversation, occasionally breaking
out into chant. l was informed that they
spoke of the virtues Of the deceased
and chanted hymns of the Ayesta
l listened, gazing at the top of
the tower, whereon the body had been depos
tied and it's limbs fastened, face upward to the
sun. Already at its coming circle Of vultures
had descended to perch around its parapet,
where they sat perfectly still during the presence
of the corpse carriers, The large lazy scavengers
bore quaint resemblanceto gowned and surpliced
figures that had once been human, The mo-
ment when the body had been abandoned by its
bearers was reported by the slow and dignihed:
disappearance of these birds, which presently
rose into the air, each bearing some last contri-
button of mortal TO the immortal Cosmos.
Somehow this scene impressed me more than
the burning pyres of the Gauges, There / felt
how much plcasapter to the imagination it
would be to contemplate in ones last moments
ascending in that fiery chariot to cloud and
ether here felt that the Parsee had 4 more
poetic prospect of mingling in the currents of
organic life, smiling in flowers, singing in the
threats of birds, smiling again in human lowell
ness.
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THE STAR OF BETHLEHEM.
Probability that This Celestial Wonder May
BE Visible Next Year.

Providence Journal.
The theory concerning the ''Star of Bethlehem"
is based on apoetcal foundation, having little
to support it. In the year 1872, Tycho Brahe, n
Dutch astronomer discovered new star near
Caph in the constellation CasSi0pea. 1t in
creased III brilliancy until it was as bright as
Venus, and could be easily seen at monday 1t
continued to shine brightly for month, then
gradually grew dim, and in sixteen months dis
appeared from view. 1t was looked upon as q
new creation, a sun on fire, apd the general
opinion was that it would never again shine in
the star depths.
Forty years later the telescope was invented.
When it was turned to the position in the heav-
ems occupied by the blazing star, a minute star
was found near the identical spot. The tele-
scopic star is still there, and is doubtless the
same one that blazed forth in 1872 The discov-
cry that it existed led astronomers to search
Economical records, and it was found that SINH
lar bright stars had appeared in the same region
of the sky in $40 and 1864. Counting back three
periods from 945 we are brought to the near
vicinity of the birth of Christ Observers gifted
with poetic fancies have naturally connected
the two events and have inferred that the Star
in the East pointing to the place Of the Nativity
was sudden outburst of this wonderful star.
For this reason it has received the name of the
Star of Bethlehem.
About twenty four of these temporary stars
have appeared in the last 1000 years, subject,
like the star i'll Cassiopea, two sudden outbursts
followed by a return to their nominal insigniti-
canoe. They are classed as variable stars,
subject to sudden outbursts due to eruptions of
blazing hydrogen, and which are followed by
long periods Of quescene. According to this
theory the star of 1872 is a variable star with
period of few more than 300 years. The last
period was 30S years, if the bright star of 1864
was one and the same; We may therefore hope
for a repetition of the incomprehensible phe-
nomenon in the immediate future The star
due in 1880; If it appears at all it will surely
blaze forth by 1855. There is a possibility,
therefore, that the long-lost Star of Bethlehem
the Pilgrim Star, the star of 1872, or Tycho
Brahes star-for it is known by all these
names-will once more become shining wonder
in the sky. Such a celestial visitor will be
warmly welcomed by astronomers, and far more
acceptable than a great comet spanning the
heavens with its gossamer tail
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ital In many instances he helped poor young
men to take start in life and felt rewarded in
Witnessing the success of his proteges.
His untiring efforts in the abolition of African
slavery are too familiar to need repetition. He
was the apostle of equal rights, and consist
entity practieed the preceptS he taught His ear
was ever bent to listen to the wrongs of the OPP
pressed. A great admirer of his told me he was
at charity fair in Harrisburg, on one occasion,
when Mr. Stevens came in with whole troop of
little Africans He spent an enormous sum in
buying candies, toys, cakes, and all sorts of good
things to eat, filling their caps, pockets and
aprons, and sent them home grinning with de-
light
As he advanced in years his personal appear
ance and manner WAS most impressive, but not
winning. His tall FORM rugged, harsh features
told Of great physical and mental power, but his
cynical expression and forbidding coTntenance
expressed his distrust of mankind and the want
of faith in all professions of goodness and vir-
tue. He grew more and more harsh and morose
In temper, and seemed to find evil instead OF
good everywhere present.
/ CHANGED to he sitting by him in 4 rail car a
short time before his last illness. He began to
speak of the unsatisfactory nature of all earthly
successes and enjoyments, and said: What
does it matterl 1t will seem but day till the
longest life is ended The good we have tried to
do is forgotten. and our memory perishes in the
grave with u.s."
On the evening of the day following his sad and
lonely death number of visitors CHANGED to be
in the house, when Judge Black entered the
room. He seemed much moved by the event
and, walking back and forth, as was his custom
when speaking on subject in which he was
interested, he delivered a most eloquent eulogy
on his deceased peer, concluding with the re
mark: IF Stevens's principles and his moral
character had equaled his intellectual powers, he
would have been one of the greatest men in the
world with not an equal in the length and breadth
of the land"
These distinguished gentlemen, although
thoroughly antagonistic, mutually admitted
the superior claim OF each, and either one re
cognized in his opponent q "foeman worthy of
his steel"
Mr. Stevens once said to me, after the close
of the var in referring to the criticism and
abuse of Judge Blacks course that he had
the most profound respect for him and firm
belief in his sincerity and inhexible honesty.
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THE LATE ID. II. REARSS.
An AnecdOte Illustrative of His Firmness of
Character.


LET ME relate to you an incident in the life
of the late Dan Bearss, of Peru, that will give
you an idea of the sort of a man he was said
an old citizen to reporter yesterday.
1T was soon after the Democrats had passed
the law making any one liable TO a fine and i'm
prisonment who would employ colored laborer
Miami County is naturally Democratic, and
there were at the time some of the meanest
members of the party in that county that We're
ever permitted to breathe Soon after
the passage of this bill referred to before, a col.
ored man moved into Miami county and located
in one of the out townships. 1t was not long
before the honest eXoduster secured employ
ment of one of the farmers. This was more
than several of the hide bound residents of the
township could stand, and they straightway had
the white Republican arraigned before a justice
of the peace to answer for violation of the
statute recently enacted. Bcarss got
his buggy posted off to the trial
He pushed through the Democratic spectators
up to the justice Of the peace just in time to
hear his Honor fine the defendant ten dollars
and costs. All the black Abolitionist blood in
Dan Bearss' body went to his head, and jumping
to his feet and taking roll of bills out of his
pocket he asked the defendant the privilege of
paying his fine, which boon, of course, was
granted. Having turned i'll the amount he
faced the crowd and said: Gentlemen / havnt
been Republican these years for nothing. I've
stood by the eolored man thus far, and don't
propose to go back on him now. l propose 70
take this black man home with me and pay him
by the days work. l propose to put him at
work in the field right below my house in sight
of the Democrats of Peru, and I'll shoot the first
man who attempts to interfere with him. Now
if you want to fight this thing come on: you are
fighting Dan Bearss, not an unprotected black
man..
We'll sir, they knew what that meant.
They knew that the fire in those black eyes in
Dictated business, and that colored laborer
worked in Bearss employ for several years and
no man raised his finger against him.
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of the Navy could review The arctic search yes
sells as they pass out to sea. Then he could also
review the navy, as soon as get one-but to
keep his hand in it would be an easy matter to
get Commodore Starin to parade all his seamers
past the battery. This would give the Secretary
a chance to see how feet of vessels looks. and
how they can be rhanpuvered. The Secretary
of War could have window all to himself and
look at the army and the forts Governors
Island, with Gen. Hancock and his staff in gilt
tering uniforms standing i'll Il nice row along the
shore. The Secretary of the Treasury would be
within three minutes walk of Wall street and the
sub-treasury | suppose you know that four
hfths Of all the business done in the Treasury
Department at Washington is looking after the
accounts and balances Of the New York sub
treasury The Postmaster general would only
be ten minutes distant from the New York post
Office which is the best administered postoffce in
the world, and turns in q revenue Of two or three
millions year to the government"
Uncle Rufus's plan of further reforms was cut
short by the entrance of a party of his friends,
who had come to enjoy his telescope. He forth
with resumed his volley of adiectives about the
beauty Of our bay and the hospitality of our
harbor until the reporter who had been treated
to the same stream of eloquenee on his own en-
trance, beat a retreat.
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Brooklyn Eagle
.Iittle stands said distinguished physician
of Scottish birth and education, but a resident
here, ''are set up before daylight all over Glas-
gov for the sup of tea, coffee, bread and butter,
perhaps baked potato slice of cold meat.
The workmen have to be at their work at
o'clock too early for most of them to get break
fast at home, Formerly they stopped in at the
first public and took glass of gin or Glenliv&t.
That cost three pence; a cup of tea and piece
of bread and butter cost two pence, and of
course they sustain and nourish while the
warming toddy was most injurious and
destructive These little stands for the supply
of early workmen have greatly promoted the
cause of temperance in Glasgow, place much
in need of all possible aids in that direction.
The condition of your work people differs 50
much from that of their Scottish brethren that
it is not likely that these transient out of door
refeetories would be sufficiently patronized here
to keep going, but the establishment of soup
houses in the poorer quarters Of this city, where
the workman or the lookerout for work could
get bowl of wholesome soup or dish of meat
and vegetables, with bread and coffee, for their
bare c0st-whieh need not exceed few cents
would help the TEMPERANCE cause more than
much oPatory"
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Andrew johnson on tho Stump.
Jleveland Leader.


A Tennessee man tells the following story of
the bravary OF Andrew johnson: Just proceed
ing the war said he, ANDREW johnson had
many enemies in Tennessee, and once, when he
was billed for an evening speech at Nashville,
the report was spread that if he dared to speak
he would be either mobbed or egged, and FER
haps assassnated When the hour for assem-
bling came the house was already thronged and
Andy johnson was on the platform. He
promptly arose, and going to the 'front.' took a
pistol from his pocket and cooked it. He then
opened the meeting by saying Gentlemen and
fellow citizens, it is meet that when free men
assemble for the discussion of important bust
ness interests everything should be done decently
and in order Now have been informed that
part of the proceedings on the present occasion
is the assassination of the individual addressing
you
Here he grasped the pistol firmly with his
right hand, threw open his coat with his left,
and continued: propose that this little matter
may be the first business taken up. If any man
comes here tonight for that purpose, let him not
speak, but shoot
Eat this there was pause, and no one replied
All said Mr. johnson, i see have been misin-
formed. l will proceed with the meeting
And there was not ripple of dissent in the
hall that night. johnson was applauded at every
period and he had not an enemy present who
dared to groan above his breath"
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PORTRAITS ON MARBLE.



THIS is entirely new, and iG is interesting
both as curiosity and a work OF art, said
Manager W. H. Williams, of the Union News
Company, as he led the reporter INTO his private
Office in Park place He drew aside crimson
curtain and exposed to view likeness of w H.
Vanderbilt 1t was done ON marble slab about
24x30 inches in size and one inch thick, and was
set in a red velvet frame The surface of the
picture was as the marble itself smooth as glass
Il brought it from London said Mr. Williams
and it is the first thing OF the kind ever seen
here The likeness appears on the other side of
the slab equally as good. 1t is not only on the
marble but IN the marble, and through it, and
cannot be eliminated from It, You may grind
on it all day with punlice stone and you cannot
hurt 1t. SO long as even shaving IS left the
portrait remains unharmed Split II up with
saw and on every slice ls two portraits.
The portrait is hfehke, the skin being nearly
flesh color, the hair and MllSkeIS light brown, as
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Bachelor Life in New York.

Letter in Albany Journal.
An unmarried can spend very snug
little fortune in New York without dissipating
to any large extent. Supposing he takes "a
small suite of rooms in q fashionable apartment
house, eats at his club keeps a-road horse and
wagon, and gives half dozen parties in a year.
At this rate his rent will cost him s., 500 his
meals at the club on fashionable restaurants
about So 600 his horses board and his club dues
about 81 900 more, his entertainment an ad
ditional $500, and that makes total Of $1,000,
Throwing in a thousand for clothes and sundries
and thousand more for losses at
cards it will be seen that a bachelor can live in
comparative comfort here for $4,000 a
year OF course, it is to be presumed that he
has furnished his rooms, bought his horse and
wagon and paid the initiation at his club before
these expenditures begin. This is much less eX-
pensive than it would be if he married and at
tempted to live in corresponding style. As II
rule, mans expenses, if he be of any social
prominence, are enormously increased after
marriage rather than diminished. His club dues
and other personal expenses are apt to go on just
the same as before, and he has in addition to
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-05-10

Immediately on entering the straits of Babel
Mandeb the sights of the Red sea commence
That island yonder is Perrin, upon which
Anglo Indian wags delight to crack their jokes
a sun-smitten four miles of rock where two
wretched soldiers are popularity supposed to re
is duh there There is not even the diversion of
throwing stones into tho sea So the private, it
is said, chips the -JcK for the sergeant to chuck
at the watGgrc. A fly once settled on Perrin and
the private got a days Leave from his superior
eGicer to go out shooting it. Such and a
hundred others are the waggeries intended to
convey notion of the dreariness of Perrin.
Yet the French would like to have the rock
very much, and for that zsssop Great Britain
keeps il