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The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1884-07-11
Benedict Arnold's Vault.
TIE OLD ARNOLD HOUSE At NEW
HAVEN.
New Haven Despatch In the Boston Globe.

New Haven Despatch In the Boston Globe.
An interesting discovery has been
made by Thomas Alling at the old
Benedict Arnold house in Water street.
In taking out portion of the garret
floor he found a vault which is suppos-
ed to have been used by Arnold dur.
ing the war of the revolution as hid
ing place for suspects or fugitives
whom he wished to befriend. The
lifting of some of the garret floor
planking revealed the pocket or vault
underneath. 1t is about four and one
half feet deep and six feet square, and
is plastered on the sides. Two or more
persons could remain in concealment
there without being crowded.
The vault is located by the side of
the large old-fashioned chimney. On
the floor adjacent to the vault former
ly stood a large bookcase, and it is
supposed that through this entrance
was obtained to the hiding place. In
side the vault are plain evidences of a
former staircase extending to a small
enclosed space on another side of the
chimney. This place, which is now
plastered up, is supposed to have been
a sort of a closet. Whether Arnold
used the vault for secreting Tories OF
the patriots, or built it to afford re
treat for himself, no one knows. That
it should have remained undiscovered
until Mr.. Alling accidentally found il
shows that it was well designed for the
purpose which led to its construction.
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WHAT the Veto Ought to Have Contained.

From The New York Evening Post.
A reference to the Arn,y Register
shows that Congress and the President
have in no less than ten other cases
concurred in doing the very thing
which the President now says Con-
gress has no right to do and which he
thinks it would be improper for him to
do-that is, in restoring to his rank in
the service an officer wrongfully dis.
missed by sentence Of court-martial.
These cases are those of Surgeon Gen
eral Hammond, Captain George A..
Armes, Lieutenant Edward II. Clarke,
Major Joseph B. Collins, Captain
James b. Sinclair, Captain p. w. Stan
hope, Captain Thomas b. Hunt, Major
N. II. MCLEAN, Lieutenant Lowell A.
Chamberlain, Captain George 7. Ohm
sted. They may be found in the Ar
my Register, aud they are, taken in
connection with the Presidents veto
and the votes of many of the Senators,
rather odd reading What the veto
ought to have contained was simply
this "For various reasons, political
and other, which l intend to keep to
myself, l do not wish to restore Fitz
John Porter to his rank in the army
and l am not going to do it. 1t has
been suggested in some quarters that
Congress has no constitutional right to
authorize or direct me to do it but
this, everybody knows, is mere bun
combe."
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Drowned in the Whirlpool.
BATHING IN A DANGEROUS PLACE, AL
THOUGH WARNED NOT TO DO so.

BUFFALO, N. Y, July 7.-Another
drowning case has occurred at Niagara
Falls, and there is a possibility that
the victim made the attempt to swim
the whirlpool rapids where Captain
Webb lost his life last July, The Cir
cumstances are as follows: About 2
p. M. Saturday couple of boys found
mans clothing down at the old Maid
of-the-Mist landing on the American
side, and reported the matter to the
Chief of Police, who found a memoran-
dunn book bearing the name of ID. AL
bert in one of the pockets. 1t was
learned that mar by that name had
been boarding at the Frontier House
for the past week, and registered from
Utica, where he has an uncle. AL
bert had been in the habit of
going down to the Mist landing
bathing every evening since his arrival,
although warned not to do 80, and be
went down as usual Saturday evening,
and the manager OF the hotel, thinking
he had retired for the night, paid no
attention to his absence. He was in
the habit of being absent from the
hotel for some hours at time, being
in search of employment. He was
about 35 years of age, tall and blonde
complexion and complained of i'll health
He had been a soldier in the late war
The opinion is expressed that the man
went down to have bath as usual and
risked out too far, getting into the ed
dies, and was carried down into the
rapids. His clothes was piled up neat
ly with towel on top.
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Argument Court.

On Monday OF last week court convened
for the purpose of taking up cases on the
argument list. There were many of them,
and the sessions occupied Monday, Tues
day and Wednesday, and then adjourned
until Monday of this week, and was occu-
pied until Tuesday The following are the
proceedings:
Samuel Hutchings and James Mason
were naturalized.
Estate Lawrence Waters. Citation Or
dered.
Estate Harriet Vanliew. Inquest award
cd.
Estate Elias L. Helwig. Citation award
cd.
Report of viewers in favor of county
bridge in Greenwood, approved by the
court.
David Mauser appointed guardian of
Alice Fry.
Petition of Aaron Smith to satisfy mort
gage given to Jacob Harris, filed.
Petition to satisfy mortgage of John Hill
to Lafayette Keller, ct. al, filed.
On petition, Reuben Guild appointed
guardian of two minor children of Evan
Welliver, deceased.
Estate Mary A. Gearhart. Citation
awarded.
| Petition for alias order of sale in estate
OF Seth Hartman, sale ordered.
A. p. Heller and William Masters ap
pointed appraisers in estate of Samuel Nc
Carly, on petition of widow.
Divorces were decreed in the following
cases Bittenbender VS.. Bittenbender, !
NJ. Mosteller VS.. Ella NJ. Mosteller, Over
Suit VS.. Lucy Ann Suit.
Swank VS.. N. & w. B. r. r. Petition
for struck jury filed, and rule granted.
Estate Seth Hartman. Report of audi
tor on exceptions to account, confirmed
nisi.
Petition for special Road tax in Sugar
loaf filed, and decree made.
The supervisors are directed to levy
} tax of ten mills.
Commonwealth VS.. Geo. w. Armes
, Recognizance of defendant and William
Lawra in $500 for appearance of defcn
dant at next term.
In re, to strike of the registry of JOS L
, Bauer. Opinion filed and rule made abso
: Lutte.
Y Application of Paul Fortner, ADMINISTERS
tor, for discharge, filed.
A large number of cases were argued o
submitted.
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In speech to the Massachusetts del
egation at Chicago, Ben Butler said
that he would support the nominee
of the convention, no matter who it
may be-" In case the honor should
fall on the shoulders of another than
Bptler, the several parties which have
already nominated him for President
will be placed in an awkward fix. But
Ter has accepted the nominations of the
Greenbackers and Anti-Monopolists,
and now pledges himself to support the
candidate of the third party. He thus
repudiates his own action in accepting
these nominations, and it remains to be
seen what the two organizations will
do about it. If Butler is for the Dem.
ocratic nominee, he cannot support But.
ler, and he is therefore in the awkward
position of being the candidate of two
parties whose success he does not de
Sire. Ben Butler is a political prob
lem, and his ways are past finding
out.
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Disastrous Winds.
LANCASTER COUNTY VISITED BY ANOTHER
HEAVY STORM DOING M
MENSE DAMAGE.

LANCASTER, July THE storm
which struck this county some miles
north of this city Saturday night did
great damage to roads, property and
crops, At some points there were
heavy falls of hail, and the rain badly
washed out the roads and fields.
Among the sufferers is Levi s. Reist,
in the vicinity of Oregon, whose to-
bacco sheds were blown down his Or
chard was badly damaged and over
one hundred locust trees were uprooted.
Simon Hostetters losses in fruit trees,
fences, wheat, grass and other crops,
near Oregon is estimated at one thous.
and dollars. Between Neffsville and
New Haven at Longs farm the barn
was blown down. Fenstermacher's to-
bacco shed was moved from its foun-
dation. A stone barn was blown To
pieces with the exception of one of the
gable end walls. AT Neffsville, Mr.
Hers crop of tobacco was cut to pieces
by hail. Two dwelling houses belong
ing to Daniel Herr, near Netfsville, had
their gables blown in. The roof Of
the barn was torn off and the crops
greatly damaged. Nearly all the trees
along the Lititz pike were uprooted ol
twisted off. Daniel Hers woods, OF
five acres, has hardly tree left stand
ing in it, the trunks being twisted of
several feet from the ground. Mrs
Henry Shissler's barn near Petersburg,
was torn to pieces, and Martin Hess
barn unroofed. Joseph Buckwalter's
barn in Mannheim township, was de.
molished, his carriages crushed and his
orchard ruined.
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Congress adjourned on Tuesday.

We should be very glad to be able
to deny the charge that whskey is
being distributed in demijohns in sew
eral townships, by Democratic candi.
dates, for the purpose of influencing
votes at the coming delegate election.
That such charges are allowed to go
undenied is disgrace to the party. If
it is not true, then let every candidate
who is accused of this make an open
denial of it in the newspapers and ii
true, the respectable voters who can
not be influenced by drink of whis-
key should put the seal of oondemna-
ton on such methods by finding out
who are doing it, and then by big
vote at the primaries, give the guilty
parties the "grand bounce" The time
has come when men should be put in
office because of their qualifications
and those who expect to secure nomi
nations by the free use of money, and
by the influence of whiskey are liable
TO be disappointed
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Government Appropriations.
HOUSE BY RANDALL AND TO THE
SENATE BY ALLISON.

WASHINGTON, July Mr.. Randall
submitted in the house summary of
the appropriation bills similar to that
submitted in the senate by Mr.. Allison.
By this it appears that the whole
amount of the appropriations for the
expenses of the government for the
last fiscal year was $3.50, ,187, ,096 90,
and the whole amount appropriated di-
rectly for the current fiscal year was
$186, ,166,477.01. Mr.. Allison stated
that the total amount for this year at
$l93,201,0S7.l3. The discrepancy be-
tween Mr.. Randalls total and that of
Mr.. Allison is accounted for by the
fact that Mr. Allison assumed furth-
er appropriation for the navy to cover
the last six months of the current fiscal
year. Adding this amount, which is
nearly $S,000,000, and the $66,000,-
900 unexpendod balances of former ap.
priations for pensions reappropriated
brings the grand total appropriated
for the fiscal year already entered upor
to $259,20l,OS7 as stated by Mr.. Ali
son,
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Congress will not ray Mr.. Hayes Bill,
Special dispatch TO the Times.


WASHINGTON, July Am amend
ment inserted in the deficiency bill by
the Senate and defeated in the House
to-day recalls the stirring times in
Louisiana in 1877, when two State
Governments were fighting for the con-
troll of affairs. The amendment ap-
propriated three thousand dollars to
reimburse Ex-President Hayes for mon
ey spent by him to pay the expenses
of the commissioners who went TO
Louisiana to investigate and report
upon the troubles there. Hayes paid
the money out of his own pocket and
has been trying to get it back ever
since, by means of Congressional ap-
preparation. Representative Calkins
made astrong appeal for Hayes, though
he did not claim that the beneficiary
was greatly in need of the money. But
Randall put his foot down hard on the
paragraph, declaring that there was no
law for making such an appropriation.
1t was quite noticeable that in referring
to Hayes, Randall spoke of him as
Rutherford b. Hayes, and not as Ex-
president Hayes
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IAN AND DEMOCRAT BLOOMSBURY, COLUMBIA COUNTY PA

Berwick.
Samuel Il. Smith and wife to Lemuel
Cope, Berwick.
Samuel G. Kclchncr and wife to jeremiah
Wolf, Centre.
Francis Reese and wife to Adam UT,
Greenwood.
Benjamin Brandt and wife to Samuel
Frederick, Catawissa.
Clinton Ellis guardian to same, Catawis.
sa.
Jacob Fitzgerald to Margaret A. Albert
son.
s. B. Bowman to Northern Col Co. &
Southern Luz. Co. Ag. Society, Berwick.
A. B. Stewart and wife to the Trustees
OF the NJ. +. G. of Orangeville Orange.
Sarah A. Petrikin TO Ncvin U. Funk,
Scott.
Nevin U. Fnnk to Sarah A. Petrikin,
Scott.
Elias L, lIelwig and wife to Susaunah
Walter, Locust
Samuel II. sitter, administrator to George
Eckrote, Briarcreek.
Elizabeth Sharretts, ct al to same, Cen
tire.
Obidiah Yocum ct al administrator to
Ezarah Yocum, Locust.
Reuben Raup and wife to A. NJ. johnson,
Locust.
The Locust Mountain Coal & Iron com.
pany to Charles Wcidman, Germantown.
William II. Cox and wife to Wilson A.
Thomas, Greenwood.
Sarah A Doane to Clara Fahringer, Scott.
G. w. Neal and wife to William Abbott,
Scott.
John w. Hoffman, sheriff to Joseph Mil
Ter, ct al, Centre.
James Bellford ct al to Phincas Remlcy,
Briarcrcek.
b. +. Crispin jr, and wife to Eliz abeth
Sitter, Berwick.
Frederick Duty and wife to Ellen Hover,
Locust.
Levi Blank and wife to Elliott w. Garri-
son, Berwick.
James Masters and wife to John Thomas,
| Greenwood
John Mordan and wife to s. c. Beagle,
Mt. Pleasant.
Joseph D. Thompson and wife to James
NJ. Gearhart, Berwick.
John Hughes ct al to Aaron Yoder, Lo-
| Gust.
Herman Fahringer ct al administrator to
Samuel Keller, Locust
4 n q
| Keller, Locust
Simon Fetterman and wife to Mary Kel-
Ter, Locust.
Nelson p. John and wife to William G.
Evans, Catawissa.
Miles A. Williams to Fletcher N. Wilson,
Benton.
John Mourcy, Sheriff, to Harriet L. B.
Goss, Fishingcreek.
Elijah Hess and wife to ]. W. Perry,
Sugarloaf.
Shederick Hess and wife, ct. al. , to Geo
Hess, Sugarloaf.
John A. Shuman and wife to Fannie E.
Bartalet, Main.
John Mourey, Sheriff, to w. F. Souder
Scott.
Elizabeth Rougle, ct. al, to Susanna
Rhinard Briarcreek.
John Drum to John X. Robins, executor
Main.
Franklin Shuman and wife to Alder
Stokes, Fishingcreek.
William X. Mattress and wife to John Z
Reilly, Centralia.
II. A. Deitterich and wife to Samue
Yost, Fishingcreek.
Charles w. Miller, administrator, t
Daniel Singley, Beaver.
Samuel Heller to Michael Heller, Mifilin
The r. G. w. & V. of the L. p. Society
to Alem Britain, Bloomsbury.
Trustees of the G. r. Church parsonag
of Berwick, to John A. Kepner, Berwick.
/, Richard Stiles to Andrew T. Ikele,
Benton.
Dorcas Sutlif, ct. al, to Franklin Get,
Sugarloaf
Eliza Waters to John Helwig, Catawissa
A. p. Heller and wife to Jesse Brom
stetler Greenwood.
J Hugh Mcbride and wife to Daniel Wen
ner, Fishingcreek.
Isaiah Bower and wife to May G. Van
derslice, Berwick.
j. w. Eyans and j. B. Young to Jamin
S. Duke, Briarcreek.
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RuttermiIk as n Summer Drink.

In the warm summer weather many per-
sons feel an irresistible craving for some
thing sour and often crafty this desire by
free indulgence in pickles or vegetables
made acid with vinegar. This demand for
acids indicates deficiency in the acid Sc
cretions of the stomach, and the demand
for an artificial supply is natural one,
but vinegar is not the best substitute
Tactic acidity is one of the chief agents
that gives acidity to the gastric juice OF
the stomach in health. This is the acid OF
sour milk, and therefore one of the best
summer diet drinks that we can use is but
termilk. 1t satisfies the cravings for acids
by giving to the stomach natural supply,
and at the same time furnishes In Its
cheesy matter good supply of wholesome
nutrition. A man will endure fatigue in
hot weather better on buttermilk than on
any other diet drink he can use.
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Deeds Recorded.

The following deeds have been recorded
since those last published
William j, Cox and wife to Daniel Well
liver, Greenwood.
Robert l., f. Colly and wife to Phoebe
e. Laubach, Benton,
Mary Ann Kester, ct al to ReubenJ Kes-
ter, Greenwood.
The Locust Mt. @. & |. Company to John
Yorworth, Centrala.
Samuel Neyhard, administrator to Mar
karet A. Baker, Scott.
Peter Keck and wife TO Emanuel Cope
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AS the time for delegate election APP
proaches we would caution our read
ers against putting confidence in any
campaign stories that may be started
by local candidates about each other.
AT the same time, il anyone knows be.
yond doubt that any candidate is using
unlawful or improper methods to Sc
cure his nomination, it ought to be
told broadcast, all over the county.
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Dispatches from Decatur, Spring,
field, Shelbyville, and other places in
Central Illinois, report that severe
wind storm swept over Macon, Sanga-
mon, and Christian counties between
midnight on Friday night and day
light on Saturday morning destroying
much property. No loss of life was
reported. In the neighborhood of Hi
opolis, Sangamon county, several farm
houses were badly damaged, barns and
outhouses were carried away, and
crops were ruined. Corn was beaten
fiat to the ground and blown into rib
bons, and wheat in shock was blown
away and levelled with the ground.
The loss in Sangamon county as far as
heard from, is estimated at over $780,
900. The loss in Macon county is es-
timated at 100000. Christian coun-
ty is said to have suffered severely, but
no details are given.
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ownership of the Little Rock bonds
aud If our recollection is right this very
statement was subsequently incorpora-
ted at his own request into his sworn
testimony before the investigating com
mitttee-he had no reason to suppose
that his own letters to Mr.. Warren
j. Fisher, jr., would ever see the light
again, or that the memorandum of Mr.
Fishers bookkcepcr, Mr.. Mulligan,
would ever be produced for the infor.
nation of committee Of congress. He
therefore took high ground. The ru-
NOR that he was the owner of of $780,
600 or more of these bonds was absurd
He had bought some of the bonds
not very large amouut-paying mon
ey for them precisely as every other
investor did, and at the market price.
Had il come to this, he demanded, that
an American citizen was to be exclud-
ed from perfectly honorable and open
business investment merely because he
happened to be representative in con-
gress Mr.. Blaine's Indignation was
as lofty as the sentiment which be ad-
vanced was virtuous "Where conceal
ment is desirable avoidance is advisa.
ble."
Yet it was destined that within six
weeks Mr.. Blaine should be forced to
read in the house q letter written and
signed by himself showing the exact
size of the "small amount of his hold
ings in Little Rock and Fort Smith
bonds-a small amount, as he said,
paid for in cash at the market price,
and magniiied by absurd rumor to
something over S150,000. On Octo
Der 4, 1871, he wrote to Mr.. Fisher:
~ have been treated with positive cruelty in re.
gard TO the bonds l have your positive written
contract to deliver me sl25 900 land bonds and 49,
800 first mortgage bonds. OF this whole amount
OF bonds due me have received but $4,000 land
grants, leaving $4,000 of those and 500 rrst
mortgage still due"
1t appears that the "absurd rumor"
as to the amount was about right. But
if Mr.. Blaine had paid in cash for his
Sl57,OOO of bonds, just like every 9th
er investor, and at the open market
price, how was it possible for Josiah
Caldwell and Warren Fisher, jr., to
defraud him of his rights? How did
it happen that the Boston capitalists
were in position to treat the innocent
and simple-minded legislator with
"positive cruelty 2
The answer is afforded by the mem
orandum in Mr.. Blaine's handwriting
showing that he did not pay a dollar
for his Little Rock bonds, but receiv.
ed them as gratuity or commission
and further light is afforded by Mr.
Blaine himself in one of the Mulligan
letters :
"MY DEAR Mr.. FISHER: Your offer to admit
me to participation in the new railroad enter
prise is in every respect as generous as could ex
pect or desire. thank you very sincerely for 1t.
| ~ do not feel that shall prove q deadhead II
the enterprise II once embark in 1t. l see vari
| Gus channels In which know can be useful.
'Very hastily and sincerely your friend,
| JAMES g. BLAINE.
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CANDIDATES.

All persons whose names are announced as can
dldates, In this column, are expected 10 abide by
the action OF the Democratic county convention,
to be held on Tuesday August 18th 1884.
rhe price for announcing names in this column
Is $500 for any onlce, and must be paid positively
In advance.
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"AuGusTA, June 30, 1882


The maxim which Mr.. Blaine laid
down for the government of his rela-
tion with speculative enterprises may
be slightly improved to fit his case
"Where avoidance would have been
advisable and concealment is urgently
necessary, silence is the best policy
until the memorandum books have all
been produced.
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Saturday, Aug. z, '84,


House, in Bloomsbury, Pa, on
Saturday, Aug. z, 'S4,
at O'Clock D. 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
wherein is erected a two-story frame dwelling
house and out-buildngs.
Seized taken in execution at the suit OF David
c. Black against william ii. James and to be sold
as the property OF william IL. James.
Il. & b. Atty's 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 l6 in plan OF said
village OF Espy, belonging to Cyrus Barton, thence
eastward by Main street eighty-two and one-half
feet to OF lot number 1s belonging to Isaac
McKamie, thence southwark by the same one hun
dred and seyenty-thIee and one-fourth feet to an
alley thence by same elghty-two and one-half feet
TO corner OF lot number 10 aforesaid thence by the
same northward one hundred and seventy-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 on the north side OF Main street In line OF lot OF
Jacob Hess formerly W. Rucl;le, thence along said
street south siXty-siS and onefourth degrees west
sixty feet, thence by lot OF George Ruckle north
twenty.three and three-fourth degrees west one
hundred and seventy three and one-fouth feet to
| alley No. l, 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 lOs95 square feet,
whereon is erected a two 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 NJ. A.
| Baker.
| X. W. Att'ys. AL FL Fa
JOHN MoUREY,
| June g. IT, Sheriff.
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SHERIFF'S SALE.

BY virtue of sundry writs issued out OF the Court
OF Common Pleas OF Columbia county, and TO me
directed will be exposed to public sale at the Court
House. in BOOmsburg Pa, on
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"Instead OF receiving bonds OF the Little Rock
and Fort Smith road as gratuity, | never had
one except at the regular market price, and In
stead OF making a large fortune out OF that com
psny, have incurred severe pecuniary loss
from my investment In It's securities which stlll
retain. And out OF such affairs as this grows the
popular gossip OF large fortunes amassed In con-
gress"
At the time when Mr.. Blaine made
this statement in explanation of the