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, 1885-06-21

The cultivation of the land of Wyoming
is simply a question of water, The soil
throughout the territory produces the
natural grasses in abundance, but there is
not a sufficient rainfall for farming. Ir.
rigation is necessary to produce crops sue
sesslully. All the agriculture carried on
in Wyoming is by means Of artificial irri-
cation. 1t is estimated that we have TO-
OoO square miles in the territory which
can thus be watered successfully. This
constitutes about 10 per cent Of the 9s,-
600 square miles in the territory.
Morning journal and courier., 1885-03-18
PERILs OF THE OLEANDER.
Humorist Burdette Paints Them witt
Fidelity to the Truth.


[From the Pittsburg Dispatch
The oleander contains deadly poison in
its leaves and plants, and it is a dangerous
plant for the parlor or dining room. But it
is far more dangerous about halfway down
the basement stairs, when it has nearly at
tanned its fall growth and lives in large
iron-bound green tub and weighs about
ninety eight thousand pounds. The bota-
nists seem to have overlooked this dangerous
quality of the pernicious oleanaer.
But all men whose wives have kept olean-
ders know the perils of that pernieious and
deadly shrub twice year-when it has to be
brought into the house and when it is taken
out again. A man who can successfully get
q half-grown oleander down flight of stairs
can carry away bank safe. To him who in
the love of nature holds communion with
the oleander and her tub, she speaks va
same accents, but as the mildest variety is
unfit for publication in family journal, we
refrain from giving even a diluted sample.
Once upon time the wife of Roman
gladiator planted an oleander in tub, and
autumn and spring she made Rome's fercest
gladiator take it in and take it out. As the
oleauder grew, and the tub from time to time
exchanged for bigger and heavier one, the
gladiator's strength grew until he could carry
full grown oleander down stairs and through
narrow door without a groan, grant or
skinning his knuckles, and the queen of She
ba came TO see him and couldn't believe it.
One night in scar October she awoke with a
start as the bell in the castle tolled one, and
said to him that he had forgotten to bring in
the oleapder, and there was certain to be a
frost that night. The savage chief of still
more savage men got up in his robe de mutt
and went out doors and began cropping around
in the dark for the oleander. By mistake he
picked up his neighbours cottage and four
acres of land, as described by meter and
bounds, and carried it all down into his base
ment dining-room. The oleander remaining
out over night froze to death. The poor
wife died of broken heart. The neighbor
sued the gladiator for misappropriation of
funds, and the gladiator was given his choice,
by the court, of dying or fighting some one.
Having been trained in tho American cham
pionship school, he had never had a fight in
his life, and would rather die than fight. Sc
they made him do some honest work He
sawed wood for half an hour, and it killed
him SO dead that no pugilist from that day
to this has ever dared do ten minutes honest
work in his life,
Moral: This true story is so full of NOR
ais that you couldn't crowd them all into {
dime novel Reader, go thou and do like
wise.
Morning journal and courier., 1885-03-18
SPREADING.

Speaking of spreading ones self, the skat-
ing rink seems to be the place of all others to
do it successfully City Derrick.
Professor Yelland thinks that "man is a
most extraordinary being" By the way pro-
fessor, are you marrieds-Boston Post.
s'Well,' said an Irish attorney, eff il
place the court, if I am wrong in this, l
have another point which is equally con
elusive"
A Philadelphia woman says she was kissed
by ghost at seanoe. This goes to show
that Philadelphia ghosts are not SO particular
in some respects as most people.-Somerville
Journal.
Lafayette had a great mind, and he knew
what he was doing when he assisted the Uni
ted States. France is now getting large sup
plies of canned frogs from this country
Louisville Courier-Journal.
HOutstripped by Woman is the head
line of dispatch in an exchange If the stories
the Washington correspondents have told us
be true, it must have been at the inaugural
ball.-Somerville Journal
If the bad little boys ever got into the
United States Senate chamber and yelled out
$50 up, old bald headl' it would take a
powerful sight of bears to do justice to the
occasion.-Pittsburg Chronicle.
Fat man (who is in something of hurry:
''I'n give you five dollars to get nae to the
provoking slowness): "Well, sorr, you
might corrupt me, but you can't bribe that
horse"
First Irishnan (waiting in the corridor, to
his friend rushing in from the COURT:
whats Tim gots' Second Irishman lin a
breathless whisper): "For loifel' First
Irishman;. "For loife! Och, shurs, he
won't live half the thoimel''
Edith, you want to know whether funny
men on newspapers ever laugh at their own
jokes" do you dear! Yes, Edith, often, in
fact in good many cases you will find that
they are the only ones who do laugh at them,
but, of course, tiis is confidential. Boston
Post
A Connecticut nan asked for $40, 900
damages for the loss of an ear and got So, 900.
The jury rightly took into consideration the
fact that ears are the principal part of q
Connecticut man. But where they made
their mistake was in setting the value of
the whole animal SO high.-Somerville
Journal.
Cologne Zeitung: Actress Ito wssherwo-
man, who has brought her bill)-"How can
you be SO impertinsnt as to dun me in this
wayi' Washerwoman- n-''Impertinentl What
| do you meana Who are you, should like to
know2 If I choose to pay si1pence for gal
lery ticket, you have got to faint on the stage
for my amusement
Morning journal and courier., 1885-03-18
100 Doses

One Dollar. Hoods Sarsaparilla is the only
medicine of which this can be truly said;
and it is an unanswerable argument as to
the strength and positive economy of this
great medicine. Hoods Sarsaparilla is made
of roots, herbs, barks, ETC., long and favorably
known for their power in purifying the blood:
and in combination, proportion, and process,
Hoods Sarsaparilla is peculiar to itself.
For economy and comfort we use Hoods
sarsaparilla." Mrs. C. BREWSTER, Buffalo.
floods Sarsaparilla takes Tess time and
quantity to show its effect than any other
preparation ever heard of. I would not be
without it in the house." MRS. C. A. NJ.
HUBBARD, North Chill, N. Y. 100 Doses
Morning journal and courier., 1885-03-18
Wednesday, March IS, 1855.
A QUEER PHASE OF THE HARD

Some time ago sBradstreet's' ascertained
the number of industrial workers thrown out
of employment in this country during the
last two and one-half years, and it has now
collected facts to show the extent to which
workers wages have been reduced during
the same time. The result of this work is
interesting and, on the whole, surprising
Careful inquiry was made in sixty cities,
from which two hundred and fifty separate
reports were obtained but the returns from
seven prominent cities were made the basis
of the wages tables as fairly typical of the
rates paid to three fourths of the industrial
workers of the country. There has been in
the period named an enforced reduction in
the number of employees by closing of mills
and factories and by the strikes and lockouts
of workmen The number thus thrown out
of work is estimated at fourteen per cent.
of the total employed in 1882. And. in vari-
Gus establishments work has been restricted
by shortened hours or fewer days in the
week, and in many instances employees have
been given piecework in place of fixed day
or week wages.
Probably the general impression is that the
narQ times nave Drought ABOUT great re-
duction in wages. But such is not the case.
Those who have had work have had pretty
fair wages. Iron and steel workers and coal
miners have suffered the greatest reduction,
from 10 to % per cent; operators in textiles
next; glass makers have suffered less; the
building trades have been only slightly de-
pressed; workers in leather, paper makers
and printers have had but moderate rsduc-
ton, and food products least of all.
The truth seems to be that except in the
case of workers in the production of cotton
and woolen goods, and of coal, iron and steel,
the decline in wages during the last two and
one-half years has been, when compared with
the decline in the prices of food and clothing,
very small. In fact, all the industries, out
side of coal mineG, iron and steel works, and
cotton and woolen factories, are now really
paying higher wages, whom measured in sta
pie commodities, than they ever did before.
These ''hard times" have many strange
things connected with them, and this is one
of them.
Morning journal and courier., 1885-03-18
NO. 64.

tion grounds, requiring that he learn by OBJ
servation there all that he can about the re-
sources and industries of our various States
and of the foreign countries represented"
should shrink from pronouncing this the
''worlds greatest exposition" for the reason
first that l have not attended all of the 9TH
ers, and second that it is difficult thing to
measure the relative Importance os such vast
enterprises. Of course, in oriental features
this New Orleans show cannot for one mo-
ment be compared with the mammoth orien-
tai and European exposition which visited
at Calcutta little over one year ago. New
ertheless, think only the hypereritical can
find fault with the exposition as it now is.
Whatever mistakes or shortcomings are at
tributed to the management, the show itself
is one that even the chronic grumbler can
study with profit. EMILE.
Morning journal and courier., 1885-03-18

sides these grievances, there is dispute Of
many years standing in regard to the reve-
nues from the public lands, the people OF
Manitoba asserting that they have been viz
tually robbed of their share of these lands by
the Dominion government. The discomfort
arising from these and other causes has been
SO great that secession has been openly advo-
Gated.
correspondent of the American Ex-
porter, writing from Berlin, says that there
appears to be good opening in southeastern
Europe for the export Of American sawmill
machinery and steam engines. He says that
the output of the forests of France and Ger
many does not satisfy the demand. In both
those countries the policy is rather to extend
than to diminish the area of the forests, no
matter how tempting may be the prices of
forest products. This makes it necessary to
draw on Austria, Hungary, and even Russia.
In Austria and Hungary the mills have
gained on the woods SO that logs have to be
transported SO far to them that it does not
pay The mills which the mechanics of Eu-
rope are prepared to build are too heavy and
like our cheap portable mills using the cir
cular saw would just serve the purpose, and
there is no manufacturing establishment in
Europe prepared to furnish them The
writer cautions those who may propose to
try this opening that the woods of central
Europe are much harder than ours, pine
growing in elevated positions often being as
hard as our oak, and their oak and other
hard woods being much more solid than
ours.
The Boston Globe has made an exhaustive
investigation of the life insurance business
in this country, and it has published some
very interesting facts. The first life insur-
ance company organized in this country is
said to have been ''The Pennsylvania COM
pany for the Insurance of Lives" which be-
gan business in Philadelphia in 1912, and is
still in business. though it now has only
about one hundred lives insured. From this
very modest beginning seventy-three years
ago, the business has grown till there are
now thirtysix companies doing business in
the country Their total assets amount to
$471 ,805, ,920.77, against a total of only
So, ,S84, ,536 in 1954-thirty years ago. Be-
tween 1850 and 1888 the companies paid in
losses and claims $444, ,036, ,097. During the
last twenty years they have also paid more
than $3.50, 200, 900 in dividends. At present,
about 600,0 lives are insured in the United
States, the total value of life policies in force
in 1884 being 81, ,7so, o15,-or consider
bly, more than the present national debt.
The policy holders of the existing companies
have paid to the companies in premiums up
tossJan. 1, 1884, the total of 81 ,282, ,563, 900.
The losses, claims, and dividends paid by the
companies, with their present assets, amount
to 81 ,420, ,647, 172, or gain of $138, ,0S4, 161
on the amount originally invested. These
are large figures.
Morning journal and courier., 1885-03-18
In THE SOUTH.

Harvey's Canal-A Full Orchestra
Massa Harvey's sCareer-Scenes Along
The Levee-A PiscatoriaI Expert.
ence-Gretrfa And AIgfers-The Ex-
Morning journal and courier., 1885-03-18
59ledica1.

(OLD INDIAN CURE)
Present to sufferers from the wasting diseases due
to IMPURE BLOOD an ''old, tried and true'' rene
dy Tried by the of time and practical use is
acknowledged the
Gem of Blood Purifiers.
Made strictly by the Old Indian Recipe, without
the slightest change, Just it was nearly century
ago An excellent tonic and appetizer, eminently
adapted to troubles peculiar to women.
1t is a vegetable preparation, containing no mer-
curry other mineral poison and will not cure one
disease by producing another. Compounded under
the supervision of eminent ply sician Of 80 years
spractice 1t is an absolutely infallible cure for
every known form of disease, arising from Blood
Taint, be it
Syphilis in any stage, Scrofula, Ulcers,
Rheumatism, Catarrh, liberated Sore
Throat, White swelling, Eczema, Tet-
ter, Pinlples or EruptiOns of any kind.
Endorsed by practicing physicians. Sold by
druggists. Large bottle 81. SO, three bottles l.,
six bottles $3.50. Wholesale by the O. 1. c. Co,
176 Fulton street. New York d15eodaw nr
Morning journal and courier., 1885-03-18
EDITORIAL NOTES.

The sparrows of New Haven ought to know
that in Salt Lake City penalty of two dol
lars is imposed for killing a sparrow. Go
West, little sparrow, go West! And stay
there.
Morning journal and courier., 1885-03-18

Swifts Specific is entirely vegetable Treatise on
Blood and Skin Diseases mailed free.
THE SWIFT SPECIFIC Co., Drawer 8, Atlanta, Ga.
or 159 23d St., New York. m11eod&wnr
Morning journal and courier., 1885-03-18

From experience think Swift's Specific is very
valuable remedy for cutaneous diseases, and at the
same time invigorating tonic.
JAMES JACKSON, Chief Justice Of Georgia.
Atlanta Sept. 1884
INoCULATED PoISON.-After trying all the
other remedies, Swift's Specific has cured me sound
and well of terrible blood poison contracted from
a nurse. MRs. T. W. LEE, Greenville, Ala.
POISON OAK-A lady here has been entirely
cured of poison oak by the of two bottles OF s.
S. S. R. S. BRADFORD, Tiptonville, Tenn.
ULCERS 25 YEARS.-A member of my church
has cured of liberated leg of 25 years stand
ing with two bottles of Swift's Specific.
P. Fl. CRUMPLER
Pastor Methodist Church, Macon, Ga.
Morning journal and courier., 1885-03-18
One Dollar

Hoods sarsaparilla cures scrofula, salt
rheum, all humors, boils, pimples, general de-
bility, dyspepsia, biliousness, sick headache.
catarrh, rheumatism, kidney and liver COM
plants, and all affections caused by impure
blood or low condition of the system. Try It.
81 was severely afflicted with scrofula, and
for over year had two running sores on my
neck. took five bottles of Hoods Sarsapa-
rilla, and consider myself entirely cured"
c. E. LovEJoY, Lowell, Mass.
floods Sarsaparilla did me an immense
amount of good. My whole system has been
built up and strengthened, my digestion inn
proved, and my head relieved of the bad feel
ing. consider it the best medicine have
ever used, and should not know how to do
without it." MARY L. PERLE, Salem, Mass.
Floods SarSaparilla
Sold by all druggists. 81; six for S5. Made
only by c. I. HOOD & CO., Lowell, Mass
100 Doses One Dollar.
Morning journal and courier., 1885-03-18
Tne au11rna1 and Gnmrier.

DELIVERED BY CARRIERS IN THE CITY, 10
CENTS A WEEK, 42 GENTS A MONTH, $500 A
YEAR. TEE SAME TERMS By MAIL.
Morning journal and courier., 1885-03-18

We are now making
A GREAT SPE-
CIAL SALE
of
While Colon Un-
derMear
for ladies.

year what we are now
doing in these goods.
We want to do in
this department five
times as much business
as in the past.
We want to do some
thing to make every la
dy in New Haven think
of our store the moment
she thinks of white un-
derwear.
We want to spend
some money on this
thing. We know that
if you begin to come
to us you will con-
tinue to come, chiefly on
account of the quality
at the zO0rk. There
fore we believe it will
ultimately pay us to
spend some money in
selling the goods too
cheap for a while.
But don't think we
are selling goods too
cheap now to make it up
later by charging too
much. You will never
have to pay more for
anything in our store
than you can buy it for
elsewhere-if we know
it.
But this time we are
going to- make these
goods so very cheap
that you can't but be
struck with it.
And the work is all
good, honest, well-hn-
: ished work, no slop-
work, such as ready
made underwear used
to be, and still is in some
places. The prejudice
against ready-made gar
ments is largely due to
the fact that the makers
have hitherto aimed
mainly at cheapness, or
rather at low prices,
than at excellence. Now
we can offer garments
co sOlidlv made and so
neatly finished that any
lady may feel satisfied
to see them in her
wardrobe.
Everything, you will
find, is cheaper than you
would expect it to be
and quite a number OF
things you will find SC
extraordinarily low If
price that you will be
puzzled to know how il
can possibly be done:
We begin the line
with corset coVerS al
1oc each, cAemzses a
nc each, skirts ano
mndersklrzs at 25c each
ntghtdresses at. 39c each
and the prices go up II
each line till you conn
to very fine goods IN
deed.
At SOC, 75c and 95
you will find some o
the leading bargains.
Prices and descrlE
tions are of little use /.
the newspapers. Com
and see the goods
Look al zhe quality Q
The meate1zaIama zO0r1
<w<
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1885-08-21
A Significant Incident.

On the Confederate Decoration Day
in New Orleans was standing near
the Confederate monument in one OF
the cemeteries when the veterans
marched in to decorate it. First came
the veterans of the Army of Virginia,
last those of the Army of Tennessee,
and between them the veterans of the
Grand Army of the Republic, Union
soldiers now living in Louisiana.
stood beside lady whose name, if l
mentioned it, would be recognized as
representative of family which was
as conspicuous and did as much and
lost as much, as any other in the war
a family that would be popularity sup
posed to cherish unrelenting feelings.
AS the veterans, some of them on
crutches, many Of them with empty
sleeves, grouped themselves about the
monument, we remarked upon the
sight as touching one, and said, 81
see you have no address on Decoration
Day at the North we still keep up
the custom" "No,' she replied we
have given it up. So many impru-
dent things were said that we thought
best to discontinue the address, And
then, after pause, she added, thought
fully, "Each side did the bost it could;
it is all over and done with, and let's
have an end of it. In the mouth of
the lady who uttered it, the remark
was very significant, but it expresses,
am firmly convinced, the feeling of
the South.-Charles Dudley Warner,
in Harpers Magazine for September.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1885-08-21
Second Trial for Murder.
IMPORTANT DECISION RENDERED by
JUDGE McCoLLUM, OF sUsoUE-
HANNA COUNTY.

A decision of great interest TO law
ycrs throughout the State was render
ed at Montrosc last week, there being
no precedent in print from any of the
courts of the State, except dicta of
Judge Grier which was contrary to the
decision by Judge McColum.
Patrick Winters was indicted, tried
in April, 1885, and convicted of muir
der in the second degree. A new trial
was granted by the Court of Oyer and
Tcrminer and the prisoner retired upon
the same indictment, which contained
only one count charging murder. The
Court held that former conviction of
murder in the second degree was rs
effectually an acqnittal of murder in
the first degree as if it had been so
stated in the words of the verdict, and
therefore the present jury could not
convict of higher grade of crime
than murder in the second degree; that
the former conviction of murder in the
second degree was implicitly an acquit-
tai of murder in the first degree and
the prisoner could not be again pnt in
jeopardy of his life, but that he could
be convicted of murder in the second
degree. this being new trial, for rea
sons filed after the former trial
There is no direct precedent in
Pennsylvania, but by a dictum of
Judge Grier contrary ruling was in
dicated. In other States a conflict of
authority is found. Some States like
Ohio hold contrary to this decision of
Judge McCollum. while in other States
the same ruling as here held is made.
Great research and able arguments were
made. Our Supreme Court never has
decided the question and probably new
er will, until some Court below holds a
contrary rule and jury convicts of
fret degree after a former jury had
convicted of second degree, so that
this is likely to be leading case in
Pennsylvania for many years, and, be-
ing by one of the ablest jurists in the
State, is likely to be followed as a pre-
cedent during at least this generation.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1885-08-21
The Commercial Situation.

Although business in financial circles
is by no means active, there are abun-
dant indications of gradual improve
ment in trade and of a more hopeful
feeling among merchants. Under the
promise OF enormous crops of cotton
an corn, buyers exhibit more confidence
and firms in the South and West have
of late been replenishing stocks with
much freedom. This movement had a
decided effect upon cotton goods last
week, prices having advanced under a
good inquiry. The hardening of pric.
es is OF course due in part to diminish
ed production and the gradual reduc-
tlon OF stocks in first hands, but never
theless an increased demand has some
thing to do with it, and the fact that
this is the case shows clearly that the
feeling of depression is wearing off.
If the cotton and corn crops when
harvested yield anything like the
amounts now predicted by competent
authorities there will certainly be a
substantial revival of business in the
cotton and corn belts, and New York
will surely share in the improvement.
At present, however, the disposition is
to 90 slow, as any serious damage to
cotton and corn, following upon the
heels OF the partial failure of the wheat
harvest, would upset all calculations
and entail serious losses upon those
who form hasty conclusions and act up.
on them.
Thus for some time we may look for
a moderate increase in the volume of
business here without excitement or
'boom" in any branch of trade. 1t is
obvious that this condition of affairs
is to be preferred at least until the
safety OF our great products and sta
piles is assured World,