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The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1885-04-24
THE SEA OF GALILEE.

One of the first things for which |
looked here was the fishing industry
but 1 found it not There is evidently
only one sailing vessel on the lake, and
but a very small handful of clumsy row.
boats. When one of these boats get
out of order there is general consterna.
ton, it is said, for the art of shipbuild-
ing is no longer known here. When
we sent our servant with instructions to
procure Galilee fish for dinner he was
unable to find q single fish in the
market This is especially strange in
asmuch as l have had positive evidence
that the water swarm with piscatorial
life today, Just as in the days when
Christ called Galilean fishermen to his
discipleship. Yet fishing is still carried
on here on small scale. Even last
night L saw a boat push out to sea with
nets on board, just as Simon did, no
doubt when he was bound to toll all
night at the same business. This leads
me to guess, or, at least, to hope that
the citizens We're not quite so lazy and
worthless in the days of the Son of Man.
They could not have been any worse.
The modern Galilean would ride two
thirds the way around the lake on the
ragged back of donkey or came
rather than display the enterprise
required to effect crossing in one
sixth the time by boat. Stupidity and
cupidity are everywhere linked in way
that tries Occidental patience.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1885-04-24
LAKE REGIONS OF FINLAND.

Everybody loves his own country
with the Firms this love becomes a
passion, as powerful as the passion of
the Scottish Highlander for his "land
of mountain and of food" and it has
the same source. We can easily under
stand the nostaegy of the Highlander
who yearns for glimpse of the rocks
"where the snowflake reposes," for
the dark frowning beauties" of his
native mountains, which, in their ever
changing aspects, reflect the moods and
phases of the human mind-of life
itself. The same is true of dwellers by
the sea it is true again of the inhab-
tant of the lake regions like Finland,
where water and soil are inextricably
interviewer each with the other; they
live for him, and are ever and always
assuming new moods and expressions.
Finland is poor country, but it is
fine country, and has stamp of origin
alty. Its like may be sought for in
vain even in the lake district of Eng
land or among the inland seas of
Canada Where else, indeed, can the
Firms find this network of land and
water, this tangled skein of lake and
sea, and shore, so full of contrasts,
and yet forming an inseparable and
enchanting whole? Where find these
millions of islands-of lovely rocks,
giving footing toa few pines and birches
which seem to grow from beneath the
water; these thousand of ever-varying
tints spreading over the lakes as the
sun slowly moves almost in the horizon,
unwilling to go down, or leaving behind
it the shining twilight which meets in
the north with the aurora of the morn
ing? Nowhere else will the Finn find
a country which breathes the same mild
and sweet harmony, grace and melan-
choly, which matches SO well with the
dreamy pensiveness of his character.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1885-04-24

"Dear me-" said Jane, as, leaning on
DR.. Joe Tolon's arm, she threw back
her widows veil, which she had worn
ten years now, and wiped her glasses
before 1.-THE Heart of Wilderness in
the art gallery THAT looks Just like the
old piece of woods opposite the old
house when your father brought me
home. I've seen the deer browsing
there many time. l didn't think then
it would ever be city, but your father
over that very spot, It's been long
time Joe, but the last ten years have
been longer than all the rest"
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1885-04-24

| & EVANS, NJ. D., Surgeon and
- Physic a., ,Jnice aud Residence Ou Third
'JreeJ.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1885-04-24
SELECT POETRY.


| hold II true that thoughts are things
Endowed with being breath and wings:
And that we send them forth to h
Tie world with good results or in.
That which we call our secret thought
Speeds to the earths remotcst spot,
And leaves its blessings or Its woes
Like tracks behind it. as II goes.
1t Is Gods law remember it
In your still chamber as YOU sit
With thoughts you would not dare have known,
Aud yet make comrads when alone.
These thoughts have life, and they will fly
And leave their impress. by-and-by.
Like some marsh breeze whose poisoned breath
Breaths into homes its fcvered death.
And after you have quite forgot
Or all outgr0wu.'om vanished thought
Back to your mind to make It's home,
dove or raven. It will come.
Then let your secret thoughts be fair;
They have a vital part ana share
In shaping worlds and moulding fate
Gods system is so intricate
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1885-04-24

g. ". CRIrTENTON, n, y, General Agent,
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1885-04-24
Physicians Testimony.

A. W. Brown, Md, Of Providence,
r. l., says: ~ have used HuST's
kidney and Liverl REMEDY in my
practice for the past sixteen years.
and cheerfully recommend It as
being SAFE and reliable remedy"
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1885-06-24
PROMINENT PEOPLE,

Rev. DR.. TALMAGE has his life insured for
$4,000.
BELLE BOYD the Confederate spy, is teach.
inG clio utun in Little Rock, Ark.
The Duc 10 Noailles, the French historian
an acadrlniyian, is dead at the age OF eighty
three years.
Ben: pERLEY PooRE, tho Wa ,hmgtoa cor
rcspontlcnt has shaken hands with seventeen
Presidents Of the United States.
TIE only child of General "Stonewalp'
Ja.ksol was marriel in Richmond, Va, a
few ,tays since, t. Mr.. William Christian.
GOVERNOR HILL, of New York, is stu
t!iou; reader Of tIe papers, and keeps scrap
book tilr:! with clippings on every conce1v'
able subject.
SENATOR EnMuHDS of Vermont, has gone
to England to testify in the house OF lords on
points of American law upon some lnpor1
/ mt question pending befLr' that body
DE. McCoSn, president of Princeton COZ
lego, is of the opinion that Il chi.d'S NINA !
hest ii ted for the beginning of school educa
ton VIII n tho chilli about twelve years o!d
rn;LIp EvARTS, a son of Senator EVarts
is q membr of the graduating class or tne
general theological seminary this year, aho
i nhout t, be consccraleu as an Episcopal
/ clcrg ;niIn.
rKlHcE CHARLES ANTOINE Of Hoh"nzos
laru is drai. He was b ,rn IN 1911, and pre-
sided over the PruSsian cabinet from 1893 te
| lSt! He was the head of the Catholic Drancr
of the royal house Of Prussia.
Miss CLEVELAND, the Presidents sister
has sent to her publishers in New York the
title OF her forthcoming book Tho title /:
"(ieorg. Eliot and Other Studies," and i:
taken IN part froal the first chapter which Is
a paper On "George Eliots Poetry The
book is expected to be given to the public II
J about fortnight.
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FRUIT AND CR1P PROSPECTS,

LoCUsTS have appeared in great numbers
in Louisiana, but no damage Is reported as
set.
THE Tarboro (N. c. Southcrncr says: "En-
corraginS reports reach us from every section
of the entire State concerning the crops.
FARMERS of Waskom, Texas, arc complain
ing Of too much rain. Grass looks unusually
fine, and corn and cotton are doing well.
THE Hcssian fly has crossed the Rocky
mountains over into the Pacific States, where
it is doing great damage to the growing
wheat.
\ LEADING Texas wool dealer estimates
this years wool clip in that State at G0OO0,-
GOD pounds, notwithstanding the great loss OF
sheep by the cold last winter.
GRAsSHoPHERs pass Kansas this season.
Secretary Sims, of the State board of :;gri
culture, says that lie has had reports from
more than 100 correspondents, and not one Of
them has seen sign of these pests.
You've corn is being injured by the army
worm in some parts of Illinois A despatch
from Shawneetown says that the worm is al
work upon the wheat, but that the crop is tos
far advanced to suffer great damage.
A REVIEW of the crops in Tennessee Is a
fair statement Of their condition in the ad
Joining Southern States. Good prospects fol
an abundant harvest of hay and small grain
are assured by recent rains. 1t is too early
to form positive opinion on the corn crop.
THE Hillsdale Standard sums up the crop
conditions Of Michigan, after careful investi
CATION, as follows: "A fair crop Of apples, O
light crop of pears and cherries, no peaches
a very light crop of small fruits, heavy
crop of hay, and an average crop OF all kind:
of grain. Peach trees were winter killed" "
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1885-06-24
THE SILVER QUESTION.
Proposed lcgisIatiCn In the Forth

Proposed I lcgisIaticn In the Forth
coming Congress
The silver question will undoubtedly be
fully discussed in the next Congress, and al
ready public curiosity is aroused rs to thu
action that will be taken Il Washington teIe-
gram to the New York Hcrold gives as fol-
lows. ain its exact form MS it is now being
considered by prominent public men, silver
proposition which is intended to form the
basis Of legislation in the next Congress-"
First-1ssue certificates on the deposit OF
silver bullion a. its market price ut The time
of deposit expressed in dollars, which shall
stand as tho declared value of the certificates
while in the hands of the public. The aver.
age value of silver for the previous month
might be taken as the market value at the
time of deposit
Second-Slch certificates to be made legal
tender for all purposes except in transactions
between private parties
Third-1hey shall be redeemable in lawful
money, or at the option Of the government
in silver bullion at its market price ut the
time of redemption. When received into the
treasury for dues to the government or re-
deemed in lawful money. they shall be held
and paid out again as other currency; but
when redeemed in silver bullion, to be can
cellcd and destroyed.
Fourth-The coinage of silver to be sus.
pended until required again to meet an actual
demand for silver dollars. On the coinage OF
any bullion the certificates representing the
bullion shall be cancelled and destroyed.
Fifth-Fraciional silver, or Mt least the
half dollar pieces, to lie made full weight and
full legal tender and the redemption OF sub
si,liary silver to be discontinued.
Sixth Withdraw the one and two dollar
legal ten der notes without reducing the tota
values of greenbacks; also tho 1ive.dollar
bank noto and issue one, two and flve-dollar
coin notes, lased on the silver dollars now
coined, dollar for dollar.
Seyenth-Rcdeem and recon the trade
dollar into standard dollars or fractional
coin.
Concerning the above proposed silver legis
lation, the Herald correspondent says that il
originated atdiscussions held toward tho Close
of the last Congress by General Warner
OF Ohio, and other silver men.
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THE NATIONAL GAME

THE largest drawing Southern league city
Is Macon.
IT is rare that clubs pitchers leaI the
team in batting, yet that's what Butiinton
and Whitney are doing for Boston.
DAILY, Ferguson and Clarkson, all practi-
caRy Young pitchers, are doing the best work
of any Of the pitchers under contract to Ma
tional League clubs.
A BRIDGEPORT Comm druggist claims to
have discovered method by which base balls
can be made luminous. lie argues that tho
game can be played as well by the aid or
electric light as by daylight.
AFFAIRS in the baseball world remain peace
full as to the relations of the different aSsocla-
tions toward each other, and with little pros
pect OF the opening of hostilities which can
do nobody any good, howsoevcr they might
terminate, and would be certain to work in.
Jury to the general interests OF the game.
For the first two weeks Of the season the
batting of the American association was very
weak, but since then it has been harder than
ever known before. A remarkable feature
this year is the heavy punishment the lnvlnci'
BILE pitchers of last season have received, While
the slow ones have been peculiarly successful.
A LARGE party of brokers from the New
York Stock Exchange chartered q SPECIAL
train to bring them over to tllla9eiphla te
witness the first league championship game :, OF
the series between the New York and Phila
delpha clubs New York won bySt 2 The
next game, played in New York, the Phla'
delphia nine won by ) to !.
The Hong Kong Daily Press Of March III
contains All account of baseball match be-
tween mines selected from the United States
navy and tue Hong Kong Cricket club, com
posed of Engishmen. The Yankees won by
j to ). Then they loaned to the Cricketers
their pitcher, a gentleman named O'Leary
and the Englislmen won by toe.
THE changing of the rules governing the
pitchers delivery in both League and Ameri
can ass ,ciation has simprored base-runnlng tc
n great Degree The pitcher can not now
keep a runner hugging first base like he could
last season, and unless he is supported by
first-clasS catcher who is liable to throw &C
,urately anl swiftly to second, he is at
great disadvantage.
The championship record up to recent dats
is rs follows:
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A TERRIBLE CALAMITY.
Fall of a Stairway in a French
Court House.
Twenty-four Persons Killed and
More than $50 Injured

At Thiers town in the department of
Puy de- Dome, France, a murder trial has
been in progress some time. The circum-
tances of the murder AMI the exciting Incl
dents Of the trial have engrosSed the attcn-
tion of the people, and few days since-the
last day of the trial-the court house was
crowded with men and women anx-
ious to witness the closing seen es
When the people were leaving, i'm
mediately after the adjournment Of the court,
and were jammed upon the stone stairway
leading to the street, the lofty staircase fell
The scene that followed was appalling.
Immense masses of masonry from above
crashed down upon the struggling people
below, grinding through their flesh and
bones and manning and mutllatng them
in horrible manner. The fall
of the staircase and the Shrieks of the people
lying helpless in the ruins caused panic IN
the courtroom. and there was rush for the
now wrecked exit. Those who were in front
were unable to withstand the pressure from
behind and were hurled down upon the Mon
and women crushed in the fall OF the staircase,
and whom the people in thestreet were already
striving to rescue When at length the panic
had exhausted itself and the immense stone
steps of the fall. II staircase had been re-
moved twenty persons were taken from the
ruins dead. The injured numbered not less
than sixty. and many of these will die OF
their injuries.
A later dispatch from Theirs says that in
addition to the twenty persons killed fully
1CO persons We're injured. Many OF the in
jured were women, and their wounds are OF
aserous character When the massive stone
stairway fell the scene was fearful to witness.
The immense stone steps above, with the peo-
pie upon thcm, were rrecipitated upon the
dead and dying below, adding to the horror
of the awful spectacle.
still later dispatch from Theirs makes the
court house calamity there far more disas-
trous in its consequences :han the earlier dis
patches indicated The dead already number
twenty-four. The total number of the injured
is now placed at i6i. Of these fourteen are
very seriously injured, and some of them will
d;o
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TWO BROTHERS LYNCHED.
A Mob Forcing it's Way into n
Prison In iowa.

A Mob Forcing it's Way into a
Prison In iowa.
A tragic story of murder followed by 8
double lynching-all resulting from family
auarrels-is told in the following dispatch
from Marshalltown, Iowa: Soon after mid
night last night about 100 of the best citi
zens Of Harden county surrounded the
Jail at Eldorado. Some were on foot
but most were mounted. A guard
Of ten or twelve. called by
number, made prisoner of the city marshal
and the work Of forcing the doors began At
this point the jailor was awakened and called
for help. Two men, by the aid Of ladder,
reached his room and quickly silenced him,
but not until he had aroused Sheriff Boylan.
With the aid Of a log the doors were soon
battered down and the Rainsburgers' cells
were reached. Here much time was lost
while some one hunted up a sledge with
which to batter down the door. When the
mob first appeared the men backed up against
the door and were disposed to be defiant, but
some one in the rear fired shot which struck
Mans Rainsburger and he began to realize his
danger At the top Of their voices they
cried Help" and Murder" and begged for
mercy. Finally they ceased their outcries
and told man in another cell to
tell their families that they died like dogs
When the door fell they nude desperate
dash for liberty through the mob and sue
ceeded in reaching the edge Of the crowd
The lynching party fred upon them, literally
riddling the two men with bullets. Seven
teen shots took effect on the body Of Mans.
Fin lay on the sidewalk with fifteen balls in
him. The crowd at once dispersed, leaving
the bodies on the ground. The lynching is
the outcome OF a family quarrel that occurred
nearly twenty years ago.
Quarrels and fights were Of frequent occur
renee. Occasionally stock was poisoned and
crops burned. Last October two or three
masked men called at tho house Of Henry
johnson, whose daughter had married one OF
the Rainsburgers, and, calling him to the
door, shot him dead.
Johnson's daughter swore that her husband
and his brother did the deed, and they
were arrested. Indignant citizens then took
the law into their own hands, with the result
above described.
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NEWSY GLEANINGa

NEWFOUNDLAND has population Of 1873,
600
BETWEEN $4,000 and Co,0Oo people annual
ly visit the White mountains
THERE are 100 Chinese scholars in twenty
nine New York Sunday schools.
The inventor of barbs on fence wire re-
ceives royalty Of sl2O, 900 year.
New MEXICO spent $4,000 for churches
and Sc, 49,, 600 for liquor last year.
CANADA's total fish catch last year is estl'
mated at 17,764 ,4O4, against l6,95S, 1872 in
1888.
ABOUT 1000 new families settled during
the past winter in Florida as permanent resi-
dents.
The banana crop this year is very large
The best qualities come from Cuba and
Mexico.
A New YORK State dairymaid has sue
ceeded in milking nine COWS in twenty-elgh gh'
minutes.
CHOLERA still prevails in twenty, two towns
in Spain. 1t is spreading toward tho trencf
frontier.
GRAssHopPERs are causing serious trouble
on some of the railroads and In rancneS OF
the Pacific coast.
EXCITEMENT prevails in Memo, California
large deposits OF tin ore.
CALIFORNIA fruit growers are introducing
negroes, to be substituted for Cinnamon IL
the orchards and vineyards.
ssan sKEna many napx's ad a.' IN I Europe from
the bark of the paper mulberry.
The slave population of tho empire o
Brazil is estimated at ll77,O!2 of whom 6.2',
274 are males and 553, 74S females.
some Indians recently excavated in Calls
tiahuaoa, state of Mexico,a gold idol weigh
ing thirty two and half pounds.
ACCORDING to newspaper statistics, Chi
cago factories employ 5000 children under
fifteen years of age. Of whom 2.0Jc are girls
HORSE raising is ra7idly-growing indus
try in Montana. The pasturage is excellent
and the thin air increases the animals lung
capacity.
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LATER NEWS

SENATOR BLAIR was renominated for the
United States Senate by the caucus Of Re
publican members of tho New Hampshire
legislature at Concord. He received 1Os
votes. his principal opponent, ex-Secretary
Chandler, receiving 81; necessary to choice
100. The nomination was equivalent tt
election.
The Pennsylvania lower house refused or
the 11th to pass the congressional apportion
ment bill over the governors veto, although
the bill had been so passed in the senate on the
previous day.
Two sons Of William Leahy, of Grand
Manan, Me-, twenty and fourteen years old
were drowned there by the upsettiug of 6
boat.
For the second time Judge Joseph B.
Foraker, of Cincinnati, has been nominated
for governor by the Ohio Republicans. The
State convention was held at Springfield ,ant
the new wigwam was crowded. The plat
form adopted favors national bureau of in.
dustry, tho enforcement of tho eight-houl
Jaw, appropriations for general education,
and stringent laws against contract labor
also favors protective tariff, demands the
restoration of the wool duty Of 1867, ard de-
nounces Cleveland's administration "for it:
general discrimination in the appointment
so far made against Union soldiers and in fa
vor of men who fought against the Union,
etc.
Four soldiers were caught in an Arizona
canyon by tho marauding Apaches ant
killed.
A TUNNEL caved in on a railroad construc
tion train at New River, Tenn. Six persons
were killed and twenty injured.
SECRETARY MANNING has ordered the rev
enuc marine cutters to observe unusual vigi
lance, and patrol the Atlantic coast from New
England to the Virginia capes, to preven'
the arrival Of vessels infected with cholera
yellow fever, or other contagion
RUMORS of tine assassination Of tho amecr
of Afghanstan were repeated OH the
18th in the Russian newspaper wherein they
originally appeared. Thepaper added that the
people of Afghanistan were greatly excited
over the ameer's reported death.
FRESH earthquake shocks in the vale OF
Cashmere, India, havo destroyed two more
towns and killed 400 persons. There has
also been great loss Of life i'll adjacent vii.
ages.
THREE QUARTERS of the town Of Grodno.
Russia, including tho government Offices and
numerous churches, has been destroyed by
fire. The loss amounts TO several million
roublcs.
CHOLERA in Spain is spreading, and the
increase in the number of cases now daily re
ported is causing great alarm among the peo-
pie.
Ten men were killed and as many more
injured by an explosion OF giant powder in a
mine near Zacatecas, Mexico.
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A Senator's Grief.

Senator Edmunds is disgusted with tho
old fashioned house on Highland place
and is building fine residence in New
Hampshire avenue, near Mr.. Blaine, says
Washington letter. The death OF
Senator Edmunds' two daug ghters, of con.
sumption, just as they had reached
womanhood, and the precarious health
of his only remaining child have told
deeply on him. Once during night
session of the Senate, q member. who
had become both quarrclsomc and fac
tious by frequent visits to the restaurant,
addressed several remarks to Edmunds,
who occupied his usual desk, having
been relieved of the duties of the chair.
Senator Edmunds sat silent and ab.
stracted. Then the Senator intimated
that the reason for Senator Edmunds' ST.
lencc was that he had neither the COM
mand of his tongue nor of his legs. AT
this the offender was promptly raped to
order. Senator Edmunds arose hastily,
and going into the Vice. Presidents room
gave way to q burst of grief. lie said
he was thinking of his domestic sor'
rows, and had scarcely heard what was
going on around him. After that MS
Seasons OF gloom and dependency were
understood. Lately, however, he has re-
covered somewhat from his depression.