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The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1888-08-10
American Interests.

The Democratic party believes that
it would promote American interests
to stop the collection of contin-
uous surplus of $l25,OOO,O0O a year
and leave the money in the pockets
OF the people wbe earn it.
The Democratic party believes that
it would promote American interests
to take off the unnecessary taxes
from the food, the fuel, the clothing
and the shelter of American citizens.
The Democratic party believes that
it would promote American interests,
as against British or any other foreign
interests, TO give our manufacturers
their raw materials free and thus enable
them better to compete in our own
market and in the markets OF the world
with competitors that now beat them
because not handicapped with taxes ou
materials and machinery.
The Democratic party believes that
it would promote American interest,
to secure steadier work at better wac.s
for American workingmen, instead o.
subjecting them to the lock. outs, shut
downs and strikes of the past dozer
years. 1t would do this by widening
the market for our products and thu
increasing the demand for them.
The Democratic party believes tha
1t would promote American interest
to keep the control of the Governmen
in the hands that have so successfully
administered it during the past thre
years.-Es.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1888-08-10
A Republican Manufacturer Denounces
Moroooly.

One of the largest manufacturing
establishments in Pennsylvania is that
of A. B. Farquhar, of York Pa, who
makes agricultural implements, He
was warm personal friend of Gar
field, and only last week he pronounc-
ed for Cleveland. In an interview re-
Gently he said: 81 have not left the
republican party; it has left me. be-
became republican because l believed
that every man, woman or child in
America, white or black, had an equal
right to liberty and the uutrammeled
pursuit of happiness. I voted for all
of our republican presidents. The re-
publican party has deserted the prlnci-
Piles of its noble founders and now
stands for the policy of shackling trade
and taxing labor to give bounties to
favored classes. 1t has become the
party of Capitalization and monopoly,
imagining that the government was in
stituted for its benefit, while /, in COM
mon with its former great lights, Lin
coin, Chase and McCulloch, believe in
the economic principles of Jefferson.
To old time republican owes apology
for advocating tariff reform.
FREE RAW MATERIAL A BENEFIT.
"After the war / remained with the
party called republican so long as | be,
lieved the national credit (more import.
ant than systems of taxation) was safer
in its hands. But President Cleveland's
administration has proved there is nc
difference between the parties in this
respect, and his tariff reform policy il
certainly in the direction of national
progress. The effect of high tariff
rates is to encourage monopoli,s and
trusts, and the farmer is beginning to
understand this very well. Manufact
urers seek to terrify farmers with {
picture of the competition they will
have when their factories are closed
and their hands have to go on the farm
What nonsense! The Mills bill by re
ducing the cost Of raw material, viii
open dozen factories where it will
close one. 1t is, besides, demonstrate,
impossible to break up any consider
able portion of the manufacturing in
1ustry even under absolute free trad,
| Il am very sure that | would not hav,
to stop, but would rather do 10 thar
have the community taxed to supper
mel, while it is certain that with
lower tariff the farmers supplies nigh
be more cheaply obtained.
THE FARMER DERIVES NO BENEFIT.
"In short, no benefit is derived b,
the farmer from the protective system
it is, however, very certain that The in
creased price he has TO pay for supple
impoverishes him and makes the mono
'polist . millionaire. II wool was plao
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Sheridan Dead.
HE EXPIRED SUDDENLY AT 1920 SUNDAY
NIGHT.

General Phillip III. Sheridan, CON-
mander Of the United States Army,
died very sudde lly at 1920 Sunday
night of his old heart trouble. 1t was
only on Saturday that his condition
was reported to bc good. and that he
was slowly improving.
Previous to the sudden appearance
of heart failure at about $50 there had
been no premonitions Of any unfavor-
able change in his cordilion. The
weather had been warmer than usual
AMI the General was, at times, little
restless, bnt seemed generally bright
and cheerful. His voice was strong;
he took full supply of nourishment,
slept occasionally as usual, and his
family were in good spirits. At 7
o'clock Mrs. Sheridan and the doctors
went to the hotel for supper and soon
after their return the usual prepara-
tions for the night were made. AT
about $50 Colonel Sheridan SAID
"good night to his brother and went
to the hotel, there having been through
the day no sign whatever of any un-
favorable change in his condition. AT
$50 symptoms of heart failure sudden
ly appeared and Doctors O'Reilly and
Matthews, who were with him at the
time, Immediately applied the RENE.
dies which proved successful in all
similar previous attacks, but this time
they were without effect and despite
all that could be done the General
gradually sank into condition of com
plete unconsciousness, and at 1920 he
breathed his last, Mrs. Sheridan, the
sisters Madam and Justian, and the
faithful body servant Klein, were also
at his bedside throughout his dying
hours.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1888-08-10

the war with Mexico at SO per month
or 500 per year. The annual amount
in money which these 21,7O4 Mexican
pensioners will receive by reason Of his
approval of said act is $2,0S3,5s4,
WIDOWS ARREARS.
lie approved the Act of January Z,
1883. granting arrears of pensions to
widows from the date of of their hus.
bands death in all cases fled spbse-
quent to June 80, 1880. All those
fiji d prior to July 1, 1880 were entitled
from date of death of husband under
the arrears laws of 1870, provided, of
course, they established their right to
such pension. The approval of this
Act of January Z, 1888, will immedi-
ately affect some 10000 widows of the
late war whose claims have already
been allowed from the date of the fling
of the same. The average amount in
money which these 10000 will receive
by reason of his approval of this Act
will amount, it Is estimated, to an aver
age of $l0S in each case, making o
total of 81, ,0S0, 900, and the allowances
of widows, cases which have been filed
since June 80, 1880, during the present
fiscal year will probably increase the
amount paid to such pensioners during
the present year to over 81 100000.
So it will be seen that since the in
auguration of President Cleveland, he
has approved General Pension Acts
which directly and pecuniarly benefit
some l44,364 ex.Union and Mexican
war soldiers, their widows, orphans and
dependent relatives, and that the mon
ey value of this benefit will be over
so, ,000,O per annum.
PRIVATE PENSION ACTS.
Since the Inauguration of President
Cleveland, he has appi owed, or allow
ed to become laws by limitation, over
1.2OO private acts granting pensions,
while but 1924 private pension acts
we're approved, or allowed to become
laws by limitation, during the entire
twenty,four years that the Republican
party was in power. There is little
doubt that before the present Congress
adjourns, he will have approved, or al
low to become law by limitation,
nearly or quite as many private pension
acts az all of the Republican Presi dents
from Lincoln to Arthur.
The above figures taken from the
official records, show, beyond cavil or
question, that no such liberality to ex-
soldiers, their widows, orphans and de-
pendent relatives, in the matter of pen
sions, was ever shown by any admins
tration in the history of the Republic,
and that no former administration has
ever extended the muniicence of the
government to so many OF the benefci-
aries of the pension laws as has the
administration of President Cleveland
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cd on the free list it would simply be
what the wool growing states desire.
The older states are growing less and
less dependent on wool, but farmers
everywhere suffer more from increased
cost of clothing than they would gain
BY tariff On wool, and reduction Of
tariff, therefore, would prove a benefit
TO the farming community.
"Althongh the prices of agricultural
implements are enhanced by the tariff,
the implement makers suffer by the
present war tariff system in several
ways. He is at a disadvantage in the
export of his wares. He is at increas-
ed expense for his raw material. His
sales are diminished, and the high tar
iff, bearing particularly hard upon his
customers, the farming community, he
SUITES with them. Were the presi
dents policy carried out, he would,
while able to sell his implements at
lower prices, make more of them and
make better profits upon his business.
THE rALLAcY OF PROTECTION.
"Protection is the father of million
aires and paupers, and the question
simply is, shall we continue thus to
tax labor and trade to fill the already
overfowing treasury vaults and the
pockets of the millionaire, with GER
tain following of hard times and dis.
astrous commercial released 1t should
seem that everyone must know by this
time how tariffs are made-lobbied
through congress by those who expect
to reap the beuefit. Protection is
asked for infant industries. but the
larger they grow the more is demand
ed. 1t is eternally dinned into the
ears Of the workingman that all this is
done in his interest. Who is to teach
him the truth that protection is always
a tax upon labor, not upon capital'
Tho duty must fall, indirectly or d.
rectly, on the congressman.
"As to President CLEVELAND, his
standard of duty lifts him above pa'-
tisanship. l like his administration
well enough to continue it. He has a
place in the hearts of the people such
as never could have been acquired by
any amount of scheming."
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1888-08-10
Nav York MARkETs.
Reported 6p G. S. Palmer, Wholesale Co,n,ntssfo
Merchant, l66 Reade ST.. NJ Y.
New Yark Annnot 1900

Reported bv G. s. Palmer, Wholesale Commission
Merchant 1866 Reade 81. NJ Y.
New York. August g. 1888.
Owing to the incessant warm weather,
the height of the summer season now being
al hand, the week opens comparatively
quiet, and but little business doing about
the produce market. Choice lots Of fruit
however, such as peaches, grapes, pears,
etc. are in very fair request and going out
readily at good prices, the demand being
equal to the supply. Apples are generally
poor and sell slowly at irregular prices,
Nyock and Oranae Pippin So to SO q bbl.,
Astrachan $2 to 2 50 Blackberries arc
not plenty and mostly soft. Selling to-day
to 7c u qrt Currants scarce and worth
l0 to l2c qrt., to lie h., latter for
large cherry. Huckelberries to 10c qrt.
75c to 81 box. Muskmelons in liberal
supply but worth to-day from so to SO a
bb., as to kind and quality. Grapes, south
ern, Del. and Niagara, 12 to 1Sc h., Con-
cord to &c. Peaches plenty and prices
show but little change over previous quo
tations, and Troths worth Toe to 81 qrt.,
Mt. Rose 81 to 25; Jersey 40 to 75c
basket The market well supplied with
pears selling Bartlett, near by, 81 to l 90
a crt., Sugar Top $2 to 2 50 Bell $3 to 8 90
bbl, &c. LaConte 3 80 to A co. Plums
% to W crt., to 70 "a qrt. Watermel-
to $40 100, as to quality. Butter, fancy
creamery, 20 TO 2lc select dairy tubs and
pals IL to l9c Eggs continue firm in
price, State and Pa. fresh, 10 to zoe, fancy
white leghorn strictly fresh, 90 to 25c. Live
spring chickens ~ to 10 cts. 10. as to size
fowls IL to 15c. Choice dressed veas &c.
Potatoes, rose 80 to So bbl. Sweet po-
tatoes, red or yellow, SO TO A so Dbl.
Cabbage "a to 50 100. Egg plant 80 to
90 Dbl. Onions, red, 90 to 80 bbl.,
yellow or white, 90 To "a. Tomatoes 40 to
oOc a barket, crts. 81 TO so. Beans
medium, 2 %. Marrow 2 40. White and
red kidney 95 to 2 40. Hay, prime, SO to
DOC. Rye straw 65 to SOC.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1888-08-10
A Matter Of Record.

William Krickbaum came to this
town in 1866, having been appointed
commissioner clerk, at salary of
5000 per year. The next year it was
raised to $3.50 and subs sequently to
$500 and 5000, or until with extras it
aggregated over $1,000 per year. Ia
1878 he resigned the clerkship to ac-
cept the office of prothonotary-in
which he served six years-having as
is commonly reported, accumulated
over $4,000 besides his living for
eighteen yea 8. After he was defeated
in 1884 for third term as prothono-
tary, he attempted to defeat the regular
nominee by deal with the republicans
of the county. Not satisfied with the
wealth he accumulated from the tax
payers, he is urging his nomination for
representative with no other excuse
than that his opponent is lawyer. If
after an official capacity of nearly
twenty years he should be granted a
lease of Office, it will be simply to add
to his wealth with very little hope Of
rev ard tn the democrats Of Columbia
county. His ungratefulness was shown
in 1884 is this the only evidence,
we find republicans everywhere to-day
who are influencing their democratic
neighbors in order to secure the Lomi-
nation of Krlckbaum. Is this part OF
the bargain of 1884, or can it be pos.
sible that we are ready to have repub-
licans assert ave can not elect re-
publican representative but we can help
to nominate one that will remember US
when he gets to Harrisburg" We
would caution democratic voters not to
be mislead by the republicans. Don,
be cats paw for them. At the next
session of the Legislature the Senatorial
apportionment bill will be considered,
and we should have member there
who is not under any obligations to
the republicans but who will work to
secure district that will be to the in
terest of the democrats of this county
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1888-08-10
Don't Want Any Ships.

A champion of the war tariff defends
the Republican policy which has ban
ished the American flag from the hi III
seas Because England can build and
sail ships cheaper than our laws per-
nit us to do Eve are great deal bet
ter off for being out of that business
than we would be if in it" says Pro-
tectlonlst organ.
The idea that great commercial
nation with 1900 miles of seacoast and
tide water is better off without ship
ping fits in qneerly with the Protection
logic. If the United States should 90
without ships bee use foreigners can
build them cheaper, why should our
people be taxed to sustain other indus
tries here that can be conducted more
cheaply abroad? The argument for
Protection is that it tends 10 make this
country independent of foreign ma
tions. And the amount of protection
that is required for this purpose
which is by no means an average of
40 per cent.--can be. defended very
successfully with this argument But
here is party arrogaLing to itself the
exclusive love and care of American
interests, that has banished the Ameri
can flag from the ocean and driven
American commerce into British and
German bottoms, and which defend,
the policy because these nations car
carry it cheaper than we can.
| What sort of protection" is this fol
American shippers, to leave them a,
the mercy of foreign carriersi
| The American sailors and skipper,
do not admit themselves fairly beater
on the seas. Give them the same op
portunity that their triumphant rivals
have of buying ships where they
please, or Of building them withou
any artificial enhancement of theil
cost, aud they will soon demonstrat,
their ability to "beat the world" Blu
the cold fact stands that the Republi
cans have killed our foreign shipping
and glory in the shame of it becaus,
foreigners can do our carrying cheap
er.- World.
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N AND DEMOCRAT BLOOMSBURY, COLUMBIA COUNTY. PA

Kisner was told by member of the
Democratic county committee that in
his district, composed almost entirely
of Welsh voters, a Democratic victory
was looked for in November. The
Welsh citizens of that district have
soured on the Republican cry for pro-
lection. He can hire all the cheap la
Dor he pleases and the result is that
there is surplus of labor.
This prevents the working OF full
time, and the Welsh miner is the suf-
ferer; hence the dissatisfaction. Hard
ly day passes but carload of Poles,
Huns and Italians are dumped into
Luzerne county TO compete with native
labor. These facts, nov made public
officially by the Knights of Labor,
will ha considerable inhue zee on the
fall election, and large accessions TO
the Demo ratio ranks are expected
from the coal counties.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1888-08-10
Defend the Judiciary.

There are complaints in more than
one OF the interior districts of Pennsy-
lvania of candidates seeking judicial
nominations by means altogether un-
worthy OF an sspirant to the bench.
OF all the offices in the gilt of the
people the Office of Judge is especl.
ally one that should seek the man and
not be sought by him-certainly moi
schemed and bargained for or bought
The law which denounces the employ,
ment OF corrupt means to secure q
nomination or election should not be
needed in the case Of a Judge, for one
who would so seek Judicial nomina
tion proclaims his unfitness for the
trust.
1t is important that the citizens o.
both parties should scrupulously de
fend the honor and integrity of th,
Pennsylvania judiciary by avoiding
any and every candidate whose record
or whose CANVASS is not beyond suspi
cion or reproach.--PAila. Times.
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that the men of proper courage and
sagacity will gravitate more aud more
to the other side. To these influential
New England newspapers must be ad-
ded the Providence Journal, which
supported Blaine in 1884, but cannot
stand on the Republican free whisky
platform, with its thin veneering of
temperance and morality. In the
West the Mugwumps have been rein
forced by the Chicago Stats Zeit,tng,
the most widely circulated daily news
paper in that region.
These newspapers stand at the very
head of journalism 10 the country, and
in undertaking to disparage their inf.
uence the party organs only confess
and betray their own weakness
There was sneaking hope that the
Mugwumps might return to their
party allegiance if Blaine should no,
be nominated for President, but the
elements that made up the Chicago
Convention and its reactionary plat
form, to say nothing of the candidates,
put such movement wholly out Of
the question. Although Blaine was
not nominated, his spirit pervaded the
Convention and controlled its actions
The position of the Mugwump news.
papers plainly indicates that the work
of disntegration in the Republican
party is steadily and surely gong on,
or course it is impossible to estimate
the political strength of a body of in.
dependent voters who have no need OF
leaders and are without organization,
but are he'd together by common sen
timents in regard TO current political
questions. The strength of the "vest-
pocket voters can not be ascertained
until the ballots shall have been count.
ed, when the regular parties may re.
cognize the existence of force when
they have hardly known or appreciat-
ed. Men who know how they are
going to vote, and whit they are vot-
ing for, have little occasion TO hire a
club house or marching in torchlight
professions. As the Mugwumps OF
Independent Republicans inclined in
1884 the victory was decided; and
there are very strong indications that
they will turn the political scale in
1888.
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President OIeveland's Ancestors.

A Newburyport Mass correspond
ent of the New York Eoeniag World
says that Rev. Stephen N. Cleveland,
a brother of President Cleveland, visit
ed the parish of By6eld on Saturday
engaged in hunting up family records.
Though there are none of the name
now living in the place many of the
ancestors of the Clevelands once re-
sided there, and from the earliest set
Element down to the middle of the
present century the family gave to the
world some distinguished men. Cap
tain Ebenezer Cleveland was a brave
officer of the Revolutions; DIR. Parker
Cleveland was a prominent physician;
Professor Parker Cleveland, LII. d.,
was professor at Bowdoin; Nhe-
mah Cleveland, LII. d., Preceptor at
Dummer Academy, and John p. Gle
veland d. d., was President of Mich
igan University.
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Aug. 8 'ss
IN PARTITION.

Estdte or Jonas D0fp, decodsed.
COLUMBIA COUNTY, ss.
To j.. o. Doty, Ira Doty. David Doty, Israe
Doty, Luther B. Doty and Martha A. Minier, all Of
Columbia county; George Doty OF Luzernt
%, Pa, ana Sarah Elizabeth Ro2elle OF Ellsworth
Ellsworth Co., Kansas.
Whereas at an Orphans Court held at Blooms
burg, Ia and for the county OF Columbia the four
teenth day OF May A. d. 1855 before the Honorable
William Elwell President, and his associates, Jus
tices OF the said court, the petition OF j. o. Dooy
and Ira Doty sons OF Jonas Doty late OF the town
ship OF F1shingcreek, Columbia county, Penna.
decd. was presented setting forth that petition
was presented 10 this court on the 26th day Of
Jonas Doty died on or about August 2sth, 1887, In
testate and that he died seized In his demesne az
OF fee OF and In certain real estate which Is de-
scri0ed In the said petition, and further that the
Ing described real estate.
All that certain tract or piece OF land situate In
the township OF Briarcreek, and county aforesaid
containg one hundred acres more or less being the
western end OF the upper Nathan Beach tract II
which said decedent held an undivided onn hall
interest reserying TO his grantor and his own use
all the iron ore and minerals OF every description
excepting stone coal, as also the right OF way and
necessary privileges OF access 10 and digging fol
and working all the iron ore and minerals Of
| every description excepting stone coal as afore
said at all times and In all places on the sait
been had.
Take notice that In pursuance OF the foregoing
is6s ON Saturday August 4th 1883. at ten O'Clock O
IN. 10 make partition OF the land to and among
the heirs and legal representatives OF the sai6
decedent or 70 value and appraise the same, a.
the case may be, under the laws OF this common
wealth, when and where you may attend II yol
SAMUEL SMITH, shenn.
bioomsourg, Pa, July 49, 1883.