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The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1891-09-25

If Young had been tried in Colum-
bia county and acquitted, there would
have been a republican howl that pref.
udice and local feeling had procured
his acquittal. But he was tried in a
foreign county, before a strange jury,
in court whose sheriff was brother of
the deceased, and who managed the
trial and faced the jury: but he was
even there found to be mot guilty."
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1891-09-25

A fifteen cent luncheon will be
served on Friday evening, September
a5th from S to 9 o'clock under the di-
rection of St. Paul's Sunday School
classes Of the Misses Drinker, in Hen
dershott's store room, next door to Gil.
more's.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1891-09-25

A new roof has been put on the
Baptist church, and vestibule built
in front. While the roof was off. the
ram dana 5ed the walls SO that it is
necessary to repaper them. Vanst a
fas the co ltract. The church will he
lriatly imp owed when completed.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1891-09-25

A report was circulated on Wednes-
day that William Snyder, son of C. w.
Snyder deceased, is i'll with typhoid
fever in Salt Lake City, and that his
physicians had given up all hope of
his recovery. His relatives here have
no such information, and it is possible
there may be a mistake about it.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1891-09-25
Trial Of Ellis Young.
In the Oyer and Terminer of Luserne Co.

Indictment 49,
charging the mmr-
der of Ste,cdrt &.
| Robson.
{ Before Rice,
Prtst Juelge, Sept.
10, 1891, case CALI
ed at 4. 80 p. m.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1891-10-21
THE rARMER,s OPPORTUNITY.

The statements of Henry Clews & Co.
in their weekly financial circular for last
week in regard to railroad traffic and
business in general, indicate pretty
clearly that the Alliance recommends
ton to hold crops has been acted upon
to considerable extent. In no other
way can the comparative paucity of
eastbound traffic as compared to former
seasons, and particularly so to the i'm
mense crops of this year, large portions
of which have been ready for market
for some time, or might have been if de-
sired, be accounted for. The predicted
rise in prices for farm products to result
from the "hold on policy has not taken
place as yet, though the season is not
advanced sufficiently to expect much
change on account of heavy foreign de-
mands. This Is not likely to occur for
some time yet, not until the home pro-
ducts abroad shall have been practically
consumed. In view of all the
facts ard circumstances, therefore,
while there is nothing discouraging in
them to those who are in condition to
hold their surplus crops without incon-
venience to themselves or loss to others
may be regarded as somewhat serious to
those who are not thus fortunately
situated and to the general commercial
and industrial interests of tie country.
The Withholding of crops designed for
market from any cause is equivalent to
Withholding from active circulation
sum of money equal to the value of the
products so held, and at this time that
means an immense sum which if put
into circulation would go great way
towards supplying the demand for more
money.
And in view of the fact that the de-
mand for more money comes mainly
from the agricultural community, and
the further fact that they have it in their
power to afford the desired relief in the
matter of more money, and the still
further fact that present prices are suffi-
cient to afford fair remuneration to the
producers, that portion of the COM
munity are estopped from joining in
the cry for more money, and at the same
time subject themselves to the criticism
of being sordid and selfish, regardless of
the conditions and necessities of the less
fortunate of their own profession, to say
nothing of the interests and necessities
of the balance of the community at
large in the matter of the money supply
and of the cost, if not of sufficient
quantity, of food for immediate use.
No one can deny but that the present
situation affords splendid opportunity
for the display Of magnanimity by the
fortunate and thrifty farmers, who
seem to be favored above every other
class or portion of the industrial and
community. If they should
so act it would constitute a rare excep-
tion to the common rule of human &C
ton, and for this reason it is not
expected.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1891-10-21
NEW YORK ALL RIGHT.


In private letter of recent date to a
friend in this city, Mr.. w, T. Remer, of
Penn Yam, n. Y. makes brief reference
to the political situation there. He says
the Republicans expect to gain a great
victory in that slate on the Sd of Novem-
Der by the election of their entire state
ticket. In regard to the third party he
says: ''It is great humbug. the way it
has been managed. Your great senator
and Simpson spent two days with US,
and never heard more nonsense than
they talked while here. We think there
will not be much of the Alliance left
after the election" He also gives it as
his opinion that PETER and Simpson
have injured Kansas in the estimation of
the people Of the east more than all the
lnisfortunes in the way of short crops,
grasshoppers, etc.; combined A good
many people in Kansas feel the same
way about il.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1891-10-21
THEY DON'T TELL 1T.

The Alliance Simpsons and Otises and
their female fusiliers who are demand
ing government ownership of railways
and a thousand other impractical and
anarchistic notions, either through cow
ardice or ignorance fail to tell their
blind followers that such ownership
would rob Kansas of two millions of
dollars annually paid by these reads to
the state in the way of taxes, and that
large proportion of the entire taxes of
many of our counties are paid by these
corporations. Nor do they tell us that
these roads pay thirty million dollars per
annum in salaries and wages to employees
without regard to party ties, which vast
sum would become. under Alliance rule
and to class legislation, one vast cor
ruption fund for tools and favorites in
the hands of the Simpsons and discs.
The total amount for which the rail-
roads of Kansas were returned last year
was upwards of fifty-seven million dol
lars, only one other state in the Union
exceeding her mileage. The railroads in
Sedgwick county alone were returned
last year at 81, ,293, ,054 46. on which they
paid into the county treasury thirty-one
thousand and eleven dollars and forty
nine cents.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1891-10-21

The Democracy throughout the United
States achieved glorious victories at the
municipal elections held last Tuesday at
indianapolis, Ind. Chattanooga, Tenn,
Newark, n. j., and Hartford, Conn, which b
were former Republican strongholds.-
Atchison Patriot.
Except that the cities named are not
Republican strongholds, but more fire.
quently 90 Democratic than otherwise,
the Patriots assertion may be taken as
measurably correct. But what political
significance do they bear? Wait until
the state elections are held next month
and the results announced; then will be
the time to hurrah for this year and
maybe for next.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1891-10-21
THE BOY SOLDIER.

Read what Barrett's old captain says
of him, in a letter to the EAGLE, found
elsewhere in this issue. He enlist al
fourteen years of age and never finched
or shirked. At the bloody encounter Of
Missionary Ridge, when only sixteen
years of age he shot horse from under
a rebel major and then marched the
major prisoner into the Union lines.
No wonder the Democrats are making
such a fight in him. At Bentonville he
fell on top the rebel works pierced with
rebel balls That he did not die of bis
awful wounds was wonder at the
time, for he was compelled to undergo
the torturing operation of two amputa-
tions. No Democratic lie can wipe out
or in any way belittle or dim the bright
patriotic record of S. L. Barrett.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1891-10-21

A fine young fellow was disinherited
by his father, a well 70 do grazier and
cattle dealer, for marrying domestic
servant in the village. The father not
only cut him out Of his win. but turned
him out Of the house and dismissed him
from his employment The young man
took service in the county police. aud
was shortly appointed 10 has own VII
iage. But in a year or two be inherited
a snug fortune from a brother Of his
fathers. with whom the latter bad a
deadly feud. and the old grazier was 20
put out at his sons good fortune that be
cnt his throat Almost the last work
the son had % do before leaving the
police force 10 enjoy his legacy was %
attend the inquest Of his father Off.
cially.- London Tit Bits
The Wichita daily eagle., 1891-10-21

The series of joint discussions arranged
for between Hon. j. r. Burton and SEN
ator PETER, the Newton Republican
thinks, will draw the largest crowds of
Peoples partyites and Republicans and
Democrats that have ever been assem-
bled in the state" That implies strong
and well-nigh universal desire among
the people generally to witness the tor
ture of fellow being by a public casti-
cation. If the people are inspired by
pity for the victim of the severest pun
ishment brought on by his own voluntary
acts, they will spare the senator the ad-
ditional pain their presence would cause
by remaining away.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1891-10-21

A japanese child three years old car
swim like fish; and often children who
will not learn Of their own accord are re
peatedly thrown overheard until they be
come expert swimmers. In the harbOI
children seem TO be perpetually tumbline
overheard, but the mothers deliberately
pick them out Of the water. and, cutting
them little, go on with their work. 1t is
really astonishing at what age these boys
and girls will learn TO scull boat. A
boat twenty feet long most adrOitly man
aged by three children, all under seven
years Of age. is no uncommon sight
Notwithstanding their aptness at swim
ming, many boatmen get drowned, for no
boat goes 20 another's aid. nor will any
boatman save another from drowning, be
cause, as he says it is ali fate, and he who
interferes with fate viii be severely pun
ished in some wsy-London Tit-Bits.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1891-10-21
THE CASE IN A NUT-sHELL.

The Alliance element which went of
last year excepted, there has not been, in
years, such unanimity in the Republican
party of Kansas as marks the county
canvasses this fall. There is not only
unanimity, but a serious earnestness that
counts for more than enthusiasm. Re-
publicans are not voting for Democrats
out of friendship, or for off-year consid-
erations. The results of the county con-
tests this fall will make for the party's
triumph or defeat in the state in the
presidential election next year. The
Democrats and the Peoples party leaders
are making pretended ugly faces at each
other with the full understanding that
they will unite on an electoral ticket
next fall; for the Alliance knows that if
the presidential election can be thrown
into the house the Republican party will
be defeated.
Swaps and trades between the Alliacce
and the Democrats have taken place in
many counties in the state this fall for
the sole purpose of defeating the Repub-
lican panty. The election of an Alliance
legislature next fall-house and senate
both-would simply intensity the disas-
trous conditions and unhappy results
which marked the triumph of the Pef-
fers and Simpsons. Not only capital,
but enterprises of every character would
avoid Kansas.
Let every Republican stand by him
self and by his principles by his vote
this fall.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1891-10-21
A "Reminiscences of Clay.

From the Globe-pemocrat
my home, Ashland, Va, is only a
short distance from the birthplace of
Henry Clay" remarked Rev. DR.. John
c. Granbery TO a group of interested
auditors. THE old mill to which Clay
rode to when boy with bag of corn in
front of him to be ground into corn meal
still stands near the Clay homestead.
The house in which Clay was born was
burned about forty years ago, but
another house occupies the site. Gush-
ing from bluff near the house is a huge
spring of the coolest water you ever
drank. This spring existed when Clay
was a boy, and when in after years he
became famous and visited his birth
place, one of his first acts was to visit
the old spring and guench his thirst in
its waters. When it became known TO
the people in the vicinity of his old home
that he was going to make them visit
they killed the choicest oxen and sheep
and rendered him on his arrival barbe-
cue that is a source of conversation
among the oldest inhabitants even 70 this
day. There Is not single inhabitant
that | know of in the state named Clay.
Those that are not dead removed to
Kentucky. Occasionally some of Mr..
Clay's descendants visit the ancestral
estate. By the way, Clay's father was
Baptist clergyman, and was man Of
rare talents as public speaker.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1891-10-21
S. L. BARRETT ENDORSED BY HIS OLD
COMMANDER.
ASHLAND, Kan, Oct. Il, 1891.

ASHLAND, Kan, Oct. Il, 1891.
To the Editor Of the Eagle
In looking over the names of the can
dtdateS for the several offices in your
county, see the name of S. L. Barrett
for register of deeds. Having been his
company commander on the Inflated
day that he lost his leg, would feel re-
miss in my duty if l did not say some
thing in behalf of a worthy comrade,
and noble boy-soldier.
Comrade Barrett in 1861. at the age of
Il years enlisted in Co. *" CO, o. V. l.,
and notwithstanding his youth, from
that time until he lost his leg was found
with his company and ready for all duty
exacted of him. AS boy-soldier he had
few equals, performing heroic deeds al
most unparalleled for one so young. At
the battle Of Missionary Ridge. when
only 16 yearsold, he shot a rebel major
horse from under him. and before he
could recover, captured and brought
him IN d prisoner.
Barrett was a stranger to fear, and on
the skirmish line and in battle was al
WAYS found ia the front rank. At the
battle of Bentonville, y. c.. he fell On
top of the rebel works pierced with five
balls, one of which resulted IN the lOss
of his leg, and had it not been for his
courage and nerve, would have cost him
his life, as he had 10 suffer two amputa-
tions, one by the rebel surgeons and a
second one after falling into the hands
of our OWN surgeons
To all comrades / would say, stay with
s l. Barrett, the gallant boy-soldier. /
know he is worthy Of every loyal vote in
Sedgwick county. Respectfully.
JAMES WEARRY.
Late Captain &c. Q. Y. vi
The Wichita daily eagle., 1891-10-21

sections of hypocrisy and demagogic
cant. 1t is said to have been the work
of a disgruntled Republican, red
headed Democrat, aided by the sugges-
tions of an individual who is recog-
nized only as political, moral and re-
ligious crank. On the liquor question
it critcizes tie Republican party
for not more stringently enforcing
the prohibitory law in one place and
| favorS resubmission in another. In one
section it stands for high license and in
another grumbles at the governor for not
doing his duty in naming a police COM
missioner that will close the joints, the
receipts from which it says ought to
be publicly accounted for. 1t arraigns
last Republican senate for not inn
peaching Judge Botkin, when the con-
stitution of the state provides that the
house only can impeach. 1t denounces
the senate for defeating the fee and
salary bill, which bill was in fact passed
by the senate and defeated by the ALI
ance house. In one and the same Sec
IlOn IL CObSIdluldte5 lii0 idAuSIo
over the improved foreign mar
kets and then denouuces the tariff
law whose protective and reciprocity
clauses alone improved those markets.
Everything favored is in turn denounc-
ed, and vice versa. There is nothing
that Democrat, a ProhiOitionist or an
Alliance man could want that is not first
endorsed and then condemned in that
wonderful document, which evidently
was the production of combined whisky,
ignorance and crankism.
AS the more level headed elements of
the Democratic party neither before or
since the adoption of that platform have
entertained any expectation Of electing
their ticket the impudent incongruity of
that doubtless concerns them but little,
yet it is wonder that out of a decent
regard for the average intelligence of
they do not order the discon-
tinuance of its publication.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1891-10-21
Glad 70 be corrected
n tho LsAveH~OrsA Tinss

tIl--I ILo II - 1ItA lIl-e--
The statement published by the
Wichita EAGLE a few days since, that
less wheat Is being sown than last year,
does not seem TO be trae Of the north
west. State Insurance Commissioners
". b. Mcbride has Just returned TO To
peka from a trip through that section.
Mr. Mcbride says the people OF that sec
ton are jubilsnt All the crops were
excellent, and while last year they were
compelled 20 nuy grain. this year theE
have thousands Of bushels to shIp. and
the effect Is marvellous on the spirits CT
the people. More wheat Is beng put
ont than ever before. and the fail has
been especially fayorable. People who
left tbs state year or two ago are lock
lpg eAf.raRe Is c2g SsIy L iulDs uP
The Wichita daily eagle., 1891-10-21
A CONGRESSMAN IN SMALL BUS
MESS

The secretary of agriculture is being
greatly annoyed, says the Washington
Post, by some person in Washington
who is sending postal cards to new mem
bers of congress. offering for sale 500
copies of the Agricultural Report and
PIG copies Of the special report on Dis
eases of the Horse. The number adver-
tised of each of these is exactly the allot-
ment of a member OF the Fifty-first
congress, and the conclusion is irresisti-
bic that some member of that body is
converting into money documents which
congress voted Tor the use of his con-
stituents.
Secretary Rusk is of the opinion that
the constituency of a member who
would thus dispose of government pub
locations should be made aware of the
fact in order that they might elect a
member who would faithfully carry out
the intent of the law governing these
publications He SAYS, however, there
IS probably no way in which the party
could be detected and exposed
Evidently the thrifty person in ques-
ton is an ex-member of congress-
member of the last houSe-and making
the offer he does by postal card. sent TO
members of the next congress, it seems
that it would be an easy matter TO ascer-
tain who it is, But. perhaps, the secre-
tary hopes to deter him from pursuing
his scheme by making the circumstance
public. and thus save the offender the
the humiliation of an expose.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1891-10-21
REPUBLICAN MEETINGS.

The appointments for meetings, under the
direction of the Republican Central Committee
of Sedgwick county, Kan, and the names oi
the speakers, are as follows:
Valley Center, Wednesday, Oct p, 1881, Col
J. r. HalloweD. -, i,
Mount Hope, Thursday, Oct. -. 1891, Col D.
r HaIlovvelf and H NJ Sturdevant.
Sacketts school house, Friday, Oct. ., 1871
Goddard. Friday. Oct. %. 1891, Col. J. R. Hal
lowell. -
Cheney. Saturday, Oct, 81 1891, Col. j. R.
HaIlowell. A. r. Museller, o. q. Ecksteln;
Derby, Oct. 20. q. w. Q. Jones and ). w.
Sedgwick City, Oct q. w. E. Stanley,
AIuivane, Oct. 2S. Col J. 4. Halloweu and j.
oatviIle, Oct. %, J. E. Henley and S. NJ.
Tucker.
Maize, Oct. %, George L. Douglass and G.
w. Clement. "a
Waco school house. Salem township, Oct. 30,
W. I. Sturdevant and .. G. Eckstein-
Clearwater Saturday, Oct. 81, 1881, Col. j. H.
Hallowel.
W. S NORRIS, Chairman.
w [. HAZEN. Secretary.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1891-10-21

The Russians Of the old school still
preserve the ancient Slsvonian custom
which makes u binding upou every
guest at dinner party, on rising from
table, 10 90 and kiss the hand Of his
hostess. she kissing his forehead in re-
turn: and have myself seen the soft
white hand Of one Of the most beautiful
women IN St. Petersburg literally Gov.
cred with streaks Of sCnp from BALI a
dozen pairs of greasy mustachss in sue
cession. - David Ker in New York
Eu0ch
The Wichita daily eagle., 1891-10-21
The Ideal Baking Powder
is
Or. Prices Cream Baking Powder.

For more than fifty years Cream Of Tartar and Bi-
carbonate OF have been used for eavcnng purposes
with sufficient -four added to preserve the strength Of the
powder unmpaed and this with the addition Of whites
of eggs comprises this pure and wholesome eavening
agent has been the standard for 30 years In
use pure wholesome AID delicious food Is always assured
Makes cake and biscuit retain their moisture and
while they haky and extremely light they rziaed
not coarse and fz Of holes made with Ammonia baking
powders latter dries up quickly Alum powders leave Bit
ter taste the bread OF cake.
Dr. Prices Cream Baking Powder used always used
The Wichita daily eagle., 1891-10-21
Girls It's Not a Good Plan.

rum an
To say unkind things to your mother
and then think hasty kiss will effac,
the bitter words.
To make fun" of new girl at schoo
because she isn't one of your clique.
To get very intimate with another new
girl in school and tell her all your family
history.
To borrow some of your sisters pretty
lingerie and wear it out before you re-
turn it.
To pride yourself on your unconquer.
able will when it is only your unconquer-
able temper.
To be very confidential with Mary, the
housemaid, one day and arrogant to her
the next.
To chatter very loudly about your pri-
vate affairs III the hOrse-car OF in any
public place.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1891-10-21
Big II como ives
n the PbfIad.lnhfa kecord


The Baldwin locomotive works OF
Philadelphia has just completed for the
freight service of the Erie railway the
largest compound locomotive in the
world. The weight of the engine Is
135, 900 pounds, exclusive of the tender.
1t has three pairfof driving wheels sixty
two inches in diameter. The weight on
these wheels, which is the measure OF
the power of the locomotive, Is 107, 900
pounds. Its length Is flfty-six feet and
height sixteen feet. 1t is expected that
this engine can be run at saving OF
from 30 to 40 Der cent. over the same
size single expansion engine. But, after
all, the Erie's new locomotive will not
appear so big when the Baldwin COM
pany has constructed, for the same COM
pany, five new ones which are to weigh
III 900 pounds each.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1891-10-21

Kingfisher, IN Oklahoma. Is enthusias-
tic for Judge Seay for governor, while
oklahoma City is equally as strong for
A. c. Scott, one Of the leading orators
and newspaper men of the territory.
ruere are people at Guthrie who are
positive that John L Ollie is the man.
Ii Judge Seay, A c. Scott or John Ollie
get the Office, Oklahoma can congratu-
late herself All three are uniformly
clean, brainy and conversant with the
&erEitoryls needs.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1891-10-21

A WIllimantic linen mill has pulley
that is said 20 be the second largest one
in the world. It's weight is seventy
tons, and its diameter twenty-eight feet
Three belts pass about the pulley. one
Of which is 4ei inches wide, and the two
others are twenty-four inches. The
wheel makes sixty revolutions a minute
The shaft on which the pulley is hun
weighs twenty-seT4n tons.-New Yors
Sun.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1891-10-21
THAT DEMOCRATIC PLATFORM.

1t is not at all likely that any consider
able number of Republicans ever read
the document headed the County Dem
ocratic Platform found standing for
month past in the columns of the Bea-
con. For an ineongruous mixture of
qualifications and impudence. OF gin and
IL, the document has probably never
been equAlled in political annals, and il
ought TO be read. We do not believe
that there Is d single expression Of honest
conviction In ali its fourteen distinct
The Wichita daily eagle., 1891-10-21

1t is reported, but not upon authority,
that Governor Steele is to get Pension
Commissioner Raum's place. Governor
Steele has the two qualifications requisite
for an appointment-he is honest as a
Hoosier, but it is highly probably that
his resignation of the governorship was
done to give him more liberty to look
into his business interests.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1891-10-21

Ii is proposed that the w. c. 7. L. al
Boston next month viii declare against
gum-chewing. This viii receive a wide
greeting of approval over the states.
Any hing that has a tendency to hold
the feminine jawbone in position Of in
activity never lacks for popularity.