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The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1892-03-11
RULE ON HEIRS.


Estate or Wii'iom Beck Sr. decedsed. COLUMBIA
COUNTY 2.
To william Beck Jr. Mary Beck OF Centre
townships Sarah l.. inteImrrried with Wesley
sitter OF Orange town ship; and George Beck
whose last known residence was Dixon, Lee
county, Illinois and all others interested
You and each OF you are hereby cited 10 b.
and appear before the Judges OF our orphans
court az Bloomsbury, Pa, on the n st Monday
OF May next, then and there 10 accept Or refus,
10 take the real estate or said William Beck Sr =,
deceased, at the appraised valuation put upoil
IL by the inquest duly awarded by the said
court, or show cause why it shall not he sold.
Witness the Honorable X. X. keller, Presidenl
OF said court, at bloomsbury, the lst, day OF
February 1872. q. NJ. QUICK,
2-26-4t. Clerk u. G..
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1892-03-11

VI thS "hoS. ~'ICot Dtittou 10 CiCu-
tied with $4.Iooooo.ooo. The
United States leads Great Britain in
valuation of manufactured products of
more than S.. 900. 900. 900.
In the year 1850, the total of the
worlds product of iron ore was 81.
5SI,3SS tons, of which the United
States produced IA o96.4a7 tons, a
little more than one fourth of the
whole. The numder of tons of steel
produced by the world in the same
year was Io.746.ra6 Of which the
United States produced 3. 3.3Ss.73a tons
or about one third of the whole.
The statistics show that the protected
industries of the same classes of pro.
ducts, in no two states pay the same
wages.
Is itnot an ABSORPTION of wealth that
draws from the masses, and becomes
tributary to the food tide OF wealth
that flows in the interest of trusts,
corporations and syndicates, the Gus
todians Of capital? The question was
asked in the Forum for Nov. 1880,
"who owns the United States'2 Sand
reasons were given for the belief that
one half of the national wealth is own
ed by 10000 families, and that three
fourths Of it is in the possession OF
fewer than 100000 families" 1t is
said that Vanderbilt's income is SEC
900 per day an equivalent of 10000
men working at $Ioo per day. Stup,
endous thought, incomprensible idea
Whence the source of such colossal
incomes3 One thing we know tha,
protection positively boes.
The inequality is manifestly yer,
great. Why this difference in pro
tected country? Is protection Of q
national or local character Are it.
benehciaries general, or personali
1t puts an advanced and uniform
price upon manufactured products o.
the same classes in the home marke
above the cost of production for tn,
worlds market, which not only per
mits, but authorizes the manufactor
les to tax the consumers to an eaui
valent Of the duty imposed upon i'm
ported foreign products of the sams
classes. One thing we know tina,
lp:o:ectIor Ccs;rTe!y docs not 20. /
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1892-04-21

"North of here where the Brazos
overfiows the people suffer with chills
and fever, but it would take tre-
mendous rise to overflow the Brazos
banks at or near Velasco, and we have
had only three storms in fifty years,
when the water from the gulf was
blown up and covered the prairies
fronting the beach. AS we have no
bay or body of water behind us to
hold water backed up by gulf storm
there is no danger to life or property
ON our beach.
"There are many other old citizens
of this county who are as familiar with
these facts as 1 am among them l
would mention-Col. John Adriance,
who has lived here for fifty years,
and Messrs. Joel Bryan, Austin Bryan
and Guy M. Bryan, all of whom have
lived here sixty years or more.
"There is nothing the matter with
Brazoria county or Velasco, from the
health standpoint, if, as said before,
the ordinary rules of hygiene are OBJ
served"
What more is necessary to convince
fair-minded men that the tales they
have heard of Velasco's unhealthful
location were but the mouthings of an
ignoramus or the attacks of a men,
dacious enemy? If more be needed,
here is the mortality record
for the nine months of Velas-
co.'s existence: The total number
of death which have occurred here to
date is eight. Three persons died
from exposure, lying out drunk or
sleeping on the damp ground in
tent-which would have killed an OK.
Two men were killed by pistol shots.
One, a sailor shot ON shipboard by an
other sailor, and one shot in saloon
row. One man committed suicide. A
woman died of organic disease of the
heart and a negro was killed acciden-
TALLY by having plank fall on him.
Thus, it will be seen that not one
death has occurred here in nine
months which was the result of i'll
health contracted from local causes, or
disease germs.
Is there any other city in this coun-
try with such record?
Not only is Veasco as healthy as
any spot on earth, but the climate is
delightful. On but one day of the
summer of 1891 did the mercury rise
to 900 in the shade; and during the
past three winters, the register was
29o above zero.
Our coast is our summer resort. The
gulf breeze is conducive to the most
refreshing sleep. In the language of
Colonel Munson, at is the best sleep
ing country I ever saw" We have
no destructive cyclones. We have
no swamps. Severe colds are infre'
quent. Pneumonia is rare and sun
stroke in unknown. We believe our
coast is not equaled by the most IA
vored health resorts in the world.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1892-04-21
Work of Women in Philanthropy.

The lady managers of the Worlds fair
are in communication with Mrs. Aubrey
H. Smith, of Philadelphia, who compiled
book of interesting and valuable Stats
tics for the Centennial concerning the
charities conducted by women. 1t is the
intention of the woman's board to take
up the work begun by Mrs. Smith and
bring it up to date, showing the advance
ment of women in philanthropy during
the last decade. The lady managers have
already collected much supplementary
data of an international character, and
are consulting Mrs. Smith as to the best
methods suggested by her experience in
arranging the available materials.-Phil-
adelphia Ledger.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1892-04-21
A Difference in Calling.

In the south the voices OF women as
well as of men were often utilized for
"long distance calls" 1t may be amusing
to note the difference in intonation which
was usually exhibited by the sexes.
When man had occasion to summon
any one from distance, the prolonged
tone was placed on the first note, the
emphasis on the second; thus, Oh,
Johnw If female called, the prolonged
tone and the emphasis were both placed
on the last note; thus, You, John
n-yw-Dr. j. Harvie Dew in Century
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1892-04-21
Opera pox women.

The whole horseshoe of boxes-two
tiers high-was filled with the flower OF
New York swelldom. The young women
were one and all frail and fine, having
that delicate slenderness so far removed
from thinness that is an eastern Ameri-
can woman's greatest beauty. Blends
were in the majority-graceful, fragile,
exquisite creatures, cleaning with dia-
monds and ethereal as spirits of the
moonlight, in pale tinted, feecy dresses.
/. They were all decollete-thin or fat
but not one was scraggy. Almost all
wore their hair high and bound around
in the style of the First Empire with a
band of ribbon or of gold, while on then
foreheads and sometimes over their ears
lay little ruffied, careless curls like a
babys. The men were not so good look.
ing and were somewhat effaced by the
show of feminine beauty. Almost all
the younger ones were smooth faced and
wore inordinately high collars. These
young fellows are very prominent in the
gay circles of Gotham.
The showing of jewels-every one be
ing bedizened for the ball-was wonder.
full. Mrs. Bradley Martin was covered
with diamonds. She is not a pretty OF
young woman, in fact is ford and com
mon in her style, and so did not set off hei
gems to advantage. On her head she wore
a diamond crown as big around as a tea.
cup and made in design of small, fine
points. 1t was set back on the crown CT
her head and inclosed her hair Around
her neck were several chains of the
same stones, long and short. Another
line of enormous diamonds followed the
edge of her corsage from the shoulder
to the front, and from her other Shout
der to the point of her bodice superb
REVERE of diamonds traced a blaze OF
light. Mrs. Ogden Mills was also
crowned, her crown being small and
round and high, also inclosing her hair.
Her neck and bodice glittered with other
jewels. She is thin and somewhat pas.
see, but she has high, aristocratic fea-
lures and great deal Of air and style
New York Cor. San Francisco Argonaut.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1892-04-21
HENRY PURNELL's CASE.
The Slayer of DR.. Reeves Declared to be
Insane

The Slayer Of DR.. Reeves Declared to b'
Insane.
Yesterday morning, in the district
court room, another act was enacted
in the terrible tragedy which occur
red at the Lunatic Asylum in last
December in which DR.. Reeves, the
superintendent of that institution,
was shot down and instantly killed.
There was man whom his lawyers
were endeavoring to prove insane,
trying by every means in his pcTH
to assert his sanity in order To %
might be tried for capital -
That man was Henry Purn
man who at one time wa
social favorte among the bestps.
in Austin but whose mind int
hands of an all seeing Providenceht
been so badly shattered and diseased
as to make him capable of committing
the most shocking deed KNOWN to the,
criminal annals of this coun
That he was insane wher IN
mitted the deed, and is MtF . ;t:ro
condition now, was evide.N nv
one in the court rooms nS q
panelling of jury andthe
evidence seemed appareahj,
But the course prescribed byt,
had to be complied with, and.
the entire day WIS spent in hna ing
the story of tho disease viii h had
shattered his brain and
saddened the hearts of his famil Y and
friends.
The old father on the stand telling
how his boy had been stricken
down with a severe illness
which had affected hi S brain tC
such an extent that he
was no longer responsible presented q
sorrowful sight, and was one that
touched the hearts of all present.
The verdict of the jury was a fore
gone conclusion, and when they re
turned and stated that he was insane
it was what had been expected. HI
will pro badly be tried for lunacy il
the cou nty court in few days and re
turned to the asylum.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1892-04-21
Mrs. Charles III. Sturgeon.

MI. Spurgeon was but twenty-five
when he made choice of wife in Su
sauna, the daughter of Mr., Robert
Thompson, merchant of Falcon square
in the city of London. But if young il
years, the preacher was Of course ever
then old in wisdom, and the excellence
of his judgment fully atoned for the ear
illness of his marriage. Mr.. Spurgeor
was then pastor of small chapel il
South London, and resided in the pow
erty stricken neighborhood of the Dor
ough. During the first fortnight Of the
year 1S56-the marriage took place on
Jan. 9-the young man was preaching
in several Of the provincial cities.
Not long after marriage Mrs. Spur,
geon fell victim to disease from the
effects of which she has never wholly
been free. In 1868, in accordance with
the wishes of the most eminent sur.
geons, she consented to painful opera.
ton. 1t was performed by Sir James
Simpson, of Edinburgh, and eventually
had the happy result of greatly nitigat.
ing. though not entirely removing, hel
s. oings. Until that time illness had
"a her giving very much active
har husbands work. probably
,.aA most helpful to him in the
.... Thy she gave while her hus.
,.e target for so many at
tne churchmen on the one
.3nl the Freethinkers on the
ireq; o. 18th his appointment to the
pcs: lstor of the metropolitan
T. London Letter.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1892-04-21
The Sian in the Infant.

If baby has will of his own he will
be intolerant of neglect, and whatever
he wants he will want at once and there
will be noise and hullabalooi if he is kept
waiting. Thus, in embryo, is seen the
irascible, impatient and dictatorial man.
Cor. Baby.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1892-04-21

= Qualifications are required be-
YONG gooi !uuIis and good taste. The
professor IS that of window gazing
Already number of ladies have become
window gazers as matter Of profit as
well as pleasure. The duties are light
and the pay is good. All that is required
is to stand in front of your patrons
street windows during the fashionable
hours of the afternoon, and, in suffi-
GENTLY enthusiastic terms draw the at
tention of your companion to the merits
of the latest sweet thing in bonnets, or
that perfectly ideal theater cloak, for
the benefit of the genuine shoppers who
are passing. The professional window
gazers must go in couples in order to be
able to start conversation.-Sa Fran
cisco Argonaut.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1892-04-21

lost Recent Profession.
9';ion is open to women,
they are scarcely likely to
competitors. Moreover,
Oh should be eminently
he feminine mind. No
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1892-12-13
IN CONGRESS-.

The Action on the Anti-Option Bill In the
ssnato-Tho House ProceedinGs-RosO-
luton to Investigate the PoStoflse.
WASHINGTON, D. C., Dec. 1.-THE
Senate spent three hours and five min.
utes in session to-day-the five minutes
being devoted to executive session be-
hind closed doors in tho reference of
nominations. The anti-option bill made
its appearance twice-the first time be-
ing when at the close OF the morning
hour it was laid before the senate as
"the unfinished business" and when
with tho consent OF its manager, Mr..
Washburn, it was temporarily laid
aside to allow another matter then
under discussion to be finished. AS it
was evident, after nearly another hour,
that conclusion OF that matter might
be delayed too long, Mr.. Washburn in.
terposed and had the anti-option bill
again presented for action. Then it
was suggested by Mr.. Harris that
the print of the bill did not show
lin distinctive types) the measure us it
came from the house, the amendments
ulTeduy itkIGSu W III tL0 SeuubGt hu0 thS
amendments that are still pending; and
that it could not for that reason be acted
on intelligently. A new print was
therefore ordered and the bill went over
till tomorrow, after a remark by Mr..
Washburn that he did not intend to be
stampeded or to allow the bill to be
unduly delayed. The subject which
occupied most OF the days session was
Mr.. Vests joint resolution for the ap-
pointment OF commission to have an
agreement made with the five civilized
tribes of Indians for the taking Of land
in severalty and for opening the re-
mainder OF the lands to white settle
ment. The discussion was chiefly be-
tween Senators Vest and Berry, who
were both agreed as to the main object
proposed but who differed as to some
statements OF fact. The matter went
over without action.
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swept over the entire house and was
confined 70 no faction and no party, con-
tinued with great yigor, the speakers
face flushing with evident satisfaction
and smile Of qualification stealing over
his features.
When silence was finally restored, and
after the chaplain's prayer, many mem
bers mounted the rostrum and grasping
the speaker by the hand congratulated
him open tho esteem in which he was
evidently held by the house.
1t is doubtless q matter OF great graf
ifcation to Speaker Crisp that among
those who most emphatically con-
demned the inhospitality Of the Reform
Club are many members who were not
even his supporters in the famous
speakership contest
Representative Grain, Of Texas, who
was Mr.. Mills manager during the
speakership tight, said, speaking OF the
Reform Club Incident:
sit was an outrage; an outrage; not
to Mr.. Crisp personally, but to the
speaker OF the house aud to the house
itself. Mr.. Crisp was not invited to
that dinner in any but his official capa-
city; he would never have been invited
il he had not been speakerof the house.
He was there as speaker of the house.
The insult was to his Office and to the
house. have all along been an anti
Crisp man. Pm now for Crisp, and
will be from this time forward"
Representative Bailey, OF Texas, and
many other representatives, from the
southern states, where the chivalrous
conception of hospitality amounts
almost to a religion, are also indignant
at the treatment accorded the speaker.
Up to this time about the only men
mentioned as possible opponents OF
Mr.. Crisp in the speakership contest
arc Representatives Wilson, of West
Virginia, and breckenridge, OF Ken
lucky. Bynum, Of Indiana, would
doubtless be discussed but for the i'm
preston that the speaker must come
from the south, the President and Vice
President both being northern men.
Neither Wilson nor Breckenridge ac-
knowledge themselves actively in the
field for the speakership, and the events
OF to-day have hardly been such as to
foster hopes in the breasts OF any aspir-
ants for the honors now borne by the
gentleman from Georgia.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1892-12-13


WASHINGTON, D. G., Dec. 1.-THE
speaker laid before the house commu-
nication from the secretary OF the
treasury, transmitting the draft of
joint resolution relative to the dis
charge OF the official duties OF the regis
ter OF the treasury. The communica-
ton sets forth the illness OF the regis
ter, General Rosecrans, and the per-
formance OF his duties by the assistant
register; and the resolution provides
that the secretary may delegate author
ity TO any chief OF division or clerk TO
act temporarily as assistant register.
The joint resolution was passed.
Mr.. Cultivate, of Ohio, chairman OF
the committee on military affairs, re-
ported the army appropriation bill, and
it was referred to the committee OF the
whole.
Mr.. Davis, OF Kansas, from the COM
mittee on labor, reported bill to pro-
hibit the employment OF convict labor
on public works. House calendar.
Mr.. Cummings, Democrat, OF New
York, offered for reference a resolution
reciting IN editorial in the New York
Sun, Of the 30th ult., headed "0utrage
by the PostotIice." This editorial charges
that clerks in the department at Wash
ington are in the habit OF excluding
newspapers from the privilege OF being
carried in the mails as second class
matter without previous notice to the
publisher, and that such action is in
tended, and further that "it has been
discovered that there are persons re-
siding at the national capitol who will
attempt the adjustment OF difficulties
OF this sort tor money consideration
and seek employment on the score OF
influence possessed with persons occu-
pying responsible positions.
1t is further stated in said editorial
article that the ostensible reason for in
terEerenee with the distribution OF trade
Journals is desire to keep the mails
from being loaded down with advertis-
ing matter for which the people have
not subscribed; yet during the months
that preceded tho election many mill
lions OF campaign documents were car
ried in the mails at rates not allowed
to publications issned for business pur-
poses, or in tie interest OF snch causes
as temperance or religion. It is again
recited that, linen holding important
offices under the administration have
received the same privileges permitted
to campaign committees, but pro-
nounced illegal when ordinary citizens
would seek for them. The postmaster
general and the superintendent of CEN
sus have each taken personal advantage
of the opportunity to use tho mails in
n manner that the department pro-
nounces illegal for other citizens.
at is resolved that the committee on
postoilices be directed to investigate
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1892-12-13
PINNING THEM down.
It Begins to Look ns If speaker Crisp Was
Purposely SnubbOd.

EuIpobNAg bAAbSs
New YoRK, Dec. 12.-IR connection
with the failure OF the toastmaster. Mr..
E. EIIery Anderson, at the Reform Club
dinner on Saturday night to call on
Speaker Crisp for a speech it might be
added that Mr.. Anderson, Mr.. Charles
S. Fairchild and Mr.. Mcfarland, Of the
Reform Club, knew in advance that Mr..
Crisp expected to be called upon and
had speech prepared. Mr.. Anderson
was SO informed by an Associated Press
reporter. He expressed some surprise,
but said he was very glad to hear it,
and Mr.. Crisp was sure to make an in
teresting speech.
Mr.. Mcfarland, who had the distribu-
ton of the tickets in charge, was seen
at the office OF the Reform Club on Sat
urday before noon and was told by tho
Associated Press reporter that type
written copies OF Mr.. Crisp's speech had
already been sent out to tue papers.
He remarked that he supposed that Mr..
Crisp would take the place on the pro-
gramme Of Mr.. Morrison, who was un-
able to be present. Shortly afterward
MIR. Fairchild was seen by the reporter
and was told that Mr.. Crisp's speech to
be delivered at the Reform Club dinner
had been received by the Associated
Press,
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1892-12-13
WASHINGTON NOTES.

II the nomination of Mr.. McComas,
for the District OF Columbia supreme
court bench should successfully pass
the opposition it will meet at the hands
OF the Democratic members OF the judi
ciary committee, 1t is certain to run
against n snag in the senate. upon
which it is possible 1t may be hung up
until after the 4th Of March next. Dem
ocrats say that this is not only possible
but extremely probable. 1t is believed
that the nomination will be favorably
recommended by the judiciary COM
mittee and then the struggle will begin
on the floor of the senate and in the
executive sessions and until the case is
disposed OF may be accompanied by q
dash of spice not witnessed since the
attempt to defeat the nomination OF
Judge Woods last summer.
Representative Scott, OF Illinois, to-
day introduced in the house bill pro-
viding that hereafter the tax on dis
titled spirits be fixed at one dollar and
twenty-five cents per gallon.
The comptroller of the currency has
called for report OF the condition OF
national banks at the close of business
Friday, December 8.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1892-12-13

TorEKA, KAs., Dec. 12.-suporintond-
ent Dunlap. OF the Rock Island, says
that in so far as the road west of the
river is concerned, the strike is over,
and that allSacant places will be set
tied tonight. A striking operator says
that ho received an encouraging dis
patch from Ramsey this morning, and
that he has not yet played his trump
card. A number OF tho operators who
left their keys have applied for rein
statement. Those that are not obiec-
tionable are put back to work.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1892-12-13
THE FIRST GUM
OF the speakership Fight was the
Reform Club Episode.
SPEAKER CRSp'S FRIENDS RALLY
To his Standard and Express Their
Indignation
ATHlS TREATMENT At The DINNER.

Tho snub on tho Occasion of the
Cleveland Reception was DeIiber-
utely Planned as Part of tho Cam
paign Against Him.-He Receives a
Magnificent Ovation in the House
of Representatives on Taking the
chair-Men of All Parties Robukc
the Discourtcous Act of Which He
Was tho victim.-Thc Speech He Did
Not Get to Deliver Indicated a Re-
versal of His Policy of Attacking
tho Tariff. General Washington
News.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1892-12-13
THE TEnEGKAPHERs' STRIKE

The brotherhood Mon at st Joseph Leave
Their Keys.
ST. JOSEPH, Mo-, Dec. 12.-The strike
of the telegraph operators, on the Rock
Island road assumed a more serious as
pect this morning when the balance OF
the brotherhood men in the employ Of
the road left their keys. The men
claim that they are sure to win. Lines
connected with tina Rock Island have
issued orders to take no perishable
freight from that road and difficulty is
experienced by tho Rock Island in
moving freight trains.