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The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1894-03-02

At the spring election last week in
Shickshinny 273 voted for and IL
against the borough furnishing e'ec-
trio light for the town. W. B. Poust
former citizen of Bloomsburg was
one of the active agitators for light.
After the result was announced there
was great rejoicing over the town, with
horn blowing and torch light process
sion.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1894-03-02
NO 8
BRIEF MENTION.
About People You Know


Bernhard Stohner has had an at.
tack of the grip during the past week.
Mrs. Freas Brown has been con-
fined to her room by illness.
Cyrus Demott was among the visi-
tors to town on Tue sday.
Mrs. J. K. Bittenbender is spending
few days at Mauch Chunk with her
sister, Mrs. DR.. Kirby.
Mrs DR.. Biddlc of Ashland visited
her mother, Mrs. Buckingham last
week.
C. P. Sloan and Thos. E. Geddes
went to Philadelphia on Wednesday
to attend the G.. A. r. reunion.
E. S. McKillip made negatives
of interior and exterior views at the
Normal on Tuesday.
Mrs. Yohe had a good sale in Mlf-
fin last week. J. S. Williams was the
auctioneer.
Geo. M. Lockard went to Philadel-
phia on Wednesday, Mrs. Lockard ac-
compan;ed him.
G.. w. Sterner has rented his brick
residence on Market street to Higgins
& Liness.
Judge H. M. Hinckley of Danville
was in town on Wednesday, making
preparation for some Supreme Court
cases.
l Maier will remove his clothing
store to the second room in the Opera
House block, on Centre street, on
April Ist.
County Treasurer J R. Fowler has
bought two lots from Mrs. Phillips on
First street, and will erect handsome
residence this spring.
Boyd Trescott associate editor of
Millville Tablet had close call on
election day. He was elected Audi
tor by one majority.
Ex-commissioner A. B. Herring of
Orangeville was among those who wit
messed the exercises at the Normal
School on the 22nd ult.
Drake & Son have sold their under
taking business and equipments to w.
7. Corell & Co. Mr.. Drake intends to
remain in Bloomsburg and engage in
some other business.
T. l.. Smith does horse -shoeing and
general wagon repairing. He also
repairs furniture, and can do almost
anything in that line that anyone wants.
He is an all around handy man.
Mr.. Harry Townsend was married
on the 22nd ult. to Miss Emma
Caradiskie of Danville. The marriage
was a quiet one, aud Harry didn't tell
his associates of it until it was done.
Mrs. Wolf Driefuss Of Milton visited
her brother, Joseph Lowenberg at
Wilkes Barre last week On her re-
turn she spent Saturday and Sunday
in Bloomsburg with her mother and
returned home at Milton Sunday
evening.
Among the visitors to town on
Washington's Birthday was ex-sheriff
Samuel Smith of Saltwater. He still
retains his genial disposition that made
him so popular throughout the county
during his official career, and his many
friends were glad to see him here. He is
the father of thirteen children, twelve
of whom are living, and he says ne
has done SO much to increase the
Democratic majority in the county as
most men. Probably he wasn't speak
ing of the recent election.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1894-03-02

There were more sleighs and sleds
seen upon our streets Tuesday than
there has been for many day 1t
was probably the last good sleighing
of the season and everybody wanted
to take advantage of it.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1894-03-02
POSTMASTER MERCER.

The Bloomsburg Post Office was
transferred by A. B. Cathcart to James
H. Mercer on Monday night, the
aSth. ult. Geo. a. Clark has been
appointed assistant, and the services
of Miss. Bessie Jacoby will be re-
tained. Z. f. Caldwell will also assist
for few weeks.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1894-03-02
BLOOMSBURG PA, FRIDAY, MARCH 3 1884,

said county, and that they believe in
justice will be done the said county
unless they are permitted to defend
the county, and that said appeal is not
taken for the purpose of delay, and
that the foregoing objections to the
Report of the Auditors are just and
true to the best Of their knowledge
and belief.
j. G. SwANK, Commissioners
G.. M. KELLER, of
w. II. UTT, Columbia Co.
Sworn and subscribed before me
this a6th day of February, 1894.
G.. NJ. QUICK, Prothonotary.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1894-03-02
SALE OF COUNTY BONDS.

County bonds to the amount of
$4,000 were disposed of on Friday as
follows:
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1894-03-02

The town clock is now illuminated
by ectric light.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1894-03-02
SUPREME COURT GASES.

The following cases have been tax
en- to the Supreme Court by appeal,
inlthis county. They will be heard in
Philadelphia during the second week
in April.
Clara Long VS.. w. H. Cherrington;
Franklin Yocum VS.. w. S. Zahner;
Appeal in VIM. Raup audit.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1894-03-02

Last Saturday was the coldest day
OF the winter a blizzard swept over
the whole country.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1894-03-02
MONEY AND MONEY MAKING"

Prof. F. e Woods of Scranton, Pa,
will lecture on the above subject, Mon
day evening In the Young Mems
Christian Association. Prof. Woods
is founder and Principal of Woods
Business Col ege and also business
College and also Business Manager of
the Scranton Tribune. He is a very
interesting speaker and his lecture is
running over with wit and humor.
The choir of the Methodist church
have prepared programm. of music
for the occasion. Tickets free, call at
the rooms.
Next Sunday afternoon DR.. An
drew Graydon will address the Mems
meeting on the subject Changers
that threaten Young Manhood" All
are invited.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1894-03-02

Advertise your Goods
and'your Wants in this
paper. The circulation
is large, and Rates Low.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1894-03-02

This Paper and the
NEW YORK WEEK
LIZ WORLD cne year
fer $l.5o.
Waterbury evening Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1887-1895, 1894-03-27

mountains, l came across a woman seated
On a stone close to fine spring of water.
She had a lot of calico on her lap and was
evidently making up dress. A fine tree
made the spot cool and shady, but as
could see no house near by | wondered
why she was there She saluted me SO
pleasantly that after had drunk from the
spring | asked her permission to sit down
and smoke II cigar. She not only granted
it, but accepted a clay pipe and tobacco
from my knapsack. After we had smoked
for awhile l queried
''Is this favorite spot OF yours?"
mo" she briefly replied as she lifted
her eyes to the limbs above.
"You don t live close by?"
"No; reckon it's two miles to our cab,
in"
Perhaps you are very fond of the spring
water?"
Reckon not. We uns hev powerful
good water up III the hills"
Just then l noticed d large club lying
within reach of hcI hand, and as she also
glanced at it and then looked upward !
felt justified in asking:
Are there any lawless characters in
this neighborhood2"
"Thars one, sab, :" she replied, land he
un is the Critter I'm waitiu fur, doggone
him.
You don't lHean YOU are waiting here
to attack some lawl-ss man with that
club when he co:n-G aiong:'
''No, sab. I'm jest a-waitin fur that
yere lawless character to come down out
of the top of this yere tree and git the
most powerful whackin lazy, shiftless,
ornery critter of a coon hunter ever hearn
tell off,
l looked up into 'he tree top, and there
sat Il man. He stalled 4 sad smile and
winked at me. l understood. she had run
him down from the cabin and up that
tree and was waiting for him to come
down.
GLOW long will it be-" asked of the
woman as | made ready to go.
Before he un will hev to drap DOWN."
yes"
"Mebbe by shutdown and mebbe not fun
three days, but he un's got to come and
git that whackin! Stranger, mought AK
yo' as yo' go pass the fust cabin on YOU
left to hello the children and tell my gal
Sary to send me down two blankets, Il pill
Ter and purvishuns huff to last week?''
NJ n1-I
Waterbury evening Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1887-1895, 1894-03-27

''wuJLp YE MARRY Me or MY LOOKs?"
tended To come from The widow. and it
Went on to say that She had taken five years
q think the matter over and had come to
The conclusion that she could never marry
Il man of his looks. 1t took Jim all night
20 make ont that letter. and next morning
lac Went down 10 the po>totlicc and said:
'',IrtlGr, the wiGder won't hev me-"
i told We how onsartin they was'' re-
piled the judge.
she says lis OWN 20 my looks. Jedge,
! want ye 20 do me favor"
Il viii, jim
Il want We To tell me if I'm a humbly
man. I've sometimes thought was, and
ag!u I've kinder felt that | was as purity as
most folks"
Jim. I've allus bin yer friend, and I
don't want to do nuthin TO hurt yer feel
ms
Speak right up, jedce, and tell me what
l want TO know. Ye kin take my guns, so
Jhat | can't do no sudden shoo;in. and if l
begin To whoop and yell We kin pull down
ON NE and drive me ont doors. Now, then,
if w was widder would We marry me on
my !ookSs"
No. Jim. l wouldn't"
Would We say was purty'"
i couldn't say it, Jim-couldn't possibly
say ii, | don't want TO huEt Yer feeln's. rs
l said before, but I'm free to say We ar the
humbiie>t crittrr Of a man l ever SOt eyes
on
If l shaved off my whi>kerS, cut my ha'r
and washed my face, how would it be-"
Ccc.inGly queri,d Jim.
'WU>>. Jim-fur wu>s, Ye can't do
nuthin TO help yer looks cause We was born
that way"
Jim Went out and walked around for
awhile and then returned To ask:
''JedG,., arJer Teller goes TO heaven he
gifts to be purity, don't hs:"
He do, Jim. rs understand it. was the
reply.
And they hev harpS and widders in
heaven
Il amt dead sure, but Id bet my money
THAT way and take the chances Jim, We
mustn't lay it up agin me that said ye
war Lumbiy."
Il >ulu't jcdge l aNed fur squar'
Opiuyul!. and We gin il to me. When | cum
to tEink of it, remember that my dads
Luuhl yur>S once skeart a baby to death
and the old lady had only to look at her
self in the glass to fall down in fit
That all right, jedge-all right. If any
more letters cum fur me, send 'em back"
The widder mought hev writ that
leetle softer, jim" said the judge in a con-
selling way. She mought hev writ that
aEin. or said she had concluded not to take
another man. 1t wasn't jest the properest
thing 10 jump on ter yer humblyneSs. AS
l told We, however, widders is onsartin.
jest We keep peggIh right along, and ye'll
hit sumthIn Yet. Nobody was ever SO
tarnashun humbly tina: he couldn't find
STUNT min to marry him"
Jim went away in thoughtful mood. He
didn't 90 to work at all that day, though to
the many anxious inquirers he replied that
he wasn't sick. We laid it to homesckness
and left him 10 fight it out. However, the
first man astir in the camp next morning
speedily turned everybody out with his
yells, and it was a sad sight that greeted
our eyes. Poor old Jim Hopkins had hanged
himself to a tree on the outskirts of camp
and had been dead for hours With his
own hand he had written and pinned to his
breast the placard:
Gone to heaven-to look purty-and
play on a harp-and marry a widder"
Waterbury evening Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1887-1895, 1894-03-27
TOO PREVIOUS,
She Had All She Wanted of Planning
Ahead.

She Had Ali She Wanted of Planning
Ahead.
''There is such a thing as planning too
far ahead" remarked Mrs. Human on
arriving at her brothers house after
days journey. Nov, here | am tired to
death. Had to wait over an hour at that
junction, where there wasn't even a box
to sit on, and my trunk nobody knows
where, just because / planned ahead so
far"
why, Aunt Martha, don't see how
that can be! You always say
Eyes, know do. But never shall
again. A week ago yesterday 1 bought
my ticket, SOS to be sure of it. l asked
carefully about every train and wrote
down all they told me-what time, what
towns l should pass through and all.
Then the day before 1 started l sent my
trunk to the station and got check for
it, SOS to be sure it wouldn't be left, and
this morning l got to the depot an hour
before it was time for the train to start.
81 felt as calm and composed as could
be. l only had little package and my
satchel and umbrella and the box of
luncheon Mary fixed for me and my shawl
so didn't have nothing on my mind. My
ticket was in my pocketbook, and so was
the check for my trunk.
well, / saw the train standing there
with a ticket on it telling the names OF
the places it was going to, and l reaG
them all over SOS to be sure was right,
and seeing Millville on it plain as print
got right into the car and sat down.
"Ihadn't set more'n 10 minutes before
the car filled upand started off. l thought
it was starting early. but l felt real
pleased to think l was in good season.
That train stopped more times an hour
than should like to say, and bout noon
the conductor came into the car and
shouted out great long TRADE.
81 didn't pay any attention to it at the
time because thought had found out
my whole course a week before. but as
stood round there at that junction re-
membered that he said something about
taking the back car for way stations.
'The whole story is that took train
that started so minutes before the one
ought to have taken. and by being sc
well prepared for my journey didn't
pay proper attention to things, and was
switched off on another road without
perceiving it.
"And by getting check for my trunk
it was sent on day too soon, and 1 can't
get it till they've dug it out from under
lot more baggage, and instead of COM
ing here in three hours it has taken me
hours and 40 minutes.
Don't talk to me about planning
ahead again. It's been almost the death
Of me this time. - Youths Companion.
Waterbury evening Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1887-1895, 1894-03-27

ture placed therein. The color is largely
a question OF light. 1t depends entirely
on the nature and quantity of the light
just what the color will appear to be. A
well lighted hallway will cause q given
color to possess a totally different i'm
preston to the same color in dark hall
way, and the yellow light of the lamp
will produce still another effect.
Usually deep toned cOlors are en-
ployed in decorating the hallway. such
as warm olives, golden brow ms, dull
green's, etc, but the best possible color
of all is red, which is color that har-
monies we'll with antique oak. in which
wood we will assume the woodwork is
finished
For house in the country red in the
hallway is most appropriate color, as
it gives the eye sudden relief after
gazing on green landscapes. The fol-
lowing then will be our scheme of dec
Grafton as to color-namely, woodwork,
antique oak; walls, very old red; frieze,
tones of old red tapestry; cornice, an
tique oak; ceiling, warm old olive;
floor, solid parquetry in oak, covered
with polychromatic oriental rug; up
holstery, old blues and old red: drapery,
muddy old gold.
AS to furnishings, The Decorator and
Furnisher, authority for the foregoing,
suggests reproduction of the service
able old English styles known as the ia
cobean. In unstained and unpublished
walnut it lends itself admirably to the
requirements of modern taste, while its
interesting details and substantial parts
are particularly appropriate for the fur
nishihg of entrance halls. The hall fur
niture will include hatrack, beSeh and
table, which are massive and graceful.
Waterbury evening Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1887-1895, 1894-03-27
Things Women Want to Know.

In tapestry fabrics the Japanese pro-
duce the most exquisite of all the pro-
auctions of the loom.
The latest perfume bottles have silver
covers which lock with a little silver key.
A popular hatpin is Of oxidized silver
in the style of a sword.
The very latest materials in articles
for the toilet table are glass or whitepor"
celain incaSed in silver.
Turkish decorations of all sorts are
seen upon every side. The one fact alone
that Turkish gilt never furnishes is suffi-
cient to recommend the embroideries.
For the decoration of halls nothing is
more sumptuous than the modern deco
rative japanese bronze lantern.
Every apartment should convey the
feeling of use rather than the idea that
it is a room for the exhibition OF furni-
ture.
Both pictures and furniture should
fall back fat against the wall as much
as possible, leaving the greatest possible
amount of space in the center of the
room, so that the individuals who dwell
in the apartment will be the real decora-
ton, the furniture and minor furnish
ings forming necessary, agreeable and
artistic BACKGROUND.
Waterbury evening Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1887-1895, 1894-03-27
All Thieves.
1. QUAD.

Cynic-What do you think of the re
markable number of arrests for klepto
mania?
Philosopher-Most of them are entirely
innocent of all intent to do wrong, til.
trinkets being mechanically dropped int
pocket or satchel while thinking of some
thing else.
Cynic-All bosh! They are thieves-borl
thieves; that's my theory, no matter how
rich or refined they are.
hilosopher-Possibly. But before we
part l will thank you for my penknift
which you borrowed moment ago tt
sharpen a pencil. While we were talking
you dropped it into your pocket.-New y orb
Weekly
Waterbury evening Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1887-1895, 1894-03-27
The HORSEMAN.

Chadron, Neb., will have another cowboy
lace.
Texas trottins champion is Alley Wilkes,
2:1712.
Marvin has 40 youngsters in training at
Meadville.
In Turkey horse chestnuts are ground
and used as food for horses.
The butcher shops Il, Vienna in 1902 re
tailed the flesh of 1S,200 horses.
The Louisville Jockey club has leased
Churchill Downs for three years more.
Columbus, Neb., has horse whose get
are all possessed of curly coats, names anC.
tails.
A horse belonging to William Havens,
Nashville, Ind, died recently, aged IS
years.
Robert Russell, 2:1314, the fastest green
morse in the west last year, will be out
again this season.
With circuit composed of Woodbine,
Hamilton and Belleaire, Canadians will
nave some good sport.
The keeper of the cars stud has sent to
this country for a trainer and driver for 4
stable of horses in the grand dukes stud.
The owner of the champion double team,
Aubine and Zembia, 2:l3}9, will exhibit
them in Manchester, n. H., next September.
Mature never intended II horse to wear
shoes" says an exchange. How is it about
the macadamized roads and paved streets?
Courier, 2:15$4, won more money last
season than any other stallion in Ken
lucky His winnings amounted to SlO,-
1866.
The records of the race in which Pansy
McGregor made her yearling mark have
been thoroughly Investigated and found
correct.
c. J. Hamlin will start Nightingale,
2:1015, this season, to beat the two mile rec
ord of 4:32, which Greenlander, 2:12, robbed
her of last year.
Waterbury evening Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1887-1895, 1894-03-27

all Americans to present our case to the
nation at the Worlds fair-even this man
has risked all that and bartered the mighty
space of his large honors for woman whom
the ordinary man of the world would not
look at twice. Verify it goes far to prove
that on one subject at least
Great wit to madness nearly is allied,
And thin partitions do their bounds divide.
Forms of Condemnation.
Other men have been ruined in Washing
ton, but it is probable that none ever fell
so suddenly from so high an eminence
Congressman Bowen of South Carolina
was convicted of bigamy, sentenced to the
district prison and pardoned out by Presi-
dent Grant, but Bowen never was a man
of character and in a subsequent libel suit
at Charleston was proved to have been
guilty of a remarkable variety of misdeeds
Congressman Whitthorne was convicted of
selling cadetships, but the public had
scarcely known and soon forgot him.
The Credit Mobilier inquiry dug the
graves of a score of truly great regulations,
but neither Cakes Ames nor James Brooks,
Patterson nor any of the rest received so
complete condemnation as this. When
the Beecher trial closed, public opinion
might be said to have been fairly divided
and generally in such cases people divide
very largely, according to classes. In this
case, however, the defendant is condemned
by the religious for his hypocrisy, by the
moral for his vice, by good society for what
they call his odious treachery to Mrs. Black
burn, by his colleagues in congress for his
folly and by men of pleasure for his detest-
ably bad taste.
The Breckenridge Family.
1t remains but to add leaf from a truly
remarkable family history to emphasize
the greatness of this ruin. The original
American Breckenridge was Scotch Gov
enanter who fled from Great Britain dur
ing the bloody persecution under Charles
IL The family he founded soon became
famous in Virginia. His grandson, James,
won fame as a soldier with General Greene
and became a federal congressman, repre-
senting the Botetourt district. He helped
establish the University of Virginia and
promoted the Chesapeake and Ohio canal.
His brother John was elected to the legis-
lature at 10 and later to congress, went to
Kentucky in 1898 and founded the famous
family at Lexington. 1t is pretty clearly
proved that he drafted the famous resOlu-
tions of 1898, and he was afterward United
States senator and attorney general His
son John became a famous clergyman and
Presbyterian polemic, while another son,
Robert j., became still more famous as
writer, orator and divine. In short, he was
the Henry Ward Beecher of the south. He
presided over the national Republican con-
vention of 1864, while his son was serving
in the Confederate army, and that son is
the defendant in this case
The son of the Rev. John Breckenridge
became vice president of the United States
and general in the Confederate army, and
his son Clifton is the already famous con-
gresham from Arkansas. For 100 years
has this family been producing orators,
statesmen. soldiers, jurists and great cler
gymen, and the end of the line is in this
queer stutfy old courtroom in trial which
Waterbury evening Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1887-1895, 1894-03-27
THE ARIZONA KICKER.
A Place Where Standup Collars and Four
INLAND Ties Are De Trop.

A Place Where Standup Collars and Four
INLAND Ties Are De Trop.
AN EDITOR NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. of last
week our agricultural editor decided to sc
over to Grassy Valley to inspect lot OF
live stock which has lately arrived from
California. We gave him the loan of oul
cayuse and borrowed two guns for him.
and when he was ready to start we noticed
that he had on a standup linen collar and
a four-in-hand necktie. What on earth pos
sessed the man to deliberately assume such
a personal risk is beyond our cOmprehen
sion, as he was in the office the day before
when old Bill Watkins walked in, caught
sight of new , shilling tie we had just
received by mail from Chicago and shot the
thing off the editorial table and out of the
window. We begged of our coworker to
change back to his red wooden shirt and
handkerchief tie, but he gallOped away &c
his destiny without needing us.
The deceased was man of sanguine
hopeful temperament. but altogether toe
impulsive. When he heard that a Denver
man had walked all over this town wear
ing plug hat and an astrakhan trimmed
overcoat and never received a shot, he leap
ed to the conclusion that the wave of civil