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The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1894-06-01
ARRESTED FOR HORSE. STEALING,

On Wednesday OF last week Chief
of Police Knorr received postal card
dated at Tunkhannock, and signed by
A. +. Belts, liveryman, stating that
Jack Knabel, of Reading, Pa, aged
thirty-hve, about FIVE feet. five inches
high, heavy set, smooth face, light
black moustache, grey suit and derby
hat, drove away from that place with
bay mare and top buggy, and was
wanted there. He also jumped board
bill. Chief Knorr discovered that a
man of the same name and answering
the description had registered at the
St. Elmo and was still there. He tele.
graphed to. Belts that the man was here,
and received reply asking him to
hold Knabel on both charges, and stat.
ing that an officer would come for
him. Officer Lott of Tunkhannock
came on Thursday morning, and
Chief Knorr arrested Knabel and
turned him over to the officer, who re.
turned with him to Kingston. The pri-
soner alleged that he had left the rig
at Kingston, and had written back
where it could be found, but no such
letter hadVbeen received at Tunkhan.
mock. The Iunkhdnnock Democrat
of last week says:
slack Knabel, as he called himself,
who had been boarding at the Warren
Street Hotel here for the past four
weeks, on credit, hired a horse and
wagon of A. E. Belts, on Tuesday of
last week, to be absent not to exceed
two days, but up to Monday last he
had not returned the horse and his
Whereabouts was believed to be a mys-
terry. On Monday Mr.. Belts received
letter from him, postmarked at King
ston, stating that he had received a
letter informing him of the death of
hisssister at Reading, Pa, and that he
was going there to attend the funeral,
and had left his horse and wagon at
the hotel on the right hand side. Mr..
Belts accordingly went to Kingston on
Monday but found no horse and wag-
on there and could find no one who
had seen Mr.. Knabel or the horse and
wagon. Since writing the above Mr..
Belts found his horse and wagon at
Luzerne Borough, Mr.. Knabel leaving
word that hewould call for 1t. Mr..
Knabel has "skipped board bill
OF twenty-five or thirty dollars at the
Warren Street Hotel and taken with
him what little money he had collected
while canvassing here and in this vi
cinity for advertising in hotel registers.
1t is not believed by the proprietor of
the Warren Street Hotel that he will
be back here to settle his Indebtedness,
but that he has decamped for parts
unknown. In his letter to Belts he
tells him to send his bill to him at
Reading, and that he will pay it by
check, which looks very much as
though he did not intend to return for
the horse and wagon Sin day or two
at the time the letter was written.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1894-06-01
THE BEDAL CURE.

We notice upon the streets of
Bloomsbury, looking bright and sober
as judges, E. ]. Bowman, William
Sterner, Henry Yohey and others who
have undergone successful treatment
OF long standing drink habits. Pro-
hibltlon may not prohibit, but the
Bedal Cure cures-that is, where the
drinking is disease rather than of
wllful determination. Though both
the liquor and the antidote is out of
the system of the patient, he is by no
means forever infallible against intox-
lcants, and the more especially SO if
he frequents his old haunts and can
find no pleasure elsewhere. Such a
man is In constant danger of return
ing to his cups, 'of course. He is
just as some christians are who need
conversion oftener than protracted
meetings are held for their accom-
mediation. But a little genuine
christianity well worked in with the
l3edal Cure we verify believe will en-
able the most besotted creature on
earth to build above his depraved
tastes and habits, and build SO high
as to soon look down upon them with
mingled pity and contempt. Yes, SO
high as to enable him to say to every
rising temptation, 'get thee behind
me, Satan," and to keep the old devil
right where he should be kept in the
hope of making the most of this life
and that to follow.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1894-06-01
OERTI FICATE REFUSED.

The following Communication was
received by the Bloomsburg School
Board on last Friday night.
BLOOMSBURY, Pa, May IS, 1894.
Bloomsburg School Board,
Bloomsbury, Pa,
Gentlemen:
The term for which my professional
certificate was endorsed will expire on
the first Monday of June, 1894. The
County Superintendent has refused to
renew II, and since there is no exami-
nation for me to attend, / am COM
PEELED to resign. l therefore resign
the principalship of your schools, the
resignation to take effect June 4, 1894.
regret that this step is necessary,
but for your protection must take it.
Very Respectfully Yours,
l.. p. STERNER.
On motion the resignation was ac-
cepted with regret.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1894-06-01
The Sunday School Convention.

We attended our first inter. denomi.
national Sunday School Convention
on Thursday and Friday last in the
Bloomsburg Court House. 1t was a
pronounced success even during the
most inc'ement weather. Had the
weather been favorable room the
size of Talmage's burned Tabernacle
would have been needed. The court
house was crowded to the front seats,
the alsles, and the door ways.
Myron l. Low, of Lime Ridge, the
worthy and enthusiastic young presi-
dent of the association, readily instils
enough of the emotional into the
proceedings to prevent its going to
sleep or being spiritually smothered
to death. 1t is the first inter -denomi-
national organization of Jealous
church-workers that the writer ever
attended, and as the aim is the same
in all the churches the harmonious
action which characterized the con.
vention throughout proves that, though
creeds and forms of worship may
radically differ, it is quite possible to
so arrange the program as to give no
offense along the line of forms of
worship but, on the other hand, to
make il spiritual stimulus to all the
various denominations that are not
too seclusive to consent to join the
association and to participate ir. its
ceremonies, and work along common
lines for the common good under
rules that may be mutually agreed
upon by the majority of the assembly.
Though resident of another county
and not member of the association,
we noticed some few familiar faces
among those participating one in
particular being the young president,
in whom we can but feel a natural
sense of pride from boyhood &C.
quaintance dating back to the day Of
his birth and being in dresses, and
when his father and mother (who died
in his YOUTH were both living. Com
ing thus early into the competency
that his parents left him, and not
having. parental guidance when boys
need it most, his usefulness to society
was certainly in jeopardy, and it
might easily have been lost but for
his inherent disposition to practice
self.denial in youth for the sake of
righteousness, letting others if they
chose to act in the more fascinating
ways of gamblers, horse racers, drink
ers and swearers. With the means at
hand he might easily have driven the
fastest horse and entertained the
fastest women, smoked the best
cigars, and drank the best whiskey
that Columbia county afforded. But
because of his inherent disposition he
has chosen the wiser, better course,
and we hope to be pardoned for now
utilizing the position we occupy in
making this commendable fact public.
For full particulars of the proceedings
OF the convention of which Myron
Low is president see our report in
full elsewhere.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1894-06-01

We he ftily agree with the Dutch
man WI said Water is very goot in
its blaze" and we take this occasion
to boldly assert that the rain-makers
will do we'll if they get $4,000 ap-
preparation from the U. S. Treasury
this year. This is because consider
able quantity of water, furnished after
the old fashion, seems to have over
flowed its natural place of flowing.
Whether it is Providential intent to
head off the rain-makers (who didn't
get the rain they promised through
bombarding the heavens with dyna-
mite and upon which they realized a
snug experimental profit or to help
along the crying farmer, we shall not
venture to say; but that we have had
enough to fill all immediate demand
for water is quite certain.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1894-06-01

A most singular feature of the late
storm was the fact that while it rained
here it showed farther south. From
Kentucky comes reports of heavy
snow, the like of which had not been
seen In that region for 40 years, and
the injury crops have sustained in
consequence has never been equaled.
Carlisle, KY, reports seven inches as
having fallen there on Saturday night,
the 10Th inst. Somerset reports over
SIX inches on Sunday morning, and a
complete surprise to the Oldest in.
habltant. The snow storm extended
as far south as Chattanooga, Tenn
essee. At Lexington three inches fell,
doing great damage to wheat and
other crops. Mount Sterling also re-
ports six inches of snow, and, in con-
sequence, that wheat, rye and other
crops beaten down fiat will be total
loss, as well as much injury to fruit
and fruit trees from the great burden
OF snow that fell upon them
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1894-06-01
THE PRACTICAL EFFECTS OF
THE STORM.

Whatever the ultimate effects of the
recent destruction of property by the
elements may be the immediate re-
suit is that in order to make amends
idle labor must now be employed,
material must be purchased and dor
mant capital must be put into circu-
lation in consequence.
While we naturally deplore such ca
lamities, and especially when they fall
upon the helpless, yet we have felt
more than once that In the hands of
God even terrible things are often
made TO work together for more good
that harm.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1894-06-01

An almost forgotten freshet is
brought to light through the columns
of the Wilkes Barre Record as follows !:
" AS bearing on the present freshet
the Record learns of a food 81 years
ago which was even higher than the
present one. The fact is mention ed in
a letter written May 1907, by James
Sinton to his friend, Steuben Butler.
He says the water came up Market
street and was around the horse block
in front of the Sinton store, which
stood on the corner OF Market and
Franklin, where is now the Wyoming
Bank. He further says had 1t not been
checked by cold day and night he
has no doubt it would have been
much higher. This was even higher
than the famous flood of 1865, when
the water came to the White Horse
Hotel. Steuben Butler, to whom the
letter was written, was in 1907 lad
Of II years learning the printing trade
in Doylestown, with Asher Miner.
James Sipton was a son OF Jacob Sin.
ton, one of the proprietors of the old
Sinton store. The letter is in the pos
session of C.. f. Butler, son of Steu-
ben Butler"
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1894-06-01

f. J. Bowman is getting along
finely at the Bedal Gold Cure Insti-
tute. He says rum and he have dis
solved partnership forever, and that
rum now is as palatable as dose of
rotten eggs. 1t is desired that in the
near future that he address our people
on the subject of Temperance, the
disease of strong drink and its cure.
Doubtless Mr.. Bowman will be fully
prepared from experience to talk to
us on this subject.
He is engaged, after completing
the course OF medicine, to lecture
through the State. He will also visit
Berwick.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1894-06-01

While an attachee of the CoLUM BIAN
was on his way home the other night
he was accosted by a trio of young
girls who wanted him to stop and play
" bluebird." But not being acquainted
with the game as they play it in
Bloomsburg these days he felt obliged
to refuse the invitation.
We mention the matter for the bene-
fit of parents whose girls are running
the streets nights either with or with
out permission.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1894-06-01
LONE LITTLE GIRL IN BLU E."

This much talked of and popular
little miss came to town Tuesday, and
is now comfortably housed in the
large show window of Gidding & Co.,
the clothiers, where she amuses her
self playing the mandolin, not az all
minding the throngs who constantly
surround the window.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1894-06-01
BRIEF MENTION
About People You Know.

]. Lee Harman spent last week in New
York.
Miss Martha Clark returned from Phila-
delphia on Tuesday.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. Z. Schoch went to Phila.
delphia on Monday.
A girl baby came to the home of s. F.
Peacock on Saturday.
Miles I. Beishline, of Jeddo, is visiting
his home at Greenwood.
Mr.. Archie Nesbitt, of Ebervale, spent
Sunday with Mr. Charles Pollock.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Unangst of New
York, are visiting their parents here.
Thomas Thorburn, of Sharpsburg, Pa, is
visiting Prof. Aldinger Of the Normal School.
DR.. and Mrs. Edward F. Smith and child
rem of New York, are visiting relatives here.
Mrs. John S. Gilbert of Philadelphia, is
spending few days in town.
Invitations are out for the marriage of Mr..
w. II. Slate to Miss Nellie Packer, of Sun :
bury, on June r4th.
Miss Laura Parker, of Rohrsburg, is in
'O"h 'ioitihS HSi SouSlIl, MISS DeItnd OnOe-
maker.
Mrs. Iglehart, of Evansville, Indiana, is
visiting her mother Mrs. Catharne Barton,
at Espy.
Joseph Ratt sailed for Italy last Saturday
to visit his mother. He will be absent sew
eral weeks.
N. w. Barton is putting down new Ohio
stone pavement on the corner of East and
Fifth streets.
Edward Traub, son Of VIM. Traub of east
Bloomsburg, is again up and about after
prolonged illness.
Mr.. Myron |. Low, of Lime Ridge, will
lead the Mems meeting in the Y. M. C. A.
hall next Sunday at 2:3o.
Z. r. Fowler, of Willow Springs, we we're
pleased to see among delegates to the recen t
Sunday School Convention.
Judge Murphy's little son Dan attended
court this week with his father. He is a
bright and pretty child and seemed to en-
joy his visit.
Harry Beishline, of Berwick, one of the
car shop employees, had the misfortune a
few days ago to have several of his fingers
sawed off.
Under the skillful treatment of DIR. Kam
erly, Miss Anna Hayman, of New Colum.
bus, has been relieved of rheumatism and
restored to health.
Messrs. T. d. Robbins, accompanied by
a son Of Samuel Boone, of Lime Ridge, gave
this Office business call on Thursday. They
were both attendants of the Sunday School
Convention.
Mr. J. II. Beishline, of Welliverville, call &.
ed at this Office on business on Saturday.
He reported that his immediate neighbor.
hood sustained but little injury from the lat c
heavy rains.
A party of young folks gave Howard Fur.
| man quite a surprise last Friday eve, by
taking charge of the house. All seemed to
enjoy themselves. Where a ovial disposi-
tion characterizes both the surprised and the
surprisers, as in this case, social enjoyment
is dead certainty.
Thomas Hill, an old playmate now living
at Berwick, and whom we had not seen for
IS or 80 years. we were pleased to grasp by
the hand on the streets of Bloomsburg last
| Thursday. Though we grow gray the facial
outlines of youth linger until death. Thomas
was not delegate to the Sunday School
| Convention.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1894-06-01

J, NJ. G. Ranck and wife of Light
Street, were bound over to court last
Saturday morning, by J. NJ. Clark esq.
They were charged with cruel treat
ment to the twelve year old son of
Mr.. Rauck, and with assault and bat
terry on Constable Roscoe Ent, who
took out the warrant. Many witnesses
were heard, and it was quite interest
ing.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1894-06-01

AS between floods, cloud. bursts,
earthquakes, and fires, and business
depression, this seems, indeed, to be
the season of our discomfort at home
and abroad.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1894-06-01

The State Council Of Red Men
which was held at Bethlehem, Pa,
recently called together about 400 del
egates.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1894-06-01

Gliding & Co, for clothing.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1894-06-01

Gidding & Co, for clothing.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1894-06-01

Gliding & Co, for clothing,
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1894-06-01

The demand upon
our columns fof adver-
tising space certainly
shows that business
men recognize the val
ue Of THE Columbian
as an advertising me-
diurn.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1894-06-01

Mr.. J. II. Beishline, of Welliverville, call
ed at this office on business on Saturday
He reported that his immediate neighbor
hood sustained but little injury from the lat C
heayv rains
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1894-06-01

Thomas Hill, an old playmate now living
at Berwick, and whom we had not seen for
IS or 80 years, we were pleased to grasp by
the hand on the streets of Bloomsbury last
Thursday. Though we grow gray the facial
outlines of youth linger until death. Thomas
was not delegate to the Sunday School
Convention.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1894-06-01

Messrs. T. d. Robbins, accompanied by
a son of Samuel Boone, of Lime Ridge, gave
this Office business call on Thursday. They
were both attendants of the Sunday School
Convention
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1894-06-01

a party of young folks gave Howard Fur.
man quite a surprise last Friday eve, by
taking charge of the house. All seemed to
enjoy themselves. Where a jovial disposi-
tion characterizes both the sur prised and the
surprisers, as in this case, social enjoyment
is a dead certainty.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1894-06-01

Orders will b. re-
ceived up to July l for
full sets Of Magic
City at $l.8o. We
shall net handle them
after that date. Order
now.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-01-13
THE PREACHERS BLUNDER.
He Delivered a Funeral Sermon Over
the Wrong Person.

He Delivered a Funeral Sermon Over
the Wrong Person.
From the Los Angeles Express
The startling mistake of funeral sermon
preached over the wrong person occurred in
this city recently. The good, kind and we'll
intentioned reverend doctor made the dis
tressing error of speaking the last words
over the wife and mother of the family, in
stead of the husband and father. whose
corpse lay in the casket few feet from
him, while the agonized widow, to whose
virtues he was directing the discourse, was
compelled to sit in terrible suspense and
listen to her own funeral sermon. What
must have intensified her distress and
added to the grim complication of the situa-
ton is the fact that the lady is member
of the eminent divine's church. The
preacher painted the desolation of home
without a mother and extolled the ladys
virtues in a manner that, under less pain
full circumstances. must have been some
satisfaction.
well-known friend Of the family finally
summoned up enough courage to arise and
explain in broken and indistinct accents
that the minister should confine his remarks
to Mr.. and not Mrs. Blank. The minister
who was in the midst of his discourse mis-
understood the Interpolation, and, therefore
continued all the more intensely his pane
gyric. 1t was no use trying to stop him
now. but after the peroration he looke ed into
the coffin and fell back. He had discovered
his mistake.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-01-13


Imagine 4.5o0 Quintais. or 504. 900 pounds,
or 352 TONS or lib cords of cod and pollock.
all neatly piled up in one building. and you
will have before You the largest stock Of fish
In the city OF Portland at the present time.
1t has all been brought from Nova Scotia
and Newfoundland since the 10th Of Octo-
Der. There is one pile of fourteen tons of
specially selected Goldfish. They were big
fellows when taken from the water, and
weighed then from forty to eighty pounds
each. Now they weigh from twenty-five to
thirty-ive pounds apiece. When they have
been stripped of the skin, carefully boned.
trimmed into slices of faultless flesh like SO
much clean, clear bread or cheese and
packed in boxes marked "boneless fish, -
they will weigh but from twelve to fifteen
pounds apiece. Such is the shrinkage Of an
eighty-pound Goldfish into the perfect food
product In the trimming process about
twenty pounds OF scrap" are removed TO
every 100 pounds Of the boneless slices This
is, OF course, good food tissue, though IL
looks decidedly like "leavings." 1t is sold for
about eight cents a pound. Country fish
peddlers buy II, sometimes in 100 and $50
pound lots. and sell IL TO farmers and vii
layers TO make into hash for about ten cents
a pound. The skins are packed In barrels
and sent away to Gloucester, Mass where
they are made into glue. They bring about
cent and a half a pound. The bones sell
for 81 or s. a ton, and are hauled over to
Cape Elizabeth to be utilized a. q fertilizer
for cabbages.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-01-13
SERMONS IN HIS SLEEP,
Remarkable Somna m bulistfc Feat of
an English Theological.

Remarkable SOmna m bulistfc Feat of
an English TheolOgfan.
One Of the most remarkable and puzzling
stories Of sonambulsm is related by the
London News. The subject was a young
the diocese was so deeply interested that he
went nightly to the young mans chamber.
He saw him get out of bed, secure paper,
compose and write sermons. On finishing
a page he read 1t aloud. When a word dis
pleased him he wrote a correction with great
exactness. The bishop had seen a beginning
OF some of these somnambunstic sermons ana
thought them well composed and correctly
written. Curious to ascertain whether the
young man made use of his eyes, the bishop
put card under his chin In such q man.
ner as to prevent him seeing the paper on
the table before him. but he still continued
to write. Not Yet satisfied whether or not
he could distinguish different objects placed
before him. the bishop took away the piece
OF paper on which he wrote and substituted
several other kinds at different times. He
always perceived the change, because the
pieces Of paper were of different sizes. When
a piece exactly like his own was substituted
he used IL, and wrote his corrections on the
places corresponding to those on his own
paper. 1t was by this means that portions
of his nocturnal compositions were obtained.
His most astonishing production was piece
of music written with great exactitude. He
used a cane for ruler. The clefs. the flats
ana the Sharps were all in their right
places. The notes were all made as circles
and those requiring II were afterward black
ened with ink. The words were all written
below, but once they were in such very
large characters that they did not come
directly below their proper notes and, per-
ceiving this. he erased them all and wrote
them over again.