The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1898-09-22
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A. S. VanWickle, of Hazleton,
who was killed not long ago by the
accidental discharge of his gun at
pigeon match, received $62,5oo life
insurance from New York company.
All the paper on which revenue
stamps are printed is made at the pa
per mill at Lock Haven, and a car
load of the paper is shipped from the
mill every three days. The chief of
the government bureau of printing
and engraving has recommended that
the contract for furnishing postage
stamp paper be given to the Lock
Haven paper mill for the current
year.
Geo. S. Graham, Esq, who has
been District Attorney of Philadel-
phia for the past eighteen years, has
decided not to be candidate for re-
election, after strong pressure was
brought to bear on him, thus relieving
the Republicans from an embarrass-
ing position. Judging from Mr.. Gra-
hams letter of declination, somebody
has been saying something about him
affecting his private character, and
the publication of these charges is
probably what the Republican lead
ers wished to avoid.
An epidemic of murder and suicide
seems to have come over this land.
A California woman is under arrest
for sending box of poisoned candy
to two women In Delaware, causing
their death; the mutlated body of
young woman was found at Bridge
port, Conn.,, unidentified, and the
list is too long to enumerate.
Suicides are reported in almost
every daily paper, many OF
which are said to have resulted from
dependency, caused by business
troubles or lack of employment Has
the great wave of prosperity, which
we are assured by Republican papers
is now upon us, anything to do with
these respondent suicides?
The fund, started by the Philadel
phia Times, to raise money to pur-
chase sword for Admiral Schley, has
reached over $I2oo, mostly in small
subscriptions, many of them S and o
cents. 1t is popular scheme, and
as it will close October Ist, those who
wish to help purchase the sword
should send in their subscriptions at
once.
Rev. James Lewis, a Mormon, is
in Hazleton endeavoring to found a
Mormon church. Rev. Lewis was
residen; of Salt Lake City for forty
five years, but lately came East and
in the past few years claims to have
made 1900 Mormon converts in Luz
erne, Schuylkill and Lackawanna
countless They have not erected
church in any of the coal region
towns, and Hazleton's Mormon edi-
fee will be the first in Eastern Penn
sylvania, if not In the State.
This is the way the editor feels
when he does his sentiment in blank
verse:
I" would flee from the city's rule
and law-from its fashions and forms
cut )oose-and 60 where the straw
berry grows on its straw and the
gooseberry grows on its goose; where
the catnip tree is climbed by the cat
as she clutches for her prey-the
guileless and unsuspecting rat on the
rattan bush at play; l will catch with
ease the saffron COW and the cowlet in
their glee; as they leap in joy from
bough to bough on the top of cow
slip tree, and list while the partridge
drums his drum and the woodchuck
chucks his wood, and the dog devours
the dogwood plum in the primitive
solitude.
80, let me drink from the moss
grown pump, that was hewn from the
pumpkin tree Eat mush and milk
from rural stump, from folly and
fashion free - new gathered mush
from the mushroom vine, and milk
from the milkweed sweet-with pine
apple from the pine. And then to
the white-washed dairy I'll turn, where
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