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Attorney Oiiaelor at Ia-vr
TIT ILL attend to tho oolleotion Of all Kinas oi
olaimi, including Back Pay, Bounty Mri fta
sions.
JACOB 8HIPMAN,
TIBB AND WrB INSTJBANOB AOBNT
SUNBURV FENN'A.
aapaaiaxTi
Farm en Mutual Firo Inturanoo Co., York Pa.,
Cumberland Valley Mutual Protect oD C0
New York Mutual Life.Qirard Lift of Phil a. A Hart
ford Conn. General Aooldeota.
Sunbury.jApril T, ly. .
Dr.- CHAS. ARTHTTR,
IQomcropatljic 3!)sinau.
Oraduate of the Homosopathlo Medioal College of
Pennsylvania.
Orricx, Market Square oppoelto the Court Houie
6TJNBURY, PA.
March 31, 168. .
70bs Bowitr t,TI ",B0-"-
Bowen & Seesholtz,
WHOLESALE BETAIL DEALERS
in evory variety of
ANTHRACITE COAL,
J. Haoa A Co'a Lower Wharf, Knnhiiry, P"
Orders solicited and filled with promptness and
despatch.
bunbury, June 2, ioou.
SOLOMON MALICK,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
8TTNBUBY, Northumberland County, Pa,
OFFICE in East end of Weaver's Tavern, Market
Street.
All business entrusted to him will bo careful y and
punetiually attended to. Consultation in the Eng
lish and Gorman languages.
Suubury April 3. 1865. t ,
AMBROTYPE AND PHOTOGRAPH
Corner Market A Fawn Street, SCNBURY, Pa.
S. BYERLY, PRorniBTOR,
Photogrnpb. Anibrotypes and Mclalnotypes Uken in
the best style of the art. P'- l3
J. R. HILBUSH
SURVlsYOR AND CONVEYANCER
AND
JUSTICE OH' 1' II K PEACE.
Mahonov, North umherhtnd County, retin'a
Office "in Jackson township. Engagements can
be laodo by letter, directed to the above address.
All businoss entrusted to his care, will be promptly
attended to.
April 22. 18S6- ly
Vu M. ROCKIFELLRR. Llotd T. Rohrbach.
ROCKEFELLER & ROHRBACH.
. .i;Y, Ps&YX'A.
OFFICE the same that hns been heretofore occu
pied by Win. M. Rockefeller. Eki., nearly op
posite the residence of Judge Jordan.
Sunbnry, July 1, 130a. ly
a. W. ZIEGl.KB. n. CASK
ZIEGLEP. & CASE,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
SUXBURY, PEXSSYLVAXIA.
Collections and all Prolossional business promptly
ittended to in the Courts of Northumberland and
.djoinine Counties.
Ir Also, special attention paid to the Collection
f Pensions, Bounties and Back Pay for W idows
'rphnns and Soldiers
Sunbury, Maroh lo,J8ni
M. U. JMAMNKR,
ttorney at Uw, SUNBURY, PA-
Collections attended to in the counties of Nor
limberland, Union, Snydor, Montour, Columbia
id Lycoming.
RErERCMCXi.
Hon. John M. Reed, Philadelphia,
A. G. Oattell A Co., "
Hon. Wm. A. Porter, "
Morton MoMichael, Esq., "
B. Ketcham A Co., 2S Pearl Street, hew lork.
lohn W. Ashmead, Attorney at Law, "
Mstlhews A Cox, Attorneys at Law, "
Uinbury, March i, 1882.
WHOLESALE AND RETAIL DEALER
in every variety ot
ANTHRACITE COAL,
Upper Wharf, BUXIBUBi t renn-a.
yOrJorssolleited and filled with promptness
and
atcu.
nhury, May It, 188. y ,
E. C QOBI1T,
orney nasi Couaaiellor at Laa,
300NVILLE, COOPER CO , MISSOURI
ILL pay taxes on lands in any part of the
btate. Buy and soil real Estate, and all other
ire entrusted to him will receive prompt atten-
y 8, 1865. 001 li, 'fl.
IU. LIMLKV,
ySICIAN AND SURGEON
NORTHUMBERLAND, PA.
LUMLEY has opened an offioe in Northum
d. and oflers bin servioes to tho people of that
ind tho adjoining townsLlps. Offloo next door
Scott's Shoe Store, whew ha oan found at all
humbarland August 19, 188S.
)DR & FEED STORE
VUOLESALE AND RETAIL.
subscriber respectfully informs the public
it he keeps constantly on hand at his new
HOUSE, near th Shamokin Valley Railroad
n SUNBURY, Flour by the barrel and sacks
indsof Feed by the ton
tbove is all manufactured at his own Mills,
be sold at the lowest essh prices.
J M. CAD-WALLADER.
ry, April 1, '.So6.
JEREMIAH SNYDER,
racy Si d'oaatjcllor at Lavr.
81 XltrUY, P4.
Utrlvt Aimraey for Nortlsam-
id Coaaty.
ylareh 81, 1866 :y
ier and Coaanellor at tMxr
xuth side of Market street, four doors west
of Eyster'i Btoro,
HTT'NfBTJ'B.T. FA.
.end promptly to all professional holiness
l, hi. eure. the collection of claims la
erland and the adjoining counties.
April 7, two-
25 O 33 0-3323033:
RCHANT TAILOR,
And Dealer ia
, CASSIMERE9, VESTING, &c
, street, a,outh f WestTwr'e
Hotel,
NUB BT, I A..
,1966. .
MAM mfflBM
layer and Builder,
Street, 4 doora East of Third Bt.,
BUHY, PBNN'A.
All Jobblaax promptly at
GEO. C. WELKER & SON,
PIBB ft IiIFB IWOrjBANCB AOBWOT,
Offloo, Market Street, SUNBURY, PA.
Risks Uken in First Class Stock and Mutual Compa
Dies. Capital Represented $14,000,000.
Bunbary, May S, 1886 y .
COAL! COAL!! COAL!!!
GRANT Se BHOTHEH,
Sblppera) Sc. Wbolewnle St Retail
Dealers la
f WIUTU & BEU All COAL,
in evory variety.
Sole Agents, westward, of the Celebrated Henry
Clay Coal.
Lowia Wharf, Scnicrt, Pa.
Bunbury, Jan. 13, lBflg.
Rrallnfr Railroad.
SUMMER ARRANGEMENT.
June 11th, 1886.
GREAT TRUNK LINE from the North and
North-West for Philadelphia, New York, Read
ing, Pottsville, Tamaqua. Ashland, Lebanon, Allen
town, Easton, Ephrata, Litis, Lancaster, Columbia,
Ac, ia.
Trains leave narrisburg for New-York, as fol
lows : 8.00, 8 10 and 9.U5 A. M. and 2.10 and 8. 16
P. M, connecting with similar Trains on the Penn
sylvania Railroad, and arriving at New York at 8 00
and 10.10 A. M. and 4.10, 6.20 and 10.45 P. M.;
Sleeping Cars accompanying tho 3.00 A. M. and 015
P. M. 1 rains, without change.
Leave Harrisborg for Reading, Pottsville, Tama
qua, Minersvllle, Ashland, Pine Grove, Allentown
and Philadelphia at b.10 A.M. and 2.10 and 4.10
P. M., stopping at Lebanon and principal way sta
tions ; the 4.10 p m. Train making connections for
Philadelphia and Columbia only, for Pottsville,
Schuylkill Haven and Auburn, via Schuylkill and
Susquehanna Railroad, leave HarrUburg at 3.20 p. m.
Returning : Leave New York at 7. 00 and 0.00 a.
m., 12:00 Noon and 8.00 p. m.; Philadelphia at 8.15
a. m. and 8.80 p. m. Way Passenger Train leaves
Philadelphia at 7.30 a. m., returning from Reading
at 8.30 p. m. stopping at all Stations ; Pottsville at
ail Stations; Pottsville at 8.46 a. m. and 2.45 p. m.;
Ashland 8.00 and 11.30 a. m. and 1.05 p.m.; Tama-
V.45 a.m. and 1.00 and 8 56 p. m.
qua at 0.45 a m. and 1.00 and 8.65 p. m.
I Leave Pottsville for Harrisburg via Schuylkill and
Susquehanna Railroad at 7 00 a. m.
I Reading Accommodation Train leaves Reading at
I 6.00 A. M. returning from Philadelphia at 6.00
! P. M.
i Columbia Railroad Trains lesre Reading at 6.45
A.M., 12 05 noon and 6.16 P. M. for Ephrata, Litis,
' Lancaster Columbia, Ac.
ub bundajs: Leave rew lork at 8 00 pm.. I'bua
delpbiati.00 A. M, and 3.15 P M. tho 8.00 a. in.
train running only to Reading, Pottsville 8 00 a m.,
Tamaqua 7 30 am, for Harrisburg, 9 05 a m, and
Reading at 1 33 a m, for Harrisburg 7.30 a. m. 10.50
a. in. for New York, and 4 25 p m. for Philadelphia.
Commutation, Mileage, Season, and Excursion
Tickets, at reduoed rates to and from all points.
Baggage chocked through : 80 Pounds Brggagc al
lowed each Pamcngor.
G. A. NICOLLS,
General Superintendent'
Iiorilsern Ceatral Railway.
FOUR TRAINS DAILY to and from Baltimore
and Washington city.
THREE TRAINS DAILY to and from the North
and West Branch Snsquehanna, Elmira, and all of
Northern New York.
ON and after MONDAY, MAY Ilet, 1866,
the Passonger Trains of the Northern Central
Railway will run as follows :
SOUTHWARD.
Mail Train, leaves Klmira 4.45 p. in.
' Harrisburg, 1.35 p.m.
arr. at Baltimore, 6.30 p. m.
Elmira Express leaves Elmira, 6.30 p m.
Harrisburg, 2.60 a m.
arr at Baltimoro, 7 00 a m
Fast Line, leaves Harrisburg, fl 45 p m
arr at Baltimore, 12 30 p m
Harrisburg Accom. leaves Harrisburg, 5 1)5 p m
arr at Baltimure, 9 37 p m
Erie Express leaves Erie, 4 45 p m
arr at Harrisburg, 8 33 a ni
NORTHWARD.
Mail Train leaves Baltimore 8 15am
Harrisburg, 2 05 p m
arr at Elmira, 10 45 p m
Elmira Express leaves Baltimoro, 0 46 p m
" Harrisburg, 2 05 a m
arr at Elmira, 1 1 35 a in
leaves Baltimore, 12 10 pm
arr at Harrisburg, 3 60 p m
arr at Baltimore, I 20 pm
" Harrisburg, 12 00 a m
arr at Erie. 6 66 p m
leaves Harrisburg 4 10pm
arr at Erie 9 30 a m
Fast Line,
Frio Mail
Erie Express,
HarrUburg Aoc, leaves York, 7 10 a m
arr at Harrisburg 8 40 a m
Erie Express North and Harrisburg Accommoda
tion South run daily, except Sundays. Elmira Ex
press North daily, and South daily, except Sundays.
Fast Line North and Uarrieburg Accommodation
North arrive daily, except Sundays. Elmira Ex-
Sress North arrives and Fast Line South leavea daily
lail North and South runs daily, excopt Sundays.
Erie Express South arrives daily, except Mondays.
For further information apply at the Ticket Ofhoe
in the Pennsylvania Railroad Depot.
For further
information apply
at the Office.
I. N. DiBARRY
Gen. Supt.
18U. IsMMt.
Philadelphia fit Erie Railroad.
THIS great line traverses the Northern and North
west oounties of Pennsylvania to the oity of Erie
on Lake Erie.
It has been leased and is operated by the Pennsyl
vania Railroad Company.
lime 01 rassonger trains at eunoury,
Leave Eastward.
Erie Mail Train,
Erie Express Train,
Elmira Mail Train,
Leave Westward.
Erie Mail Train,
Krie Express Train,
Elmira Mail Train.
11.45 p.m.
6.65 a m.
10.85 am.
4.60 a m.
6.45 p m.
4 45 p. m.
Passengor cars run through on the Erie Mail and
Express Trains without change both ways between
rouaucipnia auu one.
Hew 1'orU CoBuectioa.
Leave New York at 9.00 a m, arrive at Erie 9.30 a.
m. Leave Erie at 4.45 p m.. arrive at New York
4 10 p. m.
Lluam BLEErju tAitfi on an flig-Di trains.
For Information resneetinor Passenirer business
apply at Cor. 30th and Market St., Philadelphia.
And for Freight business of the Company's Agents,
b. a. Kingston, Jr., (.or. t3ta ana Market bt.,
Philadelphia.
j. w . iieynoiaa, trie.
William Brown, Agent N. C. R. R , Baltimore.
If. U. UocsToa,
Oen'l Freight Agt. Fhilada.
H. W. GwiNxea,
Geni Ticket Ag't , Philada.
A. L. TYLER,
Clen'l Manager, Willtamsport.
June t, 1886.
Lucbawaanu Sc Illoonasibura; Kail
road.
ON and after Nov 21th, 1865, Passenger Trains
will rnn as ioiiows :
SOUTHWARD.
A. M.
P. M.
10.06
11 Is
. M.
4 60
6.20
8 63
80
10.16
105
3.40
4 15
6.66
8.10
Leave Bcrantoa,
" Kingston,
Rupert,
Danville,
Arr. Northumberland,
6.50
8 65
16
9 60
10 30
NOKTU WARP.
Leave Northumberland, 8.00
Danville, 8.40
Rupert, 14 A. M.
Kingston, 2 35 . 8.30
Arr. at Soranton, 6.45 9.85
Trains leaving Kingston at 8.80 A. M. for
Sersn-
ton, oonneot with Train arriving at New York at 6.20
Leaving rnoruumneriana a 0 uu a. h. ana Kings
ton J.S0 P. M. connect with the Train arriving at
New York at 10.65 P. M.
Passengers taking Train South from Soranton at
i 60 A. M. via Northumberland, teach Harrisburg
12 80 P. M., Baltimore 6.30 P. If -, Washington 10
00 P. M. via Rupert raaoh Philadelphia at T OO p. m.
U.A. F0KDA,6up'.
Kingston, Nov. 25, 1865.
1 AAA Customers wanted to buy Hardware, Ae.
1UUU at the Cheap Hardware and Iron Store ol
r J. CON LEY A CO.
Sunbery, June 16,1866.
SHOE Findings, Sole Leather aad all goods h
longing to shoe svaken business for aaje by
J. H. CON LEY 00.
LADIES' fcl M FHOk.8 for 1,00. at
W. W. ApaleT.'s.
POETIC A L.
A POEM BT PANIBIi B. DICKINSON.
The late Daniel 8. Dloklnson had the misfortune,
while United States Senator, to lose his daughter,
Mn. Virginia Murray, to whom he was warmly
attached. He was fond of spending his unemployed
hours by her grave, in Spring Grove Cemetery, at
Blngbampton, N. Y., and one Sunday afternoon,
in 1867, while sitting at the spot, he wrote the sub
joined stantas. They were solicited for publication
during his life time, but from diffideaoe he always
withheld his consent. They now appear for the first
time. Exckangt.
COME TO MY GRAVE ALONE.
Come to my grave alone, whan no footstep Is falling
near,
And water my lowly bed with affection's gontle
tear;
Pause by the heartless stone, by the marble oold
and chill,
And think of the heart below as the marble cold
and still.
Come in the Summer's prime, at the close of the
busy dsy,
When the love-tuned wildwood birds warble their
vesper lay,
Kneel by my grassy couch, whisper to Heaven a
prayer,
And tho spirit of her you loved will hover around
you there.
Come when the Autumn leaves are fallen, faded and
sere,
When the moaning November breeie sighs over the
dying year
When the reaper's work is done and the harvests are
gathered all,
And think of the reaper Death, who gathers the
great and small.
Come when the Winter's cold, on crushing and lev
feet, '
Has traveled around the earth in his frosted winding
sheet, 0
And haa blasted the woods and the fields in his
journey of storm and strife,
And shown in the closing year an emblem of human
life.
Come in the budding Spring, when Nature is fresh
and gay,
When the petals of early flowers are bright with the
dews of May ;
And think of that heavenly Spring, the spring of
eternal bloom,
When the loved shall meet together, beyond the
night of the tomb.
Spring Grove Cemetery, I
Binghampton, June 17, 1857. j
TALES & SKETCHES.
A LAWYEK'H AII1K.H l ltttE.
About
three
or four years ap-o.
more or
less, I
was practising law ia Illinois, in a
pretty largo circuit. 1 was culled no one
day at my office at the town of C , by a
very pretty woman, who, not without tears,
told me that her husband had been arrested
for horse stealing. Sbo wished to retain me
on the defense. I asked hor why sho did
not go to Judgo B., an ex Senator of tho
United States, whose office was in the same
town. I told her that I was a young man
at the bar, &c. She mournfully said that he
had asked a retaining fee above her means
and besides did not want to touch the case,
for her husband was suspected of belonging
to an extensive band of horse thieves and
counterfeiters whose beadqtinrters were ou
Moore's prairie.
I asked her to tell mo the whole truth of
the matter, and if it was trno that her hus
band did belong to such a band.
"Ah sir," said she, "a better man at heart
than my George never lived : but he liked
cards and driuk, and I am afraid they tnado
him do what he never would have done if
he bad not drank. I fear it can be proved
that he had the horse; he didn't steal it;
another did and passed it to him."
I didn't like the case. I knew that there
was a great dislike to the gang located where
she named ; I feared to ribk the case before
a jury. She seemed to observe my intention
to refuse the case and burst into tears.
I never could see a woman weep without
feeling liko a weak fool myself, if it hadn't
been for eyes brightened by pearly tears,
(blast the poet that made them come into
fashion by praising them), I'd never been
caught in the lasso of matrimony. And my
would-be client was pretty. The hanker-
chief that hid her streaming eyes didn't hide
her ripe lips, and her snowy bosom rose and
fell like a white gull in a gale of wind at
sea. 1 took tue case and Bbe gave mo the
particulars.
I uo gang, of which be was not a member,
persuaded hint to take the horse. lie knew
tne uorso was stolen, and like a fool ac
knowledged it when he was arrested. Worse
still, he trimmed the horse's mane and tail
to alter his appearance, and the opposition
could prove it.
1 be trial came on. I tried hard to get a
jury of ignorant men, who had more heart
than brain ; who if they could not fathom
the depths of argument, or follow the laby
rinthine mazo of the law, could fuel tor a
young fellow in a bad fix, a weeping, pretty
wife, nearly broken hearted, and quit dis
tracted. Knowing the use of "effect," I told
her to dress in deep mourninc, and bring
her little cherub of a boy, only three years
old, into court, and sit as near her husband
as the officer would let her. I tried the
game once iu a murder case, and a weeping
wife and sister made a jury render a verdict
against law, evidence and tue Judge s charge,
and saved a fellow that ought to have been
bung bigucr than iianian.
The prosecution entered very bitterly : in
veighea against thieves and counterfeiters,
who had made tho land a terror to
strangers and travelers, and who rob
bed every farmer in that region of their
finest horses. It introduced witnesses and
proved all and more than I feared it would.
The time came for me to rise for the de
fense. Witnesses I had none. But I deter
mined to make an effort, only hoping so to
interest tue jury as to secure a recommenda
tion to gubernatorial clemency and a light
sentence Bo 1 painted this picture
1 A young man entered into life, wedded an
angel, beautiful ia person, possessing every
noble and gentle attribute. Temptation was
before and all around btm. lie kept a tav
ern. Quests there were many ; it was not
for him to inquire into their business j the
were wen uresseci: maae large wus ana
paid promptly. At an unguarded hoar,
when he was insane with the liquor they
bad urged upon him, he had deviated from
the path of rectitu Je. The demon of alcohol
had reigned in his brain, and it waa bis first
offense. Mercy pleaded for another chance
to save bini from ruin. Justice did not r
auir tli at bis vouuu wife should go down
sorrying to the grave, and that the shadow
and discrace and taunt of a (elon father
should cross the path of that sweet child,
O, bow earnestly did I plead for then). , The
woman wept : tba husband did tbe tame ;
the judge idgetted and rubbed bis eye ; the
fury looked melting. If I could, have tbs
closing speech be would hv beet ekated
but tbe prosecutor bad tbe close, and threw
ice on the firo I had kindled.' But that did
not quite put it out.
Tho judge charged according to law and
evidence, but evidently leaned on the slue of
mercy. The jury found a verdict of guilty,
but unanimously recommended the prisoner
to the mercy of the court. My client was
sentenced to tho shortest imprisonment the
court was empowered to give, and both jury
and court signed a petition to tbe Govern
ment for an unconditional pardon, which
has since been granted, but not before the
following incident occurred :
Some three months after this I received
an account for collection from a wholesale
house in New York. The parties to collect
from were bard ones, but they had property,
and before they had an idea of the trap laid,
I bad the property, which tbey were about
to assign before they broke, under attach
ment. Finding I was neck ahead and bound
to win, they 'caved in' and 'forked over'
three thousand seven hundred and ninety-
four dollars and eighteen cents (per memo
randum book) in good money.
They lived in Shawncetown, about thirty
five or forty miles Southeast of Moore's prai
rie. I received the funds just after bank
opening, but other business detained me un
til after dinner. I then started for C ,
intending to go as far as the village of Mt.
Vernon that night.
I had gone ten or twelve miles, when I
noticed a splendid double team of horses
attached to a light wagon, in which were
seated four men, evidently of the high strung
order. They swept past as if to show how
easy they could do it. They shortened in
and allowed me to come up with them and
hailing mo, asked me to 'wet,' or in other
words to diminish tbe contents o! a jug of
old rye tbey had aboard. They asked me
how far I was going. I told them as far as
Mt. Vernon, if my horse didn't tire out.
Tbey mentioned a plesant tavern ten or
twelve miles ahead as a nice stopping plice,
and then drove on.
I did not like tho looks of those fellows,
nor their motions. But I had a brace of
revolvers and a nice knife ; my money was
not in my valise or in my sulky, but in a belt
around my body. I drove slow in hopes
that they would goon and I would see them
no more. It was nearly dark when I saw a
tavern sign ahead. At tbe same time saw
their own wagon standing before the door.
I would have pressed on, but my horse need
ed rest. I hauled up and a woman came to
the door. She turned as pale as a sheet when
she saw me; she did not speak, but with a
menniug look she put her finger on her lips
and beckoned me in sho was tho wifo of
my late client.
When I entered the party recognized mc,
and hailed me as an old traveling frieud,
and asked me to drink. 1 respectfully, but
firmly declined to do so.
"By thunder, you shall drink or fight !"
said tho noisiest of the party.
"Just as you please drink I shall not,"
said I, purposely showiug the butt of a Colt
which kicks six times in rapid succession.
The party interposed and very easily
quelled the assailant. One offered me a
cigar, which I was icluctaotly refusiug but n
glance from the woman induced mo to ac
cept. Sho advanced and proffered mc a
light, and in doing so, slipped a note in my
hand, which she must have written a mo
ment before. Never shall I forget the
words. They were :
"Beware, they are members of tho gang.
They mean to rob and murder you I Leave
soon; 1 win detain tliem."
I did not feel comfortable just theu, but
tried to do so.
Have you any room to put up my horse ?"
I asked, turning to the woman.
"What are you not going on to-night ?"
asked one of the men ; "we are."
"No," said I. "I shall stay here to-night."
"We'll all stay then, I gue6s. aud make a
night of it!" said another of the cut-throats.
"You'll have to put up your own horse,
here's a lantern," said the woman.
"I am used to that," I said. "Gentlemen,
excuse me a minute ; I'll join you in a drink
when I come in."
"Good on your head I More whisky, old
gal," shoutea they.
I went out and glanced at their wazon.
It was old fiisu!?ned, and "linch-pins" se
cured tho wheels. To take out my knife
and pry one from the fore and high wheels,
was but tue work ot an instant, and 1 turew
them as far in the dark as I could. To untie
my horse and dash off was the work of an
nstant. Tbe road lay down a steep hill, but
my lantern lighted me somewhat. .
1 had hardly got under lull beadwar,
when I beard a yell from the party I had so
unceremoniously lctt. 1 put whip to my
horse. Tbe text moment, with a shout,
they started. I threw my light away, and
left my horse to pick bis way. A moment
later I heard a crash a horrible shriek.
The wheels came off. Then came the rush
of horses, tearing along with tbe wreck of
tue wagon. I inally they seemed to fetch
up in the woods. One or two shrieks I
heard as I swept on, leaving them tar be
hind. For some time I hurried my horse
you'd better believe I did. It was a little
after midnight when I got to Mt. Vernon
Tbe next day I heard that a Moore's prai
rie team had run away, and that two men
out of four bad been so badly hurt that their
lives were despaired of, but I didn't cry.
My clients got their money. I didc t travel
that road any more.
The Assassination Rewards. In case
of rewards for the capture of Jeff. Davis, re
ported from the committee of the House of
Representatives on Tuesday, no change has
been made from the awards or tue military
commission in regard to the capture of
Booth and Harrold. Tbe committee gave
General L. C. Baker, who originated and
directed tbe capture, 117,000 ; Col. Conger,
who was in command of tbe capturing party
117,600; Lieut. Baker, detective, f 5,000
Lieut. Dohcrty, in command of soldiers,
12,500: twenty-six soldiers, each $1,000;
Major O Beiroe, for services in Marvland, f'J
000. In the case of the Payne and Atzerot
arrest, money is divided up according to the
merit of tba parties engaged in it, and not
according to the rank they happened to have
at tne time, i ne two colored women wno
gave the information that led to the watch
fng of Mrs. Surratt's house and Payne's ar
rest, get each f 300.
It baa been erroneously stated that tbe re
cent convention of fire underwriters in Mew
York advanced tbe rates of insurance ten
per cent.
Tbe Rev. Matthew Davenport, of Okalona,
Mus.. 100 years old, preached a sermon on
July 1J.
.It is rumored that Commander Maury,
1at6 of tbe Confederate Atates, is about to
be attache! to tbe French navy as chief oi
the Meteorological Department.
MISCELLANEOUS.
Drankenness Among Women.
ASTONISHING CHARGES AGAINST THB KBW
YORK LADIES DRE8S MAKERS SUPPLYING
THEIR CUSTOMERS WITH BRANDT WINE
KEPT IN DRV GOODS STORES FOB. FASHION
ABLE FEMALES.
The Hound Table recently bad an article
on the revival of intemperence, which has
lately taken place, and asserts that the
ravages of the vice are particularly noticea
ble among women. It says :
Drinking is again becoming fashionable,
and the ladies are responsible for this retro
gression. . Two weeks ago we had occasion
to notice the prevalence of drinking among
ladies at our watering places ; but it is not
alone at the watering places that the ladies
thus indulge. At their own homes, at the
stores, and at those public nuisances called
ladies' restaurants they are accustomed to
drink liquors. Tbe sight of a tipsy or in
toxicating woman is not uncommon at the
seaside, and it is by no means extraordinary
upon Broadway. We have the best author
ity for stating that some oi the most elegant
ladies of our leading cities will pass this
summer not at Saratoga or Newport, as
usual, but an asylum lor inebriates. And
we assert upon the same authority that the
vice of fashionable drinking is now more
prevalent among the ladies than among tbe
gentlemen of this country.
In support of these statements instances
of the most distressing character have been
brought to notice. Some women trace their
degradation to a natural appetite for spirits,
and others to a habit formed during a long
illness, when they were ordered to drink
liquors as a tonio. Once developed, tbe
taste seems less controllable in women than
in men. The ladies drink in Becret. They
have private bottles hidden about the bouse,
in spite of the vigilance of doctors, nurses,
husbands and fathers. Certain dressmakers
make it a point to furnish their customers
with drink, and some of the most fashion
able maitoni del mode are, in fact, fashion
able drinking houses. In some stores bot
tles of wine are also kept on bund fcr Udy
shoppers, and in others the merchants allow
their boys to be sent to the nearest bar-room
for liquor wheu ladies debire it. At the so
called ladies' restaurants all sorts of funcy
rinks are as freely ordered by and supplied
to women as creams and ices used to be,
and anybody who will take the trouble to
visit one ot these resorts may see well-dress
ed, fashionable ladies enter unattended and
call for liquors at all hours of the day.
These are startling facts ; but there are
others still more surprising and equally true.
Our fashionable female drinkers do not care
so much tor wines, and claret punches and
sherry cobblers. Tbey can obtain such bev
erages at dinner or evening parties, and
hen left to themselves they prefer stronger
spirits. Whiskey and brandy are the favor
ite drinks with these ladies, it may be true
hat a woman ia very far gone upon the
road when she can order and drink such
timulants in a public saloon ; but still hun
dreds of women in our best society do this
every day. boine of the saloons which tbey
frequent do not have tho stronger liquors
pu the bill cf fare, but a neat little sign,
which reads, "If you do not see what you
want, ask for it," gives the hint to the ini
tiated.
In dress-makers' bills the significant item
small trimmings" often covers up the ex
pense of liquors which the lady has ordered
through tbe modiste who panders to Her
vitiated taste. At the watering places a
bribe to the waiter procures a secret supply
of the liquor, which, by the connivance of
the landlord, is charged as "extra lun
cheons." Thus the poor infatuated women
fiud no difficulty in obtaining tbe means of
intoxication, and often tbe man oi business,
engrossed with his cares, and thoughtlessly
unsuspicious ot tue serpent that nas crept
into Ins Eden, discovers to bis honor that
his wife or daughter has become a confirmed
drunkard, and that all his efforts to reform
her are utterly useless.
If we could unroof tbe houses of this and
other cities, we would exhibit to the reader
instances of female intoxication that would
make angels weep. Mothers of families are
breaking the hearts ot their husbands and
daughters by this vice. Girls of eighteen,
the daughteis of our most respectable mer
chants, have been seen grossly intoxicated
in Broadway stages and upon the public
streets. Many a home, apparently most
elegant aud attractive, is rendered a perfect
pandemonium by one of tbe lady inmates,
through this weakness. The belles at fash
ionable watering places, this summer, who
sit upon the piazzas late at night, and think
it very amusing to be made "funny" by
drinking with a gentleman, little know tbe
fate that is in store for them. The painted
courtesans who flaunt in low groggeries and
nerve themselves for their foul vocation by
glasses of gin are hardly so much to be
pitied as these respectable ladies who se
cretly indulge the same craving for stimu
lants, but who ore unable to conceal the ef
fects of their indulgences.
He Couldn't Bear Prosperity. There
is a class of men of whom it is truthfully
said, they cannot bear prosperity. When
fortune goes against them, tbey conduct
themselves with correctness; but let tbe fickle
dame smile upon them, and they rush at
once into all sorts of folly and intemperance.
Prosperity has ruined people who, so long
as they had to struggle with tbe world, were
very excellent and exemplary members of
society.
There was a singular illustration oi tnisin
the police court the other day. A good-for-nothing
looking wretch was brought up
charged with drunkenness. It was a clear
case. The testimony showed that be bad
been on a spree for a week. He was asked
whut he bad to say for himself.
"Well, your honor," said he, "me and my
old woman never did live easy together."
"That's no excuse for your getting drunk,"
said the court. ,
"You're right, yer honor, and so it ain't.
We use to fibt like cats and dogs together."
"Drinking only made it worse," put in tbe
court.
"That's true She discouraged the life
out of me, and kept me poor, until last
week, when"
; "Wei!, what did sbe do last week?"
"She died, yer honor."
"And you have been drunk ever since?"
"Yes, yer honor, I never could bear pros
perity." Elizabeth Wilson, a colored woman wbo
was recently fined $25 and imprisoned one
year in Philadelphia, for roasting a colored
child five years old on a bot stove, commit
ted a similar crime in Newport, R. I., about
nine years ago.
Terrible Retribution.
An incident occurred a day or two since
which should admonish a certain class of
men, first, not to insist for a pound of flesh
merely because they have the power, and
secondly, not to drink dirty water. The
story, which borders on the tragic, runs thus:
A drayman carried a small box from the
levee up to a well-known drug store in the
city, lie took it from his dray, deposited it
in the back room, and then made his charge.
It was very exorbitant. The clerk hinted as
much, but he stood firm and gained his
point. The money was paid him, and he
started out.
Passing through the laboratory, he looked
around after some water, as it was shot day,
and he was evidently thirsty. Just in his
way stood n lorge tub, wherein the boy
washed out bottles; he glanced around; no
one seemed to be looking ; he seized a half
gallon cup and gulped down about a pint.
The clerk observed the movement. As he
mused upon tho heavy charge a sudden
thought occurred to him, which he sudden
ly put into execution. The drayman had
mounted his dray and was driving off, when
the clerk bounded from the door and shout
ed at him to stop.
"Did you drink any of that water in the
tub?" he shouted, and then waited for an an
swer with sbated breath.
The drayman said, "Y e s, he had drank a
little."
"My dear sir, you are a dead man ; we use
that water for washiug acids from bottles.
Oh, you are a dead man, sure I"
The drayman turned pale, and said he felt
a dreadful pain in his stomach.
"Do something for me quickly, can't you?"
"I can try," said tho clerk, "but it is a
doubtful cose."
The two ran into the store together. Ro
meo could not have looked paler than the
poisoned man. The clerk poured out half
a bottlo or so of castor oil, which was swal
lowed with the avidity of an old reb of '04,
who had found bis first buttermilk in "three
days." Death not coming to his relief as
soon as be expected, he resumed his way,
and has not been heard from since. The
clerk was avenged I Memphis Argm.
A Thirty Years' !tljtery Cleared
ITp.
Over thirty years ogo there was considcr
ble excitement in Cecil county, Maryland,
on account of the sudden disappearance of a
widow lady, named Putty Polk, who resided
about four miles from Elkton. She was
last seen going into a thicket near her Iioubo,
where too men had just passed. All search for
her was fruitless. After a reasonable time
had elapsed letters of administration on her
effects were issued, and in settling up the
estate the administrator wus unable to find
a uote drawn by one- of tho men who bad
been seen to go into the thicket. The note
was known to have been in her possession
a short time before her disappearance. This
aroused the suspicions of some of tbe peo
ple, and the two men were arrested; but
nothing could be proved against thera and
they were discharged.
A number of years ago one of tho sus
pected parties died, and lust week it is re
ported that the other, being very ill, sent
tor a minister, to whom he made a free con
fession. According to popular rumor, the
tbe confession was to the effect that he, with
the other party, sent to Mrs. Polk to meet
them in a certain place, wbero they would
pay the money on tho notes, and they then
failed to meet her ; that they saw her on her
way home, and knowing she would pass
through the thicket, they went into it, and
laid in ambush, and as soon as she appeared
one knocked her on the bead with a stick
of wood, killing her. That tbey theu placed
ber body in the midst of a wood pile, where
they intended to let it remain, but it bo
coming noxious, they went to the pile with
a box to remove the body, and found that
tbe dog of tbe deceased had taken his pluce
to waicb over the corpso, aud they were
compelled to kill him before they could get
the body, and that, after succeeding, they
carried it in the box to where tbe Philadel
phia, Wilmington and Baltimore Railroad
was being built, and placed it in tbe em
bankment. It is also stated that as soon as the man
had made this disclosure he commenced to
improve and that bo is now in a fair n ay of
recovery.
Uettlnff Married.
Every young girl now a days expects to
get a rich husband, aud therefore rich men
ought to be abundant. In the country, we
admit, that girls are sometimes brought up
with an idea ol work, and with a suspicion
that each may chance to wed a sober, steady,
good-looking, industrious young man who
will be compelled to earn by severe labor
the subsistence of himself and family.
There are not so many brought up with
such ideas now, even in the country, ss
there used to be j but there are some, and
they consequently learn bow to become
helpmates to such worthy partners. But in
town it is different. From the highest to
tho lowest class in lifo, tbe prevailing idea
with all is, that marriage is to lift them at
once above all necessity for exertion; and
even the servant girl dresses and reasons ss
if she entertained a romantic confidence in
ber Cinderella-like destiny of marrying a
prince, or, at least, of being fallen in love
with and married by some wealthy gentle.
man, it not by some nobleman in disguise.
This is why so many young men fear to
marry, luo young women tbey meet with
are embucd with notions of marriage so
utterly incompatible with the ordinary re
lations of life in their station ; tbey are so
wholly inexperienced in the economy of the
household ; they have been taught, or have
taught themselves, such a "noble disdain"
tor all kinds of family industry ; they have
acquired such expectations of lady-like ease
and elegance in the matrimonial connection,
that to wed any one of them is to secure a
life-long lease of domestic unbappiness, and
purchase wretchedness, poverty, and do
Pir: ....
All tins is wrong, and should bo amend
ed. Such fallacies do not become a sensible
age nor a sensible people. Our grandfathers
and mothers had more wisdom than this.
The piesent age is much too fast in this
respect. Let us sober down a littlo. Let
every young woman be taught ideas of life
aud expections of marriage suitable to ber
condition, and she wili not bo so frequently
disappointed, bbould sbe be fortunate and
wed above that condition, sbe may readily
learn . tbe new duties becoming to it, and
will not have been injured by having poa
seaaed herself of those fitting a station bo
low. Let ber anticipate always a marriage
with one in tbe humbler walks in life ; and
then, should tbe happen to do bettor, ber
good fortune will be only the more delight
ful. Phrenological Journal,
Little Mamc's father is generally too busy
to attend the weekly prayer meeting. One
day she was discussing the great hereafter
with ber mamma, when the following dia
logue ensued :
Mame "Mamma, will you go to Heaven
when you die?"
Mamma "Yes, I hope so, child."
Mame "Well, mamma, I hope I'll go too,
or you'll bo lonesome."
Mamma "Oh, I bopo your pnpa will go
too."
Mame "Ob, no, papa cant go j he can't
leave the store."
recut.s, ca.iRi:.i.-, Ac,
How to Keep Milk Sweet.
Large quantities of milk are sent once a
day from Orange county to New-York city.
Notwithstanding it is sent by railroad, a
portion of the milk is thirty-six hours old
when it arrives in New-York and is ready
for the milk carts. To keep milk sweet this
length of time in warm weather is no easy
matter. The management on tbe part of
farmers is described as follows by the Utica
Uerald:
"The milk as soon as it comes from the
cow is strained and put in long tin pails,
which are set in water, care being taken that
no portion of the milk be higher than tbe
water. These pails look like sections of
stove pipe, being eight inches in diameter,
and from seventeen to twenty inches long.
The milk is occasionally stirred up so as to
keep the cream from rising. It is deemed
important that the animal heat be removed
as soon as may be, at least in an hour's time
after it comes from the cow. The old plan,
which is yet practiced by some, is to cool
the milk in the cans, but is regarded as a
very unsafe way when it is designed to have
the milk keep sweet for a considerable length
of time. The milk stands in the pails until
ready to be carted to the trains, when it is
put in cans holding from fifty to sixty gal
tone. These cans are filled full, and tbe
cover, which fils.closely, carofully adjusted."
Kandvt U'b for l'artics).
Chop fine some cold pressed ham, say a
quarter of a pound; put it in a basin with
a tablespoonfull of chopped pickles, and a
teaspoonfull of mustard, a littlo pepper or
Cayenne ; put about six ounces of butter in
to a basin, and with a spoon stir quickly
till it forms a kind of cream ; add the ham
and seasoning, mix all well, have the sand
wich bread cut in thin slices : have already
cut, thinly intermixed with fat, either cold
roast beef, veal, iamb, mutton, poultry, fowl,
pheasant, grouse, partridge, &c, either of
which lay evenly, and not too thick, on your
bread ; season with a little salt and pepper;
cover over with another piece of bread ;
wheu your sandwich is ready, cut them in
any shape you liUe, but rather small and
tastily, and serve. You may keep tbem iu
a cool pluce if not wanted, as they will keep
good under cover twelve hours.
How to Make Tomato Figs. Pour boil
ing water over the tomatoes in order to re
move the skins ; then weigh tbem and place
them in a stone jar, with as much sugar as
you have tomatoes, and let them stand two
days; then pour off the sirup, and boil and
skim it until no scum rises. Then pour it
over the tomatoes, and let stand two days as
before, then boil and skim again. After the
third time they ore fit to dry, if the weather
is good ; if not let them stand in the sirup
until drying weather. Then place on large
earthen plates or dialies, and put them in
the sun to dry, which will take about a week,
after which pack tbem down in small
wooden boxes, with fine white sugar between
each layer. Tomatoes prepared in this man
ner will keep for years. (Jermantotm Tel
Canning Corn. We copy the following
iroin that good periodical, the Prairie Far
mer: Some one is inquiring for a receipe
for canning corn. Last fall we saw in the
Farmer tho mmit operandi of canning corn
followed by a factory in New-York ; among
other operations they boiled it six hours.
We followed the rule laid down but with
no better success than your correspondent.
We did some, however, but riot by canning
nor by dryingjit, but by salting it down iu
.crocks or .tubs. Our method is as follows:
Take your crock or tub, put in a layer of
corn two or three inches, then a sprinkling
of salt, you mtot nse your own judgment for
the quantity of salt, as I made no note of the
amount. When your vessel is full press it
down, put a weight on it and let it stand.
In tho course of three or four days it will
ferment, but that is no evidence that tha
corn is spoiling, for it will ferment. It is
propared by soaking in water over night,
change water as often as necessary to make
it fresh enough to suit. -Cook the same ai
green corn. This receipt is old; no doubt
a great many know its value and others do
not. I would like to hear from thoso wbo
have canned corn successfully.
Black Ink. A good black ink, which
will not corrode Bteel pens, it is said, can be
made by digesting in an open vessel 03
ounces of coarsely powdered nut gall, 15
ounces gum Senegal, 18 ounces sulphate of
iron, free from copper, 8 drachms aqua
ammonia, 44 ounces alcohol, and 18 quarts
distilled rain water. Tbe digestion should
be continued until the fluid has assumed a
deep black color.
Seasonable Hinto. Strawberry ibeds
should now be mowed, and tbe vines scat
tered over the beds and allowed to remain
at least during the present and first half of
next month.
Trees transplanted -this season about. 1
have the soil stirred np about tbem and the
mulching renewed.
It is a good plan to mulch with short
grass, this month, the newly-planted celery.
No time should now be lost in setting out
celery plants. We prefer the trench and a
single row of plsnts. After setting out tha
plants apply a good dose of rich short ma
nure plaoed firmly, and water copiously.
There should be two full waterings a-day
moruiug and evening. To bting tbe plants
on well, manure water is excellent.
Tbe Purple Top Turnip can now be sown
for domestic purposes. Sprinkle with it
some Black Spanish Radish seed, and cover
lightly with a rake. They will produce a
good crop for winter use from a small bed.
When taken up in November they should fee
buried in a dry psrt of tbe garden.
Tbe old wood of the Raspberry plot should
be removed as soon as it is done bearing. It
gives additional strength to tbe new wood.
The same should be done with tbe old
Blackberry canes.
There is nothing tbat brings a gardes up
to its work to well and makes it always
look fresh even in the dryest teasona, ss
frequent Stirring up of tbe ground and tbe
careful removal of all weed. Gtmnton
JumJ.1S6.