THE SUNBUKY AMERICAN.
18 rtrnLISHED KVKItT satctidat bt
EM'L WILVERT, Proprietor,
Moors A Dlasmger's Building, Market Square,
At $1.50 In Advance.
It not paiil within o Month $2.
Siibicriptiont taken fir Imi than tix Montht.
Cov?tCTitt with thle establishment la an cxten
WoNEW JOB OFFICE, containing A vnrlcty of
plain and Taney type equal to any establishment
n the Interior of the State, for which the patron
age of the pnblle la respectfully aollcltod.
Professional.
IR. ( II AM. M. MAUTIN,
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON,
Nnnbury, I'enn'a.
Office on Front Street, next door to fluas A
Tamely.
Office Honrs. Until 8 am. From 13 to 1 p m.
From 5 to 9 p m., nnd after 9 o'clock p m.
At all other hours when not professionally en
gaged, ran lie found at Drug Store, on Third St.,
next to Clement House. nug3,'72.-ly
Sit. HOVER, Attorney and Councilor
at Law. Rooms Nos. 23 Second Floor,
Bilu'ht's Building, SUNBURY, PA. Profession a
business attended to, lu the courts of Northum
bcrland and adjoining counties. Also, In tho
Circuit nnd X)ifric(Oourts for the Western Dis
trict of Pennsylvania. Claims promptly collect
ed Particular attention paid to earn In Bank
ruptcy. Consultation can bo had in the Ger
man language. mari;5,'71.
Lll. KANE. Attorney at Law, SUN
BURT, PA., office In Manser's Building
near the Court House.' Front Room ip stairs
nbov.e the Drue St,ore. Collections made la Nor
thumberland aud adjoining counties.
Sunbury, Pa., June 8, 187:3.
Til. R. KASE, Attorney at Law, 8UN-
BURY, P A. Office In the Clement Build
dings, second floor. Entrance on Market street.
Professional business ih this aud adjoining coun
ties promptly attended to.
Sunbury, Starch 18, 1873.-1.V.
JU. M.lltHIiE A CO, Market Street,
SUNBURY, PA.
Dealers in Drngs, Medicines, Paints, Oils,
Glass, Varnishes, Liquors, Tobacco, Cigars,
Pocket Books, Dairies, fce.
SI'. WOLVERTON, Attorney at Law.
Market Sqnare, SUNBURY.PA. Profession
al business in this and adjoining counties prompt
ly attended to.
(1 A. KEIMENNNVOER, Attorney at
J Law. SUNBURY, PA. All business cn
triiKied to hie care attended to promptly and with
ilili:ence. npia"-07
nil. MASKER, Attorney nt Law, SUN-
BURY, PA. Collections attended to in
the counties of Northumberland, Union, Snyder,
Montour. Columbia and Lycoming. upHO-ii'.l
AN. III. ICE, Attorney nt Law, Sunbury,
Pa. Office in Masonic Hall Building.
Collections of claims, writings, and all kind of
iecal business attended to carefully and with
dispatch. -M 8, 1871. ly.
gOLOMON MAL1CK,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Office at his residence on Arch Street, one sqnare
north of the Court House, near the Jail, SUN
BURY, PA. Collections nnd nil professional
'iisinps promptly attended toin this and adjoin
ing counties. Consultations cun be had in the
German language. July27-18T2.
o. w. ztr.GLEn. L. t. ltoiniiiACir.
zii:;m:h a- rohrhacii,
attorneys at law,
Olliec In Ilaupt's Building, lately occupied by
Judge Rockefeller an 1 L. T. Robrbacb, Kq.
Collections nnd nil professional biiMuepS
pr -inplly attended to in Hie Courts of Northum
iierland and adjoining counties.
Pee. g. 1S71.
atcls nifij ilcstanntrtts.
VTAI'SOVlIi HOTEL,,
W. F. KITCIvEN, Fr.opniKTon,
Mt. ('AiiMni., Noktii'd Cocsty, Pa.
Centrally located In the town, and ample uc
o enmo da linn J firnishod to the traveling public.
A conveydnce runs to au.l from every patscuger
triia free of charge.
July 27, 1S72.
WASHINGTON HOI SC., C. NEFF
Proprietor, Corner of Market ,fc Second
Streets, opposite tho Court House, Sunburv,
Pa. May28,'7i).
iTl.EGIIENV HOI SE, A. BECK,
Proprietor, Nos. S12 and U Market Street,
above eighth, PHILADELPHIA. Terms, 3
per day. Ho respectfully solicits your patron
age. JniUl'ii.
"VTATIONAL, HOTEL. AUGUSTUS
i WALD, Proprietor, Georgetown Nortb'd
County, Pa., ut Hie Station of the N. C. R. W.
Choice wines and cigars at the bar.
The tablets supplied with the best the lniirkvt
ntVnnls. (iood stabling and attentive ostlers.
t" HifkL'HH enI' aV u a vi
LOUIS HUMMEL, Proprietor,
Commerce St., SHAM0K1N, PENN'A.
Having just retltted the above Saloon for thu
accomodation of the public, Is now prepared to
nerve J is friends with the best refreshments, aud
fresh Lager Beer, Ale, Porter, and all other malt
qiiors.
i. i,RO EAN IIOTElT,"
JOSEPH BACKER, Proprietor,
Third Street, near the Depot,
V SUNBURY, PENN'A.
This hotel Is conducted on the Europeau plan.
Meals ut all hours day aud night. A Ladies'
Saloon attached. Tho best of Liquors kept at
'he bar. Charges moderate. mayl S,'7"'.
it v e KtV'sT ii or Ei..
JOSIA1I BYERLY, Proprietor, Lower Mnlia
noy township, Northumberland county, Pa.,
ou the road leading from Georgetowu to I'uiou
town, Smith Inn, Trevortou Pottsville, &c.
Thu choicest Liquors and Segars ut the bar.
The tables arc provided with the best of the sca
boo. Stabling large aud well suited for drovers,
with good ostlers.
Every attention paid to make guests comforta
ble. Nov. 11, 187l.-ly.
JUating House.
Waltz &Bright,
Third Street, opposite thu Moore & Dlsslngcr
buildings,
SUNBURY, PENN'A.,
have opened an Eating House, and furnish
Meals at all Hour.
All kinds of Game in season, Fish, Turtle, Oys
ters, iVe., are served up in the best style.
Families supplied with Turtle Soup, Ac, at
be shortest notice.
The best of Mult Liquors at the Bar.
vlnue 22, 18T2. tf.
usinc&s tfbs.
.V. S. KUOAD8. J. r-ACKKn niYs
WH. RHOADK & CO.,
HETAIL UEALEKS Or
tNTHRACITE COAL, SUNBURY, PENN'A.
Office with Haas, Faoelt Jfc Co.,
Orders lea at Sensholti Bro's., office Market
t reet, will receive prompt alleulion. Country
iiMoiu respectfully solicited.
Feb. 4, 1S71. tf.
ANTHRACITE COAL I
r T A I. E N TINE DIETZ, Wholesale and
V Itelail dealer in every variety of
ANTHRACITE COAL, UPPER WHARF,
SUNBURY, PENN'A.
All kinds of Grain taken la exchange for Coal,
uleri solicited and filled promptly. Orders left
S. V. Nevin's Coofeetlouery Store, on Third
reet, will rueieve prompt attention, aud money
csipted for. the same as at the oltloe.
NEW COAL, YARD.
HUE undersigned buying connected the Coal
l. business with bisexleuaive FLOUR & GRAIN
idf, is prepared to supply families with the
ERV lU:TOF (Oil,,
CHEAP FOR CASH,
rg. Stove nnd Nut, constantly on hand. Grain
keu in exehango for Coal.
J. M CADWALLADER.
5uubary, Jan. 15, 1I4T0. tf.
' TCtiratolinried In 1S4.0.
PRICE 91 BO IN ADVANCE. )
$cto Sbbcrtiscmcnts.
fjCNIll'UV 91 A It RLE YARD,
opposite the Court House,
SUNBURY, PENN'A.
THE undersigned has returned from the Ver
mont Marble Quarries with 5ft Tons of
Marble for
nonnmcnls, (raveNtonen,
&c, Ac.
He has bought at such figures that
will allow him to sell better stone, for
less money, than heretofore. The best
BiSuthorlaud Falls Marble,
which Is better than Italian. Rutland Is now
sold as low ns tho Manchester.
Those who need anything in tho Marble line,
for Monuments, Grnvc-Stones, or other purposes,
will find it to their interest to call and examine
this large stock, as better bargains can be secur
ed than buying from parties 'huckstering' round
the country.
All Ictterlng'wlll bo done lit 'ike neatest and
mo6t Improved style.
W. M. DAUGIIERTY.
Sunbury, June 29, 1873.
NEW
Flonr, Feefl, Fruit ani Vegetalile Store,
Spruce Street, between Front and Second,
SUNBURY, PA.
JOHN WILVER
having just opened ft Store nt the nhove place,
where all kinds of of the best brands of
I'lonr nnd Feed
will be sdlrVKt greatly reduced prices. The cele
brated Ruck's Mills Flour will be kept constantly
on hand. Also, nil kinds of
Feed, Grain, Corn, Onts and Rye, chopped or
whole,
Potafoew, Apples, Cnblinge V Fruit
generally, nt n cheaper rate than can be bought
elsewhere. All goods delivered Free of Cliargc.
Call and examine my stock and usccrtaiu the
prices before purchasing elsewhere.
JOHN WILVER.
Sunbury, Dec. 2, lS71.-tf.
Up De Grains
EYE J2sTlD E.A.1R,
INFIRMARY.
SUNBURY, TENS' A.
IS Institution Is now open for the reception
of Patients for the treatment of Disease of
the
fcAll,
TIIHOAT,
CATAliKU,
Ac, &c, &c,
nnd operations In GENERAL SURGERY. Our
collection of INSTRUMENTS is very large, com
prising all the latest Imj'kovewksts, cualiling us
to meet
SURGERY
in all forms. Physicians a ro invited to accom
pany Patients to our Institution for operations.
liv request oi many l;iti.ens, we will uttend to
calls in GENERAL PRACTICE.
Infirmary, Clement's Riiiltlln,
CORNER THIRD AND MARKET STS.,
SUNBURY, PA.
C.E.I I'OE GRAFF,
Phvsiclau and Surgeon.
SunViuty, Feb. 3, 1872.-tf.
j. W. WASHINGTON'S
GRAND ItARRER NIIOl.
The old permanent shop of the town.
We decline the boast, but at the same nine
consider that the mighty truth niuyjbc seasona
bly spoken without manifesting nn uncomforta
ble amount of vanity and ambition.
Just twenty years ago I began my business
career In this place half my lifetime thus far
Spent, have I stood upou the floor of our shop
day After day, uud night after night, and applied
the sharp blue gleaming steel, uud within that
elapse of time embraced by the mighty folds of
that eventful period have I shaved nearly every
body in the coun'ry (in common parlance) and
to oblige the public Interest wo herein publicly
announce tu our patrons old and new that we
are ready to shave them all again three hundred
thousand times or more.
Come when you please, imi in tinu is the max
im we ore always ready to work, forenoon or
afternoon, to shave yoti, hair cm vou, shampoo
you, whisker dye you, or perfume, comb nild ar
range the hair with artistic skill, in the "water
fall" or water raise ttyle to suit the customer.
We work to please, not please to work.
Stop, don't go past our shop to get shaved on
the basis of ability because we do it as well as
It can be done or ever could be.
A chance Is all that we demand
To give the proof we hold in hand.
A few door above Depot, near Market street.
Oct. 1, 187a
M 41 C O 11 STORE!
CHRISTIAN NEFF,
Second Street, opposite tho Court House, SUN
BURY, PA.,
Respectfully invites the attention of Retailers
and others, that he has on haud, and will con
stantly keep all kinds of
FOREIGN AND DOME8T1C LIQUORS,
Consisting of Pure Brandies: Cogniuc, Cherry,
Ginger, Roebclleaud Otard.
Whiskies: Pure Rye Copper-OiEtillcd, Moi"u
gaacla, Apple uud Nectar.
PURE HOLLAND GIN !
Wines: Champagne Wine, Sherry, Tort and
Claret.
Crab Cider, Chaiupugae Cider, X, E. Rum,
Brown Stout and Scoteli Ale.
BTOMACII AND BAB BITTERS,
And all others Liquors which can be found iu
the city markets, which will be sold at Whole
sale and Retail. Every article guaranteed as
represented. Also, a large lot of DEMIJOHNS
and BOTTLES, always ou hand.
- Orders pronitHI attended to, and public
patronage respectfully solicited
C NF.FF.
Sunbttry, Joly 3, 18U. ly.
Jacob shipmam.
THOMPSON 11RUH.
Fire, Eife and
Aeeideut
INSURANCE
AGENCY
or
SIIIPMAN tt DERR,
MARKET STREET, SUNBURY, PA.
COMPANIES REPRESENTED.
N. American, Philadelphia, Assets, $3,783,580
enterprise,
623,865
Manhattan,
N. American
New York,
l,8o8,Ottl
803,670
J, Dot), 139
882,180
750,000
8,000,003
5,501,000
8,835,781
4,616,868
2,544,310
1,627,010
1,851,007
BJtt.100
14,865,234
868,100
868,301
7.WO.OO0
Lorillard, "
Yonkers N.York"
Hanover, "
Imperial, London, .
Lycomiug, Muney,
Franklin' Philadelphia,
Home, New York,
Hartford, Hartford,
Phwulir, "
Travelers,
Farmers Int. Co., York,
N, British & Mercantile
Nouimerce, New York,
Corwlcb, Norwich,
New England Mutnal Life,
SUNBURY, PA.,
BALTIMORE LOCK HOSl'ITAE
J-R. JOHNSTON,
rhyslclnn of this celebrated Institution, has
discovered tho most certain, speedy, pleasant and
effectual remedy In the world for all
DISEASES OF IMPRUDENCE.
Weakness of tho Back or Limbs, Strictures,
Affections of Kidneys and Bladder, Involun
tary Discharges, Impotoncy, General Debili
ty, Nervousness, Dyspepsy, Languor, Low
Spirits, Confusion or Idcns, Palpitation of
the Heart, Timidity, Tremblings, Dimness
of Sight or Giddiness, Disease of the Head,
Throat, Nose or Skin, Affections of Liver, Lungs,
Stomach or Bowels these terrible Disorders
arising from the Solitary Habits of Youth those
secret and solitary practices more fatal to their
victims than the song of Syrens to the Mariners
of Ulysses, blighting their most brilliant hopes
of anticipations, rendering marriage, &c., impos
sible. tOUNG MEN
especially, who have become the victims of Soli
tary Vice, that dreadful and destructive bnbit
which annually sweeps to an untimely grnvo
thousands of youne men of the most exalted
talents and brilliant Intellect, who might other
wise. have entranced listening Senates with the
thunders of eloquence or waked to ecstacy tbe
living lyre, may call with full confidence.
MARRIAGE.
Married Persons or Yonng Men contemplating
mnrringc, aware of Physical Weakness, (Loss
of Procrcatlve Power Impotcncy), Nervous Ex
citability, Palpitation, Organic Weakness, Ner
vous Debility, or any other Disqualification,
speedily relieved.
He who places himself under the care of Dr. J.
may religiously confide in his honor ns a gentle
man, and confidently 'rely U'on his skill ns a Phv
siclau. ORGANIC WEAKNESS,
Impotency, Loss of Power, immediately Cured
aud full Vigor Restored.
This Distressing Affection which renders Llfo
miserable aud marriage Impossible is the penalty
paid by the victims 'Of improper indulgences.
Young persons are too apt to commit excesses
from not being awaro of the dreadful conseqences
thnt mny ensue. Now, who that understands
the subject will pretend to deny that tho power
of procreation is lost sooner by those falling Into
Improper habits than by tho prudent 1 Besides
being deprived the pleasures of healthy offspring,
the most serious and destructive symptoms to both
body and mind arise. The system becomes de
ranged, the Physical and Mental Functions
Weakened, Loss of Procreatlve Power, Nervous
Irritability, Dyspepsia, Palpitation of tho Heart,
Indigestion, Constitutional Debility, a Wasting
of tiie Frame, Cough, Consumption, Decay and
Death.
A CURE WARRANTED IN TWO DAYS.
Persons ruined In honlth by unlearned preten
ders who keep them trilling month after mouth,
taking poisonous and injurious compounds,
should npply immediately.
DR. JOHNSTON,
Member of the Roynl College of Surgeons, Lon
don, Graduated from ono of the most eminent
Colleges in the United States, and tho greater
part of whose Ife has been spent iu the hospitals
of London, Pris, Philadelphia and elsewhere,
bus effected some of the most astonishing cures
that were ever known ; ninny troubled with ring
ing In the head and cars when asleep, great
ncrvousucss, being alarmed at sudden sonnds-,
bushl'ulness, with frequent blushing, attended
sometimes with derangement of mind, werccured
lmmcdintelv.
TAKE PARTICULAR NOTICE.
Dr. J. addresses all those who have Inlurrd
themselves by improper indulgence and soiitary
habits, which ruin both body and mind, unfitting
them for cither business, study, society or mar
riage. TiiESG are some of tho sad and melancholy
eficcts produced by early habits of youth, vis:
Weakness of the Back and Limbs, Pains iu the
Back and Head, Dimness of Sight, Loss of Mus
cular Power, Palpitation of the Heart, Dyspepsy,
Nervous Irritability, Derangement of Digestive
Functions, General Debility, Symptoms of Con
sumption, &c.
Mkntallt The fear ftil effects ou the miud
arc much to be dreaded Loss of Memory, Con
fusion of Ideas, Depression of Spirits, Evil
Forebodings, Aversion to Society, Self-Distrust,
Love of Solitude, Timidity, &c, are some of tho
evils produced.
Thousands of persons of all uges can now
judge what is the cause of their declining health,
losing their vigor, becoming, weak, pale, nervous
nnd emaciated, having u singular appearance
aljout the eyes, cough und symptoms of consump
tion. YOUNG MEN
Who have Injured themselves by a certain prac
tice indulged iu when alone, a habit frequently j
iv-ui lieu uuiu c ii cuiiiiauiuiiB, or uv bcuuui, mu
effects of which aro nightly felt, even wheu
asleep, and if fiol cured, renders marriage impos
sible, aud destroys both mind and body, should
upply immediately.
What a pity that a young man, the hope of his
couutry, the durllug of his parents, should be
snutchci', from all prospects and enjoyments of
life, by the consequence of deviating from tho
path of nature and indulging in a certain secret
habit. Such persons mi'st, before contemplating
MARRIAGE,
relied that a sound miud uud body are thu most
necessary requisites to promote counubial happi
ness. Indeed without these, the journey through
life becomes a weary pilgrimage; the prospect
hourly darkens to thu view j tbe miud becomes
shadowed with despair and tilled with the melan
choly reflection, that the happiness of uuother
becomes blighted with our own.
A CERTAIN DISEASE:
When the misguided and imprudent votary of
pleasure fiuds that he bus Imbibed the seed's of
this painful disease, it too often happens that an
ill-limed sense of shnme, or dread of discovery,
deters biiu from applying to those who, froin
education and rcsiicciubility, can uloue befriend
him, delaying till the constitutional symptoms of
this horrid disease make their appearauee, such
as ulcerated sore throat, diseased nose, uocturul
pains iu tbe head and limbs, dimness of sight,
deafness, nodes on the shin bones und arms,
blotches on the head, faco and extremities, pro
gressing with frightful rapidity, till ut last tho
palate of tbe mouth or the bones of the nose fall
in, and tbe victim of this awful disease becomes
a horrid object of commiseration, till death puts
a period to his dreadful suffering, by sending
hliu to " that Undiscovered Country from whence
no traveller returns."
It Is a melancholy fact that thousands DIE
victims to this terrible disease, through falling
Into the hands of Iguoruut or unskillful PRE
TENDERS, who, by the use of thut deadly Pol
son, Mercury, Ac., destroy tbe constitution, aud
incapable of curing, keep the unhappy sufferer
month ufter mouth taking their uoxious or in
jurious compounds, and Instead of being restored
to a renewal of Life Vigor and Happiness, lu des
pair leave him with ruined Health to slh over
his galling disappointment.
To such, therefore, Dr. Johnston pledges him
self to preserve the most Inviolable Secrecy, aud
from his extensive practice aud observations lu
the great Hospitals of Euroe, and the first lu
this country, via i Engluud, Fruuce, Philadelphia
and elsewhere, Is eunblcd to offer tbe most cer
tain, speedy und effectual remedy In tho world
for all diseases of Imprudence.
DR. JOHNSTON,
OFFICE, NO. T, 8. FREDERICK STREET.
Baltimore, M. D.
Left hand side going from Baltimore street, a few
doors from tbe corner. Fall not to observ name
and numbar.
ttfNo letter received nnles postpaid aud
coutaiulng a stamp to be used on the reply. Per
sons writing should state age, and send a portion
of advlrtlsiaaieut describing symptoms.
There are so inauy Paltry, Desigulug and
Worthless Impnsters advertising themselves as
Physicians, trilling with and ruining tbe health
of all who unfortunately full Into their power,
thut Dr. Johnston deems It necessary to say es
pecially to. thee uuaoqualuted with hi reputa
tion thut bis Credentials or Diplomas always
bung in his office.
ENDORSEMENT OF THE PRESS.
Tbe many thousands cured at this Establish
ment, year after year, and lU numerous im.
portaut Surgical Operations performed by Dr,
Johnston, wlluessed by the representatives of the
press and many other papers, notices of which
nave appeared again ana ugain before the public,
besides bis sUndiug as geutleinan of character
aud responsibility, la a sufficient guarautee to the
ailllcled. Shlu diseases speedily cursd.
February 18, 18T. ly
.VMTUt tlrTri'n7gEf'tNDtNc:i.
SATURDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 23, 1872.
ten
elect IJottrji.
WHAT MAKES A MAN.
Not numerous years nor lengthened life,
Not pretty children and a wile,
Not pins and chains and fancy rings,
Nor any such like trumpery things j
Nor pipe, cigar, nor buttled wine,
Nor liberty with kings to dine.
Nor coat, nor nor yet a hat,
A dandy vest or trimmed cravat,
Nor all Hie world's wecltli laid in store j
Nor Mi-ter, Ui'v'rciul. Hir, nor Squire.
With titles that the memory tire ;
Nor ancestry traced luck to Win,
Who went f rom Normandy lo kill ;
Nor Latin, Greek, nor Hebrew lore,
N'T thousand volumes rumbled o'er j
Nor Judge's robes nor Major's mace,
Nor crowns that deck the royal race
These all united nevtr can
Avail to make a single man.
A truthful soul, a loving miud,
Full of affection for lis kind ;
A helper of the Human race
A soul of beauty aud of grace (
A spirit form erect and free,
That never basely bends the knee j
That will not bear a feather's weight
Of slavery's chain, or small or great j
That trnly speaks of God within,
And never makes n league with sin ;
That snaps the fetters despots make,
Aud luvos the truth for its own snko ;
That worships God nnd him alone ;
That trembles nt no tyrant's nod
A soul that fears no one but God,
And thus cun smilo at curse and ban
That is I be cnul that makes the man.
drtfisccllanccns
ANCI EXT TI II EKEEI'ERS.
In :il lltili Scripture tt, h not expressed
lii liiiMing couiis'jlliuj; or H ini etistiunib
lin of person 'ihut mrin st-liulde
nsn clockis for to knowo tho lionris of the
ii ii nnd nyglit ; for thou in ecldist dates
nnd thou in Scripture nieiihinun is tnnnd nt
orloit'S, mellowing the houris of tho dai bi
schadew inntid bi the suue in a cerclo, cer
tis tieucre satin in late daies was eny elok
tellinj; the houris of the dtii bi pcise nnd bi
stroke ai d open it is that nouwhere in lloli
Scripture is rx presses monsioun nindof eny
suchfi." Jeginauld Percy, of Chiches
ter, 14S0 (?)
"What 6'clock is it V" naked Emmanuel
Swedenborff, upon his death bed. Hieing
told, ho answered, "It's well ; I thank you ;
may (iod bless you," and the puro spirit of
tho venerable teacher passed nway. "What
o'clock is it?" nsk little children ns they
blow olV the feathered seed-vessels of tho
dandelion, nnd tell the hour by tho number
thnt remains upon the stalk.
Civilized men everywhere, from the cra
dle to the grave, repeat this question often
er than any other. Wero all things at rest
it could never be answered. Motion nlonc
enables us to measure time. Motion is
best exe.mplilied in the lieavenlv bodies,
particularly the sun. Yet "the tool-making
animal never asks. "What o'sun," but sim
ply, what o'cloc k ?"' Ho has brought ni ti
liciiil Ume-keepers to such perfection that
they aro tho most wonderful of his mechan
ical achievements, tho things most nlivo
nnd human iu the entire range of his han
diwork. Many n railway enuincer says of his
watch' "How beautifully she goes?" hcver
he and seldom it. A clock would have
niade Robinson Crusoe less lonely upon bis
desert island. Children, lunatics, and
poets, of imagination all compact, trans
late its tickings into articulate speech. To
Uttlo Paul Roinbey, the great clock in Dr.
UUmber's hall repeated so distinctly "How
is niy little friend ?' that he replied to it
rather than to the doclor, "Arcry well. I
thank you, Sir." Only the other evening I
saw Young America of six. holding papa's
watch lo Ids car, and keeping time with
tonuue nnd nodding bend, ri he rhnntoj,
"Alino.si-ti:iu-ti-t;o.ci-I.K'(l," over uud over
a'jain. Divisions of lime have varied with
dillureiit nes and nations. The fiacti ni
of ihc Holtir yenr above .'W." days (."i hours,
lrt minutes, nnd 40.7 second) so confused
the nncicnts. that in the reign of Julius Cue
Bar the calendar indicated summer when
the Reason was actually spring. Ciesar
rectified the dale, and introduced the Julian
Calendar, which added nu extra day to ev
ery fourth year, by repeating our '2-l of
February. The Romans counted that as
the bixth day before tho calends (first) of
March, and called the twelve-month, an
swering to our leap year, tho liLssexlile
year, because it had "two of these sixth
days. A solar year, however, does not
contain 3(jo days, but lacks 11-7 minutes
of it. This made coufusiou nguiu, nnd in
liM2 Ihe discrepency had Ixvome 10 days.
Then I'ope Gregory XIII mice more cor
rected the date, by changing the fifth ol Oc
tober to the fifteenth, and introduced a sys
tem which omits leap year three times in
every four hundred years. Under it 1700,
1S00 aud 1900 nre not leap years, but A. D.
2000 is. Great liritaiu held out until 17o2,
wheu the dill'erence hnd increased to
11 days. Then by act of rarliauient she
nlso adopted the Gregorian Calendar, or
New Stylo, which changed the third of Sep
tember to tho fourteenth, in all her posses
sions, iuuludiug the American colonics. It
was done against violent opposition, tho
people faueyiug they wero cheated out of
eleven days. Russia, reluctant to accept a
ealaudar established by the Papacy, yet ad
heres lo tho old style; and thu passing of
another hundred years has now left her
twelvo days behind the rest of tho world.
All her foreign correspondence, diplomatic
and private, is therefore double dated, us
"St, Petersburg, Jan. 8 20, 1809."
Rabylonians, Persians and Syrians be
gan tho day of 2i hours at sunrise ; Athe
nians begun at sunset, a praclieo vet iu
vogue iu portions of Italy. So did Jews iu
dclcrcticc to the record, "Aud the evening
and the nioruiug were the first day." The
babit of commencing the Sabbath at bun
set on Saturday aud ending it ut sunset ou
Sunday, still adhered to by some descend
ants of the Puritaus, is based upon the
same text. The Jews ultimately adopted
the Rotuan method of dividing the day pro
per iuto twelve hours 5 o'clock a. ui. be
ginning tho first hour, noon tho seventh,
and 6 p. m. the twelfth and tho night iu
to four watches of three hours each. Tho
modern Japaueso divide their day into
twelve hours in&tread of 24, uud the linih
tniua of India divide theirs iutoUO.
In the childhood of the race, life was full
of omeus. One that has come down to us
is the call of a little beetle to his male,
which sounds like the rapid ticking of a
watch. Tennyson sings I
"I did not bear the dog bowl, mother, uor the
death teatch beat."
and millions of English speaking people yet
shudder at the faint ticking in thedarkuess,
aud wheu it is heard for three successive
uights, regard it as the sure precursor of un
early death.
Primitive man had little need of artificial
timekeepers. The opening and cloning of
(lowers ; the voices of birds, beasts and in
sect ; the positions of sun, uioon and stars
AMBEICAB
told tho passage of time .with accuracy en
ough for his simple life. Mariners, hunters,
shepherds, and nil other men much alone
with nature, still keep familiar with her
habits nnd her moods. The Indian says :
"Pour moons have passed," or it was leu
sleeps ago," and the farmer, "It was be
tween day and sunrise," or "It was halfnn
hour by sun."
Job's expression, ,lAs a servant earnest
ly dc.birelh the shndow," points to the ear
lier timekeeper. The sun dial (dinliit, dai
ly) originated, nobody knows when, with
some of the Kastern nations. Isaiah wrote
800 yenrs before Christ, "I will bring back
the shadow of the degrees which is goue
down iu the sun dial of Ahaz, leu degrees
bnckward." Dials wero common among
tho Romans. Ono still preserved in Italy
perpetuates the pleas'.ug fiction that it was
used by Cicero in his Villa nt Tusculum.
Plauttis (11 C. 200) declaims in one of his
comedies :
"Tbe gods confound the man who first found out
Ifow todisllnguMi tbe hours I Confound lilm,too,
Who In this place set up a sun dial
To cut and buck my d-ys ns wretchedly
Intostnall portions. When I was n hoy
My belly was a sun dial . one more sure,
Truer, nnd more exact than any of them,
This dial told me wheu t'was proper time
To go fo dinner when I had ought to eat,
But now-n-days why even when I have
I can't fail-to unless tho sun gives leav,
The town's full of these confounded dials
The greatest part of its Inhabitants
Shrunk up with hunger creep along the street."
A dial, usually standing upon n stone
post or a sunny knoll, is still preserved as
:t relic of the past in almost every Knglish
couutry churchyard. Around it on Sun
day mornings, an hour or two before ser
vice, the rustics wero wont to gather, dis
cussing crops, the weather, nnd politics,
matrons gossipped soberly, and children
tumbled leap-frog over mossy tomb-stones,
or played ball against the tower till the
parson's tinkling bell summoned nil lo
worship.
Only n few years ago, Kchle, the author
of "The Christian Year," after conducting
the morning service nt his little church iu
Hampshire, used lo spend Sunday nfter
noous in playing cricket with the young
men of his congregation. Imagine Jona
than Edwards or A'ehetuiah Adams at such
a recreation 1
lu the northern hemisphere the dial's in
dicator, gnomon "one that knows" must
point unerringly to the North Pole. Iuour
latitude its angle is about 41 degrees. Ou
the Equator it must be tint, directed toward
the horrizou : at the North Polo upright
pointing directly overhead. In tho South
ern hemisphere it must poiut to the South
Polo.
Tho gnomon did "kuow" well enough
for the ancients ; but a dial does not indi
cate seconds, and cannot be expected to tell
time within two or three minutes. So mod
ern life discards it, save wheu an ingeni
ous youth is charmed by tho siren song of
some advertiser ; himself nlso it youth
whom the uncertainties of fate may yet de
velop into a forger, or a Director of the
Erio Railway. In response to the seduc
tive nnnouiicemenl : "A good watch for
ono dollar ;" the ingenious youth remits
his greenback to Rox 114,144 New York
Post OHice, uud receives in return a pock
et dial which may hove cost ten cents, and
is of exactly the same form ns that worn by
the fool whom Jacques met in tho forest
And then ho drew n dial from bis puke,
And looking on it with hick luster eye,
Says, very wicly, "It's Id o'clock."
In clear weather the dial showed the hour
by day, as the stars did by night ; but
when clouds came, something more was
needed.
Many contrivances wero introduced.
Good King Alfred, so the sfory goes, burn
ed six wax caudles, every day a foot long,
and marked with inch divisions. Each
lasted lour hours, nnd was consumed at the
rate of ouo inch in every 20 minutes. To
prevent waste aud iraegularity of draught,
they wero enclosed iu horu lanterns. Rut.
many centuries before Alfred, the East had
originated the "Clepsydra" ("to steal wa
ter,) a transparent graduated vase tilled
with liquid, which slowly trickled or stole
away through a little aperture in the bot
tom. The receding height marked the pas
sage of the hours. The Clepsydra was used
in ancient Cli'.na, nnd in Egypt under the
Ptolemies. Civsar found it among the na
tive liritons. Pompey introduced it into
Roman Courts "to prevent babbling." One
of Martial's epigrams counsels a dull de
cl.'iiiner, who was constantly quailing from
a glass of water during bis endless harangue,
to relieve both himself aud nis audieuco by
drinking from the Clepsydra instead.
Iu the Colony of Massachusetts Ray cen
turies later, au'haur glass stood before the
Puritan preacher, aud was turned by a
tithing man when ho began his sermon. If
ho stopped long before the sand ran out,
his hea ix is were dissatisfied ; if he contin
ued long after, they grew impatient. Tho
hour-glass is only a modification of the
Clepsydra. It substitutes tine sand for wa
ter, ns something that will neither freeze or
evaporate, nnd which, when tho glass Is
full, will run a little faster than when it is
nearly empty. It originated before the
Christian era, and has been used by uearly
all nations. It was so common among our
ancestors, n hundred years ago, that tho il
lustration of the Primer was drawn from
ono of the most familiar objects in their
daily life.
As runs the glass
Our life doth pas.
In dry, equable Eastern climates the
Clepsydra long maintained its supremacy,
nnd it is used in India even to this day. It
was exceedingly inaccurate, but some im
provements were constanly added. Some
times water flowed iu tears from tho eyes
of automata, nnd sometimes a Hunting sta
tue, rising aud falling with tho liquid,
pointed to the passing hours engraved upon
an upright scale. Next a little wheel was
introduced, which the water fell upou drop
by drop, turning it. and thus coiumuuicat
ing motion to hands upou a dial, lu tiino
miichinnry was added to tell not only the
hours of the day, but the age of the uioou,
and tho motions of other heavenly bodies ;
aud finally, thu Clepsydra and it grew iuto
an ingenious and complicated walei -clock.
A thousand years ago a Persian Caliph,
tho Harouu ul Rascild of the Arabian
Nights, sent ouo to the Emperor Charle
magne, which had a strikiug apparatus.
Wheu the 12 hours were completed, 12
doors opened in its face, an automaton
horscmau rode from each, waited till the
strikiug was over, aud then rodo back again,
closiug the door after him.
"Clock," like "telegraph," is a word
much older than tho iuveution for which it
sluuds. It origiually signified "bell," and
tho French ctvX retains that meaning. Up
lo Elizabeth's day all instruments for mea
suring time were kuowu as horologes ("to
call the hour") aud at a later period as
chronometers.
The invention of clocks is claimed for
'Sunday observance Is far less rigid la rural
England than In our country disliicls.
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many different people nnd eras, from tho
Chineso, 2,000 years before Christ, down lo
the Germans of eight centuries ago. Oue
of tho earliest allusions lo them occurs iu n
French poem of 1305 ;
"And then he made his clocke stilke
In his balls nnd lu his chambers,
With wheels very subtllly contrived,
With a cOiitiuning movement."
There first general use was in monaste
ries, during the eleventh century, liefore
their introduction the sacristan sat up to
watch the stars, that he might waken the
monks nt tho hours of prayer. The com
mon people nttributed their origin to the
devil, and had anybody outside the relig
ious orders incurred thu odium of first in
troducing them, he would doubtless have
been put to death ns a sorcerer. Dante,
writing in 1300, mentions the strikiug of
one, and likens .i its movements the "sweet
accord and harmony" of a circling dance of
rejoicing spirits iu Paradise. Chaucer (138)
refers to "a clock or any abbey orloge."
And Froissart, of ttte same era, after uo
seribing minutely tho mechanism of the
clock, ndds :
"Therefore I boll him very valiant anj wise
Who first found the use of it ;
That by bis sense did begin and make
A thing so noble mid of such great profit."
For many centuries public clocks upon
churches nud market houses usually had
nn automaton which stepped out of the
face to strike the hour, and then disap
peared. The Strnsburg Cathedral contain
ed tho gfcat wonder of the Middle Ages. It
was a combinatinu of nn astronomical and
a terrestrial clock, with it perpetual alma
nac, nud had moving figures of a golden
cock, children, nion, nngels, nud Iho Vir
gin Mary.
"And we saw Peter clasp his hands,
And the cock crew hoarsely to all the lands j
And the twelve Apostles come nnd go,
And the solemn Chri-t puss sadly nnd slow,
As the crowd beneath lu silcnco pressing,
beut to that cold mechanic bleosing.
We read in Hyperion of it Coblentz clock
in the form of n gigantic human head,
whose jawa open nnd smito together at
each string, ns if to cry with the brazen
head of Friar Ritcnn, "Time was, Time is,
Time is past." Tho East India Company
once presented to the Emperor of China
two clocks in the form of chariots, their
golden cases studded with diamonds.rubies
and pearls. Upou each sata lady with a bird
upon her linger. Ry a secret motion its
wings fluttered, and the chariot moved in
nny direction, in seeming obedience to an
automaton boy pushing it from behind.
Horace Walpolo owned an exquisite liltlo
clock, presented to Anne lioleyn by Henry
VIII. After Walpole's death, (ueen Vic
toria, bought it at auction for 110 audit
still runs nt Windsor Castle. A cathedral
flock in Somersetshire, set up in 133"i, kept
time for 000 years before the works wore
out. Iu the lime of William the HI., a
sentinel of the palace was condemned to
death for sleeping on duly. The soldier
insisted that at midnight the hour of his
alleged dereliction he heard the enormous
clock of St. Paul's Cathedtal (23 miles dis
taut ns the bird Hies) blriko 13. Invcs
tigatioti proving that it did strike 13 on
that night, the King pardoned him.
Droz, a mechanic of Geneva, produced
nu iustruinei.it which excelled nil others in
ingenuity. On it were seated a negro, a
shepherd nnd n dog. When tho clock
struck, tho shepherd played six tunes on
his flute, and his dog approached nnd fawn
ed upon him. This wonderful machine
was exhibited to the King of Spain, who
was greatly delighted with it."
"The gentleness of tny dog." said Droz,
"is his least merit. If your Map-sty touch
one of thu apples which you see iu the shep
herd's bas-ket, you will admire Ihe animal's
fidelity."
The King took an apple, nnd the dog flew
at his hand, barking so loud that the king's
dog, which was iu the room, began to bark
also. At this the courtiers, not djubting
that it was an a Hair of witchcraft hastily
left the room, crossing themselves as they
departed. Having desired the Minister ol"
Marine (tho only otlo who ventured to re
main) to ask the negro w hat o'clock it was
tho minister did so, but obtained uo reply.
Droz then observed that tho negro had not
yet learned Spanish, upon which tho ques
tion was repeated iu Frcuch, when the black
immediately answered him. At this new
prodigy the firmness of the minister also
forsook him, and he retreated precipitately,
declaring that it must be the wurl; of a su
pernatural being.
To authors, clocks have been good for
instruction, for admonition, and for re
proof. All literature is full of them. A
story is preserved of a shopkeeper who re
commended ono ns made by "Thomas
Fudgit." That was his translation of the
wholesome old wanting, timus fuijit,
painted upon the dial.
Tho following atrocity bears tho ever
welcome label, "Thomas Hood, his mark:"
"A mechanic hi labor will o'.'tya discard
If the rate of his pay be dislikes ;
But a clock and its cute is Uncommonly hard
Will continue to work, though It strikes t"
In "The Rollry at Urogus," l.ongfi How
catches his favorite echo that of ihe med
iaeval ages :
"Then mot musical anj solemn, bringing back
the olden times,
Willi their strange; iMoiirlhly iuumc, rang the
melancholy chimes."
Chimes originated with the Dutch. There
is a poetic saying that a child born while
they aro sounding will have power to seo
spirits. The chimes of Old Trinity moved
Edmund Kenn to tears ; nnd thousands of
New Yorkers gather at miduighl on the
31st of every December to hear them
"Ring out tho old nnd riug iu the new."
"Watch" is from a s.txon word, signify
ing "to wake." At first as large as n sau
cer, had weights, aud was called "the
pocket clock." The earliest known use of
the modem name occurs in a Ciiauoery re
cord of 1042, which records that Edward
VI, had "ono larum or watch of iron, the
case being likewise of irou-gilt, with- two
plummetlcs of lead."
Tho first great improvement, tho substi
tution of the spring tor weights, was made
about l.VK). The earliest springs wore not
coiled, but only straight pieces of steel.
The principle of the spriug was borrowed
from nature. Ry a spring membrane, the
little flea projects himself 200 limes the
length of his own body. When certain
plants, ns the balsam inqxitunt, become
ripe, springs burst their vessels and scatter
their seeds to the wiuds. In huinau bod
ies the springs of elastic cushions of the
joiuts prevent the ends of the bones from
jarring ngaiust tho other.
Early watches wero rude and imperfect.
They had ouly one hand, and required
wiudiug twice a day. Thu dials were of
silver or brass; the cases had uo crystals,
but opened at back or front, aud wero four
or five inches iu diameter. A plain watch
cost tho equivalent of If 1,500 iu our curren
cy. And after one was ordered it took a
yenr to make it. Shakespeare mentions
clocks over forty limes, dials clevum times,
aud watches ouly three or four. Sebastian
says, iu Ific Tomjxst ; "He is wiudiug up
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the watch of bis wit ; by and by it will
strike ;" and the Priest, in li:rffth 2'jhl :
"Since when, tny watch hatli told uio
toward my grave 1 have traveled but two
hours."
A EATflKH'd AttVICR TO K BRIDE.
Said n ymg husband whose business e pe
culations Vere uusuccessful : "My wittTs
silver tra-s:t, the bridal gift of a rich un
cle, doomed mo to financial ruin. It in
volved n hundred unexpected expenses,
which, in trying lo meet have made- me
tho bankrupt I am." His experience is
the experience of mnrVy others, who, less
wise, do not know whnt is the goblin of
the house, working its destruction. A sa
gacious father, of great wealth, exceodirig,
ly mortified his daughter, "by ordering it
to be printed on her wedding-curds, "No
presents, except those adapted to an in
come of j 1,000." .Said he, "You must not.
expect to begin life in the style I nm able,
by many yenrs of labor to indulge; and!
know-pf notlticig which will tempt you to
try more than tho well-intentioned but per
nicious gilts of young friends." Such ad
vice is timely. If other parents would fol
low the iittno I'lnn, many young men
would bo spared yenrs of incessant toil
and anxiety ; they would not tiud them
selves ou '.ho downward road, becauso
their wives had worn all of their salary, or
expended it on the appointments of tho
house. The fato of tho poor man who
found n lynch-pin, and felt himself obliged
to make a carriage to fit it, is the fate of
thu husband who finds his bride in posses
sion of gold and silver valuables, and no
large income to suppoil tho owner's gold
and silver style.
A Jersey paper tells a very interesting
story of a little boy iu that .Slate. Ho was
climbing an apple tree, and when upon
the topmost limb he slipped aud fell to tho
ground. He was picked up nnd carried
into the houso in nn insensible condition.
Aften watching by his bedsice through
many weary hours, his mother perceiv
ed signs of returning conciousness. Lean
ing over him she asked him if there was
anything t.he could do for him, how that
he bitgau to feel belter. Should she balho
his forehead, or change his pillow, or fan
him ? Was there anything lie wanted ?
Opening his eyes languidly, nnd looking
nt her, the little sutl'erer said : "Yes, I
want a pair of pants with a pocket behind,
a little shirt open iu the back, and my hair
parted in the middle.
Txie Philadelphia & Reading Railroad
Company, have taken possession of tho
Catawissa Railroad. Tho road will here
after be known ns the Catawissa aud
Williainspott Division of the Philadel
phia and Reading Railroad. We learn
that there will be hut few chnnges of ihe
men employed by the Catawissa company.
Mr. Webb having resigued the Superin
tendence' of the road, Mr. D. C. Rhinehart,
of Tamaqua, has been appointed to take
his place.
Cutting A HcsnAXD. Jones assumes,'
on comiug home to dinner, the bearing of
nn outraged husband. "Why is it, Mrs.
Jones, that you ride through Wall street
in the very equipage I nm struggling to
maintain for you hi high charge, and cut
your husband " Mrs. Joues at once reas
sures him. "Yon certainly would not
have your wife, from a five thousand dol-,
lad barouche, bow to n man who is at work
for his living !"
Undek the new Internal Revenuo law,
the force of Assessors aud Collectors of
theollice, now numbering 230 of each class,
is to he reduced to 80 by tho 1st of January
next, nnd Commissioner Douglass will soon
bring tho work of consolidating districts in
or.ler lo make the reduction. Iu Bomo
States there will be but one or two collec-i
tors assigned, but in the larger Stntcs nnd
densely populated i;ilies there will be a
nuffleient force lo do tho work without
incoiiwnieuce to the buisncss luterests.i
An immense pressure is beiug brought iu
favor of various incumbents.
A vignette of the lato Thaddeus .Ste
vens, the "(treat Commoner" of Pennsyl
vania, has just been completed at the Bu
reau of Engraving nnd Printing in the
Treasury Deportment; nnd will bo used
upou cither the natienal currency or reve
nue stamps. The ltkcness is perfect, dna
the work is pronouncd as one of the finest
pieces of engraving everexecnted.
A iiACiiELOit editor iu Reading, it is,
slated, courted an aged maiden lady with
greenback attractions, nnd was cut out
by another wooer from Philadelphia, who
carried the lady off into the state of matri
mony. Tho editor look his revence by
heading the wedding notice with, "Another
old citizen gone."
IUuney Burr, ono o( Ihe oldest locomo
tive engineers iu the employ of iho Phila
delphia it Reading Railroad Company, has
been placed on tho retired list. He ran the
fust locomotive over the Lebanon Valley
Railroad.
(Jentlemrn interested in tho leather
trade in Boston do Hot think the almost
total destruction of Iho leather business
in that city will bring about any suspen
sions, except, perhaps, in the cases of ono
or two small firms. Tho stock held by
the leading houses wns small. .
A seveuk storm passed through the
section of country around Pottsville
Thursday night, demolishing the cxtensivo
trestlo-work of the Philadelphia and Read-
ing Coal and Iron Cainpauy's colliery nt
ltecKsiieryuie.
Sozzlk, who has been at the sea-shore,
aud was recently seeu to shoot out of a bar
room door with such rapidity that he lost,
his balance and fell forward, accounted for
his rapid exit by saying it was the effect
of the movement of au uuder-toc.
"Thanks!" muttered oitr bachelor
friend, "no more women iu heaven : they
can't get in. Their hoow nro so broad
they will have to go to tho fcwtil road 1 ,
none of theso fashionables mxi ever travel
through tho mu row gate. "
The "heart" is tho best card in the
chance game of matrimony sometimes
overcome by diamonds and knaves, often
won by tricks, nud occasionally treated
iu a shuttling inauncr, aud thou' cut al
together. ,
A lilt's. Klock is the candidate for (t
school Biiperintcndcncy in Kansas. If she
keeps going aud don't strike she'll do.
A V0L N(J man' in Danville refuses to
fulfil a marriage contract because lie dis
covered his gal smokes a pipe.
It is believed in Xew York that Mrs.
Wood hull and ur aister will receive, as
they deserve, the full extent of thu Uw, if
convicted,, for the scandals published
against promiuent citizens. ,
)T is reported the wheat fields uever
looked' better at this season of the year, in
portions of Fayette couuiy.