ftotire*.
4NNUAL REPORT OF THE
AUDITORS OP BEDFORD COUHTY.
ORGE MARDORFF, Escp. Treasurer of Bed
ford county, in account with said county, from Jan
uary 4. A. D , 1866, to January 9, A. D., 1867.
TREASURER, DR.
TO amount received from James B. Far
quhar. Esq , late treasurer, as per re
ceipts exhibited, $8,298 24
To amount of tax received from collectors.
Jacob A Nicodemus, Woodberry M. 1858 152 84
R D Barclay. Bedford borougn, 1861 25 00
T M Lvneh. Bedford borough, 1862 76 91
William Phillips, Bedford borough, do 47 19
Philip Hardinan, Cumb. Valley, do 5 10
J R Durborrow, Woodberry M, do 2->2 20
Jacob Fetter. Bedford township, 1863 561 11
U H Akers. Bedford borough, 1864 367 72
Samuel Bender, Bloody Run, do 50 00
William Stuckey. Monroe, do 114 70
Joseph Fisber, Providence W, do 58 84
Samuel Beckley, St. Clair, do 65 52
George Beetle, Union, do 73 67
E F Kerr, Bedford borough, 1865 532 10
llenrv B'-egle. Union, '. do 1306 82
John C Figard, Broad Top, do 639 77
John C Black. Bloody Run, do 115 00
Jacob Bowser, Colerain, do 606 83
Archibald Blair. Cumberl'd Valley, do 425 00
Henry Wertx, Harrison, do 135 16
George tiardill, Juniata, do 258 03
Michael Carpenter, Londonderry, do 127 00
Samuel Harvey, Liberty, Jo b3 58
Philip Snyder, Monroe, Jo 19 64
David H Bowser, Napier, do 5J9 09
P M Barton, Providence E. do 239 37
George Baughman, Providence W, do f55 33
Solomon Shrader, St. Clair, do 589 56
WesJey Perdew. Southampton, do 172 91
N N Koons, Snake Spring, do 113 44
Daniel Horn. Sohellsburg, do 100 00
Adolphus Ake, Union, do 50b 05
Solomon Barley, Woodberry M, do 737 29
Samuel Crissman, Woodberry S, do 1221 73
John C Figard, Broad Top, 1866 783 84
Jeremiah Thompson, Bloody Run, do 200 00
Henry Hite, Cumberland Valley do 350 00
Jacob Bowser, Colerain, do 200 00
A W Shoemaker, Harrison, do 185 00
James Fink, Hopewell, do 282 00
Henry Horn, Juniata, do 150 00
Jacob Evans. Londonderry, do 300 00
John MeLain, Liberty, do 60 00
Jacob Fletcher. Monroe, do 715 00
Henry Egolf, Napier, do 347 00
Uriah Melott, Providenee, E, do 105 00
John Kinsey, Sohellsburg, do 57 00
Moses Tewell, Southampton, Jo 249 00
Solomon Barley, Woodberry M, do 362 11
To amount received from Hucksters lor
Hucksters' license, 210 00
To money advanced l'rom citizens of Na
pier and Harrison townships on bridge. 800 00
To money received from sales of estrays, 31 67
To money received on Treasurer s deeds, 26 00
To money received on lath sold at Court
House, _ .2 '5
To costs in commonw'h vs. S Amick et al, 32 30
To amount received on sale of unseated
lands. 82
To amount received on bounty fund, 56 40
To sundry refunding checks, 331 20
Total charges, $25,351 91
TREASURER, CR.
On sundry checks drawn by the commissioners, as
follows, viz :
Paid Petit Jurors, February term, $452 .34
Grand Jurors, do do 171 10
Petit Jurors, Special
Petit Jurors, September term, 336 88
Grand Jufors, do do 142 10
Petit Jurors, November do 383 25
Grand Jurors, do do 142 39
Petit Jurors. May do 261 73
Grand Jurors, do do 127 59
Fox and wild cat scalps, _ 327 53
Isaac Kensinger, Jury Commissioner, 48 00
William Kirk. do do 48 00
J G Fisher, clerk do do 24 00 ;
Tip-staves, 83
Talesmen, 22
Court-crier, t
Assessors making assesment returns, 205 61
Constable's returns, 365 73
George Roades, Commissioner's salary, 238 00
Michael Wertz, do do 141 00
Michael Ritchey, do do 124 00
David Howsare, do do 16 00
J G Fisher, clerk to do 250 00
J Aldstadt. Sheriff, boarding prisoners, 1187 72
do conveying prisoners to
Western Penitentiary, 692 00
do costs on cointn'h cases, 78 98
do costs in commonwealth
vs. John Hammond, 201 86
do costs in commonwealth
vs John Stokenius 25 51
Metropolitan Insurance company, 90 50
John Harris arresting Walker alias Rom
dolf, 20 00
Expenses of Spring election, 241 04
do October election. 414 42
Charles Merwine, services as janitor, Ac., 72 50
John C Figard, money over paid on State
tax, 410 33
Rupp, *hannon A eo., chairs for oourt
house - ... 128 64
Jeremiah Thompson, repairing bridge at
Bloody Run, 200 00
Jacob Lingeofelter, hauling stone, Ac.,
for same, 30 00
0 E Shannon, Esq., fees as Prothonotary, 150 00
G Blymyor A Son, bill of oils, paints, Ac. 300 29
B MeO Blymyer A co., bill of goods, 29 65
W G Perry, dockets for Prothonotary's
office, 31 00
Meyers A Mengel. advertising and blank
printing, ®Bl 50
Durborrow A Lutz, advertising, 562 20
Dr John Compher, attendance on prison
ers at jail, ® 00
Expenses of road views, 232 00
do bridge do 26 96
do do sales, 17 35
John and Joshua Mower, work done in re
pairing court house, 164 90
B W Garretson, buildiDg bridge at Egolf's 959 00
John G. Fisher, making out and distribu
ting duplicates, attending bridge sales,
and money paid for work at courthouse 71 00
William Beegle, bounty and interest, 29 67
A B Cramer, bill of goods, 25 58
Matting for court house, chandeliers, Ac., 150 33
B W Garretson, lumber for court house, 11 94
Wm Troutman, painting courthouse, 215 00
Bounty paid to soldiers under act of 1863, 335 39
S L Russell, overpaid on unseated lands, 112 84
Money overpaid on duplicates for which
treasurer is charged, 224 53
James B Farquhar, money overpaid on
militia fund, 499 75
Henry Nicodemus, costs on commonwealth
cases, 35 51
George Mardorff, money paid for slate roof 545 08
John Sill, interest on note, 60 00
George W Gibbony, bridge at Stonerstown, 500 00
J W Tate, money wrongly paid on deed, 44 53
Revenue stamps and postage for commis
sioner's office, 46 43
S L Russell, services at Harrisburg, 40 00
Woo 1 and coal for public buildings, 180 98
Henry Niodemus, money wrongly paid
on treasurer's deed, 32 37
Stationery for commissioner's office, 40 31
John Aldstadt, bill of goods for jail 160 93
Tobias Boor, building bridge in Cumber
land Valley, 200 00
Jacob A Sleek and Adam Diehl, coal and
wood for jail. 109 90
Costs paid to justices and constables in
commonwealth cases. 127 19
George Mardorff, advertising unseated
lands, 41 00
Wm Hartley, oils, paints, nails, Ac., 446 39
George Blackburn, building bridge at
Statler's 630 36
Lath, lime, and hauling sand for court
house, 58 20
Johu Aldstadt, costs in commonwealth
cases, 1093 92
John Aldstadt. costs in commonwealth vs.
Wertz A May, 44 33
R Leo, book-caso and chairs for court
house, 32 80
Williams, Orne A co., window shades and
carpet 138 47
Henry Nicodemus, examining dockets and
swearing
Castleton Ake, building bridge at Mow
ry's, 1105 00
Simon Xycum, plank on bridge in East
Providence township, 18 90
Hartley A Metzger, freight on slate, 81 00
Lumber for repairing court house, 72 12
Matthew Spidle, painting court house. 203 12
Isaac Mengel, freight on chairs, • 22*20
Daniel Miller, plastering court house, 105 25
Work in repairing, roofing and white
washing court house. 162 80
Jacob Seinler, hobbling prisoners, 4 00
Isaac Mengel, meals furnished jurors, 48 00
O E Shannon, for having dockets bound in
Prothouotary's office, 20 00
Philip Little, hauling slate from Mount
Dallas. 30 04
Advertising horse thieves, 286 70
Mary Norris, scrubbing offices in court
house, 36 50
William Keyser, bridge order, 500 00
James H Moorhead. repairing bridge at
Wisegarver's, 95 00
Ilarry Drollinger, Hopewell bridge, 51 10
George Mardorff. treasurer's deed to com
missioners, 54 37
Conrad Feagter, building bridge at Shaw
nee Run, 30 00
Special election in Saxton borough, 10 50
David Brown, on Blackburn'sorder, 10 80
Michael Keed, Esq., bridge plans, 6 00
0 E Shannon, fees as prothonotary, J2O 00
Treasurer's salary, 300 00
Reveuue stamps and postage, 30 00
Allowance on old account, *lO 00
Expenses on sales of unseated lands, 40 00
Bank note detector, 1 50
Certified copy of huckster's law, 1 50
Huckster's blanks, 7 00
Auditors and clerk. 100 00
Chas Merwine, attending auditors, 6 00
Total credits. $11~147
(Tl)c CJcbforD (fiinjcttc.
BY MEYERS & MENGEL.
I aSUtir t%.
| Charges, $25,351 91
i Credits, 21,247 66
Balance in county treasury. $4,104 25
Money due and owing to Bedford County from
Collectors, and others, for 1866 and
previous years.
'• From Collectors : County : State:
: John A Osborn, Broad Top, 1857, 106 69 76 01
i Lemuel Evans, do do 1858, 289 67 230 46
John C Morgart. C. Valley, do 89 23 100 00
Aaron Reed. Woodberry S. 1863, 750 40
Samuel Beckley, St Clair, 1864, 94 00 750
}S M Bender, Bloody Run, 1864, 25 00
J C Black. do do 1865, 23 84
i Arch. Blair, C Valley, do 174 00 64 98
i Henry Wertz, Harrison, do 138 41
I Westley Perdew, Southamp'n,do 368 41 67 20
Sara C'riasman. Woodberry S. do 10 16
F, F Kerr. Bedford borough. 1866, 1064 19 163 02
Hen. Moses. Bedford tp., do 1793 68 230 00
J C Flgart. Broad Top, do 1264 79 163 24
Jer. Thompson, Bloody Run, do 177 70 43 36
Jacob Bowser. Colerain, do 935 00 557 06
Henry Hite, C. Valley, do 750 11 134 71
A W Shoemaker, Harrison, do 295 39 42 91
James Fink, Hopewell, do 300 22 25 94
Jacob Evans. Londondery, do 491 03 79 12
John MeLain, Liberty, do 462 66 43 16
Jacob Fleteher, Monroe, do 128 82 54 17
Henry Egolf, Napier, do 526 43 112 49
Uriah Mellott, Providence E. do 485 17 31 22
JU H Sparks, do W.do 465 81 224 81
John Kemery, Schellsburg, do 184 87 42 98
Wm Grisinger. Snake Spring, do 718 26 167 53
Moses Tewell, Southampton, do 414 35 67 61
Henry F Smith. St. {/lair, do 1377 92 51 72
Henry Corle. Union, do 959 97 227 17
Sol. Barley, Woodberry M. do 1741 95 179 76
M Brumbauch, do b. do 1848 16 291 98
To amount due from former treas
urers :
A J Sansom, late treasurer, 100 00
J B Farquhar, do 927 82
Jacob D Fetter, mistake in acc't, 60 84
$20,577.41 $3,991.29
Moneys due and owed ky Bedford County.
The county of Bedford owes John Sill, on
note, S2OOO 00
The State claims from Bedford county, on
account, half mill tax on real estate and
fine, under act of 1865, about SBOOO 00
Treasurer, Dr.
To militia tax received from collectors, $lO2 00
Treasurer, Cr.
To amount paid for assessing and making
out duplicates and rolls of militia, 80 00
Balance in treasury, $22 00
Bedford County, SS.
The undersigned, Auditors of said county, do
certify that in pursuance of the Acts of Assembly,
in such cases made and provided, they met at the
Court House, in the borough of Bedford, and did
audit and adjust the accounts of George Mardorff,
Treasurer of said county, for the year A. D., 1866,
as contained in the foregoing ftatements, and th>4
wc have examined the foregoing accounts of money
due to and owed by said county, and that we have
found the same to be correct.
Witness our hands, this 9th day of January,
1867. DAVID EVANS.
JAMES MATTINGLY,
JOHN D. LUCAS,
Attest—E. F. KERR, Clerk. Auditors.
To the Auditor General of Pennsylvania :
GEORGE MARDORFF, Esq., Treasurer of Bed
ford county, in account with the Commonwealth
of Pennsylvania, from January 4, 1866, to Janua
ry 9,1867.
Treasurer, Dr.
To amount received from collectors of
taxes for 1866 and previous years, $8965 66
Treasurer, Cr.
By receipt of State Treasurer, dated
March 2,1866, S3OOO 00
do do Aug't 3, 1866, 2500 00
# do do OcUr 2, 1866, 4000 00
do do Jan'y 3, 1867, 1560 50
Associate Judges' salary, as per receipt,
dated January 3, 1867, 439 50
Treasurer's per centage, 115 00
Credits, $11,615 00
Charges, 8,649 34
$2,649 34
Merchant' Licenses.
Treasurer, Dr.
To aggregate amount of mercantile license
fcr the year 1866, $837 00
Treasurer, Cr.
By Treasurer's commission, s4l 85
Durborrow A Lutz, advertising
list of retailers, 13 70
Meyers A Mengel, do 13 70
Amount due State, $767 75
Tavern Licenses.
Treasurer, Dr.
To aggregate amount assessed for 1866, SBOS 00
Treasurer, Cr.
By Treasurer's per centage, 40 25
Balance due State, $764 75
% Eating Houses.
Treasurer, Dr.
To aggregate amount assessed for 1866, SIOO 00
Treasurer, Cr.
By per centage to Treasurer, 5 00
Amount due State, $95 00
Banking Houses.
Treasurer, Dr.
To aggregate amount assessed for 1866, S2O 00
Treasurer, Cr.
By Treasurer's per centage, 1 00
Balance due State, sl9 00
Distilleries.
, Treasurer, Dr.
To aggregate amount assessed for 1866, $45 00
Treasurer, Cr.
By per centage to Treasurer, 2 25
Amount due State, $42 75
Bedford County, SS.
The undersigned, Auditors of said county, do
hereby certify that in pursuance of the Acts of As
sembly, in such cases made and provided, they
met at the Court House, in the borough of Bed
ford. and did audit and adjust the accounts between
George Mardorff, Esq., Treasurer of said county,
and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, as con
tained in the foregoing statements. Witness our
hands, this 9th day of January, A D.. 1867.
DAVID EVANS.
JAMES MATTINGLY.
JOHN D. LUCAS.
Attest —E. F. KERR, Clerk. Auditors.
febßw4
LEO,
• Manufacturer of
CABINET-WARE, CHAIRS, <FCC.,
BEDFORD, PA.,
The undersigned being engaged in the Cabinet
making business, will make to order and keep
hand everything in his line of manufacture.
BUREAUS, DRESSING STANDS, PARLOR AND EXTEN
SION TABLES, CHAIRS, BEDSTEADS, WASH
STANDS, Ac., AC.,
will be furbished at all prices, and to suit every
taste. COFFINS will also be made to order,
jy Prompt attention paid to all orders for work.
on West Pitt Street, nearly opposite
the residence of George Shuck.
July 10, 1863.—tf RICHARD LEO.
DANIEL BORDER,
PITT STREET, TWO DOORS WEST OF THE BED
FORD HOTEL, BEDFORD, PA.
WATCHMAKER AND DEALER IN JEWEL
RY, SPECTACLES, AC.
He keeps on hand a stock of fine Gold and Sil
er Watches, Spectacles of Brilliant Double Re
ined Glasses, also Scotch Pebble Glasses. Gold
Watch Chains, Breast Pins, Finger Rings, best
quality of Gold Pens. He will supply to order
any thing in his line not on hand.
Oct. 20, 1865-
T)RINTERS' INK has made many a
I business vac rish We *ak yos fc try it in
1 TFFIH or Tint GAZETTE
Lite sßdfortl fefttf.
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THE BRAVE BOYS IN BE IE.
We all remember!
It seems but yesterday, that all over
the land hereaway newspapers were
praising the Brave Boys in Blue, while
children, minstrels, deacons, divines,
rich and poor, were loud in their pro
fessions of love to the defenders of their
homes.
When iron-shod and cannon-belching
war held the country as in a Vice, the
Brave Boys in Blue were all the rage.
They were feasted, toasted, praised,
kissed, caressed, eoffeed, jellied, and
decked like lambs for the sacrifice. Mid
the sobs of women, wives, mothers, sis
ters, aud sweethearts, they were sent to
the front, escorted to the cars and boats
by bands of music, and promised all
sorts of honors on their return.
Every Brave Boy in Blue was a
shield to the loyal stay-at-home agita
tors. Every one sent by money, en
treaties, appeals to patriotism, or other
lingua! device, was a safeguard to those
who remained behind. Whining can
ters, pulpit-routers, stay-at-homebawl
ers of loyalty, mobbers of Democrats
and Democratic printing offices, negro
loving old maids, and others of both
sexes, had much to say for the Brave
Boys in Blue, and come the shoddy
cum-shoddy over the victims they had
dressed for mutilated honors to a won
derful extent.
He who would not join the blue mass
was called a traitor, coward, and hater
of his country. He who would forsake
friends, property, and the comforts ot
the family hearth to join the abolition
crusade for power, cotton, negroes,
mules, silver-ware, and other disguised
objects of the late war, was hailed as a
brave man.
He was to be loved and honored.
His family was to be cared for.
His chjldren were to be educated.
His wife was to be waited upon to
the replenishing of larders, and a fuel
pile.
His grave, if he fell, was to be deck
ed with flowers at all seasons of the
year.
His stumps were to be supplied with
wooden limbs.
His hospital bed was to be supplied
with delicacies.
He was to be welcomed home by girls
with garlands and wreaths of roses.
He was to be nominated for office, and
voted for.
He was to be the r§turned hero—sa
vior of his country, and the ehiefamong
ten thousand abolitionists. And we re
member that those who questioned the
honesty of those who made all these
professions of goodness, and who asked
respectfully that the war be hurried to
a close, were denounced as cowards,
traitors, aud enemies to the soldiers.
When we chided those who prolonged
the war and turned it from its original
course; when we objected to having
thousands of brave men slain by in
competent officers, in raids for property,
and who said the object of the war was
to divide rather than restore the Union,
the Brave Boys in Blue were filled with
lies and evil spirits, and urged to des
troy at once those who were their best
friends.
The past came and went.
The professed patriots swept the land
of volunteers. The brave Boys in Blue
have returned; but they come not as
the conqueror comes. were not
welcomed back—no arms of girls, gar
lands ol roses, fancy balls, and aval
anches of kisses greeted them. One by
one, two by two, well and sick, whole
and shattered, lame and dying, they
came to their homes as stragglers in
blood go to the rear after the agony of
battle.
The loyal shouters have forgotten the
brave Boys in Blue. They have no
offices for them. They have no votes
to give them. Officers rich from their
stealings, able to buy and control dele
gations, receive nominations. They
are the favorites of the ranters and the
canters and the rumpites; while the
true brave Boys in Blue, who fought
the battles,are forgotten already. They
are not wanted now. The negro and
the bondholder are now worshipped,
and the soldiers of the land can work
on one leg or two, with one hand or
both to redeem their farms from taxes
heaped thereon by the stay-at-homes
while they were fighting, and to sup
port the negro, the bondholder and the
thieving officer, who enriches himself
and relatives attheexpenseoftheblood
and bravery of the country.
Brave Boys in Blue, as you gather
your half-clad little ones about you—as
you labor to pay taxes—as you go stead
ily to your graves with heavy hearts
and calloused palms —think of these
things, and tell us if those who made
you such specious promises have kept
faith with you or the people!
Brave Boy in Blue—soldier—work
ing-man—tax-payer—think of these
things, and think of them well.—Cin
cinnati Inquirer.
TIIE latest fashion of bonnets is said
to be a tow string with a glass bead up
on the top of the head. In extremely
coid weather it is allowable to attach
two postage stamps to protect the ears.
Our Devil suggests that a small buck
wheat cake would be better than a glass
bead, as the fashions change so often
that it would still be warm enough to
eat when the next style comes out.
SUBSCRIBE for the GAZETTE and pay
for it in advance.
BEDFORD, PA., FRIDAY MORNING, MARCH 1, 1867.
The House of Representatives at
Wash i ngton has just passed a hill, which
for injustice and impudence is conspic
uous even among the extraordinary
acts of that remarkable body. It pur
ports to bean "Act for the Equaliza
tion of Bounties," and awards to every
soldier in the recent war a bounty of
$1(10 per annum for his entire term of
service; but deducts from this allow
ance all bounties, Government, State or
local , which the soldier has received, or
is by law entitled to receive. As
every soldier from Pennsylvania has
received, or is by law entitled to re
ceive, in Government, State or local
bounties, more than this SIOO per an
num, the people of this State can nev
er derive a particle of benefit from this
measure. Such is also the case with
New York, New England and other
States, whose people taxed themselves
liberally to encourage volunteering for
the war. But the Representatives of
the Western States, whose people con
tributed nothing in the shape of State
or local bounties, propose by this bill to
thrust their arms into the National
Treasury, and take out of the common
fund as much as willequalize the boun
ties of their their troops with those of
the State* which paid their soldiers out
of their own purses. In short, the peo
ple of Pennsylvania, after having been
taxed to pay the whole of the bounties
of their ownsoldiers, arenowtobe tax
ed again to pay part of the bounties of
the soldiers of other States.
There is too much reason to fear that
this bill, which has passed the House of
Representatives, will also pass the Sen
ate and become a law. The same nu
merical preponderance of the West
which controls the House exists in the
Senate. And neither body is influen
ced by any regard for principle or right
in this or any other measure; but the
portions that form the majority in both
are intent only upon securing the great
est possible pecuniary benefit, with the
least possible inconvenience or burthen
to themselves and their constituents.
It is supposed, in well informed
quarters, that this act will take up
wards of $400,000,0110 from the Nation
al Treasury; and as the Secretary esti
mates the expenditures under the boun
ty law of the last session at $84,000,000,
it will be seen that $500,000,000 are a
bout to be added to the National debt.
The interest of this amount, $30,000,-
000, must be annually extracted, in the
shape of taxes, from the pockets of the
people. The simple statement of this
fact shows how little prospect there is
of any permanent reduction, and how
great the prospect is of permanent in
crease in Federal taxation.
This unjust and extravagant legisla
tion of Congress is also conclusive of
another fact, which should be borne in
mind by the people. While it contin
ues, there can be uo reduction of the
National Debt, no contraction of the
currency, no decline in prices and no
approach towards specie payments. It
is beyond the power of the Secretary
of the Treasury or any other financier
to withdraw four millions of legal ten
der notes per month, when all the cur
rency he can collect will not suffice to
meet the interest on the debt and the
appropriations of an extravagant and
reckless Congress. There is far greater
prospect of an increase of currency,
and increased inflation of prices, from
sheer necessity, to answer these exorbi
tant drafts upon the National Treasury.
We therefore warn our readers to dis
card the delusive hope of any reduction
in the burthens'and taxation or the ex
penses of living, so long as a Radical
Congress rules the country; but rather
to prepare themselves ✓ for the good
time coming, when the printing press
must again be set in motion to manu
facture money for the current expenses
of Government. — Lancaster Intelligen
cer.
It was onee the universal custom to
place ale or some strong liquor in the
chamber of an honored guest, to as
suage his thirst, should he feel any 011
awakening in the night, which, consid
ering that the hospitality of that peri
od often reached excess, was by no
means unlikely.
It is a current story in Teviotdale,
that in the house of an ancient family
of distinction, much addicted to the
Presbyterian cause, a Bible was always
put into the sleeping apartment of the
guests, along with a bottle of strong
ale. On one occasion, there wasa meet
ing of clergymen in the vicinity of the
castle, all of whom were invited to
dinner by the worthy baronet, and sev
eral abode there that night.
According to the fashion of the times,
seven of the reverend guests were al
lotted to one large barrack-i oom, which
was used on such occasions of extended
hospitality. The butler took care that
the divines were presented, according
to cu-tom, each with a bible and a bot
tle of porter. But after a little consul
tation among themselves, they are
said to have recalled the domestic just
as he was leaving the apartment.
"My friend," said one of the vener
able guests, "you must know that when
we meet together, the youngest minis
ter reads aloud a portion of Scripture
to the rest; only one bible, therefore,
is necessary; take away the other six
and in their place bring six more bot
tles of wine."
The only true spirit of tolerence con
sists in conscientious toleration of other
people's intolerance.
AN r*iQi rrors MEASURE.
ANCIENT HOSPITALITY.
HOW TO ECONOMIZE FUEE.
Dr. Samuel Warren, author of "Ten
Thousand a Year," recently wrote a
letter to the Mayor of Hull, England,
to say that before leaving for London
he desired to make a practical suggest
ion to the housekeepers of the town.
The suggestion was this: "To econo
mize the burning of coal, send for an
iron-monger or blacksmith, and order
him to take the measure of the bot
tom of your grate and make you a
sheet-iron plate of about one-sixth of
an inch in thickness, oreven less. Sim
ply lay this and light your fire as usu
al. It will soon burn up, but you must
keep pretty open the lowest bar, so as
to secure a light draught. When the
fire has begun to burn poke it gently
from beneath and the flame will grad
ually get through the entire mass of
coals, the iron plate beneath gets red
hot, and so keeps up a constant com
bustion, at the same time dispersing
the heat through the room, instead of
its being sent up the chimney, thus en
tirely consuming the coal, instead of
filling the hearth with ashes/'
Dr. Warren continues:
"In my own house I tried the exper
iment for a week in the breakfast room,
then in the dining-room, then in the
kitchen, with uniform and complete
success; and then I had the sheet-iron
plate put into every fire-place—and
there are many throughout the house —
with equal success. So Ido with the
fire-place in my official residence.
When the fire is once made up, say a
bout 10 A. M., for the day, an occasion
al poke and possibly a single replenish
ment suffices for the day. In my own
case, and also at my hotel here, where
three scuttles were required, one now
suffices. You must not smile at the
simplicity of my suggestion, but at
tribute my offering to a sincere desire
to contribute what little is in my pow
er to promote the comfort of, and lessen
expense to, every householder in the
good old town of Hull."
A citizen of Hull, who has since tri
ed this plan, writes: "The result in my
house, where I have had quarter-inch
iron plates fitted at the bottom of two
fire-grates, at an expense of two shil
lings each, is a saving in coal of about
one-third, with a considerable increase
in heat. A large number of persons
have already satisfactorily tried the ex
periment, and the use of the plates is
likely to become general in this local
ity."
The cost of the experiment is a mere
trifle.
KISS MY WIFE OR FIGHT ME.
There are few married in en who are
averse to kissing, but an exchange re
lates the particulars of a case in a new
ly wedded Benedict felt himself insult
ed because his wife wasn't kissed. The
bridegi oom in question was a stalwart
young rustic, who was known as a for
midable operator in a "free fight:" His
bride was a beautiful and blooming
young country girl, only sixteen years
of age, and the twain were at a party
where a number of young folks were
enjoying themselves in the good old
fashioned pawn-playing style. Every
girl in the room was called out and
kissed except B , thebeautiful young
bride aforesaid, and although there was
not a youngster present who was not
dying to taste her lips, they were re
strained by the Dresence of the hercu
lean husband, who stood regarding the
party with a sullen look of dissatisfac
tion. They mistook the cause, howev
er, for suddenly he expressed himself.
Rolling up his sleeves, he stepped into
the middle of the room, and in a tone
of voice that secured marked attention,
said : "Gentlemen, I have been notic
ing how things have been working for
some time, and I ain't half satisfied.
I don't want to raise a fuss, but—"
"What's the matter, John?" inquired
half a dozen voices. "What do you
mean ? Have 1 done anything to hurt
your feelings ?" "Yes, you have; all
of you have hurt my feelings, and I've
just got this to say about it. Here's
every girl in the room has been kissed
near a dozen times apiece, and there's
my wife who I consider as likely as a
ny of them, has not had a single one
to-night; and I just tell you now, if
she don't get as many kisses the bal
ance of the night as any gal in the
room, the man that slights her has got
me to fight—that's all. Now go ahead
with your plays!" If Mrs. B—- was
slighted during the balance of the eve
ning we did not know it. As for our
self, we know that John had no fault
to find with us individually for any
neglect on our part.
An exchange says that it has now in
its office a compositor who once preach
ed the Gospel, then ran a side-show to
a circus, then kept a singing-school,
then ran away with a man's wife and
two children, practiced medicine, had
been an agent for a concert troupe and
clerk on a steamboat; finally, now re
formed and settled down to a legiti
mate business—that of sticking type.
The exchange thinks that it will make
a man of him. Probably!
A friend of ours lives next door to a
not over-thriving undertaker. One day
our friend's young son rushed into the
parlor in a state of wild excitement,
exclaiming, "O father, somebody is
dead, for sure, because the undertaker's
children are eating candy!"
—A Danville (N. J.) lady who got
divorced from her husband and married
another man, has just eloped from
tym r running away with her first hus
band.
VOL. 61.—WHOLE No. 5,382.
DREAD RETRIBUTION.
During the war a Democratic editor
in Dayton, Ohio, Bollmeyer, was mur
dered by an Abolitionist, without any
provocation. An Abolition court tried
and acquitted the murderer. The
whole trial was a disgraceful farce, and
all who participated in it were guilty
of official perjury. Some three years
have elapsed, and the county clerk,
the sheriff, and about one-half of the
jury, are dead, while the infamous
judge, who outraged justice at the tri
al, is an idiot in a lunatic asylum ! Jim
Lane, while his hand was yet smoking
with the blood of murdered victims,
was elected to the office of United
States Senator by a Puritanic Legisla
ture. For oue of his murders he was
tried, and of course acquitted. He has
fallen by his own hand. It is now be
lieved by most of mankind, that Mrs.
Surratt was guiltless of participation
in the murder of Mr. Lincoln. When
she was under sentence of death, after
a trial which will be considered a blot
on our country and age, Mr. Preston
King prevented access to the President,
and denied admission to her daughter,
who almost shrieked and sobbed her
life away on the steps of the Executive
mansion. A few months afterwards
Preston King stilled a remorseless con
science in this world by self-murder.
STEVENS ON THE SOUTH.— The om
nipotence of the Almighty, intheopin
ionof the Republican leader of the
House of Representatiyes, is limited by
the longevity of Thaddeus Stevens.
"God willing and I living," exclaimed
this frantic old man last night on the
floor of Congress to which he had stag
gered from a sick bed—"God willing
and I living," certain things shall be
done! The volition of God, it seems,
would be ineffectual without the per
forming presence of Stevens.
This is a very horrible piece of blas
phemy; but when we consider that it
was only preliminary to a proposition
for plundering a whole section of its
property—that section being now ab
solutely on the brink of starvation—
the blasphemy of the speaker's phrase
becomes almost pardonable in compari
son with the darker blasphemy of the
speaker's purpose.
The ridicule which attaches to Ste
vens' senseless representations of
"Wade Hampton and his black horse
men" rolling over and over in imagi
nary "millions," does not relieve the
darker shades of the scene. A man
who ignorantly or wilfully can talk in
this way of a hopelessly impoverished
region, puts it indeed beyond a doubt
that he is no statesman. But the man
who makas his own poor life the con
dition of God's devasting rage against
thousands of his fellow-creatures raises
the deeper question, whether he is so
much as a rational human being.—JV.
Y. World.
NECK-TWISTING IN CHURCH.—A
good story is told of an eccentric old
parson, who was sorely annoyed by a
habit his people had acquired (and
which prevails by-the-way, in all other
churches, even now and hereabouts to
some extent) to twisting their necks
around every time anybody entered the
door and passed up the aisle of the
meeting house, to see what manner of
person it might be.
Wearied with the annoyance, the old
man exclaimed one Sunday:
"Brethren, if you will only cease
turning your heads round whenever
the door opens, and will keep your at
tention on me, I will promise to tell
you, as I preach, who it is that comes
in." . , ,
Accordingly he went on with the
services and presently made a stop as
one of the deacons entered, saying—
"That is Deacon , who keeps
the grocery opposite.
And then he announced, in turn, the
advent of each individual, proceeding
the while with his sermon as compos
edly as the circumstances would admit,
when at last a stranger came in, when
he cried out—
"A little old man in green spectacles,
and a drab overcoat—don't know him
—you can all turn round and look for
yourselves this time."
It is hardly necessary to add that
the good man carried his point, and
there was but little neck-twisting seen |
in his congregation after that day.
Ho M E CON VERSATION.— ChiIdren
hunger perpetually for new ideas, and
the most pleasant way of reception is
by the voice and the ear, not the eye
and the printed page. The one mode
is natural, the other artificial. Who
would not rather listen than read? An j
audience will listen closely from the |
beginning to the end of an address which j
not one in twenty of those present would
read with the same attention. This is
emphatically true of children.—They
will learn with pleasure from the lips
of parents what they deem it drudgery
to study in the books; and even if they
have the misfortune to be deprived of
the educational advantages which they
desire, they cannot fail to grow upintel
ligent if they enjoy in childhood and
youth the privilege of listening daily to
the conversation of intelligent people.
Let parents, then, talk much and talk
well at home. A father who is habit
ually silent in his own house may be,
in many respects, a wise man; butheis
not wise in his silence. We sometimes
see parents who are the life of every
company which they enter, dull, silent,
uninteresting at home among their
children. If they have not mental ac
tivity and mental store sufficient for
, both, let them first provide for their
own hcmt&hcfld.
j THE UNDERGROUND RAILWAY OF
LONDON.— A New York business man,
j of great experience in road matters,
writes from London under date of Jan
uary 29, naming some of the things
he has seen which he likes:
"Not the least is their extensive sys
tem of underground railways. It is
perfectly wonderful how they jerk the
people about, at therateofabout fifteen
milesan hour, from one end of the town
to another, and across and around
stopping about once every half mile, at
some prominent corner, at a station,
from which you emerge to the upper air,
and find yourselfsomewhere near where
you were a half or three-quarters of an
hour ago. These trains run each way,
being double tracks, about every ten
minutes; and morning and evening
they often consist of seven or eight cars,
holding thirty or forty peopleeach. The
cars are lighted with gas—not the tun
nels, except at stations—so that you
can read your papers; and there is no
smell of smoke, or sense of suffocation.
How they ventilate them so well I can
hardly see.
. OUR STATE ORPHANS.— The report
of Thomas H. Burrows, State Superin
tendent of the soldiers' orphans, has
just been published, and contains many
interesting statements. It is well
known thatthe State has assumed the
care and education of the orphan chil
dren of Pennsylvania soldiers whogave
up their lives in defence of the country.
Schools have been organized, and the
children, boys and girls, are being cared
for and educated. During the past
year four new schools have been estab
lished, and three additional schools,
now required, will be organized as soon,
as possible. There have been admitted
during the year 1,575 children, and the
total number of scholars on the Ist of
December was 2,658, of which 1,591
were boys, and 1,067 girls. These are
all cared for until they reach the age of
sixteen, when they are discharged, be
ing judged competent at that age to do
something towards eamingalivelihood.
The local expense of the system for the.
year ending November 30, was $309,-
149.26, which is a small sum, when we
consider the benefits which are to be
derived from it.
AN EXTRAORDINARY LAKE.— In
Nevada, near Bagtown, there isasmall
lake, the surface of which is covered,
like ice, with alkali, to the depth of
ten to twenty inches, almost perfectly
white and pure. The water, which is
but slightly impregnated with it, does
not seem to be particularly injurious to
man or beast. It is sometimes soabun
dant as to destroy vegetation, though
it is the very substance our farmers are
ever ready to add to the soil as a fertil
izer, in the shape of leeched or unleech
edwood ashes. A traveler declared,
after eating several meals in succession
at the overland stations, of soda biscuit
and rancid bacon, and partaking freely
of this water, that he was fast turning
into a miniature soap factory.
NEWSPAPERS.— De Tocqueville, iD
his work on America, gives this forci
ble sketch : A newspaper can drop the
same thought into a thousand minds
at the same moment. A newspaper is
an adviser who does not require to be
sought, but who comes to you briefly
every day to tell you of the com
mon weal, without distracting your
private affairs. Newspapers, there
fore, become necessary in proportion
as men become more equal and indi
viduals more to be feared. To sup
pose that they only serve to protect
freedom would be to diminish their
importance; they maintain civilization.
ENLISTMENT OP BOYS IN THE AR
MY.—General Grant in a circular re
cently issued from the headquarters of
the army, says that hereafter boys un
der twenty-one years of age will not be
enlisted excepting for the purpose of
learning music, and even then the en
listment will only be made after au
thority is obtained from the Superin
tendent of the recruiting service or the
Adjutant General of the army, and
written consent is given by the parent,
guardian or master of the boy. When
this cannot be obtained the boys will
not be enlisted.
A RADICAL OUTFIT.—A Nashville
paper publishes the following as the
contents of a valise belongingtoa "long
haired, lean-visaged white passenger"
who arrived in that city: "2 pairs clean
linen bosom shirts, 1 dirty do., 1 pair
drawers, lhymn book, 2 packsplaying
cards, 1 bottle rum, 1 prayer book, 1
hairbrush, 1 bootjack, 1 brace pistols,
1 pocket testament, 1 razor and strap,
1 shaving brush, 1 cake soap, 1 vial
sweet oppoponax, 1 photograph of a
colored girl, and a lock of hair, with 4
copies of "The Right Way."
ROOT OF THE EVIL.— The various
State prison reports are being publish
ed, and all tell much the same story.
A sad feature of the records is the large
number of men who served in the ar
my and navy during the war, and it is
' rendered more sad by the fact that ma
i ny of them might have been saved from
crime and its punishment if they could
have found employment. There is the
grand trouble—scarcity of work. To
that all reformatory associations and
prison societies should address their
thoughts.
A POOR old Irishman offered his old
saucepan for sale; his children gather
ing 'round him, inquired why he did
so. "Ah, my honeys," said he, "sure
I wouldn't be after partin' wid it if it
wasn't to get some money to buy some
thin' to put in it."
Eggs sold in Chester, on Tuesday
last, at fifty-five cents per dozen. The
hens came at once to the relief of
consumers, and eggs have discounted
mSre freely since.
A SWEET woman'ssoul sits and looks
out of a bright eye like a cat out of a
stmny window.