TERMS OF PUBLICATION. THE BEDFORD GAZETTE is published every Fri day morning by MEYERS A MBHAKL, at $2 00 per annum, if paid strictly in advance ; $2.50 if paid within six months; $3.00 if not paid within six months. All subscription accounts MUST he settled annually. No paper will he sent out of the State unless paid for ix ADVANCE, and all such subscriptions will invariably be discontinued at the expiration of the time for which they are paid. All AIA ERTISEMENTS for a loss term than three months TEN CENTS per line for each In sertion. Special notices one-half additional All resoluti< ns of Associations; communications of limited or individual interest, and notices of mar riages and deaths exceeding five line.-, ten cents per line. Editorial notices fifteen cents per line. All legal Notices of every kind, and Orphans' Court and Judicial Sales, are required by late to be published in both papers published in this j place. Id?" All advertising due after first insertion. | A liberal discount is made to persons advertising by the quarter, half jear, or year, as follows: 3 months. 6 months. 1 year. ♦One square - - - $4 50 $6 00 $lO 00 , Two squares ... 600 000 16 00 ! Three squares - - - 8 00 12 00 20 00 Quarter column - - 14 00 20 00 35 00 j Half column - - - 18 00 25 00 45 00 One column .... 30 00 45 00 80 00 ♦One square to occupy one inch of space. JOB PRINTING, of every kind, done with neatness and dispatch. THE GAZETTE OFFICE has just been refitted with a Power Press and new type, ] and everything in the Printing line can be execu- ! ted in the most artistic manner and at the lowest rates —TERMS CASH. All letters should be addressd to METERS A MENGEL, Publishers. snj-6oodsi, &t. A NOTHER VETO ON HIGL PRICES! YOU CAN SAVE MONEY by buying your WOODS of MILLER A BOWSER, Mann'g Corner, ... BEDFORD, Pa. They are now opening a choice variety of NEW AND DESIRABLE FALL AND WINTER GOODS. • Dry-Goods, Ready-Made Clothing, Fancy G.,ods, Notions, Cotton Yarn, Hats and Caps, Boots and Shoes, Groceries, Queensware, Wooden ware, Tobacco and Cigars, Brooms, Baskets, ' Ac., Ac., Ac. | LOOK AT SOME OF THEIR PRICES CALICO, at 8, 10, 12, 15, 16. GINGHAM, at 12J, 15, 18, 20. MUSLIN, at 10, 12, 14, 15, 18, 20. Cassimeres, Cloths, Satinetts and Ladies' Sacking, at very low prices. Ladies', Gents' and Misses' Shoes, Sandals and Over-Shoes, in great variety. fiiSr Men's, Boys' and Youths' Boots. S£p Best Coffee, Tea, Sugar and Syr up in the market. Prices low fisaT Feed, Flour, Ac., for sale at all times. fcaT We invite all to call and see our goods and compare prices before buying elsewhere. Our motto is, Short Proffita. BID?" TERMS —Cash, Note or Produce. 0ct25,'67 Jg N T E R P It I S E MACHINE WORKS, Logan Street, - - . LEWISTOWN, Pa. 11. D. SLAGLE & BRO., Pro'rs. 0. R. DAVIS, Superintendent. MANUFACTURERS OF AGRICULTURAL IMPLEMENTS, PORTABLE AND STATIONERY STEAM ENGINES AND BOILERS; Portable Steam Saw Mills ; Iron and Brass castings ot every description made and fitted up for Mills, Factories, Blast Furnaces, Forges, Rolling Mills, Ac. We call the attention of f ANNER3 to our Oven for Burning Tan under Steam Boilers. IjT TERMS MODERATE. All orders promptly attended to. H D. SLAGLE A BRO., op27m6 Lewistown, Pa. V. LEO & CO., Manufacturers of CABINET-WARE, CHAIRS, &C., BEDFORD, PA., The undersigned being engaged in the Cabinet making business, will make to order and keep on hand everything in their line of manufacture. BUREAUS, DRESSING STANDS, PARLOR AND EXTEN SION TABLES, CHAIRS. BEDSTEADS, WASH STANDS, Ac., AC., will be furnished at all prices, and to suit every taste. They have also added to their stock, FRENCH COTTAGE SUITS, MARBLE TOP TABLES, CANE CHAIRS, SOFAS, TETE A TKTKS, Ac., Ac., Lwtern manufacture. Having purchased the stock and tools of Thos. Merwine. (late Wm. Stahl's) they have added the same to their manufactory. COFFINS will also be made to order, and a HEARSE always in readiness to attend fune-als L®v>Prompt attention paid to all orders for work gjTShopon West Pitt Street, nearly opposite i the residence of George Shuck. aug.23,m3. RICHARD V. LEO A CO. THE Local circulation of the BED FORD GAZETTE is larger than that of any other | paper in this s-tction ol oountry, and therefore of erstbe greatest inducements to business men to fdrortise in its columns. I BY MEYERS & MENGEL. ; #rtf- and colored). GROCERIES—Coffee, sugar, syrups, green and ' biack teas, spices of all kinds, dye-stuffs, Ac. I.EAIIIER—SoIe leather, French and city calf skins, upper leather, linings, Ac. We will sell goods on the same terms that we have been for the last three months—cash, or note with interest from date. No bad debts con- i tracted and no extra charges to good paying cus tomers to make up losses of slow and never paying customers. Cash buyers always get the best bar gains, and their accounts are always settled up. J. M. SHOEMAKER. j Bedford, 5ep.27,'67. No. 1 Anderson's Row. 10 per cent, saved in buying your goods for cash, at J. M. SHOEMAKEIi'S cash and produce store, No. 1 Anderson's Row. sep27 JLjiRESH STOCK OF FALL AND WINTER GOODS, AT FARQUIIAR'S. We have on hand, and intend to sell VERY C lEAP, a large variety of seasonable DRY-GOODS, NOTIONS, GROCERIES, READY-MADE CLOTHING, ■ and a general variety of articles, usually kept in a first-class store. IT WILL PAY TO EXAMINE OUR STOCK. J. B. FARQUHAR. oct 18 |YEW GOODS!! NEW GOODsTi The undersigned has just received from the East a large and varied stock of New Goods, which are now open for examination, at MILL-TOWN, two miles West of Bedford, comprising everything usually found in a first-class courtry store, consisting, in part, of Dry-Goods, Delaines, Calicoes, Muslins, C'assimers, Boots and Shoes, Groceries, Notions, Ac., Ac. i All of wbich will be sold at the most reasonable prices. Thankful for past favors, we solicit a con tinuance ot the public patronage. Eif Call and examine our goods. may24,'67. O. YEAGER XTEW ARRIVAL.—Just received i A at M. C. FETTERLY'S FANCY STOKE, j Straw Huts and Bonnets, Straw Ornaments, Rib bons Flowers, Millinery Goods, Embroideries, ' Handkerchiefs, Bead-trimmings, Buttons. Hosiery and Gloves, White Goods, Parasols and Sun-Urn- j brellas, Balmorals and Hoop Skirts. Fancy Goods ' and Notions, Ladies' and Children's Shoes. Our assortment contains all that is sew and desirable. 1 hunktul for former liberal patronage we hope . to be able to merit a continuance from all our cus- i tomers. Please cull and see our new stock. maySl J AUG EST! CHEAPEST! BEST! J B. M. BLYMYER & CO., have the LARGEST STOCK OF STOVES ever brought to Bedford. B. M. BLYMYER & CO., have the CHEAPEST STOCK OF STOVES ever brought to Bedford. B. M. BLYMYER & CO., have the BEST STOCK OF STOVES ever brought to Bedford. Call and See the Mammoth Stoct. 200 STOVES of every size and description. 50 second-hand Stoves, all kinds, which will be sold very low. THEY WILL SOT BE UNDERSOLD. Also, TINWARE, of every description, Cheaper than the Cheapest! Everybody will please bear in mind that B. M. Blymyer A Co. sell CHEAPER GOODS, in their line, of the same quality, than can be sold by any one else in Bedford. Remember the place, No. 1, Stone Row. sep4,'67.tf J HENRY HUTTON, • WITH SHUMWAY, CHANDLER & Co., Wholesale Manufacturers and DEALERS IN BOOTS AND SHOES, 221 Market and 210 Church Streets, PHILADELPHIA. lour patronage is respectfully solicited. Aug3o/67. JgYRE & LANDELL, Fourth and Arch Streets, PHILADELPHIA, Are offering a NEW STOCK of DRY GOODS, For the Fall Sales of 1867. SHAWLS, SILKS!, DRESS GOODS, and STAPLE DRY GOODS. N. B. Job lots of goods received daily. augl3w6 A RARE CHANCE IS OEI ERED I;V ALL PERSONS To display their Goods; Tt sell their Goods: To gather informs.tion; To make known their wants; Ac., Ac. Ac. Ac., Ac., Ac., Ac., Ac., by sdvertisingin the oolumns OF THE GAZETTE. Ihf gcdfortl OVauttc. I .HI'EACH HIM. IF YOl' DARE! A RoiiMtornlie Yd refrain, *ple are enfranchised, we're freemen once again, And the stalwart old Democracy, in solid phalanx there, In deaf'ning tones to Ashley yell, "Jmpeach him, I if you dare." God bless the boys of old Kentuck, they loud the j chorus swell, And warmly, earnestly rebuke that conclave sprung from Hell, That loudly of impeachment talked, while now, with gibe and jeer, They say to them, "You thieving sneaks, impeach him, if you dare !" Now, disenthralled, Old Maryland her colors true has shown, And the principles of force and fraud to the four winds arc thrown, While Baltimore redeems herself, and, with ex. ultant cheer, Defiantly the Old Line sneers, "impeach him, if you dare !" Anon upon Ohio's bunks, a cohort is in sight, The clans have gathered, on they come who bat tle for the right, They bury "negro suffrage" and "tinselled sa traps" there And haughtily to Ashley say, "impeach him, if you dare!" Great Pennsylvania swells the note, "my policy" has won, And tyranny and anarchy, their toilsome race hnvc run, And millions now of Democrats, whose voices rend the air, In trumpet tones to Ashley say, "impeach, him, if you dare." Let Sickles gabble in the North or do what e'er he will Let Treason give ovations to its hybrid "little Phil," Let the martyr —Stanton—bellow, his rantings can't ensnare | The men who love one Union, so, "impeach him if you dare." I Lot Ashley threaten as he will, and lot Beast But ler roar The people's voice has muzzled them, they'll trouble us no more, We'll hold them up to public soorn, and let them moaning hear, The people saying tauntingly, " impeach him , if you dare." Old Ben Wade's hopes are blasted, the Presiden tial chair Is quick receding from his view and vanishes in air; The German vote has "bottled" him, he tackled Laeer Beer, And Teutons—freemen, now exclaim, "impeach him, if you dare !" A million hearts as stout as oak stand foremost in the van, And boldly bid defiance to the Puritanic clan ; In serried column on they come, they know no | doubt or fear, And Ashley trembling hears them say, "impeach him, if you dare." The Constitution and the laws have made him President, And in the White House he'll remain, till fiendish fury's spent He's noble, brave, and firm and true, the people want him there, And thundering tones to Ashley say, "impeach him, if you dare !" liistis A.VI) HEROES. One murder makes a villain— Millions a hero : Princes are privileg'd To kill, and numbers sanctify the crimo. Ah ! why will Kings forget that they are men ? And men that they are brethren ? Why delight In human sacrifice ? Why burst the ties Of nature, that should knit their souls together In one soft bond of amity and love ? They yet still breathe destruction, still go on Inhumanly ingenious, to find out New puins for life, new terrors for the grave ! Artificers of death ! Still monarchs dream Of universal empire, growing up From universal ruin. Blast the design, Great God of hosts ! nor let thy creatures fall Uupitiod victims, at ambition's shrine. AN AGENT OF THE LOUD. —Deacon Sitiies was an austere man who fol- Jowed oystering and was of hardshell persuasion. The deacon 'alius made it a pint' to tell his coustomers that the money which he received for .'isters' did not belong to him. "The good father made the 'isters," said the dea con, 'and the money is hi.s'n; I'm only a stooart.' One Sunday morning the old fellow was tearing round from house to house with a suspicious bit of currency in his hand, and more than a suspicion of rage in his face. Some one had given him a bad fifty cents, and he 'was'nt goin' to ineetin' till that ar was fixed up.' 4 Why deacon,' said one of his customers, whom he had tackled about it, 'what's the odds? what need you care? tisn't yours, you know ; you are only a steward; it isn't your loss.' The deacon shifted his shoulder, walked to the door, unship ped his quid, and said, 'Yaas, that's so ; but if you think that I'm goin' to stand by and see the Lord cheated out of fifty ceats, you are mistaken. I don't foster no such feelin'.' A GOOD LADY, who had two children sick with the measles, wrote to a friend for the hest remedy. The f>*iend had just received a note from another la dy, inquiring the way to make pickles. In the confusion, the lady who had in quired about the pickles received the remedy for the measles, and the anx ious mother of the sick children read with horror the following: "Scald them three or four times in very hot vinegar, and sprinkle them with salt, and in a few days they will be cured." BEDFORD, PA., FRIDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 1, 1867, A LIFE INSURANCE CASE. Attempted FRNUL--A Singular Story. A curious life in.sura nee case was tried in Philadelphia, before Judge Shars wood last week. One Flias Charles Richards, in the Summer of 1865, ob tained a policy of insurance for $lO,OOO in the American Life Insurance Com pany of Philadelphia. Subsequently the policy was assigned to Edward S. Connor, and by him suit was brought against the company for the recovery of the entire amount of $lO,OOO. The plaintilf alleges that Richards was drowned 011 the evening of September 15, 1865, in the Susquehanna river, near Perryville. The defendantsdeniedthis, and maintained that the man is now alive. The testimony adduced on the trial exhibited a series of circumstances and manueversofthe most interesting char acter. No starting point could be found i for the man Richards. He came from 1 nowhere, belonged nowhere, had no family, no relatives, no friends, no busi ness, no money—a regular "Topsy" of the masculine gender. He was picked up by the agent, who insured him some ; where in Philadelphia—he couldn't tell | where—taken down to Maryland, and j there the papers were made out and in-1 J surance effected to the extent of $20,000, : SIO,(KM) being in the Charter Oak. This was in June. Richards stayed in that neighborhood a few days, went away, and returned again in the night of the 14th ofSeptember. On the two previous occasions he wore a broadcloth suit and carried a gold watch. On his last visit he had linen clothing much worn,straw hat, old shoes, with no money, no watch nor luggage of any kind. He had bar gained for a farm, and through the same agent who insured him he succeeded in obtaining $2,000 on his policies of $20,- 000 of Mr. Connor. One thousand dol lars of this money he paid to the agent, and received a bond for a deed. | On the evening of the 15th of Sep tember this Richards proposed to two , men, after finding out that one eouid not swim and that the other vvouid'nt, | to take a walk with him along the bank of the river. They went with him. lie insisted upon going into the water. They went out upon a raft lying behind | a wooded point of land, and Richards i went in to bathe. He swam about near to the boat for some timb, and then got up on the timbers. After a while Rich ards said he hadn't swam enough, and would go in again, and said he might get the cramps, and if he did, he wished them to come to his assistance. It was now quitedark. He went in again, and this time swam directly away from the float, and when about forty yard i off | cried out that he had the cramps. The I two men were frightened and ran for a ! boat. When they returned they could neither see nor hear anything of Rich ards, and, therefore, believed him drowned. This was the evidence on the part of the plaintiff, except the tes timony of one individual that he | thought he saw the body of a man float ing on the water some eight days after the drowning, but which was proved to be a hoop covered with weeds and grass. The defendants offered in testimony I the peculiar circumstances attending | the effecting of the insurance, the sin | gular conduct of the man, his appear ance in the hot Summer in woolen clothes and in September in a thin and wornout Summer suit, and the timeand method of his going into the river to bathe,as indicating fraud, premeditated end most systematically arranged and perpetrated. They also produced the testimony of two witnesses, oneof whom had seen this same Richards once and the other three times since the a'leged drowning. The case goes over to another trial. Of course, when the doctors disagree editors cannot undertake to decide. Yet we would take this occasion to say that life insurance companies cannot be too watchful in guarding against fraud and misrepresentation. Nearly the entire benefits of life insurance accrue to widows and orphans. It is, therefore, the interest of all husbands and fathers who are insured that these institutions should be protected against fraud, so that they will be able to meet the liabil ities arising from all honest and legiti mate insurances. During the past two years, says a Philadelphia paper, many attempts have been made to swindle life insur ance companies. In Illinoisan insured man sent some other person's dead body as his representative to the grave, while he stayed back to collect the policy. In Cincinnati a man buried a lot of willow sticks.for the same purpose ; and a va riety of singular contrivances have been i made to this end in different sections J of the country, which seem to indicate i that a regular systematic organization has been effected to defraud these be nevolent institutions. ABOUT HATING.— Hate not. It is not worth while. Your life is not long enough to make it pay to cherish ill will or hard thoughts toward any one. What if that man has cheated you, or that woman has played you false?— What if this friend has forsaken you in your timeof need, or that one having won your entire confidence, has, con cluded thathe prefers to treat you as astranger ? Let it all pass. What diff erence will it make to you in a few years, when you go hence to the "un discovered country ?" All who ill-treat you now will be more sorry for it then than you, even in your grief and disap pointment, can be. NOLILOQI'Y OF A ROM> IIOI.D Kit. *Five, ten, fifteen, twenty, twenty five, thirty, thirty-live, forty, forty five, fifty— t ifty thousand dollars in seven-twen ty bonds. Let us see:— $50,000 00 Interest at 8 per cent. 8 $4,000 00 And in gold. That is equal to SEV EN thousand dollars in greenbacks. All, this is nice! And there are the other bonds. Let me count over to-day, then I will cut off the coupons, and tomorrow go to the National Bank and draw my inter est:— I have seven twenties, $50,000 00 u six-forties, 50,(MX) 00 j " seven-thirties, 50,000 00 " ten-twenties, 40,000 00 Total, $190,000 00 Here is a nice little total of one hun dred and ninety thousand dollors inves ted in the rich man's comfort, United States bonds, interest payable in gold, and no taxes to pay on bonds or inter est. $190,000 00 Interest in gold equal to 11 percent, in greenbacks 11 $20,900 00 Twenty thousand and nine hundred dollars the poor men of this country are willing to pay me for living with them. Ha! ha! ha! Rut the national debt is a national blessing! I like bonds. All of us New Eng land patriots like bonds. We have no taxes to pay on them, not a tax. Rath er sharp fighting that was. Yankees are good at whittling—good at skinning ! The war was a god-send to me. I filled quotas and speculated in things. I made money—lots of it—invested in bonds—and I am now rich. I own this elegant house. This furniture was conquered from the cow ardly rebels. Theseehairs, books, pict ures mirrors,—all this furniture was confiscated and slipped to me on the sly. Bully for patriotism ! Good morning, bleeding country! Long live the enduring people! lwentto. no war—not one—not any. It was a better game to control legisla tion—to figure for contracts—to pass a law that United States bonds should be exempt from taxation, and that the interest should be paid in gold. Gold is Democracy—l detest Democ racy, but the gold part is worth saving! I pay no taxes ! Not a tax. I love that Congress—that good Rad ical Congress—that gay, festive, and re bel-shouting Congress. It protects in tellect and puts the clamps on muscle! It exempts us bondholders from all taxation. The tax collector never bothers me. Thank the Congress, the Devil, orsome body, I am not called on to pay taxes. Let the poor folks, the working men, the soldiers who fought, the farmers of the West, the miners of the farther West, pay taxes. New England is cunning! New England is wealthy ! New England is boss—the West and South are victims! I like it. Allot* us bondholders like it. The poor people support me in idle ness. They pay the money that makes my interest. They support the army, the navy, the government, the negroes, the bond holders, and can have what there is left and get rich if they can. lam a Bond Holder. The credit of the nation protects me. The fools of America, the cowards who dare not lift the chains from their necks—the toil ing millions of America, are my slaves, and now that we control Congress and the army, they shall remain our slaves. Indeed! A national debt is a nation al blessing—to us sharpers and aristo crats. The South may starve — The West may toil— The States may fail— The Territories may suffer— The well may work— The sick men may want— The orphans may wail— The widows may weep— The poor men, the farmers, the me chanics, the foresters and miners may pay taxes— FOß, A FEW OF US ARE MAS TERS! NWIX 1)1.1 XG THE I'KEEDMKX. A Georgia correspondent of the New York World says: Almost at the first opening of this choice field for rascali ty, the clergy—shame on the broken down philanthropists and debauched chaplians who usurped the name— took the lead. Slave marriages being tem porary arrangements, it occurred to these reverend vultures that all parties living in such union, after emancipa tion, must he immediately remarried, secundum artein, or run incontinently the risk of eternal reprobation. To en force this view the negroes were forth with assailed by a whole armory of texts, wherein were set forth the guilt and awful punishment of adultery, and then adjured, while it was yet day, to flee from the wrath to come. Half terrified by such a volley of doctrine let fly about their ears, and half flatter ed at so kind a solicitude in their be half, the freedmen and freed women— for this was before they conceived such a distaste to matrimony as a closer inspection of its obligations has since VOL 62.-WHOLE No. 5,416 engendered—came up to the scratch I and were duly united, to their great con tent and the full satisfaction of their reverend advisers. Fees, of course, were expected and exacted—at first one dollar per couple, and then, as it was found how gullible the poorthings were, a dollar each—and at this busi ness much money was made, one reve rend iniquity alone clearing, it is said, in South Carolina, the comfortable sum of two thousand dollars. Concurrent with this device was the j emancipation-paper dodge, whereby writings purporting to forever protect | the holder against enslavement, were j sold to the newly enfranchised at any ■ pi ice from five or ten dollars down to ! a quarter of a dollar, that it was possi j ble to get. Matrimony becoming dis tastelul and tear of re-enslavement dis j appearing, some new scheme was neces sary, and this was forthwith presented i in the guise of a pretended imminent ! confiscation and rcdivision of rebel lands. This rascality in all its number | less moods and tenses, has proved the ; most continuously lucrative of all, and ! is even now made the means of suc cessful swindling. In the negro mind "writings" are things of superstitious reverence, and with a due proportion ot flourishes and a proper expenditure of red tape and revenue stamps, there are few papers that may not be foisted up on ninety-nine out of every hundreu I among the freed in en, as conferring special privleges and being of great value. As deeds to plantations or houses, or as protection from prosecu tions in the courts, or as gifting with titles, or as in some way or another producing immense benefit, "writings" have ready sale, and are laying the foundation of more than one scoundrel ly fortune. Inaddition, too,to"titles," sticks, even, have been disposed of, their use being to stake off the estate when "buckra" was finally ousted. Collections at churches and at camp meetings, initiation fees, contribution and subscription lists, these last appeal to flatter their vanity, instalment pay ments for things never intended to be finished, and other such devices, are but some of the many ways of sucking the freedtnen teat. Poor creatures, my heart has bled for them, and bled all the more that there is no remedy for this spoliation. Nothing but intel ligence will foil ihe sharper.and intel ligence the benighted freed men, launch ed fresh on bis own resources from a state of absolute dependence, does not possess. A PITHY A.Vl> Afll'SlS'ti AXKCDOTK. The French dress a satire in better style than any other people. We have a capital story from the last Courier ties Etuts Unis which happily illustra tes this fact. In speaking of the woman Frigard, the murderess, lately tried in Melun, France, the Temps asks if an advocate who defends a guilty (sclerat) can act in good faith? He answers the ques tion by relating the following anecdote: A lawyer who had figured with some distinction in the National Assemblies of the Republic, recounted to us in the following terms his debut: "I was young and unsuspecting," said he, "when I pleaded my first cause. It was that of a peasant charged with stealing a watch. The papers in the case, the insufficiency of the evidence, and, above all, the air of the accused— which was that of a good man—had convinced me of the innocence of my client. I pleaded with ail the warmth of soul which could be inspired by this strong faith, and acquitted the peasant. Once free, he cast his arms around me: "Oh, Monsiar," said he, "you spoke well. My children shall be taught to bless you. There is one more service wliice you must do for me." "Which is it?" "Dig up the watch for me." Dig up the watch for you ?" "Certainly: You understand that they still keep tiier eyes on me, whilst you, in your promenade, can dig it up with your little canesfnd return it "to me. "Miserable wretch! then you are guilty?" "What! didn't you know it? If I hadn't been guilty I should have dis pensed with a lawyer and been my own advocate!" RUSTIC COURTSHIP.—I hitched my chair close up to her'n, shet my eyes and shuddering sed: Sally, I've been hankering after you for a long time —that's so, 1 love you from the foot of your sole, to the head of your crown, and I don't keer who nose it—Epluribus onions. With that she fetched a screech, and after a while she sez: "Uriah!" "Sally," sez I. "Yes," sez she, hidin' her face. "Glory, glory!" sez I, "I kin jump a ten-rail fence. Hooray—hooray!" With that I sorter sloshed myself down by,her and clinched. Talk about your night blooming serious! Oh, my! —Oh broom-straw with sorgum lasses on em! Ef Sally's father hadn't hol lered out —"It's time for decent folks to be in bed," I du believe I'd staid all nite. "J TIIINK," said a wife who could not agree with her husband —"I think, Mr. Jibbs, we had better divide the house. You shall live on one side and I on the other." "Very well, my dear," replied he; "you take the out side, and I'll have the inside." HEALTH OF COWS. Good health in domestic animals, is always a matter of primary impor tance. As bad health in parents, transmits a tendency to disease in the offspring, ►it is important that every kind of ani mals we desire to continue on our farms, should he kept vigorous and healthy. As domestic animals are a source of human food, it is of great importance to preserve them in a healthy condi tion. Diseased meat carries its quali ties into the stomach of its consumers. It is a serious objection which vegetari ans urge against the use of animal food, that the artificial circumstances in which annimals live, and the had treat ment they receive, render them un healthy. Asan unhealthy animal does not consume food to as good advantage as a well one, it is economical to avoid disease. As comparative misery and discom fort accompany disease, it is humane as well as economical, to see that the ! animals under our care enjoy as far as possible their creature comforts. Each of these circumstances is a suf ticient reason for guarding with scrupu lous care, the health of the animals we feed ; hut when we derive milk from animals it is doubly important that they are kept free from every objec tionable taint. A sickly cow not only yieldsadiminished profit, butsheyields a sickly milk, and sickly in a higher degree than her flesh. If a cow eats anything that has a strong or disagreeable odor, it appears in her milk. If a cow eats anything medicinal it * conies out in her milk. If she is feverish her milk shows it. If she has sores about her, pus may be found in her milk. If she is fed upon dec ayed or diseased food, her milk, since it is derived from her food, will be imperfect. It is as impossible to make good milk from bad food, as to make a good building from rotten timber. THE BII'ITER SEASON. The business of cheese making will soon be over and that of butter in or der. The cool weather of autumn is the most favorable season of the year for making butter, and it should be the aim of every farmer or dairyman to produce the best possible article for market purposes. There is no disguis ing the fact that, with good cows, am ple feed and much experience in butter making, many persons succeed in mak inga villainous compound of grease, milk and hair, designated by the name of butter but having no legitimate re lationship to it. Much of the butter of commerce is of this character—a fact for which there is no excuse. Clean milking,clean pails,pans,crocks and churns, are the first requisites to the production of a good article of but ter. This everybody knows, without being informed of it, but the trouble is, the practice is not up with the infor mation possessed. Here is where re form, in many cases, should commence— followed by a kindred amendment in the manner of converting the cream into butter. If the buttermilk is not thoroughly worked out, a good article cannot be produced ; if the salt used is foul, of poor quality and injudiciously applied—too much or too little—the ! butter will not be of good quality nor command a top price in the market. Sometimesall the prerequisites to suc cess are observed, and still a failure en sues from neglect in putting the but ter down. This is important, if any considerable time is likely to intervene between the manufacture and use. It is safest and best to put butter down as though months were to pass before con sumption, as the trouble and expen-e are little, if any, increased by the pre caution. Press c'osely in thetubs, which should be well cleaned and brined be fore being used, and, as far as possible exclude the air from the mass. When a crock or tub is full, sprinkle it well with pure rock salt and cover till want ed, and the chances are ninety-nine in a hundred that the butter will do cred it to the maker months after being put down. Nothing new is claimed for this, but it is sometimes profitable to be reminded of things with which we have long been conversant, but, for the moment forgotten.— Rural New York er. Sir;XIXG THE PLEDGE—IN lIIS OWN* WAY. —A man long noted for intemper ate habits was induced by Rev. Jolin Abbott, to sign the pledge, "in his own way," which he did in these words: "I pledge myself to drink no intoxi cating drinks lor one year." Few believed he would keep it; but at the end of the year he again ap peard at a temperance meeting, with out having touched a drop. "Are you going to sign again ?" ask ed Mr. Abbott. "Yes," replied he, "if I can do k in my own way." And accordingly he signed the pledge for ninety-nine years. "And if," said he, "I live to that time it is my intention to take off a life lyase." A few days after, he called on the tavern keeper, who welcomed him back to his old haunts, "Oh, landlord," said he as if in pain, "I have such a lump on my side." "That's because you have stopped drinking," said the landlord. "You won't livelong if you keep on." "Will drinking take that lump a way?" "Yes, and ifyou don't drink," you'll soon have a lump on the other side. — Come let's have adrink together,"and he poured out two glasses of whisky. "I reckon 1 won't drink," said the former inebriate, "especially, if keeping the pledge will bring another lump, for it isn't very hard to bear, after all," and with this he drew the lump—a roll of greenbacks from his side pock et, and walked off, leaving the laud lord to his reflections.