grg-CSootte, rtr. /SASH BUYERS, TAKE NOTICE! 9AVE YOUR GREENBACKS! NEW FALL AND WINTER GOODS, just received, At J. M. SHOEMAKER'S Store, AT GREATLY REDUCED PRICES! Having just returned from the East, we are now opening a large stock of Fall and Winter Goods, which have been BOUGHT FOR CASH, at nett cash prices, and will be SOLD CHEAP. This be ing the only full stock of goods brought to Bedford this season, persons will be able to suit themselves better, in style, quality and price, than at any other store in Bedford The following comprise a few of our prices, viz : Calicoes, at 10, 15, 16 and the best ar 18 cents. Muslins at 10, 12, 14,15, 16, 18, and and the best at 22 cents. All Wool Flannels from 40 cts. up. French Merinoes, all wool Delaines, Coburgs, Ac. SHAWLS —Ladies', children's and misses' nhxwls. latest styles; ladies'cloaking cloth. MEN'S WEAR—Cloths, cassiuieres, satinetta. jeans. Ae. BOOTS AND SHOES--In this line we have a very extensive assortment for ladies, misses, chil-. dren. and men's and boys' boots and shoes, all sizes and prices, to suit all, HATS—A large assortment of men's and boys' hats. CLOTHING—Men's and boys'coats, pant*and vests, all sizes and prices SHIRTS, Ac.—Men s woolen and muslin shirts; Sbtikxpeare, Lockwood and muslin-lined paper oollars; cotton chain (single and double, white and colored). GROCERIES—Coffee, sugar, syrups, green and black teas, spices of all kinds, dye-stuffs, Ac. LEATHER —Sole leather, French and city calf skins, upper leather, linings, Ac. jy 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 tracted and no extra charges to good paying cus turners to make up losses of slow and never paying customers. Cash buyers always get the best bar gains, and their accounts are alwavs settled up. J. M. SHOEMAKER, Bedford, 5ep. 27,'67. No. 1 Anderson's Row. 10 per cent, saved in buying your goods for cash, at J. M. SHOEMAKKK b cash and produce store. No. 1 Anderson sKow. sep27 /IREATBARGAINS! ~~ i The undersigned have opened a very full su/.ply of FALL AND WINTER GOODS. Our stock is complete and is not sur passed in EXTENT, QUALITY AND CHEAPNESS. | The old system of '' TK US TING FOR E VER ' having exploded, we are determined to SELL GOODS UPON TUB SHO RTEST PROFIT , FOB CASH OR PRODUCE. To prompt paying custom era we will extend a credit of four mouths, but we wish it expressly understood, after the period nanrod, account will be due and interest will accrue the reon. BUYERS FOR CASH may depend upon GETTING BARGAINS. dovlj'S? A- H' CRAMER A CO. VEW GOODS!! NEW GOODS!! 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 country store, consisting, in part, of Dry-Goods, Delaines, Calicoes, Muslins, Cassiraers, Boots and Shoes, Groceries, Notions, j &c., &c. | All of which will be sold at the most reasonable prices. Thankful for past favors, we solicit a con- ! tinuance ot the public patronage. Call and examine our goods. may24,'67. G. YEAGER • VEW FIRM! NEW FIRM! GOOD GOODS ARE DOWN! SCHELLSBURG AHEAD! NEW GOODS! NEW GOODS! I just received and will be sold AT GREATLY REDUCED PRICES. Call at BLACK & MARBOURG'S, in Schellsburg, IF YOU WANT CHEAP GOODS of any kind! We have no big stock of old goods at big prices. Our stock is nearly all fresh and new. Look at some of our prices : MUSLINS, from 10 to 17 cents. CALICOS, from 8 to 15 cents. CLOTHS and CASSIMERES at reduced prices. DRESS GOODS, all kinds, cheaper than before tbo war. ALL WOOLEN GOODS 25 per cent, cheaper than any that have been sold this season. Gloves, Hosiery, • etc., etc., etc., very low. Groceries, Queens ware, Wooden Ware • &c., fce., at the lowest market prices. If you want Good Bargains and Good Goods, call at BLACK A MARBOURG&. Schellsburg, Dec. 6iu3 IU"EW ARRIVAL —.lust received XN at M C. FETTERLYS FANCY STORE. Straw H its and Bonnets, Straw Ornaments, Rib bons Flowers. Millinery Goods, Embroideries. Handkerchiefs, Bead-triminiiigs. Buttons. Hosiery and Gloves, White Goods. Parasols and Sun-Um brellas, Balmorals and Hoop Skirls. Fancy Goods and Notions, Ladies' and Children's Shoes. Our assortment contains all that is sew and desirable. Thankful far fanner liberal patronage we hope to be able to merit a continuance from all our cus tomers. Please call and see our uew stock. may3l ®|jc Bcbforb (ftfljcttc. BY MEYERS & MEN GEL Ilripooits, &(. Si L O It I O U S NEWS! ■ FOR THE PEOPLE! TELL IT ! EVERYBODY TELL IT! 4 COTTON NO LONGER KING! G. R. OSTER & C'O. Are now receiving at their NEW STORE a large and carefully selected stock of new and CHEAP Dry Goods, Fura, Clothing. Carpetings, Oil cloths, Hats, Cups. Boots, Shoes. Wall papers, Willow-ware, Queens-ware. Oils. Tobaccos, Segars, Ac., together with an extensive assortment of Fresh Groceries, which for extent and CHEAPNESS is unrivaled in Central Pennsylvania, all of which they offer wholesale or retail at prices that defy competition. Piles of calico prints and muslin from 6i cents up to sublime quality. They.invitc all to call, see for themselves and be convinced. TERMS .—POSITIVELY CASH on DELIVERY, un less otherwise specified. Beoford, Pa., Dec.13,'67m3. C COPARTNERSHIP. Imperial Bargain Store. December 12, 1867. J. C. Wright is admitted loan interest in our business from this date. The style of our firm is changed to G K Oster A Co. Bedford, Pa , janJlml GRA W. OSTER. I MUBLINS! MUSLINS! Just received at the IMPERIAL BARGAIN STORE' New York Mills Utica Nonpareil, Wamsutta Mills, Williamßville. Fruit of the Loom, None-such, Semper Idem, Lonsdale, Hope Mills, Congress, Ac., together with other first class makes, in bleached and unbleached, at the lowest prices As muslins are now advancing, we think it a very safe time for families to lay in a supply. Bedford, Pa., jan3lml G. R. OSTER A Co. A NOTHER VETO ON HIGH PRICES! YOU CAN SAVE MONET by buying your GOODS of MILLER A BOWSER, Mann's 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 q , on Julianna Street, two doors South of the Mengel House. [may2t,67. Mentis try. NTHICKOK, . DENTIST, Office at the old stand in BASK BCILDI.NO, Julian na Street, BEDFORD, Pa. All operations, pertaining to Surgical and Me chanical Dentistry, performed with care, and WARRANTED. Anaesthetics ad ministered, when desired. Ar tificial teeth inserted, per set, $3.00 and upward. t-jr* As I am determined to do A CASH BUSINESS or none, I have reduced the prices of ARTIFICIAL TEETH of the various kinds, 20 PER CENT, and of GOLD FILLINGS 33 PER EENT. This reduction will be made only to strictly CASH PATIENTS, and all such will receive prompt attention. _feb7 L '6Stf , TA EN T IST R Y ! Dr. 11. VIRGIL PORTER, (late of New York city,) DENTIST, Would respectfully inform his numerous friends and patrons, thai he is still IN BLOODY RUN, where he may be found at all times prepared to insert those BEAUTIFUL ARTIbIOIAL TEETII, at the low price of from TEN to EIGH TEEN DOLLARS per set. - TEETH EXTRACTED, without pain. Temporary sets inserted if desired. All operations warranted. Special attention is iuvitcd to Dr. Porter's scientific method of preserving decayed and aching teeth. H VIRGIL PORTER. jan3,'6Btf If you want A BEAUTIFUL SET OF TEETH, GO TO DII. S. M. GROSS, RESIDENT DENTIST, SCHELLSBCRG, PA., who operates in every branch of surgical and Mechanical Dentistry, at REDUCED PRICES. Teeth extracted WITHOCT PAIN positively, and NO HUMBUG! by the surest, safest and best ANAESTHETIC KNOWN. Persons desiring the services of a Dentist will do well by calling on me before contVactiug else where. ALL OPERATIONS WARRANTED. { in with W. J. MULLIN, M. D. CARD.—I take great pleasure in recommend ing DR. GROSS as a skillful Dentist, and in every way qualified to give satisfaction to th< public in his liue. W. J. MULLIN, M. D. feblo:3m VERY VARIETY AND STYLE J OF JOB PRINTING neatly executed at low laces at TUE BEDFORD GAZETTE office. Call and reave yeur orders. BEDFORD, PA., FRIDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 28. 1868. fli* ffttlW fettt*. "Darby Dodd," a regular correspon dent of'the New York Metropolitan Record , in his quaint way, gets off more than semi-occasional ly, most tell ing hits upon the follies and short comings of this degenerate age. The following is one of his last efforts: WASHINGTON, Jan. 25,1868. Editor Portfolio:— While I was sit ting in the reading room of Willard's, this afternoon, thinking over a plan to save the country and protect Mr. Stan ton from the peisecution of unscrupu lous a white-haired old gen tleman came up to me, and said he understood 1 was a person of sympa thetic nature. The firs.; idea occurred to me was that he wanted me to get him an appointment; but the utter misery that was stamped on his face soon removed this unworthy thought, and filled me with deep pity. I informed him that some one had told him the truth, which is a very remarkable tiling in Washington, and he then said he had a tale to tell that would probably harrow up my soul. "What is it about, my venerable friend ?" said I to the old gentleman ; and he answered briefly but sorrowful ly: "It is a tale of family' disgrace. "Pray, sir," 1 said, "don't your " self by repeating family troubles to.** 10 ' I am at present engaged in considering more important matters. The very life of the nation, sir, is in danger, and I am considering how to save it." But the old gentleman would not be put off. He insisted on unfolding his tale, and taking his seat beside me he began as follows: "I am the father of ten children." I expressed my condolence, and he continued: "Ten children, sir, and I did all I could to bring them up in the way ot virtue and honor." • "And I trust they are a comfort and support to you in your old age," said I. "Ah, sir, they have been a curse to me. Look at these grey hairs 1 Look at t' e furrows of care upon my face! My children, oh, my children!" I became interested, and told the old gentleman to proceed. "My first great grief," said he, com posing himself, "was caused by my eldest son. He was n young mail of flue promise, and I had him educated for the Church. He became a minister. His sermons were the wonder of our section. lie married an excellent girl and lived happily with her. His Chris tian zeal knew no bounds. He estab lished a Sabbath school, and started the greatest revival movement ever known in the West. It gladdened my heart to see my son devoting himself so earnest ly to holy work. But a blow came, a terrible blow. In the midst of the revi val he eloped with one of the Sabbath school teachers and left his wife and children 011 my hands." I said that it was a greatblovv, indeed, and the old gentleman went 011 : "About this time my second son, a young man of excellent talents and character, held a responsible position in a bank in New York. I was proud of him, sir, and I looked forward to the time when he would be one of the fore most bankers in the metropolis. But there was another blow coming. One day I received a letter from the Presi dent of the bank informing pie that my son was a d -faulter, that he had embez zled $200,000 and started for Europe with a waiter girl from one of the con cert saloons." "That was dreadful," said I. "Yes, sir, it was a great disgrace, hut not the worst. Another son settled in Chicago and became a gambler. He associated with the most disputable persons, pugilists, blacklegs, thieves, and went down step by step until he finally connected himself with a gift en terprise for the relief of soldiers and sailors. Oh, how my heart bled when I heard how low he had descended !" "No wonder, sir, it was fearful." "It was fearful, sir, but I bore it as well as I could. My fourth son was educated for the bar. He was admitted to practice, and soon became a rising man. But the evil star was over him, too. He became a drunkard. He lost all self-respect, but stilt he had clients. One of them was a widow with six or phans. Sire retained him in an impor tant property ease. It involved a for tune. He assured her he would gain it, and he did. He gained the case, sir, and pocketed every dollar of the money himself. Then he became more and more dissipated, and was at last found dead in a common bar-room in St, Louis." "Poor man, your sorrows are very great! That blow was shocking," "Oh, it is terrible, sir; but there was worse to come. My second daughter, a beautiful giri, married a young mer chant. They seemed to be very happy. Four children blessed their union— lovely children, the image of their pa rents. Fanny's husband doted on her; he thought she doted upon him. But she deceived him. One evening when he went home she was absent. She did not return that night. He was dis tracted. Next day one of his clerks was absent. He made inquiries, and learned that they had eloped. When the news came to me it almost broke my heart.." "Shocking, shocking!" I observed ; but without heeding my interruption, AS AFFLICTED PARIENT. A SECOND JOB the old man continued: "Sarah, my third daughter, was al-; ways a foolish girl, full of romantic no- j tions, and fond of reading novels. A j month after Fanny's marriage she ran away with a traveling tinker aird ! came hack in less than a year in rags, j Poor Sarah ! I could not blame her i much, for she was unsteady ; but the | disgrace almost killed her mother." j "No wonder, sir; it might well have j bowed your head, too." "It did, sir, it did ; but I bore it. I ; had to bear much more. My fourth son ; joined the army, and as he was good at j praying, they made him chaplain. Then j he took charge of the mails of his regi-1 ment, and looked after the correspon-1 dcnce of the men. Hut he fell. He was detected opening letters sent to the soldiers and taking money out of them, and the Colonel had him drummed out of camp." "And you survived that?" "Yes, and much more. These dis graces were terrible; but I could have borne them. The greatest of all was to come. I had another daughter, a giddy young creature, and though I am her father, I may say she was handsome. She was fond of dancing, going to the circus, and all that. One day she was missing, and we searched high and low for her, but she could not be found. One of our neighbors went to New York, and while there he went to sec the Black Crook. Oh, cir, it was sad news he brought home. One of the girls he saw on the stage was our Julia. We tried to break the news to her mother, hut it was too much for She sunk under it and died, and her. - -M, three weeks ago." I buried a v.. latest disgrace in "That was the deed." hut no, "Oh, sir, I wish it had bet.. the greatest is still untbld. My . son, Frank, became a pugilist, and is now traveling through the country as a prize fighter, associating with roughs and pick-pockets, and making my old heart wring with shame whenever I hear his namm" "Your hair may well be gray after that," " Worsethan that—far worse. I have not mentioned my eldest daughter. She joined a missionary society and was appointed treasurer. One day she disappeared, and the money in her hands has never been found. The min ister of the town she lived in, was missed at the same time, and two months after I heard ofthem in Cincin nati. I then lost track of them, and did not again hear of Penelope until last week, when I learned that she had joined the Mormons, and was the tenth wife of a scoundrel in Utah." "Good heavens, sir! how can you bear such shame as all this?" Shame ! ah, sir, these are trifles to the last and greatest shame 1" "The last and greatest ? Surely there can be no lower depth of infamy than you have told me of?" "There is! there is !"said the old man with a horrible groan. "My sixth and youngest son was elected to Congress, afid is now sitting in that marble build ing at the other end of the avenue." The old man's head fell upon the table, and I left him to weep over this terrible disgrace. You rs sym pathetieal ly, DARBY DODD. MR. GOUGII'S RECOVERY.—The fol lowing incident is worthy of being of ten repeated, as an encouragement to labor for moral or religious reform. A warm heart and wise tongue may o vercome the most formidable obstacles. Rev. T. L. Cuyler tells the story: 'On a certain Sabbath evening, some twenty years ago, a reckless ill dressed young man was idly lounging under the elm-tress in the public square of Worcester. He had become a wretch ed waif on the current of.sin. His days were spent in the waking remorse of thedrunkard ; his nights were passed in the buffooneries of the ale house. 'As he sauntered along, out of hu mor with himself and with all man kind, a kind voice saluted him. A stranger laid his hand on his shoulder, and said, in cordial tones: 'Mr. G—, go down to our meeting at the town hall to night.' A brief conversation followed, so winning in its character that the reckless youth consented to go. He went; he heard the appeals there made. With tremulous hand lie sign ed the pledge of total abstinence. By God's help he kept it, and keeps it yet. The poor hoot crimper who tapped hi-m on the shoulder—good Sol St ration has lately gone to heaven. But the youth he saved is to-day the foremost of reformers on the face of the globe. Methinks, when I listen to the thunders of applause that greet J. B. Gough on the platform of* Exeter Hall or the A oademy of Musio, I am hearing the echoes of that tap on the shoulder, and of that kind invitation under the an cient elms of Worcester! 'He that winneth soul?fis wise." POTATO PUDDING.—With a pound and a quarter of fine mealy potatoes boiled very dry and mashed perfectly smooth while hot, mix three ounces of butter, five or six of sugar, five eggs, a few grains of salt and the grated rind of a lemon. Pour the mixture into a well-buttered dish and bake in a moderate oven three-quarters of an hour. When done sift some sugar on it. A MTTLE-girl in Bangor, last Sun day, . astonished her Sunday-school teacher with "Blessed are the p -tocall Jftbez Logue. The bnrrD ter stepp- behind the crier, whisper ed,'"Epilogue,"in his ear. "Epi-logueJ" Bs'"ded etiei "Monologue!"said the lawyer. "Monyioguo!'' or led tf r* crier. "Pro-logue." And thecrier stili cried, "pro-log"'-! "Dialogue." r *;d the pertinacious crier shouted attl,C l ° lJ ° f hiS VuiC^ ' * -vt at hearing no response Dwjounw , j j, l , i | y . t i lt . cl . icr t ur „.., l from the LogUv N and said to the co- ' .. .. .. ... .... . "nid crier seal Is: astonishment at the stu, .. . .. .. * T in town, "I've called all the Lot , . . • . 't llino and never one is here to speak . self! " ______ IMPORTANT ADDITIONAL BOUNTY BILL. —The following is the addition al bounty bill which has just been pa.-s --ed by both houses, and which now goes to the President: . Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Uni ted States of America in Congress as sembled, That if any person or persons entitled to the bounty provided by sec tions 12 and 13 of the act making ap propriations for the civil service ap proved July 28,1668, shall have died, or shall die before receiving said boun ty, it shall be paid to the heirs of the soldier, as designated in said act, in the order therein named, and to none other. IN a town in Maine lived a man who, though yet in middle age, had put on the mourning for three wives. In the course of time a fourth was brought home, and in the course of her clear ing up and putting things to rights she found in the attic a long piece of old board, and was about launching it out of the window, when little Sallie Interposed and said:—Oh don't mama ! that is the board papa lays out his wives on, and he wants to save it 1" Never theless, out it went. IF sheep aro in a poor condition now, they must be gradually brought up; feed oats in the sheaf, a few daily, and some roots and good hay. Let all have the range of dry yards or fields, and warm sheds well ventilated. SHORT AND SWEET.— "I can't speak in public; never clone such a thing in all my life," said a chap the other night at a public meeting, who had been call ed upon to hold forth ; "But if any body will speak for me, Pll hold his hat!" _________ A CERTAIN fop who was arguing with Diogenes onthe immortality of the soul, asked him, "Now, whore do you think I shall go after death!" "Wherever your tailor goes," was the reply. A GENTLEMAN.— At a musical party asked a friend, in a whisper, "How shall I stir the fire without interrupting the music?" "Between the bars," re plied the friend. —A Northern man attending an auc tion sale in Georgia thoughtlessly bid ssl for one hundred and ninety acres of land, and it was knocked down to him. lie wants to sell it now. —The fruit growers throughout In diana report that thus Tar not one peach bud in a hundred has been injured by frost,