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Only a part of the vast number of articles per taining to tbe Book and Stationery business, which we *re prepared to sell cheaper than the cbotpest. are above enumerated. Give us a call. We >„y and sell for CASH, and by this arrange ment we expect to sell as cheap as goods of tnis class am sold anywhere jsnW.yl iattsfrrUanfous. jgLEC T R I C TELEGRAPH IN CHINA. THE EAST INDIA TELEGRAPH COMPANY'S OFFICE, Nos. 23 & 2T Nassau Street, NEW YORK. Onranixed under special charter from the State of New York CAPITAL 50,000 SHARES, $lOO EACH DIRECTOR S. HON ANDREW G. CUKTIN, Philadelphia. PAUL S. FORBES, of Russell A Co„ China. FRED. BUTTERFIELD, of F. Ba tterfield A C New York ISAAC LTVERMORE, Treasurer Michigan Cen tral Railroad. Boston. ALEXANDER HOLLAND, Treasurer American Express Company. New Y'ork. Hon JAMES NOXON, Syracuse, N. Y. 0. 11. PALMER, Treasurer Western Union Tele graph Company, New Y'ork. FLETCHER WESTRAY. of Westray, Gibbs A Ilardcastle, New York. NICHOLAS MICKLES, New York. O F FIC E R S. A. G. CURTIN. President. N. MICKLES, Vice President. GEORGE ELLIS (Cashier National Bank Com monwealth,) Treasurer. HON. A. K. MeCLURE, Philadelphia, Solicitor. The Chinese Government having (through the Hon Anson Burlingame) conceded to this Com pany the privilege of connecting the great sea ports of the Empire by submarine electric tele graph cable, we propose commencing operations in China, and laying down a line of nine hundred miles at once, between the following port s, al2 : Population. Canton ; . 1,000,000 Maeoa 60.000 Hong-Kong 250,000 Swatow 200,000 Amoy 250,000 Foo-Chow 1,250.000 Wan-Chu 300,000 Ningpo 400,000 Hang Chean 1.200,000 Shanghai 1,000,000 Toted 5,010.000 These ports have a foreign commerce ot $OOO,- 000,000. and an enormous domestic trade, besides which we have the immense internal commerce of the Empire, radiating from these points, through its canals and navigable rivers. The cable being laid, this company proposes erecting land lines, and establishing a speedy and trustworthy means of communication, which must command there, as everywhere else, tbe commu nications of the Government, of business, and of social life capecially in China. She has no postal system, and her only means now of commuulcating information is by couriers on land, and by steam ers on water The Western World knows that China is a very large country, in the main densely peopled; but few yet realize that she contains more than a third of the human race. The latest returns made to her eentrai authorities for taxing purposes by the local magistrate make her population Four hun dred and Fourteen millions, and this is more likely to be under than over the actual aggregate. Nearly all of these, who are over ten years old, net only can hut do read and write. Har civili zation is peculiar, but her literature is as exten sive as that of F.urepe. China is a land of teach ers and traders; and the latter are exceedingly quick to avail themselves of every proffered facili ty for procuring early information. It is observed in California that the Chinese make great use of the telegraph, though it there transmits messages in English alone. To-day great numbers of fleet steamers are owned by Chinese merchants, and used by them exclusively for the transmission of early intelligence. If the telegraph we propose connecting all their great seaports, were now in existence, it is believed that its business would pay the cost within the first two years of its suc cessful operation, and would steadily increase thereafter No enterprise commends itself as in a greater degree renumerative to capitalists, and to our whole people. It is of vast national importance commercially, politically and evangelically. stock of this Company has been un \ quaiifiedly recommended to capitalists and busi ness men, as a desirable investment by editorial i articles in the New York Herald, Tribune, World, Tunes, Post, Express, Independent, and in the Philadelphia North American, Press, Ledger, Inquirer, Age, Bulletin and Telegraph. Shares of this company, to a limited number, j may be obtained at $5O each, $lO payable dowp, 1 $l5 on the Ist of November, and $25 payable iu ' monthly instalments of $2.50 each, commencing 1 December I, 1868, on application to DREXEL & CO., 31 South Third Street, PHILADELPHIA Shares can he obtained in Bedford by applica tion to Reed A Schell. Bankers, who are author ized to receive subscriptions, and can give all ne cessary information on the subjoet. sept2syl combine style with neatness of fit. And moderate prices tooth the beet leorfrmanshtp. JONES' ONE PRICE CLOTHING HOUSE 604 MARKET STREET, GEO. IF. NIEMANN. PHILADELPHIA. [sepll.'tW.yl [ JgUY YOUR NOTIONS of de4 R. W BERKSTRESSER. jyc P. SPIDEL, HOUSE PAINTER AND PAPER HANGER, BEDFORD PA. All Kinds of Painting, Graining, Paper bangr ing, Ac., done at tbe shortest uotiee. Orders solicited. apr23m3. PRINTERS' INK hah made many a business man rich We ask to try it in the voluntas of v GAM*"** Jtooflamr* Column. you ALL DAVE HEARD OF HOOFLAND S GFUMAN BITTERS, AND IIOOFLAND'S GERMAN TONIC. Prepared by Dr. C. M. Jackson. Philadelphia. Their introduction into this country from Ger many occurred in IS2.Y. THEY CURED YOUR FATHERS AND MOTHERS, And will cure yon and your children. They are entirely different from-w -jp the many preparations now in the country cat I—l led Bitters or Tonics. They are no tavern llpreparation, or any thing like one; but good, honest, reliable medi cines. They are The greatest Luovtu remedies for Liver Complaint, DYSPEPSIA, Nervous Debility. J A UN DIJE, Diseases of the Kidneys, ERUPTIONS OF THE SKIN, and all Diseases arising from a Disordered Liver, stomach, or IMPURITY OF THE BLOOD. Constipation, Flatulence, Inward Piles, Fullnes of Blood to the Head, Acidity of the Stomach, Nausea, Heartburn, Disgust for Food, Full ness or Weight in the Stomach, Sour Eruc tations, Sinking or Fluttering at the Pit of the Stomach, Swimming of the Head. Hurried or Difficult Breathing, Fluttering at the llcart, Choking or Suffocating Ser.ea | I tions when in a Lying Posture. Dimness of U./ Vision, Dots or Webs before tbe sight, Dull Pain in the Head, Defi. ciencyof Perspiration. Yellowness ofthe Skin and Eyes, Pain in the Side, Back. Chest, Limbs, etc.. Sudden Flushes of Heat, Burning in the Flesh, Constant Imagi nings of Evil and Great Depression of Spirits. AH these indicate disease* of the laser or Di gestive Organs, combined with tm/itire blood. HOOFLAND'S GERMAN BITTERS is entirely vegetable and contains no liquor. It is a compound of Fluid Extracts. The Roots, Herbs, and Barks from which these extracts are made, are gathered in Germany. Alt the medi cinal virtueu? are ex y- . traded from them by a scientific Chemist. ■ I These extracts are then forwarded to this country to be used ex pressly far the manufacture of these Bitters There is no alcoholic substance of any kind used in compounding the Bitters, hence it is tbe only Bitters that can be used in CBSes where alcoholic stimulants are not advisable. HOOFLAND S_ GERMAN TONIC is a combination of all the ingredients of the Bit ters, with PURE Santa Crux Rum. Orange, etc. It is used for the same diseases as the Bitters, incase where some pure alcoholic stimulus is required. You will bear in mind that ihese remedies are en tirely different from any others advertised for the cure of the diseases named, these being scientific preparations of medicinal extracts, while the oth ers are mere decoctions of rum in some form. The TONIC is decidedly one of the most pleasant and agreeable remedies ever offered to the public Its taste is exquisite. It is a pleasure to take it, wbiie its life-giving, exhilarating, and medicinal quali ties have caused it to be known as the greatest of all tonics DEBILITY. There is no medicine equal to Hoofland's Ger man Bitters or Tonic w in cases of Debility. They impart a tone I-4 and vigor to the whole system, strengthen JL the appetite, cause an enjoyment of the food, enable the stomach to di- f est it, purify the blood, give a gool, sound, ealthy complexion, eradicate the yellow tinge from the eye. impart a bloom to tbe cheeks, and change the patient from a short-breathed, emaci ated, weak, and nervous invalid, to a full-faced, stout, and vigorous person. Weak and Delicate Children are made strong by using the Bitters or Tonic. In fact, they are Family Medicines. They can be administered with perfect safety to a child three months old, the most delicate female, or a man of ninety. These remedies are the best Blood Purifiers ever known and will cure all diseases resulting from bad blo-sd. Keep ymr blood pure ; keep your Liver in order, y keep your digestive organs in a sound, I healthy condition, by the use of these reme JLi dies, and no diseases will ever assail you. The best men in theoountry recommend them. If years of honest reputation go for anything, you must try these preparations FROM HON. GEO. W. WOODWARD, Chief Justice ot the Supreme Court of Pennsylva nia. PHILADELPHIA, March 16, 1867. I find that "Hoofland's German Bitters" is not an intoxicating beverage, but is a good tonic, use ful in disorders of the digestive organs, and of great benefit in cases of debility and want of ner i vous action in the system. Yours Truly, GEO. W. WOODWARD. FROM HON. JAMES TAOMPSON. Judge of the Supreme Conrt of Pennsylvania. PHILADELPHIA. April 28, 1866 I consider "Hoofland's German Bitters'' a valua ble medicine in ease . of attacks of Indiges tion or Dyspepsia. I \ can certify this from ! my experience of it. XJL Yours, with respect, JAMES THOMPSON. FROM REV. JOSEPH 11. KENNARD, D. D.,~ Pastor of thcTcnth Baptist Church, Philadelphia. DB. JACKSOS—DKAR SIR: —I have been fre quently requested to connect my name witb rec ommendations of different kinds of medicines, but regarding the piactico • out of my appropriate sphere. I have in all cases declined , but with a clear proof in various instances, and particularly in my own faintly, of the usefulness ot Dr. Hoof land's German Bitters, I depart for once from my usual course, to express my full conviction that fur general debility of the system, and es pecially for Liver Com m-r plaint, it is a safe and valuable prepara IX: tion. In some eases it may fail ; but usual -L v ly, I doubt not, it will be very beneficial to those whosuffer from the above causes. Y'ours, very respectfully, J H KENNARD, Eigth, below CoatesStreet. CAUTION. Hoofland's German Remedies are counterfeited. The Genuine have the signature of C. M. JACK SON on the front of the outside wrapper of each bottle, and tbe name of the article blown in each bottle. All others are counterfeit. Price of the Bitters, *1 per bottle; Or, a half dozen for $5. Price of the Tonic, $1 50 per bottle ; Or, a half dozen for $7 50. The tonic is put up in quart bottles. Recollect that it is D-. Hoofland's German Remedies that are so universally used and so highly recommended; and do not allow the Druggist to induce I lyou to take anything else that be may sayAAs just as good, be cause he makes a larger profit onit. Those Reme dies will be sent by express to any locality upon application to the PRINCIPAL OFFICE, At the German Medicine Store. No. 631 ARCH STREET, Philadelphia. CHAS. M. EVANS, PROPRIETOR. Formerly C. M JACKSON A Co. These Remedies are for sale by Druggists, Store keepers and Medicine Dealers everywhere. Do not forgot to examine the articltfoou bug m order to get the genuine. My 20'68 yl BEDFORD, PA., FRIDAY MORNING, MAY 7, 1869. DEMOCRATIC PRIMARY ELECTIONS. Agreeably to the provisions of the Rules for the Government of the Dem ocratic Party of Bedford County, adop ted by the Democratic County Com mittee, Feb. 25, 1869, the Democrat ic voters of Bedford County will assem ble at the polling places in the several election districts, on SATURDAY, MAY 29, and vote by ballot for the choice of Candidates for the sev eral offices to be filled at the next Gen eral Election, and, also, for two Inspec tors and one Judge for each polling place who shall hold the primary Elec tion for the next year. The Vigilance Committe now in existence shall hold this election, and in districts which have no such Committees, the Demo cratic voters present at the polling place at the time herein fixed for the opening of the polls, shall elect two In spectors and one Judge to hold the e lection. The polls in the 'townships shall be open from nine o'clock a. m. until 6 o'clock p. in., those in the bor oughs from 1 o'clock p. m. until 6 o'- clock p. m. An aecurrate list of the names of all persons voting shall be kept and a correct and full return of all the votes cast for the several persons voted for shall be made out, and both the list and returns shall be certified over the signature of at least two of the election officers to be correct and true. After the counting of the ballots, and the proper certification of the re turns, the list of voters and the return of votes for the several candidates, shall be sealed up by the Inspectors and de livered to the Judge, who shall place the sealed return in the hands of the Chairman of the County Committe, at a meeting of the Judges from each polling-place, to beheld at the Court House, in Bedford, on TUESDAY, J UNE 1, at one o'clock, p. m. A'l per sons entitle! to vote at the election for Representatives in the Legislature and pledging themselves to vote the whole Democratic ticket at the next General Election, will be permitted to vote at this election. J. W. DICKERSON, Ch'n Dern. Co. Com. XEW I.AW OF TESTIM<>\ V. The following is the act passed by the last legislature, permitting parties to the record of any civil proceeding, except in excepted cases stated in the first section, to give evidence on trial. The law has been in force since the loth, and the general impression seems to lie that it will prove advantageous to the administration of justice: SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Sen ate and House of Representative of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in Gen eral Assembly met, and it is hereby enact ed by the authority of the- same, That no interest nor policy of law shall exclude a party or person from being a witness in any civil proceeding: Provided, This act, shall not alter the law, as now declared and practiced in the courts of this Commonwealth, so as to allow husband and wife to testify against each other, nor counsel to testify to the confidential communication of his client; and this act shall not apply to actions by or a gainst executors, administrators or guardians, nor where the the assignor of the thing or contract in action may be dead, excepting in issues and in quiries devisaril vet non and others, re specting the right ofsuch deceased own er, between parties claiming such right by devolution on the death of such own er. SEC. 2. That a party to a record of any civil proceeding, in law of equity, or a person for whose immediate ben efit such proceeding is prosecuted or deended, may be examined as if un der cross examination, at the instance j of the adverse party, or any of them, j and for that purpose may be compel- j led in the same manner, and subject to the same rules for examination as ! any other witness, to testify; but the I party calling for such examination shall not be excluded thereby, but may re but it by counter testimony. SEC. 8. That the testimony of wit nes-es authorized by this act may be j bad by deposition or commission, is- j sued, as the case may require, with such notice to the party to he exam ined, and to the adverse party, as is now or may hereafter be prescribed by the rules of the proper court touch ing the taking of depositions and tes timony and commission. JOHN CI.AKK, Speaker of the House of ltepresenta tives. \YlLMfc.lt W<)UTHINGTON, Speaker of the Senate. Approved the fifteenth day of April, Anno Domini one thousand eight hun dred and sixty-nine. JOHN W. GEAKY. LA HUE MOUTH.—A fellow, whose countenance was homely enough t > scare a Quaker, was lounging around a public house,when lie was observed by a Yankee, who asked him if lie had not met with an accident wiien he was young. "What do you mean, you im pertinent scoundrel?" "Why, I didn't mean nothin', only you have got such an all-fired crooked mouth, I thought as how you might have fallen in the brook when you were a boy, and your mother hung you up to dry." AM US EM ENT. —— should be guarded against temptation to unlaw ful pleasures by furnishing the means of innocent ones. In every community there must be pleasures, relaxations, and means of agreeable excitement; and, if innocent are not furnished, re sort will be had to criminal. C'l.i; A Nbt N Ess. —T lie re is a homely, but yet very forcible expression, that "cleanliness is next to godliness;" I meaning thereby that habits of clean- I liness tend not only to health of body, | but to that state of moral feeling which becomes man as the chief creature of I the Almighty. THE HORKOI'K OF BEIXU "ISSTAST IV Ifc Z 1.1.ED.' Count Tolsboi's "Sevastopol in May," in course of publication in "Honrs at Home," gives a very remarkable de scription of the death of a man who is instantly killed— as the living say, "in stantly killed"—by a piece of a shell which strikes him. But to him, the dying man, his death seems a differ ent affair. This surely is extremely powerful writing: ' Michallof looked behind him. The shining point of bomb seemed tostand at the zenith—in that position where it is impossible to tell its direction. But that lasted only a minute; the bomb came quicker and quicker, near er and nearer, so that you couid see the sparks from the tube and hear the fatal whistling, and directed its course straight at the middle of the battalion. "Lie down," cried a voice. Miehalloff and Praskukin lay down on the ground. Praskukin, tightly closing his eyes, heard only how the bomb fell heavily somewhere very near on the hard ground. A second passed—it seemed an hour—and the bomb did not burst. Praskukin began to be afraid that he had done a coward ly act without any reason, that per haps the bomb had fallen far away, and that he only thought he heard the fuse fizzing. He opened his eyes and saw with satisfaction that Miehalloff lay immoveable on the ground near his legs. But his eyes at that moment met the sparkling fuse of the whirling bomb not a yard from him. A hor rid—a cold horror excluding all other thoughts and feelings—took possession of him. He covered his face with his hands. Another second passed—a second in which a whole world of feelings, ; thoughts, hopes, and recollections pass- j ed through his mind. "Whom will it kill; me or Miehal loff? or both together ? If it hits me where will it hit? in the head then, it's j all over ;if it hits my leg, they will cut it off, and I shall ask them to do it by all means by chloroform—and I can still get through alive. But per haps it will only kill Miehalloff—then I can tell how we were walking to gether, and he was killed and I was spattered with blood. No; its nearer to me, it wilWril! me! Then he recollected the twelve rouble that he owed Miehalloff; he re collected also another debt at Peters burg that he ought to have paid long ago; a Gipsy air that he had sung in the evening came into his head. The girl whom he loved appeared to his imagination in a cap with lilac rib bons; he remembered a man whom he had insulted years before and who had never paid it back, although at the same time with these and a thousand other remembrances the feeling of his present circumstances—the expecta tion of death—never for a moment | quitted him. "However, perhaps u will not burst," he then, and with a despairing decision wanted to open his eyes. But at that instant, through the | still shut lids he saw a red tire, and with a horrible ncise something hit him in the middle of the breast. "Thank God! lam only bruised," was his first thought, and he wanted to feel his breast, but his hands seemed to be bound down, and a weight to keep down his head. The soldiers shone in his eyes, and he unconscious ly counted them: "One, two, three soldiers, and that one whose overcoat has slipped down is an officer," he thought. Then he saw flashes, and he thought "what are they firing from, mortars or cannon ? They are firing again, and there are more soldiers; five, six, seven soldiers, and they all go past." lie had all at once became afraid that they would leave him there, i He wanted to cry out that he was wounded, but his mouth was so dry that his tongue stuck to his palate and a horrible thirst tormented him. lie felt how wet be was about the breast. "Really I fell into some blood when I lay down,'- he thought and yielding more and more to the fear that the sol diers who were going past would leave him there, he collected all his forces and tried to cry out. "Take me along," but instead of that he groaned so hor ribly that it was awful to hear his own voice. Then some red fires danced in his eyes, and it seemed to him that the soldiers were laying stones on him ; the fires danced quicker and quicker, the stones which they laid on him op pressed him more and more. He made an effort to throw off the stones, stretched out, and then neither saw nor heard, nor thought nor felt. lie was killed on the spot by a fragment of sbeil in the middle of his breast. A ROMANCE OK THE CUBAN REBEL.- i LION.— An American citizen who was in the Theatre of Viilanueva on the evening of the 22d uIL, and wit nessed the riot and massacre in the streets of Havana tiiat evening, says that the origin of tiie outburst was the shooting of a young woman. lie says : ♦'A very beautiful girl, the daughter of Aldoma, one of the wealthiest and most noble of ail Cubans, wore upon her left breast the American flag with the inscription, 'Long live the Repub lic of Cuba,' upon it. When that stir ring song was being sung, the whole audience arose to acknowlege the salute—all eyes were now bent upon her —a low mean cowardly Spaniard shot her with a revolver killing her instantly. Two American gentlemen occupied the box adjoiniug Senorita Aldoma, whose names I do not know, but one of whom, seeing the pistol pointed at the young lady's breast, drew his revolver, and a second after the Spaniard had fired blew the top off the head of the cowardly assassin. In stantly the whole theatre was the scene of the greatest confusion, and the Spanish troops rushed in and commenced firing upon the masses of huddled, unarmed, innocent men and and women." TIIE SEVADA CALAMITY. It is seldom that we are called upon to record the occurrence in our own cour try of a calamity like that which was lately telegraphed from California. The great silver mines at Nevada are on fire; and it would appear that nearly forty of the miners have perished in the flames. The scene at the mine is described as heail-rending. The wives and families of the unfor tunate men who perished in the con flagration are gathered about the en trance of the shafts, and exhibit a spec tacle of grief and despair that melts the hardest hearts. The mines were ail a roaring pit of flames. It does not yet appear what caused the disaster, nor what the flames find to feed upon ; but it is probably another ease of the dreaded "firedamp," that inflammable and explosive collic.ion of noxious gases which has caused so many and such terrible disasters in the mines of Great Britain. To guard against this imminent dan ger the safety-lamp was invented ; and its use, under very strict and rigorous rules, is insisted upon in the European, and doubtless also in the American mines. Notwithstanding, however, all the precautions that can t>e taken, the danger of an explosion of "fire damp" in the mines apears to be al ways very great, both on account of carelessness in the use of the safety lamp, and also from the effects of blast ing. Hitherto the mines in this country have happily been almost exempt from these calamities, in comparison with the dreadful experience of the Cornish and Welsh miners, perhaps because some of our miners are more intelligent and careful; though a large proportion of their number are Cornish miners. The danger seems to be far greatest in the deepest, mines. The silver mines of Nevada are from 1,000 to 1,300 feet deep ; while many of the British and continental coal and tin mines are much deeper—several being about 2,000 feet below the surface ; and one —an abandoned mine in Kutteuburg Bohemia—reaches the enormous depth of 3,500 feet. DON'T YOU LOVE HIM, FATHER?— One Sabbath evening, the father of two little children had placed one on each knee, to ask them what they had heafd in the infant school that day. He was not a professor of religion, al though he had a pious wife. The little children began to tell him in their own way, of the beautiful home in Heaven that Jesus had left because of His love to them. Looking full in her father's face, a little girl said, "Jesus must have loved us very much to do that; don't you love him for it, father'.'' llien they went on describing the trials and sufferings of our Saviour, and she again asked the question. "Don't you love mm for that, rather?" and when they spoke of His death on the cross, the little one asked the third time, "Now don't you love Him, father?" The father had to put the children down and go out of the room to hide his e motion. He confessed to the writer afterward, that he felt more under the artless questioning of his little chil dren, than he ever felt under the most powerful preaching in his life. He soon afterwards united with the church. A KLEPTOMANIAC LEAGUER.— An afternoon cotemporary gave an account the other day of the arrest of a Leaguer by a grocer on the charge of theft, which was settled by the grocer com pounding a felony and accepting $-500 for the amount stolen. Kleptomania is a good title for theft when a rich man or woman is the guilty party, but we believe we have never heard of a poor person, man, woman or child, being afflicted with that singular and peculiar disease. Wheu they lift any thing it is called theft. In the ease in question, however, we can readily ac count for the mania. He is one of the "trooly ioil," and acquired the habit of stealing during the war, which hab it, as with many others of the "truly Ioil," has become second nature. In fact, it is said to be a contagion peculiar to loyal Leaguers, which, since the close of the war and the absence of fat contracts, manifests itself frequently in petty pU/erings. Even the great Gen eral Burbridge, a Radical special agent of the Treasury, has been inoculated with the disease, and Butler is said to be an incurable case. Two lawyers in Lowell were return ing from court when the one said to the other: "I've a notion to join ltev. M 's church—been debating the matter for seine time. What do you think of it ?" "Wouldn't do it," said the other. "Well, why ?" "Because it could do you no possible good, while it might he a great injury injury to the church." LIFE AND ITS END— Remember for what purpose you were born, and though the whole of life look at its end ; consider, when that comes, in what you will put your trust. Not in the recollection of a life spent in giddy conformity to the silly fashions of a thoughtless and wicked world, hut in that of a life spent soberly, righteous ly, and godly in this present world. A recent writer says: "There is many a proud spirited, sensitive wo man, who feeds herself a beggar, and unless from absolute need, will go without, rather than ask her husband for money for her own use." Poor dears; we should like to meet one of this kind. ______ A colored Treasury employee recent ly appointed, fell dead while engaged in the discharge of his duties. Office holding does not.appear to sit well on the colored folks. VOL 64—WHOLE No. 5,489. HOI;WE AJII FAKM. It is said 1 hat if a sheep is kept fat the wool will be coarser than if kept only in moderate flesh. A correspondent of the Journal of the Farm says he raised 1200 bushels of su gar-beets to the ace on soil not over six inches in depth. Three hund ed and fifty bushels < f potatoes remove ninety pounds of pot ash from the soil on which they are grown; consequently, wood ashes is one of the most valuable manures for a crop. There is a man in the West who moves so often that whenever a cover ed wagon comes near the house, his chickens all full on their backs and cross their legs, ready to be tied and car ried to the next stopping-place. Notwithstanding the soil of England is growing richer, clover is so uncer tain that it is sown once in twelve years. This is because ruots have ex tracted the clover elemeut from the soil and the attempt < f the agricultural chemists to supply it has failed. Mr. R. Murray , who raised potat< es the present season at the rate of 350 bushels to the acre, and onions at the rate of (522 bushels to the acre, stated at a late meeting of the Waltham, (Mass.) Farmers' Club, that he had found air-slacked lime to be a sure cure for the onion-maggot. A Way to Remove Foul Air From Wells.—A correspondent of the Scien tific American had well "so full of carbonic acid gas, that it instantly ex tinguished a lighted candle. He cleansed it thoroughly by letting an umbrella down and rapidly hauiing it up a number of times in sueees-ion. Ridding a Henery of Lice. —Daniel Kembeil, of Mt. Holly, N. J., is pos itive "if you mix about a gill of gas tar with a pail of whitewash, and ap ply it with a brush to all exposed sur faces these pests of the roost will either die quickly, or go away very fast." The recipe is certainly worth trying. The Utica Herald says: "Averaging the results of several careful experi ments iu feeding corn to" hogs, shows that two bushels of corn in the ear, or one bushel of shelled corn, made nine and seven twentieths pountls of pork, while the same amount ground into meal and mixed with water made e leven and one eighth pounds of pork." Lard should never be used for greas i ing wagons, for it will penetrate the hubs, and work its way along the ten* j ons of the spokes, and spoil the wheel. ! Tallow is the best lubricater for wood ! axe!trees, and castor oii for Iron ones. ; Just grease enough should be applied to the spindle of a wagon to give it a : light coating. To Destroy Lice on Cattle.—l have | tried many remedies, yet I have found none which effects a cure so quickly ! and thoroughly as to make a strong j suds of soft soap and rain water, adding a handfull or so of common salt, which forms a thick paste, like substance. ! Appiy this by rubbing thoroughly over the animal. If using it upon colts, blanket ihem well to preveut their j catching cold. I have known one ap plication to entirely obliterate all tra ; ees of these pests, leaving the skin in a natural and healthy state.—Cbr. Rural New Yorker. How to Make Good Yeast. —A farm j er's wife sends us the following recipe | for leaking good yeast: Take eight good sized potatoes, peel and boil them in a gallon of water un til quite soft; then smash them very fine, and put in two thirds of a cup of salt, arid one cup of sugar; pour over them the water they were boiled iu j and let them stand until cold. Then j put in some good yeast, and poqr all j into a good clean jug; let it stand In a warm place twelve hours, then cork up tight, and set in a cold place. It will be ready for use in a day or two, and will keep a month in summer, and any length of time in winter if kept tightly corked. Fine Blue'dug for Shoes. —Take* four ouncesof ivory-black, three ounces of the coarsest sugar, a tablespoonful of sweet oil, and a pint of small beer; mix them gradually cold. A strong Paste for Paper.— To two large spoonfulls of fine flour put as much pounded rosin as will lie on a shilling; mix as much strong beer as will make it of a due consistency, and boil half an hour. Let it be cold before it is used. A Durable Paint for out-door Work. —Any quantity of charcoal powdered, a sufficient quantity of litharge as a dryer, to be mixed smoothly with lir seed oil. The above forms a good black paint, and by adding yellow ochre an excellent green is produced, which is preferable to a bright green used by painters for all garden work, and does not fade with the sun. This composition was first used by Dr. Par ry, of Bath, on some spouts, which on being examined fourteen years after ward, was found to be as perfect as when first put up. Orchard Catlerjrillar.— This insect 'comes anil goes"—is abundant in some, years, and in others nearly disappears. Where the millers or moths have .'eft their rings or eggs on the shoots of trees, now is the time to destroy their,. A practiced eye will see almost at a single glance if there are any on a tr e, by the swelling or knob on which each one gives a shoot. Select a dark or cloudy day, or else a day when the sky is entirely clear—avoiding thin bright clouds, which will dazzle and hurt the eyes—anil cut off every shoot which contains the eggs, and commit them to the fire. A single clip of the orchard shears on a j>ole, will prevent a de structive nest of these depredators.— Country Gentlemen. Maple sugar is selling in Elk com iy at twenty cents a pound.