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BOOK STORE,
opposite the Mengel House,
BEDFORD, PA.
The proprietor takes pleasure in offering to the
public the following articles belonging to the
Book Business, at CTTY RETAIL PRICES:
MISCELLANEOUS BOOKS.
NOVELS.
BIBLES, HYMN BOOKS, AC.:
Large Family Bibles,
Small Bibles,
Medium Bibles,
Lutheran Hymn Bonks,
Methodist Hymn Books,
Smith's Dictionary of the Bible,
History of the Books of the Bible,
Pilgrim's Progress, Ac., Ac., Ac.
Episcopal Prayer Books.
Presbyterian Hymn Books,
SCHOOL BOOKS.
TOY BOOKS.
STATIONERY,
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Sermon, Commercial Note,
Ladies' Gilt, Ladies' Octavo,
Mourning, French Note,
Bath Post, Damask Laid Note,
Cream Laid Note, Envelopes, Ac.
WALL PAPER.
Several Hundred Different Figures, the Largest
lot ever brought to Bedford county, for
sale at prices CHEAPER THAN
EVER SOLD in Bedford.
BLANK BOOKS.
Day Books, Ledgers,
Account Books, Cash Books,
Pocket Ledgers, Time Books,
Tuck Memorandums, Pass Books,
Money Books, Pocket Books,
Blank Judgment Notes, drafts, receipts, Ac
INKS AND INKSTANDS.
Barometer Inkstands,
Gutta Percha,
Cocoa, and
Morocco Spring Pocket Inkstands,
Glass and Ordinary Stands for Schools,
Flat Glax* Ink Wells and Rack,
Arnold's Writing Fluids,
Hover's Inks,
Carmine Inks. Purple Inks,
Charlton's Inks,
Eukolon for pasting, Ac.
PENS AND PENCILS.
Gillot's, Cohen's,
Hollow bush A Carey's, Payson,
Dunton. and Scribner Pens,
Clark's Indeliible, Fabor'sTablet,
Cohen's Eagle,
Office, Faber s
Uuttknecht's, Carpenter's Pencils.
PERIODICALS.
Atlantic Monthly,
Harper's Magazine.
Madame Demorest's Mirror of Fashions,
Electic Magazine,
Godev's Lady's Book,
Galaxy,
Lady's Friend,
Ladies' Repository,
Our Young Folks,
Nick Nax,
Yankee Notions,
Budget of Fun,
Jolly Joker,
Phunny Phellow,
Liapincott * Magazine,
Riverside Magazine,
Waverly Magazine,
Ballou's Magazine,
Gardner's Monthly.
Harper's Weekly,
Frank Leslie's Illustrated,
Chimney Corner,
New York Ledger,
Now York Weekly,
Harper's Bazar,
Every Saturday,
Living Age,
Putnam's Monthly Magazine,
Arthur's Home Magazine.
Oliver Optio's Boys and Girl's Magazine Ac.
Constantly on hand to accomodate those who want
to purchase living reading maltter.
Only a part of the vast number of articles per
taining to the Book and Stationery business,
which we are prepared to sell cheaper than the
cheapest, are above enumerated Give us a call
We buy and sell for CASH, and by this arrange
ment we expect to sell its cheap as goods of this
class are sold anywhere
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THLEC T R I C
TELEGRAPH IN CHINA.
TIIE EAST INDIA TELEGRAPH COMPANY S
OFFICE,
Nos. 23 A 2T> Nassau Street,
NEW YORK.
Orzaniied under special charter from the State
of New York.
CAPITAL $5,000,000
50.000 SHARES. SIOO EACH.
DIRECTOR S.
flo* ANDREW G. CURTIN, Philadelphia.
PAUL S. FORBES, of Russell A Co., China.
FRED. BUTTERFIELD, of F. Bu tterfield A C
New York.
ISAAC LIVKRMORE. Treasurer Michigan Cen
tral Railroad, Boston.
ALEXANDER HOLLAND, Treasurer American
Express Company, New York.
Hon. JAMES NOXON, Syracuse, N. Y
O. 11. PALMER. Treasurer Western Union Tele
graph Company, New York.
FLETCHER WESTRAY, of Westray, (iibbs A
llardcastle. New York.
NICHOLAS MICKLKS, New York.
OFFICERS.
A. G. CURTIN, Preai lent.
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 ports, vis :
Population.
Canton 1,000,000
Macoa 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
Total 5,910,000
These ports have a foreign commerce of $900,-
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, the commu
nications of the Oovernmont, of business, and of
social life especially in China. She has no postal
system, and her only means nowofcommuuicating
information is by couriers on land, and oy 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 central authorities foe 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,
not only can but do read and write. Her civili
zation is peculiar, but her literature is as exten
sive as that of Eurepe. China is a land of teach
ers and traders; and the Utter 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 ovangelically.
LgTThe stock of this Company has been un
qualifiedly recommended to capitalists and busi
ness men, as a desirable investment by editorial
articles in the New York Herald, Tribune,
World, Times, Post , Express, Independent , and
in the Philadelphia North American, Press,
Ledger, Inquirer, Age, Bulletin and Telegraph.
Shares of this company, to a limited number,
may be obtained at SSO each, $lO payable down,
sls on the Ist of November, and $25 payable in
monthly instalments of $2.60 each, commencing
.December 1, 1868, on application to
DREXEL & CO.,
34 South Third Street,
PHILADELPHIA.
Shares can be obtained in Bedford by applica
tion to Heed A. Scheli, Bankers, who are author
ized to receive subscriptions, and can give all no
cessary information on the subject. scpt2syl
E combine style with neatness of fit.
And moderate prices with the best workmanship
JONES' ONE PRICE CLOTHING HOUSE
601 MARKET STREET,
GEO W. NIEMANN. . PHILADELPHIA.
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SAVE YOUR TIME and MONEY
by going to U. K. Oater i Co. for cheap
stockings, and bo convinced that the assertion of
one man selling 100 per cent, cheaper than an
other is .'imply nonsense. Lailiee' cotton hoee at
10 ; 12, 15, 20 ots. and upwards. un2sml
BEDFORD, PA., THURSDAY MORNING, AUGUST 19, 1869.
§ry-<soofls, &t.
NEW GOODS JUST RECEIVED
AT J. M. SHOEMAKERS BARGAIN
STORE
NEW GOODS just Received at J.
M. Shoemaker's Bargain Store.
NEW GOODS just Received at J.
M. Shoemaker's Bargain Store.
NEW GOODS just Received at J.
M. Shoemaker's Bargain Store.
NEW GOODS just Received at J.
M Shoemaker's Bargain Store.
NEW GOODS just Received at J.
M Shoemaker's Bargain Store.
BUY your Dry Goods, Groceries,
Clothing, llats, Boots and Shoes, Queensware,
Fish, Notions. Leather, Tobacco, Ac , at J. M.
Shoemaker's Bargain Store.
BUY your Dry Goods, Groceries,
Clothing, llats, Boots and Shoes Queensware,
Leather, Fish, Notions, Tobacco, Ac., at J. .M.
Shoemaker's Bargain Store
BUY your Dry Goods, Groceries,
Clothing, llats, Boots and Shoes, Queensware,
Notions, Leather, Tobacco, Fish, Ac., at J. M.
Shoemaker's Bargain Store.
BUY your Dry Goods, Groceries,
Clothing, Hats, Boots and Shoes, Queensware,
Notione, Leather, Tobacco, Fish. Ac., at J- M
Shoemaker's Bargain Store.
BUY your Dry Goods, Groceries,
Clothing, Hats. Boots and Shoes, Queensware,
Notions' Leather, Tobacco, Fish, Ac., at J. M.
Shoemaker's Bargain Store.
BUY your Dry Goods, Groceries,
Clothing. Hats, Boots and Shoes, Queensware.
Notions, Leather, Tobacco, Fiah Ac., at J. M
Shoemaker's Bargain Store.
Bedford, Pa , June 11, 1869.
S1 It. OSTER A CO.
vT •
READ AND SPEAK OF IT!
COME SEE AND BE CONVINCED !
Wo are now receiving our usual extensive and
well assorted STOCK OF NEW AND
C II E A P S UMM Elt GO OD S,
And are now prepared to offer SMASHING BIG
BAHGAINS TO
CASH BUYERS,
In Staple and Fancy Dry Goods, Notions, Car
pets, Oil Cloths, Cotton Yarns, Carpet
Chains, Hats, Boots, Shoes,
Clothing, Brooms, Baskets,
Willi and Window
Pavers, Groceries, Queens
ware, Tobaccos, Cigars, Fish, Salt, <s-<"
He invite everybody to rati and see for them
selves . NO TiIUBLE TO SHOW GOODS.
TERMS CASH.
BHINC ALONG YOL'B CASH and wo will guarantee
to SELL you Goods as CHEAP as the same styles
arid qualities can be sold in Central Pennsylva
nia.
Be assured that CASH in hand is a wonderfully
winning argument, and that those who BUY and
SELL for CASH are always masters of the situation.
jnnelSm.'i ft. R. 08TER A CO.
M. FISHER AND BABIES,
J® Next Door to the Bedford Hotel.
GOOD NE W S AT LAS T.
The Cheapest Goods ever brought to Bedford.
We will sell (loons CHEAPER, by 15 to 25 per
cent, than ever sold in Bedford county.
The best COFFEE at 25 cents, but the less
we sell the better we are off.
The LADIES' HOSE, at 10 cents we will not
have this time, but come at us for 15, 20 and 25
cents, and we will make you howl.
You will all be waited on by ELI and the BA
BIES, as the OLD ELI cannot do anything
himself A gTeat variety of Parasols. Sunumbret
-188, Pocket-books Ac. Linen Handkfa (Ladies
and Gents) from 5 cents to 25 cents. CALICOES,
from 10, 12 and a few pieces at 15 cents MUS
LINS, from 10 to 25 cents. You all know that we
sell NOTIONS 100 percent, cheaper than anybody
else All Wool Cassimeres, from 50 cents tosl.oo.
All Wool Dress Goods, from 15 to 25 cents Tick
ing, from 20 to 40 cents. Paper Collars, 10cents;
best, 25 cents per bo*. 4 pair Men's Half Hose,
for 25 cents. Clear Glass Tumblers, 00 cents a
dozen or 5 cents a peace. A great lot of Boots
and Shoes, to be sold cheap. Queens and Glass
ware, very low. Syrup, 80 cents and $1 00.
$1 30 for best as clear as honey, and thick as tar.
Bakers' Molasses, 50 cents per gallon, or 15 cents
a quart. These Goods will " positively " not be
sold unless for Cash or Produce. Come and see
us, it will not cost anything to see the Goods and
Babies. N. B. All these Goods ware bought at
slaughtered prices in New York
E M. FISIIER A BABIES.
These Goods we sell so low, that we eannot af
ford to sing (Auld Lang Syne )
All accounts must be settle# by the middle of
July next, by cash or note, or they will be left in
the hands of E. M. ALSIP, Esq., for collection.
junlßm3
NOTICE.— I hereby tfive notice to
all persons not tc harber or trust my wife,
SARAH, on my account, as I will not be respon
sible for any debts she may eontract—she having
left my bed and board without just cause or pro
vocation. ANDREW POTK
Union tp., Aug 12 w3
fftflforil feetle.
DEMOCRATIC 1 I. AT FOB*.
1. That the federal government is
limited in power to the grants contain
ed in the Federal Constitution; that
the exercise of doubtful constitutional
powers is dangerous to the stability of
the government and the safety of the
people, and the democratic party will
never consent that the State of Penn
sylvania shall surrender her great right
of local self-government.
2. That the attempted ratification of
the proposed fifteenth amendment to
the Federal Constitution by the radi
cal members of the last legislature, and
their refusal to submit the same to a
vote of the people, was a deliberate
breach of their official duty and an
outrage upon every citizen of the State,
and the resolution making such ratifi
cation- should be promptly repealed
and the amendment submitted to the
people at the polls for acceptance or re
jection.
3. That the Democratic party of
Pennsylvania is opposed to conferring
upon the negro the right to vote, and
we do emphatically deny that there
is any right or power in Congress or
elsewhere to impose negro suffrage up
on the people of this State in opposi
tion to their will.
4. That reform in the administration
of the federal and State governments,
and in the management of their finan
cial affairs is imperatively demanded.
5. That the movements now being
made for the amelioration of the con
dition of the laboring man has our
most cordial co-operation.
6. That the legislation of the late re
publican Congress "outside of the Con
stitution," the disregard of the major
ity therein of the will of the people and
sanctity of the ballot box, in the exclu
sion from their seats in Congress of
representatives clearly elected, the
establishment ofinilitary governments
in States in the Union and the o
verthrow of all civil governments
therein, are acts of tyranny and usur
pation that tend directly to the de
struction of all republican government
and the creation of the worst forms of
despotism.
7. That our soldiers and sailors, who
carried the flag of our country to victo
ry must be gratefully remembered,
and all the guaranties given in their
favoi must be faithfully carried into
execution.
8. Equal rights and protection for
naturalized and native-born citizens
at home and abroad ; the assertiou of
American nationality which shall
command the respect of foreign pow
ers and furnish an example an encour
agement to people struggling for na
tional integrity, constitutional liberty
and individual rights.
9. That the present interna? revenue
and taxing system of the general gov
ernment is grossly unjust, and means
ought at once to be adopted to cause a
modification thereof.
The report was acecepted and unani
mously adopted.
A VILLAIN KILLED RT A DO.
The Augusta (Ga,) Chronicle prints
the following:
In one of the mountain counties of
Georgia there live two families, each
before the war noted for its wealth and
refinement. One of them, the L's,
consisted of Mr. L., a gentleman of fif
ty-live years of age, his wife, nearly
the same age, and an unmarried daugh
ter of about twenty-five. Within a
bout a quarter of a mile of their house
lived one of the It's, a young man
who had recently married a very beau
tiful young lady of the country, and
having left the paternal mansion, was
farming by himself a small tract of
ground. The two families lived some
distance from the country town, in a
sparsely inhabited section of the coun
try, and being each the nearest neigh
bor of the other, were, of course, on
terms of great intimacy. Between the
young wife and the daughter of Mr. L.
a friendship was soon formed.
A few days since, Mr. R. informed
his wife that he had received a letter
which would compel immediate attend
ance in Atlanta, where he would have
to remain for several days. Feeling
that she had a protecter in a large and
very fierce yard-dog belonging to her
husband, she took him into her bed
room, and, after securing the house,
laid down and resigned herself to
sleep.
About twelve o'clock she was awak
ened from her slumbers by a noise in
the house and the angry growling of a
dog, and discovered that the hall door
had been forced, and that some one was
standing at her room door seeking an
entrance. Speaking as loudly as her
fright would let her, Mrs. It. asked,
"Who is there?" A man's voice
which she did not recognize, replied
by telling her to "open the door."
Again she asked the same question,
and again received the same reply, the
stranger adding that if she refused he
would break the door down. During
this dialogue, the dog still growling,
crouched upon the floor, as if ready to
spring. Thinking to intimidate this
man, who sought her ruin, Mrs. R.
cried out to him that if he forced the
door she would shoot him.
Laughing scornfully, the ruffian
threw his weight against the light door,
burst it open and entered the room
when, quick as thought, the savage
dog sprang forward and fastened on
his neck. The man, astonished at the
sudden attack, attempted to kill the
dog with a knife, which he held in
his hand, but unsuccessfully, and the
powerful animal dragged him to the
ground, still retaining hold upon his
throat. Stunned at first by this un
looked lor deliverance, the woman, in
a few seconds, regained her presence of
mind somewhat, ran screaming from
the house, never stopping until she ar-
rived at the place of the L', where
her cries soon aroused the family.
Her tale was rapidly told, and ihe ser
vants were preparing to go to the
scene of danger, when suddenly Mr.
L. was missed, and his wife almost on
the instant, as if struck by a sudden
presentiment, exelaimed, "Merciful
God ! it inustbe my husbund." With
a cry of horror, the party set forth and
ran as fast to the house of Mrs. It. as
the latter had run away from it a few
minutes before. Arrived there, they
found the man still lying on the lloor
and the dog still grasping his thraat.
Beating him away from his prey, they
found the suspicions of Mrs. L. but too
correct. It was her husband ; but the
teeth of the dog had done their work,
and he was dead.
A CH ANCE FOR FREEDOM.
Within a few weeks from now will
take place several important and de
cisive State elections, and a word to
the people may be timely.
Upon these results will hang, not
only the questions at local issue, of
which the people in the respective
States are themselves the best judges,
but there will also be the vital ques
tions that divide the two great politi
cal parties.
The Democracy are engaging in the
canvass without a semblance of fear or
d iscou ragemen t.
The members of that grand old or
ganization are increasing in number,
spirit and confidence, while its ene
mies are disheartened, disgusted, de
jected
Radicalism is on the defensive.
For many long years have they
pushed the Democracy to the corner.
For many long years they have kept
the Democracy constantly on the de
fenaive, while it needed no defense.—
It had a record clear and bright as the
nood-day sky. It could point to that
record as the record of the party that
brought greatness, and power, and
wealth to the American people and
the American nation.
In contrast with this, how is the re
cord of the Radical mob that during
these late years has controlled the ad
ministration of the Government.
That record is a record of crime, of
outrage, of destruction.
It is a record of imbecility, of ignor
ance.
It is a record of humiliation for the
proud people of America, who saw
their nation hurled from its high po
sition of greatest among empires to a
depth so low as to have heaped upon
it the indignities, insults, and jeers of
all the world.
It is a record that notes the destruc
tion of our greatest wealth, and the
enslaving of millions of toiling men,
who were free under the liberal ad
minist ration of the Democracy.
It is a record that has indicated
gradual but most certain steps toward
a monarchical form of government, to
take the place of that built upon the
bloody fields of the Revolution by
WASHINGTON and JEFFERSON, and
their compatriots, and under the wise
administration of which America be
came great.
It is a record of despotism more ac
cursed and damnable than any free
people ever before endured.
It is a record of mobs that have
murdered free American citizens.
It is a record of bastiles in which na
tive and free-born Americans have
been imprisoned without charge or
trial, and who, after months of suffer
ing, have been released without know
ing for what they were incarcerated.
It is a record of times in which free
speech was not permitted in this coun
try, that had so long boasted of free
dom; and when American newspapers
were forbidden circulation in Ameri
can mails.
It is a record of murder, and plun
der, and outrage, when honest men
were degraded beneath the heels of
thieves, marauders, pimps and har
lots.
Such is the record of the party that
arrays itself in opposition to the De
mocracy, and which is the party that
for ten years has had absolute control
of the Fe leral Government, and which
during that time has kept the Democ
racy in abeyance.
The picture is not good !
But the picture is not painted in oth
er than true colors,and, to thedisgrace
of American history, is as incapable of
being blotted out as the ocean itself.
And with all this record, this same
demoralizing, destructive party comes
forward and fawns to the people for
further power.
At the ballot-box the people are su
preme !
In office, the leaders are the des
pots !
Now is the time for the people to
make terms; to insist upon their
rights ; to insist upon equal taxation;
to insist upon an houest administra
tion of the Government; to insist upon
a return to the old times of Democracy.
Now the people may do it.
But wait until the demagogues are
firmly fixed in office and they will
laugh at your desires and demands,
just as they have always done it since
they have come into power.
Now the people are masters. They
may do that "which will free them
from the yoke of Radical despotism.
Let them strike note !
If they care not to do it, let them
look bitck over the dark years of war,
and strife, and desolation that have
hung so thick and black over this
country. Let them remember who
has done this, and then peer away in
to the future and watch the thick
clouds still coming up—clouds certain
to envelop us unless the people shall
strike now, and strike effectively.—
Democrat.
THK man who was filled with emo
tion hasn't room for a dinner.
A QUEER OLD LADY.
One of the best writers in America
makes a good picture of a popular old
lady. Will our young readers tell us
what her name is ?
How different people appear at dif
ferent times, as when we are sick or
well, rejoicing or mourning, laughing
or weeping. A few days since J met
an old lady who nodded very familiar
ly to me, and yet I hesitated to call her
by name, lest I should miscall it. She
looked old, and yet young, soft and
smiling, and yet wore stern frowns. She
was fair in face, yet her hands were
iron. It seemed as if the wind would
blow her away, and yet she moved
with the strength of an elephant.
"Why sir," said she, "you seem to
stare at me, though you have seen rue
a thousand times before."
"That may be, madam, but I never
saw you loaded down with all sorts of
things. I am curious to know about
them. Would it be rude to ask you a
few questions?"
"Not at all. Ask away."
"Well, what are you going todo with
those small, thin, ladies' shoes?"
"Why, make the ladies ware them,
to be sure."
"Not this cold wet season ? Why, I
can hardly keep my feet warm in
these thick, double-soled boots. I
must have over-shoes. llovv can they
wear such thin cold-catching shoes?"
"Oh, sir, I have only to bring them
to them and the dear creatures put
them on, and never hesitate a mo
ment. They know me !"
"And those little half dresses hang
ing on your arm ?"
"They are to put on little children
in cold weather, or to walk out in
naked at the knees, naked at the neck,
and hardly covering half the body.
You can't think how eager parents are
for these dresses."
"What have you in that little tin
box ?
"Lozenges, sir; troches, hoar-hound
candy,—things that always go with
thin shoes and thin dresses. And this
bright red box, sir, contains what is
called conscience salve, which I always
kecpon hand to rubtheconscience when
any one sees they have done wrong in
obeying me. It's in great demand sir,
and a certain cure."
"What have you in that bundle,
madam ?"
"This? Why a few knick-knacks,
which I sometimes distribute in Sab
bath-schools, in the shape of dialogues,
speeches—things to make people laugh
and to prevent the schools from feel
ing too serious, or thinking too much
about religion. You must understand,
sir, that I continually have to attend
church to regulate things there—to see
that the bonnets are right, the rings
are bright, and the dresses complete ;
yet religion itself I hate as poison!
And here is a box of tlie finest—what
shall I call it? It is a sort of wit and
smartness which I deal out to preach
ers, with which they spice their ser
mons, and become popular. I sell
them by the gross. They are grow
ing in demand, and they are a real sa
ving of conscience and head-ache.
Warranted to keep in all climates- a
kind of sensation powder."
"Pray madam what are those screws
for?"
"Why, to pinch the feet and make
them look small, without regard to
corns or bunions. They can't wear
those dear little shoes except they "have
these pinchers to go with them."
"And that great heap of books in
your arms!"
"Those? They are the latest, most
exciting, and the weakest, most silly
novels. But I hand them out, and
shake my head with a smile, and
crowds read them."
"Well, madam, I am very inquisi
tive, I know, but I do want to know
what you have in that great bag
thrown over your shoulder?"
"A great variety of valuables, such
things as Mate suppers,' in great de
mand, and which send people to the
grave early, and thus make room for
more. Here are Mate hours,' and
Mate rising,' and all manner of hair
dressing, and expensive dressing—
things that ladies must have, even if
their husbands fail. Here are dia
mond pins and rings—just the things
to stir up envy and create extrava
gance. Here are gold watches, cigars,
meerchaum pipes, gold headed canes,
eye-glasses, and all manner of things to
suit all kinds of people. And I laugh
and coax, and frown and command
till I get them to wear and use them,
and do just what I please. Now I
have stopped to talk with you a few
moments; don't you see what a crowd
have gathered round me—low necks,
thin shoes, muslin dresses, tight boots;
some on crutches, some crouching,
some breathing short, all crowding to
get near me; and when I move you
will see how they all run and rush
and crowd after me. O, sir, I am the
great power of the world. I rule k ings
and queens, beggars and philosophers.
Don't you see?"
"Truly, madam, truly. And now
may I ask you your name?"
"Name? Fashion, Sir ;my name is
Mrs. Prevailing Fashion I I thought
everybody knew me."
AN tWKHAKD POSITION.
Out in Missouri lives a Mrs. Ilemp
dale, who has or had a daughter nam
ed Laura, who loved a man named
Jack. This man Jack the old lady
didn't like, butshe was informed by a
neighbor that Jack and Laura had ar
ranged a plan of elopement.
Her mind was quickly made up.
She announced to Laura the next
morning that she was going to 13ell
ville on a visit to le gone for three
days, and that she must be a good girl
and not tear the house down when she
was gone.
That night Jack knew of it, as he
read the nice little note that bade him
"co aie over and stay until mothercomes
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home, and what a splendid time we
will have," he smiled, knocked the
ashes off his cigar, and resolved of
course he would.
Jack went over, but there is no earth
ly use in our attempting to describe
the delectable things he eujoyed; it
was a sugar season at that plantation,
sure.
Just before dusk, while Jack was
running over full of the occasion, in
rushes Laura's waiting woman with:
"Lor bress me, chil'n, ef yer ain't
missus atde gate."
"My God, Dinah, what shall we do
with Jack ?"
"Pop him in de closet, Miss Laura,"
and Jack was popped in the closet in a
twinkling.
In stocked the old lady, who sharply
scrutinized the disconcerted and blush
ing countenance of Laura, felt sure that
Jack had been there.
"Come here, Laura. Now you can't
deceive me. That abominable I'laine
has been here, and you and he have
fixed upon a runaway match, to come
off to-night; I know, you see."
Laura was silent, and the old lady
continued.
"But you will find that your mother
is no fool, and too sharp for you, my
lady. Booner than have you marry
that miserable Jack Plaine, I'd see you
laid in your grave. He's not going to
squander my money, I assure you."
The old lady rose, and going to a
clothes press, returned with several
coinforterss and a pillow.
Then walking up to the close* where
Jack was concealed, she threw them
in and said to Laura:
"Now march in here Miss, step a
long; I'll look out that you don't see
that low-born mechanic this night."
Laura protested that she didn't want
to, declaring that her mother might be
sorry for it some day.
But, without paying any attention
her mother gave her a push, shut the
door, and locked it, put the key in her
pocket and went to bed.
Early in the morning the old lady
arose, and without waiting to dress,
took the key from her pocket, and o
pened the closet door to bid Laura
come forth, gazed wildly for a mo
ment, and uttered a most piercing
scream.
Recovering very rapidly, she started
away from the door and called faintly
I to Laura.
"Laura, dear, go into the kitchen
and see about breakfast."
Then presently:
"Jack, I say, Jack."
Jack came forth with a son-in-law
looking air and answered :
"Well, madam what is it?"
"Do you know anything about a
farm ?" said she.
"Nothing to brag of, ma'am," said
Jack humbly.
"Well, at any rate, Jack, I think
that after breakfast you and Laura
j may as well go down to the city arid
get married, for I'm tired of watching
you, that's a fact."
WOBKIXOMEX OF PE.VVSYLVA.VIA.
The Jacobin politicians and the Jac
obin press of Pennsylvania are united
ly attempting to draw off the support
of the workingmen from Hon. Asa
Packer, the Democratic candidate for
Governor, with the plea that he is a
millionaire, and not a friend to the
workingman.
Beware of such infamous falsehoods.
That Mr. Packer is a millionaire is
true. He has accumulated a large for
tune, and is accounted among the
wealthiest men of the eountry.
That lie is not a friend to the work
ingman is false, for Mr. Packer has
not forgotten that he himself was once
a laboring man, struggling and bat
tling, for home and home ones, for
the comforts and necessaries of life.
Mr. Packer was an early settler in
Pennsylvania. With his own hands
did he clear himself a place fora home,
and with his own hands he made that
home. Gradually, by earnest economy
and by honest toil, he accumulatid
wealth. He invested his money in
the improvements and enterprises
i that were going on around him, all
of which gave employment to a large
number of workingmen, and it came
back to him in large dividends. In
this way he prospered, and instead of
stowing away his wealth in bonds, up
on which working men are laboring to
pay interest, he has it spread around
in various manufacturing enterprises,
where it may benefit the couutry in
the way of productions, and where it
can benefit the workingmen by giving
them employment.
This is Asa Packer whom the Jaco
bins are shooting their large and small
guns at, and this is the man who is to
be the next Governor of Pennsylva
nia, for the yeomen of the Keystone
State have gone to their work to win.
They are earnest in their fight!
They are not to conduct a defensive
canvass with such an adversary as the
party that elected Grant to the Presi
dency, and seeks again to make Geary
Governor of Pennsylvania.
They advance with fixed bayonets!
They will push the enemy to the
wall.
They will use the earnest and hon
est arguments of the man who loves
his country and his rights; who loves
justice and the law, against those who
devote their all to the god of party.
It is the fight of the honest toiling
meu against the thieves and shoddy
ites.
It is the fight of truth against un
truth.
It is the fight of honesty against cor
ruption.
It is the fight of the people against
the people's robbers.
A nd the people will win.
The Democrats of Pennsylvania are
not to he trifled with in a contest that
involves so much. They have chosen
Hon. Asa Packer as their standard
bearer, and they will now make him
their Governor.