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rjpilE INQUIRER
BOOK STORE,
opposite the Mengel House,
BEDFORD, PA.
The proprietor takes pleasure in offering to the
public the foliowing articles belonging to the
Book Business, at CITV RETAIL PRICES :
MISCE LL AN EOUS BOOKS.
N O V E L S.
BIBLES, HYMN BOOKS, AC.:
Large Family Bibles,
Small Bibles.
Medium Bibles.
Lutheran Hymn Books,
Methodist Hymn Books,
Smith's Dictionary of the Bible,
History of the B<x>ks of the Bible,
Pilgrim's Progress, Ac.. Ac., Ac.
Episcopal Prayer Books,
Presbyterian Hymn Books,
SCHOOL BOOKS.
TOY BOOKS.
STATIONERY,
Congress, Legal,
Record, Foolscap,
Letter, Congress Letter,
Sermon, Commercial Note,
Ladies' Hilt, Ladies' Octavo,
Mourning. FreDcb 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.
l'i>cket 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 Glass Ink \Vells and Rack,
Arnold's Writing Fluids,
Hover's Inks,
Carmine Inks. Purple Inks,
Charlton's Inks,
Eukolou for pasting, Ac.
PENS AND PENCILS.
Giltot's, Cohen's,
Hollowbush A Carey's, Payson,
Iluuton. and Scribner's Pens,
Clark's Indellible, Faber's Tablet,
Cohen's Eagle,
Office. Faber's
Outtknechts, Carpenter's Pencils.
PERIODICALS.
Atlantic Mon'ihly,
Harper's Magazine,
Madame Domorest's Mirror of Fashions,
Electic Magazine,
Godey's Lady's Book,
Galaxy,
Lady's Friend,
Ladies' Repository,
Our Young Folks,
Nick Nax.
Yankee Notions,
Budget of Fun.
Jolly Joker.
Pbuuny Phellow,
Lippineott's Magazine,
Riverside Magazine,
Waverly Magazine,
Ballou's Magazine,
Gardner's Monthly.
Harper's Weekly,
Frank Leslie's Illustrated,
Chimney Corner,
Now York Leiger.
New 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 mattter.
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
Wo buy and sell for CASH, and by this arrange
ment we expect to sell a-eaeap as" goods of tnia
class are sold anywhere
•*n2!
LEcT B I 0
telegraph in china.
THE EAST INDIA TELEGRAPH COMPANY S
OFFICE.
Nos. 23 & 2") Nassau Street,
NEW YORK.
Organized under special charter from the State
of New Y'ork.
CAPITAL .$5,000,000
50,000 SHARES, SIOO EACH.
DIRECTOR 8.
JH.n. ANDREW li. CURTIN, Philadelphia.
PAUL S. FORBES, of llussell A Co., China.
FRED. BUTTERFIELD, of F. Bu tterfield & C
New York.
ISAAC LIVERMORE, Treasurer Michigan Cen
tral Railroad, Boston.
ALEXANDER HOLLAND, Treasurer American
Express Company, New Y'irrk.
Hon JAMES NOXON, Syracuse, N. Y.
0. H. PALMER. Treasurer Western Union Tele
graph Company, New York.
FLETCHER WESTRAY, of Westray, Gibbs k
flardcasde, New York.
NICHOLAS MICKLES, New Y'ork.
O F FIC E It 8.
A. G. CURTIN, President.
N. MICKLES, Vice President
GEORGE ELLIS (Cashier National Bank Com
monwealth,) Treasurer.
HON. A. K. McCLURE, 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, viz :
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 Government, of business, and of
social life especially in China. She has no postal
system, and ber only means nowofcoinmuuicating
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 centra! authorities for taxing purposes by tho
local magistrate make her population Four hun
dred ana 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 ss that of Eurepe. 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.
UTThe 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 Y'ork 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 $2.50 each, commencing
December 1, 1868, on application to
DREXEL & CO.,
31 South Third Street,
PHILADELPHIA
Shares can be obtained in Bedford by applica
tion to Reed k Schell, Bankers, who are author
ized to receive subscriptions, and can give ail no
cessary information on tho subject. sept2syl
W E combine style with neatness of tit.
And moderate prices vnth the best workmanship
JONES' ONE PRICE CLOTHING HOUSE
604 MARKET STREET,
GEO I V. NIEMANN. PHILADELPHIA.
[sepll,"6B,yl |
rpilE BEST PLACE TO BUY
J[ fihoice brands of chewing Tobaccos ami Ci
gars, at wholesale or retail, ia at Deters. (lood
natural leaf Tobaccos at 75 centa. Try our 5 cenl
Yaraaud Uaranna cigare—thejrcantba beat,
junelSmd.
BEDFORD, PA., THURSDAY MORNING-, SEPTEMBER 9, 1869.
£rtDo>oods, &c.
IVTEW GOODS JUST RECEIVED
i> 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 Storo.
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,
Cjothing, llats, Boots and Shoes, Queensware,
Fish, Notions. Leather, Tobacco, Ac., at J. M.
Shoemaker's Bargain Store.
BUY your Dry Goods, Groceries,
Clothing, Hats. Boots and Shoos, Queensware,
Leather, Fish. Notions, Tobacco, Ac., at J. M.
Shoemaker's Bargain Store
BUY your Dry Goods, Groceries,
Clothing, Hats, Boots and Shoes, Queensware.
Notions, Leather, Tobaceo, Fish, Ac., at J. M
Shoemaker's Bargain Store.
BUY your Dry Goods, Groceries,
Clothing, Hats, Boots am) Shoes, Quoonsware,
Notione. Leather, Tobacco, Fish, Ac., at J. M.
Shoemaker's Bargain Stor.
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, lints, Boots and Shoes, Queensware.
Notions. Leather, Tobacco. Fish Ac , at J. M.
Shoemaker's Bargain Store.
Bedford, Pa., June 11, 1869.
( I It. OSTEIt & CO.
VX.
READ AND SPEAK OF IT!
COME SEE AND BE CONVINCED '
We are now receiving our usual extensive and
well assorted STOCK OF NEW AND
CII E A P SUM ME R GOOD S,
And are now prepared to offer SMASHING BIG
BARGAINS TO
CASH BUYERS,
In Staple and Fancy Dry Goods, Notions, Car
pets, Oil Cloths, Cotton Tarns, Carpet
Chains, Hart, Boots, Shoes,
Clothing, Brooms, Baskets,
Wall aud Win do w
Papers, Groceries, Qacens
vare, Tobaccos, Cigars, Fish, Salt. Jfc.
IT e invite everybody to cad and sec for them
selves. NO TR ÜBLE TO SHO W GOODS.
TERMS CAS H .
BRIKO ALONG YOUR CASH and we will guarantee
to SELL you Goods as CHEAP as the same styles
and qualities can be s ild in Central Pennsylva
nia.
Be assured that CASH in hand is a wonderfully
winning argument, and that those who BUY and
SKLL for CASH are always masters of the situation.
junelßm3 U. R. OSTER A CO.
IN M. FISHER AND BABIES,
Next Door to the Bedford Hotel.
GOO I) NE W S AT LAS T.
The Cheapest Goods ever brought to Bedford.
We will soil GOODS CHBAPKR. by 15 to 25 per
cent, than ever sold in Bedford county.
The best COFFEE at 25 cents, but the less
we soil the better we are off.
The LADIES' HOSE, at 10 cents we will not
hare this time, but come at us for 15, 20 and 25
cents, and we will make you howl.
You will all be waited on hy ELI and the BA
BJES , as the OLD ELI cannot do anything
himself A great variety of Parasols, Sunnmbrel
las. Pocket-books Ao. Linen HandkCs (Ladies
and Gents) from 5 cents to 25 cents. CALICOES,
from 10. 12 and a few pieces at 15 conts MUS
LINS. from 10 to 25 oents. \ ...u all know that we
soil NOTIONS 100 per cent, cheaper than anybody
else All Wool Cassimeres, from 50 cents to SI.OO.
All Wool Dress Goods, from 15 to 25 cents. Tick
ing, from 20 to 40 cents Paper Collars, lOcents;
best, 25 cents per box. 4 pair Men's Half Hose,
for 25 cents. Clear Glass Tumblers, 60 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 oents per gallon, or 15 cents
a quart. These Goods will "positively" not bo
sold unless for Cash or Produce. Come and see
us, it will not cost anything to sec the Goods and
Babies. N. B. All these Goods wore bought at
slaughtered prices in New York
E. M. FISHER A BABIES.
These Goods we sell so low, that we cannot af
ford to sing (Auld Lang Syne.)
All accounts must be settled by the middle of
July next, by cash or note, or they will be left in
the hands of E. M. ALSIP, Esq., for eolleotion.
junlßin3
-VTOTIOE.—I hereby give notice to
INi all persons not to barber or trust my wife,
SARAH, on my account, as I will not be respon
sible for any debts she may contract—she having
left my bod and board without just cause or pro
vocation. ANDREW POTE
Eaiontp Aug I! w3*
ihf
DEMOCRATIC FEATFOItM.
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 unification 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.
1. 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 eo-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 of military governments
in States in the Union aud the o
verthrow of all civil governments
therein, are acts bf 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 Hag of our country to victo
ry must he 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 assertion 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 internal revenue
and taxing system of the general gov
ernment is grossly unjust, and means
ought at once to be adopted to cause a
mollification thereof.
The report was acccepted and unani
mously adopted.
The Gettysburg heroesamused them
selves the other day in designating the
positions of the extreme left of the
Army of the Potomac on the 2d of Ju
ly. The examination of the entire
field, with the noble work of peg-driv
ing, is now almost complete. Visitors,
who had expected a grand affair, have
been deserting since the failure of the
show became apparent on the first day,
and the peg-drivers are pretty nearly
left alone in their glory.
Prof. Jenkins made his promised
trip over the Niagara, Wednesday of
last week on a tight rope, and mount
ed on a bicycle. His machine was ar
ranged so as to throw the weight under
and place him virtually astride of tho
rope. It was a queer sight, a poor feat,
hut a sharp trick. Several thousand
persons witnessed it.
The Governor of Colorado lias called
on the citizens of that country to arm
and assist in the annihilation of the
Indian tribes who are committing all
sorts of violence aud depredations
there. Scouting parties sent out from
Denver a few days ago, however, have
returned without having seen any In
dians.
The Utesand Apaches, it is feared,
are visiting other tribes, now friendly
to urge consolidated resistance to the
Government's design of placing them
upon reservations in the San Juan
country. The settlers in New Mexico
are very much unsettled about it.
Two miles of snow-shed on the Cen
tral Railroad, between Cisco and Sum
mit stations, were burned on Wednes
day night of last week. Considerable
damage was done to the track, but was
repaired in time to permit the passage
of trains on Saturday.
The Spanish Government, it is an
nounced, will send six thousand addi
tional troops to Cuba within the next
two weeks.
Aab, an American, who was recent
ly arrested in Cuba by the Spanish au
thorities, has been released and is on
his way home.
The Spaniards are enlisting more
volunteers, black and white, in Cuba,
to put down the rebellion.
They have improved upon the
"square meal" in Montana. A saloon
in Helena gives "cube meals" at a low
price.
A Kansas reader of the Declaration
of Independence on July oth, began
with, "Know all men by these pres
ents."
The Janesville (Vis.) Gazette sus- j
pended publication for two days, "as 1
the printers celebraU the 3d and the J
editors the sth of July." j
A LIVELY APPEAL.
We find the following stirring ap
peal to the people in the last Carbon
Democrat. As it suits in every locali
ty, and may perhaps be of use in awak
ing some of the sleepy-headed Demo
crats in this region, we publish it en
tire. We trust the Democracy will
heed its advice:
form ix line!
Democrats of Peensylvania,
Honest yeomanrj of our grand old
Commonwealth,
Laboring men,
Mechanics,
Tradesmen,
Artisans,
All who pay taxes, vote, and are
amenable to the laws and have an in
terest in their construction and faith
ful execution.
A great contest is upon us.
A battle to be fought and we must
win it!
Are you ready for the fight?
Look along your line and survey the
field.
Are your forces thoroughly orga
nized ?
Have you your townships and sub
district clubs in active working order?
Do you not know of at least one vo
ter whom you can influence to east his
vote for Packer and a pure State ad
ministration?
Stop and think.
Then appeal to the man's conscience,
his ideas of honesty and rectitude; his
State pride and his duty to himself
and family.
The argument is all with you.
Radicalism lias no argument now
anil it never had.
It came into power in its incipient
stage during a period of temporary na
tional derangement.
It has only maintained that power by
bayonets at the throats of the people
in one section and by fraud and cor
ruption in another.
As fast as the mailed hand is remov
ed from the control of the States of
the South, Radicalism dies, strangled
by its own monstrous crimes.
In the northern States it has achiev
ed temporary success through the me
dium of a wanton expenditure for par
ty purposes of the people's money,
and by the most outrageous and infa
mous system of corruption and ballot
box stuffing ever known aud scarcely
credible.
It can no longer scatter vast sums of
money in lavish profusion to carry an
election.
It has robbed the public coffers un
til nothing is left to steal, and the vast
burden of taxation beneath which the
people are now groaning is insufficient
to keep up the expenses of a spend
thrift administration.
Let it be hurled from power !
Workingmen of Pennsylvania, be it
; your duty and your pride to achieve
the victory.
From the mines of the mountains,
From the farms of the valley, rally
j for
Packer and Pershing!
Peace and prosperity !
A TOUCHING SCENE.
j [From tho Little Itock (Ark ) Gazette, July 25.)
The Jackson port Herald and Bates
j viile lime* have lengthy accounts of
I the capture and imprisonment for six
years, of Mr. 11. 11. Lee, a cousin of
i Gen. It. E. Lee, and formerly a citizen
|of Madison, in this State. In
| November, W>2, he was arrested in
j Memphis, on a charge of speculating
in Confederate money, put in the Ir
ving Block for one night, and then
shipped for Camp Douglas, Illinois.—
Arriving there, the officer refused to
receive him, because there was no law
forbidding speculation in money of
; any kind. Tne lieutenant having
him in charge, then started with him
to Rock Island, accompanied by seven
; guards. They went to Milwaukee,
j Wis., and were going to put Lee in
I jail for safe keeping until they could
have a spree. About this time Lee
! and one of his guards, who accompan
ied him, escaped, but were soon recap
tured. Mr. Lee was then imprisoned
in Milwaukee jail, and kept in close
confinement for two and a half years
without a trial. At the end of that
time he was taken out and sentenced
(without a trial) to four years' impris
onment in the state Prison, at Madi
son, Wis. During these four years he
was not allowed to write to his friends,
or read a hook or newspaper of any
kind, but was effectively excluded
from the world. During this time his
health was good. The time for release
came. lie went to Cincinnati, where
he heard that his wife was dead, and
he could hear nothing of his child.
From there he went to Memphis, were
he was received by his friends as one
risen from the dead, and learned the
joyful news that his wife and child,
the latter a grown young lady, were
both living, and at Batesville. The
telegraph was used in announceing to |
his wife his safety, and stating that he
would meet her at Jacksonport on tho
13th. Says the Herald:
"They met, and such a meeting as it
was never occurred within our knowl
edge. The joy of the wife at the sight
of her restored husband was too great,
and swoon after swoon followed in rap
id succession." From here they went
to Batesville, their future home, where
we leave them, trusting that a long
and happy life may tie vouchsafed to
the happy family, and trusting that
this is the last Confederate prisoner.
"I)o you think, doctor," askvd an
anxious mother, "that it would im
prove little Johnny's health to take
him to the springs, and let him try the
water ?"
"I haven't a doubt of it madam."
"What springs would you recom- j
mend, doctor?"
1 .
"Any sprui/s, madam, wnora you
can find plenty of soap." j
THE TWO CANDIDATES FOB UOV
CB.MIIt.
ASA PACKER,
The Christain Patriot, the Enterpris- j
ing Business Man, the Friend of
. Industry, and the
True-Hear ed
Gentleman.
"ills WORD IS AS GOOD AH HIS BOND."
lie has Dispensed Hundreds of Thons
andsof Dollars in the Cause
of Education, Rc-lig
ion, and Charity.
DONE MORE TO ADVANCE THE PROS
PERITY CF OUR STATE THAN
ANY OTHER CITIZEN,
And Risen from a Poor Boy to the
Front Rank Among our
Public Men.
His Election will Overthrow the Cor
ruption at Harrisburg, Give
us Wise Laws, and Hon
est Admistration.
AND RESTORE TO US THE BLESSINGS
OF GOOD GOVERNMENT.
JOHN W. GEARY,
The Candidate of the "Ring," the
Tool of the Monopolists,
THE PARDONER OF ROGUES, AND THE
POOR MAN'S ENEMY'.
He has Stoope J to Everything Low
and Mean in order to secure
his Re-Election.
VOTE FOR HIM, AND YOU VOTE TO
PERPETUATE THE REIGN OF
THE CORRUPTIONISTS,
Help to Tighten the Chains which the
Great Corporations have Fas
tened about us, Encour
age the Worst Ele
ments of Society.
DESTROY THE WOKKINGMAN's LIB
ERTY,
And Continue the Disgraceful Scenes
which make our State Capital
a By-Word of Reproach.
AGHICCI.rrKAL EXPERIENCE.
1. All soils are benefitted hy being
under drained, but the benefit is most
apparent and lasting in thoseof a clay
ey nature, or having a subsoil retentive
of moisture.
2. After drainage, subsoiling and
good cultivation are necessary to in
sure good crops on heavy soils.
3 Lime is the best manure to apply
to strong clay soils. It renders them
more pervious to light and heat, and
also corrects their acidity, hy combin
ing with some of the chemical salts in
the soil, making plant food of poison.
4. Summer fallowing is the most ef
ficient and profitable means of prepar
ing strong soils for wheat, and of be
ginning a rotation, after grass has been
grown a length of time.
5. Green crops plowed under, when
in the most succulent state are power
ful auxiliaries in rendering a light soil
fertile, but if this is done too often sue-
I cessivelly the soil becomes overcharged
! with carbonaceous matter.
6. Leached ashes applied in large
quantities to sandy soils, or those con
taining too much vegetablenumus, will
greatly ameliorate their condition and
render them more compact
7. There is no soil so poor or sterile
but some mode may be found of amel
iorating and enriching it.
8. Blowing-sands may he gradually
made productive by spreading six in
ches thick of straw over them, to re
main till rotted. Then seed thickly
with clover on the surface, without
plowing, and when the clover has
taken hold and becomes established,
pasture sheep upon the land for two or
three years preparatory to manuring
and cultivating it.
9. Two successive grain crops on the
| same land leave it very foul.
10. Summer fallowing ameliorates a
soil, and if properly done, gets rid of
most of the weeds and noxious plants
infesting it.
ACCIDENT AI, I NSC It A NCE.
Between Kenosha and Milwaukee,
an agent of the Traveler's Insurance
Company entered the car, and having
issued tickets to several passengers, ap
proached an elderly lady, who, as it
afterward proved, was very deaf.
"Madam, would you like toinsurea
gainst accidents?" inquired the agent,
at the same time exhioitfng his tick
ets*
"I got my ticket down to Kenosha,"
she said. "I am going to Oshkosh
to visit my darter who's married up
there, and has just got a baby."
The agent raised his voice a little.
"Would you like to insure your life
against accidents.
"She's been married two years and
a half, and that's the first child—its a
gal."
Agent, stilt louder.
"1 am an Insurance Agent, madam,
don't you want to insure your life a
gainst accide nts?"
"She's got along, first rate, and isdo
ing as well as could be expected."
Agent, at the top of his voice.
"I'm an insurance agent, madam ;
can't 1 insure your life against acci
dent's?"
"Oh, didn't understand you," said
the old lady. "No, her name is John
son ; my name is Evans, and I live
live miles from Kenosha."
A little darkey was recently found
sitting on the steps of a fashionable
house crying pitifully. "What's de
matter wid you ?" asked a colored wo
man. "Dar's matter 'nuff—drouble all
ober the house. Fadder am drunk—
mudder am from home wid de close-
Sis broke looking-glass wid de broom
stick—de hnby got her eyes full ob kj
an pepper, and little Ned Anthony put
de mustard on his hair for goose
grease. 1 put salt in my tea for white
sugar, and it made me sick. De dog
licked Ned's face and got his mouth
full oh mustard and lies under the bod
a howlin'. l)e kitten got her head in
Go milk-pot, and I cut iier head off
to save de pitcher, and den I had to
break de pitcher to get de head out;
and do way i'll get licked when mud
dor comes home for setting de bed afire
will he a sin."
VOL. 65.—WHOLE No. 5,506.
VAMA HI.F RECEIPTS.
HASTY PUDDING.—A correspondent
write# as follows: If any of your lady
readers should wish for something for
ajdessert when they have company un
expectedly and not prepared, the fol
lowing will be found excellent and the
dish wholesome and very quickly
made: One pint of milk and one half
pint of flour, two eggs, pinch of salt,
flavor with nutmeg, bake in square
pans in a hot oven about half an hour,
as it is quickly made can be putin the
oven just before sitting down to dinner
and be just ready when wanted. Serve
with butter and sugar.
AN EXCELLENT CAKE RECIPE.—
Two eggs, one half-teacup of molasses,
one-fourth teacup of shortening, one
teacup of buttermilk, one tea-spoon of
cinnamon, one teaspoon of salaratus,
two teacups of unbolted wheat flour;
bake half an hour. A very healthy
cake, and those who may give it a
trial will not be troubled with indiges
tion. Tough !
AMBROSIA.— Take oranges, peel and
and cut in rounds, place some in a deep
dish, sprinkled with sugar, add a layer
of grated cocoanut; fill the dish with
successive layers of the same,orange and
ocoanut. Place on the ice and serve,
when you will have food indeed fit for
the gods.
The following proves incontestibly
the purity and high honor of the Dem
ocratic candidate for Governor:
2 J UDGE P ACKEK IN CONGUESS.— W hen
Judge Packer was in Congress, a hill
was introduced to reduce the duty on
iron, and repay that which had been
paid by importers. The Judge was
then an extensive railroad man, and
had taken a heavy contract to supply
rails, amounting to several millions of
dollars. The repeal of the duty would
have added enormously to his profit,
aid every motive of self interest, add
e 1 to the arguments of his friends,
would have induced him to favor the
bill. He felt it to be his duty howev
er, to vote against it, and the bill was
defeated.
When his vote had been recorded he
turned to one of bis colleagues, and
s lid:
"The success of this bill would put
half a million dollars into my pocket."
"Why didn't you vote for it,then?"
was asked. "Because 1 cannot consist
eatly with my principles. I know
that Pennsylvania needs a tariff, and I
will not not vote to cripple my .State."
WHICH?—If Governor Geary was
not linked in with, and a part and par
cel of the Iting w hieh controlled the
Legislature at Harrisburg during the
last three years, we ask his friends to
inform us why he did not, as he could
and should have done, interpose his ve
toes? There was nothing to prevent
this, save thefact that lie was"asdeepin
the mud as the Ring was in the mire."
He was either a voluntary aider and
abettor of the shameless prostitution
of the people's interests by the King,
or he was the pliant tool of that King,
not possessing discernment sufficient to
detect the wrongs ami promptly defeat
them. Which horn of the dilemma
| will liis supporters take? Can they
accept either, and yet honestly support
him? He has proven himself either
corrupt or incompetent. Is such a
man lit to be longer entrusted wi h
I the Executive department of this great
I Commonwealth? We pause for a re-
I piy. __
A little five year old was being in
structed in morals by his mother.
The old lady told him that all such
terms as "by golly !" "by jingo!" "by
thunder," etc., were only minced
oiths, and but little better than any
o'her profanity. In fact, she said, he
could tell a profane oath, by the prefix
'by'—all such were oaths.
'Well then, mother," said the little
hopeful, "there's a big oath in the
newspapers—"By telegraph."
The old lady gave it up, and the boy
is bewildered on morals.
SO F.N K AT THE ATLANTIC TELE
GRAPH OFFICE.— Fond Wife (to tele
graph operator)—O sir! I want to send
a kiss to my husband in Liverpool
How can I do it ?
Obliging Operator. —Easiest thing in
the world, ma'am. You've just got
to give it to me with ten dollars, I'll
transmit it right away.
Fond Wife. —If that's the case, the
directors ought to put much younger
and handsomer men in your position.
(Operator's indignation is great.)
"The candles you sold me last ntght
were very bad," said Suett to a tallow
chandler.
"Indeed, sir, lam very sorry for
that."
"Yes, sir; do you know they burnt
to the middle, and would then burn
no longer."
"You surprise me; what, sir, did
they go out?"
"No, sir, no; they burned shorter ?"
A Western traveler, having secured
half a bed, in order to prevent <n
croachmen <s, buckled a spur on his
heel, before retiring. His unfortunate
sleeping-partner, after several thrusts
of the sharp reminder, roared out:
"Say, st.anger, if you are a gentle
man, you ought at least to cut your
toe-nails."
A witty but somewhat irreven nt ed
itor calls the Evangelist St. Mathew,
"Collector of Customs for the port of
Capernium."
If your friends decline sticking to
you during this warm weather—your
shirts certainly will not.
lie that is good will be better, and
he that is bad, worse, for virtue, vice
and time never stop.
Five Montana miners were recently
killed by Indians while migrating to
Koolenay*