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Vublic the following articles belonging to the
Book Business, at CITY RETAIL PRICES:
MISCELLAXEOUS BOOKS.
N OYEL S.
BIBLES, IIYMX BOOKS, AO.:
Large Family Bibles,
Small Bibles.
MedGn Bibles,
Lutheran Hymn Books,
Methodist Hymn Books.
Smith's Dictionary of tbe Bible,
History of the Books of the Bible,
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Mourning. French Note.
Bath Post, Damask Laid Note,
Cream Laiu Note, Envelopes, Ac.
WALL PAPER.
Several Hundred Different Figures, the Largest
lot ever brought to Bedford county, lor
sale at prices CHEAPER THAN
EV ER SOLD in Bedford.
BLANK BOOKS.
Day Books. Ledgers.
Account Books, Cash Books.
Pocket Ledgers, Time Books,
Tuck Memorandums. Pass Books,
Money Books, Pocket Books,
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Barometer Inkstands,
Gutta Percha,
Cocoa, and
Morocco Spring Pocket. Inkstands,
Glass and Ordinary Stands for Schools,
Flat Glass 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.
fiillot's, Cohen's, *
Hollowbosh A Carey's, Payson,
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Clark's Indellible, Kaber's Tablet,
Cohen's Eagle,
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PERIODICALS.
Atlantic Monthly,
Harper's Magazine,
Madame Demurest'? Mirror of Fashions,
Kleetic Magazine,
Godey's Lady's Book,
Galaxy.
Lady'r Friend,
Ladies Repository,
Our Young Folks,
Nick Nax.
Yankee Notions,
Budget of Fun,
Jolly Joker.
I'bunny PaeUow,
Lippineott's Magazine,
Riverside Magazine,
Waverly Magazine,
Bullous Magazine,
Gardnor's Monthly,
Harper's Weekly,
rank Leslie's Illustrated,
Chimney Corner,
New York Ledger,
New York Weekly.
Harper's Bazar,
Every Saturday,
Living Ago,
Putnam's Monthly Magazine,
Arthur's Home Magazine,
Oliver Optic's Boys and Girl's Magazine Ac.
Constantly on hand to accomodate those who want
to purchase living reading mattter.
Onlv a part of the vast number of articles per
taining to the Book and Stationery business,
wbich wo are prepared to sell cheaper than the
cheapest, are above enumerated. Give us a call
We buy and selj for CASH, and by this arrange
ment we expect to sell as cheap as good? of this
class are aold anywhere
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| XJL L E C T II I C
J TELEGRAPH' IN CHINA.
THE EAST INDIA TELEGRAPH COMPANY'S
OFFICE,
Nos. 23 A 25 Nassau Strict,
NEW YORK.
Organized under special cllarter from the State
of New York.
CAPITAL $5,000,000
50,000 SHAKES, SIOO EACH.
DIRECTORS.
HON. ANDREW (J. CURTIN, Philadelphia.
PAUL S. FORCES, of Russell A Co., China.
FRED. BUTTERFIELD, of F Bu tterfield A C
New York.
ISAAC LrYERMORE, Treasurer Michigan Cen
tral Railroad, Boston.
ALEXANDER HOLLAND, Treasurer American
Express Company, New York.
Hon. JAMES NOXON, Syracuse, N. Y.
O. H. PALMER, Treasurer Western Union Tele
graph Company, Now York.
FLETCHER WESTRAY, of Westray, Uibbs A
Hardcastle, New York.
NICHOLAS MICKLES, New York.
O F FIC E R S.
A. (}. CURTlN,President.
N. MICKLES, Vice President.
GEORGE ELLIS (Cashier National Bank Com
monwealth.) Treasurer.
HON. A. K. MeCLURE, Philadelphia, Solicitor. j
The Chinese Government having (through the
Hon. An3on Burlingame) conceded to this Com
pany the privilege of connecting the great sea
ports of the Empiro 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 . ■.. 1,001), 000
Macoa 60,000
Hong-Kong 200.00(1
Sivatow 209,000
Amoy 250,000
Foo-Chow 1,250.000
Wan-Chu 300,000
Xingpo 400,000
Hung Chean 1.200 000
Shanghai 1,000,000
Total 5,010,000
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 her only means now of cominuuioating
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 k third
of the human race. The latest returns made to
her central authorities for taxing purposes by the
local magistrate make her population Four hun.
dred ana Fuurt'en 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 latter are exceedingly
quick to avail themselves of every profiercd facili
ty for procuring eariy 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 iiect
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
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 $59 each, sl9 payable down,
s!=> on the Ist of November, and $25 payable_ in
monthly instalments of $2.59 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 Sehell, Bankers, who are author
ized to receive subscriptions, and can give all ne
cessary information on the subject. sept2syl
combine style with neatness ol St.
And moderate prices nnth the best workmanship
JONES* ONE PRICE CLOTHING HOUSE
604 MARKET STREET,
GEO IK; NIEMANN. PHILADELPHIA.
[sepll,'6B.yl J
RPIIE BEST PLACE TO BUY
I choice brands of chewing Tobaccos and Ci
gars, at wholesale or retail, is at Oster'g. Good
natural leaf Tobaccos at 75 cents. Try our 5 oent
Yara and HavanAa cigars—they cant I# beat,
unelßm3.
BEDFORD, PA., THURSDAY MORNING OCTOBER 28, 1869.
&r.
TVTEW GOODS JUST RECEIVED
IN 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.
NEW GOODS just Received at J.
M Shoemaker's Bargain Store.
BUY your Dry Goods, Groceries,
Clothing. Hats, Boots and Shoes. Qaeensware,
Fish, Notions, Leather, Tobacco, Ac , at J. M.
Shoemaker's Bargain Store.
BUY your Dry Goods, Groceries,
Clothing, Hats, Boots and Shoes (jueenswarc,
Leather, Fish, Notions, Tobacco, Ac., at J. M.
Shoemaker's Bargain Store
BUY your Dry Goods, Groceries,
Clothing, Hats, Boots and Shoes, Qucensware,
Notions, Leather, Tobacco, Fisb, Ac., at J. M
Shoemaker's Bargain Store.
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Clothing. Hats, Boots and Shoes, Queenswarc.
Notione, Leather, Tobacco, Fish, Ac., at J. M
Shoemaker's Bargain Store.
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Clothing, Hats, Boots and Shoes, Queensware,
Notions, Leather, Tobacco, Fish, Ae., at J. M.
Shoemaker's Bargain Store
BUY your Dry Goods, Groceries,
Clothing, Hats, Boots and Shoes, Qaeensware.
Notions, Leather, Tobacco, Fish Ac., at J. M.
Shoemaker's Bargain Store.
Bedford, Pa., June 11, 1869.
/ i R. OSTER <& CO.
u.
READ AND SPEAK OF IT!
COME SEE AND BE CONVINCED .'
We are now receiving our usual extensive and
well axsorted STOCK OF NEW AND
C II E A P SU M ME It GOO DS,
And are now prepared to offer SMASHING BIG
BARUAINS TO
C A S II B U Y E It H ,
In Staph ami Fancy Dry Goods, Notions, Car
pets, Oil Cloths, Cotton Yarns, Carpet
Chains, Ilats, Hoots, Shoes,
Clothing, Brooms, Baskets,
Wail and Window
Papers, Groceries, Qneens
mare, Tobaccos, Cigars, Fish, Salt, c.
It e invite everybody to rati and see for them
self is. NO TK UB LE TO SHO W GOODS.
TERMS CASH.
BRISO <I,OSO Torn CASH ami we will guarantee
to SELL you Goods 86 CHEAP as the same styles
ftud qualities can be sold in Central Pennsylva
nia.
Be assured that CASH in hand is a wonderfully
winning argument, and that those who Bi r and
SKLL for CASH are always master?of the situation.
junelßm3 G. R.OSTER & CO.
M. FISHER AND BABIES,
J. Next Door to the Bedford Hotel.
GO O D NE W S A T LAS T.
The Cheapest Goods ever brought to Bedford.
We will sell GOODS CHRAHCR, by 15 to 25 per
cent, than ever sold in Bedford eounty.
The best COFFEE at 25 cents, but the less
we sell the better we are off.
The LADIES 1 HOSE, at 10 cents wo will not
have this time, but oome at us for 15, 20 and 25
cent?, 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 great variety of Parasols, Suuunlbrel
las, Pocket-books Ac. Linen Handkfs (Ladies
and Gents) from 5 cents to 25 oents, CALICOES, i
from 10, 12 and a few piece? at 15 cents. MUS
LINS. from 10 to 25 cents. V.u all know that wo
sell NOTIONS 100 per cent, cheaper than anybody
else All Wool Ca6imerea, from oOcents tosl 00.
All Wool Dress Goods, from 15 to 25 oents. Tick
ing, from 20 to 40 cents. Paper Collars, 10oents;
best, 25 eents per box. 4 pair Men's Half Hose,
for 25 cents. Clear Glass Tumblers, 60 oents a
dozen, or 5 cents a peace. A great lot of Boots
and Shoes, to be sold cheap. Queens an! Glass
ware, very low. Byrup, 80 oents and $1 00.
$1 30 for best as clear as honey, and thick as tar
Bakers* oents 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 Good; wore bought at
slaughtered prices in New York
E. M. FISHER A BABIES.
These Goods we sell so low, that wo cannot af
ford to sing (Auld Lang Syne.)
All account? must be settled by the middle of
July nest, by cash or note, or they will be left in
tie handtrof E. M. ALSIP, Esq., for collection.
junldm3
TWTOTUE.—I HEREBY GIVE NOTICE TO
i> all person? not to harber or trust my wire,
BJIRAII, on my aocount, as I will not be respon
sible for any debts she may contract—she having
left my bed and board without just cause or pro
vocation. ANDREW POTK.
V nion tp Aug 13 w3*
flic y.fdiortl
[From the Now York Frecmanj Journal !
THE NATIONAL A IJH XISTKATIOSi
(it n IlllM. TO THE RUIN
or the eio-
II.E-
During the months from August to
December it is required by the inter
est of the produeitig classes that cur
rency shouid he more plenty, iu order
to move the surplus crops from the
broad fields from the interior seaboard.
This used, to he done when we had
gold and silver as our only legal mon
ey.
Grant's Administration, with an in
fernal and ever-tightening grip, has
been withdrawing the paper stuff that
is now our only currency, at the very
time that the farmers and merchants
of the interior needed its increase.
We hope and trust the people of the in
terior may recognise, without regard
to politics, what is distressing them.
The value of grain and provisions,
as well as of cottou, at a time like the
present, depends very much on the pri
ces offered on the sea-baord by foreign
shippers. These purchases, for for
eign account depend on the price of
yohl. If the purchasing price of wheat
for exports is a dollar a bushel, iu gold;
then, if gold lie at 50 per cent, premi
um, the price in greenbacks will he
one dollar and a half. If the gold
premium he only 25 per cent, then
wheat will bring, in greenbacks, only
one dollar and a quarter.
According to the old Democratic plan
of government, before the war, Gov
ernment did not meddle with the bu
siness of the people, hut held that ten
dollars meant ten dollars in gold, and
so the courts had to decide. According
to the new regime, Government med
dles with everything, not only taxing
everything and everybody, for mon
eys most prodigally wasted hut under
taking to fix the price of their filthy
greenback paper currency that is im
poverishing us.
Were this administration of Govern
ment in the least interested in the wel
fare of the country, having undertaken
to control the value of our paper cur
rency, it would try and keep it on an
equilibrium. The thing that upsets all
calculation in honest business is the
fluctuation in the value of the legal ten
der currency. '
An honest merchant, in these late
years, buys for his eustomors teas, cof
fees, sugars or dry goods, or other for
eign commodities, on the basis of gold
at a hundred and forty. By a twist of
the money market, at the option of
President Grant and his Secretary of
the Treasury, Boutwell, gold is tum
bled down ten per cent. The mer
chant that has bought at the higher
figure, has been cheated , not only out
of his legitimate profits, hut he must
sell at a large loss on what he has paid.
This Government of Grant and Bout
well, meantime, take the responsibili
ty of regulating the price of gold.
If they had the right to do this,
which they have not, they ought to
have gotten some one less incapable
than themselves to have told them
how to do it, without hurting every
body. They might if they had the
right, which they assume—have fore
warned the public that in September,
the price of gold would he advanced.
This would have been to the interest
of the farmers, and other producers.
If the Administration of Grant aiul
Boutwell had had the right, which it
had not, it would have done a good
thing by putting up the price of gold
to fifty per cent premium during the
months that crops are coming for
ward and being exported. It would
have put more currency into circula
tion and it would have realized for the
farmers better prices for the grain, Ac.,
exported. As it is, gold is hardly at a
premium of thirty per cent., and the
farming, Ac., classes, are to he hard put
to it.
Thus much on the supposition that ;
all this has happened by putting pumb- j
kins and imbeciles, merely, at the
helm, in such critical times. But now, |
to see whether these contemptible inca- j
pablcs have uot tried to make them
selves the tools of gamblers, to enrich ;
themselves at the public expense.
There is an old saying about "hon
or among thieves." We can iuiag- j
ine such a thing among a class of i
sharp-witted fellows, who count them
selves outcasts from the common soci
ety of men, and make a community
for themselves. But an accidental as
sociation of unprincipled clodhoppers,
if putin prominent position in a coun
try so debauched as to have so placed
them, is another thing. We do not be
lieve there is likely to be any honor a
mong such creatures—if they get a
chance to cheat each other. They will j
hold together only so long as the ad- ,
vantage of each one may dictate.
This much we say in preface to
what, on the authority of the Daily
Times —conservative Black-Republican
—of the Herald— Grant administration
paper—and of the Sun, Radical Repub
lican, and original advocate of Grant,
has been made public during the past
week, in regard to.
ABTOUNPINO DICLOSUKES.
On the 23d and 24th of last month, a
movement was made in the Gold mar
ket that paralyzed business in New-
York, and ruined, or greatly distress
ad, multitudes who never speculated
in the Gold Room or on the Stock ex
change. The price of gold went up,
in those two days from a hundred and
thirty four to a hundred and sixty live;
and then very suddenly, fell to a hun
dred and thirty five-from which it
has since receded to about one hun
dred and thirty, The advance was
too rapid to have been either salutary
or legitimate. The subsequent col
lapse was utterly disastrous, How
was it brought about?
The Daily Times, an Administration
1 paper says that it was openly vaunted
in the market that the 44 highest " au
thority in Washington Administra
tion was pledged not to let Secretary
Boulwel! sell gold while the clique, or
"How long has this scheme been in
progress, and who were the originators?
The ruined bankers of New York de
mand to kuow it.
"An indignant country demands it,
and asks why the carriage of the cool
headed, sharp, keen President of the
Erie road has been seen morning and
night in West Twenty-seventh street,
at the residence of the brother-in-law
of the President. Perhaps the confi
dential agent of the shrewd Prince of
Erie, who has, in the last two weeks,
made so many mid-night journeys to
Washington, Pennsylvania, might ex
plain something about the matter.
The frequent interviews of the Admir
al with Gen. Grant at New York, Sar
atoga, Long Island Sound, and else
where, are very sign ifican t.
"Whose influence was it that ap
pointed the present Sub Treasurer of
New York, after another man's com
mission had been made out? And
what kind of a bargain was made.
"How much money has been sent to
Washington that was not used in fur
nishing the White House in the last
week or two ?
44 Who cashed the SIOO,OOO check, and
the $25,000 check, handed to a member
of the President's family ? Now, what
shall we say in the face of all this ter
rible evil ? •
On Thursday the 30th ult., the New
York Sun sent one of its trustiest man
agers to visit this brother-in-law of
President Grant—one Corbin, residing
now in a house in Twenty-seventh
street, in this city—to know what he
had to say about it. This Corbin deni
ed that he had seen James Fisk, Jr.,
President of the Erie Rail Road, since
some time, when the latter called to
know of the whereabouts of President
Grant, on one of his visits in this re
gion. Next day, Mr, Fisk told the
same manager of the New York Sun,
that he had been in this Corbin's house
at the very hour when the man of the
Sun bad called to see Corbin. The
representative of the Sun, moreover,
declares that he recognized Mr. Fisk's
carriage at Corbin's door, when he call
ed to see Corbin, and was put off, on
the ground that he was busy.
The Sun certifies to the following, as
relating to the disastrous days of Fri
day September 24th, and Saturday the
25th.
"While Fisk, Jr., was cooly unlock
ing his millions and reaping immense
fortunes for the clique, Mr. Corbin un
fortunately held for higher rates, and
was caught with millions on his hands
when the wild day of Friday ended.
Fearing that Boutwell might have de
termined to follow up his sale of $4,000-
000, with other heavy sales, the clique
importuned Mr. Corbin to goto Wash
ington and prevent it. Fisk Jr's,
coach was at the President's brother-in
law's brown stone mansion, at an earl
y Dour last Saturday morning. It was
there an hour again at noon, and again
from*3 to 5, p. M. Mr. James Fisk,
Jr., was with Mr. Corbin during all
those hours, and at !> i\ M., Mr. Corbin
hastened to Jersey City and took eais
for Washington. With liirn, the Her
ald has stated, he took a certified and
endorsed check for SIOO,OOO in gold."
Well it is asked, in the Horu/d,
"who cashed that hundred thousand
dollar check ?"
The man who, elevated, in chastise
ment of a misguided people, to the
chair of chief magistrate of the United
States, named A. T. Stewart, who had j
given him one house and lot, to be Sec
retary of the Treasury; and one Doric, !
an old monied fool of Philadelphia,
who had given him another house and
lot, to be Secretary of the Navy—and
who used to try and swap knives,
while kicking his heels against tliQ j
counter of his father's shop in Galena,
111., after having been forced to quit
the old Army in disgrace, and having
behaved so badly near St. Louis as to
force his wife to quit him—is not the
one that can pass by, in silence, these
terrible revelations on the part of the
very men and journals who promoted
his disastrous election. Or, rather, we
may suppose, he will pass them unan
swered-except he gathers up his ill
gotten gains, and escapes from the
country, We do not think that this
son of Jesse has enough of sentiment
in him to lead him to run away—so
long as he has a Radical Congress to
back him, on condition of his continu
ing its disgraced and wretched tool.
But what are the fannersand mer
chants of the country going to do about
it? Have they, yes or no, had enough
of this kind of "war glory?" Are
they so far restored to a right mind as
t5 care nothing for former political no
lions that have led to these disasters,
and to be ready to try and restore a
sane, and safe, aud wise, administra
tion of public affairs, under the old
fashioned methods of the Democratic
party.
The infamous party propose more
hundred-thousand dollar checks for
Grant, and more taxation for the peo
ple.
The Democratic party is pledged to
a retrenchment of expenses; to a re
lief from the undue burden of taxa
tion ; and to putting come one in the
Presidential chair, who will take neith
er houses and lots, nor hundred thous
and dollar gold checks, as the price for
oppressing the people of the United
States.
In regard to the language used by '
the Sun, in reference to Mr. Fisk, of !
the Erie ltoad, we wish to say that we
are by no means clear that he was not
getting in the intelligent interest of ag
riculture, and of his, and other Rail
roads, in striving to put up the price
of gold. It was precisely what the
country interests wanted.
Our complaint is that Grant and
Boutwell after realizing all they could
from the clbjue that was putting gold
up, then betrayed them, to make some
more from the opposite clique. It was
the terrible/of/ in the price of gold
that hurt the entire community most.
The measure of the general damages
by the rise in gold, had pretty much
been accomplished when gold, went to
sixty per cent, premium. But the
more widespread evil was occasioned
by its collapse, and recession to thirty
per cent. This it is that cuts farmers,
and the country merchants depending
011 them, to the quick. For Govern
ment to have stepped in early Friday
morning, when gold, the night before
had reached fifty per cent, premium
and announce an extraordinary sale of
Government gold, would have been one
thing. It was another thing to wait
till it had gone to sixty per cent.—and
the hundred thousand dollar check,
dollar and the twenty-five thousand
check, were signet! and certified. It
matters not what views different in
terests may take as to what is the.prop
er financial policy, all interests and all
intelligent men, must unite in denoun
cing as infamous, and transparent, the
proceedings of the Grant-Boutwell
intrigue in running with the hare, and
holding with the hound—played a
double, hut a shallow game, with those
that would advance, and with those
that would depreciate the price o
gold.
TIIE WKOJfO BED.
At a late hour Tuesday night quite
a bridal party arrived in this city and
put up at one of our hotels. The bride
was accompanied by two of her young
lady friends and the groom by two
gentlemen. The names were register
ed in the usual way, but, in someway,
a mistake was made in reference to the
identity of the bride. The hours sped
on towards the dawn, and the bride in
her silent chamber waited the appear
ance of her lord. Yet he came not. —
Surely he was not sitting up all this
time. The rest of the party had retir
ed, she was certain, since she heard
them in their apartments.
What had become of him? Impa
tience gradually grew into terror.
She rang her bell, and the servant
knocked at the door.
"Do you know where my husband
is ?" she inquired.
"Ain't he in here, ma'am ?"
"No!"
"Maybe he stepped out into the
city, ma'am, and will be back direct
ly."
"I'm afraid; Oh, do inquire at the
ofiiee and see if there isany intelligence
about him."
The servant retired, and in a few
moments returned with information
that there was none.
The wife was now alarmed in earn
est. She never had a husband before,
and, like the man who drew the ele
phant in the lottery, scarcely knew
what to do with the animal.
In her anxiety she went to the room
of one of her bridesmaids and knocked
at the door.
"Who's there?" was inquired in ac
cents unmistakably masculine.
"Me—Mary—but, mercy !" who are
you ?" There was a sudden stir, and
the sound of feet heavily falling on the
lloor.
"Who the devil am I in bed with,
then ?" she heard the man say, as the
door swung open and her husbands'
face peeped out.
"Oh, I'm distracted about you;
where have you been?" asked the wife.
"I've been here in bed; but, deuce
take me, 1 thought you were here
too."
"O, James, it wasn't me."
"Who was it, then?"
"Why, it is Sarah,"
"The devil."
"O, no, James, it wu Sarah. Didn't
you know it, James?"
"Blast me if I did ! I found her a
sleep, and thinking this was our room
I crept into bed and went to sleep,"
said James, evidently impressed with
the idea that he had a difficult case to
argue.
"Is she asleep yet, James?"
"Why, don't you hear her snore?"
But just then Sarah woke up and
seeing a man in her room set up a suc
cession of screeches that soon filled the
hall with people.
And now the bridegroom found him
self in a delicate positiou. In the hur
ry of explaining the matter to his wife
he had neglected to put on his pants,
and in his eager search for thorn he was
dancing around the room like one pos
sessed, now and then imploring Sarah
to hush.
"I'm going, don't you see?" But
Sarah wouldn't hush; and the wife in
the hall, hemmed in by the crowd, had
tried to explain, but failing in this had
leaned her head against the wall and
was enjoj ing a hearty cry.
At last, however, the pants were
found and put on, and tho husband and
wife escaped to their chamber, whilst
Sarah double-locked her door against
all further intrusion. The next morn
ing explanations were gone into, but
there's no use denying that both ladies
were the least bit incredulous, and it is
said that a perceptible' coldncsss has
grown up between them, whilst the
unintentionally offending bridegroom
walks about a good deal, his head
down, and evidently in unpleasant
meditations.— Cleveland paper.
Franklin Pierce was the fourteenth
| President of the United States. There
are fourteen letters in his name, and
the first letters' of the christian and
! surname being F. and P. stand for
i fourteenth President.
Robert Fin ley was engaged a few
| days ago in feeding the monkey rol
; lersat the upper breaker of the Swatara
Falls Coal Company, Schuylkill eoun
! ty, when his foot caught in the rollers
crushing the foot and leg up to the
knee to atoms, causing his death in
1 about an hour afterwards.
VOL. 65.™ WHOLE No. 5,514.
On last Saturday evening the wife
of John Scanlan, a laborer employed
by a gentleman at Riverdale, West
Chester county, N. Y., while strolling
through the fields with her children,
saw what she and they supposed to be
mushrooms, but which were in reali
ty a species of poisonous fungi. The
supposed mushrooms were taken home
and cooked by Mrs. Scanlan, and eaten
with great gusto, by her and her two
eldest children. Fiveorsix hoursafter
they were seized with violent convul
sions and for a few hours suffered
great agony. Three doctors were sent
for, but on their arrival the sufferers
were nearly past all hope of recovery.
In spite of everything which medical
knowledge could suggest and skill ex
ecute, one of the children, a boy six
years old, died in awful agony, on
Monday morning. During the day a
little infant who had inoculated the
fell poison through its mother's milk,
expired. The mother, who is still suf
fering from the effects of the poison,
may possibly recover, but the eldest
child is deemed past recovery.
A new-married couple were travel
ing in the cars near Albany, when the
husband pulled a roll of something
from his pocket, which the wife
thought was chewing tobacco. She
snatched it from him and threw it out
the window. It proved to be a roll of
greenbacks, $2,500. She has quit
throwing things over her shoulders.
The bapks in Texas hold upwards of
four hundred thousand dollars in Coin,
while thoseof theother Southern States
together contain but two hundred and
seventy thousand. In Western Texas
and in California the currency has been
always metalic.
At Maplewood institute for Girls,
it is rather dangerous for "sparks,"
Rev. C. V. Spear, the Principal, adver
tises that his grounds "are protected
by powder and ball," and expects the
the "cousins"and friends of his fair pu
pils to take due warning.
A Kentucky Judge addressed John
C. Breekenridge as General, last week
whereupon he suggested that hereafter
all military titles be disregarded in the
Court-room. The Judge acquiesced,
saying he would adopt the suggestion
in future with great pleasure.
A printer in Preston, England, gave
How-ard Paul a stunner. 11. P. ad
vertised that he would give a red hot
lecture on "Womens Rights." The
printer set it up " Woman's Tights."
It is needless to say the house was
crowded.
A soldier named Ralph Smith, who
lost a leg during the war, committed
suicide in Toledo on the Ist, bacause he
could not, obtain work. The patriotic
G. A. 11., gave him a burial, but could
not furnish him work.
The serious illness of Senator Brown
low, of Tennessee, is reported, and it is
not improbable that the Legislature
now in session at Nashville may have
two United States Senators to elect be
fore it adjourns.
A woman died recently in Trenton,
Mich., in giving birth to her thirty-first
child. Among the thirty-one were
three pairs of twins, and the eldest of
them all, if living, would only be twen
ty-nine years old.
A boy in Arkansas come a good joke
on his father lately. He whist led so
near like a wild turkey that the old
man followed him through the bushes
a mile and finally killed the boy.
Silver palace cars run through with
out change from New York to Omaha,
ovor tho PcnnsylvAum Central, Pitts
burgh, Fort Wayne and Chicago, Rock
Island and Pacific Railroad.
An Indianapolis engineer mistook
the moon, which rose right in front of
him, for the headlight of an approach
ing engine, stopped his train and got
blowed up,
A boy at Beaver Creek, Va., riding a
mule through a piece of woods, wasat-
I tacked by seven wolves, but was saved
by the mule, who kicked the wolves
all over the woods.
"rings" that were putting its price up
were at work.
The Herald , the strongest advocate
of Giant's Administration among the
dalies of this city, asks :
A Philadelphia minister has married
a thousand couples in 14 years, but re
mains a bachelor himself. He has no
doubt seen the folly of such fooling.
A cotemporary says: "It must be
very annoying to a man who is being
nicely hung, to have the gallows break
down all of a sudden." No doubt of it.
A Boston chemist advertises thus :
"The gentleman who left his stomach
for analysis, will phase call and get it
together with the results."
A lady complaining that her husband
was dead to fashionable amusements,
he replied: "But then, my dear, you
make me alivo to the expense."
An Irish paper says: "Dr. Hayes
wishes to go North again. No Arctic
explorer is really happy until he has
failed to come back."
Young Prince Arthur is still peram
bulating about Canada, and receiving
the congratulations of his mother's sub
jects.
Jeff Davis, ex-President of the South
ern Confederacy, arrived at Baltimore,
lately, from Southampton, England.
There are more than 500 men still
living in Louisiana who fought under
General Jackson at the battle of New
Orleans.
A Scranton paperof a late date reports
the Avondale relief fund at $159,402.85.