£xvm, PHILOSOPHY OF LNDER-DRAIoING. The following- from the England Ear mtr w j|| help to illustrate the great impor „nce of under-draining, and will show why it is s° much insisted on by intc.tigent acd scientific ugricuituiists: When soil is wet, the heatof the sun, which is intended to warm the soil, is expended in evaporating the water from the surface, and thus the warmth which is necessary to the growth of plants does not reach their roots. When a sod is dry it often becomes twenty or thirty degrees warmer than the atmoapbere above it. but a soil filled with water is cooler I ban the atmosphere. When a soil is too wet the plant food which it contains is so much diluted that a much greater quantity of fluid must be taken up by the roots, or it will not receive dua nourishment. The vessels of the plant will be gorged with so much water that the plant itself will he kept at low temperature, in eon sequence of the increased evaporation from the steam and leaves. Wheu clay soils are wet they become com pact and adhesive, and prevent the air from reaching the roots of plants. Wheu the wa ter ia removed they become open and mellow and admit the air freely, and arc more easily worked. Drainage not only removes the water, hut makes room forthe air. which will bv the force of natural laws take its place, and pene trate to erery part from which the water :s drawn off. Vegetable matter immersed in water de composes slowly, and yields but little food to plants, and that not always of a wholesome character. But w hen the air has free access to it, it decomposes rapidiy, and yieids car bonic acid and other elements of nutrition. Manures containing organic matters go much farther on a dry soil than on a wet one. If a sandy soil lies upon a wet clay subsoil, the water will constantly rise towards ihe surface *r,d the roots and organic matter in the soil will have the benefit of its presence. On some soils plants are liable to be parch ed up iu a drought. This often because the roots cannot penetrate the subsoil, which is filled with stagnant or unwholesome water. Remove this stagnant water by a drain, and the subsoil will become mellow and sweet, and the roots will penetrate deeply into it, and thus be able to cudure a drought that dries the surtace. Sometimes it does very little good to break up a hard, compact subsoil with the plough. It soon becomes again hard and impenetrable. But if the soil is drained below this hard pan the rains penetrate through it ar.d soften it, and remove any noxious properties it may contain, and a deep root-bed is made the plants, by which they will be sustained even in very dry seasons. It is where Laid subsoils lie near the surface lha: crops suffer moat from droughts. Thus drainage warms, ami deepens, and sweetens the soil, and renders it more pro ductive, and enables the growing crops the better to endure the effects of aw t or a dry season. The roots of corn a,d some other crops penetrate a mellow .oil from three to four feet deep. Draining, then, to be effec tual. should take off the water to a depth somewhat below that to which the roots peue trate. This should always be d ne where the fall is sufficient to allow it. CARBOLIC ACID. Reference is frequently made to th.s new disinfectant and purifier as the most power ful of any now iu use. It ha. only recently come into general notice, and its great value will render the following account of its nro doction and properties, taken from the Maine Farmer, especially interesting to all our agricultural and scientific readers: '"Carbolic acid is extracted from coal tar, which is well known as ono of the waste products obtained in the manufacture of gas from coal. In fact the properties of this substance are more of an alcohol than an acid, and it ia also called carbolic alcohol, phenic acid, phenic alcohol, he. It is now some twenty years since the attention of chemists were turned to tbe methods of ex tracting this acid from coal tar. Improve ments iu the methods of extracting it have been steadily made since that time, until now an article of pure carbolic acid is made from coal tar. that is entirely free from all disagreeable or tarry flavor, as pure as if ex tracted directly from bei ::iue. "The uses oftbis substance are numerous. ! Its properties as a deodorizer, disinfectant j and an". ~eptic are remarkable. Being vola tile, catholic acid meets with and destroys the germs or sporules which float at the at mosphere and vitiate it; and on this ac count it has been u.-cd with astonishing suc cess in England, Belgium and Holland dur ing the prevalence of cholera at d the cattle plague. Mr. \V. Crookes. F. R. S., (editor c'ihe London Journal of Physical Science,) =ayß be has never met with a single instance in which the cattle plague has spread on a i farm where it has been freely used. Its an tiseptic powers are so strong that the merest atom will prevent the decomposition, fer- ' mentation or putrefaction for months of urine, ' blood, glue solution, paste, flour, Ac. Its i vapor alone is sufficient to preserve meat in confined spaces for weeks, and even a little vapor will prevent fresh meat from being : fly-blown for several days, even in an ordi- ! nary atmosphere. lor some diseases of. sbee,p especially scab, foot rot. Ac., carbolic I acid is an efficacious remedy. Cattle are ! never anuoyed with flies if washed with a weak solution of this substance, and ten per i cent of it added to fresh butter forms an excellent salve for woua.'s of all kinds in man or beast." KEEP YOUR ASHES FOR MANURE. The American Agricultural says: Wood ashes make one of the most valuable fertil izers within the reach of the farmer. The ; unleachcd article Las the more potash, but j the leached is thought to be quite as valuable. In leaching they shrink a good deal, and lime is usually added, which increases their value, i They arc generally sold, too, at a less price. Ashes are we., suited to ail farm crops, and are very beneficial in the fruit yard and or chard. Most farmers sell wood in the cities j and villages, and rather than go home empty j they should carry back ashes and other fertiii- ! Mrs, to replace the potash, lime and phos- j phoric acid that have been carried off in lha crops and animals sold. Ashes show im mediate effects from their application, and at the same time last long in the soil. They ! •ire highly appreciated in the onion ! grow ng uisiricts, but may be applied with I cquai ai.\a.,tage (o ordinary farm crops. They j on je kept os near BUr f ate as possible j spread and harrowed into the seed bed or ap plied directly to the growing crops. Makes uatoese u sating, buying and storing ashes during the winter for the next season's ope tions. lue AURKCLTIKAI. REPORT.— The Com missioner of Agriculture at Washington says in but annual report, that a system of in ternational agricultural exchanges has been established with mauy governments of Europe, Asia and South America. Arrange ments have also been made for exchanges of rare seeds, plants, trees and various products with the botanical gardens of Kew in Eng land, and Melbourne in Australia, the India Museum in London, the Cape of Good Hope Agricultural Society, the botanical depart ment of the British Museum, and others. The experimental garden during the past year distributed over 30,000 planta, and many thousand scions and cuttings of fruit trees. Under the appropriations from Dec. 1, 1807, to Dec. 1,1808, the papers and packages of seeds distributed were 59-2,398, including 32,129 sacks of winter wheat imported by the present Commissioner. Of these there were distributed to members of Congress, 223,072; to agricultural and horticultural societies, 98,801} to.-tatistical correspondents, 80,891; to individuals on application, 183,- m. - JuimerottS. A pious perfume— The odor of sanctity. "fin l,ei.t of the understanding—The instep. A needlewoman's exclamation— Aliem ! Of what trade is the sun? A tanner. Tits cranium in four parts —The headquar ters. A ch-eiiabit' domestic bird—A duck of a wife. A little tumbler will often throw down a big man. Stack tlrivut's motto— Jam forte in omni bus. I'ari- greet, i lie fellow who ran away with listen. Com. uv-->!o.N.vi. features—The ayes of the House and the noes of the Senate. Goon Hay Weather—When it rains pitch forks. l-'owi.-l'l.Ar—Serving you with an old hen when you call for spring chicken. Not a proper place for a naval engagement —the Pacific Ocean. A wug call Grecian architecture the '"stoops" that ladies use at present. A Scotchman's definition of '"reel" music —the bagpipes. "Birds in their nests agree," because they would fall out if they didn t. War is a flatterer like a microscope ? Be cause he magnifies small things. Beastly . father —when it. rains cats and dogs. To cure a felon —Suspend by the ueek about an hour. Ye avaricious! remember that shrouds have no pockets. A young lady must make a hit if she dis likes to be a miss. A HANDSOME ilress pattern never arrests a woman's attention. She will always go buy it. WHEN is the book of nature studied When autumn turns the leaves and they are red. THE "sugar wedding," occurring thirty days after a marriage, is the last matrimonial novelty. WHY is a baby like a sheaf of wheat ?—Be cause it is first cradled, then thrashed, and finally becomes the flower of the tamily. ''GENII'S will work its way through, as the poet said, when he saw a hole in the elbow of his coat. WHEN does a man overcome the inactivity of an inanimate object?— When he makes an umbrella stand. "NOT I. ii.iv." said an Omaha jury, "but if the pris >ner is smart he wi'l leave the territory before night." He left. WE frequently hear of our Generals cap. Turing "pieces of artillery." "What's the use of capturing 'pieces?'" says Mrs. Partington, "why uot capture whole ones?" CKEIHTOK- are like corns: they are always reminding one where the shoe pinches. The only way to get rid of tbem is to cut them— and that won't prevent them coming again. THE following is Aunt Betsey's description of her milk man: "He is the meanest man in the world," she exclaimed, "He skims his milk on the top, then turns it over and skims it on tue bottom." A GENTLEMAN once began bis letter to his bride thus: "My dearest Maria." The lady replied: "My dear John, I beg that you will mend cither your morals or your grammar. You call me your 'dearest Maria.' Am Ito understand that, you have other Marias?" 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TUB be to Clubs. THE LEONARD SCOTT PUBLISHING CO., 140 Fulton St., N. Y. The L.S. PUB. CO. also publish the PARMER'S GUIDE, by lienry Stephens, of Edinburgh, and the late J. I'. Norton, of Yale College. 2 vols. Royal Octavo 1600 pages, and numerous Engravings. Price 87 for the two volumes—by Mail, pos paid, $8 dec.2si fXrdiringt. ENDURE A LIVING DEATH? The con tinned dyspeptic may almost aay with St. Peter, "I die daily." The object of this arti cle is not to remind him of his pangs, but to show him how to banish them forever. The means of immediate and permanent relief are proffered him in HOOFLANDS GERMAN BITTERS, And it is for him to say whether he will continue to endure a living death, or to put himself in a position to render life enjoyable. LIVING ADVERTISEMENTS Of the efficacy of this matchless vegetable stom achic are to be found in every city and town in tbe United States—healthy men and women res cued from toiturobr its use, and eager to bear testimony to its virtues. It differs from any other bitters in existence, in this especial particular—it is not alcoholic. For siu-h constitutions and systems a? require for their invigoration a diffusive stimulant, HOOFLAND S GERMAN TONIC Hits Uetn provided—a preparat'A iu which the solid extracts of tbe finest restoratives of the veg etable kingdom are held in solution by a spiritu ous agent, purged of all deleterious constituents. The patient, in choosing between these two great antidotes, should be guided by his own condition. If in a very low state, from debility, the Tonic should be his selection; but in cases where the emergency is not so pressing, tbe Bitters is the specific required. Thousands find infinite bene fit from taking each in turn. There is no phase of indigestion, Biliousness, Nervous Disease, or Physical Prostration, to which they are not adap ted, and in which, singly or combined, they will not effect a cure. EXCHANGE PAIN FOR EASE, And Weakness for Strength. 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Invalids who are WASTING AWAY, Without any special complaint, except a gradual declination of bodily strength and nervous ener gy, will find in the Bit'ers a fountain of vitality and vigor as refreshing and exhilerating as a pool in the desert to the *and-scorched and fainting travelers. HOOFLANDS GERMAN BITTERS, Is composed of the pure juices (or, as they are medicinally termed, Extracts) of Roots, Herbs and Barks, making a preparation, highly concen trated and entirely frit from alcoholic admixture* of any kind. HOOFLAND S GERMAN TONIC, Is a combination of all tbe ingredients of the Bit-, ters, with the purest quality of Santa Cm* RHMI Orange, Ac., making one of the most pleasant and agreeable remedies ever offered to the public. These remedies will effectually cure Liver Com plaint, Jaundice, Dyspepsia, Chronic or Nervous Febility, Chronic Diseases of the Kidneys, and all Diseases arising from a Disordered Liver or Stomach, such as Constipation, Flatulence, Inward Piles, Fulness of Blood to thf Head, Acidity of the Stomach, Nausea, Heartburn, Disgust for Food, Fulness or Weight in the Stomach. Sour Eructations, Sinking, or Fluttering at the Pit of the Stomach, Swimming of the Head, Hurried r.r Diffi cult Breathing, Flatter ing at the Heart, Choking or Suffocating Sensations when in a Lying Posture. Dimness of Vision, Dots or Webs before the Sight, Fever and Dull Pain in the Head, Deficiency of Perspiration, Yellowness ol the Skin and Eyes, Pain in the Side, Back, Chest, and Limbs, etc. etc., Sudden Flushes of Heat, Burning in the Flesh, Con stant Imaginings of Evil, and great depression of spirits. They are the Greatest and Best BLOOD PURIFIERS EVER KNOWN, And will cure all diseases resulting from bad blood. Keep your blood pure. Keep your Liver in order. Keep jour digestive organs in a sound, healthy conditton, by the use of these remedies, and no disease will ever assail. WEAK AND DELICATE CHILDREN, Are made strong by the use of either of these remedies. They will cure every case of MARAS MUS, without fail. Thousands of certificates havt accumulated in the hands of the proprietor, but space will allow of the publication of but a few. Those, it will be observed, are men of note and of such standing that they must be believed. THE WHOLE SUPREME COURT OF PENNSYLVANIA SPEAK FOR THESE REMEDIES. WHO WOULD ASK FOR MORE DIGNIFIED OR STRONGER TESTIMONY? nOS. GEORGE WOODWARD, Okie/ Juliet of the Supreme Court of Penneylvu m'o, writes: Philadelphia, March 16, 1567. "I find 'iloolland's German Bitters' is a good tonic, useful in diseases of the digestive organs, and of great benefit in cases of d.bility, and want ol nervous action in the sysfem. '•Yours truly, GEO. W. WOODWARD." IIOS. GEORGE SUARSWOOD, Justice of the Supreme Court of Penneyltanim, writes: Philadelphia, June I, 1868. I hare found by experience that "Hoofland's German Bitters" is a very good tonic, relieving dyspeptic symptoms almost directly. GEORGE SHARSWOOD. BON. JAMES T//OMPSOX, Jwbje oj the Supreme Court of Peuueyiru.titt. Philadelphia, April 28, 1566. ''l consider 'Hoofland's German Bitters' a val uable medicine in case of attacks of Indigestion or Dyspepsia. I can certify this from my experi ence of it. Yours, with respect, "JAMES THOMPSON." HOX. JAMES ROSS SXOWDEX, Prothonotary of the Supreme Court of Penneylca nia, writes: Philadelphia, Sept. 11, 1867. "Hoofland's German Bitters" is a very useful article as a tonic and an appetizer. It is not an intoxicating drink, and may be used beneficially by persons of all ages. Respectfully Tours, JAMES ROSS SNOWDEN. CAUT I O N : Hoofland's German Remedies are counterfeited. See that the signature of C. M. JACKSON, is on the wrapper of each bottle. All others are coun terfeit Principal Office and Manufactory at the Ger man Medicine Store, No. 631 ARCH STREET Philadelphia, Pa. CHARLES M. EY' ANS, Proprietor. Formerly C. M. JACKSON Jt CO. PRICES: Hooflland's German Bitters, per bottle $1 00 " " half dozen 5 00 Hoofland's German Tonic, put up in quart bottles, $1 50 per bottle, or a half dozen fort" 50. ' SSL-Do not forget to examine well the article you buy, in order to get the genuine. ■&ffi_For sale by druggists and dealers in medi cine everywhere. Dr. B. F. HARRY, Agent, Bedford, Pa. letagrapbir. TELEGRAPH IN CHINA. THE EAST INDIA TELEGRAPH COMPA NY'S OFFICE, 23 & 25 Nasotiu Street, NEW YORK. Organised under special charter from th* State of New York, CA PITA L $5,000,000 50,000 SHARES, SIOO EACH. DIRECTORS. Hon. ANDREW G. CCRTIN, Philadelphia. PAUL S. FORBES, of Russell A Co., China. FRED. BUTTERFIELD, of F. Butterfield A Co., New York. ISAAC LIVKRMORK, Treasurer Michi Central Railroad, Boston. ALEXANDER HOLLAND, Treasurer Ame can Express Company, New York. Hod. JAMES NOXON, Syracuse N. Y. 0. 11. PALMER, Treasurer Western Union Telegraph Company, New York. FLETCHER WKSTRAY, of Westray, Gibbs A Hardcastle, New York. NICHOLAS MICK LES, New York. OFFICER.-. A. G. CL'KTIN, President. N. MICK LES, Vice President. GEORGE CON ANT, Secretary. GEORGE ELLIN (Caskier National Bank Commonwealth,) Treasurer. Hon. A. K. McCLURK, Philadelphia, Solici tor. 1 he. I'hineee Government* hetving (through the lion. A neon Iturlingame) conceded to tkie Compa "H '* prieilege of connecting the great tcaportt of the Empire by eubmarine electric telegraph ca ble, we propoee commencing operation in China, and laying doten a line of nine hundred mile or once, between the following parte, trie : Population. Canton 1,000,000 Mac... #O,OOO Hong-Kong 250,000 Swatow 200,000 Auioy 250,090 Foe-Chow 1,250,000 Wan-Cbu iIOO.OOO Niogpo 400,000 Hang Chcan 1.200,000 Shanghai 1,000|006 Total 5.910,000 These port* have a foreign commerce of $900,- 000,000, and an enormous domestic trade, beside which we have the immense internal commerce ol the Empire, radiating from these points, through its canals and navigable rivers. The cable beir.g laid, this Company proposes ereeting land lines, and establishing aspee.lv and trustworthy means of communication, which must command there, as everywhere else, the cnmmu nications of the Government, of business, and of social life, especially in China. She has no pos tal system, and her only means now of communi cating information is by couriers on land, and by steamers on water. The Western $5 orld knows that China as | very large conn try, in the main densely peopled; | hut a few yet realize that she contains more than ; a third of the human race. The latest returns made to her central authorities for taxing purpo ses by Ibe local magistrates make her population Four Hundred and Fourteen Million*, and this is mora likely to be under than orer tha actual ag gregate. Nearly all of these, who are orer ten years old, not only can but do read and write. Her civilization is peculiar, but her literature is as extet sive as that of Europe. China is a land of teachers and traders; and the latter are ex ceedingly quick to avail themselves of every proffered facility for procuring early information. It i observed in California that the Chinese make great use ef the telegraph, though it there trans mits messages in English alone. To day great numbers of fleet steamers are cwned by Chinese merchants, and used by them exclusively for the transmission of early intelligence. If the tele graph we proposo, connecting all their great sea ports, were now in existence, it ia believed that ita business would pay the cost within the first two years of ita autceasful operation, and would steadily increase thereafter. No enterprise commends itself as a greater de gree remunerative to capitalists, and to our whole people. It is of a vast national importance com mercially, politically, and evangelically. The stock of this Company has been unquali fiedly recommended to capitalists and business men, as a desirable investment by editorial arti cles in the New Tork Herald, Tribune, World, Timet, Foot, Ej preen, Independent, and in the Philadelphia North American, Preen, Ledger, In quirer, Aye, Bulletin and Telegraph. 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The JJiejjutch is furnished by mail at $S a year or may be had from our agents at fifteen cents a week. FEND FOR A SPECIMEN COPY. THE WEEKLY DISPATCH ONLY $1 A YEAR! ! ! In issuing their Prospectus lor 1869, it affords 'be Publishers gratification to be able to state that their Weekly, like their Daily, enters upon the new year under very flatteriug auspices. It has been enlarged to nearly double its former size, and now contains THIRTY-TWO COLUMNS Of matter printed in Bold, Clear Type, making it one of the handsomest, as it has long been one of the cheapest if not the cheapest, Weeklies in the country. It contains all the latest news of the day— political, commercial and general, and as an enter taining and acceptable FAMILY NEWSPAPER Is not excelled by any paper in the State. The Weekly I)i*},atch is furnished to single subscri bers at $l6O, or in clubs of ton —to one address, at SI.OO each, with a free paper to the party get ting up the club. Subscribers may remit us by mail, either in bills or any postoffice order, which is the safer iuode. Postmasters receiving subscriptions for the /)i*patch, either Daily or Weekly, are author ized to retain twenty per cent, on our published rates of ten papers for $19.00. Address O'NEILL k ROOK. Publishers Daily and Weekly Dispatch Dispatch Iron Building, 29jan 67 and 69 Fifth Street, Pittsburgh, Pa. ALL PAPER. WALL PAPER. WALL PAPER. WALL PAPER. WALL PAPER. WALL PAPER. Several Hundred Different Figure*. Several Hundred Diflerent Figures. Several Hundred Different Figures. Several Hundred Different Figures. Several Hundred Different Figures. Several Hundred Different Figures. Largest lot ever brought to Bedford county. Largest lot ever brought to Bedford county. Largest lot ever brought to Bedford county. Largest lot ever brought to Bedford county. Largest lot ever brought to Bedford county. Largest lot ever brought to Bedford county. 1 for sale at the for sale at the for sale at the for sale at the for sale at the for sale at the INQUIRER BOOK STORE. INQUIRER BOOK STORE. INQUIRER BOOK STORE. INQUIRER BOOK STORE. INQUIRER BOOK STORE. INQUIRER BOOK STORE. CHEAPER THAN EVER SOLI). CHEAPER THAN EVER 80LD. CHEAPER THAN EVER SOLD. CHEAPER THAN EVER SOLD. CHEAPER THAN EVER SOLD. CHEAPER THAN EVER SOLD. g ELLING OFF AT COST! READY-MADE CLOTHING, CASSIMERES, HATS & CAPS, AT COST. ideeSm Ri W. BERKSTRESSEB. iloohs &c. THE INQUIRER BOOK STORE, opposite the Mengel House, BEDFORD, PA. Tbe proprietor takes pleasure in offering to the public the following article* belonging to the Book Burine**, *t CITY RETAIL PRICKS: MISCELLANEOUS BOOKS: Dream Life, Reveries of a Bachelor, Bryant's, ilalleck's, Joan Ingelow'e, Tupper'*, Foe's, Milton'*, Whittier's, Longfellow's, Tenneyson's, Bayard Taylor'*, Walter txiolt'*, Wadsworth's, Grey'* Poem*, 100 Selection*; Two Marriages; The In itia'ls;. Phesaiziana; A. Ward, hi* Book; Naby' Letter*; Dictionary of Quotation*; Macauly'* Kngland; Homespun; K* thrin*, Bittersweet; Enoch Arden; Tent on the Beach; Snow Bound; Country Living; Companion Poet*: Tom Brown at Rugby, Baker's Secret Service; and many other*. NOVELS: Mis* Mulbacb's. Dicken'* (25 cent edition), Marrayatt's, Sir Waiter Scott's (25c edition), Mis* Ellen Pickering'*, G. W. M. Reynold'*, Eugene Sue's, Alexander Duma'*, Sir Edward Lytton Bulwer's, DTsraeii's, Wilkie Collin's, George Sand's, Mr*. Ilenry Wood'*, Wild Western Scenes, Widow Bedott Papers, Caxton's, Mrs. Caudle's Curtain Lectures, Guardian Angel, Pendennis, The Newcorues, Young America Abroad, Robinson Crusoe, Initials, Early Dawn, Major Jones' Courtship, Charcoal Sketches, Travels of Mayor Jones, Ac. Ac. Ac. BIBLES. HYMN BOOKS, AC.: Large Family Biblea, Small Bible?, Medium Bibles, Lutheran Hymn Books, 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, Preaoyterian Hymn Books, SCHOOL BOOKS: ABC Cards, Primers, Osgood's Speller, Raub's Speller, Osgood's l?t 2nd, 3d, 4th, and sth Readers, Brook's Normal Primary, Normal Mental, Ele inentary. and Normal, Written Arithmetics, Mitchell's New First Lessons, New Primary, and Intermediate Geographies, Brown's First Lines, and English Grammars, Warren and Mitchell's Physical Geographic?, Losaing's Common School History of the United States, Webster's Pocket, Common School, and Una bridged Dictionaries, Cleveland's Compendium of English Literature, Cleveland's Compendium of American Literature, Cleveland's Literature of tha 19th Century, Coppee's Academic Speaker, Sergeant's Standard and Intermediate Speakers, Young American Speaker, Western and Columbian Orator, Schootday Dialogues, Nortbend's Dialogues, Exhibition Speaker, .American Scnool Dialogue Book, Payson, Dunton, and Scribners Copy Books, Nos. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 7, Ac. TOY BOOKS. Cinderella, Mother Goose, Old Mother Hubbard, Little Red Riding Hood, The House that Jack Built, Grand Father Goose s Rhymes, Ac. STATIONERY Congress, Legal, Record, Foolscap, Letter, Congress Letter, Sermon, Commercial Note, Ladies' Gilt, Ladies' Octavo, Mourning, French Note, Bath Post, Damask Laid Note, Cream Laid Note, Envelope*, Ac. BLANK BOOKS. Day Books, Ledgers, Account Books, Cash Books. Pocket Ledgers, Time Books, Tuck Memorandumr Pass Books, Money Books, Pocket Books. INKS AND INKSTANDS. Barometer Inkstands, (Jutta Percha, Cocoa, and Morjcco Spring Pocket Inkstand*, 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. Oillot's, Cohen's, llollowbush a Carey's Payson, Dunton, and Soribner's Pens: Clark's Indellible, Faber's Tablet, Cohen's Eagle, Office, Faber's Guttknecht's, Carpenter's Pencils, *e. PERIODICALS. Atlantic Mcnthly, Harper's Magazine, Madame Demerest's Mirror of Fashions, Kclectie Magazine, Godey's Lady's Book, Galaxy, Lady's Friend. Ladies' Repository, Old Guard, Our Young Folks, Appleton's Railway (luide, Nick Nax, Yankee Notions, Budget of Fun, Jolly Joker, Phunny Phellow, London Punch. Lippincott's Magazine, Riverside Magazine, Northern Monthly, Waverly Magazine, Ballou's Magazine, Gardner's Monthly, Harper's Weekly Frank Leslie's Illustrated, Chimney Corner, New York Ledger, New York Weekly, Wilke's Spirit of the Timet, Harper's Bazar. Every Saturday, Living Age, Pen and Pencil, Putnam's Monthly Magazine, Arthur's Home Magazine, Oliver Optic's Boys and Girl's Magazine to. Constantly on hand to accommodate those who want to purchase living reading matter. 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 se'J as cheap as roods of this class are sold anywhere. JOHN LUTZ. June 19, IGS. ■ptertnattfou*. rjp njT ~n~ ITTI oa a l LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY, or TB UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, WASHINGTON, D. C. Chartered by Special Art of Cohgreee, Approved July 2b, im. CASH C A PITAL—S 1,000,000. BRANCH OFFICE PHILADELPHIA, FIRST NATIONAL BANK BUII.DINO, Where the general business of the Company i transited. and to which all general correspond ence should be addressed. DIRECTORS. Jay Cooke, l'bilad*. £. A. Rollins, Wash. C. H Clark, Philada (lenrj D. Cooke, Waah. John W. Ellia, Cinelnati W. E. Chandler, Wash. Wm Q, Moorhead. Phll.lJohn D. Defreea, Waah. G. F. Tyler, Philada. ; Ed. Dodge, New York. J. Hinckley Clark, Phil. H. C. Fahneatoek, N.Y. OFFICERS. C. H. CLARK, Philadelphia, Preeidont. HENRY D. COOKE, Washington, Vice-President. JAY COOKE, Chairman Finance and Executive Committee. EMERSON W. PEET, Philadelphia, Secretary and Actuary. E. 8. TURNER, Wash. Assistant Secretary. FRANCOS G. SMITH, M. D„ Medical Director J. EWINO MEARS, M. D., Assistant Medica. Director. MEDICAL ADVISORY BOARD. J. K. BARNES. Burgeon-Gene,al U. 8. A., Waah. P. J.HOKWITZ, Chief Medical Department U. S. N.. Wasuington. D. W. BLISS, M. !>., Wa.-.liiogt ju. SOLICITORS AND ATTORNEYS. WM. E. CHANDLER, Washington, D. C. GEORGE HARDING, Philadelphia, Pa. Tbia Company, National in ita character, of fers, oy reason of ita Large Capital, Low Rates of Premium and New Tables, the most desirable means of insuring life yet presented to the public. The rates of premium, being largely reduced, are made as favorable to the insurers as those of the best Mutual Cumpanies. and avoid all the complications and uncertainties of Notes, Divi dends and the misunderstandings which the latter are so apt to create among the Policy-Holdera. Several new and attractive tables are now pre sented which need onlj to be understood to prove acceptable to the public, such as the INCOME PRODUCING POLICY and RETURN PREMI UM POLICY. In the former, the policy-holder not only secures a life Insurance, payable at death, but will receive, if living, after a period of a few years, an annual income equal to ten per cent. (10 per cent.) of the par of hie policy. In the latter, the Company agrees to return to the neeured the total amount of money he hae paid in, in addition to the amount of hie policy. The attention of persons contemplating insur ing their lives or increasing the amount of insur ance they already have, is called to the special advantages offered by the National Life Insurance Company. Circulars, Pamphlets and full particulars given on application to the Branch Office of the Com pany in Philadelphia, or to its General Agents. LOCAL AGENTS ARE WANTED in every City and Town: and applications from such agen cies, with suitable endorsement, should be ad dressed TO THE COMPANY'S GENERAL AGENTS ONLY, in their respective districts. GENERAL AGENTS : E. W. CLARK A CO., Philadelphia, For Pennsylvania and Southern New Jersey, JAY COOKE ACO , Washington, D. C-, For Maryland, Delaware, Virginia, District of Columbia And West Virginia. WM. n. EDWARDS, JOHN W. FISHER, Agents, Bedford, Pa. Sp4:ly S. S- FLUCK Saxtcn Bedford Co. Pa. I? LECTIO MEDICAL COLLEGE OF PENNSYLVANIA. This College holds three sessions each jear. The first session commences October Bth, and continues until the eud or January: the second session commences February Ist. and continue* until the beginning of May: the third session ccl tinues throughout the summer months. It has an able corp# of twelve Professors, auo every Department of Medicine and Surgery is thoroughly taught. THE ELECTIC MEDICAL JOURNAL OF PENNSYLVANIA, Published monthly, contains 48 pages of original matter. Price $2 per annum. The largest, finest and most progressive Medical Journal in the Uni ted States. Special inducements to the getter up of Clubs. j Beautiful premium engravings, valued at $3, given to every subscriber. Specimen copies sent free, on.application. Ad dress JOHN BUCHANAN, i 227 North Twelfth Street, Philadelphia, Pa. i may29:lyr. Every facility in the way of illustrations, mo* bid specimens, herbarium, chemical and philofcu phica) apparatus, microscopes, instruments of the latest invention for physical examination and diagnosis will be provided Splendid Hospital and Clinical Instruction are afforded: free tickets to all our City Hospitals are provided: Dissecting Material abundant at a nominal cost. Perpetual Scholarships are sold for s<>o. Send for circular. HUNTINGDON A BROADTOP RAILROAD _ On and after Wednesday, Sept 16, IS6B, Pas senger Trains will arrive and depart as follows: UP TRAINS. nowN TRAINS Aceoin Mail, j STATIONS , Accoia M ail. P. sM. A. M. A. M. P. M. LK4.35').K 905 Huntingdon, j AR9.20J AR4.21 -12 Long Siding 9.12 4.lft 4.661 9.25 McConnellptown 8.54; 4.00 5.04 9.33 Pleasant Grove, 8.47 3.55 5.21| 9.49 Mark'esburg, 8.30 340 5.40 10.05 C,Be. iva. j 8.14 3.25 5.49 10.13 Rough & Heady 8.05. 3.17 6.06 10.281 Cove, ' 7.50; 3.04 6.10 10.32 Fisher's Summit' 7.46 3.00 AR6.271 10.55 Saxton, 1*z7.30' 2.4 ft 11.13' Riddlesburg, 2.16 11.21 Hopewell, ! 2.09 I 11.39 Piper's Run, 1.49 12.00 Talesville, j 1.28 12.12 Bloody Run, 1.15 AR 12.18 Mount Dallas. lLxl.lt ANOUP'S RUJTBRANCH. Lxfi.3o LI 11.00 Saxton, AR 7.25 AR2.30 I .4o 11.15 Coalmont, 7UO 2.15 j 6.50 11.20 Crawford, 7.05 2.10 AR7.00 AR 11.30 Dudley. LB 6.55,LE2.00 I Broad Top City. Sept. 16, '6B. JOHN M'KILLIPS, Supt. OF PARTNERSHIP. Notice is hereby given, that the partnership lately subsisting between J. R. Purborrow and John Lutz, of Bedford, under the firm of Durbor row A Lutz was dissolved by mutual consent on the fifteenth day of July. All debts for subscrip tion, Advertising, Job Work, Fees, Books and Stationery, Ac., Ac., are to be received by said John Lutz, and all demands on said partnership are to he presented to him for payment. All the accumulated legal business in the hands of the late firm will be prosecuted by Sir. Burborrow. J. R PURBORROW, July 15, 1868. JOHN LUTZ. The books of the late firm of DIRBORROW A LUTZ having been left in my hands for collection all persons knowing themselves indebted to said firm will please call and settle without further notice. JOHN LUTZ. jQ O B BINS ' ELECTRIC BOOT PO LISH MAKES A LASTING SHINE, Those who blunt their boots on Saturday urday night with ordinary blacking, don't have much shine on Sunday, as the polish fades off: but the shine of DOBBINS' BLACKING Lasts Saturday night and all day Sunday. IT BEATS ANY OTHER BLACKING MADE. Manufactured only by J. B. Dobbins, at bis immense Soap and Blacking Works, Sixth street and Germautowu avenue, Philadelphia, Pa. 27uov3tn For sale by T. M. LYNCH, Bedford. Dorothy Smith ") In the common Pleas of by her next friend > Bedford County, No. 8. Elisba Suiitb J Nov. Term I£AS~Subpoena vs. I on Libel for Divorce. Wm. P. Smith. j The undersigned appointed by the Court, a Commissioner to take tcstamony and report the facts in this ease, will attend for that purpose at his office iu Bedford, on Monday the 15th day of February next, at !0 e'clock A. M., when and where all persons interested may attend if they think proper. JOHN MOWER. 29jan3t Commissioner. SCHOOL BLANKS.—Articles ef Agreement, between Directors and Teachers, Checks, Bonds of Collectors, Warrants OF COLLECTORS Ponds of Treasurers, Ac., for sale at the faywt'RSß office. A SPLENDID ARTICLE of Blank Deeds on the best parchment paper, for eaic at the Inquirer office. gliSftUattfOU*. | F YOU ' SLEIGH BELLS, SLEIGH BASKETS, SLEIGH RUNNERS, STEEL SLEIGH SOLJSS, BUFFALO ROBES, AND HORSE-BLANKETS, go to LYNCHS HARDWARE STORE. A fine atock of SKATES for Ladiae and gentle men. A beautiful lot of LAMPB, LANTERNS AND CHIMNEYS, DOUBLE-BARRELLED SHOT-GUNS AND PIBTOLS. CONCENTRATED LYE, DOBBINS' AND CASTILE SOAP, FANCY SOAPS, A superior article of LUBRICATING OIL for machinery, ' A fine lot of AXES, SAUSAGE MEAT CUT TERS A STUFFERB, Cheap. If you want a BRASS OR BELL-METAL KETTLE, If you want the beet CLOTHES WRINQER, If you want DEMIJOHNS, all sixes, If you want GUM SHOES, foi Horses, If yon want GRASS MATS, for doors, If you want a plain set of HARNESS, (cheap,) If you want a cheap WAGON WHIP If you want CARRIAGE or BUGGY WHIPS, If you want a BIDING WHIP, If you want a WOODSTOCK WHIP, If you want LASHES. If you want CARRIAGE or FLOOR OIL CLOTH, If you want ENAMELED LEATHER, It you want a CHAMOIS SKIN, If you want HOUSE or GONG DOOR BELLS, If you want all kinds of CAN and TUB~ AINTS, If you want WHITE LEAD and OILS, If you want SPRINGS and AXLES, If you want STEEL and STEEL WIRE, If you want PICKS and MATTOCKS, If you want WATER PIPE, If you want HUBS, SPOKES, FELLOES, SHAFTS, If yon want BOWS, BUGGY-TOPS, PROPS, Ac. If you want CROSS-CUT and MILL SAWS, In short, everything that people may want in the Hardware line may be bad at LYNCH'B HARDWARE STORE, BEDFORD, PA. a*, PATTERSON S FLOUR FOR SALE. REMOVED TO THE COLON A DE BUILDING MILLER & BOWSER HAVE REMOVED TO THE COLONADE BUILDING and offer great bargains in all kinds of goods in order to reduce their stock before making spring purchases. They have on har d DRY GOODS, READY MADE CLOTHING, FANCY NOTIONS, COTTON YARNS, HATS, CAPS. BOOTS, SHOES, GROCERIES, QUEENS WARE, TOBACCO, CIGARS, BROOMS, BASKETS, WOODEN WARE, Ac. Look at soma of their prices: CALICOES, 8, ID, 12, 15, 16. GINGHAM, 12i, 15. 18, 20. MUSLIN, 10,12, 14, 15, 18, 20. CASSIMKRES CLOI US, SATINETT and LADIES SACKING at very low price*, Ladies, Gent's and Misses Shoes. Sandals and Overshoes in great variety. Men's, boys and youths boots; best Coffee, Tea, Sugar and Syrup at market prices- Feed and Flour tor sale here at all times. We invite all to call and see the goods, and com pare prices, before buying your goods. Our motto is, short profits. TKRMS —Cash, notes or products. apl3 6$ QUR NEW FAMILY SINGER SEWING MACHINE. The superior merits of the "Singer" Machines over all others, for either family use or manu facturing purposes, are to well established and generally admitted, that an enumeration of their relative excellence is no longer considered neo essary. OUR NEW FAMILY MACHINE, which has been brought to perfection regardless of time, labor or expense, is now confidently pre sented to the public as inoomparably THE BEST SEWING MACHINE IN EX ISTENCE. The machine in question is SIMPLE, COMPACT, DURABLE A BEAU TIFUL It is quiet, light running, and capable of per forming a range and variety of work never be fore attempted upon a single machine, -using either silk, twist, linen or cotten thread, and sew ing with equal facility the very finest and coarsest materials, and anything between the two extremes, in the most beautiful and substantial manner. Its attachments for Hemming, Braiding, Cording, Tucking, Quilting, Felling, Trimming, Binding, etc , are novel and practical, and have been in. vented and adjusted especially for this machine. New designs of the unique, useful and popular folding tops and cabinet cases, peculiar to the machines manufactured by this Company, have been prepared for enclosing the new Machine. A faint idea however, ean at best be giv through the medium of a (necessarily) limited a vertisement: and we therefore urge every perso in quest of a Sewing Machine by all means to ex amine and test, if they can possibly do so, all th lending rival machines before making a purchase A selection can then be made understandingly Branches or agencies for supplying the "Singer' Machines will be found in nearly every city and town throughout the civilised world, where machines will be cheerfully exhibited, and any information promptly furnished. Or communi cations may be addressed to THE SINGER MANUFACTURING CO. 458 Broadway, New York. PHILADELPHIA OFFICE, 1106 Chestnut Street. C. LOYER, Agent, Bedlord, Pa. Doct 11m QOOD NEWS FOR THE FARMERS 1 THE following kinds of THESHING MACHINES CONSTANTLY ON HAND AT THE MA CHINE SHOP OF P. H. SHIRES, BEDFORD, PA. TU Celebrated RAILWAY, or TREAD-POW ER Threshing Machines with all the latest and best improvements. ONE AND TWO-HORSE POWERS. The Two-horse Machine with two horses and four hands will thresh from 100 to 125 bushels of wheat or rye, and twice as much oats per day. ONE H< IRSEMACHINES with three bands, will thresh from 50 to 75 bush per day. Two and four-horse TUMBLING SHAFT Ma chines, also, four-horse STRAP MACHINES, STRA W SHA K ERS of the naoi approved kind at tached to all Machines. ALL MACHINES WAaItANTED. REP AIRING of all kinds of Machines done on the shortest notice. PIG METAL, GRAIN and LUMBER taken inpayment. Farmers' wanting Machines, will do well to give me a call. PETER H. SHIRES, Proprtttor and
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