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i -ct the wb-Je aui" int. i c*>etktr it hr tukri :'r-
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>'hc f il out of the r>*t Of/7 e. The iuw
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iii. vi::g a:.d baring tbeiu uncalie i ft>;, i> \
1 j - in r'ocia t'i<len"e i intenti--nal fraud.
ci 3|a#t<ss €anl6.
ATT OItN KY S AT LAW.
j JKX T. KVA'JV,
ATXOKXEY-AT-LAW.
Office oppo te Rocd &, Schtll's Da. k
< i ur<'given in English and (lertnan. [#pl2bl
; ' I MMELL AND LINGKNFELTEH,
iV
ATTORNEYS AT LAW, PKOKOHI). PA.
Hare formed a partnership in the practice of
!be La •* r , in new brick building near the Lutheran
1 kurch. [April 1, 1864-tf
| A. POINTS
ATTORNEY AT LAW, BeDFoRn, Pa.
Kc .• ternlvs L' pr'Tesrio'ial services
t-> the ruhlit . oTwi-h J. W. Lingcnfelter. I
!*, on Publ : luatc nt • l.urhoraa Church.
c ";c*tprjmptlr rua ie. '
>f. AT;SIP,
; j ATTORNEY AT LAW. Bknroßr*, PA.,
V/ill faithfnll y and promptly attend te all busi- |
;•= entru "e l to his eare in P.edford and adjoin- j
counties. Military clai uPensions, hack
■ *f, Bounty. Ac. speedily eo|leeted. Office with
Mann A Spang, on Juliana .nireet. 2 doors south ;
f the Mengel llou.-e. ipll, 1884.—tf.
I P., DUHItOUROW.
J . ATTORNEY \f I.AW,
BrBFORn, PA.. ;
Will attend promptly to ail business intrusted to
i- rare. Collections on the shortest no- i
lie .MsO, a regularly licensed Claim Agent |
idwl give peci.d attent.iin U- -lie prosecution
'in s againpt the (roreromrnt f ->r Pensions, j
I AT, Bounty, Bounty f.ands. if.
rice on Juliana street, one door S .th of the |
Sj. h. RDBKKLL H• l-ONG! • KCK KR I
i > USSELL A LOXG i:N E0 K E li.
I V ATTORTETS A < H >SELL&RS AT L.W, |
Bedford. I'a .
'' ill attend promptly and faithfully to all hu-i- |
ei 'msted to iheir < oe. Spe-al attention j
. veu to collections and the j.r -c. ution of ,
for Bafk J'ay, Boun'.y, Pens;< us. a
.jpgr-!ffice on Juli.ioa strc-t. south of the Court !
House. Apri'idyr. |
. M*D. SHIPPE '• f *K p -R i
Ct HARPS A KERR.
o A ri'OHSK YS- Ar- LA IV. j
Will practice in the Courts of Bt.dfor i and ad
::>insc eountie*.. Ml business er tru•t tl to their
Mre vrill receive cereful and prompt attention.
P-nsion, Bounty, Back Pay, Ac., speedily col- j
let ted from the Gorernment.
Office on Julians street, opposite The hanking .
bi use of Heed L ScdwlL Bedford. Pa- Wo&itt
P H Y SICI A N S .
Y ITM.l T M. \V. JAMISON, M. D.,
vv
IJf-OOX>y Rvs, t' a.,
Respectfully tenders his professional services to"
the people of that place and vicinity. [dec3:lyr
| \ R. B. F. HARRY,
Refpectfully lenders his professional ser
vices to the citizens of Bedford and vkiaity.
OfSee an 1 residence on Pitt Street, in the building
formerly occupied by Dr. J. H. Hofi'ii. [Ap'l 1,64.
MISCELLANEOUS.
OE. SHANNON, BANKER,
. BEDFORD, PA.
BANK OF DISCOUNT AND DEPOSIT.
Collection* made for the East, West, North and
So ttb, and the general bui*iue?e of Exchange j
Note* and Accounts Collected and
Remittances promptly made. REAL ESTATE
bought and told. feb22
f \ ANIEL BOHI>EK,
\ j PITT .STHEF. t , TWO doors WF.ST OF THI SSD
P( RD HOTEL, P.4.
WATCHMAKER AND DEALER IN JEWEL- i
RY. SPECTACLES. AC.
He keeps on hand a stock of one Gold and Stl- j
v*r Watches, Spectacles of Brilliant Double Refin
ed Glasses, also Scotch Pebble olasses. Gold ;
Watch Chain*. Breast Pins. Finger Rings, best I
quality of Gold Pns. He will supply to krder |
any thing in hi# line not n hand. [-pr.2B/65. j
Q P. 11 AII B AUGH & SO N ,
TraTelling Deaera in
N O T I O N S .
In the eouaty once every two month*.
S B L L GOODS AT CITY PRICES.;
Agents for the Charabersburg Woolen Manufac- i
taring Company. Apl l:ly
T \ W. CROl; SE ,
\~J • prU KR ts
CIGARS, TOBACCO, PICKS, AC.,
f)n Pitt street one d > r east o. Geo. 1%. Ost* r
A Co.'s Store. Bedford, Pa., is now prepared
to tell by whole-ale *1! -tin.ls of CIGARS. All
orde r promptly filled. Persons desiring anything
in hi* line will d . well to give him * cull.
Bedford Oct 20. 65.,
tVf ASHINGTt>N HOT! I.
This lurge and commodious bou>e. having been
re taken by the subscriber, is m w open for the re
ception of visitors and boarder*. The rooms are
large, well ventilated, and comfortably furnished. 1
The table will always be supplied with the best
the n arket can afford. The Bar is stocked with
the choicest liquors. In shrt. it is my purpose
to keep a FIRST CLASS HOTEL. Thanking
the public for past favors. I rcspoetfully solicit a
renewal of their patronage.
N. B. Hacks will run constantly between the
Hotel and the Springs.
mayl7/67:iy WM. DIBERT, Prop r.
BLOODY run
MA R BLE WORKS.
R. H. Si PES having established a manufactory
of Monument*, Tomb-atoßet, T*b!c-Tops, Coun
ter-slabs, Ac., at Bloody Run. Bedford co., Pa.
and having on hand a well selected stork of for
eign and American Marble, is prepared to fill ah
orders prempily and do work in a neat an<i work
manlike style, and on the most reasonable terms
All work warranted, and johs delivered to ail part*
of this and adjuining counties without extra
apllVbly.
CELLING OFF AT COST!
READY-MADE CLOTHING,
CASSIMERES. HAT.- A ( APS, j
JOHN LI TZ, £tUbf 4iml i'rttjtrit tor.
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JOIIS LI TZ. <
1 lioral anh Scnetal JlrUispaprr, Drhotrb to Golitirs, tPburation, Kitcyaturr anb ITtorals.
TihlV\l,
tup: fatal Afiiton.
BY lUCB CARY.
M* father had a fair-haired harvester ;
I "leaned la hud birn iu liu-' barley land ;
And there he tu' a rod rose in my hand:
O ciuel, killiuu ii-av. . those rose leaves were!
He rung to me a iiitle iovrlwn lay,
Learot d of so :e bird: and while his sickle
swept
Athwart the shining stalks, ray heart Uopt
Li. a'iig the tune up with him all the way. '
One time we rested by a limpid stream.
O'er which the lot se tungued willows
whispered low;
Ah blessed hi ui ! so long and long ago.
It Cometh back upon me like a dream.
And the r e lie told ine, bludting snft —all me!-
Ol one that be could love, —so youug, eo
fair,
Like mine the coirr of her eyea and hair j
0 foolish heart ! It! ught that I was she !
Full flowed his manly beard; his eyes so
b.owo
Made sweet confession with their tender
- look;
A thousand times I kissed him iu the
brook,
Acr ss the flowers, with bashful eyelids
down.
And even yet I cannot hear the stir
Of willows by aw ater but I e!o ( >,
And down the warm wavis :: 'ivir length
1 drop
My empty arms, to tiud my batvester.
In all his spn ch there was no woid to mend;
\Yt .ie'er he said, r right or wrong, was
best,
Until at last an arroic pierced my breast,
1 i; t with a lalal oomt,— he calied me friend!
Still next my heart the fading rose I wore,
1 i ;t ail So sad; full Well I knew, (rod Wot,
i hat 1 had been in h.ve and he bad not,
And in the barley-field I gleaned no more.
—Atlantic Monthly.
§1 teffUmuw.
H01..11 KN AND LOWELL.
A r- een; number of Casst ll's Ma-az tu
coar a'-us a fine article on "Atucii-.in Ha
ttiOi'.s's at d Sitirist.-," front which we >e
-1 ef n lew jias-asn - on Holmes and L >wcil.
w 1 ich shows tin i'pptn i .lion of the genius
of tlic.-c !i adit g hutttori: ts of America :
"In many re.-pceti- very cilferent men.
Holmes and 1. well tc-euihle - rch other in
ti c i mi! ors'iee end the refinement of theii
hue,or. Rotli nre men of the highest
rcli la-tic cuUoie; both have that in
vnluaLle ci I—a keen npptcc'atii it of' char
actor, especially it- humorous side, and a
maTTfliotis ab'Uiy in portraying it: both arc
pbilusOi hers, s- well as pee-a and hum-) -
i t-; itath shine iu coßversatioa, and, un
-:k>: Go d-utirh arc s- s; a kling ai l b illiant
at tald".-r in the tnci*} ci vic, a- in the
pagi - of the Atlantic; loth arc in the very
prime -,-f .it'.-, in the full v:_- r alike of hod;,
and intellect, when th harvest of the mind
is rich st and most plentiful.
" Toe publication of the Autocrat of the
!>:c;.kf.t-T -bit was an event in Auicricai.
'.i' ratuu*. No work, pe-baps since Ir
v Sketch Book had so tleurly proved
the it iiucnii-iit and maturity in literatme of
whi- h Amciiea wa eat able. . . . The
author's iujpf.taou- humor fairly gallop-,
dev-!t.; iug mote arid more in uccft-ding
parages, until tin richness and quaintne.--
a'most cxhamt the reader. Its plan and
style arc just the, vehicle., to convey
Holmes's fun iar ten. H>- is one of
tho c wiif-rs win) seemingly wsi:e with
perfect ea- . whose thought* serut to well
up as fa.-t as he can gather them, and to
pour theni-elvPr, almost sttontaneously, and
with the happiest garb of wools, U( on the
page-, before him.
"One bcau'y of the Auio.'rat counts in
its entire irii'ej endet e of method and con
tinuity. Tic writer rambles hither and
thither, with no apparent connection be
tween his th lues, discoursing now gravely,
now gayly, ii '.v funnily, now naively, now
teaching great ti.oral or physical truths,
anon lashing, wiih good humored vigor
the short comti ts of society, then bursting
iuto beautiful verses, now painting a
gorgeous descriptive picture—passing, in
deed, from one subject to another with the
same ease and not nnna'tiral abruptness
wliich c!.a ' eter i.M bre •kfast-table con
versation. Throughout there runs a genial,
! gentle current, which iiresistaWy attracts
one to the author's identity. His wit is
never bar-h or cynical. Then is- a pleasant
vanity which, far front repelling, draw- out
1 front the reader a yet more distinct sym
pathy; while on every page, there is ample
evidence h'ow full of sentiment, tenderness,
and imaLrination —warm, Lr :d, and | ro
lific —the writer is. There are exquisite
little glimpses of character peeping out
suddenly now and then, of the hoarder.--
aliout the breakfast table; and ti ere is
enough sentiment to draw the inattentive
reader unconsciously on into the more sober
parts wherein, before he knows i. he t>
wrapt in superb description, or receiving
rules for guidance in every-day life. . .
' Ho in sat the age of lit' l y nine, is a
little aetive man, with large, bright eye , a
perpetual, smile upon hi- rounu, j> \ iai face,
1 a \uukce briskness in evciy movement, a
cheerful word always on bis hps, a witty
sally ready for all occasion*—it w uhl be
haid to find a more attractive companion or
warmer fiietid. Above the snobbi.-hneaa
! aud singularity of pretem ions gerdus, he is
quite accessible, and receives the curious
and admiring stranger with the saute bright
affability which he displays everywhere and
always. . . .
"To James Bussell Lowell, however, be
longs the rank of the prince if American,
humorists. It is sufficient to prove his
right to that title to say that to him litera
ture owe* the Biglow Papers. If you would
bate a portrayal of the rustic Yankee char
acter —the genuine Jonathan from the
country, young and old; the typical c. untrv
and prosperous, newspaper reading, politics
d: co-sing, iwtic-phUos- phiou n.er, in
ad the ec vr.tiicify, dry wit. quaint thoughts
aim > • or sion . s ron r rtstlve shrewdness,
<' ; ■ it ■ • :.i. '< < f looking at a
- ' .■ .. i,-, .1 1 heartily
.0 lb tatUsh it-- of the iltitll utai Big
: >a. \JU fvl vui wlj a i-acting this
thoroughly \:p conn try' vernacular, that it
IS, lie . t rtjjcics.-, tin production oi a scholar,
a philosopher, and a humorist of the high
est refi. emeiit. C'oar.-erits* arid gross ex
ate wlii.fy wwtirg. . . .
BEDFORD, PA.. FRIDAY, MARCH 19- IBG9.
Under the homely, humorous garb of ruatic
expression—in it si-If marYellously true to
nature and illustrative of Yankee character
—politics and philosophy are di-cua.t d,
arid opinions forcibly snstainrrd or bitterly
satirized. . . .
"A•• Professor of Literature in Harvard
Ui.lv triiy. Low< 1! is renowned for the
richness of language and humor of the
lectures which i. is I n ta-k to de!ivtr to
the senior class. All ;he characteristics of
the e ley ant scholar and the keen satin-' ap
pvai in these discourses. . . . He is a
k t-u lover of lotti r.-, and has for them a
pure ii.ti llfctuai affet tion. He. is espetiaily
familiar with English literature, at d with
the gfi at French, Gentian, and Dalian
authors. Ha is a master of correct, ele
gant. ana forcible English, an-1 seeois to be
equally at. home in prose snd verse. . .
"L ke Dr. Holmes, Professor looweil is tn
the piimo of vigorous and active manhood,
and lias preserved the buoyancy and en
thu- a-m of hi.- youth, alike in his person
n f in his nrcntal energies."
I Hi; XIHOSE IN MAINE.
We fiiiJ the following accouut of the
moose ffotii that excellent agricultural and
farmitig journal, the Maine Fanner, pub
li-hed at Augusta, which we ate sure will
be read w.th interest:
TLie noble auiuial is an inhabitant of this
Siute, but its native location is much more
extensive than is generally supposed. North
ot 4'J degrees they arc found across the en
tire continent, L ing very numerous in the
Northern R icky Mountains. Maine, New-
B unswiek ami Lower Canada are among its
favorite places ot abode. Tltey are the lar
gest of the doer tribe. Few persons in
Maine realize what a noble animal ranges
our forests, some of which vie almost w th
the horse iu siz--. Like all the deer family
they are lutuiuating animals, and in summer
wh> n their hair is short and glosay, th >•
appear very handsome; though their head
ha- a heavy lo k which is disfigured by a
clumsy up; er lip, approaching in appearance
that of the horse. They are exceedingly
finid. We saw one partially tamed several
years since, and though he had been kept
for months in a stable with a horse, yet
when taken into the street he seemed ter
ritdy frightened as he saw a walking
through the streets —Hence die nioosc
hunter finds it necessary to approach them
igairist the wind. The breaking of a twig
will arouse them. In winter the hair is long
and coar-c, within which is a fine, thick
coat of wool. An old moose has a long,
u.-hy tuft undi r the jaw-.
The moat remarkable object of attention
in the moose is bis huge anilet-. which stem
t>beapi -it inisinv-f niems" to the progre s
of the an teal among trees, but he turns
theiu buck upon bis shoulders End trots
a'ong wi-h stately gait and with great
-j.eed amoug the trei-s. They never gallop
nor leap, but practice a long trot.
Hunt -is think much of moose meat. Tie
-vak i> ttsuady coaiw though when in good i
• once iuicv. The nose and
One lie are considered great d. lie scics. The
Indians who lived in the vicinity of the ;
w; ire- considered it a uio-t de.-iiable pies- j
ent to their white u-ighbors wlo-n they |
c old bring in a nose and tongue of a moose.
Th- age of the moose is generally re kon- !
ed by the numh'-r of points on hk horns, j
-ome of which have as many as twenty
three, which indicate their age in years.
Tneir antl-rs weigh, sometimes as high as
-eventy-pound ■. They hed these every
year, usually commencing in D -c-'inber- It .
is a.-tonishing with what rapidity these ant- !
lers will grow.
In the winter season they retire to the
in >rc mountainous region, w;i re they are
•aid to "yard." An abundance of hard
wood trees furnish them with food, and they
do not It ave tin ir yard unless di-turbed, ro
long as food is abundant.
Mi os hunting when the snow is deep
and covered with eru.-t is very exciting.
When started from their yard, the male
goes first, an 1 the others follow in his tracks
so exactly that a stranger would auppose
• here wil only one moose. It is said that
ihey sometimes in their flight go through
other yards, when they all fall in and travel
in single file. Itssprod is so great that an
Indian has putsued one three hundred uiilet
before overtaking hint. Generally if hotly
pursued and not overtaken the first day,
they lay d iwn alter running a short distance
and are so stiff the in xt day that they ate
-asily brought to hay by small dog".
Various attempts have been made to do
me-ticate them. They have been harnesseif
into a sleigh and drivi n with great speed,
but there are times when they are perfectly
unmanageable.—Their timid nature forbids
tit ir general use.
The d-strucliou of moose and deer in this
State ha- bei n most wanton within a few
years. A law is needed forbidding their
s aughter lor ten or fifteen jeats, whin they
would again rapidlv increase.
HAN ANAS.
Any one who recollects the importance
a - go d by the late Mr. Ruckle to bananas,
as an element of the focal of many will read
with interest the following extract we clip
from a letter to the Philadelphia Ledger,
front Brazil :
The mo.-t wonder.'ul production of this
nd ail tropical countries, in uiv estimation,
is the banana and i's synonym, the plantain.
We have half a dozen varieties, each with
peculiar tlav.tr and qualities. Some grow
only eight or ten feet high, others twenty.
The stalks are front six to twelve inches
thick, hut almost as soft and succulent as
celery. Each of them bears a bunch of
bananas, and only one, when it is cut down
with a stroke of the spade to secure the fruit
and give place to other stalks; and so they
grow and ripen perpetually all the year round.
A gr-at traveler has calculated that the
phiiutain on one acre of ground, will pro
duce as much food as one huodtcd and
thirty three acres of wheat, or forty four of
p titoes. i'hts fo.ti the principal reliance
of the poor an J a luxury for all. It is good
raw. roasted, baked ami indeed in every
form: and is equally relished by all domesti
cated fowls and animals wh : ch devour fruit,
leaves, stalks and all with gicat avidity. It
requires but a single planting for a lifetime;
putting in the ground a single sprout from
the banana patches at a distance of twenty
or thitty feet from each oiher, and on
g.oiiud that is aiwijs calculated to spare lor
toe purpose, leca tse it is impossible to ex
tirpate tbe root. Th.'one it ek gives more
—spring u g out fioiii tbe rides in the ground
perpetually, and in a few years covering the
interveu.og spaces, tiil the whole surface
becomes a fan st of fruit and foliage; will
scarcely room to pass through the cool over
bang tog arches. A banana or a banana
patch is a beautiful sight, with the stalks
and their produce in all stoges ot perfection
the broad leaves waving in the hrc ze and
fanning in lazy rep- se, while the bodies of
the trees bend und<-r th- ir luscious burdens
an iwi :l i.fren bis uk down th iL- weigh'
cxce( t ftom :he r.eighl-jrirg support. Theie
re a bun I-. -1 or iwo of lw,, ,ri.i -or u I t:ti.rh
like grapes-, and the bt.nch s are generally
as much as a siout man can carry. Titty
should always bs cut as soon a- the fruit is
matured—but while the skin is yet green—
and hung up in the shade to turn yellow,
which improves the flavor. It takes about
a year for ataika and fruit, to mature from
the first planting, but then there is never
any more trouble with the crop—scarcely
any hoeing or working; no culture—only
slay snd eat. Certainly it i, thegreatest
boon ever bestowed c.n the indolent tiopics.
A native swinging in his hummock, with a
bunch of ripe bananas hanging in reach on
the one side and a smouldering fiic on the
other, by which he may light his little cigar
without getting up, is a most perfect picture
of contentment.
SAVED BY A COMPASS AND A
FIREFLY.
In Mr. Barton's very iiii.eretiug account
of the "Invention of the Compass," iu Our
Young Fol/.s for February, is the following
curious story told him by a Lake Cham plain
boatman :
"He said he had been a prisoner for elev
en months in Andersonvil'.e during the late
war, and when he heard that General Sher
man was at Atlanta, about two hundred and
forty miles distant, he and his comrades de
termined to try and escape, and make their
way thither. One of them had an old fash
ioned watch with a compass in the back of
it; and by this they expected to direct their
course, which was ccarly northwest. Rut.
as they expected to travel only by night,
they resolved not to start until they could
get a box of matches, so as to he able to
atrike a light now and then, to lock at their
compass. They delayed their d< parture for
six weeks, trying to get a box of matches,
for the purchase of which they gave one ot
•heir negro friend* their la-t five dollar hil:
He could not buy a box of matches fir
five dollars, nor for any other number of
dollars, and so -at last th.-y made up theii
minds to start without then).
"Assisted by their black friend, they go
away one afternoon, and lay hidden unti
late in the evening, when they started a'
grrat pace through the woods, and canit
about midnight to a road which seemed t.
go, as nearly u-they could guess, exactly
northwest. Seemed, I say; hut it uii-ht
not, and, if it did not, it would lead ttuui
to captuic and death. The night vv--, noi
very dark, but the star- w. re i idden by
clouds; else the friendly North Star would
have guided them upon their way. A x
ion.- a- they were to get on, tiny stoe-i fin
several minute-comparing recollection-, arm
dt'iMKl€(l the pk.'.N4l fiawti' *! wu Tni
lives depended. Rut, the more they talked
it over, the more uncertain they Ic -ime;
ari l now they hit erly regictti d tin ir iuij a
tienee in coming away without matches.
' Th-re were a grr at number of fire fiie.-
flying about. A lucky thought occurred to
one of them, —the boatman who told us the
stoiy. He caught a firefly, and taking it
between his thumb and fitiatr, held it evt
bis compass. Imagine their joy to find il a
the insect gave th.eni plenty of light for theii
purpose; and imagine their 'till great r joy
to discover that the read led straight to thi
Union army. Eight nights of ttavr!
brought them safely to it."
Adtniiahle invention! I ofiou wondei
that a thing to valuable can be so small, situ
pie, and cheap. It is nothing fut a nsed'c,
a pivot, and a card, which you can buy fot
half a dollar, and carry in your pocket, o>
dangle at the end of a watch chain. Yet.
small and trifling as it is, a ship's company
that should find themselve in the middle ol
the Ocean without a compass would consid
er it a great favor to be allowed to buy one
lor many thousand dollar.-.
"NO KUOM FDR LOAFERS."
These words recently met our eyes as we
passed a workshop. "No room for loaf
er?." Sure enough, there is no room for
1-alers anywhere in this working world.
They are not .vanted in the busy workshop,
nor in the editor's sanctum ; they arc a
nuisance in the country store, spitting and
spewing about the stove, and at the post
office and street corners, are in everybody's
way. They are forever out of place—except
when in the almshouse or jail. A dead
weight upon society, they are a hindrance
and a bore. They form no part of nature's
plan ; it abhors them, as it does a vacuum.
While all the world is going forward, they
are standing still, or rather gliding imper
eeptiblv backward into seedy vagabondism,
A loafer soon grows rusty. It is only use
which keeps our faculties bright, and the
idle man gets dull, stupid, stolid arid muddy
headed.
Yet some ol these fellows st-em to think
very well of themselves. You will see th. tu
strutting alonir the sunny side of the Street,
lounging at the corners, or hanging aluut
the doors of the hotels, with fine cloihet
upon their hacks, and a well sati>fi<*d smirk
upon their vacant countenances. Ihe poor
creatures look upon a poor working man as
a iteing of an inferi r ord- . ! No doubt the
drones affect to des; i e the busy bee, until
thev are driven Ir in the hive to starve,
while the workers 1 :-t i ; ti the honey. A
loafer setting him-el! a' nve the man who
labors with his Italic s! M by, he is as far
beneath him as, in the order ot creation,
the sloth is beneath the common hor.-e. A
young mechanic, in his working dress, and
with his tools in his hands, is every way a
more agreesble object than the best dressed
loafer in exitance. There is always room
for him. He is never out of place, for he is
keeping step with the movement of the uni
verse. He has an aim, a porj o-c, and he
stands for something. His faculties are
trained to use, and he is of caluc to the
world for what he can do. The skilled
workman is to the idle man what the manu
factured article is to to the raw material.
He has an additional value above that of
mere manhood.
A NEW Orleans jury declared a man to
nave come to his death by ' an unknown
cart." About on a par with this is the
Philadelphia verdict respecting a man who
had been crushed todtaih in a mill, when
the jury remarked. "No blame call be at
tached to the machinery."
Mono lake-ax unihppled sua.
Mono Lake lies ten miles southwest of
the dividing line between California u d
N' Vuda, and is about fouUeon miles long
and nine wide. It has c vcr b> n sounded, j
hut a trial s-ajd to have bt'eu made wiih a
line of three hundrvd feet failed to reach |
bottom. By chemical analysis a gallon of!
the water, weighing eight pounds. wj !
found to eunfain 1,200 grains of suli! ma'
ter, consi-ting principally of Huori bo! o
dium, carbonate of soda, sulphate g: .-• Js,
borax and silica.
The-e substances ren for w: - e ■ j
acid and nauseating that n is i.rfit for
drinking or even bathing. L-aiher im
mersed in it is soon dt.stio.ved by i's co.to- 1
-ive properties, and no animal, not even a
li-h or frog, can exist in the water for more
than a short time. The only thing able to
five within or u|njri the waters of this lake
is a species of fly, which, springing from
larvas bred in its bosom after an ephemeral
life, dies, and. collecting on (he surf toe, ts ;
drifted to the slioie, where the remains col i
lcet in vast quantities, and art fed upon bv 1
the ducks or gathered by tlie Indians, with
whom tht y are a staple article of food.
Nestling under the eastern water-shed of
the Sierra, Mono lake receives several con
siderable tributaries; and although destitute
of any out : et. such is the aridity of the at j
tnosphere that it is always kept at nearly a
uniform level by the process of evaporation, j
So dense and sluggish is the water rendered j
through supcrsaturation with various salts
and other foreign matter that only the
strongest winds raise a ripple on its sur
face. As the Sierra in this neighborhood
reaches nearly its greatest altitude, the
scenery alout Mono Lake is varied at-d
majestic, some parts of it beintr at the same
'ime marked by a most cherries- and deso
late aspect.
The bitter and fatal waters of this lako
tcnder it literallv a dead sea, and a'! its
surroundings—wild, gloomy and forbidding
—are suggestive of sterility and death.
The decomposing action of the water i
-hown by its effect upon the bodies of a com
pany of Indians, twenty or thirty in nuui
her, w'to, while seeking to escape from
pursuers, took refuge in the lake, where
they were shot by their enemies, who left
them in the water. In the course of a few
wt-i ks not a vestige of their bodies was to
b seen, even the bone 3 having been dec m
posed by this powerful solvent. Mineral
urio-iiies abound in the neighborhood o
Mono Lake, an ting which are numbcrles-
L positions in the shape of tiny pir.e trefs.
FNt;I.INIJ WOMEN AT HOME.
A writer iu the last number of Harpei '.-
Mmi thiy gives a picture of I ome life among
he Eng'ish working people that is nm
grateful to Au.eriean notions of women's
work :
' The inferior position ■ 1' English women
i- first apparent to a foreigner in a variety
of little details. Returning front 3D eaih
morning ride, he nonces the cottages of th
_ .M-,. ~1. L„ ROO.LDM TI;P *O
mm are up and about, making fires, cnrr>
•ng the coal--, opening the house, while tin
men are still snoring soundly. 1 should !ik>
ro see an American husband wait for his
wife, or an American son for his mother, t
pet form these matutinal function?. If h
w-re net speedily Ixwiggtd by his own
-letter half, a more ,-erious punishment
wou'd be adjudged him by a vigilance com
mittec of neighboring houst-wives. Oi
breakfast i being prepan d, ami jou notic
the women buttering the br ad so as to save
thr-tr lords and masters the slightest unnec
e sary exertion. An American husband
micht eat dry bread forever if he were un
willing to butter it himstlf. Then yon
catch -ight of a woman on her knees kc-tif.
or unlacing a man's tools. Fo n enil a er
vice would reandalize llic lest Ameiiian
wives. If'an Englishman wants apije. il i.-
the womaa who fills it and hands hint a
light; if his pot need replenishing, it is the
woman who procures and pours out the ale:
if there be an errata to be di ne, it is the
woman who trots off while the man loafs oi
rests at home. In short, English women
belonging to what are called the lower class
es are evidently the servants of the men,
while in America the men are a- evidently
rite servants of the woman, oi.lr the latter
-crvic", being that of the strirg.-rto th<-
weaker, never seems like terviis.de. even in
j ihe humblest families; hut take* the nob.'et
! form of politeness, solicitude and duty.
ASSASSINATION BY AIR-GENS-.
The numerous instances of finding u:cn
prone upon the most | uhlic streets of the
Eastern cities, injured, as by a bullet, al
though neither the vke : rj to r any other
person had heard th-; discharge of any
firearm, so far as could he ascertained, ha
eaused the suggestion to be made that air
guns have been brought into requisition.
According to the authorities, this is a
weapon "resembling a uruskef, for the pur
pose of discharging missiles by means of
compressed air. It consi-ts of lock stock,
barrel and ramrod. The stock i.- made hol
low, and provided with proper cocks for
filling it with compressed air by means of a
force pump.. Mac!) lock is nothing but a
valve which lets in the barrel a porti- n of
the air compressed irt the stock, when the
trigger is pulled. The gun is loaded with<
wadding and ball, in the ordinary way, and
the air suddenly introduced from the stock
propels it with a velocity proportional to
the square root of the degree of the com
pression of the air."
By this weapon a person may be killed at
a distance of sixty or eighty yards. Later
improvements give it a propelling force
almost equal to the old fashioned musket.
Its chief advantage to criminals is its noise
less discharge. The victim may be singled
out in a crowd by a fcr-on standing con
cealed in an upper window, and if the aim
is accurate, perforated by a bullet, without
any chances of detection, excepting those
indicated by t.n;;les and direction. Indeed,
the body might fall in ,-uch a manner as to
indicate conditions entirely different from
tho-e which are re*'. Whether or not this
theory is correct, it is evident that the in
genuity of crime keeps pace with :he most
approved detective methods.
A REPORTER recently lost a first class
iteui by want of forethought, according to a
Boston paper. A young man attempted to
jump from a train of cars which was ap
proaching that city, and the Kuight of the
Pencil, with an eye to business, imprudcut
iy requested his nauic, age, occupation and
tcsidence, lor an obituary item. The young
man concluded not to jump.
VOL. 42: NO. II
Do HOT SWALLOWGRAPE SEED.—GTAPE
seeds, cherry pit.- ami the iik . are in-.,!u1/e
in ntiy and all the juices u*rd in tbe pr cess
of digestion; they uio-t therefore pass from
the body in il.e same slate in which they are
swallowed. In their passage along the ali
mentary cant! they cannot but in Joe
mora or l-*- irritation, and if the dig' stive
organ- aye stall week they must of nce-sty
cause great t i*t uibancc; being hard. almost
iike iitiii stores, they scrape along otcr the
wvli'-at ttU< OBH lneiubranc wLich line th
s'oDtfi h ami bowleg, and frequently lodge
in he <o .* o( the intestines, or become iui
icUdcd in the d-Itcate lining, and cauae:
u'c rati n- and turn factious of the bowel*,
which tt ty result in death. A friend jus'
te l.* uie of* young man who, heving can
a quantity of grapes, became ill, suffered in
tensely, was unable to get relief from any
source, arid finally died. An examination
di*e!ost-d a large quantity of cherry pits im
bedded m tbe lowlcs, together with about
a half a pint of grape seeds, which had com
pleted the Work of death.—Mr*. L>. Miller.
EDUCATE YOURSELF.—' The New York
Sun i- nrginc wm kinsmen to cultivate the
intellect, and become as intelligent and well
informed as any other me rubers of society.
"It is surprising (savs the editor) how
much may be obtained by devoting a few
hours cell day to study, during a -cries ot
years. Gibbon produced hi* groat work
rather b the regularity than the protracted
nature of his daily studies. Franklin be
came the wisest and one ot the best read of
hi* cote in) or arte* in the mid-t of incessant
labor. And if the workman, with hi.*
healthful mind so well prepared for the re
ception o! knowledge, will give two hour
each day to careful study, he may, in a few
years, eurpa.*.- ;n general information th
great majority of college graduates, who o
of'en obtain a diploma without deserving
ir, or who have laid a-ide their learning the
moment they left their preceptors. He may
elevate his own intellect by coming into com
munion with the eminent intellects of tbe
past."
To CURE A COLD. —The folh wing i*from
Halls Journal ol Health: "The moment a
man is sa:i*fied that he has taken cold, Jot
him do three things: First, eat nothing;
second, go to bed, cover up, in a warm
room: third, drink as much cold water a
he can. or a* he want-, or a much herb tea
a* he can, anJ in three cases out of' four he
will b well in thirty-six hour*. To neglect
•i cold for forty-eight hour* after the cough
commences is to place himself beyond cure,
until the cough has run its course of abuut
fortnight. Warmth and abstinence an
-afe, certain cure*, when applied early.
Warmth keeps th" pores of the -kin open
srid relives it of tbe siirplu- which opprt-a.*-
cd it, while a'"tinence cuts off the supply
of material for phlegm, which would otLcr
wi c la? coughed up.
THE wicked *t woman in Ka:.kakc, Id.,
became -uch a nui-ar.ee that the Common
Council VI.T !T. . * UVW J. .-. •<> -..4 I. .
fare, if she w u'd marry and emigrate. She
.greed, and this was the ceremony, a- | er
ornri : by a police Justice: —"Jim, you do
agree to take Molly, and live with her, an l
go to (.'hey tune w.th her, and stay with her.
egardk - of law and tn.*< quences? "
Vis." "Molly, y-.n do agree to take Jim.
and live with hint, and go to Cheyenne will
hint, and stay with him regaidle** of law
and consequences?" "Yes." "Then I
give you thc.-e two railroad tickets, and or
dcr you to stay there until tbe Yigilanc-
G oumittee doth hang you both. Amen.'
THE amount of blood in an adult is ncaily
30 pounds, or fu'l one fifth of the entire
weight. The heart is-ix inches in lengih
•and four inches in diameter, and Li ats 70
• uies per miuute, 4200 times per hour, 100,-
8 KJ times per day, 36,772,000 times per year
2 565,440,G00 in threescore and ten, and ai
< avh beat two and a half ounces of bloo 1 are
thrown out of it, one hundred and seventy
five ounces per minute, six hundred and
fifty six pounds jer hour, seven and three
fourths ton* per day. All the blood in the
body pas.es through the heart every three
minutes.
A NEWLY inducted policeman spotted a
richly dr< -sed lady in a dry poods tore, on
suspicion of rhop-lifting. "You arc my
prisoner,'he said, laying hi* hard on hei
shoulder. "What do you nit an? ' deman
ded the insulted lady. "What's tLat you've
got on your back —sto'en goods? """Heaven!
I n ver was eo insulted. No, air, it is not
stolen goods." "I mean no offense, madam
but toy duty compels me to examine
it." "T-ir—i.lain —that'.- my —uiv Gicciaa
bend 1"
tiilonT dre.->ca are good tilings for the
shoemakers and bad for the doctors. The
ladies buy and w. r better shoes, and the
doctors re pott a tiotieeable decline in disease*
among women coming fiont cold, damp feet.
When long garments trevailtd. women were
veiy careless in this respect, often wearing
thin aud broken shoes, at d this, together
with the dampness always clinging to their
long skirts brought on illness, which not
unfrcijuently terminated fatally.
SELF help is the tiest help in the world ;
when once a man apt lies to it lie wiii not
readily apply to any other help. A work
msn if ho devotes himself to the special duty
of making his home happy, and of improv
ing hi* coudition. will soon rai-e bimseli
above what demagogues call the oppressed
classes.
WHEN a man says he received a blessing
under a lermon, 1 begin to inquire who this
man is who speaka of the help he has re
ceivcd. Tbe Roman people proved the
effect they received under a sermon of An
tony when they flew to avenge the death of
Cm T. HidhrrforJ.
HE SEES, AND I SEE.—A boy fills his
t ire, and be sees only the tobacco; but I see
going into that pipe brains, books, time,
health, money, prospects. The pipe is filled
at last, and a light is struck; and things
which arc priceless are carelessly puffed
away in smoke.
THE latest case ofab-ence of mind is that
of a gentleman whom an acquaintance found
marking his paper collars with indelible ink.
The visitor made no remark until the job
when he inquired in a sepul
cbra *oiee. "But will they wash?" This
woke up the dreamer to wttrldly things.
RATES OF ADVERTISING.
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centa per tins for narh insertion. Spci !notice
one-half additional. Ail rttaolntiana of Aaaocia
liona, communications of a limited or iadiridai
interest and notice of marriages and deaths, el
ect ling five lines, 10 eta. per line. All legal noti
ces of every kind, and ail Orphans' Coort and
.■ther Judicial aales, are required bv law to be pub-
I i :tci in b'b papers. Editorial Notice® 15 cents
per line. AH Advertising d-i* afterfirst insertion.
A liberal discount made to jearly advertisers.
3 monts. 8 months. 1 jear
One square $ t.M 98 On 910.08
Twe squares 8.00 9.00 18.08
Tbree sqaaros 8.00 12.00 10.08
line-fourth column 14.00 20.00 35.08
II tlf column 18.00 25.00 45.08
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ITEMS.
THE 3ir<ounf of the United States bonds
h IJ by citizens of Luh<ck, tnortJy men of
-xuali TIN an*, is MI large that one banking
' JU-C in that city receives, every six
months, upwards of seventy-five thousand
d ill .rs' worth of Unit d States coupon*.
S- m>. idea of lb - maeniiud - of the Amer
ican Cattle Trade may be derived from the
'••llowing facs, gleaned from the R port of
the Department of Agriculture for Jatiuary:
]> eves ret- ived in New York. 1193.101.
B-evcs received in Chicago, 108.537.
]' eves r>'c -ived in St. Louis, 40,000.
11- eves rtccivid in Boston, 118,000.
Total consumption iri four cities, 559,-
038 # .
THE net pubic debt was reduced nearly
' ven million* last mon'h. Deducting the
- lilway bonds, the to'al was $2,491,399,-
■>>4.3B. Making the same deduction from
the preceding report, the net reduction,
j including those bond* from both months,
i w-.- nearly thirteen milliona of dollars, or
••it two millions in excess of tbe month's
--t: ■ • {'bonds to those corporations.
THE annual report of the Pennsylvania
Slate Lunaric Hospital conveys some inter
e-ting information. The statistics show
that of 1,4 V; in- ine male.-, 471 are farmers,
401 laborer*, 23 blacksmith*, 35 carpenters,
43 merchant*, 10 physicians, and 7 printers.
Ol women, 535 were housewives, 54 daugh
ter* of farmers, 90 domestics and 254 no oc
cupation, the whole number being 1,073.
THE sprouts of the potato contain as alka
loid termed by chemists solanine, which is
very ; oisonous it taken in'o the syßtetn.
This does not exist in the tubers, unless they
are exposed to the light and air, which
-ometimes occurs from the accidental re
moval of the earth in cultivation. A potato
that shi w* a blackish-green tint on one aide
should never be cooked for the table or fed
to stcek.
THE counterfeit swindlers are now located
in Illinois. They send a note to tbeir vic
tim, inclosing a genuine twenty-five cent
piece of postal currency as a "sample ' and
offer to sell the same at counterfeiter's
prices. The victim tries it at a bank, and
find* it a sure thing and safe. He sends on
£lO to S3O for four times tbe amount in
counterfeits. That is the !a*t he hears of
the matter.
LUXEMBOURG, it was decided by the Lon
don Conference of 1 **o7, should belong neith
er to Fiance, nor Prussia, but no provision
u- made to enforce the decree. The fortifi
cations al-o were to be demolished by the in
habitants, but the rate of progress of the
work was not prescribed. The inhabitants,
however, it is staled, have appropriated the
-am of $7.50 per week to cariy on the de
ui( 1 tion of the fortresses, and it is cakula
'idthat it will take about two thousand
years to complete the leveling of the walls.
TANNING. —It ha* liven discovered rrcent
l„. r. .L . l- ~A w alnuui "*JI
adapted for the tanning of hide* as the bark,
and that almost any kind will answer the
purpose. The principal point to be attend
ed to is to make use of wood cut when it is
full of sap, as thereby the greatest amount
of tannin is scouted. The wood may be
used without the baik, or wood and bark
may be giound up together and applied in
ihe u-ual method.
WOLFE, Ophthalmic Surgeon for the
royal infirtuatory, Scotland, reports curing
several ca-e of cancer by applying caustic
arrows. which he inserted in deep, broad
punctures into the diseased part. As many
a* five arrow* ware used at one time. This
iicid destroyed the vitality of the morbid
growth in three days, when it came away.
The wound should be treated hy water
dressings. lie reports that this treatment
gave no pain, which, if true is a most re
maikable circumstance.
THE jopulation of Boston is estimated at
two hundred and forty thousand. Of this
number one third are Catholics, who have
ample church accommodations. There are
one bundled and twenty places of religious
worship for the non-Catholics, who number
Hue hundred and sixty thousand. Of these
thirty-two are free churches, scattered
throughout the city and dividtd among the
leading denominations. Ot the eighty-eight
other Boston churches, not more than one
in ten is ever crowded at the regular servi
ces,
INDIANA. —It is reported that crime pre
vails to an extraordinary extent in Indiana,
in con*cquence cf the failure of the authori
ties to enforce the laws. Twenty-one mur
ders in ten Jays in a State with a population
of s million and a half is a-serted to be some
thing frightful, and the condition of affairs
• xceeds that of any of the Southern States
—even Texas itself. In ten of these cases
only were the murderers arrested; io five
others they were known to the authorities,
but escaped, and in six cases the assassins
arc not known.
A SINGULAR instance of the absurdities
of charitable bequests is furnished in Lon
don, where some hundred years ago some
g<-< d old soul left a house and garden in the
city as a perpetul maintenance for three
poor women and a cat. The property is now
worth £40,000 a year. Three poor women
and their cat —friends of the trustees —are
maintained; and the rest of the income,
£39,650 per annum, is expended in salaries
on uncles, aunts, cousins, appointed as
secretaries, treasurers, chaplains, visitors,
etc. , who see to the proper di-trihution of
alms, catechise the old women and stroke
the cat.
PETROLEUM is now used in Loudon in
vulcanizing India rubCer, as it is capable oi
dissolving chloride of sulphur as readily as
bi sulphide of carbon. Ordinary petroleum
must, however, be completely deprived of
its water, by means of the addition of ten
per cent, of concentrated sulphuric acid,
and the two shaken rapidly together. The
acid then settles and the petroleum is to be
poured off into a very dry receiver, and
caustic lime added to the petroleum, as well
as some oxide of maganese, and distilled.
The India Rubber so prepared is, on the one
hand, cheaper, and on the other, much less
injurious to the health of the workmen than
the bi sulphide of carboD.
SOMEBODY compares a rich Christian,
who waits till he makes bis will before he
does anything for God and the poor, to a
Christmas-box. which receives many gifts,
but has to be broken to pieces before any
thing can be gotten out of it.