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ATTORNEYS AT LAW.
AND LINGENFELTER,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW, BEDFORD, PA.
Have formed a partnership in the practice of
the Law, in new brick building near the Lutheran
Church. [April 1, lS6'.*-tf
. A. POINTS,
ATTORNEY AT LAW, BEDFORD, Pa.
Respectfully tenders his professional services
to the public. Office with J. W. Lingenfe'ter,
Esq., on Public Square near Lutheran Church.
..SB-Collections promptly made. [April,l'69-tf.
ESPY M. AESIP,
I ATTORNEY AT LAW, BEDFORD, Pa.,
Will faithfully and promptly attend to all busi
ness entrusted to his care in Bedford andadjoin
n; counties. Military claims, Pensions, back
pay, Bounty, Ac. speedily collected. Office with
Mann A Spang, on Juliana street, 2 doors south
of the Mengel House. apl 1,1389.—tf.
T It. DURBORROW,
•J . ATTORNEY AT LAW,
BEBFORD, PA.,
Will attend promptly to all business intrusted to
his care. Collections made on the shortest no
tice.
He also, a regularly licensed Claim Agent
and wil give special attention to the prosecution
'vii s against the Government for Pensions,
Back lay, Bounty, Bounty Lands, Ac.
Office on Juliana street, one door South of the
Inquirer office, and nearly opposite the'Mengel
House" April 1, 1863:tf
S. L. RUSSELL. J. H. LOREEXECSER
RUSSELL A LONGENECKER,
ATTORXETS A COUNSELLORS AT LAW,
Bedford, Pa.,
Will attend promptly and faithfully to all busi
ness entrusted to their care. Special attention
given to collections and the prosecution of claims
for Back Pay, Bounty, Pensions, Ac.
,®ft-Qffice on Juliana street, south of the Court
House. Apri 1.-69:1 yr.
J■ M'D. SEARCH 2. r. KEUR
SIMRPE A KERR.
A TTOMA-r Vi J f_7 X H'
Will practice in the Courts of Bedford and ad
joining counties. All business entrusted to their
care will receive careful and prompt attention.
Pensions. Bounty, Back Pay, Ac., speedily col- |
leeted from the Government.
Office on Juliana street, opposite the banking
hi use of Reed A SehdL Bedford, Pa. Apr l;69:tf
U T C. SCUAEFFFR
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
BEDFORD, PA.,
Office with J. W. Dickersou Esq.. 23aprly
PHYSICIANS.
B. F. HARRY,
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Office ani residence cn Pitt Street, in the building
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MISCELLANEOUS.
OE. SHANNON, BANKER,
BEDFORD, PA.
BANK OF DISCOUNT AND DEPOSIT.
Collections made for the East, West, North and
South, and tbe general business of Exchange
transacted. Notes and Accounts Collected and
Remittances promptly made. REAL ESTATE
bought and sold. April 1:60
DANIEL BORDER.
PITT STREET, TWO DOORS WEST OF THE BED
FORD HOTEL, BEIFORD, PA.
WATCHMAKER AND DEALER IN JEWEL
PA*. SPECTACLES. AC.
He keeps on hand a stock of fine Gold and Sil
ver Watebcs, Spectacles of Brilliant Double Refin
ed Glasses, also Scotch Pebble Glasses. Gold
Watch Chains, Breast Pins, Finger Rings, best
quality of Gold Pens. He will supply to order
any thing in his line not on band. [apr.2S,'fia.
DW. CHOUSE,
• DEALER IS
CIGARS, TOBACCO, PIPES, &C.
On Pitt street one door east of Geo. R. Oster
i Co/s Store, Bedford, Pa., is now prepared
to sell by wholesale all kinds of CIGARS. All
orders promptly filled. Person* desiring anything .
in hi? hoe will do well to give him a call.
Bedford April 1. 'ft?.,
f\ N. HICKOK,
VV. DENTIST.
Office at the old stand in
BANK BUILDING, Juliana St., BEDFORD.
All operations pertaining to
Surgical and .Mechanical Dentistry
performed with care and
WARRANTE D.
Antrethetiee addtinietered, tchen ie tired. Ar
tijicia! teeth ineerted at, per let. 88.00 and op.
tcard.
As I am deteimined to do a CASH BUSINESS
or none, I have reduced the prices for Artificial
Teeth of the various kinds. 20 per cent., and of
Gold Fillings 33 per cent. This reduction will be
n.aiif only to strictly Cash Patients, and all such :
will receive prompt attention. 7febßS
WASHINGTON HOTEL.
This large and commodious house, having been
re-taken by the subscriber, is now open for the re
ception of visitors and boarders. Tbe rooms are
large, well ventilated, and comfortably furnished.
Tbe tabic will always be supplied with the best
tbe market can afford. The Bar is stocked with
the choicest iiquors. la short.it is my purpose
to keep a FIRhT-CLASr* HOTEL. Thanking
the pubiie for past favors, I respectfully solicit a
renewal of their patronage.
N. B. Hacks will run constantly between tbe -
Hotel and the Springs.
may 17,'62. Ij WM. DLBERT, Prop r.
17 XCHA NG E HOTEL.
Vj HUNTINGDON. PA.
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J. MORRISON, formerly proprietor of the Mor
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furnished and supplied with all the modern im
provements aad conveniences necessary to a first
class no tel.
Tbe dining room has been removed to the first
ffoor and is now spacious and airy, end tbeeham
b-rs are all well ventilated, and the proprietor
*ul endeavor to make his guests perfectly at
1. ore. Address, J. MORRISON,
EXCHANGE HOTEL.
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ITEMS.
IT is conceded on all sides that Hon H.
W. Williams will be (he unanimous nominee
of the Republican State Convention for the
. Sujr.'ine Bench.
OLD iron rails are largely imported, from
England, via Baltimore, for re-manufactuie
in the mills of this State. Some six tbou
-1 sand tons have arrived within the past four
months.
A YOUNG man named Henry R. Wilson,
while engaged at shifting cars at' Altoona
on Tuesday last, was thrown upon the track
and run over by several cars, causing fatal
injury.
JOHN B. GOCGH is going to publish an
i autobiography. That of P. T. Barnum
is suggested as a model, and it is thought
N'asby may be secured to correct his or
thography and syntax.
MEXICAN advices state that extensive
gold fields have been discovered near
Colima. The district is represented as be
ing one hundred and twenty miles in length,
and to exceed the California mines in rich
ness. There is a rush of people for the new
district.
THE "ANCIENT PREJUDICE. " —A colored
man named James Washington has brought
suit in Quincy, 111., against the St. Louis
and Keokuk. Packet Company, to recover
damages in the sum of $2,000 —the officers
of one of that company's boats having re
fused to allow him to sir at the table with
white passengers.
TWENTY-FOUR States, including Indiana,
have ratified the XYth Amendment. Ver
mont will, beyond all donbt, follow the good
example. Mississippi, Texas and Virginia
will be admitted into the Union on its
adoption, and thus the full three-fourths of
States requisite to finally adopt the amend
ment are obtained.
RUSH OF EMIGRANTS WEST —Mayor
Knight, of Dubuque, lowa, who has re
cently returned from a tour in the North
west, says the rush of emigrants West this
Spring is beyond all precedent, Tn every
direction, as far as the eye can reach, the
prairie is literally dotted with canvas—
covered wagons, and many families are
living in tents.
TROPLONG, one of Napoleon's most cun
ning and servile tools, it has now been ascer
tained, died in consequence of a violent al
tercation which he had with Hrussmann.
Troplong appealed to the Emperor, who re
fused to interfere, and the mortification
which this event caused to Troplong,
brought on an attack of fever, of which he
died.
A GIRL keeper of a toll gate in Fngland
was asked by a swell velocipedisf, who
thought to chaff her, how much he had to
pay. '"That, sir," replied she, "depends
UDOD whether vou ride thronch the cate or
whether jou get off your dandy horee anc
drag it through ; because in that case every
two-wheeled vehicle drawn by a horse or an
a-s pays three pence."
<)N a farm in Lowiston, Maine, there is a
very curious and extensive beaver dam.
Ninety years ago this dam was quite as good
as it is now. The beavers felled logs all
along the dam; to remove which—to make
a canal—was quite a labor. The dam is
several hundred feet long, and stumps of
trees cut eighty or ninety years ago stand
on the verge, their roots having overgrown
the logs felled by the beavers.
TRINITY. —The strong allegations made
agnin.-t Trinity Church, New York, on the
moticn for appointment of a receiver, are
that she give- no account to the public of
her revenues or the use she makes of them;
that she leases her property for grossly im
moral purposes, and that she has ceased to
be a Protestant institution, the preachers
in her pulpit denouncing Protestantism as
a failure; and no uian can gainsay these
statements.
GENERAL THOMAS has ordered a military
exploration of south-eastern Nevada, with
a view to ascertaining the character and re
sources of the country before establishing
military posts there. Mining exploration in
that district is limited bec.in- •• of the dread
of Indians and the great distance of the base
of supplies. So far as penetrated, the
mines have proved rich in minrral deposits,
and less lacking in arable lands, timber and
water than supposed.
SMALL POX has again made its appear
ance at New York Quarantine, a bark from
Bremen having recently arrived with twen
ty-four cases on board. The progress of the
disease among the passengers is attributed
to the want of proper facilities for the sep
aration of the wc-ll from the ill. The suf
firings of the emigrants coming to the Uni
ted States during the last six months have
been unusually severe, and the want of
proper food, and the confinement in the
dark, ill ventilated and closely crowded
steerage, are sufficient causes for the pro
duction of ship fever, small-pox and similar
diseases.
THE American Institute of Homeopathy
has finally yielded to the claims of the wo
men. One ot two female practitioners were
on the ground applying for admission. The
committee to whom their application was
referred would not report; but on the last
day of the session the matter was brought
up in the shape of an amendment to the
eon-t:tution. The women carried the day—
yeas >O, nays 32. The Eclictic Medical So
ciety of the State of New York has already
admitted women to membership, and they
are also allowed to study medicine at the
principal colleges of that school.
PROVINCIALISMS. —Many years ago the
celebrated Andrew Broaddus, of Caroline,
was at the Merry Oaks, a noted tavern in
Hanover county. Mr Liscomb, the hour,
brought out some cider, then a favorite
1 beverage in Virginia, for Mr Broaddus to
try. After drinking it he remarked: "It
tastes beautiful, as a Yankee said at my
bouse a short time siaoe." Looking around
he saw a stranger in the room, of rather
quizzical appearance, with a broad smile cn
his face. Mr Broaddu.-, who was tbe pink
of politeness, said instantly: "I mean no
oSense, we have our Yirgioianisms as the
Yankees have their Yaokecisms." Tbe
stranger encouraged by the remark said;
"I was not long ago in the eity of Charles
ton. South Carolina, and a negro was riding
along the street on a small, lean, raw-boned,
long haired mule. Another npgro, coming
up to him, remarked' 'Lor, your jack ace
looks mighty sorry ; he 'pears he can scarce
hudgit t J tote ye.' " Broaddus enjoyed the
rttort, and confessed that be was beaten.
BEDFORD, PA.. FRIDAY, JUNE 26, 1860.
GLMLLANFFLUIS.
A CHICAGO SONG IK LONDON.
; STRONG EFFECT OF MUSIC ILLUSTRATED BY
SPECTACLE.
A correspondent gives the following ac
count of the singing of ' Fitter Come
Home, ' in one of the music halls in Lon
j don:
Having reached the hall, we paid an ad
mission fee of sixpeuee. There was a very
| neat stage, with gaudy drop scene, side
i wing and a tolerable good orchestra. In the
stalls sat the chairman, to keep otder over as
1 motley an audience as ever was seen out of
, the galery of Victoria Theatre. "Co tors
| seemed to predominate. Ail appeared plen
tifullv supplied with porter, and all were en-
I joying their pipes to such an extent as to
make the place almost suffocating, for there
| must have been an audience of nearly five
j hundred. A nigger "walk around" was just
being finished, and tbe shouts of "encore"
whistling and stamping of feet made the hali
l>erfectly bewildering.
A name was announced from the chairman
which wc could not catch, and amidst clap
; ping of bauds and stamping of feet, there
| was a l„zi of "This is the 60Dg !" The wait
er called loudly, "Any more orders?" and
these being taken and duly executed, all
seemed to settle down quietly to listen to the :
song. There was the symphony, and anoth- j
er buzfc of "This is it 1" and we began to j
feel anxious. Presently a female came in
front of the curtain, amidst great applause, :
and commenced "Father, dear Father," Ac. j
Every word was distinct, and she sang the
ballad with great feeling. In order howev
er, to fully describe the scene which follow,
ed each verse, it is necessary to give 'Little
Mary's' song :
"Father, dear father, come home with me
now,
_ The clock in the steeple strikes one ! (Gong)
\ou promised, dear father, that you would
come home
As soon as your day's work was done.
Our fire has gone out—our house is all dark.
And mother's heen watching since tea,
With poor little Benny so sick in her arms,
And no one to help tier but me.
Come home, come home, come home,
Please, father, dear father, come home."
At the e inclusion of the last line the drop
set uc drew up, disclosing the father sitting
at the door of a public in a drunken,
bemuddled sta'e, with a pipe and pot before
Itiiu. Little Mary was trying to drag him
from his seat, at the same time pointing to a
curtain behind, as she took up the refrain
from the lady, and touchingly sang, "Com-.
Home, Ac. The other curtain was now
drawn a-ide, disclosing a wretched room in
which was the mother and the poor, siekly
looking boy in her lap, and in the act of
feeding him with a spoon. Simultaneously
with the drawing of tbe curtain, the lime
light was brought to bear upon the tableaux,
giving them a truly startling effect. After
a moment or two the act drop came down,
and the lady proceeded :
"l-Hluer. dear lamer, couie uuiuc
now,
The clock in the steeple strikes two! (Gong.
gong-)
The night has grown colder, and Benny is
worse.
But be has been calling for you.
Indeed he is worse, ma says he will die,
Perhaps before morning will dawn,
And ibis was the message she sent me to
bring
Come home, come home, come home.
Please, father, dear father, come home."
The act drop rises again, and now the
child has hold of the pewter pot, trying to
take it from the drunken parent, and, as .-he
continues the last two lines, "Come home,"
etc., the other curtain is drawn aside, and
we next tee the child stretched out on its
mother's lap, and, as it just raises its little
bead aud falls back with a gasp, with the
lime light reflecting strongly upon it, there
was a Teality about the whole, terrible to
view.
Sobs were beard from all parts of the hail,
coming from the female portion of the audi
ence, while tears trickled down many a male
cheek. Me have seen "Susan Hoplcy,"
"The Stranger," "Jane Shore," "East
Lynne," and other effective pieces played'
but never before did we witness such a scene
of general cry ing. The principal feature
called to mind the picture of the "Sister of
Mercy," with the dying child in her lap and
the death was fearfully natural. Even the
lady who sung tbe song was affected, and
could scarcely proceed with the third verse:
"Father, dear father, come home with me
now.
The clock in the steeple strikes three!
(Gong, gong, gong.)
The house is so lenely, tbe hours so long.
For poor, weeping mother and me.
Yes: we are alone —poor Benny is dead.
And goGe with the angels of light,
And these were the very last words that he
said—
| ' I want to kiss papa good night! '
Come home, come home, come home.
Please, father, dear father, come home."
Again the drop rose, dise'o-dng little Mary
on her knees, appealing to her father, who,
with the pot elevated, is in the act of strik
ing her with it, as she sings "Come Home,"
and then the back curtain draws aside show
ing the mother praying over a child's coffin.
But now the sobs burst still more freely, and
two females are carried ont fainting. The
scene was truly harrowing, and we gladly
turned our eyes away.
An additional verse was sung about "Poor
Benny" being with the angles above. The
drop rose; the father sober now, is weeping
over the coffin with the mother, and little
Mary on her knees, singing, "Home, home,
lather, dear father's come home." At this
momt nt the curiaiu is drawn aside, and itlle
Benny is suspenned over the coffin with
wings's smiling down upon them and point
ing upward. The father falls forward on his
face, the act drop descends, and for a lew
minutes all is hushed save the sobs of the
females.
"There," said a workman by our side,
as he heaved a sigh of relief, "Mr. Spurgeon
never preached a better sermon than that,"
an expression to which we assented, and
then left the hall.
"THE DEVIL TO PAT."— This phrase,
doubtless, originated in a printing offiee, on
some Saturday night's settlement of wage\
John,' says tbe publisher to the book
keeper, "bow stands the ca.-li account?'
'Small balance ou hand sir. ' 'Let's see,' re
joined the publisher, 'how /ar that will go
towards satisfying the hand-!' John begins
to figur arithmetically: so much due fo
Potkins, so much to Typus, so much to
Grubhie, and so on, through a dozen dittos.
The publisher stands aghast. 'Here is not
money enough, by a jugful!' 'No, sir: and, j
bet-id- , there is the dea'f to /-\y.'
CT mors STATISTICS
CONCERNING MEN WITHOUT TRADES Olt
PROFESSIONS.
IB a recent con venation with Dr. Gihon,
private Secretary of Gov. Geary, we gained
j a curious fact concerning crime and men
without trades or professions. Dr. Gihon
j has been pay ing particular attention lately,
, to the applications daily aud almost hourly
; made for Executive clemency and pardon.
1 how not acquainted with the burdensome
routine of Executive duty in this respect,
cm not possibly form any idea of the embar
rassment in tbe harrowing solicitude and
the overwhelming responsibility of properly
. j wielding the pardoning power. The curious
! part of Dr. Gihon's statement is. that in
i uinet-jcn cases out of twen'y, young convicts
1 are men without trades or professions, who
i have keen left by their parents to reach ma
turity without having undergone the di.ci
piinc tud the training acquired while learn
ing a trade or studying a profession. "When
parents or friends applying for pardon for
such o benders have been a.-ked why they
were Dot taught trades, the rejly has been
vonch safed, "//<> teas too >rea/:ly;" "//<
was too sensitive,' or ''lie thought it teas
I bneath him. ' Too weakly, too sensitive,
too proud to learn a trade, but not proud
i enough to keep out of the penitentiary!
Of course we do not pretend to assert that
j learning a trade or profession is the sure
j way of keeping out of wrong doing. There
: are great rascals among mechanics and pro
fessional men. But the man who has a
tride or a profession, is always the most in
j dependent, and has fairer prospects at hai.d I
of permanent success in life. And what is :
also true, in this connection, in a practical
| way is the lack of skilled labor in the United 1
States. American boys for the last ten 1
I years, have been loath to learn trades. Too
many of tbeni desire to wield yard sticks
instead of hammers, saws and planes. The
consequence now is, that skilled labor is
scarce, and that the best places in ourwork
i shops are filled by foreigners. By some
kind of teaching we must reform this evil.
There must be more encouragement for boys
to learn trades—and the mechanical voca
tion must be dignified and elevated by be
ing recognized as worthy tbe studc and the
acquirement of the most intelligent and the
most favored in every community. We met
a lad a day or two since from a neighboring
village, who was on his way to enier one o! :
tbe large machine shops in Philadelphia, to j
learn a trade. He had an education to fit j
him for any profession and when he reaeh- j
es his majority, he will become the possess
or of a competency; nevertheless, the native
good sense of the boy, backed by the prat - •
tical advice of an older brother, induced him
to learn a trade, and we predict that that !
boy will become a man of respectability and !
iufluence in any community blessed hereaf- j
ter with his citizenship.
| —Dr. Gihon's observations and conclu
sions on this subject are sound and practi
cal. He thinks if more boys learn trades
| future Governors of the Commonwealth
win ,i*ve k--s applications im c-muu- m
dispose of.— llarrixLurg State Guard.
THE EXHAUSTIVE NESS OF WOHK.
Tbe following beautiful passage is by tbe
Rev. J. F. Corning. It will be appreciated
by ail " brain workers:" " While I sit at
my study table with my pen in hand, the
fingers moving with tardy pace at the beck
on ofbrain, I hear right below my window,
in the adjacent field, the monotonous ring
of a laborer's hoe upon tbe corn hills.
While he hots he whistles, hour by hour,
until the clock strikes twelve, and then with
a ravenous appetite repairs to his bountiful
yet simple meal, only to resume his task
again, and pursue it to the setting of the
sun. As I stood at- the window watching
his toil, aud turned-again to pen and paper,
I a.-kc! myself how it happened that the
man wtth the-hoe will labor his eight or ten
hours a day with less fatigue than the man
with his pen will toil his three or four.
Hugh Miller was a great worker with the
shovel and the pick—would have made a
good hand in a slate quarry, in grading a
railroad, or digging a canal. But one night,
as you know, he shot himself in a nervous
(ever. What was the difference between
the great geologist and the man with the
hoc whistling under my wiudow? Simply j
this, the former was a worker ofbrain, and
the latter a worker of muscle. Let this man
with the hoe lay down his husbandry for a
little while aud set himself to studying one
of the stoks of corn, or the chemistry of one
of those hills of soil, and very likely he
would soon learn what it is to lose one's ap
petite, and hear the clock strike nearly all
the night hours in feverish wakefulness.
And thus we get a great organic law of our
being to wit: that brain work subtracts vi
tality lrom the fountain, while muscle work,
only makes draughts upon one of the rami
fy ing streams of life. It is estimated by
scientific observers that a man will use up
as much vital force in working his brains
two hours as he will in working his muscles
eight."
JOURNALISM. —In eight years the entire
range and method of the newspaper busi
ness has undergone a revolution. First
class editors are rarer than first-class lawyers
or doctors ; and a first cla-s reporter, ,; kc a
thing of beauty, "is a joy ft rccer.' •r. re
is he. It is a great mistake that k- d re
porting is a second-rate employment. It is
j so considered because second rate persons
so often fill the desks on a dui'y journal.
But it is in reality a most important po.-i
--lion. It requires tact, originality, industry,
sobriety, good sense, intelligence, quick
ness. Of course, every department of a
well-conducted pre-s calls for all these excel
lent traits, more or less: and. therefore, it is
harder to equip ti newspaper than to organ
ize an army, or officer a man of-war.
Journalism strictly, is the science of hu
man nature; a combination of action, and
the actor's art, at once a reflection and the
thing itself. The really able journalist must
therefore be not only a man of thought, but
a man of action also. The voluptuous liter
ateur has no place iu the modern priuting
office; for be only is useful who ein work at
night; give up society; subordinate his per
sonality to his craft; consider himself, while
on duty, as a man on a voyage, bound to
serve out a certain time. A newspaper is,
indeed, a ship at sea, and almost always in
a storm. The billows of popular passion
are out on every side, seething and foamin?.
Keep her s'eady in the wind ccd there is
no danger; but it is fearful to try to run
against the current, or in the fac-c of the
i wind, and the least insubordination or in
ebriety or lack of skill of officers or crew
i may be fatal.
A
CORKY CLASH'S' EPISTLE.
■ Ancujieijtrr ProddeHtialitim —.4 Refuge for
""corded—About Battle* and Bank
j Robberies,
; A gentleman named Dibt-io, who was a
salt water poet of some eminence in his day,
said:
There's a sweet little cherub that
sits up aloft,
i keeps a lookout for the life of poor
i "' ac ' t
I tl.ink there is, must be a cherub or
something keeping a lookout for newspaper
men, and providing them with something
to write about.
I was afraid that when the election was
over I should have to go into some other
business.
A' there is only one business a politician
out of office can go into, and maintain his
standing in the Democratic party, I had
tent a note over to uiy friend Tom Acton to
ask him if he had a second hand licence he
cou'd let me have cheap, atid I was looking
around for an eligibible site for a bar-room.
h'rank IV Lite promised to sell out to me
if fie wasoelected I iditor
But he wasn't.*
As Dennis O'Keeffo is going to Albany,
I thought he might let me have one of his
two hotels, so I went to him and offered to
buy him out.
He said he couldn't afford to keep one
bar.
He explained to me the mysteries of the
business, how a man must keep two bar
rooms to live.
It is this: When a customer has ruu his
credit at one house as long as the house can
stand it, they send him to the other home
to get rid of him.
Then there is another reason.
Whisky is variously and wonderfully
made, and taking one kind of poison for any
length of time injures a man's health.
V hen they sec a steady customer failing,
he is recommended a change of whisky, and
instead of going to a strange place he is sent
to the other establi-hment of the same pro
prietor.
A friend of O*Pake's keeps six houses,
and by judiciously rotating them from one
bar to another, some customers have drank
his liquors regular upwards of two years, and
still live.
I told him that I hadu't capital or expe
rience enough to run two establishments.
He said in that case I had better hire out
as a barkeeper somewhere for six months,
then I would acquire enough of both to run
half a dozen hotels.
I have been thinking it over.
But what I was going to say about the
"sweet little cherub," &e.
No sooner is election over, than an inter
esting series of
BANK ROBBERIES
providentially occur, to make the newspa
pers interesting.
Robbing banks is almost as profitable as
being a politician in the ring.
And nearly as safe.
Shakespeare tnie in
OaiiKs.
I don't put any trust in banks.
Nor my cash either.
I always felt able to take care cf all the
money I got.
And more too.
I dou't see why I should trust bauk.s. they
never trusted me.
I never asked them to, but to oblige a
creditor of mine who had a singular halluci
nation on the subject of my financial stand
ing I let him try the vahie of my name on a
check.
The till had been .-tanding for some time;
but he hadn't said anything to me about it,
and I hadn't said anything to him, because
I thought I could afford to let it stand as
long as be could, and if he hadn't revived j
the subject I shouldn't.
He did at last remind me of the fact, in a
very polite note, stating that he had tome
engagements to meet.
That is the way with creditois, I find,
thoy are always making engagements and
expecting their debtors to furnish the money.
But as I said before, he was very pc-lite
about it and merely said he would like to
have my check for the amount.
As he had accommodated me so long, I
could hardly deny snch a reasonable request.
I sent liim a polite answer requesting him
to nominate the bank on which he wouli
prefer to have the check drawn.
He said he would leave that to me, what
ever bank my credit was good at.
I told him it was immaterial to me; my
credit was just as good at one hank as at an
other.
I finally sent him a check on the Walla- j
bout National Bank for the amount.
Naturally I felt some interest in learning
how my creditor made out at the bank.
He dida't make out anything.
He came to mc in a more excited state
than I had sec-n him before.
"Sir," said he, "your cheek is not worth
anything..'
"I am sorry to hear it, said I, "though
it is not entirely unexpected.
"The cashier of the bank says he don't
know you."
"The next time you see him," said I,
"tell him to read the Eagle, particularly on
Saturday."
"But why did you give me your check
when you had no money in the bank?"
said he.
"Because you said you would like to have
•mv check, and when a man makes a reason
able request I like to accommodate him if I
can." .
I have had no faith in banks since then.
Men who don't read the papers and don t
know me, don't know enough to take carc
of their property.
The Dime Savings bank must be quite a
salubrious institution.
It had been robbed and didn t know it
until the police fonnd it out by accident and
; told them.
And then they said it was of no conse
quence.
The D. 8. Bank must be some relative to
the bank where the Wild Tayme grows.
SliDging securities around in old tin boxes
in such a wild way that anybody can walk
off with theui.
31 r. Bcrgh or somebody ought to organ
ize a Society for the Prevention of Cruelty
to banks, to prosecute people who run away
with their money.
Mv friend Sam Morris says he will prose
cute the Mows who robbed the Mechanic's
Bank if the police will only arrest them.
The police say they will arrest tbcia if the
bank men will only give tbe officers their
' names, residences, and what time of day they
are to be found at home.
The hank clerks say they forgot to ask
TOL. 42: NO. 25
the gentlemen to leave their cards, but
would be orach obliged to them if they
would r luody this little oversight by fend
ing in their pasteboards.
It' they are gentlemen they wili do so, and
-ave further trouble.
8-ill your-, for the present.
CORKY O'LANCT.
llrftl.ljn E'ljL.
CKLEUHATEU HO A US.
That 'vcr the Simplon was projected by
N tpolcon and made at tbe joint expense of
France and Italy. It was completed 1805—
being thirty?'* miles lone, about twenty
five fr t broad, an 1 passes over twohundred
and sixty-four bridges, through six short
tuiivi ls of -olid rock —one, however, being
thirteen huudicd feet in Imgtb, by twelve
in width. It was the most stupendous en
terpri-e ever undertaken by man.
Art nher toad, marvelous io all respects,
pa.-- - over Mount St. Benard. lying be
twt, n Switzerland and Italy. It pa-.-cs be
te' n two cf the highest point- of tie
mountain—the road at that point being
eight ti u.-and feet above the level ol the
a Tee route is very circuitioo, and
pa--e- a celebrated mona-tery, distin_ni-hed
for the humanity of tlie monks and the
sagacity and monstrous size of a breed of
dog- kept there for the assistance of trav
el' r.-. Napoleon ercsjed there with an army
in 1800.
<><cr Mount St. GotharJ is an..titer
wonderful road, only twelve feet wile, paved
with granite. The Devil's Bridge, on tbfg
read, spans with a single arch (having peaks
of rocks for abutments) an awful abyss,
which must have exercised the highest
order of engineering genius to have spanned
A!! three are among the wonders of the
world.
Ancient Rome at one epoch in her history
h twenty nine costly military roads —many
of them botd red on either s : d<: by splendid
temples and palatial residences. Eery twelve
mil. - buildings were erected where relays ol
horses were always in readiness for couriers,
and also carriages and leasts of burden for
tic conveyance of baggage and goods. At
intervals of thirty miles there were edific-s
for lodging soldiers. Such was the admira
ls finish of those roads, running gentrally
diicetly from one city to another, that they
have actually endured for over two thousand
y<ars in some places, and excite admiration,
still on account of their excellent construe
tion.
The Iloosiie Tunnel in Western Massa
chusetts, when completed, will far excel
any road in ancient or modern times. It i
destined to be a wonder of wonders.
ESIJLESS DAY.
Nothing strikes a stianger more forcibly,
if he visits Sweeden at the season of the
year when the days are longest, than the
alienee of the.night. Mr. Baird relates
some interesting facts. He arrived at Stock
holm from Gottenburg, four hundred miles
went to see -ortie friends. He returned
about midnight, when it was as light as it
is in England an hour before sunset. \ou
ean see distinct, but all was quiet in the
streets ; it seemed as if the inhabitants had
gone away or were dead. The sun in June
goes down in Stockholm a little before ten
o'clock. There is great illumination a'-'
night, as the sun passes round the earth to
ward the north pole and the refraction of
its ray is such that yon can see to read at
midnight without any artificial light. The
first morning Dr. Baird awoke in Stockholm
he was supprised to see the sun shinning in
his room. He looked at his watch and
found it enly three o'clock. The next time
he awoke it was five o'clock, but there were
persons in the street.
The Swedes iu the city are not very indus
trious. There is a mountain at the head of
Bothina, where on the 21st of June the sun
does not appear to go down at all. The
steamboat goes up from Stockholm for the
purpose of conveying those who are curious
to witness the phenomenon. It occurs only
one night. The sun roaches the horrizon.
you can see the whole face of it, and in five
minutes more it begins to rise. At the
North Cajie, lattitude 72 degrees, the sun
docs not go down for several weeks. In
June it would be about 25 degrees above
the horrizon at midnight. In the winter
time the sun disappears and is not seen for
weeks; then it comes and remains for ten or
fifteen minutes, after which it descends, and
finally docs not set at all, but makes almost
a circle round the heavens. Dr. Baird was
asked how they managed in those latitudes
with hired persons, and what they consid
ered a day. He replied that they worked
by the hour, and twelve hour's was consid
ered a day s work. Birds and animals take
their accustomed rest at the usual hour,
whether the sun goes down or not.
MOSQUITOES. —The eggs ol the mosquito
arc laid in a bowl shaped mass upon the sur
face of stagnant water by the mother fly.
After hatching out they finally become the
"wiggle tails" or wriggling worms that may
be seen in the summer in any barrel of wa
ter that is exposed to tha atmosphere for
any length of time. Finally, the • wiggle
tails'' come to the surface, and the full
fledged mo.-quito bursts out of them, at first
with very short limp wing*, which in a short
time grow both in length and in stiffness.
The sexes then couple, and the above pro
cess is repeated again and again, prolably
several times in the coarse of one season.
It is a curious fact that the tnale mosquito,
which may be known by its feathered anten
na?. is physically incapable of sucking blovd.
The uiosquito is not an unmitigated pes'.
Although in the winged state the fetr.ale
sucks our blood and disturbs our rest, in the
larva state the in-ect is decidely beneficial
purifying stagnant water, that would other
wise breed malarial diseases. Li una? as long
ago showed that if you place two barrels of
stagnant water s.de by s de, neither of tucm
containing any "wiggle-tails or other liv
ing animal-, and cover one of them over
with pause, leaving the other one encover
cd, so that it will soon become full of "wig
gle tails" batched out from the fggs depos
ited by the female inor-quito, then the cov
ered barrel will in a few we ks become very
offensive, and the uncovered barrel will emit
no impure, and atvsavi-rjf vapars.
ogiti.
DK. JOHNSON was one day dining at the
house of a lady, when she a-bed him :f
he did no*, think her pudding gocd. "Yes,
growled the great moralist; "It is very
good—for hogs." "Shall I help you to
another plateful, then?" askel the- r<dite
hosier
SUBSCRIPTION* TEKMS.&C.
The In,". iitr.it i* puMit bade, cry Fbidat morn.
ng be frit tewing Mk) :
o:vit 'TSAR, 'in (■leasee.) $J.Ol>
(it not paid wit hire ix mvM.)... SXM
" " (if wot ;in ; 1 within the year,).,. $3.60
AU paper* uot it of the snanty dtKontiaoed
with ml nolic-e, at the eip'r*uoo &f the time for
which the enbeeriptioß baa been paid.
Kias'ucopki of the paper furnished, in wrapper*,
at See eeot each.
i. ~n u hjct* of liAi or general
ntervot, are leapecti'olly mi'sc i* eel. To eaanrn nt
leotwo fa. ,rs of tbi* kind tuu.e invariably be
aCfiompaainJ bj- the aauie of (ho author, not for
pnbtieatioa, bat a gmara-,1 v a-aiijat itapoeition.
All let'rr-perU:. 'n't • baaineaa of the offiae
should be addreMed to
JOllh' IjUTZ, Bcoronp, Pa.
A Great Mary Dccks.— The Louis
vile Co,-., ; iu noticing a visitor of "John
ny' Mil. .-head to that city is reminded of
an incident that • ceurref in the good old
d'y when his father was Governor of Ken
toek. Rowel!, who kept a restuurant and
drinking saloon, in Frankfort, rendered his
monthly account to "Johny" (the boys
could get credit then), which amounted to
$l5O. "Johnny" went to his father to get
the uicney.
One hundred and fifiv dollars, John
ny ?" said the Governor; "it's a large bill
son."
Vrs 1 entertained u great many friends
during the month."
"Have you the bill with you ?"
"I b.licve so" —hesitatingly.
"Let me see it, son."
"Johnny" stowiy drew forth a long strip
of b'.ll paper, on which there were cxaeily
thirty one items put down as "D'ks," rang
ing from ten cents to as many dollar?. The
Governor adjusted his specs, and regarded
it attentively, and said :
"1). K. S.—l). K. S; Johnny, my sen
what ilon I)ks s'and for?"
"Ducks, father ducks! But of cour.-c
they were not aU ducks—some were par
tridge- and nipe, and even eggs and oys
ter*. But Lou Murray puts them dowu as
ducks."
The Governor looked first at "Jobany"
and tli n at the liH, and giving an ominous
"hem wrote a cbefc.
Nobody ever Lelii vtd the Governor was
10. led. but after that —"will you take a
duck?" was lor a long time a favorite con
vivial invitariou with the Frankfort boys.
HOSACIE GKEEI.KY'S manuscript is notori
ously lad, and ic is sai 1 to require a printer
of no ordinary tki Ito set up his copy if he
happens to write iu a hurry. The recent
n>-v- paper anecdote of an article headed
"W ! iara 11. reward,'' wh't-h Mr. Greeley
had returned to him . t up 'TTchard III.,"
i- fresh in the minds id all; hut an occur
rence still more funny is related which hap
pened in the Tiiiune ■ ffice some time since:
A compo-itor had male so nj&Dv errors in
- the j.li 1 • ipher -copy, that it irri
tated h m to such a degree that he wrote the
typo a letter discharging hiui from further
duty. The compositor being unable to de
< jdter the contents of the note on receiving
it, took it to the foreman, who explained to
him that it expressed that he was not a care
ful man, and Mr. Greeley dispensed with
his serviec-s.*' The man laid down his stick,
put on his coat and left. The next day he
applied fot a situation as assistant foreman
in a la*ge printing office in the same street.
The proprietor inquired if he could bring a
recommendation from his last employer.
"All I have is this letter from Mr Gree
ley,'" i-aid the young man, boldly predueing
the document.
The worthy job printer scanned it some
fomentsjtritk a perplexed air. '"ll—m—
engage you." And he did, and he never
.'earned ti 1 two years afterward that the "let
ter from Mr. Greeley" was one of discredit
instead of commendation, as he had sup
posed.—Boston Commercial Bnlletin.
DEFINITIONS OF BIBLE TEKMB. —A day's
journey wss 33 and 1-6 miles.
A Sabbath day's jonrnev was about an
English mile.
Ezekiel's reed was 11 feet, nearly.
A cubit is 22 inches, nearly.
A hand's breath is equal to three and five
eighth's inches.
A finger's breadth is equal to 1 tDch.
A shekel of silver was about 50 cents.
A shekel of gold was $8.09.
A talent of silver was $516.32.
A talent of gold was $13,300.
A piece of silver or a penny was 13 cents,
A farthing was three cents.
A srerah was one cent.
A taitc was one and a-half cents.
A homer contains seventy-five gallons and
five pint?.
A nepba or bath, contains seven gallons
I and five pints.
A bin was one gallon and two pints.
A firkin was seven piuts.
An omer was six pints.
A cab was three pints.
THE Ten Commandments adopted by the
"craft" and expected to be followed :
1. Enter softly.
2. Sit down quietly.
3. Subscribe for the pa{>er.
4. Don't touch the poker.
5. Engage in no controversy,
p. Don't smoke.
7. Keep six feet from the table.
8. Don't talk to the printer.
9. Hands off the paper.
10. Eyes off manuscript,
Gentlemen observing these rules when
entering a printing office will greatly oblige
the printers, and need not fear the "devil."
The ladies who sometimes bless us with
their presence for a few moments, are not
expected to observe the rules very strictly,
and, indeed, it will be agreeable to ns to
j have them break the eighth as often as con
venient.
Boys, unless accompanied by their fa
thers, are particularly requested to keep
their hands in their pockets.
A BOSTON exchange is responsible for
the following story :
A short time tinea a man appeared at
the Boston City Hall, requesting an in
terview with the Chief of Police.
"What can I do for yon?" inquired the
official.
"Are you the Chief?"
"Yes."
"Can I i-peak to you private^?''
"Yes —speak out."
"Will no one hear us?"
"No."
I "Are you sure ?"
i "Yes."
"Well, then, listen. As 1 was crossing
the Common last night, about twelve
o'clock I saw a woman approach the pond
with a baby in her arms, looking carefully
j around all the while to see if she was
followed; and then, when right at the edge,
| stopped aml-'-
Threw the child into the Frog Pond 1"
exclaimed the appalled officer, his face
i white with horror.
I "No," rcp'ied his vi-itor -"washed it
. face.
j ... . * - -
"PA. what is tlx of giving our P'£ s
so much milk? '
"So that tLey may make hog- of them
! selves, darling '