THE CaMBRtl flU!
EBENSBUHC, FA.,
Friday Morning, - February 21. IS
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A letter in a recant issue vf the J'hil-
adelphia Prtst cl.arges that i(iO00 have ;
beeu raised by the liquor men to defeat, t li
Local Option law, and is now in Harris
burg to be expended for that purpose. j
Senator Wallace has given notice that the ;
Democratic members will not astist in re- ;
jealing this Kejnblican measure, in view
of the fact that the people, demand it.
Got. Hartranft has also been approached,
and says ha will respect tho voice of the
joople, and veto any repeal. This settles
the question. As tho Pittsburgh Poit ve
hemently exclaims, we sballsoou see which
Is the whisky party.
"Whii-IC America has been suffering from
tho severest cold experienced for forty
years, and England has seen suow, ice, and
stormy weather to an extent entirely ab
normal, in France the weather has been
tho mildest recorded for, it is said, a hun
dred years. Trees in Paris were covered
with leaves in January, and the spring
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been nyinjr abi'iit as men v and comfortable
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as crickets. In the rural districts the rasp-
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berry bushes have commenced to bear ; as-
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paragus to tlirust its pointed, laminated .
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Lead above ground ; in fact, as in the beau-
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tiful similo of I-owell m reference to the
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Awanening oi spring. in iowiib me jk;o-
I lo have been enjoyinjj themselves as tho'
it were midsummer. The Httlo tables in
the streets, so dear to the gossips, the cu
rious and tho genuine lover of open air life,
Lave been full.
Tire Poor Ret-atioxs in Pesti,ta-
There are some curious laws on the
Pennsylvania statute-books. It was only
tho other day that montion was made of
the law in this State which authorized a
married man to refuse his mother-in-law
access to his wife and to forbid his wife ac
tress to the church of her faith. A case in
a Philadelphia court, lately, developed an
other quaint regulation in force in the land
of Penn. and that is, that in addition to the
ordinary duty of a man to support his wife j
and children, if lie have any, the law of
Pennsylvania also requires that where a
"poor person is not able to work" and has
parents or grandparents, children or grand
children, such ancestral progenitors, or de
scendant posterity, as the case may be,
"shall relieve aud maintain such poor per
son"' at the rate to be prescribed by the
Court of Quarter Sessions. Pennsylvania,
then, is the Paradise of the "poor relation''
-that social and family waif the pathos of
whose existence none who is not himself or
herself a poor relation can ever truly know.
W direct attention to the advertisement
in another column announcing a grand
Iass Convention to be held in Philadelphia
to-morrow, February 2Cd, to provide for
the celebration, in 1S7C, of the Centennial
anniversary of American Independence.
Eminent speakers from our own and other
Btates will bo present and address the con
vention. This centennial commemoration
promises to be the grandest and most mag
nificent atfair that has ever been projected
in this or any other country. That it tic
nerves to be conducted on a vast and stu
pendous scale every true American will
freely admit. Its success appeals directly
to the pride aud patriotism of every sincere
friend of our great and glorious country,
to extend to so commendable an undertak
ing all tho material aid in his power. It is
estimated that it will require an expendi
ture of ten millions of dollars to make the
enterprise an assured success. This large
amount must be raised by the people of the
different States, and surely Pennsylvania
will not bo backward in her efl'orts in fur
thering so noble a work. Who will doubt
the propriety of our Legislature, now iu
session, extending liberal aid to so patriotic
a purpose and one so intimately connected
with the honor of the State. Wc trust it
will be done, feeling assured that th peo
ple will sanction the act. We earnestly
reoommend this great projoct tothesciious
consideration of the people of thiscountry,
and tmst that they will extend to it a libe
ral aud generous support.
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The New York WurlJ publishes tho
names of the twelve Democratic congress
men who voted to K:ve Coat Island, in tho
Pay of San Francisco, to the Central Paci
fic Railroad Company ; and it very properly
characterizes their conduct as suspicious
It is well known in Washington circles that '
the lobby was well supplied with money to ; ""'u 01 11Tlcnsy. Mr. Colfax has set
i ji , . i great store by the ethical value e?f rhetoric
1.6 used in securing votes for tins grant , t is ,-eporte.i that, within a few days he"
The principle involved m the bill is wrong, ; fcnt his card to a friend, bearing the fol
and, after tho earnest protests of the peo- j "owing inscription : "Your sorrowful but
ploof California, we do not see how any ! ,tru,,.,fl'i f,d'. ScrJ 'r Colfax," which
v . ii.,, i has in it a touch of tenderness it is reallv
uonesi man could vote for tue grant. 1 he j pathetic. It is no new thing, 'seeking a
twelve Democrats who consented toviolate ; temperance meeting in Baltimore as a Jit
principlo in this matter were, Harper and ' tin occasion, for Mr. Colfax to make pub
Leach, of N. Carolina ; Warren, Townsend ! 1"c liroc,amation of the fact that he desired
and Rogers, of New York ; Sutherland, of !; gwodSli
Michigan ; Caldwell and Garrett, of Ten- i " " m.xgr-caek sort or religion
nesseo ; Yooihces, of Iudiana ; Sloss, of lert Heck in trade which has paid
Alabama; Mitchell, of Wisconsin, and Mc- i l.n). I,!,c'.ttv "early ?s largo dividends as
Henry, of Kentucky. Ten out of the twelve
vero elected last fall by their continents
to stay at home. In the opinion of the
Lancaster Intelligencer, as well as of every
honest Democrat in the laud, the World is
acting with precise propriety in publishing
the names of these men and condemning1 ;
them as it does. la so doing it is netting j
an example which Democratic newspapers
throughout the country wou'd do well to '
follow at all times. Let them learn to i
strike at every exhibition of corruption, j
within the limits of the party, as freely and '
as fiercely as tbey do hen' it occurs out- '
side the organization. Bv so doimr the
party will be purged and the confidence of!
the people will bo secured to such an ex- !
tent that will insure future trimm Iw ir
all the Democratic me.rl,..,s 7f ' , I
ylvauia legislature Lad prcdMieir iul
trguty thisStatowo.ldhave l,,k, , "d
from mi,rul W ' nitd .
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Schuyler Colfax.
In our judgment, and we think in the
honest conviction of the whole American
people, i n public man in thi country over
foifeitcd and destroyed Ida fair name and
reputation so suddenly, and sank so low iu
public esteem, as Schuyler Colfax, Vice
President of the United StaUu. When tho of our time, the greed of gold, tho wor-rc-ruMals
connected with the corruption ami ' hiP? Gammon corruption, bribery, pe-
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t.l.an.cless operations of the Credit Mob.hei .
w ore fu st made public during the late l'rcs-
idtntial campaign and in which the name
of Schujk-r Colfax was implicated, that
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, pious and k-yalg-nlleman promptly rushed j
i into print and boldly and emphatically .
; denisd that ho ever owned any of the stock j
of that Company, or that its agent and ;
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Congressional loboyist. Cakes Ames, had ;
ever nau anv uausaci ions wiinei mm
him in reference to the stock cf the Com
pany. It was believed at the time that
Company had beia a much abused and
slandered man, and a very general feeling
of sympathy was manifested towards him.
The testimony, however, taken before the i
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Congressional Committee proves most con-
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clusively that Colfax, like his prototype in j
one of Shakspea-.c's plays, "may sruilo and
smile again, and may btill be a villain. ,:
This evidence is so conclusive and over
whelming against Colfax, that the radical
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papers do not pretend to explam it or
justify his conduct, lie stands self-con-
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demned and self-convicted. It is deeply
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humiliating and a foul blot on the charac-
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ter of our public men to see the second of-
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ncer of the government thus implicated in
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tins disgraceful fraud and corrupt transac-
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tion. It is enough almost to cause one to
lose all faith in the integrity of human na
ture. Two weeks ago lat Sunday, Rev. Laird
Collier, one of the moit eloquent and prom
inent clergymen in Chicago, delivered a
sermon to an immense audience, in which
ho took occasion to rcfr to Colfax, Patter
son, and other radical leaders, and their
corrupt operations with Oakes Ames, in the
following bold and manly language. Com
ing from such a source, it ehows the esti
mation in which Colfax is held by at least
so distinguished a divine as Laird Collier :
The detail of these Congressional in
vestigations, I must assume, you are all
familiar with. That it was morally wrong
and particularly harmful and disparaging
for Congressmen to buy, and hold, and re
ceive enormous dividends upon the Credit
Mobilier stocks ; that it was known to be
wrong, and that it was an accusing spectre
in the consciences of Senators and liepie-
sentatives who bought and handled them, 1
is clearly shown by the fact of persistent
concealment, and then comes the added
sin of lying, one of the vilest and most in
excusable of all sins, concerning all of
which Harper' i Wtekly, "a journal of civ
ilization,' the eminently charitable car
toons of which you must remember, says :
"Theie is a painful feeling that the gen
tlemen implicated have strangely prevari
cated, if nothing more." It is not left for
us to determine the original morality and
wrongfulness of the transaction the con
cealment, the lying, the perjury, to keep
it concealed tell terribly enough what the
men enyayed in it themselves thought of it.
I need not recite
THE CATALOGUE OF SAVES IMPLICATED.
Indeed a sermon should aim always at
impersonality, but certain names are rep
resentative, stand for movements and
causes, and to begiu at tho begiuning. Mr.
Senator Nye c;u!d not pay to Viee Presi
dent Colfax what he is represented to have
said to Senator Fatter son that if he wish
ed to get out a patent for a fixjl he should
deposit him in the Patent office for his mod
el. Those who have known Mr. Colfax i
test have never mistaken him for a fool. 2s"o
man in America ever played a small card
better, or on less capital did a larger busi
ness, lie was fortunate in being a citizen
of Indiana, which, if without great repute
for enlightenment, has extended renown
for religion. That he was a suitable man
to represent his State, Indiana has verily
believed.
When publicly accu?d of being a party
to the Pacif.c Railroad job, we all under
stand that these are the exact words of his
full, Hat, explicit, and for the time, efficient
denial :
Neither O.ikes Ams nor any other person
ever gave or offered to give me one share, or
twelve shares, or two thousand shares, in
the Credit Mnhilier or any other railroad
stork ; and uufortnnatel v I have never seen
or received the vahie of a farthiujr out of the
270 per cent, dividends, nor the K00 per cent,
dividends in cash, stork, and bonds, you
have read ahout everyday for the pabt month,
nor one hundred per cent., nor one per cent.,
nor one-tenth of one par cent.
HOW riTIAin.E, HOW SOLEMNLY sad,
this asseveration in tho j;l,t ,f thsa re
Cent investigations, testimonies and con
cessions !
And what does Mr. Colfax man when
he asks for "a suspension of public opin
ion?" This is a solecism. Opinions are
not passive, but active ; cannot be kept in
abeyance or held in suspense. And' the
public are decidedly of the opinion that a
lie has been told and s-rorn to. Toward
this man who has been honored bevond
bi.s nieasuie and merit by his countrymen,
words of censure have not been unmixed
witii uo.n chanty and scantiness. Indeed,
it is very hard for our Western, practical!
rerl'endicul.ir texture of thought to accuse
1 hope
ress by this
for the purification of Con
strange i..uia.mg together of all ihcs ,ftlu.
: y.tev.,u-y Christian men the Christian
i statesmen ;.; c.r uHsnre Pat terson. Col
! lax, Pomeroy, Harlan, as the chief sin
j ners. at.d this hojns has serious foundation
i in the lact that insincei itv histrionic re
; ligion, dramatic piety is the most hein
j ous siu against both man and God.
! The speal:cr then alluded to the case of
I iIr- Senator Patterson, Pomekoy and
I others, admitting that Oakes Ames "is
; tho chief of sinners" and
That Mr. Wilson, Vice President elect,
was "born in ol scuritv and reared in pov
erty,',' is not to the point.
Ill at many names of lesser note are in
volyed and must pais into a dark chapter !
?f e toi, of Federal legislation, is pain-
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-C"r Rational Congress in many ways is !
dLmT.S 'Tere'i 1 T i
f, ' J ' ! Ue,? W oader intel-
Ptn?e! av,ra? culmie, less prof an. :
lui.v irae.
iu.er.rraato ana atoauctiery ; but
these last are not the besetting sins of
Congressmen now-a-days. They have be
come "the companions of thieves ; every
one loveth gifts and folioweth after re
wards." ; Wc have detected the ostensible and pa
raded religion of thesetmen to be not of
1 the true, but false. And
j TO CURE THESE EYTI,8
cuiauons, anu peri.uy, i nave no short cur,
m uew ,,att.nt (m)y the oW time soyer
eign remedy enn I suggest and earnestly
inculcate individual integrity. Do our
l" - first and fast principle
of life that integntv is better than riches ?
Wfl must bcgin ,luuiewith ourselye3
an(j our children not with conventions
and new' machinery, but with consciences
and their training, their bending and holy
binding to the Gospel of Jesus Christ.
Vhnct, splendid character, must be bet
before the people as
THE.dXE CRITERION OF WORTH
not wealth, not conspicuousness. What
have these men gained ? It were better
their names had never been upon the lips
of supercilious and obsequious votaries,
than that now tkev should be folded in
these dark clouds ot bribery, or even suspi-
cion. And we are come to a time when,
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in choosing our rulers and legislators, wo
nm.t chose between personal worth and
party fealty.
Mr. Collier concluded as follows :
The world and the fashion thereof pasa
eth away Oh ! how soon and how sudden-
lv yes, it is like the morning dew. Hut
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, uuu, ami cuaiaciei, iu:u love, eimuro im
ever. Reverently let us commit ourselves
! to heaven's guidance. Manfully let us beat
j back the tempter, till we are sure in tho
all-atoning sense of strong, assured charac
i ter. Truly, like Cod, lei. us love and help
i one another. And humbly walking the
path of duty, the flowers of beauty and
peace shall spring up, gret and bless us
ou the way.
The JIatinted School-House.
Wo are able to lay before our readers
these interesting extract from a letter
written by Miss Lucy A. Perkins, teacher
at the haunted school-house in Newbury
port, in answer to inquiries concerning an
account of the a'J'air published in a newspa
per :
The account you send me is true, with a
few exceptions. When I first wtheboy,
he was neatly attired ill a brown suit of
clothes, trimmed with braid and buttons of
the same color. When I reached forward
to grasp him lie seemed not like the boy,
but vapor, or, as I can only describe it,
like a thin cloud scudding across thu room ;
still he seemtd to have the boy form. Re
ports from some of the Rostou papers say
I fainted ; such is not tho case. I knew
where I was and what I was about just as
well as I know I am writing
One day I sent a boy ot to bang up the
brushes, etc. He was out about five min
utes. After he had taken his scat, three
raps came on the door of the room where
the brushes wre hung, lie said, "Miss
Perkins, can I go out and see who's there?"
I told him, "Y't's. and to leave the school
room door open." He did so, and when
he opened the brubh-rooni door (I sat
where I could see all this) every one of the
brushes, both long and short handled,
came falling off the nails where they were
hung ; some struck him in tho face, some
on the shoulders, aud the broom directly
ou the top of the head. The dust pan,
hanging on a nail at some distance above
the brushes, came tumbling down to the
floor with a vengeance. It then stood on
its handle, then on the bottom edge, and
continued on so till it entered the school
room, and then it was placed as nicely
against the partition as if 1 had done it my
self. Just as soon as I'd raite the ventila
toi, a black ball, like a cannon ball, would
begin to roll around the attic, and make
such a noise I would be obliged to lower
the ventilator. One day tho room was as
quiet as it could possibly be, and all at once
some one in the attic called out, "Dadie
Pike !" Padia thought I spoke, and said
"V. hat'm ?" I raid to him, "Can you say
your lesson ?" Since tho boy atfair took
place tho attic has been fastened up.
Lock and keys are of r.o use, however, for
"there is as much walking up-ttairs, and
sometimes tho hammering nnd nailing.
Once in a while sounds as of some one
walking will come down the attic way, go
across the entry and open the outside door
and be gone perhaps ten minutes ; after it
is quiet again, the door will open, and he,
she, or it, will go up-stairs.
I am not a Spiritualist ; never attended
a sitting, in fact never bad anything to do
with a person cf that belief, aud never saw
any manifestations. Why anything of the
sort should take place where I am is more
than I cau account for.
Stilt. Hope for Stoke?. Stokes, after
all, is to have another chance for his life,
Judge Davis, in Supremo Court Chambers,
on Saturday morning, -granting a stay of
proceedings until such times as tho excep
tions rained on tho second trial could have
a hearing. His Honor, however, at the
start desired ,to have it understo-l. ihat
he excludes from consideration the affida
vits used on tho motion for anew tristl, and
all the questions growing out of them.
The application before him was for a
writ of error to bring the judgment record
and the bill of exceptions before the gener
al terms of the Supreme Court for review.
Judgment having been pronounced in the
case, his Honor adds : "Iso other mode of
review is open to the prisoner, and it is ap
parent that to grant the writ without an
order expressly staying his execution would
be an idle and cruel ceremony."
"The exceptions taken upon the trial of
this case are numerous. The great majori
ty of them I deem to be either frivolous or
of such alight importance that they canuot
be regarded as having prejudiced the pris
oner. Rut in my opinion they are not all
fcf that description. Some of the exceptions
to tho rulings in receiving and excluding
evidence, will, I think, deserve attentive
consideration upon argument. I cannot
here consider them in detail. Tho excep
tion upon which 1 have the gravest doubts
arises upon a poition of the Judge's charge.
Understanding the-charge of the learned
Judge to have declared as a legal proposi
tion that tho law implies tho malice from
the killing and the circumstances of the
case, so that the charges of the indictment
were fully and entirely made out unless
the prisoner proved by evidence sufficient
to satisfy the jury that his act was a less
crime or no crime, I cannot but feel, in the
light of the cases leferred to, that there arc
such grave doubts, both as to the correct
ness of the charge and its probable e fleet
upon the deliberations of the jury, as to
bring this application within the fair
scope of the rule that should govern me in
determining it. It is neither necessary
nor proper that I should form or express
i any josmve opinions upon these questions.
! It is enough that I cannot say that my
j mind is free from grave and painful doubts.
ret but Wi
f n m'thc ch.tv i
i reach my conclusion m this case with re-
ug reached it I shall per-
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hesitation."
The immediate etTect of this d
be to defer tho exccuS wh
take place a week from Friday
wLthor it will result in cha.fn
Tho immediate etTect of this decision will
ich was to
next ; but
.iict or not remains to b t-een.
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Up iti a Paper Halloon. .
THR SIKOCLAR INTENTIONS OP AN AMBI
TIOUS J-UOSAUT.
In the basement under the hat store of
Bunting, in the Globe building, is being
completed foran early voyage to the clouds,
a mammoth balloon, made of brown wrap
ping paper, with which Donaldson, the
daring anonaut, of this city, proposes in a
few weeks to make an ascension. A re
porter of the Eagle entered the axartment
this morning, and was invited by the a-ro-naut
to come inside the mammoth gas
chamber of tho balloon, which had been
partly inflated by air. Crawliner through
the lower opening he was soon standing
amonsr the icrouaut and his men, who were
busily engaged in putting the finishing
works to tho chamber.
The balloon is made in the usaal man
ner, out oi orowu wrapping paper, me
sections glued together instead of being
sowed, as are the ordinary cambric cham
bers. To construct the present one it re
quired 2.15 square yards of paper, and will
require to fill it 10,000 cubic feet of gas.
The basket, nettings and other paraph ro
nalia, together with the chamber, will weigh
70 pounds. The bolloou when filled will
be able to carry 400 pounds ; or 3110 pounds,
deducting weight of nettings, basket and
other necessary articles. In this frail con
cern, he will start in about two weeks frem
the corner of Fifth and Penn streets. He
will ascend to the proper altitude, strike
the eastern current of air if it is possible,
and make his way to the Atlantic coast.
This ascension is to be merely an experi
ment, and if ascertained that the quality of
paper can be relied on, a second ascension
will be made immediately afterward, at
which time the balloon will be exploded in
tko clouds, tho ajronaut to descend with a
parachute. This will bo the first paper
balloon ascension ever made in this coun
try, and as a -recognition of business tact
and enterprise, Donaldson will name tho
air ship "John D. Mishler."
Respecting his proposed Atlantic ocean
voyage, his plans are being perfected daily.
In a short time he will appear before the
Franklin Institute of Science, Philadelphia,
to explain his method of successfully car
rying out his trans-Atlantic voyage. Prof.
John Wise, the father of American aro
nauting, has been iu constant correspond
ence with the aeronaut of this city, and the
proper arrangements have been made be
tween them to join fortunes and undertake
tho voyapo together. From the present
state of the case it appears that the Mayor
of Boston has offered the Common gas
free.etc, if they decide to start from Boston,
on July 4th. Nothing definite, however,
will bo known until after the session of the
Franklin Institute. Donaldson has pre
pared several very handsome tirawings
which he will take with him. Other aero
nauts and scientific men have also written
hina many encouraging letters ; whilethose
received from persons throughout the coun
try who are anxious to accompany him can
be numbered by the hundreds. Due an
nouncement will be made as to the exact
time of his aseenaion in the paper balloon.
Heading Eagle.
A L'.ct Marrizs the Grandmother of
His Children. The Memphis Ledger
brings us the following extraordinary nar
rative. Some months since in one of our
coui-tx there was filed a petition for divorce,
which exhibits a stravge freak of human
nature. The petitioner was married in
1812, and his wife died in February, lyTl,
leaving surviving; eight children as the
fruits of said marriage. His niother-in-law
took great interest in her grandchil
dren, and the complainant in the divorce
bill, at the time feeling that the grand
mother was nearer and dearer to his chil
dren than any other humau being, and was
bound to them by the ties of common af
fection, married her, believing that the
marriage would better subserve the inter
ests of the children, and more largely pro
mote his own happiness than any other
course then left to him ; hence, on tho 10th
day of September, 1871, a marriage was
solemnized between the parties in Shelby
county. The parties lived together as man
and wife for two months, and it never oc
curred to either of them that there was
any impropriety, legal or moral, in stub
establishment of relationship as husband
and wife. The step was suggested to both
parties by a teuder consideration for the
welfare of the eight children. Iu Novem
ber, 1871, it was intimated to petitioner
that under the laws of the state of Ten
nessee such a marriage was Illegal and
void, and greatly surprised at such infor
mation, petitioner sought the advice of an
officer of the church to which bo belonged,
and from those learned in the law, aud
was informed that such a marriage was
void, owing to tho previous relationship of
the parties. In November the parties
ceased to live together, and agreed to ap
ply for a divorce ; hence they applied for
a divorce vinculo, or that tiie marriage be
pronounced a nullity, and that the said
parties, complainant and defendant, be de
c!ared free from the supjxsed obligation
and ha consequences. In July, 1S72, a de
cree pro confetiO 'was granted by the court,
nniiulllng Uie marriage, the parties being
within prohibited degrees of kindred, and
that the defendant be restored to her ori
ginal name.
Pmicration of tiie Negroes. A re
markable phenomenon is witnessed in tho
emigration of the negroes of the south.
In North Corolina there seems to be a com
plete upheaval of the colored population.
Almost every paper from that state contains
accounts of tho negroes emigrating in
droves to tho more southern states. In
some counties the decrease of the popula
tion has become so great as to cause much
embarrassment concerning farm labor.
The number of laborers is small and the
wages they demand exceedingly high.
This emigration of negroes to tho farther
south is in complete harmony w ith natural
laws, and will continue until the great pro
poition cf that race will be withdrawn to
climes more congenial totheir physical and
social condition. Tho great majority will
settle in the gulf states until the encroach
ment of tho whites will cause thorn to re
tire farther south to Mexico and the West
Indies.
The Augusta Chronicle estimates that
not less than 20,000 persons have emigrated
from Georgia to the west in the last two
yoara. This emigration has been almost
wholly confined to the colored race. Dur
ing the present season tho exodus has as
sumed such proportions as to be extremely
disquieting. Scarcely a day passes in which
bauds of emigrants ranging iu number
from fifty to two hundred are not seen on
the way through Macon or Atlanta to Mis-
Kissippi, lexas ana Arkansas. 1 litis far
1 exas and Arkansas.
nine-teuthsof the emigration isfrom South-
western Georgia, the most fruitful region
of the state. The results of this emigra-
tion will be extremely injurious to the
planters. At the very time when contracts
r .
ior iaDor nave teiramatcu, ana wnen tnose
for the new year should be made, the col
ored people refuse to renew their engage
ments, and mauy are leaving the state.
Should not a cessation to this emigration
take place it will be very difficult for the
present year to carry on agricultural pur
suits in that portion of Georgia. Uarri
burg Patriot.
Tiy a small majority the hardy pioneers
of Forest county havo decided against the
liquor prohibitionist.
Neu-s ami I'olilical Items.
The majority for license in Reading is
1,71.1.
In some districts of Elk county the ma
jority for license is almost unanimous.
Pennsylvania bas an area of 46,000
square miles ; a population of 3,521,791 ; an
assessed valuation of if 1,:U5,235,042 ; num
ber of miles of railroad, 5,113.
A Lancaster county cat roosts with the
chickens every night, balancing herself on
a perch among the fowls, and seemingly
quite contented with her restin; place.
A reverend gentleman in Tennessee
named Acton Young has returned to the
pulnit after an interregnum of thirty years,
spent in keeping nearly fifty diflerent ho
tels. Mrs. Nancy Kyle, of Connecticut, lias
been married twenty-three years, and has
sued her husband for wagos as a house
keeper, claiming $15 a month for the twenty-three
years.
Georce A. Clark, tho senior proprietor
of the Clark Thread Works, of Newark,
New Jersey, died very suddenly on Thurs
day, f heart disease. He left an estate
valued at from $2,000,000 to $3,000,000.
A colored woman, named Lettie Terrie,
aged 116 years, died recently in Columbus,
Ga. About six years ag she cut her third
set of teeth. She bas a daughter of 84,
and a grand child neaily 60, still living.
A Lancaster woman forged her moth
er's name to a note of $500, which proves
women can do some things as well as men;
but when the act was discovered she died
of fright, which proves thry cau do some
things better,
Robert Emmett. a son of Thomas Ad
dis Ecmiett, the Irish patriot, and a ne
phew of the celebrated Robert Emmett,
died at Now Rochelle, New York, on Sat
urday. Deceased was long au eminent
lawyer in New York city.
An oak saw log was lately got out of
the woods back of Turbntville, Northum
berland county, which contained 241 cubic
feet mnking 2,f)(2 feet, board measure
and weighing eight tons. It was entitled
the "King of the Woods."
One of the Ohio representatives rose up
the other day aud moved for a law to pre
vent any more babies from being named
John Smith, but the thirteen John Smiths
around him threw so many inkstands at
him that he had to sit down.
Mrs. Mary Ann Reichert, living at
Ashland, Ta., is 35 years old, and weighs
a little over 500 pounds. She is 5 feet in
height, measures 23 inches round the arm,
and 5 feet S inches round the waist. She
is a native of Schuylkill county.
A Newfoundland'dog, not long'since,
placed himself between his master's child
and the open grate toward which it was
crawling in Nashua, N. II., and remained
there, though scorched and blistered, until
persons came into the room and rescued
tho child.
An organized system of swindling has
been discovered among the officials on the
Panhandle Railroad, between Pittsburg and
Cincinnati, by which six conductors and
eleven outsiders are implicated in having de
frauded the Company of $40,000 in the last
two years.
A cable dispatch from Rome announ
ces the appointment of Very Rev. Dr. M.
A. Corrigan as Bishop of Newark, N. J.,
and of Rev. Wm. II. Gross, a Redemptorist
missionary, as Bishop of Savannah. The
nominations were confirmed by the Pope
ou February 2.
A little girl named Bessie Cole was
found on the door-step of a school house at
Peekskill, N. Y, last week, with her arms
and legs frozen. The poor child on reach
ing school was too benumbed with cold to
open the door or to make her presence
known to those within.
Joel A. Matteson, ex-Governor of Illi
nois, who died last week, owned at Spring
field the finest family residence in the State,
costing ?20), 000 originally, and stored with
valuable paintings and works of art, and
its destruction by fire, a few days before, is
thought to have hastened his death.
On Friday afternoon of last week, the
youngest child, two years old, of Mr. Enoch
Engles, of Industry township, Reaver coun
ty, being missed from the lioii3e, a short
time, was discovered by the other children
of the family in the spring near the house,
dead. The child had fallen iu the water,
and was drowned.
Thousand of acres of land in Michigan
are covered with a growth of sweet fern,
which Las hitherto been supposed to be
worthless, but it has been found that for
tanning purposes it is unequalled, and t'iat
it yields forty per cent, extract, while
hemlock yields but fourteen. It promises
to be very valuable.
Two elder sisters of the would-bo bride
broke up a wedding ceremony in Onslow
county, North Carolina, by rushing into
the room and attacking the bridegroom
and the officiating clergyman with broom
sticks. All this, notwithstanding the fath
er of the bride was present and joyfully
consenting co the man iage of his daughter.
Hon. Chas. R. Buckalew writes to the
Philadelphia I'reta that the announcement
that he had been appointed attorney for
the Lehigh Valley Railroad Company at a
liberal salary, is without the slightest foun
dation in truth. - Ain't it most time for
Radical journals to ccas;o lying in regard to
this gentleman? He is not a candidate now.
Twelve men were killed and drowned,
on the 13th, at Richmond, Ya., bv the fall
ing of the fifteenth span of a bridge which
is being erected across the JamesViver at
that city. There beiug a Hood in the river
the trestlework had been moved, which
was the causo of the falling of the span
precipitating workmeu and timbers 70 feet
into the river.
A pleasing little instance of luxurious
pauperism is furnished by a familv in r.
walk, Conn. It consists of five " persons,
who together spend $3.50 per week for
opium, and apply to the town authorities
for coal aud bread and butter ! The most
. i i i i
economical way wouia ce lor the town to
vote this beautiful family opium enough to
kill off tho whole interesting ciicle.
The last act in the drama of the Mc-Farland-Ricbardson
shooting case was en
acted a few days ago in Indianapolis. The
Supreme Court of that State then decided
that the -divorce granted Abby Sage Mc
Farland, was legal, affirming tho judgment
of the court below. So now we arc sun
posed to believe that the Mrs. was the law
ful wedded wife of the dead Richardson.
The N. Y. Ecening Post Pays in refer
ence to the Union Pacific. "A thunder
bolt, so to speak, is said to be preparing in
Congress, which will be delivered in a few
days or weeks, the effect of which, it is
predicted, will leave the holders of Union
1 acific securities in doubt whether thev
have any property at all in the road or
whether it does not belong to the goveru-
Henry P. Smith, one of four brothers.
died in Vinrr..,.., r ui"iiiers,
,m '"""i county a few days since,
I ''"lle tue funeral was in projrress. intlH
! pliCe was received that Isaac Smith a
' brther, had just been killed on a railroad
?u Michigan; and in a few davs another
i 1 writ Ii a.. 1 : 1 t . -. - ""wiuci
cr: r v v.y adus the three
":T Q1u vi"n a A nephew
was drowned a few months ago in the Ni
agara river.
There is a cat in West Chester whose
owners value him too highly to give him
nllltur at In rd"to secure his
ha?l 2fi i'd0ni', how.ever S iutothe
hall and claws the wires of the door-bell.
i hen the door is opened to admit the sun
"f ;'!:Vtor Lf. PP 't. Hist nVk iu t his
o;l." ,UZ? rere,J' and ,u" I" in
vi uve genius will bv& to IMt son.eoUr
metoni vi
A man at Lock Haven, Pa., recently
found a wasps' nest, with its occupants ap
parently all frozen to death. He w as heed
lessly throwing it about, when one of the
insects fell down the back of his neck.
The warmth revived the little yellow jack
et, a sudden glow suffused the man's face,
aud he commenced undressing iu a hurried
manner, talking to himself all the time
with great volubility and animation. He
has since altered his opinion as U the effect
of cold on wasps.
The deaths of the past year in the
Pennsylvania coal mines resulted from the
following canses : By falls of coal, 25 ;
falls of rock and top slate, 8 ; falls into roll
ers, screens and machinery, 4 ; explosions
of gas, 17 ; explosions of powder, 3 ; dis
charge of blasts, 1 ; beini: crushed with
mine wagons, 9 : crushed with mine tim
bers, 3 ; falling in slopes, shafts, and from
cages, 12 ; suffocating, 3 ; making the total
80, and of the number reported as injured
only 27 have since died, swelling the actual
mortality to 118.
A monomaniac, by the name of Wil
liam Rysam Gracie, died in New Yoikcity
recently, who, for over fifty years, bas be
lieved that he was the grandson of Prince
Charles Edward Stuart, who died at Rome.
January 30, 178. lie claimed the title of
William the Fifth, Kiig of Euglaud. His
strange hallucination alienated his family
from him, so that for many years Le has
lived alone. He always had a pistol anil
clasp-knife under his pillow, as he was con
tinually haunted with the idea that tho
present dynasty of Great Britain wasin ac
tive conspiracy to take his life.
Salt Lake City has been greatly excited
by the report of the President's so-called
"aggressive policy" towards Utah, and by
the report that troops are to be transferred
to that Territory. The Salt Lake "News,"
Mormon organ, says that if the news prove
true, the faint-hearted would do well to get
out of the way, but those who are deter
mined to endure to the end will welcome
the occasion to prove faithful, though even
unto death. The Evening Journal, Gen
tile, says loyal people were never more en
couraged and hopeful than now in view of
the stern determination of the President to
enforce the l-ws.
An awkward question has arise in
Kansas. What shall be done with the
money that Senator Y'ork says he received
from Senator Pomeroy? Seven thousand
dollars is a sum too large to take care of
itself. Y'ork handed it to the officers of
the Legislature, "quit claiming" his title.
It does not belong to the officers, and it in
not likely that Senator Pomeroy will claim
it, if it ever was his. In fact, this sn jg lit
tle sum seems to be knocking about with
out an owner. This is a remarkable fact
in Kansas iHilitic", and if, in tho course of
human events, it should turn out that it
shall escape all the private traps which are
uiua-ly ret for waifs of that soit, and find
its way into the Slate treasury, then there
is seme room to hope that even tLo tricks
of politicians Lave a limit.
A Wiscoxsix Teamtf.r Eatex by
Wolves. A Chicago correspondent of the
X. Y. World, writing under date of Feb.
l"th, says: Hail advices from the little
town of New London, Wis., brings news
of the discovery of a terrible tragedy near
Perry's Mills. As ITeiurich iihu-h, a Ger
man farmer, was comiti out c f the wor-ds
north of the mills his attention was at tract
ed by t': appearance of the otherwise un
broken snow round a largo tree. The crust
was broken and bloody, aud upon it lay a
heap of what seemed robes or furs sur
rounded by various indescribable objects.
Going nearer, he was surprised and horri
fied to discover that the heap of robes was
a pile composed of the bsnlies of two dead
wolves and a dead dog. all gashed and torn.
The other things were the skeleton cf a
man, from which nearly all the t'.esh and
entrails had been picked, some of the bones
being quite torn ott" and lying in the inor
at some distance, bearing marks of abra
sion from the sharp teeth of the nierciless
brutes. Some rags of bloody c'othing were
there. The feet of the skeleton, which
were encased in very heavy boots and thick
e x ks, had escaped. The probability seems
that the unfortunate man was a lumberer,
going from one camp to anothar, who was
overtaken by the pack and killed ere he
could climb a tree, after a stubborn fight.
The immensely deep snows and consequent
scarcity of game have made the wolves,
usually cowardly, desperately tierce, so
that the miserable man's fate must have
been what conjecture, shuddering, hets it
down.
-YE r A L Villi TISK3IIJX TS.
l.-) SAMPLES pent bv mail for 53f. that retail
1 J-i. quick for !0. It. b. VTOLCUTT, 1st CU
j thaiu-eqiiare. New York.
17-MPbOYMENT.
J'.OO per week. Ajent ai.d
JLJ others to sa.'l a new article.
lrnlWDi.. slile
l. merchants and manfai-tnrers. Addr-s w ith
6tiDp, E. Ii. Smith Co., So Liuerty-st., N. Y.
! AGENTS! A RARE CHANCE ! !
! We will par all Ai?fnts 10 per week is cun
tt us; in rnifny- wiiii us at o:-B. Kvery i!iinr
furnished and XTerf pnid. ddre. "
A. tvJl'bTER ic CO.. ChM lotte, Mich.
"W AXTyT) 1F vorwiin TO HIT Y
J-Xj-L,A SEWING MACHINE
for fumilv use, or act asajrent, address V ash
i.voto Sewing Machine Co., Hoton, Mass.
W'VNTED tocmri'"Vt'orthespriinrand sam
7 7, ,ner- 'HOML TKACHEKS nnd
other nt fill sent mrn. to solicit for mv reir. !
aide, hrautviilh; UUftratct an-1 eair-Ketlin? -,i,
iicMtions. Before ninkinr other eng-aifeiut-nts.
addrebs. statin experience, if any
II. C. JUH.NauN, 700 Arch st.,"rhiladelpl.ia.
A KIKST-CLASS BUSINESS for a rcMatdi
V, h tho nssrar:cc of making from iTI.OMo
-j.h ?o 8 'ear',oan be secured, in connection
" "ency for the exclu-ive sale of work
BB,TAT- HaRHIET UEECnKR Siowe, ic
w rite for particulars to J. IJ. FOUI & CO
lork; Boston ; Chicago; or San Francisco'.' "
Especial Attention
Of m n nil For.... . I i ,
vv "! wm. nave oecome distrusted
wttn the odors of Paraffins Oils and their ill ef
fect upon machinev. is invited to
S" fT Ne!!0,r,r.'8 Prrm Knjrine Oil ff. 11.20 al
I" u rJm Spindle " 1.15 ,U.
K. If, Ive oKlr sl ow Engine W l.lo a.
K. H. Hello- a Tallow Spindle " 1.05 j ua
.Manufactured oniy bv
ii. 11. KELLdtia. X.. 17 rA-, r- v- i-
Tirst Prsffiirn pJ M in Ttt ti
WAK.Udl.lU.l
Dnilt.:. Kioval..! i , i- .
.... .... .... . c-u, ii ariuiDir I n.t T?rnW
in Door, Fender Guard. Dumn , a ii-
Grate. Direct Draft. KfJl W Ai?i,'?-l!n?'
CO., 236 Watter slrect, N. Y. AKiIO. i
The Gcini? i n.,Ki.-i... j
If to mm
r The Hrt .."v?u te1PW.'?rt-iDB.
formekiiiir Itaral n. . . Vul' rivin- plans
tics, Window 0?rt?ii & Tble
t ;ati ,n lnvnbiQ "i tl"b,nd H """ssof lurt.r-
13ra-esoi,L, Hnte,t - Ver cf f "'.
v.nirs, and it M.perb V l r-B,-"n( 5srt
-ver Th Fi t V . J i,,st s,i1 '
JAni's ViVk r"'
I,octtter, V. V.
WORKING CLASS -'".h 7:;
spectabiee:nDlovp,ent Ir"' K '-l
iu. capital requir, i; tuiU- 1
ilriii. with kit M...t. 4 : !
4 CO., 1J CortJnciJi-st., v
(;anvari(; mm k
PROF. FOWLER'S GRfSST
ter-rrlatioas; Loc, It, i" ur
Agents areai-l.ii,... fr,M r6,
work a duy.Hiid wes'nj Jr-'
to any book af-nt. Ad'Jrei "h i
etc., Natioml r-Vi iJ?";' ht 't s ?
Ii io oi rs,'ijo' -ij
Ry ABBOTT, JVt y.U,. win. "n Ii'
rru-.si.oi War. and ii c . "''o..
tuhrs Bnd tho then r,Vr 'r ' 1
work of tl.e day. Exelu, r, ,'J'
competition. AdJr.- . , , err '-.r ,
and 2W .,u;nV't 11',
Ar.EVT? W-A.vrvr, , ! ''
BEHIND THE SCCfU
The qntcfc.st sHUr? .,,, '. ' '
nl! ahour the -ear rr:t w . t
torfal mit,ori.s. foi,er''""l;
end th wonilerful !jfi.;s',.f t '.'i
till. Th- demnnd for it u I"' ' ":
rltory. S,.ivl Tor Hrori,,, 'I?','"1 '
end a f'i'l d.c.ip;iOI, ,,f
New i ork. J L'J
Masoa & 13
Cabinet Grsa!
! THE OMY
Americsn v:.
cf Slirh. txUi,,
a: I-....
1
nlztl xcclie.it-.' :t to
Europe, Di.lwiibsTun.
with product of chti
'"1.U..1C". . ..
II WtVC awards! uhtM t,r. .
.iLll.ilOdine the M..,j.-t; !'.. ' ' '
billon. Of luin.li-e'U -f !n ...-;, L . ,
thert have not bcr-n ?:r s ; w
organs have been preferr I t . .",."
L ) ' rco:...:.. !,;,,?
It ..
c-llei!ci s not attained nr.t
lone of o k T .vsa M'. i.i Teifi--.'. '
EU'LISIYEU inventions i-
ev.-rv real in;prov.-nji i r.
THE .MOST EXTENSIVE :!v :
producing better wuri ht
ir--,, c
wipe po"4i r.'e.
is htc i. rn ."w
I illl Li? I l.LU r n t : : I .
onfy bet material ari l .r.j-
T I Ml M . 1, t : Jt 5 I ' 1. 1 1.-, if , 7(
....milllUAHIFI 1 ,11.1.. a. n ;in; y .
I'l lit HAM Its IkOM b!v- M?Tlv
nu-LeF i.MFiuoB i:: i.nr.y.;V i.
KtTS OK lAllii.T Or li.tH . 1;., j..
I I.LI..
M.S! ii fJAMLIX m
154 TKrMfixT St.. I!-)ST ; r. 5.
Nsw Y'.ns; So and Ki A u m-
NOTICii la heret-y iv:i si ..(
Account have t oen piui.-! r:
Kiter'8 OiJice nt Ebein-bur. k. .'
pei.ted to the Or!tn," Ccui I ! t
ly. for confirmation and .va:-i .
Jat. the 5;.'i rf.:y Mu r?i ?irt.
The account of f'eu-r ;ck. i;.t
It ichenyelir, only surviving- ei.il, 1 .-:
ei.ifchr. lateof i!u tioroiitrb of Ir.h"
'1 he fir&t .uid tinal aci-.ut.t -r M
Admtntttri'.tor of CitjwL-"Ui Thunisi
borough of r.:oiiburx, decent
iu; nri account i im.-?i jain:r , .(-;.;
aim. or J&I.F, t.nviiin. umi.i, .
and Kacho! Ioi'lr, minor ct.i
I.'.-idy, laie or Jac kn towps'.:i
The firm account of Jac.it .'1
dian of Mary.Tat.o R's. u r.:h.
!t.f, lute of Kirhl . il l tv... .' ,
The first and jarlinl nee,..--,. .
cy nnd HiikIi a!l:isr!'er. A :
Gulre. late of (ini.i'zin tov .-; .:
T!. oerount of Ernnci . ; r
tor of ifary Mctiuiie, lute cf i,
dce-d.
The account of Ju!i:i A . T'.
of thi.ip llaifor. Ite uf Jm- ,. ...
The first account of (;.-,,.
tor of lr. Ferdinand lip- ... :.v 4
o-!rh of Jolmstowr.. ie.--..
I-itial account of Wi m ."-''.;
of Francis I.everjfood. z.. .--r .w..-i .;
I.evnroo.1, dee'd.
First and final af -rr rf J -, 1'. I
AdmiiiUtrator of Mt-l.ci i'-it c -'c '
field township. dec"d.
The account of Jo-eel. I- Vr ".t. A r
tor of Joseph 3aek. i t- . ' .'a-.! t.im;.
Tne ftecwunt of John Marw-m. Gj
Aatrdalen Mellon. Eir.i.y N..i ai ." '
Napie, in. nor children i ! K.-.i.ir- ii N;
censed.
The account of C. T. P--?.!-.t. A!.:.
of; liavid Ii. Uobcits. rtt- i f L t-..i .
oiiirU. deceased.
Hie first sill final aecrrr.? ''. r---Guar.iiauof
Mary E.tavr 1 . v.-.
with Charles l'.endcr.. a r ci. .
Carroll, deccafe-1.
The account of .".fan-1 1 Pfzi r v
Afurray. Ete-uti r if E. ?u.i .:
Lt.enburif. de.-ersed.
Th first account of . II : s- r. ."
tor of the last win and 'ft..-; !'.'
tar1. late o: the horot..'ii ' J.!s.t
The first and f,w. h-.i":. t Tr.
(urcMan of Kks-M. a -
f Jamea Carroll. .niTj-ti
The second xr.il .irtial a.-c'"'t
Secii.er, E(i.. Adn-inisistors
f !, late of buinmitvij:. dec'-!.
JAMF.1 m ?iN-;n'..:-
Reg-hster's Offloe, Etei;s: lira. V-:-:
Widows' Appra5.3er:c"i
otice U hereby yiren that tV- " i
proval, on Wcilnrtdur
to wit :
Inventory andappra;.oincr:: .
prty elected lo bo retnineo bv l'i
er, iriiiuw of Christlau l.tr , 'e-:.i
naaufb bcro-iffh. dee'd. t. ' .
Inventory of persons; proeeit i '
at si fcrt for Anrv E. Ad;;.n. :
A Jams, late of Viiiin u.:i t"
Appraisements of rertnin rca. -to
be retained bv Fllzaba-.li V. r '
Dan'l MiiJr, 1st of Lorctu. U n -M
10.80.
Appraisament of certain "rf, .
sat apart for Ihe' use cf i!v.r A--'
widow of ltr Kerri.-.-. '.aie .'
township, deoeastd. '!-." . - .
Inventory and cpprai-e.-::-nt (.'f '
rerty elected to be i ctn;i.c H
Isaac Rslshai-'. late cf K:c:..ui ui-i
eeassd. SiSlOO.
jA'jt? m. -
Keslstr"s Offlos, Ei.nt mv. tr"-jj
Kxcoutoi s" '';
"ATII-I be otTere.l i. pi:! ':. ' :'
on HsturilsT. the 1st !sy
tho followji-jf Kenl Effite: -lL
TAIN PIECE OK I.ANKi- ; f '
r.a township. Cambria c-'ci ': 11
or Wm. Weaklund, Job."! II- "' "
KietCd Xslf. and o;hrr. r
6J Acrs beinfr cleared. i:aJ"r
cellent fanninif condi'i :i. f'( '
I
timt.ered. 1 he improvureu
Ioir House and a llxnt H i":
T:!
if'':
Lie and posesioa ivm i::-.'
TKSJIS OF Sl f-I (iif.felll 15
a nee in three equal annual l-ajf;;.
cureu Djr Dona bud n:i.njs
j.ihn- siyv ,
I1L.NKV
Bcrecutnrg pt
Feb. 7, 1873.-ti.
.Ii (. . Jit l v -
ir;..). . ; tii.i :
I mwi I I
'PHE und" - rned will hS-t si P
X TI BSDAl, .Hnrrh lllh,!;
valuable lr-ji of rrr"l
which are clearf d -the bHl:ii'? I!l
situatrd in AlU-irhciiT '
i a., i.eiwecn l.ort i n. a"" , u
nnprovwments are a iron.! i'. '" .. ,,
t.iininK- 9 rooms, a splendid Har" .
sury Outbuildings, and t r-
supply of water and an ' y,"r l'-'T-r
There are twelve acres m ?nll"-,f'i.V
was fornierlv owned hy .l.ii:' ' 3 ' : ;,,
will be sold. I. ire Stock. I arian-
Terms made known at i-jlc tr'
Fcb.T.-ts. t A-l
COLLINS, JOHNSTON i J
ILL receive money on
ntxl e.iiloj.r mits. fl:iu ' '"
busines.-. usuully drnc ly Ifc'.yVTi'V iV
bcptJW.tf. GEO. C. K.Z-Aii
tcj
Proprrtv of decedein?. self-.!' i 'f
for the tVidowa of inTetaie ;n - - I
Aeinb!y of Hth Ajiri). A. ii . K. ' I
Oled in the Ke(rister ofii-e at 1- I
will I c predated to the ri ! art 1
th'b-J. 1
W. DICK, .rr-vsr a;;
eimbiirc". I'-l. " '- '"' '
J. L'OVd S f.- b'J'.l
n-.nuuerof Irni l-.:-.!- '
I , t .1-1 ; v.. t J- -' ' - y 1 '