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VOL. 47.
The Huntingdon Journal. United States Laws. the postal administration of the country
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and in conformity with the regulations
J. R. DURBORROW, - - J. A. NASH, [OFFICIAL.]
established or to be established in that
PUBLISHERS AND PROPRIETORS. L _A_ IV' S country.
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Office on the Corner of Bath and Washington streets. OP THE ARTICLE 12.
.'''. Hoirrixonox JoueNAL is published every UNITED STATES At the close of each quarter three cop-
Wednesday, by J. R. DURBORROW and J. A. 'gasp, ies of an account shall be pikpared and
under the firm name of J. R. Dunnoartow & Co, at PASSED AT THE transmitted by the office at London, ex
-52,00 per annum, IN ADVANCE, or $2,50 if not paid FIRST SESSION OF THE FORTY- hibiting the balance found due on the ex
for in six months from date of subscription, and
SECOND CONGRESS.
$3 if not paid within the year. changes of orders during the quarter ;
No paper discontinued, unless at the option of -- which balance, after proper verification,
the publishers, until all arroarages are paid. CONVENTION shall, if due by the United States office,
ADVERTISEMENTS will he inserted at Tex
CENTS per line for each of the first four insertions, BETWEEN be paid at London; but if due by the
and cuss casts per line for each subsequent inset- The General Post Office of the United British office, it shall be paid at New
Lion less than three months.
Regular monthly and yearly advertisements will States of America and the General Post York, and always in the money of the
be inserted at the following rates : Office of the United Kingdom of Great country to which the payment is made.
Britain and Ireland. If, pending the settlement of an account,
3telenil 9 mlly 8m 6m 9m ly one of the two postal administrations shall
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g n gon i n 0011,1 00 1 1800 e34soso es to go States of America, and the general post exceeding one thousand pounds sterling,
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office of the United Kingd im of Great the indebted administration shall promptly
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Britain and Ireland, being desirous of es- remit the approximate amount of such bal-
Special notices will be inserted at TWELVE AND
tablishing • h .• fordersThis ac-
A. HALF CENTS per line, and local and editorial no- dn exc an, = ,e o money ance to the credit of the other.
aces at FIFTEEN CENTS per line. between the two countries, the undersign- count, and the letters which accompany
All Resolutions of Associations, Communications ed,
riages and Deaths, exceedin g duly authorized for that purpose, have such intermediate remittance, shall be in
of limited or individual interest, and notices of Mar
five li nes, w ill b e agreed upon the following articles : accordance with the Fornia,C. D, and E,
charged TEN ewers per line. ARTICLE 1. annexed to this convention.
Legal and other notices will be charged to the ARTICLE 13.
party having them inserted. There shall be a regular exchange of
Advertising Agents must find their commission money orders between the two countries. Until the two general post offices shall
outside of these figures. The maximum of each order is fixed at ten consent to an alteration, it is agreed that,
All advertising accounts are due and collectable
token the advertisement i 8 once inserted. pounds sterlin g , in all matters of account relative to money
: when issued in the United
JOB PRINTING of every kind, in Plain and Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, orders which shall result from the execu-
Fancy Colors, done with neatness and dispatch.- and when issued in the United States, at tion of the present convention, the pound
Hand-bills Blanks, Cards, Pamphlets, &c., of every
variety and style, printed at the shortest notice, fifty dollars in the national paper currency sterling of Great Britain shall be consid
and every thing in the Printing line will be execu- of the latter country. ered as equivalent to four dollars and eigh
ted in the most artistic manner and at the lowest ARTICLE 2. ty-six cents of the gold coin of the United
rates. States.
The British post office shall have power
- ARTICLE 14.
Professional Cards. to fix the rates of commissio Kingdom ney
Each exchange office shall certify its
orders issued in the United and
the United States post office shall have the orders to the other in amounts designated
regard CALDWELL, Attorney-at-Law, same power in to all money orders in the denominations of the money both of
Dehro. 111, 3d street. Office formerly occupied issued in the United States. Each office the dispatching and receiving country at
by Messrs. Woods & Williamson. [apl2,'7l. shall communicate to the other its tariff of the rate of conversion established upon the
charges or rates of commission which shall basis of gold by article 13 of this conven-
Dll. R. R. WIESTLING, be paid in advance by the remitter, and tion. This conversion shall be checked at
respectfully offers his professional services the receiving office of exchange.
y even ,be repaya e. It
shall not, in an t able.
to the citizens of Huntingdon and vicinity.
Office removed to No. 8181 Hill street, (Sacra's is understood, moreover, that each office is ARTICLE 15.
Be:0m.) (apr.5,11-Iy. authorized to suspend, temporarily,_the All payments for money orders, whether
DR. J.
of money orders in case the to or by the public, if not in gold, shall be
offers his professional services to the citizens
course of exchange or any other circum- made to the nearest practicable equivalent.
J. C. FLEMMING respectfully
of Huntingdon and vicinity. Office second floor of stance should give rise to abuses or cause ARTICLE 16.
Cunningham's building, on corner of 4th and Hill detriment to the postal revenue.
Street. may 24. The value, in gold coin of the United
ARTICLE 3. States, of deposits in paper money made
DR.. A. B. BRUMBAUGH, offers his Each country shall keep the commission in that country for payment in Great Bri
professional services to the community. charged on all money orders issued within thin, shall be determined at the exchange
Office, No. 523 Washington street, one door east it, but shall pay to the other country one office of New York, according to the rate
or the Catholic Parsonage. [jan.4,'7l.
per cent. on the total amount of such or- of premium on gold on the day of receipt
V J. GREENE, Dentist. Office re- at that office of notification of such depos
ders.
-s•s• moved to Leister's new building, Hill street,
Ye-itingdon. [jan.4,'7l. ARTICLE 4. its. On the other hand, the value, in
No money order shall include a fraction.
United States paper currency, of money
(1 L. ROBB, Dentist, office in S. T., al part of a penny or of a cent. orders certified in the list sent from the
A-- 4 • Brown's new building, No. 520, all St., exchange office of London to the exchange
Huntingdon, Pa: [apl2,'7l. ARTICLE 5. office of New York, shall be determined
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GLAZIER, Notary Public, corner
The service of the postal money-order (also atNew York) in accordance with the
- • of Washington and Smith streets, Hun-
or
system between the two countries shall be premium - on gold on the day of the receipt
a a
tingdon, Pa. Dan.l2'7l. performed exclusively by the agency of of such lists.
offices of exchange. On the part of the ARTICLE 17. -
••C. MADDEN, C. MADDEN, Attorney-at-Law. United States, the office of exchange shall Orders which shall not have been paid
• • Office, No. -, Hill street, Huntingdon, be New York, and on the part of the Uni-
Pa. [ap.19,1 within twelve elve calendar months from - the
ted Kingdom, London. month of issue shall become void, and the
JSYLVANUS BLAIR, Attorney-at- ARTICLE .6. sums received shall accrue to, and remain
• Law, Huntingdon, Pa. Office, Hill street, Any person in the United States deli- at, the disposal of the country of origin.
three doors west of Smith. Dan.4'7l, ring to remit to the United Kingdom a The British office shall, therefore, enter to
sum of money within the limits prescribed the credit of the United States in the
T R. PATTON, Druggist and Apoth
r-, • wary, opposite the Exchange Hotel, Hun- by article 1, may pay it intoany post office quarterly account all money orders entered
tingdon, Pa. Prescriptions accurately compounded. in the United States designated for such in the lists received from the United States
Pure Liquors for Medicinal purposes. [n0v.23,'70. purpose from time to time, by the post- which remain unpaid at the end of the
__THALL MUSSER, Attorney-at-Law, master general of that country. Such per- period specified.
V • No. 319 Hill st., Huntingdon; Pa. [jan.4,'7l.son shall at the same time give the name On the other hand, the United States
and address of the person to whom the office shall, at the close of each month,
:1 R. DURBORROW, Attorney-at-
amount is to be paid in the United King- transmit to the British office, for entry in
V • Law, Huntingdon, Pa., will practice in the
door, and his own name and address. the quarterly account, a detailed statement
several Courts of Huntingdon county. Particular Any person in the United Kingdom de- of all all orders included in the list dis
attention given to the settlement of estates of deco- siring to remit to the United States a sum patched from the latter office, which, under
dents.
Office in he JOURNAL Building. [feb.l,ll. of money, within the same limits, may pay this article, become void.
it into any money-order office of the Uni- ARTICLE 18.
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JW. MATTERN, Attorney-at-Law ted Kingdom, giving at the same time the Repayment of orders to remitters scull
• - and General Claim Agent, Huntingdon, Pa., name and exact address of the person to not be made until an authorization for such
Soldiers' claims against the Government for back whom the amount is to be paid in the repayment shall first have been obtained
pay, bounty, widows' and invalid pensions attend- United States, and his own name and ad- by the country of issue from the country
ed to with great care and promptness.
Office on Hill street. [jan.4,'7l. dress. where such orders were payable, and the
- The receiving postmaster in either amounts of the repaid orders shall be duly
- F r- ALLEN LOVELL, Attorney-at- country shall, in accordance with the rules credited to the former country in the
"•• • Law, Huntingdon, Pa. Special attention established by his postal administration, quarterly account. It is the province of
given to COLLECTIONS of all kinds ; to the settle-
anent of Estates, Ac.; and all other Legal Business notify every such payment to the dispatch- each postal administration to determine in
prosecuted with fidelity and dispatch. ing exchange office. the manner in which repayment to the re-
Ad- Office in room lately occupied by R. Milton The postmaster of New York, upon re-
Speer, Esii. r i 4 miner is to be made.
-sn ' '7l ' ' ceipt of every notification of that kind, ARTICLE 19.
MILES ZENTMYER, Attorney-at- shall make out and forward to the payee The orders issued by each country on
Law, Huntingdon, Pa.. will attend promptly in the United Kingdom a money order the other shall be subject, as regards pay
to all legal business. Office in Cunningham's new payable in sterling at the post office in that melt, to the regulations which govern the
building. Lia11. 4, ' 71 . country designated by the remitter of the payment of inland' orders of the country
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Buciw , AN. order, it being understood that the money
a- ALLISON MILLER.
MILLER 4 BUCHANAN, orders so remitted shall be sent, in the first on which they are drawn.
ARTICLE 20.
instance, to the controller of the money
DENTISTS, order office in London, and shall not be The general post office in each country
No. 228 Hill Street, subject to postage. be authorized to adopt any additional rules
HUNTINGDON, PA. ARTICLE 7. (if not repugnant to the foregoing) for the
April 5, '7lily. greater security against fraud, or for the
By every mail the exchange office of
better working of the system
each country shall send to the exchange generally.
10* M. & M. S. LYTLE, Attorneys- All such additional rules, however, must
office of the other country a certified list
A- • at-Law, Huntingdon, Pa., will attend to be promptly communicated to the post of
all kinds of legal business entrusted to their care. of sums payable in that country, and re-
Office on the south side of Hill street, fourth door ceived since the dispatch of the previous five of the other country.
west of Smith. Dan.4;7l. list. ARTICLE 21.
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As soon as any such list shall have The present convention shall take effect
RI A. ORBISON, Attorney-at-Law, reached the New York office and been ve- on the first day of October next, and shall
-1-1/• Office, 321 Hill street, Huntingdon Pa. r j • 71. rifled, this office shall make out inland continue in force until twelve months after
[may 31,'71. '
' money orders in favor of the payees for the the date at which one of the contracting
Jo'. SCOTT. S. T. BROWN. •J. M. BAILEY amount specified in the list, and shall parties shall have notified the other its
SCOTT, BROWN & BAILEY, At- promptly forward them to the payees or to intention to terminate it.
torneys-at-Law, Huntingdon, Pan Pensions the paying office, in conformity with the Done in duplicate and signed in London
and all claims of soldiers and soldiers' heirs against regulations existing in the United States, on the thirtieth day of June, in the year
the Government will be promptly prosecuted. for the payment of money orders. of our Lord one thousand eight hundred
Office on Hill street. Dan.4,'7l.
The list forwarded to the United King- and seventy-one, and in Washington on the
dom shall be accompanied by the relative twenty-seventh day of July, in the year of
rir W. MYTON, Attorney-at-Law, Hun-
-A- • tingdon, Pa. Office with J. Sewell Stewart, letters of adviceone thousandeighthundredand
Esq.
of the orders entered our Lord
Esq. Ljan.4.'7l. therein, together with the orders them- seventy-one.
selves, as already settled in article 6. Af- [SEAL.] JNO. A. J. CRESWELL,
WiLLIAM A. FLEMING, Attorney_ ter comparison with the list, the advises Postmaster General of the United States.
at-Law, Huntingdon, Pa. Special attention shall be dispatched - to the offices drawn [sEAL.] W. MONSELL,
given to oolleotione, and all other legal business upon, and the letter inclosing the orders Her Majesty's Postmaster General.
attended to with earn and promptness. Office, No.
229, Hill street. [,,, i iiv r i . posted for delivery. 'hereby approve the aforegoing conven-
The lists, by means of which each office tion, and in testimony thereof I have caused
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. Miscellaneous. shall be according to the Forms A and B, U. S. GRANT.
annexed. By the President :
ECHANGE HOTEL, Huntingdon, ARTICLE 8. [SEAL.] HAMILTON FISH,
Pa. JOHN S. MILLER, Proprietor. Sezretary of State.
The lists dispatched from each office of
January 4, 1371. WASHINGTON, July 27,1871.
• exchange shall be numbered consecutively,
GO TO THE JOU RNAL OFFICE commencing• with No. lat the beginning A. ,
For all kinds of printing. of each year, and the entries aloe in these List No.
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lists shall have consecutive numbers, those
in the lists from the United Kingdom !Stomp of New York Oity.l
NEAR THE RAILROAD DEPOT, commencingeach calender month with '
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COB. WAYNE and JUNIATA STREETT No. 1.
Of each list dispatched from New York,
UNITED STATES HOTEL, a duplicate shall be sent, which duplicate
HOLLIDAYSBURG, PA. shall, after being verified at the British
M'CLAIN it CO., PROPRIETORS. Mdls-tf office, be returned to New York.
ROBT. KING, Merchant Tailor, 412 ARTICLE 9.
Washington street, Huntingdon, Pa., any list fail to be received, in
oral shareof patronage respectfully Pa., a lib-
solicited. due course, the dispatching office shall, on
A piill2, 1871. receiving information to that effect, trans- SIR : I have the honor to transmit to
--- ---- mit without delay a duplicate of the list, you herewith, in duplicate, a list contain-
LEWISTOWN BOILER WORKS. duly certified as such. ing a detailed statement of the sums re-
SNYDER, WEIDNER it CO., Manufac- ARTICLE 10. ceived in the United States since my last
uteri of Locomotive and Stationary Boilers, Tanks, dispatch (List No. -) for orders
Pipes, Filling-Barrows for Furnaces, and Sheet Each office of exchange shall promptly
Payable in Great Britain and Ireland,
Iron Work of every description. Works on Logan communicate to the other the correction of
street, Lewistown, Pa. amo tinting in te aggregate to $-.
any simple error which it may discover in
All orders promptly attended to. Repairing Be pleased to examine, complete, and
done at short notice. [Apr 5,'71,1y.. the verification of the list. When the return to me thotriginal copy of this list,
list shall show irregularities which the re- with your acknowledgment of its receipt
ceivin,g office shall not be able to rectify,
A R. BECK, Fashionable Barber indorsed thereon.
that office shallapply for an explanation
- 4 --L-5 and Hairdresser, Bill street, opposite thel am, respectfully, your obedient ser-
Franklin House. All kinds of Tonics and Pomades from' the dispatching office; and this ex- van , ,
kept on hand and for sale. [apiB,ll-8m planation shall be afforded without delay. Postmaster, New York.-
ARTICLE 11. To the Controller Money-Order office,
London.
COLORED PRINTING DONE AT
lJ the Journal Office, at Philadelphia price.
The Huntingdon Journal.
Duplicate orders shall only be issued by
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London,— —, 187—.
SIR : I have examined this list of money
orders from No. --• to No. —, inclu
sive, for sums received in the United States
for payment in the United Kingdom,
amounting in the aggregate to $ ,
and which is to be paid to the net amount
ofd —s. —d.
The said list was found to be correct,
with the following exceptions : '
I am, sir, your obedient servant,
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Controller.
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To THE POSTMASTER
MONEY-ORDER EXCHANGE OFFICE,
New York,
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MONEY ORDERS ISSUED IN THE
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BALANCE
To Credit of British Office
Amount of international orders issued in the
One per cent on amount of such issue
Amount of void order. of British Wee so per
tabie
Amount of international orders repaid in the I
United Kingdom as per table
Converted lit sterling.
United States credit to be deducted.
Balance to credit of British office.
Paid on account by the office of the United
States
Amounts.
1 £
ri d
.
Balance remaining
BALANCE.
Me Credig of United States Office.
Amount of international orders issued in Me l
United Kingdom
One per cent. on amount of each Mena..
Amount of void order. of United State. Pone
as per table
Amount of international orders repaid in thel
United States as per table
Converted Into doliare
British credit to be deducted
Balance to credit of United Slates office
Paid on account by the office of Greot Britain
maul
Balance remaining.- .. .
The within account exhibits a total bal
ance of , which, after deduction of
the payments on account as therein stated,
leaves a balance remaining of due
the office.
(Signature of proper accounting officer
of the British office.)
The above statement of account is ac
cepted with a balance of due the
office. •
Jluditor of the Treasury for the Post Office
Department.
WASHINGTON, lB7—.
The payment on account of - hav
ing been receipted by special vouchers, the
receipt of the balance remaining of
is hereby acknowledged.
187-.
No. —.
MONEY-ORDER OFFICE,
London, 187—.
SIR : The list of international money
orders which the exchange office
has transmitted to the New York exchange
office from to , 187—, amount
to the sum of £ , equal to $
The list transmitted by the New
York office to the office
during the same period, amount
to $
Difference
On account of which the British
office has already paid the follow
ing sums, viz :
18-
- 18-
- 18-
- 18—
Difference remaining.....
In accordance with the terms of article
7of the convention-of --, a bill of
exchange on New York for $-- is
heiewith transmitted, the receipt of which
you will be pleased to acknowledge in due
form.
To the POSTMASTER GENERAL
OF THE UNITED STATES,
Washington.
No.-
POST-OFFICE DEPARTMENT,
Washington, D. p.,
SIR : The - list of international money
orders which the exchange office of New
York has transmitted to the exchange of
fice of from 187—, amount
to the sum of B—, equal to £
The lists transmitted by the ex
change office -- to the
New York office durinr , b
the
same period, amount to £
Difference.
On account of which the
United States office has already
paid the following sums :
—lB— '
18-
- 18—
Difference remaining £
In accordance with the terms of article
7 of the convention of , 18—=, a bill
of exchange on London for is
herewith transmitted, the receipt of whioh
you will be pleased to acknowledge in due
form.
Superintendent Money-Order Office.
To the POSTMASTER GENERAL, &C.,
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London, England.
[GENERAL NATURE—NO. 11.]
AN ACT for convening the next legisla
tive assembly of the Territory of New
Mexico, and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of
Representatives of the United States of
America in Congress assembled, That the
legislature of the Territory of New Mexi
co be, and is hereby, authorized to con
vene on the first Monday of December,
A. D., eighteen hundred and seventy-one;
and that an election for the members of
both branches of said legislature be au
thorized to be herd on the day of the next
general election, under the existiag laws
of said Territory.
Approved, April 20, 1871.
[GENERAL NATURE—NO. 15.]
AN ACT to establish certain post roads.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of
Representatives of the United States of
rlmerica in Congress assembled, That the
following be, and are hereby, established
as post roads :
INDIANA
From Martinsville, via Oakfarm and Nash
vine, to Elkinsville.
From Franklin, via Bargersville and
Cope, to Martinsville.
Approved, April 20, 1871.
[GENERAL NATURE—NO. B.]
AN ACT for the restoration of Comman
der George A. Stevens, United States
navy, to the active from the retired list.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of
Representatives of the United States of
america in Congress assembled, That the
President of the United States be, and is
hereby authorized to nominate, and by
and with the advice and consent of the
Senate appoint, George A. Stevens to the
active list of the navy, with the rank of
lieutenant commander.
Approved, April 19, 1871.
[RESOLUTION OF GENERAL NATURE.]
A RESOLUTION authorizing the ap
pointment of a Commissioner to an In
ternational Congress on Penitentiary
and Reformatory Discipline.
Resolved by the Senate and House of
Representatives of the United States of
america in Congress assembled, That -the
President be, and he is hereby, authorized
to appoint a commissioner to attend an in
ternational congress on penitentiary and
reformatory discipline, proposed to be held
in Europe; but the said appointment
shall not authorize any expenditure of
money from the treasury for expenses, and
must be accepted upon this express con
dition.
Approved, March 20, 1871.
[GENERAL NATURE—NO. 12.1
AN ACT ooncerning the compensation of
the collector of customs for the district of
Willamette, in the State of Oregon.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House
of Representatives of the United States of
America in Congress assembled, That sec
tion one of the act approved June four
teenth, eighteen hundred and seventy, en
titled "An act to establish the collection
district of Willamette, in the State of Or
egon," shall be, and is hereby, amended
as tollows : Strike out all of the said sec
tion after the words "to reside at Port
land," and insert in lieu thereof, "and
said collector shall be allowed a salary at
the rate of one thousand dollars per an
num, with the fees alowed by law, and a
commission on all customs money collected
and accounted for by him, such salary,
fees, and commissions not to exceed at the
rate of three thousand dollars per annum."
Approved, April 20, 1871.
fading fax the *Win.
The Revising of the Civil Statutes ,
We have read an exceedingly able and
well written article on "The Revised Stat
ides," as published in the Legal Opinion,
of this city, in its last issue. It waa pre
pared in answer to a circular letter of a
committee of the Legislature, calling on
the legal profession of the State for sug
gestions and advise as to the work of the
revisors. The whole work of the Com
missioners has incurred the vituperative
lanimosity of a member of the Philadelphia
bar, who has made it the subject of a se
ries of communications published in a Phil
delphia paper. This writer not only op
poses this, but any revision. He condemns
any touching of the statutes, even though
it be to simply collect and collate the va
rious laws on the same subject, and place
them in order, harmonizing their arrang
ment, so that it did not take a Philadelphia
lawyer to tell what was the statute law of
Pennsylvania on any given subject. The
truth is, and it is beginning to be well and
generally understood, that the old prac
titioners of the law, who claim that they
have mastered the intricacies and obscuri
ties of the statutes as they now exist, are
hostile to any change of Purdon's Digest
as it is. They are opposed to any law which
would even expunge the repealing, re
dundant and discordant acts which go to
make up the unweildy size of the Pardon
of to-day. They would discontinuance
any pruning as an in intolerable inovation,
that would reduce the pages of that time
honored bilok from 1447 to 1446. They
are satisfied with it the way it is. It has
answered their purpose very well for very
many years, and such a change would take
away tiom them some' of the advantages
they enjoy over the younger members of
the profession, and, more than this, it
might make the statute law of the State so
plain, that many of the intricate and vex
atious suits continually arising as to the
real meaning of a law would not arise.
These old fogy lawyers are opposed to any
change in the world. They prefer, in fact,
the good old days of the stage coach and
canal packet to the bustling, busy, sharp,
noisy and quick step of the present . , with
our forty miles an hour railroads and light
ning telegraphs.
We are not of those who agree with
these ancient lights of their profession, and,
as all are interested in the law, we think
it should be as plain and simple as can be.
A man should not have to fee an attorney
to tell him what the statute law of the
State is. No ono can read the article re
ferred to in the Legal Opinion, and not be
satisfied that there is a necessity for some
revision of our State's statute law. The
writer says: "Our statutes are the accre
tions of one hundred and seventy years,
during all which time there has been no
general revision. In addition thereto we
have one hundred and ninety-one English
statutes, the accumulation of five centuries,
which are in force in this State. Frag
ments of these, scattered here and there,
have not been supplied by our legislation,
and are yet living law. The digest of
these statutes is a book of 400 pages. These
fragments of living law are as a few grains
of wheat bid in a bushel of chaff. Pur
don's Digest contains over 1,600 pages,
and each year adds thereto about:forty pa
ges. More than two-thirds of this bulk of
nearly 2,000 closely printed pages of stat
utory law, is composed of redundant enact
ments, obsolete law, and superfluous ver
biage. Can any one doubt that it would
be a vast benefit, not only to the profession,
but to the public, to reduce all this in a
compact digest of six or eight hundred pa
ges, with a complete index, and at the
same time make the statute law more sim
ple, plain and perfect."
We would be glad to publish the whole
of this article, but our space will not afford.
Whether the work of the present revisors
is so done as that it should be adopted by
the Legislature, as a whole, we are not pre
pared to say, but we are fully convinced
that some revision should be made to make
the statute law of our Commonwealth plain
enough for the information of the general
public. The attention of the Legislature
should be directed to the accomplishment
of that end.—State Journal.
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HONOR your business, or your business
will not honor you.
Prevailing Prayer.
There was a boy at Athens, according to
the old story, who used to boast that he
ruled all Athens, and when they asked him
how, he said : "Why, I rule my mother,
my mother rules any father, and my father
rules the city." He who knows how to
he master of prayer will rule the heart of
Christ, and Christ can and will do all
things for his people, for the father bath
committed all things into his hands. You
can be omnipotent if you know how to
pray, omnipotent in all things which glo
rify God. Oh, for more grace to grasp
almighty love in this fashion ! We want
more holdfast prayer ; more tugging, and
gripping, and wrestling prayer, that saith,
"I will not let Thee go." That picture of
Jacob at Jabbok shall suffice for us. The
covenant angel is there, and Jacob wants
a blessing from him; he seems to put him
off, but no put-offs will do for Jacob. Then
the angel attempts to escape from him, and
tugs and strives; so he may, but no efforts
shall make Jacob relax his grasp. At last
the angel falls from ordinary wrestling to
wounding • him in the very seat of his
strength ; and Jacob will let his thigh go
and all his limbs go, but he will not let the
angel go. The poor man's strength shriv
els under the withering touch, but in his
weakness he is still strong; he throws his
arms about the mysterious man, and holds
him as in a death grip. Then the other
says, "Let me go, for the day breaketh."
Mark, he did not shake him off, he only
said, "Let me go ;" the angel will do noth
to force him to relax his hold ; he leaves
that to his voluntary will. The valiant .
Jacob cries, "No, I am set on it, I am re
solved to win an answer to my prayer. I
will not let thee go except thou bless me."
Now, when the church begins to pray, it
may be at first the Lord will make as tho'
he would have gone further, and we may
think that no answer will bo given. Hold
on, dear brethren. Be steadfast, unmove
able, notwithstanding all. By-and-by it
may be, there will come discouragements
where we had looked for a flowing success;
we shall find brethren hindering, some will
be slumbering, and others sinning; back
sliders and impenitent souls will abound;
but let us not be turned aside. Only let
us be persevering in supplication, and we
shall gain a broad, far-reaching benedic
tion for ourselves, the churches, and the
world.—Spurgeon.
For Whoever it Fits
There are nearly as many bad wives as
bad husbands. Many men who work hard
and try to do well in life are neglected
and abused by improvident women.
They are condemned to eat the poorest
dinners, when they provide the best the
market afford.
On heavy bread, soggy vegetables, mud
dy coffee and tough pie -crust, how can a
woman expect her husband to b 3 pleasant
and loving ?
Such men often drink whisky because
their food distresses them—as it would
any one who had not a cast-iron stomach—
and the habits of intemperance are some
times in this way begun, through the
wife.
It costs more to cook poorly than to
make food good and palatable.
If a woman runs home from a neigh
bor's just in time to throw a pie together,
bake it, and bring it to the dinner-table
hot, she commits a great offence against
the health of the family. .
If a man has only an hour to go home,
get his dinner and return to business, it
should be ready for him promptly on time,
else he will eat very hot food in the great
est haste, and start oft' for a rapid walk,
all of which; is very bad, and will soon
show its effects upon the strongest man.
When her husband gets peevish, low
spirited and forgetful of the little acts of
love and kindness he taught her to expect
in days agone, a woman who is such a
housekeeper need not sit in twilight and
wonder at sad changes.
Had she acted her part with half the
zeal and industry of her husband, all would
have been well, and she could still sit in
the sunshine of earlier days.
It is very hard for a man to caress the
hand which for years has been feeding
him slow poison.
American Wonders
The greatest cataract in the world is the
Falls of Niagara, where the water from the
upper lakes forms a river of three-quarters
of a mile in width, and then, beinc ,
sud
denly contracted, plunges over til l ; rocks
in two columns, to the depth of one hun
dred and seventy feet each.
The greatest cave in the world is the
Mammoth Cave, in Kentucky, where any
one can make a voyage on the waters of a
subterranean river, and catch fish without
eyes.
The greatest river in the world is the
Mississippi, four thousand one hundred
miles long.
The greatest valley in the world is the
Valley of the Mississippi. It contains
five hundred thousand square miles, and
is one of the most profitable regions of the
globe.
The largest lake in the world is Lake
Superior, which is truly an inland sea,
being four hundred and thirty miles long,
and one thousand feet deep.
The longest railroad in the world is
the Pacific Railroad, over three thousand
miles in length.
The greatest natural bridge in the
world is the Natural Bridge over Cedar
Creek, in Virginia. It extends across a
chasm eighty feet in width and two hun
dred and fifty feet in depth at the bottom
of which the creek flows.
The greatest mass of solid iron in the
world is the great Iron Mountain in
Missouri. It is three hundred feet high,
and two miles in circuit.
The largest deposits of anthracite coal
in the world are in Pennsylvania, the
mines of which supply the market with
millions of tons annually, and appear to
be inexhaustible.
FLORENCX, the comedian, tells a capital
story of a waiter at one of the London
taverns who was sadly given to drink.
A party of young men determined to re
form him, and one day they read an im
aginary paragraph from the paper relat
ing to a terrible accident, in which au
inebriate on blowing out a candle, was kill
ed by the flames igniting with the fumes of
his breath. Jerry pricked up his ears at
this, and requested that the paragraph might
be read again, which was done to the evi
dent horror of the poor man, who imme
diately went in search of the prayer-book.
Returning with this, he expressed a desire
to take a solemn oath upon it, bemoaned
the fact that he had been a sorry tippler,
and was bringing him to ruin, and then
swore that never again, so ong as he
lived, would he attempt to blow out a can
dle.
NO. 5.
How is this for H. I. H.?
The Lord giveth and the Lord taketh
away. Blessed be the name of the Lord.
But the Lord cannot take away ; at least,
he never has, with such glib voluminous
volubility as do the keepers inns, tav
erns caravansaries at Niagara Falls.
Witness:
The grand Duke Alexes, his Imperial
Highness. has been traveling in this coun
try for some time with a view of learning
of our institutions. Among other places
visited was Niagara Falls, where the water
tumbles continually, but the prices never !
On the way from Toronto, or some
other Canadian port, to that civilization
to be found more extensively developed
in the United States than anywhere else,
he had occasion to pass through Niagara
Falls. Himself and suite were hungry.
So they stopped at the Spencer House for
dinner They found on the table plenty
enough such as it was ; and good enough
what there was of it !
For one dinner for the Grand Duke and
his suite the modest Spencer House price
of $1,500 was charged ! The Duke looked
at the bill of fare and at the fare as per
the bill. at the dimensions of this second
class house and landlord, whose charges
beat any thing ever heard of in the Rus
sian army, and said with a faint smile
"That's the best I've seen for high."
The Spencerian landlord smiled faintly
and asked the Duke to come down. The
cashier of the Grand Duke was disposed to
come down with what was reasonable, but
would not consent to such an outrage ;
whereupon the landlord proposed to attach
the baggage of the party, but finally con
sented to settle in full on receipt of $l,OOO,
which amount was paid, when the royal
party wended its way.
The landlord eardendly was mistaken
—he thought the Grand Duke wanted to
buy his hotel instead of stopping for one
meal ; but owing to not having a proper
interpreter, did not make himself quite
understood.
Keep Warm in the Cold,
We hear much about the danger of
-coddling," and of the hardening effects of
exposure, and much that is very true; yet
many people think that in order to "hard
en themselves" they should be clothed
thinly during exposure, and that the tough
ening process consists in feeling cold. This
is a great mistake. Between the sensation
of chilliness and the fact of being in the
cold, there is the greatest difference in the
world. To suffer from cold is injurious,
except when the feeling is momentary and
is followed by a brisk reaction, as in the
tase of the glow that a healthy person feels
after a plunge into cold water. But to
become cold without reaction, is always a
strain upon the constitution. Persons
who go thinly clad during the winter sea
son, or who neglect to adapt their clothing
to the sudden changes of weather, put
their health in risk. Thus a frequent
cause of illness is the habit of sitting un
protected upon the doorsteps daring the
cool summer evenings, of which we have
so many that follow a hot day. Do not be
afraid of "coddling" yourself on such occa
sions by adding a light shawl or overcoat
to your dress when you feel chilly. You
will toughen yourself fast enough in the
winter time. But to accomplish this end
you must keep yourself, either by exercise
or by dress, always comfortably warm.—
Under these conditions you cannot expose
yourself too much.—//earth and Home.
An Incident
The following little story is told at the
expense of a young lady school teacher in
an eastern town, who is very properly
anxious in regard to the preventation of
small-pox in her school, and therefore
strictly enforces the rule that whenever a
case of sickness is reported in the family
of any one of her pupils, the pupil must
bring a certificate from the family physi
cian stating that the disease is not conta
gious, failing in which the pupils must
remain away until all danger is over. A
few days ago she was informed that one of
her pupils, a little girl of Teutonic extrac
tion, had sickness in her family. On be
ing questioned, the girl admitted that "she
had sick at her house ;" that her mother
was sick, and that she had "marks on her
face." She was accordingly sent home.
She returned in a few days, however, and
reported that her "father was sick." She
was again sent home, with orders not to
come again without a certificate from the
family physician. The next day she re
turned to school and shyly siding up to the
teacher, with her finger in her mouth, and
her little bonnet swinging by the strings,
she said : "Miss—, we've a leetle baby
at our house, but mother told me to tell
you that, it isn't catchin'." The teacher
said she was very glad it wasn't "catching,"
and told her pupil to take her seat.
How to Build a Life
Ruskin, in one of his Oxford lectures,
says : "I pray yon with all earnestness to
prove, and know within your hearts, that
all things lovely and righteous are possi
ble for those who believe in their possi
bility, and who determine that, for their
part, they will make every day's work con
tribute to them. Let every dawn of morn
ing be to you as the beginning of life, and
every setting sun be as its close ; then let
every one of these short lives leave its re
cord of some kindly thing done for ohters
—some goodly strength gained for your
selves : so from day to day, and strength
to strength, you shall build up indeed, by
art, by thought, and by just will, an ec
ecclesia of England of which it shall not be
said, "See what manner of stones are here,"
but "See what manner of men."
Speak Kindly.
Speak kindly in the morning, it light
ens the cares of the day, and makes house
hold and all other affairs move along more
smoothly.
Speak kindly at night, for it may be
that before the dawn some loved one may
finish his or her apace of lifefor this world,
and it will be too late to ask forgiveness.
Speak kindly at all times, it encour
ages the downcast, cheers the sorrowing,
and very likely awakens the erring to
earnest resolves to do better, with strength
to keep them.
Kind words are balm to the soul. They
oil up the entire machinery of life, and
keep it in good running order.
MODEST.—"Never mind the obituary ;
Judge," said a Montana culprit when the
court became pathetic in pronouncing
the sentence. "Let's fix the time for the
funeral."
A FLOURISHING basins
penmanship.