.s6lunte^ , POBMSHHD jrrER'ri'THOEODi,Y MOBrtbra .;f ; . B. Bratton ; ' OFJfteESbtT&ZiARKatBQXfARIL - Thumb,—Two dollars por-year If paid strictly la ndvitico, iSvo- Ddilkn ! if paid within throe montlis,'alflof'wtych' .vbll, bo ho rigidlyAdhered.tp.ln.every Instance. Nosub . Bcrlpllph utiUl all amsaraffea are ■ paid, unless at the optionofthe Editor.; ,'j ! 77 gcarbfl— r J.'-HJ 6iUh*«;,> --I, , Obabaji, Jr. J. El. GEAUAM& SON, | Attorneys Sf Counsellors at Ipiv, K6.1-* fcoatUHanovcr St., '• j OABLISLB. PA. i . ■ Hofr. J.iH.QnAHAM, late President Judge l of the Ninth. Judicial District, has. resumed the practice of the law, and associated* with hlov his eon, J.H.Quaham, Jr. Will practice In the Conrta of Cumberland, Perry end Juniata Coun ties. , ■ •• - [Dec. 7,*7l—tf? i W E, BEI.TJIHOOVEK, *AITOMNET-AT-LA W; V. ■ 1 ' >OABIiIBIiE..PA. f. i.’ . A®*Ofllco oh South Hanover opposite Beilis's dry goods store. , ' , ' 1 y Du 0.1,1855.;; ,• ■ * JOS. RITNER, Attorney -at-Lmv, NO. B,South Hanover Street, Carlisle, Pa. A3**AU buslneea promptly attended to. Coi r lections a specialty. . - 1700t721y - . ■ JAMES M. WEAKLE atxorney-amaw. Omasp-No. 22 South Hnnovor SL, Carlisle, P». April 25, 1873-ly. ... - ■ ; JOSEPH G. VATjE, ATIOBNET-aH-MW, .Practices In' Dauphin and Cumberland counties. Office in Court-house Avenue, No. 3 Kramers Building, m the rear of the Jewelry establish ment, Carlisle, Pa, April 25. 1872-ly. DRSSvMARYIi. HALL, Homceopa thlo Physician and Medical Electrician ; Office South! Hanover street; Carlisle, Allio uroalo'diseases eldllfaly treated. Patients at a distance con consult by mall. j :• June 6, IS72—ly. • ■ 1 StR. GEORGE B. BEARIGHT, DEN*’ r 'TXST. From the Baltimore 'College of Dental aerv. Office at the residence of his mother East Leather Street, three doors' below Bedford Carlisle, Penna. ... . ‘' t . Dec. 1 1885.",, . . 1 Er. j. s. bender, m. d. removed his office to the South jftpat l cor ner,of South Hanover and Pomfret' greets, di rectly opposite the 2nd Presbyterian .Church. • / Carlisle April is—72—tf. ilTisccllancous. , ’ THOR RENT.—The desirable dwelling tj bouse, south of tho Market hbuse and ad joining Inhpfl’a store, Is for rent. • Inquire of 12dec72-0t . C.INHOPF, ■Vy"ANTED I * Any person having a small property ol from 16 to 80 acres for solo, with improvements, can hear of a purchaser by calling at thls.efflce. 2deo2t - r- ; •- . ' ITjQB/RENT.— The building ; formerly by Sara'l H. Cloudy as a tin shop and' stove store; oh Liberty alley,' is for rent., - This bulldlog ls suitablefor a> number of • pur ='of FOr terms ln " Irdpc ' ' No. 17 West Main street. The Cumberland county !ag- RIODLTUBAt SOCIETY, |WIU -ihoW JlUelr next regular meeting, for the election of officers for, thooomlnZ'year,.on.Tupeday, Joqunry 7th, im. in thVArmtrutlon-chamiwn- R ; Secretary. 'XTO’TI CEI ' v “Ajx election)'for Directors of the Farmers’. Bank will bo held at tho of Banking House Carlisle, on Monday November 11th, proximo, botvreeu the hours of 6 and J 2 o’clock, a.m. OaCJO, }9 T A ,*4t J. C. Hoffkb, Cashier. TjIIiEOTION NOTlCB»--ThQ (Annual Ijjmoetlng of the Stoclrhdlders *6f Mt. Holly Bulldibg and Loan. Assoolation willboheld at Mt. Holly Springs, Pa., on Monday .January 6th, 1873, between the hours of 6 and 8, p. m.* lor tho purpose of electing oUlcers for the ensuing year. . JOHN T. CROZIER, Secretary. . IZdeeSt A BHLAND CEMETERY being now x\ under the direction and control of the sub scriber, all persons desiring to purchase lots In it for bnrlat purposes, or wishing any Informa tion: can bo accommodated by.oaUlng on her at her residence, on East High street, nearly opposite the Bents House, or by* calling at the oufco of the lato Wm. M. Penrose, in Rheem s Hall. iV. M. PENROSE. ltuov73lyr* , ... . , oj TTOI'ELi AND BTO#E ROOM FOR il RENT! ' ' "The Hotel lu the Borough df Carlisle, .known as the' “American House," now’occupied ; by John Mall, is offered, for rent from the Ist day of April, 1873. ALSO.-(ho store-room, on North .Hanover street, now occupied by AVm, B'ridley, for rent from the • same date. Apply to T 7 ' ,C. E, MAGLAUHLIN, Bdec72tf Carlisle. g ; QTH DIVIDEND 1 Oabmslb Deposit Bakk, \ 1 ‘ November 6th, 1H72. •> Tbo Board of Directors have declared a divi dend of FIVE -PEE CENT, for the last six mouths, clear of taxes, payable on demand. By order of the Board, J.P. HAS9LER, . Cashier. 7n0v72«2m, k GENTS WANTED for Great Firea of History, Aciiloago, Boston, Fontland. Now York, Lon don, oto. Causes, systems of Extinguishing tilt, lafes,, fire-proof buildings, bank'vaults Insnr* ancb, <feo. Thrilling, humorous, pathetic, Only complete, illustrated work. - Going like hot cakes. Write Worthington, D.nptin dr Co„ Hart ford,Ct» ' 28novlm* TOOK IIENTpi... . . '■ ■ ■ THE,; (1 ■';/ ! : Empire Hook & Ladder Company ofrer their HALL' for rent to parties holding Balls, Evening ’Parties or Concerts, Apviy to the, committee*. 11 ■ J. M. GREr-jjN, A, G. COMFORT, ' < ' T. H. ARMSTRONG. tn : Mn6v72*Bra H . ; . ‘ UI ; mOWN,PROPERTY FpB'HALiS.,— , liTh© undersigned*-Assignee ,pfi Robert, M., BmcK, of Carlisle, offers for sale the property corner of Fit*,-street iaud, locust alley.; flCno house. is a new two-story pr;qk,-.and isjin gobd condition. The improvements aremo<Jern,apa the .entire property is a very desirable one. < , ALSO for 8pl<?. a; vacant LOT |OP , on Bedford street, 30! feet in front by, 210 fh derith; more or less,,bounded by prppertle, bo; A. * M.JJoylo, Soft) 'l3, MTactp;: f( I. : v ; ;g: : ( ro Farmers. Cannon Corn Shelters, Hand CornSlibllers,sizes/" National Fodder Cutters. Irom 810 to 810 MiDoxter Fodder and Bay Cutters. •Burobii Fodder and Hay Cutters. -j^y, aiunßEK* coj ' gjfcESH: MEAT DAIL^! Edward Ji Amey, Street i ' SgyThe citizens of' Carlisle can- be furnished wlth Beof, Pork. Veal "Mut ton, Lamb,, Pudding,Sausage, &c.,daily at his' residence, opposite. John Mc Brlde& .Delivered to, all parts of th town, '■ ' . eptl-72. i IJIHE, CARLISLE ! ' Carriage Factory ! Has now turned ont between throoand fouf hundred Buggies, Carriages and Spring Wagons since Jts existence, and Is still .ready, to supply the demdndl; {Those that got lh6lc;wagonB ana got satisfaction know whore to go to have theft baggies repaired or exchanged for new ones, aha those who did not got what they thought they ought to have had, come bock, and 1 will do everything I can ior you, 1 make It my study to Improve in every brauoh of the business, anij would prefer to make work to order; Chen I can make a ‘man Mmt he wants'. If ho wants a low priced wagon loan give it to him, and If he Is willing to pay for a hlgb-prlccd wagon I can make It, but don't charge near what he would have to pay at most any other place for the same material used. I am ready to accommo date alb: i£on*i forget ike place, corner SO Ill'll eft PJTTJStrcets, Carlisle, A, li, SIISHJC, ‘ UnovSm ? T,ir. -,_u_ I. -j. ;•'■• - . ~ lAk iM “ ■ ' 1 Bates of AdTOirtteta . -I- t.iC-l. . ...'. -■ •■ '• » . _ ».. ]■ ! I A jAi'''' A. A £ fcr A X A- No. tllnra l«q. 3gq. I Bf|.V«q. y t ° |K° P"jj. i V,/ ■ I r A iwoak. liwiarowuOM^lTOOluooiaaij; I I <A! . /_■ illi I 1: '■ /f| I I l I I IB II I 111 | I I B B I W r I i :; 28 IS48?S8«||8 MIL., JJL 111 L L IJv J|jr 1|.:44.-11^JV & ♦ s^hmimiimWii &W'W: ; » w , ■ T ? yo ;;, • asjgg BS ßgSSl SS|ff.S ' v - < 1 Noll' ToiHA JSY-JOHN B; mTTON. (■; n ßadical*. v: ;! we’re Mating topw the vHrvEk We’re floating clown the river— r , i d'UO nptsblpx* stream of ' » 1U v6yagen»ofutl.4vi«**r- r ',-‘ They hall from ovory dime ; i Iti.has Its lights and shadows, y • * M TIs fraught'with hopesand /dare, H' •Some cross it In a moment. And some are broBBlug'.ypars*,-,', V • -»v Wo’rb floating down the river; At flrst'it'Aeems so wide * 11 f That oar frail barks can never Land on the other side; The trip seems one of pleasure, "'■? We’ve nothing now to fear, *X>fP' tempest cftn beSetus l'' skies are fair and clear. ! We’re floating down the river; As : iUrtl}er on we go . ( The stream, appears more narrow, . ' : The waters faster flow; We’re lookin g out for’dangera I • ' That lie on every side. Our watohwerd It Is •’Onward,” As down tho stream wo glide. We’re floating down the river; When we’ve been on It yeara. And caafonr glances backward, ; ilt bn,t a step appears.' The waters now are deeper, The bottom lost from view, ■ Where once the boats wore many. They are scattered now, and few. We’ro floating down tho river, ' As others Have before. ‘ Oft*tlmea a boat leaves us ; ’ ■;;* V’ ; And strikes out for the « And then our Journey ■ •< ... More alone And stwlla found, fpno lesa Lo.choer ua, ■ i Wo’re'floatlng down the river; Sometime our. turn will come . To launch.out from tho other*, >: And sot pur sails for homo, , A!nswte<i diaUcbmetfthat summons From alioros beyond our view, Pj.mny our boatfj,bo ready , ~ , IlfaUmumi ! 'HOKSE. BY A WESTERN CONTRIBUTOR. but, r reckon|you don’t know much about them. What we call June bugs ar boas thiove.4,' und ft ’mi u did you good to' heerd old ’ Parson Smith ’ tell how bis boas. Bishop, carved that, thievin' rascal, Fete Becker, a few nigh ts since, up shove the forks.;, tho old varmint,Mind, iiforeraii’tlie-toikßi ho ask ed the parson to go up and feed and fod def at his'cabin. u ■■■'! ; . / " 11 ‘Jest'aa sure as you go up,! sea one, youflfhoY Bishop stolen from, you.’ •That's what the old varmint Is In Til lin' on you fur,’ ees another. ■ t l |Abf'jv^|| r olji|dfpn,! answered the old man, ‘lt’s among jest seoh elnnin,’ la'fv breaking sons of evil I’m commanded to go fur tba most nssd the .laws and the testimony; so I must go. As fur Bishop, I’ve taken an amazin’ eight of trouble to train him up in the way he should gpi ami T predicate these rdgues can’t git him to depart frum it. I’ll gin ’em a trial, however I —apd, sure enulT, offset tbu old parson, with that CQijsarnod old rascal. Sam walkin' alongside on him, talkin’ as nice as the katekism. A elite rain sot in afore tba reached the forks, and both on ’em got a little web ’ls year son Pete to home now 7’ asked the parson. 'No. 1 sea Sam, rite suddln; arter glttln biaaslr and daddy a bad name by bia tricks, the earplnt went off to Arkan saw. I did my beet by him, anyhow.’ He sed the truth then, ’cause be’d lar ned bim'ali be knowed about stealin,’ and that wer the beet he knew. ■ He- thur much desire fur the trooth among you ?’ asked,'this minister. ‘Well,’ see old Sam, ’we’re jest starvin' fur it, fur .we ain’t*beerd the truth spo ken among us fur sum time. The oid villain war rite thaT, for none in the fork diggins ever spoke trooth wiiiinly. Thn got to Sam’s cabin at last, and a spread of bar skins; wore laid on the clay floor fur the parson. After ty .iiW (Bishop 1 id'h log shed adjlnln’ the ca bin, and feedin’ him, the parson entered tho cabio to git suthin for blssolf. Old Sam wanted bim.to take a taste of whis ky, to keep off the cold; and bavin’ In- ft bein’ a fust rate preventative, the’old parson tuck about a gill in. a small gourd, and washed bis feet with It! Thar ain’ no doubt that Sam, the old villlnj bed put stupefyln’ mediolu’ in the lloker —but.it bed no effect on the parson’s (heels, and-he war 1 so consarned about Blspqp that, qithqr bed nor heels ’ud git Asleep. Old Sam and bis wife laid down iii ; another, oornor.and pretended to be sleepla powerful Strong; but tha were actin’ possum to no purpose, ’cause the paraou seed ’om glt up on tharelbows and take a 1 site at him,"to eee:ef be mov ■ed; ! JAsre.lqng,the parson heqi;d Bishop winnow, and their besot to pawin'; and in d Second nioralifl aquealeddlkeapan <er-, ; wfaloh be follOred up by kickin’ like llßbtln'- Becb anutbor yellin’ of murder, scratch in', kfoklh', and squealin'Jined now, tha ,you’d thot Satan wer payin’ old Decker 'aVisit." ' ’ Murder I— oobsarn. • the 'der!’—yelled, a' feliar In the shed.’ i.iY-ore-e-e — -e! Bang !' went Bishop in answer; . =I II " ‘What in thoyearth's tho martef ?’ ih quircd qlil Saip mounHa' to his feet. ‘Parson I Parson Smith !’ .Out. run old Decker, i and tbar be found bis eon Pole, up In a corner of the i shod, and Bishop stretqhlb’ hlsself the .full leugtb'of bis baiter, and kickin’ at fajpt like mad I The. old feliar tried to aoax the boss, but Bishop tamed round and flung his heels at him, as spiteful as a chl amount. Zu bid Sam went, now to the pamqn.' ' '’//, . ■ (. ‘Gome bntj' pareon,’ shouted Bam, ‘or jlour cqnßarncd hqas ’ll kill my Pete.’ , I J] order I—murder / murder /’ ehouted Pete.. ■ 1 ‘Y-e-e-e el hang!’ went the boss kickin’like thunder. 'Don’t you hear your devil of a hoes ?( yelled , old Bam;' ‘Nq,’ sea the parson, ‘but I beer mji Bishop, ail’d I reckon,the bugs must bq .troublin'him.’ j. ‘He's kickin’ like mad at my Fete,’ pnysßaui. "’What, away in Arklnsaw?’ asked Parson Smith. ‘Oil, blame Artclnsawl’ hollered Pete!» daddy—'Jest cum and eavo tbe fellar, will you?’ '!'■! V.'i'l ■ ’Can't travel so fur Jost now, Sam, you old yillin,' sea the preacher. 1 . 1 ‘Parson,’ hollers Sam,‘‘save the young fellar, and anything for you.’ , :'Ypu’ll never try, to steal- a Parson’s boss,’ see the preuober, 'nor let Pete do Hither?.’ • . ‘Never, on this yeaftb,’ says Sam. i ‘And you'll both cit down with md and pray fur forgiveness ?’ - • ‘Hartainly,’ ses Sam. The parash went right out, and brought the young villln In. He war a piotur I ‘l'll deolar,’said the old minister lellln’ on It ‘ef the boy’s bar didn’t look alive —ho was wnsaer. skeort than a trapped fox.’ Down tha got, and arter a , lector’ and the parson praying’ for om a spell, be put his hand on Pete’s head, and asked him how he felt. " ‘Well,’says the varmint, 'i feel ow dnolously mean /’ Tha both swore never to tech his horse agin, and I speculate tha’ll keep tbnr promis.’ ■ GOING • HOME. A STORY FOR WIVES TO READ. “ Hal, isn’t this cold 7” said an indi vidual to a friend, as the crowd was hurrying up tho great thoroughfare. “ Cold is it 7” asked Hal; turning his ijierry,'smiling face toward hls'shlver ing friend. “Well I guess it is a bit chilly; but I never think of it when I ain going home.” The other shrugged his shoulders; an'd laughed a little, and with a good night they parted. I hurried up, and for a long time kept close besides this happy, home ward bound traveller, that I might get, ■a good, iong look at him. And X had to hurry with a vengeance for he, might have on’the fainous seven league boots and not gone a bit faster. There was a merry music in' the click of his boot hells, and such a genial at mosphere about him, that I was sorry when ho distanced, me in two blocks,; after my most strenuous efforts to keep up; i ,■ ■i—J. , , When his, tali figure'disappeared,, I loitered along of tiisf voice tinging in my ears, and the recol lection t 6f his words stirring up my Uyellest imaginations. Going home I What a; warm, cheer ful going home It must be I There wasawifq there, I knew, for there was! ngt, a '“baohelorlah” thing, about him. Then there was an inde scribable something in his eye,'and ho paused once to look at some spangled fans and lace handkerchiefs lei a store window. lam positive that he was thinking how “she” would like. Ah, happy, blessed, true-hsarted wife, that sent,out, the busy, working world such a cheerful laborer. ; There must bo a cosy,, comfortable home for him, with cosy fires, with' a' tempting dinner, with easy chair, drese ,lbg gown and'slippers. . There must be a perfect peace and har mony In all things; best of all there must bo warm, clinging arms, loving kisses, a smiling face and tender words. Thera must bo all these things, or this going homo’ would not make him forget, the frosty air, the .sharp rough blasts that came sweeping around the corners,' that cold winter’s night. " Wbat a.plty It Is that there are not more such warm resting places in the world:. ; I wonder if it would not make it a happier, better place, and give us anar iers and grumblers? I really believe it would make a grand revolution, if every man who hurries up our great city streets at nightfall could carry, as Hal did, in his heart, the knowledge that at the other end there was a'warm, peaceful home, and a lov-. ing welcome awaiting him. It is worth the trial any way, and if the result is not a favorite one, thb fault will not.be ours. Going home I After a long day’s work among dusty . law-books and ledgers, among interminable lengths of barrels and boxes or endless piles of dry.goods—; after tedious labor ail the long , hours,- with ndtbing but dust and dullness, bus iness and bustle, just think how much depends upon the going homo I. NEWSPAPER PATRONS. Tho Athens Post says this: .“One thing we, have noticed from the time we'entered'upon our apprenticeship; forty-eight years ago the 10th day of this month, that Providence generally smiles benignantiy and prosperously upon the mah who keeps himself square upon tho printers’ books. You take the 'subscription list of any country, pa per whore the advance system is not re- Iglousiy adhered to, call ; out tho names of those who pay promptly, then visit heir habitations, and in nine cases out of ten you will find them in the enjoy ment of all the ordinary comforts of life —pleasant and contented households— the husband kind and industrious; the wife Trappy and affectionate, children upright and well-behaved at home and abroad, sleek cattle grazing in the green pastures and good stock feeding lb .the stalls, thrifty fruit/and shade trees around, flowers blooming la the gar dens and about the yard, and an'air hf neatness, comfort and substance with out and wlthlm ’ Now, take, the other class of patrons—tßoae thbt 'never pay at all; or haye lA,he' “ding-donged out of It” “at they end of the third year; what is still worse, the newspaper sponge, who is not able to pay for. a ,pa per, but ever ready to borrow from hla neighbor—ton to one you will find a majority of these always afflicted with ‘short crops,’ always ‘hard run,’ always •out of kelter,’ axes, plows and hoes eternally dull, horses that look like the genius of famine, cattle nearly related to Pharoah’s lean klne, and too poor to low without leaning .up against thjs rickety fence, gates off the hinges, doors half hung, windows guiltless of glass, not a fruiter shade tree In sight, rant Jamestown weeds blooming around the door sills, and Instead of luxuriant meadows and perennial pasture?, sassa fras and briar bushes growing' In' -;tho fence-rows and broken places and hill-, sides furrowed with gullies, and bunch.- os of tail-edge waving mournfully In ■: »' J the wind all oyer the farm; and worse than all, a morose and unhappy hus band, a dlsconted and 111-natured wife and disobedient, intractable children. The reader may think this is a fancy sketch; but' it ain’t by a good deal. ‘There is more truth" than poetry in it.’” "Soma Pumpkins." • The following Is a fair representation somewhat enlarged, of the “big talk”, about the agricultural productions of the Pacific coast which one beam in those parts: Two weeks agci 1 started on a visit to the Yo Semite Valley. I arrived' at the wharf a moment teo late to get on board'; and, instead of waiting until next day, I determined to go to Stock ton on horseback, I accordingly cross ed ther bay,at Oakland, or, as it is bet ter known, “Little Pedlington,” pro cured a horse and rode over to the Livermore Valley, where I staid all night with a rancher, who was known in the valley as “ Clamps." They called him that because he got rich by holding on to his money with a degree of fortitude not universal in the coun try. As ' supper time approached, Clamp asked if I would like some eggs, and haw I preferred it—hard or soft, boiled or fried. I . told him I would like some eggs, and that it would suit me best to have them soft boiled. In a law minutes there came Clamps and his wife, rolling an egg the size of a dour barrel, which they boiled in a short time in a large cauldron, and.tliqn’ set it up on one end by the madam’s chair at the table. A hole was made! in the top of the shell, and the egg was dipped out with a long handled ladle. 1 was, astonished at the size of the egg, and observed that his hens must be enormously large. “By no means;’’ he replied. " You will not be eb much' surprised when Hell you that one hen did not lay this egg alone; It took sev en or eight hens almost a week to lay it. It was a joint-stock production of the'chickens; but still it is better than the Individual responsibility plan.” At breakfast the next morning wo. had more egg, and then I went on the' road to Stockton. I reached San Joa quin river at noon, and was ferried over in a unique looking craft. While the ferryman was tugging silently at his oars, I inquired whether the ferry was profitable. “ Doesn’t scarcely pay for.raising the boat,” he replied. “Eaising the boat I”’ I repeated. “ What do you mean by raising the boat 7” “Mister,” said he resting for a while on his oars, "you be a stranger In these parts, bean’t you?" I replied that I had not been long in the country. ' . . “ Then,” said he, pointing to the shore “ this ere boat growed in that pumpkin patch over yonder.” “Growed in that pumpkin patch!” I exclaimed. “ Gr'owed in that pumpkin patch on a pumpkin vine. Mister this yer boat is a pumpkin shell cut in two, That patch is where it growed.” “ Where, over by that barn ?” X ex claimed. , \ “ That ain’t no barn,” he answered “unless you choose to call it so. That’s a pumpkin too. But I made a hole in the end on’t and let the stock inside , and when the wet season seta in, I plug' up the hole and let them winter there. They come out awful fat in the spring. That big squash over yonder I’m hol lerin’ out to live in.” Professor Faraday believed in Flour in’s physiological theory that the age of man is one hundred years. The du ration of life, he says,is to be measured by the tlme.of growth. When once the bones and epiphysis are united, the body grows no more, and it is in twen ty years ibis union is affected In man. In the camel it takes place at eight, rin the horse at five, in the lion at four, in the dog at two, in the rabbit at one. The natural termination of life is five times that of the developmeut period. Man being twenty years in growing, lives five times twenty years, that is to say, one hundred years; the camel is eight years in growing, and lives forty years; the horse is five years In grow ing, and lives twenty years; and so on with other animals. The man who does not die from dis ease lives from eighty to a hundred years. Providence has given man a century of life, but he does not attain it because he inherits disease, eats .un wholesome food, gives way to his pas sions, and permits vexation to disturb bis healthy equipoise; he does not die! he kills himself. Life may be divided into equal halves —growth’ end decline, and these into infancy, youth, vitality and age. In fancy extends to the twentieth year, youth to the fiftieth—because it is dur ing this period that the tissue becomes firm j, vitality from fifty to,seventy-flve during which the organism remains complete; and at seventy-five old age commences, to last a long or short time, os the diminution of reserved forces is hastened or retarded. A MAN in Atlanta, who inclosed the requisite fifty cents in answer to an ad vertisement, ‘How to keep a house warm and save fuel,! was advised to tell his wife that she couldn’t have a new au tumn bonnet. He tried it, and said it made his house too hot to hold him, and thinks that it might do in a northern locality. Ebv- Thomas Burke says that when be sees an reeling drunk in the street, he feels, as a priest, he could die for him, betas an Irishman he feels as if be could wring the fellow’s neck. A prominent citizen of Greenbush went home a few nights since at a late hour, and' gently tapped on the door. “ Who is it ?” inquired his better-half. To which proper inquiry the t heartless mah replied by asking, “Whom do you expect at this hour of the night ?” THURSDAY, DECEMBER 19, 1872. oarhs; Man’s Age. STAGE THUHDEE. Some fifty years ago, one Lee, mana ger of the Edinburg Theatre, with a view to Improving the thunder of bis stage, ventured upon a return to the Elizabeth an system of representing a storm. His attempts were attended With results at onceludlcroue.and disastrous. He placed ledges here and there along the back of bla stage, and, obtaining a parcel of nine pound cannon balls, packed these in a wheel-barrow, which the carpenter was Instructed to wheel to and fro over the ledges. The play was “ Lear,” and the Jolting of the heavy barrow, os It was trundled along Its uneven path over hol low stage, and the rumblings and rever berations thus produced counterfeited most effectively the raging of the tem pest In the. third not. Unfortunately, however, while the king was enduring the pitiless storm at the. back, the car penter missed his footing, tripped over one of the ledges, and feli'down —wheel- barrow, cannon bails and all. The stage being on a declivity, the cannon balls oamß rolling rapidly and noisily down toward tbo front, gathering force as they advanced ; and, overcoming the leeble resistance offered by the scene struck it down passed over the prostrate form, and made their way toward the foot lights, and the fiddlers, amid the amuse ment and wonder of the audience, and ( the amazement and alarm of the Lear of the night. As the nine pounds ad vanced toward him, and rolled about in ail directions, he was compelled to dis play an activity In avoiding them sin gularly inappropriate to the age and condition of the character he was per sonating. He was even said- to resem ble. u dancer, achieving the terpsiohorean feat known as the egg.hornpipe. Pres ently r too, the musicians became alarmed for the safety of themselves and their instruments, and deemed it advisable to scale the piked partition which decided them from the pit—for the cannon balls' were upon them smashing the lamps, and falling heavily into the orchestra.— Meanwhile, exposed to the full gaze of the bouse, lay prone beside his empty burrow, the carpenter, the innocent In voker of the storm he had been unable to allay or direct, not at all hurt but ex ceedingly frightened and bewildered.— Artur this uuiuckly experiment the manager abandoned his wheel-harrow and caution balls, and reverted to more improved methods of producing : stage atorms. NIOEEIi, Unlike many of our common metals, nickel is of comparatively recent dis covery., We find gold, silver, and iron mentioned in our earliest records. A brother of the patriarch Noah is ex pressly said to have been “an instructor of every artificer In brass and iron,b showing that even at so remote a pe riod, not only were some of our simple metals known, but methods of com pounding, and to some extent artistic ally working them. Nor, so far as we have reason to think, was the knowl edge ever lost. If the brass spoken of above was the composition it is usually supposed to have been, one of its con stituents was copper; and we may won der whether in the search for this in those early times the miners were ever perplexed with the ores of nickel, as the miners of Germany were for thou sand of years after. The German miner often met the latteroro, and, mistaking it for copper—some forms of which it closely resembles in appearance —tried by his usual process to extract copper from it. When It proved refractory, and resisted all his efforts, he called it Kup fur-niakel—folse copper; or, still more literally; the copper of Nick—or the Old Nick’s copper. Nickel has very many valuable quali ties. Xt is malleable and ductile—can.be drawn out Into oven a liner wire than iron, having a still greoter tenacity. It ia easier melted than iron. It is magnet ic, so that noedlcs of the compass could well bo made of it. though It loses its magnetism when heated as high os six hundred and sixty degrees; regaining it however, when cooled. But the quality oh which Its chief use depends Is its sus ceptibility of brilliant lustre, and its small liability to corrode. This led to its use, many years ago in the compound known as German-silver. It 1s mixed for this in various proportions but the best German-silver Is composeefof nickel three parts, zinc three and a ball parts, and copper eight parts. The Chinese have mqde a similar allay, though often using a'much larger proportion of zinc.. Nickel is used in the coinage of several Countries. It was Introduced Into our own In 1857, when the old copper cent was withdrawn and tho present com pound coin substituted In its place. This Is composed of twelve parte of nickel, and eighty-eight of copper, to the hun dred. Spontaneous Combustion. The Bedford Inquirer says several weeks ago the now stable of 8. S. Motz gar took fire and burned to the ground in the midst of a drenching rain. No fire bad been used about the building, and there was no way of accounting for the origin of the fire but by attributing it to an incendiary or to spontaneous combus tion. The men engaged in painting and finishing Mr. Metzger's new bouse, bad been graining shutters for the bouse In the stable, during the day before the fire, but it was scarcely thought possible that the fire could originate from that source. The stable having been burned, tho pain ters next day transferred their graining to the cellar of the bouse. That evening the inmates of the bouse discovered smoke, and a smell of burning cotton or paper Issuing from the cellar of the bouse. An examination disclosed the fact that the oily rata used by the pain ters In graining had been thrown to gether in a corner, and had Ignited by spontaneous combustion, and were fast bursting In a flame. This timely discov ery saved the house and settled tho ques tion as to the origin of the fire in the stable. Next day a nail keg was partly filled with the oiled rags cast away by the painters, and set In the sunshine In the yard. In a few hours the rags and kegs wore found to be on fire. Very fsw people are aware of tho danger arising from such a source. HOESTBLE HOMICIDE IN DELAWARE. A Man Killed, Skinned and Out Up-HJon- fesaions of the Prisoner. Tho Wilmington (Del.) Gazette gives the particulars of a horrible homicide which occurred In Dover on, the 2nd Inst., the victim being a colored man named Henry Tumor, and the perpe trator a young man named Isaac C. West, Sr., 29 years of age, and practic ing as a professor for the euro of pul monary diseases. West, itappears, had a laboratory in his establishment in which there was » gasometer of his own, which he employed in his profes sion. Occasionally ho obtained the as sistance of Turner to carry water and do similar service. On tho evening of the day above mentioned the house was discovered on fire, apparently from an explosion in the laboratory, where after the fire was extinguished, a dead body was found, minus skin, "head, hands and feet. Underneath the body was discovered a hole* containing a quantity of gunpowder, it was at .first supposed that there had been an explosion of gas, and that tho mutilated body was that of the, young professor, but a suspic ion soon arose that it was all a plan de vised by him to obtain by indirect means insurance to the amount of $25,- 000, which he iiad upon his own life. The matter remained a mystery until Friddy, tho 6th inst., when the professor reappeared in Dover and made a con fession, acknowledging that he. killed the man, but averring that it was done in self defense. Turner, according to his account, having seen him with money early in the day and attempted to kill him when employed in his lab oratory that evening to obtain it. Tbo statement of West was made before the coroner and jury. He said : . , STATEMENT OF THE PRISONER. "X had taken my gas apparatus to pieces that day, intending to fasten a small sledge hammer to the weights; the sledge hammer was sitting just in side the door; the other weights were near the corner, about eight feet further on ; one: of the weights was a bolt; or piece of an axle ; it was about two feet long and about one and n fourth inches in diameter; -X just got over about where this bolt was sitting when I turned and saw him with this sledge hammer in his hand ; soon as Turner saw that I saw him with the hammer, Turner says, ‘Give me your pocket book, or I will kill you ;’ I snatched up the bolt or axle, and just as I did so he struck at mo with the hammer; he struck me on top of . my hat, denting the hat in, but did not touch my head, as I was stooping over; I then struck him with the bolt or piece of axle, in- ■ tending to strike him on the head, but missed his head and struck him on the neck, I think below the ear ; he foil, and I don’t think he ever breathed af ter th at; this was just abou t sunset; he fell over on his side;'l then felt of hIS pulse and found that h#was dead; I did not intend to kill him, but only in tended to knock him down, so that he would not kill me; I left the body lay’, ing there, and came up to Wm. Foun tain’s hotel and got my supper, and did not go back any more that evening; I went back again on Tuesday morning about 10 or 11 o’clock; I then thought I would cut him up in pieces and carry him off and bury him; I cut off his head and feet with a penknife, and skinned the body ; I had broken seV eral of the bones with the bolt or piece of axle previously; this was uot all done before dinner; I do not know how much I did do before dinner; I went to my dinner that day, but do not know the exact time; I was not there in the afternoon to the best of my knowledge; in the afternoon I got a horse and carriage of Mr. Fountain and went out homo to Xlazletvillo, thinking it would bo dark in the evening when I came back to take the remains away and bury them; I think it was about G o’clock in the evening of Tuesday when I returned ; I brought down the skin of Turner in the water bucket; had a piece of paper over the top of the buck et, which was about even full; the horse smelt it and would not let me take it; I set it down just inside of the outside• door, and locked the door; I then brought the horse and carriage up to the stable; I went up to the hotel and prepared myself, then thought I would carry off the remains hi,a bucket and bury them; X got my supper at Hazletvillo; I think it was about eight o’clock; I went back to my room ;JI then took the bucket that had the skin in it and started, out on the street with it; X had not got far before there were two dogs after me ; I was going, down Lockman to New street, and then turn ed into New street; I found the ground was frozen, and I had' nothing to, dig a hole with; I the* turned and brought it back to my room.again; I then re mained up in my room thinking what to do ; I then concluded to tear a large box to pieces I had and make a box that would hold the remains, and ship them on the Delaware railroad to some point undetermined, and then bury them ; I found it was getting late, and I could not stay any later that night; I then came up to the hotel, and went to bed about J.l o’clock on Tuesday even ing ; on Wednesday my foot was hurt ing me, and I did not go back to my room until about 9 o’clock, and found the remains smelling so that X could not ship them on the Delaware railroad; I was about at different places In town that day until the afternoon; got my dinner at Fountain’s hotel as usual; I think I went back to my room about 2 o’clock Wednesday afternoon; I took my knife and cut some pieces off the abdomen; X out the lips and nose off the head ; I then took the bolt or piece of axle anal struck the head; X am under the impression I struck the head before I cut the lips and nose, intending to mash the head up so that it could uot be recognized; it was my Intention to skin the head; I then thought if I skinned the head it would still retain Its shape and bo recognized; I then took tho head in a bucket and took it down to n lime heap neat tho railroad VOL 59-NO. 28. and put lime over It, and put it back in the bucket, and then carried it back to the place whore X buried it with a spado I gotfrom the side of Mrs. Jones’ out house, under a heap of dead briars, near the corner of Water street and railroad; I then came back to my room about 10 o’clock at nightX had a candle and two lamps; one for the purpose of burning, alcohol and the otherjfor kero sene oil; I took the bucket and put the skin in it to carry it away; I went out on the street with it and saw some one coming; I took it back to my rooin again;‘I melted some tallow on the floor, and the candle in it, add then took one of the feet and poured some alcohol over it; sot fire to it; I thought that would change the color of it, and spilt some on the floor, and that also caught lire; I had the night before that time piled the box over the body, and put the pieces of the box on top of the box; I intended if the alcohol changed the color of the skin on the feet I was theu going to spread the skin out on the floor, and put alcohol on it to change the color of it by burning the alcohol; I found the burning of alcohol did not change the color of the akin; I intended if it did to put the skin back on the body, and fit it as well as I could; the alcohol on the floor caught fire ; I tried to put the Are out with ray bat, and could not; then I gathered up. the feet, hands and sljin in my lianas, and got.out of the room soon aslcould, fearing the Are might catch to the pow-, der in the hole, and walked towards the Methodist graveyard with the feat, hands and skin; after I got off sonfio distance from the house X saw that the Are'had gone out; did not see more than one light burning; I started to go back to the room again, but I ivab 1 afraid to go back, knowing the candle was setting on the floor; I had gotten lip near Mrs. Jones’ now house, and I saw the lire flash up again; I then turned and went hack towards the graveyard, where I left the hands, feet and'skin ; I then took them up and carried them over in the Methodist graveyard and Waited there until the fire was put out. It then went arid tpv ried the skin along the side of the rail road ; I started up to get the bauds arid feet to bury them ; I heard the whistle of the 4 o’clock down train ; I raked some lime ever them between two lljne piles ; I then wont up to the depot, and waited there until the train came, and got onboard the train with a bundle of, clothes; got on the train next to the town side, and wont to Delmar; there got,off the train and walked to Salisbury, Maryland, and remained there until this morning, Friday, the iith, and then on board the train coming north ; came up te Farmington, and got off the train there ; I then walked up to Harrington, got on evening troin and came to Dover and delivered myself up to the sheriff; I bad previously called foi a constable at Harrington to deliver myself up to. “My life is Insured for $25,000. In New England Mutual Co. for $lO,OOO In John Hancock - 5,000 In Delaware Mutual In /Ktna About bail of which la in favor of my wifo, the other in favor of myself. The policies, are all alive. Tho .-Etna policy was taken about five or six years ago, the other last spring. “Had no quarrel with'said Tur ner, nor enmity against him; just simply knew him by name, never hav ing exchanged a half dozen words with him beloro that day. “ When I struck him I had the axle or bolt on both hands, and hit him on the right aide and the back of the neck; one blow was all I gave him ; that killed him; I don’t think he over breathed after X struck him ; I felt his pulse as soon as I could compose my self, and liis pulse had ceased beating ; I am not certain whether the lamp was burning or not; I bored the hole in tile floor about one month ago with a brace and bit, I borrowed from Captain Bar tel; tho hole was to set a post in to hold the retort; tho powder about a quarter of a pound, was put iir tho hole on Sat urday, the 30th of November; tho bun dle of clothes I took with mo was cir cular-one coat, pair of pants, three shirts; I bundled them up in my room In Kerbin’s building; about ton o’clock on Wednesday night I took them down back of Holland’s store, and left thbm in the graveyard ; when I hoard whistle 6f tho train I got my bundle of clothes and took them down and laid them on tho platform; the same bun dle of clothes, with an addition of pne pair of pants, are at tho depot in Dover; they are in a bag, tho bag I bought at Salisbury, Md.; I tore Turner’s clothes up in scraps, so they would not be rec ognized, consisting of coats, pants and shirts; the shoes of Turner I cut the tops off and threw the soles out in tlib street; I left the uppers with the torn, up clothes 1 to carry off and bury; the front shutters of tho room were closed when 1 left, and in time of the Are.’’ HOW TUB STATEMENT IB RECEIVED. Tho Delawarean says that West’s ex planations of the killing are not credit ed. A large crowd awaited his arrival at the depot, where ho was taken in charge by tho officers. He Is now lodged in Jail. His brothers and bis father-in-law Joined him in the cell.— They were very much distressed and in tears, while West coolly and appar ently unconcerned ate his supper. wests’ antecedents. Tho Wilmington Commercial says Prof. Isaac O. West Is a Delawarean by birth, and is respectably connected. His parents reside In Baltimore Hun dred, Sasser county. His father-in law Is the recorder of deeds for Kent county. West’s earlier years were spent in Dover, where he was learning blacksmlthing. Subsequently his aspi rations rose higher, and ho entered Dickinson college graduating in XBGB. He studied both law and medicine, but ■ never had practice of any account at either. For a year or two ho was em ployed ns assistant at Fauknor's select school at Dover, which ho left to pur sue other studies. Of late ho has been experimenting with the manufacture of Fofjjrecntdrs’aifd Adort*. For Auditors’ Notices, - - ->■- For Assignees’ andslmllirlM For Yearly Cards. nbteroeedl For Announcements five cent less contracted for by live year.. For Business and BpeclaFNot per lino. Double column advot .Jseipvfeni agaS which ho claims will cure ,pnn sumption. Ho is about Uventy-nino years of age, five feot eight Inches' good features and rathet prepossessing in appearance, aquiline • nfaie,' lilaok, piercing eyes, black' hairj genbrnlly wears glasses astride of his ! nose, Stout and heavy In build, and is quitoilutel ligent. DISTRESSING AOOmEST.V,' !l The Beading Times of the.oth,(gives ua the particulars: of, a distressing ,ac cidents which, occurred (n 11)01, ,cilp{ on Saturday. Kossuth Qrlenqr,,p brakeijjan employed on a shifting engine at Hie up per Station, In this 1 city, 'was rhn'over on Saturday morning, about half-pust elght o’clock, by the pushing engine “ Ant,” and ills legs so badly Crushed below tbs hips that he died in less than three hours afterward.. The accident occurred about seventy feet south of the freight-house platform. The shifting engine No. 32, was pulling out freight cars on a siding. Greiner jumped from the' cars, and step ped over on the main track for the pur pose, it Is supposed, of signalling the, en gineer. The engine "Ant” was at'that moment pushing a passenger ear, down the main track to tlio louver dcpot. nnd wasqnly a few yards from Greiner when he stepped on the . traoii 1 . Ho wad'ob served by the brakemari on the passen ger oar, Mr. Henry F. prrior, Who 'Was standing on the front platform.; Mr. Or ner called to him several times, buMJre- Irier evidently did;nqt. hear,the ioHdjpnd repeated shouts. .Mr,, Qr per,. had, also immediately pqt down tbo brakes, but It was tpo stop the Car, ahd'ln an instant the-young man dfaVslruhif llbW n, the wheels of the frdnt’trhok of fh'e'tws eonger cacipassed over both) thighs, al most severing ,his'legs The conductor seeing, what,bad happen ed, notified the engineer.,to..reyqrs?,the engine, which the latter did, and the ear was stopped'Just as the second trrick had reached the young'triaii’S'riqdy.'Qrelnar lay with his head arid body'oalsldeof the .(rack, , He was lifted up, ,qud , qqqvoyod to the Dispensary, whore, thn.phyjj(paiis of ; that. Institution, did everything lu their,poiyer toalleviate his paln.jft ( h?lug impossible to save his life, , The young man, deairing a minister 'to, ba procured, the Bev. Dr. C. F. MoCaiii'ey Was oil led in,, who gave him, religious.consolation, and at his, request administered.,,.tpo rlio of baptism, after,an,onrrias;.and, iqiprea ■ slve prayer,, The young ,ma,a.)|ngetpd in a perfectly conscious pqtiyiair past il q’olook, when death iris Bufferings.. Greiner was thifyiiy and brought up in Cheater oqunty. ( Ho was in the 22d year "of his age,, ’ He had only been employed by the Beading Bailroad Company .since .last Monday. He bad no relatives In this city, hut has a brother who was formerly: employed upon the Lehigh and Susquehanna.rail road, but whose present whereabouts is not known. He has several unoles re siding in Montgomery county., Hjs re mains have been taken In charge by Mr. Charles Hbnnlnger, undertaker,by whom they will be burled to-day. ‘ 5,000 5,000 -It is amusing sometimes'to* Watch how completely specimens' of ; the “Dundreary” swell 'are ‘ taken down when putting on their very grandest and most imposing*' airs!; 1 As 'an in stance of this, wo l ‘giyo i the following account of a scene Whlcli' liL’burrod on one of the Mississippi steamboats'. An amusing colloquy caine of at a supper-table bn board of oho of our Mississippi steamboats between a Chi cago exquisite, reeking with oil and cologne, who was cursing; the waters, assuming very consequential airs and a very raw Jonathan seated by his side dressed in homespun. Turning to his vulgar friend the former pointed with his jeweled finger, and said: “ Buttab, sah!” , "Yes, I see it; is,".coolly replied Jonathan. , “ Buttah, sail, I aay fiercely ro po.Ued the dandy. " Yos, air, I know it is— voth good, and a first-rate article.’,V. , j yl >/ “Buttah, ! tell yon," thundered the dandy In still louder tones, 1 'ii£ If he would annihilate him. ” Well, ('bsh, 1 aIl of It?” now yelled the dbwh^eastdr;'get ting dander up. la tarn, “yo'tf'don’t think X took it foe lard,,did you/? You must be an everlasting,darn, fool; and drat you, If you donltshetjup your jaw, I’ll- butter my .them down- your Infernal: throat.Tt7you don’t hush, I’ll gej; mad, (Jo you hear?” - . i.. ' a .v' , A Widow' Starved to Dsith ! M ■ -n'J '•;!) :n On Friday afternoon of Cor oner Parelowi of Hoboken,N. Jtj,viewed the remains of a Mre,,MaHarfnpy I ‘iwho was found dead in hor room t corner of Sixth and Grand etreetil 1 "Slboe the 30th of November, ho human foihstep passed the threshold of per solitary habitation. Her son was away In New Ydtk, and ebe had been suffering from ; a.s,eyera 111- ueaa, Bbe became too fqopjatcr Ijft her bands, and there woe no fuel.to hwt the room, and ,no , fopd but . a stale piece of bread. She sank helpless, to the floor in_a semi-nude condition, never to rise again except In the agonies of death. No sounds being heard; In t.’ie dismal apartment, the door 1 was broken open by some of the neighbors, and the miserable sufferer had barely time to re ceive tbei'laet consolation of religion when she expired, a victim to hunger and distress. , ; i • A young mau twho applied fit. the recruiting station in one of t)m far Western States. tor enlistment, was asked if he could sloop on the 0 point of a bayonet,” when ho promptly re plied by saying ;“ He could'try it, as he had often slept on a pint of whiskey and the'kind used in liWbOir Would kill farther thatV aiiy shooting; iron ho ever saw ” A gentleman visiting QUO of’ the late fairs was accosted by d lady: “Will you take a chance for a punch bowl ?” “No, thank you; 1 never drink.” “Will you buy a cigar-case then?” “ 1 do not smoko.” (Lady losing pa tience.) “I’d offer you some spap; but X suppose you never wash,” m > .a oo fotlCM, s» inn alz line*, 7 00 taper line an- llcda', MleAn' tU extra. r •i i- io. swii ,;j
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