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ATTORNEYS AT LAW.
HAS. E. GAST,
(Oflice Wi 01 T. E. Franklin, Esq.)
No. 27 EAST ORANGE ST., LANCASTER, PA,
feb2o-tf
B F. ESFILEMAN,
• (omeewith Hou. 1. E. Hlester,)
No. aS NORTFI DUKE ST., LANCASTER, PA
feb26 '69tf
pIT ILI.P D. BAKER,
No. 11 NORTH DUKE ST., LANCASTER, PA
1'6)264 f
A J. KAUFFMAN,
Colledtions made in Lanmster and adjoining
Counties.
Pensions, Bounty, flack Pay, and all claims
Igainst the government promptly prosecuted.
01lice—No.2'43, Locust street.
T IV. YOCUM,
Attorney-at-Law St Notary Public,
=I
OFFICE—SPY Building, Bank Street, near
Locust.
Collections made in Lancaster and adjoining
counties.
C. G. REI3ER,
No 528 Washington street, near Sixth,
Reading, Pa.
Collectltns made in forks and adjoining
counties. nov27-I
• M: NORTH, •
1.•
Columbia, Pa.
Collections promptly made in Lancaster and
Counties.
THOMAS J. DAVIS,
No. 11 North Duke Street, Lancaster, Pa.
Professional Business carefully and prompt
ly attended to. Eoctßo'69-tf
T\ P. ROSENMILLER,
ATTORNEY-AT-LAW
OFFICE.—No. 3 Court Avenue, Lancaster, Pa
jOI3.,N'M. GRIDEft,
JUSTICE OF THE PEACE, SCRIVEI‘.7Ett,
Mountyllle, Lancaster County, Pa.
011 ice Hours from 6 to S o'clock, A. M.,
and 7 to U o'clocic, P. M.
CLARK,
1.111. JUSTICE OP TUE PEACE.
OFFICE—N'o.I2 N. Third street.
Office Hours---From 6to 7 A. M. 22 to 1 P. M.,
and from 6 to 9 P. M. [sepl-69-tfw
~iAMUEL EVANS,
- JUSTICE OF,THE PEACE.
Office, on Second St., adjoining Odd Fellows'
Columblar -
D ENTAL SURGERY,
3. S. SMITH, DE.NTIST,
Graduate of Pennsylvania College of Dental
Surgery. Office Nu. 2.10L0eu..A. Street
2nd door above Odd Fellows' Hall,
Col u mbla, Penn'a.
Dr. J. S Smith thanks his friends and the pub
lic in geaeral for their liberal patronage in the
past, and assuring them that they can rely upon
having every attention given to them In the
future. In every branch of his profession he
has aluays given entire satisfaction. He calls
attention to the unsurpasssed style and finish
of artificial teeth inserted by him. He treats
diseases common to the mouth and teeth of
children and adults. Teeth filled with the great
est care and in the most approved manner.
Aching teeth treated and filled to last for years.
The best of dentritices and mouth washes con
stantly on hand.
N. B.—All work warranted.
sepl-611.1Yw J. S. SMITH, D. D. S.
J. GULICK.,
A_* SURGEON DENTIST,
Extracts Teeth without Pain. Nitrous Oxide or
Laughing Gas administered.
OFFLCE 2-18 LOCUST STREET.
-
B C. UNSELD,
TENCHER OF MUSIC
PIANO,
ORG kN,
MELODEON.
CULTIVATION of the VOICE and SINGING.
Special attention given Beginners and young
pupils.
sept4-09-lyw
219 LOCUST STREET
.1 - Z. lIOFFER,
v
J. DENTIST.
Nitrous Oxide On, administered in the extrac
tion of Teeth.
Office— Front Street, next door to It. Williams'
Drug Store, between Locust and Walnut Streets,
Columbia Pa._
HINKLE,
1-1
. PHYSICIAN 6: SURGEON;
offers his professional services to the citizens of
Columbia and vicinity. He may be found at the
office connected with his residence, on Second
street, between Cherry and Union, every day,
from 7t09 A. M., and trona 6 to SP. M. Persons
wisalng, his services In special cases, between
these hours, will c word by note at his office,
or t hrenn:h the •)51 mice. sepl-70
REAL ESTATE AGENCY
The undersigned have opened an office for the
purchase and sale of real estate, collection of
rents, and the renting of property. Business
entrusted to their care will meet with prompt
and careful attention. F. X. ZIEGLER,
oct3U-'l3O-tfj A. J. KA.UFFAIAN.
TO BUILDERS AND OTHERS
Ifni Ming, paving and other brick always on
hand. They are hand made and superior to any
brick In this part of the country. They aru or
feredat the very lowest price.
sep 1-69-trtyl MICHAEL LIPIIART.
HOTELS.
WESTERN HOTEL,
No •y 15 CORTLANDT STREET,
NEW YORK
THOS. D. ‘VINCILESTE PitoPnitr.rott.
This Hotel is central and convenient for Perin-
sylvanians.
ABLE ntsur.rat, of Reading, Pa.,
Is an atslstant at this Hotel, and will be glad to
see la. friends at all times. eatA-Gv-tfv,
4 4 CONTINEN'T..kL."
THIS HOTEL IS PLEASANTLY LOCATED,
between the Stations of the Reading end Colum
and Pennsylvania Railroads,
FRONT STRE'ET, COLUMBIA, PA.
Ample accomruodationsTor Strangers and Tray
elem. The Bar is stocked with
CHOICE Liguon.s,
And the Tables furnished with the best fare.
UItIAII FINDLEY,
Proprietor.
sep4-6.9-tter]
FRANKLIN HOUSE,
LOCUST ST., COLUMBIA, PA.
This is a tirst-cla.ss hotel, and is in every respect
adapted to meet the wishes and desires of the
traveling public. MAItyIN EItWIF,
sepl-70. • .c " Proprietor,
F RJ XCII'S ILOTEL„
On the European Man, opposite City Trail Park
W York. R. FIIENCH,
Sept. 19.1868. Proprietor.
MIS EELER'S HOTEL,
West Market Square, Retullne Renn'a. •
EVAN MISHLER,
Proprietor,
sept4-664fw)
SEED POTATOES.
Early Rose Potatoes, $2.00 per bushel.
Early Goodrich, 50 cts
Harrlsou, 50 as
Cuzco, 50 cts
Smaller size Potatoes, ball', price.
pl2-St At the COLUMBIA NURSE RY,
B7TCHEIt'S' coimprzsr:'
J
C. BUCHER,
Wholesale and Retail Dealer in
FIVE CENrs
FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC
Wines and. Liquors I
Has removed ills Store to his Building, adjoining
Haldeman's Store, Locust St., Columbia, Pa.,
where he has fitted up rooms and greatly
increased his facilities for doing
a more extensive business
MISHLER'S CELEBRATED
lIER,B BITTERS !
PURE AND UNADULTERATED,
These Bitters are celebrated for the great cures
they have performed in every case, when tried
Dr. Mishler offers five hundred dollars to the pro
prietor of any Medicine that can show a greater
number of genuine certificates of cures effected
by it, near the place where it is made, than
AIISHLER'S HERB BITTERS
AIISHLER'S HERB BITTERS
Is for sale to Columbia by
J. C. BUCHER,
At his Store, Locust Street, Columbia
WINES AND LIQUORS!
Embracing the following;
Catawba,
Port,
- Lisbou,
Cherry,
Curraut and Muscat WINES
COGNAC, OF DIFFERENT BRANDS
Also, OLD RYE WHISKEY and
BRANDIES of all kinds.
Blackberry
Catawba
Cherry,
EMI
XX Old Rye X Old Rye,
Pure Old Rye, Monongahela,
Rea Med Whisky, Loudon Brown Stout
Scotch Ale, dtc., etc., atc,
MALT AND CIDER VINEGAR
He is also Agent for the Celebrated
MISHLER'S HERB BITTERS
POCKET FLASKS.
DEMIJOHNS,
TOBACCO BOXES,
and FANCY ARTICLES, in great variety,
MISHLER'S BITTERS!
PURE dr. UNADULTERATED
BEST STOUT PORTER!
From E. .t CL 111DBERT, LONDON
Agent for the
PURE MALT VINEGAR
Cannot be purchased at any other establish-
meat In town. and Is warranted to keep fruits
and vegetables periee,.
The Beat Brands of Imported
SCOTCH AND LONDON ALE
TO SMOKERS AND CHEWERS
BUBHER will still keep on hand the
Best Brands of
SMOKING AND CHEWING TOBACCO,
SNUFF, HAVANA, YARA, and
COMMON SEGARS. Also,
SNDFF TOBACCO BOXES, PIPES—a
thousand and one varieties. Call at
Locust Street, adjoining Haldeman's Store.
It is the greatest establishment of the kind this
side of.Pidiadelphla. -
*a-Only - Agency for Lee's London Porter, and
Mishler's Bitters.. --
Maderia,
Malaga,
Champagne,
Claret,
Rhine,
Blackborry,
Eldei Lerry,
Jamaica Spirits,
Knnunel,
Ginger,
Gin,
Superior Ola Rye,
Pure Old Rye,
XXX Old Rye,
AGENCY FOR
FOR SALE
At T. C. BUCHER'S
For Sale by
J. C. BUCHER
For sale by
J. C. BUCHER,
Locust Street, above Front
For Sale at
J. C. BUCHER S
J. C. BUCHER'S,
COLUMBIA, sA_TrunDA:y . MORNING, MAY 21. 1870.
M:ISCELLANEOUS.
GRAND INAUGURATION
- 0 F -
LOW PRICES
HOMER, COLLADAY & CO.,
Nos. 1412 tt: 1414 Chestnut St.,
PHILADELPHIA,
ARE NOW OFFERING THE WHOLE OF
OEM
MAGNIFICENT STOCK
IMEMIZ
DRESS GOODS, SILKS, &C.
Replete with all the Choicest Novelties
of the Season.
TOGETHER WITH
LARGE INVOICES OF DESIRABLE GOODS,
Purchased in this Ilarlcet for CASH,
At Astonishing Low Prices !
H. C. & CO. conclude that it is only necessary
to quote a few of their offerings as an index of
the prices at which this SUPERB STOCK will
be disposed of, to insure an early call.
HANDSOME DOUBLE-WIDTH CHENE MO
HAIRS, 37% CENTS.
DOUBLE-FOLD FOULARD MORAIRS, 45
CENTS.
DOUBLE-FOLD NORWICH POPLINS, IN THE
NEW LIGHT SHADES, H CENTS.
HOYLE'S YARD-WIDE ENGLISH PRINTS,
25 CENTS.
PRINTED SATIN CLOTH A NEW ARTICLE
FOR THE HOUSE OA WALKING COS
TUME, 33 CENTS.
ONE CASE OF THE FINEST ORGANDIES
IMPORTED, 40 CENTS.
REAL SCOTCH GINGHAMS, Es.T ALL COL
ORS, 25 CENTS.
TWO CASES OF FRENCH FOULARD MO
HAIRS WHICH SOLD BY THE PIECE FOR
6.5 CENTS, ARE NOW OFFERED AT 56
CENTS.
BLACK LYONS GROS GRAINS AND DRAP
DE LYON. OF THE BEST MAKES, FROM
$1.50 to $.B PER YARD.
CIIENE SILKS OF THE LATEST DESIGNS
OF THE PARIS MARKED, AND EXTRA
QUALITY, SOLD LAST SPRING AT 53.25,
STRIPED SILKS FROM $1.50 TO $2.00,
BLACK CANVAS BARE() ES, EXTRA SU
PERB QUALITY, R*4 CENTS.
BLACK CANVAS BAREGES, 75 CENTS
BLACK CANVAS BAREGES. ALL WIDTHS
AND QUALITIES, UP TO 36.
WALKING SUITS, LACE SHAWLS, LACE
POINTS, &c.
ALL AT THE NEW RATES.
April 16-3 m
NO. 13
SHREINER'S
IS THE PLACE
Where you can buy a first rate
AMERICAN, ENGLISH OR SWISS
WATCH,
BEAUTIFUL SETS OF JEWELRY, HAND
SOME BREAST PINS, EAR RINGS,
SLEEVE BUTTONS,
and almost everything In the Jewelry line
AT THE LOWEST PRICE.
Or you can purchase
FINE SILVER AND SILVER PLATED
SPOONS,
FORKS, KNIVES CASTORS, GOBLETS, ICE
PITCHERS. BUTTER DISHES &c. &c.
Then If you are in
WANT OF TIME
you am buy any kind of
AMERICAN CLOCK,
warranted of the best quality, at a low figure
CALL AND SEE FOR YOURSELF
CHAS. P. SHREINER'S
Sept.lw to No. 13 Front St., Columbia, Pa.
DRU6S
y B. KEVINSKI,
U • DEALER IN
PIANOS, ORGANS, MELODIDOrNS,
AND MUSICAL INSTRUMM,ITS
GENERALLY.
A large assortment of Violins, "Fla Jes, Guttnrs,
Banjos, Tam borines, Aceordeons, Files,. Mar
monicxus, (nal musical murehanAllhe ul.ways on
hum!.
SHEET MU - SIC:
A large stock on hand, and constantly' receiving
all the latest publications as soon as issued.
Music and Musical Books will be sent by mall
free of postage, when the market price is remit
ted.
DACALCOMANIA,
Or the Art of transferring Pictures. Can be
transferred on any object.
I would call special attention of the Couch
makers to my stock of Daealcomunls.
ll=
STEINWAY .4. SON'S PIANOS, PRINCE
CO'S., & NEEDHAM & SON'S CE.LEBRA. o
ORGANS AND MELODEONS.
Sole Agent for Stoll's Unrivaled PIANO
FORTE AND FURNITURE:POLISH.
Call and examine my stock at.
NO. 3 NORTH PRINCE STRE
LANCASTER, PA
COOPER R CONARD,
S. E. cor. 9th & Market Sts.,
PHILADELPHIA.
Having rebuilt their store, will open about
()owner Ist. with an elegant stock, to which
they invite an examination.
Upwards of seventeen years of active busi
ness at their present location, enables them no
judge of the wants of their patrons, to buy at
the lowest prices and to sell at the smallest rsurr
gin of profit. Full lines of
BLACK SILKS,
DRESS STUFFS,
SILK VELVETS,
CLOAKS, SHAWLS,
HOSIERY, TIES,
HANDKERCHIEFS,
COLLARS, CUFFS, &c.,
WHITE GOODS,
BLANKETS, QUILTS,
MUSLINS, LINENS,
CASSIM ER.ES, CLOTHS,
CLOAKINGS,
VELVETEENS, &c.,
COOPER & CONARD.
S. E. cer. Ninth & Market Sta.,
oct.2-'89.1y-l-2-3p) Philad.
FOLSOM'IIMPIIOVED TW' ENTY-
Ask) FIVE DOLLAR FAMILY SEWING
?IACHINE. The cheapest First-Class Miachlne
In the market. Agents wanted In every town.
Liberal commb.sion allowed. F”r terr. as and
circubtr, address A.S. HAMILTON, Gen. Agent,
No. 700 Chestnut St.„Phll'a, Pa. apll 6-8111
"NO ENTERTAINMENT SO OHEAP AS BEADING, NOR ANY PLEASURE BO LASTING."
NAVE COURAGE TO SAY NO
- 0 —
You're starting to-day on life's Journey,
Alone on the highway of life;
You'll meet with a thousand temptations—
Each city with evil is rife.
This world is a stage of excitement,
There's danger wherever you go,
But if you are tempted in weakness,
Have courage to say :Co.
The syren's sweet song may allure you,
Beware of her cunning and art ;
Whenever you see her approaching,
Be guarded and haste to depart.
The billiard saloons are inviting,
Decked out in their tinsel and show ;
You may be invited to enter—
Have courage, my boy, to say No.
The bright ruby wine may be offered—
No matter how tempting it be ;
From poison that stings like an adder,
My boy, have courage to flee.
The gambling halls are before you,
The lights how they dance to and fro!
If you should be tempted to enter,
Think twice, even three, ere you go.
In courage alone lies your safety
When you the long Journey begin,
And trust in a Heavenly Father
Wuo will keep you unspotted from sin,
Temptations will go on increasing,
As streams from a rivulet flow,
But if you are true to your manhood,
Have courage, my boy, to say No.
Niscaliautouo 3eadiug.
AN INCIDENT OF THE WAR
In the latter part of the year 1862,, I
was residing in Fredrieksburg, Va., with
ray mother an old lady suffering from
complicated form of spinal disease, which
had confined her to bed for a very long
period. The doctors pronounced her case
hopeless, and indeed, there were times
when the slightest noise in the room, or
the feeblest effort to move, brought upon
her such paroxysms of pain as were heart
rending to witness.
We lived completely alone, in a small
cottage in the suburbs, not a relative or
protector near us, for my father had long
been dead, and my two gallant brothers
had both fallen in the first battle of Man
assas.
While thus unfortunately situated, the
neighborhood of Fredricksburg became
the scene of hostilities. General Burnside
with an immense force; appeared upon the
northern bank of the Rappahannock, and
endeavored to effect a crossing of the
river.
Some time before, the main part of the
population of the town had deserted it;
but my mother, more weak and ill than
usual, could not be moved to any place of
safety.
Imagine our position, reader, if you can!
Two feeble women, with a small keg of
biscuits to support us, left without the
prospect of help, in a city already under
the muzzles of nearly a hundred and fifty
Union cannon! A dull lethargy, like
that of despair, overpowered me. I could
only listen, stupified, to the moanings•of
the invalid, and to the frequent crashing
rolls of musketry lower down the river.
With the flight of hope, every vestige
of apprehension and fear seemed to have
left me.—l was absolutely certain we
should both perish, for, to abandon my
helpless parent, was a thought which
never once entered my mind.
Suddenly, on the morning of the 11th of
December, jnst as I was trying, after a
sleepless night, to prepare some food for
breakfast, the dreaded bombardment broke
forth in all its fury.
"Ah, it has come at last, and we shall
soon be out of all our misery," said I, step
ping quietly to the window, and looking
upon the terrible scene. No words
could convey a picture of what I then saw
—the air filled with flame, and hissing
with deadly missies; the crash of build
ings crushed by round shot, and torn open
by bursting shells; houses momently
catching fire, in every direction; and what
was more horrible than all the rest, the
frantic shrieks of women and children
who, too late, were seeking safety in flight.
As I stood by the window—Heaven
knows how long, for I was dreadfully fas
cinated by the spectacle-I witnessed what
even now, as I recall it, makes me shud
der.
NO. 13
A butcher's cart, drawn by an immense
grey horse, with a man driving it and a
little boy holding fearfully to the skirts
of the man's coat had just come rattling
into view. I had barely caught sight of
these figures, when a shell burst directly
under the animal's feet—or possibly two
of these missiles—for the horse, the vehi
cle, and the human beings in it, were lit
erally torn to pieces! I could see the man
gled limbs of the poor boy quivering on
the sidewalk.
lE=
At once, and utterly, I lost all my res
olution. In fact, I must have fainted,
since the next thing of which I was con
scious, was my mother's voice, pitifully
begging me to answer her, and say wheth
er I had been wounded.
I staggered up from the seat on which
I had fallen, and attempted to re-assure
her; but, as may be supposed, unsuccess
fully. For a whole hour after this we
remained motionless in our chamber,
while the firing appeared to increase in
violence. The windows rattled like skele
ton bones, and the very foundations of
the house trembled and shook at every
discharge.
I was fast becoming calm again—des
pairingly—when I heard somebody walk
ing up stairs, and then a well known voice
shouting our names. It was old Robin,
our negro servant, whom I had sent, the
day before into the country to seek provi
sions. My father's slave and my grand
father's Robin. now seventy years of age,
but more athletic than many a young man
had clung with pathetic devotion to the
remnants of "the family," as he called us.
My heart leaped up when I saw his honest
black face, and the notion that we might
be saved, after all, brought back all my
strength of will and courage.
Saved! but how? People in times of des
perate danger; think quickly, and are apt
to resort to singular expedients. Glanc
ing about the room, my eyes fell upon a
large, but exceedingly light straw chair,
which I had procured for my mother's
convenience when she was strong enough
to sit up. Ah a lucky conception! We
would wrap the invalid carefully in a dou
ble set of blankets, strap her gently to a
chair, and if she could endure the pain of
removal, Robin would take her on his
back Ishe was scarcely as heavy as a child)
and leave the city for the first place that
Offered.
oct.l6:bV-/y
`gottry.
Hurriedly I proposed this plan to my
mother, who to my inexpressible relief ac
cepted it eagerly. Her pale face flushed
a little, and she actually looked better at
that moment, than I had seen her look
for years. Tenderly, as if she had been a
baby, Robin placed her in the chair, secur
ing her frail person by passing several
cords and a broad strap across her chest
and knees, and lastly, taking the burden
with no apparent effort upon his back, he
went down stairs, biddin7 me follow him.
But oh! that walk of three miles, first
through the burning streets of Fredericks
burg, with the roofs crashing above our
heads, jets of fire darting between doors
and windows, the hiss of balls, and the
singing of the great shells as they passed
curves of flame through the thickening
smoke; and then, these greater dangers
avoided, our plodding along the country
roads, choked up by overthrown carriages
and scattered goods of every description,
with horses escaped from their owners,
galloping madly among the debris of many
a ruined homestead—can I ever forget it
all—ever erase from memory the frightful
pictures of that time.
At last we reached a farm house, the
people of which were our friends. My
mother, with exclamations of surprise
from the whole family was taken at once
to bed, but strange to say, she did not
seem at all fatigued.
This delicate woman, who had not left
her chamber, scarcely her couch, for years,
had braved the horrors of a bombardment
in the open streets—ridden on a negro's
back for three or four miles, and yet had
not succumbed! And what is more, from
that night my mother's health improved,
until now five years after, I have the
satisfaction of having her seated near
me, and engaged upon some delicate
sewing-work, in the very chair which
formed so important a part of the rescue
of December, 1862!
Her comparative recovery has puzzled
the faculty, excepting one physician of
acknowledged genius, who declares it was
the most natural thing in the world.
" Did you ever read Little Dorrit, Miss
Martha?" he asked me yesterday. I re
plied thafl had. " Well, then, recall that
scene which represents Arthur Clenman's
mother under the influence of a great
mental shock, throwing off the paralysis
twenty years, and rushing through the
town to find little Dorrit and entreat her
mercy!
"Ignorant critics laughed at Dickens
for introducing what they called a tour de
force, but Dickens, as usual, knew what
he was about. Such shocks, especially in
nervous diseases, act often with the sub
tle force of galvanism, and the cases are
numerous where what you would have
sworn must kill the patient outright, re
sults in a temporary, and even in some
eases (look at your mother,) a permanent
ME
What meanwhile, of old Robin? lle
still lives with " the family," and in his
hale old age delights to repeat to his , troll
ics the minutest particulars of the event
of which he was the unquestionable hero.
Every week he gets more garrulous con
cerning it, so that in due time the fight
from Fredericksburg promises, under his
creative fancy to develop quite an "Iliad"
of adventures.
WANDERING PLAYERS
" Peregrine Pickle " contributes to the
Chicago Tribune the followin:gletter from
a traveling actor. It is a good one for
"points."
Dramatic business in the suburbs is
rather at a low ebb just at present. If I
had $lO,OOO a year and no responsibilities,
I could not wish for better sport than to
cast my fortunes—or at least a portion of
them—with a traveling theatrical compa
ny, and play at playing. Nowhere can
you study to better advantage the capri
cious humors of that many-headed, in
tractable thing called the public, than
from the-footlights of the transitory coun
try theatre. But when you come to
depend upon these same caprices for
your daily bread, the "fun of the thing"
becomes not so apparent. There is a
kind of "humerous sadness" in the life of
a wandering "Hamlet," a melancholy
composed of many simples, which renders
him and his little family an object of pe
culiar curiosity, while the strange ups
and downs, the comical distressess, the
pathetic humor of the situation into which
he is constantly thrown, furnish an in
teresting commentary on human life.
You will see from the foregoing feeble
attempt at moralizing that I have just
come through a little experience of the
kind. In fact, I have been for sonic time
a member of one of the numerous troupes
that are now gyrating round the suburbs
of the great metropolis. We were a de
tachment of a brilliant company which had
delighted great and fashionable audiences
in the city. But troubleshavingarisen in
the management, we seceded from the pa
tent stem, and went off "on our ear" to
astonish the rustics of the Northwest.
Of course, our company was the very best
that could be got together, and we have
succeeded in persuading the best critics
of every village we visited that the trag
edy of Hamlet was never before performed
so brilliantly with so limited a stock of tal
ent. But therural populations are not to
be relied on. They understand the prin
ciples of deadheading oven better than the
people of Chicago, and that is saying a
great deal. They fleece us unmercifully
at the hotels, drag us into all kinds of ex
pensive convivialities, charge enormous
rents for the dingiest halls, and then send
their young ones to peep at us through a
crack in the wall. The kind of notoriety
to which we are subjected is thus flatter
ing, but ruinous. We get ahead at one
town, and we go a hundred dollars below
zero at the next.
Our manager, however, is a humorous
kind of fellow, and he bears all these whips
and spurs of fortune with remarkable for
titude. lam afraid his experience as a
manager has sadly shaken his faith in the
intelligence of the great public which he
hypocritically professes to honor. The
manner in which he has sometimes ho
cuspocused the unsuspecting rustics for the
sake of getting even with them, has really
shocked me on several occasions.
The other week we came to a flourishing
village—or so we were made to believe it
was—and advertised our show by all the
devices known to puffery. It was of no
avail. The citizens could not muster
over ten paying auditors per night. Our
enterprisingmanager, in despair, an
nounced tliat on the last performance of
the season he would pay every man seven
ty-five cents who should pay his fifty cents
for admission. Naturally, there was a
mighty commotion in the village, and the
prospects for a brimming house that night
were immense. Knowing too well the
condition:of our finances, we trembled not
a little at the result. But we got out of
the scrape neatly after all. Just an hour
before the performance the manager an
nounced a great reduction in prices -twen
ty-five cents all over the house and re
served seats fifty cents. The house was
crammed, all but the reserved seats,which
were occupied by one roan. The best of
the joke was that the audience never sus
pected the trick, but sat in expectatation
of some grand discomfiture to the mana
ger, till the man who had expended fifty
cents was invited to come forward and re
ceive his reward. •
We have been sojourning at Elgin lately
and our experiences of that delightful
town have been such as to raise my ideas
of the state of intellectual culture exist
ing among the people to a high degree.
They want all the novelties of the season.
and we gave them all they could swallow.
We played Ireland. as it Was, and called
it 'Under ildc Gaslighl, and it proved a
great success. Next evening we announc
ed the Sea of Ice, with all the new and
gorgeous scenery and machinery from
Wood's Museum, which fairly took them
by storm. Three yards of white muslin
was the principal part of the outlay.
"What's in a name?" mused our mana
ger, encouraged by the success of these
experiments. And so next evening we
announced ;Formosa. But as we had
omitted to procure a copy of that fasci
nating play we fell back upon Camille,
who did good service under the twin (le
plume of Miss Boker, and the audience
went away perfectly satisfied that they
had seen the wicketest and most popular
play of the season. The only material
change made in the drama was to marry
Camille to Armand instead of killing her.
For all that, however, and in spite of the
generosity which prompted us to let in all
the boys who hung longingly around the
doors and peered in at us through chinks
in the wall, or climbed ladders to get a
peep through the back windows, I am
afraid our board-bills at the Waverly
House went ahead of our receipts. We
determined to retrieve our fortunes by the
last crowning effort, and so we announced
Hamlet, with Edwin Booth in the title
role. This was a daring "draw" on the
credulity of the citizens, but it seemed to
take, and we had every prospect of a good
house. But a misunderstanding arose
between Hamlet and the Queen, and her
Majesty went off in the afternoon to Chi
cago. There was not another Queen to
be bad for love or money. The majority
of the company viewed the situation rath
er philosophically. Laertes declared that
for his part he could get along very well
without the Queen, she bad nothing to
say to him anyhow. Polonius, Osric,
Horatio, and even the King, did not feel
particularly embarrassed on the subject.
But what's a man without a mother? I
have heard of the tradegy of Hamlet with
the part of "Hamlet" omitted; but I do
not believe it could be more unpromising
than Hamlet without a Queen. Never
theless, we did it, and we came off in tri
umph, with the plaudits of the people
rising in our ears. It would have puzzled
Edwin Booth, I think, to accomplish what
our "Hamlet" did. It would puzzle me
to tell how he did it. But he did. Ile
got old "Polonins" to put in a remark
hei e and there, and sometimes he drew
on Ophelia, when that lady was present.
He went through the entire closet scene
with the ghost of a father and without
even the phantom of mother. The ghost
himaelf seemed to be tickled at the ab
surdity of the situation, and in the speech
in which he tells Hamlet to step between
her and her fighting soul, he added in his
most sepulchral tone, "Speak to her, Ham
let; she feels bad."
On the whole, I think we have done
something original in the way of Hamlet
and the good people don't appreciate it.
They paid their money and they all went
home well pleased. We are off to a new
pasture to-morrow, and I may soon have
another chapter of dramatic history to
chronicle for the "World of amusement."
FAKin.
MEMORIAL DAY
The following order has been issued
from the Headquarters Grand Army of
the Republic:
I. The annual ceremonies of "Memori
al Day," which has been firmly establish
ed by national choice and consent, will
take place on Monday, the 30th day of
May.
IL All departments, districts, posts,
and comrades of the Grand Army of the
Republic, whenever dispersed throughout
the lane, will unite in such manner, and
with such ceremonies, for the proper ob
servance of the day as may be best suited
to each respective locality, and all organ
izations, and communities, and persons
whose grateful aid, sympathy and prayers
sustained us throughout the dark days of
the nation's peril, and those whose loyal,
patriotic hearts beat in unison with our
own, and who have therefore, or may
hereafter, join us in the observance of this
memorial day, are hereby cordially invited
to unite, and are earnestly requested to
lend their aid and assistance in strewing
the pure garlands of spring that come with
votive memories of love and prayer, o'er
the mounds that mark the country's altar
and fold in rest eternal our martyred dead.
This is the third public observance of a
day which has become marked and nation
al for this sacred occasion. Many are
now missing from our ranks who were
with us before. Time, with busy fingers
counts the hours for all. "In the midst
of life we are in death," and one by one
our veterans are "mustered out" to join
the grand army on high. Let this teach
us that we should so live that when we
are gone it can be said: "He was a citi
zen, a soldier, and comrade, 'without fear
and without reproach.' "
111. It is desirable that the memorial
services may be preserved,and department
and port commanders will forward direct
to the adjutant general at national head
quarters a record of such proceedings as
may occur in each locality. Should the
same appear in the press, or by pamphlet,
a duplicate corrected copy is requested.
By order: JOHN A. LOGAN.
Commander-in-Chief.
WILLIAM T. Coi.ms, Adjutant General.
Tins line fills this column.
$2,00 Per Year, in Advance; $2.50 IC not Paid in Advance.
TEE MN= WELL OF BLOOMFIELD:
While many of the people in the coun
try are going to Niagara, to the Mammoth
Cave, and the Natural Bridge, to gratify
their curiosity for the marvelous in nature,
there is a sight nearer home—and though
as yet but partially notorious—which ri
vals the most wonderful of them.
In the year 18M, when the oil excite
ment was at a high pitch throughout West
ern Pennsylvania and "Western New York.
some parties undertook to sink a well on
what is known as the "Beebe Farm," in
Bloomfield, Ontario conuty, Y.,twenty
miles from Rochester and seven from
Lima. On different occasions in former
years, gas had been seen to issue out of
the earth, and in some instances even had
been ignited with a match, so that, as the
experts say, there were very strong "sur
face indications" of oil.
After boaring fifteen feet they struck a
rock of red sandstone, and which, on fur
ther boring, proved to extend indefinitely
downward.
At a depth of about 460 feet, the in
struments stzuckan immense fissure in the
rock and dropped as if in a vacuum.
A volume of gas rushed out with great
force and loud noise, seeming to be a vent
to an immense pressure of gas below.
After an outlay of something like two
thousand dollars, the well was now aban
doned, and, all hopes of ever finding oil
extinguished.
in 1566, a party came to witness the
wonderful flow of gas from the pipe (which
the oil men had left projecting about fif
teen feet out of the ground), and one of
the gentlemen climbing up to the top, as
a matter of amusement and experiment,
struck a match and held it to the orifice,
which is about six inches in diameter.
With a loud explosion thegas ignited,and
a sheet of flame nearly thirty feet high
shot up into the air (with a proportionate
width), and in a few minutes the old der
rick with all its surroundings was consum
ed. The sound of the flame can be heard
a mile, and at certain times its light shin
ing on all the hills around and clouds
above, like a Vesuvius, can be seen thir
teen miles away. I say can, for at the
present moment the lire may be seen tear
ing itself from the bowls of the earth in
the same mad and terrible manner as it
might have been forty-eight months ago.
Well, what of it? do you ask. Well
let's see. About a year since, Hicks, a
New York gentleman, bought the place
and conceived the astonishing idea of
turning the burning well, which has hith
erto been a mere wonder, to the benefit of
millions of earth's inhabitants. How is
that? you ask. Now listen. Prof. Werx,
of New York, was sent for and made a
thorough chemical examination of its pro
perties, and found it to consist of a pecu
liar though remarkably strong character
of burning gas, but with a slight admix
ture of carbonic acid.
, The gas, unlike our manufactured arti
cle, can be inhaled in the lungs with hu
punity. - •
The issue from the well is between three
hundred thousand and four hundred thou
sand feet daily, or about the amount con
sumed by the whole city of Rochester. It
can he purified at a cost of 30 cents per
thousand feet, so as to make a light of
surpassing clearness and briliancy, and
that is all the cost of manufacturing.
Gas in Rochester is worth about three
dollars per thousand. A party of enter
prising gentlemen from Elmira now have
hold of the matter. John Arnot, Jr., Dr.
Eldridge, N. I'. Fassett, and E. N. Fris
bie, who propose to capture the great gas
giant of Bloomfield, and smothering him,
take him to the city to give light to all
those who are obliged to walk in darkness
or pay exhorbitant prices for an inferior
quality of gas made by the hand of man.
Mr. Hicks has disposed of the property
(except a small share which lie reserves) to
the stock company recently formed, for
a handsome sum, and the abandoned oil
well which two years ago would not have
sold for a box of matches, promises to
carry one of the most magnificent money
ed enterprises of the day.—Brfulford Re
porter.
CULTIVATING TEE STRAWBERRY
It has become fairly settled at the only
sound method of cultivating the straw
berry that the plants must be kept free
from runners. The effect of this practice
is wonderful. The whole growth of the
plant is concentrated by this means in the
original stock, and it enlarges, until as
many as a quart of berries have been
plucked from a single plant. It will be
understood that this method is followed
only with such plants as are not raised
with a view of propogation, but are per
permanent varieties, set out for family
use. lit order to sell, the runners must be
encouraged, After all the endless list of
varieties which have been extolled as the
best, the Wilson retains its position as the
best market berry. Much will be found
to depend on the nature of the soil and
the mode of cultivation. Before the plants
are in bloom in the early spring, the ap
plication of liquid manure will be found
of great value.
Pno'rEcTxox is daily gaining ground in
the West. Hardly a day now passes but
the newspaper mail furnishes some evi
dence of this encouraging fact. Among
the latest significant items is the change
of scope and aim of the Bureau, a Chicago
monthly. The journal, which originated
as the organ of the commercial and Indus
trial interests of the Western States, has
been latterly enlarged in Size and strength
ened in editorial force, and now appears
as the distinctive and especial champion
of a protective policy. In tone and intel
lectual calibre this monthly takes first
class rank, and if we may judge from its
advertising patronage, it enjoys the confi
dence and support of a good business ele
ment.
IN a villiage in Southern Missouri, a
few days ago, a nice young man put a
sheet around him to scare a Dutchman.
The Teutonic gentleman says:—" I just
jump off my wagon and vip der ghost all
the time. I would vip him if he was a
whole grave-yard." Some one asked the
young man what ailed his black eye, and
he said he had received bad news from
Germany.
THE Doylestown Democrat, one of the
best Democratic papers in Pennsylvania.,
gives up the fight against equal suffrage.
It has resisted this progress movement as
stubbornly as any other Democratic jour
nal, but it now recognizes that its party
is beaten on this issue and proposes to ac
cept the situation "as gracefully as pos
sible."
[WHOLE NUMBER, 20,841.
SUBTERRANEAN LAZES,
In Stockton, California, and immediate
ly around it, an abundant supply of good
water can be had anywhere by boring
down a dozen feet with a common auger
with a long handle. Picnic parties carry
a pump and stand, lead pipe and an anger
as a part of the required articles for the
day. But a very short time is expended
in obtaining water. The fire reservoirs
have no bottoms, and require no tilling,
the water coming in freely as soon as they
are dug. It was necessary to change the
place of burial first selected in the town,
the water penetrating the graves and par
tially filling them. Yet there is no
healthier place than that locality in that
or any other State. An artesian well was
sunk 1,200 feet in 1855, and ever since has
thrown up a solid column of water ten
feet above the surface of the ground.
Some thirty or forty miles from Stockton
there is a large tract called "float land,"
which moves on the surface, probably of a
lake, several hundred feet at times. Hun
dreds of cattle graze upon it with perfect
safety. It is supposed to have been form—
ed much as the Worcester land. There
are several pieces of such ground in differ
ent countries of Europe. •
Now come the paper-makers. They
met in convention in New York the other
day to take steps to prevent the over-pro
duction of paper. The paper-makers,some
years ago got a tariff on paper, and prices
ran up to enormous figures, at which enor
mous profits were made. Paper mills
sprang up all over the country. The old
mills, which had good machinery, got
along very safely, but the new ones in
creased the production of paper beyond
the demand, and, of course, had to sell at
a loss. Though the number of mills has
largely decreased, it appears there are yet
too many, so they have been holding a con
vention to form a union, which is to limit
the amount of paper produced, and thus
keep up the prices, to accomplish which
they propose to stop their mills, limit the
production of paper and fix the price at
which it mugt be sold, In other words,
to establish a monopoly; but let the tax
on paper be repealed, and then let the
monopoly try how long they can maintain
the scale of prices.
Tics closing hours of the Ohio Legisla
ture are said to have been exceptionally
disagreeable. In the house the Democrats
offered a protest against the ratification
of the Fifteenth amendment couched in
the most insulting language, on account
of which the presiding officer decided it
out of order on a rule that is necessary in
every parliamentary body of any dignity
and self respect whatever. To this some
Democratic member objected and appeal
ed &OM the decision of the chair. 'About
this time two members, both Democrats
got into an altercation, called each other
liars and scoundrels, and told other
plain truths in the most undignified, not
to say profane, language imaginable.
Next, another Democrat member called
the Speaker " a liar," and in other ways
acted like a New York "dead rabbit." In
the upper house of the same Legislature
things were carried on in a similar un
worthy and shameful manner..
"WOMAN'? passion for dress is duly ac
counted for by her intuitive perception of
the fact, that it is her special mission to
secure the love of man by revealing to him
the beautiful, although she is ignorant of
the intimate relation existing between
female beauty and masculine wisdom.
Dress, including all that relates to the
preservation and ornamentation of the
person, is and ought to be a tine art with
woman. There is a clothes-philosophy
pregnant with more spiritual truth than
Carlyle and his school ever imagined. She
who does not seek to beautify herself es
pecially after marriage, and for the influ
ence of beauty in the home-circle, has not
fully comprehended the nature of love or
the duties of life. A. woman without that
assistance which a refined and delicate
taste can give her, is like a spring with
out flowers, a feast without music, a night
without stars."
LIBERAL OFFER.-A paragraph is go
ing the rounds about a girl in •Chester,
Vermont, dying from tight lacing. An
editor, commenting on the fact, says:
" These corsets should be done away with
and if the girls can't live without being
squeezed, we suppose men can be found
who would sacrifice themselves. As old
as we are, we would rather devote three
hours a day, without a cent of pay, as a
brevet corset, than see these girls dying
off in that manner. Office hours almost
any time.
ANNA DICKINWN has at last got her
self into serious trouble. A Western paper
says she "has lost the girlish rougishness
which would dimple out in the midst of
the serious business of the lecture room."
There now! We just expected Anna
would lose that, carrying it around so
carelessly, and not checked either. These
women are so recklessly extravagant!
Proposals will be received at this office
for another complete set, burglar proof,
and warranted to keep in any climate.
lowA is larger than New York or
Pennsylvania, larger than New England
without Maine, and more productive than
all of them put together. the has thirty
five million acres of rich black mold, and
to-day a clean furrow can be turned over
thirty million of these acres. Although
less than five million are under cultiva
tion, they produced last year eighty-eve
million bushels of grain.
A NE WT:I - married lady in Chicago corn.
plained to her ma that on her reception
day her card-basket was overrun with cir
culars from lawyers, announcing terms
for divorce. "So absurb, you know, be
fore our honeymoon is over." "True,
dear," replied ma (who had been twice
divorced.) "but, I'd put them in a safe
place; you might find them very useful in
a year or two.."
A er,r.vsat woman says: " I am tired
of hearing women talking about 'rights'
and scorning ' privileges,' and then get
ting into a street car to look daggers at
every man who doesn't spring up in a jiffy
to give them his place. I want them to
look into Webster, and find ont whether
' rights' and . privileges' come under the
same head, and mean one and the same
thing."
Srunozos defines a gentleman as "one
who can serve his God, and at the same
time paddle his own canoe." •