The POTTER JOURNAL
AND
NEWS ITEM.
COUDERSPORT, PA., July 9, 1873
F THE farmers' organization under
the name of Granges, skeins to be
rapidly gaining ground at the west
-and it lias recently made its power
felt in Illinois by the election of its
candidate for judge of the supreme
court.
Its primary object is understood
to be to protect the interest of farmers
against the extortionate demands of
railroad monopolies and other trans
portation companies.
That there are two sides to this
question of transportation admits of
no doubt, but when it costs three
bushels of grain to market one from
the state'of Minnesota, with direct
lines of railroad connecting that
state with the seaboard and when,
with the high price of breadstuff's in
the east, thousands of bushels of
corn are daily burned for fuel, as was
the case in the states west of the
Mississippi last spring, we naturally
come to the conclusion that there is
something wrong. J
The farmers claim that the rail
roads charge rates that are not only
ruinous to the farming interest, but
much higher than are necessary to
cover their running expenses and
pay fair dividends on their stock.
They have not indicated just how
they propose to remedy this state of
things, though their late action in
Illinois seems to point to judicial
and legislative means. Many of the
papers throughout the country seem
horrified at a judiciary being elected
to carry out a particular object. It
does not necessarily follow that such
is the case. In all of the states that
elect their judges, there is a political
contest to secure control of the
courts, yet this control contemplates
nothing more than security from ad
verse partisan decisions.
The action of the Supreme Court
of the United States on the slavery
question has warned the country of
the danger that lurks around judicial
bodies when powerful combinations
have interests at stake. The railroad
monopolies of the country are a
power that is as yet but partially de
veloped. but its influence is tremen
dous and the Granges are working
wisely for the accomplishment of
their object when they place their
candidates on the benches of the
supreme courts of the several states.
The Last Day of June.
The crown of the year is come and
almost gone. The summit of warmth,
of verdure, of beauty, of balmy, dewy
freshness is passing away to give
place to other lovely days and great
treasures of summer fullness, but to
be equalled never more, until another
June shall come, queen of another
year, to shed its brief blessing on
the world again.
It seems as though any grief or
disappointment weuld be harder to
endure in this sunny, floweiy month
than in any other; that any joy or
crown of blessing should come in it,
as the fitting time. New hopes should
spring, old ones be crowned with
fulfillment, new zeal for all noble
enterprises, new love for all earth's
children. New efforts to spread the
blessings of life over all the land
and to heal, as far as human effort
may, all its ills; because we feel the
fullness of this time of outward bless-
ing ourselves.
mi? June is passing away. Happy
be who in this mountain time hath
done nothing to cloud his own life or
another's. Happy still whosoever
hath made it memorable by any
good, kind deed, or by the turning
away from any evil. For him will
the sunlight of all future Junes be
blighter, the air purer, the roses love
lier and more fragrant.
THE Philadelphia Press in some
articles on Preventable Disease, made
very timely now by the approach of
cholera as well as the usual deathly
accompaniments of the hot weather,
lias many valuable suggestions aliout
means of health especially among the
poorer classes.
It speaks of the "Children's excur
sions""Summer Sanitariums" that is,
"free parks in some elevated regions
near the cities, furnished with cot
tages and has the following account of
THE CHILDREN'S SEA-SHORE
HOUSE. —One, and that which is
more advanced toward completion, is
a home for children at the sea-shore,
within easy distance from the city,
viz., 'The Children's Sea-shore House
at Atlantic City." The formation of
this home was as follows:
In the early part of last summer a
few ladies and gentlemen of Phila
delphia rented a cottage at Atlantic
City, and calling it "The Children's
House," furnished it with the neces
sary appliances for the comfortable
maintenance of some ten or twelve
invalid children during the summer
months, who were under the charge
of a competent resident physician
and efficient female assistants. The
undertaking was experimental, and
of the most simple character, putting
to practical proof an idea that had
presented itself to some of the manag
ers. in view of the large number of
poor children who suffered from the
effects of close confinement in the
city and in many cases died from
actual want of pure air. The con
trast between their wasted little
frames and the blooming faces and
sturdy figures of other children, who
were able to spend most or all of
the summer in the country or at the
seaside, pointed significantly to the
remedy, which the managers hoped
to prove practicable by a modest
trial. That trial has been success
fully made, twenty-seven children
having been received during the sum
mer and enlarging their member
ship, they have procured the neces
sary legislation from the State of
New Jersey, under the corporate
title of ''The Children's Sea-shore
House at Atlantic City," and are
now prepared to make an effort on a
larger scale, working from the foot
hold they have already established.
One of their own members having
purchased and presented to "The
Children's House" a large and de
lightful lot at Atlantic City, running
to the sea, with a depth of eight hun
dred feet and one hundred and fifty
feet wide, they have had plans drawn
up, and expect to begin the building
as soon as the season permits.
The managers have now before
them a defined work almost limitless
in its power for good, which will re
quire time and money to accomplish.
They believe that it will at once car
ry a waft of health into many sick
homes and trust that it will in the
end make itself felt in ever}- dark
corner and alley of our city, giving
to the children of the poor a short
escape from the summer's pestilence
—a chance of life—u little happiness
of the kind that to them is almost
unknown—the happiness of sea
breeze and abundant. sunshine.
They will begin with accommodations
for fifty or sixty children and while
they will aim to make the institution
in a measure self-supporting by the
charge of a small weekly board, no
child will be turned away because it
comes to them without means, but
will rather be doubly welcomed. It
will, tlierelore, be necessary to col
lect a large sum of money, not only
to build the house (which will cost
about $ 12,000), but also to meet the
weekly needs ot its inmates. It is
also very desirable to establish a
permanent fund and while the man
agers hope to receive a sufficient
amount in donations to pay for the
building they trust that every parent
and child in our community who
feels an interest in this object will
give it such support as will be neces
sary to secure its success by becom
ing a yearly subscriber. The mem
bers of the board of management are
James S. Whitney, president, 1815
Vine street; J. Shipley Xewlin,
secretary and treasurer, 1018 Clinton
street; Rene Guillou, 1722 Vino
street; Francis W. Lewis, 2010
Spruce street; James S. Riddle,
1714 Locust street; Christian J.
Hoffman, 1017 Arch street; Mrs.
James S. Whitney, Mrs. Rene Guil
lou, Mrs. S. Middleton; Miss Cath
arine C. Riddle, 1315 Locust street.
This house is of wood and is rap
idly approaching its completion, from
which we infer that the benevolent
public are contributing liberally. It
is a good, a beneficent work,
NATVRE isnever silent. No matter
how faint the breeze, how calmly the
trees stand in the so-called silent
night, how breathless the air, let our
ears but be startled into listening
and many and mysterious sounds can
be instantly detected. We get so
accustomed to these many noises as
not to notice them at ordinary times,
as we do to the ticking of a clock or
the hum of a mill and so when we do
catch them they often seem to us
strange and new and are counted, or
were in the days of superstition, as
omens.
SAD EYES.
A writer long ago, Elizabeth Oakes
Smith, 1 think, wrote of "presaging
eyes;" those in whose brightness
and depth lurked a foreshadowing
of sorrows to come; of the tears
that the} r should shed. Perhaps
there aie such, indeed we fancy we
have seen them more times than we
like to think. May God keep us
from the foreshadowing unless it be
also a preparation. Looking down
the dinner table to-day, there met mv
view so many sad eyes—One pair
close on my right, that always bring
up the words of the Holy One
"Woman! why weepest thou?"
Only that yesterday her husband, of
whom she is tender and careful, came
to the table with a very red face and
an odor of strong drink about him,
the question was answered. A little
farther down sat an invalid of many
years; a maiden lady wearied, pro
bably with much pain and her eyes
showed it. But beyond her sat a
young wife and mother, of only 22
years; animated and cheerful incon-
versation and ready to join in any
game or frolic, but at every pause
her face settled into a look so sad, so
hopeless that I wondered. I had
heard of her as in very poor health
and asked myself "is this all ?" 1 hen
glancing at an invalid of many
years at my side I felt "No, this is
not all. There is a worm at the root
of all her youth and beauty and pros
perity. Her eyes rest on a pathway
strewn with withered hopes. She is
succumbing to her first great bitter
disappointment."
Another on my left was plump and
fair, but when she raised her eyes to
mine they too were sad; but there
came a sudden relief in the voice and
glance of a bright girl of ten or so,
who with glowing cheek and dancing
eyes, black fringed ones like our own
darling's, looked up to tell of the
morning's play. Heaven bless her!
WJiat will her eyes show fifteen
years from now ?
Only one gentleman is in this
; eompanj', with bowed figure and
whitened hair. He has been a sue
! cessful man. Like other strong men,
he bore the burden and heat of the
day, but now with broken health and
some bereavement, he, too, is passing
j through the deep waters. His wife
■ and other elderly women, meet and
1 greet each other cheerfully, with
figures erect and with more or less
of peace and quietness on all their
countenances. They have been
through the troubles. They have
learned, each for herself, that "The
rivers of sorrow shall not overflow,"
I as these younger women will learn it,
j perhaps, by and by.
STONING A "NIGGER."
It is weil known that there are human
beings so constituted that they can find
amusement in the sufferings of the weak
and unfortunate. One species of this
class is made up of those whose self-re
spect and superiority of social station
can be maintained in no other way than
by inflicting personal violence —usually
in the most cowardly way—upon some
member of the human family whose skin
happens to be of a darker color than
their own.
In this class seven young rascals who,
for the honor of the American navy, we
are glad to say are not, by reason of a
failure to pass their examinations, mem
bers of the Naval Academy at Annapo
lis, stand pre-eminent, and these are
their names: Young, of Mississippi;
Butterlield, of Kansas; Lockett, of
Georgia; Rowan, of West Virginia;
and Munn, O'Keefe and Gridley, of
New York. These young gentlemen
in part made up for their failure as
scholars by stoning Conyers, a negro
boy, who likewise, it is now reported,
failed in his examination.
We have no sentimental feeling on
this matter because Conyers has a black
skin. We believe that the negro must
"take his chance" with the rest of us,
and so long as the laws do not make
unjust discrimination against him he
has no ground to complain of his posi
tion. But when seven young men unite
in stoning any other single person they
one and severally ought to be taken to
Delaware and soundly Hogged. A de
cent punishment is altogether above
their deserts. If the facts are as given
we hope that the Navy Department will
devise some suitable punishment for
their cowardly brutality.
♦ ♦ ♦
The Thought-Quickening Process.
We often find ourselves looking for
j ward for the result of the next few gen
! erations, wishing to know ahout it, as
I we wish to know the end of an exciting
romance: but never more keenly than
I when we have seen a school that is kept,
I as some schools are nowadays, on priu
| ciples that we cannot call new, since
they are as old as Socrates, but which,
j be they new or old, evoke all that is
j brilliant in a child in the place of those
; principles of routine, certainly as old as
' stupidity itself, which can be beaten
j into any blockdead, and which, in the
| tiresome iteration of their processes,
| are enough to make a dunce of any
1 prodigy.
| Indeed, if the children that are to
i follow us do not constitute a race of
i vast superiority it will not be the fault
jof their teaching. Not that we claim
j to see the germs of future wings already
! sprouting on the infantile shoulders, or
expect our posterity to lie armed with
tipstaves charged with the magic vril,
nor that we wish every child to be as
learned as the little five-year-old pedant
of our acquaintance who cried at the
table because his father was helped to
a right angle of pie while lie was con
demned to an acute angle; but that we
believe the gentle stimulation of this
method of instruction so well develops
the powers of thought that when the
intellect has reached maturity it will lie
ready at once to work on what it finds
rather than be forced to waste its best
years in learning how to utilize its
ability.
Take, for instance, the single study
of geography as we lately saw it taught.
Every one remembers the tears and
trouble which that simple and delight
ful study used to cost till the memory
refused to note any distinction between
cape, peninsula or promontory. Hut
by the system of which we spea£ all
that painful memorizing from state
ments in language beyond childish com
prehension is rendered unnecessary and
the whole thing becomes something as
charming as it would be on the field.
The first act of the scholars, for ex
ample, is to make a "map"—of a table
or a bench —upon the blackboard, or
rather, the teacher makes it, obediently
to their instructions, This map is then
to be transferred from blackboard to
slate. It was easy enough to measure
the table by a string and order a line of
that length to be measured and drawn
ou the board; but it is a different thing
to transfer that line to their slates and
thus learn at once the significance of
the "scale." This done at last, though,
a map of the school-room is made; then
j one of tie way to school with the streets
and*patlis diverging from it. Froin this
arises the necesity of knowing the points
! of the compass—nothing being taught
| till its need is felt —and the instruction
is given in a calistheuic exercise in
which the children are formed in a hol
low square, facing outward, and the
sides of the square are marched to their
respective points till they are under
stood and remembered, upon which
, their application to the map on the
ljoard is mere play. When sufficient
j elementary knowledge lias thus been
I acquired intelligence is called more pos
| itively into play and the children are
• told, for instance, as one way of doing
I this, that they may colonize an island.
| A rough sketch, a sort of land in the
J distance, being made on the board every
: point in the shape of the island is left
' to be arranged by the children, who are
I to give reasons for their decisions,
j Some would have it a smooth plain,
1 such as a hoop could l)e trundled on all
i day; some are for mountains and ad
| ventures. Mountains carry the day
j and determine the nature of the shores.
The reason assigned for the choice of
; mountains is that they are places for
i mines; iron and copper, if not silver
and gold, will lie wanted in the colony
i —mines will afford them ; pasturage
j will be wanted for cattle, too—the
mountain-sides will give it; rain will
be wanted—the mountain-tops arrest
the slouds and produce it; lastly, as the
teacher suggests, rivers will be wanted.
Shall the rivers flow from the sea into
! the mountains? Criticism is invited.
; Whoever heard of water running up
i hill? The teacher draws a river, start
ing nowhere in particular and going
anywhere in general, and requires the
pupils to say why it is not right till they
see that nature does nothing at hap-haz
ard; the rivers, as well as other things,
always run from some cause to some
end, so that in this island they must
rise among the hills in the springs that
the rains and vapors make and swell,
and then flow downward to their outlet
| where they feed the sea. And here, if
i the teacher is able, a digression explains
i the dead livers of California and the
j rivers lost upon the desert. But why
I do they want rivers at all on the island?
j For roads, one says; for fishing, says
I another; to drain the lands; to water
i them; to turn wheels; to carry mer-
I chandise. As voice after voice resounds
a zest springs up till the scene is as
(ager, if not as clamorous, as the Gold
Room. And what kind of rivers is
wanted for these things, is then asked.
For carrying merchandise let us say, a
stream full of eddies and rapids that a
vessel must skirt and struggle with, or
a deep and quiet one that upbuoys the
vessel which the wind carries along?
And for turning wheels shall it be a
slow and sluggish current or a "swift
one full of falls? All these things hav
ing been settled, the map of the island
drawn in a satisfactory manner and the
colony being supposed to be on the way
to it, the teacher asks if it is desirable
to plant the colony in the interior or on
the sea-shore; and the subject being
well weighed and the opposing reasons
given it is resolved to have it on the sea
shore on account of the unexplored and
uncleared nature of the interior, and
from considerations of safety and of
accessibility—all of which the children i
appreciate quite as much as they would j
the exploits of Hans or the escapes of
Gretchen in their story-books. In this
method the colony being established,
so far as its geographical condition is 1
concerned, it is proposed to send off a j
second colony to a point farther in the
interior. Shall they strike out at a
venture? Follow the river, cries one.
Follow the river, by all means, and
have your way open behind you. But
how far? to the source? to the falls?
To the falls. There they are; to move
machinery, to saw lumber, to grind
corn; ships can go no farther; the tide i
rises no farther. The falls, then, are;
at the head of tide-water. And thus j
the imagination is kindled, the intellect
is used and a fact and a series of facts !
are made alive with meaning—facts!
which never had any meaning at all
before.
Sometimes this kind of exercise alter
nates with one which affords as much
pleasure as the old game of "Dr. Bus
hy." This is a game played with cards,
| evenly distributed, and on the back of
each of which is written the name of a
town or city and on the face, in double
! rows, a statement of the usual imports
| and exports of the place. Any one can
prepare these cards by the help of a
school gazetteer. The scholar who be
gins the game, examining the cards al
lotted, finds that Rio Janeiro, it maybe,
has rose-wood and diamonds and tapio
ca to export, with other tropical staples,
J and is in sore need of linen for her la
dies, cotten goods for her slaves, cord
age for her ships, and straightway de
mands these articles. Liverpool can
furnish them and take Rio Janeiro's
goods in payment! If, then, the scho
lar having the card Liverpool does not
j immediately cry "Here!" the Rio Ja
neiro merchant can take that card with
out further ado. If, however, the pos
sessor of it does cry " Here!" then Rio
Janeiro cannot take it unless able to
give its name—Liverpool. But suppos
! ing it taken, the Rio Janeiro merchant
tlierf looks at the Liverpool card and
set's luirdwarc to spare there, and cut
lery and cotten goods; an immense bus
iness to be done, in short, in all sorts of
exiHu ts and imports; and if Monrovia,
glistening like the lady in the dentist s
chair with gold, gums and ivory, does
not answer at the call for them, or for
palm-oil and feathers and spices, then
Monrovia also goes to swell the stock of
the first merchant. But if. on the con- j
trary, Rio Janeiro, having asked for the
Liverpool goods, or for the Monrovian
or other, cannot give the name of the
place furnishing them —Liverpool or
Monrovia, or as the case may be—then
the Rio Janeiro card is forfeited to the
ownen of the card with that place on
the back, who then proceeds to make
i exchanges until brought up with some
round turn which affords opportunity
to the next.
Thus a knowledge of the world and
i its balances and counter-balances is
gained that books could hardly teach,
and that are usually only half learned
; in the maturer life of the men of busi
; iness, And by this method of instrac
tiou, not alone in one science but in all,
and which a mother or sister can use
as well as a public teacher, study be
i comes amusement and the thought-pro
ducing qualities of the brain are early
| strengthened and ripened for service.—
! Harper's Bazar.
\ SABUU PKAIRIK,
< Out West, June 27, 1573.
En. JOURNAL: Western letters
seem to be so fashionable that you,
of course, want some and perhaps
I would like them as well from verit
! able travelers as those that arc "All
I our fancy painted them."
I am making a short stay here,
| how short, it is hard to tell; pro
' bably long enough to finish this let
ter and having used my eyes and a
! spyglass for the last half hour am
! prepared to describe the country,"its
! society, customs, - prospects, educa
tional advantages, mineral and manu
facturing resources, etc.
The buildings here are mostly of
wood, (I cannot tell you where the
wood comes from; possibiy northern
Pennsylvania) with flat roofs project
ing very little beyond the walls, pro
bably to give less" purchase to the
winds. But here and there is a Goth
ic cottage. One, a small brown one
with its pointed roof and projecting
gables, stands just across an alley
from my chamber window. It was
lightly closed, but - awhile ago some
men came, opened one of the upper i
blinds and began to pitch hay in it
from a wagon. I can't imagine;
where the hay came from. After- j
wards they opened the lower part of
the cottage and drew thence a carri
°
age and a basket-phaeton.
The yard across the way is full of
trees, willows, aspens and sliver
maples. There are fioyers, a great
many roses in the yards, and wild
roses, the single ones, along thcxroad
sides where in many places they are ]
the only green thing. A patch of;
clover here and there sends up its j
homelike fragrance, making one
think of all quiet domestic j ys as
does the singing of a tea kettle.
There are many trees, shady walks
of hard sand and sunny walks of soft, |
fine sand, but the shaded ones are j
preferable, almost constantly a strong !
breeze and a wide expanse of beauti
fill cloudless sky. Yesterday a party !
of us went down to see the lighthouse,!
for we have a lighthouse even here,!
with a flight of one hundred and j
thirty-seven steps up the tower, j
From here a deer or an antelope
might be seen at a great distance if
one were there. The young ladies
of course, wanted to go up and enjoy I
the view from the top, but for some j
reason or other the keeper was not in
a very complaisant mood and object
ed. "The machinery had just been
oiled, it was dirty up there, the
ladies would soil their dresses." Asi
this did not seem sufficient he said |
"the wind is so strong to-day it is
not safe." "Ah!" said Judge W.,
"yes, can you not see the building
swaying in the wind?" makinS the
motion with his hand, "and perhaps
we had better not stand so near, it
might topple over on to you in this
wind."
Then turning to the keeper who'
was looking at him with some irrita
tion in his face, he asked with great ;
apparent interest. "llow much do
you think it moves sometimes in
these strong gales?"
"A quarter of an inch, perhaps"
said the keeper, impatiently and the
judge turned away, leaving the ladies
to make what progress they wished
up the winding stairway.
Going fishing is a great pastime
here as in Potter County but we do
not see the substantial results, that
we do there. Fish are plenty on the
table but are mostly obtained from
professional operators. 1 cannot
think what the amateurs do with
theirs.
A party of equestrians passed the
other evening—three ladies and a
gentleman—they and their four horses !
i
seeming to enjoy the exorcise ex
tremely as did we who looked on.
Traveling gets to be of small ac
count when one gets away out here.
Gentlemen and ladies think nothing
of starting any morning on a trip to
one of the eastern cities—custom
makes all things easy.
PRAISE.
Clover blossom, tell me true,
Wbv was your perfume given to you?
|
"That all might know," the flower con
fessed,
"llow God blesses the lowliest."
Robin-redbreast, let me hear
Wherefore your voice is so sweet and
clear?
"A thankful heart," then whistled he,
"Is the secret of all melody."
i
Smiling corn field, speak me fair,
llow did you come by your yellow hair?
"When the sun gave me kiss after kiss.
What return could 1 make but this?"
Stars illuming the dead of night,
Where did you borrow your kindly
light?
"From the fountain whence all beauty
flows
A drop was given to us that glows."
Brooklet, running away in the sun.
Where did you gather your bubbles, j
each one?
J
:j "God's snows and rains have lent unto
! me
That which I hasten to give to the sea."
I Where did you find your colors seven
That paint your picture, rainbow, in
heaven?
•
"When first God said, 'Let light begin,":
i These were the colors that entered in." j
—Heritor's Bazar. :
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BUFFALO, July 7. —Another shock of
• an earthquake occurred at six o'clock j
this morning.
The only damage done l>y the shock
; of yesterday was the throwing down of
I a chimney in the center of the city.
! JAMESTOWN, July 7.— About 9:l' ;
; yesterday morning a shock of ail earth- '
| quake was distinctly felt, causing the
! breaking of crockery, throwing picture
frames from walls, etc.
NEW YOKK. July 7. —A fatal case of
' cholera is reported in Jersey City to-day. j
l)r. W. King. No. 109G rand street, died
at two o'clock this morning of what is;
j described as spasmodic cholera,
i A German emigrant died in the same
city last week of cholera, but the report j
■ I uf the fact was suppressed.
!
MEW \ OKK, July 7.— The steamship ;
: City of 1 V'i.shin<jton, of the Imnan line, j
' went ashore iua dense fog at two o'clock}
on Saturday afternoon, on Gull Rock
bar, seventy miles east of Sauibro. All
; the passengers, crew, baggage and spare
stores were safely landed. The vessel i
tight except in the engine room, where
the water runs in and out at high tide. j
LATER—HALIFAX, July 7.— Mid-j
night.—The City of Wasfunyt n lias!
about fifteen feet of water in her hold, 1
I and is likeiy to become a total wreck.
Her purser was expected cere to-night
j but has not yet arrived and it is iinpos
j sible to get further intelligence from j
i the wreck to-night, as slit* lies twenty I
; miles from any telegraph ofiice.
The telegraph lines have been inter
rupted south of Halifax for two days, j
i and consequently it lias been impossible I
; to forward the news tiii to-night.
j ST. Lor IS, July 7. —A dispatch from
i Jacksonville says that the severest rain :
storm ever known in that region began ,
about 1J o'clock last night and con
tinued until five this afternoon. Twelve !
and a quarter inches of rain fell during j
• the storm. All the streams rose to an j
unprecedented height, bridges were j
swept away and great damage was;
j done to the crops. Several embank-;
tnente and culverts on the Toledo, \Ya- 1
bash & Jacksonville, North Western
and South Eastern railroads were
washed away and the trains stopped or
: delayed.
The dispatch further states that un
less fine weather sets in at once the;
wheat crop must suffer an immense'
damage, if not a total destruction. The ;
spring wheat is flat on the ground and
most of it will never l>e harvested. The I
fall wheat in shock was beginning to
sprout in the bottom lands, but was sub-1
merged and will be almost totally de
stroyed and even that on the uplands in
many places is under water and will suf- j
| for greatly.
l'cn and Scissors.
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BOOK-KEEPING may be taught in a:
single lesson of three words; Never leud
them.
WOMEN like to marry men by the
name of William, so they can have a
will of their own.
WE do our best to believe all the queer
stories that we find, for we could not
conscientiously present them to our
readers unless we believed them to be i
true, but here is one that, we caution
the public, seems to us a little doubtful.
We will not say it is a lie, but it is im
probable. A horse in St. Paul, Minne
sota, drank lieer till he was in a beast
ly state of intoxication. His owner,
knowing that his previous habits were
exemplary, thought he was dead and i
| skinned him. Next morning a ghastly i
steed, without hide or
grazing on the public coim
skillful veterinary surge, u j
in planting his supaVrV H
from a neighboring tannery
STRONGER contrasts 0 f
never presented than those 7
j the Southern Presbyterian ■, ' 1
; which recently met at Little
: kansas. and the meeting 0 f ;
Carolina Diocese (Episcopal
Bishop Stevens, tendering n,
tliies of the northern dioo N .
southern, was so warmly r,.,..
: Southern Presbyterians, on •
hand, regarded the overtup','
northern Assembly for union
ness, if not aversion. The In-,
showed its sincerity in th..
expunging everything from i;.,
or at least voting everythitii;
void, that reflected in any u,.,
Southern brethren and ofTev
free hand of fellowship; but,
j clined.
"I SAY, old boy," cried P.
an excavator whom lie e|.|
j bottom .of a yawning gulf.
! you digging there?" "A hi
old boy replied. Paul was Ul , t •
off in this fashion. "What ,r.
! ing to do with the liole?"| lf
j "Going to cut it up into JWUJ-;;
; rejoined the old boy, "and re.
to farmers for gate-jiosts,"
MR. GOCGH tells a good stor
I trative of quaint Scottish hum
sparks from London once came
decent looking shepherd in ,\ r .
I and accosted him with, "Yen
very line view here—you i-msv
way."
"Ytt aye, yu aye, a ferry gj^
"Ah! you can see America 1.-a
pose?"
i "Farrar than that."
"How is that?"
"Gu jist wait tide the n
| away, and you'll set Tie m
THE Elmira GuztW. issm-,--
| supple meat, which is jrix v i-. foy
i weekly subscribers. It is in e
; form and contains illustr.uioi &■
J erature, whicli is readable and ii
| live. This monthly pub!;..,;,
: supplement of this description i
ly creditable to the enterpr>
i publishers of the Gaz'ttc.
JUDGE Rockefeller MUNI! ;
' licenses in Montour count) at;
session of court, lie said'v
: cracker at ten cents and giving
j drink is 'played out." "
SOUTHERN FEELING.—A R
j dent of the New York
i made a tour through Yinrasu
| Tennessee and North Alal
in a tone of agreeable dis*.j.
I that in all his experience iuth-,
j through which he has passed lie
i heard an allusion to any politic;
i He lias improved numerous op;
j tics, lie says, to mingle with pw
j they talk about everything hut;
. are generally cheerfntand tuwar:
; eni men are frank, often, curd
are thorotigldy adapted to tie- s::
with respect to thecolo ,d p-.
' while the colored population
ly cheerful and contented. T:
• rose-colored view of the situ;.
• true, but there is sufficient k'
j nevertheless, t<• suggest t!:i 1
! the Smith is making toward si
business view of things, lu ti
guage of the corres|n indent, tK
the Southern people are sati '-
j t he methods of reconstruction* 1
| folly to affirm, but they have |
I wisdom by experience in the p i
[Kilitics under difficulties.
1} OYER WHEEL CO.,
.i) 376 West Tt ir l St., Cisd
Manufacturers of the celebrated
Wheel, the Rover < < UIIWO
i Old Style Wagons. AIM I
and Wagon Woodwork of l
script ion.
Actual wear and hard
best test of the strength and
of a wheel, and they h:iv< p
Sarven Patent to wearloayi''
or four sets of the l> >t eld stylH
When about to purchase at'
l iage or wagon, see tlr.it your -
maker uses our make of tin '
wheel. There are so many in '
tent wheels in the market tic
be to your interest to stipub '
Sarven—as it is now conceded
only perfectly reliable wheel it l
2512—tf
UOUSE MOVING .-y
WARDS, Oswavo, Pa., "
farm,) has all the necessary: •).'
prepared to move barns or
short neitice.
I farmers wishing to P ultll *\
tM MACHINES, *iil do *** g
"NOW Model IluoUcj a!l
proved Wood."
Sold by W. T. DIKE, Agent. <'
W. W. MOO#
DEAI.HK IS
MOHUMIKTS, 10
AMERICAN AND lM r ''
MARHI l- s ' ltC " I
Third St.. opposite ( I
COLDtRSPORT,
All work done lu a workman" 1 ) , I
ders sent by mail prowl
My prices are the lowest In th "
count rv.