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Swest Branch Insurance Co,
OF LOfR HITEf, PA.,
V?L ! RB3 Detached Buildings, Stores. Mer- j
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and their contents, at moderate rates.
" PIRECTORS.
i f... J. Pearce, Hon. G. C. Harvey,
f,B lialb T T Abrams,
, 4 t Mayer K. Jackman,
'![£ Crist, ' ' VV.Wt.ite,
„ Di k'n-on, Thos. Kitchen.
W Hon. Cr C. HARVEY, Pres.
T. T. ABRAMS, Vice Pres.
Jim. kilrhtn, Sec'v.
REFERENCES.
aoeiH, Llovd, Thos. Bowman, I). 1).
A,VViDsgarJner, Wm, Vanderbelt,
iMackef. Win. Fearon,
White. i)r J.S.Crawford,
jiggle, A. Updegratr,
7 3 \v Mavnard, James Vrmstrong,
a Simon Cameron, Hon. Wm. Bigler.
for Mifflin county, G. IV. STElV
inity from Loss nnl D n innze by Pire,
• '■> Ptr ls of Marine and Inland Transportation.
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arooraltd by the Leyishiture of Pemistylvci
nia, icilh a Perpetual Cha:~fer.
Authorized Capital, $1,000,000.
lift No. SI Walnut St. aboif Seroml, Phila.
Fire Insurance on Buildings, Furniture, Mer
jnfoe, Ac., generally. Marine Insurance
Cargoes and Freights to all parts of the
iriu. InlaiM Instirnnce on Goods. (XLC., by
te>. Rivers, Canais, and Land Carriages, to
I parts of the Union, on the most favorable
rns.cansis. at with security.
DIRECTORS.
torje W. Coltaday, William Bowers,
M il. Coleman, Joseph Oat,
kin V. Machete*. Howard Hinchman.
GBOUGH W. OOLLADA Y, President.
GILES WILSON. Secretary.
for MilHin county, Wm. P. EL
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Bee 135 and 437 Chestnut street, near Fifth.
•TATKMH.VT OF ASSETS, January 1, 1858,
)publi-iie I agreeably to an act of Assembly,
•i Mortgages, amply -ecured, si ,590 825 19
i'i\ E-tale. •'present value $lOO,-
j(W.; cost, 74,280 93
tmporaiy Lnan, on ample Col
iaicral Securities, 101,088 17
kws,<prcs"tval. $70,90422) cost 71,547 97
bt f s and Bills Receivable, 4.307 00
40.855 48
$1,888,904 74
rirpetuol or Limited Insurances made on every
Ascription of pioperty, in Town and Country.
3? low as are consistent with security.
>' T their incorporation, a period of twenty
ji'-srs. th v (*,:• *.*♦* paid over Four Millions
f Dollar los-os oy fire, thereby affording cv
i act i; t ; ~ji i f ges of insurance, as well
' the ability and disposition to meet with
■omp'.ne-'- :il! liabilities.
Losses by Fire.
iO-'c-pjid ; r j n g the year 1*57, $203,7?9 4
DIRECTORS.
■ut, \ Jlant-ker, 1 Mordecai D. Lewis,
4)135 IVagner, ; it vid S. Brown,
*S',ei Grant, Isaac Lea,
•cos R. Smith, Edward (J. Dale,
to. W, Richards, | George Fales.
CHARLES N. BA.YCKER, President.
WM. A. STEEL, Sec'y pro tem.
Agent for Mifflin county, H. J. WAL-
ItflS, F.'q., Lewistown. feb2s
1T377 1 SE.OaBK.7,
WISION AND FISH STORE.
'HE subscriber ha* opened a Grocery, Pro
-1 v *ion and Fisti Store opposite Major Eisen
is's dotel, where he ha* just received a fine
"ortment of fresh
jFamUt> (Sroccncs,
®ong which may he found fine Coffee. Sugar,
• e fc. Molasses, Syrups, Cheese, Crackers,
Ham, Shoulder, Fine Ashton and Dairy
" !; i. Tobacco, Secjars, Soap, &c.
Mm, Brooms, Tubs, Buckets, Baskets, and a
wgt assortment of Willow-ware, which he
'"'fa for cash very ciieap.
will pay Cash for Butter, Lard, Potatoes,
n '°as, &e.
Call, see prices, and judge for yourselves.
JAMES IRWIN.
CHANCE
"or Every Person to Raise their
i Own GRAPES,
T**& make THEIR OH* WISE.
1'- undersigned will deliver from the Ist
to the 15th April next, to any persons
{J®}" 1 Mifflin co., ISABELLA GRAPE
rf*,, <• year's growth, from cuttings
at U | Dia ' a Vineyard," at the following rates,
s*l , w ' ien delivered: 25 Vines for $3,
G J°n |5 : 50 ' 100 ,Jo - for $lO
- y "ttings will be delivered at half the
fcv J'r Also, Osage Orange Hedge
Orh,' ' Ht ''' Hedges grown by contract.
"* tw rec uvod before tbe Ist of
' tfiure attention. Address
[, hla A. HARSHBARGER,
McVeytown, Mifflin Co., Pa.
r Shad and Herring for sale
' mhll F. J. HOFFMAN.
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HARDW A R E !
To Buy Cheap for Cash,
Blacksmiths, buy at Hoffman's,
Carpenters, buy at Hoffman's,
Saddlers, buy at Hoffman's,
Shoemakers, buy at Hoffman's,
Cabinetmakers, buy at Hoffman's,
Farmers, buy at Hoffman's, *
Builders, buy at Hoffman's,"
Housekeepers, buy at Hoffman's.
D>n't forget, if you want good Stoves, Pump
(. bains, Oil Cloths, Mails, Steel, Iron, Cutlery, •
Vices, Bellows, Chains, Glass, &c , F. J. Hoff
man's Mammoth Hardware Store, and you can !
be accommodated. mhll j
DRUGS, DRUGS, DRUGS,
Hfdlflnrs, Medicines, Krditines,
Pai'iis, Paints, Paints,
Glass, Glass,
Oils, Oils, Oils,
Trusses, Trusses,
At HOFFMAN'S.
f IARDEN SEEDS!—I have now on hand a I
VJJT fine assortment of Fresh Garden Seeds, 1
consisting ot some of the finest varieties.
Pole and Bunch Beans, early and late.
Dwarf and Bush do do do
Cabbage, do do
Also, Radish, Beet, Onion, Lettuce, Chinese !
Sugar Cane, and other seeds.
mhll F. J. HOFFMAN.
IT'LOUR. — I have now on hand and shall con
tinue to keep a supply of Extra Superfine '
Flour from Pittsburgh, which we will warrant
to give entire satisfaction.
N. B. Those who want a good article can find
it at mhll F. J. lIOFFMANS.
AT TALL PAPER!—As the Spring opens,
yV housekeepers will be looking around for j
Wall Paper, where a good supply can be found |
and cheap. This can be done at
mhll F. J. HOFFMAN'S.
2HE&32 .&5J2© Sk&M?
For sale by [mhll] F.J.HOFFMAN.
.Sugar Cane and Flower Garden
Seeds
At [mhll] F. J. HOFFMAN'S. j
White Com Meal.
An excellent article for sale bv
mhll F. J. HOFFMAN.
3lKii.il iKiiUiKJ-S,
A good article lor 12$ cents at
in till F. J. HOFFMAN'S
WEST'S
Patent Galvanic Cement
U? i ZD Of* ZD ZD Li~* fi OA o
r |MIE undarsigned having purchased the
| right for this Cement in Mifflin and Cen
tre counties, an- now prepared to furnish and
pu. ii on roofing wherever desired—the roof
being sheeted by the owner. Scientific mm
under 'lie direction of government, and ar
chitects and builders in various parts of the
country, for years have been studying and
experimenting to discover some composition .
or article for roofing, which would resist tlo
change? of our climate, and would unite the
qualities of Iniperviousnrss to TT'r/er, Iticom- '
bustibilitu. Durability and Cheapness. No
article now in use pose saes these qualities.
Shingles are not tiro proof, and cannot be used
up.''ii flat roofs. Slate can only be used upon
v ..fs. The contraction, expansion and
rusting of metallic roofs are fin great in this
changeable .'filiate that they soon become
worthless, or the repairs will cost more than
a new roof. The various cements and com
positions which have i con introduced, can ho
supplied only to very flat roofs, ami they are
i all so affected by the action of the weather
| that they will nit It- and run in summer and
! crack in winter, and in a short time become
j crurnblv and worthless. The inventor of the
I Galvanic Cement has labored twenty years to
j obviate these difficulties, and it is believed by
those who have hud opportunities to test the
; matter, that he has entirely succeeded. As
| now applied,
Firr-t—lt is completely impervious to water.
I Water may continually stand upon the roof
without affecting it in the least,
j Second—lt is fire proof. It is so incombus-
I tihle that it will afford ample and perfect pro
j tection against fire, sparks and burning shin
gles from another building immediately ad-
I joining. ....
j Third—lt is durable. It is not injured by
atmospheric changes, having been tested for
j several years by the Patentee, at Syracuse,
! New York.
I Fourth—lt is clienp. Roofs will bo put on
| for about half the cost of tin, and will last
! much longer.
Fifth- Repairs are easily and cheaply made.
■ Sixth —lt is sufficiently elastic to entirely
! resist the expansion and contraction by heat
i and cold, and will remain perfect and solid in
i the warmest and coldest weather.
Seventh—lt is adapted to all kinds of roofs,
| either flat or steep
j Eighth—lt is valuable for repairing old
I roofs. Old shingle roofs may be covered
j without removing the shingles. Old metalic
1 roofß can be made perfectly tight and secure.
Ninth—lt is especially adapted to all kinds
cf seaming around battlements, sky-lights
and chimneys, and for the lining of cave
troughs and gutters. Jloofs which have given
I trouble for years, and which have continued
j te leak in spite of all efforts, can be made
I perfectly secure by this cement,
j Tenth —It has been proved to be the best
i article ever used for covering car tops and
| steamboat decks.
Eleventh —This cement applied to new tin
j roofs preserves them from rusting, by fur
! nishing a coat which is at once impervious to
1 water and an almost perfect non-conductor of
heat.
Twelfth—lt is the only roofing material
patented which contains India rubber and
gutta percha.
For a specimen of this cement we invite
i owners of property to call at our mills, whore
I a single coating , put on in December last, lias
' kept the buildings perfectly dry through the
winter. K. R. LOCKE & CO.,
ap!s Locke's Mills, Mifflin co., Pa.
floral niiU 2seU&foiis.
NEAKKK.
One sweetly solemn thought
Gomes to me o'er and o'er:
I'M nearer LIIV HOME to-day
Than I've ever been before.
Nearer mv Father's house,
Where the many mansions be-
Nearer the great white throne,
Nearer the jasper sea.
Nearer the bound of life.
Where we luy our burdens down—
N'earins leaving my cross,
Nearer wearing my crown!
FADELESS IS A I.OVI>'G HEART.
Sunny lines may lose their brightness,
Nimble feet forget their lightness,
Pearly teeth may know decay,
ltaven tresses turn to gray,
Cheeks he pale, and eyes be dim,
Faint the voice, and weak the limb.
But, though youth and strength depart.
Fadeless is a loving heart.
Like the little mountain flower,
Peeping forth in wintry hour.
When the summer's breath Is fled.
And the gaudier flow'rets dead ;
So, when outward charms are gone,
Brighter still doth blossom on,
liespile Time's destroying dart.
The gentle, kindly, loving heart.
Wealth and talents will aval!
When In life's rough sea we salt.
Vet the wealth may melt like suow.
And v. ith wit no longer glow;
lint more smooth we'd tind the sea,
And our course the fairer Le.
It our pilot., when we start,
Be a kindly, loving heart.
Ye In worldly wisdom old,
Ye who bow the knee to gold,
lines this earth as lovely seem
As it did in life's young dream,
Ere ttie world had crusted o'er
Feelings good and pure before t
Ere ye sold, at Mammon's mart,
The best yearnings of the heart?
Orant me. Heaven' my earnest prayer.
Whether life of ease or rare
Be the one to me assigned.
That each coming year may find
Loving thoughts ami gentle words
Twined within my bosom chords.
And that age may but impart
Kiper freshne>s to my heart.
"My Clothes arc not Suitable lor Cliurclt." !
'Then of course, you do not show your- '
self in any company; for if you do your
clothes are suitable ibr church. To go to
other places with the apparel you have,
and yet to stay from church must be on
the supposition thst if is a kind of fair f"r
the exhibition of finery, and each contrib
utor a candidate for prizes. The Jews in
public worship rent their garments, because
of their sins; sonic of our people on the con- !
trary, will not ro to worship unless they !
have a bonnet or coat just from the ma- !
ker's hand, thereby showing that they re- j
gnrd the opinion of their neighbors more j
titan the favor of their Maker. And to !
make the absurdity more glaring, most of j
the congregation arc worshipping God, not;
having come to notice whether clothes were
old or new. There may, indeed, be some
few tfillers who come to make remarks —
but the smile or sneer of such will not al
fect any sensible person. 13c neat in your
dress, and you will be respected more for
wearing clothes that are old, than wearing
new which you have not the means of pay
ing for. and whether you please man or not
you please God and your own conscience.
This excuse which keeps you from church
has its source in all vanity, and when you
know your own heart and the account to be
given to God, you will experience no diffi
culty in this respect. Should you not have
everything exactly as you wish, you will
have what is more important, 'the clothing
of humility.'
niiiamiuaiuia.
lION. G. A. GROW.
We do not remember to have ever seen
the following sketch of the political career
of Hon. G. A Grow, until meeting with it
in the Boston Bee. It will he read with
interest.
Mr. Grow was born in Windham coun
ty, Connecticut, llis parents emigrated to
northern Pennsylvania while he was yet a
child. His father died when this son was
but three years of age, leaving his family
in reduced circumstances. An elder broth
er aided the subject of this sketch in ob
taining an education, and he was graduated
at Amherst College, Massachusetts, at the
age of twenty one, in the year 1844. In
the fall of 1850 he was first elected to
Congress by a singular accident in politics.
'The Democrats of the district were divi
ded, and had two candidates in the field,
each claiming to be the regular nominee.
| Eight days before the election, both agreed
; to resign if Mr. Grow would be the candi
date, lie had left his law office the fall
before by reason of ill health, and was
spending the summer working on a farm,
plowing, peeling bark, and surveying. He
! was waited on in bis retirement by a friend
| of each candidate, as a committee to ascer
THURSDAY, ffiAY 20, 1858.
tain his feelings. They found liini with a
set of hands on the public highway, re
building a bridge that had been swept away
by a ireshet. He acceded to their propo
sition to be a candidate for Congress, and
both the other candidates resigned, and a
Convention was called, which placed Mr.
Grow in nomination just one week before
his election. He was elected by 1250 ma
jority and in 1851 took his seat in the
House of Representatives, the youngest
member of the Thirty-second Congress,
and with one or two exceptions, of the
Thirty-third Congress also. He is now
serving his fourth term in Congress, 'i he
second time he was elected by 7,500 ma
jority; and the third time, by a unanimous
nomination of all parties, for his able and
manly resistance to the passage of the Kan
sas Nebraska bill; the fourth time he was
electc l by a larger vote than he received
when lie had no opposition. Ilis district,
previous to the repeal of the Missouri Com
promise, gave uniformly about 2,500 Dem
ocratic majority, but in con.se<iueuce of the
noble stand taken by Mr. Grow on the floor
of Congress, and upon the stump before
the people, his district also gave Col. J. C.
Fremont 10,000 majority. When Gov.
Banks was running for Speaker of the
House, ho was urged to allow his name to
be used as a candidate, but he declined the
honor Ibr himself, and urged his friends to
"stick to Banks," which advice they follow
ed, and by which the first decisive battle
against the slave power was achieved.
WHEELING ONE'S SELF.
Some astute discerner of men and things
has left the following waif, which time on
ly makes more beautiful :
"Going to dinner the other day, we saw
a little fellow, about two years old sitting
on a wheelbarrow and trying to wheel him
self. It struck us that many people in
this world are often caught in the same
act-, and we shall think hereafter:—When
we see a business man trusting everything
to his clerks, and continually seeking his
house, yet expecting to get along—he's sit
ting in a wheelbarrow trying to wheel him
self. When we see a professional man bet
ter acquainted with everything else than
his profession, always starting some new
scheme, and never attending to his calling,
his wardrobe and credit will soon designate
him as sitting in a wheelbarrow trying to
wheel himself. When we see a farmer
with an over-abundance of ' hired help,'
trusting everything to their management,
iiis fence down, implements out of repair,
and land suffering from want of proper til
lage—too proud or too lazy to take off his
coat and go to work—he's sitting in his
wheelbarrow and trying to wheel himself.
When we see a man busily engaged in circu
lating scandal concerning his neighbor, we
infer he is pretty deep#u the mud himself,
and is sitting in a wheelbarrow trying to
wheel himself."
reckless dare devil named Sellers
made a balloon ascension from Dayton,
()hio, the other day. Instead of a silk bal
loon, properly rigged and arranged for the
trip, he had provided a huge muslin con
cern, coated with glue and" whitewashed"
with yellow ochre, in size and shape very
much resembling the canvas under which
the small showmen on the outskirts of the
circus exhibit fat women and big snakes.
It was to lie set afloat by building afire un
der it and inflating it with rarificd air.
While being inflated it caught fire, but lie
finally went off, rising at least a mile high.
After being at this height for a brief peri
od, the rent in the balloon allowing the rar
ificd air to escape rapidly, he began his
perilous descent, which was nearly as rapid
as he had traveled upward. At one time
lie was in danger of a eold hath in the well
swollen Miaini. hut a current of wind struck
him, and he came down safely in a marsh
about a mile from the starting point. Al
together, it being his first attempt to get
lieaven-ward, and in such a frail vessel, it
was the most foolish and reckless adven
ture that we have heard of for many a day.
jtor A bar of iron, valued at §5, worked
into shoes, is worth 810,50; needles 8855;
penknife blades, Si>,2Bs; shirt buttons,
§29,480; balance springs for watches,
§250,000. Thirty-one pounds of.iron have
been made into wire upwards of 111 miles
in length, and so fine was the fabric that
part of it was converted, in lieu of horses'
hair, into a barrister's wig.
j Relieve the needy—you won't regret it.
TIMES TO COME.
We have seen lately a little volume call
ed the Talisman, published in New York,
more than thirty years ago. Among the
contents we find a quaint and pithy paper
entitled the 'Devil's Pulpit,' near the close
of which the following passage occurs. It
appears to have been written in rather a
predictive spirit, and is by no means inap
plicable to many of the faults and charac
teristics of the present times.
"The Doctor now sat leisurely down,
with liis legs hanging over the precipice
supporting himself, as lie leaned backward,
with his left hand, while he swung his cane
to and fro, and remained some minutes in
profound meditation.
" Yes," said he, I see how it is. These
poor people, too, must go the way of all
flesh. Half a century hence, they will be
as wicked as the Londoners. With the
same vices they will have more wit. But
what of that ? So much the worse for them.
They will have their South Sea bubbles, land
bubbles, their bank bubbles, and all man
ner of bubbles.
" They'll have their Stock Market, and
their New Market; and there will be bulls
and bears, lame ducks, rooks and pigeons
in both of them. They will have lotteries
and operas, and elopements, and cracked
poets and ballets and hurlettas, and Italian
singers and crazy French dancers.
And almost every second man in a gen
teel coat will be a lawyer or a broker or an
insolvent.
And there will be no more cash payments,
but the women will wear the cashmeres
and men will drink champagne.
And the girls, instead of learning to cook
and mend clothes, will be taught to chatter
bad French, and worse Spanish, and to get
their husbands in jail:—but tliere will be
no jail in those days, for they will have
bankrupt laws, and three quarter laws, and
two third laws, and the limits will be as
big as the country !
"There will be no more comfortabletca
drinkings. and innocent dances, but balls,
and routs, and conversaziones, and fetes
and fiddlesticks. People will dine by can
dlelight of weeks; and nobody will go to
church on afternoons on Sunday !
Folks will be knowing in wines and cook
ery and players and paintings and music,
and know nothing of their own affaire.
They will go to fashionable churches for
I me re amusement, and to fashionable gaming
i .
houses as a business.
The girls will learn to waltz of the Ger
mans, and their mammas to flirt from the
French.
| The boys will be all men and the old
j men will try to be boys.
Then they will have all manner of quack
ery, from a patent pair of hoops, to a pat
ent way of paying t lie national debt.
And they wi'i run after the heels of every
quack who comes among them.
And the Doctors will quarrel about moon
shine and ruin the character of the pro
fession and themselves by telling the truth
about one another! But 1 shall be gone ere
| then; —sufficient for the day is the evil
| thereof.
COULDN'T DO IT.
In one of our interior mountain towns
lives a man whose name is Mr. Sowers—
some very distant connection, I am told, of
old Mr. Jehosaphat Sowers —and who, by
his friends, is familiarly called Major Sow
ers. The Major is about forty years of
age, measures just five feet seven inches in
height and weighs exactly 21S pounds by
the steel yards. He had—and who has
not? —some little eccentricities, one of
which is thinking aloud. He had also a
bad Ixabit, acquired in these days by very
many —that of taking a glass too much; but
for all that, the Major is "one of our first
men," and goes not a little upon his dig
nity.
One day the circus came to town, and
the Major determined to go to the circus;
and as a preliminary, as well as to pass
away a little spare time, he imbibed several
times, and between the acts of the perform
ance, imbibed several times more. After
the exhibition, he joined company with
one or two " old boys," and went " round"
for a couple of hours or so; and at precisely
1 A. M. started for his home in the " out
skirts." During the performance, the
Major had been particularly pleased with
the " ground and lofty tumbling;" also the
vaulting and souimerset acts. He was
thinking of this as lie walked home, and
New Series—Vol. 111, No. 27.
thought how easy it would be to turn a
sommerset. He believed that he could do
it, and our informant overtook him just in
time to hear (he following soliloquy, and to
witness the overture.
" Sowers, you can do it, and there is no
better place to try it on than here."
Divesting himself of a coat and a hat,
lie took a short run; and threw himself for
ward ; but, alas for human expectations!
his hands striking the ground, the huge
body slowly ascending until attaining an
attitude of exactly, forty-five degrees —
for an instant it poised there, and then fell
heavily back upon the ground.
As the Major gathered himself upon his
haunches, supported with one hand upon
the ground, and with the other rubbed his
damaged body, solemnly wagging his head,
he muttered, in very broken accents:
" Sowers, my boy, you can't do it —you
cannot do it — yom arc not sufficiently ex
perienced."
From Utah. —News from Utah to
March Oth reaches us byway of Califor
nia. There is no important intelligence
by this arrival, other thai: the evidence
furnished by the movements of the Mor
mons, that their determination to resist
the government remains fixed. Brigham
had made a speech, inculcating the obliga
tion of self-denial incumbent upon the
Saints, even to the length of destroying
their goods and chattels, sub
mit. Meetings had been hold in the Ter
ritory to sustain him in his course. Orson
Pratt, a prominent leader, had avowed his
intention to relinfjuish all further efforts to
enlighten the Gentiles, and had announced
tire purpose of the Mormons to descend
upon Missouri, and retake the lands of
which they have been deprived in that
State. Col. Thos. L. Kane had arrived at
Salt Lake from New York via California.
The Saints were busy with their spring
work, and appeared confident of safety in
any event.
gfag-A lion, a hear, a wolf and fox hap
pened at a carcass of a fawn. Said the lion,
" I can eat this fawn in one minute twelve
and a half seconds." Said the bear, "I
can eat it in two minutes one second."
Said the wolf, " I can eat it in an hour, a
minute and a second." Said the fox, " you
are the mcst voracious gentlemen 1 ever
saw; it would last me a week, a day, an
hour, a minute and half a second." Exas
perated beyond his patience, the bear struck
him a blow which threw h::n off" a preci
pice, causing his absence 59£ seconds; the
rest began to least immediately; how long
| till the fawn was eaten, the fox helping as
j .-oon as he got back ?
A Puzzling "Pome." —Properly punctuated
the following nonsense becomes sensible
rhyme, and is doubtles as true as it is curious,
though as it now stands wo admit that it "s
very curious if true :
1 saw a pigeon making bread ;
I saw a girl composed of thread ;
I saw a towel one mile square;
I saw a meadow in the air;
1 saw a rocket waik a mile;
I saw a pony make a file;
1 saw a blacksmith in a box;
1 saw an orange kill an ox;
I saw a butcher made of steel ;
1 saw a pen knife dance a reel:
1 saw a sailor twelve feet high;
I saw a ladder in a pie ;
I saw an apple fly away;
I saw a sparrow making hay;
I satv a farmer like a dog ;
I saw a puppy mixing grog ;
1 saw three men who saw those too,
And will confirm what 1 tell you.
HEW STORES
NEW GOODS! NEW PRICES!
rTMIK undersigned respectfully informs the
1 public that he has opened a new Store in
! the room lately occupied by Jacob Everich,
! between Mutthersbough's and Mayes' hotels,
' Kast Market street, Lewistown, where his
friends and the public are invited to call and
j examine a large, neat, and well selected stock,
i which is now being sold for cash or country
i produce at very low prices, k consists of
Rich Dress Silks & Dress Goods
of every variety,
1 Shawls of every description, Fine Embroider'
ies and lieal Laces, Dress Trimmings,
Ribbons, d\\, and Domestic Goods
of every known style and make,
CLOTDS, CASSIMERS AND SATINETTS,
and all other articles usually found ia first
class stores. Also, a choice assortment of
jFamila <&xotevie*.
The store will be under the management of
B. K. Firoved, well known as an attentive
and obliging salesman, who will spare no
pains to please all who may favor him with
; their custom. WM. BUTLER.
Lewistown, April 29, 1858. [D * p]
K7OO lights best Window Sash, from 8*
j?)10 to 10x18, for sale very low. KBANCWCU#