Whole No. 2636.
Jacob C. Blymyer & Co.,
Produce and Commission Mer
chants,
LEWISTOWN. PA.
Car Flour and Grain of all kind* pur-
Chased at market rap-a, or received on storage
and shipped at usual freight rates, having
(itorehousee and boats of their own, with care
ful eaptains and hands.
Stove Coal, Limeburners Coal, Plaster, Fish
and S alt always on hand.
Grain can be insured at a small advance on
cost of Storage. n0 22
AMBROTYPES
AND
Miixmrnrnm,
The Gems of the Season.
fIMUS is no humbug, hut a practical truth
1 The pictures taken hy Mr. Burkholder
ire unsurpassed for BOLDNESS TUUTII
FULNESS. BEAUTY OF FINISH, and
DURABILITY. Prices varying according
to size and quality of frames nrid Cases.
Room over the Express Office.
Lewistown, August 23, 18G0.
i)ib J.
LHS 'O 1 LL o
/ iIT ICE on East Market street, Lewistown,
* ' adjoining F. (J. Franciscus' Hardware
•Store. P. S. Dr. Locke will be at his office
the lirst Motiduy ot each month to spend the
week. uiy3l
D 3.. A.7. ATKINSON,
aA\ING permanently located in Lewis
town, offers bis professional services
11 the citizens of town and country. Office
\\ est Market St., opposite Eisenbise's Hotel.
Residence one door east of George Blymyer.
Lewistown, July 12, 18U0-tf
Dr. Samuel L. Alexander.
Has permanently located at Milroj,
TJr and is prepared to practice all the branch-
Cm es of his Profession. Office at Swine
liari'a Hotel. niy3—ly
EDWARD FRYSINGER,
WHOLESALE DEALER k IHiIUFACTURER
or
CIIiARS, TOBACCO, SMJPP,
&€., &C ,
SMEWSSHTOWH* IPiio
Orders promptly attended to. jelG
GEO. V7. ELDEJt,
Attorney at Law,
office Market Square, Lewistown, will at
tend to bu-iness in Mlffiin. Centre and Hunting
don counties. my2G
NEW REMEDIES FOR
SPEttMATOR It II (EA.
J [WAKI> ASSOCIATION. PHILADELPHIA, A
It lUiii ri,te)it Institution established by special Kruioic
w-ar t-.i the Relief of the Sick ami iJistress'd. afflicted with
i. dent and Chronic Duecses. ami 'specially for the Cure
u< I> s i<ce of the Sexual Organs.
MKUb ML ADVICE givn grati*. Kvllie Aetingßor
gf-nn.
\ AH ABLE REPORTS on Spermatorrhea®, and oth
'J,'', I '.'- '"" "H *h- Sexual Organs,ami the NEW REM- j
..I'll.- employed in the Dispensary, sent in sealed
• rut-lopes, fret- of charge. Two or three stamps for
Pot u•; aeeeptable. Address. DR. J. SKILLIN
•• i I 1*• N. Howard Association, No. 2S. Ninth St.,
i lulad. Iphia. Pa. je6
a. 91 &a i,
UAYIXG in connection with his Groeery |
and Notion business, commenced the
Manufacturing of Confection
ery
in its various braucbes, and employed a prae j
tical workman, notifies the public that he in- j
Sends to keep a well assorted stuck uf the •
above goods on hand, which will be warrant
>'d to give satisfaction, and be equal to any
' mfectioneries that can be bought from any i
eastern city, which he offers t* wholesale mer j
chants and retailers at city prices, with cost
st carriaga. He therefore solicits the cus
tom of the surroundiag country, and re
quests them to send in their orders or call
and examine his goods, which will satisfy all
•hat they can be accommodated with a selec
tion which will recommend itself.
CAKES, BISCUITS, fcc., constantly on
hand. Also, Pound, Spunge, Bride,
md Gold Cakes, in the best style, baked to
or der, on the shortest notice. mh2B
Glassware.
Stands with and without covers.
. Butter Dishes " " "
hugar Bowie. Goblets and Preserve Dishes,
ditchers and Tumblers. All to be sold at
the lowest figure by H. ZERBE.
11 WW k STONE Fruit Jars, best in use,
* \J *J at prices cheaper than has ever
been offered, at Zerbe's Grocery sod Stone
ware depot. jyl®
Large Stock of Furniture ou
Hand.
A FELIX is still manufacturing all kinds
•of Furniture. Young married persona
a o'i others that wish to purchase Furniture
will find a good assortment on hand, which
will be sold cheap for cash, or country pro
duce taken in eicfcaoge for same. Give me
a call, on Valley street, near Black Bear Ho-
H feb 21
LUMBER! LUMBER! ~
A LARGE and complete assortment of
Lumber for sale cheaper than the cheap
est, by F. G. FR^NCfSCVS.
ggfflmrami ggramgiaiss: s-g ©IB®IE@IS jra-ffsssraaiß, raswassiNmsrs, HnnmLaxr
THE ILWm,
MEOW GOES THE KITTY.
AIR -.—Pop goes the Wta-iel.
My hat is newr, my boots are too,
My girl is young and pretty;
My cares, alas! they would be few,
But meow! goes the kitty.
All an/<rod the country town,
And all around the city,
How sweet to hear the DCIA-SIT sound,
Meow! goes the kitty.
Lewistown girl# are wondrous smart,
The boys are wondrous witty;
But all, aliis! are sick at heart
With meow! goes the kitty.
All around the country town, Ac.
Some sounds are dull, a few are sweet,
And more are harsh and gritty;
But all the yells of devils meet
In meow! goes the kitty.
All around the country town, Ac.
My vow is made—l seize a stick—
I'll form a osr. committee,
And put a stop most wondrous quick
To meow! goes the kitty.
All around the country town, Ac.
Edited by A. SMITH, County Superintendent.
For the Educational Column.
Very Practical Suggestions to Teachers.
1. Have good order. —lt is impossible
to have a really good school without good or
der. It is a mistake to suppose that the
sole object of school is to give children a
knowledge ot Arithmetic, Grammar and
so on ; it is equally important that scholars
should form correct habits of conduct, and
such habits are acquired only in a well-or
dered school. Instant., unquestioning,
cheerful obedience; diligent, thorough, in
telligent study; thoughtful, sympathetic
regard for one another's happiness; strict.,
conscientious loyalty to truth; all these
habits teachers should seek to form in
scholars, and the first requisite of success
is good order, such order as arises from a
clear understanding of what good order
consists in and of the incalculable benefits
to be secured by it.
This requires the suppression or strict
regulation of whispering—that plague of
schools—the careful classification of schol
ars, the systematic arrangement of ail
school exercises, the furnishing of some
kind of employment to every scholar. Alii
these challenge the attention of teachers
conscientiously ambitious of success.
—. One tinny at a time. Very few per
sons possess such comprehensive minds
that they can direct or perform more excr
cises than one at the same time. Those
men who have accomplished the most for
science and literature, or in business, have
concentrated all their energies upon single
objects in succession, and have thus wrought
their seeming miracles. Teachers should
not only have a time for everything, but
should keep that time uninterrupted.—
While hearing a recitation of any kind,
they should permit no questions or disturb
ing movements from scholars unconnected
with the recitation. Their undivided at
tention should be given to the exercise, to
render it as useful and interesting as it can
be made. This is necessary both for the
best result of the recitation, and for that
order which is essential to all success.—
This, also, is a point that claims the notice
of teachers, as it is a direct criticism upon
the practice of not a few.
3. Be rigidly thorough. Teachers are
powerfully tempted to neglect many com
paratively unimportant points, through dis
like of the labor which they involve and a
feeling that, alter all, slighting is not
very bad. But it should be constantly re
membered that only by thorough, careful,
persistent drilling can the foundation of
good scholarship, of excellent intellectual
discipline, be well laid. It is not the accu
mulation of facts, but the clear compre
hension of principles, that teachers should
labor to secure for their pupils. It is not
fluency or verbal accuracy in recitation,
but a Arm grasp of the essential ideas, that
scholars should be taught to seek.
I doubt if one third of advanced pupils
in Arithmetic can write readily and cor
rectly all kinds of numbers, integral and
decimal; if they can give a satisfactory ex
planation of the common arithmetical signs,
and can solve and analyze examples in Re
duction, Fractions and Percentage in a
precise, business-like manner. The same
may be said of Reading; few scholars can
explain and illustrate the significance of
all the marks that occur in reading-books
or in newspapers; few can readily define,
and exemplify the meaning of inflections,
emphasis and enunciation.
To put it in one word, teachers cannot
be too thorough.
\ Be expeditious. Not a few teachers
seem to labor under the delusion that slow
ness u synojaymo-u.a with accuracy, and dia
patoh is the same as superficiality. It may
not be invariably true that a dull school is
a poor school, and a lively school is a good
school, but it is so nearly true that every
teacher should studiously seek to have a
lively, that is, an active, prompt, outspoken
school. In most country schools there arc
so many exercises that teachers need to
employ all dispatch, but never forgetting
to be critically thorough. Work to good
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 1861,
advantage, know just what to do, and then
do it with vigor and expedition ; use the
time as fully and profitably as possible.—
There is no conceivable merit in dulness.
5. Be a •model. A teacher ought to use
language so perfect that scholars can form
no bad habits of speech by imitating him.
This requires granmiatic accuracy, correct
pronunciation, and a care to employ only
good words. Many teachers are greatly i j
fault in this respect, allowing themselves
to violate the plainest rules of the lan
guage, and exhibiting a culpable deficiency
in knowledge of the accent and meaning
of words that every teacher should under
stand. It is no high credit to any person
that he uses correct, appropriate language;
but it is a positive shame for teachers to
use incorrect, inelegant language. 8.
NAHM, HIIIORT.
The Towhee Bunting, or Ground Robin.
I bis bird is also called ehewink and
swamp robin. It generally keeps close to
the ground, and frequents thickets and
sheltered spots, scratching among the leaves
for worms and larvae. It is quite a famil
iar bird, and will suffer a person to walk
round the bush or thicivet, where it is at
work, without betraying any signs of alarm,
and when disturbed, uttering the notes tow
he, repeatedly. At times the male mounts
a small tree, and chants his few simple notes
lor an hour at a time. They are loud, but
not unmusical. He is fond of thickets
uear streams of water, and is found gener
ally over the United States. The nest is
placed on the ground among the dry leaves,
and is large and substantial. He shows
great affection for his young, and i- remar
k Ale for the cunning with which he con
ceals his nest, sometimes nearly covering it
with dry grass. In Virginia lie is called
the bulfinch.
This bird is eight inches and a half long;
of a black color above, and white below.
1 be eye changes in color—the iris being
sometimes white and often red.
'There are various others of the bunting
genus in the United States, as the white
crowned bunting, the bay winged bunting,
the black throated bunting, and Ilenslow's
bunting.
The Summer Redbird
The changes of color which this hird is
subject to, during the first year, have de
ceived European naturalists so much, that
four different species of tanager have been
formed out of this one. The female differs
much in color from the male. The food of
this hird consists of various kinds of bugs,
and large black beetles. During the sea
son of whortleberries they seem to live al
most entirely upon them. In Pennsylva
nia they are rare, hut in New Jersey they
may he generally found. The note of the
male is a strong and sonor us whistle, re
sembling a loose trill or shako on the notes
of a file, fre uently repeated; that of the
female is rather a kind of chattering, ap
proaching nearly to the rapid pronuncia
tion of cliiclcy-tuikj tuck, when she sees
any person approaching the neighborhood
of her nest. She is, however, rarely seen,
and usually mute, aud scarcely to he dis
tinguished from the color of the foliage at
a distance; while the loquacity and brilliant
red of the male make him conspicuous; and
when seen among the green leaves, he has
a most beautiful and elegant appearance.
The summer redbird delights in a flat
sandy country covered with wood, and in
terspersed with pine trees, and is more nu
merous on the shores of the Atlantic than
in the interior. In both the Carolinas,
Georgia, and Florida, they are numerous;
in the northern parts they are very rare.
McClellan and Beauregard in Mexico.
Doing guard duty on one of these clear
frosty nights is what I call a ' big thing.'
Standing before a huge fire, whose glim
mering rays shoot into the dense pine for
est which surrounds you as if they, too,
had partaken of the spirit of vigilance, and
were searching for some hidden foe, one's
mind naturally is affected, and every shad
ow and tree has an association which awak
ens the soldier to a full appreciation of his
seutinel duties. But such a night as last
night—dark, dreary, wet, and disagreeable
in the extreme —has an entirely different
effect and we cluster around the fire, piled
high with Secesh rails, which at times
seemed to exert its best light and most gen
ial rays to spread humor and life among
those who stood smoking around it. Then
as if exasperated at the failure, it would
splutter and crack, contending furiously
with every drop of rain, and hiss out a
strong reproof at the element which was
making the sentinels so uncomfortable. —
But the"guard must be vigilantly maintain
ed through the night, and we dare not
sleep; for you muftt know, Mf- Editor, that
sleep courts the soldier's eyelids as sweetly
under the dropping rain as it does in his
tent, if, perchance, he has a gum blanket
lor a bed, and bis knapsack for a pillow,
I proposed a song, but the only music
that could be raised wa3 made by a little
corporal, who doled out in a most melan
choly style,
' Some must be dark and dreary.'
This seemed to be the onlv song that the
corporal knew, and the only one of that
kind which we wanted to hear. Under
these auspices, I proposed a story, and the
sergeant of the guard, an old Mexican sol
dier, 4 up and told' the following story,
j which I quote, as nearly as 1 can recollect,
in his own words :
Seated in my tent one evening, just be
fore the battle of the city of Mexico, the
captain came to me with, 1 corporal, ] have
been requested to send a trusty non-coui
• missioned officer to the general council to
■ night as a messenger. Will you go?' I
' replied in the affirmative, thanking the
captain for his confidence Our company
was, at that time, detached from its regi
nient, and was doing special duty at Gene
ral Scott's headquarters. In the discharge
of that duty, I had made a point of being
: specially attentive, and had thereby gained
the confidence of our captain, and once or
' twice was commended by old 4 Fuss and
leathers himself. 1 brushed up mv old
clothes, and brightening my shoes and brass
| plates in the neatest manner possible that
i evening, presented myself to the Adjutant
| General for instructions. I found that the
council about to meet for the consideration
: of General fecott's plans for taking the city,
was to be composed of all the colonels in
the division, and that my duty would be to
go errands, and attend to bringing charts,
paper, or whatever might be required.
Well, the council met, aud I was at my
post. It was the finest body of military
men 1 had ever seen together, aud when
they assembled around that tabic, and the
old general stood towering high above the
rest, I could not help but admire him more
than ever. After the customary salutation
and organization, they sat down in regard
to rank, beginning witli General Wool,
and succeeding each other in seats, as sen
iority of rank gave them privilege. It
was no time fur delay, and the General
spoke rapidly and with earnestness, occas
ionally referring to some one on the right
or left for information or corroboration.—
Thus carefully and explicitly were the
movements and marches, the sallies, and
sorties, the whole plan developed, so that
all seemed to understand. 15ut presently
a plan was discovered, something waswrong,
and I saw by the perplexed look of those
around the table that a very serious mis
take had been made, but from what cause, ■
my knowledge of military affairs did not
, enable me to judge. A dispute arose be j
tweeii some colonel and the engineer
in chief, in regard to the position and
strength of some battery, and the topo
graphy of the surrounding country. The
colonel said that frequent reconnaissance
of the ground, from the fact of his being j
encamped near the place in question, led i
hi in. even indirect opposition to the chart
of the engineer, to pmrest against its truth
fulness, ami he would urge upon the general
to make himself sure of the state of affairs
before he fully completed his plan. Put
this would not do; it was necessary that j
very important and vigorous movements i
should take place, or no action could be car- I
ried on with safety or certainty. Itseemed, j
in fact, to be a main point, at which posi- j
tive success would have to fall to the !
American forces. Finally, the colonel said
that there was a young lieutenant in his
regiment who had a correct chart of the
defences, and the map of the demesne there
to adjacent. The engineer-in-chief sneer
ingly said, 4 Very well, sir, you had better
send for your authority, and let us see this
great map.' The general nodded his ap
porval, and the colonel gave me the name
and address of the lieutenant. The en
campment was not very far away, and I
mounted my horse and rode off in haste to
the regiment headquarters, and found the j
very man I was in search of in the col
onel's tent, with draughting paper on a ta
ble before him, and sketches of the city
and its surroundings scattered everywhere.
I handed him the note, which lie read and
hastily tore up, asking me if I could wait
until he could borrow a horse. I told him
I could, but had not long to wait, for he
came back in a few moments, and careful
ly wrapping up his surveys, he placed theui
in a long tin case, and, mounting, prepa
red to follow me. On the way he convers
ed with so much earnestness, and in such j
a mild, interesting manner, that I felt en- j
couraged to talk and chat, contrary to my |
usual practice when on horseback. He j
informed me that he was a graduate of
West Point, and that he had there fallen !
so much in love with the science of geoic- ■
etry that he had made it an almost constant i
study, and that now he found it very in
teresting, in the interval of duty, to make
sketches and surveys of the city.
When we arrived at the general's quar
ters again, the lieutenant was introduced,
and, at his colouel's request, produced his
charts. The party was astonished at their
finish and fcue execution, and when, after
examination, they were found to be per- ;
fectly correct, General Scott came forward j
and grasping the young lieutenant by the !
hand, personally complimented him on his j
skill, and thanked him for his efficiency.
The chief engineer, somewhat chagrined i
at this display of earning on the part of
his young rival, sneeringly said : 'Gene
rd, perhaps this young man. has some plan
by which this part of the defences may be
attackecV Upon inquiry, it was found
that he had a plan, which was produced
some degree of reluctance and laid
before the assembly. It was road and
criticised, and corrected, and finally, to
make a mrig story short, adopted with sonic
amendments by the council. This displeas
ed the engineer, who seemed to think that
the lieutenant, though but a very few
years his junior, had no right to display so
much knowledge of a science which did
not beLng to his branch of the service.
' 1 need not tell you,' continued the cor
poral, 4 that in the taking of Mexico a few
days ufter, the plan offered by this lieuten
ant was of'signal service, and that he was
breveted soon afterwards.'
Ilere the story ended, and the sergeant
relapsed into his 4 pipe and silence.' We
all looked for a while into the fire, when
one of the sentinels asked him what the
name of this young lieutenant was. He
slowly puffed the smoke from his mouth,
and answered:
'I believe it was George —GKOßGK B.
MCCLELLAN.'
4 And who was the engineer?'
4 I believe his name was George, too —
GEO RUE T. BEAUREGARD.'
And we all smoked and looked into the
fire, until the sentinel called out—
4 Grand rounds I Turn out the guard !'
1 \ushtng(on Republican.
Unexpected Meeting of two Sisters
[From the Hannibal 'Mo.) Messenger.]
Last week while Mrs. McNutt, wife of
Gov. McNutt, of DougLsville, 111., was
huckstering in Camp Looinis, Mrs. Keener,
wife of Capt. Keener, came out of her tent
to buy something. Mrs. McNutt had fre
quently visited the camp before, huckster
itig, and thought that Mrs. Keener's coun
tenance looked iamiliar to her. Ho on the
day mentioned, when Mrs. Keener came
out, Mrs. McNutt observed to her, that she
thought she had seen her before, and the
longer she looked at her the more she be
came convinced of the fact, and observed
again that she must have once known her.
Mrs. Keener also thought that she had
seen Mrs. M before. Mrs. M. then asked
her it her Christian name was not llachel.
Mrs. K. rcpled it was, when they both re
cognized each other as sisters, and with
low shrieks and tears of joy, rushed into
each other's arms, and greeted each other
after a separation of twenty years.
J here is quite a romance connected with
the two families, Gov. McNutt having been
reduced from opulence to stringency by
the extravagance ol his sons, who ended
their career by entering Walker's N'icara
guian expedition, and captain Keener left
the dragoon service some years since and
went to preaching. He was stationed at
i'ilot Knob at the breaking out of the pres
ent troubles, and was driven away bv the
rebels because of Lis I nion sentiments.—
He went to Illinois, raised a company and
is now in for-the war.
Since the recognition, the two sisters
have spent much of thei • time together.
If war has its sorrows, it likewise lias its
joys, of which the above is only an instance.
Millionaire Butcher of London
Mons. We}', a French writer of distiuc
tion, who passed some weeks in London,
has recently published in Paris his impres
sions, under the title of' The English at
Home.' On the occasion, while riding in
an omnibus, he formed an acquaintance
with a fellow passenger, fioin whom he de
rived many explanations of the strange
things he saw. One of these we give:
1 I addressed a few words to him con
cerning a carriage which drove by. ft
was too fine to be elegant, and was drawn
by two magnificent horses. On the box,
adorned with beautiful fringe, sat a black
coated coachman; there was not a wrinkle
in his white cravat —his snowy gloves were
spotless. In the vehicle, on downy cush
ions, carelessly lounged a man without a
coat, his arms bare, his sleeves turned up
to the shoulder; an apron with the corners
turned up served him as a girdle—so that
the coachman looked like a gentleman dri
ving a mechanic in his working dress.—
Mons. W. asked his neighbor who and
what was the strange looking occupant of
the dasliiug carriage. 4 The richest butch
er in London,' was the reply; he is return
ing in his carriage from the slaughterhouse
to his residence. His forefathers were in
the huisness; his father left him a fortune
of more than two millions, and he, out of
modesty, follows his profession—a very
honorable old custom. This gentleman
butcher possesses four millions.'
A Devout Advertiser.
We notice, in a religious newspaper, a
displayed advertisement for a wife. We
give it a gratuitous insertion, but no one
need address this office as we are not ac
quainted with the advertiser:
A WIFE WASTED.
A MISSIONARY'S home has been rent
by the death of a beloved mother. lie
needs a comforter, a counselor, and a friend.
The vanity of this world, and the things of
it, put them all together, and they will not
make a helpmate for man. They will not
suit the nature of the soul nor supply its
needs, nor satisfy its just desires, nor run par
allel with its never-failing duration. There
fore, it being not good for man to be alone,
God created woman, to bo a help mate for
iiim. See Genesis ii 18; Prov. xviii , '22.
Tim applicant must possess a healthy body,
practical piety, domestic habits, acompetency,
and. if possible, a musical talent. Address
' MISSIONARY,' at this office.
If any healthy, pious, domestic woman
New Series— Vol. XVI, No. 5
with a comfortable fortune, but 110 ear for
music, has a longing for this connection,
it seems that she need not he deterred by
j the wants of the last qualification, as that
will not be insisted upon, although 4 if pos
sible' she should add the throat of a
warbler to the sum of other attractions.—
N\ e suppose that it must be the just sensor
of ' the vanity of the world' which induces
the advertiser to ho so easily satisfied in a
partner for life. Good health, piety, do
mestic habits, and a competency, it seems,
are all that would be indispensable to his
gratification, although a musical talent,
thrown in, would be highly appreciated.—
lie is as easily contented as the child who
: summed up her simple wants in the desire
for 4 nothing but victuals and raiment, and
pretty good clothes.' — Journal of C'onu
mcree.
A Fighting Negro
A correspondent of the Chicago Tril une,
describing the battle of Belmont, says :
4 During the thickest of the fight the
body servant of Gen. McClernard, a mulatto
named William Stains, of Decatur, exhib
ited conspicuous courage. He was close
by the General, during the whole engage
ment, cheering the soldiers. Many of us
laughed heartily a the fighting darkey,
while bullets flew like hail about us.
In the course of the fight, a Captain, of
one of the companies was struck by a spent
ball, which disabled him from walking.—
I lie mulatto boy, who was mounted, rode
up to him and shouted out, 4 C;q tiin, ifyou
can fight any longer lor the old .Stars and
I Stripes, take my horse and lead yon men.'
lie then dismounted and helped the wound
ed officer into his saddle. When he was
walking away, a rebel dragoon rushed for
; ward at the officer to take him prisoner.—
; The darkey drew his revolver and put a
ball through the rebel's head, scattering his
brains all over the horse's neck.
4 I relate these little circumstances so
: that merit may he justly dealt with; even
; ii the hero is a 4 nigger,' as some people
i would call this brave fellow.'
menagerie was recently destroy
ed by lire, at Boston. The building in
which the beasts were kept was a large two
story one, with horses, wagons, Ac., on the
first story and the wild animals in the
second. A watchman was on the premi
ses, but while he was in one part of the
building, incendiaries, it is thought, appli
ed the match to combustible material in
another part, and the flames spread so rap
idly that everything was lost. No person
heard a single growl or groan from the ani
mals, and, as they were all found dead af
ter the fire had been extinguished, the.
probability is that all were smothered to
death before the flames reached any of the
cages. Among the animals lost was a roy
al Bengal tiger, said to have been the lar
gest and best specimen in this country,
and the most valued of any single auicial
in the collection. The other animals were
all fine specimens, and numbered three
lions, four leopards, two African tigers, two
bears, a hyena, jackal, African goat, musk
cat, leopardcat, horned horse, about foity
monkeys, two trick mules, three trick pon
ies, five horses, anu several watch dogs, all
of which perished. The animals aioue
were valued at about §IO,OOO, and proba
bly could not have been purchased for that
sum. Besides this, the loss in wagons,
harness, Ac., was of considerable amount.
Things that I Have &'cm. —I have seen
a farmer build a house so large and fine
that the Shorifl turned him out of doors.
1 have seen a young m,.n sell a good
farm, turn merchant, break and die in an
insane hospital.
I have seen a farmer travel about so
much that there was nothing at home worth
looking after.
1 havß seen a rich man's son begin where
his father left off—wealthy; and end where
his father began—penniless.
I have seen a worthy farmer's son idle
away years of the prime of his life in dis
sipation, and end his career in the poor
house.
1 have seen the disobedience of a sou
4 bring down the grey hairs of his father
to the grave.'
Generosity consists not in the sum
given, but in the wanner and the occasion
of its being bestowed.
New Arrival and Low Prices t*
HENRY ZEBBE has just received
10 bbla. Sugar House Sugar 7
0 bbls. light P. It. do 8
0 " best Brown do 9
0 " B White do 10
0 " CP White do 12
Which wiil be sold at the lowest Cash pri
ces.
JUST received and for sale, a large lot of
Clearfield county shaved Lap and Joint
SHINGLES, 24 and 2G inches long, best
quality, at WM. B. HOffFMAM'S.
Lewistown, July 7, 86.
OIL LAMPS, Shades, Chimneys,
J Brushes, Burners, &c., for sale by
febl4 JOHN KENNEDY k CO.
IIHDS. Sugar Cured Ham, of own curing,
t) at 12j eta. per lb, for sale by
jyO JOIIN KENNEDY & Co.