<&> <£i ®0 lb, TKEISIISJ®3KE a IPtmEMSlllfflffißa Whole No. 2893. Poor House Business. The Directors of the Poor meet at the Poor Houm* on the 2d Tuesday of each month. Pennsylvania Railroad. . Trs'.ns leave Lewistown Station as follows : Westward. Eastward ' Philadelphia Express, -4 25 a. m. 12 IT a. m. ; Baltimore '• (2) 5 35 a. m. New Vork Express. (1) 6 18 a. m. Lay Express, (5 —2) 400 p.m. 1106 a.m.! Fait Line, (2) 6 15 p. m. (3) 6 16 a. m. j Wav Passenger, (2) 934 a.m. j I.ocal Accommodation, (2) 5 52 p.m. Mail, (2) 5 03 p. m. Cincinnati Express, (2) 6 22 p.m. | Emigrant, (3) 10 27 a. m. FREIGHT TRAINS. N. Y. Bt#ck Freight, 3 44 a.m. j Through Freight, 10 30 pm. 111a. m. Fast 915 a.m. 702 a. ra. Express " * 12J0p.m. 12 42 p.m. gtock " . ' 125 p.m. 700 pm. L ,eal 44 735 a.m. 305 p.m. Coal Train, 12 55 p. m. 940a. m. Union Line, 9 05 p. m. 1 daily; 2 . E. ROBESON, Agent Galbrailh A Conner's omnibusses connect with all the passenger trains, and take up and set down pas senger* at all points within the borough. Orders are requested to be left at the National House. The Trains on the Mifflin A Centre Co. Branch road leate Lewistown for Reedsville at 7 45 a. in., 11 23 a. rn, 1 00 p. m. aud 5 16 p. m- arriving from Reedsville at 8 47 a*, in-. 12 27 p. in-,-2*lY p. m. and 6 17 p. m., stop ping at the intermediate stations both ways. 3EC. EL2EB,, Attorney at Law, Office Market Square, Lewistown, will at tend to business in Mltflin. Centre and Hunting don countie* • oav26 1 E. JT. 3triBBE.TS.CW, Attorney at Law, LEVWatOWN, PA, OFFERS his professional services to the citixens of Mifflin county. Office with D. W. Woods, esq., Main streey. below Jiational Hotel. my 2' EE. JCKiTJ-. BAHXiEYT, Practicing Physician, Belleville, Mifflin County, Fa. DR. DAHLKN has been appointed au Examining Surgeon for Pensions. Soldiers requiring exam ination will find him at his office iu Belleville. Belleville. August 22,1866.-y Teeth Extracted Without Pain! By M. R. Thompson, D. D. S., wifhodt the use of Chloro form,' Ether, or titfoiis ox ide. and is attended by no jf ( west Market street, LEWISTOWN, where he can be found for professional consul tation from the first Monday of each month until the four in Monday, when he will be absent on professional busi ness one week. seplO-tt SL vB-o (SHSSHfIIEXJs DENTIST, OFFERS his professional services to the citizens of Lewistown and vicinity. All in want of good, neat work will do well to give him a call. He may be found at all limes at his office, three doors east of H. M. k R. Pratt's store. Valley street. apl9-ly* NEW STOCK. The- Bti*>*onbor has just received and will SflHl keep on hand a select stock of Men's. Bovs' fll and Youth's Boots. Ladies'. Misses and Chll- Boots and Shoes of various kinds and stvles. to which he would invite the attention of his friends and the public generally. As it is his intention •NOT TO BE UNDERSOLD by any dealer in the county, those in need o( winter boots or shoes are invited to .call and examine the above stock, which will be sold at very small profits, but for cash only, at the sign of the BIG SHOE, next doorto F. J. Hoffman, More. CLaRKE ._ To Purchasers of Furniture, R. H. McCLINTIC, AT HIM FURNITURE WAREROOMS, West Market St., Mwlitown, HAS complete CHAMBER SUITS of Walnut, Var nished and in Oil. Also, aCTTA.G-3 te FARLOK. S'JITS, together with a large assortment of Fashionable and j Plain Furniture, CHAIRS, MATTRESSEB, Ac. Call and see his stock before purchasing elsewhere. >' B. Metalic and Wood Burial Cases constantly on nnnd. Coffin, also made to order, and Funeral, attended with a fine Hearse, at short notice. LeWigtown, June "i7, lStkHimoa H AVING bought the right and license to use and sell Seth S. Drew's improvement in mode of cut ting boots, which patent consists of cutting with but ODe scam, and without crimping, we therefore cau tion all against using or selling boots of this make in the county of Mifflin. J. S. Smith and S. P. Byrain. Agents for Pennsylvania and assignors to I*. F. Foop. Shop and Township Rights will Fie sold by P. F. Loop. All wishing to avail themselves of this new and desirable i ooi. which is at least twenty-five pSr gent, of an advantage to Uie wearer over the old, can do so. by writing to P. F. Loop. Call and see. June 13. 1866 VEW PHYSIOGNOMY. or "Sign s ( of Character," as is manifesteii through Temperament and External Forms, and especially in the '-human face divine." — one elegant volume, with nearly 800 pages, and 1.000 illustrations. By S R. Wells. Editor Phrenological Journal. Priced post paid, 35. 'Address Fowler k Wells, No. 389 Broadway. New York. '•New Physiognomy" is eminently praoticsl. fully illustrated, aud well suited to the want, of all. In the study of "the face" the reader soon learns to read each aud every feature. Noses are classified as the Roman. Greek. Jewish. Snub and Celestial. The eye* speak all languages, whether black, blue, brown or hazel. In alike manner,cheeks.neck. ears, hands, feet. walk, voice, laugh, etc., are shown to be "signs of character." In no other work is soVrmoh light throwu upon the character and destiny of mankind as in thi*. or the distinctive traits of nations and tribys soelearly point ed out. Portraits uf distnnguished persons of ancient and modern timtt*. with biographical sketches and delineation of cnafac.ter. are given. Divines, Orators, Statesmen, Harriot*. Art'its, Poets, Philosophers. Inven tors. Surgeons, fkscocerers, Actors, Musicians, etc., are included It i* ftn "Eneycloptedia" of biography, ac quainting the reader with the career and charaeterof many great men and wotpen of the past l,uott years, and of the pre, nut —avioh, for instance, a, Aristotle, Julius t'icsar, lihalispeare, Washington. Napoleon, Franklin. Bancroft. Bryant. Longfellow. Irving. Rosa Bonheur. Theodosta Burr. Cobden. Bright, Lawrence, Boiivar, Wliutely, Thackeray. Dow, Knox, Riehehue, Hopper, Buckle. Dieketist, Victoria, Wesley. Cyrlyle, Motley. Mill.Spencer,Thompson,Guthrie,Alexander," and hundreds of others. AUE.NTS WA.VTZH. Book sent b Ah! here you are at last, M. de Bo 1' said he, 4 it's a long time since we have seen )ou !' The person addressed had no sooner pronounced the first word of his phrase than Mr. L bounded in his .place behind the curtain. 4 lt is him! it is him ! it is the un known of Rouen I' 'Be still!' said M. de F , 4 or your imprudence will spoil all.' An instant afterwards they were joined by the agent of police. 4 Well !" said be. Mr. L trembled in all bis mem bers 'J have heard him,' said he, shivering—'it is him—l recognized his voice ' ' It may be a mistake; you will re main here without stirring until all the guests enter the dining saloon. You see that door by the side of those cur tains; through that door each one will come with a lady on his arm. Scruti nize each couuienanceattentively,and above all make no movement.' One o'clock in the morning struck at last Mr. L parted the curtains a little, and his eye of tire was fixed upon the door of the dining saloon. His whole body trembled as if traversed by an electric shock. All at once his crisped hand directed itself invo'unta rily toward a man who 'was convers ing with a young lady; it was indeed the stranger of itouen. The agent of police was obliged to seize L around the body. He wished to unmask the assassin. The next day the agent came early to find him. 4 You must call on Mr. B .' ' Let us go on the instant.' l I will conduct'you to the door, and you will go up alone. It is necessary for you to speak to hint tete-a-tete.' M. de Bo lived in the rue Saint lionoro. When the clergyman, pale as death, rang at the door, M. de Bo who was putting-on his gloves and preparing to go out, came to open it himself. He turned pale in spite of himself on seeing the English minister. But lie recovered himself at once. 'Pardon, Monsieur, what is the ob ject of your visit?' 'You ask me that, wretch !' cried Mr. L , furiously. 'Y'ou are mad !' said M. do Bo , shrugging his shoulders, and drawing his interlocutor into his study. 'Now, what do you want?' said he, looking at him fixedly. Mr. L then allowed hie indig nation to speak; he assured him that he should attach himself to his person until the police would recognize his crime.' '1 shall succeed in unmasking you,' said he, at the end. 4 YOU are deceived my brave man,' said M. de Bo , taking a pistol from the table, ami placed the muzzle against tbe forehead of the clergyman. He tired, and the minister fell back ward. But he was only stunned. When lie opened his eyes again he saw M de Bo between two policemen. The police hud bribed the servants of M. de Bo to take the balls from his pistols, and wore concealed in the apartment when Mr. L presented himself. M. de Bo whom they could not pursue as the assassin of the demoiselle, was now guilty of an attempt at assassination. lie was coudenmed to twenty yearß hard la bor. One should hear this extraordinary story by Mr. Edward L himself. I remember to have shivered often at the recollection of it, and the image of the dead woman in the car pur sued me a long time like a horrible nightmare. It is this very year that M. de Bo—— finishes his twenty years of bard labor. A Section of the Harlem Rail road Sunk In a tlarsli. The residents of Dutchess county living along the line of the Harlem Railroad, says the Poughkeepsie Ea gle, have had a subject of unusual in terest to discuss for a few days past, which was nothing more nor less than the sudden sinking, to the depth of twenty feet, of about forty rods of the Harlem Railroad " track, crossing a swamp near the ice-houses between South Denver and Rawling. The sin gular event occurred on Friday last, and, as ma}' be supposed, it created the greatest .wonderment among the population for miles around. This marsh is soft and yielding to a great depth, and the greatest difficulty was experienced in laying the track across it. It has sunk once before, shortly after the road was built. All efforts to make a tirm foundation for the track aUthis place have here tofore failed. Piles have been driven to a great depth, but without reaching solid ground, and the only way a foun dation could be made, was by tilling it with trees and brush. A freight train passed over this spot but a few hours previous, and it was noticed at that time that the track bent beneath the pressure, to the depth of nearly two teet. Several large cattle trains were obliged to put back to Albany in con sequence of this break. Passenger trains transfer their passengers and baggage to trains in waiting on the op posite side, the passengers reaching the ears by a walk of a quarter of a mile across the swamp on'planks. On Saturday night last, while the freight of a passenger train was being trans terred, a fcrunk belonging to a lady passenger, containing SIOOO, was sto len, and no trace of it has since been found. ar A Philadelphia in the course of a sermon, recently re marked: "You need not clasp your hands so tight in prayer that you can't get them open when the contribution box conies around." EDUCATIOISrAL. J. K. Hartzlrr, Belleville, Mifflin County , Editor BciT Correspondents should not write on both sides of the paper. Articles for this column are desired. - Tlie Metric System. The system of weights and measures in use in the United is in a high degree perplexing and inconvenient. Tlie decimal system is the simplest and most beautilul over devised; our cur rency system is coniormedto it; why, then, may not our weights and meas ures be based upon 1 he same principle? France adopted a system of weights and measures founded upon the deci mal system of rotation, as long ago as 1795. This system has since been adopted by Italy, Spain, Portugal, many parts of Spauish America, Bel gium, Holland, and portions of Germa ny and Austria. In 1804, an act was passed by the Parliament of England, permitting its use throughout the Uni ted Kingdom wherever parties should agree to use it. Scientific men in this country have long advocated the in troduction of the metric system ; ac cordingly Congress, on the 27th of last July, passed an act which, though it does not make the system compulso ry, establishes it as legal. The system is so simple that a school boy can easily master it in a few days, while months—often whole terms —are required to master the perplexities, in congruities, and inconsistencies of the existing system of weights and meas ures The perplexities of the common Vol. LVI, No. 43. rules of reduction and addition, sub traction. multiplication and division of compound numbers will bo done away by the metric system. A writer in the New Yoik Tribune to whom we are indebted for many of the tacts contained in this article, re marks : The present system has but one advantage—it is established. To the metric system there is but one ob jection—it is not in use. But it is not an experiment. In France it is popu lar, and in the markets and stores meat and cloth are sold by the metre and kilogram. Once understood, it will be everywhere used." I he unit of length in the metric sys tem is. the ten millionth part ot the distance from the equator to the polos, or 39-37 inches in length. A rod 39 3-8 inches long is very nearly a metre. Teachers would do well to introduce specimens of the metre into their schools. Let them have a lew lessons in the metric system in their institutes and then teach it to their pupils It will not soon bo universally used, yet the day will surely come when it will entirely displace our present system. In the October number of the School Journal, there are two articles on this subject, one from the pen of Professor Brooks, oi Millersville, the other cop ied from the N. Y. Tribune, in which teachers will find an exposition of the metric system VVe are indebted to said arhcles lor the facts contained above and lor a further statement of the terms and tables of the metric sys tem which wo propose to make next week. h REGISTER'S \OTICE. The follow ing accounts have been examined and passed me, and remain tiled on record in this office for inspection of heirs, lega tees, creditors, and till others in any way interested, and will be presented'to the Orphans' Court of Mitlliu county, to be held in the Court House, at Lewis town, on Monday, the sth day of November, 1866, for allowance and confirmation, nisi, and unless exceptions are filed within 4 days thereafter, will be confirmed abso lutely : 1. The Final Account of Ephruim Haz lett, admr. of the estate of Surah W. Mc- Dowell, late of Meuiio township, dee'd. 2. The account of Benjamin Zook and Joseph Harshberger, adinrs. of the estate of Christian Allgyer, late of Bratton township, dee'd. 3. Final account of David Weiler, ad minLstrator of the estate of Margaret Mc- Collough, late of Union township, dec'd. 4. The guardianship account of Joseph M. Fleming, guardian of Mary R. Flem ing, minor child of Win. Fleming, late of Brown township, dec'd. 5. The tinal account of Joseph M. Fleming, adinr. de bonis non cum tes tamento annexo, of the estate of James Fleming, late of Brown township, dec'd. 0. The tinal account of Nicholas Hartz ler, exr. of the estate of Samuel Lowry, late of Menno township, dec'd. 7. The iinal account of Wm. Macklin, and James H. Ross, exrs. of the estate of John Magill, late of Oliver township, de ceased. 8. Final account of James F. Mateer, Executor of the Estate of James McFar land, late of Menno township,deceased. APPRAISEMENTS TO WIDOWS OF DECE DENTS. 1. The appraisement to Catharine Moy er, widow of Enoch Moyer, late of Gran ville township, dec'd. 2. The appraisement to Jane Moore, widow of John H. Moore, late of Menno township, dec'd. MICHAEL HINEY, Register. Lewistown, October 10, 1866. Ml 111. IX COUNTY, MM. The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania to Mary K. Jenkins, Greeting : [1. 8.1 Whereas, David Jenkins did on the 2d day of April, A. D., 1866, prefer his petition to the Hon. Judges of the Court of Common Pleas, of Mifflin coun ty, praying that for the causes therein set forth, that he might be divorced from tiie Bonds of Matrimony entered into with you, Mary E. Jenkins, we do therefore mimnand you, the said Mary E. Jenkins, as we have heretofore commanded, that setting aside all other business, you be and appear in your proper person, before our Judges at Lewistown, at a Court of Common Pleas, there to lie held on the sth day of November next, to answer the petition or libel of the said David Jen kins, 3'our husband, why he should not be divorced from the bond of matrimony, agreeably to the act of Assembly in such case made and provided, and hereof fail not. Witness Hon. Samuel S. "Woods, Presi dent Judge of our said Court at Lewis town, September 13, 1866. W. H. BRATTON, Proth'y. TO THE LADIES The cirage frakcais, or FRENCH DRESSING for Ladies and Children's Boots and Shoes that have become red, or rusty and rougli by wear ing. They are restored to a penect und permanent black, with as much lustre as when new, leaving the leather soft and pliable, and what is of great importance to the ladies it will not rub off when wet and soil the .skirts. Traveling hags, kid gloves, trunks, carriage tops, and fine harness are made to look as good as new. Ladies and Children can dress their own boots and shoes without soiling their hands. Try one bottle, and you will nev er be without a supply in the house. For sale by, J. A. & W. R. McKEE, in Odd Fellows' Hall, cor. Market and Dorcas sts., Lewistown. oetlTtf