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Fl,l.Requent inecrt iun These wlvertiptug for the Gltropaign of I,lx months will be ell:it P.S fellows ONE SczrATIE (Of tcr. ::7:(1g) ... .. Two SquA I to THREE 84.41: A RES Larger advertisements by cotttract. E;7ls fee adVertir , werits rotteetatle after the first in tertion. PROFESSION4L. JOHN B. GOOD, ATTORNEY AT LAW, Office : No. tic Eakf 1074.8freef, 'Amager, Pa J. DICKEY, O ATTORNEY AT LAW; OPF:ca—SOUTH QUEEN Street, second Louse below the Fouutainn In," Lancaster, Pa. t/ . B. LIVINGST4N, • ATTORNEY AT LAW, Ory:47E—No. 11 NORTH LUKE Street, west side, DerHsof the Court House, Laneaster,ora. IJL. BAKER, ATTORNEY AT LAW, OFFlcx—With J. B. Livingston, NORTH DtiRE Street, Lai.easter, Pa. L. KTLEADY, ;i ATTORNEY AT LAW, OFFICE—With I. E. Hiester. NORTH DICKE Street, re ar the Court House, Laucaster, Pa. CHARLES DENUES ATTORNEY «1T LAW, OFFIcE—No. 3 SOUTH DUKE Street, Lanessiett,, Pa. BF. BAER_, . ATTORNEY AT LAW, Orrrer..--No. 19 NORTH DUKE Street, Lancas ter, Pa. WM. 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YUNDT, ATTORNEY AT LAW, No. 28 NORTH SIXTH Street, Reading, Pa FRANCIS M. BANKS, ATTORNEY AT LAW AND NOTARY PUBLIC, No. 21 NORTH SIXTH Street, Read ing, Pa. DR. WILLIAM lIARGREAVES„ ECLECTIC PHYSICAN AND SURGEON, 10. 134 SOUTH FIFTH Street, Heading, Pa. AN article is going the rounds of the press, stating that a child died at Temple Station, Berks county, from the effects of a locust sting. We are assured by a ,ffen tleman residing at the Temple, that there is no truth in the story, which was started by an irresponsible Copperhead' paper published at Reading. TflO-. B. COCIIBAN THREE CENTS $BOO 18 00 .. 20 00 iitisttliancons. Das Alt &hal-Haas au der Krick. BY LEN. E. HADDAVOIT, D. D Heft islits exactly zwanzig Yohr, Das kb bin Owa naus; Nau bin Ich widder lewig i rick, Un' stell' am Schul-haus an der Krick, Yusht taekst an's atty's Ilaus. Ich bin in hundert liaeuser g'west, Von marbel, Stein un' Brack; Un' alles was Ich hab geseh, Det Ich verschwappa any day, Fuer's Schul-haus an der Krick. Wer mued da home is, un' will fort, So los ihn minima geh ; Ich sag ihm awer forna naus, Es is all Humbug Owa draus, Un' er werdi solver seh. kb bin draus rum in alle Eck' Getravelled high un' low ; Hab awer noch in kennem Spot, Uf e'mol so fief Joy gehat, Wie in dem Schul-haus do. Wie baemelt mich do alles a'! Ich step, un' denk, un' guk; Ur,' was Rh schier vergessa hab, Ktimuit wider z'rick, wie aus seim Grab, Un' steht do wie e' Spook! Des Kt iekle spielt verbei wie's hot, Wo loh noch g'spielt hab do ; Vu' tamer sella Hollerbuesch, Spieila notli de kiene Fisch, So smart wie long ago. Der Weiseclf steht nosh an der Tueln . — Ilucht Schatta ueber's Bach; _ Die Trauberank is a' notch grue'— Un's Amsel nescht—uk yusht 'mol hi'! 0 was is des en Sach'! Die Schwalma skiypa ueber's Feld— Die fedderst is die besot! Ur. sechst du, dort an, Guebeleck, En Haas yon stoppla itif von Brock ? Sel is e' Schwalma Nescht. Die yunge leia stil r.st now, Un' schlofa :die sound Wart bis die Aataariega 11'e ren, N , .rd Itersekt du awer tf.tos, g. , larti 1, Von 3fettler all aunt nu YAHOO; iitteAs nosh Wieffe war Wo Ich noel: wat• e' 'huh'; Poula suid9r , iptes Ineksp o For :dies du. do, Wie am'? Ich steh. wie Oss:an in semi Thal, Uri seh his wolta liewegt mtt Freed un' franerach ! Dfe PlNentxXonnua Wan Ich !ROW-- garischt denim svisolch frteld ! Do bin Ph ganga in die Sand ) Wo Ich noch Ivar gat.s Kie; Dort 'war der Mes:dite: iu seim Stull' ; Dort war sei Wip, un dort sei Buhl— Ich kart's noel' alles seh! Die langa Desks ring's an der Wand— Die grosa Schuler d'rum ; Uf ener Seid die grosa Maed, Und dort die Buwa—net so blaed— • Guk wie sie peeps 'rum! Der Mesehter watch't sie close just now— Sie gewa besser acht Dort Seller wo love Letters schreibt, Un seller wo sei Spoochta treibt, Uri' Seller Kerl wo Die grosa ttu' die klena all, Sin' unner ener Rule; Un des is yusht der rechte weg ; Wer Rules verbrecbt tier nemmt sie Schleg, Oder verlost die Scbul. linwendig um der Otfa 'rum, Hocks die klene chaps; Sie studya all gar hart, you see, Un' wer net lernt sei A, B. C, Sei (bra kriega happs. S'is hart zu hocka uf so Benk,— Die Fues net uf em Floor; En plancher kriekt en weber Rued:, In sellout Schub-haus an der Krick, Uri' theta about right sere! Die arma Drep! dort hocka sic In misery !—yttscht denk! Es is ke' wunner—nom my Wort— Das sie so wenig lerna dort Uf sella hocha Benk. Mit all da Drawbacks anyhow, Wars dock e' first-rate Sand; Du finscht kc' Meshter so—geh such— Der cyphent kan durch's ganza Buch, Skipt ke' elan/ Rde. Does war er! ya, des tuns Ich k'steh; Wwipt hot er all around : “ar kreislich gate Rules observed, Un werleg kriekt hot, hot's desarved Completely, I'll be bound. Wan's Dinner war, an Schul war arts, Nord hot nir gut gefuelt; Deel hen der balla Game gechoost, Deel hen such in der race amused, Un deel lien Solger Die grossa Maid hen ausgekert— Die Buwa naus gesteebt! Zu helfa, hen a deel pretend,-.1 Der Meschter hot sie naus gesend! • Die Rules lien's net erleht. Die Mena Maed hen Ring gespielt, LT sellem Wasse da ; Wanu plisse Maed sin' in der Ring-- '6 is dock e' wommervollas Ding!— Sin' grosa Buwa a'! Die grosa hen, ale grosa 'taggt— Die Klena all vernnsst! Vie sin' sie g' spranga, ab uf, Wer g'wonna hot—yerles dieli druf— Hot tuechtiglich gekisst! Azu Christag wa' die reehte zed— () wan Ich yuseht d'ra' denk! LANCASTER, FRIDAY, JULY 3,1868. Der 7.\fe%eliter hen mir Haas gespel rt, De Tiiehr and Fenster vest gebarrt,— •• Nan, MesaAer, e' liesrtlen4!k! Nord Lot er michtily brobii t, Mit force zu komma n-i; tnir er Lot gekl(qt— Schreiwes mina Lars gestopt, - Van's seinsiat dan kanslit di, rel." Nau hot der Mesehter rans gtlarm— Gar Kreislich sheepish 'glikt ! Appel un' Kesbta, un' noch meh, S•war yusht a went in fact recht schoe Mir hen's mit Lusehta sluckt! 0 wu sin' now die Schuler an, Wo hawa do gelernt A deel sin' welt awek gereest, By fortune of un' ab gecheest,— - Heel hot der Tod gePrrit! • Mei Hertz schwellt mit Gedanka uf, Isis leb sebier gar verstiek ! Konnt beula's dut mir uau so leed— tin' dock' gebt ink die groesehte Freed, Des Sehul-haus an der Krick! Good bye! alt Sebul-haws—echo Kreischt Good bye! Good bye! zurueek ; 0 Schul-haus! Sebul-haus; mus leb geb? Un' du stehst nord do alle' aleh— Du Sebul-haus an der Mick! borcht ihr Leut wo nach mir lebt, ettcli novil des Stick : Ids Ll'll inch. arch Kelt (!tpeltt aelit Uti nenant forever gra enacht. loes Schul-haws an t:er E"!ick. A TALE OF WESTERN LIFE One day, in early winter, my husband received a summons to Burke's settle ment, to unite a couple in the bonds of wedlock. It was especially requested that his wife should accompany him, as he would be expected to remain over night Ai partake of the festivities. It was twenty miles to the settlement., and we arrived au the log house of. Mr. Burke aboue noon.. A dozen tow-haired children were at the door,. awaiting our arrival. They telegraphed the news in stamitiv. "•Afili to, nir.rm 1 1141e4 , the elder and his woman. The.'re ',nothing but folks ! She's got a man's hat on, and a turkey's wing in front of it; his nose is just like dad's—as crooked as a cow horn squash." Alas for Mr. Morrison's aquiline nose, of which he was very vain. " Sam!" cried a shrill female voice from the interior of the cabin, " run out and grab the rooster, and I'll clap him into the pot. Sal, you quit that churn and sweep the floor. Kick that dodger under the bed. Bill, you wipe the tal low out of that chair, for the minister's wife, and be spry about it." Further remarks were cut short by our entrance. Mrs. Burke, in a calico short gown, blue petticoat and bare feet, came for ward wiping her face on her apron. " How d'ye do, elder ? How d'ye do marm ? Must excuse my head—ain't had no chance to comb it since last week. Work must be did, you know. Powerful sharp air, hain't it ? Shoo, there ! Bill, drive that turkey out of the bread trough. Sal, take lady's thing. Set right up to the fire, marm. Han's cold ? . Well, Just run 'em in Bill's hair—we keep it long a purpose." Bill presented his shaggy head, but I declined with an involuntary shudder. "Laws, if she ain't actually shivering !" cried Mrs. Burke. " Bring in some more wood. Here, warm, take this hot corn dodger into yer lap—it's as good as a soap stone." A. fearful squall announced the execu tion of the rooster, and shortly after he was bouncing about in a four quart ket tle, hung over the fire. Sal returned to her churn, but the extraordinary visitors must have made her careless, for she up set the concern, and butter and butter milk went swimming over the floor. " Grab the ladle, and help dip it up, Bill," cried Mrs. Burke. " Take keer, don'tut that snarl of hair in. Strange how folks will be so nasty Dick, do you keep your feet out of the butter milk ; it wont be fit for the pigs when the butter is gathered. Drive that hen out ; she's picked up a pound of butter already. There, Sal, do try and churn a little more keerful. If you are going to be spliced to-rnorrer, you needn't run crazy about it." " I advise you to dry up !" remarked the bride elect, thumping away at the churn. By the time I had got fairly wariiied, dinner was ready, and you may be sure I did not injure myself by over-eating. Night came on early, and after a so cial chat about the event of the morrow, I signified my desire to retire. Sal lighted a pine knot, and began climbing a ladder in one corner of the room. I hesitated. " Come on," cried she, don't be afraid. Sam and Bill and Dick, and all the rest of ye, duck yer heads while the elder's wife goes up. Look out for the loose boards, marm ; and mind or you will smash your brains out against that beam. Take care of that hole where the chim ney comes thro." Her warning came too late. I caught my foot on the end of a board, stumbled and fell headlong through what appeared to be interminable space, but it was only The Minister's Wife. to the room I had just left. while I was "Ta Dike 211.76 at radio' saved from dcstruetion I.y MA , w 1 ;(' Iv', Ar t , aught me in his arms, and set me on my th feet, remarking cooly : " What made you come down that way'' We generally use the ladder." I was duly commisserated, and at h-: w got to bed. The less said about that the pd better. Bill arid Dick and four other slept in the same room with us, and made the air vocal with their snoring. I fell an asleep and dreamed I was just being shot p t , from a Columbiad, and was awakened - Mr. Morrison, who informed me :t \N-s morning. A, The marriage was to take phVe before of breakfast, and Sally was already clad in her bridal robes when I descended the ' ladder. warding before blin She was magnificent in a green calico, I "• - over a crinoline full four inches longer than the rest of her apparel, a white apron witia.eed.attaitags, blue stockings, a yellow neck-ribbon, and white cotton gloves. Fier reddish hair was fastened in a pug behind, and well adorned with the tail feathers of the defunct rooster before mentioned. When it was announced that Lem. Lord, the groom, was coming. Sally sprang behind a coverlet, which had been hun g across one corner of the room to conceal sundry pots and kettles, and refused to come forth. Mr. Lord lifted one corner of the curtain and peeped in, but quickly retreated with a stew pan, a few sharp words from Sally advising him j oung tau, utterance, to mind his own business. was really the representative of the gen- Lemuel was dressed in blue, with bright eration to which he belongs. God has so buttons. The entire suit had been made decreed it, that...the father is the highest for his grandfather on a similar occasion. authority in the worldto his child. Who His hair was well dressed with tallow, does not know that "My father said so," and his huge feet encased in skin pump. I is the end of all controversy with the lit- Very soon the company began to tie ones around us? Who does not see gather, and the room was well filled. the parent's tone, and gait, and manners, "Now, elder," cried the bridegroom, reproduced continually in the children " drive ahead. I want it done up nice : whose nature is now " soft as wax to re- I'm able to pay for the job; do 'you hear? ceive an impression, and rigid as marble Come Father _Burke, trot out • your gal!" to retain it;'and who watch with a quick But Sally refused to be trotted. She imitating cye,,those who to them are g . would be married where she was or not God's viceerentsr at all. We .argued n d coa.Yed, but she Would that we could impress upon the was firm ; and it was finally a coticluded to lathers and mothers of this country the let her have her own way. ,* soletnia *t, that tila, 4044.04 rt , e r of k v4 4 11#"fr 4 e l llThl etAlg44oll44t 4i hem. Mr. Morrison stood, the happii That it they are trained up in the way joined hands trirotigh a coverlet, and the ' they should go, when they are old they ceremony proceeded. Just as Jr. Mor- • wL not depart from But that, 1,1 . they rison was asking Lemuel, " Will you become vain; sensual and degraded, the have this woman, ' etc., down came the seeds . will have been deposited, and the coverlet, enveloping bridegroom and pas- basis given in the early morning of their tor, and filled the house with dust. Dick had been up in the loft and cut the strings which held it. Mr. Morrison crawled out looking rather sheepish, and Sally was , obliged to be married openly. To the momentous question, Lemuel responded : "To be sure what else did I conic- re for?" and Sally replied : Yaas. ycu must know." "Salute your bride," said my when all was over. " I'm ready to do anything, (Aar," said Lemuel, " but skin me I know about that, sir. Just show me how, and I'll do it it it kills me." My husband drew back norvouly, ')ut Sally advanced, threw her arms around his neck, and gave him a kiss that made the very windows chatter. "1 vum if I don't do ditto :" cried Lemuel; and hastily taking a large bite from a piece of maple sugar he drew from his pocket, he made a dash at me, smashed my collar, broke my watelnruard into a dozen pieces tore my hair down, and SUCee*AletUl/411.1atillg a kiss on my nose, greatly to the delight of the con:- pany. "'Now, elder, what is the damage Don't be afraid to speak." "Whatever you please," said Morrison. Lemuel produced a piece of fur. " There, elder," said he, " there's a musk-rat's skin ; and out in the shed is two heads of cabbage, and your wehouie to the hull of it." My husband bowed his thanks, the young people went to dancing, Mr ,, . Burke went to getting breakfast, and at my earnest request, Mr. Morrison g ot our horse and I bade them adieu. I never could have lived through another meal in that house. I have since heard that Mr. Lord said if he had seen the elder's wife before she was married, Sally might have gone the dickens. Alas, it might have been ! Grant mut the Clergy. The Chaplain of Grant's regiment re lates the following incident : When at home he generally attended the Metho dist Episcopal Church. White Colonel of the Twenty-first Regiment, he gave every encouragement and facility for se curing a prompt and uniform observance of religious services, and was generally found in the audience listening to pr ea, in shortly after I came into the regiment, our mess were one day taking their usual seats around the dinner table, when he remarked : Chaplain, when I was at home, and min isters were stopping at my house, I always in vited them to ask a blessing at the table ; I s:ip pose a Messing is as much needed here as at home: and if it is agreeable with your views, I should be glad to have yea ask tlesting every time we s:t down to eat." A New Paper. We publish the following prospectus as decidedly rich : I propose to start a religious paper on the gift enterprise plan. It will be de voted to sanc.iity and sewing machines, piely, politics and patent mediclnes. for one ;.opy of the Church Cancer will be presented with a box of pe:roleum paste blacking. This id a vet y superior article, it will blad.; boots or stoves, and may be used as a hair dye. (See testimony from leading clergymen, statesmetriton&boetblacks.) Subscribers for two copies will receive a box of sardines. Subscribers for ten copies will be pre sented with a pair of iron-and spectacles, with glass eyes, warranted to. suit any age as well as another. Subscribers: for twcntv-live cokies will receive a tilting hoop skirt and et Marble bureau with a mahogany top. Subscribers for five hundred copies - will receive a nomination for Congreslwith lihrary consisting of a bottle and a pack 4 4f cards. Subscribers rel. "thousand ,i.ovies will be presented with a farm in NeW Jersey, fenced in and mortgaged. Clergymen acting as agents for the Cancer will be presented with one pair of brass knuckles and an acre of court plaster. What Party Does the Retrenching ? Our Democratic opponents are con stantly ,rying out for retrench lent and relbrm, but when it is proposed practi cally to enter on the performance.of such work - , the Democracy are missing when 1116 r votes are needed. It is conceded that ?Iv! alTitirl; or the national adminis tration are conducted entirclyunderthe in spiration of Democratic influence. Every Department, but that of War, is con trolled by the Democracy. The moment the war ended, Congress began to cut, down public expense , :, while General Grant lost no time in mustering out large bodies of men. The last Congress so re trenched as to be able to reduce taxation 120,060,000. This fact is never allowed to see the light of day in any of our Dem ocratic cotemporaries. Another singular fact is aim*, the present Congress has re duced the estimates for appropriations to carry on all the Departments of the Gov ernment. The sum asked by the State Department has been materially reduced ; the Secretary of the Navy was compelled to reduce his estimates S2o,ollo—the op erations of the Treasury Department have been so curtailed by Congress as t, save $52.000,000. These are facts, prac tical evidence of the disposition of a Republican Congress to retrench, but to such facts the Democracy never allude. NO. 5. Takes." ik ?" asked lo for the .ether to a, lat, to say, tld not be ~cr's exam- ther's ear, dlity of his he said, Lid before, and then? :he history Lee promis , had been —.. up in solemn Should His hope -- -faced, 110- a curse as .ong drink !, earnest work such lad safe? thoughts , in a mo " If the ;o blame ;" with emo those who , I'll take his, strong ,hat man's
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