Ntnnoonniorii pcitoth.
La t&4%
RUT FOR AN FRAW.
(vuM PIT SCIIWBFFLIIBRIDINIIR.)
Nochdem das ich fors tswetta, mohl dis
appoint war—de ean'd war mer ten satin
land de onner tau ferbobbled,
hob ich do notion in der kup hickt retch
amohl awmacha by saner de so Wirer ous
Boot singa hut kenna, for ich bin orrig in
Amor Am guty music. Ears mama war
Fanny Leiderbach, un nochdem des ich
nal& awgemacht hob g'hot bin ich drei
mobl mit ears beam fun der karrich, un
Loh anus gawp' das se an ferdulter grater
impression gemacht hut uf mich—so gu't
las fah about my mind ufgemacht hab se
tau frohya for retch ten heirs, un kortzy
turret dada tan macha, for ich war prd
lich sure das se mich nemma deat. De
Fanny war eans fun de beshty singer im
shteddle, un se hut aw an piano shot
das drei hunnert dahler gekusht hut, un
ahpeela hut se kenna, un sings, about so
gal des ennich weibsmensh in der noch
bershaft, for ea huts gelarnd in der board
ing shool. De Fanny war aw about an
sheanes meadle, fun guty monneer, un
oily leit hen se orrig Koch aw g'eea.
Well, des ding war gu't, amohl ea Sundog
01110 t bin ich widder mit ears heam gongs,
un we mer uf em weg warm is se so im
dunkella in a klea dreok-lock gedretta, un
we se ins house net is hut se sieh grawd
onna g'huekt un hut ears dreckiche shu
ous getsohya, tin donn—ich hob net belts
kenna es tau notissa—will ich de heenk
kreeya, warm se net a loch lm sliteump
g'hot 'hut das ears goner grosser twaya
roue g'shtucka hut. Now, so an loch im
shtrump konn ich excuse, awer lob hob
doch miasa ivver des ding noch denka, un
hob mer ollerlea foreshtellunga gerracht
tan ferrissenny unnerkleader, un hrlticht
aw noch gor dreckiche hemmer un unner
reek ! Uf course ich hab nix raawt, un
aw net g'wist we mere maclit fer ous tsu
firma we's guckt unnich donna feiny
Mender wu de Fanny aw g'hot hut, ewer
we ich seller grossa tsaya, g'sea hob eel
kop dorrich sell loch rouse shtecka, bin
ich tsu der conclusion kumma das wann
ich de Fanny krick for an fraw, donn bin
ferleicht om end second best: Shea singa
un piano shpeela dut earn anyhow kea
shtrimp shtuppa, hemmer flicks odder
k'nep aw neaya. Un de gedonka hen
much orrig geboddert, for denk amohl
draw, yusht we ich about my mind uf
gemacht hob g'hot ni tau gea for de Fanny,
donn guckt earn so an ferdeihenkerter
grosser tsaya dorrich an loch in earam
shtrump, un er is mer aw yusht grawd
fora kumma das wanner suer a porpose
notice gevva wet das es rfearlich is tsu
heirs mit fancy dressa ouswendich un so
lecher in de shtrimp, un ferleicht aw noch
gor in de hemmer un onnery unner
kleader de evva net tau seana sin. For de
gedonka week tsu dreiva hab ich de Fanny
g'froked amohl an shtickly tsu shpeela un
aw recht shea tau singe dertsu, un se draw
ous piano un hut g'shpeelt un g'sunga
dam gor net tsu beets war, un ich het sheer
gorly de froke fors heirs on se gedu, ewer
—sell loch—un seller gross trays—hen
mich my maul holta macha, un we - ich
amohl ous em house war hob ich my mind
uf gemacht seller shea sing (ogle fleeya
tau lussa.
So welt war my glick ordhch shlecht,
un ich bin ten der conclusion kumma das
wann ich a fraw das mich
suit—mu ich dertsu shticka. Doan hob
lob my mind uf gemacht eany noeh der
onner tsu proweera his ich eany krick.
4i„mohl ea dog we lob fun beam war,
uu we Joh fun depot, beam bin 1111 omni
bus war an orrig sheanas un fine guckich
meadle dort uf era sitz Whuckt, mit ma
gets= veil ivver earam g'sicht, un we
mer so a shtickly g'fahra sin is eara weir
shnup-duch uf der budda gedrbpt, un uf
course, ich habs uf gepickt un earagevva.
/ch hob aw g'sea das earn nawma druf
geprint war—Lizzie Shtile war druf, un
ivver a weil is se rats em omnibus un in a
Rheum house "Lei, un ich hob gu't acht
gevva wu's war. Nochderhond bin ich
men das a dutzend mohl dort ferbei
gelut/a, un men das amohi hob kb se om
fenshter under deer g'sea. Eamo'hl hob
ich earn de tseit gebutta, un so hut now
yusht about bleeseerlich geguckt, under
kup genuckt, un donn denk ich, doh konn
ich's ferleicht kumma, wann ich yusht
dertsu shtick. Awer we konn ich's nun
netclut for mich amohl introdusa tsu ears ?
Tsuletsht bin ich ten der conclusion
kumma mich obnemma lussa un earn my
picture shicka, un uf seller weg anyhow
an Wong macha. Der negsht dog bin
ich in de picture gallery ni, nn deweil ich
dort war is des very meadle aw nei in
company mit so an roat-keppiche wu ich
shun derfore g'sca hob. Se hen mich net
genotieed, for ich war dort hinnich em
umhong g'huckt, un hob oily wart glifert
was se g'sawt hen mitnonner, un sell hut
mer donn aw of amohl genunk gevva fun
sellam shtock. Der weg we se g'shwetzt
hen, want se bckonnt mit all de buwa im
town, hen alles g'wist fun parties, un
balls, un fashions un onner leit earn um
shtenda un de prices fun bonnets tin
shawls, awer kea fershtendich wart hob
ich so beam sawya. Sell hut mich g'satis
fled, for so eany de so gut bekonut is mit
all de buwa im town, suit mich anyhow
net. Ich hob mich obnemma lussa, awer
selly fine yung lady hut kens grickt. Ich
bin aw sheer of de notion kumma an
batchelor tsu bleiva so long ich leab.
' [CONTINUED DE NEAGSHT WOCH.]
BREW' FUN STEVENS, LANCASTER CO.
STEVENS, Jan. 4, 1869.
Om letskta Dinshdeg for ocht dog,
owets, hen se den Wabash Miller un si
olty amohl g'serenade weal si doehter whei
ert hut. Es warn in all about sivva-un
tawansich kleany buwa un grouse buwa
wu waiver un aw klnaer bee. Se sin
kumma, goot prepared mit shtore-boxa,
pine Hegel, rossam, blose-hserner, bitters
buttla un onnery iushtrumenta un yacht
ten macho. Des bitters wu in de buttla
war hut si duty goot gedu. Awer an
deal hens net shtanda kennit un sin ob un
heam ebs ferbei war. Der General wu so
orrig gooty bitters music g'macht hub is
sw tauleteht entirely collapsed un se ken
can beam stemma missy tau seiner haw.
Par= RXAYAFASS.
THE COLORED NEN COMMON.
Col. Forney in Me " Occasional" letter to
the Philadelphia Press, on Friday, thus
speaks of the National Colored Men's Con
vention, then in session in Washington.
I hope I do not discredit Congress- when I
say that I think the Colored Men's Conven
tion now in session here, contains an aver
age intelligence that makes it no ordinary
competitor with the men who deliberate be
tween the marble walla of yonder Capitol.
The white men In Congress me the scions of.
civilization, and have generally been select
ed for their superior wit, wisdom, or worldly
experience. The large majority are mem
bers of the bet, trained to talk, and cunning
in the shrewd defence of the law ; practiced
politicians, diplomatists, scholars, and ex
perts of all kinds. How different with the
Colored Congress I—the representatives of a
race traduce d, taunted, and fettered for two
centuries, many of them self-reared and self
taught, and those from the South eight years
ago, excluded not only from any God-given
right, but denied the common advantage of
moving out of the narrow orbit of slavery,
and nearly all from enjoying the prow& of
their own hard toll.
No race on earth equally oppressed conid
have chosen suck delegates as these—l do
not care what their country, color, or creed.
It was a touching spectacle I—a Congress
of men, most of them slaves eight years ago,
presided over by one born in slavery, and
flying from the lash to qualify himself for the
society of men of learning and to lead his
race to the fall realization of a citizenship the
more enduring because plucked from the
crater of a fiery rebellion.
Frederick Douglass ruled with a dignity
and ability that fitly paralleled the ease and
polish of the flower of the Southern chivalry,
John C. Breckinridge, while in the Vice
Presidential char.
The members spoke with a clear, apt, in
cisive good sense that would have shamed
many a white man's picked convention ; and,
as they did, I thought of the " superior race"
as they fulminated treason in Tammany Hall,
last Fourth of July
I asked myself how many conventions of
the "great ones" of the old world, meeting
to reconstruct governments, had' surpassed
these so-called rude and illiterate" men ?
Certainly not those which sat during the
French revolutions of the eighteenth and
nineteenth centuries, and assuredly not that
which attempted to give civil government to
Italy after Garibaldi had seated Victor
Emanuel on hie throne.
Our State Legislatures—none of them sur
pass these dark-skinned Americans in talent
for business and discussion.
The point of integrity need not be raised.
The freedmen are as yet unspoiled by " the
arts of peace," and have not yet learned how
to take the votes of the people at the ballot
box and to laugh at them to scorn when they
get into their places.
DESTRUCTIVE FIRE IN PIIILADEL
rmA: The beautiful marble building on
the corner of Chestnut and Ninth streets,
Philadelphia—familiar to every visitet to
the city—occupied by Caldwell's Jewelry
store, Orne's Carpet store, and Howells
Wall Paper store—was the scene of a de
structive conflagration on Thursday morn
ing of last week, commencing about one
o2clock. The cause of the fire has not yet
been ascertained. Of seven clerks and
private watchmen who slept in the
building, two are supposed to have lost
their lives, and the remaining five more or
less injured. Total property destroyed,
$801,000; insurance $610,000.
SEVENTY-ONE railroad bills before
Congress, allfor subsidies! The
mere mention l C: e i g t he numberis a sufficient
argument why Congress should resolutely
put the foot down upon all of them. To
favor ono and neglect the others, equally
deserving of patronage, would be unjust
and wrong. To grant them all would be
a ridiculous and criminal waste of public
lands, and would open the doors still widar
for schemes of robbery and plunder, until
at last the nation would topple over that
verge of bankruptcy upon which even now
it is trembling. Therefore say we, no
more subsidies to railroads!
WHAT TILE USE of minding " what
they say ?" "What's the use lying awake
o' nights with tke unkind remark of some
false friend running through your brain
like forked lightning? What's the ma of
getting into a worry and fret over gossip
that has been set afloat to your disadvan
tage by some meddlesome busybody ?
These things can't possibly injure you,
unless, indeed, you take notice of them,
and in combatting them give them char
acter and standing. If what is said is
true, set yourself right at once ; if it is
false, let it go for what it will fetch, until
it dies of inherent weakness.
John Strohm was born in Fulton township,
Lancaster county, on the 18th day of October,
riA and is now in the 78th year of his age.
He resides in Providence township, and enjoys
excellent health and vigor.
But few men of this county , have taken a
more prominent and honorable part in public
affairs than Honest John Strohm. His first
appearance on the political stage was his
election to the Pennsylvania Home of Repre
sentatives in 1831, and his re-election in '32
and '33. Being recognized on *ll sides as not
only a conscientiousmfr, but also, of more
than ordinary ability—just the kind of a man
calculated to enjoy the confidence of such a
constituency as the people of Lancaster
county—he was afterwards dented and re
elected to the Senate, closing his second term
in 1842, and serving one term as Speaker with
entire satisfaction to all. In 1844 he was
elected to Congress, and re-elected in 1848—
his term expiring in 1849, when Thaddeus
Stevens became his successor. During these
years Mr. Strohm's name was frequently
mentioned for even higher honors, but we be
lieve, always nnsolieitW. on his part. We
remember, in 1852, when there was a warm
contest between two candidates for delegate to
'data
TINNIE REAM, THE
The young woman who is executing a
bust of the late President Lincoln in the
Capitol at Washington, under authority of
Congress, has been subjected to a good deal
of adverse criticism. All this, it seems, came
from members of her own sex and was the
result of Jealousy. At least so it is alleged.
Vinnie is not in favor of the woman's right
movement, as appears from the following
which we find in the Washington correspon
dent of the St. Louie Democrat :
A gentleman who was conversant with
the facts, or near by at the time, told me of
this scene, which happened not long ago in
the studio of little Vinnie Ream.
Miss Vinnie, discovered in her artistic
dress, elaborating her statue of Lincoln. To
her enter Mrs. Cady Stanton, and the cere
mony of an introduction is effected by a third
party. Mrs. Stanton produces a long roll of
petition, on the female question,
of course,
and says, in her large, benignant way :
" Child, we wish your name here."
Miss Vinnie looks it over a minute, till she
discovers that it is a plan to move on the
works of man, the monster.
"Oh I no, Mrs. Stanton, I will not sign
this. I don't wish publicity, and lam not
of your thinking on this question."
" It enters into your interests. It concerns
the recognition of woman, and woman's
labor under the government."
"I am not a woman's rights advocate,
ma'am."
" Why, child I" cried Mrs. Stanton, " You
are a working girl, getting your bread by
your own hands 1 If you do not help your
self and us, how can woman help you?"
"Mrs. Stanton," said Vinnie Ream, bit
terly, "no help has any woman ever given
me here. From Grace Greenwood to Mrs.
Swisshelm, they have sought to strike me
down. Mrs. Calhoun writes to the Tribune
that she has not seen any of my work, but
that she knows it is bad. Mrs. S. goes to
Thaddeus Stevens and among Congressmen,
asking them to give my studio back. Mrs.
Clemme Ames—all of them—can find no
other occupation than attacking a poor girl,
and their venom—l never offended one of'
them—has extended to personally canvass
ing against me. No, =Warn 1 Driven out
of the wish of their patronage and 00-opera
tion, I will be befriended by gentlemen only;
for whilst I never got any justice from
woman, I was never treated meanly by
man 1"
"I know Mrs. Swisshelm," rays Mrs.
Stanton " she is a friend of mine and pro
minent in this movement."
" I forbear to enumerate," said Minnie
Reatn, "tholigh WM'Sot my they did`not
wound me to the heart ; Ws :may meltgnant,
vulgar, and unprovoked things she wrote
against me and published. Then they Ai*
sent to me and to my friends. They althea
than my profession--at my character
Mt."
"Grace Greenwood also wrote against
you 1"
"Yes, madam; in the Advance she up
braided my patrons , and tailed me a Child,
asking Congress to pay my school bills but
take me away from sculpture, adding that if
any work was to be given out It should be
given to 'that Roman matron, Ms& Ames,'
and Mrs. Ames Is Grace Greenw t ood's sister."
"Mrs. S. was no more considerate ?"
" She, Madame, not only talked again*
me—a stranger to her—wherever she could
get a group to listen, but she made a personal
visit to Thaddeus Stevens, to beg him to take
away my studio.
"'What is she doing ill?' said Mr. Stevens.
"'Decorating her studio with Sowers,
wearing long hair, attracting the men, and
thereby lobbying.'
" Well,' said Mr. Stevens, " 'it seems to
me that you are round here lobbying a good
deal, Mrs. S., if talking to Courmamen is
lobbying. I have never seen NIINI Ream at
all.'
46 Oh cried Mrs. S., no girt can keep
chaste and pure with three bun
wretched
men around her.'
" Well,' said Mr. Stevens, out of all the
three hundred, bere has never been an effort
HONEST JOHN STROBL
01 Loosister Comity.
to do as much harm to Miss Rem) as one wo
man can make.'
"So he took up his crutch, hobbled over
to see me, befriended me immediately and
boldly, and died my friend."
" Mrs. Stanton, he men have more heart
for my sex than le women. Their jealousy
, is at least as large as emulation. Repelled by
wrongs, in the way I have stated, I was com
pelled to learn the generosity of men, and I
do not regret the lesson."
"Mies Stanton," said my informant, "prov
al an amiable exception, for she always after
' wards spoke well of Vinnie Ream in her
newspaper."
It is true that a good deal of aspersion has
been foully dealt at little Ream. The women
have never been able to get over the appro
priation Congress made her. These literary
women, any way, are the most reckless of
Bohemians.
No letters from this city were ever more
absolutely wild with causeless spleen than
Calhoun's aforenamed. She " ran a muck "
in Washington, and yet understood nothing
about it. Swisshelm, searching for victims,
got afoul of Mrs. eprague dreadfully last
year, and raised such indignation that even,
her undaunted mettle was abashed. Mrs. And
S. Stephens is suing somebody for libel, and
appreciating the pleasure of being abused in
print. "The Roman Matron" is here, but
without a government commission yet. Lit
tle Ream is the Venus Vietrix. She has met
the enemy and they are hers. Wherever de
ficient in talent these women's tongues raised
her compensating sympathy. lam not ac
quainted with her ; for she is, indeed, as little
conspicuous as any woman in Washington ;
but her triumph seems to be complete, and
somebody says she is to go to Rome next
year. Doubtless her female friends will an
ticipate her with scandal, but Rome is not
the prude that Washington is. The board
ing-house there is not enthroned on thelfona
Capitolinus.
Tub S. S. Teacher says that President
Harrison taught for several .years in au
humble. Sabbath School on the banks of
the Milo river. The Sabbath before he
left home for Washington, to assume the
duties of Chief to of the nation,
he alet. his X se usUsl; and his
is s" on She eot to his -r
at Vir • 44,1 3 to A` sea .... a
dog to p ro - hie • t, was; " set
ti Sabbath Sawa teacher to take care of
the boys."
TRIERS are few people who have not
been, dieoeshonally Tesided- Whether to
*rite ei or ie lAA words that so repre
sent the sound of ling e. A very simple
.rule, says a schoolmaster, removes all
dittioulty. When the dipthoug follows c,
it is always et—ceiling, conceive, &c; when
it follows any other letter it is always is—
grief, friend, niece, &c.
the National Whig Convention, the mattes
was settled by the election of Mr. S. whilst he
was at home, and entirely ignorant of such
use of his name, which was only brought for
ward on the day of the County Coeval:a:km.
Mr. Strohm has now, in the wreathe of his
life, the proud satisfaction to know, that, al
though be has always been found decidedly
and squarely on one side or the other of every
public question presented to him as a Legis
lator, and although his judgment was some
times subjected to severe, and even unfriendly
criticism, no one ever •tored to question
his integrity, but all uniWin conferring upon
him that most enviable degree of true merit
commonly called HOitisTY. Having retired
from the active duties of a public man, having
no more favors to bestow u po n any political
aspirants, there can be no other moths in thus
referring to his honorable and successful ca
reer in the recent past, and in treating our
thousands of readers to the above excellent
likeness of the man—one of Probasco's best
efforts as an artist—than to pay a well-de
served complimAnt by this reintroduction of
their old and well-tried representative,
Honest John Strohm.
LOVELINESS: It is net your neat dress,
your expensive shawl, or your pretty fin
ger that attracts the attention of men of
sense. They look beyond these. It is
the true loveliness of your nature that
wins and continues to retain the affections
of the heart. Young ladies sadly miss it
who labor to improve the outward looks,
while they bestow not a thought on their
minds. Fools may be won by gewgaws
and ihshionable showy dresses, but the
wise and substantial are never caught by
such traps. Let. modesty be your dress.
Use pleasant and agreeableind
though you may not be courted by• fop or
iu sot,tt good and traly great will love to
linger in your steps.
TUESDAY last Walla Senatorial field day.
Pennsylvania elected Hon. John Scott;
New York, Hon. Reuben E. Fenton;
Maine, Hon. Hannibal Hamlin; Massa
chusetts, HOD. Chas. Sumner; Missouri,
Carl Schurz; Delaware, Hon. Thomas F.
Bayard; 'Juliana, Hon. Wm. Ctunback,
and Minnesota, Hon. Alexander Ram
sey.
Ix the New York Court of special ses
sions duringlB6B there were 8,888 con
victions, 485 acquittals, and 365 discharg
es without Wei.
STATE NEWS.
BERNS COUNTY.—The Democrats of
Reading have nominated Mayor Gernand
and Treasurer Heidenreich for re-election.
The Republican candidates are, for Mayor,
Hon. J. Pringle Jones, and for Treasurer,
Col. William R. Walter There
were 320 interments in the Charles Evans'
Cemetery i Reading, during the year 1868.
. . A daring robbery was committed at
Shoemakersville one night last week. Mr.
David Michaels, an honest shoemaker was
the victim—his shoemaker shop entered
and $25 stolen therefrom. The robbery
of this shoemaker's shop has created con
siderable excitement among the shoema
kers of Shoemakersville. . . Ten new lo
comotives for the Philadelphia and Read
ing Railroad are contracted for. . . Geo.
Whittier, Esq.,. one of the best citizens of
Berke county, died at Oley, last week, in
the 59th year of his age. . . .Wm. R.
Nelson, late of Clark & Nelson% Business
College of Reading, died at Poughkeepsie,
N. Y. . . A library at Birdsboro is to be
established. . . Work has been resumed
on the Port Clinton and Tipton Railroad.
. . An unsuccessful attempt was made to
rob the shoe store of Mr. Leiss, of Read
ing, on Saturday night last. • . Adam
Rahn was attacked by a highway robb er _ ha rd in Beading, last Saturday night. He had
received a large sum of money on that
evening, but hadn't it with him. . . The
Daily Times states that the case of Tobias
Barto (county Sheriff distiller) had
been adjusted with the ibmere depart
me•
se nt by
mated theta paymont of The
was defrauding the goy.
erament. Cheap. . . A large grey hone,
blind in right eye, was stolen from the
stable of Cyrus D. Hornherger, in Cumrtt
township, on the night of the Mk !net.
. . Edwin Faxon, a carpoder, Whilst
helping to put up hangers in the Birdsbo
ro Iron Foundry, fell with his side on the
donkey engine, breaking one of his ribs
and receiving other severe injuries.
Luzzuxx Coniew.-4-Theriet proceeds
of the Catholic Fair held at Scranton
amounted to $3,500. . . Henry Mitzler, a
miner residing at Hyde Park, was fatally
scalded, last week, by the n of a
tea kettle. . . Edward Murp •y, eyed
in a slope near Scranton. was foun • dead
a few days ago—killed by striking his
head against the roof whilst on an ascend
ing "trip." . . The Scranton Republican
says the coming season bids fair to keep
up with the last in the number of new
buildings erected in that flourishing and
rising city. . . Revival , meetings, by the
Methodists of Wilkesbarre, are well at
tended and with good results. . . The
"Fuller Shaft" coal breaker at Plymouth
was damaged by fire last week. . . A new
daily paper is to be started at Wilktubarre.
Work on the new county Penitentiary
at Wilkesbarre has been suspended.. .
The G. A. R. of 'Wilkesbarre announce a
grand festival, en the 22nd and 23d of
February next, in Sobleumbach Hall.
DArrnmf COUNTY.—Protracted meet
ing all this and next week in the Rev.
Calder's Baptist church, Harrisburg.. .
A colored drum corps, consisting of eight
fifers and twelve drummers, has been
formed at Harrisburg. . . A young lady,
named Rupert, was fatally burned at
Harrisburg on last Friday evening, by
the explosion of a coal oil lamp. The un
fortunate sufferer was entirely conscious
until her last moment. She was a mem
ber of the Bethel church of Harrisburg,
and highly esteemed by all who enjoyed
her acquaintance.
CRAWFORD COUNTY.—An unmarried
woman named Maria Bentley, aged about
thirty-five 3rears, committed suicide, in
Rome township, by swallowing morphine.
Cause--disappointed in love. . . . The
Catholic Fair held at Titusville netted
$4,000.. . T. W. Cody, of Beaver town
ship, whilst chopping wood accidentally
cut off several toes of his left foot.
WARREN COUNTY.-G. S. Jackson, a
Youngsville merchant, on Saturday even
ing of week before last, met with a serious
accident by pouring oil in his stove to
kindle lire. . . Jacob Spinner, aged twen
ty-two years, was instantly killed by being•
caught between a load of lumber and a
tree.
CHESTER COUNT Y.--Gleanings from
the Record:—Jane, wife of Wm. Smedley,
of West Chester, fractured her right leg
by falling on the pavement. . . Richard
Somers,night watchman at the Phomix
Iron works, Phoenixville, on Saturday
night fell over the rocks near cotton row
and broke one of 'his legs. . . Mrs. Jona
than Carr, whilst walking in her yam d, at
Phoenixville, last Friday, fell on the ice
and fractured her leg in two places.. .
The stable of the Phoenixville hotel was
entered lately, and some valuable harness
stolen therefrom, which was afterwards
found secreted under the porch of the
Reading Railroad depot, at Phoenixville.
. On Sunday, 10th inst., eighteen per
sons were baptized at the Millstown Bap
tist church and ten at the Winsor church,
Upper Uchlan.• . . A new Lodge of Good
Templars was organimd at the Grove in
West Whiteland. . . Charles Barnard, of
Newlin township, had a fi ne pair of oxen
stolen from the drove yard, West Phila
delphia. . . A mad dog was shot on Sat
urday, by a son of Forrest Bunn, in Bast
Goshen. . . Thieving is becoming fash
ionable *Rover the emmtp. .
CUMBERLAND COMPTY.—A. boy named
Bmerick was thrown from a hand truck
on the railroad, near Newton, and had
his leg broken and was severely
injured... The liar held by the Clabber
land Firs Company, at Carlisle ' closed on
Saturday
_and , the net receipts aim:
MOO
to over latio. .1 freight cars
were scattered mind Usly near
Meohanicsburg, last ursday, caused by
the breaking of a rail and ran off the
track.
NORTHUMBERLAND COUNTY. —The
house of Samuel Neidy. in Shamokin
Valley, was badly damaged by fire on
Wednesday night. . • A.dre departinent
is wanted in Sunbury. Also, .gt steam
ferry to connect with Snyder county.. .
Burglars are operating at Shamokin on a
small scale. . . A mad dog wart killed last
week in Lower Augusta township.
CSUTLKILL CouirrY.—The Tremont
Local News is becoming a live institution,
having been enlarged and improved other
wise. . . Mrs. Whalen, of East Mines,
was run over by a sleigh and severely in
jured. . . The Junior Sons of Amenca of
Orwigsburg will have a grand
_parade on
the 4th of July nest. . . Mary Tobin was
run over at Mine Hill Plane and killed.
. . The Workingmen's Benevolent Society
of Ashland are ftuniehing flour to work
ingmen at $9.87 per barrel. . . The Lu
theran, Evangelical and United Brethren
churches at Schuylkill Haven are holding
protracted meetings. . . John Raush,
Esq., formerly Sheriff of the county, died
last week in the city of Philadelphia.. .
Lieut. John W. Smith, employed as a
brakeman, met with a fatal accident near
Mahanoy Planes on Tuesday oflast week.
Whilst putting down the break he slipped
and fell under the train, which passed
over his leg, causing death a short time
after the limb had been amputated.. .
Benjamin Haywood, Esq., is President of
the County Temperance Union. . . A
young man of Cressona, Schuylkill county,
last week—at a place where a widow's
and Orphan's contribution box was kept—
amused himself by teaching persons a cer
tain trick with five pennies, which he ob
tained from the uninitiated, just to show
them how to do it—dropping them into
the box.
YORK COUNTY.—Gleanings from the
True Derneerat:—A boy named Sample
had his collar bone broken by falling from
a house at York. . Pother Smith was
installed to the Prie sthood in St. Mary's
Catholic church of York. .Twelve
pounds_ of butter were stolen, a few nights
&,iromEmmetls grocery store in York.
Peter Goodling, returning from a gun
ning expedition on Thursday, stopped at
John Bahnsberger's store, in Wash ni ton
township, and met an acquaintance by
the name of Clapper. They taped about
the ipm. which was Waded( =din a 081 , -
11111 m commeweed timbeir with it, when
it aMdentilly
_dhredirii: contents in
Ckoodlirkes stoma* , death in six
boars. Pauli the rig villa Star:—
we. kkookey, l ie , was re-elected
President of the W vilie bank.. .
On 'Tuesday otimat w a dog, belonging
to Paler Diets, of R4dirmot township, was
seised With a itt su t*osettO be hythopho
bit,- ead bit New FO
dog slut a
a steer la the neighborhood, when be was
shot- • Marketi in Yeak:—Potatoes
(i) 2 'Eggs 80 ® Wets.; Butter
80 e ta. 40 et& ; Chickens per pairBo eta.
4101 $l. Beef per pound, 12 eta. ®
25 cts.; Lard per pound 14 cts. ® 20 cts.
Oa put/ Nobs.
—Popular hose company—society of
women.
—lnk has been called the black slave
that waits on thought.
—lt is very common for men when
cornered to have husky voices.
—lf you could look " spruce" in your
old age don't "pine" your youth.
—Money—tie " root of all evil," to
those who spend their life in rooting for it.
—lf " brevity Is the soul of wit," what
fancy thing a fitsbionble coat Is, is 'nt it 1'
—lf nature abhors vacuum, why does
she permit many empty headed people to
live ?
—A young lady's motto—" The lip
that touches liquor shall never tough
mine.
—The question is raised whether the
grief of a mulatto may be considered
yellow pine.
—The music of the planing mill is sup
posed to be made by the bands that run
the machinery.
—An Irishman being asked to define
hard drink said : it is sitting on a rock
and sipping water.
—How can it be proven that a horse
has six legs ? Because he has fore legs in
front and two behind.
—A Bore.—A man who persists in
talking about himself when you wish to
talk about yourself.
—Solomon advises the sluggard to go
to the ant ; but the shiftless in our day
generally go to the uncle.
—A Vermont editor writes obituary no
tices of delinquent subscribers, and in
this way brings them to life.
—Why is a horse that is constantly rid
den and never fed, in no danger of starv
ing ? Because he has always a bit.
—Why
i is i the happiest vowel ? Be
cause i is n the midst of bliss, e is in hell,
and all the others are in purgatory.
—" I feel It my duty to dilate," said
a tedious orator. "Better die late than
never I" shouted a voice in s & crowd.
—lf you and your sweetheart vote up
on thninarriar question, you for it and
she against it, dm't flatter yourself as to
its being a tie.
--Man's happiness is said to hang
upon a thread. This must be a thr
that is never at band to sew on the shirt
button that is always oft •
—"I am astonished, my dear young
lady, at your sentiments; you make me
start. II " Well I have been wanting you
to start for the last hour.'"
—A man who married wash
ionable wig , ear he is be pureMsed
an upright piano, for it's thb only upright
thing they have in the houee,
—When you pass a door after nine
cAdoale at night, sad ass a young man
and woman, audibear a . smack, you may
bet your bid dollar that thb young man
don't live tiers:
-80alabody says that *hs Ant thing
that tamed hi. - 1 to matrimony
was the neat and -
.10tumer in whkii
a erl 'Yee, says the
pyWor!il Affirit, 10 mai* to tune when
sommor in whiolt , the IMMO Will in
handled will not Said him so math sails.
(By otkr Special Axidot.l