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PENNSYLVANIA CENTRAL R. R.
On and after Vonday Sept . 'MOSSO, trains
will leave the Penn's Railroad Depot, at Lan.
easter, as follows:
WIISTWARD.
Pfttaburg Ex.l2rff a.m.
Emlgnuit Tr. 2.18 "
Phila. "
Mail 11:15 "
Mail No. 2, via
C01umb1a.....11:15 "
Past Line p. m
Celnmbla Ae... 8:10 "
Hanish% Ao. OuSt "
Lano. Train.. 7:911 "
Cincin. "
Phils.linprese3B9 a. in
Fast Line Bds "
Lana. Train.. 905 "
Day Itzpresa.lo:sl
Columbia Ao.
(arrive) 2•16 p.
Erie Expreas....B:oo .‘
Pacific Ex.—ll:4B 44
tfarriebig Ao..5:111
Cinoin.
READING RAILROAD
SUMMER ARRANGEMENT,
MONDAY, APRIL 16, IMO
Great Trunk Linef rem the North and North
west for Philadelphia, New York, Read
ing, Pottsmlie, Tamaqua, Ashland, Sha
mokin, Lebanon, Allentowtt, Dptonißph-
rata, 'rigs, Lancaster, Coiinnbia,
Trains leave Harrisburg for New York as fol
lows: At 2.35, 6.20, 8.10 a. m., 111.11 noon 2.00 and
10.56 p. m.,oonneoting with similar trains on the
Pennsylvania Railroad, and arriving at New
York at 9.42 a. m.,1L45 a. n 1,3.5 0 16.45, 9.30 p.m.,
and 8.00 a. in. respectively. Sleeping Cars ae-
Wi orimp anyhange the 2.85,0.90 a. in. and 1035 p.m. trains
thout c.
Leave Harrisburg for Reading, Pottsville,
Tamaqua, Minersville, Ashland Shamokin
Pine Grove, Allentown and Philadelphia, at
8.10 a. in., 2.00 and 4.10 p. m., stopping at Leba
non and principal Way Stations; the 4.10 p. m.
train making connections for Philadelphia,
Pottsville and Columbia only. For Pottsville,
Schuylkill Haven and Auburn, via Schuylk il l
and Susquehanna Railroad, leave Harrisburg
at 8.30 p. m.
Returning: Leave New York at 9.00 a. in., 12.00
noon, 5.05 and 8.00 p. in., Philadelphia at 8.15 a.
in. and 3.30 p. m.; sleeping cars aeoompany the
9.00 a. m g 5.06 and 8.00 p. in. tniitis from New
York, without change.
Way Passenger Train leaves Philadelphia at
7.30 a. in., connecting with similar train on East
Penna. Railroad, returning from Reading at
6.35 p. in., stopping at all stations; leave Potts
villa at 7.10, 845 a. m., and 2.411 pin.; Shamokin
at 6.25 and 10.85 a.m. ; Ashland at 7..00 a.m., and 12.30
noon, Tamaqua at 8.30 a. in.; and 2.20 p. m., for
Philadelphia and New' York.
Leave Pottsville, via Schuylkill and Susque
hanna Railroad at 7.00 a. in. for Harrisburg, and
11.90 a. in. for Pine Grove and Tremont.
Reading Accommodation Train : Leaves
Reading at 7:30 p.
a. in., returning leaves Phila
delphia at 5:16
Pottstown Accommodation Train: Leaves
Pottstown at 8.25 a. in.; returning, leaves Phila
delhia at 4.30 p. m.
Columbia Railroad Trains leave Reading at
7.00 a. in. and 0.15 p. in. for Ephrata, Lilts, Lan
caster, Columbia, be.
Perkiomen Railroad Trains leave Perkiomen
Junction at 940 a. in. and 8.00 p. m.; returning,
leave Skimick at 8.15 a. in. and 1.00 p in., con
necting with similar trains on Reading Rail..
road.
p aal in &la as heave New .
York at 8.00 p.
'at - SAPS 24. and 8.15 p. in., the
8.10 a. m. train running only to Reading; Potts
ville 8.00 a, nl.l Harrisburg 6.20 a. In. 4.10 and
10.53 p. Reading at 11.55, mid Light, 1.61
and 7.15 a. in. For Harrisburg, at 12.55 midnight,
and 7.05 a. in. for New York; and at, 9.40 a. in. and
4.25 p. M. for Philadelphia.
Commutation, Mileage, Season, School and
Excursion Tickets, to and from all points, at
educed rates.
Baggage checked through; 100 pounds allowed
each Passenger.
G. A. NICOLLS,
General Superintendent.
READInco, PA., April ?a, OW. [April 110-ltd &w
READING AND COLUMBIA R. R.
ON AND AFTER
THURSDAY, AUGUST sth, 1869,
PASSENGER TRAINS WILL RUN ON THIS
ROAD, AS FOLLOWS:
LEAS. ASSNS.
Lancaster 8.15 a. m. Reading .....10:30 a. m.
41 p. m. " 630 p.m
Columbia .....8:10 a. in. " 10:80 a. m.
44 8.110 p.m. " 6:30 p. m.
RETURNING:
MUNI.
Reading 7:15 a. M. L0.110118ter.....9:28 a. m.
6115 p. m. *" 8:26 p.m.
46 7:15 a. m. Columbia .....9:86 a. m.
" 8:16 p. m. " .....8:30 p. m.
Trains leaving Lancaster and Columbia as
ahoy., make close connection at Reading with
Trains North and South; on Philadelphia and
Readinjg Railroad, and West on Lebanon Valley
Road. Train leaving_Laneaster closely Rea
Columbia a,t8:10 A. M. connects -
ing with Train for New York.
Tickets can be obtained at the Ofdoes of the
New Jersey Central Railroad, foot of Liberty
street, New York; and Philadelphia and Reading
Railroad, 18th and Callowhill streets, Phila..
Through tickets to New York and Philadel
phia sold at all the Principal Stations, and Bag
gage Checked Through.
y-Mileage Ticket Books for 500 or 1000 miles,
Season and - kbicursion Tickets, to and from all
points, at reduced rates.
Trains are run by Philadelphia and Reading
Railroad Time, which is 10 minutes faster than
Pennsylvania Railroad Time.
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Musical Instruments, &c.
T B. KEVINSKI,
ts •
DEALER IN
SHEET MUSIC, PIANOS, ORGANS,
MELODEONS,
And Musical ituttrarnents Generally..
Sole Agent for
STEINWAY & SONS'
WORLD RENOWNED PIANOS.
Also, Agent for
PRINCE & COM ORGANS rind MELODEONS.
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LAINAIITZ2,
Voior„Z!
JAMES BLACK,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
AND
MILITARY AND NAVAL CLAIM AGENT,
No. 56 East King-st., Lancaster, Pa.
Being duly licensed as a Claim Agent, and
having a large experience, prompt attention
will be given to the following classes of claims:
BOUNTY and PAY due discharged Soldiers and
Sailors.
BOUNTY (additionalhe Soldiers who enlisted
for not lest i put I o years, or were honora
bly disohar for wounds reeeiVol.
BOUNTY ( itionalyto Widows, Children, or
Parents of Soldiers who died from wounds re
ceived or disease contracted in said s•Mos.
PENSIONS for invalid Soldiers and Sailors, or
to their widows or children.
PENSIONS for Where and mothers, brothers or
sisters of deceased soldiers, upon whom they
were dependent.
PENSIONS and GRATUITIES for Soldiers or
their Widows from Pennsylvania, in the War
of 1812.
PAY due Teamsters, Artificers and Civil em
ployees of the Government.
PAY due for horses lost in the United Slates
service.
CHARGES.—Tees fair and moderate, and in
no case will charges be made until the money
is collected. deo 2114
sAIeWARD.
liCnisons Bxranse: Dr. Wm. N. Whiteside, the
enterprising Dentist, has purchased from me a
large stook of teeth and all the fixtures, the in
struments former)* belonging to me, and also
those used by my father, Dr. Parry, in his pre°.
tioe. in the purchase, the doctor has provided
himself with some of the most valuable and ex
pensive instruments need in dental practice,
and has beyond doubt one of the beet and lar
gest oollections of teeth and instruments in the
State. Persons visiting the commodious of
of Dr. Whiteside, cannot fail to be fully accom
modated. The Doctor loses no opportunity of
furnishing himself with every late scientific
improvement In his line of business.
H. B. PARRY.
UT M. WIIITESIDE,
VY •
DENTIST.
OFFICE AND RESIDENCE,
EAST KING STREET,
Next door to the Court House, over Fahues-
Teeth Extracted without pain by the uee of
(Nitrous Oxide) Gas.
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DAVID DAM.
B AIR & SHENK,
NORTHEAST ANGLE OF CENTRE SQUARE.,
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LANCASTER, PENNA.
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MECHANICS' BANK,
UNITLD STATES BONDS, STOCKS, GOLD,
SILVER, AND COUPONS.
Drafts given on all the principal Cities.
Collections made promptly.
Interest paid on Deposits
JOUR M. STURMAN, SAXIISL SLOKOII4
JOSEPH CLARKSON.
Bankers as
STEHMAN, CLAMKSON St. CO
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House Furnishing Goods.
Coal, Lumber, &e.
EILLER, BRENEMAN & CO.,
WHOLESALE AND RETAIL
MALIBU DI
COAL, OF THE BEST QUALITY.
Teen—COß. WATBR BT. AND PA. B. R.
H.H. XASTIN, EVXMIIIXT TEIOXILB, JOHN O. INAXOX.
5,000,000
FEET OF DRY LUMBER.
MARTIN, THOMAS & CO.,
COLUMBLAi sn LANCASTIR CO., PA.,
At LOCK HAVEN,MtTON COUNTY, PA,
LUMBER DEALERS•
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mblfarj • ao., bo.
_....0 right, let us strirs on to Aoki
firs ars is; to bind up the mations
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Claim Agency.
Dentistry.
LAWOASTIZ, June 25th, 1868.
took's Dry Goods Store,
L.L\CASTER, PENNA
Banking.
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Hats, Caps, Furs, &c.
SMITH & AMER,
PRACTICAL HATTERS,
EAST KING ST., LANCASTER, PA.,
ALL LINDA OP
HATS AND CAPS.
NY- AU orders promptly attended to.
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SHULTZ & BROTHER,
NO. 20 N DRTH QUEEN' STREET
Lstest style Pall and Whiter HATS sad OAPS
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LADIES' FA.ROY FURS,
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invite the attention of all persons in wain of
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Mitts and Hoods.
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IS AT THE
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ALL IN WANT OF
CARDS,
SILL-HL&DS,
LBTTEE-HEADS,
BLANK CHECKS,
PAMPHLETS,
NOTES, &C.
No. 25
Manufacturers and Dealers in
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No**
EPITIPES
The following opitapha have been handed
to us for publication:
*
"Underneath thiii e doth lie
"As much build , could die;
" Which in life d *arbor give
" To more virtue n doth live."
Epitaph on izabeth L. H., . 1.; '
By BEN J SOO. • ~. ' '' 4 ' 1
EPITAPH ON 81 E 4Sar' SERIUSHM '
. „.
Here lies an hon tyer, •
That is strange.
ALBERT DEESE% EPITAPH ON HIMSELF
Emigrayit.
DR. FRANKLIN'S RE b tAPH ON HISISE4 ,
The of
Benjamin nklin,
Like the cover of an 14 took;
Its contents torn
And stripped of its l terisg and gilding,
Lies here food for storms:
Yet the work itself Akin not be lost,
For it will (as he bell d) appear once more,
In a new and more beautiful edition,
Corrected and amended,
by
The Author.
,orr DTA...
Beneath this turf a man doth lie,
Who dyed to live, and lived to die.
ON A MUSICIAN.
Time and StPpheni,
Are now even;
Once Stephen beattime,
Now time beat SMphen.
ON A BBLIAKB-MAKEE
Here lies John Mellows,
The prince of good fellows,
, Clerk of all hallows,
And maker of bellows;
He bellows did mend till the day of his death,
But he who made bellows could never make
breath.
ON A $L BOX.
Here Ilea one bow within another,
The one of wood was very good.
We cannot say so, much for 'tother
OX A HR. PATTZBSON.
Provost Peter Pattersop ems provost of Dundtt
Provost Peter Patters6n, here Hoe he.
Hallelujah! HaUelojee!
OF A BACHELOR ON HIMSELF.
At tbree.soore winter's end I died,
_A cheerless being lone and sad,
• Tbs nuptial knot I. never tied,
' And wished my_ father never had.
IN TEE CX/MCM DIAZ J0n3r...19291""•
Honest John
Is dead and gone.
ON MRS. STOKES.
Here lies the wife of Simon Stokes,
Who lived and died like other folks;
Underneath the marble herse,
Lies the enhied of all verse—
Sidney's sister,,Pembroke's mother;
Death, ere thou heat slain another,
hi. .v i
Learnid, and and good as she,
Time shall t re.Ais dart at thee.
.."," BEN. JONSON.
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PHILLIPS' FIRST BABY.
Mrs. Phillips as on the very pinnacle
of felicity. bh as the mother of a biiy
which weighed en pounds.
He, Phillips, • •
.fair to lose his mind
entirely. He need and sang, and fired
guns from th top of his corn house,
whistled Yank Doodle while eating his
breakfast, and ung the heeds of all the
fowls on the p ,to make , a chiekgm pie
for the celebra . .
This worth - couple had been married
n years, this wagltely first child.
People had tied ii4f-tWon ticconnt'of
their luck; e Wholtere 'overrun with
children, and, • sec lives were made mis
erable by the . nail spankings they
found it ne ry to 'millet upon their
wretched litt live plants.
Now, Mrs.' "...Blips said, she guessed
they'd laug t the other side. There
had never • .so 'large a baby born in
Smithfield T.re. Mrs. Jones' only
weighed ni nds and had a pug nose.
Mrs. Sawy waa 3reellaired and bad a
mole on its ht foot—a sure sign thatlit.
would come • a bad • end—and it only
weighed pounds fourteen `ounces!
She g lks had better look /14 horee,• .
before they , bed.
Baby pr. le be a Tartar. He lied' ac
temper like. indmill, and teemed deter=:
mined to • •• • p his feet and lungs to the
utmost w ' he had leisure,for hescieam
ed and kic , twenty•three out of twenty
four hours: . • '
But his 4her declared he was an an
gel. We VOW come to imagine an angel
with p 1- r ed cheeks, beefs elevated in
the air, a being bounced about in a pil
low cradle tune of "High diddle deer).
• t then imagination is not by any
' . so aid as it might hs. •
rzitas hour in which he was born he
lime tootat of the housholsP, every
bow at his nod. ,
door creaked; it was taken
off the *44 and the servant was in the
daft all Ma i _ because she might dis
turb' the baby. For the same reason the
collimmese was removed into the wood
shed. The dishes mast be washed out of
doors; the clatter of the dishes made the
baby sosSaM so. The washing was done
In the *IS; all the clocks in the house
were s
ti e
* ped; the dogs was muzzled, and
the cat choked—all from the fear of
dhsturb ' the baby.
Mr. Wipe , paid a blacksmith, who
was locitiod illaildli "fli quarter of a mile, one
hutuired 'dollars rto move his shop, and
Biddy was Moved to the cockloft of the
Wood d oh account of snoring. The
chill ' dis eases were legion. It was a
won li *Rid- draw its breath With so
ma, **rib* ailments elinghtg tons Mrs.
battle, and
',Ale* may
laatsw peace
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Phillips was always on the watch for some
new demonstration.
"CharWl!" cried she, waking her hus
band from slumber one cold winter night,
"it seems to me baby don't breathe just
right."
Mr. Phillips sprang up and listened ;
"Good gracious! he's got the snuffles,
ain't he?"
"Oh, dear! what shall we do if the
baby is going to be sick?"
Mr. Phillips got a light, and the anxious
parents brought it to bear on the face of
their child.
“Oh, heavens!” cried the mother, " his
face is actually purple! beta going to have
the scarlet fever. See that red *pet on his
elbow."
It may be where he's laid MI it," re
ied Mr. Phillips.
L Laid on it, eh! you unfeeliat man,
you' unnatural father! And there,'` ts oink
ing its thumb; I've known from the first
it wouldn't live, it sucked its thumb so
much."
"Seems to me I have heard my mother
say that it was a sign of a healthy child
to suck its thumb, but I won't be certain.
Any way, it's a good sign or a bad one—
I forget which."
"Run, Charles, run for the doctor! It's
going 'to die—l know it tat , Oh; don't stop
to dress—don't! It may die while you're
waiting. Call Granny Bates, and tell her
to bring some catnip and saffron and pep
permint—tell her to bring all the herbs
she's got! and do, hurry, Charles. do !
Mercy on us! it's sucking both thumbs
Run! runt"
Mr. Phillips caught up the first article
of clothing he could lay his hands on,
which proved to be his wife's embroidered
petticoat; but he was in too much haste
and altogether too much excited to notice
dress particularly. lie flung the garment
over his head and tied it around his waist,
slipped on his shoes and plunged into the
keen air. The doctor was asleep, and did
not care about turning out; but on being
told it was a case of life or death, he yield
ed at once.
Mr. Phillips left him dressing, and sped
to the residence of Granny Bates. The
old lady was who, but very superstitious,
and believed in warnings and apparitions,
Phillips gaze a thundering rap at the door,
and directly a night-capped head appeared
at the upper window.
" What do you want at this time of
night, and who be ye?" said a cracked
Phillips stepped out, and stood plainly
revealed by the light of a dim moon.
" Good gracious, massy!" cried the old
woman, " Ws got a scalloped petticoat on.
Land! I didn't think they wasted their
time on such vanities as they are!"
" It's a dying!" exclaimed Phillips,
".cowls down quick."
" Not II ain't so green as to trust my
old body to a supernatural ghost!" and
dawn went the window with a bang.
Phillips pounded at the door until he was
tired, and then made tracks for home.
Dr. Gray had just arrived, and Mrs.
Phillips was preparing to go into hysterics
as soon as she heard his opinion. Baby
was much worse; it not only sucked both
of its thumbs but wiggled its toes. It
could not continue long. The doctor,
with a grave face, entered the sick room.
Biddy rubbed her mistress with camphor.
Mr. Phillips stood by, wiping his eyes
with the drapery of the scant attire.
- "bh, doctor! doctor! will it die? Only
save it, doctor and you may take all I
have!" cried trs. Phillips, wringing her
hands. " get down on my knees to
you and thank you for ever."
" Keep your sitting, marm; keep your
sitting," said the doctor, taking a large
pinch of snuff.
"Don't keep me in suspense! Only see
its precious little arm! What is it? For
the love of heaven tell me—let me know
the worst!"
" Well, marm, if I speak out, you
promise not to blame me?" asked the uoc
tok,.caveiy.
44 nu . 'f
16
Marm,” saik he, with his long face
still more fearfully elongated, "it is my
Apinbin...as a nsau• and a physician, that
t i lutoldid . bas been bitten by four bed-bugs,
tor,p been bitten in four places by
f! that description.”
iq 2 ray," cried the father, "do you
ulna's tbinsult us?"
Ity. no means, sir; I repeat
you don't!" yelled Mrs. P. "
enough to insinuate that I have bed-bugs,
to say nothing of the libel on that little
angel:cherub. Get out of this house this
instant, you mean, cheating, insulting
o:d vagabdno ll and seizing the butter
ladle from the table, where Biddy had
laid it full of hot pepper tea, she dung it
at him. The doctor knew enough about
women to realize that in iligl4l safety,
and with a hasty bow he b off, the
step and started for his gig. he ground
was inclined and quite icy. His heels flew
up, his bead went down, and his whole
body spun down the hill ike a steel-shod
cutter. Mrs. Phillips, nothing daunted,
rushed a ft er him, and shared the same
fate. The two brought up together at the
foot of the hill in a water trough; but no
words of sympathy were exchanged. The
doctor got up as quick as he could and
galloped home, and Mrs. P. followed his
example.
The baby lived and throve. As it grew
oiler, its dictatorship became more and
more absolute. Phillips was down on all
fours for the greater part of his time, that
the baby might ride on his back; and
Mrs. Phillips went without crinoline, and
left her arms bare the coldest weather,
because the steel spring and her jlress
sleeve hurt the baby.
Baby made a complete wreck of all the
creeks!, in the house—pounded it with a
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1 month— , 176 9 001 390
2 mouths.. 275 400 600 10 00
3 months..l 4 001 6 M 11033 15 ,
6 months.. 700 11 OM 1 50 25 t
1 year 119 00; 20 00: $0 se 00
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WALL KINDS or JOB PRINTING executed
N • sad
No. 44.
hammer; he kicked his heels through the
looking-glasses, and' tore the Inwards out
of pa's izold watch, unmolested. It
pleased the deary weary wary baby, his
mother said—the little mlty sugar-plummy
baby.
One day, when the wonderful bab:y was
about a year old, the village inhabitants
were startled• at the disheveled appari
tion of Mrs. Phillips, wearing a wild err
pression of countenance, hurrying at it
frantic rate to the joiner's shop, where her
husband worked; and instantly re-ap
peared, followed by Phillips at a dog-trot.
Old 'Squire Smith saw them, and being
a man who lived in constant d read of fire,
he thought it must be the residence of
Mr. Phillips was in flames. The old gen
tleman was perfectly insane on the sub
ject of conflagration, and at the top of his
lungs raised the cry:
"Fire! fire! fire ,
"Where?" cried a score of voices.
"Cha•. Phillips' , house" slid the Viquire.
The fire company gathered, got' out the
engine, and ran with speed to the fatal
house. But to . their supreme astonish
ment, they did not so much as smell a
snuff of smoke in the region.
The head fireman, who was something
of a wag, knocked at the door. Mrs.
Phillips apposed, absolutely radiant.
" Is this the house, allow me to inquire,
marm, that we expected to squirt on?"
said the fireman.
" I do not understand you," said Mrs.
P.; "but the baby has walked two steps
—two steps on his own feet?"
. "Sold, by Jupiter!" cried the fireman;
and now, boys, here's three times three to
the baby that walked two steps! Hearty,
my men!"
And they gave the cheers—drank a
barrel of cider which Mr. Phillips rolled
out, and then returned home.
A SHORT EPISTLE FROM NASBY.
Rev. Petroleum V. Naeby, writes a let
ter from Pepper's Tavern, Holmes county,
Ohio, in which he threatens to make a cal l
upon Asa Packer, as he (Petroleum) Is
just now short of funds. The situation is
thus explained :
I lied parehelly prepared an appal to the
Demdcracy uv Maine, Ohio and Pennsylva
ny, but jest ez I wuz a finishin uv it up, that
infamous wretch, Pepper, came in, with his
bill for board. I can't liquidate it, and lam
preparin to be ejected from the premises.
Ez I know from experience what method
will be adopted to remove me from the
house, I hey stuffed the sheets from elfx bed
in the seat nv my pantaloons. Thus genius
mitigated evils which it cannot altogether
avoid. The sheets will ease the kick, and
kin be sold - for mud to pay ralerode fare.
Let Pepper come; , j am prepared.
I steel go to Mock Chunk, Pennsylvania.
Asa Packer, our glorious standard-bearer,
her, twelve millions uv dollars, and I want
to get in afore it is all gone. Ez the leaders
uv the Philadelphia Dimocracy hey hed full
swing at him for over a toonth, I must make
haste. In the general bleedin the old man
hex subjected hisself to it would be an infa
mous shame if I don't get a few drops. 0,
that Pendleton was old, and rich, anxious to
be Governor. 0, how I envy them Penn
sylvania Democrats who hey Packer in
hand It's better for em than a gold mine.
But—
I
hear Pepperlz steps on the stairs. Moo.
TILE dissentions in the Damocmtic
party of Maryland, although they have
not yet come to an open rupture, are so
great as to.alarm the old party leaders,
and to threaten the loss of the State in the
ensuing election.
TILE whole Republican ticket is elected
in Santa Fe county, New Mexico, by an
average majority of two hundred. The
Republican Delegate is elected to Congress
froth the Territory.
DEMOCRATIC papers are wondering
whether Grant's horses are fed at the
public expense. They used to be shod—
and rather r ,ugh-shod—at the expense of
the Southern Confedracy.
IF Packer ie elected the result will beas
of old, an increase of debt and taxes. If
Geary is elected the present policy of re
ducing taxes and paying off the debt will
be continued, until the debt is completely
wiped out.
SENATOR SHERMAN says t h at a Re
palloan Congress passed a homestead
law, the lass Democratic President, nu
chaaan, vetoed it, and it is only. when we
had a R . epublican President and Congress
that such a law was passed and went into
operation. Now the( Democrats meet in
convention and solely declare that they
are in favor of free homesteads.
Tux Republicans of Juniata county
have resolved that the appointment of W.
W. Davis as Assistant Assessor for that
county is offensive to the Republican
party, as he openly proclaimed himself a
Johnson man, was a member of the John
son State Committee, a Johnson post
master, editor .of a Joluulon paper, and
only announced himself in favor of Grant
a short time before the campaign closed.
AT the breaking out of the rebellion,
when the three months' volunteers were
raised, Asa Packer gave fifty dollars
towards their equipment. This generous
donation, from the possessor of twenty
millions, it seems, is expected to offset
four
.year's service on the battle-field,
which was John W. Geary's contributioa
to his country iu her hour of need.
WHILE Governor Geary was refusing
to be the instrument of the slave drivers
and border mill ins, in Kansas, and was
nobly standing up there for freedom, Mr.
Pucker was in Congress, humbly and
servilely following the load of Toombs,
Wigton and other fire-eaters in their plans
to hand over our free territory to the
slavery interests.
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