, -V- : -'-,- v v... -- s il -'-r. w -"- - -Vi. .T-rvsi.-. .. , C s. . ' s I--. . " i 1 : - . r - - .- J.; Volume XVII Ne. 9. LANCASTER, PA., FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 1880. Price Twe Cart. ;-w 'V fwptBiittilijgM $k DRY HOUSEKEEPING GOODS -AT NEW YORK STORK Bleached and Unbleached Muslins and Sheetings at Greatly Reduced Prices. LOOM DICE TABLE LINENS, DAMASK TABLE LINENS, TURKEY BED DAMASKS, ewels in 50 Different Styles and Quantities, Table Cevers, Napkins, Deylies. SPECIAL, BARGAIN, 10,000 YDS. NEW DAI GMOES AT 5 CTS. A YAM ELEGANT STYLES IN CALICOES, MOMIE CLOTHS AND PERCALES. NEW FALL GINGHAMS. " Popular Goods at Popular Prices," is our motto. Watt, Shand & Company, S AND 1 0 EAST KING STREET. WATCHES, ZAHM'S A new loom and elegant Lancaster Watches, Waltham in Celd and Hlvcr Ca-.es, at the LOWEST Jewelry, Diamonds, Bronzes, Arundel the best in tlie tveild. OUR MANUFACTURING DEPARTMENT is an complete us :niy in the larger cities. 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They arc well made, well trimmcd.juid the goods are a 1 sponged belere they aie made uy in garments. MEN'SL WOOL SUITS AS LOW AS $12.00. Our Piece Goods fill the flrst fleer te its utmost capacity, and is nicely arranged, se as lc give the purchaser the advantage et seeing the whole stock in a very short space et time. We are picpnrcd te make up te order at the shortest possible notice aud at the most lcaseunblc price. Our stock lias been bought for cash aud w ill be sold at a very small advance, Buy your Clet hlng at Centre Hull and save one profit. Call and examine our giant stock and save money. MYERS & RATHFON, Ne. 12 EAST KING STREET, MEDICAL, DR. BROWNING'S TOMC AND ALTERATIVE! The Ccjebratcd Prescription of W. CUAMPIOX BROWNING. M. D. FOR GENERAL DEBILITY AND PURIFI1NG THE BLOOD. 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DAY'S KIDNEY PADS are sold by all drug gists, or will be sent by mail (free or postage) en receipt of their price: Regular, $2; Special, for obstinate cases of long standing, $3; Chil dren's, $1.50. Address. Day Kidney Pad Company, TOLEDO, OHIO. PATlTIflN Owing te the many werthlchs Un.Ul lull. Kidney Pads new becking a sale en our reputation, wc deem it due the atHlcted te warn them. Ask fr DAY'S KIDNEY PAD, and take no ether. st-lydeed MW&F&w $500 REWARD! OVER A MILLION OK PROF. GUILMETTE'S French Kitey Pals Have already been sold in this country and in France ; every one of w hicli has given perfect satisfaction, ami has performed cures every time when used according te directions. We new say te the afflicted and doubting ones uiai we wii pay me auevc rcwaru iera single cased LAME BACK that the Pad falls te cure. 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King St., Lancaster, Pa. augU-CnideedM.W&F Prof. Guilmette's French Liver Pad. Will positively cure Fever and Ague, Dumb Ague, Ague Cake. Billiens Fever, Jaundice, Dyspepsia anil ail diseases of the Liver, Stomach and Bleed. Price $LS0 by mail. Send for Pret. Guilmette's Tieatles en the Kidneys and Liver, tree by mail. Address FBENCH PAD COMPANY, Teledo, Ohie. augll-CindcedM.W&F WALL EATERS, &c. PHARES W. FRY, Ne. 57 NORTH QUEEN ST. MAKES ALL KINDS OF VIBE SCREENS for windows, and put up in such a manner that you need net remove when you close the window. We have some decided bargains in WALL PAPER. In order te close will be sold very low. PLAIN WINDOW SHADES, in aU colors and widths. Extra Wide Goods for Large Curtains and Stere Shades. Fixtures of Best Makes. Hollands, Fringes, Tassels, Cords, Loeii3, Paper Curtains, &c. Extension Window Cornice In a variety of Patterns, will fit any window up te five tcet in width. Cornice Poles, Ebony, Walnut anil Ash. 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Prompt ana parUeuUr attention paid te al teratteaftaarepftiis ais-iya 3tancastrr intelligencer. FRIDAY EVENING, SEPT. 10, 1880. TheLoadefWoed. BY J. T. TROWBRIDGE. The boys were talking about the kind of business they would cheese, when Uncle Asa came into the room. As Uncle Asa had tried several kinds and been prosperous in all, they appealed te him for advice. " What I want te knew is this," said Charley, in the course of the discussion which followed : " Yeu have bought and sold a geed many things, but what has turned out te be the most profitable ?" Uncle Asa considered a moment, while a curious smile passed ever his pleasant rosy face. " Well, if I were te name any one thing which I have handled and which has in the long run proved most te my advantage well," said the old gentleman, nodding de cidedly, "I think I must say, a lead of weed." "A lead of weed ?" chorused the boys. They had expected he would say wool, or wheat, or hardware, or indigo ; and they couldn't believe his reply was quite seri ous. "But it is!" said Uncle Asa. "A lead of weed, and net a large lead, either ; net nearly se large as it looked. It was really the beginning of my fertune, and I ewe mere te it than te anything else I ever dealt in. " Tell you about it ? Of course I will, if you wish it ; and perhaps it will help te start you in the right direction. "It was when I was a boy about your age Charley ; l think 1 was sixteen that fall. The summer work was well ever ; the winter school had net yet begun ; and my cousin Medad and myself were consid ering hew we should earn a little pockct peckct pockct mener. My father heard us talking ever some boyish schemes, and said te us : "'I can give you an idea better than that. There's the oak that blew ever last spring, in the mill-pasture. leu may make out cut it up, and have all you can of it.' " ' But there's work iu that,' I said. '"Yes; se there is in almost any hon est job that peeple are willing te pay money for. liut it isn't se hard as you think,' said my father. One stroke at a time ; se many strokes an hour ; se many hours a day. That's the tray great things are accomplished. It isn't much-of a tree ; you'll wish there was mere of it before you get through.' " Well," Uncle Asa continued, ' we undertook the job, and we did wish there was mere of it. With a cress-cut saw and beetle and wedges, then with a hand saw aud an axe, we reduced that tree te stove weed in a very short time ; and had fun of it tee. Beys have only te be interested in their work, you knew, te hnd it pleas ant. " We saw profit in every stick, and had as much talk about what we would de with the money, as if we had been young millionaires discussing some great pro ject. "There's a geed deal in the way you pile weed, te sell it, Mcdad said. 'There's Jake Sleeker he says he can take nine cords of weed aud pile it ever ami make ten of it, easy as nothing.' "'Yes,' I replied ; 'and father says he can threw his hat through seme of Jake's woodpiles such great holes ! He don't really make ten cords of it that way.' "'Yes, he does,' Mcdad insisted. ' There, s holes through every weed-pile ; and you measure se much for a cord, whether they're big or little.' ' T?tlfr liel-'e ftnrn.nrnnl ' T cowl Wtt can't pile stove-weed se as te make se much mero of it.' " 'We'll see about that,' Medad replied, .auw vutv a vetu-itviu a auiu avu with a laugh. We're going te make the most et our job, ain't we? " 'Of course,' I said ; and waited with a geed deal of curiosity te see hew he would manage. " He showed me in a day or two. We had an old oue-herso wagon ; we harnessed Delly te it, and backed it up te our weed pile. Then we began te lay the sticks loose in the box, se as te make them take up as much room as possible "But they did net till up as fast as wc had expected, for we knew that if we piled them tee loosely, they would be apt te shake down together en the way te the village, and se cause our lead te shrink be fore we sold it. "Mcdad looked at the weed in the box when it was half filled, and then at that which remained en the ground, and shook his head dubiously. "Twen't de!' he said. ' Wc ought te make three leads of it ; but at this rate wc shan't make two. I've an idea !' " " What ?" I said, wondering hew he would get out of the difficulty. "'Threw it all out again; I'll show ye!' "I didn't like that notion; but he in sisted, and the weed was all unleaded but a few sticks in the bottom of the wagon box. With these he began te 'build 'the lead, as he aptly termed it. Instead of laying sticks together all one way, he placed a few en tha bottom far apart, and ethers crosswise en these, also very far apart, cob-house fashion. Then he called upon me for mere weed. "'But, Mede,' I objected, 'this will never de.' " 'Why won't it de?' he demanded. " It's cheating, isn't it?' " 'It's no mere cheating than the way Jake Meeker piles his weed is cheating. Other folks de se. Only we make our pile a little mere hollow than common.' " I couldn't deny the truth of the argu ment. And if ethers made the most of their money by their skill in piling it, why shouldn't wc de the same ? " Still I hesitated. A man might per haps be accused for cheating a little, but we were preparing te cheat a geed deal. " ' The principle is the same,' Mcdad said, when I mentioned my scruples (pretty fellows we were te talk of princi ples!) 'It ain't cheating exactly; but cveu if it is, it's what everybody docs, iu the way of business. Ye can't get along without it ; mabby ye can in the next world, but you can't in this. Who tells the bad points in anything he wants te sell? Don't everybody cover them up, and show the geed points, and make the most of 'cm? Of course they de. Hand me mere sticks !' " I wasn't convinced in my heart and conscience by this plausible speech. But my cousin, who was a year elder than I, had a great influence ever me, and I must confess that I was a little te anxious te get rich out of that weed. Se I merely said, ' Don't make the hollows tee large, Mede,' and handed him mere sticks. " ' I'll leek out for that,' he said. 'New you'll see.' "After about half the lead had been built hollow, he put our croekedest and meanest sticks ever it, and then covered the whole with nice weed closely packed filling the wagon, se that, te all appear ances, we had a fine compact lead. "My father came out and looked at it, as we drove out through the yard, and praised us for our industry. ' Well, well, boys,' said he, ' you've get a handsome lead of weed. I must sav. I'd buv it nf you, out I suppose it will be just as well for . . 0 -" you te take it te town and see what you can get for it.' "I think it will be better, said Mede, with a sly wink at me. 'Whatis6ucha lead as that worth?' '"Stove-weed like that white oak solid lead right through,' said my father, running his eye ever the wagon-box, ' ought te bring at least two dollars.' " 'We're going te get three for it,' said my cousin. '"That's tee much,' said my father. 'Never, boys, try te get mere for a thing than it is really worth.' "I knew that he always acted upon this principle himself ; and I felt seme pangs of conscience as I thought of the empty spaces hidden in that lead. "But I'll tell yen what you may de,' he said. 'Drive te Deacon Finch's store, and get him te leek at your lead. He knows better than I de what weed like that is worth in the village, and if he says three dollars is about right for it, why,' my father added, with a shrewd twinkle, ' get it if you can !' JHe knew very well that Deacon Finch wouldn't say any such thing. And as we dreve out into the read my cousin laugh ingly said that the deacon was the last man he would ask te examine that lead. " But as we were driving into the vil lage, we met Deacon Finch in his chaise ; and the temptation te play a sharp game en him was tee much for my cousin. Fer my own part, I was feeling pretty sick of the idea of selling the lead in its present shape te anybody; and I strongly object ed te the proposed attempt en se sagacious a man as tbe deacon . " It happens just right, don't you see?" Medad insisted. ' He won't tret out of his chaise ; and it's a splendid looking lead, as you leek down en it. If he buys it he will tell us te drive it te his house, and of course he won't go te seeus unload it.' " Se he drove up en the readside and stepped the deacon as he was passing. 'Mr. Finch,' he said, 'would you like te buy a lead of iirst-rate white oak weed ? Just loe': at it if you please.' "I've weed enough," said the deacon. ' But it's a nice looking lead you've get ; and I guess you won't have any trouble in disposing of it.' " ' What is such a lead as that worth delivered in town?' asked Mcdad. 'We cut it ourselves.' " ' Hew much is there?' " ' I don't knew ; haven't measured it : just call it a lead," said Mcdan. " ' Geed as that all the way through ?' quiried the deacon. About the same,' said Mcdad. '"Well, from a dollar-seventy-five te two-and-a quarter ; somewhere along there,' replied the deacon. " 'Will you give us two-and-a-quarter?' Mcdad was quick te inquire. " 'I told you I had weed enough. But I like te encourage boys ; I'll leek at your lead.' And te the terror of one of us, very sure, Deacon Finch slowly and delib erately get out of his chaise. "I don't suppose anything in our leeks caused him te suspect our honesty; for my cousin did the talking, and I must say I could net but envy the cool and candid manner with which he carried en his part in the interview. " ' Yeu are Mr. Prank's beys,ain't you?' said the deacon, going te the bind end of the wagon. '"lam Mr. Prank's son,' Mcdad replied promptly. ' This is my cousin.' "Geed weed ; well spiit ; pretty smart boys !" said the deacon, tumbling ever a few sticks en top. ' Guess I'll take it.' '"Shall we deliver it at your house?' Medad asked, almost tee easterly. " ' Wait a minute ! What's here ?' cried the deacon, thrusting down his hand and pulling up one of the hidden creeks. ' Is there much like that ?' and he began te dig down straight into ene of our choice hollows. " 'Sce here, if yen plcase !' said iledad alarmed, 'you needn't take the weed if you don't like it, but don't spoil our lead !' " 'Spoil your lead !' echoed the deacon, with indignant scorn, thrusting in his arm up te his shoulder. 'Yeu wouldn't be afraid of my spoiling an honest lead ; but what sort of a lead is this ? Its a perfect cheat, and you are a couple of ras cals !' " ' Yeu needn't take it if you deu't want it !' Mcdad repeated, mero angry than as hamed, I am sorry te say. ' We just put it in that way te make a handscme lead of it ; but we don't expect anybody te pay for it until they've seen it thrown efT.' " The deacon did net, evidently, put much faith in this falsehood ; for lie rep rimanded us again sharply as he climbed back into his chaise. " ' I guess he was about right, Mede,' I said, as we watched him drive away. ' We arc a couple of rascals !' " ' Pshaw ! who cares ? It's what every body does,' said SIcde, blustcringly ; ' what he does himself, every time he sells goods out of his Btere. It takes a regue te catch a regue. We'll leek out next time.' " He laughed scornfully when I begged him te drive home and reload the weed in honest fashion. But he was shy of mak ing the sale where the deacon would be likely te hear of it. "We'll go ever te the East Village,' he said. ' It'll be dusk when we get there; nobody will knew us ; and by that time nobody can leek into our lead.' "This plan was carried out in spite of my tee feeble objections. I drove the horse, while Medad went from deer te deer in the East Village, offering the weed 'deg cheap,' he said, because it was se near night and we wanted te sell out and go home.' "His idea of 'deg cheap ' was two dol lars, although he tried hard te tret three. At last we found a woman who confessed that she was out of weed, and must get some seen, but said she was tee peer te buy cord-weed, and then hire a man te cut it. " Medad convinced her that it would be much better for her te buy ours alreadv cut. " 'But I haven't get three dollars in the world!' she said. 'I am really peer, dreffle peer! If you'll threw off half your lead into my shed, I'll give you a del lar ana a nan. " ' Can't de that, nowhew,' said Mcdo ; 'for nobody then will want te buy the ether half. I should think net !' he said te me aside, with a comical grimace. " Will you trust me for the ether dol lar and a half?' she asked. 'I am Mrs. Ober Widow Ober; everybody knows me.' " 'That didn't suit my cousin's views, either "'Tell ye what!' he said. 'Give me twe-and-a-quartcr new, and you shall have the lead ; it's tee little, but we've get te get home.' " Twe dollars and twenty cents was all she had, and Mede consented te take that. The peer woman paid down the money with a sigh, and we threw the weed into her shed. "She offered te held a lantern fonts, but we were glad enough te dispense with that luxury. I don't knew when she dis covered what a small pile the weed made, which looked se large in our wagon ; cer tainly net until after we were gene, for she came te the deer as we backed around, and said 6he was very much obliged te us, and bid us geed-night. " ' inat s tne way te ae it aia my cousin, en the way home. "We'll sell the ether two leads just at dusk.' "I didn't say much. I was feeling sick. And when he gave me my share of the 'plunder,' as he called it. and plunder in deed it was, it was with a strange sense of loathing that I put it into my pocket. After all my anticipations of pleasure in receiving money fairly earned, that, was the miserable result. Instead of sweet satisfaction, nothing but romerso and dis gust! "I found that my cousin did net feel just right about the transaction, either. 'If we had shaved the sharn old deacon.' he said, ' 'tweuld have been a geed joke, though it was almost tee bard en the widder.' " He was, somehow, different from me. He hardened his heart against all com punctions, which I could net de. I didn't like te talk about our success, as my father called it, after we get home ; and went te bed that night miserable enough. " I did net see Medad again until the next afternoon, when he came ever te talk about taking another lead of weed te town. " ' If we take any mere, I said, ' it must be honestly leaded, or I'll have nothing te de with it. It was an awfully mean thine we uia yesterday. "He laughed foolishly, and said he guessed I was rightabeut it. 'I'm sick of the business, anyway,' he said. Let your father take the rest, and give us what he thinks it's worth.' "Se ended our weed speculation," Uncle Asa added. "I've quite forgotten what father gave us ; indeed, that was a matter of no consequence, compared with what I made out of tbe lead we sold the widow." "But I don't sce that you made much out of that !" said Charley. " Ah, but I did, though ! I made some thing better than the most brilliant fortune ever achieved. I'll tell you hew. "Iliad it in me, as you see, te be a lit tle or, perhaps you will say, a geed deal dishonest. And if I bad begun in a dif ferent way, I might have gene en cheating mere and mero all my life, until I should have quite forgotten there was such a thing as conscience. But luckily I overdid the tiling at the start. " I can never describe the shame and misery I felt in consequence of that trick we played oft en peer Sirs. Ober. The very sight of split weed sickened me long afterwards. I get no comfort out of my share of the money she paid us ; I hadn't the heart te spend it, aud it was a source of bitter recollections te me while I kept it. "Then you may be sure that it was anything but a relief te bear as I did the following spring that the peer woman was actually in want. I was at the town meeting when I accidentally heard the matter spoken of. ' Why can't she get along?' ene man asked another. 'She works hard. " ' Yes,' said the ether ; 'and she's sav ing,- in her way. But she don't knew hew te make a trade, and anybody can cheat her. Yeu would think it must be some body pretty mean that would take advan tage of a peer widow with six children ; but there are just such wretches in the world, I am sorry te say.' " I didn't care te hear any mere. I went straight home, took out of the till of my chest tbe dollar and ten cents I had kept there ail this time, folded the money in a letter, en which I wrote, ' Frem a friend,' and addressed it te Mrs. Ober, and mailed it that very night. " After that part of the lead was taken off my conscience. But I could find strength and peace of mind only in a reso lution which I had already formed, and which was fairly burned into my soul by what I had overheard at the town mcet- ing. " The resolution was, never in all my life te resort te dishonesty of any kind, no matter what the seeming necessity, or the temptation. "It is a resolution I have never broken. It hasn't kept me peer, either. I am net very rich, and yet I believe I am better off te-day than l should be if 1 had been dis honest. I have always enjoyed a reputa tion for fair-dealing ; and the result has been that my worldly prosperity has been solid te the core. "But, boys, that is nothing compared with satisfaction of always feeling that my gains were fairly earned, and that I had helped ethers while helping myself. A few thousand, mere or less, are et no import ance. But, O my boys, peace cr mind is all-important." -"And Mcdad Prank what ever became of him?" Charley inquired. "I can't say that Medad took the lessen se seriously te heart as I did. He has al ways had the reputation of being a little tricky. Life has been a scramble with him a scramble for riches. And it was thought at one time that he had a large fortune. But it burst like a bubble in 'seventy-three, and he has been scrambling in the old way ever since. "I was the only one who really made anything out of that lead of weed." EYCURSIONS. DAILY EXCURSIONS F30M PHILADELPHIA CAPE MAY. The famous mammoth three-deck Steamer n REPUBLIC w Leaves Race Street Whari at 7Ka. m., arriving at Cape May about 12 p. m. Returning. leaves Cape May at 3 o'clock p. m., givinj; ample time for bathlntr or a drive en the beach. A full Brass Band and Orchestra Music for tlancing. Parler Entertainments varied weekly. Lunch eons and Refreshments in abundance. Din ners and suppers provided. Oysters and Fisb served for supper a tew moments after taken from the water. Fare for the Bound Trip $1.00. SUNDAYS Will leave Race Street Wharf at 7a.m. P. S. A Bread Gauge Steam R. B. wUl con vey passengers te Capa Island In 8 minutes. Tickets for sale at CH AS. H. BARK'S, 2S-2Xuid&w CENTRE SQUARE. TINWARE, C- GAS FIXTURES, IN ENDLESS VARIETY, AT Shcrtzer,HumphreYilIe & Kieffer's 40 EAST KINO STBEET. ATTORNMYS-AT-LA W HENRY A. BILET Attorney and Connscller-at-Law 21 Park Rew. New Yerk. Collections made in all parts of the United States, and a general legal business transacted Refers by permission te Stelnman Hense MEVICAX. Mrs. Lydia E Pinkham, OF LYNN, MASS., Has Made Hie Disceyery ! Her Vegetable Cew-rHwd the Savier of Her Sex. Health, Hepe and Happiness stored by the use of Be LYDIA E. PINKHAM'S Vegetable Compound, The Positive Cure Fer All Female Complaints. This preparation, as its name signifies, con slsts et Vegetable Properties that are hamnless te the most delicate invalid. Upen one trial the merits of this compound will be recognized, as relief is immediate ; and when its use is con tinued, in nlncty-nine cases in a hundred, a permanent cure fe effected, as thensnnds will testify. On account of its proven merits, it is te-day recommended and prescribed by the best physicians In the country. It will cure entirely the worst form of falling of the nteres, Lcncerrbam, irregulnrund pain ful Menstruation, all Ovarian Trouble, In flammation and Ulceration, Floedings, all Dis placements anil the consequent spiual weak ness, and is especially adapted te the Change of Life. In fact it has proved te be the greatest and best remedy that has ever been discovered. It permeates every portion of the system, and gives new lite and vigor. It removes faintness, flatulency, destroys all crnvinz for stimulants. and relieves weakness of the stomach. It cures Bleating, lleadachcs. Nervous Pros tration, General Debility. Sleeplessness, De De firesslenand Indigestion. That reeling of bear ng down, causing pain, weight anil backache, is always permanently cured by its use. It will at all times and under :dl circumstances, net in harmony with the law that governs the female system. Fer Kidney cemptaints of either sex this Compound is unsurpassed. Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound IsJ prepared at 233 and 235 Western Avenue, Lynn, Mass. Price $1. Six bottles for fit. Sent by mail in the form et pills, aUe in tiie form of lezenges. en receipt et price, $1 per box, for cither. Mrs. PINKHAM freely unswers all let ters or Inquiry. Send ler pamphlet. Address as above. Mention this paper. Ne family should be without LYDIA E. PINKHAMS LIVER PILLS. They cure Con stitution. Biliousness anil Torpidity of the Liver. 23 cents per box. Johnsten, Holleway & Ce., CSeaeral Agents, Philadelphia. Fer sale by C. A. Lecher, 9 East King street, and Gee. W. Hull, 15 West King street. jy20-lydcedAw COAX. B. U. MARTIN, Wholesale and Retail Dealer in all kinds or LUMBER AND COAL. 49Yard: Ne. 420 North Water and Prince streets above Lemen. Lancaster. n3-lyd COAL! COAL! COAL! COAL Ceal of the Hest QeaUty pat up expressly for family use, and at the low est market prices. TRY A SAMPLE TON. YARD ISO SOUTH WATi:K ST. ne29-lyd PHILIP SCIIUM.SON & CO. "lOALt COAL! COAL! I! We have constantly en hand all the best grades or COAL that are In market, which we are selling as low as any yard In tlie city. Call and get our prices before buying else where. M. F. STEIGERWALT & SON, 827-lyd 2M NORTH WATER STREET. C0H0 & WILEY, 3BO NORTH WATER ST., Lancaster, Pa., Wholesale and Retail Dealers in LUMBER AND GOAL. Connection With tha Telephonic Exchange. Branch Offlce : Ne. 3 NORTH DUKE ST. feb2S-lyd COAL! COAL! Fer geed, clean Family and all ether kinds or ueaii go te RTJSSEL & SHULMYER'S. Quality and Weight guaranteed. Orders re spectfully solicited. OFFICE: 28 East King Street. YARD: G18 North Prince Street. auglt-taprlSIt COAL! COAL!! GORRECHT & CO., WIU deliver coal at the following prices : B. D. Broken Egg and Nut H.Z& Enterprise, Broken Egg and Nut 4.S& ,f Steve - 4.C0 Lykcn's Valley, Broken, Egg and Steve. : 4.tO " Vnt 4 "i All Grades Ne. 1 Pea 35 Weight guaranteed. P. W. GORRECHT, Agt., J. B. REILLEY, augU-tfd W. A. KELLER. JfCRNITURE. HBINITSH, FINj: FUKNITUKE A2CD Cabinet Manufacturer. All in want of Fine or Fancy Cabinet Werk would de well te call and examine specimens et our work. OFFICE FURNITURE A SPECIALTY. HEINITSH, lSKast King Street. CARPETS. T3ARGAINS FOR EVERYBODY. RARE CHANCE IN CARPETS, Positive sale te Seduce Stock et 6,000 Yams Brussels Carats, AT AND BELOW COST. Call and satisfy yourself. Alse, Ingrain, Has and ClialnCanctsinalme8tendles3 variety .at H. S. SHIRK'S CARPET HALL, 903 WEST KINO 8TBKET, LANCASTER, PA.' -..-h-
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