XtradfordlgotUr Towanda, Thursday, July 8,1878. LOCAL AND GENERAL. `No repsirnext week. ,Catts.e why; the Fourth isrcomirtg. With divided the day into hours; And when? 'ERSOfis desiring-to Secure boxes in the , 4- rost otrio, should make ipplicatioit 'at • • once: • SIB, AlkEi E. Isiouxt of Wyr ranking, have issued invitations for &large - par.. ty this evening. , • , J. P.:V/6iELEir, ESq., - has just put down a substantial stone wt 4 k P . front or,:lita reAdence on State street, PROTHONOTARY PECK makes use of postal cards in sending statements of Judg ments through the mails. - s . , THOMAS Rm. has been engaged' by the Lecture:Committee of this placi; - to deliver his new lecture, " Caricaturing," peat winter. I • THE early .closing movethe4 has been nipped in the brid, by the refuse.' of some of our merchants to go into the arrangement; -WE I..ratts • thrit J. D.. I.rosT t ics-yE, 1 E544 hs„d the misfortune to have his pocket; bodk, containing about 170, stolen at Easton the other day. • . , • ' STERNE litCKT'r, .of= Franklindale, keeps a general einpply of dry, goods and gro ceries, and we commend Rim - to the patronage Of our readers in tht ticinitr. Mu. PENN CeAligi,. of. Warren 'Center, writes Ifie inde&radbit flepublican: "A cow of mine hada call which weighed, when ono day old, 116 .• Two thousands of tho new' postal cards were' received at the Towanda Post Oince last week, but they were soon gobbled np. An other supply is eapeated soon. • TIM Journal says "extreme hots water develops disease." ridesMacs' speak fron.Lexperienee, of did he forg,efitiat Towandt! is a ideal option foil; *hen he penned the - par- 1 agraph ? : - E. . T.' Pit uork has made some , ,I - I marked improvemi nta' in the appearance groundt in front of his elegant residence, by re-; znev:n3 some - of the trees and ;trimming up; others.. WE AltE ender obligations to the , editor of the Dai l y, tiazttfe duel Bulletin, Wil liamsport, for the Icourtes;y•of Oichange.•_ All of onr daily, coterqoraries arenot so selfish as the Pr(Fs. THE frame of JIENBY DODGE ' S - 11011Se, u Yorkroad, is nearly nit. The building is to be a model reisidence,land .presumr will be completed before the aut.:mined-cold :Iwiithid• : returns.. , S. B. Ciilsp, and wife, ,of; ;Great , lend, ,ailed for, f.tiropo last week. They ari ti.deg,ates from the' Grand Lodge, 1. 0. of G. 'l' i ., of this State to attend , a convention of the or Jcr t ) be held im,tondon this Month. ..- . . , 1' ' IiLEWELLYN . .ELqBItEE 1 of this place,, - was one of the p..ra.inates at the ecirameneententi of Cornell liitivu ' i;fiy . last week. We; understand that Mr. E. willmow enter the office of:ipvEn.l ... , , T.) ,S. - . El(IIIIEE eci a J aw studen t . '1 "Bess" GEIGER met with. quite a seriouF. accident one day last week, , reimiting in an injury to his hand, nlii!...h t lias preVented tim from at ! tending to business.. Careful attention and a figorous constitution, will _soon bririg him out all right. I I • , . - Mn.AINES IS actively engaged inl . Preparing , hia history of Towanda, and when' completed it Will be an invaluble wo:k. It is sold at the cltrcniely low price of five ecnbi.. Every eitiien mould aubt:Crfbe; for copies of the' 1122 POSTMSSTERS in the county are no tified that wo hake paid,the postage in advance on the, REPORTER, fOr the quarter ending Sep tember 1:0, and that they Nylll reef:lye a r;7eipt for tlie came from the Postmaster at Towanda, .4 ,re another insue reaches them. . - - .-- SoliEr.dDi rn4st be crOillfr to .cele - 0 0 ':: brak to-motrow. Mr. Fitch informs xis that has sold ne'arl , , l .one lamdred boxes of fire ' ~:eraelierS.. We alz;o learn from Mr. iF.that he ,retailed twentrseveln dollars worth pr,Peannts, 1a . ... S.lturday. IVlat? claa%. , s say local option i:; ranking the buminess of the town.• , • WiztLE , in Wilkes-Barre.. last 'week; ec paid a virit h, dlo Oztc:nsire - and , f;eantifill tivral gardcoz; or D. 11.tnr.r:ot, EFT ?tr. H. ha.; latge gr , ..-21-hoil-es, and is selling large. Inantitlys of ficial•rs . , His old .frientl3 e in this 7, -• ; ^11:;ty r. ill 1:i , 1 ;f-i4- . 1 to loam tliat he k doing • A sl\t;Lr..tY anroral disi)lay was Nis -0016 ab,;nt ton &doe?: Thiairdny nips. - It 'lTas ...inAie form of a"rat•row ribbon of light, thai stretcl•ed with arcing brilliancy from the i-itudir-cat to the north-iveEt pmliops o • -t ho tioaveir4, from horizon to horizon: it was a ioniarkable•pbenumtVott, and kttracted tho notice of many poople:J - 11VELLAts that a J.)f lb ..pa - triutie CrdiSr Suns. .abont 'to be -estab;inlieJ 1u Tc,-.1-anda. This rttrintic oiler is making 'great pr.-g Less,. hay \ ing 2 9 0 subordinate camps in this ‘Stat•-... Appi.cation merither6l4 may be made t‘ , H. A. at: biA balivry 'can Main Ern TH.F. county superintendents and tiii,elicrs,in the iiortliern tier of Penn ei)unties, hilve signed a Strong re6mn iriend4tl; foc "Sandt.ra - tlnion - Iteiders and 31at1it niifieis.7"rhei:e text bunks 2 it! 13Sell -it: '1110:t 41! 111'; ,ehoe!s of this . - titatk•, end ttniversal tatiqt.tetiiiii. They bound. MC= - pt2.5. - it:g the. fine' and sub .tat.tial of . S.ll. : - .r.