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Ali resolutions of ttsoclationsi communications of limited or individual Interest, and no , lces or marriages or detans,e &cording eve ilnealirti ed nee CLAMS per line, but simple neticesof Mar riages and de 4tbe grill be pa blished withouteharge,. , tie BeroaTss ItArtnfellsrger circulation than any other paper in the county, mates it the best advertising medium in Northern Pennsylvania. , f og eitcsu SG of every_kind. in plain and fancy colon'', done with neatness and dispatch. g„ talks, Btanks. Cards, Pamphlets, Billheads, st v. ., meats, at., orefery esrlety raid style. printed s t the shortest notice. The RitTOZTZW. see is : meet o f sith power presses, a goodassort. ment of new type, and everything in the pristine, line can be Isecuted in the moat artistic manner s 11 at the lowest rates. T ERRS INVARIABLY C Shit, ” Vltalltss ilarbs. D AVIES, & HALL, Arrow'sTe•as-Law. SOUTH SIDE OF WARD HOUSE. - Dee 23-73 SAM W. BUCK, lITTORYRr-ArliAW. TO WA FDA; psyrA V0T.13'79 Oil:lce—At Treasurers OSlce s In Court House. ABEVERLY SMITH & CO., . BOOKBISDERS,I And dealers In Fret Saws and Arniwirs• SupptUt s Send for priee-Ilsts. ItreoßTEtt ti Building. Bqz 1512, Towanda, Pa f l L. HOLLISTER, D. D. 8., DE.VTIST ruccessor to Dr. E. 11. Angle). OFFlCE—Second' floor of Dr. Pratt's °Mee. Towanda, Pa., January 6, 1661 NIADILL & KINNEY, ATTOBNICVI6-AT - LAW. ' Orrice—Roams formerly occupied by Y. M. C. ♦. Remllng Room. 11. J. MADILL. 3.18,60 JOHN W: CODDING, KrToRNEy-AT-LAW..„-TowANDA, 'mice over Ktrby's Drug Store TaOMAS E. MYER A TTOtt N EY-AT-LAW, WYALU3ING, PIENN,`A rarticillsr attention paid to business in 'the Or phans'-Court and to the settlement of estates. eeptember 25, 1:9. , PECK. & OVERTON i - ATTOEINETS-AT 147/1, - Td WAND I.lk. I)•A.OVERTO.R, RENJ. M. PECK ODNEY A. M_FRetle, I t, ATTORNEY AT-LAW, ' TOWANDA, PA., Solicitor of l'ateuts. particular attention paid to business in the Orphans Couit and to the settle meta of estates. otce in Montanyes Block May 1,19. & S-A.NpERS9N, ATTORNEY -AT-LAW, TOWANDA, I'A: F.. lIVER.TON. JR. J 0 1 .0: F. SA ND S 11:JFS&VP,. Y • _ATTORNEY AND COCNKELLOR-AT-LAN, MONTROSE, PA.:— , -Judge .Tearitip having resumed the practiceof the aw In Northern Pennsylvania, - will attend to any legal business Intrusted to him In Bradford county. Permits wishing to consult him. can call on U. btreetei•, Esq., Towanda, Pa., when au appolnlhaent can be mal e , lIENRY STREETER:I,:: • A TTORN ICY AND -COCNSELLOS-AT-LAR, tOWANDA, PA. ' • Feb 274'79 E. L. lIILLIS, ATTOTINEt-•T-LAW TOWANDA, PA. }IMAM E. BULL, - SURVEYOR. ~ ENGINEERING, M:RVEYING AND DRAFTING. vacs with G. F. Maven, over Patch & Tracy, Main street, Towanda, l'a. ELSBREE SON, _ ATTOILN 6ti ti-AT - LAW, TOWANUA, PA. :;:c• Ecsußiaz • • 1 011 N W MIX -, - AT , IOII3EY-AT-LAW AND U.S. COMMISSION/a, TOWANDA, PA; • oliceo—Nonh Side Public Square. Jan .1,1975 [ ANDREW WILT; Er • A TTORN SY-AT-L•*. °lce—Means' Muck, M alti•st„ Over J. L. Kent's core, rowan . May be consulted In German. (Atm 12, '76.3 . _ W e J. fOLING, .1, A.TTURS EY•AT•L AR, TOW.CSDA, PA w tte . i—itercur Mock, Park street, up stairs. D'c'i.ansa.ndlsi.u.rlglreo°nOoDZUjiltt reNstiPerihisoin-- Maui Oltreet. first door north of M. E. Church. Aprli 1, lefil. UT B. KELLY, DENTIST.—Oifice 1 •a•orer M. F.. Rosenfield's, Towanda, Ps. Teeth Inserted on Gold. Sliver, Rubber, and Al- . mai= ba4e. Teeth extracted without ;.sin. ih • r I D. PAYNE, M. D., • PHYSICIAN AND NUIHILON. M:'•, over Moutanyes• Store. Office hours from 10 to 12 A.m.. and fmni 2 to 4 P. st. Special attention given to DISEASEV3 5 DISEASES and • THE EYE Tll E- EAR - -- r L. LAMB, 4Trap•Er-.47-LAW, 1 North Frautlln-st., Wllies-Barre, Pa attetitiop given to collections In Luzerne and I.aekswanna a unciee. Iterertne.s: lion. V. 11. Morrow ; First National BAtilt:TOrapda. 111 IS. E. J. PERRIGO, " TE.Acti AR' Or PIANO AND ORGAN. • L.k,ns given fit Thorough Baia and Harmony 1.1 !:1:311 , ,T1 of th. voice a!‘peefalty. Located at J. State Street. Reference: Holmes P..,cage. Towanda, Pa., March 4. lean. Cl. W. RYAN, ...ft • • COUNTY SCP6AINTIMD6 Mee day last Saturday of each mouth, over Turner & Gordon's Drug Store, Towanda, Pa. Towanda, June 20, tale. CI S. RUSSELL'S GENEUAL - IN SIT WA IC CE AGENCY' 1111V2e1-70tf. TOWANDA,PA. EDWARD WILLIAMS,. PRACTICAL PLUMBER & GAS FITTER P.set of buNlnes9,:a few doors north of Post-Oak° Plumbing, Gas Fitting. Repairing PtimPii of all k1r,1%. and all kinds of blearing promptly attended ,', a All wanting work in his line sbnuld give him Dee:4. 1179. FIRST NATIONAL BANK , TOWANDA, PA. APITAL PAID IN SUP.PLUS Thin Bank offers unusual facilities for the trans setion of a generai banking business. • • N. N. BETTS, Cashier • 10% POWELL, President. HENRY HOUSE, aNER MAI'S & WASITINoTON STREETS TOWAXD•, PA !!,Al a at all hours. Terms to stilt the times. Large stable attached. HENRI% Paorauvroß Juiv a, • 7o_t f. 6(41, • hitANN COLLEGIAA N- Li • ,I:I•TITUTE,-1,1104T WINTER TERN wsllcom• 51,.NUA.V. OCT. 310891. EzponaPs for Itilthrn awl furbished room. from on to I. - , P r y,ar. Ynr cat4logue or further partlrro. ..1•• K. the Vrirtelpsl, B. QUINIAif, A V City. 1 VOLUME XLII. - TOWANDA, BRADFORD COUNTY, PA., TRURSDA? MORICING, I DECEMBER 15, 1881.. I A. D. DYE & CO.. TORAWDA, PA. Pall & Water, 1881, ATTENTION IS INVITED to our first-class i Heating Stoves. March 1, Mt. TVey are too well known to require any oommendation— New Uecla, 0. D. EI'SNLY, We algo have a line of CHEAP BA S E BURNERS, the, best of their class in the market, and well adapted for supplying a demaiid for an efficient but inexpensive beating stove WOOD HEATING STOVES in great variety READ THIS: 300 Happy Thought Thought Ranges A. P. DYE & CO. Wood Cook Stoves, CARRIAGEMAKERS' AND. =BLACKSMITHS' UPPLIES, r n0v11,75, EAR 'D WARE. MAIN STREET, TOWANDA. Towanda., October 1681, L.Etsuusz SELLING OUT EARD'OCTARE, STOVES, WAGONMAKERS' SUPP ES. 1M- The Entire Stock of the late firm of Mclntyre Brothers must be closed out at •173.000 73,000 Cost within Thirty Days, by the purcha ser. Goods- recently bought at Sheriff's sale;.. GOODRICH & HITCHCOCK. Publishers. Ace, Abvertiseincuts. WestnthistOr, Crown -Jewell. Sold in Towanda and vicinity by A LARGE STOCK OF ' And a general stock of AT COST! IRON NAILS--NAILS, TIN WARE,. ---AND-_ BLACKSMITHS' JAS. S. KITHN. It lvds: Jnly lit 11381-m1 We're up today on fortune's bill And free from every sorrow. But In the wherlit rood or 11l _All may be chshirtitomsorrow. We're up and down as time flies nir ease, now hardest labor— No millionaire can safely frown , Upon hM lowly neighbor. SEE Niches take %togs—the man of Wealth May meet with sudden !onset, While he whose onlyatore Is health May ride behind his horses; Then do not slight the toiling poor, v . •For labor ne'er disgraces,. - • And though 3ourlfortune seems secure, dome-day yOU may change places. 41310 d help us all—we're poor at best-` • • Dependent on each other— Though, crowned with emit or sore distresed, Weak man lastly mates brother. Then when on fortune's top we stand, NoIII our state attending, - Let us el tend a be ping hand ro those about descendleg. 'A PHYSICIAN'S STORY. . . km : old now ; so old and feeble . that several years I have been unab'c to continue the practice of my professien; . Yet as a matter of habit, us a kind of second nature, a clAy, 'rat* passes without finding me Ut my . office, as I still . call tha little duSty den away.out of hearing of the noiseand crash of the street. Yesterday, as I was sitting there alone, a friend - canie in and gave me a long, garrulous account of a skele ton that had been but-an hour before disinterredin the heart of tie city by some workmen digging for the toundatiort .of a building. It was the skeleton 'of a woman, lie said. I rooked at him r shiirply. at.d satisfied myselt that lie ttild. this merely as a piece of intelligefice Heaven helped meto keep comptised,.l think. This was my dead secret I 'And some physicians - - gaie it as their opinion ' that this' skeleton had hdri - under the ground quite fifty, years,' the man continued. ' I bit my lips; they were white enough before. Cunning fellows; these brother physicians of • mine. It was exactly 'fifty years I -• 'But nobody could recognize the bones, of. course.' • I bre4hed more freely. "There was.one remarkable thing, hoWever, about this singular exhu mation. On the fourth • hony finger of the left hand a brilliant diamond ring was discovered, which sparkled and Scintillated as . clearly as though, it had not been for half a century, covered by the mold.' •- • • - The speaker. did'Uot notice at that point how 'nervously I closed my left hand. I did not care to have him see; the counterpart of the ornament he described at that moment. ,•••‘* * * * Somewhat more than fifty years ago; and in this very room, wher e . write, I. concluded , _ the long, weary probation of my student . life, :and entered singly_ upon the practice of . my profession. •••• 2111 y success s immediate • and gratifying. Those who, had . been long and firmly established in the city were astonished to find them- SelveS supplanted In a day, as it' were, by one whom they had hitherto affected to despise.. . • • To he brief; I was successful at most _Beyond precedent; business and money came at my command, - and the city ..res'ounded with prais, of my skill, and the wonderful cures I had performed - I was called = from: my.bed at mid night upon one m cash:in, an I direct ed in the Most urgent manner to re pair .at once .to the.. residence. of Judge C—. The house • indicattd 'was the home of one of the wealth; lest and proudest families of and I obeyed the summons as soon as possible. • • It was. with difficulty thatil ascer tamed, amid the sobs and, tears which greeted •nry arrival, that Helena the only and idolized daughter of, the family, and, the Sc.* knowledged belle and beauty of the city, had been suddenly attacked 'with a violent malady. It needed but- ; a glance at the sufferer to assure me of this. Al- though perfectly well an hour before,: she was ,now far nearer death. than I ife. . J. [ , The disease which had Seized her was one of .the m u st malignant and quickly fatal with which , . my experi ence hal yet male me conversant. • She lay- perfectly - Motionless, her lips as rigid as those of death. and the closest scrutiny could detect - no r‘piration ; while upon each cheek burned a single' fiery spot, the sure mark of the destroyer. ,`Can you save her?' was the father's agoniied question. The chancea are ninety-nine in a hundred against, her living an hour,' was the reply.'Nevertheless, I will leave nothing undone.' 111 y end was accomplish ed. For thirty-six : consecutive hours I sat by ha bedside, wearily - combating' the fatal disease which had assailed her.; vt hen I at last pronounced her out of - danger, I felt that I hid al most wrought a miracle. This was another triumph ,added to my list, and the report 'of my fame was in every mouth. But this was not the only conse quent° of the occurrent e. The discovery that my lovely and amiable 'patient regarded roe with a warmth of emotion and gratitude which only' her own warm 'hart could conceive. filled me with feel. itig of; the liveliest pleasure., She regarded 'Me as iher benefactor, her savior; in short, she. loved me most fervently. I knew it long before her recovery, in a bundled different ways she betrayed it,: and the conscious pest; of that fact gave me an exulta tion which carried me with a buoyant step through the labors of the day. To be loved by one so pure, so fair. and so good, was Well worthy to he made the great ambition of any ordinary lifetime: For several weeks after Helena's perfect restoration to health, I was a, frequent and welcome visitor at. the house. Neither of us had ever spoken or lovei and yet I knew ths, , li k <.‘l Up *ND DOWN. BY J. F. F. EMI she, equally with myself, was secret ly hoping for a future Of wedded happiness --at ,least this hope was the chei.ished dream of my life, aid alas I like every other dream it bad is end. Buoyant and elated with , my false hopes, ventured one day to ask Helena's father to sanction our love. The revelation was a new one to him'; and with a frown, the haughty, purse-proud aristocrat bade me leave his house and to never 'ap proach it again. I remonstrated, but to no purpose;, even the poor privilege of a farewelli interview with Helena was denied, me. and I left that mansion of pride and heartlessness utterly wretched and sick at heart. I quickly discovered that no.op portunity was left for clandestine interviews with Helena. The sever ity of paternal despotism had even, as I ascertained, imposed upon her tlep confinement of locks and - bars, upon her positive refUsal to discard me: Her house was now a prison to her. • - Embittered by such relentless op position as this, 1 , began to consider Helena as forever lost to me, and following the *idle impulse of. ,the moment, I started upon a voyage to Europe. Wandering restlessly over, the countries of the Old World. for a year, I at length received a letter from home, which, among other ihings, spoke of the marriage of Helena —. I smiled bitterly as the 'name of the husband caught my eyle. - .The -man who was thus pr. , ferred to me was coarse, sensual and unrefined, but wealthy, it'd there. fore quite unexceptionable to Judge I shuddered as thought _of ,her future—sighed, perhaps, at the thought of the event of my hepe ! and orpeetations—and then resolute ly 4dismissing the theme from my mind, I commenced my weary home ward journey.- It was the very day, if I remember rightly, subsequent to my return to B—, that I was sitting here In my offlee ' solitary and alone. I had as yet seen hardly a single one of my former acquaintances; and was more utterly wretched and dew- late, if possible, than before my de-, pai-ture, for, spite of my utmost endeavors, my ,it',oughts were con stantly fixed On Helena, I had almost lost consciousness of external objects, when a light rap upon • the door reached me. There bad been an addible step in the-pas sage,- and conjecturing that my visi tag was a woman, I hastened to admit her. I was ;correct.; it was ,a woman, and none other than the subject of my thoughts. Helena-stood in the doorway, but how changed ! So altered was she, that I could scarcely recognize her ; her thin, prematurely, wasted face marked with lines of grief and care, preserved few, very few vestiges of the beauty it once wore. The shock which her unexpected - appearance gave me composed me at Once, and closing the door, after her, I placed , a chair troi44almly awaited her pleas. ule.• She, however, was embarrassed and agitated. She remained stand ing for a moment, slipping a ring on and off her finger, her eyes resting on the floor. Filially she said, in a trembling voice : 'Do not think ill of me, W:the i r, for coming : here . I heard o f your return and wished to see you, if but for a moment. I ant very unhappy.' Her last words were addresed rather to herself than to me, 'anti yielding to her .' emotion she sank into a chair and sobbed bitterly. Respecting the feeling which I knew she could not control, and which was momf.ntarily gaining upon fue, I turned away until she had an oppor. tunity to compose herself. 'My errand here to•day,': she con tinned, 'is to return• you this ring. You will. remember, it, know. There was no person to whom I could .intrust it, and my husband almost daily demands to know the history of it. _ And besides, I wish ed to say farewell, forever. Good by, Walter!' Her hand was icy cold. As I re leased it she turned toward the door, but in nn instant she tottered toward Me, her face blinched-t - olthe whiteness of death. Had I not sustained her she must have fallen to the floor. 'Good heaven, Walter it is - my husband's step on the stairs,' she whispered, in 'a thrilling tone. 'You know him ; his . jealously is always active-4 am lost if he finds me .here! Save me from discovery; in God's'= name!—everything depends u ,on it P . • . . 'There is that eloset.'l suggested. • She entered it eagerly and closed he door. 'lt might be left a little ajar for , air ' I whispered, hurriedly. - 'No; close it—lock it!' was ex citedly whispered back, and I had hinny withdrawn the key when Helena's husband entered. , 'Why, what is the matter ?' were his first words. 'You are pale and agitated ; what has happthed ?' 'Nothing—nothing, I assure you, More than the effects of traveling,' was my reply. The remark was an unfortunate one,_ for my unwelcome victor im• mediately insisted upoc hearing a detailed account of my foreign ex• perience. Uneasy and restless a s l was, I was compelled to submit , and for a full' hour my tormentor com pelled me to sit and answer his ques tions. Meanwhile, I was in a per fect agony -of fear and uneasineqs. I followed every movement that lie made, lest some chance clew might betray the presence of Helena, and I alternately adopted and rejected a thousand expedients to rid myself of him. My position at length grew absolutely intolerable; not theleast 'imoeg my thoughts was that of the sufferings of Helena, confined in the stilling air of that miserable closet, and I was on the - point of intimating to , the tormentor. that I wished to be alone,. when he exclaimed : nip examine , your ring!' And before I could make a move•. mint to prrient 404 bp tad dipped REGARDLEBB.O7 . DELNUNCLATION FROM ANY QUARTER. it from my finger and was intently examining it.' ' I. 'A pretty ring.' he observed, 'eye ing me sharply: 'May I ask where You obtained it 1 4 t.Pro 'I purchased it some! time since; was my careless reply. How 1 bated the mobster fOr his question! How - I wished to burl him headlong down the:stairs! But forbore. • • • ' . 'Did you ever give . iway'uu orna merit next ques 2 tion. : never did,' • '• -• The answer came emphatic and ppsitivi, and my wrath rose almost beyond check. Never may ,1 have a harder ;struggle to refrain from striking a'Auman being to my feet. Idiot! villain! he was murdering a life worth more than a thousand of his own every moment of his - stay! 'Well,' he continued, asked be cause I had particular reasons: foi asking—Very particular reasons they are, I 'assure you, you know my wife ha - ye : met her, I replied, with an'intioluntary start. • 'lt is something that concerns her. I will tellyou exactly what I mean some day.' • don't ask your confidence,' was my _ answer. , = 'No, but I mean to give . it, neva% theless he rejoined, 1 . with a grim ~ , - smile, rising to go. ' Toetors are sometimes very useful advisers in family affairs.' , -/ He: was gone at last. With three strides I reached the closet, when the outer door again opened on my tormentor. Ile had merely returned to make some Wylie! Now, and again 'he was gone ,Now, however, I waited until - his footfalls had ceased to fall on the stairs, and then the key was again inserted in the lock. But I could proceed, no further; the reac tion of my terrible nervous excite ment of the last two boors overcame me, and I leaned, weak and breath. less, against the door. The thought occurred to the to call her , name, and accordingly I spoke it, 'Helena P it was in a low whisper and no response. I repeated it aloud, but no answer;. still louder, with the same result. A mortal, dizzy sick ness overcame me,, and I could scarcely force vitality enough to my fingers - to unclose the door. But I did, and looked in fearfUlly, shudder ingly: Helena was leaning against -the - wall, her face hidden in her bands... Again I repeated her naive, and when she gave me no reply, I placed my hand upon her 'shoulder. - Her whole body yielded,to my touch, and I found myself supporting her in my arms. She had doubtless fainted: ' So I thought as I carried her -from the closet and 'placed her inert form in my office chair, for not ' until then bad - I seen her face. God of mercy! what a revelation did that face con tain ! It was white and ghastly, every muscle set with a rigid expres sion of fear, the dull eyes gazing upon me with -their expressionless, stony gaze. :My heart gave one great throb, and stood still ; in -an instant I bad applied my fingers to the wrist. The pulse was still—the blood stagnant—a stroke of the lan cet failed to draw, it forth The horrible truth was apparent. She was dead; Fear alone had killed her. . Herb my - strength failed the ; I reeled and fell to the floor, lost in a stupor rof insensibility. It was night when I-awoke. and slowly the - horrors of my position came back to me.. But I was calm, at, least ; - and there, in the darkness of midnight, and in the company of the dead, I pthijered upon my future movements. My determiriation was *quickly taken. ,First placing the ring which she had given me. upon ,her finger— the ring that she Once promised me to wear as long as she loved me— and.' kissing her dead lips once:(I dared to do that),',l raised the body in 'my Arens and bole it out into the night. Fortune favored me;- the streets were deserted ; no one crossed way during my fearful . journey. Reaching a woody. Spot -just beyond the city, I hollowed out a'grave; and there I.bnried her. • . Here is my story. Learn- from it, if .you wig, - why I am drawn hither daily; decide ;whether• there should be a. fascination for me in the dust and cobwebs of my office: The first emergence from barbar ism is marked by the invention of some intoxicating drink, and possi bly the acme of civilization will be marked by total , abstinence. James Parton may have stumbled on a great truth when he asserted that the coming man will not drink wine, simply because his high intelligence will show' him th t the cons ituent elements !,of ail alcoholic drinks are of no use; to the body, and secondly that, he will have the educated will power to control Any desire to in dulge in what his judgment con-, den:ins. Be this as it may, we can only regard it as a speculation. We - limit deal with the real and practi cal. Reforms are a matter of -growth, not of sodden making, either by consent or legal enactment. Men will drink and do drink, and the problem to be solved is, not to stop them by police , measures, but rather to guard what they naturally' crave. A nation is known by what it drinki. The English character is as strong as, its October brewitigs, the Irish as pungaciouS as its—Moun tain Dew, the French as volatile se the effervescence of its champagne, while many a German speculation has sprung.from the foam of its be loved beer. It, matters little how we regard the drinking question, the fact remain 3 that alcoholic stimu• !ants have had much to do in the development of national character. As we will drink something, the true temperance aim should be to, give drinking its proper direction. As we are a nervous nation, twi -- nation al leverage naturally should be seda tive in its character awl effects., That we are becoming a great beer drinking mike every one- admits About Beer. awl the unpnjudiced man tan see it this tendency rthe true temperanci corrective of alcoholic drining; ani the'wise min can see the necessit , of so putting safeguard- around th'i manufacture of this beverage that the national health will - not be in jure4 by a . bogos or_adulterated arti cle. 1 That little 'orour t -beer I4.tWhe we buy or think it is, no one doubts. Incr axed consumption has put, a prem um ,upon a cheap way of manu facto ; chemical skill is employed to t ke the ' place Of the -hones' brewer; the.simple ingredients used by our forefathers are displaced h. the cheap compounds of 'tno-lern ingenuity. What should be. our national beVerage is fast • becoming a foaming drug in which is hidden the poison of death. We noticed in thi daily papers of Tuesday of last week a dispatch to the effect that the ,Corn missioner of Internal Revenue, Mr . Itatim, has had the- question of .m a terials which enter iato the mahufac• tune of beer in New York City, ex amined. by some of his agents- there. The main point' of inquiry was di rected toward ascertaining whether tse brewers were - in the habit of re porting on the regular .forms the materials, other than malt aid hops, which they used: : , The result of the investigation shows that the brewers are very will ing to exhibit what:. hops and_ malt they use,' but decidedly qdverse to telling, anything about the other compounds every one of them put into their beer In fact some of the government officers report that ma terials are used that the brewers see fit, to take to their breweries under the shadows of nightly darkness. Glucose, rice, grape-sugar', corn. cornmeal, and various drugs, are smuggled into the breweries at night and no doubt the next. morning they come out foaming beer,such is the celerity of modern . . adVancement. As a matter for beer-drit,kers' reflec tions, we quote the following, state ment : ..- "One_ brewery showed the use in a month of 11,1:i0 bushels of malt; no hops, and. 3,0-16 bushels . of o' her ma terials. On inquiry, it appeared that the latter : item was all cornmeal. At one brewery where the returns to the Collector showed the, use of malt and'hops only, investigation revealed the fact that for every 96 bushels of malt there were used 500 pounds of coraline, althOugh the latter was not entered either on the :returns of ma terial .received or material used. Another large brewery, which re poited only hops and malts as used, really manufactured. their beer in the foßowing proportions.:' Ma1t,13,250 bushels ; corn, 26.3 ;0 pounds; glu- . .core, 6 , foolbs. Another establish -meat used malt, hops, cornmeal and rice, the proportion of malt and meal being 50 bushels of cornmeal to 250 bushels :of malt. The last brewery examined had just abandon ed the use of glucose. The practice had been to use 600 pounds of gln• cOse toovery' 165 bushels of 'Malt," Such beirrg.the facts the • question 'arises, what will •we do about it? How can we get goad, pure beer? fie • whO believes in mechanical agency Would naturally say haie a ,Government Inspector. Well, if a Bank Inspector eou!d not detect a cashier taking $2.030,000 from a bank, he :might fail in discovering glucose in beer. • It is• a - notorious tact that the London Lancet stopped the poisonous brewing in' London, when all the inspector s were Incapa ble., The newspapers. can stop it. Let some capable. chemist analyse the beer &Om time to' time and let the newspapers publish the report, And- the public may rest . assured that, 'not much of the bogus.. article will get into thO market. Sensible peo die will not drink a poisonous -arti cle, if they 4 can get a pure one, and the only way we can. find the genn ine is by the guidance of the news paper. If the great . dailies of the large cities would publish' regularly' the result of honest chemical analy• sis of beer ' there would he precious little 'bad brewed: It is idle to talk sentiment about beer. The Ameri can people will drink . it, and if the press does its. duty they will:'get it pure. • The Earth Drying Up. There is abundant evidence, says the New York Times, that the amount of water on the earth surface has .been steadily diminishing for -many thousands of years. No one doubts that there was a time when the Caspian Sea, communicated with the Black Sea, and when the Medi terranean covered the greater part of the Desert of Sahara. In fact, ge ologists tell us that at one period the whole of the earth was covered by water, and the fact that continents of dry land now exist is a prohf that there is less water on our .globe than there was in its infancy. This dimi nution of oar supply of water - is go ing on at the present day at a: rate so rapid as•to be clearly appreciable. The rivers and smalhir streams of our A tlantic• States are . visibly . small er than - they were twenty-five years ago. Country brooks• in which men now living were accustomed to . fish and bathe in their childhood have in . many cases disappeared, not through_ any act of man, but solely in conse quence of the failure. of the springs and rains which once fed them. The level of the great lakes is falling year by year. There are many piers on the shores of ittke cities which ves sels. once approached with ease, but which now . hatilly reach to the edge of the' water. ' Harbors are every where growing shallower. This is not due to the gradual deposit of earth- brought down by the rivers or of refuse from city sewers. The har bor of Toronto has grown shallow in spite of the fact that it has '' . been drOged out so that the botthß rock has been reached, and all the dredg ing which can be done to the harbor of Neil! . York will not permanently deepen it. The growing shallowness of the Hudson is more evident above, Albany than it isin - the. tide water region, and; like the outlet--of---Lake Cbaniplain. which was once naviga ble by Indian canoes at all seasons, the upper Hudson is now almost bete LFtl if water in many places during the •ummer. In all other parts or the world there is the same steady de :reaseof water in rivers anti lakes. in& the rain fall , in Europe, where mientific Observations ai& made, is manifestly less than it was at a pee.- - id wjthin man's memory. What is becoming of our water? Obviously it is not disappearing through evapo ration. for in that case rains :would 4ive back whatever water the atmos phere might absorb. We must ac cept the theory that,' like the water •if the moos, our water is sinking into: the earth's interior. - ~ -- +Nr ~-t A Carson City Scene. Says a Philadelphia Press corres pondent at'Cafsion City : • "After an..aitsence of three years I see change in everything:here, except among the Indians. • They 'certainly have made. no progress toward- a higher moral condition, ,and it was never possible for!them to go lower. and in writing abOut them .1 shall deal perforce .with their history in. - telling of the present. The most Striking thing about them is their dress. ,Costumes made up of odds and ends ,of savage and . .bivilized 'articles which,. produce an. - effect, which is grotesque in' the =extreme. They adorn themselyes with'any and eyftything that is given them. There is a tall young savage who struts about tiarson, -who'll I hay, named Beau BrummelL it may be hardly fair to do - . so,yet in his way, Whielt is quite anothr way, he is as fastidious as his illusttions • prede. cessor. These vagabonds carry. all their!earthly possessions w,ith,thetn excepting their huts, 'so that . the Beau carries about, his persbn not only his successes but, - Ns. failures. Here is a description of his - costume A red blanket hung over a rope and tied ,about his neck ; above this a long scarf of pink calico, tied in a: huge bow under his chin, something after the manner - of Mlle. Sarah B••rnliartit; on his-head a very much .bittered plug hat,, in the band of which is s uck- two or, three broken rooster's' feathers, and a .tattered ostrich plumel At the side, pinned with a :large steel brooch, floats a blue veil, about two yards in length. ,Around ltis dirty,, bare ankles are knotted some -strips of fed calico, hut his feet have 11 o ornament. nut mud . The crowning glory of his attire are hiti . ear-rings. His ears hriveslits - in 'Ahem, over an inch in length; and in one, tied with d buck skin string, is the handle of a table castor and two brass door keys—in the other ,n ornamented top of it meerschaum pipe, a broken tea-spoon and the tin c" from a.box of bak ing poWder.. His ftwe is painted with stripes of red, mixed with some ill-smelting "oil, which diffuses. its odor-far as well as near, being 'the rankest compound of villainous Smell -that -ever offended nostrils.' The young - squaws • cast upon him glances of respectful admiration as he saunters down th , ?.. street with an air that plainly says, 'Look at me girls--this is all to please you.'" . At the,' Whipping Post. 'Did yokever see a publie_whip pine .• ' No.' -‘ Well, let's ride (we: to Glendale. Old Turner is going to 'peel' avictim thiri afternobn.' I was at Malvern llill,'and Glen. dale' is a-hamlet about, trour, miles away. . As we rode along the way we found ourselves-in the'com pany of quite a numb of merry men and women who were bound for the same place, and na!l the same object in view. It was 'known -for . w eircukt, often miles around that Lish- Tislor, a negro, had . been sentenced thirty lashes for theft, and there was a - genial desire on the part of the colored popOlation 'to hear him hol ler.' The theft. was the taking the "hoe or shovel—l forgot which—from a farmer, and the prisoner would doubtless have been let down easy if this had not been his second offense. Arriving at - Glendale we found half a dozen white pe, , ple - and about sev enty•6've colored citizens on band. Among the latter were about thirty wotnen.- • Bow. fat did you walk ?'• we asked one of them. "Bout fo' miles, sah.' . 'And yOU came to sea the whip. ping?' Yes, nab' I shouldn't think you would want to :see a man whipped.' 'Deed, sah.-but I down keer so werry .much about but,my ole man am lame an' couldn't 'come hisself. I've got to tell. bim all 'bout it when I get home.' Some of the crowd bad 'Walked several miles, and nearly all of therd over two, and it was plain to see that a whipping was a sort of a cir ens parade to theni. There was much speculation as to whether old Turner would. lay it on hard or not, and as to bow the 'priaoner would bear-the punishment.; but all dispute was set tled by a-little,.old squint,eyed dar key, wearing a stovepipe hat With the Crown stoved, in, ' Who's loin' . he de manded as he aseeniled' the steps and looked over the 60%1. .‘ What you uns sayin' dis an' dat fo' when ye Amin' know ? I tell ye Ilat whip am gwine to draw blood, an' Lish Tay lor am gwine to' beller like a calf! lie bin_ right dar myOtelf, an' dat Mass'r Turner he doan! go light on nobody !' I have seen hundreds of petty of going tolhejail or workhouse without a - change of . countenance. Of the half hubdred murderers and burglars I have heard sentenced, I never saw one-of them 'take on' as Taylor did when breught down to the post. • He 'was a • strapping big fellow, able to knock an tax. down at a blow, and yet he begged and whin ed and acted - like . a baby, t.nd was on the point of having a real good cry when the hoots and hisses of the col• ored people. around him acted as a brace. Still lie - trembled and cringed, and'eoibited actual fear. It be had been going to, jail forthree months his face Wonlit . have worn a grin of 81.00 per Annum In Advance. sltisfaetion, and he would have felt. himself a hero. A large share Of - the crowd looked startled and anxious showing that an impression had been made, and I heard one man whisper to another : , 'Fo' de Lawd, 'William, but I wouldn't •be dar ftirde — bes' farm in Virginnvl"' Old .Turner, as everybody calls haii done all Hie whipping at tflendale for years. His face- is neither relined nor 'brutal, and. could not. see any change. in it trout first to last. Be proceeded • to• busi. "[was in a matter-of-flet methodical manner. • The prisoner was ordered - to 'peel,' and ; ,as he slowly and- reluc-, tantly removed his coat, Turner lean- - ed- against the whipping-post and switched the ground with the whip he was to use. This whip was a small raw-hide about like those used with a saddle-hOrse, and had a sus piciously* red color for half its length the prisoner was slow about reMor-: ing, his garments, and the executioner finally took hold to assist him. Co_at and vest and shirt were at, length re moved,-and 'Parlor stood with only his pants on. The thermometer mark ed 91 degrees wOre he stood. and - vet he shis-ered and shook like a Man freezing to death. His aims were drawn around the post and his hands • made fast at the wrists, and then his pluck was all gone. If his'sentenee could have been changed to five years in State Prison he would -have jump ed-for joy. . Old innwr'wore the same neutral expression'of countenence as he took , his station and swung Lhis whip for the .first bloW. It' was a - pretty hard cut, and' Taylor yelled at 'the - top of.. 1 11 s voice Oh ! God ! Oh for Land ! but somebody save me! ! .llass'r Turner, if you let me off, Fit die Joy you !' . , Had the prisoner Amite] this in a police court in the north the soecfa, tors would have roared with latighti;r: There wasn't a smile to be seen in the. crowd hround ;he "whipping-post. t . !Vas a warning which ina4 - men tremble and women - Wipe, their eyes. —two—three—fodr—five—fell the blows, and a boY ten years old would not have exhibited . roOre. cowardice. think he got it'ivore for taking on as-he did. After th - e • twelfth blow I saw blood on the prisoner's hut when the thirtieth hail fallen there was nothing revolting in a el,';se inspection of the flesh There were welts and ridges and some b'o ,d, and the si,nplest remedy would heal the wounds within a week. wh it that last blow . fell the prisoner w-lo had kept a trite. count albthrou h despite his excitement, was. 'ov-e'reOtne with 'may, and, raising his voice to the highest pitch,. he shouted : yain't I" happy ! Oh! loan' I feel blessed ! OIL! fo' de Lawd ! hut I'ze de gladdest nigger in de whole world ' Every per-on in the crowd looked upon, the prisoner as a dis , raceci man.' Thirty . days in jall might have made a Vero of hitn,' . but to bei,u'rhc. ly whipped was quite. another thing. Virginia has few j•Lils, and some of those are-always empty. Michigan -has to increase her prison room - ye•cr by year. The idea of the law hto runish. In Virginia the petty thi,--1 gets his punishment on his back. In the North he is sent- to jail to idle away thirty or sixty ;• to in crease his zeal to feel himself a hero; to play cards and read novelS, and to come Out with his hat on his ear. One publie.whipping h. s a more sid ulary effect on the etas to which the victim belong than fifty sentences to j-til; 'and the records of Virginia, when.eompared :With those of any - other Northern State will prOve the assertion. A northern drunkard, or braWler, (14. villainous Wife-beater, who - cannot pay a tine. g'.es to' jatl or the work house.- in thousands of instances men 'cotninit 'offences in order to be sent there. Thity liVe well. sleep well, and have. KUle, to do. In Vir. ainia this • class of ', Men go to the chain gang, and au made to benefit the general public and pay their war. Roads, ditches, bridges, and parks are built,,lmprowed and kept clean, and the. law enfOrced at • the same time. time. And the result is that Rich mond with. its 65; 1 100 population-and its chain-gang does not show one sixth of the arrests made in Detroit with its 13:1,000 'population and the jail and ‘ , .'orkhotise. A bummer sent. to our workhouse, gains frotithyee to live pounds o,f flesh in tni4 da,ys, has a warm suit, a good bed,atrlive or six hours work" per One sent to the chain 'grin!) , of- Melia:lond lets the first time he the last, unless liois a chronic loafer. At Alexandria' the . whipping ,is done by the polite, ani instead of a post the prisoner's hands are .put through ti - ` cell. door and made fast. 1 saw'a White man - get thirty lashes there tor stealing a game chicken;and after the thing was over he told. me he . Would rather take a year in •the State Prison than another thirty lashes . Ott suivele;s may call it-bar barism or whale^rr they like, but Virginia with 'her chain-gang and whipping.post laws does , not record the arrest of one petty offender Where Ohio Or New York, rewrds six.—De• troll Frees Press. • CURIOUS RE3IARKS ON' . THE BIBLE. —Here is something which writ prove of much interest, to many; was gathered up by a widow lady aged yea'rs: ' The Bible contains 3; 556,489 letters; 810,697 words; 3', 172 verses, 1,189 chapters; I;6 books; The. word 'and' 4622 i iimeS; 1,854.; 'reverend' only once, and that in the 11 it') Psalm. The-2;th verse of the 7th chapter of , Ezra contltins the alphabet. The 1 - 9th chapter of the d .book of Kings Ma .the 37th chapter ,of , Isaiah are alike, --L - The first man recor , el as bitried in a coffin was..Jos - epl4ZOth chapter of tienesis and .26th verse Nowhere but in the - first chapter of Timothy is the word grandmother mentioned. Two particularly (Inc chapters to read you will find are the 2d of Joel and the 26th of Acts.. Thi.re is no name or word of no,fe than six syl lablim in the Holy Itibta• NUMBER 29 -Very few know just what. a barbe cue means. Well, if you want to see one its gleny go to Mars land. The barbecue ground is generally lo cated near a spring. Around its clear waters are hunga score of gourd dip pers.` kstarung eat ly in the morning we find the eampers already hum ming like a hive.- Lon , ,.broad ditch es have been dui and these-are floor ed with coals a foot deep, over Which ,are laid. great splits :Ind. on these huge carcasses of hogs- and bulictki. Farther , on beyond these .trench,, , s are great . log fires, which are - kept constantly blazig, so. that -at any time the ditches Mlly. ire replenished with coals. Such hissing and crack ling a 4 there is - above t ...these immense fires th t mounting fl:inics curl ani wreailic themselveS into great col umns of smoke ! :Scores of coaches, lui , yeies.and waaons are pouring- in, tilled with -a laughing', jolly crOwd, all intent upon a day's frolic. ' come on_ltor-eback, while not unfregilie.o v can he _seen tilt ee riders t,'6 . • one molt. Gail3 - -dressfAl ladies rrme with .their eseorts and negrues flock in on foot. - The whole country seems to have entered into the frolic. Down by the great boiling 'kettles near the sprihd' the darkies are dress leg shoats, sheep and great beeves. Every animal is lef;,' whole, - but is split to the back'-bone. Long tables are spread beneath the pines; The ;torn is blown for dinner.- As- the band strike up a lively' air the teo ple= wind in long, fantastic_ line in -and out among the tr( es' to the well spread 1.:; b; es h , neat h Babies crow and , prA m dhers ehat ogether wit!,!e._ old people find they Inie n• t for,LO:tt-n how to laugh . Certainly ro'.ll'n ,-, can be more jolly-than a lar)land barbe cue. - PAPER EL INF. ETS. Everybody knows that a layer of newspaper over a. bed atonal- as Much warmth at niolit: j as the ordinary count , !rpain. Various atteropts.have been made of late 3 ears to tiirn this to account, but Uwing to the cracklin , ,,- - nature - of -- . paper and tin- y of sept - ir---- iv free - yew dation _beneath paper etiA:erin!is, ti idea. has -been aban doned again LIMI again, , A Manches ter, England, arc, howeVer, cred ited with having, overcome these oh. jeetions. and have in yenti d a paper blanUtt; which timnislies as perfect ventilation as taktel - plave beneath an • ordinary woolen The new - ebVerina male of t.A.o su - cets_ of pa ptT, beneat:, wiich,a laver of wad ding, zheiWctily prep:l;l-0: is insert ed in such a.waV that it cannot gath er togetherin while the edges are Stronglywhipped; so that the - re ismu possibility of a separation of the two - piec4, , s taking place. .The pa per is manufaeturcd froth the-strong est:fibre known, and is softened by a Special process until it is free from the cracklina - 4 - tr.d rustling sound of tht; paper. •it is true that there is a slight • crisp feeling - . when new, but this soon wears off and the coverlet beComes soft . and limp. At the same time the strenth is much . greater, having regard to-the materi al from Which it is manufactured.. As far- - as looks go the neW blanket has all the appearances of a wo - olen 3ne, while - the warmth:it at-fOrds.-ex ceeds that possese,d by its predeces sors w'aen the size and and weight of the two are brought-into - colik - patison. It is, moreover ; much iper. - IT is an aWkwar) thing to be ab sent minded. The story is told of a certain Philadelphiagentleman' who diseuyered ,this at his cost. it sct happened the other clay that the din• iii?..roont of the club which . he fre quents was quite full, When a man who chanced to, )know his particular tailing vamp in very hungry. The wai ter told the new coiner there was ;no worn at present. Spy in , * our absent minded friend comfortably seated and reading a newspaper, a- brilliant idea struck th. htiii , ry man. 'Eat; Mr.A. din( d r he questioned. No; sir,' replied the Well, never mind, take hiin his bill at.d tell him he hast,had his dinner.' Toe 'waiter hesitated a moment, and then nipiTeiatin!T tiv• situation n : eut over iii r. A. and handed shim his bill. • What is this fol. ' quoth the poor For - your dinner, sir ' dinner-au ! Have l ie.dry ?' :Xes, sir,%rejoined.the waiter in all innocence. • Dear me, I had an idea I was vrliting for it. What a .curi ous mistake.' Antl with a contem-, plative smite M A. sauntered out, of the•roorii; leaving his table for the use of the genius who had-profited by his absent-mindedness. • • He Gat Stuck . . . 'The kid' (as the young man was called) - bad - no coffin and no grave but s deserted- prospect hole; and thee' was not funeral hymn or cler gyn3in., to say the last sad words above the still white face . Around the prospect hole were grouped a few brown fe,atkired 'inen; whose, hearts bled for the distant mourners whose unfortunate loved one was soon to be laid - to rest in that :unknown -grave„ - - In the absence of other services Brack Bramel stepped up on a large copper•stained boulder, and said : Pardnees, We are here to plant all that is mortsl of the Kid. came to us as • putty a piece of bios• 801 p -roc k -as 1 ever saw, but before he struck the foot-ball, his lower lev el was flooded. and now the claim is abandoned. The indications s'leemed good, but whist. y shut off the assess ment work;and no dividenda - ,will ever be declared. If he'd struck some other outfit he might have_ panned . all right, but we got. iiinistuck on a jim jam lead, and now we are going to plant him in the prospect abaft of , the Pauper's Dream.' Pardners, I don't know - how you feel.abbut this business, but I have pretty near made .up . my mind that there has got to be a - reform in this camp: or there won't be prospett holes enough to go around.' I tell you, it s a solemn thought.' flow would celoradO feel .on resur reetion.day to have a delegation - of drunk and disorderlieslike us crawl out of the grOund and ask to•be _re cognized by the chair?' I tell 'you, yards, every one . bf ns" will pinch out betore fall if we don't. change our dip.. Our lives will be nothing but a slide or-blow-out, or a chimney of barren ore:. If we-calcu late to have any :showing on the sltimp in the sweet by and by, we've got to.take a tumble.—Aye's Boom erang. A Barbecue. = TuE AI (N..Y .) Pie and Kniek ellweker says : '• the largest . tt.litiwiag tae' k..ow of tti,tlay is that tft St. Jacob:1 . 0)1: toe where St. Jacobs Oil is, there rlieurua th•tu i. IPA." iio ri man mail a favor art 1.1143 talces 3 ou for a 1001, unt) ly lap+ platta to get the beet of yau. This' is the way I e get:: riot], ao4 atriven at the gokiett mean,
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