THE - 1r T'OSF • r DEMOCRAT: . 1.• A. J. GEtRITSON, Proprietor,t, The Country Store. [From "Homespun," published by Hurd & Houghton.] The whole population in the neighbok hood resort twit with regularity—all the loungers, all the idlers, all who have done up their weary day's work, all the town gads and gossips in trowsers, as well as those who go for molasses in jugs, for nails, tobacco, and raisins—loiter, and talk, and listen in this most convenient place of public reception. And if store • and postoffice chance to be combined, the flocking of the sovereigns, with wives and offspring, fairly puts one out in any at tempt at description. Besides the sugar, nails, tea, codfish, soap and brooms, there lie all the letters that are addressed per sonally to the men and women of the town. Truly, an item to be thought of. The sum total of all their correspondence with their strayed away cousins, nieces, neph ews and children. Therefore, at this little hive the swarming.town collects. There fore do they come hither, evening after evening, picking up waifs of news and watching like paid detectives the post master's distribution of the letters. There- fore do they hustle and bustle around that functionary's person when the mail `bag is ' fetched in from the coach, and proffer as sistance in assorting the miscellaneous newspapers which he empties over the counter.. Offering advice, when it is needed and when it isn't ; submitting comments, original and assorted, on all classes of topics, with such sly foot-notes as one may not at first understand. Then a country store is a st rangely quiet place of an afternoon, whether in slimmer or winter. Save when, perhaps, some lit tle girl- patters in to exchange a skein of thread, the flies and the rural merchant have it entirely to themselves. If the place is in charge of a spruce young clerk, • in lieu of the master, he employs himself with brush and oils at the little cracked mirror behind the high desk, and lets the flies sun themselves in sleepy knots over the floor. It is not less a realm of doziness, either ip planting time, and through the sweaty spell of haying. In the former season, ttie men are about their gardens and off •-ver their farms, and a fox, might take a L- sure trot through the town street with ,.ttt attracting the eye of master hound. Perhaps an enterprising pedler, atop of a bright red wagon, trundles tip to the door-step, and from his canopied box, "passes the time of day" with the prompt clerk, asks for the latest news, and offers off essences at the very lowest "figger." Or a stray cow comes, tearing off the sov• culent grass heat the door, and puttidg the town more 'completely to sleep with its somnolent melodies. This is the store in the country town, or the village. It sometimes stands, how ever, away by itself at the crossing of two roads, with the proprietor's dwelling in close proximity; its entire front protected from burglars by an ancient swine shut ter, and barricaded with boxes and buck ets, half filled with beans and dried apples and oats, that are tiled ou the broad shelf just under the window-; I do not believe a lonelier spot can be found in the whole range of Puritan New England; a,mill pond on .a faded December afternoon is a place of resort by compassion—a hemlock thicket - at sunset is noisy in contrast with the sepulchral desolateness. But when taming does not drive, lei sure is to be bad in solid junks by all who want it. The store is not altogether so bare of interest to the casual observer. Huddled, as the talking population love to be found, their p,:ortraits, or full lengths, may their be readily taken. The men and the boys, perched on barrels or the count ers,'either swing their feet and gossip, or swing their feet and spit. If it is whiter, they cuddle up to the dull box stove, and polish the long pipe with their hard palms as coolly as if they were salamanders. They are stowed in unseen corners, too— where they work over colorless", but some times rank, jokes in half whispers, and snicker in unison over their odd coufi- dence about the girls. The small boys drink in what falls, grinning bashfully when the larger ones laugh; they are taking their early, lessons faithfully and welL Of winter evenings the stove, crammed with seasoned sticks,Tears like a menag erie lion. No Janua'y wind without can drown its growling sound. The loungers are gathered' in a great open circle, each with, a hand erected for a screen. There it is the affairs of the nation are 'sifted; there each town sovereign closes and grapples with the dissenting . neighbor, and finds his own personal niche among those occupied by the local worthies. The minister's last sermon comes up for anal ysis at this rustic round table, when the fugonishing fact is revealed that they are not less profound theologians than mar velous masters of state craft and civil policy. To the store hock the'farmers, in earn- est with their spring work, after seeds and manures and agricultural implements. Boys.,run thither on errands for their mothers, their sisters, And , themselves.— Thrifty housewives ~drive up before the door at -an early forenoon hour, in, the summer time, and. go in to - make barter of eggs; 'and cheese,, and: stocking yarn, for cotton eloth, , oriNtlico, or new shoes with a proper "powei" Of aciaeak in The girls flock, with blushes burning in their cheeks, to see if anything lies over for them in the mail, or to exchange a few words with the sleek-haired clerk, or to finger fer the twentieth time the limited stock of bereges, prints and mouseline delaines whfaf► he ever stands ready to spread about the counter. 'IOU will see a whole caravan of old family cows about the premises, some with bobtails and some with switch, hold ing down their heads and drowsing away the hours as if they had cropped poppy heads instead of green clover for their summer morning repast. And elderly fe males are visible, too, climbing friskily in to and hut of their open wagons, the day's successful barter giving them the nerve required to keep them from falling. The Opening of the Amazon. On !Saturday, the 7th of September, was ' the Brazilian fouthh of July, the anniver sary of the independence of Brazil ; and on that day, this year, according to a , proclamation issued last December, the' Amazon, the great river, or King of waters, as the Indian nathe Para signifies, was thrown open,. from the Atlantic to the boundaries of Peru. Henceforth all ; nations may freely use this great highway of commerce, which gives steamboat navi gation from the Atlantic coiist to within ninety leagues of Lima. Peru has also by treaty with Brazil, and by a former treaty With the United States, granted the free navigation of her Amazonian waters.— Navigation thus extends almost across the continent. The Morona , a sea-going , ' Peruvian steamer, built by the Penns of London, ascended, in October, 1864, from the mouth of the river to within ninety leagues of the city of Lima. The valley of the Amazon is a vast and fertile wilderness, with here and there a town on the borders of the great river. The most important and productive parts of Venezuela, New Granada, Ecuador, Peru, and Bolivia, as well as of Brazil, are drained by its waters. Its valley has an area. equal. to the whole United States, without the Pacific States, and yet the population of the Amazon valley is at present no'greater than that of the single city of Brooklyn. But new measures in regard to grants of lands and emigrants have jest been proposed in the Brazilian Parliament, which, if carried out, cannot fail to induce emigrltion to this equato rial valley—where the mercury never rises as high as in New York, and where yet the rich and useful staples, coffee, sugar, cotton, rice, India rubber, &c., &c., . repay the industrious laborer a thousand fold. Meantime we hope to see our Ameri cans preparing to take their share of the trade of the Amazon, which can be devel oped tinder the liberal-system which took effect on the 7th to an important and lu crative commerce. - - 4119,-...- -- Reflections for October. A OF PRAISE TO GOD Thou, 0 Lord, hast created the hosts of heaven, and the myriads of angels which unceasingly surround thy throne. The immense extent of the heavens, with all their magnificence, is the tabernacle of those blessed spirits which love and adore thee. Thou bast adorned this globe of earth with a thousand beauties that de light our souls. The sun which animates so many spheres, which fertilizes our fields and enriches us with so many bless ings, never, wanders from the vast orb which thou hast prescribed to him. At thy command the moon's paler radiance nightly gleams in the heavens; wherever we cast our view we perceive the effects of thy goodness, and thy blessings never cease to visit us. Springs and fountains, that ever flow, preserve for us their pure and limpid streams. The mild dew waters and refreshes our meadows. The moun tains and the valleys, the fields and the groves, present us with a thousand beau ties ; and the whole earth, which thy hand sustains in infinite space, is full of thy riches, crowned with thy blessings, and fertilized by thy bounty. Let us bear without murmuring the afflictions of life; They are always solaced by some mo ments of enjoyment, and mitigated by the cheering influence of hope. The grand spectacle of nature animates our drooping spirits, and the rays of divine grace dry up all our tears. But who can fathom the depth of thy ways? In this life good and evil *company each other. Earthquakes, tempests, war, pestilence and famine, often disturb the happiness and security of men; and deatb, unrelenting and unsparing, spreads wide his devastation. A bieath overturns us,und lays us in the tomb, and reduces us to dust. But blessed be God t the rock of o . #r safety .t find the tabernacle of our salvation, who has opened unto us, the doors of eternal life, through Christ Jesus our Lord.—Sturna's Reflections. Rg11.9.114/03LE LONGEVITY.—The Co lembia Herald says • tbat Wm. B. Smith, who .attends a restaurant in that place, "is one of the most remarkable cases of longevity , of the present century. Bill is an . American " citizen of African descent, a strong 'Damara; and thinks he was born' in October,_ 1730,, which will make him 131 ; years old thi', Month. .is not' a verrstrict Chr is tian - as he is , board ours. int the black republicanseveryday." ,•• MONTROSE, PA., TUESDAY, OCT. B,' 1867. A Dangerous Plaything —An Adder Petted by a Little Child. [From the Dubuque Times, September 20.] We have often read of children and venomous snakes playing together, but we never had a case come under our im mediate observation until yesterday. In the afternoon the two little daughters of Mr. C. C. Lieben, aged three and five 'years respectively, were engaged in play ing in the front yard of their home on lowa street, between Seventh and Eighth, when the oldest child ran into the house, and told the servant girl to run out ant see to her sister who was playing with a big snake. The servant thought nothing of it, and continued her work. In a few minutes the child again besought her to go right out, for the snake was hissing at "sissy." The girl went out and was struck speechless and made to grow pale! On the brick wall near the front gate sat the little child, langhing and patting a large sn ake on the head ! The snake was coiled up like a 'spiral spring, and with elevated head and protruding fangs was allowing the child to play with it. h was a black ish monster, streaked and spotted with green. When the child would cease pat ting it, the snake would strike at the little one's hand, and stiffen as preparing to jump at the child. Then the little one would pat its head and it would lower it and remain passive. The servant stood fur a moment unable to say a word. At last she shrieked for Mrs. Lichen, who came out. She was also seized with ter ror, but waited only a second before she seized her child and bore it away. A lady who resides next door, alarmed by the servant girl's cries, had now arrived upon the scene. Before the snake uncoiled it : self she threw a brick at it, which struck upon its bead and stunned it. A mpn who was passing by them stepped in and killed the snake. It measured thirty-eight inches in length; was of the kind known as the house adder, the bite or sting of ! which is said to be terribly poisonous.— The child had a narrow escape from an awful death. ===:z=i 3LATRINIONIAL EMBLEMS.—The increase in the variety of goods adapted to matri monial anniversaries has been quite sur prising during the last few years. The two precious metals were formerly the only things thought worthy to figure in such celebrations, and the silver and gold weddings were the only ones commemo rated. But a fashion arose. not long ago of subdividing still further the cycles of married felicity, perhaps because of the increasing cost of the precious metals, and also, perhaps, because it was not found safe to wait quite so long in these days of "incompatibility" and Indiana divorce courts. Appropriate symbols were there fore adopted to suggest gifts for briefer anniversaries, and we gradually came to have tin, wooden, leather and glass wed dings, representing respectively, as we re told by experts, the passage of ten, fiTe, three years, and one, of married life: The kind of household goods given of these several materials is useful in its way, and the custom has no doubt proved of assistance to struggling young housekeep ers, though it has the objection that articles are often duplicated to a ridicu lous extent. We have heard. of a lady, for example, who received three tin-kitch ens, five nutmeg-graters and seven tin bread-trays in this way. On the whole, however, the idea is good, and the sub ject is chiefly mentioned here to call at tention to another article lately added to the list of commemorative wedding ftytn bols. This is linen. A Providence (R. 1.) editor has received an invitation to attend a linen wedding in Newport. The anni versary period is not stated, but may per haps be guessed from the character of the gifts.—N. Y. Post. A MARCIAGE OF CONVENIENCE. — The Poughkeepsie Eagle tells a story about a clergyman in that city who was recently aroused from his slumbers, a few moments before midnight, by a vigorons tapping at the front window of his residence. Rais ing the window sash, be inquired who was there. A gruff voice replied in the broken dialect of a Yorkshireman, that he wanted the dominie to come down to his house and marry a couple. The dominie won dered that he should be called on such business at such , a late hour of the night, and asked for an explanation. The York shireman replied that "a young couple had just arrived at his boarding-house, and wanted to stay all night, saying they were going to be married in the morning." That was all well enough, but the Yoi shireman didn't have only one spare bed, and he didn't wish to turd the strangers out of doors, and didn't wish to lose the price of their lodgings, he . loncluded that they had better be xnarried that night rather than take any risk. The good natured dominie proceeded to the house, and iu the presence of the household made the lovers one. At the conclusion of the ceremony tbe Yoriishireman stet). ped up to the reverend gentleman and placed a five-dollar greenback in his band and said; "There, Dominic, if she makes a geted wife for her husband; at the end of the nyeari'll giveyou five dollars MC;ro." The dorninin returned to Ms parsonage, and, - the newly married ,ponple 4 were . lowed the "spare room," Politics in, the Pulpit. OLD BRUDDEEP PETE'S SERMON ON WOLVES IN SHEEP'S CLOTHING. " Beware of men dat come to you in sheep's clothing, but within arc myth g wolves." Belubbed Brudderin : Ise gwine to do on dis de present 'casion what I neber gone done afore since I commenced spoon din' de gospil ; Ise gwine to preach a po leetical sarmint. I is a free American of African 'scent, and Ise got just' as goed a right to preach _polities as brudder Beecher, or any odor man. De tex sap, "Bewar of men dat cum to you in sheep's clothin'." Now brederin, de question axes itself, what is sheep's clothin'. Sheep's clothin', you all know, is wool ; and you all know like wise, de black man got wool slid of bar, ou h s criniology. So, widout stretchin de figger mor'n a politicioner sometimes stretches his conshence, we may read de tea - in die wise: Bewar ob de white man dat comes to you in wool—dat is, kums to you in de guise ob 4e black man ; dat de,,y feel like de (black man ; but within dey are ravin wolves, seekin nigger votes. Dey cum to us in sheep's clothin ; dey call you fellow citizen ; dey is laborin and sufterin persecution lbr de sake ob de black man ; dey respect dare cullud broth. rin ; dey lab dare cullud sisteru. Dcy come to us in sheep's clothin ; dey is gwine to do great things for de black man ; dey is goin to gib ebery black man a farm, and ebery black woman a pianor; and learn all de picanninies to cipher mul tiplication and talk Greek. Dey is gwine to gib de black man franchises, and cibil rites, and buros, and pluribus unums, and debil knows what; make erismus come twice a year and every third a year a ju bi'o. Bewar ob dem, my bredderin ; dey labs de black man and do black woman like de wolf bibs de sheep, and dat, you know, is for de sake ob de 13 beep meat. Dey is ravenin wolves,(3.my brudc.lerin, seekin niggers votes. Dey are broken winded politicioners, my braddern, dat decent white men won't vote for, and dey tinks dey can get de votes of de black men,,by pullin de wool over der eyes.— Dat's why dey go in for nigger suffrage ; when iln Lord known do niggor'a dono sufferin enough wid dere foolishness.— What good it gwino to do a nigger to vote? • It ain't gwine to put meal in the barrel, meat in de pot, taters in de ashes, nor do corn in trough. What you . know about de law, my brudderiu? Which of you would know a tariff from a tarrapin, if you's t 4 meet it by moonlight? Which way would you start to go Congress, if anybody was fool enough to elect you dar ? Brudderin, dey sometimes takes de eyes and noses in Congress, and some times dere are more noses than eyes. Has any ob you got sense eacugh to tell how dat mout be ? If you don't know nuffin about de laws, how you gwine to make de laws or mend de laws ? I know'd a smart nigger once who undertook to mend his watch. He got it to pieces in less than no time ; but arter he worked it awhile, de debbil himself could'nt put it togedder. Dat's bout de fix you'll get de government in if you go tinkerin wid it. Better be hoin corn, to make bread for ole woman and childer. You all knows how to dat, but you don't bow to make laws or mend em, and you don't know what sort of men to choose to do it. You just as apt to _vote fur a fool as King Sol omon, and you a heap apter to vote for a rascal dan a good man, kase de tex says its de ravein Wolf dat cams in sheep's clothin ; and de black man can't tell wolf from sheep. Dat's what dere mean white men know and dat's de reason why dey want you to vote. Dey afraid speetable white folks won't vote for 'em and dey Link dey can fool de black man, kase dey don't know nnffin, and is easily soft-sawdered. Dar's chesnuts in de fire, my breddern, and monke want 'em ; he rake 'em ont wid de cat's paws ; if •it burn de cat, it don't de monkey. What do mean white men care how much de nigger suffer, so dey get and keep the offices. What dey care if a hundred sassy, fool niggers get kilt, as at Orleans, so as dey kin git up a helladeilo again de rebels, as dey call cleb er white men; and . get an excuse to have de handle obde' vise turned one more time, and dey get de rule ob dere betters. Bewar ob dem, my bredderin. When we monkeys see chestnuts in de fire and be gin to be mighty perlito to de cat, let de oat take care Ott her paws. Dey is ravin wolves, my belubbed, seo kin whom dey may devour. Dey show dere luv for de black man by taxis his cotton three cents a pound, while his childer is cryinfor bread, his blankets a dollar a pair, while he is shibberin wid cold. Bewar of dem,.heltibbed brudder in ; if you lets dem fool you wid dere soft sawder, you'll ,be was den po6r Esau, who sold his birthright far a mess of po tash;. and .hOmoit ob knowed before he traded' for it; dat Met fit to eat, but. only to„tualte douP'o4l , l3. Finally; in Conclusion; My btudderin, beware of men , dat comfit° you in sheep's clothin, but widen dey is rovenin wolves. ...GenerafOinniii father is opeaffing on the Dernowitiii - side in 'did Ohio winvass. The Rings on the Oak. A correspondent of the Loudon Daily News, in the course of a letter with refer. ence to a historical and legendary tree known as " Herne's Oak," gives not only some interesting facts about the tree it self, but also an explanation of a natural phenomena in connection with it. He says: " While working up a portion of this memorable tree into covers for the book I have written on its identity,' and look ing on the end, I observed a great pecul iarity, namely : The annular rings accu mulated in a healthy and vimorous man-, ner tip to a certain point when they sud denly ceased, became almost impercepti ble, then increased, in size again till they attained nearly their former width, after wards gradual - 1 4 y diminished towards the outer edge of the tree, where they finally became undistinguishable. " Upon mentioning this phenomena to an intelligent gardener of fifty years ex perience—without informing him in'what wood I had observed it—he said that the tree must have been struck with light, Ding or blighted in some way, eo as to have stopped its :growth, otherwise such an appearance would not have been pre sented. " It was in the natnre of trees, as it was with us, that when they arrived at matu rity they began to decline, the same as we did, but it was generally a gradual process ; the rings in the trunk would be come smaller and smaller by degrees, as the sap flowed less and less up the trunk of the tree. "I have since examined the wood more closely, and from the healthy part of the tree to . the outside of the piece, I have counted 164 annular rings. If to these are added twenty for the sap that was wasted away - from it, and forty-four years, which time at least it is known to have been dead, we are carried back as far as „1639, as the latest time when the tree would have been seared or blighted. How much earlier than this it may.have beeti, I am not in a;position at present to prove; but, considering that the rings are so small as to be scarcely discernible, and that some of the outer portion of the tree has boon waatod away, I submit that it is not a preposterous idea to assume that the blasting of it happened in Shahks peare's time." Sharp Practice. • Nantucket is famous for pretty girls, excellent fishing, Siasconset and good sto ries. One of the latter is told of an inha bitant of the island who lost hens from his roost. To detect the thief, he placed a sharp scythe in a position to be clutch ed by the criminal as soon as he entered the hen-roost door. The next morning there was blood up on the blade, but no hens were missing. The gentleman did not hunt for woun ded hands, and in a short time went to California, raurning after an absence of several years. There used to live in Nantucket one of the largest story-tellers for a young man upon the continent. He was quite popu lar, however, bad a gocd deal of "brass," and on election days could get out more voters than any other man on the island. He was " stirring up" voters one day, and came upon the returned Californian. "Hello, B—," said the latter, "give me a ride to the polls." "No!" said B—, with an oath, "A man as puts scythes in his hen-roosts shall never ride with me I" B— was never prosecuted for the confession. LATE vs. EARLY SOWN WHEAT.—Vor the past four or five years, almost all win ter wheat in the Northern States has 4 been more or less injured by an insect variously denominated Hessian fly, chinch-bug, In some localities the crop taken together, being less by one-half—some particular pieces not yielding five bushels to the acre, which, had it not been for the fly, would have produced twenty—while in other instances the crop was entirely de stroyed. In Michigan, last winter, I saw several fields sown to wheat last fall, which had been entirely , destroyed by the pest, and •ploughed under—the fly com mencing upon it as soon, as it had nicely got to growing, and eating it out so as to leave the ground entirely bare. One would suppose that an insect so destruc tive in its nature, and doing as Ruch damage as this has done, -would be wine widely noticed in our agricultural papers, and a remedy sought for—for there isn remedy by which these injuries can bo en 'rely avoided, which is simply by late seWft. I have seen fields of wheat in jured at least two-thirds by the fly, while an adjoining one gave a maximum crop, with, not a trace of the fly to be seen—the first sown early, in' the latter part of Au gust or first of Septernber, the latter not before the 15th or 20th 'of Sepfumbr— while'wheat sown even as late as October last' season - is giving a good yield. The Hessian fly has not done much injury hero this season. Last season and the one prel , vious they built tie badly. By sowing late a chanc,e is:given to top-dress fields to be' sown with wheat. This is practised now in this luealit,y almost, universally, our sweeping winds and bleak; cold winters, rendering it necessary. iVOLEME XXIV, NUMBER 41„ TIIE COST OF WEEDS.—The most ex pensive crop grown by farmers is weeds. It is not easy to estimate their cost, but we know that it amounts toany mill ions of dollars annually. If tleir value is anything, the farmer has seldp'm been able to appreciate it. The question of weeds becomes every year • more serious, and their spread more appalling. Some of the best farms of the country have become so infested with weeds as to yield but poor returns. If our present system of culture is to continue, no one need expect to rap idly grasp a fortune at farming. The eradication of weeds, when they once get possession of the soil, is some what discouraging to the farmer, espe cially when neighboring farms are grow ing weed crops that furnish innumerable seeds to be wafted by the wind and de posited upon the land. There is scarcely a farmer but fully understands that a large crop of useful plants cannot be expected from ground overrun with weeds, and yet many pay but slight attention to subduing these pests. They increase from year to year, until the land becomes so foul that even this very. condition of things is deem ed a sort of excuse to let them take pos session of the soil. They become formid able and, men dread to make the attack, knowing that no weak opponent is to be encountered. RAIN ON THE 800?. . . When the humid shadows gather Over all the starry spheres, And the tacliischoly darkness Gently weeps in rainy beam 'Tie a Joy to preis the pillow Of a cottage clusmber bed, And to listen to the patter - Of the soft rain overhead. Every tinkle on the shingle. Has an echo in the heart, And a thousand dreamy niacin Into busy beings start; And a thousaild recollections Weave their bright hues into woof, As I listen to the patter Of the soft rain on the roof. . :'There in fancy comes my mother, As she used to years none, To survey the Infant Ere she had left them till the da'arn, I can see her bending o'er me, As I listen t. the awm Which Is played upon the shingles By the patter° f the rain. Then my little seraph sister, With her wings and waxen bah', And her bright-eyed cherub brother, A serene, angelic pair, Olide around my wakeful pillow • With their praise or mild reproof, As I listen to the murmur Of the soft rain on the roof. And another comes to thrill ntsf With her eye delicious blue; I forgot, while gazing on her, That her heart was all untrue; I remember that I loved her As I rib'er may love again, Andtrny heart's quick pulses vibrato To the patter of the rain. There is naught in art's features That can work with such a spell, In the spirit's pure, deep fountains, Whence the holy passions swell. As that melody of naturei- That subdued, subduing strain— Which is played upon the shingles By the patter of the rain. —A lady correspondent of the Milwan kie Sentinel, who, writing under a nom de plume, had attracted considerable atten tion, received a note from a gentleman admirer, recently, who said that a lady who could put such beautiful thoughts on• paper must be equally gifted in person, etc., etc., and wanted to meet her "by moonlight alone," to which she wrote an assent. She came tb the rendezvous veiled, they walked, he talked, he made love; finally gained consent to take a little kiss, the veil was raised for the purpose, and the stricken gentleman gazed upon the comely features of his own wife! PRESERVING POTATOES.-A correspond ent of the Scientific American says that he has tried the following method of keeping potatoes for years with complete success, though in some instances the tubers were' diseased when taken out of the around : "Dust over the floor of the bin with lime, and putin about six or seven inches deep of potatoes, and dust with lime as before. Put in six or seven inches of otatoes and lime again ; repeat the (Terse n until all are stored away. . One bus h f lime will do forty bushels of potatoes, t ough more will- not hurt them, the lime rather im proving the flavor than other Wise." • —A' baggage-man on> the Pittsburg, Fort-Wayne, and Cbmago - Railroad, known throughout, that region till 44 Jim," occasionally indulges in remark.of amain lar nature. During the rebellion; when .Western pulpits were too generally made political rostrums, Jim. met some old friends traveling on the. ero. After in quiring about old'acquaintanees w and talk. log over old times, one of the party asked. " I:4T-the.by, how's politics around here)' " Well," replied Jim, "I'll be darned if I know, for /hava't beat to church itintoren a. month." • - • . bashful young • mail isoortelt ATI equally bashful young lady. As they ap: preached the dwelling of the damsel slat) said, entreatipey " any liody yow-teatl'd borne.": Elm," said be, emphathiallyi, don' t you inutd‘i I'm as mush alillataeil etit..as,yed &IA?:
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