The Elk County advocate. (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, September 26, 1872, Image 4

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    LONELINESS.
Tli waning moon was ap ths itin
Were hint and wry fw
The vtaw ebont the window-sill
War wet with falling, dew I
A little olond before the wind
Was drifting down the wort
t heard the moaning of the sea
In Us unquiet rest
tfntll, I know set from what ffrlof,
Or theught of other rears,
The hand I leaned upon was oold,
And wet with felling tears.
An Extinguisher.
For a full appreciation of tha follow
ing you ought to have known the car
ties; and you ought to hare bean at our
xown Meeting ana beard " Uncle John"
make hit speech. But you (hall have
the story.
Mr. Loren Smangle was a busy man
In our Tillage. He was a carpenter by
trade, and a speculator by instinct. He
built several houses, and upon the pre
mise that he owned much real estate he
gained considerable credit He was
constant in his attendance at church,
and outwardly he was a very moral
man. He was a heavily framed man.
with a stoop in his shoulders, and his
voloe was attuned to a pious twang? In
timet t came to pass that Smangle failed
became bankrupt and when his
creditors looked for his property they
found that he had put it all out of his
hands; all his real estate had been
deeded to a relative who lived in an ad.
joining town and his creditors got
nothing. In short, when Smangle came
to make a disclosure of his effects in
court, he was able to show that he was
possessed of just what was exemt from
leisure by law, and nothing more.
People whom he owed wero wroth, for
they knew that the big piece of land
over the mill-brook was his.- and t.hpv
knew he still he still owned the block of
buildings in the village, though ho only
collected rents as agent of the relative
aforesaid. There was no bankrupt act
of which he could take advantage, and
J augments neia against min would re
main good for a score of years.
A O 1. ...
.among entangles creditors was
" Uncle rt John Watcher, a quaint old
genius, who had been " Captain " in his
day, and who was now settled down to
the cleaning and tinkering of clocks
and the heavier and grosser kinsi of
watches. Uncle John attended the
same church with Smanglo, and, like a
Christian man, made no outcry against
his conniving brother, though deep down
in his heart he felt a bitterness which he
could not hide.
Immediately after his failure Smangle
commenced the erection of a residence
upon the land over the mill-brook, and
there he laid out a farm, doing all, of
course, in tne name of the distant rela
tive and when tho house was finished
he moved into it with hif family. The
months passed on. and those who held
judgments against him looked in vain
for visible property upon which to lay
an attachment. Smangle was not to be
caught in that way.
At length Smangle wanted the town
to accept and keep in repair a road
which he had opeaed across the mill-
brook, and in the warrant calling the
next town meeting he eot an article in
serted " To see if the Town will lay out
and maintain a road commencing etc.,
etc, running etc., etc., to land of
said Smangle.
The day of Town Meeting came, and
Smangle was on hand to cress his claim
for the road, and he had engaged sev
eral of the smart talkers to advocate
the measure. Finally that article in
the warrant was reached, and Squire
Cummings made an able plea in behalf
of the project. It seemed only fair and
jusi mat me road should be laid out,
and so it would have been had not an
unexpected extinguisher been put upon
the measure. Uncle John Watcher arose
and mounted the steps leading to the
chairman's desk.
" Mr. Moderator," said he, in his mel
low, measured-tones, " I am certainly in
favor of granting all proper crivileees.
and I am also in favor of adopting all
necessary plans ior improvement. Jiut,
sir, before the town votes to lav ont this
road would it not be well to know where
the work is to end ? We do not wish to
start a thoroughfare which may find no
termination on earth. This article of
the warrant specifies that the proposed
road shall run to ' land of laid Untangle.'
Now, sir, , for one, hare a great desire t
knot just where any parcel of land be
longing to taid Smangle may be heated!"
The meeting very quickly saw the
point, csmangie, pale and red by turns,
tried to explain that there had been a
mistake made in drawing up the article
in the warrant, but the merriment of
the multitude overwhelmed him, and he
sunered the article to be passed over,
The road was finished in course of time.
bnt not at the expense of the town,
If. T. Ledger.
Severe Sentence on Bank Defaulters.
The severe sentences passed on Hoard
and Pearson, late cashier and teller of
the Rhode Island National Bank, should
have a wholesome influence on bank
officials who may be inclined to use the
funds with which they are intrusted in
Erivate speculation. Both of these men
ad always borne a high reputation in
the community, and were believed to
have accumulated moderate competen
cies through years of thrift and economy.
They were neither gamblers nor fast
livers, and the Directors of the bank
placed the most implicit confidence in
their integrity. The speculation com
menced as far back as 1864, when some
thirty thousand dollars was abstracted
from the funds of the bank, and lost in
speculation. The bank was then a State
institution. When the bank became a
national one, Hoard and Pearson retain
ed their positions, and becoming inter
ested in a manufacturing enterprise in
Pawtucket, R. I., they drew the capital
for the undertaking from the bank. The
enterprise proved unfortunate, and
thousands upon thousands of dollars
were systematically embezzled and swal
lowed up, until the deficit reached the
enormeus sum of $220,000. False figures
and false swearing on the part of the
cashier prevented the Board of Directors
and the public from suspecting the real
state of affairs, and it was not until last
January that an accidental ciroumstance
brought this long series of robberies to
light. The guilty officials made what
restitution they could to the amount
of about 90,000 leaving their families
destitute. Pearson, the teller, was
sentenced to nine years in the State
Prison for embezzlement, and Hoard, the
cashier, who had added to embezzlement
the crime of perjury, was sentenced to
nine years at hard labor.
There is an ancient painting in Spain
wnerc ad ran am in the saonnce Is pre
paring to snoot isaao with a pistol.
A Romantlo Sulci Jo in Naples.
A melanoholy occurrence, whioh has
no parallel in the records of romantic
crime, recently took place in Naples. In
liie Rivier a di Chittjn resides Sig. Bora
phino Itissi, who is the official agont in
xn apies oi tue itoyai ljottery bureaus,
and the ownor of a magnificent silk
bazaar and a private banking house on
the Toledo. He has a son. Giovanni.
and two daughters. Mrs. Rissi died
several years ago. The son had long
lived in an English boarding house, iu
the Strada Santa CatrinadiChiaja, kept
by one Byrne.
in old Bombai flourishing days, a
groom was sent to England to pur
chase valuable horses. Whilu iu Lon
don his Majesty's groom died. By the
oia Jung s permission, the horses were
given to Byrne, who was an exoert
jockey. Byrne wont to Naples and was
engaged in his Majesty's stables. Step
by step he advanced to the position ot
master oi norses. When the old Jung
was dying he did not forget the horse
man. During the brief and unhappy
reign of Francis the Second, Byrne re
tained his old position, and when the
new King was driven from Naples, his
Queen promised the horseman that he
or his family should nevor want as long
as her purse could assist them. Byrno
had saved money, and whon ouiot
reigned in Naples, he fitted up a com
modious and respectable boarding house,
whioh has ever since been the favorite
resort of tourists in . moderate circum
stances. Young Giovanni Rissi had been for
several years a visitor at Byrne's house,
ostensibly to procure a knowledge of
English, but really to court one of
Byrne's daughters. Mr. Byrne had two
daughters, Eliza and Martha, who were
accomplished and of great boauty.
Eliza, the elder, added to her remarka
ble personal charms an amiability of
character sumcient to win the most fas
tidious. Sho formed a union with young
Rissi, and both lived with the firm do
termination of becoming one day man
and wife. The marriage day was final
ly settled upon, but Rissi's father ob
jected. Mr. Byrne was indignant at
the elder Rissi's objection, and refused
to permit his daughter to hold further
communication with the banker's son.
From the 7th to the 9th inst.. which
included the day assigned for their wed
ding (Aug. 8) nothing was heard of Miss
ay rne or Uiovanni liissi. . Rumors ot an
elopement were inevitable, the general
behet being that they had fled to
emys Bay, near Greenock, Scotland,
where Miss Byrne had many friends.
About 7 o'clock on tho eveninrr of the
proposed nuptial day, when the sun had
just set over the errand bav of Naples.
and wnne thousands were going to the
princely grounds of tho Villa Reale to
hear the music or revel in the luxuries
. ... v " -
of the daintily-fashioned saloons, the at
tention of a policeman was attracted to
something which was occasionally rolled
by the tide up the convex walling of the
public garden on the bay. Tresses, the
lokis ot a silken dress, and also the gar
ments of a man made the gend'arme
hasten to the authorities of the dead-
house and announce what he had seen,
The morgue-boat, with its dusky cover
ing, was sent to the spot and the objects
were hoisted on board. A youne man
and woman bound together with cords
around the ankles and necks were re-
veakd to the men in the boat. The girl
had been beautifuL The pearly teeth,
chiselled features, and splendid auburn
tresses put the corpse mongers out of
their routine of cold carelessness for
once. The portly form of the well
known and universally admired Giovan
ni Rissi was then discovered.
The music in the garden was hushed,
and the news of the discovery sped
through every circle within the Villa
Reale nobles, untitled aristocracy, and
plebians. The point of the public gar
den, opposite gloomy Vosuvius, where
the corpses were found, was thronged
with spectators, and the boat was fol
lowed on its way up the bay to the
dead-house. A phial of prussic acid
was found on Rissi, and it was proven
that he and the girl died from the ef
fects of poison. The bodies were taken
to the late dwelling of Miss Byrne, and
afterward the remains of Giovanni Rissi
were sent to his father's house. Obserra-
tore Romano.
Cooks and Cookery.
Half of our countrywomen, who are
in chronio misery about their cooks,
never stop to consider that a principal
cause ot their dimculties is their own
ignorance of cooking. There exists not
in creation a more perfectly useless be
ing than the New York fashionable
young lady, and the full force of this
fact probably only dawns upon her when
she is married. What a contrast does
she present to those notable house-wives
who were common enough in this country
a hundred years ago 1 We have not tho
least desire to see ladies, whoso means
enable them to keep several servants oc
cupying themselves chiefly with domestic
details ; but, on the other hand, we would
have every girl thoroughly initiated in
their mysteries, .hven in old countries,
where efficient servants are procured
with comparative ease, households are
rarely well managed where the lady of
the bouse is ignorant of housewife!)
duties ; while hero most of us know by
painful experience what her ignorance
entails. To know how a dinner should
be cooked, it is not necessary to cook
one. There are thousands of men who
never handled saucepan or spit, who can
tell exactly why a dish is not quite right,
If, instead of thrusting a cookery-book
into a servant-girl's hand's and expect
ing: her with its assistance to send up
dinner, ladies were to set down and ex
plain exactly how the thing should be
done, and praise and blame with discre
tion the efforts of their handmaidens,
many a man would have a far better
table, and persons of moderate means
would be able to entertain a couple of
friends with a decently good dinner
cooked at home, instead of going
great expense by having the necessary
articles from a restaurant. There would
be far loss trouble about servants among
us if their mistresses showed a kindly
personal interest in their welfare. This
especially applies to Irish servants, who
are peculiarly amenable to personal in
fluence. There are many persons here
who have not been used to servants in
their youth, and don't know Low
treat them. They are alternately distant
and familiar, and are dreadful indignant
when the servants become familiar too.
Those who are dignified, considerate,
consistent, and firm, will get on with
servants here as elsewhere. Constant
changing generally argues pretty nearly
as much fault in mistress as in maid.
Appleton't Journal.
An adventurous astronomer, with
tome spaas capital, is looking out for
safe speo on the diso of the tun.
Secrets of Succour.
The possession of superior renins does
ot by any means ensure a man's suo-
coss in business. M men who are en
dowed with suoh peculiar gifts make bad
managors of any business, and are too
orratio for ordinary executive purposes.
v nat, tnon, is the grand secret cf suo
coss? Not high, intellectual attain
ments. Few scholarly men will lay aside
their devotion to letters for their own
sake, and follow the plodding course by
which success in business is to be at
tained. And it lies not in the force of
Circumstances. Some who misht other
wise have been successful in a clear
course have doubtless broken down in
the face of popular obstacles ; but the
man who can bend occasions and condi
tions to his will can achieve his triumph
in spite of such adverse surroundings.
It is not luck. There is loss of happy
chance in suoh success than is common
ly supposed.
It is true that many tempt their fate,
and escape as by a miracle, but this can
form no rale in life ; success in business
is obedience to a law that can be clearly
and distinctly traced throughout the
wkolo ot ono s career. Tho law is based
on the principle that everything has its
price, and they only who are able and
willing to pay it can acquire what thev
covet. Some are prevented throuorh
want of nerve, or failing health, or de
fective judgment, or other mental and
physical defects, from succeeding in the
struggle. But more, who are able, fail
because they are unwilling: to meet the
cost. Thy soek the end. but will not
by patient self-denial employ the
means.
Present ease, present gratification.
some form of indulgence not consistent
with tho end which has been proposed,
offers a temptation too strong for them
to resist. To-morrow thoy will begin a
sterner course ; next week they will turn
over another leaf with different reading
on the obverse side, but to-day let the
hands be folded and the old encum
brance remain. No man is on the road
to success who has not already paid part
of the price, and is not now holding out
to fortune in full the next instalment
that is due.
The " White Lady" of Germany.
The delusion, or trick probably the
latter which has produced the supposed
apparition of the White Lady in the
Hofburg, at Vienna, rests on a supersti
tion which seems to recur with singular
pertinacity among the votaries of the
supernatural in uermany. There is
scarcely a German family of mediieval
celebrity which has not its White Lady,
generally appearing, like ber couBin, the
xnsh .banshee, to announce Bonie lm
pending calamity. The original is said
to nave Deen a certain iiertha von Rosen
berg, by marriage, von Lichtenstein.
who was killed by domestic ill-usage
about the middle of the fifteenth century,
ana waikea ever atterward.- Hut the
Rosenbergs intermarried with the more
famous house of Hohenzollern, and the
hite Liady has somehow transferred
her residence to the Palace at Berlin.
Here her appearances have been numer
ous and manifold, but she generally
prefers a " white mourning " costume,
and carries a chatelaine and bunch of
keys in old German fashion. White
mourning was worn throughout the
middle ages by the widows of deceased
sovereigns and princes. Since those times
the White Lady has shown herself so
repeatedly at Berlin as almost to have
vulgarized her character as a phantom.
And it is a rare proof of the simplicity of
the old-fashioned German character (says
1-1 ... .N .
an ringusn paper; in at, although the
superstition was turned to account, as
might be expected in the neighborhood
of a Court, by all sorts of mystifiers and
inventors of practical jokes, it seems to
have lived on just the same. On one oc
casion a number of ladies were indulg
ing in irreveront jokes respecting the
white spectre, when she suddenly ap
peared in the midst of them ; they took
to flight, but she caught the last of them
and inflicted on her a very unspiritual
castigation. Another time she presented
a colonel, who was hard up for money
to pay the Elector's troops, with a sum
of a hundred thousand crowns, concealed
behind a wall. I he Elector accepted
the story and the loan, and the colonel's
tortune was made.
Immense Wheat Farms.
The San Francisco (CaU Bulletin says
there are three wheat farms in the San
Joaquin Valley with areas respectively
of 36,000 acres, 23,000 and 17,000 acres.
On the largest of these farms the wheat
crop this year is reputed to be equal to
an average of 40 bushels to the acre,
the yield running up on some parts of
the tarm to bu bushels. The product
of this farm for the present year is
i,iu,uuu bushels. The boundary on
one side ot this farm is about 17
miles leng. At the season of plowing,
ten four-horse teams were attached to
ten gang-plows, each gang having four
plows or forty horses with as many
plows wero started at tho same time,
the teams following in close succession.
Lunch or dinner was served at a mid
way station, and supper at the terminus
of the held, 17 miles distant from the
starting point. - The teams returned on
the following day. The wheat in this
iinm'-nie field was cut with twenty of
the L.rgest reapers, and we believe has
now all been threshed and put in sacks.
It would require over forty ships of
medium size to transport the wheat
raised on this farm to a foreign market.
Even the sacks required would make a
large hole in the surulus money of most
farmers. -We have not the figures touch
ing the product of the other two farms ;
but presume that the average is not
much below that of the first. There are
thousands of tons of wheat which can
not be taken out of the valley this sea
son, and must remain over as dead capi
tal, or, what is nearly as undesirable,
will only command advances at heavy
rates ot interest.
A Queer Fancy. One of James
Gordon Bennett's queer fancies was an
immense bird-cage tilled with rare birds
from every part of the globe. So he
had made it as large as a house, and be
fore it he would stand for hours and
study the habits of the different mem
bers of the feathery tribe. Sometimes
he would liken his different birds and
fowls to well known men in real life.
Once he stood with a neighbor and kept
him laughing for a long time as he
would point them out, with an apt re
mark. Pointing to the robin, he said
that was Thomas A. Hendricks ; the
woodpecker, that is Ben Butler ; the old
goose is Sumner ; the parrot is Gerrit
Davis : the old gobler is Conklin ; the
urow is Fred Douglas ; the hawk is
Wendell Phillips; and the canary is
Sunset Cox, &o. This large house cage
is still to bo lean at Washington
lieighU.
AQR1CVLTVRAL.
Bcallawao Stock. It is not at all
nnoommon to hear a tarmer declare
that thero is no profit in koeping fine
cattle ; that it would not pay him to
purchase a good short-horn bull at say
f 500 wherowith to improvo his herd.
Let us soo how this thing figures up.
He raises ton steers of what the drover
denominates seal la wag sort, and sells
thm at three or four years old, or pos
sibly he feeds them six years, when they
will realize four cents per pound on uu
pounds weight, which is equal to $32
per head, or f 320. It is safe to say that
the cost of these cattle will not be less
than the price received, so that there
will bo no profit to the feeder, if there
is no loss. Another farmer raises ten
grade short-horn steers, which at three
years old are (fold at eight cents a pound,
and weigh 1,000 pounds each Their
money value is f 1,280. Thoy may have
cost $640 to feed, which is double the
cost of the scallawags, and then there is
a profit of $640. This will represent a
small part only of the gain made by the
use ot a thoroughbred bull ; tor at least
he may be expected to sire 25 calves per
annum during six or seven years, and
his services will thus be found worth at
any rate not less than $3,000 to $4,000
on this basis. Here is nothing counted
to his credit but the Bimple profit on
beef alone, and that is based on the tan
gible and stable foundation of a market
report. There is naught extenuated and
naught set down in hopes which may or
may not be realized. Some farmers
have said that this result is hopeleBS for
them, that they cannot expect to gain
one cent per pound extra from a drover
for a better quality of stock. It is true
that there are such farmers, and that
they say this, but it is strange if this is
not a prejudice born of a want of en
ergy and business tact. How can beef
differ in this respect from wool or pork,
butter or cheese, or corn or wheat, all of
which bring prices exactly in a ratio
with their several qualities. Drovers
who come across such men will ' fool
them to the top of their bent," undoubt
edly, and will persuade them that good
stock has no more value than poor, if
possible ; but it is hard to believe that
in this age of newspapers such a farmer
could be found. " It is naught, it is
naught, saith the buyer, but when he
hath gone his way, then he boasteth ;"
and drovers are often such buyers, but
it is a farmer's own fault if such a buyer
ever have a chance to boast over a bar
gain of this sort made with him.
Tareatexed Potato Famine. The
English papers are full of uncomfortable
fears of " a possible obliteration of the
potato crop." One says that "every
where disease is showing itself and
spreading rapidly. There is one excep
tion to this in districts impregnated
with arsenic (query, sulphurous vapors)
from smelting operations, and where the
disease is said to be not prevalent." A
member of the Central Chamber of
Agriculture writes that he recently
carefully examined a number of fields
in the potato-growing district around
Long Sutton, in Lincolnshire, and found
that already three-fourths ot the tubers
(by weight) are diseased, whilo the mis
chief is still in active progress. The
testimony of many growers in the
neighborhood is that scarcely any sound
potatoes can be discovered throughout
whole helds, and the general anxiety is
to know not what may be the probable
amount ot " ware tor the market, but
whether enough produce will be forth
coming as seed for next year. He has
not the slightest doubt that the same
condition of the crop prevails over the
entire tract of potato country between
Boston and Wisbeach, and that tho
yield, if anything at all, can be little
more than a return of the seed planted.
The consternation among the farmers,
who pay. high rents, and apply to their
land very large quantities of artificial
manure, may be imagined, seeing that
the loss can scarcely be under 15 or
perhaps 20 per acre. Disease appears
to have smitteu tho crop in all parts of
the kingdom.
We are indebted to Henry Stewart
for this definition : A standard shingle
is four inches in width at the lower
edee. and a quarter of an inch thick,
Tho best quality are square at the butts,
of even thickness, with parallel sides,
and shaved or sawn of an even taper
from butt to top, and quite tree from
t . i i i
Knots. A mousauu Buiiisrien me uuu-
turned in a bunch, the band of which is
iust so many inches in length as mul
tiplied by the number ot courses countea
on bot'i sides of the bunch will make
1.000 times four inches. Thus, 50 courses
(on each side) with a band 40 inches
long will make l.uuu shingles.
The author of " The Farmer's Alminax"
thinks it is nothine but fun to raise oats,
" All vou have to do is to plow the land
deep, then nianuro it well, then sprinkle
the oats all over the ground, one in a
place, then worry up the ground with a
drae all over, then set up nitcs to keep
the chickens and woodchucks out ot
them, then kradle them together with a
kradle, then rake them together with a
rake, then bind them, together with a
band, then stack them up with a stack,
then thrash them out with a flail, then
clean them up with a mill, then stow
them away in a granary, then spend
wet days and Sundays trapping for rats
and mice.
Tho new potato which Mr. Bliss has
on the programuieforearly introduction
and for which the originator was paid a'
small fortune, is found by the writer of
' Notes from the Pines. "in lht Ameri
can, Agrkulturitt, to be ten days ahead
ot the Early ltose, ana tuny as pro
ductive.
The latest patent contrivance designed
to stop a runaway horse is- a pair of
blinders, Dy which the driver, on puinng
a cord, instantly and enectuaiiy bima
tolas tho unruly quadruped.
It is estimated that last year the
chinch bug infastod to a greater or less
extent 40.000 sauare miles ot territory.
and did damage to the extent of more
than f JO.OOO.OOO.
Colored Litrht as a Semodr for Dls
ease.
Gen. Pleasonton, of Philadelphia, who
a year or two aero published a pamphlet
giving the result of some experiments
showing the influence of blue light on
vegetable and animal matter, is still
confident that his discovery is of great
practical importance. lie has recently
triven to the publio an account of a re
markable recovery of an invalid from
chronio disease, simply by the influence
oi colored rays of light, rue wue oi
Philadelphia physioian, who had i
some time been saffenner from a com
plication of disorders which baffled the
skill of her medical advisers, was in
dsiced to try tho following plan in the
hope of obtaining relief: Every alter;
nate pane of glass in one of the win
dows of the patient's room was removod,
a id blue glass was substituted. The
patient then cxposod her back to tho ao
tion of the combined blue and white
lights thus obtained for thirty minutes
eaoh day, at the same hour. " At the
beginning of the treatmont she was un
able to sleep or cat, was in a miserable
condition, and was wasting rapidly.
At the end of ten days the pains in her
back were less, her hair had begun grow
ing thickly, and there was a marked im
provement in her condition. In thret
weeks she was almost entirely well.'
Gen, Pleasonton is a gentleman of repu
tation and influence, and would not be
likely to make assertions which could
not be fully sustained. Some of the re
sults he testifies to having attained in
accelerating the growth of vegetables
and animals are really remarkable, so
much so, in fact, as to appear improba
ble. But we have no right to doubt
his word, even when he says that bald
ness can be cured by the influence of
blue.
Th Fruit Recorder and Cottage Gar
dener is exclusively devoted to fruit grow
ing and home's adornments. Edited by
a life-long fruit grower. Specimensivo,
or from bept. to Deo., four months, 25
cents. A. M. Purdy, Palmyra, N. Y.
Do you want your money safely in
vested and paying you good interest?
Write to Charles w. uassler, xo.l
Wall Street, New York.
ITaw York Wholesale Markets.
BUTTER State, tine firkins S HI
Western Is 0
CU1IESK-State rectory 11 (
Ohio do., d
Farm dairy. V &
COTTJN-Ordlunry..." 51
Low to Kood middling... io G
EGOS N. Y., N. i 4t I'tnu'a.... 86 &
I.I mod .. ti
FLOUR-Superllue i 60 W
Extra to fancy Hi ate 6 60 (gl
Ohio round hoop 6 tto 04
Extra amber 7 Si 1st
Pjirinr wheat S 70 C't)
Kxtra Oenoec 7 30 st
St. Lonisdonblo extra.... 7 8a (ml
Cork Mbal Weotern dc Jersey.. 3 30 (a)
Bniudywino.. ........ 3 7 04
GRAIN Cor Western 0 Gt
Houthern 8 Qj
Bari.it Western 61 Ojl
Canada 0
OiTt 3 00
Wheat Western No. 1 Spring.... 1 68 OS
11 YE 73 UB
no. ro. i ao iw o
l)o. Ambor 1 M bp
Do. White 1 80 Oil
White (lenesoo 1 Si 00
PROVISIONt.-Pork-Now tu. 13 10 g I
Vt 'n nrlme.. 10 30 oil l
BEKr Plain 7 oo 0j)
Extra meu v oo Oj 1
Ileel huml iV CO 0c I
Bacon ?H W
GlltEN UA11S S Oi
Lard 0?
SEED Clover G)
Timothy t 37 oo
Flaxseed 0c
WOOL N. Y., Pa., O , ind Mich... CO M
W.andlowa 33 M
Texas and CalU-rnia 30 Q4
BEEVES Bert IS &
tioor, II (oil
Common to Ian.... . ... B 04
SHEEP St. LAMBS- r.ie,-p
i,ainba M 8 04
8WINE-LWe... 1 04
Drofsed S 04
The Two Extremes. Two classes
' medical thinkers attempt to euro
disease by opposite modes of treatment,
Due class torces the system into preter
natural activity; the otkor depresses
and weakens it. iSota are wronp;. To
inflame tho blood of an invalid with
medicated alcohol is as dangerous as to
apply undue steam pressure to a weak
boiler ; and to prostrate the physical
energy, which is the natural opponent
of disease, by depleting treatment, is an
act of almost equal temerity. There is
a medium between these two extremes,
and Dr. Joseph Walker, to whom the
world owes the famous California
Vinegar Bitters, has been fortunate
enough to strike it. He has produced
from simple vegetable elements without
tho admixture ot any distilled or fer
mented fluid, a specifiio comprising the
important preperties of a wholesome
tonio, a gentle evacuant, a purifier of
the secretions, a pulmonic, a sedative,
and a powerful an ti-bilious agent.
IS ever before were those six sanative
qualities comprehended in one medi
cine, and never before did one medicine
oure so many different diseases. Dys
pepsia, liver-complaint, diseases of the
kidneys, rheumatism, intermittent fever.
disorders of the bowels, geut, nervous
anections, and maladies proceeding; from
impurity of the blood, are only a few of
the bodily ills lor which Vinegar Bit
TEns is considered an unfailing remedy.
Buffalo, '. Y., Dec. 13, 1870.
vn it. v. i ikkcb : f ur the pant six
months I have used your Golden Medical Dii-
coveiy in my practice, and in that time I
have tested its merits in severe coughs, both
acute and chronic, in chronic diseases of the
throat, severe castes of bronchitis, aenerul de
rangement of the system, constipated condi
tion of the bowels, and wherever a thorough
Alterative, or blood purifier, has been indi
cated. In ell cases I bare found it to act
gently yet thoroughly and effectually in re
moving the various diseased conditions, and
bringing about a healthy action throughout
he system. X ours fraternally.
509 II. L. HALL. M. D.
A wnoi.B fEorLE s Opinion. When a
nation of tony millions accepts and endorses
as a Standard Kestoiutivb an article that
It bus bud the fullest opportunities ol testing
during a period ot twelve years, who cuu be
so absurdly incredulous as to doubt the excel
lence ot tue preparation 7 1'lantation
Uittehs has passed through this ordeal and Is
now the raott popular proprietary medicine
on this continent. It would be dilllcnlt to Bud
an udult of either sex between the Atlantic
aud tbe Pacific, or between the uorluca-t cor
ner ot Maine aud tbe Gulf ot Mexico, who
uocs not Know, either Irotn perbonul experi
ence or observation, that this renowned vege
table remedy U the purest tonic and stomachic
and the lluest alterative and reuulailug medi
cine at present beture the world. As a pre
ventive ot, aud cure lor, diseases generated by
malaria, aud ns a Bpecinc lor dyspepsia, rheu
matism, and ail nervous and bilious affections.
It U admitted to be fairly pronounced the
f AVOUITE JIOfSKIIOl.D IONIC ANO ALTERA
TIVE of the We.-tern Hemisphere.
We would not recommend tbe frequent or
constant u?e ol any medicine. It is impor
tant to lake even a eood article Judiciously-
Par torn' Purgative Pillt are sale, prompt and
reiiMUie us a laxative or vatnaitic.
Base ball Is undoubtedly good exercise and
capital amusement, out it often occasions
bunged eves, broken skins, and blistered
hands. We can tell you that In all sucb eases.
if JohtuoH's Anodyne Liniment Is resorted to,
It will reduce the swelling and stop tbe pain.
The Purest and Bwebtebt cod
Liver Oil in the world is Hazard
Caswell's, made on the sea-shore, from
fresh, selected livers, by Caswell, Haz
ard & Co., New York. It is absolutely
pure and tweet. Patients who have once
taken it prefer it to all others. Physi
cians have decided it superior to any oi
the other oils in market.
TjNANIMOCe OPIXIOIT. ThogO who
use Burnett' Cologne, pronounce it un-
riralled. Many druggist! bare it.
Lies Liohtkino are ths miraculous cares effected
with Flag.- s Iuatant Relief. Aoues, fains, Sprains,
Bowel lompuuuta, ete., cannot exist u uue great mea-
icuts is luea. IWUiaf wamuieo. ur uaaey retaraea.
niTAioiio's Fiorr.sto TTatii I)tt In the mot mre
ami complete nrepsra'lon of it kind In lee world : Its
effects ere magicnl. It character narmle. lt tlnu
natural, lb qualities eoaunng.
noon Food axd Plbstt or It. marlnecs ihn mm
effort nr-on a per.on who h.i bc;n starved ihnt. the
Peruvian Syrup, an Iron Tonic, clori upon tho weak
and debilitated : It makei them nronir and vHorons
changing- weakness and mllorinn Into tlrouKln ano
neaiiu.
no at mill Oldest Family Medicine Ban
ford' Ltvtr Invlforalor.A purely Vcpclnblo Calhartli
and Tanlc for Dypup'la.Comtipnllon, Debility, Sick-
headache. BUiou Attack, and nil dornnppmtnti at
biTor, oiomacn ana uoweia ask your It, UfTfflet lor lu
Half Alive.
It la a Bad thlni to pati through life only half alive.
Tet there are thoueandt whole habitual eondltlon i
one of languor and debility. They complain of no
pacific dlieaie I they suffer no positive pain, but tbey
have no rellih for anything which afloi ds montal or
saniuous pleasure to their more robuit and enorgetle
follow beings,
In nine caaei out of ten thlj stats of lassitude end
torpor arises from a morbid stomach. Indigestion de
stroys the ensrg y of both mind and body. Whon the
waste of nature Is not suppllod by (due and regular
assimilation of the food, every organ Is starved, evory
function Interrupted.
Now, what does common sonso suggest undor these
circumstances of depression ? Tho system ncods rous
lug and strengthening ; not morely for an Hour or two,
to sink aftorwards into a more pitiable oonditton than
evor (as it assuredly would do If an ordinary alcoholio
stimulant were resorted to), but radically and perma
nently. now ie tnts acsiramo onject to do accompnsnea r
The answer to this Question, founded on the unvary
ing experience of a quarter of acentury, is easily giv
en, iniuse new vtifor into tne ctigomve nrguus dj a
course of llnwtcttor's Stomach Bitters. Do not nato
tttno in amnluUtcnnff temnorarv remedies, but wake
me sy-iem up ny recuperating n.o louniain-uenu oi
nhviical strength and energy, the groat organ unon
which all tlto olhor orgaue Uepcud lor their nurture
ana support.
llv tuu time that a dozen donos of the great vege
table tonic and invigoiant have been taken, the feeble
frame of the dyspeptic will begin to feel its benign
influence. Appetite will be created, and with appetite
the capacity to digest what it craves. Perseveru until
the cure Is completo until healthful blood, lit to be
the material ol flesh and muscle, bouo and nerve and
brain, flows through tue channels ot circu ation. in
stead of the watery pabulum with which they have
nerulolore oeeu uupem-cuy uour.sneu.
TO C0NSUMPT.ttS.
The advertiser, having beou . ermanently cured
that dread disease, Consump'.u.i, by a simple romedy,
is anxious to make known Lonis fellow sufferers the
means of cure. To all who dosiro it, he will send a
pohv of the nt-escrintio'i used, (tree of chariro). with
tnc aireciior.s ior preparing ana using me snnio, wmcu
thoy will lind a Suhk Ci-hk for Consi-mi-tion, Ahth
ua. Bronchitis, &c. Parties wishing the prescription
will pioaso auuresa
IS! Peun St.. Williamsburgh N. V.
kpt. r.un Afu, a. 11.1,..
1IAI) VOI R OHAKDVATIIER AN ES,
XX TATIi in Great Britain, (knniiliv. Holland, or
France, claim it through J. F. FlU'EAL'FF, Attorney
at Law, Columbia, Lancaster Uo., Pa.
COI.DIERS desiring to secure the benefits of the
kJ late 11. mesreaa Law, will learn somctning oi aa
vantaue bv addressing M. 1). FLOW Kit. Adjutant Gen
eral oi Minnesota, ou raui, sunn.
1W tl .'
-".:
For Beauty cf Polish, Saving uabor. Clean1
Uncos, Durability & Cheapness, uncquaiea
fttlYYAltK OF W011T1II.KS9 IMITATIOXS, under otlliT
naHue, tmt resembling ours in tli;tpc ami coler of wrppor
lute: (WhI to deceive.
THK ititttxu si x rni.isn IX nt l.K. fo. tore dealer'
UUP, Ht twelve cenii per jkiuimI tvent ...e atnL, nuy
m.und h"xcs. " Clieuiior than uny ether 1 l'olftU for
notlTii' msixn sn li'mbfr rEscii. No sv.vncnine
Cheaivnticl .Mil-able upcrceilc! other artlcleB.or pur pose,
IKK ItUIMi Sl'.V III.AIK I.KAH H HilU'AHHl. VoraxIfS.
bef.rlnj;A nnd rr,:icMrwr. Lasts ix tiniensvlrmjra!
alone. 2-1 lb. and Ml b. boxes, 15ocnts per IU. Try It
MORSE BROS., Prop'rs., Canton, Mass-
THE BLOOD
MAKES THE WEAK STRONG,
The Peruvian Sttrtw a Protect'
cd Solution of the Protoxide of
iron is so combined as to nave
the character of an aliment, as
easily digested and assimilated
with the blood as the simnlest
ooa. it increases vie quantity
of i attire, s own italtzing
Agent Iron in the blood, and
cures "a thousand lies," simmu
by Toning up9 Invigorating and
9 itaiizina the system xhe en-
riched and vitalized blood ver
meates every art of the body9
repairing damages and waste.
sea rcn ing out morbia secre
tions, and leaving nothing for
aisease to feed upon
j. ft is is tnc secret or the won-
tlerful success of this remedy in
curina DtsDcnsia, Liver Com
plaint, Dropsy, Chronic Diar-
rhaa,uotls, A ervous Affections f
jti uts ana l e ve rs . 11 it mo rs
Loss of Constitutional Viaor
Diseases of the Kidneys and
Bladder, Female Complaints.'
and all diseases originating in
a bad state of the blodd, or ac
companied by debility or a low
state of the system Being free
from Alcohol, in any form, its
energizing effects are not fol-
towea oy corresponding reac
tion, but arc jtermanent, infu
sing strength, vigor, and new
life into all parts of the system,
ana ouuauig up an iron Con
Btitution
Thousands ha ve been chanaed
by the use of this remedu. from
weak, sickly, sujfering crea
tures, to strong, healthy, and
happy men and women; and
invalids cannot reasonably lies
itate to give it a trial.
See that each bottle has PERU
VIAN SYRUP blownin the glass.
Pamphlets Free.
tJ. P. DIXS3IOBE, ProprietoTt
No. 36 BEY BT., NEW Y0BX
Sold by Druggists generally.
sstC ,.T nsfll Ihl iff '
GREAT WESTERN
PITTSBURGH,
Breech-Loadicc Shot Onns, 40 to tloo. Doable Shot
Ouni. (9 to Single liuui, 13 to SU. Kin.., t
t ,73. KOTOIV.rl, tu - BD STAMP FOS falCI-
Lut. JrmyGuni. tLtvolvrt, 4-e, baugluor Irndcior.
2tSii HECEIPT8,
which eot $1)5.00, sent on receipt of 10 sen a. Ad'
" uJAaUH,Bt. Louis, sis.
I .i".7i." Ki.ninJ ri ivili a i
(St. LOUIS, 110.
BciLDixa Fslt (no tar) tor ontslrte work ur, 1 Insl it
Instead of plaster. Velt Carpetij ga, die. Seu I V 'tuiip
for circular and samples. 0. i ay. Cam del., S.J.
T7IVERY GOOD HUSBAND AND FATHER should
t tiring Co.. Iti Fulton St.
A J send ax once tor our L ircuiar.
Eujrenie sImiuIma.
New York.
Honeat, energeUo, God-feanog men aud weoiea
can have pleakaut, profitable work ; ne rude or capital.
Write to ILL, LUatlnx, lit LiudaU St., Bwtou, &W.
IRON IN
Vlneimr Dltters lira not ft vita Knncv Drink.
made f Poor Rtiin. Whiskey, Proof Spirits aud Kefuor
Liquors, dxtorH, spiced, mid sweetened to please tl
taste, called 'Touici,M "Appetizers," "Restorers,
sc., innt ieaa me upper on ia nruiiKenness ana ruin,
but are true Medicine, made from the native roots
and herbs of California, fre from all Alcoholic Stimulants
They are the Great Hlood Purifier and ft I,ife-fivit
Principle, ft Perfect Renovator and Invigorator of the
SvMem. carrvin oil all poisonous matter and restorin
the blood to a healthy condition, enrichinr it, refreshing:
and invicnralinjr, both mind and body. They are easy
of administration, prompt in their action, certain in their
results, safe and reliable in all form of disease.
No Person can fake those Hitters accord
ing to directions and remain Jong unwell, provide J
their bones are not destroyed by mineral poison orothei
means, and the viul organs wasted beyond the point
of repair.
uyspepsiit or intiirraiion tieariaene. Fan
in the .Shoulder, Cough. Tightness of the Chest, Dis
tine. Smir Eructations of the Stomach, Bad Taste
in the Mouth, Mil ion Attacks, Palpitation of t he-
Heart. luttammatioH of the Lun2. Pain in the reeions af
the Kidneys, and a hundred other painful symptoms
are the ollKpnngs ot uyspensia. in these complaints
it has no equal, and one bttle will prove a better gnarr
an tee of it merit than a ent:hy advertisement.
For Female Com plalnl, in youne; or old
married or single, at the dawn of womanhood, or the
turn of life, these Tonic Hitters display so decided an
influence that a marked improvement is soon percep
tible.
For Iiiflnmniatory and Chronio Ml "ten-
matfsm and Gout, Dyspepsia or Indigestion, Bilious
Kemnteuc ana intermitieni revers, fisrascs oi in
Blood, Liver, Kidney and Bladder, these Bitters have
been mo-it successful. Such Diseases are caused by
Vitiated Blood, ulrcli i generally produced by derange
ment of the Digestive Organ.
They are a Gentle Purgative as well as
a Tonic, possessing also the peculiar merit of acting
as a powerful agent in relieving Congestion or Inflam
mation ol tue L,iver ana visceral Urgans, aud in Hilioui
Diseases.
For Skin Diseases, Eruptions. Tetter. Salt
Rheum, Blotches Spots Pimple. Pustules. Boils. Car
buncles, Ring-worms, Scald-Head, Sjre Eye, Lry-
sipela. Itch, Scurfs Discoloration of the Skin, Humors
and Diseases of the Skin, of whatever name or nature,
are literally dug up and carried out of the system in a
short time by the ue of these Bitters. One bottle in
such case will convince the most incredulous of theii
curative effects.
vinanse sue A Minted Bio nil whenever you
find its impurities bursting through the skin in Pimples
Eruptions or Sore; cleanse it when vou find it ob
structed and sluggish in the veins ; cleanse it when it is
foul ; your feeling will tell vou when. Keep the blowd
pure, and the health of the system will follow.
Crlratvftil thounmifls proclaim Vinkcau Bit
TKRS the most wonderful Invigorant that ever sustained
the sinking system.
fill, Tape, ana oilier Warm, lurking in
the system of se many thousands, are effectually de
stroyed and removed. Say a distinguished phvsiol
ogist: There is scarcely an individual upon the face of the
earth whose body is exempt from the presence of worms.
It is not upon the healthy element of rhe body that
worms exist, but upon the diseased humors and slimy
deposits that breed these living monsters of disease.
No system ot Medicine, no vermifuge, no anthelmin
tics will free the system from worms like these Bit
ters. Mechanical Dlneases. Persons euzazed in
Paint and Minerals such as Plumbers, Type setters,
Goid-beaters and Miner, a they advance iu life, will
be subied to paralysis of the Bowels. To guard against
tlm take a dse of Wai.krk s Vinegar Bittkrs once
or twee a weei;. a a Preventive.
ItilloiiM, Remittent, and Intermittent
Fevers, which are so prevalent in the valleys of our
great river throughout the United Slates, es)eci.illy
those of the Mississippi, Ohiu, Missouri, Illinois Ten
nessee. Cumberland. Arkansas, Red, Colorado, Brazos
Rio Grande, Pearl, Alabama, Mobile. Savanna)., Koan
oke, James ud many others with their vast tributa
ries, throughout our entire country during the Summer
and Autumn, and remarkably so during seasons of
unusual neat ana dryness are invariably accompanied
by extensive derangements of the stomach and liver, and
ether aMominal viscera. There are always more or lass
obstructions of the liver, a weakness and irritable state
of the stomach, and great torpor of the bowel, being
clogged up with vitiated accumulation. In their treat
ment, ft purgative, exerting a powerful influence upon
these various organs is essentially necessary. There is
no catnanic ior tue purpose equal t vn. J. walkek i
Vinbg R Bitter, as thev will xnecditv remove the
dark-co.jred viscid matter with which the bowels are
loaded, it the same tune stimulatins the secretions of
the live, and generally restoring the healthy functions
of the digestive organ.
Scrofula, or King's Evil. White Swell mes.
Ulcers iLrysipelas, Swelled Neck, Goiter, Scrofulous
Inflammations, Indolent Inflammations Mercurial Af
fections, Old Sores Eruptions of the Skin, Sore Eves
etc., etc. In these, a in ail other constitutional Dis
eases, Walker's Vinegar Bittbhs have shown their
great curative powers m lht most obstinate and tntract
able case.
lr. Walker's California Vlnecnr Dltters
act on all these cases in a similar manner. By purifying
the Blood they remove the cause, and by resolving away
the effects af the inflammation (the tubercular deposits)
the affected parts receivo health, aud ft permanent cure
is effected.
The properties of Dr. Walker's Vikkoar
Bitters are Aperient. Diaphoretic and Carminative.
Nutritious, Laxative, Diuretic, Sedative Counter-irritant.
Sudorific. Alterative, and Anti-Bilious.
The Aperient and mild Laxative properties of
Dr. Walker's Vinegar Bitter are the best safe
guard in all cases of eruptions and malignant fevers
their balsamic, healing, and soothing properties protect
the humors of the fauces. Their Sedative properties
allay pain in the nervous system, stomach, aud bowels
either from inflammation, wind, colic, cramps etc
Their Couiiter-lrritaut influence extends throughout
the system. Their Diuretic properties act on the Kid
neys correcting and regulating the flow of urine. Their
Anti-Kinoes properties stimulate tue liver, in tue secre
tion of bile, and us discharges through the biliary ducts
and are superior to all remedial agents tot the cure of
Bilious r ever, rever and Ague, etc.
Fortify the body asalnst amease ny puri
fying all its fluids with Vinegar Bitters. No epi
demic can take hold of ft system thus forearmed. The
liver, the stomach, the bowels, the kidneys, and the
nerves arc rendered disease-proof by this great invig
erant.
Directions. Take of the Bitters on geing to bed
at night from ft half to one and one-half wine-glasslull.
Eat good nourishing food, such as beefsteak, mutton
chop, venison, roast beef, and vegetables, and take
out-door exercise. They are composed oi pureiy vci;ei
able ingredients t.d contain no spirit.
I WALKER, Prop'r. It. H. McDONAI. D A. CO.,
Druggists and Gen. Agts.. San Franciscoand New York.
43- SOLD BY ALL DRUGGISTS & DEALERS,
The Language of Disease Is Pain. Re
spond to It wisely by reinforcing nature. An admira
ble preparation for thi purpope it Tarrant's Efvrr
vbscsxt Brltzbr Apbribnt. It expels all acrid
matter from the bowele, regulates thd liver, braces
the nerve, strengthens the dicvetive organs, dist
patei unwholeooine humors, cool, the blood, and puts
the whole machinery of the sr..tem in ?.od worfeinr
order without lrrituliag any of the delicate interaal
membranes.
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lilNu's Pn.s Rsxkdt fails
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