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GXOROIHILL, 8mOP.WoLVBT01l HILL & MTOLVERTON, Attorney Oiiaelor at Ia-vr TIT ILL attend to tho oolleotion Of all Kinas oi olaimi, including Back Pay, Bounty Mri fta sions. JACOB 8HIPMAN, TIBB AND WrB INSTJBANOB AOBNT SUNBURV FENN'A. aapaaiaxTi Farm en Mutual Firo Inturanoo Co., York Pa., Cumberland Valley Mutual Protect oD C0 New York Mutual Life.Qirard Lift of Phil a. A Hart ford Conn. General Aooldeota. Sunbury.jApril T, ly. . Dr.- CHAS. ARTHTTR, IQomcropatljic 3!)sinau. Oraduate of the Homosopathlo Medioal College of Pennsylvania. Orricx, Market Square oppoelto the Court Houie 6TJNBURY, PA. March 31, 168. . 70bs Bowitr t,TI ",B0-"- Bowen & Seesholtz, WHOLESALE BETAIL DEALERS in evory variety of ANTHRACITE COAL, J. Haoa A Co'a Lower Wharf, Knnhiiry, P" Orders solicited and filled with promptness and despatch. bunbury, June 2, ioou. SOLOMON MALICK, ATTORNEY AT LAW, 8TTNBUBY, Northumberland County, Pa, OFFICE in East end of Weaver's Tavern, Market Street. All business entrusted to him will bo careful y and punetiually attended to. Consultation in the Eng lish and Gorman languages. Suubury April 3. 1865. t , AMBROTYPE AND PHOTOGRAPH Corner Market A Fawn Street, SCNBURY, Pa. S. BYERLY, PRorniBTOR, Photogrnpb. Anibrotypes and Mclalnotypes Uken in the best style of the art. P'- l3 J. R. HILBUSH SURVlsYOR AND CONVEYANCER AND JUSTICE OH' 1' II K PEACE. Mahonov, North umherhtnd County, retin'a Office "in Jackson township. Engagements can be laodo by letter, directed to the above address. All businoss entrusted to his care, will be promptly attended to. April 22. 18S6- ly Vu M. ROCKIFELLRR. Llotd T. Rohrbach. ROCKEFELLER & ROHRBACH. . .i;Y, Ps&YX'A. OFFICE the same that hns been heretofore occu pied by Win. M. Rockefeller. Eki., nearly op posite the residence of Judge Jordan. Sunbnry, July 1, 130a. ly a. W. ZIEGl.KB. n. CASK ZIEGLEP. & CASE, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, SUXBURY, PEXSSYLVAXIA. Collections and all Prolossional business promptly ittended to in the Courts of Northumberland and .djoinine Counties. Ir Also, special attention paid to the Collection f Pensions, Bounties and Back Pay for W idows 'rphnns and Soldiers Sunbury, Maroh lo,J8ni M. U. JMAMNKR, ttorney at Uw, SUNBURY, PA- Collections attended to in the counties of Nor limberland, Union, Snydor, Montour, Columbia id Lycoming. RErERCMCXi. Hon. John M. Reed, Philadelphia, A. G. Oattell A Co., " Hon. Wm. A. Porter, " Morton MoMichael, Esq., " B. Ketcham A Co., 2S Pearl Street, hew lork. lohn W. Ashmead, Attorney at Law, " Mstlhews A Cox, Attorneys at Law, " Uinbury, March i, 1882. WHOLESALE AND RETAIL DEALER in every variety ot ANTHRACITE COAL, Upper Wharf, BUXIBUBi t renn-a. yOrJorssolleited and filled with promptness and atcu. nhury, May It, 188. y , E. C QOBI1T, orney nasi Couaaiellor at Laa, 300NVILLE, COOPER CO , MISSOURI ILL pay taxes on lands in any part of the btate. Buy and soil real Estate, and all other ire entrusted to him will receive prompt atten- y 8, 1865. 001 li, 'fl. IU. LIMLKV, ySICIAN AND SURGEON NORTHUMBERLAND, PA. LUMLEY has opened an offioe in Northum d. and oflers bin servioes to tho people of that ind tho adjoining townsLlps. Offloo next door Scott's Shoe Store, whew ha oan found at all humbarland August 19, 188S. )DR & FEED STORE VUOLESALE AND RETAIL. subscriber respectfully informs the public it he keeps constantly on hand at his new HOUSE, near th Shamokin Valley Railroad n SUNBURY, Flour by the barrel and sacks indsof Feed by the ton tbove is all manufactured at his own Mills, be sold at the lowest essh prices. J M. CAD-WALLADER. ry, April 1, '.So6. JEREMIAH SNYDER, racy Si d'oaatjcllor at Lavr. 81 XltrUY, P4. Utrlvt Aimraey for Nortlsam- id Coaaty. ylareh 81, 1866 :y ier and Coaanellor at tMxr xuth side of Market street, four doors west of Eyster'i Btoro, HTT'NfBTJ'B.T. FA. .end promptly to all professional holiness l, hi. eure. the collection of claims la erland and the adjoining counties. April 7, two- 25 O 33 0-3323033: RCHANT TAILOR, And Dealer ia , CASSIMERE9, VESTING, &c , street, a,outh f WestTwr'e Hotel, NUB BT, I A.. ,1966. . MAM mfflBM layer and Builder, Street, 4 doora East of Third Bt., BUHY, PBNN'A. All Jobblaax promptly at GEO. C. WELKER & SON, PIBB ft IiIFB IWOrjBANCB AOBWOT, Offloo, Market Street, SUNBURY, PA. Risks Uken in First Class Stock and Mutual Compa Dies. Capital Represented $14,000,000. Bunbary, May S, 1886 y . COAL! COAL!! COAL!!! GRANT Se BHOTHEH, Sblppera) Sc. Wbolewnle St Retail Dealers la f WIUTU & BEU All COAL, in evory variety. Sole Agents, westward, of the Celebrated Henry Clay Coal. Lowia Wharf, Scnicrt, Pa. Bunbury, Jan. 13, lBflg. Rrallnfr Railroad. SUMMER ARRANGEMENT. June 11th, 1886. GREAT TRUNK LINE from the North and North-West for Philadelphia, New York, Read ing, Pottsville, Tamaqua. Ashland, Lebanon, Allen town, Easton, Ephrata, Litis, Lancaster, Columbia, Ac, ia. Trains leave narrisburg for New-York, as fol lows : 8.00, 8 10 and 9.U5 A. M. and 2.10 and 8. 16 P. M, connecting with similar Trains on the Penn sylvania Railroad, and arriving at New York at 8 00 and 10.10 A. M. and 4.10, 6.20 and 10.45 P. M.; Sleeping Cars accompanying tho 3.00 A. M. and 015 P. M. 1 rains, without change. Leave Harrisborg for Reading, Pottsville, Tama qua, Minersvllle, Ashland, Pine Grove, Allentown and Philadelphia at b.10 A.M. and 2.10 and 4.10 P. M., stopping at Lebanon and principal way sta tions ; the 4.10 p m. Train making connections for Philadelphia and Columbia only, for Pottsville, Schuylkill Haven and Auburn, via Schuylkill and Susquehanna Railroad, leave HarrUburg at 3.20 p. m. Returning : Leave New York at 7. 00 and 0.00 a. m., 12:00 Noon and 8.00 p. m.; Philadelphia at 8.15 a. m. and 8.80 p. m. Way Passenger Train leaves Philadelphia at 7.30 a. m., returning from Reading at 8.30 p. m. stopping at all Stations ; Pottsville at ail Stations; Pottsville at 8.46 a. m. and 2.45 p. m.; Ashland 8.00 and 11.30 a. m. and 1.05 p.m.; Tama- V.45 a.m. and 1.00 and 8 56 p. m. qua at 0.45 a m. and 1.00 and 8.65 p. m. I Leave Pottsville for Harrisburg via Schuylkill and Susquehanna Railroad at 7 00 a. m. I Reading Accommodation Train leaves Reading at I 6.00 A. M. returning from Philadelphia at 6.00 ! P. M. i Columbia Railroad Trains lesre Reading at 6.45 A.M., 12 05 noon and 6.16 P. M. for Ephrata, Litis, ' Lancaster Columbia, Ac. ub bundajs: Leave rew lork at 8 00 pm.. I'bua delpbiati.00 A. M, and 3.15 P M. tho 8.00 a. in. train running only to Reading, Pottsville 8 00 a m., Tamaqua 7 30 am, for Harrisburg, 9 05 a m, and Reading at 1 33 a m, for Harrisburg 7.30 a. m. 10.50 a. in. for New York, and 4 25 p m. for Philadelphia. Commutation, Mileage, Season, and Excursion Tickets, at reduoed rates to and from all points. Baggage chocked through : 80 Pounds Brggagc al lowed each Pamcngor. G. A. NICOLLS, General Superintendent' Iiorilsern Ceatral Railway. FOUR TRAINS DAILY to and from Baltimore and Washington city. THREE TRAINS DAILY to and from the North and West Branch Snsquehanna, Elmira, and all of Northern New York. ON and after MONDAY, MAY Ilet, 1866, the Passonger Trains of the Northern Central Railway will run as follows : SOUTHWARD. Mail Train, leaves Klmira 4.45 p. in. ' Harrisburg, 1.35 p.m. arr. at Baltimore, 6.30 p. m. Elmira Express leaves Elmira, 6.30 p m. Harrisburg, 2.60 a m. arr at Baltimoro, 7 00 a m Fast Line, leaves Harrisburg, fl 45 p m arr at Baltimore, 12 30 p m Harrisburg Accom. leaves Harrisburg, 5 1)5 p m arr at Baltimure, 9 37 p m Erie Express leaves Erie, 4 45 p m arr at Harrisburg, 8 33 a ni NORTHWARD. Mail Train leaves Baltimore 8 15am Harrisburg, 2 05 p m arr at Elmira, 10 45 p m Elmira Express leaves Baltimoro, 0 46 p m " Harrisburg, 2 05 a m arr at Elmira, 1 1 35 a in leaves Baltimore, 12 10 pm arr at Harrisburg, 3 60 p m arr at Baltimore, I 20 pm " Harrisburg, 12 00 a m arr at Erie. 6 66 p m leaves Harrisburg 4 10pm arr at Erie 9 30 a m Fast Line, Frio Mail Erie Express, HarrUburg Aoc, leaves York, 7 10 a m arr at Harrisburg 8 40 a m Erie Express North and Harrisburg Accommoda tion South run daily, except Sundays. Elmira Ex press North daily, and South daily, except Sundays. Fast Line North and Uarrieburg Accommodation North arrive daily, except Sundays. Elmira Ex- Sress North arrives and Fast Line South leavea daily lail North and South runs daily, excopt Sundays. Erie Express South arrives daily, except Mondays. For further information apply at the Ticket Ofhoe in the Pennsylvania Railroad Depot. For further information apply at the Office. I. N. DiBARRY Gen. Supt. 18U. IsMMt. Philadelphia fit Erie Railroad. THIS great line traverses the Northern and North west oounties of Pennsylvania to the oity of Erie on Lake Erie. It has been leased and is operated by the Pennsyl vania Railroad Company. lime 01 rassonger trains at eunoury, Leave Eastward. Erie Mail Train, Erie Express Train, Elmira Mail Train, Leave Westward. Erie Mail Train, Krie Express Train, Elmira Mail Train. 11.45 p.m. 6.65 a m. 10.85 am. 4.60 a m. 6.45 p m. 4 45 p. m. Passengor cars run through on the Erie Mail and Express Trains without change both ways between rouaucipnia auu one. Hew 1'orU CoBuectioa. Leave New York at 9.00 a m, arrive at Erie 9.30 a. m. Leave Erie at 4.45 p m.. arrive at New York 4 10 p. m. Lluam BLEErju tAitfi on an flig-Di trains. For Information resneetinor Passenirer business apply at Cor. 30th and Market St., Philadelphia. And for Freight business of the Company's Agents, b. a. Kingston, Jr., (.or. t3ta ana Market bt., Philadelphia. j. w . iieynoiaa, trie. William Brown, Agent N. C. R. R , Baltimore. If. U. UocsToa, Oen'l Freight Agt. Fhilada. H. W. GwiNxea, Geni Ticket Ag't , Philada. A. L. TYLER, Clen'l Manager, Willtamsport. June t, 1886. Lucbawaanu Sc Illoonasibura; Kail road. ON and after Nov 21th, 1865, Passenger Trains will rnn as ioiiows : SOUTHWARD. A. M. P. M. 10.06 11 Is . M. 4 60 6.20 8 63 80 10.16 105 3.40 4 15 6.66 8.10 Leave Bcrantoa, " Kingston, Rupert, Danville, Arr. Northumberland, 6.50 8 65 16 9 60 10 30 NOKTU WARP. Leave Northumberland, 8.00 Danville, 8.40 Rupert, 14 A. M. Kingston, 2 35 . 8.30 Arr. at Soranton, 6.45 9.85 Trains leaving Kingston at 8.80 A. M. for Sersn- ton, oonneot with Train arriving at New York at 6.20 Leaving rnoruumneriana a 0 uu a. h. ana Kings ton J.S0 P. M. connect with the Train arriving at New York at 10.65 P. M. Passengers taking Train South from Soranton at i 60 A. M. via Northumberland, teach Harrisburg 12 80 P. M., Baltimore 6.30 P. If -, Washington 10 00 P. M. via Rupert raaoh Philadelphia at T OO p. m. U.A. F0KDA,6up'. Kingston, Nov. 25, 1865. 1 AAA Customers wanted to buy Hardware, Ae. 1UUU at the Cheap Hardware and Iron Store ol r J. CON LEY A CO. Sunbery, June 16,1866. SHOE Findings, Sole Leather aad all goods h longing to shoe svaken business for aaje by J. H. CON LEY 00. LADIES' fcl M FHOk.8 for 1,00. at W. W. ApaleT.'s. POETIC A L. A POEM BT PANIBIi B. DICKINSON. The late Daniel 8. Dloklnson had the misfortune, while United States Senator, to lose his daughter, Mn. Virginia Murray, to whom he was warmly attached. He was fond of spending his unemployed hours by her grave, in Spring Grove Cemetery, at Blngbampton, N. Y., and one Sunday afternoon, in 1867, while sitting at the spot, he wrote the sub joined stantas. They were solicited for publication during his life time, but from diffideaoe he always withheld his consent. They now appear for the first time. Exckangt. COME TO MY GRAVE ALONE. Come to my grave alone, whan no footstep Is falling near, And water my lowly bed with affection's gontle tear; Pause by the heartless stone, by the marble oold and chill, And think of the heart below as the marble cold and still. Come in the Summer's prime, at the close of the busy dsy, When the love-tuned wildwood birds warble their vesper lay, Kneel by my grassy couch, whisper to Heaven a prayer, And tho spirit of her you loved will hover around you there. Come when the Autumn leaves are fallen, faded and sere, When the moaning November breeie sighs over the dying year When the reaper's work is done and the harvests are gathered all, And think of the reaper Death, who gathers the great and small. Come when the Winter's cold, on crushing and lev feet, ' Has traveled around the earth in his frosted winding sheet, 0 And haa blasted the woods and the fields in his journey of storm and strife, And shown in the closing year an emblem of human life. Come in the budding Spring, when Nature is fresh and gay, When the petals of early flowers are bright with the dews of May ; And think of that heavenly Spring, the spring of eternal bloom, When the loved shall meet together, beyond the night of the tomb. Spring Grove Cemetery, I Binghampton, June 17, 1857. j TALES & SKETCHES. A LAWYEK'H AII1K.H l ltttE. About three or four years ap-o. more or less, I was practising law ia Illinois, in a pretty largo circuit. 1 was culled no one day at my office at the town of C , by a very pretty woman, who, not without tears, told me that her husband had been arrested for horse stealing. Sbo wished to retain me on the defense. I asked hor why sho did not go to Judgo B., an ex Senator of tho United States, whose office was in the same town. I told her that I was a young man at the bar, &c. She mournfully said that he had asked a retaining fee above her means and besides did not want to touch the case, for her husband was suspected of belonging to an extensive band of horse thieves and counterfeiters whose beadqtinrters were ou Moore's prairie. I asked her to tell mo the whole truth of the matter, and if it was trno that her hus band did belong to such a band. "Ah sir," said she, "a better man at heart than my George never lived : but he liked cards and driuk, and I am afraid they tnado him do what he never would have done if he bad not drank. I fear it can be proved that he had the horse; he didn't steal it; another did and passed it to him." I didn't like the case. I knew that there was a great dislike to the gang located where she named ; I feared to ribk the case before a jury. She seemed to observe my intention to refuse the case and burst into tears. I never could see a woman weep without feeling liko a weak fool myself, if it hadn't been for eyes brightened by pearly tears, (blast the poet that made them come into fashion by praising them), I'd never been caught in the lasso of matrimony. And my would-be client was pretty. The hanker- chief that hid her streaming eyes didn't hide her ripe lips, and her snowy bosom rose and fell like a white gull in a gale of wind at sea. 1 took tue case and Bbe gave mo the particulars. I uo gang, of which be was not a member, persuaded hint to take the horse. lie knew tne uorso was stolen, and like a fool ac knowledged it when he was arrested. Worse still, he trimmed the horse's mane and tail to alter his appearance, and the opposition could prove it. 1 be trial came on. I tried hard to get a jury of ignorant men, who had more heart than brain ; who if they could not fathom the depths of argument, or follow the laby rinthine mazo of the law, could fuel tor a young fellow in a bad fix, a weeping, pretty wife, nearly broken hearted, and quit dis tracted. Knowing the use of "effect," I told her to dress in deep mourninc, and bring her little cherub of a boy, only three years old, into court, and sit as near her husband as the officer would let her. I tried the game once iu a murder case, and a weeping wife and sister made a jury render a verdict against law, evidence and tue Judge s charge, and saved a fellow that ought to have been bung bigucr than iianian. The prosecution entered very bitterly : in veighea against thieves and counterfeiters, who had made tho land a terror to strangers and travelers, and who rob bed every farmer in that region of their finest horses. It introduced witnesses and proved all and more than I feared it would. The time came for me to rise for the de fense. Witnesses I had none. But I deter mined to make an effort, only hoping so to interest tue jury as to secure a recommenda tion to gubernatorial clemency and a light sentence Bo 1 painted this picture 1 A young man entered into life, wedded an angel, beautiful ia person, possessing every noble and gentle attribute. Temptation was before and all around btm. lie kept a tav ern. Quests there were many ; it was not for him to inquire into their business j the were wen uresseci: maae large wus ana paid promptly. At an unguarded hoar, when he was insane with the liquor they bad urged upon him, he had deviated from the path of rectitu Je. The demon of alcohol had reigned in his brain, and it waa bis first offense. Mercy pleaded for another chance to save bini from ruin. Justice did not r auir tli at bis vouuu wife should go down sorrying to the grave, and that the shadow and discrace and taunt of a (elon father should cross the path of that sweet child, O, bow earnestly did I plead for then). , The woman wept : tba husband did tbe tame ; the judge idgetted and rubbed bis eye ; the fury looked melting. If I could, have tbs closing speech be would hv beet ekated but tbe prosecutor bad tbe close, and threw ice on the firo I had kindled.' But that did not quite put it out. Tho judge charged according to law and evidence, but evidently leaned on the slue of mercy. The jury found a verdict of guilty, but unanimously recommended the prisoner to the mercy of the court. My client was sentenced to tho shortest imprisonment the court was empowered to give, and both jury and court signed a petition to tbe Govern ment for an unconditional pardon, which has since been granted, but not before the following incident occurred : Some three months after this I received an account for collection from a wholesale house in New York. The parties to collect from were bard ones, but they had property, and before they had an idea of the trap laid, I bad the property, which tbey were about to assign before they broke, under attach ment. Finding I was neck ahead and bound to win, they 'caved in' and 'forked over' three thousand seven hundred and ninety- four dollars and eighteen cents (per memo randum book) in good money. They lived in Shawncetown, about thirty five or forty miles Southeast of Moore's prai rie. I received the funds just after bank opening, but other business detained me un til after dinner. I then started for C , intending to go as far as the village of Mt. Vernon that night. I had gone ten or twelve miles, when I noticed a splendid double team of horses attached to a light wagon, in which were seated four men, evidently of the high strung order. They swept past as if to show how easy they could do it. They shortened in and allowed me to come up with them and hailing mo, asked me to 'wet,' or in other words to diminish tbe contents o! a jug of old rye tbey had aboard. They asked me how far I was going. I told them as far as Mt. Vernon, if my horse didn't tire out. Tbey mentioned a plesant tavern ten or twelve miles ahead as a nice stopping plice, and then drove on. I did not like tho looks of those fellows, nor their motions. But I had a brace of revolvers and a nice knife ; my money was not in my valise or in my sulky, but in a belt around my body. I drove slow in hopes that they would goon and I would see them no more. It was nearly dark when I saw a tavern sign ahead. At tbe same time saw their own wagon standing before the door. I would have pressed on, but my horse need ed rest. I hauled up and a woman came to the door. She turned as pale as a sheet when she saw me; she did not speak, but with a menniug look she put her finger on her lips and beckoned me in sho was tho wifo of my late client. When I entered the party recognized mc, and hailed me as an old traveling frieud, and asked me to drink. 1 respectfully, but firmly declined to do so. "By thunder, you shall drink or fight !" said tho noisiest of the party. "Just as you please drink I shall not," said I, purposely showiug the butt of a Colt which kicks six times in rapid succession. The party interposed and very easily quelled the assailant. One offered me a cigar, which I was icluctaotly refusiug but n glance from the woman induced mo to ac cept. Sho advanced and proffered mc a light, and in doing so, slipped a note in my hand, which she must have written a mo ment before. Never shall I forget the words. They were : "Beware, they are members of tho gang. They mean to rob and murder you I Leave soon; 1 win detain tliem." I did not feel comfortable just theu, but tried to do so. Have you any room to put up my horse ?" I asked, turning to the woman. "What are you not going on to-night ?" asked one of the men ; "we are." "No," said I. "I shall stay here to-night." "We'll all stay then, I gue6s. aud make a night of it!" said another of the cut-throats. "You'll have to put up your own horse, here's a lantern," said the woman. "I am used to that," I said. "Gentlemen, excuse me a minute ; I'll join you in a drink when I come in." "Good on your head I More whisky, old gal," shoutea they. I went out and glanced at their wazon. It was old fiisu!?ned, and "linch-pins" se cured tho wheels. To take out my knife and pry one from the fore and high wheels, was but tue work ot an instant, and 1 turew them as far in the dark as I could. To untie my horse and dash off was the work of an nstant. Tbe road lay down a steep hill, but my lantern lighted me somewhat. . 1 had hardly got under lull beadwar, when I beard a yell from the party I had so unceremoniously lctt. 1 put whip to my horse. Tbe text moment, with a shout, they started. I threw my light away, and left my horse to pick bis way. A moment later I heard a crash a horrible shriek. The wheels came off. Then came the rush of horses, tearing along with tbe wreck of tue wagon. I inally they seemed to fetch up in the woods. One or two shrieks I heard as I swept on, leaving them tar be hind. For some time I hurried my horse you'd better believe I did. It was a little after midnight when I got to Mt. Vernon Tbe next day I heard that a Moore's prai rie team had run away, and that two men out of four bad been so badly hurt that their lives were despaired of, but I didn't cry. My clients got their money. I didc t travel that road any more. The Assassination Rewards. In case of rewards for the capture of Jeff. Davis, re ported from the committee of the House of Representatives on Tuesday, no change has been made from the awards or tue military commission in regard to the capture of Booth and Harrold. Tbe committee gave General L. C. Baker, who originated and directed tbe capture, 117,000 ; Col. Conger, who was in command of tbe capturing party 117,600; Lieut. Baker, detective, f 5,000 Lieut. Dohcrty, in command of soldiers, 12,500: twenty-six soldiers, each $1,000; Major O Beiroe, for services in Marvland, f'J 000. In the case of the Payne and Atzerot arrest, money is divided up according to the merit of tba parties engaged in it, and not according to the rank they happened to have at tne time, i ne two colored women wno gave the information that led to the watch fng of Mrs. Surratt's house and Payne's ar rest, get each f 300. It baa been erroneously stated that tbe re cent convention of fire underwriters in Mew York advanced tbe rates of insurance ten per cent. Tbe Rev. Matthew Davenport, of Okalona, Mus.. 100 years old, preached a sermon on July 1J. .It is rumored that Commander Maury, 1at6 of tbe Confederate Atates, is about to be attache! to tbe French navy as chief oi the Meteorological Department. MISCELLANEOUS. Drankenness Among Women. ASTONISHING CHARGES AGAINST THB KBW YORK LADIES DRE8S MAKERS SUPPLYING THEIR CUSTOMERS WITH BRANDT WINE KEPT IN DRV GOODS STORES FOB. FASHION ABLE FEMALES. The Hound Table recently bad an article on the revival of intemperence, which has lately taken place, and asserts that the ravages of the vice are particularly noticea ble among women. It says : Drinking is again becoming fashionable, and the ladies are responsible for this retro gression. . Two weeks ago we had occasion to notice the prevalence of drinking among ladies at our watering places ; but it is not alone at the watering places that the ladies thus indulge. At their own homes, at the stores, and at those public nuisances called ladies' restaurants they are accustomed to drink liquors. Tbe sight of a tipsy or in toxicating woman is not uncommon at the seaside, and it is by no means extraordinary upon Broadway. We have the best author ity for stating that some oi the most elegant ladies of our leading cities will pass this summer not at Saratoga or Newport, as usual, but an asylum lor inebriates. And we assert upon the same authority that the vice of fashionable drinking is now more prevalent among the ladies than among tbe gentlemen of this country. In support of these statements instances of the most distressing character have been brought to notice. Some women trace their degradation to a natural appetite for spirits, and others to a habit formed during a long illness, when they were ordered to drink liquors as a tonio. Once developed, tbe taste seems less controllable in women than in men. The ladies drink in Becret. They have private bottles hidden about the bouse, in spite of the vigilance of doctors, nurses, husbands and fathers. Certain dressmakers make it a point to furnish their customers with drink, and some of the most fashion able maitoni del mode are, in fact, fashion able drinking houses. In some stores bot tles of wine are also kept on bund fcr Udy shoppers, and in others the merchants allow their boys to be sent to the nearest bar-room for liquor wheu ladies debire it. At the so called ladies' restaurants all sorts of funcy rinks are as freely ordered by and supplied to women as creams and ices used to be, and anybody who will take the trouble to visit one ot these resorts may see well-dress ed, fashionable ladies enter unattended and call for liquors at all hours of the day. These are startling facts ; but there are others still more surprising and equally true. Our fashionable female drinkers do not care so much tor wines, and claret punches and sherry cobblers. Tbey can obtain such bev erages at dinner or evening parties, and hen left to themselves they prefer stronger spirits. Whiskey and brandy are the favor ite drinks with these ladies, it may be true hat a woman ia very far gone upon the road when she can order and drink such timulants in a public saloon ; but still hun dreds of women in our best society do this every day. boine of the saloons which tbey frequent do not have tho stronger liquors pu the bill cf fare, but a neat little sign, which reads, "If you do not see what you want, ask for it," gives the hint to the ini tiated. In dress-makers' bills the significant item small trimmings" often covers up the ex pense of liquors which the lady has ordered through tbe modiste who panders to Her vitiated taste. At the watering places a bribe to the waiter procures a secret supply of the liquor, which, by the connivance of the landlord, is charged as "extra lun cheons." Thus the poor infatuated women fiud no difficulty in obtaining tbe means of intoxication, and often tbe man oi business, engrossed with his cares, and thoughtlessly unsuspicious ot tue serpent that nas crept into Ins Eden, discovers to bis honor that his wife or daughter has become a confirmed drunkard, and that all his efforts to reform her are utterly useless. If we could unroof tbe houses of this and other cities, we would exhibit to the reader instances of female intoxication that would make angels weep. Mothers of families are breaking the hearts ot their husbands and daughters by this vice. Girls of eighteen, the daughteis of our most respectable mer chants, have been seen grossly intoxicated in Broadway stages and upon the public streets. Many a home, apparently most elegant aud attractive, is rendered a perfect pandemonium by one of tbe lady inmates, through this weakness. The belles at fash ionable watering places, this summer, who sit upon the piazzas late at night, and think it very amusing to be made "funny" by drinking with a gentleman, little know tbe fate that is in store for them. The painted courtesans who flaunt in low groggeries and nerve themselves for their foul vocation by glasses of gin are hardly so much to be pitied as these respectable ladies who se cretly indulge the same craving for stimu lants, but who ore unable to conceal the ef fects of their indulgences. He Couldn't Bear Prosperity. There is a class of men of whom it is truthfully said, they cannot bear prosperity. When fortune goes against them, tbey conduct themselves with correctness; but let tbe fickle dame smile upon them, and they rush at once into all sorts of folly and intemperance. Prosperity has ruined people who, so long as they had to struggle with tbe world, were very excellent and exemplary members of society. There was a singular illustration oi tnisin the police court the other day. A good-for-nothing looking wretch was brought up charged with drunkenness. It was a clear case. The testimony showed that be bad been on a spree for a week. He was asked whut he bad to say for himself. "Well, your honor," said he, "me and my old woman never did live easy together." "That's no excuse for your getting drunk," said the court. , "You're right, yer honor, and so it ain't. We use to fibt like cats and dogs together." "Drinking only made it worse," put in tbe court. "That's true She discouraged the life out of me, and kept me poor, until last week, when" ; "Wei!, what did sbe do last week?" "She died, yer honor." "And you have been drunk ever since?" "Yes, yer honor, I never could bear pros perity." Elizabeth Wilson, a colored woman wbo was recently fined $25 and imprisoned one year in Philadelphia, for roasting a colored child five years old on a bot stove, commit ted a similar crime in Newport, R. I., about nine years ago. Terrible Retribution. An incident occurred a day or two since which should admonish a certain class of men, first, not to insist for a pound of flesh merely because they have the power, and secondly, not to drink dirty water. The story, which borders on the tragic, runs thus: A drayman carried a small box from the levee up to a well-known drug store in the city, lie took it from his dray, deposited it in the back room, and then made his charge. It was very exorbitant. The clerk hinted as much, but he stood firm and gained his point. The money was paid him, and he started out. Passing through the laboratory, he looked around after some water, as it was shot day, and he was evidently thirsty. Just in his way stood n lorge tub, wherein the boy washed out bottles; he glanced around; no one seemed to be looking ; he seized a half gallon cup and gulped down about a pint. The clerk observed the movement. As he mused upon tho heavy charge a sudden thought occurred to him, which he sudden ly put into execution. The drayman had mounted his dray and was driving off, when the clerk bounded from the door and shout ed at him to stop. "Did you drink any of that water in the tub?" he shouted, and then waited for an an swer with sbated breath. The drayman said, "Y e s, he had drank a little." "My dear sir, you are a dead man ; we use that water for washiug acids from bottles. Oh, you are a dead man, sure I" The drayman turned pale, and said he felt a dreadful pain in his stomach. "Do something for me quickly, can't you?" "I can try," said tho clerk, "but it is a doubtful cose." The two ran into the store together. Ro meo could not have looked paler than the poisoned man. The clerk poured out half a bottlo or so of castor oil, which was swal lowed with the avidity of an old reb of '04, who had found bis first buttermilk in "three days." Death not coming to his relief as soon as be expected, he resumed his way, and has not been heard from since. The clerk was avenged I Memphis Argm. A Thirty Years' !tljtery Cleared ITp. Over thirty years ogo there was considcr ble excitement in Cecil county, Maryland, on account of the sudden disappearance of a widow lady, named Putty Polk, who resided about four miles from Elkton. She was last seen going into a thicket near her Iioubo, where too men had just passed. All search for her was fruitless. After a reasonable time had elapsed letters of administration on her effects were issued, and in settling up the estate the administrator wus unable to find a uote drawn by one- of tho men who bad been seen to go into the thicket. The note was known to have been in her possession a short time before her disappearance. This aroused the suspicions of some of tbe peo ple, and the two men were arrested; but nothing could be proved against thera and they were discharged. A number of years ago one of tho sus pected parties died, and lust week it is re ported that the other, being very ill, sent tor a minister, to whom he made a free con fession. According to popular rumor, the tbe confession was to the effect that he, with the other party, sent to Mrs. Polk to meet them in a certain place, wbero they would pay the money on tho notes, and they then failed to meet her ; that they saw her on her way home, and knowing she would pass through the thicket, they went into it, and laid in ambush, and as soon as she appeared one knocked her on the bead with a stick of wood, killing her. That tbey theu placed ber body in the midst of a wood pile, where they intended to let it remain, but it bo coming noxious, they went to the pile with a box to remove the body, and found that tbe dog of tbe deceased had taken his pluce to waicb over the corpso, aud they were compelled to kill him before they could get the body, and that, after succeeding, they carried it in the box to where tbe Philadel phia, Wilmington and Baltimore Railroad was being built, and placed it in tbe em bankment. It is also stated that as soon as the man had made this disclosure he commenced to improve and that bo is now in a fair n ay of recovery. Uettlnff Married. Every young girl now a days expects to get a rich husband, aud therefore rich men ought to be abundant. In the country, we admit, that girls are sometimes brought up with an idea ol work, and with a suspicion that each may chance to wed a sober, steady, good-looking, industrious young man who will be compelled to earn by severe labor the subsistence of himself and family. There are not so many brought up with such ideas now, even in the country, ss there used to be j but there are some, and they consequently learn bow to become helpmates to such worthy partners. But in town it is different. From the highest to tho lowest class in lifo, tbe prevailing idea with all is, that marriage is to lift them at once above all necessity for exertion; and even the servant girl dresses and reasons ss if she entertained a romantic confidence in ber Cinderella-like destiny of marrying a prince, or, at least, of being fallen in love with and married by some wealthy gentle. man, it not by some nobleman in disguise. This is why so many young men fear to marry, luo young women tbey meet with are embucd with notions of marriage so utterly incompatible with the ordinary re lations of life in their station ; tbey are so wholly inexperienced in the economy of the household ; they have been taught, or have taught themselves, such a "noble disdain" tor all kinds of family industry ; they have acquired such expectations of lady-like ease and elegance in the matrimonial connection, that to wed any one of them is to secure a life-long lease of domestic unbappiness, and purchase wretchedness, poverty, and do Pir: .... All tins is wrong, and should bo amend ed. Such fallacies do not become a sensible age nor a sensible people. Our grandfathers and mothers had more wisdom than this. The piesent age is much too fast in this respect. Let us sober down a littlo. Let every young woman be taught ideas of life aud expections of marriage suitable to ber condition, and she wili not bo so frequently disappointed, bbould sbe be fortunate and wed above that condition, sbe may readily learn . tbe new duties becoming to it, and will not have been injured by having poa seaaed herself of those fitting a station bo low. Let ber anticipate always a marriage with one in tbe humbler walks in life ; and then, should tbe happen to do bettor, ber good fortune will be only the more delight ful. Phrenological Journal, Little Mamc's father is generally too busy to attend the weekly prayer meeting. One day she was discussing the great hereafter with ber mamma, when the following dia logue ensued : Mame "Mamma, will you go to Heaven when you die?" Mamma "Yes, I hope so, child." Mame "Well, mamma, I hope I'll go too, or you'll bo lonesome." Mamma "Oh, I bopo your pnpa will go too." Mame "Ob, no, papa cant go j he can't leave the store." recut.s, ca.iRi:.i.-, Ac, How to Keep Milk Sweet. Large quantities of milk are sent once a day from Orange county to New-York city. Notwithstanding it is sent by railroad, a portion of the milk is thirty-six hours old when it arrives in New-York and is ready for the milk carts. To keep milk sweet this length of time in warm weather is no easy matter. The management on tbe part of farmers is described as follows by the Utica Uerald: "The milk as soon as it comes from the cow is strained and put in long tin pails, which are set in water, care being taken that no portion of the milk be higher than tbe water. These pails look like sections of stove pipe, being eight inches in diameter, and from seventeen to twenty inches long. The milk is occasionally stirred up so as to keep the cream from rising. It is deemed important that the animal heat be removed as soon as may be, at least in an hour's time after it comes from the cow. The old plan, which is yet practiced by some, is to cool the milk in the cans, but is regarded as a very unsafe way when it is designed to have the milk keep sweet for a considerable length of time. The milk stands in the pails until ready to be carted to the trains, when it is put in cans holding from fifty to sixty gal tone. These cans are filled full, and tbe cover, which fils.closely, carofully adjusted." Kandvt U'b for l'artics). Chop fine some cold pressed ham, say a quarter of a pound; put it in a basin with a tablespoonfull of chopped pickles, and a teaspoonfull of mustard, a littlo pepper or Cayenne ; put about six ounces of butter in to a basin, and with a spoon stir quickly till it forms a kind of cream ; add the ham and seasoning, mix all well, have the sand wich bread cut in thin slices : have already cut, thinly intermixed with fat, either cold roast beef, veal, iamb, mutton, poultry, fowl, pheasant, grouse, partridge, &c, either of which lay evenly, and not too thick, on your bread ; season with a little salt and pepper; cover over with another piece of bread ; wheu your sandwich is ready, cut them in any shape you liUe, but rather small and tastily, and serve. You may keep tbem iu a cool pluce if not wanted, as they will keep good under cover twelve hours. How to Make Tomato Figs. Pour boil ing water over the tomatoes in order to re move the skins ; then weigh tbem and place them in a stone jar, with as much sugar as you have tomatoes, and let them stand two days; then pour off the sirup, and boil and skim it until no scum rises. Then pour it over the tomatoes, and let stand two days as before, then boil and skim again. After the third time they ore fit to dry, if the weather is good ; if not let them stand in the sirup until drying weather. Then place on large earthen plates or dialies, and put them in the sun to dry, which will take about a week, after which pack tbem down in small wooden boxes, with fine white sugar between each layer. Tomatoes prepared in this man ner will keep for years. (Jermantotm Tel Canning Corn. We copy the following iroin that good periodical, the Prairie Far mer: Some one is inquiring for a receipe for canning corn. Last fall we saw in the Farmer tho mmit operandi of canning corn followed by a factory in New-York ; among other operations they boiled it six hours. We followed the rule laid down but with no better success than your correspondent. We did some, however, but riot by canning nor by dryingjit, but by salting it down iu .crocks or .tubs. Our method is as follows: Take your crock or tub, put in a layer of corn two or three inches, then a sprinkling of salt, you mtot nse your own judgment for the quantity of salt, as I made no note of the amount. When your vessel is full press it down, put a weight on it and let it stand. In tho course of three or four days it will ferment, but that is no evidence that tha corn is spoiling, for it will ferment. It is propared by soaking in water over night, change water as often as necessary to make it fresh enough to suit. -Cook the same ai green corn. This receipt is old; no doubt a great many know its value and others do not. I would like to hear from thoso wbo have canned corn successfully. Black Ink. A good black ink, which will not corrode Bteel pens, it is said, can be made by digesting in an open vessel 03 ounces of coarsely powdered nut gall, 15 ounces gum Senegal, 18 ounces sulphate of iron, free from copper, 8 drachms aqua ammonia, 44 ounces alcohol, and 18 quarts distilled rain water. Tbe digestion should be continued until the fluid has assumed a deep black color. Seasonable Hinto. Strawberry ibeds should now be mowed, and tbe vines scat tered over the beds and allowed to remain at least during the present and first half of next month. Trees transplanted -this season about. 1 have the soil stirred np about tbem and the mulching renewed. It is a good plan to mulch with short grass, this month, the newly-planted celery. No time should now be lost in setting out celery plants. We prefer the trench and a single row of plsnts. After setting out tha plants apply a good dose of rich short ma nure plaoed firmly, and water copiously. There should be two full waterings a-day moruiug and evening. To bting tbe plants on well, manure water is excellent. Tbe Purple Top Turnip can now be sown for domestic purposes. Sprinkle with it some Black Spanish Radish seed, and cover lightly with a rake. They will produce a good crop for winter use from a small bed. When taken up in November they should fee buried in a dry psrt of tbe garden. Tbe old wood of the Raspberry plot should be removed as soon as it is done bearing. It gives additional strength to tbe new wood. The same should be done with tbe old Blackberry canes. There is nothing tbat brings a gardes up to its work to well and makes it always look fresh even in the dryest teasona, ss frequent Stirring up of tbe ground and tbe careful removal of all weed. Gtmnton JumJ.1S6.
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