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Consultations a ba bud in tha Uknaj. April 4. IbnS. ly Teeth I Teeth I J. It. CBESSnKH, bUKGEON DENTIST, iurinrl.r of ASH LAND. 0., annoonoea to tbo eltl enrol Northumberland oonnty, that ha baa located ii. .(.' M'.UKY. for the praotlca of Dentistry, and rem enfully a"tioita your patronage. Special atten tion p iid to filling and dre'tiug teeth. Teeth ltmo."l mi 1 11 out mix, by oslng Narootio apray which 1 have used for three yeara with ptrftct tut ret aud no twjwrtotM reeult. Office m Room formerly occupied by Dr. J. 8. Amle. in Pleasant' Building, Market Square, Fut.bnry, Pa. mar. T, 6. " Do. J. S. ANGLE, OFFI )E, At hii residence, in BftlSHT'S ROW, Walnut St., STJNBUBV, 2? A.. '.March 7. 1888. li;ollllB IllI.L, . BlMOH P. WOLTSBTOK. II ILL & WOLVERTON, loi'iir) and Counaelori nt Law. t3XJ NBUBY, WJILL attend to the collection of all kinds of inoluding Book Pay, Bounty and Pen ion. apl. 1, '66. . II. UtAHMUU, I r nt Iaw. BUNBCKY, PA. 1 V i. i Kiciiine attended to in the oountiei of Nor nrolurlHiid. t'nion, Snjder, Montour, Columbia ti.l LYCi'iuing. REPBRIRCEI. Hon. .Tolm M. Reed, Philadelphia, A t). Cattell A Co., " H..11. Wm. A. Porter, " M n'un Mi-Michael, Esq., " K. Kt-tchiuu A Jo., 2bi Pearl Btreet, Hem York. ,';ilm W Afhrcead, Attorney at Law, " Matthew. & V- z, Attorney! at Law, " Sunliury. Mnrch 2tf, 1B62. M. y. ItulKKKELLKR. LbOYD T. R0BRBACB li'JCKE SELLER & ROHRBACH. . .ui:ky, PESS'i. t'M'K 'ii H-iiipt'a now Building, looond floor. ' :. i.i! uo .Market Square, i.in.i . iifiiiu-iry 4, lHift. i.-ntc) iiud CouttKollor nt Ijiw, t'I'ICE in Hnupt'ancw Building, on second floor fcntraooeon Market quaro, SUNBURY, PA.. ill i.ttnd promptly to all profoamonal buineas :iU'd to hia cure, the collection 01 claim! in 'liuiiiourlarid aud the adjoining oouutiea. it bury. January 4. 18B8. u. itKIMlilNSMYDEU. lOii.NKY AT LAW, SUXBUKY, PA. . , -it, ruled to hii care atUnded to , rf v ai.d anh diligence. .:uty, April 27, lbt)7. JA0 KAYCLE5IElITi sincja in this and adjoining eountie earefully ip.ti.ptl.T ntttendud to. in Murki-t itroot, Third door west of Smith t (j-.i,;hur' Stovo and Tinware ctore, iiurj, .M.iK-h 31, 1WW ly nut skb t. aj. KAII "'ii- itudCoauNcllui-M at I.nv, ct Street, went of the N. C. and P. A E. Kail tl Depot, in the building lately oooupied by F. Lazarus, Esq., i n . mid all Professional bumnesa promptly . d to in Northumberland and adjoining Coun- Tl'OHNEY A.T LAW !U of Public Square, one door aaat of the Old Bank Building. 1 ; N U L Ii Y , PENN'A. c'iimi dt.1 all Professional business promptly 1 to in tha Courta of Northumberland and 1 Countins. .iry.Sept. 16, 1H6D. niDr, J. D. James. ;;ni:ys at law, bunbury, pa. tl erecnud alory of Dewart'a building, ad ; 1 he Dimocrat uffloe, on tha north aide of 1 qunre. tiei. t promptly to tha collection of olalms r 1 r 1 ti m-Ii.ijhI busiucai intrusted tob.il care, uii.herlnml and adjoining oountiei. iber It. Iii7. ;3EB, Jon RcKi,a mii'ariTnMNr THKET, between Third and Fourth 8tre H'llll.lUkKl.tMllA. WEBER RUNKLE. Proprietors. it, lsT. ly ADDISON G. MAUR, .'TOKNBY AT LAW, )KIN, Northumborland County, Fa. urinous attended to with promptnou and :iojue. iin, Aug. 10, 1867-rly r. CHAS. ARTHUR, io:opat!)tc 3!)i)strian, uf the llomoeopathio Medio! College of rennaylrania. Mnrkot Square opposite tht Court House, 1 . 1.1 . 3 10 B morning ; 1 to J afternoon j . .,.1 n. . April 7. ly; JE&EMIAH SNYDER, uoy Ac Counsellor at Law. HI .IIIKY, PA. via l Allormey for Irtfauni 1 eunly. . R. IIILBUSH 'EYOR AND CONVEYANCR AND W TICS QV THE PEA CE. K-rtiimhtrhini County, Penm'a Jackann township. Engagements aa le by letLw. direoted to the above addreea. entrusted to bis will bo promptly l.W.-ly O BEOK IIIIANT TAILOR, And Dealer la CASSIMERES, VESTLNa.&o, Ircel, MOMtli of Weaver's) lei. M B O R la" I A. lbrtl YPE AND PHOTOGRAPH .1 A wn Btreet, SUXJBVBY, Pa. BYEKLY, PBoruirroR, mbrotype aa4 MaLalaotypet taken 1 ol tha art. apt. T, 1 tea ugrt beautiful lrd Cages at tha iware stort of J H C0P1JET4C0 INTRODUCED INTO aVMERICA FROM GERMANY", in HOOFUND'S GERMAN BITTERS, IIOOFLAND'S GERMAN TONIC. rnsPAKso Br vs. c. it. Jacksof, fttuMirnt, Pa. Tht greatest knmun rtmtdiet frr Liver Complaint, DYSPEPSIA, Nervous Debility, JAUNDICE, Diseases of tha Kidneys, EEUPTIONS of the SKIN, nt Ml D I arising sfrom a Dia ortlrred llver fttomteh, or JMrVMTY OF THE IlLOOD. Jtmit tht fiVorng tympiom$ and if you find that yvir i.ti it affected 6y ant nf Uirnt, ym may rut munrmi t!tat 4ifQM ha ctmimrnctd it t attack on tht imytrtant nrjwt of y-nir ofy, and unUti oon rhnrki by tht fw nf p.-nt"rfti rfmtrfi's, a mitrabi4 tti mnditny m tU tlh, mili lie tht rmuU. ConBtlpntionj, Flatatonon, Inward Piles, Fulness ot Blood to ttas Head, Aoidity of tho HLoraaah, JVausea, Heart burn, DinffiiRt fur Food, Fulness or Wefffht in tho Stomach Sour i'JrautHtionn, bink la or riuttonnx at the Pit of the Rtomaoh. bwiramine of the Head. Hurned or Difficult Tireathinf fluttering at tho Heart, Choking or RuffooatinR Honnationn when in a Lytiiff PoMture, DimnoRs of Vision. D?fn or Webs beforo the Bight, Dull Pain in the Head, Dnfl oionoy of ferspirrttiou, Yel- lownens of the Bkin and Eyes, Pain in tho Bide, Back, Ghent, Umbs, etc.. Sud den Flusiios of Heat. Burning In the Flesh, Conntsnt Imagiuinjje of Evil, and Groat Depression of Spirit. All (Aw indirate dittos nf fa Liver or Diftsth Oiyaiisti:om0irudvith imfurt bhnd fioofltiub'a Ocrnmn Uittcro l entirely vegetable, and eotttatna no llquur. at l a compound of Fluid Ki traetsa The Hoots Herbs and Barks from wlilcH tttre extracts are made are gathered In Germany. AH the medlctiial vlriuvi are citmcttil from tuiti toy a sclrutlnV eliemlHt Thane exirnvt are then forwarded to this country to be nrd -extirciiftly for the iim tt ulact urn of t hene Hitters There Is no nleoholle subiitanc of any kind used tn comiioundlne the Hitters, hence It le the. only Uilters that can be ttated In rases where alcohoiif) stlm ulants are not advisable flooflimb's Ocrmau Conic Tji a eomttiuulitm ttf all tht inrfilintU nf tht Bittnt, with vv ki .Vinfa i Vtu Hum Oru,i$ etc. It i used for Vu tn a'imr as the Ihttr in cairt whert tome pitif alcofit? $timulut it nqmrtd. Yn tutU bear in mind that th$e rrtttedia are ufitoly dlfftjient frvn any other i adrcrtistd fnr tht cure cf Ae diimsa nimt-i, thrsK bring tcirniif'c prepartUumi of mlictnat ffitwt, ivhiU tie. rthrri are mrt. drrtiort of rum in ot! form. Tht TON 10 u dftidttily one nf f'm mft pie' ttt nt and arwall remedies trrr njftrtd tn Vtt pu!tit. Jtt fatte is rsqivi&Ue. R is apUasure to take if, ici'j its, Uffitiringt exhilarating, and w ticiruil qv-vin-'S hare cuiutd U to be, known us Vu greeUtU of fiU tonics. CONSUMPTION. Thonvands of caati, when the pa tlent suniiosed he was aflllcled with I his terrl file disease have been cured by the Hue of I liewe rrmedlc. ICxtreine cmnclAiiuu. debility and rough are the UMunl a.Uendttnis upon he vera eases of dyprp.la or dlnease of the dlf;e.tive organ. Kven In cases of genuine ('omiiU)I Iuii, these remedies will be found of the greatest beueAti strenfhcntsia; uitl luvlgorattna;. DEBILITY. VtfTt is no medicine tqtal to tfoojlitnd't German B tUrt or Tonic in rates of Debility. They impart a 4V( and riffor to Uts whoU jyitVm, strengthen ths uo fftf, cauu an enjoyment of the food, enable tht stom tch to dijut it, purify the blnod, give a good, sound, healthy complsTton, eradicate the yettow Unge frnm Vit ete, impart a btom to the cheeks, and change "it patimt from a $hortJreoithed emaciated, weak, and nrroui invalid, to a fuU-faced, ttout, and vigor out per eon. Weak and Delicate Children are mads atrona? by natnaj the Bitter or Tonic. In Inci, they are ftVamlly Medloluea. They can be ailuitntai creel with perfect aafety to ciillil three noutha uld, the moat delicate female, or man or ninety. TKtu tttmiia on Cm t Blood PtH-lflev trer hiiu-n, o.'iJ wi'V! curt all dittatet ruiMtng fnm bod blnod. K"p ifur blitvx yurt ; 'rp yittr Zivr in order; kttp unur tiintttir oryaitf tn a soutui, kealtiy Condi (ton, hy V't tut (Awe rtmt&u. tuiU no dtMON viU ever auail you. r-jm naAw mJimmit WVMi. Im4W.Ii Ladle, who wtah a fair akin and f-oorl complealoti, free from a yellow li a I ii nud all oilier dl.nguremeiit, ahonld Mb thr.o rcmcdle. orcaalon ally. Tha LI ver In perfect order, and I he blood pure, will reault In enarav Hug eyes aud blvosnlng ohceka. CAl'TIOK, Hf-HaX9 Oermtfi Kemnha art enunf.rrV.taf. The. gtmuue honlhe iiQtialurt of C. 31. Jnckmutl on the front nf tl.e rtuimlt wrA'yxr nf eaeh bouU. and tin name of . artist Uuwm in tacA ixXUt. A'.l oilurt art euuntTfeit. Thouaande of letter have been re elred, leailfy lu; to tb virtu of tneae rcmedlea. BEAD THE EEC0MMENDATI058, J-ltOM HON. 0i:a W. WOODWAItD, Cliief Justice of the 8upr.ni. Court of PeuniyWanU. rutUDiLPan, Miaca 16th, lbT. l.tud "TTooJIand't German hVierf it not an inter iealing bevfraye, bid it a got.U ionic, tueful in i,or. dtrt of tht miietUnt argam, and of grtat btneM in catet of dtoilily ati uant of nnwu action tn tM tytten. Tourt Irulv, G0. If. WOODWARD. fHOM U0N. JAMU THOMPSON. J ''. uf the Supruue Court of P.nn.yh.nla. . PniLADiuuu, trait 38th, 1864. 1 consider " Hoofland'e German Bit lera' a rithifhlm t41irinm in case of at tack, or IndlKeallon or tyspala. I can certify ifil. from my experience of It. Your., with respect, JiHKt THOMPSON. rrom REV. JOSEPH H. KKNNARD, B.D., Postia- of the Tenth Bnptut Church, Philadelphia. Da, Jackson Dsab Put tIkmbmfrmtnUvr. averted to connect my aunw wA rwowiainriitians of dtJTcrtni Irimit of midtcitut, ami regarding the praatict j out of My appronriatt tphara, f n. in ail oatu d dined ; hid with a cleir proof in rariout inttancet, and particularly inmvown family, of Vu wfulnettof Or. H'Mland't German Uitttrt, I depart for anatroM iy utnal eourte, to rrprtil my fuii conviction IheU for zeneral debility of Hie ayaMia. aud especially fur U.er Cowplalnl, K la a af. and valuable iir.irlloa- M sun. cues it may fail ; but tuually, I douU not, H will it aery beneficial ta that taha tufer from int OSON fours, eery rvptcruiiy. oVigkth, mt'.ina Oaks St. Prlo of th Bittora. tl.OO per bottl Or, a half doaan for tft.00. Frio pf th Tooio, tX.60 pr bottl Or, half doasn for 7 I0. The Tonic la pat up la inert bottles. Mtcollttt that U it Dr. HooJUmvft Oermem Kemeditt VuU art as awMrilJy uttd and m highly raci.ineaeV rnit and da not attvi As Itrugtitl la mdteet you le fcuW aav IAtn attt that nt awy tay itjutt 1 feoat, be eaMM a. maktt a larger profit em it. Tketa Htmtditt anil 6. ami by aaprau ts a locality upon tfpkvaUm aRincirAt. orncM, AT THl OIIMAU MKDICINI T0II. ftm.m AMCm MTUKKT, nOadetph. CHA8. M. IVANS, lroprltor, Fermtrly tt H JAMSOH CO. Tktst Remedlee or far al by Dragclals, ailurakaepvra, svj.4 tladl. alia l)ealr Tarywker. ( Dt not forget aaaatms mc bit miitU yt K,Ht ardsr (a t tkt arrnepu. POETICAL. OOOD-NIQHT. Oood nlght ! a word so oftjn aald, Tb heedlea mind forgets Its meaning ; 'Tit only when some heart liee dead On which our own was loaning, W bear In maddenlnf music roll, Tb last "good-night" along the eoul. Oood-nlght ! In tones that oarer die, It peals along the quiokening ear, And tender gale of memory Vorerer waft la near, When stilled the voice 0 orash cf pain ! That ne'er shall breath "good-night again." Good-nigM ! It mocks nt from tb grave It overleaps that strong world a bound. From whence there 8ows no backward wart; It ealla from out tha ground, On every side, around, above, "Oood-night, good-night" to lif and love. Oood-nlght! 0. wherefore fade away, The li'.'ht that lives In that dear word : Why follows that sYiod-niirht nu day ? W hy are our souls so stirred T O. rather say, dull brain, once mora, "Uood-oight ! thy time of toil is e'er." Oood-night '. now cometh gentle sleep, . And tears that fall like gentle rain, Oood-night ! O, holy, blest end deep, The rest that follows pain ; How should we reach Uod'a upper light, If life's long day bad no "good-night." MISCELLANEOUS. DOES IT PAY TO SMOHB. Mr. Parton has an iuteiestiog article in the last Atlantic Monthly in answer to this question. The article alone is well worth the price of the Atlantic, and the remin der of the number is one of unusual interest. We make a few extracts from the readable article of Mr. Parton: The first dollar that George Law ever euruud, after leaving his father's house, was earned by carrying the hod at Albany. But with that doilur hu bought an aiithuietic and spelling, book ; which, when winter closed in and put a stop to bod-carrying, he mustered, and thus beno tn prepttre to build the "High Bridge" over the Harlem River, where he mude a million dollars by Using steam hod -earners insteud of Irish ones. The pipe is one of the poiuts of dif ference between the hod carrier who is con tent with his lot and the hud currier who means to get into brickluying next spring. Youder is one of tlielultt-r clubs rending his "Sun" after dinner, instead of sleeping his senses in forgetfulness over u pipe. He, per haps, will bo taking a contract to build a blidgu over the East River, about the time when hia elderly comradu is buried in a corporution coffin. Tho winning boat of Harvard University, and tho tonstiug boat of Yale, w ere not row ed by smokers. One of tho first things de munded of a young man who is going into training for a boat raco is, Stop Smoking ! And he himself, long before his body h8 reached its highest point of purity and de velopment, will become conscious of the lowering and disturbing effects of smoking one inch of a mild cigur. No smoker who lias ever trained severely for a mcc, or a gume, or ft fight, needs to hu told ilmi i-tno-king reduces the tone of the Rt-in mid di minishes all the forces cf tho body. He knows it. lie has been as conscious of it as a boy is conscious of the tllVcts of his first cigar. Let the Haivard crew smoke d'jj Ting the last two months of their training, and let the Yale men abstain, aud there is one individual prepared to risk a small sum upon Yale's winning back her laurels. Thackeray smoked ; lie was very parti cular in his smoking; the scent of a bad cigar was an abomination to Lira. That Hvron smoked and loved "the nuked beau ties" of tobacco, he has told us in the most ullurinij verses the weed has ever inspired. Milton, Locko, Raleigh, Ben. Johnsnn, Inaac Walton, Addison, Steele, Boliugbroke, Burns, Campbell, Scott, Tajfourd, Christo pher North, Lamb, w ere all smokers at somo part of their Uvea. Among our Presidents, John Adams, John Quincy Adams, General Jackson, and probably many others, were smokers. Henry Clay, down to a late peri od of his life, chewed, smoked, and took snuff, but never approved of either practice, and stopped two of them. Gen. Grant i smokes, but regret, that he does, and hits reduced his daily allowance of cigars. Ed win Booth smokes, as do most of tho gentle men of his arduous- profession. Probably a majority of the physicians and surgeons of tho United States under forty year of age, are smokers; and who ever knew a medical student that did not smoke furiously I This perhaps is not be woudered at, since doctors live upon the bodily sins of mankind. Almost all smokers, who are nut Turks, Chinamen, or Indians, appreciate at once the wisdom of Sir Isaac Newton's replv to one who asked him why he never smoked a pipe. "Because," said he, "I am unwilling to make myself any necessities." Nor can any intelligent smoker doubt that tha fumes of tobacco are hostile to the vital principle. We smokers and ex-smokers all remember bow our Hi st cigar sickened us; we have all experienced vatious ill effects from what smokers call "smoking too much ;" and very many smokers have once or twice in their lives, risen in rovnl: against their tyrant, giving away their pipes, and lived free men long enough to become conscious that their whole being had been torpid, and was alive again. No, not let who will deny that smoking is unfriendly to life, smokers will not question it, unless tbey are ery igno rant indeed, or very young. It will be of no avail to talk to them of the. man who lived to be a hundred years old and had smoked to excess for half a century. Smo kers have that within which keeps them wall in mind that smoking is pernicious. If there are. any smokers who doubt it, it is the few whom smoke is tapidly killing; such, for example, a the interesting profes sional men who smoke an excellent quality I of cigars and "break down" before they are tnirty-Dve. it is not Honest, legitimate hard work that breaks so many people down in the prime of life. It ts bad habits. Humiliating as tbe truth is, it moat he oonfesaed, tobacco is woman ' rival, her suc cessful rival. It is the cigar and pipe (it used to be wine and punch) that enable men to endure each t whole evening. Remove from every club bouse all the meant of intoxica tion,!. ., all th wine sad tobacco, and seven out of every ten of them wonld cease to exist in one year. Men would come to gether a few evenings, as usual, talk over the evening paper, yawn and go away, per haps go borne, a place which our confirmed olubbist only know as a coavuleuoe for laeping ana breakfasting. Now, one of tbe subtle, mysterious effects of tobacco upon ''tbe male of our species" it to disenchant him with regard to the female. It makes us read tba poem entitled Woman aathousrh it were oolf a piece of prose. It take off tha adga of virility. If it doe not make a man BtKulic, it keep bit rtiHseulinlty in a (tale of partial torpor, wliicb cauaes hint tn look upon woman, not indeed without a certain curiosity, i)0t with out "DtliusiHRm, without romaDtio elevation of mind, without tiuy fueling nf awo "hd vcnuruuoo ior toe august uiomurs oi our race. It tenda to make us regard women fro in what we tnav stylo tho iiluck Crook point of view. ia . New York Correspondence of th Troy Times.) Uroken.ltwa Men 1st lttr lrk lltw they ore Employed. r fiv;",iow,B ra tnzhr r hr a t u, ...... .i i . ; i f'.nf,? A J '"-'chant prMice, Ims ; ",Bg..t, ' 4.CiU" 'UC" i ' h mwvi, v. - u pnouiiio iiu-iu may uo iiiunn today the wreck of twentv dim-rent drv i. t ....i.... -.. ... i r-ruventid .lio-iH..., ,. ..i" . D O - p.-.iviii.ii ' ' II i I J U I Ii years or tht-reaiiouts. who occupies the po sition of gitieral manager and overlooker of the w holesale warehouse, is Mr. Brown, for merly a dry goods joblier in the house of Brown tfc Co., Cortlaudt street. He is a first rate business man, and Stewart know it, aud perhaps it is but au incident in life that Brown is not Stewart, aud that Stew art is not Brown. As it is, Mr. Brown is to a certain extent Stewart' Lieuteuant,-and as tho luttcr is much engrossed By the lead ing facts in thu mammoth business, no one is allowed to address him personally until his errand bus been communicated to the Lieutenant aforesaid. So, also, this tall, tine-looking geutleman, who hns the man Bgement of the credits, Mr. Libuy, who looks after all references, and w ithout whose approval no man cat: get a bill of goods on time, is a brnken-dowu merchuut. Tweutj yeara ago the firm of Hustiugs, Libby & Forby struggled for wealth, but in vain. They suuk in the general vortex of commer cial ruin, apd Sir. Stewart, who discerued Mr. Libby 's talents, has made good use ol him,' Mr. Libby is a highly gifted business man, and has made himself so necessary in Stew art's concern, that if report be true, lie has uow a partnership in it. We might go on and call over Sleurt chuck roll and liud many other similar cases; aud so also, we might find just such a class of men sell ing goods for Clulliu und other large houses. When a man has once failed iu auy Mud of business, it is very seldom that he attempts to recuperate in the same trade. He is itn erully kick ol the effort. Ho wiil work for others iu that line, but has a fear of at tempting it personally again. Hence, men w ho fail in New York seldom get on their feet. Their customers aio drummed away by other houses, and thu current of their business is so broken that it seems impossi ble to be resuscitated. The custom house is a great gathering of broken doM ii men ; aud, besides this, one fjiuls them in every petty berth which they can get iuto. Most of the iusurauce offices arc manned by this class, and iu many in stances, iusurnnce companies have been formed for the ex pi ess purpose of aliording a s..ug harbor for some such characters. Most of the merchandize brokers are of this clu6S. If a wholesale druggist fail, lie is upt to turn broker in drugs; if a wholesale grocer fail, he ill naturally turn to his own staples. We have said that men who fail in New Yol k seldom get ou their feet again. To illustrate this statement, we may call over a few names. Where w as there a mure f amous house than thut of Bow ill, McNit inee it Co. Aud yet the colossal busiuess, which required twenty-live jeurs to build it up, went iu one fell swoop w hen that firm failed. If you were, to look for the head of thut great concern you would not find him iu the world of siiks und sutius. Ou the other hand, Mr. Bowen is now the publisher of thu Lulrj-'tiiJttd. Among other great firms that have gone out of existence, we may mention In dry goods tho Moores, who were in trade thirty years, and who, from small beginnings, at last occupied a Broad way store at u rcut of V2?,0U0 per unuum. Iu the grocery busiuess we might tnenliou thu name of J. K. Pluce & Co., which failed last lull. This house was estimated at be ing worth 1.000,000. Their credit stood so high that they could purchase a bill of coffee and give their note for it to the amount of $100,000, aud yet uow that they have failed it is not probable thut they will pay tbtir creditors much, it mdeeU any thing. Probably in a very short time we will see these very Places, who once were merchant priuces, running around t lie streets with boxes ot samples, aud taking theciian- ces among the legion uf merchandize bro kers, logo back to the house ot Dcuisou & Belden, from which the Places sprung. I his concern fulled a lew years ago, und although it possessed an imuieusu trade, yet it was uever resuscitated, to also when Simeon Draper failed, although he announ ced in hia curd hu would pay in full, yet the Herald contradicted this assurance, and stated thut he never would pay A dollar, and be never did. ' Hu also the great ounking house of Prime, Ward & Co.; they. paid no thing. When one goes among the great centers of literary activity, he finds the same law at work, the Herald, tbe limes, and the Tribune, have each their share of hacks, and ltoken dowu editors, aud unsuccessful authors, who are here buried in laborious retirement. Among their broken down edi tors we may meutiou James Watson Webb, ot the once rJourishiug Couiitr aud Enqui rer, who uow has a foreign mission. Mor decai M. Noah, formerly of the Evening Star, was also oue of this class. Stepping into a large concern some time ago, we en tered iuto conversation with the bookkeeper, a man apparently of sixty, and found to our surprise thut he ouce wa partner in a heavy cloth importing bouse, whose sign bad beeu rami liar to us for years. A consciousness of the difficulty of retrieving oue's fortune was uttered in the language ot Wm. Burger, who, a few year ago, was one or the hea viest wholeaale dealers iu drugs in the city. After hi filure, which wound up a busi uess experience of thirty years, a friend asked him bow he was. Tbe reply was : "Too old to fail In buaines." And o it Droved. We have een tbe broken euer- chants in this city reduced to keeping board ing linuse. We know on wno mane ui bread out of model artist exhibitions, and another, who w among th grearet busi ness men o th day, w recently picked up in the etreet at night, a drnoken vagrant, and a such wo taken to the station ho us. The womrn of Topeka, Kansas, met the other day in regular convention aud nom inated one of themselve, a Mrs. Crow, a a member of tbe Board of Education tn that county. Kant eemt to be tba legitimate field of all aort of queer or abtatd political and religiou movements, just at Central New York. tno waa Wplritcd Card Prom tbe Wife fan Col. Gallawav. editor of the Slemchi Av. alancbe, having been committed to prison by William Hunter, Judg of the Criminal iouri or Mciiipiiiti, on charge ol contempt, j his wife assumes, in tha following card, the jCditorinl clmrKe atnl conduct of that papr I "Twenty-six years ago I gave inv giilisli I heart to the huslmnd hoae nnnie I proudly I Wo ,)I,VB lived thrrrtijfh atlvernity and ! l'-prrity. I lit in whatever condition our j ) lo, ,,Bfe f,a,u"?ny ' never dared OTW'S ! in me cotintv inn : our, innnK unit, ne Is a pi.iaonrr witii.mt a crime. He fcas I ten Inn H right which are his l.v the laws of the" land ,." land. T a free country a free prtaa is es ltttiifot-u intlifpt-nsahle as light ito dav. It is, in Lf,u from wliicU emanates the healthy in fluencea which produce vitality, strength ami fertility. For exercising right which the constitution guarantees, my husband has been incarcerated in Not only rny pravers, but the prayers of all good people, ol both sexes, will follow him iu his piison cell. 1 f hhil not speak unkindly of the man who has bought to degrade my husband, and who has lnought ttohuppincss upon two families. But us the principal editor and the local editor have both been arrest ed, and no freeman is allowed to speak through the columns of the Avalanche, there is mi other nltcrnn'ive left hut for mo to assume the position forced upon me by the persecutions and misfortunes which despotism always brings upon tha noble and the brave. A preconcerted arrange ment hns been made to crush out thu paper, it cannot be done. During the incarcera tion of my husband and Mr. .Campbell, 1 am constrained to take charge nf the paper, and can be found at the editorial room nf I ho Avalanche, and if men are not brave -Hough to defend their rights and their liberties, I trust the paper, of the next ten days, will prove that there is one woman reaily to defend the rights and the liberties which weuk and timid men teem dispose! to yield. Fanny B. Gallawav." The Circle Mquarrd. Mr. Constant Terry, of Eaglu Pass, Texas, announces that he has squared the circle. Hu writes to a contemporary: "In the rule fur spuming tiro circle aril li metieally I think originated the saying, 'It is a poor rule that won't work both ways ' I rind the number seven (7) to be the sum ol thu roots of tho rule to square the circle by the iu.irc. And I yet expect to le:.rn thul it orginuted thu mysterious seven of the Bi tile. In squaring the circle geometrically. I find this prulilt-m 3?i20. in which scicm-i says. is hid -the mysterious teren and thru score and fen of thu Bible t trice told. I di d icate the pleasure of the solution of this problem to the ingenious. Therefore it is evident I am not tho firt person who ori izinnted these rules for squaring the circle I think they were originated tho other sidi of Noah's flood." The fact that Mr. Terry incidentally re marks that tho number seven is "blended" with his "advent into the world." that lit knows "the state of the dead," that "the sixteenth verse of Obadiah is true," and so on, may incline some reader to doubt the value of his mathematical calculations. A Story fkom Paris. A Paris letter tells the following story of a Twelfth Night ef in that city : A wealthy tamily in the aristocratic Boulevard Malesherbes were amusing them selves in seeking the King's portion, or the ring iu the festival cuke, w hen a lady of the company says to the hostess : "Iwish my portion to be given to the poorest little boy we can find in the street." Thu servant was dispatched on this freez- 1 ing night, and not far from the house he found a ragged tirclrn, trembling with cold and hunger, lie brought him up, was or dt-red into the saloon, where a thousand lights glittered, and a spai kliug fire glad dt-ued and surprised him. He drew his por tiuu which the benevolent lady had prom bed, and as luck would have it. the little fellow found the "ring," (beans the'V se in Paris instead.) and of course, be was "King." They all shouted out that, being a King, lie must choose a Queen. Hu was asked to do so, und looking round the company, he chosu the very lady who hud proposed to cede her portion of cake. He was asked why hu chose her. He said : 'I don't know; she look most like moth er." "Mother I whose mother I" "My mother I 1 never knew her. but was stolen away from ber, and here is ber por trait !" With this bo drew from out bis ragged coat a likeness, which proved to be that of the very lady herself, who io Italy, had her child stolen fioin her. and now he turns up a poor little rugged Savoyard, dragging along a miserable existence in Paris, while his mother, by an intuition, perhaps, felt that in tho air near to wheie she was, was one so dear to her. Definition! Buss, to kia again ; pluri- bus, to kiss without regard to sex ; silihus, to kiss tho band instead of the lips; blun derbus, to kiss the wrong person ; omni bus, to kiss all the persons in the room; eruhus, to kiss in the dark. Evidently, the country girl who went down to the city recently had these definition in her mind. A young gentleman ws to escort her some distance through the town, and not wishing to walk, remarked : "Hold on. Miry, let's tuke a bus' "; but Mary, blushing to the eyebrows, drew back, and with wounded modesty replied, "O George, not right here in tue street." The Difference. A case was recently trien in one ol our courts about the sound nest of a borne, iu w hich a clergyman, not conversant with such matters, appeared as witness. He was1 a little confused in giving bi evidence, and a blustering lawjer. who examined turn, at last exclaimed : "Pray, sir, do yon know the difference between a horoe and a cow t" "I cknowledg ray ignorance," replied the wit new, "I hardly know the difference between a horse and a ciw, or a bully and a bull only that a bull, I am told, ba born, and a bully (bowing with mock respect to the pettifogger) lucki ly for me, ba none I" "Yon can retire sir," said tbe lawyer ; 4Tva no mora question to ask you." A. man in New Orleans committed suicide witb a bomb shell. II abut himself up in a room with the projectile, and calmly wait ted until ba was blown into a thousaud piece aud eternity at tba same moment, ItltliVlTIEM. The Chicago lake tunnel water is muddy. Kentucky list 100 horses in training fur the tpringVanet. U7,000.000 is the expected yield of our Western gold crop. 8ervnt women am soiree at ten dollars a week in Colorado. A good qoality of coal has been found in Grundy county. Mo. There are more than a million of bushels of wheat stored in Minnesota. On the 81st of March 80.000 musk rat skins were shipped from St. Paul. A union of the Episcopalians and dissen ters in Irelund is spukeu of as possible. $14,240 per dav is the income of Louis iNapoleon dtiy. Francis Joseph has (10,050 per in Algiers. One of them is of an Arab wo man, who killed her daughter, twelvo years Miss Sallio JelflU-esat Elizabeth, New Jersey, ami celebrated her 102d birthday last Sunday a week. Madame Restell of New York returns an income of $20,000, oiuiuly derived from her notorious profession. A it r w n il nmr. nf Hunn.lis.. I . 1 .1 i. ' J to be employed at the Treasury Department ;.. '..i. ;.... r I U IT UOUlllglWU. A. T. Stewart's new building, in New ' York, is to have four iron elevntors run by steam, to carry passengers and freight. More then ten thousand musk-rats, whose skins sell at twenty five cents each, were i shut in tho Knritan river last week. ! Colorado wants 1,000 uumurried wom-n. Massachusetts wants as many men in thu same happy condition. Phineas H., son of Brigham Young, is dead. He was twenty years old and a rath er good painter. Hu left several aivesto iuouru his early loss. A hog in Peoria rnn into a house and stolo a child from its cradle, with w hich it rau off. When almut to devour it, its mother esme up and deprived it of its comtcmplatcd meal. In Kentucky the demand for hemp is very brisk. If Governor Browulow would do his duty by the Ku-Klux-Klan, the demand for thu same article would be much greater in Tennessee. The Christian Denomination is adding converts by the wholesale iu Tennessee and Kentucky. The Methodists are driving liiem hard, however, and a fitter rivalry is mid to exist between the preacher of the litre-rent sects. A young lady in Connecticut recently had twenty four wens cut out of her head in two sittings. She is recovering. Barn urn has turned farmer. Wooly uorses, sacred cows, masked swine and two ended poultry would I e appropriate stock or his farm One beeownr-rgnt fifteen hundred pounds of honov from hia hives in West Virginia, and sold it for four hundred and fifty dol lars. A church made cut of rags, capable of eating one thousand persons, and elabor ately innate ia the Grecian style, exists at Bergen. Prussia. The rags are in the form l fnijikr mnehe, rendered water proof by a solution of vitriol, lime water and white of .-Cg 9. For maple sugar this hat been the best vc.ir ever known in New Hampshire. Paraguay aud Brazil still fight and say that they wiil do so for some time longer, i.opez vs. redro is th vs. Tedro is the case, and Pedro M-cnis to generally get the worst of it. Farragut and Grant are personal friends did the Admiral is sn nut spoktn Radical How the list of availables dwindles down Alien Democrats look out for candidates. Dubuque, which is in the same lutitude .is Boston, is so warm that linen coats are rominini on the backs of men in the streets. Colli will be common there too before long. When George IV. nf England was a bov of fourteen he w as severely flouiied with a horse-whip by persons acting under his father's orders. George IV. was one of tho worst and most contemptible of Kings. Albert Edward must surely have been flog ged w ben uged fourteen. ged when ugeei Twelve hundred barrels of smokinrr tobac co were seized by the revenue officers of riiiladelplua, lust week. Thu Legislature of Maryland hns appro priated fciiOU.OUO to uniform and equip the militia of that State, which is principally uiade up of rebel soldiers. The passage of the bill pensioninff soldiers of the war of 1612, and it approval by Gov ernor Geary, give the liveliest satisfaction in all parts ol the State. Andrew Johnson's homestead io Tennes see H being repaired aud refitted, as if pre paratory to being very shortly occupied by its owner. Impeachment. Connecticut bids fair to eclipse New Hampshire in the continueuce of her devo tion to Republican principle. It is only the ready casb system of doing business, which now saves the cotwitry from a fearful financial crisis. It has kept many a merchunt Uoiug a small business from bankruptcy. The New York Industrial Council have issued a circular recommending the repeal of the eight hour law, avowing that it is practically inoperative, and was designed simply for political effect, rather than for the relief ot the laborer. General Forrest is etipposod to be the head centre ol llu liu Klux-lxlun. A fitting representative of the society. A young married man lost recently, at a single sitting. If 100,000 at a Paris club. Gam bling is very fashionable In that capital. An exchange says that it is a sort of poetic justice that, as Moses deserted tbe blacks, one or tuu lilac., (Jerry,) should in turn desert Moses. Mr. John Masker, of Trenton, N. J., was bitten two months ago by hi wife's pet dog, and a lew days ago he died. Moral "Beware of your wife's pet dog." The Hon. John Magree, who it lying dangerously ill at Watkins, N. Y.. is woith between $40,000,000 and $--0,000,000, prin cipally in Petlnsylvauiacoai mines. Why is a man who has left bis wife like a reformed drunkard I Because be will no louger support ber, (sup porter.) Why is a bridegroom worth mora than the bride t Becauso she is given away and be is sold I Ben. Butler's cannon may not bsve been very burtful to Foit Fisher, but tb hot tbot in hia crott-examination of witnesses for tb defence in impeachment it having a moat withering effect on those who opposed bit passage oi the iutcn uat The Gulnes will case has at last been decided. It is one of the most cuiioislv, lnterfatinjf will case on record, well worthy a prominent place among the mimm etlibnt of the country. Mrs. Gen. Gnines having now been decided to he actually the legiti. mated child o her father, DsaSi Clark, comet, af'er thirty six weary yeift of leghl proceedings, doubt and tnxietv, into a property valued ot al ou: $ 0,000.000, which makes her, It Is said, the wealthiest woman in America. Small, dark, vivacious, enter tainintr and remarkably well preserved (for Mrs. Gaines is no longer young) this Creole million heiress is probably just now the most triumphant woman in the world, and sho ba given the best years of ber life for this triumph. Some terrible stories are told of tbe famine of age, and gave tho tiesli to her other children and partooic of it herself. The legal authorities at on re proceeded tn the spot, and on entering the hut found the mother occupied in Halting tho flesh, cut up iuto pieces, as if it were so much pork. One hund vu dollars per acre are mado ,,,i8 ytar in Norlb Ciirolio. by the Poa nut croc. crop. There fire still upwards of three and a half millions of nnemancipated serfs in the Russian possessions. AGRICULTURAL, &C. rov I lie C'untelvupe. There ia no rcas'iii in tho world why our farmers, und all who have a little grouud to spare, should not have their crop of caote lou pes upon their own premises, with the other productions of the farm or garden. They are no more dirlieult to produce than some other crops regularly cultivated. Of cotvreu to raise good cun'eloupes it will re quire attention somewhat ditfereut, but this should deprive none uf the enjoyment of au annual supply nf this most delicious fruit. Wu therfore print again our own niodti of cultivation. For the cautelnupe, a sandy loam Is al ways to be pn-fpired ; but any Huh', friable soil, with a southern exposure, free from pre vailing moisture, win uuswer. Tuu gruuud should be converted into a fine tilth tho hills should be dug out tn the etepth often or twelve inches, eighteen inches in diame ter, which should be filled with one third well rotted short manure, one third good , sand (should the 9tl not possess any,) and ' one-third rich earth, welt mixed. The hills should be from eight to twelve feet apart ! each way, us room may allow, and tho seed, say five to a hill, should be planted over the whole hill an inch below the surface. Win a , 'l'e sprouts are two incites high, give them , u sprinkliug of wood ashes, while the deW is ou, or afterwutn-iijg tuem, and repeat three or four times during the two follow ing weeks. This will drive away the in , sects. But should these fail, u.-e sonpsuds, aud they will soon disappear. When tbey are six incites high remove all but two or three vines, according to the apace between the rows. In removing the weeds from tha beds, the vines should not bu disturbed, as the rootlets which penetrate the earth from ; the vines, and which supply tha principul nourishment to the fruit, will be destroyed. Nothing more is needed to yield an amount I of this- delicious melon that will astonish thu uninitiated, and a quality uncquated by j tho best productions of Jersey. At least this is our experience. From ten to twen ty hills are sufficient for a family. Care, however, must be taken to procure gootl seed. All things considered, we re gard the nutmeg form of a meluu the best for Pennsylvania soil. j It answers an admirable purpose, in pro j tecting the young plants from the melon ; bug, to sow a few radish seed around the i hill near to the plants, at the time of put : ting iu the melon seed. We preserve the j young plants in this way, withuut the least injury from this destructive insect, which, prefers the leaf nf the radish to that of tba j raelon. fjermanfoicn Telegraph. The Corn Grub. The corn crop has several formidable enemies to contend with, and among them is what is commonly called tbowbitu grub, which damages the crop seriously. One of the beet aud most judi cious remedies, perhaps the very best ever suggested, is the application of salt as soon I as the plant oiaKes its appearance above the ground, laae one part common sail aou three parts plaster or gypsum, and apply about a full table-spoonful around each hill, and it will lie found to be a sure protection, The mixture should not come in contact , with the sprouts, as it may destroy them. This method baa been tried over and over again by some of the best farmers of Penn sylvania, Delaware and Jersey, and wheu properly applied has never failed to be per fectly successful. We hope our farmers, who have reason to fear thu depredations of tbe grub this season, will try this mixture, leav ing a few alternate row of corn without tha salt and communicate to us the result. We are aware some writer say salt has no effect upon vermin, but we speak in this matter oa the best authority Qtmnanteicn Tel, Ryk FLoun for Bread. Mr. William Ray Smee. writing in the London Morning Star, directs attention to the use of rye bread, on the score of cheapness. Thew ri tcr advert to the fact "that bread made from rye 1 eaten by all ranks of society in the northeast of Europe, and is scare. ly ever abseut from the tables of the noble and wealthy, because two sorts of bread are con sidered more wholesome and more uourish ing than the exclusive use of oue." Of tho two kinds of bread, the rye and the finest w beaten, made at the Vienna bakery of tha Paris Exhibition, and served at the adjoin- lager beer drinking ball, tbe rye bread -i.i largely taken in preference. Tbe case of a German is cited, who in bis own coun try used to eat a slice of wbeaten bread and a slice of rye bread together, and who, ou bis coming ti reside iu England, suffered much in health from tbe cutire use of wheat en bread. Garden Wales. We wish again to itu press upon our reader that nothing makes Letter garden walks than coal ashes. Tbey are of tbe more valu fur this purpose than any other that they can ba applied to that we know of. Wher the walk require it dig it ont two or three incbea put tba coarsest portion of tho ashes at tbe bottom and tba other on tba top to tbe depth al together of three or four or even six inches, and then roll well. These walks ara always dry and pleasant to the feet, and are rarely tronbled witb wecela, and w ben they are tbey can h readily remnve.J - Gtrnumtoitn Tal-yraih
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