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ET
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3
yniTut
BUSINESS CARDS.
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ATlOltSEliSATLAW,
SUNBURY, PENN'A.
8 B. Botch and W. J. WotTiBTow, reepetfnlly
nnnounue that they hav anterad into oo-partnarahlp
in 1 ho practic of their profession In Northumbor.
lnd and adjoining eountio. 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.
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OFFI )E,
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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.
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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
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. .ui:ky, PESS'i.
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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.
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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.
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Jon RcKi,a
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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
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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
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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