_ j \t I 1 11 ti '1()L I Or / (.' 4)1 im‘ • le t 41. b , ) • fathitv Vaper---11nottil to lllatitics, Aviculture, fittraturt, Scituct„ Art, fortign, liguitstir and @turd juttiligtscr, ttc* ESTABLISHED IN 1813. THE WAYNESBURG MESSENGER, PUBLISIIED BY B. W. JONES & JANES S. JENNINGS. WAYNESBURG, GREENE CO., PA EETOIFFICJIL NEARLY OPPOSITE THE PUBLIC SQUARE...a 1.0 3 at DI el a MIRPCRIPTION.-92.00 in advance; $2.25 at the ex piration of six months; $2.50 after the expiration of the year. A.DVEATISEMEICTS inserted at 51.25 per square for three insertions, and 25 cts. a square for each addition al insertion; (ten linen or less counted a square.! f}'• liberal deduction made to yearly advertisers. 4[7- JOB PRINTING, of all kinds, executed in the hest style. and on reasonable terms, at the "51estengei" Job Office. iNo paper sent for a longer period than ONE YEAR without be ing paid for. nalittesburg "fusintss Carbs. ATTORNEYS. Van. L WVLI. J. A. J. BIL'cIiANAN, D. t. 1-1,.:88 WYLY, BUCHANAN Sr, HUSS, ttorneys IL Counsellors at Law, WAYNESBURG, PA. ill practice in the Courts of Greene ❑nd adjoining reunifies. Collections and other legal buziness will re ceive prompt attention. Office on the south side of Main street, in the 01* Bank Building. Jan. 88, 1863.-13, •.•.,PURDIAN, J G. RITCHII PURMAN & RITCHIE" ATTORNEYS AND COUNSEILLORB AT LAW, Waynesburg, Pa. • PrOrrirr— Main Street, one door east of Btnk Building. Jusiness in Greene, Washington, and Fay ilele Counties, entrusted to them, will receive prong, 4lMention. lc a —Particular attention will he given to the col lection of Pensions. Bounty Money, Back Pay, and other claims against the Government. • dew. 11, Id6l—iy. R. W. DOWN', ATTORNEY ANll COUNSELLOR AT LAW = Witte in 1 edwith's Building, opposite the Court , VVapiesburg, Pa. it: A•. 3VCONNELL. 41F.TTYIS AND DOb'NSELLORS Ai' LAW ri ayuesburip• Pa. • Mee i tote ilWngh t 11. s e," East Door. (tallithim, &c.. wilt receive prompt uttentiun Vayuribini, A0112,1802-4'. DAVID cn A WFORD, Alturney and Counsellor at Law. Office on Main *reel, East and nearly opposite the Hank, Waynesburg, Pa., July 30, 1663.-Iy. E. A. BLACK BLACK & PHELAN, ffiTTORNEYS AND COUNBOLLOHS AT LAW Office in the Court House, Way nekhorg. 11,1861-Iv. 11110363:1' =kV WAR CLALIZEJII XI. R. Q. 3191C1:719115, ATTOBR BY AT LAW, WA YNESBU MG, PEEN A • T 1 AS received from the War Drpartinent at Wash ington city. L. C., official copies of the several laws passed by Congress, and all the necessary Forms and Ihstruelions fire the prosecution and collection of P.E.IVISJONS, BOUXTY. BACK PAY, due dis charged and disabled soldiers, their widows, orphan ctillidesis, widowed mothers, lathers, Mavis and broth ers, which business. [upon due notice] will be attend ed to promptly, and accurately, if entrusted to hie care. Office in the old Bank Building.—April 8. 1863. O. W. O. WADDELL, ATTORNEY & COUNSELLOR AT LAW, /Arnim in Campbell's Bow opposite the Hamilton 10 House, Waynesburg, Penna. Business of alt kinds solicited. Has received official copies of all the laws pawed by Congress, and other necessary instruc tions fin the collection of PENSIONS, BOUNTIES, BACK PAY, Due discharged and disabled soldiers, widows. Orphan children. &c.. which business if intrusted to his care *HI, le promptly attended to. May 13. '63. PHYSICIANS 12122:1 Dr. T. W. Ross, ysioiasz dte Nitualwacksa. Waynesburg, Greene Co., Pa. OrrICE AND RESIDENCE ON MAIN STREET. east, and nearly opposite the Wright house. Way nesbu - g, Sept. 23, 1863. DR. A. O. CROSS WOULD very respectfully leader nis services as a PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON, to the people itheiptesburg and vicinity. lie hopes by a due aPPre7. giallo. of human life and health, and strict attainder/ to cuisines*, to merit a share of public patrnuage. Waynesburg. January N, Ron. DRUGS M. A. 11ARVEY, t and apothecary, and dealer in Paints and faile * Volost celebrate Patent Medicines, and Pure Liquors for medicinal purposes. Sept. 11, 1861-Iy. DIEROIL&NT'S WM. A. PORTER, Wbosesale and Retail Loeale, in Fort-Aga, and DOlllll3l. / Da Goode, Groceries, lotions, Sm., Main street. Sept• 11.1861=1y. R. CLARK, Denier in thy Goods, Groceries, Bay aware, Queens ale and nations, in the Hamilton House, opposite the Court House, Main street. Sept. It, —l c MINOR & CO., Dealers in Foreign and Domestic Dry Goods, Gr. caries, Queeasware, Hardware and Notions, opposite the Green House, Matt. street. dept. 11, 1861-Iy, HOOT AND SEOZ DRILLERS. J. D. COSGIIAY, Orwit and Shoe maker, Main street, 'wally opposite tha **Rannees and Dmver's Bank." tivmy *tyke 01 Bonus and Shoes constantly on hand or made to order. 'Sept. 11, 186 i—I y. GROCIERLIIS & VARIETIES. JOSEPH YATER, Dealer * GrOC•liell and Confectioneries. Notions, Nledadass, Perfumeries, Liverpool Ware, &c., Glass 01 a s , sod Gilt•llgosiltlitut and Looking Glass Plates, paiditsrgood eating apples. l a im it pt. 11, 16451-Iy. .._ _ _... _ _ --- -- JOHN MUNNELL ) in Groceries and Coatectionaries, and Variety a,,. SkinerhilY. Wilsen's New Building, Main street. II; 1861—lt. • XoOic3. &c. . 111AY, sad Mimi'wag_ l ow 40cimilli W S ins WlNl ikn i o rk gWS Stmt. met. tu. tr. Dr Dadd, the well-known Veteri nary Surgeon, writes as follows : The first process in the operation of milking, is to make the cow's ac quaintance, and give her to under stand that the milker approaches her with none other than friendly inten tions; for if he swears, scolds, or kicks her, she is likely to prove re fractory, and may possibly, give the uncouth and unfeeling milker the benifit of her heels, which, in my opinion, he is justly entitled to. Before commencing to milk the animal, she should be fed, or have some kind of fodder, in the enjoy ment of the mastication of which her attention is withdrawn from the milker's operations, and the milk is not "held up," as the saying is; but is vielded freely. The milker should not sit ofr at a distance, like a coward, but his left arm should come in contact with the leg of the cow, so that she cannot kick. If she makes the attempt when the milk.er is in close proximi ty-with the cow's body; the former merely gets a kick instead of a blow. Before commencing; to milk, the teats are to be washed with cold water, in warm weather, and warm water in winter. The object is to remove accumulated d which otherwise would fall into the milk pail, to the disgust of persons who love pure milk, and bate unclean liness. here is a chance for im provement. The. best milker is a merciful man. The udder and teats are highly or ganized, and very sensitive ; and these facts should be taken into consideration, especially when milk ing a young animal, for the teats are sometimes excessively tender, and the hard tugging and squeezing which many poor sensitive creatures have to endure, at the hands of some thoughtless, hard-fisted man, are re ally littAs..ltz.si . to witoogrz. J. J. II UFFMAN A better milker than even a mer ciful wan, is a woman. The princi pal part of the milking, in private establishments in fbreign countries, is done by women : and in these United States there are thousands of capable women out ot employ ment who might be advantageously employed, in private and dairy es tablishments, as milkmaids. There fore, in view of improvements in the art of milking, I advise farmers to teach their wives, daughters. and female domestics, how to strip the cows. JOHN PlilitAN An indolent person—slow coach —should never be suffered to touch a cow's teat; the process, to say the least of it, is painful, therefore, the best milker is one who can abstract the milk in the quickest time. Finally, milk the cow dry. The last of the milk is the most valua ble, yet Mr. Hurry-up cannot spare time to attend to this matter, conse quently he loses the best of the strip pings, and actually ruins the cow as a milker. HOW BACHELORS WERE TREATED BY THE ANCIENTS, In antiquity, it was considered un. patriotic in a citizen to remain a bachelor all his days, By the Spar tan laws, those citizens who remain. ed bachelors after middle-age, were excluded from all offices, civil and military. At certain feasts they were exposed to public derision, and led around the market place, Al. though generally speaking, age was usu'ally deeply respected at Sparta, yet this feeling was not manifested to old bachelors, "Why should I make way fur you ?" said a Spartan youth to a gray-beaded old bache lor, "who will never have a son to do me the same honor when I am old." The Roman law pursued the same policy towards bachelors. They had to pay extra and special taxes, and under Augustus a law was enacted, by which bachelors were made inca pable of acquiring legacies and de vises of real estate by will, except from their near relations. In canon law bachelors are enjoined to marry, or to profess chastity in earnest by becoming monks. Dr. Tyler, the late President of Windsor Hill Seminary, used to say that it took him a great while to find out the worth of his title; but after a long time it proved to be just "eight cents." "I we,fit into an apothecary store in Hartford," said the Doctor, "to purchase some medicine, on inquir ing the price was told it was twen ty-five cents. But while the clerk was putting it up, a gentleman of my acquaintance came in and said : 'How do yuu do, Dr. Tyler ?' And when I threw out my quarter to pay for the medicine, the clerk band od me back eight cents. 'How is ! this?' said I. 'Oh,' said the clerk, 'we ask common people twenty-five cents, but ask doctors only a shilling' Then. LOU 4im I was only a D. —one who-preached. and cot a prac ' tieing doctor; but he refused to tait,a..#o money back, sod so I have .Ltimilssea sortify thst a • 4 • tb• Wel& = • ' :ro tiortilantous. HOW TO MILK THE COWS. VALUE OF A TITLE. WAYNESBURG, GREENE COUNTY, PA., WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 28, 1863. ELOQUENT APOSTROPHE TO COLD WATER. Col. Watt Forman exclaimed in a sneeringsvoice, "Mr. Paul Denton, your reverence has lied. You prom ised us not only a good barbecue, but better liquor. Where is the liquor?" "There!" answered the missionary in tones of thunder, and pointing his motionless finger at the matchless Double Spring, gushing up in two columns, with a sound like a shout of joy, from the bosom of the earth. "There !" he repeated, with a look terrible as lightning, while his enemy actually trembled at his feet like a convicted culprit. "There is the liquor which God, the Eternal, brews for all his children. Not in the simmering still, over smoky fires choked with poisonous gases, and surrounded with stench of sick ening odors and rank corruption, doth your Father in heaven prepare the precious essence of life, the pure cold water; where the red deer wan der, a.nl the child loves to play ; there God brews it; and down— down in the deep valleys, where the fountains murmur and the rills sing; and high on the tall mountain tops, where the native granite glitters like gold in the sun, where the storm cloud broods, and the thunder tones crash; and away far out on the wide, wide sea, where the hurricane howls music, and the big waves roar the chorus, `~weeping the march of God,' there he brews it, that beverage of life, health-giving water. And eve ry where it is a thing of beauty— gleaming in the dew-drop, singing in the summer rain, shining in the ice-gem, till the trees all seem turn ed to living jewels; spreading a gold en vale over the setting sun, or a white gauze around the midnight moon : sporting in the cataract, sleeping in the glazier, dancing in the hail shower; folding its bright snow curtains softly about the win— try world, and weaving the many colored iris, that seraph's zone of the sky, whose woof is the sunbeam of heaven, all checkered over with fl,wprs by the mystic hand of refraction. Still also it is beauti ful, that blessed ice water No poi son bubbles tin its brink ; its foam brings not madne •s and murder; no blood stains its liquid glass ; pale widows and starving orphans weep riot burning tears in its clear depths; no drunkard's shrieking ghost from the grave curses it in words of de spair ! Speak out, my friends; would you exchange it for the de mon's drink, alcohol?" A shout like the roaring of a tempest answered 'No Critics need never tell me again that backwoodsmen are dead to the divine voice of eloquence, for I saw at that moment the missionary held the hearts of the multitude, as it were in his hand. A FLAG AND A OORPSE. In a regiment at Waterloo, the en sign, a mere boy, who bore one of the colors, was shot. The enemy were advancing, in overwhelming force, the regiment was being grad ually- pushed back, and the col ,r that had waved over their heads in many a dear:y bought victory, seemed destined to become the prize of the foe, in whose discomfit ed faces it had so often proudly flaunted. At this instant a gallant sergeant rushed to the front, de termined to avert the threatened ca lamity. The attempt appeared to be certain death, but he bad only one thought—the honor of his regi ment. Reaching the spot where the colors lay dabbled in mud and the blood of the bearer, he seized it with a nervous grasp and strove to tear it from the dead man's hands, but found it impossible to do so. In the moment of death, the en sign's fingers had tightened round it like a vice. The fiag could not be moved. His own comrades were re tiring, the French advancing—nay, were almost upon him. Without a moment hesitation, the sergeant by a vigorous effort, cast the corpse and the standard together across his shoulders, and thus freighted, re joined his own ranks, friends and foe both uniting to greet the exploit with hearty cheers. SQUIRREL SKIN SHOES The scarcity of leather in rebeldon is compelling the "superior race" to resort to some curious shifts. The Rich►nond Wl►ig says : "Squirrel skina tacked down to a board. the hair next to the board, with hickory ashes sprinkled over them for a iew days, to facilitate the removal of the hair, and then placed in a strong decoction of red oak bark, will, at the end of four days, make excellent leather, far stronger, and tougher than calfskin. Four skies will make a pair ufladies shoes. "We hear that, the ladies of some of the interior counties are wearing these shoes, and find them equal in softness and superior in durability to others The longer the skins are left in decoction of bark the better the leather. By this plan everybody may have a tanyard and make their own leather, its the skins are Wily and cheaply procured, 01,p4 any yea. mat bolding a gallou oit. Our rear` THE DEAD ON THE GETTYBFORG ROW TO MISS HARD TRUMPS. BATTLE FIELD. "Whoseever, therefore, shall humble The arrangements are nearly corn- himself as this Hute child, the same ie pleted for the removal of the remains greatest in the kingdom of heaven."— of the Union soldiers scattered over Matt. xiii ' 4. the Gettysburg battle field to the bur- The celebrated Dr. Franklin once re— ial grounds which is being prepared eeived a very useful lesson from the ex by the several States interested, for cellent Dr. Cotton Mather, which he thus their reception and- proper burial.— I relates in a letter to his son, Dr. Samuel David Wills, esq. of Gettysburg, who Mather, dated Pasay, 12th May, 1781: is the* ag ent for the Governor of "The last time I saw your father was in Pennsylvania, in a published card, 1724. On taking my leave, he showed says: - _ me a shorter way out ofthe house, through 'All the dead will be disinterred, and the remains placed in coffins and buried, and the graves, where mark ed and known, will be carefully and permanently remarked in this sol diers' eernetrrv. it is the intention of the friends of any deceased soldier to take his remains home for burial, they will confer a favor by immediately mak ing known to me that intention.— After the bodies are removed to this cemetery, it will be V ry desirable not to disarrange the order of the graves by any removals." GENUINE ELOQUENCE, There is no pcorle in the worid with whom eloquence is so perfect a gift as with the Irish. When Leitch Ritchie was traveling in Ireland, he passed a man who was a painful spectacle of palor, squallor and rag gedness. His heart smote him and he turned back. •'lt you are in want," said Ritchie, with some degree of peevishne6s, "why don't you beg?" "Shure, it's begging I am, your honor." "You didn't say a word." "Ov coorse not, yer honor: but see how the skin is, speakin . through the holes of me trousers? and the bones crying oat through me skin!— Look at me sunken cheeks, and the famine that's startin' in me eyes.— Man aliv ! isn't it beggin' that I am with a hundred tonguesj" THE MELT, BURST. Campbell, the author of the "Pleasures of Hope, - in his old age, wrote ; "I am alone in the world.— My wife and the , hild of my hopes are dead , my surviving is con signed to a living tomb ; my old friends, brothers, sisters, are dead all but one, and she too is dying; my last hopes are blighted. As for fame, it is a bubble that must soon burst. Earned for others, shared with others, it was sweet ; but at my age, to my own solitary exper ience, it is bitter. Left in my cham ber alone by myself, it is wonderful my philosophy at times takes flight; that I rush into company. resort to that which blntits, but heals no pang; and then, lel: of the world and dis satisfied with myself; shrink into solitude ?" And in this state of mind he died. re - The soda springs in Colorado Territory are a great curiosity.— The water gushes out of the solid rock, boiling up ten or twelve inches. The soda water is equal to the best monufactured article, ann with a lit , tie syrup and tartaric acid makes a refreshing drink. It is strongly impre‘rnated with carbouic acid gas, A bottle of it, 'corked and slightly shook, will pop the cork with some force. There are three soda springs of different degrees of strength, and two sulphur springs. The largest is about four feet in diameter, and four feet deep. bar An agriculturist in the Duchy. of Holstein is stated to have discov ered a remedy for the potato blight. Before planting the tubercle, be washes it in chlorine water, and then,let hit dry in the sun. Re has it is said, tried this method for five years, and always obtained sound Potatoes. gifit".A. Giant Lady died at New Prospect, N. J., a week ago, weigh ing 700 lbs. She liked hani and eggs —a ham would last her for two meals. She ate a good dinner, of which 24 ears of green corn formed a slight portion, shortly before her death. .11enry Ward Beecher says : "Life would be a perpetual flea hunt if a man were obliged to run down all the inuendoes, inveraeities, in sinuations and suspicions, which are uttered against him " CA gorgeously furnished drin k ing saloon is an illuminated adver tisement of the railroad to hell. Fare•as low, and time quicker than by ary other route. Tickets ten cents. kirThe English, to their shame, permitted the sister and only surviv • ing relative of the late gallant Ad miral Sir Sidney Smith, the, hero of, Acre, to live in abject penury. Re publics are not alone ungrateful. sitrif there was a little bell so attached to the hearts of man as to ring every time he did what was JuvENILE 110311CIDE.--In Terre wrong, this would be a musical Haute, a few days ago, Master Cal world. hags called Master Brown a liar, and Master B. shot bins deal instant ly, sad lasa Imiasirtately acquitted ,- fr" - - , 1 oa 11100.1. keinsede. laaesee ethers you wield have ib 'raft you." a narrow passage, which was crossed , by a beam over head. 'We were still talking as I withdrew, he accompanying behind, and I turned toward him : when E he said hastily, Stoop—stoop 1 I did not understand him till I felt. my head hit against the beam. He was a man who never missed an occasion of giving in struction; and upon this he said to ine— You are young, and have the world be fore you. Stoop as you. go through it, and you will miss many bard thumps,— This advice, thus beat into my head, has Irequently been of use to me ; and I often ' think of it when I see pride mortified, and misfortune brought upon people by carry ing their heads too high."—Ladies' Re po.yitory. ANECDOTE. The late Dr. N. W. Taylor was wont to relate how, at one time, there was a mem ber of the seminary who seemed so dull and inapt that he felt compelled, out of kindness to him and regard for the church es, to advise him no longer to look toward the ministry as his calling, hut betake himself to some plain, honest trade.— Soon after the professor heard that his unfortunate student had been preaching at a place where he himself had officia ted. Meeting a member of that congre gation, he asked, with a little latent amuse ment at the expected answer : "You had Mr. to preach for you last Sunday ; how did you like him?" The parishion dA not recognize the person with whom he was speaking, and answered frankly : "We liked hint well, and much better than we did Dr. Taylor !" "Since that," said the Doctor, "I have been careful ahout passing adversely upon the qualifi cations of young men for the ministry, or predicting that they cannot find a people to be pleased and profited by them." HOG FEEDING. Mr. i'aggert, of Wayne county, Ohio, at a meeting oi . the Ohio State Agricultural Society, said he was not in favor of feeding hogslong,to make them weigh large weights. Be kept his in the clover field until the begin ning of September; then when the corn begins to harden, cuts it up, both ear and stalk, and feeds it to them. One bushel of corn, in Sep tember, will fttten more than one and a half in December. 311.. T. recommends killing by the pith of November, as being the most profit able time, for then there has been lit tle expenditure of carbon, for the production of heat, when it left for another mouth, the cold, wintry storms make this necessary A 007,D WINTER. People in Wisconsin. lowa, - and Minnesota, may look out for the hardest winter seen for years. There will be more cold days, the mercury will run lower, and the snow will be deeper than before or Si nee '57, that the brook trout have commenced leaving the small creeks fur deep holes as early as September, and the first season since then that muskrats have double walled their little hillock homes. These and cer tain other infallible signs, known to sportsmen and hunters, indicate a winter of unusual severity. It is our opinion that the river will close at least two weeks earlier than last year.—La Crosse Democrat. TO liOMEWIVES. One of the best bleaching and emolien t ageuts that can be employ ed in washing, either the person or the clothing, is ccmmon refined bor ax. It should be dissolved in hot water at the rate of half a pound to ten gallons; a great saving in soap Is effected by its use. The borax should be pulverized first It may be procured in the form of crystals at any druggists, and can be powder ed with a rolling pin or a hammer. It will not injure the most delicate fabric, and laces or other fine tissues may be washed in a solution of borax, with manifest Ildvantage, to their color and consistence. • CHILD SMOTHERED —A child of Air. C. V. N. Dehart, of Somerville, N. J., was smothered to death on Tuesday afternoon. The child had been put in bed by its mother to take it usual nap and a pillow placed n.far its head. On going to the bed an hour after, the pillow was found over its face, and the child quite dead. TEE BEAM). Nature has supplied the most of mtakind with beards, :Ind in very ancient times, the Ciic of a razor up on it was unknown. In Greece, the first instance of shaving occurred in thc., , reign of Alexander the Great.— This warrior ordered the Macedoni ans to be shaved lest the beards of his soldiers should afford handles to their enemies. The sarcastic Dio genes, when he once saw some one whose chin was smooth, said : "I am afraid you think you have groat ground to accuse nature for having made you a man and not a woman." In Cicero's- time the genuine beard was not worn in society. But the barbula (goatee) seems to have been affected by the young Roman "swells." The beard began to revive again in the time of the Emperor Hadrian. .But of all the emperors who wore that ornament, none creates so much interest in posterity as the emperor Julian. His beard is the most famous beard in history. Speaking of it, he says : "•I commence with my counte nance. It had notbilig regular, or particularly agreeable about it; and out of humor and whimsicality, and just to punish it for not being hand some, 1 have made it ugly by carry ing this long and peopled beard." The Britons. like the ancient Gauls, allowed the hair to grow thick on the head; and, although they shaved their beards close on the chin, wore immense tangled mous taches, which sometimes reached to their breasts. it may be preshmed that the north ern nations telt the symoulic force of these appendages; we have a well known passage in Tacitus about the Curti, who, he says, made a general custom of what, among other Ger man people was an affair of private daring—the letting the "crinem har angue" grow till they had killed an enemy. The Normans, when they conquered England, were well sha ven, on the wick of the head as on the face; but the Saxons wore full beards. In Ed ward It's reign, beards were worn apparently by persons in years, great officers of State, and knights templars, but not generally. Sir John Mandeville, the traveler, who died A, D. 1372, was callA Sir John with the Beard (persuinably from its size.) In Edward lll.'s time—the hey-day of chivalry, of feudal orna *Lent, ut love-poetry, of benaldry--- long heard and due moustache were in honorable est;usatior.. loelr and IL's reign, the fashion continue The beard was •:forked," and in knightly effigies the moustache long and drooping on each side the mouth A sober and well governed gent, inan sof Elizabeth's time, regulat his beard 48 he did his dress. min manners or conduct. It was an i dex of his status or profession emblem of his feelings and tastes symbol to be respected like his cot, of arms. The Reformer, John Knox, cherished a large and profuse one, ooviously from its patriarchal char acter, from the honor shown it in the Jewish days, from whose senti ment he drew his inspiration. The scholar, such as George Buchanan, wore it—sometimes as one who fol lowed Knox and Calvin. The hair, as we all know, played an important symbolic part in tb civil wars of England; and the sane rigor which the Puritan exercised 01 the bead he exercised on his chi, and trimmed his beard as closely he trimmed his locks. The Vandyi beard is the typical one of this Pe' od. Peaked beards and moustao were popular among the cavaliers and were at least pretty generaft 'NON]. Beards went out of fashion 'for more tban two hundred years,among the Anglo-Saxons of Europe and America; but they have been revived again, and are now cultivated and defended upon scientific consider, Lions The moustache is approved be cause it is said to be a natural respi rator; a defense to the lungs against the inhalation of dust, and the beard is deleuded as a protection for the throat against cold. It has been re commended that all preachers who are subject to throat diseases should allow their beards to grow. Travel ers in sandy regions, millers, bakers and all mechanics should allow the beard free play. A Great Curiosity, On Saturday last, as one of the masons at West Harrisburg Market House was dressing one of the stones of which the building is being con. structed, upon chipping off a block, he found a large petrified rattlesnake in the inside. The snake is in a most wonderful state of preserva tion. The scales are perfect The backbone is clearly defined, and it is one of the most interesting spec& inotis of petrification probably ever discovered. The gentlemanly su perintendent of the work, Mr. Chas. Swartz, Esq., bas possession of the. reptile at present. as6,A woman in New York killed her iteiebor's boy by ribbing red pepper .n bin nose, eyes and mouth. tb Deight-1114140404 }yam NEW SERIES.--VOL. 5, NO. 2] AN INCIDENT IN THE PITT STEM Among the wounded lying in the Thirteenth Ward Station Honer on the morning of the shooting, was James Stephens, a child only' eight years of age, whoi was shot in the right arm. He lay quite patiently on bis left side, and moaned when his aim was touched. Our reporter seeing him so helpless asked where his parents lived, and having ob tained the necessary information set out to look for them, and was sae ceesiol after about an hour's search. The father is a stout able man, and bears the mark of a bullet wound over the right eye, which be receiv ed while in the Navy. He could scarcely believe that his child was shot, and remarked that the soldiers "must have meant mis chief or they would not have fired so 13w as to hit a child like that."-- lie also stated that he had two oth er boys, one of whom was twelve years old and the other two. On entering the Station House be went to his child, who brightened up and cried, " Oh ! daddy, daddy, come and kiss me, and bring me home to mammy, till I kiss her be fore I die." The scene was truly heart rending, but the worst bad to come. "Jimmy, my darlin'i s said the poor man, "did you see Billy?" (s brother, aged 12 ) "Yes, daddy," replied the child, "he was shot in the nose." "And where is he 'I" "I don't know, daddy," Here the man looking at the court. tenances around him, perceived that there was not a dry eye in the place, and that all viewed him with com passion, and turned as pale Jew' and cried "Merciful God, have' they shot both my children ? 0, can any one tell me where my boy is. .liono some one said there was a boy lying dead below, and suggested for him to go down and see whether it might not be his. lie went, and in less than two minutes a shriek so unearth. ly came from below as to startle evcry one; the poor fellow was soon seen to come up stairs like a maniac. in the pale bleeding corpse below, he reeoonized hie eldest boy, whom but a moment before he was speak ing of with all the pride of a, weak, and there side by side, the wounded and the dead, the two little brother* were carried on a door home to tI On a Strike. The journeymen coopers are on a strike, So are the poor sewing girls. Those engaged in the umbrella basi nez.s have niemoralized their employ. ers for higher wages. At present six to eight cents for each umbrella is ail they receive. The wool-growers of Illinois have formed a "Wool-Growers' As sociation," and adopted resolutions recommending a common organiza tion throughout the United States to protect themselves from combina tions of speculators and monopolists. iiiirTho corn crop of Wisconsin is, notes mach injured as was at first , euipposed. The wheat crop of the Nortbwk.st ;Nimmons.. Seven hund red and tiiatiptmelhomm4 b a th of wheat alone were remilpprillit Milr waakie during the puke weak. MABB.AORE.
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