ADVERTISING RATES.
I. Tmo. 3',2593. 6lmon. lyr.
1.50 1.75 3.50 6.01 1200
3.00 3,60 6,50 9.01 2005
4.66 6.25 9.00 17.03 25.00
11.50 17.03 2.5.01 45.03
13.00 22.00 40.01 60.03
MOO 40.01 00.03 110.01
moo mon 110.00 4360.03
Dee Square
rwo Squares
Three Squares
Six Squares, .
Quarter Column
Half Column .
One Columns
Professional Cards 61.03 per line per year,
Administrator's and Auditor'. Notices, ►9.00.
City Notices, 20 cents per line let ineertion, 15 cent, per
tee each subsequent insertion.
Ton lines agate constitute a square.
ROBERT IREDELL, Jn., PUBLISHER,
ALLENTOWN, PA
Qtoat anb 'Lumber.
FROW, JACOBS & CO.,
I=
ROUGH & WORKED LUMBER,
SASE DOORS AND BLINDS,
CZ=
.t•'3- Ord°rx from tha (ratio xullelled
•PII.DN MIT. D. OTT, If. M. OTTO. n. TT. MILLED,
FILBERT, OTTO At MILLER,
MANUFACTURERS AND DEALERS IN
LUMBER,
WILLIAMSPORT, PA
MILL ON CANAL WEST OF MAYNARD STREET.
OFFICE AT TIIE MILL.
W. F. CRANE, Aux:42. 4, :mit 02-17
R E 111 0 V A I. X
SMITH & OS 111 II.N ' S
COAL AND WOOD YARD !
Thu above Cool and Wood Yard bar been removed to the
coat end of the Jordan Bridge, sown! SI DS, whoro
b. rottatautly kept a too nod full aupply
Egg, Stove Nut and Chestnut Coal,
I=2
OUR COAL
ruder cover—and It k le tho Interest or every ea le
purelt.e
DRY AND SCREENED COAL
,Vg-it largo /dock of oil kinds of good Weed countaally
on band, and delivered to all purtn of the, oily of (ho lowest
market price,
YMID.—A branch yard In kept Id the Lehigh
I Depot, kuovva an the former yard of Lents and
Decker.
irk -THIS IS THE PEOPLE'S COAL YARD. - VO,
Our Coal Is selected from the best taluen in the Leislyd
region, and knowing tide to ho the fact and that It will give
perfect satisfaction, there is tri a l o Or d ersring to refund
he money. All see ask is a
erls lust adore,
FRANKLIN ISIIITII
inly lcth
COAL CONNER" ERN,
LOOK TO YOUR .INTEREST !
STELTZ & HEEBNER
Hereby lutorens the eltleene or ♦lleutown, •ud the pub
Ile lu general, that be I. prepared to ruzalelt all kluda of
COA L ,
from his well stocked Tard, formerly H. Oath & C. 'a, at
am Lehigh Basin, to the City of Allentown, where he will
conatautly keep on Lauds full supply of ■ll Mud. of Coal,
at the very lowest market prices. llis coal I• eke' and
uleau, from the •on best mines, sod to quality superior
o any offered in Alleutown.
lie will wit Coal by the CAR LOAD, at very small pro•
file, as ho Intend. to do buelurea upon the principle of
"Quick Salem and Small Profile. , Dive blue a call, and
upon comparing prices you eon judge for T0...1 , m
Ho will deliver Coal upon call to any part of the City
upon order. being left at shoTanl. or Weinsbehner'e .tors
RTELTZ & HEEBNER.
MIMI
REMOVAL
TREXLER & BROTHERS,
L TJ M B ER ,
Horeb) , ant...a to their friendn and potrous that they
hay ojugt rumored from their old stand to their
NEW 7ARD
near tLe corner of Tenth and Hamilton streets, formerly
occupied by Brawn. Sr Miller, as a Lumber Yard, whom
tiny will constantly keep on baud a lama and seasoned
stook of
LU3IRIiH,
such a all ILlrde of
PINE, HEMLOCK, CHESTNUT, POPLAR, SHINGLES
PICKETS, LATHS, Sic.
In fact everything ueually kept by the trade.
kinde of lumber cut to order itt whorl notice.
. Thankful for paid tavern, truot our (Heile, wet
mt the public iu general, willgive no a cull et our No •
Yent where we will uno our Lehi endeavors to reader ant
erection both as regards quality and prices. foot lr.l'On.t
MEMIMiM&IONM
The itmleralgued In rrettutrod to coutract for N 110.11114
SASH, BLINDS, WINDOW FRAMES,
DOOR FRAMES: SHUTTERS.
Mad all kind. of bnililing lumber Agent fur
HOPE SLATE COMPANY'S LEHIGH SLATE
Wholexale and retail dealer In the
CELEBRATED CUCUMBER PUMP
Order. Inft nt thn EAGLE 114 'TEL w 111 rreolva prompt
attnuthm. Pont oth ro odd re,.,
Wm. 11. BERLIN, P
Quakertown. Bucks Co.. m.
IhrD
ict 'A) 1
=MN
Tho bubseribern having leiudul the "Old 11,•pe cool
Yard," ‘ruuld resurrifully ;mummer to Om n ilxnnn of
Alloutowu nud tho public lu geurral, ulna they have. juut
Rut
=I
COAL
CouslNtlnif tor :Rove, Ent, Cl.,,tuut %%id Nul fro. the
DICK NTAIN IN
II .
order. loft with A. A. über. Sieger J< !lotto.kin. at
the Engle lintel. Hope Ito Mug, 51111, or the Yard, will be
ullethled to lu a
BUSINESS
like manner.
Order for Coal by Om ear filed a short unit. •ud ■t
the lowest prlen.
Alway. uu baud a largo •tock of
BALED 1111",
which will La sold at the lowest musket prism!
L. W. KOONS & CO
al II.'• Old Nur. Cual Tani
gutolltou Strout. corner of Lehigh VAlloy Railroad
13=11!
L. W. NOOYM
oel 27
d CONSHOHOCKEN
BOILER AND COIL WORKS
JOAN WOOD, J R.,
=I
TUBE, FLUE AND CYLINDER BOILERS, BATH
AND STEAM CIRCULATISO BOILERS
All klndn of Wrought Iron Coils, Ttiyerm for Maid Fur
nac
e, (lamonietera. Smoke Stackm Bloat Pitlem, Iron Wheel
barrows. and everything In the Boller and Sheet Iron line.
Also, all kinds of Iron and !keel Forging. and illaricomith
work, Minerm"rools of all kind*, nook am Whew ❑ llueketv,
Pirko/. Malletw, Sledges, Ace. -
.•., - • • .
IlaTlng a Steam Hammer mud ,
act of lonia of all kfEda,
and skilled workmen, I natter anylelf that I can turn ont
.work W
rranted WI pron be i fi ptueon ond dlanatch, all of which will La
to rot-claiw.
Patching Huilerx, and repairing .generally. atrictly at
lauded to. Bpi •17
SCHOLARS, ATTENTION!
PUPILS, PARENTS AND ALL OTHERS
I=l
BOOKS OR STATION E
Are lo v Red to call at Su. 3.5 Weet Ilotullton Street. (Walk
vex old *Mud.) four doont below Eighth Street, wharuynu
will dud a largo and compluto block of all Muds of
School Books
need In thlo. couu tT. et the loweet cash prlcon.
A full Iluo of LAEIN, (IREEK. GERMAN nod FRENCH
books for Collegee, Aredetulee,aud School.. ult.), on
italontalmmun
A full assurtnteut of Stationery, Blank llooks,• Memo
randutns, Pocket Books, Comb., Albinos, Pictures, Ste,
' lOtlCOlpenand Vin o. Window Paper, Sc., sold at the very,
owest cash prices.
English and llerinan pockot and fatally' Bibles, Prayer
. • Books and Ilynnt Books.
A largo and splendid stock of Miscellaneous, Book• of
Prose and Poetry slid Sunday School Books All the ra•
gaieties for Sunday Schools always on hind at l'Alladel•
phla Price.
Wu aro:closing .it oar stock of WALL PAPER st cool.
Agoot for 11114 eel. ef
BRADBURVS CELEBRATED PIANOS
, Please give we u tali when you wish to purchase.
E. - MOBS. •
Hamilton ht.. below Werth. *Ltrutews. Pa.
VOL. XXIV
1111 . 00133 Slytbeo
TI1011•6 POTTER. JAMIN F. 110,.. 0. C. WARIIOOII.I , I
Bow. 8. Wo!Lamm,. 000102 1•
Tian
RORAS POTTER, SON et CO:,
MAYUFACTUARYOI OF
OIL CLOTHS AND IVINDOW SHADES,
Floor OIL CLOTHS; Euurnolled Muslin*, and
Table OIL CLOTHS; IllahoilauT, Ilo.uwood, Out and
Halide OIL CLOTHS; Moir 011 (I OM& 111114 Carriage
Carpels.
1 . 1.111 SHADES and Shadlna, Plain aud Fame) , GILT
SHADES and Cord. Taxgela tout FIXTURES of all 51040.
418 ARCH 81., below FIFTH,
'oar 0.:110w
MEEI
TT . A. STEEL,
U OLSTEEIIIsi U,
WINDOW SHADE & BEDDING STORE,
No. 46 North Ninth Street,
WINDOW SHADES,
With firturea complete. from 112.05 a pair, up to 415,00.
WHITE HOLLAND IiIIADES AT ALL PRICES
811ADE3 OF ANY ANY ►TYLE
I NOOOLONHAVE TO OR
STORE SHADES MADE AND LETTERED
LACE AND DRAPERY CURTAINS.
ALL KINDS OF WINDOW DRAPERY
PATENT MOSQUITO CANOPIES
OILT, ROSEWOOD AND WALNUT CORNICE'
' CURTAIN BANDS, TASSELS, CORD, Au.
FURNITURE STRIPS CUT AND MADE.
STAIR AND VESTIBULE RODS.
FURNITURE RE-UPHOLSTERED •ND,VARNISHED.
Carpets and Muttlnge, old and now, made, altered and
Put down.
UPHOLSTERERS' MATERIALS OF EVERY
DESCRIPTION AT WHOLESALE
• A NEW THING.
BILK FINISHED WINDOW SHADES.
0ct13.17
WILLIAM thaturr I L E. WALRAVEN
9
NO. in CHESTNUT STREET,
In
I. DOW racolvluir his Fall Importations, consbillutr
part of
CURTAIN MATERIALS,
la Silk. Mohair. W011,03(111 Lluesa and Collo., embracing
many ao•ultien.
Lace Curtains
of Parisian. St. Gallen and Nottingham snake.
CORNICES AND DECORATIONS
•f now and original ded¢nc.
WINDOW SHADES,
by the thousand or stogie one at manufacturers' prin.
AIUSQur,ro CANOPIES,
MEE
Caiinto aub &II Orlotb
FLOOR OIL CLOTH-,
4-4. 6-4 and 11•4 In New and Elegant Designs slat Lot,
FIZZ 2
N EW CARPETINGS !
FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC CARPETS,
MATTINGS
\Vblcli WO are Offer'lig at greatly reduced wires fr
last season.
I,EEDOII, SHAW & STEIVA
035 11IARKEt ST., PHILAWA
jun 18-4111
RICII AND ELEGANT
CARPETS, OIL CLOTHS, ,C:c
S. C. FOUL K
CARPET BUSINESS
AT 19 S. SECOND ST., PHILADELPHIA
•
❑Lorna Miirkut unilAtnut Si.,o
With a full artmorttlient of VELVET. BRUSSELS, THREE
PLY, ING RAIN and VENETIAN CARPETS. tell Cloth,
Window Shade, Ate_ at reduced velvet, •epls-ly
WATtiIErS CELEBRATEDFIit!
AND BURGLAR PROOF
:1:16 . •
4 I ; '.' 4 .
It SAIAIES.
."... '''C' 4 ' i " ESTABLLSWED LV 1843
•
TIM OLDEST SAFE 1.10 PIIII.4DELPIII.I
Thu ugly Satre with lamps DllO
0 uarautecd Free from liampne.s.
Also prices (rum 13 IN IV per caul. lower Ika• other
maker.. Pleuee bend fur Circular 110111 Price Lim.
T. WATSON k
Late •f Beaus St Watson. Manufacturera,
Nu..131i. Fourth Ni.. Philadelphia
MEM
R. E. DOXACOURT
HERRING'S
FIRE AND BURGLAR PROOF
Awarded tha Prize Nadale at World'• Pair, London
World'• Fair, New Yurk, Kapozillou Uulaurzolle, hide
FARREL, HERRING & CO
ii /AVIV(
A G 'UAL }
e ell AI. !ki•TIII.WS.
10.0 W. 1111(11111.
629 citEsTmTT STREET,
LIMILRINOJJAIIIIELL & CO., NEW OULI/.003
FOWLING PIECES.
Pre gi l l gi d g:7 PVligit'ir'. l i.°l1 3 11 M
Hamlllou Htreot sip WI,
=3
NEASORIC HALL,
Clogiug out •t reduced pricold
=I
Wo nro now opening a full lino of
OIL CLOTHS,
IME11=!
Sire 113voof saftz
=I
SAFES
(wrrii DRY FILLING.)
PHILADELPHIA
I=
I=l
ileVebiqb ' kl/i6attf+
.financial
BKriAlvq,n/A:r
BANKERS,
N. W. COB. THIRD & CHESTNUT STS.,
PIILLADELTI 11A.
nagn.. entrusted to our CAM Ault have prwript per
wool attonilou.
De‘poxltx received and Intor. , l allowed. Cbeelo.o// Phli•
adelphl•, 'Baltimore and New York credited up without
cl Vitribuyk•ln r p.,t 1.• I
Hoods, Storkx, (bo tuar ld. lloye ' rintient Secttrit•ole.',' ,
St 0.
Enuttirloa, kc.. by lellor will rocolvo itntnadiata mo,
male on all itecewalll l l
a alm isos
44
co
nur 2-3 m
A LLENTOIVN , SAVINGS INSTITU
A
TION,
Organized es "Dirtier Saving Inxiiintiono"
NO. '5B EAST HAMILTON ST.,
(RHARIO OPPOArra Tog •lIIMICAS 110001.. I
PAYS SIX PER CENT. INTEREST FOR
MONEY ON DEPOSI7'.
This Institution. the coldest Paving Bank in I;,.t•rn
Pennsylvania, has been in contliounna and storcessfal
operation for ten years, and continues to pay SIX PER
CENT. INTEREST On moony jar one year, nod special
rates of interest for shorter periods.
09-All deposits of tnuney will lon lorld strictly south
dentlal.
Executors, Administrators, Trustees, Assignees,
Treasurers, Tax Collectors,
and oilier custodians of public l or privnte
mouey+, urn of
fered liberal taws of interest.
Fitrinerw, .31.-relso Letborror, nod all who harp
money to put on interest fir a hula or short Jowled w 111
And our lwAltutiett an agreeable end iiilviintingento IMP in
wLich to do litolne.s. cspeinally invite LA Ott lo
inlet their Ininkinq businenn with us.
MARRIED WOMEN and MINORS have Special prick
lege. granted by our chartcr—having till powor to trans
act business with us in their own name,
Money deposited with thin Itintitutien
Sr SAFE AND WELL SECURED,
by it Capitalstork and sur L plu4 mo ur
ney secity lir over
SIXTY TIDICSAND DOLARS, and in :al., the
Board of Trustees have. it? , required by the charter, given
bonds under the supery Mon of the Cdurt, in the aunt of
FIFTY THOUSAItI). DO wLLARS, hich bUiIIIN aro rvgl,-
tered In and held by the Court of Common Pleas of this
county for the security of depositor,
Our Iron Vaults toe tho most seen, and extensive
kind known in Oda country. na pereanal incpectiun will
allow. and to which we invite our friends and cuetouiers.
We refer bi this. beliovlnst that safe Blank , Pend Vaults
complent the nafety
O 1 al.nldl rIA albi. li A y af E Ylo P u r d •
s S i t d o e i n n t g
Bank.
CHMsT 3 AN
PRET?, Vico President.
REUBEN tillAilLEß
ltu •wrix,
William 11. Many, , Charles S Ilonit,
Christian Fret:. Jelin U. stiles,
F. E. Samuel', Benj. .1. Ilagealmell,
George Brolutt, Samuel Soil
Nathan Pater,
KUTZTOWN SAVINGS BANK,
(Ornanlned under Stale Charter In MO.
MONEY RECEIVED ON BEIioSII, nod Oyer cent Ito
(weal will bo ulloweil. For shorter purled, special raw,
will be paid.
•Iso, worry Wooed not en FAVORABLE TERMS. Sabi
Bork W located In rho lier•tow , lll till, hereto: ), el
liebitowu. .10IIN 11. FOGEL. Prenikleut.
EDWARD Ilwr rest, HI i, N. U. rii•hier.
MEM
. . .
P. J. Slough M. 1., J. D. Wattnur, E.g..
IN, Id Filer. 11. IL lichwitrtr.. E.q
W. 11. Fogel, Dml,lcl Clader
Ric!turd J. Knorr,
J. , tutx Miller
.y 1 .2.0 JO l / 1 111. Fogel. EAq.
MACUNGIE SAVINGS BANK,
Hamilton, betaelm 7th mod Bth Streets
ALLYNTOWX, PA.
Nosey taken on dnpoelt at all lima and In any mums
rum our dollar upward, for which
El Z PElt CENT. INTEREST
will be paid.
Depoalte may be withdrawn at nay limo. retllolx de
slrouo of tending money to any port of thn United Staten
or Cattadox, will have their matters promptly attended
to,_•nd without any risk their part.
liilvor. Coupono, Booth, nod other vecurillen
bought.NlD ie SCll Preoldeut.
W. C. Licumome•hhNuuDl': 4t . . l,r. . imp
THE ADVANTAGES WE ENJOY
as the result of a long established
and successful business, enables us to
offer inducements that makes this an
nouncement worthy of
ATTENTION.
, Importing cur foreign goods direct,
controlling many leading styles of
American fabrics, employing. the best
artistic talent in the production of our
goods, and "constant progress" our
motto, we claim to lead the market in
READY-MADE CLOTHING,
of which we keep full lines of all
grades, for Men and Boys.
CUSTOM WORK
our prOducts are unsurpassed for qual
ity, workmanship and elegance.
GENTLEMEN'S FURNISHING GOODS
our stock is constantly large and sea
sonable. We are the sole manufac
turers of ihe
which we supply both readymade and
to order.
Prices uniformly low
Gentlemen visiting New-York are re
quested to call and have their meas
ures recorded upon our books.
System of Self-Measurement, and
other information promptly furnished
when desired.
Address Box 2256, New-York P. 0.
DEVLIN & CO.
$lO , OOO GUARANTEE:.
BUCIi LEAD Ecl other
LEA !
To. Posit , Curivnlod Whitens.,
2d. For it , Puennaled Parability,
3d. r" It. Covering Properly. • •
Idotly ror it, Economy.
.04 - IT COSTS LI:SS to paint with Ilvon f.n.tn thannur
other White Lend extant. The .unte woight core), 31011 P.
KIIIIFACE. In wore I/CH.II;I.E, and wiirrEn
WORK.
BECK LEA D tho rhefiptat and twd
$lO,OOO GUARAN T E E.
BUCK ZINC "zit.eui"-
14 1 . . .........
&l. For lot rugurPA...lßov.r.sit PruITHT.
Luntly, for Ibt (treat Erouotu Y,
ring the CHEAPEST. HAN IttitotEuT, and DttRA
BLE Whits Patlut tu II world.
BUCK LEAD AND BUCK ZINC
TRY 17' AND BR CONVINC'ED.
Salim/action truurunteed by ti n Manufacturer,
K COTTAGE (2()1.01{S,
1 ; r1k4(17 , 1 ro r r
r ralnijug i, V i TYAGES. 0 I !
FIVE ' I) D I ra
nud Benutiful obadeo.
Sample cards Molt by 311 in If desired.
Deniers' Orders will be promptly executed by the mon
uranium.,
FRENCH, RICHARDS & CO.,
MEI
N. W. COM TENTH & 3LARKET STB..
BHPH HTOFIELIE.T, Alleolows. Pt.
Pori ly
le 47 J
ALLENTOWN; PA., WEDNESDAY .MOIS, INU. A Pint 13, 18707
~ ~~N .c~~ ~ ~~~
SEASONA BLE SPECI .\ Z P
BLUE AND ,COLDRED DRESS SILKS,
PLAIDS,
PAISLEY AND 11110CHA ir LS,
WHITE AND .COLORED BLANK ETS
Embracing the most complete stock of Dry
Goods at
MEM
It will be to your interest to examine my
stock before purchasing elsewhere.
SPECIAL , ATIENTION I, reque,ted to uur
elegant and conirde, lit, of LADIEs . IMES! , TRIM
MINGS. emi•bding In part 14 /I 1,1,1(IN n nol
FR INGE ' E / urlyrie E Ida n R t'SS E I,IOE,
•G I MPS. BRA nis. SE II ST I'I.E Eh I' TE 11l
MING, &,. 4r1'n,55 In m•••ral nundrud Itllvtrnt
pEAMAN THA EGER.
BUY ONLY
Dru ESoobs
POPLINS,
REPPS
BLANKET SHAWLS
WATER 1)1109F,140.1t SUITS,
SC., &C., SA-
POI'ULAR LOW I'RE 'ES
Itevectfully,
IL.I. KRAMER,
OLD CORNED.'
ME
SELOI AN & TRA EG ER,
17 SOUTH MAIN STREET,
LIETHLE.II,PI
BLACK Bro. ❑rain SILKS, BLACK DRAB ❑TRANCE
SILKS, BLACK TAFFETA SILKS. Thu largent and
,heapest as.orlment or SILKS wu haruurer lud Chu pkau
sr. •I'uffurlug lbw Public.
Bk:AMAN J EGER
, 'llOlOll NHIC SPILL'S RAINUI SILKS.
SEAMAN k TRAEGER
FRENCH SILK POPLIN, MARBLE POP
LINS, PLAIN POPLINS.
BEAMAN & ThAEBEE.
BLACK ALPACAS. t• all gr•de., from the kw,
•aosber• t. lb. lima lidohitir..
SEAMAN fi THAVAaIt.
COLIIIEND .11.1•Ae.4.1, ail yrWen, very vhenP.
SEAMAN t TRAF:GEIt
I) 11001A1 lie every ••tlety or Plain atid Fvtie
sly
S EA M A N & Tli A EGER
BLEAIIIIRD V.VII.I.E.Ir•BED
owl SIIII:PINGS In •ory hags CHECK:,
TICE I 1:1:6 and DENIMS.
SP:ASIAN .11 TR.% F.GEIt.
~IIAWL!. 1,1•111•1.0. 1•KOrill/Plit rlf BLACK
TIIIIIET, anti PAISLEY BLANK ET,
NI LLE, 168E8% lu grunt r•rintr pita mud vol.,
SEAMAN TRAEGER.
HOSIERY, GLOVES, UNDER CLOTH
ING for LADIES', CHILDREN and GEN
TLEM EN. WOOLEN YARNS, ,ke.
SEAMAN & TRAEGER.
FLAN XEL , . mar., 8i... Mixed
Allti Ilea I Gra rf tar Phalle Pia a a• I.'
SEAMAN Tick Ix,
ZEPII Y R II ORSTED, GERM .1 XTO IVY
WWII, CASILIf Elaf YARNS, EMBROIDER
ED WORSTED WORK, and a full assortment
la Mal line;
SEAMA:sTHAE“EIt
111" MAIL w• sead tottorlio, of nay good; rapablu of [w
hiff meat try tuttopla through the mall with mire,. 111111111,1
to arch glom. We dud thin to lot a great coovenieuro to
purtiott °matta to personally y kit tw.
SEAMAN & TRAEGER.
FAMILY GROCERIES, Stn do and Fancy, nicely kit
icluptingly goo. op :mil of Ow
SEAMAN A: TRAEGER.'
CROCKERY, everything rilj i red lu LEnt Lou
kceplog
SEAMAN & TRAEGER.
Tub., fall., 13nrk.ln, •od all botin Woodeu War
°bed lu Ilun.ukceping.
SEAMAN Lk . . TRAEGER.
All kiwis f Couut,y Produce takret le exclimugo to
el th. kialtvst prievot.
SEAMA.N TIUFIGER.
We are ittolcavoring to Itecii n fall lino or ecory article
lu turdy of Pry U
eerier, Crockery, Iroodra Wore. and in tact overy thing
(cacopt Carpets) t 0 Ira rlollllli It. a retail biota..
SEA Al AN & TRA EU ER
MAIN STREET,
BETHLEHEM
WALTER LOSCIL
LINDEN writEET, ABOVE EIGHT!
LLENTO WA; PA
PLAIN AND oItNAMENTAL
INIARBLE & 8:1'ON
WOI1K;!:;,
MONUMENTS, II E.IDS TO,V
❑Ol'BE \%Oh I)O.NE Ttt oRDEI:
♦ ho liovA for the bait, of
TERRA-COTTA DRAIN P 1 P 1
C111.11.%"7:7 - TOPS awl CBI ASP. 7 FM' ES
from the •
PHILADELPHIA TERRA-COTTA WORKS
• All Orders promptly tilled and Work Guaran
teed.
ANTED.--A LOAN OF $lO,OO
by the Allantow■ School Ll . For parlicul.
epD
-7,teePtl•ttot" C.
11 1 :1! U L N L IC IA 0 1 111 ". ! . Be n qr 0"41ITC
DENNIS O'RA FE
OF FEMALE
Oda, lie is at baste who opposes the right •
Of a faymale to vote whenever she ;dazes ;
For myself, I look forth to the day wit! delight .
When the poll will appear like a meadow of
dasles.
I sold to my Kathleen when from the convention
She came wid a beautiful smile on her face,
Ye'll soon be a lady, and ivory• attention
Be shown yea by those who have power and
place.
Mrs. Gunnybags thin on yourself will be ilidin'
And axing pet's up to bier house; never fear;
Anil thin in her carriage, when famaylesare votin
Ye'll sit by her side, °eh ! Kathleen my dear.
It is said that thlt , life, a nher all, is a bubble,
flat not so to me, :t true soil of the suit ;
Fur the years have been joytins, and free from all
throuhle,
When mixiit' the mortar and carrylit' the hod.
Arid I um not jealous, Oh, no, not at all !
But welcome front Erin each :41,11g-winded
daughter,
To climb up the hidden; and wall: on the wall
And share all the Joys or the brick., and the
mortar!
THE TRUTIEFC L WITNESS
A. little girl, nine years of age, of as offered
as a witauss against a prisoner, Who was on
trial for a felony committed in her father's
Now, Entily,•' said the counsel for the
prisoner, upon her being offered as a witness,
n I desire to linfor it you understand the nn-
tun. or an oath ?"
" I don't know %vital you mean," was the
simple answer
"'There, your Honor," said the counsel,
addressing the court, "is there anything
further necessary to demonstrate the validity
or my objeethms? She does not comprehend
the nature of an oath.•,
" Let us ser," said the Judge
here, my d:ugglter."
Airsured by the kind tone and manner of
the Judge, the child stepped towards him, and
looked up confidently in his Mee, with a
calm, clear eye, and in a manlier so artle,s
andl . rank that it went right to the heart.
" Did you ever take nn oath ?" Inquired the
Budge.
The girl stepped back with a look or hor
ror, and the red blood mantled in a blush over
her neck and face as she answered :
" No, sir .•,
She thought he meant to inquire if she had
ever blasphemed.
"I do not mean said the Judge, who
saw Ids mistake ; " I mean, were you ever
witness before?"
" No, sir; I never was in court before,"
was the answer.
Ile handed her the !Slide, open.
" Do you know that book, my daughter ?"
Sic looked at it, and answered : " Yes, sir;
it is the Bible."
" Do you ever read it ?" he asked.
" Yes, sir; every evening."
Can you tell me what the Bible is ?" in
quired the Judge.
" It is the work or the great God," she an
sweretl.
" \Vett, place your hand upon the Bible,
and listen to what I say." and he repeated
slowly and solemnly, the oath usually admin
istered to IvitneSses.
" Now," said the judge, —you are n,%orn as
a Nvituess. NVill you tell we what kill hefall
you if you do not tell the truth ?"
•• I shall he shut up in the State Unison."
answered the child.
Anything ?" a,l:ed the Judge.
" 1 shall 111.V(.1' :2:11 to I leaven,” •dte replied.
" 110‘v do yunisllONV tills ? .• n<Lrd the Judge
nniu
The child tool: the !tilde, und turning rap
idly to the chapter containing the command
ments, pointed to the injunction—" Thou
shalt not bear Nee Nvitne6s against thy neigh
bor--then " I learned that heron. I
could read."
" I la , any (me talked kith you about your
Iwilhq here in court against this man ?" ittquir
ell the Judge.
"Yes, sir," she replf,d. •.My mother
lwara t h ey wanted Ills 6a a ;vit:wss, awl last
night she called 1111• to li• :. tooni, and asked
me to tell her liit tea cdnoludidinepts, and
then \VI' kneeled to . Trooe. and she
prayed that I Iiii:z111 under,tand hots wicked
iI *as to bear 1:11 , 1. N‘iine,,e4ainst illy neigh
bor. and that God 11 onld help Inc, :1 little
child. to toll the truth :IN it Nvas I.lel'ore
.I.nd .A . lkon I came lip hero ,
father, she
no. and told to remember the Ninth
ronoaandment, and that (lod Nyould hear
every word I said.—
I) ii this ?•' asked t h e
while a tear _listened in his eye, anil his lip
iiivercil with emotion.
" Ycs, ,ir," said the child, with a voice that
,owed her conviction of its troth was la,r
‘• God bless you, my - - child r " said the Judge,
"you have a good mother. This witin:ss is
cOmpetent, — he continued. " Were lon trial
for my lift., and innocent of the charge against
me, I would pray God far such a withei.s as
this. Let her be examined.•'
She told her story with the simplicity of a
child, as she then teas pit directness shout it
which carried conv , ic t io n it, truth to . every
heal I. 'Flue counsel plied tier ith infinite
and ingenious questionings, hut she varied
nom her first statements in Molting. The
truth, us spoken by tl.at little child. was still
lime. Falsehood and perjury had preceded
her testimony. The prisoner had entrenched
himself behind lies till he deemed himself im
pregnable. But bentre her testimony false
hood was scattered like chaff. .The little child
for whom a mother prayed for strength to be
given to speak the truth as it WIIS bl•kire God '
there seems to be four styles of minds
broke the canning devices or matured villainy :
Ist, them who know its so !
to pieces like a potter's vessel. The strength , t hem who know it AN'T au !
that her mother prayed for was given her, and
:Id, them who split the difference and guess
the sublime situplicitY—terrible, I mean, to
at it
the prisoner and his associates—with which
site spoke, wits like revelation front thud hint
self
ISFLUI:NCE OF CoLOOED LIGHT ON 1 suers.
—The dISCONSion or the changes produced itt
animal and vegetable forms by the influence
of varying conditions of temperature, ino,is
titre, light, locality, etc., especially as con
nected with the Darwinian hypothcAs, has in
duced a great variety of experiments, front
which some interesting results have been de
lived. Inoue of these experiments, lately
published, it brood of caterpillars of the tor
toise shell butterfly of Europe was divided into
three lots. One-third were placed in a pho•
tographic room lighted through orange-color- •
ed glass, one-third in a room lighted through
blue gins, and the remainder kept in an ordi
lIIVY cage in natural light. All were fed
with their proper fuOti, and the third lot de
veloped into butterflies in the usual tune -
Those in the blue light were not healthy, a
large number dying before changing ; 'thnse
raised in the orange light however,-wee near
ly as Inalthyfts the first-mentioned. The per
fect insects reared in the blue light differed
from the average form in being much smaller,
the orange•brown colors lighter, and the yel ;
• low and orange running into each other, In
stead' of remaining distinct. Those raised in
the yellow light were also sinaller, but the
orange-brown was placed by salmon-coil ; and
the blue edges of the wings seen in the or:i
nlay form. were of dull slate. If changes so
great as these can be produced in the course
of a single experiment, it Is probable . that n
continuance of the same - upon a succession of.
individnals will develop some striking result.
—ninon's Sett:l , llll , W ItEconn, iii Ha per's
.gagarine fur April,
MEM
13LACK FRIDAY IN WALL STREET.—Need
less to remark that the day was one of 'wild
excitement. telegraph indicator which
is used in the larger °likes to record, install
neously, the fluctuations in the Gold Boom,
ceased to be of any use. It worked a fraction
at a titne, and took so long to indicate an ittl.
advance of one per cent., that thought it was
incessantly in motion, it was never right.
Gold was jumping about two or three per cent.
a minute. E'cry, importing merchant was
vitally interested in the movement ; no one
could sit still in his counting-house. Each
entrance to the Gold Room was blocked with
masses of excited, angry men ; it needed some
perseverance and sonic muscle to work one's
way through the press. On the brokers'
faces every variety of expression was depicted.
Here was a jubilant group, evidently people
who had expected to lie ruined by the ad
vance In gold, and who were now savi:d by
its precipitate fall ; and here were knights of
rueful countenance. people Who had been
frightened and had bought at the rise. Among
the older and more experienced brokers grave
apprehensions for the future were mingled
with indignation at the infanums conspiracy.
It was already evident that the, crisis must
lead to numerous failures, and for very large
amounts ; no OHO COlllO tell, in fact, where
the catastrophe would cud. '
Some of the incidents of the day were dot-
matic. A keen Scotchman, who had not the
reput.•ation of being much yra speculator, sold
for himself or for some one else, seven mil
lions yr gold at IGO to Speyers. when Smith,
lartin, and Co.'s brokers began to
sell at IV, this Scotelonan thought he would
realize his profit. Ile began . to buy, and
bought :ill the - wily down front 140 to 105,
completing his purchase of, Setell millions nt
the latter figure. Ile had thus made, on pa.
per, about two million dollar profit on his
operation in the course of an hour. Just as
he bought in his last million it seems to have
occurred to him that there might be some
hitch about his sales. Ile hastened to Spey.
ere and demanded that a deposit be made in
the 'Trust Company to insure the fulfillment
of his bargain. Speyers introduced hint to
his principals, Fisk tool Gould, who merely
laughed at him. They never intended to
take his gold. And the poor man, who had
fancied he saw a profit of two millions on the
operations of the morning, was utterly ruined
by the purchases he had made between 135
and 140, and Was promptly, ruled out of the
Gehl Room.
MEI
l'Y'S OPI
IFFRAGE
IBEIS
It has been said that the government broke
the corner by selling live millions of gold.
Nothing of the kind is the case. The corner
collapsed of necessity from the instant the
shorts went "innrush" to Smith, Gould,
and Martin's (Alice to settle. It is guitelikely
'that the government sale induced Smith to
reduce his limits on his own gold. lint if the
government had not sold a dollar the result
would have been the same.
It was between twelve and one that a lively
demand for margins precipitated the final col
lapse. Speyers and Belden were called upon
thr parties who had sold them gold for
verylalige amounts of money to insure the
fulfillment of their contracts. Belden hasten
ed to confer tyith Fisk and Gould at Heath's
mile.... A person who NV:IS kith hint tells the
story rather picturesquely :
'• I waited mashie 1) 11)11 )Ir. Belden went
in. I walked up and down the alley-tray,
waiting l'or him to Conte out. IMptity
sheriffs, \n• men appearing to be melt, began
to arrive and to mount guard at Heath's of
fice to lamp out visitors. :\t•ter waiting it pro
digious long time, as it seemed to me, Jay
Gould came ertteping out of the hack-door,
:Ind Molting round sharply to 51111 if he were
tvatelted, blunt: elf through it private rear
passage behind the buildings. Presently
came Fist:, steaming hot, and shouting. Ile
took the wrong direction at first and nearly
I'llll into liroad street, 11111 :1.1111 ilkeoVi•110111IS
„error. and followed (.111111 through the rear
passage. •Then came Belden. tvith hair dis
ordered and red eye.:, as if he had been cry
ing ; he called • \\Adel' Iva) leave they gone?'
and 1110111 my ;minting the tlireution, he ran
after them. 11.11 r passage led into Wall
t4trect. .\,t its exit the conspirators jumped
into a carriage and fled the streets."
In the mean time all was confusion at the
Cold Exchange flank. This institution is
the clearing-how , e for gold brokers. It was
established some two or three year : , ago, in
i 11 4..1er to avoid the risk or transporting coin or
coin notes throngli the, street from office to
office. Every broker makes a statvment of
his transactions to the bank ; and it'. he has
bought noire gold than he has sold. furnishes
the bank with the currency to pay for it :Ole
has sold more than he has bought. he furnish
es 0.." The system \ vorks perfectly so
long as.every dealer is able tat fullill his con-
I tracts. But a large failure disturhs every
thing ; the statenient of every one who has
dealt with the party who fails is necessarily
thrown .on, and these again affect the state
, 'tient wolothers. lln this Friday ten large deal
ers weer known to have failed. and conse
wiently there Wit , hardly n ,dateinent that did
not rewire alteration. After struggling with
Siline flint' the bank directors gave
it tip, and declared that they could not riltet
a clearance.—donN ill/NNLII, ill Harper's
ilafp,zihe f.r Apia.
.10S11 BILLINGS AS A PHILOS-
4th, them who don't care which way it is !
There iz hut few »ten who haz character
,nuir to lead it life of idleness.
True love iz spelt just the same in Choctaw
as it k in English.
'I•In, who retire from the world on ac
count of its sins and pespines.i must not for
git that they haev yet to keep company with
person who wants just as much watching
as anybody eles.
Necessity begot invention, invention begot
convenience, convenience begot pleasure,
plcmure begot luxury, luxury begot riot and
disease, between them they begot poverty,
and poverty begot necessity again—and this a
revolution:of man, and is about all he Call log
.Most pe . ople decline to learn only by their
own experience. And I guess they are more
'than half right, for I do not spose n man can
get a perfect h.citof molasses by letting anoth
er fellow taste it or him.
• An individual, to be a line gentleman, has
either wlt to be born so, or he brought up Cl)
rtqini inraney ; he can't learn it siuldrn, any
more than he can learn to talk I njun correct.
ly by practiram I )11 a to mahawk.
I wonder if there w:o ever an old maid who
ever heard of a match that Om thought wai
suitable
him visit it graveyurd
" Tor are very
. stupid, Thomas," said a
country teacher to n little boy eight years old.
" You are like a donkey ; and• 'what do they
do to cure them of stupidity " They feed
them,better, and kick them less,'' said the arch
urchin.
P II ER
it 1111111 wantA to get his dimensions let
A MYSTERIOUS VISITOR
ET=
The first notice that was taken of me when
I "settled down," recently, was by a gentle
man who said he was au assessor, and con
nected with the United States Internal Itev•
eutiC Department. I said I had never heard
of his branch of business before, but I was
very glad to see him, all the same—would he
sit down. I did not know anything particu
lar to say, and yet I felt that people who have
arrived at the dignity of keeping house must
be conversational, must be easy and socialite
in company. So in default of anything el,e
to say, I asked hint if he was opening his shop
in our neighborhood.
Ile said he was. did not wish to appear
ignorant, but I had hoped he would incutkni
what he had for sale.)
I ventured to ask him "how was trade ?"
and he said " So-so."
I then said we . would drop in, and it' we
liked his home as well as any other, we would
give hint our custom.
Ile said he thought we would like his es
tablishment well enough to confine ousel es
to it—said he never saw anybody who would
go oil' and hunt up another man in his line
after trading with hint once.
That sounded pretty complacent, but
ring that natural expression of villainy which
we all have, the 111011 looked honest enough.
I do not know how it came about,. exactly,
but gradually we appeared to melt Clown and
run , together, conversationally speaking, and
then everything went along as eontfortably as
clockwork.
We talked, and talked, and falked—at le4st
I did. And we laughed, and laughed, and
laughed—at least he did. But all the time, I
had my presence of mind about me—l had icy
native shrewdness turned on, "full head," as
the engineers say. I was determined to find
out all about his business, in spite of his ob
scure answers—and I was determined I would
have' it out or hint without his suspecting w hat
I was at. I meant to trap him with a deep,
deep ruse. I would tell him all about mj own
business, and he would naturally sic warm to
me during this seductive burst or confidence
that he would forget himself and tell me all
about his affairs before he suspected what I
was about. I thought to myself, my son. you
little know what an old fox you are dealing
with. I said :
" Now you never would guess what I made
lecturing, this winter and last spring'"
I " No—don't believe 1 could, to save me.
Let Inc see—let me see. About two thousand
I dollars maybe ? But uo—no, sir, I know you
couldn't have made that much. Say seven
teen hundred, maybe V
, " na.lot ! I knew you couldn't. My In-
I
taring receipts for last spring and this winter
were fourteen thousand, seven hundred and
fifty dollars. What do you think of that ?"
"Why, it is amazing—perfectly amazing.
I will make a note of it. And you say even
wasn't all ?
"Alt ! Why bless you, there was my in
come from the Buffalo Erpres3 for four months
—about—about—well, what should you say
to about eight thousand dollars, for instance ?"
• •• Say ! Why I should say I should like to
see myself rolling in just such another ocean
or affluence. Eight thousand ! make a
note of it. IVlty, man l—and I/II top Of all
this I ;WI to understand that you had still more
•• Ila-ltadta! Why, you're only ill the sub
urbs of it, SO to l'ltere's my book.
• The Innocent, Ihromr—price $3 50 to $5,
according to the binding. Listen to me.
Look me in the eye. Miring the last. Mtn.
mouths and a half, saying nothing of sales he
ron,- that,—just simply during the Mur months
and a half ending March 15, 1870, we've sold
ninety-live thousand copies ,of that, book !
Ninety-list thousand ! Think or it.. Average
rour dollar.; a copy, say. It' s nearly four
hundred thou-and dollar., may son. 1 get
•• The sutllling 'Moses ! I'll set that d o n
Fourteen-se‘en.lifty—eight —two littntlrea.—
Total. sad•—\cell, upon lily word, the grand
total is ,thout two hundred 'ma thirteen or
fourteen thouHatta dollars. 1.1 that possible'"
'• Possible ! It there's any mist.•tke it's the
other N% ay. Two hundred and fotirteen thou
sand. cash. is toy income thisccau• it I know
how to cipher
Then the gentleman got up to go. It came
over tit,- most uncomfortahly that maybe I hail
made my revelations nu• nothing, besides be
ing flattered into stretching them considerably
by the stranger's astonished exclamations.
But no ; ul the last 'moment the gi lineman
handed me a large envelope and said it con
tained his advertisement; and that I would
find out all about his business in it ; and tinu
he would be happy to have my custom—
would, in Met, be proud to has,. the custom
of a man of such prodigious income ; and that
he used to thitik that there were sever:,
wealthy men itt Buffalo, but when they came
to trade with him he
,discovered that they
barely Inn] enough to live. on ; and that in
truth it had been such a weary, wciwy age
since he hail seen a rich nom fail: to face, and
talked with him, and touched him with his
hands, that he could hardly refrain rnou em
bracing me—in fact, would esteem it a great
favor if I would let him embrace me.
This so pleased me that I did nut try to re
sist, but allowed this simple-hearled stranger
to throw his arms about me and weep a few
tranquilizing tears down the back.of in neck.
Then he went his way.
As soon as he WIIS gone. I opened his wirer
tisenient. I studied it attentively for four
minutes. I then called up the cook rind said:
Hold me While I taint. Let-Maria turn
the batter-cakes."
By and by, when I came to, I sent down to
the rum-mill on the corner and hired an artist
by the week to sit up nights and curse that
stranger, and give me a lift occasionally in
I the day time when I cattle to a hard place.
Al), what a miscreant he was ! Ilia " ad
vertisement" was nothing in the world but a
wicked tax-return—a string of impertinent
questions about my private affairs- occupying
the best part of four foolscap pages of tine .
print—questions, I may remark, gotten up
with such marvelous ingenuity that the oldest
mum in the world couldift understand what
the most of them were driving at—questions.
too, that were calculated to make a man rc
port about four times Ids actual income to
I I keep from swearing ton lie. I looked for it
loop-hole, but there did not appear to be any.
Inquiry Ni,. I covered my case, as generously
and as amply as an umbrella could' cover an
ant hill :
"What were your Moths, in 1869, from any
trade, business or vocation, wherever carried
on
And that inquiry was backed up by thirteen
of an equally searching nature, the most !nod
est of 'ichich required information as to whether
I hail committed any burglary, or highway
rubbery, or by any arson or other secret source
of emolument, had acquired property which
seas not enumerated in my statement of in
come asset oppite to inquiry ;sio. 1.
It was plain that that stranger haa enabled
me toinalte an ass of myself. It was very,
very plain, and I went out and hired another
artist. By working on my vanity the stranger
had seduced me into declaring an income of
$214,000. By law, $lOO of this was exempt
from Income tax—the only relief I could see,
and it was only a drop in the ocean. At .. the
legal fivo per cont.; I must pay over to' the
. government the appalling sum of ten thou .and
ROBERT IREDELL,JR.,
, anb Saito; .7Job printer,
No. 45 EAST HAMILTON STREET,
ELEGANT PRINTING!
LATEWP - STYLES
Stamped Checks, Cards, Circulars, Paper Book., Coast'
lotions and Ily-Laws, School Catalogues, Bill Heads
Envelopes, Letter Heade Dills of Lading, Way .
Bills, Tugs and Shipping Card., Potters of any
size, ate., etc., Printed at Short Notice.
NO. 14-
six hundred and fifty dollars, income tax.
[I may remark, In this place, that I did not
do it.]
ram acquainted with a very opulent man,
whose house is a palace, whose table is regal,
whose outlays are enormous, yet a man who
has no income, as I have often noticed by the
revenue returns; and to him I went for ad
vice in my distress. Ile took my dreadful ex
hibition of receipts, lie put on his glasses, he
took his pen, and presto I I was a pauper!
It was the neatest thing that ever was. De .
did it simply by deftly manipulating the bill
of " DEnucTioNs." Ile eft down my " State,
tuitional and municipal taxes" at so .such ;
my '• losses by shipwreck, fire, etc." arso -
notch ; my losses on sales of real estate"—
on. " live stock sold"—on " payments for
rent of homestead"—on "repairs, improve
ments, interest"--on "previously taxed salary
as an officer of the United States army, navy,
revenue service," and lather things. Ile got
astonishing " deductions" out of each and
every one, of these matters—each and every
one of them. And when he was done ho
handed me the paper, and I saw at a glance
that daring the year 1869 my income, In the
way of profits, laid been one thousand ties
h nd red and fifty dollars and forty cents.
"Now," said he, '• the thousand dollars is
exit .1•V law. What you want to do Is to
go and swear this document in and pay tax on
the two hundred and fifty dollars."
[While he was making this speech his little
boy Willy lifted a two dollar greenback out
of his vest pocket hind vanished with it, and I
would bet anything that if my stranger were
to call on that little boy to-morrow, he would
, make a false return of his income.]
"Do you," said I, "Do you ! always work
up the deductions' after this fashion in your
citsi, sir '
"Well, I should say so I If it wern't for
those eleven saving clauses under the head •
of '• Deductions" I should be beggared every
year to support this hateful and wicked, this -
extortionate and tyrannical government.'"
This gentleman stands away up among the
very best of the solid men of Buffalo—the
men of moral weight, of commercial integrity,
of unimpeachable social spotlessness—and so
I bowed to this example. I went down to
the revenue office, and under the accusing
eyes of my old visitor I stood up and swore to
lie after lie, fraud after fraud, villainy after '
villainy, till my immortal soul was coated
inches and inches thick with perjury and my
self-respect was gone forever and ever.
• But what of it ? It is nothing more than
thousands of the highest, and richest, and
proudest, and most respected, honored and
courted men in America do every year. And
so I don't care. lam not ashamed. I shall
simply, for the present, talk little and wear
lire-proof gloves lest I fall into certain habits
irrevocably.—Buffirlo Erwess.
HUMORS OF THE OLD ARMY
Upon a certain occasion, the precise ate of
which it is not necessary to mention, when I
detachment of troops was about setting out
front the Missouri laver upon a long march
across the Plains, and when the limited
amount transporttaiou rendered it necessa
ry to reduce the ()dicers baggage to the mini
mum regulation allowance, the commanding
,dlicer, who was never known to consume
much time over books, hut seldom declined s
Pressing invitation to participate in. a social
glass, was applied to by a ,young subaltern
just from West Point for permission to carry
along a ;.mall pnckage of books which he had
provided himself with to while away the dull
monotony of garrison life. The commander
'Tidied, that he was always ready and Willing
; to do any thing in reaavn for all his officers ;
but, when transportation was so very limited,
in that particular instance, he did not fee
authorized to encumber his wagons with such
useless trumpery as books. Ile was very'
sorry to refuse, but it was impossible to com
ply with the request. The young gentleman
went away greatly disappointed ; and shortly
afterward another officer, a particular friend
of the commander, came up and made uppli•
cttion to have a barrel of whisky transported
in the wagons, which probably weighed LOU
times as much us the lieutenant's rejected little
parcel ni books. To this requthit he received
the following reply :
" Certainly, Lieutenant—certainly, Sir; of
nouns y o u can take along a barrel or two of
or anything else in reason ; but the
idea of lunahering up any wagons *with books
is most prep o sterous, and 1. must say that I
too a ,tonished at such an unreasonable request
coining from Italy ollicer of my command."
This same otlicer was once presented with a
sword bye friend, who assured him that it
was a genuine specimen of the rare Toledo
blade. Ile himself, it is true, laadnot a very
cleitr conception of what Was 111[1111thy this
pe
elan. designation of the weapon, vs will ap•
pear in the sequel ; but he was confident that
it V ItS soniethint . better than the regulation
sabre, and prized it highly. lie often ex•
hibited ti.e present to his friends, who gen
erally concurred with hint in the discussion of
its nterits ; hut upon one occasion an officer,
who professed to lie a connoisseur in such
matters, .ventured to express a doubt as to tile
quality of the metal, remarking, at the same
Itime, that but very few well-authenticated
Toledo or Damascus blades could now be
I found in any part of the world, and that prob•
ably the most of these were to possesslim of
I rich Spanish hidalgos, who cOuld not be in
duceh to part with them at ally price. Itore.-
over, added he, the secret of manipulating the
steel front which these rare specimens of art
were produced was lost in the seventeenth
century.
The proprietor of the weapon, at this at
tempt to cast a shadoiv of doubt upon Its gen
uineness, became excited, and, jumping to
his feet, exclaimed in a loud tone of voice.:
Spanish hidalgo-11-1 ! 1 tell you, Sir, this
is no counterfeit, but a real Simon pure Tole
do blade; and I pledge you my word, Sir,
that a friend of old Toledo himself assured me
that this was the very last sword the old man
made before Ile took sick and died."--Mteper's
Mayathie.
—'• Can a black man have a 'ollie swell.
log Y • ' is a question now beim; discussed In
some of the medical schools.
—''Turn out, turn out,' cried a roystering
temger to one he was meeting— Turu out or
I'll serve you as I did the other num.'
* The stranger, in astonishment complied but
when Julio vas 'nearly opposite, called .to
him :
' Pray, sir, how did you serve the other
inan ?"
' Why, sir,' said Whip, tipping a wink, 'I
told him to turn out, and ho wouldn't, so I
turned out myself
A CONVENIENT LONE; OF MEmoity. —At
gentleman who was very zealous on the sub
ject or horses, but according to knowledge,
bought a inure at auction and . rode her home.
' Well.' rinser,' saidllic to kissable coachman;
" what do you think of her Y She cost um
five hundred dollars."
Dunno, master.'
' Yes, but What do you think ?,
Well, mosso, it makes mo tink of what the
preacher said yesterday—something' about
his money is 8901 i parted. I divenieniber 114
ust part•
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