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NOTlCE.—Within a short time we have sent
out a large number of billaor subscrliklon. Many
of them have received prompt attention, for which
we return thanks, and we would be very happy to
return thanksdo the balance of those who have
received our bills. The amount is each case is
small, but In the aggregate the amount Is large,
and our friends will confer a favor by giving the
matter their prompt attention.
TnEsecret societies, inn few weeks, will re
commence their work
IT is estimated that the losses by the hall
storm In Northumberland county will exceed $50,-
000.
THE new sign over the counter of the ('en.
toil Express Company nttrncts much attention
and is pronounced very handsome.
THE Gar's Excursion from Easton to New
York, Tuesday, occupied eighteen curs and num
bered about seventeen hundred persons.
A RESOLUTION disbanding the America Hose
Company passed the Seleat Council, but WAS post
poned In the Common branch.
THIRTEEN cabbage heads growing from one
stem Is the latest vegetable curiosity developed In
Lancaster county. •
PHILADELPHIA has 763 lawyf.r 4 s, 1,673 11113'
R.CIIIIIB and 21,553 tiotnest:c servants. The nun
her of loafers and politicians Is not given.
IT Is estimated that the monthly shipments
of leather from the Lock Haven tanneries average
30,000 pounds.
A. LITTLE girl named Anna Taylor, living
In South Bethlehem, stumbled over a store, fell
and broke her arm in two places.
ITEN the cat's away the mice will play.
Judge Lontraker at White Mountains—games of
chance In traveling stores in Lehigh and North-
ampton
RonnED.lllr. Whally, n Presbyterian min
ister, was robbed at Scranton, the other day, of a
valise containing about ;5000 in cash and bonds.
The valise and valuables we're recovered.
A BOARD on one or the public highways in
Robeson township, Betts county, leading to Boy
crtown Is thus Inscribed :
.sgaNwoTitnyonoT
TEACHER WANTED.—One teacher is wanted
at Mlllerstown to teach the graded school. Term ,
seven months; salary, fifty dollars per month.
Apply to .1. F. M. SIIIFFERT, Secretary.
A. S. ScntvAlers, A. 8., a recent graduate
of Lafayette College, at Easton, has been chosen
Principal of the GramiiiXSchool, of Phoenixville,
at a salary of $l,lOO for a nine months term.
REAL. ESTATE.-L. 11. Gross, Esq., Super
intendent of the Allentown Rolling Mill Company,
has purchased the residence and furniture of B •
W. Hudson, on Sixth street between Turner and
Chew, for $15,000.
THE Excelsior Rifles are making prepara—
tions for a grand clam bake at their camp on the
evening ()Clime first of September, to which they
will invite their fm lends and a grand time may he
expected.
DISAUREEMILE WEATIMIL—It appears to
be the universal verdict that last night was a hard
one to sleep through. Damp, close and hot, It
was one to remind us of the oppressive weather
of the Summer of '7O.
HONEST MAC has opened his novelty and
art exhibition In Bethlehem. Ile has closed the
mouth of the Times with a long advertisement.
That's wisdom on the part of Mac, and the Times
Is right In accepting it. The paper wouldn't gain
ally credit. by denouncing the concern.
IN view or the promised heavy Fall trade.
our progressive merchants are already preparing
specialties In advertising SO that they may reap
their share of the harvest. We can produce, for
the benefit of those who doubt, the most convinc
ing testimonials that qdVertising to the REGISTEN
pays.
Fnionn l'lT‘snEl3.—On Monday morning
Andrew Martin, an einployo on the gravel train,
on the Lehigh Valley Railroad, white breaking
stones near the depot at Slatington accidently got
the middle finger of the right hand between the
sledge and a stone and had It terribly mashed.—
Slafington News.
SCUOYLICILL COUNTY.—A. workingmen's
convention will meet nt Pottsville on the 4th of
September. •
Pottsville fa improving very rapidly.
A pavement ninety feet long, In Pottsville, has,
wltbin n few year's, been gradually stolen brick by
brick.
• Tim bcranton Republican says : The only
old whipping-post remaining in the county is at
Viymouth, on Ant Ilill—the old elm tree standing
on the left side of the road. In revolutionary
times It was the sign post, the court house, the
auction mart, the foram and the election polls, as
well as the whipping-post.
MORE SIDEVAI,It WANTED.—Numerous cit.
liens are about to ash the city authorities by
means of a petition which Is now being signed, to
grade, curb and pave a sidewalk on the South side
of Hamilton street between Second and the Jordan
bridge. Some of the property holders on time south
side of Hamilton street, we' learn, favor the Im
provement. We hope the Council: , will grant the
necessary authority.
THE 'Temperance men of Montgomery
enmity held a mass convention at Norristown to
elet, delegates to their State Political Convention
to nominate . State ollieers.' 'Clic true men of the
cause recognizing that an Independent ticket would
not help Temperance, but would only help Dem
ocracy, refused to turn out and Mosey Mtge found
only twelve men to assist him to set the ball in
motion.
Acemtes•r AT CoPLY.—Josepit Waltle wan
seriously Injured Attic Lehigh Valley Iron Walks,
Tuesday afternoon. The coal which was being
unloaded through the bottom of a car became
choked up and he used a crow bar to make an
opening. The object accomplished he threw the
crow bar down, when one end rebounded and
struck him In the cheek breaking his jaw hone In
three places.
Row.—There was a 'disgraceful row
night, between eleven and twelve o'clock, In front
of Julius Holstein's beer saloon, on Sixth street
below Hamilton, but no complaint was made by
the Pollee before the Mayor this morning. Some
members of the America Hose Company, we un-
derstnud, are blamed by the citizens audit Is likely
the bubJect will he brought up before Councils this
evcning
norEs rttesTnATED•—. l u amiable livery
man, the other day, hooked up a train, put a couple
of hirge baskets Into his wagon and started fort he
Lehigh Mountain, to gather a crop of blackberries.
Before he arrived at his destination the horse be
came balky and the livery man finding it impos
sible to induce hint to go either forwards or back
wards with the wagon, unhitched the animal and
rode him back to the city. lle did not bring any
blackberries with him.
SEMOUS ACCIDENT.-0n Monday wcck
serlimi accident occurred nt the Iron ore mine
owned by Charles Wittman and lensed by Joseph
Andreas, at the Lehigh Mountain, caused by the
premature explosion of a blast. AnEngllslinian,
whose name we did not learn, was burned terribly
about the face, eyes and hands. lie will probably
lose tit sight of one of his eyes and his left baud
Is terribly charred. Another man was Mimed,
but he was able to walk home. Dr. Charles D.
Martin attended the injuries of the former.
INSTANTANEOUS VlElV4.—Gross, the pho
tographer, In Knauss' building, It taken a num
ber of Instautnneous stereosmple views of inter
esting points in Allentown. That of the Jordan
Bridge shows the pedestrians and wagons ou the
move and gives the picture a live appenrance. The
new prison looms up prominently In the bad:-
ground. It Is a splendid picture to send to your
frkndsmt a instance. Another one Is a view of
Hamilton street cant from Eighth, showing Ane
wait, Young and Walker'w,tmliding In the fore
ground.
Trn county tax of Carbon county amounted
to ono dollar andseventy-slx cents for every man,
woman and elind M the county.
Moan than four thousand boilers are ni
quired to propel the machinery of the Industrial
establishments of Philadelphia.
OLD C/TIZEN GONE.-ISlll.lorJOhll
Cr, tt well known and much respected citizen of
this city, died at 1118 roddence Thom lay, In the
seventy-I - ninth year of his age.
THURSDAY afternoon Conductor I'urcel, of
the Lehigh Valley Railroad, was presented with
an elegant conductor's lantern, by his friends em
ployed on the Easton end of the road.
Two boys were arrested at Reading, on
Thursday, for selling fruit on the ears of the
Reading Railroad Company. This Is done, we
suppose; In the Interest of the news agent, whom
the boys undersell.
THERE are 2,000 tons of hematite ore used
In the Lehigh Valley every twenty-four hours,
making n total of 730,000 tons a year. The royal
ty, n sum paid by the operators to the property
owners, ornounts to obout $285,000.
THE CITY CORNET BAND.—Edwin Dreis
bach has been elected leader of the City Cornet
Band in place of Win. Moran, and the Band has
engaged Prof. Benithardt as Instructor. The City
Cornet Band will accompany the Mechanics to
Kutztown next week, when the citizens of that
place will again be treated to the music of one of
the best bands in the State.
WORKIMINIEN'S ,CONVENTION.-A conven
tion of workingmen Is to be called at St. Clair pa
the lith of August, for the purpose of nominating
a Workingmen's Ticket for Schuylkill county this
fall. The Pottsville Journal says that a move.
meta Is on foot In Schtlylklll county, participated
In by both political parties, looking to the holding
of a Convention to be coil posed of one delegate
from each party in each district, for the purpose
of placing in the field a Pcople's•Judiciary ticket.
• Tim Bethlehem Times says that pleasure
boats on the Lehigh can no longer be left on the
banks of the river with safety. Mischievous boys
and piling men break open the locks, scratch the
boats and In some Instances have been known to
1111 them with water and sink them. Some, not
satisfied with this, have been known to go so far
as to disfigure some of the beautiful bJals on the
river with their pocket knives.
NEW COUNTERFEIT.—A large amount or
counterfeit live dollar notes on the Ninth National
Bank of New York have just been pat into circu
lation. These bills are very good imitations,
printed upon smooth stiff bank note paper, and
are very liable to deceive. They can, however,
be readily detected by a careful examination of
the engraving of the face of the female figure upon
the left which In scratchy and 111-proportioned.
Is FOR A Muss.—:l few days ago a couple
of young teen went to the Lehigh Valley Depot
and were very generous with their abuse of the
baggage-master of the Pee-wee train. The 13. M.,
after enduring it for some time, waxed very wroth
and pulled out a pistol. One of the patty ske
daddled up the railroad and the other hid under
the platform, not making a re-appearance mall
after the train had started.
CAPTAIN WILLIAM BITTERS, of Easton,
whilom a manager of the tiller on the Lehigh
Canal, mid whose tow-path experience has satis
fied him that he knows about how much a horse,
mule, or other draught animal should be made to
endure, has sent to the office of the Pennsylvania
Society for the prevention of cruelty to animals,
an application for an agency of said society to
be estahlished in Easton, the duties of agent to be
performed by Mr. Bitters himself In person. , The
application has been laid before the Board of
managers and awaits their action.—Free Press..
TOE Scranton Republican says that while
the suspension of a single colliery in Schuylkill
county is no indication of a general suspension, it
does - apprehend serious difficulty from the action
of the Reading and Lehigh Valley Railroads.
If another strike does result front the raising of
tolls, these Companies will and to their sorrow
that It is dangerous to tyranirA over the people.
It is the last straw that breaks the camel's back.
rights they are entitled to, but they must not for
get their obligations to the people.
REPORT of coal transported over the Lehigh
Valley Railroad for the week ending August sth,
1871, compared with same time last year:
For Week. For Year.
16,748 13 280,407 14
.51,•035 03 408.382 15
St) 00 881 12
.20,778 18 174,037 07
.10,170 02 310,065 12
157 04 6,414 02
173 05
Total Wyoming
Hazleton
Upper Lehigh...
Beaver Meadow
Mahanoy
Mauch Chunk.
Sullivan ttZ Erie
Total by Ila 11 & Canal 107,1140 00 1,!10,710 07
Same time 1870 78,415 14 2,340,067 00
Increase.
lkerLaze
FATHER MENGES, who was buried at the
Stone Church, Northampton county, yesterday,
was born in Germany lu 1780, and came to this
country in 1795. Ile preached his first sermon in
the Stone Church July 15, 1810, and. In Egypt
Church, Lehigh county, July 25, 1815. He offici
ated at the Stone Church, with Father Becher,the
Reformed Pm , tor, for forty years. During his
ministerial career he confirmed 0000 permns, mar
fled 4100 couples, Imptized 25,000 children, buried
7,500 and had In his congregation 70,000 commu-
MUM
INFORMATION WANTED. Henry Lim, a
young man eighteen years of age, left Ms home In
Upper Allen township, Cumberland county, on the
95th of July last. Ile stated that lie was going to
ldechanlcsburg, but has not been beard of since.
lie Is described as wearing a black cloth coati light
colored pants and vest and a black slouched hat.
lhe parents of the boy arc much distressed on ac
count of his absence, and will be greatly obliged
to persons knowMg of his whereabouts, If they
will address his father Joseph Lau, at Shepherds
ow n , Cumberland county, Pa. Exchange papers
are requested to copy.
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LITER. ItY.—a. It. Osgood & Co., have is•
sued another volume of their new series of flaw
thorne's works, containing the " Scarlet Letter"
and " The lilithedale Romance." fhtwthorne's
name hears a proud position among the authors
of the United States and this enterprising firm has
done a real service to the public lu printing his
works In such a neat anti attractive edition. The
Szarlet Letter Is a sad romance of thrilling inter
est and combining so many moral lessens that even
those who object to novels as Injurious cannot fall
to recommend this one to everybody. The Intro
ductory gives an Insight Into the disposition of the
author and Is very entertaining to us, but those
who may and it tiresome can omit it without los
ing any of the beauty of the romance.
'NIMBLE ACCIDENT AND DEAT IL —Last
Thursday George Lyeett, aged fourteen years, a
son of Rev. E. Lycett, pastor of the Church of the
Redeemer, in Lower Merlon, met with an accident
which resulted in death in a few hours after. The .
son had driven to Philadelphia and was returning
home about seven o'clock In the evening when he
stopped 14 the road Ellie to gather a few black-
berries. Upon attempting to get Into the vehicle
a{tiln he fell and the wheel passed over Ills body,
Haring hill' so severely that he died the next
morning. The funeral look place on Monday,
Ita. Mr. Yarnell, of West Philadelphia, officiat
ing. The sad affair cost a deep gloom over . the
neighborhOod and much fynipalby Is expressed
for the bereaved parents.—Airrisunra Derald.
Klhtt•'n ON TilE RAILROAD,—The Harris
burg Journal says on Wednesday morning about
7 o'clock a young muu named John Swaitz, em
ployed as a repair hand on the Pennsylvania rail
road was instantly killed In the upper end of the
city. Ile was at work in the yard of the company,
when the fast line cast approached ou regular
schedule time. Being unable to get out of the way
In time, he was struck by the engine, and his neck
broken, death being Instantaneous. The body was
brought to the depot and placed In the "dead home"
until the arrival of the coroner. An Inquest was
held and the following verdict rendered: That John•
Swartz was static': by the pilot of engine No. 103,
attached to the fast line east on the P. R. 11., at
the upper cud of the yard, at Ilarrlsburg, and was
Instantly killed. No blame Is attached to the P.
11. R. company, or Its employees. Swartz was un
married, and about twenty ye:irs of age. ❑is pa
rents reside at Donnelly's mills, Perry county, live
miles south of Millerstown. The body Was taken
in charge by the Pennsylvania railroad company
and forwarded to his friends.
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;1 ALLENTOWN WEDNESDAY, AUGUST IA), 871.
THE exterior of Weinsheimer & New•
Lard's - store, corner, of Sixth and Hamilton, Is
being beautified by a coat of paint.
THE North Pennsylvanialtailroad Company
has commenced the foundation for a new freight
depot at Front and Noble, Philadelphia.
THE last sad chapter in the V allandigham
tragedy Is now completed by the death of the widow
of the great Ohio politician, which oectirred on
Sunday.
AN accident to a coal train occurred on the
Lehigh and Susquehanna Railroad, at. Coal port,
on Saturday afternoon, and delayed the down pas
senger trains.
RAISING onions direct from theses(' has been
tried with success on the farm of Win. S. Young,
Esq. This Al requires a certain soli, which Mr.
Young's farm possesses.
Too new State Normal School at West
Chester, Chester county, will be opened on the 25111
of September. The Indleallons are that the nuns.
ber of students will be quite large.
A LITTLE girl visiting the Union Cemetery
Sunday, wus much interested in the mysteries
of burial. She asked bow they did with fat wo
men. Fier little six-year -old brother Informed her
they made the coffin fat.
MR. JAMB KUUTZ, a wealthy and respect
able farmer of Upper Leacnek township, Lancas
ter county, was killed d Wednesday by the fall
ing of a large limb of a tree, which struck him on
the shoulder and crushed him to the earth.
GOTT.OII BROWN has discovered on his farm
near yotbatrove, a vein of slate of a superior
quality, Mr. Thomason, superintendent of the
Buckhorn slate quarries, near Bloomsburg., pro
nounces the vein to be equal to the finest mantel
31118. PARKER, wife nfn conductor on no
emigrant train between Altoona anti Pittsburg, is
in Jail at Hollidaysburg, on a charge of murder—
ing an Infant child of her Imsband's, nineteen
months old. She smothered the child in Altoona
last Friday. •
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ADULTEIt4.—ThOIIIIIq M. Ilarl7A wai ar
restal and committal by Alderman Strilder charg
ed by Thomas Reinhard with adultery. Hartz 1
entered ball, on Monday morning, in the Finn of
five hundred dollar?, to appear at Court, and was
released. These parties hall from Alburtis.
THE election for officers of the Berks county
road, to serve until the date of the annual -hellos
er the charter on the second Monday of Jan
nary next, held Friday afternoon in Reading, re
sulted in the choice of the following : President,
Henry Busbong ; Directors, Jacob Ilushong, J. V.
Craig, 11.,5. Eckert, George Lerch, Win. S. Mlles,
Edwt•ard Betz, Charles E. Pennock, and Hugh E.
Steele.
B ET II LEIIEM.—We condense from the Tinies
c following :
The workmen of the Bethlehem Iron Co., who
are members of the Workingmen's Beneficial As
sociation, contemplate an exeur,lon to Wilkes-
Barre, In which, It is stated, the Wilbur Infantry
and Bethlehem Band will participate.
Mrs. Hannah Stubblebine was held in t'-100 hail,
charged with abusing and threatening to kill her
A young lady visiting at Mm s. S. A. Meyers',
was treated to a surprise party on Friday evening.
Jtowdyistn was so prevalent at San Cord's enter
tainment at Bethlehem that gentlethen with their
ladies ware compelled to leave the hall.
THE Mauch Chunk Democrat says Daniel
Kalbfus, Esq., of that place, captured during the
months of April, May, June and July, the unpre
cedented number of eleven thousatvl there hundred
and one trout, in the streams of Carbon county
alone, and reports with a coolness that Is refresh
ing in these sultry days that the streams are nearly
exhausted, and that wornt•lishcrs, as contrudis•
tinguished front those who use the al tificial
ought to content themselves with angling for cat•
SOIL hereafter, in order that skill like his own
might the better meet Its sure reward. Mr. K. is
in favor of prohibition I'm' three years by acts of
Assembly, when he hopes for tile return of the
days of Auld Lang Sync, in which, as he terms it,
" trout ilshing was a real pleasure."
were elected to take charge of the Public Schools
of Copley, for the ensuing term, being the same
who had charge of the schools during the last
term Grammar school, A. F. K. Krout ; Secom
dun*, Istiss E. M. Kuehl ; Primary grade, M is.
Maggie B. Everhart. The sehooli will open (A
the fourth of September.
13. S. Levan, Superintendent of the. Lehigh Val
ley Iron Company, .exehanged a house and lot
lying in the village of Stentlon, Northampton
county, with the Lehigh Coal and Navigation
Company, for land about four acres In extent,
lying between the Lehigh river and the canal, a
short distance above Stennon, receiving S1:500 ns
a bonus.
Rev. Charles 11. Leinhaell, of Tulpehoelten,
Berlts county, will preach the tint annual harvest
Fermon for the Trinity Congregation of the Re
formed Church at Copley, on Tuesday evening,
August :.!1,1. Ile will also, on the forenoon of the
same day, preach a sermon for the Egypt congre
gation.
28,923 00
8'28,047 10
ANnTnEn COLLNION.—On Sunday morn
ing, about two o'clock, another collision occurred
on the Lehigh and Susquehanna Railroad at Ben
son's pipe works, a short distance below the Allen
town depot. A coal train going up, after round
ing the curve, stopped. A Bagman should have
gone back to warn following trains. None at
tended to this duty and, therefore, the engineer of
GI shortly after came around the curve at the usual
speed, unmindful of all danger and was probably
greatly surprised when his engine crushed the rear
of the first named train. The engine was broken
and the signal light falling among the shuttered
timbers of the, caboose caused a conflagration
which consumed another car. A man in the ca
boose was knocked out of his berth onto the
ground, but was only slightly Jojneed. 'rho tire
caused an alarm and the compass les supposing it
to be In Benson's pipe works lost no time In going
to the rescue. The cause of the light was made
known and souse of the companies turned hack be
fore crossing the Lehigh bridge. •
TIM Board. of Controllers, at the request 1 , 1
several citizens, liars decided to give two hall
hours a week to instruction in Germain in the
Grammar Schools. This request was made be
cause comparatively few of those who pass through
the qranun al . Schools enter the High Schools, mid
therefore, unless the language were taught In the
Grammar Schools, there would be very few who
would be enabled to read German newspapers and
understand German sermons, The children of the
public schools will be indeed apt scholars if they
derive any benefit at all from two half hours a
week of instruction In German. We venture to
say that there will not bejnore than ten per cent.
of those in attendance who will know any more
about the language when they leave the school
than when they enter It and we hear signs of dis
approbation among those parents who object to
having the time of their children wasted in this
way. There will two difficulty in getting teachers
who are capable of giving instruction in German
and at the same time are capable of instructing in
the branches which are necersary• and required to
be taught.
A. Dom) SWINDLE.—On Saturday' night a
respectably dressell person,who looked like a work
ing man, went Into Granville Worrell's store and
purchased a bill of dry goods, °Hering them to be
sent to a certain number on Ninth street. Ile
•tendered In payment a cheek for f 35 dollars by
Robert 11. Barr & Co., on the First National Bank,
In favor of James llenderson, and endorsed with
the latter name. lie received his change, some
thing over $2O, and left.
Yesterday Mr. Worrel offered the check on de
posit at the First National Bank, when it was
thrown out with the announcement that R. 11. B.
6: Co. did not keep their account there.
It was at once sent down to Messrs. Barr h Co.
when they returned It with the announcement that
It was a complete forgery, and that they no longer
had their account In that Bank.
The check Is to printed one, with Robert 11. Burr
.'e Co.'s card on one end, and a U. S. Revenue
stamp in tint, on the paper. An examination of
the latter shows that It Is a counterfeit, being
something larger.aud much censer than the Gov
ernment stamps, and also only' a wood tint. The
- printing to, doubtless, also a counterfeit, and.has
been done by come bungler with type.
It is nut lik..ly that the counterfeiters have been
to this munch trouble to make a Angle check, and
It will be well for merchants to keep a sharp look
out for these lots of paper. If .they take them It
will at their own loss.-11 ithainffien Comm,reral.
CHEAP Music.—lt is seldom that cheapness
Is associated with merit and real value, but we
must make an deception in favor of Peter's Mu
sical Monthly. This valuable work comes to us
regularly each month, overflowing with choice new
Music—some fifteen pieces is every number. It
is printed from 00 full-size music-plates, neatly
bound, and sells for the modest sum of 30 cents.
Volume VIII began with the July number; and
the publisher offers to send two copies—July and
August—for 50 cents. Address J. L. Peters, 509
Broadway, New York. Think of It ! 30 pieces of
good Music for 50 cents. This Monthly and the
REGISTER will be sent to any address one year for
$3.501n advance.
THE SWITCHBACK. —Tire Nesquehoning
Tunnel is rapidly approaching completion. By
the middle of September the headings will meet
and by the 14 of January It Is expected ears will
be passing through the huge bore. The rap!d
winding up of this big work is due to the hard
work of Mr. Steele and his excellent corps of engi
neers, and the celebrated Burleigh rock drill.
When the Lehigh Coal and Navigation begin
using the tunnel the days of thegreat Switch-Back
will be ended and It will be abandoned. We pro
pose that a Company be formed to lease the road
as fir as Summit 1111, and keep It In running or
der for tourists. By proper advertising. tens of
thousands of persona would be brought hither each
year to take a ride over the famous Switch-Back.
and enjoy a beautiful view front maje4le Pisgah.,
The continuance of the road is a matter that vitally
Interests Summit 11111 and Munch Chunk, and a
move for the lease of it should be made at once.
We propose to present some ft.!ures upon this sub
ject at an early day.—Xituels Mod:
OF INTEREST TO OUR MANUFACTURERS.—
In the city of Philadelphia there arc upwards of
four thousand boilers in constant use and at Inter
vals the public are touted to horrifying necounts
attendant upon the explosion.. Only a few years
ago by such a (Minster at a factory on Sansom
sired., a score of nab:ails unconscious of danger
were suddenly killed; while others were fearfully
maimed and made cripples for life, while the build
ing to which the explosion occurred was so com
plet,ly wrecked as to require reconstructing..
This was but one of many similar disc-tern re
sulting from the use of unsafe boilers that hare
occurred in our sister city, and what applies An
Philadelphia applies to other cities in the Culled
States.
The question may be asked—Why do mill own
ers and others employing steam; use 'unsafe gen
erator:3 when they can so readily obtain in the
Boller all that i+ perfectly safe from di,
nstrous enplo4ion, ai.d more CColl3llliCal lu 'its
management than those that have so long bt'oll
tried and found deficient.
The very strong endorsements this holler has
received Is sufficient to warrant us in saying that
toiday as a safe steam generator the Harrison
Boiler has in equal.
FA I.s. ExumiTioN AT A m tu.rmt STATION
The Norristown Herald says : The first annual
exhibition or Fair of the old Montgomery County
Agricultural Society, on their new grounds at
Ambler Station, will take place Sept ember 10th,
20th, 21,4; and 22,1. Allan W. Corson, Jr., of this
llorough,bas been surveying the premises previous
to the managers pulling the same acomplete order.
The track is a half-mile one, only six feet ri,e
and fall, with two six hundred feet straight
stretches, and when finished will be one of the
best hi this State: The judges' stands, offices,
stabling, and other buildings, will be of modern
construction and of course will combine all the
necessary conveniences.
One of the greatest features of the coming Fair
will be the presence of Mr. Welsh's celebrated
stallion " Lamartine" and Flora Temple with her
colts.
This exhibition, being on the line of the North
Pennsylvania Railroad, will be a very convenient
one for our Lehigh County farmers to attend and
we have no doubt, front what we know of the en
ergy of the manager?, that it will he one of the
most interesting in the State.
Now a word to :Managers of Agricultural
Societies. Gentlemen you are placed in an ele
vated position—looked up to, not only by the
members of your respective societies, but by the
farmers generally, within the bounds of your dis
trict. You are looked upon as leaders In every
'The Dunkers, Mennonists, Piethts, Schwat.
dew and not look back, but carry out Ideas of that learned books debauch., the human spirit,
improvement to their natural results. How many and they still maintain a powerful conservative
of you have set the exatople of growing roots to organization.
feed limn stork 7 If you hove not succeeded sat- Nine miles front Litiz, at another watering
isfactorily in your first effort, " try, try again." place, called " Ephrata Springs," the " Seventh-
Perseverance is becoming in a leader. Three I (lily Baptists" inhabit a pair of exceedingly old
points must be observed to Insure success; first— clap-boarded wooden buildings, which are divided
a deep soil, made so by deep plowing ; secondly— into an innumerable number of narrow cells, pro
apply well rotted manure, kept near or on the stir- i vided with wooden benches for beds, a wooden
face.; thirdly—clean tillage ; to secure this, plant I Mock for a pillow, and a wooden platter and spoon
in drills. ibr feeding.. These edifices were used for hospitals
One other suggestion gentlemen, with Wllllll in the American Revolution. The inhabitants are
you can comply with your gloves on. Offer pre- tui unsocial, besotted set of old maids, bachelors,
'Bums to farmers for the largest crop of roots per and sour couples, and their records, recently
acre, designating each variety ; let the ground and found concealed between the wainseottings, are
the crops be measured in the presence of a Com- I said to reveal a considerable degree of carnal in
mittee. So much for one, and so much for two, tereouri.e between the Inmates.
three, or live acres. Make these premiums large I Townsend says the elder towns or the Dutch re
at first ; large enough to pay for cultivating the glom are Easton, Allentown, Reading and Leba
crop. It takes a long lever on a solid fulcrum to I non, and Lancaster, Columbia and "Lan
move some people, even in the direction of their caster is tile dullest and quaintest, with 23,000
own interest ; but the almighty dollar is sure to people; AllentOwn was long the most besotted, but
do it. it Los felt the breath of New York, and the date•
These suggestions are made, gentlemen, with meat is mink that, last winter, Thomas' orchestra
the kindest feelings, though with an carmstness was InVilod there, and even Ivarti With delight."
becoming the importance of the farming interests'; Does the statement seem so improbable that I;
of the country; trusting that they will nut pass should be repeated with an'air of doubt 1 If Mr.
unheeded by those to Whom they are addressed. Townstaul would exercise that care which Is M-
D is the duty of those who stand upon the watch ; eumbent upon a truthful Wrifer and would , spend
tower to sound the alarm, and for those to whomsul.,c,ent n it .1 ; ;
time f.n t h e reg ion to acquaint
he alarm is given to profit by it. There is no himself thoroughly with our Pennsylvania Dutcli
Sher farming interest In this country lagging ,10 I we are confident he would send at different tale to
uch behind as " root culture," especially in hi s
iryittg distr —Mock Jormaid. roue-third of the iron produced in the United
states, ;Ind In addition to the noble pursuit of agri
culture he would find the PoMsylvanians of this
seethm engaged in turning the mineral products
of this reclon Into motley and thus adding to the
substantial wealth of the country; in which Mr.
Townsend has never even done his share. Instead
of being ignorant Ite would find the people fully
caPaltfe of appreciating ids abilities. Our educa
tional Institutions are unexcelled and Allentown
can boast of two of the fittest public school build
ings in the State, with others of less pretentious,
but commodious, in each ward of the city. Con
trary to beille opposed to education those who have
he means give their children the best facilities for
obtaining an education. As a reading people our
county Is not excelled by many in the tinimt.
More copies of newspapers are published In Allen
town each week than in any other of Its size, we
believe, on this continent, and these, printed In
both German and English, sow their seed broad
cast throughout the county and hence our agricul
tural communities are intelligent and well-inform
ed. Besides our papers, our citizens arc exte . uslve
patrons of the principal magazines and leadlog
newspapers of the Country, and although ghost
stories are related and believed In our county we
do not think that such believers are any more nu
merous here, In proportion to our population, than
in the wise cities of Boston, Philadelphia and New
York, and should not be cited as evidence of the
ignorance of our people. One Muffling institutions
are believed in by our people, us our bank state
Melds show and the people are too shrewd to bury
their money In their cellars where It will be un;
productive. Beer is a favorite beverage with out
citizens, as It is with most AIIICrIC.IIIS, and " one
L 311 0" is s not only a good brewer, but a widely
known tihd highly respected citizen.
We would like to see Mr. Townsend at Allen
town istui show him, around. lic would then, we
are confident, tell his readers that in Pennsylvania
they have one city which equals in energy, enter
prise and intelligence the cities of the Great West.
The banks of our river are skirted on either side
with railroads, and the gigantic furious and roll
ing mills make the river' Lehigh qulve'r with hire
in the night and keep up the busy fun of Industry
in the day. A street railway, prosperous and
well-managed, and omnibus lines connect with the
three railroad depots and the heavy travel which
patronizes them shows that we are at least an ac
tive and moving people. Philadelphia deserves
morn credit for the progress of our Valley than
does New York. Nearly all the Capitalists out
side of the Valley who own stock In our largest
furtmees;are residents of the City of Penn and we
believe that Pennsylvanians have a heavy interest
In the stock of the Lehigh Valley Railroad. We
owe little or no gratitude to; New York, as what
ever that city lies done for us has been well com
oensated for by a heavy wholesale patronage.
THE PICNIC ON TuunsDAy.—The grand
ltslret pie-nie Thusrday afternoon at site Felts
ain House was a complete success, and ',retitle- I
ire ol much pleasure, which was shared in by all
present. It was largely attended by many of our
most pleasant citizens and by a number of rhila
delpillans as well as by numerous visitors now es
jumping In our city. The party assembled on the
plemic grounds early In the afternoon, most thor
oughly equipped with all the paraphernalia of a
compriAng croquet,buth field and parlor,
euchre decks and other games or. atnasement to
suit all present. One of thv. ladies as generalissi
mo.(and she did it IVell)•superintemied the sur
veying of the gromids and the planting of wickets
pre paratory to croquet. Pa'rlies for the game were
at once organized,lheir respective positions as
signed them and put to Work'at batting. Euchre
received proper attention from a number of the de
voted. There were others who in a quiet way en
oyed thej oily uud social spirit pervading the party,
Lx.ehanging and comparing notes on the condition
of the said circle and singling certain cases yet In
the bal,ince of the future. Crystal Springs and the
(limy tribe were a bource of much interest to a por
tion of the party who much admired their beauty.
Others gave themselves up to promenading over
the hill to the rear of the Fountain (louse and
wandered through the sweet scented clover. From
the summit of this there was afforded a tine oppo•-
tunity of viewing the Little Lehigh, the rolling
Landscape, the silent city of the dead with its scat
tered monuments,the Lehigh Mountains in the dis
tance that for centuries have looked down over this
beautiful and lovely valley as an everlasting watch,
'and proof against all time. The hazy condition 01
the atmosphere added a charm to this tine picture
of natural scenery which was well calculated to In
tensify Its beauty and grandeur and to leave pleas
ant and lasting Impressions 09 the mind of the oh
server.
The 'gong in the hands of one of the v ne:able
gentlemen, which was virtually music in the air
culled together the pasty in the grove where there .
Was an abundance of good things provided for the
Occasion by the litilled. The scene presented while
the edibles were being disposed of and the Chiba , .
of the inneronan satisfied was gay uud fettive.
Front this the party adjourned to the Fountain
(louse where the music was in waiting, find pro
ceeded to dancing. The facilities were moat cxce:-
lent and every convenience W'llEi afforded by the
gentlemanly and obliging proprietor,' Mr. R: D.
Kramer, to promote the pleasure of the party.
There was seemingly a living sea of faces in the
rooni.and fur iripping the light fantastic toe, 111111
everything moving like poetry with ' musical
step. Much sociability and good humor were
manifested throughoht and affairs passed off
pleasantly without even an effort on the part of
every one.
The occasion is one long to by remembered and
c trrye with IL many pleasant recollections. The
Fountain House Is rapidly growing in favor with
our citizens who tied there a.pleasant and cool
retreat. It . deserves liberal patronaee•
Housmu:l%ns about renewing their stock
Will save money by paying a visit to the Corner
Store of M. J. Kramer.
TIM PENNSYLVANIA DEUTSCII—George Al
fredTownsend underlakcs_lawrite - up "the Penn.
sylvania Deutsch" in a letter front I.ltiz to the Chi
-tago Tribune. Townsend has a geol reputation
as it racy, descriptive letter-writer, and those who
read this letter will very probably place some reli
ance upon his statements, otherwise, we shoald
pass them over as the speculations Of a fool. ilia
reputation will carry some weight with It and give
those who are not acquainted with this region a
false impression of the Pennsylvania Dutch. Ills
wild remnrks, tiro suppose, are intended to apply
more directly to the Lancaster county people, but
the generality of readers arc not apt to discrimin
ate so closely when loft to draw their own Infer
ences. ills description of the Mora visits We re
moth= : '
Litiz Is one of the vast series of Moravian mis
sion towns which that pure and quaint Christian
denomination has town around the world—in
Greenland, Spit zbergen, Siberia. Tills mission,
planted by the Count Zinzendorf many years be
fore the American Revolution, is now the central
object in a very picturesque stone village, and the
schools arc about one hundred years old. A flue
old gentleman, or the name of Beck, a Maryland
Moravian, who strolls to oar hotel dilly, has
taught a school fifty consecutive years here, and
he gave up the business on its fiftieth anniversary.
There are six old couples here who have celebrated
their golden wedding. •
're-nay, Dick Tshuday, the politician and brewer
of the town, has been collecting subscriptions from
our boarders to hive a present of $ WO to a very old
and very poor conple,'whose golden wedding would
else lack a celebration to-morrow. Ile has got It,
too, by putting in the balance himself, and it Isar
ranged th tt 55st shall be put Into an envelope and
slipped In by the post to the old dame, and the
other $5O shall go in the same way to the old man.
They will get tip and hear the trombones play in
tile Moravian tower, and think they are very poor,
though still a good deal in love and quite necessary
to each other, and then the postanaster—a little be
lore time, to be sure, but that will make no differ
ence ; for they get no letters in their old age, every
body being -dead—the postmaster will knock at the
door and, in a formal, hasty sort of way, hand in
! the letters. The door will then close upon the old
I couple and their gulden wedding. Thank Clod
that there still living young folks who remember
the affections of the old ! We cannot ge t along
j even in these times, without our politician.
These Moravians are not countrymen of Joint
Huss. Zinzendorf, a Saxon nobleman, revivtd
Iluss' faith, reformed it, and made It partly com
munistic, partly missionary; he planted the pa
rent church at Ilernbutt, in Saxony, and then,
visit lug A merica,establlshed colonies and 1111S8101113
at Nazareth and Bethlehem, and on the Lehigh
river, and at Litiz, , eight miles from ltnraqer.
These Moravians do not proselytiz ', except
amongst the heathen ; by the appreciation of their
latid and the profits of their very popular schools
—schools which have ed seated the wives of the
best men in the Middle States—they haYe made
their coefeties prosperous, yet their numbers are
constantly diminishing, the communistic life is
nearly at sit end, and the steam engine of Metho
disinwhose parent, Wesley, was, in some sense,
a Moravian convert—ls playing High Dutch
amongst these old burghers.
The Moray tans have at Litz four schools and
two hundred pupils, and they educate at their
several establishments In the Dutch country six
hundred per annum. Their edifices are old, hid
roofed, hLth German stone houses. They an
nounce a death from the church steeple by lugu
brious trombones, and bury their dead in classes,
the women on one side of their green cemetery,
the men on the other side, and their children apart,
They ore 111110 sense 1110141.911 e, 0101011.411 this im
pression has pa s sed abroad mainly through a mis
apprehension of Longfellow's Item or Pulaski's
Banner":
And the nuns' sweet hum was heard the while,
Snug low through the dim, mysterious aisle.
These nuns were merely single women, classified
together, and inhabiting what was called the "Sic
tern' House," where they gained a livelihood by
sewing, cobbling, and spinning. The Moravians
were the only austere sect of thiS region who be
lieved that education was good fur the souls of omit
mid s•outen.
ScurrguNoNu.—.A. delightful wine, made
front lilt Scuppernong grape of the Carolinas,
suitable for the table, medicinal or suer/mental
purposes, In bottles, at Lewall & Martin's City
Drug Store, 722 Hamilton street, corner of Hall.
GENUINE Scorer' OAT MEAL at the city
Drug Store of Latvalt & Martin, No. 722 Hamil
ton street, S. W. corner Hall street.
Tt It Smith American Organ Is the best
voiced, flucA cased and cheapest reed organ In the
country. For sale at U. F. Ilerrman's store.
_ _
I'ic•Nic.—The Sabbath School of Grace
Episcopal Church will hold a plc•nic at the Foun
tain House, on Friday next, to which the congre
gation and their friends are Incited.
FIRE IN TIM MINES. —A. Mauch Chunk ex
change says a the ',Coke out at the head of Slope
No. Inside of No. 6 mine, Lehigh Coal and
Navig.atlna Commav, at three o'clock on Thurs
day morning. Th r.. iv.m only a few men Inside
and they all got out In ssfety. It is providential
hat the accident did not occur later when thensen
wore all In the mine. It is supposed there will be
ut little damage done though the names may get
he better of the workmen who are doing their best
o subdue them as we write.
The - danger Is that the fire will run along the
vein which extends to Tamauqua. If this should
be the case the damage would be very great. Be
sides running four or five mines, the Nesquebos
lug Tunnel across which the vein rune, (though
the coal Is worked out,) would be filled with
smoke and gas. This would stop the great work.
it is to be hoped that all this will be averted by
the subduing of the tire.
To CAN PEACII ES. WC .find the following
mode of Cunning peaches in Tilton's Journal of
Horticulture: Take large ripe peaches—not over
ripe—halve and pare neatly and lay on a large
meat dish. To a three peck basket of fruit allow
four pounde of sifted sugar; sprinkle It over the
fruit as you lay it in the dials ; when done set in a
cool place over night ; the next morning fit each
piece, one by one, 'nicely into the jar, draining .
them front the Juice. When the jars aro filled
put them close together In a kettle of cold water,
putting a double towel or something of the kind
under them, in the bottom of the kettle, to pre
vent their cracking, and set over the fire. Let the
water heat gradually till it boils, while you pre
pare the syrup from the Juice that bas been formed
from the 'peaches and sugar over night, then fill
up the jars with it, being careful to let the bubbles
of air escape ; they will be seen rising to the top ;
If any arc in the lower part of the Jar they will go
up on the insertion of a fork. When allare full be
gin to seal up, and have a large pan of hot water
standing near to put the Jars in As fast as sealed,
where they can cool olf gradually. Where one
has glass Jars or bottles, without tight-fitting
covers, prepare a cement of one pound rosin to
two pounds mutton suet melted together and well
mixed ; have pieces of strong muslin cut large
enough to tie over the mouths of the jars or bot
tles; lay the muslin on a hoard and with a spoon
spread over a thick coating of cement; tako up
Abe mania foickly,.before it has time to cool, and
put It on the jar with the cement side downward,
pressing it closely over the sides. If the muslin
Is not very thick it is well to spread more cement
on top of the first cove• and lay over that n second
piece of muslin, then tie down with twine and fin
ish with n good coat of cement over all. This Is
a good way to use up old Jars whose covers have
been broken or lost. • •
THE BAY WINDOW QUESTION.—The ques
tion whether or not a citizen shall be allowed to
erect a bay window of the depth of three feel, or
more, in front of a residence, has created no little
stir among the citizeas of Lancaster, for some
weeks past. The question was brought before
court, by Messrs. Franklin Sutton and Samuel
Kencagy, remonstrating against the erection of a
window of this description by D. G. Eshleman,
Esq., on Ills East King street building, now under
repair. It was fully argued before a full bench
on Monday of last week. The Court, through the
lion. A. L. Hayes, read a very lengthy and elabo
rate opinion last Saturday, deciding adversely to
the plaintiffs, and in favor of Bay Windows. The
concluding paragraph of the opinion Is as follows:
"(laving attentively listened to the able discussion
upon the Bill and Answer, and deliberately con
sidered the questions mooted, we have arrived at
the conclusion that the plaintiffs cannot be sus
tained In their application : First, because the
facts presented do not constitute a nuisance ; sec
ondly, because no special or particular Injury to
the plaintiffs from the erection of the Bay Window
n question, is set forth in their Bill or has been or
will by 4\tirMri.att t,. rt.um irnal lea armqino. The
Thu Lancaster Express does not believe in this
decision, in which the extraordinary conclusion is
reached that the obstruction of a side-walk by the
erection of bay windows Is not a nuisance or that
it does not cause any special or particular Injury
lo resid cuts of adjoining property. The Express
adds that the conclusion arrived at by the honor
able Court may be law, but it is certainly not com
mon sense. Bay windows are well enough in their
place, but those erecting them should be compelled
to keep back the line of their fronts equal to the
projection of the window•, and then they would,
not interfere with either the view or the travel
along the sidewalk. That Is our view also. ,Bay
windows projecting beyond the building line area
nuisance, though a thousand Courts should decide
otherwise. They Should not be permitted la any
MEETING 01' TILE BOARD 01 0 CONTROLLERS.
—A e p..cia I meeting of the Board of Controllers
was held In the Council Chamber on the evening
of August 7th. Present—Messrs. Bureaw,Cooper,
[Manger, Erdman, Dries, McLean, Roney and
Hunk, President.
The following bills were ordered to be pall :
J. Winslow Wood, making out duplicates, 540;
Lewis Wolf ,Sc Cu., 515; Martin Menges, 54.75.
A communication from the Fifth Ward School '
Board was received, but the request of the Board
had bees anticipated by the publication of the
Statement before the request was receives.
The election of teachers for the High Schools
was postponed. •
Mr. Cooper trout the Committee on Course of
Studies reported on books of instruction, the ques
tion o f German is the Public Schools and the Itules
for the Government of the schools, which report
was received.
Dilliuger and Erdman moved the adoption o:
the report so far as it embraced text books.
Bureaw and Roney moved to amend that the
text books embraced In the report, except the
Grammar, be adopted. Lost.
Original motion carried, Bureaw dissenting.
The following is the list of text books adopted :
—Natural Philosophy, Cambridge series; Bar.
tholmnew's Drawing Books and Cards ;• English
Literature, Cleveland ; Moral Philosophy, Way
laud ; FeWstnlth's Grammar.
Dillinger and McLean moved the adoption C:
the r e commendation of the committee ou the In
troduction of German, which was as follows:
"We also recommeml the Introduction of Ger
mnu into the Grammar Schools—allotting two
half hours per week In each school to the study of
the same."
Roney and Burcaw• moved an amendment to
make It optional with the scholars whether or not
they will study German. Vote on amendment:
Yeas, Bureaw, Erdman,. McLean and Roney ;
Nays, Cooper, Dillinger, Gries and Runk, Presi
dent. Lost.
Ou original motion all voted yea except Erdman
and Roney.
The report on rules for the government of the
schools was read by sections and on motion of
Grits and Erdman was adopted with unimportant
alterations.
It was Resolved, That the report and such other
matters as the committee muy decide upon be
printed in pamphlet form under the supervision of
the Committee on Course of Studies.
On motion of Roney and Dillinger it was Re
solved, That the matter of the cleaning of the
Sixth Ward school building be referred to the
Building Committee.
On inoilon of Cooper and Roney it was Resolved,
That the President and Secretary he directed to
sigr, the collector's warrants.
Eur music, instruction books, blank
books, music raper and cards and all kinds of
musical trimmings, a large supply constantly on
hand at C. V. Herrman's Music Store, Allentown
SOMETIIIINO NICE.—The " Eau do Cologne
roati" at the City Drug Store of Lowell & Martin,
No. 722 Hamilton street, south west corner of flail
street.
GREAT harm and discomfort Is caused by the
use of purgatives which gripe and crack the sys
tem. Parsoia's Purgative Pills aro free from all .
Impure matter, and are mild itul health-giving
in their operation. •
At this Benson of the year, cramps and pains In
the stomach and bowels, dysentery, diarrhtea,
tte., are quite common, and should be checked at
once. < Johnson's Anodyne Lin Omni Is the best ar
ticle that can be used lu all such cases, and should
be kept In every family.
OBITUARY.—Text Dingier, who died at Eas
ton, on Saturday evening, was one of the most
popular members of the 47th Pennsylvania and
his death will be . mourned by a large circle of
friends. Dc was a member of Company E, Capt.
Yard, and served with the Regiment through Its
southern campaigns and re-enlisting after the three
years service terminated. lie was hurled Yester
day.
Tnn COAT. TnAus.—The Much Chunk Coal
Gazette of Friday says up to the close of last week
there has been transported south front here, over
both railroads and the canal, since the Ist of Jan
uary, 1,674,727.18 tons. Last week the shipments
from here amounted to 137,738.t0 tons, being 0,020.
03 tons less than the preceding week. The corre
sponding week last year 07,638.07 tons were sent
south from here, and the total for last year to this
time was 2,631,471.12 tons. In comparing the ship
ments of the past week and the present year with
corresponding dates of last year,we find an Increase
for theweck of 1871 of 40,179.10 tons,and a decrease
for the present year of 819,743.14 tons.
Shipments by our railroads and canals fall little
short of last week, which were the heaviest ever
_made. Prices are no higher though there is good iii4CkSt. Lehigh is much inquired after, some sizes
being exceedingly scarce. Higher prices tnay be
looked fur at an early day. The Lehigh Valley
have issued a new circular of rates for transporting
coal but there Is little change. The Central Rail
road of New Jersey have made no change.
The men at a colliery near Mahanoy City have
struck, because a reduction of wages was threat
ened. The men of Schuylkill county are working
nt about as low figures as they can support their
families upon, and we hope the price they now get
for their labor will be kept up. The Reading Rail
road by raising their tolls have made one step to
wards the lowering of the miners' wages, and the
President gives notice that he will continue each
mouth to lower tour.
A break In the Lehigh canal has somewhat de•
layed the transportation of coal during the past
week, and the shipments are below what they
usually nee.
Fogelsville Items
FOGELSVILLE, PA., Aug. 12, 1871
One BEDS. —Three more ore-beds have been
discovered a short distance from this village.
They were discovered respectively we Henry
Stine's, Jacob Ste Winger's and Jesse Lorash's
farms. Those beds are reported to be better than
any that have as yet been discovered In this sec
tion. Such discoveries arc indeed not only calcu
lated to cheer those who . are so fortunateastoown
these beds, but alike other classes. The labor of
the poor man will thus rise In greater demand and
hence obtain better wages, the more need there is
for his services. Many a poor man already duds
employment at these beds in our vicinity and thus
secures that necessary medium by which his
want° aresuPplied. How much business may thus
be ushered Into existence Is as yet unknown but
one thing is certain that such developments are
Just the ones we need at this end of the county.
The benefits of these extend, Indeed, far and wide.
The benefits of the Iron business are insinuated as
It were Into every branch of business and hence
the propriety of calling this metal the most useful.
The iron business seems to occupy that position iii
the material world that the words of Plato occupy
In the material world of mind: Ills words have
entered successividy into the philosophies, the
creeds, and the practical codes of the Grecian
world, the Roman, the Saracen and the Christian.
So have the benefits derived from this nosiness en•
tared Into every branch of industry. Such devel
opments will also make the necessity of having a
rail road built In this direction the more apparent.
There is every reason to believe that the iron com
panies will soon so look upon this matter. Besides
the many conveniences that would thus be brought
to our people, such a project would beyond doubt
be the most economical one In order to get their
ore shipped away from this place. At least we
may be permitted to indulge the hope that ere long
will the locomotive travel through our part and
rend the air with Its loud whistles.
'IRE NEW PATENT AIR BRAKE Of
mention has been already made, says the Reading
Times, was applied to the five passenger ears of
the down Reading Aecompdation train yesterday
morning. The experiment has already been par
tially made upon the Reading Road, and the brake
is also being tested on the Pennsylvania Central.
speed can be stopped in a few seconds of time, as
experiments have demonstrated. The following
Is the description furnished of this ingenious con
trivance:
On the right hand side of thh locomotive, fast
ened to the running board and immediately under
the engineer's eyes. Is an upright direct-acting
air-pump, which draws its supply of steam from
the boiler and pumps air into a reservoir, which
is attachedi to the foot-board, and hangs directly
under the cab. This pump is composed of a steam
cylinder and a narrow cylinder, Is entirely self
:lain, and Is really a medium between the pres
sure of steam lu the boiler and the pressure of air
in the reservoir. Thus it will be seen that when
the supply of air from the reservoir to apply the
brake, the pump at once begins working vigorous
ly, without attention from the engineer, to make
up the deficiency of pressure In the reservoir,
caused by the application of the brakes ; It then
works on until the steam and air pressures are the
same, less the allowance for friction In the pump.
The quantity of steam used in pumping the air is
scarcely perceptible, and the time necessary for
the pump to restore the pressure varies from one
to two minutes.
Under cinch car of the train is a cylinder, firmly
bolted in such a position that the piston acts di
rectly on the lever now used for the ordinary hand
brake, and not at nil interfering with hand brak-
ing. '
The pressure of air Is conducted to these cylh
dere from the reservoir, under the locomotive, b,
a line of three-quarter Inch , gas pipe, running tin
entire length df the train, and the connection with
each cylinder is made front the main lime with a
quarter Inch elbow. From each end of the car
the pipes are extended by three-ply rubber hose,
which are connected, when the cars arc coupled
together so .arranced that when the parts are
united, ate air passes through them. But should
any of the carabecotne detached from any came.
the coupling, which Is held together by stiff
springs, pulls apart, the valve closes, the escape
of air Is prevented, and the brake remains Wa
ive on the rest of the train. Or should the brake
have been applied, and afterwards a car become
detached, the valves of the coupling on the de
tached car immediately close, and the brake con
tinues applied, thus preventing a car frosts run
ning back on a grade.
An air gunge, placed immediately above the
steam gunge, indicates to the engineer the amount
of pressure In the reservoir; and the entire man
agement of the train is placed in his hands by
means of a three-way cock, by simply turning
which he can instantly and effectively stop the
train, without that unpleasant Jerking and bound
ing noticeable on all trains where hand or other
brakes are used, or can as quickly release the
brake or graduate it to any desired speed, • •
While the brake is so adjusted that the engineer
can, by simple movement of his hand, apply It
will; its utmost force, as in ease of accideut, yet
it is impossible for Bins to get 'such force as to
break anything, or even lock or slide the wheels.
The brake is applied instantly to all the caili f
a train alike, so that, In running Into an ob,truc•
tion the train would be perfectly taut, and could
stand a considerable blow ; or, in case of an au
ticipated. collision, the train could be stopped, the
brake released, and , the traits backed out of dat:-
ger at once.
A Card
iiAMUSIDURG, August!, 18
To the Members of the May Convention and lie
Friends of Temperance in Pennsylvania:—The 'un
dersigned, members of the Central Committee ap
pointed by the autlivity of the convention held In
Philadelphia May lath and 10th last, being pres
ent at Harrisburg, deem it their duty to that body
and the cause generally to enter their solemn pro
test against the action of certain of their fellow
members, who, in violation of the action
of the convention in May, have called and
aro this day holding a convention to noniltutte in
dependent candidates for Auditor General and Sur
veyor General, thereby ignoring the plan of action
adopted in May last; and having been informed
by the men engaged in this movement that it is
purely an Individual enterprise, and that no one
could be allowed to take part in the proceedings
unless willing to pledge himself to carry out the
objects named In the call, and having failed to ob
lain any change of purpose on the part of those
engaged in the revolutionary movement, we do
hereby declare that the sail convention and the
nominations made by it are In violation of the
action of the May convention, and without au
thority from the State Central Committee.
JosUIJA T. OWEN,
P. Comm,
EDWIN ii. COATES.
• Brief Chronicle.
Town pumps—Local edltots.
• Rose pink Is the very " pink of 'propriety" th's
season.
Now is the time to lay lu a winter supply o
coal, while the fuel is cheap and the market full.
Text Dingier, a member of the Forty-seventh
Regiment, P. V. V.,•died at Easton on Saturday.
A now awning of the modern style is being
erected in front of Christ dr. Sauced mud the ad
joining atom
. A mat second hand piano, price $2OO, for
safe at C. F. Herrmann's Music Store, corner 7th
and Walnut streets.
WOODEN musical instruments of all kinds of
he hest manufactories In Europe aro:sold cheaper
him anywhere else at C. F. II rrman's Music
EMI
COMMUNICATIONS
Ire Jo Sint hold Int ',Reim's responsible lin. the opitt
lowa en f erfo bird by Situ• Cnrrrvpnndcuts.
Ata.tyrowB,VA., August 7th, 1871
Friend Iredell :—Tlie following singular agree.
meat or contract was entered into by two promi
nent business men In the First Ward toalit 1"
This Is to certify that In the event of.Mjr.tiver
attaining property in Personal or Real Rattan to
the amount of live hundred thousand dollars,
($500,000,) I will give and bequeath to
at present time residing In AllentOwN Pa.; And a
partner with one hundred thcOlivid
dollars, In consideration of present yalitorn
calved."
query—Will It stand lu law 7
itiarriagco
SCIIMOYER—IIESS.—On July 20th, by Rev.
W. G. Mennig, Mr. Sylvanus Schmoyer to Miss
Lucy Ann Hess, both of Allentown.
BENTLEY—WITTMAN.—On August 10th, at
their residence, 1035 . Coates street, Philadelphia,
by the Rev. Jacob B. Roth, of Bethlehem, Pa., Mr.
David Beale, Jr., of Philadelphia, to Miss Myra,
daughter of Joseph Wittman, Esq., of Lehigh
ciunty,Pa.
Iricatliz.
LAUBACIL—In this city, on the 14th luet.,
Willie!mina, wife of Dr. A. J. Laubach and
daughter of Hon. Samuel Mellow, aged 55 yearn
and ten months.
The funeral will take place at the residence of
her husband, 626 Chew street, on Thursday after
noon at two o'clock. Relatives and friends are In
cited to attend.
KEMMERER.—In this city yesterday at noon
Major John Ketutherer, aged 73 years, 4 months
and 10 days.
GOOD.—On Monday evening, at 9 o'clock,
Rebecca Good, aged 45 years and 1 day.
LITZ ENBERGER.—On August 7, Jacob Litz
enberger, of Upper Macungie, aged 75 years.
ROTIfENBERGER.—In this city, on the 7th
Oscar, child of Daniel and Susannah Roth
,
cubarger, aged 0 months.
VIAND.—In this city, on Sunday, Daniel Wi
ned, aged 78 years, 9 months and S days.
FAIII,STRAL—In East Allentown, AngustOth,
Edward W., son of Henry and Rebecca Fahlatich,
aged 3 years, 5 months and 4 days.
EW bbertisententz
WESI.EYAN F r r i ..;l! E 9
o tr. r. thorough Instruction, c•mfort N. Ale neco'imuoda
tlons. end careful oversight of the health, insunere. and
morale iii the pupils, 111 reuxonable esven,e. • Fall era -
sten 50111 begin September 11th, 1871. k pit cataloguee,,or
Information, RIMY,.
lIEV. JOlt:i WILSON k M . President.
itugl , 3 11050.'
rTIE.t('II EIRS WA Applica- A
1 lion+ wf ll Lr rocoivo Ihr tin Board "(School Direc•
tor. of Wel ,, port Itorongh, Carbon conuty. for two mute
tcacitru. A public I.l.llllontiou tutu be hold at Wolo
riot, Angt,o toalt, IS7I, at 0 o'clock,
auttki , 2n . w 3. (3. %ERN, Soc 'y.
AN 41111)1 N ANCE.
BE IT ORDAINED. by the Soled nod Comma
Colineil,, of olio City or Alleutown ,
ooiiit
l• That Opt Southern line of Union otreet,
fir
htreot told tho Jardart ittiligo, lII° City or mho,
town. ho .11.0 with the uorthern lino oftho !taint known
on • hlatol liotoot," gild that tood Colon xtrot t, he•
tween thn p onta ablvo named boovldontql and opouod to
the waith Of -II and G•lotha foot. y
St 2. That the City aollaltoabo and la herobjillrootod
to make, the proper application to Coat( for the nuess
moot ordanoka,a, Daily are occationedby tho olttertlnK and
v1.1..111114 l'olou etreet. acCordanCo with thotroro
tt,liog
JOHN.L. HOFFMAN, Pros't S. C.
IiEOROE FRY, Won't C.C.
Clerk, ti. C.
E. 1.1.1111 AN Rune, Clerk, C. C'.
pprovra thin Elerauth day of Ano,t. A. D., 1.:71.
ugli•atd T. U. 0000, Mayor
Op m slpEmepy,
,14e,c , :4 - AST.H MA
(;01.1. !ler!, It vor. e
:%11-3,1A1.1
. .
•
Ner
n..
inioilleth•led h‘• Dr. 0. W.
JOS. puta7.l.: cc.,
1,
TUSCA RORA ACADEMY,
ACADEMIA, PA.
A BOARDING SCHOOL FOR BONS;
The hid, School-ye r mlll begin Sept. Al, Moro than
than :LUC young inn have been prep red for InDinuo; nod
for College. hor boarding. waslanw, furnished room,
tuition in all Ow branches taualo vary p 1 French 11041
German, $2OO ;or for ;he First Session. }S. For tonna,
location, character of School. An. , aand.lor a circular.
11. D. STONE, Ph. D...
.1. PAT PERSON, A. M., 'l.'4'l'
• .. .
Business. Selmuitle Sun •ols N. R. Hillary d N
Aada:llles. Fall sso, thirty-stmt. s a.—
Id. For catalogues. Sic.. address tho
HIGHTSTOWN Classical Institute.—A
good andsafe Boarding S chool for )00130 men and
buys. Terms moderate. Bond for a cirenl.tr. Roy. J•zE •
ALEXANI , EII, Principal, ilightmtuw a, N. J.
MIEIIALE COLLEGE
the , Brde
adveutantown,
furolelte4odecatioonal w.
together with pletretnt hone. Board and Tuition, S
Pe r year. Fur Cataloguer , addreaa lige. J. 11.. ULAIsk.:-
Ll', Pb. D.
Schooley's Mountain Seminary
Fo appoint .) Ali llorough and nuperlor School In nll
)10 moot, , 1, neAslon /wenn Sept. Ah. L.
I. tiTuUTENBUINJII, Principal Schooley's Mountain
Sprluc•, Nets• Jersey.
T . EBANON Valley College, Aunville, Pa
1.1 For cataloiriten, Address L. II AnIIOND. A. M.
PreBl.:eut.
VIRGINIA . FARMS, &U.
Volt SALE.—Fivo Fine Farms, with Mills
and Foundry. Addre. owner, RICHARD IRBY,
No. 1,010 Cary Street, Richmond,
11. lIEND
FAMILY LIQ
Each Cam, contalolug One Bottle of
01.11 PA EBR NDY. lIOLLAN I, BIN,
1,1) BY E WIII , ICEV, I OLD BATA: Kilt:BEV,
o FINE W. D voicr, (mu uou um(
o.r.tute;,l Pun, and A s thOlle . sl Quollty.
PRICE SEVEN YOPOLLARS.
!iota by Expreas C. O. D., or Poct•ofllce order.
11..11ENDER , ON , H Broad St., Note Yotk
A GENTS WANTEI ,
FUlt
Tl-1 A.N ISS lON OF LIFE.
OP VIII Nrrt'llit AND 111411000 OF TlllllllO
- 1114 Da. Niti'llars, BOtilAt of" The
l'hysical Life ,o 4 ll'ataan." It relates to the male Ner . •
Is 101 l of lo•NV farts ; tlelleato latt outspoken
nadir, ;salt, ; endorsed ; sent; rallldir• 11,1111 II
sall-erilaion only. F.scelaslve torrltaiy. Term. 111a0:11.
Price 4.1. address for cont.alt+. .Ire., .1. (J. FilltrlUS
co.. Publishers, 1.1111atle1111;1II. to.
AGENTS. READ THIS!
WE WILL PAY AtI,ENTS A SALARY OP CIO PER
WEEK AN I) EXPENSES, or allow a large commission to
soII ouran
ROW d wonderful Invention, Addresa M.
WAD N CR CO. Marshall Mich
$3O. WE IV II.L PAY $3O.
VIU per week to sell nor great and valuable db,
covering. It you want permanent. honorahlo and pleas
ant work, :tpply for particulars. Addres4 DYER St
Jackson, Michigatt•
A MILLION DOLLARS
Shrewd bat quiet loon cau make a fortune by ray eating'
to. •••errot tho lotlut , • to uo ouo•
Ad Aro-. EDGAR SIRS.
aSs Broadway. New York.
Acuilic GUANO
CAPITAL, $1,000,000.
011 N S. REESE &
GENERAL AGENTS
OFFICE
122 SOT TTI I DELA. \ V ARE AV 1.,
PHILADELPHIA
SOLUBLE PACIFLC
GUANO
REDUCED PRICES
No tortillser Introduced to the fanners of the Middle nod
Sonthorn SULUr hex iliVeLl Inure good , at nod uniform eel.
loraellon than thin glum°.
!rho trade In It liar steadily Inc reseed until the consump•
lion now throughout tho entire cottutry far oxceuda that
of any other (oaths ,
The largo capital involved In Itt, production affords the
surest guaranty° to Ito Cunlhaletl eXcelleueo. The h is
party ham a far greater tutored la the portnattence of Ito
trade than any number or Conslltprire can have t once it
la lho hlelleel intoned of the continuity to put their bait
fertillsorn to the bluebell that their usual facilities, aided
by the best oclonttfle abilitY, earl Produce.
Thia goon. le et $l,l at retell by local evade of the e . ogi
l ' u a ri h i no " :i g t ' art Elle e e V e j , and r a
st?iVolow.a.,g.bl;"n""
J011:11 51. REE4II dic Co.,
General Agents for the Company
LIBERAL DISCOUNT TO DEALERS
augagt 2.3:n
gitioN sins
Rsovs
OR CASES.
STEWART'S
Marbleized Slate
MANTELS.
Very lnrgo xxsortmeut.
theltslinit• Croat vocally
of eleg,tot, DOW nod
rff.'WEVICA Co..
Sixth Avenue. tpt•
:01t. and 313111 stfoetv,
Nov York.
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