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1 air Column . . 90.00 40.10 00.03 110.0 1
One Column z . ao.oo 50.00 no ao 500A. 0
Professional Cards 10. 00 per Ilne par year.
Admlaletrator'• and Auditor's Notices, 83.00
Oily Notices, 20 cm:Asper Una let Insertion 16 seats per
Ins each anbientaent Inzezilon.
Ten lines agate constitute a maize.
ROBERT IREDELL, JR., Punuoirau,
ALLENTOWN, PA
goal anti 'Lumber.
JAB. M. RITTER,
Union Street, near Lehigh Valley Depot,
Allentown.
RITTER & ABBOTT,
MANUFACTURERS OF
Sash, Doors, Outside Blinds, Inside Blinds, Mould.
Ingo, Bracket* Balusters, Pickets, Blair Ratt
ing/. Window Frames, Door Frames, &e.
SCROLL HAWING
TURNING,
PLANING,
MATO n LNG,
FLOORING RIPPING,
DONS d T THE SHORTEST NOTICE.
ALSO, STAIR BUILDING done and HAND RAILING
nude to order.
Elating now bad almost fire years' poesension of the
Mill, refurnished It almost wholly with new and improv•
ed machinery, and having none but experienced work
men, we are prepared to defy compentiotfrom at home
and abroad, both In priori and workman. .
Do you contemplate bonding? Call at o Factory and
Wilily yourself with a personal examination.
Drawlng, for building., brackets, pattern, for orna
mental work, scrolls for porches, can be seen at all times
by calling at our office. Any Information to the builder
tarnished cheerfully and freely, by calling_at the Manu
factory on Union etreet, at the Jordan Bridge, Allen.
town, Fa.._ or by letter through the pont office.
ang3.ly) RITTER & ABBOTT.
A TRAWL B. OTTO. H. W. OTTO. O. W. HILtON
FILBERT, OTTO it MILLER,
MANUFACTURERS AND DEALERS IN
LUMBER,
W L LIAMS PORT, PA.
MILL ON CANAL, WEST
TH OF MAYNARD STREET
°FEICK AT E MILL
W F CRANE Aossz,
REVIVAL I !
The subscribers having leased the "Old Hope Coal
Yard," would respectfully announce to the ells.. of
Allentown and the public In general, that they hayeAst
get
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COAL
ConsMu of Eltove gm Chestnut and Nut from the
BOCK MOUNTAIN nartni.
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Order. left with A. A. Huber, Sieger & Rottenotein, at
the Eagle Hotel. Mope Roiling Mill. or the Yard will be
attended t• in a
BUSINESS
like mauler.
Orders for Coal by the car ailed at short as the
Ike lowest prices.
Always oa hied a large stook of
BALED HAY,
es 1.1.1 s will he ■old at the lowest market Deese
L. W. KOONS & CO.,
at the" Old Hope Coal Yard."
litalallton Street, corner of Lehigh Valley Itallroal,
ALLENTOWN, PA.
L. W. NOON!!
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Carpt,t3 anb Oil Mat.
RICH AND ELEGANT
CARPETS, OIL CLOTHS, &C.
8.
.C. FOULK.
NO. 19 S. SECOND ST., PHILA.,
(First Carpet Store below Market. East side,)
Invites attention to his splendid assortment of Impede.
and American CAUPBTB, which will be sold at • very
small advance. Goode warranted as represented so that
all can buy with confidence and satisfaction.
nov 9S•tf
Si , p ecta cies.
SPECTACLES! SPECTACLES!!
EYE OLABBEEI, &c.
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CHAS. S. MASSEY'S,
NO. 28 EAST HAMILTON STREET,
ALLENTOWN, P•
Having devoted a great deal of care and attention to the
Spectacle buelnese for these last few year., I find that my
bush:resale that line has Increased no such that I have de
termined to make It a SPECIALTY. There to no satiate
manufactured in which there Is so mach deception prac
ticed an there in In Spectacle Glare., Knowing that the
public have been frequently hi:unharmed by pull. pre
tending to have a enperior article of (Ramses, and charging
exorbitant prices f• r hem, thereby trafficing upon the ne
cessitles and Infirmities of age, I have taken pains to se
lect a large and complete assortment albe finest and best
01.401, ever manufactured, thee •Hording all person.
needing Spectacles an opportanity of purchasing at rea
sonabre prices. Persons having any difficulty In being
milted elsewhere will do well to give me a call, as I feel
confident that no one will fall to be nulled. Remember the
old stand. No. 29 East Hamilton street, opposite the Oer
man Reformed Church. Allentown, Pa. jun 23 'BB tf
Clothing,
GREAT ATTRACTION I
NEW FIRM! NEW GOODS!
CLOTHING ! CLOTHING
GRAND SPRING AND SUMMER OPENING. ,
GREAT REDUCTION IN PRICES!
T. OSNIUN & CO.,
• &teed:oars to Metspar & Gemuct.
" BARGAINS'
AT THIS
GREAT CLOTHING EMPORIUM
IN REIMER'S BUILDING.
NO. 605 HAMILTON STREET,
ALLENTOWN, PA.
We would inform the cilium of Allentown and the sur
rounding country that we are prepared with a large sink
of goods for
FALL AND WINTER WEAR,
and offer them to the public at rem...able prices. To those
fey B ANG
their Clothing ready•made, they ere prepared to
offer BARGAINS.
WHOLE SUITS MADE TO ORDER!
• COATS, PANTS AND VESTS
Cut and made In the latest style, and by the best worktaaa.
OUR STOCK OF
CLOTHING, CLOTHE AND CASSIMBREIS
le larger than it has been before, sad we intend to sell at
very SMALL PROFITS, and give oar sustomers the bake..
It of our low purchase..
Great quantities and varieties of
NECKTIES, CUFFS, COLLARS,
And everything in the line of
GENT'S FURNISHING GO ODS,
MEN'S YOUTHS', BOYS' and CHILDREN S
READY—MADE CLOTHING,
CONSTANTLY ON HAND.
do p ers
No. OM Hamilton street, third
bove Sixth creel.
T. Osmux, Janos H. SreOLL MARTIN LT1111•
mar 24 it
HUTTON & M'OONNELL,
FURNITURE IVARERROMN,
NO. 900 MARKET STREET,
. North Ride nri
PUILADELPIUA.
PARLOR, DINING-ROOM,
CHAMBER FURNITURE
Of the Latest Styles sod Best Maotifsetare.
ALSO.
Feather Beds and Mattresses.
sePh9.3et
CONSHOHOCKEN'
BOILER, AND COIL WORKS
JOHN WOOD, JR.,
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SEAM CYLINDER BOILERS. BATH
AND CIRCULATING BOILERS.
All kinds of Wrought Iron Colls,Tuyers for Blast Var.
nue. Buometers, limoke Blacks,Blut Pipe.. Iron Wheel
barrows, and everything in the ll ollee and Sheet Iron lin,
Also, ell kinds of Iron and Steel Forging. and Blacksmith
work, Miners' Tools of all kinds, snch as Wham Buckets ,
Picks, Drills. Mallets, Sledges, Ike.
Bluing a Stearn Hammer and set Of tools of all Cads.
and skilled workmen, I latter myself that ran tarn out
work with promptness and dispatch, all of which will be
warrantel to be Irst•class.
Oagint slagPsroli
alsrs, and repairing goseralip, Wien/ al.
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THE TRACK !
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Kramer
DRY GOODS !
To be found in the City embracing the Latest and Newest Novelties of the Season,adapt
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/row, decal, Hardware, Rathaay
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The leading journals of this country and Europe re cog
also it as the Representative raper of the Amer-
Scan Motel Trades.
Th• publishers have ever since this joninal scar entail..
Itched, employed the ablest corre.pcndento nod solicitors
to be procured ; expending more tno ey for their calm - lee
alone then the 0011115 expense, Of lo.” 3" prominent netee
prd•to.Ortbrl4l,llrbZineatllle,imkro.
3orld Is far greater than that of soy shelter Publication
In this country.
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17,4 beer Trahnt to Employed. and in Coneenf.e. Paper
and Typographica/ Appearance, Second to Non,
Located In the very centre of the metal Interests of the
United stator. with correspondents at the leading cities
of the Earl West and Sonai, we do not err to claiming
that It is ?h e lineimustivATlVN Jotllte..l. of the Metal
Mannfscterers, Workers aud Duelers of th Is country.
Al ajoernal for machinists and metal workers it him no
rival and contains every week the choicest oelectione
from engine, ring mining and scientific publications of
this country and Enrone. Its motto lo "Pr.orress, and
It has compelled other pourneht, of a similar cliaractorom
FOLLOW IN lie LEAD. Its readers comprise iron and
Steel Mazieracturen, Machiniate, Founders, Hardware
Dealers and nutters, Gunsmiths, Plumber, Cutlery
MatlnfactUrere, File Manufacturer., Saw Manufacturers,
Boller Manufacturer,. led leading Hallway Officials.
O.\ LY $4.00 PER ANNUM
If you are in the metal trade, take a metal paper. It
will save you more than Its eon:. If you aro a mouufac
tarn take the Journal that advocates your interests.
From • large number of notices from the press, we se
lect the following .•
(Prom tht,Chicago Joeinal of Commerm]
TNII IRON WORLD •ND IN•IIIIFACTORRR.—A Itepreeen-
Wive of •merican Metal hiamancturere, Workers and
Dealers. — This Is the title sod descriptive character of a
neatly printed and profusely Illustrated folio of thirty. elx
poellehed by the tiros WORLD NUBIA/WINO
CO ~,,,, Pittaburgh. The issue before as Is volume 2,
Po. It Hs editorial*. de•cripilons of manufactures, re•
Bent Improvements, correspondence, market reports,ata,
indicates Industry and ability. It deserves the patron
age of all Interested in the primarily of Amer Iran mono.
facture. In I. It will. however. b. , more partici,
tarty tut eeeee lug to those engaged in the Iron nod hard
ware trade. Snob will welcome Its weekly return. Ile an
amatial aid to every department of their Militates.
From the Cingirmatti Merchants' and HARM sctarere
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• ettconsitrin. Na .—We are pleased to note the
GT !deuces of success in the lace WOILLD, of Pittebusgh
It Is young healthy and vigorous. and bas vast y
Proved In appearanee and ton ., during 'the past three or
our months. It is sow one of the moot aittactive bull.
sees organs la the country. It Is edited with antra. d
abl:lty, and, •• it. name Implies, lei devoted to the true
aid metal intervals of the country. Its m.iket reports of
=MAW. hardware, manufactures, dia. are very full,
complete and reliable. It to paying It a . hlgh, but merited
eomplimeat. to say that .t Is the leading organ of the
iron and metal tote ..... of the United States. his nurse
toren and metal dealers everywhere should subscribe
for the Igo" WOILD AND klagneAOTVailt.
SAMPLE COPIES MAILED FREE
ADDRESS.
IRON WORLD PUBLISHING CO.,
Iron World Building.
PITTSBURGH. PA
GUT OS TRIAL three months for 23 cents. The AMBR
-ICAN woocuto PEOPLE. is one of the floret publica
tions In the world. (1001.111. 10 page., or 04 columns of
reading matter, deal`.,f/ to interest, instruct and'ad
/aura the bon interests of workingmen.
Illnetrations of prominent workingmen in each Issue.
Numbers Its tbousande of subscriber.. Only 111.6 d per
year, or on trial there months for IA cents. Write your
name, Town. County and Mate plainly, enclose the
money, and address
IRON WORLD PUBLISH IRO CO.
IRON WORLD bOILOtNO, Pittsburgh, Pll.
tYt gents wanted on Salary or COlOttlllllllol2. -
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ESTABLISHED IN 1810.
FANCY DYEING ESTABLISHMENT.
• J. & W. JONES,
80. 132 North Front Stre.t. Philadelphia. Pa.
i3A•1101i 01/11.13. Coa. Bin MID VIM..
Dye Bilks. Woolen and Fancy Goods or every dee , on
lion. I.lr stiverlorlty of Dyeing Ladle.' and ',inlet '
men' • Oanknot• rs st . 100). 'MOW, Cr111)13 and S , a ••.0
Shawls dyed the most hrullant and plain colors. 01 , 0 1 0
and lderino bliaw to cleansed to look like new • ,
Oentlernen'a Apparel, and Curtain., cleansed or re-tile.
Yid 01.. cleansed or dyed to look Ilke now. ta-c•k
and look at our work before ping elsow hero.
•anyi24-lino w
DRS. JORDAN A: DAVIESON,
Gallery of Anatomy and Museum of Science,
807 CHESTNUT BT., PHILA.
Ravejust published a new edition of their lectures...a
(aiming most valuable Information on the eases, cootie
ounces and treatment of disease, of the rOprt;dl:lCtire
system, With RRII•RIR Or 31•RRIAlll and the various
6•1111. albs LOllll say M•KINOOD. With lull 11.11MUCtluos for
Ha complete restoratim. I also a chapter on •SPORRM. IK
7110T1010, and the MR•118 or Orße, being the Met COM
I•hl WORK on the subject over yet published--
es:myosins MO pages. Mailed frost to any address for
saty•lPre centa.
Address Drs.JOit:DAN & DAVIESON,
.COL AILTINO OFFICR,
1025 Filbert Street, Philadelphia.
...,p5/.lyd4W
CLEAR
1E
FALL
AND WINTER
OF 1871 I
WITH ONE OF THE LARGEST AND CHOICEST STOCKS OF
able for Ladles' and Men's Battings, guaranteed to be sold at
BOTTOM PRICES !
THE 'ATTENTION
15 111V1T6D TO Tar.
THE
Largest Metal Priee Current
IN VIE WORLD.
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TUE GREAT TARIFF JOURNAL
FOR WORKINGMEN,
Proprietors of the
cq,/br Vebigh Ilroiotrt.
in the Field
FOR TH
I LAST NOTICE.
Secure Your Christmas and New
Year Gifts.
$1,000.000$
By the auth.trlty (the ICI or th , Lego.,lat.° of Ken
tucky, of March 13, 1671, the Trunteee of the Publics LI
Crary of Kentucky will give a •
GRAND GIFT CONCERT.
AT LOUISVILLE, KT.,
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 10, IS7I.
100,0 °TICKETS OF ADMISSION. °M EACH
CY ; HALF Th..KETS, 45; QUARTER T.CKETS,
'Pickett+ will be vent by r. gletered let or • the teoney
for them may be reel by P. 0. money order, .greoulmeke,
or drift.
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Each ticket consists of (oar quarters. vainn 62.60 each.
The holder In entitled to admission to she Concert, and to
thn value of tho gift awarded to Ii or Ito fraction.
0,50,00 IN ()NEVIN ACES will bn distributed to holds
err . of tickets, In gifts of from 4100.0.0, the highest. to
.103, the lowest b log 721 gift• In all,
. .
Tho Concert In for the benant of the
PUBI.IC LIIiRARYOFKENTUCKY
THE CITIZENS BANK OF KY. :S TREASURER. And
the Corporntorn uO.l supers trot 1,0 1t,,, lion. Thaunts E.
Bratnietto, late'Oov firmer of Kentucky, and twenty.rmv
on of the most distinguished and rermentable citizen. of
the State
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The undersigned. late principal hostiles. in •natter of
the very successful (lift Concert for Got benefit of the Mer•
cauttle Library at Sac Francs-co, has been appointed
Agent nod Manager of this Grand Gift Concert.
The drawing and distribut on tel I take place In public,
and everything will be done to satisfy the buyers of tick
ets that their about ts will be am well pro . ected a• if they
were po,sonally present I' superintend the entire affair.
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For tickets and tufortnAtion pply to
C. U. M.in St., Louleville, Ky.
N. , . S Astor New York.
11. N II otnywle,l 4 No. 410 Broadway. MUwanitoe, Wit
M. A. Frepell,l walulo City, cootie.
M. A. W. 01 1 ., NIP. 316 libeetnut ..treet, Si Loan,
Tickets also for nale In ii very prominent place In the
.
Owing to the , general deraticiitnent 111111:116 and Racer'
tiI.CIIII.III.S Ole .11,1 Irolle. rolld In
the w'rod. of lacet+ it, tin+ entortiviso Is extended
to Nov. 11 1, of «hick 11,110 it 11,110 roller, ly Main
street, Lottl+,lle, liy., Till clo-ii for ailtn+ttniint of ac
counts and 1\ ...kr+ li:evert Ei io It atoll Lo
filed after Dec. 10th.1.11 . York ,Alit still class
lire. huh net d t other agencl++ Doilt. Every t eke, utt-uln
- 1.....111,1111,1.............1..'-, by its 'I hi. dr: slag
will t do, place iu V,thhc, l 171. c tame chic at
7 a. ni., etrllllllllo 1114 ii ili t t 721 nil, dr, div ode&
PII) MOW, tel 11W41.1n ill VOM111.•1e. net I'l. 1119 (1 . 0 Otk
a. tn. Circaldri. of award. 1,,. coney
st. no.t a+ they can be I,sued corterily. atill a ill ai+ii ha
point do all ticket buyer. a+ soon tis :\ ardor
will hi , till. dat main onto. wr thda tl
novSiltiv] 1,11,». It. iger.
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FUR! FURS!
A DIES, If yon Want to bay Fora, go to tho troll-known
awl mast reliable Store of
W. KEEN AT 11,
Importer mid Exporter of Furs,
710 ARCH STREET,
(OPPOSITE ST. CLOUD HOTEL,)
PHILADELPHIA,
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Where yen have the fleleetloll front the most ortennlvo
asnortmeut of all descriptions at the 101 Vent mat,
facturlog prices.
Sets from $5.00 up to the most Costly.
Russian Crown Sable
HUDSON BAY and MINK SABLE.
ERMINE, CHINCHILLA,. SQUIRREL , and e•ory va
riety of tho latest styles
SA QUER of S. , al Skin, Iter4lana and Astrachan.
ALL HINDS OP FUJI
Also the anent' mit.torlllient of FANCY ROBES, WRITE
FOX. BEAVER. W BITE POLAR and BLACK
BEAR, HUDSON BAY WOLF, Ac.
ALL GOODS WARRANTED AS REPRESENTED.
CALL REFORk: PURCHASING KLSRIVIIERR.
WM. KEIN
No. 710 Arch Strect,Plahulelphia.
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ALLENTOWN
ROLLING MILL C 0
Bacceseore to
ERDMAN. WILSON & CO.,
STEAM ENGINES AND BOILERS,
BRIDGE CASTINGS,
RAILROAD TURN TABLES,
MILL GEARING, SHAFTING,
Furnace, Rolling •Mill and Mining Work,
N. o.—All work guaranteed and delivery prompt.
L. H. GROSS, Sup't
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A-4T DIES' FANCY FIL7IcP4:
JOHN FAREIRA.
, 718 Arch Street,
311,1,11 e of the Block, between 7'h nod 6th Stn., South bide
PIMA DELP HIA,
Importer, Manufacturer and Dealer In all Uncle end
qualay of
FANCY FURS
FOR LADIES' AND . ciLaLTE.rs WEAR.
Haying linp..rted IL very large and outman a sorttnerit
of ql the d !remit kind, 01 from On" hand, la &la
rap. aud have had them Made up lip the moßt
workmen, Would reßh•elfully Invite the readers of IMP
paper to call and citanuoi• u a very large and heaullfrill
woo/Mama of Pitney Fare, far Ladt a trail I lathlrei. 1
ant dmermlned to roll Olin low 'pricem as any her re-
Bimetallic home hr ihiß• try alt Fern reerreantad. No
attarepra•cotoiton to fit
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ALLENTOWN, PA., WEDNESDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 27, 1871.
Maauf•ctorera of
&c:, &c., ‘tc
JOHN FATEIHA,
718 Arch Et., VII
THE GOLDEN NOW.
The earth Is load with dincontentment.. muttered
By foothill months—the AMAMI and the vain—
Acci )et a world of agony muttered
Lien behind lips that never tell their pain,
The voices dark is loaded with repentance,
In column courts of midnight, where, o'erca.t
With sorrow, COMMIS., looks Its silent sentence
Against the culprit actions of the past.
And countless eye., &glare, with hot p•flectionn,
Stare down the highway which their feet have known
Where ntatd an - tip , ghostly recollection., ;
Like frowning etches, not to be o crthrovro.
While fancy seen them rise in retributions
A npectro file along the future way,
To blight the hope and chill the ronolutions,
Which 0101 should marshal for the comingAilly
Oh ! ye who cower a-tratuble•t thn errors
uking memory
conjures where you wait.
Rltose. h and agll pakt with oil its terror.,
With hand indignant, string the true gots !
Rico to the guidon 00. T. and ops Its portal.
Thard nor. mop !Itch to morrow never °pelt—
Worthy your manhood and your soul immortal,
Go forward to the harvest of you hops.
Nor let dm future mantle of D..eJrnher
Become n coword'm oack-cloth. a.hon rosy
T.. doom your toed anottlah to remember
The pre4l..ua CllllllCeb sou refuse to-day.
What's done le done—let errqrs poet recalling,
In guilty watora of oblivion iron n ;
The fret of rotrderection, hot and.lbna,
Wits to 010 root tho MM.., of courage down
Until devpnlr hvir m die, (ho tool contented
TONIt toluetAnt at tire yet untried ;
Perpetual brooding over whit 'A ,epeutcd,
In but the drug uf ckaNtavt gulch :0.
finch II morrow 1a a winter owl foreboding
Fir (utul• wllderamot nights of ewe,
Willi.. cheerful thoughts a e bat try song-birds, loading
%%Nth May-dote mimic all the summer air.
The vain regrets we nurture In our boxotile
Are deadly night abadee, which we feed with tear;
But all the hear t heron]ee a bed of bloesorne
tVLuu it4u Is jocund and Coiltautmout cheers
Shake from your b.el the duet with wholesome seoru:ng
Against the ugly, u• 'er-lo•be uudu
Irma tho cloudy dargoosr. like lho t
nurniug,
With glowtbc brow, go bulb lobo tht. run.
And to the dilly near si, most defiant,
With stealiost emir lay poor' eition'iler,l strength
And conquering moire lion culler liko g not,
A rive 111, Oni-ger )ourto If ut lengdi
l'l,l3etle Jowl you tonew 1 , 14 , ..1ires
,h• pAtlnv ot plow.
T • • 1 1.11 A ilarVl.St..lll 1 111 k.ri•ll a tie -ore+,
fruit. ot action iu the :1...W.1111.v.
And alool tho trtoquil or your labor
With .110., os.ao irn.t•.o wolo.utoOsou,loold
At I , euf, 3.111' Itod your 110101
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F:anlgn your pl.tyerttal h , •..rt irhor • , t
--7' /Ir,/, , ,aff Eery/
Preen Ili. , Non I, , twu Iler dd.
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My wife, Mrs. Sarah Smith, is a very re
markable woman, and conducts whatever site
undertakes with surprishig vigor and di dsion.
She is also an excellent manager—that is, she
generally manages to get what she wants. Bat,
if arnong her many virtues there shines one
pre-eminent, it is generosiy, and this capital
trait she allows to have Lull play about the
Christmas season.
During that festal time suspicious looking
bundles, bearing mysterious directions, are
constantly being left at the door. Everything
is overclouded with mystery, until the day of
deliVerance arrives; when, it always appears
to me, the special object Of every one seems to
have been to gather together as many useless
articlesil'a possible, while the reeipients, who
had set their hearts on something different,
are vainly trying to hide their disappointment
and express the proper amount of thanks. ;
In vain I remonstrate with !Ay amiable fam
ily, and endeavor in my simple way to show
them that it is the motive which prompted the
gift which should be considered—not its actu
al value in dollars and cents, and to illustrate
my remarks I say that a young couple just
starting out on the journey of life do not care
to be freighted w.ith sardine and olive forks,
ladles without number and use, an array of
salt cellars, and pitchers and salves innumer
able—that they would like better a few pie
lures to hang on their otherwise unadorned
walls, some readable books, and the numer
ous trifling and Inexpensive articles which go
so far towards promoting a home-like and
cheerful appearance.
But my kindly meant remonstrance is only
met with the answer. " Oh, pa is so old
fashioned !" from the girls.and my wife, w•ho
is Weighty in argonaut as well as in body,ex
plains in her decisive way, which always car
ries conviction, "that the interchange of gifts
is one of those beautiful customs handed down
to us from our fore-fathers—that the exercise
of mercy and her twin sister generosity ele
vates our natures," and lastly, and to my
mind not least, "our friends expect it." So
when my worthy spouse takes this line of at
tack, I fall back and annually suffer my pock
et•book to be depleted.
Many years ago, more than it would be dis
creet to enumerate, and yet my thoughts turn
lovingly to the time, we lived down in a
plain and unpretending manner. Our house
w•ns small but large enough for our purse,
and afthrded us litany comforts. I occupied
the front,p•arlsr as an ((flay, and after the
cares mid fatigues of the (lay I had only to open
the door to an adjoining room, and there as
pretty a picture at lame mutat as a man
would wish to see greeted toy eyestan in
dustriaus mother and a laughing, romping
group of noisy bays and girls—t.•iking their
last frolic preparatary to going to bed. Then
our Christmas dinner was a turkey with the
"trimmings," and mince pie made by my .
wifelsown Mails after her infallible receipt,
the equal of which I have never tasted since.
The gifts which we exchanged were not cost
ly, but how fondly we prized them. Most like
ly I was surpris••d by a pair of mittens which
the dear woman had knitted at odd moments,
and for the children same necessary article,
the value of which was enhanced by coming
on Christmas, and a few• sweetmeats far "the
day we celebrate." And what a ineetry, joy
ous time we had.
But now possessing a competence, our whole
Style of living is changed. The hotidays, as
we call them, are observed liy n series of feast
lugs, balls and present giving. The memory
of the lowly babe of Bethlehem seems almost
forgotten, excepting as we listen to the trained
voices of a fashionab:e choir as they tell us in
operatic style, " Unto us a child is born, into
us a son is given."
Mrs. timith generally contrives to let me
know in due season what will be acceptable
as her gift, but as 1, Immersed in business,
have but little time and no inclination to con
sider these matters, I tell her to make her es
timate and I hand her the money. In thts
way, buying it herself, she can please her own
taste.
I must confess to being rather amused at a
conversation which I overheard between two
of my wife's fashionable acquaintances, the
one remarking, that she " never could under
stand how Mr. Smith had such exquisite taste
In selecting jewelry, he seemed like such a
" When truth to tell, I knew neither
the name, nor the use of tne article my wife
was displaying as my gift.
But this year for some reason or other the
campaign seemed to be conducted on a new
plan. I heard no article In Particular de.
scribed as being desired. To be sure there
was the usual amount of desultory talk about
the fashions, [map manliest interest in sacques,
mantles and suits in general, the girls telling
their Ma how much better she looked in a
shawl, as a cloak was . so unbecoming to any
one inclined to embonpoint, a shawl had such
a matronly air, was soduruble and never went
out of fashion. Then our lady friends who
dropped in of an evening were invariably
consulted in regard to the relative merits of
shawls and mantles, and were unanimous In
approving the former and condemning the
latter. How voluble they were. It gave me
pleasure to listen to them as they descanted In
earnest tones on the various styles of wraps.
W het e they could he bought I W hat bargains I
Warrapted never to wear out I Could not be
soiled, and last and most potent reason, serer
go out of fashion. .
Seamd in my favorite choir, wit it feet en-
cased in slippers, and Nee hidden by my
newspaper, I heard and wondered. There
certainly was something In ambush when all
this strategy was necessary for the attack. At
last I was enlightened by heisting an intimate
friend say In the most artless way :
"Mrs. Smith, when do you expect to get
your India shawl ?"
And my wife replied with the same studied
innocence:
"Oh, Pa always gives me a handsome
Christmas gift, and I shouldn't wonder if It
came then."
I said no word of comment, but mentally
determined, that a matter which hail required
such scientific engineering demanded a more
minute examination. So the next morning,
on my road to the office, I stopped at the
well
known store, where I had heard so frequently
such gFeat bargains could be secured.
My bewilderment was evidenlly apparent,
for shopping was an unknown art to me, but
the polite saleswoman stepped forward and
offered to snow me what I desired.
" I would like," said I, "to look nt some
India shawls," and then I cm efully modulated
my voice, " suitable for a middle-aged lady."
. The woman'sface brightened,and expreasing
a desire to please me, she proem ded to spread
before my astonished gaze, some ugly, coarse
fabrics, covered all over with great serpentine
figures and designs. This, thought I, cannot
be what my wife so earnestly desires and what
my tasty daughters and their fashionable
friends so unanimously commend. So care
fully feeling my way, I inquired.
Are these the real India shawls?"
Oh, yes," said my obliging attendant, and
dust, rously turning to one corner she display
( d a few cabalistic letters done in white sew
fie; silk• an I krined after the style of a
dyer's mark, .` are genuine, we imported
t ;(en,"
Fearing to chute my ignorance 'further, but
ie. ,gining the initiated could read the true
rah of the goods Dom these hierogliphics,
I inquired the price.
" This," pointing to the One she held in' her
Laid, "nine hundred dollars," and selecting
one more dingy and outre in design than the
re-a, " Is kitten hundred, and we have them
stffi
I shuddered, tint I was convinced, after I
lien rd the price, that I was looking at the
right article. In my wonderment I fear I
loci same or the polite woman's explanations
as she held up 'the precious fabric and ex
plained the to inuteness of the work, the labor
in the most part of men who with their rude
tools, and without any factories in our HIM
or the word, produce this perfection of art in
dustry of India. No wonder the possessor of
a shoo I of this kind Is envied among her fel
low beings.
• I concluded, after the manner of women,
to call again before purchasing, and left a
wiser and sadder man. As I pasoed along,
I mus-d on the Inordinate vanity of woman•
kind; fifteen hundred dollars and even more
for a shawl I To how many homes ill our
land would a tithe of that sum bring joy and
gladness ! How many young men just start
ing in life's struggle would it help to stand
firmly on the road to success ! How much of
the distress { which is cacti day before us,
could we alleviate, could we overcome this
inordinate desire to outshine our neighbors.
Full of these unfashionable theories, I reached
the Alice and found a letter which I had been
anxiously expecting for some time, from my
nephew Frank, who a few years ago, with no
capital but plenty of energy and an honest
hee:t, had gone to sent his fortune in the
rapidly rising city of Chicago. I had written
to him since the devastating fire, but failed to
receive a reply. I feared he had lost not only
property but life, but it appeared from his
reply that my letter, after touch wandering,
had reached him, and he wrote in the fullness
of his heart, thanking me for my sympathy.
He and his little one were both homeless anti
penniless, but with that determination which
springs spontaneously in everything western,
he trusted, with health, in brae, to regain all
he had Inst. Ilis deepest concern was for
those dependant upon him.
When I reached my home that evening I
said not a word, but when my dear family had
all gathered around our table and partaken of
the food so bountifully provided, I asked their
attention for a few moments, and without
further introduction, I produced and read
Frank's It tter; then carefully folding it up, I
said "It ls always a source of great pleasure
to me that I have the means to grittily the rea
s.mable desire;of those who are dear to me,
but I now pronose lh it this year, surrounded
as We are by es cry comfort, instead of ex
' changffig gifts, we send the money that would
°them ise be used in - their purchase, to this
sou oh'uty dear sister, now 00 mere, that he
may is• enabled to bulld a home for those who
are near to his heart ns t ou are to mine."
They were unanimous in their assent, then
!aniline . to toy wile, I continued, "You; my
dear, desire an India shawl. However able,
in the financial way, I may bit to anon] it, I
could not conscientiously givefifteen hundred
dollars for an article of dress, while there are
those of my kin exposed to the pelting storms
with only a tent to shelter them." A respon
sive bar glistened in the dear AVOlllan'S eye,
and I saw that the crust of worldliness was
but thin, that thenceforth the glories of an
India shawl would pale when contrasted with
the Consciousness of having done a noble act,
and after I kissed her , cheek, I repeated
that quaint old saying of Sir Philip Sydney,
a manw hose gentle courtesies and Willeirlif
magnanimity. ook captive all hearts while he
lived, and have since served to keep sweet
his memory. "Doing good, is the only cer
tainly happy action of a man's life."
My first act the next morning was to write
to toy nephew, authorizing him to draw on
me for twenty•fivehundred dollars, the united
Christmas gift of his cousins to him in the
hour of his extreme need, and his reply breath
ing gratitude and joy too deep for words, I
have had framed and presented to Mrs. Sarah
Smith, who tleelares she never in her life had
a Christtnas gift which gave her such genuine
satisfaction.
A JOKE ON A TAILOIL—IL 130ston, many
years ago, there lived (as there do now, we
venture to say), two young fellows, rather
waggish in their ways, and who were in the
habit of patronizing rather extensively a tailor
by the name of Smith. Well, one day, into
his shop these two young bloods strolled.
Says one of them :
"Smith, we've been making a bet. Now,
we want you to make each of us a suit of
clothes; wait till the bet Is decided, and the
one that loses will pay the whole." " Cer
t tinly, gentlemen ; I,shall he most happy to
serve you," says Smith, and forthwith their
measures were taken, and in due course of
time the clothes were sent home. A month
or two passed by, and yet our friend, the
tailor, saw nothing of his customers. One day,
however, he met them, and thinking It almost
time the bet was decided, he made up to them
and asked them how their clothes fitted. " 0 I
excellently," says one; "by the by, Smith,
our bet isn't decided yet." "Al I" says
Smith, "what is it ?" " Why, I bet that
. when Banker filth Monument falls, it will fall
towards the south / 13111, here, took and up, and
when the bet is decided we'll call and pay
you that little bill." Smith's face stretched
to double its usual length, but he soon •recov
ered his wonted good bunion
The bier which carried. Georg. Bonner, of
Chicago, to his grave, was in a still which
emphatically burst.
WAGES AND WEAL.
Mr. Kortright, British consul at Philadel
phia, has made a very true and • fair report
concerning the condition of the industrial
classes in as was to have been
expire.: Lam his known high character. His.
statements of the wages earned by the various
class: s of workmen in this city, and of their
average exp •nses for the necessaries and com•
forts of life, are substantially accurate: Ho
deserves uncle praise for applying, as be
evidently must have done, for these data to
resident gentlemen who were both disinterest
ed and thoroughly informed regarding such
statistics. In his figures giving the wages of
labor and the cost of living in England we do
not place such complete reliance. They cer
tainly make nut the condition of the work
people in that country quite as favorable as
the facts will warrant, and we incline very
strongly to the opinion that could complete
statistics be obtained from the principal cities
and manufacturing centres of England, to say
nothing of the agricultural districts, they
would show u much less satisfactory picture
for the working classes there.
But we more especially demur to the in
ferences and deductions which Mr. Kortright
makes from many of his own figures, even if
the correctness of the latter were admitted.
The whole report having been published in
The Press a few days since, we need only
reter to the particular figures which seem• to
have been unfairly manipulated.
The tables showing the wages of skilled and
unskilled labor of various kinds in Philadel
phia are comprehensive, and, as already con
ceded, generally very correct. No. corres
ponding tables are given for the different
classes of labor in England. But a direct
comparison is instituted between the condition
of a respectable Philadelphia carpenter or
mechanic having a wife and three children,
and an English workman of the same grade
with equal family. The wages of carpenters
in this city are stated in the tables at £3 Os.
7d. (about $10.05 gold) a week, and the wages
of British mechanics are vaguely estimated at
from £1 las. (about $0 gold) to £2 2s. ($lO.-
50 gold) a week, which it will be seen by a
very simple calculation averages .£1 19s. (or
$0.75 gold) per week. But in the report un•
tier discussion this average has not been taken.
The comparison has been made instead be
tween what was manifestly given as the
average weekly earnings of Philadelphia me
chanics, and the highest figures mentioned in
the range of earnings of Engl sh mechanics.
By this means the difference in favor of the
wages of the Philadelphia mechanic is
ciphered down to less than 00 ' per cent.,
whereas by making the comparison with the
average of the weekly wages earned by me
chanics in England, the difference la found to
be 70 per cent. in our favor. Flo much frir
wages.
It is further estimated in the report that it
costs the mechanic and family £2 13s. Bd.
($13.31 gold) a week to live In Philadelphia,
and that the British mechanic "would not
spend inorethan Its 10,1. ($7.05 gold) a
week with equal family." From these fig
ures it is computed that the purchasing power
of money in England is nearly seventy per
cent. greater than in Philadelphia, or that,
with equal earnings, the English workman
would be nearly seventy per Cent. better off.
An exact calculation, however, upon the some
figures, makes It 65 1-5 per cent. Instead of
70.
Mr. Kortright's report proceeds to show
(using always the higher of the two sums
given as the limits of the weekly wages re.
ceived by mechanics In England) that, after
deducting the c ist of living Irons the wages of
each, the Philadelphian has a surplus of 13s.
4d. at the end of the week, and the Engliih
man an excess of 108. 2d., or only about 3s.
less, which nominal difference would, of
course, be more than compensated for by the
increased purchasing power claimed for Eng
lish' money. But subtracting from the average
wages of English mechanics (instead of from
the highest limit), his weekly expenses, and
it is fcund that he can really save, according
to the Consul's own estimates, but 78. 2d. a
week—and everybody knows that most Eng
lish workmen do not save even that—a sum
which, English money had four times the
purchasing power of ours, would not equal
the - weekly surplus of the Philadelphian.
But the report hears, if possible, even stron
ger testimony to the better condition of our
work•people than appears by the above logical
deduction from the figures it contains. "It
is to be borne in mind," says Mr. Kortright,
" that the respectable mechanic in Philadel
phia can obtain, as a rule, continuous employ
ment, an advantage he has over his less for•
tunate British comrade. Ills normal status is
better. He is better housed, better fed; and
equally well clothed, at a far greater expense,
it is true. Owing to the admirable system of
public schools in the State, ho has every facil
ity for educating his children at the public
expense." That is to say, lip enjoys more of
the substantial physical comforts, educational
advantages and refinements, which are the
elements of a higher civilization.. This com
prises everything. In no form of words could
the 1,100,000 paupere, and dven the best-paid
workmen of England, be more strongly re.
commended to emigrate to the United States.
So long as the same or a less number of hours'
labor daily will Insure here this superior de
gree of comfort, to say nothing of a higher
Social standing anti greater political power,
what matters It that It is obtained "at a
greater expense" in money
The report !tallier informs us that "The
British laborer's compulsory abstinence from
meat onseveral days in the week, Is, perhaps, !
amply compensated by his beer, on which be
probably thrives better than the Pennsylvania
laborer on his excessive meat diet." 8o the
fox who had lost his tail endeavored to spread
the idea that tails were a highly objectionable
superfluity. It is noteworthy in this conntc-
Bon that in the Consul's table above men
tioned, showing the comparative cost of living,
the item of meat Is placed at $3 for the Phila
delphia mechanic and family, and only $1.62
for the Englishman. It Is indisputable that
meats of all kinds are dearer In England than
here, and it Is admitted by Mr. Kortright that
while " No respectable mechanic or laborer
(in Philadelphia) is satisfied without meat
once a day, few are content without It twice
a day, and many even three times a day, en
joy meat In souse form at their meals," the
British workman is compelled to abstain from
animal food on several days in the week. Time
truth is, the latter generally has meat once a
week. To be sure, it is claimed that he Is
more than compensated by his regular use of
beer.
But this Item of beer does not appear in the
table among the other articles of food and
drink constituting the subsistence of the. Brit
ish mechanic and his family. Yet as be is
charged with $l.BB less per week for meat
than his Philadelphia brother, it is fair to pre.
sume that he makes up this difference in beer.
Ile should be charged, therefore, with that
amount more. Let us, however, add but $1
a very low estimate, for the weekly cost of
the beer for a family of five, and the difference
between the weekly expense of the two for
necessaries and ordinary comforts Is reduced
to less than fifty Instead of seventy per cent.
This represents more correctly, then, the In
creased purchasing power of wages In Eng
land.
We could not ask a more favorable showing
for the condition of labor On this city. But
what le it could be established, as our own
free-traders falsely claim, that workmen in the
United States receive no better wages, the
purchasing power being considered, than are
paid in England ? It would still remain true
that protection, by affording almost unlimited
employment here for labor, even if on no bet
ter terms than in the greatest manufacturing
country of the world, had very largely ex
tended the market for our agricultural produc
tions; enourmously Swelled the number of
customers for tradesmen, mechanics, and arti•
sans.of all kinds; multiplied the profitable
uses of capital, expanded commerce both for
eign and domestic, and quickened Immensely
every branch of business in the country. All
this might be set down to the credit of protec
tion, even if it had not, as Mr. Kortriglit's
figures so conclusively prove it has, placed our
working people upon a much higher plane
than those of Great Britain.—Press.
Encouragement for Farmers
There is consolation in the future, as we
are reminded by a few seasonable editorial
remarks in the December issue of the Agri
culturalist We copy these hopeful words,
because they may serve to stiffen the backs of
some who feel alm , at ready to give up :—"The
year now drawing to a close has been in many
respects a discouraging one to farmers. But
ter, cheese, pork and beef arc low. Wool hes
done a little better end the prospects are en
couraging. Those farmers who sold their
sheep and boughs cows, will probably now
sell their cows for half what they cost, and
buy sheep at double what they got for
them. We urged our readers not to sell their
sheep, and cautioned them against -rushing
into the dairy busies ss. We would say
now : Ifyou have sheep, keep them ; if you
have cows do not sell them. It is a good time
for any one to buy cows who proposes to es
tablish a permanent dairy. Select the best,
get a good bull, and aim to improve the herd.
There is still money in the dairy business.
Pork packers lost heavily last winter. They
will try to get back their money the present
season, and the probabilities are that IN ( C shall
be obliged to sell our pork below the cost or
production. In a year or two it will be our
turn. The low price of pork will increase
consumption at home and abroad. American
llama, bacon and barreled pork will 'be intro.
duced into new consumers In different parts
of the world. We lose money by the trans
action, but we shall get it back in the end.
Those farmers will make a mistake who sacri
fice good breeding stock. It is never so dark
as Just before dawn ; and dark as have been
our prospects the past season, we mistake the
signs of the times if a bright day is not rapid.
ly approaching. We shall get better prices
fur all our products. But good prices alone
do not make good times. We need good
crops, good stock, and a less cost of produc
tion. Now is a gond time to think and talk'
about these matters and lay plans for the fu
ture. We need more capital.' Certainly we
do —and the same is true of all occupations;
In trade, commerce. or manufactures. But
what is capital? It Is simply labor,nr the means
of procuring labor. We have heard farmers
bemoan their luck of capital while they spent
several hours a day, in winter, smoking and
talking around the stove at a village grocery.
Many farmers need enterprise and pluck much
more than they need capital.
Quakertown Items.
The removal of the extensive cigar making
establishment of Bamberger& Co. to Quaker.
town has given a new impulse to business Is
that locality. The principal manufactory of
this firm was formerly at Milford Square,
three miles west of Quakertown, but the loca
tion for business was not so desirable as the
latter place on account of the dista . nce from
the railroad. The establishment, whose head
quarters Is in Philanelphia, Is a very extensive
one, and gives employment to several hundred
personsin Quakertown and the surrounding
country. One result of the late removal of
time concert to that place has been an increased
demand for houses in the borough. Dwel
lings are now very scarce and the prospect is
that there will be considerable building in the
town next summer.
The annexation of Richland Centre to the
borough is excitine: much interest in both
places.
the
a village has sprung up to the
cast of the railroad since that thoroughfare
was opened. the residents of which, together
with some of those living in the adjacent part
of the borough, are now anxious to have the
boundaries of the corporation extended. This
project meets with considerable opposition on
the part of the citizens of the western part of
the town, and it is as vet uncertain what the
result Will be.
The cattle trade in the place is about clos
ing up for the season. The firm of Stater
Jamison & Co., the most extensive operators
have sold about fifteen hundred hi ad of cattle
since the first of June last. Their business
the past season has not been so large as usual.
The cattle sold by them are brought from the
State of New York. There are several dealers
in a small way in the neighborhood, whose
aggregate sales amount to about the same,
making the transactions in the cattle business
for the season in that vicinity about three thou
sand head.
Among the contributions toward the Itlichi•
goo relief fund, recently acknowledged by the
Governor of that State; was the rt celpt of a
donation of $25 from the Quakertown Council
of American Mtchanlcs.
Mrs. Matilda Wambold, living on Broad
street, met with a painful accident by a fill
on the ice near her house on Friday last. She
sustained severe bruises about the head and
fears were entertained that she was dangerous
ly hurt,but next day she was'better anti is now
recovering.
The foundry, saw mills ar\d other industri
al establishments in Quakertown are all ac
tive and flourishing. The foundry of Thom
mas,-Roberts & Co. from a vary small begin
ning a few years ago has grown to very ex
tensive proportions. Mammoth buildings
have been erected, which have been enlarged
and extended as the increased business requir
ed until they cover a large space of ground.
The handle factory of Hartzell & Co. is assn
about to make further provision for their in
creasing business. Among the instrumental
ities for mental and literary culture in the
place is the Friends' Lyceum, an organiza
tion which has been in existence for many
years. It holds weekly meetings for debates,
reading of essays, lectures, and other literary
exercises. The metings are always crowded,
young and old participating In' the proceed-
Ings.--/nteligencer.
A noisy piece of crockery—The cup that
cheers.
Ought not a ItOrmlt to call hls honsu a mau
shun ? •
A reliable piece of furniture—it. determined
stand.
Efow to make both ends meet--Don't buy
bone.
Wm. Shakespeare lives in Alabama, and is
celebrated as a successful mellow drammer.
California boasts a tomato plant ten feet
high, yielding two bushels of fruit.
The young lady who went up in the hotel
elevator with Alexis still lives.
The establishment of a large Roman Cathol,c
university In England is seriously thought
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"BOLO ROBERT MACAIRE."
The only quality in the character of the low
thief immortalized in the play which makes
his buffoonery endurable is the cool imprc
i denco anti:bravado with which ho picks a
pocket or commits a burglary. If it were not
that the Erie prototype of Robert Macaire,
who alternately robs his mistress of a fortune
and steals n railway, directory and all, is an
imrertinent, not to say bold, rogUe, as well
ai buffoon, he would be an Intolerable bore,
whom we would gladly see kicked from the
stage, without waiting for the denouement.
But the last scenes in the Erie farce now play
ing arc well worth staying for. No proper
minded audience will be content to go before
retribution is meted out to the principal char
acters. We beg the audience at least not to
rise before the curtain is down, and thus
spoil the pleasure of those who have paid so
dearly for the sport. We promise the most
impatient will not have to wait long.
The combinations forming against the Erie
management are formidable; and with an
honest Legislature to back and aid them in all
proper demands, the success of those organ
izing to reform the Erie Directory is already
assured. We have already noticed the abso•
lute failure of the effort made by Fisk and
Gould to entice Presiaent Ramsay of the Al
bany and Susquehanna Railway and the offi
cers of other branch roads of Eric into an in
trigue to keep themselves in power. The pro
position, if evir fully entertained, was soon
dismiss, d, and the Dlrectc rs of the branch -
roads wisely refused to join fortunes with the
failing Erie Ring. The late legal defeats in
the United States Courts, the last of which
we rejoice to announce this morning, quite
undoes the vile work of Judge Banard, and
preventshis "Gratz" and receiver, James 11.
Coleman, from voting the 00,000 Erie shares
to sustain In power the men who rob them.
At the next election the vote on these shares
will be cast by honest men against the Bing,
and will help materially to overthrow its cor
rupt and ruinous power and policy. Other
English shareholders, represented by Gen.
Sickles, have combined to cast honest votes
against these disonest Directors. • The Amer
ican shareholders all over the State and coun
try are combining„ under the lead of the New
- limit Stock Excaange, to cast a solid vote
against Fisk, Goul.l , Tweed, and the rest at
the next election. And the foreign managers
and owners of the Atlantic and Great West
erti—a road wholly dependent on the Erie,
and seriously damaged by the mismanage=
ment of its present Directory—are moving
for the same purpose. The Legislature will
be asked to order a new election, and guatan
tee, by the presence of proper officers of the
State, a fair election. The result cannot be
doubted. Before the end of January we
doubt not the Erie Ring WHIN broken up
finally, and the road be in the hands of able
and honest Directors.
The desperate straits to which these rascals
are reduced is clearly Illustrated in the expla
nation of the attempted compromise of the
criminal suit instigated against Fisk, Jr., by
Miss Mansfield. The story, as published else
where, hints at degradation of the most loath
some character, and reveals Fisk, Jr., in his
true light of a blackmailer. With all his bra
vado and grandiloquence, Robert Macalre is,
after all, nothing but a common thief; and
his cunning consists merely In entrapping
..eak menaind frail women into comprom ising
positions. Fisk, j.., has na,aha ....
whom he seduced by the display of the more
than barbaric splendor io which he lived off
the stolen tummy of the• Erie Railway, and
now that he is on the eve of being forced by
law to settle with her or go t J id, he attempts
by his guilty knowledge of other men's se
crets, gained by criminal association with
them, to force them to pay his debts. This is
the plain meaning of his infamous transac
tions told in very plain and truthful words;
the men whom he is uttiorupting to blackmail
are prominent bankers of Boston, members of
a firm known all over the United States, and
with branch houses in every large city. In
hie idle and amorous hours Fisk lias . betrayed
their confidence and the common decencies of
life by writing his mistress the full history of
their transactions with himself and his die
(flared favorites. Now that the letters of the
indiscrete chatterer are about to be made pub
lic a litigathm in which he has vainly Bird
to suppress then, by injunction, he insists dint
the Boston bunkers, whom in fa etious mo•
meats lie has satirized as "Bold Robert
" Macaire and Jacques Strop," shall pay the
se.fe. Thus far he has failed. The compro
mise by m Welt these precious documents were
to be kept from the public has failed. Now let
Judge Brady dissolve the injunction, and the
litters will be spread before the people, to
whom, in view of the startling crimes they
expose, they really belong, and Justice will be
forceillfrom the villains whom they compro-
MEM
Why should the Grand Jury hesitate to net
tit this matter? Fisk has resorted, in the
course of his desperate career, to everything
dishonorable and injudicious, and is open to
conviction on a score of charges. He hes com
mitted almost every offense from stealing rail
ways to suborning witnesses. We ore assured
that witnesses offered to go before the present
Grand Jury and Swear to damaging facts
against hint, but District-Attorney Garvin re
fused to take up the case. Let the Grand
Jurymen, without regard to that official's op•
position, demand these witnesses be brought
before them and let Fisk's actions be Inquired
into. It will soon be too late to catch him Jf
indicted, for, like the•rest of the guilty rogues
of the Ring, he will fly the country on the first
intimation of danger. It must not be forgot
ten that rogues are cowards by nature, and
that in the finale of the farce "Bold Robert
Macaire" proved himself au arrant sneak after
all.—Tribune.
GLEANINGS AND GOSSIP
In conversation, a wise man may be at a
loss bow to begin, but a fool never knows
how to stop.
What can be more melancholy titan a po
liceman who loves above his station 4
The only title of nobility recognized by the
" ring" 7 The "count" at Tammany.
To be humble, or even contrite, it Is not no
ccssary to live in "a•basetnent."
Many talkers are like broken pitchers;
everything runs through them.
\\'hen is the black dog not a black dog.—
When it's a greyhound.
Motto for a French exile—
the heart grow fonder."
Dies are engraved nowm days ; in Caesar's
time the die was cast.'
In Calilornia the current ycnrhas been the
best of grape years.
The highest compliment to a barber—lie
dyed and made no sign.
Marriage is often the end of man's trouble—
But which end Y
A western settlement—Ten Cents on the
dollar, sometimes. •
Whatever good an umbrella performs, it is
" put up" to it.
The might kind of timber for castles in the
air—Sunbeams.
The hot ' g lass before going to bed—Tho
looking glass.
Words to the 'why's—Answer to conum
drums.
A man ought to keep out of trade, if bet
can't get tin.
" Absinthe makes