4=-Jje. r I '- '- . - , 1 • -•- " - II •• -- i t - ),..7 'l' 1 4 i ; ".. ; r . -Me I•tf • MONTROSE, . PA:; U. 4.R0 It x4;.2877. pome grolding. THE , TWO SHIPS. • Two goodly Ships in gallant trim. - • Sailed slowly from the harbor's month ' • Ono -tiorthwitrd veered through shadows dim, And one tor summer seas to. South.. While tearful eye and "quivering lip Marked the dark passage of the one,- • flope,,trust and joyance filled the ship That gayly sailed for seas of sun. • My lot was cast whereertic blast, • Swept the north-bearing craft afar 311,tlove to tropic seasons passed, • Where lofty shines the southern star. • Sad' were our farewells, wildly citing • Our last embrace,ere far. apart ' • Our destinies divergent swung : : • ' Yet still was whispered in my heart. "'Tie but the chance of circumstance " That. Parts ye now, as it should be . ; Hn*e faith'in Him who guides *here glance The-summer , and the wintersea.” . • •• And, lot when near the haven drew, .It proves the same both ships bad sought: ~,r By different tracts across the blue I Yettuided by the sell-same thought.' , silver coasts and fairy isles, - Through rtolet deeps her course bad run, Still pointing toward the Port of Smiles, Which mine by - stormy ways bad won. Down dropped , the anchor, dropped the sail, We met upon. the gleaming beach, And once more breathed the old sweetitale ' • • - . ln silence sweeter fat than speech,' • • . • Our haven gained, we have no need , To,tell the toils and hardships o'er That swept us on with tempest speed, • 'TO iein at last upon the shore. , We evqn blessed the separate ways Thaf,,while they seemed to lead:apart, tendered through the dubious ways 'To dra* us nearer, heart to heart: LUXURY THE CAUSE OF NATIONAL • • • DECAY. • Frugality of manners is the nourishment and strength of bodies politic. It is that by which they grow and subsist, until they are corrupted 14,114tiry—the natural cause of their decay.and Ann:. Ot this we have examples in the Persians LaCadtemonians and Romani : not - to mention many later governments which have 'slating Up, continued% while, and. then perished by the same natural - causes: ,But these are, it seems, of no use to-us : and', in spite of them, ~weare in a fair way of neeoining ourselves another useless'example to tuture ages. Simplicity of manners may be more easily preserved in a republic than a monarchy ; ',but if once lost,,may be sooner recovered in a Mon archy, the esample of a court being of great efficacy, either to reform or to corrupt a people; that alone were sufficient to discountenance the, wearing of gold or silver, ,either in clothes or equipage; and if the same were prohibited by law thesaving so much bullion would be the ,smallest benefit of such, institution ; there being'nothing more apt"tol debase the yirtue.and good sense of our gentry Of both sexes than the trifling vanity of apparel, which we have learn-_ ed from France, and which has had such visible ill consequences on thegenius of that people. Wiser nations. have made it their care to shut out this folly by severe laws and penalities, and its spreading among us can forebode no good y If there be any truth in the observation of one of the ancients that the direct way to ruin a Man is to dress him up in 4ne clothes. _ Bat we are doomed to be undone. Neither the plain reason of: the thing, nor the ex perience of past ages, nor the examples we . have before our eyes, can restrain us from imi tating, not to say surpassing, the most :corrupt and ruined people in . those very . points at lux ury that ruined them. Our gaming, our operas nut masquerades, are i in spite of our debts and poverty, become• the wonder our neighbora. if there be any man so void of all thought and corn on-sense, as not I to see where this must end, let hini but compare what Venice was at the league of Cambray, with what itis at pre sent, and he will be convinced how truly 'those _fashionable pastimes are calculated to depresss and ruin a nation. It is not to be believed, what influence pub; lie diversions have on the spirit and mariners of a people. The Greeks wisely saw this, and made a very serious affair of their public sports. ' , For the same' reason, it will, perhaps, seem :worthy the care our, legislature to regulate the diversions, by annbsolote prohibition of those winch have a direct tendency 'to corrupt our *orals, as well as by a reformation of thd _drama • -which, when rightly managed, is such a noble entertainment, and' gave those fine lessons *I morality and good sense to the Athenians . of 'Old,- and to our pritish gentry Nbovemsentnry Ago _ ; but tor these last ninety • )ars, bath entertained us, for the mostl7, such wretched things as; spoil, instead of • - proving,tlic taste , and manners of .thiis audience. Those who are attentive to such propositions only' is' may. fill , their poekeis, 'will probably alight these things as , trifles : below the care of . the legislature.. Butt am,sure. all honest, think lug lutist lament to see their country run headlong into all those luxurious •follies, which eirldeat, haye been fatal to other mamma And *ill dixdohlitly , protv fatal to us also, if a, iimehr, stop he .not put to . them.—Berkeley's 8884/8. •Ne are expected to believe that a feiv days ago a limn sleeping alone in tbe - eabin of the sloop Ida at ;a wharf at the . mouth of the:Kew nehunk River was awakened : durwg.the night 7 2 . by 'some One touching him saying., "You will be drowne.d."' On Opening hi'eyes u9,one 'was -.present,- hut he immediately turned out, went on.deek, andtOund-the side of the vesssf caught under the ,wharf by . the. side, and shortly it would'have'sunk, and cablitand all beenvader bE r „ , . : ;',149 - tyledge.t;ndiyigtomi firfrqui g one ;:lifiririaftinias no connection: Knowl gedwells , .. . . , .. reads replete with thogglitiedi 0 Men ; - -- ‘ 4 I -' . ; , ifilikloni i n niludivattentiveioVierr otru.• MOUND: BUILDERS' - RELIng VEGE'r PURIFIES TUB BLOOD, REIqOVATEWAIID INVIG ORATES THE WHOLE • SRSTESL The scientific meo of this city " are all agog over some mound discoveries just brought light,and, to:day on exibition. They were ta.ten from one of the mounds, on the-"CroOk farm," tame mileO -below this city, at a depth of five teet from the surface, covered with l a stratum of white yellow tidy. They et:ambit of two-coal slabs—one being' one and a half inches thick and about oue foot`square, and the other six inches square, 'covered pn both' sides with figures and' 'animals and birds'of extiect species, and hieroglyphics - which h,ave puzzled Prof. Pratt, Dr.' Farquharsen, i d. otherl lead ing members the Davenport Acaddiay of Science, but which they . are • now diligenily studying._ ' • One represents, evidently, a religidits cent. mony—fire worship'. There' can• be , traced some fourteen figures surrounding a fire, hands joined.. Oh one' side of the fire, within a Or cle, is a figura lying on the ground, suppoSed by Professor Pratt to be a dead body. On the other side arc :two similiar figures. In the right hand upper . side is a -circle about ,an inch in diameter,. by the same authority said; to. represent the sun. On the left hand side i on 'the same line is another circle, supposed ; to represent the moon. Outside' of the , circlei r of fire worshipers are, covering the whole slab,. stnall figures of birds and animals, Among them one larger figure,. which Dr. ' Farquharsen Says undoubtedly represents the mastodon. ; - Another slab, six inches square; has three circles, one within, the other. the . (alter :one as large., as the face' of , the. slab_ Will allnw. Between the first and second circles is a hieroglyphic at equidistant points, correspond ing to what would make the quarter hot* on the face of a clock dial. Between the :°lnter and second circles are twelve hieroglyphies at distances corresponding to hour figurei - ot tbe clock dial. Outside. of the outer circle, and dispersed all over the face of the slab are figures and signs unintelligible to•our scientific Men, but which they say can be deciphered with the knowledge of the mound charadters, customs and literature iu the possession of the `ticademy here, after they have had tune to study, them at leisure. • The,membere ot, the academy who bar ex anainellese last eqhumations are unanimous in declaring that they are, the most valuable 'archtelogical specimens yet brought to light from the mounds in its neighborhood, and Will no doubt furnish a more enlightened clue to the customs, traditions and literature of the mound Paden. A. scientific description .of . the will be given to the press in a few/days by Dr. Farquharsen or sum other member of the head etny.—Davenport Journal. ORIGIN OF FOOLSCAP. Everybody knows what foolscap is.. It is wrlting paper of the •dinientions of 16 "by 13 inches. 'But it is doubtful whether ten; in hundred, of those ,who use it can tell! why it Was so called. Oliver Cromwell vanqUished Charles the First and *as declared Protector of tughtnd, a ruler something like the Prtsi dent ot the United States. He caused, the pic ture ot the Cap of Liberty to ne stamped On the .paper Used by the govuotnent. After his;death -Charles 11, son of Charles 1., was restored to the throne. in consequence of Comwelins son being unfit to govern the country. One day be sent for paper to write On anti some or this government paper was brought ..to Looking at the :stamp •of the cap oni it, he, inquired' the meaning f it' it, ana whenl t9ld, sail in a contemptous tone, "Take it away ; .1:11 have • nothing, 'to do with a fooltsj cap." Hence paper of the size above mentioned was called 1001E:can. • , • • 1 A CURIOSITY OP NUMBERS The multiplication of 937654321 by. .4c., giveg 1141114445. Reversing the order, of the digits and multiplying 123456789 by 45 we get a re-.. suit equally . curious, 5,555,555,595. If we take 1 23456789 as the multiplicand,and interchanging the figures of 45, take 54. as themultipfier, we obtain an/Atwell:mailable product, 666,666,666, 60G. Returning, to the multiplicand first used 987654321, and taking 54 as the multiplier again we get 53 0 333,333,334—a1l threes except the first and last figures, which read together 54, the multiplier. Taking the mine multiplicand, and using 27 , the half of 54 -as the multiplier, We get a product of 26,666,066,667—a1l sixes ex cept the first and last figures, which ;read to gether give 27, the multiplier. Neit inter changing the figures in the numbed 27, and' using 72, as .the multiplier, with 987604321 as the multiplicand, we obtain a product of 71,- 111,111,112—a1l ones, except the first and last: figures, which read together give 72, the multi ,plier. • • • The Mowing is a passage from a letter used as evidence in a San Francisco breachh- l Of-prorw ise suit : "If one atom of the deep, deep love I feel for you was scattered thronghout the whole world, I could stake my life it will 'fill, if al lowed- to do so, the entire human race and thence will derive the word comnionly used as lor'e. Good-bye, my' - dearest dear. Yours till death and - beyond eternity." • The writer Was asked what he meant by such language, and he replied/ "Oh, I couldn't reasonably be expect edto s • • such stuff explain" _ A Sacramento boy believed that another , boy's shot gun was not effeCtive at Icing range, and as proof allowed himself to be shot at from a certain ,distance. The entrance of a handful of shot into, his skin conviticed- him that he had been Mistaken. , • 4#4.' Chinainan, arrested in San Francisco the 'other day,mas found to Wive on a coat Of mail made of cloth, cotton batting, and paper, tif.ck enough to turn ft - knife or bullet It also had pockets for knives_ and hatchets, and rings to hang an iron bar on.. • L good emnple is the best sermon bug bath lope likilwrAs 1=13:=1 -•a-as~-..---; ITS 3IED lel SAL PRo PE RTIES ARE ALTERATIVE, TOMO.- SOLVENT AND DIURETIC. , • VEGETINEI is !nada exclusively from the juices of carefully selected barks, roots and herbs,and so strong= ly concentrated. that it will effectually eradicate from, the system every tint 'of Scrofula, Scrofulous laimOr, Tumors, Cancers. thincerous -tumor,- .) , t'sipel.s. Salt Ittieurn,,Syphitic Diseases, ; canker,. [tautness at •the stem:Leh, and all diseases that artSe trom, impure blood, sciatiac. inflarnmatory•and chrenie rheumatism, 'neu ritic's. gout and spinal complaints,. can only be effec tually be cured through the blood. ' For ulcers and eruptive diseqses of the skin, puS tales, Piro' les, blotche*, boils. tatter. scald-head and ring-worm, VEGUTINE has never failed to effect per mum nt cures. j • • . • For paths in the back, kidney, elmplaints, dropsy, female weaknesses, leucorrtnea; arising from internal ulceration, and iiterine diseases and general debility,• VEGETINE avail directly open the causes of these cots plaints. It invigorate= and etrengthsns the whole system, acts upon the secretive Organs, allays inflame tie% cures ulceration and regulates the bowels. For catarrah, 4 dyspepsia. habitual costiveness, pal patatOu of the heart. Leadache, piles, nervousness and haspro3tration of the nervous tystem, no tnedichie given such •eativinction as the VEGETIN E. It, purifies the blood. cleanses all the organs, and possess es a coot voting power over the nervous system. • The remark:able cures effected by VEtIBTINE have induced many pla3 sicians and apothecaries whom we know to prescribe and use it in them own In facti , VEGETiNE is the best remedy yet diScover ed for the above diseases,awt is the only reliable blood puraler'yet placed.be fore the public. • THE BEST EVIDENCE. • The following letter from •E. S. Best, Paeorof 11f. E. Church, Natiek .lldass.. will be read with interest-by many physicianS. also, these - -, suffering from Ihe same disease as afflicted then on of ttue Rev. E. S. Best. No-Terrell can doubt thislestimOnyi as there is no doubt about the:curative powers of -Tht4ETIN ' NATICK, Mass., Jan. 1. 1871 • - • Mu. H. R. SsavzNi, Dear have goad reason for regarding your. Yesellne a medicine of the greatest -value-, We tee! assured that it has been the means of savingour son's life, He' is now seventeen years of age ; tor the last two years he has snfferen.from necro sis of his leg; caused by scrofulous affection, and was so tar reduced that nearly all who saw him thought re covery. impossib:e. A council of phystetrais could. .giVe us but the faintest -hone of his ever rallying., two of the number declared Olathe was beyond the reach of huntan. remedies, that even amputation could not save him as he htd not viger enough to eacitire the Opera. Lion. Just then we-commenced, giving hina-Vegetine, Mad from that time to the peseta he Garr been cot,st ant ly•imnreving. He has lately resumed . his -studies. thrown away his crutches .and :cane, artu. walks. about cheerfully and strong. • - - - •Though there iratllsome discharge :from' the open ing, where the limb was lanced, : vie have the fullest eon- Miriade that In a little time he will be perfectly cured. He haslaken about three dOzen bottles of Vegetine. but lately uses but little.- as he declares that he is too' well to b 6 taking meuicine, ....Respectfully Yours; Z. S. - BEST. • 11RS. L. C, F. BEM: ALL DISEASESOt 4 ' TRYBLoOD: If Vegetine will relievepain, cleanee. purify all such diseases, restoring the patient, to perfect health after trying different pnysicians. many remedies stinting for yearic, is it not .conelusive proof, if you ar a suf ferer, you car_ be cuted ? Why. - is this medicine per formtng such great cures ? It works in the Wood, in the circulating fluid. *lt can truly he called the GREAT BLOOD PURIFIER. The great source of disease or iginates in the blood ; and t.o medicine 'that does not act directly upon it, to purify and renovate, has any just claim upon public :met tion. RECOMMENDED IT•IIEARTII.4Y. S01:1TH Bnapar. Feb. 7, : 1871 Mit. STEVENS Dear Sir—l have taken several bot-- ties of your Vegetine. and am convinced it is valuable remedy for Dyspepsia, Kidney Complaint, and general debility of the system. I can heartily recommend it to' all suffering from the above complaints., Yours Respectfully. • Mitt, MtiNitCE PARKER. 389 Atlantic *reel. Prepared by H. R. STEVENS, Boston. VEGETINEIS `TOLD BY ALL DRUGGISTS.. pERSONAL PROPERTY PUBLIC SALE. Farmers and others who are abont to haves :Sale of their FarmA, stock, Farm ImPlements, House hold Goods, shi , tild not to , get th.tt Jars: number of bidders always make a successful - sale THE DE,SI - is a desirable advertising medium, and one good bidder at a sale more than paysthe cost of au ad vertisement in Ills paper, HAND BIL Large or small, printed on Abort notice, and at VERY 40W PRICES. Parties calling at this office when they come into town, and leaving their .ordcr, can usually have their bills printed by the time they are ready to go home. Bilis pat up tu t'e hotels of our Borough. Or All orders by mail addrcsred HAWLKY & CRUSE% Montrose, Pa.. Will receive prompt attention. Handbills, CM be sent to any Post Office in the country. 'VALUABLE • REAL ESTATE FOR SALE: • • The unders!gned offers, npon reasonable terms, a fine farm in AUBURN TOWNSHIP, • about .1% miles froin the 4 Corners, containing HO acres, with ' good,buildings and orchard upon it and all improved. ` For particulars enquire of LYMAN BLAKESLEE, Foster. Susquehanna County, Pa. - ViTAI, S. LINABEItitir, Auburn 4 Corners, Susquehanna County, Pa. Assignees of Jas. D. Livaberry. Jan.l,o,lBTztf. A _ bIIINISTRATOWS': NOTICE. In the est of Martha M. Vance.: late of : Liberty twp. dec'd. Letters - • of Adminiitraiiou In the Said estate lutqng been wanted to the undersigned ail persons ow ingstild estate, are requested to make immediate-pay ment. and allpersons haiing claims agalust - said estate ate requested to present them without delay: - D. A. 'NORDEN, Administrator. Jar?. 2t,1877: - 4WG - . .A TYMINISTRATOWS - NOTICE.. In ,431Lthe estate of 0. P. WashbOrn, late of Liberty, Letters of Administration in the said : estate balling been granted to the andersigned.all persons : ow ing. said estate are requested to make immediate pay ment, and all persons having Claims against said estate arc r 3qttee * .ed to present them wit hont delay: D. A. W ORDEN ..9.duilniotrator. Bouts Non. 24.4877.' ' - 4wl XECUTOR'S soneE.-Wherets, Jet Letters testunentary to the estate of Rufus Smith .hate; of Franklin,twp. deed, having been granted to theundersigned. all persons indebted—to said estate are requested to make immediate payment, and all per sontaving claims against the, aurae, are requestea to present them without delay. • • W. C. SMITH, Executor. San. 24, lint 4w6. Q.AMPLE SAFES:-FARRELL kJ (Herring's pat,nt) cquetantlyoß hand. BILLIAQS U 1) Montroiso,Foli 28, 1871,-4. -AT--- TNRY GOODS AND , CLOTHING., Snedessor tb,GUTTENBUII.G, ROSENBAUM & CO., 'will keep tup - and einuluet the businese,at the bid stencl as heretofore,. keeping lull lines of Dry Goode, both Foreign and DOlestie, Fancy Goods, Notions, *Winery Goods ; • ' Carpets 011 Cloths &O. &e. • y• • • READY'. MADE OLpTfIINA .FO4 MEN, BUYS. 011.1t.,PREN, Gentlemen's Fuinishing Goods, Rats and, Catita, 'Trunks; Satchels &a., Cloths, Castaimers and _ , Suitings, for. 7 -Measures,takeniand Garments made to Order as beretofore: • Thanking the =public for past liberal favors, 'he -hopes by strict attention to the wants of trade, to retain - the patronage and confidence of thepublic placCed hiin' as . managing partner of the former firm. Retaining all former buSinesi, advantages, he hopes to be able, to .please and satisfy ' ?.- the public in the' future. • , Montrose, March 7, 1877.:', 46 AD . VERTISE, FACTS . TO SUCCEEDS" DRY GOODS, CLOTH*, 'l36tYiS AND SHOES, HATS AND CAPS, NOTit3NS, &C ,p..g 4 9 . :,..4::: . 4g.,.D.1:4gxzc5, :Great - Bend, :: Pa. We buy. for CASA. only—and take 'advantage of the market whenever it Our whole store is filled ;with BA=RGAINS becetuse we always wardthem, and have first oppoOttniiy to secure such. • NEW GOODS- EVERY DAY. Prices LOwer than at 'any Binghamton Store. "Understand we, do not say al LOW bit LESS." "WE MEAN WHAT WE SA.t." [ln Brick Block.] Great Bend, Pa., Nov. 29, 1876. WE - ARE SELLING , - OVERCOATS, IN ALL STYLES, BUSINESS :SUITS, FINE DIAGONAL, (Dress Suits,) ;`. DRESS GOODS, LADIES' CLOAKS, MEN'S . ' AND BOYS' BOOTS AND SHOES, of all kinds, LA lES, MISSES AND CHILDREN?;S • . • PINE and COARSE SEWES, • RUBBER BOOTS AND . . • SHOES of all kinds, 'MEN'S and BOYS' HATS and OAF'S,. • • BUFFALO ROBES, LAP ROBES, HORSE BLANKETS, At bottom prices, "Binghamton not 'excepted-." • _ Nov. 8,1876. . 'WEE RS, IffELEOLTISH & A. S. MINER, BINGHAMTON, . • • . WHOLESALE DEALER IN BRONZE LAMPS, OPAL .LAMPS, ALL GLASS LAMPS, HAND LAMPS, BURNERS, WICKS, SHADES, SHADE . HOLDERS, &c., &C. SPECIAL. INDUCEMENTS IN:: - • EVERT STYLE OF FLINT Al l O COMMON•CIIIIINEU. ALSO, MANUFACTURER OP • TIEN !:itaLlV33 .T.A.1= 0 .49..1V1V3E12, VITALWIL•EL! Prices Guaranteed as Lazo as any Haw in Southern Nero York. Address by nail . Priimptly Attended To. - MiirchBl, 1875. , A. S. MINER. BEST JOB PRINTING- AT THE LOWEST RATES . . - We are continually adding new material to our office, and with our • Large Stock of 'JOB iIiPE and FOUR Printiag Presses we Defy Colietition Both in Price and Quality, either in. Phill Black or Colored. Work. HAWLEY & CRURNR. ClipC , F tv , FR VITS . i AND IVEgETA.- TUE HEAD or 'rlAviownori, PEACHES, ._ QiiANtES;` !LEMONS, PEARS, ' PIO' A Pi)IES; PLUMS; :_.,44v,u,TCES-;:45503T01'.T0.:111A- 7 . .' '. • - - :. I. :: TOES . ,.:..A.MES I .- -f0A.8.,-- BA GES, BANANAS, CANI'EtO'PES GRAPES, SWEET. 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Y., 44 4 6 1,600.00 Old Farman, York, LONA I also represent thews)* York 'Mutual Lire Ins - roc. of. over SO years standing; and assets over #80.00 0 . 14- Also,the Masonic Mutual Benefit, Association of Peaa• •ylvauta: IrlirGet an Accidental Policy covering all accidoth In, the Hartford Accidentln*. Co. Policies %Triad!, from one day to One year. 15 cents for a Pal Policy. Please call or send word, when you take a trif Very respectfully. • - • RETRY v. TTlss. itantrosir.Pc`olan sios.—tr M. S. DESSAVER. 040. L. LENIIELif.