THE REPORON. JI; (ON HOLCO)B. 1 1 ,s oya cep lt L. TRACI; - ~;CDSOii HOLCOMB. Editor. CHAS. H.!AL LEN, Amadei Z4Htor. "Rfraormabit i.l.Y . 4j4nest urea, com peen! offsCers, aud Ito ste Harpers Week:l:o,- tT Erteied is th•_Post Oiler at Totaled* as siD*ONik CLAM, THURSDAY, JANUARY 4, 1883. The Legislature Ica! organized on • • Tuesday by the election . of Sohn E. Reyburn, of Philadelphia, as President prb tern of the Senate, and John E. Fairnee ss Speaker of the House. The Governor's meswe was laid before both Houses. It is a somewhat lengthy document; but we, hope to find • mom for it in our next issue There are some people ,rho seem to find it impossible to get it through their thick skulls, that in attacking wrong it is necessary to attack the perpetrator§ of the wrong. Hence they Let iterriblfi mad at themselves and eve7body else bmause their wrcing dOingS are hip to public conteinpt. The Knickerbocker life insurance com pany, of New York, was yesterday placed in the hands of .Senator Charles H. Russell -as receiver. The .president some days ago reported to Superintendent Fairman, that' in his jachrment the company had not better continue inisiness. - a fter an invesegatian and on the* recommendation of Fairmaa, Russell was appointed. IThe company nominally had $5,000,,000 in assets and ktween :AO and 1,000 policy holderi: - ,. It is expected that it will' pay fifty cents on It May be worth whilejor those business men who .are pfOne . to be deluded by F hemes of artful pOliticians preteildingtii, rink entirely all partisan clistinctidns of re member that although Goyertior _Pattison was elected by Itepublican votes and under professions of independence, he is a coni cuous candidate fur the Democratic nofni nation fur President of the 'Crafted States, and that the sat:=.4 , may be said of Governdr 'Cleveland, ofti‘..w. York. It. May , be ac,- cidental; but neyfirtheless theMrt-!:,grrence of these events idsucli ednspictious instances seeins to be significant. -North American. Superintendent PoodWiri, of the Lehigh Valley Railroad,' has won th'e. everlasting gratitude of t'he people - livinialong the line of his road by giving orders to the lobornor' tive enginiers riot to blow their locimrotive whistlei any louder, )onker or oftener than is absolutely necessary. Ho has.: also in structed the: engineers to blow off steam only when - C.?ircesary. zany engineers have a boiish`-Weaknets for the amusement to be gotten out of making armuch hoise as possible With their locOmotirs, and itf . is pleasant to see a railroad .superiutendent with a disposition to slArt down on this kind of /4.1 . . The abolishment of the drum in the French army and the step toward} the :abolishment of the lecometive'l ear piercing 'shrieks.rni•the Lehigh Valley - road are ...r,uraging signs of the march of civilization, • - : A Scranton machine:a claims to have de vised Pian for protecting. the lives and Y lirabs of railrOadtrainmen while in the act of coupling cars. The arrangement consists of a strap of, wrought iron, whichls fasten ed to the side of the bumper by bolts. Just below the under side of the bumper there is division of tho strap, in which theiv is. a hinge, and through which alever is operat ed. The lever is on the side of the bumper near the right-hand of the brakethin as he' stands with . his right side to the end of the car. The handle-9f the lever iY nearly a footling, When it is not in use the 'other - end of tile lever hangs underneath thebum pers. Wheri it is in !Asa it raises the Link to the prpper heighth, the bolt drops into. 14 plac4and the dangerous work is acilonip.-; lished without risk.] They need.no hoard of pardons . ' in Kentucky, as tl4hief . xecutive. du ring the past yea - r'llll.4' pardOned up wards of.fifteeu hunitred criminals and remitted,firws to tfit -T itmc*lnt of, over • ' $2,000,Q00. From theLlWay Goy. i Stephens, of .Georgia, is Thmineneing -lie. ranknrnxt'artiong _Ore l ,TGOvern ors• that haVi. such iender'hearts as:: to let basemen ai74l' - iwomen free who have forfeited the riglits to liberty under law. Such a course is prejudieiakOhe in terests of a State; and twill lend to bad results, if continu - - Thinner. Lets .4e, ,what i. .the nimal democratic niaj4ity - in lientneky'and Georgia? . It appears front official statistics which, as we all know, cannot lie, that, no fewer khnif ninety-six . . million gal lons of lagar beer were ~.consumed' in the United: States during. the year' . • I S5l, representing an expenditure. of. " twenty : six , million dollars or thereac , bouts. If the people who drank that beer and spent that money had saved their nickels every time, they would have 'been better off to-day than they find Them Selves, but .then they would . n'A have had" such a good time, and what would have'become of the • brew . ers had such abstinence been practis ...- vd ? As, men will drink something that cheers and ! ' does inebriate, it is emit:ehtty.saMactory that they should • give beer the preference oVer whisky or any otherii - pa liquors. , Experlew ‘.4 showing in Kansas 'says the Philadelphia North. Antericiin, as it has already showii elsewhere, .that. `prohib.ition does not prohibit'. Gov= ernor-elect has just called atten tion-to some curious • and ;surprising statistics bearingrupon this point. He says that;the year before prohibition was , voted, the , United States Revnue Collector. issued 1132 permits to sell intoxicating liquors. Puring this- first year of prohibition, the nuin ber'granted 17t48, while in the first forty-A - ve',days . of the second year of prohibition I 1444 permits were issued or nearly as during the entire 'twelve months of the anti-prohibition year ! These` - ' figures . are 'extremely suggestive. They support the position we' have always taken upon this subject ; 'which that until men can be virtu' .o t as by an act of the Legislature, - the _ attempt Am enforce temperance by statute will be worse than useless. SELF'S OF ANTIQRTY. . .„ Since 184-'6l the Democratic party -‘ i n has not. i been control of the executive departinent of the Government, and for a brief period only, has it =trolled the kgislatitc,department. . It once -hada record in history, tot'of such Fa discreditable character that - n. the great ' effort of the party of to-day is directed toldotting out the pages of its past history. It devotes itself industroiusly to holding ui, to view the present sins of the Republican party—and vrith all, its grand achierkments they are Many-, in the hope of oliscAring the -past stns of its own partyrand - by treating themt as outlawed to escape the responsibility of its gro-slavery, rebellion; and free trade record, upon which the party was long since repudiated. If allowed ,to steal into power again through . the dis affections existing in the. Repablican party from its own mismanagement, the people will soon. realize how serious. E' a mistake as. been committed:: Boys born since thei: outbreak of the pro. slavery rehelhan are - now.; becoming voters. the: Nation, since 'the . . demo cratic party last administered ' the ex ecutive department r ibf the Government, / when its credit was - twelve , per cent. b elow par in tbOtiarkets of„,,,Europz, has passed thro w the inost'gizantic internal rebellion - flown to his.ory. Though i debt of more than three • thousand millions of dollars was left, upon the Government at the. close of I the, rebellion as a legacy 'of • the war, it has been reduced 'at the rate of over fifty millions of dollars ' annually, . and the interest on our- gonded debt . re duced from seven to three and one.: half per cent.'with our credit at a pre mium with the banking nations of .thl world, specie payment resumed, with the best and safest currency this coun: ,try his ever enjoyed. ..•ill this, and much more, hag beens - arc ieved ' under twenty years of Republi an adminis tritidn, against the oppos tion of the democratic party.. It is well for the yoiing men becoming vbters, to 'study past history, father than to form their judgment of the merits - of the Cwo parties.upon the charges now made . I.y, an 9ld.defunct democratic part•l, hungry and hankering.for the "flesh pots" of party spoils. .....4 , +P. . In 'this connection the student- of political events inlY, find profitable suggestiOns to lead him to correct con elusions by study ing the debates in con gress where the real se-Aiment of the old bourbon element in the democratic party- occasionally crops out. A few, days since in the debate in 1 the Senate on the civil service reform . bill, several democraticelies of bygone days, rep, resenting tli`ir States as , Senators, re: silted the - old democratic .theories. To those who have been lor4l unused to . hearing Such doctrios, it suds like a "voice froin the tombs." I The Hon. --, .Wilkinson Call, of Florida, is; .;;:one of this clasi. He rises in the e senate at intervels and begins where 'Yulee and . Benjamin and Iverson, and all theii cons panions, cif- 1,860-'l, left off. The democracy of t that periOd is good enough for him. , In a speech on the Pendleton bill for abolishingl party poli tics, Senator Call said, that' he believe i that the.best means of worliing a real reform would be found in t tion to' the states of the cot own .lo , rnestic affairs the pr ..., the elective franchise in' - the the interference of the jelk4 ecutive power of the nation meat, and the creation of a 1 federal judiciary. , I I How these mournfuLeadences take us back to the days of ,ilie."dbmestic institution" of slavery, - whih was cru elly,arrested in its march t 4 the snows of Washington territory, wbere federal intervention was to rebu-pretense that it could be' confined within an kette isothermal' line. The dom .stic affairs _of the slave states were the 4ree from 4he profane,touch of nati dal power, and, as for the freO, states, hey ,had - no (slaves and had therefore o domestic affairs within the meaning - q f the con- Tititution, as interpreted by 1 the 11 demo cratic party, Those were the days when "fanatics" in the free states were pelted with stale eggs by"constitutional democrats in answer to their claim that slavery depended on locall laws and could not exist beyond the r juri-sdic tion. Those were - the days when ;! Stephan A: Douglas was read out ;ofi , i the party caucus in the senate for re-; fusing to vote for a slave code for the; free territories, and,when te control of their own domestic affairs y the states was deemed incomplete until Mr.; l it, Robert Toombs could call he -roll . 'of': t his slaves from Bunker Hilllmonument. 'Those were the days when ademocratic United States marshal was -- command of the army and i ,c ii State's to enable a ,ci , 1 slave state, to invade the_ay slichns'etts and tear from th , her alter a black man allege escaped domestic affair, whose 'control must be,restored to th 6, st :s tte, before laws of which Massachusett law, in its own home, must pale it s s in'eliet-tual fire. But why pursue the thernef ;The, sacred idol has been broken. There is now no state in which any of the native residents are the goods and i:hattles of others. ' The 'states which cherished the right of property in - man as , the chief one to be contended hit._ through fire 'and slaughter have been deprived of the control of their own' k domestic affairs, so far as the great right was concerned, and low . liek the head of human slavery. Never, again, will the cof , ntrol of that • particular Aonnestic affair be restored to the . 'statei,,,where once it was the soul and essence of po liticat(and soeial,. industrial and govern inentalite. , . i, "Te protection of the elect' ehise i the',states from the inti 1 3 1 of the judicialand executive 1 the national government" it objeet,of Senator Call's earmi ing.'f -- Perhaps .the • senator rat* to the treed of protoutii , i, tr 1 states, of those energetic and :public spirited citizens who are now sots,- time; interfered with by / the genera government for depriving others of the pri;fiege of exercising tlfte electivafran clise. There is no - Complaint that democrats are not • allowed to vote- The elective franchise asia — tint be suf- . fering from any judichl Pr,,executive bulldozing or false :counting , at the hands of • the national government. When ,any interferance occurs it is in aitempti tO • viiidicate the right of citi zens to vOto against ass well,as for senator's party. Finally the Ott - loopy of the Florida statesman is made to include a demand for "the creation , of a non-partisan . federal judiciary." The fact that be does not express a desire for a state judiciary of the-isame kind suggests the idea that the courts of Florida are now as free from partisan bias as is the elequent senator hiniself. - Oh! for the days of a non-partisan federal judiciary and the Dred Scottd decision •! then there could be no par- 1 tisanship, for the unbiassed - chief jus tice looked upon those whose political opinions were adverse to his own much as be said the, people in earlier days had regarded the negroes, viz. as hay: ing no rights which white men - were bound to respect. , - We can imagine the joy that would' lift, up the soul of the traditional constitutional national democrat on each occasion when a man of broad and non-partisan views like Senator Call went upon the bench. and we can fancy him murmuring,_ in the language of the epitaph reported by John Phcenix—"c,ne of the old kind— brass mounted—and of ,'such is the kingdom of heaven." DREAD ' gentledon residing in the northern part of the' City, says the Philadelphia Record, whose two, little . ; daughters wercdyingla.stf•Thukay of diphthe ria, saw in the Record of that day a coinra'tinication,cOrnmending the use of sulphur in ease of diphtheria. -; As a laSt re,;ort he made a trial of it, Using . washed& erg of sulphur and apply ing it ditec_tly to the membraneous growths irithe throats of the children hy.m.eans of a common clay . pipe. The.effect was almost magical - Within two hours there was complete relief, and in two days the children_ who had been given_ up by physicians. had completely_ ecti - ver'ed. , iWinle it is. not reasonable to rely_ entirely - upon sulphur in the •ills that beret childhood, it is doubtful If there ; has ever been a proper recog• nition of its value as a destroyer -of morbid or fungus menibraneous growths incases of a diphtheric.type.. Distilled or-sablimed sulphur, known as -flowers_ 1 'of Stilphur, should be used, not the • ;,pow'dired crude . sulphur: The following receipt for diphtheria is fromi an English 'doctor,' who never lost :a case when given,. this treatment: ':One teaspoonful.,of sulphur in a wine-glass of water. 'Stir with a stick, not with metal. Use as 4 gargle, allowing*wne to pass down the throat. Whe'n,notliossible to use as a gargle, blow a little powdered sulphur through a huill in .o the throat.' This gives in4tiant relief:' . It Is nowitno•Vn that .diphtheria is n caused by a imarc.ulm just- below the rot 'of-the tongue, says ir writer, and powdered sulphur is the Most powerful agent (and least harmless) known. My own children had the diphtheria— prie'of them severely 7 -growing worse under the care of'' a p.Tiod physician I suspended his medicines and applied jwiridered sulphur on a flat 'stick (a lair: pinch, 'the child projecting its tonwue), just across the lower part -of r' the tongue . . This gave immediate re lief, andtafter two or three applications the child recovered. In a large town .yt Western New York there was an epidemic of diph- Iltheria, and every .case was- fated up to the time this remedy was made known to the people there, when only- one child died of all -those who tised- it. 7 I have mentioned it tot others with like 1 results. This remedy should be - .made known in districts where diphtheria prevails. he restora trot of their ' otection of states from bial and ex- al .i.govern iton-partisan PERSONAL,,PO/11S. - Representative Calkins, of Indiana,. is regarded as the coming Republican candi data for governor of the HoOsier State. The attorney-general has appointed Wil liam P. Snyder, of Allentown, Pa., a special assistant to the United States •attorney for the Eastern district of Perinsylifania: General William 11, Bulkely, Republican candidate for Govornor - of Connecticut, at tho late election, has addressed a letter to Chas. J. Cole, chairman of the Republican State Committee, in which he states that whatever doubts may exist in regard to the legal election of Governor Walter, respect of the so-called black ballota, he will not consent to serve as GoVernor, or' take a Pirition which he believes it was the in. tent !Of the-electors to give to another, It i is believed that General 'Bulkley's letter will prevent any controversy in the Legis lature over the adjustment of the mutter. placed in avy of the tizen of a tlf Mas . horns of to be an A company at Elk Rapids, Mich., which manufactures fifty tons of charcoal a day; formerly allowed the smoke made in burn.: ing the coal to go to waste. Now the smoke as it is .formed is deliver t ed into stiles ch4rged with lime and surrounded by cold water, the result of the condensation being, first, acetate of lime; second; alcohol; third, tar; the - fourth part produces gas, whys is consumed under the boilers. A thousuid cords of wood are converted into charcoal daily,yielding 2,800,000 cubic feet of smoke, from which are obtained • 12,000 pounds of acetate of lime, 200 gallons of alcohol and 2,5 pounds of tar. Representative Payson, of Illinoil, who made th 9 minority report from the House JudiCiarY Committee on the subject of laps ed railroad grants, his been eccUpied re cently in the collection of additional details , bearing on the subject. He says that he L'ascertained at the Interior,: Department last week that the Oregon Central Company has constructed only a few tubs Of wad under its grant, but that it still controls up - ward of 1,.500,000 acres of land between Portland and Astoria, upon . which settlers are very desirous to enter. Mrs. C. N. May, ifeehsaiesburg, Pa., 'says: "I aqui eSt •woak and debilitated . I I t.ould not work, when Brawn's Iron Bitt ers me," It - rferince vier o another I st, , long referri n i fn the PENNSYLVANIA PARAGRAPHS. George Hain, of li k ritstcnreßerkseonnty, noir. eighty-sir-years , of ige, and who a few rant ago was h° tare gPIMU1141:" iw mince couipudes for s3oo#lo, 2walked from his lame to a nnietborus* g town, four mile* distant, and back on 814, with etitAny appaient difficulty. the *pay 'days of the graveyard insurance agents they paid him as much as five dol. Ors for each thousand insured for skiiin the' necemag documents in their favor. His wife is ty-four years !of performs all the work of their .bame - . *Moot aiiki • - - The Governti Thursday ignea a warrant _ for the melt= .of Thiah Moyer, the in stigator of tie dutrder of John and Greta en Kint z le r in Snyder county five years ago. The pig-iron man aacWrus Of thetinited States:met at Pittsburg Thursday afternoon and formed a Nark it Protective Associa tion. ItepresentatiteS were present, from fifteen furnaces ,in Pennsylvania and Ohio, and letters were received from 'all parts of the country4xpnmeing, hearty approval of tie scheme nita willingness to co-operate. A ceUnnittee, consisting of C. N ~b k, of Leebniia, OW; W. H.W*Okm), of Sten betwille; d . B.'Corzi`' ell, of Youngstown; J. J. Spearman, of , Sharpsvffle, and J. D. Weller, of fittsturg, was appointed' to draft it constitution and report at the next meeting, to be' held in - Pittsburg on January 11. The report of the Tariff CommissiOn was discussed, and the committee appointed at the !eat meeting to go to Washington re ported that hard work would be required do maintain a fair duty on pig-iron, as an organized effort was to be made by the free -trade element. to have the duty of .0, which, was recommended by the commis- sion, reduced to $5. Nothing :else of its portance was transacted. ' An ingenious Chester county boy has b)-,1 vented an electric rat-trap, which luuibeen doing some extraordinary execution among the rodents that. infest his home.. The to chine consists of a battery of three Leyden jars made of old fruit jars, which is con nected with a large iro plate which tale lies the tinfoil on .the outside. TiOl 6ait is so arranged that when_his ratship I steps upon .the plate and seizes the bait he at once makes the connection between the outside and inside of the jars, and they are discharged through his body, killing him literally as quick as lightning. The inven pr charges the jar by mean of an electrical niachine, also constructed by himself.. He ran a couple of wires through the floor to cellar from the room above, and as soon as would hear a rat squeak he would immediately 'recharge the battery, The first time he put the machine in. opera tion he 'slaughtered twenty-five rats in the space of three hours, and in two days the cellar was entirely'cleared of the pests. ' The annual reunion of the slirvivors of the Constitutional Convention of 1872 took place in Lancaster Thursday evening, about forty of the members being present. .Ex- Governor'Curtin presided. The! following officers *ere elected for the ensuing year: President, Hon, A. G. Curtin; secretary, George:N. Carson, of Noivistown; treasurer WiUiur~it E. Littleton; : of Philadelphia. - Al-. toona was chosen as the place for the next . meeting. Tlie reunion closed with a ban quet at the Stevens. House. A Reading;salocm-keeper-bias a curiosity in the shape of a cherry tree. in bud, and which he expeets to be in full bloom in a few attys. It, was produced by cutting off the limb of aicherry tree about three weeks ago, one end of which was placed in a bucket of lukewarm; water in a -warm room, the water being changed twice a ,day. The novelty attracts crowds of admiring viii tors. GENERAL GLEANINGS. The stockholders of the Second National Bank'of Jefferson; Ohio, meklast week and voted to go into voluntary liquidation and close business inconsequence' of the deist. cations of the cashier anditssistant Cashier'. The depositors will be paid in full;: and the' stockholders receive about fifty percent. nn their stock. This indicates that the de- 'faleation was atat,sso,ooo. In the United States Circuit ccoilli at New York last week, Selah C. Cara,' convicted of uttering and passing counterfeit United States bonds to the amount of $47,000; was sentenced to,fifteen years' imprisonment. The proprietor of the Markham house at Atlanta, Ga., has been sued for $16,000 damages by Rev, George s W. Baker and; wife, book agents. Their complaint is that while stopping at defendant's hotel a rat bit) Mrs. Baker's hUnd as she lay in bed,Tthe, band and arm became swollen- and canna, much pain,.and anxiety, besides causing her i to suspend her canvassing for three months.l ¬ice has been posted-:in tho shops of the Cleveland Rolling Mill Com=l , pany at Cleveland, Ohio; announcing thei closineof the Bessemer steel works until further notice. , This includes_the rail Mills, two rod mills, the booth mill, two bar mills, the puddling mills, the gliide mill and say:. eral smaller ones: At least one thousand men will be thrown out of employment. President Chisholm says that the shut-down, is op,cy temporary, and that when stock hasbeen taken andSomei repairs made they will probably resume , business. , .4 Sunday Morning, near Weeskville, Mon tana, three Chinamen were instantly killed and three others seriously wounded by the explosion of a quantity of giant powder which was being thawed out. - • In Baltimore on Saturday Rupert Spencer was sentenced to thirteen years in the peni tentiary for the killing of Robert Boss on ,the 27th Rt. September last. Mayor Grace, of New York, and his wife , were thrown from their carriage •by runa way horses on Saturday. They 'each ,sus tained slight binises, but • escaped more serioneinjurh-• • Old But Goo& The sudden apathy which seems to have over-takeu democratic civil service reformers, again reminds Mr. Townsend of his story about two dea cons, a narrative which is quite slim pos, tho Ugh somewhat musty perhaps, Deacon Ais represented as takitit Deacon Bto one side, and expost ating wifh him about hia family car:- riage horse. "Yon mustn't let your old hor*l , raze outi l there iri the lane'," said Deacon A earnestly; ; " it sets a very bad example for your neighbors, who look upou you as their moicl in, many things. They will see yonr horse running at large, and they will very soon conclude to turn out their horses and cattle rind pigs perhaps, and ft will not be long ' before the public highway is converted into a common pasture. You must' think more, ea con, about your :positkin anb ,the duty you owe the community and set a better exanakle• You really should take yonr horse in —and besides I want the grass for my yearling belt ersi" While the republican horse was grazing in the lane there was occasion for a great uproar; but now that 'the democratic heifers are in sight of the promised pastures lamantations are out of season.. - tins , Baum, X. Jan. 2.--4 e thirty convicts, mostly_ pewees, and:two whiti gmitaa, engaged at the Cow* tuutia„ 00 the westeni- North Catulink railroad; 'were -eroming the Tacktuifeive river on flaturtay. meminiriconvict discovernd that the flat boat ifas risk inward gave the alarm, which created * panic. The,ateti all rushed to -one end of the flat bolt, bearing jt down and'it immediately filled nip' sank. the Tucksseegee is swift and dire with rapids , juitbelow; 1 nen clung together in "knots, tho4e who could - not WWI diming to , twill,- who could. Some were carried into the rapids. and 4rovined. only tielVe con victs were &red. One of the guards was washed ashore below the rapids in sensible, but was , resuscitated!. An Oeein steamer Loi!L- Losoos, Jan: 1.--The British stea- . Iner Wheatfield,', 4 - Captain -Kundsen, from 'New York to Luth stranded on St. Catherines point last. evening in a thick fog. The crew was _saved with the assistanee of the coast guard. ,The cargo is strewn along the shore. and a great portion. of it 'will -be lost.' owing to the want of laborers to get it up the cliff, The steamer will prone a total wreck. Wasnixo.ros, Jan. 2.—Cape Town a‘lvices state that during the past two months 9,000 people there have been afflicted with small-pox, of which 2,- 400 have died. All efforts to suppres the disease have been unavailitg owing to the objection, of mimes - to vacci nation. IiPPLETONW CYCLpPADIL Tie Shia= ArD 613 BEST: 'Published byD. Appleton • it Co., Nos. 1, 3 if 5 Bond St., Y.' Y. . I find in the new edition of the American ci'6l , a great improvement upon its predecessor, excellent as the latter Was. Many topics nit treated in Erockhan.a, Chambers, and other , EncyclOpaidia works, are here treated with judicioui care. The scope of thC work is "so broad that seldom seek infoymaoon on any point without finding it herell In the department of re- . ligious and ecclisiastical life, it seems es pecially rich; while, in all dejairtments re lating to the development ail character of -our own country, itineets a 4tint certainly not relieved - by, any similar work. The maps are of rare value,and are as abundant in'number as they are good in artistil exe cution. The care otrevision, and even of rewriting, th. l.‘ writing, everywhere visible in - i Mew edition, can wit fa il to strike eve c_ one who candidly examines it as worthy of the highest reeognition. ' - . . ' 1 BISHOP 3. V. Hult,sr, Formerly President of Drew Theological Seminary. : ? % -.. I find Appleton' American bycloptedia a most couyenient, Comprehensire and trust worthy boOr of referrence. It treats the greatest rarietikof subjects, and edways with candor, anent 'singularly rich in nil that relates to Amrica. Its scientific , arti cles hit the happy trieflinm between too lit tle technicality dna too much, of it. The best authorities of England and the Conti nent of Euripe, especially France and Ger many, hare manifestly been consulted with Unceasing industry. I , Hos. puo. IlAscuorT,- the Historian, I have:Appleton? American Cycloiriaedia, and after a careful exatuination I am pre pared to' 'say that it is very much superior to the former edition of the work; sod, for the uses - which I lave occasion to maim of a Cycloptedia, is superior io every work of ,the kind with which I am acquainted. JOHN E. TODD, Pastor of the Church of the Redeenttx New Haven, Conn. \ Appleton's Cyclopaxiia his r the advents: of being made on the basis ot - farmer work, by-the same general editors as before, With all theilight& of experience.. Its ma terials Are Iteown to have been finished by a great tumber of able men,throughout the conntry—and the general editing is superb : , ly done. As opposed to the•C - Odeness, the inequalities, the high-flown lwriting, often observable in other CyclopediaS, there .is here, so far as we have observed, an admir able synorietery of plain. and unfailing ex• eelienee of style. The historical, find liter- articles, are eminently satisfactory, giving information not merely as to matters often mentioned in the newspapers, but treating,, with all proiortioned fulness, of questions arising - in the study of foreign as well as American Literature, and of ancient es well as modern history. The Saw:it:Mc articles T appear 'to be admirably sifted to the livaiits of tho general reader, and very attractive in style and treatment. ." REV'. J. A. BROADVS, D. D., Professor of Homiletics in the Baptist Theo " logical Bernina* Loteisrille, Ky. Charles E. Upton, the Rochester bank de faulter, is reported to have said that the cause of his ruin was the electric' storm of November 19.. IA dispatch orderift ,, , his brokers to sell his oil stock wag delayed nine hours and thereby his last chance to unload at a profit was lost.. Before"the i dispatch coal be delivered the bottom had droppc4 out of fl; oil rnarket. Chas. . Seltzre, Wrightsville, Pa.,says: "Brown's Iron Bitters -has done more for me. than I ever thought medicine could." The route of &Philadelphia letter-carrier on Christmas morning took him to the home of an elderly invalid who had no sooner re ceived her mail than she ~thrust into his hands without a word of explanation - two one hundred,ddilar greenbacks. The lucky postman withdrew in a stain of consterna tion from widelt.he has not yet recovered.' But he retains 'sufficient posseasion of his faculties to hope fervently that his route will not be changed (luting the coming year. • *Among the ladies , whe - may read this there may be several siCkly, ones, who have made up their minds to acit on the old saw! , which specifies that "What can't be cured,' must be, endured." While the truth of the' old proverb is self-evident it is just possible they may hal,re ern;tl in judgment as to the possibilities of e healing art outside of the medical profesai n; and before giving up in despair they ,better test the e ffi cacy of Mrs. Lydia E. i• inkhiun's Vegetable Com pound, which pinow attracting universal at tention. !I ) '-'l -. ... '....,-4,... - , Mr. Johui B. Stetson, a prominent hat manufacturer of Philadelphia, is `said this year to have spent $20,000 in making 'Christmas gifts to his 700 employee, not counting some other such trifles , as three twenty-year SIO,OOD life insurance policies, and a butt4o4Shares'of Badding and loan Association stock. • The gifts inclnde4 twenty-three gold watches, three, sealskin sacques, fifteen furditted cloaks, and several hundred pairs of kid gloves. Ili ieturn Mr. Stetson received a superb bronze Chim ing clock. worth $350, and some other choice mementos. A. Taman, Arizona, dispatch states that Henty Kissel, the city treasurer and agent of the Budweiser beer company at St. Louis, has gone to Mexico. Ifo is a defan!ter in $3,000. 011ossotan Asisat's gphaen. O'Donovan *no, _igmaiting of Wit Great German Reznidy to a 0413 d, ,•11* Ible'lia-has boon, cared of a vet*ar r ge Ognetinkia by Statc4i'li 00,-: sha rill gladly. ten you, it $u calf 879 . 13ashwiekavezy Brooklyn, N. Y,"- -.biteL.Nrio York Graphic. Rev. Edward" Everett. Na tells, With mush enjoyment; 'a Stop• of his ear:lf clericafesiserienm. He went, he says, to hiortluttu&ni toreach .one Sunday. In the vestibule of the church he was niet by a venerable,tnan, :Who said to'' I . "I'm drisidfrilly deaf, :sir, and I den% 'Always *Air illibells l 4 but wish You ; would. , speakthe. text loud, To; when I bear a young man's text I ittWi . Vircwhat he*going to say, and I-can sort 'of follow along." The compliments of 'the 'sesson-;-colds, cenglii, catarrhs—may be effectively dealt with by taking Ayer's Cherry' Pectoral. To n(loct prompt treatment for these ail inents is to ri* constunpti&z, which is said to cause one sixth of the mortality. of all civilized countries. For sale by Dl H. C. Porter & Son, Towanda, Pa. .-Ile engagement of Colonel:John J. Cop- . pinger, of the Uniftql States. Army, and . Miss Alice Stanwood Blaine, , eldest daugh: , ter of ex-Secretary Blaine (which has 'been known to friends for some time past), is now formally announced. It is rumored that the marriage will take place in February next in Washington. , Riches in , Hop Forming. At the present prices, ten acres in Hops will bring more money than five kindred acres in any other farthing; and, if there is alcoitsutner or dealer i'l2o thinks the'price of Hop Bitters high . , rernember that Hops are $1.15 per lb., and the quantity and qua-' lity of Hops in Hop Bitters and the price. remains the same as fonterlY. Don't buy, or use worthless stuff or imitations because. the price is less. • Lord Byron, in 'reference to a beautiful lady, wrote to friend—lAdy-1---bas been dangerously ill, but now, she is danger misty well again." American belles, when attacked by any of the ills that flesh is heir to, May - lie kept killing, and avoid being killed by tekbig Dr. 11.1 V. Pierce's "Favorl . ite PreCription," which banishes feminine weaknesses, and restores the hloom of health. r j.ty all druggists. inec:=ol At Bt.istou, Edward li. Sauips.-Al .%)n, manufacturers of leather hoard have failed. The 'firm has two or three factories; , ! Their Liabilities are 60,4,44 to be heavy. _ Throat. lirnuchtal, aint Lung Disiunian 'a specialty. Serid twi) stainps for larAo treatise giving *elf treatmept. ASS?CiA' Buffalo, N. v. - •; It OY A kAKING ..POWDER TAbsOlOtely:Puye l , - This powder 4 never varies. A marvel of parity, strength and wholesomeness. More economical Mari the ordinary kinds. and cannot be sold in competition with thn multitude of low test short weight, alum or pb*sphate powders. Soli. only In cans. BOTAL. BAKING POWDZIt Co.. /0 Wall street., R. V.: • - 20july82 . R . R .ELT ft' CREAM CA T A __, H_ _IIA L M effectually cleanses the nasal CINIS passage' of Catarrh %LAM , al virile, cauifing ormix _Eds . Kw*, ImmUonli. mum '",3 cap, Pkin a protects llays infla tm e m en, m ' - e t, . ' "II brans - from „ M " issassis -,• Urinal colds,' -cow ,' sisamiAssawas 1- , plate; be,als the • -,- ' 2 sores and, restores - the :,sense of taste e 1 snd sniell. Boned -, 4i rea tal lized res b u y lts a 1 few are ap'plitations. A ( 1 ' -::- thorough treatment .11 will cure catarrh, HAY Bay Fever, Lc ..I.;,tin. .. FEVER ecill"- for Olds ln . • the head. Agreeable ,to use. Apply by the littie flogerinto the nos trils. On receipt of 50c, will mail a pac kage. .... __. _ __ Bold by C. Porter S Son, pruggtots, TOxan ds, Pa. CREAM BALM CO., Owego, N. Apt/flB. FOR I :) ALTINTs. CtIRE • Rheumatism, Neuralgia,' Sciati c a, Lumbago, Backache, Heads e. Toothache. SoreThroal.lllwellilargs,lliprahmenalises. Burns. Sealda, Frost Bites. ALL OMER Boom' ram eau ACHIS Bot 4 by Druggists and Dealers everywhere. 'l , llty gone bottle. Plrectlons in n Languages. TOE C 11.% IMES A. COGELEIZ CO. (c'tleet.o. tv A VOlit.l.Et • CO.) Oaltirlal.. Ntt., LS.I. The florid Chilaged This liniment has been wanufactured and used for, venty-Ave years. and our intimerable certificates • of ire prove it - to be tralelled success, do A, o ff er it as stilliLtsrtial imedy,positively asserting' Many LinimenV.iliat calf taken into the- stbmach lt°u ci t e inl y ury efilnc in acting as a .ciftc when externally , ap. id. This beinktOmpoun. d eutively of 0111, is readt-. / absorbed into tbe system: giving prompt relief even in , cases of *cubs pain, caused' by Rheumatism. Neuralgia, Sciatica, Lumbago; Sprains. Bruises. Chilblains, or from any canoe whore a f.inituent is demanded. The' Oils are so penetrating that a Moroi:Wit use of - the.; Lini. /Wit will remove all stiffness of joints, of muscles, or pain arising from Mils tion or an y muse . Even in enrol:11c Spinal Disease, and P ara l ys i s, f req uent nee if *OD Linimentiwiii cif. set many cures., Finally, for pain in Aby part of th e body, use freely, with rubbing and' warmth and we guarantee -relief. You wilt And al trial of it the beat certificate cf its value. It is' the only'Lininient made entirely of 011 s t, mid We etuil leniti the World for ittaglial. Pride k 5 find 60, eentaiper bottle. EKILD'DY ALL DEALEus. Try Dr. Bayou. liiiproved Mandrake Pills. they are madeplesaint and effebtila. Nyc o 25 cents. IN ENE WANAMAKEWS. Still eniargiag :storci caSes'.,' ; Doubted. both fae z.. last „two yearit; more lhan dOubleil . ' them. tradelaC doubled ; and it crowds lea now. than at any time before; works more smoothly; giVes more general satisfaction ; and suffers fel_ver mishaps. It :is growing , faster than ever; and with every appear ance of a - healthy: growth: [Because people .find so I, much advantage in trading with us that they send to-4, us for whatever they want no :matter how far away .. EMI they • May be, if they can wait for it. , An ~ unhealthy gharlatanr woN rOWth ld be . growth by c 0 Otirbuilding is still tempo rary.? A part of it was once the Freight .Station of the Pennsylvania s' Railroad. It has been, , built arbund and upon,;,Untiikit looks more like a Turkish mosque on the, old .side; : while on the new, it has 'taken in so many. Ches tnut-street stores, that it looks like - anyother part of Chest nut.treet. We havin'tpade • Money enough in these five years- to .put up a building 'worthy =of the place and of the trade. You will be inter ested in seeing how we have turned and twisted these old buildings about, and how .inany.commodions and really elegant rooms we have, with - out so much as wall-paper between them. - • We are sending more and more .:by express add mail. The means of trading with out seeing are new and rude. You think it strange that it can be done at all. You wouldn't. 'think' of buying" . a farm without seeing it; or a horse, or 'cow, of. sheep. How can you buy everything your family. wears, every thing you use in yOur house, without seeing ? : Why„. simply because we tak Chestnut, Thirteenth and Market ." streets, and City-hall square, PhiladelPh ift• DRESS GOODS: Poivell& Co. Have just opened the greatest ''bargains in D#ESS GOODS. ever shown by them. Their stock is larger and better assotteti • thti.ir ever before. A NEW - FITRNITITRE AND RE , rAltuNci ESCABLIMIENT. BEYIIIOUR •Sllll,llEk. 7: Who has had 21 years experience in the furniture business, bait opened a store end repairing stop in Bentley's Block.- Jorst Ward, (opposite klceahe's marble yard) and Solicits the patron age of4he public. He has been In the employ of Messrs. Frost fez the past eighteen years, acid feels caitldent that •he cab give entire satisfic tion, REPAIRIN4 FURNITURE both as to QUALITY and PRICE. I shall keep a 'stock of Sew Goods, and will order per catalogdo for cnstorcers at a small ad vance from manutactuters prides. Call and see roe all'who are in want of Befairing of NoW (pods. raslolllt 8311TH. 2-kangthl SPECIAL NOTICE. POWELL Bdo. Would call especial attention to their im mense stock of SHAWLS & CLOAKS Just received, and which are now - ready fo'i inspection. Dec. 6 1882. " JOHN WANAMAKtR. ---- IL_ 111 - - ed. .4 , -. • .--:, nit people-patina/ get tiat lirldilt they is..— -s. • market for. They dfernaad,. 1„... • papers, and within the last few yens Journalism has made rapid strides. The.Tio.,, , s , a, -- , I - the day of it. ant issue, too! place in the front rank of preventive journalism, i.as ...;,. ,- - T ' ,4— the double-quics:step. and at this time is a bette newspaper than ever , it ii s ; .;,.g tt never sleeps and-never tab , * a - holiday,. As there Ire 'i'i dos, so there are '',. - .1,- j-;'' t ,: 41 Times In a year. The week-day edition of The Timis is of four pages, bolo.; in alr,r;. ‘ :.,:,,',' the busy man or the busy woman. Ths Ennally edition, of eight pages. conta44t a ~.,,. .' the best miscellany its well as all the news. The edisortil strength of The iirr.c.. :, ; dwelt upon—the fact that it Pi quoted more then any other paper in Am.riim If • ...!1, 'l ,- .! .-. of its excellence Withal direction. Nor need. the typographical! superiority be i., - ,r- t tinned-4Cr• it Is wily known as "the handsonett paper in the country." ! - - UPHILADELPHIA WEEKLY TIMES e..,oersWdistinet told. Dttqrbe Wegkly goes the cream of the daily i. , , , ti . .-. ~„ ;,. • -: same time it contains matter adapted to the wants of readers in ~..... America. It ciretdatesi, as' a 'first-c - faltily journal, in every State.' 'an.' 1'• r ' r' and it has subscribers in every part of the world ', The leading. feature ',f I t :`,. .'.',. x . is the 'ANNALS OF THE WAlt ," - This depart department embraces chapti,r. ~,f ,44. - .., ~,'„:". history, contributed. , by proininent actors in the War of the Rebellion, and It-1,..,, - !,.. a recognized depository of .such matter's whether from Northern or S.l.iti. , n. 1 The Annals will be kept fully up to the'high standard of , former years. •T Ei/Et. 1%114 THE DAILY_TIFES—TwOve.cents a week. Mal subscriptions, DoHari a year, fifty 'cents a month. 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MAKINGS. large stock Just Opole& in Colors and Black with Flushes, in both Silk and Wool ' in call Colors to ,match. POWELL &T CO. LINCOLN READS A POEN!. Honest• Old Abe Entertains his Cabinet with a Little Quota Von. "Now, gentlemen, yo 4 all have more or less , poetry in your souls; hate/. to this," and Abra ham ilincoln, then President, rose from his 'chair, Whig office in the White House, and read in trembling tones, which indicated his ovrii profound appreCiation of it; Dr. 0. W. Mimes' "Last4eaf," of which th e following are-two Tersest , . 'They saY that In ".his4irime, tie the pruningknife of time - • Cat him down; ' Not whetter man was found By the crier in:hts round • Through the town. ;Now the mossy marblee rest On the.lips that he bad pressed • In their blootro - And the names he loved tz hear Have been carved for many a year - ' On the tomb." Mr. 3lichael-Guilfoyle„ of Binghamton, N. Y. is not es old as the venerable Heston citizen of whom the Ise t wrote with such tender pathos, yet he is more than ethree score and ten.'- ••For the past eight of tho4e-years.". he writes, have been a perfect cripple from rheumatism, hob bling about as best I could with, my cane. I took l'ensan's Gomm Tonic, and am now suppl e and strouj as 4 gymilast. There-is no trace of the disease le'? about me.. • T • Mr. R. W, Mosher, wholesale druggist, of Binghamton, writes Messrs. discoz A: Co., of New -York—Proprietors of the Tonic--certlfying to Mr. Csuilfoyle's declaration. " }laying all the properties of ANY preparation of -ginger, Parker's Ginger. Tonic is a remedy of intluitely 4 greaterrange and power.. It cures .11 diseases arising from an Impure state of the blood or - imperfect 'digestion- Dyspepsia (and all its consequences.), Malarial Fevers,. Sick Headache:Kidney troubles, Bronchitis, an a eom moo Coughp and Colds, vanish at Its touch. Prices,ZO Chats and $1 a bottle.. Larger size , the cheaper: decl44w L4P r ...4.( i i . .b.0s - We have just reeeiv- ed it*ll 11:-ssortnientztil Lap Robes anthßorse .laiikets. 6, 151% , • • . . - 4 ~. NI I= = l e , • g , POWELL & CO In The be! : .t, Two Dollar, a ‘s, ar. _ Ra!lr:adr • ~"•••.. • •••••Zir.• BARCLAY R. R. TIME-TABLE, T.UiES EFFECT JAN .1 TUAINS" Ii,TH 10 4 %vs,. A c e 31a/1.! Von Sf P. 31. A SI Ar. Ton - at.la fp.; ';.f 9.115 /Jet', .... Mot, Ar • `• G. ( LI . E , • 5.5 M. 71.:111' 51aP,.n. town • . • • • 5.53' " Gretuw4,o4 _ - 5.{4' ti.iri •• .... Wee tor: • - *5.39 , •*14•314 •' • • *5.35 *8,35 •• ' Is cuuka • - . 1 .5 31: 8:31 ' 5.2 u, 8.15i?:14 , . - . Fpdt orPlan(-. Ar. 7 ' Indlcatea that tratLa do ro - A I . - I' aid ELWr, . 2 m 1.4 2 LEHIGH VALLEY & PENNA. AND .NEW YORK RAILROADS. LBRANGMIENT OP P.I.SSESGEP. TftkiSl. TO TAKE EFFECT OCT. 90, EASTWARD. STATION.B P.M. i:11. A.M. I'M /elegant Falls. 2 . 15 Buffalo .... . • ' 2.51 , 'J.: • Rochester • .5.17 7 1,7 , Lyons t; e (tenet%e '• S.-56 1p n Ithaca. - x :31 11 Auburn 11.1 c, ~ Owego ..... Ehnirs9.ls is Waverly ' 9.45 1 . .1'. I. 4 5ayre,...... .... ..... 10.19 2.1.: 4 Athens 1(4.14 4 I. a Mater . lowands Wysstikina Standing Stone ,•'• Rummerfield". •- Frenchtown Wyillusing • Laceyrille Skinner's EAdy gesboppen aleboopany Tunkhanuock f~tirange 1 Falls & /3 JIIIICUOU IVI;k ‘s•Barre.... Mancn,Chtink Allentown Sethle,hem Easton '• Philadelptria 'New York. WESTWARD. New Y0rk...... .... ..... Easton ... BetideliCni allentowu ..t.. .Manch 'CliunkL Wilkes•Badre.... L k B Jundtion. Falls LaGrange:...... Tunkhannock Meboopany..... Meshoppen Skiniter's Eddy. Lacerrille Wyalusing Ftenchtown Rummerdeld Standing Storm. Wysauking - lowanda • Ulster ..... Milan Athens • - Sayro.. .... WaviTly • Imira Owego Ithaca ....1..., Geneva Lyons .. ..... Rochester ... Buffalo • Niagara Falls MEI No. 32 leaves Wysinsing at 6:00, A.M.-. tawn fils. Rummerlield 43.23, Stand Jug nt.,uc Wynauking 6.40. Totrantla 6.51,. I:lHtf•r . Milan 7:16 Athena 7:25, - Sayre :A , ly arriving 8 r.u.„4.. M. Nn. 31 leaveii Elmira 5:15 I'. M., Waverly •'. - Sayre 6:15. Atbens 6:20, titian- A:3O. i'later • • A Towanda 6:.53, Standlog +1- re 7.14, Ilturimerbeld 7:22; Fienchtowu 7:32, ;Arr-o mg at Wyalnaing at 7:45., P. - M. lratna s and 15 run daily. Sleeping ca - ps..; trains 8 and 15 between Niagara Falls and Thug • delpbta and between .Lyons and New York w, out changes. Trains 2 and 9jalll between Buffalo and New Yorlrand Philad c11 1 .:•4 with parlor cars sotached: Wll. STEVENSON, sup:. ' ( SAYRE, PA.. Oct. 30.1852. ' Da. a: N. Y. It. TVISSOLITTION:—The firm colnWellesk Co., orWellesi &Fox, dozng t?:142-, mess at Wyainsing, Pa., Is this day diss,dve , l'i.y mutual consent. All debts tine said firm t. , be • paid to their lawfully.constitntetratt.arney. h - Ackley. and all claims strait* said Drat t presented to him for adjustment Nov . . 291141882.-4 k Gei j i - L..Rass DEALER L't- FidtlassCro6fis • • Siain S treet, opposite H. C. • And Bridge Street: . Fro comber 23th. 'raja. I will go"' A: , c' l • •es to all-arid as extra qualit3 id Ai/ I.:: GROCERIES, AND CHOICE Fl,Ouk From ttio beat roller milir • 1 offer at irlaoleaale all 'kinds of P. .u • tobaccos. alan - cigara, C3n4leS, ev. leg,' coffee, and apices of alt kit :. (la, and k.•: , •,,ni• 011; etc:. At tainutactustrs,' 4 dem _ SS ina MI MI El .& 9 15 9 MEM 10 46 2.3.; I(3' 5C$ =I 11.43 1:.; 1;2" 3 , 12-n 4., 1 .• 1.001 1.30 5.0". ..• 4:57 4.1 f, 0.5( ~" V. 31 . P.M S 30 P.M. A.M 111 4: '431 10.1. 11.10 METE RENE ; tir i ej . 3.10 , 0.54; ;;.4.-, . j 0,37 1. , ~ ..'4.411X1.0.1:. , 4{l 4jl;, 11:2:1 i • 4.31 1..31 171. • 4.40 11.40 5.•2 -5.41 12.40 .. 5.3.1 .... • • • 7.41 .... 4.14 9.50 4.10 .. 11.40 t.c.10 • ' .! 1.08 P.. 11. P.M. I.M WELLY J. 1. FOX. •