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8 r n:c physician-,
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TO 27 C1TLSEXS. OF XEW JERSEY AND
PENNSYLVANIA .
Apothecaries, DnrccisTS, Gkocebs asi Pri
vate Families.
Vlfe' Pare Cognac ISranily.
Wolfe's Pnre Madcrla, SUfrry A. Port "Wine.
Wolfe's Pore Jamaica and SI. Croix Knm.
AVolfe'a Pure Scotch antt Irish WUUktr.
ALL ltt HOTTLES.
I be" leave to call the attention of the citizen
f tiie United States to the above Wines and Li
quors, import -.1 by Udolpho Wolfe, of New York,
whoso name is familiai in every part of this conn
try fur the purity of his celebrated Schiedam
S:Iinajjs. Mr. Wclfe, in his letter me, speaking
of the purity of his Wines and Liquors, says: "I
will stake my reputation as a man, my standing
asameichant of thirty years' residence in the
City of New YorK, that all the Brandy and
Wines which I bottle are pure as imported, and
cf the best quality, and can be relied upon hy
every purchaser." Every bottle has the pro
prietor's name on the wax, and a fac simile of
bis si-nature on the certificate. The rtnblic arp
i respectfully invited to call and examine for them-
' 1 T 1 ....
teiv.t. ror saie at lietau ty all the Apotheca
ries and Groce rs in Philadelphia.
Geoi.ge II. Ashtox. No. 832 Market st., Phila.
Sole Agent for I'tilaJephia.
Pead the following from the New York Courier.
Enormous Business for one New York Mer- I
chant.-- e nre happy to inform our fellow-citizens
that there is one place in our city where the
physician, aputhecary, and country merchant,
can go ami purchase pure Wines and Liquors, as
pure as imported, and of the best quality. We
do not intend to give an elaborate description of
this merchant's extensive business, although it
will repay any stranger or citizen to visit Udol
pho Wife's extensive warehouse, Nos. 18, 20
and 22. Beaver street, and Nos. 17, 10 and 21,
Marketlield street. Iiis stock of Schnapps on
hand ready for shipment could not have been less
than thiny thousand cases; the rrjr.dv,"5rme ten
thousand cases Vintages of 1836 tolS5S: and
J ten thousand caes of Madeira, Sherry and Port
uie, btotcb ami Iris.i v his-ky. Jamaica and
THE WIXD.
The wind is a bachelor,
Merry and free;
He roves at his pleasure
O'er land and o'er sea;
He ruffles the lake
And kisses the flower,
And he sleeps where he lists
In a jess amine bower.
lie gives to the cheek
Of the maiden its bloom;
lie tastes her warm kisses,
Enjoys the pertuma,
.But truant like, ofteu.
. The sweets that he sips
Are lavished next moment
On lovelier lips.
length, their confidence retnrced.
visit of the de?peradoes was more
forgotten.
ana tne
than half i
t forgot it
but I swar.
Policy or Occtlons.
1 was readio? Governor
s nifsFse to
MISCELLANEOUS.
A Tale oftlie Texan Draros.
HUM," UUlVBy Ul A U lie . L U
mvslf. the time was so lony a?o :
if e am t a'.l tosethcr vit. cept IiU Jirand my uncle loor, ana wnen lgi inronga teat
During these seven or eight dajs Denny aod Ike Cowptr. and the've gone ucder." j part where he speaks of the evil effects of em
would not go out of sight of his house, but at Brand and Cowpcr were the twa who first j ploying money on our election?, the eHJgcn
last he was compelled to run all rUks, if any ' visited the cabin, and aftcrwarca led en their j tleman s-miled and related the f.!!owic;j an co
existed, and absent himself for the greater j associates. j dote:
part of a day. Cautioning his wife to obei vc j The others remembere-1 the circuir.staeces, j "It puts tne ic rnird," g aid he, "of a jenug;
the utmost care rfor the country was over- i now that it was recalled to their minds, and j clergyman I once knew, many years iace.
ran with desDerate cut throats and friTin 1 locked back to the evutt with man? a conrse ! who preached an eloquent sermon, in tha
BY WILLIAM EARLE BINDER,
. a;:
St. Croix Iturn, some very old and equal to any
in this country. He also bad three large cellars,
filled with Brandy, Wine. &c, in casks, under
GL.US.
d ASSOCIATION.
LAjZLPHIA.
'.iV.v'i.'7 Lif fthwitl En
' t.:'e Sir:: ti Di.t
u' a.i-l Epi'iemie
i 'i r the Cure of Dix-
dve;. gratis, by the
.ill whuaiq-ly by letter
i1d:tior., (age, ocvu
) i) 1 v. r--" i if ' treine
i, . ii.-.r::.
ruiitorri.cca.
"!'. IT
S ;
S.'.vU tl Oi-g-ias. an ! on
''S -n,pW'd in the Dispca
S -.-t'.-l ia sealed U ttc-Ts envel--.
T '.v or three stamps for
.vj-.able.
J." SK1LL1X IIOL'GIITON',
Harl A - nV.lon. No. '1
t.;:.V.-Pa- Pycrdcr
I HSAKTWKI.L, President..
iSS ! BARGAINS ! !
i i 'ii ! r -.-jctfully b;vg leave
c::.t.;i.s jf Ehensburg and vi-
K: r-'ttived, at his store
t-t cf Hlriii Sr. l J.,w.l'e StnrP
..; (jr.. ccrics, which he of-
f'-tj;; or country Produce,
- JiJ ut of the following arti-
22. TEA. LIOL&SSES.
SEG&HS. CHEESE.
iC0:j. ATJD THE
AND CORK MEAL
T'j,'' and we'l se'ectod
I Stationary, Notions
j Custom-Ilor.se key, ready for bottling. Mr.
j Wolfe's sales of Schnapps last year amounted to
one hundred and eighty thousand dozen, and. we
iiopeinless than two years he may be equally j
Miceessiul Kith Ins Urauc.ies and W ines.
Iiis business merits the patronage of everv
lover of his specie. Private families who wish
pure Wines and Liquors for medical use should
send their orders direct to Mr. Wolfe, until every
Apothecary in the land make up their minds to
discard the poisonous siniT from their shelves,
and replace it with Wolfe's pure Wines and
Liquors.
We. under.-tand Mr. Wolfe, for the accommo
dation of unall dealers in the country, puts up
assorted cases of Wines and Liquors. Such a
man, and such a merchant, should be sustained
a:r.iir.t his tens of thousands if opponents in the
United States, who sell nothing but imitations,
ruinous alike to human health and hapjiness.
September 12, lfe00.-8m.
MANHOOD,
How Lest, How Restored.
. Jn( FuVidheil, in a Scaled Envelope,
A Lecture on the Nature, Treatment ami Radical
Cure of Sjermahrrhoea, or Seminal Weakness,
Sexual Debility, Nrveusnew and Inv&lantary
Emissions producing Impoteney;"- Consumption
and Mental and Physical Debility. -
BY SOU. J. CfLVEBWBLL. If. D.,
The iinportaut fact that the awful consequences
of se'f-abuae may be effectually removed without
internal Medicines or the dangerous applications
of caustics, instruments, medicated bougies, and
other empirical devises, is here clearly demonstra
ted. and the entirely new and highly succest-ful
treatment, as adopted by the celebrated author
fully explained, by means ef which every one is
enabled to cure himself perfectly, and at the least
possible cost, thereby avoiding all the advertised
nostrums of the day. This lecture uill prove a
boon to thousands and thousands
Sent under seal to any address, post paid, on
the receipt of two postage stamps, by addressing
Dr. CII. J. C. KLINE. M. D., 480 First Avenue.
New York, Post Box 45SG.
July 25, 1SC0. April 11, 18C0.-ly.
K;j't attention to business to j
'i !i.irc of public patron- )
.-i-i stnek s tjrv-Ht and he
-"'j" i,;::er house iu town
KVAN E.
iS5:.tf.
EVANS.
1 IN MEXICO.
&AHS & SON,
:;rrire'1 from the East. an1
. uns ot tbensburg and
F uJS' cloth I c,
KjjyjuD, consisting in
Cles, Viz;
i-'J.ChOTllS. CAS!STMF!rtF:S
JixE-rrs. TWEEDS,
;XHLS, MUSLINS,
fevery style,
-s SHOES, HATS AND
SrN ARY, II AIID WARE,
I.SALT.&c, &c,
AlOr Articles a-i nr iiQimlYv
.. '- "men thev will dispose
v, , gantry pr-vluce.
i lUMI,"-S3 wil1 he carried on
i.?'Jti he done in short
"Msonabla terms.
isto.-10-tr.
lRATn :
' 01 and Qiaton. -
JOHN II. ALLEN Sr CO., NOS. 2 4
Chestnut Street, (south side, below Water,)
PHILADELPHIA. (The Oldest Wood-ware
IIocse, ix the Citi .) M-nufacturers and
Wholesale dealers in Patent Machine made
BROOMS, Patent Grooved CEDAR-WARE,
warranted not to shrink, WOOD & WILLOW
WARE, CORDS, BRUSHES, &c, of all descrip
tions. Please call and examine our stock.
March 4, 1857. ly.
IIILADELPHIA Wood MOULDING MILL
Willow street, above Twelfth, north side
Mouldings suitable for Carpenters, Builders, Cab.
inet and Frame Makers, always on hand. Any
Pattern worked from a drawing. Agents wanted"
in the various Towns in his portion of the State,
to whom opportunities will be offered for large
profits to themselves. SILAS E. WTEIR.
February 17, I858:tf
JACKSOX & CLARK,
SURGEON DENTISTS, JOHNSTOWN, PA.
"NE of the finn will be in Ebensburg during
V-J the brst ten days of each month,
during which time all persons dei
ring his professional services., can
find him at the office of Dr. Lewis, nearly oppo
site Blair's Hotel. - may25,l869tf
The Pamphlet Laws of the last Session of the
Legislature of this Commonwealth, have been re
ceived and are ready for distribution to persons
entitled to get them.
JOSEPH M'DONALD, Prothonotary.
Ebensburg. July 25, 18C0.-35-tf.
CV . MURRAY,
j Attorney at JLaiv, cocnioargt I'm.
j OF7ICE 01TOSITE CRAWFORD'S HOTEL.
V Imarl7,1858
Just previous to the Revolution, a bold,
fine looking, athletically built young man,
whose name was Luke Denny, made his ap
pearance in Texas, and offered his services
for the bloody struggle which was then about
to commence. Of course his offer was at
once accepted.
Throughout the war Denny rendered him
self particularly prominent; and no one man
did more for the indepcudance of Texas than
this young volunteer. Every body conceded
that point without a single qualification
Brave, bold, resolute and daring, he won uni
versal praise and admiration from all, from
the highest to the lowest.
At the conclusion of the war, he returned
to his native State in the East, promising his
new feiends, however, to come back again and
make Texas his home.
Six months later he reappeared, accompa
nied by a very pretty youog woman, whom
he introduced as his wife, and it subsequent
ly came out that he hal been engaged to the
young lady, who was a poor orphan, previous
to his going to Texas, and that his visit to
home was almost solely and expressly to make
her his wife he, too, was nearly alone in the
world. '
Denny's love for JIary that was his wife's
given came was only equalled by her love
for him, and the most casual observer would
hare epeedily noticed that the interesting cou
ple positively, idolized -ah thar , ,
On his arrival m Texas, Denny settled
down for a quiet life in a rude but pleasant
little home Quiet, however, he was not to
remain, as events soon proved.
One day when he was necessarily away
from his home, and Mary was consequently
all alone, a pair of villainous looking fellows
made their appearance at the cabin and de
manded admittance. Mary, it appeared, hal
discovered tho desperadoes (such was their
character) on their first approach, and in am
ple time to close, bar and barricade the doors
and windows.
It will be seen by this that Mary was a
woman of some resolution and presence of
mind, and in a measure, prepared for any or
dinary emergency.
'They look e7il enough, and yet may not
mean any harm," she said to herself, "still
as Luke says, it is always best to be well guar
ded. The house is strong, and I don't think
I have much to fear, though I really know
but little about such matters. As it is. bow
ever, I must do the best I can till Luko gets
back, which cant be long."
The men approached, knocked, and deman
ded to have the door opened. Mary took no
notice of them, but remained perfectly quiet.
Still the men knocked, pounded and cried
for admittance
Meantime Denny was rapidly approaching
his home. As he neared the house or cabiu,
for either term is applicable, the mingled
cries and knocking struck upon his ears, and
of course hastened his steps. In a little while
he had approached near enough to observe
what was transpiring. Halting in a conveni
ent place he watched the progress of events
for a few moments. Finally he stepped for
ward, and boldly confronted the outlaws.
That Is my house'" said be, in a fearless
tone; "what do you want pounding at the
door in this manner?"
The bravos seemed to feel that Denny was
not a man to bs trifled with, and after exchan
ging a rapid glance they altered their plan
accordingly, very respectfully protesting they
meant no harm whatever that they were not
evil disposed men, as their rough and unpre
poeessiog appearance might seem to indicate,
but all they desired was just a little rest and
refreshments.
Denny mistrusted the whole story, but as
the outlaws were very civil and respectful,
and he had no fear of any present danger, he
thought it best to humor the lie, and, for Ma
ry's sake, get rid of them in the quietest man
ner possible.
To his own familliar voice Mary at once
responded, and opened the door ; and after
greeting his wife and reassuring her fears
Denny invited the outlaws to walk inside.
The rascals at once complied, respectfully sa
luting Mary, and assuring her that she was
mistaken in supposing they meant harm to
any one.
Without maoy words, refreshments were
placed before the fellows, and, subsequently,
pipes were handed to them. After a good
long smoke, during which time they signified
their intention of leaving, thanking Mr. and
Mrs Denny for their kindness, and finally de-Darted.
Denny watched them until they were well
out of eight, then ehut locked the door, and
eat down to talk over matters and things ia
general with bis beloved wife.
A week passed, and, meanwhile, the Den
ny's rr mained perfectly undieturqed j and at
f--vrrr : r "r
reauccu to a neap oi asucs
her some instructions in case of danger, he
departed. ,
For the greater part of the day, Mrs. Den
ny kept iu the house, iut about neon tho was
compelled to go m ailing near by, for some
fresh '"Water. "-Arr. fc Tf-icful recoDLtisaucs,'
she veutured ' forth, necessarily, of course,
leaving the door open behind her.
The moment she disappeared out of sight,
which she was cooipelled to do to reach the
spring, a number of brutal looking ruffians,
among whom .were' the pair who had visited
the cabin before, cautiously stole out from a
cluster of trees in close proximity, and silent
ly made their way into the little house.
Less than five minutes afterwars Mrs. Den
ny returned, and unsuspectingly entered her
bojae. Arrayed before her she beheld the
outlaws, two of whom instantly sprang at her
the twain we have already referred to and
secured her person. The poor woman scream
ed and resisted, but all to no purpose.
"Now, fellows," cried one, we'll tie this
pooty creature up, and then search tho house
for the money. It's Eomewhar about, 'cause
I know he got it !"
Accordingly Mrs Denny was bound hand
and foot, and brutally thrown down upon the
floor. The outlaw? then commenced a regu
lar search of the premises,, and at last succee
ded in finding quite a sum of money, which
had been hidden away.
After helping themselves to various arti
cles of clothiog, and whatever elc they took
a fancy to, and gorging themselves with the
food and liquor which was stored away, they
wantonly applied the torch to the comfortable
little dwelling.
The scenu wbioh followed was of such a
character that we can hardly glance at it.
Maddened with strong drink, and their bru
tal passions, the fiendish braves turned upon
Mrs- Denny, and their evil purpose was too
apparent to admit of a doubt Bound and
gaggtd, the poor woman was powerless in
their hands, and afte'r suOeriog tho most name- I
less indignities, she was finally kicked and i
beaten uutil she was dead.
A few hours later Luke Decuy returned
home. Home ! he had no home now for
his little
oath and brutal jest.
Meanwhile the latk iranie c
.f Luke Denny ! on the impropriety of f-tvtding th
had bat n f.vuTu'Jv agitated: and for a time he i of the Ssboith in social vimis a ci
was hardly able to control bimself. though he j said, very common among young ten .'
made everv effort in his rower to restrain the j remeratr the sermon Trie?"
alDist-bi::l?n rn'a cf -Lis fciUsirs- At U. y, jw iicnar, perke'-r we. I" said
course ot wnicn hs fDk occasion to remark
e evenings
custom as he
You
length, however, he brought his terrible erao- she corporal, n J the
el
house had been
it e wul leave ; ci
tbe reader to imagine his terrible feelings,
when the whole extent of his calamity was re
vealed to him when he found his home was
burned to the ground and the dead body of
his dearly beloved wife lying stiff and stars
before him, and not far from his feet.
It was a fearful morucnt f-.r Luke Denny,
but his strong heart and iron cocstitution
withstood the ehock, ani he lived for venge
ance, which he madly swore to have, if ever
he could discover the-perpetrators of that
bloody and remorseless deed.
After burying the remains of his poor, dear
wife, which he did with his own hands, he
started off in search of the murderers, spread
ing the news wherever he went, and rousing
up the people far and near. Not having any
real knowledge of tbe culprits, however, it
was impossible 'o Gx the crime on any one,
and for years the bloody deed though un for
gotten and unforgiven, went unavenged.
Nearly two lustrums p,eed away.
On the spot where Luke Denny's little
house had stood; another cabin had been rea
red, and there, near the grave of hL murder
ed wife, the solitary, heart-sick man made
his home. Ten years should not have wro't
much change in Denny, for his age was still
under forty, yet he was gray headed, thin,
and hollow-cheecked, and as bowed and bent
as a man of three score and ten. Not the
weight of time had so greatly changed him.
but the corroding sorrow in his' heart, and
the deep desire for revenge, ever nngratiSed.
His terrible feeliDgs had made him aa old
man in the beydey of life.
At times Denny would shut up his cabin,
disappear from the neighborhood, and proba
bly be gone for several weeks, his restless
craving for vengeance driving him out in a
vain search for his wife's murderers. Never
did his burning heart know peace never
happiness.
About dusk one day, when he happened to
be at home, having just returned from a long
tramp through the cities, towns and wilder
ness of Texas, six brutal looking bravos ab
ruptly entered his cabiu and insolently de
manded something to drink.
The outlaws, without exception, were gray
headed gray bearded fellows, and quite plain
ly, were well advanced in life. All of them
we may as well state at once, had been prom
inent actors in the Denny outrage, but Luke
did not know that then, and as the bravos had
not been very familiar with the person of
Denny, and as he wa9 now so greatly altered
that his best friends, under the same circum
stances, would hardly have known him, they
did not recognize him.
Denny hated all such characters as every
honest man did, but, as the odds were against
him, and he could hope for nothing from an
open encounter, which would be sure to fol
low any demonstration on his part, he silently
complied with the demands, and then withdrew
to a corner, near his weapons, where he eat
down and hurried his face in bis hands.
For a tima the bravos paid no attention to
bim, but continued to guzzle the whiskey,
and to boast of their many rascally and bloody
... ... . . i
exploits. At length one ot the part? exclaim
ed: '"I 6av. fcllors. don't yer remember
the time we had somewhar in this neighbor
hood about ten years sgo ? I mean the time
we robbed and that little cabin of Denny's.
A paoty good thing we mado of it. too, and
finished off by knockiu the breath out of his
tion under, without attrac:ipg the ittetition
cf the desperadoes, and then took a long, in
tense silent lock at the bloody villains, and
ence more buried his face, now working with
passion, in his hands.
- In a few moments the outlaws demanded
more drink. Luke rose with alacrity, and
produced a huge bottle of the fiery stimulant.
The men. half drunk when they entered, now
knew no bounds to their degraded appetites,
and fell to with the avidity of confirmed drunk
ards as they were. Luke encouraged them.
but tbey scarcely needed it. In a brief time,
one by one they tumbled to the floor dead
drunk. In that moment Dennv might easily
have taken-thcir lives, but to his mind that
would have been poor satisfaction.
"Curse their black hearts, tbey must know
how to die, and by whose hands !" he hissed
out between his clenched teeth, a he stood
and surveyed- the prostrate bravos. '-Ten
years I have lived and looked for vengeance,
and the hour has come at last !"
Though his heart ws all on fire, Luke de
liberately get about carryiog out his designs.
Procuring a quantity of rope, he divided it
into six lengths, and then tie 1 the hands and
feet of the six outlaws, after which he car
ried the six doomed men outside; and
etandiug them upon the ground, with their
backs resting against tbe trunks of trees,
there lashed them- Then, arming himself
with riBe, knife, and pistols, he kept silent
watch until about the b-eak of Jay, at which
titne the drunken bravos bf gan to show a'gns
of returning ctnciousness. Hut who shall
describe their astonishmnt and cn-t.-m-tie-n
when they fully awoke and were enabled
to realize their situation ?
Before them stood Luk; Denny, the very
embodiment of the direst vengeance
"Ten years ago, as you made your brags
not long since, a house was robbed and burned
in this nrihborhojd, and a woman mutder-
E eI:Tss- To tiO dT! e fiercest and 'most
intense tones. "1 hat house was mine mat
wo.T.nn was my wife ! Look at me ! I am
Luke Denny, if you don't know me ! For
ten years 1 have lived in the hope of venge
ance aEd the hour has come ! By your own
confession you arc convicted, and now may
the L'jrd have tnerey on your black s mis I
The men begged and pleade 1, and threat
ened in the wildest manner, but Denny was
inexorable ; and without heeding their cries
he levelled his rifle at the losoui of olc of the
laws.
was a teuate looting mar.
cles." -
rrynian, toc.' he
zui wore fpecta-
"Well, as I was saying." continued my
Uncle, '-he Lad been preaching against th
evil of going to see the girls cn Sunday even
ing when after service La tock me by the
arm, "Come, lut us go to the deacon's and
spend the evening with his daughters."
"How." cried I, with mcuh surprise, "is it
yossitle you can make ?neh a proposal to me,
after the sermon you have just concluded?
"Pshaw?" says he, "l only made thos re
marks in order that we might have better
chance ourselves!"
screachinT ou
"Vengeance !" he fiercely said, as he bro t
hi 5 weapon to bear.
The next instant the crack of his rifle re
sounded far and near, a wild scream filled tbe
air, and a red stream spirted from the bravos
breast.
"Yen seance '"
Six tiaie3 Luke Denny pronounced that
dreadful, ominous word six times his uner
ring rifle answered th sound.
Screeching and screaming, supplicating and
blaspheming, the six grizzly outlaws met the
fate which their remorseless deeds had brought
upon them
"Now, ore look at the grave of Mary, and
then come what may 1" muttered Luke, as
be strode away from the spot.
A day or two afterwards the carcasses of
the outlaws were discovert but the cabin was
shut up. and Denny was nowhere to be found.
The people thereabouts were quite familiar
with Luke's story, however, and knew that a
d-.ed cf vengeance had been done at last.
Subsequently the Mexican war broke out,
and it is said that Luke Denny met his death
on one of the bloodiest battle fields.
Bishop Ames ami Newspapers. In bis
address to the conference, just before reading
out the appointments, Bishop Ames alluded
to the various methods by which an itinerant
preacher might render himself useful, among
others he spoke of circulating newspapers as
an important means of doiog good. In bis
first circuit, some thirty years ago, he hal
been very active iu this direction, and he said
he gave to his members as a reason that they
should take newspapers, that he had experi
ence as a school teacher, aad that it was his
deliberate opinion that two dollars spent for a
good newspaper was of more value as an ed
ucator iff the family than ten dollars paid to
a schoolmaster for tuition. "And," remark
ed the Bishop, "thirty years" observation
has but confirmed that opiuion.
Tapering off Sharp. A worthy gentleman
Maj. , was once placed ia charge of the
Penitentiary in the District of Columbia.
He accordingly had the inmates paraded in
the yard, and. with a graceful gebture, com
menced a speech to them, as follows:
"Gentlemen hem? no, you are not gen
tlemen. Fellow citizens heml no, I'll an
swer you are uot fellow citizens. Convicts?
I have just been appointed by the President
of the United States, warden of this Peniten
tiary. Now I wish to say to you that it is my
design to have everything coiducted here in
the most orderly manner, and I would like it
to be understood that the first rascal of you
that makes a fuss shalbbe 'kicked out of the
establishment.
Great Accession.
The Davenport (Iowa) Gazette fernirhes
the following interesting local statistics of tbe
town of Le Claire:
As an instance of the rapid increase in Im
portance and population of tbe Western coun
try as in instance of the cheering abundance
of the crops of Scott county as an instance of
the soundness of tbe people of Le Claire on
the go-fe question we chronicle the fact
we point with fe clings of just country pride
to the imposing fact, that the full number of
forty births have taken plice in the town of
Le Claire wkhin the last ten days! Talk
about your big potatoes; about your wheat,
forty bushels to the acre: talk about secession
aud disunion, ar.d such stuff that ain't noth
ing compared wi:h this mighty vindication of
Iowa progress and Iowa institutions. Forty
babes in Un days; forty .homes made happy;
forty jabi'ant fathers; forty cradles on - reck;
forty thousand screams! Jerusalem, what a
country! Tbe doctors say that the good
mothers are as well "as could be expected."
thank you; aud the children are all smart,
healthy, pretty, able to draw their regular ra
tions, and principally girls.
KIst.IitrtIie ISantlKoaiest Girls.
j-M&3So"W caudate, for an office f
J hih trust in a ertrn Sta'o, wha ts "up to a
thing or two. and has a keen appreciation cf
live beauty, when .bout. to set off on an elec
tioneering tour recently." said to his wife, who
was to accompany hint for the pruienlial rea
sons: "My dear, in a? much as this e'eetion is a
complicated one, and the canvass will be close
I an anxious to leave cothinir undone that
-would promote my popularity, and so I have
taougLt it would be a good plan to kiss a
number of the handsomest girls in every place
where I may be honored with a public recep
tion. Don't you think it would be a good
idea"''
Capital!" exclaimed the devoted wife,
"and to make your election a sure thing,
while you are kissing the girls. I'll kiss an
equul number of the handsomest youo ' men
It- J O
se!
The distinguished can iiuate, wa believe,
has notsince referred to this pleasing means
of popularity. a
A story is told of D ck, a oVky in Ken
tucky, who was a notjrious thief, so vicious
iu ihl respect that al! the thefts in the neigh
borhood were charged fo him; on oua occa
sion, Mr Jones, a nchboi of Dick,? master,
called, and sail that Dick must be sold out of
that part of the country, for he had stolen all
his (Mr Joues"; turkeys. Dick's master
cculd cot thick so. The two. however, went
into the S.dd where Dick was at work, and
accud bira of the theft
"You stole Mr. Jones' turkey' paid tbe
master.
"No I didn't massa," responded Dick
The master persisted,
Well," at length said Dick "I'll tell yea
massa, 1 didn't steal dem turkeys, bnt lart
night when I went across Mr. Jones' pasture
I ew one of our rails ou do fence, so I brought
heme do rail, and confound it when I coma
to look, dare was nine turkeys on de rail!"
VQ. An ingenious attorney, who always
ma le it a point 13 gtUthe case, was applied
to y a man who had stoleu some poik, to de
fend bim. Accordingly, in his tL?ml inven
tive way, he ;uincd the principal evidence oa
which tbe plaintiff relied, and the jury brought
in a verdict not guilty. After the verdict
was declared, as the fellow was leaving the
court houe, he whispered to his attorney thus:
fcquire, what shall I do with the rork. for
I have got it yet?" "Eat it" replied the
lawyer, -for the jury say you did not steal
it."
How to keep apples from rotting: Plaee
I htm in a dry cellar with a family of children
Z3" A good looking fellow stopped at Ma
jor Bell's hotel, Cahawba. Ala and ordered
his baggage down to the boat, and went down
hiniself without pavis? his bill.
iaii the Major: "Sir, you trust sot leave
without paying this bill. I cannot afford ti
hire serreuts. and pay for provisions, and
board people fr nothing!"
"loa cant:
"No."
"Well, why don't you sell out to somebody
that can then.'
57" An enraged gentleman, addressing,
from his chamber window, a youth who had
beep, serenading his daughter half an hour,
aid: "You are a great bore, and I think
you mean to keep on boreing until you get
water." addiug 'here it is,r emptying a pitch
etfull upoa his head.
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