THE JOURN A
Coudersport.
Thursday, April 18; 18
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M. W. 3fcALARY,EY, Emtr:oi.
SW - GARDEN SEEDS A Choke
variety, fur sale at the corner store of P.A.
Stebbins & Co. •
,STATE CONVENTION.-A! , a meeting of
the State Central Committee, held at Elar
risburg•on the 9th inst., the 26th 'day of
June was fixed as the day f,r holding the
Union State. Convention. It will meet on
that day at Williamiport.
Ifir The Pennsylvania LegiSlature has
passed a bill making eight holrs a day's
'wink. It declares. that period in be a le
gal day's labor in 411 cotton, woolen, silk,
paper, br.gging and. flax facioriiA and the
same shall be the case in all contracts for
mechanics and day laborers. -The Provern
or has nqt yet . approved the bO'although
there is no doubt of his approval of it.
JO" The Legislature bas Passed a bill
abolishing the former State :taxes upon
money and other personal ,prOperty, and
substituting in their place a of $300,-
000 upon the county authorities. This
sum is to be apportioned am o ng the re
spective counties according to the assessed
value of property therein, and":will be paid
out of the county mit The State tax upon
real estate was removed a yearor two ago,
and now the whole system of direct taxa
tion for State purposes is a thing of the.
past. Sufficient 'revenue .to: limy 'current
expenses and interest is ohtaini from banks,
railroad cdrnpanies, and othermouey-mak
ingassociations.
• jar The resolution beforOhe Legisla
tureproviding for the detection and' arrest
of the murderers of -Nomr and Ann Am
ZOOK, two citizens of this Sttite who were
foully dealt with last October, in Mississip
pi, has failed to pas•, a DemOciatic mem
ber, at;the . last moment, objecting it off.
It would seem that the Was if the Penn-
sylvania Democracy on 'reconstruction co
incide with those of the Idissoini brigands.
--Phila. Press.
* The LegiNlature of Ohio. have not
'only 'passed the resolution subMitting to the
People the question whether: the word
!'white" shall be stricken from the Con,li
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tution, but they 'have done mere,lhey
amended ihe iesolution so as) to make the
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newt constitutional amendment - digfrancbise
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desertersi 'This is,. perhaps, la natter : of
more practical moment to Most!of the North
em .States than the question of colored
suffrage. More than this, it indicates the
resolute determination of the free people of
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this country ' to hunt down and exterminate
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this most cowardly class_ oft all traitors.
They_ have no right, i to live; in this land,
and they are not wantrl. : We call .the
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attention of tue.Democr, Li and deserters of
Pennsylvania to this a / ction, Of the Legisla
ture
of Ohio. It is a pregnant warning, a
promise of what is to come.
Ara' The Democracy haye not yet re--
covered from the shock given .to, their
nerves by their little eight hundred Note
victory in Connecticut. The' rural Demo
cratic press . is ‘bOdti itself. ; Our country
exchanges come to us covered all over with
rain; ant roosteq.l and excited .chickens iii
every shape andl condition.! Cocks that
Lever crowed when the 01;i of Gettys
burg went down ton a country saved, and .
our Commonwealth was made illustrious i
forever in history- 1 ,-- ; cocks thiti.never crowed
When Atlanta was blazing and Richmond
- was falling—cockst.hat never crowed when
the gates of Libby Sie - re . OPened and the
prison dcs.rs of A ndersonville unbarred,noty
flap theirdisloyal iv'ngsinevery little disloyal
sheet. And why I 3ecause JOSEPH R.HAw-'1
LEY, a veteran soldier of the Yolunteer army, I
who, for four. lotig, year stood in . the
trenches of Richmond between Penusylv,a- '
nia and - danger, has been tiefe.ate.l in his'
own State:--P Aida, Press. . . -
Mr. Greeley has presented-an ele
gantly bound copy of his 4imerican Con
flict to Governor Geary, who one of the
conspicuous . characters the n -scenes it go
faithfully describes.
tar Mr Sumner, a few days ago, made
a motion to expel Mr.. Saulsbury from the
&nate. A correspondent' tells how this
movement was. received • its ; miserable
subject: ' •
• "During the Executive se sion Saulsbury,
who had becoine very dr ink. came over
k•-towards Sumner,` and assumed a threaten
'fug attitude, gekticn . lating and announcing!
his intention of having satisfaction out of
t t l i
Samner for introducing till resolution for
his expulsion. ! The•Assis nt Serg..ant.at-
Arms. promptly interferes ; and with the
assistance' f one of the S natUrs, got him
into,the coat-room, :where attu nearly di
vesting iiiinelf of his clot} ing, he lay down
upon the floor and remai .1 until the close
of- , '' , -4 , -; , in, when, the. , oorkeeper took
iiin:l borne' .
JUT A Union State , C ! nvention for
Arkansas was held at
zlo Little !Rock on the
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3d instant. Radical r lutiOnS approving
the Congressional pl
i n of reconst r uction
were adopted. A Sta l l? Central Commit.:
tee was., appointed• and 'directed to estab
lish Union -organizations thro 1 bout the
Committee State. °The. Com4esz:t Appoi ed to wait
6.13 Gen. Ord reported dug, be artily ap
proved ibe object . off !.he Con • ration and
desired to co-operate with then! 1 '
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sex. The negroes
Richmond by a Para'
on the 3d instant
e throug
he Rich
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quirer says: "'Mei
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small, of numerous I [(
gingerbread and olivf
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‘tneaniwhite' cletben,•formed,
paraded in the squads of thei respective
societies they rePres i e l i nted." 71his fling at
the "gingerbrerld an olive" fOiks iscli•ei
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dedly personal. AV y shouldn't the F. F.
V.'s be represented 1:f they want .to be/
They have been tlia 'ruting d a . ' •s
too long
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.to be turned out of the parade now.
negroes,
ilors---bl'
with a
rif" The Lindall libtel at St. Louis, the
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largest building of its kind on this conti
nent if not is the worhl Wl:stolidly destroy
ed by fire last Saturday; niAt. There is
much mystery about the origiii of the fire.
But it is supposed to hale orighiated in 'the
fifth story 'and seems to 1 0 ., r , obtained
siderable headway befoiidiscorered.
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hotel originally cost sooo,oooland ilie
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tat loss in building furniture Jle.. is esti
ted at $1,600,000.
lila The sprospecti.iof die! Democr,
party South are snout as good as
chances of the redemlition l of rebel s
plasters "six months afterthe atificati.)l
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peace between. the Confederate Stott '
the 'United States of America:" I
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ivr The Democratic press all - over the
laud have been pretentiously calling On the
colored, population to note the fact thug the
Ohio Legislature refused.t l o submit to the
people a vote on striking out the word
, 'white" from their Conktitution, ' 11 - fill
these man pipers inforMl their coior'ed
readers that the Ohio Leislature has fe
cinded their action,
and seiitt.hequestrn
to 'the people? Will this l e papers. note,
too, for their own consideration, that t cis
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step was taken • &fore the l I
~ r esult of the
Connect;cut eleclic;n had p roved ifs 'ie.
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res. , ity and' ensured the 'passage of the
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amendment before the people? (
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rm. Thdireturns i !ofthe New Yofic c n- i
sits of '1865 have recently been pnblished.'
They indicate a slight decline in the pop
ulation,' of the entirci . State, as well as of the
leading city, as compared with. he returns
of 1860. This unexpected result is t.rnb-'
ably owing in part' to the fact that while
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the compensation 'of the United States
marshals and assistant marshals : was egu
hated by the number, of persons returned,
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the State census-takers were paid by the
day. It is also .Probable that i in 1866,
after tho terrors of draft and' ' they ipress
ure of qle internal revenue taxation had
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been felt, there was ar greater ispOsition
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among heads of families to ma false or
incomplete statements.l t •' 1. -..
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tar A great war in Euro e Teems to
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he quite probable, although it may be
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postponed by neotiation, the : difficulties
aPpear to b 9 entirOy, too deeP-seated to be
overcome in this Wilk viithout l oirie mate
real change of policy on; the part of one or
more of the great Powers. Prussia has,
resumed the old tasSian alliance, and Aus
tria is •raVitating in the same direction
- through the irregular i plan of a strong
friendship for Prussia. llf thosethreegreat
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Powers reconstruct their alliance in conti
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nental Matters, Franceand Eriglatdi must
either anticipate a greater wai : than ever . ,
lor else they must abandon all . innbition to
control European laffairs to their Own in
terests. England professes to have done
the latter, and hits thus far Managed to
keep out of the Italian, Danish and Ger
man wars. BUt I a great co mplication is
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once more threatened, from which her own
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people will not let her keep aloof; for the
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obvious reason that it concerns the fate pt
Turkey and the road to Inditi.i • ,
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ser Immigration to this county' from
Europe is very large this spring, thO..gli
it may be impeded by a late!order of pros
sia withholding passports to young :men
until they. shall serve twelve years in the
army. Very few of the immigrants arriv
ing golSbuth, notwithstanding the effort
made to influence, them in that direction
.
A large proportion,l mainly Mechanics.
manufacturers and li l borers, remain near
the coast, because the, feel the need of lin
mediate employthent, This is one of the
causes ; cheapens labor in all that sec
tion, enabling proprietors Of mills and shop-.
to compete sucti•ssfully with those farther{
inland. Must of they immigrants who an.'
farmers proceed directly to the west, mans
of then, expecting td m
setae near friends ,It
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acquuiaences who ipve preceded the.
Par The rebel GeneralnJohnson pub
lishes a long letter defending himself and
Stonewall Jackson againSt imputations con
tained in Cook's life of the latter. Among
oth-r things speaking of the first Bull Rim
battle, he says:
Most of the rebel troops regarded it
deciding the• Whole question and ending
the war. 'and thousands of ihern left . the
army and went home. The Union army,
he says iras "less disor4anized by, defeat
than the Confederate army by its triumph."
th 4 fall of
irr It is announced that . President
Johnson has resolved to:appoint none but
Democrats ... since the cimnecticut'electi+.
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y
The Democratic party has a pretty hea
load to carry since tlui .rebellion; but it
hardly deserVed the sad fate of Johnson's
friendship. (This last straw would break
the
the back of any camel that had aback•lto
break. • I 1
that city
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ond -
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great' and
cic, brown,
, 'pub of the
qi Nile and
Where is! Our Northern Boundary'?
If the Huse of ll&Presentatives Makes
the necessary appropriation to consummate
the purchase of territorY from . RUtisifi, con.
templated in the treaty between the Czar
and the Unite 4 States, the people of Ore
gon and vfat;hington Territory, now u
garded as Veing on our extreme northern
boundaries, will become - Sontherners. That
portion of.our country*Which we haVe been
accustomed' to speak of with so much j re
spect. "the great Northwest," is t'ae'gi i ;eat.
Northwest
,no longer. Stopping at :the
line of 49rdeg. north 14tittale; its relative
position upon the Pacific coast will hereaf
ter he central. We haVe added a very lex
tensiye coast hue north 'of' it, which would
have . been continuous hid the Polk adrnin
istration adhered-to the original programme
of "54 deg. 40 min. or fight." As it is
we quit the Pacific at 49 (lea, and resume
again again at 54 deg.4o l min., the inter.
mediate space beirg filed by British pos..
sessions. Commenting on these facts, the-
Washington Chr onic(e says our people
have faith in the manifest destiny of our
nation. They look to? the eventual ab
sorption of the whose NOrth American con
tinent, and the Senate has undonbtedl)
gratified a national instinct by ratifying .the
treaty for the cession by Russia• of her
Arnerh an possessions to the United States.
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p of
kind
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ANOTHER BID FOR COLORED 'VOTES.-
The Dernoctacy held a Convention. at
Nashville, Tennemee, on April Ist, at which
Judge Grnt presided. Judge Whitworth
and •Mr. Williams, a colored man, were the
principal speakers, the former enforcing the
views he recently put :forth in a letter re
cpecting the policy' of accepting the situa
tion, fully recognizing the negro as a ciii
zen and voter, and inviOng• him to partici
pate in political meetings. and Mr. Williams
taking. ground that the owners of the soil
and the laborers are identified in interest,
and should co-operate for thegood of each
other and the country lie believed the
Southern men were idle nearoes' best
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friends. Williams is ifrom Pennsylvania,
and has served iu the,ederal army. The
I convention adopted a resolution reque.steng
colored voters to hold a meeting and
ap
point delegates to the State 'Convention,
which assembles at Igashville.,on the 16th,
to nominate a candidate for Governor. It
seems the Democrats faro after the negro
in all parts of the country. •
EXPULSION" OF SAIULSBURY.—A resolu
tion bas'been presented in the U. S. Sen
ate to expel Mr. Saulsbury for habitual
drunkenness The poor diTraded wretch
is totaliy unfitted to perform the duties of
a Senator, though !lei manages to niake a
speech occasionally iti l favor of the Demo-1
cratic party. The Democracy have but a
very few Senators, t hut the character of
these few is such as to disgrace the country
tom,. Senate' . Wiieon , .of Massachusetts.
visited Richmond and Petersburg last
week. At Peteisbuie he was waitq.d on
by deputations of citizens, black and white,
and by the !peal authorities, and invited to
make a speech. He complied — with the
request and delivered,an excellent address
to an immense conciurse of people The
'Republican party shpuld make a point of
sending prominent representative Men, to
hold meetings in all parts of the Soath•
It' would remote the erroneous impression
u'tder which the niajoiity. 'Of , the white
,
people in that section, are; suffering.
fririgo less a person than Caleb Cush
ing is the eulogist oflCharles Sumner. In
his published arguMent on the Meade case,
Mr. Pierce's Attorriey General begs lea‘T
to read from a recent:, report of the chair
man of the Senate committee on Foreign
Relations: "Not only because of the emi
nent ability displaye:d in the report itself,
and of the all compri,ehensive.knowledtve of
public law possessed by Mr. Sumner, and
his great. experience in public aifairs, but
because of the force and truth with which
he enunciated the doctrine; I 'ilia I pre ,
Pntly propose to prove by citations froth
law books." ,
Sig - At last a Collector for the 18th dis
triet has been appointed in place of George
Bubb, and as he appears from , all reports
to benworthless sort of fellow be will no
doubt please Andy Johnson if he dOn't . any
pne else, He 'somes-.frorri Tiegi 'and of
him the• -Agitator, rys : "The strife for
the Collectorship of this. district !las result
ed. in the nomination and conftrmation of
Mr. H. A. Guernsey, formerly I Sheriff of
this county. The news lashed the Tioga
public into such a storm of indignation as
we-have seldom witnessed. The -•dissatis
faction is universal, without distinction of
party. '
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"A brief history
. of the matter may not.
be out of place.- After the rejection of
R. Campbell,
_Col. N. A. Elliott, of Tioga
county was nominated to the Senate. His
confirmation would have given as much
(pr!obabli more) satisfaction to . the people
of this county, as:that of any men in it of
the ranks of the Detnocratic party. He
was rejected.. Mr. 'Hepburn McClure, of
LYcoming was also nominated arid rejected.
Ail:,
mountains.McClure was as unobjectionable as any '
ra, n of his party south of the mountains.
Tlien came the nomination and confirms
tioln of Mr. Guernsey, and folloWing it the
in hlnatiun of the people without distinc
,
ti nof party. We but repeat the popular
ve diet when we say that it was an appoint
mnt not fit to be made. We' shall not'.
'say more than that his fellow partisans are
as greatly outraged by it as Anybody; and . ,
what stronger language of censure than
this• can We employ !
."The question now is what was our Con
gressman, Mr. Wilson, about that this con
firrmation was permitted? The nomination
he could not control . It was not possible
to get a radical.republican nominated. But
unless affairs are entirely changed in the !,
Senate, he could have controlled the con
firmation.. .The people lay the responsibil
ity at his door; and there it must lie until
he oan show that he did his utmost to com
pass the rejection of the nomination. We
confess to an afflictive 'disappointment in
the result. It was too sudden to be believ
ed. When the - ne xs of the nomination
reached us we could but laugh at the 'ab
surdity-of the thing. -being- reasonably pgs
itive that it would be rejected. The pub
lic now await Mr. Wilson's explanation. As
to justification, that is hardly possible. No
man can justify the appointment of an open
and boaiting traitor to the government
during the war: but add to this the charges
freely preferred against the. appointee in
every community where he is known and
the matter is inexplicable."
IM - A correspondent of the German
town Telegraph has prepared the follow
ing comparative table, showing the politi
cal revolution in the northern tier counties
of this State during the last twenty-five
years. It gives ehe majorities in the coun
ties named for Shunk and Markle in 1844
and for Geary 411'1866: •
Markle. Geary. Clymer
Bradford • '568 . 3858 _-
Crawford 510 • 1745
Erie • 1294 3189'
Jefferson
Jefferson • 110 103 /
M'Kean 109 163 /
Potter 305 729 /
Susquehanna 767 1448
Tioga •• 956 3161/
Venango 3543 91A/
Wart en
364 1115
/
3955 1294 / 16425
rio 1294 aildShunk266l
niaj. 2661 Gain, 19,036
Deduct
Spunk's
gal° polls a larger vote than Chi
e thousand / men are idle in Pitts-
—Bu
cago.
—Fig
burg.
-Fu
tory.
'ton, Ohio, is to bare a woolen fac
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Zion eliapel, l at Saratoga is to be re
built:
—Base / ball arpusesNew England just
now. /
gives $lO,OOO foi relief of the
South. I
The machin!e moulders oti Albany are
on is strike. • •
—Deaths in Boston during the year'66
numbered 4,379 J
--The tower cif the abien g o water-works
building if tobel4o feet high and 24 feet
square.
—At Denver Colorado, the mercury de
scended to shirt degrees below zero last
month. - . .
tivo irds the usual number of
logs will be cut in Maine, during this sea
son. • '
—A Virginia paper tells a new way to
pay old debts--4natnely, stop drinking and
go to work.
—Nigh four millions of dollars are em
ployed in trade at Hartford.
—Thefiumers of Iliiuois leave all their
farm Implements and their cattle out iu the
snow and thaw of winter and spring.
—Clean wheat straw is selling. for $2O
a tun, do gret is the demand for it among
paper rn.nufacturera
shoals in, the Kettehec
river at.= to tie' at once cutaway, and. a
chaucier p redged seven feet more in depth.
tide :to be sold Very
Low on thel eady-Pay
ystem
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Has added ! and will 'cpntinue toaddto lids stock, complete -asbortml
in; 1;0041s:
re New. Go
.MADE CLOTHING, 'BOOTS& SHOES, H
:iRIES, PROVISIONS, SUCA R S,
, FLOUR SALT, ; FISH, PORK, T
CANDIES, NUTS, FIG, RAISINS,' &c.,
! GIVE, HIM' A - CALL
pill be sold LoW for READY-PAY—CAsz:
READY.
CRIDC
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Goods
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Firm j Tviiith. New Good
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WEI 3 NELsoN
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Having opened 2 1)1. 3 - Goo,ls and General Country Store in the iui , linp• ifo rm ,.6. 7
occupied as a Pust Offiee, ou the cornor•of Main ankt Thad Stteets,.iu ilutnier port,Pa.;\
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an: now' prepared to furniA purchasers with
Dry
\I Goods, Dres s .lGoods, Boots itk,Skoes,
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Cloth'', b
0., Hats ~: $ . 3 Caps . , - Hardware,
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Trooden-ware, Cutlery,- Xotitins,
CO tiz. Sec , arS )Teas, Fish y Pork
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Flour of alt.kilidsy&c. . .
INTRTPRODUCE TAKEN IN EXCHANGE.
Call and see if nur prices are not as I t /v as those of any otter establishment
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R. WEBB . 2 . HALL T. NELSON.
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Give us a
in the ;omit
ORRIN
ciTvincici
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General Merchandise Store
Founoly kept by D. E. Olmsted. noNs
Jones A' Co
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We take pleasure in annonncing to the
former patrons of theLhouse and the public in
geneial, that we have taken possession of this
Store, and having added a large assortment of
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SUMMER, GOODS..
From New York and Philadelphia, selected
with t (Treat care With a view fr to .suitin the
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wants of the com r muntty. We are detelpin
ed to give all om: attention to keeping up a
Full. Line of
Dry Goods,
Rea,dyntade Clothing,
Hats and Ca e,
Groceries,
4tre• r
40c
So that customers can be supplied at all times.
We extend a cordial 'invitation to alb to call
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and examine our exteittive assortment, as we
take pleasure, in showi'pg o w _Goodsd and of
fering them at such a lk)w price that they can
not fail but give satisfalction to the buyer, and
defy all cOmpetition.--ilit pit .1, '1867.!
JOSEPH MANN. A. F. ONES, -
Sole PrOprietors.,
Srte` UNG AND
Crockery,
itts of the follow,
TS &CAPS
OFFEES
OBA CCO
&c.,
or PRODIIC
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Salt,
M:t=l.
C. A.