The Daily Review. Towanda, Pa., Monday, Dec'r 15, 1879. EDITORS: B. W. A LVORD. NOBLE N. ALVOHD. | ** Mtaily Mferiet>" only 95 centu per WH/A. Try it. Immoral I'ublications. The New York Christian Advocate com menting 011 the recent attempt of the j Post Master General to quarantine on j this side of the St. Lawrence river that I literary pestilence known as the Police Gazette, says; "Many thanks to Mr. Key for the man ly and decided manner in which lie has discharged his duty. It will probably provoke some maniacal howling from the Heywoods, Burnetts, and other jackals, who delight in the festering corruptions of moral grave-yards, and who make pol luted profit by dragging the inmates of civ- j ilized households down into the depths of social infamy and perdition. There is 110 reason in social ethics or international comity that will not justify a nation in re- , straining the overflow of its own literary sewers from defiling and sickening the habitations of its neighbors. We speak stroniy, but none to strong- i ly, of the periodicals in question, and ofj the entire class of affiliated publications Presenting the same or similar character istics. They are debauching the morals j of youth, and also of readers of more ma ture age. They are filling dens of infa my in every city. They are crowding 1 prisons and penitentiaries with convicts. ; Like the frogs of the Egyptian plague, they make the whole land offensive, by their presence. They are particularly to: imaginative and untrained boys and girls, who do not enjoy the blessings of sound ! Christian education. The imagination is vitiated, the whole I current of thought becomes sensual, and 1 the character, complexion, and outgoing ! of the external life, earthly and develish. The pictures which attract the eye to these filthy sheets are always sensational, over-wrought, and frequently obscene. The stories which dribble through their pages are often mere directories to vice 1 and crime. Religion is held up to ridi cule, and pure morals to scoffing and con-1 tempt. Sensuality and vice are clothed in attractive garb, and the mouth of the j pit is covered with gaudy and intoxicat- / ing flowers. Many a saintly soul has mourned in se cret over the irreparable harm suffered l from early familiarity with such litera ture. Its stain is almost ineradicable, \ and its stench abides in the memory like the remembrances ot an Aceldama. The gentler sex, as well as the rough er, suffers from this terrible poison. The records of police courts are full of sad ex ambles. The adage, that "a man is known by the company he keeps," is 110 less true pf immature youth. If chosen, hud books and immoral papers prove much more dangerous than evil companions; for the j latter may have some qualms of consci ence—but reading of the character de nounced is evil, only evil, evil on princi ple and from design, and that continual ly. We have pest-houses for small-pox , patients, and the same principles which justify their establishment, and the segra gation of suppression of the papers com plained of as public nuisances, and the incarceration of their editors, contributors and printers, as among the worst foes of society. At the second day's session of the Na tional Agricultural Convention, a com mittee of five was appointed to obtain from Congress an act of incorporation for the Society. A paper on "How shall we increase the value of our dairy cows and beef stock?" was read by Dr. A. S. Heath, of the Farmers Club of the American In stitute, after which an organization was ! effected by the election of officers. John j Merriman, of Maryland, was elected Pres ident, and J. A. lieall, of New York, Sec retary. Vice presidents and secretaries from all the States of the Union were also chosen. President Hayes was unani mously elected an honorary member. The fifteenth annual convention of the American Dairymen's Association is to be held in Syracuse 011 the 18th, 14th, and 15th of Jan. Interesting papers will be read by Professors Law, Roberts and Caldwell, of Cornell University, L. B. Ar nold, of Rochester, and others versed in agricultural science. All live dairyman are earnestly invited to attend and to come prepared to give the convention their ideas and participate in its proceed ings. Ample space and opportunity will be given for the display of dairy apparatus, implements and machinery. Every one having anything new is cordially invited to put it on exibition. It was discovered recently that all the proprietors of Philadelphia places of a musement, except tin? Academy of Music, have for years failed to pay their annual tax of five hundred dollars, a number ow ing the State two thousand live hundred dollars. The arrearages aggregate over fifteen thousand dollars. yyui.Y REVIEW ! On l.v T\v pn ty- VP Cents st Month. TRY IT? E. ROSEN FIELD'S Fall Opening CLOTHING HATS, CAPS, NECKWEAR, GLOVES, HOSIERY, and u lull liur of GENTS' FURNISHING GOODS, which are offered EXCEEDINGLY LOW. Call and *ee mo, examine good*, learn price*, Stc M. E. ROSENFIEI.I). . JOHNSON. FASHIONABLE BARBER. i Under Market, one door south of Ward House. ; Careful and experienced workmen always ready to wait upon customers. TsjKW FIRM. ! „ 11. Davidow iV Bro. CASH PAID . . FOR ! i i FUR, i I HIDES, . PELTS, WOOL. BEESWAX, No. 1, Heidi email,s Hloek, Bridge St Towanda. October 28. J FIGHT MIT BIGEL and all HONORABLY DIdC'HAROKJ) SOLDIKRS I will consult their own interests oy culling