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VOLUME XIX
NEW SPRING
ANIL
SUN ME IDSg
GEORGE STOVER
HAS RETURNED FROM PHILADEL
PIIIA. WITH A SUPPLY OF
ilty OOHS,
NOTIONS, MENSIVRE
GROCERIES,
Oar To which he invites the attention of
of his patrons and the public generally.
March 80, 1866. - •
AMERICAN LIFE INSURANCE AND
TRUST CO,,
Corner Fourth and Walnut Streets, Philadelphia
Incorporated 1860. Charter Perpetual. Author.
ized Capital, $500,000. Paid Up Capital, $250,000
Philadelphia, Feb. 4, 1864.
The .Trustees have. this day declared a Dividend
of FIFTY PER CENT, on all premiums received
upon MUTUAL POLICIVB during the year ending De
cember 31st, 1863, and in force at that date, the a
bove amount to be credited to said Policies, and
have also ordered the Dividend of 1860 on Policies
issued during that year to be paid, as the annual
premiums on said Policies are received.
OFFICERS.
President—Alexander Whilldin.
Secretary and Treasurer—John S. Wilson.
Actuary—John C Sims.
BOARD OF 'TRUSTEES.—AIexander Whill
din„l. Edgar Thomson; George Nugent, Hon. Jas.
Pollock. Albert C. Roberts. P. B. Mingle, Samuel
Work, William J. Howard, Hon. Joseph Allison,
Samuel T. Bodine, John Aikman, Charles F. Heaz
litt, Isaac Hazlehurst.
Wm. G. REED, Chambersburg Pa., is the general
Agent of the American Life insurance and Trust
Company for Franklin Co.
Jos. Dolmas, Agent for Waynesboro' and vicin
ity.
REFERENCES.--Joust Nudes and Vi'ltta.tat
N. B Boum am
Cull and get a pamphlet.
JOl3. DOUGLAS, Agent.
Oct. 13, 1865, ly
EAGLE HOTEL.
Central-SqUare,--Hagerstourn, Md.
THE—above-well•known and established Hotel
has been re-opened and entirely renovated, by
the_unt'ersigned, and now offers tolhe public every
comfort and attraction found in the best betels.—
THE TABLE is bountifully supplied with every
dtlicary the market will afford, THE SALOON
contains the choicest liquors. and is. constantly and
skilfully attended. THE STABLE is thoroughly
repaired, and cnr•ful Ostlers always ready to so
w modate custom rya.
JOHN FISHER, Proprietor.
ling' .:town, Juno 2—tf.
Mentz° horse & Cattle Powder.
m• M. STONER having purchased of Mr.
,Mentzer, the recipe for making the above
.61r-famed Horse and Cattle Powder, for Pennsylva
nia and' - Maryland, takes this method of informing
the farmers, drovers, that he has on hind and
intends keeping a good supply always on hand.—
Country merchants ,and others - keeping such articles
for sale, would do well to supply themselves with a
uantity. He will sell it on commission or for cash
cheap. Orders will'be pufietuady attended to
January 31.
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P l / 4 . 5 1 0 li=ripi dSI
1 i Not only is intemperance, or the use of ar
dent spirits as a beverage, fast ruining us as
a people and nation, but the Government it
self is likely to suffer detriment, and, it may
be, great injury, from the intemperate' hab
its of those high in official authority. A
cotemporary, in speaking of this great evil
as it now exists, in the nation's Capitol, says
—we fcar with too much truth— that 'the
country will probably iever know how many
of the measures that are fraught with so
much danger to our national peace and wel
fare, owe their inspiration to the wine cup,
or how far the strange tergiversations of
some men once regarded. as the friends of
freedom, is due to their intemperate habits.
A man commits himself over the social glass,
among boon companions, tea political course
from which, in his sober moments, every
feeling of his heart recoils, and to which ev
ery principle of his past life is abhorrent
But, once committed, he finds it difficult to
retrace his steps. flow else can we account
for the fact that one of the oldest, and long
deemed one of the ablest statesmen of this
country, one who, for a quarter of a century
carried on the irrepressible conflict with the
enemies of freedom, should to-day be found
one of their most supple tools, ready to com
promise everything to the South? Would
he have done this if his intellect had not be
come beclouded, and his moral sensibilities
benumbed•by strong drink? •
Of course the secretary of State is the one
here referred to. How else, men may well
ask, can the conduct and . course of William
H. Seward be accounted for, , during the last
five years, if not upon the ground of strong
drink and intemperance? Alas, tor that na
tion whose chief rulers are drunkards!
The United States Senate has, we are
pleased to learn, resolved to put a stop to the
sale of intoxicating liquor in the Capitol
building. It would do still - better if it would
expel from its body the two notoriously
drunken Senators— , Saulsbury and 'McDougal
—who have so long. disgraced the States
they profess to represent and the body to
which they belong. Sitting—sometimes ly
ing—in the highest legislative body of the
nation, among the representatives of its wis
dom and its dignity. in a state of Deastly in
toxication, they are a disgrace not only to
the Senate but to the American name and
character.
But there ie need of a deeper. and more
radical reform in the high places" of ID ue na
tion. Not only in Congress, but in other
high places of honor and trust,. this deadly
b an e is felt. To this, we have no doub:, the
naisdireiltion of oar national affairs is in a
Fi55,322131.7• ' Nitztvwerostroism- I, Ne•ittroa,l in Politics anti. Roligio~rs.
WAYNESBORO', FRANKLIN COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA, FRIDAY MORNING, JUNE 15,186&
The Bane of our Country
mat me asure
. due. What else but disaster
as be °spoofed, if, in the midst of a storm,
len breakers are near, and it requires the
imost coolness and skill to avoid them, you
lace the helm in the hands of a drunken pi
it? And, what but national disaster can we
pok for, Win a time of so much peril to the
iuntry, the highest executive, diplomatic
id legislative powers are entrusted to men
.upefied, bewildered, or maddened with such
toxicating drinks?
Thoughts of Rural Affairs•
id it ever occur to you, kind readef, how
tch the happiness of children.. depends up
their surroundings? how much the growth
character and intellect is influenced by
le associations o f early life? Who will
Jubt that the child, reared among the beau.
es of the natural world, surrounded by tho
;fining influences of rare and lovely flow
.N of' singing birds, and the graceful forms
'shrubs and trees, will more readily respond
the promptings of of the higher and ;to
ter attributes of our nature, than one raised
long the unlovely surroundings which too
Any homes display. How can habits of
, stem, order and neatness be formed; where
)thing.but dirt and slovenly disorder meet
ie eye outside of the farmer's domicil?
My friends, clean and adorn your door-,
rds, plant a few flowers; their :beauty and
Irfume will amply repay you for your trou
e; set out some flowering shrubs and climb
• roses, and train some vines over 'your
dowsi and the increased brightness of
Lr children's smiles will pay a good inter
on the investment; and besidas, those
damn will, in after years, when perchance
world bas grown cold and dark to them,
re something bright to look back upon—
.t 11031 E will be the brightest gem among
treasured childhood's memories, like a
-off star shining pure and high above
ably strife,• it will joint them Co a better
,nd, or seem like a sweet dream of a lost e•
THE TWO VOICES.—When Guttenburg,
the first printer, was working in his •cell, in
the monastery of St. Aborsgot, he tolls us
lat he heard two voices address him. the
ie bade him desist; told him the power his
invention would put in the hands of bad
men to propagate their wickedness; told him
how men would profane the art he had cre
ated, and how prosperity would , have cause
to curse the man who gave it to the world.
So impressed was Guttenburg with what he
heard, that he took a hammer, and broke to
pieces the types he had so laboriously put
together. His work of destruction was only
stayed by another voice, sweet and musical,
that fell on his ear, telling hini to go on, and
to rejoice in his work; that all good might
be made the cause of evil, but that God would
bless the right in the ead. So to all of us
still come those voices that came to Gutten
burg; the one calling us to work, while it is
called to-day-,to try to leave this world bet
ter than we found it; and the, other tempting
us to give over and take our ease—to leave
the plough in mid-furrow, and to rest on our
oars when we should be pulling against the
stream.
False Calves have made their advent in
Cleveland, Ohio. The Plaindealer says:—
"We have a very startling arrival to chroni•
cle. False calves for female legs have come
to town! They arrived a day or two ago.—
There are two kinds. One is stuffed with
hair—the ocher with saw dust, the latter, of
course. being the cheaper. Yesterday after
noon, a young lady with tilting hoops and
false calves was perambulating through the
park, when suddenly one of the calves burst.
Our readers can imagine the result. The
poor young lady could be traced by a trail
of saw-dust from Rouse's Block to the Yost
office. Thus the maiden, who entered the
park in form resembling the Venus de Me
dicis, emerged therefrom in a state of spin
dle-shanked angularity! Iler great mistake
consisted in not getting hair calves—they
being less liable to burst, and of a more pli
able nature. Believe us, dear ladies, if you
will wear the new-fangled improvement on
nature's pattern, that the hair style is the
cheaper. We presume the aforesaid young
lady fainted when she learned the extent of
her misfortune. But, as au exahange says,
what's the use of railing at false calves—
they are a mere matter of form!
MEDTCAL USE OF SALT.—The Medical
World says that in many cases of disordered
stomach, a tablespoonful of salt is a certain
cure. In a violent and internal pain termed
colic, a teaspoonful of salt dissolved in a pint
of water, taken as soon as possible, with a
short nap immediately after, is one of the
most effectual and speedy remedies known.
The same will relieve a person who seems al
most dead from a heavy full. In an apolec
tie fit, no time should be lost' in pouring
down salt water, if sufficient sensibility re
main to allow of swallowing; if not, the head
must be sponged with cold water until the
senses return, when salt will completely re
store the patient from the lethargy. In a
fit, the feet should be placed in warm water
with mustard added, and the legs briskly
rubbed, all the bandages removed from the
neck, and a cool aperient procured, if
ble. In case of severe bleeding at, the lungs
when other remedies failed, Dr. Rush found
'that two teaspoonful of stilt stayed the blood
MUTUAL SYNIPA.TUY.-WC would make
it a principle to extend the hand of friend
ship to every man who discharges faithfully
his duties and maintains good order--who
manifests a deep interest in the welfare of
society—whose deportment is upright,whose
mind iF intelligent, without stopping to as
certain whether he swings a hammer or draws
a thread.• There is nothing so distant .from
all natural claims as the reluctant, the back.
ward sympathy, the forced-smile, the check
ed conversation, the hesitating compliance,
the well oil are apte. to _manifest to those a
little lower down.
A Ward at a Fenian Meeting
The greit showman has been to a Fenian
meeting and delivered an address on that on.
casion to his "Irish frens," concluding as
follows :
"I was in Mr. Delmonico's eatin' house
the other night, and I saw my fren Mr. Ter
rence McFadden, who is a elekent and en
terprisin' deputy Center. He was sittin' at
a table, eatin' canvas back duck. Poultry
of that kind, as, you know, 'is rather high
just now. I think about Five dollars per
poult. And a bottle - of green seal stood be
fore_hini
''How are you, MT. McFadden ?" I said.
"Oh, Mr. Ward! I am miserable—miser
able. The wrongs we Irishmen suffer !
Oil. Ireland 1 -Will a troo history of your
sufferin's ever bo written ? Must, we be for-
ever ground under by the iron heel of des
potic Briton ?—btit, Mr. Ward, won't you
eat suthin' ?"
"Well," I said, "if there's another canvas
back and a spare bottle of that green seal in
the house, I wouldn't mine jinin' you in be
ing ground under by Briton's iron heel."
"Green turtle soup first ?" he said.
"Well, yes.,, If I am to share the wrongs
of Ireland with you, I don't care if I do hay'
a" bowl of soup. Put a bean into it," I said
to the waiter. "It. will remind me of my
childhood days, when we had 'em " baked in
conjunction witli pork every Sunday morn
in,' and then all went up to the village
church, and had a refreshin' nap in the fam
ly pew.'
Mr. McFadden, who was sufferin' so (bur
ly fez' Ireland, wa - s of the Mahony wing.—
I've no doubt that some ekally patriotic mem
ber of the Roberts wing was sufferin' in the
same way over to the Mason-Dory eatin'
house.
They say, feller citizens, soon you will see
a Blow struck for Irish liberty ! We hain't
seen natbin' tut a Blow so far—it's bin all
blow, and the blowers in New York won't
git out of Bellusses as long as Irish friens in
the rooral districts send them money.
.Let the Green float over the red, if that'll
make it feel any better, but don't you be the
Green. Don,t never go into anything till
you know whereabouts you're goin' to."
My Courtship
When I was sixteen, I fell in love. There
is nothing remarkable in that, •for most all
young men at that age do the same thing.—
But what I am going to tell yowls, how my
courtship terminated.
It was at a party I saw Sallie B—. who
was one of the sweetest girls in Ticktown ;
and I tell you she looked sweet in her white
muslin ball-dress, with her hair falling loose.
ly over her shoulders.
I got an introduction, danced with her
once, twice, thrice, and I was just the hap
piest man in all Ticktown.
Well, at last the party broke up; but I
had an invitation to call on Miss
That was all I wanted, and I didn't sleep
much before Sunday evening—for that was
the time I'd fixed to call.
I called; saw Miss Salle to church—saw
her home; and when I left I bad a pressing
invitation to call again, and I did not forget
it, I assure you.
At the end of a month I was completely
gone. At last I resolved to "pbp the ques
tion," and fixed on my next visit for the
time, studied "Courtship Made Easy,' thor
oughly, and concluded I was ready for the
task.
The time arrived. Here I was, sitting by
the side of my beloved, with my arm around
her waist I I took. her hand in mine, and
screwed up courage to say, "Dear Sallie, do
you love me ?"
She made no answer; but her eyes were
cast down, and I hoped—yes, I was certain
—she loved me. I put both my arms around
her nook, and pressed one, two, three kisses
on her rosy lips: She did not resist, but
raised her head and said :
"You're as bad as Sam Simmons I"
A thin, cadaverous looking German about
50 years of age, entered the office of a llealth
Insurance Company in Indiana recently and
inquired :
'fah de man in vat inshures de people
belts.
The agent politely answered, 'I attend to
that business sire.
'Veil, I vent mine helte inshured; vat you
charge ?
'Different prices,' answered the agent,'from
three to ten donate a year, and you get ten
dollars a week in ease of sickness.'
'Veil,' said illynber, 'I vants ten dollars
yore
`Veil, I ish sick all the time. rah sbust
out of ped two or three hours a day, and the
doctor says he can't do nothing Soot for me
'lf that's the state of your health, my
friend,' returned the agent, 'we oan't take
the risk. We only insure persona in good
health.'
At this Mynber bristled up in great an
ger.
'You must tick I'se a tam fool; vat you
tink I come pay you ten 'dollars for insure
my holt, ven I vas well ?'
WHITE BLOOD PREDOMINATBS The ac
credited correspondent of the New York
Nation, who so graphically delineates the
South as It Is." tells us in his thirty-fourth
letter, that in i‘liksissippi, the seventy teach.
era in the colored schools are requested to
report every month to the Freedmen's 13u
react, specilying, among other , things, the
number, of pupils of mixed blood. 'ln, the 12
schools which happened to stand at the head
of the list, there arc returned 287 children
of mixed blood.
The "fine old Southern gentlomon" must
have generally fallen from grace, to liave
brought about such a mixture.. Just think
of it! This is worse than "negro equality,"
about Which they howl so much.
Matilifsod, a hat, womanhood, a banjaat:
MOUND MS.
ey S. Y. BUCHANAN
A thousand years ago, .
On many an upturnetl brow,
The moon shone bright as now;
And many a heart like mina
Bowed low'arbeanty b ehrinv,
Blessing the Lord for light, •
, And the good gift of sight.
A thousand years from now
, Where Will my spirit be 7
In vast Eternity
- Will Ibe lost in night, --- •
Or bathed in God's pure light ?
Thought's wings grow tremulous & weak with fears,
While hovering o'er that gulf— that gulf of years,
Let the Horses Rest
We know a physician, in large practice,
who is frequently compelled to drive his
horses hard. He formerly drove the two to.
geth er,-and-use em—up—in_t_tvo_years,
lie now drives them singly, and as far as
possible on alternate days. They are now,
though working. harder, invariably healthy
and strong. Ile attributes this to the fact
that if a hard drive strains any of °the mus
cles, they have time to regain their tone the
next day. Were the. horses driven every
day, a slight sprain would produce a little
stiffness; the parts would rub against each
other; inflammation would set in, and the
horses be lamed—perhaps incurably so.—
Farm horses are not so liable to injury in
this respect, as those driven fast over hard
roads. But a day's rest occasionally will
help them materially.' At all events do not
work them on Sundays. Or, if any are driv
en far to church, or for any pressing emer
gency, make it a rule and adhere to it: scru
pulously, to let such horses rest Saturdays
or Mondays. Man and beast must rest one
day in seven or pay the penalty. Better
work harder and • rest longer.—. American
Agriculturist.
The following anecdote is good enough for
a second reading, if any one has chanced to
meet it before :—When Daniel Webster was
delivering his memorable speech at the ded
ication of Bunker Hill Monument, the crowd
pressed forward to such an extent that some
were fainting and some crushed. Officers
strove in vain to make the crowd stand back.
They said it could not be done. Some one
asked Mr. Webstet to make an appeal to
them. Th e great orator • came forward,
stretched forth his hand, and said, in deep,
stentorian tones, "Gentlemen, stand back."
"It cannot be done !" they shouted. "Gen
tlemen stand back," said •h e, without a
change of voice. "It is impossible, Mr. Web
ster, impossible." "Impossible ?" repeated
Mr. Webster, "impossible ? Nothing is im
possible on Bunker Hill !" and the vast
crowd swayed and tolled back like a mighty
wave of the ocean.
A Don STORY.-A lady residing in Camp.
ton recently owned a dog which, because of
age and infirmity, had ceased to be of use.—
One day she remarked to a laboring man con•
'meted :with the family that she would give
half a dollar if be would take the old fellow
off out of the way and kill him. The ser
vant promised to do so if he might have the
dog's skin to make therefrom,
.for his own
use and comfort, a pair of gloves A t this
stage in the conversation the old dog, who
had been lying quietly .upon the hearth, a
rose, and giving the conspirators a look more
in sorrow than in anger, left the house. On
a rise of ground not far away he stopped,
and gave a lingering gaze at the house and
vicinity, then plunged into the woods never
to return. He never was scan or heard of
afterwards —Concord Statesman.
A NOBLE ANSWER. —At a slave market
in one of the Southern States a smart, ac
tive colored boy was put tip, for salo A
kind master, who pitied his eonditim, not
wishing him to have a cruel owner, went up
to him and said : "It I buy you, will you
be honest 7" The boy, with a look that baf
fled description, replied, "I will be honest,
whether you buy me or not." Was not this
a noble reply
Some young people do not sufficiently un
derstand the advantage Of natural charms,
and how much they would gain by trusting
to them entirely. They woken these gifts
of Heaven, so rare and fragile, by affected
manners and an awkward imitation. Their
tones and their gait are borrowed ; they
study their atjitudes before the glass until
they have lost all trace.of natures manner,
and, with all their pains, they please but lit.
de. •
A good companion is very desirable and
said to• be worth his weight in gold, but a
bad companion is over to be avoided. The
truth of the old proverb, 'Toll me with
whom you associate, and I will tell you who
you are," has often been proved to he cor
rect. Every one, and especially the young,
gay and thoughtless, should carefully guard
against the exposure to bad company. Be
ware of evil associates.
A cavaleseent soldier in a hospital in
Paris, while stretching himself, exclaimed,
"Oh, God l" A young and very pretty Sis
ter of Charity ran up and inituired, "What
would you wish God to do to you ? I am
his daughter." The convalescent replied,.
"Accept me for his son-in-law."'
We have just heard a good story connect
ed with a revival in a certain town. An in
vitation being given to those desiring to jOin
'the army of the Lord,' a half-witted fellow
made his appearance at the anxious seat.—
Finally he 'got through,' and stopping up
and taking the minister by the hand, he
gravely :demanded his t on/11y. _ --
iiita..oo sailor learizi,
A little ragged urchin, begging in the -ci
ty the other day, was asked by a lady who
filled his basket, if• his parents were liv
irig
"Only' dad, alarm," Said the boy.
"Then you hive enough in your basket
now to feed the family for some time," said
the lady. -
"Oh, no, I hitictiet neither," said the
lad, "for dad and inc keeps five &orders ;
-- Ire does the house work, and I do tho war
k et'n,"
How to make Berloncy sassidge carefully
prepared by Ike Billings, from the original
resipee,now in possession of the family of
the Duke of Catfish:
"Take eel skirt and stuff it with ground
cat; seesin it with Scotch snuff and persitn
min ile; lay it on a hog•pen to dry, and then
bang it up bi the tale in a Dutch grocery
for'3 months for the fiics to give it the trade
marks, then it is reddy for use."
When the blossom and leaves of a woman's
beauty-fall-,-Weer dolt,-e-t:,
behold ravens' nests in the trees in the Wirt
ter.
A correspondent at the West tells •of a
rather handsome young woman, who, during
the past two or three years, made it a speci
ality to attend Copperhead meetings, bearing
a banoor inscribed, "Give us white husbands
or none!" A few weeks since she eloped
with a nigger as black as the ace of spades!
It is reported that a shoemaker not a thou
sand miles from Waynesboro', was so over
come, recently, by the birth of a daughter,
that he cut out sixteen pairs of Congress
boots all for one foot, broke a temperance
pledge, went a flshing, and came near 'drown
ing himself. •
Prentice says girls will differ. One of
them lately broke her neck in trying to es
cape being kissed, and a great many of them
are ready to break their necks to get kissed.
I=l
He who is a tiger in his own family is
generally a sheep in society,
Archery, it is thought, will be an amuse-
meat among the ladies this summer. It is
the most natural thing in the world for la
dies to know how to manage a beau.
A• magician once upon a time advertised
on his bills that the evening's entertainment
would conclude with a mysterious disappear
ance of a lady. Sure enough, after the per
formance he eloped with the wife of the mall
who owned the hall.
'Zr
A little fellow, not more than five years of
age, hearing some gentleman, at his father's
table, discussing the familiar line, 4, An hon.
est man's the noblest work of God," said he
knew it wasn't• true; his mother was better
thaw any man.that was ever made.
A young fellow once offered to kiss a
Quakeress. "Friend," said she, "thee must
not do it." "Oh !by Joie ! but I must,"
said the youth. "Well, friend, as thee host
sworn, thee may do it," but thee must not
make a practice of it."
Teamsters may do a brisk buriaess, but
wheelbarrow men carry all before them.
The newspapers are all having a tilt at
the tilting hoops of the ladies. One ineon
siderate fellow calls their prevalent use the
"hinderpest,"
Milk makes a man fat, but whisky makes
him lean.
An Irishman who had blistered his fin
gers by endeavoring to draw on a pair of new
boots, exclaimed: "By St Patrick, I believe
I shall never get thew on until I wear them
a day or two.
A lady asked a noted doctor if he did not
think the small bonnets the ladies wore had
a tendency to produce a congestion of tho
brain. "Ob, no," replied he, "ladies who
have brains don't wear them:"
A full-blooded negro Toman in Geneva,
N. Y., who was formorlik"black .as tar,"
has within the hat six years become entire
ly white. She is about forty live years old,
and is in perfect Lealth. her hair remains
curled as before.
Don't be eternally at law, lest it be said of
your children, while you are yet alive, that
they have a father-in-law.
Young mon who idolize young women
always long to be "joined to their idols."
Life is like a field of blackberry and rasp
herry hushes. Mean people squat down and
pick the fruit, no matter how they black
their fingers; while genius, proud and 'un
bending, strides fiercely on and gets nothing
but scratches, and holes torn in his gniments.
The Detroit Post says that all that is left
of the-Fenian navy - is — •the .ing of war' be
tween the factions of that brotherhood.
What is the use of sighing and weeping
as we float down "the stream of time ? "Why
make the voyage of life a waarng voyage.
Among the advertisements in a late pa.
per, we read that 'Two sisters want wash
ing.'
, In fishing for compliments, thorn is cer
tam to be a fool at one and of the line;"
It is said that the prettiest girls in Bait.
Lake City marry Young,
The right man in the right plaee—,A hue
band at hulTie in — th - CTiv - eaing.. •
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