Silver tablet, blank and bright,.
Downy pillowed, satin lined,
That 1, loitering, chanced to fine
'Mid the dust, the scent, the gloom
Of the undertaker's room,
Waiting empty—ah, for whom?
Ah ! what love-watched cradle bed;
Keeps to-night the nestling head,
Or on what soft, pillowing breast
Is the cherub form at rest,
That ore long, with darkened eye,
Sleeping to no lullaby,
Whitely robed, and still and cold.
Pale flowers sliping from its hold,
Shall this dainty couch enfold
A h ! what bitter tears shall stilt
•
All this satin sheet like rain,
And what towering hopes be hid
'Neath'this tiny coffin lid,
On whose tablet shall appear
Little words that must be them,
LittleTwords - cut - deep - andTtru-,
Bleeding mothers' hearts anew--
Sweet, pet name, and "AGEE, I.wo !"
nh ! can sorrow's hovering plume
Round my pathway cast a gloom,
Chill and darksomo as the shado
By an infant's cpflin made !
From our arms g• 1 flies,
A El o rued, daz led eyes.
epmg round its In cant place,
Cannot rise its path to trace,
• Cannot see the anvil's face !
AK GENTLY MDTIER.
Gently, mother, gently,
Chide thy little ono,
'Tis a toilsome journey .
It bath just begun;
Many a vale of sorrow,
Many a rugged steep
Lieth in its pathway—
And full oft if will weep—
Oh ! then, gently,--gently
Kindly, mother kindly,
Speak in tender tone ;
That dear child, remember,
Echoes back thine own;
Teach in gentle accents,
Teach in words of love;
Let the soften breezes,
Its young heart-string movez
Kindly—mother--kindly.
Wouhrst thou have the setting
Of a gem most fair ,
In a crown of beauty,
it were time to wear
Mother train with caution
little one,
Guide, reprove, and ever
I,,et the work' be done .
Gently--mother--gently.
‘vpii
STRANGE STOR3
Some weeks ago a man named Alvin C.
Temple, a citizen of New York, mysterious
ly disappeared at Burning Springs. Within
the last few days suspicion fastened on osier.
son named Robert S. at e inway as his mur
derer, and accordingly he was arrested.—,
Since his arrest he has written and publish
ed the following exttaordiaary statement in
the Parkersburg Times of Monday last:
EDS. TIMES: My object in writing this
communication is to lay before the public
the f;icts nttending'the distressing death of
the late. Alvin C. Temple, of the city of
New York, as I have just been arrested here
en a charge of being accessory to, and the
cause of it. I ern here without friends or
acquaintances, and . must go to prison for
want of bail. I hope, however, in the course
of a few days, to exonerate myself from all
suspicion of any cornplicity in the death of
my friend.
The deceased and myself were both real
dents of New York, and had been acquainted
nearly on years about the Middle of Sep
tember last, we left home together on a tout
to the, oil regions of Southern Ohio and
West VirePinta We came first to Marietta,
Ohio, and visite3 the oil wells of Duck creek,
We then visited Eforseneek,Sand Rill, White
Oak, and Burning Springs, We arrived at
the latter place on the afternoon of Friday,
October 26th. We spent Saturday iu visit
ing klie various oil wells. Sunday morning
we started on a ramble to make some obser ,
vations as to the nature of the country.—
From this ramble Mi. Temple never return
ed and upon this circumstance I have been
arrested. I hope the public, after hearing
my statement, will suspend its judgment an.
til I can offer more proof of my entire inno
cence. Mr. Temple being something of a
geologist, carried a leather sack suspended
by a strap over the shoulder to contain rho
specimens collected, and in his hand a ham
mer with a handle three feet long, such as is
commonly used by geologists We crossed
the Burning Springs run At the mouth and
climbed up the hill on the 'upper side. 'A.
bout tlitee.fourths of the way up we discov
ered an opening to the rock caused probably
by some convulsion of the earth., Into this
we found tbit wo could crawl some fifteen
feet'whca f urtlJet p 'ogress wag stopped by
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the assure becominc , narrower: Temple by
thrusting in bit : - h ammer, ascertained that
the paitiage Boon widened again, anti that by'
removinc , some of the pieces of rock we could
go on. l 'We procured a sapling, which we
-fontl-ett-the-gmuutl-abo-Voi-which - - 170- ugo,
aft-battering 'ram. .We could hear the pie
ces fall az they-were pushed inward, and from
the sound knew the descent could be but a
few feet. I wont first, when we bad opened
the way; and descended by letting myself
down by .the hands. Temple followed.—
Lighting a match and a piece of paper we
found ourselves in a cavern about twelve
feet square, in which we could stand upright.
Pieces of broken rock, varying in size from
an egg to a barrel, covered the ground.—
Temple collected some specimens, principally
sand rook and feldspar, which he put into a
sack to be examined at leisure. Oar pro•
gress was_ very difficult on account of the
loose and jagged stones. .P,artly feeling our
way; and now and then lighting. a match, we
managed to ascertain what I have related,
and also to discover a fissure nearly opposite
where wo entered, some three feet in width
at the bottom and s gradually narrowing to
ward the top. Crawling into this we found
it made a considerably descent until it open
ed into a spacious cave, the dimensions of
which I cannot state, as it was not thorough
ly explored. We found here the same chaos
of broken rocks, and were continually brui
sing ourselves in climbing over and through
them. Proceeding some thirty yards we saw
a light on our right which proved to be cau
sed by a split in the rock. Looking through
it we could see the hills on the opposite bank
of the KanawkaTbut-could-not-open-our-way
out. Leaving this on our right, we proceed
ed to make what explorations our limited
means would allow. After going perhaps
- fifty yards, we were surprised at finding a
small lake, or pool, as near as I can judge,
some sixty feet in length, by twenty feet wide.
Its level was some three feet below the
ground on which we stood. Temple inserted
his.hammer intq this pool and found that in
stead of water it was oil—petroletim.
have not time to describe our sensations on
this discovery, which promised untold wealth.
After discussing the matter for a few min
utes, he attempted to try the depth with the
h-ndle of hia 9t7
aaaliTirbis hammer. ,e got as near .ie
brink as he could, and was about executing
his design, when the loose stones on which
he stood suddenly caved in 'with him. Ile
sunk, rose again, struggled a moment, and
I saw him no more. I was powerless, to as
sist him, even if I had not been completely
bewildered. The weight of the specimens
in his sack, no doubt prevented him from sa
ving himself, as be was a capital swimmer.
The horror of my situation may be imagin
ed. I stood alone in that cave wherein WM
death and darkness, fully aware that when I
went out in the light I would only meet
strangers and suspicion. I called my com
panion by name again and again till terrified
b y the sepulchral echoes that resounded
through the blackness.
This is.the true statement of the fact.—
Whether it will be credited is more than I
can say. . I am fully aware how difficult it is
for me to answer the question: "Why did
you not make this statement sooner?" Here
is toy reply. When I left the cave T• went
to my room at the hotel. Overwhelmed as I
was, I could not help being sensible that the
diecovery was an important one, and resolved
to secure the beneuta - rffitTso -- I - k - ept - tirermat- -
ter quiet until my designs should be accom
plished. To this end I obtained a favorable '
lease from the agent of the Itathhone Oil
Company of the ground covering the cave.
This lease, as the county records will show,
was made the day after the occurrence above
revealed. It is made to George Temple, the
father of Henry V. Temple, the brother of
the late Alvin C. Temple. I have not re
served to myself, directly or indirectly, any
part of this lease. I hope this circumstance
will pi far to show that I could have no mo•
tire in causing the death of my friend I
do not think his relatives, or those who know
me, will entertain the slightest suspicion to
ray prejudice. Yet I feel that I can never
have a moment's peace of mind .until the ,
judgment of everybody shall acquit me of
the charge. And nnw, Messrs. Editors, 1
request that you will give the foregoing
Statement a place in your Ore!, and thereby
oblige a'frieudloss arid grief stricken man. 1 1
ROBERT S. STEINWAY.
TUE POETRY OR FARMING.— Agriculture
has a field of poetry as well as of practical
culture. The "pastoral landscape" is here
all that the ancients have said about it—the
hkrvest. field sung about and beloved by eve
rybody; the "tanned haycock;" the scent of
new made hay at evening;, the adds pith
their garniture of green,, embracing the whole
practical world of nature the great source of
the poet's inspiration. There are the fruits; ;
ripe, golden apples blushing and fragrant;
peaches, pears, plums, the strawberry, and
the seedy glistening blackberry, with their
fields of poetry!, And then the maize in the
field, in the barn, yellow and gl . tening on
mild October days; when the su also is yel
low, and earth is teeming like wino press
with plenty and good cheer. That hope !,
what prospect in store fo right winter
evenings', The vineyard itsel is one of the
greatest of poems How the ancients cleated
upon it, and sung its praise; and nnw it is
flowing in streams, and hanging its purple
clusters in bursting profusion.
The reply of the 'superintendent of one of
the priocipal Maine Tailroads to a circular
from a Cabinet officer at Was , hington, asking
hint to carry delegates for the Philadelphia
Convention for half (are, was, "that he was
riotaware that there. was any such fools in
Maine as to attend that convention; but if
there were any, he would take them as
freight " _ .
. Advertising for a wife is
,just as absiard as
it would be to got measured for an uuhrella!
NESBORO', FRANKLIN COUNTY,• PENNSYLVANIA, FRIDAY MORNING, NOVENHOt 28, fBOO.
Better die in the cradle than live to no
purpose or use in .the world. •
The young man or woman who sees no
, ore iu life thou—pervorinl idestation--o
grandizement, t s the pitiable victim of a
thin delusion.
The young man or woman who neglects to
obey every generous impulse from youth up
is like the grub, winding and swathing itself
in a silken shroud, away - from the blessed
light and air. For generous impulses are
the frequent sunbeams glinting from heav
to earth, and playing around the hearts of
men and women.
All should bear this in mind; that no young
man, though be be rich in milliobs, is so rich
that he can afford to dwarf body, soul or
mind, by neglecting even the least of the
dutie3 precedent to the development of a
true manhood.
There is no povetty like this of the spirit.
The true man, though coarsely clad and fed,
is a prince among nature's nobility, while a
mean spirited prince is a contemptible beg.
gar and pretender among conventional no
bles.
Every young man should strive first, and
to the last, to attain to the full moral stature
of a MAN. For this includes everything that
can go to establish enduring repute.
Fame is oftener miscalled than won.—
Greatness is constantly misapprehended. A
great intellect does not' make a man great.—
But the quantity of greatness inheres in a
true union of superior intellect and moral ex.
cellence.
us-Abraham-Lineolo r more-th an-any-of
modern American publicists, deserves, and
will receive the award of greatness in Amer
ican history. He was, among men, preemi
nently conscientious and good.
He had not the mighty intellect of Web
ster, nor the subtlety of either Calhoun or
Seward; but be has a higher place in history
than either, for he had but one ambition in
life—to be the•benefactor of his kind.
To accomplish this he lived very near the
people; joyed in their joy, grieved when they
grieved, in all things sympathized with them;
and finally died for them ! .
Martyrs are not too plenty, even now-ii.
-
Tff".l7;..-
nye. Ana we can pay Litre - oln nighTt
compliment than to say that his life was pure
and unselfish, and his death as noble as that
of the noblest of those who fell in the hour
of battle.
The record of this great man, s from his
boyhood to his death, is a record of persis.
tent endeavor to attain to the true stature of
a MAN.
His example ought to be a . life lesson to
every young man. When we say that don't
understand us as saying that every boy
should try to be President. Lincoln as lit
tle expected to be President as Autocrat of
the Russia& But the Presidency was an
incident of his life labor, not the object.
The man who makes public position, emp
ty 'honor, or wealth, the object of life, will
die of moral and spiritual penury and want.
To act from right motives, unbiased by
selfish ambitions, is to put money at com
pound interest. The man who makes it a
rule to do right, and abide the consequences
makes a great pale toward true manhood.
Such a man cannot hope to have the good
opinion of the selliqh, the unprincipled, and
the breakers Of the laws. But be will, in
-h is-sou l-have-ontliveel-th e-f ear-of-man
Set out in life with your Elea toward the
undying light. Put all doubtful enterprise
behind you. Resolve to be true to your
highest impulses. Take the responsibility.
You have to answer for yourAelves. to con
science, to your Maker. No man can ap
pear for yeti. Therefore the question is not,
"Did my father, or grandfather, walk thus,
or so," "or so. believe and practice ?"
that rather —" ls this right, or wrong? Is that
true, or false ?"
Lie is exceedingly poor who pins his faith
upon another man's sleeve. That faith is
best which is most intelligently cherished
That course is best which is most intelligent
ly determined upon.
Time is the property of no man. No man
has any surplus time to waste. So, it a
young man haunts bar-rooms and saloons, ho
Is a thief of Time, a waster of that to which
none can lay spezial . claim.
Morally to waste time is a greater crime
against society than the theft of motley.—
Money may be' replseed;. time lost once is
boat forever.
If a man is worth just what he benefits
community, what is the value of the young
man who, spends his days and evenings nt
the taverns, the saloons or the groceries ?.
These habits go to make up a man's rep
utation; for the goings out and comings in
of all are known to somebody, and ao become
notorious
Wild young men comfort themselves with
the fact that some distinguished men were
fast young men But they forgot that such
is not the rule. In the exceptional eases
men have achieved distinction spite of yottth..
ful follies.
The• logic of such young men is bad.—
Were dissipation the prerequisite of useful
ness, their conclusion would be correct. .13u.t
the premise is utterly false.
Success is not the orca.turo of fortuitous
circumstances. Least of nll can a young
um except to succeed in lite by disregard,_
ing all the conditions precedent to success.
To shine is no evidence ofmerit, or solid
attainments. Vcg etatiun, iva certain stage
of decomposition . becomes luminous Bril.
Haney in some men only marks . the decay of
moral force. •
These tire but fragments of thought. If
a single one of our itertders gets profit out of
the mass, then our labor is well bestowed. .
• llllll
l- lady seeing a drunken mnn in the ut.
ter, said' sh was afraid he was dead. r ),
who had' been near enough to smell
13reath,,exelairned: "Faith, and I wish 'I had
bis disease.'
YOUNG MEN AND WO
SI TRUB:
Thou must be true thyself,
If thou the truth !mild% t' teach;
Thy soul inust'overflow, if thou
It needs the overflow of hearts
To give thy lips full spOech.
Think truly, and thy 'thoughts
Shall' the world's famine feed;
Speak i t ruly, and each word of thine
Shall be a fruitful seed;
• Live truly, and thy life shall be .
A great and noblo creed: •'
1.4.1 not Repine.
;'Amid the various scones of life
Each stroke some kind design fulfills ;
And shall I murmur at my, cross,
When sovereign love directs the rod ?"
Resignation is an exalted Christian virtue.
It Is a plant that grows not up from Nature's '
soil. It is a grace that must be cultivated
like the rose tree / that it may flourish and
shed forth its sweet fragrance amid the pass.
ing scene of life. To possess! . resignation,
calm and unsettled, under all circumstances,
is a high attainment. Yet it. is attainable;
and bleised are they who live under its be
nign influences. It will shed . a holy• balm
o'er the moral waste of life, and cheer us a
mid the darkest hours of our pilgrimage.
Life has ite cares and its afflictions, its
crosses and conflicts; its disappointments and
its sacri fi ces. But in every scene of earth,
resignation, like the strong and faithful an
-ehor-that-holds-the—ship-m—safety—till—the
storm is past, secures its possessor peace and
quietness, till the darkness and danger of the
tempest are over, and the sunshine of tran
quility and joy again beams upon us. No
thing is ever lost to the just by the exercise
of this virtue; but it will secure to the anx
ious, the impotent, and heavy•laden, much
joy, blessedness and consolation. It will ren•
der our afflictions blessings, our crosses pleas
urea, our disappointments unexpected good,
and our peaces, either for our own Or the
well-beNg of others, acceptable oblations to
God. Then---
"Though Heaven afflict, I'll n,
Each heartfelt comfort still is mine—
Comforts that shall o'er death prevail, .
And journey with me through the vale."
Scene at the Death Bed of Mr
Linooin.
At Carlisle, Pa., recently, ; the :Presbyte
rian Synods - of the old and New Schools be.
ing in session at the same place; the two bo
dies met in communion with great haimony.
Rev. Dr. Gurley, pastor Of the church in
Washington which President Lincoln usual
ly attended, in a speech at the table, gave
the following narrative, which has never be
fore been made public :
"Wheti summoned on that sad night to
the sleadi bed of Presidentlincoln, I enter
ed the room fifteen or twenty minutes before
his departure. All present were gathered
anxiously around him, waiting to catch his
last breath, The physician, with one hand
upon the pulse of the dying mkt, and the
other'hand laid upan his heart, was intently
Watching for the moment when life should
cease.
"He lingered longer than we had expec
ted. At last the physician said: 'He is
gon - efh - e - ii - desti:"
"Then I solemnly believe that for four or
five minutes there was not the slightest noise
or movement in that awful presence:. We all
stood transfixed in our positions, speechless,
breathless, around the dead body. of that
groat and good man.
"At length the Secretory •of Witr, who
was standing at my left, broke the silence
and said, Tootor, will you say anything ?'—
I replied will speak to God.' Said he,
'Do it just note.'
"And there, by the side of our fallen chief,
God put it into my heart to utter this peti
tion, that from that hour we and the whole
nation might become more, than ever united
in our devotion to the cause of our beloved,
imperrilled country.
"When I ceased, there arose from the lips
of the entire. company a fervid and sponta
neous A men.
"And has not the whole heart of the loyal
nation responded 'Amen ?'
"Was pot that prayer, there offered, re
sponded to is a most remarkable manner ?
When in our history have the people of this
land bun found more closely bound together
in purpose and heart than when the tele
graphic) wires bore all over the country the
sad tidings that President Lincoln was dead?"
W fl,O is Orn.—A wise man will never
rust out. As long as he.can move and breathe,
he will do something for himself, for his
neighbor or for his posterity. Almost the
last hour of bis lifo Wellington was at work.
So were Newton, Bacon, Milton, and Frank
lin.. The vigor of theist lives never decayed.
No rust marred. their spirits. It is a foolish
idea that we must lie down because we are
old. Who. is old ? Mot the man of energy;,
not the day laborer in science, art or honey
°tem; but he only who suffers his energies
to run to waste, and the spring of life to be
come motionless, on whose hands tho. hours
drag heavily.
BEWARE OP HIM —Beware of whom 1' A
dangerous companion. Ho can't walk, for
ho has no lege. He can't soizo you ; for be
11,119 no. arms. He can't look at you, for he
has no eyes. He can't bear you, for he has
no ears.. But he can harm you nevertheless,
for ho has a tongue, and speaks wicked
things. Do . .you. know him Z', I have not.
Shall I tell yo•i his tiatue.f It is Rap BOOK.
Beware of him
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Spodger came across a man the other day',„
who is so conservative .that he ratans ! to
take a particular medicine because it protn
ises to work a radical etuo.
Andrew Johnsen in Franee.o: : ,.'
--Jiro fraught° from the Joumal des -Debate
of Paris the followiitg article from the pen of
M. Provost Paradol, which fe.inteiestiod ae
. showi: 117-
/ng tne view taken by the 14003 . i:if
France upon * our affairs, and how they aro•
preciata the precise attitude of President.
GEMOIM
Johiisoii: , . •
The newelroin the United States is of p 0;
ouliar interest to - those .of our readers' who
are at all versed in American affairs; and-the
early days of December at 'the farthest will
see the denouement of the isouteet Which has
arisen between the, Piesident and Congress:
Often as .the I!renels,journals have , discussed
this greve,queetiOn,the'y have , riot generally
presented 'to their readers a fair'statement
of the causes sitbieluba,ve produced this wide
breach between the, xeeutiVe power , rid the
legislative power of the „ United ,Stat ii end
we see daily, instances 9f those, who either
wanting in sentiments of justice' nor iatelli
gene°, cast their sympathy with the Presi
dent before they have been Justified In their
action by primer information.. ' • .
What is, then, this ,constitutional amend.
meat which, the President so bitter/y oppo
ses, and which' Congress has
~.made.an abso
lute condition for the readinission of - the
Southern - States to representation , in Con
gress? Is it unjust, 'as Mr. Johnson pre
tends?
.Is it unnecessary for the maintenance
orinternal harmony, lately so'fearfully dis
turbed and so painfully re-establishes?—
These are questions which we must . (pally
discuss before we can decide) in favor of , Mr.
Johnson although _ in his Dilating. towards
the conquered, and ip his expressed — irefro
forget the past he has appealed to the noblest
sentiments of the heart. Words, ,however, ,
have little value in such a grave state of af
fairs, if they do not conform to the true'con•
dition of things; and if we would judge of
the Preirident's . opposition to Congress as rea
sonable and for the , public good, we must
not halt on the words, but g 4 right to "the
fact. •
If the legislation immediately anterior to
the war should resume its course, as . Mr.
Johnson desires, each State would remain
••• ,i_the,,4ruittneme, . • .
debt, of the conditions of the elective fran
chise, and even of the exercise of civil rights,
and, by consequence, of the political and so
cial condition of all its inhabitants. In oth
er words, the Southern , States could then le
gally rdpudiate the national debt, and pay in
stead the debt contracted by them during
the war, for the prosecution of the war to
raise the chiefs of the rebellion to the high
est honors the 'State could bestow, and to
perpetuate against the blacks, in default of
slavery, that exclusion from civil and politi
cal rights which was the necessary aoompan
iment and the natural consequence of their
servitude.
7miniww,
But this is not all. These questions are
important and-must be solved; but there is
another which cannot be escaped, the num
ber of representatives to which the South is
to be entitled. This has been determined
heretofore by the indirect representation of
the slaves; but slavery novir'has - ceased to ex
ist. These are the various questione to which
the constitutional amendment has given rise,
and in discussing thorn it is beyond . questien
that the Republican party, under its wise
and sagachifis leaders ; has not overstepped
moderation in the hour of victory.
Vt'fiat will be e --- restrlt — if — Mohnson
persists in his imprudent courser It: would
be-very difficult,for him to-day, even were
he to surrender completely to
and'
to
regain the public confidence; and' the "exer
cise of the Presidential power, after such a
aubmiisiou, would be= almost impossible. It
is generally expected that Congress, imme
diately upon reassembling, will impeach, and
depose the President, when the President of
the Senate will become the legal successor of
Mr. Lincoln as head of the Republic. For
we cannot forget that this is still the Presi
dency'of that illustrous sleeper, and the re
moval of Mr. Johnson from offies would on
ly give the murdered President, for the time
which yet,remains, a
. more worthy success
or. There is but another question, and that
is, Dili the. second successor of Mr, Lincoln
be compelled to employ force to execute the
decrees of Congress, and to sustain his own
power? Let us-hope that it-will, not be ne
cessary to proceed to such an extremity, al
though the American people have been much
excited by recent strange events.
•
An Agreeable Recommendation.
A writer—a physician—in the Agricultur.
ist, says apples are the most healthy fruit
predated in this country. He cites a good
many instances to prove the truth of this sys
tole. And we suspect that he .is very near
ly—if not quite—right. He says, in sub
stance,
trhatr there are but few articles of veg.
stable food more widely useful and more u
niversally liked than the apple. Why every
farmer in the country has not an apple orch
ard, where the trees will grow, at all, is one
of the mysteries. Let every house keeper
lay in a good supply of apples, and it will, be
one of the most economical investments in
the whole range •of. culinaries. A raw, mel
low apple is digested in an hour and a half,
while boiled cabbage requires Ave hours.—
The most healthy dessett that can be placed'
on the table is a baked apple. If eaten Ire
quently at breakfast, with cootie bread and
batter,, without meat or flesh of any kind,. it
has an admirtrble effect on the general sys
tem, often removing constipation, correcting
acidities, and' ccaliSg' off febrile conditions
More effectually than the most approved med.'
icines. If families could be inddeed to sub
stitute apples, sound and ripe, for pies,eakes
and sweetmeats with which their children
are too frequently stuffed, there would be a •
.diminution in the sum total of 'Dowers' bills,
'in a single•year, sufficient to lay in ri stook of
:his -:delicious fruit • 'ihe whole season's
use. , • •
•
Nitre= AOTrnpTE4OO.4I, 1.1
— 4 . A. plain farmer says: "It is now over
} twenty years since I learned
a that Sweet oil
ienld'cure the bite of a. 4ttlesnalte. not
.ntilng-it - wocure other - kinds, of 0014'
eons. Practice, observaiion, - and experience ,
have taught the that it will cure poison of
any kind both on man and
.beast.- I think
; farmer should be without a-bottle of , it in
his hcinse.. The patient must take, a specin
fat •of leihtertially and bathe -The *nod for
a cure. To cure a horse if' requires eight
times as much as it does. for a man. Here
let - me - 81Y Of one of the most extreme easel
.Of snake bites io this neighborhcind: Eleven
Years ago this summer, where . the, catioi had .
I been thirty days standing, and
.the patient
had been given up by his physicians, I heard
of it. carried-the oil an gave him one speOit
ful, which effected a curd. It is an atitidnie
for disenie and stiyohnine - , - It Will Cure
bloat in cattle by eating- too freely .of fresh
.clover; it will cure the sting of . bees, spiders
or other insects; and will cure persons who
have been poisoned by a low running vino
growing in the meadows, called ivy."
bhutehee in the United States.
The' following table exhibits'. a, correct
statement of the number of' tho churches of
the leading Christian denominations in. the
United States. The figures have been pre.
parcd.from the latest and most authentic re.
cord's.
Denominations.
Methodists
Baptists
riesbsterians
Botnanjeathnlies
Congregationalists
Episeopaliaus •
Lutherans
Christians
Union •
Ournb. Presbyterians
German Reformed
Universelists
Freowill,Baptists
Fticinds •
Reformed Church
Bunkards
• Rued-Pres:byterim
Mennonites
Jewish
Adventists
Winebrennerians
Swedenborgians
SeVen-day Baptists
Moravians •
Spiritualists
Shakers
'Six Principle Baptists
Minor sects • • •
SEJARP.-Au Irish boy, trying hard to get
a place, denied that ho was Irish. "•I don't
know what you mean by not being an Irish
man," said the gentleman who was about to
hire him; "but this I do know, that you were
born in Ireland."
"Ooh . 7 .. your honor, if that's all, small
blame, that. Suppose your old cat bad kit.
tens in the oven, . would they be loaves of
bread ?"
The boy got the place..
A young gentleman, dressed in the most
fashion - ale and faultless style, was standing
on the .step the other day, picking his teeth
after digesting a comfcT•tale • inner, w• en a
stranger, jostfrom. the oars, stopped up and
politely inquired if he "could stop there ?"
"Stop where ?" inquired the young man,
puzzled by the inquiry. - "Hero in the city
—in Hartford!' "Oh, I suppose so—why
don't you inquire at the hotel ?" "Excuse
me, sir," replied••the stranger, "I thought
you owned the place 1"
So. -The State of 'Oregon, one of the
youngest in the Union, has more Public
Schools, (448) than South Carolina, one of
the original thirteen States. It's so.
EX,EMPLARir CfIARLTY -"Well neighbor,
what's the most Christian news this morn
ing?" said a pious gentleman to his friend.
'4 have just bought a• barrel of flour for
a poor woman." •
"Just like you," said the other; "who
that you have made happy by your charity
this time?"
"My wifet"
DONE FOR.—Two gentlemen were lately
examining the breast of a plow on ,a stall in
a tnarket•plaoe.
"I'll bet a crown," said one, "you don't
know what it's for."
"Done," said the other. "it is for sale."
The debt was paid.
A man in Maine• applied. for two gallons of
rum for "Medical purposes " "For what
medical purposes?" inquired the agent.—
"For raising a barn," was the reply.
Major N. upon being asked if he was se
riously Burt on the bursting of a boiler on a
steamboat; replied that he was not e as he.had
been blown up so many times by his wife',
that a mere steamboat explosion. had no ef
fect upon him whatever.
clerk io a triercantileemahlishinent writes
to a friend at hone "1 have a nice time
of it now-a-days—very little work to do--
our arra dolt advertise."
lbe number of worker bees in a Live is
said . to vary, from 5,001) to 50,000.
If a bigamist wua sentenced to live w
hia;twa wives in life same house, the ci f
wuuJcL soon. becoute extinct.
hiVei abiitthl alWays present , hirrmelf at
1118 s woethetat's . dour . with a int ,ring,,, I. at
not wiihuut wrap'
b ,ever !fin tig.,l , •
(..: "' •
ler dia,sto
NUMBER 21::,
Churches.
19,883
11,221
5,0'61
2,334
2,145
•
1 138
.
2,068
1,366
820
6;6
664
520
• 765
440
163
109
77
70
65
58
53
- 49
17
12
54,009