VILLAGE RECORD. 'TAT AL llt AT.161,25 El C') JEt. 43) : Frldays A iliust 1569, Daring the past month of Jaty 1;826 emi; grants =rivet at Oral Friday night a safe st the 11Juited Slates Arae.nal iu Philadelphia was opened cud $24,000 stolen therefrom. , ve.The Chines° giant, Chang, -eight feet eisr4oeites-h-ighFrezetit4 arrived-R.IM eteara—i ship Denmark. He's a whopper. !terThe election in - K - e - nrceiric - oti Tries day resulted in favor of the Democrats by forty or forty-five thousand majority. eft.Thero are now two hundred poets of the Grand Army of the Republic in Penn- rogLA Reb. named Wade Bolton, of Mem phis, Tenn. who was shot some time ago by Dr. Dickens, died on Friday. Be made a will bequeathing $lOO,OOO to charitable pur poses, including 810,000 to Mrs. Stonewall &Skean, and 50 acres of land-to each of his former slaves. te...The St. Louis people seem to be really in earnest in an attempt to have the Capital located on the banks of the Mississippi. A meeting of citizens has been held, which the telegraph describes as "enthusiastic," and a mass meeting is to be called to bit upon a plan to carry out their project. se..General Phil. Sheridan is taking the weather coolly on the Green Mountain alopea • Ile received an extremely cordial reception at Brifitri, Vt, on Friday afternoon.— An old soldier had his arm blown off while firing a cannon in his honor, strA Washington cortespondent states that a German banker has offered to loan our G - overnment - thTee — hundred - million dull Eire at five per coat. interest; but Secretary Bout well has declined it, as be has reason to be -bean that be can next winter borrow money enough at four and one-half ter cent. to take up the fico•twentiee now due. •••• • re- - - - Louisville paper reports that the .physicians who attended Judge Jere E Ulaok while he was lying in the St. JoAeph's In• &friary, Louisville, suffering from the injuries ho received in the accident on the Louisville __and Nashville railroad some time ago, and who staved his arm, hatilit - Mt in a bill of $6,500 —to-the-r-ailroad_company r _wholtad-offerea-to pay the expenses irourred by the Judge through the accident. Of this sum the prin• eipal wishes $5,000 and the assistant 61,500 The bill_has-not yet-been-paid-;-the-directorsof the company regarding it as rather ex orbitant. - itsk. - Socretary Boutwas monthly state ment shows that during the month of July the public debt was decreased $7,435,744,20, making a total of $43,896,523,72 since the let of March last. The reduction would have been larger had not the Government „advanced to the Pacific Railroads, during the month interest on their bonds to the amount of over $1,626,861,37, and paid on the last day of the month an unusually large amount of drafts, amounting to more than $2,500,000. The reduction fully justifies the sanguine hopes and the confidence of the country in Secretary Boutwell's administration of the finances. F r The Convention of School Superin tendents, which met in Harrisburg last week, passed resolutions in favor of having School Directors sworn for the faithful performance of their duties; asking the Legislature to re peal the law exempting mortgages, judg ments &0., from taxation forsohoel , purposes, — as detrimental to the interests of the Common schools; providing for the bettor support of tht poorer districts by an equalised or uni form system of taxation ; and for a law allow ing the county Superintendents. to apply a portion of the county funds in defraying the expenses of county institutes. Prof. Wick ersham, State Superintenden t , announced that be was preparing the draft of a new School Law to be F u bro ttcd to the next Leg islature. Ile had called together the County Superintendents to secure a conference of views as to the wants of the system, and he would endeavor, as far as practicable, to have their views carried out. itirJoseph G. Gitt, Esq , Civil Engineer, of New Oslord, has been employed by the Coautistioners of Harrisburg to make a stir %ey of that city, and to lay out an addition id two miles South and East of the present City limits, into streets 'and avenues, with the proper grades. the military authorities in Cuba have ied..e k d Jeff. Davis' system of "robbing the ern aid grave." In one military district .the male population, from boys of 15 Mkpatriarchs of 60 have been compelled to join the Sparkish ranks. This shows the desperate straits of the Spanish authorities, and looks like the "beginning of tho end" of Spanish domination. Sarno New York Post of Thursday afternoon says that "private adviees from the coal regions lead unto advise those who have not yet laid in their winter's supply of coal to be in no haste ,to do so. Veal is now :higher than it:will be six weeks hence; such, at least, is the belief of well infornied men." iffrOn the 28d Inst. a meeting of general Officers who fought at Gettysburg is to be held. Union and Confederate offieers have both been invited: email, tiwore LOCAL MATTERS. Is MARKET—Water melocul and_toaetin• ___t_;_ - ._ .B.Th° colored Camp Mettling_a•tOreen ,_ • • • wood commeneott to-morrow. larOur town mothers are putting up all the fruit they CAN. LIVERY.—The advertisement of Messrs. Funk & Gordon will be found in to•day's pa per. Patronize the new' firm. AlarVlNG.—Visitors nre still ar riving at the Monterey and Clermont Houses ou the Mountain. IttliiirA lot of Watches, Clocks, Jewelry, Sleeve Buttons and Spectacles, just received at Alex. Leeds'. .Butter Knives, Spoons, Forks and Cos. tors of a superior -quality, very _cheap a Alex. Leed 4'. t.The Tailors of New - Fork are on "strike." Some. eowatry Tailors, _like Boyd of the Free Press, are more liable to get on a "bender:" -------- - serif you want to take a plunge in a de lightful pool of wat f :r and g et good fare, go to Buena Vista. The worthy host, Mr. V. 13 Gilbert, gives visitors every attention. Fuorr.—The market is now being sup plied with fruit, Such as apples, pears and poaches. Of the latter there is promise of an unusual crop. Stir The County Treasurer will receive collections on the tax duplicate up to the .0 tiro f—Aug is ta f ter - which - tiny will ;grin= to the townetup 'collectors' hands. to-morrow, (Saturday) beginning a few win• utes after 5 o'clock in the evening and end in_ ei ht minutes of seven. The cell .se will alTynirfimmr; PRopucTivu.lllr Jelin W. Good of this ieinity—recently—pulled two stalk a—frotn—his oatsleld, one containing two hundred and twenty one grains and the other one hundred ankeighty. Who can beat this production ? oca_A. New York lady is trying to whiten her complexion by drinking palo brandy.— The probosis hung to Boyd rf the Free Press would Llush at such an experiment. Sciioor. DIRECTOItS —By an Act of As sem-b ly - tt - i s - re quire d-o ch o o I-D ire e t ors—t o publish an annual financial statement of the Board, in a newspaper in their district.— Mereersburg, we observe, has complied with the law. TEXT BooKs —At a meeting of the School Directors of Quincy township on the 3d lost., Syphet's History of Pennsylvania wag adopt. ed as a Text Book in the public schools of the township, as was also Hater's Writing Books. PICKELS.—Juhn lgorgal, of this vicinity, informs us that ho has a half acre of cucum ber vines and is prepared to supply the pub lic with cucumbers for pickeling. Give John a call. FRAMES, &c --"-Just received at the Dia mond Gallery, above Leeds' Jewelry Store, a fine assortment of walnut ani gilt frames and different kinds of fine mouldings. Per sons having pictures to.frame should call and see for themselves. * CHANGED.—Tho Poet Master General haa ordered the name of the Post Office at State Line, in this county, to be changed to Ma. son and Dixon. Is.A Washington county man informs us, that Boyd, of the_ lagerstown Free Press, is anxious to purchase an interest in a cer tain distillery in that county. Would nev er do. The leakage would bunt the concern, certain. BURNED.—The large Machine Shop be longing to [leery Sierer, on West King St., Chattibersburg, was destroyed by fire on Sun day morning last. Mr, S's loss is estimated at $2,700 outside of his insurance. The fire is supposed to have been caused by a spark from the hearth. pa. Messrs. nenneberger & Hoover would announco. to the ladies and gentlemen of Waynesboro' that to•morrow (Saturday) will be tho last of the ice•cream season as their supply of ice is exhausted. They will then supply the gentle-folks with water-melons and °antelopes by the dice or otherwise.— Give them a call. Ladies' Saloon up stairs.* ve..it Forgery on the First National Bank of Shippensburg has been perpetrated by L. B. Brown, of Boston, Mass. In the first at tempt-81,500—as gent wassuccossf al; and on a repetition of the attempt some days after, was arrested by a constable in Boston. Brown is supposed to have been in &ippon burg on the 19th of July, and put up at the Sherman House. He registered • his name at that time as J. Merril, of Boston. So says the Shippensburg 'Sentinel. iiirThe Harrisburg Telegraph, one of the beet papers published in 40 State, will be furnished for the campaign as follows. Week. ly, one copy, fifty cents; ten copies 84. , Daily, one copy, 81.25; ten copies, 810. The CAMPAION TELZGlttektl will be furnished at 30 coats singly; four oopiee for el; fifty copies for 810. The Veterlands Waechter, an ex. cellent German paper, is issued from thosamo office at 81 per annum. Address George Bergner, Harrisburg, Pa, [All books designed for review in tha Record must bd addressed to Reviewers, Ringgold ' Washington County, Mill . Harper's Monthly for August, Is very light and elegant, with the exception of_serentiartieles,-whic , do not reach our standard of the agreeable in liters• Lure. The opening paper—Pictures of the Jape's. en —reads well, but is not the author occasionally wearisome, in some respects 1 The paper is pro fusely illustrated, howeverotritich may cause certain shadowy sentences to appear t xplicit to the of many readers. The new theory of heal is nnexcellent scientific article upon a subject which must prove int. resting to every man "of the period"—even, to the man lliiid;Of the Free Pi CBB and bed-bug-notoriety -The= Betrothal is a very musical little poem. South ooast sauntering In England is the gem of thetollection. We seldom meet with so long and so pleasant an article, in any of the m ,gazines of the day. Next follows a continuation of abrave lady; this Wry is by the celebrated authoress of "John_lialifax, gentleman," and is exquisitely grand," if a school girl's opinion may be deemed correct.- Draw your conclusions, ?he graves at Newport, (a beautiful thing) betty's liberal education, Slavery in Palaces, a peep at Ifinland,_.Reminiscences of Oxford Uni versity,_ a wrardei--(ypoem,)' my enemie's --daugh ter, (xxii chept.) Borrowed Baggage, can we far& the weather (a very valuable essay), Tice newhome, August days, The new timothy, etc comes after, with the notes in "chain" reviews in "Book table," and-comic stories in "drawer." A Goon NUMBER.— Wells' Phrenological Journal for August has the following among ite varied contents : Rev John P. New man, D. D., Chaplain to the U. S. Senate; -J, Edgar4hompsonPresident-Pennsylvania R. R. Company ; James A. Whioney ; Henry J. Raymond; The Old North Church; The Wallachians; Small vs. Largo Heads; The Laughing Deacon; The Lyre Bird; Th e Phrenoloisee Prophecy, or an incident in the Life of Metternich; Bible Ex Observutiwo and Impressions of a Day, 01 r ~ ~ RiaTdiag — Fac - es — en - th - e - Rail; Marriage us toms, etc; How to become a Christian; a well-balanced Mind, eto, with potraits and -r- • I year. S R. WELLS, Publisher, 389 Broad. way, New York. THE GEISER SEPARATOR,.—One 01 —the firm of the Geiser Manufacturing Company informs us that during the month of July they disposed of one hundred and twenty-five _Grain Separators. This machine is gradual ly and surely working itself into favor wher ever introduced. -Jacob Frantz of this vi cinity, who has the ten-horse power machine, the other day threshed at the rate of two bushels per minute, and Messrs: Glaze & 13r0., of Frederick, Md., who have the same sized machine say they can thresh seven hundred bushels per day. The Company within the past month has largely increased its force of hands but is still unable to sup ply the demand. RECEIPTB.—Tbe following is a list of re coipts for subscription to Record for the last month: John her, • John R Fisher, John B.andt, Dr. John A. Royer, Wm. Woods, Mrs :Salome Smith, John D. Frick, Wm. 11 Gordon Sergt. A. Shockey, .Pahn W. Garver, Henry Waddle, Joseph Hoover, Jesse Baer, John S. Oiler, Henry Whitmore, Wu), Needing, ExAMINATION.—Tho County Supetin tendent, Samuel Gelwix, examined' teachers for Washington District on Wednesday last. Out of fifteen teachers required but six were present and_ examined. --- Teachers are like preachers and doctors, at considerable expense to prepare them selves for the responsible duties devolving upon them, and beaco should be liberally re• munerated for their services. Unless this is done competent or first class .teachers will . seek situations'elsewhere. And this, in all probability, accounts foi the few applicants on examination day. $6,000 WANTED.-It will bo seen by ref (lrene° to our advertising columns that the School Board of our Borough offers to give bonds bearing seven per cent. interest for the sum of $6,000, which will be 'paid annually, said bonds to be issued m series ranging from one to ten years. This money, by legislative authority, is to be applied towards the erec tion of a School Building. here is certain ly a chance for a safe and profitable invest ment and we doubt not some of our moneyed men will promptly avail themselves of it. GREAT SIIOW.--it will be seen by refer ence to oar advertising columns that John Robinson's great Circus and Menagerie will exhibit in this place on Thursday the 19th inst. It is certainly a big Asir, contain ing 150 men, 250 horses, 50 performers, 3 clowns, a rare collection of wild animals, &c. His circus is provided with an entire new outfit, new band wagon, new harness, now material an d paraphernalia throughout.— Should the weather prove favorable a big turn-oat on, the 19th may be anticipated. Taw Loss Carra).—The search in the vi oioity of flarribburg for the child lost some time ago above Merceraburg, has proved fruitless. It was rumored that she bad been seen with a band of Gypsies in Dau phin county, bat some of the friends have seen the child referred to and say that she is not the lost daughter of Mr. Straley. The mystery is still nuravelotl.—Sprie. JOURNALISTIU. REPUBLWAIii TIOKET.—Tho Republican County Convention met in Chambereburg on Tuesday last and nominated the following, ticket:- - - _ For the Assembly, Wm -- 1 1-51!Knight f t Antrim, Protivonetnr-y,-.l4.A3__A. ILyssong, of Blereersburg.- Register and Itecorder, enry Greenawalt of ayottvi Ic. 1, or. of the Courts, Lt. Louis W. Dei3trich, of Ilam• Won. - Treasurer, Capt. James C. Patton, of Montgeinery. CointniFsionor, Capt. j„ohn Deshler,, of Chamberbburg. Dilector of the Or, -- John Frey, of Guilford. Auditor, bolo Miller, of_ Green. Coroner, Dr. J. A. 31ue1fy, of Green. RETIIRIVING Rangt.s —The last remnant herofthe - Shat' of -- --Brar tire—re— turning home impeounious and forlorn, as fast as they can got their passages paid by charity. They went out from us vowing that they could not live under a Yankee gov-• eminent; they came back glad enough to live and die under it. They are probsbly willing to admit now, that with all its faults, Wig the best Government on the face of 'the earth.—E.r. The "gray-back" of the Hagerstown Free Press, escaping death in , the "Lint ditch," ac cepted the eituationi- and- instead of-heading for Brazil, sought protection under the old flan. This was more sensible, certainly. PATENT ScauunEa.—The subscriber calls the attention of the public to the new and complete Scrubber. C. N• BEAVER, north east corner Diamond, Waynesboro', Pa. FOR SALE.-A desirable small property, situated 2 miles! from Waynesboro'. The lot. contains an more and a half, more or let's, ou which is a good house with seven rooms and a basement, good stabling and all neces sary out buildings, now cistern, never-tailing welLat-th e-door,-tioo—f rui quire of the PRINTER. einem FARIki FOR SALE.—A well•improveci and p - te - asint Arai t uate - d - farnlT-a-few—ut ilea- south= west of Waynesboro', is offered at private sale. Enquire of the Printer. *tf ser - • - not - er - comp ete - stoc ceived at C. N. Beavers'. Partridges - ean - uttly bre - killed - from - the-lst - , October to. the 10th ot December. Wild turkeys can be hunted from the Ist October to the let January. Squirrels and rabbits may be shot from the Ist August to Ist January. Woodcock from the 4th July to 15th No. veal ber. Inseetiverous birds, which includes the robin, are prohibited to be shot at any. time, and it is illegal to rob the nest of wild birds of all kinds. • . You need -have no more gray hairs if you will use. the Ali,ma. It acts charmingly uu gray haired people, and is a splendid hair dressing for all, keeping the hair soft and lively—giving it a very fine appearance. Thousands of testimonials for Seward's Cough Cure. Minnesota expects to raise eighteen millions of bushels of wheat this year. A Mormon elder was teeently presented with nine boys and five girls the same morn. leg. $4 00 3 00 2 00 5.00 1 00 2.00 0.00 6.00 2 00 2 00 2 00 2.00 4 00 1.00 2.00 4,00 The hat wag passed around in Rev. Mr. Collyer's church at Chicago, last week, and $70,000 was taken up. A jar containing about two gallons of gold, was recently dug up by several negroes in a Geld in North Carolina. Ii was buried dur ing a Yankee raid is that State, by a plan• tor who is now dead. One day last week a negro woman at Lyncl,burg, Va , accidentally threw a lighted match into the bung of a whisky barrel, when it exploded, throwing the burning whisky a:1 over her, causing her death the next day. Mr. Abraham Leo, of Wisconsin, who was on a tour to the East, died suddenly at the Burnet House, in Cincinnati, last Thursday. Mr. Leo wan who drew the Crosby Opole. House in the celebrated Chicago lot tery. There has been put in -circulation within a few days, a well executed counterfeit $2O note, copied after the treasury issue, and well calculated to deceive. On the 29th tilt 'at the M. E. Parsonage, Waynesboro', by Rev.. J. A. Da Moyer, Mr. SIMON 11. BURNS to Miss JENNIE K. PENTZ, both from vicinity of Greencastle. isirt.l'Eri , i,E4o3lo IP.= IR SARAH FLEA.G.LE, departed this life in Borst) Valley, July 23d, 1869 aged 61 years, 9 months and 24 days. On the 9th inst neat Fannettsburg, GEO. BOWERS, in the 21st year of his age. At the residence of her Son Mr. James Woods, near Pannettsburg, Mrs. ELIZA BETH WOODS, aged 83 years, 3 months and 6 days. On the 22nd inst., near Fannettsburg, Miss. ORTHA BELL, oldest daughter of Mr. John Parks, aged 19 years, 3 months and 2 days. • Feiff-t-‘l-4. Z . - 41170 :1 1 SiAll PEITLADELPLIIA, Tuesday August 3. 1869. The flour market is quiet, but we continue •former .quotations ; 500 barrels Kootuoky white Wheat extra family flour sold for ship meat on secret terms; a few hundred barrels were taken by the home consumers in lots at ss®s 50 for superfine, $5.50(§5.75 fur ex. tras, $6.25®7.75 for lowa, W isconsin and Minnesota extra family, $6 25®7 25 fo r Venus do. do , $6.75(x37.50 for Wier do do., and sB®lo 50 for fancy brands, according to quality. Rye flour sells at $6.124®6 25 per barrel There is not much activity io the wheat market but prices at e without quotable change; sales of old red at $1.50®1 53, and new do at Si bo®l6o. Rye is dull at $1.20. ®125 per bushel for Western. Corn is quiet and I®2o lower; sales of 3,000 bushels yellow at $1 12®1.14, and Western mixed 51.10®1.12. Oats are unchanged, with sales qt 3,000 bushels Western at 74®760, Southern and Pennsylvania_ at 53®700, and am at 600. • 1130A.11,13 President Manager Business Manager ...... Secretary Treasurer Director of-Amusements General Agent Musical Director Keeper of Dens THE MOST EXTENSIVE COL ILL Mil 1. lionncam.ra GREAT COMBINATION SHOW.— Living Wild Animals and Equestrian Bele*. tions. 2. Woisnavn's MENAGERIE, In 2 parte. Eoplogical and Ornithological, from London. "3. MONS. FRANCOIS Born 's PAntsrAriScrtOOL idy blooded Arlan and English Hunter titer' _ MONKEYS AND GOATSS, from De Romrs Gar dens, Genoa Italy. 5: ManAmra GErtrannr. HOUXARIFASPECIALTY, from the u nbra, Leicester Squat.. London—the latest sensa tion—with her magnificent den of Perform ing Lions, "Hero," "Don," "Cruiser" and "Etna." O. WILSON'S AUSTRALIAN GYM NAsTio ALLIANCE, under the special supervi sion of Mr. John Wilson assisted by twenty Brat-clam Gymnasts, Tuniblers and Vaulters. 7. SLomAN's !SOUTH AMERICAN VAUDEVILLE COMPANY Athletes, Acrobats arid Pantomi tnists. 8. S. F. ltontusioN's, Jr.'s Rumor. FOR TRAINING Holism giving free the art of train rig and subduing vicious Horses, Introducing be English hunter "Hiawatha." 9. J. Q. A. HEMINGWAY'S COLLECTION Of Native Amen ean Wild Animals—Dancing Bears, Trained Elks,Deer, Panthers and Leaping_Butialoes. 10. 0. W. JOHNSON'S PERFORMING ELRFHANT EmFRYss," weighing nearly four tons, for merly the property of the Zoological Egypt, imported for the American basil rule. tram merit among the attractive Th,racr ov Tilt A tall:NA are eelobrltleS as zne the AWL ' ALICE, the brilliant and accomplished Lady Equestrian, the only first-data Equestrienne in America. m'LLE FRANCES, the beautiful and bril• limit Tight-Rope Dancer. MADAMN MARGARET, the_graeetel and steady bridle-hand Teacher of Equitation, OP School for Ladles. MADAME (LEItTRUDE, the celebrated Lion Enchantress, MR. J. WILSON, the great European Scene anti Character Rider, and Four-Horse Princi. pal MR JOHN Equestrian. . ROBINSON, Principal Trick Rider and Somersaultist. MR. J. McDONOUCiii, Shaksperian ant) Nautical Equestrian. MR. GEO. SLOMAN, the daring South American Equestrian and Acrobatic Per former. MR. G. N. ROBINSON, the great Dramatio Equestrian and Vaulter. SIG. ADOLF H BRANDISI, the Italian Wen Clown. MR. FRANK ROBINSON, the great Ameri can Jester and Side-splitter, and General to the Sovereigns of Momns. _ popular Clown. and one of the greateSt Wits 01 thMR. e ego. ARCHIE CAMPBELL, the Clown, who la perpeicAlly engrged in personal MS. sullies with the Master of the Circle. THE NONPAREIL LEWIS, the Colored Boy Wonder. natural amateur Equestrian, formerly a slave The not of horsemanship by this boy of ewer is the most daring and dashing feature of artistic excellence—riding a bare-backed horse, jumping high fences , carrying his body in evely Italie* , of elegant attitudes. MR. LEWIS WILLIS will intioance tne novel act entitled "Scenes of the Cherokee "der and his Wild Wapita," and with a full and vi old display of this wild animal, leaping gatao through balloons, et break-neck speed. In addition, the Troupe comprises the fam cue Juvenile De partm en t of Equestrians, con sistßiji_g 0: SIXTEEN BEAUTIFUL CHIL DEN ZOoLOGICIAL COLONY.—The Zoological De partment comprises the following list of ani mals: A HER]) OF TAPIltg, a rare and wonderful animal, from the interior of Asia. 'I his Herd nas been imported at an Immense expense lot ItonmsoN's GREAT COMBINATION. and more over, they are the only living specimens of the animal ever brought to the United States. trodneed by Mr. Johnson; African Lion and Tanury, Civet Copyhara, ground Watt, Alpine ' Marmot, Silver-crested Cockatoo, Zeora. CiliacmaMandril i Red Monkey - Chir - - nxes wiwtxnutrr AT WAYNESBORO': THURSDAY, AUGUST Pa. AT EXMITTSBURG, FRIDAY, AUGUST 20, JOHN. ROBINSON'S MENAGERIE! 10 SHOWS IN ONE IN AMERICA, AIDED BY NEIUNDIEBTFI Chosen from the He!eat Equestrians, Gym nests, Grooms and Chevaliers of the Arena. r I - _ From the Stables of the best breedams of Stock In Europe and America, constituting the most magnificent and stapendotus en terprise ever organized. FEATURES T II H F E TEN SHOWS COIkEIBINAMION AUW El
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