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Lie PURE SPICES, Prime Rio Coffee, Brownell Coffee, Brown and Crushed Sugar, I.onf sugar, Powdered White sugar, Carolina Rice, Syrups; suparior in quality and low in price, P. Rico andLCitneans Malasses, Corn Starch, Chocolate, sweet do., Pickles, Catsup, Mason's Crackers and Cakes, ' - '60" . " G. A. Salt, Fine Rail, Sugar cured llama. ' Call and examine. No trouble to show goods I offer the above at reanceil prices, natvvithetand ing they are on the "rise" in the k:ast. Cove OYSTERS in 1 and 2113.enn0, alma irttnkaohl - hy the rin--outlin Whm you go to Pic nice. or to the mountain, coma where you got good oysters and,crackere, cheese &c. FRUIT AND CONFECTIONERY. Layer Raisins, French Currants, Candies, Oranges, hem• -ons,-Dattai-Citronr-Prunes,-Appl.:s,-nuts-of-several kinds. JR 13 AItiNcrVIVIDLE ,REAM.—We have goal and pure ocract4 of Lemon, Orange, Vanilla, thrsvtberry; flzsences of.enl - 674i. -- Ciriff, Oct the Lug. Styila-for-makintr, Biscuit. G A.SziNV A RE.— 1.0.)k at our cheep gotletsoliEh es—castors, tumblers, ,11.tsks._ mols4ees_eans,_lnaiiis chimneys, &e. N e have the best-und cheuvest to town. QUEENSWARE.—An unrivaled assortment full stock, lower in price than ever. Tea sets, cups and saucer., meat pl ites, soup do., Tea, bin tier, and Breakfast do. I , Ve have Lie real granite, no dee,er. tion - in - the We have the common ware. new stock. HOUSEKEEPERS Are invited to look al our knives and forks, butcher— )(elves, large spoons, common albata and silver lasted tea and utble opo.ms, OW hes baskets, buckets tubs, market baskets, school do. NOTIONS.—ToiIet t , onps, perfumery, combs, rocket books, pencils ink cap letter and note paper Euporior Oeat licroeene Chemical Oiive Sloop, • 13arlow's ,13Me Indigo, . Wick Yarn. Resides many useful articles always on Lewd Country produce and f.greenhaeks" taken in exchange frr grids. —1 nm 'NIIII4III lar past pa tronage and sotu•if a confirmation of tht ftarne at the FAMILY 6IiOCEI Yetorc. Wayne& oro', June 2, 1870 SECOND ARRIVAL! .RECENTLY OPENED BY PRICE & 1101:11FICII, A large aqsortment of very cheap Fonda, ought at the lite treeFilie and eons. (pent. ly will be rol•1 eotrespondinelv l w. The price of all kinds of goods having del lured in the Eastern lviarkets, the rubscriburs ass ire their trii ads that they eat] oar titian superior irelueenients thin sea. bon, Kith a I ago sto.k to ittl-ct teem, and prices end qualities ti please, they invite all to c•tme and are and judge tot tnemw Ives. For desirable stylof g 000.3 and durability of ft. uric they pay particular attt•uttvu, so th,lt their ca» t ornas ca n o,v:ly s rely on gelling the virorth ot their money in purchatung i/0111 them LOOK AT THIS IBEIL "3IV of articles and see it you nre not in want of some Gingham% hints ; Checks, Co.tonades, Debit/Is, Chambrg, timings, 3)1.1)..r5, (;rash, Napkins, To, els, Hoop Skirts direct from the manufacturers, beautiful wrapping,. Prints se 6, $, 10, 1:11.• Busirry and ("Bocce, leathers by tl.e rood, ( . 1,1 Cloths tor Table,. Stand and Floor. Tubs, Churns and Buckets, Boxes, 14gs and Kee.ers, Witt tow Istiatirs and fixtures, I,,heese—a grand nrtic:e. Mackerel in I, and whole Barrels, Cottonades—a tine assortment, i.igbt and Black A Iptteep, Nei niunios, Dela ins, A Ipneca Lustre, Deba izes. Law's, 4: mg hams, (Annus, Poplins, Ta to ertineg, ?baize; , Pc/utiles LeathAr Mitts fir garden making, Hoeg, Spades and itakes, .41novel+, Forks auil, ISrooms, Pokine, Jeans, Ermine Cloth . june 9-1870 OLD IRON WAILTED. The higheht cael price will he paid for Ciao Imo ISctlp delirerca pt the work of The f IV if (.;Eldt.lt M. CO. It failed, the precious promise Ofler_beautes-golden-reig , Itcona 1, the loss, the longing, Thasikinsg, and the pain., _ e wartante t MALI /9 C3=-01r-s AL. le"in. A PERILOUS ADVENTURE. The Newark Advertiser tells this startling. story of an adventure in that place : St.:Patrick's Cathedral has a steeple sur• mounted by a ball, on which is a cross. The top of the cross is two4Undred-and-filty-feet.- above the surface of the ground, the height 'being but five feet short of that of Bunker Hill Monument. The steeple is -of—wood, square at the base and tapering to a point. Along each angle, from the base to the point, aro nailed, at the distance of four feet apart, ornamental knobs of wood. All this, awed work, being weatherbeaten, in the course of limo rots; especially the knobs and cross, which present many small i ,aug' lee ; so that it becomes necessary to attend now and then to the repairing of these parts. To erect a etaging.for. the purpose when a man of suf ficient daring and coolness might climb and do the work, would not be the most economi cal method ; such woo are rare, but they are to be found. The price charged for each as cent is usually about twenty five dollars The risk does not consist merely in the dan gar of becoming dizzy and .demoralizid while clinging in mid-air to the outside of a steeple, and while the neighbors and passers. by are collecting in groups below and gazing upward with bated breath and trembling knees at the climber. lle must go up by clinging hand and loot to what he finds; and what he clings to are these very knobs, rot ting and weakening in the weather, and Saal ly to the cross, already decayed and almost ready to drop The man who (Lies this sort of work in Newark is Mr• Prank Jacobus. W. A. BEE? One day last month he was engaged to make an ascent of the cathedral steeple for the purpose of temoving, the old cross and replacing it with a new one. Going up in side the steeple to the highest admissible point. he reached out of the narrow window and felt one of the knobs to test its strength Judging it to be strong enough, he swan. himself out by it, and ecran►bled up, Cate ►t hold of the rest higher kn b a nd reste hi s feet upon the lower one. to far all right.— lle glanced around him and then looked up along the line of knobs that melted far up to the ball and cross. tua►king his havad ens way. It was something of an experiment Were the other-knobs, too, strong enough ? Carefully and quickly he scrambled up and felt the knob next higher. It seemed to have sufficient strength. Ile pulled upon it. It bore his weight and up he went. Gathering confidence, he made his tests and drew his conclusions rapidly. Ile went up more and wore quickly, at last scarcely caring to try the strength of the knobs before trusting his weight to them. Already two thirds of the steeple was climbed. A lew wore efforts and his hand would be clinging to the cross. fie reache'd forth .to raio3 himstlf. A slight scraping sound reached his keen tear even in the breezes blowit , strongly about his ears. The knob had moved under his pull —wan giving away. A a►ist sprang before his eyes. Ile felt himself falling backward. With a convulsive effort that lamed his back be clinched at something and brought hi self forward again, and down he slid 111 presence of wind had not once left 'him.— He even tested tits knobs es he slid over them, to see where he might trust to stop himself with the momentum of his falling. Gradually he even lessened the momentum. Then he fastened his grip upon a knob. It beld him, and he was safe. The shout that went up trom the observers in the streot`be• low almost reached his quickened eats, and it grew into a shout. He was not deworal. ized. Ile might have come down and given up the job Not so. His purpose to go up to the cross was not changed. But be could no longer trust himself to the knobs on the angle of the steeple. Ile must get hems to the next angle. 14 tried tep-reach ; 7 but the WAYNESBORO', FRANKLIN COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA, TIIURSDAI MORNING, SEPTEMBER 22, 1870. I'''CIUEITICJALta. SORER DYING. BY MRS. MARY CLEMMER AMES. On the e summer lies down to die, She gathers her robes of splendor, Around her royally. Her tender, purpling moms Pillow her royal head ; Her myraid, gentle grasses Are weeping about her bed. She was ernel.in her splendor; Stie mocked us in its reign ; She heldlher careless carnival Above our idol slain. 'Tts not the hand that crowns us, The_hantiheld out to bles3; 'Tis the,hand that robs and wrongs us, That we oftenert caress. Still, 0, begmling Summer, We o'er thf,beauty,lertv ; Thou dio'st lob us, yet we love thee, Disetawned we hail thee queen. AU passionate fervor faded, —With eyes at-last serene, Turned tort ard thy conqueror, Autumn, Thou art dying, 0, our queen All that ,thou gayest to us, In thy morning's gracious glow, All *hew Enlist taken from us, Only our God can know. XX1.04.013 013 dent ZaTevvcroespairiema. knob was just beyond his utmost stretch of foot or hand. The observers below were looking on in breatblese suspense. They paw him go up higher and higher, almost to the very spot whence he had fallen, and then at last reach out and swing himself across. lle was now on soother angle, clinging to an untried place and looking up at . the long line of untested knobs. He went up more carefully, leap rap. idly than before, trying every knob well be fore trusting his weight to it. Soon he was ball.-8-rasping-that—he slid trims - off up over it and sat himself down on it with hie feet on either side of the cross. There he waited awhile, though he seemed still to be busy. Then raising himself to his feet, he stood beside the cress. With his band be broke tt in peacemeal and threw the pieces down, and they fell into fragments as trey touched the some walk. Then be descended and in a few minutes was on the ground a 'lib to - _ Zt: • ii servers. 'A little frightened, eh, Frank.' quizzed - one of - them, - 'wben - you slipped-there e - 'Not a bit, just as cool as I aw here, now, at this tnihute. - 'Risky, though, wasn't it ?' 'Well, yes, it was risky,, but the worst of -it- was -I-tore - my - patira - ii - i - r ,-0 'I don't see where.' 'But I mended them.' 'While you were sitting on the ball there?' —l--Y-evi--1-winnet - c - o - ming down sue i a rent as that in them. The wind was blow. ing bard and things flapped, but I happened to have a self-threader that Billy Withers had given the this very morning, and I stuck it in my vest. I threaded the needle with out looking at it, and sewed up the teat a 'Well, 14013 k, you're-a-cool-one.' 'I have to be,' lie said - , and he glanced a round at sonic ladies who were grouped a few yards off, looking at him. A Touching Incident King Frederick, of Prussia, was once trav eling in his dominions, and passed through a pretty village, whete he was to remain. an hour or two. The villagers were delighted-to-see—their King. and bad done their utwnet in prepar ing to receive him. The school children strewed flowers before him, and one little girl had a pretty verse of 'welcome' to say to him, lie listened most kindly , and told her she had performed her taek well, which pleased her very much. lie then turned to the schoolmaster and said he would like to sok the class a few questions, and examine them in what they kuow. Now there hap pened to be a large dish of oranges on the table e'en by. The King took up ouo of these, saying : 'To what kingdom does this belong, chil dren r •To-tbe-vogetablo kiagdotu,' replied — one of the girls. 'And to what kingdom, this?' continued he, as be took trout his pocket a gold coin. - `To the mineral kingdom,' she answered. 'And to what kingdom do I belong, then, my child ?' inquired be expecting, of course, that she would answer in right order. `To the animal kingdom.' But she paused and colored very deeply, not knowing what to say. She feared that it would nut sound respectful to answer to a King that be belonged to the animal King dom, and she puzzled her little brain for a reply. Remembering the words el Genesis, where it says that God 'created man in his own image; in the image of God created he him,' she quickly looked up sad said, 'To God's kingdom. sir.' • The King stooped down nod placed his bond upon her head. A tear stood in his • eye. Ile was moved by her simple words. Solemnly and devoutly did be answer. 'God grant that I may be counted worthy of that kingdom.' - The Vying Soldier. 'Put nee down,' Najd a wpunded Prussian at Sedan to his conuades who were carrying hint, *put mo down, do not take the trouble to carry rue any lurt•her, I urn 'They put him down and returned to the field. A few minutes alter an officer saw the man weltering, in his Wood. and said to bun, 'can I do anything for you ?' 'Nothing, thank you,' • 'Shull I get you a little water ?' laid the kind-heartCd officer. 'No, thank you; I,am 'ls there nothing I can do tor you f Shall I write to your frieniis ?' Thave ut3lkllS that you can write to But there is one t *g ,. for which I would be much obliged. 4 nkkaapsack you will find a testament; wilt you open it at the four teenth chapter of John, and near the end of, the chapter you ;will find a verse that begins with 'Peace.' Will you read it ?' The officer did so, and read the words 'Peace I leave with you, my peace I give un to you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.' `Thank you, sir,' said the dying man, have that peace; I am,goiog to that Savior, God is with we; no More.' These were his last-words, and his spirit ascended to be with Him be loved. Nan is dm creation of interest and am too. Ills nature loads him forth into the struggle and.hustle of the world. Love is but the establishiuent of 'his early lite, or a song piped in the intervals of the acts. He seeks fur fame, fortune. for space in the world's thought, and dominion over his fel low-men. But a woman's whole life is a his tory of the affections. The heart is her world; it is there her avarice seeks for hid. den treasures. She seeds forth her sympa thies on adventure; she embarks her whole soul in the traffic of affections; and, if ship wrecked, her case is hopeless—far it is a bankruptcy of the heart. Two Ways. ,There are your month's wages,' said Mrs Steele, tossing some bills into the Itrpg of a young girl whom she employed in her kitch• en, 'and if I should do justice to myself, I should keep back full half of it. I hope next month, you will try and be a little more help to me— not move about so slowly as you. are accustomed to, and take a little more pains in handling dishes. Many housekcep• ere would have taken the price of that pitch er •ou cracked out of your not sure but I shall adopt 'owe such plain in future.' The young girl took 'the money with a moody look, and went about her task with a heavy, resentful spirit. These hard words, she lelt, were undeserved, as she tried to please by doing her work_ faithfully, But, all through the house, the system reigned,— It was one o,►ntinuod scene of fiault•finding from morning till night. No ern..'-- •• the angels of peace and happiness spread their white wings and fled away. In a ruse-wreathed cottage just over the way. it wast — ila - O - Bridget'spay. day. Woe are seven dollars, Bridget, and may they do you a great deal of good. You are getting on nicely now, and learning very fast ,_to_do_work in my way. Mr... Howard thought ou - had quite exceeded yourself in .yester- Alay's bread and pies.' Bridget's face was all glow with pleasure as she opened--h er-hand-t tr-receive-tire-uron-e-IT qudeed, ma'am, it's all from he patient teaching I've had. My last mistress called me a dolt and a blockhead, and I didn't much care for tti - Vease bet. But, if you please, ma'am, 1 would like your advice on a little matter. Would you wait till I get money enough for a Ailey bilk dress, or would yer ,lust spend - your - money our - money_unw±forwlitat—you neede '/' 'lay all moans, get you a good, elmfortable pair of shoes, Bridget, and _I would advise a neat delaino dress also. A cheap, poor silk, is not nearly as nice . as a pretty, fresh Thee followed some excellent advice to the young girl, which was liqtened to with the deepest respect, and which gave her some new and valuable ideas on the subject of what was tasteful and becoming in dress. Little by little she moulded and wrought over the plastic mind into something far better than the early promise gave her rea• sou to hope for. For five years, the young woman labored faithfully in the service of her kind employer, and only left her to en ter a home of her own. How much better was she-fitted=for-that-position by the kind and judicious training of those five years 1 How much better, too, was Mrs. Mason served, than her neighbor, Mrs. Steele, who looked upon her help as only machines, out of which to get the greatest-possible amount of labor. It takes time and long patience to do this, but it is part of the work, desponding house mother, that God has given you to do. 'Do it so bravely, so kindly, so well, Angels shall hasten the story to tell.' Napoleon T. History, in recording the march of Em pire, names no rival to this child of ' When the reign of Robesperrie had deluged with human blood the streets of Paris, when anarchy and confusion reigned, and every town and hamlet felt the dark forebodings of the Suture the star of Napoleon shone re splendent o'er the storm. Commencing his career as a Lieutenant of Artillery, he rose, step by step, until lie reached the highest round. Of all men of fame around him (dusters the most pleasing recollections. His success in life is due to industry,'keen foresight through knowledge of men and the promotion of all who were worthy. The feat of Napoleon whiob eclipses all others, was his escape from Elba, the capture of an army without the firing of a shot, and the taking of Paris without shedding one drop of French blood. Until all Europe rose' to-'combat one,' his ife was a continued scene of triumph; but I.•nius holds no place against numbers, and the star of Napoleon, whose glory illuminated the world, snit forever on the field of Water loo. On Wednesday, the sth day of May, 1821, silt hundred Wiles from the nearest point of land, withitithe tropics, on the storm drench ed rock of St Helena, the soul of Napoleon lifted the eternal veil and passed to the spirit land. - DARK flouße —There are dark hours that mark 'the history of the brightest years. For not a whole month in any of the thou sands of the past, perhaps has the sun shone brilliantly all the time. And there have been cold Gird stormy days in every year.— And yet the mists and shadows of the dark est hours wore dissipated, and flitted heed lessly away. The cruelest of the ice fetters have been broken and dissolved, and , the most furiouiiitorin loses its power to alarm. What a 1) antOrirall this of human fear, of our inside world, where the heart works at ire destined labor I Here, too, we have the overshadowing of dark hours, and many a cold blast chills the heart to its core. Hut at matters it? Man is born a hero, and it is only hp darkness end storms that herd ism gains ha best and greatest development and illustration; then it kindles the black cloud into a blaze of glory, and the storm bears it rapidly to its destiny. Despair not, then, disappointment will be realized. Mor tifying failure may attend this effort and that one; but only be honest and struggle on, and it will all work. well. A young man in Randall county, Indiana, was waylaid by two girls and thrashed until he got down on his knees and swore ho would never, never Cie so again. lie had p i rotnised to marry both of them, the stump. 461rved him perfectly right. Nasby's Psalm for Friends South. SAINT'S ligsT,'(whith is in the Stait of Noo Mersey) Sept. 12, A SAM UV AOONY. OD the street_l see a nigger I Oa' his back a coat of Woo, and lie carry- Oh a mu-kit. Ile is Prove Card, and he halteth me, co won heviu authority. And my fowler daughter spit on him, and lo he arrested her, and she languished; is -the Bard house My eyes doth dwelt on him, and my sole is a arteehen well uv woe; it • languisheth with greet. For that nigger wus my niggerl— I bought him with a price. Alas?. that nigger is out uv his normal condition, he is a star nut of its sphere, with sweepeth 'Oro the politikel heveos stuashiu things. for, . Ist we were parting forever. 1 knew rilie would not recall her prAnise; there was too much spunk in her for that, and this caused me to linger a day or two longer thou 1 had intended 'But the time came for the paiuful parting. My mother was a little. dumpy, red•licaded Irish woman. !Well, mother, lam ready to ...__. leave, and 1 must ray farewell.' She, took my hand, and pressing it, said 'Farewell,' and or-emotion - choked - h - er --- 1 'Kissing at meetings and par' ag pleasure and profit in anew- flay was not so common as now I now he is a nitemare. Wonst I wus nob, and that nigger wus the basis thereof -- Wo — ez me 1 - 1 owned him, sole, body, sinooa models, blood, boots and briehis. Ilie intellek wus mine, and 169 body vine mine, likewise hie labor and the frets there of. Ilia wile was mine, and she was my eon eubioe. The nounalyesults of the conkebinage - troldierandilt inept degree. And on the price thereof I played poker, and drank mint goolips, and road in gorges °berets, and wore purple and Hutu miry day. Wus this tnieeguashuo or nigger equality? Not any. or my sheep, and her increase wuz mine even ez was theirs. Ablishin miceguashun elewates the _nig ger wrench to her level-1 did it for gain wieh degraded me muddy. And when the wife tic my buzzam lifted up her voice in complaint - sap°, 'La I am abused--,-.this little nwer resembled' thee 1' Ilalf the 'rice uv the infant chattel wood buy a lamed pin with wieh to stop her yawp. And my boys followed in my footsteps and grate was the mix, but profitable. ' But my dream bustid. The nigger is free, and demands wagos wliethSr she'll cleave to herbusband, or — he my concubine. Y istorday I bade her come to me, and lo I she remarkt, 'Go' way white man, or I bust yer bead! And 1 gods. • tier children are free—they are mine, likewies; but I can't sell 'em on the block to the highest bidder. Therein Biotin sinned—ho violated the holiest instinks of our nature; he interposed a proolatuashen etweon father and child. We took the betheru — lfoin Attlia, and wuz a making Christians 'ay' em. Wo to bim who stop us in our mishnary work. It ie written—'Kin the Ethiope change his skin r I was a eliatigin it fur him, and my fathers, and we had tuellered it down to a brite yaller. J)ark is my lecher. I obewed the grate Law nv Labor, ez served in the army, by substitoot—now abet I have to static my hands with labor, or starve? In what am I better than a Northern mnd sill? I kin git no more diamond pine for the wife of my hazel'', and she yawpeth con tinually.. Arrayed in homespun she wrestles with pots and kitties in the kitchun Weighed down with woe, she dips snuff in silence. She asks vv me comfort—wat kin I say, whose pockits centime only confederate skript. Save us from Massaohusits, which is onery and cussid; Protect us from nigger sojers; which is grinnen feends. Shelter us from the gohat uv John Brown, which is mnrchin on. PETROLEUM V. NASBY, Lait pastor uv the church tiv the Noo dis pensashum- -Josh Billings says ; The effemiato man is a peak poultice. Be is a cross between root beer and ginger pop, with the colic left out of the bottle over night. He is a fresh wa ter mermaid lost in a cow-pasture with his bands filled with dandeliona He is a tea• cur. full of whipped silly bub—a kitten in pantalettesa sick monkey with a blonde moustache. He is a vine without any ten. drils7—a fly drowned in sweet oil—a paper kite in a dead calm. He lives like the but. ter-fires, nobody can tell why. He is as harm less as a cent's worth of spruce gum, and as useless as a shirt button hole. He is as la. zy as a bread pill, and has no more hope than a last year's grasshopper. lie is a man with out any gall, and a woman without any giz zard. He goes through life on tip-toes, and dies like cologne water spilt on the ground. A WONDERFUL PLANT.—A specimen of the wonderful plant, •tho 11.)tver of the Holy Ghost,' has been successfully raised in Nor wich, Coon. The flower is a creamy white cup, nearly as large as half an egg, and ex tremely beautiful, and its wandcr as a natur• al floral growth is the fact that in this flower is a little pure white dove, with pink bill and eyes, and its head turned as if looking over its back. it wines, feet, bill, etc.,. are absolutely perfect as those of the living dove, whose counterpart the wonderful mimic bird is. A Hibernian, entering a menagerie, was asked it the porky he saw there was not a ; very small one. 'Ali, faith,' said Pat, 'l've I seen many a nno to swate Ireland as little'aii I two of him.' 611.00 loose "ir elista.4 Jackson's Mother. An anecdote relative to his parting from his mother in his outset in life illustrates this as prominent in the attributes of his nature at that time. The writer heard him narrate this after his return from Washington when his last term in the Presidential office had expired. When about to emigrate to Tennessee. the family were residing io the neighborhood of Greensboro, North Carolina hen,' said ho, •rcoutemploted this' step for some months, nod bad made arrangements to do bo, and had at length obtained my mother's consent to it All my worldly goods were a lew dollars in my puree, some clothes in my saddlebags, and a pretty good horse, saddle and bridle The country to which L was going was comparatively' a wilderness, and the trip a long one, beset by *any dal eutliee, especially from the Indians. 1 felt, and so did my moth' —IV' from her and walked rapidly to my horse. 'As I was mounting him she came out of the cabin wiping her eyes with her ,apron, nod came to the "gottiil•over place at the feiioo. 'Andy,' said she (she always called me Andy) you are going to a new country, and among rough people. You will.have to :vow In yours°- - ani out—your—own way— through the world: I have nothing to give hut a tuOther's advice. Never tell a lie, nor take what is not your own, rior sue anybody for slander nor assault and battery. Always settle them eases yourself.' I promised, and 1 have tried to keep that promise. 1 rode efreomo two hundred yards to a torn in the Tisch, and looked back, she was still standing at the fence and wipin g her eyes. I—nerver— saw her after that .' Thoso who knew hitn best will testify to his fidelity to this last promise wade to his mother. 'Gentlemen of the jury,' said a Western lawyer, 'I don't went to insinuate that this WAD is a covetous person, bat I will helifive to one that if you should bait,a steeltrap with a new three cent piece, and place it within three inches of bin mouth, you would eatch his soul I wouldn't for a moment say that he would steal, but, may it please the Court and the goutlemee of the Jury, I wouldn't trust him iu a room with red rod mill atone;. and the angel Gabriel to watch '_em _ When the Fifteenth Pennsylvania Cavalry entered the town of Dawson, Georgia. in the spring of 186 5 '_those who welcomed them was a negro woman whose appearance denoted extreme old age. Impelled by cur iosity, one of the boys redo up to her and asked : 'How old are you, auntie ?' 'Well, chile,' she replied, 'I don't 'netly know how old I' ia , but I was here when Columbus come A bachelor on —th street had the blues, and applied to n doctor for some medicine.— The doctor intrirod into his ease and wrote 4 a prescription in Latin, l rich the bachelor took to a drug st or ranslated, th e pro soriptioo read, 'Seven e yet& of silk, with a woman is it.' The bachelor proposed to a. lady that evening, and was married in two/ weeks. I would not give much for your religion unless it can be seen. Lamps do not talk, but they do shine. A lighthouse sounds' no drum, it beats no gong, and yet tar over waters its friendly spark is tweed. by the mat. iner. So lot your notions shine out your re% ligion. Let the main sermon of your life T,e illustrated by your conduct, and it shall not fall to be illustrious. A story is told, illustrating how fast cities ore built in the West, to the effect' that . a traveler laid dowo on a vacant lot ia Chicago to sleep, and in' the morning found himself in the cellar, with a five story building built over him. Occasionally you wilt Slid an old foggy who doubts that story. The largest house in the world is to be built in St. .Lonis. It will be 'twenty-one stories high above ground and five stories deep under ground, and is to occupy four blocks. So an exchange says, but we guess it's 'some storg. An Indianapolis German had occasion re cently to bury a large wife, and so squabbled with the sexton about the fee. 'Dat ish not a pig grate,' said the disconsolate husband. 'Not a big grave,' inditoantly . responded the sexton, 'why, hang it, that's a cellar.' A ) tie! of ripe tomatoes bro't into a faisily will drive ont a box of doctor's pills. --Exchange Well, give the pills the same chance and they'll drive a 'busltel of totnatoeb oat of the same fa ily on a 'double quick. A single hour in the day given to the study of some interesting subject brings nnez peoted aceatuolatiou of knowledge. The door botwees us and heaven cannot be (varied it that beiween us and our fellow um be shut. Poor pigs, they are doctored the wrong way rouud—killed first, cured afterwards. "hy iailiejeiter A like a ; -bo - rieyeuekkt? Because a B toilowa Lt Troubles are like babies; they pow big• gar by amnia . NIIIBER EMU
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