Rensselaer Republican, Volume 13, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 March 1881 — Page 4

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Bagshot's Assistant, Minneapolis Weekly.

Chodurff. The cblonel wb« sway to New York rm buainew, te*vIng we Union in the hand* of an a»BiHtant Who had been in hla employ some little time. Now. the colonel knew that the said assistant had the cheek of a mum statue and the audacity of a New England fly.—both indispensable attributes to the newspaper-man still, after being in the city abodt a things?” * . Back came tbe answer from the Unton’t pro tem. editor: “Bully! Circulation of the old thing’s gone up a thousand. Been getting up a red - hot paper, and there’s a gang outside that are weeping because they can’t hoist the shingles off the roof apd knock the whole concern to thunder. 'Stay away as long as you like.” Bagahot didn’t waste a moment after receiving this encouraging dispatch. He started home on the first tpdn, and reached Chodupk before night. The first man tliat struck him was the ticket agent. • f J “Look here Colonel! ” he cried, excitedly, “I’ve a darned good notion to punch your head, you brazen-faced old

“Why T ” asked Bagshot. “Bead that! ” andthe ticket agent shoved a crumpled Union Into his hand. O There was a paragraph as follows: r “ Railroad Nbw>.—The bandylegged idiot who robs the /aflroid company at this village has purchased *1 new pocket-knife. More knockingdown from the cash drawer.” Bagshot bit his lips. , “Bin.” said he, “that’s calumny, and I’ll see it righted in aur next. It’s my cussed.assistant’s work.” “I don’t care whos? work It is,” growled the agent, “but, if it ain’t contradicted, somebody’s got to die—that’s all!” -

Bagshot didn’t reply, but sailed down the street to the Union office. He had not gone half a block before he collided with Deacon Marsh. The deacon seized him by the shoulder and exclaimed: “What do you mean, Bagshot, by inserting that scandalously untrue item about me ?!’ “Didn’t Insert any item,” repliec the colonel. . - ! ' * “Don’t sneak opt of it that way. You know you did. Why, I just cut it, out of the Union. Listen: .. “ Religious Intelligence.—That whited sepulchre, Deacon Marsh, was noticed last Saturday night trying to open the coal-hole in front ol his residence with his night-key. Deacon was fill! as a goat,and couldn’t tell moonshine from green cheese?’ “Now, that’s nice—ain’t it? saying that I was drunk Saturday night, when I went to bed with a raging toothache.” “It’s that reckless fool whom I left in charge.” groaned the Colonel. “I’ll make it all right, M ara h; ” and Bagshot scurried on again, only to be confronted by Maj. Blim. “ Colonel,” uttered Blim, in his deepest voice, “this is villainous! It’s my intention, sir, to call you out and shoot you through the heart. What the deuce do you mean by publishing this' note in tne Union." Military Jottinos.—Ma}. Blim, the tattered old beggar who hid in an oyster-barrel battle of Bull Run, wears a wig. -jEfe ouaht to be shot in the back with a baked apple.” “I can’t help it, Blim,” said Bagshot, wiping his forehead; “it’s all owing to that young devil in the office. He has made a red-hot paper. Just wait, and I’ll fix things.” Hardly had he done so before young Cooley appeared. “ Col. Bagshot,” Announced he, “you area lying scoundrel! This is a nice thing to put imyour blackguard sheet about a young lady:” “Society Items.—Miss Cooley, the old girl on South .street, waltzes around in a patent bustle in the hope of catching a fellow. But she can’t—not even if she lay«J.the paint on twice as thick as she ddes now.” But Bagshot didn’t stop to hear it He flew across the square and into the Union Office like a flash. No one was there. *That able assistant editor, warned by a friend unknown. had dusted forever. Lying on the desk was a Union folded so that this notice caught Bagshot’s §ye: “Literary - Mkms.—The baldheaded snipe who preteuds to run this paper nas gone to New Yoyk. We expect to hear every moment, of his sentence to Bing Sing for arson and highway-robbery. tThA'oitizens ofChodunk should congratulate themselves if the colonel does not disgrace his village by being hung for infanticide.” Bagshot never intend? to employ another assistant editor, ipid journalists in search of a situation will find it healthy to keep away from. him. .

The President’s Mother.

General Garfield’s mother is the only woman who has seen “ her bey ” inaugurated president of*the Uriited States. It was a proud day for the old lady, now more than eighty, a mother in Israel. To take in the fall weight and breadth of the occasion, as it must have presented itself to the president’s mother, one must paint her in .his, mind as the daughter first hand then the wife of a poor New England farmer. Remember that her husband moved from Massachusetts to Northern NewYorkand cleared up a small farm in the wilderness; that he sold his land and ‘improvements and pushed still farther west, again encountering the “back woods” in hope of bettering his condition and giving his children a better chance in fe; that he was not able to educate his boys, except in a very rudimentary viy, and finally that he died before the family were sally grown,leaving her to finish the struggle of life unaided, except as she might pe aided by the children she had borne. '

This mother, on Friday, Saw her son, who began life on a porir farm, and who eked out money to bay for* his education by driving horse# on thetowpath of the old Erie and, Ohio canal and drudging at the carpenter’s bench, placed at the head of a Mation almost covering a continent and inhabited by a high spirited, intelligent and wealthy people numbering SI, 000,000 souls. J The mother was proud, and who shall say that she had not a night to be proud? Few women bearpboys capable of “paddling their own* canoes” through the broad corrldofaand ab ut the stately halls of the presidential mansion.

We have had about three self-faade presidents—Jackson, Lincoln,' land Garfield. The rest have been lucky accidents, negative figure heads, or happened to fill some’ special denUnd of the times. These three won [the right to the distinction—if not the! office itself—by force of ability frad power to manage men and cireiKistaftces. And now, consider what other great people on the globe has its affairs administered by a man who thirty-four years ago was a poor rough-clad strippling endeavoring to earn softie extra pence by the rudest and commonest labor. The old mother must be pardoned for her pride in that

A Paper that Pleased Everybody.

There is an editor who has achieved the feat of running a newspaper to suit everybody. Occasionally, to be sure, he has complaints, but he never fails to satisfy the com plain era that they are in the wrong. It wasn’t always so' with him. He only adopted the system after he got desperafe It was one

aid: "Why in topbet didn’t you you made a speech that wasn’t In the I report, eh?” Then he went.around the counter. Tbe dust flew for a few moments and then it became more quiet The editor relaxed his grip on the man’! threat sufficiently to let him speak, and he said that he guessed that the article was all right, and he had only come to renew his subscription. He was let up, paid the money, and left, and as he went out he collided with a man who had an ugly glare in his eyes, and dancing up to the editor said: “What d’ye mean, sir? I pay for a sensible newspaper and get a lot of stuff about cruelty to hogs. You ought to be put in jail for printing such stuff.” The editor went around the counter again, and again the dust flew. It was rally five minutes be fore the editor could get the man’s eoat torn off and put him on the floor with his head in the coal-scuttle. But he did it, at last. The man said: “We needn’t prolong this agony. Your paper is the best in tne world. It is all right I’ll take it for ten years in advance.” Eight more visitors had the same experience. Then came one that the editor

couldn’t thrash. It was a woman: “What d’ye mean by publishing fashfon'artlcles from three-year-old magazine?” she asked. “I made a bonnet according to your directions and it is three years behind the style. Oh, you wretch!- You mean, horrid, insignificant— —oh-h!” “My dear madam,” he said, “you are right. I am not fit to run a paper. I will stop at once.” (To a reporter.) “John don’t send up any more copy. Kill that article saying that this lady was belle of the ball, last night.” “Stop!” she cried. “Your paper is the household treasure. I don’t care about the bonnet, and I came to ask you to our house to tea, to-night.” The editor says he wouldn’t drop the rule for anything. Everybody leaves satisfied with his paper.

How a Texas Farmer Arranged for His Death from Hydrophobia.

A Dallas, Texas, letter says: “A I tragic death has just occurred in our neighboring county of Hill worth relating, and Worthy of Virgin! us or any other Roman father. One year ago George Arnold came to Dallas on private business, and while walking the streets was bitten by a worthless :cur which was frothing at the mouth, .and showing other symptoms of hydrophobia. Mr. Arnold became alarmed and very much excited when convinced in hisiown mind the dog Was mad. He went to a physician, and had the wound severely cauterized. Then, going home, he was still very uneasy, and dreaded hydrphobia so much that he hunted up amadBtone and had it applied for several weeks, off and on. He took every other precaution which was suggested, resting all the time under a mortal dread that the virus had gone info his system, and would sooner or later kill him. He had a wife and several small children living on a rather isolated farm, and the thought that he might suddenly lose his reason and harm his little babes, horrified him. The other day he began to experience strange feelings,and at once concluded his time had come. He then procured a twelve-foot trace chain aud strong lock and went to the woous. After writing his wife a calm letter, in which he told her what was about to happen, giving directions as to his wishes alter death, and pouring out a volume of love for her and her children.' he ran the chain round a tree, drefr it through the large ring at the endj and then wound the other end arpund his ankle so tight that it would npt slip the foot, locked it with the lock, and threw the key far beyond his reach. The body was found two days after, still chained to the tree. There was all the evidence necessary to show the horrible death from hydrophobia. The ground was torn up to the full length of the chain, the nails of the fingers wrenched ou and all his front teeth out in scratching and biting the tree, and every thread 1 of clothing off his body. “The body was dreadful[y larcerated with these, the only weapons the madman could use. He had judged rightly what would have been tne consequence had he remained at home, ana.knowing that there was no human skill, that could have cured him, preferred death alone and in that way to doing harm to those so near and dear to him as a wife .''nd children. “Arnold was onginally from Talladega, Ala., where he married, and where his widow has many friends and re'stives.”

In 1860, Queen Victoria being then expected to visit the French capital, the prefect of the Seine commissionec a certain eminent architect to superintend the decorative preparations for her reception in the Hotel de Ville. His arrangements having met with the prefect’s unqualified approval, he requested that official on the eve of the reception to present him to the municipality’s august guest next morning. “With that goat’s beard of yours, impossible!” replied the prefect; “get yourself dean shaved, and I shall oe delighted to present you to her majesty.” Accordingly the architect arose early, swept off his beard, and betook himself to the Hotel de Ville, where, having soured a position in the immediate vicinity of the prefect, he anxiously awaited the recompense of his sacrifice. Presentation after presentation took place, and still his turn came not. In vain he tried to catch the prefect’s eye by gestures of animf>lonng character, to which his excellency paid no attention. When the ceremony was concluded the architect vehemently reproached the prefect with having failed to keep his Sromise. “What promise?” asked le latter, with a blank stare of wonder. “Why, to present me to the queen.” “In what character, may I ask ?” “As organizer of the reception to be sure. I shaved oft my beard on ,purpose!” “So it is you, is it?” exclaimed the prefect, bursting into laughter. “Why did you not tell me so?” My dear friend, 1 did not recognize you with that clean shaven chin.”

; The official account of the publishing trade in Germany shows that during the year 188QAhe number of new works or new editions published within the empire was 14,941. The increase onqQio previous year was 762. Educational literature of all kinds in 1880 included 1,960 works; politics, law, and statistics, 1,557; theolegy, 1,800; belles letters, 1,200; “works for the people,” 657 i philosophical, 125; map, 301; medical and veterinary, 790; the natural sciences, 788: literature for the young. 496; antiquitities, ancient classics, and Oriental philology, 583; modern language and old German literature, 506; history and biography, 762; geography, 856; mathematics and astronomy. r2Ol 1 military science and the management of horses (they are included in the same category), 858; trade and manufactures, 588; architecture, mechanical, engineering, railways, mining, and shipbuilding, 403; forest Culture, hunting, Ac., 112; domestic economy and farming, 488; the fine arts and stenography, 627; Free Masonry, 20; miscellaneous, 428.

Lysander Tiffany, a letter-carrier who has been in the employ of the Chicago post-office for thirteen years, is under arrest for robbing the mails

A Lottery of Death.

Union prisoners sn<i orders to draw them up tn line. The adjutant then rode forward and read an order stating that seven of our men having been recently hung by the enemy, it was determined that seven of the prisoners should be hung in retaliation, and that lots for these seven would immediately be drawn. A ecence ensued which will be impresaed upon my memory until the day of my death. A cry of anguish and consternation arose from the unfortunate Erisonere. Borne implored the guard > intercede with Col. Mosby and have them excluded from the drawing, two of them declaring they were sottiers and not fighting men, never having fireda gun at a Southern soldier. Others said they baa been drafted into the federal army against their wishes and were friendly to the south. Others again expressed a willingness to desert that army and join our standard. While tills tempestuous appeal for life was going on among these poor fellows, tne main body of the prisoners heard the awful sentence with deep defection but sullen resolution.

In the course of twenty minutes two officers approached, one of them holding a hat in which had been placed a number of wads or balls of paper, corresponding with the number of prisoners. Seven of these wads were marked. The drawing then commenced, the officer with the hat requiring the right-hand prisoner to take out a ball, which when drawn he handed to the other officer in attendance, who, in opening, pronounced it to be either a blank or otherwise. At first several blanks were drawn, then came a marked ball,which was drawn by a cavalry solder of Custer’s command and hailing from Michigan. This man cooly remarked that ho was prepared to die for his country. “Six men have now been drawn,” cried the officer with the hat; “one more must come.” « The next and last victim was a drummer-boy, who, upon being informed of his fate, uttered the most piercing cries, and throwing himself upon the ground, exclaimed that he was only a drummer-boy, witn neither father nor mother, and begged to be spared. So greatly was the pity of the officers excited that they immediately applied to Colonel Mosby to spare this boy. He very promptly replied that he did not know there was a boy among the prisoners, aud ordered that he should be removed and the drawing taken over again. This was done, and on the second drawing my friend, a lieutenant, drew a marked ball. I was shocked by this, and he was greatly distressed, but exhibited a courageous resignation to his fate. Calling to him a soldier of his company, who had also been taken prisoner, he requested him to take to nis wife an empty pocket-book and pencil-case, saying these were the only souvenirs he had left when condemned to execution, and that his last thoughts were with his wife and mother. I was deeply affected at his fate, and desired to assist him if possible. Whispering to him. I asked if he was a Free Mason, to which he replied in the affirmative. Immediately after this the guard was ordered to march off with the seven men who had been condemned. We proceeded with them (I being one of the guard) only a few hundred yards, when we were ordered to halt and await further orders, and in a few moments a freshly-mounted squad of fifteen men, commanded by a lieutenant and equipped for a march, approached us, with orders from Colonel Mosby that we should be relieved from care of the prisoners. Among the number of the relief guard was an intimate friend of mine, to whom I related the circumstances in connection with the lieutenant,and also informed him that he was a Free Mason. Being anxious to learn their destination I questioned him about the recent order, and he informed me that they had been commanded to take the prisoners across the mountains and as near to Sheridan’s headquarters as possible, and there to hang them. He promised me that he would do all that he could (consistently with duty) in behalf of the condemned officer. They then proceeded on their way, and several days elapsed before I heard anything of their movements. On meeting with my friend he gave the following particulars :

B“They reached Parison the same night after leaving, and were there met by Captain Mountjoy, who was returning from the valley with a batch of prisoners. Being a friend of Mountjoy’s he took the first opportunity of informing him of the situation of the lieutenant, and also informed him that he was a Free Mason,and requested that he would try and save him. Upon hearing this Mountjoy requested an interview with the officer and immediately after he crossed the street to where he kept his own prisoners, and returned with two of them. These he Bresented8 resented to the officer in charge of le prisoners as two of Custer’s men, whom he wished to substitute for the lieutenant. After some hesitation, and with the condition that Mountjoy would assume all responsibility, the exchange was made. The officer, after returning earnest thanks for his life, was hastily transferred to a batch of prisoners under the care of a sergeant, who was told to make all possible haste to Gordonvllle, and especially to get out of ‘Mosby’s dominions’ before the break of day. The others met their fate.”

A Strange Story.

Friday evening’s Buffalo Telegraph contains an interview with Robert Neilson, who is described is a short, dark complected man, with heavy black flowing beard, wearing a slouch hat, and carrying an old fashioned cane. The reporter noticed that several persons were eyeing Mr. Neilson closely at the Exchange street depot, and learning that it was because the stranger was a man who never slept, approached him. n lt is true, sir,” said he. “It has now been three weeks since I have slept.” At this the reporter took the subject in hand, and learned that the gentleman’s name was Robert Neilson, of Lansing, Mich., and that he was on his way to Rochester to visit his aged mother, who lives there. He said: “I was bom in Glasgow, Scotland, September ?2,1839, and am one of a family of six children, four of whom are living. Before I was bom my mother had family troubles that deprived her of her sleep for many weeks. In accordance with a law of nature this had its effect upon me, who had not yet seen the light of this world. After I was bom my mother was given very much trouble because I would not sleep, even when under the influence of opiates. As I grew older I became more arid more nervous ; although I could rest well and experience no inconvenience. I could not sleep. In fact I had little desire to do so. I would go several weeks at a time without even falling into a drowse. Physicians gave my case attention, but invariably pronounced it a singular one and such as could not be remedied because, as I have said the singularity was a birthmark.” * “Only once since I can remember have I been sick and then it was from bilious fever. When I go long periods without sleep the only peculiar

sensation I experience is that everybe very tall. Before going Asleep f never felt different thanyou probably ISSSEXi'SUSfSI aa moat people do when restless and uneasy. Riding in the cold makes me drowsy if anything does. Tn snmnwwr time I can go long periods and feel tip top all the time. If any one doubts it he can get proof of it by coming to see me. Last summer I did not sleep for four months. I worked every day, too, at my trade of house building. I am subject to violent headaches at times, but am able to work all the time; I go to bed every night the same as anybody else.” Mr. Neilson’s story was told in a straightforward manner, and he is ready to substantiate it at any time. He was a policeman on the Rochester force for eight years prior to twelve years ago. He went to Lansing three years ago, where he married.

A BIT Fara.

r»—t*»<aißiMi tib— i. The ranch of H. J. Glenn, in Colusa county, is one of the largest and most noted in the state, and. perhaps, presents the best illustration of extraordinary farming along the Sacramento. On being asked recently why he raised wheat alone, his reply was aa follows: “People ask why I raise all wheat. The answer is simple: It is the only crop that will bear transportation ; it is the only crop not perishable. I must not raise on my land what ruins me, but what is profitable.” Dr. Glenn’s ranch comprises about 50,000 acres of land, and the number of acres in wheat each year ranges between 40,000 and 50,000. Reckoning an average of from 20 to 25 bushels to the acre, the aggregate crop each year amounts to something more than 1,000,000 bushels. This enormous amount of grain requires vast appliances for planting and bringing it to market; and the capital invested in machinery alone-sums up a considerable fortune.

During the harvest time there are employed on the entire ranch some 500 men. Dr. Glenn is general in chief of his force, and the ranch is divided, for convenience of operations, into nine smaller ranches each with dwelling house, barns, blacksmith shop, and other necessary buildings. In charge of thes are seven foremen, under whom are sixteen blacksmiths, fourteen carpenters, six engineers, six machinists, five commissaries, and numerous cooks and servants. The common workmen are divided into gangs, and detailed where they are needed. There are 130 gang plows, 60 herders, to which belong 180 wagons, 6 cleaners, 100 harrows, 18 seeders, 6 thrashers, 6 engines. Besides there are many smaller instruments and vehicles which cannot be classified. Co-operating with their human brethren in the great labor are 1,000 work horses and mules, with a kinship of 1,000 brood mares and younger stock w Ii icli has not yet achieved the dignity of 1 abor. There are 32 dwelling houses, 27 barns, 14 blacksmithshops, and other structures sufficient to swell the aggregate to 100. The machinery could not be replaced for $125,000; the work horses and mules are worth sllO,000; the brood mares and young stock, $75,000, and the buildings on the place, SIOO,OOO. The ranch is about twenty miles above the town of Colusa.

Cincinnati Irish Citisen.

Mr. John Miller, of 54 West Fifth street, tells us that he was cured by the use of St. Jacobs Oil of a complicated case of rheumatism of ten years standing.

A Woman’s Whims.

Tho Empress Josephine had 600,000 francs for her personal expenses, out this sum was not sufficient, and her debts increased to an appalling degree. Notwithstanding the riches of her husband, she coulu never submit to either order or etiquette in her private life. She rose at 9 o’clock. Her toilet consumed much time, and she lavished unwearied efforts on the preservation and embellishment of her person. She changed her linen three times a day, and never wore dny stockings that were not new. Huge baskets were brought to her containing different dresses, shawls and hats. From these she selected her costume for the day. She possessed between three and four hundred shawls, and always wore one in the morning, which she draped about her shoulders with unequaled grace. She purchased all that were Drought to her, no matter at what price. The evening toilet was as careful as that of the morning—then she appeared with flowers, pearls, or precious stones in her hair. The smallest assembly was always an occasion for her to order a new costume, in spite of the hoards of dreases in the various Blaces.8 laces. Bonaparte was irritated by iese expenditures; he would fly into a passion and his wife would weep and promise te be more prudent; after which she would go on in the same way. It is almost Incredible that this passion for dress should never have exhausted itself. After the divorce she arrayed herself with the same care, even when she saw no one. She died covered with ribbons and pale rose-colored satin.

Mondovi,(Wis.) Buffalo County Herald. Notions of the First Settlers.

Mr. W. H. H. Amidon, one of the first settlers in the town of Gilmantown, Wis., and one of the most industrious and hard working men in the county, has been very severely troubled with rheumatic pains during the past few years, so much at times, that he was disabled from performing manual labor. Learning of the wonderful cures effected by tne use of St. Jacobs Oil he procured a few bottles and experienced Immediate relief. Many others of our acquaintances have used it and express themselves as highly gratified with the relief it has afforded them. This king of medicines can be bought everywhere.

Chicago.

Flour quiet but firm; winter wheat, 5 00@6 00; spring double extra, 4 50@ 5 25; extra, 4 00@450. Wheat strong, higher and unsettled; No. 2 red winter, 1 03; No. 2 Chicago spring, regular, 1 03%; fresh, 1 00 15-32. Corn, demand fair and prices have advanced to 39J£ @4O. Oats active, firm and higher at @32. Rye steady and unchanged at 98@1 00. Barley steady and unchanged at 1 05. Flaxseed easy at 1 18. Pork unsettled but generally higher at 15 56@15 00 cash; 15 57U@ 15 60 for April; 15 15 87U@15 90 for June. Lard unsettled out generally higher at 10 65 cash: 10 70@10 for April; 10 82tf®10 85 for May; 10 meats steady and unchanged. Whisky steady and unchanged at 108.

New York Produce.

Flour firm and unchanged. Wheat unsettled, but generally higher: ungraded red, 1 17@1 29; No 3 red,l 21 %; steamer, No. 8 red, 1 12; No. 2 red, 1 25@1 26#; steamer, N0.,2 red, 1 22; No. 1 red, 1 27# in store: 1 29 @1 30 afloat: mixed winter, 1 22#; ungraded white, 1 13@1 20; No. 2 white, 1 20#@l 21. Corn active and a shade higher; ungraded, 6«#@s9#; No 3, 57: steamer, 58#; No. 2, 59#; steamer, yellow, 58#. Oats higher; mixed western, 44@45#; white western, 45 @4B#. Eggs firm at 19. Pork dull and unchanged. Cut meats dull and weak: long clear middles, 8 50; short 8 85@890. Lard weak; prime steam, 1112# @ls 00. .Butter nominally unchanged. Cheese quiet.

Cincinnati.

Flour active and firm; family, 4 85@ 510; fancy, 525@6 00. Wheatstrong;

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No 2 red, 1 07« l 08. Oom strong and higher; No 2 mixed, 47. Oats stronger; No2mixed, 88. Rye quiet; No 2/114. Barley firm; No 2 mU and extra, 103: Canada. 107. Pork dull; 15 50. Lard quiet; 1065. Bulk meats stronger; 500 @8 00. Bacon in fair demand; 5 87W @8 75®9 00. Whisky In good demand and lower; 1 06. Butter scarce and firm; choice western reserve, 23(925; choice central Ohio, 20@22. Hogs firm; common,47sffis6o; light, 5 65@ 6 15; packing, 5 75@6 20; butohere, 625 @6 50.

Toledo.

Wheat steady, No. 2 red Wabash spot and March, 109; No. 2 red Wabash, 1 04X- Cora steady; Dayton and Michigan, 46; No. 2 spot and May, Oats steady; No. 2, Clover seed steady; choice mammoth, 5 40; prime do, 5 36; No. 2 medium, 470 r prime medium. 4 90. Closed— No. 2 red spot, 1

New York Dry Goods Market.

Considerable activity in all branches of jobbing trade, but business remains quiet with commission houses and importers. Cotton goods quiet in agents hands and fairly active with jobbers. Prints in moderate demand. Ginghams continue active and are in light supply. Men’s wear woolens quiet. Worsted dress goods sluggish.

East Liberty.

Cattle—Receipts 357, all through consignments. Nothing doing in local trade to-day. Hogs—Receipts 1,200; Philadelphias, 6 50@6 70; best Yorkers, 6 00@6 20; common Yorkers, 550 @5 90. Sheep—Receipts 1,000; market closing slow at yesterday’s prices.

One Hundred and Forty Years Old.

An audience gathered in the African M. E. Zion Church, Newark, N. J., Thursday night, to listen to a lecture by Dr. Albert Delany, a centenarian. Dr. Delany stated that he was born in Sierra Leone, in 1780, and that his father is still living in Freetown, that colony, at the age of 140 years. Delany is about six feet high, and black. He used good language and talked with considerable fluency. His wife accompanies him. Dr. Delany said that he is one of the 100 native ministers who attended Livingstone in one of his earlier expeditions into Africa, and his discourse was on Africa and the man to whose explorations we owe much of our knowledge about that tropical country. The eccentricity of Louis of Bavaria has broken out in a new form. His palace is now closed all day, and opened from sunset to sunrise. He breakfasts about dusk, dines at midnight and sups at dawn.

We do not often speak of any proprietory medicine, but from what we have read and heard of Alien’s Lung Balsam, we shall take the liberty of saying to those who are troubled with a Cold, Cough, or any Throat or Lung Affection, that from the testimony afforded, we have such confidence in this article, that were we afflicted in this way, we would make a trial of its virtues. Beware of the fatal consequences of neglecting this timely warning. Before it is too late, use Alien’s Lung Balsam, which will cure the disease. Every druggist in the land sells it. *

Plush will be used upon spring costumes of cheviot, cloth, and cashmere. Something tkrToarlat Needs. Th* tourist and ths oommsreial traveler who visi to Resign lands, *r regioes of his own country where vicissitudes of; climate are among tho influences prejudicial to health, omits a necessary precaution if he tokos with him no medicinal safeguard against Hlneas. Tho most reliable, if due credit be given to tbo statea**nt of travelers, mariners and emigrants who have used it. to Hoetetter's Stomach Bitters, a sovorelga protective against malaria and snip fever, and dtoordors of the stomach, liver and bowels, to which persons in transitu from one country to another, in the ,ro ?* 0 ’’ *“£ Ue *migr*nt* to far West, are peculiarly nMoch This highly accredited medicine nullifiesbad atmospheric influences, th* affects of impure water, and inures tho constitution to change* of temp*ratar* and an unaccustomed climate. Hardship and fatigue ar* endured with less danger of evil consequences if the system to fortified with tils inoom parable tonic and nervine ~

Long, tight basques, fitting as snug as a jersey, are worn at the moment. Hsw to Gef Bick. The great secret of obtaining riches is, first, to practice economy, and a? good old I 'Deacon Snyder* says, “It used to worry the life out o me to pay enormous doctor’s bills, but now 1 have ‘struck it ..ch.* Health and happiness reign supreme in our little household, ana all simply because w« use no othei medicine but Electric Bitters and only costs fifty cents « bottle. ’ Sold by all druggists. The shooting jacket now so popular is becoming only to slender figures. Workingmen. Before you begin your heavy spring work after a winter of relaxation, your system needs cleaning anc itrengthing to prevent an attack of Ague, Bilious or Spring Fever, or -tome other Spring sickness that will “‘fit you for a season’s work. You will save time, much sickness and -Treat expense if you will use one bottle of Hop Bittars in your family this month. Don’t wait.— Burlington ftawkoyt. Embroidered stockings are worn with slippers of satin, also embroidered.

TSFRINim. Having recently put i n an entire new dress we now offer for sale some pay Printers wanttag and as The fashions for the moment favor slender rather than stout women. We are strongly disposed to regard that person as the best physician who does most to alleviate human suffering. Judged from this standard, Mrs Lydia E. Pinkham, 2sß Western Avenue, Lynn. Mass., Is entitled to the front rank, for her her Vbgwtabm Copovnd is daily working wonderful cures in female diseases. Send for circular to the above address. Skirts of walking dresses are made o'the same length all around. Stab Gen. Shermaa, Wife of the general of the United ototoe *™y» M y s °f Durang’s Rheumatic Remedy: “I have frequently purchased it for friends suffering with rheumatism, and in -every instance it worked like magic. The fact is it Will 0°" when everything else fails. Bold by ev*-y reliable druggist. Batin Surah or soft twilled satin, black and indark shades of color, is the popular and fashionable silk dress material of the coming season.

The flowers and fl ’res of th rited figure painting. than Armwith fc proprietor of Warner's Safe Kidney and liver Cure. It saved me.’ 1 Beal brown and cinnamon brown are fashionable in combination. What Dore R Mean I We understand that a prominent Patent Medicine Company offered the James Cough Pill Company $50,000 for their formula. This is conclusive evidence of their worth as a cough or consumptive remedy. Detached trains come with some of the new imported costumes. Yot Bad to Take. You can hardly find a medicine which is at the same time so effective and so pleasant as Piso’s Cure for Consumption. For sale by all druggists at 25 cents and SI.OO per JxAile. Silk bonnets are in high favor and are made to match the pallet.

'An Enormous Traffic. * Pittsburgh boast* that 849,74 S bottlas of Cxnsoums have been sold within the last six months. Thia shows that the great army of bald beads will soon bo reduced to a corporal’s guard. , , - There is a threatened revival of heelless slippers for dancing. $5,000 will be forfeited and paid by the Malt Bitters Company If Malt Bitters,* family medicine prepared by them, does not excel in a fair competitive examination all other compounds now before the public called “Bittera.’’ ‘ Red and yellow hold their place In spring millinery. a this moist and variable climate Colds are the rule rather than the exception. Dr. Bull’s Cough Syrup is just the remedy for every one to take when suffering from a Cough, Cold or any Throat trouble. The standing fraise is revived on new neck lingerie. Isn’t It Strange That people will suffer so much and so long with asthma, when one bottle of Dr. Taft’s Asthmaline will cure the worst case. See another column. None but girl in their teens wear very short skirts. Every one will find a general tonic in “Lindsey’slmproved Blood Searcher.” All druggists sell it. Cinnamon brown is revived for matronly toilets •Father and mother being afflicted with asthma, two bottles of ‘Bellers’ Cough Syrup’ has given them a new lease of life.’’ Parisian ladies dance in low-heeled slippers. Purify the blood by dealing the system of foul humor*, and by giving strength to the liver, kidneys and bowels to perform their regular functions. Kidney-Wort will do it. Dotted Swiss ball dresses will be much worn. Eminent physicians are prescribing KidneyWork for the worst cases of kidney oomplaints, constipation and piles. Strings of bonnet are short and wide. ■Ar. Kline's O er 5* Itoatorer to the aaaa /•* of th. Me for all nerve dmeases. all Ata Stoppad tree. Bead to Ml arch street, Philadolphte. Fn. Coiffures have just enough additional fullness, either from false hair or ingenious arrangement, to make them very becoming. Winner's Parer and Ague Toni*. The eld tollable remedy wow sells at *«• Stockings must match the dress in both the color of the ground and in the flower of figure embroideries on the instep, when the dress is composed even in part of flowered or figured materials.

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FOrsensMve'tad severe ea*e* of CATARRH use our CATARRH CCRK/frsc-) •** cases use our N ABAI. of cur preparation* w>U be sent in lots of $a worth, oa receipt of price. Fwro. C. Ewing, Deaver, Col,-“ Astonished at its wonderful effect.” > Asmara W.CaossiXY, Washington, D.C.— Prod>raifMWrtlv ths best.** &UU-R. Jambs, Schenectady,N. Y.-“A family necessity in my family.” . ' , . R. IL TaasTßD, New York.-” Have derived great benefit from its use.” M. M. Comxx, N. y. Gre*kto>-" Simply iavaL •sbis. M Dr. C. N. Thaym, Falmouth, Mam.— On* of the best remedies in my daily practice. Hon. Jmo. C. SrxNcan, late Secretary of War and Secretary of the Treasury, wrote as far back asYß4*. —“ It to a remedy perfectly invaluable. ’ CAUTION.— POND'S EXTRACT te aold suZy in bottles with the name blown in the glass. GF“ It is unsafe to use other articles wth our db rectioa*. Insist on having POND S EXTRACT. Refuse aB imitations and substitutes. Hr Ova Naw PamphlbTj wire Hirroav o» ova PaarAXATtoMS, sknt FREE. LADIES-Resd pages 13,18, st and ML POND’S EXTRACT COJIPANT, 14 West 14Us street, New Terk. Sold by ail Druggists. ■This Great Remedy nctaattbesemeil tisae on the disease* of the II HLIYER, BOWELS A KIDNEYS.U gffiws it wonderful ladiasaass. fi£E >r*a<<vowia m A/.M ndpottontnu /, urnar .U tht Nood a/uWdM DISORDERS*’ M Mass oroans arufF.l ■Why frighted ov“ &ewd K?.! 11 Wty •■dw.-e nervous or tick headaches! Rj Why have sleepleu nights! U ■ r»e KIWNEY.WORT and in GKT nor YOUR DRUGGIST. PRICE, |L» U ■ WELLS, RICHARDSON A CO., Prop's, ■ send the dry poeHmid.) bubumgtos, Asthma. ” HELP!” is the cry of those afflltteC with .Asthma. We come to your relief with a reme dy worth Its weight in gold. DR. TAFT’S ASTHMALENE isa SURE AND PERFECT CURE for this terrible disease in ever r form, no matter bon long standing. One I)ott will break the most severe spasms. One Does will give yon a sweet and refreshing night’s rest . Care la Rare to follow if taken for a short time. Get a trial bottle for 25 cent* and be convinced. Lanre boWeii.6o. FREE! We will send a tr&l or express FREE to any one afflicted.

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