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The new laIff bill was received ln the
Senate on the 9Th and made the special or
der of The day for Monday next and for ev
cry succeeding day until disposed of.
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READY MADE CLOTHING,

ever offered In this neghborhood, which he will
sell from 10 to 20 per cent cheaper than the cheap
est. His stock is got and selected with great care
made of the best and ost fashiona' e materials
and in the most workmanlike manner and style,
embracing every grade, color and price which will
suit either the taste or economy of purchases. |
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LIST OF LETTERS,
Remaining in lie Posl'ofice a'DIoomsbnrg
Pa. June 30lh, 1915
John ID. Beckwilh-John CIemeIl-Jane
Chamberin-Mrs Ann Dole-AmbroI Ev'
snd-Jacob Eckerd-Jesse HoIlenshead-
David Keefe-Chorles Michael-j Joseph X
r. Obourn-Francis Rsede-
Wm. Swaney-Jsckson SOrms-PeIer SIineI
John Wanlch- James Walker,
] h. MOYER F, NJ,
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q ACaeGse

strict measure, adjoining lands of John
Spoyd and lands OF John Baslion, &c. late
the estate of said deceased situate in the
township Of FshIngcreek and county a(ors
said.
JACOB EYERLY, (ierk.
DanviIIe, May 81, ls46.--7
G.. The above sale stands adjourned to Thurs
day the 23d day OF July ms. Two o'clock in the af-
ternoon at the same place
JOHN BEALER administrator, &c.
July 2; 1916,
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prices.
GENTLEMEN'S WEAR.
Morocco or Calf Skin Boots 81 90
Goa 'Se Boots 20
Coarse or Fine Shoes 10
Miners Shoes 81 10 20
Morocco Slippers s74
LADIES' WEAR.
Morocco or Caf Skin Lace Boots 80
Thick Sole French Ties 20
Pumps Springs or French l l24
Oiher kinds of Slippers rs cents 10 90
N. b. The above are all ofmy own Manufacture
and are wrranted to stand. have also on hand.
a large stock of
Eastern MADE Doors AND SHOES,
which will sell at small profits
Country Merchants and others who buy ly the
dozen, are invited to call and examine my goods,
as will sell to such at large reduction.
uTRemember the place at the NEW BOOT
and SHOE STORE, lower end of Main-strect'
Bloomsbury. ~
W RUSSELL
July lS4G
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From ,he Norrdgework (Me. } journal.
We publish the following, as among the
many evidences which we ale constantly
receiving of the increasing popularity of Dr..
Jayne's ExpecoranI. We have no interest
IN 'pufing' lt-any further than we have .
desire - promote The health and happiness
of our ieI.ow>cIealuTes, who are wasting a.
way with those complaints, for which this
medicine is an absolure remedy. And ln
Ealing The attention Of the public 10 i, we
.eei that we are in the faithful discharge OF
our duiy.
New Portland, Nov 4, 1912
Mr.. PraIt,-Sir; | wish you 10 send me
3 bottles Of Jsyne's Expeclorsn.. md in this
connection, would say, tha, deem IT an
invaluable medicine, and an article thai no
family should be without for single day.
| have used it for two years in NV family,
md have always (ouad i. a quick and eff
clenI remedy for ilghiness of he lungs pro
duced by long prorac'ed colds, which pro.
luce the short hacking cough, lhe premonl-
'or Of Consupmron,in which i, 80 frequent.
Y terminates in this climate. II properly
md seaeonaby administered, 1t will etfeclu
lily break mp the most violent fevers, sn
frequently consequent upon them | would
most CheerfuIy recommend ihIs me icIne To
,he public in all cases Of that Ealure, as IN,
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FEVER AND AGUE.

Mr.. Rowe. in one Of his letters 10 the
Belfast Journal, written from Wiscon-
sin, gives the following very excellent
account Of the sensations" experience
ed by person under the operation Of
this epidemic:
person troubled with it will get up
in the morning and feel as well as he
ever did, and perhaps IN an hour after,
in the hottest days Of summer, will be-
gin to grow cold, his skin will assume
a yellowish pale color mixed up with
blue, his blood will settle under his fin
ger nails, like that Of dying person
and in ten minutes he will tremble and
shake so with cold that his boots do moi
fit him particularly well, he will be We
ry apt to shake out Of them. Should ne
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THE LYNX

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ana my Of personal nature Will IN
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refreshments dod,,ct;or will h
Il. ., tboso who advertise by the year to sui
G.ient amountto make il for the interest o. mef-
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NESS or the YEARLY advertiser Will be charged LOT
seneraterv at the ordinary rates.
Professional cards, not alteFaOle Tor the year,
co,tanig zen lines or lees ten dollars.
Tbeuama OF candidates for county oihces VIII
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,.,Dre. and State Offices ten dollars.
Election tickets, will never be delivered unit II
paid for ~ -....c,..,.
i,5ividua1 interest, will be chargd at half price
of ordinary advertisements and must be pald IN
advance.
Advertisements not marked with the number OF
assertions will be continued till forbid, and any
oTtorotions made after insertion charged extra.
Advertising patrons will favor us by handing
=, thefr advertisements as early after our regular
publication DAYS as convenient-not later III any
Ease if possible. than Thursday night
AIJOB-WORK must be paid for on deiiv-
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PosrAGE must be paid on allletters, or they VIII
uot be attended to
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NO. IA

ca! moment set free from the influence
oil prejudice or passion, may have seen
more clearly how far his own conduct
harmonlzed wi il that plan which his
conscience pointed out as the plan of the
Creator. Happily, if he had been per.
united TO speak. he might have modi-
fled much and suppressed some of the
doctrines when have since then so
troubled and perpeved the world. But
hey would not let him speak, so the
night passed in Weeping and watching:
and wnen The morning dawned there
a sound OF Iamenlai.on Oh the minaret
and houseio2, whist couriers went
fotih on swif,-fooled cameis to proclaim
asnongst he tribes Of lie desert thae
lheir law-giver was dead Tie Stu
dent.
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To tEgc Gentlemen Cd
Pamela.

IF you desire good clothing and at
u excessively !o,o prices, let me con-
strain you to give me a call. | can
now cloth you from and to both extrem-
tiles. Desirable Hats, Of Olter, Beaver,
Ashland, Silk 81 Plush. as well as Caps
of OIL Silk, and Cloth; Night Caps
Shirts of every kidd, Silk, Cotton I'M
en-, and Bucksk Drawers of all kinds
Coats, Pants, 81 Vests Of every dIscrIP
tion; Socks and elegant Boots and Oai'
tiers; Cravats; Russian Girdles; Shout
der Braces; Money Belts, and every
thing else so multiplied that have mol
patience to enumerale. you can hnd al
II. Wade's on Madison street, Memphis
nearly opposite the Post Office and
Ii. WADE.
April II, '46. o-"'
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Try to warm himself by the fire ne finds
that the more wood there is piled on,
the colder he grows. lie finally be-
comes sick at the stomach, and obliged
10 go 10 bed, where he is as it were,
surrounded with ice for about an hour.
Then The chills gradually leave him,
the trembling ceases and warmth by
degrees prrvade the body. But in
stead Of stepping when the limbs as
sumed their natural heart, it continues
10 increase until the blood almost boils
in the veins; the brain Ihrobs as il if
would burst; the SICK headache comes
on; the pulse is rapid aud Irregular,
and the eyes roll SO in the bead hat
you would think the person could not
live half an hour. But be IS far from
being at-the point Of death. The fever
continues about an hour. and then leaves
him good deal weakened, but as well
as ever. have known persons whom.
to look at, you would have said, had
they appeared SO in New England, TO
be in I'll of severe sickness, and would
not leave their beds for months, ever,
in half an hour after get up and 90 TO
ball,-and a''Sucker1 [ Illinois ball
ct that, where one who cannot dance
from o'clock, P. NJ, until The next
morning at break fast, is considered no,
boy at all.
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DEATH OF MAHoMET.-In Media, feel
ing that this death was fast approach
ing, he assembled the pulpit from which
he had SO often preached, and thus
addressed himself to the surrounding
croud; ''Oh. We faithful, ifany one of
you have reason 10 complain that
have iIi-treated him by blows, here is
my body, let him return them; if Ihave
wounded the reputation of any one.
am ready TO restore it on the spot."-
A man here .interrup;ing him, and de-
manding payment oil a debt amounting
to three drachms, Mahomet paid him,
and said: sit is more easy TO suffer
shame in his world than in the other"
This task FINISHED, he betook himself
to his bed, which he never more quit
ted. The evening before his death he
would fain have dictated a new chapter
of a Khoran; but the friends who stood
round him would not allow it, thinking
that his weakened mind might perpex
his followers with some strange doc.
trine. 1t were better if they had per-
ni,ted him: for as the traveller, when
he GAINS the summit Of hill, looks
back, and perceives not only the roat
nv which he has come, but also his DO
si,jon in and relation 10 the surround
ing country, SO MAHoMEr, at that crit
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THE CONFESSIONAL cloud was seen
to pass suddenly over the fair features
of Maria. The ustre forsook her
dark eyes. Her spirit seemed troub.
led.
"Triumphs the lily now on that
young cheek,
Where bloomed the rose."
Ten times that evening did Edward
importune her TO acquaint him of the
cause from her fair lips. Sad and 81
lently she sal.
sand now and then sigh she stole,
And tears began TO fow."
"Breathes there wretch so base as
10 iniure YOU, by word or action. Tell
me, and by thine heart, as pure as
heaven! swear never to rest till I've
redressed thy wrongs! Is any awful
mystery locked up in tina, bosom that
must not know? Tell me The secret
and by the ringlets of thy hair! I'll
swear never to reveal it, though the
blacklist mormenis rack me! Pour
out thy soul, tel! thine own Edward
what lies heavy in thy breast"
She blushed-she placed her fair
hands across her bosom-looked lam
! guidly in her lovers face, "like the last
low breathing of an expiring saint. g
she thus confessed: IT'S them ERE
darned Green Apples-Nedi"
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COLD WATER SONG.-BY rIERPoNT

>OIID w Il IL ScNG.-BY PIERPONT |
AIR-"Auid Lang Syne''
Shall e'er cold water be forgot
When we sit down to dine
0 no, my friends. is it not
Poured out by hands divine?
Poured out by hands divine, my
friends,
Poured out by hands divine:
From springs and wells II gushes forth
Poured cut by hands divine.
Cold water, too, Ohio wonderful,
IT'S no less trre, AGAIN.
The weakest Of all earthly drinks
Doth make the strongest men;
Doth make the stronges men, my
Friends,
Doth make the strongest men:
Then let US take that weakest drink,
And grow the strongest men.
And as the bells of tulips turn
To drink the drops that fell
From Summer clouds-lhen why
should not
The two lips Of belle?
The two lips of a belle, my friends,
The two lips of belle:
What sweetens more than water pure,
The two lips of a belle?
The sturdy oak full many cup
Doth hold up TO the sky
To catch the rain, then drinks it up,
And thus the oak gets high!
IT'S thus the oak gets high, my friends,
IT'S thus the oak gets high,
By having water in its cups;
Then why not you and |?
Then let cold water armies give
Their banners TO the air;
So shall the boys like oaks be strong,
The girls like tulips fair:
The girls like tulips fair, my friends.
The girls like tulips fair;
The boys shall grow like study oaks.
The girls like tulips fair.
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HE WY TO END COURTsHIP.-
There is quite little romance connec-
ted with a building in Genoa. 1t was
formerly erected and owned by veal
thy man who was in the habit Of visit
ing a pretty peasant girl in the neigh
borhood Pleased with his attention,
she cast of, as ladies are apt to do; the
rustic lover she had before encouraged:
But although her new admirer was fire.
qHent and steady in his visits, he never
mentioned The subject Of matrmony.
Things went on in his way Tor three
years, till one night the gentleman was
startled, as he was about leaving the
house, by the abrupt entrace Of the two
brothers Of his inamorate, demanding
that he should Immediately marry their
sister. They told him! he had visited
her for three ears, thus keeping away
other suitors, and destroying all hopes
of their sisters marriage except with
him; three years was long enough for
him to make up his mind in, and as he
had not done it, they had concluded 10
| do it for him.
TiS was bringing things to a focus
he had not anticipated. For a man Of
wealth and station to marry a poor
peasant girl merely because he cotde-
scended to be smitlcn by her beauty,
was something more than joke; yet
he saw by glance that more was
meant BY these brothers THAI met the
ear-in short, that his choice was 10 be
a marriage or a slilctto through his
heart. This was reducing things 10 The
simplest terms; rather too simple for
the wealthy admirer. The trembling;
weeping girl, the bold, recIess brothers,
and the embarrassed gentleman, must
have formed a capital groupe in peas
ants cottage.
AT length, ig-attempteI 10 COM
promise the roatler by saying that then
was not the time nor there the place,
TO celebrate such a ceremony; besides
there was no priest, and the proper
way would be to talk over the subject
together in the morning.
One Of The bro'hers leaned back and
tapped slightly on a side door; it open
ed, and priest, with his noise!ess cat
like tread entered the circle.
"Here is priest" said one Of the
brothers.
There was short interval ofsIence,
when the Signor made a slight move
ment towards the door. Two daggers
instantly cleaned before him. lie saw
thatsit was all over wit him-that the
three years Of cour lship were going to
amount to something after all-and so
yielded with as good a grace as posi-
bic, and the nuptiaIs were performed
He Immediately placed his wife in a
I.school to be educated, while he in the
meantime bought title. Years passed
by AMI the ignorant peasant girl emer
ged into the fashionable world, an &C
compIished woman. She is now the
Countess Of!
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A GENUINE GHOST STORY.
Extraordinary Cred~liy.

Great excitement prevails IN the VI
cinity Of Dixboro'. Washington county
Michigan, in consequence oflhe appear
ance of an apparition 10 one oil the re-
,sidents Of that place. 1t appears that
<.s.son named Van Woert, who lately
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ArnIL 18th 1916.

0,ey, n,,7,>,,z1ar2 an NTNG
= " 4Et@5 ' -E-,l 80 - ,',r[1 NTa
4NIGI4A y W M = -A-'<=' -
rs ArAwn
HssshE Es. AkaHsI
q gV d y ~ Fix, SSoe
~ '''' % SIorc 1JrmpIj$
unSUE8Ea = EEVETT.
,%,I ~ 1000 orrn9rmenfs during
tho mast winter with some of the
E, onYr,c,nrrrs ia the East. is now
o1o' ''','".','.,,' or his sn,,o,er stock Of
, ,ecg''' - " 49,. and B,ogans--ro which
snyor,I shinments will be added dur
Ing ''Ie ,.o,''''9 " ttba ,raIa.
among "n'ch arc ~, ,, All ! dnnhIe sole
100 pr mems >'''E'o ",''' oo'''0
brogahS' various i,'yse' -" aa,l s,ro,
'"o Pr ""'''-n' ~''''
SHOES y. ooo,S' Hood G,o SIM
800 do. gent 5 6ooa ana ''''0 SUI"
ma! oro'>' .air and soaI
men 10" P''''0' ''''
.,o.,I sc,l skin slim
Aliens call, goat anu So"' 'N'" -
pcrs' s.D.oos
400 pr. boys Do%h''IsS N - 81 Ell bro'
Mems ezra S'Zc nF"8I's ''.; ~ NV Nv ~ S'Id
ken stocks, &C. a. "n'c' " ~ . ~ o,a
by the case o. dozen a. d S'''"'' ''O -
on manulacIurUI III .s,rnEaz
ga "a IA e. & "a % -
VIII also DC J@''' " ' 'l-,'',
pictc--amoug winch are:
Gents, IALh Boo''--o Po'''o' "''
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Rangers Notice.

TNAKEN up by Thomas Musgrnvc,
~ living about Eve miles North East
Of Panola. one Sorrel Stud Horse, WIN
a star in his6 ear,rboul Eve years OLD
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VERY SMALL-A distinguished politician, al.
luding to the size of the State Of Delaware,
once threatened to put il iu his hreeches pocket.
sienfcan, indeed, but the State of Rhode Island
is still less, for Boston papers ssys, the reason
why the earthquake that broke the old womens
china in Massachusetts,. did not visit Rhode ISL
and, was that it is not large enough for an earth-
quake to shake in. There was once little
man sick of fever in that State, and he died
because it had not room to turn him in.
Sunbury American and Shamokin journal. [volume] (Sunbury, Northumberland Co., Pa.) 1840-1848, 1846-09-19

Hon Pressure PoILTrcs.-An editor down
east, referring to some OF his fellow citizens of
opposite politics, uses the following strong
language:
They talk of their holy religion but their
robes of righteousness are woven at Lowell and
Manchester; their Paradise is a high per cen
tum on Factory stock; their psalms of rejoicing
are trumphs over rival party in politics or
the question of banks and tariffs; they would
turn Heaven into Birmingham, and make every
angel a weaver. and with the eternal din Of
looms and spirdles drown all the anthems of
the morning stars!
Sunbury American and Shamokin journal. [volume] (Sunbury, Northumberland Co., Pa.) 1840-1848, 1846-09-19

A SATISFACTORY ANSWER. stran-
GER you appear TO be travelling"
yes. I always travel when on journey
Il think have seen you somewhere p
Very likely, have often been there
And pray what might your name BET
1T might be Sam Patch but il isn't
'Ilave you been long in these parts!
Never longer than at present-5 feet o.
DO you get anything newt
'Yes, bought new milestone this morning
Il thought so. you are the shsEps,st blade I've
seen on this road
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LITERARY Observation-Disclosures ir-
wing, who will soon return home, will immedi.
ately put to press his history Of Mohammed,
the materials OF which he has collected during
his residence in Spain, from The Moorish mama
scripts and legends. Prescott has ready his
Conquest of Peru, which will be followed by a
Life Of Philip the Second. Mr.. Bancroft has
completed the fourth volume OF his History OF
the United States, which will soon appear. ia.
rcd Sparks is engaged in writing History OF
the American Revolution. The Hon: John +.
Kennedy is engaged upon Life OF Writ
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Appearances after Death

II frequently happens that the features Of the
dead retain their entire form and individual
likeness for many years after their burial. Ex.
perience. however. has proved. that after expo.
sure to the air for some minutes dust returns
to dust agair. The following circumstances
occurred at the DISAGREEMENT Of the body of Ro-
Der, Burns, the poet, some time in the year 1915.
for the purpose Of it's being entombed beneath
a splendid monument
report having been spread that the princi.
pal coffin was made Of oak, hore was entertai-
ned that it would be possible to transport it
from the north to the eas, corner OF St M;chaels,
without opening it, or disturbing the sacred de-
post it contained. But this hope proved falla-
cious. On testing the coffin, il was found to be
composed Of the ordinary ma,eris's and ready
to yield at the slightest pressure and upon the
lid being removed, a spectacle was presented,
which, considering the fame oft mighty dead,
has rureIy been witnessed by single human
being. There lay the remains of the great po.
ct, TO appearance nearly entire, and retaining
various traces Of vitality, or rather exhibiting
the features Of one who bad but recently sunk
into the sleep Of death-the Iordly forehead,
arched and high and the teeth perfectly firm
and white. The scene was SO IMPOSING that
most of the workn.en stood bare and uncovered,
as did DR.. Gregory at the exhumation of the
hero Of Bannockburn. and at the same time felt
their frames thrilling with some undefnable e.
motion, as they ga azed on the ashes of him whose
fame is as the word Itself. But the effect was
momentary; for when they proceeded to insert
q shell or case below the coffin, the heud separa-
ted from the trunk, and the whole body, with
the exception OF the bones, crumbled into dust.
Lord Nugent. on opening the coffin, contsi-
ming the body of John IIampden. found it per-
feet, after burial Of two hundred years; even
his features were preserved. His hair of ra-
ven blackness, came off at the touch Of the hand,
and then was discovered an infinite number Of
little red worms Of great activity, playing upon
the cranium. No insects were found on other
parts of the body, as if the brain contained H.
wing principle. which was engendered by its
own corruption.
1t fact not extensively known that when
the body of General Wayne, which had been
buried at Presqu'tle, Erie, Pa, in 1897, was
dsinterred forty years afterwards, for the pur-
pose of its being removed to Chester county.
Pa, where it now lies, the corps had undergone
so little change as 10 be readily recognized by
those who were familiar with the General in
} his life time. Its perfect preservation WAS at
) tributed to the character Of the SOIL which was
agillaceous earth, strongly impregnated with
{ alumine.
Sunbury American and Shamokin journal. [volume] (Sunbury, Northumberland Co., Pa.) 1840-1848, 1846-09-19

THE WoxEN OF PERU never it is said. nurse
their children while angry, for fear of importing
to them choleric temperament. There ars
reasons for the omission connected with tho
bodily comfort and health of the child which
should have equal weight under the circum-
stances.