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TEE RIGHT KTSD.-TheIe is no article
before -Ae public about which SO much
noise i bting mCde just now rs the sewing
machine. Every manufactured claims that
his own is the Jeo,, puc the result of all the
disputing only establishes the fact that the
Grover & Bake T AMI ne SINGER machines,
for which Mr. G. f. ilpbcgss IS agent in this
place. are unsurpa sed aad unsurpassabIe in
all particulars which render sewing mas
chine perfect and satisfactory. Mr. Roberts
is selling quite numcer Of these machines
and all buyers are delighted with their
operations.
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ENEMALE COLLEGE, BoRDESTowN.
a N J.-Pleasanty located on the Della
ware river. 2M hours ride from New York and
"a from Phia. he very best educational
advantages furnished in connection with pleas
ant home. Fall term begins Sept. 18Th For
Catalogue address Rev. JOHN Il. BRAKE
LEY, A. N Pres't
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HAHga DRESSENG

ever used. 1t removes Dadruff and all S0urvy
Eruptions. 1t does not stain the skin.
Our Trea tise on the Hair sent free by mail.
Bcwore OF the numerous preparations which
are sold upon our reI utation.
K. p. HALL & co Nashua, N. H., Prop'rs
For sale by all druggists. laug l3. I'm.
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Still. IApRcvING We were shown one
Of the celeb ated Duty Clothes Washers at
Mr. Huntley's, on Tuesday, which has
several rcw and very Important improve
uents in its construction, and the addition
of which go far to render this great labor
saving and clothes saving washing machine
the most perfect ever Invented. Mr. Hunt
ley has several OF these improved machines
for sale, as we'll as the Universal Clothes
Wriager, which we pronounce, without
fear Of contradiction, the best institution OF
the KIND that has ever came under our OBJ
ssrvatiol and we are sure that no house
wife would do without one if she once learned
It's reaI E1cit.
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TIE Cambria Iron Company has just bad
constructed at Pittsburg probably the small
est locomotive engine OF equal power ever
built in this country. It is appropriately
named the Black Dwarf, and is intended to
be used in hauling coal cars out of the mines
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Nor CONE TO TBAT.-A young lady who
was reading novel was asked how she
liked tEe style the style the style 20
was tie answer; ''Oh, / haven't come to
that YETI That young la;ly don't live here
or she would have found that the cnly style
worth coa.ing TO is the sty fish goods at the
cheap store of r. X. Davis, who keeps an
excellent assortment of everything, and
sells at very moderate prices.
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The owners Of any OF the above Isstz Of land
desiring to redeem them, can do 40 l,y applying
to the Commissioners, at their ohScs on or be
fore Saturday the 5th day of mex. Septerber
No redemptions will he allowed after that date
Witness our hands at Ebfnsburg, this lVLh
dag of July, A. ID. 1858.
JOHN CAMPBELL, g
JOHT FERGUSON,
JOHE A. KENNEDY,
Attsst-H n. Il. SEeaLER, CLERK.
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Testfy..to its merits in restoring GRAY lair
to its original color and promoting its growth.
1t makes the hair soft and glossy. The old in
appearance are made young again. It is the best
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Attsst-HA. Il. SEeRLER, CLERK.

n NOTICE,-To JANE MARTIN Take
IN Aadca Saat an inquest " fl be held at the
late reSse ace of David Abrams, late of Cam
bria Scwnship. Cambria county, Pa, deceased,
on Me@oay, the 3lst day Of August next, at l
o'olOsk ia the afternoon of that day. for the
purpose of making portition of the Real Estate
of said deceased to and among his children aui
legal representatives, if the same can be doss
without prejudice to or spelling of the whole
otherwise 10 value and apPraise the same at
which tirre aad place you are requested te At
tend if yoe think proper.
JOHN A. BLAIR, Sheriff
SheriR's Office, Ebensburg July 80, 1854.
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An 1NYARIARLE RuLR.--It is said to be
as certain that a cool August will follow an
unusually warm July as it is that the best.
fioest, chespest and handsomest goods of
every description are kept at Thompson 3
model store, High street. Ebensburg. All
kinds of dress goods, to suit every change
of the weather, will be found in Thompson IS
assortment.
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Umpire Chas. II Irwin Scorers Robert
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Send for circular and prices 10 L1PPIN-
COLT & BAKEWEEL, PITTsBURG, IA.
Sole Manufacturers. For sale by principal
Hardware Dealers.
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GIX CENTS REWARD.-Raua away
- from the premises of the subscriber in Car
roll township. Cambria county, on Wedue-day.
July 22d, an indentured apprentice to the farm
ing business named JOHN HAFFERTN, aged
about fourteca years. All persons are beIeby
cautioned against harboring or trusting him oa
my account 5 l VIII not be responsible for mia
acts. The above reward and no thanks will be
paid for ms apprehension.
July 80, IssS.-3t~. RAFEAEL RIfE,
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A hIsrAKE.-It is a mistake to suppose
that people who dress fashionably are fools.
On the contrary, it follows for the most part
that they are people of taste, especially if
they buy the material wherewith to bedeck
themselves at the FIRST class mercantile es-
tablishment Of V. S. Barker, whose stock
embraces many beautiful sty las of ladies'
dress goods and gents wearing apparel.
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Nor SURPASSED. The most extensive
and best patrorzed ladies store il Cambria
county is located in Parke's new Hall,
Johnstown. and is kept by Mr.. Leopold
Mayer. Ladies' dress and millinery goods,
comprising every article that could be de-
sired, are here kept in endless profusion and
sold at lower rates Than have ever heretofore
been known in that market. Ladies, don't
forget this when making your purchases.
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TENRIAL LIST List of Causes set
4 down for trial at a Court of Common
Pleas OF Cambria co ;nty, commencing Oh Mon
day, the 7tb day of September next:
Bell ii...-..........vs vs.. Swires ct 81.
Storm m.vs. Penna. R. r. Co.
Cooper. r...............ys. Dunmyer, ct. al.
Whites Ex'r VS.. Woodcock.
Same. .......... Same.
Runnion. ........- VS.. George.
Leidy's Adm'x Tvs. Simmons.
AcMullen.. Ivory.
Smith ...............Vs VS.. GlBS2OW.
Hughes ......... VS.. Crum.
GEO. G. K. ZAHM, Protl'y.
Prothy's Office, Ebensburg. Aug. 49, 1868
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BEcoAISG -Modesty in woman, like the
bloom on her cheek-;i 1t is not pit on
Also becomiu g-the beautiful dress goods so
temptingiy displayed on the shelves and
counters of our merchant friends, Ii. A.
Shoemaker & Co. Should be coaaifg-every
body to the store OF SAID fra if he or she
wishes to buy the choicest dry goods. no.
tions, groceries, furniture, etc, at the lowest
cash prices.
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and made Of uniform te1per By cur patent
tempering process.
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Oatman throughout the season. a small in
voice Just recei, ed-the first in the market.
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FARM FOR SALE :

IIOAcs II. 4 II " y q w
n ss. So & Sd Elm ST., Boston, Mass.
Middletown transcript., 1868-12-26
MDDET0WN NEW

farmer getting hold of dangling rope,
succeeded in pulling down the balloon.
He at first pulled out little Johnny, who
ran rapidly few yards towards the house,
then turned round and stood for few
moments curiously surveying the balloon
The faithful little sister was so chilled and
exhausted that she had to be carried into
the house, where, trembling and sobbing,
she told the wonderful story.
Before sunrise mounted messenger
was dispatched to the Harwood house with
glad tidings of great joy. He reached it
in the afternoon, and few hours later the
children themselves arrived in state, with
banners and music, and conveyed in COW
cred hay wagon and four.
Joy y-bells were rung in the neighboring
town, and in the farmers brown house the
happiest family on the continent thanked
God that night
Middletown transcript., 1868-12-26
The Islands OF Pyramid Lake, Utah.

A gentleman who has visited Pyramid
Lake, and explored several of its islands
at the season of laying and incubation for
the myriads of gulls, ducks, pelicans, and
other waterfowl that swarm upon it's wa
ter, states that at that time the larger is
lands are literally white with eggs. In
walking from the shore toward the centre
of the islands it is impossible to proceed
fifty feet without stepping upon some of the
eggs, so thickly are they strewn over the
ground. The fowls inhabiting the islands
are described as being exceedingly tame I;
they hover and futter upon the ground
about the intruder upon their breeding
ground, or circle and stream about his
head, and with but little show of fear.
This absence of fear of man is doubtless to
be attributed to the fact that until lately
that "feathered biped," man, has never
been seen by them upon their Islands,
Owing to certain superstitions notions held
by them in regard to the lake, the Indians
have never, in the memory of their oldest
chief, visited any of the islands. Even were
they not withheld by the fear of monsters
in tho lake and upon the islands, they
nave no DOdtS UT culotS, uIiu hHuW hopllHA
even of that ruaest'of nautical arts-raft
navigation.
Among the islands of the lake are two
small, rocky ones, near to each other, and
at no great distance from the shore from
the fact that they are alive with rattle
snakes. Huge and lazy old patriarchs Of
the islands, with long strings of rattles up.
on their tails, bask in the shade of almost
every stone, while younger and more ac.
tive members of the tribe glide about in al
directions, and the intruder upon these is
lands of snakes is often treated to serena
de by dozen sets of rattles of various
degrees of power and shades of tone. o
course neither whites or Indians woult
care to tarry long on these islands, nor t.
cultivate more than passing acquaintance
with their musical inhabitahts.
1t is supposed that the reason of thes
two islands being SO completely alive an,
crawling with snakes, is that few havin,
gotten on their shores by some accident
and finding convenient dens in the rocks
they have ever since fed and fattened upo
the eggs and unfedged young of the brood
ing water fowl, and have gone on increas
ing and multiplying, with nothing to de
crease or disturb them.
Middletown transcript., 1868-12-26
silence OF the Arctic Night.

In his new work, The Open Polar
Sea-" DIR. Hayes thus describes the fear
full solitude and stiffness of the Arctic
night:
II have gone out in the Arctic night,
and viewed nature under varied aspects.
! have rejoiced with her in her strength
and communed with her in repose. l
have seen the wild burst of her anger
have watched her sportive play, and have
beheld her robed in silence. Ihave walk
ed abroad in darkness when the winds
were roaring through the hills and crash
ing over the plain. have strolled along
the beach when the only sound that broke
the stiffness was the only dull creaking of
ice-tables, as they rose and fell lazily with
the tide. I have wandered far out on the
frozen sea, and listened to the voice of the
ieebergs bewailing their imprisonment ;
along the glacier, where forms and falls the
avalanche; upon the hilltop, where the
drifting snow, coursing over the rocks,
sang its plaintive song; and again l have
wandered away to some distant valley
where all these sounds were hushed, and
the air was still and solemn as the tomb.
"And it is here that the Arctic night
is most impressive, where its wonders are
unloosed to sport and play with the minds
vain imaginings. The heavens above and
the earth beneath reveal only an endless
and fathomless quiet. There is no where
around me any evidence of life or motion.
l stand alone in the midst of the mighty
hills. The tall cliffs climb upward, and
are lost in the gray vaults of the skies.
The dark cliffs standing against their
slopes of white, are the steps of vast
amphitheatre. The mind finding no rest
on their bold SUBMITS wandcrs into space.
The moon weary with her long vigils,
sinks to her repose; the Pleiades no lon.
ger breathe their sweet influence. Cassie
pea, Andromede, and Orion, and all the
infinite host of unnumbered consultations
fail to muse one spark of joy into this
dead atmosphere. They have lost their
tenderness, and are cold and pulseless
The eye leaves them and returns to the
earth, and the trembling ear aEaits some.
thing that will break the oppressive 81.
lence. But no football of living thing
reaches it, no wild beast howls through
the solitude. There is no cry of birds to
enliven the scene; no tree among whose
branches. the wind can sigh and moan
The pulsations of my own heart alone are
heard in the great void and as the blood
courses through the sensitive Organization
of the ear, am oppressed as with dis
cordant sounds. Silence has ceased to b.
negative. 1t has become endowed witt
positive attributes. l seem to hear anG
see and feel it. 1t stands forth as fright
full spectre, filling the mind with oyer
powering consciousness of universal deatf
-proclaiming the end of all things ant
heralding the everlasting future. Its pres
ence is uncomfortable. l spring from thu
rock upon which was seated, ] plant my
feet heavily on the snow to banish its pres
ence and the sound rolls through the nigh
and drives away the phantom. hav'
seen no expression on the face of nature
so filed with terror as the silence of al
Arctic night" = 81 y"
Middletown transcript., 1868-12-26
Tait and 3umor,
A Queer Hymn Book.

A good joke is told of preacher in Me-
braska, who had dined with friend just
before afternoon services. As it happen
ed, this friend occasionally luxuriated in
a smile of the ardent, and sometimes car
ried morocco covered flask in his overcoat
pocket.
By mistake, the minister took the
friends overcoat for his own on his depart
ure, and walking into the pulpit began the
exercises without dofing the garment, it
being rather chilly in the room.
Looking very ministerially over his con-
gregation from behind his spectacles, he
began drawing from his pocket, as he sup
posed his hymn book, with the introducto-
ry remark that the congregation would
sing from a particular page which he Sc
lected beforehand.
The minister held the supposed book up
in full sight of the congregation, and at
tempted to open it sideways, but it was no
go.
The situation was realized in moment,
but alas too late.
His reverence waa dvmbfopnded, the
whole scene was made ludicrous by fell
low in the back part of the congregation,
who drawled out:
Say, Mister, can't we all jine in that
ar hymn?"
Middletown transcript., 1868-12-26
Buckxvheat Cakes.

Hark Hark Hark
IT'S the sound Of the breakfast bell;
The tinkle we love so well
For it tells of the cakes
Which Biddy bakes,
OF elegant buckwheat flour.
And we hurry to eat
Such a luscious treat,
Fit for King to devour.
The griddle she's greasin',
The cakes are in season
The savory odor's bewitching.
They're crisp and they're brown,
And we swallow them down,
As fast as they come from the kitchen.
oh }! happy are we,
As soon as we see
The smoking hot buckwheat cakes,
Right hot from the fire,
And we truly desire,
To eat them as fast as she bakes.
Middletown transcript., 1868-12-26

FLohIpA.-7A letter to Baltimore pa
per, from Monticello, says IL am per-
suaded that brighter day must soon
dawn upon Florida Things must be at
their worst, Negroes in the Legislature:
in many aja9es Of the State, a negro rfiuIIii
ming fof Congress, another as Secretary of
State, the Governor and Lieut.. Governor
each claiming to be Governor, and money
hardly circulating at all because of the
repeated failures in the cotton crep-surely
we are at the bottom, and will rise now.
We have beautiful country, and dc.
lightful climate, fertile soil, a ready ac-
cess by railroad and water to market, and
wide range of productions. Wheat does
not succeed well here; but we can raise
corn, rye, oats, sugar cane, tobacco, sweet
and Irish potatoes, cotton. besides fruits
of almost all kinds. The orange, lemon,
peach, ,graIe and pomcgranate grow finely
and many garden vegetables are raised for
market. Land is very cheap, and plenty
for sale.
Middletown transcript., 1868-12-26
Selett poetrp.
DEC EMBER.


Out in the woods the lonely trees
Toss and moan in the winter wind,
For the birds have flown far DER the seas,
And they are left behind.
Bare and cold in the twilight dun,
They pine for the light of summer ewes,
When the golden rays of the setting sun
Shone through their golden leaves.
Far away o'er the purple hills
The moon is climbing to the skies,
And faint gleam over the water thrills,
Where her trembling radiance lies.
The flowers are dead and the birds are flown,
And the wind blows cold from the chilly sea,
And think of the days that are dead and gone
That will never come back to me.
But the flowers will bloom again in spring,
And the birds fly home from over the seas,
And, nestled in sweet green leaves will sing
All day to the happy trees.
And somewhere, deep in this heart of mine,'
Under the sorrow, and car eand pain,
Waiting for April suns to shine,
For April clouds to rain,
Lies little Hope, like a violet,
Ready to bloom with the other flowers;
And over the grave Of my old regret
Springs dream of brighter hours.
Middletown transcript., 1868-12-26

Rockhill & Wilson, at the Great Brown Stone
Clothing Hall, COB and COS, Chestnut Street,
Philadelphia, have poetaster, to sing of the ex-
cellence of their Clothing; and he sometimes
sings of other themes. Remembering that the in
ner man needs lining as well as the aaler man
a covering, he thinks there is no material better
suited TO the purpose than buckwheat cakes
Hear him:
Middletown transcript., 1868-12-26

In New York there is lad provcrbal
as being bad speller. The school that
he attends has among its many rules and
regulations one that requires the scholars
to spell column in the dictionary, and
give the meanings, just as the school opens;
well this lad was foot of the class. The
next day the first word was admittance.
The lad was walking around sightseeing,
when his eye fell upon circus bill, which,
among other inducements to draw a crowd,
had "adnittance twenty-five cents-nig-
gers and children half-price." He spelled
the word, and reccollecting it was the first
in his to-morrows lesson, learned it "by
heart" Next day, strange to say, the
head boy missed, and the next, and the
next, and so on, until it came to our par
ticular friend, who was in the mean time
all excitement with the hope of getting
head, being sanguine that he was right.
Here's the result:
Teacher.-Boy at the foot spell admit
tance.
Boy-Ad-mit-tance, admittance.
Teacher-Give the definition.
Boy.-Twenty-ive cents-niggers and
children half-price.
Middletown transcript., 1868-12-26

A BOYS COMPOSITION. Shrimp
has favored the public with another COM
position which bears evidence Of merit
He will some day make logioian, if he
perseveres:
Ma is my mother. I am her son. Mas
name is Mrs, Shrimp; she is the wife of
Mr.. Shrimp, and Mr.. Shrimp is her hus-
band. Pa is my father. My name is
John George Washington Shrimp. There
fore, pas name is Shrimp too; and so is
mas.
My ma has ma. She is my grandma.
She is mother-in-law to my pa. My pa
says mother-in-laws ought to be vetoed.
like my grandma batter than pa does. She
brings me ten cent tmps and o'ivars
She don't bring any to pa. Maybe that's
why he don't like her.
Middletown transcript., 1868-12-26

A Texan negro was overheard making
an honorable apology to another in this
wise: 81 jes said, Sambo, dat you lied /;
dat is. jes said dat you lied. Den. Jim
told me you said you'd kill me, sh''I said
if you killed me I'd kill you,'"' Tho cxpla-
nation was satisfactory. - 'AW
Middletown transcript., 1868-12-26

CoULDN'T SUDsoRIDE.-A pair of those
entertaining ladies', who seem to carry on
so large business in the way of procur-
ing subscriptions for new works, SO sweet
ly un-get-rid-a-ble, called a short time
since at the Office of young lawyer for
the purpose of getting him to subscribe.
"Indeed ladies'" said he, ''the partner
ship of which am an humble member has
lately been so imprudent as to issue new
work of their own, which, in consequence
of the enormous expense, attending its il
lustration, embellishments, &c. has COM
plctely crippled us"
",Then perhaps" replied the fair can
vassers, "we could procure you some sub
scribers. What do you call your work.
"Well, we haye not fully determined as
yet; but guess I'll let my wife have her
own way, and call it after &e-Charles
Henry"