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Arrivals.
RE CIDER VINEGAR, for table and
h ickling purposes, the same quality which
my 'tomers have heretofore pronounced
18th, Jst we have ever used"
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June
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SIMMONS

Sometimes the pain is in tho shoulder, and is
mistaken for rheumatism. The stomach is
affected with loss of appetite and sickness,
bowels in general costive, sometimes alternat-
and dull, heavy sensation, considerable loss of
memory, accompanied with painful sensation
of having, left undone something which ought
to have been done. Often complaining of
weakness, debility, and low spirits. Some
times some of the above symptoms attend the
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Pocket Corn Shelter.
GHELLS bushels of corn per hour. A smsll
- boy can can use them. Any lady can use
them. Weight pound. They supply want
kernel off the cob. Price, only 80.
April % J. & r. II. AGNEE
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THE GREAT THROUGH ROUTE.
CARRYING THE
United States Mail and Adams Express.
E> ag FOR THE NOETH.-Ga
s Safeas &@ RgHEEzlllsI!iERR - l.E.1s 9
NORTH CAROLINA RAILROAD in direct
IN line to Petersburg, Richmond, Portsmouth
Baltimore, Philadelphia, New York and Boston.
ALSO,
To the Northwest and West. Uia Raleigh,
Charlotte, Columbia and Bay Line. This is q
safe and expeditions route Tor Through travel.
THROUGH TICKETS sold at: u. F.,
New Orleans, Charleston Richmond, Mobile,
Montgomery, Columbia, Portsmouth, Macon,
Indianapolis, Jacksonville, Charlotte, Augusta,
Petersburg, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Atlanta,
Salisbury, ARE COOP ON THIS ROUTE. st. Louis,
The North Carolina Railroad connects with
the Wilmington and Weldon Railroad. Raleigh
and CASTOR Railroad, Richmond and Danville
Railroad, Western North Carolina Railroad,
Charlotte and South Carolina Railroad.
The comfort Of passengers consulted-their
baggage checked through and duly cared fer.
ELEGANT COACHES
AND PALACE SLEEPING CARS
Attached. Good water; no ferry nor trestle-
works, and the entire management OF the Road
80 az to secure q Safe, Agreeable and QUICK
travel. ALBERT JOHNSON,
April 30Amo Superintendent.
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Gibbes & Thomas, Real Estate Agents,
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" ERAL LAND AGENTS. Will buy and sell
Lands, and other property, on commission. No
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JAMES G.. GIBBES,
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Jan 10 WADE HAMPTON GIBBES.
The Reynolds Patent Plow.
HAVING made arrangements with Messrs
LII VIM. Glaze & Co. for tho manufacture and
exclusive sale of this justly celebrated PLOW,
we are prepared to offer them to the country
on good terms Good tools will always be found
good investment.
Feb 80 FISHER. LOWRANCE & FISHER.
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The symptoms
Of Liver Com
|plaint ARE I'M
|easiness q n d
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9kidneys, fever,
inerv o u 8 n o 8 o /,
achills, diseases
lof the skin, inn
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lbut the Liver is
generally the or
lgan most in
lvolved. G ur O
itbo Tivar with
The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1869-03-18

idea of what was coming; 1 thought Bob
wanted you instead of Lib"
you're all the worse gump for that" ,"
said she; "and for fear you can't see
something else in time, I'll tell you now
that I'm engaged to Mr.. Bayne."
l thought the marrying days of the year
had come, and went off to my room to
indulge in delightful dream of my own
marriage, in the far-off future, with Mag
gle Cranston.
Five years have passed since then.
Clara and Lizzie got married, of course,
and stood up at their weddings. Clara
keeps house. Bob and Lizzie still live at
our house, and father insists that they al
ways shall.
IdO not think Jim Bayne so stupid as
once did. Three years in the fish and oil
business, as junior member of the firm of
Martin & Son, have damaged my poetic
enthusiasm, while Bayne's seems, some
how or other, on the increase.
/ have not married Maggie Cranston. In
fact, do not know her. We did not keep
up our acquaintance long after she left the
boarding-s g-school where she was when | so
fully expected to marry her, and thought
/ could not get along without her.
l am still youthful bachelor, awaiting
an opportunity to quarrel with some
young lady, as Bob Carver did with our
Lizzie; but l don't want any nineteen
Year-old brothers on hand at the reconcil-
iatiOn.
The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1869-03-18
Penalty Of Too Much Brain Work.

No man can do head-work faithfully for
more than four or five or six hours. If
that time is exceeded, all the phosphorus
is carried off, and the man becomes
irritable, broken down, and has softening
of the brain. / have seen this overwork
in lawyers, doctors, clergymen and mer-
chants, who have worked the brain for ten
hours They have dropped under the
burden. You cannot violate the law of
GOD with impunity. Sir Walter Scott did
a large amount of brain work in his day,
but he did not overwork himself In his
latter days, however, he became pecuni-
arily embarrassed, and resorted to his liter
ary pursuits to save himself; but he
worked too hard and completely broke
himself down. One of the best scholars |
ever knew broke himself down in his
younger days, but he lived on to seventy,
though he could only work some four
hours day. After these hours he en-
gagged in vigorous exercises to keep him
out Of the house as much as possible, and
he continued one of the best professors in
the country.-Erchdnle
The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1869-03-18

be panied to hear, at the same time, that
it has been converted into a shower bath
A prominent metropolitan hotel keeper
is already turning a speculative eye
towards the deep 70 Semitic Valley of
California, which he foresees is destined to
become the fashionable watering place of
this continent. 1t has falls rivaling Mag
ara and such virtues in the way of scenery
and climate that our long-headed land
lord shifts great things in the not very dis
tant future.
Horace Greeley, whom we met in Print
ing House Square the other day, is said to
be developing new and strange traits, in
his old age, which both friends and ene-
mics will regard with something of inter-
est or sympathy. His growing petuiance
is leading him into world of trouble and
his bland, tranquil, almost child like face
is beginning to wrinkle up in a most un-
becoming manner. Mr.. Greeley's life, even
according to his own estimate of it, has
been a grand success; and we write this
in ignorance of what the new Administra-
tion is going to do for him-if anything !;
but to read his features as we recently be-
held them, one must come inevitably to
the conclusion that he was sorrowful
and disappointed man. What has wrought
this miraculous change in our veteran
journalist, whether the outward attraction
is evidence of an inward revolution, and
whether it be only temporary or the re-
suit of illness--are questions we cannot
answer. In this regard we speak alone
from what we saw. 1t comes to us from
others, who know him better than we can
claim to, that the old mans temper is COM
pletely broken, and that he occasional ex-
hibits other and alarming symptoms of in
cipient mental decay.
Great preparations are making through
out this city to celebrated ST. Patrick day
in an unusually brilliant and impressive
manner, some fifty Irish temperance socie
ties being announced as participants there
in. Every one possessing any knowledge
of New York, or who has CHANGED to wit
ness the finale of one of these Celtic festi-
walls in the metropolis, must be aware that
strict temperance is not q feature of the
occasion, and can therefore Judge how inn
posing in numbers this demonstration is
to be, when so small division as its cold
water drinkers is estimated at fifty full So
cieties.
There is trouble in Wall street, and the
bears in that region give evidence, by
their expectant growls, that some down
ward tendency of the money market is at
hand.
Our amusement world is busy and brill
liant; but "gossip of the green-rooms !"
must lay over for the present
WILD EDGERToN
The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1869-03-18
How Candies are Made.

WOULDN'T you like to go with me to
that mysterious land of sweets, where all
the candy comes from?
I suppose you imagine it to be some ex-
quisite, fairy-like place, where little elves
measure, cOncoct, mix, stir up and roll out
the various kinds of bon-bons which you
buy in nice boxes. No such thing; on the
contrary, it is commonplace-lookin
brown building that I shall take you into.
And instead of fairies, you will see big
men with their sleeves rolled up, working
in huge cellars, before immense furnaces,
where the delicious sweets are melted and
mixed.
Think of seeing a brawny-armed man
rolling "chunk" of soft candy into a
stick, two or three feet long, ornamenting
it with stripes of different colored candy,
and at last cutting it into lengths to sell
for penny.
1t is wonderful how much work. is ex-
pended on little things. Gum drops and
cordial drops of various kinds are all
formed in moulds. Perhaps you have
wondered how the delicious drop of pear
or pineapple essence gets into the center
Of a cordial drop. 1t is thus: When the
sugar is beautiful, clear liquid, like water,
and ready to come up, they mix with it
some of the essence, and pour it into the
moulds. The sugar at once CrytalllzcS be-
comes hard and white; the essence does
not crystalize, but remains in the middle
of the sugar crystal
Flat candies, like hearts, crosses, &c,
are cut out of thin sugar dough, as you
have seen biscuit cut from flour dough.
Some kinds are pressed into shape by roll
ers with figures or words On them, which
figures of course are impressed upon the
candy.
1t takes many men to make the candies
that are sold in this one building, and it
takes thirty-five girls to sell them. You
would fancy that good many choice
sweets would find their way between the
lips of these thirty five girls; bnt their
employer is wise man, and he takes pains
to cure his clerks of that desire, the first
thing. This is how he does it. When a
new clerk comes to him, he gives her cor
dial leave to eat as much as she wishes.
Well, girls are all fond of sweets, and the
new hand is sure to stuff herself to such
an extent as to make herself sick; and
after that day she wants no more candy.
Girls sometimes remain five or six years
in the house. and never tasted sugar
plum. The result seems incredible, but it
has been proved by years of experience.
In Paris, where the most delightful bon
bons are made, they are put into exquisite
little baskets, or boxes, lined with satin,
and tied with delicate ribbon, or gar
landed with flowers. In fact, the casket
is beautiful, as the contents are delicious.
-Uice 1honse, in Our Boys and Girls.
The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1869-03-18
Nebraska Life.

4 CITIZEN of Nebraska thus posts an
Eastern correspondent who speared va
riety Of questions as TO the territory and
life there:
"What kind of a country do you live
in ?"
MIXED and extensive. 1t is made up
principally of land and water"
"What kind of weather."
"Long spells of weather are frequent.
Our sunshine comes off principally dur
ing the day time"
"Have you plenty of water-and how
got?"
"a gooed deal of water scattered about,
and generally got in pals and whisky"
as it hard?"
"Rather so, when you have to go half a
mile and then wade in mud knee deep to
get it."
"What kind of buildings?"
"Allegoric, Ionic, anti baloric, log and
slabs. The buildings are chiefly out of
doors, and SO low between joints that the
chimueys all stick out through the roof"
"What kind of society?"
"Good, bad, hateful, indifferent and
mixed"
"Any aristocracy?"
"Nary one."
What do your people do for living
mostly?"
"Some work, some laze around, ones a
shrewd business manager, and several
drink whisky"
ais it cheap living there?"
"Only five cents glass, and the water
thrown in."
"Any taste for music?"
"StrOng. Buzz and buck saws in the
day time, and wolfhowling and cat-fight-
ing nights"
"Any pianos there?"
"No. but we have several cow-bells,
and tin-pan in every family"
"What could genteel family in mod
crate circumstances do for living ?"
"Work, shave notes, fish, hunt, steal
or if pinched, buy and sell town prop
ertv ~
The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1869-03-18
lis mothers neat morning-wrapper

his mothers neat morning If
this process is stopped, he shows the
strength of his lungs in violent protests,
which so alarm the poor woman for the
character OF the family, that she is forced to
compromise with him by letting him have
bright pin cushion, or her darling gold
watch, or some other generally forbidden
object to console him. This, of course, he
splashes into the water forthwith, and
fights her if she attempts to take it away :
for Trott is a genuine Red Republican in
the doctrine of his own right to have his
own way. Then he follows her up through
the day, knowing exactly when and where
to put himselfin her way, in fulfillment of
his important mission of perfecting her in
patience. If she is going up stairs with
BABY In her arms, TrOtt catches her about
the knees or hangs on to her gown behind.
with most persistent affection
In the kitchen, if she be experimenting
verdant Erin in the preparation of some
mysterious dish, Trott must be there, and
Trott must help. With infinite fussiDg aud
tiptoe efforts. he pulls over on his head a
pan of syrup-and the consequences of
this movement all our female friends see
without words.
Is there company to dinner, and no des-
sert, and stupid Biddy utterly unable to
compass the difficulties of the boiled GUS
tard, then mamma is to the fore, and Trott
also. Just at that critical moment-the
moment of projection-a loud scream from
Trott announces that he has fallen head
first into the rain water butt The custard
is spoiled, but the precious darling Trott
is saved, and wiped up, and comes out
fresh and glowing, to proclaim to his de-
lighted admirers that he still lives.
Thus much on Trott's energy and indus
try, but who shall describe the bound
less versatility ssof his genius ?-AAd1atic
M0nthLu.
The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1869-03-18
Bedrooms.

As ONE-THIRD of our existence is spent
in our chambers, in the unconscious hap
piness of sleep, ard as good health is i'm
possible without the habitual breathing
of althy atmosphere, the importance
of inhaling pure air is self-evident No
sleep can be sound and healthful unless
the person is comfortably warm; and
many a man who has gone TO bed in
health has awakened with mortal mala
dy, or one involving lifelong suffering,
by having been exposed to draft of air
upon some part of the body while asleep,
either from an open door, an open win
dow, broken pane, or an unstopped
crevice.
Three things, then, are indispensable to
the healthfulness of a bed-chamber; we
must be comfortably warm, must not be
exposed to drafts of air, and must be sup
piled with a pure air, not very cold. n
great deal has been written about sleep
ing with windows sky-high, so as to let
in all out of doors; none but mOnoma-
MACS or born fools write thus; we know
that many persons have met their deaths
by means Of an open window exposing
them to sudden change in the weather
during the night, and certainly the safe
side is the best.
In cold weather there should be fire in
an open fireplace all night, and air enough
will come in at the crevices OF the doors
and windows to create a current, driving
the bad air up the chimney. In summer,
a lamp or candle may be burned standing
in the fireplace, unless the door of the hall
is left open; but as most persons, at least
in cities, do not feel safe to sleep with an
open door, the lamp is a good substitute.
A window may be hoisted, but there are
comparatively so few nights during the
year to make it safe TO do so, that the fire
or open inner door is preferable. There
is no advantage liz going TO bed or un-
dressing in cold room all invalids and
sedentary persons should undress, sleep
and arise in room not lower tnan Hity
degrees; and if it was seventy While RS
ing. so much the better. The old, the
sedentary and the sickly should sleep on
feather beds in cold weather If they sleep
on mattresses, il often requires so much
bed clothing TO keep them comfortably
warm that it oppresses the breathing, and
so confines the foul air above the bed as
to make them restless. In a close room,
the first out-breathing contaminstes the
whole volume of air in the apartment, ana
this will 60 on till at last there is not
enough pure air 10 sustain LIE, and the
man dies; but when the hot air comes In
at the ceiling it forces the bad air to the
floor, so that if holes are open in the floor
or around the base board, and the floor Is
furred, this bad air escapes in that direc-
tion, heating the floor in its passage out.
ward, thus effectually preventing cold
floors, which causes cold feet, making our
wives and daughters cross, and enrlchlng
the doctor and apothecsry.-DT.H Hall.
The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1869-03-18
Little Captain TrOtt.
by HARRIET BEECHER STOWE.


WE think that nobody can refuse to
Captain Trott the award of industry and
energy. He is energy ITSELF He believes
in early rising, and, like all others who
practice this severe virtue, is of opinion
that it is sin for anybody to sleep after
he is awake. Therefore he commences to
whistle and crow, and pick open the eyes
of papa and mamma with his fat fingers,
long before Aurora crimsons the East"
as the poet says. For those hapless sim
ners who love the dear iniquity of morn
ing maps, Trott has no more mercy than
modern reformer; and, like modern re-
former, he makes no exceptions for cir
cumstances. If he is wideawake and re-
freshed, it makes no difference to him that
mamma was up half dozen times the
night before to warm his milk and per-
form other handmaid offices for his lord
ship; or that papa wss late at his office
and did not get asleep till twelve o'clock.
Up they must get; laziness is not 10 be in
dulged morning maps arc an abomlna-
ton to his soul; and he wants bis break
fast at the quickest conceivable moment,
that he may enter on the duty of the day.
This duty may be briefly defined as the
process of cultivating the heavenly virtue
of patience in the mind of his mother and
of the family and community generally.
He commences the serious avocations OF
the day after a shower of kisses, adorned
by fleeting dimples and sparkling glances
While mamma is hastily dressing, he slyly
upsets the wash-piteber on the carpet, and
sits a pleased spectator of the instant run.
ming and fussing which is the result. Ii
there is box Of charcoal tooth-powder
within reach, he now contrives to force
that open and scatter its contents over his
nightgown and the carpet, thus still further
increasing the confusion. Ii he is scolded,
he Immediately falls on his mothers neck,
and smothers her with sooty kisses. While
sponge, and splashipg the water all over
The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1869-03-18
VOLUME XIV.
poetrp.
BE1U7TFUL HANDS.

Such beautiful. beautiful hands,
THEY'RE neither white nor small:
And YOU. know, would scarcely think
That they were fair at ali.
I've looked on hanGs whose form and hue
sculptor's dream might be:
Yet are these aged. wrinkled hands
Most beautiful to me.
Such beautiful, beautiful hands!
Though heart were weary end sad;
These patient hands kept toiling on,
That children might be glad.
/ almost weep. as looking back
To childhOod's distant day.
think how these hands rested not,
When mine were at their play.
Such beautiful, beautiful hands
They're growing feeble now;
For time and pain have left their Work
On hand and heart. and brow.
Alas alas the nearing time,
And the sad, sad day to me,
When meath the daisies, ont Of sight,
These hands will folded be.
But oh beyond this shadow lamp,
Where all is bright and fair.
i know full we'll these dear old hands
Will palms of victory bear.
Where crystal streams. through endless years
Flow over golden sands,
And where the old grow young again,
Ill clasp my mothers hands.
The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-12-20

dred in gold we're allowed him for expenses.
Six hundred dollars is triHe, Of course, and
it is beneath the dignity of Congress TO rem
der such triAing outlays in the future unno-
cessary. Yet we fail to see what good thero
is in maintaining an expensive legation at
Paris if it is necessary to employ special
agent to patch up our postal treaties whom
ever they need patching up. Postal treaties,
we are told, are always negotiated by speci'
agents. but that does not mend the matter.
If it is beneath the dignity of an Envoy EH-
traordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to
negotiate postal treaty, it might be well to
do away with such high fsnctionaries and
employ special agents for everything. They
would not often be required, as far as we can
discover. This six hundred dollar affair is
one of the small sins to which Congress
closes its eyes; but, unless a beginning is
made at the little end, there is no prospect OF a
Wholesale repentance of the more imposing
transgressions of our lawmakers.
The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-12-20

A QUESTION OF SUsCEPTIBmIT1Es. The
London Times, in discussing the subject of a
reopening of negotiations on the Alabama
claims issue, naively remarks that English
men have susceptibilities as well as Ameri-
cans" 1t would not be amiss if our cousins
would remember that Americans have suscep-
tibilities as well as Englishmen. If the
whole thing is to hinge on susceptibilities,
let their recognition be reciprocal