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Our Cheap CARPETS! Our Cheap Carpets!
Cheapest Carpets in Philadelphia

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Who his not heard Of EVANS CHEAP CARPET
STORE: Whcr. you buy much lower than at any
other estublishp and rely all gpus being jnst
then Gre sprrat aJ Our stock this season is usually
lar e. comprising the styles oi Bl;I s. ELS ely,
INGRAM. LIST and STAIR CARPETS, OIL CLOTHS,
WRITINGS AMI WINDOW SHADES. Elegant Irish
r:i>scs yarl wide. from 80 to - cts equal in appear
..lcc finest goods. To all WHO want I" buy,
offer GREAT INDUCEMENTS, and guarantee to give perfect
satisfaction. Don't buy without examining elegant
ST. les ami low prices John VI. Evans,
No. BIT NORTH I'd Street,
FIRST Carpet Store above Vine ST.. opposite Wood,
sept Is l>Gy--.m PHILADELPHIA.
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give would call the public attention
to the Justly celebrated /" Wilmington City
Soap" manufactured by Moore & Bro
1t works like magic! and no good house.
keeper who has once used it, will be with
out it.
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The Proposed Road from Eikton.-The
Wilmington (Del.) Commercial of Monday
says:
We see that the Baltimore City Council
Committee has reported unfavorably on
the project of that city aiding the proposed
road from Elkton to Massey's Cross Roads.
If they were honest business men we do
not see how they could conclude other
wise. If Baltimore helps build a road at
all it will be one to tap the trunk of the
whole Peninsula system, not merely two
counties. If she wants road at all it is
short one from Elkton to Delaware juno
ton, though we do not believe such road
is needed or would be profitable if built.
The above paragraph is copied by the
Baltimore american from the Commercial,
without comment, or remark of any kind,
as if endorsing the statement. 1t is COM
mon, perhaps natural, to find the pocket
nerve acting on the optic nerve with a
power sufficient to produce partial, and
sometimes total eclipse, which may be the
case with our Wilmington neighbors, but
how the american could be guilty of such
inexcusable stupidity We are at loss to
conjecture, unless the Hall "job" is cast
ing such dark cloud over the citizens of
the Monumental" as to appal them at
the thought of investing further in internal
improvements, looking to the increase of
trade and commerce of the city. The
advice of the Commercial to tap the main
trunk at Delaware Junction, in preference
to extending a road to Masseys Cross Roads
| reads like a huge joke, when We glance at
the map of the Peninsula. By a few short
connections, which are either in progress
or contemplation, the building of a Rail
road to Massey's from Elkton, would as eff
fectually connect with the whole system Of
Peninsular Railroads, as branch from Elk
| ton to the junction, with the advantage OF
equalizing the distance between the entire
Eastern Shore and Baltimore, with that
shorter route now enjoyed by Philadelphia
and Wilmington. This is the object fol
which Baltimore is asked to contribute
toward building such road; not that Elk
ton may be connected more closely will
the Delaware Railroad. The distance
between the Eastern Shore and Baltimore
by the construction of Railroad to Mas
sey's would be about the same that it no"
is to Philadelphia, and by no other means
can that object he accomplished; and thi.
is why Baltimore should aid in building thu
road,
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PETIT JURORS.

PETIT JURORS.
Joel Reynolds,
Lewis I. Roberts,
> James A. Coulson,
Charles A. Murphy,
Edwin H. Reynolds,
Joseph Couden,
Richard D. Hall,
John McCrery,
Samuel Gillespie,
James S. Crawford,
jefferson Ramsay,
Daniel Bratton,
Edward s. Jones,
VIM. NJ. Knight,
Zimri Taylor,
A. H. Briscoe,
Alpheus Crothers, jr
VIM. J. Evans,
Victor Jackson,
VII TT
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Gold is steadily falling. On Wcdnes
day it was down to $1.265 in New York.
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;mhe gtt1l MlIht9
ELKTON, NOVEMBER 6, 1869.

70 Mr.. John C. Hindman is our regu-
hrly authorized Agent and Collector to
procure subscriptions and advertising for
The Wig.
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Miss Olive LOgan.-The lecture commit
tee have secured Miss Olive Logan to open
the course of lectures i'll the Hall on the
night of the Goth inst. Miss Logan is n
woman of genius, profound thinker, and
a finished orator; and is said, by those who
have heard her to handle the five classes of
girls, viz: the fashionable girl, the womanly
girl, the western girl and the strong minded
girl with singular grace and talent. AS
she stands in the first ranks of female
authors and orators, we predict rare
treat for our citizens, on the occasion Of
her lecture, and trust she may have crowd
ed house. Don't fail to 60 and hear her.
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Newark Female Seminary
MISSES CHAMBERLAIN, Principals.

The next Scholastic Year will commence SEPTEMBER
l.t. limited number OF Bosrlers will lie received
pa-Crculars sent application to Principal. New.
ark Delaware. July II, ls69-u
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Installation Of Oficers.-The following
is the list of Officers, of Elkton Lodge, I.
o. of Good Templars, elected and installed
for the present quarter:
For W. c. T., Anna P. Ash; w. V. T.
Rachel A. Jaquette, w. Sec, Henry P.
Lowman; W. F. S., George w. Ash; w.
T., Missouri Chick; w. NJ, George NJ.
Gilbert; W. I. G., Annie Roberts; w. O. G..
George w. Caldwell; w. A. s., Victoria
Miller; w. D. NJ, s. Rebecca Davis; W.
r. Fl. s., Joanna Sloan; W. L. II. S.,
Rachel Lockard. The following three
were elected as Trustees: John F. Chick,
F. Wallace Davis, and George w. Ash.
Jury List.-The following is the list OF
Jurors for the next term of Court, which
commences on the second Monday in De-
carnbar nayf.
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GRAND JURORS.
John L. Algard,
James Mckeown,
J. NJ. McClenahan,
George Ricketts,,
VIM. r. Freeman,
Z. w. Lockwood,
John Partridge,
Robert E. Oldham,
Samuel E. Foard,
John Vannort,
Samuel R. Carson,
Charles w. Shippers
Vim. F. Warburton,
Joseph R. Thomas,
Andrew f. Mearns,
John r. Bond,
Henry R. Carter,
John A. Thompson,
Thomas p. Hazel,
Walter Armstrong,
Robert Crothers, jr.
Henry D. Miller,
John Peach,
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Proceedings Of the School Board.-The
School Board met on Thursday last, when
the following business was transacted:
The Commissioner Of the 4th District
the Trustees of school No. in that Dis
trict in dismissing The teacher without
proper proceedings according to law. The
Commissioner not being notified of the
the whole proceedings were null and void.
The Secretary was ordered to send no
tice of the action of the Board to the Dis
trict School Board of Rock Church school.
The bills for the repairs of Grove school
house, near Zion, were referred to Com
mittee on Accounts, who reported, recon-
mending their approval, which were adopt
ed. Bills for repairs of Stone school
house, in the 9th District, were referred to
same Committee, who approved, and they
were ordered to be paid.
Messrs. Samuel Gay and E. Thompson
were appointed Trustees for Franklin
school house.
Ordered that the Treasurer pay T. P.
Hazel, Commissioner of End District,
$340.s1 for building addition to Bayard
school house, at Chesapeake city, and note
for $3.50 additional, payable one year from
date. The application of J. B. Morton,
for relief in tho matter of the school house
at Warwick was laid ON the table.
The Treasurer was ordered to pay J. p.
Wilson, Commissioner of 9th District, the
sum of $170.4 for repairs on School house
No. 2 of that District. Treasurer was
ordered to pay c. c. Brokaw 500 for the
purchase of lot of ground of DR.. Robert
Carter on which to build School house.
A resolution was passed turning over the
Academy building to the trustees of the
Academy on condition that the trustees
give their individual note for $117.20 for
one year, the trustees of the Academy to
have possession on the 18th inst, the close
Of the present quarter of the Public
Schools.
An examination of Teachers was held
at Elkton on Thursday at which several
candidates were present.
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The National Camp Meeting in Hoke's

The National Camp Meeting in Hoke's
Woods.-The Baltimore Sun has the fol-
lowing letter, written from Havre de Grace,
in regard to Il National Camp Meeting to
lie held near that place next Summer, of
which mention WAS made in Tie Wing some
weeks ago:
HAvRE DE GRACE, Oct. 26, 1869.
Our usually quiet town was thrown into
state of feverisl excitement by the an
nouncement that Darlington. two and half
miles south of here, was selected as the
seat of the National Camp Meeting for
1870, by the National Camp Meeting Com
mittee of the NJ. E. Church. AS many
hundreds of your readers arc of the Meth
odistic persuasion, and interested i'll the
National Camp Meetings, we desire, through
the columns of your journal, to give them
such information of the grounds as they
may desire to possess. ''Oakington Grove, y
or AS more commonly known in this section,
Hoke's Woods" is located Immediately
on the line of the Philadelphia, Whining
ton and Baltimore Railroad, at Darlington
station, thirty three miles from Baltimore
and sixty-five miles from Philadelphia
The grove has been leased by the Havre-
de Grace Camp Meeting Association of the
NJ. E. Church, and contains about eighty
acres, at any one of the several positions
in which "canvas city can be pitched
capable of accommodating one thousand
Il, L. ~,
outdoor congregations.
The supply of water is both excellent
and abundant. A number Of living springs
in the immediate vicinity of where the can
ceaseless streams Of pure and sweet waters,
and at the southern extremity of the grounds
flows placid stream which gives the mo-
tive power to mill near by, which, in case
of necessity necessity not likely to occur
could be used for culinary and drinking
purposes. The scenery in the vicinity is
diversified and picturesque. A deep dell
and precipitous hills mark the course of the
stream, and from an eminence near the sta
ton an extended view of the Chesapeake
bay may be had.
1t is expected that this camp meeting
will be the largest religious meeting ever
held on this continent, notwithstanding the
National Committee has appointed two
other camps of like character for 1870
The proximity of the grounds to tho prin-
cipal cities of the country, its central posi-
ton to strong Methodistic population,
and its accessibility both by rail and water,
must make it the National Camp for 1870.
The Executive Committee of the Havre
de Grace Association, composed of the fol-
lowing gentlemen, Rev. NJ. L. Smyser,
John Wright and S. J. Seneca, who will
have the entire control of the temperatures
of the camp, will make ample arrangements
for the comfort of all who may attend, at
the lowest possible rates.
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Barn Burned.-The barn of Mr.. Morris
Bropan, seven miles north of Elkton, was
burned on Saturday evening last about
o'clock. Seven tons of hay and four tons
of straw were consumed with the barn.
The barn was small structure, and the
loss, we are informed, will not exceed 5000.
The fire is supposed ia have been the work
of an incendiary.
A Corpse of Engineers have been prospect
inq this week to find route for a Railroad
to connect the Pennsylvania Central with
Delaware Bay at Delaware City. We did
not ascertain the results of this investiga-
ton. The party examined the country
from Delaware City toward Newark pass
ing near Lords Factories in this county
The same corpse of Engineers made sur
vey last season, from Delaware City in the
direction of Port Deposit.
High SCHOOL, school has been opened
in one of the front rooms of the third story
of the Odd Fellows Hall, Elkton, by Rev.
~ lHoIe udo pecii q S,iSae
need for a school Of the Academic class in
Elkton since the old Academy has passed
into the hands of the Public Sschool Board.
The Public Schools not affording sufficient
facilities for pupils who have made consid-
cradle advances in education. Consequent
ly negotiations have been entered into by
several of our prominent citizens for the
restoration of the Academy building to the
Board of Trustees, on the payment of the
sum advanced by the School Board, for the
purchase of the house. This arrangement,
we believe, has been satisfactorily made,
and the Academy will again pass into the
hands of its former owners at the end of
the present quarter of the Public School.
In the mean time Mr.. Vaughan, whose
services as teacher have been obtained, has
commenced school in the room above men
toned. The school is High School, GER
tainly, at present in its elevation from the
earth, and we hope its future moral and
mental standing, will accord with its pres
ent elevated position. Parents and guar
dams who desire school of this class for
children under their charge, we would rc-
commend them to try this re-opened Insti-
turion. The card of the Principal will be
found in our advertising columns to-day.
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Sore Throat, Sudden Colds,
Coughs, dc.

Use for any of these and you will do without
it. Its valuable family medicine has induced
others to initiate and counterfeit the Pain Killer to u
great extent.
Oct g-lm. BEWARE CoUNrERPEITS.
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THE MARKETS.
CORRECTED EVERY FRIDAY.
ElktOn Markets.

SCOTS Mili's Market.
BLACK OAK BARK PER Ton $40 90
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The National Camp Meeting in HokeS
Woods.-The Baltimore Sun has the fol-
lowing letter, written from Havre de Grace,
in regard to National Camp Meeting to
he held near that place next Summer, OF
which mention WAS made in Tie Wing some
Vermont daily transcript. [volume] (St. Albans, Vt.) 1868-1870, 1869-04-28
STRANGERS Guide.

TINHE V NJ. c 4. meets every Monday evening
at their rooms over VIM, y. Smiths store,
Main Street.
Champlain Chapter No, r. A. NJ. meets the
third Wednesday evening i'll each month, at
their hall in Union block, Main Street.
Columbus Council No. |, Il. X 5. NJ. meets the
second Wednesday evening in each month, AT
their hall in Union Block.
Franklin Lodge No. 4, +. Il A. NJ, meets the
nrst Wednesday evening in each month at their
hall in Union Block, Main Street.
Englesby Lodge No. "a +. A. NJ. meets the
fourth Wednesday evening. i'll each month, at
their hall in Union Block, Main Street.
Crystal Fountain, Temple of Honor No meets
every Monday evening at their Hall III Barnes
Block, Lake Street.
St Adams Lodge No 80, l, o. OF q, T. meets
every Friday evening at their Hall in Barnes
Block, Lake Street.
Rising Sun Lodge No. l. o. of G. r, meets
very Saturday evening, at st. Adams Bay.
st. John the Baptist Benevolent Society ga
nadian) meets on the first and third "Wednesday
evening of each month at their hall over f. II .
Huntington's Store.
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NeWS UNH other Items.

~ doctor, on being solicited to con-
tribute towards enclosing and ornamen-
ting cemetery, replied coolly that in
filling it he should do his part.
The firm of Harper & Brothers, which
recently lost its oldest member, eX-May
or James Harper, has been reconstruct
Philip j. A. Harper, Fletcher Harper,
Jr., Joseph w. Harper, Jr., John w.
Harper, and Joseph Abner Harper. OF
these the first is son of James Harper,
and the last two are sons of John Har-
per. Allhave been regularly tr.ined TO
their business.
Groomsmen are going out of fashion
at weddings. So are formal wedding
receptions, the festivities taking the
form Of dinner for relatives and init
mate friends.
The last case of Incidence is that of a
mali named john Hole, who was so
lazy that, in writing his name, he sim
ply used the letter }. and then punched
hole through the paper.
A gentleman travelling on a steamer,
one day, at dinner, was making way
with large pudding close by, when he
was told by servant that it was des-
sert /:
ut matters not to me-" said he,
would eat it if it were Wilderness"
A humorous old Baptist, who thought
he was a convert from the Presbyteri-
ans, would Lever talk with his old ASSOC
ciates about the matter, saying:
"ReligiOn and medicine are fancy
articles that should never be discus
sed."
Henry Ward Beecher says on the
hal. dyeing question :" If a man will BE-
the happier for it, let him do it. If his
wife will love him better, or if she will
be. made any happier, in the name of
love let him dye. Family happiness is
a great blessing to purchase at so small o
cost as bottle of hair-dye."
Twenty thousand dollars worth of
glass, including 1000 street lamps, was
broken by the recent hail-storm at St.
Louis, Mo. Two funerals, on their way
to the cemeteries, were overtaken by the
storm, and the horses to both hearses
ran away, overturning the vehicles, and
threw both collins into the streets.
The total receipts of the New York
theaters in March were $305, 1897. Nib
los took the most-$41 ,O13, Wallack' :
s35 1902, anu Booths $50, 343.
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pAILr ARRIVAL OF STAGES AT ST. ALBANs.
From Sweetsburgh and Franklin, 700 p. III.
From Richford and Sheldon, 500 p. m.
From sheldon, ~ 90 a. m.
From Bakersfield, IL 90 a. IN.
u,ILY DEPARTURE OF STAGES FROM ST. ALbASs.
For Franklin and Sweetsburgh, 3Oa IN.
For sheldon and Richford, 80 a. M
For sheldon, 2 90 p. m.
For Bakersfield, 90 p. III.
stages call at the several hotels in town. stage
ottices at the fremont House.
CLOSING OF The MAILS.
Mail. tor New York close at 00 u. m. and Z %
y. m. ,,,, -
Mails for Boston close at D II. III. and 80 pm.
Mails for Albany and the West close at w am
Mails for Canada close at 40 am.
southern and Northern way mail close at D w
"a
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JOHN DEF BRACKErr, II gentleman
well-known to the elder class of our
cit .zens-a native of this town, has re-
signed his position as l@cal editor of the
Rutland Herald. Mr.. Brackctt, we
understand intends locating in Kansxl
City, Mo-, as senior partner of the firm
OF Bracket Bros, Druggists. Mr..
Bracket is a printer by trade, having
learned his trade in this town, but for
the last IA or Is years has been conncc-
ted more or less with the Herald estab-
lishment in one capacity or another.
We wish him an abundant success in
his new enterprise.
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WIDows.-There are living in Wal
den, in one family, three widow ladies,
their united ages being 234 years. The
eldest is Mrs. Betsey Kittredge, aged
"a, and who has been helpless invalid
for many years, but retains much of
her reasoning faculty, sight and hear
ing. Mrs. Sally Robinson, wife of the
the late Major Robinson, deceased, is
50 years of age, and for one of her years
is remarkable-attend to, and super
intending her house and farming tier
ests as also her invalid sister above
mentioned. The last of the three i;
Mrs. Mary Nutting, aged SO, who il
smart and capable, and laboring in the
family by the year.
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A COMPLAINT ABOUT OUR Posi- Or
FCE.-A "Sufferer" in EnoSburgh COM
plains in tie Messenger about the cir
regularity with which letters and pa
pers are transmitted to, and particular
ly from st. Albans," and our venerable
cotemporary very properly sympathises
with Sufferer. The st. Adams Post
Office officials plead not guilty to the
charges, and affirm that the responsible
ity of the "irregularity" lies at other
than their doors. But it is well for the
Messenger ut this time to heed all COM
plants that may be made about the
Post Office, for it is unmistak able
proof that it has deep interest in its
welfare. The Iday, it may be, is not fal
distant in the future when there will be
no occrsion for complaint. When oul
candidate-the peoples candidate
shall assume the duties Of the Office fol
which he is prominently fitted. com
plants of irregularity will cease. There
will then be no false doctrine, heresy
and schism in the world no storms o.
tempests or floods; scarcity and deartf
will disappear from the earth; and waite
will run up hill. Ought not our candi
date to succeed? Ought not the promi
ses made four or five years ago, to b.
fulfilled.
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MONT DAILY TRANSCRIPT. APRIL %. 1869.

THE GRANNY Accidentally to
Sunday last, all but three of the bodies
of the sufferers, by the late lament
able acc dent had been recovered. Those
still missing, are, Mrs. Bradford and
the little boy, survivor, has we learn,
since died from his injuries.
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N O r IC E .


rs hereby given that the books for receiving
l. subscriptions for shares of the capital
stock in the National Trust Company, charter
ed by the General Assembly OF the State OF Ver-
mont, and approved November 18th, 1868, will
be opened at the banking rooms Of the Yer
mont National Bank, in st. Adams, on Tuesday,
the 4th day OF May, 1869, and continue open
from 10 o'clock a. m. till o'clock p.m., each day
Sundays excepted for the space OF ten days,
and thereafter until one thousand shares shall
be subscribed.
The subscribers shall, at the time OF sub
scription, deposit with the Commissioners ten
dollars on each share by them subscribed
st. Adams, April ]st, 1869.
WORTH ngton G. Smith,
Bradley Barlow
George G. Hunt,
James SAKE,
Horatio N. Barber, q!
Adds q. Brainerd
Jasper Rand,
Martin A. Seymour,
Lawrence Bruinertl, Jr.
Samuel Williams.
Abner Forbes,
+. Stewart Stra na han,
John w. newton,
Guy G. Noble,
John G. Farrar,
John j. Burgess,
*t274-til1Ma George G. Smith.
Commissioners.
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To Advcrtixcrs.--The VERMONT DAILY TRANS
cnIrT has the largest circulation in st. Adams
and in Franklin County, of any daily paper, and
is on that account if no other, the best medium
Tor advertising.
Vermont daily transcript. [volume] (St. Albans, Vt.) 1868-1870, 1869-04-28
Local Items.

QUE DAILY.-Those wishing to secure
copies of our daily paper can do SO at
Merrifields and Bakers bookstores, as
we'll as Of carriers, and at the office.
Copies of our weekly paper may also be
had at these places.
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On Sunday, at noon, peddlar of tin
ware by the Fame of Squire Halves,
committed suicide, at Cowansville by
cutting his throat. The jury found a
verdict of suicide under fit of insani-
ty.
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A meeting of the Directors of the
Franklin County Agricultural and Me-
chanical Society is called to be held at
Goodspeed's Hotel, in Sheldon, Thurs
day, May 9TH, at 10 o'clock am.