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DIsISFECTING AGENT.

Common copperas, which costs but three
cents per pound, is perhaps one of the most
efficient and economical disinfecting agents
known. 1.-two pounds Of copperas be dis
solved in ten quarts of boiling water, and
the solution poured into cutters, sinks, cess
pools, and other places where filth necessa-
ri'y aecumulates, its deodorising power will
become speedily and convincingly apparent.
| advise every housekeeper to provide a
quantity Of The article, and keep it constant
Iy on hand, to be ased when wanted. The
unpleasant odor emaaatiug from the barn
yard, and other places where manure is
stored or kept during the hot weather, or
dinarily experienced during the verual and
summer months, is speedily neutralized by
q slight sprinkling Of this solution, as well
as the extremely unpleasant smell engen-
dered by desaying animal and vegetable sub
stance in cellars and ont houses, and which
it is frequently found difficult to prevent.
Copperas Is also an excellent manure. 1t
acts as an absorbent and tcer Of the gaseous
and volatile products Of decomposition, and
thus becomes an efficient medium Of their
transportation to the fields where they are
required to give energy to vegetable life.
And here permit me 70 mention a fewothel
Important facts 10 connection with this sub
jcct Sulphuric acid-an0ther cheap arti-
cle which Ike coPpsras, may be obtained
Of the druggists in any desirable quantity,
Is also most valuable article for this pur-
pasa FUSED in dilute state, and spriuk
led over the floors Of stables and other build
iUes where animals are kept, it viii in a
short time disinfeet the same Of al nauseous
and unpleasant odors, and render the at
mosphere perfectly pure and sweet Like
copperas, it Is also good manure. Anoth-
er article Of great efficiency IS found by slak-
ing quick lime to a thick, plastic, mush con
sistence, with water saturated with salt
This is what may be properly called domes-
tic chloride Of lime, being in every respect
similar to, if not strictly identical with the
chloride Of lime found at the shops, al
though it comes at less than ona-twentieth
the cost
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THE SICK CHAMBER.

As this is the season Of contagious dis
eases, a remark of caution to those visiting
sick rooms may not be out of place. It is
a simple matter to preserve health, pro-
yided VIC understand the plain principles
Of nature. In these hot days, many of US.
when called to visit sick friend, are apt
to rush to the chamber with imprudeHt
haste, and consequently enter it in a yio-
lent perspiration. This should be partieu
larly avoided, for if the body is heated
when you enter the room filed with the
unwholesoue odors of disease, the moment
it becomes cold it is most likely to alb
sorb the infection, thus adding to the
spread of the contagion. Consult prudence
when you visit the sick chamber, and enter
it only when the system, mental and ply
seal, is free from unnatural excitement.
And remember, that q. person laboring un-
der any contagious complaint should not
be visited with an empty stomach, for at
sach tiros there is an exhaustion about
the physical nature which contributes 20
the more ready absorption Of disease. Il
you stand between fire and diseas.d
person, the danger is greater than under
other circumstances, because the heat Of
the Ere draws the infectious vapor in that
direction, and the system, from the force Of
concentration, becomes more easily i'm
pregnated with it. These directions are
simple, and their observance may prove
highly beneficial to those who are art to
act with imprudeuce, because they give
but little if any thought to the question
that 50 nearly affects them
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i want 4 paper that has long stories in
it, said young lady; and she added, Il
don't want a paper for anything else. !"
Poor girl much to be pitiedi and pitifsl
appearance she will make through life, at
the present rate. She wants nothing seri-
Gus, no acquaintance with the history Of her
times, nothing Intellectual; nothing but
newspaper novels
Empty heads they must &c that can find
room every week for some ten columns of a
sham story Yet these are the heads for
which the weekly press tolls and groans,
throwing off by the ten thousands its sheets
of shallow, insipid, and disgusting fiction;
and for this an amount of money is paid
which a sound literature utterly fails to com
mand. Fathers and mothers buy this vile
trash for their sons and daughters, and so
ministers to their ignorance and destitution
Of all good taste and fitness for hfe's duties
Doubtless the periodical press does more
than any other one instrumentality TO de
eide tie opinions, habits of thought, and
general character Of the age, A family will
very soon begin to show sympathy with
its weekly paper, and parent and children
viii soon begin assimilating to it in sentiment
and feeling; and as families are, so is the
community at large Blind and stupid,
therefore, yea, worse, are those who toler-
ate in their houses a class of papers which
are made up of the writings of silly, igno-
rant scribblers, who would be ''at the foot
in the town school Of good morals. Such
are teachers Of half of the generation.
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OPINION OF BUTLER Is MEM or
LEANS.

Russell writes to the Boston TsareHr
that when in New Orleans recently be went
to see the canals and drains which General
Butler ordered dug when he kept the pesti
lential yellow fever out Of the city. He
says
We found them partially filed with filthy
mud, while the TOP Of the black water was
covered with a thick scum Of yellow blue
color. The stencil from them was nearly
sufocating, and we made haste to get on
the windward side, to avoid a retreat toward
the city. The city is on marsh that is
lower than the river. and stagnant water
would stand herezt any time Of the year,
making it sickly if there were no other ag-
gravatiug causes. But when the oifal and
filth Of the city is carelessly thrown into
these fever breeding sloughs and left to de-
compose, the effect is terrible. One Of the
most rabid rebels We have met in the South
went with US to visit the suburbs, and al
though he said all the bad things and told
all the lies be could get into the hour we
we're with him, about General Butler, yet
when we asked why the city was not kept
as neat, and those drains as clean as they
were during the military rule of General
Butler, he expressed his idea of the incom.
potency Of the city government in very
strong terms.
j heartily wish lie vas hack here, - said
he, to pull these city officials over the
Goals. Why, the only healthy year this city
ever saw was when he was here to make
these lazy fellows toe the mark As much
as ! hate him wish he was back, and would
vote for him IN a minute
Il hardly think be would run well for
Mayor, said we, iokiDgIy.
Yes, he would, though, said he The
people would all vote for him just to spite
the present iucompetents
Later 10 the day, after we had returned to
the Saint Charles Hotel, we had some con
versation with another hater Of Butler, and
when We referred to the recent action of the
Legislature in licensing gambling houses
lottery schemes, and such places, he ex-
claimed
Well, after all is said, Butler did one
good thing for the city in suppressing crime.
Iou may not believe 1t, sir, but he renoya,
ted this city, aud a rowdy dared not stay
here. Really wish he could be in COM
mand here long enough to clean out these
gambling dens.
So it was eEeryRLea We went. Men
cursed Butler, wished him all manner Of
evil; wanted to fight US for refusing to see it
in tha. Eght yet each admitted that he
wished the General was back to summarily
carc soma evil they hated. Bat no tTo
agreed on the same thing.
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poetrg.
From Packards Monthly, FOR August.
THE REAPERs.
By xAruAY D. uRxER.


Billows Of shadow and brightness feet
Over the seas Of yellowing wheat,
With ste;dier glow where the white mool
rests
On the fallen glory Of golden cFests
Whilea liveGer hue, as the warm South blows
With wave on wave to the orchard flows.
Far 10 the right, a brown-armed row.
I see the stalwart reapers go
Their shoulders rising and falling free,
Like swimmers thar sportin q sumner sea-
While here and there. a scythe-biade's blaze
Dips like a dolphin, and round them plays
And the jocuud shout Of the Harvest Home
Floats, mellow and deep, from the jasperfoam
Straight to the verge Of our shaded pa;h,
In regular windrews sweeps the swaih
Far behind It stretches away,
Pinned at the sides by tawny spray,
Aud opening, lengihening on to US,
Like the Red Sea path Of the Exodus.
Through the allowing waves, as the gray
boards reel,
Faster and fuller nos swings the steel,
With fiery flash, as the suubeams writhe
From tip to hasp of the sweeping scythe.
There, following, is the sheaf piled vain,
With the s.eeds neck deep IN the golden grain
Aud now, to breathe from their task-worl
sore,
The dripping toilers have reached the shore
But cooling draught from the bubblinl
spring.
A jest, a laugh and some bantering,
Brown foreheads brushed Of the SHINING
sweat,
Like jewels Of honor there proudly SET,
And then, with their backs to the shaven lea
Another plunge IN the amber sea.
4 lazy music perTades the air,
From thicket, and meadow, and near parterre
As if, the leaf coverts and flowers among,
The sleepy soul of the sunshine sung.
From The yelvety verge OF this daring dell
Luxurious languors softly swell,
To lull the spirit and WOO the sense
To day dream, slolh and Incidence.
But sweeter, pleasanter far to me
Than wind, or bird, or droning bee,
That lusty shout, so cherry and bHthe,
That ringing sound of the whetting. scythe
1t speaks Of laureIs nobly won
BY the good strong arm in the good strong
sun
OF energies, heavenly seconded,
To wrest from earth's bosom the boon o.
bread
For wife and little ones-ehafity-
And the hungry myriads over the sea
It sings a song, and an echo springs
Worldwide and clear, as the scytheblad,
rings,
Telling Of man and his dignity,
His hope to be noble, his right to be free
Ofthe God like power in his bosom unfurled
Ofthe brawn and body and soul Of the world
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We have often thoughtit remarkable that
business men could be so blind to their own
interests as to fail to use the commonest and
most ordinary means for the advancement
Of their different pursuits. OF course we
refer to newspaper advertising. This is no
new idea, born of our connection with the
press, and selfish in its nature, We enter
tanned precisely the same view years ago,
aud regarded that policy as narrow minded
in the extreme which refused to invest a
few dollars that hundreds might be real
lied, or higgle at the price Of an advertise
ment and conclude that the expense might
be avoided. No sane man now a-days pre-
tends to deny the utility and advantage Of
newspaper advertising. all experience and
observation proves that, almost without ex-
eeption, the mon who have largely realized
money and become wealthy through trade
and business, are the men who advertised
the most. 1t is unnecessary 10 cite IN
stances. You can scarcely put your finger
upon the name Of successful merchant or
or man Of business in the United States,
who is not a living illustration Of this fact.
We know that many Of our business men
here regard it as useless to advertise in a
community Ike this It's mistaken idea
however. The necessity is just as great in
proportion here as anywhere else. It viii
be found that the most liberal advertisers
here are most successful in business, ard
realize the greatest profits.
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SATURDAY NIGHT.-Somebody gets of
the following beautiful paragraph on the
closing night Of the week There is a
volume Of truth and sense in IT.
Saturday night makes people human,
sets their hearts to beating softly, as they
used to do before the world turned them
into war drums and Jared them to pieces
with tattoos. The ledger closes with a
clash; the iron -doorcd vaults come 10 with
a baag. Up GO the shutters with viii,
click goes the ley in the lock. L is Sat
urday night, and business br5athes free
again. Homeward, ho The doc. that has
been ajar al week gently closes behind him,
the world il all shut out. Shut ouG Shut
in rather Here are his treasures after al,
ard not in the vault, ana not 10 the book
save the record in the Old family bible-and
not in the bank. Msy he you aye bachelor,
frosty and forty Then poav fellow. sae-
urday night is nothing to you just IS yeu
are nothjug to any body Get wife, blue
eyed or black eyed. but above all, true eyed;
get a little home, no matter how little, SOFA
Just to hold two, or two and half aud then
get the two, or two and half in it, Of a sas-
urday night, and then read this paragraph
b. the light Of your wifs's eyes, AMI thsEi,
God and take courage.
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whole legislation of the country to their
oEn advantage, aud drive poverty, rags
and ignorance into the Pacific Ocean. If
they would learn wisdom in the National
Labor Conventions and not sell their
votes to political tsicksters, system Of
Finance, Trade and Commerce, and Go
operation could soon be established that
would secure the rights Of Labor and put
an end to the concentration Of wealth in the
hands of the few.
Labor holds the ballot now, let it learn
ho~ to use it. Educated women kno8
how to use ituow, let them have it.-Rg-
olttioa
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nxcHANeE HorEL.

II Z II A Il Q Z =.
II HUNTING DON, PA.
Tais Old establishment having been leased by
J. MORRISON, formerly proprietor 0f the Nor
risog House, has been entirely renovated and re-
furnished asd supplied Eiih az the modern i'm
provsmeuts ana eonyeBisnces necessary 10 a first
class Hotel
The dining room has been removed TO the first
Aoor ard is now spaciOus and airy, and the cham
5ers are all well ventilated, and the proprietor
win endeayor TO make his guests perfectly at
home ADDRESS, J. MORRISON,
EXCHANGE H0TEL,
sIju.yf Huntingdon, Pa.
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WASHINGTON HOTEL.

retaken BY the subscriber, is now open for the re-
ceptiou o7 visitors and hearders. The rooms arc
large, wei ventilated and comfortably furnished.
The table viii always be supplied with the best
the Il arket can aTagd. The Bar is stocked with
the choices. haaors. IN short, Is Is my purpose
20 keep a FIRST. CLASS HOTEL. Thanking
the public for past faYGrs, I respectfully solicit
renewal os their patronage.
\. B. Hacks win run constantly between the
i 0tel and he Springs.
mayl7, 69.iy WM. DIBERT, Prop'r.
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CURIOUS PROPERTY OF Iron In 1850,
Mr. Marsh, an able chemist of the royal ar
sena', England, discovered that it is inyari-
able with iron which has remained oonsid-
orable time under water, when reduced to
small grains or an impalpable powder, to
become Ied-hot, and ignite any substance
with which it comes in contact. This he
found by scraping some corroded metal from
gun, which ignited the paper containing
it, and burnt hole in his pocket The
knowledge Of this fact Is of immense impor-
tance. asst may account for many spontane-
Gus fires and explosions, the origin Of which
has not been traced 4 piece of rusty iron,
brought in contact with a bale Of cotton in a
warehouse or on shiphoarl. may occasion
extensive conaasraiious and the loss OF ma
ny lives The tendency Of moistened parti-
clea Of iron to ignite was discogeredb by the
French chemist, Lemafy, as far back as
i6To
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PAT AND TIIE P0sr-oFFrrE
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satisfied othcal selzing and shuia'ng pie
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God has bestowed uroa Us. that have in
themselves. no railty trait. and show an es-
sen,ial livineness Music is one Of these
which seems as if it were born Of death. but
fingers with us from the gates Of heaven !,
music. which breathes over the gross or sad
or doubling heart, to inspire it with a con
sciousness of its own mysterious afinities,
and TO touch the chords OF It's unsuspectea'
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that OF foEefz' Winch, though born o. eartn'
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MAGAZINES following Magazines for
1sl sale at the Inquirer Book Store: ALLAN
TIC MONTHLY, PUTNAM'S MONTHLY
LIpPINcOTTS, GALAXY, PETERSON, GO
DEY, MD'N. DEMOREsTs, FRANK LESLIE
RIVERSIDE etc. etc. Il
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NEWSPAPER LAWs.-We would call the special
attention Of Post Masters and subscribers 70 the
IsouiREE to the following synopsis Of the News
paper laws:
l. A Postmaster Is required 70 give Roiee By
seftsT, tretuTning paper Goes nos answer the law
when a subscriber does not take ais paper cut Of
the Office end state the reasons .or u not being
taken; and neglee, to 60 50 makes the Postmas-
ter repsoasi5ke to the publishers for ,ae payment.
?, Any person who takes paper fro-4 the Post
Ofiee whethe- directed TO his name or another, or
whether he Aas subscribed or MOI il responsible
for he pay
g. If g person orders his paper discontinued, he
must Pay pll arrearages, o. the publisher may
coatinfe 70 send it until payment i made and
olleet the whole em0un &c s.her ii Be takoH from
He oFce Of not There cen Je o legal discontn
uenee rRtu the payment is ma6o.
(. II the subscriber orders his paper to be
stoppe6 at q certain tiRe, and the publisher con
tinnssyo sead, the subscriber IS bound pay for
it, 81 he ffkes /. oHf Of he Post 0g5ee. The law
proceeds upen the ground that man must pay
70 what be uses.
Iae courts have decided that refusing TO take
newspaper and periodicals rom the Post Office,
OF removing and having them ancalled ior, is
priua Taeia evidence Of intentional fraud
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Mr. WoIF, New York cap-maler, while
attending meeting Of his striking en-
ployes, was set upoa by the men, aud beat-
en- and abused with tongues and fists, until
the giyls who we're among the strikers,
came to his rescue, and stepped the NAL
treatment. Mr. Wolf promptly hired the
gi.ls over again, and gave them all tho a-
crease Of wages they asked
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DESCRIPTION TERMs. Ae

The TsevIHER Is rab.iehsd e. err FR1D4r Horn-
Ing he following rates
0as YK4a, lin advance, .........-.. S2-o0
ii not paid within six mosl. $3.50
(ff not paid within the yeaE)..- $500
All papers outsf3e of tts county discontinued
without notice, at the expiration Of the time s5r
Hhich the subscription has been paid.
singleeoPies Of the paper furnished, IN wrappers,
a. I've cents eseh.
Communications On sahiec.z Of local oF general
interest are respectfully solicited. To ensure At
tention favors af this kind mpFt Invariably Do
accompanied by The name Of the author, not FOR
publieatign bgt q guaranty against Imposition.
An letters pertaining t. bualness 0f tke afiee
sh0uid be addressed 70
JtsETE EUTZ. BEsroED, Pa.
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PHYSICIANS.
nR. ,. F. HARRY,
MISCELLANEOUS.


nANIEL BORDER,
II PrTT STREET, TWO DOORS WEST or TIE sED-
FORD HOTEL, BEEFaRD, PA.
MATCHMAKER AND DEALER IN JEWEL
RY. SPECTACLES. &C.
lie keeps on hand stock Of fine Gold and Sill
ver Watches Spectacles Of Brilliant Double Rein
sl Glasses, also Scotch Pebble Glasses Gold
Watch Chains. Breast Pins, Finger Rings, best
quality Of Gold Pens. lie viii supply to order
any thing in his line not on hand. Lapr.2s. 65.
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ToNAT, ny son, fetch in stiel. q
eoo5 Ah my dear mother, resg goadsd
the youth. ''tbe grammatical per On Of
yous eIueatioa bas baen saalg ncsleaol
Eau should hava ail Thomas, Rsy sop,
eaBsmrt from tie ieeambsYt eoll-e1an d
e9nbaatible inatarial upon the threshold q
the cdigico one q the cartailed ezcfese eaees
Of defuuct log.
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FfLLIc1s, baehslor friend, says be saw
q ghost the ether night when going home
late sid he saw It through window 70
the upper story ofa house. The room was
dliel vita 'speetFa! Fight, and the ghois
vas dressed in Z loas white robe and vas
standing in front Of looking glass taxing
down lis back hair Tod filiichs nc h3'
st er mary some such ghost and ge hoiaeE
easlicr aster tbs.
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RATRs o. ApYERTIsING.

All advertisements for less than months 10
cents per line for each insertion. Specia notices
cne-half additional. All resolutions Of Asaocia-
tions, communications Of limited or individal
interest and notices Of marriages and deaths, ex-
ceeding five lines, 10 cts per line. Ali legal noti-
ces Of every kind, and eli orphang' Court and
other Judicial sales arc required by law 10 be pub
hshed in both papers. Editorial Notices Is cents
per line. All Advertising due after frst insertion
A liberal discount made to yearly advertisers
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PAPER BOOKS

Our facilities for doing al kinds Of JOB Printing
are squalIed b very few establishments in the
country. Orders By mail promptly filed. Al
letters should bo addressed TO
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