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EGNEzT TUHPIN. wHoLEsALE NANUTAO-
Il tarer Of Stick CANDY Fancy Candies Chocolate Cream
Drops, sug,s AlinOpds soss Candy Juges Pssss Gum
rents such ss Cupds, Fosers eum Lesves Lyries Dan
phns Decorated Toys, Cossaques, Fancy Papers for Ca
al and New Year Presents oonucopias, etc, Ne
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NOTICE

CLxRx's OFFICE UxrEp STATES Drsrxrcr counr,
December l, 1865. J
In Bankruptcy-The notice issued from thin ohce that
JOHN THORNBIL hss nled his petition y be declared
bankrupt partner Of r W Estlin lssusd through
mhtake Il should have been Henry ThsrnAnl
Mr. John Thohn has net applied the benefit Of The
Bankrupt Law. =
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AGENCY
VIRGINIA AND NORTH CAROLINA MANUFACTURED
Tobseco-2oOo packages choice bands
JY whitisd's God Ambrosis. J ". COrbin, Harry Lea
North stste w. r favor, Star Pounds Nat Macon, w.
D. Milers Nutmeg and various other brands for sale BY
DE VAN MASON, Sse Agents,
l04 Poydrss street
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LOsT--sTOLEN--FOUND.

OsT-LAST EVENING. FEBRUARY S PROBABLY
IL Magazine street. Felicity Road and Canal
brown fur MUFF II ths finder will leave
Il the Crescent Office he will be literally rewarded.
The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1869-06-03
Al Unsatisfactory Customer.

FROM the story doubles and Quits,
ir BLackaooOds Magazine, we take a little
sketch that is worthy of Dickens. Mr.
Finney, the principal character, is visited
by a lawyer and friend, for the sake Oi
eliciting some information from him in re-
gard to suit
"Good evening, sir" said the lawyer,
blandly, on entering.
Evenin'," said Mr.. Finney, without
raising, but staring like the sphynx, and
inserting huge wedge of soap-like cheese
into his mouth.
"And lovely evening it is," continued
the lawyer, cheerfully.
"Aint been hout," replied the carpenter,
tnickly. through his cheese.
you're Mr.. Finney, l think?" said my
companion.
"Hivery man as is impressions" said
Mr.. Finney. washing down the cheese
with a mouthful of beer, and keeping his
winkless eye upon u.s. Sometimes they're
kreck-sometImes not kreck"
Quite true" smiled my friend. humor
inglv. "but know you're Mr.. Finney."
"Why do you ask, then ?"
"Only for forms sake, my dear cir"
"Ohl" and he went on munching and
staring, like COW chewing the cud.
"Mr. Thomas Finney, 1 may say" con
tinued the lawyer.
"Oh, you know that too, do YOU ?"
The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1869-06-03
Singular Historical Truths.

A CORRESPONDENT of the AthOl Mass. }
Chronicle gives the following, which is
quite in the style of John Phoenix: The
origin of this river is not mentioned in
the history of Winchendon. Tradition
states it as follows: "Years ago, before
Jupiter and his brother Neptune let loose
their rivers and poured them over the
land, their lived man named Miller, i'm
mensely rich, and possessed of very valu-
able lard, comprising $4,000 acres; Che
land is called Wimbledon at the present
day by geologists, historians, highway sur
veyOrs and scientific men of the present
age) The old man was great agricul-
turist and took pride In carrying to mar
ket the largest and best vegetables that
ever were raised. He raised hogs so large
that he took the bristles for building rail
fences; his beans, peas and corn would
run to seed before they could be picked l.;
cabbage put forth not only heads, but legs,
and walked off; cucumbers encountered
the fields and chased the cows around the
farm; turnips grew enOrmous-One grew
so solid that it sunk in the earth never 10
re-turnip again; another grew so large
that it moved the dirt for more than
twenty miles--it moved the buildings on
the farm ten miles in all directions Those
Oh Tic uoTtu Sluc are Chlicu ItiIluRc, Ou t1c
south side are called Templeton Center,
on The west RoyalstOn; his cattle were
buried in the dirt, which mound is called
1'allow Hill; the turnips continued to
grow until they formed two immense
mountains, the one on the north is called
Monadnoch, and the south side Wachu-
sett At last they burst up" and ex-
ploded with terrific sound, tearing the
farm to pieces and filling the air with
earth for days. The old man was engag.
ed in conversation with Gulliver, who was
canvassing for the Arabian Nights, and
hearing the report, walked out, and seeing
the condition of his farm sat down and
wept-the second day he wept-words
could not be found 10 describe his feelings
the third day he wept and stood in
about four feet of water. The fourth day
he was drowned in his tears and formed
a large pond, which Is called "MOnOmo-
mack" And the river is called Miller's
which flows through the village of Water
vile"
The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1869-06-03

fused to do 80. SO the court chose q law
yer to defend her, and the lawyer pleaded
so eloquently that the jury acquitted her.
His eloquence and ability made so deep
an impression upon the heart of her
father that he went to the lawyer and pre-
sented him with a dozen Of eggs.
A YOUNG MAMMA. on the important oc.
casion of making her little boy his first
pair Of trousers, conceived the idea that it
would be more economical to make them
of the same dimensions behind and before,
80 that they might be changed about and
wear evenly. Their effect, when donned
by the little fellow, was very ridiculous.
Papa, at first sight of the baggy garment,
burst into roar of laughter, and exclaim-
ed, "Oh, my dear, how could you have
the heart to do it? Why, the poor little
fellow won't know whether he's going to
school or coming homei"
A MIR. WAGSTAFF, of Philadelphia, re-
Gently brought suit against his doctor,
and alleged that the said Esculapius had
persisted in calling on him personally
after he was cured, which fees he refused
to pay. Dr. F. denied the fact, and call
ed in a nurse who attended the invalid TO
prove it. ais it true" asked the court.
that DR. f. continued his visits when
Mr.. w. had no necessity for them p"
Upon my word, sir" answered the wit
ness, "as long as | saw the doctor with
MIR. w. thought he was in considerable
danger; which naive opinion caused the
court to burst into fit of laughter
REVENGE" says the proverb, ais
sweet" Different men have different
ways of showing it. My friend Browns
way is harmless and humorous. Two
Joneses live next door to each o,her, and
having to call on one of them, Brown, of
course, went to the wrong house. A
grabbed servant answered the bell, and on
Browns asking, "ls this Mr.. John
Jones ?" she replied snappishly, as if she
had been bothered with many such in
quiries, "No, it ant" and slammed the
door in his face. Brown walked on hun
dred yards or so, when bright thought
struck him. He returned at once and rang
the same bell again. Again the Grabbed SER
want appeared, WHO said it was ." asked
Brown triumphantly, and instantly walked
away.
The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1869-06-03

90. "0h yes my dear sir, I know thai
"Then you didn't want to ask me the
question, expectY"
No; but know more about you than
you think, Mr.. Finney."
| "P'raps you're hextra clever man ?"
| IL hope SO; it's my business to be
clever"
"P'raps you know more nor there is tc
know"
"Oh no, no" laughed the lawyer, as
though much tickled with Mr. Finney
but assure you we know nothing that
isn't to your credit"
"DOn't'you, now?"
"No, indeed, we don't. You've had
your misfOrtunes. of course"
"Of course, of course"
But you've got over them all"
There's no more a-cOmin', then, l sup.
poser"
my dear sir /; let us be serious; am
here as lawyer"
That's one misfortune 1 amt got over
then"
"Ah, Mr.. Finney, l see you're an incor
rigible joker, like all you dramatic gentle.
men. Will you answer an honest man a
plain question, joking apart, now?"
Finney took pull at his beer, and re-
piled:
zoos a,jokin'? l amt. nor this ere
gent, as 1 knows on, and I'm not aweer
as you've said nuffink hextra comic.
amt larfed, as knows on. 'OOs a, ,jokin ?"
Will you answer a question, then?"
II amt on hOath, l suppose ?"
"Certainly not; it's q private question
all among friends. 1 only want to see
if you can tell me something l know all
about already" said the lawyer, rather
outdiplomatizing himself
"Ah 1 see-it's a k'nundrum; but /
give it up--never could make nuffink OF
them"
The lawyer looked at me in despair.
IL think you had better ask the ques.
ton straightforwardly, said "there is
no reason why Mr.. Finney should object
to answer it."
Mr.. Finney looked perfectly wooden
and placid, and brOwsed at his bread and
cheese.
"Well, then, straightforwardly, Mr.. Fin
ney, are you q married man."
Well. then, strayketorwingly, l can't
tell you"
That's odd; were you ever married ."
"Yes, was"
"a widower, perhaps ?"
"Mayhap."
"You don't know"
81 don't know, and l don't bruise my
hOats, and | ain't agoing to Rosherville,
anc, wot's more, l don't care; and now,
please to tell me wot this ere lark is? Wot
are you comm a-nigglin' and a,nagglin'
at me for, and disturbin' me at my whites?
90 are you, you white-faced cuss?" The
manner was as calm as ever, though the
words we're strong. II amt a goin' to sit
hargle- barglin' with you all night; my
times hup-itis is. 90 are you ?"-and he
rose
The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1869-06-03

effectually chased and divers signs o
amendment set in, one succeeding the
other rapidly. All danger was quite q
an end.
And now the change had taken place
for, instead of sitting at home hour aftel
hour, neglected and longing for q patient
the demands upon Mr.. Ross time grew
incessant, till with pout on her lips, bu
joy in her heart, Mrs. Ross declared tha
she could never be sure of her husband
from one hour to another. For the fame
of the cure had gone forth with all the
exaggeratiOns common to country
place.
The Ross family found fast friends il
the Westerns and 1t was at one of the
dinner parties at the Hall, after seriously
speaking to his friends of the debt of OBJ
legation he was under to Mr. Ross, anG
thanking him again as the instrument
under Gods providence, of giving them
back their child to life, that, to give live
lier tone to the conversation, the Squire
related an anecdote he professed to have
heard few days before, in an encounter
which took place between the sexton oil
the old church, and the old gentleman
doing duty at tho new.
Said the first, chuckling with triumph
"yOu don't have near so many funerals in
your yard as do in mine"
No." said the other, "and somehow
they seem to be falling off year by year
My place is hardly worth holding now
The town gets deal too healthy"
alt does so," said the first speaker al
am nearly ruined, and can't make it out
anyhOw-can yoIs"
"' No. said the other, it's past me -
and then the two fellows went chatterine
and grumbling off," continued Mr.
Western, and if any one wishes to know
the reason Of the falling off he must ask
our friend, the doctor there, though he
will be sure to deny that he has had any
thing to DO with it"
"There's the bell again, DEAR" said
Mrs Ross, "and if ii wasn't for knowing
that you are wanted for some poor suf-
fering creature, l believe l should ex.
claim against it as being perfect trouble.
You never seem to get meal in peace"
"Oh yes I do" said Mr.. Ross, smiling
"The hell does its share Of work, though,
certainly. By the way, though, my dear
you never feel any dread in having the
bell answered now, do yOus"
Dread? no, what a question: said
Mrs Ross. "What made you say that ?"
az was only thinking of few years ago,
when a ring at the bell sometimes caused
ones heart to beat, lest it should be some
hungry creditor"
Mrs. Ross sighed, and then smiled,
saying. "and all the rest has come of pa
tience"
And work." said her husband.
"But I don't think" she whispered
creeping closer to his side, and drawing
one strong arm around her as if fOr
prOtection-"I don't think, dear, you
will ever again say that the rich have no
trouble"
John Ross was silent for a while, as he
recalled the loss he had so nearly sus
tained, and the scene at the hall, when the
hope of two fond parents lay dying, and
then he answered softly
"GOd forbid !"
The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1869-06-03
A Loan Office.
away.

WE will suppose that a gentleman from
the rural districts has been imprudent in
his expenses, and desires to use his watch
as a collateral for small lOan-say fifty
dollars. AS he saunters up Broadway,
wondering how his desire may be best ac-
cOmplished, and with more than little
halfcOncealed nervousness concerning the
business in hand, his eye falls upon a sign
which announces that So-and-So, Dia-
mond Broker" makes advances on pre-
ciOus stones, watches, etc. Evidently
here is his man. AS he steps into the office,
the dapper young man behind the counter
reads him at a glance, and his application
for thirty-day loan is at once assented to-
as matter of course. The money, trifie
less, perhaps, than he had expected, owing
TO the somewhat old fashioned character
of his time piece, is counted out to him,
and he again descends to the street, with
his receipt in his hand
Now let him examine that same paper.
No mention is made of any deposit or
sale by himself to the gentlemanly
broker" but he holds in his hand an
agreement from that person to sell him
thirty days from date, at a price named, a
watch whose number and description are
only too familiar, while the barest trifie of
simple arithmetic enables him to see that
the transaction nets the broker fifteen
per cent per month for the use of his
money. There is no use whatever in
storming. Even the lawyers and the pO-
lice cannot help him. He has s0ldhis aodtch,
and though he can buy it back again
at any time within the thirty days,
he can not hope to obtain it for one
dollar lass than the price specified in
his written contract If his necessities
continue, and the contract expires, he has
no help whatever in the law against lille
gal pawnbroking, and his watch is gone.
But he may have been an old customer of
that same broker. He may have brought
III many watches, of various patterns and
values. Some of them he may have re-
deemed, and others not. His very per-
sonal presentation of security may be a
reason for its speedy disappearance on his
departure Nothing need be said; but
on his failure to redeem, that watch will
hardly find its way again into the regular
channels of trade. The cases 60 into the
melting pot, and the works make their
second appearance long afterward in such
a guise that their own maker would not
know them.
With diamonds and other precious stones
there is even less difficulty. The settings
are of comparatively little account, and
are melted up at once, while the gems
themselves are promptly invested with
new clothing, unless any peculiarites rem
der trip beyond the seas advisable-snd
is there not good market in Europe
Does not Europe find America equally
convenient for similar purposes But, as
the diamond brokers and watch fanciers
cannot properly attend to all the depart
ments of this interesting business, q good
deal remains for the auctioneers. liar
pers' Magazine.
The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1869-06-03
1Doetrp.
TOO LATE.
BY FITZ HUGH LUDLOW

"Ah! ST jeuuesse sarat-si Ia reulesse pourait =!
THERE sat and old man on a rock
And unceasing bewailed him Of Fate
That concern where We all must take stock
Though our vote has no hearing weight;
And the old man sang him an old, old song
Never sang voice so clear and strong
That it could drown the old mans long,
For he sang the song TOO late! Too
late, ~
"when we want, we have for our pains
The promise that if we but wait
Till the want has burned out OF our brains
Every means shall be present to satc;
While we send tor the napkin the soups gets
While the bonnet is trimming the face grows
old,
When we've matched our buttons the pat
tern is Sold
And everything comes too late-too late
"When strawberries seemed like red heavens
Terrapin stew a wild dream
When my brain was at skies and sevens
Ii my mother had folks and ice-cream,
Then l gaZed with lickerish hunger
Al the restaurant man and fruitmonger-
But oh how 1 wished was Younger
When the goodies all came in a stream-in
stream
''rve splensid bloon horse. and a liver
That 1t jars into torture to trOt;
Ny row boats the EN- of the river
Cont makes every knuckle a knot?
can buy boundicss credits on Paris and
Rome,
But no palate for meaus-no eyes for a
dome
Those belonged to the youth who must tarry
nj home
When no home bit an attic he'd got-he'd
got.
- How longed in that lOnest of garrets
Where the tiles baked my brain all July,
For ground TO grow two pecks of carrots,
Two pigs of my own in sly.
A rose bush-a little tbatched cottage
Two spOOns-lOve-a basin of pottage;
Now in freestone | stand my dOsage-
With woman's chair empty close by
close by
:" An now. though cit or a rock.
/ have shared one seat with the Great;
have sat, knowing not of the clock,
On Loves high throne Of state.
But the lips that kissed and the arms that
care--ed
To mouth grown stern with delay were
pressed,
And circled a breast that their clasp had
blessed
Had they only not come too late too
late -
-Hdvper's Magazine for June.
The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1869-06-03

THE White Pine Nees says: "Down
on Chloride Flat there is a miners cabin
built out of chunks of pieces of high grade
chloride ore, estimated to be worth over
81 900 per ton. The house is 16 feet
square. and the rock in its walls, If crushed,
would perhaps yield in the neighborhood
of S75 600 The miners vho-own and oc-
cupy this valuable building, of course are
doing so temporarily, and will have the
ore of which il is constructed milled as
soon as practicable, or when custom mills
are started in the district. Never before
in the history of mining, we venture TO
say, did miners who repair the seats of
their trowsers with self rising patches,
occupy such valuable structure as this. "
The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1869-06-03

THE London Star says that great ex-
citement was created in the Edgware Road
the other evening by the appearance of a
horse and jockey in full racing costume,
galloping madly towards the Nj al BILE Arch.
A hue and cry was at once raised at such
novel sight, but all attempts to stop the
horse were unavailing until the park was
reached, when, The horse getting exhaust
ed. the jockey managed to pull him up.
On inquiry it seems that the jockey and
horse were to have taken part in Mr..
Boucicaults drama of Flying Scud, "
then being performed at the Alfred Thea
tire, but just before going on the stage the
horse trod on bag of torpedoes, used to
initiate the cracking of whips, and the
loud bang of these torpedoes so alarmed
the animal that he bolted out of side
door, leaving, for the first time of his many
performances, the race to be won by a
dummy, and the curtain to fall on an in.
glorious tableau.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1869-03-25
NOPE FESTIVITIES IN ARKANSAS.
The sheriff of Crittenden County
Thrown I'm Prison and Forced
10 Resign.
The Militia Collecting the Taxes ana
Play Ing the Ancient Boy
Generally. ~
Governor Clayton DfsspprOves the
ID YB Resignation. r 4Er

Mr.. VIM. Hardin, the Sheriff OF Crit
tenden, elected one year ago by the
Loyal Leagues, has not proved himself o
"trooIy loil" tool for the party, and a
few days ago he was arrested by the milf
tia for his temerity and thrown into pri-
son. Last Monday he was visited in
prison by Lieut.. Colonel Maine, com
manding the militia, and the famous
Captain Haines, lately shot by the Indian
in the right place, and told him that
be could just get out one way to escape q
military trial-which means death
and that was to resign. They refused to let
him see counsel or friends. Under these
circumstances he signed a paper resign
ing his Office and was released from GUS
tody.
Col. Maine at once appointed bloody
carpet-bagger, named Fagin, such man
as the Fagin in Oliver Twist,we presume,
to the office Of Sheriff. The new appointee
at once took command of large squad
of militia, and started through the county
to collect taxes as he styled it, but IN
reality to levy contributions on the peo-
pie, to rob in the loyal Arkansas style,
and replenish the pockets of the militia
cheftains. The people know what to
expect.
Mr.. Hardin came across to Memphis at
once, and left the city Tuesday on the
steamer Des Arc for Little Rock to lay
the case before the Governor. The i'm
mertal Haynes went over in the same
boat, doubtless to carry the resignation
and to ask for the confirmation of Fagin.
But il such was his object he failed. A
dispatch was received in the city yester'
day from Mr.. Hardin stating that Gov
ernor Clayton refuses to entertain the
resignation, that he will not recognize it,
and the understanding now is that Mr..
Hardin will be reinstated as soon as be
can return. The removal of martial law
may have prompted this course on the
part of the Governor. Maine knew that
his time was short, and the desire to I'LL
his pockets was perfectly natural.
Mr.. William Hardin was during the
war a Confederate soldier, but Joined the
Radical party and secured an office
which, it seems, he was running with too
much honesty and fairness to suit the
instincts of those who elected him.
Fourteen charges had been trumped up
against him, none of which his assailants
dare to offer in a civil court. Poor
Arkapsasl
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1869-03-25
ADouBLE-DYED VILLAIN.
A Yeung Man Arrested for Rape, For
feitfDg His Bond of $1,000, and
COunterfeiffng.

A citizen of Upton county reported to
the police two days ago that young man
of twenty one, named j. G. Bradford, had
fed from the county to escape the conse-
quences of an attempted rape, and for
passing counterfeit money. In leaving
he had forfeited bond of two thousand
dollars, and left his two bondsmen in the
lurch. Ee had been considered quite
respectable, but it has leaked out since
his departure that be belonged to a regu-
lar gang of counterfeiters who infest
West Tennessee.
Mr.. Curtin, a constable of Upton
county, and some Of his friends came
here, and finally learned that Bradford
could be found, with an accomplish OF
the counterfeiting persuasion, in DeSoto
county, Mississippi, living in a cabin six
miles east of Coldwater, and in the
neighborhood of the village of Buck
snort. Mr.. Curtin had no scruples about
State lines, and the bondsmen were eager
to take Mr.. Bradford once more by the
hand. Yesterday morning at one o'clock
the barricaded cabin was carried by storm
and the two men captured, after q stub
born resistance and the firing Of fifteen
or twenty shots. Bradford received two
severe though not dangerous wounds be-
fore he surrendered. Stallion then caved
in likewise. Their wives, or women in
that capacity, were with them. The men
we're brought away speedily, and yester-
day afternoon were lodged in the station.
house. To-day they will be taken back
to Upton county.