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EGsNs Nature

We are informed of an instance of
lusus nature the other day which we can
not credit, although We have the utmost
confidence in the veracity Of otir inform
ant a man in Union township, this
county, had a fine eve which gave up,
the ghost last week very mysteriously.-'
A post mortem examination revealed
the fact that it was pregnant with lamb
and aniggcr child. We are aware that
doctors generally deny that there can
be an issue between the human and the
brute creation, but then It may he that
the eve was chased by anigger> Who
knows ?-Hancock Courier.
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THE EIGHT AT HOME.

The light at home, how bright it beams
, When evening shades around us fall;
And from the lattice far it CLEANS,
To love, and rest, and comfort all,
When wearied with the tolls of, day.,
And strife for glory, gold, or fame,
How sweet to seek the quiet way,
Where loving lips viii lisp our namo
Around the light at home!
When through the dark and stormy night
The wayward wanderer homcward flies,
How cheering is that twinkling light
Which through the forest gloom he spies!
1t is the light of home He feels
q, That loving hearts will greet him there,
And softly through his bosom steals
The joy and love that Danish care
Around the light athome.
The light at home! How still and sweet
1t peeps from yonder cottage door,
The weary laboror to greet,
When the rough tolls of day are Ger!
Sad is the soul that does not know
The blessings that the beams impart,
The cheerful hopes and joys that flow,
And tighten up the heaviest heart
Around the light at home.
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EA distinguished statesman, lately
recalled to public life after an absence o.
twelve years, said to me, not long since
"Those Southern fellows were very un.
reasonable and troublesome, but they
would not steal"
The Government now is run on steal.
ings, and fraud rots its foundations.
The Southern soldiers marched with
out pay, and fought with poor food, and
slept without tents, and sometimes with.
out blankets.
Every soldier of the Federal Govern.
ment cost us a million, through the
frauds of contractors and the stealings
of officials-Don Pidt.
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x WORD TO THE USsucoEssruL.-Very
few men are permitted to be successful; /;
very few men are permitted to be wise /;
very few men are permitted TO be elo.
quent; very few men are qualified to be
statesmen; very few men are good for
anything eminent; and even those that
are eminent are men of like passions
with everybody else. Therefore, be not
discouraged because it is your lot to be
in humble sir5umstances-beca your
work is Insignificant in the eyes of men
because you ars called so,lsbor in OBJ
security. The time is coming ~lcn all
earthly distinctions will be of very list1e
account,
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Philosophy is to poetry what old age
is to youth; and the stern truthsof phil,
osophy are as fatal to the fictions Of the
one as the chilling testimonies of expe-
rience are to the hopes Of the other.
A person was told at a tailor's shop
that three yards of cloth, BY being wet,
would shrink ons quarter of yard
"W ell, then" ha Inquired, sf you should
wet quarter Of yard, would there be
any lefts' = ''..'.' = Z
The height Of politeness is passing
around upon the opposite side Of a lady
when walking with her, in order not tc
step upen her shadow
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l want to be brother-in-law,
And with my kinsnen stand;
An appointment in my pocket,
The stealings in my hand.


King George County, Va, has but
two white persons within its boundary
who can take the iron=clad oath, and one
of these holds the Office of constable.
Orders have been received at the
Portsmouth IN. H Navy Yard reduc-
ing the wages of all per diem worknen
and clerks twenty-per cent. from last
months rates.
Monticello, the former residence OF
Thomas Jefferson, in. Albemarle County,
| Virginia, is to be sold at auction on the
18th day of May next The sale is by
virtue of decree of the Circuit Court OF
Richmond.
A will was, last week, at Laconia, n
Hampshire, proved a forgery, because
written on paper which bore the die OF
the Hampshire Paper Company of South
Hadley Falls, Massachusetts. The agent
of the Company testified that this Com
Ipany was not formed at that time.
A Chicago paper has this extraordina
ry financial market report: "Gold a
Sudue eaSltI,, opcDcu aU u S, iuN"ii'Co
to 81 /, declined to 3055, and closed at 81
and four coronals over the back hair
the strings are black and white striped
ribbon, edged with narrow, green fringe.
i The Cleveland Herald (Radical) says
''The Illinois Legislature Radical J mus
be a nice place, judging from the fac
that when certain member rises tc
speak, all the women in the gallery fly il
dismay from the building, while tht
speaker and members listen quietly tt
Iobscenities."
| A compositor in the Office of the Ko
komo (Ind.) Tribune recently had the
pleasure of doing what few boys or mer
ever had the opportunity to do. He put
into type the marriage notice Of his ia
ther and mother, which occurred wcel
or two since. The parties had been di
vorced several years ago, and were re
married. say
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f1,HlS Eouse has been thoroughly renovated
| and repaired. Having superior facilities,ev-
srything will be done to make the guests
comfortable.
/ The table is always supplied with the best
the market affords. Good rooms and clean
beds for travellers and regular guests. iss
:. Good stables are attached to the House. Ev-
cry effort viii be iaade for the comfort of the
patrons. Boarders. taken by the day, week,
month N yea - ' seply.
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REDUCTION IN CABLE RATEs.-The di-
rectors of the Atlantic Cable Co. have
resolved to reduce the tariff on messages
to four shillings per word, which is
about one dollar and twenty-seven cents
in currency. The reduction will COM
mence on the 1st Of June next. The
present rates are nearly two dollars and
twenty cents in currency for each word.
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sa-Wc rejoice to see that Mr.. Antho.

EgWe rejoice to see that Mr.. Antho-
ny, of Rhode Island, the colleague OF
Governor Sprague in the United States
Senate, is catching in a degree the indie
pendent spirit lately manifested by the
latter When interrupted by Charles
Sumner as to what he would do with
Georgia, he very sensibly replied that
he had about made up his mind to lei
Georgia regulate her own affairs. Sum
ner did not appreciate the point but the
people do.-CiR. Eng,
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Weak and Delicate Children are
made strong by using the Bitters or
Tonic. IN fact. they are Family Medi-
eznes.ss They, cam be administered with
perfect safety TO a child Three months
old, the most delicate female, or man
Of Ninety. 1 EkF
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(Southeast of Public square,)
SIMON DORR, 80: Proprietor

| AVING recently taken charge Of this
Ill House, the Proprietor has reftted and
refurnished it throughout in a manner calcu
lated to make it one of the most desirable
stopping places in this part of the State.
Guests will find the best accommodation!
at this House, and no pains will be spared t
make them comfortable
The Stables are commodious, and the trav
elers' horses receive the best attention.
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9 Hoofland's German Bitters
Hoofland,s German Tonic

b sombiHatien Of an e ingredients Of ns Bitteys,
Hah PcRs Santa crns Ram, Orange, etc. Il Is sset
pss alcoholic stimulus Is required Ivu eciH bser IN
stnd dat thess remedies entirely different Jres
say eeys odrertised for the Of e diseases named
ssbis he oilers are decocfions Of some
fbrm-, The TONIC is decidedly one of ls most plea
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tstask q ezquisite his pleasure to tas IT, ,ohils ib
HsgsrinG szhilaratiag, and nedic,nal qualities hGs
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SAN FRANCISCO, April 2-The earth
quake yesterday was felt with considera-
bic force at San Jose, Stockton and Pc
taluna No damage was done TO the
buildings in this city.
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ssaoH non. GEO. ". wooDwARD,

Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
III ~ PHiLADELPulA, March 16, 1861
fad /" Hoofonds GeImaH Biiters ~ is not intoS-
Seoting berere bat Is good tonic, useful in disorders
Q tke dioesius orgrns aud Of great benet IN cases @
ODDLY and tcant of nervous action, IN The systea
Hoi1y truly,
s.. 5.,re'-r- GEo W. WooDWARD.
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any wares desired, not found in his shop.
G ve him call before looking elsewhere.
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CAUTION.

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sar,e o. the artieS Sissa ia each bottle. Al others are
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Elizabeth daily monitor. [volume] (Elizabeth, N.J.) 1868-1880, 1869-02-24

THE ELIZABETH DAILY MONITOR is
published at 155 BROAD STREET, near
ly opposite the National State Bank, by
J. MADISON DRAKE, Editor and
Proprietor. Mail subscribers SIS a year
in advance. Single copies two cents.
Elizabeth daily monitor. [volume] (Elizabeth, N.J.) 1868-1880, 1869-02-24

MURDER In New YORK. -Homicidal
acts in the metropolis have always been
unartistic and hot blooded, as is con-
clusively shown by the weapona used
These appear upon the record to have
been firearms, knives, razors, sword
canes, swords, cords, bludgeons, bayo-
nets, cart-rungs, tumblers, bricks, fire
tongs, smoothing irons, axes, mallets,
hammers, paving stones, glue-pots,
boot-heels, and once the point Of an
umbrella. 1t is remarkable that only
eight times in these thirteen years has
murder been artistically done by poi
son, and more singular still that in five
of these cases the criminals were de-
tected, Notwithstanding the popular
belief that the meanest and stealthiest
mode of feloniously taking life is also
the safest. These facts make it appar-
ent that while the average of homicides
in New York has been fraction of over
one per week for thirteen years, there
have been comparatively few wilful and
malicious murders. Tt is true that
within the period examined thirty
wives were slain by their husbands, but
even in nearly all of these cases, the
''malice prepense," which is the essen
tial ingredient of murder and the sign
of 'the wicked and depraved heart
required by the law was wanting. The
killing of persons unknown were more
frequently wilful than in the other
class, but even here the testimony
taken by the coroners shows that the
purpose to take life often was not
mentally formed before the deed had
been physically accomplished.
Deducting the sixty-one infanticides
where the culprits were undiscovered,
and it is apparent that ninety-two
adults have, in thirteen years, met
violent deaths, and the assailants have
escaped detection" Will Murder
out?" in March Galaxy.
Elizabeth daily monitor. [volume] (Elizabeth, N.J.) 1868-1880, 1869-02-24
COLOSSAL FORTUNES.

We doubt if any ordinary person can
contemplate, without serious misgiv-
ings, the announcement that Baron
Rothschild, who recently died in Paris,
was worth two thousand millions of
francs, or four hundred millions of dol
lars. 1t was observed at the time that
he was charitable man, and that the
poor of Paris deplored his loss deeply.
Yet during all the long weary years
that he was engaged in amassing that
stupendous fortune men and women
were starving to death, or committing
suicide from want and suffering in that
very city of Paris. Who can tell the
multitude of unfortunates who, wreck
ed in fortune by the changes on the
Bourse wrought or controlled by this
man, have plunged into eternity to es-
cape suffering and reproach ? Who
can tell how often the loaves of the ba-
ker have been reduced and the poor
punished because some of the Roths-
child's had run up the flour market ?
Who can tell how many widows and
orphans have had their little all engulf-
ed in the mselstrom of fiscal operations
that brought ruin to thousands and
fortune to him
! Charity How many millionsidid he
Elizabeth daily monitor. [volume] (Elizabeth, N.J.) 1868-1880, 1869-02-24

We have received from the Messrs
Turner Brothers, publishers, S08 Chest.
nut street, Philadelphia, a copy of one
of their select novels entitled Madame
de Chamblay, splendidly illustrated
This is one of Dumas best, and we pre-
dict large sale. Messrs. Turner have
Incorporation series of popular works
by the best European and American
authors. Send and get copy of Ma
dame De Chamblay.
Elizabeth daily monitor. [volume] (Elizabeth, N.J.) 1868-1880, 1869-02-24

and second six feet on the split. The
beds of this quarry are also about 400
feet deep.
Quarry No. 8. Is SO feet long by 16
feet wide. The first bed is Is feet on
the split, and the second is five feet.
Between this latter and the lower beds,
are several smaller ones, ranging from
21a to feet ON the split, and the lower
bed is % feet. In all, the beds are
about 800 feet deep.
The company is at present engaged
in stripping the space intervening quar-
ries Nos. l and 2, and feel confident of
being able to complete the same by the
first day of April. The beds con-
tanned in this space are again differ
emily located from any of the rest, but
are of the same quality. Starting at
quarry No, /, the first three beds are
school States the first of which is nine
feet on the split, and the other two,
five feet each. Next comes bed of
roofing slate, Is feet on the split ;
then again bed of school slate of Is
feet Two more beds of roofing slate
complete this space the first of these
is ten and the second 30 feet on the
split.
By the first Of April this company
will have quarry Of 300 feet long, by
270 wide, the beds of which are known
to be 400 feet deep. Both the roofing
and school states are of the best quail
ty. We saw some on bank, ready for
shipment, and truth compels lis to say,
that we never saw prettier states. In
regard to beauty, as well as durability,
we do not think that they can be sur
passed by any in this Country.
Elizabeth daily monitor. [volume] (Elizabeth, N.J.) 1868-1880, 1869-02-24
GARRIsoNs, N. Y, Feb. %.

There has been another escape from
Sing Sing. The name of the convict
is not ascertained. He made an efigy
of himself out of some old clothing,
and stood it up in the corner of his cell
When the convicts were taken to be
locked up for the night, one of the
new appointees not being up to their
lodges, was deceived by the dummy
figure, and reported his charge numeri-
cally all right in their cells The alb
sence of the fugitive was not ascertain
ed until yesterday morning, when the
keeper opened the door to let him out
and discovered the character of the OBJ
ie ct he had mistaken for man.
Elizabeth daily monitor. [volume] (Elizabeth, N.J.) 1868-1880, 1869-02-24
City Flour mills
HARRIS BROTHERS,
Merchant MilieYS
FRESH GROUND FLOUR,

From NEW and Selected Wheat, in barrels or
sacks Of x, \ and 4 Barrel Packages neatly pat
u for Family use, and delivered to all parts OF
the city.
Also. every variety of MILL STUFFS, such as
Rye Fleur, Buckwneat Flour, Graham Flour,
Wheaton Grits, White and Yellow Corn Meal,
Hominy Samp, Dat Meal, Wheat and Rye Mid.
lings, Ground Corn and Oats, Feed, Cracked
Corn, Wheat and Rye Bran. Oats thoroughly
cleaned by the Bushel or Bag.
Wheat Screenings Corn Oats, Rye, Buckwheat
in small or large Quantities, delivered free Of
charge to all parts OF the city, or to the Railroad
Depots for shipping.
Orders left at the Mills. sent through the Post
Office, or given to our Teamstels will receive
prompt attention.
Elizabeth daily monitor. [volume] (Elizabeth, N.J.) 1868-1880, 1869-02-24

give to the poor In ofuer TO De truly
charitable he ought to have devoted
about half his fortune to such purposes,
for nothing else would have relieved
him of the responsibility for the evil he
had wrought in seeking to pile up such
tremendous boards. Stephen Girard
achieved colossal fortune in COM
merce, but he left the bulk of it to edu
cate the orphan children of the poor.
John McDonough, of New Orleaus, fol-
lowed his example George Peabody
has not waited for his deathbed to warn
him of his duty. He has given his
millions to the needy.
Aud these are American millionaires,
and inspired with the American ideas
of the greatest good of the greatest
number How could any one expect
such things of men like the Roths-
childs 1t is related Of this one. who
died worth four hundred millions of
dollars, that when Audubon, the great
naturalist, was about to publish his fa-
nous work on ornithology, he waited
on the millionaire with a letter of intro
duction, was treated rudely, refused a
subscription. ordered to send his book
when printed, and when it was so sent
was refused his price. 1t perhaps re-
CURED such soul to amass such a for
tune.
He could not take his money with
him into the next world In fact all
he carried with him to the grave was a
wooden box But he still contrived to
let the evil of his system survive him.
For the wealth of the Rothschilds is
jealousy guarded against division by
preventing the children from marrying
out of the family Even to the day of
his death he managed to keep those
nearest to him ignorant of half his
wealth by opening a great number of
accounts in false names.
How often have the schemes of this
dead Rothschild produced embarrass-
ments in the markets of America ?
How often has he not spread ruin over
thousands of our countrymen by means
of influence centering in his house in
London and Paris, over which no
American could have any control
There have been times when such men
were supposed to have rendered great
public services by the command of fis-
cal resources. But the present Emperor
of France has emancipated governments
from dependence on this class, by
means of his great popular loans, raised
by appeal to the whole mass of the
people. That invention has exploded
the bubble on which the reputation of
men like Rothschild had been resting.
In any age. in any country, under any
circumstances, such colossal fortunes
are nuisances So far from benefting
the people in any way, they increase
the downward tendencies of the poorer
classes and all the benevolence the
millionaires can achieve by their gifts
or requests will not atone for the mis-.
cry they inhict upon millions of the
human race. - Philadelphia North
American.
q.
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@eaths.

ELYEA-In this city, February o. Ann
Eliza, wife of D. G. Elyea, in the 47th year of
her age
The friends and relatives of the family are
invited to attend the funeral from the lecture
room of the Third Presbyterian church, on
Thursday tomorrow afternoon, at 2 o'clock.
Elizabeth daily monitor. [volume] (Elizabeth, N.J.) 1868-1880, 1869-02-24

The DAILY MONITOR will be served to sub
scribers at TEN CENTS WEEK.
Mr. GEORGE E. VAN BLARCUM has route
in the upper part of the city. Orders may
be left at this office. Mr.. WILLIAM G. JONES
will supply those at the Port
Cop es may be obtained at the Post Office.
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MARKET HALL.
SECOND GRAND CONCERT of scHoEPFER's
TYrOIean SINGING TrOupe,

TWO LADIES AND SIX GENTLEMEN,
Together with the Celebrated Either Virtuose
Seppel Gschnander,
AT MARKET HALL, THURSDAY, March &.
NATIONAL HALL, FRIDAY, March s.
Commencing at O'Clock P. M. Tickets 50 cents
Children % cents Reserved seats 10 cents to
be had at Beardsley's store. This Troupe has for
the last four months performed in Steinway Hall,
and the Stadt Theatre, New York, and other
places, as also in Market Hall a few weeks since,
before large and well pleased audiences, and feel
confident that this occasion they will be greet
Grand Either Virtuose SeppeI Gschnander, who
at their first appearance in Market Hall was pre-
vented by sickness, will certainly appear at these
performances.