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RAILROADS.
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WEST are now F ES9 4 bk .ILlffsi SiS;
81: "a s;S 81 80 se'
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train 70 or from AnnspoLs on Sunday.
FoR BALTIaoRE.
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Leave daily, except Sunday, at 6:4 and 1:2s O.
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70 Wheeling, Parkersburg, &c.
and AND assy s
Relay House With strasburs and Winchester accom-
-TSrousb ticket. TO the Yves. can be had g, the
Washington Station Ticket once at all hours in tho
9cr New York, PhiadeI Rhia, and Boston. .e. id.
''r''''m'n' OIL Through Line IL. WILSON,
Master Of Transportsticn.
GEO. s. kooSTz. Gsni Az I. Washington. iel4
tss1 ffExsEh sT*ssEEyssrO''
TON ss$ INV foRk are - u
FOR NEW YORK, without change Of care
Leave daily except sunday 1t T:a5 .. N. ia:4s
FOB PHILADELPHIA.
Lesve daily texoept sundsy) st = 10 .. m, l2:<S
ON SUNDAY.
Lesve for New York 1t s.0O D. N, and Philsdel-
phia q $40 y. m.
Sleeping cars for New York on . D. m. train only
Through tickets 20 Philadelphia, New York, or
Boston. can be had IT the Station once 81 ell hours
Of the day.
See Baltimore and Ohio Railroad advertisement
for schedule between Washington, Baltimore, An
napolis, and the West. j. u. WILSON,
Master Of Transportstion
l.. N. COLE, General Ticket Agent.
GEO. d. kOOETZ, Ascent, Washington. lell
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MARRIAGE Is HONORABLE

ESSAYS FOB YOUNG MEN, on the honors
pleasures, and advantages Of a happy MARRIAGR, as
conmasted With Single Life, and the fearful EVILS
OF CELlsACY, in modern times. Sent free in sealed
envelope Address, HOWARD ASSOCIATION
Box p, Philadelphia, Pa my23-m.V sm
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HAMMACK'S RESTAURANT,
II No. 1881 Penn, AVENUE, Cor. 18TH ST.,
WAsH1AGTOH, D. O.
ROOMS AND BOARD BY THE DAY Oh WEEK.
MEALS At ALL hours.
Best Wines and Liquors to be had at the Bar.
~ ParticulAr attention to Meals SAINT out. m
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Letters from the People.
"LITTLE ACTS OF KIypyxss -

LITTLE ACTS OF KiyDsRss.n
Mr. Editor: The soldiers At the Soldiers, Home
nave rery dul time. They lust feel very mach
the want OF domestic life. Their homen il too
much OF q % bachelors hail., The sweet voice
OF childhood is seldom heard in their midst.
Their hopes Of happiness in this world have
Deeh weil nigh blasted. Many of them have
poured out their best blood for the common
good, and most of them have exhausted their
pest strength that We might have a home and a
united country in which TO live. IL behooves ma
to show, II we can do nothing more, that re. AZ
least, are not ungrateful. w NV
these soldiers want ness-sometbino tn bresh
tine duil monotony of daily existence; something
70 think and talk about; something to beeuile
the weary hours and drive the maddeninS
thought OF the sad "Alasi what MIGHT have
heen," from their minds, mo wonder some of
lnem drink! And now, in the rush O. great
events and battles in Europe, they must be e.
pecialiy hungry for the daily newspapers. The
Soldlers Home affords a delightful place to
our citizens for an evening ride and 1 suggest
10 those who 60 there f0r such pieasure mat
,hey make II point to take with them the
latest newspapers TO give to the soldiers.
CITIZEN.
THE suggestion Of "Citizep, is a most excel.
lent one, and We hope it will be acted upon by
every one who avails himself or herself of the
advantages OF that beautiful place as pleasure
drive. Indeed, the good work need no. he
limited to the daily papers, but might be ex-
tended SO as to include magazines, cheap publ.
cations, etc.-ED. starr
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1874.

ANDREW J. JOYCE a CO- ~
CAkklAGE mASUFACTUkkks. y
All and 419 Fourteenth street.
REPAIRING IN ali lite brancbes. r-.
An Ca1riasss I'm for RS,asTs. Ssorns' o. oo'n "n'
Agent ior Br@wstera oc. GCf Broons sfrestl F,tfs
ovenre, New York. SU
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I UMBER, LUMBER LUMBERrn

I UMBER, LUMBER LUMBERm
A lsrge ard complete assortment Of Building Lum-
Der, Hemlock F.Dcing, Cy press Shingles, White
PHI and Spruce Pickets, Cedar Posfs. Also,
DRESSED LUMBER
OF all kinds, hand and for 90 le Lowest market
rates, ty WlLBET REDGRANE,
Corner New York avenue and 9th street.
ap5-n one square from Northern Market.
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To he Editor Of The .Siar:-Sir: One of vopr
irlt us bewais the "pig and goat nuisance:o
aolneI se"s heartrenoing com. ,laints on &c
we them down to the corner OF South q and
ON streets any night, between the hours of no
ma II, and they will appreciate the suffering of
the white element in our midst For i've
week. weeks 'he colored people have been gathered
mere every night, until after IL clock, and by
tner Singing, screaming, squealing. stamping.
ana krcking, have made sleep and rest impo 81,
pie; 10 give variety to the performance a . .rty
garner outside and play "catchee" up and Town
the street, and they are not OF the class that
testify. Val
have no wish to deprive the eo,o.od p-op,e
Oh their rights, but just call down on Sabbath
evening at ii O'Clock, and am sure they would
commiserate us, who pay high rents, for the
patient endurance of it every night, aud then
ask III white people would be permitted to make
such hldeous noises and not be arrested for DIS
turbing the peace"
If anything can be done, we entreat the kind
attention OF the "City Fathers" Truth
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THE NATIONAL INTKLLIaRNCER,
Weekly Conservative Organ,

Est at arlington lSoo: removed % New York .l10
Specia! TsLsgraphie Ne,csJrorg the trhO.s toNafrs
1As Grcaf NeIcSpaper for HoESehols aad faTM.
S3per year IN advance. p q. orders safest.
ALKX. DELMAR, Editor and Proprietor,
~ 2-sm s63 Broadway. NeS York.
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dreadful place-the town, we suppose
But the old ones come to do shopping too
They combine everything, for they are
wise in their years; they combine plea
sure for themselves, pleasure for theil
children, care over there latter, and the
purchase of coffees and sugars. And
the little ones are there-tender plants
from Lancaster county fields. What more
can be said Everybody is there and
there upon the street. The city keeps
the the season as a holiday, for, what
ever employers desire employees are
bent on a frolic. And they have it in
fulness ere the sun goes down. By that
time the crowds have vanished-the
horses have found their proper carriages
these have ratified with tired Lancas-
ter county people over the stones and out
of the gates and all is quiet.
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PRE.ADAMITE REPTILES.


While digging on the farm of Joseph
Jessup. Esq, near Mullica Hall. On the
l4th inst, some men struck the remains
of an animal, the study of which has
long engage the attention of scientific
men. The only portion of this fossilif-
erous specimen yet discovered is the
head, which measures six feet, and from
its construction indicated that it belonged
to the Mosasaurus species of the Third
Period, The body of this would be
sixty feet in length, and in breath four to
five feet. The collection taken shows
two rows of teeth in perfect state of
preservation, with extremely sharp edges
measuring from an inch to an inch and
half in length. Not knowing the value of
! the skeleton, no care was taken at first in
removing it from the mari. The collec-
tion is therefore, incomplete, and it may
be that the procuring of the remainder of
the bones Is impossible, owing to causes OF
which We will not speak. 1t was found
about six feet below the first strata of
mari. Prof Marsh, of Yale College dur
ing visit on Saturday, obtained the pos
session of these remains, to aid in COM
pleting the form of this animal, parts Of
which he had previously secured. Other
curiosities, of geological formations, were
found in the neighborhood, indicating that
the character of all these animals were
marine, and that they existed millions of
years ago. This peculiar species found
belongs to the snake tribe, somewhat re-
semblng the lizard in form, and had two
paddles. by which the motion of the body
was directed. A bone was found in the
mari pits by John w. Hazleton, Esq,
about four inches in diameter, of consid-
cradle weight, belonging to an animal
forty feet high, which stood on its hind
fee.- Woodbury. ( Conn Constitution.
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CARRIER PIGEONS At SEA.

| When the probable loss of the Inman
steamship City of Boston was first sug-
gested in the newspapers, on account of
her non-arrival at Liverpool, some one
in this country proposed the employment
of carrier pigeons as sea messengers of
distress. A prominent London journal
devotes long article to this proposition,
and urges that test of its practiclbility
be made. If it is certain, or even only
probable, that had there been suitably
trained carrier pigeons on the City of
Boston, we should now know the story
of her fate, the fact is one of no slight
interest and Importance.
There can be little doubt that the
missing steamer is finally and forever
lost. Whether she was destroyed by
colliding with an iceberg when few
days out from Halifax-as Mr.. Inman,
her owners, believes-or whether she was
consumed by fire caused by the over
heating of her engines, as has been ru-
mored, we shall probably never know.
And, if anything, it is this dreadful wa Mt
of knowledge that intensiGes the anguish
of those whose dear ones form,d part
of the precious human freight on board
the fated ship.
In order to employ carrier pigeons for
the conveyance of messages from vessels
in distress, it would be necessary to es-
tablish large dovecots as homes for them
at one or two of our important seaports,
from which they could be taken by out
ward bound ships. In case of accident
or peril, a slip of paper attached to one
of the birds would be swiftly borne to
the cot from which the pigeon came,
provided the distance were not too great,
and the bird could be induced to Fly from
the ship.
Five hundred miles is long fight for
the carrier pigeon, though sea birds can
can doubtless traverse longer distance
without touching the water more than
once ortwice But the speed of the
carrier pigeon is very great. At the
annual pigeon race in Belgium last July,
some 200 birds were sent from Brussels
to a place near Toulouse, $50 miles dis
tant. There they were let go, and the
winning bird reached Brussels in twenty
hours from the time he was liberated. II
England, carriers have flown 200 miles
in three hours and a half.
Useful, however, as carrier pigeons
might be in some cases; as where ship
was short of provisions, or her machinery
disabled, they would avail nothing, prob
ably, on the occurrence of sudden dis
aster. The outbreak of FIRE, or COLI
sion with an iceberg, are accidents so
terrible in their nature hat they leave
no time for any thoughts but those of
how to escape. And it is probable that
some such sudden and unexpected fate
befell the City of Boston some disaster
that would have rendered the writing of
a message and attaching it to bird
utterly impossible. But if she went
down in a storm at sea. and before she
had half crossed the ocean, carrier pig
cons taken from this side might well
have brought us the last words of her
to those in the world they
had left.-N. Y Sun.
Juniata sentinel. [volume] (Mifflintown, Pa.) 1846-1873, 1870-06-16
WHAT Is DIRTl

Old DIR. Cooper, of South Carolina, used
to say to his students ''Don't be afraid
of dirt, young gentlemen, What is dirt
Why, nothing at all offensive when cherni-
cally viewed. Rub little alkali upon the
dirty grease spot upon your coat, and is
undergoes chemical change and becomes
soap; now rub it with little water and it
disappears; tits neither grease, soap wa
ter, nor dirt. That is not very odorous
pile Of dirt you see yonder; well scatter
little gypsum over it and it is no longer
dirty. Every thing like dirt is worthy
your notice as students of chemistry.
Analy yze it analyze it 1t will separate
into very clean clements. Dirt makes
corn, corn makes bread and meat, and
that makes very sweet young lady that
| saw one of you kissing last night. So
after all, you were kissing dnt,-particu
larly if she whitened her skin with chalk
of fuller's earth. There is no telling,
young gentlemen, what is earth; though
/ may say that rubbing such stuff upon
the beautiful skin of a young lady is a
dirty practice Pearl powder, l think, is
made Of bismuth,-nothing but dirt"
Lord Palmerston slime definition of dirt
is. matter in the wrong ploce." Put it
in the fright place." and we cease to
think of it as dirt.-HeraM of HeaM
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4oeI's Gorner.
DREAM LAND.


Down a silent, tideless river,
Which we mortals have named Sleep,
Floats my soul all wrapt in slumber-
Floats adown its waters deep;
o. and on it drifteth slowly
With no sight, or shape around,
Through the silence and the darkness,
And the mystery profound.
As the thistle e-down, wind -wrafted,
Floateth without power or will,
So my soul floats DER that river
Ger its depths so dark and still,
Till like summer dawn there riseth
O'er the dark, golden light,
And through shadowy -builded portals,
She beholds that regioa bright.
Oh ! the glory of the Dream land f!
Who the tale shall dare to tell,
OF the strange and mystic beauty
Tha. within it eer doth dwell
OF the sigh and sounds Mysterious,
OF the shapes that through it glid,
With the old beloved faces,
Yet SO strangely glorifed
OF its treasures, weird yetlovely,
Like the secret of the sea;
Mortal eye may never fathom
All its bQauteous mystery
Far beyond our sunny Earthland,
Spreads this country fair, serene.
Through the clouds at sunset oft-times,
And in ''golden vistas" seen =
Through the clouds that, high and snow
tipt,
Hide its portals from our sight,
Save when souls are borne beyond them
On the thought-wings of the night,
Mist envelcped and surrounded,
Dim its valleys stretch away,
Dewy silence on its bosom
Now mystic veil doth lay.
To be continued.
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sllistsIIaarous 2taolng.
w HI rs u n L I'D E.
Its Celebration by the Good People OF Ian
caster.


A Jewish festival was the Pentecost
held, as can be guessed from its name
fifty days after the feast of unleavened
bread. To Christians its interest aris es
1 from the circumst stance that was the day
on which the Holy Ghost decenGed on
the Apostles, bringing to them the mar
vellous gift or tongues" In.
MEDIEVAL TINES.
and even prior to them, it may be-but
certainly in medieval times-the people
of Western Europe celebrated the Pente-
cost, as a season of great festivity, re-
garding it as a period of higher import
ance than can be easily explained by the
incidents attached to it, the record of
the Gospel, or Christian legends rather
vague. t
In the romances Of that time-delight.
full in their quaintness-we are told that
it was one of the great festivals of kings
and chieflains. 1t was the day on which
King Arthur is represented as holding
his most splendid court, and more SUBJ
stantial monarchs than he OBJ bserved it as
the grand festival of the year, looking
forward to it as the special season OF
chivalrous adventure of tilt and toruney.
From these circumstances we feel justi-
fed in supposing that the
CHRISTIAN PENTEcosT
had been identified with one of the great
summer festivals of the pagan inhabi-
tants of Western Europe. This is rem
dered more probable by the circumstance
that our Whitsuntide always has been
and still is one of the most popularity
festive periods Of the year. 1t was COM
monty celebrated in mighty draughs of
the Whitsuns ale and in the spots Of the
Morris dancers. England at one time
considered the festivities of such import
ance that their expences were betrayed
by the parish. Games of all kinds were
INDUCED in on each annual recurrence of
the day, some Of them peculiar to the
season, others more general, and archery
especially was much practiced. .. ,.i
In this country, America. j. never has
risen to the dignity of general holiday
"a season of JOY and festivity- but then
America has refused all the holidays of
the Old World, and Whitsun.ide was but
included in that weeping refusal. New
ertheless. in particular places, and among
particular classes, of our people, the sea-
son is far from being suppose to come
and 60 unobserved and uncelebrated.
Among these places and these people,
perhaps Lancaster county, in this State,
and the good
PEOPLE OF LANCASTER
are first in celebrating this era. Here
The people are, many of them, German,
the descendants Of Germans. They
speak the lingo known as the Lancaster
county Dutch,' aud wear in face and
firm mien undeniable marks Of their or
gin- They are Of the Vaterland, and
any stranger can at once see it. But let
no stranger imagine that they are of that
rude unedncated, emigrant class that he
encounters on the dock, green.f from the
land of wooden shoes and meerchaums
Far from it. Take gathering of our Lam
caster yeomen, and take a GATHERING of
your New England farmers, and the diff.
ference. if any, in regard eff intelligence
and self assertion, of pluck and quickness
is in favor of Lancaster.
Juniata sentinel. [volume] (Mifflintown, Pa.) 1846-1873, 1870-06-16

THEY tell how cruel father in New
Albany, Ind, was not long ago outwitted
by the ardent lover of his daughter
knowing there was savage dog on the
premises, the lover took an equally fero-
cious cur with him, and set the two to
fighting. While the old folks were try
ing to separate the combative beasts, the
girl slipped out the back door and was
married to her devoted John.
Juniata sentinel. [volume] (Mifflintown, Pa.) 1846-1873, 1870-06-16

REV. PETER CARTWRIGHT, the veter-
an Methodist preacher, was in Indianapo-
lis, Ind last week He is eiGhtv-sir
years of age, and has been an itincrant
preacher for sixty-fve years, and pre-
siding elferfor fifty years The reverend
gentleman looks old and feebl4, and
says he "can't preach any more all ho
can do is to talk ---
Juniata sentinel. [volume] (Mifflintown, Pa.) 1846-1873, 1870-06-16

A WESTERN corners jury returned a
verdict that the deceased came to his
death from exposure. "What do you
mean by that ?" asked relative of the
dead man "there are two bullet holes in
his skull" The cornor replied with a
wave of his magisterial hand :"Just so !;
he died from exposure to bullets"
Juniata sentinel. [volume] (Mifflintown, Pa.) 1846-1873, 1870-06-16

IDEA or DEATA.-That death and
sleep are very much alike the sages all
tell US, but see how very attractively
Leigh Hunt described the latter "It iss
delightful thing certainly, that of being
nestled into bed and feeling that you will
drop gently to sleep. The good is a.
come-not past. The limbs have been
just tired enough to render the remaining
in one position delightful. The labor OF
the day is done A gentle failure of the
perceptions comes stealing over one the
spirit of consciousness disengages itself
more and more with slow and hushing
degrees, Ike mother detachng her hand
from that of her sleeping child the mind
seems to have a balmy lid closing oyee
it, like the eye; It's closing-tis closed.
The mysterious spirit has gone to take
its rounds"
Juniata sentinel. [volume] (Mifflintown, Pa.) 1846-1873, 1870-06-16

THE manufacture Of oil from the cot
ton seed is making progress with every
prospect of ultimate success. 1t is soule
what surprising that the problem of the
use of cotton seed should not have been
solved long since, especially when we
consider how many thousand tons of it
have been allowed to go to waste in the
United States.
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Personal HABITS OF WASHINGTON.

Every American is eager to learn all
he can about Washington, and is never
weary of hearing anecdotes about him, or
incidents Of his private life. A letter,
just published, gives rsome facts about
him, in which our readers may be inter-
ested:
While the Fed ri City was building.
the Legislature of Pennsylvania voted
the President house, hoping, perhaps,
to keep the seat of government in Phila-
delphia. The house formerly occupied
as the University of Pennsylvania was
accordingly built for that purpose. But
as soon as General Washington saw its
dimensions, and good while before it
was finished, he let it be known that he
would not occupy it; that he certainly
should not go to the expense of purchsa-
ing suitable furniture for such dwelling
and hired instead a modest but comforta-
| bic residence
The President ate Indian cakes for
breakfast, after the Virginia fashion al
though buckwheat cakes were general
ly ou the table. Washington's dinner
parties were entertained in a very hand
some style.
His weekly dining day for company.
was Thursday. and his dining hour was
always four o'clock in the afternoon.
His rule was to allow five minutes for
the variation of clocks and watches, and
then go to the table, be present or absent
whoever might.
He kept his own clock in the hall, Just
within the outward door, and always ex-
actly regulated. When tagging members
of Congress came in, as they often did
after the guests had sat down to dinner,
the Presidents only apology was
"Gentlemen, Tor sir) we are too pune
tual for you | have cook who never
asks whether the company has come.''
He was always dressed in a suit Of
black, his hair powdered, and tied in "a
black queue behind, with very elegant
dress sword which he wore with inilnita-
bic grace.
Mrs. Washington often but not always
dined with the company, sat at the head
of the table, and if as was occasionally the
case, there were other ladies present, they
sat each side of her. The President sat
half way from the head to the foot of the
table, and on that side he would place
Mrs. Washington though distant from
him, on his right hand.
Juniata sentinel. [volume] (Mifflintown, Pa.) 1846-1873, 1870-06-16

REPoRTs from Central and Southern
France represented the appearance of
the crops of wheat as not promising.
while fair average crop is expected in
the Northern and Eastern sections.