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Girls Don't Talk Slang.

Girls don't talk slang If it is ne.
cessary that one in the family should do
that, let your big brother, though l
would advise him not to talk Pigeon
English when there is an elegant sys.
tematized language that he can just as
well use. But don't you do it. You
have no idea how it sounds to ears un-
used or aVeTse to it, to hear young la
dy, when she is asked to attend some
place of amusement, answer-"Not
much;" or if requested to do something
she does not wish to-"Can't see it -
Not long ago heard a Miss, who is ed
ucated and accomplished, say, in speak
ing Of young man, that she intended
to Ego for him!n and when her sister
asked her assistance at some work, she
ansWerCd-"N for Joe~ Now young
ladies of uneXceptional character and
really good education, fall into this hab-
it, thinging that it shows smartness to
answer back in slang phrase, and they
soon slip tlippantly from their tongues
with a saucy pertness that is not lady
like or becoming. Young men who
talk in that way, do not care to hear it
from the lips they love or admire. 1t
sounds much cOarser then, And really,
slang does not save time in use of Ian
guage, as an abbreviation. No! is
shorter and more decided than "Not
much" and 81 am sure" is quite as
easily said as "I'll betW More than
one promising wedding has been indef-
nitely postponed by such means, for,
however remiss young men may be
themselves, they look for better things
in the girls of their choice, and it does
not help them TO mend bad habit to
adopt ii too.
And young men who are really gen.
tlemen will not addict themselves to
slang phrases, much less use them in
presence Of ladies.
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The Ruins i'm Strasburg,
EFFECTS OF THE PRUssIAN lombard.
MENT.

EFFECTS OF THE PRUssIAN BoMBARD.
MENT.
A letter from the vicinity of Stras.
burg says:
The Public Library, the Temple Neuf,
the Museum of Paintings, the most
splendid houses in the finest quarter,
are now only heaps Of blackened ruins.
The first named institution was celebra-
ted throughout Europe. 1t contained
books and manuscripts unique in the
world, the result of centuries of labor,
patience and perseverance. Nothing
now remains but sheet of parchment
or paper-not document. The site Is
now encumbered with ruins, and all
that is to be seen is the carbonized GOV.
ers OF one or two books in corner. OF
the church of the Temple Neuf, the
largest protestant place of worship In
Strasburg, with its splendid organ and
renowned mural paintings, the four
walls alone remain. The Art Museum
at Aubette is totally destroyed, with
the building in which it was contained.
The Cathedral has hitherto only escaped
by miracle, the great disaster with
which it was menaced every night.
This morning again some fragments of
sculpture and stone from the walls were
found scattered about the ground, and
showed that cannon ball had struck
our magnificent monument; one of the
glories of the world. The Notre Dame
Asy lum, one of the Oldest and most
noted monuments of the middle ages,
has been injured by projecties. The
Hotel de Vile is shattered. The Coun-
ell Hall is devastated. Several private
residences are destroyed, those in the
Rue du Temple Neuf, from the library
to the Rue du Dome, have become prey
to the flames. The shells fell by dozens
and by hundreds in single street, and
as soon as the fire was lighted up pro.
jectives were poured like hail upon the
spot, no doubt for the purpose of pre-
venting the workers from getting the
flames under. The whole city is heaped
up with wreck, and the roots, chimneys
and facades of the houses are damaged
on all sides,
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The United States.

The United States is composed Of
thirty-two States and nine Territories.
They contain a population Of g4,O0o,.
600. of whom 28,000,O 900 are whites.
The extent Of sea coast Is 1850 miles.
The length Of ten principal rivers y
$4,000 miles.
The surface Of Ave great lakes is co..
600 square miles.
The number Of miles OF railroad in
operation is 10000, which cost over
$7s,OOO,OOO.
The length Of canals Is 5000 miles.
1t contains the longest railroad on
the globe-the Illinois Central, which
is 1874 miles in length.
The annual value of Its agricultural
production is s2OO,OOO,OOO.
Its most valuable production is Indi-
an corn, which is annually 40,OO0,O0O
bushels
The amount Of registered and enroll
ed tonnage is 100000.
The amount of capital invested in
manufactures is $6,000,000.
The value of farms and live stock Ia
$500, 900 900.
Its mines of gold and copper, lead
and iron, are among the richest In tho
world.
The value of gold produced Is 800
900, 900.
The surface OF its coal fields is 1888, l3l
square acres.
Within her borders are 80, 600 schools,
5000 academies, 235 colleges, and $500
churches.
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Eetter from General Lees Ply
SICian.

From the Fredericksburg Herald.
We have been permitted to copy the
following extract from a private letter
from DR.. II. 7. Barton, General Lees
attending physician, to his brother,
Judge w. S. Barton, of this city:
LEXINGTON, Oct. 13, 1870.
MY DEAR BROTHER IL have been
so engaged for two weeks with our dear
General that have been compelled to
leave many other matters unattended
to. AS the papers have contained very
inaccurate accounts of his case, and you
will desire to hear specially from me
our opinion, l will state it in a few
words.
He had but partly recovered from his
rheumatism, affecting the muscles of
his arms, back and chest, chiefly, and
in 1893, and about year ago, attacking
the pericardium, the sac containing the
heart, but never the heart itself, whose
regular rythmical beat has been main
tanned whenever examined by us. AT
ter very fatiguing day at college, he
attended an important meeting of the
vestry, and was detained for several
hours, but gave no evidence of being
unwell. AS he walked into his dining
room, where they were waiting tea for
him, he took his seat, and wss discov-
cred to have lost his speech.
| was summoned at once and found
his pulse rather weak, with cold ex-
remities, &c. Commenced the use of
remedies at once, and sent for DR.. Mad
is0n, who continued to attend him
with me to the end. He was in short
time able to speak a little, sometimes
in sentences, but generally only in re-
ply to questions. He remained thus
disposed to doze for most of the attack;
could be easily aroused and almost to
the very last seemed to understand all
that was said to him, and responded by
words or signs, without any great de-
preston. He evidently neither expect
ed nor desired to recover. After i'm
proving almost steadily till last Sunday
he began TO retrograde, and on Monday
evening the 10th instant alarming
symptoms set in, and we had little
hopes after that time. We consider his
prOTacted grief at the condition Of his
country and tie continued suppression
Of his strong .Jeeiing, the chief remote
causes, and excessive fatigue and men
tai application, the immediate cause of
congestion of the veins of the brain;
and though not producing apopleXy, OF
which there was no evidence Che NOV
ing every muscle almost at the last
hour, this gtstion caused most Sc
riOuS loss of nervous power, and result
Cd in lesion of the substance of the
brain itself Our people are more par
alyZed than he was. | never witnessed
aught like it.
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VINO Pays the Taxes

The Radicals tell us poor people pay
no taxes.
Let us see.
The great manufacturers may think
they pay the taxes manufactured
goods; but do they
Whatever tax they pay they charge
to the wholesale purchaser, and receive
1t back with interest.
The wholesale dealer adds the tax,
with still mere interest, to the retail
tore.keeper.
The storekeeper puts his own tax aud
all the accumulated taxes the othess
have charged to him upon each and
every piece Of the article when he seAs
1t over the counter to the workingman.
This is what makes things so dear.
The laborer buying goods In the store
has to pay not only the original value
of the thing but all the tax that hiss
been paid at each stage by the manu-
facturer, Wholesale dealer and store
keeper.
Each OF these in turn recover from the
| next man the amount of tax they have
paid; but the last man, the laborer, the
consumer, the ultimate owner of the
article who does not sell it to anybody
else, but keeps 1t. uses it, and wears 1t
out, who pays him the accumulated
taxation which all these richer men
have, one after the other piled upon
the goods, to enable them to meet the
demands of the tax .gatherer
The tax is shifted from manufacturer
, to the wholesale dealer, and from him
TO the workingman.
But on whom shall the workingman
shift the taxes?
He must pay it all, and gets none Of
it back Fl Jm anybody else.
AS long as the. goods are being sold
and transferred from hand to hand, SO
long the tax is kept shifting from one
mans back to another; but when the
article ceases to be turned over in trade
and becomes applied to the same use 1t
was designed then the tax can be no
further shifted.
The man who wears the shirt pays
the tax of the storekeeper who sold 1t,
of the wholesale dealer who supplied it
10 the storekeeper, and of every man
who has handled it, back to the cotton
millionaire in whose mills 1t was
woven.
AS Jefferson says-"Taxation Is like
a ball rolling down stairs; 1t bumps on
each step, but fiually rests on the
lowest"
1t is the working masses who pay the
taxes; 1t is they who have the deepest
interest in the honest and economical
administration of the Federal Govern.
ment.
1t is their money that pays the ex-
travagance of Radicalism at Washing
ton.
The men in this country who work
with their hands for daily bread are
the ones who pay the four hundred
million dollars year which the Radi-
Gals contrive to dissipste in carrying on
the government.-Er.
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COL. DEM. -. VOL. XXXIV.. mo. 81.

and that the work of death is usually
done In shorter time than itonce was
Indeed there is no other way than this
of explaining how 1t was that in such
frightful battles as those of B0rodino,
Eylau, and Bautzen, with the old mus
ket and artillery, the ratio of killed and
wounded was as great as in the Franco
Prussian war to-day, with all the inn
proved appliances of Chassepots and
rified guns. Our own war, extending
over vast area and in new country,
was highly exceptional, as was also that
of the Crimea, for obvious reasons. But
where the combatants are able quickly
to concentrate their strength and get at
each other, issues are much more speed
lily decided. All the later European
contests exemplify this, and seem to
show that the protracted encounters of
past history are unlikely to be repeated.
Indeed, whatever the will or the obsti-
macy of the combatants, it is plain that
no such fighting as we have lately seen
could be long maintained. Exhaustion
must soon come for both combatants.
The inherent property of the gigantic
conflicts are, that they must be short
ones. Destruction is swifter and more
fearful, but that it is sooner over is, at
least, some consolation for those who
witness without being able to prevent
the devastation and suffering wrought
by the co1nbats of modern nations.-N.
y Times.
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IF the wandering death bed utteran-
ces of the two great Confederate chief
tains, "Stonewall" Jackson and Robert
+. Lee, may be considered as final upon
the late Confederate General A. p. Hill,
who lost his life at the closing battle of
the war, then he must be accepted by
history as the most trusted coadjutor of
these eminent commanders. In his
dying moments, Jackson exclaimed,
"Send A. P. Hill to the frontW Upon
his death bed at Lexington, General
Lee, as the telegraph states, his mind
reverting to the bloody events Of the
war, "once ordered his tent to be struck,
and at another time desired Hill to be
sent for" Thus does it appear that, in
the supreme moments of the closing
hours of those men upon whose shout
ders rested the heaviest burdens of the
war upon the side OF the Coniederacy,
came the utterances, "born of delirium"
but more solemn for that reason, that
stamps General A. P. Hill as a man
whose presence was to be desired and
whose fidelity was assured. No higher
compliment could be paid 70 his mem
ory than these parting words Of Les
and Jackson.-N. y. World.
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YANKEE PROFUNDITY.-The editor
ed the following epistle for advocating
town assistance to the Air Line Rail
road; "Windham, Conn, Sept. II, 1870.
Editor: want my paper stopped i
can't stand to have you telling me how
to spend my money nor won't. When
you told folks to vote yes you overstep-
ed your orthorty, AS a publick journ'
alist hold your no rite to advercate
what you do, Napolin you say is CRATE
man and say he amt, and your pinion
amt no better an mine. Railroads is a
humbug. Taxes is burden and yure a
fule. Stop mi paper I'll never pay "a
mother scent. Yours etc."
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How it was Done.

A gay young spark who longed had sighed
To take an heiress for bride,
Though not in vain he had essayed
To win the favor of the maid
Yet fearing, from his humble station
To meet her fathers old negation,
Made up his mind without delay
To take the girl and run away!
A pretty plan-what could be finerc
But, as the maid was yet minor,
There still remained this slight obstruction
He might be punished for "abduction"
Accordingly he thought 1t wise
To see the squire and take advice
A cunning knaye, who loved a trick
AS well as fees, and skilled to pick,
AS lawyers can, some fatal flaw
To help client cheat the law.
Before him straight the case was laid,
Who, when the proper fee was paid,
Conceived at once happy plan,
Aud thus the counsellor began:
"ioung man, no doubt the wisest course
Is this Tonight you get a horse,
And let your lady love get on.
AS soon as ever this Is done,
You get On too-but, bark ye mind,
She rides before; you ride behind;
And thus, you see, you make it true
The lady runs away with you !"
That very night he got the horse
And put the lawyers plan in force;
Who fonnd next day-no laughing matter
The truant lady was his daughter!
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THE RULERS OF FRANCE 1t seems
impossible for any sovereign Of Francs
to die upon the throne and bequesth
his power to his immediate descendants.
or all the sovereigns OF France since
l774, Louis Napoleon has had the Ion
gest reign as President and Emperor.
They thus compare: Louis XVI. eigh'
teen years; Napoleon l., fifteen years.
Louis XVIII, nine years; Charles X.
six years; Louis Philippe, eighteen
years, and Louis Napoleon, twenty
two years,
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ONE of the neatest instances OF the
misuse of negatives is furnished in a
bull of Cobbett's, In one of his "Ru-
raj Rides" he says: 81 saw no corn
standing in ricks; thing never saw
before, and would not have believed it
had | not seen it,"
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The Breton Mariners Prayer.
by MATTE WEAVER.

BY MATTE WEAVER.
"Keep me, my God my boat is so small an
Thy ocean is so wide p
SO wide, my Father and the waves SO rough,
wilt thou not guide my tiny bark?
The lighthouse oft mine eyes cannot discern,
o! keep me when the skies are dark.
So wide, oh, Father shall ever reach
That farther, distant golden side?
All. mine eyes oft fill and my heart oft faints
Because Thy ocean is so wide
SO wide, my Father, that my yearning gaze
Fails to descry the farther shore;
All idly Tapping are my widespread sails,
My boat slow glides the waters Ger.
But Thou wilt guide me safe my Father, for
Thou knowest my boat is small;
And while / sail the darksome water DER
rest on Thee. my llfe-my all!
Oh, Father, when the restless ocean-lfe
Tosses my bark, wilt Thou not gude9
Into the harbor Thou must bear me safe;
All, me! the ocean is SO wide!
Remove, Sept. %, 1870. Clinton Demoo' at,
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A FOREIGNER who heard of the YAM
kee propensity for Dragging, thought
he would beat the natives at their own
game. Seeing some very large water
melons on market-woman's stand he
exclaimed, "What! don't you raise
larger apples than these in America ?"
The quick-witted woman Immediately
replied, Anybody might know you're
a foreigner, them's goosebeTiesW
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Executors or Administrators Notice, sS'W'
Auditors or r'Assignee's Notice, $3.50.
Local notices, twenty cents line; by the yes,
ten cents.
Cards In the Business Directory" coiumn' 'ss'~
nor wear for the first two lines and slOO for each
additional line.
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The first velvet factory in the United
States, has been started by French
colony at Franklin, Kansas, (
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Philadelphia Directory.

EAGLE HOTEL.
@27 NORTH THIRD STREET,
r.. d. CUMMINGS, PROPRIETOR.
ESTABLISHED 1893.
JORDAN & BROTHER,
Wholesale Grocers, and Dealers in
sALTPETRE AND BRIMsToNE
No 24s North Third St.
Philadelphia.
G. II. HORNE. WIS. KING. ]. b. sEYBERT.
HORNE, KING & SEYBERT,
WHOLESALE DRY GOODS.
No. 42l Market Street
PHILADELPHIA.
orders filled promptly at lowest prices.
January 8, 1865,
III. W. RANKS
WHOLESALE TOBACCO, SNUFF, AND
CIGAR WAREHOUSE,
no. li6 North Third Street,
Between Cherry and Race, west side
Philadelphia.
EtRANh & SIREICH,
Successors to l. H. walter,)
Importers and Dealers in
QUEENswARE CHINA, AND GLASS,
No. 234 N. Third Street,
Between Race and Vine SITS.
PHILADELPHIA.
{. B. BRhsnM, sfnSrcu. Genr Partners.
,,- l. II. WALLER. Special Partner.
I M. KEPHEART,
y WITH
BARNES, BRO. & HEBRON,
HATS, CAPS, STRAW GOODS & FURs,
No. SOB Market Street,
(Above FinhO
PHILADELPHIA.
John STROUP & CO.,
Successors to stroup & Brother,
WHOLESALE DEALERS IN FISH.
No. "A North Wharves and 25 North Third st
Philadelphia.
y RICHARDSON l.. WRIGHT, JR.
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
NO. 12s SOUTH SIXTH STREET.
PHoLADELPHI
oct. %, '69-1y
WILLIAM FISHER
WITH
THOMAS CARSON co.
WHOLESALE
DEALERS IN HOSIERY,
MEMS FURNISHING GOODS,
LINENS & NOTIONS
NO. Is NORTH FOURTH STREET
Philadelphia.
iune H. 69-6m
M AIN WRIGHT & CO.,
WHOLESALE GROCERS,
n. L. Corner Second and Arch Streets,
PHILADELPHIA,
Dealers in
TEAS, SYRUPs. COFFEE, SUGAR, MOLASSES
RICE, SPICES BI CARB SODA, &C., &c.
sD-Orders will rec eive prompt attention.
may lO,67-tf
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Hotels.
BRlcK HOTEL
oRANGEVILLE, COLUMBIA COUNTY, PA.
ROHR M,HENRY. Proprietor.

This well known House, having been put in
thorough repair is now open TO the traV cling
liquors and cigars, and the table will be, at all
times, supplied with the delicacies of the season.
No pans will be spared 10 insure the comfort of
guests.
Orangeyille dec, 10. 'bg-tC
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Espy.
Buck Horn.

nj q. d W. II. SHOP MAKER, dealers in dry
W goods, groceries and general merchandise.
j. irNt store in south end OF town. V2-nlS
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portital Selections.
An Old Ballad.

The famous ballad of "Darby and Joan" hav-
ing been called for by a learned pundit and 9TH
ers we present copy, furnished by a lady, MS
printed In Notes and Quefies," and also In Da.
vid Goung's Almanac OF 1879
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VOLUME " mo "A.
Orangeville Directory.

A e. W. COLEMAN, Merchant Tailors and
a: cents fqrnishing goods, Main St., next door
W the BrlcR Hotel. vl-n47
The Daily telegraph. (Monroe, La.) 1870-1886, 1870-12-20
TRANSPORTATION.
OFFICE OF NORTH LA. Il TEXAS
RAILROAD COMPANY.

MONROE, La, Dec. I'd, 1870.
On and after Sunday, the 4th inst, the
trains on this Road will run as follows:
PASSENGER TRAINS.
Leave Monroe daily at 5 A. M.
Arrive at Delta IL 90 A. M.
Leave Delta at 2 90 P. M.
Arrive at Monroe 7.45 P. NJ
FREIGHT TRAINS.
Leave Monroe at 6 A. NJ. on Monday, wed
Leave Delta at I A. NJ. on Tuesday, Thurs
day and Saturday.
Through freight per car load Will be car
ried by passenger train.
Way freight will be shipped by freight
train. .,.-
Freights for Flag Stations will be de!iv-
cred at the designated points at OWNERS
RISK, whether there be any person there to
receive it or not.
Freights for Flag Stations must be pre-
paid.
A daily line of four-horse coaches connect
at Monroe for Shreveport-thencev via South
ern Pacific RailrOad-tO Marshall, Halls
Vile and Longview, Texas.
J.W. GREEN,
Engineer and superintendent.
decl2@d3m
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MONROE ADVERTISEMENTS.

K 4 : + ||||||| !
= = =
AMILY ROGER,
DESIARD STREET,
MONROE, 10 ULSIANA,
Has constantly on hand and for sale, Gro
ceries of all description, such as
SUGAR,
MOLASSES,
COFFEE, HAMS, BACON,
LARD, BUTTER, CHEESE, FLOUR,
POTATOES, ONIONS, CIGARS, TOBACCO,
OYSTERS, SARDINES, LIQUORS OF
ALL KINDS, PRESERVES,
IN GLASS AND CANS.
FRUITS OF VARIOUS KINDS
AS LOW AS POSSIBLE FOR CASH.
Monroe, La, Feb'y 10, 1869 n221y
HENRY KING JR.'
WHOLESALE AND RETAIL DEALER IN
DRY GOODS, .t..
GROCERIES, AND +t...t
PLANTATION SUPPLIES,
MONROE, La,
Keeps constantly on hand large and
we'll selected stock Of
STAPLE AND FANCY DRY GOODS
BOOTS AND SHOES,
HATS AND CAPS,
CLOTHING,
HARDWARE,
sADDLERY,
GROCERIES, GALL kinds,)
WINES,
LIQUORS.,
DC, &C., &C.,
and will sell them as cheap as the cheapest.
N. B.-Highest cash price paid for Cotton,
Hides and Country Produce. decled3m
II GERSON, JR., .-.. .,.tt,.f
DEALER
Dry Goods, Boots and Shoes, Hats and
Caps, Notions, &C., Groceries, CrOckery,
Saddlery, Guns, Pistols, and General Plan
tation Supplies. /"
Highest price paid for cotton and other
produce.
Liberal cash advances made on consign-
ments to his friends in New Orleans.
dec12d3m
CURGHNOR & MULLIN,
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II GERsON, JR., ...i.,,f
LII DEALER IN
Dry Goods, Boots and Shoes, Hats and
Caps, Notions, &C., Groceries, Crockery,
Saddlery, Guns, Pistols, and General Plan
tatiOn Supplies.
Highest price paid for cotton and other
produce.
Liberal cash advances made on cOnsign-
ments to his friends in New Orleans.
decl+d3m