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The post. [volume] (Middleburg, Snyder County, Pa.) 1864-1883, 1871-03-23

SAID q loving wife to her husband y
I" win you never learn, my dear, the
difference between real and exchange
able value ~ The husband, tired 'of
political economists in pctticoats, re-
piled "'Ah yos, my dear 1 know
your great learning and many virtues.
That's your real valur. But ! also
know that mono of my married friends
would swap wives with me. That's,
your exchangeAble value" l
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On WASH. GRANELLO,
m WATCH d CLOCK
A.A M AkER,

Market 81. Middleburg Pa.
HAVING located in i6is place | would
IL respectfully inform the citizens OF
Middlebusg and vicinity that am prepared
to repair CLOCKS AND WATCHES cheap
and expeditiously. The patronage Of the
public is respectfully solicited.
W. GRANELL0.
Middleburg, Nov. "a 1869.
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Total ssio,Ts sI7,oa
Expenditures
Auditors services, including Clerk $50
Assessors Pay.
Ass'rs, services in making altera's 1913 50
do do under Registry sct S42
do do making military ret'ns 81 rs
do do do trianninl ass'nt 3s9
do taking g. do sepianuial census 72
Elections.
Amt paid TO Return Judges, &c 316 II
+" Z" Constables for advertising
and serving notices III 10
Weights and Measures.
W o Hickok, for one set Weights and
Measures for county, as directed
by act Of Assembly 263 so
Eastern Penitentiary.
Eastern Penitentiary for support Of
convic,s in 1869 so "A
hquests.
BENZ Houseworth, costs and fees for
holding inquest on dead body Of
VIM Botdorf, Of Selinsgrove 10 20
Ridges.
" A Bell for new bridge ut Selinsgv geo 95
Carey 4 Schnure for lumber &c for
reps Of Selinsg'v & Longs bridges l03 46
Schoch & Bro. spikes sc. for same IL
]. .Houseworih ct al, lumber, hauling
and labor nj same 3S 3J
Hummel s Hover, lumber for Sc
linsgrove Bridge 81 10
Hiestand Boyer, nails, spikes, oil,
paint. etc, for same l8 AZ
Samuel Gemberling. hauling sc. to
KaDtz's, and gravel and hauling &
filing in at Selinsgrove bridges "a
John Helm, ct al, labor st Kantz's,
Blacksmithing, bolts. spikes Sc.
at selinsgrove bridges l43 20
W W Cawley ct al labor &c at
Kanlx's bridges 1866 81
NJ Frymoyer, work at Letters bridge 0
A Specht building new bridge over
Middlecreek 10 Franklin tp 1899
Same for extra work in making said
bridge fee, longer end one foot
higher than contracted for $50
Benz kupp building new bridge over
Middlebreek, near Kanty's Mill,
per ooutract 1885
y Yosi, for plank and repairs at
bridge near bis mill 9 20
Richard Lloyd filing in abutmsnts
at.nsw 6elinsgrove bridge ~
- w. ssP osseko su' w bSo'ci'P -
Samuel Derss material and repairing
bridge near Troutmsn's Mill SO 06
Jac Houseworth, plank, hauling, &c
at Longs mill % 81
WAgensellsr 4 Son for spikes and
Males for repairs at bridges 2 81
Ed Gemberling, for hauling gravel
70 Selinsgrove bridge 4 96
John Helm and others, for plank,la
Dor, haul ng etc for repairs At Sc
linsgrove and Kants's bridges "a 10
= Bolig. repairing Rogers bridge 33
J Drummer, hauling and labor at same 26 80
W Bowersox Al days mssonwork st
same and Furnace bridge l3 81
r Eisenhower. masonwork, hauling,
labor and lime st same " Is
Fred Bolig, repairing Furnscs bridge II
Jacob Sesbold building new iron cord
bridge across Nshuntsngo erssk,
per contract o08
Same. extra Tor buildloe sah bridge
10. fest longer end 3 fsel higher
!! II;;:' I;|::';; q '''' . y, I
The post. [volume] (Middleburg, Snyder County, Pa.) 1864-1883, 1871-03-23

I P. CRONMILLER.

W ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Middlcburg, Pa,
0ffsrs his professional services to the pub
lie. Collections and all other professional
business entrusted to his care will receive
prompt attention. fJan 3, '67if
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The following items were paid for
running lines between the counties
Of Union, Snyder. Mifilin and Cen
tire. as directed by Act OF Assembly
approved the fifth Of April, 1870:
Aaron X Gift, surveyor, in part 3
q no,xao a..,,,n,t ;,,lud;py ,xN's
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Advertising Rates.

One eoiumnopc year : $4,000.
One half column, one year, 5000.
e-fourtb column. ops year, 1900.
One square no lines) one insertion 80.
Every additional insertion so.
Professional and Business cards Of
not more than Ave lines, per year 600.
Auditor, Executor, Administrator
and Assignes Notices 2,J0.
Editorial notices per lines 10.
All advertisements for q shorter period
than one year arc PAYABLE at the time
they are ordered, and IL not paid the per-
son ordering them will be held responsible
for the money.
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County In debt January !, ISL, 1855. %
Snyder County, SIS;
We, the undersigned, Auditors
OF Snyder county, DO Certify. that we have
carefully examined and audited tho iorcgone &C.
count OF the Commissioners and Treasurer OF
snyder county according to law, and that we
lind the same true and correct as stated.
In testimony whereof We have hereunto set
our hands In tho Commissioners office, In Mid.
dleburg, the 9th day Of January, A. d., ISL.
HENRI BENFERR,l
n; L. HAsSiHGER, Auditors.
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uyM VAN GEZER

I NJ. LINN, A.'H DILL,
H. (Successors to j. +. 4 J. M. Linn,)
ATTORNEYS AT LAW, Lewisburg, Pa.
: Offer their professional services to the
public. Collections and all other pro-
fessional business entrusted to their care
will cceiveprompt attention. Jan. o, 'G7if
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Aug Arnold do do across Mahunt'go 10
Scboch 4 Bro repairing bridge near
their Mill s,
Moses Krcbbs. filing abutmcnts at
Ulsh's bridge .
The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1871-05-21
70 tho Editor OF The Ph@ni:r.

To tho Editor OF the Ph@nir.
Mr.. EprroH:~ In your issue -of. this
date. under the title OF "Local Items, I"
there is an article protesting to give to
the. publican account OF the hearing Of
the application on, behalf of VIM. D.
Aiken, Esq, for bail, made before udge
Melton. ons yesterday morning. In this
article, the following sentence occurs:
Solicitor Talley, assisted by BIessrs.
Worthington and Hoge, insisted that it
was capital offence. and consequently
was not bailable." Lam obliged, in JUS.
tice to myself, to say that this statement
is not true in any sense. It may and
doubtless does arise from mistake or
misunderstanding, but, nevertheless. I
claim it as an act Of Justice to me that
this.error be corrected.
! had no understanding with Messrs.
Worthington Hoge of any ground to
be taken, but was first Informed bv
them, when 1 passed their Office on nv
way to the Court House, that they were
retained to aid tho prosecution. I, ut
the same moment, got the testimony be.
lore the Coroner, which was NIL the evil
dence on the part of the prosecution,
and Ind not seen or heard the af1idavits
on the part OF the prisoner. and conse-
quently withheld my conclusion in re-
gard to the course TO be pursued. Upon
the conclusion Of the showing on each
side. Messrs. Worthington g. Hoge sue
oessively argued the case, presenting the
view that the offence WAS not bailabie.
In accordance with uniform practice, I
reserved the presentation of my view as
the last OF the argument on the part of
the State: but in this purpose I was an-
ticipated by the announcement, on the
conclusion of the two arguments alluded
to, that the Judge desired to hear no.
thing furthsron the question, whether
the offence ps exhibited by the evidence
was ballable. Upon this announcement,
it is manifest that it would have been
improper. as we'll as wholly useless, that
should say anything on q point ruled
by the Court. Consequently. said not
u syllable on this question. It is mani
fest, from this statement, that neither
expressed nor indicated any suoh opinion
rs is imputed to me in the sentence
above quoted. Yours respectfully,
VIM. II. TALLEY,
Solicitor Of Fifth Circuit.
May 90, 1871.
The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1871-05-21

A California paper gives the sequel to
. Newark elopement case. About four
years ago, the young wife Of Jacob
Besar, baker. in the upper part Of this
city, eloped with n yonng Swede. Now
comes the intelligence that the erring
wife has shot her betrayer, and commit
ted suicide herself, by opening the veins
in her arms.
The New York Commercial Advertiser
disloyally says that the Constitution,
once the ''mantle of the republic" is
now only sort Of political bsd-quilt,
with all ''ism" beneath every patch.
It is rnmored that the English Govern
ment will propose as their remedy for
Ribbonism in Ireland, that in cases Of
offences committed by members of the
Ribbon Society, the prisoners shall
be tried by three judges, without jurv.
1t is fact that after the Republican
portion of the Legislature had been tho
roughly thrashed. it took all the chaff
out OF them. and lefs ii,em, MOI wi1eut,
but wry. y.-Ne,O York: E0ening Leader.
Elijah SINNERS. OF Towscnton, Mary
land, fell into vat OF slop aud was
burned in snch manner ns TO cause his
death on the 9th inst.
A man named Cowan was burned to
death, on the 18th instant, in small
honse which was also burned at Brook
lyn. New York, on that date.
A Texas letter to the Pittsburg Com
mercial asserts that "the Ratlicals much
fcnr tho visit of Horace Greeley with his
morbid Humanitarian heart"
The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1871-05-21

The NEaRo KU KLux.-Robeson
County, North Carolina, is pilIaged by
a gang OF negro outlaws, who maintain
themselves in the swamps. whence they
sally out to rob and murder.
A few months ago, they murdered the
sheriff of the County. Tom Lowrey,
leader OF the gang. was captured, but
broke Jail. Sumo time afterwards. the
new sheriff of Robeson summoned the
County posse and surrounded Tom Low
rey's house. The outlaw broke through
the line and made his escape. After
wards he was captured, and on his trial
on the charge of resisting an officer, Il
MIR. Purnell and his son, who had been
OF the party summoned by the sheriff,
gave testimony against the prisoner.
Thereupon Henry Berry Lowrey, the
present leader Of tho gang, threatened
vengeance against tho Pnrnells. Tho
Robesonian, OF the 11th, gives tho parti-
culars of an attempt to carry this threat
into execution. A band of negroes,
hideously disguised, made descent on
Mr. Purnell's house, and ordered his
wife to get them something to eat. She
was greatly terrified, but set about pre-
pairing meal, in the meantime sending
of her son on nu excnse, to give his
father, who was working on the farm,
warning. This he succeeded in doing,
and Mr.. Purnell and the oldest son
took to the woods, where they concealed
themselves. The disguised gang did
not appear to be anxious about eating,
but remained ut the house till 10 o'clock
at night, waiting the return of Pnrnell.
It then became evident that their in
tended victim had taken the alarm, when
they proceeded to plunder the premises,
and carried off with them oil the arms
that we're in the house, the clothing Of
the family, about 4OO pounds of bacon,
nearly whole barrel OF -four, and vari.
Gus other articles. No insult or personal
violence was offered to any member Of
the household. but warming was left
that if anything was said about that
visit, they would return aud murder tho
whole family. Thus, it seems. continues
the R0besoninn. that we are all complete
ly at the mercy of this murderous band
of marauders and assassins. Henry
Berry Lowrey and his band arc to all
intents and purposes perfect masters of
the situation. The citizens of this
County hold their property and their
lives subject to the will Of these despot
fienGs, and from this condition of things
there seems no immediate or even remote
prospect of relief.
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A desnrted wife in Pennsylvania, WHO
has advertised her errant husband, says:
He is tall man, about fifty years old.
has considerable money and high fore
head, long face and lantern -jawed man,
q bad man with fist like giant, and
has often beat me. and I want him to end
his duys in penitentiary. where he be.
longs; and he wears gray coat, with q
very large mouth, and one blue eye and
one blind blue eye. and hideous-look-
ing man, and want him brought slap
up in the law with blue pants"
A MURDER AND MYsTERy.-A brutal
murder has been committed in the neigh
borhood OF the sixty-nine mile post on
the South Carolina Railroad. beyond the
Edisto River. A youDg mulatto. named
Ashley F. Carroll. n resident Of Charles
ton, md brickIayer by trade, who had
gone to Midway to do some masonry
work. was found by the roadside quite
dead, ind with the marks of heuvy
blows with an iron bar upon his head,
frncturing the skull. Charleston Mems.
At Syracuse, New York, on Thursday
evening, house Of ill repute was burned
John Dings, tho proprietor. and John
Hand pertshed in the flames.
The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1871-05-21

Tho jewish Messenger, speaking Of tho
terms Jews" and "Lsraelites," saws
'that Jews is applied to us with par
ticular suitableness, will appear to oil
who reflect on our past history. for the
greatest bulk Of our people, especially
styled Israel, has been lost. The He.
brews OF the days of Mosen and the
Judges. as compact nation, exist no
longer: The Jews alone. the descend
ants OF the Judeans, who returned to
Palestine by the ediot of Cyrus, perpetu-
ated our race and beoame the witnesses
OF religious truth"
The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1871-05-21

The great pigeon roost this year, it is
reported, is at Kilbuln City, Wisconsin.
For three weeks the pigeons. in number
less and continuous focks, have been
flying from South to North, darkeninp
the light and filling the air with the
sonnd Of their wings. The hotels and
boarding HOUSES are full OF trappers and
hunters from oil parts Of the North
the ooopars are busy making barrely,
ind nens women and ohildreniare hard
ut work packing up the pigeons. From
10. oM to, 10000. pigeohs are. sent off
cvory day. ).
The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1871-05-21

TERRIBLE RESULT OF FAMILY OuAn.
REn.-A special despatch to the Courier.
Jourual. from Owensborough, KY, on
the 18th instant, says that farmer
named Gain. while passing through an
adjoining farm, belonging to Mr.. sum
mers, was shot at and slightly wounded
by Summers. The latter's wife Joined
in the attack, and fred three times.
wounding Cain twice. Cain then seized
an axe, and nearly split Summers head
open. Mrs. Summers was also hit on
the heed with the axe, end shot in the
head aud breast with her husbands pis-
tol; which Cain seized. The two are
dying. Gain was shot in the head,
shoulder and bowels. The last wound
will probably prove mortal. An enmity
has excited between the man since Cain
fired at Mrs. Summers last spring. Each
had forbidden the other TO pass through
their respective farms.
The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1871-05-21

A RUINED Y-186G-the daught
ter OF Presbyterian clergyman in the
centre Of this State, who had been
reared in strict and rigid manner, pro-
ceeded to New Haven, Conn, to spend
month with friends during the college
commencement season. While there,
taking advantage of tho new freedom
from restraint afforded her, she carried
on extensive dirtations with the students,
nnd was ruined by member of the
senior class. He persuaded her to leave
her friends and return with him to New
York. instead of going home. Singular
to relnte, she appeared almost from
choice to enter upon city designations and
excesses, until, becoming thoroughly
hardened and depraved. sister came on
to visit her and persuade her to go back
to her fathers home. Instead Of doing
80, however, the visiting sister was also
persuaded to remain and enter upon the
same terrible life which her sister was
lending. Since then the two abandoned
women hnve lured their two younger sis
ters away from the parental roof, and the
four are now keeping what is known ns ~
fashionable bagnio." between Twenty
fifth and Twenty eighth streets, on the
West side of the city. A moro melnn-
choly instance OF the power of older
upon younger members of fnmily never
came to notice. Parents, unqnestiona-
bly,. sometimes commit a mistake in
bringing up their children under too
vigorous regulations. especially if they
be strong positive natures.
Rochester Express
The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1871-05-21

Doctorsso rarely take their own medi-
cine that We are not surprised to hear Of
44Saore! Grants rudeness TO the Haytien
Minister. who purposely being invited
to dine at the White House. while absent
from Washington. returned in sime to
attend the dinner, and was so snubbed
BY his white entertainer, that he left che
White House in disgust. While not
condemning the President for his natural
distaste against dining with negroes. we
cannot forget that. Us the head of the
nation, it is incumbent upon him to set
an example of the duty he assigns his
subjects. In this he has disappointed
the expectations OF oil, and once more
fully realized the truth of the old
African maxim White mnn berry un-
sartin." .i..
The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1871-05-21

The proposed new deal OF United
States troops. throughout the South, will
require additions to the United States
afmy-increasing it to about four times
its present strength. Quite n lively
rivalry has already sprung up among the
Governors of the States to be thus
honored as to the share OF troops to be
allotted them respectively. In inst so
much as the bayonets are strengthened
will fresh plunder-schemes he prcseout.
cd. @E
The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1871-05-21

The, grand jury Of Camden County.
Ga; at the spring term OF tho Superior
Conrt last week, presented the District
COURT as Q nuisance, and recommended
it's abolition. .ii '' -, '.
The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1871-05-21

NORTHERN SETTLERS RECEP-
TIoN.-On this subject. the Carolina
Weekly Star says:
A great deal has been published in
Northern newspapers concerning the
immigrated into the South since the re-
lored by prejudice, but good deal Of it
is honestly stated. Men take very diff
ferent views of their surroundings, ow-
ing to their different tastes, susceptible
ties, prejudices or judgments. When O
Northern man comes South singly and
settles in strange neighborhood, he is
very apt to imagine that every little So
oially unpleasant incident which may
happen is in some way connected with
the fact that lie is q Northern man. And
nine times out Of ten it has no conneo.
tion with that fact whntever. North
CarOlinians have migrated from thiH
State to regions of the Southwest. and
have encountered os much that was disa.
greeable as many of the immigrants from
the North into the Southern States com.
plain of. Men are by nature not only
cautious, bnt jealous of strangers. And
when there are decided differences of
taste and feeling, the coldness resulting
is more difficult to break through
These things must be expected and cal
culated on. They nre inseparable from
the nature Of men, and are especially
incident to time of great Irritation,
like the present. when nine out Of every
ten OF the best class of Southern citi-
zens have got the impressi,n correctly
or incorrectly, we do not undertake to
decide which, that the Government Of
the country is engaged in systematic
effort to deprive them of their constitu-
tional liberties.
Our true interest is to encourage
Northern immigration. and we advise
cur people to be kind and sociable to all
Northern immigrants settling among
them, provided their conduct will justify
II. we should claim no right to influ-
enoe the opinions Of men. But of their
o1nduot we hive right to Judge; and
| ~seneVer that becomes such that Rssoci-
aIion would be encouraged and unplea-
| aaht' 1t !s better to ont loose from such
| associations. But the true plan for
MoIsnern ~ men desiring to come South. ns
a",a:st: "o naso heretofore suggested, is to form
associa1ions OF say half dozen families
purchase large plantation and divide it
mp among themselves. In this way they
become lndependent of that feeling Of
coldness which is felt towards STRANGERS
everywhere; for it is indifference and not
nnfriendliness they will have to enconn.
ter; when their good qualities come to
be known and appreciated by their ma D
neghbors, more intimate social relations q
will arise.
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The MEN OF ONE BooK.-Looked at


The MEN OF ONE BooK.-Looked at
},reughly;Y h6 who Eeads but one b8ok
would scarcely be considered, by the ma
jority OF persons, rs an over-improvcd
| man. II view ed, however, from another
light, it might be- said $that the mihd Of
such man becomes stTeng gth9ned in5pro-
portion to the e'limited range ;into which
his literary tastes leadiphim. Judged Of
by examples, the trnth:wnuld,be certain.
Some OF the highest names in literature
head the list OF men who have one work
OF predilection, which they study twenty
| times to once OF other works. Sir Will
Cicero. For Arnauld, who did the same,
it mnttered little whether French or
Latin style were to be secured-he al-
ways counseled the reading of Cicero.
Demosthcnes, holding in his heart the
fiery impulse that begets eloquence, and
III his brain the power that makes it re-
sistless, read Thucydides at NIL hours,
and copied and re.copied his history
time after time. Brutts loved Polybius;
nnd even ON the lust solemn night when
the world was still his, aud time still be.
ionged to him, he sat late. thinking not
Of the hammered legions Of Antony and
Octavins that menaccd him on the com
ing day, but peacefully and lnboriously
engaged in abridging his author. Keno
phon, falling upon the proud and anlbi-
tious heart of Scipio Africanus. fnsh-
ioned the man into n hero. Ce, ,ars
Commentaries heightened the military
skill of Selim II. A visitor rarely failed
to see on Voltnire's study-table copy of
Racine's Akhalie. Diderot, holding up
his hands like genuine Frenohman
was won't to declare that, were lie obliged
to sell his library, Moses, Homer and
Richardson were the books that he
would keep bnck from the sacrifice.
Fenelon, if idle, studied Homer; if
working, consulted him; aud it would
be curious. by the way. to trace how
much OF the religious eloQuence of the
Frenohman was due to tho sonorous
periods Of the old Grecian. :.Bourdnloue
Sas not behind, and when he spoke,
the fash of Pagan Oicero's eloquence
might have been caught behind the
fervid words that rose to the full measure
vi Christian theme. ,Grotius thought
more of kissing the ;soiled' pages Of his
Lucan than pair Of ponting lips.
LeibniIz SO loved Barclay that, when ope
day dehth came to the old mnu, seated
in his chair-the death 80 coveted Of
scholars-a book lay upon the floor
where it had fnllen from his hands. and
that book was Bnrclay's A,genis. Don
Qui1otte was the spur 10 tho genius of
Quevedo. und Horace was taken by Nal
herbe-to the fields. and lay at night on
his pillow. How much, or how little
did Chatam's stately phrases. owe to the
clnssic sermons of Barrow? Who can
tell if Tnlly's Offices" did not make
state-craft for Bnrleigh? Aud is there
! much doubt that. iii Machiuvei, Charles
Y found solid groundwork for the
policy by which he controlled Spain,
and held Europe in perplexed wonder
ment?-New Orleans Times.