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A MrsterIons Case.

A Dubuque, Iowa, paper, says: Mr..
Grant, the ticket agent of the Des
Moines Valley Railroad, was married at
Fort Dodge, to a young lady named Miss
York. Numerous invitations were ex-
tended to the leading citizens and their
families to be present at the feast. In
the evening the house OF Mrs. York, the
brides mother, was thrown open, and
about 9 o'clock no less than two hundred
ladies and gentlemen sat down to par.
take of the elegant repast which had
been prepared. The affair proceeded
pleasantly until after 10 o'clock, when
some of the visitors were taken i'll, quite
suddenly, and had to be removed;
Others were similarly affected in rapid
succession, and presently the horrible
suspicion flashed across the minds OF all
that they were poisoned. The bride and
groom were taken i'll, and were taken to
their room. Every physician in the city
was summoned, but as many OF these
were at the feast, they were also i'll, and
unable to attend properly to themselves.
The victims were removed to their
homes, and groaus and moaning were
heard in almost every household. The
pain and sickness are almost beyond de-
scription. Up to Saturday at noon lat
persons had undergone agonies worse
almost than death, and a number OF
others were becoming i'll. DR.. Greason,
a physician, after having done all in his
power to relieve forty Of the sufferers,
was taken down himself The effects
were certainly those of poison. In many
cases the sufferers were afflicted with
temporary paralysis, losing all power
over their limbs. Almost all OF them
underwent relapse, from which some
may never recover. Various theories rs
to the cause of the poisoning are afoat.
The most probable theory is that the
cause was the ice-cream. The cream
was secured by Mrs. York, and given to
confectioner to freeze. In performing
the work, the confectioner used copper
refrigerator, lined with tin. The confec-
toner had no idea, probably, that the
refrigerator had not beer properly clean
ed, for he partook of the ice-cream him
self, and became sick.
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RUSSIAN TEA-MAKNG.-Mr. W. A.
Whyte writes, in "a Land Journey from
Asia to Europe :" At Kalgan we first
made acquaintance with one OF the great
est Russian institutions, the samocar. It
is large sort of urn in the centre is n
tube into which hot coal or charcoal is
introduced, which keeps it constantly
boiling. The method OF making and
drinking tea is also very agreeable. In
a small teapot strong infusion, nearly
essence of tea, is made ; q small quantity
of this is poured into tumblers, and each
guest adds water and sugar dd Hbitum.
Whether it is that the tea in Russia is
much better than we get in England, or
that the method OF drinking it is better
than ours, 1 know not / can only say
that never tasteil its equal before, and
never hardly for years imbibed so much
as I did during my short stay at Kalgan.
The Russians say that the tea which
makes only land voyage is much supe-
nor to that which passes over the sea,
and am inclined to their opinion also
their method of making it for drinking
is the right one;
The democrat. [volume] (Weston, W. Va.) 1868-1874, 1871-06-26

IT is astonishing what an immense
business is being done by the American
Shoe Tip Company of Boston. The
silver and copper tips for boots and shoes
are deservedly popular, for there is no
little invention OF more ability. Ever
alive to the interests of the people, they
have lately commenced the manufacture
of Button.hole Protectors, also of metal,
which will effectively prevent the tearing
of button-holes of shoes or suspenders.
The Patent Shoe Stay is also manufac-
tured by them and ought to be on every
pair OF shoes.
The democrat. [volume] (Weston, W. Va.) 1868-1874, 1871-06-26

"THE WIND IsTEMPERED TO THE sHoRN
LAMB" otherwise the delicate organiza-
ton of woman could never bear up under
the severe trials which it is her lot to
endure. As means Of sustaining her
strength, and bringing her safely through
the difficulties and dangers of which she
is by nature the heiress, no medicine
ever prescribed is comparable to DR..
WALKERS VEGETABLE VINEGAR BTrTERs.
In all arrangements OF the female sys-
TEN it restores regularity, and promotes
physical vigor and men tai repose.
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/ Feel rm Growing Anld, Guide WIG.

l feel I'm growing aud, guide wife
feel I'm growing aud
Ny sters are frail my ecu are bleared,
Mypow is unco bauld.-
I've seonihe snaws O. fourscore years
Der hill and meadow IA,
And, minnie were it not for you,
I'd gladly slip AVA
Ifeel I'm growing auld, guide wife
feel I'm growing aud
Frae youth TO age I've kept warm
The love that ne'er turned cauld.
| Gamma bear the dreary thooht
That we maun sindered be:
There's naething binds my poor auld heart
To earth, guide wife, but thee.
1 feel I'm growing aud, guide wife
feel I'm growing auld;
Life seems to me wintry waste,
The very sun feels cauld.
OF worldly friends ye'ye been to me
Among them a the best;
Now, Ill lay down my weary head,
GUIDE wife and be at rest.
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A New swNDIE.-A shrewd swindle
has Just been reported, by which some
sharpers in New York, calling themselves
Hungtington & Bro, proprietoS of the
Broadway Hotel, No. 2S9 Broadway,
tried to victimize Mrs. S. B. Shaw, OF
Omaha, Neb. The device employed was
the sending OF letter to Mrs. Shaw in.
forming her of the death, at the suppo-
sititious hotel named, OF an imaginary
relative of hers, who had left two trunks,
filled with clothing and jewelry worth
$500, which would be sent her upon re-
ceipt of $1,000 due the proprietors for
board, &c. The recipient of this letter,
believing this to be humbug, referred
it to NJ trshal Hart, and an investigation
showed that no Broadway Hotel and no
such firm as Huntington Il Bro, had ever
existed at $50 Broadway.
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Stock Of spIrlt. in the united states.

The returns OF the assessors throughout
the country to May /, 1871, show the
stock OF spirits in the U. S. as follows {:
Eoreign and domestic spirits OF all kinds
nut Of bond, 81 ,7OO,4 21 gals. domestic
spirits in bond, 6,649,s45 gals. foreign
shirts IN custom warehouses, l,20l, 45i
gas; total, 1854, 100 gals. Twenty
nine Of the least important districts are
vet 10 be heard from. The amount OF
distilled spirits in the country Nov. 10,
1870, was As, 6s7, 1893 gals, from which
it win be seen there was an increase Of
5,s96,9i4, gals. OF spirits in the country
on the ] I Of May last as compared with
" number of gallons in the country at
Ncne period in 1870,
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TRAINING TmEvEs.-Troy has a train
ing school for young thieves, if we may
believe local paper. 1t is conducted
under guise Of respectable store; in
reality It is receptacle for all sorts of
stolen property, and the man who keeps
it is un erstood to be rich, and to have
made his money in enterprises that would
have sent almost any other person to
State prison. He does not probably
engage in the active work of plumber
himself but he "puts up the jobs,
he induces men and small boys to steal,
and after the work is done buys the pro-
ceeds OF the robbery, whether it is
chicken, bag Of potatoes, n barrel Of
pork, or government bond. The pa
per calls upon the authorities to bring
this modern Fsgin to justice,
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If JoHNsoN's ANoDrSE LINDiEST is
half as valuable as people say it is, no
family should be without it. Certainly
no person, be he lawyer, doctor, minister,
or any other profession, should start on
journey without it. No sailor, fisher
man. or woodsman should be without it.
In fact it is needed wherever there is an
ache, sprain, cut, bruise, cough or cold.
The democrat. [volume] (Weston, W. Va.) 1868-1874, 1871-06-26

The purest and sweetest Cod-Liver
Oil in the world is HAZARD & CAswELI's
made on the sea. shore, from fresh, Sc
lected livers, by CAswELL, HAzARD &
Co., New York. 1t is absolutely pure
and spee. Patients who have once
taken it prefer it to all others. Physi
clans have decided itsuperior to any of
the other oils in market
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Farmers and Horse Men" are con-
tinually inquiring what We know OF the
utility Of SHERDAN's CAVALRY CONDITION
POWDERS, and in reply, we would say,
through the columns OF this paper, that
we have heard from hundreds who have
used them with gratifying results; that
is also our experience.
The democrat. [volume] (Weston, W. Va.) 1868-1874, 1871-06-26

JUDGE SrANLY of San Francisco has
decided as unconstitutional the Cali tonia
State law authorizing the State Harbor
C Commissioner to collect tonnage dues on
vessels entering that port.
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Send e5 Cents to Ivi.on. Blakeman, Taylor
d Co.. l3s and 40 Grand ST. New York and receive by
return mail sample card Of the celebrated spencenan
Steel Pens.
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1 GREAT CHANCE FOR AGENTS

"a NJ ro, want an agency. Lsail or rdreliHg, with
chance 10 make IS 10 SEQ per day selling our
new strand WhGs We ciothss Lise,. TOY at
orsrer sample free 20 there Is no rsE s M!i1s
- 4, once Hlai-oA RifeT Eirs Work; ID haiaeh
- lane, cor Water St, n. Y, or Is Dearborn St.
4 n
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osn PER WEEK TO AGESTp, male
9DV or female. !. L GARsIDE. Patcrsan. y. ].
VINEGAR, hos made in 10 hours. witho4 drugs.
LIN Particulifs 10 cent?. T SAGE. Oromw,l. Conn:
e3-F> PLAYs.-The largest assortment
SGN OF Plays and Dramatic Works IN
s. EHr.iia&9 he world, prepared for E1hbitota
s:,SS Of all kinds, and Home Amuse.
EET ment. Shadow Pantomimss, Cha
rades, Reciters, Dialogues, Tableaux, Amateur
Guide, Ethiopian Dramas, etc, etc. rev and
explicit Descriptive List Of all Plays mailed iree.
SAMUEL FRENCH, Publisher,
1872 Nassau St., New York.
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SWINDLERS.
BORus Check IEnOred-The Man with the
Terr1er Dog

Yesterday morning man called at the hard
ware store of Field & Hardle, No. 633 Market
street, and represented that his name was q. e..
Fuller and that he desired to purchase a bill of
goods for his brother, who he said was in busi-
ness in Doylestown, Pennsylvania. He selected
a lot of goods amounting to $S3 OF, after which
he left About o'clock in the afternoon he
returned and offered in payment for the goods
q check for the amount on the Southwark Ma
tional Bank.
The firm retained the check, but refused to
deliver the goods until they could ascertain
whether it was genuine. This morning the
check was sent TO the bank and at once pro-
nounced bogus, no such person having an ac-
count at that bank. Fuller is described as being
a slender built man, of about thirty-siX years OF
age; has dark hair, black Whlskers, sallow COM
pleXiOn, and has a mole upon his cheek. He
was dressed IN a brown oYercoat round rough
skating.cap, and brown gloves.
The impostor, who has been going around
accompanied by terrier dog and swindling
citizens out of various amounts by falsely re-
presenting that he had brother sick in Har-
lem, n. Y, yesterday yictimized another family
residing in the lower section of the city. He
called upon them yesterday and represented
that. he was brakeman on the Camden aud
Amboy hauroad; that Mr.. - and his two
sons, relatives OF the family, were confined in q
New York hospital, and had requested him TO
wait upon the family and obtain the necessary
funds to bring them on to PHILADELPHIA.
He was given ten dollars, when he left pro-
missing to bring them through to the city by 8
o'clock this morning. 1t is hardly necessary to
state that they did not appear, and visit to the
Camden and Amboy Railroad Company led 10
the disclosure that the fellow was a swindler.
no such man being in their employ. Tue parties
he mentioned as being sick in the hospital were
formerly employed on the Pacific Railroad.
DISHONEST B oARDER.-Elizabeth Mullen
makes her home with one Ann Pabor at Seventh
| and Alaska streets. Ann earns livelihood by
nightly dispensing pepper-pot to the "gamins'
Iocf mir n Ia ,bsa,
| from her domicil Elizs beth embraced the Oppor,
tunity to steal lot of wearing apparel, the pro
perty of her landlady, which she at once pro-
ceeded to pawn. Ann on her return discovered
| the theft and promptly gave information which
| led to the arrest of the dishonest Elizabeth
| Alderman BOnsal committed her 10 answer.
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Il III / Il I'D ID DITIUN
MATTERS At WASHINGTON.
Shall We Repeal the Income Tax ?
vOmm'r PleasantOn Says eyes"
a RepIyto Secretary Boutwell,.
The Steamship Subsidy Bill.
vOmm'r PleasantOn Says eyes"
a RepIyto secretary Boutwell,.
FROM WASHINGTON.

Commissioner PidasnntOn and the Inc come Tax
Speclct Despatch 10 The Bpening Telegraph.
WARRINGTON, Jan. 26.-Another letter from
Commissioner Pleasanton was received and
read by the Committee of Ways and Means to-
day. The Commissioner reterates his former
statements in favor of the repeal of the income
tax. The letter will be laid before the House,
and printed. He admits that the tax will
amount this year to S12, 900. The position
of Secretary Boutwell, against repeal, and the
admission of the Commissioner that it will
reach the amount stated in his letter to-day,
render the action of Congress in repeating the
tax very doubtful.
Tho Alabama CInims.
John A. Parker President of the Great
Western Insurance Company, which suffered
heavily by the depredatious of the Alabama aud
other Rebel cruisers, made n lengthy argument
to-day before the House Committee on Foreign
Affairs in favor of the bill embodying the re-
concentrations of the Presidents message
about the manner of settling these claims. The
committee has now fairly opened the discussion
of this question, and it will probably be con-
tinued until some measure is agreed upon.
The Democratic Presidential Movement,
A number of leading men connected with the
Democratic party, including Hendricks Hoff-
man, Frank Blair Oakley Hall, and Others from
different parts of the country, meet here tonight
for the purpose, it is said, of making some
movement tor the next Presidential nomina-
ton.
Naval Rank.
The Senate Naval Committee to-day consid-
cred the House bill regulating naval rank with
out coming to any conclusion. The bill was
postponed until next week.
The steamship subsidies.
The Senate Postal Committee day arranged
the order of business in regard to the Steamship
Subsidy bill, which comes up tomorrow. They
will eDdaevor to get definite action on as many
bills as possible.
Reimbursement of OmcIaIs.
The Senate established a precedent this
morning, in the case of Postmaster Brngham, of
Franklin, Pa, not to reimburse officials who de-
posit money in banks which afterwards fail,
especially where there are u. 3. depositaries.
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FROM EUROPE.
The Ronnrtcd OnnLtnIntInn of Pnri..

The Reported CapItuIatJOn of Paris.
LoNDoR, Jan. 25.-(Special to the New York
EUenjRg Telegram.) An the evening journals
confirm the despatch published by the morning
press of the proposed surrender of Paris, Sur.
render on the terms suggested by Bismarck is
approved here by the press unanimously. The
Committee of Defense has iptrusted Favre,
learn on high authority, to make the best terms
he can, but TO bring the conflict to n
close in any case. There is a general
agreement in official circles that
the end is momentarily at hand as far as the
defense of Paris is concerned. The Imperial
lists are active and the English Government is
known to favor the restoration of the Bona
parte dynasty under the regency.
Advices are allowed to leave Paris endorsed
by influential residents, approving this term-
nation of the war. The Echo speaks authori-
tatively on the question of surrender, and a
Foreign Office messenger, who has arrived from
Versailles has, it has leaked out, brought the
su RENDER signed by Favre and Bismarck
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ON G II ES S
Z U N U II II > >
FORTY-FIRsT TERM-THIRD SESSION.
Senute.

Senate
Mr.. Chandler from the Committee on Commerce.
reported back the blll making temporary apprO-
priation for the prosecution OF the Work on the
Sault Ste. Marie Canal and river Michigan. The ap-
preparation is 100000. Passed
Numerous petitions were presented and referred.
At l,8O the Senate resumed the consideration OF
the bill repeating the income tax on December 81,
1871, and Mr.. Buckingham spoke of the practical
defects OF the law and the failure to enforce it in
consequence OF the neglect Of the assessors TO i'm
pose and collect penalties for the neglect or refusal
OF party TO make a return. For these and other
reasons he enumerated, he would vote for the
Mr.. cole opposed the tax on incomes as distinct
from the taxes on salaries and corp 'ratlon dlyi-
dends believing the former the most Objectionable
OF all our taxes Its collection a year subsequent
to the acquiring OF The income upon which it was
levied was frequently at a time when the person
paying it was losing instead Of acquiring property.
Under the two thousand dollar exemption the yield
from this tax, which last year was $4,000, ,OO9
would this year be leas than s6,000000, and would
fan upon less than 100000 persons instead OF sI5OOo
as formerly.
Robert Bingham, late Postmaster at Franklin, IA,
for the loss by the failure OF the Venango National
Bank OF FRANKLIN OF $4,000 OF public moneys oepo-
Mr.. TTumbull objected to the bill as establishing
Tpon his reSuesS the report OF the House Commit
Tee on the subject there being none from the
Senate Committee, they having accepted that or ina
the authority OF the department. to deposit the
money but with the understanding that it was at
Mr.. Cameron explained and advocated the mea-
sure.
After discussion, lasting till after the morning
hour had expired, the bill was defeated. Ayes Is,
The Senate took up and passed the pension appro-
pTiation bill.
The only amendment Of the Senate Committee on
Appropriations to the bill as passed by tne House,
was the following paragraph for the ratable increase
OF pensions above the rate heretofore authorized by
law provided for In an act OF the present session,
entitled "an act increasing the pensions OF disabled
soldiers ana OF the widows and children OF deceased
soldiers and sailors" i've million dollars:
The amendment was rejected and the bill now
goes to the President
The morning hour arrived and the bill went over
tLl Tuesday next
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from NEW YORK.
New YORK, Jan. 20.

New YORK, Jan. &c.
The Bids for e. old To-day
amounted to $8.l20, 500 at 1l00ll0'67, and the
awards will be 81, ,0(0 600 at 11O'64 to 1l067.
The BuyiDR of Votes.
ALBANY, Jan. &c. Governor Hoffman, in n
message to the Legislature, recommends q
constitutional amendment for the punishment
as criminals of purchasers of votes at elections.
Desperate shooting case.
New YORK. Jah 26.-Matthew Burns, an eX-
Deputy Marshall, shot early this morning in a
in bar room No. 20 Greenwich street, Henry
Campbell and John Devlin Neither fatally In
iured. All are yodng men.
Thn Lancaster Bond Robbery.
New YORK, Jan. 26.-Mr. p. Bristow, a law
yer at No. l2 Wall street, was before Justice
Hogan this morning, to explain the way he be-
came possessed of two stolen bonds of Lancas-
ter county, Pa. Inspector Walsng, of the
Police Department, to make investigation
Bristow said he obtained them in payment of
asdebt.
Detention of the Malls.
The Southern mail was one hour late; the
Boston express one hour late; the Hudson Rail-
road two hours late; the Western mail two
hours late. Nothing west of Pittsburg has been
recyived.
New York Produce Market.
NBw YORK, Jan. 26.-Cotton buoyant and ad-
vanced nc; sales of 2000 bales middlng uplands
at 155S; Orleans at 1851 Flour quiet and unchanged
Corn dull sales of 23, 600 bushels new mixed West
ern at s5@s5c. Oats steady; sales OF $4,000 bushels.
Beef quiet. Pork firm at S22'S71I0923 Lard duh at
1lT@lSA. Whisky dull and nominal at 9434 995c.
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BITING COLD.
The St0FmIest Day OF the NI0nth-The street
Cars Blocked.

The stOfmIest DnV OF the WOnth-The Street
Cars Blocked.
When Philadelphia awoke this morning and
mayed at discovering that while it was taking
its ease a keen and clustering storm had sprung
up, and was driving relentlessly down the
streets. We marvelled at the brusque wintry
weather of Monday last, but that of to-day
Boreal blasts was heavy fall of snow, which
had no sooner found the roofs, or the streets,
than a gust of wind would lift it up into a
snowy cloud, and then blow it into the faces of
the pedestrians who were making such sorry
headway on the walks. The wind came in fear
ful gusts around the corners and so suddenly
as to bring the unhappy walker to a staudstill
or to take eff his hat, send it skimmering
through the air, and then lodge it in a snow
bank. That our readers maysknow just how
cold it was, and how intense compared with
the past few days, we present here the records
of the thermOmeteT.-
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RECOVERY OF STOLEN BONDS.
The Result Of n burglary mt Lnncaster, PA
Turning Up IN Wall street

TurnIng Up IN Wall street.
The New York Herald to-day says
The difficulties which attend reaping tie
fruits of unlawful enterprises ought to deter
operators in that line. The partial proceeds
of a robbery effected some time ago in the dis
tant city of Lancaster, Pa, were overhauled in
Wall street yesterday, and will now be restored
to the parties despoiled of their property. The
circumstances attending the affair are curiously
interesting.
|Yesterday morning Mr.. Davidge, of the firm
OF McIlvain IL Davidge, of No. 48 Broad street,
submitted two bonds of the city of Lancaster
for $500 each to the firm of Glendinning, Davis
d Amory No. II Wall street, with request
for loan upon them of 500. MIR. Davis de-
cined the transaction, and the bonds were then
taken to A. S. Jones, a broker, at No. 13 Wall
sire ct, who, desirOus of extending the accommo-
dations asked for, went toiGlendinning, Davis u
Amory to inquire into the value of the securi-
ties. The latter firm telegraphed to their Phila-
delphia house for the required Information, and
were astOnished by an inquiry for the numbers
of the bonds. These being returned, an order
was next received to
HOLD ON TO THE BONDS.
and, on the authority of the Mayor of Lancas-
ter, 10 arrest the party Offering them. The
matter was now given by Glendinning, Davis 81
Amory into the hands of Detective Sampson, of
the Stock Exchange, who took possession of
the bonds and went in search of Mr.. Davidge
the latter gentleman stating that he had acted
merely as a broker in endeavorlng to procure a
loan for a certain Mr.. Bristow, of the firm of
DllstON NhtlSC ~ lIOilj NJ. ~ wal
street. The detective went to Mr. Bristow's
Office and sought an explanation That gentle
man in turn stated that the bonds had been left
with him by Mr.. Travers as
COLLATERAL FOR A LOAN,
and that Mr.. Travers had gone to Kentucky,
but would not be back for q day two. The
whole matter was now given to the care of In
spector WalliDg, who has detained Mr.. Bristow
until the arrival of parties from Lancaster and
until fuller investigation is had. The bonds,
which were numbered 369 and $40, were stolen
by burglars from the Lancaster Bank, along
with other properly, some time ago.
NoTE.-The statement made in the above
article that the bonds mentioned were stolen
from the Lancaster Bank is a mistake, They
were the property of Mr. John Dellinger, of
Lancaster an officer of the bank, from whom
they were taken under circumstances of great
atrOcity which facts were reported in The TELE-
GRApu at iha time -ED