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have gone blind, some in one eye, but
most OF them in both eyes. One far
mer has twelve head, some entirely
blind, and others partially so. One
calf at three days old, never out of
the stable, lost its sight On some
farms two three and four are victims
of the disease. The nerves of the eye
seems to die within, and the eve be-
cones white. Horses have thus far
escaped the ahliction.
ny" The humors of the Presiden-
tial campaign are decidedly funny
The Republicans say all those Demo
Gratis who vote for Greeley, a Repub-
lean, eat "crow;' while the Demo
Gratis say, all those Republicans who
vote for Grant, "ten cent Jimmy
Buchanan man" and old Line Demo-
crat, eat Turkey Buzzard." Six Of
one and a half dozen Of the other
Not mu,h difference.
E~s~ Among the table girls at the
Ocean House, Old Orchard, Maine, 1t
is stated are fifteen school teachers
At nearly all the great mountain and
sea side resorts in New England, there
may be found waiting on the tables
accomplished young ladies, who thus
employ their vacations.
1t is now thought the opposing
candidates for Congress IN this DIS
trirt will bc Capt. John Richie and
Capt. Henry Clay NALL. They are
both able speakers and should they
be placed in competition as candidates
for the sutilages OF the people next
November, they will doubtless stump
the District together, and give tue
people chance to hear both sides, 80
that they may decide impartially for
themselves.
Hesr The Greelevites do all the
talking and boasting on paper, before
an election takes place, says the
Albany (N.Y.) Evening Journal; the
Grant men do all the sn"ressfnl voting
at tho llot-hox-ridc North Caro-
lima, West Virginia and Vermont.
atA~ Rev. Mr. Spurgeon, the great
preacher Of England. is expected to
visit America this fall.
assr The wife Of Col. Horace Reslev.
Clerk of Allccanv Circuit Court, died
suddenly at Cumberland, Il few days
since.
ne A correspondent from Oak
land, says the friends Of Capt. John
Richie. in Allecanv county, claim
500 majority for him this fall. IVon
Henry W. Hoffman, DR.. Chas. II. Ohr,
Col. Robert Bruce and many other
Influential Republicans will give him
a vigorous support.
Mrs. Gubbins says her husband is
exactly like a tallow candle, because
he always will smoke when he is 60
lnr out.
An m>alian Bee Company" has
been started in Des MONIES under the
auspices OF two widows.
Capt. George Hitzelberger, the old
est mason, and one of the oldest in
Lancaster, Pa, died in that city, on
Sunday, the 1St instant. He served
in the war of 1872
The Hon. JOHN CESSNA, Of Bed
ford (Pa) has been nominated for
Congress bv the Republicans in the
District Of Bedford, Franklin, Somer-
set, Adams and Fulton counties. Mr..
c. was the Republican nominee in
1870, and WAS beaten by Mr. b. +.
Myers dem. by Is votes. They will
try the race over again next October.
F. NJ. darcy, Esl. of Hagerstown,
in letter to the editors Of the Her
aid and Torch Light peremptorily
declines the nomination as a candidate
for Congress. This narrows the con-
test to a choice between DR.. Steiner,
Capt. Nall and Francis Miller, Of
Montgomery county.
The Hon. John Richie, Hon. Henry
W. Hoffman and William Walsh, Esq
addressed Greeley and Brown meet
ing held at Cumberland, on last Sat
uriay, the 3lst of August.
Pere Hyacinthe, the great French
Pull pit Orator, was married in the
City of London, on the Sd instant, to
an American widow with plenty of
money.
assg~ The election for Mayor held in
the City Of Wilmington, Delaware, on
the Sd instant, shows large Democrat
ic gains in all the wards. Joshua l..
Simms Dem. was elected Mayor by
100 majority The first Democratic
Mayor since 1860.
JANE HALE recently died in Alb
ingdon, Virginia, aged ll3 years.
She was born in Catlwba county,
North Carolina, in 1859.
The Hon. VIM. NJ. Merrick and