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The Potter journal and news item. [volume] (Coudersport, Pa.) 1872-1874, 1873-09-24
Growing Old.

Some one says that to grow old
gracefully is high art. That is, /
suppose, like all high art in action,
simple nature. Nature unbiased by
an over-anxious sense of outward pro-
prieties and aided by the best physi-
cal. mental and moral health that we
can attain to.
Good principle will make us defe-
rental to those older and courteous
to those younger than ourselves, and
taste will regulate our conduct and
ourdress. Weneed give little thought
to these.
But it was not of this part Of the
subject that we began to write, but
rather of the alterations that go on
in others. the evcr-recurring. little
The Potter journal and news item. [volume] (Coudersport, Pa.) 1872-1874, 1873-09-24

This fall there will be no restraint
upon those who run elections by ma
chinery and of course they will win.
Our respectable men pay the crush
ing taxes imposed on us by dishonest
rule in this city and also pay the mo-
ney necessary to debauch our cleo
tions and keep corrupt men in power.
But they are growing weary of it.
By-and-by it will be deemed more re-
spectacle to be for honesty in our adj
ministration than to follow party
blindly, and then our respectable peo-
pie will be honest.-Phiadd. Press.
The Potter journal and news item. [volume] (Coudersport, Pa.) 1872-1874, 1873-09-24

: THE trip from Coudersport to the
railroad depot is now very pleasant
one. The long, wearying, muddy
plowed-up, rooty roads to Wellsville
that used to be the terror Of all trav-
elers has been relinquished as an out.
let to our population and we 60 in
stead about half the distance along
the river (Which here, so near its
source, is scarcely more than a brook
through an equally pleasant country
and by a road mostly very good.
We are glad to get our glimpses out
in a way so much easier.
The Potter journal and news item. [volume] (Coudersport, Pa.) 1872-1874, 1873-09-24

POSTAL AFFAIRs.-Postmaster A
General Creswell intends to take
prompt action in compelling the rail
road companies to get the mails to
Washington from the North more
regularly than they have done for
weeks past. He says that if the
managers of the air line between here
and New York insist upon placing
the postal cars in the middle of the
trains he viii instruct the postal
clerks to carry revolvers and shoot
down any man, whether in the en-
ploy of the railroad company or not,
who attempts to pass through the
cars.-EUeRing Post.
The Potter journal and news item. [volume] (Coudersport, Pa.) 1872-1874, 1873-09-24

THE FRIENDS of the JOURNAL. will
be glad to be informed that its sub
scription-list is steadily increasing
not so fast as we have a right to ex-
pect it will hereafter increase, but
sufficiently so to encourage the Pub
Usher and crafty its Editors, all of
whom have worked hard to win and
deserve success.
We desire to return hearty thanks
to our patrons for their continued
support and venture to ask our friends
to make a little effort to obtain addi-
tional subscribers for this paper.
The Publisher is now barely pay
ing expenses. Considering the num-
Der and character of the citizens of
the County, and the character Of the
work done on the Journal. we sub
nit to our friends that the Publisher
deserves a fair compensation for his
services. He can publish n thousand
copies Of the paper with but trifle
more expense than the present issue,
which is a little over sir hmdred.
Will YOU not endeavor to secure for
him the additional four hundred sub
scribcrs? This would compensate
him literally for the skill and labor
put upon the JOURNAL and enable
him to publish the very best county
paper in the State.
The Potter journal and news item. [volume] (Coudersport, Pa.) 1872-1874, 1873-09-24

KEARsARGE Mountain, in \. H.,
says q recent correspondent, is in
sight Of the birth-places Of Ezekiel
and Daniel Webster, William Pitt
Fessenden. Governor John A. Dix,
Vice President Henry Wilson, Lewis
Cass, ex- United States Senator Jas.
w. Grimes of Iowa, United States
Senator Zachariah Chandler Of Mich
igan, Levi Woodbury., Horace Gree
ley, General Benjamin +. Butler, ex-
President Franklin Pierce and Chief
Justice Chase.
The Potter journal and news item. [volume] (Coudersport, Pa.) 1872-1874, 1873-09-24
IrIsA difficult task for the pen

IT is A difficult task for the pen to
describe the artistic beauties of the
October Aldine, a number which
flashes with rare gems of ant, even
as the October foliage assumes Ori-
entail splendors. There are four full
page pictures in this issue, each a
master production, by celebrated ar
lists. Mr.. John S. Davis has a love
ly picture called "Nutting," a group
of children beneath chestnut trees
NJ. Alexander Lawrie gives a grand
view of Elizabeth Valley, in the
world-famed Adirondack region OF
New York; Mr.. Holman Hunt, the
The Potter journal and news item. [volume] (Coudersport, Pa.) 1872-1874, 1873-09-24

Two FELLOW soldiers of 1912, Ste
phen Dobson and John Setliff, of
Surry county, y. c., are mentioned
by a local paper as having been life
long friends, and as having each of
them invariably celebrated the birth
day of the other by making him a
family visit. Mr.. Setlitf died three
years ago, six days before his eighty
eighth birthday, and Mr.. Dobson on
the 18th of last month, two days
after his eighty-eighth birthday.
The Potter journal and news item. [volume] (Coudersport, Pa.) 1872-1874, 1873-09-24

\ PHOTOGRAPH of a copy Of the
Philadelphia Ledger lies before us.
The pages are about two inches long
and an inch and half wide. BY the
help Of a microscope it can be read
dates, advertisements, etc.
The Potter journal and news item. [volume] (Coudersport, Pa.) 1872-1874, 1873-09-24
Tinnnnce Cnnlmiltees.

v t0GtftCt IpNtHtHttcS
-A55ott-CbaS MeSner, Jos Schwartzenbach and
Chas HenSchel
.Aleg.alg-Dayid L Raymond, A G Presho and
w Gardner
Rinqbonl-I Carpenter, 4 II Cobb and J
Thompson
Cl1ra-J L Allen. VIM Graves and w A Cole
CJUderSpOrt-S + Hamilton, W Jones and J
G Davidson
EHlalia-Lewis 4 G1ace. c Stearns and j d Earl
Gta9See-.l { Cdyanaugh, VIM Baker and Josiah
Harrtson-J L Haynes, a 4 SHETLAND and W
" Lawrence
Heetor-D " Havens, John Skutt and Cyrus
SUnder.in
Hs5ron-Wm Greenman, L NJ Coy and Geo W
HoDier-Leyi Quimby, Jacob Peet and " H
Ksaiiag-G c Lewis, Henry Harris and Hiram
Le,risTiTe-c Baker, Henry Hosley and 0 Il
BaSset
OagoVo-A 5 Lyman, j V Brown and wm Fes-
sender
Pikc-M Y Prouty. s H Martin and samI Brown
Pleasant T-dileY-ErneSt Wright, Lewis Lyman
and X F JudkinS
Portage-Cbas Young, Chas Austin and Danl
Everett
Roulet-M Y Larrabee, VIM Hazen and Chas
Barr
Shayon-N Parmenter, A A Newton and j S
PearsOll
sts,cardSoa-HA Andersen, James Barton and Ed
St,mmit--Alyin Rennells, James Reed and L
SUede,l1R L White, Edwin Lyman and Joseph
Butler
SylranjG-Duttoa Stiles, a Il Jordan and G C
UIy&Ses-A Raymond, NJ Benton and B Jay
Cushing
Vest Brancf-E Crippen, W Conable and 0
lFhartoa-J Barclay, A R Burinsune and
Shafer Logue
The Potter journal and news item. [volume] (Coudersport, Pa.) 1872-1874, 1873-09-24

THE vigor with which burglars go
through South Bend, Ind, residen-
ces is only equalled by the vocifer-
osity displayed by the citizens i'll
talking about capturing them. 1t is
said that the Tribune sometimes de
lays its issue half an hour to accom-
modate belated burglar rather than
miss its daily item.-Good Templar.
The Potter journal and news item. [volume] (Coudersport, Pa.) 1872-1874, 1873-09-24

THE Cuba Valley Point Agricultu-
ral and Mechanical Society hold their
Fair for this year on September 80
and October l, 2 and 3. We ack-
nowledge the receipt of a compliment
tary and only wish we may be able
to be there. They always have good
time.
The Potter journal and news item. [volume] (Coudersport, Pa.) 1872-1874, 1873-09-24
80

THERE has been another serious
fire in Chicago. The alarm seems
to have been greater than the fire.
SiXtv-four houses were burned
wooden buildings mostly occupied
by poor people.
The Potter journal and news item. [volume] (Coudersport, Pa.) 1872-1874, 1873-09-24

"Let go that jib! Let go that jib,
quick!" shouted the captain of a
down-east sloop to a raw hand, in a
squall. Il amt touchin' yer old
iib.n replied Jonathan, Indignantly,
as he jammed his fists deeper into
his trOwSerloons.
The Potter journal and news item. [volume] (Coudersport, Pa.) 1872-1874, 1873-09-24

THE yellow fever is raging in sew
eral southern cities. New York is
sending assistance to the sufferers.
The fever is beginning to abate at
Shreveport, La.
The Potter journal and news item. [volume] (Coudersport, Pa.) 1872-1874, 1873-09-24

CAN you tell how many kinds of
grass are produced in Potter County,
and what wild plants eaten by cattle
and sheep are the best substitutes
for grass.
The Potter journal and news item. [volume] (Coudersport, Pa.) 1872-1874, 1873-09-24

going north and coming south, but
there were no signs. Stopped at all
settlements for news. The crew OF
the Poldrts are probably on board OF
a whaler from Cape York.
The Iigress left Disco August 20
for the Labrador coast to continue
the search as long as the coal and
season will permit. ID. l.. BRAINE.
Commander U. S. n.
Littleton Island referred to in the
above dispatch, is about sixty miles
north of Northumberland Island,
where the party rescued from the
Polaris supposed they had left her.
1t is a little south of the life boat de
pot of DR.. Kane in 1858.
After the separation from Tyson,
the PolariS party constructed a
house of ship timber and canvas, in
whcih they spent the winter, the
ship being too badly damaged to risk
a voyage home, though she still
fioated. They used some of the ma
terial in her for the construction of
two whale boats, with which they
purposed going south as soon as they
reached the first open water.
So there is hope that the party
that was left among the icebergs may
yet reach home in safety; and they
can hardly have suffered more, or
had a more wild and strange expert
ence, than did those who made a
winter voyage, seven months long,
with only the cracking, breaking ice
beneath them, and knowing that 1t
must fail them ere they reached
home.
Both of those exposed parties
were in good position to learn and
to exercise faith and trust. Cour-
age, too, they must have had in album
dance, and thankful praise will rise
from many hearts and homes over
their rescue and return.
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REPUBLICAN, TICKET.

JUDGE OF SUPREME COURT.
Hon. ISAAC G.. GORDON,
of Jefferson County
STATE TREASURER
r. W. MACKEY, Of Pittsburgh.
ASSEMBLY.
Hon. CHAS. :. JONES.
(!S,tbject to decision OF Co1gerrees.)
COUNTY COMMISSIONER
RODNEY l.. WHITE.
COUNTY AUDITOR.
SAMUEL BEEBE.
JURY COMMISSIONER.
HUDSON HENDRIX.
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81 LOO per term less for the spring '' -,
Board and rooms can be seculeT,f gbosri >
rates. Those wishing rooms lOF s''
apply early. m
A teachers class will be orgaiiiLloaSd Who V
attention given to those from Ap,yI 10 thoss
prepare themselves for teaclllls ~ or mort
ers who wish to post up IN one
branches. cgEAs
ID. c. LARRABEE, Prss'
Secretary.
August 8, 1s1s-tf
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New SINGER Sewing Machines ex-
changed for Oues of any kind or make,
by A. NJ. REYNOLDS, AyeRt.
The Potter journal and news item. [volume] (Coudersport, Pa.) 1872-1874, 1873-09-24

County Committee.
DAN BAKER, Chairman.
J VI HAMILTON. Secretary,
e. W CpIyin G. Cushing
Z ]. Nichols. J VI hilb0urne
Rh Young
The Potter journal and news item. [volume] (Coudersport, Pa.) 1872-1874, 1873-09-24
COUDERSPORT
GRADED SCH0D.
ANNOUNCEMENT FOR THE sCHOOL -
OF 1874.

The Directors, having secured, as fitITs,. ], T,.y
CLARA A. STOCKwELL, a graduate VI x a
male College, with Mrs. NETTlE uhlp.h ,r5 J
er of the intermediate Department ..,Ssrf,
HELEN ELLIS for the Primary DepaIt.iaass' .as I
successful teachers Of long eXpeTiell,Ss' .rS Il
fed in calling the attention OF pareu's
to the advantages of this School
FALL TERM commences MoNDAf, Aa,Tnrs.
WINTER TERM commences DEChhp.,
SPRING TERN commences AAR'h
FAN and winter terms three mollns ba.I
one week vacation dariUg the ChLls'"'
Spring term continues two Eohths'
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1873-12-19
FORTY-THIRD CONGRESS-.
List of Members Of Both Houses
Their Political classification.

The Forry-third Congress assembled for
its first session on Monday. December l.
The vicissitudes of politics have for once
brought about less change in the complex
ion OF the House of Representatives than
Of the Senate. While the Republicans
have again secured more than two-thirls
of the Lower House. they have all but
lost in the Senate that oyerpowering ma
jority represented by two-thirds vote.
which they have controlled in unbroken
succession for ten years past. The Senate
consists, when full, Of seventy-four MEM
bers. and there is but one seat vacant i'm
that body it is a seat belonging To Louis
lana, contested by l.. i. :. Pinchback. who
holds the certificate of the Kellogg Gov
eminent. against a representative Of the
Democratic party. When this seat is filled.
a two-thirds majority would require fifty
votes. The Republicans, as will be seen
by the following list. have forty-nine Sen
ators. the Democrats nineteen. and the
Liberal Republicans five, or an aggregate
of seyenty-three. Tie Republicans will
want Pichback, TO make up their two
thirds vote.
The following is the roll Of Senator's.
with the date at which their terms expire
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or replaced by members of the same polit-
ical faith, with the exception OF New Jer-
sey, where the Republicans will gain a
senator, and New York. where senator
Fcnton, who joined the Liberal R,publi-
cans last year, will be succeeded by "a true
blue" Republican.
The United States senators. whose terms
expire on March 4. 1915. are Amcs. Missis-
sippi; Bayard. Delaware; Boreman. West
Virginia; BrOwnlow. Tennessee; Buck
ingham, Connecticut; Carpenter, Niscon-
sin; Casserly, California; Chandler, Mich
igan; Edmunds. Vermont; Fenton, New
York; Flanagan. Texas; Gilbert. Flor
ida; Hamilton, Maryland; Ramsey. Min
nesota; Schurz, Missouri; Scott. Penn
sylyania; Sprague, Rhode Island; Stew
art. Nevada; stockton, New jersey; sum
ner, Massachusetts Thurman. Ohio. and
Upton, Nebraska. twenty-five. OF whom
fifteen are recognized rs supporters of the
administration.
We come now TO the roll Of the present
House of Representatives. which has been
increased by the ApportionInent Act, I'M
der the census of 1870. from 2i3 members
to 292 members, n follows:
REPRESENTATIVES, or THE roRTY-rIiHD con-
GKEss, As FAR As OFFICIALLY AsCERrAiNKD.
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BEYOND JORDAN.
n, Joaquin MILLER

ny JOAQUIN MILLER.
And they came a. Him. mothers OF Judah,
Dark-eyed and IN splcndor Of hair,
Bearing down over shoulders Of beauty,
And bos0ms hall hidden, half bare;
And they brought Him their nabes and besought
Him.
Hall knccl ng with suppliant air,
To bless The brown chcrubs they brought Him,
With holy hands land IN their hair.
Then reaching Ills hands lie said lowly,
'sOf such Is Ms Kingdom and then
Took the brown little babes IN the holy
White hands OF the savior of men;
Held them close 20 Ills heart and caress them,
lut Ills face down 10 theirs, a.. IA prayer,
Put their hands 10 Ills neck, and blessed them,
Win baby hands hid in His hair.
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shown. think. that our navy. A. IL exists
should al least BE- put ia condition for active
service. And, ia any event, a moderate AN.
preparation for this purpose ought 10 Once IA
be made. and II war should. bN any pos.iLfl
iiy. come, We must be- literally provided M
utilize the means we have, and 10 pro,id,.
others Ia meet the emergency.
The SECRETARY IA speaking of the Polaris
says: licrcruisc has been decidedly the most
successful of Arctic expeditions, The peo-
graphical know ledge of the Arctic region, I'M.
been largely advanced. 4 very mrtrular
questioning of every one Of fL,
officers and crew Of the Pplari.
and of the scientific corps. except tlr.,.
person, q. yet uneXamined. has completed,
satisfied hi a,sociatc- ana himself that can't
Halls death occurred from purely natural
causes; that his medical treatment MAS in
diciou,ly adapted 10 his ease and that hc Mas
icndcrly nursed and cared for 10 The m.i-
The evidence has also made u manifest ilel
Capt. Hal was always faithful % the trust r-
posed Ia him on assigning him the command
of the expedition; that he was kind. firm ana
humane in the exercise Of authority that NJ
was earnest in hi> desire and his aitcmpf. IA,
reach a high northern latitude. and II nract;-
cable. the pole itself: and that hi- uniimcly
death wa, an irrrparablc loss 10 the cNuedi-
ton. II Is also apparent that Capt. Budding
ton. who succeeded 10 the chief command ~
the death of Capt. Hall. proved himself
10 be q good seaman, and that IN all The
dangerous positions in which the Polaris
was placed. his conduct n her commander
WAS skillfil and iudicious, the natural result
OF a long experience AT sea and in command
in northern ATTITUDES.
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Deacon Henry Barstow. substantial
and thrifty farmer. near Webster CITY.
Iowa. recently noticed that one Of his
motherly old cows. tor some r-ason or
other. frequently and most unacouniablv
p" failed Of her milk" In fact. her uddcr
WAS completely dry, aud refused to Weld
anythng-not enough ito put in lea"
This discrepancy having occurred for scy-
efal mornings. the good Deacon resolved
to investigate the phenomenon closely. and
see what was the matter. Rising one
morning earlier than usual. hc found the
old COW still abcd on the straw ia the barn
yard. and nestled up close 10 the fountain
of Tactical nouri>lncnt. and Juggling away
al the tcat> a. il for dear lite. some three or
four cute little Poland-China pigs. lis
arding rcd-iapc and routine. ami hurrying
a. rapidly rs possible, they wee. like MR..
Micawbcr's twins. taking the nOurshing
fluid straight from the original pack
age. The Deacon thought it huge Joke
upon himself. or Aunt Hannah. or the old
cow-but he put q stop to the practice. and
instituted "A different order oi things.
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SUFFERERS Win Pins should erect
monument 90 DR. SIIsBEr for his heneileent
discovery Of ANAkFSIs. an infallible cure for
the worst eases Of piles-a failure in 20.tO
cases has not hecn recorded. II j. simple
suppo>torv, painless and easy Of Application
gives instant relief. acts ~ an instrument
poulticc. and medicine. and cannot fail 20 cure
Lotions. ointmcnl~. and internal remedies may
fail but ANAKrSI~ H. iniallihe Price ~iuN.
For sale bv druggists everywhere. sent froc
by mail on receipt Of price by T.. Ncu,iaciter
4 60. Principal Depot. IS Walker street,
New York
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COLORADO NKw MEXICO
Jerome II. Ihn1ee ;. ID. Elkins
DAkoIA. uTAII.
sMoses A. ARMSTRONG George q. Common
DISTRICT or COLUMBIA wAsIuNGroN
'>Ort0n A. Chapman obadiah y. McIaddon
IDAHO WYOMING.
John HGitg IIiAiam X. Sfccif
Republicans, In Roman observation-disclosures. lgl
Democrats, In Haflc ... ...... s.
III liberal Republicans or independents, in
SMALL ears ..... . .... .... .........
'hembers OF the last Congress.
IL will be- seen that of the whole NUM-
Der of Representatives elect the Territorial
Delegates having no votes l9O were mcm-
bcrs Of the last House. while no les. Than
l12 are new members. or the latter NUM-
Der, however. twenty have been members
OF former Congresses. The roll foots up
a follows:
- i"pii' tftsft ~
Democrats ....... ........ -
Liberal Republicans orlndepcndenl- ........ 4
Contested seats. ............ .,.............. ~
TOTAL ........ -.
a. 49,
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Browns BRoNCnfAI TEocHrs. for pul-
monary and Asthmaiic Disorders. have yfpe.d
their efficacy by a test Of many wears. and
have received testimonials from eminent men
who have used them.
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rs tMO-IhlHs OF ~ i 10 mcmhrr-, TINS
gives the Republican party an assured two
thirds majority tor suspension of the rules,
etc. in case four out Of the ten contested
seats are awarded 10 Republican claimants.
n they are pretty sure To be.
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4 GOOD and useful Christmas present
to gentleman or boy, will be- a carton of
Elmwood or Warwick collars. containing
100 collars. Any furnishing store can
supply them.
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A combination % Blofiing Case with conn !"
list Of Words which writers arr liable p sptl NJ
For salely Statoucrs and at l..i' li.t-
nut street. Philadelphia. Pa. S.ad Jor DnctIi"s
I'rirs LIST.
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tAIs.
In the last Senate the Democrats had but
fifteen members now they have nineteen,
and the prospect of enlarging the opposi-
ton majority in the next Senate. to replace
members whose terms expire March 3,
1873. j. a. follows:
Virginia having gone largely Democrat
ic. will replace senator Lewis by an oppo-
sition senator. The same may be said OF
Texas. and probably Of West Virginia and
Tennessee. Wisconsin has not gone Dem
ocraiic. but Senator Carpenters defeat for
reelection is universally conceded. while
man will doubtless replace him in the SEN
ate. In the other Northern States. the
present Senators will either be reelected
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REPRESENTATIVES, or THE roRTY-rniED con-
GKEss, As FAR As OFFICIALLY AsCERrAiNKD.
ALABAMA NEVADA.