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alarm, but what can they do? \ wellin
formed writer says that Baron Reuter-
has been working at the scheme for wears
and that he did not carry his point till the ia
mine was at its height in 1871. The conces.
sion was issued at Teheran July %, 1873 1t
docs not seem to have been heard OF in the
English foreign office for ten months, or the
import of it To have been comprehcnded even
then. When they heard the shah was coming
( 70 Europe, IL dawned upon the astutc officials
who preside over the foreign relations OF
England that il would be a good time to get
something out of him, TO impress him with
the power of England, to persuade him that
England was better ally than Russia, and
50 on. They made preparations accordingly,
and when the preparations had been made,
discovered that they were too late, and that
Baron Reuter- was 10 be impressed and per
suaded instead OF the shah They knew Baron
Reuter- well enough to understand that there
was but one way OF reaching him. He had
bought the concession, paid probably not very
large, but certainly considerable sum for it.,
and he must be bought out or left in posses
sion. And the means 10 buy him out if YOU
please? Imagine the figure Lord Granville
or Lord Enfield, the Duke OF Argyll or Mr.
Grant Duff will cut when they come 10 eX
plain to parliament that they have been
asleep the last five years, while a clever Ger
man Jew has seized upon the gateway to In.
dia, and bought up the defendants of Darius,
and holds in his own hands the future of
their imperial policy. If Baron Reuter- is to
have his price-and nobody yet knows what
il is-thc mouse OF commons must vote the
money, and it is not nice story that will
have to be told as a prelude to the vote
Meantime, the baron wants money to build
his railways, to dig his mines, to work the
whole concession. He has brought the shah
over to help him get it. The visit is gigan
tic advertisement Nothing was ever done
before on so great a scale; no Barnum or pill.
doctor can hold up his head hereafter. 1t is
not Baron Reuter- who pays the bills, but the
soyereigns of Europe. Before the shah set
foot on English shores, the English govern.
mcnt knew why he came, and in whose lntc-
rest; knew that his coming was part of the |
bargain between him and the baron, and that
the cunning news agent would reap the bene-
fit OF the welcome they had undertaken to
give this oriental MOdOc. But it was too late
to change. The shah, after all, is still shah
Eastern princes are capriCiOus. Who knows
hat he may not revoke the concession? Eng
iSh newspapers have already begun to sug
rest 10 him that il, on experiment, he does
lUt like il, lac can tumble the baron into
ank, which would serve as warning, also,
% too cnterprising spectators in the future.
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ous than ,umbling head foremost into 10 foot
well. e. +. d, -, follows;
on Friday last Miss Sergeant, Of Peoria, Kin
died a ire with kerosene, with the usual ihcIah
ChOly results.
4 Peoria lad of IL went suddenly and hcad.hr''
| TO the bottom of 20 foot well, and came ont
alive
! Our new board of health have gone TO work ID
earnest and seem dctcrmincdithat the city shall
he thoroughly clcanscd and relieved Of all often,
svc smclls-Ld SALE Press
Have they removed the hitching posts; And
what becomes OF the editor OF the Press!
| 4 New England writer says that it has been
found that negroes can be better trusted than
white men, not to bctray secrets. We suppose
this i, on the principle that they always keep
dark
An exchange saws "that We have a right tn
take an umbrella or Kiss without permission
whenever we can" Well but If the umbrella
ISN'T returned, the fault is ours; II the kiss Isn't
it is the lady's.
4 southern editor, rcnarhing upon the suD.
ject, says he knows all about cotton and rice,
but he doesn't understand hemp at all. He may
get the hang OF it yet.
At the Vassar College commencement the
other day, one of the lovelicst OF the sweet
Girl graduates" fractured her lower jaw in two
places while delivering an address in German
and chewing spruce. gum at the same tim"
One Of the cutcst lodges of the patent inside
press, on finding itself dropped from the "N
change list Of a contemporary as not worth the
postage, is to forward TO the offending publisher
circular, informing him that,
lowing to the ungenerous conduct Of a back
salary grabbing congress-" &c, I'VE are com
PEELED, with regret, TO dropyOur valuable journal
from our exchange list" &c.
g. F. Train could take lessons from some of
these chaps.
The New York Saa insists that John 1. Bm.-
ham has other qualifications for the Japan mis-.
sion than "bathersktc.' 1t says: Bingham |
can drink more bourbon whisky without getting |
absolutely drunk than any other citizen, not *.
rcptng Gen. Grant himself Let rs BE- Just to
our foreign ministers
Down East, when they want to speak II
mans Iibcrahty, and don't want to praise him
90 much, they say "he has heart as big as
Rhode Island"
At the picnic OF the Cincinnati; NcWsbOys' +,
MON, on the 10th inst. the question for discus
ion j.: (which is most useful, editors or news |
,oysy Inasmuch as the decision rests with the
lewsboys, It is probable that the verdict VII! de-
larc that they us more useful than the edi- :
Ors and in as much as their knowledge Of edi- {
Ors j. probably limited to the Cincinnati! article
, viii be cminently just-Chicdg0 I'n."'. i
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From MarseiIIes.
MARsEILLES, July !, !

-'i-iiN1r-iL'I.isH, NIg ., 1890
! EdH0rs Free Trddtr Il see in your paper
/ otJune 2sth, a communication from "Fides .
concerning my sueing some one for poll tax
and demanding Fulicr knowledge. Now, il
"Fidcs' is the person that think he is, and
the person who made his brags that he was
going to blow me up in the newspapers,
were he known as well among all your
subscribers IS he is in Marseiles, | never
shoUld stoop 50 low to answer him. AS to
my allowing people TO leave town without
applying for their tax, and allowing those
who threatened to kick me to 90 free, il is all
bOsh, and your correspondent know it. Now,
the facts are these; have nearly 400 names
on my poll list, and but one person to my
knowledge has left without my calling for his
tax. No man has ever threatened to kick me,
and but one has ever given me an insulting
answer | had a poll tax against c. C. Towle ;
he promised to send man to work il out
but did not send him. then warned him on
the 81 day Of June TO appear on the 7th to
work it out. ! waited until the 23d, and as
he did not appear to pay or work, sued him
This is the amount OF my olicnse Now, if
your correspondent is the person ! think he
is, he is known here as Shoddy-some call
him Old Shoddy, He is a man that has dealt
in more shoddy cloth and shoddy principles
than any man that ever lived in Marsciles.
This is all that l know about FuHer knowl.
edge. Yours J. FULLER,
~tront (',Or,iu-;,r.r
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W hat iIi- Visit Means.

,Cgsrespona' nee Of tie =. !. Trb-IeJ
10 any body behind the scenes, nothing
could have been more amusing than the sol.
cmn debate which filed the papers a week
before the shah came, about the political sig.
niiicunce OF his visit The truth j. now pretty
generally known. The shah is in Europe at
the instance Of Baron Reuter-. Tor the promo.
ton Of the extraordinary concession which
Reuter- obtained from him last wear The
terms OF thar. or the substance of it, We're pub
li,AcQ here q month ago, but attracted no at
wn,jJu. They attracted a good deal when
,hcy appeared in Wednesdays Times. need
not repeat the details which have already been
published. II j. enough Ia Say that they give
Baron Reuter- power 10 establish munopo-
~ and - jurisdiction in Persia greater than
ever the East India company established in
India ANY Engii>hm@n WhnC cares anything
about iho existing English empire over India
know, that it, relations, and the relations Of
England with Persia, are ui the last import
an,r 10 TIE permanent security of the empire
England and Russia have long been diplo.
matte rivals az Tehrran. Yet it appears
certain that the concession obtained by Baron
HcuicT which puts in his hands the KEYS to
lndia and the power to say whether h" Will
max" Persia Russian ar English, WAS oh
tanned without the knowledge or sp>nicion
ot ne English government They have often
been badly served ty their rnyoVS tut never
worse than by Mr.. Vim. Taylour Thomson.
Who draws pay - minister plcniputcntiary o.
hs n4i,-,y eli Persia. The Russians knew
al about H. no doubt. On the surface they
are th" Iir>' bruciiciarie>. since the railway
which R'r'"r j. - huildhrtween the Caspian
ami ia" Persian suit opens a military road
for lsr-sIs t' u8" Persian capital. Now tina,
The thing = tHu', he .Dvcruueu' LIS taken
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,yonaenye Of the New York Graphic.l
LONDON, June i6 1879

LONDON, June Is, 1873
Horrible stories are whispered about III,
Shah Of Persia, who is to arrive here on We'd
ncsdav All the journals have been tclln.
each other and the rest of mankind how hes
to Empress" him with the greatness of Eng
| land, and if the Secretary of this Eastern 20
tentatc should collect all that has beer
published On this head and read il 10 hi,
august master | should not like TO answer
for the consequences. But if what hear be
true, the Shah is not likely to be Impressed
with any thing that he may see in England
| He is no toOl-but neither is he q man who
| cares to bother himself
| In RUSSIA he was tolcrably well pleased
| the Standardization magnlfiCenCc OF his re-
ceptiOn there jumped well enough with his
fancy; and when he wished for pleasures
that may only be enjoyed in private, they were
provided for him. But the Empress Of Rus.
STA was well advised when she left her impe-
rial husband to entertain his Eastern guest
alone. One cannot talk about certain things,
and il is perhaps scarcely pardonable to hint
at them II any one will read a few pages
OF an uneXpurgatcd edition of the Arabian
Nights and remember what Persia and the
Persians were five hundred yeare ago, they
are the same substantially now, he viii under
stand what / mean. The Gar was glad
enough to get rid Of the Shah.
When the palace which he had occupied
in St Petersburgh was examined after his de-
parture, it was found in a sorry state. \
carpet, costing t4O0, put new in
10 the sleeping room OF the Shah, was so badly
ruined that it had 10 be thrown away, and
this was only one of the least diSagreeable
"incdents' Of the affair At Berlin the Shah
was tearfully bored, and Emperor William
and the German mobiles were sCandalizcd with
him. All his life long this Persian monarch
has been accustomed to have time and tide
wait for him; it annoyed him excessively to
90 here at such time, and there al another
hour; and showed his annoyance very plainly
and very rudely.
One night he fell into a towering passion
because 4 lady Of the court refused to place
herself at his disposal and when he lett Der
lin, his departure was unmarked by any Of the
parade which had signaliZed his entry into !
that capital The Germans did not like him |
at all, and lie did not like the Germans They |
say he was extremely apathetiC:" he was |
dull and silent" his suite were A. impress. !
i've as himself they lOokedupon everything !
they saw without appreciation and without
interest," He will be still more bored in .
London, | fear. We are living under an .
'eCOnomical' government, and the empress |
ON Of England's greatness is 10 be made on
lim with the least possible expense. Anum. .
)er of the ships of the Royal Navy are to he
assembled in the Channel; they are TO ire
alute, and this is to show them that England
: mistress of the seas.
But as 10 the horrible stories about him |
AVE already limited at some Of them; but the
ir is full Of others. The newspapers say
hat lie sent back his wives from Moscow,
lut Dame RumOr knows this 10 he false /
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Editors Quarters, &c, making up such Il
monthly mclange as wc look for in vain IN
notifications east of the mountains.
subscriptions received and single numbers
for sale by Osman Il IIapcman.
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CREAM or OUR EXCHANGES

Vermont is The most intensely Maine law
state in the Union--cvcn tourists lind il danger.
GUS tc carry private TASKS in that state. Yet
Bsrnum claims that his show was more annoyed
hy drunken men in that state than in Ncw York,
where the sale of liquor is licensed Which is
another proof that Barnum i Il humbug.
Franklin Kcclcr of Paw Paw, is satisfied, after
Z full trial, that Paris green will Kill potato bugs
but with insecure fences, doubts whether It's use
on farm is profitable, rs it proved equally fatal
in his case, to seven horses.
The editor of the san Francisco Chro"i,l,, after
stating that he has mo desire TO engage in u
personal controversy" proceeds to characterize
the editor of rival newspaper as "a drunken
and cowardly idiot, who dlsgraccs journalism"
The Iowa office seekers new song begins rs
follows.
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4lofessiunal Cards.
Alto r N & VS..

Y IS. WEEKS. Attorney at Law sOic.to ni
v. thahcery and Justice OF the Peace. Up stairs In
DelgnOs Block. InRyii'.9-7y
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Use Or. Henry's Worlds Tonic and
Blood Puriders

II is the great household remedy, pleasant to
take, yet potent for the prevention and cure Of
diseases. 1t is better than Bitters, Cordial,
Buchu or Sarsaparills. Sold by Druggists
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Marriage Guide.

Interesting Work, Enlarged Edition, New
En,,rav!nGs, Two-hundrcd and sixty Pages,
Price 50 cents Address DIR. Burrs' DIsrKS-
sARr. II Morn Eighth Street, st. Louis, No
See ADVERTISE .ncnt.
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WHO ARE THE NEBRAsKIANs.
By PROF. J. D. BUTLER.
LINCOLN, April, 1878.

LINCOLN, April, 1878.
One-seventh of eur United States
population is Of foreign birth, namely
Eve and half millions, among thirty.
eight and q half; in exact figures,
$685., ,546 among 38,555,37l.
The foreign element is much largest
at the north, but its distribution is al.
most identical in the newer and older
States, on the Atlantic and on the
Missouri. Thus the foreign percent.
age in Massachusetts, the Oldest State,
and in Nebraska, the youngest, is in
both States, wsll,nigh the same, name
ly, one-fourth. In the former 353, ,129
in a total Of ,457 ,351 in the latter
80,74S in q total of 122, 1898. Yet the
quality Of foreigners West is, no doubt,
better than East. Those who have
least of pluck and purse, linger along
the Atlantic as drudges, or even pau.
pers or worse. But those better and
better of, 60 West, become landlords
and lords Of the land. The first Ger
man Governor was elected in State
on the Mississippi.
Of the S0,74S foreign bern Ne5ras.
kians these originating in tho British
Empire are the most numerous, being
1921. Next, and almost as numer.
Gus, is the Teutonic element, amount
ing to 12,026. The Scandanavians
are almost 1000 and the Sclavonians
half as ipany. OF the Nebraskians
then, three-fourths are native Ameri-
can, while of the remainder, two-fifths
are of British origin. The English
percentage is larger in Nebraska than
in any other State except three.
These figures prove that the settlers
in the United States will form enc
homogeneous people, and that English
speaking and holding mainly to Eng.
lish institutions.
As they we're in the beginning, so
they are now, and ever shall be, in
sGeeuta sdecuLorum! Still, among the
12,304 homesteaders and the 13,447
pre-emptors who, before the close of
1872, had fled their claims to land in
the Lincoln Office, the names betoken
various nationalities. So do those of
the 1926 purchasers who had bought
294,625 acres of the Burlington &
Missouri River Railroad on ten years
credit and six per cent. interest. A
new impulse has just been given to
railroad sales because on those made
since 1872, nothing ef the principal is
payable until the end of the fourth
year, and then only one-seventh annu-
ally.
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ADDITIONAL SECOND D-oLAssrRAIHS-Eanrz
No. Is Oil City o.65 a. M; RousevIlls
7.20i Tarr Farm 7.46; Columbia 7.bS; Pea
Centre $40; Pioneer $40 Miller s.ssi
Titusville 9.55.
No.7 Tlmsville eco a. M; CORY II. -
No. II Oil City li.2o a. M; RouHsVilTe
ll.45; Rynd Farm 1853; Tarr Farm I902
Columbia 2,10; Pet Centre l22o; NillaE
l.25; Ttusville 200; Cory "A p. M -
No. 81 Tidiouts l2.45 p. M; Trunksy-
vile Las; Tionesta24s; olsopolis 42S; 0u
City 6.2ps ..... A.. ~
% Trains do not stop. ID Stop on dsaAs,
% Stop for meals.
Trains 5, 6, 2l and 20 run daily; all sahss
trains daily except Sundays.
N. B.-Train No. 10 is an Express frsm
TitusVille TO Cory.
SILVER PALACE sLEEPINa CAR rRAIRo
No. Direct from Philadslphia Witheat
change.
No.l Direct to PhiladslphiA without
No.5 Direct from Pittsburgh vithout
No. 8 Direct to Pittsburgh withent
change. nttsS
G. J. HEPBURN JNo. PITCAIRN.
Superintendent. GSn'l Manager.
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A GREAT HORROR DONE AWAY
WITH. House cleaning is great hor.
ror to nine men cut of !eyery ten.
When that time comes the ''men folks
as a rule, give the domestic hearth a
wide BERTH" Oceans of sgSs-the
product of tons of soap-fairly food
every part Of the house. The women,
frsm the mistress down, labor MS they
never worked before, and what with
the discomfort, the smell Of suds and
the dampness, and not uHfrequently
sickness, the product Of colds and over.
Serk, matters are generally disagreea.
Ole. The simple use of Sapolio instead
of seap does away with all this discom
;sert. 1t lightens the labor hundred
per cent, because it removes dirt,
grease, stains and spots, with hardly
any labor, with but little water, and in
one tenth the usual time. 1915
A photographer in Portland EN-.
ployed p woman to wash the floors OF
his Establishment. The woman seeing
a basin full of what she presumed was
hot water standing on the stove, emp
tied the contents into her water pail to
warm the water it contained. Oi
course it waR nitrate of silver bath
and the frat the photographer knew
his floor was dirty red brown, the
woman's arms much brewner, and she
bowling because the "Ould Nick was
turning her iate nagur."
A reporter for a Western paper
speaking of certain fair creature
remarked that "the profusion and col
or of her hair would lead one to leol
upon it as though it was spun by tn,
nimble fingers of the easy hours a.
they glided through thu bright Jun,
days, whose many sunny rays of light
had been caught in the meshss, and
were contented to go no further
This is better than saying the girl'l
hair was red.
Mr.. Roswell D. Carnagan, of NORTH
Carolina, was enticed into a gambling
house in New York, where he won, OF
was permitted to win as bait, S340
When he coolly announced his inten.
tion to quit playing one of the gam,
blers drew a iboRie-knife and demand
ed a return Of the money. Mr.
Carnagan jumped cut Of the window
30 an awning, quietly slid down tele.
graph pole and had all the parties ar.
rested.
A Ikeptic who was trying to confuse
q colored man by the contradictory
passages in the bible, asked him how
it could be true that we we're in the
Spirit and the Spirit in US. "Ol dar
no trouble bout dat" replied he. "Its
like dat poker; l put it in de Ere I'LL
il gets red hot-now de poker's in de
fire, and de fire in de pOksrl"
A Virginia gallant recently woeed,
won, and welded maiden fair, ali
within half an hour Of the first intro.
duction to her
"Your behavior is most singular,
sir" said young lady to a gentle.
man who had just stolen a kiss; "If
that is all, sNid he an soon make it
r'"Val."
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ADDITIONAL sFcoND-cLAss rRAISs-souTN.
No. rs. Titusville 2, p. m; Miller $50
Pioneer $50; Pet Centre 3.S3; Columbia
AS; Tarr Farm 4,23; Rynd Farm 4,T,
Housewife 4,55; Oil City 5,21.
No. Cory o. a. M; Titusvills S,Ss,
Miller Farm o,25; Pet Centre 90; Column
bia 1918; Tnrr Farm 1918; Rynd Farm
10Y; Rouseyille 10 ,35; Oil City IL 90.
No. Is. Pet Centre .2s p. M; CclumhiR
l,6o; Tarr Farm eos; Rynd Farm 3,iei
Housewife 2.30; Oil City 500.
No. 22 Oil City $50 a. m; Olsep lie
Us, Tionesta s,54; Trunkeyville 10 is,
Tidioute ll.li.
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CEN;
TRIAL RAILROAD


ON AND AFTER IL p. P. Sunday May
" ], 1870, Trains arrive at and leave the
Union Depot, corner of Washintea and
Liberty street, as follows;
ARRIVE.
Nail Train, 1.30 M; Fast Line, lz.l3
N Well s accommodation No. ], 6. 90 n N,
Brinton accommodation Ne /, T.50 = m;
WSfIs accommodation No 2, s.55a m Gin
cinnati express go q m; Johnstown ao-
commodation 1850 am; Braddeck's ae-
commodation No l, 100 nj; Pittsburgh
express l.3O p m; Pacific express so D n ;
Walls accommodation No 3, 1.35 m ;
Homewood accommodation No l. 9.55 D n;
Wallis accommodation No4, $50 N ,
Brinton accommodation Ne q, LILO , IN
Way Passenger 1920 p nj.
DEPART.
Southern express 5.23'a nn; Pacific ex.
press 2.40 m; Wall 8 comInedatien Ne
!, 6.30a m Mail Train $40 a IN Brinton's
accommodation 1920 m; Braddock's &C.
commodation No l, $40 p m; Cincinnati
express 1926 p m; Wallis accommodates
Z, ll.5l m Johnstown accomm odatien
4.05 p m; Homewood accommodation Ne
l, $50 p m; Philadelphia express $50 IN
Wall accommodation No 2,3.05 D m; Wall'l
accommodation No4, COS pm; Fast Line
7.40 p m; Wallis No s, II. 90 IN.
The Church Trains leave Wallis Staten
every Sunday at 9.05 a. M, reaching Pitts.
burgh at 1905 a. IN. Returning leave Pitts.
burgh at l2.50p. M, and arrive at Walls
Station at 2.l0p. m.
Cincinnati express leaves daily. seuth.
ern express daily except Monday. All eth.
Ar Trains daily, except Sunday.
For further information aply to
w. II. BECKWITH, Agent.
The Pennsylvania Railroad Company
will not assume any Risk for Baggage sx.
cept for Wearing Apparel, and limit their
responsibility TO One Hundred Dollai val,
pe. AH,baggage exceeding that = euni
in value wilIbe at the risk of the Iner
unless taken by special contract.
A. j. CASSA1
General Superintendent, Altoona Pa.
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THE NEW ELASTIC TRUSS.

An Important Invention. 1t retains the
Rupture at all times. and under the hard.
est exercise or severest strain! 1t is worn
with comfort, and II kept on night and
day, effects a permanent cure in a few
weeks. Sold cheap, and sent by Mail
when requested, circulars free, when cr-
dered by letter sent 10 The Elastic Truss
Co., No, 6s3 broadway, n. Y. City. No
body uses Metal Spring Trusses too
painful they slip of too frequently. 4
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NOTICE.

nR. J n. BoLARp. Of Tidiouts. has
~ retnrnsd to his prscGcs after an alb
senoe Of four months, spent In the HoFpi-
tails OF New York, where ha will attsnd
calls in Ms profession
Office IN Eureka Drug Store. 81 door
rheve the bank, Tidioute, IA. 4atf
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Oil Creek&Allegheny River 81

ON AND AFTER Monday Jwns = tsgf,
" TiStns will run ~ followsi