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Middletown transcript., 1874-10-17
FIRST GRIND GIFT CONCERT,
Montpelier
Female Humane Association,
AT ALEXANDRIA. VA,
NOVEMBER %, 1874.
IL, l7s Cash Gifts, amounting to.....$l ,0O, ,oO'
Number of Tickets, 100. 900.
PRICE OF TICKETS


Quarters Duo
Eighths or each upon.................... 25o
63 Tickets LOO. 90
The Montpelier Female Humane Associa-
tion, chartered by the Legislature Of Virginia
and the Circuit Court of Orange Co., propo-
ses by Grand Gift Concert to establish and
endow "Home for the Old, In6rm, and Des-
ttute Ladies Of Virginia, at Montpelier, the
former residence Of President James Madison.
GovERNoRs OFFICE, RICHMOND, July 8, IA.
1t affords me pleasure to say that am well
acquainted with large majority of the Off
GERS of the Montpelier Female Humane Asso-
citation, who reside in the vicinity of my home
and attest their intelligence and their worth
and high reputation as gentlemen, as well as
the public confidence, influence and substan-
tial means literally represented among them.
JAMES l.. KEMPER, Gov. Virginia.
! ALEXANDRIA,, VA, July 8, 1874
l commend them as gents of honor and integ-
rity, and fully entitled to the confidence Of
the public = y R. w. HUGHES,
U. s. Judge East'n Dist. Of Va.
Further references by permission: His Ex-
cellency Gilbert G. Walker, Ex-Governor of
Va; Hon. Robt. E. Withers, Lieut. Gov. of
Va. and o 8. Senator elect; Senators and
Members of Congress from Va.
Remittances for tickets may be made by ex-
press prepaid, post-ofice money-order on
Washington, D. O., or BY registered letter.
For full particulars, testimonialsf &c. send
for Circular. Address,
How. JAMES BARBOUR,
PREsr'T NJ. F. H. A., Alexandria, Va.
Reliable agents wanted everywhere.
oct 3-4t. I-asa Fs-
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W7ANTED-Agents for the "Life and Ex-
w plorations OF DR.. Livingstone" Com
plete, authentic a fresh book. Price suited
to the times. Address, B. B. RUSSELL, Pub
Usher, Boston, Mass oct3-4t
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A0N and after September lst,
O/1S74, the steamer MAJOR
REYBULD," Capt P. Reybold, will Leave
Salem, N. j., daily (except Sunday at 90
A. M. Returning, leave Arch street wharf,
Phila., at q 90 P. NJ, touching at Delaware
City, New Castle, Pennsgrove and Chester
each way. -
Stage lines for St. Georges, McDonough
and Odessa, Del, Sharptown, Woodstown
and Allowaystown, N. j., connect with the
steamer.
Freights at low rates. Il - : -
~ All lost goods must be reported to
the captain within days. June ely
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alse for use on truck farms, with entire satis-
faction to consumers. a5"
1t has encountered all the contingencies of
varying seasons, and all the disasters to crops
arising from natural causes.
1t has steadily increased in popular favor,
as is manifested by the fact that the demand
this year exceeds by far that Of any previous
year Of its use. .s5.,s.. .,gz
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Aeath Grees and Alants.
SO, 900
PEACH J TREES FOR SALE.

The undersigned. having been engaged a
long time in the peach business, has neither
spared pains nor expense to secure the best
varieties of peaches, the best bearers, the
largest peaches, and those That will carry well
and bring the most money in market. am
now ready to receive orders for said trees, to
be delivered here in the Nursery or on board
the cars, this Fall, 1874, and the following
Spring. The following are the varieties and
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1874-03-20
Mexican Manners.

A writer in the city OF Merico says |:
I doubt if any capital in the world CON
tains so many handsome women and
wealthy gentlemen, or has so. many
poor, hideous-looking people. Like all
Spanish towns, the rich are very rich,
and the poor very poor. The wealthy
are handsomely, tastefully, and fashion
ably attired while those of the middle
classes affect the chivalrous dress of old
Castile-cloth jackets with metallic but
tons, gaudy sashes, sombreros with en-
broidered bands, and gold and silver
clasps down the outer seams of the pam
falcons. The women promenade with
no head-dress, their faces protected
from the sun by parasols, which they
coquettishly carry. From ten to twelve
in the morning the streets are thronged
and the shops crowded until foar or
five o'clock in the afternoon, after which
hour few ladies are to be seen ON the
thoroughfares until late in the evening.
Then the parks, plazas, and promenades
wear an animated appearance. Ladies
are to be seen floating about gracefully,
followed by their servants and caballe-
ros, in full dress, swords, boots, and
spurs, ride slowly around mounted
upon superb horses, whose heads and
loins are nearly covered with elegant
trappings.
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Cheap Transportation.

Senator Ramsey, of Minnesota, re-
Gently addressed the Senate on this
subject. He said there were three ways
of obtaining cheap transportation !:
First, by improving the navigation of
the Mississippi river from the falls of st.
Anthony to the Gulf of Mexico, which
could be easily and cheaply done, first
damming up the water in the lakes in
Upper Minnesota, and storing 1T up for
dry SEASON, and so obtaining a uni
form depth of 5 feet for the upper Mis-
sissipSi second, by continuing other
improvements now under way; third,
by deepening the channel between New
Orleans and the Gulf. These would
give cheap freight by barges to New
Orleans, and by steamers to Europe.
Also by deepening the channels between
the lakes, and but small appropriation
from the United States would be re-
quired for this purpose, as Canada
would do the rest, and then, under a
reciprocity treaty, our ships could be
loaded at Duluth for Liverpool, and so
have two competing water ways. All
Western States are not so favorably sit
uated as Minnesota with two water
routes to Europe. The Western States
want, and must have an all-rail route
for freight. The constitutional right to
charter and aid such work is undoubted.
We need reforms in the present roads,
and a double-track freight railroad,
chartered and controlled by Congress,
with maximum rate of mills ton
per mile. This was practicable; and
with such n road, competing with wa
ter-ways by river and by lakes, would
give the West what alone could supply
access to the markets of the world for
the products of her fields, now rotting
| In her Qraneries or burning for fuel.
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The Air We Breathe.

In absorbing into our lungs the guam
tity of air necessary to sustain life we
advertently inhale hosts of microscop-
ical animals, which are in suspension in
the atmospherical fluid, and even por-
tions of antediluvian animals, mummies,
and skeletons of past ages. Every day
and hour this absorption of animal and
vegetable life proceeds. We inhale the
microsoa, several species of which are
the fish of our blood, and the vibriopes,
which attach themselves to our teeth
like barnacles to ships bottom and
with these the dust of microscopical
animalcules, so small that it takes
rs, 600, 900 to make grain, and the no
less minute grains of pollen, which,
terminating our lungs, further the
spread of parasitic life to degree far
beyond that of the normal life visible to
our eyes.
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Genins from Broken Heads.

A writer in the British Colonist notes
various instances of the transmutation
of idiocy into'genius by head breaking
accidents. The great German Wallen-
stein is said to have been but half
witted child, until q fall from window
and consequent cerebral fracture sud
denly redeemed his intellectual nature.
The famous Mabilen was irreclaimably
idiotic until his nineteenth year, when
fall down O stone staircase turned him
into genius. In an English lunatic
asylum one patient struck another q
tremendous blow on the bridge of the
nose, and from that moment the stricken
man rapidly regained his sound mind.
In fact, one of the English remedies for
imbecility and madness was revolving
swing, whirling around hundred times
in minute. The patient was strapped
helplessly to a machine, which, after
hundreds of dizzying revolutions, was
stopped with frightful jerk, al the
very height of its velocity. And there
is indisputable evidence that many as
tonishing cures were wrought thereby.
MAN A WATERY CoMpoUND. From
the fact that when the body of man
of average size is reduced literally to
ashes by fire, only about ten pounds OF
said ashes remain, it is shown that the
human system contains seventy pei
cent. of water. In the remaining thirty
per cent. twenty is carbon, which dis.
appears in gas at the burning, even as
the watery seventy evaporates. Thus
your ''solid man" possesses really abou,
ten pounds Of solidity.
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Bows, Heed This.

Many people seem to forget that char
acter grows that it is not something
TO put ON, ready-made, with womanhood
or manhood but day by day, here lit
tie and there little, grows with the
growth and strengthens with the strength
until, good or bad, it becomes almost a
coat of mail. Look at man of bust
ness, prompt, reliable, conscientious,
yet clear-headed and energetic. When
do you suppose he developed all these
qualities when he was boy ? Let us
see the way in which boy of ten years
gets up in the morning, works, plays,
studies, and we will tell you just what
kind of man he will make. The boy
Who is late at breakfast, and late at
School, stands poor chance to be a
prompt man. The boy who neglects his
duties, be they ever so small, and then
excuses himself by saying, i forgot
/ didn't think y will never be reliable
man.. And the boy who finds pleasure
in the suffering of weaker things, will
never be noble, generous, kindly man
"a gentleman.
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A Horny.Handed M. p.

A bona fde workingmen's candidate
elected to Parliament hitherto monop-
olized by feudal and moneyed aris-
tocracy will be a novelty. in England.
Long as the laboring classes have talked
about sending representative to st.
Stephens, Chapel, the mistrust and
jealousy which workingmen feel toward
men of their own condition have always
prevented this consummation. Mr..
Alexander Macdonald, the new member
for Stafford, is, therefore, the first
" horny-handed son of toll who will
take his seat and look after the interests
of his order in the House of Commons.
He is Scotchman, and lives at Holy
town, near Glasgow In his youth he
worked in the mines TO procure money
to pay his fees at the university, as is
possible in Scotland, and as he would
like to see possible also in England.
He is, therefore, a man of education.
de has visited the United States, hav-
ing been the first Briton to cross the
continent by rail. --Erchonge.
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We were much impressed lately by
the orderly behavior Of q large family
of children, particularly at the table.
We spoke of il to our host and he
pointed to a paper pinned ON the wall,
on which were written some excellent
rules. He said he gave each child who
obeyed the rules, reward at the end
of every month. We begged copy
for the benefit OF our readers. They
were called " Rules and Regulations fol-
Parents Paradise :"
/. Shut every door after you, without
slamming it.
2. Never shout, jump, or run in the
house. IS - s. %4
3. Never call to persons up stairs, or
in the next room, If you wish to speak
to them, go quietly where they are.
4. Always speak kindly and politely
to the servants if you would have them
do the same to you.
thing, by either parent, never ask ashy
you should or should not do it.
6. Tell of your own faults, not OF
those of your brothers and sisters.
7. Carefully clean the mud or snow
off your boots before entering the house.
8. Be prompt at every meal hour.
8. Never sit down at the table or in
the parlor with dirty hands or tumbled
hair.
10. Never interrupt any conversation,
but wait patiently your turn to speak.
IL. Never reserve your good manners
for company, but be equally polite at
home and abroad.
II. Let your first, last, and best conf.
dant be your mother.-OIiuer Optics
Magazine.
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A Record Undimmed.

In the years Immediately following
the war there was undoubtedly more or
less of reckless legislation. So far as
the expenditure of money and the
granting of land subsidies to railways
were concerned, such state of things
could not have been prevented in any
country under the sun--where the same
causes were brought into operation, or
the same state of things existed. But
after all that it has had to contend with,
the Republican party has an excel, mt
record In the direction of economy, and
good management of the national fnan-
ces. 1t is now passing through severe
,7deal in the way of Investigation, but
so far as results have been foreshadow-
ed, it will come out triumphant. While
here has been less flourish of trumpets,
there has really been more of jealous,
rigid scrutiny into expenditures since
che present Congress assembled than in
any during the past thirty years. When
the growth, progress, wealth, and grow
ing interests OF the nation are taken
into account, there has been more lop-
ping off, more of real retrenchment,
than has bsen wrought by any of its
predecessors. Such care and prudence
as the Committee on Appropriations
have exercised has never been surpass-
ed. Not only is it actually reducing
the appropriations very largely, but il
is, by its action, indicating the direc-
tons and the points where still further
reductions can be made by needed
changes in the laws. Some of our es
tablishments--made so by the warfare
larger than they need be in time Of
peace, and the action of this committee
has been such as to show why and
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r.. u ~. ~ 49, III N r.. ~. ! " ; =, Is. +
WeVe ~ plro 6ovp>c4
efforts TO securing economy a ~ puS
lie expenditures, but the attending COM
mittees of the House upon cxpendi lures,
in the various departments, have also'
been engaged in q rigid search after
something which has justified the ex-
travagant charges Of the Liberal and
Democratic papers. Far from finding
anything that is hagrantly wrong, SO far
as the administration 10 concerned,
these efforts are likely to result in its
triumphant indications. And yet, we
believe that the Democratic or Liberals
have wide-awake representative on
every one of these committees. Ger
tainly, with everything open to their in
spection, these astute gentlemen would
not remain silent were one-twentieth Of
the charges of their papers true. On
the contrary, they would raise their
voices very high If there were anything
to bawl about. This is peculiarly the
era of detraction and abuse. Since the
war that portioA of the press, which
lives and have its being upon mere sem
sation, has been compelled to "keep it
up" If there are neither wars nor
rumors of wars, resort must be had to
something else. The next best thing
with which to produce excitement and
make their papers sell in Wholesale
denunciation-either of individuals or
of the party in power. The malice of
the Liberal press was rendered all the
keener from the fact that their great
organs, which had become pulled up
with insolent pride, found themselves
utterly destitute of any following what
ever, when they struck their colors and
started for the enemy's camp. 1t was q
new, q novel, and most unwelcome ex-
perience, to realize that even the masses
of the people had arrived at point
where they did their own thinking. The
work of building up new party having
so signally failed, the next thing in
order was to tear down that in power.
No impartial observer can fail to
that for many months past the abuse of
men in high positions, and of the Adj
ministration for its alleged extrava-
gance and corruption, has been dictated
by the purest malice. The work of
finding fault is vastly easier than search
ing out facts and giving them to the
people fer what they are worth. But,
happily, the investigation now going ON,
in which the opposition have large
part, are demonstrating that the Adj
ministration is an honest one that il
is carrying on the Government Justly
and economically, and that it deserves
the fullest measure of respect and con-
fidence at the hands of the people, 1t
is fortunate that these searching inves-
LEGATIONS have been instituted, and we
hope they will continue until there is no
branch of the pnblic seryice--no nook
or corner in any of the departments
which has not received the most thor
ough scrutiny. Here and there irregu-
larities may be found, expenditures may
be discovered which can be dispensed
with, but the result can only be to
strengthen the people in their favorable
judgment of the administration and the
party which is responsible for its exist
ence.--Is1ter- Ocean.
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PAuLDINe CENTER, Ohio,
hermit who has pre-empted
of Government land, lives
corn in a bark hut, never
clothes, and never washes(
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New YoRK city has 1922 licensed
liquor shops.
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English" cried the girls, IA
is the French word for beer that Is,
why is beer feminine ?" (" Because you
men like it so well r. said the girls, and
the teacher did not pursue the subject
further. ~
GENTLEMEN of the jury" said an
eloqent advocate, you hev heern the
witness swar he saw the prisoner raise
his gun; you hev heern him swar he saw
the flash and heered the report; you
hev heern him swar he saw the dog fall
dead you hev heern him swar he dug
the bullet out with his jack knife, and
you hev seen the bullet produced In
court but whar, gentlemen, whar,
ask you, is the man who saw that bullet
hit that dog ?"
nEEKcHEs OF rnUsr.
We spindle-shanked landies.
Ye conceited beaux, .t az
Whose one earthly pleasure "a
Is showing your clothes,
Do not cheat your taiors,
But pay them what's just s,
| For trousers on credit W -tll.
| Are brssches Of trust.
| MARCH. az, 4,
In the showing and the blowing, f
In the cruel sleef, - VA a s. 81
Little flowers begin their growing
Far beneath our feet. 81 n ~. I,tt
Softly taps the spring and cheeriy-- "a 4.
"Daflings, are you here ~ ~ ~ a
\ Still they answer We are nearly,
Nearly ready, DEAR
| Where is Winter, with his showing
| Tell us Spring. they say;
| 81 Then she answers. "Heis Rf-X II
/ Going on his way. ~ ~
/ Poor old Winter does not like you
/ But his TINA IL paet p ~
| Soon my birds shall sing above you
Set you free stlastw ~
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uuaccOuutuDle DhSSlOll, duu QtcldTtu
with much heat that "when he wanted
her he d send for her, and he'd put ON
that collar himself or he'd bust every
shirt in the house" And he went at. Il
with renewed energy, and every time he
thought he had it his thumb would slip
by or over the top, and every time his
thumb slipped he would slap it under his
other arm, and draw up his body in the
greatest pain, and grind out from be-
tween his clenched teeth what the af-
frighted lady understood to be, "Gaw-r-
r-r-r- dah-r-r-r.r it," Suddenly and most
unexpectedly, the back wafer took
hold, but not until he had seggested to
his wife that hereafter she had better
sew the button ON the inside of the
band and put patch over it, and then
perhaps he could get his collar on with
IN fortnight. But his success ended
here. In vain he piled his blistered and
aching thumb to the button in front in
vain he spread out his legs and drew
them up again and ground his teeth in
vain he pranced around, and smote his
fists, and chewed his tongue--the ends
would not fasten (; and finally becoming
exhausted, and putting like q porpoise,
he tore the collar from its fastening,
and grinding it beneath his heel, swore
most vehemently that no woman would
put collar on him without first passing
over his dead body. Upon that he
strobe moodily into the garnet, while
Mrs. Cobleigh with an aching heari|
and feeling untitled for worship, seat
herself at the front window and Loo
through the blinds at the neigh
going to church. --Ddn5ury New(
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1874-02-13

GAN ORGAN FOR THE OBsTRUCTIorIsTs-
IL 10 curr emily reported that the obstructionists
nave dec 1ded 10 have an organ, and that II is to
be an evening luminary. We wish ii the great
est possible success 1t is understood that il is
10 be sort Of successor to the defunct Patriot
which was chiefly owned by MeSsrs. Tweed
Coreorsn, and Riggs. 1t is to be hoped that it
may equal its dead predecessor in reputation,
and surpass Ii in the number OF its days. If its
name has not been definitely settled we propose
that II be christened the Tresd- COrc0rdn- Riggs
Karen, as its chief occupation, it is supposed
Will be to "croak" on account Of the misfor-
tunes of the first and the sorrows of his asso-
ciates in their frustrated attempts to manipu-
late municipal governments-"-CAronic
Messrs. Corcoran, Riggs s. Co. are better
qualified for success in founding cemeteries and
shaving notes than IN running a live newsps-
Per, which requires capacity of an entirely diff
ferent order. They had much better employ
the money they viii sink in this way in paying
their honest taxes. However, if they have the
money 10 throw away their new venture will
absorb IL with nestness and dispatch. But af-
ter their experience with the Patriot and the
cItiseH they ought to know.
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Apparently little sharp moral suasion will
be necessary for the Sioux, the most powerful
tribe Of Indians on the plains. It is q notice
able fact, however, that Spotted Tail, chief of
the Brule, and Red Cloud, chief Of the Ogal-
ialla Sioux, have not yet taken a hand in the
late outrsges on the whites, nor does 1t appear
that they have sanctioned them. Both OF these
chiefs, and notably Spotted Tail, have been
friendly TO the whites for years. They were
both In Washington year or two ago, and re-
affirmed their desire for peace. Red Cloud,
however, did not 60 away very well pleased,
and since has been sulky at times, although he
he has kept the peace. The main difficulty lies
In the fact that the Indian chiefs are losing
control over their tribes, and are frequently the
leaders Of but a small part of their people.
should either Of these chiefs take the war-path
.hey VII! make IL exceedingly lively for the
boys IN blue on the plains, since either of them,
In case OF war, can muster several thopsand
tolerabiy well armed warriors.