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Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1875-01-27
RATS IN LONDON.

In few years time, says the Build
er, unless some active measures are Ia
ken, London may expect great trouble
from rats. 1t is a startling fact that
one pair of rats, with their progeny,
will produce in three years no less a
number than 646,S0e A doc rat will
have from six to eight nests of young
each year, for four years together, and
from twelve TO twenty-three at litter I;
and the young does will breed at three
months old and there arc moro fe-
males than males, at an average Of
FROM ten to six. If they ran about
the streets like cats and dogs, the pub
lie would be terrified, but as they hide
and work in the dark, men seldom see
or think of them. Brick drains are
their chosen haunts, skirting boards,
backs of firepaces, under the flooring,
or between the rafters are their places
of breeding. The London scwermen
state that brick drains are the rats
best friends, and that no,hi-s -,
-i---l t:,.-- "ftii fIoosy sinh tIups viii
stop the sewer rats from getting into
houses. They will not go up pipes for
the fear of being drowned, knowing
they have no means OF escape. They
are seen in the sewers migrating in
communities TO some discovered quar-
ter for food, and the sewer-men believe
that they have a language of their own.
If builders Were to case skirting boards
with galvanized plating, particularly
at each corner, it would stop the YER
min considerably. Care should be Ia
ken also TO fill with concrete and small
stones or broken glass the space under
and about fireplaces, as the doe rats
choose that quarter for breeding on ac
count of the warmth.
Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1875-01-27


THE FIRST THANKSGIVING DAY.-It
was in the early summer of 1852 that
Governor Winthrop, of the Colony of
Massachusetts, Bay, made the first pub
lie proclamation for day of thanks
giving. In q letter to Governor Brad
ford, Of Plymouth Colony, he related
the good news Just received from Eng
land as the occasion for observing such
a day, and invited the neighboring
colony to unite with the people under
his own jurisdiction in the celebration
of it, As the good news related as
much 10 the Plymouth people as to
the people of Boston, and as Winthrop's
words-"I doubt not but you will con-
sidor if il be not iit for you to join in
it'-exprcss confidence in the action
of Plymouth, il may be presumed, al
though we can find no distinct record
of the fact, that the day was observed
in common by the two colonies. AT
any rate the Boston people kept the
day on the 10Th of June, 1882, as We
learn from the Journal of Winthrop.
Thus the example of a day Of Thanks
giving was first set, which has since
been followed by so many of the com
monwealths of the United States, and
at last by the nation itself.
Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1875-01-27

To DISGUISE CASTOR OIL.-Rub two
drops oil of cinnamon with an ounce OF
glycerinc, and add an ounce of castor
oil. Children will take II and ask for
more.
Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1875-01-27

"IIell closed for repairs" was tho
title Of the Rev. Mr.. Lutx's sermon, in
New Haven. IN New Years might.
Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1875-01-27

SwKKrKNINo OLD LARp.-Takc n
small bunch of slippery elm bark and
put Il in the lard, and cook one hour
Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1875-01-27
MITCHELL WAGONS.
The Best Is the Oheapestl

Thenss Reilly hes received saolAsr large lot u
"Aitshsll wagsna." which are among The very
best nanafss.arsd, and which he will ssli q the
most reasonable n.ss. Ills stock includes almost
al aeeenpuess Of vsecns---issssnd small, vide
and narrow track. Cali ant sss thsn.
aprsN THOMAS REILLY.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1875-02-04
The Vegetable Ritters Man.

Josh Billings has this to say of the
vegetable bitters man:
Whenever man gets ded broke and
kant think ov nOthin to raze the wind
with, and hiz unkle won't have him
boarding at hiz house emmy longer, and
hiz boots want tappin the wust way,
he takes sum rubarb root, fu katnip
blossoms, and sum black cherry tree
bark, soaks them fourteen hours in
cheap whisky, and goes hedlong into
the life-renovating tonik Dizziness.
He plasters every fence, saw-mill
log, stun wall, and cows back, from
Portland, Maine, to San Francisco,
with red-yellow plakards, offering to
heal the halt, make the blind talk, and
the deal see, and renew the livers of
all kreation for one dollar and quar-
ter bottle.
He takes rooms at some fust klass
hotel, drives four in hand, and never
is seen only on the jump.
He is az phull of buzinesS as the Su-
perintendent of Sunday skool on a
piknik day; and call on him when you
will to koIlect your little bill ov eight
dollars he has just left for Baltimore,
or won't be home from M Orleans
until week after next.
Theze men are not all of them un-
skrupulous; som ov their kompounds
are too simple to do any hurt or good,
and the worst perhaps that kan be sed
of them il, that they knowingly prac-
tiss upon the kredulity ov human ma
tur.
The vegitabel bitters man liz kun
ming critter, full of pomposity, fire.
kwently ackumulates fortune, but
never kan entirely outlive a certain
kind ov rubarb and katnip smell that
scents his reputashun.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1875-02-04
MISCELLANEOUS.

The following is pen-photograrh
of Beecher, as he appeared to New
York correspondent at the great scam
dal trial
''His head is unusually large, his
forehead receding on grand arc, the
top of his head almost fiat, and the
cerre6etlun1 extravagantly. developed.
The line between the crown Of his
head and the top OF his ear is unusual
ly long. Unusually long also is the
line between his ear and the extreme
rear point of the cerebelLuns. His nose
is broader than the lent warrants,
and the top of it is iattened and slight
ly upturned. The upper lip is very
long, as long as Thackeray's, but much
thicker and fieshier. The under lip,
which is likewise thick and pulpy, pro-
trudes Just little. But the real defor-
nifty of the face consists in the jowl or
triple chin, which makes his throat
look like a swollen dewlap. This
wrinkled mass of fat completely fills
up the normally curved interval be-
tween his actual chin and his Adams
apple. The eyes are the redeeming
feature of the whole face. They are
blush gray-a true sea-color, and in
their shifting depths one can discover
all the buoyancy, all the wit, all the
pathOs, all the poor humanity that
have conspired to make Beecher what
he is. His face is mottled with hum
dred patches ofcolor. For instance, the
front of his forehead is white and
wholesome, but over each eye. there is
blotch of purple, running into edges
of scarlet. On the side of each cheek
are other scarlet patches crossed and in
terlaced by numbers of minute purple
veins. The base of his nose is furious
ly red.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1875-02-04
Origin of Foreign Mission S.

Though foreign missionary organiZa-
tions have been in existence for over
two centuries and a half, and though
missionary operations have been act
iyely carried on ever since the days
when the little church at Antioch, in
SYRIA, sent Paul and Barabus on the
first mission to the heather, Protestant
missions, in their present form, have
only existed from about the beginning
of the present century. The Moravians
were forerunners and pioneers in this
work. In 1873 two of their numb her
went to Greenland; in 177l a mission
was established in Labrador, which is
sustained To the present day; and even
prior to that time. in 170l, the Society
for the Propagation of the Gospel was
founded in the Church Of England, un-
der the fostering care of the English
bishops. Bnt its energies were mainly,
if not eXclu-ivtly, confined to labors
among the English colonists. And it
was not until 1893 that missions, on
any extended scale, to the heather
were undertaken. Then it was, despite
much open opposition and more luke
warmness, in Inference, and moral in
ertia, that William Carey succeeded in
awakening an Interest III lOrelPn mis-
sions, which resulted in the organiza-
tion of the Baptist Missionary Society.
Two years later Q795) the London Mis-
sionary Society was organized by Row
land Hill and others, und in the fol-
lowing year sent a company of twenty
nine missionaries to the South Sea Is
lands. Five years later Q800) the
Church Missionary Society (Church of
England) and the Wesleyan Society
(Methodist) were organized. For this,
as for so many other humane. philan-
thropic, and religious enterprises, this
country is indebted to the mother-land.
Not until 1910 was the first missionary
organization in the United States found
ed-the American Board of Commits
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1875-02-04
Good Health-How to get it.

Take occasionally a few doses OF HUOF
LANDS GERMAN BITTEKS. 1t gives tone to
the stomach, facilitating the digestion and as
similation of food, so necessary to the nourish
ment of the body. = 1t regulates the bowels
carrying of the foul matter that would other
wise impair the action of the Liver and cor
rupt the Blood, producing foul Eruptions, OF
fensive Breath, Sick Headache, Bilious Disor
ders, Jaundice, BackacAe, Nervous Debility
and General Weakness scd Irritability.
They act not as drastic purgative, but by
arousing the dormant functions of Nature to
healthy action, and thus setting the channels
frec cleanse and nouriSh the whole system ID
vigorous joyous health,
1t is not a Rum Bitters. but a pure medical
preparations, that is securing its thousands
daily, who joyiully testify to its wonderful ef-
ficiency in curing disease and restoring health
When a brisk purgative is required, use
HOOFLAND'S PODOPHYLLIN PIkLS. They
act promptly, without nausea or distress.
Prop:ietors JOHNSTON, HOLLOWAY &C %
Philadelphia Sold by all Druggists 4
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1875-02-04
POETRY.
The ChrOR0meter.

A gentleman, who at feast,
Was tardy half-an-hour at least,
When asked by those who came before,
(Some hungry guests.an hour or more }
To say why he arrived SO late.
And so compelled the rest to waltz
Showed his repeater. in reply:
"YourselNes are out of time-not i!
Ttco was the hour proposed, " said he,
"And two's the time-as you :hay seer
"Ridiculousv' they all replied;
"From the true time yonr watch il
wide;
We came well-nigh an hohr ago;
Your watch-like you-is clearly slow!
"WeIl," said the man, "ssy what YOU
will,
/ trust my old repeater still;
For many year I've proved its worth
There's not better watch on earth!"
At this, of course, each other guest
Drew forth his watch the fact to test;
With what effect?-not much indeed;
For of them all no two agreed!
One plainly showed a quarter past;
Another said, ''Ten minutes fast"
Another, "Forty minutes slow!
And yet another answered, "No"
'Tis Just fourteen! as Pm alive!"
"No!" said another, "Iwenty-five!"
At length, the smiling host came in,
"a scholar who ere while had been
"a student of astronomy,
And blandly asking what might be
The point they disagreed about
Soon put an end to every doubt,
By bringing forth an instrument
Contrived on purpose to prevent
All liability to err
To wit, his good ChrOnonaeter.
By this-whlch chanced to disagree
With all the rest-the hour as three!
MORAL.
Though mere opinions many be,
And so, like watches disagree;-
Tsth-ever sacred be its name
Is one, and eyermore the same!
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1875-02-04
NOTICE.

nR. 8. F. WOOD having opened an Office In
- Wheeling, announces 10 the public that he
Will not be able to be at his Office in st. Cairs
Vile all the time, but will visit IL the first
Monday OF every month and stay one week,
Monday, Sept. 7th.
Once In Wheeling, No, ll56 Main-st, Cup
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1875-02-04
70 PURIFY THE BLOOD.

IMPROVE THE GENERAL HEALTH,
Take one of HUOFLAND'S PODUPHYLLIN
PILLS every day Tor few days, and then fol,
low with HOOFLANPS GERMAN BITrERS.
The Pills will expel all the foul humors that
vitate the Blood, producing Fever, Sick Head.
Offensive Breath, unsightly Rruptions ON the
Skin, and all those effects arising from un>
healthy impure secretions. The HOOFLAND'S
stomach, and restore the digestive organs TO
perfect health. induce the secretion of healthy
fluids for the proper digestion and assim ila-
ton food for the making of Pure Blood and
nourishment Of the body to vigorous health.
This fs better than all the Sarsaparillas for
purifying the Blood, for the component parts
have specific action on the diseased organs i'm
plicated In this condition.
JOHNSTON, ,H0LLOWAYA CO., Proprletos.
~ T--tf- es~t| Nv- ot
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1875-02-04

Utah is rivaling Switzerland in the
grandeur and fatality of its avalanches
this winter.
Tho Mississippi river is closed BY ice,
1t the foot of Lake Pepin, for the first
time in sixteen years.
Profitable pauperism. A Baltimore
beggar has just retired from business
on fortune of S26, 900.
The paupers of Massachusetts, occupy
property valued at $1,000 900. There
are 20, 900 of these beneficiaries.
Lumbermen place the quantity Of
timber to be cut this season at only
ltwo-thirds as much as was cut last
season.
Boston has dozen men who are
worth from s., ,000, 600 to Sc, ,0O0, 600, and
a score who are worth half million.
The Kentucky editorial ass who itch
es to take Phil. Sheridan's hide off,
wants a lions skin to masquerade in.
The leading. firms in the iron and
steel trades in Sheffield, England; are
endeavoring to return to the ten hour
system.
Husbands in Schenectady, New
York, are very quiet as rule. There
are ten thousand broOms manufactured
there daily.
The female sex cannot complain of
the want of appreciation in Chicago,
ninety-three per cent. of the teachers
employed there being females.
In California the land selling busi-
ness is just now at quite high pitch,
and there is considerable speculation
on the subject in San Francisco. C.
Owing to the long continued depres-
sion in wheat, most of the mills in Min
nesota and Northern Wisconsin have
shut down for the present.
Thousands of dollars in New York
are hanging on the question of wheth-
er the majority of that scandal jury
will be for Beecher or Tilton.
Twenty-four nations have already
signified their intention to take part in
the Centennial Exhibition, and sixteen
Com missioners have been accredited.
A radical change. The transfer of the
New York Emis ration bureau, emf
grant landing, institutions, and all to
the General Government, is contem-
plated.
The authorities of Havanr have per-
mitted Garcia, who sold the stolen
Murillo, picture, to 60 free.
A Vienna dispatch says Spain has
yaid Germany money indemnity, by
which the Gustav affair has been set
tied.
The late Mrs. Ann White Vose of
Boston, in her will, just made public,
bequeathed 1866, 900 to the public in
stitutions of the city.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1875-02-04

are justified in saying that modern
Protestant missions are all the growth
of the past seventy-five or eighty years.
l-TLyman Abbott, in Harper's Masa-
zine for January.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1875-02-04
Farm and Household.

A good lubricator for wooden aXles
is made of six parts of clean tallow and
two parts of fine smooth plumbago.
Another is made of five parts Of tallow,
fye parts of soapstone, one part of
pIumbago and nine parts of rosin oil;
the tallow and the oil are heated and
plumbago are added.
Group can be cured in one minute,
and the remedy is simply alum and
sugar. The way TO accomplish the
deed is to take knife and CRATE or
shave off in small particles about tea
spoonful of alum, then mix 1t with
twice its quantity of sugar to make it
palatable, and administer it as quickly
as possible. Almost instantaneous re-
lief will follow Inter Ocean.
A good way to feed corn stalks is to
cut them fine and mix with finely cut
straw in the proportion of two-thirds
stalks and one-third straw. A large
mass may be cut and stored without
danger of heating, and the straw will
rather be improved by it. The feed is
relished by horses, cattle and sheep,
end if meal and bran is sprinkled on it
nearly the whole VIII De eaten.-Roch-
ester Democrat.
Rich Wedding Cake.-Two pounds
of butter, two pounds of white sugar,
eighteen eggs, one cup of mt lasses, one
teaspoonful of soda, two pounds of flour,
four pounds of dried currants, one
quarter pound of citron, three table
spoonfuls of cloves, one tablespoonful
of mace, two tablespoOnfuls of allspice,
two nutmegs. Beat the whites and
yolks of the eggs separately. Dissolve
the soda in the mOlasses. Cut the cit
ron in thin slices. Roll the currants in
4 little cake. Crate the nutmegs. Rub
the sugar and butter to smooth cream.
Stir in the yolks of the eggs, then the
whites, the molasses with soda, spices,
flour and currants. Pour little Of the
cake into the buttered' haking-pan,
place layer O: citron on it, pour in
more cake another layer of citron, and
so on until the pan is sufficiently full.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1875-02-04

For the relief and
cure of all derange-
ments in the stom-
ach, liver, and bow
els. They are a mild
aperient, and an
excellent purgative.
Being purely vege-
table, they contain
no mercury or mine
raj whatever. Much
serious sickness and
suffering is prevent
-l h Ski. A.-I
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1875-02-04

r. A. JUNKlNS
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1875-02-04
Ayers Cathartic Pills,

For the relief and
| | ! :
N cure of all derange-
AL ments in the stom-
ach, liver, and bow
els. They are mild
0N aperient, and an
CN MA excellent purgative.
Being purely vege-
- ~. NFi> table, they contain
no mercury rmine-
H%s raj whatever. Much
EG serious sickness and
suffering is prevent
-.-.-ss- ed by their timely
use; and every family should have them on hand
for their protection and relief, when required.
Long experience has proved them to be the SAT.
est, surest, and best of all the Pills with which
the market abounds. By their occasional use,
the blood is purified, the corruptions of the sys-
TEN expelled, distinctions removed, and the
whole machinery of life restored to its healthy
activity. Internal organs which become clogged
and sluggish are cleansed by Ayer's Pills, and
stimulated into action. Thus incipient disease
is changed into health, the value Of which change,
when reckoned on the vast multitudes who enjoy
it, can hardly be computed. Their sugar coating
makes them pleasant TO take, and preserves their
virtues unimpaired for any length of time, SO
that they are ever fresh, and perfectly reliable.
Although searching, they are mild, and operate
without disturbance to the constitution, or diet or
occupation.
Full directions are given on the wrapper to
each box, how TO use them as a Family Physic,
and for the following complaints, which these
Pills rapidly cure
ness, Languor and Loss Of Appetite, they
should be taken moderately to stimulate the stom-
ach, and restore its healthy tone and action.
For Liver Complaint and its various symp
toms, Bilious Headache, Sick Head
ache, Jaundice or Green Sickness, Bill.
i0us Collie and Bilious Fevers, they should
be judiciousy taken for each case, TO correct the
diseased action or remove the distinctions which
cause it.
For DyseHtery or Diarrh0ea, but one
mild dose is generally required.
For Rheuma atism, GOut Gravel, Pal.
pitatiOn Of the Heart, Pain in the
Side, Back and L0ins, they should be contin-
uously taken, as required, to change the diseased
action of the system. With such change those
complaints disappear.
For Dropsy and DropsicaI swe1lings,
they should be taken in large and frequent doses
to produce the effect of a drastic purge.
For Suppression, large dose should be
taken, as it produces the desired effect by SYM
pathy.
AS Dinner Pft, take one or two Pills to
promote digestion and relieve the stomach.
An occasional dose stimulates the stomach and
bowels, restores the appetite, and invigorates the
system. Hence it is often advantageous where
no serious arrangement exists. One who feels
tolerably well, often finds that a dose of these
Pills makes him feel decidedly better, from their
cleansing and renovating effect on the digestive
apparatus.
-,. PREPARED BT
DR.. j. O. AVER & CO., Practical Chemists,
LOWELL, MASS, U. s. A.
FOR SALE By ALL DRUGGISTS EVERYWHERE.
The New York herald., 1875-11-28
ANOTHER YOUTHFUL EMBEzzLER.

William Martin, young man aged twenty, who
resides the Of Nineteenth street and First
avenue, has for long time past held the position
confidential clerk to Mr. Francis Whiteey whose place
OF business the building OF the Hartford and New
Haven Railroad Company, corner of Franklin and
Centre streets SO great was Mr. whiteey's trust in
his youthful assistant that he allowed him full liberty
In the conduct Of his business.
Upon the unaccountabIe loss Of some thousands Of
dollars suspicious against the honesty Of his employe
Martin, took sudden form in Mr.. Whiteley's mind and
he determined to call in the aid Of the officers Of the
law to assist him in unravellng what was 10 him
mystery. Accordingly he went before magistrate and
made complaint against Martin. A warrant issued
for his and placed in the hands OF officers Richard
OConnor and Richard Fields of the District Attorneys
Office who TO the place Of business OF Mr. White
ley yesterday afternoon and took Martin into custody
The prisoner confessed that he guilty OF the crime
charged against him. and described his nods operadt
He said he had been in the habit Of going personally
10 receive the letters addressed TO his EN-.
ployer from the Post ONCE box Some OF
these letters contained money orders. which
he would surrepttiousy take and eventually get
cashed, appropriatng the money obtained them TO
his use. The amount derived from this syste-
matte mode Of robbery would, he said aggregate be-
tween &9 500 and s. 600 When his employer to
the parties requesting payment OF the amount he he
prisoner) would Intercept the letters their way
the Post once and destroy them thus preventing dis
covery Of his thievery The National Bank Note Com
pany also Messrs Paris h cambridge, OF Beekman
street and other firms gave money 10 the prisoner as
the collector OF Mr. Whiteey, which never turned
over 70 that gentleman. Martin was lodged In tho
Tombs and held in default Of 81, 900 ball. the papers
being sent to the District Attorney.