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Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1876-04-07

LACKAWANNA & BLOOMSBURY r. r.
AT NORTHUMBERLAND.
Leave north-6:45 n. IN. 1888 p. m. $3.50 p. M.
Arrive from north-I2:45 p. m. and 6:lO, p. III.
Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1876-04-07
NEW TEA STORE!
The undersigned have just oPeneda
NEW TEA STORE,
Market Square. sUNBURY. Pa,
Where they intend to make the finest Teas. the
best Coffees, and strictly pure Spices a
speciality. They are now re-
eeiving large
STOCK OF TEAS,

the finest goods ever offered in this vicinity, and
are selling for CASH at greatly reduced rates.
The public are respectfully invited to call and
examine our goods and prices.
A. +. HAZELTINE s. co.
Sunbury, Jan. 2S, 1876 mos.
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Accidental Insurance Tickets can be had oil
j. Shipman, Ticket Agent, at the Depot.
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Railroad Time Table.

aRrvAL AND pErAKrURE oF TRAINS AT sUNBURr.
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MGR. W, South. P. & L. V. X. West
Erie Mail, 1910 IN Erie Mail, 6.22 IN
Fast Liue 200 N Niagara Ex., 1875 p IN
PLIla. Ex., 9.45 a M Emira Mail 4.O5 p m
nay EX., l.lO IN fasl Line "Vo III
sHANoKIN DIVISION, n. C. Il. W.
lRAVR ARRIVE
ess, lO.40 m Mail, 9.l5 IN
425pm Express, 3.55 p m
accommodation train leaves ShamOkin at
IN. arriving at Mt. Carmel at 7.40 a m.
lug, leave Mt. Carmel at 600 ? IN, arriV-
Shamokin ESQ p N.
Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1876-04-07

w. VI. MILLER,
Prop'r Excelsior Boot and Shoe Store.
Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1876-04-07

LIBEL SUIT IN PRosPECT.--During the trial of
the MahaDOy robbers the Shenandoah Ecc,.ing
Herald had special reporter at Sunbury. After
the trial was concluded the Herald took occasion
to comment freely OH the evidence, and the Sc
verify of its article brought forth the following
letter from Mr.. Nolan:
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1876-03-31

LIVING IN FLATs.-Of the fiat system,
Julian Hawthorne, in ''Saxon Studies,' y
speaks with undisguised dislike. The OBJ
lection that he makes to flats seems, I'M
doubtedly, to be well taken-they destroy
that sense of privacy which is the essehce
of the Anglo Saxon idea of home 81
would as lief,' he says, ''share my parlor
with a stranger as be liable to meet him on
my staircase, or rub shoulders with him
over my threshold, especially when his
right to be there is as good as mine. There
is an indelicacy about it, as if a dozen or
twenty people were all to eat and speak
through one mouth. The street does not
stop outside the house; it eddies into the
hall, and forces it's dirty current upstairs.
True, there is another door within but
after we have given up our outworks, few
people will believe in the genuineness Of
our inner defences. The spell of reserve
is broken. \ If we will frankly call
such establishments hotels, we may at
least escape the evil Of growing to believe
them to be home" These points are well
worthy of consideration by the young
housekeeper who IS longing to exchange
her STARED house for house sail on one
floor'-for they are made by a man who
has lived in flats for years, and who is no.
tably cosmopolitan in his taste.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1876-03-31

A WORD TO GRUMBLERs.-Don't be a
grumbler Some people contrive to get
hold of the prickley side of everything, to
run against all the sharp corners, and find
out all the disagreeable things. Half the
strength spent in growing would often
set things right. You may as well make
up your mind, to begin WITH that no one
ever found the world quite as he would
like it; but you are to take your share Of
the trouble and bear it bravely. You will
be very sure to have burdens laid upon you
that belong to other people, unless you are
a shirk yourself; but don't grumble. If
the work needs doing, and you can do it,
never mind about the other boy who ought
to have done it and didn't.
Those workers VINO fill up the gaps, and
smooth away the rough spots, and finish up
the job that others left undone-they are
the true peace-makers, and worth a whole
regiment of GROWERS.
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A ByWay to Health.

"Nobody ever repented of eating toe
I little," was the sage remark of an old gen.
tleman on the verge of ninety, next to
whom the writer had the pleasure of sit
ting at dinner the other night. The host
was pressing him to take more, and urging
him in the usual phrase: "Why, you have
eaten scarcely anything" Now, it is to be
assumed that the old gentleman's words
| indicated one of the byways to good health,
along which he had travelled through his
long life, and to which he owed his present
remarkably healthful condition so it was
suggested to him interrogatively that he
had always been small feeder. eyes -
he answered, s'ever since 1 was two or
three and twenty-up to that time [ was a
weakly fellow enough, and | used to make
the great mistake of trying to eat and
drink as much as [ could, in the hope of
becoming strong-all my friends and the
doctors backed me up in my error, but for
tunately I found it out in time, and
knocked off, las your modern slang has
it), more than half my usual amount Of
food and stimulants.
[ gave up the idea of making myself
strong, and merely strove to make myself
we'll, and so I was contented with eating
just as much as I could digest and no more.
Of course, it took a little time and expe-
renee to discover the precise limit; Icould
not adopt the golden rule of always leav-
ing off with an appetite, because l never
,, began with one, but by persisteAtly erring
on the right side I got hold OF one of the
great secrets of life the secret of know
ing when one has had enough, and after a
year or two l became so much better that
I used to find myself keenly sready to eat
at meal time, and by degrees actually &C
quired an appetite. Then, once found. l
never destroyed it, but alwas Discriminate
ly rose with feeling that I should like to
eat more. Naturally, the temptation for
a while grew greater as my digestion grew
stronger, but I was firm did not behave
ungratefully to my stomach and imme-
diately presume upon it's increased powers
by overlooking i'll did not live to eat but
need to be very particular as to what l
eat. even at my time of life; 1 have only to
be careful not to eat too much''
Here, indeed, is the secret of a great
deal that is amiss with many Of us. We
are in the habit of eating too much-more
than our digestive powers can tackle, and
that which is not assimilated more or less
pOisons. The system becomes overcharg-
ed, and gives any latent tendency to dis
ease within us every facility for develop
ing itself. The question is, not so much
what to eat, as what quantity to eat; and
nothing but sharp lookout kept by our
sWer.-IEnsley's Magazine.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1876-03-31
Why Married Persons Live
Longest

T DR.. Hall, in one of his 'sHealth Tracts,
gives few reasons why marriage is ia
vorable to health: Bachelors are always in
| a state of unrest. They feel unsettled II
| indoors after supper there is Il sense OF
solitariness, including q sadness, If not
settled melancholy, with all its depressing
influences; and many, many hours are spent
in the course of the year in gloomy inacti-
witty. which is adverse to a good digestion
and vigorous and healthy circulation. His
own chamber or house being so uninviting
the bachelor is.inclined to seek diversion
outside in suppers with friends, in clubs
which are introductories to intemperance
and RIGHTEOUSNESS, OF to those more I'M
blushing associations which, under the
cover of darkness, lead to speedy ruin of
health and morals; and when these are
gone, the way downward to an untimely
grave is rapid and certain. On the other
hand, marriage lengthens mans life by
its making home inviting-by the soften
ing influences which it has upon the char
acter and affectfons-by the cultivation of
all the better feelings of our nature, and
in that proportion saving from vice and
crime. There can be no healthful devel-
opment of the physical functions of our
nature without marriage. 1t is necessary
to the perfect man-for Divinity has an
nounced that it was mot good for man to
be alone" Marriage gives laudable and
a happy object in life-the provision for
wife and children, their present comfort
and their future welfare, the enjoyment in
witnessing their happiness, and the daily
and hourly participation in affectionate in
terchange of thought and sentiment and
sympathy. These are the considerations
which antagonize sorrow and tighten the
burdens of life-thus strewing flowers and
casting sunshine all along it's pathway.
Voltaire said:
sIhe mole married men you have, the
fewer crimes there will be. Marriage rem
ders man more virtuous and more wise.
An unmarried man is but half of a perfect
being, and it requires the other half to
make things right; and it cannot be ex-
pected that in this imperfect state he can
keep the straight path of rectitude, any
more than boat with one oar can keep a
straight course. In nine cases out of ten,
where married men become drunkards, or
where they commit crimes against the
peace of the community. tie foundation of
these acts was laid while in single state,
or where the wife is, as is sometimes the
case, an unsuitable match. Marriage
changes the current of mans feelings,
and gives him a centre for his thoughts,
his affections and his acts. Here is
home for the entire man. The counsel,
the affection, the example and the interest
of his better half keep him from cratic
courses, and from falling into a thousand
temptations to which he would be other
wise exposed. Therefore, the friend to
marriage is the friend to society and to his
cOuntry.''
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Carriages without horses shall 60,
In eighteen hundred and eighty-one."

TEE DELIGHT derived from good, and
the pleasantness derived from truth, which
constitute the happiness of heaven, do not
consist in idleness, but in activity. For
what is delightful and pleasant in idleness
soon becomes undelightful and unpleasant;
but what is delightful and pleasant in &C.
tivity remains, and continually elevates
the mind, and constitutes blessedness. Ac-
tivity, with those who are in heaven, con-
sists in doing good, in the delight of good,
and in relishing truths with view to their
use, which, to them, is the delight of truth.
S,vedenborg.
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THE PULSE IN HEALTH AND DISEASE.

LIE ULSE In HEALTH AMI DISEASE.
Every person should know how to ascer-
tain the state of the pulse in health then,
by comparing it with what it is when he
is ailing, he may have some idea of the
urgency of his case. Parents should know
the healthy pulse of each child, since now
and then a person is born with peculiarly
slow or fast pulse, and the very case in
hand may be of such popularity. An in
fant's pulse is 40; a child of seven about
so, and from 20 to 80 years it is 70 beats a
minute, declining to 40 at four-score a
healthful grown person beats 70 times in a
minute, declining to go at four-score. At
60, if the pulse always exceeds 70, there is
disease; the machine working itself out,
there is fever or Inflammation somewhere
and the body IS feeding on itself, as in con-
sumption, when the pulse is quick.
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mt ingredients, YVES nothing more than a

tant ingredients, YVES nothing more than a
stiff ''brandy cock-tail.'
1T must have been severe trial of your
friends DEVOTION 1 remarked to Bob
when he told me the story, 'to swallow
Old Chin's doses.o
1.-THE worst Of them he didn't swallow"
said Bob; but only let on to-after holding
them i'll his mouth awhile he would squirt
them out, pretending that, like Mickey
Frees emetics, .'they wouldn't lie on" his
stomach
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1876-03-31
A. A. GRUBERI'
The Nonpareil Saloon,

Has just been fitted up in the latest and neat
o st style marble counters and Bohemian glass
ware), and supplied with the Oldest Bumgard-
ner, Clemmer Fowler & Ziegler, and all the
other celebrated brands of Whistles, Imported
Brandes and Wines from first hands, A bsinthe
and Curacao Bucks Grape Brandy and Wines,
Rhine Wine and Seltzer, and the finest brands
of Imported and American Cigars, making it
THE SALOON OF THE CITY.
Polite attendants are always present to servo
guests waits any known sample compounded in
unsurpassed style.
Call and we guarantee you will be pleased.
T.J. CROWDER,
Proprietor.
Mg~r erms positively cash. my2l 1y*
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MRS H. SCHERER,

Mrs H. SCHERER,
LADIES' FAHIONABLE HAIR DRESSING,
III. H. FULTZ'S OLD STAND
NEW STREET,
STAUNTON, VIRGINIA.
MRS. ..SCHRRER informs the Ladies of Staun-
ton that she is prepared to carry on HAIR
DRESSING in all its branches; will make over
old Hair into NEW AND FASHIONABLE
STYLES, DRESS AND SHAMPOO HEADS,
and guarantee perfect satisfaction. COMBINES
made up into BEAUTIFUL CURLS, BRAIDS
CHIGNONS, &C.
aF Always on hand large assortment {
BRAlDS from So up.
! @> Orders promptly executed. oc22-4t
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Poetry.
o4o.-o-s~----~-~~-~~->~~
A FALSE STEP.

Poetry.
A FALSE STEP.
BY MRS. BROWNING.
Sweet-thou hast trod on a heart,
Pass. there's a world full of men,
And women as fair as thou art
Must do such things now and then.
Thou only hast stepped unaware,
Malice no one can impute-
And why Should a heart have been there
In the way of a fair Woman'S foot?
1t was not a stone that could trip,
Nor was it a thorn that could rend-
Put up thy proud underlip,
Twas merely the heart OF friend.
And yet, peradventure, one day,
Thou, sitting alone at the glass
Remarking the bloom gone away,
Where the smile in it's dimplement was .
And seeking around thee, in vain,
From hundreds who flattered before
Such word as oh not in the main
Do hold thee less precious, but mOre.'
Thou'lt sigh, very like, on thy part
of all have known or can know,
wish had only that heart
trOd upon ages ago?'"
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1876-03-31

NRANGE AGENCY.
Opposite THE Court HOUSE ON AUGUSTA ST.
GREAT EXCITEMENT!
THE CRASH IN PRICES HAS AT LAST
CONE,
AND RELIEF NOW AT HAND FOR THE
FARMERS.
I now desire to Cfer at very or eatly re-
duced prices for CASH a full stock of GROCE-
RiRS: Consisting of
COFFEE, SUGAR, MoLAssEs, TEAS, &C.,
Also, TOBACCO and CIGARS.
am also prepared to furnish all kinds of
Farming Implements, Machines &C., at the
lowest possible Cash prices.
LIME j have Oh hand and for sale, in any
quantities, FIRST-CLASS LIME, made at the
old Gibson Kiln, near Fishersville Rates low.
l will ship produce ct al times in the in ter.
est of the Farmers
SPECIAL ATTENTION..
| desire to make my busln ess q success, and
would ask that the Patrons and Farmers would
give me trial before trading elsewhere NY
object is to make quick snles and short profits,
that my prices may be in keeping with the
times. Ny purpose is not competition, but to
establish bushes on solid basis in the in
terest of the Patrons of Husbandry Correspon-
depce solicited.
Patrons and Farmers call and see me.
jan7-tf W. NJ. DINKLE.
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MoLAssEs JUMBLEs.--Two cupsful of
molasses, one of lard, one of sour milk
two eggs, one tablespoonful of ginger
three tablespoonful of saleratus. Dron on
pans, and bake in hot oven.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1876-03-31

BREAKFAST CAKE.-Three cupsful Of
flour, two tablespoonsfuls of butter. two
tablespoonsful of white sugar, cupful and
half of milk, two teaspoonsful of cream
tartar, and one small teaspoonful of soda
Bake forty minutes.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1876-03-31
Mother SlsiDtOn,s ssroDhecv

Every noWand then, for these four years
and more, says the Springfield "Republi-
CAM some one has brou ght to light the
prophecy and memory of Mother Shipton.
AS event follows event, in mechanical pro-
gress. her doggerel verses fall in SO apt
that they must needs be quoted. One of
the predictions thereof-''Fire and water
shall wonders do"-has- come to pass time
and again. This Mother Shipton was one
that would have taken high rank as me-
dunn in her day. In hers-the fifteenth
century-she was said to have been begot-
ten, like the wizard, Merlin, Of the phan-
tasm of Apollo, or some aerial demon I'M
der that guise, and a beautiful orphan
Yorkshire girl, named Agatha. She had
the weird, lonely girlhood that the child of
shame is apt to have, avoided or prosecuted
by these who should have been her mates.
She was christened Ursula by the abbot of
Beverly, and grew up so eccentric and un-
naturally shrewd, that by and by this ira
dition, in those superstitious days, grew
about her birth. She prophesied as she
grew older, and even persons of quality''
consulted her. She told the great Wolsey
that he should never come to York; and,
indeed, when within eight miles of it, he
was arrested, by Northumberland, at King
Henry's order, and brought to Leicester,
where she died. Also she is said to have
foretold the great fire of London, the exc
cution of Charles l., and many notable
events, besides, of the reformation and the
reigns of Elizabeth and James. At the
age of seventy three, she foretold her death;
and, at the hour predicted, she died. Her
name is a popular tradition in Yorkshire,
even to-day; and the tradition is founded,
in part, upon fact. Her famous prophecy
was said to have been published in her life
time; again two hundred years ago; for we
have seen it in book of that time, where
it was said to be copied from an older book.
Though most of the items are vague enough,
some show marked coincidence with re-
markable events, such as the invention of
the telegraph, iron-clads, and the admis-
sion of Jews into Parliament lin 1861.
Without further preface, these are the
elegant lines
Carriages without horses shall 60,
And accidents fill the world with woe
Around the world thoughts shall fly,
In the twinkle of an eye.
Water shall yet more wonders do;
Now strange, but yet they shall be true.
The world upside down shall be,
And gold be found at the rootof tree;
Through the hills man shall ride,
And horse nor ass be at his side;
Under water men shall walk,
Shall ride, shall sleep, shall talk;
In the air shall men be seen,
In white, in black, in green;
Iron in water shall float
AS easy as a wooden boat;
Gold shall be found, and shown
In o land that's not known.
Fire and water shall wonder do;
England shall at last admit Jew.
The world to an end shall come
In eighteen hundred and eighty-one."
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1876-03-31

To REMOVE RUST FROM KNIVES
Cover the knives with sweet oil, well ruh']
bed on, and, after two days, take lumn "a
fresh lime, and rub till the rust disappeard
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1876-03-31

FARM AND FIRESIDE.

CLEANING FAMILY LINEN.-One
OF the hardest tasks that weekly recur is
cleaning the family linen. Now, during
all the summer months, the sun may be
harnessed to this work, and he will do it
well if merely directed. Let the clothes
be thoroughly wet in soap-suds, cold or
warm, and laid out on the grass. This
may be done at night is convenient, the
dews won't hurt them. Three OF four
hours of hot sun will make rubbing quite
unnecessary, especially if the linen, while
lying on the grass, be turned once or twice,
and moistened with water from watering
pots. Then it may be washed or rinsed,
and hung or spread out to dry. The lat
ter is the easier method, as it dispenses
with pins and line, and gives the sun full
opportunity to exert it's bleaching proper
critics. Not drop of hot water need be
used in the process. OF course washing
done in this way takes longer time than
by the ordinary methods of rubbing and
scalding, but it requires less expenditure
of fuel and muscle, and feeble woman,
who would be quite unable to endure the
toll of the common way, by calling the sun
to her aid, and emploring little hands to
help, may get through it easily. In all
such processes, there must be expence
somewhere, and, if time be more abund-
ant than strength, let the expense be in
time.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1876-03-31

LIQUID GLUE.-Three parts of glue
broken into small pieces, should be covered,
with eight parts Of water, and left to stand
for several hours: one-half part of chic
rhydric acid and three-fourths part of snl-I
phide of zinc must then be added, and tn
whole exposed to temperature of 175 t
200 degrees during ten or twelve hours
Let it settle, and it will be found to retail
it's fluid form, and be most useful agent
for joining purposes.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1876-03-31

TRANSATLANTIC PLANTs.-The Ger
mantown Telegraph" says: There is no
mode that ever we tried so effectual in
transplanting tomato, cabbage, cantaloupe
or any other tender plants from the hot
bed or from one place to another, as to
prepare vessel filled with manure-water
and rich soil, about the consistency of thin
mush, with which the roots of the plants
should be well-coated and set in a hole
made with sharp round piece of wood dr
dibble. After being rather firmly planted \
moisten again with manure-water. Wei
have never failed in any transplantingI
when done in this way, and the trouble isl
very slight.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1876-03-31

CHoKED CArTLE.-The following rel
ceipt should be printed at least twice AZ
year, as it is sure remedy: Take of fine
cut chewing tobacco enough to make a
ball as large as hens egg, dampen it with
molasses so it can be pressed into ball,
and will adhere closely; elevate the ami
mails head, pull out the tongue and crowd
the ball as far down the throat as possible
In fifteen minutes it will cause sickness
and vomiting, relaxing the muscles, so that
the potato or whatever may be choking it !
may be thrown up. B. j., in Co.ntral
Gentleman.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1876-03-31

ORCHARD GRAss.-FOr the information
OF an enquirer who asks how orchard grasj
will withstand drouth and heat, can saJ
that it endures them better than any grasI
or forage of any sort that we cultiyat
here; showing itself distinctly erect and
growing when the others are Tagging and
discolored. 1t springs into fresh growth
quicker than other grasses after being cut
or cropped, but becomes very hard, dry
and coarse when suffered to become too far
advanced.--W. Tyrone, Pa., in Country
Gentleman.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1876-03-31

WASHING BLACK PRINTs.-Put the
whole dress into the kettle of suds which
have been used for boiling the white
clothes, and let it boil for ten minutes
then take it out into blued water, and rub
out any spots which can be seen. Rinse
it thoroughly, and, if it needs to be
starched, make the starch with coffee
rather than with boiling water. 1 have
seen dress that was washed and done up
in this manner, within week, and sup
posed it was newly made, so clearly white,
were the spots, and so bright the black
ground work. All dark-colored calicoes
will look better if done up in this manner;
but only the darkest shades should be
boiled, using the coffee starch for all
browns, and also for brown linens of all(
shades.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1876-03-31

~ U'R NIT URE! RNITURE
Man ufactured by
J. A. & Y. NJ. B G K L E,
No. 191 Main Street, STANTON, VA,
Wholesale and Retail such as
COTTAGE BEDSTEADS, CHAIRS and
STAPLE FURNITURE.
of every description.
They use the best Dry Lumber, and employ
the best workmen.
All work warranted nd sell at prices to
suit the times.
All kinds of Metallic Cases and Baskets kept
constantly On hand, and Wood Collins and Cas-.
kets manufactured to order and at the shortest
notice.
They have three elegant 6earses. and will at
tend funerals in the country without extra
charge
feb5-tf.