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Job Work-CASH ON DELIVERY

INFLUENcE.-In our personal his.
tory we are often brought into con-
tact with natures that seem to drop
into our lives an element OF good
we can hardly tell how but there
results a soltening Of rough lines and
angles new emotions of pleasure
quicken the pulse new power fors
usefulness, and new energy in the ac-
tive duties Of probation while an ele-
walton of thought and purpose brings
us nearer God, and arms us Will. a ca
pacity to dilIuse everywhere health
full influence over those around US at
once cnnobling, purifying, and eleva-
ting. This life.potency is not ephe-
neral. 1t goes with us through duty
and suffering down to the last hour.
Death does not destroy it, for 1t sends
its healthful glow across the dark riv-
er through the eternal years Of our
Immortality.
On the other hand, we have met
with persons filled with envy, selfish
ness, and dark depravity, which have
dropped into our life current an ele-
ment Of discord--a bitterness most
unpalatable (unless it finds in us a
congenial soil in which to vegetate
and grow, so that the calm rivulet is
in commotlon a rocky bed tears to
shreds our hopes, and wounds our
sensibilities, or plunges us into the
dark muddy pools of unhappy dlscord
and misrule. The stream no longer
runs clear. The translucent waters
of life are polluted and we sink into
unhonoreI and miserable tombs, or
wake amid the blazing justice of eter-
nal truth to the fearful sentence, De-
partH We call this element inhu-
ence. When good, it wonderfully
blcsses the world, and when bad, it is
an unmistukable curse. We all have
influence. We are not isolated. So
cietv is around us. Into it we are
continually dropping the one or the
other element. We can say which it
shall be--a blissful, healthful inau-
ence, or the reverse. Reader, which
shall it be
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DlREC fORY
uF FREDERICK COUNTY
AND
The Borough of MechanicStown

The Borough of MechanicStown
.-( 20: y
COUNTY OFFICERS:
CAsef Judge-IIon. II. l. Bowie
Accommodations. John Lynch and W..
V. Bouic.
States Atorney-ohn G. Mottcr.
CerE Of Circuit Court-Thomas Cor
such.
.Sherit-John Swcadner.
Amlitor-Fred'k j. Nelson.
ORPHANS COURT.
Orphans Court meets every Monday and
Tuesday o: each week.
Chief Judge-Wm. J. Black.
Associates-Thomas HoILrunncr and Jno
Hightmcn.
Register of NMs-Col. John r. Rollzer
Countv Commixioners-Josrph Wood,
President: Samuel Hargett, Ezra Toms,
Daniel Biscr of j., and A. r Simmons.
CIeyk to Commiss,oners-ll. +. Steiner.
CoNector Of State and County Tarcs-W
il Miller.
County Surreyor-Wm. H. Ramsburg.
SCHOOL COMMISSIONERS.
President. James W.Pcarrc; Commission
crs-William G Baker, James W. TroXcl',
Joseph Brown, Henry Boyle.
JUSTICES OF TIE PEACE.
District No. 15-Frei'k White, Mcchan-
icstown; G H. Firor, Grarrham; VIM. >
Mcpherson, Catoctin Furnace.
REGISTRAR Or VOTERS.
District No. 15-Bernard Co!liflowcr
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store CONSCIOUSNESS.
When Mary opened her eyes, her
husband was tenderly supporting her
while Minnie was kncciing by her
side, weeping,
IS it SO very sweet to be loved,
Minnie, that you should steal my
husbands heart?' she inquired, with
touching pathos.
Minnie arose quickly. Cousin Ma
ry,' what do you mean she said with
heightened color.
lie called you his good angel, and
said, we must, We will be happy yet.
We're not those his very words?
Mary said Minnie, motonlng
Edward to be silent, 'Chare has been a
great mistake made in
In our marriagc-yes, that is just
what Edward said, interrupted Mary.
oh, pray be ca I'm, and allow me t.
explain dear little COZ. a little bird
carried the news TO me that YOU two
silly lovers were pining for each 9TH
er's affection. | saw, dear Mary, that
your health was failing from actual
worry yon we're becoming dcspon
dent and irritable, while that other
miserable party WAS getting to be un-
bearahle.
4 thought such voxatious state OF
things needed doctoring, and this
very night your love-sons suggested
the right remedy, and [ was pleading
your cause most eloquently with cous-
in Ned, aal-aud-I may as we'll be
frank-he, manlike, blamed you for
continually harping on the pity ques.
tion, YOU understand. I tried to ex-
cuse your nonscnscal notions, by say
ri ,o o,.,>o+ - ho ,orol
!"S IL !" 80 S"'7' - " ,'''I'
This you probably heard MIS- 'ea'-
ousy,' sal! Minnie, laughing merrlIy.
AS for Ned, he came to the sensi-
;1o conclusion tho+ va, two were 70
"'' '''''' ''.'''' '' ;n
be haVPy Yc'' l l"''o tyres "i''l
him, and shall leave you to kiss and
make up, then the merry girl ran off.
we'll nIao,ol with her share in the
.Lo,,,o
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Say what you will of old maids
their love is generally more strong
and sincere than half Of the young
milk and water creatures whose
hearts vibrate between the joys of
wedlock and dissipation Of the bali
room. Until The heart Of the young
lady is capable Of setting iir;nly and
exclusively on one subject, her love is
like May shower, which makes rain
bows, but fills no cisterns.
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A humorous apothecary in Boston
exposes a cake of soap in his shop
window, with the pertinent inscrip-
ton, Cheaper than dirt.
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A lady tells us that when a man
talks of how good his wife is and
brags 50 much Of her good qualities,
he is sure to be one Of tins kind that
makes her carry her own wash water
and chop her wood herself.
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RATES OF ADVERTISING

Twelve lines constitute a square.
S' A liberal deduction made to yearl..T
advertisers.
Local or special notices 10 cents Il line.
JOB PRINTING executed with neat
ness and dispatch, and on liberal terms
Materials all new and good impression
guaranteed.
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CHANGE OF TINE
WESTERN MARYLAND Il. ROAD,

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WISE SAYING.-The moment man
is satisfied with himself, everybody
else is dissatisfied with him.
There are many shining qualities
in the mind Of man, but none so USE
full as discretion.
If we do not tlatter ourselves the
flattery of others will not hurt US.
The man who minds | is own busi-
ness has a good, steady employment.
Never apologize for long letter;
you only add to its length.
Retiring early at night will surely
shorten a mans days.
lie speaks in his drink what he
thought in his drouth.
True men make more opportunities
than they find.
An angry man opens his mouth
and shuts his eyes.
An Oh! city man recently died
of love, but it was love for whiskey.
Miss Lemon is the bell Of an Iowa
town. All the young men arc desir-
Gus Of squeezing her.
To make girl love you, coax her
to love somebody else. If there be-
any thing that a woman relishes, it is
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NN and after Sunday, May 13, 1875,
" Passenger Trains will run as fol-
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Two couples in Kansas entered in
to a courting match for the champion
ship of the State, and the victorious
couple sat up forty-nine hours.
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REGISTRAR Or VOTERS.

District No. 15-Bernard Colliilowcr.
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JUSTICES OF TIE PEACE.

District No. 15-Freak White, Mcchan-
icstown; c l.. Firor, Grarcham; VIM. ).
Mcpherson Catoctin Furnace
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1877-09-27

listened and waited. he heard them in
the three passages almost at the same
time, and when the foremost was not
more than forty feet away the match was
lighted. The grass was like finder, and
the draft drew the roaring flames into
passages in an instant. Three grand
yells from the three bands reached Lung
Sing at once, and he put his finger on his
nose with q smile that was childlike and
bland"
The redskins got a terrible roasting.
Il has been twice stated by members
Of the same band that not a savage es-
capped injury, and il Is certain that more
than a dozen cooked and charred bodies
were found in a passage some time after
wards by white men. Those who got out
We're terribly burned. and several died at
their village. As the redskins had found
no one in the cave the fire appealed 10
their superstition. They believed the
place to be the spirit Of some outlawed
warrior, and he had kIndied the flames
in revenge on them for daring to in
trude. None of them had ever been
near the cave again up 10 short time
ago.
Lung sing AC-diAdL5Cu MS Sl8udl anu
returned 10 his work In the gray of
morning. shortly after he had been driven
out of Boston Town." an early riser
caught sight of him again. He was trot-
ting along ahead Of four pack
mules and dozen China
men. all loaded dows, and he hadn't time
to stop and explain whether they carried
goods to set up an "original dollar-stOre"
IN the Hills or had the material which
yellow BOYS are made of. The miners
had their own ideas about that, and after
a close search they discovered the cave
and its great riches.
Yes, the cave panned out immensely
remarked one of the DISCOVERIES recently;
"but he never half enjoyed the big strike.
The idea that a squint-eyed heather
should have entered il first and named
the place Chin Lung, always stuck in our
throats'
But Lung-Sing was far away, and as
his thoughts jumped backward he jingled
his monev aud chuckled:
"Kebee Mclean man want 10 say git
TO me now ale same, chr
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the veil Of the flesh is dropping of, TO
exercise those spiritual powers Of percep-
ton, which we must suppose Il to possess
(else were its whole afTer-life like a
blank, and to become conscious Of other
things than those of which our dim senses
can take cognizaneel If it be not des-
tined to an eternity of solitude Tan absurd
hypothesis, its future companions may
well be recognized at once, even as it
goes forth 10 meet them. 1t seems indeed
almost thing to be expected, that some
of them should be ready waiting to well
come il on the threshold. Is there not,
then. little margin for hope-if not for
any confident belief-that our fondest an
ticipations will be verified, nay, that the
actual experience of not few has veri-
fed theml May it not be that when that
hour comes for each of us which we have
been won't to dread as one of parting and
sorrow-
The long last farewell on the shore
OF the rude world.
ere we " put off into the unknown dark, ("
we may lind that we only leave, for lit
tie time, the friends of earth, 20 90
straight to the embrace of those who have
long been waiting for us to make perfect
for the nobler life beyond the grave!
May it not be that cur very first dawnipg
sense of that enfranchised existence will
be the rapture of reunion with the be-
loved ones, whom we have mourned as
lost, but who have been standing near,
waiting longingly for our recognition, as
mother may watch beside the bed of a
fever-stricken child till reason reillumines
its ewes, and with outstretched arms it
cries, . Motherl"
There are some, alas, to whom it must
be very dreadful to think of thus meet
ing, on the threshold Of eternity, the
wronged, the deceived, the forsaken, but
for most of US, God be thanked, no dream
of celestial glory has half the ecstasy of
the thought that in dying we may meet
and meet at once. before we have had a
moment to feel the awful loneliness of
death-the parent, wife, husband, child,
friend ofour life, soul of our soul, whom
we consigned long ago with breaking
hearts to the grave.
Their beautiful forms (as that dying
lady beheld her brother and sis er); entering
our chamber, standing beside our bed on
death. and come to rejoin us forever
what words can tell the happiness of such
vislonl 1t may be awaiting us all.
There is even. perhaps, a certain proba-
bilitv that it is actually the natural des-
tiny of the human soul, and that the af-
fecti0ns. which alone of ca rthly things
can survive dissolution, will like magnets,
draw the beloved and loving spirits of the
dead around the dying. l can see no
reason why We should not indulge so
ineffably blessed a hope. But, even if it
be a dream, the faith remains, built on
no such evanescent and shadowy founda-
ton. that there is One Friend-and He
The best-on whose arms we shall surely
fall asleep. and to whose love we may
trust for the reunion, sooner or later, of
the severed links of sacred human atfec-
tion.-Ne,c Quarterly Reciee.
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Woman, or Tigress!

ii is rarely that Judge has had occa-
sion to excoriate either plaintiff or a de
PENDANT as severely as Judge Van Brunt
was provoked to do in dismissing the
suit of the Countess Heinrueth. This
woman, however, is simply only one of
the cleverest of her class. There are
scores of others in New York who differ
from her only in capacity for intrigue
and fraud. | now have in mind a wom-
an who has been preying upon every one
she could reach during the fifteen years.
She has been arrested and tried at least
half a dozen times, but so cunningly
were all her frauds executed that it has
been impossible for the law to get a hold
of her, and she is still free to carry on
her schemes of blackmail.
4 few years ago this woman, who is
the mother of three grown-up daughters,
forced her way into the house of Judge,
now, dead, whose daughter was about to
marry man whom the adventures
claimed as her husband. The marriage
was to take place next morning. The
woman burst into a parlor where the
Judge and his daughter, and also the in
tended bridegroom and some friends,
were passing a social evening, and
pounced upon her victim like a tigTess
She was finally put out Of doors, but not
until she had said enough to effect a
/ postponement OF the marriage. 1t took
place some a terward, but the woman
/ still asserted her. claim and took every
means to annoy and torment the husband
and wife. She followed them in the
street, abusing them like tishwife, and
/ pointing out the man to passers-by as a
+ scoundrel and bigamist, and her perse-
cutiOn became so intolerable that the
wife at last was afraid 10 90 out of doors.
Fear of public scandal prevented the
Judge from having the adventures arrest
/ ed. The constant wrong so wore upon
him that he broke down, and two years
after the marriage he died. The repeated
allegations of the woman so preiudiced
him against his son-in-law that he ex-
cluded him altogether from his will
This led to further trouble. The daugt.-
ter, who had been carefully provided for
was prevailed upon by her husband, tC
whom she still chung, to contest hel
fathers will, and a long litigation fol
lowed. While it was pending the con
testant fell sick and died, but the figh
over her fathers property is still going
on, the husband continuing it as his wife:
executor. Meanwhile, the woman whost
claims, shouted at the street corners, weT,
the original cause of all the trouble anC
scandal in the family, goes about boast
ING Of what she has done, and seek
ing new opportunities to pluck the I'M
/ suspecting She IS over 80 years old.
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What KnnId Ynn no,

have just heard something startling ana
new.
Something which makes me feel dreadfully
blue.
Ay little Johnny, e-year-Old chap.
VINO was sitting moment ago In my Ian.
u. Has told me as plainly as plain could he
lhst ne loves Santa Claus better than me
Better than me, his own papa. dear.
And better than mamma, very much fear.
Aha Why, do yOu thinks Because Santa
Claus brings,
When Christmas Eve comes. sucb lois - al
And Johnny declares Eyes, he told me 50
That never give him things half so Eice.
WHAT IN the world am ever to do:
can I allow this state Of things: would YOU
"ouIa you stop up the chimney so that cum
Old santa Claus cannot come down, If lie
triess
aud fasten the windows and doors very
strong.
- he can't get In any way all the night longs
And theu would you venture out in the night
And get for that precious hve-year-Old spritc
The most wonderful things there are to be
bought
Nicer than Santa Claus ever has brought.
And when from the stockings the presents he
draws
Tell him this time YOU were his Santa Clans 5
# there's anything better than this to be done.
should like 10 hear Of il from any one;
For you see feel the very worst way
About what just heard nv little boy say.
| never supposed such a thing could be
That he Wonld love Santa Claus better than
-Fqna7f P.rcirL q. y. y T,sR.feasgesf
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Bound to the Track.

An old German named John Schmezig,
scarcely able to walk from illness, might
have been seen ON our streets on Friday
last. begging fer bread. He is sixty-fve
years old, and is slowly recovering from
a protracted spell of sickness. The old
man reached Cairo, after a trip of $50
miles. every step of which was made on
foot. Notwithstanding his feeble condition.
lie started with ten dollars in his pc cket
and made his journey on foot Ill the aope
that on his arrival in Cairo he would have
money enough left to pay his passage to
Troy, md. near which place he hoped to
find q brother. Alta point on the Illinois
Central railroad, few miles below Du
Quoin, he met couple of negro men
who halted him, roughly threw him to
the ground. and proceeded to rob him.
He had seven of the ten dollars, and this
sum the negroes appropriated; but their
eupiditv was not vet satisfied. They
stripped him Of every article of clothing
he had on his person. including his stock
ings and neckerchief. The old man as
naked as when he first came into the
world now attempted to make his way
into a friendly clump of bushes. but the
fends again overhauled him. brought him
back to the railroad track. and roughly
flung him down Tearing the shirt they
had torn from his back into strips. they
bound him hand and foot and then dashed
rs head upon the rail that the first train
passing might crush it from the body.
The mere contemplation Of such cold
blooded fiendiShness brings a shudder OF
horror. 4 half hour or more elapsed, and
the old man, still tied to the rail, heard
the Gathering of an approaching train.
He struggled desperately to relieve him
self. and at the very moment the train
(which proved TO be handcar filed with
section mem stopped, he succeeded in
/ freeing himself. he then told his story,
was furnished by one Of the men with a
rair Of overalls, another gave him COM
mon white shirt, and at a neighboring
house he secured an old pair Of shoes and
/ hat, aud in this garb Re resehed Cairo,
Care RulletiH.
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back, heavily laden, TO the rectory, to
hear that the doctor had been and had
gone away.
Smiling, sir, smiling said the old
rector to me, as remembered that ] had
thought she wanted none.
And | was right; for Laura am
privileged to call my dear old friends
wife by her Christian name-soon grew
strong and we'll, her mental weakness
passing away with her return to bodily
health. They have a charming cottage
near the rectory, where / stay when l 60
down TO FISH; and they have four little
girls who always call me uncle, but when
there is boy he is to be called in my
honor GEO. MANNILLE FFNS.
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Delicious Cookers.

The lightest, sweetest, and most wholesome
and delicious Vienna rolls, tea biscuits, bread
mullins, flannel cakes, crulers, and all articles
prepared from -four are always possible to
every table by using DooLEY's YEAST Pow.
DER. This celebrated Baking Powder has
stood the critical test Of the best housekeep
ers and the consuming public generally Of
America for twenty years. 1t is absolutely
pure, and always of uniform strength The
genuine is put up in cans. Most all good
grOceFs sell IT,
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The Latest Fa-hion for Ladies.

Our attention has recently been called TO the
RaritaH -Hateldsse CtoakiagS, something entire
~ new in the way OF heavy, TIL *, warm, wool
en- goods specially adapted for ladies' wear
during the cold weather now approaching.
These goods are the handsomest and most
cerned, are miracle of cheapness. They are
intended for eoaks, sacques, dolmans, circulars
and jackets for both ladies and children, and
are to be found at all the leading dry goods
stores In the country Be particular TO ask for
the Rarffaa CloakiRgS, and axe no others.
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Bahr,s Grave.

10 quiet English churchyard
Baby sleeps,
While the wind from wood and meadow
Softly creeps
Ger the little mound We made him;
God knows best
What with aching hearts we laid him
Down forest.
Many summers, many winters
Tie has slept,
While We lived, and loved and suffered
Smiled and wept:
All the fears we cannot number,
All the voc,
Baby, in his tranquil slumber,
Does not know.
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This Is the season of the year when the
humblest of us can hold up our heads
with the purse proud aristocrats, mop
our eyes with bedraggled and sick
looking handkerchief, and lay claim to a
hav fever
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FinclCIothIng.

Visitors to the city in search of something
new and nobby in clothing, should not fail to
call at McGrath's old and reliable Merchant
tailoring establishment los F. Sd st.
A large and well selected stock Of the latest
style cloths, cassimsres, Overcoatings, vestings,
d. c., always on hand.
Orders by mail will receive prompt atten-
ton.
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/ HAVE sold Hatch's Universal Cough Syrup
since 1870. 1t has had the leading sale among
all cough remedies, from its first introduction.
My customers, as they get acquainted with it.
become its friends almost without exception.
After this trial of six years / can recommend
its use to all in need of cough remedy.
a. B. ARMSTRONG. Smethport, Pa.
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healthy state the mucous thsurethrs than
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Is certain and speedy IN its action It Is fast supsrssd
ing every ether remedy Sixty capsules care IN six CT
eight days. No other medicine can do this.
Owing 20 its great success, substitutes have
been advertised such Pastes. Mixtures. Pills. Bal
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DEndas Dick Co.'S SAT- Capsule contain
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H-oe@Aer s'~set. Nsls Yeyk
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