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Middletown transcript., 1878-04-13
Lucas Mixed Paint,

AVEKILL UHEMIUAL FAINT,
"Blatchey's' Celebrated Cucumber Wood
Pumps, and "Grafton" Cucumber Wood
Pumps. These are the two best Cucumbel
Wood Pumps in the market
desire particularly to call special atten-
tion to Lucas Mixed Paints" very supe.
rior Paint-all colorS. Large quantities sold
and giving universal satisfaction. Manufac.
tured by John Lucas Co, one of the oldest
and most reliable paint manufactures in Phil
adelphia. Satisfaction guaranteed. Send fol
color card and prices. We consider il sure,
ror to the well-known "Averiil Paint"
Feb 5-I~
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CINCINNATI'S DEAD MISER.

boarding Land Instead of Gold-Three
Million Acres, Worth Nearly $4,000, 900
Estates from New Hampshire to Texas.
From the Cincinnati Commercial, March pa
A representative of the Commercial
called Yesterday at the Office of the late
Jerry c. Tullis, and received some very
valuable information regarding his vast
possessions in nineteen States, from
Messrs. A. j. Tullis and j. II. Martin.
J. H. Martin, Esq, has been closely
associated with the deceased for the past
fifteen years or more, and is therefore
abundantly qualified to speak knowing
ly about the properties, lands, etc, be-
longing to Jerry G. Tullis; while A. j.
Tullis, his cousin, an attorney at law,
has been in the employ of this misery
millionaire fer nearly three years, in the
transaction of the immense interests
connected with the large estate, and in
the capacity of attorney, private secre-
tary, ETC., he has had ample epportuni-
ties and facilities to ascertain more
about the location of the various tracts
of land and their approximate value
than any one else. In the accumulation
of over three millions of acres, which we
give by counties in the different States,
with the average value per acre, old
Jerry was never known to murmur at
being cheated or swindled. On one oc-
casion he paid $4,000 for tract of land
in Texas, and the deed he received prov
ed to be forgery. He did not complain,
but would not say any thing about it,
hating to admit that he had been beat.
Below are figures that will show some
thing of the true inwardness of the
amount of property which his heirs will
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A Lost Colony.

The lost Norwegian colony on the east
coast of Greenland is brought to mind
by the numerous expeditions now fitting
out for Arctic explorations. Over l 200
years ago Greenland was discovered by
adventurous NorSemen, and the settle
ment of the country dates back as far
as the year 9S7. Two fiouriShing colo
MES, one from Denmark and the other
from Norway, occupied the east and
vests coasts respectively for a period of
500 years, and, though separated by 80
miles of desert, they had no trouble in
sustaining themselves independently of
each other by means of fishing and cat
tle-raising, the pasturage of the hills
and valleys being in those days luXuri
ant The western colony had at one
time four parish churches and 10 farm
villages, while that on the east coast,
still larger, had two towns, 1870 farm
villages, IL parish churches and two
monasteries, and was the seat of bish-
opric. About 1850 the Danish colony,
having been weakened by pestilence,
was exterminated by Esquimaux,
and early in the next century
lJS Norwegian HelShDoI ulSdp Gu
Suddenly and mysteriously from human
knowledge. Numerous attempts to
learn definitely of its fate were made,
but the only information ever obtained
was contained in a letter from Pope
Nicholas V to the Bishop of Ireland,
dated 144S, which stated that the colony
had been attacked by hostile fleet 30
years before, and laid waste with fire
and sword; this story, however, was
not generally credited. In 1922 Capt.
Scoresby discovered houses containing
hunting apparatus and household uten-
sis, but no inhabitants, and there is
reason to believe that the dwellings were
relics of the long-lost colony. Some
people are still of opinion that beyond
the ice fields a remnant of these hardy
Norseman may yet be found, and an ex-
officer of the United States Navy goes
so far as to say that "the grandest I'M
dertaking of the present age would be
to reach that isolated colony"
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A Perfect Woman.

A wife-seeking, methodical youth,
who has occasionally escorted young
lady home on Sunday evenings and gone
in for supper, after performing both
services last Sunday night, suddenly
said to her: "Do you talk in your
sleep?" "Why, no. she answered in
surprise. ''Do you walk in your sleep?"
he next inquired. q" No, sir" He
moved his chair an inch closer and with
increased interest asked: DO you
snore?" "No," she hastily replied,
looking uneasily at him. At this reply
his eyes fairly sparkled. His lips eager
ly parted and, as he gave his chair an
other hitch, he briskly inquired: " DO
you throw the combings of your hair IN
the baSin?" "What?" she asked, with
blank face. He repeated the ques-
ton, although with increased nervous
ness, "No, [ DON'T" she answered in
some haste. Again his chair went for
ward, while his agitation grew so great
that he could scarcely maintain his
place upon it as he asked, I" Do You
clean the comb when you have done? ?"
"Of course | do" she said, staring at
him with all her might. In an instant
he was on his knees before her with
hands outstretched. 81 love YOU" he
passionately cried. 81 give my whole
heart up to you. Love me and | shall
be your slave. Love me as | love you,
and I will do every thing on earth for
you. Oh, will you take me to be your
lover, your husband, your protector,
your every thing?" 1t was critical
moment for a young woman of her
years, but she was equal to the emer-
gency, as a young woman generally Is,
and accepted him.-Iowa State Register.
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HINTS FOR THE HOUSEHOLD.

/ Apple Shortcdke.-Season apple-sauce
with butter, sugar and nutmeg; make a
nice shortcake; open, butter and spread
with apple-sauce. Serve with sweeten-
/ ed cream.
Mu6fnS for BreakfdSt-1 pint milk, 1
egg, piece of butter as large as a hen s
egg, l teaspoonful salt, / teacupful
yeast, and flour to make stiff batter.
Rise over night and bake in rings.
Mullins for Teal quart flour and 2
teaspoonfuls of baking-powder; add 8
eggs well beaten, 2 tablespoonfuls melt
ed butter and pint of milk Bake in
rings in quick oven.
d Supper Dish of Dried Beef.-Chip
the beef thin and place in stew-pan
with some milk and small piece of
butter; have ready some flour wet with
cold milk and stir in the beef when it
comes to boil.
Graham Mush.-Thicken boiling wa
ter with graham flour until it forms a
stiff mush, stir until the Jumps are all
out, then pour out into n pan to cool.
In the morning cut in thin slices, roll in
flour and fry brown, either in spider
or on a griddle, using plenty of lard to
keep from burning; also, salt water be-
fore thickening.
Cleaning Zinc.-Dissolve Oxalic acid
in water or alcohol and rub the zinc
with it; then polish with whiting or
other fine polishing-powder. Be sure
to clean the acid all off or it will corrode
the zinc: afterwards never wash zinc
I'll -
tened with kerosene oil. The oxalic
acid is poison.
Grlnqe Lemon Pip.-Take teacup-
fuls of steamed Hubbard squash, 2 tea
cups sugar, l teacup vinegar, the yelks
of 2 eggs and l tablespoon cOrn-starch;
season with lemon extract; bake with
one crust. Beat the whites of eggs TO a
stiff froth, add tablespoons of white
sugar, spread over the pie and set in the
oven to brown.
Rae and Indian Bread.-Scald your
meal with boiling water and set away to
cool; when it is cool enough not to scala
put in l pint of yeast; salt to taste and
mix in rye flour, quart for a 5-quart
painful. This will rise in hour ready
lOI JuC ONtii. DdhC AOuLo oipNl
Don't let it get too light or it may fall.
Rocky Mountain Puf$.-3 eggs well
beaten, cup sweet milk, II cups -four,
pinch of salt. Fill buttered cups half
full aud bake in hot oven 90 minutes.
Serve hot with brandy sauce, made as
follows: Melt l cup sugar, add to it J
cup butter and cup brandy, and 1 nut
meg; serve hot.
Rusk.-5 eggs we'll beaten, quart of
new milk, cup of sugar, l cup of lard,
1 cup of yeast; mix well together and
put in -four enough to make it the con-
sistency of thick batter, and set it to
rise in warm place (Which will take
till about noon if mixed up in the morn
ing), and when light knead it stiff and
let it rise again, and when light pinch
off in balls and put in tins to rise, and
bake 20 minutes.
Lemon ToaSt-Take the yelks Of 6
eggs, beat well, and add 3 cups of sweet
milk; take bread, not too stale, and cut
into slices; dip them into the milk and
eggs, and fry in butter to delicate
brown; take the whites of the eggs
and beat to froth, add a large cup of
white sugar and cups boiling water
and the juice of 2 lemons; serve over
the toast as a sauce and you will have
delicious supper-dish.
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LETTER FROM HOME.

It's come, come at last, I have yearned for II
long,
Sad was my heart and the voice of my song.
I've as theirs who by Babylon's strand
MOurned stu for Zion. NV own native land.
a letter from thee speaks of happier wears.
All, can't read il, so binding my tears
Yet as hold IL Il bears me away
beneath the bright skies of my youths early
day,
The scent of the myrtle is borne on the
breeze.
The walls of our cottage CLEAN white through
the trees,
/ cross the loved threshold. All, sweet tits to
rest,
Mother, dear mother, my head on thy breast
stop, let me read OF a change that has come,
a shadow has darl0ened the hearth and the
home;
flushed is the patter of two little feet,
stu Is the childish voice merry and sweet,
Away with our flower an angel has scared
To plant IL afresh in the courts of the Lord.
Con" e. our darling; and Lucia Il gone,
Married away to home OF her own;
And they tell me they long for their wander
ing child,
And the songs that she sang them so plain
tive and wild,
" Our home is too empty, come, never to
part
Darling home letter, rest close to my heart?
The Qlarer.
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Brain StimuIant.

The best possible thing for a man to
do when he feels too weak to carry any
thing is to 90 to bed and sleep as long
as he can. This is the only Tecupera-
ton the brain power, the only actual re-
cuperation of brain force, because dur
ing sleeping the brain is in a state of
rest, in condition to receive and ap-
propriate particles of nutriment from
the blood, which take the place of those
which have been consumed by previous
labor, since the very act of thinking
burns up solid particles of nutriment,
as every turn of the wheel or screw OF
the steamer is the result OF the con
sumption by FIRE Of the fuel in the fur
mace. The supply of consumed brain
substance can only be had from the nu
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NINE KATRINE.

You wouldn't dink mine frau,
If you shust look at her now,
Where der wrinkles on her prov
Long hat been;
Vas der fraUlein blump und fair,
Nit der vafy fiaXen hair,
Who did vOnce my heart enshnarc:
Mine katrine.
Der dime seems shord 70 me
Since We game acrosd der sea,
To der country off der free
We'd nefcr seen;
Bud We hear de boobies say
Dhere vas work ind blendy pay,
So | shtartcd rigid away
Nit hatTlne.
Oh, der shoy dot filed mine house
When dot gOot oldt Tocter krauss
Brought Us " Leedle NawcOb Strauss"
Shveet und clean;
Why, ] dOn'd pellet mine eyes
When look, now, init SURPRISE,
On dat teller, shust der size
on katrine!
Den "dot leedle babe off mine."
He vas grown so tall und fine
Shust so sdrait as any pine
You efcr seen;
Tnd der boobies all agree
Sooch fine poys dey meier see.
(Dey looks much more like me
As katrine.)
Ven, We haf our criefs und shoys,
Und dheTe's naught our lofe destroys,
Bud miss dose leedle pOys
Dot used TO been;
IND der tears will sometimes sdart,
Und l feels so sick at heart
Ven / drinks / soon must part
From katrinc.
Oldt Time viii soon pc here,
Nit his sickle und his sphear,
Und viii whisper I'm mine ear
Nit sober mien;
You musd COON along init nae,
For il vas de Lords decree;
IND Won day dose poys you'll see
IND katTine.
C. r. adams, ia Detroit Free Press.
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tritive particles in the blood which were
obtained from the food eaten previously,
and the brain is so constituted that it
can best receive and appropriate to
itself those nutritive particles during
the state of rest, of quiet, and stiffness
of sleep. Mere stimulants supply moth
ing in themselves; they goad the brain,
force it to a greater consumption of its
substance, until it is so exhausted that
there is not power enough left to re-
eeive a supply.-Health Almanac.
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The Paradise of Whisky Drinkers.

An arrested "moonshiner" says there
are about 200 Illicit distilleries in Put
nam County, Tennessee, five being in a
circuit of one-half mile. Every. bushel
of corn used produces an average of
two aud a half gallons of whisky, and
the price of corn in that locality seldom
reaches so cents a bushel, making the
price of whisky less than 20 cents a gal
lon. 1t is generally sold at from 81 to
So per gallon.-AemphlS AUalaHche.
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TIE "Baby's Best Friend" is the most APP
propriate title for Dr. Bulls Baby Syrup. 1t is
absolutely free from Opium, Morphia and oth-
er powerful agents, is perfectly safe and relia-
BILE under all circumstances, and, BY aIaylng
the usual Stomach and Bowel Disorders OF ba-
byhood, keeps the child from fretting and cry
ing, so injurious to itself and annoying to all.
Price, IS cents.
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connected with the sewer, located near
the curbstone, with covers, etc., will
speedy melt all the snow that can be
shoveled In To summarize: Ca
Houses can be warmed; SO
Food can be cooked; i.fiIainiff
Clothes can be washed and dried;
Steam engines can be run, fire can be
extinguished-allina an economical man
ner, with stea-4I delivered from one
central point throughout distance of
four square miles.
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-Mark Twain WAS once = re

Mark Twain was once a reporter
on the San Francisco Call. One day
the city editor detailed him to report
riot among the stevedores along the
water front, with orders to get the facts
and make a column 50 Yaas," said
Twain, "but how can [ get them?
There's no street railroad down that
way. You wouldn't want "a fellow to
walk a mile to see couple of long
shoremen fight, would yeu?'' One day,
after Twain had been on the paper six
months, the managing editor remarked
70 him that he was capable of better
things, and that, in fact, he didn't suit.
4" Yaas.n said Twain, "1'm surprised
You didn't find that out FIVE months
co. ..-f
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CONsUMPTIoN.-NO medicine vet discovered
can show more evidence of real merit shan
ALIENS LUNG BALsAM. This unequalled cX-
pectorant for curing Consumption, and all dis
eases leading to it, such as affections Of the
Throat, Lungs, and all diseases of the Pull
monary Organs, is introduced to the suffering
public after its merits for the positive cure of
such diseases have been tested by the medical
faculty. The Balsam is, consequently, recon-
mended by physicians who have become ac-
quainted with its great success. All druggists
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IN 1871, a carpenter out of work showed
copy of the AMERICAN BUILDER to a friend
who wanted to build house. The result was
such job of work as he had never had before;
and then, another and another. Our friend,
the carpenter, is to-day well OFF and has TWEEN
ty men in his employ. Moral: Never get dis
couraged and don't neglect to buy books and
papers.
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Don't fail to procure GIEs. WNsLow's SoOrH-
ING SYRUP for all diseases of tecthing in chill
dren. It relieves the child from pam, cures wind
collie, regulates the bowels. and, by giving relief
and health tn the child. Gives rest to the mother
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Nothing is so well calculated to promote
good health and good humor, as light, easily
digcsted, nutritious cookery. With that unri
vailed article. DOLBY YEAST POWDER, in the
kitchen. elegant, white, light and wholesome
bread, rolls, biscuits, cake Of every kind, and
corn bread waflles, mullins, buckwheIt cakes,
etc, are always possible in every household.
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SToDDARD's s'PoULTRY WORLD" Hartford,
Conn, should be had by all fowl-breeders. Costs
but 81 % yearly, or only $500, INCLUDING Il su-
perior CHRoNIOs to subscribers. 1t is practical,
original, and always fresh. l0c. single number.
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TWILL send free, to al afflicted with Caiarrh,
prescription for infalHblc cure. Address, with
stamp, Rev. I. J. MEAD, Syracuse, y. \.
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.Iovto the AaIicted.-One Of the

JOY TO the AIiIicted.-One OF the most
eminent American Chemists has discovered
a process whereby he obtains, in a pa,atable
form, all the active medicinal properties of
the East India Cinchona bark, without dis
tuTbing the irritant and inert matter. In this
preparation the alkalOids are in their native
combinations, and the same proportions of
the ingredients are maintained rs exist in the
celebrated bark from the Neilgherry bills.
This preparation is called CLIFFORD's FEB
RIFUGE, and is fast taking the place of Out
nine and the sO-called Ague Cures, etc., in
the market. j. G. RICHARDSON, Prop'r,
For sale by all Druggists. st. Louis.
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A Campaign Islander.

When DR.. r. V. Pierce was a candidate for
lished a pretended analysis of his popular
medicines, hoping thereby to prejudice the
people against him. His election by an over
whelming majority severely rebuked his ira
iucers, who sought to impeach his business
integrity. No notice would have been taken
of these campaign lies were it not that some
Of his enemies (and every successful business
man has his full quota of envious rivals) are
republishing these bogus analyses. Numerous
and most absurd formulas have been publish
ed, purporting TO come from high authority;
and it is significant fact that no two have
been at all Extraordinarily proving the dis
honesty of their authors.
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The (" Fernsprecher, or Far Talk
er," is what the Germans have cOnclud-
ed to call the telephone.
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PARTICULARS regarding Electric Belts free.
Address Pulvclmacher Galvanic Co, Cincin.,O.
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W mere are We goln, anyhow!
Seventy-seven stared vacantly up
and down the street. When he had
gone in at that gate, he was a young
and handsome man. He had been
lawyer in fair practice, with a mother
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OBITUAR T.

MAMIE, daughter of LEWIS and ELvA
GAcKENHAMMER, died in the fifth year OF
her age of diphtEeria.
She was an innocent child, with calm
and quiet disposition; always seemed to
partake more of on Heavenly than of an
earthly spirit She was quite favotite
in the Sabbath School, always in her
place, and none more anxious to receive
her paper and card from her worthy Su-
perintendent, Bro. John Eberly, though
unable to read them. These she would
have read by some member Of the family,
and reread until she had memorized them,
some of which she repeated about one
hour before the spirit left its tenement of
clay
The following verses were repeated by
her in full, clear voice in the presence OF
several friends:
"Do all to the glory Of God" u Cor.
1921.
"Charity suffereth long, and is kind"
Il Cor, 13, 4.
"Cast thy burden on the Lord "-Ps.
56, o.
"Jesus came into the world to save
sinners ~ Tim l, Is
"There is friend that sticketh closer
than brother "-Prou., IS, a.
Within an hour after repeating these
verses, her spirit left the body to go to
Him who said, "Let little children come
unto me for of such is the Kingdom oi
Heaven" j r SMITH.
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OBlrUAR Y.

DIED-October 20, 1877, LEROY CLIFF
TON, son of JAMES o and ELIZABETH
SOLE, aged year 6 months and Is days
Leroy YVES a bright and lovely child,
and being too sweet and innocent.for
earth God in His goodness has taken him
tosdorn the Paradise above. He was Ia
ken i'll about the first of October, and ST
ter three weeks of the most intense suffer
ing from that dread disease, brain fever,
was released from his suf1erings and his
sweet spirit took its flight to that better
land where sickness and death never
comes and though our hearts are almost
broken at the loss Of our dear little boy,
we know that our loss is his eternal gain,
and we feel to thank God that bis suffer
ings are forever at an end, and he has ta-
ken him home ere bis life was stained by
sin
MAY God sustain US in our bereave
ment and help US so to live that when life
and its labors are or we may join our dar-
| ling babe in fairer climes above.
Alasi how very soon Is gone
A darling child; EH
Int new life born,
Pure, undsfled;
And fond hearts almost break
Bearing their woe;
Hearts that will ache and ache and ache,
While lingering here below,
Unless some messenger OF light
Their way of life shall ohssfi
And clearly bring to mortal sight
The angel sphere,
The earth has one less tie that binds,
One great grief more;
In heaven new star shines,
Unknown before.
Eternity has gained
| What tire has lost.
Then why should kindred hearts be panied,
When Times last wave is crossed;
When ones most fondly loved has found,
For all the years to come,
With all the blessings that surround,
A heavenly homef R.S.
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PROBATE COURT.

Dec 22.-W W. Yocum Admir- Of
the estate of Thos, ]. Carleton, dec d.
having satisfied the Court that the estate
had been fully settled by the Admins
tratrix the Court discharged him
A. P. Danford, Admir- Of William
Hudson; decd, fled report of sale OF
real estate which was confirmed. Or.
dered that the Admir- pay to the widow,
Ellanne Hudson, S65, her dover inter-
est in the real estate sold.
Carl F. Frester, confined in Jail for
disobeying a writ of injunction, having
promised that he would obey said in
junction in the future, was discharged.
Dec 24-F Reef, Guardian of the
estate of Jacob Moose, filed an inven-
tory.
H.. B Hill, Guardian of the minor
heirs, of Scott Dixon, decd, filed his
4th account; hearing continued.
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THE EASTERN WAR.
COLD WEATHER And DRIV.
ING SNOW.

LONDON, Dec. PA dispatch from
Constantihople says the Servians at.
tempted TO carry latre by assault, and
were repuIsed with great loss. They
were pursued by the garrison to Yavor, 5
miles distant. A portion of the British
fleet in Besika Bay are expected to pro-
ceed to the Gulf Of Valo.
SEVERE SNOW STORM.
LONDON Dec 24-A correspondent at
Bucharest telegraphs that it is impossible
to find out anything concerning the con-
ditioBff the Turkish prisoners, en- route
from Pievns, or the Russian troops
caught on the march by the snow storm.
The cold weather and driving snow,
produced terrible effect upon a trans.
portation train which halted near Cotra.
cine, suburb of Bucharest, to await the
cessation of the storm On Sunday the
wagons and horses were entirely buried
in the snow, and working parties were
extrica'ing the train Forty horses and
twenty seven men have been found dead
The men had sought shelter in the wag
ons and were frozen when within b alf q
mile of Cotracine.