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Names of Countries.

The following countries, it is said,
were originally named by the Pheni-
clans, the greatest commercial people in
the world. The names, in the Ph9ni-
clan language signifying something
characteristic of the places which they
designate:
Europe signifies country of white
complexion; so named because the in
habitants were of a lighter complexion
than those of Asia and Africa.
Asia signifies between, or in the mid
die, from the fact that the geographers
placed it between Europe and Africa.
Africa signifies the land of corn or
ears. 1t was celebrated for its abund-
ance of corn and all sorts of grain.
Siberia signifies thirsty or dry-very
characteristic.
Spain, country of rabbits or COMES
1t was once so infested with these ami
mails that it sued Augusta for an army
to destroy them.
Italy country of pitch, from its
yielding great quantities of black pitch.
Calabria, also, for the same reason.
Gaul, modern France, signifies yellow
haired, as yellow hair characterized its
inhabitants.
The English of Caledonia is high
hill. This was a ragged, mountainous
province in Scotland.
Hibernia is utmost, or last habitation.
for beyond this the Westward -Pheni-
clans never extended their voyages.
Britain, the country of tin, great guam
titles being found on it and adjacent ISL
ands. The Greeks called it Albion,
which signifies in the Phenician tongue
either white or high mountains, from
the whiteneSs of its shores or the high
recks ON its western coast.
Corsica signifies woody place.
SARDINIA signifies the footsteps Of men,
which it resembles.
Syracuse, bad favor, so called from
the unwholesome marsh on which it
stood
Rhodes, serpents or dragons, which it
produced in abundance.
Sicily, the country of grapes.
Scylla, the whirlpool of destruction.
1Etna signifies furnace, or dark or
smoky.
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An Ambitious Text.

The parsons do, after all, tell the best
stories. Rev. DR.. - is responsible for
the following:
In the early part of his ministry a
very eminent clergyman of his own de-
nomination visited him and spent a
Sabbath with him. OF course he invi-
ted him to preach for him, and, to his
great satisfaction, he consented, Rev.
Dr. - is tall, and his pulpit was rath-
er high, TO accommodate his manuscript
to his sight; his visitor was short, rather
stout, and had shining bald hend. Rev.
Dr. - proposed to lower the pulpit a
little, but his friend declined, and, on
the contrary, desired that it should be
raised higher. 1t seemed that he was
near-sighted, but for some reason pre-
ferred not 10 wear spectacles. The desk
being raised, he proceeded to pile upon
it the closed pulpit Bible, two hymn
books, ii pile of about a dozen sermons,
and finally his manuscript, and then, his
bald head just glinmering over the top
of his extempore fertilization, he an
nounced his text-"Thou shalt see great
er things than these" DRAW
Err, in Harper'S Magazine for Sept.
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"My Mothers Been Praying.

In February, 1861, a terrible gale ragged
along the coast of England. In one bay,
Hartlepool, it wrecked eighty-one YES
sells. While the storm was at its height,
the Rising Sun, stout brig, struck on
Longrear rock, reef extending a mile
from one side of the bay. She sunk,
leaving only her two topmasts above the
foaming waves.
The lifeboats were away, rescuing
wrecked crews. The only means of
saving the men clinging to the swaying
masts was the rocket apparatus. Be
fore it could be adjusted, one mast fell.
just as the rocket, bearing the lifeline,
went booming out of the mortar, the
other mast toppled over.
Sadly the rocket-men began to draw
in their line, when, suddenly, they felt
that something was attached to it, and
in few minutes hauled on to the beach
the apparently lifeless body of a sailor
boy. Trained and tender hands work
ed, and in short time he became con-
scious.
With wild amazement,he gazed around
on the crowd of kind and sympathizing
friends. They raised him to his feet
He looked up into the weather-beaten
face of the old fisherman near him, and
asked:
"Where am [ ?"
"Thou art here, my lad"
"Where's the Cap'n?"
Drowned, my lad"
"The mate, then?"
"He's drowned, too"
"The crew."
"They are all lost, my lad; thou art
the only one saved"
The boy stood, overwhelmed, for few
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"RelOW Par"

"That reminds me of little anecdote," !"
is what every bright man has heard over
and over again, as his memory has been
logged by some ones telling a story.
When good stories and ready repartees
are going on, one witty little thing is
sure to suggest another. Thus we
thought. day or two since, when read
ing in evening paper, that Charles Sum-
ner was no musician, and that lady
friend once told him that if he was to
buy music-box set to "Old Hundred"
she did not believe that he could make
it play more than "seventy-fve." 1t
was doubtless something in the same
vein that prompted old Mrs. ROthschild,
when ninety-seven, to say to her physi-
clan, Doctor, you must keep me up for
three years more at least; it would be
discreditable for Rotchschild to go off
under par. EDITORS DRAWER, in Har-
per's Magazine for September.
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POETRY.
THE LITTLE OLD CHURCH.

A. G. Gordon, in Sudday Afternoon.
went to the little church to day
Over the brook beyond the bill:
Il looked as it looked when went away,
Green -yarded and white paled still.
was youth when crossed the sea
To wander in foreign lands; and 10!
Now there is gray in my beard. All me.
Can it be 50 long ago?
There used to be 10 those far back years
A little girl with happy face,
And sweet, Strange fashion of smiles and
tears,
And young fawn's agile grace,
Who sat each Sunday serenely there
In that little church. where the sunlight fell
Through the windows over her yellow hair,
And over her face-ah well.
All WE'LL And I-Oh, that little maid;
Z 1 loved her truly. Each Sabbath day
I'd go there, and watch how the sunshine
played
In her hair. ere went away;
Ere went away; that was long years back,
And now am middle-aged, forsooth;
1t is hard that brave. strong lad, good lack!
Must give up his brave strong youth,
While little church for years can seem
Unchanged Why, to-day they sang that
strain
That they sang long ago,-it was like dream
OF my dead youth come again.
sat iu dim, back-corner pew
Where | sat when a boy; and closed my
eyes,
Till thoughts of the past and the present
Into solemn mysteries. au
dreamed was young again-that there,
In the seat three PAGES in front of me,
The sunshine was dancing on yellow hair,-
And | thought; ''Can this thing be? = r
81 went to her grave meath the church. yard
tree - & 10 4..+-slg
On this very morn ere came in here
Where thought of the things that used to be,
Till felt on my face tear;
Aud now to think if open my eyes
| shall see her kneel in that pew and pray
With soul that is ready for Paradise,
As she did ere went away!'
opened my eyes, and looked; but 10.
= The pew was empty; the sunlight strayed
Up and down on the cushioned seat, as though
Ii sought for the little maid.
A butterfly drifted in, and flew
For moment about, then out again;
"lnto my life she came like you,
And went" faltered in pain.
And the preacher read: 'sEven as water spilled
On the ground that cannot be gathered
again .s~s
Are the children of men," and the sad words
filed
My soul with sadder pain.
When loI the butterfly f1uttered in
Once more; and the preachers lips then
read,
Gas little children are free from sim"
''She is gathered to God" said.
And l said: "You went, but you have re-
turned;
shall sec her again in the years to be-
In the years to be-" and my sad heart burned
BY the wayside there, in me.
had not entered for many years
A church of Christ as l did to-day;
TIL this morning my eyes had not known
tears
Since the time when went away.
/ think shall go to this church always
I'LL they carry me cut to the graveyard
tree,
For the sake or that dear girls sweet young
face
And the days that used to be-
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Gen. Ewing Fifty Characterized.
From Judge W. II. Vests Speech at Urbana,


To lead this unholy alliance, and as
sumo the role of decoy-duck to allure the
patriots and soldiers of the Union to its
standard, an .ex-Union soldier of fiat
money proclivities is selected, whose I'll
tie to the distinction is the collar of the
Confederates which he wears. and his
servility to their caucus in hnmiliating
his comrades in arms, maligning his
former eompatriots, and surrendering
all for which they fought to the enemy
which they conquered. From his just
merits ] wilt not abate the 1.-THE of a
hair Fer his .hefoism, honor; for his
services toscOuntry, gratitude; for his
betrayal of its cause, condemnation. A
soldier of the Union, who leads his coun-
trymen to bloody triumph in defence of
his country, and then surrenders in the
forum all for which he melted them to
slaughter in the field; soldier of the
Union, who plucks the laurels from the
chaplets of his comrades in glory, and
wreathes them about the brows of the
foemen they vanquished; soldier of
the Union, who with one hand strews
the flowers of memory upon the graves
of his country's dead heroes on Decora-
tion Day, while with the other he aids
the red-handed parrieides who filed
those graves to ANONYMOUSLY expel
their surviving battle-scarred comrades
from the emoluments and honors of
that Capitol, to preserve which their
blood was shed, and replace them by the
surviving patriots of the lost cause, is
a spectacle for gods and men,-a fit
champion of those twin heresies, fiat
money and State sovereignty.
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moments; then he raised both his hands,
and cried in loud voice:
my mothers been praying for me.
Ny mothers been praying for me-"
And then dropped on his knees on the
wet sand. and his sobbing face in his
hands.
Hundreds heard that day this tribute
to a mothers love, and to Gods faithful
ness in listening to mothers prayers.
The little fellow was taken to house
near by, and in few days he was sent
home to his mothers cottage in North
umberland.
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SENSE AND SENTIMENT.

Common sense makes no parade.
Always best when rare-Family
broils.
Casual thoughts are sometimes of
great value.
Self-reliance is quite distinct from
self-assertion.
An honest reputation is within the
reach of everyone.
Love for the dead should not cramp
our duty to the living.
Our hearts, in spite of us, will dream
of heaven at eventide.
1t is a good thing to learn caution by
the misfortunes of others.
1t is the lot of genius to be opposed,
and to be invigorated by opposition.
He who laughs at cruelty sets his
heel on the neck of religion and godli-
ness.
People seldom improve when they
have no other model but themselves to
copy after.
OlIullc uOOS llOb CuetIISO HUI IL OIlly
unmasks them and shows their true
character.
Gratitude is the fairest blossom that
springs from the soul, and the heart of
man knoweth none more fragrant.
Strive to impress on your children
that the only disgrace attaching to hon
est work is the disgrace of doing it
badly.
Frequent disappointments teach us
to mistrust our own inclinations and
shrink even from vows our hearts may
prompt.
Hugging sorrow is not the way to
lessen it, though, like the nettle, trouble
stings less when it is firmly grasped and
not feared.
.~ To think kindly is good, to speak kind
ly is better, but to act kindly is best
Let warm, loving light shine on all
around you.
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A FREE GIFT!

or a copy of my Medical Common Sense Book
to any person suffering with Consumption,
Asthma, Catarrh. Bronchitis, Loss of Voice or
So e Throat. Send name with post office ad-
dress, with two pastage stamps. State your
sickness. The book is elegantly illustrated
Q44 PIP. limo. lS'9) The Information 1t con \
tains, in the providence of God, has saved
m any lives. The author has been ire ting
Diseases of the Nose, Throat and Lungs, as q
special practice in Cincinnati. since 1857. Ad.
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Do not despise the opinion of the
world; you might as well say that you
care not for the light of the sun because
you can use a caudle.
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Sober sense, self-possession, intelli-
gent self-control, are the safeguards of
head and heart, and make beautiful
temple for the soul.
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sr. CLArRSvH.LE, OHIO.
Cleveland & Pittsburgh K. R.
CONDENSED TIME TABLE.
.,,,.nr.cr.Nnn n,L,sr

-GOING EAST AND WEST.
On and after Nov 10. 1875. Trains WIN run
daily {excepL Sunjny1
3 Through Ttains 10 pittsburgh.
2 Through Trans to Cleveland.
2 Through Trains TO Chtca1g1.
Puliman'S Pnrlor Cars between Wellsville
aud Cleveland.
uoiel and Sleeping Cars on all Trains De-
tween Alliance aud Chicago.
Accom- Mail. Express.
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Do good and be good, and, despite all
that is said about this worlds ingrati-
tude, some one will love you and greet
your coming.
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NEW Rich Blood!

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- To think kindly is good, to speak kind
1y is better, but to act kindly is best
Let warm, loving light shine on all
around YOU.
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1NCgURE.
A Lecture TO Young Men.

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.Mho Is This NapoIeon?..

Anent the wonderful Likeness of
Prince Jerome with Napoleon l.,
which is perhaps the best Of his po-
.litical capital, the following instance
of the vanity of glory is related by
the Prince personally. He was trav-
cling in the mountains of Auyergne,
and, having left his carriage for the
sake of walking a few miles, he had
occasion to ask his way from young
peasant, and he rewarded him with
a piece of silver 1t happened to be
one with the efligy of Napoleon l.,
and, having noticed the fact, the
Prince asked the young man wheth-
er he knew who he was. mo, sir, l
DON'T" was thereby. "Look. at that
piece Of silver don't you see the
likeness2" "oh, yes! How stranger'
well, / am nephew of the man on
that piece-Napoleon." "But whoi is
this Napoleon2" returned the rustic.
He had never heard the name before.
London Truth.
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Commercial Printing.

We keep in stock full line of CONNER.
cial Stationery, which we arc prepared /,
furnish in any style desired. Enyelopes,
Cards, Letter Heads, Note Heads, bill
Heads, Checks, Drafts, Notes, Statements,
Bills OF l.ading, Dray Books Shipping
Books and all other variety OF work need.
ed by business men furnished on short
notice. Printing for Salt Furnaces and
Coal Companies, specially.
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SUPPOSED MURDER.-We are in.
dcbted to the Kanawha Gazette for
the following: "The startling intel
ligence is brought US from Boone
county that on last Tuesday night
Col. Griffith Stollings, one of the
Oldest and most cstimable citizens of
Boone, was found dead near his dwell
ing house. Suspicious of foul play
were aroused from bruises upon his
body and u terrible wound just above
his left eye, from which the skull
was fractured.
A Corners inquest was held last
Thursday morning over the deceas.
ed. The Cornerss jury returned u
verdict that the deceased came to his
death by violence at the hands of
some unknown parties. 1t is sad
commentary that this old gentleman,
who had arrived at the ripe old age
of SO years, should be thus brutallv
murdered, Col Griffith Stollings was
one of the Oldest and most honored
citizens of tho State. He had serv-
ed the old State in her Legislative
halls with honor to himself and cred
1t to his people; he had watched the
career of the young State with care
and affection. Although old his
mind was strong, clear aud vigorous,
he was reyercd and esteemed by the
community at large, and was not
known to have an enemy on earth.
We extend our sympathics to his
bereaved family. He was the father
of our worthy friend Col. Joel E..
Stollings, of Boone.
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Poster Printing.

We prepared to do hand-bil printing
from double-sheet poster, down to tho
smallest dodgcr. Programmes printed in
the best styles known.
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Kanawha River Improvements.

The United States Engineers are
making. all possible use Of the low
stage of water in the river, and are,
day and night, pushing the work on
the locks and dams at Brownstown,
Cabin Greek and Paint Creek. They
are putting in the machinery for the
movable part Of the dam at Browns.
town, and are pushing the masonry
on the permanent part. The dam at
Paint Creek will pool the water to
Cannclton, at which point dam is
located, which will interfere with
the operators of the Camel Coal
Company. That company, we un-
derstand, demands $4,000 damages,
in case the dam should be built
Kana,rha Gazette.
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{ The iron horse does not last much
longer than the horse Of flesh and
bones. The ordinary life of a loco
motive is 80 years. Some of the
smaller parts require renewal every
six months; the boiler tubes last FIVE
years and the crank axels six years;
tires, boilers and fire-boxcs from six
to seven years; the side frames, axels
and other parts thirty years. An
important advantage is that q brok-
en- part can be repaired and does not
condemn the whole locomotive to the
junk-shop, while, when horse
breaks leg, the whole animal is on
ly worth the flesh, fat and bones,
which amount to very small sum
in this country, where horse. flesh
does not find its way to the butchers
shambles.
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LOWEST PRICES.

The Weekly Register has the largest and
best assortment oiiob material in the State
and fast presses, paper and card stock, and
is prepared to do all kinds OF Job printing
neatly and promptly, at the lowest prices,
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In Matamoras, Mexico, a despera.
do named Pancho Nieto, better known
as Ell TETON (the badger), got drunk
and rode through the streets, declar.
ing that he could do as he pleased
After dashing about the streets for
some time, he saw an unoffendine
female, at whom he fred. The ball
from his revolver passed through the
woman's hair, inaicting a slight
wound, and, striking a firm brick
wall, rebounded with such precision
and force as 10 reach Nieto's heart
and killed him almost instantly.
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Adelbert Ames, formerly Governor
of Mississippi, and United States Sen.
ator from that State, went East to
grow up with the country, after the
closing out of his carpet-bag business
in the South, and is now said to be
in New York making a comparative.
ly respectable living in the cheese
business.
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WEDDING INVITATIONS.

Our Office is especially equipped for this
kind OF work, and parties desiring wedding
invitations printed, are invited to call and
see our samples. A large stock OF Wed.
ding papers always on hand.
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BOOKS AND PAMPHLETS.

Those WHO have books or pamphlets to
print, can have such work done in. good
style at this office.