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Towanda daily review. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1879-1921, 1879-12-30

Money Order office open from 500 A. M. to
100 M.
Office open Sundays from 900 to 1000 A. M.
p. POWELL, 7. M.
The holiday vacation of the school children
is drawing to u close.
The X. P.'s meet this evening at Castle
Hall.
NEAJ. 81 HEVERLY are turning out some
very elegant black walnut extension tables.
-s-a-
The Knights of Honor will hold anniver-
sary exercises on the 14th of January.
The pews in Christ Church will be rented
or the ensuing year next Manday evening
A hearing of the Minnequa insurance case
before arbitrators will begin here to-day.
The dramatic club have declined invita-
tions to repeat Fashion" in some other
towns.
Active preparations are being made for the
Naiad reception which takes place tomorrow
evening.
not contain single juryman from this bor-
ough.
w. p. Pope, Il former prominent business
man of Binghamton, died in Buffalo, the 9TH
er day.
Mr. LYON, the auctioneer finds himself un-
able to get away from Towanda yet, so eager
ho to huXr In
main IA little longer.
JOHN BEEMAN has lost one of his hack
horses. The animal was hardly cold before
JOHNS fellow hackmen raised money and
purchased him another valuable horse.
The LcRaysville Advertiser will be en-
larged in May. Remember the old rhyme
brother VANGELDER, about "a little farm
will titled" &c. Don't spread out too fast.
Too SENSATIvE.-JOHN BEEMAN says that
ers the other day that his services were no
onger required got mad and quit.
The" cottage meeting," under the auspices
of the Helping Hand Society," will be held
this week on Friday evening" at the house OF
W. IL. SNYDER, in the Third Ward.
Mrs HURST, nee Miss Ida MORGAN, who
has been very low with consumption fol
some weeks past, died at the residence of heI
MOTHER Mrs. w. III. MORGAN, this morning
She leaves two children.
Mr.. DoUTRICK, the merchant tailor, is
about removing from this place, which will
be good news for 'TONEY ROMER, the popu
lar Elmira tailor, who already has lots OF
customers here. 1t seems strange that To
wanda cannot support good merchant tail
oring establishment.
The aged mother of eX-Sheriff VANFLEE1
died at the residence of her son in this bor
ough this morning, aged "A years. Bre1
services will be conducted at the house to
Towanda daily review. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1879-1921, 1879-12-30

Mails arrive depart and at the Towanda
Post office follows.
Towanda daily review. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1879-1921, 1879-12-30

The LcRaysville AdUeujSer will be en-
larged in May. Remember the old rhyme,
brother VANGELDER, about "a little farm
will titled" &c. Don't spread out too fast.
Towanda daily review. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1879-1921, 1879-12-30

Mr.. DOUTRICK, the merchant tailor, is
about removing from this place, which will
be good news for 'TONEY ROMER, the popu-
lar Emira tailor, who already has lots of
customers here. 1t seems strange that To-
wanda cannot support good merchant tail
oring establishment.
Towanda daily review. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1879-1921, 1879-12-30

AGENTS WANTED.-Enquire at the board
ing-house on Second street, lately occupied
by Mrs. DR.. MASON.
h l. WnOnApD
Towanda daily review. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1879-1921, 1879-12-30

Too SENSATIvE.-JOHN BEEMAN says that
II young fellow who was told by his employ
ers the other day that his services were no
onger required got mad and quit.
Towanda daily review. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1879-1921, 1879-12-30

Mrs HURST, nee Miss IDA MORGAN, who
has been very low with consumption for
some weeks past died at the residence of her
mother, Mrs. w. III. MORGAN, this morning.
She leaves two children.
Towanda daily review. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1879-1921, 1879-12-30

The " cottage meeting" under the auspices
of the : Helping Hand Society" will be held
this week on Friday evening, at the house of
W. IL. SNYDER. in the Third Ward
Towanda daily review. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1879-1921, 1879-12-30

1(37 AT MYER d DEVICES market is the
place to get tender steaks and nice roasts.
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1879-09-24
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

The grand Union park, at Saratoga,
is lighted by the electric light process.
One half the buckwheat of this coun-
try is grown in New York and Pennsylva.
MIA.
Upward of $4,000 cases of salmon
have been packed on the Columbia river,
Oregon, this season.
The farmers of Minnesota have har-
vested this year very nearly a bushel of
wheat for every inha5itant of the United
States.
The Winchester Arms company, of
New Haven. Conn, recently made one ship
ment of 100000 cartridges 10 the Chinese
government.
Virginia's valuation stands at $780,
100000. 1t would be double thst to-day,
but for the effect upon her prosperity caused
by the civil war.
In 1884 all the table cutlery in this
country was imported from England. To.
day only small parcels can be found in the
American market.
A conference representing $4,000 mi
ners, held in Manchester, England, on the
18th, passed UNANIMOUSLY a vote favoring
emigration to the United States.
While spinners and other mill opera
tives are striking for higher wages in this
country, they are Obliged to submit to a
reduction pay in the English mills.
Our exports of agricultural imple-
ments in 1878 were of total value of 50, ,552,
200, against 81 ,78t ,022 in 1877. The amount
sent abroad this year will be still greater, as
the demsnd from Russia and South America
is increasing.
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1879-09-24
The Wells Of Prairie Dogs.

Some Nine ago the statement was
made in the American Agriculturist, on
the authority of Mr.. M. 7 Leech, OF
Nebraska, that the prairie dogs OF the
Western States dig wells, each " dog
town" icing provided with one This
statement has been widely copied, but
has been denied by some persons, and
among others by one OF the professors at
Yale college. Recently one of the stall
of the AgTiculturist has met Mr.. Leech
in Wyoming, where he holds respOnsl-
BILE position in the railroad employ. This
gentleman reiterates his original state-
u,ents and adds that If skeptiCs will
come to Sidney, Nebraska, they wilt tind
convincing proof OF the accuracy OF
what he says. There is town
twenty-five or thirty pet prairie dogs
about FIVE rods from the track north
west of the Railroad hotel. The owner
of the dogs win show the visitor the
well, and will inform him that the hrst
move the dogs made, after lecatipg there,
was to dig for water. At poin. on the
Kansas and Pacific railroad, not far
from Buffalo station, the workmen 10
sinking q tank reservoir some time ago
struck one of these prairie dog wells and
followed it to a depth of 200 feet. Mr.
T,eech's statements were verified by
Prof. Aughey, the well known geologist
81 the Nebraska State university, who
had also discovered such wells while
making geological explorations along
the Logan river in northern Nebraska.
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1879-09-24
FOREIGN ITEMS.

Madame Adelini Patti is now thirty
six years old Madame Carlotta Patti Munck
is now thirty-nihe; Madame Nilsson is
thirty-two.
The late Sir Rowland Hill. the father
of the penny.postage system, had the largest
and most complete collection of stamps in
the world. 1t is valued at $1,000, but he
esteemed it beyond all price,
The ex-Empress Eugene has just pur-
chased of Baron SessleroH Herzingec the castle
of Wasserburg, Upper Syria The front
contains 122 windows, ard the building is
over 4eG years old. She will have the ex-
khedive of Egypt as a neighbor, If he sue
ceeds in buying of Moritz Won Bartriaan
his castle of Prank.
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1879-09-24
not wheat.

THREE Nihilists, condemned to Sibe>
rian exile, wished to marry, and fixed
upon three girls of their political per-
saasiOn, who agreed to espouse and fol-
low them to the place of their Danish.
ment. Marriages of this kind are tolera-
ted by the laws of Russia, and the three
cOnvicts were welded but their sem
tence of Punishment was Immediately
changed into one of solitary confinement
an the central prison of st. Petersburg.
Upon learning this their wives sought
and obtained audience of Nabokow, the
minister of justice, whom they entreated
to reverse the last decree, and to send
their husbands, SIS at first determined, to
Siberia, whittier they could accompany
them. Nabokow replied that he could
not assume the responsibility of altering
the modified sentence, and referred the
three women to Mezsr zsw, the chief of
the Third Section or secret police.
To MezsnzeW, therefore, they applied !;
but he sngrily rejected their petition.
AS soon as this decision of Mezenzew
was msde known in Nihilist circles he
was at once condemned to die as the
most inveterate and dangerous enemy of
"the cause" and three days later he
perished by the hand of an assassin.
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1879-09-24
Sweet Western Sounds.
Denver Tribune,


Not the least important thing is to
famiIiariEe oneself with the dialects of
theState, which are getting to be widely
used, and knowledge of which is essen
tial to understand an editorial in a Colo
RADIO newspaper. A friend accosted me
one day as follows: "I say, Tom, are you
going to the roundup at Msjor BIS to-
night ?-going to have 'way-up' time.
The pretty Miss a will be there, but
they say Jim D. has got her cor
rallied 30 there's no use of your trying
to do any jumping there" Ifyou wish
to express the demise OF friend, you
would say, in southern Colorado, that
''He'd gone over the ranges" it would be
more elegant to say that ''He d passed
in his chips" while in northern Colorado
nothing would be so expressive as
''He's struck bedrock at last" Cow
puncher, mule-skinner, bull Whacker
each expresses an honorable calling,
while pot>slinger, hash-driver and grub.
chOker refer to the chefs de cuisine in the
more retired parts of the state. If you
try to sell horse the first question viii
be, "Does he buck ?' A prospector
starting out will 'pack his burro,' i. e.,
load his provisions and tools on small
species Of donkey; and, if you ask him,
he will tell you that he lives principally
on "sow belly" and 'spuds," i. e, bacon
and potatoes; more expressive than ele-
CANT, you will say, but in the rough
camps the principal articles of food are
designated by names which l am unwil.-
ling To pUt on paper.
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1879-09-24
Common Men,

We're nobody particular,
We're Just the men you meet
at harvest with the sickle. OF
at seed-time dropping wheat:
From Mondays until Saturdays
We wOIk fiom morn till night,
And only in these latter days
We've learnt to read ard write.
Our little place is poor enough,
Tho clean as any pin;
Whoe'er you are, you're sure enough
OF welcome when you're in:
The rich man has bis Wallets and
His LOCKS to guard his store,
But we have empty wallets, and
We only latch the door.
Besides, perhaps pair or two
OF blankets, and bed,
An oaken chest, a chair or two
All bought when we were we'd
There's little YOU would lend upon:
we've neither house nor lands,
We only d depend upon
The labor of our haCds.
When these begin to fail you, and
You re thrown upon YOU elf,
Or anything should all you, and
There's nothing on the shelf,
Ehotgh anxious looks the mother5 and
Our own is almost bare,
We te for one anothe and g
We find bite to spare.
YOu ask me what we think about
In rainy weather, when
We sit and pass the drink about,
And speak but now and then:
Sure, all may spend their IeisUre in
The manner that they will,
And poor men find a pleasure IN
Just simply sitling still.
We're up to tend the cattle, when
The Londoner in bed;
We hear the thunder ra tie, when
there nothing overhead
To shield us in the racket, and
When down doth pour the rain,
We only shake our jacket, and
We go work again.
To every man his station, and
His work is set, 1 ween;
The Queen doth rule the nation, and
The soldier guards the Queen
Fro n foeman that would harm her, AMI
their number is not email
We labor for The aTmsr, and
1he farmer keeps them all.
Tnen do not judge us blindly, as
You'll hear some people do;
Think only of us Kindly, as
You'd have us think of you.
To other folks than we bslOng
1ho pulpit and the pen,
Yet England we're not England loEg
Without her Common Men.
R. Crawlsy in Pail Mall Gazette
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1879-09-24

locity and volume of the Arctic and
Pacific polar currents, and discovered a
great many new fossils and new marine
animals. Professor Nordenskjold consid-
siders the voyage from Europe to
Asia by Bshring straits to be certain
and safe, and the actual time in covering
the route was very short. The success
of the expedition has been remarkable,
in view of the fact that so many leading
explorers, for several centuries, have
failed to achieve its object.
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1879-09-24
Rosebud.

o little maid in your 70 ebud-5ower,
Dreaming of growing old,
Wishing youth always would linger5 Hover
Never in haste to unfold;
Lift from the shadow your sunshiny head,
Growing old is nothing TO dread.
little maid in the rose-tree shade,
See how its dry bOughs shooti
The green leaves falla nd the blossoms iado;
But youth is tTi1 root.
There are always buds in the old trees heart,
Ready at bee on OF Spring TO start,
o little maid, there is joy to Elk
Glory of earth and sKv-
Whsn the Tosebud-str ak fades out OF your cheek
And the dewy g cam from you eve;
Deeper and wider must life take root;
r. oder and higher must glow its fruit.
o little mad, be never afraid
That youth from ycur heart viii 60
Reach forth toto heaven through shower and
shaded
We are always young, while grow.
Breathe out in q blessing your happy breath
F. love keeps the spirit from age and death
Lucy LaIcom ia st. Nicholas for September.
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1879-09-24

They az trying to weave a good deal
OF roms'Hce into the new Spanish court
snip. but this. at least, seems like busi>
ne',s. The queen will bring with her
from Vienna her own medical attendant,
her own private secetary, three ladies of
honor, three chamberlains, and shall,
moreover, be lowered from his majesty 3
Fersonal property, the capital of the
ame to be deposited in foreign bank,
but out o. the reach of revolutions and
pr0nuY scieIaentOs.
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1879-09-24
Historical.
New Orleans Times.


"N W, ladies and gentlemen" shouted
the book agent, "before the picnic con-
cludes l want to sell every one of you
a copy of the Life of PCclhontas.' She
was au IDjun girl, POky was-they called
her POky for shert-but she wasn't the
kind that went around peddling baskets
and blow guns. Not fr quently. She
staid at home playing croquet in the front
yard, or went to the Ladies' Aid Society,
didn't take no copperas of o. nobody.
The cele brsted John Smith came travel
ing through them parts as agent for 8
family paper, but Poky wouldn't let her
father raise a club. She married Smith
afterWard. and the last act OF her life
was to die of consumption Just here
Officer Uncle Sammy Jones approached
with a shot gun and the meeting ads
journed.
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1879-09-24

AN Alabama woman has originated q
novel industry which may prove to be
an Important and useful one. She
strips the down of tAe feathers
of turkeys and other fowls from
thejr quills and veaves it into a thick
soft cloth. which can be dyed any de
sired coloF, aud out OF which most besu-
tiful and comfortable cloaks, ,sscques, etc.
can be made. Her inability to buy her
a sealskin sacque led her to make the
experiments.
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1879-09-24

BRIGHT's disease of the kidney is pc
culiarly an American complaint. It is
said that seventy FIVE per cent of all the
deaths from this cause occur in the
United States. The explanation of this
remarkable fact has been sought by
mGd cal men, and found in the consump.
zion OF ice water here. About ninety
per cent of all the ice used in the world
is consumed ia this country; and the
latter fact il is claimed, explains the
other
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1879-09-24
Scared TO Death bY a MonkeY.

Gloversville N. Y Letter to the Utica Herald.
w. N. thinner, accompanied by his
wife and lady friend, went to visit the
county house last saturday afternoon.
Arriving at their destination, Mrs. Zim-
mer remained in the carriage, not caring
to 90 through the house. A short time
after Mr.. thinner and friend had passed
into the house,a monkey belonging to
some neighbOr spraDg upon the fence
near the carriage and began to chatter
at Mrs. Zimmer. She paid no attention
to it until the monkey jumped into the
carriage and began to strike at her face
and head She then succeeded in push
ing him out, but he Immediately sprang
in again and made a furious onslaught
upon the lady's ace. Almost overcome
with fright, Mrs Zimmer grasped the
whip. and in attempting to hit the mon
key struck the horse. Frightened at
the sudden blow, she horse started up
the road at q rapid rate. After running
some distance the horse was stopped by
some men who were near at hand. Mrs.
Zimmer was found unconscious and
the monkey still clinging to her person.
Being removed to her home, medical aid
was called, but il was of no avail. Mrs.
thinner could not rally, and died Mon
day afternoon of nervous prostration.
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1879-09-24

GLASS sleepers for railroads ia the new
est thing in that line in England. The
glass is toughened by q process discovered
by Frederick Siemens of Dresden, the
cost per ton bsing about the same as
that of cast iron, but there are three times
as many sleepeEs to the ton, owing to its
specific gravity being only one-third of
that of iron.
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1879-09-24

SOME idea Of the extraordinary growth
of this country may be conveyed by the
example of one state. Ia 1869 the wheat
cror of Illinois amounted to 27,0OO.0O0
bushels This year it foots up nearly
twice as much, or $4,000. .O00-by far the
largest wheat harvest ever had. But it
should be remembered that Illinois is
chiefly corn-producing state, and that
Of its %. .0O0. 600 acres under cultivation,
almost nine tenths are devoted to corn,
not wheat
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1879-09-24

Tennessee should make provision for that
city. The Secretary of War said that bill
had been introduced in Congress, but not
passed, making provision for sLch emer-
gencies as yellow fever epidemics. Instead
of passing the bill, Congress established the
National Board of Health, and appropriated
$550,000 for its use. Aid could only be obs
tanned through this body.
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1879-09-24
Washington ON Profanity.

Hamilton Fish, Jr., in note TO the
New York Tribune, copies from Boyn-
tons history of West Point the follow
Ing order from General Washington on
the subject OF profaue swearing. 1t will
not, perhaps, be new to any reader, but
it is worth reproducing as the Judgment
of this great and good man upon praCN
tice so silly and reprehensible that it is
difficult, if not impossible, to find or inn
agine a reason for its wide existencei
HEADQUARTERS MooRE'B HOUSE,
WEST POINT, July 90, 177S.
Many and pointed orders have been
issued against that unmeaning end
abominable custom OF swearing, notwith-
standing which, with much regret, the
General observes that it prevails, if pos
sible, more than ever: his feelings sre
continually wounded by the Oaths and
impreoatio1s of Che soldiers whenever he
is within hearing of them.
The name Of that Being from whose
bountiful goodness we are permitted to
exist and enjoy the comforts of lite, is
incessantly imprecated and protaned In
q manner as wantOn as it is shocking.
For the sake, therefore, of religion, de-
cency and order the General hopes and
trusts that officers of every rank will use
their Influence and authority to check
vice which is as unprOftable as it is
wicked and shameful.
If foficers would make it an unavoida
bic rule to reprimaud, and, if that does
not do, punish soldiers for offenses OF
this kind, it could not fail of having the
desired effect.
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1879-09-24

RICHARD GRANT WHITE is after the
public again. He says the expression
''dun gone did not originate with Hos
mer, and that it contains several pounds
OF bad grammar.
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1879-09-24

SARAH BERNHARDT, during a six
weeks visit TO London, Is reported to
have realized $1,000 by private per,
formances, and upward of $4,000 from
the sale of her paintings.
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1879-09-24

THE arrival of Professor NOrdensBj jold
and the Swedish exploring steamer Vega,
in bis command, at Yokohama, Japan,
sets at rest the last doubt about tie sue
cess!ul achievement of the northeast pas
sage. The expi dition was probably one
of the most remarkable in the whole
series of Arctic explorations It started
from Gothenburg, Sweden, July 4, 1878,
reached Nova Zambla on August 5, srd
arrived at TseiGekin, the most northerly
point in Asia, on the 10Th of the same
month. The expedition wintered in the
ice-pack in longitude III wess, and the
men connected with it preserved their
health remarkably well, the experience
of Professor Nordenskjold in previous
voyages serving in good stead. The ma
tives on the coast hard by the point
where the expedition was frozsn up kept
supplied with bear and reindeer flesh,
thus preventing scurvy. The cold ex>
perienced was intense, averaging 80 de-
grees Fahrenheit below zero. 10 spite
% this, however, game and wild fowl
were abundant when spring approached
The expedition, after being ims
beded in ice here for 264 days,
finally was released on July IS
and immediately sailed for Behrr
log straits, reaching there July 20,
1879, whence they steamed across to
Alaska and thence to Japan. The expe-
dition, besides affording practical proof
of tho exiEtence of northeast passage,
has been able to make many important
contributions to scientific research. It
has determined the formation of the
bottom of the Arctic seas, and their
fora and fauna. It has calculated, de-
termined and chsrted the location, We
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1879-09-24
TEE MORRISTOWN GbEgIrFE.
Subscription Price, Sc.
MoRRIsToWN, TENNESSEE

The Corliss engine, OF Centennial fame
now runs the machinery of the branch
mint at San Francisco.
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1879-09-24

A WORD to the wise is sufficient. A
minister made an interminable call upon
a lady of bis acquaintance. Her little
daughter, who was present, grew weary
of his conversation, and whispered in an
audible tone, Didn't he bring his amen
with him. rcsnr
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1879-09-24

DIoGENEs being asked of what beast
the bite is the most dangerous, answered.
"Of wild beasts. that Of slanderer of
tame, that OF hatterer,"
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1879-09-24

VIII practice in the Courts OF Upper East
Tennessee. Prompt and special attention
gye to collections.
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1879-09-24

Nashville American State Treasu-
rer Marsh L. Polk, who recently went to
Washington at the suggestion of Gov. Marks,
returned home last night. He says that as.
tonishment was expressed at Washington
that the state should have asked for aid in
behslf Of Memphis, and that it was thought