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Towanda daily review. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1879-1921, 1881-05-12

LOsT.-On Main street, near Fitch's store,
an overcoat, the finder will be rewarded by
leaving the same at this office.
w. z. ROCKWELL.
CANARIES, a few good singers at the 99c
store.
Towanda daily review. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1879-1921, 1881-05-12
FOR RENT.

Convenient medium sized house, well situ-
ated for rent cheap. b. w. LANE.
For RENT.-A desirable medium sized
house on 4th street near Chestnut. Inquire
at this Office or of j. II. NeYinS.
Towanda daily review. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1879-1921, 1881-05-12

The railroad company have the steam shov-
ell at work in the bank just opposite town, on
the east side of the river.
Towanda daily review. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1879-1921, 1881-05-12

ceSson this year will be a company of SOL
dierS' bows.
Towanda daily review. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1879-1921, 1881-05-12
WANTS.

Under this head ,oe eciJ insert FREE, notices Qt
situations or help a0anted.
Wanted, A Good Girl who can cook, wash
and iron. Apply at the house of E. Q. Mac
farlane. Houston street.
Towanda daily review. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1879-1921, 1881-05-12
ADDITIONAL LOCAL.
Personal.

JOHN Z. Fox has returned from his west
ern trip.
Col. MEANS is treating his residence on
Main street to a coat of paint.
Rev. c. T. HALLOwELT, will deliver the
decoration Day" address in this place.
Mr.. MALLORY will soon remove his coal
office from present location to the building
just north Of it.
JAMES WILBUR having sold his residence
on William street, has moved into one of Mr..
LANNING'S houses on same street.
We understand Mr.. JOHN HINMAN will
in the mercantile business.
G. A. DAYTON & Co. of the Eagle Mills,
are so crowded with work that they contem-
plate putting in another run of stones.
We regret to learn that C. F. TAYLoR.who
is now filling a responsible position i'll a
wholesale house in Utica, n. Y, is confined
to his house in this place by an attack of
rheumatism.
B. r. CARPENTER painter and decorator at
MCINTYRE & SPENCIR'S carriage factory is
of his pieces on exhibition at WHITCONIB'S
is greatly admired.
ToWanda has long pointed with pride to it's
musical talent, and the very best musicians
in town have united to give a grand concert
at Mercur Hall tomorrow evening, for a pur-
pose which commends itself to all. Let US
see that the Hall is filed
"Our Record" is the title of monthly
magazine published in the interest of the
Home for the Friendless, Buffalo, New York.
The paper is ably edited and neatly printed.
Mrs. MINER, a lady well known and greatly
admired in Towanda, is the edtress. The
last number contains Mrs. MERCUR S article
on GEORGE EBERS, the great German Egyp-
tologist, which originally appeared in the
Illustrated Christian Weekly.
Towanda daily review. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1879-1921, 1881-05-12

Tickets for Old Folks Concert for sale at
kirby's Drug Store.
Towanda daily review. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1879-1921, 1881-05-12

Like his ice cream, the soda water dSpens-
ed by Ditch is unsurpassed in flavor.
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> EPORT OF CONDITION

A a. of the FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF TOWANDA
at the close of business. May 6, 1881:
RESOURCES.
Loans and Discounts. S434 $50 Us
United States Bonds and .............
other securities, (............. $50 ,491 90
Due from Banks and ................
Treasurer u. s., ................ 175,7H GO
Legal tender notes, coin, Bank .........
notes and other Cash items ! ......... 54,94 10
Real estate, furniture and fixtures. 34,256 90
Expenses and Taxes paid. d,................ 1922 67
SS75,751 As
LIABILITIES.
Surplus fund and undivided profits S2,672 81
Deposits..... .......... .......... 55l,Ilo ~
Due Banks. ......................... $500 80
.$S7575 As
STATE OF PENN'A., COUNTY OF BRADFORD, IS:
|, n. y. BELTS, Cashier of the First National
Bank of Towanda, do solemnly swear that the above
statement is true to the best Of my knowledge and
belief.
n. n. BELTS, Cashier.
Subscribed and sworn before me this 11th day of
May, 1881. w. IL. DODGE, Notary Public
Correct-Attest:
JOSEPH POWELL,
G. L. TRACY. Directors.
GEO. STEVENS,
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Deeds neatly printed, for sale at this Office
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1881-04-21
EricsOn's Ne,C Torpedo B0af

Capt. John Ericsson, the celebrated
engineer, has recently produced tor.
pedo and torpedo. boat which, it is
claimed, will eclipse all other inven.
tions in that line. He has built at his
own expense vessel embodying his
principle, which he has appropriately
named the Destroyer. This vessel is
of peculiar construction, its machin.
cry all being below the water line and
consequently secure fiG@ attack. On
the bottom of the forward paTtof the
vessel, seven feet below the water
line, its muzzle terminating in the
stem, is placed the gun from which
the torpedo is fired. This gun is a
smooth-bore, breech-loading, thirty
feet in length and siYteen-in 4 bore.
The projectile is shaped something
like cigar, is twenty-five feet six
inches in length, sixteen inches in
diameter and weighs 1900 pounds, in.
Guiding $50 pounds of dynamite,
which is placed i'm the point. The
gun is discharged by gunpowder,
which is ignited by electricity, and
the missile strikes the enemy's vessel
below the water line, the concussion
causing its explosion. The initial We
locity with which the prOjectile leaves
the gun is $50 feet per second, and ut
q firing distance of 300 feet its course
is perfectly straight. 1t is believed
that a single explosion would sink q
vessel like the British iron-clad In
flexible, even with its hundred wa
ter-tight compartments.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1881-04-21
right to reduce the fees of their sher

right to reduce the fees Of their sher-
ifs or the fees and salary Of any
other officer without asking any other
person outside of their county for the
privilege. What business is it to the
inhabitants Of other counties, how
much or how little we pay our Off
cersi If the fees are not enough,
though every one knew how large the
loaf was before he purchased it, then
let him resign; the world will move
all the same, and the people will find
it out soon enough before an officer
starves on their account If they pay
too little. Mr.. Buck must know that
the people of Blue Earth county are
against thehigh fees Of many officers,
and that the fees of the sheriff in re-
gard to boarding prisoners was
h" singled out" for reduction by the
county board, which was good COM
mencement towards reform, because
it was in harmony with the general
sentiment of the people, and he ought
to have delighted in the act to carry
out the wishes of the people who
elected him; yes, he could and should
have added the other officers " whose
fees are greater in proportion to the
danger and responsibility connected
with their Offices" but not word he
SAID about reducing their fees, too,
and thus reduce taxes, so burden
some to every man. But instead of
reducing the fees they raised the sal.
aries of the district judges from
50 500 to SO 500. G. GLAUCKE.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1881-04-21

advocated by the government, is bit
ter and ceaseless. The spirit OF criti
cism is not merely healthful concern
for the public welfare it is the con.
slant effort to induce a public, ever
prone to change its political leaders,
so to clamor as put the "ins' out, and
to give to other men a chance at what
must be for them, too, brief tenure
of power. Acrimonious attacks upon
men and motives abound. The news
papers give room to angry opponents
for virulent personal diatribes against
political rivals. The irrepressible
life and mental activity Of the nation
preys upon itself.
Give Greece a mission; let her
hope for that influence in the readjust-
ment of power after Turkeys ap.
preaching dissolution Gf the chronic
"sick man" is indeed soon to die)
which justly belongs to her as the
most intelligent, the most enterpris-
ing, the most highly civilized race of
the Levant extend her boundaries,
as we hope the great powers will soon
do I; give but CLEAN of distant hope
to such enthusiastic patriots as joined
the club some time since organized at
Athens by Makrakes. a shrewd pOlit-
ical and religious agitater, which
processes for its object to place Prince
Constantine, King Georges eldest
son, on the throne of all Greece at
Constantinople-and the truly great
qualities of this wonderful race,
which were proved to be still hers by
the gallant, unfiinching heroism dis
played in her struggle for indepen.
dence, but which have suffered a
temporary eclipse since that struggle
closed, will once more be displayed
to world which has so often been
inspired by the words and deeds of
the Greeks of ancient times.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1881-04-21
Anecd0fe Of DamieI Webster.
Harvey's "reminiscences.

Haryey's "reminiscences.
Mr.. Webster had a cordial fondness
for animals. / never knew Il man
more devoted to all kinds of domestic
creatures. He was very kind to them,
as he was to every living thing. He
delighted in fine cattle and sheep.
When he. lived in Washington he al
ways kept around him some. animals
to remind him of rural life. He had
a cow in his yard and some fayOrite
fowls. He had Il number of hens
which he took peculiar pleasure in
feeding and watching. He used to
come from the State department to
his parlor, and, finding Mrs. Webster's
little work basket on the sidebOard,
he would go up softly and say, -
think may venture to take this little
basket" and he would empty it of its
contents and 60 to the barn to get the
hens eggs. He would bring them in
and talk about them with all the glee
and joyousness of boyhood. This he
did every day, 1t was one of those
little pleasures which reminded him
of his early home. He loved also
everything which reminded him of
his mother. For many years he re-
tanned little poem, which he wrote
to his mother from Hanover OH his
first return from college, specifying
what he would like her to get for his
dinner. He could find nothing away
from home that equalled his mothers
cooking. So h wrote to her poet
ical letter to herald his arrival and to
ask her to cook for him, in her own
rare manner. his favo:ite dish of
chickens and pork.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1881-04-21
salt on Wheat Land.

The Cedar Rapids Qowa) Republican
notes that much has been heard Of
the wonderful results brought about
by the use of salt on wheat lands,
causing greatly increased yield.
A firm in northeastern Iowa has
made inquiries among several Wis
cOnsin farmers i'm sections where it
has been used for several years past.
They all agree in saying that chinch
bugs avoid land where salt is sOwn,
and the yield of wheat is much in the
excess of what it was before its use.
There is no doubt that by the use
of this valuable fertilizer, lands in
northern Iowa can be made as pro-
ductive in wheat as in former years.
Below is given copy OF letter
from the well known commission
house Of X. Elliot g. Co., who are
thoroughly acquainted with the
subject, and in the sections of which
they write:
Milwaukee, Jan. 2S.-In reply to
your inquiry in regard to results from
the use of salt as a fertilizer, the ex-
pertinent has been more thoroughly
tried in the vicinity of Genesee,
Eagle and Palmyra, in Waukesha,
Walworth and Jefferson counties Of
this State. Taking Eagle section as
an illustration, the receipts of wheat
had run down to thirty.five cars in
crop of 1876; amount of salt market
ed at station, two Car loads. In 1877,
farmers began to use salt on their
worn out wheat lands (about $50 to
300 pounds to an acre., and the result
was as compared with similar land
not sailed, an increased yield OF
eight to ten bushels per acre, and OF
etter quality. The chinch bugs
Stunned the sailed land, and the crop
natures seven or ten days earlier.
This caused an excitement and
revival of wheat culture from year
to year, so that during the year 1880,
Eagle Station .disposcd of about fifty
car loads of salt, and up to the second
week in December, handled of wheat
delivered there by three farmers
about 200 car loads since August
1880. The testimony is uniform
among farmers of that vicinity that
the effect is marked from the start,
and continues through the season.
1t has caused business to boom up
considerably in the old worn out Sec
ton II. ELLIOT " Co.
Agricultural salt can be laid down
in car loads in bulkat very low rates.
a number of farmers can club tOgeth.
er and subscribe for a car load.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1881-04-21
Hoe a Mothers Influence Sared a
Nan from Becoming a SOt.

Wendell Phillips related the follow
ing in his address short time ago: In
a railway car once man about go years
old came to sit beside me. He had
heard me lecture the evening before on
temperance ali al. f assGS1 81 t snip,
said he, sailing out of New York, and
have just returned from my tiftieth
voyage across the Atlantic. About
thirty years ago l was a sOt shipped
while dead drunk as one of a crew, and
was carried on board like II log. When
/ came to, the captain sent for me. He
asked, DO you remember your motherr
told him she died before could re-
member anything. WELL said he, Il
am Vermont man. When ! was young
/ was crazy to go to sea. At last my
mother consented | should seek my for
tune in New York. He told how she
stood on one side of the garden gate
and he on the other, when, with his
bundle on his arm, he was ready to walk
to the next town. She said to him, "My
boy, don't know anything about towns,
and never saw the sea but they tell
me those great towns are sinks of wick
edness, and make thousands of drunk
ards. Now, promise me you'll never
drink drop of liquor He said, l
laid my hand into hers and promised as
l looked into her eyes for the last time.
She died soon after. I've been on every
sea, seen the worst kinds of life and
men-they laughed at me as milk.
shop, and wanted to know if l was a
coward But when they offered me
liquor saw my mother across the gate
and never drank drop. 1t has been
my sheet anchor. owe all to that.
Would you like to take that pledge 2"
said he. My companion took it, and he
added, " 1t has saved me. l have fine
ship, wife and children at home, and I
have helped Others" How far that
little candle threw its beamsl That
earnest mother saved two men to virtue
aud usefulness. How many more He
] who sees all can alone tell,
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1881-04-21
greater proportionate economy of
operating large than small establish
npnts NJ all kinds and RI thic rII1a rail.

greater proportionate economy of
operating large than small establish
ments of all kinds, and to this rule rail-
roads are no exception. We have no
objections to all the railroads in the
United States. being consolidated IN.
to central system, provided that
system is controlled in the interests
of the public, but so long as the rail.
road managers permit gross favOrit-
ism and discrimination against both
communities and individuals, so long
AS they seek by stock-watering and
other devices to obtain from the pub.
lie more than reasonable cOmpensa.
ton for services rendered; so long as
they try to perpetuate these abuses
by obtaining control of the legislature,
judicial and executive departments
of our government, just so long must
we esteem the consolidation of the
railroad power detrimental to all
classes of citizens and a perpetual
menace to the public welfare, for 1t
is calculated to redistribute the wealth
of the country. virtually concentra-
ting the commerce of the nation in
few hands. and making all others
tributary thereto.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1881-04-21
Senator B00ne's Big Feet.

From Sketches of Early Indiana.
In the early days of Indiana, one
Of the state senators was a good
natured giant named George Boone.
When he stood up his height attract.
ed attention, for he measured nearly
seven feet. If he made gesture.
his hands were noted as the largest
ever seen in that state. But it was
his feet that amazed his colleagues.
When about Is, young Boone
thought he would call on a neighbor
who lived few miles off. Sally, the
neighbours daughter, was large and
pretty, and the youthful giant thought
she would make him a suitable wife.
1t was late in the fall, though toe
early to put on shoes, so that he
started barefoot. His best butter
nut cOlored suit had been made some
six months before, and was much too
small for him. The pantaloons
reached only just below his knees,
while the coat stretched rs tight over
his body as an eel skin dried on q
hoop.pOle.
After wading creeks and muddy
bottoms the wOul1.be sparker arrived
at the neighbours log hut just as the
family were sitting down to supper
of mush and milk. Being invited to
draw up, he sat down alongside of
Sally. The old lady offered him a
large bowl, which he stretched forth
his hand to take. Not making sufii.
cient allowance for the size of his
hand, he struck the big milk pitcher.
Out went the milk over the table,
and out went Sally from the room,
roaring with laughter.
The old lady kindly remarked, 1t
will rub out when it dries but The
youth knew that he was already
rubbed out, so far as Sally was con-
cerned. He saw nothing more of
her. The clock struck 10.
"Mr. Boone, asked the old lady,
"won'tyou wash your feet and 60 to
bedp'
eyes, ma
Heres an iron pot !; it is the only
thing have that'l do.
The pot proved too small for his
feet to enter, except by sliding them
in sideways. When in, they swelled
so much that he could not get them
out. The pain was intense. AS the
clock struck II, the old lady asked
"Mr. Boone, are you done washing
your feet,'
"What did this pot cost p he
roared; Il must break it,
"a dollar
"Bring me the axe"
Breaking the pot in pieces, he
handed the old lady dollar, opened
the door and started for home. Sew.
eral years after he met Sally at a
husking. AS soon as she saw him
she burst out laughing.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1881-04-21
Danville.

An original genius says the way the
seasons are divided in this country is
nine months winter and three months
late in the fall. 1t looks that way
now.
The citizens of Danville and Min.
nesota Lake met last Saturday and
supplied long felt want in the for.
nation of u cemetery association.
Articles of incorporation have been
filed. The incorporate name is to be
known rs the Minnesota Lake Gene.
terry Association.
Your Sterling correspondent wants
to know my modus operandi of raising
stock. Now, 1 am not a linguist, but
by the connection / take it for granted
that he wants to know my mode of
operation. If this IS the correct rem
dering of what is to me an unknown
tongue, / can answer his question
very easily. My plan is to keep just
as much stock as l can keep well, this
rule will apply equally well to any
other calling in life. He wants my
experience and not that of some one
else like "drone bees. Now some
men and women are not anxious to be
paraded before the public as paragons
of virtue or models of thrift and
success. Again this is a very narrow
minded view of this subject which
should be treated on general princi-
pies. The success or failure of one
mop in any avocation is no criterion
| to 90 BY. Some Y@G YeEa, it seems, would
make a success in any business, whi,ts
others make failure of everything
they undertake. There are great
many sides to this subject, some parts
of Blue Earth county are better
! adapted to stock raising than others.
We have nearly the two extremes In
Sterling and Danville, in the former
the land as a rule Is high and rolling
with a scarcity of hay. in the latter
the land is generally level with All
abundance of hay and pasturage,
very essential requisites in a stock.
growing community. But to my
experience when l bought my farm
turned out One.third of the purchase
money in stock, and nearly all the
money have mode in this State I've
made out of stock, although the bulk
of my time and labor has been devo.
ted to grain.raising. Had l the
difference between the cost of my
land and his (mine cost me $3.50 per
acre, his probably government price,
1 could erect very comfortable build.
ings. But if a man Is going to write
up his autobiography he had better
choose some other mode of publica.
ton than the columns of his county
paper, such things may not be OF
interest to the general reader. In
our views of this subject there simply
seems to be a distinction without q
difference. He says to make the two
industries a success they must &c
hand in hand, so say We all. He car
| respect n man who differs with him II
actuated by proper motives, / car
respect man who differs with me, nc
matter what his motive may be-
These negative milk and water sort OF
fellows who il you said the moon was
made of green cheese, would say, yes
can have no patience with. Now
if the FREE PRESS will pardon the
frequent use of the pronoun 81" In
this communication it will be consid
cred favor. V.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1881-04-21
The Netc YOrk Chamber Of Com.
nserce on the Consolidation OF
Railroads.

The New York Tribune. of the 9th
inst. says: At the chamber of com.
merce yesterday the report of the
committee on railroad transportation
was read and adopted. The report
concluded with statement that a
great effort is now being made by
persons in the railroad interests to
prove that railroad consolidation,
with all its increase of power in the
hands Of q few men, is in the interest
of commerce, because it reduces the
proportionate expence of operating
these modern highways, and the con-
slant decline in the charges for trans.
formation Of this theory. Your com.
mittee are, of course aware of the
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1881-04-21
Politics la Modern Greece
Harpers Magazine for May.
Athens suffers from an excess of

Harper's Magazine for May.
Athens suffers from an excess of
intellectual activity. Tue city is
oyerstocked with brains. Its hands
are iddiie.~GTeeee has has no great manu-
factories it has no system Of TGG"..@a.ss,.
Among the many failures Of King
Otho's reign, perhaps none was more
injurious than his failure to provide
any means of ready intcrcommunica-
ton between the provinces of Greece.
OF course the topography of Greece
--her mountain ranges and deep.reach.
ing CULTS and bays-renders the task
of bodybuilding difficult one. But
national unity and material prosperity
can not come without good roads. To.
day all Greece has but five miles Of
railroad, and hardly more than fifty
miles of good carriage roads. Find.
ing no outlet in the development of
the country's material resources. all
the energy of the marvellously active
Greek mind has been turned to trade,
to study, and to politics and chiefly
to politics, always passion to the
Athenian. With territory but
three-iifths as great as that OF New
York, with population of nearly two
millions, with universal suffrage, and
with monarchy so limited that the
government is in reality democracy
in the administration of its internal
affairs, the Greek nation OF to-day
deyot IS ten times too much energy
to governing itself. This concentra.
ton of force within narrow limits
begets heat at Athens. Under such
pressure the political friction is some.
thing enormous. Athens supports
from thirty to forty newspapers.
Political clubs are more numerous
than in classic days, and as influential.
Every man of prominence has his
newspaper, his club of personal fol-
lowers, his petty party. When the
death of Delegeorges, ex-Prime Min.
lister, was announced on the street to
a group of Athenian gentlemen with
whom I was talking, the first remark
was, "Ah. now Kurie So-and.So"
manning a politician Of little influencel
twill form a party, will he not q
Room for one more aspirant to Office,
with his organized clique of followers,
was the argument
Salaries for public services are of
course pitifully low. Criticism Of all
official acts, and of every measure