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Towanda daily review. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1879-1921, 1881-12-23

TOWANDA, PA, FRI
Towanda are to be congratulated upon the
selection of a gentleman of the character
ana worth OF MI. COOLBAUGH as their chief
officer for the coming year. WdueWy Re
vieW.
bank is one of the institutions to be add
ed to the business of Sayre in the near future
The scholars of the NJ. f. Sunday School
are to enjoy feast in the church parlors to-
morrow evenn
post office has been chrstened ELMER
in Tioga county, this State, in honor of the
Second Assistant p. NJ. General.
The ground is now thoroughly dampened.
Rain has been falling for SO hours, and there
is no sign of clearing weather yet.
Monday will be observed as a holiday, as
Christmas falls on Sunday. The banks and
other business places will be closed. People
who have paper falling due at the bank on
Monday should attend to it on Saturday.
A misunderstanding having arisen, we are
requested to state that the Christ Church
Sunday School Christmas exercises will in
clude both . tree and feast. The celebra-
ton will be observed Monday afternoon.
The packer of the Neptune" brand of oys-
ters, Mr.. Thomas II. Dorsey, foot of Tenth
street, North River, n Y, writes: had
sprained arm and st. Jacobs Oil was applied.
1t reduced the swelling and eased the pain at
once; proving it Il remedy of rare worth.
CARTER LEE, young cOlO-ed man died at
: O'Clock yesterday morning. CARTER was
the only colored printer in this section. He
was Young man of exemplary habits and
highly esteemed by all who knew him. The
funeral will take place from the colored
church this afternoon. Friends will meet at
his fathers honse at . O'Clock. The deceased
was IS years old.
The President will not for the present
encourage anything like public society
events in Washington, believing that a
proper time should elapse after the dea tn
Of his predecessor before anything Of
that kind is induiged in.
Judge Biddle proposes to put stop to
election frauds in Philadelphia. He has
just sentenced Mouat, charged with tam
pering with returns, to years in prison
and Il $1,000 fine.
SUNDAY SCHOOL The
Sunday School of the Church of the Messiah
Rev. DR.. TAYLOR, Pastor, will celebrate the
Christmas Anniversary in the church audto-
rum. on Saturday evening christmas Eve)
at O'Clock. The formation of notices, re-
citations, singing, and Christmas gifts, will
make up the programme. The public are cor !
daily invited.
large assortment of neat Stationery, Just |
received Jewel Boxes, Work Boxes, Toilet
and Nail sets in plush and leather Goods |
at Whitcomb's Book Store. No trouble to
show goods.
Any industrious, practical farmer, with a
small capital, can hear of an opportunity to
buy farm on terms which will enable him !
to pay for OF out of the profits For particu.
ars enquire at this office.
New Figs, only 10 cents per pound; Mala-
ga Gaapes, 80 cents; Florida Oranges, Lem
ons and French Bananas, direct from Aspin-
wall at TITUS.
Large inv oce of foreign and domestic wines i
and liquors expressly adapted to the holiday
trade, just received at John Sullivan's, No. 4,
Hale's block, Bridge st. dec 19-2w.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1881-02-16
Executive ClemenCY,

INTERESTING STORY OF PRESIDENT I'm.
coins PARDON OF A VERMONT SOLDIER
BOY IN 1852.
A correspondent relates the following
interesting story of the clemency of
Abraham Lincoln: A young man from
Vermont, named William Scott, enlisted
in Company G of he Fifth Regiment
The company was commanded by Captain
Atherton. In September, 1862 Scott was
detailed to do picket duty. The regiment
or company was then at Camp Griffin, in
Virginia. Scott, who WAS only country
boy, was on the outside line, and at II
o'clock, midnight, the officer of the day
made the grand rounds to see that every
thing was right. The officer found Scott
asleep at his post. Scott was not coward.
nor was he lazy. He had been taken from
farm, where he was in the habit of going
to sleep when his DAYS work was done.
He was known rs "Sleepy Blr' in the
company. Scott was court -martialed and
sentenced to be shot. The boys of the
third fourth and fifth Vermont regiments
got up petition and sent it home to be
signed by men who were well acquainted
with Scott, hoping that they might gain
the appreciation of President Lincoln On
account OF the youth of the condemned
soldier the president ntcriered and grant
ed pardon on the day before the exrcu-
tion was to have taken place. Scott WIS
to have been shot at $50 o'clock in the
morning The night before President Lin
coin dispatched courier with the pardon,
and he travelled by way of Chain Bridge.
He arrived at the camp after 'taps" and
the guard would not allow him to pass.
The courier then returned to Washing
ton and reported the facts to the president,
who Immediately started himself to the
camp with the courier. The guard would
not allow the president to pass Chain
Bridge. The guard was informed of the
mission, but he still refused to allow the
president to go inside the picket, even with
the countersgn, until the officer of the
day consented, The president sat in his
carriage until the morning, and then sent
his courier ahead Of him post-haste. The
guard was mounted, the guns loaded, the
men detailed, the coffin prepared and
everything placed in readiness for the ex-
ecution, when white handkerchief was
seen in the distance, and afterward horse
galloping toward the camp. 1t was not
until then that the. men interested in
Scott saw that their petition had been
answered. The presidents carriage was
then seen coming toward the c'mp, AMI
all eyes were turned to look at tho gallop.
ing team. The band struck up fail to
the Chief" and the soldiers gave three
cheers for Father Abraham. The pardon
was read and the execution did not take
place. VIM. Scott was killed at the battle
,of Yorktown, while trying to rescue a
comrade from one of the trenches, and
the last words be spoke were, "God bless
Abe Lincoln, and tell him that l never
died IL coward"
The relater of the above was a member
of Company d, fourth regiment, Vermont,
and was present at the time. and is also
the only representative Of six brothers who
were in the army.-OhiO State Journal
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1881-02-16

A TRUE HOME Many of our young
housekeepers faint and fall by the way
after few months trial, reinquishino
their brightest chances for securing Il true
home, and seek release from all responsi.
bility in boarding house. And why
For the most part because their mothers
have been cruelty kind and indulgent
They permit their daughters girlhood to
slip by with ont accustoming them to any
care or responsibility. They forget that
to make their children useful and helpful
in youth will lay the foundations of more
true happiness and enjoyment than can be
found in a life of Incidence and selfishness.
They forget that there are home lessons
each day that should have equal thought
and attention with those which are enfor.
ced in schools, if they would fit their
daughters for cheerful, intelligent, skillful
home makers. If our girls grow up with
no higher ambition than to pass through
their school education with only just that
amount of knowledge which will be
deemed respectable in fashionable circles,
devoting all their time out of school hours
to street walking and silly gossip, with not
one moment given to domestic duties, who
can wonder that they make unreasonable,
indolent, incompetent housekeepersp Now
and then we find one whose natural good
sense has not been entirely destroyed or
perverted by the unfortunate indulgence
or carelessness of the mother. If such a
one marres, and truly loves her husband,
she will throw off the letters, and have
courage to study the art of housekeeping,
until she becomes an expert in the bust.
ness. If she would do this by quick
observation and thoroughly systematic
management, she will build up a delight
full home, where husband and children
will call her blessed. d.-SeLected.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1881-02-16

CONCERNING BEL. .RooMs.-A physician
was lately called to prescribe for young
lady who lives in one of the most charm.
ing villages in Learnedvile.
Nothing the matter with her," she
declared "nothing but terrible head
aches" Every morning she walked with
headache and it lasted nearly half the
day. 1t had been going on for months
ever since they moved into their new
house. The old doctor tried all the old
remedies and they all failed Riding and
archery were faithfully tested, study and
practice were cheerfuly given up. Moth
ing did any good.
"Will You let me see your bed-room?''
asked the doctor one day, and he was
shown up into the prettiest little nest
imaginable.
Nothing wrong about the ventilation
The windows were high and broad and
left open every night, the patient said.
The bed stood in one corner against the
wall.
How do you sleepP" says the Doctor
"On my right side, at the back of the
bed, with my face to the wall. Lou likes
the front best"
1.-The dickens she doesP' says the
doctor. So do l. win you do me the
favor to wheel the bed into the middle of
the room and sleep so for week2 Then
let me know about the headaches. "
Doctors are so absurd! The middle of
the room indeed And there were the
windows on one side. and the two doors
on the two other sides, and the mantle
with its Macrame lambrequin on the
fourth size. There was no place for the
bed but just where it stood, in the corner.
"Never mind! Sacrifice your lambre-
qun," urged the doctor-"just for week,
you know"
bed moved where it had free air on both
sides, and the headaches disappeared.
1t may be only an exceptionally delicate
system that would be induced 10 actual
headache by breathing all night the re-
tlected air from wall. Yet possibly
some of the morning dullness we know
of may be traceable to like cause. Al
any rate, plenty of breathing space around
a bed can only be an advantage to every
body.
In visiting three or four newly built and
beautiful houses recently, the lack of a
good place for the bed was the most
striking features of the bed rooms. ONE
of these rooms were finished in shining
mahogony, ebony or walnut. Some were
hung with rich modern tapestry. All
were elegant and a few were airy. But
in the most of the best of them, where
was the bed to standp A bay window,
perhaps, would occupy the middle of one
side, another window another. n door
another, II inantlepiece another r.-Sop4y
Winthrop, in Christian Union
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1881-02-16

AN ARGUSENM AGAINST HORSESHOE
ING.-ro Fraser's Magazine for December
Sir George w. Cox contributes an article
in which he estimates that the English
custom of horse-shoeing costs the nation
annually as much as S45,000,000. which
might be saved if the horses we're allowed
to go unshod. He quotes authorities from
Xenophon, who marched his horses un-
shod from Cunaxa over the Armenian
Highlands to the walls of Trebizond, down
to the /" free ancers of the present day;
and contends that it is safer, cheaper, and
better to let horses 60 unshod over the
hardest roads, and especially in the
slippery streets of London. He estimates
that over twelve million dollars would be
saved in farrers' bills alone; and he cal
culates further that the working life of
horse would be doubled by the change, so
that horse which is now worn out at
twelve years would live to twenty-six.
1t is to be feared that the noble author,
like other people addicted to hobby-rlding,
is given to exaggeration.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1881-02-16
Al the castle of simonetta, noblemsn's

Al the castle of Simonetta, a noblemsn's
seat. about twenty miles from Milan. a
surprising echo Is produced between the
two wings of the building. The report of
pistol is repeated by this echo sixty
times; and Addison, who visited the place
on a somewhat foggy day, when she air
ed ffty-six repetiGons. At first they were
very quick. but the intervals were greater
in proportion as the sound decayed. 1t is
asserted that the sound Of one musical in
strument in this place resembles q great
number Of instruments playing in concert.
The echo 10 occssioned by the existence Of
two parallel walls Of considerable length.
between which the wave of sound is re-
verbsratsd from one 10 the other until Il is
entirely spent.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1881-02-16
The Steamship Great Eastern

The project Of using the Great Eastern
for the transportation of cattle from Amer
lea has, it seems, been abandoned. To
what purpose, actual or intended, she will
he turned next, it would be hard to say.
She is indeed an i'll fated vessel-she has
been unfortunate from the very start, and
her history ls curious combination and
continuation of mishsps and disasters.
Twenty-eight years ago an eastern steam
navigation company was formed in Eu-
gland to maintain an ocean trade 10 the
east round the Cape of Good Hope. The
next year the directors decided that such
trade would not pay, owing to tho ex-
pense of supporting coaling stations along
the route, unless the ship could carry coal
enough for the round trip. Arrangements
were accordingly made to build vessel
which would transport 1000 passengers.
5000 tons of merchandise. an $4,000
tons of coal for fuel The result. with
many changes in the original plan, was
the Great Eastern. She was some years
building, and WIS finally ready to launch
in November, 1857. To avoid tho danger
OF Ia nchng so long vessel stern fore
most, she was constructed with the broad
side toward the river, on q timber founda-
ton of vast strength, with slopiug rail
down to the water. The ship was too heavy
or the rails too gradual. and various efforts
were made and $500. 900 or 800, 900 spent
before she was got of. After completion
it was uncertain what would come of the
trade to and from Australia; consequently
it was determined to send her thither on
n trial voyage. The attempt proved very
unfortunate. She left tho Thames Sept
8, 1859, but aD explosion occurred off
Hastings, killing and wounding number
of persons. and bringing the proposed
trip suddenly to an end at Weymouth.
After costly repairs, bitter reoriminstions,
various law suits, and the death of her
planner, Brunei, she again set sail for this
port in June, 1860, and reached here in
eleven days. For nearly twelvemonth
she piled between England and the United
States, but steadily lost money, not
making sufficient, in fact, to pay current
expenses and make the constantly needed
repairs. In December. 1861, when there
was some prospect of trouble between
this nation and Britain, the Great Eastern
carried some 2000 troops from England
to Canadi with II degree of comfort never
before experienced by 50 large a body of
men. After that the company did not
know what to do with her, and she might
have rotted at her moorings had she not
been wanted to lay the American cable in
1864. She has since been repeatedly
employed for the same purpose. and
always with satisfaction. Nevertheless,
she has proved very expensive luxury.
She has cost, it is said, to date, including
NUM- berless repairs, some 1926, 900, 900, and
has never returned one-quarter that sum-
She has gained such name for ill-luck-
all sailors are supersttious-that it has
always been hard to find seamen willing
to ship on her. She has ruined more than
Il dozen men, and she may last long
enough to ruin dozen more IN. 7.
Times.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1881-02-16

Who IS SHEi-There is lady living in
q little four roomed cottage in the environs
of Boston whose name s we'll known to
literary people, writes a correspondent OF
Lippincott's. She depends wholly upon
her own exertions for the support of her
self and children, and does all her own
housework, yet her cottage is the focus of
the be st society of the locality. A gentle.
man calling there recently was received
at the door by daughter Of the lady, who
told him her mother was too bnsy to be
called, but that no could see her in the
kitchen If he pleased, and he followed her
to that room. The lady greeted him with.
out the slightest embarrassment, though
she had on big apron and her sleeves
we're pinned back to her shoulders. She
was cutting pumpkin into strips for pies,
and there sat p venerable gentleman grave
ly pairing the strips to the accompaniment
Of brilliant conversation. l was asked to
guess who this gentleman was. and after
several fruitless attempts was told that it
was the poet Longfellow. While the
pumpkin pairing was in process another
distinguished poet called. and he also
insisted upon being impressed into the
service. 1t was dreary day outside. and
no one cared to leave the pleasant cottage.
so they all stayed to lunch, one OF the pies
forming the piece de resistance of the oe-
casion.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1881-02-16

BLUNT BUT TRUE.-There is said to be u
Young man in the Missouri penitentiary
whose parents at their death left him $780,
900. There is where his parents made a
fatal mistake. If they had taken the pre-
caution to invest the amount in small
dog, and shot him, then had simply left
the young man a jack plane or wood
saw, with the printed Instructions how to
use it, the chances are that, instead of be-
ing in the pententiary, he would to day
have peen gradually but surely working
his way up to handsome competency and
an honorable old age, But ever since the
days of Adam and Eve, parents have made
it point to toll and struggle all their lives
in order to realize sufficient SUM of
money TO purchase when they are dead
and gone, their sons each a first-class
through ticket to destruction, and it is not
much to be wondered at that SO many of
their sons are in vice and idleness, rs too
many of them often are, have no higher
ambition than to invest their inheritance
in just that sort of transportation.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1881-02-16

A CAT PUZZLE. John take this slate,
you rascal, and work out this sum. If a
cat falls into we'll sixty feet deep. and
craw,s out six feet each day, falling back
eight feet every night, how much time
would it require for the cat to get out of
the welp"
John set to ciphering and covered both
sides of his slate with figures; then plac-
ing one edge of the slate on his knees,
and resting his head on the other, he
gazed into vacancy.
well, John, how about the cate'
Father. amt got any more room on
my slate, but If had An other square, I'd
have that cat in China in three minulss. p"
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1881-02-16
DEAFNESS In THE AaKD.-Nokhinp |.

DEAFNESS IN THE Acknowledging is
more common than to hear old people
utter querulous complaints with regard to
their increasing deafness but those who
do so are not perhaps aware that this in
frmity is the result Of an express and
wise arrapgemest OF Providence in con-
structing the human body. The gradual
loss Of hearing is effected for the best
purpose,it being intended to give ease and
quietude to the decline of life, when any
noise or sounds from without would but
discompose the enfeebled mind and pre-
vent peaceful meditation. Indeed the
gradual withdraw of all the senses and
tho decay of the frame, in old age have
been wisely ordained in order to wean
the human mind from the concerns and
pleasures of the world. and to induce n
longing for perfect state of existence.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1881-02-16
A promising youth of five rather mature

A promising youth of five rather mature
summers was saying his prayers. The
little fellow had set up beyond his bed
hour to see procession, with its flaming
torches AID loud huzSas, 20 by, It was
his custom to say his little prayer. snow
lay me down to Sleep" and then to add
God bless mamma and papa" etc. On
this particular evening bis ears and heart
were full OF what he bad seen and heard ,
but he managed to get through with Nov
lay me- with perfect propriety. Having
omitted the rest of the prayer, bis mother
said chidingly, willie, haven't you for
got somethingp' "Qb, yes,. mamma, -
he replied. Then bsuding his bead IN
rsverential attitude. he cried out, "AsSsah
for Godl Amen"
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1881-02-16
THE INCOME OF THE QUEEN AND OTHER

THE INCOME OF THE QUEEN AND OTHER
MEMBERS OE THE BRITISH ROYAL FAMILY.
In reply to a correspondent who asks,
"What is the income of the queen OF
England, and also that of other members
of the royal familyP" the Montreal Star
says The lords of the treasury are direct
ed by statute to pay yearly 100000 into
her maiesty's prvy purse; to set aside
G23l 900 for the salaries of the royal
household; fl4, ,240 for retiring allowances
and pensions to servants, and El3,200 for
royal bounty, aims and special services
This leaves an unappropriated surplus of
E36, 200, which may be applied in aid of
the general expenditure of her majesty's
court. 1t is provided that whenever the
civil list of charges in any year exceed the
total sum of f400,000. an account of the
expenditure with full particulars shall be
laid before parliment within 80 days. The
queen has also paid to her the revenues of
the duchy of Lancaster, which in the year
1873 amounted to f76 675 The salaries,
charities. law charges, etc, amounted to
f30,993, leaving balance of f44,000.
The heir apparent of the crown has settled
on him an annuity of G40,000. The prince
Of Wales has besides this the revenues of
the duchv OF Cornwall, which in the year
1873 amounted to E93,S 1856. Out of this
the prince received f65,83l. The rest of
the royal family receive annually Ella
600.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1881-02-16

Oregon has hit upon new expedient to
keep her citizens sober. Every man who
drinks is required to take license costing
two dollars year. Unless armed with
this document he cannot get his bitters at
any hotel or saloon, for it is penal offence
for the proprietors of these establishments
to sell to any person without license.
Every six months the names of the persons
who take ont these licenses are to be pub
lishsd In the local papers. so that tho
public may know who and who arc no
authorized TO drink.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1881-02-16

4 japanese audience when they wish to
express disapprovsl Of 9 bad play, do not
hiss or boot, or mako any hidsous or in
convenient noise, they merely rise and
turn their backs TO the stage. upon which
the cursAin immediately dsscsads, In
this country the nnals portion Of the audi.
snoe turn their backs 70 che stage imnedi.
Atsly aAsy the snrtsin assends, mot that
they Hee the rIsy less, but ,hat thsy Hike
elsves 9cra.-~EAkalelRA1a Asbs.