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The semi-weekly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1879-1882, 1881-08-11


Topuoody made up his mind tha'
be was Iot gong to be bossed any
longer by his ~ifg., SO hen he went
home at noon he ca led cut imperious-
y: "Mis Topoo,dy, Mrs. Tnpnaod,~
Mrs. t. came ut Of the kitchen
with drop of sweat ca the end Of
her nose, dishrag tied around her
bead, aud rolliug piu il her hand
"Well SIR she said. ~hat'll you
nave 7" Tcpnoody staggered. but
braced up. "Mrs. Top cody, want
you to understand, MADAM" and he
tapped his breast dramatically am
engineer Of this establishment" "Oh,
you are, are you? swell Topnoody, l
want you to understand that I"-and
she looked dangerous-"am the boiler
that will blow up and sling the engi-
neer clear over into the next county.
Do you hear the steam escaping, Top.
uoody?" Topnoody heard it, and he
meckly inquired if there was any as
sistauce be could render in the house.
work.
The semi-weekly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1879-1882, 1881-08-11

A LEXANDER F. BAILLIEs
"A MARBLE WORKS..
Water street, near Regan's hotel, Mount Holly
MI. Aug.4, T9-1T
The semi-weekly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1879-1882, 1881-08-11
what dy'd want to yell for Z" h.

what dy'd want to yell for p he
shrieked. Couldn't yc keep your
measly mouth shut! What dye
think y'are, anyhow fog horn 7
bod CAST the measly bicycle !" aud
Mr. Spoopendyke bit it a kick that
folded it no like a bolt of muslin.
''Never mind my dear" counseIed
Mrs. Spoopendyke, "I'm afraid the
exercise was too violent anyway, and
I'm rather glad you broke it."
II s'pose SC, (" snortee Mr.. Spoop-
dyke There's sixty dollars gone"
"Don't worry love, I'll GO without
the carpet aud curtains, and the paint
will do well enough in the kitchen.
Let me rub you with arnica."
But Mr.. Spoopendyke was too
deeply grieved by his wife's conduct
to accept any Office at her hands, pre-
ferring to punish her by lettisg his
wounds smart rather than to get well
and thereby relieve her Of any anx-
iety she brought on herself by acting
SO ou'rsyeously uuder the rircum-
stances.
The semi-weekly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1879-1882, 1881-08-11

New because it is only within the last
few years that it has been improved and
brought within the reach of every one :
old in principal because the first inven.
ton was made and the frat patent taken
out nearly twenty years ago. and cases
made at that time and worn ever since,
are nearly as good as new. Read the fol-
lowing which is only one Of many hun
dreds, your jewellers can tell Of similar
ones:
The semi-weekly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1879-1882, 1881-08-11
A NEW KIND OF WATCH CASE.

I'm
Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1881-06-18

wick who helped my father 10
bury the treasure; second, wheth-
the mine found by Jack was not
actually the buried money, which
h e had evidently found through
"a irections given by his father be-
fore dying. The third, / want to
find the treasure before | die, and
put it in circulation; SO that my
fathers spirit may rest in peace.
My friend. ! bid you goodbye
here; j GO in search of the treas
ure. FAREWELL
He sadly turned away, and our
friend = atched his retreating
steps until ne was lost amid the
huge boulders that covered the
mountain side at the mouth of the
grand old Narrows, and he still
doubtless hunting for the buried
treasure in hopes of being able to
set his farther's spirit free.
Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1881-06-18
Typical American Cities.

New Orleans is one of two be-
wildering cities to Northern
man, the other being San Fran
cisco. Add New York to this list
and there are three marvellous
cities, equally unlike, equally
orig inal. developed by the same
practical, energetic quality of
brain upon strong, dissimilar nat
ural conditions. The American
city builder is not rigid like an
Englishman, and he propels his
forces through forms, traditions
and temperaments he finds on the
spot, careful to avoid bigotry and
glad to accede to what is pretty,
approved or spontaneous.
In San Francisco ne found Mex
leans and Asiatics, and borrowed
from both, employed both, kept
his herds of sheep and cattle in
their way, fell into good features
of their gardening, sewing and
cooking and but TOR political OPP
position, chiefly from the Irish,
would have gone further toward
Asiatic and Polynesian civiliza-
ton. The San Francisco expert
ment is only about thirty years
old; meeting and defeating slavery
on the threshold of the American
occupation, the result is city of
300, 900 people, now penitent and
reviving under other than specu-
lative and millionaire conditions.
The occupation Of New Orleans
by the Americans is nearly eighty
years old; it is, perhaps, a city Of
200 900 people, thrown back bv an
industrial and humanitarian rev.
olution for the past twenty years,
so that what we see of it represents
only sixty years of continuous
American development. No great
building, no special improvement,
except the jetties ofthe Mississippi
and the completion of the rail-
ways, has been added to New Or
leans since the war. Stupendous
social changes have occurred, but
they are hardly noticed by the
physical eye, and to a certain ex-
tent they have been retarding
forces up to this time, like any
radical reformation, which always
requires q series of funerals to fol-
low.it, burying the reactionaries,
the Bourbons and the broken
hearted.
Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1881-06-18

FOR THE PURCHASE or TRIPLE
PLATED SPOONS AND FORKS.
Persons having occasion to purchase
silver. plated spoons or forks, will do well
to observe the following
EXTRA pLATE is Nor TRIPLR FLATS.
Triple-plated Spoons and Forks have
the following Eumbers stamped on the
back-Teaspoons, No. 6; Dessert Spoons
and Forks, No, .; Tablespoons and Forks,
No. IL. All goods not having these mum.
bers stamped on the back of each spoon
and fork are not triple plated, but of in
ferior quality. Remember these numbers
and you cannot be deceived. Cut this out
and take il along with you when you so
to purchase.
The best assortment of all qualities can
be found at w. l.. JONES'
iebl4-tf. Next to Everett House.
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Forgetting Friendship.

There are men ard women in
public life whose pathway is
marked by the remains" of
Whilom friends whom they have
squeezed dry and dropped like so
many sucked oranges. In politics
it is said of such man that he
has kicked down the ladder by
which he climbed. In literary or
other walks the human sponge of
ten swells up with the thought
that he has "outgrown" his hum
bic friends of other days. In pri-
waite life the self-conscious soul
contents itself with becoming
more and more the centre of its
little circumference, taking rome
within lis orbit who will not con-
sent to revolve around it and emit
light and warmth for its enjoy
ment. There have been many
and noble definitions of what a
friend is. People Of real indiyid-
uality, strength and sensiliveness
doubtless have fewer real friends
than they are apt TO think. unless
they have been cherishiBg, uncon-
sciously, low Ideals. But what
ever friend may not be, certain
~ that sweet and noble term is
rot unmerited by one who, how
ever generous he may be in other
directions, is selfish as himself.
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He Has Given Up That
Trick.

"You see me load this musket
with powder and ball." said a
Spanish juggler to an audience at
Summit, Plumas county, Cal. He
then put the musket in the hands
of Pat Burns of Reno, who works
on Cunningham's ranch, in that
neighborhood. Now" said the
juggler, extending his right arm,
when i count three, fire at my
hand. and | will catch the bullet. !"
Pat fred at the word, and with
such quickness and good aim that
the ball passed through the Span
iard's wrist. The performer ran
bowling through the audience and
out OF the hall. This ended the
performance. When It. V. Julien
came by there the Spaniard's
wound was doing well, but ht
said, II no play that trick any
more"
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Why Eve Did Not Keep "a
Hired Girl.

A lady writer furnishes some OF
the reasons why Eve did not keep
a hired girl. She says
There has been great deal
said about the faults of women,
and why they need so much wait
ing on. Some one Ia man of
course) has the presumption TO
ask, why, when Eve was manu-
fac'ured of spare-rib, servant
was not made to wait upon her p
She didn't need any. A bright
writer has said, Adam never
came home whining to Eve with
ragged stocking to be darned,
buttons 10 be sewed on, gloves to
be mended right away-quick-
now = Because he never read the
newspapers till the sun went
down behind the palm tree, and
he, stretching himself, yawned
out, Isn't supper ready, my
dear" Not he. lie made the fire
and hung the kettle over II him.
self. we'll venture, and pulled the
radishes, peeled the Potatoes, and
did everything he ought to do.
He MIXED the cows, fed the chick
ems, looked after the pigs himself,
and never brought half a dozen
friends TO dinner when Eve hadn't
any fresh pomgranates. He never
stayed out till III o'clock at night,
and then seolded because poor Eve
was sitting up and crying, inside
the gates. He never loafed around
the corner groceries while Eve
was at home rocking Gains cradle.
He did not call Eve up from the
cellar to get his slippers aud put
them in the corner where he had
left them. Not he. When he
took them off he put them under
the fig tree, beside his Sunday
boots In short. ne did not think
she was especially created TO wait
on him, and wasn't under the i'm
preston that it degraded man to
tighten a wife's cares little.
That's the reason Eve did not need
a hired girl, and with it was the
reason her descendants did,
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TO THE PUBLIC.

Carriages, Bus gies, Wagons
&C., and having arranged to manufacture
at Hagerstown, Nd, in connection with
my factory at Martnsburg, W. Va, I
will sell my work as cheap as it can be
purchased elsewhere.
Those desiring Carriages Of any style
will do well to call and see my stock be-
fore purchasing, as it is no trouble to
show work.
Ialways keep o large stock, which I
will sell cheap for cash, or exchange for
OLD CARRIAGES, BUGGIES. &c, or
HORSES and other LIVE STOCK.
All my work warranted, and prices
down to suit the hard times and scarcity
of money. A call is all that ! desire to
convince my patrons that | mean to do
business.
prefer to sell for cash, but viii make
time sales TO responsible parties.
i have now on hand large lot 0
SECOND HAND WORK, including Fam
lily Carriages, Buggies and Spring
Wagons; a lot Of OLD WHEELS, &c.
Also a lot Of secondhand HARNESS,
PLOWS and HARR0WS, all of which
will sell at prices defying competition.
w F. GEY BR,
WEST BURKE STREET,
Martinsburg, West Va.
PoToMAc ST., HAeERsTowv,
nv 1913
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Don't Shuttle off this Mortal
Coil Untimely by neglecting a
cough, aunihilate Consumption in
his homage; if he is allowed to get
his growth, your life may be the
penalty. Avoid rapid transit TO
eternity by using early and often
the celebrated, pure and prompt
pul monte, DR. Thomas Eclectric
Oil. For sale by L, c. Williams,
Jr., d Bro, druggists.
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Novel Occupations.

There are men in Paris who 60
from hospital to hospital, collect
ing the linseed plasters that have
served the turn of doctor and pa
tient, afterward pressing the oil
from the linseed and disposing of
the linen, after bleaching it, to the
paper-makers. Others make d
a couple Of francs day by collect
ing old cords, which being cleaned
and pared fetch, it is said, half a
franc per hundred. A lady resi-
dent OF the Faubourg Saint Ger
main is credited with earning a
good income by Matching rcd,
brown and black ants for peasant
preserver5. One Partisan, accord
ing to the Continental Gazette, gets
his living by breeding naggots
out OF the foul meats he buys of
the chiffoniers, and fattening them
up in tin boxes. Another breeds
maggots for the special behoof of
nightengales, aud a third mer-
chant d'asticots boasts Of selling
between thirty and forty millions
of worms every season for pisea-
torial purposes. He owns a great
pit at Montmartre, wherein he
keeps his store. Every day his
scouts bring him fresh STOCK, for
which he pays them from five TO
ten pence per pound according to
quality; reseling them to anglers
at just double these rates; and
clearing thereby something over
81 500 year.
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No Hospital Needed.

No palatial hospital needed for
Hop Bitters patients, nor large
salaried talented buffers to tell
what Hop Bitters will do or cure,
as they tell their own story by
their certain and absolute cures at
honey y, Mdepeadent.
Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1881-06-18

a girl in Lowell, Mass can't
sing a song without weeping. The
moment she opens her mouth for
the exit OF the sweet notes the wa.
ter begins to flow, and she has
either to stop singing or have
eave-troughs constructed around
her neck. The singing of some
young women brings tears to the
eyes OF the listeners instead.
Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1881-06-18

Member of this Department re-
lieved Of Rheumatism by the use
Of St, Oil, says Gen. w. Walling
Esq superintendent Police New
YORK, in one of our exchanges
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Corns Can be Cured.

Why suiIor with corns when Pei.
Corn Solvent is SURE cure. Price 26
cents bottle. 1t is warranted to cure
or the money will be refunded. For
sale by GETTINGER & HoKE,
Agents for the manufacturer.
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/ have received case of Malaga
Hats, for Men and Boys-eall AMI see
them, at II. N. DEATRlCK'S.
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Ladies, and all who lead seden-
airy lives should use DIR. NET
TAUR's HEADACHE AND DYsPEP-
STA PILLS. Price % cents. For
sale at all Drug Stores,
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None but God and the poor
know what the poor do for each
other.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1881-05-05
BELFAST MAINE, THURSDAY, MAY 5, 1881.

was not a person Of any literary preten-
sion in town except the minister and doc
tor. This state Of things had its advan-
taGes, because it is pleasant to be Caesar
even in a country village. Florence and
| wrote comedy for the sons of temper
ance, and performed it with great ap-
pause. | suppose Shakespeare went to
his grave without such recognition as we
received. Florence sang in the choir so
sWeetly that several people who had
hardly been to church twice year before
began to 90 regularly. We formed a
reading club of all the young people who
showed q spark Of promise, and we had q
delightful time, and the modest con
sclousness that we were great benetactors
Of our race.
once a year We put on our best clothes
and went to the city for a week, and went
TO the theatre, opera, concerts, and art
galleries, and came home tired and happy,
and convinced that tin peddling was a far
healthier and happier life than it was pos
sible to lead in the midst Of such ettetc
civilizations.
Let me be clearly understood. did
not continue the business when had laid
aside enough money to live upon without
1t. Meantime | can truly say | enjoyed
1t thousand times better than | ever did
the law and to me at least it was a hun
dred times more lucrative, and | bless
the day when my clever wife discovered
4 sphere in which all cur odds and ends
Of talent would be available. Harper's
BaIar
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1881-05-05
The Life Saving Service.

Mr. Sumner kimball, general superintendent Of
the life saving service has made very interesting
report showing the amount and character Of the
work done in his department for the fiscal year
which ended June 30, 1880 During that time
there 300 disasters to vessels within reach of
some of the l19 life saving stations established
along the lake and ocean coasts 9S9 persons
were upon these vessels and their lives were in
peril, but only nine perished The vessels and
cargoes endangered were valued at So S2l 10S but
the total loss but 81 l9l sol Only sixty
seven vessels were total loss. OF the vessels
saved from Impending danger and probably from
complete ruin l2S were ploted out of danger or
hove OF when they were stranded There We're
more disasters during the year than during any
previous year since the establishment of the ser
vice, but the loss of life was less than in any pre-
vlous year since 1871, when the stations were first
provided with life saving apparatus l0ol0 lives,
and goods valued at 81, ,2l3 have been saved
by the crews in the past nine years Several
modest appeals for increased aid from the govern
ment are made by Superintendent kimba in be
half OF his department, and thrilling accounts Of
the chief disasters of the service by men who wit
messed them.
1t is frequently said that the federal tonnage tax
on shipping bears equally Oh American and foreign
shipping. This is not so; the tax is levied on the
registered tonnage; that in foreign ships is net
e. storage room for supplies cabin and engine
room being deducted, while the registered ton
mage of American ships is gross, l. e. no such
deductions are made, and to Just such extent as
this discrimination is made, American ships in the
foreign trade are at a disadvantage. Boston
Com Bulletin
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1881-05-05
The Seed Bee.


From our Buebsport Correspondent
Your correspondent and wife were in
yited to Il Seed Bee. 1t was in the
Greenhouse of +. II. Moses. (At this
time in the year large quantities of seeds
are put into packages, labeled, etc, ready
for customers.l We went, - found Il
dozen or more Of pleasant faces and will
ing hands seated at different tables. We
were soon instructed in our work and
then commenced the opening and puck
ering, the dipping and measuring. the
pouring and closing, licking and sticking,
writing and numbering, packing, etc
Sandwiched between these were a few
easy Jokes, witty sayings and ghostly re-
minders, all of which made the time pass
pleasantly till we had accomplished our
work. Qt was not decided who was the
seeiies looking fellow therc.) We We're
then submissiyely led to the residence of
Mr.. Moses. We had enjoyed the seed
time exceedingly, but the seed had in
some mysterious way borne fruit, and we
were invited to partake. We know OF no
one who declined the Invitations The
repast was such Il one as only Mr. NJ
himself could give, and was enjoyed by
all
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1881-05-05
The Sister Months.
hen April steps aside for May

When April steps aside for May.
Like diamonds all the rain drops glsten:
Fresh violets open every day
To some new bird each hour we listen
The children with the streamles sing
When April stops at last her weeping
And every happy growing thing
Laughs like babe just reused from sleeping.
Yet April waters year by year,
For laggard May her thirsty flowers;
And May, in gold Of sunbeams clear,
Pays April for her silvery showers.
All flowers of spring are not Mays own.
The crocus cannot often kiss her;
The snowdrop, ere she comes, has flown
The earliest violets always miss her
Nor does May claim the whole of spring;
She leaves to April blossoms tender,
That closely to the warm turf cling,
Or swing from tree boughs, high and slender.
And May flowers bloom before May comes
To cheer a little Aprirs sadness;
The peach bud glows, the wild bee huns,
And wind flowers wave in graceful gladness
They are two sisters, side by side
Sharing the changes of the weather
Playing at petty seek and hide
SO far apart. so close together.
April and May one moment meet
But farewell signs their greetings smother;
And breezes tell, and birds repeat,
How May and April love each other.
Lucy Larcom. in 81. Nicholas for May, 1881.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1881-05-05

Boston. WEDNESDAY, April y.
Amount of stock at market: Cattle 1926; sheel
ami lambs, 400; swine, 1874 veal, I30: number OF
western cattle, 31Gj; eastern cattle l30; mch cows
and northern cattle, lG1.
Prices of beef cattle t. 100 ib live weight cXtr:
quality, So 2 at 5 first, 81 % az 90; second s.
0O45 %: third, 81 2J4l G2l. poorest grade o
coarse oxen, bulls. etc, 50 IL = al l219.
45iac " tb; Country Hides, g. y III; Country Tai
low A., a4lect y III; Calf skins, u 2c Y Ii: Shee,
Skins,5 j0a2 p each: Lamb Skins, 81 % - each
Working ONen-We quote sales in full;
pairs girth f., inches, live weight 2150 b, $l7
pair grth #, inches, live weight $3.50 ib, $l50
pair grth ft, inches, live weight 300 ib, $40
pair grth it., inches, live weight 3200 ID, Sl65
pair grth it, inches, live weight 2100 t, $ll
pair grth tt, inches, live weight 5000 tb, $I75
Mich Cows-EXra, 5000: ordinary, S20d4J
sprinsers, Sls4 per head. We quote sales of
milch cow part Jersey, SG6 milch cows, 80 each
| COW and calf, So; > new milch cows, S4j each;
spIingers for S2lJ; cows and calves, Sl25; Dur
ham cow, $50; COW and calf, $40 30.
SWine-PriceS for fat hogs have advanced during
the past week, the best costing - F III. Wequot,
prices 81. a7i4 y III live weight spring pigs hav,
been in fair demand at prices ranging from 81 30
s. % v head shoats from to sc " IL live weight
Sheep and Lambs-Those from the West cos
landed at Brighton, from 81 to &c. " b for sheep
and to Sc. y III for lambs.
Store Cattle-There were a few brought in from
Maine We quote sales of 6 >: year old steers at S3t
" head; 2-year Old heiferS at SIS t. head. Blu
little call for stores.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1881-05-05
To Keep the Blood Pure

is the principal end of inventions and discoveries
in medicine. To this object probably has
contributed more signay than DR.. David kenne
dy, Of Rondout n. Y, in the production of med
icine which has become famous under the title of
the "Fayorite Remedy" 1t removes all Impurities
of the Blood, regulates the disordered Liver and
Kidneys, cures Constipation, Dyspepsia and all
diseases and weaknesses peculiar to females
Sold by your druggist 81 90 a bottle
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1881-05-05
VOLUME So.

farmer here is looked upon as so salts
| factory in every point of view, that the
| lesson taught 10y us is engaging the minds
| of some of the most thoughtful states
men and pubicists of the old world. 1t
| has been discovered that the American
system Of holding, for instance, is
| the foundation OF great popular content,
and accompanied as it is 10y great social
and civil opportunities surrounded as it
| is by the free institutions of our land, at
| tended as it is by the schOOl-hOuse and
| the meeting house, and by the constant
call to public service which leaves but
few exempt among Us, it constitutes the
| foundation on which rests great mental
activity. great dignity Of character, great
| enterprise and ambition. To the prac-
teal work Of the agricultural community
| here, widespread disaster. moreover, is
almost unknown. The local damage of
a drought or a flood is not. indeed. un-
| usual. but the extent of our territory is
| such, the diVersitieS of our soil and eli
mate are SO great, that the disasters seem
to be circumSCribed and accidental, while
the prosperity is widespread and con
Stant. With landed possessions which
are obliged to bear the burthcns of heavy
| taxation, with the wages Of labor vastly
! greater than in any of the countries OF
| Europe, with the personal requirements
OF the farmer and his family increased by
social obligations, and the natural de
mands Of a free and responsible people,
we have been able to compete in the
grain markets of the world with those
who in some instances are furnished with