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The state journal., 1884-03-08
FORTY-EIGHTH CONGRESS.
Senate.


WASHINGTON, March Elm the U. s.
Senate yesterday Mr.. Garland, from the
Judiciary Committee, reported bill pro
viding for the collection Of statistics
touching marriage and divorce. A bill
was passed extending the limits of the
Yellowstone Park It will add about
1000 square miles to the 5000 already
embraced within the Parks limits. The
Pendleton bill, reported from the Com
mittee on Foreign Relations, providing
for the exercise of the jurisdiction con
ferred upon the United States in places
outside their dominion, was taken up. 1t
provides, among other things, for the es-
adjustment of a district court of the
United States in China and one in
Japan, the court in China to have
two judges, that in Japan to
have one judge; these three judges when
sitting together in China to constitute a
Court Of Appeal, and to be known as the
Supreme Court of the United States for
China, and when sitting together in Japan,
to be known as the Supreme Court of the
United States for Japan. Pending debate
on the bill, message was received from
the House announcing its agreement to
the Senate joint resolution appropriating
$40, 900 for the Senate contingent fund.
On the reading Of the message it was
found that concurrence of the House had
been given, coupled with a proviso that
the money should be used for no investi-
CATION other than such as had already
been ordered. Mr.. Butler and others,
on hearing this condition, at once objected
to the present consideration of the subject,
and it went over. Mr.. Butler said the
condition was one which the House had
no right to make. Adjourned.
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The Wonderful
r ESTORER
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Use Joice's Restorer.
When the Hair begins to fade
Use Joice's Restorer.
When the Hair grows gray
Use .JOice's Restorpr

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Use Joice's Restorer.
1t will Restore the Hair to its
natural color.
1t will Impart to the Hair life,
strength and beauty.
1t will arrest falling Hair and give
health to the scalp.
And as a dressing nothing can be
more beautiful and agreeable. 1t is
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Hair soft, plant and lifelike 1t also
serves to give the Hair that peculiar
richness and color which is always so
essential to a complete toilet. Re-
member this preparation is not dye.
Remember it contains no impurities.
This also remember, all who have
used it are loud in its praise. Every
bottle guaranteed to restore the Hair
to the full natural shade. To the Joy
and satisfaction of all who use it. See
testimonials.
For sale at Dale 81 Hart's, Mrs. III.
Z Joices Hair Store, lis South Duke
street, also John Il. Joice's Shaving
Saloon, Market street, York, Pa.
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OIL STRUCK IN IOWA.

CHICAGO, March GA Nmton, Iowa,
special says: The workmen who have
been boring here for petroleum for the
past month struck oil yesterday in paying
quantities. The fact causes much excite
ment
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HARRY PACKERS RRIDE.

A Young WOman's Sudden Transition
from Poverty to Affluence.
Correspondence Pittsburg Post
The recent death of Harry Packer re-
wives the memory of his good father,
Judge Asa Packer, the simplicity of his
life, the admirable ways in which he trod
and his ever-to-b remembered liberality.
Both the Packer boys, Robert and Harry,
were treated like equals by their father
and mother In the little village where
this good old man lived there was q sum-
mer hotel, which was patroniZed cOnsid-
erably during the season, young Harry
Packer often taking his meals there. A
young girl named Lockwood the daugh-
ter Of respectable citizen living near the
village came in to assist waiting on the
table.
The frequency of Harry Packer s
meals at the hotel attracted some atten-
ton, and his brother Robert, or 'Bob, "
as he was familiarity and affectionately
called by almost all who ever knew him,
said one day before the father and
Harry at the breakfast table,
that Harry was sweet on a little girl
down at the hotel, and that was the
reason he Gid not come home to
his means regularly. Harry colored up
little, and after they had finished their
breakfast the old Judge seated himself on
the front porch, which OverloOks Mauch
Chunk, and gives such magnificent
view Of the Lehigh Valley, the moving
boats and trains, which his own industry
had created, and brought together, the
old gentleman said Harry who is this
girl Robert refers tor
Miss Lockwood, father, the daughter
Of a man you know very we'll.
fare you going to marry her Harry p
said the Judge.
II have some notion Oft, father" said
Harry.
"Wcll, wait till | go down and see
her, said the Judge, and picking up his
old white hat and cane, the Judge quietly
ambled down 10 the hotel and asked for
Miss Lockwood. She ipnOcently came in
to the office of the hotel, with her dining
room apron on, and seated herself beside
the Judge. Just what he said to her, or she
to him, will never be exactly known I'M
less She tells it, but when the Judge came
out he was smiling and appeared
mighty well pleased. He went home
and found Harry still sitting on the porch
where he had left him. By this time the
Judges face had resumed its usual grave
but kind expression "Well, Harry, he
said, that is a very nice girl down there,
but she has no money. We must raise
her some. ! will give some, mother will
give some, Robert will give some, and
your sisters, Mary and Mrs. Linderman,
will each give some, and guess she will
feel more independent in getting mar
ricd. "
The old Judge put down his memo
randa for fifty thousand dollars, the
mother and the others for twenty five
thousand each, and this one hundred and
fifty thousand dollars was placed in the
bank to the exclusive and immediate
credit Of Miss Lockwood; the engagement
was announced, the wedding day fixed,
the marriage took place, and Harry
Packer got the girl lie liked.
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PRESIDENT Arthur's little daughter
Nellie is ten years old. She is dressed
very simply, and she is attended by a
stout, capable Irish girl
THE only candidates to be voted for on
the state Ticket in New York this year are
the nominees for two appeal judgeships.
The Utica Herald suggests, therefore, that
one Republican state Convention is ample
to nerfOrm all the work
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GENERAL INTELLIGENCE.
HAPPENINGS ALL OVER THIS BROAD
LAND.

Democratic Opposition to Morrison s
Tariff Reduction Scheme-PrOpOsed
funnel Under Capitol Park-COn-
Observation-Disclosures State Dinner
Labor Matters-Other News.
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KANSAS GROWING LETTER.
Tho Republican Majority for Congress
G.OOO.

WASHINGTON, March G.-Representa-
tive Ryan, Of Kansas, received dispatch
to-day placing Funston's majority at 6,
00O The Republican candidate carried
every county in the district, which Mr.
Ryan says was never done before. X
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POSTAL CHANGES

WASHINGTON, March 6. Postal changes
II Pennsylvania were announced yester-
Say as follows Postotlice established at
Nheelock, Erie county. Postmasters
commissioned ai Shcm Spigelmyer, Antes
or;; benjamin f. Ritter, BalliettvilIe;
T l1oT'S 4 4 Donald, Dawson; Elizabeth M
Tipps. IN" n"niieh ~ 1 hersoh'
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Rn nhe n : Senate yesterday confirmed
iTso o,iil 4. Wells to be postmaster at st.
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House.

In the House, Mr.. Randall, Of Penn
sylvania, from the Committee on Appro-
priations, reported back the Senate joint
resolution for the addition of $4,000 to
the Contingent fund of the Senate, with
an amendment providing the sum shall
only be available for expenses of investi.
cations heretofore ordered The amend
ment was adopted and the joint resolu-
ton passed. Mr.. Robertson, Of Ken
lucky, from the Committee on Elec-
tons, reported a resolution unseating
Tranquilina Luna as Delegate
from New Mexico, and seating in
his place T. A. Manzanares. The
resolution was adopted. Mr.. Man
zanares then appeared at the bar of
the House and took the oath of office.
Mr.. Dunn, of Arkansas, from the Com
mittee on Commerce, reported bill pro
viding for the removal Of Instructions to
the free navigation of the navigable
waters Of the United States. Mr. Collins,
of Massachusetts, from the Committee on
the Judiciary, reported bill to estab-
lish uniform system of bankruptcy
throughout the United States. Mr..
Lewis from the Committee on
Public Lands, reported the bill de-
claring the forfeiture Of the Texas
Pacific Land Grant The Naval
Appropriation bill was considered in
Committee of the Whole, pending which
the House adjourned
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PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD

On and after November 18th, 1888, the Pas
senger Trains of the Pennsyivania Railroad
Company Viii depart from Harrisburg and ar
Erie as follows:
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aacts worth Knowing.

Every man has 240 bones, except
the minstrel end man, who has 244.
The lungs contain l75, Zoo, 900 of
cells. This is what makes man a
practical joker.
A man breathes about 20 times per
minute-that is, unless he is fat, or
is walking away from a tailor with
bill.
A mans average weight is 140
pounds, except when he bias to wait
for his wife to change her necktie.
Then it's forty minutes.
The brain of a man weighs three
aud half pounds. A woman's is
somewhat lighter, but Of finer quail
ty. That is what enables her to taste
lard in her neighbours pastry.
The heart III its normal condition
beats seventy five times minute,
but when a young man meets pref
ty girl at a party and steps trem-
blingly up to proffer an escort home,
the number of beats-heart BEATS
instantly mounts up TO ITO in the
shade.
The average number of teeth is
thirty two, but when one of them is
decrepit, and IN the dark it runs on
to an ambuscaded raisi.. seed in .
piece of cake, man is apt to fancy
that he las only one tooth at the
most and that it is three feet square.
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HUSBANDS, STAY HOME. Charles
Dickens tells US somewhere a story
Of man who hired a hideous look
ing boy to pelt him with stones and
drive him home if he caught him out
at night after 10 o'clock. The man
it seems, thought that the stones
would hurt him as much as the 9th.
er things he might meet with if he
exposed himself in the streets of the
city after 10 O'Clock at night. This
man, in all probability, was right in
coming to this conclusion. Would
it not be good policy for many per
sons of the present day to pay some
boys for pelting them with stones
and driving them 10 their homes
where they would be out of danger
and where they would be SO warmly
welcomed +?
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A South American Snahc
Story.
[ Anglo-Rrazilian Times.


la Paraguay, at Guazu-C Qua, a
woman going to battle in the lake
laid her child down under neigh
boring tree and walked down to the
water. A giboia, however, which
was on the lookout for prey
at th- shore, sprang at her
and seized her before she
could escape. Soon afterward a
horseman passing near heard some
cries and Oh examining around saw
the child alone under the tree.
Suspecting some disaster, he rode
down to the lake and there saw a
huge snake swallowing tn woman,
who was already drawn ia up TO the
waist. Hastily tying his two las
soes together the min threw the
moose over tbe womtn and under her
arms and squirting lis horse, sue
ceeded in drawing the unfortunate
woman ) still palpitating body from
the throat OF the disappointed
monster. Whether The woman sur
ylyed is not stated.
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A Good Place to 20 to.
Chicago Times.


IF were single man to-day"
said James III. Hood, late resident
engineer In the construction of the
Ohio River railroad, running from
Wheeling to PalheIsburg, II
would pull up stakes and go to Costa
RIGA. There is no country like it
for making money. Few Ameri-
cans are there, the country is rich
ness itself, the people honest and ig-
norant, and / know of no country
where a fortune can be made Sc
speedily
"Then you have been there 2"
"Yes, sir. / was one of the assis-
tant engineers that laid out the rail
road from Fort Senior, on the coast,
to San Jose, the capital, distance
of seventy two miles in the inter
ior."
"Where is Costa Rica ?'
"It's about ten degrees north of
the equator, in Central America,
south of Nicaragua and north Of
Panama. It's a republic, has a pop
ulation Of about 100000, contains
about 20 600 square miles of land !,
and is just off the Mosquito gulf, as
its called in the Biographies. !"
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CARES OF LIFE.-As we come
to them they are received, borne
with, and passed over with no
more than thought, If we are in
the enjoyment of health, but if
suffering with Piles or skin disease
efa. 'rd .hnr magnify bur
bred fo'd. Il. G Williams Jr. &
Bro, the Druggist. has DIR. Bosan-
KOS Pile Remedy which is an alb.
solute care !'dr any affections of
this Kind aud il sold at so cents.
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Remember This.

Ifyou are sick Hop Bitters will surely
aid Nature in making you we'll when all
else fails. ifyou are costive or dyspeptic,
or suffering from any other of the numer-
GUS dist ases of the stomach or bowels, il,
Is your own fault If you remain i'll, for
Hop Bitters are sovereign -emeiy in all
such complaints If YOU are wasting
away with any form Of Kidney Disease,
stop tempting death this moment, and
turn for cure to Hop Bitters.
Ifyou are sick with that terrible sick
ness Nervousness, you will find "Balm
in Gilead' in the use o. Hop Bitters
1fyou are frequenter, or resident OF
niasmatic district, barricade your sys-
tenn against the scourge of all countries
malarial, epidemic, bilious, and intermit-
tent fevers-by the use of Hop Bitters.
It you have cough, pimply, or sallow
skin, bad breath, pains and aches, and
feel miserable generally, Hop Bitters will
give you fair skin, rich blood, and sweet
est breath, health and omfort.
In short they cure all diseases of the
Stomach, Bowels, Blood, Liver, Nerves,
Kidneys, Bright's Disease. $500 will be
paid for case they will not cure or help.
That poor, bedridden, invalid, wife,
sister, mother or daughter, can be made
the picture of health by few bottles of
Hop Bitters, costing but trifle. Will
you let them snffer?
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Late for Sewing Society.

My dear" implored a husband,
twill YOU be kind enough to sew
some buttons on my overcoat ! They
are nearly all Off
II am very sorry" replied the wife
with look of real regret rs she fas-
tened her bonnet on, but the heat III
en- are suffering and | haven't one
moment to spare. | am late for tire
sewing society as it is. Philddel-
phid Call
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The Lone Navigator.
[ArkansaM Trarelnr.l

Arkansaw Traveller
During the high water man was
seen going down the Arkansas on
log. AS he was passing Little Rock
several men sprang into skiff,
rowed out TO the lone navigator, and
said:
Climb H."
Climb III wharp'
"In the skiff. Hurry up!"
wall, stranger, Pm pretty well
fixed. Don't take no work to move
along"
Where are you going 2"
Down the river"
I'VE know that. Where you
from 20
From up the river"
"Of course you are"
what made you ak, then ?''
What are you doing on that Logo"
"Travelin'
what do you want to fool with
Us for? Don't you know you'll
drown if sou keep on this way p'
wont drown if l keep on thiser
way. Eft I wuster to git off in the
water / mout drown"
Where is your family 20
Scattered erlong"
ibid your house wash away ?"
"Sorter. My wife's back yander
on cottonwood log an my son Bill's
comm along som 'ers on poplar"
why don't you come to the
shore 20
"Cause it don't cost nothin' ter
ride"
YOU'D better come off and get a
drink of whisky
"Dinged If / don't do 1t. Teller
back here wanted me to come out
and hear him preach, but he didn't
have the right kim of gospel. Now,
fellers, pull for the shore as fas' as
yer ken"
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10 Il woman, the romances she
makes are more amusing than those
she reads. II. Gauntier.
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SPRING
Cloths,
Cassimeres.
Vestings,
Suitings, &c.

The stock is as large as that founa an p
where, the variety OF goods as grea and
was selected especially to suit and please
the fancy of the citiz-ns of the CITY and
vicinity. Everybody isinvited to call.
EB- All goods and work guara nteed
Cleaning and rerairipg neatly done. Cut
ting specially.
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In her frst passion woman loves
her lover; in all the others, all she
loves is love.-Byron.
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You can keep your hair abundant
and glossy, and retain it's youthful
color, with Parker's Hair Balsam.
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Why continue the use of irritating
powders. snuffs or liquids when Ely's
Cream Balm, pleasant of application
and a sure cure for Catarrh, and
cold in head, can be had. so cents,
atdruggists or by mail. Not Ii.
quid or snuff.
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What She W anted.

= Ohm | want SEWING MACHINE"
Well dear what kind do you want S1NGEaY
No. no we have too many singers now
How is the HoUsEHoLDr
Household troubles enough
Take the ST. JOHN them
One John is enough for me- and I'm not fit to live
with Saint
Try the NoBLEg
"A Noble will never do in Republic
The CROWN then p
1t will do no better
The New HOME is good
Yes; but the old home is good enough if | had
good machine
The DOMESTIC, then; how's thatg
We have a Domestic but she's better in the kitchen
than at the needle.
rake the AMERICAN; you seem to favor Republic.
An American will do very we'll until YOU under
take to run him. the British tried that
You know there is pluck in Yankee, and skill
too. They make Machine up there. in Connecticut
that runs on Ball Balance, like the Columbia BICYCLE
hat must be the HARTFORD
That's it John; buy that, and I'll do the SINGING
the DOMESTIC will attend to HOUSEHOLD duties. and a
NOBLE CROWN will be worn by you when you become
SAINT, our OLD will become new and the virtues
of all will be united in the
CeleTorated Har-srord
Sold by DODD & DODD.
MART1NsBURG. W. VA
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ELY'S
CREAM
BALM

mas & alneo an
e n viable repu-
tation wherever
k n 0 W n. dis
placing all 9th.
er preparations.
An article of
undoubted mer-
it Is con veni
ent and Clearly.
! t C q u s es no
pain or sneeze.
Is NOT A LIQUID
OR SNUFF.
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Poetic Answers.

WHAT Is YOUR FAVORIfE FLOWER
Magnificent Gala, in mantle OF milk.
Mrs. Sigourney.
The chaste camelia's Iure and s. otless
bloom,
That boasts no fragrance and conceals
no thorn. William Roscos.
And faith that thousand ills can
r brave
Speaks in thy blue leaves, "forget-me-
not" f9n
-Percival.
WHO IS YOUR INTENDED
A perfect woman nobly planned,
TO warn, TO comfort and command,
And yet spirit still, and bright,
With something ofan angels light.
Wordsworth.
A judge, a man so learned
So full of equity, so noble-envy
Itself cannot accuse, or malice
vitiate.
Chapman and Shirley.
A rosebud set with wilful thorns,
AS sweet as English air can make
her. -Tennyson.
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Rose, thou art the sweetest flower.
Burns.
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Gee A WEEK in your own town
OOO Terms and SIS outfit free. Address
H. HALLETr b Co, Portland, Maine.
ma6-ly.
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Apply by the finger into the nos
trils. 1t will be absorbed, effectually
Cleansing the nasal passages Of catarrhal
virus, causing healthy secrerions. 1t al
lays inflammation, protects the menbra-
nal Innings of the bead from additional
colds, completely heals the sores and re-
stores the sers' o. taste and smell Rene-
ficlal results are realized by few appi-
cations e
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EN1S UNDERWEAR of the
VI best grades, very cheap at JOS
EPH II. SHAFFER'S.
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4 thorough treatment sciu Cure.

4 thorough treatment WiU Cure.
Unequaled tor Cold in the Head, Head
ache and Deafness. or any kind O. mucous
membranal irritatioEs Send for circu-
lar Sold by all wholesale and retail drug.
gists. Price 90 cents so cents by mail,
registered. STAMP received. KS
ELY BROTHERS,
agly Owego, N. Y.
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Vital 0UastiDpSi!! (!

Ask tie most eminent physician
Of any school, what the best thing in the
world for quoting and allaying all irrita.
ton Of the nerves. and curing all forms o.
nervous complaints, giving natural, child
like refreshing sleep alWaysf
And they will tell you unhesitatingiy
",Some form Of Hops : ="
CHAPTER I.
Ask any or all of the most eminent ply
sicians:-
"What is the best and only remedy that
can be relied on to cure all diseases Of the
kidneys and urinary organs; such as
Bright's disease, diabetes retention, or in
ability to retain urine, and all the diseases
and ailments peculiar to Women
"And they will tell you explicitly and
emphatically "Buchu ~
Ask the same physicians
'tWhat is the most reliable and surest
cure for all liver diseases or dyspepsia, con-
stipation, indigestion, biliousness, malaria,
fever ague, &c., and they will tell you
Mandrake or Dandel5on M"
Hence, when these medicines are CON-
bined with others equally valuable,
And compounded into Hop Bitters, such
a wonderful snd mysterious curative power
is developed, which is SO varied iii its ope.
rations that no disease or i'll health can pos
sibly exist or resist its power, and yet it is
Harmless for the most frail woman, weak
est invalid or smallest child to use
CHAPTER II.
patients
"Almo>t dead OF nearly dying
For years, and given up by physicians, of
Bright's and other kidney diseases, liver
Complaints, severe coughs. called consump-
ton, have been cured.
Women gone nearly crazyi!Hi
From agony of neuralgia, nervousness,
wakefulness; and various diseases peculiar
to women.
People drawn out of shape from excruci-
ating pangs of rheumatism, int1ammatory
and chronic, or suffering from scrofula.
Erysipelas
Saitrheum, blood poisoning, iyspepsia,
indigestion, and, in fact, almost all diseases
frail'
Nature is heir to
Have been cured by Hop Bitters, proof
of which can be found i'll every neighbor-
hood in the known world.
asSg& None genuine without bunch OF
green Hops on the white Label. shun all
the vile, poisonous stuff with sHop'' or
"Hops" IN the name.