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Year: 1872

WAsmSGToN, April 25.--The
Clayton investigating committee Is still
taking testimony, and Senator Rice
has been on the stand for day or two.
Already five thousand pages of foolscap
have been taken as testimony. There
is but little probability that the COM
mittee will make any report until late
in the session.


1t is represented that Shat part of
the case which relates to his (Clayton's)
Indictment for violation of the election
law has been fully substantiated, and
there is likelihood that the result of
the investigation will depose him of his
seat, though the testimony is not fiat
tering to the political morality of any
party in Arkansas.
Year: 1872

The New York Commercial Adver>
tiser advises its readers that: Gas a
general thing attempting TO fog editors
is an uncomfortable business. Shov.
cling off snow or driving a charcoal
wagon pays better in the long run. A
hostile visitor to an editorial sanctum
usually finds that the best side of the
building for him to be on is the out.
side. We have heard of individual,
equipping themselves and approaching
the editor for the purpose OF cleaning
him out but they have always gone
away with the conviction that they
were born for some less active employ
ment. Thus discouraged, su,h intru-
ders are daily diminishing in NUMBER
Year: 1872

A few days ago we noticed in the


Gazette communication from this
county, over the signature of A" Far


mer," in which that worthy individual
saw proper to refer to the "limited
circulation Of the county paper Be-
ing the only paper published in the
county, we, of course, suppose he al
luded to the TELEGRAPH. While it
would be recognized folly for us to say
that our circulation is unlimited, yet
we must be permitted TO inform "a
Farmer" that it is by no means so mea.
ger as his statement would seem to
indicate. Such a statement is calcu>
lated to make an erroneous impression
upon the minds of our many hundreds
of readers in this county. as well as
upon those of our foreign subscribers,
and hence we take this occasion to
correct it. "a Farmer" certainly has
no knowledge of our subscription list,
because no one except those who are
connected with the business of our
office, has access to our books, or is
likely to have, inasmuch as they are
private property, and not subject to
general and promiscuous inspection.
And inasmuch, therefore, as he could
not have known whereof he spoke, we
think it would have been more just to
us not to have spoken as he did. But
we hope tosurvive.
Year: 1872

The large and commodious house of
Messrs. Baird, Carruth Il Philips, is
now, for the first time since the late
unpleasantness, literally filled with
goods. We think we hazard nothing
in saying that the largest stock which
has been in this town since 1860, can
now be found at this house. To un>
dertake to enumerate would he a
useless task. The fact is that any,
thing you want, from lead pencil to
a suit of furniture can be bought at this
house. In ladies fashionable dress
goods and gents clothing and furnish.
ing goods, especially, their stock is
complete, and very attractive, and
although they are selling by the wagon
load, yet their stock does not seem to
be thereby diminished for they are
daily receiving large addition, to it,
and seem determined, at all events, to
supply all the wants of their numerous
customers.
Year: 1872

After two more numbers Of the
TELEGRAPH we expect to enlarge it
by the addition of "A column to each
page, making twenty-eight columns,
instead Of twenty-.our as now. If the
people of the county will encourage us
by their support, we will soon make
other important improvements. Send
in your subscriptions and ADVERTISE
ments, and we promise to give full
value for your money.
Year: 1872

We had the pleasure of a cali last
week from Prof John G.. Hammond,
Principal of the Boston High School,
Boston, Texas. He had been taking
little recreation in the way of pursu,
ing horse thief. We are glad tc
state that he had recovered his horse,
and having had recreation enough for
one time concluded to let the thief q
on his way rejoicing, while he would
return TO his duties in the school room.
May he never have worse luck.
Year: 1872

We ask the attention of litigants
and others interested TO the card of
Maj. Jno.B. Burton, Lewisville. His
energy and ability are well known, and
his Promptness in the transaction of
business entrusted to his care will Sc
cure fo- him at least a fair share of it.
Year: 1872

/ also give official notice to the electors
of Forest county that, by an act entitled
" An act further supplemental to the act
relative to the elections of this Common
wealth" approved April l7th, 1869, it is
provided as follows;


SECTION |. BE it enacted by the Senate
and House of Representatives of the Com
monwealth of Pennsylvania in General
Assembly met, and 1t is hereby enacted
by the authority of the same, That il shall
he the duty of each of the asSessOrs of this
Commonwealth, on the first Monday of
June Of each year, TO take up the transcript
he has received from the county commits
sioners under the eighth section of the act
of 10th of April 1884, and proceed to an I'M
mediate revision of the same by striking
therefrom the name of every person who
is known by him to have died or removed
since the last previous assessment from
the district of which he is the assessor, or
whose death or removal shall be made
known to him, and TO add to the same the
namo of any qualified voter who shall be
made known to him, to have removed in
to the district since the last previous as
sesSment, or whose removal into the same
shall be or shall have been made known
to him, and also the names of all who make
claim to him 10 be qualified voters therein.
AS soon as this revision is completed he
shall visit every dwelling house in his dis
trict and make careful inquiry if any per-
son whose name is on his list has died or
removed from tho district, and if so, to
take the same thereirom, or whether any
qualified voter resides therein whose name
is not on his list, and if so, to add the same
thereto, and in all cases where a name is
added to tho list a tax shall forthwith be
assessed against the person, and the asses
sor shall in all cases ascertain by inquiry
upon what ground the person so assessed
claims to be a voter. Upon the completion
of this work it shall be the duty of each
assessor as afoI esaid to proceed TO make
out a list in alphabetical order of the free
men above twenty-one years of age claim
ing TO be qualified voters in the ward bor-
ough, township or district of which he is
assessor, and opposite to each of said names
state whether said freeman is or is not
houso-keeper, and if he is the number of
his resdence,in towns where the same are
numbered with the street, alley, on court
in which situate, and If in a town where
there are no numbers, the name of the
street, alley or court on which said house
fronts also the occupation of the person,
and where he is not a housekeeper, the oc-
cupatiOn, place of boarding and with
whom, and ii working for another the
name of employer, aud write opposite
each of said names the word voter and
where any person claims 10 vote by reason
of naturalization he shall exhibit his GER
ttficate thereofto the assessor, unless he
has been for five consecutive years next
Year: 1872

In the current monthly report of the
Commissioner of Agriculture, it is an
nounced that there Is an immense
waste of material In OUR saw mills,
where the sawdust is thrown away,
and that it is possible to produce from
this dust good article of brandy. It
is suggested that the saw dust of pine
and of fir timber be mixed, and that a
compound be prepared composed of 9
parts moist saw dust, 1877 parts of water,
and part of hydro-chloric acid, max
ing 43 s parts altogether. These are to
be boiled under steam pressure eleven
hours, when it will be found that 19
per cent. of the mass will be grape su-
gar. The acid is to be neutralized with
lime, and mash supplied with yeast.
After ninety-six hours fermentation, a
distillation of the mash will produce
sixty one quarts of brandy of so per
cent. strength, and free of any smell OF
turpentine. 1t is claimed that in all
probability many other woods than pine
and fir will prove even better adapted
to the production of brandy.
Year: 1872

To Test Cofee.-Adulterated coffee can
be easily detected, even if the taste is
not sure index. If a teaspoonful of
genuine ground coffee be thrown into q
tumblerful of cold water, it will float
upon the surface. Substances used in
adulterating coffee will sink at once.


To Clean nMarble.-Spreadp potter-bakers'
clay on the spot, lay paper over it, and
press a warm iron on it. To clean a
marble slab, mix a quantity of strong
soap lye with quicklime to the consist
ency of milk, and spread over the stone,
and let it remain twenty-four hours.
Then rub off and polish with dry woolen
rags.


Bread and Butter Pudding.-A layer of
quartered sour apples, sprinkled with
sugar and nutmeg; a layer of dry bread
mo matter how dry buttered; another
layer of apples, with sugar and nutmeg
as before; and so continue until you
have filed your dish. E-.-


Gingerbread pint of molasses,
one teacup of butter, half teacupful
hot water, one teaspoonful soda, half q
teaspoonful pulverized alum dissolved
in the hot water, two tablespoonfuls
ginger; the whole mixed thoroughly
with enough of -four to roll out and
cut into cards. Bake at once in quick
oven. rt-v ..r


Flour P..dding.-Take one quart of
sweet milk, one teaspoonful salt, half a
teacup of sugar; mix, boil, and thicken
with one teacup of wheat -four, wet with
cold milk and stir until it boils again,
then remove from the fire. When half
cold, add two wellbeaten eggs, and
flavor with nutmeg or lemon. Add
raisins if you choose. Bake half an
hour. To be eaten cold, with or with
out sweetened cream.


Bread and Cakes.-Take the finest
ground Graham flour, mix stiff batter,
using sweet milk or soft water, or a part
of each; have your cast-iron gem-pan
as warm as it can be and not be so warm
as to burn the grease up when you
grease it. Dip the batter into the pan
| thus kissing hot. Set the pan in the
oven and bake quickly, and you have
the healthiest bread and cakes that car
be made for humanity to eat.
Year: 1872

The most economical and satisfactory
black paint that we have ever used for
iron-work was made by mingling about
two quarts of coal-tar with pint or a
pint and half of benzine or. .benzole,
which was laid on with a paintbrush.
This makes an excellent black varnish
for rough work. 1t could not be recon-
mended, however, as a fine varnish for
any inside work. Three years ago, the
iron fence and iron balustrade and hand
rails of our front steps were covered
with such varnish, while the iron
work of adjoining neighbors has been


painted every year with oil, lampblack,
and varnish. At the present writing,
our fence looks much the best, and
scarcely needs painting, while theirs re-
ally needs q coat of paint. A paint
made of coal-tar and benzole will be
found excellent for smearing the iron
work of farm implements. As benzole
is somewhat volatile, no more paint
should be prepared at one time than


will be used immediately.-I Industrial
| M0nthEy. ,t-.-f,.E -.r- aferz
Year: 1872

The business Of this Court is accumulatng be-
yond the power OF the Judges to dispose OF in
sequence Of the want OF accommodation Of more
court and office room. The late effort to extend
the area Of the working power Of the Judges of
this Court in giving them an isolated and most
uncomfortable room, away from the other Courts
has been in unison with the miserable policy of
the Board OF supervisors from the first
The Courts are divided by it, and instead OF the
Judges being within Communication at any
moment with each other, one OF the Trial
Term Courts is held over In the Park, while the
other Courts are held in the old building of last
year, the bad condition and exposure OF which
caused so much comment among the Judges last
Winter. There is very large amount OF business
on hand but the Judges equal to 1t II the Board
OF Supervisors who, 1t seems, mas this matter in
hand, would only issue the necessary orders and
have the required work done.
Year: 1872

Confederate Property Said to be Falla-


ct0us.


RICHMOND, Va, Nov. s. 1872.


The published information In the HERALD, In re-
lation to the certain seizure OF the Piedmont rail-
road as the property OF the late Confederate gov
ernment by the United States government is
claimed here to be erroneous, as that matter is
alleged to have been already virtually decided by
the Secretary OF the Treasury and the President of
the United States. The authorities of the Rich
mond and Danvile Railroad Company state that
the Piedmont understanding from Danville. in
this State, to Greensboro, in North Carolna,-was
constructed and equipped exclusively with their
own means, without any contribution from the
Confederate government, and that when the war
to 1t and the Piedmont company for transpOrta.
tion. The suit instituted against the COM
pany can, they say, never be maintained.
as its connection with the Confederate govern
ment was most carefully Investigated In 1865
by the agents OF the Treasury Department of the
United States, who made an elaborate report OF all
the facts and after fun and accurate information
the Secretary OF the Treasury and the President
then ordered the Piedmont road which had been
seized to be turned over to the owners, who had
held undsrurbed possession OF 1t for nearly seven
years. The company insist that the claim is
entirely without any just foundation, and they
assert that they are full-handed with proof to
establish their rights, having nothing to fear from
full and fair Investigation, which they do not
seek to avoid. They say that these reports are put
out by parties who are looking more to their own
advantage than to the interests of the United
States but they will not be frightened by threats
from any quarter.
Year: 1872

How TO BEAUTiFY YovR Itonns.-Tbe
first condition of success in furnishing
either large or small room is that there
must be no over-crowding. This is ab-
sdlute. When outline is lost, beauty, as
matter Of tact, is lost also. We must
all know many drawing rooms, in which,
perhaps, the worth aud beauty of each
individual thing is Indispuiablr, on enter
ing which the first thing that strikes one
is Il sense Of incongruity. What might
have been an art collection is degraded
Ia the level Of an old curiosity shop.
Most women are born with a love Of
beauty. But generally, unless this love
Is cultivated aud trained, it runs to
waste aud iritters itself away upon small
things. Women 90 into a shop and Iiuv.
er over n counter for an hour, engrOssed
in the purchase of fifty minute things,
each one Of which is pretty enough in
itself it taken up in the hand aud in
spected; but not one of which can be
clearly defined at distance of two
yards, and not one Of which rcpays the
trouble Of the minute inspection. These
are packed away in shiny cabinets that
are blazing with ormolu scroll work. ON
spindle-legged wliat-nots that seem to be
designed for no other earthly purpose
than to be knocked down at brief inter
walls, and on mantle-picccs that confuse
ones vision and muddle ones brain du-
ring the long periods when the need Of
being near the fire forces one to face
thenE 1t is better and higher system
ot economy to buy two Or three good
Lrunzes or marbles, OH which the eye can
always rest with pleasure, than to spend
ten times the sum OH heterogeneous
mass of the parti-colured rubbish which
many accumulate, i'll order, they call it,
to take off the naked look oi their rootns.
Better tie naked look thousand times
than the false decorations,
Year: 1872

And / am quite sure these would be
provided immediately, if the members of
our Legislature would visit the school
and examine it's workings and Influence
from five in the morning until nine in
the evening. One day thus spent would
suffice TO convert the stoutest skeplic
Year: 1872

Sweet Laurie Fair, the beautiful and
bewitching bulleter, says the ladies OF
San Francisco nave been 80 kind IN her
late confinement, she will henceforth
seduce no more of their husbands, but
remove her field OF labor to Chicago or
New York.


7 Calumny would die and starve of itsell
if nobody took it in aud gave it lodging.
There would not be SO many open mouths
if there were not so many open ears.
Year: 1872

From the Franklin Sun.l
The ticket for State officers nomin-
ated by the Democratic Convention
and headed by the name of John Nc
Emery, is admitted to be unexception-
able in personal point of view, but it
is excepted to because it is Il tsstraig}1t
out' Democratic ticket. Than the sun
no paper in the State has been a stronger
advocate of harmonizing all the ele-
ments in favor of rcscuing the State from
the hands of the corrupt set who have
robbed it and brought it to the verge
of Bankruptcy. We in strong terms
denounced the parties in the Conven-
ton who opposed u consultation with
the Liberal Republicans, and were in
favor of giving them a voice in the Sc
lection Of the ticket, though we did not
think that they ought to ask or had
any right to claim place on the ticket,
for they have a due share of it by addi-
ton to it Of the names of their Cincin-
natl candidates. The RefOrmcrS, we
held, were a natural part and kith and
kin Of the great Democratic party, and
though they had for some cause alien
ed~themsclves from it, yet ought to
have 4 part in the selection Of the ticket
and Il representation upon it according
to their numbers.


For six long days did the reprcscn-
tatives of the peopIe-thc representa-
tivcs of the uotcrs of the State, work to
effect the harmony SO greatly desired,
without success. And why did thcy


all? The answer is plain-thcy were
asked to yield more than they believed
their constituents would submit to.
They then nominated Il ticket, all of
which, except one name on it, was ap-
| Inv p,T,
That ticket was nominated according
to Democratic usagc-no chicancry, no
foul play was used in its selection
good, bad or indifferent, it is the rcgu-
IarIy nominated ticket of the Demo-
cratic party, and as such entitled to the
support of every true Democratic heart


If it is to be cast :,sidc-rcpuaiated,
then talk no more Of Conventions and
regular nominations.
Year: 1872

IFrom the Richland Beacon.l


We are surprised to see some of our
democratic exchanges manifest a dispo-
sition to Esraise the white feather" and
predict dire calamity to the State.
They acknowledge the Democratic
ticket to be good one, composed of
the names of some of the best men in
the State, and yet predict for it defeat;
I they declare their intention to support
it, and yet labor for its defeat by such
groundless predictions. No ticket ever
had a brighter prospect of a glorious
triumph than the Democratic ticket
! OF Louisiana has at this time. Be
cause it presents the names of honest,
available and good men, worthy of the
support of men of all parties who have
the good of the State at heart. It has
at its head 4 gentleman of liberal views
irreproachable honesty, superior intel
llgence and profound statesmanship;
and every man upon it was selected
for his known liberal views, honesty
and patriotism, and in our opinion
the only course to be pursued by patri-
OTIS Of all parties Is to support it with
all their energies.


We were under the impression that,
perhaps, the Democratic State Conven-
ton had not used every effort, consis-
tent with honor and sound policy, to
unite all patriotic elements upon Il
good ticket; but we never had any
doubt as to the ticket nor heSitated
as to our duty in the premises; have
never thought that Il better ticket, in
the main, could have been placed in
the fed, and are opposed to any
change being made upon it.


Since the action Of the Baton Rouge
Packard-Grant Convention, we are
Thoroughly convinced of the wisdom
of the Democratic Convention, of the
availability of our ticket and of our
duty to labor earnestly for its success,
as the only hope for the salvation of
our State.


We cannot believe that men who
have 4 particle of patriotism, who love
their families and desire not to be
cursed by their posterity, will entertain
the idea of sacrificing the State to the
Moloch of selfish ambition or personal
favoritism. Surely there are enough
patriots in the State to save it by the
exercise of proper and legitimate
effort, and we believe they will do it.
Year: 1872

POLICE ECoURT.-Justice j. j. White was
exceedingly fortunate to-day in not having
his patience severely taxed as is usually the
case. There was only one case on docket,
that of man charged with beating his wife.


His better half failed to put in her appear
ance and the matter was settled in accord
ance with the statute relative to such cases.
Year: 1872

Boston, june 27.--Tbe trustees of the
Peabody educational fund reassembled at
the Revere House to-day. General agent
Sears presented his annual report, in which
he says the general aspect of education in
the South has undergone no material change
during the past year. Great progress has
been inado in the public mind, but various
causes have been in operation in several of
the States to hinder corresponding action.


The experiment Of free schools. in every
part of the country, has not yet entirely
cleared away the doubt and removed the
opposition that has existed !; but tho prin-
cipal agents in carrying into effect this
great public measure have had sufficient de-
gree of success in extending and improving
education, and thus awakening general in
terest and winning popular favor, to
strengthen their confidence and place them
and their enterprise beyond fear of failure.
Year: 1872

A WELL. known physician In one of
our large cities was walking one even-
ing, when coming up behind a rather
-fcfaesn-aooking couple, he perceived
that they were jangling about some
thing; and as he passed the husband
reproyed what had evidently been some
expression Of repinlng on the part OF
the wife, In the following terse, though
morally unsound proposition: "iou
was drunk yesterday, and you was
drunk day before yesterday, and l
should like to know what more you
could have unless you was hangel In
heayenin
Year: 1872

The ladies Of Alaska are said to
wear q body dress Of equal proportion
of furs and dirt, arranged to suit the
taste of the wearers. The married Ia
dies all wear silver rings in their
noses and needles through their lower
lips, while elderly ladies add to their
irresistible charms stopper, what
ever they may be, In the upper lip.
Year: 1872

Ladies' smelling bottles Of the latest
style are so large that husbands use
them for demijohns when out fishing
or hunting, and never find out the dif-
ference until they get home and hear
something drop on their heads that
feels like broomstick.