Vol. I. WoodMdge, Middlesex County, N. J., Thursday, October 12, 1876. No. 27.AD YERTISEMENTS.

FRANKLIN MOORE,DEALER IX

HARDWARE,STOVES, TINWABE,

C R O C K E R Y ,

GLASS-WARE, LAMPS,LAMP CHIMNEYS,

ALL SIZES WINDOW-GLASS,

If XT IfclN" ITUIE* IS -MATTKASSES, CLOCKS,

CARPET MATTING, OIL CLOTHS,

ALL SIZES ROPE.

PAINTS, OILS, COLORS, DRY AUD

IN OIL. VAEHISH OE ALL KITCDS.

\?. A. Siches' Celebrated Cucumber Wood Pumts

A Large Stock of

T I IX' "W A. OR. E

at very low prices ; also

PARLOE, HEATING and COOKING STOVES,

-which defy competition in price, .lurability

and appearance.

Oil-cloth Patterns and Stove Boards in various

designs.

Special Attention is called to ourPARLOR STOVE, THE

" CROWHED JEWS,"M iirst-cltiss Stove in every respect; also our

ELEVATED OYEN RANGE,

*• O in* T avo r i te ,"surpassed by none i" tin- market for mnvra-

irnce and diu-.ibil'-ty :

.;;_•: Call nij.i iiu<L- our ,-Un-k.

) o d s d c l i v c - m t n-f •>' c h a r g e .

NEAE THE DEPOT.

1L0THING'. CLOTHING !

Msns', Boys* & GMIdrens;

143 MAIN STREET,

R A H W A V , JNr- 'J.

Excellent assortment of

Fall & Winter Clothing,and our prices are not to be undersold by anyother House. We only ask an inspection be-fore you spend a dollar for anything in ourlino.

& E O K G - K M I L L E E .

CLOTHIER- k MERCHAT TAILOE,

143 MAIN ST. COR. LEWIS,

RAHWAY, :N. J.

COSTTEACT FOE COAL.

• MELICK BROTHERS,

GLAT MERCHANTS,WOODBRIDGE, K. J.

NE\Y CABINET RAXGK

Thr- most comple te flot-<.'Inspt K-m</.' '-ver

•'••:• ''> p-ad a full l ine of •.•he->.T' S T O T F S ANT*

1-^pniriny ;i Specialty : Stnvo Pip;1 ot' j

The Jail Committee for the Comity of Mid-dlesex will receive sealed proposals to supplythe Court House, Jail and County Offices with,coal (100 tons, more or less), of best LehighEgg, Stove and Nut. Proposals will lie re-ceived by either of the committee up to threeo'clock, P. M\, on SATURDAY, OCTOBER7tb, when they will meet in the County Col-lector's office, at thut time, to award the con-tract. T. 1ST. ACKEN.

J. MCCBELIS.3. K. BEHDIKK,

oe5- JAMES BISSETT.

AD TEB.T1SE2IENTS.

I> H. BARTHOLOMEW

lias removed to the

O 1L. X> S-i r r j \ . IS J> ,

formerly occupied by him.

GREEN STEEET,

ABJOIHIire SEAS03SIC HALL,

where will be found a full assortment of

Stoves, Ranges, Tin-Ware,LAMPS, CHIMNEYS.

AND

House Furnishing GoodsIN GENEKAL.

FURNACES OP AHT PATxBKH OBTAINED AND

PUT UP AT SHOB.T HOTICE.

PLUMBING AND J\OOFING

Done in the best manner and with the

Best Materials.

I would especially call attention to

A New, Fh-st-Clftss Eangc.

| With 'Hoi Ciosrt, Strhitjhtfj Shelf. i*ok-itihl

j Hearth, Xltitmhiated Front, Clinlwrtrs*

\ Gruff, I'oiishrtl vdges on top, mift-

i <t7f ami loirer bottom, Sicinff-

j >)i{I Shvlf ft ltd Jlfdfth,

\ I'lrst-class fitting. Niclclc-plate<t Knob.*.

\ ami Tht-fiiitJf7 I>oors.i

j CHEAPEST EANGE IN MARKET.

I CALL AND EXAMINE.

Thankful for past favors I would lvspfully soiif.it a eoiitiiraujioe of the same.

1L 11. JZAlSTHQLGMEiV

4t> «.•» « I d

('•ollector

Chose

•.l.itiiain Coddington.-Tames E. Beny.

y}-- E-ph-iiui Cutter.I Vi":i!i.::ii H. Berry, f'rvsidr,//.j N.LiLaii 2 . Mead' rh>,-l.:i William E. Finli., j J o s k l l c Cut te l.I Isaac Insles, Jr.( Ellis E. Freeman.'i l:;.ri.l.i]pli Coddington.

Rr.T.ifiinr.s SEKVICES.

L"iii-.s«i-n-:i:iAX—i!t-v. -T. M. McNulty. I'as-tor; Services. iU:;!U A. M.. and 7:4-5 1\ M.:Hunday School. 2:W P. M.: Prayer Meeting.Friday, 7:45 P. "M.

METHODIST—Rnv. S. .T. Morrin, Pastor; Ser-vices, 10:30 A. M., and 7:30 P. M.: Sunday•School, 2 P. M.: Prayer Meeting. Wednesday.7:30 P. M.

EPISCOPAL—liev. J. E. Ingle. Eeetor: .Ser-vice:). 10:30 A. YL. and 4 1>. M.: SundaySchool, 3 P. M.

CONGHEGATION-ALIST—Eev. S. L. Hillyi.T.! Pastor; Services, 10:30 A. M.. and 7:30 P. U.:! Sunday School, 2:30 P. M.: Prayer Meeting.I Wednesday. 7:30 P. M.

POST OFFICE KECSTII-AIJOXS.

OiSoe Hours—PTOUI 7 A. M.. to DP. i l .Mails Arrive—7.50 A. M., and (1 P. M.

- Close—7 A. M., and i P. M.M. A. Biiowx. Postmaster.

AMKP.ICTIS LODOE, No. S:-i. V. f: A. M.

V,'. M.— Hov.-ard Valentine.S. AV.—C. AV. Anupw:.J. AV.—David Noe.Treas.—li. K. Aralentii«-.Sec.—Samnel I. Atmess.B. D.— I. N. Hiirned-.T. D —D. AV. Brown.Chaplain—T. G. Al-vmrcl.Sr. M. C—J. 0. Aranderveer.J. M. C— David A. Flood.Tiler—Charles Mmtel.

Number of members, oO.Meets first, third and fifth Tuesday

nings of each month.

.T. M. JIEI.ICK. I'. B. MKT.ICK.

AArOODBEIDGE LODGE, U o . 2 0 , I . (.). <iV (i. T .

AAT. C. T.—.John Treen, Jr.AV. V. T.— Miss Maggie Gilman.AV. Sec—Mrs. Geo. V. Kelly.AV. F. Sec—Thoiiuis Groves.AV. Treas.—Miss Nellie Ensign.AAr. Chap.—Horace Drake.W. M.—H. B. Mawbey.AV. L G.—Frank Bomain.-.AV. O. G.—Geo. AV. Dally.P. AV. C. T.—S. P. Noe. "Lodge Deputy—John Hull.County Deputy—Or. AV. Dally.Number of members, 51.Meets every Thursday night.

] A Til Jen and Hendricks Club has

' formed at Ford's Cornel's.

The Firs* Gnu.

Masonic, Hall was all ablaze with light, andtilled with a large and attentive audience onAA edncoaay evening of last week, the occa-sion being a meeting called under the direc-tion of the Republican Executive Committeeof the township, for the purpose of organiz-ing a campaign club. Before the meeting as-sembled the AVoodbridge Cornet Band tookup a position in front of the Hall, and, bydiscoursing their sweetest strains, endeavoredto call "the faithful'' together. The band,having entered the Hall, took their positionsupon the stage, and. having performed an-other selection, Cnpt. I. Inslee, Jr., called themeeting to oi\ler and introduced jlr. J. CAndrus as the first speaker. Mr. Andrus is ayoung man of ability, and a stirring, impas-sioned speaker. He was followed by Mr. AATil-liam B. Francis, a lawyer of Newark. Mr.Francis is not a stranger to many of us, as he,together with Courtlandt Parker, Esq., sjioke Iat a meeting held in the Hal! two years ago.He is a fine political talker, and was listenedto with the closest attention. At the close ofthe meeting, a Hayes and AVheeler campaignclub was organized by the election of MulfordT). A'alentine, President; Charles AV. Anness,A'ioe-President: Samuel I. Anness, Secretary,and Isaac Inslee, Jr.. Treasurer. A roll wasprepared, and signed by a large number ofthose present.

The Club will hold :i grand meeting in theHall on next Monday evening. (ICth), at•which Prof. George AV. Atherton, the Repub-lican candidate for Congress, John Y. Foster,of the Newark Courier, and other eminentspeakers will be present. Music will be fur-nished by the AVoodbridge Comet Band.

Perthtot

Matts' Opera Troupe.Mr. Charles Mans of Balm-ay, accompanied

by his operetta company, again appeared inthe City Hall on Tuesday evening last. Theaudience, although not very large, was anappreciative one, and manifested their satis-faction by frequent and hearty applause. Theentire performance was decidedly creditableto all the participants, and Mr. Haas in Msiaincms "magic changes" was, as usual, inim-itable. Notice was given at the close' of theperformance that the company would again•appear in the Hall on Wednesday eveningnext (18th). with "an entire change of pro-gramme. All who have not seen this companyshould avail themselves of the opportunitythus offered; and to those who have alreadybeen present at their entertainments, nowords are necessary to induce them to attendonce more.

Boils hi Hive.

The Tilden and Hendriuks club held aspecial meeting on Monday, when it wasdecided to adopt a uniform of blue shirts, whitecaps and red belts. A grand mass meetingwill be held in the city on this (Thursday)evening, at which time the club expect toparade. The business of the meeting beingconcluded, the club was addressed by PeterK. Edgar of AVoodbridge, the speaker dwellingchiefly upon the merits and qualifications ofthe Democratic Presidential, Congressional,Senatorial and Assembly nominees.

Matrimonial.The residence of Mr. Lewis C. Potter on

Main street was the scene of a very pleasant

and enjoyable, though quiet affair on the af-

ternoon of Thursday last. The occasion was

the marriage of Miss Annie JL Potter, the

second daughter of the family, to Jir. Albert

S. Ensign. At half-past one o'clock the bride

;ind groom were united in the holy bonds by

the Eev. Jonathan H. Dally, the uncle of the

bride, assisted by the Eev. S. J- Morris, pas-

tor of the M. E. church of this place. The

bride was attired in a light silk, and looked

as she always does—pretty and happy; of the

groom, of course, we shall not speak, as the

men are always of secondary importance on

such occasions. After the ceremony was com-

pleted, the guests, who were only the imme-

diate relatives of the bride and groom, par-

took of a choice collation. Mr. and Mrs. En-

sign started on their bridal tour, which will

be to several points in thr; State of Ohio, and

will return in the course of a week, when they

will take up their residence in AVoodbridge.

FCXEBAI. OF MKS. DoiiEiirs.—Mrs. Jane

Doremus, whose death was announced in last

week's issue, was buried on Thursday last.

The fnneral services, attended by a large con-

course of friends and relatives, were held-at

her late residence, and were conducted by

llev. S. Lee Hilyc-r, pastor of the Cougrega-

gationid church, assisted by Eev. Geo. C. Lu-

cas, the former pastor, and Eev, Jos. M. Mc-

Nulty. the present pastor of the Presbyterian

church. The remains were interred in the

burying-grouml adjoining the Presbyterian

church. Messrs. John AVhite, Joseph Lock-

wood, Thomas G. Alward, J. Mattison Melick,

Lewis D. Kelly and Edward J. Thompson

acting as pall-bearers.

IT IS FINISHED.—AVe understand that ourfriend, Seth Lockwood, completed a "for-bet-ter-for-worse" contract in the city of Brooklynon the 10th inst., Miss Jaques of that city,formerly of Hallway, being the other "high-contracting party. Further than this our in-formation goeth not, except that the groomwith his beautiful bride expect to spend a few

' days at the great Centennial Exposition, af-! ter which they will return to the parental roofj upon which occasion the fatted calf will be

; tilled. It will be seen by this that greater;. events than the Ohio and Indiana elections- took place on the 10th.

Agent fl'aitfefl.

I A reliable, active business man, wellaeqamt-ed in AVoodbridge and vicinity, can obtain a

I life insurance agency upon most excellentand profitable terms by application through

• the office of the I ^ E E •DI:MT HOLT.. The• company for which tho agency will be givenI is one of the most popular and responsible: companies in the country.

•' IMPHOVEMEXT.—The Church-Yard Coininit-

i tee of the Presbyterian church have nearly' completed the grading of tlio lawn in front of'* the chnreh-yarcl proper, and expect to plantj the same with evergreen and other ornamen-

tal trees; the new ience now erected in frontI of the church will be extended along the en-j tire front of the church property.

STXDAT SCHOOL ANNTVEKSAET.—The anni-

versary exercises of the Sabbath-School of theFirst Congregational church, will be held inthat church on Sunday evening next, at 7o'clock, instead of the regular church services.A cordial invitation is extended to the Sabbathschools of other churches.

I AVOODBKIBGE MILLDJEEY,—Mrs. Ahern begs

| to announce to her patroDs that she is pre-j pared to press straw and felt hats to conform

to the latest styles. All work in her lineexecuted promptly. Booms next door toFreeman's drug store.

Another change has been made in tru* time-table of the Long Branch Railroad, which willbe corrected in our next issue.

ANOTHEI: CHANCE.—Another excursion to

the Centennial -will take place to-day (Thurs-

day). The train will leave this city at 7 A.M.

and returning, leave Philadelphia at 7 P. M.,

reaching here about 10.30 P. M. The fare

for the round trip-will be $2.85, or for children

under twelve SI. GO.

SASTON k AMUOY COAL DOCKS.—The receipts

and shipments for week ending October 17,1870: Received, 18,280.09: shipped, 22,858.10;on hand, 68,408.16.

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Savreville.

New Brunswick followed Col. Hamilton, andafter three times three rousing cheers themeeting adjourned.

This meeting was a decided success inmany respects. The presence of such oldDemocratic "war horses" as Ex-Sheriff Obii-diah Clark, Capt. "Bob" Taylor, JudgeHiggins, Capt. Allen and others, who seemedto enter into the spirit of the campaign withall the vigor of twenty years ago was a goodomen. Two of the speakers were the guestsof Col. and Mrs. Morgan, whose hospitality isproverbial, during the succeeding day, andwill not soon forget the hearty welcome andmany thoughtful attentions received fromthat genial lady and gentleman.

METUCHES. |

Asxeiii&ly Con rent ion. i

The ^Republican Convention to nominate a i

candidate for Assembly in this District has |

been called for Thursday (to-day), at this

place. The nomination, belongs to Piscata-

wfiy this year, and we hear the names of Capt. |

Samuel Blish, Samuel E. Stelle and George I

Drake mentioned. The following rve the j

names of delegates: |

Perth Amboy—John Adair. Christian Brown, jJ. L. Crowell.'C, L. Parker, John Hall. |

Piscataway—Abner Coriell, Samnel B. Mer- jrill. Inslee Boice, Abram Pierce and GeorgeDrake. .

Earitan—Thomas S. A Smith. Charles Wat- json, Gilman T. Coinings, John S. Huyck. jAVm. E. Crowell. j

AVoodbridge—C. M. Crowell, AugustineCampbell, Marcus A. Brown. Abraham" Hoag- iland. " I

Central Baptist Association Con-vention.

The eighth anniversary of the Central Bap-tist Sunday school Convention assembledTuesday morning, in the Eemsen avenueBaptist Church. There was a fair attendanceand a full representation from the Sundayschools connected with the organization.

Eev. Dr. Smith of the First Baptist Churchof this city called the Convention to order, |and Mr. John T. Morgan was chosen tempor- !

ary chairman. The reports from the schoolsas fiir as heard from give 33 officers, 112teachers and 1168 scholars. A repast wasprepared by the ladies in the Sabbnth schoolroom, and was partaken of by about 130guests.

As we go to press, we hear that delegatesand visitors are constantly arriving, and thatthe meeting in the evening will be very largelyattended.

CUeesequakes All Alive.Applegate's Hotel, at the month of Cheese-

quakes Creek, was the scene on Saturdayevening last of a demonstration unequalledin the history of that ancient hostelry. Thatindefatigable Democratic worker, Col. J. B.Morgan, had put up the posters, and endeav-ored to rally the "unterrified," in order tobold {hejir.it xnoliticsil meeting ever assembledat this well-known resort of sporting men.Soon after dark a bonfire was kindled on thebench, lighting up the old hotel, silvering thewater, and bringing into bold relief the darkcedars which line the blnff. At eight o'clockabout 250 persons had assembled and themeeting was organized by the election of Col.Morgan as Chairman, who made a shortspeech, in opening, from ihe hotel balcony,and introduced Peter K. Edgur of AVodbridge.JIv. Edgar spoke for about twenty minutes,and was followed by Col. M. K, Hamilton, ofthe Elizabeth Herald, who made one of hisfamous campaign speeches. "Morry" is greaton "figgers," and he made a telling exhibit ofthe manner in which ex-Secretary Boutwellfixed up his accounts. At the close of theColonel's remarks the andienee were greatlyamused by the appearance of a band of wan-dering minstrels who had been impressedinto the service, and gave some very good,lively music. It is not definitely known whoemployed the musicians, but an Ex-Sheriff ofthe comity is under suspicion. Col. Cone of

Shooting Watch.The regular monthly meeting of the Midway

Shooting Club will take place on Tuesdaynext, October 17th, at Applegate's Hotel, atthe mouth of Cheesequakes Creek. The lead-ing feature of tho day's sport will be a contestbetween Charles Applegate and William Dun-lap for the Club badge. A sweepstakes willbe contested for in which all the members ofthe Club and visitors will be permitted toenter. Trains will arrive at Morgan stationas follows: from the North, 9:21 A. M. and12.51 P. M., from the South, 7:47 A. M. and12:29 P. M.

This Association is composed of some of thebest marksmen in the State, and the contestsare interesting to all lovers of good shooting.The Secretary requests a full attendance ofthe members.

OLD BRIDGE.

The sloop J. T. Harrison of South River,while lying at the docks at this place with acargo of coal on board, sprang hersianchionson Monday night, emptying the deck load inthe river.

Genial Sam Spencer has left the "WaysideInn" of his paternal relative to engage inbusiness in New York.

The chicken disease has made its appear-ance on the farms around our village.

Mr. B. C. Pierson has sold his farm, andwill remove to Elizabeth. S.

JAMESBUKG.

BASE BALL.—The AVhite Stars of this placewere defeated by the second nine Olympicson Saturday last by a score of 47 to 18. Um-pire, J. C. Cozzens of Spotswood. Time ofgame. 2 hours 40 minutes.

The excursion of the I. O. O. P. to theCentennial on the 5th inst. was the largestthat has taken place from this district. AlleDJoyecl themselves exceedingly, and nothingoccurred to mar the pleasure of the day.

to jAssembly Convention.

The Republican Convention for the ThirdAssembly District of Middlesex County as-sembled at James Higgins' Hotel, Monmouthjunction on Saturday last and nominatedPeter fisher, Jr., of Savreville.

STATE NEWS.

The New York Dispatch says a massmeeting of New Jersey TurMes has beencalled for the 19th inst., at Trenton, totake action in reference to the approach-ing Thanksgiving day.

It is said that tho snipe shooting atPine Brook, Essex county is now excel-lent, the late rains having raised thewater sufficiently to afford the birdsfeeding grounds.

The American Bible Society Recordacknowledges the receipt of $115 fromthe Burlington County Society, forBibles; from Atlantic, $95.70; and fromGloucester, §165.88.

The Central Kailroad Company lastweek carried 1,779,561 tons of coal, an.increase of 33,739 over the correspond-ing week of 1875. It stood third in thelist this year and was fifth last year.

The annual meeting of the MonmouthCounty Bible Society will be held thisCentennial year in the historic Tennentchurch, on the 2d of November. Ber..A. I3. CoVb, pastor of the old eb-urch,will preach the sermon.

The thirteenth annual exhibition ofthe Burlington county AgrifiiuturalSociety, at Mount Holly, on Tuesdayand Wednesday, was a great successin the display cf articles and superiorstock of horsea

The Cape May Republican CountyConvention will be. held at the Com!House on Saturday, the 14tli inst., attwo o'clock P. M., for the nomination,of candidates for State Senator and,member of Assembly.

The pastoral relations between the-Eev. Dr. E. P. Terhuue and the FirstReformed Church of Newark were for-mally dissolved on "Wednesday. Dr.Terhune will go to Europe with hiswife, for the sake of whose health heresigned his position.

G-EAIIBPA'S SOLILOQUIES.

It wasn't so v.'hen I was young,We used plain language then;

We didn't speak of "them galloots,"TiTien meaning Troys or men.

When speaking of the nice hand-writeOf Joe, or Tom, or Bill,

We did it plain—we didn't say,"He swings a nasty quill.''

And vvlien we seed a gal we liked."Who never tailed to please.

AVe railed hei pretty, neat and good.But not "about the cheese,"

Well, when we met a good old friendWe hadn't lately seen,

We greeted him—but didn't Kay,"Hello, you old sardine."

The boys sometimes got mad, and fit!"We spolie of t icks and blows;

But now they "whaci: him in the snoot,''Or "paste Mm on the nose."

And, when a yonth, was turned awayFrom her he loved most dear,

He walked off on his feet, but now.He "crawls oft'on his ear."

We used to dance when I was young,And iiried to call it so;

But now they don't, they only—"slingThe light fantastic toe."

Of death we speak in language plum.That no one vdll perplex;

But in these days one doesn't die.He passes in his "checks.''

We praised the man of common sense:His judgment good we said:

But now they say, "well that old planeHas got a lovely head."

It's rather sad, the children nowAre learning all such talk:

They're learned to "chin" instead of chat,And "waltz" instead of walk.

To little Harry, yesterday—My grandchild aged two—

I Said "you love grandpa," said he,"Ton bet your boots I do."

The children bowed to strangers once:It is no longer so:

The little girls as well as boys,Now greet you with "Hello."

O, give me tack the good old days•When both the old and young

Conversed in plain old fashion words.And slang was never "slung,"

THE CUREESTCY

7b the Editor of •'The Independent Hour:"

A few misprints mar my last com-munication. In question 16 "referen-tially" should be "inferentially." Inquestion 18 "good" should be "gold."In the thirty-sixth, paragraph severalwords are omitted between "been" and"saddled." In the 37th "resort" shouldbe "retort." '

I shall remark briefly on T's articlein yours of Sept. 28, in which he againtwice asserts that the National banknotes cost millions of gold in taxes an-nually. This can only mean the inter-est they collect on their bonds, and howthey could ever justly have been de-prived of this, or how it could have beenretained in the treasury, I am unable tosee.

His third paragraph is a clear case ofnon seqaiiur. "The makers and control-lers of the currency" are accused of"constantly throttling each other andthe community by means of their BlackFridays." &c, &c.

The makers and controllers (?) of thecurrency had about as much to do withanything of the sort as the Parliamentof Great Britain. His epithets are allbuncombe and amount to nothingagainst facts and arguments, supportedby authority, which lie seems unable topresent.

His fourth paragraph opens up a ques-tion which has been almost forgotten.At the time when the greenbacks werefirst issued, all the State banks were inexistence and the question arose how todispose o" their issues so as not to con-flict with the greenbacks, for it was evi-dent that whatever amount of these theGovernment might issue," the Statebanks would also enlarge their issues inproportion, the Government notes be-ing a legal tender.

It was to meet this that the Nationalcurrency system was devised, to inducethe State banks to come in under thatsystem, and do by an appeal to theirself-interest what could scarcely havebeen done by legislating out of exist-ence their rights under the States. Itis not too much too assert that any ac-tion of the latter sort would have weak-ened the National cause with the mostloyal State.

We had, therefore, to face all the con-sequences, not only of an inflation oflegal tenders, but a corresponding infla-tion of the issues of the local banks,and at that period it was without doubti\ wise measure to limit and restrict theamount to be issued of the Nationalbank currency, although that limitationwas repealed none too soon.

While I do not doubt "had the orig-inal oreenbacks been continued, that assoon as any were not needed for curren-cy they would have been absorbed bythe six per cent, five-twenties," I verymuch doubt whether the time would

ever come, in the sense "T". means it.when they would not be needed. It isonly necessary to glance at the goldrates for that period to be able to im-agine the depreciation which must haveresulted from any further inflation.The result is not problematical either,four the Southern States pursued exact-ly the plan laid down by '"T" and woknow what their currency ended m."X" has read the lessons of history tovery little purpose if he supposes acountry can create money without capi-tal. As long as the United States couldborrow gold, at whatever price, its cur-rency had a value at home; abroad itwas worthless.

The French assiguats and the Revo-lutionary Continental money were ofthe same character, and it was only bylimiting the issues of our greenbacksthat we saved them from a similar fate.

"T" would do well to peruse care-fully the messages of Samuel .7. Tildenas Governor of the State of New York,in Jan. 1875 and Jan. 1876. on thisquestion. I here quote a few extracts :

"The illusion is too common that anadditional issue of currency in legaltenders or bank notes would alleviatethe distress now felt in business."

"The hope of benefits to tiny classfrom such an unsound policy wouldprove to be completely fallacious. Itwould prolong and intensify the evilssought to be alleviated."

"The want felt is a want of capitalwhich the party does not own and hasnot the credit to borrow, not a lack ofcurrency."

"If an embarrassed person could ob-tain the Government bonds surrenderedor deposited, he would be as much re-lieved by his power to dispose of themas he would by a power to dispose oflegal tenders or "bank notes. His diffi-culty is that he is equally unable to ob-tain either. He has not the means tobuy or the credit to borrow them."(Message. Jan.. 1875).

"It, is often assumed that the banks :even when redeeming their notes incoin, can expand their issues in excess •of the needs of the community and jthereby originate and consummate a ;

general and prolonged rise of prices.An analysis of the function of the con- :vertible bank note or of the processes iby which cycles of high prices occur ;will equally confute this opinion." ;(Message, Jan.. 1870). \

In his fifth paragraph a qustion is :asked which I have fully answered; his |(my) favorite system, as -'T" is pleased .to call it, is no way responsible for the :panic. I take the ground, and I thinl: ''•"T" has admitted as much, that panics Imay occur under any system. The ;wildest and most unreasoning men in :

such times are those who have neither jcurrency nor capital but owe notes they icannot pay. And why, pray, could not iWall street operators play similar tricks ';with any other currency ? It was the jlocking up of the capital which the cur- j

• rency represented which caused the !; difficulty. Just as when Jackson with- |I held the deposits from the old United Ii States banks, everybody who was a jj borrower was ruined, until the capital jI began afterward to make its appearance !i through the medium of State banks. 'j ° :

I and that was but a short livedresniTi'C- \\ tion. I| "T" doesn't appear able to distinguish j

capital from currency. Currency is jcapital, but capital is not currency, jWhen a man deposits currency it lie-comes capital represented by bankcredit, and he expects to be able at willto convert it again into currency. If heis unable to do so the bank fails, and ifa bank fails it is either from deficiencyof capital or that its capital, too muchof it, is loaned out.

In either ease the depositor mustawait the liquidation or resumption ofthe bank. It is quite easy to say thata well managed bank should not getinto such a position, but it is also safeto say that no bank would fail if theofficers possessed the necessary fore-sight to anticipate what demands weregoing from tune to time to be madeupon it, but so long as banks are con-ducted by finite minds there will al-ways be failures.

Concerning, his seventh paragraph itmay be of no consequence what "T" ormyself consider the duty of a bank offi-cer, but it is of considerable conse-quence, whether he does what is hisduty, and that not to one depositor butto all. The depreciation of twenty-fiveto fifty per cent, in State bank noteswas for greenbacks, and so expresslystated.

To his ninth and tenth paragraphs Iheartily assent. "Why" indeed "shouldnot local banks do it" exactly "as theydo now?"

The "favorite few" referred to in his13th, were simply the first comers. I

«ec no favoritism in that, but the reverse.In his fourteenth the elements of

power and safety are unknown quanti-ties, and no attempt to force interestdown is likely to succeed since it neverhas succeeded.

His sixteenth and seventeenth arepuerile. "What are sworn statementsbut matters of individual knowledgeand belief? The worst insolvencies arethose which have been supported bysworn statements.

I T's communication i>i Oct. ."ill. is so: moderate in tone that I have no dispo-1 sition to disturb the serenity which he: evidently feels. He kindly forgives me. for a few offensive remarks made uponi being directly accused of falsehood,| passes over personalities elicited bv his

• direct, contradictions of my statements.; without a word of proof to support• those contradictions, and confesses gen-| erally his ignorance on the subject.: which 1 was already well aware of.i Tiie fact is, "T" has erected iurn's fer-i tile imagination a bugbear, christened

by him "National currency system,which bears no more resemblance tothe real thing than an earthquake to a

i fire-cracker. That creature of his iiu-: agination I have no hope to demolish• or to defend. The National enrreiiey| act as it was and is. I shall show to be a; boon to the country.s As to the taxation of tT. S. bonds• when they bseome bank capital, he can! inform lrimsoli' bv stepping into the; nearest National bank. The fact is siiu-: ply that municipal authorities do as-

sume to levy the local County and Statetaxes upon the entire capital of Nationalbanks, notwithstanding it is invested inXT. S. bonds, while those who do notpledge their bonds for National curren-cy are exempted. Here is a plain dis-crimination against National banks. Idon't know what evasion I have- prac-tised cm this question. I have repeat-edly and distinctly stilted the fact. Itis not to be supposed I am to prove anaffirmative which is so easily confirmed."T" has denied the statement repeatedlywithout a particle of proof even allegingthat I assorted what every one (myselfincluded. I suppose.) knew to be un-true. "T" is not half so wise or intelli-gent VT well posted as lie has heretoforeconsidered himself, that is all.

He does not answer my second orthird questions at all. The standardnever was gold but legal tender notes,and New York stock quotations do notmake the bonds there quoted of "worldwide value."

In answering my fourth lie is mis-taken. The first issues of greenbackswere paid, out at home, and bonds weresold at a heavy discount to meet foreignobligations. Gold did not rise above anominal premium until June, 18G2, andthe sixes of 1S81 were sold at a discountoi seven to fifteen per cent. The earliestissues of government currency werecertificates of indebtedness, compoundinterest notes and seven-thirties.

To my tenth his answer indicates anentire misconception on his part of thepowers and duties of bank officers. Irefer him to the extracts from Mr. Til-den, above quoted. Banks have nopower to make money plenty, neitherdo they contract it to increase their ownprofits. Had they that power, contrac-tion would diminish their profits, notincrease them.

Eleventh auswer. Since the firstNational banks were largely made upof State banks, which were no way ex-eluded from any of the privileges offer-ed, and since the other National bankswere composed of "individuals," I donot see but everybody had a fair chance.

Twelfth. Calhoun was sound enoughin his time, but his time was a littledifferent from ours. The system ofsecuring currency by pledge of govern-ment bonds had not yet been invented.As to the building of expensive bankinghouses, it is not generally regarded asan unmitigated evil. We spend largeamounts of rnoney on public buildingsand parks and deem it wen invested.If shareholders in banks so invest theirprofits, with good taste and discretion, jthe public is every way the garner. As jto vast fortunes accumulated in the !banking business, I apprehend that Imainly is the result of a principle which jwe impecunious ones vainly strive to |combat—the principle of accumulativeinterest. We would all be wealthybankers if we could, and to find fault Iwith the successful smacks of agrarian- jism. I

Thirteenth. That was always an jopen question. In Paris they punish, jmen for getting run over, here they icommiserate them. i

Fourteenth. Good advice, but some- <times hard to follow.

Sixteenth. In "T's" twelfth para- •graph of September 21, he says the jbanks "refused to give out their own ;

notes, setting their creditors at defiance."If this does not inft-rentially assert thatthey had unlimited power to issue theirown notes, what does it mean. I saythey did not refuse to give out then-own notes. Their own notes werealready, as well as the greenbacks, inother hands.

j Seventeenth. I confess my inability; to understand this. National notes; never depreciated any to my knowledge,

except as greenbacks are said to do, in1 comparison with gold and no more or\ further.i Eighteenth. The sense of it was to.' substitute a currency wluch should beI recognized in any State and to keep in; the country the bonds which the gov-

ernment had sold to its capitalists. "T"'. assumes that the government could; have forced its own notes, bearing no. interest, on the bond holders in exchange

for tlieh- bond*. In this ho is mistaken.: The <*'..vernment had already issued all

the greenbacks it dared to issue, and'• gold .rose to 285 in July. l.Sfi-i, for those: same convertible ji'reeiibackH.

It was about this time that the Statebanks were encouraged to come underthe National system by beiii£ allowed t<:retain their distinctive names.

Nineteenth." It proves itself, livervcapitalist lias the power to fix the priceof his money. If he can get it, he getsit out of the products of industry.That banks differ from other capitalist;;,is a delusion "T" cannot seem to get ridof, nor can lie yet master that other de-lusion that by some hook or crook thethe government could have saved theinterest oil the money it had borrowed,but for the National banks.

20. How about the wl.wk.-,* basi,!,..-,.and the tobacco busm~« rind i-; tinssurveillance in the interest ot' the banksor of the public? Still harping, ^c.. c\'e.

21. A mm *-»,ni,,r.23. What does lie want; An afii<-.a-

vit of an iins;,-,.-;..r? LouifiJlv. "Ulnviu

CHAB.LS8 FSAHCIS ADAMS AND THEADAMS FAMILY.

that first calls lor proof, if mv asser-tions arc nni'otnidcd let fliem be dis-

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tion and enlarging their market thatthe National currency system wasdevised, ami it did. if.

25. The parries wanted to u-et old toNew York without paying expresscharges on it at a time when gold wasgoing out of the country, and as yetonly at a nominal premium in NewYork. And this is offered to prove thatgreenbacks were once "worth more"than gold. It won't do. However, likethe cotton speculation it turned outwell.

I am not solicitous to pursue thequestion of age. We are either of usokl enough to know more than we do."T" is, I am sura.

His twenty-seventh paragraph pre-sents a picture which would be alarm-ing if it were true. Fortunately it isnot. Sir Boyle Eoche himself couldnot have made a worse mixture of hismetaphors.

I assure your correspondent "T" thatI am more amused than "riled," andhaving now drawn out this correspond-ence to a considerable and perhapswearisome length, I shall, if "T" lias Inothing further to say, take leave of it !in my next by endeavoring to show insomewhat of detail what the Nationalcurrency act has accomplished to "enti-tle its founder to fame." U.

THE GRANAKY OF THE WORLD.—Thecorn crop of Kansas increased from17,000,000 bushels in 1874, to 80,000,-000 in 1875. This sort of news is cer-tainly tantalizing to the observer andthinker, who knows that to the East-ward, and especially in the cities, scarce-ly half the households have the barrelof flour half full enough for even mode-rate needs. Why should grain be lyingto rot hi the West, and men, women andchildren starving here among us?—Where are the omnipresent Grangers,whose peculiar mission is to set suchthings right by the means of an im-proved sj'stein of political economy?the young man cannot better it by go-ing West, for he will only be producingmore cereals there to rot and waste.The evil is not of natural cause, for Na-ture is as bountiful as ever.

xV MAX or TITLE.—The head of theScottish house of Murray, generallyknown as the Duke of Athol, a youngman of tnirty-six, holds one dulcedoin,two marquisates, five earldoms, threetitles as viscount, and twelve as baron—twenty-thres titles in all—six more thanany . other nobleman in the UnitedKingdom.

It lias been a query with many peo-ple what Charles Francis Adams'poli-tics are, especially now that he isthe nominee of the Democratic partyfor Governor of Massachusetts. TheAdams family are very high-tonedand have been very peculiar—intheir politics and religion. The sons of 'Chas, Francis are all, we believe, ad-herents of the Democratic party. OLL•John Adams, the Kevolatioiiary patriot,and grandfather of Chaw. Francis, wasa Federalist of the straitesfc sect, but bvhis dogmatic character and want of po-litical tact, he managed to destroy thatparty, so far as the shaping of nationalafiairs was concerned, breaking with itsgreatest leader, Alexander Hamilton,and going constantly against his advice.

John Quiiiey Adams, father of Charles,though a very able statesman and learn-ed man, having no equal as a parlia-mentarian, destroyed his own party andrendered his administration ineffectivein a great measure, by hiw keeping hispolitical enemies in office under himthe worst policy any party in powercan pursue, the so-called "civil servicereform" to the contrary untwithstawd-ing. They undermined his adminis-tration and politically wrecked lii.swarmest friends. He made, however,an excellent President, and his owncharacter while in office, and ever after-ward during his long official life, wasabove suspicion. History accords bin;the merit of having been one of ihrbest of our Presidents, notwithstanding-his eixor of jndgr,iM;' hi iii, .-.-.•L-i-ii.-iu ui'

Chas. i'i-aiicis Adams was a. Win;.:

i;s;u. wiu-n he WHS elected to the Mas-sachusetts Legislature, to 1887. whenhe Wt the State Senate, "her;;.;,;. ,, p-,v--

]'"'••-:? !«!"> f i 1 8 1 8 h e e d i t e d a var,, v ; ; ,

t h e m U - r e s t of i n * p a r t v . a n d wlic-n th<-

iu'pnblican parly eauie into beiim- heislentitici Hm cL1.' v.irh it. He we-elected as a• .l!epnb!icaii to ('nnrn-f.ps j-ii

j-ni)',; Hiidrt-prestiiLtul tJie dis t r ic t so lonu"

the home of his fathe:-. He opposed th:renomination of ~Sh: "Lincoln in 1S04-iilthough Le was not understood to liein favor of JMcOellan's eketiou. H>took httle part in Hie canvass ar (-Seiier i(irant's binl eleciiiMi. Li 1872 lie ••Li-beralized,'' and is now a pronouncedfriend oi! Governor Tilden. as the fo1-loyvnig i-?uiLiet i'roiu a ^jjee-cli recently

delivered by him will show: "The.Republicans are very fond of sayingwhat Governor Hayes nM do if elected;the Democrats can point to what Gov-ernor Tilden hat done."

HIS GSOTTND E0R DIV0E0E.

A Kaleigh lawyer was interviewedyesterday by an agriculturist living a

score of miles from the city, who saidhe wanted to secure a divorce fromhis wife.

"You don't live happy with her, eh ?"'inquired the attorney.

"No; we don't seem to hitch wuth acent," was the quiet reply.

'•'Does she scolel and fret, and makeyour home a hell upon earth, so tospeak ?"continued the lawyer.

"That's her exactly.""And you are prepared to prove that

you have a peaceful disposition, andthat you have done everything youcould to make home pleasant?"

"You bet, I am! Anybody as knowsme will swear that I wouldn't hurt aflea, and that I move around home likean angel."

""Well, I guess wo can make out acase," said the lawyer as he took up hispen and began to jot down the points.After a moment he inquired:

"Do you think your wife will contest,the case? Has she any defense?"

"Waal, now, I never thought of that,"slowly replied the farmer. "I didn'tknow as she had anything to say aboutit."

"She may have. Has she am- groundsfor complaint against you?"

"I don't know much about law," an-swered the client in a hesitating way."I know I've got a hankering after hersister Marier, and her sister Maiier hasa hankering after me, but whether themis good grounds for complaint I don'tknow!"

The lawyer hasn't filed a bill yet.

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NAVIGATING WITH A KITE.—The Roches-ter Union says: "A young man livingon Hawthorne street, at tke Highlands,took a trip of a mile out in the harbor theother day, on his back, in the water, be-ing towed by a kite; He then entered aboat which, followed, and made success-ful experiments with the kite for a, sail.

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One Liuidred and six yeai-s ago a shipfrom England put in at Cranberry Inlet,seventy miles below Sandy- Hook. Asshe could not get over the "bar againvvLen going away next day, part oi hercargo vf as transferred to a schooner andits care given to a passenger the Rev.John Murray, once a Methodist minis-ter, who, alter losing his wife and chil-dren in England, determined to discon-tinue preaching and find rest in theIsew World. The day before lie hadstrolled about on the shore, and, atGood Luck, he found one Thomas Pot-ter, who, although he could neitherread nor write, had the Scriptures readto him, and had built a rough log houseas a place of worship. Methodistscoveted it, as well as Presbyterians andBaptists, but he declared all men were -alike before God, and would not listento an_y sectarian doctrines.

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AFTEII MABKIAGGE PHILOSOPHY.—You

love me no long'er," said a bride of a fewmonths to her "better-half in Iris gown andslippers.

"Why do you say that, Puss ?" heasteel, quietly removing a cigar fromhis lips.

"Y«u do not caress me, nor call me petnames; you no longer seek so anxiouslyfor my company," was the tearfulanswer.

"My dear," continued the aggravatingwretch, "did you ever notice a man run-ning after a car ? How he does run !—over stones, through mud, regardless 01everything till he reaches the car; thenhe seizes hold and swings on. Then hequietly seats himself and reads hispaper."'

"And what does that mean V""An illustration, my dear. The car is

as important to the man after he gets inas when he is chasing it, but the manifes-tation is no longer called for. I wouldhave shot any one who put himself in myway when in pursuit of yon, as I wouldnow shoot any one who would come be-tween us; but as a proof of my love youinsist upon my running after the car."

The Parisians are appalled at therapid spread of "American institutions"in their midst. Noting the universaltendency, the Charivari, in a recentnumber, exclaims:

We are Americanizing ourselves.We have already the republic, -which

is a good enough beginning.We have the American circus.We have the American street rail-

way.Before six months three grand theatres

will be playing American pieces.Bars on the American plan have be en

established all over Paris.The American style of stealing is be-

ing largely introduced.Presently the new world will have

nothing' left to excite our envy.I YiTe suppose that before long Amer-I ican evistonis will be introduced alto-j gether in France, and that we shall seeI our young ladies jumping into crowded! omnibuses and seating themselves onj the knees of the passengers.

When Mrs. Van Auken installed aChinaman in her Idtchen, "What is yourname, sir?" asked she. "Oh! my nameAh Sin Poo." "But I can't rememberJill that lingo, my man. I'll call youJimmy." "Telly welle. Now, whatchenamee I callee you '?" "Well, my nameis Mrs. Yan Auken: call me that."Oh! me can no 'member Missee YanneAuken. Too big piece namee. I calleeyou Tommv—Missee Tommy."

She owns a number of cottages andfarms at Long Branch; the one inwhich she dwells was built by EdwinBooth, and, in its large parlor he wasmarried. It is profusely ornamentedwithin with paintings, statuary, object*d'art, rare and costly volumes andespecially with' quaint and beautifularticles of Jajaanese manufacture.—Among her books is one of the threecopies of BoydeU's 1793 edition ofShalrspeare—a huge volume containinga hundred steel plates and valued atseveral hundred dollars. A strikingpicture of an English Tillage with n-crowded mass of picturesque houses, anivy-hung church, an antique bridge anda crumbling castle, is Knaresborough,in Yorkshire, where the actress's moth-er was born. All the evidences of anaffectionate domestic spirits are abun-dant in this little artist's abode; and theuanie is true of the other homes of theplayer folk at Long Branch. Childrenmake nieray in their roomy halls; gray-haired parents sit at the hospitableboard; the house-dog barks and the chic-kens cluck and the cattle low about thesehomes as about the homes of other goodand gentle people. For the most partthey are somewhat remote from the garscene which looks on the sea, wherepleasure holds her coiu-t in hotel par-lors on the lawns where the brass bandsblare, and up and down the drive. Theplayers rather favor a quieter mode ofrife in summer than that which is x op-ular with the majority of visitors toLong Branch. They like to be near it,but they are seldom of it. Their timeis passed • in home hospitaltiies in theentertainment of their friends, in read-ing the long .summer hours away ontheir piazzas or loling in tree swunghammocks, and in driving about thecounty in cozy family carriages, ratherthan in the feverish atmosphere of fash-ionable ball-rooms, the daily gambol inthe surf, or the exciting delights of thegaming-table.—OLIVE LOGAN, in Har-pers Magazine.

Law, in her highest essence, is theperfection of goodness, justice and wis-dom; her voice is the harmony of theworld, and her seat is the bosom ofGod.

A HAPPY COUPLE.—A man should al-ways be a little older, a little braver, alittle stronger, a little wiser and a littlemore in love with her than she is withhim. A woman should always be a lit-tle younger, and a little prettier, and alittle more considerate than her hus-band. He should bestow upon her hisworldly goods; and she should take goodcare of them. He may owe her everycare and tendernss that affection canprompt; but pecuniary inbedtedness toher will become a burden. Better liveon a crust that he earns, than a fortuneshe lias brought him. Neither must bejealous nor give the other cause forjealousy—neither must encourage senti-mental friendships with the oppositesex. Perfect confidence with each other,and reticence concerning then1 mutual af-fairs even to members of their own fami-lies, is a first necessity. A wife shoulddress herself becomingly whenever sheexpects to meet her husband's eye. Theman should not grow slovenly, even athome. Fault-finding, long arguments,or scolding, ends the happiness that be-gins in kisses and love-making. Loversare lovers no longer after disturbancesoccur, and married people who are notlovers are bound by red hot chains.If a man admires liiswife most in stripedcalico, she is silly not to wear it. Theseare somebodj's notions, which we findfloating around.

A correspondent of the ScientificAmerican does not think that the eggsof grasshopers are much affected bymoisture or cold, but that "if all crops,when sown, were as sure of a bountifulharvest as grasshopper eggs, Kansasaid societies would soon be out of busi-ness." He says: "As to the sack whichcontains the eggs being affected bymoisture I will quote au instance: Inthe fall of 1867 the grasshoppers depos-ited eggs on a dry slough on the Mis-souri river; early in the spring the placewas overflowed, and remained underwater till late in the summer of 1868,when it dried up, and the young ho]>pers came out just as lively and able-bodied as if they had been hatchedunder the most favorable circumstances.As to their being affected by freezing(as I have seen stated at different times)in the winters of 1874-5 the mercuryranked as low as 2S degrees below zero,and the ground was frozen to the depthof 2 1-2 feet; but the young hoppercame out as gaily and festively as if hehad lain in a greenhouse all winter,though the eggs did not average aninch under ground."

A barrel of Hour produces, on tinaverage, 2^8 loaves of bread, weighing18 ounces each.

TE338 OP STJBSCEiraCffl :

Per Week .5Vex Month ,2O Cfcnf.xPer Annum S'i.OO. hi Advance

A. W. JONES, Editor and Mmxtr/cr.

W00D3EIDGE, THUE3DAY, OCT. 12, 1S7S.

SEGOUD ASSEMBLY DISTRICT TJEMO-CEATIC CONVENTION.

The Delegates of the Second Assembly Dis-trict of Middlesex County (consisting of thetownships of Woodbridge, Perth Amboj-,Raritan and Piseatavay), will meet in Con-vention at L. -J. Tsypptm's Hotel, Bonhanitcnvn.on MONDAY, OCTOBER 16, at 2 o'clock, P.31, for the purpose of nominating a candidatefor the Assembly for said District.

WEIGHT ROBINS,

Chairman of Last Convention.•Metnehen. Oct. (j, 70.

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PUBLIC NOTICE.NOTICE IS HKHEHY GIVEN THAT THE S B a -

AXNTAL INTEREST, DUE OCTOBER THE l.ST,

1 8 7 6 , U P O N COUPON OEKTincATES O F r>T-

1>EBTEDXSSE O1T 'CITE " INDEPENDENT H o T E . "

WILL BK PAID T)PON PRESENTATION.' AT THIS

OFFICE.

A. W. JONES,Editor and JIana;;f):

HEW JERSEY CENTRAL.It certainly must be very cutting- to

the pride of John Taylor Johnston, tobe forced, from the necessity of thecase, from the Presidency of the NewJersey Central Railroad. He has grownup •with, the road; indeed, he has madeit what it is, and although he may havepersonally accumulated millions in itsgrowth, yet it is none the less cutting tosurrender the helm to other hands. Itis represented that he looks thirty yearsolder within the last year, and well hemight, to see Ms ambition, his fortuneand his position winch he has beenyears in obtaining fall within a fewmonths.

Whether the great fall in New JerseyOentral has been occasioned "by mis-management or real imsoundness ofthe Company, matters not; it is down,and could only be resuscitated by anew management and the introductionof new capital. This has been affectedby the retirement of Sir. Johnston, andit is now claimed that the New JerseyCentral will not only be saved from thehands of a receiver, but will recoverfom its severe financial stroke.

The new management seems to indi-cate new connections and corporaterelations with the North Pennsylvania,Reading, and Baltimore and Ohio Rail-roads, and then1 connections, which, ifso, will undoubtedly prove a growingand permanent advantage. The Centralhas been heretofore simply a local roadand unable to compete with the greatthrough lines, and now that it has beenswallowed up by larger corporations, itmay Jose its identity, but will save themoney of the honest stockholder.

Big rish may eat little fish .with im-punity, but when big iish are by bigfish eaten in return, then stand fromunder.

SAVE ME ESGM MY FRIENDS.Upon the appearance of Governor Tilden's

letter of acceptance, "\ve toolc occasion, underriie title of "The T\yo Letters of Acceptance."to make certain comments which were notpartisan in their tendencies, and for whichour neighbor of the Middlesex County Deino-rrat aceuses us of''political squirming."

This mild and elegant charge was, no doubt,made in real solicitude for Governor Tilden.but it bore npon its faee an animus whichseemed to accuse us of party infidelity, be-cause as an independent journalist we didnot choose to embody our individual partis-anism in these editorial comments.

We publish below a verbatim extract fromthe Democrat of the 7fch inst., and between«nr article above referred to and the followint;•extract, we are perfectly willing to let the-people decide who is the best friend of Gov-ernor Tilden.

Mr. Tilden, with many other distinguishedmen of our own and other countries, leanedtoward the South, during the contest; but he•was none the less an American. And now,that section naturally gives him its unitedsupport. It goes solid for him. There hasi>een a disposition among the timid friends ofMr. Tilden to deny that he was opposed tothe war. But JMr. Tilden, himself, has- neversanctioned such a denial. He stands nowwhere he stood from 1861 to 1865—opposed toa war for coeremjj the dissatisfied States of theUnion to remain in it. 3»Ir. Tilden is still a-t;oocl, old-fashioned, States-right Democrat ofthe John G. Calhoun stripe; and the Presi-dency cannot tempt him to forswear his faith.And that is why the people like him. Thatis why they will vote for him. He refuses allimportunities to mate him say that the inva-sion of the Houth was justifiable; because hebelieves it was not justifiable.

If Governor Tilden should read this andbelieve it could nave any effect upon thepublic mind, lie would jnstlj- exclaim "Saveme from my friends."

^'e deny, "sqtiirmer' though we may be,that Samuel -J. Tilden is of the ':John C. Cal-houn stripe;" nothing in his past record orpresent attitude could place him in thatpolitical catalogue.

New school eloquence—College oar-

HUDSON COUNTY DEMGCKAT.

This old Democratic journal which wasfounded by tht late A. O. Evans, and by himfor many years ably conducted has recentlyparsed into the hands oi'Hon. Josephus Shann.Since the death of 3Ir. Eraas the Demomiichanged its political coat and became Repub-lican hut now it will be turned buck againinto the '•straight and narrow way" of Democ-racy.

Neither the Democrat nor the new editor areunknown to political fame in this State. Thylatter made his public debut as the editor ofa Democratic paper and has only been out ofthe harness for a few years past. In rcissum-ing the old "gear." therefore, he is perfectlyat home, and the party to which ho has beena life-long adherent need not fear any hr.lk orstandstill in the Democratic wagon.

Mr. Shann assumed control of the Ih-inocraiand made his first issne on the 7th inst. Helias certainly a wide and promising field forpolitical as well as business operations, andwith his experience as n journalist, his busi-ness aptitude and personal "winning ways,"he will undoubtedly improve every opportu-nity.

We extend a hearty fritterna! welcome.. —*$-.«.<£» .».^E»~-

LAID OVER.We regret to announce that the Internation-

al Sabbath School Lesson is necessarily laidover until next week for the want of spaceThis has not occurred before, and we will seeto it that it does not occur again. We appre-ciate the fact that a large number of onr sub-scribers will be disappointed, but the lessonwill still be in advance of the time, as wealways publish two weeks ahead.

Also, our contribution of " CentennialChronicles," and "Secular Sermons" must luyover until next week. They will keep, how-ever, and our readers may anticipate muchpleasure in their perusal.

Pen Sketches of Public Men.jot

OHIO AMD INDIANA ELECTIONS.

We glean the following facts fromthe dispatches to the New York morn-ing papers of yesterday :

(From the World.)In Indiana the indications invariably are

that the Democrats have curried the Statefrom 10,000 to 20,000 majority, the greenbackvote being considerable less than was antici-pated.

At the same time the Democrats fully holdtheir own in the Congressional districts.

In Ohio, heavy Democratic gains are report-ed from Cleveland. Toledo, Columbus andCincinnati. So heavy, indeed, as iruite toovercome the narrow majority, of Hayes lastyear, and—unless the Republican vote in therural districts should be far heavier than thereis any expectation of its being—to ensure theState to the Democracy by from 3,000 to 5,000votes. Barnes, Republican, seems to haverun considerably behind his ticket, as it wasexpected he would.

The vote polled to-day is everywhere largerthan last year's vote. So far as we have re-ports we gain largely in the wards and town-ships of this (Franklin) County, Bo far ascounted we think our gain in the city andcounty will be 1,500. The scattering returnswe have received from various parts of theState look as if the Democracy had carried theState.

THE ASSOCIATED ri tESS O>~ THE STAXK.

COLUMBUS, October 10.—Returns from 021towns show gains for Barnes (Rep) over thevote for Governor last year of 7.910, and ofBell (Dem.) G.S'M, being a net Republicangain of 1,014. If the rest of the State showsthe same relative gain the Republican ma-jority in the State will reach nearly 10,000.If, however, Cuyahoga county should give aDemocratic gain of 2,000, as claimed, andHamilton county should also give furtherDemocratic gains, this majority will be cutdown to about what it was last year.

The Republican committee claims 5,500.while the Democratic committee claims theState by a still larger majority.

(From the Ileraki.)

John F. Cockerill, of the Cmcinnati J-Jw/uirer,believes that the Democrats will closely ap-proximate to cany this county. Sayler he isconvinced, is re-elected to Congress, and hehopes that Banning has pulled through.

Alexander Sands, chief editor of the. Tirmv,Republican paper, says he fear.-; that Barneshas dropped fully ROOD behind his ticket,which would give the State to Bell, the Demo-cratic nominee.

IXDIAXAPOLIS, Oct. 10, 1876.The room of the Republican party over the

telegraph office in the Western Union iscrowded this evening, and among those pre-sent is General Ben Harrison. The messagescoming in are all favorable to the prospects ofthe Repubiiern party.

At the other side of the building the Demo-crats are assembled in a room equally wellfilled, and, between the two, the Democratsappear to be the most enthusiastic.

The returns are coming in slowly by pre-cincts and townships. Seven precincts in thecounties of Waba.sh, Green, Floyd, Harrisonand Tipton indicate a Democratic gain of 225.The gains are small, but if the aggregate bein the same proportion the State is carried forBlue Jeans Williams.

The Germans went almost solidly for theDemocratic ticket.

(From the Tribune).Returns from both Ohio and Indiana are

too incomplete to form any trustworthy esti-mate of the result. Indiana seems to be car-ried by the Republicans, though the vote isclose. Harrison runs ahead of Ids ticketeverywhere, and is probably elected. Thechairman of the Republican State Committeeclaims the Stute for his party, while theDemocratic Committee refuses to make anvestimate of the result.

From Ohio the returns are more indefinite.Both parties are claiming the State. TheRepublicans have made gains in nearly allsections, and are hopeful of carrying Hamiltoncounty and electing both Matthews and Forceto Congress. The Democrats deny theseclaims, and say they have carried the countyand elected both Congressmen.

Senator Morton says the few returns re-ceived indicate that Republicans have gainedin the southern part of the State and theDemocrats in the northern, and that theresiilt is uncertain.

The following dispatch was received atRepublican Headquarters in this city, at 12:;iOA. M.:

I>"DIAKAPOI.-[.S, Oct. 10.—Republicans claimthe State by S.000 majority.

The Sim reports are all at sea. andgive nothing definite.

The Times claims both Ohio and In-diana for the Bepublieans.

West Virginia has gone DemocraticIn- 6.000 majority.

Hoy. DAVID NA.UL

The gentleman whose name furnishesthe subject for this sketch is knownpersonally or by reputation throviglioutthe length and breadth of New Jersey.Particularly is this the case in all jour-nalistic and political circles, in whichhe has prominently' and ably figuredfor almost a half century.

In these later years when age hasretired the "Old War Horse" fromactive public, life, some now comersupon the political and journalistic stagemay only kiiovr him by reputation, butten years ago there was not a publicman in the State who did not knowlmn personally, ami who liailnot either'valued his counsel or quailed under thekeen edge of his sword. Having nowreached his almost four score years,more than one-half of which has beenemployed in. active public life, he isliterally a moving, speaking library ofpublic incidents, knowing more thor-oughly the public men and measures ofNew Jersey, than any other man withinher borders.

David Naar was born in the Island ofSt. Thomas (Danish W. I ) , on the 10thof November, 1800. At the age of fif-teen years he came to New York city,and entering a school in Mauhattanville,completed his education, and returnedto St. Thomas three years thereafter toenter upon a commercial apprenticeship.At the expiration of his term he enteredinto, and conducted business for him-self, during which time he held severalimportant public positions under com-missions from the Iving of Denmark.One of these commissions placedhim in command of the militia ofthe Island, with the rank of bre-vet major; a position and a rankthat carried with them more than anempty title, and placed upon him laborsand responsibilities which required ex-ecutive ability and physical exertion,and which he discharged to the fullsatisfaction of his royal master.

In 1834 he returned to New Yorkand joined hisfather'seommercialhousein that city where he remained until1838, at which time he retired fromcommercial business, and settled nearElizabeth, N. J., entering upon thepursuits of farm life.

The quiet life of a farmer, however,did not suit the public tendencies ofDavid Naar, and while his farm wasbeing run by employees or was running'itself, he became an active politicallaborer, uniting himself with the Demo-cratic party, advocating and promulgat-ing the principles which he had inheritedfrom the paternal tree. By nature hewas a ready and popular public speaker,and his earnestness and zeal soonbrought him into favorable notice withthe leaders of the Democratic party,and almost in the beginning of hispolitical life his talents enabled him totake a front rank.

The first public position which washeld by David Naar was that of Mayorof the borough of Elizabeth, then beinga part of Essex county, an appointmentn-hich he received from a DemocraticLegislature in 1843. He was subse-quently Justice of the Peace and Judgeof the Court of Common Pleas of Essexcounty. In 18ii he was elected as oneof the Delegates to the State Constitu-tional Convention from the county ofEssex, in which body he took a leading,active part, gaining for himself a Statereputation.

During the celebrated PresidentialCampaign of 1814, which resulted inthe election of James K. Polk, the sub-ject of this sketch first began to buildup for himself a national reputation,and received an appointment whichcarried him back to his field of earlybusiness and public labors. He "wasappointed by President Polk, Commer-cial Agent for the United States at St.Thomas, and remained during Mr.Polk's administration. Being relievedby the succeeding administration ofPresident Taylor, lie once more engagedin business pursuits at Elizabeth, duringwhich time he was elected clerk of theborough and a member of the CommonCouncil. In 1851 and 1S52 he waselected and served as clerk of the Gen-eral Assembly of New Jersey, and in1853 he became proprietor and editorof that widely-known Democratic jour-nal, The True American.

We believe this was the beginning ofDavid Naar's. journalistic life, and al-though he had frequently been an im-portant contributor to the poeticalcolumns of the Democratic journals ofthe State, yet he had never beforeassumed the editorial harness. Forseventeen years, with unabated zeal hedevoted the pages of the True Americanto the Democratic cause, and from hissanctum sent manv a emsluiio; hot shot

into the enemy's csimp.located at the Capitol of the State, wasthe acknowledged organ of the jmrtyinNew Jersey, and the services of Mr.Naar for the advancement and prosper-ity of the Democratic party were notconfined to his editorial duties, but hisvoice as a political speaker was heardin every section of the State. He re-signed the editorial chair of the TrimAnvrirgu. in 1S70, when that journalpassed into the hands of its presentproprietors.

In 1865 David Naar was appointedby a joint meeting of the Senate andG-encral Assembly of New Jersey to theposition of State Treaatirer, inaugurat-ing in this department an improvedsystem of accounts and book-keepingwhich were highly approved and areadhered to to this day. In 1868 Gov-ernors Yroom and Olden, then Com-missioners of the State Sinking Fund,appointed Judge Naar, Secretary, whichposition ho lias held and s-itill continuesto hold to the present day. He hasalso been a member of the CommonCouncil of Trenton, and a School Trus-tee, and has always been an earnestand active friend of the cause of publiceducation, under its 2'reseut system inNew Jersey.

Judge David Naar has reached thatperiod in life when the human clock-work is expected not to be far from theList stroke of time; but still "the oldman" is full of mental and physicalvivacity, and seems to feel himself equalto any emergency. Few men in thisState who have made the political fightwith him or against him remain to par-ticipate in this Centennial Presidentialbattle.

STATE !HT«3.

GENEEAL HEWS.

The damage by the late storm in -Sa-lem county is estimated at .SoOU.lJOU.

The Passaic Republicans liommau'd& A. Hobra-t for .Senator.

Morris county skipped this year over03,000 baskets of peaches at fair prices.

The New Jersey Sunday School Con-vention will meet at Salem on November14th.

The Yineland "Wine Company h;is itsbusiness of manufacturing wine underfull headway.

Hon. John I. Blair and wife celebrat-ed their Golden Wedding on "Wednes-day, September 21.

Thespur of the Delaware and BoundBrook Railroad, extending to Trenton,has been completed.

The resignation of the Rev. J. B.Paterson, of the Elizabeth Presbyterianchurch, has been accepted.

A "dog killing club"' has been organ-'ized by the Freehold, N. J., farmers forthe protection of their sheep.

An extensive poultry raiser in Bur-lington county has recently lost nearlyhis whole stock by the poultry disease.

Ex-Congressman Sykes has beennominated for the Assembly by the thefirst district, Burlington county. Demo-crats.

The receipts of the New Jersey StateAgricultural Society's fail- were $11,350.-75. The cash premiums paid amountedto £5,879.

The Fifth District Democratic Con-vention has renomiuated Hon. AugustusW. Cutler of Morristown, by acclama-mation.

Walter R. Stoll, of Mount Salem,Sussex county, is the succeesful one of22 competitors for West Point, in theFourth District.

New Jersey will have six representa-tives in the newly organized KelloggOpera Troupe, Miss Pressy of Ham-monton being the last addition.

It is said that a number of fish basketshave been erected in the upper Dela-ware, and that thousands of black bassare destroyed by them.

John Hutchison, better known inTrenton for a number of years past as"John Sands" will shortly start a Dem-ocratic paper in Camden.

The chestnuts are beginning to ripen,and one or two sharp frosts will openall the burs. The crop this year will beconsiderably larger than last year.

Elizabeth City has desided to issueten year tax arrearage bonds. TheCouncil has decided that it has noauthority to light polling places withgas.

The first case in the Mercer countycourt, that of the State against John S.Iriek arid als, securities; of ToseplrasSooy, Jr., has been set down for trialOcl 18.

The Essex County Grand Jury havefound bills of indictment for conspiracyagainst about 30 of the striking shoe-makers, late of Banister it Tichenor'sfactory.

i President Grant and family returned.• to Washington on Friday.I • "

I The differences between this . country' and Spain are deemed settled..• Georgia has gone Democratic by 40,000! majority at least, and 75,000 is claimed.j Yellow fever, which was thought to be! abating in Savannah, has broken o\itj afresh.

; Louisville, Ky., and adjacent cities rei port a slight shock of earthquake; but noi damage.1 Judge Hoar has accepted an independ-\ ent nomination to Congress to runI against Gen. Butler.j The Leliigh and Wilkesbavre Coal! Company has resumed work at all its| collieries with a full force at full time.•; The Harvard boat club has decided; to challenge Yale for a eight oared fouri mile straight-away race next Summer.' The Controller of New York State an-. nounces that the taxation required fori 1877 will be 85,077,500 29 less than thatj of 1876.! A committee of the Medico-Legal! Society reported that the sanitary condi-! tion 0,1' the New York public school wasi defective.i The Chinese government has recentlyj made considerable concessions to foreign\ nations regarding trade, and has opened| several new ports.i Terrible suffering is reported amongi the inhabitants of Puerto Principe.j Cuba. Four thousand rations are] issued to the poor twice a week.: Sheldon & Co., of Auburn, IN. Y., haw

IIOPT; awarded thr1 First Grand Premii;;^at the Centennial Exhibition, fur their

Moody and Sunkey commenced theiri work in Chicago last Sunday. In thei evening ten thousand persons were out-

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• sion.

The post-offipo authorities at "Washint.'-j ton will soon discontinue the practice oi! returning dt;ad letters to the writer*

• oi help.A letter irom Iceland reports that

; the rishiiig season luirf boon a failuvu.i The privations of the laboring yteoplo\ arc great and I.out) have emigrated to> Canada.• Advice;: from Northern and North-. western Texas re-port a grasshopper in-! % asion. In some counties the)" are tie- -

s-troving vegetation. Wheat sovvir, ;: v.'ill be di-Jiived until it is ;ir(-f-rtaine^

whether the gi-asshoppers will, remaialong enough to deposit their eggs.

The Indian Commission have at lastprevailed upon the Spotted Tail agency-chiefs to sign the new treaty. The civ-,ilized Indians of Indian Territory ob-ject to the proposed transfer of the.Sioux to their reservations—claiming itwill be a violation of their treaty.

The admissions to the Centennial Main >Exhibition during September, at 50cents each, were 1,581,283; at 25 cents,.474,6S:i Total receipts from May 10to October 1: Main Exhibition,.$2,180,4(59,49.

The daily average of visitors runsfrom 80,000 to 110,000.

The United States war steamerFranklin has sailed from Yigo Spain,for this country, having on board''Boss" Tweed as a close prisoner, andwill probably arrive in New York aboutthe fifteenth of this month. Hunt, his

[ companion, who was arrested with him,I was given his freedom.| In the suit in equity in the United'j States Court by John G. Stevens,j Abram S. Hewitt and others, against the

New York and Oswego Midland RailI road Company, a linal decree has been| given filed, ordering the sale of the road.

It will no doubt be bought in by thebondholders' Purchasing Committee.

It is understood that efforts are be-ing made to arrange matters so thatthe Centennial Exhibition can be keptoj>en until the end of November. Thisrests principally -with the exhibitors,whoare under heavy expense, but many of.them have already consented to theextension of time.

A chart of the broken reef at Halleft's Point is to be made. Severalweeks will be required to complete thesurvey and draw a chart of the riverbottom. Each surveyor will go out ina boat with three men, two of whom, willrow.and the other will handle the sound-ing j>°^e- Theodolites will be placedupon two stations, both to bear uponthe exact point where the sounding'pole stands. A tide gauge will be used,consisting of a graduated pole sunk ata given point, and surrounded, by adam, to prevent the -wind or current,affecting the surface of the water.

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Day.The Fire Department Committee of the

Common Council were out in nil their gloryon Monday, headed by his Honor MayorHigh, and inspected all the property and ap-pliances of the department. They have con-cluded to give Independence Hook & LadderCompany No. 1 a new track for a Tec; Year•present; engine Xo. 2 is to lie painted; a newroof is to be put on the engine house in Sern-insu-y street, and the old Hook & Ladder willbe given to Excelsior H. cc L. Co.. Xo. "2, to lieused by them until a new one can he obtained.

Political.

The Hayes and Wheeler club paraded onSaturday evening with capes and torches, theprocession comprising about 75 white and 50colored men. Their meeting in WashingtonHall was addressed by L. Bradford Prince, ofLong Island, and Mr. Charles H. Treat, ofMaine, who we understand was formerly aDemocrat.

The Tilden and Hendricks crab were ad-dressed at Brokaw's Hall at the regular meet-ing on Thursday evening by Col. Kenyon, ofNewark, who delivered an .eloquent speechone hour in length.

Sunday Evening Zcctures.Rev. Mr. Eollinson commenced the propos-

ed series of lectures on "Modern Unbelief," inGordon's Hall on Sunday evening last. He.took for his subject Psalms 53d chapter andpart of the 1st verse: ': The fool hath said inhis heart, there is no God." The address wasone of Mr. Bollinson's best effort?. The logi-cal arguments, wonderful powers of descrip-tion,and thorough earnestness of delivery wereheard, seen and felt by all present. All whoare interested in this subject should hear thesucceeding lecture on Sunday evening next—subject, "Theories antagonistic to tho Bible."

(By Cable.)

LONDON, Oct. 11, 1876.

Mn. Erarmt: Thinking your readerswould like to see Huxley's effort in rival-ry of Milton's Seventh Book of "Para-dise Lost/' written since his return fromvisiting your interesting country, andknowing that, like the Hcrahl. you donot regard expense, I cable it to you•without loss of time. We think he hasgreatly simplify the subject, and estab-lished his theory beyond contradiction.

TlATOli. •

A D VEB TISEME NTS: ADVERTISEMENTS

B. LAMBERT!,

AL HOTEL.—Madame Lauterer,proprietress of the above establishment, an-nounces to her patrons that she is in dailyreceipt of the best Princes Bay oysters, freshfrom the ivater, and ready to serve them in any-st-yle, in the restaurant of the Hotel or to pri-vate families on short notice.

Game dinners and suppers furnished ateconomical prices.

lie-Assessment Hoard.The above Board has organized and com-

menced to lay out their work, which we trustwill be prosecuted as rapidly as jrassible, asthis matter has been suspended until the in-terest money which the City will have, to payhas become a burden from which all taxpayerswould be glnd to be relieved.

IKSTIKAXCE.—N. V. Oompton is doing alively business in new policies and renewals.Tin on'ujs iiisurniiri1 in those old and triedc-.fnupnnics th;\f. Ktn'iil tin- test of the Bostonand ClnciiK'.' iiiv.-.-

">*•.•*-. K-nry }[. Sand-jr- lias bei-n regularlyinstalled in tijt- leading Bapiisi- church' inYoiikers. to which he receive,1 ;i call before heJiaJ cu i^ i a - a his rf.ulius. at .. .-...!.,;;. ,usii.uun.

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GSHERAL HEWS.

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alone

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are two ol the ten

STOVE8!ALT. VARIETIES OF STOVES

S t a t e s . ;)V.'.} ihf~c l l K l i i , ' y'i.(!<!!) t o n s o f

i . ' u t - ^ i l l . i d i i ; i o i i s n i ' i - i j i ' . B e s s e m e r s t e e l

r:ii]s manufactured in tlii.s country lastyear.

The tinimid report of the SK-ivtarv ofthe Massachusetts State TemperanceAlliance arrays figures to show a greatincrease of crime and intemperanceunder the license system, and urges theadoption of the prohibitory law.

The new line between New York andPhiladelphia via Bound Brook has beendoing a fine business, mainly to andfrom the Centennial, the travel duringthe last month having largely increased.On Monday next a new branch to Tren-ton will be opened, affording a newroute between New York city raidTrenton, and between Philadelphia andTrenton.

The statue of Peace contributed tothe National Government by the officersand men of the na^y, which was recent-ly brought from Europe by the UnitedStates steamship Supply, will be placedat the main entrance to the Capitol"•rounds, Washington. The statue Isin marble, and was carved by FranklinSimmons, in Some. At the last sessionof Congress the sum of $20,000 wasappropriated for the base of the monu-ment.

Mr. Woodbridge, the British Consulat Cayenne, French Guiana, writes toMs government that there is a generalabandonment of agriculture there forgold seeking. A company has beenformed for the search of gold in rivers.These being in great part deep andrapid, will require turning into otherchannels. A large number of nativeshave become very rich of late by goldwashings.

KriT.UJLK ni l :

PAULOKS. D m s i i ROOMS, HALU

Also, a full line of

Cooking Stoves

Ranges .

All Stoves and Ranges

purchased at this establishment pnt np in the

very be^t manner, without any extra rhnr^e.

XCHANOK!) AM)

IR, I O S

! KtrLjulttted to suit the times.

j All ;m; requested to call and exaaihi*- 1K--

| fore purchasing elsewhere.

I

| EGBERT HUMPHREYS,

i Main Street, Woodbxidire, X. J.!

JJEALEH IN*

MEN'S BOYS' ANT. CHILDREN'S

pq

When Matter was in chaos s;fate.Filling entire, boundless space.

Spontaneous tire, impell'd by fate.Set going Evolution's race.

Then 'twas matter showed the powersInherent in itself alone.

Turning portions into showers.Others into solid stone.

Then by centrifugal forceWas thrown in space -'dissever'd rings.

Which following their fountain source,Soon turned to worlds on shining wings.

When vapor rose high up, as air,Again condensed and made the sea.

On which Gotl:s breath moved soft and fair.Infusing life thro' Ocean free.

These by vast Evolution's laws,From protoplasts to crabs with claws.

Soon changed in time to monkeys paws.Which learned to steal against all laws.

In time these stood on hinder legs.Walking on two instead of four;

Again in time they drove their pegsIn Washington, the seat of power.

They crushed the weaker, •with their might.And natural laws selection,

llegardless of the laws of right,While reflecting every section.

And soon evolving general strife,They brought about a revolution,

And .striving hard to win their cause,They stopped at no pollution.

An honest currency was there,Issued from the people's till;

Xot satisfied with wages fare,Their pockets they felonious fill.

They built a paper pyramid,The builder's art loud jeering,

"With narrow base, which plainly shovedTheir lack of financiering.

A chambermaid, in wrathful spite,With fan, raised nv> a gentle blast.

And toppled o'er their pyramid,Turning things back to protoplast.

Twenty years ago Indiana did not Iown a school house, and now there are \ten thousand school buildings in the jState, on which has been expended jmore than §10,000,000. There are- \thirtem thousand teachers in the State.Lasi, vear more iijan S8.000.000 was !

1231 MAIN STREET,

HAHWA Y, N. J.

iBLE FARM

F O B i*u:

The Farm known as the

' 'ELLIS FREEMAN FARM,''

containingO IE

oc5w4

N. MOONEY'S Real Estate Office.86 Irving St., Biihwny, N. .1.

R L. SHELDON.

FINE CLOTHING

TO ORDEE.

Always on hand a stuck of goods suitable

nTTOriYY^r CST A m

not to be excelled in Ktyle and Workmanship,and at prices much below larger cities lorsame class of good*. All wishing

FIRST- CLASS G OODS

will find it to their advantage to give us a call.

!

Over Plum's Xews Depot, EAHWAY. X. J.

Bai't'if's Ktweh' Donni .'

HAIli-SPIJTTIXG PRTCKS.

llecker's Prepared Flour, per paper. . .C Sugar. 7 lbs3'Zxtra C Sugar, 7 lbsStandard A " ••Granulated " "Powdered : ; "Bio Coffee, per lb

. . :ile

. . G7c

. . 70c

. . 75e

. . 80c

.. 80c

. . -lie

llariefiibo Coft'ee, per lb -. . . . . . . o0o

Very best Java. " 35oOolong Tea. . . . 30c, 35c, 40c and -ioe for bestJapan " . . . 30c, 35c. 40c and 4.5c for best

Young Hyson, best 50eEnglish Breatfiist 45c, 50e and 60eSpecial Mixture (3 lbs) SI. 20, warrantedBntter 24c, 2«o and 28c, very best 30eCheese, best 12c

(5 lbs) 50cVinegar 30cN. O. Molasses, very finest 75cGolden Syrup, per gal 68c

Salt, per quart l cHams, per lb 14}c

Shoulders, per lb 0Jo

Pork, " 10b

Mackerel 4«

Codfish (ic

Condensed Milk, per can 20c

Soap, by box per lb ojc" large bar 18c

Rice, per lb • (UeBeans IJ\eStarch 7cSatin Gloss (0 lb boxes) 52cCurrants, per lb . . . 7cKaisins, •"' - l iePrunes, '• . 'JcDried Apples" 8cCanned Salmon 19c

' '• Lobster 17cSweet Oil, half pints fle

'* ' ; pints 17cLard (3 lb pails) 41cBeecher Matches, par doz lfic

•T. BAI:I:Y,

Xew York Stores,

Branches: Perth Aiaboy and Eliaibethporl.sep2Siij(>

IE Y

n'S

BREAD,

In all its Branches.

WHOLESALl-: AND BET AIL.

of land, situated j

A.T HBSLO PARK, ;on the line of the Pennsylvania Railroad, onemile from Metnchen and half a mile from theMeulo Park Depot, is offered

AT PEIVATE SALE. ;

It fronts the BailiOiid for loOO feet, and ismapped out into about 1000 City Lots, suitn-ble for ]

DWELLINGS OS MANUFACTORIES.

There is also i

A GBOVE OF ABOUT SIN AVfiES \AXD PLENTY OF FECIT TUBES. '

On the premises isA T.J.RGE HWELLlSir 1IOVSE. \

with commodious outbuildings, all in good |repair. The Farm is well watered. j

Jtlenlo Park is finely located, and rapidly :improving, a number of dwellings and fac- ]tories having been erected there recently.

The map can be seen and further particu-lars obtained at ,

128 MAIU STSSET, RAHWAY, N. J. ;

(h'ders delivered to any part of the. city,

FREE OF OHAKGE. '

. CO MPT OX'S

A O-BN CY,

EXCHANGE BUILDING.

Opposite Depot, KAHVvAY, S. -1

Insurance ett'eetcd in the following first-class Companies, legally authorized to dobusiness in this State :

ASSETS.

American Ins. Co. Newark,:Newark Mutual"Citizens'Firemen'sHome ••• New York,

HanoverFranklinEoval

010,216472,091900,106

1,592,7758,308,825•• Phila..

- Liverpool, 2.448,815North British (_ ;' London && Mercantile j Edinburgh, 1,719,002

Policies written upon all kinds of build-ings, merchandise, household furniture, rents,leases, and other insurablc property.

FARM BUIXDIHGS A SPECIALTY,:S". A". C O M P T O N , j^geiit.

sep'21 m3

_V11 G o o d s Free.

BIPJvETT & PATERSON'SPEIC'E LIST

—OF—

GROCERIES.Good Family Flour. S7 per barrel.Best Family Flour, S7 75 "Best Family Flour, SI for 25 lbs.Heeker's Prepared Flour, 38c. paper,0 Sugar, 7 lbs. for Ii7cEx C Sugar, 7 lbs. for 70cStandard A, 7 lbs. for -. . . . 75cGranulated, 7 lbs. for 80cPowdered, 7 lbs. for 80cBio Coffee 28c and 30cMaracaibo 33cJava, very best 3ScOolong .Tea 40c, 50c, 60c and upJapan Tea, mixed riOe, (!0c, 75c, 90cYoung Hyson oOc, (iOe, 75c, 90cEnglish Breald'ast 50c, 60c, 75c, 90cButter 24c, 30c and 35cCheese, very finest 14cVinegar 35cNew Orleans "Molasses 70c and 80cSyrup 65c and SOSalt l ie peck, "2c quartHams, finest 15cShoulders 9.',cPork 10cMackerel BeSalt Herring 4cCodfish, best 8cCondensed Milk 25cSoap, by the box 6JcSoap (lai'ge bar) 22cBice 6cBeans 6cBest Starch 6c and 9cSatin Gloss Starch, (i lb. boxes 60cCurrants 9cKaisins 10cPrunes 7cDried Apples HeCanned Salmon 22cCanned Lobster 16cCanned TomatoesSvs-eet Oil ?, pt. 12c. pts, 24cLard, 3 lb. pails 55c

Beecher Matches, 18c per dozen.Soap Powder, Concentrated Lye, Sapolio,

Stove Polish, Mason's Shoe Blacking,Cocoanut, Corn Starch, Mustard,

Spices, Pickles, Sweet Oil, Sea-foam, Brorna, etc., etc., etc,

AT THE LOWEST MAB.KET PRICES.

BIRKETT and PATERSON,Comer of MAIN and PULTON STS.,

sep21 "WOODBPJDGE, N. J.

/CHARLES RAUTEKBERG,

WATCHMAKER AND JEWELER.(E.-itaulisiied in New York City in 1852.)

; REPAIRING- DONE,

With Professional skill and eaii-.

JOB PBNTTiNG

"'HE

to

POWER-PRESS

- i , T

PRESSES !

OYSTER® In SEASON 1

i ARTISTIC WORKMANSHIP,

• FIRST-CLASS MATERIAL

i And EVERY FACILITY for Executing

: all descriptions of

BUSINESS CARDS,

BILL-HEADS, STATEMEKTS^

PROGRAMMES,

NOTE HEADINGS, ENVELOPES.

LETTER-HEADINGS,

CIRCULARS, LABELS

HAND-BILLS, POSTERS,

CHEAP !

Prices Below Competition.

SEND IN YOUR ORDERS.

OFFICE :

Masonic Sail Building,

AT REASONABLE PRICES ! W0030BKIDCJE, TV. .J.

A WAYSIDE PICTURE.

BY .EASTMAN JOHNSON.

A Summer morning in the country ;misty clouds of young leaves crowningthe tree-tops and the end of a scliool-liouse visible under their shadow. Onthe bright meadow grass an old coach.stranded and -wrecked beyond hope ofresurrection, tu t in and about it themerriest crowd of happy, barefootedelves that ever devised mischief. Thewheels are gone, and there is no tongue,but from the old boot a merry facepeeps out, and through the eurtainlesswindows you see charming little coun-try damsels as soberly seated and ascarefully holding their dolls as if theywere really on a journey. There is nobaggag-e visible, but the passengerscrave top seats. One boy in a rapture ofexcitement and delight stand aloftswinging his broken hat. A loud hur-rah leaves his open lips. Two littlegirls are perched just behind the dri-ver's box; one lias a broken parasolheld with coquettish grace; but the spiritof the thing is the driver's attitude.See how he holds the reins ! He bendsforward to grasp the reins more effec-tively, looks with intent gaze at hissteeds, and has his whip all ready forinstant use. The horses are a study.For wheelers two sturdy little scampsmuch disposed to kick off imaginarytraces, while for leaders we have a boyand girl who put on funny airs. Theboy has the bit in his teeth, and nohigh-stepping horse in Central Parkcould lift his hoofs higher than thosebare toes are held. The girl is anAmerican citizeness of African descent,but among these careless children thatgoes for nothing, and she is showingher white teeth in a smile that is broadenough to cover two faces. Do I makeyou see it?—Cleveland Herald.

SOMETHING LIKE ,V CAMPAIGN.—Rub-a-

dub-dub ; toootle-tootle-toot; niggersleaning against every lamp-post anddoorway, with a foh-God-I-cut-yon-wid-a-razoh-shua expression on their oilyfaces; beaming gentlemen, with a God-bless-you-my-children air,shaking handswith everybody whom they meet; per-spiring, wearied but contented saloon-ists setting 'em up for long .lines ofthirsty patrons; three men of every livecoming out through doorways, wipingtheir mouths with one hand and put-ting in pieces of cracker with the other;at night long lines of fire waveringthrough the darkness and moving tothe pulsatile rhythm of hammeredsheepskin and tortured fife.

Ail these symptoms would convinceone that an election is pending, that acampaign is on the tapis, even were thefact not blazoned in the newspapers, orvariegated posters on every dead wall,and on banners and bannerets which•swing froni a thousand windows andare kissed by every breeze. I knewthere was a campaign hi progress be-fore I came by hearsay; I now know itfrom having seen it. Were every senseof one closed save that of touch hewould still know that an election wascoaling. There is a cordiality in thehandshaking; a warmth, a strength; adesire to hold on and a willingness tolet go, which are sufficient evidencethat candidates are around; that watch-fires are blazing; that the masses arearoused; that every precinct is about toroll up an old fashioned majority.—Chicago Times.

WILLIAM WII;T ASP AAHOX BURH.—

In a sketch of William Wirt, the AlbanyLaw Journal gives an account of AaronBurr's trial: ''Burr's counsel was LutherMartin, a singer of the Declaration of In-dependence, John Wiekham, and Benja-min Botts; but he was his own mosteffective counsel and bore himself withthe same self-possession, acuteness,and vigor which he would have dis-played in a cause to which he was in-different. Wirt and Hay were the lead-ing counsel for the Government. Theforeman of the jury was .John Ran-dolph. Among the witnesses was An-drew Jackson. In this bar, as spectators,sat two young lawyers, who afterwardabandoned the profession of law the onefor that of amis and the otherfor that of letters—and became res-pectively the most brilliant soldier andthe most celebrated author in thiscountry during the first half of this centu-ry—Winfield Scott and Washington.Irving. The latter, indeed, appeared atRichmond on a retainer of a friend ofBurr, who thought that the young law-yer's pen might prove serviceable to theaccused. The talent and beauty ofRichmond crowded the benches. TheRichmond ladies, if we may credit Irving,obedient to the spiritual injunction.'Love your enemies,' whereon Burr's sideduring the trial, for he says, 'Not a lady,I believe, in Richmond, what ever maybe her husband's sentiments on the sub-ject, who would not rejoice at seeingColonel Burr set at liberty." Such wasthe audience to which Wirt addressedthe speech that rendered him famous—aspeech compounded of a keen logicwhich commanded the respect of thegreat Chief Justice, and a pathos whichmelted the Richmond beauties into tearsonly less pitiable than those of Blenner-hasset's wife, which mingled at midnightwith the wintry Ohio.

A Cresinan officer, who has visitsd allthe principal military stations of France,gives a very favorable account in theCologne Gazelle of the military pros-pects of the country. The writer saysthat the progress since last year in allbranches of the service is very great. ,The want of a sufficient reserve is beingrapidly and completely supplied, num-bers of half-pay officers volunteering forterritorial service. The physique of themen is admirable, and there is not theslightest difficulty in obtaining recruits,all political parties being agreed in thenecessity of this reserve force. Theclergy use all their influence in supportof this institution, which they regard asthe future champion of the . Church."The priests in France do more to in-duce the people to perform their mili-tary duties than can be done by all themagistrates and gendarmes in Prussia."In the regular army the most importantreform introduced by the present Min-ister of War is the removal of inefficientofficers and the thorough training ofcadets, for which large schools havebeen formed, which by 1880 will yield;i sufficient supply of officers for thewhole army.

PLAIN TALK.—In one respect the En-

glish Episcopal High Clim-ch clergyhave done good service to the nation;they have spoken out boldly and called"a spade a spade;" still courage to usethe simplest words is by no means gen-eral, and with many clergymen to beplain and straightforward in the pulpitlanguage seems an impossibility. I re-member quite a sensation runningthrough a congregation when a preach-er, one evening, instead of talking about"habits of cleanliness and the necessityof regular ablution," remarked that"plenty of soap and water had a healthy,bracing effect upon the body, and soindirectly benefited the mind." Peoplewere aghast, and looked as much as tosay, •'•'Come, come, this won't do; if Mr.So-and-so really means us to wash, we'dbetter leave the church; he ought not tosa}r what he means in homely wordslike these; if he insists upon using termseverybody can understand we shall haveto protest." At the time of the Irishfamine, no clergymen would bring him-self to say the word "potato" in the jsul-pit. Preachers called it "that root, uponwhich so many thousands of God'screatures depended for support, andwhich in Kiss wise purposes had for atime ceased to flourish;" or spoke of"that esculent succulent, the loss ofwhich had deprived so many hungrysinners of their daily sustenance;" butno one said "potato."—Macmillan'x Mag-azine.

3 roil Two.—I saw a youngishnegro man, who was very black andstalwart, and he spoke in a low, mellowvoice. He had a rugged, uncouth, butkindly face, and he was tenderly andcarefully leading about an old blindwoman whom he called mother. Hestopped before anything that interestedhim, and explained it to her in a verycurious and graphic manner. His at-tention was arrested by a beautiful Cu-pid and Pysche: "Dis is a white mammyand her baby, and they has just no clo'onto 'em at all to speak of, and he is ldss-in' of her like mischief, to be shuah.I'se kind o' glad you can't see 'em,'cause you'd be flustered like 'cause theydon't stay in the house till they dressestheyselves. All these nggurs seem to bescares of clo', but they might}' pooty,only they be too white to be any lationto you and me, mammy. They be onenigger among 'em who is crying over ahandkerchief. They call him Othello.Mebbee his mother is dead and he can'tfetch her to the show, poor fellow!Everybody ain't as comfortable as webe, mammy, be they?"—Chicago Times.

What sculpture is to a block of mar-ble, education is to the human soul.

An old St. Louis gentleman offeredthe folio-wing advice to all men in searchof wives: "Ride on these street cars,and when you see a girl who rings thebell for the car to stop and is carried afew steps and has to step off in the mudand yet smiles and shows sense andgood nature, get her if you can. It'sthe neatest test of a woman there is."

ADYERTMEMENTS.

D. VALENTINE & BEOTHEE,

FIRE BE

AND

.FIIIE CLAY,

FIBE SA^l

KAOLIN, &C-.

W 0 0 J 3 B E I D G E , N .. J .

(STATEMENT

Of the -Dime So rings BauK\

OF WQQBBSJBGE, N. J.-TO JANUAHY IS, 18'Tli.

ASSETS.Bonds and Mortgages S14.257 £5Temporary Loan 509 00Profit and-LOHS. Furniture and Fix-

tures 814 17Cash on hand 2,793 11

318,364: 7.3.LIABILITIES.

Amount due depositors S18.3G4 7.3TfM. H. BERKX, Pres.

JOSIAH C, CUTTER, Treas.C. W. DRUMMOND.A. I). BROSVN,TXANLEL C. TUENEK.ri. E. ENSIGN,

Committee.Sworn and subscribed to. and before mo. , i

Justice of tlie Peace.JEREMIAH DALLY..

VK>odbridge, N. -X, Feb. 29th, 1870.

JOHN THOMPSON,

SADDLE AND HABHESS MAKES,

ixo PROMPTLY ATTENDED TO;.

Brushes, Curry Combs, Wiips, /S'feas.Blankets, Harness Soaps, Oils, rfV;;.

CENTENNIAL TRUNKS AND SATCHELS

Of all Descriptions.

MAIN ST., WOODBRIDGE, IN".. J.

sTATEN ISLAND RAIL WAX

•DOBEST HUMPHREYS',JLXi

Roofing, Miimbhif) <A> JFktniaee

Work

DONE EN THE BEST 53SLNNEB,

E,y Contract or Days' Work.

JSiitl^iacitioii GriiEbi-asi'toecl.

Main Street, Woodbi-idge, E". J.,

MARCUS A. BROWN,

DRUG-G-IS Ts

DEALEE IN

Drags, Medicines, Chemicals,

PATENT MEDICINES, ETC.,

Pins -Toilet Soaps, Brushes, Combs Etc.

PERFUMERY rs GREAT YARDSFY.

IP flints. Oils, "Varnishes. jQye~!5*tiliIs,

Pure Brandy, "Wines and Liquors, for Medi-

cinal Purposes,

Main Street, Woodbridge, K. J.

Leave Perth Amboy, 6, 6.50, 8.10 and 10.50j A. M., and 12.50, 2.45, 3.50 5.50 and 6.45 P. M.

Leave Sew- Tort, G, 7, 9 and 11 A. M., and 14, 5, 6 and 7 P. M.

Sundays—Leave Tottenrille, 7, 9 and 11A. M., aid 1, 4 and 6 P. M.

Leave New York, 7, 9 and 11 A M., 1, 4 andand G P. SI.

ADYEItTISEMENTS.

• AHWAY SAVINGS INSTITUTION, r JpHE

JOB

Cor. Mrtia and Monroe Streets.

IT? A. TT"W A "VJtti. t3L_ JML H jea_ Jt ,

'Independent Hour'

POWER-PRESS

CHARTERED 1SX1,

ASSETS, LIABILITIES AUD 8USPLUS, i

Ealnvay City and "Water Bonds, sadother Corporation Bonds

Bonds and Mortgages, on propertyworth double the amount loaned.

Loans with CollateralsEeul EstateU. S. BondsInterest Due and AccruedBanking House and LotPremiumsCash on Hand

$2:13,200 00

3-M.3G055,95012,57030,000•2(i,44039.00010,08377.530

440094002<S

007563

I NEW TYPE !

NEW PRESSES

TTFIT!$909,136 02

I Due Depositors SS50.427 01Surp lus . . . .

¥809,136 02Total number 01 open accounts, Jan. 1875, 2,557

IS7C, 2,571 IVmor at of Deposits received duri.ii!,' |

the year ended Dec. 31, 1874. . . .'si25,015 ill !Amount of deposits received uu;-- ',

ing the year ended Dec. 31. l.s7-~ •:'-." . i'">- ."IiIncrease of deposits during th..- [>a-<L I

year U,47ii -J'-J 1Amount of withdrawals for thy year !

ended Dee. 31, 1874 &.-!33,71J9 5:> jAmount of withdrawals i<>r Mir year i

ended Dec. 31,1875 ' J~« 7<W J..H !Decrease of withdrawals for fh^ '

past year --.''71 "'Total number of denohiU divi-in^ :li-:. Vi.;ir c-i'

1S75. 4.09G.

('. KQ[iLEK.

A:.;i;i. V. Svjj::,:i:u

58;70fl 01 i ARTISTIC W0KSMAHSHIP,

PIEST.-£IIASS..MATEB.IAL

JACOB Ii. SHOXWZI.L.

OFFICE HOUKS: 9 a. m. to 4 p. in-.., and onSaturday evenings from 7 to 8.

1E0KGE W. HALL,G:

DEALEI: I>;

1776,

A n a E Y E K f i A C i L i T Y for Kx< I-HSIM

Yv. CJ. E.A. V.EdenIsaac

Si in in-.Shotivr-11.Shohvo'lHay dock.Osbora.

Joel "Wilson,•T. M.Fercl.J. J..John

Meliek,Bkneke.

High,Bowne.

William Mersl

i •.

Hi-T

1

A.J.J.

A. Vr,.;i.

E." ] : ' " ' - " • • .j j T ->ir '•F\ Shohrcll,

T. Cr.---,voll,H. Stone.

Dr. L. Drake.J.n<j .

101

JOHN BOWXE.

SECKETAISY

Jj. Fieeman.W. Shone.

J. C. CODDING-TON.

I P AHWAY MUTUAL FXKE.INSUE- j-"•' ANCE COMPANY, \

Office in the South Wing of National Bank jBuilding. Entrance on Poplar Street. j

This Company Continues to insure j

Buildings, Furniture, Etc., |AGAKST LOSS on DAMAGE BY FIRE, ;

ON THE MOST REASONABLE TEEMS, •

Either Mutually or Annually as Parties May ;

Prefer. :

The Citijens of Woodbrid:»e and the Sur- •rounding Country are Solicited to Avail j

themselves of the Facilities and Ad- jvantages offered by this Insti- j

tntioii;. j

DIKECIOBS: \

ISAAC OSBOEN, ABEL V. SCHOTWELX, jJOEL "WILSON. JOHN J. HIGH, jJOHK K. AYBES, JOHN D. CHAPIX, ]G-EO. W. LATVUEXCE, B. B. MILLEU, j

LIKTJS HIGH. jA. V. SHOTWELL, Secretary, j

ISAAC OSBOKN, President, i

Hardware, Seeds, Fertilizers,

HOESE BLANKETS,

ROBES, DEAIN PIPE, TILE, CUT-

LEEY, TWINE, WILLOW WAEE,

ETC., ETC., ETC.,

156 MAIS STEEST, EAHWAY, K.-J.

1876.JOHN McCANN,

DEALER r s

f BUTTER, CHEESE, VEGETABLES,EGGS, ETC., ETC.

156 U'SW STEEBT, RAHWAY, N. J

, M 3 a S rtKJ \J k.y JL A 1.11 i

BILE-HEADS, RT' is T^.-iViTT-

K0TE HEADINGS, ENVELOPES.

LETTES-HEABINGS,

LABELS

HAND-BILIS, PGSTEES,

CHEAP I

SEND IN YOUR ORDERS1

llasonic Mall Buildings

WOODBEIDGB, TN". J .

I3TSIDE A TUEKISH HAEEM.

Ill Mrs. Burton's "Inner Life of Syria"we find the following pleasing picture ofharem life:—"The moment we arrive andare announced the whole family -will runto meet us at the boundary gate which.separates them from the outer world.They will kiss us, and take our handn,and,with all the delight of children, leadus to the divan, and sit around us. Onewill fly for sherbet, another for sweets;this for coffee, that for narghilehs.—Tliev are so pleased with a trifle; forexample, to day, they are quite delightedbecause we are pressed like them, andthey consider that we have adopted theirfashions out of compliment to them.—They find everything charming, and aresaying how sweet we look in theirclothes. If we were habited in our ownclothes they would be equally happy, be-cause they would examine every article,would want to know where it wasbought, what it cost, how it was put on,and if they could find it in the "sook"(bazaar). Their greatest happiness is topull 3-our hair down to see how it is done,and to play with your hat, If you comein riding habit, they think you are dress-ed like a man. A lady's cloth ridingunder-garments ai-e an awful mystery tothem, and they think how happy we areto dress like men, and follow our hus-bands like comrades, while nobody saysanything against us on that account.They envy us our knowledge and inde-pendence, and they deplore the waythey are kept, and their not being ableto know or do anything. They say thatwe must stay all the evening with them,and are overjoyed at hearing that weaccept. They will prepare music anddancing, and send round and gathertheir friends. Do you hear the tom-tomin the garben'? that means that the Sitt(Lady) Lelia invites all the harems ouher visiting list to a 'small and early.'In about an hour a hundred women oftheir inl'miPH will drop in, all dressedlike ourselves, more or less magnifi-cently. There will be a perpetual nib-bling of fruit, sweets, and nuts, a similarsipping of coffee and sherbet, amid thebubble of the fountains, and fifty ormore narghilehs. the singing, music,and dancing will be peformed by theguest, who will throw in a good deal oftalent. I t will be quite modest, and notrequire checking like the professionalperformances."

CHEESE SIJI'AI.OR IN H\y Tr.\y.n^:v.—individually John Chinaman is a cleanli-uiiiiUl ^ CG-LiOCuT, ci'i , Hi: Ib a UCJiLSu -i.il

Stn<\ the- cook, keeiis his coppers ;md•iituiHcicim HIM bright", washes ins imixw

in goii^g iroiii t.Iml.1 to disil, is order ly ,

rVosh ixi appearance, and ever arrayedi;i spotless white and blue. Follow

unit hemmo ,m.-. ,-.f n l.pv.l nf :Umnv.\<iivintr in a state oil squalor and filth, as:Hvliidi .vcu a Digger Indian would shud-der. Fifteen ('liiiwi-'ir-n will live. sl_pfji>and cook, in a-hovel or ceij;iL uweive itei•square, having only a door as a meanstif fwln'iiitiivr licrht. and air. Clouds of

the common chimney, wmUow and door,through which -foini and his t'r-llows

opnig, for

HOW MISS DIMITY TEIED TO LELABNABOUT POLITICS, AED AT LAST

EGOTB OUT.

when Coo-Lee has nothing to do lie generallycrawls into his hole to sleep or smoke.The large companies' boarding housesare no better. Every story is refloored,and made into two, and often three, thestandard height of a room being a trifieover or under five feet. Clean at first,the building soon becomes grimy, andthen black, and then dirt-encrusted fromgarret to roof. Once occupied byChinese, a building must always remain -ii pest hole or be torn down. Underthe sidewalks, under stair-case, in cram-ped bunks, and on rickety platformsJohn lives, and, it is repeated, thrives.It is only to the adventurous and strong-stomached that a fair picture of Chineselife is presented in all its foulness."W"he22 a tire burns out a hole, and laysopen a section of this vile quarter, thenit is that groups of the curious gatherround and try to believe that they livewithin, a block of these rookeries andslums, where there is no difference be-tween the blackness of the charredbeam and that of the sleeping holes. Ofcourse there are cleanly exceptions,—the restaurants, and some few of therich merchants' stores, for'instance; butthere is no danger of darkening thepicture overmuch; and Chinatown, lyingin the heart of San Francisco, is amiracle of human unclenimess, and awonder of filth. Sau Franciscans havemuch cause to bo thankful for the longseason of purging' trade winds.—./.Viriaiu in Sfrihwr'.^J'or Oi-foixT.

He wul find himself in a great mis-take, thiit either seeks for A friend in thepalace,- or tries him at a feast.—[Seneca.

Miss Dimity knows all about it. Shelanguished for a long time in ignorance,and felt her situation keenly, but at lastshe is wiser and sadder. '8he alwayswanted to talk 'politics and belong tosome party; but how could she whenshe did not even know the differencebetween a Democrat and a Republican '?She looked anxiously through all thepapers to gain some information on thesubject, but the only plain statementsshe found were that the Democrats areall liars and swindlers and the Republi-cans all thieves and scoundrels. Finallyshe asked her papa about it, and helooked at her over his spectacles andsaid :—"A Democrat, my dear child, is—by the way, you left the lumps in theheels of my stockings when you darnedthem last week. Girls now-a-days aregood for nothing." Then she asked herbig brother and he said: "That's easy;ask me a harder one. A Democratsupports the government as long as thegovernment supports him, and a Re-publican lets no guilty man escape untilhe has crammed all of his pockets andthe crown of his hat." She next askedher sweetheart; but he turned pale, and,falling back on his chair, fanned himselffuriously while he gasped, "Emeline,my love, I hope you are not gettingstrong-minded. I could not think, ofmarrying a woman who knows morethan I—than other women." Next sheasked a wise and learned man, and helooked pompously at her and said:—"Too deep, my dear, too deep: differ-ence in the platforms; very complicatedsubject; could never explain it to awoman. In fact, it's so deep that Idon't exactly under—ah, believe youcould understand it." Then she wentto an editor. They always know every-thing. I t is a peculiarity of the profes-sion. They can get up a theory or ex-planation of or remedy for anything inforty-five seconds. She asked him withsuffused eyes if he would please tell herthe difference between a Democrat anda Republican. He looked a little star-tled at first, stuck his pen into the gluepot, tumbled a pitcher of ice water overa pile of exchanges, and was "himselfagain." He said:—"A Republican hasan office and wants to keep it. Hethinks rag money good, hard moneybetter, but either kind good enough. Hethinks tlip country needs reform, salariessii'e too low, and the people too inquisi-tive. He cannot buy a £.2,000 team of

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ADVERTISEMENTS.

ARREN DRUMMOND,

CLAY I B E C I A 1 T ,

V'OODBPJDGE, N. J.

P. DALLY,

SOTLPTOE A3TO DESIGMEK IS M0HU- |MENTS, TOMBS & STATUARY.

FATETTE STKEET, PEETH AMEOY.

VID A. FLOOD,

CLAY MEECHAI.T,

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ADVERTISEMENTS.

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Dimity put her hands over her ears andcried, -TLu.r,;.-- k-.il uit; the name of theother ]>"rry "!"•.;• which honest men and•patriots belong." Then the editorlaughed uii inhuman laugh and said,"Long ago they took a lantern whenthey wanted to find an honest man; youhad better borrow half a dozen head-lights and a garden rake and go andlook for that party. However, if youare a true patriot you will work for theReimblicans, for they all have cottagesat Long Branch and villas in Washing-ton and Paris, and are pretty well sup-plied with funds; but the Democratshave been out a long time, their nionej"is all gone and their villas are mort-gaged. It will be a dreadful strain on

the Treasury, and ." Miss Dimitydid not wait for more. And now whenany one talks politics in her presenceshe listens with that benign sadnessborn of superior wisdom.—OmaJtci Jif-publicau.

A. CAMPBELL & CO.,

CLAY M E R C H A N T S ,WOODBBIDGE, X. J.

S EAUTENBEKG.

WATCHMAKER AEB JEWELER.

(Established in New York City in 1853.)

REPAIRING DONE,

With Professional still and cure, j

AT REASONABLE PRICES |

INDIAN SUMMER.—This halcyon period

of our autumn will always in some waybe associated with the Indian. I t isred and yellow and dusky like him.The smoke of his camp lire seems againin the air. The memory of him pervadesthe woods. His plums and moccasinsand blanket of skins form just the cos-tume the season demands. I t wasdoubtless his chosen period. The godssmiled upon him then it' ever. Thetime of ' the chase, the season of thebuck and the doe, and of tlia ripeningof the forest fruits: the time when allmen are incipient hunters, when thefirst frosts have given pungency to theair, when to be abroad or: the hills orin the woods is a delight that both oldand young feel—if the red aborgineever had II:H summer of fullness andcontentment, if. must have been at thisseason, and it. jitly bears his name.—Hcrilmt'r ••< I or Oi-uiiicr.

"P B. FREEMAN & SON,

iRAHWAY AYE.. WOODBRIDGE. N. J. i

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AND

S U R G E O H S ,

E. B. FREHIAX. S. E. FREEMAN.

P. CARPENTER'S

Carriage Repository,MAIN ST,, WOODBREDGE, N. J.

CARRIAGES, BUGGIES & WAGONS

Constantly on hand and Made tn order.

u, Ti'ln it nh t <j & Johh h t <j

at the ShortF-st Nntiea.

(PHARLES DRAKE,v 'MAIN' STEEET. OPP. 31. E. CHURCH."WOODBEIDGE.

Dealer in.

FIEST-CIASS BLANK BOOKS,

LAW AND JUSTICES" BLANKS

of the most approved U. J. forms. Backgam-mon Boards. Initials. &c.

DRUGS AND MEDICINES,

Perfumery, Fine Toilet Soaps, Combs, Brush-es, Paints, Oils, Glass, Putty, Varnishes, Dye-Stufi's, Window-Glass of all sizes and quality,constantly on hand, from t!x8 to 40x00 inchesin length. Alcohol, California Wines andLiquors for medicinal purposes. Physicians'prescriptions carefully compounded at allhours.

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ESTABLISHED 1845.

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WOODBBIDGE, N. J.

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INSURANCE C0IPA1Y,NEWARK, N. J..

RECEIPTS FEOM MAY, 1845, TO JASUAJSY, 187(5.Premiums 364,832,014 97Interest 16,316.592 70

Total §81,149,507 76

APPROPRIATED AS FOLX.O"\TS:

Policy claims 319,282.511 48 beiar; 23.8 pr.ct.Surrendered Policies 4.2Si,344 82 " ' 5.3 "Dividends 111,224,524 15 '• 23.7 '•

Beturaed to Members...Si2,71)1.410 45 •"• 52.S "Taxes ana Expenses K,167,'913 05 *• 10.0 "Eeservo and Sui-Dlus 30,190,184 28 •• 37.2 •"'

Total, $31,149,507 76 100.0 "

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KES.JAMIX C. MILLER, TmiKiil-<-r.

Life and Endowment Policies, of the usualforms, issued on the most favorable terms.

LEWIS C, GROVEIi, President,

MILLS. j

The subscriber, having purchased the store j

property of Jos. T. Crowell, known as the |

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in CHEERY STREET; also, having leased the jMilton Mills, which gives him all the facilities |and advantages for manufacturing Flour, Feed, j&c, will give great eare in selecting the best, jgrades of White and Eed Winter Yvheat, and |special attention to the Flour Department, iHoping by prompt attention to business to jmerit a large patronage, it. will be his earnest |desire to meet the demands of customers, and igive them the very best in his line, and to sellat the lowest possible standard for cash. Inaddition to his own grades of flour, he willkeep constantly on hand ST. LOUIS CHOICEBEARDS, Also, some of the choice Southern JBrands, Hecker's Ever Prepared Flour, XXX jBest- Family Flour, XX Extra Superfine, X jSuperfine, "Eye and Graham Flour, Extra jFine and Yellow Meal, Wheaten Grits, Homi- jny, Samp, Oat Meal, Feed, Shorts, Eye Feed,Bran and Oil Meal.

In connection with the above, will be kepteonssantly on hand and fresh, Fancy Articlesin his line direct from the manufactory*—Cream Tartar, Rice Flour, Crushed Wheat.Split Peas, Corn Starch, Arrow Root, Are.

My Feed and Meal are made of the verybest. No cobs or damaged grain used. War-ranted as represented, or no sale.

WM. I. BKOWN.

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Notarv Public. KEW YOI:K.

Or PASSENGER TEATJSS, Aj?KIL16th, 1S76.—Leave depots foot of Cortlandtand Desbrosses Streets, at7 a. ni., for Easton, Bethlehem, Ailenton,

Maueh Chunk, Hazleton, Beaver Meadow,Malioney City, Shenandoah, Mt. Camiel,Wilkesbarre, Pittston, Elmira, &e., eonneet-ing -with trains for Ithaca, Anburn, Koches-ter, Buft'alo, Niagara Falls and the west.

1 p. Bi., for Easton, Bethlehem, Allento"\vii.Maneh Chunk, Hazelton, Mahoney Citj*,Shenandoah, Wilkesburre, Pittston, Tnnk-hannot'l:, &c, making close connection forReading, Pottsville and Harrisburg.

3 p. m., for Easton, Bethlehem, Allento^vnand Mauch Chunk, stopping at all stations.

0.30 p. in., Night express daily, for Easton,Bethlehem, Allentown, Manch Chunk,Wilkesbarre, Pittston, Ebnira, &C., connect-ing •n'ith trains for Ithaca, Auburn. Roches-ter, Buffalo, Niagara Falls and the west.Pullman's sleeping coaches attached.

Trains leave Rah"\vay for Metuchen. Nev."Brooklyn and >Jew ilarket at 8 a. m., and 2,4 anil 7.30 p. m.

ROBEET H. SATSE, Bupt. and Engineer.General eastern office, corner Clmreh and

Cortlandt Streets.CHAS.H. CTJMUKGS, Agent.

RAILROAD TIME-TABLES.

T > E N J N T S Y L Y A N I A RAILROAD.

1THE GiiEAT TEUXE LIKE AND (JSITIZD

STATES MAIL ROUTE.Train:.; leave New York, from foot of Des-

brosses and Cortlandt Streets, as follows:Express for Harrisburg, Pittsbnrg, the West

and South, with Pullman Palace Cars at-tached, 9.30 a. ni., G and 8.30 p. m. Sun-day, G and 8.30 p. m.

For Williamspnrt and_Lock Haven, via Phila-delphia and Erie Railroad Division, con-necting at Philadelphia), 0.30 a, in'., forWilliainsport, Lock Haven, Cony and Erie,'6.30 p. m., connecting at Cony for Titus-ville. Petrole-am Centre, and the Oil Regions.

For Baltimore, "Washington and the South,"Limited Washington Express" of Pullmanman Parlor Cnra, cinily. except Sunday, at11.30 a. m., arrive at Washington 4.10 p. in.Regular at 8.40 a. m., 3 and 9 p. m. Sun-day, 9 p. m.

Express for Philudelphiii, 7. 7.30. 8.40, H.30 :;.m., 12.30, 3, 4, -110, 5, 6, 7, 8.30, 9 p. m.and 12 night. Sunday, 5, G, 7, 8.30, 9 p. su.Emigrant and second class. 7 p. m.

For Newark at 6. 6.30, 7, 7.40, 8, 'J, 10, 11 am., 12 in., 1, 2. 2.30, 3.10, 3.40. 4, 4.10, 4.304.50, 5, 5.20, 5.40. 6.10, 6.20, C.30. 7. 7 so'8.10, 10, 11.30 p. in., and 12night, ' Sundav'5.20, 6.30, 7 and 8.10 p. ni.

For Elizabeth, G. 6.30. 7, 7.40, 8, 9, 10, 11 a• m., 12 ni., 1, 2. 2.30, 3.10, 3.40, 4. 4.10. 4.30,

4.50, o.20, 5.40, 6.10, 6.20, 6.30, 7, 7.30, 8.10.10, 11.30 p. m.. and 12 night, Sunday 5 206.30, 7 and 8.10 p. m. ' '

ForRahway, 6, 6.30, 7, 7.40. 8, 10. 11 a. m12 m., 1. 2. 2.30 3.10, 3.40. 4, 4.10, 4 30'4.50, 5.20, 5.40, 6.10, 6.20. 6.30. 7, 8.10. 10p. m., and 12 night. Sunday, 5.20, 6.30and 7 p. m.

For Woodbridge, Perth Amboy and SouthAmboy, 6 and 10 a. in.. 2.30, 4.50 and 6.20p. rn.

For Kew Brunswick. 7. 8 and 11 a. m.. 2. 3.104.10, 5.20, 0.10, 7 p. 'in., and 12night.' Sun-day, 7 p. m.

For East Millstone, 11 a. m.. 3 and 5.20 p. m.For Kingston and Rocky Hill. 8.40 a. m. and

4.10 p. in. 'For Princeton, 7, 8.40 a. ui., 12.30, 2. 4.10and

7 p. in.For Lambertville, 9.30 a. m., 2. 3, 4.10 j>. m.For Phillipsburg and Belvidere 9.30 a. m..

and 2 p. m.For Flemington, 9.30 a. m., 8 p. m.For Hercer and Somerset Branch, 3 p. in.For Trenton. Bordentown, Burlington and

Cainden, 7.30 and 9.30 a. m., 12.30. 2, 4, 5,and 7 p. m.

For Freehold, 7.30 a. in., 2 and -1.10 p. in.For Farmingdaleand Squan, 7.30 a. m.. 2xi. ni.For Hightstown, Pemberton and Camden. via

Perth Amboy, 2.30 p. m., and via Mon-mouth Junction, 4.10 p. m.

For Hightstown and Pemberton, 6 c. m.. viaPerth Amboy, and 7.30 a. in., via IvlonmouthJunction.

Trains arrive as follows—From PittwljurgL.6.55. 10.30 a. in., and 9.20 p. in. daily;10.15 a. m. and 7.40 p. m. daily except Mon-day. From Washington and Baltimore.6.20 a. in., 4.05, 5.15 and 10.27 p. m. Sun-day, 6.20 a. in. From Philadelphia. 5.10,6.20, 6.55, 10.15, 11.20, 11.54 a. si.'. 2.15,4.05, 5.15, 6.10, 6.50, 8.44. 7.35, 10.27 p. m.Sunday. 5.10, 6.20. 6.55, 11.54 a. in., 7.409.20, 10.27 p. m.

Trains leave Woodbridge for New York, at7.13 and 8.14 a. m.. and 12.14. 4.20 and6.40 p. m.Ticket offices, 520 and 944 Broadway: 1 As-

tor House, and foot of DesbroEf.es aild Cort-landt Streets: i Court Street. Brooklyn: 114.116 and 118 Hudson Street, Hobokeu. Emi-grant ticket office, 8 Buttery Place.FEANK THOMSON, D.*M. BOYD, Jr.,

General Manager. Gen. Puss. Agent.

F. W. JACKSOSGenl Supt. XJ. It. I;, of N. J. Div.

IpESTKAL UAILMOA]") OFNEWJERKEY.

ALIJEXTO-SVS LINE TO THE WEST.Passenger and freight station in New York,

foot of Liberty Street. Connects at Somervillewith South Branch Railroad; at HamptonJunction with Delaware, Lackawanna, andWestern Railroad; at Phillipsburg with Lehighand Snsquehanna division; also, with LehighValley Railroad. Direct line to Harrisburg.Pittsburg and the west; also to Central Penn-sylvania and Jfew York State.

WINTER .ARRANGEMENT.

Commencing December 1st, 1875. LeaveNew York as follows:5.30 a. in., News train for Easton, Eelviderc,

Bethlehem, Bath, Allentown, Mauch Chunk,Tamaqua, Tamanend, Wilkesbarre, Potfs-ville, Scranton, &c.

G.05 a. m., Way train for Dnnellen.7.45 a. m., Way train for Plemington and

Easton, connects at Junction with Delaware,Lackawanna and Western Railroad.

9 a. in., Moling express, daily (except Sun-days), for Easton, Allentown, Harrisburgand the west. Connects at Easton forMauch Chunk, Tamaqua, Towanda. Wilkes-barre, Pottsville, Scranton, Danville. Wil-liainsport, itc.

10.15 a. m. Way train for Somerville andFlemington.

1 p. in. Express for Flemington, Enston, Al-lentown, Mauch Chunk, Tamaqua, MahoneyCity, Hazelton, Wilkesbarre, Reading Colum-bia, Lancaster, Ephrata, Pottsville, Harris-burg, Sec.

2.45 p. m. Express for Easton. Belvideiv,Bath, Mauch Chunk, Wiliesbarre amiScranton.

3.30 p. in. Way train for Dnnellen.4 p. m. Way train for Easton, Allentown and

Mauch Chunk. Connects at Junction withDelaware, Lackawanna and Western Rail-road.

1.30 p. m. Way train for Somerville andFlemington.

5 p. m. Way train for Dunellen.5.15 p. w. Evening express, daily, for Easton.

Allentown, Maxich Chunk, Wilkesbarir-!Towanda, Reading and Harrisburg.

5.30 p. m. Way train for Soinerville.6 p. m. Way train for Somerville.6.30 15. m. Way train for Dunellen.7 p. m. Way train for Somerville.8.30 p. m. For Easton.9.30 p. m. Way train for Somervilie.12 p. in. Way train for Dimellen.For Elizabeth at 5.30, 6.15. 6.35, 7. 7.30, l.i't.

S. 8.45, 0, 0.30, 10.1.5, i l . lo a. in.. 12 in..12.45, i, 2, 2.45, 3, 3.30, 3.45, 4, 4.10, 4.30,4.45, o. 5.15, a.30, 5.45, 6. U.I5. G.30, 7.7 40S.30, 9.30,10.30, 11.15, 12 p. m.

E. E. BICKER Supt. and Ensx.H. P. BALDWIN. G-en'l Pags. Agt.

NEW YORK AND LONG BRANCH E. R.CENTRAL HAILIiOAD OP N. J.

ALL-RAIL LINE BETWEEN- NI:W Yoiii',

j LONG BEAXCH AI;D SQCAK.i| Time-table of July 10th, 1S7G.—TrainsI leave New York from foot of Liberty Street,| North River,-at 7.45. 9.15, 11.45 a. in., 3.4-5.] 4.30 and 5.30 p .m.I All trains run to Long Branch.I Stages to and from Keyport connect at Mata-j wan Station with all trains.I Woodbridge for New York at 7.50, a. in.I and 12.04. 4.02. 5.32 and 7.32 p. m.

j H. P. BALDWIN, Gen. Pass. Agt.

j I'. E. KICSEK, Snpt. and Eng'r.

FAGETIASTA.

A morning (."ill—"iiiik!Man is fcorn to sorrow, as tlie oilier

side of the barrel hoop is to ily 11 pwiirus.Now is the time to carry your right

hand in a sling ii' yon don't "want itshaken oft' by aspiring candidates,

Albert Rhodes in September Galaxy:-What shall we drink?" Well, Mr.Rhodes, we ain't at all particular, seeingit's you.

A long-staniiiig engagement vrasbroken up Sunday, because he fannedher so hard in church as to spoil hercrimps.

Their dresses are so tight now thatwhen a lovely "woman stoops to folly shelias to wait for some one to pick her upagain.

It is no use any longer to call a ging-er a nightingale or a blonde angel.People have got through paying fourdollars a ticket for any musical per-formance.

It is only by a terrible strain on themuscles of his face that n, doctor canlook solemn when his neighbor remarksto him that there is a great deal of Kick-ness in the city.

Mother: "Now, Gerty, be a goodgirl, and give aunt Julia a kiss, and saygood night." Gerty; "No, no! If Ikiss her she'll box my ears, like she didpapa's last night."

At a printer's festival the followingtoast was given:—The editor and law-yer; the devil is satisfied with the copyof the former, but requires the originalof the latter.

This is an Omaha personal item:' • Stare - Every - Woman - in - the-Face, ayoung brave who loafs around thestreets, has not yet left for the Autumn.He belongs to the Id-i-ot tribe."

They never use a bulletin board onthe Worcester I'ves*. They merely takethe insole out of the editor's shpper andlean it out of the second story windowagainst the sidewalk and chalk theirdispatches 011 that.

An Atlanta man walked around allday recentlywith a grasshopper in his ear.When his wife discovered it, he said hehad been hearing peculiar noises all day,but thought a new steam saw mill hadbegun operation somewhere in theneighborhood.

"Truly rural" is all very well in itsway, but a drunken man never fullyrealizes the possibilities of the Englishlanguage until you set him at "magnan-imity." He generally does it withseventeen im's.

"Now, there's a finished gentleman jfor you," said a fireman, as he gazedupon the pieces of an engineer thathad been scraped up and gathered tohis fathers, after his last attempt to runa train on nothing.

Indians customs seem to be reachingEast. Old - Man - Afraid - of - His-Wifecame home late the other night, andcrawled under the bed, but was per-suaded to leave his reservation and be-come one of the Sore-Heads.

In the Art Gallery a backwoodsmaninnocently said to a companion as theywere standing before a large paintingof the rams of the Appian Way and theClaudian Aqueduct, near Koine, that itwas the best representation of- Chicagojust after the fire that he had ever seen.

"It was a popular notion of the an-cients," said a showman, ''that this 'ereannual, as we call a leopard, can't changehis spots; but it's now known that hesleeps in one spot one night and in an-other spot another night, and is contin-ually a-changin' his spots."

A Sabbath school teacher, last Sun-day, asked one of her pupils why the"Queen of Sheba came to Jerusalemwith a very great train ?" and was some-what startled by the quick reply "Thatit must have been the fashion to wearthem in those days."

A D "I 'ER TISEMEXTS

FEW STORE!

13 VES!-lot-

BY THE NOMINATIONS.—He

ran his rubicund nose into the door ofthe saloon, says the Atlanta Constitution,and remarked:

"The campane cuminitty liasn't binarouir to errange fur the boys, jist yit,I reckon ?"

"Not yet," answered the keeper."I 'spose old Sam Watson hasn't

knocked in the head 'o that ar' barrel o'seeds—yet V"

"Hardly," was the reply."Yas; well ye might gimme a return

check, er a kind o' cuepond, ye know,ter shoT? that I've bin "'round ter standby the nommynaslmns.

'•"0, bite it off right there !" yelled themixologist.

"All right, then; ta-ta ! But I warnye that henceforurd I'm fa'r prey furthe inemy!" and he slid out into thestreets amiiii.

m & CO.From Murray St., JSr. I'.,

Have just opened

A NEW AND WELL-SELECTED STOCK

OF

CHINA, GLASS,

SEMI-JP OR CELAIN,

SIL VEIi- WA BE,

STONE- WARE,

ADVERTISEMENTS

T H E ORIGINAL WOODBEIDGEJL

COAL YARD.

William H. Den 1 a rest.

PROPRIETOR

. ID TEH TJSEMFXTK

P O U IM D !

L E H I GEE ,AXD OTHEK fiTANDABD

STOVE

EGG,

[ 2STTTT,

I AT WHOLESALE AND-RETAIL.

> i

OUTL

FULL ASSORTMENT OF

T I TV

S Lowest 3IarJi'et Prices.

House-Furnishing Goods \ HAED WOOD,1

! By the Cord. Also, Sawed and Split. AGEIT EOS PERTH AMBOY,

A EEMEDY that will jWliE THE liliEUMATI S3L I

AD VERTISEMENTS.

A BEEL k LEONARD,

ATTOSETEYS & COUNSELLORS AT LAW

800 BROAD STREET,Ask your Druggist for

COLES' RHEUMATIC REMEDY.J'. W. LEON.VKD.

It cures KHETJMATISM in all its forms, re- |moving it entirely from the system; gives im- i "" " " ~ "mediate relief, .subdues .swollen and inflamed Tji JJ. F R E E M A N , Jit.

1I3WASK, N. J.

First Dm;/ Store KtUiMLihinl in Woaijhridii.

joints; removes aching and soreness—the veryworst eases readily yield to its curative pow-ers. It is pleasant to tlie fritste, and can betaken by the must delkmto person, tihvuys gir- jing a cure-. , C o I . XIAHWAV ATE. AXB OHEES Sr-

GITE IT .A. TKIAL, j

And you will be satisfied by the relief and DEUGS, MEDICINES, FANCY AKTICIFJ6.comfort it gives' tliat TSheumatism can be \ -

"miSs - RHEUMATIC REMEDY. F S E D E E I C E

MANWFACTUKEJ: OF

Prepared and soldl^T" I CARRIAGES M B LIGHT WAGOUS,

T~5 "PT3 C—T~°5T ~Wic—3 ' 'Opposite tliereiir of Clumiberlin'sHotel.)

DRUG-GIST AND PHARMACIST , ! C A M P B E L L ST., KAHWAY, K J.

158 MAHJ STREET, RAHWAY, j j7:;€?" E e P a i r i n s »<?'*ly e x i t e d .

N. -L. and bv Druerirists everywhere, i '" ~

ESTABLISHED 1864.H. B. Z

CITIZENS' MUTUAL

Piuoj;, ii(i rentx and $1 Vv.u BOTTT.K.

j IMPORTER OF HUMAN HAIE.I And Manufacturer of

ijrsritAKCE COJIPAXY, ; HAIR GOODS OF EVERY DESCRIPTION1 Wholesale and Retail.

, IS ' - ,.T. I 3 0 c » r a c H ST... NEW BRUNSWICK, N. J

PKINCIPAI OFFICE. NO. US- BKOAD SUT.KET. j XTHM. A. M O R G A N ,

Authorised Capital, - S2E0,000. | MAXTTACTCISKK OF

OFFICERS; ) SASHES,, BLIBDS ASH 3388RS,. , .„, .„ n , . m f , ,-, . , , ' CAMPBELL STEBET, -SEAT. N. .T. P,. R1..])].•„„••TAMES (T. DARLINCT. - J3resident, jT-n-rc T TX-,W i- v •, , i P- O. Box 2(ii.LEWIS J. Li OK, I tf.t'-P resident. ;HIBAM M. RHODES. - - - 'Imature.: ' T T A i m ' r n v /•

& F: SCHAEFF, - - - - - •<wA'i,;i. ; ~ ±

if *HAAr ^ ' r y J

114 BROAD STR'TJELIZABETH, IS. .T. \

Tol !

OEDEKS PROMPTLY ATTENDED TO. . A , £3 i i £\, i W iX ...

/•*<•«/ K*t<itr ami [nxm-Hif* .

List- and descriistions of property fc-nvank-d |

on iipplication. ;

film doiS* eomjjetition.

The PRICES, the STYLES, and the jn r l T . i Takes pleasure in iiiformina; tlio citizens jQuALITl of the wares oftered by this i x p I —

of TToocTbrklge and vicinity that he has j TtTjT'TON Tr\l\V- ICY

accepted the appointment as

GOODS PACKED AND SHIPPED j

TO ANY PART OF THE STATE j

Without extra charge for Packages or j State F i l eCartage. j

. ; JERSEY CITY.

A<U;NT I-OI: THK- " B . .. "B , - *

a i v 6 8€<b-1

T O H N S O N ' S iel |

Select School for Boys, jCOMBINATION HALL. j

PERTH AAH3OY. N. J. I

AMES T. ittELICK.

KEY. IS. I>. JOHNSON imnonnues to ftpublic that his Select .School for Boys

(t'XDEIt MELICK HOUSE).

i'ti Street, llahir

open on the first Monday in September next, H l l s n o w o n h a n d a l a l - e s t o c k o t !Acknowledging his indebtedness to his pa- LIEN'S AND BOYS' CLOTHING", !irons 01 the past, he promises by close i>er- • " Isonal attention to the duties devolving upon | New Goods, all Wool. PRINCE ALBERT Ihim, to merit future favors. "" j FRONTS made from S10 to Sla. I

Black Cassiinere Pants. S3.50 to S6.00.Vests, from SI. 50 to S3.00.

(ESTABLISHED 184'.).}

cWHOLESALE AND EETAIL,

."Delivered to any part of the @ity.

O ££ 3> IC 18. F*LETT AT

EEWCK'S ICE CREAM SALOON,

QTAOY'S PHOTOGRAPHIC PAKL.OItS.

^IAFX A- CHISKRYHT.--. Enii-iUiee on Cliivr.y St.

I 3 I O rM? 3".r 1?. I E g»4

P1. '"'! 'clI"1'-s i--«.i»Tt_- iu ilit- 1n:-i style ;md sut-i ii'V'.'L'.'i t;u»i':;-i!-tt'«L. A Ljcioii viKsortment- ofx"iiA-\U:,.-> eonstuitly on hiiud. i'ictures fetmedat short notiee jit-tlie LOWEST FUIC3S-

RAHWAY. N. .1, .1". <4. HT*X!Y.

TSAAC INSL]-:R J-:..

C L A. Y M E H, C H A IT T ,

WOODBKTDGE. N. .1.

P T. HARRIS,

B E A L ESTATE,FIRE AND LIFE

IRVING ,VND fiHEtutr STS., BAHWAT, 1*. J..

Is prepared to ofl'er for sale, to let, or ex-change, in the city of Eahway and vicinity,

HOUSES OP ALL

THE O. BEM HA M I), ' BOYS' C L 0 T H E f G a specialty.

AIANUFAOTUEEE OF

FINE OI&AES ONLY ! o

Opposite Post Office,ASSORTMENT: OF | -vviltreceive immediate attention. ALso. »n

BAGS. TRUNKS. VALISES. | ICE DEPOT jWill be erected in the rear of W. I. ^Bro-n-n's !

LOTS of varifesas sizes, FAKMS of fM>m tento two hundred aeres, at low prices and onreasonable terms. AT ——<-;-,, siich will.dowf11 ^ "••11 rt m

DEALER IX

'lothing Made to Order. | Feed Stsre, <md any quantity can be-obtained! there fit any time.

PRESSING AND CLEANING done at short

notice. ,T- T. MELICK.

SMOKING AK3) CKEWIUG TOBACCOSAUD SKXTET. \ T E W BEITNSWICK HOTEL,

MAIN STREET,WOODBRIDGE, N.J. ! GEORGE E. CRATER, PROPRIETOR,

COE. GEOEGE -IND SOJIEESET SlEEETS.

NEW .ifRlTlsliWICK, K. J.

(Opposite the Depot).

$£" LIVEKT ATTACHED. *SSL

Thankful for past patronage, t

A. WHITE, Proprietor.Eahway, N. J., May 18th, 1870.

US THE EUROPEAN PLAJI,

Opp. the Depot, BAM WAY, JV. -/.

MEALS AT ALL HOUSS.

A. BATLET:I

P. EDGAR,

CLAY MERCHANT,

WOOKBRIDGE, N. J.

T D. DRAKE,

MADS STREET, WOOBBRIDGE,!

begs leave to reniind the citizens of "Wood- j

bridge that he keeps the

First Meat Market eecv Estahlislied- hi Tmvn,

and is the only dealer that has Ms

Stock Slaughtered at Home.O E D 3E I i S«

delivered from wagon daily.

TOHN F. LEE.

Successors to

LEE BROTHERS.

FLGTO, PEED, BALED EAY & STRAW,

MATS STEEET, OPPOSITE POST OFFICE,

WOODBRIDGE, N. J.

QTJBSCRTBB FOR>O .,THE INDEPENDENT HOUB."'

TSAAC FLOOD & SON.

CLAY MEECHASfXS,

WOODBRIDGE. Is". J.

SAAC FLOOD. A. HALSTED

/~1ORTLANDT & K, WAYNE PABKEK,

C01JUSE1L0SS AT LAW,

750 BEOAD STEEET, NEWARK, N. 1.

D T PA1IKE31, KICHAED V

crviL EKGHCEERAND SIJEVEYOR,(Successor to Thomas Ardt-er,)

OPSIOE, 25 CHEESY ST., OPP.

RAHWAY, N. 3..

[ BOTNEES AND WEDDIHG PARTIES

SUHPLIED AT SHORT MGUCE-

W. BOYNTON & CO.,

MANUFACTURERS AND

A Public Mestamrant,

' Is. OOMNECTED WITH THE. HOTEL.

IS SUPPLIED WITS THE

Meat Wines, IAquovat & Cigars.

VITRIFIED

PIPE

AND

p l S H. MORRIS,

COMMISSIONER 0? DEEDS AHD STffiVEYOS.

Residence and Office:

EAHAVAX AYE., "WOODBRIDGE, N. J.

FARM DRAIN TILE,

WOODBRIDGE, N. J.

ERRT & LTJPTON.B:

ATTORNEYS & COUNSELLORS AT LAWEXCHANGE BUILDING,

T ^ R E N C H LESSONS,

j The undersigned, a graduate of the

"CODES SUPEKEUBH POUE D A M S , "

at Geneva, Switzerland,

•who lias considerable experience iu teach-ing, is desirous to devote a few hours perday to giving lessons in (her native) theFrench language, either at the pupil's or her

Tins liouse is CONVENIENTLY LO-CATED for the accommodation of the>Ijraveling public, and lias been recentlyenlarged and refitted throughout. The-patronage of thfi public is respectful^"solicited. MRS. M. LMITEBEE,

Proprietress^i '_

^TOODBRXDGE HOTEL,

"Woodbridge, N. J.

! FXF.ST-CLASS ACCOMMOBATroXB 1'G.S,

TH.«SIENT AXS> PEEMAKEJT B O A R D E R S ,

Good StivWing, Driving and Fishing.

Choice Wines, JLiquors,& CigarsA. GE.INSTED,

"W"0ODBRIDGE SEMINARY..and Day Pupils, will reopen

MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 187C.

All the higher English branches taught.own resideiioe "on Main Street. * | Piano nwi Organ liessons. Terms moclernte,

KAHWAY. K, -T. ! Sepl4tf LOUISE D. HAHNEL. Miss E, L, M I M A Piinoipal,

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