Huntingdon Globe (Newspaper) - April 24, 1884, Huntingdon, Pennsylvania VOL 40 and Missouri II Spring luis Miis of Anil llu With nil liiT service sneli tilin PA 24 WEDDING RING W 1LLIAM STE Justice of the Peace Co April RAY w So 310 Peim St PA Settlement of decedents anl collec tions a specialty Jan TT C W So St PA Jan IS E A r A W So 321 Pom fa kinds of legal promptly attended to Sept 11 ILLAM W A W So 103 Street HUNTINGDON PA 31S77 E W PA Can to consulted H Office in the GiorG building In English and German G L EOBB DENTIST Office in S T Browns new Pom iA April 11 rr A TLA W HUNTINGDON PENNA attention given to Collections of nil the settlement oj estates and all other wi Business attended to with promptness and 11 litv Muy A of thu discuses which of tho liver PILLS directly upon and aro to oura thu caused by tlin Dysentery and i host of for Jill of which they aro a safe sure prompt and remedy Tho of PILLS by eminent physicians in regular prae tCO shows unmistakably tUo in which nro held by the medical profes sion Those PILLS aro compounded oE vegetable substances only and aro absolutely free from calomel or any injurious ingredient A from writes PILLS lira invaluable tome and iuo my constant i i from and your PILLS are only thing l could look to relief One dose move my bowels and froo my head from pain They aro the most and the easiest physio 1 havu ovor It is a to me to speak in their praise ahu 1 always do so when occasion W I of W L Pago Dro Franklin St o I TILLS hi as Iy you nud have never known hem to tail lo accomplish thu desired result Wo constantly them on hand at our home and thorn us n safe and family D lire invaluable f HAVES Texas June IT 1SS2 E writing from Ua says Joi somo past 1 havo been subject to constipation from which in spite of use of medi cines of J 8uHorud until soino months ngo 1 began taking PILLS They havo corrected the habit and have vastly improved my AVERS PILLS correct of the bowels tho appe tite and digestion and by their prompt and thorough action give tone vigor to the whole physical economy BY Dr Lowell has Minns lends I i The Spring would seel in vuin For and iV For pink and pink and while ami Of vines and vines of lovo and Forjoy ot young old like Iu all that Springtimes hold Tho noble Maids of Honor Who queens obey And courtly service render By weary night mid day Among their royal duties Bouquets of blossoms bring Each evening to tlie banquet And hand them to King If Spring lias Maids of Honor And a King that is not His choicest Springtime Is 1rom his The Independent of H at III New rily through out tlu Iuel requires un expenditure of 81000 an hour Seven and aro when a young man had 1T two big mittens from his one in each pock are V i ol unit up lo the foul store in j avenue move ho hail they liner Co unk if rings there Thu Height anwell have Ibat he flid imt nl any boot and ahoo employed by the two 4llo lo umd f i i i h and 11 Weda what a ring do you CLIFTON HOUSE formerly MORRISON HOUSE Corner 3rd Allegheny streets Huntingdon has been remodeled and present proprietor J A of tlie Ar solicits your me a Call and you will uot be 2Cmch6mos WANTED To canvass for the sale of Grapes Koscs and other necessary stock steady employment guaran teed SALARY AND PAID Apply once 111 april 102m A Sefer to paper Sold by all Druggists OLD AMD MIDDLE AGED All tio wonderful of Sarsaparilla Ayers Children with Sore Eyes SoiO Hats or scrofulous or ttMa mint may bo matlo by its uso Solil by rll Druggists sis bottles far 55 Sept C 1883ly a week at home so outfit free Tay absolutely sure o risk Capital not required Header if you want business ut persons of either sex young or old can make pay all the time they work with absolute certainly write for particulars to H HALLETT CO Portland Maine jan SUy O II At 105 Street Pa JOHN H Cashier No 309 Third St Huntingdon Pa KSA regular banking business transacted De posits received on time Collections made on all parts of the Dis counts dully Ample security for depositors ami creditors Nov 101881 THE wonderful euros effected b remedy not oly iu o r C TODEK Extracting teeth without pain Artificial teeth inserted upon gold silver rubber celluloid and contin ous gnm work Broken sets repair ed and old plates refitted to preserving and filling natural teeth Gold a specialty Good reference ton street Huntingdon Pa Work warranted oct IS Ilis DOW at home bit the hu the tf tic to iu use throughout the In and Coia and Liver en Uio Pain n d Muns eruption er Sick or Leg Scald Hd Sin Ulcers Kidney and ncss and A proportion of the CM MANKIND in an impure state of the a ol LIVEK and poisons ihc of Life ard no remedy can Lc used dian A such a of feeling as to the Stf Aft AND sell it Curiosities Next to tho President of the United States the hest paid Federal official is the clerk of the Supreme Court The States of Colorado Delaware Florida Nevada Oregon land and Vermont havo ICSH than one half the population of but havo the same number of representa tives in Pennsylvania has a larger number of than any State Not a clerk in the pension office in Now York city draws less than a year tho average for tho 1173 lurks 91 Even the copyists get a year These clerks havo light labor and short The average salary of tho railway throughout the conn try is only 8977 a year These men work hard at tho most trying labor and have long hours Eighty years ago North Carolina had as many representatives in Gon New York North Carolina now has nine or ono loss than she had in 1SOO while Now York has thirtyfour There aro 419 typesetters besides apprentices in the Government print ing office Estimating Congress to ho in sos sion 200 days u year tho salaries of to about 810000 a day Thu Stale which has two Senators and one in Congress has not so large a popula tion by 017 souls as the city of New Haven Conn if Congress while in session in and about The Government has sold more than two hundred million dollars worth of public lands in eighty years In tho last twenty yours tho Gov has paid for interest on tho public debt the enormous sum of 080000000 a sum which would de fray a I the expenses of tho Govern ment excepting interest on the public debt lor nearly nine years to como at It w A yo wedding ou have a single dia youd want two or three dollars areal diamond ring re marked lover as ho advanced to I be He was carefully apd tenderly in formed Inal diamonds had gone up the present rate of expenditure und they used in tor nearly thirty five years if expense Aui then ho Oon could be limited to they wero i 1760 The food presses from the at the right side if facilitated by going to sleep on tin Water and other fluid right side flow equally on a level and it require less power to propel thorn on ji Jove than upward Tho heart propels the blood to every part of the body successive beat and it is easy to see that if the is in a position the blood will bo soul to tbo various parts of tbo system with greater ease with less expenditure 0 power and possibly be done if ono portion of the body were elevated above a horizontal On the other band if ono portion of the body is too low tho blood does not return us readily as it is carried thither is an accumula tion and distension and pain soon follows If a person goes to sleep with tho but rt very lower than the body he will either soon wake up or will die with apoplexy before the tho because tho blood could not get back from tho brain as fast as it was carried to it If a person lays himself down on a level floor to sleep a portion of the bead at least is lower t eluded down on all such non sense rings When a fel low hasto get a whole suit of clothes pay come to town and ride cars and all 1 spose though Ill one price fifty cents or six shillings or around Shore If its kinder gilded up to two weeks thatll do It had nt or tor turn rusty under three or 1our any howas shell to the street cars and willbe handling it Ill look fifty cenX ones first went into a decline Ho declined that ho ever had such in his store Ho further could hardly believe that there man on earth who would a cunt ring to put on ho finger of bis bride Doyou spose replied the young nan asho for his mittens do Im a John Jacob As or 8rJono Im going to hell i hull crop of taters to buy a ring for ny wear dishes and Shes T now to hear mo buy her shoes hat nd arid perfumery after do you think lean rush holler diamonds I and AM AUDIENCE OF FIVE Thoro arc yet living in gentlemen who never hoar the name of Ward smiling of u night spent with that droll genius In the winlor of one of the earlier years of I be war Ward Was advertised to deliver his famous lecture on the in the town hall at curiosity was excited by the announce of bis coming and there was ev cry reason to expect tbo ball would bo crowded on the evening of tbo lec ture But ouo of tho fiercest snow storms that ever visited tho town raged without all day and tho night was wildly when tbo lecturer was driven to the hall He found awaiting him there only five men who had the storm Advancing to the front of iku stage and his finger as if to a single individual Artemus in tbo ordinary conversational tone Come up closer Not know ing precisely what to do the audience of five compromised with their em by doing nothing Arte nais changed bis tono used by one who wishes to coax and said Please come up closer and bo socia ble I want to to you about a BY THE WAY passed Ilie f OF HUNTINGDON No 31 WILLIAM President S E SHUMAKER CasMer Discount day Thursday Deposits received Col lections made at all principal points in the United States and Canada July ll PENNSYLVANIA fa and after Sunday Slay 13th 1SSG trains will run as follows WESTWARD EASTWARD HAGERSTOWN JID Dec 131 v A now offered foe profit able investment ia The undersigned aro now offering for snlc between 300 400 lots iu the town of Alter Her Co 5 ti pjt 11 M A Jt H 05 7 M 7 M 2 55 A A IP s to 55 10 50 4 8V 12 12 501 o 38 10 li 9 45 5 4 58 5 15 58 K 40 0 25 6 00 6 40 K 48 fB fC 57 12 4l 1 35 N Hamilton 2223 1210 02 9 20 23 B 09 1 12 Mount 9 1 50 S 53 1 57 Mill Creek 2 01 2 10 Huntingdon 2 2C Petersburg 4 02 3 5C 1 203 50 2 40 2 46 2 53 Spruce Creel Union Fur 8 85 S 03 8131 3 W 8 07 f 7 35 316 802 S 121 7 58 2 58Birmingham 80S 755 3 Of 50 S 01 7 50 7 17 2 51 7 40 47 7 36 12 6 40 22 C 51 3 8 IS 32 G 59l S 28 Bells Mills 8 50 Altoona 7 507 20 1 30 t 31A Mlp M S 43 18 12 25j2 25 8 3317 33 7 59 at prices ranging from to Be it un however these prices will prevail for tho next 6O DAYS nad persons who wish to avail the rapid rise in riul estate peculiar to the rapidly developing and grout North 7 15j 2 IA MAJIA M 1 OC thc above stop only at station whero figures are given TOP RAILROAD On and after Monday May 14th 1S82 rains will arrive and depart as follows SOUTH NORTH Mail P M G 05 615 6 22 6 35 6 50 657 7 10 725 7 30 440 7 51 8 02 80o Express A Jt 8S5 850 855 9 06 D 15 0 21 0 29 041 955 10 00 10 10 10 21 10 SO 10 35 STATIONS Huntingdon Co Toe Run Rough und Beady Cove Saxton Hopewell Pipers Kun Everett Mt Dallas Bedford Express P Jt 555 540 5 35 5 25 5 15 509 501 448 4 33 4 29 417 4 07 3 5S 3 53 Halt P M 1240 12 30 12 20 12 11 12 03 11 57 11 50 11 5 11 20 11 15 11 05 10 53 10 43 10 40 SHOWS BRANCH SOOTH NORTH Express A AI 945 10 00 STATIONS Saxton Coalmont 10 05 Crawford 10 15 Express PM 4 30 415 4 10 4 00 GEO F E AST BROAD TOP TRAINS SOUTHWARD Union Saltillo Mixed 20am10 08to 5S12 2 1 3pm2 32S 234 17pm 23ptn6 13G 007 02pm TRAINS NORTHWARD Saltillo Rockhill Mall No 111 20aml2 14pm12 471 27 p m Mixed No 3 C 20 558 45 am Mixed Ho 5 1 45 pm2 418 174 05 p in should at once communicate with the under signed wbo havo Plot and Prospectus of Town who can and will furnish any nnd nil that may be desired re it In this connection read the follow ing extract clipped from lie Steele and which refers lo thu rapid development of the tonn of ten mile north of Al bert City viz One year the editor nnd his wile arrived in Then there were only three places of business in the Kus J F and J W Stebbins here are twelve a bank a briok antl a brick block under way The lot now owned hv David ivus thon at would nut buy It today See year lias done The same opportunities for rapid money making are now offered in Albert City lots at prices See toit therefore that they dont yo by unimproved For further par call on or address W H WOODS CO General Real Estate Agents Feb 7 tf HUNTINGDON PA THE REASON Wo can soli BAUGHS During tho past ton years the Gov hua nearly 670 000000 in caring tor Indians total of Indians to agencies is only 240000 and of those 00000 in Indian Territory 7700 in Wisconsin and 5000 in York aro supposed to bo til least partially selfsupporting Last your tbo Depart mont used worth of ink for stamping and cancelling letters Tho five States of Delaware Colo rado Florida Nevada arid Oregon combined havo not so great a popula tion by about 100000 souls as tbs city ot Now York Yet Now York oily has but eight Representatives in Con gress while the States havo six besides their Ion Senators In tho fisca year June 30tb the Governments disbursements for pensions reached us urn which exceeds six millions of dollars tbo disburse ments for all purposes in tho year There aro in tho railway mail ser vice fifteen clerks who draw tho sal ary of a year From the live States of Now York Pennsylvania Illinois Massachusetts and Ohio the Government derives onehalf of all its postal revenues It costs a year to light tho Capitol and grounds More than one half of the internal revenue receipts of tho Government comes from the four Stales of New York Pennsylvania Ohio and Ken tucky To wait upon Ihe 70 Senators thorn aro 242 employees not watchmen and librarians Virginia now has the of Congressmen she bad in 1700 when there wero members of tho House at least is lower than little matter I have thought of Hav ing succeeded in getting his audience to move up near tho stage tho hu said I move that we do not have any lecture hero this evening and propose instead that wo ad lo beneath and have a good time Ho then put tho motion voted on it himself declared it carried and lo no opportunity for an appeal from tho chair at once led the way to tho restaurant There ho lo his intended auditors and spent several hours in their company richly compensating them for their tho matter of the lecture by the wit and humor of tho stories and anecdotes without number that ho told And that is how Artemus Ward lectured in own of Thu Tho Ohio ha The of William in arrived uL tho Aow York last luvs agreed to do liver a Fourth of July oration in soca Minn A Canadian woman has written fully and distinctly 1526 words on u postal card Michael Michaels committed in Now York u few duya ago by tail ing Paris green Touchers Association will be held at PH on July 8th 9tb 10th Senator Edmunds private law in worth seventyfive thous and dollars a year Congressman it is said in tends practicing law in Washington his present term expires The Governor of has signed the abolishing tho publica tion of tho Legislative Record Mi1 Watterson has declined to represent tho Kentucky cy in the next National Convention Tho body T citizen of Cincinnati Avas at Washington Pa on Sat Tbo gravo of Wendell Philips in ffr mm or Senator Blair AUTHOR OP TUB SENATE in very properly tho world over the head is elevated during sleep The a log of wood or bunch ol leaves tho civilized a pillow if this pillow is too thick raising tho head loo high there is not blood enough carried to tho brain and as tho brain is nourished renewed and invigorated by tho it re from tho blood during sleep it is not fed sufficiently and tho result is unquiet sleep during Iho night and a waking up in weariness without re freshment to be followed by a day of drowsiness discomfort and general in activity of both mind and body Tho healthful means ia a pillow which by the pressure of the head keeps it about four inches above the level of tho bod or mattress nor should tho pillow bo so soft as to al low the heild to be buried in it and The jeweler loaned his pensive head on Vis hand looked out of tho win dow and as the Joung man opened the door bo halted and continued Fifty cent ring 1 Just as if fifty cents wasnt nothin torda bridal tower I A CONFEDERATE ANECDOTE perspiration endangering ear ache or cold in the head on turning ovor The pillow should be bard enough to prevent the head sinking more than about throe so cheap is simply this After 25 years we have discovered tho CHEAPEST PROCESS of making an Ammoniated Bono Super Phosphate and having special advantages in tho supply of raw material wo aro ena bled to produce this excellent standard brand of our goods at a lower cost than our other Standard Brands which aro by us from Good Old Formulas and they havo scoured a National Reputation after about 30 years trial Tbo 825 Phosphate is coming into use and its Cheapest and Best Crop s extending throughout Pennsylvania Ohio Now York Now Jersey Delaware Maryland and oth er States Manufactured only by SONS Philadelphia i There are several in tho country at which tho annual salary of tho postmaster is only SI Postal cards cost tho Government 54 cents and 4 mills a thousand Tho Pension Office expends than a your to investigate al pension frauds After having expended moro than a hundred millions of dollars upon its buildings tho Government finda itself paying nearly a month for sent of private buildings Tho Department uses of wrapping twine a year Tho thirteen States of Arkansas California Colorado Connecticut Delaware Florida Nebraska Nevada Now Hampshire Oregon Is land Vermont and West Virginia with on aggregate population which does not exceed that of Now York alone have twentysix United States Senators Yorks two It costs tho Government a year to maintain lights and buoys on THAD STEVENS HAIR John L Thomas tells this good story about tho great commoner of Pennsylvania When I was in Congress I used to bo a frequenter of the room of Stevens One day whilo talking to a visitor entered unexpected ly She was a tall rawboned woman with oxbow spectacles on tho bridge of her nose and a bulky green gingh am umbrella She handed Mr Sto vons a card with words Abigail Kennebunkport Maine and said Do I havo tho honor of beholding the Hon Thud Stevens vania Somewhat Mr Ste vens acknowledged his identity and asked his visitor to be seated Thank you no was tho reply but I wish to say sir than in my quiet homo dawn East I havo hoard of your glorious efforts in behalf of tho emancipated slavo of your heroia treatment of tho Southern question and of your undying hostility to the enemies of my country and I have traveled hither sir to ask tho privi lege of shaking your hand She shook it Now sir I have ono moro favor to Joseph E Johnson wbo commanded tho Confederate forces engaged in resisting the advances upon Atlanta once narrated tho fol lowing incident which well illustrat ed the impression Sherman had made minds of tho Southern sol diery at that time as commander of resources and ready expedients Johnson stood on moun tain watching with his glass the j movement of his wagon trains on tho groat plain to tho northward A staff officer came riding up with tho news that the rebel cavalry had got in tho rear Of Shermans army and had burned a number of railroad bridges Tho officer had been forced to make a detour of two days to get around iho Union army Scarcely had ho finished speaking when a whis tle was beard and a ap in tho distance showing that Sherman had already rebuilt tho bridges and reopened tho communi cations Walking past a group of soldiers lounging in tho shade a few minutes later tho General overheard them discussing Shermans chances of Said them Well make it a Moscow campaign and destroy his whole array How can you make it a Moscow campaign without any snow asked his less enthusiastic comrade I moan that we will cut his com destroy everything nnd starve him out Woll burn all tho bridges Dont you know that he carries duplicate bridges along with him WOMEN AND COSMETIC Itis stated in tho columns of a medical journal of recent publication that the use of arsenic as a cosmetic is attaining dangerous popularity in fashionable bere and abroad There are many women says an exchange who considera good complexion ono of the chief do life can offer and ono to bo obtained at almost cost It is no secret that tho poison when taken in specific closes or quantities has tho effect of clearing tho skin and rendering it soft and exquisitely trans parent but tho after consequences of use ought to bo consid ered for they aro sufficiently weighty and alarming to deter oven tho great est aspirant after loveliness from lain poring with so deadly a It is presumed that no woman would be rash enough to deliberately swallow arsenic except under professional su and it is said that some medical advisers in New York and other cities at the request of their fair but foolish patients arsenic unscrupulously in the form of pre which tho unsuspecting chemist makes up unconscious of tho object for which the dangerous min eral is administered This is a very lamentable declaration yet if it is true as an outspoken but very sensi ble physician of experience lately re marked These fair foola will not purify thoir complexions but they will eventually purify tho world by getting out of it They will soon lie forever at rest from all tho vani ties of this world with countenances as white as the most fastidious could the Old Granary Boston is already covered with early Spring flowers John G Thomp son is rapidly recovering from an ill ness which it was once thought would undoubtedly prove serious The new Produce Exchange of Now York the largest commercial build ing in tho world is to bo formally opened on the fifth of May Thomas A Hondricks possibly desire WHAT 0ARFIELD READ ask It is a souvenir of this I wish to take homo with me if I may bo so bold as to ask it a lock of tho great commoners hair Old was for a moment more than I over saw him be fore thon be smiled faintly ho put his hand to his scalplock and lifting his brown wig bodily laid it upon the table leaving his pate as bald as a billiard ball There is every hair on my head madam take your choice of a lock Need it bo added did it Weli well blow up tlie big tun nel Oh hell I exclaimed tho other man with a look of disgust you do not know old Sherman Hes got a duplicate tunnel too that tho woman JUPITERS is said that the God Jupiter once made a lottery in heaven and allowed both mortals and gods to hold tickets Tho grand prize was wisdom and Minerva held tho winning card This caused trou ble among tho mortals and Jupiter to appease them offered folly as a second prize which they all drew and wore highly pleased with it Ever since that time folly bas been held in high estimation by mortals If they wish to bo noted for their wisdom they should buy PERUNA and MANA nearest druggist and uso them for the various ailments which are known to humanity Thousands are learning wisdom in this regard and are loud in thoir praises of these wonderful discoveries of Dr S B Hartman Buy a bottle and win tho j prize once carried by tho famous Soon going to farmer I goddess of wisdom read everything and bis information was prodigious Tho rec ord of the Congressional Library at Washington will show that ho road more books than any other member of Tho number of volumes taken from tho library examined road and returned wore never ex in ono year by any man who used tho library except Charles Sum nor But this reading was only a small portion of what he did Histo ries novels newspapers and a wide range of miscellaneous matter were devoured was his favor ite poat and Tennyson was in his hand than any song writer of modern times Ho loved Burns too and spoke often of tho enjoyment ho had derived in perusing Thack eray Scott Dickons Jano Anston and Honoro do Balzac His books all bore bis library motto In ter Folia Between tho Leaves of Indiana Now York from Europe lately Ho declares that ho has no Presidential aspirations Tho Democrats depend on three barrels for success this year the money barrel tho oil barrel and the barrel Major Moore tho loader of tho Sal vation army in this country wan ar rested in Brooklyn on Saturday charged with tho embezzlement of 8SOO Tho degree of L L D has been conferred upon James Russell Lowell United States Minister to tho Court of St James by tho Edinburgh Uni Cora Weber aged 15 has fled from a convent school in St Louis leaving a in which she says she intends to drown herself as she cannot help being a thief Rov Alexander D Clark D D pastor of the sixth United Presby terian church ol Pittsburgh and a professor in the Theological Semin ary died on evening Ho was formerly president of Franklin college A curiosity was at tho Union depot Pittsburgh for a short time Saturday It was u little girl seven years old about as broad as she was long and with hoavy chin whiskers and a mous tache She was on bor way from New York city to a Chicago museum Hayes is said to havo a moro elaborate sot of scrap books classified and indexed than any other public man in tho country Ho be gan the scraps when bo was a young lawyer in Cincinnati When ho was Perfect soundness of body and mind is possible only with pure Leading medical authorities of all civ countries endorse Ayers Sarsa parilla as tho best medicine in existence It vastly in creases tho working and productive powers of both band and brain President ho kept one of his clerks constantly busy cutting and pasting slips from tho newspapers Fred Peterson the boy who sat up with President Lincoln during his last hours bas tho sheets and pillow slips the stains of tho martyrs blood Ho has betn offered big sums of money for them but refuses to soil them at present proposes to let the Government have them for the Lin coln cabinet when it is completed Tho old homo of Judge Black near York Pa is kept just as ho loft it In tho library oven tho lead pencils with which bo was accustomed to write with his left hand lie on the table just as ho laid thorn down no change being made in tho furniture except that a tho Judge has been put on the wall and a bust as yet only in plaster has been placed on a temporary pedestal Tho last book ho looked into was Curtis Life of Buchanan and tho rough of tho loaves which ho tore apart bj running his thumb through for ho never would uso a paper cut how much of it ho Ho had not opened that part which related to himself at all Tho chapter which ho had hastily torn open was that beaded Death of Mr Buchan an His character as a a Afan and a Christian On the 7th inst the United States Senate passed the Educational in Senator Biair of New Hampshire As passed il appropri ates to bo distributed the States in proportion to their illiteracy on the basis of the census of 1880 the series of 8 years The amount to be distributed the first year w 87000000 the second 000000 the third 815000000 tho sums then diminishing at the rate of annually the eighth year when all appropriations will cease As introduced it proposed even a moro gigantic expenditure of public money namely a total of 8105000000 to bo expended as follows 000 in the first year and thereafter this sum to bo diminished 81000000 yearly for len additional annual ap The conviction seems to bo pretty general that the as passed by the Senate will bo passed by the House of Representatives and receive tbe Presidents signature Senator Blairs greatest has been earned by his attention to social questions Ho is an ardent Temperance reformer us well as an educationalist His speeches both in Congress and at temperance meet ings have commanded considerable attention and should the important measure which recently panned the Senate become Jaw its authors dis tinction would bo most conspicuous Henry W Blair was born at Camp ton New Hampshire December 6tb 1834 His father who wan a descend ant from a colony of which settled in New a man of musical tastes and culture and a prominent officer in the State militia The mother of Sen ator Blair hud similar tastes and at to those of her husband Both Ins parents wero members of denomination In 183G Senator Blairs father was killed accidentally leaving a widow in ex treme poverty Before the subject of this sketch had attained tho age of thirteen his mother also died About three years previous to this bereave ment he had been token as an inmate of tho residence of Mr Richard Bart loll of Campion with whom ho lived several years improving his mind as opportunity afforded and working on the farm of his benefactor His educa tion up to the age of 10 years was gained chiefly by at Ihe common in winlor and two terms at the Plymouth Academy Upon leaving his homo at Mr Bart letts Mr Blair taught school and adopted other means to raise ent money for a full college but his health failing was deprived of this advantage succeeding only in having one term at the New Hamp shire Conference Seminary He sub sequently read law with William of Plymouth and was ad mitted to the bar in 1S59 In ho was elected Prosecuting Attorney for Grafton county Upon tho outbreak of Ihe war he entered the army and was appointed Major of the 15th New Hampshire Volunteer of which reg ho was soon afterwards made During tho siege of Port Hudson he was wounded severely twice and on account of sickness was incapable of active ser vice during tho remainder of tho war in 1SG8 bo was elected member of tho New Hampshire House of Represent atives and of tho State Senate in 186768 Ho served in tho 44th and 45th Congresses but declined a ro to tbe House of Represent atives ot the 46th His seat in tho Senate as successor to Chus II Bell wbo had been temporarily appointed by tho Executive of New Hampshire was taken Juno 20 1879 and his term of service will expire March 3 1885 Lords aro not much thought of in this country but counts have a great deal to do with American ballot boxes The chum of a boarder at a hotel struck him over Iho bead with a wash bowl the When his friends ask him what ails bia head ho mut ters Inflammatory and adroitly guides tho into another channel As they sat on tho steps on Sunday evening be claimed tbo right lo a kiss or every shooting star She at first demurred as a modest maiden but finally yielded She was oven so accommodating as lo call his attention to flying meteors that wero about to escape his observation and thon got to calling him on lightning bugs and at last got him down to steady work on the light of a lantern that a man was swinging about a do pot in tbe distance where trains wero switching
