Q vusituss gobs. IcHIERSON & YOUNG, A TTOR.VEYS-.4T-LAw, ITOWANDAt PA. i tit9c4-11ercur Woek, P/ Parr. street, ❑p stain,. 1. !.1u ERSON, W. J.,YtaTNG. ATILLIANIS AGLige., ATTOI: IC ISTS-A T-L AW, TOIVA N DA, PA iViee—Main street; opposite Post-Office, IfifebB2 E. J. ANGLE. L it. WILLIA) ,Sz HALL, ATTOENICT6-AT-LAW, lODTH SIDE OF WAED HOUSE. I.uc 13-75 I A.M W. BUCK, ArTOR.:CET-AT-LAIT, TO IVA NDA, PE N.II"A ..trail. office—At Treasurers 071ce, to Court Houle pI)H.4. & KINNEY, ATTOIINEYS-AT-LAW. ire-I"ViDDIS ft/11118111y o,:cupled by Y. M. C. A. L4l-:1g 3,18,80 12EMIED WIN W. CODPING, ATTO RN KY-AT-LAW, TOWANDA, PA. “ror Klrt j s Drug Store. ':101\LIS. E. IktYER ATTORNEY-AT-LAW, WYALUSING, PKI4.;S'A. attc:lttei,pahl t. hnslness In the Or And to the settlement of estates. •M'3er 25, 11.7 .I , I;CK OVEttTON ATTtiIINKYR•AT LAW, TOWANDA, I . OTIERTOti, ) u ON EY A:MERCUR, ATTORNEY AT-LAW, ' tOW AN I) A, PA., l'atentz+. Particular attention paid s , in the Orphans Court and to the aettle- evate , . Sea :I. MolltallyeS,BlOCk \ 1:11 TON .k; SANDEMSON, . • • ATTOHNET-AT-LAW Toir A NI7A, PA. JOHN F. SANDEHSON OrLitTON. J; 11. JESSUP, IN! rII:NEY COUNAB.LLOk-AT-LAW, NHINTHOsE, PA. ~ i np having re , unted the practiceof the N,.r;ll,:rn l'ennll•ylvanta, will attend to any intrtl,te.l . (411111.1 Bradford county. •••••• I : 1111,g c..c.tsult him. can call on H. E q., l'odanda. Pa., wheuau alipoluttitent ;: . i..NI-1X STREETER, iirOliNLY AND CLWNIELLOR-AT-LAW, TOWANDA, PA -LAIILL/S, A.• ATTOUNEY-AVLAIV, TOWANDA, (novll-75 (RAME.B LL B . SURVEYOR. 4"I•MO :1 ItURVEYING AND DRAFTING; , "--e rah NiAsf,n, over Patch & Tracy scree. Thwatila. Pa. 4.15.60. , 1 1.:-)131tEE & SON, A27OIINrYS-AT-LAR, TOWANDik, PA. 1111:11111:03 )„iIN NV. MIX, - 11:1[11T-LT-LAW AND U. S. COMMIIiDiIONEE, TOVV:A A, PA. erth SPR••' Public Square. • Jan. 1,1875. ANDREW WILT, ATTkilltiEi"..AT-LAW,' • Mock, Malu•st.,ocer:J. L. Kent's i Ana , Nfay be consulted In German. (April 12.'76.] M. WOODBURN, Physi blurgeon. °Mee at residence, on art door worth of M. E.. Chnrcha r., Ardll 1, ISbl. B. KELLY, DENTisr.—Office t,ver M. E:l:o , eidlehni, Towanda, Pa. I:old-SI:1'er, Rubber, and Al- Teeth exti - aeted without lain. -,, i : ;:, P . ", D. I'AYNE, D., .I.l` Pli i v e•le lAN AND SVRGRON. ' • 'iliCitailyea'Stole . . Office hours from 10 to 12 A. N., awl from 2 to 1 P. 11l Special attention given to • 4 1E3 (UISFASES oi OF KT I: '1 TIIE EAR L. LAMB, ATTORYET-AT-LAW, ;: 3 X.•rtli Franklln•st., Wilkes-Barre, ra • •tat attention given to collections In Luzerne 1.,.•:3wan0:i counties. References: Hon. P. First National Bank, Towanda. I RUSSELL'S GENERAL -, sI2I{A,NCE AGENCY TowANDA,PA... 1 1) \VAR') WILLIAMS, 1' FA(' TIOIL PLUMIIEW k GAS FI TTER a few floors north of Post-Office tk:t Fitting, It epalrth: Pumps of all kinds of tileariug promptly attended wanting wink 1115 line should give Min Der. 4. 1879. itST NATIONAL BANK, ToWAN DA, PA 1 - .1.11. PAID IN: facilities for the trans 7. u Lacking business. N. N. BETTS, Cashier ,•. ELL, Pre4l,l,nt ItY q.kIN & WASHINGTOY6TREETS 1. - 11:1•T WA.111), Tove•sDA, PA Tv 3:1 hour.;. torms to 6tuit thues. Large stiil)le attached. \t M. (I EN IVY, PROPRIETOR ..la. .110 y :4. •74-1 EAT MARKET! C. M. M Y E E, Located In ID LEMAN'S BLOCK, BRIDGE STREET, Keep on hand, .11:SII AND SALT MEATS; MED BEEF, FISH, POULTRY, AI:DEN VP:GET:OII,ES AND BERRIE* IN THEIR SE 4,SON, &c ir A a aouvisiNliviroci free of oliarge 11=1 UNTY COMMISSIONERS' MEET-, INGS. • t:, • information of. the public the o i , z ', , mmissiouers hereby give notice tat . they will hold a session of the Board . 4 YV Tut'sday at the Commissioners! tt: ••• in - the Omit House at Towanda, tto titttt they 'Nil hold a meeting of the o ti at the County Utilise, at Burling n:, he First and Second Monday of each tr., • !t. Those h wing, business to. hring t•f tt , . the Board will govern themselves DANICI, BRADFORD, Myhos KE.GsLEY, CO. - CORI6 M. Fi RANKOOM, : WM. w rs, Clerk. IAILNIS FOR SALE IX T.IOGA _ 1 c ,, uNTY. farms, and wild land N.r fermi , . for %vie on reasonable terms, In F.lk and Gain,. townships, Tioga Coen aa.l • ~.• • to , . in, Piko toot-Alp, Putter Comity. is .etz.n.l% are productive, situated ¢lout midway wceil three large tanneries, affording the very f• r farm pro lects In the county. of the farina atijoinlrg are peculiarly adapt. oaliying on alatge scale. Containing Over zc_arrei. A very large spring on the centre: lot .I,;d afford water power sufficient for churning, :pub! ite lavingtit at trilling cost Into the dairy ot and 0.e..1 to cool the milk. Temperature; 41 0 . fn - tier parrieuiate address the editor of this ..r sa tto; u D. K. MARSH. Mervldleld. ictnat624l. MARSH & HITCHCOCK, Proprietors. VOLUME XLII. . TOWANDA,PA A. D. DYE & CO. Pail Win ter, 1881 I= ATTENTION IS INVITED to Our hit-class Heating Stoves. -a They are too well known to 'require any conimenclation-- BENJ. M. PECK New Keela, May 1,'79 Nye - also have-. 3 line of- CIIEAP BASE BURNERS, the best of their class in the market, and well adapted for supplying a demand for an efficient •but inexpensive heating stove WOOD HEATING STOVES in great variety Fell 27, '79 1?/ 7 A4 1. A.JD 300 Hag' Thought Ranges bold in Towanda and vicinity-by L.ELsunint A.. 1). DYE 8z: CO. Wood Cook Stoves, CARRIAGE4AKERS' AND 43LAdiSMITHS' SUPPLIES, HA. R WARM MAIN STREET, TOWANDA Tmiands, Ottober tssl. CLOTHING. ! Hard Times Scared to Death ! ing homes nobody else wants. 1, That ev-ening as Ashton connected the reports of the place itself with stories of sights and sounds mound it; he found himself yielding so much to the influence of gossip..that he . de termined.to shake off the Weakness; anci to try w . •at stulthe was made of. I t lie would stand in theSe haunted 4 hills end summon the ghosts and see what Would happen. lie knew well en. - ;ugh that it would be nothing. lititjte did not tell his plan to the others; he said merely thitt he was going for a' walk to blow away this ghostly atmosphere . by a little fresh . air. Nobody vo!unteered to accom pany, him, night had never seemed 'more distateful to Alien} all. 'They only looked at each.other significant= ly as he left them, and said Which - is positively a surprise] to all. !Another Americanism.' "I cannot tell a lie, I did it with my lOtle batrido,"wgen I lc:meted limoovers of in, (11SE.!i of LOW PRICED SITING 00olle, and non' - 1431 ALL READ 8125,000 75,000 TO GIVE t,OU A WELCOME THAT MEANS BUSINESS: 7 - I have laid' iu a neir Spring Stock of Melts', Youths', Boys' and Uhildrens' CLOTHINCry CLOT-R_INV , • I astonish the sightseeer With an unri valed collection of elegant styles and beautiful fabrics. . I delight the .puichaser with. prices which acre never before so low. - • I afford all an opportnnity•to secure the newest and best Springlarments at prices within their weans. THESE PLAIN FACTS demand your atl,..ntion, and we revectrully advise an early ex anilnatlon, and lnvlte It; Al. E. HOeENRELIDO C. M. m . INSURANCE! FIRE, LIFE, AND ACCIDENT [Rued on cto most reisoliable..tormi None but reliable companies represented. Tuwanila,'Nov. IS, 1579 ritNl 741`47,.,."0 tt,ys c_ •":") . Y;:ii/smir E,l ,4,T.ixf),7 ll . o • ' `;7 1 iF- 1 -) • tit.... ll. . e# ‘!' °S 7 ' - u•-• • te ,. is d 'lc .-4,-;,....__..._..,..-,,s__ 5 - 1. 7 g, 4 T: *;' • Y:e8( ri is'i, -4 ,;,•;1 - ..jsZ - 14-1'. lib ii LI .-r-f- - ,:;'- 4... v, .a.,. :.; ,_,.;,..._ .1,• , -:,..,—,„ crltAtratorntralviti,,4 .. -, -.• t- 1,. ,-, :: .• .. ~ , vi,..1 i latt,s, 6,4 ettirruviLzi, .. .'• ..:, t •,,' • " , ....i: -.' ~•.: .., .•',. , ..1:.t...111,,, and threatens u.r.' f; 1' : ... ... "i• . ' .‘: ', " i-I.l!‘liu ' r ' 7t, ' Zia r rit ' :. 4 4 i). VI. l'iatit Y es GO., Detroit, Nish. Wiestnthi3Lster, Crown Jewell. A . LARGE STOCK OF4z-- And a . general: stock of TOWANDA, PO3NA C. S. RUSSELL, Agent, TOWANDA,' PA. POLICIES Lease.' adjusted and paid here. II HE. THAT O'ERCOMETH, OW.C . N )1 REDISIi. . No stream from Jta source Flows - Seiwurti, how lonsitsoetrer its course, But some Ind _ Is gistitlert 4 n. !co star ever rose And set. W thout Influence somewhere. Wboknowa What earl needs from• earth's lowest creature 1 Nci 1 fe .. .Can be pure In Ite purpose and stmugin it's sttire, 'And all life not b purer and stronger thereby. i t The spirit Of j stem n made : perfect (in high, the army O f rtyrs who stand by the throne And gaze Into he face flint 'nickel glorious their. • own,/ , ' t - - -- - . Know thisi cutel y, r.t fiat. Honest tole, honest sorroW, tionLetwork for the clay, honest work for the tnor- • . . • retel l ) Aie thesettrorth nothing teem than the hand they make weary, The heart they have sachlezed.the Itto they leave dreary ? Hush the sereut!lci heavens to the voles of the - spirit 4 , Echo: Re thnt o'er, ometh shall all thhigs I Illerlf; GREETING I send ;you violets, plena', : 1: .Purple and sweet ; 110 rou remember when • 1 About our, straying feet Their subtle fragrance like a sea was flow.ng? Our world, your world and aline . . (We dreamed It ours).. Its slillutueri g sunshine, Its fadeless flowers. • - - its loves (4.d hates hive gone beyond our knowing . • i ti, triend, _there Is beyond . • A life cornpleta i A love that changes net, • A joy so sweet That life is worth the living for the goiiig. Behind Mineria's Shield. FRANCES C. SPA RAI AW I( •Ashton one autumn eve ning listened to stories of witches and ;ghosts told . around him, And joined in them, until he felt an occa sional shiver creeping down his back. .).)ot that. he believed in• the super natural, bilt the OreligHtliffr which he sat looking grew . pleasanter than the corners of the great room, for lamps'hard been banished, with the subject- under_ discussion, and it. *seined that the . ,shadows 'flickering behind the . young people ;grouped about the grate of blazing coal we're massive arid Weird,. and that• when one glanced at thern i sidewaya sud denly,. was something' aboht them like ghostly visitors.' When he faced them; to be sure,' tbey were only .ordinary shadows: Homer was ashamed of himself, he was afraid hiS "nerves were unsteady, and'ire solxed to test them. Ile knew a way to do it. - Near, the place - at- t which he was staying, an EnglishlcOuntry house, were the ruins of the older part of a Castle said to have been built in the time of the Crusades. --The whole 'castle: was at present uninhabited, .but the part which had been allowed to fall into-. hopeless decay was the wilth of the courtyard away from the rest of the house. Probably it had once been 'connected with it by buildings which had formed_ three sides of a hollow square, but, if so, it,had been left out in the changes made 'at different times, and now it Was roofless, the walls were crumbled, and the underground portion was all that made anylpretence -to a habita tion, and offered a. suitable home . to the-•unearthly beings who were said to roam in it, for a dampness covered all the stones and the air had a dead ly chill. But these facts-see,med con elu4' ions from the nature Of things rather than the results of observa tion, for.ilomer could , not find any body who had explored it. Ghosts )uglit really to be forgiven a goo.' many faults, because- they are in genera so unselfish abotit select There is an; unreasoning element in human nature which assumes every individuality of a. foreigner to be a national eliaracteristi:& Dr. Ashton, whom the son of -Ale house had be come acquainted with in London and brought home with him for a visit, was to his entertainers an epi- Joon of America, and it must be eon feSsed that at the end 'of a 'week they had come to have good opinion of that country. . . As : Homer.o walked on_ rapidly he saw- an pccasional str.r in the skY. but it sealed as if never could get out of the shaikow or the trees, there were so many of them. He Soon came to the ruin a mile away, opened the heavy gate, and began to descend the lor.g flight of steps leading into the corridors and rooms undergrOund4 - What could the old place •have, 'leen used . for? I/id monks • come line .for prayers and penances,or wereihesedungeons where .captives taken in the petty .warfare of those tiimqs felt the per sonal vengeance of their-captors ? lie thought•of. the one described in 'lvanhoe,' into which Isaac the Jew was thrown, damp, dark, lung with chains and shackles, and where in the ring of - one set of letters were two mouldering bones. It was no wonder ghosts were. said to haunt a place like that. In the midst of-these thoughts the gate he bad left open swung to with a clang, shutting out earthly things behind Nita. .Step by step he went down the stone stairs into ttlackoess to which the night out:Side was twi light. Sometimes he-:seemed to hear a sound, but when he stopped to lis tco it was the beatibg of his heart. When he reached the . foot of the stairs he still went On ; every • now .and -then his Outstretched hands t C TOWANDA, BRADFORD COUNTY, PA., = THWRSDAY MORNING, MARCH 30, 1882. 5 struck against a wall or pillar, for he. ,was passing through an arched' hall 'Pint ended in a narrow . passage. Re :nekt entered what he. thought Must be a - large room, for the air bad an indefinable difference and the black-. neSs seemeitthat of space instead of substance; As he stood there'-uncer tain which way to MOW. and the very • echo of his footstep - 4 ceased, the lior 'ror of darkness and silence which ha I .Wen growing upon him reached its 'height. He tried to utter his chal- Jengec - but his dry lips would .give forth no sound, an abyss of night • seemed to swallow him up. Suddenly he fancied he heard. a movement, he thought t h at something like palpable blacknessilitted about He. turned -to fly and took a . few hurried steps in tho direction of the entrance. Then Wstopiled: It - was no ghostly presence that arrested him, but the iron hand of his resolu tion ; he had come here to do a cer tain thing and 'was not to be cowed by a feeling which - he would be ashamed to own to himself in the 'daylight. He faced about and went fore and quickly a few steps. AS. there is any ghOst let him 1:ow • , .appear,' he called loudly. ,The dreary -Walls answered his cry, with a dull. reverberation. With arms folded be stood a mo; ment—the hardest thing of all to, dcr —awaiting results. If th:.-re irainoC been a roar in his ears, if the beating 'Of his heart had not made even hiS vision unsteady, he would have sail That he heard subdued langhter, or moaning, .it was impossible to tell which as the sound. rolled toward ,him from the hollow sides l and that };e saw something like a whiteness in .the distance, while a sense of pres= lenee made him cold with horror. lie had done all he had. resolved :to do and was free now to get out of this dreadful place. He- hurried to 'ward,the entrance, urged 'on by the 'unreasoning sense of pursuit that comes . Over one when lie turns his' .back upon danger. All at once he Jost his footing and lay . at full length .on the slippery floor; the shock, how ever, only jarred and bewildered:lhim. As he•put out his hands 'to rise he touched something from which he drew back instantly with a stifled , exclamation ; he thought it must'be jone.of the reptiles likely. to be crawl ing in this den. But he recollected that. it was small amthard, perhaps it Was a curious stone which would prove his night's' excursion the. strangers he - was with should. be tempted to doubt it.. After a little groping he . found it again; it felt like a stone covered With slimy moisture. and. putting it into his pocket he made his •way .out of the ruins as best he could. When he returned to the house his friend wits alone waiting 'for him, add sleepy, as Homer could see, eon- Qequently a trifle annoyed It being : kept up- SO late. The guest said nothing - I,lkt night of where he toad been. , • In his room he took out the stone. It was not a stone or a pieCe of the paVement, as• he had supposed, but an oval of: grayish lava that had once been a brooch Or part of a bracelet. As he cleaned' it Withbis pen knife and pocket•handk'erchief he saw that the ork, upon it was beatitiful ; it was a' picttire of Minerva, the very folds in her tunic carefully cut, and, 'as he saw by .his magnifying-glass, iwith a light tracery of carving.on her jhelmet and shield. On the opposite just under ~the shield, was the word 'Violet.' It was evidently the owner's name, but who Was she ? Where:did she live, and when? • The pin, if it were ftpin, lgrd not lain iii its last hiding plaee he -thought-, it was not enotieh stained by the dampness,. yet he was not sure about that. Violet' might belong to.a former. generation or might have lit)eusleeping, the sleep of the just for a century.. But sup pos3 not, suppose she were a young lady beatirifid as her name, wealthy and high-born ?. Well, what then ? Homer put out his light and went to bed, but not immediately to. sleep. The affair seemed to promise uwad venture ; as such it would have been interesting to any young person. But A sht , :n, in addition to being barely twenty-five, had been obliged to make his.way for the last ten years; for thotigh he was of good family, Dame Fortune bad Started hi:n in life with no nior3 than. one of her pennies, which, however, every time a;man turns ,it, as in the legendi leaves, a gold-piece in hiS hand. . The next morning but lone a tall Muting man with dark hair and •.eyes and an expression amused; yet reso lute, handed in his card at Grantham Hall and asked to see its:owner, Sir Gresham Land.'Dr. Homer Ashton,' :cried Sir Gresham, looking up from his letters displeased atthetnterruption. 'Who's he? I don't know any such person. Beryl,' to the servant, 'what does he look like ?! : 1 'A swell,SirGreSham,only spryer.' 'Oh, "spryer," is' he ?. In his head or his heels, I wonder? Well, I sup pose I must . see - what the fellow, wsnts ; one of these genteel sponges come to • suck up as many'pounds as I'll give to their deuced charities,' he muttered.. By which speech . it is fair to conclude that Sir Gresham had been , sponged in this-way More than once. .But when Homer, who Was admir ing the view from We' dr4wing-room window, turned and bowed as• the baronet approached, Sir Gresham perceived nothing of the suppliant about him and began to doubt wheth er this elegant stranger raid mean to Make . him a few pounds poorer by his -visit. Be. calve forward and re quested his visitor i to be seated. Ask= ton spoke of the beauty of ,the coun try: mid Sir Gresham answered him; but at the moment curiosity was-evi dently his ruling passion. "You are 'wondering why ,I came,' said Homer. 'Certainly it was not to tell you, what everybody knows, that this is the finest situation about here. But I have in my possession part of an .ornament which, I believe, Wlongs to I.ll.iss Laud.' - .'You! Wliat-ii4 it Ashton bowed and smiled'also, as he handed t'e other his diseo,4ry or REGARDLESS :OF DZNIMOUTION PROM L QUARTER. • i theinght before& , Doee t belong to sour -daughter tl he said. But Sir Gresham 'was- too bewil dered to answer him., 'That ?' ha cried. 'Good Heavens that ? Where did you find it ? It's a slid. 'A clue to what?' cried Homer eagerly. Be . felt oil the brink Of dis doVerifig how a lady's ornamett could 'come in so strange a place. But Sir Gresham was too excited by some suggestion awaked by'the sight of.-the stone to have an idea of trying to satisfy any curiosity but his own. 'Where did you Sind it'P be rem peateds , 'ls it your daeghthr's?' rettirted Homer. t • 'Yes; it must be hers, ' and remem bering 'tit last that the piing man for returning its ite ,stood' with the stone in his hand waiting impa tiently for a full account of its recov ery. 'Does Sir Gresham Laud suppose that I came here for the purpose of telling a midnight venture to him /' thought Homer, as a look of amuse ment flitted across his faces 'lt you will be so kind; he answered- stiavely, 'as to ask Miss Laud if she will do me the favor to identify her orna ment, I shall be most harpy to tell you, and her if she. cares to know, ho* I came by it.' - Sir Gresham hesitated only an in stant. 'Assuredly,' ho.said, and sent for his daughter. . The young man's heart beat faster at the sound of light steps behind him. 'Suppose Violet were pliin and heavy•looking, yet suppose—he turn ed hastily, but not too soon for the beautiful face that Was coming to ward him. She 'was .named for her eyes,' thought Homer; and there was something else he thought, too, that. could no more than this bespoken at the Moment. She greeted'him with a simplicity that charmed him ; but when she saw the medallion in her father); hand she cried : Oh, papa, my bracelet clasp; where did : you get,. it? have they found out the robbers ?' Homer's eyes opened wide at her words. - 'Robbers ?' he repeated. 'That's it, then? °Perhaps I reall3i did hear and see something after all.' And after a moment - in which three people. stood facing each other with looks of inquiry be began an account of his expedition to the ruin." He Was truth ful in every detail, yet the story sounded - remarkably well as he told it; watching Violet's face and seeing her shiver and grow 'pale in imagin ing the 'blackness of the old cellars. If ,she would but 'love him for the, dangers he had passed ;' be knew nothing of wars to be sure, except of ersonal struggles with misfortune, out of place to be told here, yet hav ing left their mark -upon him in a consciousness of power to dare and conquer adverse circumstances.' , 'l've no doublehey carried their booty_ there,' exclaimed Sir Gresham, his thoughts still in the ruins an Intl n'ite distance behind the young men's Winged fancy and supplementing .he narrative which Ashton hid just fin ished. While Violet wain listen:lin& to her father's account of a daring burglary committed the winter be fore while the family were in the house, Ashton bad an opportunity' to study her- face more critically, or, rather, more admiringly. It was pos sible he did not drop all the admira tion out of his expression as from time to time she "turned to him to explain more fully something that her father was saying. , . 'l've no doubt the villains bring their booty miles to hide lit in the ruin,' said Sir Gresham. &This me dallion was the clasp of a heavy gold bracelet. It was given to my daugh ter' by a friend, and shh is much obliged to you, I am sure, for finding it.' 'lnc:cad' ram,' said Violet, cdloring a little as she site. 'lt - is I who am under obligation to fate,' answered Homer; Lave found something that Miss Laud values.' 'The rest of the bracelet his been melted down long ago,' pursued Sir Gresham. ''That .plate ought to be searched.'• 'Yes,' said libber; 'when will you' do it ?' The baronet-looked somewhat tak en aback at this energetic suggestion. 'No doubt,' he answered, 'and per haps, Dr. Ashton, you would like to be one of the party if I go with some of my neighbors ? I suppose it ought to be done as soon as possible, with in a day or two,' he went on, as the other assented, 'lest they should take alarm at your intrusion upon them. -When should you advise going?' 'This moment,' cried Homer. 'lt's a. wonder that, we Americans have any grais in our country,' -he added, smiling, 'we at* so averse to letting it grow under out feeq He met Violet's eyeS as he finished, and read in them an admiration `and interest. In ancither moment she,had turned away on some trifling pretext, hut, undoubtedly, she was blushing. How was Homer to know that she had once declared she would marry the man who brought her back her bracelet .clasp ? . That, however, was ,when she was quite sure it would never be found. . • - 'Not until after luncheon, papa, will you P she said. 'You'd. better not take Dr. Ashton until after that.' Several years later, when the me dallion had led to more'than the finding of stores of plunder in the old ruins which a gang of thieves had taken care tomake appear haunted, Homer Ashton, a physician of high standing, was living in a thrge Amer ican city. A schoolmate whoin had not met for years said to him one day at dinner as.they were talk ing of marriages and (deaths among their former comrades : 'By the way, Ashton, you . never told me where you first met your , wife. I only know that it was in England.' 'I first met her,' hessid, 'behind 'Minerva's shield. Did I not, Violet ?' —Our Continent. A MONO new ccdurs is Presbytscitin plug ...the very darkost cof 44 blues. - A Legend of toriobufgh Abbey: .WHAT HOWARD CARROLL HEARD IN WA LTZB SCOTT'S TOMB. According to local tradition the dungeons are new occupied by a number of ghosts ot-more or less ye lebtityi 41. addition to the world re howned White maid of Avenel and 'Smaylho'me's Lady Gay,' made fa mous by Scott in 'The Eve of Sr. John.' These supernatural person ages, as I was assured by a neighbor ing peasant, have even now. a disa greeable habit bf appearing to mortals Who Venttire into their abode at un seemly hours. The man evidently meant what.he said, for he refused gss Which Were offered to him to act as ft guide throtigh the vaults, sayifig: 'Na; na, us, I thank'ee. The shit 'lna be all vera weeli but there be spirits about this place ti'-.eversens.! 'Have you ever seen any of them?' I asked, and he replied : ‘Na,. surely, but I ken that has,' and then walked briskly away from the haunted spot Subsequently I was told the pa thetic and thoroughly reliable story, which has doubtless done much to create and keep alive local supersti tion in regard to the ghosts of the abbey. It was substantially as fol lows : , Shortly after the last effort and failure of the followers of the Stuarts to regain the throne, a yoting trottian, described as beautiful and well•spo ken, went to live in one of the Dry burgh dungeons. During the day-she never left the vault, which 'was at that. time comparatively well pre served and completely shut out from the sunlight. Sometimes 0 night, htkrever, she would leave heßivretch ed deli and seek from kindly disposed 'people near by food sufficient to keep her alive. From these excursions she invariably returned to the vault at midnight, saying to thosi who from goodness of • heart might wish to de tain her that as the clock struck 12 in the night she was 'obliged to meet a spirit whom she called.Fatlips, and described as a little old ' man who wore heavy iron shoes and put her home in order,while she was absent. Why she adopted this mode of life she would- never - ex plain, but it leaked ,out - in one way or another that she had taken , a vow never to-see the sun Miler lover returned frbm the wars. He never returned, and she died in her sunless dungeon. 'T o this day the ignorant Country people about My believe that the vault is haunted. Y. Times. How Western Towns Spring Up. Major IL A. E. Pickard, post -master of Buena Vista, Colorado, , was registered at the St.- Cloud Ho- tel yesterday prior to his return to the far West. As Buena Vista had no existence whatever three years ago as an abiding place, it might be in ferred that its postmaster enjoyed a sinecure, but the tale he was to tell soon removes the impression that a town of so recent birth cannot eon iiist of more than , a few shanties. "Why you people' in , the East," said the Major yesterday, as he threw his right band up in the air, "have no idea of the jump in our people. They are all push. They are in a hurry to go to bed, in a hurry to get up, in a hurry to make money, in a . hurry to do anything they make up ;their minds to do. Two years and a half ago there was not a house where Buena Vista now stands. To-day it contains 3,000 inhabitants, has a fine bank, an opera house, a brick school house, and welave begun building an elegant' stone-pointed Court House that will cost $30,000. I put up one of the first houses in town. The land and building cost me $690. In the padt two years . I have collected $l,lOO rent from it, and last week I sold the property for $2,000 in cash. Buena Vista is now the seat of Chaf fee County, and has become the dis tributing point for.the country west of it. What has brought us this sud den success? Why, our minerals sir We have an ar.thracite coal, a very soft bituminous coal, and anoth er coal ranging in quality between these two.` My business East •is to dispose of 2,100 acres of coal land. Then we have silver in profusion. Buena Vista, is on the Arkansas Riv er, thirty-five. miles_ southeast of Leadville, and is the centre of several mining districts—the Chalk Creek, Cottonwood Creek, Clear Creek, Four Mile and Trout'Creek. Many Phila delphia parties are interested in the workings of some of the mines in these districts. There is the Grand Urion Mining Comp-ny, in which Auditor General Schell Frederick Gaston and Judge Greenbank' are in terested ' The Princeton Mining Company has Lawyer. Runsicker for its President. The Herrick Mining Company is named after its Presi dent Who lives in West Philadelphia All -these are Jegitimately worked for what they may be worth. An effort was made to turn one of them into simply a atOckconetrn to throw shared on the market, bat it did not succeed. The Grand Union has just started a mill of itS own on the cot tonwood and its Mt. ,Carmel min's is turning out a great deal of rich ore. In fact, everything is huniming at Buena Vista, and if any of you east ern folks come out we will make you stare."—Pr-qa. Beaconfield's Many-Sidedness. r--- Again, we !must differ from Herr, Bnindea in the assertion that Disrae li was lacking in the "many-sidedness" of the Jew. Priine-minister of Eng land, poet novelist, orator, satirist, wit and 'dandy, the leader of the Tories and the writer of a novel ("Sybil") which Herr Brander says is "a confession .of sympathy with the Chartists t " and - -contains "pass oges that remind. one of Lasalle," the author of -"a little masterpiece .of composition ("Ulan In Heaveu") —a classic model which Herne might have envied," and of poems (in "Ye netia")-"not worthy of Shelley," the chief of the - Conservatives and the enthusiastic champion of Byron and Shelley as opposed to the cant. and stupidity of British society,— in the name of Froteus t boo. wo pot hero '- -= - ....• . -‘• • .. , \ . „,. ] ),), , _k,, i _ t .i. i. ~,,...„.... ~..,.. __.,. enough, on Herr Brandes' own show. ',lug, to establish- Disraeli's claim to manysidedness of sympathy and mind ? • - And yet the tact remains . that Disraeli was not a first-class man ; hi 3 qualities Were not those of the world's heroes'; he, possessed talent, rather than ilenius j he was a saga cious politician aiming at seitag grAndizement, not a wise statesman building his monument in enduring acts of public service ; and the study atlas career is calculated to dazzle, to entertain, even to amuse, rather than to elevate, to stimulate , or to ennoble. But do all' these deroga tory facts preclude hit from being considered a representative Jot, On the contrary, we think they . tend to confirm his title: Atlantic T:e4graph Stations. A Frenchman, X Mcnuisier,bas just proffered a• .novel and bold plan for enabling vesseli crossing the Atlantic to communicate with the mainland Lay, he says, a telegraph cable be tween Nasaire, Bordeaux and New-York, with branch in mid-ocean. to Panama. Every Sixty leagues, the average daily distance covered by a. ship, conneet to the principal cable a vertical cable, .ending in a buoy st the surface. To the right snd left of the principal Cable :lay two branch 'cables, 'ten to twenty leagues eactil,'endiag inn vertical ca ble with ito”. • These branches would form • two crosses with the •main cable. The chances of ships sighting buoyS would thus be fre 'quent. Each buoy has a number, and its position in mid-ocean is known from - special tables. When ship i)assing near a baby wishes - to tele graphf it connects its apparatus wire, - One with the wire of the buoy, the Other with i :The, buoy itself, which Serves as an earthwire.- • Thus the ship might communicate with a cen tral post which should be established on an island or rock, or ' ship moor ed according to Mennisiir's sys tem. A vessel in distress near one buoy might, through the ceutral sta tion, get help from a ship passing near the next buoy. The difficult 'matter. would he the .buoy. How would it resist storms that have bro ken.cables ? Menuisier has not set described it in detail, but -says it. is pronounced quite 'successful by. Competent navigators-. It is luminous by night, sonorous in fog, and easily accessible in any weather. • I S'all S'eep WiV Him To-night. The Detroit Chaff : Sometimes I think the little, ones say the best things after all. I know a little fam ily. in Detroit. who are heart-broken and sad this Saturday night. There were three last. Saturday, but to-day only two are left. The tie that bound them more closely than* 'that which - the clergyman drew has lately, been loosened and -the light of their lives went out with the - red winter run only the other night. The fath er is a railroad man, whose• duties call him away from home nearly three fourths of the time. .It was his habit whenever he was about to start for home to telegraph his wife apprising her of the fact.. these these telegrams he never failed do mention the, name of the little fou;- year-old and the dispatches generally ran as follows: "Tell Arthur I shall sleep with him to-night." The.bkby-boy was very prohd of these telegrams, which his mother would read over and over to him, and he - considered the. "teledraf" a great institution. The . other night when the fever had done its work and the mother was sobbi ng ' out her 'anguish, the little onelurne . calmly in his bed and said : "Don't ky, mamma, I s'all, s'eep wiv 'oco , know. Sen I Dod a teledraf and tell-Him I . s'all s'eep wiv Him to-night." Hut-the message went, straight up there without the eliOkincr- of wires or the rustle of Society's Pet Vice. What is gossip but the patent sign of vulgarity in: heart 'and . mindl l ntellect that never rises . beyond'the . small,mean facts- of personal history; fluidity which cannot keep to itself what has been-told even in confidence and that goes around swelling mole hills into mountains„ can claim no respect, make out no case against the.,decree of gross, stupid ,vulgarity recorded against it. It is' as thor oukhly - vulgar as a curiosity .; and be tween prying into things with which -we have no concern; ackd retailing gossip which is no business Of • ours to handle at all, there is no hair's breadth to choose. - Each, is simply the sign of utter and entire vulgarity ; and is one of the bull's-eye; the. other is the gold. But both are faults to be found growing as-rank *as weeds by the wayside, and it. Would be hard to,D9unt upon one's lingers our largest efiTle of acquaintance those who are absolutely free from . the vice of society and the , vulgarity 'of curiosity.—Londonl Queen. Every day a little knowledge. One fact in a day. How small is one fact! Only one! Ten years passed by. Th'ree thousand, six hun dred and fifty facts are not; so small a thing: - Every daya little self-denial. The thing that is difficult to do to-day will be in easy • thing to do three litindre& and sixty days hence, if. each day it shall have been repeated. What power of self mastery shall he enjoy who seeks every day to practice the-grace he prays for. Every day a little happiness. We live for the good ot others, if our living be in any sense true living; It is not in great deeds of kindness . only, thatthe bles. sing is found. In "little deeds of kindness," repeated every day, we find true happiness. At home; at school, in the" street, in the neigh- bor's house, in the play-ground, we shall find opportunity every day for usefulness: 0 Every Day a Little. MAIO per Annum In Advances °NUMBER 44 THE OLD CHURCH BELL. Wog on; ring on, sweet 6abbathbell Thy mellow tones I lore to hear. I was a boy Wheh first they tell In melody up‘ti mine ear; . In tboie dear days, long put and gone,. 4.1.1" When sporting here in boyish glee, The magic of thy gibbath tone Awoke emottana,fleep in me. Long year,' have gaze and Limn strayed Out o 4 er'the world tar{ far away, But thy dein. tones tiatte round me played On every lovely Sabbath day/ - Wheristrolling o'er the.mlghty plains, . Spread widely in the unpeopled West, -Each Sabbath morn l'ye heard t y strains ,-- .. Tolling the welcome day of rest. Upon the rooky Mountainl mat, Where Christian feet-had never trot, In the deep bosom of the West - - I'velhought of thee and worshipped God Ring on, sweat bell I Pee came agate - To hear thy cherished call to prayer. There's less of pleasure; now, than psis In thoseedear tones which fill my ear. fling on; ring on, dear bell I ring on I ' Once more I've come with whitened head, To hear fhee.toll. The sounds are gone ' And ere this Sabbath day has aped, shall be gone, and may no more • Give ear to thee, sweet Sabbath bell.: Dear church and bell, so loved of yore, • And childhood's happy home, farewell I , —The late Coto - net W. H. Sparks, of Georgia. Changes of Century. The nineteenth century witnessed many and very great discoveries and changes : ' In Ixo9 Fulton took out his first patent for the invention of a steam, boat. The first steamships which made regular tips across the Atlantic ocean_were the ' Sirius and Great Western, in 1830. • The first public application to prac- tical use of gas for illumination was madein 1802. - In 1813 the streets of London were for the firit time lighted with gas. . _ In 1813 there- was built in Wal tham, Mass., a mill, believed to be floe first one in the world, which com bined all the requirements . for mak ing finished cloth from the raw cot ton. In 1790 there were only twenty five: post-offices in the whole country, and up to 1837 the rates . of postage was twenty-five cents' for a letter sent, over 400. miles. In 1801, wooden clocks began to be made by machinery. This usher ed in the era of cheap clocks. About ,the year 1833 the first rail road of any considerable length in the United, States was constructed. In 1840 the first experiments in photography were madeby Daguerre. About 1840 the first express busi ness was established. The anthracite coal business may be said to have begun, in 1820. In 1836 the patent for the inven tion. of matches were granted. Steel pens were introduced for use in 1803. The first successful trial of-a reap er took place in 18:33. In 1846 Elias Howe obtained a patent for his sewing mahine. The 'first successful • method of making vulcanized 'lndia rubber was patented'in 1839. In an article entitled "Estbeticisim . Old,and New," Our, Contim7;ll says "As for curious fancies of flowers and costumes, we may say that as a coxcomb in his immaculate dress is a walking protest against sloven liness, so the new estheticism, yet undefined and restless, is a standing rebuke to-the gross materi alism and grinding utilitarianism of the age. The satire , is based upon truth that England 'has become 'a •"nation'of shopkeepeis." What are her- idols ? Materiahpower, reven ue, lands and goods, and the training of the intellect has been mainly that it may conduce to these creature comforts. Now there is something better than all this—an ideal for which the great representative faculty, the imagination, must be nurtured and trained. It is the realm of taste, of which ideal beauty is queen. Only let us return to one • thought : as Plato declared that there could be no beauty without goodness, and Cousin found the perfect enshiinement of betiUty in God, so let us be vigilant lest the new estheticism become a pander to vice and a foe to the pure religion and undefiled which, accord ing,to the Apostle, finds its expon ent and illustration in charity and purity." HIGH TIDES AND TUE MOON.—Pro fessor. Ball, of Dublin, has been re cently trying to prove that,the moon is the result of tidal evolution, that in the very remote past when the moon was only 40,000 miles distant, the earth must have been- swept by tides of enormous height, and that these tides must have been' powerful agents in producing changes on the earth's surface- which geologists are now unable to account fo - . In a,re cent number of Nature, -Professor Newberry, of Columbia College, goes carefully over the geological record, abd shdws conclusively that these hypothetical high tides have left no trace of their existence, and that since the beninning of the geological record tlie • order of nature has been essentially what it is to-day. The testimony of the rocks on this sub ject, says Professor Newberry,. is so full and conclusive that it, really leaves no.room for • discussion; and hence the astronomers • have been in error in regard to the genesis of tne moon, and she never formed a por tion. of the earth's mass, or the sepa ration took place at a period so re mote that _she had receded to nearly ,her present distance before the dawn of life on the earth. • A HUUE BELL FOR ST. PAUL'S.— 'Great' Paul, the new bell for St. Paul's Cathedral London will take rank among six or eight heav►_iest bells in Europe. -At present her po sition cannot accurately be assigned, as she ha - s - not yet passed the scales ; but it will probably lie between the great bell of Olmutz, weighing - 17 tons 18 cwt., and that of Vienna, weighing 17 tons 14 cwt. Dr. Stain er, the organist of St. Paul's, says that 'when the tone was produced by swinging a heavy ball of iron against the .sound bow a musical aQte boomed out which was impressive beyond description.' The bnII is 8 feet 10 Inches higis and 9 feet 6f inches in diameter., The note is E flat, the up-' per partials B flat, E flatand being just audible with the 'sonorous ground tone. The cost of the bell and hoist ing it into its place will be about $15,000,. and it has been decided to use it for the first 'time on Easter Sunday next.—N.' Y. Sun. Fashion gotes: POLKA dots are all the rage. • _ Gam gain silks at* again ',in fashion. WILD roses are the coining lower in REP leffects ire eery 'noticeable among new spririg silks. . • licaznio jackets in new fortes continuo to be fashionable.. STRAW bonnets matching snits In tint are to be wp' rn this spring. - . ErrnzuriLY long-skirteri, tailor-Made coats are to be much worn this spring. 'Comm. bands and combs set with Rhine crystal will be Much worn. Ix mercantile invoices, all large bonnets are`classed as pokes, small• ones cottages; STLAWBERRY-RED and copper-red - poi tka dots are seen upon new black satin fa brics. - limn will be much tiled in combina tion With cashmere and other woolen stuffs. . _ WIT 1011 , CIIt gilt sazdaLs, : in the old Dirfctoire-style, are worn with esthetic costumes. ' ' . Tug Langtry, a new shape in bonnets, is a scoop with a cluster of flowers under the brim. ' - stockingzytre completely out of wear for ordinary purposes, fancy hose replacing them. SKIRTS are groWing shorter, and it, s , wOuld seem as if they had now reached he extreme limit of moderation. A LATE novelty, the front !sea' boot, has Matt kid top, foxed with straight . goat. The fancy tip is of -TyLtent leather, and the bObt is faced with the-same kind. of leather upfront and around top. NEW n loots of glove, matt, and French kid are laced over • the - instep through hols, and up the bOot portion over hooks. Oxford ties are also laced, and the new' spciiiiens come - up higher over' the foot thSu those of last year. Tun French -lisle thread stockings in rich colors,, printed over foot- and leg in clusters of all manners- of fruit, such as plums, 'grapes and berries, which Were decided noveltils in mid-winter, are still in demand, but cannot be called in style. efi j k.R3llNG silken hose .show the Mal tese cross with lace centre- and embroi deries in leaves, flowers and other con ceits. The plain silk hose come in aimn ing'sbades, and others are embroidered in exquisite Oriental designs in rich or,deli , Oate hues. , . Tutu, are numbers of pew -styles' in - boots for spring ; one is as curved and un dulating as a short. serpent, with its slen der top, round tfp and out: -instep, very high,, tapering 'heel and long, pointed toe. The style is sboWn in French kid, satin and brocade, and is usually finished with embroidery. FOR garnishing robes, _costumes and confections laces of all styles are in favor, and of laces in every variety most chaim- - ing toilette acceisories are created. They are used either alone or in combination, with crepes,-.mulli, nets, tulls and gauzes, and most lovely are the results attained by the mingled . textiles with the addition of knots - and loops of ribbon and exqUisits flowers. • Tu stockings are; chosen with quite as much care,as Abe shoes, but they need no longer match the dress with which they are be worn in colcring ;on the contra ry, odd tones.are Drought _ together, and the hues in robe and _stocking are strik ing, but not unpleasant contrasts. With pale-pink and moonlight-blue ; dresses, navy blue, bronze, wood brown and black, may be : worn, and garnet is considered the shade for cream ,; however,- far those who prefer colors en suite, there - ale hose exactly the shades of all -the, new and fashionable materials for spring and sum mer. Fun, Fact and Facitiz. A COL7LET,O(verse, a period of prose, may chug to the rock of ages- as a shell that survives a deluge. - IN general there is no one with whom life drags so disagreeably as with him" who tries to make it shorter. - NEVER go back on an old friend, even if he ix rich and cannot see you as easily ;tithe used to in passing. Wlirrt.men should exhibit- the . same insensibility to moral tortures that - red men do to physiell torments. Ix this : commonplace%world, every one is said to be romantic who either ad mired a fine thing or does one. .- HE who once did you a , kindness *ill be more yeaay to do you another than be vihom you yourself have obliged. Tnt first step toward making a man of •your son is to train him to earn what he spends ; the next best step is to teach him to save his earnings._ Tire Carscn CitY - (Nev.) Appeal says St. Jacobs Oil is good for rheumatism, neuralgia and a thousand different ills. HE who-bears failures with patience is as much of a philosopher* as he who suc ceeds,; for to put up with the world needs as much wisdom as to control it. THE law of the harvest is - to reap more than . you socy.: Sow an het an you reap habit ; sow a habit and you reap a- char acter ; so*.a character and you reach destiny. COPY of a - notice.on the be..ch at Brigh ton : " In cases of ladies" in danger of drowning, they should be seized by the clothing and not by-the hair, which gen erally comes off." - - - , AN exchange remarks : "The only jokerfwomen like to read am these which reflect ridicule on men." Yes. On taking up a paper a woman invariably turns to aid marriage column. " Au! dearest," sighed the young man kneeling at the feet of hcs":ownest own, dust thou know what of _all outward things is nearest to my heart/" " Really, I can': say," she replied ; but if you have any regard for your health in this changea ble weather, Istionld think it was a flan nel shirt." She was too practical and it broke the engagement. WAsuixoToN's occupation :" An English turfman visiting Mount Vernon engaged in conversation with a native and aftera few preliminary remarks observed : " I dare say Mr. 'Wallington didn't care muchfil;r 'braes. You cawn't tell me, I suppose, if he was- hover a 'orse breaker?" . 1 .1%e Vir ginian eyed him a few secondsdoubtfufly and then answered!, "I ain't much• on history, but to the Lest of my recollection the general was a lion tamer."—Danbury News. Father is Getting 'Wall. My daughterasay, " How much better father is since he used Hop Bitters. He is getting well after his long suffering from a disease declared incurable, and we are so glad that he used your Bitters."--7 A Lady O s t Itiolopter, •
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