DE 4 r 1 I=l °LUSE %Va.-NUMBER 38 THE POTTER. JOURNAL, I • 1 M. W. lIIeALARNEY, Proprietor. 1 •Itsar'Devoted to the cause of Republicanism, the tn tiiresta of Agri° ulture, the advancement of 'Education, and the best gocd of Potter county. Owning no guide s{cept that•orPrlneiple' it will endeavor to aid in the, work of more fully Vreedotillzing our Country. rinLisiten DT IllarAdvertisements inserted at the following rate., except where special bargains are made, A "square" ie 10 lines of Brevier or 8 of Nonpareil types : 11 square, 1 insertion.......: ....... - ........ $1 50 . .I . square, 2 or 31nsertions ....... ---- ...,...- 200 .. 1 , Bach eubAcquent insertion less than 18 40 1 square, 1 year • 10 00 Badness Cards, 1 year - i• 5 00 AdmiMstrator's or Isecntor'A Notices 300 113pecial and Editorial Notices per lino-- 20 _ lliarAll transient advertisements .mtist be paid in advance.and no notice will be taken of adeerti -ement 8 from a distance, unless they are accompanied by the money or satisfactory reference. I sa-Uob Work, of all k lade,. 'executed with nestnefre and despatch. BUSINESS NOTICES. M. A. DRAKE, M. p., - D nynor:l.N• /EL SITHOEOY, offer% 1114 ervicerk to: the citizens of OM:place vleioity to inform them that he will promptly reopood to 3111 1 c4lla for profea+iousl aervick4. Office on Rain .treet,l over C. 1' , .11f,t00tt13'. , . Jewelry . store ; ReitMle.lee nearly.l,l olr,posite the 011iee of the Fox & Free and Aceepted'Anelent York Masons, VULALTX LODGE, No. 542, F. A. Al. Stated , Mee tog lon the Srd and 4th '''ed l ip orel4oll lion, in the 3d Story th.• ihn‘o.d Block; .31:VirlicAl.Anwey.Sce. of LARRA. BEE, N.M - ' 1 TTORNEY LAND COUNSELLOR AT LAW. Coutlergport, r:.., will :Wend the several Courts in Potter, Canteren and Nießean counties: All bum nleas clam:red to hie care will rec.,4, - e won'iln atten tion.- ounce on Mao' street, iii re.idence. i Awriatut G. 0 - 101MTED, ATTOUNEY;A ND . COUNSF.I.I.EId AT LAW, Coudersport. , wwillo all business en usted to his cnre with pr ,mptheakand fidelity. Office the second storey or the Olmsted Block. , ISAAC BENSON, ATTORNEY -AT-LAW, Couder , port, Pn., -will attend to alt bo.,ioods ~.I:trllliteti to 11',711 wilt Care and promptneos. AtteudA Courts of udjuinitri coun ties. Odle& on titcond street,near the AllegAny bridge 'F. W. 'KNOX. - A TTORNEY AND COUNSELLOR AT LAW, Con sport, Pa.,w II attend the tiourt ln.Put tiT and the Adjo , nieg euuttUva. •' ,LAPIN :ITOlt cEYS•AT LAW, H lARPOSCRG, Agent. , for the Collection of Clnitusitimil ot the , truitcd states and ~talel:OVH111/1t4lt,,,,,11•Ii RM Pensions, lionnty,A.rrearit of Pay,&c-Address 1i, , =96, itereitiora MILLCC, J. C. jl'ALivmgy DAN 3iIILEII,, E N. 919 g; )t'Vr . f . i! . :“.1 WAR CLAIM eill-FNCY Paiiions procurild for Sdldiein of toe preacnt ar who are disabled by rea•ion /If wound,' received diaeme contracted while In the aervice of the U.iite 1. Gtatea • and peindinia, bounty, and ai'reli s'of ray ob. - tabled for ividowa or helm of thii.e who have died or been killed while in aervk.e. All blicrei if inquiry Tiromptly nnawere 1, and on reeeipt by mail of a gate. men; of the caize of claimant, I will forward the he •Ueaintry papers fcr their &en:dime. Fees iu Pemilon 'caries UM fixed by law. Refer. to Ity A. G. Olmsted, Julio S. Vann. nod F. W. Knox, Eeq DAN BAKER, Junes 54 " Clrilm'Atrent, eouderaien ' neALAIINEI - , - IDEAL 'ESTATE. and. INSET. tiNCE AG E RE Land Booglit and Sold, Tax... paid and Taloa 'ltiveatlgatod. Inez roa property acaio4t fire in the beet 4ziompanica In'the Country: s.a4 rerannaszain-t Amt. •denta in the Tr tvelers Inatrranae Comii•my of Hart ' ford. 13.141nme transacted promptly 1729 *. I P. A. OMB BINS et Co, TEEll .4 2, ,, N e T r tfr3ro m, i i l o l , :r3;i. i. G a i r )o F t d 9 o n , eiy .IV and everything you .ily kept in a good country store. Produce bought s a nd 8 , 91 d 17'A i C. U. 141313101+15, T I. ECII.A.•:T LW ELLEN . 3.LLE .. .N. , Y., Whole. '1 sale and Retail Peale! in Dry Goo! s, Fancy and taple Goods ClothinalLarhea Dremli soda Grnceriea, Irlour, Feed, te, FL-tailera A uppned M liberal terms C. R. & E. A. JONES, • - IVIERCITANT:3—DesIertin Drcer, Sihtionery, Dry Goode, Matt Stret, CouderAport, Pn • D . E. OLMSTED, TERM - LlNT—Dealer in Dry:Goodq,Really.made Clothing, Crozkery, Grc.ceriea„Ft , ur, Feed, lork, &e., 11:dwatroet, Coudersport, Pa COLLINS. SMITII, litHr ERCITANT—DeaIer in Dry GoodF, Groceries, Provisions, Hardware, Queens:l:are, Cuilery, and all G.,0.1s u-uaily found in a - eau:qr., store. n'tH . 3. OL3LSTED, ATtIINVAIIE Ilferemint, Storc.s, ■ Tin and Sheet Iron-W.l-e. 'Main street, fonder ,port,..Pent,'a. Tin and• Sheet Iron Want made to order, in good style, on alert RIARBLE YAILI), MITE subscriber desires to inform the citizsns of Pot 'll_ ter that he can supplelliern wah nil kinds of Markle work: is chenp and as cool as it can be had an s place in the count , y. NEC/NUM ENTS and itnilt- Erros ES of all kinds furnished on short notice. 1 Coudersport, ehl3'6s ly C. B ftEUN LE. COUDERSPORT ROTEL D, F. OLASSMIRE, PilOPßl:roft, Corm‘r !SIM ..nud B , coodstrects Coade•eport ,Potter ('eryll St.s.tite is also kept ec:ion this Hotel. Daily St:wes to and from the Railroads. • 7 • Patter Journal Job-Cake. HAVING lately added a fine new assortment of JOB•TYPE to our nivady largo a-sortment. we are now prepared to do all Linde of work, cheaply and with date and neannn , A: firde polico.d • 1564 AS6S • • & Erie Railroad. THIS great line traverses the Northern and North ' Nrsst Counties of Pennsylvania to the city of Erie Ort lake Erie. It ban been leased and is operated by the PESNSTLVANI,a RLILIIOAD COMPASS, Time of passenger trains at EMPORIUM. 1 ).EAkVE EASTWARD i Erlo Wel Train.... Exprees LEAVE WESTWIARD. I Edo Mail Train 10!12 e. M. i Edo Express Train 8:10 P. M. Puutenger earn run through on the Ede Mali an •Erprels- rraing without change both ways between hiladelphia and Erie. NEW YORK CONNECTION. Leave New York at 6.00 P. 31., arrive at Erie 337.3. u. 'Leave Erie at 1.55 r. N., arrive at New York 1.15,0. at. NO CHANGE OF CARS BETWEEN ERIE& NEW YORK I t. , F,(3I.ANT SLEEPING CARS on all Night trains Eer information respecting Pa•utenger business,ap- Irply at earner at 30th au d Market streets,Phlad.dpina And tor Freight b.asinese of the Compauy's Agents 11.8. 4. Kingston, Jr., Cur. 13th and. Market streets, Philadelphia„ 1 T. W. Reynold's; Erie. Wm. Brown, Agent, N. OR. , 13altimore.• H. TIOIISTOisI, General Freight Agt. Philada. U. W. GWINN Ea, General Ticket Agt. Phiiada A.. L. TYLER, General Supt, Williamsport. • I - ," f __ , '- , •- x,fr.:l*--3 . '- ', - ..... - ..,..- . I 1 /0 1111114 ' 1. . 1 • i ' e- ii - , ' 1 - '• I' e I , , , .., J, i , )7, ~, .... op . 4 , .1 je Q • . , Wirt , 1 1 , _ I 1 ; 1 . i 1 i 1 [ ‘ . . . . !. . " EN T. EVOIIANAN READ. I . 1 The iollowing is pronounced by the "Westminster Revieto to bd unquestionably the' finest American I I , : poem later - w writt e n i Within the sobetlrealms of lenfleas trees, The , russet year inhaled the dreamy air. :., Like aoine tanned 'Caper in his hour of else,: When all the fields aro lying brown and hare: j I , . • 1! - The gray barns looking froni their hazy 11110. j O'er the duo aaidra winding in the tales,l; Sent aleten the air ;i greeting to the mills, I' On ihk) dull thunder of alternate flails. i • i 1 1 All sights were mellowed, a"d all sounds aabdued, The, llilla seemed fn a ther Sad the streams Sang to w, li.e in a dream tete clistna.t woodman betted. 1 Ills Wintry log; With many, a muffled L 1.4. The embattled fo Ole, erewhile armed with . gold Their, lianalens bright with oeery martial hue, Now even'al hke some sad, beaten host of old, Withdrawn afar in Tmic's remotest blue,' 1 . i On sombre wings the vulture tried his flight : . The d i ce scarce laiJardh s night Ng tnate'sc,tmplaint ; And, like & star sloe; droa tatag in tie Fglit,l Ilie viilage church vane seamed to pale and faint. B, 1 The sentinel 1 cock upon the hill-able crow— e l Crewititrace—and all was ea dier than before; 1 ' zillen.t; till some rellykg warder blew 1 Hie a fOll 110 M, and 1.1.0 u wits heard no more .., Where rat the 14, Within the elm's tall creit, Made garrulous truuhle wind her unfklged young ; And tt here the oriole hu mg her s wept)); nest, 13y ',Very light wind like a oebeer swung. Where *ling the no'sy martins of the eaves, buoy IliVilatme circling ever near— • • Forehoiling, - as the rustle:mind be li eves, An uSrly turvesau'd a plenteouit yeAr. • Where 've.y bird that waked the vernal feast, . , Soul the sweet slumber fr)m wings at Mora-; Tower the realer of the rosy tu.t ; 'All now was euoto-e, empty and forlorn. Alone, from out the stubble, piped the quail ; And Sroatied the *row through all the weary gloom Alone ' iiiel•he.reant, drumming in the vale, 31:itlel'ec.i.) in the distant cottage loom There Was ro bud, t.o bloom nrol the bowers., Tito glad, re moved th Irtiou Atrou night by night, The ti, stle.dowu, the 0..1y ghost of dowers, ki.oled slowly by—passed noiseless out of sight. Amid all this—in tide most dreary air, • • And ;%'ltele tiai woo ,hitte ailed upon the porch Its critun,.tt leaves, an If the year stood there, Kirinig the door with its inverted torch. I Amid all th 7 e, the centre of the scene, lho canon with monotonous tread Piled the it wilt wheel, and with heir joylena melt r Sat like a fato,l'eud watched the hying thread. , tihe had known sorrow. lie had walk,d with her, Oft nipped, and broke w.th her the Willi:11 cru.d, Audits the deadlea% , ,s null she heard the stir, Of his thick tuautle tisideg in the dust. While .yet her cheek was bright with eummor blood, Iler country . ninumon , d alto at,elgava her all : And twine oar l],owed to Ler in sable plume— lte.gaeu the s ord to runt upoultlievall. Re-gale the air rd, but list, the h tind that drew And l struck J . -Jr I,berty the dyidg blow, Nor him who, t itf3 Aire and e net, y- true, Nell told the rivals of it, iu.adii r foe. I Lo •g burnot lodd the drooping wheel went on, Like the low Murmur of a hive it non.; long but not tot!, the memory of ithe gone Dreutheo thro gli her hot a rad sod tremulous tone. At last the thread MSS enspped—her head was 134 w ed, Life upped the tt wad' through her 1.33d 3 -311,1, And lOving heighbors'emuothed her careful ehrotol ; I While death knd wioier closed the autumn 113.... r. VI MARY J. ALLVf. I - i It Was a bittir night; one of those time, happily ull frequent in this latitude, when everything animate and inanitnate,seows . , 1 to shrink and cower from the intense cold. i The very air was full of icy parti cles which one was forced to draw in with every breath ;and when the moon rose, round and clel r and bright, and the wind o Line up with lit, penetrating every , crack and crevice, no matter how minute, the passengers by the night express gathered closet to the stove, crowding and jostling each 'other, as' even well-bied people will sometimes do in their efforts tb keep warm.. , All but one man, who sat in a seat by hituShlf nears lie door, a tall man, , r apped 1 in an overcoa of army blue, the visor ot his cap drawnc low ever his eyes--deep, dark eyes, wit i t a strange expression in them—such dyes as a man might have whn bad been fated to stand for a time on tt e brders of he!l, ai.d having seen must bear 'with hi through life the Memory of its horrors I lie sat theiro , quietly enough taking little heed, apparently, of what was going on about! him All the evening he had sat - sn, seldom mioving, not speaking, only once, when he bad given up his cbmfort able Seat Clear; ttte:fire to x poor !yoking woutan.with al child in her arms,and him self taken thi4 one farther back`; and the passengers, noticing the little act!, of po liteness, land l observingi his - dress as well. decided that he ras 'la soldier on his way a home;veteran, probably," and then dropped him Out of their thoughtS. l And while Ithp hours of early evening wore away the irain thundered on, over miles and milhs of level prairie; past farm houses nestled down among the trees and barns - and cord dribs; past little 'groups of dwellings with their home lights shi ning, cheerily outH 1 . The man byt e h window watched them as they flitted! by,l an eager hungry look coming into his leYes. Was he, thinking `of a house at i flac end of his journey,where the lamps we l e lighted by this timb, and three faces, PO enough now, would grow suddenly bright 'at his coming? I do not know. The cton'd, botor caiae in presently bringing a little Of the ke en outerair with him. " .lie padseil with his hand on the back of the seat in which 'the soldier pat smiling doWn lint() the globiny Eyes lifted to his face;as heisaid, chehrfully., We shall be tit,M. in eleven minutes. You're almostl home, Rio' i.Yeat r thank Gad !" . 10:12 A. 917 r. . • 4 • I moimmeinow Debote l ,D to ti)o ?tiqciples of Iry lei eehgcg, ao the DisseNtrAtioil of Volll4, EiteNtlite 4 1 0 Webs. TH CLOSIIuI SCENE 4 ING HOME. - 1 COUDERSPORT, POTTER COUNTY, PA., TUESDAY JANUARY 16, 1 Howe! . Did Conductor Hines know all that word meant to the wan sitting there 80 quietlyl hethought he. did; thoUght , he could understand his feelings, for he himself had served! three years as a sol diet, and well remembered the home-sick- . nelis, the weary waiting, the longing that grew aluiest insupportable sometimes for one glimpse of dean faces left behind. .. Something of this he said in his earn est way, still standing there, his hand on the back of the seat. The soldier grasped it, and -the two looked steadily into ; each 1 . • other's eyes. 1 • ' Two faces, so Tory, tell unlike. One pleasant to look upon, though shadowed a little by the carol- and . responsibilities of middle life. The other showing worn • anti. white under the lamplight, grey hairs scout the,templei lines upon the forehead deep lines around the. inbuth. The face of an•old man; and'yet .14 was but thirty. His very voice had a curious; unnatural lone in it as he said; still looking at the kindly eyes. "It's three years since I saw my family-;--two pars since I heard from them. I. have been a Prisoner eighteen months at Salsbury." What a story was outlined in those few 1 words. Ocly outlined the details will never be known till the great'day of le membrance, when the secrets of all pri. on ouses shad be revealed, and black record of Southern cruelty bo shown'. up to the gaze of angels and men. Eighteen Months! They had done the work of eighteen years on the once powerful tram-, Of this man whose whole heart seemed centered now on the one' thought of get ting h amp. Howe 1 Who can tell how biased mem ories of it had steadied•the soldiers brain and kept him from madness during those -days, and weeks and i wont hsof lingering torment, *hen hope . and courage and. manly fortitude alike gave way before the horrors of the situatibe, and brave men who.had ilooked death in the face many a time without blauchieg,shrank now when it came iii the form Of slow starvation -7- But they,' lived through it—some of them —this l urk Ryder among the rest. He sto,ld now on the.platfortu of the car as the train stopped I riloogsidea lowroofed dingy little building, dignified by the name of a statiou. ' The Station•master stood thilre,his larop,in his hand, and be side him l a man suite boy waiting to get on the train. The man on the platform did not lance own at them nor at the woup ofia dozen heiSses on a bill side to the left; though he had itiny friends there when be went away. lie W 39 look ing off across the -fields to Where a Mile away, a single light glowed steady as a star. "ChriStie's up yet. Likely enough she's thinking of the this minute," voice and hand both trembled with eicitement as he turned up the collar of his overcoat for protection againSt the wind thatroarne sweeping, bitterly cold, across the bit of open codutry. A t friendly hand was laid on hts shoulder as he turned away, 'and a friendly voice ,said '•Good night comrade •God give you a happy home o.itning " Then the hand was gone from his , shoulder, the train dashed on, and the ' soldier struok out cucru across the fields steering straight for. the light which glowed steadily in the distance. Die air Was still biting• cold,, but he did not feel it. How should he when his heart war aglow? "It's early yet—hardly eight. I shall find them all up Dear Christie ! wha: mill 8b e say I wonder." . No shadow; of doubt or fear dimmed the eager joy of anticipation , no thought of change. :dud yet two •years is such a long time. This was his home he was coining to--his and Christie's—and (Mils- . tie loved him. It was Christie ho thought of; always Christie. • How familiar the old gate looked and the bats' be,youd. He would not go in that; way thouga ; the gate used to creak he remembered, and lie wanted to sur prise thcm---wauted, too,. to get one look Aiken] all before he wadi, his prLsetwe known. The blinds were up. arid the 1 g'it shone full to his eyes as he approached . the window,! stepping lightly that no foot- . fall might ! betray him. Nearer and nearer ttll he stood close to the sill. What 'a pleasant room it was with its pretty carpet and burnished stove and the pictures on the walls. A little boy sat with his 'book and slate be side the lamp. That was &idle, studious Eddie, and the' pink-cheeked' child who leaned on his knee was baby, Flop. A woman sat in a rocking-chair before : the stove—a fair young woman with Chris tie's face and smile, 'and Christie's band of dark hair: - . Bat' who was the man beside her, who held her hand in such a confident, lover like waY, and even bent down to kiss her right there in the broad light, before- the children, before the veiir eyea of the hus band whose presence none , of them sus pected ? In God,s name what did it mean?• Nark Ryder clenched his band and took a Oct) nearer the door, - but stepped as a voice that thrilled to his heart, as it had done so often before, said, "Come Floy, Eddie, it's time for little folks to go to bed." The youngest child came obe diently, and the man siautitog outside saw this otber man 'patch her out of the mother's arms and siring, her high above his head,, while the little one laughed and shouted in glee, and Christie said.ert& ingly, -Please don't, husband, it makes me afraid to see you throw her up so." Husband :1 'The mystery was groviing Jolene now. Tbe moonlight fell on a white convulsed face, and the angels seeing it, must have pitied the tuan.l There was none other to pity; no kindlY human voice, only the remembrance of the conductor's face which stayed by him somehow, and the words that curiously enough recurred to his mind now, "God give you a happy home coming." He uttered no syllable of re proach, only the words that were almost a cry, "Oh, Uhristie I—Christie 1" Even at this moment of bewilderment and torture the wronged husband saw cleat ly howlthe wrong had been done. He had been reported dead, and Christie, a timid wouitin always, had married again. She had been married many mouths— his eyes told him that—and he could not bog chants and disgrace on her. Another train would puss in two hours. lie would take it and go tar away, back to the army perhaps, anywhere, it did not matter,ana she should never know but that he was really dead. It would be best so. Oh, Christie ! if you had only known whose eyes looked upon you that night 1 Whose unselfish heart was planning for you, placing your. future peace and well being before his own craving hunger for home-happiness-twzd children's love. When Mark Ryder glanced 'again towards , the window, the strange man had.trioved `aside out of his range of vision, and he saw only Christie sittiog there with her child in her lap, while Eddie leaned on the arm of the chair., Home, and wife; and children—all that he had hcped_ and prayed for through three years of absence and eighteen mouths of captivity.—before his eyes, within his reaoh at last. I think none but God knew what was in that mans soul then when he gave them all up and elected to become a wanderer. One long look at the dear faces he should never see again this side of heaven—then he turned resolutely away. He had his hand on the fence to get over when a dog cani6out of a kennel near, by, growling savagely. "Bruno's a good fellow." Hearing his name called in that voice,the dog knew his masterand sprang up with a quick, glad whine, licking the hand that caressed his shaggy head and the face tbatbent down close for an instant as the man knelt on one knee upon the frozen ground, his arms about the dog's neck. "You will see them all to-morrow, old fellow—Christie, and Eddie, and baby Floy—but *I shall never see them again until I meet them, up yonder. They'll never know that I have been here tonight and you can't tell them, can you ? You'll keep my seerct.and when all the rest have forgotten, my dog will remember. No, lOU must not follow. Back, I say und— yed-bye." Ile did not look back once as he went —kept straight on across the fields towards the station, in the same path he had come over less an an hour before. The wind i was in his face now, that bitter, piereine• wind which scented to pentrate the blue overcoat so easily, chilling him, through and thrOugh. Ho shivered at first and shrank as it swept over him. but -after a while he did not feel it so muon. It must be getting late, be thought; he was getting very sleepy--walking slower and slower, pausing once as The mournful howl of a dog fell on his ears. 'Poor Bruno. He `s grieving for me. Nobody elsc'll grieve. Nobody: else knows or cares. It's strange—what. makes me so tired. I wust—sit down—here—and rest. There's time—enough. ,N>—need —to--hurry. Christie—is asleep—by .1 7 —" .Leaning his elbows on his knees and his face in his hands, ho - sat quietly. Not asleep, for he heard still -the howling of the dog, but it sounded to him miles and miles away. His senses were getting dulled his faculties benumbed. Au hour , passed—two--then the shriek 'of a locomotive broke the stillness, start ling the echoes far and near. But Mark Ryder did not move. Had he forgotten that he meant to take this train ? When daylight, came, he was sitting there still. Later in the morning Christie's husband coming down through tuts veg field paused at' the sight of a man in uniform, sitting there, in that, dejected attitude. igAre - voal sick, sir ? Can I help you in any way But the soldier did not look up or speak. A strange fear fell upon the questioner He came nearer and gently lifted the soldier's head, pushing slack the cap that shaden the white, white fOrehead and the closed cps. } '•head l 'Frozen to deal near I This le terrible!" I No ‘ slightest glimmerinc• ° of the truth dawned upon his mind. Ho 'bad never seen Mark Ryder, and to a stranger's oyes this palefa ce, turned up mutely to the winter skyi bore little resemblante to picture he had; seen Christie kiss. So he called a neighhor, and between them,with reverent tench, they lifted the poor palid image of what had been a strong, loving man and, and bore ,it to the nearest house. And the news spread that a dead'soldier --a stranger evidentlypassenger from 'one of the night trains, was lying at Dr. Purcell's house, awaiting a coroner's in quest. What impulse was it, that prompted Christie,when she heard of it, to take her two, little ones by the hand,and go down there? Her husband met her at the door with an awe-struck face. Some one who had known Mark Ryder had recog nized the body, and one after another his old neighbors crowded around and also recognized it; They would have kept her away then, but she only said, "I must see. it," and putting aside their detaining hands she stepped into the room. Epite of grey hairs,spite of worn features and altered look, she knew him instantly. She did not faint or cry out, but just knit down beside the low bed where they had laid him and dropped her head' ~onl his shoulders,kissing his cold lips that would never again thrill under the press- urn of hers, calling him by name : "Mark Mark, my lcva, uiy husband I' and the neighbors standing there lifted up their voices. a nd wept. In his pocket they found his papers— transportation ticket and discharge--and in, his knapsack the gifts he had brought for his•dear dnes—a shaivl for Christie, a music box fo . i. Eddie, and a doll for baby Floy. Tlid gifts had reached their desti nation—but, al ell for the giver. Oh ! true heart strong for right, tender and faithful unto death, do you know, in that "better country" in which you dwell bow one walk& the earth for the sake of you, longing only for the time when "This mortal shall ptit on immortality." and the little household band be gathered in an unbroken circle once more. A RMNIZIAKABLE WOMAN.-A woman died recently at Staamore,'England, who was born in the last year of the reign of George H., when Gen. Wolf fell before Qoebeck, three years before George IV. canie into the world, just after India had been conquered by Colonel Clive, when 'Handel was just dead, and tiogarth was still! living. On. Christmas Eve-106 year ac , . ' o l—she was baptized at the parish Chutch of Shebbiugton, Backs, when she was five years old, and, the following is a copy of the register : "Sarah, the natural daughter of Elizabeih Edwards, a. travel ing woman, was, baptized December 16th 1764:" Sarah Edwards, afterwards, "wid ow Ilqwbottom"—by which last name she was well known--became,like her mother a,"traveling woman," that, is a lawker of small wares about the country., She was not a temperate woman, but frequently drank hard, save in her latter years. It was her custom to attend the local fairs and feasts all her life, and on 131411 occa :ions she was always I:conspicuous merry maker, being specially. fond of dancing. She was partially blind before her death but kept her other physical powers in a remarkable manner to the last, and her mental faculties were remarkable too. This woman was twenty three years older than, the Independence of the United States, She was folowed to her grave by a daughter about e;ghty year of age. , CAT, PARODY ON POE'S RAAEN.—Th e editr Of the 3lontezuma (loWa) Repubh can appears to have a great horror of cats and adwiration for the style of Poe's "RI yen." Witness the following poetic effu aion The other flight while we lay Musing, and our weary brain confusing o'er the topics of the day, suddenly we heard a rattling, as' of ;serious hosts a battling. as they! mingled in the fray. "What is that ?" we cried, upstarting, and into the darkness darting slap! we ran against the dear. "Oh, nothing," Edward g,rum bled a's oter a gore arm chair he stumbled "'tis a bw!, and nothing more." Then said we, our ange!r rising,(for we thought it so surprising that.a bug should so off fand)--"Do you think a small iosect, sir, thus all the air infect, sir ! No, 'tis not a buf.., , ,'my - frientl." Now becoming sorely frightened, round our waist oar pants we, tightened, anti put on our coat and hat when into the; darkness peering we .saw with . ; trembling and much fearing the glaring eyes or Thomas Cat Esq. •With astouinent and wonder we gazed upon this son of thunder, as he sat upon the floor—when resolution taking,and a rapid movement making, 10, we opened wide the door. Now clear out we hoarsely shouted, as o'er head our boot 1933 flouted "Take your presence from the floor." Then with an air and mien majestic, made his exit' , through the door. Made his emit without growling, neither was his voice a howling, not a single word he Said. And with feeling much elated,th escape n'doom full fated, we went baok to bed: th with help so E M t~ TERI4B,- , 51.50 PER orrodeed With Thy tiepti'ple In Columbiana pouety„, Ohio,_ resideo - an old fellow renowned for hii belligerent disposition, Who is generally kittown tra Friend Shaveri. Born and bred a, claw - ker s he was long sincelread out of Edgar ing. on account, of bit quarrelsome go. penalties, but he'still pertinaciously cling to the plain clothes end the plain ,lan= guage of his earlier clays, possibly es protection against the Wrath he is ctott , tineally provoking by his overbearing and irritating demeanor: He• is always , the owner of the crassest dogin the neighbor= hood, the most troublesome, breach, steers, &c , and is continually in hot VW ter with some of his neighbors in eons& quence of the depredations committed by his unruly live stock. ; A few weeks since Van Amburgles Menagerie, traveling through Columbiana, was obliged to pass his residence. A little before daylight, Nash, the keeper of the elephant-Tippet) Saib, as he was passing over the road with his elephant, discovered this pseudo Qat , her seated upon a fence by The roadside. watching a bull which he had turned out upon the road, and which way pawing, bellowing, and throwing up a tremendout dust generally, In fact, from the fuiry of the animal's demoristrations, one would readily have taken . him for one of the identical breed that butted a locomotive off a bridge. "Take that bull out of 3 tbo way I'' 'shouted Nash, as he approached. "Proceed with thy elephant," was the . ''lf you don't take 'that bill away he will get hurt," continued Nash, approach ing, while the bull redoubled his bag , erant demonstrations. "Don't trouble thyself about the bull ' but, proceed with thy elephant," retorted Friend Shavery, rubbing his hands with delight at the prospect of the approaching scrimmage, the old fellow having great confidence in the invincibility of his bull, which was really the terror of the whole country around. Tippoo Saib eame,on with his uncouth, shambling gait; the bull lowered his head and made a charge directly upon the ele. pliant. Old Tippoo; without even paus ing in his march; gave his cow-cetehen sweep, catching the bull - on the side, crushing his ribs with his enormous tusks, and then raised himl about thirty feet in the air, the bull striking upon his head as he came down, breaking his neck and killing him instantly. 1 • "I'm afraid your bull has pent his neck a shouted Nash, as he passed-on. "Bent the devil," cried old Shaveryy, with a troubled look at his defunot bull; "thy elephant is too hefty for my beast, but the will not make so much out of the operation as thee supposes. I was going to take my family to thy show, but I'll see thee and thy show blowed to blazes ,before I go one step, and now thee may proceed with thy elephant and be d— -d, please ;" the "please" being added as Shavery took a second. look at the pro portions of the stalwart , elephant.keeperi CEIURCII ETIQUETTE.—It is fashiona. big with some people to go late to church, long after the services have begun, to . the edification of the curious in the. congre= gatiOn,and the annoyance of the preacher. A contemporary says it has lately bees decided, on high authority, that the fol lowing rules are to lie observed on such 04CaSlOn9 "Let the lady' advance one pace beyond the door of the pew she wishes to later t halt, about face, and salute. The pet , / must then ba vacated by such gentlemen as are in it, by flank movement: Thd squad should rise simultaneously when the lady presents herself, and face by the right flank, then deploy into the aisle / the head man facing the lady; and the rest walking to his right and rear, the direction of the line baint , changed by,e right countermarch, and forintng ag,aitt into line ti and down the aisle, still faced by the rig it flank, The lady ? when she sees that t e coast is clear ; completes bee salute, and.advandes to her position in the pew..'.The gentlemen break off by files from the rear and resume their places Great care should be taken, of course, by other parties i not to enter the aisle when this evolution is in progress, until it it completed." . A Dutchman in Albany, some Hail ago, wont outto his milkman in thd street; with a dish in each hand, instead of one as usual. „-The dispenser of attenz noted milk asked him I ,if he wished hurt to fill both vessels. The Dutchman re• plied, suiting the action to the Word, --a "Dm for de milli* and (Es for de waters and I will mix dem shut swan to abate myself." . . „ . "Jane, has 1;:i at surly fellow 0160'4 off the snow frnm the pavement ' - "Yes ale." I'Did be Clear it off with alacrity ?". - air; with a shoed." "tam a gone suoker,'` as the oaiu. orgi when his mother weaned him. - ;f El
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