BY MEYERS & MENGEL. TERMS OF PUBLICATION. TH BKDVORD GAIRTTB i published every Fri day morning by MISTERS A M**ann, at $2 00 per annum, f paid strictly tn advance ; $2.50 if paid within six months; $3.00 if not paid within six months All subscription accounts MUST be settled annually. No paper wi 11 be sent out of the State unless paid for is ADVASCI. and all such übscriptioos will invariably bo discontinued at the expiration of the time for which they are aid. All ADVERTISEMENTS for a less terra than three months TEN CENTS per line for each tn ■ertion. Special notices one-half additional All resolutions of AssociaUons; communications of limited or individual interest, and notices of mar riages and deaths exceeding five lines, ten cents per line. Editorial notices fifteen cents per line. All legal Notices of every kind,and Orphans' Court and Judicial Sales, are required by law t be published in both papers published in this place fjf Ail advertising due after first insertion. A liberal discount is made to persons advertising by the quarter, half year, or year, as follows : 3 months. 6 months. 1 year ♦One square - - - $4 50 $6 00 $lO 00 Two squares . - - 600 900 1A 00 Three squares - - - 8 00 12 00 20 00 Quarter column - - 14 00 20 00 35 00 Half column - - - 18 00 25 00 45 00 One column .... 30 00 45 00 80 00 ♦One square to oeeupv one inch of space JOB PRINTING, of every kind, doDe with neatness and dispatch. TN GAZKTTE OVVICR has just been refitted with a Power Press and new type, and everything in the Printing line can be execu ted in the most artistic manner and at the lowest rates —TERMS CASH LP* A! ters should be addressd to MEYERS A MENGEL, Publishers 3?ob gritttittfl. rjlH E BEDFORD GAZETTE POWER PRESS PRINTING ESTABLISHMENT, BEDFORD, PA. MEYERS & MENGEL PROPRIETORS. Having recently made additional im pruvements t< our office, we are pre pared to execute all orders for PLAIN AND FANCY JOB PRINTING, With dispatch and in the most SUPERIOR STYLE. CIRCULARS, LETTER HEADS, BILL HEADS, CHECKS, CERTIFICATES, BLANKS, DEEDS, REGISTERS, RE CEIPTS, CARDS, HEADINGS, ENVEL OPES, SHOWBILLS, HANDBILLS, IN VITATIONS, LAB ELS, ire. if c. Our facilities for printing POSTERS, PROGRAMMES, Ac., FOR CONCERTS AND EXHIBITIONS, ARE UNSURPASSED. "PUBLIC SALE" BILLS Printed at short notice. We can insure complete satisfaction as to time and priee rpHE INQUIRER BOOK STORE, opposite the Menga! House, BEDFORD, PA. The proprietor takes pleasure in offering to the n" lie the following articles belonging to the k Business, at CITY RETAIL PRICES: MISCELLANEOUS BOOKS. N O V E L 8. BIBLES, HYMN BOOKS, AC.: Large Family Bibles, Small Bibles, Medium Bibles, Lutheran Hymn Books. Methodist Hymn Books, Smith's Dictionary of the Bible, History of the Books of the Bible, Pilgrim's Progress, Ac., he., he. Episcopal Prayer docks. Presbyterian Hymn Books, SCHOOL BOOKS. TOY BOOKS. STATIONERY, Congress, Legal, Record, Foolscap, Letter, Congress Letter, Sermon, Commercial Note, Ladies' Gilt, Ladies' Ootavo, Mourning, French Note, Bath Post. Damask Laid Note, Cream Laid Note, Envelopes, Ac WALL PAPER. Several Hundred Different Figures, the Largest lot ever brought to Bedford county, for sale at prices CHEAPER THAN EVER SOLD in Bedford. BLANK BOOKS. Day Books, Ledgers, Account Books, Cash Books. Pocket Ledgers, Time Books, flick Memorandums, Pass Books, Money Books, Pocket Books, Rlank Judgment Notes, drafts, receipts, he INKS AND INKSTANDS. Barometer Inkstands, Gutta Percha, Cocoa, and Morocco Spring Pocket Inkstands, Glass and Ordinary Stands for Schools, Flat Glass Ink Wells and Rack, Arnold's Writing Fluids, Hover's Inks, Carmine Ink*. Purple Inks, Charlton's fnks, Eukolon for pasting. Ac. PENS AND PENCILS. Gillot's, * Cohen's, Holiowbusb A Carey**, Payson, ltunton, and Scribner s Pens, Clark 's indellible, Faber's Tablet, Cohen's Eagle, Office, Faber's Guttknecht's, Carpenter's Pencils. PERIODICALS. Atlantic Monihly, Harper's Magazine, Madame Demorest's Mirror of Fashions, Klectic Magazine, Godey's Lady's Book, Galaxy, Lady's Friend, Ladies' Repository, Our Young Folks, Nick Nax. Yankee Notions, Budget of Fun, Jolly Joker, Pbanny Pbellow, Aapincutt * Magazine, 1. Riverside Magazine, Waverly Mage sine, Ballon s Magazine, Gardner's Monthly. Harper's Weekly, Frank Leslie's Illustrated, Chimney Corner, New York Ledger, Sew Vork Vcutl,, '• -flArper's BaSir, sverj Saturday, ' Living Age, Putnam's Monthly Magazine, Arthur's Home Magazine, Oliver Optic's Boys and Girl's Magazine Ao. Constantly on naud to accomodate those who want to purchase living reading mattter- Only a part of the vast number of articles per taining tu the Book and Stationery business, which we *re prepared to sell cheaper than the cheapest, are above enumerated. Give us a call We buy and sell for CASH, and by this arrange ment we expect to sell as cheap as goods of this class are sold anywhere jan2S,'yl ptartltitntmuL ]LLBC T R I C ii TELEGRAPH IN CHINA. THE EAST INDIA TELEGRAPH COMPANY'S OFFICE, Nos. 23 & 25 Nassau Street, NEW YORK Oreanixed under special charter from the State of New York. CAPITAL $6,W0,000 50,000 SHARES, SIOO EACH. DIRECTORS. Ho*. ANDREW G. CURTIN, Philadelphia. PAUL S. FORBES, of Russell Jfc Co., China FP.ED. BUTTERFIELD, of F. Bu tterfield A C New York. ISAAC LITER MORE, Treasurer Michigan Cen tral Railroad, Boston. ALEXANDER HOLLAND, Treasurer American Express Company, New York. Hon. JAMES NOXON, Syracuse, N. Y. 0. H. PALMER, Treasurer Western Union Tele graph Company, New I'ork. FLETCHER WESTRAY, of Westray, Gibbs A Hardcastle, New York. NICHOLAS MICKLES, Now York. OFFICERS. A. G. CURTIN, President. N. MICKLES, Vice President. GEORGE ELLIS (Cashier National Bank Com monwealth,) Treasurer. HON. A. K. McCLURE, Philadelphia, Solicitor. The Chinese Government having (through the Hon. Anson Burlingame) conceded to this Com pany the privilege of connecting the great sea ports of the Empire by submarine electric tele graph cable, we propose commencing operations in China, and laying down a line of nine hundred miles at once, between the following port ?, via : Population. Canton 1,000,000 Macoa .• 60! 000 Hong-Kong 250,000 Swatow 200,000 Amoy 250.000 F 00-Chow 1.250.000 Wan-Chu 300,000 Ningpo 400,000 Hang Chean 1,200,000 Shanghai 1,000.000 Total 5,910,000 These port? have a foreign commerce of $900,- 000,000, and an enormous domestic trade, besides which we have the immense internal commerce of the Empire, radiating from these points, through its canals and navigable rivers. The cable being laid, this company proposes erecting land lines, and establishing a speedy and trustworthy means of communication, which must command there, as everywhere else, the commu nications of the Governmont, of business, and of : social life especially in China. She has no postal system, and her only means now of communicating information is by couriers on laud, aud by steam- j ers on water. The Western World knows that China is a very I large country, in the main densely peopled; but i few yet realize that she contains more than a third , of the human race. The latest returns made to - her central authorities foi taxing purposes by the ; local magistrate make ber population Pour hun dred and Fourteen, millions, and this is inure | likely to be under than over the actual aggregate. Nearly all of these, who are over ten years old, not only can but do read and write. Iler civili zation is peculiar, but ber literature is as exten sive as that of Eurepe, China is a land of teach ers and traders; and the latter are exceedingly quick lo avail themselves of every proffered facili ty for procuring early information. It is observed : in California that the Chinese make great use of j the telegraph, though it there transmits messages in English alone. To-day great numbers of fleet steamers are owned by Chinese merchants, and j used by them exclusively for the transmission of 1 early intelligence. If tho telegraph we propose 1 connecting ail their great seaports, were now in ' existence, it is believed that its business would pay the cost within the first two years of its suc cessful operation, and would steadily increase thereafter No enterprise commends itself as in a greater degree renumerative to capitalists, and to our whole people. It is of vast national importance i commercially, politically anil evangelically. LxTThe stock of this Company has been un qualifiedly recommended to capitalists and busi- j ness men, as a desirable investment by editorial articles in the New York Herald, Tribune, j World, Times, Post, Express, Independent, and in the Philadelphia North American, Press, j Ledger, Inquirer, Age, Bulletin and Telegraph. Shares of this company, to a limited number, j may be obtained at SSO each, $lO payable down, j sls on the Ist of November, and $25 payable in j monthly instalments of $2.50 each, commencing December 1, 1868, on application to DREXEL A CO., 34 South Third Street, PHILADELPHIA. Bkares can be obtained in Bedford by applica tion to Roed k Schell, Bankers, who are author ized to receive subscriptions, and can give all ne cessary information on the subject. sept2syl I " combine style with neatness of fit. A nd moderate prices with the hest worimawekip. JONES' ONE PRICE CLOTHING HOUSE 604 MARKET STREET, GEO. W. NIEMANN. PHILADELPHIA [*eplt,'oß,yl ] jgUY YOUR NOTIONS of dec 4 R W BERKSTRESSER. P. SPIDEL, HOUSE PAINTER AND PAPER BEDFORD FA. AU Kinds of Painting, Graining, Paper- bangs ing, Ao., done at the shortest notioe. Orders sol iw ted. *pr23ia3, T)RINTERS' INK ha*made many a X husineas man rich We ask fo ate try it in j the -olumni of fit Gasxr *■ Ytoofland's Column. you ALL UAV R TTKARI> or HOQFLAND'S GERMAN BITTERS, ASD IIOOFLAND'S GERMAN TONIC. Prepared by Dr. 0. M. Jackson. Philadelphia. Their introduction into this country from Ger many occurred in 1825. THEY CURED YOUR FATHERS AND MOTHERS, And vill core you and your children. They are entirely different from-j -w-the many preparations now in the country ca! |— I led Bittors or Tonics. They are no tavern-*-J_preparatin, or any thing like one ; but good, honest, reliable medi cines They are The greatest known remedies for Liver Complaint, DYSPEPSIA, Nervous Debility, JAUNDICE, Diseases of the Kidneys, ERUPTIONS OF THE SKIN, and all Diseases arising from a Disordered Liver, stomach, or IMPURITY OF THE BLOOD. Constipation, Flatulence, Inward Piles, Fullnes of Blood to the Head, Acidity of the Stomach, Nausea, Heartburn, Disgust for Food. Full ness or Weight in the Stomach, Sour Eruc tations, Sinking or Flattering at the Pit of the Stomach, Swimming of the Head. Hurried or Difficult Breathing, Fluttering at the ... Heart, Choking or Suffocating Sensa I I tions when in a Lying Posture, Dimness of *—7 Vision. Dots or Webs before the sight, Dull Pain in the Head, Defi ciency of Perspiration. Yellowness of the Skin and Eyes, Pain in the Side, Back, Chest, Limbs, etc., Sudden Flushes of Heat, Burning in the Flesh. Constant Imagi nings of Evil and Great Depression of Spirits. All these indicate diseases of the Liver or Di gestive Organs, combined with impure blood. HOOFLAND'S GERMAN BITTERS is entirely vegetable and contains no liquor. It is a compound of Fluid Extracts. The Roots, Herbs, and Barks from which theso extracts are made, are gathered in Germany. All the medi cinal virtueus are ex \ traded from them by a scientific Chemist, fl I These extracts are then forwarded to this V-F country to be used ex pressly for the manutacture of these Bitters. There is no alcoholic substance of any kind used in compounding the Bitters, hence it is the only Bitter? that can be used in cases where alcoholic stimulants are not advisable. HOOFLAND'S GERMAN TONIC is a combination of all the ingredients of the Bit ters, with riTRE Santa Cruz Rum, Orange, etc. It is used for the same disease? as the Bitters, in case where some pure alcoholic stimulus is required. You will bear in mind that these remedies are en tirely different from any others advertised for the eure of the diseases named, these being scientific preparations of medicinal extracts, while the oth ers are mere decoctions of rum in some form. The TONIC is decidedly one of the most pleasant and agreeable remedies ever offered to the public. Its taste is exquisite. It is a pleasure to take it, while its lifs-giving, exhilarating, and medicinal quali ties have caused it to be known as the greatest of all tonics. DEBILITY. There is no medicine equal to Iloofiand's Ger man Bitters or Tonic w q in cases of Debility. They impart a tone and vigor to the whole system, strengthen A the appetite, cause an enjoyment of the food, euable the gtoraach to di gest it, purify the blood, give a good, sound, healthy complexion, eradicate the yellow tinge from the eye. impart a bloom to the cheeks, and change the patient from a short-breathed, emaci ated, weak, and nervous invalid, to a full-faced, stout, and vigorous person. Weak ami Delicate Children are made strong by using the Bitters or Tonic. In fact, they are Family Medicines. They can be administered with perfect ?afety to a child three months old, the uiost delicate female, or a man of ninety. These remedies are the hest Blood Purifiers ever known and will cure all diseases resulting from bad bload. Keep yjur blood pure; keep your Liver in order, •*- keep your digestive organs in a sound, I healthy condition, by the use of these reme -I_J dies, and no diseases will ever assail you. The best ruen in thecountry recommend them. If years of honest reputation go for anything, you must try these preparations. FROM HON. GEO. W. WOODWARD, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Pennsylva nia. PHILADCLPHIA, March 10, 1867. I find that "Hoofiand's German Bitters"' is not an intoxicating beverage, but is a good tonic, use ful in disorders of the digestive organs, and of great benefit in cases of debility and want of ner vous action in the system. Yours Truly, GEO. W. WOODWARD. FROM HON. JAMES TAOMPSON. Judge of the Supreme Conrt of Pennsylvania. Phii. AOBLPUta, April 28, 1866 I consider -'Hoofiand's German Bitters'" a valua ble medicine in case . of attaaks of Indiges tion or Dyspepsia. I \ can certify this from my experience of it. J. A. Yours, with respect. JAMES THOMPSON. FROM REV. JOSEPH H. KENNARD. D D., Pastor of the Tenth Baptist Church, Philadelphia. DR. JACKSOS — DEAR SIR: — I have been fre quently requested to connect my name with rec ommendations of different kinds of medicines, but regarding the piactice as out of my appropriate sphere, Ihave in all cases declined, but with a clear proof in various instances, and particularly in inv own family, of the usefulness of Dr. Hoof land s German Bitters, I depart for once from my usual course, to express my full conviction that for general debility of the system, and es pecially Tor f.iver Com -y plaint, it is a safe and valuable prepara {V! tion. In some cases it may fail, bnt usual -i-a ly, I doubt not, it will be very beneficial to those who suffer from the above causes. Yours, very respectfully, J H KENNARD, Eigth, below Coates Street. CAUTION. Hoofiand's German Remedies are counterfeited. The Genuine have the signature of C. M. JACK SON on the front of the outside wrapper of each bottle, and the name of the article blown in each bottle. AH others are counterfeit. Price of the Bitters, $1 per bottle; Or, a half dozen for $5. Price of the Tonic, $1 50 per bottle; Or, a half dozen for $7 511, Tho tonic is put up in quart bottles. Recollect that It is Dr. Hoofiand's German Remedies that are so universally used aud so highly recommended ; and do -\\om the Druggist to induce | |you to take anything else that he may sayJL/ig just as good. be. cause he makes a larger profit on it. These Rerae aics will he sent by efores*to any locality upon application to the PRINCIPAL OFFICE, JVt tho German Medicine Store. No. 631 ARCII STREET. PJ^U.ULp+i*. Oil AS. M. EVANS, PROPRIETOR. Finuerly 0. M JAORSON * Co, These Remedies are for sale by UrnggUts, Store keepers and Medicine Dealers everywhere. Da not forget to examine the artiolthj/ou bug m order to get the genuine. may'6Bjl BEDFORD, PA., FRIDAY MORNING, MAY 28, 1869. RK.nOCKATIt' PRIMARY F.I.K<TIOXN. Agreeably to the provisions of the Rules for the Government of the Dem j ocratie Party of Bedford County, adop ted by tho Democratic County Com mittee, Feb. 20, ISO!), the Democrat ! ic voters of Bedford County will assem ble at the polling places in the several election districts, mi SATURDAY, MAY 29, and vote by ballot for the choice of Candidates for the sev eral offices to be filled at the next Gen eral Election, and, also, for two Inspec tors and one Judge for each polling place who shall hold the primary Elec tion for the next year. The Vigilance Cominitte now in existence shall hold this election, and in districts which have 110 such Committees, the Demo cratic voters present at the jKilling place at the time herein fixed for the opening of the polls, shall elect two In spectors and one Judge to hold the e lection. The polls in the townships shall be open from nine o'clock a. to. until G o'clock p. m., those in the bor oughs from 1 o'clock p. m. until 6 o'- clock p. m. An accurrate list of the names of all persons voting shall be kept and a correct and full return of all the votes cast for the several persons voted for shall be made out, and both the list and returns shall be certified over the signature of at least two of the election officers to be correct and true. After the counting of the ballots, and the proper certification of the re turns, the list of voters and the return of votes for the several candidates, shall be sealed up by the Inspectors and de livered to the Judge, who shall place the sealed return in the hands of the Chairman of the County Committe, at a meeting of the Judges from each polling-place, to be held at the Court House, in Bedford, on TUESDAY, JUNE 1, at one o'clock, p. m. A'l per sons entitled to vote at the election for Representatives in the Legislature and pledging themselves to vote the whole Democratic ticket at the next General Election, will be. permitted to vote at this election. J. W. DICKERSON, Ch'n Dein. Co. Com. lIOI'.NE ASK i'AKH. Manngemenl of Cows. —A cow newly come in should not drink cold water in cold weather, but moderately warm slop. Calves intended for raising, should bo taken from the cow within a few days, and they will be less liable to suck when they are old. Feed them first on new milk, taking eare that all changes are gradual, by adding only a portion at first. Ilearty eaters are desirable for cows, and may usually be selected while calves.—A dainty calf will bo a dainty cow. Heifers dried up too early after Calving, will always run ury about the same time in after years—therefore be careful to milk closely the first year, until about six weeks before calving. Spring cows should come in while they are yet fed on hay, and before they are turned to grass, which will be more likely to prevent caked bag and milk fever.. Feed dry cows well; give them a daily feed of meal of some kind, corn meal and wheat bran, or corn ureal and oil cake, or some other milk-produc ing or fattening diet. You will get it all back when you begin to milk. Your cattle should never stop grow ing until they come to full maturity. They will surely stop and thenceforth have thatstunted, weakly look so com mon among "scrubs" unless they are sheltered and so well fed that they do not lose flesh. How to Cure a Felon.—A physician in Moore's Rural New Yorker, has no confidence in any of the "sure cures for a felon," which are so abundant, and of which everybody recommends. He says:— "The true treatment is go at once to your surgeon, before the felon is twen ty-four hours old, and let him open the finger down to the bone and out to the end, supposing the finger to be the seat of the affection. This lets the impris oned blood out and relieves the pain at once. Then poultice for a day or two, and the finger will he well and not deformed or injured. This is the "short, sharp and decisive" plan, be sides being the most merciful and least painful." Itemedy for Summer complaint.—A correspondent of the Scien/ijie Ameri can states that a tea made of the seeds of the Sunflower, roasted like eotfee berries, are an admirable remedy for all species of summer complaint. A half pint of the seed is sufficient, It should be remembered, however, that serious results often follow the too sudden stoppage of diarrhoea by astrin gents, and with this, as all remedies of a similar nature, caution should be used. A Cure for Ear-Ache.— There is scarcely any ache to which children are subject, so bad to bear and so diffi cult to cure as ear-ache. But there is a remedy uever known to fail, I'akp a bit of cotton batting, put upon it a pinch of black pepper, gather it up and tie it, dip it in sweet oil, and insert it in the ear. Put a flannel bandage ov er the head to keep it warm. It will give immediate relief, IJoiv (a (Joan Oil Cloth.— To ruin them—clean them with hot water or eoop suds, and leave them half wiped, and they will look very bright whilp wet, and very dingy and dirty when dry, and soon crack and peal off. But if you wish to preserve them and have them look new and nice, mM\ with soft flannel and lake warm w-ater, and wipe, thain thoroughly dry. If you want them talook extra nice, n\ ter they are dry, drop a ffi-V npounfu's pf milk over them aud rub with a amail dry cloth. WttJI.i.WS WORK. Darning iittie stockings For restless idle feft; Washing little l'aees, To keep them fresb and sweet; Hearing bible lessons, Teaching catechism. Praying for salvation, From heresy and schism, Woman's work. Sewing on the bottom, Overseeing rations. Soothing with a kind word Other lamentations, Guiding clumsey Bridgets, Coaxing sullen c<x k-. Entertaining company And reading recent books, Woman's work. Burying out of sight Uer own unbealiug smarts; Letting in the sunshine On other clouded hearts; Binding up the wounded, Uealing of the sick, Bravely marching onward Through dangers dark and thick, Woman's work. Loading little children And blessing manhood's years; Showing to the sinful How God's forgiveness cheers; Scattering sweet roses Along anothor's path ; Smiting by the wayside, Content with what sue hath, Woman's work. LotliDg fall her own tears V\ here only God can tee ; Wiping off another's With tender sympathy ; Learning by experience. Teaching by example; Yearning for the gateway, Goldon, pearly, ample, Woman's work. At last cometh silence — A day of sweet repose ; Her locks smoothly braided, Upon her breast a rose ; Lashes resting gently Upon the marble ekeek ; A look of blessed peace Upon her forehead meek. The hands softly folded, The kindly pulses still; The cold lips know no smile, The noble heart no thrill ; Her pillow needs no smoothing, She crareth for no care— Lore's tendcrest entreaty Wakas no responses there. A grave in the valley, Tears, bitter sobs, regret; Another lesson taught, That life may not forget; A face forever hidden, A race forever run ; ''Dust to dust," the preacher saith, And woman's work is done. JV. O. Picayune THE NKEI.ETOX JIAX'O. Yielding to a miserable habit bad ruined me. It had blasted my pros pects, destroyed by business, alienated my friends, and brought mc down to the lowest point of existence. The habit had altogether overcome me. I n vain I struggled against it. The im ploring looks ami words of my wife; the sight of my wan faced and emaci ated children turning their eyes to me, the author at once of their being and of their .misery; the spectacle of the proud home and broad lauds, onee mine, but now in Lite hands of stran gers—all ihese, which might well havu slung to madness or driven to despair a less degraded being, reached me not, nor affected me in the depth of my deg radation. I had reached a point at which no motive that might be urged could any longer affect me. One evening I was sitting in my miserable home. The children were asleep in bed. They had cried them selves to sleep in hunger. My wife sat opposite me 011 the other side of the wretched fire-place stitching some rags of clothing. I was sullen and si lent. At last I feit a craving for the stimu lous that now was necessary for my life. Rising, I walked up to a cupboard where it was kept. My wife knew well my intention. She followed me with her eyes. I went there desperate and care less—only eager for the gratification of my appetite. I reached forth my hand trembling ly seized the bottle, and was about raising it to my Hps. But at that very instant, just as the bottle touched my lips, I felt a terri ble sensation. It was as though some one hail grasped my throat. "Wife!" I cried in a deep fierce voice, "Hag! do you dare?" and turn ing, with clenched fist, I struck at what I supposed was my wife, For I thought she was trying in a violent way in desperation to keep me from drink. But to my surprise I saw my wife sitting by the fire plaoo with her work in her hand, looking at me in wonder. It could not have been her evident ly- A terrible feeling passed through me. Shudderingly I raised my hand to feel what was at my throat, or if there was anything at all which seemed to be grasping me so tightly. Horror of horrors! As I raised my hand I felt the up-, mistakable outline of a bouy thumb and bony fingers pressed against my fiesh, It was a skeleton hand! that clutched me by the throat. My hand fell down powerless by my side; the bottle crashed on tUe floor. My children at the noise, and Wife aud children all stared at me with white faces, There I trembling in every limb stood, transfixed with terror, the awful feeling of the supernatural now fully possessing me. I drew away my body, but my head was still held by the same dread and invisible power. X could not WOVO that, yuspeakable horror filled me. None but those who have experienced some* thing like this krrow what (t fi m have such The body seems paraly sed, while tfiemindsoeiusto be endow ed with extraordinary gnl thus possesses new cajuuuUcH fur suffer, I n g> Hut at last I felt the grasp relax. 1 staggered hack, the grasp ceased alto gether and I drew off to anotiier cor ner of the room endeavoring to go as far as possible from the place where this myterfnus thing had seized me. Boon my wife and children turned away, the former to work, the latter to sleep. They knew not what it was that affected me, but concluded that it was some pain arising from sickness or sudden faintness. I did not speak a word but resumed my former seat. And now,gradually, my craving re turned. Yet how could 1 satisfy it ? My bottle was broken. And it lay in fragments on the floor. All my liquor was gone. What was I to do? The craving became irresistuble. 1 had to yield. So I took my hat, fumbled in my pockets and found a few cents, and ta king an old bottle that lay in the cor ner, 1 went forth into the darkness. It was not without some feeling of trepidation that I entered the dark passage-way. Fearless the same Thing ofllorror might return agitated me. But I passed on unharmed, reached my old resort where I laid my bottle on the counter. The clerk soon filled it. With an irresistable impulse I clutch ed the bottle and rushe forth to drink the liquor. I hurried off for a little distance and came to the head of a wharf. Here un able any longer to resist my craving I pulled out the cork so as to drink. It was very dark. No one was near me. In the distance rose the low hum of the city; out in the harbor might be heard the noise of sailors and boatmen, i had a general idea of this as I stood there, though all my thoughts were concentrated on the bottle. At last I raised it to my mouth. Scarce had the bottle touched my lips when again I experienced that terrible felling. My throat was seized ; this time more violently, more fiercely, as if by some j power which had already warned me, ! and was enraged at having to repeat the warning. My throat was com pressed painfully in that fierce grip; there was anger in it. A thrill of lior- ; ror shot through me. Again the hot- | tie fell from my trembling hands and j was crushed to fragments upon the | stone pavement. Again I raised uiy hands to my throat, though in deadly fear; but the motion was mechanical— a natural and involuntary effort to tear away the thing that seized my throat,— to free myself from the pain and horror of that mysterious grasp. Again I \ raised my hands, and again I felt there under my touch, plain and un mistakable, the long, hard, bony hand j which 1 had felt before. One touch ! t was enough. My hands fell down. I tried to shriek, but in vain, 1 grasped ! for breath, and thought that I would ! be sulfonated. But at length the grasp slowly and unwillingly relaxed. I breathed more freely. At length the touch was no longer felt. I paced the streets for a long time. At first every vestige of my appetite had been driven away by the horror of that moment. As time passed it be gan to return. Once more I felt the craving. True, the fear of another at tack was strong, and for a long time deterred me; but at last the craving grew too strong for the fear. Nerving myself up to a desperate pitch of resolution, I returned back to the shop where I had first purchased the liquor. "See here!" I cried, "I'm crazy for a drink. I broke that bottle! Give me a glass, for God's sake —only one glass!" Something in my face seemed to ex cite the man's commiseration. He poured out a glass for me in silence. With trembling eagerness I reached out my hand to seize it. With tiem bling hand I raised it toward my lips. The grateful fumes already entered my nostrils. My lips already touched the edge of the glass. Suddenly my throat was seized with a tremendious grasp. it was as though the power which w is tormenting me had become enrag ed by my repeated acts of opposition, and Wished now by this final act to re duce me to subjection forever. It was as if this power was using with me the means of coercing which one uses with a dog, viz: beat him for each offence, and each time harder un til he is cured. This time the grasp was terrible, it was fiercer than ever; quick, impetu ous. In that dread grasp my breath ceas ed. I struggled. My senses reeled. 1 raised my hands in my despair. I felt again the bony fingers. I moved my hands along the bouy arms. In my madness 1 struggled. I struck out my fists wildly. They struck agaiust what seemed bony fibs. The time during which I struggled seen\ed endless. The horror that was on me cannot be told. At last all sense left me. When I revived I found myself ly ing on a rude bench in the bar. It was early dawn. No one was near. All my bones ached. 1 rose up confusedly, not knowing at first where I was, but soon the terrific event which had over powered me came to my memory. I rose to my feet, and tried to get out. The noise that I made awaked some one inside. lie called out to me: "Hallow there! Are you off?" "Yes," J said. "Wait, I'll let you out." He appeared iu a short time, "You had a bad turn," said he, not unkindly. "You'd better take care of yourself, and not be out at nights." I thanked hitu and left. Whoa i reached the house my wife \yaked up and looked half fearful at me, Amazement came over her face &s she that I was sober, I kissed VOL. 64.-.—WHOLE No. 5,452. iier ami sat down in silene;. She looked al me in wonaer. Tears fell from her eyes. She said nothing-, hut I saw that she was praying. As soon as the . hops were opened I went and managed to procure some food which I brought to the room. I then left to go to my employment. Through the day I felt an incessant craving, but my horror was so great that I would far rather have cut my throat than risked having that hand there again. As the days passed the horror re mained undiminished. It was simply impossible for me to seek for intoxicat ing drink. I dared not. My wife said nothing. 1 saw, how ever, by her soft eyes, the gentle joy of her face, and the sweet loving smile with which she welcomed me hotne, how deeply this change in me affected her. Weeks passed and grad a ly the crav ing lessened. Yet so vivid was the re membrance of that dread experienceof mine that my horror remained fresh and unabated. To relapse was impos sible. 1 dared not. Thus forced to be sober, my circum stances improved rapidly. There was no longer any danger of want. Com f >rt came, and peace, and hoj>e, and pure domestic joy. Remorse for the sufferings which I had caused to my sweet wife made me more eager to make amends for the past, that so I might efface better me mories from her mind. The revul sion of feeling was so great for her that she forgot that I had ever been other than kind. I made no parade of reform. I made no promises and no vow. Nor did she ever allude to the change. She showed her joy in her face and manner. She accepted the change when it came and rejoiced in it. I still felt au anxious desire to get to the bottom of this mystery, and once I told the whole story to my medical man. He was not at all surprised. Doctors never are. Nor are Doc tors ever at a loss to account for any thing. "Pooh," said he indifferently.— "That's common enough. It was mania a potu. The brain, you know, becomes congested, and you see and feel devils and skeletons. Cases like yours are common enough. To me, however, my case seemed very uncommon, but whether it be so or not my case has resulted in my sal vation. And never will cease, even amidst my horror, to be grateful to tnat Power which came down clothed in terror to snatch me from ruin with that Skeleton Hand. WISHES OF -LADIES. —.First a hus band ; second, a fortune; third, a baby ; fourth, a trip to France ; fifth, a bet ter-looking dress than any of her neighbors ; sixth, to be well buttered with flattery ; seventh, to have noth ing to do in particular; eighth, to be handsome ; ninth, to be thought well of; tenth, to make a sensation, elev enth, to attend weddings; twelfth, to be always be considered under thirty. THERE is a house in Halem, Massa chusetts, so infested with mosquitos this winter, that it is really uncom fortable to remain there in the eve ning, althougn the windows have been left open for hours to freeze up these pests. A lady having accidentally broken a smelling bottle, her husband, who was very petulant, said to her : 'I declare, my dear, everything that belongs to you is more or less broken.' 'True,' replied the lady, 'for even you are a little cracked.' A lady was urged by her triends to marry a widower, and as an argument they spoke ol his two beautiful chil dren. "Children," replied the lady, "are like toothpicks. A person wants her own." A revivalist encountering an Afri can, asked him: "My good man, have you found the Lord ?" To which Ham bo replied in a surprised manner : "Golly, massa, am de Lord lost?" AN irritable man, on Christmas, having been disappointed in his boots, threatened to chew up the shoemaker, but compromised by drinking a cob bler. "Don't you go out too often with your wife, or you'll get talked about, ' was the advice of a friend to an Aniei ican gentleman in Paris. An old lady hearing somebody say that the mails were very irregular, said : "It was just so in my young days—no trusting auy of 'em." Mr. Short says the only thing he can pay these times is his addresses to the ladies and these he never allows to get over-due. A Kentucky father keeps his daugh ter chained to a log in order to prevent her marrying contrary to his wishes. Mankin<fshouid learn"temperance from the moon—the fuller she gels the smaller her horns become. The man who wrote, "I'm saddest when I sing," was a fool to .sing much. The most startling essay on Man—A woman's attempt to marry him. When is a lawyer like a donkey ? When he is drawing a conveyance. 'These notes enliven me,'as the gen tleman said on receiving a remittance. What land, of all the lauds of the earth, do lovers like the best? Lap land. As every thread of gold is valuable, so is every minute of time. As long as the miser lives, his mon ey chest is sure to be heir tight.
Significant historical Pennsylvania newspapers