VOL. LVI. HARTER, AUCTIONEER, MILLHEIM, PA. J C. fcPKINGER, Fashionable Barber, Next Door to JOC&KAL Store, MILLB&IH, PA. JJROCKERHOFF HOUSE, ALLEGHENY ETLIEET, BELLKFONTK, ... PjL C G. McMILLEN, PROPRIETOB Good Sample Room on Pi rat Floor. Buss to and from all Trains Spec ial fates to witnesses and Jurors. 4-1 IRVIN nOUSE. (Most Central Hotel tn Uie City j Corner MAIN and JAY Streets, Lock Haven, Pa. S. WOODS CALWKLL, Proprietor. Good bauipie Rooms Idi Commercial Travelers on first door. J~jR. D. H. MINGLE. Physician and Surgeon, MAIN Street, MILLHEIM, Pa. JOHN F. HARTER, PRACTICAL DENTIST, Office iu id story ol iduiliusou's Gro cery Store, On MAIN Street, MILI.HKIM, Pa. Br KiMTIK, • FASHIONABLE BOOT ± SHOE MAKER Simp next door to Foote'a Store, Mam St., Boots Shoes an>l Oa tens made to order, and sat isfiu-ion work'guaranteed. Repa:nugdoneprompt ly ami cheaply, anil in a neat style. 6. R. PEALS. H. A. MCKKK. PEALK Ac McKEE, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, Offlce opposite Court House, Beilefonte, Pa. C. T. Alexander. C. M. Bower. A BOVVER, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, BELLEFONTE, PA. Office in German's new trolldlng. JOHX B. LIXX, ATTORNEY AT LAW, BELLEFONTE, PA. Office on Allegheny Street. QLEMENT DALE, ATTORNEY AT LAW, BELLEFONTE, PA. northwest corner of Diamond. IT 57 uasTiaoa, A'LTORNEY AT LAW. BELLEFONTE, PA. Office on Allegheny Street, 2 doors Heal ol office formerly occupied tiy the late arm of Yocum A Hastings. HOY, ATTORNEY AT LAW. BELLEFONTE, PA. Orphans Court business a >pectalty. Sire .HEINLE, ATTORNEY AT LAW, BELLEFONTE, PA. Practices m all the courts of Centre county. Bpec al attention to collections. Consultations In German or English. J. A. Beaver. J W. Gephart. JgEAVER & GEPHART, ATTORNEYS AT LAW. BELLEFONTE, PA." Office ou Alleghany Street, North ot High. ATTORNEYS AT LAW. BELLEFONTE, PA. Yy KELLER, ATTORNEY AT LAW. BELLEFONTE, PA, Consultations In English, or German. Office in Lyon's Building, Allegheny Street. "NTA IUSTINOS. W. FRKBDEH. "P|~ AaXIX QS & REEDER, ATTORNEYS AT LAW. BELLEFONTE, PA. Office on Allegheny street, two doors east of the office occupied by ths late firm of Hast ings. 0-t7 •'MM. "BSJ ""■ L ike pilllei* §n§r§l THE OPEN WINDOW. The old house by the lindens Stood silent tn the shade, And on the graveled pathway The light and shadow played. 1 saw the nursery windows Wide open to the air; But the faces of the chlldreu. They were no louger there. The large Newfoundland house dog Was standing by the door; tie looked for his little playmates. Who would return no more. They walked not under the llndeus, They played not In the hall; But shadow and silence and saduess Were hangiug over all. The birds sang in the branches With sweet, familiar tone; But the voices of the chlldreu Will be heard in dreams alone! And the boy that walked beside me. He could not understand Wny closer In mine, ah! closer, I pressed his warm, soft hand! A DOUBLE MISTAKE. "A letter for you. Aunt Thankful." A bright young face, like a gleam of April sunsh'ue, flashed into the room where Miss Thankful Moore sat knitting - a pretty, girlish face, with a saucy dimple in either cheek and a merry sparkle in the laughing eyes. A mam moth blue-checked apron much too large for her, quite enveloped her slen der form, and both sleeves were fastened up above the elbows displaying two piump. snowy arms, the sight of which would have sent thrills of envy to the heart of any ball-room belle. '•Lay it "on the table, child, and go back to your morning's work." "Who do you suppose its from?" questioned the girl, turning the letter over, and viewing the superscription cu uously. "I'll see soou's ever I've knit to the seam-needle. I make it a p'iut never to lay things aside in a muddle, uo matter what happens." "The girl colored consciously." "Oh, that everlasting seam-ueee with them on the tilth. Mrs. Morton and Harrie rode over to the d pet in the carriage to meet her. and brought her back in triumph with them. "There's no use uskin' how you've enjoyed your visit," said Aunt Thank ful, glancing at Harris's bright happy face. "I'm only afraid that you'll never be eonteuted with me again." "Oh, ves T shall," said Harrie, "foi I know that you are the dearest friend i ever had." "WHere's Nel?" asked Aunt Thankful, after they had entered the pserviug these terri le prepara tions, called to Simon Girty, who sat on horseback at a distance of a few yards from tin* fire, and asked if the Indians were going to burn him. Girty very coolly replied in the affirmative. Craw fo d heard the reply with firmness, merely observing tliat he would bear it with fortitude. When the poles had beeu burned asunder in the middle Captain Pipe arose and atldresse i the crowd in a tone of gre it energy and with animated gestures, pointing fre quently to Crawford, who regarded him with an appearance of u ruffled com posure. As soon as he had ended his harangue a loud wlioop burst from the assembled throng and all made a rush for the unfortunate prisoner. When they left liim his ears were gone aud blood was stream ng from the c:uel wounds. A terrible scene of torture now began. The warriors shot charges of powder into bis naked body, commencing with the calves of liis legs and continuing to his neck. Three or four Indians by turns would take up oue of the burning pieces of pole aud apply the burning end to his naked body, already burnt black with powder. These tormenters presented themselves on every side of him, so that whichever way ha ran round the post they met him with the burning brands. Home of the squaws took broad pieces >f bark, upon which they could carry a quantity of burning coals aud hot embers, and threw on him so that in a liort time he had nothing but coals of fire and hot ashes to walk upon ! In the midst of these extreme tortures, Crawford called to Girty and begged of him to shoot liim through the heart. "Don't you see I have uo gun, Colonel. " replied the wliite sav age monster, bursting into a laugh, aud then turning to the Indian beside him he uttered some brutal jests apon the naked and miserable appearance of the suffering prisoner and seemed delighted at the horrid scene. The terrible scene had now lasted more than two hours, and, Crawford had become very much exhausted. He walked slowly arouu i the stake upon his fiery pathway, and in a low tone of voice earnestly be sought God to pardon all his sins and have mercy on his soul. His nerves had lost much of tlieir sensibility and lie no longer shrank from the fire brauds with which his tormentors touched him. At length he sank in a fainting fit upon his face ar.d lay motionless, instantly an Indian sprang upon his back, knelt Ughtly on his knee, made a circular incision with his knife upon the crown of his head and, clapping the knife between his teeth, tore the scalp off with both hands. Scarcely had this been done than a withered old hag approached with a piece of bark full of coals aud burning embers and poured them upon the crown of his head, now laid bare to the bone. The Colonel groaned deeply, arose and again walked slowly around the state. Nature at lcDgtli could endure no more and at a late hour in the evening he fell for the last time. A City Under Ground. For the past six months the work of digging the canal to connect Lakes Eustis aud Dora in order to open up the more southern lakes of the "Great Lake Region of Florida" has been prosecuted. The second cutting of the canal was finished recently. At the outlet of Lake Dora the sand bar had already been cut to the depth of nearly or quite three feet on the previous digging, and was dug about two feet deeper last week. At a distance of over four feet below the old level of Lake Dora a mound was discovered. The first excavations re vealed the existence of a clearly defined wall lying in a line tending toward the sou tli west from where it was first struck. This wall was composed of a dark brown sandstone, very much crumbled in places, but more distinct, more clearly defined, and the stono more solid as the digging increased in depth. The wall was evi dently the eastern side of an ancient home or fortification, as the slope of the outer wall was to the west. About eiglit feet from the slope of the eastern wall a mound of sand was struck, imbedded in the muck formation above and around it. This sand mound was dug into only a few inches, as the depth of the water demanded but a slight in creased depth of the channel at that point, but enough was discovered to warrant the belief that here on the northwestern shore of Lake Dora is sub merged a city or town or fortification older by centuries than anything yet discovered in this portion of Florida. Small curiously-shaped blocks of sand stone, some of them showing traces of fire, pieces of pottery and utensils made of a mottled flint, were thrown out by the men whi'e working waist deep in water. A spear-head of mottled Hint, five and a half inches long by one and a quarter inches wide, nicely fidished, was taken from the top of the sand mound and about four feet below the Water-level of the lake, Uwleuneii Hun Wild. The southern wing of Puna county, Arizona, is rapidly earning a reputation tor lawlessness and abject wickedness that, if it holds out, will lay Lincoln county, New Mexico, in the shade. Tne budding of the Arizona and New Mexico Railroad to the Bonora border has been introduced a band of reckless characters from al 1 parts of the country, and owing to the facility of escape afforded by the close proximity of Sonoro crimes of more than usual vici ousncss has been prevalent of late. It is no exaggeration to say that the Sonoita valley, through which the railroad passes, has been thoroughly irrigated with blood. Mexicans from Sonoro, Irishmen from Galway, Englishmen from Cornwall, Gar mans from Luxemburg. Italians from the banks of the Arno, Russians from the steppes of the Oural, Scandinavians from Denmark, Sweden and Norwav, and Americans from every part of this vast continent, have contributed their mite to heterogeneous medley. For some time back the American and Mexican laborers have not been getting along amiably. Frequent and heavy doses of mescal on one side and bad whisky on the other led to frequent disputes, and the lively six-shooter and keen blade have been made to play a prominent part in the settle ment of disputes. Not more than three weeks ago an American and a Mexican engaged in a drunken brawl and the latter was shot and instantly killed. A COM ner's jury was held the next day and the murderer was made foreman of the jury, The evidence was clear and explicit as re gards the shooting and the identity of the participants. Nothing was smoothed over snd held back. It was an honest, open investigation The jury retired and after an absence of twenty minutes returned the following verdict : "We, the jury em paneled in the above-named case, having examined the body, do declare that the name of the deceased, when living, was Jose Moreno; that a stiff Arizona zephyr was blowing across the plains on Tuesday evening, and that the wind concentrating on one point a hole was bored through the said Jose and he died in consequence.'' 1 Lie chief seat of the deviltry is on the border; sometimes the ruffl ins are in one country and sometimes in the other. Cal abasas, Tar Flat and Crittenden are way stations, not unfamiliar with the crack of a pistol or the sharp shriek indicating the entry of a knife into the human body, [go's ranch is situated about a equil dis tance from the places named, and not more than an hour's walk from Bonora. Sunday evening a number of Mexicans with their families arrived in fthe vicinity of the ranch and went into camp. There were fourteen men and eight women and girls in the party. A number of railroad ers were engaged m a general jamboree at a neighboring saloon,and were soon joined by the Mexicans, and a kind of an inter national drunk Indulged in. Boon the railroaders began to covet the Mexican women and a demand was formally made for their surrrender This, of course, was refused and a row ensued. Pistols and knives were drawn and freely used. The noise of exploding shots, the shouting of men and tne shrieking of women for a time made the atmosphere hideous. In half an hour it was all over and the smoke cleared away. Seven Mexic ms lay stark dead and thrice that number of Mexicans and Americans were lying on the ground writhing in the agonies of • pain. Three of the Americans were fatally wounded and are probably dead by this time, and it is expected that two more of the Mexicans will (lie. Of course the chief instigators of the terrible deed, if not dead or serious ly wounded, are across the border ani out of the reach of the officers. A Peculiar Calendar. If tlfe length of the shadow on the 21st of June is divided into four equal parte, and the length on the 21st of December into two equal parts, we shall have six equal measures of length corresponding with six unequal intervals of time; these intervals may then be distinguished ac cording to the length ot the shadow. The Japanese avail themselves of this peculiarity of shadows in their country to adjust the division of their solar year, the first day of which corresponds with the 2lßt of June of tne Gregorian reckon ing. They divide the year into twelve equal months (maugsa,) which are re spectively 41, 23, 24, 25, 27, 43, 43, 26, 25, 24, 23 and 24 days long. Indepen dently of this division, the farmer plants his rice and other crops according to tae height of Orion and the Pleiades above the horizon. This height is taken eitner at nightfall, half an hour after sunset, or in the morning, half an hour before the -unrise. The following are the names of the calendar months, and the most import ant observations and farmers' rules that are connected with them. First month (Kasa), forty one days, from the 21st of June to the 81st ot July inclusive. Oreon and Pleiades are visible in the east, respectively 21 and 45 degress above ihe horizon. The sun turns back toward the south; a man's shadow at noon reaches four feet south. The fresh water !ish iwab bettik has one spot on its head. It is time to plant the second crop of rice. Second month (Kara), twenty-three lays long, from the Ist to the 23d of An The Pleiades are in the zenith, 70 degrees above the eastern horizon. The iwak bettik has two spots. The sun goes farther toward the south. A man's shadow at noon measures two leet south. Waves and Ttdes. Engineering skill has not yet succeeded in utibzing as motive powers the vast forces represented uy the ebb and flow of the '.ides and the action of sea waves. Various attempts to accomplish this have, ,however, been made, ani two recent s hemes have been lately described. In the plan proposed recently, a large bell moves up and down in the stone enclosure, and is connected with a large float io tae sea. The rising and falling of this bell is used to force air into a chamber, and this com pressed air may be employed to drive machinery. In the scheme adopted by Professor Wellner, of Brunn, there is fixed along a sea wall a sort of aii-trap—a mt tallic case, opea below, now in air, now in water, as the waves beat upon it. At tbe top this commuuic ites thio'.gh valves and pipes with a reservoir, in wnic t the air is compressed, and the force thus supplied .nay be directly u iiized for many pur poses. NO 29.