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OTIC 1 A I- my-3 Ris ! tv jo fx-aiUr y, ♦ ■;.il -d r.t. fl-tf. ’ 7uu> !>0 I cliacte aAMfri* ay*d dpoa tb* cPIKR • C»rolfoe «t«. kS. CAM • • i kiasgjEß’ft. K'g Store late ciotliliti: • 29oT;.#Kf-' 5. *W m ff i ‘ I. ! d i # j it v> • ' ' f T "’" J ,4v-. \ r > ■•’ ■** . 'j. .. W 1 v bri ya u ED PRW! WK Bk ABLE TO ’ f nflurr-.mi m.l vicinity tli»t v.. jmtrso«J*in«.*.vrty iX„ , u ,j ,i,je ..r L jutr Uiogiit in Phihuh*lpliU £ o\*H. and :>t minced *** titkd. *4« dl‘t«rniilKl| A Of tlM‘lll : *nl leat poArfibtr aitvah«‘*-. .« o*r»U>ok of UUK&} ijjUte. coru»btiuc,in H&zk BUk*, French Alpttcaj). Wu>|. jAnd Panum>U<*.*| I Style nf l .yizur'M DfUia [Woolen Sbawla. Cioakiu Balmoral .Skirt*. verjJ Complete ill*-of And Clove*. We iUmi To our attack of Donwqy Have a foil tine. sucW \fu*lina and Sheet luge, I Hhirtlog, Canton JhJ price*. -Boot* and BfaJ W**ar ; Ladle*. Kiu« and heavy MoiV Wo have *)*} roc«ir^ s1 the MiJf s'JVE C jOTHIi A of antl W • 'loti big, wbiil public to tii*» r* Ini. \V«* matt »H* tii oqr owu 'Uj.ifvisioiu an ». * tjQUA L-tnit to ■hi? &|i the mark* We hay « hy middle th< . We veil . ■ Tf’WtJiin? the pe. who bhy from tecoi 4'Mhiiie at the.-■ (:>r thntr* al who»., •id gctUhnir • ••ij theh> in the pel- ciplapo. \lVjhav« branch Stoi SjBTOOKA *h*»r*j poods ni.t> b»* b ««U U|**m here in t% i If apy jwrooit 3m* & More.jin Altoona'. I* k J i iito his e?*t-al>l iAnuJsland j'rir«-'c. Whfileaale Uocwe. N Dec; 2.186?.—tf. ' i NFA umiem JL jC>rm lli>oitiznA wt,7. ■ ' '1 CITY nn E. U 1J .fully mantiin? »«“ limit Store of** j-VW* Kordirete His Diu .i.iife oriwWiii i (Mil »«<1 exefnl j.; MBOi f/dK toil# (/LASS, W T CA ,iudlnert/ artic ! PUBI 4”^ , 'itootm ■Victory Won! pcribei> would respectfully IS W citizen* of Altoona and vicinity, jnft'retnrged from the Knur with their WIXXK It STOCK OF ' ’ & CAPS, Sc SHOES. & CAPS hhre been ae nd. with the view of cutting all their patronage. Their line ut 3T g-lr ■g'i.try ■ J - -fc. for the Winter is now h foil lin»» of h*, Dr»li and i elaim*, Figured an entire new \ Jloths, Hoop Skirts. pup; a lull and Ed Coium Hosiery ; [rite specialattentioa Bonds. of which we [prints* Ginghams. M, Grey and White or near old br Men and Boys' hi Chithirenfl’ Gaiter*, hr] Goat Shoes, fch dc»* lot of Groceries. B. j*vrupa, Ac„ ami ?ck of Qmei>*w«re. Jnai ket. of all to the fact |il,:l- of £oo*l. at the lowest W. rf friend*. Ilu* Unite*, to i while they «r<» to IN LOWTIIKK & CO. I CENTAGE YOLK JUST HANDS. Iv. MiuiiiltuUurera .it;- tltr attention of lit*' c*> lh**ir 4»u*ck._ Th«'V »n* uuwlt? iiii. umU*i our w r-11 laatlc t»ud can Ik* 1 E BEST, fy •>!* llojuiy-mad** cloth from UieJuipofter* and *av»* tlip per ivutnct- pm reasonable percentage y savingtin* purchasers must be aiblwl by tho-*** I again. We retail onr •U other merchuntu pay ..•wqimntly tluw* who huy fn>in Min') price whfch otheryflotliiers |t>. 11 1 «*no liv -»»»«*rs*' ND .JOHNSTOWN, at tht* fiffur**' 1 at which w hi t«M. or im:vchif*rJ. that Tuck‘« Hay-‘d out.** let such person drop aud •■X'tinln** his TO*2 Murker Mr-cr. Philadelphia r Goons. lied would resj.> <-tfxillv in of Altrt«rtiK and ■‘Urroiindimr coni* tyrnedfroTn i-h* Er»M. where l»»- has : oF WINTER GOOUS, :t and price, cannot »nrpu sed In Hie stock i« much larger than * quite an object, in the*" exciting K* to purcbesv where they can get j and at the Lowest Prices, [ can nod will sell ns ]>»v. if not a fcther house In this place He wishes [stock before purchasing ke can offer inducements which will Is stock consists of GOODS of every description, WINTER WEAR. ID MILKS’ .DRESS SHOKS.' Nl> BOYS’ BOOTS AND oIIOES, MEN’S UaLK HOSE ,ND MISSES' WOOL HOSE. ND UNBLEACHED MUSLIN jIIAiIS AND HEAVY' DRILLINGS. n Sewc-d, Bootws nt $1 /i0(5^1.75 „ 1.37@1.50 *J.7sffn3,so rs, wry low. CiBOCEBIES. Sugar. Rio Cofffff. Svmjw, Thhs. Ac.* is usually in a Dry Oihmls St.-rE ch<*ap*-f*l. . f . A. SI’RANKLE. ,) RUO STORE. REIGART would respect elu,th»* citfoHi* of Altoona anti ,mir» fhat he ha* revfijtiy pnrcluwoil the n k Co., on Virginia Street. opposite are Fresh an cl P ure. rict aitniriou >.* luinim-**. to itierit a tMiage. ' hißKtock. HohuhconHtat.TlTt'a Hand, DRUGS, [ NKS anJ CHEMICAL ?OAiVC PERFUMF.F V. BRUSHES, r, paixtsi oils v soy OIL AXD I.AMiW TOTIQNSy CIO APS iuaUy kept in u Firtt-da/iF J>rug Store. VINES AND LIQUORS for mediciiml use. . U>E WINE—I’LUK—WAiK PBESf MIPTIOSS ihihnl, at a!! t»otir»* of the flav or night. >i, 1H63. 'tines' and cmLDXJ&rS SHOES Their Balmoral Shrew are just the thiug lor wet for their v«rj liberal patronage ■ merit a continuance of the same. ; Four line* or less .i.i. $ 35 $ 87j£ <>«•• Square. (8 llue-»).,~....i... 60 ; 75 Two Three (16 - ), m •“ h ;iii, 1 OH r5O I uO . 2 00 tlv*T three weeks nud leas than three months. 35 cents per square fi)r each insertion, 0 month* 6 months. 1 year. 1 50 $ S OQ | 6 00 iy; : 'l Si) 4 00 : 00 Six tines or leas. 'One «q»l;»re Two Three *• Four Half a column due c01umn..... Administrator* and Kx**cuton» Notice Merchant* mlvertiKlnc by the year. tbri** square*. with liberty to change t . 10 00 l*rof< > * 00 : Communications of * political character or individual jnterfflt. win be charged according;to the above rates. Advertisements not marked with; the number of humr* tioQ'i desired, will be continued iijl forbid and charges! according to the above term*. (RuMiness notices five cents per line forever; insertion. ■ Obituary notices exceeding ten Upes, fifty cent* a square sMtt Potttjn THE SMACK AT SCHOOL i The following lines were read Ivefore the Literary Rocie tv of* Rtockbiidge, Mas*.’, hv Win: Pitt Palmer, of New •York: «' A district school, not-.lfar away. ’Mid Berkshire hilla, one winter’s day. Was humming froni k* wanted noise •if threescore mingled girls and boys, i few upon tlieir fissk intent, : But more on furtive mischief bent; The while lli** Jiihsi.t’* downward loot: Was fastened'ou u iopyd.ook. sharp and char a rousing himud; ! A> *tw ere a battery of,bliss : * Li t off in one tremendous hiss I "What’s that}” the startled master cries. That tbiiV’ a little imp rvpU»*. “Wulh William WilHth. If yqu pleolhe, 1 »;(«• him kl'li Thushannah Peathe l" With frown (o makeaistatue thrill, The master thundered,•••Hither Will!’* Like a wretch o’taken in his track. * With stolen clmtteU on Jiis hack, W ill hung his head in fear and shame. And to the aviul presence came— A great, green, bashful simpleton. The butt of all good-natured fun. With smile suppressed, aud birch upraised. The chreutener falterefi, u rm:*ahm/*d v That yon. my biggest pupil Be guilty of an act mo. rude! Before the whole *et scli-nd tb Into!— r What evil genius put you to t J” • "I'wuh she. hen**lf,'’ pohhodthe laal. ■1 didn't moan to t>e sp bad ;. Rut when Susannah shook lj»r curl-. And whimpered 1 was ifraid of girP. And dursu't kiss a laihy's dull. 1 couldn't stand if, sir. at nil. Rut up and her on th.-xpol, 1 kt^>w—buoLou—l oiught to not. But.; Mpmehow from b*r look*—bo**hoo— -1 thought she kind o’wiwhediue to!” |§isteil3«g. THE TWO iTEAVLEBS Some years ago it wo .gentlemen and a ijady had taken tljeiEphices in the diligence from Paris to Havre. One of the gentle then, M. MallaqueQ a merchant ot the Capitol, as indolent jin mind as in body, slept profoundly from the- commencement; the gther, M. Lussah, a commercial travel er, a person of very-animated character, did not allow his tongue to. rest a single instant. Among other things which he mentioned, he let it escape that he bad on him fifteen thousand francs in bank-bills, and that the greater; part of the sum was intended for the purohose of colonial pro ductions, and the rest'as a preseutTor wife. i M. Miillaquet, on the contrary, during s the rare intervals when he was sufficiently awake to speak, sail] simply that he Was going to Havre. I The diligence arrived atPontoise, where the horses where changed. As the road from 11 that point ascends, the conductor pro posed to the travelers that they should rtalk up the hill. Lussac embraced the proposal with and Mallaquet, from politeness, affected to be no less de lighted, though, in fact, he had no desire to put his legs in movement. r They both started up the hill, then, and jthe diligence followed them. ; Soon darkness came on. But the trav elers continued to hear the diligence roll ing behind them. At the end of some jtime they both remarked that they had wandered from the right road. They Wished to return thereto, but the sound of the wheels no longer reached them. The indolent Mallaquet grewt afraid. Mutter ing a few oaths, he began to march at a jmore rapid rate, apd this sudden change (gave bith in the soul of M. Lussac to a I sombre presentiment . liemembering his imprudent avowal about the fifteen thou jsand francs which he had with him, the ' most | lugubrious ideas agitated his mind. He asked himself in terror whether this jsuspected companion had not plotted with the conductor to rob him in some solitary place. Perhaps, he also thought, another accomplice miglit be lurking in some spot near, ready to pounce on him. In truth, poor Lussac deemed, himself a lost man ; he determined therefore (o be bn hisguard. j With regard to Mallaquet, when he saw Lrosac become suddenly silent, he at once conceived similar suspicions to those of his Companion. He had not, it js true. like Lussac, been guilty of any indiscretion enr dangeringhis Own interests, but his pock ets were Piled with Important papers, and the avowal of Ms companion appeared to m JmLm. :.'. 'i^r. \§L -****■:■■.■ .ijiuUj iPI _■ L "f*W • i ) x - ||l . : <|p : wL ILaIL- H. C. DKHS, 3 do. * 50 1 00 2 00 t 50 f. 00 10 00 4 00 12 00 8 00 5 EPEK|>EST IK EVERYTHING.] THE PEBSBVBKIKG BACHELOR Mr. Peter Robinson was a bachelor, stout, and almost forty. Peter had never loved hut once, and the adoration of his heart had been bestowed uj>nn Miss Lucy Poppleton : but alas; Peter had faded to express his passion at the proper moment, or, in other words, had failed to.come to time, and one day his heart was larcerated by receiving an envelope of cards, an nouncing that the delighted Lucy was about to become Mrs. Jimmerson Crooks. it was a terrible blow to Peter, but he staggered up from it and still loved the object of his early passion—at'a distance. Mrs. Jimmerson Crooks revelled in the. de lights of .matrimony, leading Fashion, her husband, and Peter—at adistance—by the nose for five years, at the end of which time Mr. Jiminersoh Crooks choose to depart for another sphere, leaving Mrs. Jim merson .alone to mourn her duty. Once more Peter’s heart sprung up from dust and ashes, and looked forward to the time when the, ullo.ted period of mourn ing should be over, and he could pour fourth the pent up agonies of five years, and ask compensation in the hand of the fair widow. One year, thought Peter, is surely enough of time. I will give her one year. Month and month rolled away until he could stand it no longer. A siek ish misgiving of the evils of delay drove him to precipitate the asking. When the tenth month came he sought the widow at her home, and with all the ardor of a long pent up love poured fourth his tale. The widow heard him—heard him candy unto the very end, and then, with her dili cate perfumed handkerchief pressed to her blushing cheeks, told Peter that she had only the week before promised her- hand to Dr. Siekleback and oh ! why did not her dear friend speak before 1 A second time was Peter's heart torn into minute fragments : a second time was he sent into the world to admire —at a distance. Time sped on, and once more Peter began to encourage hope. Perhaps Sickle back might die: he certainly had an apo plectic look, and sure enough Peter’s per haps turned out certainty, and Mrs. Doc tor Thetsiosius Sickleback was once more a mourner. Peter had learned too lat terly the dangers of delay/ lb suffer any such cause to stand this time between bimsell and success. He would not give the widow a year, nor yet ten mouths— nay, not even six : but the third month he would go to her with his tale of loye deferred ; and so he did. We must trans scribe the widow’s own words when the question was popped. “ Oh ! Mr. Robinson, why did you not come betore ? You know my esteem for you ? You know that I would have set aside all other offers for you ; but oh ' how can I tell you—that only last eve ning I promised Captain Hawkins. Poor, dear sweet Hawkins! he’s you intimate friend, I know; I’ve heard him speak so highly of'you ! Oh, why did you not speak before ?” And so Mrs. Doctor Theodosius Sickle back was transformed into Mrs. Jonathan Hawkins ; and Peter was once more left to admire—at a distance. Still Peter waited and hoped. Some thing might turn up, he urged, and then he would not allow himself to be too late and .something did turn up, the something being nothing more or less that the re doubtable Captain, who tprned up missing, having fallen over board from the steam boat while out on a target excursion with his company, and sunk like a stone, owing undoubtedly, to the ponderous nature of his responsibilities. The suddenness of this exjit, as Peter urged, must certainly act with depressing force on the widow, and though he would not give her again time to recover and be admired, still etiquette demanded a little time to intervene. Accordingly when, uponthe tenth day after the melancholy berevement, Peter knocked at the widow’s door, bent upon his errand i of love, he ratlier chuckled to himself that he was taking time by the Ibrelock.; The business on which he came was quietly told, and once more the widow was in a torrent of tears. , “ Oh, Mr. Kobinson,” she exclaimed, ] hiding her face in her cambric, “ why are i you so unfortunate, and why' am I f You know my esteem for you, hut you are too late. I am already engaged. You know Counselor Ketchara?-—my poor, dear,-dead and gone Hawkins’ most intimate friend. He' was with him, you know,;when he was called away, and was the first to, Commu nicate to me the awful intelligence. He was such a comforter, and 11 am promised to him this day two months.?’ This time Peter was crushed- He had no words to express his broken hearted ness, but to rush from the: house and go as belore, admiring at a distance. \ It was months before Peter ever offered to encourage hope, and even then it flick ered. One day he was walking in des pondent mood through one of the upper avenues, when he heard a sudden shout, and started. From a half-finished build ing just in front of him, he saw, as he raised his eyes, « stout Milesian making gyrations in the ail , from a flight of three stories, in company with a coping sjtone weighing somewhat less than half a ton— the two having slipped together from a scaffolding at that bight. He saw both ’ Milesiati and stone strike full upon the heads of, two gentlemen passing, and the whole four were in an instant mixed, in an inextricable heap. Like all the other spectators, Peter rushed to the resine, only to behold, between horror and' jov, the last gasp of Counselor Ketcbam, find the gentleman who was walking with him, and the perfect safety of the Milesian and stone. This lime Peter would trust no more passing of tiuie. Without an instant's delay, more than to satisfy himself that lite was extinct, he hailed a passing hack, and then sped to the mansion of the wid owed, Mrs. Counselor Ketcham. In weirds of the most delicate and endearing nature Peter communicated his intelligence l to the widow, and waited the result, tjnd then, between her sobs and tears, claimed her hand for’the next set. “Oh, Mr. Robinson,” sobbed the widow, “ how- can you ask roe such a thing ? How could I know that you would he the first to bring me the news of my dear Ketcham’s decease ? You know how I esteem and respect you, but I—am already engaged !” “Engaged!.” shrieked Peter, ‘to whom?’ “ 1 promised,” responded tiie widow, between her gobs, “ I promised a month ago—that if anything happened—l would, marry Col. Snapper.” “You did!” shouted Peter, his whole appearance changing in an instant from that of a fiend to a look of unbridled joy, “ and who are you engaged to after that?” “ No one,” sighed the widow. “ Will you swear this,” said Peter. “ 1 swear it,” responded the widefw, solemnly! “ And will you marry me after Snap per is gone ?” “I will said,” the widow. “Do yon swear it?” asked Peter fiercely. ' “I swear it,” said the widow earnestly. “ Then you are mine, charming Lucy, for the stone that ushered the Counselor into the next world also took the Colonel. I saw it with my own eyes.” The next moment the widow was in Peter's arms, and they were married in a month. A MINNESOTA LAW SUIT The following from the Lacrosse, JJeino crat Wis., for an actual fact, is the richest within our knowledge. “ In the semi-rural district of Winona, forty miles north of this city, on the Min nesota side of the Mississippi river, lives, among several other people, a jolly good fellow of a Justice of the Peace, whose idc:ts of matters are much like the current of a deep river. Once started in a deep, river it is hard to turn them. 1 On a fair day last week, after the 10x12 dispensary had been swept, after the chairs had been set in a short row against the side of the office, and sundry whipped quids of to bacco and mutilated segar stumps had been kicked under the stove, there was a wooden step on the stairs, and a vigorous knock at .the door.” * J ■' Come In,” said the as he aet tled jnfo a legal look go, befitting a man of law duly elected to dispense the favors of the blind goddess. A stout woman entered. She had on a short woolen dress, wooden soled shoes, spotted red cheeks, black hair, tind eyes thatsnapped like the lock of a shot gun. In Portugese and in the worst possible English, she said : , * ” You law man?” : v Yes, madam ; be seated-” “ Want paper. Want paper to take man. - ’ Just then a stout French half-breed en tered the [room, He was unable to speak a -half-dozen words,: and looked either scared or' bashful. The Judge saw -at once that there was a marriage to come off,.and said to the woman, who -stood with compressed lips watching the’ Justice and the door; “Want paper to take this man ?" ; “ Yes, want paper.. Me teach him.— (Nice woman, thought the Justice.) He no good man. Me take him so quick as 1 can.” “ All right, my covies—fix you in the jerk of a lamb’s tail?’’ said the Justice, as he turned to the man and said: “ You know this woman—(Sni you fake her?” The man shook his head and muttered intelligible words. ' i “Ah 1 I see. *'Can’t talk Englisl),— Well, never mind,” He rah into the street, invited a few friends up stairs, and on returning with them said to the woman: “ You want to take this man fur better or for worse?” ; ’ : want, to take “ Yes-— mo pay!” • “ All right.” , Then turning to the man, who. stood trembling, he gaid: ; !t You take this woman torjbnMef or for Vorse, and progusa to dtc. ftie peadi EDITORS ANO jPROFRIETOK ' " •.■S'-.- * rr—;•* T^... virtue of the authority in me vested, I pronounce you man and -with. AlSl he stepped forward before the womanoould say » word, and kissed her red lips, .Slap came her -hand in his face, and she tdutohed his. hair. The new hashn mi jumped in to tak® the wopuui away, »pd to protect her, as the Judge supposed, when, in self preservation, she hit him a rap on the nose. The woman pitched into the new husband, who; in turn, pitched into her, and for about jfive or ten minutee there was a general hailing, and a display of legs, garters, and things decidedly astonishing. At last, the parties were separated— when the man and woman took another turn at each other, the blood and hair fly ing in all .directions. Down came the stove, pver went the table, olattey. went the chairs, and inta, the street like mad went the Justice with a black eye, tutd the Iwsom o.f his shirt looking like a wanmty deed covered with red seals. ; A crowd rushednp stairs and fbtmd the man and woman lying on the floor, hugging each other like bruins, their legs and arms mixed up> worse than tomato vines, the woman on top! The newly married couple were separa ted when through the aid of two inter preters tt was discovered thai the night before, the parties, occupying adjoining shanties in thelower part of. the dpwn, had got into a quarrel ovef a styjye pipe, which was claimed by both, and. from words they had come to blows. Each party had hastened to the Justice’s office in the morning for a warrant for the other, with the result stated as above. — The last news from there was that the parties had gone in search of another Jus tice to (inrniarry them, and the genial caiW of their terrible aquabble.was bathing his banged eye in camphor and .whiskey- A Man Save©wqm the Gallows pv Maiuuage.— The case pf Patrick Nagle, an Irishman, charged with rape, was cal led on. The girl, a very interesting per son, came into court. Much interest-was excited, and a great’ number of. persons were present to hear the trial Tlje man. a rather good-looking fellow, seemed to be deeply in fear of the danger thatsurroun ded him'. Mr. James O’Kelly, of Kings ton, appeared for the defence ; Sir Henry Smith for the Crown, . When the. ease was called, Mr. O'Kelly “challenged the array” of jurors, evidently for the purpose of throwing the case over until the next Assizes, he having stated previously that the man was dcsirous ot marrying'the girl, and, no doubt would be able to do being willing. In that case the mown would have no evidence against her hus band, Mr. O’Kelly’s challenge was aU lowed, and the trial of the case was there fore adjourned till the next court, on the ground that the jury were only summoned from the city of Ottawa and the township of Gloucester, and should have beep taken from the whole county and not froth ai»y particular locality. It was suggested by the learned counsel for the defence the prisoner was willing to marry the girl, and made an application to admit him tip bail. The Judge 'stated that if th 6 girl wonld consent to marry him, and he could be as sured of the security of the man, he'would grant the application. Upon Mr. O’Reilly giving the necessary assurance U> the Court, bail was taken and the man and girl left the court'to go before.a cleygytnan to have the knot tied. We understand that the learned counsel was present, and t|ius by his inginnify saved bis client; for, no doubt, if the prisoner had been tried he would have been found guilty. Thus a man was saved from the gaUowa,.and got a wife in the bargain !—Ottawa Oitm* A Populab Danish Stoey.—>ln the village oi'Ebberup in Funen, there lived a very wealthy fanner, who had to go One day to Assenswith k loadof harlteyj so one of hie neighbors a cottager, asked to go along with him for' the sake of fetching home some goods in the empty cart. ' The fanner had no objection, so the cottager followed the cart on foot, and as it- was a very hot day, he pulled off hi» worsted stockings and wooden shoes, and staffed them under the back of the cart. It was * Sunday, and they bad to pass close by a church on the roadside. The man had got a little way behind the cart, to- he could hear, that the minister was in the pulpit. - It struck him that; as the farmer was driving very slow,- he a# well turn in and bear a bit of the sermon, he could soon mahe up to the cart again.— He did not like to go so far in th|s the minister could see him, so he stoo