The Democratic Watchman. BELLEFONTF,', PA THE WOLVES Ye who liston to stories told, When hearths are Oheery and nights are cold Of the lone wood-aide. and the hungry pack That howls on the fainting traveller's track Flame-red eyeballs that waylay, By the wintry moon, the belated sleigh— The net child sought In the cllemel rood The little Aloes andthe etaine of blood On thejrampiNl anow—O ye that hcnr, With thrills of pi ' or chills of fear, Wishing some angel had been sent To shield the hapless and Innocent— Know ye the fiend that Is crueller far Than the gaunt grey herds of the (great ore swiftly vanish the wild deettracks Before the rifle and ate woodman~ ale, Sint hark to the coming of unseen feet, Pattering by night through the city street! Each wolf that diem In the woodland brown LiTeX X spectre and haunts the town. Ay square and market they slink and prowl In lane and alley they leap and howl. All 'tighti they nnufrand snarl before The poor patched window and broken door They paw the clapboard. and claw the latch, it. avert CrOYIOO they whine and atirsant. Their tongues aro subtle and long and thin, And they lap the living blood Iry keen are the teeth that tear Red se ruin the eyes that glare, Children eronehed In eorners eold 6111ver In tattered garments old, Andelart. from sleep with bitter pangs At the touch of the phantom's viewless fangs Weary:the mother and warn with strife, Still she watches snd flghte (or life. flat her hand In feeble, her weapon small One little needle againnt , them all. In an evil hour the daughter Bed Prom her poor shelter end wretched heti. Through the elty's pitiless solitude To the door of sin the wolves pursued. Fierce the father and grim the want, His heart is gnawed by the spectres gaunt Frenzied stealing forth by night, With whetted knife, to the desperate tight. Bethought to strike the spectrea dead, But he smite!, hie brother man instead. 0 you that listen to ',torten told, When hearth are cheery and nlghts are cold Weep no more at the taloa you hear, The danger is close and the wolves are near, Shudder not at the murderer's name Marvel not at the maiden's shame, Paws not by wild; averted eyes, The door where the stricken children cry But when the heat of the unseen feet, Sounds by night through the stormy street Follow thou where the speetree Ode -land like Hope bytheraothees aide. Ind he thyself the angel sent 0 shield the hapless and Innocent He give. bid Ilt.tle who gives hot tears He givee his best who aids and cheers He does well in the forest wild Who slays the monster and the child Hut he does hotter, and merits more, Who dri•es the wolf from the poor mares door —.Exchange A TRAGEDY IN A COAL-PIT About seven years ago, when the old Ladywell shaft, la South Staffordshire, was nigh worked out, end there were galleries and galleries stretching out, the men said, for miles of old workings, which they. or even their fathers before them, knew nothing of, and could not And their way about, it was determined by our owners to sink a fresh shaft and commence working the other side of the hill, and so leave off working the old mine, for ominous rumors of choke damp and falling roof warned them that it would not he safe much longer Ac cordingly the new works were begun ; they found a thick seam, and very soon they were in full operation, and the old mine deserted. The viewers told the men to avoid the side nearest the old workings, but the seam ran that way, and the men worked end worked, till at last they broke in one or two small pla ees, az d r these the viewers had closed as soon as possible. There was at thit time in our em ploy, as viewer or overseer, a man by the nano. of Timmins, a rigid Wt%Wynn, and a good workman, but of a reserve and morosiitemper, and with whom the men did not care nmeh to meddle. They often said Black Jack (for such was the nickname he went by, was not right in his head, and indeed his manner was at times ireentric; but, as I before said, he was a moat excellent hand in the pit, and that was all his employers wanted. About that time the small-pox com menced its ravages dreadfully in this neighborhood, and Tirumin's wife to whom he was devoutly attached, be came one (t time. its tirst,victims, being car ried away id a very short The less seemed to harequite chabged the man. From a stern religionist, he turned to drink, and no one was more reckless, more debauchedsand degraded. His employers remonstrated with him, and told him they would be obliged to part ; and that be. was only setting the men a bad example instead of keeping them opt of danger ; but remonstrance was thtown away, and finally they were obli;ed to tell him that at the And 9f the week he would be discharged. He went to his work, but after a day or so he was missed, and when pay-night came he did not appear at the table; so the cashier said : suppose Timmins is drunk again ; he'll come some other limp." But the men shook their head" dark ly, and aaht among themaelee, they nev er thought any good would come of Black Jack. Now it happened about this time there was appointed to our mins a new manager, for the former one was too old and supentaustedt He amigo from the coal-fields in the neighborhood of Newcastle, and was a widower, with one daughter. Mr. Woodward soon showed himself a clever anon, and from the kindness and geniality or his temper made himself beloved among the men a race, always gssisfal for kindness. Nis daughter Meta yes seventeen, and pos nosed one df thde there:ling Eaglish fa ces which to loolrat was to lour Her bright auburn curls clustered round a fair open brow ; dove-like eyes and a sweet mouth expressed the gentleness of spirit within. M#ta's features might not separately have bmn regular, but, taken as a whole, the effect was perfect. liar looks however, were net her only re commendation—her sweet disposition, kindness of hart, and Clarify; endeared ber to all her friends. She often visited the works with her father, and asked him to let her descend the mine, but he refused. Constant dropping, they say, will wear away a MAIM ; and so Meta's supplica tion. must have morn away her father's resolution, for one day it was settled that Meta should descend with her fath er and a pitman and explore the mine. They arrived at the new Shaft—abolil , noon, and MIR' the cage had been ar ranged, Mr. Woodward, his daughter, and aminer- named Baccup, descended. They were each provided with candles, and, arriving at the bottom d 0 to visit the men in their several work ings. They had been into several, and were thinking of returning, when. just as they came to an intercepting gallery, a violent gust of wind extinguis their three candles, and left them in per fect darkness. For the first few mo ments no erne spoke, arid then Mr. Woodward encouraged his daughter by telling her that, although doubtless very untoward to bo left without a light, still :Moro could be no possible danger, as all they would have to do was to keep straight forward, and they would come to the [Oct of tbo r tdsaft, itt..a most likely some of the men would meet or overtake them, when they could procure a light. Acting on this suggestion, they contin ued walking on. When they had en tered the pit with their lights, and were full of confidence, the distance appeared short, but noir in We pitchy Egyptian darkness it seemed as if they could nev er find their way out. Minutes seemed lengthened into, hours, and still they walked, and seemed no nearer their des tination. At length Meta's delicate frame succumbed to the unwonted exer tion, and she exclaimed : "Papa, I can go no further ; leave me, and seek a light; I will remain until you return." "I can't, my child," he replied ; "I will remain with you, but Buccup can go and bring assistance." At this moment he felt Baccup's hand gently draw his on one side, and a voice whispered in his ear : "I don't like to alarm Miss Wood ward, sir, but I'm afraid we have wan dered into the old workings, and if so, we are lost." "No, no ; that can't be," replied the now terrified father ; "for we couldn't hardly have got in when all the breaks were closed." "I heard the men say ■t the pit's mouth-this morning that there had been a great break in the night, but I did not think we should have _come this side," replied the man. ^God forbid we should be In these workings; but, if eo they will miss us, guess where we are, and search for •'flow can each separate party know but that we have gone up with the oth ers? It will be only when we are miss ed at home that they • will think what can have become of us, and before then it will be too late " Mr Woodward felt the full force of all this but he would not give way ; so he said aloud to Baccup "It won't do for us to separate, I think, after all ; so you and I will man age to carry my daughter between us, and reach the shaft." The man complied, and, raising the young girl between them, they again.essayed to find doubtful way. But soon the road became rough and broken, and they could now rfalize that they had indeed wandered from the right track, and were lost in the old galleries. At length the strong men could go no further, and laying the young girl down, the father seated himself by her; and said • "Meta, darling, we have wondered from the right track It would be use less going further in thin darkness, as we don't know but we may be only wander ing father from the aid and assistance that will be shortly seeking us." "I don't know how it is, papa; but I feel a firm conviction that I shall never reach home again I pray thatyou may be spared, for it was my fully that brought us all here.', The father gently chid his child for feeling so gloomy, and comforting) her as well as he could , for he felt all the time black despair settling at his heart, for now, for the ftrst time, he realized the peril they really stood in Hours passed, and still no signs of the promised assistance Their strength be gan to fail; for where is there anything that robs one of all strength of purpose and of body as when the bright goddess Hope takes her departure? It was just at It moment when Mr Woodward felt his senses leaving hint with anguish, that Meta exclaimed : "Papa, is that a star I see shining in the aistance They looked, and beheld • faint glint mar of light. Hope immediately sprang up again in their minds. 'bey raised a feeble shout, but, far from expediting the asslstanos they stood so much in need of, it seemed to have a contrary etrilEt, for the light im mediately disappeared. "It can only twithe effect of imagina tion," sighed Meta. Shortly the light began to glimmer again, and presently they could perceive 'a figure approach them--It was that of a man almost • skeleton. Ills blAck locks hung down to hid waist, while In his eyes the ire of Insanity gleamed and Bashed. 4 . ' Tis Black Jack," whispered Bao- cup. And then they heard the madam ex claim : "Who is it that invades , my,lasthome, when, after taking all I held near and dear, drone me froth the earth, and even in hell can't let me rest?" . He approached, and suddenly his eyes fell on Mete, (ling on the ground in sensible. "Mary, my darling, are you returned to comfort tee. Yon come back to— Rs I ,ha I I see the halo round her head. Men nor devils shan't part to I" and; rushing forward, he raised the !Milting girl in - his arms, and dew swiftly away. The two men followed as well uw they could guided itz: the sound of the 111/11-. footsteps and the occasional glim mer of his lamp ; but, after their exhaus tion, they were no match fr the frenzied speed of the madman. They gradually lost him, but stilliteeping on in the same direction me, saw a gleam of light, and presently arrived at the foot of ay *ld, disused shaft. To the side of this shaft their had been fixed ' ladders, by which the laders in the olden time ascended, as well as descended, into the pit ; but they wore decayed and frail. Neverthe less, it, was evident that up this ascent the maniac had fled with his burden. The two men looked at each other in dismay, and then prepared to ascend. After a struggle, they reached the top, and the first thing that met their eyes was Meta lying on the ground insensible and Timmins em.lrged (rout a ruined out-house with , vessel of water in his hand Ile advanced toward,the form of the unconLeioni girl, but the moment his tell op the apgruaelling figures of the two men, "Wretches I" ho exclaimed "I thought I had distanced you ; but never mind , you shan't nart us acain— she is my own, my beautiful, my bride." And before the agonized father or the astonished miner could interfere, ho had seized the poor girl in his arms, rushed to the pit's mouth, and, jumped down, full three hundred feet, whence the' mingled bodies of the maniac and his victim were taken out that night. To-day •nd To-morrow, Today we gather bright and beauti ful flowers—tomorrow they are faded and dead. To-day a wealth of leaves shade us— to-morrow, sere and fallen, they cruet ble beneath our tread. To-day the earth is covered with a carpet of green—to-morrow it is brown with the withered gratis. To-day the vigorous stock only bends before the gale—to.morrow leafless and sapless, a child may break the brittle stem. • To-day the ripening fruit and waving grain—to-morrow "the land is seeking ita rest rifler the toil." To-day we hear sweet songsters of meadows and forest, the buzz and hum of myriad insects—tomorrow—breathe softly—all nature is hushed and silent. To-day a stately edifice, complete in finish and surrounding, attracts the passer by—to-morrow a heap of ruins marks the site. To-day there are cattle upon a thous and hills—to-morrow they fall in slaughter. The fashion of the world passe' away. But let Christ dwell with us, and though we !nay pass away like the faded leaf and sapless stalk, we shall "arise to newness of life." "Where everlasting spring ehidee And never withering newer." • IdAsx3.—lf we could only read each, other's hearts, we should be the kinder to each other If we keep the woes and bitterness and physical annoyance of our neighbors, we should make allowances for them which we do not know. We go about masked, uttering stereotyped sentiments, hiding our heart pangs and our headaches as carefully as we can ; and yet we wonder that others do not discover them by intution. We cover our best feelings from the light ; we do not so conceal our resentments and our dislikes, of which we are prone to be proud Often two people sit close to gether with "I love you" in either heart and neither knows it. Each thinks "in either heart, and neither knows it. Each thinlcs „I could be fond ; but what use of wasting fondness on one who does not care for it?" and so they part, and go their ways alone. Life is a masquerade at which few unmask, even to their very dearest. And though there is need of much masking, would to Heaven we dare to show plainly our real faces, from birth to death, for then some few, at least, would truly love each other This is old hut true. A DurcnitAN IN HOT WATILIt.-A Dutchman and hie son ,while on a ped dling tour through Virginia, with a load of various commodities, found themselves far from any habitation ,• and being exceedingly thirsty, the old gentleman left his son in charge of the wagon while he went out in search of water. After roaming about for half an hour he taw, a short distance from him, a bubbling spring. Eager to slake his thirst, he ran toward it so rapidly that he stepped into the water before he could stop himsolii• With a yell of terror he roared, "Gott in Himmel, de water ish red hot!" Ile was not award that there are such natural wonders as hot cater springs. As quickly as pos sible lie made his way from the spring, aril ran back to his son, to whom lie said, "Shon, Shon, let's get out place soauieker as never vas afore, for de tuyful lifts only about a mile from here, and I slitepped into his hot water kettle and scalded all mine toes I" —A single handful of manure put into a hill of corn, will often make thes difference between four or five little unubbinn" and nix or eight great plump ears that will shell their bulk of sound corn. A thousand handsful count up heavil in the Autumn corn crib. Bow many handaful of manure are daily lad in your stock yard that might be saved in nice order by a little care in heaping up and covering from washing rains? —A governor of onunf the western states being in the rural districts called at an inferior looking hotel for refresh ments, and after partaking sparingly . , of very coarse food, asked what were the charges and was Informed it would be three doilin. Being a little astonished at the bill, remarked, "Provisions must be scarce [bout here." "No," replied the landlord, (a dutchman) "the prowes lon pees blenty but dose %overnor pees scarce here." —"lf I ever reach Heaven," said Dr. Watts, I expect to find three won ders there : let, The presence' of some that I bad not thought to see there. 2d, The . abeence of some whom T had expo ted to ms.^l there Bd, The groatuk wonder of all will he to find myself there. LIFE AND DEATH "What is Life, F.ather "A battle, my child, Where the strongest lance may foil, Where the wariest eye may he beguiled, And the 'Academe, heart may quail . Where the foes are gathered on every hand, And rest not day nor night, And the feeble little ones must stand, In the thickest of the fight." "What is Death, .Father 7" "The rest, my child, When the toll and strife are o'er The Angel of Unit who, calm and mild, Bays we need fight no more ; • Who, driving away the demon band, Bids the din of the battle cease, Takes banner and spear from our failing hand And proclaims an eternal peace." "Lot me die, Father 1 I tremble and fear To yield In that, terrible strife?" "The crown moo., be worn for heaven, dear, In the battle-field of life; My child, thongh thy foee aro strong and tried He loveth the weak and small , The angels of heaven are on thy nide, And Uod le over all I" Love and Murder M! steamer Richmond, which passed up from New Orleans, yesterday, learned at Grand Gulf the particular!! of Quo of those tragedies of passion that appear more like roitance than reality . . In the' country, at some distance from Grand Gulf, reside two respectable families, those of Cushing and Andrews. Miss Andrews was a lovely girl of seventeen, well accomplished and of universally fascinating manners. Mr. Cushing's non, a youth of twenty, had been at tachod to her from their carry child. hood, and as ho grew older, his affection became an ardent absorbing passion. 9 short time ago he made a formal offer of his hand, when, to his intense disap pointment and mortification, his offer was firmly, though courteously refused. He brooded over his ill-rewarded pas sion, and became a prey to jealousy, and at length left the neighborhood, vowing madly that he would come back and take his revenge. On Sunday last he returned, and, riding up to Mr An drews' house, he begged to see Miss An drews at the door, without alighting.— She came out, when her suddenly pro duced a pistol, fired, shooting her through the body, and she fell on her face, and died without a struggle. The infatuated murderer rode frantically away, but Miss Andrews' brother, breathing fury towards the murderer of h is s ister, sprang on a horse and followed. Ile came up with Cushing as the latter, was crossing a creek, and fired Cush ing jumped from his horse and took shelter in the bush Andrews, not to he atadisadvantage, didlthe same. A parley ensued, and the two young men agreed to fight according to the code ; to leave the cover, fire, advance and fire, and again advant.e, firing until one of them should fall. At the first fire, Cushing received a mortal wound in the left shoulder, but the men cantina near each other and fire, until their revo s were empty. When assistance arrived, Cushing lay dead with four bullets in his body Andrews had received three shots in his breast. lie was able to tell how the fight had taken place, when he also expired.—Memphis Avalanche. The Personal Exclusiveness of Grant A Washington correspondent of a Republican, cotemporary says that "Grant's Administration does not seem to have come up to the expectations of the most prominent republicans ;" that "the manner in which the distribution of °filo° has been managed so far, has created widespread dissatisfaction and discontent." The President is de nounced for making appointments wholly "upon personal considerations, without regard to wishes or preference§ o the leading Republicans " I This is not all lie is accused of an exclusiveness which is quite rigid in its terms. It is far more difficult fur a citi zen to see this ex-tanner of Galena than to obtain audience of the proudest mon archs of Europe. No one can call up on this great man unless he is intro duced by a member of Congress or some particular personal friend of the Presi dent It is not so easy even for Con greasm'On to gain access to him. 'They can only present their cards, between the hours of ten and twelve A. M., for four days in the week The manner of the presentation is thus described: "The old army system of 'red tape' is strongly visible at the White' House.— If even a Congressman wishes to see the President, he must present his card to General Dent, private secretary, and ho takes it to the President's office. If a visitor desires to see Genchil Porter, another private secretary, he must write his name on it card and give it to Gener al Dent, who decides whether the visi tor shall be admitted or not to see the other private secretary " Thui hedged in and surrounded by forms of etiquette, Grant lives in im berial state at the White Home. The reath of no common eitizse comes be tween the wind and his nobility In all this we cannot help being reminded of the old adage atalut putting "a beg gar on horseback " —Twenty-one murders in ten days in Indiana, and only ten arrested. For a State barren of Ku Klux, filled with "trooiy loil" people enjoying a Radical Government, this exhibits a most latnon table dearth of high morel ideas. New Englard should sepdout its missionaries immediately, DON'T PUT Tug 11av Too Hiatt —A transcendental preacher took for his text, ''Peed my lambs." A plain farm er very quaintly remarked b itm : s h h i), pn coming out of the church ; "it ery good text, Sir ; but you take are not to put the hay so high in the rack that the lambs can't reach it?" --A house - maid who waa sent to call a gentleman td dinner, found him engaged in using a tooth-brush, 1 •WeII, is he owning 7" said the lade of the house, as the servant returned. "Yes, ma'am, directly," waa the re ply, "he:sjust sharpening his teeth I" —Don Platt, correspondent of the Cincinnati Cirtnnsercial, (Republican,) says: We have no end of rogues, and an „ len d pomiwt In our htittton, stval the hilt cosit from tlo. TfI . IIYU I ) lid &ive a to th., dovil. X True Picture of Clerkship Life In Washington The younk mon of the country cannot make a ,greater mistake than many of them do in supposing that employ ment in some public ape _is more re spectable, or in anyway snore desirable than private business. As a . .general thing, to get a situation under the Gov ernment for n young man is to do-him an injury. Tho late Hon. C. S. Hamil ton, Member of Congress from Ohio— who it will be remembered, was mur dered by an insane son on a visit,to his home—note a letter to a young man in his district who wanted a clerkslYlp at Washington, in which be expressed the following correct views "Lot me say to you that what I have learned by sight and hearing of clerk life here, since I came here, has been such as to excite in my mind abeeluto horror- The whole tendency is to ham per and narrow the intellect, and to re duce,men to mere routine work. If continued for any great length of time, and at last discontinued to make ‘21;,,,, for others, they become utterly hopeless and useless. Few of them save any money j and whenthrown out of employ ment May are a most wretched and Un happy set of men. Morally considered, the effects are still more alarming, Senator Wilson told me that it was es timated that thirty per cent, of all the money paid to clerks hero is paid out for qiiitous drinks. It' is estimated thht twenty per cent. is devoted to even worse uses. The residue will no more than feed and clothe. A very large percentage of those who bold clerkships here for long or short periods have to be sent home at the expense of friends Tho tendencies here are all unfavorahle. The family is unknown here. The hoarding-house supplies the place of home, Thu billiard-room, theatre, and saloon stand open night and day, tempt ing you to inter. Your associations are purely accidental, and the chances are that a majority of them are addicted to the very vices you abhor. The conclu sion of the whole matter, in my mind, is, that if I were choosing a life for my sons, I would not hesitate to start them out upon the streets of any thrifty town as draymen, rather than see them-take a clerkship here." TIIK COMING GIRL—She will vote, will be of some use in the world, will cook her owe food,wjjl earn her living, and will not die an old maid. The com ing girl will not Fella the Grecian bend, dance the Norman,ignore all possibilities of knowing how to work, will not en deavor to break the hearts of unsophisti cated young men, will spell correctly, understand English before she affects French, will preside with,equal grace at the piano and the washbosard, will spin more yarn for the house than.for the street, will not despise her plain clad mother, her poor relations, or the hand of an honest worker, will wear a bonnet, speak good, plain unlisping --English, will darn her own stockings, will know how to make doughnuts, and will not read the New York Ledger oftener than she does her Bible. The coming girl will walk Ave miles a day, if need be, to keep her cheeks in glow , will mind her health, her physi cal development and her mother, will adopt a costume both sensible and con ducive to comfort and health ; will not confound hypocricy with politeness ; will not practice lying to please instead of frankness ; will have the courage to cut an unwelcome acraintance ; will not think that duplicity is French re finement ; that assumed hospitality, where it dwells in the heart,is better than outspoken conderunatio4 l ; will not con found grace of movement with silly af fectation , will not regard it as the end of her very being to have a beau ; will not smile and be a villian still. The coining girl will not look to Paris but to person for her fashions ; will not aim to follow a fat-dish fashion because milliners and dress makers have decreed it. Duty will be her aim and her life a living sacrifice. —ln 185—, a young man by the name of Sharpe—Jacob Sharpe—after ward of Columbus, Mies, was reading law with Stephen F. Hale in Eutaw. Just after he had finished his course and been admitted to the bar, he fell a victim to a severe revival that occurred in the Methodist Church of the town aforesaid. Being a young man of bril liant parte and zealous in the work, the revival was not over before the older members had ,inks well broken in. Scarcely it nreelin k r. passed at which Jake ism , hot called on to pray in pal, he ; nu l right rich' be Dore his part One Isehing, tthro the 1111C/ltbt tua,4 at fever heat, and the tears and groans .1 the mottroin K multitude could lie seen and heard oa every hand, Jake sac asked to "lead in prayer." He coin• plied, of course ; and in the midst of his petition, vociferated : "Oh, Lord call back thy wandering sheep. In spire sinners with a hbrror of sin. Enable them, we pray Thee, to present their petitions at the Throne of Grace before they are forever barred by the statues of limitation !" It was sometime afterward ere Jake had heard the last of pleading the statues of limitation agednt the sinner. --Marion Commonwealth. Ma. BILADICII L.AUT WiLITINGI.—The following remarkable passage lathe last over written by huTies T. Brady, the eminent New York lawyer, who died a few days since : "Our brothers in the pilgrimage will fall at our aide, but, however thickly the arrows of death may shower, we can, while our powers continue, do naught but move-on until we reach the awful instant when we are to exchange the feeble pulses of transitory existence for the ceaseless throbbing. of eternal Ilfe.— There, even there, at that mysterious frontier, if we have been faithful and fearless In the march, we may lay down obedient to destiny, with the exalted hope that, after all the objects of this world shall have become lost forever to our mortal sight, there may be unfold ed to our new and spiritual vision anoth ernealm of unimaginable, glory, where we. and all whom we loved on earth, mutt realize tbe promise which the Great Rtiler of the Universe has made unto the just." This, That end the Other. —New Albany has a woman, itt thirty I, who has given birth to sixteen c [Wren —Sweetening one's coffee ie generally i t first stirring event of the day. —A new political sect has arisen down who adVeGate "Infant nuit'rage." —The spring style of bonnets is dpneribe I 'reduced in site and increased ip prke ,A canter will give you ruddy cheeks , canter will give you a red nose. —if You spend the day protHably, you w have cause to rejoice In the evening. —The New York Revolution newspaper Olares its mission to be "to turn ev Inpldo out, upside down, wrong side bOto ery ro, thi " —A coteinporary suggests that Captain he eral Dulce of Cuba is economical. lin af11• powder and shot by hanging his captives —A lady In New Hampshire Weighing pounds has Just married a man wei ghing pounds, —The Insurance cott "similes have foyer psi the insurance on John Wilkes Itooth'slito, ns his mother has never applied for the mono —Forney say: that old Thad. Btephon'A Pe /u! ott Oen. Butler. We wish it 11 ',ten old Thad's mantlepleee.—Prenhee. —Prentice says there are scores ofpou "rings" of every character, but that the Ar e est of all rings is Grant's family circle —Mrs. Stanton, says the revolutionary e tors didn't ktaa "ono son of Adam over t year 'old" while eativissing the west —ln a recent family separation In }Contile, the wife bought the children for twenty I} —A TIMIS youth has came near marrying I mother He Is now the husband of his lathe divorced wife. —The New Orleans Time suggests Dint n vacancy has been made for Joe Holt at the I) Tortugas, vice Dr. Mudd, discharged --Some people are exercised about the re Bons between the President and the preee good many more. however, are troubled Ai. Ile President's wife relations —The relative posit:lon assumed by Prr dent" Grant h■anot met with a very eorth approval from the "man who first nt:unt him for the Presidency," —A local poet Indicted a sonnet to ion mi tress, entitled, "1 kissed her sob roxe compositor knew better than that, am! ,ot it in printer's Latin : "1 kissed her mat, —Frank Pigme's Cabinet was the only 01 in the historyof the United Staten that p.m. ed unbroken from the beginning to the rot the administration. —The wisdom of withholding the Conn, cut appointments until after election is nu fest. There is 4 terrible hobble among I cliques or patriot*. —When Beau Brummel wan asked al made the gentleman, his quick reply vr "Starch, starch, my lord I" This may be tr but it takes a great deal more to make a lat —"What L de difference Iwixt a watch to, fedder bed, Elam r “Dunno—gin It up " knee de tickle' ob de watch In on de fuel and de tickle' ob d. bed la on the do outmd —Alter a long period of wet weather, sl the Chinese have prayed vainly for relief put their Gods out in the rain, tome how t like it. —Shells have been forma In deep I.ring Fort Warren, Massachusetts A great tt, deep borings take place In Washlngkon, l to make Uncle Sam shell out. —The Boston Post says • "They an , drinkers out in Arkansas. The Legimlmt proposes to prohibit the male of liquor In qn titles less than five gallons." —Law books in Kentucky do not lard Tr In one county It is frequently found nee,' to replace volume* worn out by the lawyer pounding each other's heads. —Where necessity ends, curiosity help and no sooner are we supplied with thing nature can ctemand than we sit dowi contrive artificial appetite.. —Of the landlady who sprinkled snuff her boarders' victuals It cannot, with any gree of propriety, oe eald that she is 1,,,t be encased at. —A tax on bachelor. from thirty years ward Is proposed In Parisi It will be hard impose so severe a tax aa some married r suffer ' —Wendell Philips, in • recent le tare scribed Christianity as "a battle not a 11 ow Wendell has had nothing to do with Christ's ty— he hates battles —South Carolina will sell her waste laude actual settlers on • flee years' credit. If It. eslism continues in that Htate , an at preer tbsre will be didiculty lac giving the lend lIMA —Au old lady, aged U. wait recently arreil In Maine on suspicion of having polsollea husband It Is thought she has also of three others In the same way. —The Mississippi river is report to he of its banks ataeveral planes above and he Memphis A rise of two feet more, It In n will cause a general overflow • —A Western German paper *aye that Ae. Sprst,. ue Inherited one-half of the State tilled° Island Irem his father, and the ot half he has acquired since. —A bacchanal, finding hie whiskey 35 pn water to 36 parts of spirits, exclaimed "1 1 . don't give the spirita a fair chance Th., keep on fooling with water until they late the earth with it again." —The ennouneementla made that id, via Kennedy, of Now York, has received on polntment In the While House (or four ). as "assistant secretary in the eook Ina deie meat." —lf you are a wise man you will treat world u the moon treats It. Show It urn) side of yourself, seldom show too wool et time, and let what you show be calm, poliehml But look at every side of the notr A Kentucky pap(•r mention.. II nun claimer to have once trAderl ttoraer. an 6 -I 111111 M. ()rant s suet to have lived a iglito, in Si ienotlel, mot yet it , not pang ta as Ofithit —An Intelligent gentleman (rout br r OD his first visit to an American ellor'h h. contribution bos with a hole in the top t qt 'tad-to turn, and whispered to the vollvoi., don't got mete bepere,uot can't vote." • —Es-President Johnson calls the Cabin« euccossor In office "A Gift Enterprise (net 1" 'There Is life lo the old man yet. the Badfoals will learn to their sorrow and [nay. —A Leavenworth paper thinks Wotan e% I,le of the Westward March of Civilization" t the Kansas Legislature eppropriated Slot tobacco for the penitentiary prisoners, and ly skm for preaching the gospel to them, —A traveller's Summary of TOW beat women and the meanest men, more . . , new and less health, more corn broad and I earn, more negroelandlem labor, more o r, ladiell with litUe feet and no anklet to Intl than aby State In Abe Union." —A gredahom, Standing behind a mew machine at which • young lady was at s, IV alternately sa at the machine and nn 0 se, atietizth ve vent to his admiral R 1 "B nolly,lt's purty, 'specially ti , tahrill'ed !fah maim, --The New York Harald says • "In a nuvd cue* tried la able elti la the year ITO, the eased wan defended by Alexander Ilamilm Burr andm -, Edward Llviugsfon. Mu =lima do no; appear In our criminal CM 110111. —A petulantold lady haying refund a nia hl her Wee% he expostulated with her and quested her plallaly to divulge her react .1 860 the Tinian in your face," maid n "That le • penuraal reileotkm, madam," maned the lover. —"Why, &U. 5.," said a tall youth to a lit person- who was with ball a demo hugo ni "/ protein you are so very email that i(lui see you berms." "Very likely," replied little iputtlentan ; "I am like a el xpenoe arm six coppere—uot bully perceived, but vv. the whole of them." —"Jennie June"--otherwise Mrs. erolY sikta that. when she was requested to rer " • &midi PM" dinner, she told her lamb t s she wee afraid she would break down ; bu ' . When you blow me up Am " v l " " " w6." and ,1106W11B thus enedwrags ,l lake the required response.
Significant historical Pennsylvania newspapers