IgV ft f If w ft :aifpii 'Vipil I lg&zr -f HE IS A FREKJUS WHOM THE TRUTH MAKES FUEE, AND ALL ARE SLAVES BKSIDK, II. A. ai'l'12i:, I'ublUhfX It . L. JO!I.STOX, Editor. EBENSBURG, PA., THURSDAY, JANUARY 7, 1869. NUMBER 48. VOLUME 2. The Cambria Freeman WILL BE rCBLISHED EVEKY THURSDAY MOUNING, At Ebensburg, Cambria Co., Pa. At ike following rates, payable within three months from die of subscribing : One copy, one year, - - - - - J2 00 Ooe copy, six months, - - - 1 00 Oue copy, three months, - - - - 60 Those who fail to pay their subscriptions until after the expiration at six months will be charged at the rate of $2.60 per year, and those who fali to pay until after the ex piratiou ui twelve months will bo charge.1 at the rate of i3.0;) per year. re!ve numbers constitute a quarter; twenty five, six mouths; aud fifty uumbers, one year. RATES OK ADYEUTISINO. 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Circulars. Ac, in the best fc'vle of the art and at the most moderate pries. Also. F.ll kinds of Ruling. Blank Book. Book landing, Ac , executed to order a good ad the. led and as cheap a the cheapest. EBENS3URG FOUNDRY AC;A5 B. I-UI BLAST! NEW FIRM, NEW BUILDINGS, HWINO t urehased tho "ell kn.-wn TIB ENSliiriiG KOI NDKY from -Mr. LMw. Gl -.m", and rebuilt mid enlarge i it tthno-i n lire y, b sides iff.tdns: it with new machinery, ti-c -uiscri't.e' s u e no prepared to turnish COOK. VAhLOR llEATLVG SlOVrS. of the I f-t tt d n.o-t iionroved pitten.s THKESillNG .MAC.'ilNKs" MILL GKAK INU. PO.-F. n: ! W Al hU WMKl.LS of everv de.-cr'Mion. IUON FENCING. PLOUGHS r.:d ILOUi'ill CASTINGS, unl in Uct ail ii;tr.rrv of sriie'e- ni 'tiufi-ctiired in a Cr.-t clugs Y u:.diy. JohWoikof all kind attended to promptly mni doue c'.e..plv. 'I he specii! attention if F irmers U invited o to newly patenteJ PLOUGHS which we pii fdi the sole r'ghi to ui.uiufa"turc and Fell i:i tl.i county . and which are admitted to be tbe t-et ever introduced to th.e public. Be!:fvii g ourselves eapdile of performing r.nv woik in our lire in the mo?t satisfactory manner, and knowing that we can do work at to'W la rn.Ci a than have been charged in this eo.-.:-.i:!:ity t i rrtofjre we confidently hope that ve will li 'ouiid worthy ol liberal ratroiiage. Pair reductions m.de to wholesale dealers tiJ-The high:Pt T'iices p i:d in cash for old me'.tl. or ci-liups gien in exchange. Oc tlbms ark sTR'cn.Y csn or ccxt: t MocDtt CONVFltY. VINKOE & CO. Lber.sburg, Sept. '2, ! "G3- 628 HOOP SKIRTS 628 AND corsi:ts. -oKsz:r "VrrM T. HOPKINS, No r23 Ai:cii T T tT.. Pun.., ilanufaeturer of the ce!e biated CHAMPION" HOOP SKIRTS lor Ladies, Mives and ChiUien the largest a or:uier:t r.d b-st quality and Ft vies in th American Murket. Kvery lady should try tliem, a chey recouiir.ei.d thtnise vesby wealing long er, reui it g their shape much better, being liglrer and much more clastic tli n all others WARRANTED in every respe-t. and sold at ver low prices. Ar-k lr Uupkinb' "Cham ri Skirt. Supenor Ilsnd madeWhale bone CORSETS In Fi'.teen u-rTerent tirade-;, including the "Im peri il" and Tomp.ov A" Langdo.s's ' G LOVE FITTING" CORSETS, r myinir in prices from 1 Cents to .r 5 ; together with Jos Meckel's e.ehrated h REN CH WOVEN CORSETS, Bui-ih T ?haes and qu-dif y . 1 (J iliffc-rent Grades, liom 3f 1 . 1 0 to $5.60 They are the finest and best gooils for the prices ever imoorted. The TWe supplied with HOOP SKIRTS and COR SETS at the Lowest Ra'es. tsyThose visiting thf City should not fail to e'l and examine our Goods and Price, aa ire ue!y all competition. Ntv.l"2. 4m. ECURE THE SHADOW ERE THE bVBSTAXCE FADES! SPCXCC'S IV KW la now in perfect order for executing Pictures in every style of the art. Photojjmpha of life like accuracy, ranging from the smallest card picture to "he largest lie for framing, taken in ny weather, and warranted to give satisfaction Particular attention paid to children's pictcrres Frames of all kind for sale cheap. Frames of any kind not on hand will be ordered when de sired. Instructions in the art on liberal terms tyGallerv on Julian s.reet, 3 doors north of Ton IMi. T. T. SPENCE. Et-enstmrg, Oct 8, 1P6 Photographer. I O II N C R O U S E WHOI.KSLK PKALKR IV FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC WINES BEST RRASioK I.RANDY, WHISKY, IRISH WlilsKY. GIN, &c. Lc Thu yery best qualities ol Liquors, Wines, Lt. or Dieuicm purHiai. Trices LOW, tSyHotel and Saloon keepers will do well ? g''.e. mer C'111 my Bt01 on Canal Btreet, Jn building formerly occupied by T. O. Stewart fi Co. Jouiintowu, Aug. 27, lifiH. tf. jOOD, BETTER, BEST The hist and cheap i Tobacco and Cigars in town Ejjc oct's Department. THE XEtV VEAR. BY FASN1K Q. WILLABD. Listen ! how the wind is moaning, Sighing for he dyinc year, And "the shadows darken, lengthen, Corning nearer jet more near. 1'a'e and wan the old vear lingers. As u greet the comieg sou ; But his rein is nearly ended. And bis work is almost done. All the weird and leafless branches. Sighing, stretch their arms in vain ; In the coming, happy spring time They will Wake U lite again. But the voices that are calling For the hupes that now are dead, And the hearts that yet are breaking With the sorrows they have wed. Cannot soon give over grieving. For the souls so overcast Cling with thoughts all sweet and tender To the mem'ries of the Past. One long wail the solemn presence Of the dying Year is gone. Grant us. Lord. Thy love and blessing In the .New Ye ir now begun 1 IList'ning on with eaer footttps, llerahieJ by smiiing id. ear, lie is with us heie among us Crowneu with light the gay New Year! Merry voice- greet his coming; Sor.ga float freely in the air; There in happiness and gladness JloudU about us evervw here. Young and happy hearts, an-1 loving, Alay al! peace kinu Heaven allow! There's much well worth the ainiiii': X.iie in li l-iore you now. Let your voices ring out clearly, llut-ic Rounding tar and near; All goo 1 hopes and joy attending Wishes ior the iilad New Year. Ealcs, jSIictrjjrs, 'ncrijoffs, &t. AT THE TOP OF A CEIEIKEY. A man will go blind, and mad too, from Jerr ; I have seen it happen, and, if you don't mind listening, will tell you the hlory. I wat apprenticed to a builder w hi n I left school, and Soon got to like the trade very much, especially when the work was peiilous, and gave mo a chance to out-tlu tbe other lads in diirinx. ''Spi der" was my nickname in those days, given partly cn account of my long legs, fur I had out-g:own my proportion, and partly because they said I could crawl along a roof, like my namesake. When I was about lhreeand-twenty, I was work ing with the famous Mi , and went down to Swansea with his picked hands, to carry out a contract he had taken in tht town While there, I fell in love w ith the prettiest girl I had seen in Waleii, and that is saying a good deal For a time I fancied she liked me, and that I wan getting on very well with my love making, b jt I pooh found my mistake, for nn old lover of her'a joined our men, and Mary gave me the coid shoulder directly. You may believe this sweetheart of hers (who was called Ben Lloyd) and I were not the best friends in the world ; but I am not the sort of fellow to harbor malice, and when the biddings to the welding went roui,d, and 1 knew that my chance was g.one, I made the best of it ; I kept my sore heart to myself, and determined to bewt down jealousy by being great chums with Ben. I went to the wedding ; and there were not many days when I did not steal half an hour to sit by his fireside, which was bright and cosy and homelike as you would wish to see Mary being the soul of order and industry. It is not, perhaps, the iisial way of driving out envy, to go and lock at the happinet-s another man has done you out of. hut then you know the provei b says, "What is one man's meat is another man's poison ;" and so it was I got to look upon Mary as a sort of sister, and Ben had no cmu-o for jealousy, al though there were plenty of evil touues ready to put hirn up to it. The contiaot was nearly up, when a lightning conductor upon one of the high est chimneys over at Lhmclly sprang, and the owner of the works otfered our master the job. "It's j jst the sort of thing for you, Harry," said Mr. , when he told us of it. I touched my cap and accepted it off hand, and then Ben stepped up aud said he'd volunteer to be the second man, two being required. 'AH right," said the master ; "you are the steadiest-headed fellows I have. The price is a good one, and every penny of it shall be divided between you. We'll not fix a day for tho work, but take the first calm morning and get it done quietly." So it was that, some four or five morn ings after, we found ourselves at Llanelly, ari'l all ready for the start. The kite by which the line attached to the block was to be sent over the chimney, was flown, and did its work well ; the rope which was to haul up the cradle was ready, and stepping in, Ben and I began the ascent. There had been very few people about when we went into the yard, but as we got higher, I saw that the news had spread, and that the streets were filling with bight seers. "There's plenty of star gazers, Ben," I said, waving my cap to them ; "1 dare say they'd like to see us come down with a run " "Cannot you keep quiet ?" answered Ben, speaking in a strange tone ; and, turning to look, I saw that he was deadly pile, and sat in the bottom of the cradle, huddled up together with Lie eyes fast "You're not frightened, oIJ chap!" I asked "What's that to you?" 'Oh, nothing; only we are getting up pretty quickly, and you'd have a better head for the- work if you'd get gradually used to the height." lie said nothing, nnd never moved. Then, looking up, I saw we were close to the top a few yards more, and we would be there ; yet those who were turning the windlass were winding with unabated epeed. A sudden chill ran through tny blood, and set my flesh creeping. They had miscalculated the distance, and with the force they were winding at the rope, it ruu?t inevitably break when the cradle came in contact with the block. There was no time to attempt a signal, only an instant to point out the danger to Ben, and then to get hold ot ne rope, ana, ny gon g . bmul over hand, reach the coning before the rradle came up. This w as done al most quicker than I can te'.l you, Bon following. The cradle came on ; then, as I antic ipated, the rope gava a shrill, pinging sound, like a rifle-bull passing through the air, and snapped Down went the ciadl, and there were we left, nearly three hundred feet in the air with nothing to rest upon Ira: a ceping barely eighteen inches wide. Ben shrieked out that he w?.3 a de;;d man, and cried.- "Tell in? wlwre I can kieI, Iliry ; pbow me where I tan pray to Almighty God, for 1 cannot die this way "Hush! lad," I said: 'don't loea he-art : God can hear von jut as well i sitting as kne'ding. and if you try to get up, you'Ml tumble, to a mural certainty. Thii k of Mary, man, and keep up." But he only shook and swayed more and more, groaning and crying out that w as lost ; and I could see th it, if he hid not mind, he woob! ovei balance. "G't hold of tbe rod," I said, think ing that, even sprung as it was, thj touch of it would give him Courage. "Wkeie is it boy ? ' he s:.id hoarsly ; and then looking into his face, which was turned to me, I s'y that his eyes were drawn together, sviiiititi!.r ai.d bloodshot, and knew that the flight h d driven hirn bli'i !. 8 pishir.2 myself to him, 1 placed my arms roui'd h;s waist, and worked round to the red. which I put in bis hand ; and then I looked below to see w bother they wtrj tiyin to h-.dp us, but there was no sign. 'Ybs yard was full of people, nil running hither and thither ; and as I afterwards knew, all in the great est coiifetcan iiion the cradle hav'u g fal len on one of the overseers of the works, killing him on the spot, and so occupying the attention of those nevr that we unfor tunates were for the tinn forgo! I on. I was straining my fye?, in the hope of see ing some effort made to help us, when I was startled by a horrihl:' yell and brought to sense of a new danger, for looking round I saw Ben champing with his teeth and foaming at thii mouth, and gestsculat ing in nn unearthly way. Fear had not ouly blinded him, hut crazed his brain. Scarcely had I time to comprehend this, when he began edging h'u way to wards me ; and every hair on mv head seemed to stand on end as I moved away, keeping as far off as I could, and scarce- , I . , i . , i til ly daring to breathe, lest he should hear J c- tii . - me, for see me he could not that was my only consolation Once, twice, thnce, he followed me round the mouth of that horrible chimney ; then no doubt thinking I hud fallen over, he gave up the s?arch, and began trying to- get on his feet. h.it ftotil.l I i!o til :1VA I o S tit 7 I m touch him was certain death for myself as well as him, for he would inevitably sieze me, and we should go over together To let him stand up was io witness his equally certain destruction. i tWuui.t vf m,, jr, mill i remem bered that if he died she might get to care for me. The devil put that thought in my mind, I suppose ; but, thank God, there was a stronger than Satan near, and at tho risk of my life 1 roared ou!, "Sit still, or you will fall, Ben Lloyd ?" Ele crouched down ami held on with ,. . . , - i i i - clinchm" teeth, shivering and shaking- . . , ' ,, , , , , In after day, he told me that ho thought that it was my spirit sent to warm and save him. "Sit still," I repealed from time to time, watch in" with aching eyes and brain for some sight of aid. Each min- i . i . it I- . ute seemed to be an hour. My hps grew dry, ray tongue literally clave to my mouth, ana tne prespiration running down blinded me At last at last j hope came. The crowd began to gather iu the yard, people were iuuninir in from j distant lanes, and a sea of faces were j turned upward ; then some one who had ' pot a speaking trumpet shouted. "Keep heart, boys: we'll save you!" A few minutes more and the kite began to rise ; higher and higher it conies, on and on. How I watched the white-winged mes senger, comparing it in my heart to an angel ; and surely, as an angel was it permitted to come to us por sinners, hanging on the verge of eternity Up it came, nearer and nearer guided by the skillful flier. The slack rope crossed the chimney, and we were saved. I could not shout hurrah, even had I dared ; but in every beat of my heart was a thanksgiving to the God I had never truly known ti'l that hour, and whose merciful providence I can never doubt again. TJw Hock was fixed, tb crad? cam up again, and Ben. obeying my order, got in. 1 fallowed ; but no sooner did I touch than he began tiytnjj to get out. I got hold of him, and, taking it in his head that I was attempting to throw him over, he sttucrgled and fought like the madman he was grappling, tearing with his teeth, shouting, shrieking, and praying all the way down, while the cradle strained and cracked, swinging to and fro like the pen pe'.utn of a clock. As we came near the ground I could hear the roar of voices, ami an occasional cheer ; then suddenly all was silent, for they had heard Ben's cries, and when the cradle touched the ground scarcely a man dared look in. The lirst who did saw a horrible sight, for exhausted by the struggle and excitement, so soon as the cradle stopped I had fainted, and Ben, feeling my hands relax, had fastened his teetn into my nec-K J No wonder the men fell buck with blanched faces they saw that Ben was j crazed ; but they thought he had killed me, for, as they said, he was actually worrying me like :i dog. At last the master got to us and pulled Ben olf me. I soon came round, but it was a long time before he got well, poor fellow ; and when he did come out of the asylum he was never fit for his oil trade i'.ga'n, so he and Mary went to Australia, aiid :!;e last 1 heard of iheoi was that Ben lal got h coup'e of thousand sheep and 1 gave up the trade, too, soon after ! finding that I got queer in the head when I tried to face bight, So, you see, that morning's work changed two men's lives. Tbe Horal E:fJ"i ct of Haul. A writer in Cuis-U'i M nj'i:'ne gossips about '"Bad Boots :" l The influence of boots upon the mind is i very different from auy other garment. A ; man may h.ive a shocking bad hat, but he ' forgt-ts it ; his coat may be threadbare, but his mind is uot directed towards it ; but '-ve . defy anybody to stand uptight in a pair of ! bluchers with worn-down heels, and we be ! lieve that it is just as difficult to frel mor ! ally upright in them. A sense of meinness possesses him ; he fee's that everybody is I noticing them, lie cannot look people I straight in the face and feel upon the square with them. lie fee's the weakness of his foundations, and he tni.--tri!sls tti character ; of the superstructure that they support, however imposing in other respects. A ; man shabby iu the boots sometimes flatters j himself that carries off attention from them by the use of a splendid necktie : but this is a delusion and a snare. The bouts are tha i key of the position, and we feel sure that ! n man ought to undertake any serious matter unless ha stands up iu a good sound i pair of b Kits. ! A okbrated physiologist hns said that if j human actions could be searched into, it i w- tili be found thafthe. intestines of one ' man often influence the destinies of another. Doubtless, this is a profound remark, but it applies to upper and nether soles as well as ! to digestion. By way of argument, iruag i ine the final charge of the Guards at Water j loo made in bad boots. It would have been 1 all very v eil for the great Duke to have ! said, "Up Guard-:, and at 'm." but could i they have got at them ? Aud if they had ! failed, and we had lost Waterloo, what next and next ? But, handmade apart, no one i will feel inclined, we suppose, to deny the influence of the mind upon the body, aud j vice ccrsa. When b.-ots are hopelessly gone, ms to have departed also. What ! terribly bad boots we see crossiug-swterers e r - - 7, . ., following their professing in. but these ; are put on po31.times to excite pity. We j feel this, and the effect is lost upon us. But is there a more piteous sight than a I poor beggar with a boot on one foot and a j ho the other ? A man brought to this j P"iut ,f degradation mtst he demoralized J . . ' y t the moral influence, of bad boots is not so great aa with men, for the reason that they contrive not to show them, but the physi cal influence is far more serious. The wrirer, tpalcioi from long expel ience in the) practice of a dispensary, where poor mainly apply, can safely say that not a tithe of this cla.-.s posse-s pound boots. Hidden un der the petticoats, they are allowed to wear sometimes until the feet are just upon the ground, and the wearer's stockings are, from morning t night, in a state of sop. This may be a minor evil, but it is just the one that causes half the disease among poor wcmn, whose constitutions render them far less able to bear exposure of this . . , ,, ,. , , kind than the other sex. 1 heie are clubs , and lipilfflt ccieties f all kimj8 but we j c;lnnot fancy an institution that would do more immediate, and lasting "raid than a J '-Good B Hits Cub" for the benefit of wo i en. We may atceud higher in the social lle ani1 flaJ the rae ev' Pervading. 1 Many poor governesses and servants are , sh(,c,lv R j -U5t ,he int iQ j thpir tht"s which they cau hhlett and they , invariably do it, whereas it lies at the fjtin dation of their health aud that of their children, aud should claim their first atten tion. We lau-h at the clattering wooden sabots of the French aud German working classes, but in comparison with-tiie flimsy, ill-made foot coverings our own poor indulge in, they are more healthy and lasting ; but fashion, eveu with the very poor, is far more powerful, we fear, than considerations of health or service. We have said enough to show that 'bad boots" may be consider ed one of these social evils of the day worthy of recognition. It was the wish of one of the best French kings that every man should have a fowl in hts p"t. If wishes had the power of fulfilling themselves, it would be a good wish that every poor woman had a sound pair of boots to her feet. If that were the case, there wcnld ho far less disease, and half the dispensary doors in the town would be closed. Charles Oakfokd. of Detroit, who calls himself the champion skater of America, will soon skate sixty consecutive hours without rest, on the new skating rink at Frcrvtdf ALL ABOUT OSCLXITIOX. Josh Billings, who would be just as humorous if his orthography was a trifl ; better than it is, gives his views as follows on a subject that young people are cor rectly suppesad to be very much interest ed in : JOSH EILI.IKG3 OK E.I3SISG. I hae written essays on kissing Lefore this one, but they didu't satisfy me, nor dew I think this one will, for the more a man undertakes tew tell about a kiss the more he will reduce his ignorance to a science. Yu kant aualize a kiss euny more than yu kau the breath ov a flour. Yu kant tell what makes a kiss taste so good euuy more than yu kau a peach. Enuy man who kan set down, whare it :a cool, and tell how a kiss tastes, haiut got eny more real fhvor tew his mouth than a knot hole haz. Such a phello wouldn't hesitate tew describe Paradise as a fust rate place for gardin sass. The only way tew describe a kiss is tew take one, and theu set down, awl alone, out ov the draft, aud smack j-ure lips. If you kant satisfy yourself how a kiss tastes without taking another one, how on arth kan yu define it tew the next man. I have heard writers talk about the egsta tick bliss thare was in a ki-s, and they real ly seemed tew think they knew awl about it, but these, are the same kind ov folks who perspire and kry when they Tead poetry, and then fall to writing some ov their own, an think they hav found out how. I want it underst'Kid that I am talking about pure emotional kissing, that is born iu the heart, and flies tew the lips, like a humming bird tew to her roost. Kissing an unwilling pair ov lips iz az mean a vicktory az robbiu a bhd's nest, and kissiu:: a pair ov too willing ones iz about as ULd'rjgrant a recreation az makicg btquets out of dandelions. The kind ov kissing that I am talking about iz the kind that must do it or spile. If you such the rekords ever so lively you kan't find the author ov the first kiss; kissing, like much other good things, iz anonymous. But thar iz much natur in it, sitch a woild ov hiuguage without words, sitch a heap ov pathos without fuss, so much honey and so little water, so cheap, so sudden and so neat a mode of striking up an acquaint ance, that 1 consider it a good purchase that Adam give and got the fust kiss. Who kan itnagiu a greater lump ov earthly bliss, reduced tew a finer thiog, than kissing the only woman on earth, in the garden of Eden. Adam wasn't the man, I don't believe, to pass sich a hand. I may be wrong in my konklusions, but ifenny bodily kan oate kissing further back, I would like tew see them do it. I don't know whether the old stock phi losophers ever kisst erny boddy or net ; if they did they probably t'id it like drafting a theorem ou a black board, more for the pur pose of proving something else. I do hati to see this delightful, invigorat ing beverage adulterated ; Jit is nekter for the gods, but 1 am often obliged to staud still and see k.ssing did, and uot to say a word, that haint got eu.iy more novelty, nor meaning in it, than throwing stones tew a mark. I saw two mayden ladys kiss yesterday on tho north side ov Union Square, 5 times in less than 10 minutes ; they kisst every time they bid each other faiewe'.I, and then immediately thought ov sumthing else they hadn't sed. I couldn't tell for the life ov me whether the kissing waz the effekt ov what they sed, or what they sed was the effekt ov the kissing. It waz a which and tother scene. Cross matched kissing iz undoubtedly the strength of the grain. It iz trew, thare is no stattu regulashun against two females kiosing each other ; but I don', think thare iz much pardon for it, unless it iz done to keep tools in order ; and two men kissing each other iz prima face evidence of dead beatery. K.ssing that passes from parent to child, and hack agin, seems to be az necessary as shinplasters to do hizziness with ; and kiss ing that husbands give and take iz simply gathering ripe fruit from ono's own plum troe that would otherwise drop oph or bo stolen. Therefore i am driv tew konklude, tew git out ov the comer that mi remarks hav chased me into, that the lie ov a kiss is only tew be had once in a phello's life, in the ori ginal package, and that iz when Not tew waste the timeov the reader, i have thought brst not to finish the abuv sen tence, hoping that the'e aint bo person ov a g( od edukashun and decent memory but what kan rcckolect the time which i refer to without euny ov mi help. A Good Sale. Severnl years ago, there resided in Saratogo County a law yer of considerable ability and reputation, but of no great culture, who had an un common fine taste in paintings and en gravinss the only evidence of refine ment he ever exhibited. A clergyman of the village in which he lived, knowing his fondness for such things, introduced to him an agent of a publishing house in the city who were issuing a Pictorial Bible in numbers The specimen of the style of work exhibited to the lawyer was a very beautiful one, and he readilv put down his name for a copy. But in the progress of the publication the character of the engravings sapidly deteriorated, much to the disgust of the enlightened but critical subscriber. A picture of Joseph, very indifferently done, provoked hirn beyond endurance, and seizing sever al of the numbers, he sallied forth to re proach the parson for leading him into such a bad bargain. "Look at these wretched cratches," said he, turning tho pages over, ,cand see how I have been imposed upon ! LTere is a portrait of Joseph, whom his brethren sold to the Egyptians for twen'y pieces of silver ; and let me tell you, parson, if Joseph looked like that, it was a mighty !" Doctor Lobbs ?.nd His Nag TCobbs. Dr. Daniel Dobbs, of Djmnster, had a ! A gentleman residing n one of our ra nag that was called Nobb. Ouo day, in j l villages had a pony, a lively, docile, the middle of winter, the docror having nd very active animal, whose piir.ci.al been summoned to attend a patient at t service was to carry big t;;':str"s o it rid some distance from his dwelling, and be- j inj every fine day, her uncle, the gtr.te ing anxious to return home before it was j man, riding his hoise. Li their ride- dark, rode poor Nobbs very hard. On ; they had to pass a farmhoBse, just uvr his arrival, not finding the" man in lha the bridge, where was kept H rurly 0."- way, the doctor fastened Nobb by bis fert- j which habitually j jn-pyj over th fM die to a rail in the yard, and went inlo ; and barked at them ard vrr:d lh l is parlor, where he sat down to warm j borses, and particularly the' pr,ny. at himseit by a good fire. It had happened 'j tempting to bile bis hind lcgs5 and cjm.S in the morning, the doctor's dairymaid j in? him to wheel about and squiim nbout had brewed a barrel of strong beer, which j to face the dog and Save Lis h?tJ2 had been drawn off into the cooler, and j One day the owner of lie d g was the dairy-maid having been Called away spoken to, and requested to k.-ep his do to tni'k her cow?, she had carelessly left j inside of the f"nee, &nd prevent nis wor the door of the brew house open. The rving the horses. steam of the beer proved wonderfully in- j He replied, "His dog bus us good viting to poor Nobbs, who had been hard rij-'ht on tho load as r.ny other poppy, rode, and now Le srood in the cold ex- 1 and that he would not tb bin n." tremely thirsty. After sundry efforts he j "Then," said tbe um, 'TH shoot got loose from the rail, and repairing to ; your dog the rext time he fli-. s out at us the brewhouse. he drank so henrtilv of 1 in this way " and 90 he left. the strong beer, that before he was aware j When they got home, jnd the "rnddla of it he fell down dead drunk. The doe- ! and bridte were taken off tc? p-ny, Ua tor's man conning home, ran into the yard i slipped away from tbe hostler, nod run to convey Nobbs to the stuble ; not find- i to the house, whr Bruno, a larpe ing h'un at the rail, he looked about, and ! Newfoundland dog, was lying on the nmt at length discovered him stretched on the j "' front of the p''zza They n.et ; pony ground, cold and insensible. Bursting into j put his h ad down to Cruno's and he rai.s the pailor, where the doctor was sitting j ed his head, as though h wae hstenirr. with Mrs. Dohbs, he communicated to j There, look at the d. g and pony," them the news of poor Dobby's decease. J said the uncle ; "what undi.r the iur. uro The doctor and Mrs. Dobbs were good- they at ! They act ns though they wern nalured people, and of course were much j talking." concerned ; but as tbe doctor never suffer- j They let them alone till they k th-rt-h ed mi'fortun to tet the b iter of his dis- ! and pony ran about the lawn and v.e-r.H cretioti, he immedi tte'y gave orders that j not 9 caught and Bruno laid down sga.n Nobbs sir. u!d, without delay, be flayed. I s before and that Ins skin htmlil inlif-r. tt next morning to the currier. 1 he doctor man accordingly st to work; poor Nobbs was dragged to the! dunghill, his skin wes stripped off, and he was hft to be eaten bv the hounds, lie had not, however, lain long before the novelty of his sUtm'ion had a considerable eflect upon him. As he had lost his skin, ot course the coldness of the night operat ed with double activity in dissipating the fumes of the beer which he had swallow ed ; and at length he awoke, got upon his legs, and trotted away to the stable door, which happened to be close by the parlor. Not fndi sg kit opened, and b'it-g loili cold and hungry, he began to wl.iony for assistance;. I he doctor and his wife had just dona supper, and happened at that j out to the rescue, wl-.l'e pony looked or, moment to be talking of the accident i evidently with as much delight h.s a ci.ild which had befallen their nag, over a hot would at play. bowd of brandy punch No sooner had j He pawed the ground, shook and 1 ..w Xohls winnied, than Mrs. Dohbs tunvd J 'ad, i;nd was very pfive i-i s pale, and exclaimed, "Doctor D-b ! as j curing a good view tithe fight. .y-and-fure as I live that is Nobbs' voice ; I know j by Bruno let go, nd the cur sneaked in him by his whinny!" "My dear," said j to the house, and Hruno galloped oii'i.ome, the doctor, "it is Ntbh'a whinny sure : ,'fr exchanging some words or rtlher enuuih ; but, poor thing, he is dead, and has been flayed." II -j had hardly said , this before Nobbs whinnied again. Up , jumps the doctor, takes a candle in his I hand, and runs into the yard ; the first thing he saw was Nobbs himself without his skin. The doctor summoned all hi ! servants, ordered six sheep to be killed, J and clapped their skins upon poor Nobbs. J To make a long story short, Nobbs j recovered, and did his work as well as j ever. The sheep skins stuck fast, and 1 - i answered his purpose as well as his own ,., i . i . siun ever uni, tiui wnai is most re- i markab'e, as well a? most to our point, the I wool grew rapidly ; and when the shear ing season came, tho doctor had Nobbs sheared. Every year he gave the doctor a noble fleece, for he carried upon his back, you know, as much as six sheep ; and as Lmg ps Nobbs lived, all the doctor's stockings, and all Mr?. Dobb's flannel petticoats, were made of his wool. Damascus, tiik Eteknai.. Damascus dates hick anterior to the days of Abra ham, find is the oldest city in the world. It was founded by lz, the grandson of Noah. 'The early history of Damascus is . ll 'tt f shrouded in the hoary mist, of annquity." I-ieare ttie inatitrs written ot m the tirst eleven chapters if the Old Testament out, and no recorded event hid occurred iu the whole to show but Damascus was in exis tence to receive it. Go back as far as 3 ou will into the vague I'ast, there was hl-.vays a Damascus. In the writings of eveiv country for moie than four thousand years, its name has been mentioned and its praises sung. To Datna.-c h years are on- ly momenta; decades only flitting trifles of tima Sthn mpucr. ilin.1 n,M k .1 ,i r,1 r,1i K l. ,ti n.n;. 1,1.! seen rise and prosper, crumble to ruin. She is a type of immortality. She saw the foundation of Baalbee, and Thiles, and 1 Ephesus laid ; she saw them gto v into miirhty cities, and nmaza the world with .. . ... ... age. sue savv home built ; she saw it over shadow the world with i's power ; she saw it perish. The few hundred years of Ge noese and Venifian might and splendor were, to grave old Damascus, only a scin tillation hnrdly worth remembering. Da mascus has seen all that has occurred on the earth J.nd still lives. She has looked j upon the dry bones of a tl o isnn 1 empires, and sne will live to see ttie tomo ot a thous and more before she dies. Though anoth- er claims the name, old Damascus is, by right, the Eo-i-nM City." their grandeur, and she has lived to see I missionary theie in lot s. The I je:-i h, Ger them desolate, deserted end given to tha i rn-n. II dlaod and Irish Catholic ci.tii. i.ia owls and the bats. Sho saw the Israelii- ! part c pated. and the priests of the Pay fet ish empiie exalted, and saw it annthiU- i --Mip!erov. Holland, Litd... thot-. . , J r. . , n . , - : Appletoa, Ocouto aiid New Frans;!? thuitu- tcd. She saw Greece rise an flourish for ; J 'wer6 preeet:t . alM tho IlPW Cun-u of two thousand years, and die. In her old j the Church of Notre Dama. Milwauk.e. wi. Auimal InlelHseitc?. ! Next day they rode ttrn.irs, frer d K shoot the cur, cr scare him from l ij e vil practices. A short di;a'.;ce from tha house, on turning sin ring! of the -'i.;.if they spied Hruno quietly tollovvmg tr.ern. -This won't do," said undo. "Go ' back Bruno; jon !no th is : v at home but your mistress. j vvj'1 guard the Louse when yea t;:e kvay T Go back " Ihe d"g turned and jumped over tha fence as though to go home ucioss lots. So they rode cn until the farmhouse tp peared in sight. Out came the cor; uncle prepared to a!m-st, when all ol ut a sudden over cam? L'-uno, by the neck, shook him seized thj e.;r evertl-, sir.d made hirn yell, so that the 1 .IB- j ruooing noses wmi pony. When the' all got home, sgain ihe r-M- mals had another conferf-noe, nod a Una gallop about the lawn, much to tue ap plause and DiCriment of uncle uv.tl the family. The Pik Boy who Bream; a Trir-cs. The first Prince MeusehikoQ was a pic ' cy at Moscow, and was delivering ihinss a? a nob'eman's kitchen oi.e I y wi,ti Czar Pe ter the Great v as expected to din'; at lc hoiise. While w A!tii;-J about, he urc' i o A I the nobleman give special direction f- r tha i . 1 . .... .. preparation of a favorite di.-h of the Czo's, and afterward, while the co. k w is ,.i.-r.t, j the boy saw him j lace t' li.i tl.in g in h d.- h j which he believed to be t-isi.!i. Ai s- - a as ilet.schikoff sa v the Czar in rh? slhc j he cried out his rolls move louuiy 'I an rsu , al, eud even began to sing, anil at i.r-.;..ch the Czar to make himself seen- Pet: : c.la-i j t-thiru and ask him seme question t. ! i. h ' ha ausivered SO happily that t..e i'l -.a j said' "I w ill keep thee ir; try f s. : v -le.1' I MenscbikofT aeeepted the offer with j v. At i dinner time, without ordcis, Le catered ti.a !1 .ill 1 . it, . uarquei nan ana m..i tci.iiji itu-r. When the dish appeared, he b nt d u a... I whispered "'not to t. ticl it." IM-r ..-t tt..-, a-id, with sn.iling fice. n.a.'e j-veti !; t take the boy into an adjoinm? ftp:rtr.' rt. ! " 1 1 v 1 1 4iiciiPV.ii.R- ii MHIICU I. It E lie o li :tl . j v the Czir Yf.,ur,liuz to x e tli- ?u j when Menschik' ft explained i:is itisj j Boy ard again r.fiertd the dish, jmim Peter ; a.-xtil t.iui to sit by his sioe. ard 1 a i.-.Ke , with him. TLe n.'b'e c -1 jrid, a ui ii i b. came not a subji-ot to cat the same as tl o Esnpercr, who seeing Lis tu.bana.-t:.tr.r, took the plate and offered it to a d-.'jr, who j swallowed all lis contents. l:st a few mo- I mei.tu afterward it hec;in to rt-.n nri. )... 1 1 then staggered, fell, and t-o.-) expired The B yaid was secured, but next iim-tire ' v- aa f und dead in his bed. Met.sc h if ! nnd 11 1,1 t-e'1 roi!s ii:,y loujer ; the. ! fi;st step to his rapid foitunt, was vidt. a. d hisdesier.uents area m.tet poweiful far ill in Russia to this day. Ths Gieen Hav ( Wisconsin) Gazttn im ports ve-y interesting services in thit ph;:c. in comintm ration of the tvo Li.t.-d -.dih n niversary of the arrival of ht fost t'-itholis t.. . . preached an interesting d.iscoare in GernriAn in the oftemo n, and Father Liaz-' d cf Oconto, in French, in the evening The f rst attempt to establish a Catholic church rher was made in 1642. A charel was .i cued in La Poiuta in 1G8D. ad Father Claude Al soucz came to Green Ray in lottS. Hodlctiug a little bark chapel Dccemler Sd. A KKV1VALIST, enco :nttring an A f-lean, a ked him : '"My good mau. have jou foUiid the Lord 7" To which San.bj replied tu surprised ! L?r d lo.t 1 manner: ' (jay, u.:t.iA, u C
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