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II. A. Sl'ril&E, Editor and Publlnlter.
UK IS A FREEMAN WHOM THE TRCTH HAKS FREE, AND ALL ARB SLiVES BESIDE,
Tcrxus, per year In adrauca.
VOLUME 3.
EBENSBTJRG, PA., THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 1869.
NUMBER 2.
!8GS. FALL TRADE. 1868,
I am now prepared to utter
SUPERIOR INDUCEMENTS .
TO CASH PTJKC1TASERS OF
EITHER AT
WHOLESALE OR RETAIL.
My stock consists in part of every variety of
Tin, SlieeMron,
COPrER AND IJRASS WARES,
HNAMEI.I.En AND PI.AIN
SAUCE-PANS. BOILERS. &c.f
'coal shovels, mine lamps, OIL
CANS. HOCSKFUHNISIIING HARD
WARE OF EVERY KIND.
peai' AnliDmt
HEATING and COOKING STOVES,
EXCELSIOR COOKISG S'lVVES.
NO liL !: . Till U M r 1 1 a n r P A R LO R CO O K
ING STOVES,
Ar.d any Cocking fctove detird I will get
when ordered at manufacturer's prices.
Odd Stove Plates and Grates, &c, for re
pairs, on hand fur the Stoves I Fell ; others
M i!! be ordered when wanted. Particular
attention given to
Spouting, Valleys and ondu ctors,
til of which will bo made out of bent mate
rial and put up by competent workmen.
Lamp Burners, Wick and Chimneys
WMOI.K3AI.lt OR KETAII-
I would call particular attenti'n to the Light
H. u-e Hunier, with Ola Cor:e, for riving
rat-re liebt than any other in use. Also, the
Paragon Burner, for Crude Oil.
irCXCER'S SIFTER!
It recemmends iUclf.
SUGAR KETTLES AND CAULDRONS
of all sizes constantly on Laud.
Special attention given to
Jobbing in Tin, Copper and Sheet-Iron.
at loweri pt.-ibie rated.
Wholf-salh Mkkchants' Libts
now ready, and will be sent on, application
by mail or in persjn.
Hoping to gee ail my old customers and
irany new one this Spring. I return my
most sincere thanks frr the very liberal pa
troi.age I have already received, and will
endeavor to pleas- a:l who may call, wheth
er thy buy or not
FRANCIS W. TTAY.
Johnstown, March. 7. 18C7.
tf iiE.T Reduction in Tkices !
2W CASH ULYEhS!
at tsje r d r:siti; u
nOESE-FMXISHIXD STORE.
The undersigned respectfully iulornis the
c;iMxe:;i of ELeimburg aud tho puMie gener
ally that l.e box made a great reduction in
prices to CASH BUYERS. My stock will
coutixt, in part, of Vuoking, Parlor arul Htal
rg Stoves, of the most popular kimls ; Tin
uare of every description, of my own man
ufacture ; Hardware of all kind, such 'an
Locks, Sciewd, Cult Hinges, Table Hinges,
Shutter liinc, Bolts, Ir n ai.d Nails, Win
dow Glas. Putty, Table Knives and Forks,
Carvir.g Knives and Forks, Meat Cutters.
Apple P-.rers, Pen and Pocket knives in
great variety, Schsors. Shears, Kazors and
Ht.oS Axed, Hatchets. Hammers, Boring
Ha Lines, Augers. Chiaxcls, Planes, (!om
passcs, Square, Filed, Rasps, Anvils, Vises,
Wrenches, Rip, Panel and Cross-Cut Saws,
Chair.a cf ail kind.-. Shovels, Spaces, Scythes
aud Snaths, ltakes. Forks, sleigh Bells,
Shoe Lasts, IVgs. Wax Bristles. Clothes
Wringers. Grind Steves. Patent Molasses
GV.-s and Measures. Lumber Sticks, Horse
Nails, Ilor.-e Shoes, CaVt Steel. Rifles. Shot
Gnus, K-volvj rr. Pistols, Cartridges. Pow
der. Caps. Lead. &c. Odd Stove Plates,
Grates and Fire Bricks. Well and Cistern
Pumps and Tubing ; Harness and SadtUery
Ware of ali kind ; Wooden and Willow li'are
in great variety : Carbon Oil and Oil Lamps,
Fiiti Od, Lard Oil. Linseed Oil, Lubrienting
OA, Kosin. Tar, Glassware, Paints, Varnish
es. Turpentine. A'c-hol, &c.
FAMILY GROCERIES,
sucn as Tea, Coffee, Sugars, Molasses, Syr
ups. Spices, Dried Peaches, Dried Applfcs,
Fish, Hominy, Crackers, Rice and Pearl
T..vA&yi Soap. Candles; TOBACCO and
CIGARS; Paint. Whitewash, Scrub, Horse,
Shoe. Dusting, Varuiah, Stove. Clothes and
To-,tu 'iirushes, ail kinds aud sizes; Bed
Cords and Manilla Roped, and many other
articles at the lowest rates for CASH.
fry House Spouting made, painted and put
up at low rates for cash. A liberal discount
cade to country dealers buying Tinware
wholesale. GEO. HUNTLEY
Ebensburg, Feb. 28. 1867.-tf.
e orgY"w7ye a g e r
Wholcsal aud Retail Dcalsr In
KEATING AND COOK STOVES
OF EVERT DESCRIPTION,
COPPER ASD SBEET-IfiBS WARE
OF LIS OWN MANUFACTURE,
And GENERAL JOBBER ia SPOUTING
and all other work in bis liae.
YirgVia Street, near Caroline Street,
ALTOOXA, PI, '
The OD!y dealer 10 the citv na ring the right to
the renownci iiAHLEV I1EAF"
COOK 3 I OVE. :h mot perfect,
omplete scl tAtipfaetory
Stove eer nitroduoed
to the public.
Stock Iuhknse. - Pwces- Low.
; XTisrAeTio?r gtjarantexd.
JJACK to FIRST PRINCIPLES
BOOTS AND SHOES
OF MY OWN MANUFACTURE.
WHAT I MAKE I CAN WARRANT 1
After an experience of more than a year in
the sale oT Eas'ern made work, during which
time J hare exnenJed more than the profits in
repairing rips and lares, I hare determined to
come back to first principles and henceforth
confine mvself to the mur.ufacture ot BOOTS
and SHOES for Meu, Youths, Ladies and Miss
es, ai.d ana now better prepared than ever to
give entire saiislacticn in my business.
. Ibave Jit present in my employ a competent
corps of workmen, anil can say without fear of
contradiction that I can turn out as neat and
eubi-'tiuitiul Roots and Shoes at as modhiatk
prices as can be made anywhere in the State.
I am huving Boots in ide of tli finest French
Calfskin, and within the past mouth or two
have hid onlcrs pouring in vpon me from all
quarters for this kind of work. The nialtrial
in these Roots is the best to be found iu th
marVet, ami the wnrniMihi.., both in r.ea ness
and strength, cannot be c-xctlled at any other
establishment in the country. -
MY- TlifAIN ALWAYS ON TIME!
All work will be ready for delivery at tho
time promised. Weddings, visits and other in
teresting or important occurrences need not be
postponed through any failure on my prt to
come to time. -
Good wotk and moderate prices is my motto,
and one tri d will convince any person tht the
motto is weli chosen
.Rer airing of Boots and Shoes attended
to promptly and in a workmanlike manner.
Thankful for pant favors I feel confident that
my work nii'l prices will commend me to a con
tinuaL.ce and increase of the same.
JOHN I) THOMAS.
Ebensburg, May 23. lblH.-tf.
EBSBURCH FOUNDRY
AGAIV IX FX'I-L. BLAST!
NEW FIRM, NEW BUILDINGS, &c.
HAVING t urrhnpd the well known EB
ENSBCHG FOl N DRY from Mr. Edw.
G!-a, atnl rebuilt snd enlarge! it. almost en
t' ! besides refitiing it with new machinery,
tbe .-ubscrihet s a e now prepared to furnish
COOA". PARLOR 5- I1EATIXG STO VES,
of tbe bittat and most npproveJ p-Uferns
THUK?IIING MACHlNFS. MILL OEAR
I N G, POE and W AT KR W fl EKLS or every
ilc-crTt''n. IRON FK.NC1NG, PLOUGHS
and PLOUGH CASTINGS, and in fact all
m.mner of srtie'e-a m itiufactured in a fir.-t class
Foundry. Job Work of all kind attended to
promutly and done cheaply.
Tlie special attention of pHrmers i iried
to two newly p, tented PLOUGHS which we
poshes the sole right to manufacture and fell
in tf.is county, anc which are ailmitted to be
tbe best ever introduced to the public.
Believing ourselves capable of performing
any wotk in our line in the moat satisfactory
mariner, and knowing that we can do work at
lower fricis than have been charged in this
community heretofore we confidently hope that
we will be ound worthy of Iiter.il patronage.
Fnir reHuctions made to wholesale dealers.
fTThe highest prices paid in cash for old
metal, or castings given in exchange.
Ot R TERMS ARK 91 R CTl T CSH OR COfNTUT
paorccK CON V Eli V, VINKOE fc CO.
Ebensburg, Sept. 2, IfC3.
AUDITOR'S NOTICE In (be Or
phans' Court of C:mbria County. In
the matter of the first and second accounts of
Enoch Farrcnswot ih , Administrator of William
Henry Lloyd, dee'd, the last of whiJi was sub
ruined to J. C. Easly upon exceptions.- And
now, to wit: 9th December, 18litt, on motion"
of George M. Reide, Esq., James C Easly
appointed Auditor to rrn-'-' lUt,rii.5M r me
mi'iioy the nands of the said accountant to
and among the persons legally entitled thereto.
By the Coutt- Extract from the Record.
In testimony whereof I have heretiLto set
my hand and affixed the ecal of the said Court
this 9ih day of December, ls'08.
J a Mr a Griffix, Clerk.
Notice is iifrzbt gitcn tliat 1 whl attend to
th duties of: tbeabove appointment, at tbe of
fice of Geo. M. Reade. Esq ; in Ebensburp;, orr
Mo.st.at, thk Hth DAT Of FfBr.U.VRT, lPo9, at
U o'clock p m ., lien and where all persons in
terested m.ny attend or be debarred from any
sb ire of said fuud.
Jan. 21.-3t. J. C. EASLY. Auditor.
41 II BAP HEAL ESTATE I will
sell for cash, or on time, the following de
ecrihe't Real Estate:.'
FOUR HOUSES and LOTS in the Borough
of Ebensburg.
SIXTEEN ACRES OF LAXD lying imme
diatelv south of EKensburc.
A FARM OF i:;0 ACRES in Blacklidk
Township, about 5U acres cleared. An excel
lent Coal Hank on the tract.
FOUR TRACTS UNIMPROVED LAND
in Summerbill Township.
A TRACT OF UNIMPROVED LAND in
Washington Township. -
A HOUSE and LOT at Hemlock, now in
posses:on of Mr Moreland.
A TRACT OF LAND in Washington Tp ,
in name of Runner.
Also, various other LANDS or LOTS OF
GROUND in different portions of Cambria Co.
A good title will be given in all cases.
ROBERT L. JOHNSTON. .
Ebensburg, Jan. 14, !t?Cl) tf.
17UNE PROPERTY. FOl! SALE!
. Will be sold on the most reasonable terms
that valuable property situate in. tho Borough
of Summitville, Cambria county, cornering on
the Northern Turnpike and the Old Portage,
embracing FIVE LOTS OF GROUND, with
a front ol 1311 feet, having thereon erected a
large TWO STORY HOUSE, part brick and
part frame, at present occupied as a tavern.
The property has every convenience either for
a public house or a comfortable private resi
dence It hns Stabling for filten or twenty
hor?es, a first raw well of water and an ex'-el
lent garden, and everv other accommodation
for either a public house or a private d ellii.g
For terms spply to the subscriber at Surniuit
ville. HENRY HUGHES.
January 14, 18G8.-4t. :. v
ALU ABLE TOWN PROPERTY
FOR SALE. Will be sold at private
sale, that valuable property situate at the cor
ner of Horner and Mary Ann streets, in the
borough of Ebensburg, tontsining nearly an
s-re al ground, with a large an commodious
Frame Dwelling House, outbuildings and sta
ble ail in excellent order. The property em
braces a wood-house', wa-h h.use. and n" ex
cellent cellar, and there are on the premises a
large number t selected fruit trees. A far
ther .description is deemed unnecessary, as
those wishing to purchase will call and .exam
ine for themselves.:! Tho title is mdisputuble.
For particular, uire of
Ebalwf.'3Mnjsry tb, IP"?-
(Original J oetr jt. .
i. - O 1
IT II AT B3 hlJE tTISULG 1GRT
Tie twilight is gone, and the n6Vr comes od; 1
tin. !-i 1 . nr . . r i i . rr ti i'l w
The blossoms that whiten the broad, sniooth
lawn.
And purple tbe shadowy clover.
A crescent of silver hangs low and dim
Away in the western skies;
And, pale in the light of its slender rim
The glow of tho tv.tiset dies.
What is she. wishing for? Agatha Ware -Standiug
white aud silent there;
Her eloquent eyes rais'd to Heaven in prayer,
Beautiful Agatha Agatha Ware.
She sighs, an 1 the moon with her royal .tread
Is ncaring the &ta as she aighcth;
She sighs, and a breath from the ccaa sped
Afar us in echo repltEth.
The heart of the maiden is beating bigh,
As when, tut a child, she rais'd
A :ith to the tn- n in the western sky,;-.
Aud piay'd for it while she gaz'd.
With her eyes cf beauty beyond compare j
Deep, eloquent eyes tais'd to Heaven in J
prayer;
As paio as a Idly as proud and fair -l
Beautiful Agatha Agatha Ware.
'Tis not as a child she is pleading now:
The p earls that circle Ler fing.T
Betoken the pledge ol a wotmtuV vow,
And tenderly over them linger
The silvery b.ams, but alas u.it so
Th light of her soft eve falls
On them, when her gaze, to the hand of snow,
Their glittering pride recalls.
Falleth a tear on the hand so fair.
Blight as the jewels that glisten there;
SLe uiuvetii her lips iu a biicot prayer,
Beauti'ul Agatha Agatha Ware.
Aij ! though she has given the hand to one
Who priztth its beauty and holdeth
More precious thaa diamonds the gold fine
spun
That over her forehead i-he f ddeth. '
Alas! he his paid for it all with gold,
('Tivss thinking of this she tighed).
Laid down at the feet of a mother, v. ho Bold
To him au uu willing btide.
What is she wi.-hing for? AgMha Ware
Standing w-.:ts and '.cnt thete
TI.e light of the moon in her tunning hair
Beautiful Agatha Agatha Ware.
LlXXKT.
AB3UT LOVE AND MARRIAGE.
Getting jinsd in tlie holy bonds of wed
lock is the 'hundidori'' time for gushing i
maida and spooney fellow?. A fellow j
sees a gal ; f-he sees him ; thoy blow their j
noses at each other silent blows of both j
'em ; both like a tick crab ; both heave
their Losorns ; then they cast expiring
glances into each other's terrestrial orbs ;
they get foggy around their lip?, and with
a tremor pant ; it's a gentle tremor, and
their will bs more of it arson ; time passe?,
just one time, bckase the next Cay the
lovely Louri gets on her best scolloped
buttoned whaticoat, all embroidered with
white thingumajigs, and frescoed with a
whole quart cf gussets, puts som? night
blooming lard on her hair, lets a clothes
line ham down lr hi.-U, ufMi!a in lier
waist, chalks the back of her ears, rubs
some red copal varnish on hor cheeks to
make 'cm look like the gentle, zephrys had
kissed 'cm, greases her swan like neck,
rubs a little charcoal tooth powder on her
eyebrows, puts in her Sunday Fet of teeth,
then looks in the mirror, and blushes the
color of a biled lobster at the thought of
how much sweetness is being lost upon
the desert air She swists around to see
if the back of her dress is all hooked up,
and then she taka her queenly form to
walk, and looks so majestic that one
would never dieani such an angel would
condescend to eat pork and beans, or had
bunions.
The follow gets on Iu3 new fixings, has
five cents worth of black put on hi3 boots,
borrows a gold chain, hires a rin with a
green diamond ir; it big enough to anchor
a rowboat. takes a bstth, cuts Lis nails,
pares his corns, tickles his throat-with
"whisk v sours," asks Ills bos3 if he may
go to the library, and looking as flash' as
a bueu ham, and a pious as the figure
head of a canal boat, he starts (o walk,
at the bewitching hour of 4:20 P. M ihe
female and the male, in all the glory of
their buthhoods, meet just wbetethey met
before. It's intuition what taught etn to
be there a kinder mystic' magnetism or
spiritual heart mumps. Their glances
met somehow between the two. ?Ile stops
and looks at a nice pair of boots in a win
dow ; she gazes at a corset shop. This
is strategy. Neither wants the oilier to
know that each came there to see the
other. The feller finally starts on his
tour again, and she does the same. They
pass each other as majestic as a couple of
mud turtles; both latih, and their eyes
twist away around over their shoulders ;
bofh turn and look . at each other until
bulk get so far they int afraid ; then
she draws her bi'ed rag across her lips,
and he kisses his knuckles at her. ,
. Well, the sun fets in its orbit, and day
follows day, and they keep' this thing
agoing until just as his boss begins to
think he is getting too fond of the library
they ppeak to each other, and the gul
cooiraences to get hira. ' She gets him to
call, faints in his arras, and Jets him smell
th-j sweet stuff on her chin.- He thinks
its her breath, and that she is an angel,
and feeds on. tuberoses, - She calls him
dear. Alphonso, sraoolht his marble brow,
and speaks of his Oriental eyes and Grei
c:an nose. Hi has a whole in one cheok
big enough for a skating pond, which Bh
trllft a dimple. Tb wart on bw band.
she called a hillock of loveliness. Then
she made a mufller of her arms and puts
it around his Corinthian neck, and rolls
up her eyes like a sick cod-fish. He
tilings I ha gal around heavy. He brings
her biled chestnuts and whole quarts of
hrimps ;- goes to matinees and the min
strels ; 1.1 Ues moonlight walks ; sits on
the steps ; teaciuc !,,r gastronomy ; writes
poetry ; calls Lcr his he.jruy uucij( iug
Arabian peppergtass, his Bweetnt., n3
bird of paradise, his Edenly geranium
until some night she pats his head and
strokes his httir until she gets his brain
turned inside out. down on the Hrussels
carpet goes both his knee?, his hands
clasp together like ha was going to swim,
and he cast his eyes upward and says:
"Will you have me V
The triumphant hussy rep'lies :
"Oh! Alphonso! How sudden, I
declare."
Yet she don't put her answer off ''not
muchly." She's got him just where she
wants him. Give him time to think,
he'd probably never make such a darned
fool of himself again; bckase this wed
lock business, when viewed in a philo
sophical light, is nothing more that a man
becoming possessed of the insane idea that
he'd rather pay baard for two (or two
dozen) than for onr
Now the fill.?' has his foot in it, she
calls his attention to breach of promise
casys in the papers. She has him faster
than f-hocmakei's gum. Next day she
tells every gal she knows that she i en
gaged, and malses them vow they won't
say a word about it. He (poor cuss!)
don't go, that fatal night, more than half
a block before be knows he has made a
darned fool of himself, and his face wears
an exp ession like unto a fi.ller who has
resigned himself to taking a doso of costor
oil. She sets the time and he tries to
hitch it off; but she gct9 in on him, calls
him her sweet balsam of Peru, her angel
dailiti, her cherub, her spotted fawn, her
dear duck, until he wills like a buteirly
in a hail storrn, and she exclaims : "Do
with me as thou wilt ; I am thine all
thine !" He, poor, dejected, distressed
looking ens-i, sneaks away, feeling too
moan Jo look a manly lamp post in the
fac and starts to hunt up a tailor who
will sell hira a black suit on six months'
lime, while she goes a shopping and brings
home samples of silk. Oid aunts ca'l up
on her, and with fears of pitiy rolling
down their cheeks, advises her to submit
cheerfully to hor fate; for, although the
know it is hard for a poor, timid fawn
like her to leave home, yet such is wo
man's lot, and it is her duty. The fatal
day approaches, and some daik night the
poor cuss can be seen sneaking alnog to
engage the parson.
The day comes First one carriage
drives to the church doors, then another.
Then comes three more with the mourn
ers. Evervbody makes a rush for the
church. Three or four g'wds, done up iu
white lace, get out of the carriages ; then
the bearers, wrapped up in broadcloth,
liitch on t tlio Ixitnllca ol" i- -Uy pat
to the church door, fix their rigging, then
sail majeslically up the centre aisle, amid
murmurs of "There they come !" "Ain't
she sweet ?" and sieh like. Then thrs
dominie joins them in this wise: "You
lurehy swear that what jou alliim is true,
s.) help you Ciod 1 Amen. What God
has put asunder let na man join apart.
Know all men by these present. And do
you hereby swear the same to be the
truth, the whole trath, i'.nd nothing but
the truth. Now, by the power invested
in me by the Constitution of the United
Statrs, I pronounce you to be one, and
your letters of recommendation will be
handed to you as soon as convenient."
The deed is did that ii, part did
and. they started to get away from their
native heath by the fkst train. That
night they joined their hands together atnl
registered a vow in heaven that they will
alivays'be good to each other, never fight
never he cross, rever have spats, never
give sour looks, never hit each other
and in less than six months that girl will
make a race courso over Ida eya :wilh a
broom handle, and call him fizzle-headed
sour kraut while he will play base ball
with her waterfall ; and Wednesdays and
Saturdajy'instea'd of coing to matinee?,
she'll get a rousing nood old thrashing
and that's what's the matter.
A Clever Tiuck. A Springfield man',
says tho llepuhlican, f that city, did a sharp
tiling at the expense of lie Hartford, and
New Haven Railroad. With his wife and
daughter he visited sumo friends at Windsor
Locks, "a few nights ago, and bei'g very
anxious to return homo by the owl (press)
tiain, eudtavored to induce the statiou agent
to agree to stop it. Failing there, he tele
graphed to the superintendent at Hartford,
aud received the reply that the train would
atop at Wiudsor Locks for fifteen passengers.
Quick as thought he bought fifteen tickets,
and that, fact -being telegraphed to Hartford,
he had the pleasure in due time of seeing the
express train stop for his accommodation.
But where are your .fifteen passengers ?"
said the conductor, as our Springfield friend
and .his two companions appeared, to get
aboard the tra:n. "Why, you see," replied
he with a twinkle in his eye, "the others
didn't come." Of coursa the conductor
could cot take np more than three tickets
for three passengers, and so thereal estate
man and his family were set down iu Spring
field for ordinary fare, just as they, wanted
to be. To be sure ho has got a dozen tickets
ou hand, .but there is nothing . to prevent
him romiibing them whfeuever he bees fit
te di? ?, ... .;
TIIK OLD YEAR,
It was the last night of December, and
slowly the great hands of theclock, were
nearing the hour of midnight. The fire-
light and shaded lamp cast fantastic fig
ures over the furniture in the dark corners
of the room, and glitter after glitter of
marvelous frost pictures crew upon the
window panes. Voices of the night wind
were moaning and sobbing among tbe
ru-hes and in the chimneys and case
ments. w.Mut, though I saw not, I
knew that great Q,,r.a of snow were
whirling and piling in the dart m-...,.
, During all the weary hours my tho.5i,ti,
had been dwelling sadly among the graves
of my past. Again my soul bad put on
her sackcloth of bitter. days that had been
lain away for . mirthful .vestments, liut
now a strangeness came over me. I
heard no foot fail, but eilently was borne
away from my fireside, and found myself
at the portal of a wondrous cathedral.
The wails were cruelly white, and cover
ed over with mysterious figures and hiero
glyphics. The roof rose hundreds of feet
above, and was supported by the scullur
ed oures of angels. Long corridors ex
tended farther than the eye can see.
Masses of vapor hung swaying from the
dome ; and on all sides, over the white
ness, there was a constant flickerirjr of
bloe aud opal. All was hushed save a
low sound, like a requiem of sighs, that
came echoing from the dim corridors, and
chilled the heart icilj Hewildercd and
trembling. I would have hastened away
from the dazzling whiteness and weirdness;
but strange influences held me btationary.
Then behind me I heard voices, and
suddenly was surrounded hy a numberless
crowd of human I-cings. Passionately
they hnrried along thronging intj the ca
thedral,' till I was carried on like a leaf
on the surging ocean. On, on, but now
like a phantom throng, noiseless and
death-like, for even the footfall on the
stone pavements awakened no echo. Hut
soon the crowd moved slower, and I saw
wc were approaching a bier whereon
something lay. Nearer and we stood
mute and breathless ; for before us, lying
low among faded ll-iwers aud sere luure,
wrapped in 'his winding dieef,' was the
Oid Year we had loved so well, rigid and
dead.
Tha weight of his last days pressed
heav'Iy, and Lis face was furrowed and
sad to look upon. Around him, in mock
ery upon the sombre pall, were scattered
the gilis he had given. Ail his wealth
aod glory had perished, and the earth
angels gazed downward with pitying faces,
ever and anon smoothing the gray thin
locks, for he was one of their children
Erom censers near, the blue incense curled
upward around the white stone angels,
and mado them seem stern and grand.
Still the soundless wave of human life
surged onward. Soma came eagerly as if
to see a joyous thing ; others with linger
ing footsteps, and with sneering faces ;
but as they ono by oi.e looked upon tbe
pato face, and laid some treasure or some
burden down, feeling that ihtf year was
indeed dead, tby tunuul away more sad
ty, and some . with . tearB. They were
bringiug their care, and sorrows, and
fancied ills, and completed tasks. Each
striving for self, each heavily laden, think
ing it possibl-i to bury nil sadness or sor
row with one poor dead year, but passing
to find the burden little lighter and but lit
tle left behind. Sj:ue came with gloomy
face?, whose cares weie in imagination ;
and some bore bitter griefs. Many,
mourning vestured, laid down carefully
hand fuls of ashes. These were they whose
idols had been broken and beautiful shrines
crumbled in dust ; still they gather the
ashes to tluif hearts again, and went away
mourning. An old man tottered along
under the weight of a huge b:ig, from
which a yellowish dust was sifted as lie
walked. With great efl'jit he reached
the bier, and, with a s;gh, gazad on the
dead, still clutching the dust that all his
long life he had called treasure. . Rut as
as he turned away he staggered and fell,
and when they had lifted him up and
brushed the gold dust from his glaring
eyes, he' whs r.ead. Children eagerly
threw down their broken toys, and felt no
lingering sadness for the shrouded figure.
Many a youth brought resolutions, and
dead' ambition, and lifting high his right
hand, made solemn vows to redeem the
futuro The. middle-aged laid down many
an idle wish or holy tiling, and called
thetn folly. One strong man, wealthy
and heavily lader', knelt on the cold floor,
clat-ping the shroud, and prayed. When
he arose a light more than earthly broke
over his face, and he went onward with
the music of a new song in his soul,
i: While yet they were urging in with
their voiceless weariness, a !ell com
menced tolling in awful tone, that woke
echoes in the corridors,, and rent 4he vest
ment of.iucensc that shrouded the angels.
Then the phantoms lifted and bore the
dead year through the portals of Time's
calhedral. And the multitude followed
with their burdens. Ere long they reached
a stream, sedgy and black, where formless
boatmen waited to bear tho dead to the
ocean- - As I stood mournfully gazing, I
remembered my own . withered garland, a
hope and dream or two twined in the
bright days when ' the year was young,
but now. dead atid worthless ; so I threw
it, thinking it mightiest on the bier.
The boat moved slowly off, . and my
flowers rank in the bottomless waters ;
' fgr tbe name of tbe river is Lethe. . ...
As with eaddened hearts we looked
after the shadowy thing that grew mistier
in the distance, wo heard the sound, of
music and laughter, and, turning, saw
that the New Year had come golden and
glorious. The children shouted for joy,
and the youth pressed forward to greet
him. Even some of the sad ones, who
had sighed so for the dead year, lifted their
heads and smiled as he scattered his trea
sure. Uut I turned from these things I
had seen so often, and from the sad, dead
year, and soon forgot in my dreams that
all years, freighted with human hopes and
sorrows, must pass from time through
Oblivion to Jhe ocean of Eternity.
frouir. 2Iome Journal.
A llcuiarkable
Tree.
It would seem as if nature, hnving fin
ished the rest of the world in an orderly
and sedate lrame of mind, gave way to
her frolicsome tendencies in Australia.
Can anything be more essentially . ludi
crous than a kangaroo, or a tree which
sheds its bark instead of its leaves ? Aus
tralia is the farce of creation. Hut amid
all its oddities we now and then find
specimens of the useful and magnificent.
Among them is the Euculyptua. a re
markable tree, which attains the height of
five hundred feet, thus reaching dimen
sions which enable it literally to throw
into the shade the far-famed gigantic trees
of California. Uut m if to indicate its
native Australian right to be popular, it
combines what has never before been
know to unite in a tree great rapidity of
growth and great compactness of fibre,
which give it a great economical value for
mechanical purposes, and make it valua
ble as a means of restoring the forest
Growth in those regions which have been
denuded of it. It has another peculiarity,
which makes it Ptiil more available for
the latter purpose, which ia its adapt
ion fo the arid and wattfil.'ts portions of
the. globe in warm climates.
A tree planted in Algiers fifteen years
ago has attained the volume and the
qualities of an oak a hundred years old,
and from a tree p'anted three years ago,
has sprung a tree now four feet in circum
ference at the bas3. It is now being in
troduced in Italy upon the bare summits
anil mountain ridges, and as its leaves ex
hale a delightful fragrance and exercise a
powerful anti-maismatie. - influence, per
haps it may counteract and drive back
the deadly blight which has for centuries
been creeping up from the Pontine in irehes
upon the "Eternal City," and has made a
desert of busy Roman life and the site of
gorgeous palatial villas.
We must not omit to add that the bark
of this remarkable tree is very hard and
very rich in tanning. We hope some en
terprising horticulturist will introduce the
tree into this countrj'. What a magnifi
cent tree it wou'd be for our streets and
public squares towering hundreds of feet
above, our houses and shedding upon the
whole air the coolness of its sbadd and
the sweetness of its perfume.
Pkkservatiox. Tho Lon
don Hernia totU the following singular aud
touching stor' :
Not many years since, certain miners,
working far underground, came upon the
body of a poor fellow who had perished in
the suffocating pit forty years before.
Some chemical agent fo which the body
lal been subjected agents prepared in
the laboratory of uature Lad ellectually
arrested the progress of decay. They
brought it up to the surface, and for a
while, till it crumbled through exposure to
the atmosphere, it lay there the image of
a fine, sturdy young man. No convulsion
had passed over the face in death the
features were tranquil; the hair was black
as jet. No one recognized the face a
generation had gone since the day on
which the miner went down his shaft for
the last time, liut a tottering old woman,
who had hurried from ter cottage at
healing the news, came up, and she knew
again the face which through all these
long years she had not forgotten. The
poor miner was fo have been her husband
on the dy after that on which he died.
They were rough people, of course, who
were looking cn ; a liberal education and
refined feelings are not deemed essential to
the man whose work is to get up coal or
even tin ; but there were dry eyes there
when the gray-headed old pilgrim cast her
self upon the youthful corpse, and poured
into his deaf ear many words of endear-
men:
unused tor . torty. years. It was a
touching
contrast; the one so old, the
other so young. I hey had both been
young those long ago years ; but time had
gone on with the living, and stood still
with the dead.
A' Wisconsin Romance. A Milwau
kee paper tells a story of how a young
table girl a year ngo took such good care
of a young man from an Eastern city,
who fell sick at one of the hotels there,
that-he recovered. Full of gratitude to
bis young nurse, who disappeared before
he was able to be out, be left a note of
thanks for her, including a lottery ticket,
which was all he had left, which unex
pectedly drew a priza of .3,700. on ne
receipt of which the girl went to schocl at
the convent; when after some sigh' months,
throu"h the postmaster, to whom she had
confided her affairs, she received a letter
from the young man whom she had cared
for. offering bis heart and hand, which she
is now waiting in happy tood to receive.
A F51IGBITFIL IVIRIUTITC,
The London Telegraph says : "Flcii jr.
and fact nre equally outdoue by the el
most incredible narrative related in ihn
log of the. Dutch vessel EinrechinB, whicli
has just arrived in Cork harbor frors
South America. It seems that a Leo i it:
sailor, Rogers by name, shipped ou bohr i
ihe Finnechina at lueno3 Ay res
foremast hand, upon her voyage to Cur'r..
Captain IIu;z the Hollander in cor.:-
mand, had in his cabin a large sum .f
money ; the fact was well known ; o i l
Rogers determined to obtain fho coiu t:
the price, if necessary, of wholesale mur
der. The ship's company was f ! err,
consisting only besides the solitary piru-
of captain, first and second mate, co-k
and three siuimcn. On the fourth d.iy
Ouv tViim HiieiKS Ayres, when five of these
seven men were ipou deck, Rogers put
his astonishing villainy into execution.
The first mate was stanJir g in the opc-j
gangway when Rogers, with a sudd-: a
thrust, pushed the poor fellow into th?
sea. The'cook hearing the cries, of tl.3
drowning man. and most likely thinking
that be had got i.-.to the water by accident,
ran to the taffrail with a rope to throw to
the mate ; and while lie was leaning over,
Rogers took him by the legs and pitched
him also into the water.
"The second mate, who came running
aft iu otdcr to help, wasncountered by
the miscreant, who had meantime got
hold of an ax, and brandished it furiously.
The unarmed Dutchman retreated before
the murderous wretch, and jumped down
tbe companion way j:ist s tbe command
er, alarmed by the outcry, was hurrying
upon deck. The two men eaine into col
lision and fell ; and while Captain IIoizi
and hi second mate were rolling upon the
cabin floor together, Rogers clupp-id do n
the htUch over the ladder and put the pin
into the staple. Thus there were three of
the ship's company imprisoned below, and
two men only remained on deck, an Amer
ican and an Irishman. Tha assassin fctood
amidships between the two, and sworn
that he would kill them with his ax if
either disobeyed him in the least particu
lar. Ha ordered the one to keep forward,
and the othtr aft ; and made them tte-r
the vessel by turns; directing her course,
as he supposed, back to a desert part of
the Uraziiian coast.
His idea seems to have teen to run tho
ship ashoie and find some way of ki 1 ng
the survivors. liut the compasses were
wrong; and thus, instead of making tha
land, the captured ship, in the possession
of the homicidal niui.iac, was all the wTUa
steering parallel to the coast line. T ica
during this time, the captain got a shot at
Rogers through the gratings, but without
wounding him seriou.-ly. Four dys and
nights the desperate creature fctood, ax in
hand, overawing the two sailors on deck,
himself master of the vessel ; and be is
said never to have closed his eyes, keeping
a will beast's watch of fear, rage and
avarice. It appears rather strange that
nothing could be dne by the two men
together. Did they dare So sleep ? Had
they any food and water, or was the lonely
pirate thus provided ? Perhaps it was his
plan to starve them to death at the helm,
or to weaken l hem tid they could be easi
ly killed. For him, at rmy rate, tin. re
was no relief no respite fiem bis desper
ate sentinelship ; and lit the end of th
fourth day nature gave him over into the
hands of his intended victims. The vil
lain fail suddenly asleep as he crouched,
watching the Yankee and the Irishman,
leyond the range of the captain's pistols.
The long-awaited onpertu; ity waseacetly
embraced ;. Ihe Irishman sprang silently
forward, and. prizing the ax, wiih one
blow all but severed the head of Roctb
from his body. The hatches were orn-r 'si
and the three prison? is were set free. The
head of tho vessel was then turned to
wards Rio Janeiro, here a full statement
was made of the deplorable adventure ;
and after due investigation, the Ftr.ie
china shipped a f; eh crew and came
quietly' across to Coik Harbor, where tho
survivors of the tragedy Lave told their
extraordinary narrative."
A stort is told of a Scc-ch dog whicti,
when a penny was given hi:n, used to po
at once to a baker with the cciu in l.i
mouth, when, on dropping it, the baker
would give him A penny roll. On one
occasion the baker cheated him , taking
his penny but only giving himli half pen-
ny roll and then the dog went and fetch
ed a policeman! It shou'd he retner-w
beted, however, that it was a 5cotch doi.
Another case of canine instinct may be
given. A lady in London had a poolh,
which carried her 'ester front a postnva
to a couch in tho lady's parkr. On on
occasion the lady to her astonishment,
ob-erveJ the favorite dog puttnig tl r
only letter it err i d it to tic fire, histe-vl
of putting it o i tl'e couch. Amazed, she
rushed forward and rescued the latter, al
thuh nearly half butncl; and L , and
behold ! it was a dog-tax schedule ?
A whiter in the Anii- Slavery Sfan t
ard eays that one Inr.is, a colored barbr
1 in Jersey City, has demonstrafed the f:i-
r. .
that hair may ue graiteu wio a prema-r
turely bald head and made to grow. H
takes hair from the head of another per-
' son. and examines it with a ii.icrosccp",
i to ascertain whether it is pei fi'Ct and
healthy. This hair be insert into th
cavities of the scalp, and secures it to i
place by bandages which are allftwed trj.
remain a few days Ofttil the bah? tukf s rvef,