ILIl . ----- - . l. A, M'PIKC, TMItor and PutlUher. HE IS A PRKEMAK YTH03I THE TRUTH MAKRS FKKE, AND ALL ARK SLAVE? n KSIIJK. Tcrmi, S- per year In adrantf. Iyolume 3. EBENSBURG, PA., THURSDAY, MAY 27, 1869. iV NUMBER J 8. I undersigned, the lis III lof Dental tar- fully offers hi- mortice tf 'he n-hur and T:c5n:ty, wh.ch place lie will visit l.eFocmii M:ndv of encli mouth, to te- on L "l3 SAM'L LELfORD D. D. S. DR. H. B. MILLER, ilfonna. I'n.. Operative and Mechanical DENTIST. Oftiee removed to Virginia street, oppnuito the Lutheran church. Persons from Cambria coiii'.ty or ehewhere h.) get work done by me .1 ntitt?f nf Ton Do! lrfl and nnwnrd-t will ?ntn'!,u - - - -I ?h.ive the railroad fare deduced from their tills. All wor.K warbantkp. 1 inn. 1, iroj.-ii. P. D. W. ZIEGLEU, Surgeon Den tist, will vi.-iit h''C!iJruirg p - Jnwi.Mwlly on the SECOND Mov K of eiua month, and remamq i-.ni wfpk. (hirine which time he mv be foun t at the Mountain Houe. fgf Tec' h extracted without pin by the u?C j,; Nitrate Oxide, or Laughing Gas. 1'jAM LS .L "OATAfAN, M. J)., jj' tenders his professional services as Phy Voian and Surgeon to t lie citizens of Carroll . ;t:wn and vicinity. Office in rear ff l-uiid-oci'ujiied hy J. Buck & Co. as a store. fijil.tcalNetn be made at hi re&idence, one h fouth of A. Haul's tiu and hardware ytore. fMay 9, 1SG7. It DEVEUEAUX, il. D., Pnv- fiCtA and Surgieos, Summit, Fa. 1 1 Si re east end of Mansiou House, on Hail t' a 1 ktrect. Nilit calls iiiav be made tt ec.nice. 'fmyJ3.tf. J. LLOYD. ?ucc-esor to Ti. S. Tainis. i:. torr on Miu stitet. opposite the "Mansion Hence," FA'eiiaburg, Pa. ! October 17. 18C7.-m. 4 LOTD &i to., Hanln-M, Jy J Ei!KS?i!i"ua, Pa. I Gdd, Silver, Government Loans, and ether Securities, bought and si Id. Interest fc'Iowod on Time Lepositn. G-llections made In rII accetisdole points in the United States. nd a general Banking business transacted. I f Bankeks, Alioona. Pa. Drafts on the principal cities and Silver nd Gold for sale. Collections made. llor.eys received on depofcit, payable on de I'.and, without interest, or upon time, with fe.'.tre.tt at fair rates. au31. I EIIANIv Y. II AY, f 'T.r.S LE and RETAi L ir.inii.racttirer. of TIN'. UH'PKi: ami SIIEKT-IKOX! 'ARR. Cun-il strtd, below Clinton, Johns (ricn, I'a. A Urte stock coitantly ,nd. w -. - - . . 1 - . ?. A. IHOLMAKFR CEO. OATMAX. 0 HOKMAKMK & O ATM AN, Atfor- J nts t Law, EWnstiurg, P. Odices on Hili street, intnediaely east of IJuiitley'a fcirJw-Hre store. ap 8,'69l 1 I). M'LAUGIIUX JTTOHNKY AT LAW, Jvhnstown, Ta j OQice in the Exchange building, on the Vonmrof Clinton and Locust streets up jtnira. Will attencl to all business conuect f' with bis profession. I Jan. 31. 187. -tf. . L JOnXSTOX. J 5. KCAXLAX. J JOIINSTO.V .fe f CAN LAX, 1 Attorneys at Law, Ebensburg, Cambria co., Pa. j OLTice opposite tho Court House. Ebensburg, Jan. 31, 8G7.-tf. JOHN l LINTON, ITTORNEY AT LAW, Johiuslown, Fa. j Oflioe in building on corner of Main and Franklin ktreet, oppobite Mansion IIou?e, iecond floT. Kntrance on Franklin ttreet. ? Johnstown. Jan. Si. lSG7.-tf. WILLIAM KITTELIj, ATTORNEY AT LAW, ELcnsburg, Ta. Ofiice ia Colonade Row, Centre strret f Jan. 81. l8G7.-tf. (J L. MUSHING, ATTOIiXET-AT- Law, Johns town, Fa. Ofiice on Fraak jin street, np-ntair, over John Benton's JIardwgre Store. Jan. SI, 1867. iWM. II. SECIILEK, Attorney-at-I Law, Ebensburg, Pa. Office in rooms Recently occupied by Oeo. M. Ileade, Esq , in 'tolonade Row, Centre street. aug.27. r- . . GEO. M. RfiADE, AttoniegatLaw, , Ebensburg, I'a. Office in new building Recently erected on Centre street, two doors from High street. aug.27. AMES C. EASLY, Attokxey- J at-Law, CarroUlotcn, Cambria Co., Fa. tollections and all legal busineia promptly fended to. Jan 31. 18G7. 0PELIS. - - - - T. W. DICK. L..Ju,'nstown. Ebensburg. Ja 0P1XIN & DICK, Attorsets-at-r: La w Ebensburg. Pa. 0il5ce with Wm. A'ttell, Esq.f Colonade Row. oct.22.-tf. I p. TIEIiNEY TT0RnEyAT LAW, Ebauburg, Pa. IX Office in Colonade Rovr. 1 Jan. 5. 18G7tf. n Er AT LAW, Ebensburg. Pa. . Ohice on flr,t t :.T.-.r, tf. r T i nT 1 1' Loan. 6i, iooi-u. lKNEY AT Liw? EUnsbur, Pa. Lrp 0n lIih street. adjoining his resi- Jan 81. I867.-tf. jjj K3NKEAD, Justice of the Peace ''thm fKandr aai'm A9nt. Office remored to "office formerly occupied by M. Hasgon, jf jl3. 1 J s. stiiaverTji stice of tue er-..; J?tahi'wu. Pa- Office on the IKSTISTKV. The 5 - a-?l HE RIFF'S SALES. Bv virtue of sundry writs of Plu. Levari Facias ond Vend. Expon., issued out of the Court cf Common I'ieas of Cambria Countr, and to me directed, ihere will be ex oped to Public Sale, nt the FosTta Horse i Jou.vsrow.v, on SAT URDAY, tub J9rH dat of Wat, at 1 o'clock, p. in., the following Keal l.tte, to wit : All the right, title nun interest of Cfc.is. Plitt, of, in and to the following useribd bi;ildiu and lot of ground, to wit: A dwelling lionreof two stories, (Immt,) having a frout of 24 feet and a depth of 32 Jeet. tituate oa Stony Creek street, at the toot of Lcergood street, in the Uorough of Johnstown, and built upon a certain lot ot ground bolcugwig to said Charles Plitt, which pnid lot is triangular in shape, and bounded by Stony Creek street, (at the foot of Levergood street,) Stony Creek and an alley which divide the lot of Charles Plitt from the property of Jacob Lerergood. Takeir in exe cution and to be sold at tho suit of Charles Helfrich. Also, all the ripbt, title and interest cf James F. Howard and Charles Piitt, of, in ami to a lot of ground situated iu the Borough of Johnstown, Cambria county. Said lot is tri angular in shape and bounded by fcHouy Creek street. Stony Creek and un alley which divides rafd lot from the properly uf Jacob Levcrgood, having thereon erected a two story frame Iiomso, now in the occupancy of Charles Tint. Taken in execution and to be sold at the suit of S.im'l X5eam,now for use of Schouiaker Laog et al. Also, all the right, title and interest of -Jacob Fyoek, of, in and to a lot of ground sit uated ia Frai.kliit'.own, Conemaugh township, Cambria county, fronting iO test on Main St. nd extending back 130 Icet to the old t w n ship road, adjoining an alley on the north and lot of John Kerr on the south, having thereon erected a one and a half story plai.k h..n-e. plank stable and carpenter .'uop. vmpv in the occipancv of Jacob Fyock and tJeore Berkey Li!e. Taken iu execution un J t be sold at the euit of Jacob Swank k Co. Aio, a'l the i"uhf, tit'.e onil interest of WH. Sprin?-r, of, in and t j the following de scribed building and lot of ground, to wit : A two story frame dwelling house, having a fro: t of lb' feet and 6 in lua and a depth of 21 feet and 5 inches, and is siiu'ie anon a certain lot or piece of ground within the county of Cam brio., more urticulaily de cribd as follows: Said lot has a front of M feet on a street on the plot of Murraysville, and extends back 130 teet to line of Portage It d! Road, bounded on either side by lands of the Johnstown Manu facturing Compauy, and is marked and known on the plan of lots iu U urraysviile by the No. 5. Taken in execution and to be sold at the suit of Johnstown Mechanical Works. Also, nil the riht, title and interest t;f Simtiel C irmichaH, of. in aud to the following described building aud lot of ground, to wit : That certain tw ttory p'ar.U house or buiiding situu'e in the town?hi; of Coneuiaugh and eountv tiforesaid, fronting 2G feet ou the Scalp Level Turnpike extending back 1G feet, plank d, wcuthei boarded and painted the lot on which tho building is erected having an alley on one side, lot of John liram on the other side, the turnpike ia front and ground of Nich olas Knorr in the rear and the lot or piece of ground or cartalege appurteneut to sai l buiid ing. Taken in execution aud to be sold at the suit of Charles Uelfrick. Aio, all the right, title ami interest of Levi Jacoby. of, ia and to two lotn of ground situated ia Conemaugh township, Cambria county, fronting on the south est on the Johns town and Sc.tlp Level Turnpike, and extending back to Solomon's Run, adjoiniug lot of James .Mellon on the one side and, lot of School IIoi:e No. 6 on the other, hai:i:r thereon erec'.ed a two story piank houc, with a one story kilcken attached, and a plank stable, new in the occu pancy of Levi Jacob j. Taken in execution Had to be sold at the unit of L. B. Cohick. JOHN A. BLAIR. SberifT. Sheriff's Office, Ebeusburg, klay 13, ItiC'J. PETITION FOR DIVORCE Cah- hkia CnrsTY, 6. The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania to the Sherifi'of Cambria County, Greeting: Whereas Anxik M 'C allisthi, bv 1 her next friend, David Z. Black, did, on the jih September, A. D. ISOo, prefer her petition to our Judges of the Court of Common Pleas, praying, for the causes therein set forth, that she", the said Annie M'Callister, might be di vorced from the bonds of raatriojouy tntereJ into with N'ason M'Callister. Wk therefore do command tou, the said Xa.'n M'Callister, as. we have heretofore com manded you, that setting aside all other busi ness and excuses whatsoever, you be and ap pear in your proper person before our Judges at Ebensburg, at a Court of Common Pleas there to be held for the said County of Cambria, on the firt-t Monday of June next, to answer the petition or libel of the said Annie M'Callister, and to show cause, it any you have, why the said Annie M'Callister, your wife, should not be divorced from the benda of matrimony, agreeably to the act ot General Assembly in such cases inade and provided ; and hereof fail not. Witness the Uonorb!e George Taylor, Pres ident Judge of our said CouM, at Ebensburg, the lGth day of BecemHer, A. D. ItfCS. J. K. BITE, Prothouotary. Attest Johx A. Dlaib, sheriff. (MajG. 4:.) NV CHEAP CASH STORE AT BUCK'S MILLS, Alleghany Township. The subscriber would respectfully announce to his friends and the public iu general that he has just opened at Buck's Mills a large aud superb stock of seasonable merchandise, con sisting of all kinds of DRY GOODS. DRESS GOODS, NOTIONS. GROCERIES, FUR NITURE, HARDWARE, grid all other arti cles'usually kept in a country store. t55Having paid cash for my goods I am de termined to dispose of them either for cash, lumber or country produce at as low prices as like goods can be bought from any dealer in the county. A liberal patronage is respectfully solicited. WM. J. BUCK. Buck's Mills, April 22, 1869 . tf. PLENDID FARM FOR tt SALE. The well known aud fp2! jj jj valuable Bcrze Farm, located in ti2 i Summerhill township, Cambria county, one a balf miles from Wilmore station, and containing 249 ACRES, in good condition, well fenced and having thereon erected a dwelling house and other necessary buildings, together with two splendid orchards and no lack ot excellent water, ia offered for sale on moderate terms and easy payments. For fur ther information apply to or address, J. McGONIGLE. Hemlock, Pa. R. R., May 6, lSGfJ.-tf. XECUTORS NOTICE! HavinS been appointed Executor of the last Will and Testament of Roblrt Williams, late of Cambria township, deceased, the subscriber hereby notifies all persons indebted to the es tate of said decedent that payment must be made to hiru without delay, and those Laving claims against the same are requested to pre sent them prouerlv authenticated for settle ment. WILLIAM LARIMER, Cambru Tp., May 6, lb59, 6t. -Executor Sjje poet's grparfmtnt. The way ia dark, my Father. Cloud cn cloud gathering thickly o'er uiy head, und loud The t"uundrs roar above ne. See, I stand Like one bewildered 1 Father, take my hand, And through the gloom Led s.ifslv home Tky child. The day gie fast, my Father 1 And my soul I drawing darkly down. .My faithless sijrht Sees ghostly Tisionj. Fears, a epectral band, Encompass me. O, Father, take iy hand, Aud from the nig'it Led np to light Thy child. The way is long, my Father! And my foul Longs fur th-j rest and quiet of the goal; 'Vh.le yet I journey through the weary land Keep mo from wandering. Father, tuke my hand ; Quickly and straight Led to heaven's gate Thy child. Thi path is rough, my Father! M"nr a thorn Han pierced me, and ray weary feet, torn And blee iing, mark the way. Yet Thy com m ind Bid3 iae pi ess forward. Father, take my hand; Then, safe cr- J blest, Lei I nr to re.-t Thy child. The throng is grer.t, my Father! Many a doubt And fear and danger coinp-is me atnut, And foes oppre s me o. J cannot stand Or go alone. O Fail-.cr ! tiko my hand, Aiid tlifiu'h the th:ung Le id saie along Thy child. The cross is heavy ! I have borne It long, and still do bear it. Lei my word And tainting spirit r'so to that b'e.-t land Where crowns are given. Father, take my hand. An l rsichhig down. Load to tho crown Thv chiid. A THRILLING IlEIiHISCZIVCr. iiT Gr.OKC.i-: u. cr.ooiiKR. When I was a boy of sixteen, a cousin of mine, tnuthct le? girl, named Adelaide Star, carue to ir.akcl.er hou.e with our fam ily. We lived iu the country, and I, who had ntither brother r.or fifder, was veiy glad of so charming a companion. She was two years younger than myself, but rather tall for her ai;o, with rich, auburn hair, h dear, animated complexion, and a initul at oav-8 sparkling and thoughtful. She cauie to U3 in a Spring, and my first recollections of her are associated with the May llowsr. As ll.ey lljral season i;rogrefe , v.e. et joyed frequent ramblep, and I took delight in cu!Iin r'jr ncr tue wua dime n ?cs mat .-c w in nio fusion beside a pond, which in winter was the skating resott fur all ihz young people of the neighboihooi. It occupied a picturryrp though lonely spot, the surrounding woodlands ehuting out all human habitations, wiili the ex ception of the mad-house or lunatic asy lum upon a bill H tnilo distant. Adelaide was charmed with tho bright waters and the surrounding wedth of wild flowers. Little did bhe imagine a far different scene in which upon this verv spot she would be ca!kd to act. I related to her the tkslirg feats cf the previous winter, aid once, I told her the story of "Crazy Ziiali," now confined in the madhouse. 1'ook Isaiah ! II i3 calamity originated v.pon the pond. Here, years btfote I was born, had Lis reason gone out. Rut it was not while the birds sang, or the green frogs plunged, or tho turtle peeped. Addie looked about her as if wondering whether the catastrophe happened by the gray stone just visible above the wa'e, or by tho rosebush upon the jet of land, cravvay in the centre of the lake. Then sue gazed eo pensively at the structure upon the hill that I repented having saddeued her with the tale. She, too, was a famou3 skater ; at least, I judged so from Iter enthusiasm upon tho subject, and from her half wish ing it was winter and I judged rightly, for was she not yet to owe the preserva tion ot that lovely htad to the dexterity of those fairy feet ? As time passed, wc became more at tached to each other from constant as eociaton. At last came the winter. The grett pond was frozen from end to end, and no skater who swept its surface eould rival Adelaide Starr. I could imagine her a swallow with eliining crest and beau tiful bright wings. Often on the moonlight evening?, while the eteel rang out and the madhouse was dimly shown in the distance, 1 pictured the fckating sports of other generations and the catastrophe to him who was now called "Crazy Zsiah." Once in the eld time, a number of very young boys come down to the pond. Ooe of them, a bright lad of ten years, was named Isaiah Marvin. It was a dark evening, and the unpractised little fellows met with many a mishap. There were seams in the ice which caught their skates ; there were treacherous sticks ly ing about it ; and there were holes which they could not .see. So, one and another fell ; but it was as children generally fall merely to spring up unharmed. Some stumbled into the springy places in the pond. What vould mother or Aunt Mary say when the wet stockings fchould go borne Isaiah was the only tolerably fine skater there was among them. From the norths ern extremity ot tba icc? where the Jeep spring hole was, away he swept to the end, till the figure was lost among the fa mous islands of wild rose-bushes, all leafless and frozen. Wheeling around, lie had just started to return, when anoth er boy, hkating in the opposite direction, having slipped upon a looac stick, plunged heavily against him. Isaiah was burled backward, striking his bead upon the ice, and then be re mained motionless. The blow was so i violent that it made a star!ike imprint in tho glossy floor. Vainly his terrified companions lif;eJ his head, or moved the small feet and hands. With his cap lying near him with the red and white com forter about his neck, and the skates upon his feot, he lay in silence. The boys drew together to counsel. They wtre horribly frightened the poor little fellows ! for l he loneliness was terri ble, th?re on the black ice in tho daik-uv.-s, wirti their seemingly dead compan ion . CVi:-.g, whispering or dcc!aiailng in round eyed terror, th- little lads canvass eJ tl.eir position. They had heard of dreadful murders they bad heard that boys had been hung? Grandmother had told them so Aunt Clara and I'nc'o John had told them so. Roys had been burg ! Wouldn't they be hung ? Wouldn't jjcople ft.-iy that they had killed Isaiah, j;iol as the boys whom grandmother told them of had killed t'ter playmate ? And then they would have ropes put around their neck 3 and be drawn in a cart ? SjLs and tlo.vniight crying worse than ever, attested to their credulity as this view of the case w.-ss taken. TIi3 children tf that day were not like those of the present. They were more ignorant, more si;njde, more the victims of imaginary and numberless terrors. And at hist, Zaiah's comrades, in their nine and tenfear oi l simplicity, resolved I to conceal his body under the ice. They dragged him towards the Fpring at the n;rth end ted and white comforler, poor little s-kates and ad, and there they laid him down, clo."e to the open water. Then one boy hesitated, and the hesi tation soon izrcv to positive objection. Another joined hisn, and again they all came to tt debate upon tho matter. Those who insisted upon the conceal ment, feeling themselves guilcss, and yet -inextricably involved in horrtrs, finally took cdF their skates and ran crying away. The others were about following, with intention cf seeking aid, when Laiah showed s-igns of life. How the poor boys cried for joy ! Thy stepped beside their" playmate and raised his poor head, and tried to lift him to his feet. The nnivtd of '!. r persons happily relieved them, au ! Isaiah Was carried borne. From that hour he had known but little. Always i;i winter Lis insanity was wors-3 than tit other seasons, and though forty years had oasxed si'ico the accident, be was still at times ti raing maniac. Once, csenpirg from the madhouse, be had come down at midnight to the pond. There, in the morning his keeper had found him. The, neighbors were sum moned to assist in his capture, and all were terrified by his fantastic gestures. He was a very large man, of immense muscular power. The story of L-niah made a deep im pression upon Adelaide. In the begin ning of winter she had dreamed that a monstrous madman pursued her about the pond, and even after, when skaking there at evening, she betrayed some timidity. In January, tho iee, which had been roughened by the skate-irons, thawed en tirely, and shottly after the pond froze smooth as glass. I communicated to Ad die the intelligence, much to her delight. The area was larger than usual, and no one had been upon the new ice. We set out for the scene nt evening, thinking to find a number t f our acquaint ances there ; but in this we were disap pointed. The farmer boys, with their sweethearts and sisters, were enjoying the fine sleighing a snow having lallen just previous to the freezing of the pond. I fastened the skates upon Adelaide's little boots real skating boots, which she had just waded through the snow with and away she glided as if borne upon the air. The excellent condition of the ice, give her artistic powers full play. In the clear central space tdie made rapid circle?, then darting out at an anglo she would sweep backward with wonderful swiftness. At length, whila we were widely sepa rated, she uttered a wild cry, as if greatly terrified. Hastening to her assistance, I beheld, standing at the mouth of an inlet about twenty feet in width, the gigantic figure of a man. He was bare-headed, with bristling hair and a horribly fierce aspect, Jieyond him, and between the hedge-like lines cf wild rosebushes, stood Adelaide, her beautiful arms upraised in frantic" terror. As I approached, he turned towards me. The frightened girl, seeing his at tention diverted, endeavored to escape by passing him. Instantly ho pushed to wards her, and as she wheeled despairing ly buck, I glided close under his arm and reached her eide. The inlet was a dozen rods long, narrowing as it went ; but near its extremity was another arm of ice branching from this, and reaching in a circuitous manner back to the pond. Away we went, et such speed as we had seldom used till now. "He will kill us ! he will kill us !" cried Addia. "We cannot get out ! O, it is ho narrow I" Rut narrow still was the arm at our right not more than two feet wide, and intervals almost wholly lost. 'Quick, Addie! Turn here I will follow ! We darted aside uoon the maniac Rut-the advantage was his, and without waiting to reach the point where he had turned, he came crashing through the bushes to intercept us It was a teniblo moment. At what point would he cross our path ? How we flew upon our surely tried skates! Little round haratnockf, patches of deep moss, "white ice," and ugly slicks everything, seemed in our way. And the madman thundering through the crackling brush ? O.ico Adelaide ran straight over an is land of briers, and bog, and snow, because in her terror tha had missed the little channel. Rut the maniac was too late. He rushed into the path at.a point just behind us, and sjon all three stood upon the wide pond. The peril was now pipatlv lessened, yet to escape from our position without i aid would be impossible. Ojr sole hope I was in remaining upon tba ice, where, if j Adelaide's nerves could sustain her under j the dreadful trial, I f it that we would be j able to avoid the madman's grasp. From j his wild ejaculations, it became evident ; that his object was the possession of Ad die's head, from which he in'ended to rnanu faeture a "skate boat." The gleam of a dangerous" lookiug knife put his ro- pu.-i'ion i a a fearfully practical l:ght He was Isai-di Marvin. Cold as was ... , .- . ., . , . ... -.i. the night, his feet were clothed only with stockings a most unfortunate circum stance for Addie and me, as they prevent e-d his slipping. Ho may have lost his Fi.oes i t the rou"h pastures which his poor crazy steps had crossed. Again he pursued us. The mihbors I wero too distant to havo heard, had we : cried out, and therefore in silence, and . hand-in -hand, we darted hither and ; thither. His agility was remarkable, yet j our evolutions were abundantly more rapid I than his pursuit. It was not pleasant, this dodging away fr om corners, tbia at- j tempt to keep tli3 middle of the area, this j rettin in and out of "cheek" O.ie falsa j move, and then Addie's head for a skate boat ! At lact he paused, looked all about him, and muttered incoherently in his fearful gibberish. Then leaping aside, he seized a dry branch w hich lay at tho foot of a tree beside the ronl. it was j Ion"' ar.d heavy. Y'ith this he resumed the chas', launching the mtssue at us, or sweeping it around u?, as we wheeled to avoid hi'ii. Njw, in very despair at our situation, j I bean to shout as often as I could get breath, yet I was no one came from not disappointed that the far-off read or the farmer's dwellings. Away to the south end we swept in our now increasing panic, the madman at our heels with his huge, stick. There we wheeled. Our pursuer was a good dis- tance behind, but as wc glided around to double upon him, lie hurled his club like a "boomerang." Striking the ice, it spun towards our feet, and though we leaped up to ave i J it, ths catastrophe came. A ringing of steel made my heart sick. Adelaida tottered, and clung to me with both hand?, while far out upon the ice, the runner of her left skate slid jing ling away ! The madman yelled like a wild beast. How cunning ho was, how quick he was to perceive his advantage 1 Rut there was still hope. Keeping Addie's hand in mine, w hile the balanced herself upon one little foot, I drew her swittly beyond the reach of those dreadful arm?, akating as I had never skated till then Arour.d aid around we went, and now that Audio's safety depended wholly upon myself, I felt that I should never grow weary. Yet how lon would bhe be able to glide upon one foot ? And would not that dreadful forest branch be again thrown with feaiful accuracy? It was thrown it came again ar.d again, and I felt that in some way the end of this scene must be near. In spite of my resolution, I grew in want of breath. I was becoming mad dened. At the north end of the pond I nearly skated into the deep, open spring. The maniac was closely following. Per ceiving the gleam of water, I bore heavily on the heel to avoid it, when again the huge branch elided along the ice, and both feet were struck from under me Addie at the same instant falling by my 6ide. The madman's club, continuing its course, splashed into the pot'!. -The maniac himself, coming at full speed, rushed directly over us. lie caught at Addie's cap in his wild career, snatch ing it from her head. Thrown from his balance by our prostrate forms, and unable to check his course, lit plunged headlong into the ?pring. Tho ice beneath Adelaide and myself wa3 yielding, and it required all our activ ity to escape from our position. Then in stantly throwing otT our skates, we ran homeward. An hour later, when the neighbors Ttsit ed the pond, the madman was found still alive in tho d cap water, supporting himself by clinging to tho ice and to the dry branch which he had placed upon it. The shock had dispelled his frenzy, and in a state of utter exhaustion he was carried back to the asylum. A sm.vkt thing a mustard plaster. SI SLtttUM TO j Id jt;.u. Jennie June, laniiuishinii in gilded," not having anything else to do, wrote a letter concerning the status of "dear woman," and sent the same to the Hartford Times. The editor, a good-natured fellow, well known for Ids devotion to the fair sex generally, out ot pure gal lantry, and being n little short of "copy" at the time, published gentle Jennie's jaundiced jeretnaid, and at the close of the same expressed the hope tl at hi fair correspondent might be "all that God in tended her to be," which was gentleman ly on his part, and proved him to be the good-natured fellow we at-suited. Jennie opens with a conundrum, thus: "Will the time ever comowhen women will be born free to do and to be w hater- cr they can ? free to decide their own j destiny, without the compelling pressure, I in any given direction, from friends or And then adds doubtfully, "It may,' but gives up for "this generation," at least. That's a poser, Jennie, that conun i drum, and at present no solution can be given. We might say "Y'cs," but yoi ! would shake your head and say, "I can't ; believe, it." If we said "No," ycu would shake your little fist at us and say, "I i won't believe it." We couldn't convince ! )'ou eulier way, poor victim of "slavery :iiued, anu so we "give it up." As to your doing and beiu " whatever can wh.-.t, where is thi bar ! l ou nro r?fi:,rrf m tv rn.n ..f f.r..i. .!"-, i not being recognized, fr om Con-ress, we i -,, . , . ' . ' wiu adm.t ; but State prisons are as open to von as to men. ami at fwo oviU voti t T - . - j Ii ii . ...... ' flluul11 moose itie least. l.at else is ' mere mat you cannot crasn it von nave the ability and cour.-to to "do aril dare' and necessary capital ? If you haven't these reqm.-ited which many men lack, it's ! your misfortune and not our fault isn't i it ? j Tell us what you can't "do," and "be," ' outside of voting, and Congi esswoman. ! Sculpture, painting, authorship and edi ! torial duties are open to you, and you j tiave I he taste, ability, genius and will to enter these fields. You "tench the young idea how to shoot," pretty extcn j bively, and should be, and no doubt you ! are, proud of it. In jour ranks are lec turers, preachers, physicians, actresses, fortune-tellers, colporteurs, saleswomen, book-keepers, etc. The arts and sciences, polite and useful, are all open to you. You may study l tw if you wish, though clients might be a little fearful lest their I secrets would exit ; you may discuss pol ities with the greatest "freedom," though haviog as yet, but little voici in national ' tr numicipal atFdrs, you aro not entirely le(t !,t ir' ,lie c"1 J PL,&t "His and Treas ury c e ivshius being within your reach. You run millinery establishments, bar rooms, peanut stands, and sundry and j divers other institutions of emolument and , profit, and if you don't like city life you i can go to farming two young ladies of Iowa have lately taken up land in that State, and are now running a farm on their own hook. There's the tensoriul profession noth ing to hinder you from monopolizing this j branch of industry, r j you a fruitful field hei and we can promise icre. 1 on cemiel have all our custom. Who would go to Tom Higins's shop w hen thej- could go to Jen nie June's ? With the exception of voting and being Congrefswomeo, there is nothing, Jennie, you are not "free to do ar.d to be," even to speculating in Erie and becoming stock gimhlcrs, if you possess the requisite will ! ari l ability, and necessary capital. Had you the Ei ie-prcs.-iblo qualities cf l'i.-k, Jr.. like him you cou! t go it with a per fect looseness pray hat's to hinder ? Rut if j'ou have only the qualiticsand na ture of the dr.fir gazelle, how do you ex pect to play the lion ? Some of the fraterr.ify of women don't e:eme hive It it their heeds as ct. Read: "Mrs.DoIly Chandler and one hun dred and ninety-four other women have sent a remonstrance to the Massachusetts Legislature against women suffrage be lieving that it would "diminish the purity the elignity, and the moral influence of women, and bring into the family circle a dangerous clement of discord, without additional strength, elileiency, or wisdom to the government of the nation," and ak to be let alone, "in the condition allotted to vs ly nature, custom and rtliyion.'" In addition to xtll that you now elo and might do, of a useful nature, yo:i are not restricted in your amusements and recrea lions. lou have your orders, societies and clubs ; you drive fast horses, play billiards, risk more or less in games of chance, such as "dollar stores," etc., as much perhaps, as tho tren in the great game of chance Matrimony. You have your junketings at Delminico's and other places, you well, what don't you do ? Yon say : "The husband is proud of I is wife ; ha would not let her foil her white hands for the world ; and he is delighted to gratify her every wish to the extent of his moacs. In society, and even at home, lie is ap parently her tlavo. And she boasls of his ready attention to her every behest. Rut ebe is dependent upon him." Ah ! that's where the shoe pinches, eh ? dependence. Say, Jennie, didn't she know as well before marriage as after, that she would be dependent upon him ? Why didn't she remain single and tVioV- pcnjent "free ?" There was no law i compelling her to marry him, and nothing iu the "Constitution as amended (T; to that eflict. Even if the old ger.tLman was determined upon the match, all &be had to do at the allar wn to muster op a little pluck and f-ay "No." Fudge, Jen nie, all fude, this talk about "independ ence." Who is independent ! Ar. F. Jji.rn.dtr. DLt'EIT OF SOXG WRITERS' BY THE "TAT COS THIBCTOH." The man who wrote "Ho me, Fwcet Home never had & home. Esc luf tt. No. of course not. All his folks at home say he didn't. Nobody who writes abont anything ever has it. Ii a man is -ut of anything he immed'atelj' gees ai:d write as t)l0 nian who is cut cf his Lead Certainly he didn't have any h RDOUt it. iu one wriifsjo mauj- any he-rce. Tho man xho "ivitte "Cld Ami Chfii" sev er had on srm cl air in all Irs life. The best he l ad was an o'-d fplit bottom chair witht-v.t ar.y brck to it. The ru'hcr tf' Thke rrelack to Switzer land" iittr was in Switzerland. The Efar cst he ever cr.ir.e ta it was sit ting in the W. Tell saloeu eating Switzer k:se terse why, that was the best he could do. "Mother, I've ctme Iieroe to Die'' hadn't spoken to the old woman ft r years, and wouldn't ?o Dear the house. Resides, he is one of that c'uss cf st iritualit-ts who don.t Vpliptu will f-vt-r f'ie. His health was Dever v.ftter. His mother is nothing but j a mother in-law, and she is dead, anyhow. : There id the author of "Old Oaken Enck- , er." uo ; there r:asu t a urk cu ti m, , farm, water beicg drawn wuliaralaLda eiotern po.e. -Is I had but a thousand a vear" stated prj,ate,y to hu fritnd:j Um jjS .eu-j be r.i., i v'r tkr ,,r.- A, ILCJ ItrC 1 1 T 'IJ iriil'A uit uan mai. oui.i, o- I a - . . . ; be was doing chorea just for h'.s board and turee moutas scnooiin in me winter The author of Champagne Charley" never drank anything but ten cent whisky. The man who wrtte "Mary had a litsUi lamb" knew very well it was nething but a little lamb fry. "Shells cf Ocean'' is a hnrrbng. The plaintive poet who represents himself a wandering, one summer's eve, with sea-beat thought, ou a pensive shore, was raised in the interior ef Pennsylvania, and never was ten miles away from home in all his life. "Gathered Shells." did he? All the sheila he ever gathered were some egg shells back of his mother's kitchen. "Hark, I hear the angels singing" spent all his evenings, in a concert beer saloou. AnceL, indeed ! The man who wrote the "Sjc of tha Shirt" hadn't a shirt to his back, wearicg a wammuj for the mot-t part. -Oft in the Stihy Night" UEed to get on a spree and make the stilly night howl till day break. The author of "We met by chacce" knew very well it was all arranged before hand. He had been weeks in contriving it, and she admired his contrivance. Tho author of "I know a back," oVc.. didn't know one where he could get hia note discounted. The only check he ever held was a white check on a faro bank. Ha never had a ied check in all his life. 'What are the wild waves saying ?" knew very well they were reproaching him for running away from Lotg Pranch without paying his hotel bill. "Who will care for mother now?" Who, indeed ! You took the old woman to tba poor Louse just before writing the song, and there is nobody but the pocrmaster to care for her now. 'Hear mo Norma." was de;if and dumb. He couldn't make his pa hear nor ma. 'My mother dear" used to thrash the old woman within au inch of her life. Tho author of "Kaiu on the roof" always slept in the basement, except whea ho slept out doors. "Let mc kiss him for his re.other." got mad becau.-e his mother wouldn't have him, and whipped her little boy within an inch, of his life. T dreampt I dwelt in marble bails." used to cheat at marbles when a hoyi and h:s dream was a horrid nightmare, brought on by remorse at tho reeol'ection of fraudu lent marble hiinJ.t. T'ui saddest w hen I sing," was tickled almost to death when invited to. "Happy by thy dreams," s ld benzica whiskey. Ycu can fancy what kind of dreams were produced. "No ono to love," bavintr j'.ist killed hia fifth w ife, naturally Lit I ke the devil. Cin. Time. WOXI'ERS cr Minutk Wot TMiJtSmP. In the twentieth year of Queen Elizabeth a b!acksmith named Mark Scaliot made a lock, ecusiiting of eleven pieces of iron, Ftctl, and brass, all cf which, together with a key to it, weighed bit one giain of gold. He also made a chain cf gold, consisting of fjrty-three links, and, having fastened thU to the before-mentloae 1 lock and key, he put the chain about the r.eck of a Ilea, which drew them all with ease. All these togeth er, lock and key, cha:n and flea, weighed only one grain and a half. Oswaldus Nor- ! hiueerus. who was more famous even than SJrv!i. it. for his loirntn rnntriraneos. is said t.-. l,v. tr.i.'fl siitpm Imn.-iml dises r.f tnrn. i ed ivory, all perfect and complete in everv part, yet so smail, thin orui slender, that all tf them were included at once ia a cup turned out cf a peppercorn, cf the common sizo. Johannas Shad carried this wonderful work to Pome, ard showed to Pope Paul Y., who saw and counted them ail by the help of a pair of spectacles. They were so little as fo be almost invisible to the ye. Johan nes Ferrarius, a Jesuit, had in his possession cannons of wood, with their carriages, wheels, and all other military furniture, all of which were also contained in a pepper corn of the ordinary size. An artist namad Claudus Gallus, made for Ilippolytus d'Esle, Cardinal of Ferrara, representations of un dry birds sitting on the tops of trees, which by hydraulic art and secret conveyance of water through the trucks and branches ef the trees, were made to siug and clap thefr wings ; bat by the sudden appearauce of arj owl out f a bush of the same artifice, they immediately all became mute and silent.- World of Wonder. nr
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