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3.
E B E N S BURG, PA., THURSDAY, AUGUST 5, 1869.
NUMBER
p STATE OF IGNATIUS ADAMS,
j J -y va?p Notice of Rule on the ITeis-s
! i.e. i! Keprcscntatives of I;iiat:uj Ad.irus,
c"' r:.;'ii!M A COUNTY, ss The Cowmen-o.l-l;
"i l'f!;n Ivani.a to Joseph t'riste, Gr.ar
;; ,,. ! Kiiz" Kjle ntnl Guardian pro hac vice
f.jr Vi'..;.!i'i--! ami Thomas Ii ei! !y and tor Jane
i.i M.C L. A (''isi!, Mat'icw M. Adam., Mary
'I , i.u nH'riy M.irv Keilly,) now residing
iir'.j,M -s.h, I'., l'ridsret nnd John Iteilly,
r '.o -;..!.! Jo.:: nv re-iiirtr ;n Clearfield coeti
tv Pa..) K'nami Adams, .lr, (present resi
,'.,.'!! r.r.v:'.'."n'".) heirs lrg.il rcpro.-eiiT.i-
ct ...m Adams, late of Wiid.ingtt n
toVii,..'''r- county, dccespe-J : You and
cvnv if yi'i: :"e l'-ft!'v cited to be mid appear
f t'r.-re the J :j ! ii ? of die Orphuna' Court to 1)3
J ai KIvaAiv.T'X on l'ie lr4r Monday of Sop-t.-ir'jor
next, nnd theu and there to accept or
refuse to tae t!ie real c-it-ue of the yaid Icn i
ru AiJiUiir", deceased, situate in the township
0f Wa.-'liii'Kton afore aid, and which Iihs hee?i
valued and .-ippraised hy an Inouet awarded
l,v tlie ?aid Court, Hiid returned bv the Sherifl
,.f f.iid county on the 3d June, IMiH, to wit:
",o 1 , cotitainir pr 4 acre and 15') perches, vnl
i'.cd tid nprraied nt eleven dol'nrs per acre ;
'o. 2, coitinin? 1 acre end 27 perches, valued
tr.'l appraised at one huni're 1 dollars per acre;
v.i. '.', coiitair.in 2 acre- and I'M) perches, val
t,tJ atui apprai.-od at nine dollars per acre ;
2'ii. 4, contaiiiiiiL: 1 1 fi acre and 125 perches,
v:i','il and apprai-cd : t .ixt een dollars per acre;
n. i. contaiiiiii.s 417 acres and HO perches,
vihif l and appraised at nine dollars per acre ;
. C, coiitai:iiti;r 471 aces and 7() perche-.
v.iluf'l and spprraied at nine dollars per aete;
f-r.i':i"W cuie why the game fchould not be eold.
And herein fail not.
W itness tiie Hon George Tavlor, President
J'l.L-Aof owr said Court, at Ebensburg, this
iOih lisvof June. A. D. 1PC9.
JAMES GRIFFIN, Clerk.
Attest JonN A. ItAia. Sheriff.
II! ebur'. July 10, 1869. 4t.
j 31. L. O ATM AN,
DEAJ.ER IK
tilt E FAMILY GROCERIES
CONSISTING CP
CRA1 FCCD,
BACON, SALT, FISH,
FRESH VEGETABLES,
ALL K1MDS OF FRUITS,
SUGARS, TEAS, COFFEES,
SYRUPS. MOLASSES, CHEESE. &c.
I Also, a large stock of the
Best Brands of Cigars and Tobacco,
STOKE ON HIGH STREET,
I-jur Doors Eat of Crawford's Hotel,
E BENSBURG FOUNDRY
AGAIS IS H'LL SSL. A ST !
NEW FIRM, iNEWBUlLDINGS, Zlc.
HAYING purchased the well known ET?
KNSHb'KG FOI.NDHY from Mr. fdw.
Glass, and rebuilt and enlarged it almost eu
t:ipy, bosiilcs rofitiinp it with new machinery,
the subscriber a.e now j repared to furmMi
VOOK. PARLOR Sr 11EATIXG STO VES,
of the litest and most f-.pproved natferna
TiillKSlllNG MACHINES. MILL G KA R-
i.Mi, IKZ and ATI." WHKhl.S ofeverv
-rit.iir.n, IRON FKNC1NG. PLOUGHS
m,i PLdUtill CASTIN(bS, and in fact hi!
ni 'r.:,c of articles niauuf.iof.red ia a first class
Au,.,-ry. Job Work of all kind atteudod to
pn,mi.t!y and dune chcaplv.
1 i.e spi-cial attention of Farmers ia isivitcd
to rtaly patented PLOUGHS which we
p s-Pvi the i,,,, ri-i,t to manufactnre and poll
tl cuiinty, and which are admitted to be
tl p,Tt -t,ver i"tr"'1t,ed to the public.
Je!.eviii;.r ourselves capable of performing
"' ':k in our line in the most satisfactory
rayu.er, and knowing that we can do work at
v 1 kp. I ricks thau have been charged iu this
03ir,n:.;ty heretofore we confidently hope that
v? will he found worthy of liberal patronage.
reductious made to wholesale dealers.
-ii"The hii-hent Tn-irns nnil in rfih far ohl
1
C"d. or ca-tings given in exchange.
IR TtEMS AttK STRICTLY CASH OR COUN'TST
rzoit. CONYEKY, VIXKOE & CO.
Jrg, Sept. -2, lffc8.
GF-0 C K. ZAIIM. JAS. B. ZAUM.
ZAHM 8l SON,
DEALKR3 I IT
MY GOODS, GROCERIES.
HARDWARE, QUEENSWARE,
iSIS. HATS 41 CAPS.
ASD ALL OTHER ARTICLES
l8Ual,Jr KeP In a Country Store.
XV0L AND COUNTRY PRODUCE
- Es 13 EXCHANGE FOK GOODS I
STORE ox MAIN STREET,
Wex Door to the Post Office,
-JEBENSBURG, PA.
;SGLARTEI)?cFnMAIiY AUTENHER-
it vcrg fjf A J . . . CU T L 1 V til
rr.y AweaberP mi1n,!i"l-on on the eitate of
'd.have Ute ,f CarroU wnship.
r,u-e t . ... r... uei U persona lndct.to,! ;.!
7kbi 1 t.n,Uhbe milde i'"out de
Lel,th Serl lariU" CUI" 10 P'-
U Tp.jAHNER.AdmV.
(llje i)od s gfp-irfmcnt.
ins as susircn.
Life, 1 iiie the weather, with shade and thine.
Ever is chequered from time to tiruo.
Ql rather think thii remark of nmo
Has oft ere now been observed in rbyrne.)
Fate ij a wenthercoch prone to vcjr.
And turns to the wind that may be in
power ;
And lifV i;s clmnly, ar.d life is clear,
In the reij:n alternate of sun aud shower
Sow you'il bo drenched wet through to
the skin,
And ban the weather in uiidertones ;
N'jw you aro melted and wish you were
thin.
Or "cou'd take off your fiesh and sit ia
your bone?."
e have in our favored Yankte climo
Gleam and gloom in the e!f .anie hour;
Nay. often we get them both at uno time,
An April fctrug'e of sun and shower.
But take the advice a philosopher tend;.
If miforf.:e suiely you w ish t. bilk
And be:, or bortoxv, or steal fiom your
'friends.
The homely gi.iclnm, or costly silk.
Would you late tl,e climate with iron nerve.
And calmly o'er its vieMs-im l-3 tower !
Procure an umbrella because 'twill serve
As shade in fcunshine and bheUcr in
shower.
alts, Sfitfcjjcs, ntcboffs, tit.
IPJ THE JAWS OF DEATH.
I'm an eninc.d river on the great West-by-Nortb
railway. We don't chase light
ning over the priiies on our line, for we're
slow, and pretty sure. Oars is a new
line a very new one running through
miles of unsettled country. For jears
past I've drove on that line. I drove
there when it tan only twenty miles ; and
I eaw and ran along that hue as it stretch
ed out farther into the groat region west
ward till it went its hundreds.
We've cow-catcher on our engine?, and
nothing to laugh nt ue'uher. On jonr
few mile-long lines you can fence. ISdt
when your line happens to get over a thou
sand miles, feucing comes expensive, and
makes a hole in the prolits ; eo that it
was soon found necessary to have some
thing in front that would throw off a cow,
or a bullock, if it had strayed on the line;
ebc, b'.-ing an obstinate eort of beast, he
might throw off the train. For they ?. ill
ftray, nnd there's no mistake about them,
when you sea thcra there and sound the
horn lor we use that as well as the whis
tle instead of the ?iup;d thing getting ofl
and into safety, they'll go galloping off in
their clumsy, cocktail, cne-two-three am
ble, till we catch up to thf-m, and then
well, I should say that in my time 1 1 ave
mad.? beef of a score of cows, thouh I
never made an end of a tl How-creature
yet. I was very near il though, once.
You've laughed about the Ftokcre oing
out iu front, on to the cow -catcher, to
heave billets of wood at the brutes; but
it's a fact ; an j I've done it b.-fora now ;
and a good crack from a cornerish piece
of wood ha3 saved 'em, making them eive
a kick and a plunge 0.'I the single hue,
and giving us room to go by.
Hot there are things that will not jr?t
out of the way, do what you will; J be
lieve you might sound the horn or whistle,
or whatever you'd got, at any old woman
who was crossing the line, and she'd only
stand still and stare ; while, if you had a
billet of wood she'd only shake her umbrel
la at you, and call you a villain. They're
dreadful creatures, old women arp, and if
it wasn't for the thought that they were
young, I don't I.now how we should bear
them. They don't seem to understand
railways at all ; they never have their
tickets ready ; they're always cither too
soon or too late, aud wliea once they're in
the car, they bother every cne to .death,
and drive the guard mad by expecting
that folks have entered into a conspiracy
to carry them past their destination.
Why, a friend of mine, a guard on the
line between New York and Chicago,
once told me of an old lady going to the
last place and wanting to get off at the
first station.
Well, putting cows first and old women
second, the next on the list, to my way of
thinking, are children, bless 'em 1 I love
children, got half a score of them myself,
but they always give me the cold shivers
when I tee them near a railway. For
you see, I suppose for comoany's sake,
being an out of the way, lonely ftpot, there
was a chap built himself a log shanty
close to the line, where be bad made a bit
of a clearing, and perhaps he thought it
would be a bit of comfort for bis wife and
little ones to see the trains go by with peo
ple in the cars, besides being a bit of pro
tection from the wandering tribes about ;
for you see, where a man set3 up his tent,
as you may say, oat in the wilderness,
he's obliged to run risks ; so any chanco,
however email, of making it less risky, is
snatched at.
I got quite to know these people, and
nice, hard working folks they were. Why,
before they bad been there six months,
that bit of wilderness began to look like a
garden of Eden, and two more people came
and pitched in the next bits. I quite knew
these first folks, though they never spoke ;
for I always went by them at twelve miles
an hour ; but the little ones ued to stand
at the shanty door and cheer, and as time
went on I'd wave my hat to the wife, and
husband, too, bo that they generally
used to come out when they heard me
coming up or down ; and more than onco
mine has b?en an r.nxious journey when
I've passed there, and all had been qiet,
but the next time I'd pa-s there would be
some onoat the door or in the stmwberr"
patch in front. J
We gi.t to be such friends at last that
I used to buy candy and dongbnufa and
heavj 'cm into rhe garden ?s I went by f. r
the children to scramble after, and that's
what.it was that did it, aud thia ia how it
was :
We were going comfortably along one
afternoon, till, aa we got near the clearitig
where my friends, as I called them, wero
located, I begn to forage about in my
pockets fur a couple of papers of something-
that I'd got, when my stoker frays,
'Hallo! what's that on the "line V
"Cow," says I.
"Cow; no," he says. "Why why
it's children !"
Sjund the" I did not stop to finish,
but opened the little valve myself, making
tho shrill afternoon air quiver with the
huihiw booming roar it sent fur and w ide.
That's moved 'em," says my stoker,
laughing to see tha little distant figures
scamper away!
"I thought it would," I says ; and then,
with my hand on the valve, I made the
thing scream and roar again, for there was
one of thura still in the middle of tho track.
Iu a moment I'd forgotten all about the
Eturl in the papers, for a setiou sort of
feeling came over me, one that for a few
monionts took all the nerves from my
limbs eo that I could not move ; and then,
instead of reversing tho engine, I began
to creep fcrwaid, while, as if for the same
feeling, my etoker stood staring with all
his might at the poor little child.
We were too near it to Lave done our
parts, and it was with a groan, seeming to
force itself out of my breast, that I told
myself it was through encouraging the
poor children with presents that this was
going to happen, for there, seeing no dan
ger, was a bright-eyed, long-haired thing,
dancing about and waving its hands ua we
came swiftly on.
it takes me sometime to tell, bnt it enly
took a few moments; nnd there it is all
now like a picture that, having once seen,
I can never forget. It wan a glorious,
golden, sun-shiny afternoon, with all look
ing bright and mellow ; the hut with its
patch of fl jwers ; the children by the side
of the line, and their mother running out
wild and frantic like, but only to drop down
in the track, half way bt-Uveen the door
and where her little one was dancing and
waving her little hands as we glided on.
I telt like a man does in one of those
nigbt-inare dreams, when the will is there
to do something, only a dreadful kind of
forco holds you back and j-ou can see dan
ger coming nearer, and not avoid it. We
neither of us spoke, but stood there, one
on each sido, leaning forward as helpless
as the poor little child in the front, till with
aliaost a yell I fought clear of the power
tLut seemed to hold me, and with the feel
ing on me that I was too late, crept along
the si i j of the engine, and Jay down with
arm5 extended ia front of tiui cow-catcher.
Only moments, but moments that seem
ed like hours, as with its btrang?, hurry
ing, jumping motion the engine dashed
down, as I told raysif, to crush out the
life of that poor little innocent. 1 wt.ntcd
to bhut my eyes to keep out the hoiiiblc
sight, but I dared not ; and though now I
seemed to be doing what might save the
chili's life. I could not think it possible.
There it was, juet iu front, mid yet wa ap
peared to ccme no nearer. In an ordina
ry way we should have passed the shanty
a dozen times ; but now the horror of
those moments acted so on iny imagi
nation that we seemed to crawl slowly but
surely, like the motion of some vast ma
chine that hardly seems to move, and yet
forces its wy on with a power that there
is no stopping.
Twenty yards ten yards were we
never going to pass over the spot ? or
would some miraoulous power stop the en
gine ? I tried to shout, but only a curious
hoarse noise came from my throat ; I
wanted to wave my hands, but they re
mained stretched out obstinately toward
the child.
Five yards four three. There was
the little thing laughing in its innocent
glee, for it was expecting some little pres
ent from me, who was then calling myself
its murderer, and there lay motionless as
a statue.
Two yards one at last all over. -There
was a shock as we dashed down on
the little thing, who seemed to stretch out
its'hands to mine, and to lesp, actually
jump into my arms, and then, with it
tightly grasped, we were still going on
and on, I with my eyes shut, but feeling
that I had the child tightly held to my.
breast, and yet not able td look to see if
it was hurt.
Then I don't know how it was, but I
believe I must have got up and crawled
back to the place by tho stoker ; but I
don't know, I can't recollect doing it, on
ly finding myself sitting down there hold
ing the frightened little child in my arms,
and feeling stunned and helpless as a child
myself.
"Wh.it am I doing of ?" I said at last,
for my stoker had spoken to me. "Why,
I'm crying," 1 said ; and so I was, crying
like some great girl.
We dared not stop to take the little
thing back, but we sent it from the next
station ; and you'll believo me when I
tell you that we wore better friends after
wards than ever.
HOLDIKG VAKDEHSILT'3 II0S3E.
A Ti.CE STOIiT TUOM "WALL STKEST.
A young mnn from an adjoining State,
who has recently been rescued from a
score of hungry creditors, and who still
has a credit at his banker's of about
$100,000. but who not long ago was in
reduced circumstance? and obliged to live
in retirement on Staten Island, makes the
following solution of his sudden acquisi
tion of a competency. The eentleman
Holt by name was resiJ'mg in one of the '
lashionuble hotels cn Statcn Island. He j
was extremely down-hearted. This was j
the reason of his low spirits: About two I
years ago ho hud married h handsome wo- i
man, on wnorri lie laniy aotod. it that
time he had ."?-o,000 in cash. Soon after
the ri'Jptual ceremony, Holt removed to
this city, and soon after became a broker
on Wall street. He was too honest to
pujceod there. The Lu!!s and bears gored
and tore him financially and in less
than twelve months be had not a dollar
left. Disgusted, he retired with as good
grace as possible, leaving his cash to ful
fill its mission. With wife andriii!d he
went to the country, and finally, as before
stated, settled down in a hotel on Stateti
IslMid. His wife had some means, and
she gave it uecly for the support of the
family.
About two weeks ngo, late one hot af
ternoon, a gentleman drove up to the ho
tel where Holt was living, and grufHy
asked whether there was a boy there who
would hold his horse. "I'll do it, sir,"
said Air. Ilolf, and he did hold the animal
during the time consumed by the elderly
gentleman in obtaining his dinner.
A few days later the same gentlemm,
driving the same horse, stopped at the
same hotel, and hunted for a boy again to
hold his horse. No boy being present,
Holt again volunteered. He held the
horse until the hostler came to take the
animal to the stable, and then retired
within the hotel to dress for dinner
Mr?. Holt had a way of making her hus
band get himself up very respectably at
least onee each day, and that was for the
dinner hour. Usually he had been rather
negligent of bis costume, and since bis fi
nancial Jbj.co had really become seedy.
When Mr. and Mrs. Uolt entered the ho
tel dining room that evening-, Mrs. Holt
was resplendent. Her husband was at
least dressed in gentlemanly style. At
an adjoining table eat the elderly man
whose horse Mr. Holt had on two differ
ent occasions had the pleasure of holding.
The eyes of the elderly individual were
observed to dilate considerably. In fact,
ho stared at ilr. and Mrs Holt. But be
said nothing at that time. After dinner,
however, he sought Mr. Holt and bluntly
asked his name. "Holt, sir, at your ser
vice." "And who do you think I am ?"
ngain asked the elderly prr&onnge. "Ob,
you? You are 'old' Yanderbilt! I kr.ow
you, and the horse I have held is Moun
tain Hoy, an animal any man might be
proud to draw a rein over."
Instead of taking offence at the epithet
"old," Mr. Yanderbilt for it was thi
Commodore f.:emed to like it and be
rnado some inquiries about Hull's antece
dents, took a fancy to him, and peremto
ri Ally ordetcd the young roan to make his
appearance at bis up-town ofli.o on the
ensuing forenoon at precisely 11 o'clock.
Holt promised to o!ey, did so, nnd bad
an interview of over an hour's duration
with the millionaire.' What wa3 done or
said on that occasion no one has ever
been able to learn. I5ut a few days later
Holt made his reappearance in Wall
street and speculated strongly and success
fully in a Cffti-in line tf stocks known to
be mostly con! rolled by Commodore Yan
derbilt. So we ll did be work his ear I
with the instructions undoubted!' obtained
from tho Commodore, that iu a few weks
he cleared over $100,000 in cash, which
he deposited with a prominent banking
house whose vaults are protected by bur-glar-proof
locks, and who keep da' and
night watchmen expressly paid to seo that
no unauthorized person tampers with
those safeguards. Two days ago Yan
derbilt sent for Holt again and said to him:
"Young man, I hear you have made
some money. I am glad to learn it Now
just take my advice a second time. Nev
er put a foot in Wall street again. You
are not 6uited for that atmosphere. Shun
it as you would the devil. Yov've got
enough. Keep what you have and be
contented."
Holt now shuns Wall street aa he
would a pestilence. X. Y. Sun.
A orrsT at a Cleveland hotel was dis
covered by the proprieter the other eve
ning, rather tenderly embracing one of
the chambermaids. The landlord rebuk
ed him 6omewhat angrily, and wanted to
know the reason of such condact. "Sim
ply observing the rules of the house," said
the guest, pointing to a card tacked on
the room door. "Don't it read, 'Any
neglect of servants should be reported at
the office V I don't want to b3 reported
at the office for neglect of servants, do I ?"
A countrymam who had never paid
more than twenty-five centa to see an
exhibition, went to a city theatro one
night to see the "Forty Thieves." Tho
ticket-seller charged him seventy-five
cents for a ticket. Passing the pasteboard
back, he quietly remarked : "Keep it,
mister ; I don't want to seo the t'uer
thirty-nine," and out he marched.
Slow Jacob Struma got a IFlfo.
Many of onr residents will undoubtedly
remc-mb2r Jacob Strawn, who lived in
Jacksonville, 111., about twentysfive or
thirty years ago. Jacob died one of the
very wealthiest men in the State of which
he had been a resident. He was a hog i
and cattle dealer, and has been known to j
have in his possession as many as 00,000 j
head of each at one time. Well, Jacob
lived to be tbitty years of ago, and up to
that time never had occasion to unite
himself to one of Eve's daughters. He !
t.uj , lanai ouu ui ii man uiui never
dreamed thut such a thing as marriage
was possible while a person was possessed
of even moderate means. However, at
that age he was rich, and one day the con
viction vory naturally forced itself on his
mind that ho should procure some one of
the opposite sex to enjoy Lis riches with
him.
Thirty ye.-rs ago, in the section of !
country in which Mr. Strawn lived, girls '
wete not so plenty as they are at present.
Ia fact, it may be said, they were like
"angels visits, few nnd far between."
Hut those who did reside nigh unto Jack
sonville were as beautiful as tho longest
day in summer is lengthy. Now, be it
known, Jacob was a patrician. Demo
cracy was with him a sacred principle,
nnd notwithstanding the circumstance that
he was immensely wealthy, and that the
greater number of families residing near
him were poor, so far as h"i8 feelings went,
or even his actions, never did he make a
manifestation of egotism or self-pride.
Outside of Jacksonville, a couple of
miles perhaps, there lived quite a respectable-
family. This family employed a
servant girl. Tho maturity which the
lape of eighteen years produced was ap
parent in her face nnd form. Like the
great majority of country girls, she looked
a9 if ehe was ever gnzing upon roses and
those roseg were reibctin; their beauty in
her cheek.
Graceful and neat in the extreme, and
possessing a very fair share of intelligence,
this girl was a match for whomsoever j
might take her unto himself. Jacob saw
this flower and detormined to possess it.
To transplant it into his own house, to
have it to cheer, was the grand object to
which he directed his thoughts. lie loved
without etx having spoken to his idol of
his day thoughts and dreams. Romance
was something of which Jacob had prob
ably never heard, and so making love
with him was like buying a steer a mere
matter of business. One day he rode to
the door of the residence of the fair maid,
alighted from his horse and knocked with
the butt end of his whin. The lady of ihe
house, answered his summons, and imme
diately upon her making her appearance,
Jacob asked for the servant girl.
The servant girl came. Said Jacob :
"I want a wife, and I've picked you out
as the most proper person for that posiiiuu
that I can possibly find. I've never spo
ken to you before, but then that makes no j
difference. Td give you oue week to con
sider." The girl blushed, and was dumbfoun
ded. Jacob mounted h"i3 horse and rode
away. The girl inquired in regard to Mr.
Strawn's character and standing, and was
advised by those with whom she lived to
accent the oiler of his hand. Punctually,
a week after, Jacob rodd up to the door,
knocked again with Ins whip, and said :
"Is it no or yes ?"
lihishingly, and while tears traced each j
other down her roy cheeks, the girl ;n
swered, iu a low tone, but "quite distinctly :
"Yes."
"V.'cl!," said Jacob, "lot's see; this is
Monday ; we get married the day alter to
morrow, Wednesday. Here's some money
to buy a wedding outfit," and he threw
her a purse containing a thousand dollars.
The couple did get married on Wednes
day, and no happier pair, during their life
time, was to be met within the State of
Illinois.
A Cnurtcii of Kags. There is such
a church actually existing near Bergen,
Prussia, which can contain one thousand
persons. It is circular within, octagonal
without. The relieves outside, nnd the
statues within, the roof, the ceiling, the
Corinthian capitals, are all of papier
mache, rendered water-proof by saturation
in vitriol, lime-water, whey, and white of j
egg. We have not yet reached this au
dacity in our use of paper ; but it should
hardly surprise us, inasmuch as wo employ
the 6auie material in private houses, in
steamboats, aud in 6onie public buildings,
instead of carved decorations and plaster
cornices. When Frederick II. of Prussia
set up a limited papier-mache factory at
Berlin, in 17G5, he little thought that pa
per cathedrals might, within a century,
spring out of his enulF-boxes by the slight .
of-hand of art. At present we old-fashioned
people, who haunt cathedrals and
build churches, like stone better. But
there is no saying what we may come to.
It is not very long since it would have
been as impossible to cover eighteen acres j
with glass as to erect a pagoda with soap I
f ill .... I
uuooies, yei mo uung was clone. hen
we think of a psalm sung by one thousand
voices pealing through an edifice made of
rag, and the universal element bound
down to carry our messages with the speed
of light, it would be presumptuous to say
what cannot be achieved by science nnd
art under the training of steady old time.
If two hogsheads make a pipe, how many
will make a cigar ?
A. I34.CSr M.4.K.
In the year 1347, a young man named
Cobleigh, who had been engagad as loco
motive engineer on the Eastern Railroad,
went out to Cuba to take charge of tho
engine of a large sugar factory at Carde
nas. Before leaving, ho remarked to a
friend that he meant to pui chase a lot
tery ticket when he reached Havana, as
he believed those schemes as fair and
honorable as a lottery could be, L-ing un
der tho direct supervision of the Govern
ment. 1ns tricnd, a young unmarried !
man, handed him $10, saying : "There,
get me a ticket, too. I'll try a ticket for
luck, and shall set the ten dollars Uov. n
to profit and loss."
Time passed on. Cobloigh remained
a year in Cuba, and then returned to the
States and ran a locomotive for six
months on tho Erie road, after which he
went to Columbus, Ohio, where he re
mained nearly four years. During this
time the young man who had intrusted to
Cobleigh the $10 for a lottery ticket had
married, an. I become the father of two
children. He was a sail-maker by
trade, nnd worked hard for tho support
of his family.
At length Cobleigh carao on to New
York, where, by chance, he met Ins old
Cuban employer, who informed him, in
course of conversation, that a priz3 of
twenty thousand dollars, drawn five years
before by a sold ticket, had never been
claimed. What was the number ? Cob
leigh obtained it, and then went homo
and overhauled his trunk, and among a
lot of eld letters be found the two lottery
tickets which he had bought ia Havanns,
over five years before and one of them
was the fortunate number.
A few days after this tho young sail
raaker, in Boston, received a letter from
the engineer, inclosing tho lottery ticket,
and giving directions for obtaining the
money. Hie mechanic was thunder
struck and at first would not believe that
his friend had written truly ; but upon
inquiring of the Cuban Consul, he found
that his claim was good, and in time he
obtained the twenty thousand dollars.
He tried to find Cobleigh, to give him a
part of the money, but could not.
A year more passed, and Cobleigh vis
ited Boston. He was going to the gold
country, where he was engaged to super
intend the running of engines for quartz
mining. His pay was :o be ample, so
he would not accept any part of his
friend s fortune.
"But," urged the sail-maker, "why is
not the money as much yours as mine f"
Both tickets were together."
"Aye," replied Cobleigh ; "but it was
yours that drew the prize. When I
bought them I selected mine first. Then
I selected one for you, from which I nip
ped otTn bit of the upper right hand cor
ner. When I found the two tickets, after
learning one of them was entitled to a
prize, I discovered that the nipped coiner
uore tne lortunate number I ho. a
course, the prize was yours."
That is what we call Inborn Honesty.
Thk Pevce JrniLEi: Fwii.? The
editor of the Schenectady St.ir attended
the Peace Jubilc
Boston, aud thus
speaks about tho big fiddle
Gilmore and I went through it. We
were hit down into it through one of thosa
S shaped holes on each side of the bridge.
When I got down to the bottom I imag
ined mvself in.-iihi the old Mohawk brid e
at night. Gil.nnre Tost me once, and after
two hours frantic search I found him sit
ting complacently up against the big per
pendicular stick that atands in the middle
of the riddle (pucti y) to support the weight
of the bridge. Hj was glad to see me.
We then got out. Ye, th's fiddie is a
big thing. An accident occurred while a
large party cf woikmen were engaged in
raising tho bridge. It slipped and fidi
and smashed fifteen men as flat as tin foil.
Gilmore feit very sorry about this, be
cause it mussed up the fiddle. You may
wonder how this mammoth instrument is
played and fingered. Well, two little
locomotives woik the bow, and it is fin
gered in this way : Five heavy Dutchmen,
dressed in doeskin tights, stand on the
finger-board between the strings. Each
man has a string, you know, and when
bia string wants to be "fingered" he sits
down on it as quick as a flash, and up and
down again every time another note in
wanted. The effect of this novel proceed -irg
is rich. I saw them when tha "Dev
il's Dream" was played, and if there
wasn't 5ome tall squatting and getting up
again then I never was in Boston. The
poor fellow who rmnajed the E string, on
account of having to slide along so much
to produce slurs, has scorched his tights
very badly in the seat.
A band of minstrels in a Wosternfcity
started out on a "tower" recently. They
went to a town not far away and adver
tised to give a performance for "the bene
fit of tha poor, tickets rcdueted to 25
cents." The hall was crammed full.
The next morning a committee for the
poor called upon the treasurer of tho con
cern for the amount said benefit had net
ted. The treasurer expressed astonish
ment at tho demand. T thought," said
the chairman of the committee, "you ad
vertised this conceit fr the benefit of
the poor !" Replied the treasurer,
"Didn't we put the tickets down to 25
cents, to that the poor could all come V
The committee vanished.
Singula ii Discovkky. Under an ; -. .
hanging peak of Log MounUin, Lotv -, -,.
Cumberland Gap and Barijourville, Tcvi .
was recently discovered an adm t..:
carved statue, or rather torso, of h f . ..
sized man in a sitting posture wit'i '
hands by his siJe. The image was cat i
from the heart of a yellow pine, at..I w .;
evidently the work of no mean scubii
According to our informant, who saw it a;
Mr, Palmer's house sumo ten days j. ,
the contour of the ribs and of every mus
cle of the body was perfectly disphivrd.
The face of the imago is beautifauv
wt ought and every feature is pcifectly
linoated. Ia the ears were holes for t:.--insertion
uf ornaments.
llow many unnumbered years fir;
statue wrought by unknown hands hr. ..;
calmly sat greeting the rising sun ea.l
morning, heedless cf the. annihilation .?
those who once ascended tbo then Lolv
mountain and prostrated themselves be
fore it in adoration, careless of tbo strai:
gets who roamed tho lauds where its ser
vants onco ruled, our imagination i
powerless to tell. Only the wind tha:
whistled through the grotto wherein i;
stood (tho rain could not reach it) ha i
worn away the outer side of an inch o.
more, "and from this some idea may Ik
gained of tho duration of its weary vigil
there on the mountain alone.
The wood from which it was hewn, an'1
from the quantity of pitch it contains, when
protected from the weather as it was here,
is as indestructible as stone, and thi.s sam;
image may have been, and probably wus,
carved and set up as an object of worship
long before the Indians roved the woods,
and even anterior to tho Christian era.
How Monkeys are CAMTRKn.
Monkeys are pretty common, yet as all
the family arc remarkably cunning, has it
never occurred to the reader how they are
taken ! Pitfalls will take a lion, and tha
famished monarch of the forest will, after
a few day's starvation, dart into a engu
containing food and thua be secured. But
how are monkeys caught ? The ape family
resembles man. Their vices are htimnn.
They love liquor, and fall. In Darfour
and Sennaar tho natives make fermented
beer, of which the monkeys aro passion
ately fond. Aware of this, the natives go
to the parts of the forest frequented by the
monkeys, nnd st on the ground cala
bashes full of the enticing liq-jor. As soo
as a monkey sees and tastes it, he utters
loud cries of joy, that 6con attracts hi--comrades.
Then an org;e begins, nnd in ;.
short time the beasts show all si:
ns c
f in
toxication. Then tho negroes appear.
The few who come too late, to get fuddled,
escape. The drinkers are too far gone
distrust them, but apparently take tbet,.
foi larger specimens of their own per us.
The r:egro3 take soma up, ani these im
mediately liegin to weep and cover tWrj
with maudlin kisses. When a ne :
I takes one by the hand to lead him off. the
j nearest monkey will cling ?- the one who
i tlmi lin.la .nn
thus finds a support and endeavor io go off
also. Another will grasp at him, and s
on till the negro le.ids a stairgeriag line of
ten or a dozen tipsy monkeys. When
; finally they are brought to :he village lh'V
arc securely caged, and gradually sober
down, bnt for two cr three rbis a gradu-
nliy diminishing supply of Iiq ior is given
them, so as to reconcile them by degrees t
their state of captivity.
Tit?, Sumesk Twins. Thi following
gossip concerning theSiamtse Twins seems
rather spuehry phal, bnt ve hand it rouud
for fhe benefit of ethnological science :
"Chang belongs to the Good Templars,
and is a hard working and eulhusiastie;
supporter of all teiuperaueo reforms. But,
to his bitter distress, every now nnd then
Eng gets drunk, and, of course, that
makes Chang d.nnk too. This unfortun
ate thing hr.s been a great sorrow ta
Chang,- for it always destroys his useful
ness in l is favorite, field of efioit. As
sure as he is to bead a great tcmperanco
procession Eng ranges up along side of
liiin, prompt to the minute and drunk as
a lord ; but yet rut inoie dismally am
hopelctsly drunk than Li. brother, who
has not tabled a drop. And so the two
begin to hoot and ye!l, and throw mud
and bricks at the Good Templars, and of
course they break up the procession. It
would be manifestly wrong to punish
"V. - . 1 . " , . . t
I uatig ior wuai r,ng a ies, ana tnereioro
i the Good Templars accept the untowards
j situation, and suffer in silence and sorrow,
j Thoy have officially and deliberately ex
I amincd info th matter, and find Chan-'
j blameless. They have taken tho two
brothers and filled Chang full of warm
water arid sugar, and Eng lull of whisky,
and in twenty-five minutes it was not pos
sible to tell w hich wai the drnnkesL"
A South kkn paper narrates a comical
incident of "the late unpleasantness."
One of Sherman's bummers met a coun
tryman in the course of one of his excur
sions, and stopped him. "Come out from
under that hat," exclaimed the bummer,
"I see you there." The unlucky victim
delivered his hat. "Now come out of
those boots," said the bummer. His or
ders were obeyed. ".Crawl out of that
coat," said he ; "and bs quick about it."
Having subsequently robbed the man of
his shirt, his trowsers, and a finger-ring,
the bummer was riding off, w hen his vic
tim stopped him. "Iook . here, mister,"
said he, "you forgot somethir g;" and pull
ing out a quid of tobacco from bis mouth,
ha handed it to hi'u. "You'd ue ruined
if you left that," he remarked.