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II. A. M'l'JKKi Editor ami ItibiaIier.
HE IS A PRKEMAS WHOM THE TUUTU MAKES FREE, ASD ALL AUK SLAVKS BES1DK,
Tcrin, $2 ier year la aiUuncr.
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EBENSBURG, PA, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 1869.
NUMBER 34.
r"TISTIiY. The undersigned, a
ruinate
of Uie oun.
pl,,,c College
0f Der.ul ;r
,,.,v, rr-jiPL-t-futl'v
offers hi-
p-rvifes to the W J ffjtfUJ
-hii'ir and vicinity, which -lace he will visit
ii the 'HiMi! Monday of each month, t j t
, in one week.
Au'-13- SAM'L BELFOllP, D. D. S.
DR.H.B. MILLER, (gpgb
Operative and Mechanical DENTIST.
Cilice removed to Virginia street, opposite
t'ae iier .Hi church. Person from CamLri
(Oiiiity or che'.vherc wha et work done bywe
U the "amount of Ten Dollars anil upward-, will
i:ive t ho nilroail f:ire uUic'cd from their LUls .
.ML woi'.K WAKRANT n. Jan. ill, 18CU.-tf.
II I). W. ZIEGLER, Surgeon Den-
li-n.will visit Rlicnshnri? p.'o- .""V
f,.i.,nally on t!ie SECOND Mos
vx of e.ifh month, and re!11il,llfil-
out' urelc, during which time he
iiiiivlie touii.l at the .Mountain House.
gg'Tecth extracted without piin by the use
of Nitrate 0!te, or Laughing Ijus.
i
D.
uii'lci s Ins pn-fetsioiial services as Phy-
I eiu'.sii 'aim rur.i-,e(iii 10 me cuizciiri oi t..Hri;i-
tewn and vicinity. Uiiie in rear ! buill
ur ,t upied ly .1. 5ncK fc Co. as a store.
y;h fails can be made at M resilience, oue
r ruiith of A. Haul's ti?) and hardware
R!.ir. May 9, 18G7.
KDEVEHEAUX, M. D., liir-
SK'IAX AND SdtOKOK, JtJl7, I'll.
Oilioe 'ast end of Mansiou House, cm Hail
.i treet. Night calls may be made at
cfiice. fniy2;;.tf.
1 J. LLOVD, successor to ft. H.
I'i nx, Dealer in Drmja, Medicines,
l'aint.t. yv. .Stnreoi) M.iin street, opposite
t'lf "Han ,i.m House," EhwisburL', Pa.
da.L.r 17. 18G7.-Cm.
1 LOYI &. C O., Kankers
.I i Ei-KNsr.i'Kc;, Pa.
J.iM. Silver. Government I. ;'- and
o!i.i r Sror.rif !;, liouglit and sold. Interest
on I itne ptisits. Collections mide
: xW aci-es.ihlc or iinf iri flin TTmtfi! Stuff.
i - - - - - v - ...... ,
r-"l a teiu-ral liankii-g business transacted.
iW i3. LI.OY5) CO., j
i Ranf.kr.s, Aiioo.va, Pa. i
Dial'is mi tho oriuciiia.! cities and Silver
ri, i n ia i if sale. tjiiect;ons macra. I
I.ihts received on deposit, payable on dp- !
Ji-n1.. without interest, or upon time, with !
i:;'..-r..-t at fair rates. ar.31. j
JT A. Sir it '4 SKEP. OKO. W. OAT M AX. !
,jJHOE.MAKEH &, O ATM AN, ATroi:- !
s"' AT Law, Ktii'iisOurp, Pa.. Offices on
li. -'h ent, iTtmediutcly ea?l of Huntley's j
l oh" are store. (uj. ,'C'S.
d. mtTaiToWlInT
JTTOUNEY AT LAW, ,WmW,.v,
1 OiT.ce in the Exchange building, on the
.ornero! Clinton and Iicist streets tin
t.".irs. Will attend to all 1
f'l with his profeasiuu.
Jan. 31. lSG7.-tf.
f . L JOHNSTON, j 5. KCA
JOHNSTON & SCAN LAN.
LAS.
Lbeusburg. Cambria co., Pa
O.TIje opposite the Court House.
Ehensburg, Jan. 31, I8U7.-tf.
JOHN T. LINTON,
TTOKNEY AT LAW. JoLnsm Pn
A Office in building on corner of Main and
ran,:iin street, opposite Mansion House.
crM floor. Entrance on Franklin street.
LLnstown. Jan. 31. 18il7.-tf.
WILLIAM KITTELL,
TT0P.NEY AT LAW, Ebensburg, rx.
0;hcC in Colonade Row, Centre street.
Jan. Si, l8G7.-tf.
X T. PPncjinvn c
J " J'JHJI1I-VX, iillUIi.NLV-AT-
i lw,Jjhnstotcn,ra. Office on Frank-
a o rcet, upvstairs, over John E-enton'a
JirJware Store. Jan. Si, 1867.
AVM. II. SECIILER, Attouxev-at-
' law, Ebensburg, Pa. Office in rooms
gently occupiwl by Ceo. M. Ileade. Esq . in
naiie Row, Centre street. aug.27.
fJO. M. luAUJAUomegLaw,
t-bensburg, Pa. Office in new building
F-entl, erected on Centre Btreet. two doorl
Sjeet. aug.27.
QAMES C. EASLY, Atorxe7-
at-Law, Carrolliown, Cambria Co., ra.
VS-U aU lcgaI bu8iness Promptly
uau o 1 , 100 I .
KrELiv. . .
t i - - 1. W. DICTv,
Ebensburg.
iVr & DlCIv, Attorxevs-at-
;teM p ' Lbnsbur?. Office with Vm.
.jJJ"aJe How. oct.22.-tf.
TTrnvSE1,11 M'DONALD,
S 5pAT LAW Ehensburg. Pa.
Jottl. utre street, opposite Linton's
j- . Jan. 31, 1867-tf.
TT0r.vEY EENLON,
Offico'ou it- , LAW Ebensburg Pa.
rice. 1 street, adjoining his reti-
i rr Jan 31. 1867.-tf.
5 mI5??AI) Justice of the Peace
e tur" A'Jenl Office removed to
, .'"rmer v occii hL.,i k.. r n
T l" '.ee'd. n, iri 7 111 """jn,
-n at., fcbeufcburg. jl3.
Vl t
W Can PKU aua SHEET-IRON
f". 1'a a reet below Clinton, Johns
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1
18G9. FJLL TRADE. 3869. !
I arA now prepared to offer
SUPERIOR INDUCEMENTS
to CASir rcp.cnASKRs ok
Til. SflEET-IROH & CQPPER WARE
KITMKK AT
WHOLESALE Oil RETAIL.
My stock consists in part of every v.iricty of
Tin, SiiceJ-Sroji,
GOITER AND BRASS WARES,
I5NAMKM.EI) ANI PLAIN
SAUCE-PAWS, BOILERS fee,
COAL SHOVELS. MINE LAMPS, OIL
CANS, IIOUSKFURNISIIING IIAKD
WAIIE OF EVEUY KIND.
Kpeai'g Anli.Dnut
HEATING and COOKING STOVES,
EXCELSIOR COOKING S7VVES,
NOBLE, TRIUMPH and PARLOR COOK
ING STOVES,
And an' Cooking Stove clesirpd I will get
when ordered at manufacturer's prices.
Odd Stove Plates ar.d Grates, Ac, for re
pairs, on hand fir the Stoves I sell; others
will ba ordered when wanted. Particular
attention piven to
Spouting, Vaiieys and Conductors,
;dl of which will Vie made out of best mate
rials and put up by competent workmen.
Lamp Burners, Wick and Chimneys
i WHOLESALE OK II ETA 1 1-
i I would call particular attention to the Lijht
Lloiie I .timer, with Glass G;ne, f"r jrivinp
rioue I.iiiit than any other in use. Also, the
Paragon liuriier, for Crude Oil.
SPrACKR'S SIFTER
It recommends itself.
SUGAR KETTLES AND CAULDRONS
of all sizes constantly on Laud.
Special attention given to
Jobbing in Tin, Copper and Sheet-Iron.
at lowest poysibie rates.
Wholesale SIekchaxto Llt3
now ready, nnd will be sent on application
by mail or in person.
II ipir.g to ;pe nil my old customers nnd
ninny new ones this Spring, I return my
most sincere thanks fnr the very liberal pa
lr.ii.agc I have already received, and will
endeavor to please ail who may call, wheth
er they buy or not.
FRANCIS W. HAY.
Johnstown. March 7, 1SC7.
G
X TO CASH JH'Yl'JRS!
at teis: e:ri:.sixl7kg
HOCSE-FliRiMSHlXG STORE.
'I he undersigned respectlully informs the
citizens of Lbenoburg and the public gencr
ally that he has made a great reduction in
prices to CASH liUYERS. My stock will
consist, in part, of Cooking, Parlor and HeaU
tng Stove?, of the most popu'ar kinds ; Tin
uwe of every description, of my own man
ufacture ; Hardware of all kirid, such as
Lochs, Sciews, Iintt Hinges, Table Hinges,
Shutter Hini'es. IVilt?. Iron and Nnil Win
dow Glass, i'utty, Table Knives and Forks,
Carving Knives and F.rks, Ment Cutters,
Apple Parcrs, Pen and Pocket Knives in
great v.iricty, Scissor?. Shears, Razors and
Strops. Axes, Hatchets, Hammer?, Boring
Machines, Augers. Chissels, Planes, Con
passes, Squares, File?, Rasps, Anvih, Vises,
Wrenches. Rip, Panel and Cross-Cut Saws.
Chains of all kinds. Shovels, Spades, Scythes
and Sr.aths, Rakes, Forks, Sleigh Bells,
Shoe Lasts, Pegs. Wax P.ristles, Clothes
Wiinger&. Grind Stones. Patent Molasses
Gates and Measures. Lumber Sticks, Horse
Nails, Horse Shoes. Cast Steel. Rifles, Shot
Guns, Revolvers, Pistols, Cartridges, Tow
der. Caps. Lead, &c, Odd Stove Plates,
Gratc3 anl Fire Bricks, Well and Cistern
Pumps and. Tubing ; Harness and Sad Very
Ware of all kind ; Ilooo'cn ni If 'Mow Ware
n great variety ; Carbon Oil and Oil Lamps,
Fisla Oil, Lard Oil, Linseed Oil, Lubricating
Oil, Ro.n, Tar, Glassware, Paints, Varnish
es. Turpentine, Alcohol. &c.
FAMILY GROCERIES,
such as Tea, Coffee, Sugars, Molasses, Syr
ups, Spices. Dried Peaches, Dried Apples,
Fish, Hominy, Crackers, Rice and Pearl
Barley: Soaps, Candles; TOBACCO and
CIGARS; Paint, Whitewash, Scrub, Horse,
Shoe, Dusting, Varnish, Stove. Clothes and
Tooth Brushes, all kinds and sizes ; Bed
Cords and Manilla Hopes, and many other
articles at the lowest rates for CASH.
GO-House Spouting made, painted and put
up at low rates for cash. A liberal discou'nt
made to country dealers buying Tinware
wholesale. GEO. HUNTLEY
Ebensburg, Feb, 28, 18G7.-tf.
Q.EORGE W. YEAGER,
'Wholesale aucl Retail Dealer In
HEATING AND COOK STOVES
OF EVERY DESCRIPTION,
OF HIS OWN MANUFACTURE,
And GENERAL JOBBER in SPOUTING
aud all other work in his line.
Virginia Street, near Caroline Street,
AL.TOOAA, IM,
The only dealer in the city having the rirht to
bell the rrnowned "BARLEY S1IF.AJF"
COOK 8 rOVE. the most perfect
complete aud satisfactory
Stove ever introduced
to the public.
Stock Immense. - Prices Low. i
SATISFACTION GUARANTEED.
Original, flttrn.
THE S31ITI1S,
BT G. L. U., EBENSBCRO.
la 3 sooty shop, just over the way.
Two smiths are working the livelong day,
The one is brawny, the other slim,
They work from morn till evening dim.
Tn seasons when their work is throng.
They wake the echoes the evening long;
The clank of the anvil is hourly heard.
And the smiths are gay as a singing bird.
And children love the ruddy firo
The smiths must use to heat their tire :
They stand, with wondering look around.
The flaming circle on the ground.
And in its light fair castles old,
In forms of beauty, do unfold :
That pleases well their youthful gaze.
And tends their nobler thoughts to raise.
With anvil chorus loudly ringing.
The ruddy sparks around them flinging,
The tnorniug sees some work begun,
And evening sees that work all dono.
Thus we should all, with one accord.
Every hour and moment hoard.
That we ma' show, in time to come,
Some noble work that wo have done.
That all the moments saved may be,
Like gems from some far distant sea j
Then eternity alone shall tell
How each has wrought his mission well.
ales, iflifftfjcs, gncebof rs, tft.
A REMARKABLE DREAM.
Last winter, in one of the London pa
per?, un article appeared suggesting the
hypothesis which might account for some
of the unexplained phenomena of dreams.
The writer recognised as an undoubted
fact the frequent communication between
the u:iiids of persons far separated from
each other ; so that simultaneous imprest-ions
were made on those mind., not only
during in sleep but aleo waking hours,
lie supposed,- then, that there might be a
power in nature whereby a brain, intensely
excited, might send forth impulses waves,
perhaps such as should, in an instant,
reach another brain, and convey thoughts
and imaged from the first to the second.
He suggested that, by a proces3 io which
the movements of electricity and magnet
ism would afford at least distant analogies,
minds in sympathy with each other might
thu3 share a common experience. He
would in this way explain the many well
uttested instances in which relatives have
been impressed with the fact of the death
of some object of love, dying, it may be,
thousands of miles away ; so at the very
moment of disease, they have felt and
said that death Lad taken place.
Heading this sirticle, I was reminded of
a narrative that I had heard from an inti
mate friend of a dream which he had had
three years previously, and which two of
his friends had also dreamed at the same
hour. I therefore asked him to give me,
in wriling, the substance of what he had
told me, and I am sure that none can read
it without iecling that it was, indeed, a re
markable dream,
1 need only ad 1 that my friend is a gen
tleman and a scholar, of high culture and
of most excellent reputation, and in whose
veracity I place the most implicit confi
dence ; and that his two friends, spoken
of in the following narrative, are persons
of unquestioned character and integrity.
E. B. C.
May, 1SC9. Dkai: Sin: After many
delays, I send yon a short account of the
dream which excited your interest last
summer.
In the fall of 18G5 I think it was in
the month of November while I was
studying law in the city of New York, I
retired to my room about midnight of a
cold, blustering evening. I remember dis
tinctly of healing the clock strike twelve
as I lay in bed, watching the smouldering
fire, until drowsiness crept over me and I
6lept. I had hardly lost consciousness
when I seemed to hear loud and confused
noises, and felt a choking sensation at my
throat, as if it were grasped by a strong
hand. I awoke, as it seemed, and found
myself lying on my back on the cobble
stones ot a narrow street, writhing in the
grip of a low browed, thick set man with
''unkempt' hair and grizzled beard, who,
with one hand at my throat and with the
other holding my wrist, threw Lis weight
upon me and held mo down. From the
first I knew that bis desire was to kill me,
and ray struggles were for life. I recall,
distinctly, the sense of horror at first, and
then that of furious determination which
took possession of me. I did not make a
sound, but with a sudden effort threw him
half off of me, clutched him frantically by
the hair, and in my agony bit furiously at
his throat. Over and over we rolled uo
oi the stones. My strength began to give
way before the fury of my struggles. I
saw that my antagonist fell it and smiled
a ghastly smile of triumph.
Presently I saw him reach forth his
hand and grasp a bright hatchet. Even
in this extremity I noticed that the hatchet
was new and apparently unused, with
glittering head and white polished handle.
I made one more tremendous fi'ht for life.
For a second I held piy enomy powerless,
and saw, with bach a thrill of delight as I
cannot forget, the horror-stricken faces; of
friends within a rod of us, rushing to rny
rescue. As the foremost of them sprang
upon the back of my antagonist he wreuch.-
cd his wrist away from me, I saw the
hatchet flash above my head, and felt in
stantly a dull blow on my forehead.
I fell back on the ground, a numbnes.?
spread from my head over my body, a
warm liquid flowed down upon ray face
and into my mouth, and I remember the
taste was of blood, and my ''limbs were
loosed." Then I thought I was suspend
ed in the air a few feet above my bodv.
I could see myself, as if in a glass, lying
on the back, the hatchet sticking in the
head, and tho ghastliness of death gradu
ally spreading over the face. I noticed
especially that the wound made by the
hatchet was in the centre of the forehead,
at right angles to and divided equally by
the line of the hair. I heard the weeping
of friends at lirst loud, then growing
fainter and fading away into silence. A
delightful sensation of sweet repose, with
out a feeling of fatigue precisely liko that
which I experienced years ago at Cape
May, when beginning to drown crept
over me, I heard exquisite music the
air was full of rare perfume I sank upon
a bed of downy softness when, with a
start, I awoke. The fire still smouldered
in the grate ; my watch told me I had not
been more than half an hour asleep.
Early the next morning I joined an in
timate friend, with whom I spent much of
my lime, to accompany him, as was my
daily custom, to the law school. We
talked for a moment of various topics,
when suddenly he interrupted me with the
remark that he had dreamed strangely of
me the night before.
'Tell me," I asked, "what was it ?"
"I fell asleep," he said, "about twelve,
and immediately dreamed that I was pass
ing through a narrow street, when I heard
noise and cries of murder. Hurrying in
the direction of the noise, I saw )'ou lying
on your back, fighting with a rough la
boring man who held you down. I rushed,
forward, but as I reached you he struck
you on the head with a hatchet and killed
you instantly. Many of our friends were
there, and we cried bitterly. In a mo
ment I awoke, and so vivid had been the
dream that my cheeks were wet with tear?.
"What sort of a man was he"?'' I asked.
'A thick set man, in a flannel shirt and
rough trousers; his head was uncombed
and Lis beard grizzled and of a few dajs'
growth."
Within a week T was in Burlington, N.
J. I called at a friend's house.
"My husband," said my friend's wife
to me, "had such a horrid dream about
you the other night. Ha dreamed that a
man killed you in a street flight. He ran
to help you, but before he readied the spot
your enemy had killed vou with a great
club."
"Oh, no," cried her husband across the
room, "he killed you with a hatchet."
I may add that these friends of mine
were personally unknown to each other.
The first one (in New York) dreamed that
he was foremost to reach the scene ; the
other that he was one of the number who
followed both of which points coincided
with my own dream.
These are the circumstances as 1 recall
them. I remembered the remark of eld
Artapbernes, that dreams are often the
result of a train of thought started by con
versation or reading, or the incidents of
waking time, but I could recall nothing,
nor could ei;her of my friends ca?l any
circumstance "that ever they had read,
or had ever heard by tale or history," in
which they could trace the origin of this
remarkable dream. Your?, .
A Hard Story. Here is a California
story w hich is almost incredible : A hired
man on a Napa farm was detailed to keep
a watch on the cornfield, and not let the
black marauders invade the premises, but
like many other men in a similar situation,
tried to plan a method whereby 60 much
labor would not have to be performed ; so
he hit upon the plan of soaking some corn
in whisky and placing it in the field so that
the crows would surely get drunk, and
then he thought he would have a sure
thing on them and could kill them easily.
He had tried to shoot them with a shot
gun but crows can smell powder a long
way. After soaking some corn over
night, he put a bountiful supply in the
field early next morning, and in about two
or three hours he went to see how things
were progressing, and mark you what
follows : One of tho crows, a little larger
than the rest, had gathered up and taken
possession of almost all the corn and had
built himself a bar out of clods of earth
and was retailing the whiskey-soaked corn
to the other crows, charging them three
grains of sprouted corn for one soaked
grain. Our hired man had not the heart
to kill the crcaturea that seemed in heir
actions like mankind.
To the Point. A Methodist preacher
who was on his way to a camp meeting,
happened to think that bo had left his
horn at home, and, as that is certainly
very useful in calling together the Iambs
of tho "flock, ho stopped at a tin shop on
his way for the purpose of purchasing
one
"Will this make a loud noise I" he
asked, selecting one that appeared toauit
him. -
"Oli, ye?, a hell of a noise !" said the
tinker producing a piece of paper to roll
it up 13.
"Well, a3 I want it to blow at a camp j
meeting, I guess it is not the kind I am !
looking for," and the parson walked di- I
nifiedly away, J
WHAT A GIRL CAS X0.
In the year of our Lord 1802, fate j
found us a student in the Normal Univer
sity in New Yotk State. In common
with about three hundred others, we pa
tiently delved through the mysteries of
learning how to teach, in order that we
might teach how to learn.
A queer set those three hundred wcro
and very naturally ; for. nt that time,
only the queer ones ever thought of be
coming professional school teachers.
Those who did were cither crippled, poor,
or, like ourself, both too poor and too la
zy to think of doing anything else, or have
an ambition above the spelling book and
ferule. Well, the profession has looked
up since then, which may furnish a rea
son why we left it! There was in the
school a heterogeneous class, composed of
those scholars who had been in the school
long enough to graduate, but who, from
inattention or inability, had not kept to
the average standard, and had been put
back to go over the ground again. Some
had been in the school three, some four,
and some five years. They were looked
upon by the regulars, i. g., the students
who had kept up with the regular course,
with a feeling of mingled contempt and
pity, and even the scholars in the lower
classes patronized them. If any mischief
was 'done, this class of stupids were pret
ty sure to have a hand in it ; on which
account they were not favorites with the
faculty.
One of the most notable of this class
was a J'oung girl named M . She
was a fair mathematician, a torable schol
ar, a good natured, rather quiet girl. She
had r.o trouble in the lower classes, and
it was not until she came to those rheto
rical studies where composition is required
that she stuck fast and hopelessly. She
could not write. Every year she passed
through the same examinations, failed ex
actly in the same place, was not allowed
to graduate ; and, at the beginning of the
next year, took her place where she had
commenced the year before, and, with a
docile pcrserverance that was funny to
think of, went over, and over, and over
the same round of studies with sober, de
mure and p:i:itlak.iiig method.
She bid fair to be what a great many
other girls become tho ordinary wife of
an ordinary man. More than once the
Faculty shook their heads and declared
that M would never, thoy feared,
become an earnest teacher. For five years
she lived this purposeless, dull and ob
jectless lfe, and then a change came.
Her parents lived in Hloomington,
where her father carried cn a furniture
store. He was stricken down by disea.-e;
and, after a long and lingering illness,
cued, leaving M
, the oldest girl,
her mother, a younger sister, and two
younger brothers, nil of them dependent
upon their sister for a livelihood, l'eople
sympathized with her sympathy is so
cheap and came to the following char
itable conclusions :
1st. That she would have a hard lime
of it.
2d. That the best thing she could do
would be to get married.
Gd. That if she couldn't do that she
might be able to teach school.
And having thus settled her case, they
left her to her fate.
Then the girl's nature asserted itself.
Instead of selling oil" the stock which her
father left for what she could get, and
living on it until something turned up, she
hired workmen, put the stock to rights,
and sold it at retail. People pitied her
but they bought her goods. People sym
pathized with her, as it was a dreadful
thing for a girl to do what in a boy would
have been thought highly commendable.
When her stock ran low, she astonish
ed her friends by going to .New York city
and buying a larger stock of furniture
than any one ever before had the hardi
hood to bring tu Bloomington and, what
is more, she sold it. For the first year
the open sympathy and covert sneers of
her friends were hard to bear.
She succeeded, of course.
The other day we saw her, after seven
years of hard work. The same old fash
ioned, quiet, good-natured manner, the
same M , unpretentious, obliging,
demure.
And yet, she owns a store worth 18,
000, in the upper story of which she began
her labors, hut which is filled from cellar
to garret with her goods. She purchased
a house some time ago for $7,000, and
can sell it now for $10,000. She has
30,000 in real-estate, with a stock worth
$20,000, and all paid up.
This is the work of a girl still young,
who in school was looked upon only as
possessed of ordinary abilities'.
The secrctr was, she had persistence.
She is unmarried, and she is strong"
minded ; that is, she believes in women
owning property, and net being tied down
to what is called women's sphere. Who
can blame her ?
Had she taken the advice of those who
consider that they have settled the great
question of the age, she would be now
toiling in a schoolroom, worn out, jaded
and wretched, on a miserable salary of
forty dollars a month. Instead of that
she is free and independent, and rich,
while the rest of us, who wore considered
smart, are grinding along, editing country
pipers or starving. She is as unpreten
tious as ever for the executive talent
that could do so much is not one that
blows its own horn.
Finally, every word that wo have writ
ten is true. The only reason we do not
give her name in full, is because we di
not like to drag her namu into public no-
lice witnout ner consent. Kesidents in j
liloomingJon will know whom we mean I
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an.l others who are curious can find out
by audressuig us personally. We only
publish the case because it shows that
there is no real bar to a woman's doin"
bu sinoss if f-hc has the natural faculty and
persistence.
Josh Hillings Pa picks. A slander iz
like a hornet, if yu kan't kill it dead the
fnt t Tit Iiiiffii riit dill a T
, j '".-.mm:..! 11. I
Politeness iz a shrewd way folks haz ov !
flattering themselfs. i
I make this dis.inkshun between c,a,- I
alter and r?to-,Mn rrputashun iz what 1
the world thinks ov us, charaktcr iz what '
,u. u in .. i
What a ridikulus farce it iz to be run- '
tinually on tho hunt for peace and quiet, j
ISo man ever vet increased his rcim
tashun bi contradikting lies.
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Anxiety ahvus steps on itself.
Silence, like darkness, is generally
safe.
There iz only two things that I knc ov
that a man won't brag ov, one iz lieing
and tuther iz jealousy.
It takes bnuies tew make a smart man,
but good luck often makes a famous one.
Opiuyuns are like other vegetables,
worth just what they will fetch.
I think most men had rather be charg
ed with malice than with making a blun
der. Love cuts up all sorts ov monkey shines;
it makes a fool sober and a wize man
frisk'.
I don't believe in total depravity ; every
man has something in him to show that
God made him.
I suppo.se that one reason whi the road
to ruin' iz broad, iz to accommodate, the
great amount of travel in that direkshun.
I think i had rather hear a man brag
about himself, than tew hear him brag all
the time ov some one else for i think i
like vanity a lectle better than i do sicko
fansy. A humbug iz like, a bladder, good fur
nothing till it iz blowed up, and then ain't
good for nothing after it iz pricked.
A big nose iz sed tew be a sifjn of ge
nius if a man's genius lays in his nose,
i would say the tugu iz a good one.
Vanity is sol loin malishou.
A woman (like an echo) will have the
last word.
Put an Englishman in tho garden of
Eden, and he would find fault with the
whole blasted consarn put a Yankee in,
and he would see where he could alter it
to advantage put an Irishman in, and
be would want to bo-s the thing put a
Dutchman in, and lie wtuld proceed a
once to plant cabbsge.
Josh Hillings. Josh Hillings i Henry
W. Shaw) is thus written of by one who
knows him : "He is certainly quite as
ugly as 'Nasby. In many of Lis m -fides
in broken English he surpasses all who
havo tried that class of writing. But to
fully appreciate him one must see and
know him. He is about forty-eight years
old, and is the quaintest specimen of hu
manity which we ever met. Five years
ago he was an auctioneer in Poiishkeeo-
sie. New York. He has since removed
to New York city,wherc he keeps a board
ing house amused by his irrepressible od
dities. As he passes down P.roadvvay he
cannot escape observation. His broad,
bent form, hia immense hat, and his large,
eagle-like features are always noticeable.
His weakness is for chewing tobacco and
telling stories. There is no such a story
teller in the land. Such quaint, laugha
ble yarns as he can spin are not. easily
put in pi int. The only lounging place he
has is in tho office of the New York
W'etlt, lor which paper he contributes
weekly articles. When the lecture season
is at hand he sends out a humorous pros
pectus. He makes from three to four
thousand dollars a year from Lis lectur
ing, and as much more from his newspa
per work. Alwa3' cheerful and genial,
always witty and yet kind, he is liked ex
ceedingly by his circle of friends. Per
haps some of our readers will remember
the publicity that was given some time
ago to the marriage of one of his daugh
ters, whose beauty had become noted.
She was as handsome as he was ugly."
Taking it EaA-. An honest Dutch
man, near Hellefontaine, was taking a
load of flax straw to market a few day3
ago, calmly smoking his pipe, at peace
with all the world, when he suddenly frit
a fire in his rear, and looking around
found his straw in a blaze from a spark
of his pipe. For once in his life he used
due diligence ; he did not stop to hold an
indignation meeting, nor to pass sundry
and divers resolutions, but with an excla
mation "Du tuyfel !" he knocked the
ashes out of his pipe and slid to the ground.
While he was considering with Dutch
vigor what to do next his horses took
fright and ran clL" It was a magnificent
conflagration on the move. The fire was
running to the encino instead of the en
gine to the fire. Fortunately for our
German fellow citizen, the wagon was up
set and left the burning straw to firo a
neighbor's fence, wlnlo the horses ran
homo with tho wagon. The Dutchman
lit his pipe at tii? the, aii.l went home
smoking ad if nothing had happened.
The lato Nonli Win.dow was fnj of
telling the following i:-.ciJei.t of his meta-
t i . l.c i i .i i .i
u ' nc ,u ' ' nu neer cioseu me uar-
r:l,,v'5 uul "'ith swiimuing eyes :
"During the financial crisis and carh
of 'fifty-seven.' when heavy men weri
s'll,nS all around us, and ban'-.s were tci-
tering, our bouse became alarmed in v":?w
, of t!i" condition of its own a'.Lnir.s. The
: partners three of us, of v, horn I wi?
j the senior met in our private of.ice for
i consultation. Our junior had made :i
careful inventory of everythii.fi of his
j biita receivable and bills payable ?nd
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5 ot rea,,- ruor,e' to U' 1,(1,1 l2'
'V'" 'uM eve us. Without
,hat 'T f b lhe '"d-the result
"ievWe' 1 t ont upon the
stieet, and among my friends; but in
was inevitable. 1
stieet, and among
vain. J lie amount oi money we needed
was not to be had. Men who held gold
would not let it go, except on solid secu
rity and the only security we could give
was our word and our honor, for the many
thousands due us were a nothing in that
hour.
Two whole days I strove and begged,
and then returned to the countii.j house
in despair, I sat at ny desk, expecting
every moment to hear the voice of our
junior sounding the terrible word-, "Our
paper is protested !" when a gentleman
entered my apartment unannounc d. Hi
was of middle age, with a frank, genial
face ; and though I fancied there" was
something familiar in his earnest, kindly
look, yet I could not locate him, nor call
hiin to my mind in any way.
".Mr. Winslow," he said, taking a seat
at tiie end of my desk, "I hear that you
are in uued of money."
The very face of the man inFpired con
fidence, and I told him how I was situa
ted. 'Make me ycur individual note one
year, without interest, for twenty thous
and dollars, and I will give you a check
payabh) in gold for that amount."
While I sat gazing upon him in speech
less astonishment, Le continued
'ou don't remember when you were
a member of the Superintending School
Conmiitiee of Hradfuul, I was a boy inthn
school. My father was dead ; ray moth
er was poor ; I was but a shabbily clau
child, though clean. When our class e.",-rie
out to rcc'ue on examination clay, you
asked the questions. I fancied you would
praise and pet the children of rich t'nd
fortunate parents, and pass me by. I
blundered, and staiameicd, and quivered
with shame. Hut it was not us I had
thought. In the end you passed by all
others, and came to me. You laid year
hand upon my head, and told mo I ha 1
done very well ; and then you told me I
could do better still if I would try. You
told me the way to honor and renown was
opeu to all ftlikc no one had a free pHS-s.
All I had to do was to be resolved and
push on. That, sir. was tha turning
point in my life. From that Lour my
soul has aspired ; I have never rca'dietl a
great good without blessing you in my
heart. I hrve prospered and am wealthy;
and 1 now cdfr-r you but a poor return for
the soul of wealth you g ive to me in that
by-gone time."
"I took the check," said Winslow, "and
drew the gold ; our house was saved.
And where at the end of tho year," he
added, "do you supposo 1 found my
note V
We could not guess.
"In the possession," he told us. with
streaming eyes, "of my little orphans!
grand-daughter ! Oh ! hearts like that
man's heart are what bnng heaven and
earth together!" Xciv Vorl: Ledger,
Uacheloks a.ni Flikts. Some old
bachelors git after a flirt, and can't travel
so fast ;xs she doz; and then conclude; awl
the female group are hard to ketch, and
good for nothing when they are ketched.
A flirt is a rough thing to overhaul uns
less the right dog gets alter her, and then
they are the easiest of awl to ketch, and
make the very bct of wives.
When a flirt really falls in love she is
powerless as a mown daiy.
Her impudence then changes into mod
esty, her cunning into fear, her spurs into
a halter, her prunning into a cradle.
The best way to. ketch a flirt is tew
travel the other way from which they arc
going, or sit down ou the ground and whis
tle some lively tune till the flirts cod;
round. Old bachelors make the flirts, and
then flirts get more than even by making
the old bachelors.
A majority of flirts get married finally,
for they have got a great quantity of the
most dainty titbits of woman's nature,
and alwuts have Ehrudcess to back up tbe'.r
sweetness.
Disapointcd Iuv must, of course, be all
on cne side, and this ain't any more an ex
cuse for being an old bachelor than it is
for a man to quit all kinds of manuel la
bor jist out of spite, and jine a poor house
bckase he kan't lift a tun at one pop.
An old bachelor will brag about his
freedom to you, Liz relief from anxiety,
hiz independence. Th"i3 iz a dal bea.
past ressurrection, frr every body know.-;
tiiere ain't a more anxious dupe t!rn h i
iz. All hiz dreams are charcoal sk t
of boarding school misses ; he dn e,.
greazes his hair, paints Lis grizzly mt:
tache, cultivates bunyons and x n.g ..
please the wiiumin. und only gv.& laun'.ft i
J at for hiz pain?. Josh IidHngs.