11 fof NT. UH NiSfent-- I 1 b k 31'I'IKC, Editor and Publisher. HK is A PREKMAS WHOM THE TRUTH MAKES FREE, AND ALL ARE SLAVES BKSIBK, Terms, $'2 er year In ndvanco OhUME 4. EBENSBURG, PA., THURSDAY, MARCH, J 7, 1870. NUMBER S. b 370. SPRING. 1870. I am now prepari.ii 10 oner LTKRIOK INDUCEMENTS TU CASH rUKLHASKRIi OK 1 SIMM & COPPER WARE iJi" KITIIEK AT VHOLliSALE OK RETAIL. .iji consists in part of every variety of Tin, Sheet-Iron, rFER AND BRASS WARES, USA MKJ.I.KD AND PLAIN ciJCE-PANS. BOILERS &c, : SHOVELS. MINK LAMPS, OIL Fprat's AnliDuit rATIVti ani COOKING STOVES, EXCELSIOR COOKING STOVES. IjLE Till I'M PH a n n PARLOR COOK- I Mi SiU ti. lany Ca king Stove desired I will get tt oiJfreil t manufacturer's prices. Stove Plates ai:d Grates, arc, for re- 1 1 c .1 C I . ..il , On J141K1 Kir '.lit' Cliivps i sen ; omcrs bturJereJ when wanted. Partic-Uuir attention given to :j!ing, Valleys and Conductors, iwliu h will be made out of best mato iand put up by competent workmen. ap Burners, Wick and Chimneys WHOLESALE OI RETAIL. dUcaII particular attenti"D to the Light . Burner, with Glass Gne, for giving :t lii'lit than any other in use. Also, the Paragon Burner, for Ciude Oil. GAR KETTLEsXnD CAULDRONS of all sizes constantly on Laud. Special attention given to :bing in Tin, Copper and Sheet-Iron. at lowest possible rates. . "Wholesale Merchants' Lists m reaily, and will be sent on app.ication ly mail or in peisju. ILping to see all my old customers anil ny new ones this Spring. I return my -t sincere thanks for the very liberal pa iia:;e I hare already receives "' "ill .vr tn ple;is fail who may call, wheth- :.i-y luy or LvLy. FR.4XCIS W. II AY. htistowD, March 7, 18t7. lUL'.'P 1 Tl . .11i4.il i 1 1. Ill 11 11 ) I ' 'TS IV CASH HLYEttS! IT Till: I'BFASni'nR MalMIM STORE. ni. ' rs;,! respectfully inu.inis t!ie ''( p-rhv.rj: and the public gener 1 l made a great reduction in Cas(; buy Kits. My t.k win ",in p.irt.i.1 Citiiig, Parlor and Heat .v, i,f the most popular kinds ; 2'in- ! every description, of my own rnan !'iie; Hardware nf all V,l w.Saew, Butt Hinges, Table Hinges, Hinees. Roltn. Tn.n nn1 KMI, f GUs. Putty, Table Knives an.l Forks," ':R rvmve and Jrrks, Meat Cutters. 'Vl Pirtry Ton on. 1 . - .... n,,v4 t 'jvnri i iiives .in rttnrt5, Fctsors. Shears, Razors and lnP Axes. n.itrUf.1 t '''IN. Aneers. ChisseLs. Plat, fl.m. ? W. Sdll lr.u Prl.. . 1. . .,,.. ". ip. Panel and Cross-Cut Saws. - . kiiks. .Shovels. Spades, Scythes , t..,ln:,t oieigii iens. LtotS. pc"S. Wit Rr;rl.. Pl.,,1,04 ,;,rs:. V"1"1 Stones. Patent M.ol asses j "leafures.- Lumber Sticks, Horse -eaaoe.. L'at Steel. Rii.es. Shot A wvolvers, fiatola. Cartridges, Pow K Load. c. Odd Stove Plates, and to r,;i... ttt h . 1 - . I i r . ew ana cistern rn , .ma ; Unless and Saddlery K -kmJ; I,;f'""'J Ware Wrirtj ; Carbon Oil and Oil Lamrs. 'p j Uy 0iI- Linseed Oil, Lubricating 1 nr. . 1 1 .lll-lO, ill U 1311 ;;mily groceries, 5,-Ua'"tTt. Sugars, Molasses, Syr ."p. Dried Peaches. Dried Apples, ; 'Ji:ny, Crackers, Rice and Pearl ;.y p, Candles; TOBACCO and Du V V- ,lliewasti, acrub. Horse, I u'ng, Varnish, Stove. Clothes and ! " jJanilla Ropes, and many other LZ 1 ra,e.3 lor UAS1I. lo ma(e, painted and put . ra.es fur cash. A liberal discount country dealers buying Tinware a.W f v GE0- HUNTLEY !urS.Feb,28. 1867.-tf. . EOKGFwTYEAGEIt, ha,U and Retail Dealer In TING AND COOK STOVES 0P EVERY DESCRIPTION, liiroiMwaiiF. HUllllt 1UUU IliAUil rBl3 OWN MANUFACTURE, NERAL JOBBER in SPOUTING 5dU 0lher work in his'line. "ia eet, near Caroline Street, 4LTOOA4, I-A, ' he c'lt? avlnp the ripbt to C .y?rn,,3AKLEY SHEAF" i,h? . X E' the mwi perfect J'nllet and satisfactory e ver introduced 10 tie public. ? Ijoucxbe. - Pjuces Low. :IGARAyTEEP. , ETTER. BEST. The beet ' ,J- TMC Cijars m towa REAL. ESTATE SAVINGS BANK, No. 03 Fourth Avenne, AJjoining new Merchants' and Manufacturers National Bank, PITTSBURGH, PA. ESTABLISHED IV 1862. ISAAC JONES. Presi.lent. W'M. H. SMITH. Vice President. S. 8. CARRIER. Sec. and Treas. B C. PARKE. Accountant. E. B. TODD, Solicitor. TRUSTEES : Hon. Thog. M. Howe, Jacob Painter, Hon. J. K. Moorbead, C. O. Husitry. Harvey Childs, Wm. H. Smiih, Isaac jone, D. W. C. Bidwell, Nicholas Voeghtly, Jr. Statement of October 30, 18 09, ASSETS Bonds and Mortgages, being first liens on Real p:state $502,957 0(j U. S 18"! Bond, at par 25,000 00 U. S. 10 4i) Bonds, at par 25.0011 00 Real Eute 2,720 47 OftVe Furniture 418 GO Cath . 51,400 32 Total $6o7,4'J6 3i) LIABILITIES. Amount due Depositors $553,103 71 Interest, Nov. 1.1PC9 14.027 79 Contingent Fund 43.364 9 Total $607,406 39 INTEREST ALLOWED on Deposits, at LIX PEK CENT. PER ANNUM, payable to Depositors in May aiid November, which, if not drawn, will be added to the principal, and COMPOU.NOKn. Open for Deposit from 9 A. M. to 3 P. M., dailv ; also on Saturday Evenings, from C to 9 u'rlock. 2FMoney loaned on Bond and Mortgage only. Slips lor the use of depositors who can not viMt the city, and copies of Charter and By-laws furnished by mail. S. S. CARRIER, Secretary and Treasurer, No. 63 FousTH Ave., Pitthbvegh, Pa. November 25, lcG9. 5m. EBENSBURG FOUNDRY AliAIV I. FILL II LAST! NEW FIRM, NEWJUILDINGS, &c. HAVING purr based the well known EB ENSBURG FOl NDRY from Mr. Edw. Glagi, and rebuilt and enlarged it almost en tirely, besides refitting il with new machinery, tlie subscriber are now prepared to furnish COOK. PARLOR 4 HEATING SW VS, of the Litest and most approved patterns THRESHINO MACHINES. MILL GEAR ING, ROSE and W A T E VH EELS of cverr description. IRON FENCING, PLOUGHS m.d PLOUGH CASTINGS, and in fact all mannc of articles nisuiufact'ired in a first class Foundry. Job V"ork of all kind attended to promptly and done cheaply. The special attention of Farmers is invited to two newly patented PLOUGHS which we poges the sole right to manufacture and pell in this county, and which are admitted to be the best ever introduced to the public. Believing ourselves capable of performing any wotk in our line in the most satisfactory manner, and knowing that we can do work at lower rBicfs than have been charged in this community heretofore we confidently hope that we will be found worthy of liberal ratronage. Fair reductions made to w holesale dealer. tfThe highest prices paid in cash for old metal, or castings given in exchange. OfB THUS ARK STBICTY CASH OR OOUNTttT produce. CONVERY. V1NROE & CO. Ebennburg, Sept. 2, IfcGS. GEO. C.K. ZAHM. .JAS B. ZAHM. ZAHM &, SON, DEALERS IX DRY GOODS, GROCERIES, HARDWARE, QUEENSWARE, Hats,Caps, Boots,Shoes, AKD ALL OTHER ARTICLES Usually Kept In a Country Store. WOOL AND. COUNTRY PRODUCE TAKSH IN EXCHANGE FOB GOODS ! STORE ON aiALN STREET, Next Door to the Post Officp, June 10, 16C9. EBENSBURG, PA. w1mvweli. tcTyour " l!DLKSTA.DIGS! boots aIsTd shoes For Mcu'i and Boys' Wear. The undersigned respectfully informs bia nu merous customers and the public generally that be is prepared to manufacture BOO I S and SHOES of any desired size or quality, from the finest French calfskin boots to the coarsest brogan. in the vert best man.nkr, on the short est notice, and at os modeiate prices as like work cau be obtained anywhere. Those who have worn Boots and Shoes made at my establishment need no assurance as to the superior quality of my work. Others can easily be convinced of the fact if they will only give me a trial. Try and be convinced. 5PRe:airiug of Boots and Shoes attended to promptly and in a workmanlike manner. Thankful for past favors I feel confident that my work and prices will commend me to a com. linuauce and increase of the same. JOHN D. THOMAS. Ebensburg. April 28, 18C9. SPECIAL NOTICE. The Fisher and Bloodgood Surveys being all patented, those who own portions of them need not ap ply for Patents. Those who have purchased tracts, or parta of tracts, of other bodies of sur veys which have not been patented, caa pro cure the patents by applying to SHOEMAKER & OATMAN. Ebensburg, Nov. 18, 18C9. tf. Ijc IJotf s gqjartoicnt. IMPERISHABLE. The pure, the bright, the beautiful That stirred our hearts in youth. The impulse to a worldly prayerr. The dreams of love and truth ; The longing after something lost, The spirit's yearning cry ;' The striving after better hopes These things can never die. The timid hand stretched forth to aid A brother in his need, Tlw kindly word in grief's dark hour That proves a friend indeed ; The plea for mercy softly breathed When justice thieatens nigh ; The sorrow of a contrite heart These things thall never die. The memory of a clasping hand, The pressure of a kiss. And all the trifles sweet and frail That make up love's first bliss; If with a firm, unchanging faith, And holy trust and high Those hands have clasped, these lips have met. These things shall never die. The cruel and the bitter word That wounded as it fell. The chilly want of sympathy We feel but never tell ; The hard repulse that chills the heart, . Whose hopes were bounding high, In an unfaded record kept These things can Lever die. Let nothing pass, for every hand Must find some work to do ; Lose P4t a chance to waken love, Be firm and just and true ; So shall a light that cannot fade Beam on thee from on high. And angel voices say to thee. These things shall never die. Salts, jSIuicfjcs, lucbofrs, tft. A NOCTURNAL KYSTERY. It is a good many years since, having returned from the West Indies with my regiment, I was stationed at what was called the Royal Arsenal, down the river, near the Plunistead Marshes. The Ar senal consisted of a number of out-houses full of government stores. The Thames flowed on one side of it, a canal running inland for a distance of eight hundred yards on another. On the remaining sides, the Arsenal was accessible from the marshes. It was always guarded day and night by the military stationed there, and this formed the chief part of our duty. One cold, raw night in November, 1 was on what was called the marsh guard, which consisted of seven men besides my self. We had two sentries, one stationed at the guard-room door and one down at the lock-gates of the canal. The weather was very trying, with its rawness and dampness, to us who had so recently come back from the West Indies, and the re mainder of the guard sat round the fire in the guard room, entertaining one an other with tales of their exploits and ad ventures. The conversation turned upon sharks, I remember, and a good many stories weie told, most of them deriving their main interest, in the eyes of the nar rator, from his being the hero of what he had to relate. "Talking of sharks," said one of the guard I recall his words as nearly as I can "reminds me of what I saw when I was in Jamaica. Who has not heard of Port Royal Tom ? This was the larg est shark that had ever been seen in Port Royal, and the stories about him woul J fill a book. He used to swim round the men-of-war lying there, and woe betide the unlucky wretch who attempted to de sert from his ship by swimming ashore ; he never lived to reach it, for Port Royal Tom was sure to swallow him. Well, I had made up my mind to go shark fishing along with three more. We hired a boat, took proper fishing tackle, and everything needed for a day's amusement. Leaving the shore, wo went about a mile out in the harbor, and over went the hook, well baited with a piece of salt pork. After l)ing about for fifteen minutes, a sharp tu was felt, and we found we had got a large fish on. We tried to pull it in, but couldn't get him up to the surface. Here was a fix, and no mistake. With great effort we got up the anchor, took the oars and tried to row to the land ; but what was our astonishment to find the shark towing us out to sea 1" "'What was to be done now?' was the question raised in the boat. "Let him tow us out,' was suggested ; he will soon tire of it, and then we can take him ashore. "This was easier said than done. Master shark had been pulling us for about two hours, and we were still going out to sea. Getting desperate, we took to the oars again, and rowed back to the town ; but what a tugging match it was, with this ugly customer straining his utmost in the opposite direction ! After pulling, in the hot sun, for several hours, we began to make headway for the shore, master shark being determined that he would not go that way, and we being as determined that be should. However, a few minutes before the evening gun fired, we got him to the jetty, and got him safe landed on the pier by means of a crane, made him secure, after a good deal of resistance, and left him for the night, His length, I may mention, was twelve feet or there abouts. "Early next morning we went down to see our prize. He was still alive, and snapping at everything with his powerful jaws. A number of spectators were present, and among them was a soldier of the 50th Regiment, a carpenter. This man wanted to see the shark's teeth, and to open the jaws, forced a handspike into his mouth, and held the handspike very carelessly in his hands.. Master shark lay very quiet, but some o"f the bystanders cautioned this man to be careful of what he was doing. The soldier laughed at their advice, but the smile was hardly off his countenance, when bang came the handspike down upon his foot and smashed the big toe to a jelly, the shark having closed his powerful jaws on the handspike, and thereby caused this unfortunate acci dent. The man was taken to the hospi tal, but death ensued from lockjaw. We cut ofl the shark's head, and gave his body to the blacks, who, as soon as they got it commenced to dance around it, at every other movement giving it a thump with a stick and calling it all manner of names ; and they finally ended by eating him up V "Sergeant of the guarj ! sergeant of the guard !" shouted a terrified voice from without, just as the story had finished. We jumped up and hurried to the door of the guard room, and on opening it found the sentry who had been posted at the lock gate King flat on his face on the ground. We raised hiiu and found him to all appearances dead ; but after warm ing him at the fire, and rubbing his limbs smartly, he began to show signs of life, and opened his eyes Questions were eagerly put to him as to what had hap pened, but no answer could be got. He only looked around him with a strange, vacant stare, and then, relapsed into an other lit, A fresh sentry was ordered out. and a non-commissioned officer accompanied him, to ascertain, if possible, what had overcome the first man with such mortal terror. As they approached the sentry box, they discovered, to their astonish ment, the dead body of a man lying half in and half out of it. Their immediate impression was that Borne horrible crime had been committed, for the Plunistead Marshes were at that time infested with smugglers and other desperate characters. On examination, a discovery was made which added to the mystery. The body was neat ly naked, having only a shirt on ! The natural question was, "Where did it come from ?" And this was followed by the equally fuzzling query, "How did it come there V The , mystery was rather intensified than otherwise, by the next discovery made. Close examination of the shirt re vealed that it was marked with the broad-. arrow, and it then flashed across our mind3 that it must be the body of a dead convict. Lying in the river, close to the guard-house, was an old man-of war, called the Justicia the home of convict felons. These convicts were employed in the arsenal in all kinds of drudgery. All this we knew well enough ; but it did not help us to understand how the body of a dead convict had found its way into the lock-gates sentry-box. After a time the sentry recovered con sciousness, and was enabled to recall and communicate what had happened to over come him with such mortal terror. Most eagerly was he questioned, and this was what be bad to tell : He said that after he had been placed, he walked to and fro till a slight shower of rain came on, when he stepped into his fentry-box backwards, while gazing out on the Marshes. As he got into the box some thing fell against him, and on turning his head to see what it was, he, to his indes cribable horror, saw a ghastly face peering over his shoulder! At that sight hit courage forsook him ; he took to his heels, and made for the guard-room, where he was able to raise a cry, and then, over come with excess of terror, fell down senseless. This statement accounted in part for what had happened, but still left the great est mystery of all the presence of the convict's body in the sentry-box as far frym solution as ever. The poor sentry, who was completely prostrated, was sent to the hospital, and for some time our cu riosity remained unsatisfied. At last the truth oozed out. One of the guard was a terrible fellow for playing practical jokes, and on some suspicion falling on biro, he admitted that this mischief was of his planning. He knew that the sentry who would be placed at the lock-gate, was a simple, nervous fellow, and determined to play ofF a joke upon him. When a con vict died, it was customary to place his body in a small wooden shed, called the 'convict's dead-ouse" until it could be buried. This dead-house was not more than four hundred yards from the lock gates, and our incorrigible had actually gone to the dead-house, got a body lying there, carried it on his back, and placed it in the sentry-box, situated as described! It was he who told the shark story, watch ing all the time for what was likely to happen ; and mightily he enjoyed the joke. But he had to pay for it. He was made a prisoner, and tried by court-martial, and the officers composing that court, having no turn for humor, passed a severe sentence on hitn. His unfortunate victim remained some months in hospital before be fully recovered from the effects of the practical joke, and I may add he after wards went to the West Indies, where he died.- - Til 13 LOSS OP TliE AUCTIC, A MYSTERIOUS AND STARTLING STORY. The following communication has been banded us : An extract from a new work enMtled "Henry J. Raymond and the New York Press," is now extensively republished thioughout the country. The extract purports to be a narration of certain facts connected with the rivalry between the Herald and Times newspapers in regard to obtaining the first authentic intelligence concerning the loss of the Collins steamer "Arctic." on her homewaid voyage from Liverpool in October. 18o4. The read ing of it has recalled to my mirifl another story far more startling, and belonging to the same terrible disaster, which, up to the present time, has never found its way into print. The sr.mrner after the Arctic was lost, the writer visited New York, and at the Astor House in that city was called upon by an old friend and school mate who resided for several years at Al ton, III., and is pleasantly remembered by many of the older residents of that place. This gentleman livtis in Chicago, and holds a responsible position in one of the loading railways of the Northwest. At the time the events occurred which I am about to narrate, Mr. was a private secretary or foreign correspondent lor E. K Col lins, the manager of the noblo but most unfortunate line of steamers bearing his name, and an inmate of his office. Mr. was then, and is now, unless time and trial have sadly changed him, a jollv, good-hearted, c lever fellow, afraid of noth ing, believing not much in anything, and eertainly the last person likely to be at all tinctured with superstition. His veracity is unquestionable. After a long conver sation about our boyhood days, and the companions whom we had both known and loved in that happy era, I naturally made some inquiries relative to the Arc tic, knowing that M , from his t-itua- tion, would be likely to give some incidents that perhaps had never been made public. To my surprise, when the subject was broached, his face assumed a serious cast, bis voice softened to a subdued, half whis pering tone, and he remarked : "There was a mystery about that affair which has always puzzled me and which I do not like to think of. To my knowledge it has never before been spoken of outside Mr. Collins' office, or his iimmdiate fam ily circle. 1 will, however, tell it to you, but can give only the facts as they fell under my own observation, without at tempting explanation." M 's story was substantially as fol lows, barring tho inaccuracies which must necessarily accompany the effort to re member a conversation transpiring fifteen years ago : "I was," said he, "as you know, a clerk in .Mr. Collins' office, and, I believe rather a favorite with him. At any rate he allowed me more liberties than most of the other employees, and frequently conversed about his own personal matters in a semi-confidential manner, which was very gratifying to one of my age. Mr. Collins' wife and two children, a boy and a girl, went to Europe in the summer of 1834, and made quite an ex tended tour on the continent. While ab sent, they kept for his gratification a jour nal, telling the places through which they passed, the date of their visit to each lo cality, and a brief desctiption of the various objects of interest. The jour nal, in detached fragments, was regu larly transmitted to him, and he naturally perused it with great pleasure. . At that time spiritualism was creating quite an excitement in New York, and some of the clairvoyants, or trance mediums, had gained considerable notoriety. One even ing Mr. Collins thought he would give the phenomena a personal investigation, or at least submit the question to a sharp and satisfactory test. IIo accordingly dis guised himself, and went alone to the house of a'celebrated female medium in a remote part of the city. Sending up a fictitious name, he was ushered into the presence of the woman. He statod to her that he desired to know the whereabouts of a middle-aged lady, a young lady and a boy, and described as nearly as possible the appearance of his wife and children. The medium, after the usual prelimina ries, lapsed into the trance state," said she saw the party distinctly; that they were in an old town, she did not know the name, and just at that time visiting an old church. Of this church she gave a sufficiently min ute description, which Mr. Collins noted down, together with the date of the in terview, and departed. In due course of mail, several weeks after, the journal ar rived, and an examination verified exact ly the particulars furnished by the clair voyant. Of course, Mr. Collins was surprised at the curious revelation, but the press of business soon drove it from his mind, and forgot it altogether. Mean while the summer passed and September came. Mrs. Collins and her two children were to return on the Arctic, according to a previous arrangement, and sailed accord ingly. This steamer was noted for the quickness and regularity of her voyages, and was due at New York, if I remember rightly, on Saturday evening. Mr. Col lins resided out of town ; that night, how ever, he remained at his brother's io-the city, but the Arctic did not arrive. He came down to breakfast next morning, and looking sad and thoughtful, was ral lied by hi9 brother on accouut of his gloomy countenance, and asked if he slept j well. He replied that he did not, that j his sleen bad hpen hrok and that he bad dreamed the Arctic was in trouble. He was lauhed at for per- milling such a thing te disturb him, but Sundav went bv. and still no Ar,.;, ,1 when he reached the oirice Mondav morn. ins, he related the dieam to me. t urged him to think no more of it j that the steamer would probably get in that day or next, and he ought not to allow himself to be worried by the vision of an , anxious biain. But the steamer did not j come, neither were any tidings heard from j her, and the alarm became general. In j this emergency, Mr. Collius bethought j him of the clairvovant. und n.-iiil hr a visit, taking the same precaution as on his previous call. He again asked if she 'could see the lady and children, an ! the medium again subsided into a trance Hut this time she seemed disturbed and perplexed, and said that she could not see 4.t.i r.v, 40,..,i,: 1 . i. v.. 4.. 1 j , mi . tl j tiling npjicniVU IO UB enveloped in a mit or fog. (Tl in a mit or fojr. (The collision which sunk the Arctic, it will be remembered, occurred in a thick fb" off Cape Race ) At last she exclaimed mneJ tl,a" U tot to suPPor.1 .her that Hh s.i w Jl.Pm . that th U.Ur an.i I "-Now, I have known a mmister to ct children were standing on the quarter deck ended the vision the woman could dis cover nothing more, and Mr. Collins left her with a heavy heart. Perhaps it ws the next day, or the second one after this interview, about noon, when, as we were all sitting in the office, a dozen or twenty of us, engaged in writing or other business, that a well dressed gentleman rushed into the front part of the room from Broad way, bareheaded and evidently in a state of the wildest excitement, lie asked for no one, but throwing his hands over his head exclaimed in a loud voice, "The Arctic is lost off Cape Race ; only passengers are saved, and my brother is among the lost!" He gave the exact number of passengers, but I cannot now recall the figures. The mar. was instant ly surrounded by the attaches of the r.ff.oc, demanding to know who he was and where he got his information, but he paid no attention to their interrogatories, and j after repeating the same words with the same gesticulation three times, he broke away, dashed into the crowded streets and was ?een no more. Not until three days after this did the first installment of sur vivors from the Arctic land on our shores. When the accident was made known in all its awful details, and the interest had partially abated, a reward was offered through the daily papers for the myste rious stranger, and he was besought to appear and reveal the source whence he derived the intelligence communicated in fl.o fil!in nt?i-f Iinr lift npi-pr fnmf And of a steamer, that the vessel was appa- ,"c' -' ..- rently in dUtreas, sailors and passengers ' dre,d morewedding clothes and jewelr,, were runnir.g to and fro, and the whole ! " and six pr seven hundred 1.1 srr-n ncV,n,to,l i,,,!;.,,, ,v,aaata 1 1 driving to the springs or some deserted although the entire detective force of New manly strength, health, and independence Y'ork was employed to work up the case, ln Point of fiiCt l,he method they choo.-., no trace or sight of him was ever discov- 1 is ll'e ,ie least l'kel' to. I.ve the ad ere(j 1, j vancement aimed at ; lor the supply of Tl.; ia AI sfnrv nnd T Ir-avo iho 1 candidates for the positions as "errand public to solve the enigma involved, if they can. St. Louis Republican. A IIainh i) Raiu'O.yd. A Boston j paper publishes the following story : "The engineer on a freight train on : the Boston cc Lowell Railroad, which I leaves Boston about 3 o'clock in the morn- ing, has on several occasions discovered a j red light, swinging at a furious rate at ; the Woburn. station, where the train stops j for water. Tho light would sometimes j be in front and sometimes in the rear of j the train. When the engineer would stop J his train and send some one to see why j the signal to stop was made, the mcssen- j ger would be surprised to see the light j vanish. Investigation has proven that no j person was there with a lantern, and the brakeman and conductor concur also in j having beheld the phenomenon, which, so far as known, i9 without visible cause Some laborers living- on the line of the above station state that a few mornings since they were coming down the road in a hand-car, when they suddenly heard the approach of an engine and train, and i impossibility, among Amenc.ui women, knowing that no train was due iu that j The reason of this is the phice where they vicinity at that hour, they b-catne greatly ! wear their garters. No French woman, frightened, and jumping out of the car, j o English woman of cultivation, now -it-threw it off the track to await the train : days wears her garters below the kneea. which was coming at a rapid pace upon ! It is ruinous to the thane of the calf, them, but which, it is needless to say, did j More than this, it has Cons, q-ience of an not come. The superstitious regard the other kind- The principal vein of the affair as a forewarning of some disaster, s spiritualists have the ready the- while the Ar that it ia th snirit of a man killed there about two years since;" - A Politician Baitized. .V capital story is related concerning Jim L : He had been elected to a series ot subor dinate offices, and finally was sent to Con gress. Defeated in a re-election, he aspired to a seat in the Legislature, but bo slight had become his hold on popular favor that bn uui 1fpatr1 n-cn for thift nnsition. At last, to recover his waning popularity, he joined the church, and when it was given out on Sunday that, in the interval be tween the services, he would be dipped in . . 11 1 . a neighboring creeK, a targe cruwu uoscui- bled on its banks to witness the ceremony. The preacher waded in the neophyte, and plunged bim under the flood. As be came to the surface, an old farmer in the crowd turned to his son and exclaimed : "John, when you water the horses take them ia above where old L was dip- ped." rit'I Y TEAKS SIXCE. The New Y'ork l-rror contains an es- i S:,y on U,e "nncri and -custom- fifty I.years rince, which is full of admonition i- ! Present generation. I tfty years make ! great change, not only in the condition ! of an individual, but in the habits and ; principles of society. We make an ex tract for the benefit of our readers, malo aud female. The writer says t 'When Washington whs President, his wife knit stockings in Philadelphia, and the mother made doughnuts and cakes between Chiistmas and New Years; now the man ied ladies are too proud to) make doughnuts, besides they don't know- how, so they even send to Madame Pom- l""dor, or some other French cake baker, I auu UUJ P0" taKe lul 1,11 co V"1 ln ,hl'sc da-vs- New ork WflS 1 ful1 of substantial comforts 5 now it la full , of tM,,ondi1 misery ; then there were no gny-liea.fcI spinsters, (unless they were u"W indeed.) for a man could tret married , 11 11-1 1 Ior a u""ar' a,m n oui,, 10 or twenty, and in WRhwg his clothes an-l cooking his victuals, the wife saved mora i five ,1U."1C(I dollars for buckling a couple. mountains, then a bouse must be got fur eight hundred dollars per annum, and fur- j nished at an expense of two or three thou j sand and when it is all done, his pretty j wife can neither make a cake or put an apple in a dumpling. Then a cook must be got at ten dollars per months-chambermaid, a laundress, and seamstress at seven dollars each, and as the fashionable follies of the day have banished the-'mis- ! tress from the kitchen--thus lighting the j candle at both ends, it soon burns out. j Poverty comes in at the door and drive j love out at the window. It is this stupid ' and expensive nonsense which deters s ! iuan3' unhappy old bachelors from enter i ing the state uf blessedness ; hence you find more deaths than nianiages." ImFoktaxce or Leaks ing a Tuadk. Why is it that there is such a repugnance on the part of parents to putting their sons to a trade ? A skilled mechanic is an in dependuut man. Go where he will, hi craft will bring him support. He need ask favors of 1:0111. IIo has, literally, his fortune in his own hands. Y'et fooliftii parents, ambitious that their suns should "rise in the world," as they ay, are more willing that they bhou'.d study for a pro fession, with the chances of even moderate success heavily against them, or run tha risk of spending their manhood in the ig noble task of retailing dry-goods or of toil ing laboriou.-ly at the accountant's desk, than learn a trade which would biing them j boy," dry-good ckrks, and kind.ed 00- cupations, is nototiously ovcr-stocki d, 1 while, on the other hand, the demand for ' really skilled mechanics, of every descrip I lion, is as notoriously beyond the supply. ! The crying need of this country to-da is j for skilled labor; aud that father wh. neglects to provide his son with a u-etul ' trade, and sees that he thoroughly mafters ! it, does him a grievous wrong, and runs tho risk of helping, by so much, to increase the stock of idle and dependant, it not vi cious, members of society. It is stated iu the report of the Prison Association, lately issued, that of four teen thousand five hundred and nifH'ty-t-lx piisoners confined in the penitential ies of thirty States, in 18(37, Seventy-bcVi 11 p.r cent., or over ten thousand of the mi nun-. t had never learned a trade. The fact con veys a lesson of profound interest to those who have in charge the training of bojs, aud girls too, for the aclire duties of life. Whfick to Weak Gaktkrs A hand some leg is a rarity, we had almost said b'g (rena saphenabrwis) runs just oeneatn, j the akin unul it nearly reaches the knee, : when it sinks between the muscles if this is constricted at its largest point by a tight garter, the blood U checked in ita return to the heart, the feet are easily chilled and more liable to disease, tho other veins of the leg swollen into bard, blue knots, become varicose, us it is call ed, and often break, forming obstinate ul cers. Tlim is a picture which a physi cian sees nearly every day. With the sarter fastened above the knee all this ' P deformity ia avoided, but it is fil better to wear no garter at all, and to suspend the stocking by tapes around the waist. Iu this case, however, a well- ! fitl irify ctf4tc iiior i ntitud Irtftl' Jiriiiift. ...... AT Sydney, Dim, young woman wenj into a store and asked for .";..':.: intestines for lyrical pui poses " The pro prietor told her he was out of them, but bad some, misib'y goon cai eui nooio strings. She fainted, and had to be car- lie out 011 a rfcr:;UU,i 'ip I
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