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VflfiM, NEWJUILDINGS, &c.
1TTXG turehased the well known EB-
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i. tzi rebuilt and enlarged it almost en
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.SUING MACHINES. MILL GEAR
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PLOUGH CASTINGS, and in fact all
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ine sole right to manufacture and sell
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ft ever introduced to the public.
-.levitg ourselves capable of performinp
wiji our line in the most satisfactory
IB, and knoffinc that we can do work at
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limited cumber can be sunnlied for
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cjrorkand Knife should
''e eent iu early to
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TUT. EIEISIIH1GL PA.
A3Mfor Cambria County,'
XePp'y WOODEN PULLEYS,
GRippVp1? Ir0n ru,leys- Also,
or R f for fttenining Pulleys
iStei;,,, j iua ujiivcuicui las-
4'j0 . "ced' a8 they can be put up
orl r! ,thonut t,,c use of ladden.
iuurg, Dec. 9. lj-r.Q r.m
AMEBS AND OTHERS
FHon.D
SOT TAIL TO GET
ECFTHE JUSTLY CELEBRATED
- "ouoic-Geared
WWINB MACHINES,
tor wnicn
lfiQE HUNTLEY,
EXSBXJRC, PAm
1 n -iria bounty.
A 7AT CHANCE
l'date y10? Goods from m.
fi V iTEN rR CENT, off
l&aillPiiddnJBC0Un- wil1 be flowed
MOXP ? ; convince your-
CASH from
1870. Summer. 1870.
I am now prepared to oiler
SUPERIOR INDUCEMENTS
TO CASH PUnCIIASERS Of
Til. SEIIMEi & COFFER TO
KITIIEK AT
WHOLESALE Oli RETAIL.
My stock consists in part of every variety of
Tin, Sheet-Iron,
COTTER AND BRASS "WARES,
ENAMKM.ED AST PLAIN
SAUCE-PANS. BOILERS &c ,
COAL SHOVELS. MINE LAMP'S, OIL
CANS. IIOUSEFURNISHING HARD
WARE OF EVERY KIND.
Fpeai'a Anti-Dust
HEATING and COOKING STOVES,
EXCELSIOR COOKING STOVES.
NODLE, TRIUMPH and PARLOR COOK
ING STOVES,
And any Cooking Stove desired I will get
when ordered at manufacturer's prices.
Odd Stove Plates and Grates, &c, for re
pairs, on hand for the Stoves I sell ; others
will be ordered when wanted. Particular
attention given to
Spouting, Valleys and Conductors,
all of which will be made out of best mate
rials and put up by competent workmen.
Lamp Burners, Wick and Chimneys
WHOLESALE Oil RETAIL.
I would call particular attention to the Light
House Burner, with Glass Cone, for giving
more light than any other in use. Also, the
Paragon Burner, for Crude Oil.
SUGAR KETTLES AND CAULDRONS
of all sizes constantly on hand.
Special attention given to
Jobbing in Tin, Copper and Sheet-Iron.
at lowest possible rates.
Wholesale Merchants' Lists
now ready, and will be sent on application
by mail or in peison
Hoping to see all my old customers and
many new ones this Sp.ing, I return my
most sincere thanks for the very liberal pa
tronage I have already received, snd will
endeavor to pleas-.: ail who may call, wheth
er they buy or not
FRANCIS W. HAY.
Johnstown. March 7, 1867.
REaT Reduction in Prices !
TO CASH MYERS!
AT THE EREIVSDl'RG
nOUSE-FURiMSHlNG STORE.
The undersigned respectfully informs the
citizens of Ebensburg and the public gener
ally that he has made a great reduction in
prices to CASH BUYERS. My stock wil!
consist, in part, of Cooking, Par lor and lleat
ing Stoves, of the most popular kinds ; 2'in
irare of every description, of my own man
ufacture ; Hardware of all kind, such as
Locks, Sciews, Butt Hinges, Table Hinges,
Shutter Hinges, Bolts, Irc n and Nails, Win
dow Glass, Putty, Table Knives and Forks,
Carving Knives and Forks, Meat Cutters,
Apple Parers, Pen and Pocket Knives in
great variety, Scissors, Shears, Razors and
Strops, Axes, Hatchets, Hammers, Boring
Machines, Augers. Chissels, 1'lanes, (im
passes, Squares, Files, Rasps, Anvils, Vises,
Wrenches, Rip. Panel and Cross-Cut Saws,
Chains cf all kinds. Shovels, Spades, Scythes
and Snaths, Rakes, Forks, Sleigh Bells,
Shoe Lasts, Pegs. Wax Bristles. Clothes
Wringers. Grind Stones. Patent Molasses
Gates and Measures, Lumber Sticks, Horse
Nails, Horfe Shoes, Cast Steel, Rides, Shot
Guns, Revolvers, Pistols, Cartridges, Tow
ner. Caps, Load, &c. Odd Stove Plates,
Grates and Fire Bricks, Well and Cistern
Pumps and Tubing ; Harness and Saddlery
Ware of all kind ; Wooden and Willow Ware
in great variety ; Carbon Oil and Oil Lamps,
Fish Oil, Lard Oil. Linseed Oil, Lubricating
Oil, Rosin. 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 Ropes, and many other
articles at the lowest rates for CASH.
fjCJ-Home Spouting made, pain ;d and put
up at low rates-for cash. A liberal discount
made to country dealers buying Tinware
wholesale. GEO. HUNTLEY
Ebensburg, Feb, 28, 1867.-tf.
Q.EORGE W. YEAGER,
Wholesale and Retail Dealer In
HEATING AND COOK STOVES
OF EVERY DESCRIPTION,
OF HIS OWN MANUFACTURE,
And GENERAL JOBBER in SPOUTING
and all other work in his line.
Virginia Street, near Caroline Street,
AL.T003.TA, PA,
COOK S TOVE. the most perfect
complete and satisfactory
Stove ever introduced
to the public.
Stock Immense. - Tkices Low.
SATISFACTION GUARANTEED.
171 RANK D. STORM, Practical Sur
? TcrotfTEN8BnRo. Pa. Office on Cen
tre street, opposite Colonade Row. f.roT.i.;
Ejje poet's gtparfmtnt.
A. Sl'HMEK DAY.
Sunshine over the meadow lands,
Kisning the crimson clover,
And sunsliine haunting the lilly cups
That the yellow bees hang over;
And sunshine over the hazy bills,
And over the dimpling river,
And I wished that the sun and summer day
Might shine and last forever.
We w-alked down by the meadow path,
Tlie broad highway forsaking,
Foe the quiet of that lovely spot
Seemed better for our love making;
And I was silent and she was shy,
As we walked down through the clover,
But we thought it the sweetest summer day
That ever the sun shone over.
We heard the birds in the waving grass,
As they twitted to each other
About the nests they had hidden away,
And the coo of each glad bird mother;
And we thought, as we walked that summer
day
Through the clover blooms together,'
That at lust the world was iu perfect tune,
In the glad, bright summer weather.
I cannot tell what I said to her
As we walked knee-deep iu clover;
But I know that the robins merrily sang
Their sweetest ot sweet songs over.
And down in my heart love's own bird sang
A song that was gladder, sweeter,
Aud its ecno joined with the world's sweet
hymn,
And made the day completer.
And when we came up the meadow path,
Our hearts sang over and over;
"O bweet, glad day for blossom and bird,
And lor every blithe young lover!"
And yet I know not the words she said.
Or whether she spoke at all;
But of all sweet dajs, that summer day
1 count as the best of all.
ales, J?fcclejcs, iwciotts, t.
Tin: i:'L.3ife.!
A TRI E STOKV.
Among the verdant bills of Eastern
Pennsylvania, near where the noble,
winding, Susquehanna, coursing through
the State, divides the lilue Ridge moun
tains, snugly nestles the little town, or
rather village, of Linton for it is so small
it scarcely merits the appellation of towii
and which, if it were not tor the suit
asserting dazzle of the guilt vane which
surmounts the spire ot the little moss-covered
church in that place, would be lost
to view even ii its existence was not for
gotten by the great, worrying, busy, out
side world.
It was a picturesque little place ; the
great high mountains, their tops almost
seeming to pierce the heavens, towering
at its rear, the shimmering waters of the
Susquehanna flowing at its feet, and the
numerous shady trees casting their cooling
umbrage over its dwellings and lawns, all
conspired to make it one of the most de
lightlul spots one could imagine ; and one
would scarcely believe it could be made
the scene of a tragedy so henious as that
winch was perpetrated in it during the
latter part ot the tummer of 185 , and
which, for the cold-bloodedness and inge
nuity evinced in its consummation, has
scarcely a parallel.
Mr Edson, the victim of the tragedy,
was a retired merchant, who resided with
bis family in an elegant villa situated on
the outskirts of the town, and which, from
the fact of its being surrounded by a shady
grove of trees of that species, was known
in Linton by the name of "The Elms."
The family consisted of only his wife and
npnhew. besides several domestics. Ilis
wife, Estelle, was of Southern oiigin,
dark, imperious, beautiful as a Venus, of
a very passionate disposition, and, it nec
essary, would not scruple to go any length
to satisfy either her anections or her bate.
Rumor had it that her marriage with
Mr. Edson was not free from tho charge
of mercenariness ; for in no other way
could the gossips account for the union of
two persons whose ages exhibited such a
"real disparity ; for Estelle bad only
passed ber twenty-third year, while Mr
Edson was on the shady side of fifty when
be brought home his dark-eyed houri as
the mistress of "The Elms," scarce cne
vear before, and his appearance exaggera
ted his age. And it was no great wonder
if the meddlesome threw out sundry invid
ious insinuations as to the propriety of
allowin" two such fine and comely persons
as Randolph, Mr. Edson s nephew, a
handsome, broad-shouldered fellow of
twenty-five, and Estelle, the pleasure of
each other s constant company, as must
necessarily be the ca3e from their present
relations ; and further, it was true that
Randolph was somewhat of a wad fellow.
which fact the gossips urged in support of
their disinterested hints. The praters
kept talking, and the inmates of "The
Elms" remained in ignorance of their be-
in the subjects of their idle comments,
until one morning in August, Linton woke
up and learned the news of the murder of
Mr. Edson, which arousea u irom its
pemi-npathetical state to renewed action ;
and many were the speculations that be
came rife in the village as to who commit
ted the dastard act. Nor had they long
to wait for a subject on which to vent
their put-up garulity ; for suddenly anoth
er rumor was bruited abroad to the crxect
that Joe Smith, a rather hard character,
and confirmed habitue of the village tavern,
was discovered to have mistenously dis
appeared simultaneously with the discov
erv of Mr. Edson's assasination, and on
him immediately fell the overwhelming
weieht of suspicion. He was not natural
ly a vicious character, for his vices were
only inebriety and shifilessnees, but ha
had a hard name, and suspicion did not
stop to observe his few good qualities, in
magnifying his bad ones.
Meanwhile, everything was confusion
nnd excitement at "The Elms." Estelle,
apparently overcome by the sudden calam
ity, was prostrated on a bed of sickness,
and would see no one except Randolph ;
and Randolph himself, although stronger,
ill-bore bis grief, for his ancle had been
as a father to him. He had lived with
him since he was very young. His pa
rents, having died while he bad scarce
emerged from bis infancy, had consigned
him to the care of Mr. Edson, who had
proved in every respect a father to him.
A short time before the occurrence of the
tragedy, a slight misunderstanding had
existed between Randolph and his uncle
on account of some indiscretion which he
had been guilty of, but which they had
compromised, and it was on that account
that the appeared to feel more poignantly
his loss. He wandered, pale ana nervous,
through the house, holding no communi
cation with any one.
On the day prior to that on which the
murder was discovered, Mr. Edson had
completed the sale of a valuable farm, for
which he had received also in payment a
large sum of money. Having received it
too late to bank it on that day, he secured
it in a safe in his chamber, intending to
deposit it in the bank on the morrow.
Rut during the mghtan entranca had ap
parently been effected through one of the
apartment, which was situated on the
second story, by means of scaling the va
rnndah, which ran the width of the man-,
sion, the roof of which was on a level with
it. The safe was forced open, and Mr.
Edson, probably aroused by the noise
which attended its performance, while at
tempting to capture the intruders, was mur
dered, and the perpetrators of the foul crime
decamped with their blood-bought booty.
Rut the most inexplicable part of the
tragedy was the fact that notwithstanding
the great noise which had to all appeal an
ces been made, none of the inmates of the
house, though sleeping in close proximity
to the scene of the hideous crime were
disturbed during the night in question,
except the coachman, who, being sensitive
to such things, immagined he heard the
rumbling of a carriage about midnight,
but being in his first sleep, he had paid
no attention to it, and on going to the sta
ble on the following morning, the horses
looked as though they had been driven
during the night, whieh fact he found it
impossible to account for.
Things were in this state of conjecture
when the detective, a, short, wiry, muscu
lar looking fellow, named Hoggs, arrived
on the day following the tragedy. Short
ly after bis arrival Hoggs made an exam
luatiun of the apartment in which the
murder transpired. Between its windows
stood the 6afe, its heavy iron doors still
ad jar, and its contents strewn around the
room in confusion, as was also the furni
ture. The detective took a survey of the
apartment in a glance.
"So they don't understand how they
didn't make any noise, do they ?" solilo
quized he, nodding knowingly. "Well, I
do, and what's more; I've found out before
this that cats have velvety paws " And
with this sage reflection, the detective re
sumed his investigation.
Going to the safe, he scrutinized it close
ly for seme minutes, worked the lock,
looked at the interior, after which he pro
ceeded to pick up the scattered papers and
other contents, and replaced them in the
rake. In bending to reach some which
bad fallen beneath it, he caught a glimpse
of something lodged behind, the corner of
which was suspended beneath the safe.
With the indifference which characterizes
his profession, he drew it from its hiding
place. It proved to be a lady's cambric
handkerchief, in which was enveloped a
small pointless dagger, scarcely larger
than a pocket-knife, richly ornamented.
Both were stained with blood, now dry
and crusted, and upon the corner of the
handkerchief was embroidered the initials
"E. R." The murderers in their haste,
had hid them in that spot, fearing detec
tion did they alloTw that evidence of their
guilt to remain unconcealed, and were
probably prevented by some circumstance
from concealing it more effectually.
After this discovery the detective close
ly examined the windows and the doors,
and then seemingly satisfied wiih Lis ex
amination, quitted the room.
In passing through the hall he met Ran
dolph, who was just issuing from the li
brary, where he had been pacing excitedly
during the time the detective was prose
cuting his investigation.
"Did you discover any clue which will
lead to the discovery of the murder?" in
quired Randolph, searchingly.
"Yes, that there were two implicated
in it.
Randolph started and shifted nervously.
The detective bent hia keen glance pierc
ingly on him.
"Why do you think there were more
than one concerned ?"
"Because the indications are what we
generally go by, and they look very much
as though there would have been a hard
time forgone," replied the detective.
"And did you discover nothing further?"
questioned Randolph, in suspense.
"No!'' He uttered this lie, most de
liberately. "I never met with a case as
has been dono so cleverly before done
everything as clean as a new pin," he
added, in an admiring tone.
Randolph breathed easier.
"I suppose his wife takes it hard, this
circumstance," suggested Boggs. "Sick
abed, ain't she ?" .
Yes," shortly replied Randolph.
Boggs nodded Lis head approvingly,
and went out.
During the morning an inquest was
held, where a verdict was rendered in ac
cordance with the facts as before stated.
The physician, in his post-mortem exam
ination, in probing, extracted a piece of
steel which proved to be the point of a
small dagger, the same which the detec
tive had discovered.
Boggs remained a few days in the neigh
borhood, quietly observing every circum
stance, and then suddenly disappeared,
and in about a fortnight, as suddenly
turned up again, with Joe Smith in his
custody, who was immediately lodged in
jail.
One day, after he had been in jail about
a week,' Boggs entered bis cell and ex
claimed pleasantly :
"One night more and you are a free
man !"
"Well, I'm glad of if," replied Joe,
for I'm beginning to feel sick of this sport.
It isn't enough to be knoched on the bead,
and then confined in a lunatic asylum,
and after I'm fortunate enough to get out,
I get arrested on a charge of murder,
which I didn't know anything of until my
arrest," added he good-humoredly.
"You onght to thank your lucky stars
you got out so safe. You came within
an ace of being sent to "that bourne from
which no traveler returns," replied the
detective, laughingly.
"Have you all the proofs of their guilt"
inquired Smith.
"Leave that to roe," returned Boggs,
with evident satisfaction, turning to leave
the piison.
On the next day, Boggs, in company
with a constable, was seen going in the
direction of "The Elms." Pulling tho
bell, he was soon admitted, and shown
to the sitting room, where Randolph and
Mrs. Edson were engaged in low conver
sation. "How d'ye do V exclaimed Boggs, en
tering without any preliminary knocking,
accompanied by his companion.
Randolph and his companion started as
if struck by lightning, but recovering their
self-possession, found tongue to answer
him.
"I beg your pardon for coming in in
this way, but you see business is busi
ness," explained Bcggs, blandly.
Randolph merely inclined his head.
"Would it be asking too much to in
quire what your maiden name was ?"
asked Boggs, suddenly addressing himself
to Mrs. Edson.
t?he looked at him inquiringly, and the
muscles about her mouth worked nerv
ously. "Rauno," replied she. -
"Ah, yes. Well, there is one little cir
cumstance about this case that I'd like to
inquire about. I suppose you didn't hear
any carriage or anything stop before the
house on the night of the murder, did
you ?" queried Boggs.
"We stated once before that we did
not," interposed Randolph, with a malign
nant glitter beaming in his eyes.
"Well, you see, I didn't know but
that you'd forgotten it. People is likely
to forget such little things when they get
excited, you know."
"Is that all your business with us V
asked Randolph.
"There's one thing more I'd like to
ask," returned Boggs. "Did you ever 6ee
these things before?"
The detective suddenly produced the
articles he found iu his examination on
his arrival.
Had a cannon ball passed through the
apartment at that instant, it could not
have produced a greater effect than that
action.
"Where did you get them ?' almost
shrieked the woman, her face of a livid
hue.
"Where you hid them after you had
murdered your husband," calmly replied
the detective.
Iler eyes suddenly gleamed like burn
ing coals when she found herself betrayed.
She moved her hand nervously in the di
rection of her bosom, and before Boggs
bad either time to divine her intention or
arrest her, there was a sharp report of a
pistol, a puff of smoke, and the foiled
murderess tell to the floor a corpse.
In the meantime, Randolph bad fur
tively moved iu the direction of the door,
but the constable had anticipated him,
and he wa3 forthwith arrested, tried for
complicity in the murder of his uncle,
and the proof being so conclusive, he was
found guilty, and eventually expiated his
crime on the scaffold.
Little more remains to be told.
On the night of the murder, Joe Smith
in returning to the tavern, on arriving at
a Fpot on the road where a clump of trees
cast a shadow across the path, was
knocked over the head, but not before he
recognized the features of Randolph, and
on regaining his consciousness, found
himself an inmate of a lunatic asylum,
from whence he was taken by the detect
ive. An exchange says : The publication
of a recent volume on the water power of
Maine, induces Horace Greeley to under
take a series of articles of what he knows
about dams The articles will be in his
cuss toroary tyle, and will, no doubt ex
haust the subject.
Curiosities ot Catlng.
An old beau, formerly well known in
Washington city, was accustomrd to eat
but one meal in twenty-four hours ; if,
after this, he had to go to a party and
take a second dinner, he ate nothing at
all next day. lie died at the age of sev
enty years.
A lady of culture, refinement, and unu
sual powers of observation and comparison,
became a widow. Reduced from afltu
ence to poverty, with a large family of
small children dependent on her uvtnual
labor for daily food, she made a vatioty
of experiments to ascertain what articles
could be purchased for the least money,
and would, at the same time, "o th
farthest," by keeping her children longest
from crying for somethiug to cat. She
soon discovered that when they ale buck
wheat cakes and molasses, they were quiet
for a longer time than after eating any
other food.
A distinguished Judge of the United
States District Court observed that, when
he took buckwheat cakes for breakfast,
he could sit on the bench the whole day
without being uncomfortably hungry ; if
the cakes were omitted, he felt obl'iaed to
take a lunch about noon. Buckwheat
cakes are a universal favorite at the win
ter breakfast table, aud scientific investi
gation and analysis have shown that they
abound in the heat-forming principle ;
hence nature takes away our appetite for
them in summer.
During the Irish famine, when many
died of hunger, the poor were often "found
spending their last shilling for tea, and
tobacco, and spirits. It has also often
been observed in New York, by those
connected with charitable institutions, that
when money was paid to the poor, they
often laid out every cent in tea and coffee,
instead of procuring the more substantial
food, such as meal, and flour, and pota
toes. On being reproved for this appan
rent extravagance and improvidence, the
reply, in both cases, was identical ; their
own observations had shown them that a
penny's worth of lea, or tobacco, or liquor,
would keep of the sense of hunger longer
than a penny's worth of anything else.
Scientific men express the idea by saying,
"Tea, like alcohol, retards the metamor-
i phosis of the tissues ;" in other words, if
gives fuel to the flame of life, and thus
prevents it from consuming the fat and
flesh of the body.
If a person'gets into the habit of taking
a lunch between breakfast and dinner, he
will very soon find himself getting faint
about the regular luncheon time ; but let
him be so pressed with important'engage
ments for several days in suiC-'Si-ion as to
take nothing between meals, and it will
not be long before he can dispense with
his lunch altogether. These things show
that, to a certain extent, eating is often a
mete matter of habit. Whole tribes of
Indian hunters and trappers have been
known to cat but once in twentyfour
hours, and that at night. Dr. Hall'B
Tracts.
Modern English. It's all well enough
to talk about the list eighteen centuries,
but the nineteenth century is the century
after all. Although immeasurably supe
rior in everything, it is particularly so in
the elegance of its language. To illus
trate what is meant, we saw two young
men meet in Water street and heard them
converse. The way it was dono and the
conversation was as follows. For con
venience sake we will call their names
Thomas Green and James Blue:
J. Blue Hello, Toujuiie, how's your
dog ?
T. Green (extending his hand) Bully,
Jimmie, put it there!
J. B. Well, Tommie, how'6 things?
T, G Pretty tart; see my new cigar
holder? (exhibits cigar holder.) How's
that for high f
J. B (looking at cigar holder) Pretty
loud ; it ain't meerscham, though, for
stamps.
T. G. (excitedly.) I'm your oyster!
My ducats talk forty dollars' worth.
Come and see me. I straddle that blind,
my son. (Sticks finger and thumb into
vest pocket.)
J. B. Got U with you ?
T. G. Arrect.
J. B. You're another. What ails yer
eye ?
T. G. Man stuck all his fingers in it.
But then I bust his snoot and wrung his
ears till he came to tea, now you bet. Is
she very black ?
J. B. Black ? Y'ou look like a coal
heavest.
T. G- Go- there yourself! Keep off
my toe or there'll bo a nigger funeral ;
that's what kind of a man I am ain't it ?
J. B. Waal, who's doing this crowd
ing ? I don't want any of your lip either ;
if you wasn't fuller'n a little wagon, I'd
make it red-hot for you.
T. G. Augh ! what you giving us
fuller'n a little tick yourself.
J. B Y'ou're a lawyer.
T. G Y'ou're a liar, am I ? What
do you take me for?
J. B You're a shoutin'.
T. G. Give us a rest, Jimmie.
J. B. Domino domino !
T. G. --Shoo fly, Jim I'm off. (Exit
both in different directions )
Imagine some ancient philosopher wit
nessing such an exhibition of the English
tongue. He would probably think it was
"pretty tart."
A bad debt The owing of a grudge.
IILEIOIC ACT.
However much tho world may have
degenerated in late years, every now and
then we are called upon to chronicle an
act of heroism that sends a proud thrill of
admiration to the heart, at the chivalric
self-denial which is exhibited, rivaling
even the wildest traditions that are hand
ed down of heroism in a heroic a.e. Of
such is the instance now brought to our
notice.
At a little station called Shunpike, on
the Dutchess and Columbia Railroad, n
few days since, occurred the scene we are
about to relate: As the (J:30 train was
nearly due on Thursday morning, Mr.
Frederick Chase, station agent at Slinn
pike, and living at a short distance km
the track, left his horn for the purpose of
opening ihc ticket tdlice. He had not
gone long when his little sc n, two years
old, found his way through tho open gate
to the track, where he was attracted, no
doubt, with the childish curiosity of his
age. His sister, eleven years "of age,
busying herself about household dutie?,
oki nor at lirs-t notice his absence. Sud
denly, hearing the shriek of the approach
ing train, she looked for her little brother,
and glancing through the npon door, was
for a moment paralyzed at beholding him
standing in the path of the approaching
train, clapping his hands in childish glee
at Its unusual appearance. Recovering
herself in a second, with cry of agony
she sprang through the open door and
down the garden path with the speed of
me wina, thinking and caring for nothing
but her brother's danger. The engineer,
noticing the flying form, whistled down
brakes; but too late, fo" just as the heroic
girl was lifting her brother from the track
the remorseless engine crushed them both
down under the terrible wheels. The
train was finally stopped, however, when
they were picked up. The boy, beyond
a few slight bruises, was uninjured ; but
the brave girl was teriiLly mangled, one
leg and one foot beins literally torn in
pieces, and being otherwise badly bruised
about the limbs and body. She was ta
ken back to the house and physicians
summoned, who are making every effort
to save her life, and, from last accounts,
they are likely to succeed. Albany
Journal.
A "SiuoNfi" Joke Old Dr. Strong,
of Hartford, Connecticut, was not often
outwitted by his people. One time he
had invited a young minisf?r to preach
for him, who proved rather a dull preach
er, and whose sermon was unusually long.
The people became wearied, and as Dr.
Strong lived near the bridge, near tho
commencement of the afternoon service he
saw his people flocking across the river
to the orher church. He readily under
stood that they feared they should have
the same young man in the afternoon.
Gathering up his wits, which generally
came at his bidding, he said to the young
minister :
"My brother across the river is rather
feeble, and I think he will take it kindly
to have you preach to his people, and if
you will do so, I will give you a note "to
him, and will bo as much obliged to you
as I would to have you preach for me ;
and I want you to pieaeh the same ser
mon that you preached to my people this
morning."
The young minister, supposing this to
be a reeommenda'ion of his sermon, start
ed off in good spirits, delivered his note,
arid was invited to preach most cordially.
He saw before him one-half of Dr.
Strong's people, and they had to listen onq
hour and a half to the same dull, burn
drum sermon that they heard in the morn
ing. They understood the joke, however,
and said they wouldn't undertake to run
away from Dr. Strong again.
During the session of one of the Re
corders Courts, a merry faced and btight
eyed Millesian was arraigned for disorder
ly conduct. The Judge inquired vory
angrily if he was not ashamed to be them.
"Pon my soul I am, your honor."
"You were in very disreputable com
pany !"
"1 know it, yer honor 1"
"It is shameful "
Too true," was the penitent rejoindc-r.
"If I permit you to go this time, v.Hl
you ever be caught in puch company
again ?"
liKi t unless yr honor sends for me "
was the meek reply, in a tone so exqui
sitely sarcastic that no doubt of his ineuu
ing was left on the minds of the audience.
A Wonderful- Plant. A specimen
of the wondeiful plant, "The Flower of
the Holy Ghost," has been successfully
raised in Norwich, Conn. The tlowor is
a creamy white cup, nearly aslarge
half an egg, and extremely beautiful, a,I
its wonder as a natural floral gro'.yth is.
the fact that in this flower is a. '."irtle pure
white dove, with pink bill an'j eyes, and
its head turned as if lookimj'over its back..
Its wings, feet, bill, etc., 'are absolutely
perfect as those of th. living dove, whose
counterpart the w'-4,JCrful living bird rK
A CltKMirin Albany, whik fxpiatin'j
on the discoveries of cUcwicali science.'
announced that isnow possessed considers
ble heat. An Irishman present far
chemistry roust be a vahmb.'e scienc,
and asked the lecturer how many snow
ball it would require to Loll, a teaUttJu.
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