b U a. jjl'I'IKE, Editor and Publisher. k'OLUME 4. BY FATBOXIZIXO 1. L. OMMM CHEAP CASH DEALERS IX Hill.'' VVVJJ LADIES' DRESS G00DS4 bady-Made GL0THING, Hats, Caps, Boots, Shoes, ttOTHS,CASSIMERES, SATIXETTS, JCAKS, -ICG w ind a Fresh and Complete Stock of HUB FAMILY GROCERIES COSSISTIKO CF El EXTRi FJUOLT FlfllB, GRAI.V, FEED, ACON, SALT, FISH, FRESH VEGETABLES, RIED & CAISTD FRUITS, SUGARS, TEAS, CO f FEES, SUPS, MOLASSES, CHEESE, &c. Also, a large stock of the st Brands of Cigars and Tobacco, STOKE ON HIGH STREET, rur Dom Fast of Crawford's Hotel, Fbensburg, Pa. r00D, MORRELL & CO., Washington street. rPa, R. R. Depot, Johnstown, Pa., nrfetali and Retail Dealers in IlffllllSl DRY GOODS. MILLIXERY GOODS, 2DWARE, QL'EENSWARE, BOOTS AND SHOES. HATS AND CAPS, TRnv vn xr A TTC 3TI.TS AND OIL CLOTHS. ktady-made clothing, .Ware, yellow ware, ! "OODEN AND WILLOW WARE, wand FEED. All KINnS. kdkrtri.li .11 ' " " ' . , . m -" ""anneroi western frodoce. UR: BACON, FISH, SALT, HL?!e " "toil orders solicited Z J , lvX 00 th onortest notice and WOOD. MORRELL k CO. April 28, 1870-ly. CLZAHM.........JA3. B. ZAHM. ZAHM & SON, fKOODS, GROCERIES. WARE. QUEENSWARE, Jts.Caps,Boots,Shoes, P ALL OTHER ARTICLES f " Kept In a Country Store. AD COlTVTnv 4iIS I EXCHASGI FOB GOODS ! ilAIN STREET, t Door to the Post Office, EBENSBURG, PA. "fcRS AND OTHERS '8orij) HOT FAIL To OKT :the justly celebrated Utiia oubl e-Gcared Rawing machines, I 0B WHICTT ROE HTTOTT T-C- lBEncc, pa.. 1 fTrTrr I U It L' I . Tot, " i m ttiu.. a buying fZA. r. ' '"o.tf Wr CASH for the xrJ PR CENT, off k7b.ihj-1"w ill beallowd' "M2,rfoAVtSieonT!ncJo'- 1 GZQ. HUNTLEY. 1 VE MONEY ! KEEP IT BEFORE THE PEOPLE A $7,000 Lie Exposed! A 'BISMARCK' WHO MISSED HIS MARK The Truth about the Poor Douse! ITS EXPENSES FOR 1869. klVllN i S. The of a County Auditor. The Johnstown Democrat has recently contained two or three communications, signed "Bismarck," all of which ara falsely dated at Ebensburg, but were really manu factured in Johnstown by either Woodruff himself or one of his understrappers. As we said once before, it is an old, stale and well understood political, or rather editorial, dodge. In reply thereto, we publish the following statement, over the responsible name of one of the County Auditors : Ebensbkbq, Sept. 17, 1870. Mr. Eihtor I deem it a simple act of jus tice to the people of Cambria couutv. as well as to those whose duty it was to lay before the people the accounts of the Poor House, to re- lute the erroueouB statement of a cerrenondent 01 the Johnstown Democrat signing himself "Bismarck," (which statement I find pub lished in the last issue of that DarxrT. and wherein it is alleged that 'the Poor House cost the county, to run it in 1S69. the sum of sev ZNTEEX THOUSAND AND TWENTy-6EVK!f DOLLARS and one cent. 1 hat such was not the case the following plain statement of facta will clearlv uemonsiraie: The whole amount of orders issued to ine ioor Mouse Treasurer for tho year 1809 was irt nm-m The amount of the orders on hand from the year 1868 was l.OOCTOO me nmuuuiui me nnes receivea uur- mg tne year ltm was 27'01 Maklne-a total of . nr.mr-ni xv l uici'iwvui rue settlement lor isua there was in orders on band tn.nnrrnn Cash on band 7500 Due from late Treasurer 60-00 Paid on Indebtedness prior to ; 3.490.17 Making' a total of $0,61589 Which sum deducted from the whole amount leuves flO,4iriJJ the actual cost of conducting the Poor Hous for the year lt;69. As the above statement is correct in everv particular, and cannot be gainsayed, it Kill at once be seen that instead of seventeen thous and and twenty seven dollars and one cent t$l7,C27-01), the actual cost of running the Poor House last year was ten thousand and forty dollars and twelve cents ($10.049 12). i ne indebtedness of the Poor House for 1PG9 and previous rears is four thousand six hundred and eighty-four dollar! and forty two cents ($4,684 42). The amount due the Poor House br Cambria county for ihe year 1869 and previous years is six tbousaod and four teen dollars and thirty-one cents (6.014.31) leaving a surplus of one thousand three hun dred and twenty nine dollars, and eighty-nine cents ( I ca in favor or the Poor House, after paying all indebtedness. The Poor House is theiefore at present entirely out of debt, as any one can see by comparing the as sets ana liabilities. 1 will say to the readers of this statement, then, that the above are facts that will prove themselves. I write this through a sincore desire to let the truth of the matter be known to the people, and I hope those who will herealter write about the Jroor House will lonfine themselves to facts, and not make any further erroneous statements about that mucn abused institution. JAMES NULL, Auditor. Pbcphect of Napoleon III. Louis Phillippe fell in 1848. He was born in 1773, and took his seat on the throne in 1830 ; add up the figures 1773, as follows : 1 and 7 and 7 and 3, and it makes 18: add this to 1830. and it makes 1848. Louis Phillippe was married in 1782 ; count 1 and 7 and 8 and 2, it makes 18 : add 18 to 1730, it makes 1848. The wife of Louis Phillippe was born in 1782 : count 1 and 7 and 8 and 2, it makes 18; add 18 to 1830, it makes 1848. Napoleon III was born in 1803 ; made himself emperor in 1852 ; count 1, 8, 0, 8, m&kes 17: add 17 to 1852, and you will have 1869. Napoleon III was married in .1853 ; count 1, 8. 5. 8, makes 17 j add 17 to 1852, makes 1869. Empress Engenie was born in 1826 ; count 1, 8, 2, 6, makes 17 ; add 17 to 1852, makes 1869. Still the French history gires more of this rencontre. Robespierre fell in 1794 ; count 1, 7, 9, 4 21 ) are 1794, and you have 1815, the fall of Napoleon I. The :aame for the isourbons ; l, 8, l, 6, (15) are 1830. Louis Phillippe's fall 1848: count 1,8, 4, 8 (21) ; add 21 with 1848. gives 1869. .Napoleon 1 reignea 17 years ; less uour- bons reigned 17 years; Louis Phillippe reigned 17 years. And in 1869 Napoleon bad reigned 17 years.j Still more. JNapoieon in was Dorn in 1808 ; count 1, 8, 0, 8, give 17 years. .Na poleon III was married in 1853 ; 1, 8, 6, 3 17. Eugenie was born in 1826 ; 1, 8, 2, 6, gives 17. From this prophecy it wou.a seem mat Louis Napoleon bas already gone one year over his time. SnoT a Cube fob Bilious Colic. Dr. Maydieu, cf France, has revived the oia practice of giving shot for bilious colic. His method is to take No. 6 shot, after carefully washing tbem with sweet oil, and give a dessert spoonful every half hour. He claims that in five or six Hours tne vomiting ceo- es. Ane (icym ritiM nal relatoa the following anecdote illustra tive ef tbis treatment : 'A clergyman was t rv ick. and stopped at the house of a eood old lady who was familiar with the treatment, wno stateu mi . but a bullet, which would answer the pur pose. She gave it to the divine, who, after d nf its ereat efficacy, swallowed it, and to his joy and surprise found that In a very short time he was entirely relieved or the colic. Before leaving be expressed some doubt to the old lady about a piece of lead so heavy finding its way through the bowels. 'Oh, my." she replied ; "you need have no anxiety about tbat, as it naa oeea turuugu me ten or twelve timee' HE IS A FREEMAN WHOM THE TRUTH MAKES FREE, AND ALL EBENSBURG, PA., 5Pf gtparfmtnt. TWO PICTURES OF THE RHINE. The angel Peace her wings divine Waved o'er the valley of the Rhine, Tranced in a golden calm. Doves murmured in the greenwood shade, A drowsy plaint the river made, And heaver lier tunes the herd-bells played Than chimes from Notre Dame. The grain had caught a golden glint The grapes an opalescent tint From Summer's beams benign ; And Cheerful Labor, glancing round On field and vineyard, plenty-crowned. In fancy saw the ripe sheaves bound, The clusters raining wine. Not Tempo's vale, when Earth was young And Greece with shepherd music rung, A lovelier scene could show. The dream-light of the Age of Gold Seemed lingering soft on field and fold, On cottage roof and turret bold. On time-worn crag and ruin old. Green grove and flowery knoll. God 1 what a change 'tis peace no more ; Var shakes, to-day. each Rhenish shore. War blurs the Rhenish skies. The vineyards shrivel in bis breath, And on the crimson plain beneath Mowed down by myriad handed Death A human harvest lies 1 "Where are the Rhineland's proud chateaux ? T n . 1 1 l - T 1 I . . xhiizeu, jest meir wans to frussia s foes Should transient shelter lend. Whore are the herds 1 for Provant slain : The Peasants ? In war's seiied train ; The crops ? The seed was sowed in vain ; With gory clay they blend. O Braves of "Fatherlacd" and Gaul ' Know ye for what, for whom, yo fall ? This is Ambition's war To serve the ends of Desnot ereed. From which 'twere well the earth were freed. a j ucijj vruwueu u rong to uiory s meed Alas 1 heroic fools, ye bleed. In Moloch's abbatoir. SCales, Sfttltjjts, mMts,tit. POLITICAL ECOXOMY. BY MARK. TWAIN. lrolitical economy is the basis of all good government. The wisest men of all ages have brought to bear upon this sub ject the lTere I was interrupted and informed tbat a stranger wished to see me down at the door. I went and confronted him. and asked to know bis business, strulinf all the time to keep a tight rein on my seething political economy ideas, and not let tbem break away from me or get tangled in their harness. And privately I wished the stranger was in the bottom of the canal with a cargo of wheat on top of him. I was all in a fever, but be was cool. He said he was sorry to disturb me, but as be was passing be noticed tbat I needed some lightning rods. I said, Xes, yes go on what about it ?" He said that there was nothing about it, in particular nothing except he would like to put them up for me. I am new to housekeeping ; bare been used to hotels and boarding bouses all my life. Like anybody else of similar experience, I try to appear (to strangers) to be an old housekeeper; consequently I said in an off-hand way tbat I bad been intending for some time to have six or eight light ning rods put up, but . The stranger started, and looked inquiringly at me, but I was serene. I thought that if I chanced to make any mistakes he would not catch me by my countenance. He said bo would rather have my custom than any man's in town. I said all right, and started off to wrestle with my great sub ject again, when he called me back and said it would be necessary to know ex actly how many "points" I wanted put up, what part of the bouse I wanted them on, ana wnat quality ot rod Jt preferred. It was close quarters for a man not used to the exigencies ot housekeeping, but I went through creditably, and he probably never suspected tbat I was a novice. I told bim to put up eight "points," and put them all on the roof, and use the best quality of rod. He said he could furnish the "plain" article, at 20 cents a foot ; "coppered," 25 cents ; "zinc-plated, spi ral-twist," at 30 cents, that would stop a streak of lightning any time, no matter where it was bound, and "render its er rand harmless and its further progress apocryphal." I said apocryphal was no riouch of a word, emanating from the source it did, but philology aside I liked the spiral-twist and would take that brand Then he said be could make two hundred and fifty feet answer, but to do it right, and make the best job in town of it, and attract the admiration of the jusi and the unjust alike, and compel all parties to say they never saw a more symmetrical and hypothetical display of lightning rods since tbey were born, be supposed be really couldn't get along without four hundred, though be was not vindictive and trusted be was willing to try. I said go ahead and use four hundred and make any kind of a job he pleased out of it, but let me go back to my work. So I got rid of him at last and now, after half an hour spent in getting my train of political economy thoughts coupled together again, I am ready to go on once more-j richest treasures of their genius, their ex perience of life, and their learning. The great lights of commercial jurisprudence, international confraternity, and biological deviation, of all ages, all civilizations, and all nationalities, from Zoroaster down to Horace Greely, have Here I was interrupted again and re- quired to go down aud confer further with tbat lightning-rod man. I hurried off, boiling and surging .with prodigious THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 1870. thoughts wombed in words of such ma jesty that each one of them was in itself a straggling procession of syllables that might be fifteen minutes passing a given point, and once more I confronted him be so calm and sweet, I k hot and fren zied. He was standing in the contempla tive attitude of the Colossus of Rhodes, with one foot on my infant tuberose and the other among my pansies, his hand on bis hips, his bat brim tilted forward, one eye shut and the other gazing critically and admiringly in the direction of my principal chimney. He said now there was a state of things to make a man glad to be alive ; and added, "I leave it to you if you ever saw anything more deli ciously picturesque than eight lightning rods on one chimney ?" I said I had no present recollection of anylhing that trans cended it. He said that in his opinion nothing on this earth but Niagara Falls was superior to it in the way of natural scenery. All that was needed now, he firmly believed, to make my house a per fect balm to the eye, was to kind of touch up the other chimneys a little and thus 'add to the generous coip d vail a sooth ing uniformity of achievement which would allay the excitement naturally con sequent upon the first coup d' etaV asked hi in if be learned to talk out of i book, and if I could borrow it anywhere He smiled pleasantly and said that his manner of speaking was not taught in books, and that nothing but familiarity with lightning could enable a man t uanuie uis conversational style witn im punity. He then figured up an estimate, and said that about eignt more rods scat tered about my roof would about fix me right, and he guessed five hundred feet of stuff would do it ; and added that the first eight bad got a little the start of him, so to speak, and used up a mere trifle of material more than he had calculated on a hundred feet or along there. I said I was in a dreadful hurry, and I wished we coald get this permanently mapped out so that 1 could go on with my work He said : :'I could have put up those eight rods, and marched off about my business some men would have done it. Aut no, x earn to myself, this man is a stranger to me, and I will die before I 11 wrong him ; there ain't Ii"htning-rods enough on that house, and for one I'll never stir out of my tracks till I've done as I would be done by, and told him go. Stranger, my duty is accomplished : if the recalcitrant and dephlogistic messen ger of heaven strikes you There, now, there," I said, "put on the other eight add five hundred feet of spiral twist do anything and everything you want to do ; but calm your sufferings and try to keep your feelings where you can reach them with the dictionary. Mean while, if we understand each other now, I will go to work again." I think I have been sitting here a full hour, this time, trying to get back to where I was when my train of thought was broken up by the last interruption, but I believe I have accomplished it at last and I venture to proceed again.! wrestled with this great subject, and the greatest among them have found it a wor thy adversary and one that always comes up fresh and smiling after every throw. The great Confucius said that he would rather be a profound political economist than chief of police ; Cicero frequently said that political economy was the grand est consummation that the human mind was capable of consuming ; and even our own Greeley has said vaguely but forcibly that (Jlere the lightning-rod man sent up another call for me. I went down in a state of mind bordering on impatience. He said be would rather have died than interrupt me, but when he was employed to do a job, and that job was expected to be done in a clean, workmanlike manner, and when it was finished and fatigue urged him to seek the rest and recreation he stood so much in need of, and he was about to do if, but looked up and saw at a glance that all the calculations had been a little out, and if a thunder storm were to come up and that house which he felt a personal interest in stood there with nothing on earth to protect it but sixteen lightning-rods "Let us have peace I" I shrieked. "Put up a hundred and fifty 1 ' Put some on the kitchen I Put a dozen on the barn I Put a couple on the cow I put one on the cook ! scatter them all over the persecuted place till it looks like a zinc-plated, spiral-twisted, silver-mounted cane-brake ! Move 1 Use up all the material you can get your hands on, and when you run out of light ning-rods put up ram-rods, cam-rods, stair-rods, piston-rods anything tbat will pander to your dismal appetite for artifi cial scenery and bring, respite to my ra ging brain and healing to my lacerated soul I" Wholly unmoved further than to smile sweetly this iron being simply turned back his wristbands daintily and said he would now "proceed to. bump himself." Well, all that was nearly three hours ago. It is questionable whether I am calm enough yet to write on the noble theme of political economy, but I cannot resist the desire to try, for it is the one subject tbat is nearest to my heart and dearest to my brain of all this world's philosophy. J "Political economy w heaven's best boon to man.' When the loose but gifted Byron lay in his Venetian exile, be ob served that if it could be granted him to go back and lire bis misspent life over I i ARE SLAVES BESIDE. again, he would give his lucid and unki- toxicated intervals to the composition, not of frivolous rhymes, but of essays upon political economy. Washington loved this exquisite science ; such names as Ma ker, Beckwith, Judson, Smith, are imper ishably linked with it ; and even imperial Homer, in the ninth book of the Iliad, bas said : Fiat justitia, rust ecelum, . Post mortem unum, ante bellum. Hie jacet hoc, ex-parte res, Politicum, e-conomico est. The grandeur of thtse conceptions of me old poet, together with the felicity of tne wording which closes them and the sublimity of the imagery whereby they are illustrated, have singled out that stanza and made it more celebrated than any that ever Pi X' . . 1 . l- xuw ijui a woru out oi you not a single word. Just state your bill and relapse into impenetrable silence for ever and ever on these premises. Nine hun dred dollars? Is that all? This cheque for tho amount will be honored at any respectable bank in America. What is that multitude of people gathered in the street for ? How ! 'looking at the light ning-rodsr JSIess mv life, d d ihev never see any lightning-rods before I i. - . I r ., . . . j .icvcr u w nucu h siacK pi mem on one establishment,' did I understand you tu eay ? I will step down and critically ob- serve tins popular ebullition ot igno ranee." Jhbee Days Later. We are all about worn out. For four-and-twenty hours our bristling premises were the'talk and wonder of the town. The theatres languished, for their happiest scenic in ventions were tame and commonplace compared with my lightning-rods. Our street was blocked night and day with . . i . i fpeciaiur, ana among mem were many wno came Irom Ihe country to see. It was a blessed relief, on the second day when a thunder storm came up and the lightning began to "go for" my house, as the historian Josephos quaintly phrased it. It cleared the galleries, so to speak. In fire minutes there was not a spectator within half a mile of my place ; but all the high houses about that distance away were full, windows, rooff, and all. And well they might be, for all the falling stars and Fourth of July fireworks of a genera tion put together and rained down simul taneously out of heaven in one brilliant shower upon one helpless roof, would not have any advantage of the pyrotechnic dis play that was making my bouse so mag nificently conspicuous in thegeneral gloom of the storm. By actual count the light ning struck at my establishment seven hundred and sixty-four times in forty minute?, but tripped on one of these faith ful rods every time and slid down the spiral-twist and shot into the earth before it probably had time to be surprised at the way the wonderful thing was done. And through all the bombardment only one patcu ot slates was ripped up. and a that was because for a single instant the rods in the vicinity were transporting all the lightning they could possibly accomoi date. Well, nothing was evereen like it since the world began. For one whole day not a member of my family stuck his head out of ihe window but he got the hair snatched off it as smooth as a billiard ball, and if the reader will believe me not one of us ever dreamed of stirring abroad. But at last the awful seise came to an end because there was absolutely no more electricity left in the clouds above us within grappling distance of my insa tiable rods. Then I sallied forth, and gathered daring workmen together, and not a bite or a nap did we take till Ihe premises were utterly stripped of their ter rific armament except just three rods on the bouse, one on the kitchen, and one on the barn and beheld these remain there even unto this day. And then, and not till then, the people ventured to use our st reel again. 1 will remark here, in pass- that during that fearful time I did not continue my essay upon political econ omy. I am not even yet settled enough in nerve and brain to resume it. To Whom it Mat Concern. Partlpn hnvino- nced of three thousand two hundred and eleven foft of best quality zinc-plated spiral-twist liirhtninir-rod stuff, and sixteen hundred and thirty-one silver-tipped points, all in tolerable repair (and, although much worn by tine, still qual to any ordinary emergency), can bar of .bargain by addressing tho publishers of this mag-azmo. The Galaxy. Rewards or Fidelity. Never for sake a friend. When enemies pather c around, when sickness falls on the heart when the world is dark and cheerless is the time to try a true friend. They who turn from the scene prove tbat only interest moves them. If you have a friend who loves you, who has studied your interest and happiness, be sure to sustain bim in adversity. Let him feel that his former kindness is appreciated, and that his love was not thrown away. Keal fidelity may bo rare, but it exists in the heart. They only deny i;s worth and power who never loved a friend, or abored to make a friend happy. An Iowa John lately courted and en gaged to marry a young girl who in a miff at some neglect on John's part, revenged herself by marrying Isaac, John's father. John countered by marrying the mother of bis recent betrothed, becoming the step father of tut own stCD-m other, while saac's wife was compelled to become the daughter-in-law of ber step-son. And tii us John became bis own grandfather by brevet. CfkaMfaeruiafdsw AN ESSAY BY MAIiK TWAIN. Against all chambermaids of whatever age or nationality, I launch tho curse of bachelordom I Bocause : They always put the pillows at the opposite end of the bed from the gas burn er, so that while yort read and smoke before sleeping, (as is the ancient and honored custom of bachelors you have to hold your book aloft, in an uncomfort able p03ilion, to keep the light from daz zling your eyes. When they find the pillow removed to the other end of the bed in the morning, they receive not the suggestion in a friend ly spirit, but glorying in their absolute sovereignty, and unpitying your helpless ness, they make the bed just as it was originally, and gloat in secret over the pang their tyrrany will cause you. Always after that, when they find you have transported the pillows, they undo your work, and thus defy you and seek to embitter the life that God hath given you. If they cannot get the light in an incon venient position any other way, tbey move the bed. If you pull your ironk about six inches from the wall, so that the lid will stay iip when you open it, tbey always shove that trunk back again. They do it on purpose. If you want the spittoon in a certain spot,' where it will be handy, they don't. And so they move it. They always put your other boots into inaccessible places. They chiefly enjoy depositing them under the bed as far as the wall permits. It is because this com pels you to get down in an undignified at titude and make wildasweeps for them in the dark with the bootjack, and swear. They always put the match box in some other place. They huut up a new place for it every day, and put a bottle. or other perishab!efcglass thing, where the box stood before. Phis is to caurc vou to break that glass thing, grouping in the dark, and get yourself into trouble. They are forever and ever moving the furniture. When you come in, in the night, you can calculate on finding the bureau where the wardrobe was in the morning. And when you go out in the morning, if you leave the slop-bucket by the door and the rocking chair by the window, when you come in at midiii;ht or thereabout, you will fall over the rock ing chair and you will proceed toward the window and sit down in the slop-tub. This will di'guat you. They like that- No matter where you put anything. they are not going to let it stay there. TLey will take it and move it Ihe first chance they get. It is their nature. And besides it gives them pleasure to be mean and contrary this way. They would die if they couldn't be vil lains. They always save up all the old scraps of printed rubbish you throw on Ihe floor, and stack tbem up carefully on the table. and then start the fire with your valuable manuscripts. If there is any one partic ular old scrap that j ou are more down on than any other, and which you are grad ually wearing your life out trying to get rid of, you may take all pains you possi bly cau in that direction, but it won't be of any use, because they will always fetch that old scrap back and put it in the same old place again every timo. It does them good. And they use more hair oil than any six men. If charged with purloining the same, they lie about it. What do they care about a hereafter ? Absolutely no thing. If you leave your key in the door for convenience sake, they will carry it down to the office and give it to the clerk They do this under the vile pretence of trying to protect your property from thieves, but actually they do it because i they want you to tramp back' down stairs ! aiier u wnen you come home tired, or put you to the trouble ot sending a waiter for it, which waiter will expect you to pay him something. In which case I suppose the degraded creatures divide They keep always coming to make your bed before you get up, thus destroy ing your rest and inflicting agony upon you, but after you get up they don't come any more till the next day. They do all the mean things they can think of, and they do them out of pure cussedness, and nothing else. . Chambermaid ate dead to every hu man instinct, I have cursed them in behalf outraged bachelordom. They deserve it. If I can get a bill-through ' the Legislature abolishing'chambermaid, I mean to do it. An old lady, 'on being examined as to ber place of legal settlement, was asked what reason Bhe had for supposing ber husband had a legal settlement in tbat town. The old lady paid : "He was born and married there, and they buried him there ; and if that itn't settling him there, I don't know what is." Charles "Tell me, Laura, why tbat sadness ? Tell me why tbat look of care? why bas fled that look of gladness that thy face was wont to wear ?" Laura "Charles, 'tis useless to dissemble ; well my face may wear a frown, for I've lost my largest hairpin, and my chignon's coming down !" Term, $2 per year In advance NUMBER 35. A Thousand Yrars Ago, It is certainly one of the greatest curi osities ki history that exactly one thou sand years ago, rn the year of our Lord 870, the people of France and Germany fought under their kings upon tb same soil, that of Lorraine, for very nearly tho same reasons, and with the same result. This happened as follows ; The empire of Charlemagne and that of his son who succeeded him, Ludwig I, called Pious, was divided by his three sons, the grandson of Charlemagne, in 849, at the Congress of Verdun, between themselves in sueh a manner tfiut Lo thaire received, besides Ihe title of Em peror, Italy and what was then called Middle Franconia, a strip of land running from the North Sea to Ihe Mediterranean, and there joining Upper Italy, a broad strip of land containing modern Holland, Belgium, the Lorraine, the Alsace and all that part of Southern France lying between the Rhine and Saone and the Alps on the east. Ludwig received Eastern Franconia, which was from tbat timo called Germania, and from which he, as Germany's first king, was called Ludwig the German. Carl, who was called the BaM, from his bald head, received western Franco nia, from that time called Franconia or France. Lothaire died in 853, and aaia subdivided bis empire amongst his three sons. To the oldest, Ludwig, he gave Italy and the crown and title of emperor , to the second, Lothaire, the northern part of his dominion, comprising a part of modern Holland, I5elgiuro, and the prov ince called op to this day Loraine or Lotharingen. the Alsace, and all the land extending down to the Saone. To tho youngest, Carl, he gave all the land south of the Saone to the Mediterranean, under the title of Kingdom Province. In 8G9 Lothaire died without heirs, after he had previously become possessed also of bis brother Carl's- kingdom of Province, and it was then that Carl tho Bald, King of France, stepped forward to take possession of his nephew's kingdom. comprising all the eastern part of modern France, and extending frcm the Meuse to the Khine, and from the lihone to the Alps, and from the North Sea way down to the Mediterranean. He was complete ly successful, for his nephew Ludwig, the Emperor in Italy, and his brother Ludwig, the King of Germany, had both their hands too full to claim their share of the rich inheritance. But a year later, in 870, just one thous and years ago, suddenly a largo and well appointed Germau army crossed the Bhine, broke into France, and defeated Call the Bald and his armies at once, and so completely, that he was compelled to sign a treaty of peace in the same year (870), by which be ceded to his brother Ludwig, the German, all the eastern part of those lands which he had appro priated from his nephew, and comprising the modern provinces of Alsace, Eastern Lorraine and the territories around the cities of Trier, or Treves, Cologne, Mas tricbt, and Utrecht, down to the mouth of the river Khine. The first grand fight for the Khine provinces on the part of France, and the Alsace and Iorraineon that of Germany, which is, after all, if not the sole cause, certainly one of the principal causes of the present war of 1870, took place con sequently just one thousand years ago, in 870, and with the same result. A Mysthuois Woman. The New Albany Ledger says : Some excitement has been created in a certain locality in this city by the strange conduct of a woman who has in her pos session a female child, about ten years of age. At times the woman acts strangely, walking the floor for hours together, in a state of apparent deep thought as though some act or thing weighed heavily upon her mind. At times she treats the child very roughly, but at no time will she per mit it to go out and play with other children with her knowledge ; nor will she allow it to go into the sunshine unpro tected, for fear, she alleges, that its skin will become Bun-burnt or tanned. She never leaves the child with another per son, but when she goes from home always takes it with ber, never permitting it to walk out unless she bas it by the band. The woman is unmarried, and boards. She saya the child is not her own, but lhat it is the daughter of an ex-Governor of the State of Ohio. She has several times stated that the little one was stolen from its mother when it was but a month old ; and that she has sworn never to let it pass out of ber sight while she lives. She dresses the little girl in the richest and most costly raiment, and Ihe child is represented as very pretty and quite in telligent, the woman teaching it such les sons as it is competent to study with great ease. The woman herself is apparently quite poor, of good deportment, but not very communicative to those with whom 6he boards. Barring her occasional fits of ill-humor and bad treatment of the child, she conducts herself in an unexcep tionable manner. An Albany damsel not long sinco asked one of her fellow-boarders, a stylish dry goods clerk, at the breakfast table, "Why is your moustache like my back hair I" He blushingly gave it up, when the an swer caused bim to blush still more : "Because it's all down."
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