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The undersigned has secured letters-patent of the United States, dated December 14, 1869, for au improvement in the conetructioB.of Bee Hives, and claims for his invention advantages possessed by no other heretofore patented. The principal feature of this Ree Hive is the arrangement'by means of which it is thorough ly ventilated, thus precluding the poskibility ot the bees smothering, the comb moulding or the honey pouring. This desirable end is accom plished by a vertical perforated tube, running centrally through the hive and open at the top and bottom. All persons interested in apicul ture will at once see the great advantages se cured in this improvement. The ventilator is for the increase of bees. The peculiar construction of the box, partic ularly in the arrangement of the inner com partments, whereby it can be cleaned at' any time without disturbing the bees, , is another valuable improvement which will be obvious to any person who examines this. Hive. .An examination of the workings of the bees or the condition of the interior can be made at any time, as the sides are cased with glass. Bees can be trasfcrred from a different hive 'to the improved one without any difficulty whatever. It would require too much space to enumerate here all the advantages claimed in this inven tion, but full information will be promptly fur nished by applying in person or by letter to the patentee. I ,am now prepared to dispose of territory for the sale of the Improved Bee Hive in any portion of the Lnited States. '' " PETER CAMPBELL, Carrolltown, Cambria Co., Pa. JUTOMJTIC RAILWAY GATE 'J he patentee of the above has also invented and patented an AUTOMATIC RAILWAY GATE, to which he invites the attention of railroad men. Full information wilt be fur ifhed on application, and Company Bights will be dispobed of-by the. inventor. Address as above. , rjan.ll.TU.-tf.J ! 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"OVERCOATS, from the lowest-pi iced Catsimere to the finest Beaver all fizes, EFull Suits of Clothincr at from t9 to $30. Pants from $1,50 to $ 9. Vests from 73 cents to $5. Also, a geneial variety of NOTIONS & FURNISHING GO ODS Hats, Caps, Boots, Sboes, UMBRELLAS, SATCHELS, TRUNKS, &c. K"In the LADIES' DEPARTMENT will be tound a full stock of FURS, from the low est Driced Coney to the finest Mink and Sable. , GODFREY WOLFF, ' Next door to the Post Office, Altoona, Pa. TII'E TANITB , IS THE - ': . - BEST SAW GUMMER! W TUK WORLD! ' ' ' "for sale bt GEORGE HUNTLEY, ' Ebensburg,' Pa.v .- F11NK,W.HAY, FTIIOLESALE and RETAIL Manufacturetv n of TIN. COPPER aad SUEET-IROiS WARE, Canal street, below Clinton, Johns town. Pa. A large stock constantly o band. EBENSBURG, PA., THURSDAY, OCTOBER 6, 1870. SDjjt poet's grprtmcnt. FAXJLEVG IIuVJEH. They are falling, slowly falling. Thick upon the forest side, Severed lrom the noble branches, . Where they waved in beauteous pride. They are falling in the valleys. Where the early violets spring, And the birds in sunny spring time First their dulcet music sing. They are falling, sadly falling. Close beside our cottage door ; Pale and faded, like the loved ones, They have gone forcer more. They are lulling, aud the sunbeams Shine in beauty toft around ; Yet the faded leaves are falling, Falling on the mossy ground. They are falling oh the' streamlet, " There the silvery waters flow, ' ' : 'And upon its placid bosom . Onward wittt the waters go. They are falling in the church-yard, Where our kindred sweetly sleep ; Where the idle wiutls of summer : ,( Softly o'er the loved ones sweep. -. They are falling, ever falling, i Wlieu the autumn breezes sigh, When the stars in beauty glisten Bright upon the midnight bky. They are falling when the tempest Moans like ocean's hollow roar, When the tuneless winds and billows Sadly sigh for evermore. They are falling, they are falling. While our saddened thoughts still go To the sunny days of childhood, In the dreamy long ago. And their laded hues remind us Of the blighted homes and dreams Faded like the falling leaflets Cast upon the icy streams. t -.v ales, lifffjjcs, gnctWte,tf c. THE I1AUTLI HOUSE. .., It was about the year 1820 that two young married people tookf a house in , a eea-shore town. Tbo house was an old-fashioned one, but had been well built, arid was in perfect condition. It was a pretty house, built in the irregu lar style of the day, of some fifty or more years back. A ball ran through the house from the middle of which epraDg a broad flight of stairs. Half way up the stairs there was a generous landing place, -with a large arched window. This hall and stairway were the only regular parts of the, mansion rooms and wings having Jeen built from time to lime. , The place was cuisen by Mr. and Mrs. Ao8truther,' because it was reliied, U bit lonely, and with nice woods about it a little gloomy, to be sure, to those not in their honeymoon. On a very sultry July night the pair stopped on their, way up the old stairway, on the; landing, and looked lung out of the great window, for the landscape beneath them, either by. the bright light of the moon, or- the lesser brightness of the stars, was very. fair. They had been talking very 7 earnestly :wben Mrs. "Anstruther suddenly broke off from what fihe 1 was 6aying, and exclaimed: . . ;; . ' ."George, dear, what a change. there was in the air a moment since, I felt an icy, damp breath over my cheek." "My dear child," "he said, "the night is hot as the infernal regions. What an imagination you have P' " "Well,' she. said, "perhaps 1 am, im aginative, but I thought I eU a shivering breeze over my face ; but it's gone now." , Sirs. Anstruther thought no more of the circumstance, if indeed, circumstance it could be called. She and her husband had passed very happy days at the grove. But presently there Was trouble among the servants for even lovers have such incumbrances. The cook said her kitchen was her castle and that she did not want any one to be looking after her pans and kettles ; .that she left each . utensil in its place at night, but found them much, dis arranged in the morning, often upon the hearth;-and she said it, Mr. and Mrs.1 Anstruther liked a twelve o'clock supper she would willingly stay up to cook it for them. . .The. laundress "said her clothes horse, with the freshly, ironed linen left to air over: night, was quite overset in the morning, that the mistress, sure, was young aud very frolicksome, indeed quite like a miss, but she thought' it was haril on a poor servant. to' be letting 'off. her jokes upon her and giving her double work ; and so from time to time did the young mistress apparently. -derange her menage. .1 : . .. . . One morning" the cook came to Mrs. Anstruther and said she thought, perhaps, she had found out who put the kitchen arid laundry .in such a plight, and she begged her mistress pardon fop having . thought: she had played . tricks upon her maids.. She then described her having g'ono dowri " to- the i kitchen' one Monday morning at dawn, and there saw, in Ibe Feeble IigHtlbe figarfer of aworaaD, her . beadcovered by. a , sun-bopnetj, crouching before; the 'itcben.; fire. ' Upon' her 'en trance, the woman misteriousJy disappear ed;' NoWj ma'am,'?-she said, "perhaps it is some poor crazy creature' who gets in somehow,, apd oversets ' my pans and1 Bridget's" clean clothes, but 'sure I do not see how any one but a ghost could get in, for the house be locked up so close'like. ! I think she was trying to warm herself, ma'am, and how ever she got out ma'am, I cannot tell, only she was gone in an instant, and not a door opened-" Poor Mrs. - Anstruther left , quite dis turbed at the cook's relation, and told her husband of . it immediately. Of course, he only laughed at it, said Polly must ! have strengthened her tea the nicht be fore, and hadn't her vision quite clear so early Monday morning, or that she had not finished her dreams, to which . Mrs. Anstrusher answered warmly that Xolly was a decent, sober woman, and wouldn't for the world, touch anything stronger than tea. Weeks passed by, and the household was not troubled by overturned clothes horses;' displaced plans or mysterious women, and the etory became liko dream, when one morning early, upon opening his bed-room door, Mr. Anstru ther found the housemaid lying outside in a sort of fainting fit. After some time, and many restoratives, the woman was brought back to her senses, and incohe rently told her tale She had cone down very late at night to the. laundry to bring up a breakfast cap which she knew her mistress would want next morning, and heard a faint rustling, like the moving of clothes. She thought it was thecal, whicli might have got hold of one of the towels, so she opened the door and went in ; there she saw the shadowy figure of a tall woman, a sun-bonnet on her head, with long, thin, ghastly fingers, and drearily saying, "Not dry oh, not dry they chill chill chill me so." Then she moved the horse rapidly and fierculy nearer the fireplace, overturning it, and apparently disappeared under its folds and clothes. Mr. , Anstruther went immediately to the laundry and there he found the over turned clothes, but not even the ghost of a woman under them, nor in any corner of any part of the house, for he searched very thoroughly, to quiet the nervous fear of hie wife aud of the maids. The poor frightened housemaid trembled all day, scarcely able to stand. Mr. Anstruther himself had no faith in these spectre stories, and women are always so apt to be nervous and fiigctened, he said ; but that very night, when he and his wife were standing by the window, listening to the swash of the waves on the beach, aud saying how cool and refreshing the sound was on the heavy August night, the same cold, shivering breeze passed over their faces as on that other night, and a husky voice said, slowly : "Ob ! I am so cold so very cold!" They grasped one another convulsively, but said nothing, nor did they speak to one an other of those strange, shivering words, but seemed by ."mutual asent to avoid the suljcct. Perhaps Mr. Anstruther thought the re membranco of them might pass more quickly from his wife's memory if not alluded to. Perhaps she thought fio. The next night he went at midnight to the kitchen, looked carefully and cautious ly, in, and saw the ghostly form of' a woman, almost in the ashes, numerous pans around her, hoartly muttering, "Tbey'iwill never heat; Oh! never. "the Lad master; be will kill me. No dinner, no supper, no fire." Mr. An struther rushed suddenly toward the woman, ' who, ; throwing her hands wild above her head, melted away. . He said nothing of this to any one, and went again the next night, but saw noth ing down stairs. He went to bed. Soon after midnight he was awake, the air of the room became very chilly, like a grave yard, and he heard from every corner of the room a smothered voic, saying, "I am so cold oh, so cold ! It is so dark under the stairs, so damp, take me out, the cruel master!" Still Mr. Anstruther kept a wise silence, thinking that it was his best course to take. There were faint sounds heard in the kitchen, laundry and through the balls, cold, icy whispers from the'landing by the arched window on the stairway, so that the servants refused to go to their work,. until the morning was well advanced, and Mr. and Mrs. An struther never stopped, now, on the pleas ant stairway landing to look through the arched window at the moon or the stars, or ta bear the delicious swash of the sea. She looked - pale and frightened all the time, and the servants nervous and scared. They staid only for the love of the master and mistress. As for Mr. Anstruther, he was very uneasy, yet hated to yield to what he considered foolish, weak, super natural fears ; still he was exceedingly uncomfortable. From the time the ghostly appearances became almost incessant. ' At last a friend of Mr. Anstruther's came to visit him, and they determined ta find the ghost, if such there was. They went every night at midnight throughout the house; once they saw the shadowy woman almost, in the ashes of the kitchen fire, apparently trying to warm herself; she was blowing at the dead coals which seemed to become only more dead under her cold breath. Sometimes she seemed to be trying to dry the clothes in the laundry, but more fre quently they heard sighs, and shivers, and whispers of cold, and the wicked master, and the cellar stairs. Oncelhe face of the w was toward them when they went into the kitchen. A fear ful gash was on one skeleton cheek ; her hands were held tightly over her bosom, as if to bring. warmth into it again. ,Then the spectre, the groansj the sighs, creased, excepting from under the stairs, whence came sounds as if of one , supplicating, "O 1 save me, so deep so dark, so damp. Save me, save!" '. ' ' ' After a time, it became impossible to keep the story of the haunted house quiet. People had wondered for some time, what gave the servant who opened the hall door, and the mistress within so scared a look. and also Tat Mr. Anstruther's troubled face, for he and his wife were known to love one another1 very much; and to "be suSicicntly well-to-do in the world. When the story was fuljy told, the excite ment of the town became intense, the cry was that the cellar stairs ought to be torn away, and then they would see what was under them. After Borne deliberation it was thought best to yield to the excited will of the town's pecplej and proper men were sent by the authoritios to take away the stairs and to -examine thoroughly around and beneath them.. ; Mr. Anstru t her, his friend, and some of the gentlemen of the neighborhood, were present. The stairs were removed, the brick flooring taken away and the earth dug up, fjut there was nothing and they were about to lay the ground again, when a smoth ered sound eaiud, aud the words,' "Lower, deeper, deeper ! the cruel master put mo here!'' '' They fell, again on their shovels; deep down did they'dig, when, oh, frigbt ful and ghastly sight ! they, came upon the body of a woman. Her dress was "that of a servant. Upon her head was a bonnet, she lay on her back: ' A heavy scar was on her face. The body of the woman was recognized as that of, Nancy Gwinn, who had lived with a Mr. Barton, a hard man, the former occupant of the VGrove," and who had gone very suddenly to Australia to better his fortunes, taking his family with him. It was about ten years since Nancy had so mysteriously disappeared from G . But as she had always been a queer crea ture, never making friends, no one thought much about her. The Anstruthers loft the house, not wishing to slay in it, al though Nancy's poor, weary body was laid in n decent grave, the burial service said over it, and a headstone' placed to mark where it lay. . : Since they left the house, it has re mained shut up, lonely, gloomy, and for saken. 'Whether Nancy's' poor ghost is laid, or whether it still roams the house from kitchen and cellar-stairs' to . the arched window on the hall-stairway, the next occupants of the haunted house must tell you. . . . ' :.! v Discoveries made by Accident. Not a few discoveries in the arts and sciences li3ve been made or suggested by accident. The use of the pendulum sug gested by the vibrating of a chandelier in a cathedral; the power of steam intimated by the oscillating of the lid of a tea-kettle; the utility of coal gas for light, experi mented upon by any ordinary tobacco pipe of white clay ; . the magnifying prop erty of the lens, stumbled upon by an optician's apprentice while holding spectacle-glasses between his thumb and finger are well known instances of proof of the fact. Galvanism was discovered by accident, by Proof. Galvani, of Bologna, in Italy. He gave his name to the operation, but his wife is generally considered as entitled to the credit of the discovery. She being in bad health, some frogs were ordered for her. : As they lay upon the table skinned, she noticed that their legs became strongly convulsed when near an ekctrical con ductor. She called her husband's atten tion to the fact ; he instituted a series of experiments, and in 1789 the galvanic battery was invented. ' '. '' Eleven years later,- with that discovery for his basis, Prof. Alessandro Volta, also an Italian, announced his discovery . of "voltaic pile." . . i' : f , . -, v The discovery of glass-making was ef fected by seeing the sand vitrified upon which a fire had been kindled. Blancort says that making of plateglass was suggested by the fact of a workman happening to break a crucible filled with melted glass. The fluid ran under one of the large flagstones with which the floor was paved. On raising the stone to re cover the glass, it was found in the form of a plato, such a9 could not be procured by the ordinary process of blowing. Glass pearl., though among the most beautiful, inexpensive, and common orna ments worn by the ladies, are produced by a very singular process. In 1656, a Venetian, named Jaquin, discovered that the scales of a fish, called bleak fish, pos sessed the property of communicating a pearly hue to the water. He found by experimenting, that beads dipped into this water assumed, when dried, the appear ance of pearls. It proved however that the pearly coat, when; placecTourside, was easily rubbed cfF; and the, next improve ment was to make the beads ' hollow. The making of Iheee beads is carried on to this day ii) Venice. The beads are all blown separately. .By -means of a email tube,' the- insides are : delicately coated with the pearly liquid arid a waxed coat-; ing is placed over that. It requires the scales of four thousand fish to produce half a pint of the liquid,. to which a small quantity of sal-ammonia and Isinglass are afterward added. - Lundy Foot, the celebrated snuff man ufacturer, originally kept a small tobac conist shop at Limerick.' On one night bis-house, which was uninsured, ' was burned to the ground. . As he contem plated the smoking ruins on the following morning, in a state bordering on despair, some of thepoor neighbors, groping among the ; embers for what they could find,' stumbled upon several canisters of uncon sumed, but half-baked snuff, which they tried, and found it bo nleasant tn thoir ! noses mat they loaded their waistcoat pockets with it. Lundy Foot, aroused from his stupor, imitated their example, and took a pinch of his own property, when he was struck by the superior pun gency and flavor it had acquired from the great heat to which it had been exposed. Acting upon the hint, he took another house in a place called Black - Yard, erected ovens and set about the manufac ture ot that high-dried commoditv n.-hirli ... . . - I soon became widely known as Black Yard snufK. Eventually Tie took a large house in Dublin, and making his customers pay literally through the nose amassed a great fortune for having been ruined. - CltAZlf CFXIA. Many years ago, in the Dominion of Canada, lived a family of well-to do French people, who immigrated hither in the year . 1858. A fair young flower was the dark-eyed Celia, and her three sturdv brothers were jealous of the man who might in future years secure the buddin rose full blown, and break the chain of happy hearts around the social hearth Time passed. .The war and its rewards had called the brothers from their home : the father, allured by the rewards which smuggling presented at the time, and which was engaged in to such an extent on the lake shore in the years 18C1-C4, bad turned his honest fish-boat into a dark-sailed smuggling craft. Celia, flat tered by the commpners and recognized by the "select" on account of her grace and beauty, all unconscious of the lawless father and the fate of the three warrior brothers, , laughed on, all heedless of what was in store of her becoming vain, care less, and tond of dress. Vanity is always the thin ice of destruction, and in Celia's case it proved no exception. The spoiler was on the watch ; he recited to the daughter the 6tory of her father's crimes, her brothers' death in Southern nrisous. and ended with the fairest proposal of marriage, in ocr lernoie despondency, caused by these horrid revelations, the girl Celia nccepted the proposals of her destroyer, in the recklessness of her des pair. Shortly after one of her brothers returned from the' war,' alive and well u ever, and through his instrumentality the real character of the villain., was discov ered and made known to his sister. Knowing the disgrace and degradation into which she had fallen, her reason, be gan gradually to fail her, and in a short time she disappeared from the neighbor hood, going no one knew whither. Dur ing the fall of 1805, some two years after the disappearance of the Frenchman's daughter, two hunters from the township of White Kock discovered in a wild and untenanted forest the footprints of a human being, barefooted and alone. Their curi osity was at once aroused, and by the aid of dogs, after a chase of eighteen hours, they succeeded in obtaining a view of the object of their pursuit. Nearer they ap proached the form becoming more palpa ble at every step, when the object hearing the approach, turned full upon them in all its horrid semblances of the humanity it was not. Kevolting and hidoous as was its appearance, the hunters recog nized through all the ghoul-like aspects the. person of a female lunatic! The dark, wild, insane eyes;, tbo matted and tangled hair ; the shreds of filthy covering; the scarred and festering skeleton form all told of reason lost, of a life wrecked, ot a soul which had perished. With a scream wild and unearthly she gathered a bundle from the ground, tlung it across her shoulders, and disappeared with the swift ness of the wind. The people of the neighbothood were. aroused j the excite ment: ran . high, .and long into the early part of the . winter hunting parties were scouting the woods in search of the lunatic woman: t - At last she was captured, just over the line in Sanilac County, and taken to the common gaol. People gathered in crowds to see this strange phenomenon. The bundle which she was always seen to. be carrying while on her flights in the forest, was opened to the public gaze, and there oh horror of horrors ! lay the skull and skeleton of an infant her babe which she had carried through all her tedious marches by night and by day for two long years and more, She was an inmate of thejnil during the whole of the winter and the following summer. The only service which she rendered at the lime was knitting, at which 6he was an expert. There are many yet who recol lect the fold crazy woman," and but few who saw Jiers, will believe us when we state that her age,, instead of being from 50 to 60, as it really rseemedr was less than 30 years. At times she would mumble over a list of names, .which the jailor would hurriedly take down as nearly as possible in their jumblea state, and then inquiry would be instituted and letters written to all parts, but all to no purpose. Her name and history remained a sealed volume. The following antumn, how ever, she took advantage of the liberty allowed her wandered away, and was never heard of more. Following some ignis fatus of ber unsettled brain, she died, perhaps alone, unknown, with only the wild beasts to listen to her expiring cries. And this was Celia the lost link in this chain of circumstances was only discov ered a short time since, and the writer of this article ia one of the three, only who knew the real facts. There may be some NUMBER 36. slight errors in the dates above given ; a false name has been given the subject, and the picture mav be slishtlv colored, hut in the main the details are correct and the statements facts. The brother above alluded to is yet alive, an orphan, sullen in his desperate purpose of wreaking his vengeance, and the tragedy may be but half told. Huren County Xetvs. Strasbourg Cathedral, Clock. Ac. One of the most Iamentabla results of the siege of Strasbourg, leaving out of view the loss of life, says the Hartfort Times, is the injury which the bombard ment has inflicted upon the noble cathe dral and its wonderful astronomical cleck. The vast cathedral, which, perhaps, mor than any other one thing, has made the name of Strasbourg celebrated,, is one of the finest Gothic buildings in Europe. - It was founded A..D 504. The choir was built by Charlemagne, probably about 1438. The material of which the cathe dral is built is a brown stone, very much resembling our Connecticut Portland free stone, so extensively used in Fifth Ave nue. It was obtained from a quarry at Wassebonne, in the valley of Couronne, a few miles from Strasbourg. The archi tect of the existing edifice was Erwin von Sreinbntch, of Baden. One John IIucIIs, of Cologne, was the architect of the peer less tower. Its spire is the loftiest in the world. Its height, '46G feet, surpasses Sr. Peter's, and is about equal to that of the Great Pyramid. The greater part of the entire structure was destroyed by lightning in 1007, and the restored edifice was begun in 1015 and completed in 1439. The cathcdral is in every part richly decorated with sculptures ; and the western front, rising 230 feet, is, or was, particularly fine with -its wealth of stat utes, ornamental carvings, and bas reliefs. It has a-circular window forty eight feet in 'diameter.- The Prussians heavy artillery has made, it is said, a ruin of part of the vast building. The astronomical clock, tho product of a German clock maker, in about the year 1550, is a marvel of ingenuity and me chanical skill, and has ho counterpart. It performs not only the ordinary clock, but exhibits the day, the months and tho years, the progress of the seasons," tho signs of the zodiac, and the names and movements of the heavenly bodies. At each quarter hoar an angel comes out and strikes one stroke on a bell ; at every hour another angel comes out and strikes twice ; and at twelve, meridian, a figure of Christ appears, accompannied by the twelve apostles, all of whom move around a central point and pass- in, out of sight, by another door, the stroke of twelve being given, and a cock flaps his wings and crows. The clock is enormous in size like everything else conncled. with the vast cathedral, and w invisible from the outside street the spectator passing through the cave of (he cathedral to see it. It has suffered from fire and violence before the present year, having been out of repair and motionless since the revoln tion of 1793 until the year 1842, when it was repaired by a watchmaker of Bas Khin, and has been in operation since. It is to be hoped that thin ingenious piece of mechanism has not been irreparably injured by the present bombardment. The loss of the Strasbourg library -a vast : collection of 800,000 volumes, in cluding many collections of rare and curi ous monkish parchments is total ami irreparable. It can never be replaced by any collection hereafter made. It was the slow result of a thousand years ; anil its destruction by ' lire, caused by the Prussians hot shot, is like the burning v( the Alexandrian library in this, that of a great number of the works destroyed no duplicates can ever be obtained. IIi:MAi;KAiii.E DiSCovKKT By many it has been held as a theory that the Yom; desert was once an ocean bed. At inter vals pools of salt water have stood for awhile in the midst, of the surrounding waste of sand, disappearing only to ris'o again in the same or other localilie?. 1A short time since one of these saline lakes disappeared, and a party of : Indiang re ported .the . discovery of "big ship" left by the receding waters. A party of Americans at once proceeded to the spot and found imbedded in the sands the wreck of a large vessel. Nearly one-third of the forward -part -of the ship or bark is plainly visible. .The stump of the bow sprit remains, and portions of the tihibers of teak are perfect. The wreck ia located forty miles north of the San Bernardino and Fort Yuma' road, and thirty miles west of Los Palmes, a well known water ing place on the desert. : The road across the desert has. been traveled few more than one hundred years. -The history of the ill-fated veiseL can, of course, never be known ; but the discovery of its decaying timbers in the Bidst of what has long been a desert will furnish savants with food for discussion, and may perhaps furnish important aid in the elucidation of ques tions of science. Lot Angeles Xeics, iSfjjt. A dilapidated old darkey, in Montgom" ery, Alabama, while watching the mon" keys in a menagerie in that city, soliloqui sed thus : "Dern childreo got too muc1 sense to come out dat cage ; white ,folk cut dar tail oft' and set dem to, yptin and tuakiu'. uew constitutions.'' SI
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