HE IS A FREEMAN WHOM TITE T RUT IT MAKES FREE, AND ALL ARS SLAVES BESIDE Terms, $2 per year In advance liE SCHOOL! ' . patronized by Young Men than V nn-dness or Academic Educa :;' i-i'ili' -ire. Pmitfhkcepsie, N.Y. Jt :'''', j iijusf 'nitiu'tiithle I'rartiral School ."r'i state, and the only one providing ' In: (Jra.luates. liefer to patrons in i .ij.KA.-TMAX, L.L.D., President. AYSBURG SEBlntfARY. : liBUIBAySBVIMJ, PA. "GOMiNGTON (ILL.) NURSERY. 'v - i'.utc. l-'5 Greenhouses. Larg--:t-:ill ltest stock! Lw w,.iiM you know hat, Vhn, How '.( Fruir. h:iU-. Evergreen Trees, Koot r 'i.,.ijiiiiri. 'ii!-'e Plants, -Apple Seed, 7 '.-' ...:::.'. Shriibs.KtS(.s. Cncuhouso '"...i i'i.iu:. Ac. Klowrrand Vrgo ,icdi! 1 iiii--t, I lest Collection .Sorts v. vii'l lucoiit-tor New. Illustrated, . '"jVe i ;ii;iioL'in J" pages.' Send stamp, rut..!.'ifii-" f ( Seed-, with plain direc , .,,,.-.-; iii il.'ii;-' and Garden Plants U2 "'iV,!i.':.'!:c I'rice List-21 pages. Ad ':' i- : KMX. HI. ni i tiirfon. 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CiS is rich in the medicinal v if omim.-.l with vegetable ingre ' v:tl'ie, whi.-h make it unsur ;"r ,,:e conif.Iaintu enumerated E-3-r.ci r.:::jti, cleanses the i.wtn l.irerwi'1 puts them to work .1 to iiirt, and makes pure blood. 4 t.7:.c ty;ij.j,.-e"!Mted by both sound and . ' ; -.r-rof; i in nny wav, we know if vou Srr.i;-'.; pr:;:r::s of i r. Crook's Wine ,; .!! s-j.t y..i;r ttsti rnonv to its great - ::-:x.ri nr.y ' i!N 'hit "tlsh in he;r ,: , t v tTS2 CCS i CO. Sold by ..: .c::ra. :r::-;-3 rai-j, 2ir:f;::sj 5 ; ;i '- 5 or sv-rntula m ny I '.!:'-r-"?:- S-:':c5 cf tie li?er, 21 "-"-rj.":.:'i;?:::::!'.? J-s. Ei, lev . c::j. C.:c, ;ia Cid C:res, or any y i..r(r,.f .ifj.t-n.t.ne on a depraved con '"nr' ti: Mood, take I- C v. r--,. Ti r-'r-? Kia -" It is combined 1.1 ibe 1- -t tonic nrennrationa r.r . and is the bc.'t Alterative and il V-' i'Ztvr 101,0 U lM-Culloi ,T r.,ol I'n:-.f..r made. r;4 rv 1"- Horue 7 00 14 W V Pike. . Trrrret, :t;P. '0& . -las J Murphy.. 7 H M P Kelly.. I.-eiaredcri'T! v ' fcsl- , 14 M L bronhera. 7 50 14 J K ltobert.x iiHrnvn house iMivrr.n.-,-o -. l.o.l Hur-c Tradr. Mark.) ll'ovm '.-Aarrm Snvdc-r's. I". S. Asist Mi iinr .Ft-.ia. 1'a. : C. l!a con's Liv-:tR-'e-?a!.1...Siinburv. Pa. Hrs,-s r.-V- .:ri Wiihclm's. Danville, hant. V."aiiin!rto'iville. Pa. : s- ';-rey Shore, Pa. J ,' ' '. 7 'Ie- - lhv.s, I.ewiVnirsr, " ' " ;';.-Tho. ClimranV. r nio"n ::f eh,.!, ivi. IL Parr's, II. & ' J.H. . ami. f ,rxt-nrril. l)r. Mc V ..muck's, Milton. I'a. i hirk- '' ''"'"''-1 r-1 T. K rob s 1 a : In-. I . ). Ha vN. ('. w. Sti.-k r -Hnnoy Milt,,,,. Pa. Il.indrfds ft, '1 hostoc;: was aved bv V.'V. iir, ; ' .':" i ; W holesa o and l;( t (il Dn!if and , thorium. I roadway. MUton, Pa., to - -r .-i s should be addrcs-c-d Am. JK"PER LIKE ! .Vi'.l in and Pifty-fiv-c I'irt-elass sjiyima Newspapers ! !-'-i'r.i. Eleven IiaiiiJT ut1!--!;! I"!!..1!''.'- i'i this paper, to 1 frl'vi.. .rk sew York. it, r.i .3 IT It. 1. .'-VECETABLE 1 .r - lTIL" I'Hos.ACo., ll.iston. RAHT SAFOLIEKE ' r--t V' S anil ..11 1. . v.. p.,;, , , 01 ctotlisnnd 'I'.l.t SI '. ' l ',l SI injury to the finest --'7 an' Fancy Goods , 1 --'V V... L , - ai''- t., Chicatro. 1 A S Vy A ' l' w iTh Stencil Toole. CorerandSlicer. Price .'.00. TH Horse and a rrinjrr f urnish ,,vr paiil. 11 siiw iii'..i .., . t a iK 'IS .1 K.ll.lltV v . . "'I i ion I . ' ' "1 II 1 .1 1 . . . I . 1 : , ' '" sen our new and .... 1 i . A l.lrisg M. WAGNLK ... -'urn '!;h. '.v-liv, Ticket and " ,. 1 ,Jt nln('i Plane, or pome '"-KVP i, ;.'llk!i- for One Dollar. uiiii'iiiuuii, nio. (Ivcrtisino. 'i 10- , o . ... . elnsxiT. . . ':. is a is , ; mien pnares, lately is-Vi'-'-ui ';: -,h,; V'st American Ad viu , V"u' tho "aines, eirc-ula-.V ''"i We li "i,'""'"r,lil1!-' thelead t..,.thriy ,."1,tif"' 'd Family r,iM,,s ,,v.,,h 1 those having .'iiTi,.,.i r""1 n,,,l in the interest of "r "'! t-v,.,V.''' 1-'--tiiru, Ate. Kverv ! THIS OUT I 1 r. a. t ' ont Tity ;u"spaner W7f;i!' n l , V' S of havinVe 1 r".i.,.' V" ibiw. v v..b- I Cambr us- ..-i-. "i 11s issue or Pa 1 .. . - . .p'arif., . ."oeresimj? ana valuable '. Iriit,.,. , J beKt Advert isinj; Ajren niterestinj? and valuable r'l it 1,. "'""s. and wo can eheerf ullv U. ,lHf.li. . ' """iiui unr wiifinr iHn,. . " 'r t.iisinouu 1 v !...: '.H'llllr.nii,, . r .v ...i. .1 " -;llr: the 1 ? "lfil"li a way: that is. . Olr77 :: u,u hotel, '.L?r-niii,i,,th a'"Meeaiucity for 250 ,1,pH'untK ,7 da,'-, Tfie St! Ci.ol i cif,'rtler'y fl,r"isl'Pd throughout, 'wboLv '"',,tmn "r .V the u ,. eso,fit--fsfullycoiHtucU at I V H t,ic' w ell-known Mouo- 'r'-'lto. It A N A ttorne-at-Liw, in" Pa- All man- tolltiona9t!al't.r0mptly:ani T 1ST OF RETAILERS OK FORFIGN and Domestic Mekchandizf. in Cambria ""J , ct lor inu year icil : ;ADAM3 TOWXHHlr. 14 Jhin-l Pimmire. 7 5014 Charles IIel3er'7 50 14 Lewis Miank 7 5()! AM.ECIHENY Towssnip. 14 A llliam J llitek 11 r r, , KLACKLIK TOWSSHlpi 14 Cr B V. yke . i-ARRdLLTowx nonoroVi! . 'J"on Schroth. 7 tK) 14 J Ilutk i; . . 'rbaujh. 1 1!0 14 AA Harker&Son 14 A M alters 7 IH 14 J Wertner ' CAMBRIA miROfGH. V. VlV1 ,Il-va" 7li0 14 .John Kurtz 14 I) McDonald ... 7 bo 14 .1 Stibieh . COOrEBSDALE BOHOUUH. H JD Adams ,J foxEMACisii Bunort.it.' H Jacob Widman. 7 00.14 M Toohor 14 L Aaron TliOjH John Bradley... 14 John tMormor.. 7 U01 , . , I-UA:tKIELD TOWMSniP. 14 E It Duncyan , . ' CHOVI.E TOWNSHIP. il V... '"uuuer... 7 UXI4 P M & J Brown.. 14 W 1) W ontrotli. 7 00 H SIS Paul n-n., I'llEST SPKINfJS WMtoLT.H. 14 K & II N titter:.. 7 1X14 W W Saupp , . TO KAST CO.NEMAl'lJH IWROllill. if . .Po'-'uinan... 7 0(i!l4 lirackeu Kiran ' 14 A Ooelinour. 7 1I T EHKXsnt lir llORorr.iK ? LOatmamVCo 7 00 14 J P I honiDsou. . ' r 00 rtxi r 50 roo ; 00 '50 00 50 '00 y, f. 'Vt-'rt8 A: Soti.10 00 l:i A A 1 la rk e r A- So n .10 0t it , V;,,Ktr hmhi it Jacob Thomas.. 10 .eo Huntley 10 00,14 UK Ihivi 14 l emoniMiirray 7uo!14 It J Llovd " 11 It It aiiornas .. 7K) 14 Zahin 'Son 14 Myers Ac Lloyd... 7 0" 14 HJ Mills .. . . if !l !l Vwtn 7"" 11 John Dougherty i-J'Ivis 7 iHi 14 CTltobcrts. ... 14 mroe. 7 If ,9.P",es,- 7 ui 14 P Itubritz 14 1) Coulter ... 7 TiOi , . , AIJJIIX township. f -7fJ Troxoll 7 00 14 Patrick Smith.. 14 Mar-ret Wlmleu 7 "o 14 Mrs It Kane If V";1,;'1'118 V n:i4 Thos llradley... 14 Jas P Murray.. . 7 ooj , , , Johnstow.v nonocGrr. 1 ,ood, Morrell 14 John Muller... 7 00 7 m 7 On 7 uo 7 00 7 50 7 00 50 7 00 7 00 7 00 7 00 7 00 7 00 700 7 00 7 00 7 00 7 00 7 00 7 00 7 11O 7 no 7 00 7 00 7 50 7 no 7 (.0 7 00 7 00 14 L F Leitenber ;o 200 00 14 T W YfuliT H A Pfeiler 7 0o U Jacob Fend ... 7 ii:14 A Krauss 7( 14 W Levera-orKl.. 7 00 14 Win Caldwell.. 7 OoiU Jacob Wild 7 0O 14 Andrew Moses. jrer 14 Kout Saifersoe. 14 May Urothers. . 14 John Jordan.. . 14 lavid Creed 14 W J Kennedy.. 14 Geo Ileiser 1 4 Chas J Voht 13 W Hav 14 J Itankih 14 J AV Stevenson. 14 WmMePherson 14 Unit A' Kriefrer 24 MClintoek ACo 14 BriiKlie, Kuu- kt 1 A- Co .... 1 4 WM CpdeKrave 14 tl llentlv 14 Adaiti Pt'arr 14 (i J Tl.ntnas. . . . 7(H) 14 Kmil Xour.g.... 7 5i) 1 4 A Uuifrratl 10 on 14 tieis A: lteuth.. 7 50 14 J M Stewart. . .. 7. "iii 14 Gcorjrt' King 7(sjJ4 A J Swart. 7 00 14 J Swank A: Co.. 7 00 1 J H M-Culloug-h iI4 KC Luks....... 7 00 14 John lianntui. . 7 (i0 11 J Cunningham 7 t0 A; Co 7 50 14 A I Hrinker.. . 7 00 14 W J Itose A: Co. 00 00 00 00 (Ml 00 00 00 00 M Gels A- F 10 uo 14 IKiM-Culloutfh 14 M L (ironberg-. . ".-w . - i 1 4 I- l. K i.r.wa " ibl 1 I li....: 1. :- j i- . tress 14 V Leu titer 14 C I il versafrt. . . 14 L I.iickhardt.. . It FA; (i ;al!arttt?r 14 S J M.sA- Itro. 14 L C.dien A- llro. 14 I P inert A- Son It J A McKinney. 14 A Montirouiery 14 C T Fra.i-r 14 John J Murphv 14 .) t) A Ilen.'hoof 14 DentoniWavne 14 I. Maver. 14 M II Mayor 14 John Dibert.... 14 John Dibert 14 Wrn licrliu 1 4 J Thomas 14 F liorder 14 Mary Fromald. 14 J T Kinney.. . . 14 John Schnalde. . 00 11 .1 Jialiphant.... 7 00 7 on It Mrs C Mr.rris... 7 im 7 no 10 TG StewnrtACo 20 l 7 0O Vi C II Suppes 12 50 7 ( 14 V Lou flier 7 ui 7 50 14 G W Stutzinun 7( A" Co 70,1 7(;14 James Pitts ... 7 m 7 0OT4 Win Itiiwcrs.... 7 00 7 00 14 J Thomas A- Co. 7 00 7o-i 14 Foekler A- I.ev- 7b erood 7 00 7 M 14 Fo-kler & Co... 7 () 7 00 14 F Krebs 7 tKl 7 00 It Clms Hoehstein 7(1 7 00 14 A liiaueh A: Co. 7 no 7 00. 14 Geo chafer Too 7 14 John liloeh 7 00 7 00 It Chas Oswald... 7 50 7 50 14 A S WasTstaff . .. 7 50 7 O) 14 W Sumner & Co 7 50 00. JACKSON TOWNSHIP. 14 SatnT AJlbaugh 7 50il4 (it'orjfftWehn.. I.iHBTTt HOKOIICII 14 Wm Wtzinser. 7 00 14 John Hradlcy.. 14 H T O ITiel.... 7 00 14 PHShiehlsjiSon 14 A J Christy 7 01 14 FX Haid -M1I.I.VII.I.K nouin i.H. 14 John II Thielej- 7 00 14 W II Given.. .. 14 G W Stutzman il4 PMeDermott.. & Co 7 (10: niciu.AM Tow.vsnip. 14 IV-rnard Xess.. 7 0) 14 treorg-i; Herkey 14 John Mattern.. 7IHJ It Isaac li Horner 14 Ueurgu Conrad. 7 00 14 JohutJ Meyer.. SUM MJT VI I.I, E IKMIOICII. 13 Win M-Connell. 7 00 It Jns.M flillan... 14 James A Mahcr 7 00 14 John Kjjer 14 Christ Keich... 7 00' SrsyrEITANNA TOWNSHIP. 14 Teter Helfrick. 7 50.14 I'eter Garinan. WASHINGTON TOWNSHIP. 14 MrtM-LauHdilin (H) 14 J II Dvsart A- Co 14 Mrs F, Min tosh 700 14 James Conrad. 14 Jane Sweeny... 7 on 14 (Mho Stvncr 14 r I Davis TOO' 14 Win Prfnjrle, jr 14 Jane L;ihey Tlwllt Martin A: Co.. .. wn.MOitH lionornn. 14 John Sehroth.. 7 00 14 K Paul & Co.... 14 PM Woleslag-lo 14 ED Lvuns &S011 7 00' TAYI.OII TOWNSHIP. 11 Wood, Morrell A- Co WH ITK TO WNn I P. It A II Fiske 7 00 14 (ico Walters & 14 Gates A' Son 7 00 Son WOOHVAI.E HOROCCH. 14 Charles Helfrick VOI'KK TOWNSHIP. 14 Jeremiah Heiple 7 50 TtO 7 00 7 00 TOO 7 00 700 7 00 7 50 7 00 700 00 '00 '00 : 50 50 : 50 no uo 7 00 750 7 50 TOO RltEWKUIES. Florien Tlcngde, I.oretto ilorouq:h $15 00 Ger.rye Gu. ssrncii, Cambria itorous-h 15 50 ( sear (i rair Co., Johnstown lioroujfh.. .. 15 00 J Steinmer, " " .... ", 50 H. Hansman, " " .... 15 W) Lambert A: Kress. Conemnnarh Ilorough... 15 50 .1 Sticdi, Carrolltown Uorough 15 CO H Illume, " " 15 00 G J Sehawderer, Washington Township... 15 50 An Appeal will beheld at the oflice of the Treasurer, ut Ebensburg-, on Moiiilav. June 5 th, 1ST I. A. D. CKLSTE, May 1.J, lS7l,-4t. JJarantilc AiusraUei. T7XECUTdIi S NOTICE. J 1 Kttitte of Jrremiah ircdoniytr, flr.c'd. Letters Testamentary to the Estate of Jr.itE MIAH Mc.SiGl.E, late of Washing-ton towu-f-hip, Camlii iu (tiiinty, havinjr been granted 10 the undersiirned by the ltejrist it of said county, all persons havinjr claims aainst the estate of t-aid decedent are lu'i eby notilied to present the same duly probated for settlement, and those indebted thereto are required to make payment without unnecessurv delav. , . ANNA It. MctiONIGLE, ) Frr.tnn JNO. E. SCAN LAN, f Jarerufot. April 15, 171 .-ot. IXECUTOR S NOTICE. Estate of ItiCiiAnn IIennrtt, dee'd. Letters Testamentarj- to the estate of Itieh'd riennett, late of Cambria township, dee'd, hav ing been jrranted to the undersijrned by the lt-trist-r of Cambria county, notice is hereby jriven to all persons indebted to said estate that .roinpt payment must lie mane, nnl to thoso lavimr chums asrainst the same that they must their accounts in proper shape for set EV AN ItENNETT. Executor. bria Twp., April U!t, l71.-4t. A DMINISTRATOR'S NOTICE. Estate of Micitaei. Dchbin, dee'd. Whereas T.etters of Administration on the etato of Michi Durbin, late of Clearfield towu fchip, Cambria county, dee'd, have been errant ed to the undersigned, notice in hereby triven to all persons ba iinr claims against, said estate to present them legally authenticated for set tlement, ami those indebted to the same are re quested to make payment without delav. JOHN II. DOFGLASiS, Adm'r. St. Augustine, April 29. l71.-4t. ryO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN. - . .Notice is hereby fr'ven that I have pur chased 2 Gray Horss. 1 Wairon, 1 Windmill, Horse tlears, 2 Cows, 4 Hoije, liow, Harrow and Lopr Chains at private sale, and have left the same in the possession of Charles H. Stitzel at my pleasure. All jicrsons are therefore warned airainst interferinr witn said property in any manner whatsoever. 1IENKY HOPPLE. Carroll Twp., May 6, 1871.-at. GE. A V keyr PiL The e. W. O ATM AN & CO., Attok- kkys-at-Law, Ebensburpr, Cambria, Co., "tt. 'Xne eolle;tion ot notes und bills, wlicthei due or past due, will receive prompt attention. EBENSBURG, I.LES Inscribed, with deepest nwr.vathy, to Mrs. E. L The summer day, that rest and radiance gave To earth and eky and sea, Had shed it3 glory o'er an open grave. That soon the rest should be Of one who wearied in the early morn Of life's short, troubled day. And, e'er its noon, was still and silent borne, From all its cares, away. The sun was hijrh, upon the coffin lid We saw his splendor fall : And 'neath it lay a vanish'd treasure hid, Beyond our lius recall. Above, the mourners bent In silent grief, A child among- them, one, A child in years, but in sublime belief lo more thau manhood grown. The rites were over, earth to earth consig-n'd, The tearful prayers were said; The grave was left, another link to bind 1 he living- and the dead. And, Oh! what mem'riea dimmed again their eyes As nearer home thev drew. The child among them, nearer paradise Than only ungels, knew. The days went by and oft beside her grave ins sister s rest ho prayed. While summer's mornings rest and radiance ga e. And autumn's rest and shade: And, through the winter, when the shorten'd uays. Their wings of storm outspread. He sought how oft, with long and loving gaze, iier snow enshrouded bed. Aud now 'tis spring, but here he prays no more, Tl.n ! . .- uiuuiuLiB (jiicv again Have gather'd here all silent as before, Hut fewer now than then. His soul, that looked to Heav'n with humble faith When sorrow's hand oppressed, The saints have carried through the gates of death, To Heaven's unending rest. Linnet. THE SWITCH-TENDER.'3 STORY. It ran tl;ti3: "It's nigh onto eleven yoars. sir, since l came on this road. For I he first ihree years I was brakesman, and if I had' Ftuck to it I mi"lit have become a conductor by this time who knows. My character was good and I've always been a steady man, but you see it wasn't to be. My old womau always objected to mo running on the train, it kept me so much away from home, not to neak of the danger, and Ht the end of the third year, when our little b'jy was born, she begged so hard to give it up that I con sented, and the company put me in this place, where I've been erer since. It's not hard, I've only got to tend one switch and do odd jobs about the depot, the pay is just the same as what I got before, only there's no chance for promotion, but thon I'm always at home, which makes it up. I live only a little way across the bridge, in the outskirts of the town, yon der, on the other bide of the river a small white house with an elm treo in iho yard. You can see it from the other end of the switch. .... "So you think the river is very beau tiful at this season of the year ? Well, sir, 1 dare say it is. I thought so once myself; but I don't take my pleasure in looking at it now, nor have 1 done so for many a day. Its green banks and its clear water, with the sunshine sparkling on it, only makes it seem the crueler to me, as if it laugned over the misery it has caused to human beii.gs ; but my opinions haven't got anything to do with what you come to ask me about so I'll try and get to the point at once. "I l will be three years come Monday, the 13ih of next month, which is. May, that after eatin' my breakfast and smokin my pipe, which latter operation I gener ally gits through with about seven o'clock, I started across the bridge, takin' with me my litllo boy, Willie, who was at this time just risin' o' five j'ears. He was awfully tickled at tho idea of bein' allowed to go out with me, as his mother kept him mostly around the house, havin' like nearly all women, great fear of the trains. I don't think, sir, I ever seen a finer mornin' the sun well nigh up, but not too warm, with a white cloud here aud there in the blue sky, the trees and grass green and fresh, and glistenin' with the dew, and underneath us the river flowin' bright and clear, just as you see it now, sir. My heart felt light, and havin' nothin' on my minJ I bad juft finished payin' for ray house the week before I began to think on comparin my troubles with my blessings that after all it would be hard to find a better place than this Eanue muchabused world we live in. "The time-table was a little dilForent then from what it is now. . The freight train came down at 7:30 a. m., switched otT, and wailed for the express to go by, which followed in fifteen minuted later. I reached the. switch about ten minutes ahead ot time I always. do and sittin' down-on the tie, I filled a fresh pipe and smoked away, while little Willie gathered pebbles, and throwing 'eda, in tho water, laughed and shouted at the splashes they made. -; "Finally growin' bolder, be ventured to the river's edge, and pluckin' one of the lilies that grew there in abundance, he came in great glee and laid it at my feet. I put the flower carefully in ray packet so as not to bruise it, intending to fhow it to bin mother. lie lisped out that pretty blue ones grew further down, and begged to go and get one of them ; but as it was PA., SATURDAY, almost time for the train, I refused my permission, and taking him some ten or fifteen yards from the track, sat him down at the foot of a tree the maple yonder and bade him remain, there till I called. "Tho time for tho train came and passed, and still no signs of it. I grew nervous and did not notice my boy. Min ute after minute passed away, and at last when I began to be certain that some ac cident had occurred it hove in sight just five minutes before the express train was due, which I knew could not be more than two miles behind. I saw at once the cause of the delay ; the train was urtusu ally long and heavy, and the engine No. Ij,, which the fireman had christened "Uhl luckctty," was the worst on the road. The switch was all ready, but the tram moved so slowly that the last car had hardly 1 ft the main track, when I heard the wListle of the express, and the next moment she rounded the bend at full speed. I knew that I didn't have any too much tirae to get the switch in posi tion, and went at my work with a will when Puddenly I heard a child's scream, and turning round I saw little Willie struggling in the water. For an instant the sight of my child's danger overpower ed every other consideration and I sprang lor the river, but before I got half the dis tance the hoarse whistle of the approach ing train rang in my ear like a trumpet, and the thought of my duty, and the hun dreds of lives that would be sacrificed if I deserted my post, went through my brain like a flash of lightning, while all the time there was a feeling about my heart I can't tell in so many words I only knew it was worse than death beseeching me to save my boy. "The whole thing couldn't have lasted more than two seconds, and how the one feeling got the better of the other I never knew. I have no recollection of turning back, but the next thing I remember 1 was at the switch working away like mad. I never had such strength. 1 felt that I could have wrenched up the sohd iron rails in my agony, and bent them like straw ; and I did not seem to see tipything about me distinctly, neither rails nor ties -but dimly and vaguely, as if in a dream, or at a great distance. What I did see as plainly as I do now, although it was behind me, was the clear and beautiful river flowiiiL; on in t tie morning sun, and in the midst of it little Willie weakly struggling for help, while tho bright, cruel waves smote him in the face and laughed. I had no ear for the near- ing train, but all I heard or seemed to, for I can't rightly say were his cries to his father for help, growing fainter and fainter; and then the horiible bubbling sound, as he sank finally, and his last breath found its way to the surface. "At length the switch was in position, and although it's a short job at best, and I must linve accomplished it at that tirae with a quickness I can never again equal, yet it f-eenjed longer than the longest sum mer's day ; but it was done, and 1 rushed to the river and gazed eageily around for some sign that might tell me where to plunge in to rescue my child ; but there was nothing, nothing but the sunlight that glistened brightly on the little wave lets that smiled mockingly in my face as they hurried onward. I don't remember anything further. There was a great choking in my throat, a huge weight of lead seemed to fall on my brain, and all was black. When I came to my senses it was three weeks , afterward, with my old woman God bless her sitting along side cf me holdin' my hand in hers. The doctor said I had made a close mus of it, and at first I left sorry that I had lived at all ; but that didn't last long, for I knew there was another one she who sat be eide me who had suffered more than I had and stood it nobly, so I tried to get better in order to console her. It was two weeks more before I got out of bed, and quite two months before I was able to go around. I will never be tho same man again. "The company pensioned me, and didn't want me to do any more work at all. I5ut I couldn't bear to be idle you see, sir, I wasn't brought up to it, nnd strange as it may appear, I didn't feel like working anywhere save in the old place ; I seemed lo be closer to my boy there, I found the lily ho had gathered, just as I had placed it in my jacket pocket, and gave it to his mother. She has it yet all withered and colorless, in a little glass on the mantle piece, and there, sir, it shall remain in sight of us both until our time comes to join him." Mr. Greeley says the reason' there is a scarcity of maple sugar, this spring is, that the farmers didn't more than half manure their sugar seeds when they plant ed them last fall. lie says for every seed you plant you want a whole pilo of manure, when the vines will be fairly weighed down with little scolloped cakes. Farmers never will learn anything if they keep on fooling away their time as they have the past year. An exchange says if you fasten a nail or key to a string and suppend it to your thumb and finger, the nail will oscillate like a pendulum. Let some one place bis open hand under tho . nail, ' and it will change lo circular motion. Then let a third person place his hand upon your shoulder, and the nail becomes in a mo ment stationary. MAY 20, 1871. A Festive Account of a JIule IMtle in Florida. . We have had a hearty laugh, says the Pine Dluff Pnss, over the following ar ticle of an epistolary nature, written by a New Yorker sojourning in Fernandina, Florida. It is decidedly rich : Well, I'm down here in Florida perco lating through the sand all sand much of it as white as snow. A very quiet C A Til 1 Tl -r . a otate is r ionua. rno ousiie. ro con fusion. Nobody in a hurry. To morrow is as good as to-day to do anything, and better. Time is of no account. The climate is glorious. Just one beautiful day after another till you fail to appreci ate them. The boys insisted that I needed relaxa tion. My health required it. I had a pretty fair article of health, I thought ; enough to last me as long as I lived. But I must aceumulute a stock for future use. The South was the place to get it. And riding was healthy. The sand is too deep to ride, except on horse-back, so I thought I would take a ride. I applied to the livery man for a horse. He had one. He looked sorrowfully at me, as though he pitied me. Did I ever ride a mule ? I never had. He had as good riding horses as were ever saddled, but if I wanted a "Uock me to Sleep, Mother" style of a ride, I should take a mulo. I don't consider myself a first-class judge of mules. I had some vague notions in re gard to them ; supposed they would do a large amount of work with very little feed, and were immortal. I had read of one being driven over the same route by the same boy for eightv-seven years, and he was a young mule yet. Bring forth the mule. He was brought. He was a meek-looking cuss a perfect "Uriah Heap" of a mule so far as hum bleness was concerned. At least that was the view I took of him. He was saddled and mounted. For a mile or two he paced beautifully. I thought those old monks I had read tkbout knew what they were doing when they traveled on mules. I had a high respect for their judgment. Just then my mule began to show symp toms symptoms of what I did not know. I found out. Dropping his head between hi3 legs, his bee's described a parabolic curve, or a diabolic curve, or some other infernal curve, in the air, and I got off and sat down upon the ground. I got off over his head, and I did it quick. I'm not so old -out I can get oil an animal of that kind as quick as a boy. Then I looked at the mule to see if he was hurt. He didn't appear to be. Then I in quired around to see how I was. I reported an abrasion on the left hip, and a contusion on the lower end of my back. Then I thought I would pronounce a left handel blessing on that mule, and on his fore-fathers and fore-mother3 before him, and on his children after him. But I didn't. I wondered if he would stand fire. If I had had a pistol I would have put the muzzle to hi ear and tried him Not that I was afraid of him, but I was afraid somebody might take a ride on him some day and get hurt. But I had no pistol, so that benevolent and sanguinary idea was frustrated. Then I cot ut and i shook the dust off my feet, and brushed the sand off my trousers, as a testimony against that place. Then I led the mule carefully home, and stated my case to the livery man. But when I told him that he should send for a doctor, or a Samari tan, to do me up in rags, and pour olive oil and champagne on my multitudinous bruises, . he only laughed. And his man that he had to help him laid down on a bench and laughed then he rolled off the bench and laughed and I stood holding tho mule then I laughed. It was redic ulous. But I've learned a little wisdom. Next time I ride on horse-back it will bo a different kind of beast from a bogus jackass. A Foi.ite Horse. We must certain- ly judge that politeness is increasing in the world, when we find that even horses are setting a good example. A corres pondent writes : "Going one day to a worthy deacon's for dinner, I went with him to the stable to provide for the wants of ray horse, which, as I consider, is a3 much entitled to his dinners as I. am myself. Bofore installing niy teed, the deacon . turned out a pair of sprightly ponies, and told me to watch their performance, "In the yard was a well, the bucket of which :hung. cn an old fashioned sweep. One of the ponies led the way to this well, and . reaching up to the pole, brought it down with his teeth. ., Dipping up a pail of water, he set it: on a shelf inside the well-curb, and then watted till his mate had drank before helping himself. Some times he would even draw two buckets for her in this wonderfully gallant man ner. What man can be rude when horses are so polite?" . - .. .. - Thkek little girls who had very cares fully -buried in a garden in Portsmouth, N. II., the dead body of a pet bird, after consultation, sent one of their number into the house to inquire "if people didn't sin at funerals.' On being told that they often did, the messenger ran back, and in a few minutes the threo were seen standing" Land in hand around the little mound, gravely singing "Shoo fly, don't bodder me." ; A ISachelor's Giiost A Warnliisr Iroin the dead. The recent startling, rcvelaiions made by a supernatural agency in a neighbor ing city, says the New Orleans Ptcuyune, has caused many of our spiritual believers to rake up their reminiscences of ghostly visitants. Tho most remarkable of'lhese is furnished by a bachelor friend of the reporter, to whom he-has unburdened the one secret that he has between the livin and the dead. "You know," said our friend, "how I evaded the widow whom 1 followed into the clover patch many a long year ago. I never confessed to you, however, that it was like tearing my heart out to revive those bright memories, now almost faded by the lapse of tirae. My love for that beautiful widow had become a locollec tion, its poignancy was gone,and my mind regarded it with the quiet interest with which we sometimes look upon a beauli ful picture. Perhaps these impressions were enhanced from the circumstance of her death, which occurred a few years after our sad parting. Hut up to that event I do not believe she ever forgave my desertion. She spoke of it in heMast illuess,and said that she should die content if assured that I would never love another. It affected me greatly, and I almost resolv ed to obey her wishes. But as time went by I began to forget this wish of my dead sweetheart. "Three years went by from the time we buried her. under the willows, and the vio lets had tin ice bloomed on her breaswhen one evening I concluded to call on a lady friend. I didn't exactly love her, but there is no telling what might have hap pened but for the spectre that I saw that night. "W e were seated playing the then fashionable game of euchre. I felt that the air was a littfle chilly and closed the doors. Scarcely had I returned the game when my attention was attracted to the opening of the door. Locking up 1 saw a lady enter. She was dressed just as I had last seen my widow. 1 half rose to offer her a seat, thinking it was some ore of the family, whin I caught the express ion of her face. It was livid arid death like ; but the features were those of my widow. I was spell bound with astonish ment. She walked to the mantel, and resting one arm on it, regarded me fixed ly. I was breathless with tiffright fur a moment, but recovering myself 1 stepped forward as if to address her, when she shook her head and moved away. The expression of her eyes was fire and burn ing. They eaid as plain as words could have, 'Keep to your faith.' "What could I do ? Would you have me keep to my courtship when even the dead warned me against it ? "As my shadowj' visitant movpd away I glanced down at her feet. Even in death she had preserved her identity. There was a hole in her stocking;." ECCF.NTRICITIKS OF A TENNESSEE Plfi. Two sons of II. G. Scovel, Esq , of this city, tiding leisu-ely along the Galla tin turnpike, four miles from the city, the other evening, passed a small pig walking in the same direction. One of the lads touched the pig gently on the back with the whip-lash, and the animal acknowl ledged the salute with a grunt, and quiet ly took his position in the rear of the buggy and followed it. He would not be driven back but stubbornly persisted in following the buggy walking when the horse walked, and running when the horse's speed increased. The lads turned in at Mr. G. W. Payne's gate and closed it, shutting the pig out ; but the pig was not to be shut out. He nosed about until he found an opening in the fence, and came through and took his position under the buggy, and slept 'utvder it all that night. The next'morning the young gen tlemen hitched up aul proceeded to town, the pig following as before.. Tie followed them the entire four miles crossed the suspension bridge after the buggy fol lowed it through the city to the residence of Mr. Scovel ; and is now in his lot, per fectly gentle, and apparently contented with the situation. This is tho most ec centric conduct of a country pig of intelli gence we have yet heard of, and the ac count is literally true. 2asltrille Lkinner. A Wonderful Production A few years since there was exhibited in New York a most marvallous specimen of hand write, it being no less than a complete copy of the Holy Bible on a surface about the size of an ordinary mantle or pier glass, the words of the same being so "ingenious ly arranged and grouped as to form the representation of a beautiful temple, while at the same time not one word is omi'ted, no sentence transposed, and the several chapters lollow each other in proper order. At first viow the spectator perceives only a well arranged architectural drawing, delicate, and exact ; but on close exam ination (some parts requiring the uJ of a magnifying glass) every part of the ele vation, each window and doorway, each apparent line and column, cornice and en toblature everything in short," except perhaps, a slight shading, is resolred into distinct and regular hand-writing. This wonderful production was executed by a Polish gentleman by the name of David Davidson, who finished his task after two years and seven months of constant labor and application. The Gardener's Motto Eotluec plant NUMBER j.G 1112 WOULD ISC A SOLDIER. The following story is tcld t-f a boy who became infatuated with a regiment of soldiers, and followed them from his southern home. When the little fellow was first missed by the family it was sup posed that he had oi'ly joined in the niotly civilian crowd following' the drum, and would be sent or brought back in a few hours; but after a nigLf had come and passed without his return, alarm took the place of supposition, and Dr. Pinkston, the lad's father, and a party set out on swift horee9 to overtake the departed regiment and reclaim tha lad. This measure, to the horror of these en gaged in.it, proved fruitless, for, the soldier, when found, declared that they had not stcn Master Pinkston since their departure, and exhibited the livliest sym pathy in the emotion of the confounded and half distracted father. - No lar guage, says the Nashville' Union, could express the sorrow of the boy's parents. Every means that agonized solicitude could Bug get was adopted to obtain some tidings of the wandering child; but all in vain. No news came ; and the bereaved family finally yielded to the piteous belief that the boy was lost forever. Five years passed away without a word of hope until last week, when a letter bearing an Irish post mark reached the doctor and solved the mystery. The letter-writer was young Pinkston, now a member of the Ninety-eighth Bri'ish regulars, stationed in Ireland, and contained a longer and more minute confession of the truant's adventures than need be repeated here,. Enough to say that, following the Indiana regiment until it was disbanded, and even witnessing the unsuccessful pursuit of his father and friends, he had finally induced a soldier going eastward to take him to New York, and from there had gone to sea on an English vessel as a cabin boy. lieaching England, with the spirit of ad venture still unchecked in him, he had enlisted in tbo English navy, made a cruise in the. Mediterranean, nud then sick of the ocean entered the army. Now, however, ho was heartily tired of vagabond life, and entreated forgiveness for his desertion from home, and the pa rental influence with the British Minister at Washington to secure bis diechargo from Her Majesty's service. Great was the joy prod-iced in the family at Peyton villa by this news, almost incredible as it was, from one whom for five years they had mourned as dead. Dr. P. at once started for Washington, where he now is, and it is scarcely doubtful that his repre sentation of his son's age to Mr. Thornton will insure immediate release of tho youth ful soldier from his membership in the Ninety-eighth English infantry. The Nashville paper giving the story, declares that "its every incident is true to the. let ter." A Singular "Tail "- Pecently a love sick swain was paying court to his dulcina. She had smuggled him into the parlor, and the darkness only served to conceal her blushes,--while John told the story of his love. The muttered words reached the parental ear, and coming suddenly into the room he demanded to know of Mary who it was she had with her. "It's the cat, sir," was the mumbling reply. , 'Drive it out of here," thundered jxitcr j'amilias ''Seat !' screamed Mary, and then, 'sct .o roce : ("John meaow a Utile !") John set up a woful yowl. "That cat's got a cold," remarked the parent. John yowled louder than ever. "Confound it, bring a light, and scare tho thing out." This was too much, and John made a leap for the window, carrying glass, frame and all with bim. "Thunder! irhat a cat T Sfid the parent, contemplating the ruin after the light was brought ; "I never saw anything like it, and confound it, its tail is vt'itle out of Iro idcloth," as he viewed a fluttering remnant hanging from tho window. A fond, father, blessed with eleven children, recently, business being dull, took the eaily train out to hi happy home and went up stairs to put the child ren to bed. Beini missud from the smok ing reom, hia wife went up stairs to see what was going on ; upon opening Jths door she exclaimed : "Why, dear, what for mercy's sake are you doing V "Why," says he, ,wifey, I am putting the child- ren to bed, and having them say their little pray erj." "Yes," says wifey, lbut this is not one of ours." Sure enough, he had got one of the neighbors children all undressed, and had to redress it and send it home. After that he called th roil every morning and night. A Louisville woman was walking' along tho streets on a windy day last week, the dust filling her eyes to such an extent that she could not see a switch engine that was bearing down on her. Just as it was about to crush her, a man snatched her by the, dress, pulled her off the track, Jand saved her life. In remov ing the female obtrnetion from the track he tore her dress, and when she saw the? rent that was there she opened her taouth and swore at him tm'il he fell on tha. other Ifack and came r.err heing killed by the brother of the engine t'tiat was after the woman. He is not pulling womea around by their dresses nny more. Friunds of civilization will be pleased to learn that th "Cesko Krejcooskypod poinjtci Spolck of Chicago," has riled ai certificate of organization. r r
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