3r fi9: e io 1 Jtl, ji'l'ittE, Editor and Publisher. OLUME 5. m? ' 1. i t fcr 5Mj mj tl if R-li: oE 4i e P?. 1 k to t i i for ?!. nV. Jes il t:. tai: -Ir:.; , lu: o: i fc ar! i: :.' fir.; I c: a... 1 In! tfa-I: Thirty thousand DOLLAR PAID. The Traveler' llfeattil-iiritlcnt Insurance Comiianu, 0f Hartford, Connecticut, paid 820, OiW on W. II. Forbtish and Win. C. Carry, victims of tlie New Hamburg silroaJ accident; S5,eO on the : :e Ja. B. Blake, mayor of Worccs- M . a. nnn .1 1a lota Q TT T n i In ftUll V " V ' I . . 11 V. XI. 1 - ... JkV ' ' .O, ' lL'as, Vt. All these accidents oc '''Vi'uJ tlic hisiirauce was paid, within '.nibs-each claim beinif paid about six- J1?" T:ieTiuvKi.i;i;s has paid Seven Ifnii "i'aol'ur a Day in beuelits to its poliey- for ueat.i or iujury by accident, for ' ,.rki!if day during the past seren years. n, iT'ivdc kic an'l pendent Insurance f Hartford, Conn., grants all the !';'forir.5 of MFC and KSBOHMEST on exceedingly favorable terms. Am- j.C.'l'KITY HH'l 1.0 " 5JDAYSBUSO SEMINARY, BI.I.IIATSBI'K. PA. A rmiy which ha" beon test fur lo year, an.i proved in thou nn.i. of"caei, r-aplIe of curing al rixi::! cf tie Threat asi Laa : per- iVr'inng many remarkable cures merits a timl from all who ore sut fcrmi; from similar affections ana i!l The Pruggista say it cures them all I jt-l.'ie rei.ei nii'J cures i il are marvelous. Itia.-hTi-ry "inerer win Dim reuer aua cure ' require oiny h lew uoses. cured cases pronounced incurable Ir.-ii renorutes snd invigorates th 8ystem. .-s-l-M"!-! rtioctive regulator ot this organ L-rjr-U health-Kiving and appetite restoring. uij'jii innui i iiiai Rt-ci rju jirompi ';U3 TTtl Cf TiS is rich in the medicinal , i,r Tjr ronihliiprl wif, rjtffatil.U Imv Lta 3 un ioi;b:ed value, which make it Unsur wn t 1 "a;i it 1.1c compiainig enumerated :: i r.;Zj r:r.::sa ohstRal r..-9t0tb, cleanses the food to J.gest, and makes pur Mood, ilwaifir.;iiy appreciated by botli sound and x if c ar a:r.r;t,J in any wav, we know if too -itMSa-pT1" 1:: yr:p3r.:eiof bt. Crook- Wine 1. 1 ir, 1 'u .u ii'ia yuur i5iimaa to it great w. ia . .r.;t.iiif unv "ill that 'flcah U h-.t I a tie I76J, or Kcrofuia m i.rtf n l'jri:i.iistr.i:is. tlasues ef v0 T 't, n irm. iicrr.j:::. Ilsoues cf the Liver, : UK! :f :ic r..ir, Ersptisti. Pintle, B;Ua. : u:, Sa-i S:ii. T.ccr iti eld Ccrei. oTi ItrV F- o,i on a uepraveri c t 'I"!"" "f t),e Hood, take tr. Crcck'i I ff? :-r-.r J Pcie Sect, it is e"on,U tT'i l '1'' 1 tol,lc preparations of i . - -y WM Mn.!.. W BU V 1 Cca- niined -. f . . f inf.ermade. Ceiuo year tlxl b.' IrvoneHotile. 6old by HrUiinita. rf I'rej.ared onlv 1 v 00 j1 CiirtSCSJSiCO.riytia.a r.owri. ia thp Imsi ilrAtivo THEIP ADYKRTISI?f"i;.AVe will insert I V S'l M.ll-i-ti I w . . . . . - "ami ShDrilor f.lr kl llnltuni -.. n-r w..t 111... 11.... . ' . .. r. ' "III' "ITK v 111 iusi -ii iiu-wiii -o-r Siv-iv rflHra. Send for a ''llist. A.l.lpn.sr.rn t ui lrrt t c. . ':cl'A-nts. No. -11 Park Eow, X. Tork. p Vies cf cur Age is Fraud! Wrrtlit!e. there are flvt honest Tatent even at thn rmiiJ r v. ,, , i .1., ',". 1 aren'" 1,,r n year" obtained at E" ""U rounel'lor-at-Law, ;j iypt. cor, wh, Wucbington. D. C. FRAGRANT APnur.-MW C ',l0Ta a"'1 " Vini1" of CToths nd ?'t,, "t U' iniury to the finest t :T w. v rwi, r.r. tij.,si Bar 'Zle ork, 40 La KaJle Kt. Culcago. BET an tuipi WEwin D... ,vwrw in o . ntTf' y.f:.0?'"'"'''" to sell our newnd CO., MaW,,y!;:ns- Ad,i-'es8 II. WA(j X EK T A... GliAHAVf. Snpinrr1,1 VI OATn Horsr CurriaKO f urtiish ilcs paid. H. Hhaw, Alfr.-d,Me. i 1. . 1 r ""p. n . Van t.-- J tiav, r-, f rV "." uccetRiuiiy treats Iww'fn' tronieand Acute Direa(ies. r-, . Newspaper Advertising. r-' W -"'hed i the imeVeVt of V , "1,ur,' Literature, 6:c. Every r'B.iiiir i I 1 ry I'ou who cont'midat8 Mai ,1 V "ook of Vreat ' cV.'r,t. ""7 on receiptor ... ' Oif'Uier With nH thncn hovin r-.o.io p. co- I'ul - Pitt-i, ,1 ,'k,Vow' New York. 1 . '1 Pa.) Lrrulrr. in 1t 1kbh r I "Ti I k i.t. .7t, " ' ' ' " '""ui- n ; Hie firm of f: T "k.!iu.. ""'hix i'Jterov-tlnn-Hn.t valiiat.U. r, ,1 11 7 'arirct and i..r a .77.:.. . i.nit..... 1 - al t Ilitcl ..7. "uinuruiK Art-u- rj i t - I,. '",1"' It to ' . .'.itcs, and we can cheerfully heatt thu '"ive it,..,i 'o,.,.'''.' niKuch a wuv: that is, 5 fc' amount of publicity u v ui iutijacT- PHANS' COURT SALE r'"ldnUr,.l VV. "'UAfr )f. AD?,iSTKA.TOH'S S NOTICE I LettJ-1 ' IUVIDII. Ev J Jf Y.'.-auul.1D,,iIriJ:,lon on the estate 01 ... . . . , . "'n5,q(.'Cll. r4'' ti-..,; . "r . v1 :?,nlrw tw i-, d.-c-d rros i i..!' . .,c ,,u 1 T 'xiersiifned, all r"111 lL 1-..... - ' to the said estate will leasa ",,,,: wil V a" u01 '' "iK claims ajtaiust 'Hfor ,, ' "i-eiii. iiiciii pioi.eny autheuti t.bni...-.lucnl- .1 AMI. ES MYERS. 7, 18TI.-4. Atlm'r. LAND FOIi SALE Th ter.nJ" I''for Pale on accommoda- l towKi 01 iliulx r Laud iB Ijn't s. R' oluef ven rnile north of Car. r!!aii.p;.'.i,,..Jr:Jct is covered with Poi.lar. t 7 "f a Sai 1 HI?1 1S Wlth'n one-fourth 'll,Ji call on or write t7 r iufor- fM.-tf -1 T JOHN J. WAIINEU, ruiT-Trr: - . 1. v v. , vainunu o., eauti UV AU Per6onB are hereby itnh?Ll".un.t Y: 1 Two Horse "'or Vou.L. 1 ,,lnnale "-ow and three fni" to a.K Cuttle : 1 f,Jow etc-' " tu" '-ue ,; wt.ai,! , li , ' I""";nted patrep, lately is-'"-'.J . .,; ht Vf.he best Aiiu-rk-an Ad ' Jr-- i I f u 1 ' r . Li Lr 1 V 1 nT the names, circula- '-!..;, . u .,'kI' l'olitieal and Familv Lv... tlierem',wnt'' o the un.lenilinied dl "'ffliM "i ,., ' Posed to Public Kale, on . p; on TiV.... . 1 townnliiji. Cambria couq- ?,, '( r, r day luo ,tu of Juue hj-.i i. ' 1 .i.'ii. p I, 1 1. .. 1 . i . j . . r,!tate r.f :. i : iii"wmr aescrinea to wit 'wJVr1' Nnthanif l Hughes died -1' j v- VXMVUiKlt HALF of a .. int-. boiiiiM ;, , Iu1Cu,tit township, Cambria r".nu u V,,li;Jil1U? of John W and '"'iif .s ,,, f IO, Acre and allowaucc. ? '" u'"iJ. an.TVi'K".,lulf of t,ie Purcha uion t?r(t, to,eL '"; glance iu oue year, with eec' bond., of Hi '.rt1 I'' "ortKae aud Jud- READY-MADE Thd Largest Stock; -tli FInc3t Gooda; tl Uho Newttt Styles; the Best Work- Greatett Va N le ty, at a every variety of style, susteble for and Youth from 16 to 20A JsL 6th Boys from 9 to 18, and Children from 5 to 9 years, a!! durable & strong, with spsckl reference to rou WoN iUM39. in this dm. Jtrtment our prices fire es tonlshinclv iaD!iihmentN A ?t3 GF PSTRT TRADE1 In Clothing, and we ctn assure our L friends from oh of town that thoy 9Q r.aed lock no fur A Ohsr thsn Osk Hail OurN for satisfectery CrukiiaX Trr Work! fsotory prioes. of U very Full stock ftH beslth&r&eUr. the year Easy rules for round. measurement, A orioet. &o.. sent and free to eny part of Jj i6th, America, end good fits O - mw and 6th Streets, PHILiADEIiPHIA. ri O Pail LOHETTO MARBLE WORKS, PRICES REDUCED! And Work Warranlrdl OXUMEXTS, Town Stones, Ilc kf.ac and TarleTofr. made of the finest Italian Marble and in style of workmanship not surpassed by any manufacturer. Give me a cafl before decidimr upou purchasing or ordertnsr work elsewhere. JAME WILKINSON. Joretto, April zT., mil.-ir. 1VTUSICI MUSICII The "Sisteks ok Ft. Joreph" will be prepared tOK'ive imons on ttiefiAM)" Mtl,uK(J.N orCABI ntr ukuas at auy time after Easter. to the SuperiorcsB, Bis- ter M. li.iRTgwi; or to Ker. tt. Cbai'ifea moderate. Kboburg, AprU 1, im.-f. C. Christt, 77IKST NATIONAL SADDLE AND iir . i,V , ' j; i-i-"" t-uiou nenooi Hon Wlirh St li. ... it . ' . . : t. , . . . ...ouuiH, 1 a. jn. (J IN r.l T,-.i.rtrr,. ., ,... u ...I ly..- r . LL, paired and all other work iu my line eiecu in the best manner, on tb ikorteat notice . re- ted bej toat Tuu.)ji tmWm. U-UtllJ ud iniTVTV rrllliroctrTnn . .... Bl,beriberereby announces himself as an nrp.raiu ior the lieiiiocratic nomination for tlie UmL1?? ? (;,,I'NTV Commissionkh, and pledges Iiims-lf. If nominated and elected, to discharge the duties of the oflice honestly and to the best Blacltlick Twp-i A pril 15, im.-W. HI IS A FREEMAN WHOM ebensburg, pctt's gtpartmenf. From the Lancaster Intelligencer.! AT PITTBTON. BT X. RORMAM GUX5I80M. During tho digatter at TitUton, McDermott, e En ei user of the Emaber atnd at i,u f duty, boisting th men from below, until his air was burned from Ida hd ;. ttKt from hi body, acd th flames had disabled hit engino. Docs hUtory record a higher heroism 7 Ah ! it wag grand ! n the midat of th flame and the smoke of tte Breaker. There stood McDermott, the lerer la hand Palm 1.1. I ,. , . ' - u's nu swurv dj nts Maker, ever 10 leave ui the iaat man had riseu ut from the fire and death of his prisoa. Standinc alone ! Brarelj and sternly, uemoTed at his duty ; 'Neath him the moan Of the victim, and round him the fire-fiends' wna beauty. No ! not alone, for a form there etood by him. arm, iut IL disin might not try him Past hia endurance God's anral was uM h!m Rafter and Frame-work and net-woik, and brace of the isreatcr. Crumbled and fell, and the breath of the Ma ker, esmed as destruction ( hfith nSm tt, 1.-11 Of the pit yawned ; and around him the fire billows swell Flamed from the depths of the perilous crater ! Still there he stood, while his courage roee greater Standing alone with his God and Creator. T?laekpnp.-1 art A mtmrA Scorched and disfigured, in suffering and glory, lie is enueared By the dread ordea! made deathless in story- Nobler than leader in battle or foray. Tear of the dead I Scorn for the men who for gain sold their broth ers 1 Into the hod Where vapor and fire damp disfigures and snioioer ; When all ia said. And the last prayer o'er the victim is given. fate me uai'K. picture, ana give thanks to iieaven, That one true man, all this foulness could leaven. TiXE LITTLE WHITE EIE. T was in trouble, beyond any doubt 1 was in trouble and hew to get out? 1 ll a little white lie," said the devil to me. leu a lie! .on, how dreadful! But what would it be If I should? though I never ehtll teH one," said 1. 'Don't be frightened," eaid he; "we won't call it a lie A few words in their way quite as good as the trutn, And for this one occasion, far better, for sooth. ' Rut my little white lie, when I told it, crew black! Then, oh! how could I hide it, or how get it DacK r For it Dever would do to be caught in a lie, For 'twas known that a very good woman wasl. I must manage in some way to keep it from sight: "Tell one more." said the devil;" 'twill make it all right." But my two grew to three and my three were lour. And my four lies gave riae to a dozen of more: Till I felt in my soul such a sense of dispraee, I had scarcely one friend 1 dared look in the face ; And at night to my room I went creeping up pt airs God is Truth! could I sleep without saying my prayers t By my fears and my conscience thus fallowed about. I was really half glad when the lie was found out; For it was it is always the way with a lie And all paid that a very bad woman was I. Good or bad, I have leatn'd one thing to be wise, And shun in the future all little white lies. Salts, rShetcfjcs, mttoUs,&t. TOE EMIGRANTS. A TALE OF CAMNE FIDELITY. "Don't father ; do let faithful Neptune go with us. He will be bo rxuch compa ny on board the ihip, and so little trouble. 1 11 give you every sixpence that I have been gathering to help to pay any expense he may be for bis passage, and never grudge the outlay. It will grieve me for many a day to come, if you destroy our old and trusty servant." It was in this way that Fanny Welsh, a little girl, the youngest daughter of a countryman of the principality, pleaded in behalf of their household dog a most sagacious Newfouodlander-'-on her learn ing that it wan decided the animal should be put to death immediately preceding the embarkation of the rustic family for a foreign shore. William Weigh and hia father before him, had farmed a considerable tract of land in North Wales, and like most of the natives in that part of Great Britain, was deeply attached to the place ot his birth. The lease by which the worthy man held the farm had, however, at length expired, when not only did the proprietor ask an exhorbitant rent for it, vastly greater by comparison than bad previous ly been paid, but an offer of the amount stated was made by an adventurer from a distant part of the kingdom ; the sura thus offered, in the judgment of all who were acquainted with tLe capa bilities of the soil, appearing to be out of all reason. Much to the regret of Wil liam Welsh and every one of his family, which was numerous, he could not com pete with the rash stranger, and had to submit to the removal from the endeared spot. He had in the course of his lease saved a little money ; jmt so much, in deed, after taking him and bis children THE TRUTH MASKS FREE, AND ALL pa., Saturday, out to Canada, as gave him the prospect of settling as a small farmer in that colo ny supposing that he husbanded his means in the most economical manner. According to this economical view, it was determined not to take with him across the peas his dog, a sagacious animal and a great favorite, but cow well advanced in years, every one of the number acqui escing in the resolution as a matter of propriety, if not obvious necessity, with the exception of little Fanny, a girl of some ten years of age, whose affection towards the faithful brute went beyond all pecuniary considerations. 4I think it will break my heart, father, if you put poor Neptune to death," said the weeping girl, as kbe saw her parent preparing to carry the dog's sentence into execution, by having him expeditiously drowned. 'Oh, spare him, spare him and when I grow big and able to earn wages. I'll serve you without asking any until you say that I have made up for all that the noble creature has cost you in taking him to our new home." "Fanny, my dear, it must not bo as you would have it with poor Neptune," answered the father, "although it pleaees me to hear you talk and plead as you have "done. The faithful creature, you; know is getting old ; it cannot be very i Jong before it will be an act of kindness to i him to put an end to his days, unleea he ' should happen to die suddenly of some ! natural death. In fact, I think it would be cruel rather thau otherwiss to take him to America with us, even although the expense of his passage were left oat of view ; a thing, however, which I cannot overlook when considering our straighten cd circumstances and my duty to my cbildrea, you yourself amougst the rest, Fanny. Neptune Is not like one of ua, for whom there is another world and an after life. He has not an account to give of deeds done on earth. He dies and per ishes forever ; and if that death be dealt him from proper motives, as a matter of prudence, and with sparing him all need lees alarm and pain, no wrong is done the poor brute. They say drowning is the easiest of deaths; and I'll just take him out to the lake, a'id having fattened a cloth around his neck with a stone in it, fling him from the top of one of the rocks at the side of the water, and he'll be dead in a few seconds." Fanny was obliged to yield, and silence her objections ; and this the more readily cn her father's quoting eome lines from his favorite poet, Cowper, a copy of whose works he possessed ; where that in structive and charming writer speaks of a needful act incurring no blame, but that he would not enter amongst his list of friends the man that wantonly set his foot upon the meanest worm. William Welsh proceeded to the fulfill ment of his purpose with his dog, this be ing immediately before his departure from his old farm with such of his goods and family as were to accompany him to the new world. It was as a work of painful necefthity that ha set about the matter, forcing himself to it by an effort of the will rather thau delegating the business, from a wish to save his own feelings, to any other person, who might, after all, buagle it, and cause tho poor brute neod lcsa suffering. With a heavy heart the worthy mau set forth towards the lake ; Neptune, according to his wont, being fain to go along with him, and showing his feeling on the occasion by scampering away in advance of hia master with a pioneer zeal. "IW brute said William Welsh to himself, on seeing the confiding animal conduct himself in his accustomed way, "ihou hast no notion of what is awaiting thee at my bands, which have Dever mis used thee 1 and as little canst thou ever know how it vexes me to put an end to thee. But it is only one of many griefs which I have at this crisis to bear. In deed, were it not but one of my trials, and alter all not by any means the chief of them, I ehould not be able to keep the stout heart for the painful performance that I actually have." The grave soliloquist bad now reached the side of tho small lake that lay amid the uplands of his late farm, and Neptune has Btrelched himself at his master's feet, as tbat master for a few seconds rumi nates upon the thing that is to be done ; considering, too, of the precise Rpot into which to fling tho animal. And now he has stooped to tie the picco of stuff aronnd the dog's neck, having placed within the sort of bag formed by the pendant part of the cloth a fitting weight of stone ; Nep tune all the while kindly licking the wor thy man's nand, as if in return for some understood piece of extraordinary tender-. nes of treatment. But what remains muBt be hurriedly accomplished, forbid ding any waste of flattery or fawning. Strength is put to the needful work ; Nep tune and the appendages to his neck are speedily lifted up, and as quickly tossed into the watery element at the foot of the little eminence upon which the farmer has taken his 6tand, and who has wheeled round the instant be was delivered of his charge, even before the dog has well reached the surface of the lake. He has wheeled round, and hurries away from the brink, that he may not be near the scene of the painful operation to which he has forced himself, yet consoled with the idea that the animal's work was done forever. and that very brief would be its suffer ings. He hurries away, and is pleased to soe that little Fanny has an ey after him, ARB SLATES BESlDB. june 17, i87i. for she is running to meet her father, and to learn how it has fared with him and the dog. "It is all over with the poor creature by this time, my dear I" says the worthy man. "I heard the plunge well enough ; although I refused my eves the fight of his sinking in the water. His life must have left him in a few seconds ; and cow let us neither think nor speak of the oc currence any more, especially as we have so many other things to concern us that are of far greater importance." "His lire must have lft him in a few seconds, father f" cried Fanny ; "and we are neither to think nor speak of the poor creature any more 1 Why, yonder comes Neptune, crouching toward us, with the cloth you took with yon in his mou!h !" The father stood still in amazement until the faithful brute came up to him, throwing itself down at bis feet in an im ploring attitude, and a much as saying, "What had I done to cauee joa to treat me td ? See, I have brought back the cloth that you tied around me, and have taken care tbat it should not be lost 1" "Poor brute!" ejaculated the fartaer, on seeing all this. "Thou shalt uot per ish by my bauds ; but shall go where I go, and live where I live 1" These were gladdening words to the affectionate Faucy. Away, with Nep tune led by her, she hastened to announce the reprieve that had been issued, and to tell of the wonderful escape of the faithful animal, in consequence, it was seen, of the stone's weight having caused the cloth into which it was put to burst, and thus to liberate the condemned dog, splendid swimmer that he was ; the pleasant oc currence being accepted by every member of the family as an encouraging token, and serving to lighten the sorrow with which they looked for the last time cu the place of their birth and up-bringing. Next day the emigrants were upon the face of the mighty deep, ploughing their way to a land of promise, the sagacious Neptune being the object of not a few othter caresses than those which little Fanny be6towed upon him. It was ob served that the head of the family paid more attention to the mute creature than he ever before had done, and also that this kindness .was joined to special favors to his youngest daughter. He was thank ful that the dog had been spared and sur vived : nor in the Traneatlantic Lome was he found to be unserviceable. But time sped ; aga gained upon this faithful house-keeper, as it did upon Wil liam Welsh, and death was at length to overtake both. Two years had elap?ed since the good man first Bet foot u;ioa the soil of Cauada. He and his offspring were now comfortably settled in their American habitation ; and the prospect of independence, though not of idleness or opulence, were theirs ; the father, al ready a widower, looking humbly yet trustingly forward to another and better world, beyond the grave. He sickened, and for weeks was bed-ridden : hia cher ished dos, as if endowed with some measure of human sympathy as well as foresight, every morning and evening seek ing to pay the good man a viBit, but never prolonging his stay so as to be troublesome. To meet the welcoming and extended hand; to respond as such creatures do to kindly wordfj and then to take its leave with a short lingering look thrown behind, was the uniform proce dure of the old domestic on each visit. William WaUh died ; nor from that time did Neptune ever evince a wish to go to the chamber where lay the remains of his late master. It looked as if his grief was too great to allow him to ap proach the body from which the spirit had fled that bad dealt so tonderly to the creature. From ths hour of the farmer's decease, to (hat in which the corpse was carried to its last reting-place, the saga cious brute refusing all food,hiding itself,it seemed, in a corner where it might mourn unnoticed and untroubled, yet rot uncar ed for by the affectionate Fanny. The worthy farmer had pitched upon a spot in the adjoining forest in which he wished to be buried, and had beeu at pains to enclose and lay it out in a man ner fitting for receiving the ashes of his decendants and his people. Many a time had he repaired thither to do the needed or appointed work of fitting the locality for its intended design, and always with Neptune for a companion. The day of the funeral arrived, and now the dog left his lair for silent mourning, in order to follow the corpse to the burying ground ; nor ever did a day pass, while the creature lived, that he was not to be found wend ing his way to and from the sacred spot ; the grave on each and all of these occa 6ions being Iain upon by the animal, 60 that the graes never failed to show ovi bence of the temporary bed. Three months had elapsed 6ince the death, when one morning it was ascer tained that Neptune had been missing ever since the forenoon of the preceding day, that being the time of his accustom ed journcyings to the burial spot. What was more natural than to seek the crea ture there? Nor can the reader have failed to have anticipated the statement, when it is told, that upon the grave of its late master the dog was found to have died. And let it not be deemed to have J been irreverent in Fanny Welsh, neither ' to be so in the writer of these simnle re- cordings, when it is added that, at the affectionate girl's suggestion, the lifeless creature also had its grave within the en 1 closure; the preparation of which had been conducted, an it were, under the sagacious brute's inspection. CAUGHT IT THE ACT. BY GLtNDOWKIt. "Whenever I see a rat-trnp," said Dick Waverley to me, as we pasaed a magnifi cent hardware store in Sixth avenue, in the show-window of which was displayed among other things, a rat-trap, "it re minds me of an incident that occurred when I wrj a clerk in a Binghnmpton dry goods store. The establishment had ouce beer successfully entered by burglars, who made the visit a very costly one to the owner of the goods. To prevent a repetition of such- visits, I was offered a slight increase in my ealary if I would agree to sleep ia the store at night. I was a bachelor then, and accepted the of fer, makiDg my couch on a cot bed ia a small cempartment in the rear cf the salesroom. "1 had occupied this room as a sleep ing chamber for thtee mouths without experiencing any incident worthy of note, when one night, some two hours after I had retired, I was awakened by hearing a slight raping sound. Hiding quietly in the bed, I listened attentively a few mo ments, and had no doubt that something unusual was about to occur. Noiselessly I arc9e from the bed, took my revolver from under the pillow, and in my bare feet crept in the direction whence the sound seemed to cone. "Oo tip-toe I cautiously entered the salesroom, and there the rasping sound was loud enough to indicate at once the very spot where the work was going on. It was at the door leading from the store to the cellar, whieh, by the way, was in fested with rats. .Sometimes the rats would make their way to the store, and to give them a fitti-ig reception a steel trap, properly baited, was nightly placed near the hole through which it was sup posed they entered. The bole was at the jamb of the door at the head of the cellar stairs, and the trap, with a chain about four feet long, waa there deposited invitingly open, and to save the vermiu the trouble of rambling further in queit of food. The chaiu was fastened to a staple fixed in the surbt.se, so that when a rtit was not instantly guillotined, and lingered long in the clulche? of the Fpikes which impaled him, he could not wriggle off to a corner wera the trap might not readily be found. "As I approached the door, I could see by the glare of the single gaslight winch we always kept burning at night, the point of a saw about four ittchct long, and not more tkaa two inches in width at its broadest part. This saw was being rapidly worked by some unseen power, and it was evident tht tho object was to make a hole large enough to ad mit a human hand, that it might with draw the strong bolt which prevented the openiog of the deor. "In a few moments I notieed the nar row blade bobbing iu and out. My first idea was to wait until the bolt was with drawn, and then boldly confront the burg lar, with my revolver cocked for instant usej Then, fearing that the m,n who was sawing might have accomplices who would not hesitate to commit murder to prevent capture, I was about to hasten to the front door, pass eut, and give the alarm, when I espied the rat-trap on the floor, and a novel idea at ouce suggested itself. "I was standing at the side of the door, having taken this position to screen my self, deeming it likely that the operator on the other side of the door might place his eye to the aperture he was making, to see if the coast were clear. "Cautiously lifting the trap, I held it in my left hand, with the revolvor ia my right, both ready for use. "liasp I rasp ! rasp ! The saw contin ued its mov meats, and as I peeped over (he side of the door-frame I could see that the instrument was rapidly making a circle, about four inches iu diameter. When the saw was drawn in' and a knife blade chipped off a small strip of the wood. "Then I saw one finger enter. The object was to seize the circular piece, aud prevent it from falling to the floor on the outside. 'The wood readily split, and the piece which was broken oft was carefully taken inside. Then another piece, and so on until the hole was perfect. 'Then I observed a human band, the fingers of which began to grope for the bolt. "Now for the trick, I thought, as I nervously extended my left hand, which held the trap, toward the aperture, but a little below it to prevent its being seen. 'Slowly the trap was moved, ready for a favorable opportunity to give the burglar's band a warm clasp. "The moment 1 saw the fingers extend ed I plungod the trap at them, and the hand entered to the wrist. "Click 1 The spring was touched, the trap sprung, and a human hand was im paled 1 The burglar was caught caught in the act I Ho on one side of the door and his captor on the other. "A groan of agony followed as the spikes pierced the man's flesh, and he at tempted to withdraw his band ; but the hole he had made, although large enough to admit the entrance of a man's band, was not of sufficient dimensious to permit the paseagoofa rat-trap. Terms, &x pe- year In advance NUMBER 20. "He groaned, and muttered terrible oaths, but his profanity and wai!in9 were useless. All his efforts to withdraw his hand proved unavailing. "Feeling assured that he was securely held in this uncumfortable position, I has tened to the street door, uulocked it, and shouted for assistance. An officer soon came, and when I had conducted him to the cellar stairs, I withdrew the b;.lt, opened the door, and discovered the cul prit who had to follow the door as it swung against the wall, tie wa a mau of about thirty-seven, heavily built, with short-cropped red hair, a face of villain ous aspect, and his features deeply indeni ted with small pox. Before taklns the trap from his hand, which bled profusely from five different ponctures, the officer searched his pockets, and found therein two Derringer pistols, a long dirk, and a number of burglar's tools. Having dis armed him, his hand was released" from the trap, and he was conducted to the police station. "It was afterward disvovered that he had entered the cellar from a window in the rear, having opened the shutters ia the same manner as he was attempting to practise when caught. "A trial followed some weeks laler, he was convicted and for five years became a pattern of propriety is a public institution, never leaving his own chamber unless with the consent of his keepers, and otherwise leading such au exemplary life that for the time mentioned, through compulsion, he pecame a reformed man. Whether his reformation continued after his release from prison I am unable to slate ; but it is very unlikely that he again tried to grope for a bolt in the dark, or jeopardize his liberty by taking the chances of being caught in the act ISufuRglc'a Elepbaut. The following we find In a Net York paper, but cannot say where it originated: Mr. Hufnagle purchased an elephant io India, aud brought it home under the care of a native keeper. The design was to teach him to do farm work. When the animal arrived, it was ascertained that he could not, cr would not, do such labor, and so he was put iu the stable of a country tavern, near New Hope, where be consumed euough sustenance to bank rupt a man of ordinary wealth. One day his keeper died suddenly, and nobody else knowing how to manure the elephant, it was found impossible to get him out of the stable. The landlord raved and swore, aud tore his hair about it, but there the elephant stuck, with the manifest intention of staying there till the day of judgment, and ot battering dowu the stable, unlet he was fed. At last the landlord tA thm daJ.onr vww V-V.-4tUV must be got rid of some how or other, if he had to be blown through the roof with gunpowder. So an effort was made to sell him, and a menagerie man was in duced to buy him for two thousand dol lars. This mau determined to bring that elephant right along with strategy. He got a car on the railroad track near by and, after fixing a bridge to it, he lined the floor with a bushel or two of apples, gingerbread, oranges, etc. ; then he mads a regular pathway of apples and cakes all the way from the stable to the car. It cost him two hundred dollars for bait'. The elephant followed the trail slowly, eating it up clean as he went. He went up on the platform over the bridge, and gorging himself all the time. Tho me nagerie man stood thero, expecting every minute he would go clear into the car, and finish the thing up ; but instead of this, the miserable beast deliberately stood stilL and with his trunk reached all over the car, and ate every solitary thing in it. Then he turned and swooped down the road at the rate of twelve miles an hour. The landlord, meanwbilo, was so glad to get rid of the beast, that he asked in all hands to take something in honor of the event The party were just putting their glasses to their lips when a smash was heard at the bara-yard gate, and a thundering crash indicated that the stable door was knocked into diminutive flinters. The crowd rushed out. and there was that very same elephant in the very same old place! The landlord was so mad that he could not ewear with sufficient vigor to satisfy his fielings ; so he got the crowd to listen to him while he read sixteen chapters of Horace Greeley's 'Table Talk" out loud. This relieved him for the moment, but the next morning Hufnagle's elephant was found dead, and there was thought to be some connection between this cir cumstance and the fact that the laudlord was seen rolling a barrel of rat poison up an adjacent hill upon the previous night A New Orleans colored man heard of another nigger whogot several thousand dollars for being: put off a railroad train, so he thought be would try it. He got on the ladies' car, expecting that the con ductor would come along and throw him out. Before the conductor came in the darkey pat his heud out of the wiudow, when a bridge came along and cut his head off. He didn't get a cent from the company. A Michigan doctor, who was arrested because his patient died, has been acquit ted, on the ground that be did the best he could, giving all the medicines he knew the name of. He put in the plea that he never insured a case when be took it.
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