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11 A. BrriHE, Editor and Fubllfclier.
HE IS A FREEMAN "WHOM THE TRUTH MAKES FREE, AND ALL ARE SLAVES BESIDE
Terms, 1 per year In advance:
VOLUME 5.
E BENS BURG, PA., SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 1J, 1871.
NUMBER 40.
IJ1 IIOMAS C A K L A N V,
WHOLESALE DEALER IN
GROCERIES i QUEENSWARE.
WOOD AND WILLOW WARE,
STATIONERY AND NOTIONS,
I. SALT. SMI CUBED MEATS.
DACOX, FLOUR,
FEED AND PROVISIONS,
1323 Eleventh Avenue.
Between 13th and 14th Sts., Altocna.
All such poods as Spices, Brushes. "Wood
,j j Willow Ware, Shoe Blacking and Stution
erv will he sold from manufacturer's printed
price lists, an J all ether gooda in nj line at
PhiMelphia, EsHinors, Cincinnati and Pitts
barph current prices. To dealers 1 present the
peculiar advantagi cf saving tbem all freight
&nJ drayape, as they are not required to pay
freights 'from ih3 -principal cities and no dray
;t charges cr; mads. Dealers may rest aa
lured that my vqoo-Js are of the bnst quality and
by prices as moderate as cry rat3. By doing
a fair, upripht business, and by promptly and
(jii.-factorily filling ail orders, I hopa to merit
the patronage of retail dealers and others in
Cambria county and eleewherj. Orders re
frectfullv solicited and satisfaction I'lisrsnteed
ii all cases. TH01IA3 OAKLAND.
AUoona, July 23, l?G9.-tf.
JEW FIRM ISi OLD STAND
GOOD GOODS & GREAT BARGAINS
rOKTME READi' ASil I
HU'TNT, ticcomo proprietor? of the STORE
UnoM amt STOCK OF GOODS recontlv bc
l nirinifto H. . Shoemaker & Co., n:id having'
lurihiised jui additional
STOCK OF NEW GOODS
IK GREAT VAHIETY,
Teare now prepared to suppl3- all the old cus
tfincrs of the late firm, and as many new ones
as wiil patronize ur, with Goods of all kinds at
PRICES FULLY AS LOW
a? any other merchant in or out of Cambria
o unty. it is our intention to keep our Store
.Mist,int!ysto'-ke.l with a full and well selected
a--..rtni.-iit cf DRY GOODS, D it ESS GOODS,
FAXCV GOODS, NOTIONS, IM I S, SHOES,
HATS.CAl'S. CL (THING, C AHl'ETS. Fl'Jt X I
T( l:F.. OIL CLOTHS, yt'EKXSW'AliVi GKO-
T.KIKS, V'r.Ol'H, BACON", FISH. SALT, TO
HA OM'IGARS. and all other articles, larire
or snia.ll, that tu.i bo found in any store of like
sliaractcr in the county ; and as we intend to
ELL EXCU'SIVELY for CASH
Oil COUNTRY PUODICE,
and make no bad debts, we feel sure that our
stock and our prices will not only secure but
retain for us a liberal share of patronage.
EARLY VISITS FROM ONE AND ALL
are respectfully solicited, and if we fail to ren-'If-r
ent ire satisfaction, both as regards the qual
ity of our u-ood j and the price.-, nsked for them,
it will c ertainly beiio fault of the new firm at
the old stand of Shoemaker Co., High street.
I"ti t forg-et to c-ail and wa'il not forget to give
you full value for j our nionev.
Pl v . 'EKS & LLOYD.
J-bensburt?, Jan. 23, ISTl.-tf.
W OOD, MORRELL, & CO.,
WASHINGTON STREET,
Near Pa. R. R. Depot, Johnstown, Pa.,
Wholesale and Eeiail Dealers in '
mil m mil.
MILLIXERY GOODS,
HARDWARE.
QUEENSWARE.
BOOTS AND SHOES,
II ATS AND CAPS.
rnn. IKON AND NAILS,
carpets and oil cloths,
rrir, HEADY-MADE CLOTHING,
GLASS WARE. YELLOW WARE.
WOODEN AND WILLOW WARE,
PROVISIONS and FEED, ALL KINDS,
TWher with all manner of Western Produce,
ruixFLOUR- BACON, FISH, SALT,
CAKBON OIL, &c, 4c.
fs wholesale and retail rders solicited
D promptly filled on the shortest notice and
ost reasonable terms.
WOOD, MORRELL k CO.
LOOK WELL TO YOUR
boots and shoes
For Men's and Boy Wear.
The undersigned respectfully informs hia nu
merous customers and the public generally that
RimV'repared t0 manufacture BOOTS and
onoEb of any desired Bize or quality, from
the finest French calfskin boots to" the coarsest
orogan. in the tert best v akkvb r,., 0v..
wort006; anK-1 8 modeate prices as like
work can be obtained anywhere.
tmv8!In-&Te W0rn Boota and S1'03 made
6 nl.:.: JJt and be convinced.
w i .iuK ui isoots and Shoes attended
to promptly and in a workmanlike manner
1 hankful for past favors I feel confident that
j v. .v-, . commend me to a con
tinuance and increase of the same.
JOHN D. THOM A5
Ebensburg. April 28, 18C9. xavyiAS-
Tames j. oatman. isr. n
. tenders his professional eervicesas Phv'
-aU ttUu ourgeon to tne citizens of Carroll
ycwn and vicinity. Ofiice in rear of build
'" OOeilTMOrl Kit t T . .
VJ x.uuti uc va. as a siore.
'gnt calls can be made at his residence, one
south of A. Uaug's tin and hardware
May 9, 1867.
1 lOlfD & CO., IlankerN,
p . , Ebeksbubq, Pa.
o Sllver Government Loans, and
'er Securities, bought and sold. Interest
owed on Time deposits. Collections made
all accessible points in the United States
general Ranking business transacted
yiLLlAM KITTELL, Attobhet
ow -fe street. jan.20.-tf .
ki iuni'
Ti cl7 EILIAE1.2 EICrRIB?TIClT;la tio eotatry;!
mm m mm
IN VALUABLE GIFTS!
TO BE DISTRIBUTED IN
Xj. 3Z
To bo drawn Monday, ov. 27, 1871.
Two Grand Capitals of
$5,000 each in Greenbacks I
Two Prizes $1,0005 f ffg
Five Prizes $500 f
Ten Prizes $100
WHOLE NUMBER OF CASH GIFTS. 1,0001
EcrsB Hi B:S7, vith S:lTsr-ajr:.ei Earscsa. vsTtl S3t3.
One Fine-tcnai Ro evvcod Piano, worth $500 I
SHI TAMIL? C2THTS l:zr.I23, WC2TE S1C0 EA03 !
X'iee llmsvy taxci HnU Hautinr) W atches fijul
llrartj iioltl Chain, icorth IfCiOO each !
Five G;!4 Aneri:a!i Hinf.2 VTi'.choj, - worth $125 sach.
TSlT.LAIIiS' 52iS SIIITS VTATCEIS. wor.h S1C0 each I
dtX)Gvltan'l Siircr Jrrr Jluhtimj Ulitclics(in all)
worth from Sm2l) tit each.
jndfes' Oold Lcontine i.'haina, fient's fiold Vest
Chains, Silver-plated Castors, Solid Silver and
Double Plated Table and Tea Spoons, Ivory
Ifandied Dinner Knives, Silver-plated Dinner
Forks, Silver Vest Chains, Photograph Alliums,
Ladies' Gold Breastpins and Kar-rinjrs. Gent's
Gold Ltreastpins, Shirt Studs A: Sleeve ISuttons,
Finer-rinjrs, Gold Pens, (silver-extension.) Sec.
TuIBsnt3r Sifts, 6.000. Ticiets limited ts 60 000.
ACJEXTS WASTED to. Sell TlrlcetK. to
wlioisi I.i:ei nl t'reiui'.iiijs will I'kIvcei.
Sixr.T.E Tickets 1; Six Tickets ; Twelve
Tickkts HO ; Twesi Y-nvE Tickets ?20.
Circulars contalnlni? a full list of prizes, a de
scription of the manner of drawintr, and other
information in reference to the Distribution,
will be sent to any one ordering thcui. All let
ters must be addressed to
office, I,. 1j. SINE. Itox S6.
1U n. Mil St., Cincinnati, O.
JMPBOYE Y O U It SIGHT
BY TIIE USE OF
i i ir i nn
fin fifiiiiiif
Manufactory at Utica, N. Y.
LEFMON &, IV1URRAY,
Wholesale atid Retail Dealers in
DRUGS, MEDICINES, CHEMICALS,
FA 2VCT AXD TOILET ARTICLES,
Eooks, Stationery, Jewelut, &c, &c.
EDESSBIRC, IA.,
are appointed Agents for the sale of the above
CELEBRATED SPECTACLES.
Persons wearin Glasses, or those in need of
them, will do well to call, in evcrti cae xrc uuar-
anteit to rtiit the sirlit iierfrcthf.
JU 'l.DOL,fc;itt DMrLU Y. ED. 10-T.-ly.
LADIES' FANCY FURS!
JOHN FAREIRA
713 A roll .St.,
Middle of the Hloek,
between Tth & sth
Sts., South Side,
PHILADELPHIA,
Importer, Manufac
turer and Dealer
in ail kinds and
; quality of
: FAXJtfFLTRS
I For Latlie' a ml Chil-
ilren'H Wear.
0m
z4 Ilavinfi: imported a
very larjfcainl splen
did assortment of h11
the different kinds of Furs from first hands in
Europe, and have had them made up by the
most skillful workmen, would respectfully in
vite the readers of this paper to call and exam
ine his very larire and beautiful assortment of
Fanry Fur fur Isi'Me and Cliihlren. 1 am deter
mined to sell at as low prices ami other re
spectable House in this city. All Fiir warrant
ed. No misrepresentation to effect xalra.
jnirx fa it fir a.
Oct.21.-3m. 713 Alien Sthket, Pihlad'a.
KEYSTONE BOLT WORKS.
HUBLEY, ADAMS & CO.,
No. 5 MARKET Street,
PITTSBURGH, PA.,
MANUFACTURERS O T
CARRIAGE AND TIRE BOLTf,
PLOW AND MACHINE ROLTS,
NORWAY CARRIAGE BOLTS,
BRIDGE AND ROOF ROLTS,
SCREW HOOK HINGES,
9-14.3m.3 WAGON ROX STRAPS.
0 1 1 EKIFF'S SALE V,y virtue of sun.
dry writs of Vend. Erjion and Fieri Facia
Issued out of the Court of Common Pleas of
Cumbria county, and to me directed, there will
I to r v - 1 ) i i . I ; 4-" . . 1 n. i s. ww
-' - I 'y- vj a. ui'iiu oil it:, U tf lliu lUUIl J 1()UU
in i!.benfiburjr, on Tukhuav, the iih dav of l'o-
Wviikti, . i. v . . . 1 ' . . I . i. . 1 r i. .
Iveal Estate, to wit : All the ri? ht, title and in
terest of Mary Isenbrode, of, in and to a lot of
jrround situate in Carrolltown borough, Cam
bria count)-, fronting on an alley on the north,
adjoining lotsof Dominic Ekt, James C.Easly
nl trancis Ruck on the west, lot of Lawrence
benroth on the south, und lot of Philip Glosser
? i Cast' having thereon erected a two story
Plunk, house, now in the oeeupanev of Mary
isenbrode. Taken in execution and to be sold
v t&o.8111 of. Jo,h" liutk & Co- use of John
in bear. Ian ct, al.
Rhoripp.orvrr BOX ACKER, Sheriff.
Sheriff 8 Office, Ebcnsburg, Oct. 2l ls71.-4t.
AUDITOR'S NOTICE! John F.
rm. rif? Vlt- Panfc" Reed and Sarah Reed
drt CStek. ffi? Pot'nTK ;
K.otis hereby given that the undersigned
will sit for the purpose of the above appomt
ment,at bis ofiice in the UoroiiKh of Joh,iV, lJ,
nrrlilay, the 3d of SoiftrHe at
1 o . lock, p. m., when and where all parties' in
teretted may attend if thev see proper
T,a. HORACE ROSE, Auditor
Johnstown, Oct. 21, 1871.-4t.
J S. OGDEN, Justice ok tiik. Pkace,
6fliA mm
Gift m
Original ottrj.
'Iltl'lMGANG !"
"Heimjrang !" so the German people
Whisper when they hear the bell
Tolling from some grey old steeple.
Death's familiar tale to tell ;
When they hear the organ's surges
Swelling out from chapel dome,
And the singers chanting dirges
"Heimgang I" he is going home 1
"Heimifaiis 1" quaint and tender saying
In the grand old German long-ue,
That hath shaped Melancthon'3 praying
And the hymns that Hayden cung.
Blessed be our loving Maker !
That, vrheru'e'r our feet may roam,
f till we journey towards "God's Acre"
"Heimgang !"' alwaj-3 going ho-ne I
"Ileiragang!" day is short, my brother,
And its light will Soon be o'or ;
Night is waiting, lil:e tur mother
Sitting at the sunset door.
0er the dust of silent sieepers,
Toward the church-yard's broken loam,
Wends the long, long train of weepers
"Heimgang 1" they are s-oin-j home !
"Heimgang !" we are all so wc-aty,
And the willows as they wave,
Sof tiy sighing, sweetly dreary,
Voo us to the tranquil grave.
Where the Goklen Rowl is broken,
AVita its dregs and with its foam.
And the tender words are spoken,
"Heimgang !" we are going home!
Pittsburgh, October, 1871.
n!es, Slutcjjfs, itf ebofts, c.
IHAltlXC IT ET.
I am an animal painter. I have stud
ied my art in nearly every menagerie in
the country, aud bo have come ia contact
with 6trange people, and have seen un
common Eights ; and thus it was that, in
order to draw at my leisure some Dewly
arrived creatures with the wildness of the
desert and jungle still within them, I joined
a traveling company for the summer, and
eo beheld the thrilling scene I hern record.
The owner of the show was a good
hearted fioui of the rolling stone sort, who
never gathered as much moss as he de
served, and yet allowed no fungus of
funds to interfere with social fellowship
or a kindly action. Consequently the
people about him worked with a friendly
will, and except during the necessary jour
neying and labor there were generally
jolly times among the employee of the
Grand Unrivaled Cosmopolitan Menage
rie. There was only oie man, who never
larked and never sang, never juked and
never grumbled ; who. always silent with
out being surly, took his share of things
to do, and seemed to set himself apart
from his comrades in sheer loneliness of
spirit that shirked no toil and yielded no
confidence. Gradually it fell upon him,
us from his own choice, to attend the
cages, and to peiform all the jobs that
the boldest sometimes shrink from as dan
gerous, though he showed no signs of
fear, and evinced no distaste of his excep
tional employment. I watched him often
as he busied himself about the beasts, and
had to admire in .'his common looking and
uncultivated man the unconscious coolness
and courage, with which he accomplished
his 6elf appropriated tasks. At length
my curiosity concerning him was sulli
ciently excited to cause me to ask Mr.
Kingsley, the proprietor of the menagerie,
if he knew auything more of him than
what appeared on his everyday surface.
Mr. Kingsley hesitated a moment be
fore he answered, and then slowly said :
"I am rather sorry you questioned me
about Quiet Hill that's what the men
call iiini, you know for no one else has
cared to guess that there may be more
connected with him than just the business
he rcems to belong to ; and of all the folks
in this caravansary he and I are the only
ones that know, what he was before he
came here ; and if I tell you, it is just be
cause you see the man's a man for a' that,
and because 1 know you'll keep the secret.
I don't suppose you remember, as the
papers are so full of murders now-a-dayPj
one that was committed five years ago in
the little country town of C . Not a
cold-blooded atrocity, thongh, but the re
sult of jealousy, provocation and liquor,
and not altogether unjustifiable, cither.
Uill was the chap that did it, and only
escaped hanging through having a smart
lawyer, and got olF in about the same way
that 'cot proven' sets a man free after a
Scotch trial. But the people where he
lived would have nothing to do with him)
and he staid among them like an outlaw,
for be had neither the money nor chance
to go away, and could scarcely get a
stroke of work that would earn his daily
bread. I was head of a small circus then
not such a stunning concern as this on
hand now ; and when we put up the tent
for a single day at C this Hill watch
ed an opportunity to get hold of me alone,
when no ono else could notice him, and
told me hi3 whole story, begging me to
give him something to do to keep him
from starving and suicidt. He had such
a hunted-down and woe begone look that
I couldn't help pitying the poor fellow ;
and though I wasn't very able to take on
another soul just then, 1 gave him what
change 1 could rpare, and bade him slip
off to the next place and join us there, so
that the rest of my men shouldn't know
anything about hia history, and chaff him
about his past for they are a rough lot
sometimes, and not over particular about
hurting, feeling in pport or spite. And so
he has been along with, me .ever since. I
have had hold of several ventures besides
that and thif, but make or fail, pay or
put off, Hill has stuck by me, trusty
through all. There ia real grit, as fVsll
a use in him, and I have seen it sharply
tried more than once, and I have never
been sorry I gave him a helping hand ia
his need. Hut it often seems to me
though he never speaks of it that he al
ways thinks ho is serving out his time for
that old affair by taking up the hardest
things he can find to do ; for I do believe
he has on his mind some rude idea of
personal atonement for the blood he shed,
and now you know ell I have to tell Do
not let it speak out of your eyes to him,
even though jour tongue ain't likely to
let it slip.
I had no occasion to guard my??lf
thus, for, now that I knew his story, it
was plain to me from his face that Quiet
Hill had suffered ; and I have always held
the doctrine that where- a sin is thorough
ly repented of, men should allow to die
out of remembrance that which the good
God forgives ; and so, after a silent fash
ion, he and I became rather fiiendly. I
talked to him, and mads him talk some
also about the creatures in his charge. I
praised him a little onca or twice, and
saw the daik blood sweep up to his brow
like a gill's blush and r.fter a while, when
he had leisure, ha would come and sit
near me, whn9 I was sketchins, and taka
cuiious but wordless note of mv work,
and occasionally slly suggest to me shaht
points that caused me to wonder at his
close and quick observation. Mr. Kings
ley had always a cheery something to say
to hitn ; and as I look back now I am
glad to think that Hill teemed to take un
usual comfort, as time went on, out of
his distant companionship with us two.
The season had been extremely hot,
and Augu3t fairly biased with the fierce,
dry heat of a long drought. It was one
of those scorching, electric kind of days
that make man feel listless, and beast
reBtless and wicked to deal with, that we
halted in the suburbs of a growing city,and
spread the canvas for an afternoon exhi
bition. The big Bengal tigress had been
unusually uneasy all the morning; when
lyinj prone on the floor of her cage, she
lashed her powerful tail, and panted out
Iotv, ominous growls as if the bloodthirsty
spirit of her lost liberty was angrily astir;
and she would start up with a sudden
bound that shook her prison, and impa
tiently pace its narrow limits, with yellow
eyes all aflame; and snarling lip drawn up
over the strong and hungry looking teeth;
and once or twice she rolled herself against
the thick wires, and caught them in her
great claws as she longed to tear the re
sisting bars from their secured sockets
Hill kept careful watch on her antics, and
1 heard him say to himself, "There'll be
trouble with that vixen." Hut the rest
of the collection were feverish and fretful,
too, and between furnishing them all with
fresh drinks, and throwing water on some
to cool them off, he had quite as much as
he could do before the hour fixed for the
performance, without devoting especial at
tention to any one animal.
There was a crowded audience from
far and near ; whole families, from the
father down to the babe in arm?, were
ranged on the hard benches to enjoy the
acting elephants and the precocious ponies
There was even an extraordinary number
of children, for a thriving Sunday school
had entered early, and noisily secured
nearly all the front seats, and delighted
anticipation shone on rows o! chubby and
eager countenances. Peanut boys drove a
heavy trade, and the venders of mugs of
mead had a very profitable and active
time ; and all was going on merry as a
marriage bell, in the ring and out of it,
when I suddenly became aware that some
thing serious was the matter, for I saw
Hill slip quickly from behind the cage of
the still fidgeting tigress and come to a
statuesque stand in full front of the amused
people, who scarcely observed him, amidst
a round of uproarious applause ; but he
was in his shirt sleeves, and deadly pale,
as well he might be, having just discov
ered that the mighty beast beside him
bad, by some unnoticed frantic effort, so
loosened the structure of ber cage, that
her next wrathful movement would ren
der it fe .i fully unsafe. There was not a
minute to be lost in the creature's evident
ly excited condition, further aggravated by
the sounds of the band arid tormenting
attacks of exasperating flies ; and Bill bad
rushed out in order to look for Mr. Kings
ley among the audience, where he usually
sat, to tell him to dismiss the crowd as
rapidiy and quietly a3 possible, as not
knowing what instant necessary power of
protection would be past ; but not seeing
him at the moment in his accustomed
place, Hill scarcely hesitated at the re
sponsibility of announcing the danger him
self; but before his slow speech could be
framed into words that could warn and
not too severely alarm, it wa3 too late.
The awful animal, crouching wearily
in a corner of its shattered inclosure, gave
one abrupt vault, and, swift as lightning,
amidst the startled shrieks of the terror
stricken throng, dashed into the open space
before the encircling seats. For a second
it stood still there, as though dazed by
its freedom, while the struggling mass of
scared humanity, with scarce a regard for
life or limb for each other, fled in frenzied
haste and fright. Hut just as she had
fathered herself up for a spring our Quiet
' Hill made a simultaneous leap, and land-
i square upon her bristling back, and
hit muscular arms clasped tight around
her swelling neck, and hid legs wound
close around the lithe acd outstretched
j loins. Dismayed by this unexpected ob-
struction, for the space of a breath or two
ihe tigress stood at bay, and then, with a
horrible roar, rol.ed over and over in the
ring. We could hear Hill's bones break
beneath her appalling efforts to dislodge
him, for a sudden silence fell upon the
selfish crowd, that swayed aside from
flight to watch this shocking contest be
tween undaunted man and untamed brute.
In vain she turned and twisted, reared
and plunged ; Hill held fast, though the
blood poured from his mouth r.nd blinded
the beast's sight held fast with the grip
of evei lasting fate, till Mr. Kingsley,
snatching a loaded pistol from a trembling
ruffian at his side, who had just threaten
ed with it sorart woman in his way of
escape, stretched his firm hand, and sent
a bullet slraight into the savage creature's
brain. One sharp convulsion of the h vy
frame, one final heaving of the burdened
back, and Ehe lay still at last, with Quie:
Hill beneath her crushina weight. Ten
der hands lifted him, and bore his sense
less body to the nearest comfortable place,
and more than one strong man dropped
unshamed tears over the maimed comrade,
who bad so gallantly sacrificed his own
life for others ; for, if not companionable
Bill had done many a kindly deed for his
associates iu his own obtrusive way, that,
when his hour of trial came, the roughest
remembered. Turn by turn we watched
by him, but wc knew that nothing more
could be done for him in this world.
Even in his agony he was so grateful for
the interest manifested that it seemed, as
if he wondered that any had cared for
him, and it was touching to hear him gasp
out between his throes of anguish, "how
good we all were to him !"
Hut the end came soon. The doctor
told bim, and he heard it calmly and bore
it bravely. Mr. Kingsley and I were be
side him a few moments after, when he
turned to the former and earnestly said :
"I think I have made it even, sir."
"What, Hill ?"
"Why, you know,- sir, I took a life ;
and I reckon I saved one the other day,
didn't I ?"
Mr. Kingsley took the cold hand in
both of his own. "Yes, indeed, Hill ;
many more than one, perhaps, and gave
yours, too!"
'Then yon think it's even V
"Yes, Bill, I do."
'And do you believe that lie, tile great
Judje, who knows all things, will hold it
even, too ?"
. "Yes, Hill, I do think so ; for be is full
of mercy and loving kindness."
"Hut he is just, too," murmured the
dying voice ; "fori heard a preacher once
say He wanted an, eye for an eye, a tooth
for a tooth, and then I knew I must some
how give Him a life for the one I slew,
and I've always been lookin' out for the
chance. It was Ion : c-comin; but I got
it at last ; and I thank him for lettiri' me
make it even "
Mr. Kings ey was crying like a child.
"My good old Hill," "he said, "I am so
sorry to lose you. You have been a faith
ful servant, and I shall miss you more
than I can say."
A glad light flashed in the dim eyes,
and, in spite o. the exquisite pain of every
movement, he made one supreme effort,
and lilted Mr. Kingsley s hand to his
white lips.
"God bless you, 6ir!" he gasped out.
"You took me, when all the world kicked
mo out, and you've never given me a
mean woid. God bless you ! you're all
in life I'm loath to leave !" Then he lay
silent for a little while, and we thought
he was asleep, and would pass away so ;
but suddenly he was looking at us wide
awake, and spoke out firm and clear :
"And there was such a lot of little uns
that day, too ! It's all right 1 1 know
I've made it even !"
And then the peace of death settled
down on the palo face of Quiet Dill.
Harpers WntlJy.
Hannah on the Kail. There is a
station on the Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne
and Chicago railroad called Hanna, in
honor of a deceased citizen of Fort
Wayne. A train stopped there the other
day, and the brakeman, after the manner
of his class, thrust his head inside the
door and called out "Hanna," loud and
long. A young lady, probably endowed
with the poetic appellation of Hannah;
supposing he vas addressing her, and
shocked at his familiarity on so short ac
quaintance, frowned like a thunder cloud,
and retorted, "Shut your mouth !" He
shut.
It is reported that Horace Greeley has
sot into a mus3 with a Texas editor. It
appears that in an agricultural es3ay on
tobacco, Mr. Greeley asserts that fine-cut
will not ripen well unlets the tin-foil is
stripped from the growing buds early in
the spring, and that plug tobacco ought
to be knocked off the trees with clubs,
instead of being picked by hand. This,
the Telas editor says, is nonsense.
Josh Hillings says : "Most men con
cede that it looks foolish to see a boy
dragging a heavy sled up bill for the fleet
in' pleasure of ridin down again. Hut it
appears to me that the boy is a sage by
the side of a young man who works hard
all the week, and drinks up hia wages on
Saturday night."
The way to keep your silk umbrella
lend your cotton one.
How to Get a Rertli In a Sleep-
Ing Car.
I never left a depot yet that somebody
was not pat in my care. I don't knot?
how this is ; I suppose it is something in
my countenance-, if I knew what, I would
have it extracted. I don't like having
unproteclec! females and school boys and
girls tu ned ovar to me. It is a little hard
on a man. And what is the good of it?
Nobody needs protection; if any one does,
it is a berevolenfi goou-Iooking, innocen!
sort of a man such as the writer of this
I was reminded of this by an adven
ture that happened to me (he other night
in New York, I was about leaving on
the nine o'clock train for Washington,
when a man who was in s?arch of me ap
proached. I knew ha was in search of
me. I e was in search of some respect
able, benevolent individual to put a wo
man under his care And he did- She
happened to be rather good looking, ami
I didn't object in a violent way but I was
neither very g ceful nor g rcious over
the compliment. When I came to secure
a section in the sleeping car, 1 found that
a delegation of pious people was going to
Washington on some charitable business
and had taken nearly all the berths. I
secured two r.t least I thought I had
and marched my female with her two
carpet sacks, strap tchel, a mocking
bird, and a silk umbrell." with a water
proof and two shawls done up In straps,
into 1G1. When we arrived inside, I
learned for the first lime that my unpro
tected female could not abide the sleeping
cars. She said she felt lil.e suffocating,
and I wished secretly that she would suf
focate ; but when we came to occupy our
berths I made two disagreeable discover
ies. The first, that the tickets called for
the same berth; the other, that this bcf:h
was the upper one. My female friend
said positively that she could not g?t into
that berth. I informed her that it was
her only chance to Eleep, and she told me
that she would rat her sit up. I then gave
her the further information that that Was
all very well, but in a si epln car there
was no place to sit except on a wash basin,
and that I thought would be rather incon
venient. At last, with the aid of a step
ladder, the steward and two pious old
pumps, my unprotected female was boost
ed into her roost and the curtains closed
over ber for the night.
Then came the question a3 to what was
to become of the undersigned. I consult
ed the conductor and the steward, and had
the satisfaction of hearing the fact stated
that if I had told them earlier the blunder
might have, been remedied. Hut ns it
was tho pious delegation had retired for
the night and all the berths were occu
pied. The conductor, however, told me
he would try and make some arrange
ment, and then went off about his busi
ness. A drunken man had been captured en
the platform as we started, whe e he was
found addressing the stars in a vociferous
way, the sleeping car ticket fished out of
his pocket, and the inebria ed fellow
chucked into an upper berth. I was lean
ing against the washstand of the car in a
very melancholy way some time after,
when this intoxicated fellow stuck his
head out and addressing me, said :
"I would like to have a drink."
"Water ?" said I.
"No, darn water ; I want some whis
ky ; I am as dry as a chip."
"Well," I responded, "I am sorry to
say that I have none about me."
"Ain't you the conductor !"
"No," I responded, "I don't believe I
am."
"Nor do I. If you were the conductor
you would have something to drink.--Where
is the conductor
I told him he was in the net car.
"Well," said he. "I have a great mind
to get up and hustle round till I get a
drink."
"My christian friend' I said, "there is
notltin" in the constitution nor in the six
teenth amendment that prohibits you from
getting up and bunting a drink if you
want it." . "
Whereupon the inebriated individual
rolled out of the berth. He rolled into
several others and was promptly ejected ;
and at last, getting his legs, disappeared
at the further end of the car.
I took the situation at a giance. Here
was a berth vacated. Above it was a
white hat. I immediately removed that
while hat. I carried it further along and
put it over a christian association who
was lost in the sleep of innocence and
peace4 and then, returning, I ensconsed
myself in a berth vacated by a man who
had a constitutional right to a drink.
I was dropping into a slumber, for I
always sleep on a car devoted to that bus
iness and invented by Mr. Pullman ; the
motion has the same effect upon my bfatn
that rocking has upon a child, and I not
only sleep easily, but profoundly. In a
few seconds I should have been beyond
all disturbances, but it happened I was
awakened out of my first wink by a row
in an adjoining section. There seemed to
be a pitched battle going on between ono
of the delegates and a gentleman who
claimed the berth to be the one he had
just vacated. I heard him say "Now get
out of that ;" and he called ihe eood man
the offspring of a female dog, adding there
to some very profound language. The
conductor caine to the rescue of the weary
delegate, and when the man called atten
tion to the fact of the whito haf j he puz
aletJ bim sorely by showing him two or
three white hats further along in the same
car. At this the inebriate, passenger de
sisted, but as soon as the conductor's back
was turned renewed the fight with the next
white hat, insisting just as positively that
that was his berth and with the same pro
found and violent language and scuffle.
He was repulsed only to begin again, and
he kept fighting these eood Christian gen
tlemen who wre so unfortunate a to have
white hats, until I fell asleep and dreamed
till morning of my earlier youth of the
church not round the corner, but in tho
glen, where the forest trees brushed against
the windows, and the sunlight came down
as if in response to the prayers of the beaui
tiful maidens, dignified matrons and snowy
headed fathers of the larid. I only awokfj
when entering the sinful city of Washing
ton. Ddn Ptatt.
TIIE SEA CAPTAJX'S DREAM.
The discovery recently of :be mysteri
ous trunk containing the body of the unfor
. ir." e Miss liowlsby brings to mind tho
murder of Adams by Colt, at Hroadway
and Chambers street, New York, many
years Ago. The guilty man undertook to
conceal the crime by boxing up the re
mains of Adams and haVing them ship
ped to New Orleans by packet. Thd
main object here is to relate an incident
not known to many, including the discov
ery of the body of Adams by means of a
dream.
Colt had an office at Broadway and
Chambers street, in the building now
known as Delmonico's. Adams was a
printer, and had financial business with
Colt, and was last seen alive in his comi
pany. When Adams was missed, suspi
cion pointed to Colt, whose office was
searched, and the fact discovered that a
bloody encounter had there taken place.
Nobody, however, could be found on thd
premises. Further in ventilation showed
that a box had been taken from the house
and shipped in one of the New Orleans
packets. The police thereupon visited
the vessel and the captain aided in the
search by having the cargo in the hold
shifted. While this was in progress one
of the owners of the packet went aboard.
The captain took him aside, and said :
"Mr. -, there is something remark
able about this affair. There is no doubt
that the mysterious box is aboard bur ves
sel, and I am convinced in my own mind
that the body of Adams is in it."
The shipowner was thunderstruck that
the captain should seem to know so much
about he affair, and questioned him orl
this point.
'Well, sir," proceeded the captain, "I
will tell you frankly that my suspicions
are mainly grounded on a dream which I
had last nig'.t, and which bad seriously
impressed mc before the officers made
known their business. Hut I considered
it prudent to wit hold it from them, at least
for the present."
"Last night,"' the captain said, "I 6lept
on board, and awoke this mornine strance
ly impres. ;d, fori dren ned that a boi
had been brought aboard with Some freight
and stowed away in the ho '. In tho
box, I dreamed, was fhe body of a mur
dered man. As I said before, the thin"
impresses me very s ange when I awoke,
and when the ofEceis c.rae up and inform
ed ms of their suspicions I could not at
first believe my sense, but told them to
search my ver el as much as they pleased
and I gave orders to the ccn to assist in
the work.
At this point the male came up and re
ported that the box bad been found and
opened, and in it was a body believed to
bo that of the missing man Adams.
It was decided on the Spot, betw en thd
owner and the captain, t j :t no immediate"
mention should be made i the dream, as
Ihe Iaiter would not for the world have
his name r 3ociated ia the papers with tho
circuras.ance. It was several years before;
the strange dream was spoken of, even by
friends of either.
The guilt of Colt was fixed, and be"
was convicted despite the formidable ef
forts made by the defence. Hut the facta
wero too palpably true to admit of tangi
ble grounds for a defence. Colt was sen
tenced to be hanged at the Tombs. The
Governor was bepought to extend clemen
cy; but even this jailed, and the fatal day
arriv. The excitement had reached t
point seldom witnessed in the metropolis,
and ll e vast multi'ude assembled around
the Tombs.- It was well known that the
rescue of the prisoner would b3 at empt
cd at all hazards by paid emissaries, and
a strong force of police and military were
on the ground. Within a short time of
the hour appointed for the hanging, the
belfry or lookout on the lop of the prison
took fire and was soon wrnpped in fHmes.
Amid all the confusion the news soon
spread that Colt had committed suicide in
hia cell. Many believe to this day that
Colt actually escaped in the excitement,;
and that the suicide was a hoax.
A Visitor, from Hartford to Martha's
Vineyard camp-ground, who bad been
suffering from the exhorbitant charges
made for everything during "meeting
week," was strolling past the societies"
tents (which encircle the tabernacle) where
meetings were being IielcL Just as ho
was passing one the voice of an exhorter
was heard : "Salvation's free, salvation's
free." Ho stopped, and said : "I'll take
some of that. It's the only thing I've
heard of since I've been here that I hav
not had to py a bt price fof ."
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