""' "1"tJLj-rfii' - "" " " " jyMMMMMMttMBMi ;, . .... . ! ; ..".' . J'.". ." ,, - ' & I i U. i. Editor and l'ubllslier j VOLUMK G. 1 1372. EPPJETG. 18T2. I now prepared to oiitr s u 1 1 : 1 n ( ) 1 1 in uc km e;n t s T cash rnnt'H askrs or ..r nnnn.-n Tfin:T 0 Pfl PTt 11-. KIT II Ml AT WHOLESALE OR II ETA I L. ft-i-k c'n-it in part of every TArirty of I T!r, Siieel-lron, 1 (Oi'l'KIi AND liUASS WARES, I t OI! I I KI ANI PLAIN QSTJCi-PAWS. EOILERS fee I I X - I . ....... . J .... 11. .rcM'I'I'VIUIIIVn II 1 nn s 1 1 N It' il ".'Hiiiliui HAltU- VYAKt: -r' iA'KIiV KIND. pni' AnluDlitt HviTNi; " COOKIN(S STOVES, I XC t, L-' I " ' CoOKISG SlVl'hS. I o.Li.. '!'.':; I ' I'll am. .PA PLOIl COOK. J l.u SloYES. ,,!";. t .. K'rirf Mve iifMreil I will get '. .! ' it iv.anu f.icttnei s prices. (),;,!.; v i'lates a: 1 Grates, &c, for re- 1 i r . 1 o . 1 it . , i,,M. i-!i 11 u,.i i r me cicves 1 sen ; others b 1 1 1 when wanted. Particular 1 I attention civn to ! Spaui'." Valleys and Conductors I i I -!i will ba made out of best mato- J rla.' a:id put up by Competent w.-ikuien. Lais? Darners. Wick and CMmneya I WHOLESALE OU RETAIL. , I w-.uM call particular attention to the Light I Jl"'.i-e Buriier, with Glass Cone, for giv'"g i r.... ,,.. ..!.... : i .1 i-kiii ii-iu mail .nil I'liiri III iim:, -AI.SO.tli0 Paragon Uurm-r, fur Crude Oil. SU3AR KETTLES AND CAULDRONS of U ires const l,i1 y on Laud. Specl.il attention given to Jobbing in Tin, Copper and SheeMron, at Ikivuji possible tales. I H'itoi.esai.e .Meuciiasts Lists Slow is fly, and will be sent on application I ty mail or in .ei8:u Uapi t see nil my oM cu-tomers and t-.i.vny i.i-w i tira tliid Spiing. .1 return - my ,nin.it bin-jore ti.a:ik fcr.tlje very nteial pa tr.-i.hu'f I I ie alfM.lv received, .-.nd will ' to p:oas :ail clio may call, wheth- ' -j' or not. FRANCIS V. HAY. -town. March 7. lHj7. !li;.T llv.wrrnos is IMzices reA. TO CIS CUSTOMERS! I at tsi:: i:m:.Miis? lietSE-l'iRiISDIX STORE. 1 : :i iin.krsi ;ned re.sjjfctluily inforn:s the ( t i'.n.H of E'.eii.-l.urg and the public ei:cr :1 ..;. out lie has made a prc.it reduction in V' '' to L'AMl liUlhKS. A! y block will i-t. in part, of Vvvkimj, Parlor and IltaU ot the most popular kinds ; Tin- f IK evrrv (io.vcnpiK n, of my own man- p. i .rL-; tlarutrure o all kind, such as 1 J. is, S,-ictts. Hull Hi i.fs- Table llinffes ,:'j,tei Hinpis, l'olts, Ik n and Nails, Win ' ' l.iss, rutty, Table Ktdven and Forks, t.'ivi-.: Kiiivert ai.d Forks, Meat Cutters, - '.'ic Pan rs. Pen and Pocket Knives in tf'il virit-ty, "i-i.-sors. Shears, Razors and Ax s, Hatchets. Ilaronu-rs, Poring jf -i." i : e. Arer.-. Chisscls, Planes, Com I -i-.'-s, S piari-s, Files. Uu-px, Anvihs, Vi-e?, NVr tu S.es. ;i5. I'ai.el and Cr.t.-K-Cut Sawp, j ;.:ii:ts cf all kind.. Shovel.-, Spades, Scvtl.es J ;id Snaths, Rakes, Forks, Sleigh Pcllf, i S;:..a La.-ts. Pi-s. Wax Pri.-tlos. Clothe? Vtnier. Giind Stones. Patent Mdasel i Gates miu Mo vfuriH, I.uud er Slicks. Iloree A Nai, oe Siioes, Cai Kttt. Itidis, Shoe 1 (.Juris, Revolver, Vit If. Crtriii1p.-!,' ... I der. I'aps, lA'ad. Ac, O ld Stove PlatrF, I (J rates and Fire Pricks, Well and Cistern iP'imps and Tulin: lltimts mi l SaJdfery 'iVme of all kind ; IITWew nn-l WiHoic Ware in L'reat variety ; Caibon Oil and Oil Lamps. 1,-t, (hi. Lard Oil. Linseed 0:1, Lubricating o.. Itosin, Tar, G !as ware. Paints, Varnih I 7iirpentine, AicoLol. &c. I FAMILY GROCERIES, '4 u t-h jus Tea, C'ofTte, Sugars, 7-Iolasscs, Ryr i.'.s. Spices, Dried Peaches. I)i ied A pplefcl Fish, llominv,. Crackers, Rice and Pear "i Parley; Soaps, Can-iUs; TOBACCO and M KIAUS; Paint. Whit.-wa.-h , Scrub, Hor:-e, Slu e. l)u.-,tii :. Varn'iHli, St..ve. Clothes and T'Mii Hrusl vs. all k uals and fiz.-s ; P,;d Cords a:id MiiDi!!. R. pes, ai.d man v other rtnles at th. lowest M!tes f. r CASH J !?rlt'.:ce o'ltin made, pain 'od and pnt l p kt low rato f.r cash. A liberal disc tun t t..i!e to cour.trv dc.'ers buvin Tinware iw:.,.lw,v. GF.O. HUTLFY 1- Kheusbiir". Feb, 2. 18tl7.-tf. (Ji:ORGi:W. YEAGKli, Wholesale and Retail Dealer la (HEATING AND COOK STOVES I OF EVERY DESCRIPTION. m . Tin Hi 5! OF HIS OtfN MANUFACTURE, A -id GENERAL JOBBER in SPOUTING sod all oilier work in his Mrs. Virginia Street, near Caroline Streel Airoo..4, . .. -o.ici iu inc cut Having ino rijui 10 t.l th renowned "PARLEY SHEAF" -COOK S I'O VE. the most perfect complete and satisfactory Stove ever mtroduced to tho publio tSTr,(K Immkxse. - Trices Low. jFACTION GUARANTEED. i r7;VAM KTTKI.T ATTOItKF.Y- . -cutrvstreet, Dnn.rt.-tf.3 A. W. Erwhi & Co., 172 and 174 Federal St. ALLEGHENY, PA. ! Respectfully announce to their numerous customers, and buyers of Dry Goods generally, that they are now receiving;, and are daily open inp their usual large and elegant ( assortment of Spring Goods ; and ! that their capacious salesrooms are ' now tilled with all the choicest nov- j cities of the season, embracing man v ! new styles and fabrics never before j ollered in this market. Special at- j tention is requested to the -stock of' lilac k Althaeas, Silks, medium and 1 low priced Dress Goods, House keeping Goods, and Shawls. Having the handsomest and best lighted Store Room in the two cities, and keeping nothing but the best makes ot goods, and guaranteeing our prices to be as low as the lowest, we are sati-lkd that we can make it to the interest of purchasers to look j through our stock b. fore making their spring purchases. To close buyers at wholesale, we can otter J some special inducement;; weearrv I one of the largest stocks of goods in I this market, comprising many things in Shawls and medium priced Dress Goods, r.ot kept in regular wholesale houses. We guarantee our prices as low as any New York or Philadelphia- quotations, and only ask an examination to convince buyers that we can do them good. A. W. ERYVIN & CO. IT "2 A 174 IVdoral St., .4 llf ticuy Vlty. Agents Wanted -FOit THE I I I 1 -r' 1 I 1 I I I T Wherever the FLORENCE Machine lias been Introduced, it h s nie-t with the ureatost see-:-ss. It is tin.-only machine tnakinr ftmrilif fcrent stitches and having the lleverille Feed. The lunehini-ry is perf.-ct. un.l th motions pos- J itive. It rui-.s lil.t, md viiy fast, and sews ' coarse or tine fabrics. The llennni-r will turn i wide or narrow hems, nrnl fells bcuut i fully. All j nttai-iiinenis go wun ine inaciiiue. For inforiuuticii apply t. or address HECKERT & McKAIN, Xo. S JJlitU Street. March 2, 1ST2. 3in. PITTSUCnGH. WITH THE ?T TT 177 Li Xi w BH AW FEED, lias just been received, and is now tho Hkst Family Maciiim: i:i tho market. It makes the I.ot-K Slileti. Is Nimxle. 'oSelrkM, Knsily Opcrutetl. and verv effec tive. We want GOOD PEWIXti MACIIIM; AGENTS in all unoccupied territo ry, to whom we will sive the most iimhal tkiims. Tho I f.XAl'-l il' is the EASIEST MA CHINE TO SELL, iu the inurUct. KOWABD EATON & CO. 17 FIFTH AVF.SIT, reb.gi.l372-ly: PIITSBURGII. M. wniTMOKK, .. ,AN CHAS. T. NEAI.E. MliE. WOIFF. mi k 11 IMrOJlTEISS AND DEALEUS IN Sign of the Anvil, . No. 50 Wood St., (Throe doors above St. Charles Hotel,) PITTSBURGH, PA. Invite the attention of buyers to their Sprinjr Stock, which, in selectiou aud price, is uusur-pas-i-,1 in the country. , ! Ai iiti for American File Corn pan v's celebrate 1 Kile and Kmh, ltiibler lleltio- nod I'nrkiiitr. Wilson. Ilnvrkx. t w ot Hi. hlllton & Co.'a Kiulll Steel, llitiiii'l ktl. I.orkl. Shovel., if. Sold at manufacturers' prices. 2-24.-3m. NOW IS THE.XIIVlEiT Cilo o tl Kcliablo Agents, tO SELL TUB w 'Xr-T3L SEWING MACHINE! InTHISCOUNTY. IJest Machine in the World, llest Mellinr Machine in Market. Price, com plete, t-l.i.liti. Written wairaiitcc for live ycais. Apply Immediately to SMITH & FORRESTER. 3-2.-3tn. 14 Sixtli St., riltkbursli, T. n.CASKY, late of Hobert Woods & Co. T. C. POGAKTY JAMBS CASEY. CASEY, FOG A It T Y & CO.. WHOLESALE DEALERS IX H9I95GaHU. k flLfl RYEWBISSY. AND ALL IilXIS OT To3Ii:TIC LIQUORS, AND IMPOItTEUS OF Foreign 'Wines," Gins, Brandies,' &c.j o. 315 Liberty Street, Dee. ia, i7L-3m. I'lTTSIiUIiaJr. TJL. EBENSBURG WOOLEN FACTORY! HAVING Introduced new machinery into our Woolen Factory, wo are now prepared to manufacture on short notice. CLOTHS. CASSI-. I NET. BLANKETS, FLANNELS of nil styles, i bTOi'KINCr VAUNS. if., io. wool taken in exchange for Roods or worked on shares. Market price paid for wool. Ebeusburgr, Feb. 21, l72.-tf . HE IS A FREEMAN WHOM p:bensburg, pa., Saturda y, april 20, 1872. A LITTLE JIOKK OP DAIUVIS'S IK.S tT.T OP MAN. BT A. r HILL. O Bob Jones. Esq., having just been con verted to Darwin's theory, indulges in the fol lowlrg irelnijcboly reflections: I'm an ass, and an ape, and a fro- ; I nni somethitrp ot cat and of dog ; I am something of snake. And of pander and drake, And my ancestors dwelt in a bog. I am ornithological ; oh, I'm mi angul, and buzziid, and crow J'm a rooster, you see, And a little pes wee, And my aicestors flew high and low. I'm a tiger, I am, and a lion. With a strong disposition to fly on Any species of prey. Any lime, nipht or day ; Of mj ancestors I'm a fit scion. There's, beside, a good de il of me bat, Willi a portion of motive and of rat ; I 'm a r.tbbit and fox Such as dwell in the rocks. And my ancestors all were like that. I'm a beaver, a coon, aud a hare, Ami a catamount, panther end bear ; 1 'in a bi,' buffalo, I'm an elk and a doe As my anccUors were, I don't car. I'm a pi, and a sheep, and a cow. Though do not have horns on my browj Where they went I don't know. When it happened, ditto; But my ancestors lost them somehow. I'm a fiah though without fin or tail I'm a pai poise without any scale I m liolphiu and trout, I'm a perch, out and out. And my ancestors were a bi whale. I'm a serpent (that thought I most dread,) I'm a blacksnake and biir copperhead; I'm a preut rattlesnake, And a hiss I can make. Like my aneeurs long ago dead. I'm a worm I'm a prub and a snail. Such as crawl over hill and through dais; I'm a moth and a miller I'm a bi c.Uterpiller, And my ancestors dwelt iu a rail. I'm a fqu'rrcl, and poultry and gam, 1 am everything that you could name Such as pheasit-t and duck ( Y hich we shoot when in luck), And my ancestors were all that same. I'm a mere lump of flesh and of bones, I hare sprung Irotu tte earth aud tho stones; And among th-m I'll lid And ileoiy, wheu I die And, alas! that's the end of poor Jones. t :i tio to a nuciL A Brother's Terrible Itevene. Ilefore goM mines, oil wells and dia mond fields had developed Ihtir attractions and practicalties for the adventurous spir i:s of this country, the fur trade of the farther Northwest enlisted the energies of numerous speculative characters, among whom were two young men from St. Louis, who, from having been plaj mates in boy hood and inseparable friends at college, became pa: triers in a scheme of Indian trading for the licher epoils nf the hunt. IJoth were orphans the nearest living re la ive possessed hy eiiher was a bister to the tlder of the two and there were con sequently no domestic ties to keep them back from the wilds or limit their absence thiiher. Ascending the Missouri river to the appointed trading grounds, they eri teicd upon ihe ciu joint adventuro in the true, all absoibcd energy of success, and from the first mouth prospered beyond all their expectation, and reaped profits pro porttonate to early wealth. In little more than-two years, indeed, the brotherly firm were lich enough to have gona back to civilization and lived at ease all the re mainder of their lives; but, as alieady ..hi. they had no social exigencies to call them back, ana naving j g i ness for their new occupation, they stayed on and on indefinitely. Once rc year, how ever, they repnired to St. Louis to sell their furs and divide and invest the profits; atid upon t ne of these occasions the sister before mentioned persuaded her brother to take her back with hiun to the wilderness, that she might observe for herself the many wonders they had so often desciibed. Thus during the ensuing year the ranche of the friends at the head waters of the Missouri was graced by the presence of an amateur "huntress," who, when the time came for her return home, was reluc tant to leave, and doubly so because her brother chanced to have a sickness which prevented his departure with herself and his paitner on the usual annual business trip to ihe city. The trip must be made, ho wover, and it would be her only oppor tunity of going for a year; so, with what fortitude was available under the circum stances, she bade the invalid a loving good by, and went homeward in the caro of the younger member of the firm. Left to himself, or with the company of Indi ans only, the sick man pined until his partner's return with an unusually large dividend and an account of the young lady's arrival in St. Louis gave him energy to combat and conquer the fever of which he was a victim. Thenceforth the fiiends trapped and traded us before for several months, at which time a midwinter letter from the city to the elder of the men. al most killed him with the dreadful news that his sister had become a maniac, and that it was his lifelong-friend who had made her such. , It was another friend who wrote, and the words were few, but to the point. The brother happened to be alone when reading them, and was thus able to mas ter his first fuiious impulse for immediate signal revenge upon the traitor, and sub due his frenzied feelings to the cooler de liberation of a scheme for retribution as pitiless as the offence had beep. When THE TRUTH MAKES FREE, AND ALL ilia r -.-.-1 .. s I - I 1 . I. - I I ... jv.ii luvi tume in ue eipiumeu, me pai lor of his countenance by pretending a temporary faintness, and resumed his daily pursuits as though the message from home had been thermos! ordinary f enclosures. His treacherous friend must die; but in dying he must be compelled to endure ag onies as lingering as those lie had inflicted, and while the e!f-appointed minister of justice followed his usual avocation he planned the revenge that should be worthy the wrong. When ihe next stock of furs were packed for transportation down the river, the avenger made some excuse for a biief visit to Fort 15enton, where he procured of-a lawyer the execution of a will, leaving tho testator's name in blank. Then re turring to the ranche, he proposed that instead of going down the river for their market, this time they should go overland together on horseback to Fort Kearney, intercept the boats with their stock where the river l'latte empties into the Missouri, and take the fuis up the former stream to Fort Laramie, where they could establish a kind of entrepot of their business to prob able great advantage. The idea seemed so plausible to the younger man that he approved it without hesitation, and started immediately with the projector on the overland journey, ac companied oidy by a pack mule bearing provisions for the way. Traveling many days in this style the one wholly unsus picious of the other's dark purpose the two men finally reached the banks of the l'latte, down which they followed the overland trail to a place called Bernard's Kanche, on the north fork of the 6tream, near the 'Chimney Kuck," and between Julesburg and Fort Laramie. Here they paused to rest, and here, in a deep canyon, walled by lofty rocks, and lonely iu im memorial, gloomy solitude, the doomed man was persuaded to take a noonday sleep from which the waking was to be more teirible than the most puilty dream. Drugged by liquor which the other had given him, in teeming convivial banter, before he sh'pt, the doomed traitor awoke to find himself sccuie'y chained, hand foot, and neck, to a great rock, while befme him, wilb. eyes afl me with rage, stood the brother who had waited so long i.nd patien'Iy for this ati n n d t, '-At first,'' relates a Western correspondent of the Philadelphia 1'iess, rei ea'ing . the f-tory, "the bmiud wretch thought it was 6ome rough joke practicing upon his courage, and returned the glare of his partner's eyes with a ghastly smile ; but when that partner produced from his pocket the mid winter letter, aud read il deliberately woid by word to the hollow echoes of the gloomy canyon, tne smile disappes-red in a look of death's despair. lie confessed all and asked to be shot, but the brother had an other fate in store for his victim. "Coolly encamping by ihe rock, he sat down to see his partner starve to death. On the third day the ill fated man signed the deed bequeathing all his property to the injured girl, and the brother attached a fictitious nama a9 witness of the instru ment, by the terms of which he was made xecutor f his partner's estate. lie then wrote letters paying he had fallen very ill of fever on the plains, and if he did not recover these letiers would be delivered by his beloved partner. All this the infuria ted brother compelled Ihe man to do, and then qtip tly awaited (he end. Day by day the partner grew weaker, and the brother glotued over his misery, often reading to him the letter." So. chained to this rock, sulFeiing untold of huncer and thirst, and with the mocking cries of his executioner ami us vvordsof the letter ringing alternately in his ears, this modern Prometheus, who had profaned the divine friendship, dwindled to a skeleton in his fetters, and on the ninth day died iu delirium torments. "The avenger," concludes this sinking story, 'after burying his victim' emaciated corpse in the sand, directed hi journey to ?t. Louis. There he gave out that his partner had died on his way through the lfocky Mountains, and in proof of hit as sertion delivered the letters. "The will wat also proved and the girl became the dead man'd heir. Two years afterwards the brother was fhot by Indi ans, and before he died he confessed what he had, dona. Some hunters visited the place and dug up the skeleton, around the neck of which still was the chain by which the man when living had been fastened to the fatal rock. The spot is still pointed out to travelers, and the tale told of how the brother day after day ate his meals in the presence of his wretched prisoner, but would not give liim so muvh as a crumb, or a cup ot water to slake his thirst." 'A Keal Romance. A St. Louis fair one hearing" that her lover was going to a ball with another girl, made a bargain with the hackmaa by which she drove tho coach in his stead, and in place of taking the happy pair to their destination she, took them several miles out of ihe city. TheD inducing ihem on some pre tence to get out she whipped up the horses and drove back, leaving the unfortunates the lady in a low-necked muslin ball dress exposed to a rain in the midst of a Ivnely wood. Afttr wandering in the mud for a number of hours a performance for which neither tne cavaliers thin beots nor his com panion's kid slippers were particularly well fittad they found shelter in a farm-house, where, finding a priest and the mutality of their misadventures inspiring love, they were united in the' koly. bonds. ARE SLAVES BESIDE THE SCHOOL TEACHER'S STORY. 1ST J. MA CRICK THOMPSON. You ask me why I am apposed to flog ging children at school. I will tell you. It makes them hate their teacher when they ought to love him. Children are little grown folks, if you will accept the expression, and like big grown folks, they always remember, even if they forgive a blow. When I was a boy I happened to get soundly thrashed at school pretty often, and I do most frankly acknowledge that I dislike to this day every teacher that ever whipped me. But I have a story to tell from which you may draw your own moral. I taught school once myself. It was down in a rural district ot Pennsylvania. The school was a small one, and the scholars were mostly under twelve years of age. One, however, wss thirteen, a pretty, brown-eyed girl, just as smart and clever as she could be and withal mis chievous as a mouse. Her name was well, they called her Joe Joe Milroy. Her parents were poor but highly respect able, living on a little forty acre farm. Joe was one of the most unruly gii Is I ever saw. You couldn't keep her out of mischief. 1 hated to whip her, she was getting so much like a woman in sue, and I didn't like to expel her from school, for tdie always knew her lessons by heart. O, she had the quickest mind I ever saw hut, sir, she kept the whole school un ruly. A lr tie boy would throw paper wads across the floor, and of course I'd whip him " Joe Milroy throws 'em and ye don't lam h.r R,r it," the urchin would be sure to say, ... "Joe Milroy made such a funny pictcr on her slate '.' What was I to do ? Matters got worse and worse. Finally I went to Mr. Mil roy, and kindly but frankly told him all about the way things were going on, and asked him what course I had better pur sue. "Whip her, sir," said he cmpbnticaUy, 'whip her good! Make her mind jou just the same as the other children Thai's what I sajr. I wabt my child controlled at school, I do." Well, I went back to my school fully determined en bunging Joe Milroy to the mark. An opportunity was not long wanting. I kipt a sharp look out anJ presently I saw Joe make a great funny picture, and throw the bit of paper on which it was drawn, clear across tho room to some little boys'. The ui chins began giggling and tittering forthwith. I look my whip firmly in my hand, fixed my eyes steinly on Joe, and walked up to her. She saw I meant something, and her pretty, roguish face grow pallid in a second. I did not say a word, but raised my whip aud gav her about ten tevcie lashes. 'Oh, sir, oh !" she cried at first, then, closing her lips until they pressed into each other, she looked me almcst fiercely iu the ejes till my blows ceased. Afier that I had no more trouble in my school. All went on well to the cud. Joe knew all her lessons, but was q-iiet and reserved. The last day came, and I gave the children a "treat" of candy and raitius. When Joe's share was given her she pushed it aside and would not taste it. I knew by this that she was brooding over her late chastisement. I wanted to part friendly with all my pupils so 1 went aud sat down by Joe aud said : "What's the matter, Joe ?" eUo luvliwl cj ill. gra.t culm PyPS I started in spile of myself. Those were no longer ihe eyes of a little girl. They were the eyes of a woman. I will never forget your ungentlemanly cruelty, never, never P she said sternly as a man might have spoken. I tried to reason with her. telling her I had done it for her own good, but she only shook her head and compressed her lips. Well, I went away from that neighbor hood never to retuin. Fortune favored me aud I became wealthy. Ten years had made me a wiser man as well as a richer one. Nor was I unknown to fama In a certain city whither I had gone to deliver a course of lectures to a young men's society, I got acquainted with a young woman, Josephine Milroy by name, whose father was a millionaire. With this young lady I fell desperately in love. Oh, sir, she was finely, superbly, really beautiful. She was well educated, grace ful, and the finest singer I have heard in private.. Her conversational powers were charming, and with all this she was ten der and womanly. 1 pressed my suit,- never dreaming of the little girl I had whipped in the country school. She gave me her heart and all the wealth of woman's affection it con tained, and I I gave her my very soul. How happy I was only a true lover, wh feels the glorious influence of a gifted woman's power, can know. One evening my affianced bride and I took a stroll together in the park of the city. We sat down on the grassy brink of a miniature lake, in the centre of which a great sea monster in bronze threw up strong jets of flashing water, while all around him lay green, flowery islets bask ing the rich glories of an early June day. We talked of our love and our coming nuptials, of the sweet, bright future that lay beyond. O, it was a blissful dream, a-tender trance, a thrilling interlude be tween the stern realities of life. I looked into the soft, dark eyes of the glorious wo man beside me, and down over the full, round, queenly furm, all all mine, and my heart swelled with pride and thankful ness. Truly I was blessed beyond the common lot of man. What demon wandering over the earth entered me, and carried my memory back to the little log Pchool-house iu Pennsyl vania T What tempted me to speak of little Joe , Milroy ? Ah, who can tell ! No sooner did I mention that little school house and some of its associations, than 1 saw the pallor chase the flush of love from my companion'6 face. "Ate .you that school teacher, that mis erable wretch whose memory I love to detest ?' she asked almost fiercely. I saw my dreadful doom at once. I fell at her feet and dead as only an elo quent, despairing man can plead, when the wild, sweet dream of his Ioe is pass ing from his vision forever "No, sir," she said firmly, almost cruelly. "I can never marry the man who beat me. My heart burns within me whenever I think of those shameful blows No,' sir; no, never ; I will never marry you!" What I said I cannot now remember. j I plead wildly, despairingly groveling there at her feet. It was all useless She was as cold as she had been warm and relentless We parted forever. And now, sir, it seems to me that of all the acts of my life there is but one I would wish to blot out, and that is tha act I once thought go just and beneficial. O, if I could suffer a red hot dagger through the heart for every blow I gave her, I would gladly bear il if it would give me back the pure love of her glorious womanhood. Now that I look back colly over the past, there are many things in the simple but bitter story of my love that appears strange. The father of Josie Milroy was one of the fortunate men whom the dis covery of oil had made suddenly rich, lie had becot a great financier and a successful speculator. His daughter anJ I had met, after the ten jears of our sep aration under such vastly different circum stances, ihat fatal evening Sometimes 1 hope that she will repent, but I have no proof that my hope has reasonable found ation. I will wait. A Qeeer Case A Man With a Folk in His Stomach Florence, Italy, is agitated over a very odJ occutrvnee. Not long ago there was at one of the theaties in that city a company of Chinese jugglers. One of them (Ling-Lnrk) was celebrated for l is tricks of swallowing a long sword j and then pulling it out again. At ane of I these representations there happened to be a young Florentine of the name of Cipri ani, wdio, on leav-ng the theatre with a few friends, manifested Ids opinion that the trick played by the Chinese was as easy as the drinking of a tumbler of water. Cipriani and his friends went as usual to the resiaurant to have supper, and after having eaten and drank fcr an hour, the conversa'ion fell on ihe Chinese Ling Lai k. Cipriani took up a fork, put it in his mouth, down, in his throat, when the fork slipped from his hand. Ilia friends got teriibly frightened, attempted to pell it out again, but all was in vain. The young man was immediately carried to the hospital Santa Maria, and there he still lies, and eats and drinks with the fork in his stomach. The crowd before the hospital has been so great that police offi rers have been stationed at the different doors to prevent the people breaking into the hospital. Such an cx t nrlniMry case has naturaPy excited great interest in the medical class. The Fihst Newspaper. An ingeni ous physician of Paris Uenaudot by name more than twa hundred years ago hit upon a good idea for "cutting out" his more learned brethren, which he was not long in putting into execution, to bis own no small advantage, and the great chagrin of his brother professionals. His plan was an extremely simple one, for he obtained Lis popularity by the very inno cent expedient of collecting information, and then circulating news sheets among his patients, for their special delectation and amusement. But inasmuch as the seasons were nut alwayn sickly, and he found he had plenty of time on his hands, he was encouraged by hi3 success to de vote his attention more exclusively to the business of journalism, by providing the public at large with news ; and accordingly in 1C31 he succeeded in obtaining for himself and family Hie sole privilege of publishing a newspaper called the G tzttte de Fiance. Such, at least, is the account of the origin of newspapers given by De Saint Foix. Wise and Otherwise. What makes a pair of boots? Two boots. Never let your honest convictions be laughed down. Whatever makes men happier makes them better. It costs more to arenga wrongs than to bear them. - Which is the ugliest hood over worn T False hood. Is it murder to drown jour serrows, or kill time ? There is a heroic innocence, as well as a heroic courage. When does. a man have to keep bis word ! When no one will take it. Terms, $2 per year lu nili antri NUMBER J mobi.v at i im t(.o. ' John," the eccentric correspondent of the New York Sun, professes to wiit a letter from Chisago, from which we cx-f tract the following bits of absurdity : This Westward Ho country is getting hoed all over. Il is the most prolific coun try I ever saw. Early in the season as it is, th tables all have butter-cups on "em. 'I ha Mississippi river has been ploughed by steamboats and it is full of cumins. It is dangerous in St. Louis to name a baby Kdward, because the eddies get into the Mississippi river. They raise vast, incomprehensible, im pregnable epiantilies of bailey corn in ih'19 section, and 18-12 of ha citizens get bar ley corned every Saturday night and Sun day morning fetches the rest of 'em. On the cars, after leaving Sl Louis, I conversed with a female Westward llo ! I addressed her as Mia IIj. Says sfce, in accents sweet as the dying notes of a sch tick bull-hog, "Call me Miss Nancy." Nancy is a lovely name, so romantic, so louthingly suggestive. I love that name, and if 1 had thirty-one children, I don't care a cent if they were all boys, I'd name 'tm all Nancy. Like kings, I'd call 'em Nancy on eye, Nancy two eyes, Nancy IX., aud Nancy XII., and if ihey didn't come when I called 'tin, I'd whale "em. Miss Nancy informed me she had the statistics. "Goodness gracious!" I ex claimed, "are they catching ?" She Saidl no ; bul she had the figures to show lh quantity of grain raised in Illinois ; and before we Mopped chatting 1 found out that enough was raised lo make all the people in that section well bred mid lo buy all the giils cfow-cruin silks From St. Louis to Chicago the rcn! runs through the worst country for ducks eye ever saw. It is one-per cent flatter than a fl it pan cake, with great big IkIJs called praiucs. l tiese tields are so large that suniise i used for a rid fence on the other side. The farmers d;ive their cows home wiih locomotives in the west and for thia purpose every locomotive in the west has a cow-catcher ahead of it. To-day Chicago reminds me of an applet with the best half eaten out ; but the seed and the core are left, and I'heenix like sher is arising fit m her ashes to become a bea con light for all Christendom to steer by. There is more energ', more of that go ahead, cast iron pluck, that turns moun tains to level plains aud rocks into temples for the livng, in Chicago than in any other place oh this footstool. Here is a case of energy : During the great fiie a ciiizeit was blown three miles up i nto ihe air. While shooting upward he got out his lead pencil and wrote a note to his builder, who lived at the top of a six story building, and as he passed the builder's residence o his way down he threw the uote in at the window. The consequence was, tn his artival homo on a titter, he foi n 1 ihe boild er putting shelves in his parlor, aud next day he was selling goods. Another case of energy is illustrated as follows : I entered a bather's shop, lovi a seat, down went my head and up went my hiicls. In less than two sccondi I felt a q ieer feeling on my feet, and hi isting my head I saw a fellow with a kettle and brush daubing the soles of my boots Says I, ' What in the name f stewed custard pie are you eioing ?" He said hd was pasting up a circus bill. Sas I, "I'll paste you iu the snoot." He left. This is energy The citizens who shave at the barters shops have piintcd on the soles of their boo'.s 'Post no bills." Another case of energy is, George Washington was never in Chicago, so their J havn't got any old frame building standing in the business part of the city just be cause it was Washington's headquarters. The Fourth of J uly was never celebra ted until 1830, because there wasn't any body to celebrate it. Anecdote of a Dog A narrow lo; lay as a bridge over a deep ravine. From the opposite ends of the log, at the same moment, there started to cross it a big Newfoundland dog and a little Italian greyhounJ ; of course thsy -met in the middle of the log, and of course there was not room for them to pass, neither could they go back. The hight was a dangerous ene for the greyhound, and to lh-3 water at the bottom he was extremely averse. The Newfoundland could have taken tho leap in safety, but evidently did not want to. Here was a fix ! The little d sat down on his haunches, stuck his nosa straight up in the air, and howled. The Newfoundland stood intent, his fae-s solemn with inward workings, l'rejenlly he gave a nudge with his-nosc to the howl ing greyhound as if to say. "Be stilly youngster, and listen." Then there was a silence and seeming confabulation for a second or two. Immediately the big dog; spread his legs wide apart like a Colossus, bestriding the log on its extreme outaf edges, and balancing himself carefully. The little dog sprang through the opening" like a flash. When they reached the op posite shores the greyhound broke iino frantic gambols of delight, and the New foundland, after hi9 more sedate fashhmf expressed great compl-tcency in hi achievement as he surely had a right to do. Some one says that the lion and the Iamb may lie down together in th:s wprU, but when the lion gets op it will be hard work to God :Le Iamb. "
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