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EBENSBtJUG, PA., FRIDAY, AUGUST 23, 1S72.
NUMBER 30.
LIST OF CAUSES
SkT IX)W'X FOK TRIAL at n Court of Com
S men l'leas, to bo held at Ebensburjf, com
Jj, .nciuif on Monday, the 2d dau J iycpHmbur
FIHST WEEK.
vs. Martz.
.vs. Jtlaek.
va. Wentlel.
, . . . .vs. Paddock & Adams.
, vs. Apple.
vs. llracken.
vs. Fitzpa trick.
vs. McGulre.
vs. Powell.
vs. Prser.
vs. Vauirhn.
vs. Renuctt.
"fomervillo
Isr.iwn
Copper A' to
"Mil' " et H'
-limpliiie. for use:
Jtik'"
p(iir la
COol'-'1'
jim
v.'o:f
Ad"'"
' SKCOND WEKK.
nr.- ,..r,.t .lones vs. Lloyd & Co.
4r4.-.iiiuii
..vs. Aaron.
..vs. Davis et nl.
..vs. Smith.
..vs. Razors.
..vs. Ilarberick's Adtn'rs.
Evan1 1,1
Pro'licrline
iisti'ki'n
Vu'M ii. k'i A.lin'rs.
7-cb :
p ; .tcHitniUi et al
lr.sk''
1 fieri .Sn
. V. it.
V.,ilkcn.
j O.Tiniit
1 .Bkiii
..vs. iiehe.
..vs. Zcch.
..vs. M'Gonijrle'sEx'aetal
..vs. Premey et nl.
..vs. M'Cance & Kline.
..vs. KIsban.
..vs. Cowan et nl,
..vs. Martin et nl.
.,vs. Cowan et al.
..vs. lirady.
r jain SoWif M. Co.. vs. (iaheiran & Og-den.
W Xf HIT .
r .jf vs. Murphy.
dancer vs. Oillan.
jurlMialil V8- Christy & Llddy.
(,,Wiso vs. Uehe.
jii.iOii' vs. Gibson Executors.
toebntn vs. Kumfee&Co.
t J. K. HITE, Prothonotary.
"Profhonotary's Office, Ebensburu, Aug. 5,
0kpritex'w Notice.
TfetoTICK is hereby given that the following
X A-"ounts have been passed and filed in tho
luf istor's Oltie-e at Kb'iisbur(r, and wilt be pre-B'-atm)
to the Orphans' Court of Cambria coun
ty, for confirmation and allowance, on Wedaea
4s?) tbe 4th day of September next, to wit :
second Account of Stephen JSt utznian, Ad
fciiaistrator, &e., of Ixswis Cobauxh, late of the
liiruiiKb of Johnstown, deceased.
Hrt and Fi.ial Account of Surah flallajrher
and Michael Mnloy, Executors of Thomas Gul
Itijrhrr, late of l-oretto borouirh, Uecfawd.
' Unal Account of John M. Kiur. Administra
tor" of John It. Kromuld, lute of Johnstown,
Cambria county, deceased.
Final Account of John Hickot, Executor of
the last Will and Testament of I. M. Cooper,
late of Clint n C unity, Iowa, deceased.
Account of Joseph IIof lie, ! narilian of minor
kciraof IVut Scuulun, lute of Cumbriu town
elno, dttcea.HeI.
; 1iH First Account of fSeortre J. Rxler9, Ex
ecutor of the last Will and Testament of John
Rodo'rs, r., lute of the Borough of Ebensburg',
dio'Cased.
Third and Final Account of F. I. Storm, Ad
XiinlKtrator of I. T. Storm, lato of Washington
town-tiip. de'eas'd.
Aecount of C. K. Ellis, Trustee of the Estate
cf tftumah H'M'cli, late of Johnstown, de;M.
- Awvunt il Mary lleslii. Administratrix rm
ftAi nl" itniii jii of Joseph llcsJop, late of
Cii!!ein-.ui,-i li.inuijrli, Cambria county, deo'd.
Kirei ami I'artinl Account of John A. Kenne
dy, Alnii!i!sti;it'r of Doiuiitick Mcllride, lato
el Curioll town-liip, deceased.
? i.t:n. M'. It ATM AX, TteuMer.
Ii i.-iu'iiilii'C, Kbensbuor. Auir.3, lK7.-4t.
SK J ' ' J; !sA FOIl PERPETUATING
TfTI.MONV.
CAimniA cijuxty, ss.
T he i 'lifiniDinrt iillli nf Pfiitmiilcanirt:
LA- , To Jacob Moses, lauiel Cams, (surviv-
' inir husband of Margaret Curns, former
ly Ma ryrivrot Moses.) Catharine Moses ami Jacob
Wosea, (.hildren und heirs at law of Adam
Moses.) Abraham Mosen. and Daniel Sills, (sur
Vivlnjr husband of Mary Sills, formerly Sarah
Mfises,) John Moses, Rev. tJeorKC Fickes, (sur
viving husband of Sarah Fickes, formerlj- Sa
Hh Moses,) their hcirsnnd representatives, and
alt others concerned in the premises liiX'tiuu:
We command and firmly enjoin you, that,
laying aside all business whatsoever, you be
e.u! appear botoro the J mitres of theCiurtof
t"--.Miiin Fli-as of the said count), to bo held
at iieiisbiii-K' on the first Mmnhiu nf Oli )tenilnr
n xSj to show cause, if any you have, why the
I in behalf of Robert L. J'timstoii, Jn
lii- tiiti'laint airainst you, before cur saM Court
. e -I a!l.'.l, should uot be examined and their
te.sifcnony reduced to writ hiK ami lllel of record
In utirsaid Court, in order to perpetuate the
iciia. aif reeably to the Constitution f our Gov
, er;jBieiit and the Act of Assembly In such case
rMdc and provided ; and hereof fail not at your
Prtl.
Witness the Honorable John Dean, Presid't
Jii Iff of our said Court, at Ebcnsbur-r, the 10th
di'.jrof June, in the year of our Lord one thous
a4virht huudrol and seventy-two.
I J. K. HITE, Prothonotary.
Attest W. It. ItoNACKKi. Sheriff. 8-9.-41.
Widows Appraisements.
NOTICE Is hereby Klven that the followln-r
Appraisements of Real and Personal Pro
J'.'rty of decedents, selecU'd and set apart for
ta w Ulows of intestates under tho Act of As
entbly .t Uth April. 1S51. have been filed in the
Register's tJtlice, and will be presented to the
Orphans' Court for approval m Wedneadaj, the
4th dy of SeptrmlHT next, to il :
Inventory and Appraisement of the personal
propertv of Evan Roberts, deceased, elected to
to be retained by bis widow, Luciudu H. Uob-
erta,-:i).w4 . .
laventory and Appraisement of the personal
property of William Orr, late of the IJorou-rti
of Johnstown, deceased, elected to be retained
by his widow, Harriet Orr, l.'h.
laventory and Appraisement of the personal
property late of Peter AUbuu-jb, deceased, re
ta d by his widow,- tXMr7.
Appraisement of certain personal property
apart for the use of Eleanor Powell, widow
t f Ouvi.l Powell. Jr., lateof Ulacklick towuship,
A.'i-east'd. :w.tw.
Appruisi'raent of the personal property and
retil estate of William Riley, lateof Prospect
borouirh. decease.1, set apart for Susan KJey,
Widow or said deceased, 10.00.
UFAt. OATMAX, Cerk.
Cerk's Office. Ebcnsburif, Aug. 3, 18V3.-4U
wvlr.ue l,t R writ ot Ft. Fa., Issued out of
Hie OUrtClf Clllnniim iM.-ao mo -11-
recieo, ther,- will be exposed to Public Sale, at
Ikf.Ji"!;1 -'i;,s, F.betisburg-, on Strdr,
iil f u dr of A'a. i"t., at 1 o'clock, P. M.,
the rollowinjr real estate, to wit : All the right,
li . 'i".nd.,n,ere!it ut Lawrence Stleh, of, in and
to Iu off round situate in Carrolltowa bor-ot--;
a, tamhria county, front! ug on Main street
on the east and extendinjf back to heirs of
tvi'iLH?,Pb'--' dt-L''d- OI' toe Iwest, adjoln-t-f
!K l ,m"? Sehroth on the north and lot
"'iTi' Kennedy on the South, having thereon
tw story frame house and a frame
v 'if ' -i"'!w 'n tne ot'Pancy of Lawrence
t . e.n. in Pifcution aud to be sold at
ttlt of Albiu t swnld.
ul - , w- BON ACKER, Sheriff.
Jgnff g Office, Ebensbury. Aug. 6, 1873.
QCBP(ENA IN DIVORCE.
T;J CAMBRIA COrXTT, SS.
aCoMMONWBALTH Or PENNSYLVANIA Z
J TIT t the Sheriff uf Ikimltrui Co., (Ji eetlna :
i -a- t You are hereby commanded that
. T you summon W. W. H. Freeman to be
fi, '" ror 9aid couu,y Ebensburg, on the
' f w - -'-' " "Ul IllUll M It-UB. tu
1 . -', ."""" uj&eviemitrr veil, to answer a cer-
- im L.mei tit I ti n 10.1 u iri
Litttf'l ill tlivfirriu AImI tiralnut I.Im : a
v- ort.l.y Maky M. Fbeeman, by her next friend
; A: UtHuji ; and this you are not to omit at
I1 tr peril.
fitness the Honorable John Dean, Presid't
- hi our said Court, at fcoenstmrg, the 10th
-" "i our said Court, at fcoeni
J V f June, in the year of our L
liflit hundred and seventy-t
J. K. HITE, Pr
' Lord oue thous-v-two.
hnnl... '
fil'est-W. B. IiuNACKEiL Sheriff. I8-9.-4t-l
"MIMSTATOU'S NOTICE
,T Estate of Makt McGcirk, doe'd.
x "r of Administration on the estate of
I "v McfiuiKK, late of Borough of Loretto,
t iiria county, dee'd, having been granted to
v '""-signed by the Register of said ooun
i J" permins Indebted to the estate In nues
v rt- n ituested to make payment without
v f j '-' lose ha v i n g clai ms agai nst the ea m o
t V r " Present them properly authentica
rHi?''U.i?Ient FRANCIS O'FRIEL.
X-!' July -M, ltrrs.-tit. Administrator.
nar
S. M. SXYDEfi.
J 5 -tWo-- I-'"80" are hereby notified
su l ill"'. 8010 a'" exclusive right to make,
1 ( oun?"1 u,y FATENT ROTARV PUMP in
v 9ia is w0f.,,am.-."'i'lHnd lateof Pcnnsyl
1 -'ty tu7r7Lb?KM- WOUK.of Indiana
V1 baii "!,',r.! b!1CBre t'au'loned against
'i 3U"11-,:;8l'Uilroiuttnyothernartv.
uSUst3,18:2..3t.-i
MOTHERHOOD.
My neighbor's house is not so high,
Nor half so nice as mine ;
t often see the blind ajar,
And tho the curtain's tine,
'Tis only muslin, and the steps
Are not of stone at all,
And yet I long for her small home
To give mine all in all.
Her lawn is never left to grow,
The children tread it down,
And when the father comes at night
I hear them clatter down
The gravel walk, and such a noise
Comes to my lingering ears
As my sad heart's been waiting for
So many silent years.
Sometimes I peep to see them
Seize his coat, and hand, and knees
All three so eager to lie first
And hear her call, "Don't tease
Papa !" the laby springs,
Aud then the low brown door
Shuts out their happiness, and I
Sit wishing, as before,
That my neighbor's little cottage
And the jewels of her crown
Had lieen my own. My mansion,
With its front of freestone brown,
Its damask, and its Honiton,
Its lawn so green and bright.
How gladly would I give them
For her motherhood, to-night.
DIVORCED.
'He'll go to the dogs, now.'
"Of courso he will."
"By all means. Only see how he acted
when his wife lived with him ! Now that
she', left him, and all restraint removed
he'll go the rest of the downward way in
no time. Poor Nettie ! I wonder she stood
it so long !"
"I'll i;ive himjust one year to be buried."
"Pshaw 1 Half that time will finish him."
"Well, I pity him, too ; but I pity her
more. lie brought misery on both.
Such was the gossip of half a dozen vil
lagers, who stood in front of one of the
principal stores, one summer evening, while
Hie subject of their remarks went stagger
ing along on the opposite side.
It is evident he was trying to walk straight
and not to appear intoxicated, but such en
deavors always seem to make a drunken
man walk more crooked. Well, it proved
one tiling : that he was not yet lost to all
sense of thamc that lie still retained a lit
tle pride, and a lingering aversion to being
ridiculed and despised.
But Harry Rogers had carried on at a
fearful rate for a year or two past. He
had just one vice drink but that was
enough. He had marrit.d a worthy far
mer's daughter, Nettie Ray, only a few
years previously, and such had been his
conduct during more than a year past that
she, seeing no hope of his reform, had been
obliged to cut him loose to pursue his pro
fligate course alone ; and a legal separation
had just been effect ed. It was sad, indeed,
but no other courso seemed to be left her.
Harry's homo was on a little farm, a mile
from town. He owned it, but then it was
heavily mortgaged, and in another year
foreclosure was certain. It was not likely
his creditors would spare him when he
made no effort to meet his obligations, and
spent his time in riotous and disgraceful
conduct.
A week passed after that Summer even
ing on w hich all had agreed in predicting
his early ruin two weeks three weeks
a month or two. What strange mystery is
here ? To the utter bewilde rrnent of the
prophesying sages, Harry discontinued vis
iting the tavern, and was rarely ever seen
in tlie village. When he did come in the
store, he speedily transacted his business and
then went home sober.
But wonders never cease w hen they get
a start. He was next reported as actually
at work on his farm. Had but one man
seen this, and told it in the village,. he
would have been marked as. a man lacking
veracity ; but a number of ladies saw it and
told it, and their combined testimony was
worthy of all credence.
The little farm began to look healthier
as the Summer wore on. The fences
straightened up; the weeds disappeared;
the corn grew marvelously ; the briars and
elders were rooted up from the fields and
fence-rows; the animals looked fatter, sleek
er, and happier, and the little cottage look
ed neater.
Time wore on, and the great change w as
the more strangely remarkable each day.
Harry's creditors called and told him they
would not be hard on him, and he might
have his own time about paying his debts
and clearing his farm of the mortgage.
The Fall came, and the farm yielded an
abundance of golden corn and fruits euch
a crop indeed as it had never produced be
fore ; and Harry found himself beginning
to drift along with a tide of prosperity.
And Nettie Ray had begun to live her
young girlhood over again, as it were, un
der her father's roof; but, somehow, it was
not like the happy, joyous girlhood of mem
ory. It was sober and quiet now, and
Nettie fell into trains of musing; every
now and then there passed through her
mind a certain thought she was neither
maid nor wife.
She avoided the vicinity of her late home,
nor had she once seen Harry nince the sep
aration, but she had heard of him occasion
ally ; knew that he was a changed man.
Still this knowledge brought her but a mel
ancholy satisfaction. The reform had come
too late too late ! There was a wide gulf
between them now. ' - -
But, one evening in the gofden October,
Nettie found herself rather obliged to pass
Harry's farm. It lay between her father's
house ami tho village, but she had hereto
fore taken a round-about road in going to
and from the villaget On the evening in
question, however, she had been detained
in the village unconsciously till it was near
ly dark, and she determined to hazard the
nearest road home. It would be fully dark
when she would pass his house, and the
chances were that he would not see her.
She wouldn't have him see her for the world.
Wlren she arrived opposite the house,
she perceived a light in the sitting-room.
Her first impulse was to hurry by ; but
some powerful influence prompted her to
stop. She did so, and stood timidly at the
further side of the road, gazing longingly
at the house that had been a home for her
first of happiness, then of misery. By-and-by,
she felt an irresistable yearning to
look at the interior of the room once more.
He was evidently within, and there was no
danger that he would see her. So she
she walked hurriedly across the road, open
ed the gate, and softly stepped into the
lawn. Another moment, and she was at
the window, looking in. "What, singular
behavior ! But she could not help it.
The little room was as neat as when site
had herself watched over it. A cheerful
fire was burning in the grate, although it
was not very cold ; and a lighted lamp stood
on the table. It was there that Harry was
sitting. How her heart bounded as she
caught sight of him ! He held in his right
hand a book from his scanty library.
She recognized it at once ; but he was
not reading now. He had allowed it to
drop, with its open pages looking mutely
to the ceiling and his face was supported,
half concealed in the left hand, the elbow
resting on the table. "Was he asleep or
was he buried in a sad reverie? Nettie
thought that the latter was the case, and
her heait was touched.
"I wish I had borne with him," she said.
But a moment later her heart was touched
when she saw a tear roll down his cheek,
and drop upon the book. The lonely mau
was not asleep he was crying.
She could not help it. All that was wo
manly in her heart was aroused, and she
was at the door in a moment. No ceremo
ny: she burst into tho sitting-room and
was at his side!
"Oh, Harry !"
Her voice quivered with emotion.
"Why, Nettie!" he exclaimed, trying to
hide his tears men are ashamed of them
"Is is it you?"
"Yes, Harry," holding her face in her
hands, "I was passing I looked in I saw
you sitting here so lonely, 'and could not
help coming in. I thought of the time
when we were happy here, and "
Then her own womanly tears could be
repressed no longer. There was no use
trying to hide them. Besides, her voice
broke down and she could say no more
just then.
"Nettie," he arose, and took both hands
from her face and held them in his own.
"I thought you had blotted me out of your
memory,"
"No, no, Harry," she sobbed. s "I could
not do that. I could not help leaving you;
but I left you loving you more than ever.
Oh 1 I have been unhappy."
"Nettie, you have heard that I "
"Yes, I have heard that you have
changed that you do not drink any more
that you are again manly and industri
ous as you used to be ; but how lonely you
must be here ?" and the tears gushed forth
anew, as ber heart felt what her lips spoke.
"YoB I'm lonely, Nettie more so than
you may think ; but I deserve this punish
ment for the way I have acted. I had no
discouragements, I had notldng to make
me do so. It was only passion for drink,
that it seemed impossible for me to over
come. 1 ou were all a wife should bo or
could be. When you left me, I thought I
should become more reckless than ever.
Only a day or two after I knew you had
left me for good, I was in town drunk, and
I heard some village people they thought
I couldn't hear them across the street
passing all sorts of remarks about me, say
ing that now I was a doomed man certain;
that my destruction was near. Although
intoxicated, it startled me, and for the first
time I felt the full force of our separation,
and realized that ruin stared me in the face.
I had a bottle of whiskey in my pocket at
the time, and when I went out of town, I
smashed it, bathed my face in a little clear
stream of water at the roadside, and re
solved never to touch whiskey again. I
had tried it long enough to know that I
could not drink and be temperate. It was
hard to keep my resolve for the first week
or two, but I stood it, and soon my taste
for drink disappeared. I care nothing for
it now, and would not touch it if it ran in
streams. Now, Netttie, if you love me as
-well as. ever and. God knows that I love
you the same- let us get married over
again, and the bitter experience of the last
two years vrill only enhance our happiness
Nettie, dear, what do you say?"
She could not answer ; she was crying as
if her heart would break, and her head was
pillowed upon his breast. It was a more
eloquent "Yes!" than she could have spoken
with the tongue. -
The moon was rising, and it had never
looked so happy as it did while he walked
homo with Nettie to her father's.
So Harry Rogers and Nettie Ray were
married again, and there is no divorce that
could separate them now
' The "imriiortat J. N." has quit "dead
beating" aud gone to work.
iAT OUTCAST AX UEIItESS.
THE GOOD FOBTUSE OK A SERVAVT GIRL.
Some twelve years ago, says the Detroit
Free Press, a man named Strickland, a
widower, living in Franklin county, Va.,
died, leaving property amounting to $0,000.
He had but one child, a little girl named
Agnes, thenabout seven'years old. Both of
Strickland's parents were dead, and the only
relative he had was a brother, named Wil
liam. This brother succeeded in getting
himself appointed administrator of the es
tate and guardian for the child, and then
moved his family into the house and took
full possession. From that day he and his
family set about making Agncs's life a
wretched one. She was beaten andstarved,
half-clothed, kept from school, not allowed
to associate with children, and it would
seem that the brother was bent on getting
her out of the way so that the property
should legally fall into his hands. Agnes
was hardly old enough to realize the death
of her father, and when told that she was
a beggar, and was kept out of the poor
house by the charity of her uncle, she did
not know to the contrary. "When she was
eight years old f he remembers being taken
to a city where she saw the lake and a great
many ships. She went in company with
her uncle, and she has never been back to
Franklin county since. She cannot now
remember all that happened, but thinks
that he deserted her there. She recollects
being sent to some house where there were
lots of people, probably a county-house,
and remained there a good while. She
finally left there in company with a man
named Howard, who took her home, and
up to the time that she was twelve years
old or thereabouts she lived in his family.
They then removed to Akron, Ohio, taking
her along.
Shortly after settling there some jewelry
was missed, and the theft was left to Agnes,
and she was sent to jail for three months.
On being released from jail, Agnes went to
Cleveland, and for four years was employed
in various families, whose names andnum- !
bers she had with her. She w ent from there
to Buffalo, and says that he worked for
nearly a year in the family of one of the ed
itors of the Pont. She exhibits recommenda-
tionsfrom tin ee families in tl at cit.-. She left
Buffalo to come to Detroit two years ago, I
and Las worked in two different places
here, her last and present place being in
the family of a Mr. Kelly, on Eighth --treet
About two weeks ago, while with tho fam
ily on a river excursion, Agnes made the
acquaintance of a woman named Mrs. Rog
ers, who is here visiting friends on Congress-street,
east, and whose husband is
bookkeeper in a wholesale grocery house
in Pittsburgh. Mrs. Rogers lived for many
years in Franklin county, and something
came up which made her speak of some
one in that county. Agnes had forgotten
where she was born, but knew it was some
where in that State. She had alwaysj-c-served
the name of Strickland, and when
she gave it 'to Mrs. Rogers that lady in
quired if she ever had an uncle William.
Agnes remembered him, but thought him
dead. Mrs. Rogers was convinced that
she had found the orphan w hom Strickland
had reported lost and then dead.
On his return from his trip with the girl
he had given out that she had lost herself,
in the city (Erie), and he published notices
offering a reward for her. He pretended
that he had detectives hunting her up, and
that he was much grieved about her disap
pearance. After a year or two he adver
tised to pay all claims upon the estate of
"Agnes Strickland, deceased," aud it was
generally understood that the little girl had
been drowned in Erie harbor. Living near
Strickland, Mrs. Rogers knew all these
facts, and both she and Agnes were fully
convinced that Agnes was the lost child.
When the affair was made known to Mr.
Kelly, he at once employed a lawyer to
write to parties in Franklin county, and
they replied that Strickland lived on the
farm yet and that the general idea was that
Agues had been dead for years. The value
of tho property is nearly f 10,000, every
shilling of which belongs to Agnes. A let
ter from an attorney who was written to
says :
"It will not be a difficult task to put the
girl in possession of her rights. There are
several families here who can no doubt
identify her, as all were acquainted with
her parents, and an ambrotype of Agues
when she was five years old is in the hands
of a young lady herc.Jt having been given
her long ago by one of Strickland's girls.
If Agnes wants to institute criminal pro
ceedings I am ready to take the case, but
I think she will be satisfied with being put
in possession. She had bettter come down,
as soon as possible." Miss Strickland pur
chased ticket On Saturday, and w ill 6tart on
Monday, Mrs. Rogers going part of the
way with her.
A few weeks since a well educated young
woman, the daughter of wealthy parents,
suddenly disappeared from her home in an
eastern city. She was finally discovered,
dressed in a s suit of iter brother-sclothes
and working in a carnage factory, about
forty miles away. When taken back, she
avowed that her sole object was to be talked
about. "Didn't the neighbors talk when
I left," she said, "and won't they talk more
now, when they hear where I have been
and what I have done?"
Peach parings make the best of jelly -
THE KEY OE DEATir.
The following singular tradition is related
of a key in a collection of curiosities pre
served in the arsenal at Venice :
About the year 1600 one of those danger
ous men, in whom extraordinary talent is
only the fearful source of crime and wicked
ness beyond that of ordinary men, came to
establish himself as a merchant or trader in
Venice. The stranger, whose name was
Tebaldo, became enamored of the daughter
f an ancient house, already afiianccd to
another. He demanded her hand in mar
riage, and was, of course, rejected. En
raged at this, he studied how to bo revenged.
Profoundly skilled in the mechanical arts,
he allowed himself no rest until he had in
vented the most formidable weapon that
could be imagined. This was a key of large
size, the handle of which was so construct
ed that it could be turned around with lit
tlo difficulty. When turned, it disclosed a
spring, which, on pressure, launched from
the other end a needle or lancet of such
fineness that it entered the tlesh and buried
itself there without leaving any external
trace.
Tabaldo waited at the door of the church
in which the maiden whom lie loved was
about to receive the nuptial benediction.
The assassin sent the slender steel unper
ceived into the breast of the unsuspecting
bridegroom. The wounded man had no
suspicion of injury, but seized with sharp
and sudden pain in the midst of the cere
mony, he fainted, and was carried to his
own house amid the lamentations of the
bridal party. Vain was all the skill of the
physicians, who could not divine the cause
of this strange illness, and in a few days he
died.
Tebaldo again demanded the hand of the
young maiden from her parents, anil re
ceived a second refusal; they, too, perished
miserably in a few days.
The alarm that these deaths, which ap
peared almost miraculous, occasioned, ex
cited the utmost vigilance of the magis
trates ; and when, on close examinations of
the bodies, the small instrument was found
in the gangrened llesh, terror was univer
sal; every one feared for his own life. The
maiden thus cruelly orphaned had passed
the first month of her mourning in a con
vent, when Tebaldo, hoping to bend her to
his will, entreated to speak to her at the
gate. Her reply was most decisively in the
negative. Tebaldo, beside himself with
rage, attempted to wound her through the
grate, and succeeded. The obscurity of
the place prevented his actions froiq being
observed. On her return to her room the
maiden felt a pain in her breast, and un
covering it she found it spotted with a sin
gle drop of blood. The pain increased ; the
surgeons who hastened to her assistance,
taught by the past, lost no time in conjec
ture, but, cutting deep into the wounded
part, extracted the needle before any mor
tal mischief had commenced, and saved the
lifo of the lady. The State Inquisition did
everything to discover the hand which
dealt those insidious and irresistible blows.
The visit of Tebaldo to the convent caused
suspicion to fall heavily upon him. His
house was searched, the famous invention
discovered, and he perished on the gibbet.
From the Senate to the Gtitter.
On Wednesday evening a ragged, filthy,
utterly abandoned-looking vagrant, a young
man, apparently between 30 and 40 years
of age, while grossly intoxicated fell down
a cellar, corner of Mangin ami Houston
streets, and sustained such severe injuries
to his head as compelled his removal to
Bellevue Hospital. He gave his name as
Luke F. Cozzens. When he recovers he
will probably be sent to the Penitentiary
for ten days as a vagrant.
Luke F. Cozzens was born, some say in
Ireland, some up the Hudson. At any rate
he married the daughter of a wealthy cit
izen of Albany, who was afterward obliged
to leave him on account of his habit of
drinking. Cozzens studied law in this city
and soon made a name for himself among
the profession. He began to dabble in local
politics about 1850, and in a few years had
almost mounted to the topmost round. In
1852 he was a prominent member of the
Young Men's Democratic Union Club, of
which the Hon. Daniel li. Taylor was Pres
ident. After its reorgaizantion lie was cho
sen its presiding officer, a position which
he held during three or four years. This
was a very influential organization in those
times. It died out at the time of the sec
ond election of Lincoln. Cozzens was a
power in the Sevcnteeth Ward. His ap
pearance was handsome and winning; his
manner genial and free hearted. Every
body liked him, and he had hosts of friends
who would go through tire and water to
serve him. His talents were of the most
brilliant character. He was highly educa
ted, exceptionally intelligent, and possessed
a rare gift of eloquence w hich took the hearts
of his auditors by storm. He was account
ed one of the best orators iu the local Dem
ocratic i tarty.
In 1S64 his constituents substantially tes
tified their confidence iu his merits by
electing him State Senator from what was
then the Fifth District the 10th, 11th,
13th, and' 17th Wards by a large major
ity. That was the only office he ever held.
He had" always been a drinking man, but
about this time rum- became his- master.
He never was the man to save his money,
and never was rich. What little he had
was soon wasted in the corner liquor stores.
Self-respect, ' everything, followed." His
friends, unable to control his appetite and
disgusted with his conduct, abandoned him
one by one until he became at length a
wandering, houseless, bloated vagrant a
lodger in friendly station houses not so
often as in the first gutter.
For a long time he has been constantly
dragged up in one police court or another
morning after morning for intoxication,
and as often let off on account of w hat he
once was.
He is utterly past reformation, and tho
most charitable thing that can be done
with him is to place him somowhere where
ho cannot obtain the only thing his soul
craves rum. His case, on account of tho
fixt.rftordinarv brilliancy of his prospects
such a short time ago and his unparftlleled j
degradation now, oners an unusuauy im
pressive warning to the thousands who are
following in his footsteps. iV. Y. Paper.
Fourteen tears ago an Indianian left
his lady love for the land of gold. During
all these .years the faithful pair have each
written aud received two letters every wee k j
till a weejor two ago, when the swain ro- j
turned to claim hisbride. They have a pile J
of two thousand nine hundred and twelve J
love1 letters to begin housekeeping with. i
THE NEXT PRESIDENT HEARS FROM!
HORACE GREELEY Af PORTLWD MAINE.
A MODEL SPEECH.
The Keynote of the Cfitjxiifft.
Following is the report of a speech made
by Hon. Horace Greeley, the next Presi
dent of the United States at his reception
in Portland, Maine, on the loth inst. :
Mr. Greeley said he had struggled through
out his life for first, impartial and univer
sal liberty ; second, for the unity and great
ness of our common country ; third, and by
no means tho least, when the former end
was attained, for an early and hearty recon
ciliation and iea'e among our countrymen.
He recognized the propriety of a candidate
for the Presidency making no speeches, yet
there is truth to be uttered in Ik-halt" of those
who have placed me before the Americdti
people in my present attitude, which does
them such honor that I claim the privilege
of stating it here. Now, this is, that in truth
no person has ever yet made the fact that ho
proiosed to supiiort, or actually did titipitort,
my nomination, whether at Cincinnati, llal
tiniore, or iu any action -which resulted in
sending delegates to either Convention, a
basis to a claim for office. No one who
favored my nomination before either Con
vention has sought oHiee at my hand, either
for himself or any one else, nor, has any one
suggests to me that I might strengthen
myself as a candidate by promising to aj
jMiint any one to very liui-ortaut offices
whatever. In very few instances, I am
certain, (some of the smaller fry of politi
cians have,) since my double nomination
hinted to me by letter that 1 might increase
my chances by promising a post-otlice or some
such place to my volunteer cor reaix indents
respectively. I have uot usually reisxmded
to these overtures, but I now give general
notice that, should I le elected, I will con
sider the claims of these untimely aspirants
after those of the more modest and reticent
nhall have lx-en fully satislied. In two or
three instances 1 have been asked to say
whether I would not, if elected, confine my
appointments to the Republicans. I an
swer those by pointing to that plank of the
Cincinnati platform wherein all who concur
in the principles therein set forth are cordi
ally invited to participate in their estal)
lishment ami vindication. I never yet heard
of a mau who invited his neighbors to rai.se
a house, who proceeded to kick them out of
it so soon as the roof was fairly over his
head. -For my own part, I recognize evi-ry
honest man who approves and adheres to tho
Cincinnati platform as ny political brother,
and as such fully entitled to my conli.leiice
and friendly regards.
One other point demands a word. Tims.
adverse to me ;ak what pledges I have given
to those lately hostile to the Vision to secure
their favor and support. 1 answer, no man
or woman in all the South ever asked of me,
whether directly or through another, any
oilier pledge than is given through all my
acts and words from the hour of Lee's sur
render down to this moment. No Southern
man ever hinted to me an expectation, or
hope, or wish that tho relel debt, whether
Confederate or State, should be assumed or
paid by the Union. No Southern man who
could be elected to the Legislature or made
Colonel of a militia regiment ever suggested
the pensioning of rel-el soldiers, or any of
them, even as a remote possibility. All who
nominated me, were perfectly aware that I
had upheld and justified federal legislation
to sunnress the Ku-Kluk conspiracy out
rages, though I had long ago insisted as !
strenuously as I now do that complete am
nesty and 'genuine obliviou of the bloody
and hateful past would do mor for the sup
pression and utter extinction of such out
rages than all the force bills and suspensions
of habeas corpus ever devised by men.
Wrong and crime must be suppressed and
punished, but far wiser and nobler is the
legislative policy by which they are prevent
ed. For those who support me in the South I
have but one. demand justice ; but one
desire reconstruction. They wish to be
heartily reunited and at peace with the North
on any terms which do not involve the sur
render of their manhood. They cherish the
joyful hope that the time will soon come
when they will be treated under Federal au
thority as citizens, not culprits. So long as
they obey and uphold every law consistent
with equality and right they desire a rule
which, alike for white and black, shall en
courage industry and thrift, and in which I
fully concur.
Between the 5th of November and the 4th
of March next quite a number nfGoviTnnrn
and some other dignitaries who in the abused
name of Republicanism and loyalty have for
years been tiling debts and taxes upon their
war-wasted States, will follow the whole
some example of Hullock, of Georgia, and
retire'to the shades of private life. The deep
er and darker these shades are, the letter for
. themselves and for mankind ; and the hope
that my election may hasten the much de
sired hegira of he thieving carpet-baggers
has reconciled tb the necessity of supporting
me many who would otherwise have hesita
ted and perhaps refused.
Fellow citizens, the deposed aud partially
exiled Tammany ring has stolen about thirty
million Of dollars from the city of New York.
That Was a most gigantic robbery- and hnrled
its contrivers and aletUrs from power and
splendor to" im potency and infamy. But the
thieving carpet-baggers have stolen at least
three times that amount, and have stolen it
from an alreadv impoverished and needy
people. They Mill flaunt their prosperous
villainy in the highest, places of the laiy,
and are addressed as "Honortvble" and
celleney." I think I hear a voice from .the
honest eople of all the States declaring t heir
iniquity shall be gainful atid insolent no long
er, at the farthest, than till the 4th of next
March. By that time those criminals will
have heard a national Verdict pronounced'
that will cause them lo fold their tents like
Arabs and as silently steal away. That, I
trust, will be the end of their stealing at the
cost of the good of our country and well
being of ouir people.
MOItEi.jtfRblM THE SAME SOCRCE:
In the evening o( the samc day Mr. Gree
ley was serenaded, when. he stepped for
ward, and, after an apology for his inability
to peak, owing to fatigue and the weather,
made the following brief remarks, w hich
are alike creditable to his head and his
heart :
The sixty vears that have passed over my
head have taught me broader charity ami
kindlier consideration for those witli wh;tu
t have differed. I have learned to lielieve
that there is reason on the opposite side, in
: l H...1 T liivo :.ilill-l to do what
Illy inir. dir. .,...... .... . . .
wi rirrht often, doubtless, being mistaken
as right often, doubtless, being imsin n
often grieving old friends and ahenatinjj
her friends, and sometimes turning a few
owr.right'enetnies ; and while thus w. h
ot
other
. .
lu V"" '.''. . V"..Y.," ,.V l.m.inff to be infalli-
and w hile inns i'"""-",1 i 1
ble, I have squarely and sternly opposed
what I th. ught to be wrong. Probably more
careful and more painstaking reflection
mi.'lit have saved me these misfortunes. I
b e manv of the young men of Portland in
this crowd, aud to such I would say, le p;v
tient, bo rfsohite. if tho doors of opportu
nity are reluctant to ojen, do not U- discour
aged, but 1k sure that in tbe good providence
of God success will come to you. It may not.
lie such Success as yrt would choose T such
as you would prefer but it will be a re al and
genuine success. There is no land like ours
for its opportunities to poverty to industri
ous, honest and conscientious poverty. To
tllilse of you who are' struggling now as 1.
struggh-d in my young life, 1 rexat, be pa
tient and resolute. If my life were to end
to-night, or if my future were to rompans
only disaster and defeat, I would still con
sider my life a success, liccause I h:id Iweti
M-rmitted to live in this country aud in this
age ; and thus, friends, 1 bid you good-night.
Interview with Gntnt.
II Ih Itrerat Tiiar Hp l'rnpnnnil roaaM-lram
liiihtln It Out OB One I.lnr.
Correspondence of the New York Telcffrjim.l
One Thousand Islands (More or Less),
August 8, 172. f
I sent niy last tetter to you when tho
President and myself and the rest of our
illustrious party were about starting for thH
Thousand Islands. We arc now among
them, and between boating, fishing and be
ing under the trees the time passes agree
ably. I find that Grant is fond of Fish, al
though at times I have some difficulty in
determining whether the fish don't think
the real bait is on the other end of the lino
and angle accordingly. Nearly all these
Islands are surrounded by waten but right
around this Island on which I am writing
there is now more whisky than water. Tho
1 'resilient says he'd like to sit under a long
branch here and fight it out witli a line all
summer. I f c prefers it to a Long Branch
by tho sea side everything is so n ice and
cool, and the "straws" tell which way tho
wind blowsi
While the General and I were on a tramp
the other day, he startled me with a conun
drum. We had started out In the morning
for ilounders in the harbor, but the day
promised to be so warm that when we came
to a little iohd in the woods, licar a mill,
the General said he guessed we had better
stop under the trees and catch our flounder
therei So we each baited our hooks and
fell to work. There was a pleasant spirit
(in a glass concern that held a pint) about
the place that made it comfortable,- and wo
sat talking very contentedly till the Presi
dent said he felt a nibble. He whipped up
his hook and found it was caught on tho
bark of an old log. He pulled this oft", and
tried again. The next time he lamb tl a
small, si ill-looking dog without any bark
He laid him one side, in a melancholy way,
and tried again. This time he snared aii
old shirt, tied up and full of young kittens;
The President looked still sadder at this
and, winding up his line began to miw.
lie said he guessed he'd go. I asked hint
what he was thinking of. lib remarked,
Colonel he calls me Colonel now,) if Dr.
Greeley was here why would he say thi.-i
p vnd was like my Cabinet ?" I said I o-m'd
not think unless because he had kept Shttrt,
out of it. "No," he said, "its because it
seems to lie full of corruption." I laughed,
and the General added that ho thought wo
might as well leave the pond and go homo,
for he didn't lielieve that even Justice her
self could find a scale in it. When we'ra
out so, we talk over politics a good deal,
ana generally agree ou most puinis. iim
President says be thinks most of my idea
are very sound, and he has promised when
ho gets back to Washington to make a
change iu the Cabinet.
The General feels quite hopeful as to lint
success of his ticket this fall, made upas it
is of a tanner and a shoemaker. He saya
it will be a tough ticket to beat4 I sug
gested that the Convention might ieihap
have done better than to put W ilsonou, for?
it seemed a little like getting down to take
a cobbler for Vice-President. He said lid
didn't look at it in that light, for he rather"
liked cobblers, and it didn't make a straw's
difference to him, if they only drew well.
Pacl Peppew, P. 1.
A Middle Sized Boy's Composition ox
Girls. Girls are the most unaccountable
things in the world except Women. Like
the wicked Ilea, when you have them they
ain't there. I oancipher clear to improjici'
fractions, ami the teacher says I do first
rate; but I can't cipher out a proper or im
proper girl, and you can't either. The only
rule in arithmetic that bits their case is tho
double rule of two. Tliey are as full of
Old Nick as thbir skin can hold, and they
would die if they could't torment somtb- xly.
When they try to he mean they are as mean
as jossible, though they ain t as mean as
they let on except sometimes, " and then
they are a good deal meaneri The Only
way to get along with a girl when she conies
at you with her nonsense, is to give her tit
for tat, and that will flummux her and
when you get a girt flummuxed she is as
nice as a pin. "A girl can sow more wild
oats iu a day than a boy can sow in a year,
but girls get their wild oats sowed after
awhile, which boys never do, and then they
settle down as calm and placid as a mud
puddle.
But I like girls first rate and I guess thd
boys all do. 1 don't care bow many tricks
they play on me and they don't care either
The hoirytoytiest girls in the world Can't
always boil over like a glass of soda. By
and by they will get into the traces with
somebody they like and pull as steady a
any old stage horse. That is the beatlty of
them.- So let them wave, I say; they will
lay for it some day, sewing on buttons and
trying to make a decent man of the feller
they have spliced on to, and ten chances
to one if they don't get the worst of it.
THANK God-. At thd close of the Revo
ltition- George III. tlesut-d his Chaplain td
return thanks to God. .
The Chaplain replied, "Mre, do you wish
me to thank God that you lost so many
troops!''
"No!"
"Do jou wish to thank Godbecadse yoii
have lost, so many millions sterling ?"
"No !"
"Do you wish to thank God because yort
have lost thirteen of your best" colonies?"
"No!"
"Then w hat do you want to thank God
for?"
"I want to thank God because it is nd
So it is with the Radicals: They fire sa-
lutes over North Carolina, and thank God
that it is no worse-
JrDoEilANt-cK,' Chairman of the Grant
Central CommiUcc in Mississippi, repudi
ates Grant, and is out for Gueley.