"IStlWttl P'CCSIiSII '.t : 'Ii 'it ,f:. 1'r McPIKE, Editor and Publisher. HI 13 A FKKEMAS WHOM TUB TEUTH MAIE3 FREB, AND ALL AHB SLAVES BK4IDK Terms, GZ per year. In advance. v-ai : ii u 1 1 .'I ! I. 1 e if:-' 1 a J" J K i'V - i II-": ! lLj W j V (.'- liirr. J ii. II..' !o-'i. ;i.; : i ! : .it:: e rJ !. 'J '."' :,.'f - Ir. : 1; J ; t '!i'-;'. .t'i lis STtv ' Jlf-v ; I e:(- - Uil! -; Ihr- ril'-- t a: ll.U'i Li :r' ay T' l :bt'f. 1""' -i I,:' f efl- - an 1H' i i;i'" hi? .n-t a: II il "J l z """" ypUIME YT. rAKMKU'SjSKIiTniS! ClllIN M SEED CLEARER, patented Feb'y 1st, 1870. M KNTFACTURF-I) by r;iEBEL& PENNINGTON rI"ilIln, viuo. Its capacity Tor cleaning " ; tl. bushel per hour, anil runs ! U-.ut Uchu be tunica by a hoy ft ei ''-A ,. -i .i..va mlvnntnircs. it is furrhcdi una " ; SO (IIS Y j,Wtlhf-Hl'Vaaivamnges. n is larcntci"- r ' v ar-v other rannmg. Mill now man. - ."ai.tiute oiirasst-rt ions, wo Riv? the fol i '. ih i.pinimia of several reliable gen- "" resiil'1"' Seneca county, Ohio, who , f Veil the Cl.rA:R n thorough trial : V- ti iimiTiifnel. have thorouifhly tff-ted ; 5r- 'i.' '."" "'! ( Vinrr, Hud helirve Jt't-i Ik- ' "mnrior f" nv one in iiHe for eleaninir Vr' df (u nther Hinall seeiis, for market or for nwinir 11 '-pa rates every irruiti of Ch, 'T "' fr,"1 l-xiKnel for ae.l. I.' al iV-f from Tintnlhu, and all wibl -",'mciI fmni Fhur. so as to rendpr earh tar oir kind of sord desniiciied for aowinir l'ir yf i'Uit iiml entirely ft te mm flit h itnd fore iun v Oi IUywahp, liieo. T. Ink. WM.l.AhU. J. ItOWBItSIM.'K, Dr.iUO'COHSOR, I . KlNZBii, Thf ni1M-i(rnel are the rryiidrTu tont ittifr.l AO-S IS HHiTIIK SAl.K OK TllK IH'CKEYE G tUV AND StEl CLEAN Kit tn all part of (u? fM. i 1.1011;, exeept the Townahipa of Car rol!. Ch'-st. Cleurlield and Susquehanna, ami will ii; a l.ort time oall upon the farmers of the d 'eft i t Towiibhipa and di-monMiate to eueh furnifr. of hi nun lm n, tluit this "I 'leaner will in oil Mi it is claimed Tor it. 1 ue ' 'leaner" can ho aeeu and tested at any t!:!9 bv ealiinjf on u at our furtu. one-and-a-b:tif mfl'-i tiorth-eaat oT Eheiisl.urif. t"AH onlers or letters of inquiry will re Cuira prom lit attention if addressed t 1KIOVKK A WhlHLK, Aug-. ?3.-tf. ENeiistuinr, Camhrla Co.. I'm. DR. CAHPKNTER, 136 MULBERRY STREET, I MiWAKK. N. J., I now troatlng- aueeeanf uliy Consumption, Bronchitis, tnd all iliiiK'i of Throat and l.unirs, wirh his t)2!Hl Ml MKUH ATKI) 1IUI.ATKS, t()CKS TlitUD HIOU, A Mil C'Ut Uil MKl'I'. tiuTin the pt ten years Ur. Carpenter hail trw.'td Mini eured thoii-and- of caea of abt.re ts ' r rtiscases, aud has now in his possession ri' fW-H .cif cures from all parts of the coun try, llnlolmlstinn inbreathed directly info the iu:--; weilniif and liealiii(f oer all inflnmod gi: . iflps pnrencjf into the blood. It imparts vi ta ...riM It ji'-nueatea to every part of the ay g ffa.'t ' lie b.-MMtt ion i." not unleiisnt, and the fcimUt iivn often gives very decided relief, ix.-riru aily wiii'ii there- is much difficulty of crrath iiy. I'nder tht iutluein-e of my reme-U:f-?. .the cohIi noon grows eusier, tho nijttit ff-atfl cease, the hectic Hush Tanishes. and with l.Ef-roviiiK digest ion tho patient rapidly gains I'rcsfth. hikI health is Hrtiti within his grasp. The Conrntrsted Kood rapidly builds up tho ttiost det'iii'ated pat ion t, present ing to thestoin i ta food a. I rea!y to be asimiluted and inado iDtnpooil. rich, healthy blond. TfcsCourh Sjrup is to be taken at night to al leviate, me o.iiiirh and enatde the patient to ob tain ab-cp. l itii ilirect itm uccftnpany cavh lioje nf myrethfnifs u hicn roiijuw of ti tniinler: One Itottle of Alterative Inhalaat; V Pottlo of ootliin)f tebrifuire Inhslaot : One i --tin Aiiti-llvniorrhatrtc Inhalant :Une BottU i titrated toed;n- Bottle t ougk Kjrup. I'; it- of Ho.x containing medicines to last one -ft . ff 10 ; two moot hs, tin : three months, J' i anv address C. O. I. Pamphlets con- t larire list of pHtients cured fent free. 1 (, f inqiiirv miiKt -ontuin ona dollur to IiijUfe iinwer. Addross, iA. II. CAKPENTEU. M. D.. Newark, K.J. Tif, ;..rpentrr'B CATAJiliU HKMEHV will fit in.iiiediatn relief, and will effect a pertna- uraltim- in from one to three months. 1'rico cf re iw-riv to l ist one month, 95 ; two months, H tl -rce iiM.tiihs. $!. CANi i !: in all its forms successfully treated. Pf!3B Tor ,it f oiitients curcil. A. II. ( A KPENTElt, M. I)., Newark, N. J. Ae-u-t 0, lST'.'.-ly. VOIR tMx TTi -scr . ., HbV- U&.l. , J,, EITIIEU IN tamaplis, Bloomiiiffton & Western i KAILWAY EXTENSION FIRST MORTGAGE 7 Per Cent. OK IX I lo Ior Cnt. ilp,l'.u-.ivU;. u and Circulars furnished upon ) application- W.N.COLER c CO., Bankers, A" Vannn Street, Mrw York. CAPS.CAPES, TORCHES, AMI Vr F LACS of All Sizes: Lanterns, I.ORKinirs, Radcea, and -" tsinpaien Uoods of all kinds. f Buy from Manufacturers, JohnW.Pittock&Co. Opp. PotJum-e,riTTSBtlU;H, Pa. Bend for Circular. Presidential Campaign CAPS, CAVES & TORCHES. S'nd for It.t.t'STii atkd Ctitt'CLAii and Phick Li mi CuNMNiHAM & Hill, MANUFACTURERS, No. 204 hurelt Ntpt, i'HUjAdkia'hia. Jane, lttTS.-Um. OF. J. L. WIESENBACH, t -t- '"ir Teacher, 9 l!f fmore) 'ANOS! N'D S. I). & h. W. SMITH'S (Boston) "iUrl 1I,im, Kbcniibnrg, ,JAU COAL! ! The s.ibMiribiT i Ii- t-1 5 DAMEL H. ZAHM. i rr.l jmoUeve drain mul Sffil 4 lennor , V$"?riJrUny other Fanning Mill ever Ut I " vi ,v- wore than twice the screening ,rta '.' !f tl," ordinary mill, while It is neat ami lit! nisnv imuiuru aim unco -il sj Xi lis ieJr'i';ttr r,lr,i'ih. In larpreorMnall I M no ' s'VVt.li','us f ANTH UACITE and 1-. ESTABLISHED TWENTT-riVS TEAKS! FRANK W. HAY ITn.iiii ill otinei', WHOLESALE AND RETAIL, -or- rm oomn, AND Sheet-Iron WARES, AND DEALER IN HEATING, PARLOR ai COOKING AND- nousHi'RMsnixc GOODS generally. ! ..Tol)!)!!! ill TIN, COPPER Si SHEET-IRON rBUSPTLT ATTKMIKD TO. Nos.278,2SOand 282 Washington St., JOHNSTOWN, PA. HV virtut 'f mindrj- writs of IVik. Krmn. 1s siieilontof the Court of Common Pleas of Cambria county, and to me directed, there will lKexponed to Public Sale, nt the Court House in ElieiiKburir. on Tarsday, the 15th day of Octo ber next, at 1 o'clock, p. M., the follow iiiK Keal Estate, to wit: A l.i. the rijrht, title and interest of Michael Doyle, of. in and to a lot of ground situate in the vlllare of Cullltzin, Cambria cnunty, front, nir on a street and extending back to a street adjoining- lot of C. D. Bradley on the north and a street on the south, having thereon erected a twojstory plank house, now In theoccupancy of Michael Doyle. Taken In execution and to be Mild at the suit of John E. Storm. Au, all the right, title and interest of Jos. Dcnzcl, of, in ami to a lot of ground situate in Carroll township, Cambria county, fronting on the Ebensburg and Ctorrolltown rood, adjoin iuir land of Andrew Striitinattcr and Elizabeth Weakland, having thereon erected a one-and-a-half story plank bouse, now in the occupancy of Joseph Denzel. Taken in execution and to be sold at the suit of A Ibin Oswald. Also, all the right, title and interest of S. F. George and I.ibbie (ieorare, of, in and to two lots of ground situate in Chest Spriiurs lioro'. Cam bria county, fronting on Columbia street and extending back to a" street, adjoining lots of Silas A. McUoinrh and Ellen Mcliraiii, having thereon erected a two story plank house and a frame barn, now In the occupancy of Harrison Miller. Taken in'exeeiition and to l sold at tne suit of Simon Weakland. W. II. BOXACKElt, Sheriff. Sheriff's Offlce, Ebcnsburg, Sept. 17. 1S72. FATHER BROWN'S MONUMENT. THE LETTING of this Monument will take X place at the house of .1 mitre Easi.t. in Oon enmuirh Borough, on MONDAY, the 14th day of OtTOBKB, last., nt 2 o'clock, f. M. Scaled Proposals will be received up to that time. The Committee have determined on erecting one similar to that ff Father M'Ctxu.niH's, adjoining it in the cemetery at the Summit. The plan and specifications can be seen at the residence of Judge Easi.v, or by examination of Father M'Cullouoh's. at the Sumaiit. JOHN It VAN, HOHEKT IHMOND. PATK1CK KODG EKS, JAM1US HI' HNS. I). M'LAI'tSIILIN, fiE. W. EASLV. THOMAS M'CABE, VM. ADAMS, Oct. i.-it. Monument Building Committro OIiniANS' COURT SALE OF HEAL ESTATE. 1 Y virtue of an order of the Orphans' Court I) of Cambria county, there will be exposed to Public Sale, on the premises in the Horoinrh of Iorelto, on SATtttHAY, NoTcmber th, 1S72, at 2 o'clock, p. M., the following described Ileal Estate, of which Mart McGuikk died aeied : TWO LOTS OF OltOl'ND. known as Lots No. 35 and :H in the plan of said Borough, bounded and described as follows: Each Lot fronting ."SO ft. oiSt- Mary's st't and extending back axi.f t. loan alley, adjoining lot of Sebastian rryon the south and St. Paul street on the north, and having thereon erected a one-and-a-half story FKAME HOUSE and a small STABLE. TtHMa'or Sale. One-half on confirmation of anle and" the balance in one year thereafter, with interest, properly secured by judguieut bond and mortgage. FUANCIS O'FHIEL, Sept.27.-3t. Atlm'r Mary Mrfiuire, ftrc'fl. Patrick! Scitt,1 Mart Maxwell .Common Tleas of Cambria alia I Countj. Mart Scott. J And now, to wit : Sept. 0, 1872, on motion of John P. Linton, Esq., C." W. Easly apMinted Commissioner to take testimony. J. K. HITE, 1'rothotuttaru. Notice is hereby given that I will attend to the duties or said appoiutment, nt the ortioe of John P. Linton. Esq., in the lioronjrh of Johns triwn.on Friday, the 11th day eTOrtober ext, at 2 o'clo.k i. m., when and where all ixtroiis in terested may attend If they see proper. C. W. EASLY, Commissioner, Johnstown, Sept. 18, 1871.-4t. COLLINS, JOHNSTON & CO., JLlenslTif, Xii . "I'lT'ILL receive money on deposit, discount t and collect notes, and attend to all the business usually done Mr Bankers. Sept. 20.tf, GEO. C, K. ZAHM, Ca.Bhier. EBENSHUllG, original. TO LITTLE MACSOIC Dearest little Maggie, Sprightly little elf, There was ne'er a sweeter fairy Thau her dainty self ; Chanuing hazel cyea, Lovely curling hair, Fair complexion, roso-hud mouth Maggie ia a huauty raro. Witching little mischief, Never tireil of play, l'rattling, Hinging, romping, Happy all the day ; Winning love from every one With her charming way, Chasing gloom and sadness From our heart always. Sometimes acting "mamma," Mimicking her talk, Telling papa of her trouhle In teaching "doll" to walk Then oft" to tease old Carlo, Or coaxing poor sick puss, to see. If she cannot make her taka A little toast and tea. Happy, darling Maggie, 1 pray thy heart may ever ho Just as it is to-day. From care and sorrow fron ; That angels bright may guard thee Where e'er thy feet may roam, And bring the sate at hist Unto a Hoaveuly home. M ISM K MVKTL V.. Dudley, l'a., Aug. Ill, 1K72. MA It It I ED TO A 31 U It I) Kit Kit. At dark, Bessio Walters ran into the cot tage, rousing her father with the news that the wnugflei's schooner was laying ofl" Arish Mcll, and Jim Bolton had gone to prepare tho men to be ready at the Mews. She wa a smart littlo schooner, drawing wonderfully littlo water. So, the sea being like glass, only throbbing with a ground swell, ahfl was towed up within a few hun dred yards of tho bhore, and then tho work Ix-gaii in earnest. "We'Ye only but two honrs safe to do it in," aaid the leading man, "for when the tide turns the breeze '11 get up and carry off tho fog. So pubh on, lad, and show what Dorset chaps can do." In a couplo of hours nearly half the car go was safe, each man working like two. Tho tea and tobacco were stowed away in a snug cave, long used as a hiding place ; tho kegs of spirits sent off t neighboring cel lars, somo of which were in vaults least suspected. By this time the fog had cov ered the downs, and lay there as if resting. Suddenly through the mist and silence came tho shriek of a sea gull, then another and another. Every man stopped working. Every faco turned in tho direction of tho signal, for such it was ; then down through the white cloud came a liguro scrambling jumping from rock to rock and Bessie Walters, her face Hushed, her hair looso, breathlessly bUkhI by the men. "Harry's gotten back fro' Weymouth," she said ; "tho revenue chaps ha' gotten word and the cutter's coniin', and tho sol diers too, and some of oufown folks have blown the cave " j "Then it's all up," said the captain ; "so . much for your d d Dorsetshire. I'll ' give five jiounds to the man who will take ns out. I'll give ten jiounds. Twenty I'll give. Thirty forty iifty ioiinls to the fellow who'll run us out of this cursed hole. By O , I bcliev you are all in the game, and brought us hero to sell us. But I'll beat you yet. If I can't do better, I'll bunt ; the craft, rather than let a stitch of her fall into such d d wreckers hands. Here, Charlie, pull off." As he spoke, a rocket whizzed up in the offing, and the cutter was within a couple of miles coming with the predicted breeze. "It'll bo bad like to let the craft be taken," said a man who had been watching the cap tain's boat. "I've a mind to go tiff with her fifty pound's a tarrible lot of money." lie looked hard at Bessie, and Bessie's cheeks grew redder as she said : 'Soc lie as you'll goe, Garge, I'll row you off." JSo further words were then spoken, but the man walked down to tho boat, followed by Bessie. "Supposin' I git tho money?" asked George, looking around. Bessie bade him hold his tonguo till he got it, anil nodded him good night as he , scrambled up the schooner's side. j Sullenly and desperately the smuggler held on her way. Suddenly the trumpet rang out : "Haul to, or we shall fire." "Fire away !" shouted the captain of the schooner. A spur of fire sprang from the cutter's side and a. round shot crushed through tho smuggler's jib, cutting half a dozeu ropes in two. Still she held on. Swish came an other shot, this time hitting tho mainmast and sending out a shower of splinters. They woro within two hundred yards of each, other, the cutter coming on, evidently with the intention of boarding. Bessie held her breath she was tli inking of Geo. Harvel. The crafts were close together. Bessie started up and Hung her arms over head with a cry of dismay, for tho revenue men wero boarding the smuggler. The air was filled with firing, curses and shouts. A sudden thought flashed into the girl's bewildered brain. She ran down to the thore, pushed off her boat, and, jumping in, rowed to the scene of action, never once PA., FRIDAY, OCTOBER 11, 1S72, doubting that she would see George some how and bring him off from the ship. The sailors were too busy to notice the boat glide up ; so Bessie lay under the lee of the schooner, watching, with clenched teeth, two men. struggling for life or death, come to the bulwarks just over the boat. She could hear their panting breath, then a pistol-shot, and then a body was hurled over the side. Clutching desperately at the slippery wood, grasping at the last moment a loose rope, he swung down almost touch ing the young girl. At first she was too busy to notice his face ; but when the bandage was tied which she furnished, she looked at him and saw his lips moving, though his voice was too faint to be heard over the noise of the fight and roar of breaking waves. Her ear al nioht touched his lips before she caught the words : "Hide me, hide me, and let me die in peace !" For a moment Bessie stood staring at the black rocks and thinking ; then a light crossed her eyes, and she said to herself: j "We may's well risk it. May be there's j no other boat about, and he's too handsoin,e a young chap to be hanged. Garge maun look after himself, I allow." Excitement lent extra strength to her arms. Shooting through the Durcle arch way, she ran the boat into the beach just in tho quiet little nook behind the "Door," where the projecting rocks made a perfect haven, dragging the boat up as far as she could. Tho man was moaning now with pain, but as she couldu't lift him out, the only alternative was to make him shift for him self. "You'll hev to land, young man. I allow it's difficult, but yo' maun do it. Ther's a cave here yo' can lie in till tho cutter's men and soldiers are out of the way." For answer ho got up and scrambled, with mauy groans, out of the boat, dropping upon the shingle. "You're a good lass, and if you're as pretty as you're voice is sweet, I'll have the best of it hiding away here." "We'll see about that, my man. Yo're all tarred with the same stick. The moor a woman does for a man the moor she'll hev to do. Tho ferst sarcy word yo' snys to I, my fayther he cooms to mis yo'. So yo' best keep a civil tongue." Tho natural result of this nursing was that Kitty lost hor heart. Pity is, w e know, near akin to love ; and so it was. By some means or other, the revenue officer left to keep a look-out at Lul worth began to get some inkling of the truth, and one day, meeting Bessie, he questioned her rather closely as to her friend. But she was too sharp to tell anything, and the name he went by (Kit lloberts) could give no clue to his antecedents. That night, however, the officer came across Kit him self, and began chaffing him about Bessie. Boasting a little loudly of his knowledge about domestic matters, there was a row. The officer threatened Kit retaliated. Then some of the older men stepped in and separated them before blows had actually been struck. Henry Walters, however, had come in time to hear his daughter's name bandied about, and, it being Christ mas eve, the old man was not perfectly sober. So he gave the officer a bit of his mind ; and, warming with the subject, end ed by threatening to pitch him over tho cluT if he ever said a word against Bessie again. Then. Kit, who had boon fitamliny uv S0' the old man away, and for a few hours the Latter was at rest. Next morning Bessie started for East Lulworth to attend high mass. Returning, sho went down the long, steep path leading to the ruined chapel of Binden. Suddenly she stopped. Surely that was Kit walking along tho cliffs yes, going slowly, as if watching or waiting ! Then lie stood still, crouching down. There, within a hundred yards, wrapped in a night cloak and hood to keep off the keen east wind, stood the revenue officer, watching with his glass a passing vessel. Behind him, creeping like a panther down the steep cliff, was Kit lloberts ! A thousand sparks seemed to be flashing before Bessie's eyes. Her lips opened, sho tried to scream, but her voice was gone ; she endeavored to start forward, but her knees gave way, and falling, 6he lay still ; yet, impelled by the horrible attraction of murder, she watched her lover he who in a few weeks was to be her husband delib- erately steal upon the officer, and with a sudden spring and blow, with his hands outstretched, strike him over the cliff. Sli hoard the murdered man's death-yell, but no more. A cold baud seemed laid upon her heart, and all her senses left her. When she recovered consciousness Kit was sitting by her. His face was white and a terrible expression of fear and anger glared out of his blood-shot eyes. "How did you come here?" he asked, making no attempt to raise Bessie up or excuse himself. As Bessie told him his face grew wilder. Springing up, he dragged her up too, al- j most crushing her wrists as he did so. j "There's only one of two things that j will silence you, and by heaven you shall ; accept tho alternative either follow him ! or go with me to the clergyman at Dorches- j ter, and I'll be safe from them and you." j Three days after, Bessie was a bride. I The girl hardly knew how those days had pasted. She had been kept a prisoner in a small room at the top of a house in somo back street in Dorchester. Meantime the body of the coast guard had been found. Harry Walters' threat was corroborated by a dozen voices, and the old man was hurried off to jail. The viltage was in a ferment of wonder and ex citement, for simultaneous with the mur der was Bessie Walters' elopement with Kit.- The first news that met Bessie and her husband was that of her father's arrest. Who can describe the girl's horror and misery, the perplexity which beset and crushed her on the one hand, to see her father hung for a crime of which her hus band was guilty ; and on the other to de nounce the true murderer, and save her father by the sacrifice Of her husband. There was one thread of hope, the evi dence against Henry Walters was merely circumstantial ; those who had heard him swear vengeance against the officer were now ready to swear he was drunk ; and that a more forgiving, peaceable man never lived. Onco Bessie saw her father. "Don't yo' fret, my darling. Yo' know I be innoceutas an unborn babby," he said. A great and exceeding bitter cry burst from Bessie's lips. "Doant say that, oh ! fayther, yo'rkillin' I I must tell yo' I maun tell, or my heart will break. Kit did it fayther " The old man sprang to his feet ; he had been kneeling beside the seat she was on. "He did it faj-ther ; I seed him !" and seizing the arm that, with hand clenched, hung by her, sho told him the story of her husband's crime and her misery. Wheu she was done he stood still, his hands clenched, his head drooping. Suddenly he turned, and lifting her up in his arms, held her to his heart as he had done when, as a motherless child, sho had come to him for comfort iu her childish tri als, j "Bessio, my darling, ye'vedone right in telling mo. I can die happy when I know why I die. No, my dear, you're not to fret ; it is you I'm thiuking for, not Kit. J God'll havo to think for him. It'syo' dar. ling you'll find it hard to hold your tongue, j but you must, dear. I'm your fayther, and j God has givon me a right to command my j child. My command to yo' is go back to Kit and help the Lord to make him a bet- i ter man. I hadn't many years to live, Bessie. It's not much whether I go this year of five years later; and I allow I won't j be hardly judged in the other world for ; what I'm doing now." j Kit was sitting at the table writing when j she got out of bed. She went over to him 1 and put her arms around him. He looked up in her face. God knows what he saw there ; perhaps the shadow of her doom in his. Whatever it was, it in ado him lay his head upon tho table and sob in the very bitterness of a man's despairing passion. Bessie did not try to comfort him, Sh had her work to do. Kit sobbed on ; then, turning he came over to his wife and laid his hand on her shoulder. j "You are right, Bessie ; only you are not to do it. I'll do it myself." Bessie ran after him he was gone. Rushing back to her room, she began dress ing ; life and death depended upon it aye, indeed, life and death ; for even as she hurried down stairs, a crowd came to the door a crowd with white, frightened faces liearing in their midst a body ! Kit had shot hiiimelf. The pa per ho had been writing when Bessie gave him her last kiss was a full confession of the crime. Henry Walters was released, but never showed his face in Lulworth. When Bessie was able to move they emigrated, and no tidings of them, weal or woe, has ever reached their old home. A Singular Coincidence. We are fond of cats. Unlike most persons, it pleases us, while lying in bed at night, to hear three or four cats out in the back yard spitting and yowling and waltzing around to their own mysterious music. So we al ways keep a cat on hand, in order to con tribute our share to the entertainments. It is a singular fact, however, that one hundred and sixty-three successive cats which we have purchased have disapjear ed, one after the other. We Would buy a cat and have it around for a few days ; and ! would place it in tho yard, on a given , night before retiring. In the morning 1 that animal would always have disappear- cd and none of them ever came back ! We . regarded it as a somewhat singular coinci- j dence that the man who lived back of us j always had fireworks on the very night j that our cats disappeared. Reflect i ' this circumstance, we purchased uigupoii ; ;u.iadl vjui uiid . . . . .. . . a i ,i,j sheli and determined to watch hor. We placed her out in the yard a few nights ago and observed her from tho kitchen door. The tortoise shell frisked around for a while and ground out a few melodi- nn Boronehna Then sho iiimncd n-vm ons screeches. i nen sne jumped upon the fence for the purpose of making ac quaintances. While there we perceived the- man in the rear yard wipe that cat suddenly off of the fence into a bag. Then that scoun drel tied a string to tho tail of the tortoise shell and affixed the other end of the cord to a skyrocket. He then lit a match, anil in about a minute that animal was swish ing around among the stars without a hair on her body. We observed where tho rocket fell. It was within a lot enclosed by a high fence. We went out and climb ed that fence early next morning, and there lay one hundred and sixty-four rock et sticks, each with a singed cat tied to it with a string! Now we know why wo missed our ets ! and if w b not souse down on that ftrewoiks man with the soci ety for the pi evention of cruelty to animals, it will, he because that organization is hopelessly demoralized. Max Adlcr. OBMilN'AL. THE DYIU WIFK TO HKB lltSBlSD. II V O. J. AKKKS. I hear tho church 111 toll the hour the hour for holy prayer ; Ah, how nay suffering heart doth long to join the suppliant there? I hear the liell and yet tuethinlts its clear, full tones are strange ; But, no' f it is mine ear that fails and under goes thf change : I'm drifting from the. shore away, all sights j and sounds grow dim Away from what fhe good Lord made I'm 1 passing nnto Him. Oh, life ! Oh, time ! Oh, aching heart and , soul Look upward from your dismal deep," where I battling billows roll, : And turn thy weary sight to God to you ' bright, sun-lit homo, j Where earth's poor, weary children rest, !o- yond the. billow's foam. And, husband, dearest, ere I go from thy kind love away, I ask of thee to look above He wilt thy sorrow stay. Thou long hast sought to bring to uie each earthlj- wish and need ; And, oh, my God ! how sinks ny heart to think that his should bleed. When summer smiles anil summer flowers, long pone, were bright and fair. We clasjied our hearts and bands and vowed earth's weal and woe to share. And winters came, but passed a way liefore the April rain. And, like the summer flowers, I go, but ne'er shall com again. Come nearer, oh, dear husband! for I am al most gone. I wish to speak but little more ere yo;i shall be alone Kre I shall sleep the long, long sleep, and thou shalt weeping bo For her, who through a changeful life, ne'er changed her love for thee. The clouds will pass away, dearest, the sun light come anew, And others' smiles will light tire path with glittering gems for you. It is a blessing given to us in life's fleet pass ing hour That future promise; points to rest in her en chanting bower. So, too, for thee will promise come, with re gal smile and form. And then again thy heart will glow with passion deep and warm. And where my head hath lain oftimes iu days gono by, When thon didst whisper loving words, with love-light in thine eye. There, there will rest another, and thy noblo heart will swell With pride and deep emotion, which thy glistening eye will tell. And may she prove to you, dearest, a true and loving wife As t rue as I have tried to be throughout our wedded life. But now the crape is falling, I bco, beyond, the sky. I hear tho angels whisper let me kiss then ere I ilie ! Farewell ! when grow the sweet, bright, blithesome flowers of yore, My dearest, you will miss Jeanette forever, ever more : At.toona. Pa., Reptemper, 1S72. The Trials of Thomas Burdue. I have just read, in the Mountain Cit? Times of the 31st ulto., a selected sketch entitled " Circumstantial Evidence. A Hair-Breadth Escape from the Gallows iu San Francisco," tho writer of which claims for it exceptional truth fulness and accuracy. It is indeed, like Artemus Ward's stories, "founded onto fax," but those facts arc aw fully distorted in the narration. Thomas Burdue's remarkable resemblance to Jhn Stewart caused him to be twice tried and condemned, but both trials were had before lawfully constituted courts. Here is the true story, as it is well known to many old Califoruians ; and it is far more wonderful than tho very imperfect version above men tioned. The murderous assault upon Jansen. and the robbery of his store i, in San Francisco, took place in the winter of 1850-'51 the exact date I have forgotten. From Jan sen's description of the robbers, the police were satisfied that one of them was a no torious desperado named Jim Stewart. After a time they succeeded in arresting a man whom they supposed to le Stewart, but who asserted that his name was Thom as Burdue, and that ho had arrived in Cal ifornia after tlie date of tho robbery. He was, however, tried, together with "his al leged accomplice ; was identified as Stew art ; and both the prisoners were found guil ty and sentenced to long terms in the Cal ifornia State Prison. In the fall of 1350, the sheriff of Sacra mento county had been murdered, while traveling on horseback from Marvsville to Sacramento, and robbed of about f'i.OotJ which he had in his custod7. Circum- stances clearly indicated Jim Stewart as the ierpctrator of the crime. According j ly, after tho trial and sentence of the sup j posed Stewart in San Francisco, he was 1 delivered to the authorities of Sacramento ' county, by whom he was conveyed to Ma rysville and committed to jail to await his trial for murder. Jim Stewart had formerly resided at Fos- tcr's Bar, a mining camp on the Yuba Rir- er, about eight miles from Marysville. Ho was well known in that region ; and after : the prisoner had been placed in jail, still : strongly protesting that was he Thomas Burdne, and not Jim Stewart, and that he was innocent not only of the crime of which he had been convicted, but of that with w hich lie was charged, he was visited by ' - ... l vii4 iiii ..ii ill r r. 1 1 1 1 i t , , r , i "l nuuui ueneveu uiev recornizeil him. i Tt f o e"teiiauictl ome doubts of his 1 "ut. But one man was positive that ! . the P"1" 7! not Mewart. This man , la?, . , tulger, a Justico of tho Peace , rtfc "' lc iKir lH-10 whom Stewart had ; : appeared on many occasions, and who ! knew inm well. After a long interview with the prisoner, Stidger was thoroughly convinced that he was not Stewart, and stated his conviction and his reason there for freely and publicly. By this time the Vigilance Committee had been organized in San Francisco with branches in many interior towns, including the prejudice against him, joined to the , fear of tho committee, which t arried mat-1 ten. with a high hand, in many cases stir- passing in lawlessness tne outrages it was ostensibly organized to repress. Stidger was "interviewed" by lending "vigilantes," And on declaring his absolute certainty -Biiii sv me, ana tne organization emiuaceu , ..... ;r-.. , , , " -L V the leading business and professional men f "! nV lfltW h-k better with ten in every place where it gained a foothold. ; ,1""nyes "t tout puffing ami WplaitM , Nearly every lawyer in Marysville was a 1,1 10 equator, wh.. h should bo gath- "Vigilante," and poor Bmxhie, whose trial oreI ' benisUU hcd gudgeons up and do u for his life was to take place immediately. tI,c eumvwith K-'t stich between, she wa nnahio t.i.f..;,. . sel. no s! ion-' was c;in make it u p in that way, instead of ttnt- TsUIMUEIi 37. f that tho prisoner and Stewart were ditior : ent men, was warned that if the prisoner j was acqnitted on his evidence,- both should , dangle from the same gallows ! He was " not to be 4bhi fled," however, and replied that he would testify to tho truth, what ever might hapieii. The Vigilance Committee did not at tempt to take tho trial of the prisoner into its own hands, but used its power and in fluence in aid of the prosecution,- and stood ready to mete our nummary punishment, should the court fail to convict tho alleged culprit. The trial was pretty much one sided. The counsel assigned to the pris oner did his duty manfully, all things con sidered ; but the witnesses were evidently afraid of the Committee, and such of them as had any doubts of the prisoner's identity hardly dared express them. (Stewart's connection with tho crime was established by incontrovertible evidence, and the case hinged upon the question of identity). At length Stidger was called to the stand, and testified promptly and positively that he knew Jim Stewart well, having seen him nearly every day during a long period, and that the prisoner at the bar was not Stew art. On his cross-examination a colLvpiy something like the following occurred be tween Stidger and one of the attorneys for , tho prosecution : O: You admit that there is a strong re semblance between the prisoner at the bar and Jim Stewart? A. Yes; a resemblance so close that I was at first deceived by it. il. How, then, did you satisfy yourself that tho prisoner is not Stewart V A. By the strong iiuts of difference be tween tho two men. Q. What are those points of diflerenco ? A. We'd, Stewart is a little taller about an inch, I think, than the prisoner, and his hair and eyes arc a little darker.- Tins middle finger on tho prisoner's left hand is crooked, "apparently from rheumatism. The middle limger on Stewart's n'AJhand is crooked, having been nearly cut off with a knife in a hand-to-hand fight. Again, Stewart is a nervous, excitable man, with restless eyes. If he were in that b jx ho would be constantly changing his position, and his eyes would-be incessantly wander ing about the coart-rooiu, never resting for moro than a second or two upon ono jierson or object ; whereas the prisoner sits quietly iu one place, and regards every thing he looks at with a calm,- steady, lin gering gaze. The features of the two men aie very much alike in their outlines, but totally different in their expression. If Stidger' s testimony had any weight with the Court and jury, they wero afraid to manifest it ; for the judge charged against the prisoner and the jury, after a short ab sence from tho court-room, brought iu a verdict of "guilty of murder in the first de gree.". It was fortunate for the prisoner that they did so. Had they acquitted him. he would have been seized and sum marily hanged by th Vigilance Commit tee. As it was, he was allowed a short re spite two or three weeks to prepare for death: To render his escape im jossille, the Vigilance Committee, professing to distrust the Sheriff and his aids, kept a strong guard around the jail day and night. Three or four days before tho time ap pointed for tho execution, news reached Marysville that Jim Stewart had been enp tured, and in- the hands of a vigilance Committee in San Francisco. The matter was considered of sufficient importance to inquire into, and a committee of the Ma rysville organization was detailed to pi. ceed in all haste to the Bay and ascertain the truth. Stidgers was invited to accom pany them and did so. (His testimony had its good effect after all, and that at an opportune time.) A look at him was suf ficiently convincing. Notwithstanding his remarkable resemblance to the condemned t man in Marysville, who called himself Thomas Burdue, the points of diners nee noted by Stidger were now plainly appa- rent. Stewart was at olice recognized by ; every man of tho party. Furthermore, ho had confessed both of the crime of which ! Burdue had been convicted. There w.is j now barely time to save tho latter's life, i It could only Iks tlono by executive interfcr ' ence. In breathless haste the party wait ! ed tioti the Governor, got his signatui and seal to two distinct pardons, and, with great exertions,- reached Marysville with the documents just as fhe miuions of tho law were about to lead Burdue forth to ex ecution. And thus, after languishing for many months in prison being twice condemned ami finally pardoned forcrimeshe had nev er committed, Thomas Burdue was turned out. friendless and ieimiless, upon tlio world. Whither he went or what became t of him no one in that part of the count ly kuows. He was never again seen or heard of there. John Oi.kkke. PlEDMOST; W. Va.. Sept. ltf, 1S7'. L'umtpundencc o Cumberland 1'iinet. Eytutaoaxcf. vs. Mauri age. TIioso who like, with Mr. Buckle, te collate social phenomena and draw general deductions ?' " f JU St lloW -Aat!lCr exei,c,'t Til 9 rAl'ia I 1 fir Tim TrAiocc loin a v - ' I . material for the process. As an examplo we him the Ixmdon journals discussing with earnestness the prodigious and in creasing c.wt of Leef, bread, and female at tire ; ami looking at tho law reports in tho same papers, we find a most unusual num ber of breaches of proniise iu which th man is the defendant. The significance of this is probably beyond dispute. Amorg a hundred men who have engaged them selves, a certain crcentage of cautions natures will be found who, n the contem plated step Incoming imminent, are moro and more disturbed by the thought of its iHjcuniary difficulties and resjonsibilities. These swains retreat; and a certain pro portion probably a small one f the out raged damsels seek !su h solace as the law will accord thern. A Ci.kvki.axi woman not long ago mod estly requested her husband to go to the dressmaker and tell her that she (the wifel had chan-ed her, mind and would have the ing the bobbinnet insert ion and piecing out tho iMjint applique as I suggested yester day:" The jOor mail is now iu a lunatic asvluin. Hartshorn and water, applied with a sjx.mge, removes grease from coal C"llai'S: I i
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