J; , UiV A S, , -5lcPlKC, Editor and Pubfishr. 1 tSX IM A KXEEMJkS WHOM TEH TTMTfn MAKES FREK, A2SD AIL A 718 PLATES BEglDE.' Tornij?, per year, in advance. Volume yii. EUENSBURG, PA., FllIDAY, FEBIIUAKY 21, 1S73. NmirER 5. ' . .. - . . . w -c- -I f - . - - - - ' i ,.T v . ;.y in,lc'w:ll' ourStonoiland Kcy Jjtl .-L:i!Tr.l M'fV Co.,Od Fulioubt., N. . -T" ."..,l rerthe nt-w anJ starllinff book, The lV,,! '; i,n t,y tbe author of '"God in BfFU ii ' rv -' 'llluMraU-a hy Do re and 11 i.l r-i" l'n.lirod by eminent dlviru-a. i1; i.libihr. iHi5 Broadway, N. V. ' - tj I K 'vSTB5ST SELLIXO HOOK in oil m Iirket i T. 8. AKTJ1UR8' t1 Years In a Man-Trap. I1,1 , ,,,,, tb..r:ind a month. Circulars J v'r.iUUAUT A; CO., Pub's, Fh Huda. NTS WASTED FOR ptof FOVn.EU'S GREAT WORK ijl ' . k niuanliiMMt. at their Mutual In- I 1 .-l.r.i',r' tc. lis I nns, i'ontr, Ac. . itr" ft Hrrti lars.w i to terms. , i. I'l lii.isti imq Co., I' hi la., Va. hisses. Old people, tb r:ikl t;oe who are jul entering' mill of boiti Jen buy aud Ii.: ijiiit e.U profit. Mi 0 5 CI ji:'.LV FRIENirS S III.. I.r.W 15' la?t an.l host book. if 0 tin: with tho rroatvstt aucceea, f m ', ! : irmir l irculii r-. elf., which nro I t j.v,t CKO. MACLEAN, l'hilad'a. "r -.-ili1, IO,0C0 la Oho Jtoutl', our liv:::s-stQ2io2rr9AMca i.' : .i.v it nlmVK 'iCicr. t he book 1 1 .ro.-s like HiliSflrp. (tver '..-( I. Moro Asccttf WaatPd. ,ii;i r. ir ' : . ::;t 'l.'eeiv eil ty misvepreenta 1 i i : 1 :.i off hirh-prieed inferior ; .-:! 1 for circiihirs Hiid see Proof of t.i 1 sreat sui eessof our ntrentx-I'oe-ii. worth t mailed free- lH.'B-i- .. I'ul.libhrrs.TiJansoin-st., I'bila. - V 'iNTED. Adilreso. for the mr-st us e'rer offered. Til E DISCOVEUEK iM.M O.NE ! AKKU'A !! A.HrntarPS. . LKV-EI VIN(isTO.K EX l'ElIT?O.V ;i. I .a tire octavo volume, jusr issued. :-nfs Irr-idcnts of the WmhK rlul Career of i,t- t Traveler, i he Con n I ry. AniniaH, Na-vr- M nut invr. ire. Villi :ieeount of lhm most :r s-. inirpiH ff the:-' ..be. mtut sknt roa 1 1 A i-s t M n X l i ' I : I . I H H ; N J ., t h i iea S.III.; rhr.ti -lolphi.1, .: ..r Spn?m:jeld. Miita. t 3 !C C S ' & C K OTH E R ' Q i 1M.I'N'I'(?4'I'I. i l'.. IIV. 1XT3. NOW OI T. l.JStie.l as a The four mii;iters . nt to any ad . n'Kii, for 23 Cents. The riehrst anil -r i. tire i!h!str:ied 'id I leset i.t i ve i,-.. ' I'Vfr pu blished. 'I Ijohc f our pa , .. .-nli'ied St.'eJs 1 s t year and were i . i i i ecuts. will r.-etive the four . - ' .r I.-iTS. Tboe who order Seeds .:. be eredit-d with a subs, rjpUon :. T Jttmmry it u nil.-'r con1. ;i ins ihm r!y .. , Tno .u(crl' t'idorvd i'iatfs, ar. ' ; nir. a nl . -i. . I iutp'1 i 1 ,.i o'.ir rul Cbroiiios; ini'.rniiitii.n rela rs. Vejretuble.. A.c and th'-ir ul- ' - ail such uillr ts v.-.'is foririt-ily ' - nnui Citatnioire.e. Vmi will uii.-s r S',-:!;ilS before eeisi tirii;. : : v .Mil ::!'.!.Y. We hai:r:i-e eotn : ,ii;it:ty of Sed atfd pr e ami s:.- Our " COi'ii !ar A-lvnn'.- short p.n 1 .1 for s.iit Ire-. .l(l tii-n.: A- r,::;vj i:i i:s. fcioril co.l f loti'.'.s, lii.i iZl-.STKJl, X. . vI, hut for c. m rMs.;or! thront , -r M-r nul I'fuiii Lifll io.iri.iiu 'i j ly V.Kl.LS' CARBOLIC TABLETS, 1 lii ili li ss I iui In! ions Hreon f lit, market. a:ri- - uly seieinitio pretKimiion or (.rbi!ic 4i r ! I. inir lireas s in when i hemicaliy eoui ar '. "Mil other well known remedies, as in : vi iT-i. an1 all parties aro cautioned a .-I iimir liny other. fa all r;t.o i(f irrita:ioti of the mucous $: ! a ta ui. ins should b-freely used -'!.: ;. -n aud luaiiiu in opei tics are aj- . a- 'n.i'. Kt - :t rn fl .Vc r-T ni-'f. f n n .f-. Itiseasily :tf ' e: !i ii"-:pient si . V.'hen it beeontes ii '" eu re is e.vee-dii)! i y 'bflieuit. I se ... ' !'.' Table! as ;i i(vi.f. K !J. l.l ;;, l.s IM.",! Si.. New Yo.k. Sole Af?tut for Cnited Males. 't - abox. S.'iid tor Cireuiar. if i . iies' Friend. A,k vour ,roe-r for it. TLETT'S BLACK SMC liwayt! Ri es sutistuetion. Try it. Alii, u u 12 V ; oinerv has no eonal. SOI T II Y : bO M. A. ilAUTLETT ,V CO., m and 11". N. t i , Thila., IM Cuauibers-tc, N. YorU, 1J a liiMDii. Jt. will :' i i i.i I e and t tiol'ouuhl ' v Hest rov -.; l.ince in the Illoo.t hm 1 will et 1 --. i all predisposition to bilious le- " ' ' ' ii l inn inimir TAcrr owl ' : at ouee. l lie blood beeomes im 1 m-seert lions, proiliieit!'i tcrof- .-s.ti Mji aes, liloieues, Fulouo, 1'us v -' r. i'liuples. Ae., & ' ,! '; ' SluiiHHh t I'nless dijros-i'-' ; t: aided t he system is debilitated ";; ::. 1 1 iree. poi ell y of the Elood, ' 'li-i.'i.-ney. General Weakness or Eas- 1 H : lutlil'ul iaorto weary sulTerers. ':..i..s.nf I ha lntrIU1 You are -' 1 : 'i.i ..Hie Diarrhu-'a or the dreadful 1 "'. "I ! Ii- llov.-els. '.'. !,.,. itf the Vt'rint or Uriwiru ' ;uiist priK-ure instant n-lief or ' i !. xiil i in?r worse than death. ' ''', drowsy, dull, sliiK'irisii or de ' i i . with head iiehe. back aehe, O"' bad tastinvr mouth .,! , ;i-uied for all of I hese diseases. ' - - .'il l troubles; tor eleunsiuff and ''-!' 1 1 in ted blond and i in part inf viff- i. ! in.; for bui Idin ii i and retor r ' ' , .institution, lli I i i.i'ini. "d by tlie ! n : in tr medieal ; ' " - i I i n .Ion and Eai is "the most pow "' i t 1 1 rui i ve know n to the uieih ' ; I : is no new and untried 1'iseov i 'i - ! i i i: luii used by the leading phy ' ' 1 "' l ouuiries with uviuhijuL reme- ,' 'ii.il ?"n j iSr the dijrest ive oivims Mint phvsies. They jfive only tem- ' " ;' ! 1 1 "liiri ! ion. lial uleliey and dys I'if' sand kindred diseases, aro sure ' "i" ii iie. 'UN '''"! p. ire dnd health is assured. .' kKl.l.o;.. is l'latt St., N. Y., -ile Ayent r..r the I'nited States, "iiar per Lio; tic. Send lor Circular. ',!,'? "vreb ..'iven that Letters Testa- I A : l ":' 'he Estate of l'eier Kerriyan, "nciiv town-hip. I'limh, ia county. :' w granted bv t tie Er ister of the undeiMjfinil.. All persons in .'Mate nr.- n-iUi- leil to make ii '"em. and tho-e ha vim- claims "1"-' vili present them properly 'J','-' "T IV.eneiu. H p.ru v -x. o w . "mi. 1 mvv WW y. Jutl. 1 '. I,.j.-ut. Kxeutoi a. ai AGENTS ! A RARE CHANCE ! ! We will pay all Airents 40 per week iw cash whoVill eutfaare with us AT owck. EverpihiiiK l'uruibhed and expenses paid. Address A. COULTER & CO., Charlotte, Mich. $.5 to $25 per Day Ayettfs Wanted to sell a lieautiful Portrait, in oil colors. of the Hero or Oettysburz, the late Maj. Gen. Geo. O. Meadk. Send 1 lor outfit, or25cts. for garaplo. Cro.sscup ii West, 70:j Chestnut St., Philad'a. HUTCH'S Imperial Russian V itlosmrl. Wholesale to the trade. Sin gle can sent, post paid, on receipt of I. W. II?:KMA1n T. FHUEAUr K, Headins, Pa. it TO 'vs'Ti fcr ''"y' Ayents wanted I Al AO V O classes of wm liinx people of c i ther eex. younq- or old. make more money Rt work for us in their spare moments or all the time than at atiTlhinir else. Particulars frev. Address G. STINSON" & CO., Portland, Maine. STEVARD. For any ease of Blind, Pieedinjr, Itehinjf or I'leerait'd Piles that Ilii Bi.;'s l'il.E ItKU kdy fails to cure. It is prepared Pirpsaiy to cure the Piles, p.nd nothinif else. Sold by all drutrif ists. Pricell.no. SE1 33 IKSIS IOU THIS ADVES lzett: A book of 1SH prtjres, showintr how, wheh and where to advertise, end eontalninar a list of nearly 3,(Hl newspapers, wit n much other infor mation of interest to advertisers. Address ,ii:. i. KOWKIJ. .V it., I'nbliKlicrs, -il 5liri II;v, f York. SIXTEENTH ANNUAL 11 E V O Ii T or THE VKOTr.('Tl( HI'TrAI, rn.E ixM'R.wf e rup'v of aimiA ro. KOU TEE KAK i:.!UtJ JA.X'V 1:1.!:, ls.73. Amount inrair'T'd, per Ui-t report ? Hiil.oT". 1." since last report.. 204, i4; "2 tl.f:r..3-j:j 77 Acjouiit eurr?'nd(?rcd and cancelled. I."-'J,v;.'4 :2 Amn;inl of Premium NTotc-s ia force stlitiieof last r"jxut f -!.47" fil Aui'l of Notiis taken ninee laj-t lvport 21,;i"i7 irt ino.ss; sis 1'i.Yi' 77 Amount c :,;ired and cancelled. . .. Total amount in fcrce No. of 7'nlicies issued during: year. No. of I'olieies now in lorco t ',n-,4 21 ..7. .. .1)7 l-'Si 1Fr.s .1. LLOYD. TVeiisri n:d Receiver of .1 L t iie 1'roieei I(.n Mil ii al Fire i nsu ranee oi:i I ..' "f '-.miriria eoumy lor iho year enditr .1 a 'juarv 1H, 1 "'. To balance- on hand nt last settlement . . 57 "' amount, of l'ip!icaie No. ; :j .8 41 k Eorotiii ii n.iiu re.i.-eined lO'Ai " amount of interest received '. Hi 01 " amount oi p r ceutagc ehj 70 IS Cr;. By amount lo Mary n. Hii2-hes.llJ300 00 M rs. E. Lcuioti . . . 4: on 12 wj 3 5S. 1 50 JOUO-1,5C2 03 ?3,570 40 7 5d ('j mi 40 nil 117 75 10 - 0 11 H) ;i no 10 CD ;! m 24 50 416 05 t 'i,15l 05 175 "2 50 00 John Iversl " tleortre Could ... " (iwiiiff Kane... . " Evau J. Evans... B." Secretary's fees . " Trcasm cr's salary " Bent ' Fx. Commission. .. ' Sta 1 lonery " Stamps " Postage!. " Fuel and L'L'lit . . . " tldieeis' Fe-s " Pi inuiiK By Commission on Assessment. ' Kxonera . ions " Fiipeiiscs Balance in hands of Treasurer. in) 242 ! 5 I County Bonds Approved Oy the i;.vc u t i ve Coinm i;tc Ji;oo t'ocr Atchison. Topcka & Simla Fe R. R. Tlii'co IMilliosi V c 1 e ".e'c' i'l oisri icr the Ai kmimis Wnlhy, in, tilt Finift I'oiiion of liuusas .' Eleven Years' I'irdit. Be ven per Cent. Interest. 22 per cc.:t. loductiou to E-ttlors who improve. A FREE PASS TO .LAND BUYERS. THE FA f'TS about this Grant arc Low Tri ce s. Lonvf Credil. and a Rebate losetlleisof iH-flv one-fourth ; n Rich Soil and Spieuilid Climate; short and mdd Winters; early pl.ii.i iinr, and 110 winlcrinx of Stock : pleni y of l!.im- till.nnd just ut die no-ht srasoti ; imii. stone and Brick on the line ; Cheap E-ttcs on Lumber, Coal. i;c: no lands owned by Speculators; Homestead and Pre-emptions now abundant; a firsi-cl-iss Railroad on the lice of a ureal Throtnrii Route; Products will pay for Laud and Improvements. IT IS MB M...T OlTOnTUNlTY EVFR OPFKItKH TO TIIK PUBLIC thruWjh VllC ICCdU C(JI klii.ll of Die it'tivl. , For Circulars and general information ad dress A. E. TOCZALIN, Manager Lund Dep t, 1 17.-3m.l TOI EKA, KA. 13U I'raiilili" Nlrff', JoluiMowa. - f ON'FMENTS. HEAD and TOMB jrv il sTON KS, COI" NT EI 1 and KM-&g.f . 1 r SEA BS. MANTELS, Arc, manii-Ck V !.', I faetured of the very bet Italian nndHil American Marbles. Entire sal i d:ic- JJ;JUL ' A.l In r.i-ii-4' di'Klfill and ,v.l cr execution of work. i -SXa 11(111 tiUailll". r" I-.--- , r, r tT Orders respecttuiiy soueneu r s v ; .Tj 1 u r.il..t nt. tint verv low- if T, d 5 r-; and promptly filled at thJ very low est cash rates. Try us. rvriicnnii Oct. 24. -m. I'AUkE 4 LEV EilOOtui. lxcontor's Notice. TETTERS TESTAMENTARY on the Estate j of Joseph Lcntz, late of Allegheny town ship, Cambria county, decoase.1, having bt en trranted by the Reurister of said county to tin. subs.1 ite r, all persons indebted to said esiaie are rciuesti-d to make immediate payment, ana those having claims airainst the estate ot s;;it ileeedent will present the same properly au thenticated lor settlement. F. -X. HAfD, Executor. Loretto. Feb. 7, lS7:j.-)ir. CAME into the enclosure of the subscriber, in While township, some time in December last, a small YEARLING STEER, spotted with whit", and a while ROA B HOG, probably one and a half years old, having curly bristles, and wattles under the throat. The owner or ow it ers are reiiisted to appear, prove properly, pay charires, and take tla-m awav. 1 s n.vin HOLLAS. Fallen Timber. I'.-b. 7, IS7'.(.-M. A LTKIC FOR TIIK UOVK. Slippery, slippery, slop ! Sloppery, sloppery, 8lip ! Now down you fro ker-pop ; Flat as a Yankee Hip ! Up on your feet again, Powdered all over with snow, Skipping and slipping, ripping and tripping, Cursing yet nursing your woe. Sloppery, sloppery, slip ! Slippery, slippery, slop ! Your feet have lost their grip, So up arid down you flop. There there you go once more Floundering about the street Bearing and tearing, declaring and swearing The beautiful snow's a "bea.t." Slippery, slippery, slop ! Sloppery, sloppery, slip! About your arms you flop, Like a dismantled ship. Yet courage tako, dear pir ; Bear up the best you can ; 'Tis hy tr ipping and slipping, skipping and ripping, One proves himself a man. JUIIYIIJLX'S STOllY. We had been out only twenty-four hours, and stood e'oveu to one. Tho case was a very j.lain one at least we eleven thought so. A numler of peculiar atrocitj' had been committed, and though no eye witnessed the deed, circumst:iucei pointed to the pris oner's guilt with unfailing certainty. Tho recusant juror had stood out from the first. He acknow ledged the cogency of tbe proofs, confessed his inability to reconcile tho ficts with the defendant's innocence, and yet on every vote went steadily for acquittal. His conduct was inexplicable. It could not result from a lack of intelligence ; for wbilo he spoke but little, his words were well chosen, and evinced a thorough un derstanding of the ca.;o. Though Ktiil in the prime of manhooJ, his lockswere pre maturely white, and his face woro a singu lar and tho tghtful expression. He might be one of those who entertained scruples as to tho right of society to inflict tho death penalty. But 110, it was not that ; for in reply to such a suggestion he frankly ad mitted that brutal men, like the violent brutes they resemble, muft be controlled through fear, and that dread of death, the Kuprame terror, is in many cases the only adequate restraint. At tho prosp.:ct of another night of fruit less imprisonment, we began to grow im patient, and expostulated warmly at what seemed to lie an unreasonable captiousne.", and sonc" not 'oveikind remarks were in dulged in as to the impropriety of trifling with an oath like that under which we were acting. '"And yet," tho man answered, as though ccmnir.nicath.j; with himself rather than reper!iij the imputation, "it i conscience that hinders my concurrence in a verdict approved by my judgment." "How can that be ?'' queried several at OtiCt?. "Conscience may not always dare to fol low judgment." "But hers she can know no other guide." "I once would have said tbe f ame." "And what has changed yvur opinion?" ''Experience." The gpeaker's manner was visibly agita ted, and we waited in eilenco the explana tion which he seemed rcady.'to give. Mastering his emotion, as if to answer our looks of inquiry he continued : "Twenty years ago I was young, begin ning life. Fen had brighter pro 'pects and none brighter hopes. An attachment da ting frum childhood ripened with its object. There had been no verbal declaration aud acquaintance of love no formal plighting of troth but when I took my departure to seek h home in the distant West, it was a thing understood, that when I found it aud put it in order, she was to tharo it. "Life in tha forest, though solitary, is not necessarily lonesome. The kind of so ciety afforded by nature depends much on one's self. As for me, I lived move iu tho future than in tho present, and hope was an ever cheerful companion. "At length th time came for making the final payment on the home which I had l-.utjEt. It would henceforth be my own; and, in a few months, my Bimj.lo dwelling-, which I had spared no pains to render in viting, would 1)0 graced by its mistress. "At the land ofiice, which was some six ty miles distant, I met my friend Ceorge C. He, too. had come to seek his fort una in the West, and we were both delighted at the meeting. He had brought with him, he said, a sum ot money which he desired to invest in land, on which it was his pur pose to settle. "I expressed a strong wish to have him for a neighbor, and gave him a cordial in vitation to accompany me home, giving it as my belief that he could nowhere make a better select ion than in that vicinity. Ho readily consented, and we set out together. We had not ridden many miles ere (k'orge suddenly recollected a commission ho had undertaken for a friend, which required his attendance at a publn land sale on the ' following day. Exacting a promise that he would not delay his visit longer than necessary, and having given minute direc tions as to tho route, 1 continued .011 my way homeward, while he turned back. I was about retiring to bed on the night of my return, when a summons from without called mo to'the door. A stranger asked shelter for himself aud his horse for the night. "Though a stranger, his faco seemed not unfamiliar, lie was probably one of the men I had seen at the land office a place much frequented. Ollering him a seat, I went to see to his horse. The poor animal, as well as I coukl seo by the starlight, had had hard usage His panting sides boro witness of merciless riding, and a tremu lous shrinking at the slightest touch be tokened recent fright. "On re-entering the house I fmud tho stranger was not there ; his absence exci ted no surprise; he would douodess rcturu. It was a little singular, however, that he should have left his watch on the table. "At the end of half au hour, my guest not retuniiug, I went out out again to tho stable, thinking he might have found his way thither to give personal attention to tho w ants of his horse. "Before going out, from mere force of ua1,it for we were as yet uninfesled by cither thieves or policemen I took the pre caution of putting the stranger's watch in a drawer in which I kept my valuables. I foil rd the horse as I had left him, and gave him the food be was now sufficiently cooled lo bo allowed to eat, but hi master was nowhero to be seen. Aa I approached the house, :; vicwd of men on horse-back dashed up, and I was commanded in 110 generous tones to 'stand.' In another moment I was in the clutches of those w ho claimed me as their prisoner. "I was to much stupefied at first to ask what it all meant. I did so at last and hen tha explanation came it was terrible ! ily friend, with whom I had so lately set out in company, had been murdered and robbed near the spot at which 1, but I alono knew r,e hid separated. I was the last person known to have been with him, and I was now arrested on suspicion of his mur der. A search of the premises was immediate ly instituted. The watch was found in the drawer in which I had put it, and was iden tified as the piojieity of the murdered man! His horse too, was fou.:d in the stable, for the animal I had just put thero was none other. I recognized this myself when I saw him ia the l'ght. "What I said 1 know not. My confusion was taken as additional evidence of guilt. And when, at length, I did command lan guage to giv-c an intelligent statement it was received Titli sneers of incredulity. The mob spirit is inherent in man, at laasl iu crowds of men. It may not always man ifest itself in physical violence. It some times contents itself with lynching a cUar- arter. But whatever its foim, it is air, ays relentlessly cruel. As t lie proofs of my guilt one after another camd to light, low muttei ings gradually grew into clamor for vengeance ; and but lor the firmness of one mau the eilicer who had me in charge I would doubtless have paid the penalty of my supposed oilcuce on tho spot. It wa;i not sympathy for mo that actuated my pro tector. IBs heart was as hard as kisUiice, but he represented the majesty of the law, and took a sort of grim pride in the posi tion. As much under the glance of his eye as before tho muzzle of hia pistol, the cow ardly clamorei-i drew back. Perhaps they wcrs not sufficiently numerous to feel the full tfl'ect of that mysterious reflex, influence which makes a crowd of men so much worse, and at times so much better, than any of them singly. At the end of some months my trial came. It could have but one result. Cir cumstances too phi inly declared my guilt. I alone know tLcy u'cl. The ?lisoi:co of the jury was Tory brief. To their verdict I paid littla heed. It was a single hideous woid ; but I had long anticipated it, and it made no impression. As liltlo impression was made by tho words of the judge which followed it, r.nd Lis solemn invocation that God miflit have mercy upon me, which man was ic.st to vouchsafe, sounded liko tho hollowest of hollow mockeries. It may be lu'vd t'jv the condemned cnnsiv.a! to met t death it is still Larder for him who ir, in nocent. The or.e, when the shock is over, acquiesces in l:is docm, and gives himself tip to repentance ; tbo heart of the other, filled with rebellion against man's injus tice, crui scarcely bii:ig itself toaic jcruop f ('.ml. I h?.d gi-uJunily overcome this feeling, in spite of tho ood clergyman s irritating efforts, which were mainly di rected towards extort ing a confession, with out which, ho assiued me, he had no hope to olTer. "On the morning of the day fixed for my execution, I felt measurably resigned. I had so long stood face to face with death had so accustomed myself to look upon it as a merely momentary and felt sure that my memory should bo cna day vindi cated, tho fr v.'l-.om I had gone to pre pare a l'.orce had already found one in Hea ven. The tidings of my calamity had broken her heart. She alono of all the worid believed me innocent, and she had died with a prayer upon her lifts that the truth might yet be brought to light. All this I had heard, and it soothed as with a sweet incense my troubled spirit. Heath, however, unwelcome the shape, was row a pi;rtal beyond which I could see one angel waiting to receive me. I heard tho sound of approaching footsteps, aud nerved my self to n-ux't the c.pectcd summons. ' The door of my cell opened, and the sheriff and hi3 attendants entered. He held ia his hand a paper. He began to read it. The words "full and free pardon" were the first to strike my pr?-oceupiod senses. Thoy a f fected the bystanders more than myself. Yet so it was ; I was pardoned for an of fence. I 1 1 i f I'OTCl .tY Tl ' i M O-! t "The real culprit none other, it is need less to say, than" lie who sought and abused my hospitality had beed mortally wound ed in a recent affray in a distant city, but had lived long enough to make a disclosure which had been laid before the Governor barely in time to save me from a shameful dath and condemn me to a cheerless and burdensome life. "This is my experience. My judgment, ns yours, in the case br.foto us leads to but one conclusion, that of the prisoner? guilt! but not loss confiding and apparently un erring was tho judgment that falsely pro nounced my own." Wc no lunger imiortuned our fellow juror but patiently awaited our discharge 011 the ground of inability to agree, which came at last. Hints for Home. Tea and coee should be made as soon as the water boils, or tho was crcapes and the favor is destroyed. Molasses is improved by boiling, aud should be boiled and set away for cake and other purposes. Cranberries should have water kept on them and changed every week. Pour hot tallow on ink spots; let it re main a few miuutee before washing. To give a gloss to shirt-bosoms aud col lars, add a piece of white wax and sperm aceti, each about the size of a pea, to a pint of starch, while boiling. Iron until smooth, as friction puts on the gloss. Another: Pour boiling wi-Ler on gum arabic, and when dissolved, put in a bottle, cork tight. When tho tach is boiled add some, and it will give a gwd gloss. To choose nutmegs, prick them with a pin if the oil comes out, they are good. The Lftc.th of Days. The days in summer grow logger as we go northward and the days of wiuter shorter. At Ham burg the longest day has seventeen hours, and the shortest seven. AtJ Stockholm the longest ha. eighteen and a half hour and the shortest five and a hal f. At St. P. ers biir the longest has nineteen and the short est Sve hours. At Finland the longest ha-twenty-one hours and a haif. At v audos bus in Norwav, the day lasU from tr twer.tv-fust of May to the .second of July, the ann I"' gett ing blow tho horizon for the whole time, but skimming along very close to it in the north. At Sptt .ev iven the longest diy lasts three months and half. MULE-izmixG ron LOVE. Did yem ever ride a mule? I don't mean a civilized creature accustomed to good society, but a wild steed of the plains brought up on grass and rattle snakes, and accustomed to cavort regardless of tho Constitution as amended or the lights of mau. Mulee are pretty much alike the world over, only the Texan mule is a little moie so. I rode one the other day and I'm going to try to tell you about it. It won't bo very well written, because my riht aim has been in a sling and I have more bruis es than bones. 1011 see I fell in love with a girl deep as a forty foot well 1 mean my love, not the girl she isn't deep at all and as my luck would have it, another fellow fell about the same distance at the same time. He's not a bad looking chap, and wears store clothes on week days. He parts his hair in the middle and oils it up with ber gamont and ciuamon. He has his name printed on pieces of paste-board and drops them round promiscuously, foi fear people might forget that A. Browne Swivel wasu't about. I had to acknowledge the fact that between this fellow and myself, in the af fections of the divine Araminla, it was nip and tuck, with the dog a little ahead. I put on "my best clothes one day and walked over to the girl's house, intending to move 011 her works and have the thing settled without further debate. Sy rival was there and seemed to have on his best clothes. That didn't amount to much, for I knew at (en o'clock, six hours after my arrival, he'd have to wend his way home, for the old lady that he boarded withdidu't allow any irregular hours. If he got to his frugal couch, or rather to the house containing it. bo might skin his knuckles and kick his boots oft; but he wouldn't get in after that hour, and the haymow is not a pleasant bed room in flea time. But I was soon relieved cf all anxi ety. "We had a diversion that soon broke up the sitting. Araminta is possessed of a little brother I hate a girl's brothers ! If they are lit tle they play tricks on you. and if they are big they borrow your money, get drunk and insult you with impunity, knowing that you ate in love wkh tho sister, anil won't resent an insult. Whilo we were talking in a small way aud looking volumes of iovo atthe girl and wraMi at each other a fearful yell iu tbe garden patch was hearth and running out we found her little brother on the ground in active convulsions. He had been trying to eat his way through the melon-patch. It was a disgusting failure, for he could not have busted open and gone into tho con tents of more than ten or twelve. As it was it looked as though thero was going to be a death in the family, and Ara minui screamed a .scream and yelled at us to run fjr a doctor. Wc both took iu the situation at a glance the man that got the doctor frst would get Araminta for life. Aiy lival went over the fence like a deer nd seized the only lior.se in the stable, lie bridled and saddled tbe animal in dou ble quick time, while 1 found nothing left but a mule. I seized a blind bridle, and rushing at the animal, felt something whiz over my head that I am satislied was a pair of heels. They narrowly missed my skull, but canied away my hat. Nothing daunt ed I seized the creature by the ear, put on the bridle and unfastening the chain by which he was haltered, led him from tho stable. He went out williugly, so much so indeed that I had some difuculty in keep ing up, and had not the creature slopped on the outside to give vent to his feelings iu a prolonged bray I could iiot have mount ed. As it was, before he got through with his musical entei taiumeiit I was 011 his back. The beast seemed somewhat astonished at tiiis performance, and stood turning it over in his mind for a minute, whilo I tiug niy heels vigorously in hissides. He seem ed suddenly to come to the conclusion that a change of administration would be an ex cellent thing, and to this end began going up and down like a saw gate, I really tho'i I'd split in two, and would probably have been pitched over but that in the midst of this pleading exercise muley caught sight of tbe horr,e disappearing at a haid gallop the laudable ambitiou of overtaking that hor;;e, and started so suddenly be camo very r.car leaving me behind. I worked my way forward until I got hold of the hal ter chain, aud pulling this rigging taut, got a pretty secure hold. How tho beast did run ! He not only gained tin the horse to such an extent that Araminta might have offered two to one and no takers, but exhibited his super abundance of bottom by throwing in, at intervals, the liveliest kicks that over ema nated from a mule. About a mile out we c'jscd in on tho cob, and as we passed J.iuley favored him with a salute that was most infernally foul ; for planting his two heels upon tho off quarter of the honest Eucophalus I heard a yell, and glancing around I saw my rival and horse go down in tho most promiscuous manner. My steed of the desert keqt straight on. Wo had a ride of eight miles before us, and I felt satisfied that in that distance, at the rate we were traveling, Muley would have a good doit'i vf vim taken out of hiai. I became aware of auuther fact, tLat was that my best pants were giving away. Altout five miles out we struck a water melon patch and went right through. I could hear the melons bursting under me liko bomb3 ; and when we emerged from the further side specimens of this fruit were strung on the mule's legs like beads, j A mile beyond this I saw our excellent minister of the gospel wendmg his way ; across the prairies with a wagon full of in f.nit .Taeohs. and I saw also that unless be whipped his hoi.-e Old Hundred to a most extraordinai v speed we would be into him instanter. Tpiiiled hard on the near rein with one hand while I steadied myself with the other, but w ith no more effect than if I had taken a pull on Pike's Peak. We struck lite parson's fasuily about amidships and went through. I never saw infant Christianity so scattered as it was on that occasion. I left the parson gathering up hi.s" fami ly, and continued until I struck the doc tors fence, and went Hying into his front door w ith tho bull d ig close at my tattered rear. I knocked over the cradle and upset the supjie-r table. The dector came to my rescue with a kick in the ribs of his dog that sent, him with a howl and a mouthful of pantaloons into the yard. 1 then told the doctor with one breath all I had left that Araminta' h little devil of a brother was dying of too much watermelon pa!h and they wanted a doctor with squills. "We returned in about tbe same style. The doctor having a younger hoisc than my rival had been favored with kept the lead, his pill-bags Happing in the air. while his coat-tails made a straight line behiud him. If his horse flagged any the mule started him up again with a vigorous bite on the rump that seemed to infuse new vigor into that medicated animal. We passed my rival sitting on the roadside nursing his oif leg as if it huithim. He never came back, acknowledging his defeat in the most gen tlemanly manner. The doctor soou put Arauiinta's little brother iu a perpendicular position, ar.d that night at the bedside of the little suf feter, keeping well tothe front, 1 proposed, was accepted, and the happy day wastixed. I rode into Araminta s affection on a mule. Yv a Gum Tree. Lots of tar are made in North Carolina. The way they make tar is to take some tar and ciok it until it becomes tar tbeu it's tar. The trees are half ehc w ing-gum, the other haif rosin, ami the rest sticks in fact everything about 'em sticks, and the bark sticks to the trees tighter than tho bark sticks to a dog. This brings me to a historical reminiscense that has never been published in print or type either. I was taken into the pine woods and shown some trees which, years ago, three brave America-is climbed to capture 'possum. As they embratced the trees for ty feet from the ground the tar season com menced, and those poor fellows freize to tho trees and stayed there until they died. Yeai-s afterwards some eoys discovered the remnius. Nothing but the bones was left, and the boys, like good boys vveutdi lectly home and swore they liRd discover- ed a hoop-skirt factory. One mau. a learn ed tarite, said it must have been left there by the Normans. Another man, who was well acquainted with the Normans said the Normans never wore hoop-skirts. A YVestei 11 man sai he'd often heard of whoops on the skirts of the woods in the country, and his lemarks elicited applause. Then the party visited the woods, and de cided that the relics were bones not hoop skirts. It was the greatest case of up a tree I ever heard of. Some North Caro linians are awful thin. Two of 'em would make a fair sized jen handle. They grow lengthwise all right, but they don't grow sideways or thicken worth a cent. '1 hoy never unbutton their clothes ; they crawl in and out of 'em through the Lutton-hoies. and in some sections one good sized sack coat would button around a whole family. The children under six years look like crochet tieedicF, only darker in hue. T hey ti0 ViK.duii'ls hero to grind hash. An "CDiTcr.'s Affecting Not ofGuat ITCPE. A Philadelphia editor thus re lieves his mind on a subject familiar to all newspaor offices, the inevitable. Pub. Dec: "We owe our thanks to .Judge Kelley for the latest Patent Office reports. "Wc al ready have sixteen hundred of these inter est ing volumes in our little library, but they have been read and re-read so many times that we know every page of them by heart. This new volume camo opportune ly and gratefully on Christmas morning, and 'that night we gathered our little fam ily around tho lire and read it through to them. The affecting tale entitled. 'Im provement in Monkey Wrenches,' seemed t ) touch every heart, anil when wn came to the chniax'of tne little story about 'Be versible Pieboatds,' there was not a dry eye between the frtmt door and tbe stable. During the reading of the piteous narrative entitled 'Gum Washers for Carriago Axles,' the whole family gave expression to bois terous emotion, and the lined girl was so much excited that she lost her presence of mind and went around to her mother's in advertenily with six ouuds of sugar and a butter kettle full of Hour, and came home at midnight intoxicated. We can never sufficiently thank .1 udge Kelley for the inno cent enjoyment thus furnished us. The momoiy of that happy evening will linger in our minds very much louger than that hired girl ever lingers when she lights 011 a lot of substance which she thinks will fcuit. tbe i-i.iistilnl"'" "f '"" "" KoAr.sn Suot. Tt iz a great deal easier tew be a philosopher afler a man haz a warm meal than it iz when he don't kno where he iz going tew get one. Most men lament their comiishun in life, but there arc but phew, after all, w ho are snpei ior to it. Trieingtew define love iz like tricing low tell how yu kum tow bial.e thin the ice ; all 511 kno about it v. yu fell in and got ducked. , A weak man wants az muth wat h.-.g a: a bad tne. A wizeman never enjoys himself so 11. u. h nor a j.hool so little as v. hen r.'.-mo. Avarice iz az hungry a?. the grave. There iz a grate deal ov viiiew in this woild that iz like jewelry, more for orna ment than u.M3 These are many people who not only be lieve that this world levolvcs on 'lis .ixm, Rot thev Relievo thit they are the axis. Seii-mude men aro most alvvuz apt to be , a leci'.e too proud ov ti.e j- b. ' I think theic ii az many old phools in ! thlc v,-"!1-! n '. there i ' young ones, inl ! there iz thl3 dl"cre ;;cc b.-t v.cn"il.ctu : Tha j voting ones may outgrow their ph-dlv, but J the old o:;cs never do. I A genuine aphorism iz truth done up in I a .small pfvkagc j Marrying for buty iz a poor spckukiohuti. for enny man who sees your wife has jr. ,t j jest about az much stock in her a ', you hav. i PwVTTTT.n a renvi'.l; able yarn is tc-'d i:iPo;-t- land, Maine. Pom teen ag iau od I lady in that city fell dead from heai t lii-crw I while winding up tho oh ck. The tit r -.v.ts ten tnmiitta before ten m tbe morning I Tho curious point is 'that the clock Lai ! stori ed ever since nt Id o'clock on the an niversary of her death. This lias rcgalar'.y oecnoed every year fr fourteen year.".. It is time to have the clock taken to pieces and cleaned. The queerest ve-dic rfV a gentle-nan who expired m V.Mt.a,h hy ation. The jury re-turn. 'TJlis AT;1S hanging-round a run. - 4,jC avsge and devoid of Ur Cil in C ui. Uornan's famny. In - grarcfl.y and unpacking t Fi una. k ok Hr.A-iti A FiF.vn'S Ti KKIRLK r.M'.-Soni,. t,,,, ...... kt, 'wn engineer, whose name, forr-ond and I sufKcient reasons, is ti"t given, t-.ui a pas I senger train on one of the most important I traveled roads that runs out of Irdianapo- I 'is. At a certain place on the road, every nig'it fr about a work, as the passenger train 1 an thunderin along it was certain j to b-.r thrown from the track by obstructions i laced thereon. Several of these rail.aps to the train ' caused loss of life, aud the compauy was I becoming considerably alarmed, and tho ability of the engineer waa being seriously questioned. One night as the unfortunate train was Hearing the fatal spot, the engi neer, who lad been sitting glum and silent at the throttle, turned to his fireman and said : "If this train jumps the track to Ini;h, you follow me ; don't stop for auy tbinrr. Rut reop close idter me. Somebody has been throwing this train off the track, and 1 iu piling to catch him." "When tho train arrived at the usual jlacc it struck a misplaced rail and was banked. The engineer, closely followed by tins f.ieman. jumped fo.m tho engine, and ran into.a cornlieid ai d stalled up a man that lay concealed tbeie. Upon bringing tho culprit back to tho wreck the enraged pas sengers wanted to lynch him, but the en gineer, a cold, stern, determined man. pre vented them, saying that lie w nld tako charge of him, and through the inteiccs tion of i lie conductor the trembling wretch was left in charge of the engineer. Tho train was righted and was soon speed iug on its way. The prisoner, who had confessed LiJ fiendihncss, had been seated on the engiuo and the fireman j.l.iced Inside hi:n as a. guard. " hen the train was on a smooth piece of track, bowling along at a sje-ed of twenty-five miles an hour, the engineer beckoned the fireman to stand out of tho way. The fireman stepped aside, and the engineer picked up a round stick of wood and struck the criminal such a blow on tho head that it stunned him. He then caught the quivering form of the poor wretch, and opening the furnace doors, threw his body into the hot seething hell of tl.ime. Tho doors were shut, the train rattled along, and never, until upon his death bd the en gineer ccaifessvd the act, was it ascertained what had been the fate of the fiend who had been in the habit of throwing the train oil' the tiack. A Strang b Stokt. An exchange gives a long account of one Henrietta liobison. who about twenty years ago ,hs accused of poisoning a man and woman In Troy, New Yotk, and was convict id and sen tenced to death, but the sentence vv as com muted to imprisonment for life. She wasi styled at the tiuie. tho "Vnl. il Murderess" as she kept herself closely veiled in court and in prison, ami would neither flow bet face nor giro any account of herself or he family. Bhe has now been eighteen years in Sing Sing, and generally enjoys good health and spirits, aud preserves her good looks. She was a very handsome woman when she went to prison, and was supposed, to bolong to some high family either in Knglan-J or Ireland. She has never yet; breathed a word in regard to her family which has reached the public. She is call ed "Mrs. Bobinson' by the other convicts, who one and all feel for her the highest re sj ect. Having been uniformly cxciiiplaiy in conduct, she has been gi anted many trilling privileges not allowed ordinary prisoners. Her cell is a curiosity iu its way. It is represented to be a miniaturo conservatory, embracing some iare lioral productions. It is also embellished with many other evidences of refined taste and culture. She is more communicative to the chaplain of the prison than any ono else, and toward him she occasionally throw s off a .rtion of her habitual reserve. It is supposed she has made some impor tant communications to him under the seal of secrecy, and he states that before many months shall have passed t'neie jnissibly may Be more disclosures given to the pub lic in regal d to her case, which will pre sent her in a different light than that in which she lias hitherto stood. This chap lain, who attended her trial, has always ex pressed a 1-cliof in her entire in:icei;cfl ..-!'. I'ul crime For wliieii she was con victed. Tin: Dai. bury AVr says : A retired cler gyman sends us au account of a little affair that occurred ih his plate. It appears that more was a young woman a line, spirited girl engaged at a wash-tub, opposite au open door. Just behind her was a voting man, as is generally the ca.-e, and in tho yard was an old buck that was allowed tho freedom of the premise's, which is not al ways the. case, wt arc g'ad to say. Well, this buck came up 10 the door and looked in, and the young man, going close behind t !ii'!yi.'.iii!; won. an. 1 Kilnted his linger straight at the buck, and the old ft How, recognizing at nice the pressing character of this muto invitation, put down his head and dashed forward, and the miserable young man stepped one side and tied, and the youti" woman, all unconscious of the arrange ment, icccivcd tha awful shock without v. :'.r:.:::g and passed over the tub. and th air fa- an instant appeared to be full of slippers ai'd. i t clothes and soap and hot water Hid suds. And the next moment ihat g .a. came Hying out of that door at a dread Ta spc d. b:dd the whole length of his spine, and with a w.ld look in his eye. Ami for an hour after he stood back of tho barn, se.atehing his chin, ami trying to re call all the circumstances in tho unfortu nate affair. A Noui.k Dr.rn. John Wi'son is a lur.ke-.-.iati on a Minnesota lallway. Tho r d; hi.iiMi of a train Miovved seven miies oi-'ant, and. not being uiiry. 1 1, cured a huge quantity of erore and , l,ov c. enveloped htrm.e Jf f ltb hood. and. wi h tho v-V'J ''7-7? Sale iJ7 ?,i:t lelow zero. thawed b:"i out a1? well as they were able, and o.ie of them, John Bawlor, I'.sq., of Prairie du Chicn. who had some ladies un der hi-' cave, took from his own neck a mas sive gold chain, ami putting it around Wil son's r.cck remarked :I "it's a pretty good man that has worn that chain, but I've found a hotter, and be shall have it." Hotel, rkki'lhs are ieople we have to "j.ot up with." i m,1 1 Tt 1 l.ir"OMM ! p-'d o- t t'fo t; svJ!cvc thv ,uinC'W Ia. ' ' ,;,'i1H'!i he fell his face andeara I "f';!'. he t-ud:r--d on t:-ti! be reached i !rVa'i'. shnost exhausted and unable t i net 1 V. The fl-St rf 111 Tvlricrer i I 1 '3 1 "
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