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Volume yii.
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' - tj I K 'vSTB5ST SELLIXO HOOK in
oil m Iirket i T. 8. AKTJ1UR8'
t1 Years In a Man-Trap.
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hisses. Old people, tb r:ikl
t;oe who are jul entering'
mill of boiti Jen buy aud
Ii.: ijiiit e.U profit.
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if 0 tin: with tho rroatvstt aucceea,
f m ', ! : irmir l irculii r-. elf., which nro
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;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
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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
..
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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.
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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."
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! 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
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