" - - - - - - - " wit fl iHWIf McPlKEt Editor and Publisher. 1 HE IS A FREEMAN WHOM THE TRUTH MAKES FREE, AND ALL ARE 6LAVES BESIDE. Terms, S2 per year, In advance. blXMli YII. EBEXSBURG, PA., FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 1S73. number 32. tat REDUCTION IN PRICES -To ASH BUYERS -AT THE- fjiliufe Llutwu A u4 Mi"A'U i.-ruiirncrt respeetruliy informs the P 1111'1 . 1 l .Kuririinil Ole mifdif trer,.!.- ,!"':!'V' m GKEAT REDUCTION -U'Jto 1 SII urYEKS on all goods iu and REAPING MACHINES .0 OTHER FARMING IMPLEMENTS s .jrjlllUHi.lMlliEATDiC STOVES n.ipUJUr UfMin nuu ui mi ci ifS, ' ' 1 niiulilii PHV Mil' ETBI DESCRIPTION! tla.von uiauuiauiure ; ALL KIND ! Scri-ws. Mutt Hinsres, Shutter Humes. Holts, lion and Nails, 1'nti.v. Table Knives nnd Forks, Knivi ati'i rorHS, i-oukwi imve.. Meat Cutters, Ailt Parera, .h-i"- Kar nnd Strops, Hammers, Ll,,h t- li.innjr Machines,Ausrurs, Clils- i tPrS r u it iw es. nip. 4 unci mid tiuss- ... ' t n:.. !...., I .,.,.1 J ... 1 "'l V'' "f 'H hin'Is. shovels. Spades, . i'-i;;i!h-. I(;iWi s. Forks. Sleip-h-ISells, I.ii Viit-. M':ix. ilriUcs, Clothes Wash iVriv r-. I'ii tt-tit Churns and Patent U pVi'-ntilv. G rind-Stones, Patent Mo ;MHnM.l M riirfrt, Lumber Sticks, Cast 'v- Mi it ijiiii. lU'i olvcrs. Pistols, Car-"i'.'.'..-r. bead. Horse Shoes and i 1 t ., .- . ' rates and Fire Bricks, Cist rn I'uini'i. Arc, Ac; iness and Saddlery Ware of ail k:n':. in grcnt variety; pODand WILLOW VARE In ,hh ,i .-tMwpiion ; KO.V OIL and OIL LAMI'S, ,1. 1-u.l 1 I..ii.- i d Oil, Lubricating Oil, Ter. 1 aii:t- Vanishes, Tu rpeutine, Al Suv r-l'i.iic Ware, Glassware, Sec. iimil.v i - rocories, A. T' 1 ' '' Mii-r:rs, syrups juuasses, J Ini.. 1 l'tm-hrs. 1'iied Apples, llouiiny, m raikiT, liif. I'fi.rl ItarU-y. Arc. acc) nnl Oijri"iw- iVHi.-i'-fc.W'f.i;. 1.1-ti, Scrub. Horse, Shoe, I 'ii-i'i..' . l-rl : - -nid Tooth Hrushes, all iiso-! uf: 'in-.is, Manilla KopuS, and tairariiiv.-. ui me oir;8c iayorcK. iiiitf.l :iirl imt up as eheop as possible, h. A uliet'rtl discount inado to Jta.oi; !;iiujr Tinware ly wholeile. OKoKOE HUNTLEY. ig m RUPIHH lla.cIiinos- rifrned takes pleasure in fnform nrciiersof t'anibriu county that he 3 I x't the agency for 1 3f THE MOST POPULAR AND RELIABLE pers and Eeaners, tactured iu the United States, via : - J z rr iv : n iiiitj- during- the pant four yt'ars; WResorai "BUCKEYE," -liir.ly eonst rooted and llirht-rtinninjr : over ioi.ooo now in uso. witu a 1 nv.y -ule of t roru 1U.UU) to l'.OUO ; ho 1 111st, lL,t not least, tho ii: Hi smv-ro )m immi, 'S ii'. t simidc and lightest draught n p. i;e. Has no wheels, un 1 j-hafts, or bolts or pieces. Ii: SITPIilMOR! 'V't ...nut t lie Johnstown E.vpositlon Y 1. u 'h i it v as admired by all jrood : i. 1. 111:1. 'iuni'S., -a:. : - i.-iii:sjr to purcbusc the best AM' Kl M'l.K in the market are in- 1 in: an.i i -uvo uicir oriers eariy wnu ii. 1. (itO.JlL'.Ni'LEl'. .::, .In (if lSTS-tf. P.ll ketto Property tor sali:. "FN!;oi-.n situate in Loretto bor- IT- ' i.a rmmty, l'a., 1 I It N rUn..f -aid bor- Km,, r,.lil mr ; J I wm !,." si --ir. , t and cx-frS J2:vMl,i rs unJ J ":-huviinr t hereon erected a good 1 !'! ! i t tn Sr. .to." I). YELLING HOUSE, 2 :vi:i BUILDING ATTACHED. niui other Outbuildings. I v .. .... 'n si en rooms, besides the a ' iinnodioiis cellar utider it "fh-r. Cheap at tl.OOO-one-111, 1 iu two e. 1 vial annual pay--'. Good title. Apply to the ''I'T.VAI.O, or to A 1.M.1N, Heal FNtate Agent. Ebensburg, Pa. in? .t i. f ell.-rs Ht tu i vato 3 Jo on lib " 1 at i !." TuiCE. 5' Acres T li.-.viKhip. about half way irl ' r arvi vviinmre, some 4U Acres t 1, wen leuced and in good ..i l. - 1! )ii-o, a llrst rate Log ? ni-w. mid other Outbuildings 'fy . a exc llent Orchard of I au ul.'uudanee of iiure water 1 . tar... v. -..' 0 (ft .' J r. ti u 1 , t'l.l'TiKPA " 00 1 c nju:itii:i . 1: sn. rlesiros to Inform tho eitl- 't Si.nriLH Mtid ieinitv tlmf he ' f,"',,n A. 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Dr. Well's EXTRACT OF JURUBEBA is prepared directly from the KOl'TH AMKKICA.V PLAAT, and is peculiarly suited to all those dif ficulties; it will cleanse tho vitiatkd iu.ood, strengthen the i.iff.-jivino powkus, and be- MOVE A 1. 1. OBSTRUCTIONS from IMPAIRED ANU ENFKKUi.Hii t trirans. It uliould be freely taken, as Juruheba Is pro nounced by medical writers the most efficient PUKIFIEK, TOXIC and Deoustkitrst known in the whole rang.; of medical plants. JOHN Q. KELLOGG. IS l'latt St.fX. Y-, Sole Agent for the United States. T..ie One Dollar ut-r Bottle. Send for Circular. The best Oil in the world for 11m chitierif. Jt trill not chill. It trill not (ftint. it i efttal to the best Lard tl. It tioii have any kind of Math ine r, ask for OLEXA ; and if you cannot buy it at home, send Jor a cirrnfar and price list to PAINE, ABLETT & TRIPP, OIL 5!AMF.UTl'l!EltS AND DEALERS, ' Xo. :iGO I'enn A.uenue, Pittsburgh, Pa. BARK W A N T Vj D. Foun Thous am Conns OAK AND HEMLOCK HARK wanted at the new Tannery. Wood vale, Johns town. Cash paid on delivery. Apply to or ad dress W. II. U03EX STEEL & SON, June 6, lS73.-m. Johnstown P. O. ORIGINAL. DA HE TO T0 JtlGHT. ' BY MTSSIE MYRTLE. My boy, to-day you are starting : On the perilous journey of life; You'll meet with a thousand temptations The world with danger is rife; And if the long journey in safety you'd make, With an honor unsullied and bright, At all times, in all places, my boy, You nobly must dare to do right. The gambling hells, by their glitter and . glare, You to enter, my boy, may entice, , And the soft, sweet voice of a comrade May tempt and allure you to vice ; : But if you'd preserve your conscience and heart Free from sin's cankerous blight, Ne'er gaze at the one bid the other de part And bravely dare to do right. The attainment of wealth may induce you From honesty's pathway to swerve, And the bribes of the wicked may tempt you The cause of injustice to serve ; Tint if you'd be true to your manhood, ISesist the temptat ion with might, And at all times, in all places, my boy, Courageously dare to do right. The great ones of earth may desire you At their dark, wicked deeds to connive, And if you refuse they may threaten you From place and position to drive; But if you'd be true to your God and your self, Like a soldier prepared for the fight, Cooly and calmly confront them, And fearlessly dare to do right. Throughout the long journey, my boy, Keep these words for a motto and guide, Nor sutFer the veil of delusion Them e'er from your vision to hide; Thro' life's rugged, steep pathway Tread bravely and steadily on, Nor turn to the left nor the right, And at all times, in all places, my boy, Be honest and inauly, and dare to do right. JLX IX1IAXS 11EVEXUE. BY RALPH RIXGWOOD. "Where the Kentucky river cuts its way through the mouutains, liavino; upon cither hand, bold, rugged cl ill's tliat lift their summits 500 and 1,000 feet, as the case may be, above the stream, there lived in early times a settler by the name of Ilufus Ijrunson, who, with his wife and child, a charm ing little girl of some eight or nine vears of a ere, occupied the rude cabin at the base of the precipice, a little back from the river. Although greatly exposed to dan ger, the Indians at that time being very plentiful throughout the region he managed to live quietly for sev eral years. The Indians frequently visited the rude home of the hunter, and being always welcomed and provided with such food as might be in the larder, they maintained a friendly attitude. Especially were they fond of the child, Maggie, and more than one tierce warrior had been seen sitting on the grass in front of the cabin, listen ing to the childish prattle of the little one, or else engaged in making it some toy or plaything from willow twigs or pliant brtrk.- In this manner several years had been passed, and llufe Bronson came to feel as secure as though he was within the walls of a frontier fort. One evening, Bronson and his wife were xeu.tei.1 jiour tlio doorw.ny, when suddenly a shadow fell across the threshold, and the next moment, a tall savage, whose reeling st-p and blood shot eyes told that he was intoxicated, and staggering up to the log steps threw himself upon them. His first demand was for fire-water, w hich of course was refused on the plea that there was none in the house. The Indian became cross and ugly, swearing with terrible oaths that if the liquor was not produced he would murder the whole household. Bron son was a brave, determined man, and although he dreaded the necessity, yet he saw that ho would be compelled to take prompt steps to prevent the sav age from executing his threat. Waiting until the warrior had made a demonstration, which he soon did hy attempting to draw his tomahawk, Bronsou sprung ujxn him and knocked him down with a blow of his fist, and then quietly disarmed and bound him where he lay, after a few moments of furious ravings an,d futile ellorts to free himself, the savage rolled over and sunk into a drunken slumber. He did not awake until the next morning, but before he did so the set tler had quietly removed his bonds and restored the weapons, which he laid by the sleepers side. The savage, on awaking, rose slow ly to his feet, felt his wrists as though the thongs had left a feeling there, took up his weapons, and with out speaking a word, left and disap peared in the timber near by. "What think you of that ?" asked the wife, turning to her husband with a scared look. Tshaw ! Don't trouble your head about the drunken brute," answered the settler, lightly, but as he turned away and stepped into the yard he muttered, "Like it? - Well, not much The fellow must be watched. I was in hopes that he would not have re membered, but that lump where my fist landed was enough, if nothing else, to recall the circumstances." The summer passed away and they saw the drunken guest no more. He faihid to make his appearance. But as the leaves began to fall the settler, one day, while returning from hunting on the hills, and passing through a dense piece of timber, not far from the house, caught sight of a figure lurking among the bushes, but quickly disap peared when he advanced towards where it was. The figure was that of an Indian warrior, and llufe Bronson would have sworn that he was the In dian whom he had knocked down and bound ' the previous summer. The knowledge was not in any way com forting, and hence he wonld not tell Ins wife of the discovery which he had made. It would only alarm her, without, perhaps, any good results. He simply told her he had discovered bear tracks near by, and that she and her child must stay within, or close the house, when he was absent. . Several clays afterward llufe Bron son heard his dogs iu the timber down hy the rivei, and knowing they never opened without a good cause, he caught up his rifle and hastened to where they were barking. They had struck a fresh bear track, and as he arrived in sight they fairly lifted it, going off in a straight line down the river. The chase led him several miles, and when at last lie got his thot that finished Bruin's career he found that it was three or four o'clock in the af ternoon. Swiuging his game to a sapling out of reach of cat or wolf, he started for home to get the gray mare, and return to fetch it that night. Taking a. near cut, he approached the cabin from the western side, where timber grew heavy up to within a few yards of the building, and consequent ly he could not see the dealing, or what might lie transpiring there, until he passed through the wood. Thus it was, that, when within but a very short distance of his house, he heard a wild, piercing shriek ; he could onlv guess that something terrible must be taking place beyond the screen of bushes and leaves. Uttering a loud shout that his pres ence might sooner be known, Bronson sprang forward with the leaps of a wounded .buck, a great fear in his heart, for he had only too clearly re cognized in that scream the agonized voice of his wife. It took but a moment for him to clear the intervening timber and un dergrowth. As he dashed out into the clearing, holding his rille ready for instant use, he comprehended iu one swift ghtr.ee all that had taken place and what was further to fear. "Xear the end of the cabin, facing the clilTs of which I have spoken, stood the mother, her face pallid as the dead, her arms outstretched and her staring C3"cs fixed upon the precipitous heights up which the figure of an Indian w ar rior was struggling. "My child ! my child !" was all the woman said, and then Rufe Bronson saw that the bundle borne in the In dian's arms was the form of their only child, little Maggie. Firm of heart and with nerve as steady as the rocks around, the father for a moment actually quailed and cowered under what his quick sense told him, the deadly peril of his little one. But he was quick to recover. The Indian was drawing away ; step by step he was increasing the distance. And as he occasionally glanced back ward and downward, the parents saw in his painted countenance the fell purpose that actuated the abductor. "God aid me!" muttered Bronson, as he raised his rifle, glanced through the sights and touched the trigger. The Indian started violently at the shot. He was hit, but not badly, ahd with a yell of devilish triumph, he parsed upward. . '-Too low, by a couple ot inches," said a low, calm voice at the settler's elbow. Bronson started as though he hi la bel f had been shot. Where has this man come from ? Who was he ? Neither had seen him approach. But there was no time for explana tions. The stranger, a man rather below than above the ordinary height, whose fine, athletic form was fully displayed by his closely fitting buckskin gar ments, stepped quickly forward, a few paces, and firmly planting his left foot in advance, threw up an unusually long rifle as though preparing to lire. 'Fov god sake, stranger, be careful of my child!" cried" Bronson, while the agonized mother uttered an inaud ible prayer. "It's our only ehance. I know that Indian," was the quick reply, and the sharp click ! -dick ! of the hammer a3 it was drawn back told that the criti cal moment had come. Bv this time the Indian had nearly reached the summit of the steep. That he was wounded now became evident, as upon a broad ledge of rock he paused a moment. This opportunity was seized by the unknown. N ; : ' I Although the savage had taken the precaution to hold the child up in ' front of himself, as a shield, covering j nearly the w hole of his brawny chest, i but leaving his head uncovered, the stranger did not hesitate in making : the shot. ! For one instant, as it gained its po- sition, the rifle wavered, and then in stantly became as immovable as tho' ; held in a vice. j Whith clasped hands and straining I eyes the parents watched the statue like form upon which so much de- pended. Suddenly a sharp report rang out the white smoke drifted away, and as the vision became dear, they saw ' the savage loose his hold ujon the child, reel wildly for a minute, and then pitch forward upon the rocks. ! It may be imagined that the father ' was not long in reaching the place where his child lay, and in a few min- j utes more the little one was in its ; mother's arms. j "Tell us who you are, that we may know what name to mingle with our prayers," as the stranger prepared to depart. , "My name is Daniel Boone,"he said, and was gone. Woman's Inhumanity to hep, Sex. There is much food for reflection in the following qtiestions and answers; "Who hits a woman when she is clown?" "Why, another woman ?" That's so. If women were so severe upon men who transgress the bonds of morality and decency as they are upon trans gressions of their own sex, we should speedily have inaugurated a reform in society that would be worth a thou sand midnight missions or Ilosine As sociations. Women are like crows we hope the ladies will pardon us for making the comparison but it is a truthful one even if not tasteful. We say women are like cows. One of their number falls wounded bv sin, and she is immediately set up and torn j to pieces. 1 he doors of respectable associations are closed against her. The virtuous female turns from her with loathing and disgust. Even the common sympathy of human nature is denied her. No help for the sin ning woman. No help ! But what of the man who has wrought this poor creature's ruin, and who has led her steps into the paths of folly and sin ? Is he tabooed by women generally ? There are noble women who would scorn to meet on any terms the man through whose instrumentality an un suspecting sister has fallen. But, alas, how rare are such instances. The most licentious men we ever knew and with their licentiousness known to the world were the men upon whom we have seen virtuous women lavish their sweetest smiles. They had ready access to the very hearth stones of households where the pres ence of a fallen woman would have been regarded with as much alarm and horror as that of one plague-smitten. Oh, the cruelty ami injustice of women. "Man's inhumanity to man makes countless thousands mourn." What of woman's inhumanity to wo man ? A NF.nmt Tuinlotoj- n'l" ..-wi.Ji rather sooner than some of the sisters thought proper and becoming, excused himself as follows: "My dear breth ren and sisters, my grief was greater than I could lear. I turned every way for peace and comfort, but none came. I searched the scriptures from (Jinisee to Reverlations, and found plenty of promises to the widder, but n any one to the widderrcr. And so I took it that the Lord didn't waste sympathy on a man when it was in his power to comfort himself; and having a first-rate chance to marry in the Lord, I did so again. Besides, brethren, I consider that poor Betsy was just as dead as she would ever be." The rural editor of a Western paper has discovered an insect that A'ill de stroy the pototo-bug. The new bug bores into the potato and strategical ly lays in wait for the other bug. The discoverer's attention has been direct ed to this, as the potato still suffers, but he has made no response.. He is supposed to be chasing after another bug that will destroy the bug that de stroys the potato bug. A MIDDLE-AGED LADY met a bridi.sli looking lady in the post-otlice recent ly, and the folio icing conversation folloired : "Mary, is it true that your mother is dead ?" asked the former. "It is," said Mary. "And were you married before she died ?" "No," said Mary, "not until three clays after." The middle-aged woman stared at the bride for a moment and then slowly and liewilderingly , said : "Do you mean to say that your poor mother died without without seeing what you icere married in ?" Wn.tT is the difference bet?ceen the j engine driver and a passenger who has j lost the train ? One is right in front , and the other left behind. I saved 11 v a sToi'E-riri:. I worked quite right. The boat had to It was my lot once to reside in a be launched from on clock, and this country village some six miles from was a work of time. Finally the crew the village of . It was lefore were all in their places and commenced the days of railroads, and we were pulling down the stream, but in the accustomed to reach the place by the hurry of the moment one of the deck Providence coach, which passed thro' hands, an unfortunate Irishman, had the village daily going to the city in dropped into the boat, who knew ho the morning and returning in the even- more about pulling an parlhan he did ing, so as to make it very convenient about working a lunar,' and his first for our villagers to go to the city and mistake was to break his oar short oil" transact their business and return by at the handle, and. .some more time the stage in the afternoon with their was lost in gettiug another. .So full a purchases. ! quarter of an hour was epent before Between the city and our village i my friends were really, under way in ran a small creek, iu -w hich the tide- ' pursuit of me. By thia time the rapid water flowed. This was crossed by a j drifting of the tide had carried me a bridge with a draw, the latter for the full mile down the stream ami night accommodation of the small craft , was closing iu upon me. which belonged to a town further up j I was out of sight and hearing. All the stream. Below the bridge was that could le done was to pull as rap the steamboat landing for the adjacent idly as possible down the c hannel and city, and deep water. j hope to overhaul me. As for me, my At the time of my story it was lato case was getting soine what critical, in October. A spell of frosty weather : Although still floating bravely, yet I had reminded u that winter was com- j was becoming numlted with the cold, ing 011, and that our stoves must be ; A big wave would sometimes give me set up and our arrangments for warm- 1 a lee lurch, just enough to warn me ing the house put iu order. Sol was ! that if 1 was eapsized, and the upper instructed by my spouse to procure arm of my pipe Idled with water, that the necessary pipe for our parlor stove, ' it would be all over with me in more and be sure to have the joints perfect- 1 sense than one. Just now, too, I 110 lv tight, for the green wood sometimes ! ticed that while the water had been distilled pj roligeous acid, which tli ip- about wai.-t high, uow and then a big ping through a leaky pipe spoiled our ; wave would bathe my chin. I felt for carpet. The necessary pipe indiided j the wadding ii. the lower joint, when, an elbow with one straight joint fitted ; horror of horrors ! it was being grad to one end and two to the other. I j ually forced into the pipe! Should am necessarily particular on this point, the pressure drive it past the elbow, because as the reader will perceive, on j it would shoot out of the upright stem the same stove-pipe the whole interest in a moment, and my buoyant life of mv storv turns. j preserver would become a useless mass. As usual at this season of the year, j But, happily, I was not left long to the tinman was greatly pressed with ! the thoughts this discovery suggested, business and my job was only com- j The boat was now bearing down upon pleted at the last moment. Seizing ; me rapidly, and the look-out in the my ironware and some other purchas- j bows caught sight of me, and gave a es I hurried to the stoge-ofllee, just 1 cheering shout which I joyfully re in time to find the coach all filled and 1 turned. The olHeers promptly gave only room for me on top. Here 1 j orders as to how I should be picked seated in vself with my purchase around t up. As the boat n eared me, at the me, and soon, for convenience sake, I began to arrange my commodities 1:1 : the imst compact manner. The sieve- , pipe I held bolt upright by my side, an.l some rolls of bati ing w hieh 1 had procured for my wife for a. winter i comfortable, I stuffed into the shot t- er joint of the pipe for convenience sake. I had all my traps snmrlv ar ranged just as the stage reached the draw-bridge ; but there misfortune overtook me. A schooner had just passed through the draw, and ly carelessness of the bridge tender, the gate was left a little ajar. The driver was making good time, was in excellent spirits (having met seeral friends in the city of con vivial habits), cracked his whip just as he struck the bridge, the ter.rn sprang forward, the wheels of the coach struck suddenly into the gap left between the two arms of the draw, came out with a bound, tilted the coach on one side for a moment, just long enough to slide me and the luggage on top oil into the water, and passed on. The drher was just drunk enough to see that by great luck he had escaped an upset, and too careless to see if any real damage was done. The passen gers inside had the curtains down to keep the cold out, and saw nothing. As for himself, I was in the water on beyond my depth, the tide running out like a mill-race, clinging for dear life to my stove-pipe, and shouting at the top of mv voice to the stage-driver to hold on and not leave me to drown. of my wet garments, some hot blank All in vain. The team was on a fast j ets were thrown around me, and I trot, and soon hurried the coach, dri- threw myself around a pint of hot ver and all, beyond the sound of my j brandy and water. This artificial voice, and I was left alone in the : heat, applied outwardly and inwardly, water. j soon revived me, and in an hour's time It was time to look around me and I was in a condition to be driven learn my present position. As I ! home. slipped from the stage I unconscious ly clung to the stove-pipe by my side, and it went overboard into the water with me. Now, under ordinary cir- cumstancesa stove-pipe is not remark- ! A wicked boy, whose Sunday -school exi.e ablv buoyant nor well adapted to a life- ! "ence soems only to have made Lim more, preserver, but by the merest accident deprived, cau-l.t a fiie-lly and stuck it, I had fitted it most admirably for the j with the a-d of some mucilage, in the cen-1-itter purpose The batting I had ' tre of the largest len in the ttdescope. stutfed into the shorter Joint not only rendered it buoyant but impervious to , ,.' i.... 'i the water. nappy tnougut eiiut;iv me I strided the pipe, sitting upon the shorter joint, and clasping my arms around the longer part, which passed a foot above my head. If the Humanitarian Society had set them- selves to work to devise a live-preserv- er, thev could not have done better. ! over the universe that he had niscovereti a There was I, riding the waves like a j new aiul i-enmrkable star of the third inag , , , ' ,v . , mtude of (h m. Iu a day or two ail the duck, buoyant as an albatross, no dan- I ,.,. ; r.o,.eand America were ger of drowning so long as I could keep nrysolf upright, and im- lile-pre-server clear ot the water. But on the otlu-r hand night was approaching, my limbs would soon !h? numlntl with cold, and the title was sweeping me down rapidly toward the Sound. I had not passed the steamboat, and as I ncared her I (shouted with all my mioht for heb. Happily for "ie ln.v cry W'US heani. A ci v of "in-m overboard was raised, and as I drifted swiftly pa.t the stem- er I saw the hernia ot the crew ,eer,ng over the guards at me, with looKs. oi mingled alarm and astonishment. As noon as possible a boat was manned, but in stub an euierjxencv nothing ! word, every oar was to nolU waver, and, as he steered the head of the boat toward me, the look-out was to seize me and drag me into the boat. But here again our unfortunate Irishman marred the whole proceed in sr. As hs eauUt sight of the strange figure le fore him, looming up in the darkness, in an agony of terror he exclaimed: "Whist! howly mither, an' what is it ? He rides the sa- like a maremaid and carries a shmoke-stack like a Sound steamer." Dropping his oar at the same mo ment, he managed to foul all on his bide at that very critical time, so that the boat, instead of coming up to me hea I on, struck me broadside, and passed over me, and my life-preserver beside. The shock of the encounter knocked thr- stove-pipe out of my arms, and it sank to the bottom ; and it, with all my wife's cotton batting, was lost for ever. As for me, as I came to the surface on the other side of the boat, half a dozen hands were stretched out to haul me in. Luckily, Patrick with a stout grip caught me by the collar and lifted ine into the boat, . blublier ing now with the heartiness of joy that he had rescued a human being, as ho was just now in his terror at the non descript sea-monster he ew floating l ' iv itirti. The rest of my story is soon told. The boat's crew pulled back to the steamer with a will. I was at once. ! on my arrival at the steamer, stripped A Had Boy. They say that the chief astronomer at the Washington Observa tory was cheat! fully sold a few days ngo. hiin more was that it would give a counla of sj urts and then tlie out, only to burst forth again in second or two. He ex amined it taiefully for a few moments, and then began to do sums to discover where in the heavens that extraordinary starnai placed. lie thought he found tho locality, j aii the next morning he telegraphed all studying Orion, and "they gazed at it for hours until they were ntad, aut uie nney liegan to telegraph to Hie man m ash higU.n to know what he meant. 1 he dis coverer took another l",k and found that the new star had moved about eighteen billion mile hi twenty-fair hours, and uj u e.'oii.'iiiiig it cloM-.Iy he was alarmed' t., l ive lIiaL it had legs! When, ho went mi the dome the next morning, to polish up the glass, bo found tin lightning littiT. 1 'eople tl'i n at Alexandria, tbwit utiles i:tant, heaid p.utof the swearing. : aiid they say he infused into. ( much, j . J nty&IJund.i KtS a,,d now the aslronouier wants to find that, n0y. b to consult with hiui ai rat something. M,tx Ai't,-,
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