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PIANOS and ORGANS t, c.riii-imnu. ur nrsi-u.iss Makers, trill Lower lriec for ;ili, ur mi Install C . r Country, during this I-'inmirial .-),. lloliilas, hit llit'5-: n A'. ivn. nroiunvay. limnfTrr lie- i-J in .c lork. AsreiilM Hami'il . .lev' llratel !'.. 4 uiK-i'rlu liosiral OrjrwnH. Illustrated ata- Ti'i'-.i. .rem iniiuoenipms m n,c trade. u nt tn Ministers, I harilu h, So ud j - : ; s a 9 c vl p. r i'ii y ! A ar.'iit.a wanted '. Allclas" - i- ot working ieojile. ot eitlier nrx :. make more imnii y at work lor us in ! ..;iieiit. or all llic" time. I han at any i n ion lara free. A dd rer' Siusux t'o.. Portland, Maine. m & a. sreney for the reeejition ff a lvert in . inerii'an 'irsii.-'i-r i the most eon: of tlie kind in the world. SIX ixrtn-tH are kejit rt '"n la rly on tile, n hy enstomers. h.v. rv AdTertise- - ti I he home jirieo ot t ho aier. wit h- I eh.iirire or eoniiiiisHion. An nd ' with the Atreney. is saved Irou . 'enee. Tnakinir one conirnrt in undred or a I housnn l. 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KKAMI.FTTi:. t.v Ky.. and M ana yr Olft Con- ! i.uiidinir. louisville, Ky., or v 1 ., Kiiti.rn Autni'tt, ' H IV, NliW VOltK. H il THE GREAT CAUSE OK "' " Envrhifte. I'rlccGct. '' ' n.i' lire, treatment and radi- ''il Uoakne.--of Spermntor , ' 1 ' Sell - a buse, Invoiuntary !'"." '. " v- N'tvmis Debility, and i '. .atri- yi'ui -rally; Consuuip v 1 ! I n-: Montal and pivicul - v I iilJT.I.ci'I.VEHWELL, , r ':( i n en Hook," Arc. i; .... t author. In this ad mira . ; I'l-'ives from his own exp--. ',''" "'tul consequences! of S-lf-'. . t" '!'' tit, illy removed without M .'i-oiit d unrcroiis, surgical p , . - " 't'liim iits, rintrs or cor . "7 a u.'-le nf cure t once cer- '' ' hie'ii every suir.?rer, no 7 l ;- ' ' ii. l:i inn may be, may cure i7. i'"'. i'' ly ami radically. 7.. : " " ' ' i'i"oiv u boon to tliouiaiils t. nry nd lrc3, in a i; receipt of bix cc; rhVin its, of rs. C. KLINE & CO. "t f-rk ; post-t)tlic Hdx 430. AWV()ID HOUSE, . "'-INSIM lKj, A. fl TitTu rris, - Proprietor. 'il l ii furnished the nbore 'i l popular hotel, the propri ' I '- pared to m-commo.iatc ''" with their putromis-e. "iiu kei atrordwil be served s-iisons, the IUr will be kept ' ' wiUi the choicest liquors. 7'd lax . - 'aide will be under the "id attentive hostler. No I t ' ri-mir y nest- comfort ' in cwry itrtlctilir. ond 11 biisini-ssarid a moderate i-i atiir hops to win his (May , !S73.-tf 1 'tti hi lit A (fount of Adam "I Peter Mvers. a lunatic, 'ht.notary ii Oihce of Cam J'litirtiied on the first iUim- I. t HO CtllHl('l..t,t mna..n 11 :"Hli!t, I'r A. :-74 r ii v .1 liv ot.l,.r of il-.e Court. K. II l i v i.... ii'tlltllltl y, riii.t.ii... . "'""i, Jan t an; 1 MM, a -" i.T KSK H.XTEEXTII Annual State- MEXT OF THE l'ROTIXTIOV MUTUAL FlUF. INSTRANCK t'"M?ANY F CAMBRIA ColX- tv, for the year ending January 12th, 174 : Amount of Property Insured Jan. 13. 173 O13.2S0.45 Amount or Property insured Uurinir year " 2,791.65 T, , 1.203.0S1.10 lipduet anionnt expired dur- inir the year 14S.207.31 Deduct amount surrendered aud canceled 24,205.00 172.472.31 Amount Property Insured Jan. 12, ,74..tl.030.6(.;i.79 Amount of Premium Notes in force Jan. 13. 1V73 . .$ 94,054.21 Amount of Premium Note taken durtnir year 27.504.43 121,558.64 Deduct amount expired dur- I nir year 13,762.40 Deduct amount surrendered and canceled 2,351. SS - 16,114.34 Amount of Premium Jan. 12, 1S74 Notes in force $ 105.444.30 Number of Policies issued durinir year. in ioree Jan. 12, 174 .. CASH AlfOfXT KKrEil'TS. Amount received from former Treasurer ?2.P11.1 fash for new Insurances l.Osfi.tW (Jn account Assessment No. 4... 2.522.75 I'roiii Treasurer Cumbria Coun ty ( llo'ids redeemed) 600.00 Amount Interest received I'r2.2t till Kxoncralions, Assessnrt No.3 lu.CiO V KXI'KMHTfRKS. losses to .To.eph Hardine, AUc- ifheny township t3,6O0.00 ..2.53 . .900 233.53 Ios-cs to Alartin Jluudy, Jack sou township ' 1.100.00 600.00 16.R3 lie.51) W-i.eo 40.0 Losses t.i .lolm J. (Mass I.state, Allegheny township Ivsses to Win. A. Jones, Khens bur borouirh Secretary's Pees 'l'rcasurcr"s Salary Kent Airents" Commission Piciniiitus returned for l'oiicies eaneel.d Print in ur an.l Post a ire ........ " i'onim'ii on A bsessm'ts collected 1'aid ii. .1. IJoyd on Kx. Assess ment No. 3 Ex penses of ad (list ina- Losses Salary Executive Com'tee, 1S72. 173. 174.75 11. SW KKJ.2U 12 j. 14 6.28 35.IW 15.oil 25.00 5,947.70 Iialaiue in hands of Treasurer H,25.S3 V.K.Sr.ritrF.S OF THE 'OMPANV. Premium Notes in force .Tun. 12. 174 . 1'l54li si A ssessinoi No. 4 in hands of assured .. . 1.62t).S) Balance in hands of Treasurer.. 1.2S.5.SJ $108,356.93 U25.00 Loss adjusted not yet due The fort-troll::? account audited, found I.I RTI ITIk-tl correct, uuu appro- oil. 1.. Hf)I!ET!TS DIIETITS. i. HIM hF.Y, Ex. C II LEWIS. ) ( i 1 : ) ommittee. DAY Eh' Jan. W4.- TIE HOLIDAYS ill OMR! AS WE ALL KNOW, r.UT THE 3 222 CHEAP CASH STORE, Are not over, but rather under, tuoee. of any other dealer iu m CC3S3, SUSS GOOD!, 3AH, CA?2, Boots, Shoes, Notions, GROlTIMB, FLOUR, FEED, GRAIN, dC, In till "rk ' Timber.'' jpyA complete and elegant assortment of new prootls now in store will positively be sold at the closest margin. Country produce at the highest market prices taken in exchaniro for Roods. Full satisfaction guaranteed to all buyers. Stora on High street, near Outre street. K. J. MILLS. Ebensbur-, Jan. It5, l7ttf. mm m fob sill The undersigned oiler fors.ile an excellent of HO Acres 1 ineludins road Allowance, situated in Suminerhill township. Cumbria comity, on the old road leading; from Ebenslturir to Wiim'ore. and t wo miles distant from the Pa. K. I!. Station at the latter place. There are about H Arrps cleared, well fenced ami watered, ami in a hiirh state of cultivation, with a thriving young orchard of choice fruit there on. The improvements arc a new FKAMK UAK BAK. 40x6.1 feet, a Loir House, ami several Out buildings. For further particulars call on or aib dress JOHN k V. P. MrlHlRMK'K, Jan. 16, 1S74. Wflniorc, Caiubria Co., Pa. Summerhill Property for t-vivi : : o 'K EOT OF (lllfilMl. eontainiuir one-na:i best known as the Ueorire Jlurray properly, ironi. lii"on the Pa. II. H.. and having t hereon erected a . substantial TAVEKN STAND. 64 feet front. with ; an 1,54x1 feet, and a rood STOKE KOOM und Wart-room atiached, and a larare Stable on the premises; together with two Dwelling Mouses sit uated on the same lot. The Tavern Stand con tains 11 lu.-.ru roomsand sr-Mid cellars. Any person desiring a property should apply to or address the owner at once. JAS. Ii. l'LlilJlEU. Suminerhill. Jan. 21. 1S74.-4L j OTICK. In the Court of Com- j mon Pleas of Cambria County, No. 47. I September Term. ls73.-MATil.nA Jones, by her , next friend, 11. Ki.nkeai.. is. Evan S. Jomes. iil.ijtrnii in Jirtircc. Ketumed N. K. I. To tii k nysi-oMiF.NT abovk amki: l on are hereby required to appear at a Court ot Common j Pleas to be held at Ebtnsburar, iu and lor the County of Cambria, on the first .Monday or March , next, to answer the complaint of the libollant lu , the above stated ease I ir. Ii AI.l - lui -iir.ii. .-'itiij. Shcriir's Office, Ebensburir, Jan. 15. 1374.-4t. DMIXISTHATORS' XOTICE ! Kstate of THOMAS At.AMS. dee'd. Letters of Administration on the estate ol said decedent, late ot Olefirlield township. Cambria counts-, having been ffranted to the undersincl by the LVV.ster of said county, all persons indebt ed to PU'fl t-state are requested to make immediate P',ment. nn.l those having claims niramst the M,ne will present them properly authenticated tor BOtllfUifllt. ANN ADAMS. f Administrators. JOHN WEAK LAN, S Clearfield Twp., Jan. 9, 1374.-6t. A TMHTOII'kS OTICK. I lie un- dersi lined Auditor, appolnU-d ny ti e aniiointed lij countv to distribute ;"fnud In t lie hands f John A. "-'y-, . . .. i,Hri- conntv to uisiriouiD Administnitororthe estate m '""V'V th-it dee d, hereby nolines all persons tntercs ed t hat he will i.ttend to the duties olsaid appomtmtnt, nt his onice in Ebensburir. on I iiiday. kii. 1-th, proximo, when and where they must juescnt t he r claims, or no uenurre'i irom v.n,.... - --- , of said fund .1 A M ES M L1, Auditor. Ebeusburi?, Jan. 8. 1S74.-31. ESTATE of Da. 1 ) EC E A S I . Ii . Ltd W. W. JAAllhU, Iters of Ailmmisirauou on the estate of said decedent, late of J,oretto nor ouh, ( 'aiiibria count v. I 'a., ha vim? been grant ed to the undersigned, all pvrsotis indebted to nahl estate are requested to make puvment either to the under signed or to Francis O'Frcil. Esq., Loivtto, and tlni6 having claims gainst the same will X'rcseut them properly authenticated for settlement. EMMA JAMISON, Administratrix. Jan. 23, W4.-6L AMES NULL, Attorney-at-Law Ebensburg. Ofrice in Colonnsvde Row. 13, l!74.-4t. Collectioim promptly aienlel to. 12 12,T3 - t j .YOJJODFS CHILD. BY rillLO II. CHASE. Alone in the dreary, pitiless street, AVith my torn old dress and bare cold feet, All day I've wandered to and fro ; Hungry and shivering," and no where to go, Qhe night's ooming'on in darkness and dread, And the chill sleet beating oh my bare head; Oh J why does the wind blow upon me so wild ? Is it because I'm nobody's child? Just over the way there's a flood of light, And warmth aud beauty, and all things bright ; Beautiful children in robes so fair. Are carolling songs iu rapture there, 1 wonder if they, in their blissful glee, "Would pity a poor little beggar like me, Wandering alone in the merciless street, Naked and shivering, and nothing to eat? Oh ! what shall 1 do when the night comes down In its terrible blackness all over the town? Shall I lay me down 'neath the angry sky, On the cold, hard pavement alone to die ? "When the beautiful children their prayers have said, And mammas have tucked them np safely in bed. No dear mother upon me smiled : Why is ii, i wouder ? I'm nobody's child. No father, no mother, no sister, not one In all the world loves me ; e'tn the little dogs run When I wander too near them, 'tis won drous to see How everything shrinks from a beggar like ma ! Perhaps 'tis a dream ; but sometimes when 1 lie Gazing far up in the dark blue sky, Watching for hours come large, bright star, I fancy the beautiful gates are ajar. And a host of white-robed, nameless things Come fluttering o'er in gilded wings, A haud that, is strangely soft and fair Caresses gently my tangled hair. And a voice like the carol of some wild bird The sweetest voice that was ever heard Calls me many a dear pet name, Till my heart ami spirit are all aflame. And tells me of such unbounded love, And bids me come to their home above : Anil then, with such pitiful sad surprise, They look at me with their soft, sweet bluo eyes, And it seems to me, out of the dreary night. They beckon menu to that world of light, Away from the hunger and storm so wild ; Aud then I know I'll bo somebody's child. THE MOTIIi:ii-IX-It W. A good many things, some of them good, many sharp and occasionally cruel, Laving of lute liceu said of niotbers-in-lav, now comes one of this much talked about class, and tells her side of the story. That she tells it well will bo admitted by all who read it : Left a widow, after a few years of most unhappy married life, I retired, with my two children, to a small town, where I in tended to subsist upon my very moderate means, aud to dwvoto myself to their care and education. I think the enjoyment wo have in our children before ihey reach the age of ten is very great. All faults and even tenden cies seem so sure to bo eradicated with time, we can scarcely believe the paius wo are taking will ever have any but the de sired result. These early promises are so beautiful ! Every childish liking seems a talent, lacking only opportunity to devel op into excellence. My girl and my boy went to school in the morning. In the afternoon we walked toge ther and we all three enjoyed these long, rambling walks. Then our tea table and our evenings, when I read to them how delightful was our companionship 1 H )w 1 tried m every way to sow the good seed. I have said that my means were small, but my wauts were few, and I con sidered it my duty to make them fewer, for my children's sake. I took care that they were always well dressed, often work- ; ing until late at night on their clothes my own were plain enough. They never knew, of course, the sacrifices I made that they might have pleasure, j That my children loved mc, respected me, I need not repeat. Their first thoughts always seemed to bo of me. At Christ ; mas they presented mo with horrid little daubs, which I still treasure, tieit up iu S little packages, and dated. Ah ! happy, ' happy days ! days when a paper of sweet ! cake is sufficient for happiness. The days came when they grew tall and ' less dependent on mo. James left school, ' and, as my means did not admit of his j going to college, I obtained admittance for him into tbe place of business of a friend. One day I heard an acquaintance say that my sou admired a "Miss Benson. Then first shot into my heart that acute pang of I jealousy which I had heard a woman feels ! when another woman dares to lay claim to hersou a bitter, unreasonable feeling, but ! strong and fierce, trample on it as you i may. I asked James about it ; he laughed at the idea. A year later he announced that ho was engaged to this very girl, and asked me to go and see her. -.1 went. She was tall, and very thin and stylish-looking, with reddish hair. She wore a great many flounces, and a great deal of jewelry, of the pale good kind. Her manners were very gracious to me, but somehow or other there was something about her that seemed to say she was the ono who had always had a right to Jaines, while I stood out iu the queer and awkward light of one whose claims upon him were very trilling, and quite recent. When I went home I sat in my roeking chair for about one hour, thinking. I had understood every kite ho had, fathomed the capacities for every toy cannon with which be had ever just missed committing suicide, overcome the roynteries of mar bles of every degree, lovtd every puppy and kitten he had ever adopted and laken to his heart why could I not at least try to love thin, reddish-haired girl? People congratulated me. "O ! yes, I w-.s very much pleased, not losing a son at all O ! no only gaining another daughter!" "De lightful, certainly; and early marriages are, as you saj-, so very desira' le." A year afterward they were married, and remained some months with her family, during which time I saw her often, aud cannot say that I ever had any fault to find with her. Then Jamea sought and obtained a very good position in a town distant about one hundred miles. At first the news was very satisfactory. "Charm ing little house, the perfection of servants;" and then, later, "the loveliest little baby," my gracious. Then some months later, things were not quite so bright. The baby had had the croup, my son himself a touch of tho unremittant fever, servants were great plagues, housekeeping a dreadful trouble. Disturbed beyond measure at the reiteration of theso lamentations, I deci ded to ro and see for mvself how thev were circumstanced, and be of what assist ance I might for a short time. So one winter morning, leaving Fanny with an in timate friend, and intrusting my house and all it contained to the care of one servant, I left her alone. Arriving after dark at my destination, I found the two young ser vants enjoying a very comfortable meal iu the kitchen, and the baby asleep alone in a chilly nursery. My sou and his wife were out spending the evening with soma friends. Their surprise and pleasure at seeing me upon their return homo appeared ; great. Upon conversing with Maria the ' next day, I found her to be very ignorant ; as regarded baby requirements, "lie does cry so dreadfully," sho eaid. j I stayed there a whole mouth ; perhaps it was too long, but there always seemed ', to bo something for me to do. I took charge of the little creature whenever his I mother wanted to spend an eveuing iu j company, which was not seldom. Many ! and many a lonely hoar did I speud in that ! dimly lighted room, listening to that low breathing, rather then trust him to the j awkwardness of the your.g girl who pro- 1 fessed to fulfil the duties of a child's nurse. I did a great deal of sowing for Maria, of whom. I became fonder than I had ever ex pected to be. James had a relapse of his intermittent fever. His wife knew nothing about sick ness ; I nursed him I who hail never known fatigue when ho had needed any thing in former years, would surely not fail him now. I sat up with him night after night, and showed tho cook how to prepare nice little dishes for him, such as I knew he liked that is to say, 1 prepared them while the cook looked on. Whatev er was wanted now, up stairs or down, I was the one to plan aud to do. At last I began to think I ought to return to Fanny; and seeing James fairly convalescent, I sought the train for my journey homeward. Sitting in the railroad car, a party of young people took places in front of me, laugh ing and talking with eager animation, principally about persons I knew nothing of, except by name. Presently one of them began to talk of my son's w ife. "I used to see a great deal of them at one time," she said, "but " "But what?' asked another. "Well, they had a mother-in-law raging around lately, so I have kept away." "So have I." Here followed a laugh of derision. "A mother-in-law !' exclaimed another. "That is hard ; I do pity them, indeed." "But I hear she is off now." "Glad to hear it. Have you heard the new opera I was the mother-in-law on whose ac count friends kept away. I remembered the weary nights in that sick room ; the weary days, when, suffering from the loss of sleep, I struggled to keep my eyes open, that I might attend to various little house hold duties. Which of all this was tho "raging around," which excited the risible muscles of those lively young people ? I thought of Fanny, her good looks, her in telligence, her affectionate nature, and found myself wondering what her nature was to be. But here we are. There she was waiting to meet me, dear child ! but there was some one with her, a most insig nificant looking individual, with very prominent eyes and large whiskers. Why did my heart sink with a melancholy fore boding ? How glad she was to seo me again ! She introduced her companion to me as Mr. Jenkins ; and whereas I was all anxiety to be alone with her, Mr. Jenkins, with a great flourish of politeness, walked all the way home with us. Before I could untie the strings of my bonnet ho told me that J Fanny had promised to marry him ! I was thuuderstruck, having in the annoy ancc of his preseuce forgotten my fore bodings of half an hour before. I had read with much attention, in va rious highly lauded books, of the great and ! imperative duty of bringing up a girl to be i I i.i,.ntctA for a iiohm man. n thin a iii.ipkxvfc - -. my Fanny's noble man this dapper little maniken ? He seemed amiable, but so ut terly insignificant ! He had uninteresting parents, and weak, plain sisters, all of whom made perpetual amusement of the engagement. My parlor was given up to them entirely that is, to him and his sis ters. I seemed always rfc trop when I en tered, judging by the suddeu silence which followed the animated talk. My coming was an interruption. I began to sit up-stairs. I always walked alono. Having avoided all society and all ac- quainuiucesuip wnen my children were young, that I might devote my whole time to them, I found myself now friendlessand desolate. Friends, like plants, must bo cultivated. I found no congeniality iu either of the families with which my chil dren were connecting themselves. After two years they were married ; and after a year of boarding aspired to the dignity of keeping house. After looking at many dwellings, ono was selected, one which required a great many repairs, and now my services were in very irreat de mand. I attended to all the directions Mr. Jenkins wished given to the workmen ; I stayed in the cold, empty rooms all day, when there was nothing to sit on but an empty candle-box. I did the necessary quarreling with the plumbers, and bore the snubbing of the upholsters. I put the furniture in the places I thought best ; then by degrees changed it all to suit his tastes. I washed all the china and glass, and sometimes fancied, when I got dirty doing all this, that I was happy. I had so long been accustomed to work for those I loved, that it was hard to learn that there might be any reproach connected with it. I must do Fanny the justice to say that she was very kind and grateful to me. On tho last day, after fcaving some cold tea out of a pitcher on the corner of a mantle-piece, I overheard Mr. Jenkins, who had brought a friend in to admire his new dwelling, say, "Well, the carpets are down, the furni ture is all here, and I think when we get our servants, and engage a baker and milkman, aud are entirely rid of the mother-in-law, we shall be ready to move in." Both my children married, I had my sol itary little house to myself, and very soli tary it was. I tried to get up some spas- modic friendships with my neighbors, but I being hollow, theso forced intimacies soon ' fell through. But I ought not to com- plain ; it is the way of tho world. I only wonder if, considering the love we have for our children, young or old, the world is not apt to be a little hard upon the mother-in-law. A SMALL STORY. NOT COPYRIGHTED. JYbfc to tlic Kditor of thr C'o'irirr-.mirnal : Some people, you know, have a way of re.-ul-ing one chapter of a story, and if it does not please them or come up to their standard as to what a chapter should to be good, will condemn the whole, ami throw the Imok or paper aside with the remark that "that is enough of tfiat." I have endeavored to bar this practice as applicable to my serial, and I think 1 have succeeded. I would have such people to understand that, in order to get the sense and beauty out of the follow ing tale, they must take it all in. John Glades. CHAPTER I. Once on a time, a little boy, who was a fisherman's son, and lived on Long Island Sound, went home from school, carrying with him a successful case of chicken- CUAPTER II. pox. His moiher put him to bed and ad ministered the usual remedies, and the next day he was much belter, lNt it was with great difficulty that he could bo re strained from scratching his nose with his finger-nails. lie said that it itched so dreadfully that he couldn't help it, and diilu't care whether he had a uo.so CHAPTER III. left or not. On the following day, how ever, the little boy was so much better that his mother told him that he might go down upon the beach and play in the warm sand, provided he would promise her that he would not be so cross the next CHAPTER IV. time he got sick. He promised her that he would not, but gave her to know that he didn't go much on chicken, no how, and didn't want no more chicken-pox. Ho said that the next time it came round to him he would pass, and take oyster-pox in his'n tor a change. THE END. Oxce in a while is told some story of heroism in a child which ought to help tho professional cynic to a little faith in his kind. Not long ago a young girl, lost in the-woods with her little brother, protected him from the weather all through a bitter night at the cost of her own frozen limbs. Some days ago three children, a little girl of six, her brother only four, and another little bov six vears old, went to a iond in I Kentuckv to skate. That day the ie had j heBn cnt from ha;f the pond, and the six- year-old boy skated directly into the deep water and sank. The three small creatures were all alone there. The four-year-old tried to rescue the poor child, but failed, then the little'girl, with a presence of mind a woman might be proud to own, walked to the edge of the ice, waited until the boy rose gasping, seized him, and drew him out. What a glittering romance might be built upon this true story of a child's courage. That lamb that Mary had may now take a back Beat. An Atol (Mass.) girl has a pet duck, that waddles to church with he t, and is in every particular a "duckie darling." Enoch Artlen Improved Uton. About fifteen years ago, a young woman living in her home in Monson, became pos sessed with tho desire to go West and teach school. In tho town of Anamosa, lIowa she fjun1 ber vocation and, by and by, a husband. He was the youngest and indulged son of a wealthy widow. The '. happy couple sot out eatly iu the matrimo- J nial sea, both being only about niueteen , years of age. When our heroine wrote to her father, in Munson, of hr plans, he weut on to Iowa for a few months' visit, and. being pleased with his daughters pros- j pects, built and furnished a house for her. t The mother of the young husband gave him afiue farm, wellstocked and equipped, and no young couple ever started iu lifo with brighter prospects. In a short time, however, bad specula tions and mismanagement had stripped her husband of all his property. His pride was terribly mortified by this turn of affairs, and in sudden desperation lie left his home, his wife, and infant daughter, and enlisted in one of the first regiments which was raised to put down the rebellion. His family received a few letters from him, and then came an unbroken silence. In vain they wrote to him, and then to his officers and comrades. lie waa reported among the missing. The wife or widow she knew not which at length returned to her Monsou home, and eutered the em ploy of Tinkham & Co., proving herself capable and efficieut in tho miliuery de partment. A.t tho end of four or five years she re visited her husband's friends iu Iowa, and soon married a gentleman there, having first for the sake of certainty, obtained a divorce from her long lost husband, al though really supposing herself a widow. In a few months after this marriage, this second husband died and the lady again returned to the New England home ttvvico widowed as sho supposed) and soon was , in her old place at Tinkham's. j Some months ago and this is one of the ! strangest incidents in this eventful history . she dreamed that a hack called at her j boarding place and took her to i,ho Massa- j soit House, where she met her missing i husband, to whom she was united in mar- i riage. The dream of course made a deep impression on her mind, but as months wore away and nothing came of it, she re garded it more and more as"only a dream." But one cay last fall a letter reached the postoffiee in Anamosa, directed to her. Some one who knew her caused it to be re-directed to this city. It so happened that she was absent on a visit at the time, aud after remaining at the Springfield post office awhile it was returned to Iowa. Her ft iends there then enclosed it in another envelope and sent it here again, and it finally reached her as she was at her work . in Tinkham's stoic. j On opening it she neatly fainted. It was from her first husband, from whom or of whom not a lisp had been heard by his friends for thirteen years. It stated that he was iu the wilds of Texas, following tho hazardous lifo of rancheros. Ho had left home with the determination of never returning until he had made good his shat tered fortunes. Several times he had so far redeemed this vow that he was on the point of seeking his farr.iiy and friends, when some turn of the wheel of fortune had da.-hed him back to poverty. At length the ilckle goddess had favored him, and he was rich again. Whether his wife was living, whether she was the mother of an other man's family, and a host of other questions asked, she hastened to answer. Other letters were written by both, but all failed by reason of hostile Indians, faith less carriers, etc., of rcachiug their desti nation. But the one assuring him that his w ife was still his own and telling whero she could bo found was enough. Some time afterward a stranger inquired one afternoon at the Massasoit House if there was such a firm as Tiukhara & Co. in the city. Being assured ju this point, he called a hack mm and told him to drive to their store and bring Mrs. to the hotel. She was not at the store, and tho hackman was directed to her boarding rlace, where he found her, and the dream was proved true ! The meeting is not rol- us to describe. The next evening there was a weudin at the house of a prominent clergyman in this city, and the brido was a woman who was thcu married for the thiid time yet had had but two husbands, and by their side stood a blooming miss of fifteen to w itness the marriage of her own legitimate father and mother. The romance ends happily, as all such stories should. After visiting friends iu various parts of the North this w inter the husband will return to Texas to settle up his extensive business as cattle dealer and I then return to pend the rest of his lifo with his family, either iu his old Iowa home or with his wife's friends at the East. Our friend Enoch Arden is a highly ed ucated and cultivated gentleman, and iiot withstRnduig his long exile from civilized life, he re-enters society with ease and grace. prirtfdcl (Mats.) Univ:. A smart Daubury woman does the work: for a family of nine, milks two cows and kee)s track of thirteen continued vto-lies. a i axis. The body of Orestes," according to the Greeks, was eleven feet and a half; tho giant Galbara, brought from Arabia to Home under Claudius Caesar, was near ten feet ; and the bones of Secnndilla and Pufio, keepers of tho gardens of Sallust, were but six inches shorter. Fur.man, a Scotchman, whi lived in the time of Ettgenc the Second, King of Scotland, measured eleven feet and a half; and Jacob lo Maire, in his voyage to the Straits of Magellan, reports that on the 17th December, 1613, they found at Port Desire several graves covered with stones ; and having the curiosity to re move the stones, they discovered human skeletons of ten and eleven feet long. The Chevalier Scory, in his voyage to the peak of Teneriffe, says that they found in one of the sepulchral caverns of that mountain, tho head of a Gauuche, which had eighty teeth, and that tho body was not less than fifteen feet long. The giant Ferragus, slain by Orlando, nephew of Charlemague, was eighteen feet high. Boland, a celebiated anatomist, who wrote in 1014, says that, some years le fore, there was to be seen in the suburbs of St. Germain, the tomb of the giant Iso ret, who was twenty feet high. In Rouen, in 1509, in digging In tho ditches near the Dominicans, they found a stone tomb containing a skeleton, whoso skull held a bushel of corn, and whoso shin bone reached up to the giidle of tho tallest man there, being about four feet long, and consequently the body must have been seventeen or eighteen feet high. Upon the tomb was a plate of copper, wbcreoa was engraved, "Iu this tomb lies tho noble and puissant lord, the Cheval.er Hicon do Vallemont, and his bones." Pla terus, a famous physician, declares that he saw at Lucerne the true human bones of a subject which must have been at least nineteen feet high. Valence in Dauphiue boasts of possess ing the bones of the giant Bueart, tyrant of the Yivarais, who was slain by an ar row by the Count de Cabillon, his vassal, j The Dominicans had a part of the shin bone, with the articulation of the knee, i and his figure painted in fresco, with an inscription showing that this giant was ; twenty-two feet and a half high, and that , his bones were found in 1705, near tho ' banks of the Morderi, a little river at the : foot of the mountain of Crassol, upon which, tradition says, the giant dwelt, i January 11, 1013, some masons digging ; near the mins of a castle in Dauphin, in a field which by tradition had long been called the Giant's Field, at the depth of eighteen feet discovered a brick tomb thirty feet long, twelve feet wide, and eight feet high, on which was a gray stone, i with the words, "Theutobochus I'ex" cut thereon. When the tomb was open 1 ed they found a human skeleton en tire twenty-five and a half feet long, ten feet wide across the shoulders, and fivo feet deep from the breast-bone to the back. His teeth were about the size each ' of an ox's foot, and his shin-bone measured : four feet. I Near Mezarino, in Sicily, in lolfi, was i found a giant thirty feet high ; his head 1 was the size of a hogshead, and each of his teeth weighed five ounces. ; Near Palermo, in the valley of Mazara, in Sicily, a skeleton of a giant thirty feet long was found in the year 15-18, and an ' other of thirty-three feet high iu 1550; and many curious persons have preserved sev eral of these gigantic bones. The Athenians found near their city two famous skeletons, ono of thirty-four and the other of thirty-six feet high. ! At Totu, in Bohemia, in 75S, was found a skeleton, the head of which could scarce i be encompassed by the arms of two men together, and whose legs, which they still keep in the castle of that city, were twenty six feet long. The skull of the giant found in Mace donia, September, lC'Jl, held 210 pouuds of com. The celebrated Sir Hans Sloane, who treated this matter very learnedly, does not doubt these facts, but thinks the bones were those of elcphauts, whales, or other euormous animals. Elephants bones may be shown for ihose of giants, but they never can impose ou connoisseurs. Whales, which by their immense bulk are more proper to be substituted for the largest giants, have neither arms or legs ; and the head of That animal has not the least resemblance to that of a man. If it be true, that a great number of the gigan tic bones which we have mentioned, have been seen by anatomists, and have by them been reputed real human boues, the exist ence of giants is proven. i A Chicago newspaper tells the follow ing story : "A 'runner' fur a Milwaukee houso was, a few days ago, in La Crosse, anxious to get across the liver on the ice, but was told it was dangerous, so be got on ins hantls and kr.et-s ativl ciawk-d acios.s hauling a skiit" on the ice to pet into in case the ieo broke. After he had crawled Rlut half across, and was nil tired and ! di.-couragrd, he heard a roise behind him, I and thinking the ice was breaking Le g-t j on his kuces ard said his 'Now I lay rue, ' just as a load of wcxd came up behind him. The ice was a foot thick, and some I other runners ha 1 played it on him. He is searching for Jlio fellow who I old hi in the ice was Uuu," V r
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