. - - . . TJ t-'-Hrrt mite !fe.vi .- .Kirr- v i-.P.r ------ v. Id. I ... i f t ,CPIKE, Editor and Publisher. IIE IS A 1'REEMiS WHOM TUB TRUTH HAKES FKKE, AND ALL. AUK SLAVES BESIDE. Terms, S2 per year, In r.dvancB. yU'MIi VIII. EBENSBURG, PA., FRIDAY, MAY 29, 1S74. numeeii i9. i '2 ' u le it j- K'S SALES. Iy virtue of S irv writs of I "etui. Espon., Al. Vend. u' f.i i" " ' 'st!Ue outol thef'ourt ,s: will t'f expofe'l to Public Sale at the '"iu 'I u Ktn-n-'t'iir. n -Hominy, the lot !!.. III I Hlli''i.i Vt'lllll f UIIU I'l 111 111 ' "' II 1 U Cltllh, I . 31 lilt' IU11UW- , VM-ate. '" ",t:, ,;r;t.tiiK-:.nl i.l Interest of Joseph Smn v. m nicer 'M I'.iii ' i "I lllll'l Clt IlltlU lit " , u ill 'titharine ('ruin, Jan. JHciuu;fli, niiiininir 1i0 acres, more or less, i '''."'',r,''n. n( which an cleared, having there ,,,.jii. iine lialf story frame house 'f"'"!' "... i..,t,k harns ami other outbuililinirs. ...II l,.l'HMIU. .mifii. "'"). ., J- ;;th II 1KI 111' V II Ii in. filial. ijim. nu cut, . . L . .-..-- r,f lnSi.nli kmilv i.f innm-l riiin-vl "t laml situate in Summorhill c!'. rl:l n.unty. mljoiniiiK lands of Mar- il mini- ............ I Mill IV, .Tli M oiinell. ami oi ners, contain- less, unimproved, laken : '., i, "mil tu le sold at the suit of Z. Kn- .jf;lli!' 11 '' ,", tl i' r;'ht. titlo and Interest of John ' '"' "' m -liid l a piece or parcel of land eitu '"'i !( In n v tiiwnship. t'aiuliria county. Pa., . fin. !-'f David Hubert, Jacob Mouse, "ii"r, C..H' a ini SO acres, more or less, about i wh;cli a p-cleared, having thereon erect- Trf r,i'! a lialt story'plank house and a plank ' f., f ill tl"' uci-upaliey of John V. Crook. 1' .!'i,in and to be sold at the suit of , P''.'li . ,'il the rinlit. title and interest of William -'I and tn a piece or parcel of land situ Vs .i-',i liaima township, t'ambrla county, lands ot John M anion, Thos. J. IJyrno, "..' ciiataitiinv -u a'res. more or less, alxnit X I " 1 1 1 li arc cleared, having thereon crect i, ii-c an I lo barn, now in the occupancy iiNlhi r. Taken rn execution and to be sold ; ,,f Johtistoii Moore. 1. il! He- rmlit. title anil interest of Thomas I - ..f. in and to a piece or parcel of land . imin' or ; (' iiiibria township. t;ainriria county.Pa., ,i,.!s.l' William Selders. John Lloyd, .'. and others, containing 3a0 acres, . abniit 4n acres of which are cleared. h I-'' ii. p ' n ercpicii a 10 nouse anil lea; uarn, ,-uuncvof Thos. T.IWilliains. 'Taken n and to be sold at the suit of John T. U all the rlirlit, title and interest of F. Ful ! :n an 1 to a lot ot uround situate in the bor i j ;!,.,,. . nr:r. Cambria county, bounded and w. a follows : HiKinniim at a post on the ,,,-,! of the Huntingdon, Cambria and i-i li;ri:i:Ke Koad ; thence by a ten foot alley ,, an alley: thence by said alley 50 feot to , : l..-nce 165 feet to the Turnpike Koad ; '-i'. ..I,.' iioi t li west side of said road 65 feet to j .. i . Li-Filming: known on Myers" exten ,i I. ' No. 2. havinur thereon erected a two v;: ...mi" In use and board stable, now in the oc r,. ,t Thomas James. Taken In execution , jrf M at the suit of Thomas Donulioe, tor f t Slim maker, ill i In- ritrlit, title anil interest of Anthony "i". in and to a certain messuage, teno . ni l '' of land, situate in White township, i :n: v. adjoining lands of Joseph Miller. S; m !. Fi-xart. and others, containing in. if or less. 'M acres of which are el cared, . 'i ri on erected a one story frame house, ' :t!. an I s iv mill. Taken in execution and i a: t he suit of Johu Cresswell, Trustee of owaikel. ... a!) Ihoriaiht, title and interest of Adam in and to a piece or parcel of land situ-i-iuehanna township, Cambria county. ,.n lands fd Washington I-doyd. Peter , ,ii. i others, containing 5 acres, morn or 'a.i red. hnvinx thereon erect el aone-and--; r. plank house, now In the occupancy of li. m :-. and a one-and-a-half story plank ti l - .... maker shop, now in the occupancy -in 1 -.ts. Taken in execution and to be . i -i. i .1 Abraham Hartlebaujfh. ;! . i : 1 1 1 . title and interest of .Michael i.i. iii an I to a lot of ground sduaTe in ..( '. Augustine, Cleartiet.il township, : a m. . l a., adjoining lot s of Joseph My. nu .- M K. .i.'. and others, having thereon -.In iwi.i.nrv l;..ue, known as the "W ash- u 11..' ui.w iii i lie occupancy of H V i n t. ii -xf u ' ,. n and to be sold I l.i.-: jw W. i. ofliarrv Mar- I at t he suit li ;;: X UAT'MKR. Sheriff. !i".- Hit.- llurs. Maj- 15, 18J4. 'IKRJFF'S SALKS. liv virtue I Miiiuiy writs u! fieri f'tiritis .tlx! Alias V'- i.-a- I out of the Court of Common : i '-I'?! - a .111,1 v a u.l to mo directed, t here ' "! I to I'ui'lie Sale, at t he ( Jourt House .- i iv. . n :iiiiri:ii . the :t(ii Iir ol l .j . lock. v. m., the following Jeal ;i r:ii!. title and interest of Henry Marti, .!.; in a piece or lot of ground siiu.ite in y onii-liin. Cainbri.i county, front inaf K. 1!. .in 'I a lioinin j lam's of John Hauiii- r- pher I.i i and others, having thereon -,..r. Iiame house, now in the occu- I !:r l.urns. Taken in execution and to ' " ill- -nit id L. Strauss. 1 i l il e r.olit, title and interestf Kdward -'.. :a ,.nd lu:i piece .r parcel of land sit -i.'.'Mi.!'! ti.wnsh'p. Cambria count'-, ad- I n:- i.l peter llrticiili, John N'ajrlo. " r. an.', others, cmilninuiir in acres, --. a ut 5 acres of w hich arc cleared, i r. n eree'ed n one story plank house -r! now in thw occupancy of John -e. 1 aki n in ex'.cut ion and to be sold -' : Lloyd &. Co., endorsees of James th r'aht. title nnt Interest of Joseph n an i t.. a pi.-ee or parcel of land sit uaio Y ' "Wr..-lup. Cambria county, adjoining jc.ti Cu-'it. David Krin-j. Samuel Fui- vt-. eoutainiiitf 23 acres, more o-r less. ''.'.ii i r ected a one story plank house T? ' nmv in the occupancy oT Joseph .; -n m execution and to be sold ut the :-;.' n.,v. r. liKi.MAX HAirMKR. Sheriff. ".. Kbensbursr, May It. 1S74. "'AI. I.I ST. Causes sot down r " i!at .1 une Term, A. I. 1874: KIIIST WF.KK. ; vs. Foster. Paddock Ad ams. vs. Harter. v.- Hurler. M ips it. Lloyd. 'oiirad. Cainphell. John P. and Culhurinc . . s. Parn.-di. SK(.iIl U'KKK. '"I'niiipanv.vs. Christy. ... is. The Cambria Mining and Mamifaet'iiji C.o. . vs. W est brm k. vs. McLaughlin et. al. vs. Hill. . . vs. Til ey. vs. Lanirbein. ':. .Marlclt. .v". Humphreys. V .vs. Sch wader, r. vs. Makin. vs. AppUt. vs. A.ple. .vs. I.ioyd. vs. I ia vis. ..vs. Stvner's Kxccutor."'. .1. K. II I I K. l'lui liouolary. 'I.'le.. II ! May 4. 1S74. 3t. ,MV,v A I P R A I S K M K N TS. ' "' !s lo-rcliy given that the fol "",""'v ol real estate and personal .,. '.''"'''t'ts. selected and set apart lor ni. ,i;,., , un,,.r t, Act of Assein ".i,.C Al'nl 1M. have been hied in the ''en-'tuwsr, and will lie pre ' n ff.,'-1!,n"' '',,, lor approval arid al ,. ' H'MlMi.yy, the jHU PAY OK J L' NB :r "Ppraipetnent of certain person ' ! i,"-""'1 a!"' s,-t apart lor Florinda . 'n o,-,. Hess, late of Summerhill o.-.i '.;y 'j-j "'i 4 "li'raiseinent of certain person, .. ' "'i".'1 11 !"' e'1 l:rt lor Mairdalen '-mo' i Iri'w 'alahan, late oi Chest ' ' ;r, ,"!' "I'l'Misi-iuent of certain periion : i','.", :," 1 s.-t apart Tor RlUabetli U .' -I Trclls. latent loliiwlown t, bJ lf -to the when H 1 e of net .fink! . ''.i.i -, IJ-T 1 l l'raisement of certain real ' ""ah V !'r"i"'rr.v appraised and net ;,-,. , ,i' un;,nv- "Mow T Franoig J i. Vi l ,:,'"ift on township, dee d, ay 4, 1ST, d V's 1 1 vx'snoetfullv profess'..,.,..! : .err'"" i ., cctiy ctiilJ''0! , - I 1 on srivn'i-s mj i iii? ?!".." .. HM vicinity. Olttcc ad- ." -.. . , """""iiateiy In the riar ot O '!." r-. V ;,,re. is ijr l,t calls can iid.ar ' 01 Mrs- rtunn, on Oraw- !1 I J4-24.-tf. ot AVIS ijt G I I l-i'iTit n r A Htm 'cftle without delav and - 't"-i ti,a SHni wi, ,;reBent S.'il nte-nteil lor et tliom ut. t-UAKLlt, Tru'ieu. 27tc Jtif o Collins Craven. j An Inrlilpnl of the flood In .Mhshc1iii ett. on Xlny IGtli, l7i. BY JllIIK ltOYLE O'REILLY. No SlIllfT Of a Knidier ridincr itiivn. To the racing rijht at Winchester town; No suiik of a t ime that shook the earth , With the nation's throe at a nation's birth; ( l!ut the song of a bravo man, frve from fear As Sheridau's self or Paul Uevere; uo nskeii what they risked, free from strife Ami its promise of glorious pay his life. The peaceful valley has waked and stirred, And the answering echoes of life are. heard; The dew still clilijis to the trees and grass, And the early toilers smiling pass, As they glance aside at the white-walled homes. Or up the valley, where merrily conies The brook that sparkles in diamond rills Ai the suu comes over the Hampshire hills. What was it, that passed like an ominous breat h ? Like a shiver of fear or a touch of death? What was it? The valley is peaceful still, And the leaves are afire on top of the hill; It was not. a sound, nor a thing of sense liut a pain, like the pang of the short sus pense That wraps the being of those who sea At their leet the gulf of Eternity! The air of tho valley has felt the chill; The workers pause at the door of the mill; The housewife, keen to the shivering air, Arrests her foot on the cottage stair, Instinctive taught by tho mother-love, And thinks of the sleeping ones above! Why start the listeners? Why does the course Of the mill-stream widen ? Is it a horse ? Hark to the sound of his hoofs, they say, That gallops so wildly Williamsburg way ? God! what was that like a human shriek From the winding valley? Will nobody speak ? Will nobody answer those women who cry As the awful warning thunder by? Whence come they? I.istcu! And now they hear The sound of the galloping horse-hoofs Tierir; Thoy watch thft trend of the vale, and see The rider, who thunders so menacingly, With waving arms and warning scream, To the home filled batiks of the valley stream. He i. raws no rein, but he shakes the street With a shout and tho ring of the galloping feet, And this the cry that lie flings to the wind: ' Tu the hills for your lires ! The food is be hind." Ho cries and is gone ; but they know the worst The treacherous Williamsburg dam has burst! Tho basin that nourished their happy homes Is changed to a demon It comes! it comes! A monster in aspect, with shaggy front Of shattered dwellings, to take the brunt Of the dwellings they shatter white-nianed and hoarse, The merciless terror fills the course Of the narrow valley, and rushing wdros, Till cottage ami street and crowded mill Are crumbled and crushed. But onward still, In front of the roarirtg flood is heard The galloping horse and the warning word. Thank God, that the brava man's life is spared! From Williamsburg so noble dared To race with the flood and to take the road In front of the terrible swath it moved. For miles it thundered and crashed behind, I'.ut he looked ahead with a steadfast mind; "Thj tmixt he vartfd ."' was all hu aid, As away ou his terrible rido he sped. When heroes !re, called for, bring the crown To this Yankee rider; send him down On the stream of time with the Curtius old; Misdeed as the Roman's wa brave and bold, And the tale can as noble a thrill awake. For lie offered his life for the people's sake. JJoxton Pilot. t wo a m: uxnA ens. One led a useless life and was guilty of enormous bins in the way of omission. The other passed through an honorable career of real service and well doing. To be sure, greenbacks are not endowed wi ll life and free will ; yet how people bow to them, and strive to get them and submit to their power. The two particular greenbacks, the ad ventures of w hich it is the purpose of this story to relate, were each of the denomi nation of $10. One was a bright now one and was one of a pile that lay in the desk of a fat old fraud in the shape of a wos 1 thy citizen, whose small eyes sparkled complacently as he contemplated his hoard, and whose false tongue plead poverty in miuest for the payment of honest debts. That greenback's life was a monotonous one. If it had had a tongne to speak, it would have lifted up its voice in loud pro test at being penned tip in such a lonely place, and begged to bo allowed to see something of the world instead of being doomed to the dreary, useless life it was leading. Greenback No. 2 was a creature of more fortunate circumstances. It was not so crisp aud clenij as the one that was kept in confinement, but its scars were honorable ones, won in a life of activity and hard service. Wo first beheld it passing over the black walnut counter of a large manu facturing establishment, into the hands of an honest looking man, with soiled clothes and a dust begrimmed face. For conve nience sake we will jpve the man a name we will call him Luke Preston though that is a matter of little consequence as regards the adventures of .th greeubaek. The first thing he did was to call at Sket tlo's giocery on his way home, and pay hi week's bill. This auiouutcd to three dol lars and forty cents, and handing over his ten dollar greenback he received six dol lars and forty cents in change. Further along he stopped at the meat market and settled up, paying out two dollars and teu cent, having then remaining four dollar and tifty cents. With these two debts off his mind, he went home and sat down to a g-ood mnper which one of the best wives had prrparcd for him. "Lucy, did old Garland saw that wood this afternoon?" he asked. "Yes," was his wife's reply. "Then I'll go around and pay him after supper." "It is so cold and stormy to-night, I would not go ont. He can probably just as well wait until Borne time when you hap pen to see him." " No." was Luke's replv,"he has earned the money and may want it. It would be too bad to keep it from him. All he has comes from little jobs like this, you know." And after the meal was finished Luke made his way through a driving snow storm to the home of old Garland. " Good evening Mr. Garland. I thought I would step around and pay -you for saw ing that wood. It's a dollar, I believe." "Thank ye, sir, thank ye," exclaimed old Garland, while his wife looked up over her spectacles from a pair of socks which she was darning. "Yes, sir, that's right; much obliged." "Xot at all, Tt belongs to you." " Yes, yes. You are right. But it ain't all of them as looks at it iu this way !" "Is that so?" "Yes ; there's lots of little debts standin' out that I can't co'.lect, and there's Squire Clinch, in particular, has had ten cords of wood in his yard, which I took the sawin' of. I jest finished the job yesterday and of course asked for my pay. L5ut he allowed he had been doin' me a great favor in givin' nie such a big job, and said I'd have to wait a week or two, as he was hard up." "Squire Clinch too hard up to pay for his wood sawing? That sounds like a joke." " 'Taint much of a joke forme, fori need the money. I had to borrow three dollars of John flrady the other day to buy some coal with, and he ought to be paid. But I only had enough to get a little Hour with to-night, and I was wonderiu' how I'd put John off. llowsumever, I'll give him this dollar aud perhaps he'll wait for the rest. I was going to get a pair of new boots, too. These old things let too much cold in when a man stands still all day sawin' wood. But I will have to wait un til Squire Clinch isn't so hard up." "Squire Clinch doesn't act on the right principle," said Luke, turning to go. "I know he will pay you befote long. Good night." "Good night, and many thanks to you." On his way home Luke saw a light across the way in the vill.go printiug office. Ho crossed tne way and entered. "Good evening, Mr. Quill," he said, "my time for your paper is just out, I be lieve, and I wish to pay for another six months ahead." "A thank you, Luke. I wish all my subscribers acted on your plan." "Don't they ?" asked Luke. "Xo, indeed. You would be surprised if I should mention the names of some of the most wealthy men who owe from two to five years back." "'Well, I hope that will never bo said of me. The rich ones, I suppose, think such sums make uodiO'ercnce." "There's where they are mistaken," re plied Mr. Quill. "The life of trado is in these small sums. Aud a poor man's dol lar is worth more than a rich man's prom ise, any time, for material and labor can not be obtained without money." Before returning homo Luke bought some delicacies for a Sunday dinner, a weekly literary paper and his wife's reli gious magazine. Besides he gave ten cents to a little beggar girl, who held out a band, blue with cold, from under the shreds of a tattered shawl. "When he finally reached home his poeket-book felt considerably lighter, but his conscience was clear. Of the trillo over two dollars which he had left, he laid aside two dol lars to deposit in the savings bank, where there was already quite a respectable sum to his credit. Meanwhile the various divisions of his teu dollar greenback, now scattered about in different hands, began to chuckle. They said with one voice : "That is what you like. I'll see something of the world and in all probability do some cd." Let us see how it was. The three dol lars and forty cents which he had left at Skettle's grocery went to help to make up the quarterly rent which Skettle owed, and which was due that very night. . He paid Mr. Balcom, the owner of the building, who, in turn, promptly handed it over to some woikmen who had been making re pairs. It so happened that a portion of it went to a carpenter who had a sick child, and who was thus enabled to purchae some needed delicacies, thereby, perhaps, saving the child's life. A dollar and a half of it went to a hod carrier, who im mediately took it and bought of Skettle sundry small packages of sugar, coffee, flour, etc. Skettle took the same dollar and a half and gave it to his wife, who wished to pay a woman for doing some little job of cleaning and scrubbing. Now this woman was the hod can ier's wife ; and so the dollar and a half of Luke's greenback went first to Skettle again, then to his wife, and then to the hod carrier's wifer. It was not presumable that it lay long idle in her bands." Cnrious, wasn't it? And the two dollars and ten cents that; went to tho butcher?, Why this was paid to the boy who tended shop, who handed it to his mother, who iu turn paid it to Carpenter Bailey for some repairs dene on her little cottage. Bailey settled up his coal bill, the coal merchant paid one of his teamsters, the teamster walked straight to the butcher shop and paid for his week's meat and tho butcher put the money with another pile and paid it to the farmer for a good fat cow. And what did the farmer do? Why he went and bought a wagon at the factory that had paid the ten dollar bill to Luke Preston over its black walnut desk. And the dollar that went to old Gar land ? He did as he told Luke he should paid it to John Brady as a part of the borrowed sum. John Brady said he had need of the whole amount, but would get along as best he could. Of this dollar, fifty cents went for provisions, and the other fifty to a poor old cobbler for mending Johnny's shoes. This had to be expended at the hardware store to replace a broken awl, and the hardware man paid it to a boy for shoveling snow off the sidewalk. The boy ran home in exultation to his rheumatic mother to inform her of his good luck. Aud the dollar that went to Editor Quill he sent to his "devil," from whoso hands it went to a poor woman who made him a coat, and who held body and soul together by the earnings of her needle. The beggar girl to whom Luke had given ten cen cents bought a loaf of bread, thus allaying the pangs of hunger that were torturing half a dozen brothers and sis ters. And the thirty odd cents expended at the newsroom went into a box of small change, which was subsequently counted over and pinned in neat packeges of ono dollar each and scut to the News Company whore the supplies of papers and maga zines came from. These small sums, from five to forty cents, enabled the dealer to maintain his little stand, and greatly to the convenieece of those who depended on it for their periodical supplies of reading matter. Tho two dollars remaining Luke depos ited, as has been mentioned before, in the savings bank. "Ah, ha !" exclaims some surly, short sighted reader who begin to see the point of this sketch, " so Luke hoards up mon ey too. Isn't it just as bad in proportion for him to consign his two dollars to idle ness, as for the ' fat old fraud' to keep his money so close." But pause and consider for a moment. The savings bank pays Luke five per cent. interest on his deposits, and how could it do that if the money lay idle in its vaults? No, such is not the case. The savings bank took Luke's money and put it wi'.h that of a few other depositors, aud lent it to a well-to-do farmer who wished to make somo improvements in the way of building fences and barns, and purchasing choice breeds of stock. The farmer laid out the money to good advantage, and paid the bank seven per cent, interest, the extra two per cent, going to defray the ruuning expenses of the institution, aud affording its Stockholders a small divi dend. Now, about the time the farmer was ready to begin his improvement, business was slack in the establishment where Luke worked, and there was a prospect of his being thrown out of employment for a mouth or more. But he chanced to learn that the farmer required some labor that was iu his line, and straightway entered into an engagement with him. And so the money he had put into the savings bank was loaned to the farmer and by him paid into Luke's hands again and Luke receiv ing interest on it all the time. Aud now we must leave Luke Preston's greenback to its fate. We have of couise related only a tithe of its entire history, but we have seen it fairly launched on the tide of life, and the prospect is that its career will continue to be a busy one. Now let us tako a look at the idle green back that lay in the desk of the "old fat fraud."This individual was no other than the sarao Squire Clinch that had refused to pay old Garland for sawing wood. If he had paid bis debt promptly, Garland could have paid Brady in full and on time, and bought the boots he so much needed. As it wa be had to ge without the boots, and in consequence his feet were severely frost bitten while on a bitter cold day be was engaged in 6awing wood. This was a great misfortune, for he was disabled ex cept to a limited extent,from following his usual occupation, and forced idleness brought with it a winter of hardship and dependence on charity. But the ten dollar greenback, along with its fellows, lay in Squire Clinch's desk for some time. The Squire had in tow a grand stroke of business. He held a mortgage on a certain piece of valuable property, whose owner was embarrassed in his finan cial matters. The mortgage would soon become due, acd then he meant to offer to buy the property at a price far . below its real value, and in the event of bis victim's refusing to come to hiB terms, to threaten instant foreclosure.' "With this transaction iu view (and he alwaj-s had some similar schemes ahead) he .kept his cash in readi ness in his own private desk, preferring not to deposit in a bank,, as the times are rather ' panicky," and the tighter and scarcer mouey was the more the Squire thrived. lie was a cautious safo uiau this Squire Clinch and a bold and suc , cessful one, too. His wealth increased j year br year, for he was ever on the look .: out to turn the misfortunes of others to his own gain. Still the money lay iu his desk waiting for the accomplishment of its selfish purpose, while it ought to have been in circulation, and a portion of it at least paying honest debts. But few there are without an hour of disaster at some time iu their careers, and Squire Clinch was no exception to tho gen eral rule. There was a burglary one night. The Squire's house was entered noiseless ly, and while all the inmates slept, his desk was sileutly and quickly opened. In j the morning he found the lock lying on the floor, the lid tipped back and the green backs gone ! A great alarm was raised and detectives set to work, but no clue to the money or robbers could be found. His mouey that had lain so secluded, and as he imagined sa safe, was gone beyond recov ery. And with it went the teu dollar greenback which we have mentioned. In stead of accomplishing tho good it might have done, it was now serving bad pur poses in thieves' hands. What a fate ! Which greenback was more to be en vied that of Luke Preston's, whose ca reer carried it over so many checkered scenes, and whose passage iu its multiform hand to hand was in every case a message of gladness, a token of honesty, and a promoter of property, or that of Squire Clinch, whose only change from the dull monotony of its useless, selfish life, was such a disastrous one ? Let those in whose care the destiny of greenbacks may be placed, take warning perous, their neighbors glad, and themselves from these two cases, and so act on the lesson taught as to make the world pios richer in the return sure to follow. Rural New Yorker. ABOUT A l'OSTALi CAIID. A postal card may be the means of a prodigious amount of mischief. Mr. John son of St. Joseph sent ono with the label of his firm pasted ou it to a firm in Chica go, but before it was delivered to the Chi cago firm the postmaster of that city de manded and received six cents extra post age. Mr. Johnson was notified of the fact and requested to make good the amount lost through his infraction of the postal laws, lie took the matter to the St. Jos eph postmaster and asked his advice. The St. Joseph jiostmaster declared the deci sion of the Chicago postmaster wrong, and told Mr. Johuson he might send as many jiostal cards, with labels pasted on them, through the mails as he pleased. There upon Mr. Johnson sent another postal card to the Chicago firm with the superscrip tion : "Our postmaster says your post master is au ass." That was all. But the Chicago jiostmaster wouldn't stand it. Ho didn't care particularly abottt being writ ten down an ass, but to be made the offi cial niedium of communicating the infor mation to a third person was a little to try ing. He sent the obnoxious card to the head-centre, Mr. Creswell, and Mr. Cres well, after a profound aud exhaustive con sideration of tho matter, sent instructions to the St. Joseph postmaster to have Mr. Johnson arrested on a charge of "sending obscene and scurrilous lauguago" through the mails. The question presented is novel and com plex. It involves tho accuracy of Mr. Johnson's classification of tho Chicago postmaster and here the fact may be against Mr. Johnson. The Chicago post master raiy not be an ass ; if not, he can deny the classification and defy the class ificator. Eut it involves, also, the reputa tion of an animal of hitherto unimpeach able respectability tud on this point we are bouud to say that the overwhelming testimony of history and experience is against the Postmaster General. Things have come to a pretty pass, indeed, in this age of Darwinian demonstration, if, by the edict of a Republican Postmaster General the name of a proper, well behaved ani. ml of classic lineage is to be made synono mous with obscenity and scurrility to say nothing of the feelings of that large class of inoffensive persons in Chicago aud else where who are prejudiced by the Postmas ter General's decision. We do uot care whether the postmaster in Chicago is an ass or not ; that is foreign to the mote im. portant question we are trying to bring out. "We simply asset t that the Postmas ter General's association of asses with scurrility is a gratuitous and uncalled for insult to an aucient family which is not without representation in the presidential cabinet. St. Louis Republican. The following story, the truth of which is vouched for by a California paper, would seem to show that the noble traits attribut ed to Indians by novelists and playwrights have somo foundation of fact to rest upon : Six weeks ago seven male Indians and a young Indian woman started to cross Clear Lake, near the northern end, in a small boat, which was capsized three miles from land. They lighted it, but as the lake was rough they could not bail it out, and while full of water it. would not support more than one persen. The men put the girl in and held on the edges of the boat, supported themselves by swimming till ex hausted and chilled through by the cold water, and then dropping off, sank one by one. They showed no thought of disput ing the young womans exclusive light to the boat. She was eaved by their self-sac-refice. The Maiden's Last J'areiccit. IN TUK IAY 'K CREMATION. 1 Then the night wore on, and we ktiaw the worst, That the end of it all wns nigh: Three doctors tliev hail from the Tery first And what could one do Put die? "Oh, Wi'iliam!" she cried; '-strew no blos soms of spring. For the new apparatus miht rust; But say that a handful of shaving you'll bring And linger to se me combust. "Oh, promts use, love, by tho fir. --hole you'll watch, And when mourners and stokers convene, You will veethat they liht me some solemn, slow match, And warn them against kerosene. "It would cheer me to know, ere these rude breezes waft My essences far to the pole. That ou whom I love will look to the draught. And have a fond eye to the coal. "Then promise mo, love" and her voice fainter grew While 1 his I t,ly of mine calcifies, You will stand juat as near as voii can to tho Hue, And gazi while my pe.see arise. "For Thompson Sir Henry has found out a way (Of his process you've) surely heard tU, And you burn like a parlor match gently away, Nor even offend by a smell. "So none of the dainty need sniff in disdain When my carbwu floats up to the sky; And I'm sure, love, that you will "never complain, Though an ash should blow Into your eye. "Now promise me, love" and she mur mured low "When the calcification is o'er. You will sit by thu grave iu the twilight glow I mean by the furnace door. "Yes, promise me, love, while the seasons revolve On their noiseless axles, the years, You will visit the kiln wbure you saw uue resolve, And leach my pale ashes with tears." John I'aci., iu Hurler's for Junn. JIary's Little Lamb. From the Cincinnati Giizrtt. Mary possessed a diminutive sheep Whose external covering was as devoid of color as the congealed aun ous fluid which occasionally presents insurmountable bar rier to railroad travel on the Sierras; And everywhere that Mary peregrinated The juvenile Southdown was certain to get up and get riht after her. It tagged her to thv alphabet dispensary oi:e day. Which was iu contravention of established usage; It caused the other youthful stt,lents to chatcbinnate and skyfugle To tii-recive an adolescent uiutton in the edi fice devoted to the dissemination of knowl edge. A nd so the preceptor ejected him from the interior, And he continued to roam in the immedi ate vicinity, And remained in the neighborhood until Mary Once more became) visible. "What causes the juvenile sheep to hanker after Maiy so'.'" Queried the inquisitive children of their tutor. "Why Mary bestows iKiieh affection upon the little animal to which the wind is tem pered when shorn, you must be aware," The preceptor with alacrity responded. II 01111 Gil IkdUC. Among tlie events of t':e famous Mormon war was the burning of tbo Nauvou temple. The struetute was burned in the night time, and fo successful was t!;e party engiged in its firing Unit probably he wa never even susjieeteJ. The recent death of the incen diary, however, lias r tnovej Uie necc-ity of further secrecy, and a short time ago we were put in posses-of his name and the facts connected with the burning of the temple, by tue only living person cognizant of tl.ein. The temple was fireJ by Joseph B. Agnew, who recently died in Appanoose township, Hancock County, in Illinois, at the age of fifty-eight years. It was always supposed that the party who burned the building had entered through the basement ; hut the facts are Mr. Agnew surreptitiously obtained a key to one of the doors of tiie temple some time before the act. No one was engaged with him, and only fojr knew he was tho part3. Agnew prepared his fire balls and other combustibles at his residence. Placing tlietn in his saddle lings, he rode on horse back to Nauvoo, and in the night cnten.J the temple with his ki'3. passed up the eupola, arranged his materials and fired them, aud then quiet'.y escape J the way he came. One informant, who is a responsible and prominent citizen of L'inois, says he can produce the key of the temple which Agnew secured in order to accomplish his worV. 'Jlie Woman Question Again. A voting man who w ished to in!rry a young lady of Toledo, 0,1k tilmut last Lhnsrii.as, was obliged, in f.rder to get the n a-essary papers, to swear t' of lawful age ; and, alt! o.tg'' .at the !auy was i it wa- II: Is.-. hood, he swore it before ti,e deputy iti tli-t pro' site office, the dep. try Ui.ig n woman. The new-inade mother-in-!-- w wa- ted pV.ised at the match, and vented her i.'taig. atioti by having the young man urre.-:.-d for pcrj;:ry. The trial has jud cnJcJ. and a!t! ough the delendant's counsel argued that a Woiuan being incompetent to a lii.iiiistci' nu onto Ho perjury was- count. iii.-!, the em-it over ruled t! e p d'.it. and the . pri-oncr was con victed. The case will be canicd before the Supreme Court on tin error in the iud-'e's ,K& :.. : , ... ., ''""-"' -o.cn w i.i ne trie Dont hot row a coach to please youf ehgi..Mty of a woman to the office of deputy ! wife. Better make her a little sulky, probate js lge. The ca-e 's a highly inter- I pou't imagine that everything is' weak est". or.e in that loctillrv. as deei.lbwr i enlng. Butter is still strone enough in this at locality, as deciding the validity of many acts done in an ...LcLJ t P ity by the deputy iu quei-uoii. A cox'ti:st roi: a hihuk. On Tuely last Cbailes II. Walker of Ilariforu peiMiacied Li ia 1 linTe ; of G.een. poinl tot'lopc? with him. There had been a courtship which was dampened only by Lina's parents, who were opposed to the match. The pair were married and started for Connect icut. Mr. Hodes was soon on the trail, and he captured his daughter and brought her back t Gicciipoint. Tho young brill. 'groom went to Judge iJcynoIds iu Brooklyn on Saturday, and having made the necessary affidavits, obtained a writ of habeas co: pus t obtain his wife. Iu obe dience thereto Mr. and Mis. Hodes, flar.k i'.ig the bride on either sides, marched into court room yesterday morning. The piil is but 17 years old, is a pleasant look ing brunette, .iud was neatly though plain ly dressed. As the case was called Coun sellor Bellows said to the Court that the) husband had not been permitted to see his bride since she was taken from him. He did notdoubt that if the pair weie allowed to have a shourt interview they would agree to live together, which, of courses , would make fuiiher proceedings unneces j Nary. The Judge asked the bride's parents to stop in an adjoining room. Then he tookr the girl aside and heard her story. Sim told him that they were legally and lawful ly married ; that her father had said that she was at libel ly to do jtiist what she pleased about liv ing with her husband. "But, Judge," bhe added, "I don't know what to do. I love my husband, but he is not able to support nie. He is dependent on his mother for money.'' Thuu sho burst into tears. 'Would you like to talk with him?" asked the Judge. "I promised n.y parents that I would not speak to him," was the reply between her sobs. "That promise is not binding in a casa like this,' said the Judge. At this point Walker approached, "Won't yo.j come vviih me. Litia," he asked with Wars in his eyes also. "If I wanted to live with you I should not wish to Oe suppnitod by your mother's money,"' was her frank i e ply, adding after a )i:iu.-i', "I will talk with you a little while t hough, if you desire me to." They 1 assed into the J udge's privato room, which w as occupied by her parents. Soon the Judge was summoned and then the biide's patents. "I shall die if you leave me." said her father, after they had talked a few moment'. The young biide mused for a short time and then turning to her hu: band, she said "Chail o, I love you ;yo.i ate my husband. I am oiu- wife. Go back aud wait and work, and show yourself able to supjiort n:c, at.d if you are titto to mc a year hence) I will then go and live with you." Walker kb-M d his bride, with whom ht bad lied but four days, and sadly went from the i no: is. TLp .'..t.atoi"s were dis . appointed, for there was scfr-cly a person li the room who did not wish to ve tho giil restoiiJ to her husband. N. Y. Suu. Tli e Ala ssncliu setts Disaster Alar rclou. IJscaje. As marvelous an experience as any rela ted was that, of the women -,f Selectman Qnigley's family, sho weie clearing up their breakfast table when the water burst in at the cellar dt-oi. Mrs. Quigley and her two handsome, sprightly daughters, and a school ma'ain vi-dting them, rushed up stairs to the second story of the L pait, : in which they weie, and ther.ee watched the tremendous s-iectacie. They had hard- ly reached their harborage when the front ; pait f the house was wrenched off as swift ! ly aud easily as one would tear a paper, and the iloor gaped widely beneath them with ; the fierce strain. They saw the great brick mansion crumble and collapse like a child'- house of blocks, and tbo chapel rise and : sail like a boat around the point, just be ; low, there strike and fall to pieces. They ; saw a neighbor lioating past on a roof, ex j tended their hand from a wiidow ami aid I ed him to escapo to their refuge. What nio'ioiis they felt in that hour of waiting ' they cau never very clt al ly t. 11. except that ! they thought that the next moment, they i too would go. They did not talk very j much, nor did they sing, and their prayeis j were not uttered aloud. It was a season I of mule expectancy, and not so much ies- igtiatiou as .stunned and deadened accept i a nee of fate. The fate, however, passed ; them by. The wave that so lightly tossed t lie heavier main poitiou of the house and dashed into splinters the gieat barns, with , all their contents, spared the lighter strnc- lure and left them safe. When shortly after they were at work in tho mud-hea-ed confusion of their house, the girls were al most hysfeiically gay with the reaction from thcfeaifui strain upon their nerves. Mr. Quig'er, from the bank, a fow rods off, waft-lied the dest ruction of bis homo and property and the environment of U:k fam . i!y in an agony of anxiety impossible for those who read ibis ii) appreciate. ! Tho sweeping away of four gem ta" ions in ne family was among the tine, re non ; i.icidcnts of the flood at Leeds: Mrs. l'uu lea. a woman of ncaily 80 years; bevda-h-. ter, Mrs. linbeit Fitzgerald, ajj-ed about . 4.;; Mrs. Fitzgerald's son. a yotio m:ui of ! 1, and four young children of the same woman ; wd, finally, the two 1 ttle ohil I dren of John Clanoy. grandct ildren of j Mrs. Fit zgerald ami gt -eat-gran ichiJdren : of Mrs. Dunlea. Mrs. Clru-cy, by the way, j died about a year ago of conim,ition, so that Clancy is now bereft of his vvLoIe fatn j ily. 1 Springfield Republican. ' Don't D I r. Don't attempt to punish j al! your enemies at once. You cauH do a ; huge business vviih a small capi'.ftl. J Don't say "I told you sol" Two to oca i you i. ever Kaid a vvoid about it. Don't worry a1ont, another man's basi . itcs.s. A little selfishness is sometimes com ! luettdable. . Don't imagine that you can correct all ' the evils in the world. A jjraiu of sand is ! not ui'oiiiincnt in a desert. I Don't mourn over fanc ed grievances. ' Bide your time, and real sorrows will coate. ! Don't throw dust in your teacher's . s. It will only inline th e pupil. Don't worry about the ice crop. Keep i tllnl V. ii, ill " i ,.! a,, a.. I. i - j .c "-iivniKU. I ir.ai kel. i Don't publish your act ff charity. The ' Lou will keep tho account sux,ight.
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