II mm Mill 1 in . ii r i i A ricPIKE, Editor and Publisher. HE IS A FREKMAK WHOM THE TRUTH MAKES FREE, AND ALL ARE SLAVES BESIDE.' Terms, $2 per year. In advance. Ol.l'MU IX. EBENSBURG, PA., FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 1875. NUMBER 3-2. 4W rr2HraMJ SHERWS SALES. I''1 ' il i ( I f -tl lM1!-!el HII1 tiled I )Y virtu nf ailnrlrv wrtta nf IVnrf. Prik.ii t . i: I 5 '!'. '' .' .I'n . t Khinsburg. in n.nd ' . . r t't't'"'N '' wil1 ,"' prosei.t- , ' ,,. ivuri if said county, for . '!.. (lice, oil V.'KIIVWKAr, I' . t ' ' ' t II IJ-. ....- 1 . ,t ; 1' I' r "1 !. l. . - I I - ", nil. , .i r Uoorg'. Mover, guardian Vim:- .llin Iloirniriirt mf ,, l ' ii ll'Miim.irt. late ol Cambria iV'l iirtii'l account of Cornelius i- r .Afi-utor? of Timothy Hunt, , t',v;M-ii:'. .!"-'a.-"I. i . .--,! nt of Margaret! a ,' ,. . ) ho llullc, late of Wash- ,., , ,;.;! a' niint of Peter T'rbnn. . "', -.h A I rl'iin, Lite of Chest ,.' , l .- -I. . U'f "I Adams township, ! r i v 1 f: I I 3 ,,' T ti,i- I. tinif'T. guardian of . 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Sold at liALUWIX & CO., ; Vooi Stl?ot ' nun, v.. 10m. r'-M.N M UlMf ii AiluNS. I. .1, ... FA KM W At JONS m WAIiUfl WORKS, 1 !-- .,,.n i."";1 A"' r,,"nT river. 2 Miliar e U. .,,. i...-, f j . . I l. : .. 1 m . , I i. nip. -ture. I and for sale cheap at C. COLEMAN A SON. ,i l'l.HOM,V , ,;r f 'anre Vrnwnon the 15th . - - . u a vni H, my '''i--' '?. ' 'fhyr"-- Capital I'rize III ' l'rli-ularg. Address IY virtue of sundry writs of Vend. Ejnyn. I .-IJiVt IVnrf. t:rim., I'ht. Vend. Kriwii., 2nd I'tii. Vend. Kxtn.. Fieri Fneiii and LtjrYiri fV rrtj". Issued out of tho Court of Common Plfas r Cumbria county Hni to me directed, there will lie exposed to Public Sale, at the Court HiniM? in Ktiensburir. on Monday, the 6th day of SEPtEM bkr next, r 1 o"clock, p. M-, the fol luwinir real estate, to wit: I All the right, title and Intercut of J. E. Holmes, of, in and to a piece or parcel of land situate In llarr tnwn.thip. Cambria county, al joininir lands of Fred. Snyder, Joseph Kare, Anthony Kipple, and others, containing 25 acres, more or loss, alniut 1 acre of which is cleared, having thereon erected a one story frame house and water mill, now In the occupancy ot J. K. Holmes. Taken in execution and to bo sold at the suit of McNish & Hutler. Also, all the right, title and interest of N. liehe, of. in and to a piece or parcel of land situate in AVahington township, Cambria county, adjoining lands of Powell Oeorge, Patk McManamy, Jos. Itehe, and others, containing 07 acres, more or loss, alout 35 acres of which are cleared, having there on erected a one-tnd-a-halt story plank house and frame stable, now in the occupancy of N. Itehe. Taken in execution and to be gold at the suit of Tobias Ashe. Also, all the right, title and Interest of Catha rine Farrell. or, in and to a piece or lot of ground situate in CarroMtown borough, Cambria county, fronting on Campbell street, and adjoining lands of the heirs of John Campliell, dee'd. on the west, north and east, having thereon erected a two story plank house and a plank stable, now in the occu pancy of Kol.ert Campbell. Taken in execution and to le sold at the suii of H. Scantan and Chas. WeakUnd. executors of peter Wcakland. dee'd. Also, all the right, title and interest of Catha rine Maker, or. in and to a piece or parcel of land situate in Carroll township. Cambr. a count v, ad joining lands of Win. Wcakland, Samuel Weak Ian. I, Joseph Y a liner, and others, containing two acres, more or less, having thereon erected a two story plank house and frame stable, now in the occupancy of Joseph Vahner. Taken in execution and to be sold at the suit of Schmidt & Friday. Also, all the right, title and interest or William Miller, of. In and to a piece or parcel of land situ ate in Suiichaniia township, Cambria county, adjoining lands of John Manion, Thomas Hyrne, Jacob Hyrne, and other, containing 50 acres, more or less, about 2i acres of which Are cleared, having thereon erected a log house and a log barn, now in the occupancy of Win. Miller. Taken In execu tion and to be sold at the suit of liavis, Evans it Co. Also, all the right, title and interest of John P. ncijul and Charles Hetrner, trading as the firm of John P. ISeiscl Sl Co , of, in and to a piece or lot ol gr und situate in Lore! to Ixirough. Cambria county, fronting on SI. Mary's street and extend ing back 2oo feet to an alley on the east, and ad joining lot of Mrs .Margaret Leavy on Hie south and an alley on the north, having thereon erected a two story frame house, now in the occupancy or John P. Ueisel, and a frame stable and a frame biiildini.- used as a brcwerv. now in the ocenpancy of Hertzog & Hellner. Taken in execution aud to be sold at the suit ol Iturnhcim Co. A i.8i. all the right, title and interest of William Tiley and S. M. v nodcoek, of, in and to a piece or parcel of land situate in Washington township. ainbria county adjoining other lands of William Tiley, tl. M. Kea.le. Jacob iiurgoon. F. M. Oeorge. and others, containing 253 acres, more or less. 30 acres of which are cleared, having thereon erected a two story frame house and a frame barn, now in the occupancy of John Hagan, and a coal hank, now in the occupancy of J. V. Curry, excepting from the above land it acres and 68 perches of sur face sold to Hasil Mender, 71 acres and 21 perches sold to Mich'I Donahoe. and 3 acres and 64' pcrcn es sold to Win. Kyan. Taken in execution and to be sold at the suit of A. J. Fogle, executor r the last will and testament of Alex. H. M"Cormick, deceased. Also, all the right, title and Interest of John ,T. Krii-e. M. I.. of. in and to a piece or parcel of land situat-; in Clearheld township, Cambria county, adjoining lands of John Mcliertnitt, Win. Littl.i,' Louis Carl, and o. hers, containing 1S8 acres, more or less alxiut 50 acres of which are cleared, having thereon erected a two slory log house and n log stable, now in the occupancy ot Jacob Ur in.l. and a two story plank hou.-e and a log stable, now in the occupancy of . Taken in execution and to be sold at the suit of . K. Uurna, Also, all the right, title and interest of Daniel Kline, of, in and to a piece or parcel of land situ ate in Chest township. Cambria county, adjoining lands of i ico. Heitrich. John Thomas, and others, containing 35 acres, more or less, aboat 7 acres of which are cleared, having thereon erected a one-and-a-half stoty house and a log barn, now in the occupancy of Daniel Kline. Taken in execution and to te sold at the suit of Wm. Kittell, adminis trator or Mi hael Kline. Also, all the right, title and Interest, or Michael Marnacle, ot. in ami to a lot ot ground situate in the village or St. Augustine, Clearfield township, t 'ainbria county. Pa., adjoining lots of Joseph Al v ers. James Mckenzie, and others, having thereon erected a two story frame house (known as tho Washington Ifou'c) and a frame stable, now in the occupancy of Harry Marlett. Taken In exe cution and to be sold at the suit of Klnstcin & Hro. Also, all the right, title and interest of Oeorge W. Hurkey A Hro.. of. In and to a piece or parcel of land situate near llculah, Cambria township, Cambria county. Pa., ad joining lands or Oeorge .Mills. John J. Kvans. and others, containing 278 acres, more or less, about 50 acres cleared, having thereon erected a two story plank house, a part log and part plank barn, blacksmith shop and car- Iienter shop, now in the occupancy of Johua Hur ley. Al: all the right, title ami interest or Oeo. XV . Hurkey A Hro., or. in and to a piece or parcel of land situate near iictilah. Cambria township, t .'am bria county. Pa., adjoining lands of Wm. Kit tell i:olx'rt Havls.antl ot hers, containing 2nnercs, more or less, a bout 8 acres cleared, having there on erected a circular saw mill, a two story house, frato e stable and blacksmith shop, now in the oc cupancy or Oco. W. Hurkev A Hro. Also, all the right, title and interest or Oco. W. Hurkev A Hro.. ot, in and t'j a piece or parcel of land situate near Heulah. Cambria township. Cambria county, ad joining lands or Flward Owens on the south, Jos. iMikimm the cast W. K. Williamson the north east, and Orllttto Lloyd on the wst. containing ot acres, more or tess. unimproved. Taken in ex ecution and to be sold at the suit of John Dibert A IX Al so, all the right, title and Interest of Joseph Yiliner, of. in am! to a piece or parcel of land sit uate In Carroll township. Cambria county, adjoin ing lands of John Wertner on the south. Christian Pleisleron the east, public road leading from Car- J rolltown to Lantzy's Mill on the west, and the old I State road on the north, containing 10 acres, more , or less, having thereon erected a two story frame house, now in the occn nancy of Joseph Yahner. Taken in execution ami to he sold at the suit of I J. Iehinan A Hro.. endorsees of !. Meyer & Co. I Ai.ho, all the right, title and interest or Koman 1 Nickel, to wit: All that certain one-and-a-half 1 story plank house or building situate in tho vil lage of St. Honlfaee, Chest township. Cambria ' county, having a front or '1 feet on public road . leading from CarroMtown, and extending 18 feet ' back, adjoining lands of John Simmelsberger on the north and lands of Oeorge Olasscr on the east , and south, and the lot or piece of ground and enr- tilege appurtenant to said building. Taken in ! execution and to be sold at the suit of Jacob A. Kline. Ain. all the right, title and Interest of Reuben S. Koring, ol. In and to a piece or parcel of land situate In Hlacklick township, Cambria county. Pa., adjoining lands of James Hennett and F. A. Shoemaker, containing 50 acres, more or leas, about It) acres cleared, having thereon erected a one-and-a-halt story frame house, log barn and blacksmith shop, now In the occupancy or Oeorge S. Koring. Taken In execution and to be sold at the suit of Lloyd tt Co. Tkkms or Sale. One-third of the purchase money to be paid when the property Is knock ed down, and the remaining two-thirds upon continuation of the Heed. II Klt.M AN HA17MEU, PherltT. Sheriff's Office, Ebcusburg, Aujr. 13, 1875. M-3U EXECUTOR'S NOTICE. Estate of Joseph Moye, der.M. The undersigned Executors of the last will and testament of Joseph Mover, late of Clearfield township, Cambria county, deceased, hereby noti fy all persons indebted to the estate of said dece dent that payment must be made without delay, and those having claims against the same will present them properly authenticated for settle ment. ACQ. MOYEKS, iVxerntnr. 3. H. DOi'OLASS. ( Executors. Clearfield Twp., Aug. 20, 187&.-t. NOTICE is hereby given that ap plication will be marie to the next Court of Vunrter Sessions or Cambria County to extend the limits of Siimmltvllle borough so as to ineludea part of Washiogton township In said borough. 8HOEMAKER &SECIILER, Aug. 5. ot. Atty'e ror Petitioners. 1ST OTICE. Notice is hereby criven that a petition will be presented to Trie J i ;ouri ot Quarters Sessions or Cambria county to Incorporate the village ot Hemlock, in said county, into a borough. SHOEMAKER A SECHLER, Anjr. 4, 1875. t. Atty's for Petitioners. K.I8NIXO FOR THE CHILDREN. Kisses in the morning: Make the day seem bright, Filling every corner With a gleam of light; And what happiness be misaes Who affection's impulse scorniug, Departs, and gives no kisses To the children iu the morning. Many think it folly; Many say it's bliss; Very much depending On whose lips you kiss! But the truth I am confessing, And I'd have you all take warning, If you covet any blessing, Kiss the children in the morning! Kisses in the evening, When the lights are low, Set two hearts a-dancing With affection's glow; And the angels swarm in numbers Hound the pillow they are pressing Who are wooed to peaceful slumbers By a dear one's fond caressing. Kisses in the morning Are not out of place; Kisses in the evening Have a special grace; And it seems to me that this is For indulgence lawful reason; Sweetest tulips I mean kisses! Ye are never out of seasou! THE l't'ZZLEID DUTCH JIAN. BY CHARLES F. ADAMS. I'm a proken-hearted Deutcher, Vot's villed mit crief tind shame; I dells you vot der drouble is I doosn't kiwto my name! You dinks dis fery vunny, eh ? Ven you der sthory bear, You rill not vonder den so mooch, It vas so st h range and queer. Mine moder had dwo liddle dwins, Dey was me und mein broder; Ve lookt so fery mooch alike, No oue knew vich vrom toder. Von ov der poys vas "YaTrcup," Und 'Hatis" der oiler's name; But den it made no tifferent Ve poth got called der same. Veil, von of us got tead Yaw, Mynherr, dat ish so! But vedder Hans or Yawcnp, Mein moder he ton't know! Und so I am in droubles; I gan't git droo mein bed Vedder 1 am JIin.i rot's lifiny, Or Yaicaip rot ish tead! A Li A It'Y HIPS STORY. A great many years ago, when 1 was comparatively a young man, and still un married, I resided in a certain city in Pennsylvania, and enjoyed the reputation of being the cleverest lawyer ever known there. It is not for me to say the praise was merited, but I certainly found myself able to discover loopholesof escape for those men whom I defended, which surprised even my fellow lawyers. I possessed by nature those qualities which would have made an excellent detective, and I was a thorough student of the law. There was no mystery about it, but among the more ignorant classes I gained a reputation for more than human knowledge. Perhaps it was not. polite for them to say that the devil helped, but they did. However I began to tell you about Mad ame Matteau. She was an old lady, who owned a little house in the suburbs of the city. She herself was of American birth, but her bus band had been a Frenchman, and so the title madame had been bestowed upon ber. She was now a widow and ber daughter Gabiielle and son Henri were her only living relatives. Her income was slender, and she eked it out by taking in a few boarders, generally steady old people wbo bad known her for many years. These respected and liked ber ; but the city generally bad a prejudice against Her. There had been two sudden deaths in her bouse. Each time the victim was a stranger who came at night, and was found dead in bis bed in the morning. Each time the jury was di vided some believing that strangulation was the cause of death, some that the man had died in a fit. It was a terrible thing that two such deaths should have occurred beneath her roof. Madame's friends pitied ber. The rest of the little world hinted that these were strangers, and their trunks, with no one knew what amount of money and other valuable property remained in Madame's possession. No one said she was a mur deress, but every one said it was "very strange," in an odd tone, and no one since that sccoud death bad visited Madame Matteau. I myself perhaps because I admired her a great deal, and her daughter much more had always insisted that it was merely a coincidence, and that in a world in which apoplexy and heart disease were so com mon, it was no great marvel that two men should have met sudden deaths iu the same house. But my faith in this theory was shaken when one morning it was published over the city that another transient boarder bad beeu found dead in Madame Matteau's house, and then she was arrested on sus picion of having murdered him, his watch and chain having been found in her posses sion. 'Before I had recovered from the shock of this terrible piece of news, a message came to me from Madame Matteau. She desired to see me. Of course I went to her at once. She bad been taken to prison, and I found her in a little room with a barred window, and an insufficient fire upon the hearth. The logs had burnt in two on the andirons, and the white ashes were scattered over the hearth. Almost in them sat Madame Matteau, in her widow's dress of sombre black. She was chilly with grief and excitement, and had drawn her chair .close to the fire. She shook violently from head to foot and ber face was deadly pale as she turned it toward me and held out ber hand. "O, thank Heaven, you have come 1" she said ; "I know you can save me. Is it not horrible? How could I kill a man? Why should I ? Why do psople come to my house to die ? To die horribly, with black faces and starting eyes, as if some one bad choked them? Ugh ! and he was a pretty young man the night before. Oh, good heaven, how horrible I" I sat down beside her. I took her hand. "Madame Matteau," I said, "be calm ; collect yourself. As your lawyer, I must know all. Tell me, from first to last, what happened what was said, what was done. If you " I paused ; her black eyes had flashed upon me. I could not ask her if she had any confession to make; I saw that she had not. Unless she was the best actress that ever lived, Madame Matteau was in nocent of any crime. "If you have any suspicions," I added, "tell them to me." "There is no one to suspect," sobbed the poor woman. "In the house were Gabrie'lc, my daugh ter, whom you have seen ; old Hannah, the cook ; Mr. and Mrs. Beauchamp, friends of my poor husband in his boyhood the best, kindest people ; Mr. Gray, a very old man, too feeble to leave the house ; poor, deformed Mrs. Norman, and the librarian, Mr. Bassford. None of these would mur der a mouse. See how kind they are ; they remain iu my house ; they send me word that they have no doubt of me. O, bow could anybdy ?" 'And this man who " I began. "Yes," wiid Madame Matteau, "I will tell you ; be was fair, young, handsomely dressed ; he asked Mr. Bassford at the depot if he knew anyone who could accom modate him. Mr. Bassford brought him home. My ouly empty room was the one in which those other two strangers died. I could not bear to put him there, but Mr. Bassford laughed at me. We had supper afterward. He talked a long time to Ga biielle. It was late when he tetiicd late for a quiet household. Hannah had made his fiie. She came and told us she had done so. He said good night. "After he had gone we found that he had left his watch 011 the table. He wore it only with a bunch of seals, and he had been setting it by the clock and showing it to us as something very handsome. I knocked at his door to restore it to him. He had not left us fifteen minutes before ; but he must have been asleep already, for he made no answer. So I kept it for the night, and wore it down to breakfast next morning. As I came down I met a gentle man in the hall. He inquired for Mr. Glen. That was the newcomer's name. I sent Hannah to wake him. She could not do so, and grew alarmed. She had a key that would open the door, and used it. The next thing I knew we were all in the room and the windows were wide open, and the doctor had been sent for ; and the young man who had called was screaming that his brother had been choked to death ; and then there was an inquest, and they ar rested me. The brother said the first thhig he noticed was that I wore Mr. Glen's watch and seals. I had forgotten it in my terror." "So Hannah had a key to the room?" I said. Yes ; at least it was a key that would open it. It was the key to Mr. Bassford's door. She knocked the other out with a stick and put that in." "The people who were there on that night were your boarders when the other men were found dead ?" I asked. "Oh, yes." "And Hannah was there also?" "All my married life Hauuah has lived with me." "Your daughter oversees your house hold in your absence ?" "Yes, poor child, with Hannah's help." I thought a little while. "Madame." I said, "there is some strange mystery in this affair. I do not despair of proving to all the world your entire innocence. Meanwhile, be as calm as possible, and endeavor to remember everything connected with the sudden deaths that have occurred in your bouse. The incident that seems to be the least im portant may really be of immense value." So I left and went home. Strange enough, on the way I met the doctor wbo had been called in. He was a dull, heavy sort of person, considerably given to beer drinking, and my opinion of his ability was not very great. However, I questioned him on the subject, and he replied : "Well, you see, I dou't say the old wo man murdered him. If she 'did, 1 should say it was by sitting on him, or smothering him with the bolsters. I suppose the cause of his death was asphyxia. Well, then, what is asphyxia ? Why, too little breath to keep one living. He died because he was short of breath. I wash my bands of that matter. Only there's the watch ; that looks dark." I had learned nothing from the doctor. The Coroner lived near me. His jury had been twelve of the most ignorant men in town. This is all be told me : "He was smothered, that man was, so were the other two. Men don't smother themselves. We made it inscrutable Prov idence t'other time. We make it murder this time. That there watch, you know." Thus, without any new light, I went home and formed my plans. There was but one way in which to penetrate the mystery. I must enter the house ; I must see the people there ; I must penetrate to the room in which these men had died sud denly, and I must not be known in my real character.' That Madame Matteau was innocent I fully believed, but that some one beneath her roof was guilty I made no doubt. It might be tbe librarian, Mr. Bassford, whose key fitted the dead mau's door. It was possible ; but no, I could not harbor a mad superstition. There could be no supernatural power beneath which human beings drooped and died. Death as it came to us was mystery enough. What bad been said to me by a woman, who would have been a Spirtualist had she lived to-day, was a mere absurdity. "I believe there is some horrible unseen thing in the room," she bad said, "some awful shapeless spirit, that when it is locked in with its victim murders him. Let others believe what they will, I believe that." The words haunted me, but I laughed at them, of course. Whatever it was, I wou Id try to know. I had a plan. At dusk that day I went into my bed room myself. I came out a strange man. I wore a white wig, a pair of green gog gles, and an overcoat, tbe tails of which reached to my heels. I had a muffler about my throat, and a little hunch on one of my shoulders. I carried a thick cane, and stooped a great deal as I walked. In my baud I carried a carpet-bag and in my bosom a pair of pistols well loaded. As I passed out into the streets the early moon was just rising ; she lit me on my way to the door of Madame Matteau's house. It was opened for me, when I knocked, by old Hannah. Her eyes were red and swollen. Then I told her that I was a stranger, and had received Madame Mat teau's address from a gentleman in New York, and desired to stay under her roof all night. She shook ber bead. "I don't think you can," she said. "The lady is away from home. Besides we are in trouble here. I don't think Miss Ga biielle would " But here Miss Gabrille herself appeared. "I am an old man, Miss," I said "and, as you see, quite infirm. I dread another step. I should take it as a kindness if you would accommodate me, and I will pay any price you ask." Miss Gabi ielle looked at Hannah. "We have only oue room," she said, "and that" I ended the question of my stay by beg ging to be taken to it. "You will have supper, sir?" asked the girl. But I declared that I bad eaten, and only wanted rest. Her reply was : "Haunah, show the gentleman to the blue room, and make a tire." I was in the blue room, the scene of the three sudden deaths or murders. It was a small apartment, painted blue. It bad also blue window curtains aud a blue silk coverlet on the bed ; a neat striped carpet, a set of old mahogany furniture, and a very handsome ewer and a basin of costly China. It was at the time almost univer sal custom to burn wood. In this room, however, was a small coal-fire. I alluded to this as Hannah came in with the scuttle. "Yes, sir," she said. "Missis does burn coals. Her son is a clerk, or the like, at the new mines at Mauch Chunk, and he sends it cheap to her ; but it's a nasty, dirty smelling thing, and I hate it. Now it's built and lit; 'twill warm up in fifteeu minutes. It takes longer than wood." She went out of the door and came back in a minute with a little tray, on which stood a pot and cup and saucer, also a tiny pitcher, and something in a napkin. "Miss sent up a bit and a sup," said she. "Tea rests us old folks mighty. Good night." "Good-night," I said, "I expect I shall sleep soon ; I must be up very early, though, for I have bills to pay. I have some hun dreds of dollars with me to pay out to-morrow, and it's in this bag." She looked at me in a queer sort of way, and lingered beside me. At last she spoke: "Look ye, sir ; I think that old folks of your age do wrong to lock doors on them selves. .You might be ill at night, and who'd get into yeu ? Leave your door un locked." Was it this woman's practice to beg trav elers who stopped with her mistress not to lock the door? Was there some baneful potion in the cup she had given me ? It was au innocent-looking cup enough an old fashioned affair, covered with lit tle gilt sprigs. The tea was fragrann Hy son ; but the suspicion that had crept into my miud had tainted it. I fancied a strange color, a strange smell. I put it from me, and would not have tasted it for a king dom. I bad not intended to sleep, and I did not undress myself. I merely removed my dis guise, and sat down beside the table with my pistol before me. That some attempt might be shortly made to murder me I felt to be possible. I Uiought of all the old j tales that I bad heard of trap-doors and j sliding panels, and secret entrances to trav- I elers' rooms. I was not a coward, but I felt strangely nervous, and singularly enough for a man in my perfect health, my bands were growing cold, and my feet were lumps of ice, while my head was burn ing hot. j Fifteen minutes had passed, and the fire was kindled ; but- the room was not warm. The blue names struggled among the black coals, and flung forked tongues, tipped with yellow tints, into the room. There was nothing cheerful about the stove though it was of that open stylo now called the Franklin. Yet I drew a chair toward :t from habit, and sat with my feet uppu the hearth. I do not know bow long I sat there. Suddenly I became aware that I ' was not myself. I was losing my senses. If unseen hands had been clasped about my neck, and an uuseen knee bad been pressed against my chest, my seusations could cot have been different. J A thought of the evil spirit which my friend had suggested faintly struggled into my mind. As I staggered to my feet a ' noise like the roaring of the sea was in my ears. The flames of the candle turned to a great yellow blue. I barely retained strength enough to stagger to the window ' and liing it open. The fresh, cool winter air rushed in at once. It gave me intense , pain, but it relieved me. In a moment more I was able to clamber out of it upon tbe shed below. I There I remained until the day dawn. ' With my returning senses tbe truth came to roe. That which had murdered the ' three men who had slept before me in the : blue chamber was uothing more or less than the coal stove. It was provided with what is called a ' damper, and this being caught in a man- ' ner which closed it sent the poisonous gas into the room. It had been kindled as a wood fire would have, been at the hour of retiring, by one ignorant of tbe danger pos sible from coal gas, and they bad slept never to awaken. Had I thrown myself upon the bed, I also should have been found dead at daylight, in all human probability. j As for the fact that neither doctor nor coroner discovered the truth, I have but to say that they were not deeply scientific men that coal stoves were scarcely used in the place and that it had not been men tioned that the blue chamber was thus heated. Of course I rejoiced the household by my discovery next morning and equally, of course, Madame Matteau, who was not only freed from suspicion, but became the oh-; ject of universal sympathy. She was al ways grateful to me, and she proved her gratitude by giving what I asked for, the hand of her daughter Gabiielle iu marriage. JL lt'icrtl Story from Albany. The Albany Argu tellstlnsstory: "One evening a week or two since, a lady resMing in one of the southern waids was rcturniuo to her home from a social gatheiing at a private house near the hour of midnight. She was accompanied by a malo relative who lived iu the same house. As they were abont to ascend the steps, both glanced up toward the windows of the sec ond story, and at one of them both saw with perfect distinctness a human face Tressed against the pane. The features were not known to either ; but presuming it to be a friend of their neighbor, (as there was more than one family in the house,) nothing strange was thought of it at the time. Before retiring, but after both had bared their feet, the lady and her compan ion bethought themselves of some article to be procured from the lower part of the house, and as its exact location was known, they descended without a light. On re turning, just as the young gentleman placed his foot upou the lauding at the head of the stairs, he felt beneath it a yielding substance the shape of which he socltarly defined that he exclaimed : Why, aunty, I stepped on someln-dy's thumb !' At the same instant the lady, putting down her foot, responded, I have stcp-xd on tho hand !' No sound of retreating steps was beard, and such examination as the dark ness permitted failed to discover any hu man being near them. On procuring a light, a moment later, both soon satisfied themselves that no creature of flesh and blood was in the immediate vicinity. Wondering and trembling at the contact with these mysteries, the witnesses retired to thoir beds. In the moring a simple in quiry, which attracted noattention, elicited the fact that there had been no living per son in the house the previous night Oilier than the usual members of the family, and a critical comparison of the features of each one with the face she had seen, a sharp impression of which was fixed in her mind, convinced the lady that it was not that of any one of them. The most startling and mysterious cf the phenomena remains to be told. As if to convince them that their imagination had not been worked upon by any means to create the impression we have detailed there appeared upon the bottom of the gentleman's foot the next morning, plainly printed in a color quite like bloodred, the fac-simile of the thumb be had felt beneath it, and upon the foot of the lady was as clearly discernable the likeness of the inside of a human hand. The parties are of an age and character to make their statements woi thy of full credit, and the marks left upon their ihm-sous by the singular occurrence were seeu by sev eral witnesses." Love asd a Mul.e. The Newark Even ing Courier, a newspaper remarkable for its veracity, says of one of its citizens : He rose early and gulped down his morning cup of coffee as if his life depended upon his haste. Then he rushed to the grand delivery window of the postoffice, aud in quired for a letter. The clerk handed him a perfumed missive, directed in a fair round hand. He ripped open one end of the en velope with his lead pencil sharpener, and commenced to read as he crossed Broad street toward Centre Market. What to him were the country wagons, with their loads of beets and cabbages? He read : "As I sit by the open window and hear the waves thunder upon the shore " There he stopped suddenly and tumbled into a basket of squashes, as if a thunderbolt had been launched at the seat of his 30-inch pantaloons. That was where it struck. "Hello, mister. Say, can't you keep away from that mewl ?" sang out a bronzed ag riculturist from Caldwell. "Help yourself to squash," yelled one of Lew Francis' students from the tonsorial chambers of the market building. He gathered up his girl's letter, dripping with black mud, sur veyed the photograph of the mule's foot upon t lid base of his pantaloons, and limned disconsolately away. The course of true love never did run smooth. A Check that Can't be Forged. A gentleman deposited a package in the safe this morning, says a Long Brauch hotel correspondent and asked for a check for it. Our affable aud obliging cleik gave him a check which be himself invented and put in vogue at Saratoga fifteen yeais ago. Hastily writing the geutlemau's name on a square of paper, the clerk as hastily tore it in two. He gave the gentleman one part and pinned tbe other part on the package. This was the check, aud an unforgeable one at that. For observe: often as you may do this thing to duplicate it is impos sible. You might succeed, perhaps, though with extreme difficulty, iu making an exact re-prod uctiou of your own writing; but to tear apart two pieces of paper iu the same way so that a fragment of one will fit a fragment of another is something you can't do, but you have my permission to amuse yourself by trying. A Little Mistake. He took the even ing train tip from Cleveland, and iu looking through the cars discovered a female sitting alone in a seat, and it instantly occurred to him that she might be lonely. A veil dropied over ber face, but there was no reason to suppose that she was not good, looking, and he gallantly raised his hat and sat down beside her, remarking, with a lovely smile : "It's lonely traveling alone." She just murmured a reply, but tho no cent was captivating, and he was won at the start. He was practised in all the aits of pilife tactics, and spoke to her softly of the groat desolate world, with appropriate allusions to human hearts. He told her how he had hungered and thirsted after the affection of a tru heart, and had yearned to feel the breath of tho heavenly flame of love. "No," Le sighed, he had no w ife, no one to love and caress him and mend his sus penders, and when he inquired if she was treading the path of life sin R,H1 alone, she murmured so pensively and sad that ho felt compelled to put his arm on the back of the seat lest she should fall out of the window which was clsed. They reached Nortvaik, und just as the train stopped he heard a gratinr, hissing sound close to his ear, and I hen the word: "Y-o-n villian ! y-o-u old hypocritical s-i-n-n-e-r! I'll make you think you're been struck by a breath of heavenly flame, you old owl !" He looked around jnt far enough to get a glimpse of a pair of flashing eyes and the face of List wife, who had murmerrd so fondly to him along the journey. A sudden spasm seized him, but he managed to ac company her from the train, and. h they moved in the darkness toward home, her flashing eyes lit up his pale face with spectral effect. ' A meek-looking stranger was sitting ou the station platform reading a newspa per, last evening, when he suddenly let it fall from his hands and burst into tears. 'What is your grief, my doar sir?" hastily asked an astonished and sympathetic by stander. The afilicted man looked up, with eyes streaming. Stranger," he gasped, "do you know that there hain't a I single cx -President alive'.'" and again ho bowed his head andwept. Danhury .Ves. A lassie wrote to young man she had taken a fancy to, "Come and meet me in the gloaming, John," and when the time came John wasn't there. He subsequent ly explained that be could n't find such a place. A lady having been ordered by her phy sician to a warmer climate, her luiahand re marked that if there was a warmer climate thau he had been living iu since his mar liaje, he wu uo aware of it.
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