plKEt Editor and Pubnsher- " HE IS A FREEMAN WHOM THE TRUTH MAKES FltEK, A5D ALL ARK SLAVES BESIDE. Terms, $2 per year. In advance OIK X. EBENSBURG, PA., FRIDAY, MAY 19, 187G. NUMBER 18. STIR'S NOTICE ! .,iven that the following r k.rp been piltwu mm . ii"UP??n.. at Ebensburg, in ti t-ft-t a " . i n.i win n ,f-rs,F'" . .1 win M lVSton' '",,rt ,jf "al,J v?" Ew0nnd allowance, on Wed- iff.' "f J- ()f HVnry Schnable, h..r..uH. defeased. Tateol Clearfield township, . n.ri.l Himilton. guardian of :t of l'1" . ,, i r i,,,.i,h Earlmer. W- '.-.:.r,l ''' . . ,inor child of ! -j:r'" r iv-ii!li-H township, dee'd. -'V$li' unt,,f J- K-i5tn". ,: nl rsr. .. ...,... late of Adams " , (una " ,----' - f.j.x-i. ror,T1ir. Mvers. guardian ' ' H,rv Sarah A. and Kc t. L--"r?rrJ: ,,, Mark McOnlre. ""; . r-U unt of Catharine ' ' ,. , ,1, (,.,nt MOM ' tfsM- :",:'l",.:,-r 1' "luti-ny, late of Sum- .I.'!:. unt 'l ' ptiranii u,, , - . i,ir,."an l Miinnew .1. t.H,u, ;;,r ,;,aiua j. od, ut of cam- .fyl. r,,,,- r.inin find Chnft. j .uni - ;. , ii 'anan. late i,'i-ca.-i.l. - . riaan fflnnn tun ..,1 ..ii.u Krert II. 1 r, .wn t...r..uah. deceased. ' ', ,f I .-wis K. Jones, guardian of tlM .. - l.ll.l-nn WK' Uteof MillvlUe through. . ,r r'imheth Herk. ,n!r!il.f CnraJ Heckrolh, late of "i nnil anoant ef W. O. Iwis ,,, :,,,,. nf 1-avid Hite, late of ' ,- li- il ai i-. imt John A. Ken Int.r"V Krt.lct K. Evans, late of ...', . ,!ci''ae'i. , c-.u:it ..f Th'ma Van hooyoe '..'v.MP'nl"" " William Smith, i.-'.iinVVn.'leeafJ. ...i iii rirtial ai-ei.unt of Dwluht Vm ! rtu il a c unt of I'rancis Benrer. u ii .1. a tr.inwr rann im """" .IV' town-hip. iiwo. eu. ' in' i irii.il a.vi.unt of John W. -tJ ii'tunne Frr.h. a.lmin.strators F-iti Uteof t aiBort: town, nip i": u. --tinl uartiil a'.'L'ount of I. It. I.tn j'r j( ivt.r L. Lint u n. late of t bensburs .ef-wl- -i-i! i' cunt or t M. tenrce ana m. rifiniurs of tKho Stner, late of 'lit. h'p. 1 i-ea. J .MIS X. SIN'iKK. Keiri-'.er. !';, t.fnitmrg. May 6, 1S.U. I.NCIAL STATEMENT of i.r n Township. (Uo:m1 Deparl .tirn '.liii April 3, 1.78: J . Un. Sup.rvijor. Li it. ;:;:a.:.c:? ...4T5 99 CR. V t . . 9 45 . i:7. . 0 15 31 Irannl l.. ' : w : 5L r. T " .l.-V .'Pi it i v 9! : -1 ;' r T ...wuti;p ,.95 01 $MS 28 -.ar.iT--.vi.or , 7-32 I f Lc.rkt. SnperrlS'ir. I' it. i'A'v. :e 751 77 !5viT. 50 81 4?03 53 fa. l-r:iT -rkei .n II vn- t 1 . 25 u:.f-.r. e 6 . : . 'Kc- C- in IT 51 VAfi '! :;. t ft. per (lav 139 50 N! : Si:., tlay at r :r 1 J. 75 : os r: 57 12 1 ,-f?47 87 139 29 !. s-.t A.i'!:tor. do certify that JAMKS.Mi. i. J JMt- ITU. i r. i i r.i,. , A M-.IM.LK,) r Auditors. l.V5.-1t. ATP II A I S E M E x rs. - w... I I 1.1.. III. apurstienii-iii nf pcrsrinal pro fji'ut(M,f tl. (.'.. lit .. eeirrrf.il and rh- wt.t.iir r.r H.tn.i-ij.. ' f tin. u-h riay "r April. ; . vo u. . (iicj j., tie It, ,-i-.t--- f.f- ,':"."f '"imlri:t rountv. fnr eonflr- A. 1. 1-7K. t,. wit: ' ? Ml PlT:iiJ,ir.fiit nf eprf.-ln ,r,rttr,,,niJ, ,t ,, J(jf Hp!,rt rr - mix i.T j,,inr lirovrn, lute 'D. ,!,' im,-. I ili II : .''nUppra.s Tiiit i ri-rt'ain pr-r-, .' ''r;T1;'.',n4 "part for Jane t ,.f,.r i.ofiinnur, late or . . ft-i.2.. 1 .; i-.n-.-mi nt of rrrtaln J y flrrr I at.. l ..t apnrt for ' H ' ' I-:ii-l l.l.ifk, lute oT .... T- I ik) " ,r,;'!''; iin-nt f.f certain . Jtj-v.i .. j ;ln, c, t iirin t f,.r Ml !i w "f M.utin iii,iL.i.. ' ; ; 1 .l.r.-u.--l-e,o.Ul). . .' ' "imtm'-vI nriil .rt upurt ff.r 'f ''''-rt II. R..l..-rts, " ' t?i,'.",.'V'r,;- i-ci-VV).i. -K M !N'iKlt. R.-ifisrtT. fs'-n-t.iiiif, May 1 .711. -E. The follow f' rl" '-')s'' have lf;en filed '' 1 rk of yuartr r f ei.jiis of '" I r. -ont.-.l f,,r the Jr"ja lHi:i!iJAy. iHili Mat. .'r.p. .:!!,. Tavern. f:i iM.rouifh. Tavern. "-.ii.hip.Trcrii. i. i.i:..t rJ- Tiivrrn. t-Htinif House. It m. l'ae- ii. H M f i.l.i; an. ,,.,.k g s. ; ;.F, -'V -i irn zj. I .78. g;Tiuio,: NOTICE. ; ;f Hknhy c.r.K. lifcM. --!!-. r'. '.' '."r" ,,! adminiffration on the zn 1 r:T iil (., nHhfp. lie. u, , "r', h iv" n.,U.:. to nil '.- ... ' "mt nvmi nt nf - .-v , 1 m'"" '" ,nit,1 without " 'Hr",T .V'1" ' the sarue v. - i.. tti, :u jQ j,r,)ptr gha,,e for i'.'HvsNTl)KK ) t''Mn' ' ( Administrators. p-Ai'"i'ii.i:,.V f .!,',. r ,! M A BTIJf - ' k... rn tcrant..ij to the nn. .T .. .. ' ,,f"'ntv. all per- .. '";. .n . rr """-. to make .m.'" '"" fiaims or !-t. i'ii iii tliem Dru. Aluiinistrators. 't. -Ihvinr. on t lie . ' ! ..! llHSCll nt ;,"lf'; the troi.T--un-:ny townMiip, Hi : .i!i i a -:. my pi,.,,. 1 ' .1.1 n';lir.4r Inl... I .... . .. .i..r.T, 1 Kr.... l. ''! !n ti L-rouii,!, mi l at; . n i -in,, ir 'KM ?I.79..3tM.-J-,f',;,-'U- Ulu rti., ' entre red. ORDINANCE for the Keglla tio of Chest Springs Borough, Cambria County, I'm., for the year 1876 : Sfc. 1. lie It enacted and ordained hy the T!ur gess and Town Council of the lioronirh or Chest SprltlSrs, and Is hereby enactol and ordained by the authority of the same, Thnt it any person or persons, after the publication of this ordinance, shall drive or ride any horse, mare, or peldlnf; through any of tho streets of this borouirh at a faster gait than a trot or slow canter, he, she or they s, offending shall forfeit and pay the sum of One t)rl!ar Tor each and every such o'flence. Sec. 5. All persons living within the borough limits are hereby notified, after the publication of this Ordinance, to keep their hogs shut op, nni any one falling to comply with this provision will be fined in the sum of one dollar for each and every offence, with all costs that may accrue. Sec. 3. Also, be It enacted and ordained by tho authority aforesaid, that all cattle, horses, mules, etc , are to be enclosed at night, And tn any owner thereof who shall refuse or neglect t6 do so a line of one dollar will be imposed for each and every offence, along with costs. If ay person or persons shall permit their stock to violate Sections 2 and 3, aJ above, the stock Jso trespassing will be impounded, and after a given time will be sold for ihe fine Imposed and costs accruing'. Spc. 4. He it fnrther enacted by the authority aforesaid, That;ifany persons or persons after the publication of this ordinance shall be found firing guns, pistols, cannon, fire-crackers, or powder rockets, or any other gime with pow-ler, he. or they so offending shall he deemed mitlty of a mis demeanor, and shall forfeit and pay the sum of Twenty-five Dollars for each and every offence ; Provided. That these privileges, or any ot them, mav be granted by application to the Hurgcss ani Town 'ouneil. Src. 5, He It further enacted by the authority aforesaid. That no person or parsons shall be per- , mtttcd. under the penalty of I ve I) .liars to ride or nnve any norse. mare or reiding on any oi tne sidewalk In said borough. Srr. 8. And be it fnrilier enacted and ordained , by the authority aforesaid. That it shall bo the duty oi the l?urgess, cacn oi tne town A ouncii, and of the High Constable strictly to prosecute all laws and ordinan e ol said borough made to prevent vice and Immoral conduct. lone at Chest Springs, the 20th day ot Aprilt A. v. isra. M.J. GOOPFR, Hurgess. P. C. Little, Clerk. PUBLIC SALE ! The undersigned will offer at Public Sale, i ON SATURDAY, MAY 27tli, 1816, J At '4 O'CLOCK, 1 M., i The property recently oectipied by the 'Ebens. mtrg .inning ana .Manuiactunng :o.. situate in Ebensburg, Cambria county. Pa., consisting of ONE ACRE OF CROUND, fronting on the Kbensbarg and Crcsson Railroad having therein erected a LARGE PLANING MILL, 4'2xV) feet, three stories high, with Holler Shed at tached, l'x63 feet. Tho machinery consists of one 40-Horse Power Engine and Boiler, 1 Cnmhlnerl Pliiier, 24 Indies wide, for sur facing and grooving : I Surface I'latter. 20 in. wide ; .1 Irculur Kip Mans, with lilt tables ; 2 f irrnlnr 4 r-t itt Snw, with slide ta bles: win; 'lrctilr t'rn-(nt Haws 1 Imnble Hearted Shsplnir Msrhlne, with iron frame; 1 Centric Lathe, I Hand Lathe, with com- Vlete st of Tool. 1 rolishinr Dram. feet long; Mnulilina' Machine, with slide heads. The nbove machinery, with necessary shafting, belting nnd pulleys. Is In g.iod working order, with an abun dant ill i ,rl v of running water on the premises. paid building was erected specially for and Iihs been used In the manufacture of flooring, sidir.ir, al' kinds of handles hrurth blocks, ballusters. etc. Cherry, ash. poplar, linn, sugar, beech, maple and j white pine lumber to bo had at moderate prices. ' There is also erected on the premises a Tvo Story Frame Dwelling House eoJITAIXINO S)IS ROOMS ASD K CELLAR. TERMS of SALE. One-third ot the purchase tnonev to he paid on delivery of the Deed, one-third In si months, and the balance In one year, with Interest, to be s-cured by the judgment bond and mortgage of the .lurehaser. JOHN A. HL, MB, Ebensburg. JOHN LEWIS. W. H. HUN ACKER, Johnstown. Ebensburg, May 6, li78.-4t. 7VOTIC13 TO TAX-PAYERS! IV accordiincc with an Act of the General As Bcmtil v or this Commonwealth, approved the Pthdiivn'f Aoril. A. I. 172. "relating to the col lect inn of t.ixes in th emtnty or Cumbria.' n , tice is b-ret,v given to the tax-payers residing I In the districts below named, that tbe County ' Treasurer. In compliance wilh th secrnd sec ' tion of said act. will attend t the places oT , holding 1 he tr-rroinrh end township elf el ions on j -i (.ii i . - . . . I . . T ) i n 1 1 r In iuii ,n inC I O I I , I W I I A 1IHHMO Uiijn. .ii '"'l receiving the cmintv. poor aud state taxes as sessed Tor the year 17(1 : For Wlimorc bornnirh. Monday. June 12th. " fifimmcrhtll townsdilp. Tnesdav, June lth. Washington " Wirdncsilny, " 14th. " Rnrnmltvill horointh. Thursday. " loth. " Oalliir.in " Friday, " Iflth. , " Gallitzin township. Satiir.lny, " I. in. Iiretto borough. Monday, ' r-'th. Allegheny township, Tuesday. " 20th. " Munster Wediifsdny, " 21st. " Chet Springs borough. ThuiSilay, " SKd. Clearfield township. Friday, " d. White township, mi Mondur, Jiincoth. at A. H. Fivke's, and on Tuesday, June 27th, m I I .In V (lav i 1 1 f. " Chest township, nt Olcn Connel!. Wcdncs- dty. .lime -J.--lh, Hna ui A. aiiiih a. iuuio tlay. June Kith. n. " CHrrolltown borough, Friday, June 30Lh. ' Cnrtoll township, Sut iir.lny. July 1st. " Cumbria " Monday, July :W. " Harr " WeliirdH.v. July 5th. " SufiuehannH t owrishi p. Thursday. July fith. West Ward, Elienaburjr, FridMy. July 7th. " Eet " " Srttunlny. July Kth. " Jackson township, Monday. July 10th. Uincklick " Turs l.iy, July 11th. I nil Inn rrr rA a n f0 W 1 1 ti the second section nf I said act. u all taxi s paid to the Treasurer be fore the ISt flrtVOl Slpicmiitir inerewn. i. rediK tinnof rivs pr.it t r. t., while five percent, will be ad-ed to nil unpaid laxes, and placed in the hand" of cntnblf. N. J. Fit RI Dl( KF, County Trensiirer. Treasurer's Other, F.beusbuig. April 24, l7tt. lVTtlAt FOR SATK riTIK nnders'ncd desires to sell his FA RM In 1 Clearfield township. Cnmbria county. I'enn a. situate fro miles cast ef St. Aagnstlne, on the mail route leadinu from Cresson to .TanesvIIIe. The Fahv contains lOOAfKI'si, nbont 70Acrks r .inn.,..i v 1 1 ,.nee,l nnd In a hiirh I OI w HU M urn v , ... - - iiir.,.. : stato of cultivation, with a one. and a hair Story FraMK Hoi-sk. hewed Leo Harm. 40 by CO feet, l and a good Spring House thereon erected. There are a Iso several Hearing iron i , ". ses, and a never tal'lng sj.ring f,f pure water near the dwelling. Pavnients will be made enyand T,ossession given immediately If a sale Is made. For further particulars inqnl o of H I. Jon bt" Efij.. Ebensburg, or ol the undersigned re sidinson l"l-l'"ilATRIr.K . K ERIN. Clearfield Twp., March SI, K.-tl BxTiTcuTbirs notice. Ksfate of I'KKN A Hit LlTZIN'OER. to the estato or Hernard Lltingcr, ate of the j lownsn.p oi i.irai in,", - - - - - - - 7" --- - cdtotho undersigned. All persons In-lebled to aid estate are noiicen i'j nmv ,m..,i , and those having claims aif.' it nre requested to r.rcsent the same duly authenticated Tor settle ment VALENTINE HCCH, Executor. Clearfield Twp.. May . l;8.-t. JCEOUTOh'S NOTICE. Estate of Maroaket MCUEX. ... . . ..,..,-,. I.nr.ru- been Issued to the J lra ir?;iiiiii"'ij , . I nndcrsigne i by the Ucaistei- of an.bna conn y on tho estate or Margaret Mil ten. late of S m merhlll township, deceased, all persons indebted to sai l estate are requested to make ?aJ, T, I forthwith, and those havinur claims against the . same will present tl)"m on iv I'nuravr,, ,o. tnent. PATRICK M( LLK., Executor. SUmmorhlll Tirp.. May 5, ls7g.-4t. ASSEMl'.LY I hereby announce rn'.eir aa a can.lidale for Assembly, u'd-sct to the decision of tho approaching nemo, raiic count v eonvenlion. JOJ1.N ti. nnfti. iUrf -7,-72.t F.totturi, March 31, 1878. "FOR Ml' SAKE, JOUX." 'Miss Cameron!" Lcouie Cameron, la zily looking out of a tow window upon a garden flaming witn autumn tints and a suu set glow, lifted a pair of soft eyes to Mrs. Tollman's face. Just at that moment tlie anxiety was very apparent to Leonie. So, after her fiis careless glance, she straight ened in lier low chair, and said quietly yet with every appearance of interest : "What is the matter?" An awkward pause followed that ques tion. Mrs. Tollman fidgeted under the in quiring glance of the dark eyes, cleared her throat twice-, and Gnally said, with nervous emphasis : "John Furbor J" Miss Cameron's face Fewred to freeze. It was a very beautiful face, with pride for a leading expression. Sweetness linked in tho finely-shaped mouth, and intellect beamed from the radiant eye, but pride shadowed all. It carried the small head gracefully erect, it swept the folds of her rich dresses with a regal motion, it touched the small, patrician hands, and was evi dent in the well-modulated tones of the ro fitsed voice. "There I" Mrs. Tollman said despair ingly, "I've made you mad already aud haven't said anything 1" 'I'm not mad," Leonie answered, and there certainly lui ked a smile in her mouth at the good woman's consternation. "But you have not told me yet what troubles you." "It'B John, Miss Cameron, and " (hen, rapidly, as if the words were forced by fear of her ability to finish her self appointed task, she hurried on : "He's try nephew, miss, as you know, though his father is a rich man, very rich, and John is above his mot Iter's place in life. She's dead and John was spoiled somewhere between the year she died and two years ago. I don't know where, but he was brought up an idler upon his father's money, and from idleness to drinking, ganibliug, and bad ways is an easy road. "His father is a hard man, and he thrust him out near a year ago. Disinherited him I lie came here, for I love him. I've nothing else to love ; husband and children are in the graveyard, so I love John." There was a piteous pleading in the wo man's face, but Lconie's was blank, save for an air of polite interest. "He was 'most desperate when ho came here, but I coaxed him up a little. But but (), Miss Cameron, you know what I want to say. You are beautiful, rich ; a lady far above me in education any posi tion, and only boarding here for country quiet. I've no right to find fault but but don't tlirt with John. lie is in trou ble, despondent, disinherited, and he's falling in love with you as fast as he can. I believe if you play with him he will kill himself, body and soul." Fairly out of breath wilh her own ear nest utterance, Mis. Tollman paused, look ing pleadingly into Leonie Cameron's face. The expression of polite interest never wavered as the young lady lady said : "If I understand you aright, you vish me to ignore your nephew. It is not easy, as he is in your house ; so I had better leav e it." "Goodness !' cried the widow aghast, at this interpretation of her words, "I never meant that I Where could you find anoth er boarding-place near here ? "I can return to the city." "I've put my foot, in it ; John will never forgive me!" said Mrs. Tollman disconso lately. But there was no p.y npathy in Leonio's face, and she turned away at last more perplexed and more anxious than ever. And Leonie, sinking into a chair, looked at the sunset clouds and variegated foliage, and thought perhaps it was time to go back to the eily. Fhe had come to Scranford weary with a round of fashionable life, tired of flattery, dancing, flit ting, and she found t est and quiet under Mir. Tollman's motherly care. She was rich richer far than the landlady had any idea of; but she had no relatives, hiring a second cousin to keep her lonely home and play propriety. Socioty constituted itself her amateur guardian ; and laying back in her cushioned chair, in the sunset glow, she wondered indolently what society would say about John Furber. It would grant him a Tare perfection of manly beauty of face and form, and forgive the evident traces of dissipation if it was known that ho mas the son of a rich man, educated at college, idle by profession. But in what holy horror it would turn away with uplifted hands when it was known that ho was disinherited, wilii no home but a room in the house of a widowed aunt who was eking out her narrow in come by taking boaitlerst It would smilo at his biting sarcasms, his brilliant con versation, his cynical sneers, if lie were re instated in his father's favor, but how rude those would bo in a poor man. Leonie, from thinking of society's opin- :,..,-! rrlwl.Tit Int cousirl- ion, quite tinct'iift'"'" ering her own. This dark-browned man had made a fair portion of her summer pleasure for three months; had been her cavalier in many country drives, walks, and sails, had quoted poetry under shade trees, sung in a Mitwrb baritone upon murmuring waters, looked into her eyes on a moon liri,t porch, and whispered delicate words of (lattery no more than many other men tad done. A beauty aud rich, Miss Cameron had looked upon more than one languish ing suitor, had forgotten him when her amusement wearied her. Scarcely a flirt, for sha encouraged no downright love mak ing, but a beautiful, fascinating youug wo man, who wounded hearts with merely careless grace. Musing in the sunset, it was impressed upon her heart that she had poisoned a life already sinking. There were capabilities for better things thau dissipation and sui cide in John Furber, aud she shivered at the thought that he might be upon a preci pice, waiting for the clasp of her hand to draw him back or its repulse to throw htm over. She passed in review her male ft iends and found none who had awakened such keen pleasure bs he had given her. Sire, tried to recall one to mind whoso grasp of intellect equalled his, or who had met her j fairly in so many arguments andworsted j her ; and she could only remember soft flattery of her "wonderful mind." Finally j lifting her eyes with a soft sigh, she saw him leaning against a tree opposite t he low window, looking at her. A vivid flash stained her checks as he said : "What can you be thinking of? You have not stirred for half an hour. Only that your eyes were open I should have thought you were asleep." "Your powers of observation are mar vellous," he answered lightly. "I was dreaming." "Of what ?" "The world particular. It in general, my world in is almost time 1 returned there." She was prepared for some polite show of regret, but not for the ghastly change in his face. She shuddered, remenibertng his aunt's words. "Going away? Why, of course you would soon," he said, trying to speak care lessly, while his eyes hungrily devoured her face, and his white parched lips were draw n as if in sharp, physical pain. I have been here three months," she said, feeling her own hcait ache at his mij-ery. "Yes, yes 1 You will go certainly." "And you," she said very gen'.ly "you will be in the city, I presume. I shall be glad to welcome you at my house." "No," he said harshly, " I will not take such advantage of your kindness. I am a man your friends will tell you to shun, Miss Cameron a man who has wasted his life till it is too late to take up the threads again. You do not know, perhaps, that my auut keeps me here from charity." "I know you have offended your father," she answered, "but you are a man scarcely thirty, and it is cowardly to talk of despair at youi age." Her words cut him like a whiplash. The dark blood mounted to his forehead as he replied : I might fight the world yet, but," and here his tones was bitter and strangely pathetic, "the battle is scarcely worth winning. "What would I gain? Money? I do not value it. Position ? I have thrown it behind inc. I have played the fool, and I must take the fool's wages." "I will not have you say so," she said, roused to an earnestness she never intended to Itctray. "You shall not throw your life away." A hope sprang to his eyes, new (here, lighting them to dazzling radiance. "Miss Cumcioti- Leonie," he cried, "were there a prize to win, were one's heart's hopes centered upon me, I would trample dotvn theso demons of temptation. I would prove myself a man if I had a moi ive." There was no mistaking tho prayer in his voice. Only for one moment, close now to '.he window, before a hand like a snow flake fell upon his shoulder and a voice low nnd sweet murmured low in his car : "Be a man fur my sake." She was gone before he spoke again, and he wandered off to the woods to muse upon the possibility of his new life. The next day Mrs. Tollman lost her summer boarder. Society, languidly contemplating Miss Cameron for the next three years, found her eccentric. She was gay and grave, but she was mysteriously unapproachable. The bravest suitor fonnd himself met at the point where attentions merge into lover's devotion by a wall of icy reserve that was impassable. She never flirted, but she had the reputation of being a flirt, because she J was popular and admired aud remained single until she was ,'twenty-seven. She was known to be truthful, and she had distinctly told several curious lady fi iends that she was not engaged, so that there was oot even tho spice of romance in the gossip . Surely she was not "disapjiointed," for ne-er had the bright serenity of her beauty been more uucloudcd. Scran ford knew her not in those three years, but Mrs. Tollman was tho recipient of various hampers of city delicacies from her city boarder, and acknowledged the same by letters. One of these, duted three years after the beautiful Miss Cameron left Scran ford, after elaborately thanking that young lady for a hamper of dainties, said : "Do you remember my nephew. John Furber? He left the day after yon did and I fretted more than a little. But he Look a turn for thelgood. Heaven be thanked! and went to Now York to look for a situa tion. He worked himself up for he's smart, John is and to-day he has made j friends with his father again, and is to be taken partner iu a big commercial house, his father to buy it ; but John's earned a place, too, by hard, honest work. O my dear, I'm happier than ever I thought to be. Perhaps you've heard of the house John is in Collins, Hayes & Co. John is to be part of the Co. But I'll tiro you writing about my own affairs. I wouldn't only I thought you'd remember John." "In New York," Leonie murmured, "so near me all these years, and yet never seek ing me ? Was I too bold ? Did I drive him away, showing my heart too plainly? Well, even so, I gave him tho first start toward an honorable manhood. Remember him? Yes, Mrs. Tollman, I do remember John." She folded the letter and was dressing for the opera when the servant announced a caller. "What a barbarous hour !" she murmur ed, not looking at the card. "In a few mo ments, Jane." She was robed in her fleecy dress of white lace over blue silk, and clasped diamonds onhcrthroth aud wrists aud in the little ears ; w hen she took her opera cloak from the maid's hand she looked at the card "John Furber." A great heart-throb sent the blood over her face and neck'; then it faded, leaving only a soft tint upon the dark eyes, a light of happiness harmonizing well with the smiling lips. She looked like some visitant from another world, iu the radiance of her beauty, as she came across the drawing room to the window where he stood, lie had not heard her light step, but, when she was near, turned, showing the stamp of his better life in his noble face. lie held out his hand, looking earnestly into her face, and seeing she spoke only a happy truth, as taking it, she said "I am glad to see you." "Leonie," Vo said, "you gave me a hope, three years ago, that has borne me above temptation and suffering to a position Where I am not ashamed to look any man in tho face. Leonie yon bade mc " "Be a man for my sake, John !" "And I obej-ed you my darling. I have come for my reward, Leonie, loving you wilh all my heart, daring now to ask for your love in return." Society had a ripple of sensation in a fashionable wedding when ihe son of Isra el Fuiber, the millionaire (so the newspa pers said and they know everything) married Miss Leonie Cameron. But only you and I, reader, know tho romance of that summer in Seranford, or how John Fuiber redeemed hi8 manhood for Leouie's sake. STOIIY OF AX I III Sir GIRL,. Iler name'wa3 Mary Tobin. As there is nothing iu his history of which she or her children should ever be ashamed, the facts are given precisely as they occurred. The writer does not know what was Mary's birthplace in Ireland, nor the year she was born. It must have been a year or two previous to 1830. Whenl2or 13 years old, she came to this country with an older sister, who married a man that had the position of chief teamster of a detach ment of soldiers then stationed at Brooklyn, New York. After remaining with her sister, the only relative she had in this country, for some months, Mary accepted service with a gen tleman by the name of Clowes, then living a few miles west of Cuddcbackville, in Sul livan county, New York. He was a widower and his aged mother kept house for him. The young ignorant Irish girl did not perform at all to her liking ; and yet, as it would cost considerable to go back to her sister iu Brooklyn, the venerable matron did not know exactly what to do with the girl. At this time, a gentleman from Orange county, on his way to visit friends in Cumberland, having a slight ac quaintance with Mr. Clowes, stopped for a few moments to have a friendly chat. When about to start, lemembcring the in junction of madamo to bring back a house maid if he could find one on his journey, he asked Mr. Clowes if there was any one in the neighborhood that conld be had for that service. Mr. Clowes referred the gen tleman to his mother, who at once agreed that Mary should return with him. The good damp, however, could Only rocom mend Mary as bright and honest ; but she was totnlly ignorant of our American way ot doing things. In the course of a week the gentleman returned, and Mary found herself installed as the maid of-ali -work in the family of the principal of one of the academies in Orange county. She was then scarcely 15, but rather large for her ago, with light hair, rosy cheeks, bright, sparkling blue eyes, graceful for one so utterly uncultiva ted ; and every feature, and sweet, cheery voice, all told at once that she was one of the very best specimens of the Irish lass that the "Gem of the Sea" could possibly send us. She was in fact a very pretty, j promising girl. But Esther, the old maid j cook, to whose care Mary was committed for some needed instruction in thatdepait- i ment, had nopatienco with her Ignorance; and the disgust of the ancient dame knew no bounds when, having given her pupil some potatoes to wash, she saw Mary with her bare feet treacling them in the flour pail half full of water. Esther's ridicule mado the poor child sad enough ; but it broke no bones, and her buoyaut, Cheerful nature soon recovered its wonted vivacity. It was vacation ; the family numbered but four. Esther became sick, and madame was forced, with the assistance of Mary, to prepare meals, and get along as best she could. She soon found that her new girl needed showing but once; that she was active, anxious and quick to learn, and, when Esther returned to duty, Mary was nearly as well qualified for the duties of queen of the kitchen as the more aged and pretentious dame, who had shown so little good sense and patience in instructing her. In a month or two, Esther's health again failed, and Mary was duly installod as cook in her place. In this positiou she did faithful and ex cellent service for a year or more, when sho petitioned her friends for the privilege of going to school acting as assistant house maid morning and evening, to pay for her board. She had already learned to read and write, and now commenced the ele mentary branches in good earnest. Sho made rapid progress for a year, when tho principal of the academy changed his loca tion, and Mary spent a year with his sister at Barry villo, in Sullivan county. She then became a member of the family with whom she first lived, and entered Chester Academy, earning her board as before, by seiVico in the family. Her classmates were the daughters of the leading titizens in Orange county, by whom she was always treated with the greatest respect. Her beauty, cheerful, merry heart, her w it, and genuine lady like bearing, and withal, her rapid progress in her studies, shielded her perfectly from any slights on account of her humble position. Indeed, she was a general favorite in tho school. A most important change now occurred iu Mary's personal history. She had te jected several offers of marriage, as with true, loyal Irish affection, sho intended to join her sister, then in the far west. Dur ing the time Mary was at school, tho troops with whom her brother-in-law was con nected at that timc'had been ordered to Fort Towson, situated in or near the Red river, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory and he, with his family, had gone with them. It was very lonesome for Mary's sister, and several letters had passed be tween them Mary's sister urging her w ith all her eloquence to come and join her for tunes with hers. Mary wrote she would come as soon as her term in school closed, if she had tho money; but, in pursuing her education, she had been unable to save anything. It should be said that she had a full share of pride hot any too much to be sure that always led her to adopt the best wardrobe her limited mans would permit. She always looked neat, .and with her fine form and beautiful, intelligent face, could not help knowing that she had her full share of admiration from all by whom she was surronnded. In due time Mary was all excitement at receiving a letter from her sistei, that she had found a Mr. Clark who was about to visit his fi iends in Pennsylvania, aud w ho, at her request, would come to Chester for Mary, and come back with her to Fort Towson ; also that sho would send money to get her a good wardrobe, and to pay the expenses to her new home. A short time afterwards Mr. Clark arrived, presented his letters, and handed Mary $00 in gold to purchase her outfit for the journey. Mary's Chester friends did not like the looks of Mr. Clark ; but, as he was accredited by her sislcr, they could make no objections to her leaving with him. But they were careful to advise her specially and fully in regard to her long journey of some 1,500 miles among entire strangers. In less thau j a week she was ready, and, wjth a kind I letter from her pastor and the blessings and the prayers of those with whom she had lived virtually from childhood, she bade them good bye, who, like those to whom Paul preached, "expected to see her face no more." In her examination in all her studies no one acquitted herself better thau Mary Tobin ; and at the closing exercises, w hen compositions were in order, for purity and simplicity of style, beauty of thought and expression, Mary's was received with marked applause, and In fact was far bet ter thau the performance of any of her as sociates. What follows is gathered from the letters Mary wrote back to the lady who had so kindly malronizcd her from the time she first came to Orange county till she left for her distant home in the west. Mary found Mr. Clark's friends in Penn sylvania, very fine, excellent people, in good circumstances. They treated her very kindly for two or three weeks, when she left with Mr. C. for Pittsburg, where they took a New Orleans steamboat for the mouth of the Arkansas. For several days Mary's escort treated her with great defer ence and respect, as, in fact, ho had always j done. Buthis attentions became more and more marked, and by the time tho steamer had reached the Mississippi, he was per tinaciously u riring " Mary to marry him. This she respectfully, but firmly refused to do; and at length his conduct becamo so outrageous, and his proposals so base, that Mary was obliged to appeal to tho captain fnr protection. This he prompt I v afforded .... i - j and khe was free from further molestation, j Clarke kept himself steeped in liquor, nnd ! his conduct at last became so bad that I somewhere below Cairo the Captain put him ashore not, however, till he had made him give up the money he had in his pos session to pay Mary's expenses to Fort Towson." And now hero was this lone Irish girl, a thousand miles from her friends in Orange county, and nearly as far by the rivers and stage she had to travel before rcachincr her new home nn nwxA: - , ...... - IV IX j except that which a brave, noble, and cul- uva.cti woman can command from the roughest, and evea the basest, of men. They were ample in her case, for she was treated bv the captain and his officers, and by her fellow-passengers, with every atten tion and the greatest courtesy. The captain of the Mississippi steamer introduced Mary to the oillcers of the boat that was to take her up the Arkansas to Van Buren, on the west line of the state, where she was to take the stage lor oue hundred miles or more to Fort Towson. Traveling on the frontieis and on Western river steamers thirty years ago was a very different thing from what it is now. Yet in all that tedious, weary journey, Mary w as happy, and by her cheerful conrersa tion, and those delicate attentions which a won.au knows so well how to show, she was ever ready to contribute to the happi ness of others. But at last the stage stopped at tho aoor of the hotel, and the louely traveller was at Fort Tow nson. Visions of her sister her own dear sister rushing to embrace her, and of the chil dren dancing around Auut Mary liad cheered her for many a long l,OUr. She w as now at home, and all her joyous nature overflowed w ith the brightest hoj.es. Alas what language can paint the gloom that shrouded her soul when she found that her sister was hundreds of miles away ; that she was alone.away out in the Indian Terri tory, among perfect strangers. The regi ment with which her brother-in-law was associated had been ordered to Texas and her sister was at Baton Rouge, La. 'in a Tew hours she sought out her sister's friends, who knew all about her coming They received her most kindly and coidial ly, and did all they could to cheer and com fort her. Her pride would not permit her to be tlctKmdeiit. She soon found her ser vices were in great request as a dressmaker and her letters to her Orange county friends w ere full of expressions showing how hanpv and prosperous she was in her new Lome It could not be otherwise. Her culture and her superior accomplishments would lead all to concede to her a leading iiosition m society. So it proved ; for, in a few months she became the happy w ife of Mr. Henry B. Hadden, a leading citizen of V, ?Wm; n an,tI'e- ear a letter told that she had the dearest little babv in the world, and, of course, Ler happiness, was complete. Domestic cares made the letters from Mary fcwT-r, and, since the war, nothing has been heard from her. Her old friend-? some or whom now reside in this city, would be most happy to hear of her welfare. Ihe temptation to moralize on facts like" the above is almost irresistible. But the story rarries its moral along with it. It shows that duty, faithfully pel formed ench i..r, ,k ,mnm;s aiong, is sure to reap its reward Mai ys history, from the time he left her sister in Brooklyn to accept service among strangers, amid the lonely wilds or Sullivan county, might be woven into a most beautiful romance; but the Tacts, just as they occurred, are to her friends more than they could be were they embellished by the most vivid colors in which nr.y writer, however gifted, could narrate them. Her adUerenfe to dutv, and her active, viitnous Jifj car, be imitated by ail ; but few will ever be able to furnish a tnighter example, or one more worthy to he emulated. A Fnoo Bahometer. Out at the La-fayelt- Park Police Station thev hare a weather prophet which eclipses Tice and all the barometers in the neighborhood. It rs a frog of the genus lela, more famil liar to the general reader as the tree t .ad Hunt, the Superintendent of the Pai k, w as mildly abusing his barometer one day for misleading him, when an officer on the beat, an old frontiersman, said he would show him a trick. He took a glass jar and threw into it some stones and a couple of inches of water. Then he whittled out a little wooden ladder and put it iu the jar. After some lively scrambling a tree toad was caught, chucked in, and a tin tori screwed on. The weather-indicator was complete. When it is going to be fair weather, that toad roosts on the top round of the ladder, solemnly blinking the hours away. From twelve to fifteen hours before a change to bad weather, "the General" as they call him, begins to climb down, and hours before Ihe storm sets in besquat himself on a stnr.e, and with his head just above tho surface of the water, peers aloft at the coming storm. Let the weather be changeable and "shifting," as "Old Prob" says, and the toad goes up and down that laodcr like a scared middy. When it is fair and the toad roosts aloft, his hkin ii a light grayish given. When the change comes the skin turns black as Ihe toad goes down the ladder, becoming a jet, shining black by the time he reaches tbe bottom. I he fame or ihe toad has spread through the Lafayette Park neighborhood. at. Louis Times. f n i '""'.us ot Danhuiy, Conn., who had just returned from the West, was telling in Merril's gro cery Mote of a nairow escape be had from a terrible death. He was crossing a long raihoad bridge on foot, when he was sur prised to see a locomotive coming around a curve, and tearing toward him at a ter rific speed. The bridge was too narrow to allow or escape at cither side, and he did not dare to jump into the yawning abyss below. In a flash ho took in tbe situatiou and formed his plan f r action. He started on a sw ift run toward the on coming loco motive, and when w ithin a few feet of it lie concentrated all hisnerve and muscle into vii.-i l, nun icajica siraigui up in the air. The fearful mowsler shot under, bim and he came down on the bridge, saved from death, but seriously shaken np by the descent. There was a moment of deep silence upon tho close of his narration. Then one of the company sighed, and shut up his knife, and unoxjieclinglv said "What's the use of presence of uniid wheu a man can lie lik'e that?'' A Wisconsin editor illustrates the pre vailing extravagance 0f the people of tb present day by calling attention to th costly baby Carriages in use now, while, when he was a baby, they hauled him. arouMd by the hair of the head, .
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