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Though - j ,i:' i k lllkrcnl ,j.rt of tlie ,-. f.'. to l'f H l.it'US ilCI'I i i :j u.:t t'V t!ie uo ol ;' Sillz r Ajyerivtit. i e .:i:v .in I t 'inripahly. It !s i ( :!i..' -ii tit r-r troiii rlieuiuatusin TiT ALLMJfiJiJIsT.S. i F03 SALE! n.K": I. IMi'-i: n'iir the irn'nt n I'ti : " in t'..'ir.:y. Wet Vtr-i.-n.t i :ir :'.'-ri. Soil tr.MKl, :1 tit. ti;:iltr txellnit, nvt n.cnl: title T-- T cr'ii. acoininila ' .i .1. I Mi LU.N, Wi'M. Virlnia. I in,:: -K-us' E-l:iMi.sfced in 1865. J."i ..i t ;..r O'fii-ers. S'll'licr. J it: I S:I1J.-I1 "I nr r ':- r ' tr 1 In? law inclUJe !? i :i..n..r:.l.ly il.ichnncel. If in '.. t Imp i n:ruieil any diepe, li; uvin.li! emu le-J. Oreat nun in ni p -s-o I r.if. . iinil thuuM nr ' AM -!'licr. aa.l .pptfle! f ff3 rv... frS,j. hirwever ' ! "f n .!. in. nil wlilowsof ' i'ea.i riiU.j, are rci'Jcaled ' 1 at ..L-'C. ''. "I'.' i-n!te l in lil-l ami S ""I'l ''"I- St-n.l yi. ur iliwliari; ir: :, il. I!u-:in.. Iwlore the III ..ii.-;tc t. I iificirr"' rrt-.irn iil. r. ;; jut i'lami (.r-iscoutetl K;' :' "ii.-. i 1 is ! I r. ijucFt .ii!;. t. r r-i lv an I return of t. Li..i,J., Uk U 47, i.rn I..'n i gi nn honorable frn::..ncrs. A. Hurlliut. M. 7 till I,.ir,.-tol Illini.i.-, late Mnj. ''in cime ot thi? pnper. Ilr'j-'I'DI I'ltriiiK t'i.l IM'.ntli no i J.ii. ,, !i-!..v' iii-i vf w I'i.'.Nns ANI K J A N -J, uf - in -'lU.l.r.i '.V. tkiis-. at (.' r ' ' ! TO i.r.. r...l v.... r ilw.i.. '""Ki""' "'"'l!"''. 'Irtn.. 40 : nil i pan:. kw 5 Ii t ve i:ii tw.,w M..,i dt,...i . ' I 7' iviimtiv nniii ' !-t. in I. a'km s l ilr u lway, N. Y. f.!r,,V w"h n.i!ii! finely ,'.'.'f u" l;.t -tvli-s. ml,, "''I''".'' ''tit f..r iliitiii. '!.!. aru . Hr,,i kt..n. r.I.ir.. -K'!r.. I'KKDtMAifftiit, 7 ,: ,' ; "i ' r i,g l.MMlltv, .. ' . 1HT HSK. A.I.'rrM '. Aumnu, M.ilnc. ! v :H .... I .-. " Si.y!rs worth M : afi... l'ori!ai.. Mc. iDWABl V, 0 5eveath Ayc, Ur.GH, PA. ' " 'I ll If St,,,,, re ' ""' U-.-n il( i-uvcr, !o stock l5-:iin. wl MM1I Streets, i I lit' .. . ' t'J in. I r. iii Ui t tuttii- ;:r;7',r"' 'In' Hi: I . 5' Jf. :i, i,r,..nt ii ii... i . V lllfn I . n "riii or a: . 1 r w,tl viicata 1'':i';'l'.'.'.!U',KVUoiSB. Works. , U 'Hl.ri, ,'""' !,",, -t- irv. "'nu.iiwt,. r,,), nt l-ii--lin.j v?.fl o. in larfre 'in.HAtiJs. '.' k j;:..'.,vr,''S. an.J Am. :-I-h. si..., .; ami thrr-. "-rr-,,,.;,','!.1':' AHI'AH. ,t , lry il'. Wiiu iro a iiuxnRED mm rnon sow. 1T TUB LATE WHS. MART FORD (UNA.) The surging sea of huroati life forever on- wanl tolls; ... And liedrn to the eternal shore its daily freight of son In. Though bravely nails our bark to-day pale deuth si lit the prow, And few shall know we ever lived a hundred years from now. O, mighty human brotherhood ! why fiercely war and Ktrive, While God's great world has ample apace for every ihing alive? Broad field, uncultured and unclaimed, are waiting: for the plough Of progress that shall make them bloom a huudred years from now. Why "honld we strive so earnestly in life's short narrow span, Ou gulden dtairs to climb so high above our brother man? "Why blindly at an earthly shrine in slavish homage bow? Our g Id will rnst, ourselves be dust, a hun dred years from now ? Why prlae so much the world's applause? Why dread so much its blame? A fleeting echo is its voice of censure or of fame ; The praiso that thrills the heart, the scorn that dyes With shame the brow, , Will Ik; as long-forgotten dreams A hundred years from tow. O patient hearts, that meekly bear your weary load of wronj;? . O earntHt hearts, that bravely dare, and, striving, grow more strong! Press on till perfect peace is won; you'll never dream of how You struggled o'er life's thorny road a hun dred years from now. Grand, lofty souls, who live and toil that freedom, right, and truth, Aloue may rule the universe, for you Is end less youth ; When 'mid the blest with God you rest, the grateful lands shall Itow Above your clay in rev'rent love a hundred years from now. K.irth's empires rise and fall, O Time ! like breakers on thy shore ; They rush upon thy rocks of doom, go down, ar.d are no more; Thn starry wilderness of worlds that gem night's radieut brow, Will light the ckies for other eyes a hundred years from now. Our Father, to whoso sleepless eyes the past and future stand Au open page, like babes we cling to Thy protecting hand ; Change, sorrow, death, aro naught to us if we may safely bow Beneath tun bbadow of Thy throno a hun dred years l'roni now. J low Maggie Caught the Jiurglar. "You are not afraid, Maggie I" "Me afraid 1" said Maggie. "I'd no fear boru with inc. As for the bouse it's the strongest fastened I ever was in. You say yourself there's no lock a burglar could force, at d I'm not one to let tramps or the like in of my fioe will. God knows the place will be safe enough when you come back as safe as though there was a regi ment of soldiers in it; and I'll have all bright for your now wife, Mr. Archibald." She called her master Mr. Archibald still, this old woman ; but she was the only one who still used his Christian name. He was an cideily man himself, and hail few intimate friends, hospitality not being one of his virtues. He was rich, and there was muth that was valuable in the bouse ; more ready money, too, than roost men keep about thetu ; but then it wa tweare ai a batik-vault patent locks and burglar alarms that first sent a bullet into any one who sought to cntr by stealth, and then iang a bell to awake the household were attached to every door, and a furious watch dog, that lived on raw meat, wa in the back garden. The Van Nott mansion con Id havo withstood a siege) at a moment's notice. Mr. Van Nott was a money-dealer. He had ways and means of accumulating property which were mysteries tohis neigh bors, and they -were suspicions that the little back parlor, sacred to business, had even seen such lesser dealings as the loan of money on gold watcher, cashmere shawls and diamonds of genteel distress. Two or three nioitgages had been bought up and rather cruelly foieclosed ; and bo ww a haid landlord and a bad person to owe money to altogether. On tho whole, bo was disliked in the place, and rich as ho was would havo found it hard -to get a wife tohis liking among tho neighbors at Oukham. However, having resolved lo marry again there had been a Mis. Van Nott, who died years before he had sought out a wealthy widow of a saving disposi tion, who lived on a small farm some miles outof town, and having already disinherited her daughter for espousing an estimable man of small means, and turned her son out of doors for equally prudent reasons, was not likely to bring any troublesome generosity into Ids household, and bad of fered himself to her, and had been ac cepted. And now, though both their econ omical souls revolted against it, custom deciced a wedding of some sort, and a honeymoon trip somewhere, and they had decided to do it as cheaply as possible. For this brief time Mr. Van Nott must leave his business aud his house, and it was on the eve of his departure that be had the above conversation with bis old servant, standing with bis porlmauteau in bis baud, and regarding hor gravely. "Yes, yes,"-he sahl, "I presume it is all safe enough. And I'll speak to tho night watchman, and give him a dollar to take a particular look at this bouso. Well, good bye, Maggie ; make things as neat as possi ble, for if they look dirty ray wife may think tho f.nniiuie old, and want some thing new for tho parlor." And Mr. Van Nott departed. "Yts, yes," aid old Tlaggie, "uo doubt she'll have fine, extravagant ways. Poor master ! What a pity be should marry after all but old fools are the worst fools. A yonng thing eight-and-forty, too, when he has a sensible servant, sixty last Janua ry, that knows what belongs to good house keeping. If be wanted to marry why didn't he ask nut I'd not have gone gallivant ing and spending. Ah, well, be'll suffer, not I." And Maggie trotted away to begin ber sweeping and dnsting. She had said truly that there was no fear born in her, but as the bight drew on she began to feel somewhat lonely. Her master's presence was strangely missed out of the great house, and there was some thing ghostly Id the look of bis empty chair when she peeped into tbe little back office. . "If I was suptet-stltlousj" sbe said to herself, "I should think something dread ful was going to happen. I feel chilly up and down my back, and I keep thinking of funerals. I' 11 make myself a cup of tea, aud see if I can't get over it." And accordingly old Maggie shut her self into the srtug kitchen, and lighting two caudles, drew a pot of the strongest young hyson, and putting ber feet close to the cooking-stove, begtui to feel much more comfortable. The old clock ticked away on the man tel, the bands pointing to half past eight. "I'm going to bed at nine," said Mag gie. "I've worked well to-day. Much thanks I'll get for it) I doubt. Hark! What's that?" It was a sound outside the door a slow, solemn grating of wheels. Then feet trod the pavement, aud tbe bell rung faintly. "A carriage I" cried Maggie. "Has ho changed his mind and brought her home at once ? Dut that can't be he's not mar ried yet." And taking one of tbe candles she trotted to the door, but uot before the bell rung again. "Who's that?" she cried, the door slight ly ajar. "A stranger," said a voice, "one who has something particular to say to you." "You'll have to wait for to-morrow," saij Maggie. "You can't come iu to night." "My good woman," saKl the stranger, "are you Margaret Black f" "That's my name." "Mr. Vau Nott's housekeeper for tweuty years?" "Yes." "Mj god woman, if you aro attached to your master, I have very bad news for you." Gracious Lord 1" criod Maggie, but she 'did not open the door much wider only enough to thrust ber head out. "Don't 3 care me, mister. What is it ?" "The worst yoa can think of," said the man. "Mr. Van Nott traveled on the railroad. There has been an a cci- uent." "Preserve us !" cried Maggie, letting the door fall back, and him on bis way to his wedding. He's hurt badly then ?" "He's dead," said the man. "Dead, aud we've brought him home." Maggie 6at down on a chair and began to ci y. "We've done what we could," said the man. "The lady he was to marry and her friends will be down to-morrow. Mean while my instructions are that you shall Tratch with him, and allow no stranger to enter the house. There are valuable things here, I'm told ; and Mr. Van Iott's lawyer must take possession of them, and seal them up before strangers have access to tho rooms." "Oh I dear, dear," cried old Maggie. "That it should come to this. Yes ; I'll watch alone. I'm not afraid, but oh, dearl" Then she shrunk back, and let the two men oarry a horrible coffin into tbe front tiarlor. They camo out with their bats off, and the other man held his also in his hand. "I regret to leave you all alone iu the house," he said. "I don't mind that," said old Maggie, "but its terrible, terrible." "If you'd liko me to stay," said the man. "No," said Maggie. "I've no fear of living or dead men. You can go." Then she locked the door and went into the parlor, and putting the candle ou tbe mantle, looked at the coma through ber tears. ' IIe was good enough to me," she said "poor Mr. Archibald I And this comes of wanting to marry at this time of life, and gallivanting on railroads. I wondor wheth er lie is changed much. I'll take a look," and Maggie crossed tho room and Kfled tho lid over the face of the euclosod body. "I'll take a look," site said to herself again. "I'm not afraid of dead folks." In a minute more ifaggie dropped tbe lid again aud retreated, shaking from head to foot. She had seen, within the coffiu, a face with its eyes shut, and with bandages about tbe head, and the ghastly features of a clown iu a circus, minus the red mouth. But it was a living face, well-chalked, and not her master's; and Maggie knew at once that she bad been well humbugged that this story of her inastor's death was a lie, and that a burglar lay within the coffin, ready to spring upon her and bind her, or perhaps murder her at any moment. She could, of coaisc, opcu tho door aud try to escape ; but the accomplices of .the man were doabtless outside. It was a long distance tb the nearest house, and, even if they did not kill ber, they would execute their purpose and rob the place before she returned. "Master looks natural," said Maggie aloud, and tried to collect her thoughts. Mr. Van Nott's revolvers were in the next room, she knew, loaded, six shots In each. Maggie could use pistols. She bad aimed at troublesome cats with great suc cess more than once. If she could secure these pistols she felt safe. "Poor, dear master," she sobbed, aud edged toward the back room. "Peor, dear master." She lifted the desk lid. She had tbem safe. She glided back to the front parlor and sat down on a chair. She turned up her klceves and grasped a pistol in each baud, and she watched the coffin quietly. In half an hour the lid stirred.- A cautious hand crept up the side. A wiry eye peep ed out. It fell upon the armed figure, aud e'oed again. "You'd better," said Maggie to herself. Again tbe head lifted. This time Mag gie sprung to her feet. "You're fixed quite handy," she said coolly. "No need of laying you out if I fire, and I can aim first-rate, especially when I'm afraid of ghosts, as I be now." The head bobbed down again. Maggie reseated herself. She knew this could not last very long that there must be a conflict before long. It was as she supposed. A moment more and tbe cortln was empty, and a ferocious young fellow sat on its edge, and thus addressed her : "We meant to do It all quiet." be said, "and I don't wao't to frighten old women. J (1st put them down." "I'm not frightened," said Maggie. "I'm coming to take them things away from you," said tbe man. "Come !" said Maggie. He advanced one step. She took aim and he dodged, but a bullet went through his left arm, and it dropped by bis side. Furious with pain, ho. dashed toward her. She Sred again, and this time wound ed him in the right shoulder. Faint, and quite helpless, he staggered against the wall. - "There, you've done it, old woman," ho said, "Open the door and let me out My game is up." "Mine isu't," said old Maggie. "Get into your coffin again, or this time I'll shoot you through the heart.' 'The burglar looked pitcon6ly at her, but he saw no pity in her face. He went back to the coffin and lay down in it. Blood dripped from his wounds, and he was glowing paio. Maggie did not want to see him die before her eyes, but she dared not call aid. To leave the house be fore daylight would be to meet this man's companions, and risk her ownjlife. There was nothing for it but to play the surgeon herself, and iu a little while she had stop ped tho blood and saved the burglar's life. More than this she brought him a cup of tea, and fed him with ic as if he had been a baby. Nothing, however, could induce her to let him out of his coffin. About one or two o'clock she heard steps outside, and knew that the other burglars were near, but her stout heart never failed. Site trusted in the bars aud bolts aud they did not betray ber. Tho daylight found hor sitting qnictly beside tho wounded burglar, and the milk man, bright and early, was the ambassador who summoned the officers of justice. When the bridal party returned next day the house was neat aud tidy, and Mag gie, in her be6t alpaca, told the news in la conic fashion. "Frightened!" she exclaimed, in answer to the sympathetic ejaculations of her new mistress. "Frightened ! Ob, no I Fear wasn't bora in me." Tfie American Flag. Persons who de sire to make their own flags for the coming 4th of July should remember that certaiu proportions should be observed in its manu facture. Any one can find the proper pro portions from tho following data : The United States garrison flag is thirty-six feet "fly" (.long), and twenty feet hoist (wide), or in that proportion, the width be ing five ninths of tho length . The recruit ing flag is nine feet nine inches by four feet four inches, the width being four-ninths of the length. The "union," or blue field, is in length one third the length of the flag, and extends in width to tbe lower edge of the fourth red stripe from the top. There are thirteen stripes, oeginning and ending with red. Tho garrison flag is the ono usu ally taken as the standard for making flags for private ro or decoration. Thr clock which is to bo presented to the city of Philadelphia by Mr. Seybert, of that place, and which. will be placed in the tower of Independence Hall, has been fin ished.' It weigh altogether six thousand pounds. One of its combinations is so ad justed that at tims a hammer will strike on the bell in the tower the nnmber thir teen, to represent tbo number of tbeorigi- i nal states, and sevonty-six; to represent tbe year of tbe century in which the Declaration of Independence was publish ed. t When do two and two not make four? . . i r l A i . iron u.cy siauu ior ifftiiijr-iw". Doing J3t$sineifs without Capital. He was poor but proud a stranger in the city, and no one to take him in. He had expended his last dollar, and as be wan dered through Tremont street, at mid-day, be seriously contemplated bow be should possess himself of the wherewith to obtain a dinner. He was well clad, and made an unusually respectable appearance for a man who could not boast of possessing even one of the lowest denomination of greenbacks. Tbe thought occurred to him that bis im mediate necessity might compel him to pawn some article or articles of bis ward robe, when his attention was arretted by the eloquent, earnest tones of an auctioneer, in a store be was passing, expatiating npon tbe "ruinous, wicked; awful sacrifice" he was about to make la knocking down a rich set of parlor furniture "for one tLird its cost," but which be had orders to sell "without reserve." Curiosity to see such an "awful sacrifice" committed, led- tbe moneyless stranger into the crowd there assembled. He caught the auctioneer's eye that was all and "going going gone T immediately followed. "Your name, sir," said the auctioneer. The stranger besitated, and thinking of his dolorous and dollarless condition, began urging his way to the stand, to inform the auctioneer that he bad mistaken his look for a bid, w hen a gentleman tapped him on tho shoulder, and said, quickly: "Tweuty-flve dollars for your bargain I" "It is yours T as promptly replied tho Stranger. The money was paid to him, the name of the second purchaser giteu, and the first one went ou his way rejoicing nor di3 he stop until he seated himself iu the big din ing hall of the Paiker House. "I'm in luck to-day, surely ;and I'll havo a good dinner," Lo soliloquized, as ho scanned the "menu" placed beforti him. The- viands most craved were ordered, and while he waited to bo Bervcd, he took up a morning paper, and the first thing that met his eye was the staring caption, "Elegant Ebtate at Auction This Day, at 3 P. M. j" aud following was a grandilo quent description thereof, also, including a catalogue of the elegaut furniture, works of art, etc., which furnished and adorned the niansiou, and which were also to be sold immediately after tho sale of the real property! Some good genius it may have been Dame Fortune prompted him to deter mine at once to attend the sale. It lacked an hour and forty minutes to the appoiutcd time ample todo full justice to the edibles he had generously ordered, and leisurely walk to tho.aristocratic street on the Back Bay, w here was situated tho valuable estate indicated iu the advertisement. Ho was there in season to view tbe property, and did so with apparently as much interest a3 if nE intended to be a competitor in the purchase. Then be lis tened with due ntteution to the auctioneer's glowing praises of the mansion, and tho not very favorable tcims of ale, including tho "$500 to bo paid down," which did not appear to appal him in the least. Tho sale begau at a "ridiculously low figure," aa the auctioneer said, but, never theless, he warmed up to his woik as the bids advanced to twenty-five, thirty, thirty-two, thirty-four thousand, and after much shouting, hammering, and significant pauses, it was finally knocked off at a frac tion less than $35,000 I And tho poor fel low, who possessed only $23,00, minus the value of a dinucrat Parker's, was tho lucky purchaser ! lie gave bis name as Abraham V. Stuart, and the auctioneer was pleased to say, not withstanding tho property sold below Lis estimate at least ten thousand dollars: "Mr. Stuart, I congratulate you. This estate cost not less than 00,o00, aud ought to have brought at least $50,000 !" Scarcely had the hammer fallen for the last timo, than an agent of one of our most opulent nabobs appeared on tbe scene, al most breathless with exerting himself to be at the sale ou timo, as be was authorized by his employer to bid off the property at a figure not exceeding a certain fixed limit. He expressed much disappointment when be learned tbe price it had sold for, and declared that bad be been present be would have raised the figures at least fifteen per cent. "If yon want tho bouso so badly, perhaps it is not too late to obtain it," said tho pur chaser ou hearing the remark that was made. "I do not want it for myself; but I was sent here by a gentleman wit h instructions to purchaso it at a certain limit," replied tho agent. 'Perhaps you would liko to make an offer for tho purchase?" "I will give you three thousand dollars above what it sold for," said the ageut. "Then you must acknowledge that it is worth nearer twenty more.. Oh, no ! three thousand will never do. Make it ten thous and dollars, and the property is yours?" "I will give you five thousand," said the agent. ' - "Couldn't think of it," said the pur chaser. "But as I bought the house neither for a residence or an investment, but purely as a speculation, I will split, the difference, and ca'd it seventy-five hundred dollars." "Done !" said the other. "And here is a thousand dollars to bind the bargain, and if you w ill walk with kc lo n.y office, I will draw a check for the balance, and satisfy you that the-bank will cash it on presentation." The auctioneer's clerk walj notified of the transfer, the "$500 to bo paid down" was paid by the agent, and in less than half an hour our innocent speculator was in possession of a reliable eherk for seventy five hundred dollais, one thousand dtllars in greenbacks, and the small sum on hand from the entirely accidental "streak of luck" earlier in tho day. With the 8 trail fortune thus almost thrust upon him, be established himself in trade on one ot tbe best streets m the city, where be Is now doing a flourishing busi ness. , This episode in his career be frequently speaks ef to his most confidential friends, and declares bis doubts whether any mer chant in Boston ever did quite so profitable a "business in one day on so small a capital as he did on that, to him, memorable day ! Tiznfcw Blade. ' When a Woman Will," Etc. There is a woman ou Seventh street that always gets the best of it when she and her husband have little differences. This spring she wanted to niove into a larger house, and her husband didn't want to, and being the head of the family of conrse they didn't biove. But she didn't say any thing ; she kept still aud bided her time, and shortly it came. One morning the husband came home in a great hurry and said he mnst go East, and he would be gone about two weeks, and sbe knew very well he would be gone two weeks if be said so, and probably a trifle over that. She packed his portmanteau with shirts, and kissed him good-bye, and saw him safely off, and went right out house-hunting. She found just the house she wanted, and that man hadn't been gone three days when she was safely moved, and at the fcnd often days was as settled and serene in her new quarters as though she had never moved iu her life. Meantimo, a family bad moved iu the house stio had vacated, and all went quietly on till one day, as the woman was mixing bread in the kitchen, aud the outside door was open, too, i:i rushed a man and gave ber a hug, saying "How are you, little girl? Doing your own work, are yon?" And then there was an awful pauso, as that woman looked round at him, aud be saw it wasn't "little girl" at all, but an old girl of the Spartau typo, and she didn't seem to relish the hog he gave her, cither. Says he : "Is your mistress at home ? Or, I mean, do Mrs. Brown's folks live here?" Then she told him she didu't know any thing about Brown's folks ; her name was SSimmens, and if she was poor she was respectable, and then she began to cry, and all at once she waxed wroth and laid hold of the broom and took after poor Browr, and says she "I'll sweep you off the face of the earth, you scalawag-you !"' aud tho way Brown went cr.t the dcor with the swish of that broom behind him might be called abrupt. Well, be went out among the neighbors and found out where li9 lived, and went home and interviewed Mrs. Brown, who cried and 6aid she "didn't tbinlc he'd care if sbo just moved while b1 wn gone, and saved him all the trouble," which last made him madder than ho was before, and she Cried again, atad the end of it all was she came out one Easter Sunday with as hand some a new bonnet as any one, which W3S very significant of his beiug a done Brown. A STRAXfJE Story.- Troy, N. Y., has just bad a startling sensation. A newspa per man charged one Dr. Camp with hav ing sold an infant out of the county house to tho wife of Jack Goddard, a cornet player. On a trial for libel the editor proved the truth of the charge, and was nc quitted, but tho facts developed caused a breaking up of the Goddard family. It seems that Mrs. Goddard was unblessed with children. Her husband's love for ber was unbounded . but she knew that be would love her better could she only sent him with a pledge. She leg?'-, too. to fear that if she should remain childless, bis affection would die avvny so she thongut to deceivo him, by purchasing a child by bribing Dr. Camp '.o get ono out of the alms house for her juring one of his protracted absences w:.t,n a traveling show. Tho husband was o.crjoyed on his return, and the wife, liTit in tho security of Dr. Camp's promise, of scresy, was supremely happy. Bur, when Dr. Camp found that the editor, knew tbo secret be wrote to Goddard telling him of the deception practiced on him by his wife. Tbe anger ed and grief stricken husband wrote to bis wife, enclosing Camp's letter, telling her that ho' could never live with her again. Sho is now in straitened circumstances and overwhelmed with grief and shame-, but clings to tho babe with the love of a trne mother and refuses to part with it. There is some hope that through the kind offices of friends the unhappy pair may bo brought together again, as the fault committed by the wife was not a criminal ono, and was Intended rather to promote the happiness of her husband. A oooi lawyer is not a ' uecessity, for necessity knows no law MAK1XG THIS HOME JiASE. A SIGHT THAT C A US HI? DUM TEDKO Tt MolliM The following is said to be' one of Dom Pedro's letters borne,' intercepted by tb Cincinnati ia1urd.ty XtgTit: PntLAr.Ei.rni , May 8, 'TO. I must write you of the pecmliar treat tnent of idiots in the Uuited (Stales. In .Brazil, , you know, we confine- that unfoituuato class in tho asylums and submit them t. such hnma-ie treatment ns will niitigato their calamity if it does tv.t improve their .mertal condition, but in tli:3 countrv asy lums have been abolished R, jjjots aro treated to an exercise called "Imsc ball " All do not play at ot;ce, of course! A great body of tlieni go ir.to Some- open lot. and nine ' are selected t play against another so-called "nine," wh;i'0 uie re maining idiots sit and stand au und, utter ing incoherent fcibtorish jit ear. while, and liululging in idiotic jell at fWtuent iuter- "bnsfl ball grounds' the other dav, ml found at cast 20,0m w.ple congregated there. TLey were of ail rrs, Hiz aud conditions, and all more or less do menled. 1 rom my observations, that dv I cannot cay that I was favorably impressed with base bail treatment for the ferblo minded. I think the old fashioned asvlum with its attendant discipline, is better for t.icm. I would liko todescribe "base ball if I could, but it is so foolish a pel formauca that it is d-.fncnlt for a sensible man to con vey an intelligible idea of it to readers in the full possession of their intellects. Suf fice it to say that it consists mainly in ono man flinging a ball at anotLer, who makes a wild and ofltimes fruitless effort to hit it wit h a club. The former is called a "pitch er. He takes the ball in his haiid,scruiu izes it carefully to make sure that it isn't a codnshball, then glances up at the clond to see if it is likely to rain, then casts his eye around at the inrii m intellects who m watching Lim so intensely from tbe bench es, looks intently at the ground as if select ing some good depot to sit down, then wheeling suddenly on his beel he spins the oa.l with a swift, jerking motiou toward th5 mail with the bat. You cannot imag ine the frantic yells that crow d of impaired mental constitmioLs sends up if the batter hits it and sends itspinning a long distance, particularly if it isu t captured by the nim ble ni lots who run after it before be cart ruu aiound a given circle. I was curious to know whether or not this exercise wa pecuniarily profitable to those who partici pated in it, and I aked theaforemrntioretl base ball repoi ter. "Do these unfortunate cieatuies who play base ball ever inako anything?" and he replied, 'Oh, yes, they rVHko r !,eir ,,0?no base occasionally." I oor fellows, I should think they would make home base enough, but of course they can t help it. They were born, to for the most part, though I Uin told that base ball idiocy is contagious and oii the iiK crease. 5o.ii ox 'riiu srAiirs. HOW MR. PACKLF.M ETITOTT COVE TOCHASGE ins sii?:d ok woman- scvfkaoe. A gentleman residing mi Abedcen street was. until Friday Inclined to "Jvtjft' mnle6uffra2o. IHs w ife had pi ..dent ly de layed in...,, till after the 1st, so as iVtaka advantage of the r,n 0f LOIlse' Pe.,t . house to which they moved had a tremend ously steep fi.ght of stairs, and an oil cloth ed ball. 1 he wife had the stairs scrubbed do, and left the soap on the lopstVp. full of clhes pms iu ore hsnd and a cloak under the other nrnsEhei. bis wife, S as down staus, aw a mouse, and shakin-r ;'tiwd!y, bounded , the tahlo and let oft a scv.es , f -Ir:ll iL.Uks bc-i. -;". on hU Z-Z above the clef. 1lor h.isbniid thmking U,. h.. .c wus n fl the very least, sta.tnd to , t.. her resco and Ptrppiug tUo , :ece u th.itsl.o bad so thoughtfully left on the s.ai.s, t down Tcher.K-i.tly at ,Le i,.p ,,f tl)(! n .hf. and shd tl.Mvn wi,h the sjA-d ,.f t J. Si ' I ire flew from l,;s r;l. to'f.th as ,,0 edge of eicl, step, volleys of clothe-.,,!,. were discnarged ,,,, ie air aT,d c 1 flic CIK'!s!i.d its in ivards over . ' TI:ol..j,lr,l hsbar.d ai .l "'re flection when he leache S 'V" el.ah .f the !laj, 7 . t K scarcely diniinisl ed v . '. r"" "1'1 ing tbe.i!-cloth 7 ? that tlmtiM,. a xst.t,,e fWl' "ith violence house l"L Tb V; rVU t U,e Cf t,; bis wife m' ?lf,!l,co,,ra:-fl"" slartle.1 f.o n be Jl e i C k D;ck-orsao!t which !t ""I a t,,b "f P-ads, it. had tc it? T ed that sho au-f V! " a:',a,, P 'm ud canter v j "d cataracts of it.nr.dating ber. ten-Ia.r.ier wiili k,j, i:u .. . j - . - i - j. iiif unrrr, and jarred down mvt f the plaster cor nice. hen tho man's wife bad sUugh e1 l'er tub, sho Fa:nitered calmly into the hall and tenia. ke.T, "Well. ,eu are tho elums,estat.d a hall bnd just been washed, too." Her husband did not s.iv much, but he thong-it a Re-io deal and now, he says, just let Sni-a:. B, Anthony come, ntul lecture here again, and if other Man bar, the courage to hiss, h. i l fo he;i bin Jaspfr Packlemciton. C7 v-.u go Tbunc Tiia!T!k has it that year r-o, Bent ".aim Frank In v. - . i . , ' , . , ., - " '., ii" o-n tv? suiuy philosophy, and s.,,, h ta...c flK, ()f applytug technical na-ucs to common ob- his father that he swallowed some ace ba loivs mollusks, tho old .m was much for;helP. has Fi.iukliu cune will, warm water, and the hired man ruhed pi with tho gaiden pump. 1 l.f.v fo.cc.i h.df a Ion down Peiijamm'sLurooi. I he?i held over the edsic of thepou.l. and sl,.k bin,, while tbe old man : "If e don't tret them things outof Benny, he ;u be even ed, rare. ' W I.e.. they were out, ,,d V.ea jamm exj huned that the si: t ai,, , were cy-lCs, his father Amdh-d him fr half an hour with a tihnk strap for searin the family. After this Bcr.jamin-sianguago. was simple. Xoor.esh .,,:dx!nvt f.,r the Black Hi"
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