tCV A A A v T a. a y 7 VXT bs-- f A A McPIKE, Editor and Publisher. 'HK IS A FKEEMAK WHOM THE TRUTH HAKES FKEE, AtD All AUK SLAVES BESIDE. Terms, S2 per year. In advance. 45 &m'.',iifWt.1: a x 1 i I Ik i t i if 4 1 (ii.i'Mi: xr. EBENSBURG, PA., FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 1877. NUMBER 11. flERIFFS SALES. ,.,-or ninilrv writs of I.rrnri Facta. 'i nl f l1 ' l','i,"J out or the .,'',,11111011 Pleas of ' 'am bria county and 't.,,1 tln ie will be exposed to public .'bulel id t'onrud Kattb, iti John-Mown, .'Saturday, Dec. 1st, 1877, huh. ' ,he lo'lowing realcsiaie ' to it : , r KM fine ami interest or Michael : r ii mmiI to a lot of ground situated in ''' ji'wupt t I i tieniMi gh borough. 1'iim " "..'v i'n..lron'iiif " H uberl si n ft . ad. Irv'oti each ,e Hn' running hack ' v Imii" tin icon erected ii Iwofliiry 1 ' .,. a one stoi bouse, an J h Finnic. ' f,i,'?(.n ui'iOK V o"r .Michael Vumiii ami "' tiiiini. I k ti in execultnn and to be '"."hi id if t'f the School District ot C'olie 1 ", r,-ui!i ii"l J"1'" I ;- Co. ' i ihf ridit. title i'"'' interest of 01ms. '"I'i. mill not ice to Kichurd Randolph ' ,;.'"');.prr. ten tenants, of. in and ti a ''".'.,.,,' .tntv building in Ihe borough of ' n it rti trrt count v. Pa., w liieh huild '"., 'tilted UP used lor a gristmill. ' . ,,,,11 hu ll the mill i ei ecled la f ront . v,;n street .infect ntnl running back ".. . in !l-v. Hi"! also the office and flour .r'.'ithi other building uttuchort thereto " " t hi ii'K boimil on lheeii!t by proper- a ' ! m "'' (I'-fensed. h ml on the west run t" 'I'1' estate- and also the lot ,.r .' mi'iiii'l and ertilnie api'iirtenant 1 in. n in e. eiition nnit to tx sold at .' ,ilni-ti n !-ehanieal Works, a! ilie iifilit. title and Int-.-rest of D. . '.T.ol.in mid toapl"-eor parcel or -in i '' villiiKe of Morrellv ille, i''v. ti. Ph.. unjoining lands of Mrs. - ju j.i Kii-liunt. and others, contnininif ' . inoi e t ii-ss. having thereon erected , '.t i ,'i.in'. liim-e and etatde. not now . rj ;,k- n in execution and to be sold ; i,f Jiilni 1 liomtf. i tut' rulit. til ieiinil interest of Jumes j '..r. iif. in i""1 to a lot of ground situ - i ,ir invti-ttiip. t'ambti: county. Pa., i li lioviihip road. ailjoinillK lot of I, V, i'uiiiii i on one suit utid lot of , :: ntlier. i iintii'ig nack to an alley, j' f'i!! ereeteil u two story plunk house . .r. in" hi the occupapov of Jnnws y. A'": nil the right. I i t le a ml In ter ". :.:r"-i K. liiiiii'gl er. ot. in and to a piece , .: i mini situate iti lalor township, rji'.utiM. Pa .M'ijoining l:mdsir Patrick :. U ..i.ain !! no . and oi hen. containing ' .'.'. mi. ie or li s. Taken in execution :1M Hie suit of John 1 liouiiis, lor r... (ihim. ... h: i tic rmlit. title and interest of Me , i.fL" r. i.l. in Miid to a piece or pa reel - . i i " i : r f . I in the Fifth ward of Johns- r nit . I auil ria i-ounty. Ph., fronting . . . -t. -t. ioljoiiitt:g lot of Joseph I.mv- : - si I- mill lot ot Mi s. Tiiiigliner on . -i ' . n icti'l ihk I in k In lt Hi JamrS . ui i tlmron ii'K'ied a two story . i i . 'v in the occupancy of William ;. r.k'ii iii cxeriiiion and to tie sold t .." .ti.iintoH ii Savings Hank. - . i : tt i igl.t. title and interest ol Philip .. r. t. in mid to a lot of ground situ- it i'hir.l w in 1 of J:hnsf own borough, i n'. p;i.. trontiitg on Portage i:.;t:g lot o! Join Tittle en one shle ; n o ii - II. t .hs finu r 'earl ureei on I in k to lot i f Jul. ii TIMIe. I T. M.lllMl'tf tl.t ITI ! i'-. II' 1. I lit ( a I. ii if I wo st in v plank w in the (xi'ii pa ney of k' li in execution and lo James little, tor use of tin i n tit. it ! nnd interest of I in vid r. of. in .ii'd to a lot ot if rou n 1 sit ti- i ... j . f Mi.rrellville. Yo'ler town- ' i c iin'i . Pa., front ing on ing h t ot J. Warren on one side ; Vi tn. li ii kin iiiH r on t he ot her aide, i t ii i to iui.il ot J. K. i'liHildler, Iimv - n iix-'tila two story plank house, . ii iipitu y of liaviii ll.'ii kheimer. . K. -iiiiun and to tie sold at the suit i ittfl.t. tit'e and interest of John '. ii mil ton ..t ot if roo nil fitnato 1 ii i ,u .1. ( oiieiiiiiiin h tioroiiyh. Pa., mi alley on the north.! adjoining .! " wl i., n llriiiks on lilt; east, west ti. im ii k i l.ci ( dii creeliil a two story (". tin w in the oii ui'iiiicy of John iiiki'I' in i . ii I k n audio be sold at f II !'. pi i di , u uiiiii-lrulor of W m. i ... (. ) flu- i kM. til ! an-1 interest f Mil-i!-..i tit. ot. in and to a pis-re or parcel in'c in Voder town-hip. t.'iim liria i'i . .rij'i i it. lands of lieoige Kuiss, ' i i"i. .Ihiucs tlConnor. and others, n in i . more or Joss, hut ing t hei e--i i ,.i y plunk house and slnb!e, ' '!' iituih ot t.eoijie Winlsivnrlh. 'i" nt,i.:i ami to be sold ullhe suit " r irht. titie and interest of John i ;. !.:.! iiti itunliil oT gioiind sit-i-ki-v ;iiug viih ge, I'pper Voder 'lorli ii ci . 1 1 1 f v . Pa., fronting on iia. i! . mi r-i't Pike, unjoining T's ii i . mi, ,r mi line Mill and a ' 'h-i. having thoreon erected H " iik In ii-i-. i-i tv ill the ooci.piincy ' " ii. 'i.iS-.en in i-X'-eiltioii 11(1 lo -i n ( .1 .tin i oniior. i : j I :'. itt and interest of Joseph ' '' ! a lot o gioiind situated in r n.'h. i unit fin coiuitv. Ph.. front--'off on tli. noi iti, adjoining lot ' (';.t. on lh- HC-t. lot of Wil li, ill th- i-ist, and an alley on the Hi 'ii'Mi reefed a I victory plank ''!. ti'.w in i he occiinaiicy of Jos- all the right, title and Inter '.'.ii ii... of. in hikI to :i piece or ''i i -r iiaied in Lower Voder town ; ' ' i. lit , Pa., iidjoitiing lands of i .linn lte-hards, iiml others, eim- I o Him e or less, having thereon "' '( 1 1 i in n k house, not now occii- II i'i i xi i in Kin and to be fold at the ' I". hunter and John Thomas, for h"i'n Co. ttglit. title nnd interest of John ' in ami ton lot IT piece of grol lid ' lo:s t r , vt ri borough extended.be- I iiiinded and di Senlel as fol tii..iig at a 1 1 l. corner of Jackson i 'T hi i,..v ; til.-nee along said alley eight petehes ; thence along t'd one-halt perehen to a lot nix to M. M. oplin and Thos. i.v i hence al ng SHERIFF'S SALES. 1 lvvir,u0' sundry writs of Al. Fi. Fa .Vend .. I f.rf. i issuedout o. n?lC?.U,rnt0HCOmm.0n,',, a9,,f Cambria tou My t..M( f d,r',1u'11-. ""' I'e exposed to Public Sale, at (he Court House In Eblnsburg, On MONDAY, Dec. 3d, 1877, at 1 o'clock, r. M the following real esuate to wit : All the right, title and interest of John Mc iUahun. of. in and to a pieec or parent of land Ht nate in Washington township. Cambria county. I a., aojolning lands of Thos. Powers, John (Jrfie 1 hog. AlcOough. and others, containing l;to acres, more or less, having thereon erected two one and-a-halt story frame houses and a log barn, now in the occupancy of John McMahcn. Taken in eve eeution and to bo sold al the suit of Mrs. Rosaline IMeKnrue. Al so, all the right, title and Interest of Kliza Noonan. of. In and to a piece or parcel ol land sit uate In iMunster township. Cambria county. Pa., adjoining lands of Philip Sanders. Hugh tirifhn, and others, rontaininx 50 acres, more or lest,, most ly cleared, having thereon erected a log barn. 1 nken In execution and to be sold at Ihe suit ol" K. J. Mill. Al.o, ail the right, title and Interest of John Spade, of. in and to a lot of ground situate In the borough of Snmmitville, Cambria conntv. Pa., fronting on the old Portage itailrond md running back to an alley, adjoining lot of John Kilfel on the north and school lot on the south, having there, on erected a large t wo story trauie house and plank stable, now in the occupancy of John Spade. Ta ken In "Xecut ion and to be Bold at the suit of John Al. Herlacher. Al so, all the right, title and interest oi Philip W. Pringle, of. In and to a piece or parcel of land situate in J.icksoh township. Cambria county , Pa., adjoining lands ol" tSeorge Jtcx. James K. Cooper tract, and others, containing 190 ncres, more or less, about 8 acres of which are cleared, having thereon erected a two story plank kouse, plank stable, and water saw mill, now in the occupancy of Philip W. Prinule. Taken In execution and lj be sold at the suit of Iliwid llrendlinger. Ai.hii. all the right, title and interest of Thos. Stiles, of. in and to a piece or parcel of bind situ ate in liarr township, Cambria count-. Pa., ad joining landsol Henry Shultz and Krt-d'k Adam on the east, on the north by John AlctJee. on the west and south by Peter ltennett. containing 50 acres, more or less, about 20 acres of which aro cleared, having thereon erected a two story plank house and board stable, now In the occupancy of Thomas Stiles. Alan, abnnt 40 acres, more or less, unimproved, ad joining lands of 'I homus Thomp son and James Thompson on the west, Jos. Stiles on the south, and Isaiah Honner on the north, havinir thereon eecied a water saw ml. I. now In the occupancy of Thomas St ilea. Taken in execu tion and to lie sold at the suit of Peter Xeily. Also, all the right, title and interest ol John J. Krise. of, in and to a piece or parcel cf land sit uate in Clearfield township, 'amhria county. Pa., adjoining lands ol John Meliermitt. W m. Little, Ileitis Carle, and others, containing 15 acres, more or less, about .r0 acres cleared, having there on erected a two story log house and log stable, now in the occupancy of Jacob Itrand. and a two story plank house and leg stable, now in the occu pancy of . Taken in execution and to sold at the suit of S. K. Hurns. A r.o. all the rigl t. title and interest of (icorge B. Klehaids. of. in and to a piece or parcel of land situate in White township. Cambria county. Pa.. adjoining lands of Ueorge W. liowman. Anion Ynunkin. tteo I,mcr. and others, containing ! 6 acres, more or less. ah..ut 40 ares cleared, having thereon erected a one-and-a-half story hoHse nnd frame barn, now in the occupancy ol tieo. U. Rich ards, and a one and a halt story house, not occu pied. Taken i?i execution and to be sold at the suit l Samuel F Heorge. A i.so, all the right, tit eand interest of William A. Stewart, ot. in and to it piece or parcel of Innd situate in Jackson townsh p. Cambria county. Pa., adjoining lands of John K tiger, dee'd. on the east, lieirsof liavid Davis, dee'd. on the north, illiatn Hyers on the wesi.and the Samuel Paul tract on the south, containing one hundred and twenty four ( 1-4) acres, more or less, about torty (40) acres cleared, hnvinsr thereon erected a one story plank house and plank barn, now in the occupancyof Win. A. Stewart. Taken In execution and to be gold at the suit of S. P. Imnmiro. Ai.m. all the right, title and Interest of I, I... Werlhlev and W . II. Kdwards. ot. in and to a pUce or pircel of land situate in White township. Cambria count v. Pa., adjoining lands of William Ivcl, John Alulhollan. and others, containing 65 acres, more or less, about 15 acres ol which are cleared, having t hereon ere.-ted a two story plank house (not now occuple ), a water saw mill, a two storv pi. ink house and plunk stable, nowlnfhooc cupan. v of Rev. W. 11 l urdy Taken in execu tion nnd to he sold at the suit of .lonn Van Scoyoc and Aaron Van Scoyoc, administrators of Stephen Van Scoyoc, deceased. TmMaOF Sale.-fine-third of the purchase money t be p.iiu when the propel ty is knock ed down, and Ihe remaining t wo-t birds on con firmation of Ihe deed. ....- o, .. JOHN Itt AN. Sheriff. Shot ill's Office. Ebetisbuig. Nov. Ii. HT7. TWAL LIST, December Term. List rtf Ciiuses set ilown for trial at a Court ol Common Pleas to be held at Khens burg, lor C.imtii ia county, commencing on the rniM Mdmiav or Dkckmhkm, : KIKST WKKK. Collins, Johnston &. Co vs. Hunegan. Smith v- loi'k. Nielv indorsee vs Stineman. Russell M o vs. Iii l.len. 1 n 1 1 uigtT Stevcnstn vs. J;ei.li r. Purter v- llul,w- fiVtroNri WKKK, Comuierii ing Ieeoml r 10. 1T7. itiiP vs. Hopple S. Bearer. ' feigllfil issue. ..vs. Alcl'nrne. Same. ..vs. McLaughlin, Same. vs Ileslop. vs. Shoemaker, i.vs. Shoemaker. vs. Ilaiinirr et. al . ..vs . . vs . ..vs . vs vs Christy Horner Ileslop Kerr Ii Co Kerr 6k Co Clark Secsn Mel lermott et al (1 in stead Beers Marco. Sisler I o. I 'umini'iti wealt h, for use.vs hr... , tut K '.'V.,.. I"'icliesto.l.ickfin street ; thence iV'r'." '!"',',' and one-lnilf pffi-ehes to I' a. i.f beginu ng it being the ' of grourid eon vet cd hv Hubert 'll'.'lill kit... v.;- ...i.. t. a . r. ' I'i -mule by their de.' d dated SUtli Ii. ,.,,. ...... i ... i i ,,,1 In. I I. i','''-"1 ''.itiit.i in county. Pa. together -r ', ' '"'"ovpiiienis and pur- ii. to t 'o o.W. belftiigiinr: now in theoc- Enslv. Taken lin-.tecutlon - j "o ' "' ""' K,llt of John lifei t k Co. - ' ' " Id. titlennd interest of Ctiris- .i. s ' "' "" 'ot of around situ- ' i I," Wi'd, Johnstown borfingh, "ny. Pa., I routing on Morris street, ,-, . '"i"-rs,. ht,,.,.t OI, tho north H,,, lot luiM.ri on the south, and running ' ii 'Ti,"''11' hating thereon erected n j ' ' 14 house, now in the occupancy of ''f.'v " '" 't'-eution and to be sold j ' '"Pnen stufzinnn. '-.i i '"' r'tlt. title and interest of .Ifihn ,-i ';i'"i'1 H 11,1 of ground situate in N f'r'' w" borough, Cambria ''rh i'i "n Moirisstreet, adjoining vr , 11 ' l-on i, th,. no,th ,i ,,t of K. ' I'm.-. , """tli. and running back to ;.,' "-'vihg thereon erected a two " i,, '"ls". now in the occupancy of 1c-n "" Taken in execution and to ti,'"", "f Stephen Stutzmnn. ' m , ,rifhi, title and interest or John '' lot i.f ground situate in '?.,,.""'"". Cambria county. Pa., '''tr..""' 'M!,t on Morris street, having t..1 .. 'I the north and an alley on Ihe v llHing thereon :itwo story ... .ii -r,tI. icviiimiicv Ol .loilll I. ii V"'"! Henry Reed. Taken In "i.f,,. . ;' 'ld at the suit or Fredi ' i tii "ouis Luckhart m y of rlf ht, tuie ,( interest of Law- in u . l . i r . . .1 l inkl ""'oa ion ii'im Kiuuiin "ii H ".'I'oiifii, vaiiinria cihiiiit, trcci, '"' ,n,t "orth on a street and hav f'hVi i st "n "'lev on thenotith. "i ..,' ," wils"i o tlie cast, having ' 'ho ,,. " ,wo atory hfiuse and stable, " ti ; 'ipaii. y or Lawrence Furlong. 4 , 1,nlt""1 le 8ld t Hie f"'t ""i;...V.;,!"r,n''-third of the purchase ,; 'n'l the rp . n ,hp .'ropert y is kiuicked "mi (let d "-"o-ifiiriis uiiiiii vcfij- ''''Oflw Pl JOHN' RVAX, Sheriff, uice, Ehensburg. Nov. U, 177. rr"' !iJi ?;,".diur. Centre stre t. AH Kiper. Theis Murphy & Moore. Bendon (I't.nnnnr et. al . . Williams Walters Adm'x . Ilipps A. Iloyd ... KfX Same K.llis' use Flattery Ievcrgiaid Kicker - ii Oeddy S. Co. I ivnn et. al. Homer. Youngkin. A. Fockler, sr , et. al. tuinn Collins. Blum. Mertz ct. al. Boes. Trex'er. cam. Ci al t Uoko Co. .vs. Sloltz. .vs. Wchn. vs. Armstrong fc Blan- chard. vs. Shfictnaker. vs. Same et. al. vs. Trent, .vs. Flattery, vs. Potts. vs. IlllVi-'. MeinIJAN. Pio honotary. vs. . .vs. . .vs. . .vs. . vs Attohnky-at-Law. Kh- ' cei K'.,?fficln tront room of T. t 1 tii w ." venire sirr" . -i a imr... """ities, atteriled to tlsfac- Prothonotary s'titlicc, tbeiieburg, Nov. 3. 1S77. AtoMBti Estate. sale on Ihe premises, Rt aTMM K. p. m on Saturday, December 1st, '77, Al t. THAT CWtTAlX riF.cizoK rARCKij or r,Axn situate in the village of Hemlock. Washington ?ownship,n.l.rla county. Pa., bounded and de si-ribcd .U follows: Beginning at a post corner or tw aVlevs.and running bv a., alby 'in Mid village south 7 JoKree, e W f'' ,,n me ne of lot fif I). M- r" ,"' ,ICP e or I) M Fox 8 land, west 5H feet, to a post a alley thence by aaid alley, north tiO deg.ees, " fpct. to the plaee ol beginning. tIkws or SAi.K-)ne-hiilf .r the purchase Administrator of Frank 1'rbin, dee'd. Washington Twp.. Nov. 16, l7.-3t. AN PS OFF. I lve tliis day botiRlit at constable sale tl. ''jl'K pretext whatever. ola ,V V Clearfield Twp.. Nov. 9. 18.7.-IB. t- ST HAY II EI FKH. Strayed from the premiaea of the Vj.ast' lbnVhe5ndtab, C11ASKJJ JiY WOLVES Some fort v years ago t ho northern part of the Stale of New York was very sparsely setlled. In one of the remote counties, which, for uame's sake, we will call Macy county, a stout hearted settler named Devius posted himself beyond the borders of civilization and hewed for his little fam ily a home in the heart of a forest that es .etided all the way from Lake Champlain to Lake Ontario. His nearest neighbor was six miles away, and the nearest town near ly twenty, bill the Devinses were so happy and contented that the absence of company gave them no concern. It was a splendid place to live in. In summer the eye ranged from the slope where the sturdy pioneer had built his house over miles and milesof waving beech and maple woods, away to the dark lines of vines on the high ground that formed the horizon. In the valley below, Otter Creek, a tributary of the St. Lawrence, wouud its sparkling way northward. When antuir.n painted the scene in brilliant hues, and it lay glowing under the crimson light of October sunsets, the dullest observer could not restrain bursts of admiration. Mi. Devins' first attack on the stubborn forest had been over the brow of he hill, some four miles nearer Owenton. but his house was burned, down before he had ta ken his family there from Albany. He had regretted that he had not "pitched his tent" on the slope of Otter Creek, so now he began with renewed energy his second home, in which the closing in of the winter of 1880 found him. He had sixty acres of rich soil under cultivation at the time of which we are to speak, his right-hand man being his son Allan a rugged, handsome, intelligent boy of sixteen. The winter of '39 was a terrible one ; snow set In before the end of November, and, even in the open country, lay upon the ground until the beginning of April, while in the recesses of the forest it was found as late as the middie of June. There was great distress among the settlers out-s-de of the bounds of civilization, to whom the snow was an impassable barrier. The Devinses neither saw nor heard from their nearest neighbors from the fust of Decem ber till near the beginning of February, when a ciust was formed upon the snow sufficiently firm to bear the weight of a man, and a friendly Cayuga Indian brought them news of how badly their neighbors fared. Air. Devins was especially touched by the bad case of his friend Will Inman, who lived on the nearest farm. The poor man lay ill of a fever ; Mis. Inman was dead and temporarily buried, until her remains could be removed to the cemetery in Ow entown, and all the care of the family de volved upon tJsther, his daughter, fourteen years old. After a short consultation, the next, morning breaking bright and clear, though very cold, it was determined to al low Allan to to over Ihe hill to In man's, bearing medicine, tea and other litile ne cessaries for the family. He was impres sively warned to begin his return atsocaily an hour that ho might reach homo before the short day's end, esjK-cially because of the danger of wild animals. The severity of tho winter had m.u'o the wolves more venturesome and dangerous than they had been for many years. Mr. Devins had lost sevetal sheep and hogs, and deemed it un safe for any of his family io be caught far from the In -use at night. Allan armed himself with his light rifle, put some biscuits and cold meat in a pouch strapped to his waist, mounted one of the strong fat in-horses, and set out on his jour ney. The load tluough the fmest was better than he expected to find ii, as the snow had been drifted off", but at the turns and in the thickest part of the wood, his horse floundered through diifts more than lue.ist bigh ; anil more than once Allan had to distiiouiit pud beat a path ahead. There fore, he did not reach Lillian's till two o'clock and, by the time he had helped L.-ther about hei work, assisted her young biother to get in a good supply of wood and made things more comfortable for the invalid, it was almost sundown. He stout ly refused io stay for suppei, declaring that the luncheon siillin his pouch would scive, and siarted just as the short twilight came on. lie was a brave lad, and, with no thought of peiil, went oft", kissing his hand gayly to Esther. It took him an hour to traverse the first three miles, and then he came to a stretch of comparatively bare ground leading through his father's old clearing almost to the top of the hill back of Mr. Devins' house. He was just urging old liob into trot when a long, clear howl broke upon his ear ; then another and another answer ed from east and south. Ho knew what that meant. It was the cry of the advance guai d of a pack of wolves. The howling sounded near, and came swiftly neare:-, as though the wolves had found his tracks and scented their prey. Old Bob trembled in eveiy limb, and seem ed poweiless to move. Allan realized that lie could not, before dark, reach home through the drifts ahead, and the increas ing cold of the advancing night would ren der a refuge in ft tree top probably as deadly ns an encounter with the pack. Presently there came a cry, shriller and sharper than before, and Allan, looking back, saw a great, lean, hungry gray wolf burst, from the uuderbinsh into the road, followed by dozens more ; and in a moment the road behind him was full of wolves, open mouthed and keen in chnse. Their veil now seemed notes of exultation, for t he leader of the pack the strongest, fleetest, hung' iest one among them was within a dozen yards of Allan, who was now riding faster than old Hob had ever gone before or ever would again. Excitement made the lad's bit! boil in l"is veins and he deter mined to show fight. The moon had risen and the scene was almost as light as day. Now he could count the crowding host of his enemies, and, just as he broke from the forest road into the clearing, he turned in his saddle and fired. The foremost of the pack rolled over and over ; the rest gath ered around and tore their leader in pieces. By the time they resumed the chase Al lan Vas a hundred yards ahead with his rifle loaded. He determined to make a running fight of it to the hill, where he was sure of meeting his father, or could take to a tree and shiHt until help came. This bad hardly Mashed through his brain when, right ahead of him, a detachmeut of the pack sprang into the road and answered with double yells the cries of the rest com ing up behind. Tbe hoise wheeled sud denly, almost unseating Allan, and dashed across tbecleai ing toward the wood; but he bad not taken a dozen bounds when a wolf tipratiff upou liiui. OiJ Lob rcattd and fell, pitching Allan nearly twenty feet ahead, and was covered with wolves before he could regain his footing. That was the last of poor old Rob. But Allan! What of him ? When he re covered from the effects of the shock he found himself, over head and ears in snow. He had no idea where he was, but strug gled and plunged in vain endeavors to ex tricate himself, until at last he broke into a space that was clear of snow, but dark as Krebus, damp and close. Feeling about him, he discovered over his head logs rest ing slanting agtinst the upper edge of a pit, and then he knew he was in the cellar ot the old house his father had built, and which had been burned uown nine years before 1 The cellar wasfull of snow, except at the coi ner roofed ovei by the fallen logs, and Allan, bursting through into the empty corner, was as secure from the wolves as though seated by his father's fireside. It was not nearly as cold in there as outside, and he found a dry spot upon which he lay down to think. He was in no danger of freezing to death, his food would keep him from starvation a week at least, and Allan concluded tha, with the first glimpse of dawn, his father would be in search of him, and, following the tracks, find old Hob's bones, and quick ly rescue him from his predicament. He reasoned wisely enough, but the elements were against him. He fore sunrise a ftuious storm of wind and snow had completely obliterated every trace of horse, rider and wolves. At home, as the nrght wore on, the anx iety of the family had increased. While they were watching the gathering storm they heard the long dismal howl of the wolves coining over the hill. The chill of fear that they should never see the boy again settled down upon all their hearts, until the house was as weary within as the wiuter waste and gloomy forest were with out, Meanwhil the brave youth was sound asleep, dreaming as peacefully as though snugly resting with his brother in his warm bed at home. He slumbered on uncon scious of the raging storm without, and did not awake until late the next forenoon. It took him several seconds to realize where he was and how he came there, but grad ually he remembered his ride for life, and the falling of his horse, his struggle in the snow and his breaking into the protected space where he lay. The storm lasted all day and far into the succeeding night. Allan ate slightly, quenched his thirst with a few drops of water obtained by melting sn.tw in the palm of his hand and began casting about for means to get out. He soon found that to dig his way up through the mass of snow that, filled the cellar was beyond his power. If he could have made a succes sion of footholds, the task would have been easy, but all his efforts only tended to fill his retreat, without bringing him nearer the air. As soon sis lie saw this he gave himself up to calmly wailing for help from w ithout. The second morning of his imprisonment broke clear and cheerful, and Mr. Devins set out to search for traces of his boy. He visited the liiniaus and learned the particu lars of Allan's stay and departure, then mournfully turned his face homewaid. hrs heart filled with despair. When he emerg ed from the forest into the clearing he met the Indian who had visited him a few days before, and he told the red man of Allan's loss. The Indian stood a moment in deep thought, and then asked : "No horse, no boy back there?"' pointing to Ihe road just traversed by Mr. Devins. "No. I have looked carefully, and if there had been a trace left by the recent, stoini I should have detected it." "Ugh ! Well, mo come over the hill ; nothing that way either ; than they heie." "Why do you think so?" "Ah ! me know, wolves. When Allan came to the place they ahead ; horse turn : wolves caught "em this side woods ; we look there," and Tayenat honto pointed to the veiycouise takeu by the horse ami rider. It so happened when Allan was thrown from the horse's back that his rilie flew from his hand and struck, muzzle down, in a hollow stump, where, imbedded in the snow, it stood like a s-.gn to maik the scene of I he last struggle of the lost, boy. The snow had whitened all its hither side. When the Indian came abicast of it he cried : "Told you so ! See ! Allan's gun ! And here rest of 'em," pointing to a little heap over the ruins of the old cabin. Kicking the snow hastily aside, the In dian examined the ground caitlully a mo ment, and then said : "No, only horse ; Allan further on." The Indian, w ith head bent down, walked quickly foi ward, threw up his arms, and disappeared. He had stepped over the clean edge of the cellar, and sunk exactly as Allan had. A few despeiate plunges sufficed to take the sliong Indian through the intervening snow and iu to the cellar, where Allan, just rousing from his second sieep, sat bolt uptight. The Indian's coin ing ilislui bed the snow so tl .it a glimmer of light penetrated into ihe daik space. Allan supposed a wolf had found its way down there, ami drew his largo kuile, brac ing himself for an encounter. The Indian sputtered, thrashed about to clear himself troin the snow, and in so do ing i'apped his head smartly against the low ceiimg of logs. "Wangli ! waugh !" exclaimed he. "Too much low; inJ;au bieak 'em head; look out." Allan instantly recognized tho voice of the Indian, his comrade on many a li.-diing and hunting tour. "Tayenathouto !" he cried, "dear old fellow, who would thought of you finding ine !" The Indian quietly replied : "Tayenat houto no find ; come like water fall ; couldn't help his self." A very few minutes sufficed to put both on the sin face again, where Allan was re ceived ''like one come from the dead," and closely folded in his fa her's arms. Oh! the i.-yi-f I hat embrace. The past grief and suf fering were forgotten in. the bliss of that moment. The Indian had to return with the happy father and son to their home, where he was hailed as Allan's lescucr, and enjoyed to the full a share of the feslivities. In after yeais Allan married lislher In man, and now, by the fireside in winter, he tells his gtaudchildren of his escape from the wolves, and the little ones never tire of petting their faithful old Tayenathouto. Why are troubles like babies? Hecanse they t't l biogci by mosi'irj then. OLL HA.TTL.KSXAK.i2 JOIIX. EXPLOITS OF A MIGHTY REPTILK HfSTKR. Some months ago the Pennsylvania Ed itorial Association made an excursion through the eastern portion of the State, staying a brief while at the Delaware Water Gap. The day was a hot one, and while a number were sitting on the piazza they ob served a curious looking figure straddling foi'ih from the woods, and making towards them. He was clad iu blue jeans, heavy cow-hide boots and an old straw hat, with iron gray whiskers, long hair, and a rather wild, lolling eye. He stooped somewhat wii h age, but was still active and muscular. It was noticed that he was dragging something by a sliing, and when he halted directly in fioutof the astounded ladies and gentlemen they saw that it was an enor mous rattlesnake, which he bad brought out for their inspection. The old man, in his slow and solemn w ay, released the snake, while the horrified feminities screamed and scrambled out of the way, each certain that the reptile would instantly dait for them. The old man told them there was no danger, and by and by they ventured somewhat closer, assured by the sluggish movement of the snake and the evident masteiy of its captor. With its rattle erected and con stantly going, its head slightly raised, and its inky, forked tongue playing about its head and bead-like eyes, it glided cautious ly forward, seeking to reach the cover of the woods close at baud. .The old fellow con tinually got iu its way, sometimes turning it with his foiked stick or with iiis boot, and thus keeping it in tho open space in front of the visitors. This was continued for aw bile, when the reptile was imprisoned agai-.i by means of a loop of twine, and the owner shuttled off" with it to the pho'.ogiaph gallery, stationed between the Water Gap and the Kiltatinny house, where it is still an object of curiosity to the visitors. It is confined iu a woden box, with a glass cover, and, whenever desired, the owner turns it out to crawl ami rattle for the de lectation of visitors. It is somewhat over four feet in length, and has had fourteen rattles, several of which we:e knocked oil atiittst the box. During the three months ol its confinement it has not eaten a mouth ful or drank a swallow. A toad was placed within its reach, and was immediately stiook and killed, but the reptile would not toucli it further. It has shed its skin t a ice, and appeats to have lost somewhat in flesh, but there seems to be ground for the geueial belief that Hie rattlesnake eats nothing at all during hot weather. John Vanscolen, the old fe.'low who cap tured the reptile, is neatly seventy years of age, and has killed and takeu so many of the venomous reptiles that he has been known for years through the Water Gap section as Kattlesnakc John. "I seen the reptile asleep on the fence.'' said the old fellow, after placing himself outside of a stiff di ink of w hisky, "and I just snared him, that's all." "How was that done?" "The easiest way in the world. I just made a loop of twine, slipped it over his head, and there he was." 'Did you ever catch any of them before?" The old man, who is never known to laugh, turned a sort of reproachful, solemn h.aik upon the questioner aud heaved a pio digious sigh. 'The first one I ever catched I" he mut tered to himself, "that's worse than a bite from one of the sorpents. Young man, I've catched and sold more than 5,000, and I've killed eighty in one day with the help of a young dai key. There ain't any rattle snakes o;' copperheads aiouud heie iu the Water Gap, but there's plenty of 'em "mong the hills over there in Jersey. When 1 feel a handkering arter the reptiles, that's where I go, and I always fetch 'em. The fust varmint I seen was about fifty years ago when I was ploughing. I didn't know what it- was and I killed it. afore I learned. Af.er that I sotiof took t-i the business and 1 couldn't begin to lell a half oi a quaiter of what I've done. That introduced me to the pcrfession, and I belonged to a rattle snake family." Hi ing asked to explain what he meant l3r this, the old man saiei : "An uncle of mine, ninety years of age and a revolut inner, stepped on a snake one day aud it bit him. Ily that time bolh were mail, and my uncle kept jumping on it until it was smashed from head to tail. Afore that, howsumever. the snake bit him three or four times. Hut the old fellow hadn't tit through the levoiuiiou to be kill ed by a rattlesnake, so he belted down about a gallon of whiskey, aud was all right in a few days," "Some years ago I was out hunting sheep with my step-son over in Jersey, j when all of a sudden he left out a yell loud enough to wake the dead. I went thrash ing through the bushes, and when I reach ed him there was a sight such as a man don't often see in a lifetime. There was a ileii of rattlesnakes, and, as it looked to ne, about sixteen million of 'em, rattling and crawling about. Howsumevei, my boy and me sailed in with lo:ig sticks and went to slaughtering them. It don't take much of a blow to kill one of 'em, anil we never struck one of 'em twice. Often they was so close together that one belt would knock the stuffing out of a half dozen. We kept it up till the smell of the pis.m made us both deathly sick, when we went, home. The next morning was Sunday, and we went out to see ; lie prospect. We killed four more, and there was a mighty lot that got a-A-ay. Altogether it was over eighty that we laid out. "Howsumever, the rattlesnake is a square, up and down reptile that gives y:ui notice afoie he strikes ; but the copperhead is an orueiy cu.-s that'll sneak up and sting you without the least notice. One hot day I was mowing near Bethel, when I cut the tail off one of the critters, and the other part got out of the way, somehow, so I couldn't find it, though I looked a long time. I don't 'spose you'll believe it, st ranger, but the next summei I found that identical tail growed fast lo the rest of ;he snake, and nothing but a scar to show wheie the wound bad healeiL A half bro her of mine was bit in the heel by one of 'em, and 1 cut the bite open and washed it out about forty times ; that's all that saved him. "I used to sell the snakes for from $1 to $20 apiece. A few years ago I caught a big black spotted one that, is a female anil it had eighteen small ones, which used to run down its throat when scared. I let a Mr. Heading see this pei forinauce several times, and he was no pleased that he gave me $24 for the family, which is the largest price I ever received ; Out I sold a glass- , blower, from Glass boro, a couple of snakes wl-'cL i-t'i t him :1.1aM. Von see the way of it was this: He I wanted to buy a couple thai I had, and I was afraid, 'cause the man w as generally : half full of whisky, and liked to ny and I play smart before his fiiends. Hut he i i- ' ststed, and I let him have 'cm. warning ; him that one of the snakes was tig'y and i would bite. Sine enough he hadn't had ; him more than a week when the chap was I bit on the hand. I "sposelhe whisky in : him helped mal ters, for he didn't d:e. Hut his doctor's bill w $'.2K1, ami he lost his Whole summer's wmk, vrorfh jj-SOO more. 'I was over in Jeisey one day when I j come upon a couple of speckled beauties 1 Minniiig themseves. I found an old hat near by, and it didn't take me long to . scoop 'em both in. Then I put ny hat ! over the other, and I had 'em as nic as you could wish. If. was a scorching day. ' and afler I walked a couple of miles I sot : down and waited for the s'age. It come ; along pui ty soon and I climbed in and took a seat ali quiet, like. The stage was neat lv full, and bimeby I got to nodding, wl-en I i heered theblan.ed snake rattling. 1 tried j to soothe 'em, but the wouldn't stop, and some of the passengers axed me what they i was. I said, nothing but a couple of rat tlesnakes that I had just catched. Well, they bounced me out of that stage in such a hurry that it makes tne disgusted when ever I think of it. "I was never bit but once and that's forty years ago. I had three in a box and used to take 'em out, every day for exer cise like. I was just pulling the lid on, alter shoving 'em back, when one of the cusses turned l.ke lightning and zip ! ho took me light there, cl so by the second j'int on the middle finger. I yanked him out. agin and slathered him into a half-dozen pieces before I was through with him. I didn't tell my mother for fear of seating her, but I poulticed the linger with indigo and tobackor, ami took a gulger of gin, and then a glass of milk. I kept that up all night. It pained like all creation, but I wasn't Ihe least drunk. Theie was a lump on my finger about the size of alien's egg, but the pain was so neatly done that I concluded to take only one uioie !t ink, which I did, and iti ten minutes 1 was so drunk that I couldn't eat breakfast." liattlesnake John h:is probably caught and sold half a thousand rattlesnakes dur ing the last, fifty years. The number which he killed cannot bo conjee tired. He seems to be careless in handling them, and yet he understands their nature so thoroughly that he runs compai atively no "isk at all. He has frequently kept a num ber in his cellar and under his bed for weeks at a time waiting for a good oppor tunity to sell them. It is a singular fact that among all the persons whom the old gentleman knows to have been bittrn during many yeais past, not a single one has died. Many came within a hail's hieadth, but they managed to pull through by some means. Plentiful libations of whisky answered iu many', ca ses, while an herbknown .is lion's heait as sisted in others. The female or black rat tlesnake gives the loudest ahum when about to stiike. They climb fences and trees, and Ihe grease obtained fiotn fiying them out is legarded as a sovereign specific for rheumatism, sore eyes and other ail ments. Hogs grow fat upon them find care nothing for their poison. The Indians, and occasionally a negro, eat Ihem. The most, rattles that Ihe old gentloni'in ever saw upon one snake was nineteen ; but we knew of a monster killed in Illinois in lS4o which had the ext r.iordinaiy number of thirVy-two. There li ive been no-ie found for jcars in the vicinity of the WaU-r Gnp. How a Mint, was I'orxn. A good story is told of a former resident of Negau nee. now living iu Colorado. He was an explorer of some note, ami was one day diguing at the foot of a mountain, in lion Idee County, when n Teutonic gent le mail came along ami iinjuiitii : "My good fricnt, vat you pcen do date ?" "Oh, I'm only sctatching arouuil to see what I can find." "Veil, my fiiend, I dotid know pre ty much by dis exploiin pisness : auvcr ilond jnu could dell mo. wheie I could find ine a gold mine right away guick ?" "Oh. you just find n big pine tree ami go to digging in its shadow, and you will find what you w-int." "Dank you, mine friend ;" and Ihe Ger man went a little way up the mountain, found the shadow of a pine tree, a -d went t digging. In a slioit lime he found what is now lite celebrated Melvina mine, and now our Negaiuieeiie is suing for an inteiest to the valuable propel ty, on the ground that he gave the informa ioii which led to its tliscovviy. MurhtUc Miiiihij Jou rrml. IH.T'NT HIT TlifE. There Is said to be a young man in the Missouii penitentiary whose parents at their death left him a fortune of $50,000. There is where his pa rents made a fatal mistake. If they had taken the prrc;miioii to invest this sum iti a small dm', and shot him, and had Mtii) h left the young man a jackpl.ii e or a wood saw, with pliuted instiuctioiis how to use it, the chances are thai, instead of being in the peniten'iaiy, he would to-day have been gradually but surely winking his way up to a handsome competency and an hon orable old aire. I5iU ever since the days of Adam and Eve parents have made it a point to toil and struggle all their liv.-s in order to realTm; a sum of ni-Miey lo pm chase, when they are dead and gone, their sons each a first class ihrou-ih ticket to ihe devil, and it is not t: be woiideied at that so many of their sons, reared in vice aud idleness, as too many of them of.en aie, have no higher ambition than to invest their inheritance in just that sort of trans portation. A IlKMAKKAKIiK frog stoiy is told by the Toronto (ilobr. A pine log was being sawed into lumber at a saw mill in Acton. The outside slab anil one In aid had been cut oil", and while the woikmfi were turn ing over the log they were surpi ised to see a large toad poke its had out of a hole in which he was imbedded, and wheie he h id barely cscaiKd being cut up by the saw. As the log was the 'oiinh or li.th from he butt, of the tree, his jiositioii must hav been fifty or sixty feet fnm the ground. The animal was quit fl it, and neaily as large as a man's hand. He w as perfect ly blind, but when laken fioin his lad he made use of his limbs to crawl away . The tree was peifecily sound with the ex ception of a decayed t alxuit a foot in length below the hollow place :n which he was imtwdded. How did he get there, and what did he li uii ? Aud ia th stoiy n wo? m i: ii n im. ; 1'ai.a m i ri i:s. TWO C.KKAT Mill STAIN si. Irs IN THE TYKI., In 1 77 1 a terrible ca lam it y of this naturA befell the little village of Alicghe, situati il n tho banks of ihe livel t 'unlevnle, not far from the town ;f a pi lie in ihe Tyrol. The distiict was a fertile and beautiful one, wilhseveial acattcied villages Mil rounded by oichauis and cornfields, and protected fiom the ficice blasts of wiuter by the taiigc pf high mountains, which were at once ita safeguaid and its iei il. At tho base of one of ihe loftiest of this gnat range, called Monte Pez.a, MihhI the vil lage i-f Al!cghe. In the month of January, when the mountains around were all coveted with heavy snow, a chaicoal lunii' i aas at Ins wink in the woods of Monte Pezr.a, when his attention was suddenly arrested by a distinctly tifinnlous movement of the ground, and by the ficipieut tattling do.vii of stones and debits fiom the lovky preci pices behind him. These were sufficient indications of danger to the practiced ear of the mountaineer. He knew too well the pot tents of those overwhelming catastro phes that aie continually to be dieadctl ; and on listening tuoie attentively, be be came convinced that serious eril was im pending. Even as he w at chi d, seveial large bonhlcis became detached fiom tho face of the mountain, and rolled down lo a considerable distance : while at intervals atrenibling motion of the giouud was t..i j evident to lie mis aken. It was growing late in the afternoon, ai d ; daikiH-ss would s.ion f.tli on Ihe valley; vi hastily quitt ing his woik.be made the best, j of his way down to the nearest village, anil with the excitement naturally caused by j anxiety and tear, he told I lie inhalntai.'s 'of the iilaiming ind ical ions he bad just j witnescd. and urged them to make t lie i r escape w it bout loss of t one from the tlneat- ened danger. Stiangely enough, they seem I to have at ached no value lo Ihe Mgus of I approaching mischief which the man dc- sci ibi d to them ; and it would appear that j they considered the falling debits to lie at ' tributable to some accidental snowsltp, caused possibly by the wai m lays of the no -unlay sun. Whatever they may have thought, they paid no heed to the whiuoil'. and the charcoal-burner having done all he could lo save them from the threatened calamity, went on as fast a possible to cany his ter rible news lo thitc other villages, which wete alldirectly exposed to the like danger. Hut they also utteily disbelieved in it, ami laughed at the fears of the pool man, whose bieathless anil agitated condition clearly testified to the tun h of Ins convic tion that a very gteat pei il was close fit hand. One and all they relm-ed to qu c their dwellings, and the charcoal bin m r, having vair.ly endeavoiid to awaken them to a sense of their dangei, quitted Ihe spi t himself and sought shelter cisewheie. Houis passed, ana no fiiithcr ilistuib ancc of any kind taking place, the villageis concluded the whole thing lo have been a . fidse alaim. and al night all retired u rest I as usual, without uppaienlly a shadow of misgiving. Suddenly, in the m'iNt of Ihe slleucq and d.okiiess, a feaiful crash of falling rocks sotioilcd far and w de Iht'-uli .ho j valley, and w hen the liist rajs of ihe sua j lighted up the mountain peaks, a terrib e scene of min and death wo it veiled. Tl o J four little hainU ts had entirely disapj-eaieii ; 1 two id' them, those that l iy nearest to tho (slopes of Monte Pizza, wire completely buiied under an luiiiieiise mass of talleu eaith and rrnks ; the other two weie sub- nieigid beneath t he water of the rivet (Vr. j ilevoie, winch had In en diiveu fi. in us I cmiise by the louiilaiu I. ill, ainl had I spiead on. into what is now known as tno Lake ol A dug he. None of the unhappy victims bail a mo ment's lime for CM-ape, even had escape been possible. The uishu.g d-jwu of the mountain was instantaneous, and buiiiil them as I Ley lay sleeping, and the iv.it, r llowcd with iui-eluoiis laptdity inlothe ur protecttd tiihigcN, not one miiiate of w hicll siuvtvcd to i elate, the expeiicnces of that' aw tul inhl. Some months passed, and the fiist horror of Ihe catastrophe had a b lie laded, vvh il another mountain fall took plate, again followed by lamentable consequences. It occuried iu the month of May. and in dav hghl ; bul a much smaller loss of hfe wi the lesuit, though ihe destiucliou oi per y was even jjieater than on the picvi ous occasion. tlaingto the tremendous foice exeiti-.I by the fulling debris, the Waters .f the lake, which had never subsided since r.si formation, instantly arose intoan euoinious wave and iiishid violently up the vailev. j wrecking houses and faim builditiS, tl'e j stioying the tl. in ish ihg oichai ds and corn i fields, and caiiylng away a p'M t ion of the j paiish chtl'Ch of a lllage which hid been ; leealled Alleghe, after .he submersion ,-f j the fiist of ihat name. The organ of this chinch was Ion i!ly swept lo a Consnlc,.,. , ble dii-t.'i.o, :.nd a iee borne along on ti 3 j in i t; lily wave was dav-htd into the op. n ; window of i he ru it " house, while he v.ns j sitling at dituiei. the seMai.l who was j.i j tending on him being killed -n he Slot. ( Many iies wtie lost ouiing the sec.-i -l . gnat Win-rj, and teinble consternation was cieat.i il in the mi. ids of the inhabitai in j of liic distiict, winch scented to have b. . u j so specially smiled out lor in isf. i t line. Since that time, howcvci. lio other se ; rious disaster lias hel.illeii !heni ; the bu-e mountains of the iicihlxu IhhiiI hae lot again Inn h d fit a: h anil I u m on t he smi i g I vaIVy at their feet, and the btlle laki of j Alleghe, the piincipa! iiiemoiial i.f ilie . it- tastiophe, is only an antled bi-au'y to the lovely scenery which Miiti.unds n, and l is theie in serene tranquility, all mc -use ii :ih of the beating heaits foiever stilled oe- nealh its waiets, of the happy h.-ims icn 1 ileied daik and ilisola'e by iis coin, ciuel j waves. I Mote than a hundred years have passed sir.ee then, many teiieiati..i,R ,f viilaei s i have lived ami ti ed, ami the iceoih-ctioii t the great ta'ig-falls of 177i has faded ii o a meie tiad.l'011 of the phiee; but j looking down into t.e clear depths of "tl e : lake, on a day when there is no who 1,1 raise lippleson its surface, the outlines of I the subiiieiged villages ran tw oiMincKr . traced. Iio..fs ami walls of houses can e"t be distil. gused ; it is even Haiti that ihe bt-lfiy of the chinch is visible, flights of slabs, and many other relics of' the past : life ot the di owned inhabitant. Why is a eod resolution 'iff. faintj h'dj at a ball ? IV-vwUbu ik ouht to b can cd out. Munster Twp-. NH 12T-
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