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'he is a freeman whom the truth makes free, and all are slaves beside."
Terms, S2 per year, in advance.
GLUME XI.
EIJEXSttURG, PA., FRIDAY, JANUARY 11, IS7S.
,,ck. r.
Assignee's Sale.
rr ,.er nf the Court of Common
-,'Vit ni Ma county, to me direet.tl, 1
, to ale '? Public vendue or outcry, un
MPSDAY, JAN. 22, 1878,
" - .. ti.o following: described rsal
estate, to wu :
I .' 9.'... aa fia.a.1 f f mm)
'"' i t,.Hiw.: Heirinniim at a beech
".'Vr;. il.mi'r south M decrees, east 60
' i 1 ir "uaiir: thence by land in name
" v n f o'nt ti 2 decrees. en H 158 perches,
" V. .hi - thence by land conveyed in name
C Vi uili si decrees, west about l.'9
; "iii'vt Creek ; thence down thest
' . veril courses and distances thereof,
v " Vf (H-itiiminif containing about l0
' 1 '..tit J 'Rks cleared, having thereon
' , sr,,rv I'nsK Hoi sk, a one-and-a-'
V P- ink Hi sr. and a St.xri.k.
', nm also directed In "aid or
t!.' i.1r aid property for sale reserv
.,v tr pipe, c conveyed by deed
' - Hiu't t mi l it a sufficient price be bid
". "P.j",,t- reror-i. tlicn make report of such
i- i ii-Ii-ent price to cover said debts he
"''a ,ic i ordered to otter the same with.
". " '" r s'lf. On-third '.f the purchase
, . 1 1 ni court mint ion of the sale, nne-
Vvi-i' tlierealter. and the balance tn
"r.-i':er. ravments defi rrtd "o bear
!",'. I,,.,, 'Urination of the sale, and to
JOHN WAON Kli.
.6nee of Charles A. -McMulIen.
v I ho
A -
iSM Sale cf Real Estate!
'.in or !er of the Orphan"- i:ourt oi
i - .iitity. the subscribers will nll.tr at
,,, t reni s.'S in Cambria township.
vr.mv T . YFUiV 9. -7,1 178
, v t u the following ueaerioe.i real
:i the HALFWAY HOUSE, of
. . rr Kr.-h died Seized, to wit :
oil
th cr Far:9.! cf Lmi
, i t.,nnJli:l.al"niC the Ebensburir and
i , . . 1 1 W road, aljoiiin land of Edward
'rt K'iw.ir l", Iiavid Abrams, et.
i.e lluti.lred Hint I hhhIV lie
lia'f Irrrx. in a gn.d state of cultl
I, :t sue ..r 'h ir I. an abundance ol t
; -r' c'jre iter. ec. on ti e premise.,
ifii'tin C'.iiii?t "t a two story trame
t ;; fjite-l lor a larm lion of public
.in. and '' lir out building. Title
r l lie i'-jve property is Convenient
.inr,!i.
; u.k t Mie-thlr I on eon9rmat'.n of
.- i t .n-e in three -qual antiuil pal'
: . Ji 't t-y aiftiwif and bond of
-r. ,:! i"utrest irotn dtc. The
;j l t" bear interest and to
- iM ail;.' 'luring her litetnne ht
Si Mi. :i S ll'-ll oil " lid property.
t l KIS E Kit ESH,
.J i 1 1 N U . Ml A it H OH,
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NOTICi:. On Doc.
..'I nintinn of A. V. I'.ARKER,
-' i '"'.,rt of t.'.unhria ciunty up-
: r n-d Auditor to report" d is
tur I i" trot hands of i'hRlk
t .lthe rea I est e of Kkwis
t. :t ?hown by Ins feet, rid and
' i in! inoimt "the parties en-
haiiMe. N'tiieeis h-reby iven
to :h duties d said a-point-e
in Ehei"l.urn, on I'ltinAT.
: . a: -i i."elook. p. M . wlien and
- i:i;Ti'''H must present their
i ,'ri-i Ir e.i r., tiling in on said
Ul.o. tJi'l'.MAX, Auoltor.
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mitiis NO 1 1 C I I 1 1 a v i n r
iif.o.ttt.i Autlitnr by the Or
." .! i it;l ri cutinty to report dlst ri
- m hands id .lae(li Hoover,
' !' .'in A I i'ti of J."'-plt). late of
'i., ':e.'tM.'d. to and anionic the
! "r -t , no? ice is hereby y iven to
' 1 t!i! I will, attend to the
: i ij'tio iit. at my t.tliee in Ebens--
.jV..Iavi irv 1S71. at 2 o'-
' i . n in I win-re all parties inlerc.t
; ,t 't v -.t- i.-..p.T.
;i. K. l'.IXKEEY, Andif-.r.
J'" -i
S NOTICI-:. The
Itavinjr l.'-ri app'.interl an-m--'
( ..tirt .. I'iirn' ria county
I'm!..! W. H. Sorbb-r. Es".
: -. iif -n --d. ii fhown t y
-."( ijt.-!y Iici-. pi h. 1-77.
'.'!! t., r'-e.-t . t h'1 'atfe
it i vr i i at his i ftie. in
. '.' !h !av o J irniiiry
. t . i' t,.! to t i- du' ! ..f
. '. ! f 'l nr"n In
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I 'i I. vKE. Aud.tor
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I !: i; m Kiliii'r
1 . - .'-"wn. t'tontri
' r ' Ti e . fnir
- -eT,-llt of Oieir
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' 'nu- ptyn-nf. nl
-' '.'i : will present
' ' 1. 1 Y A rose, fcc.
1 1-A I ':; no TICK
" v II A t M N. il-cM .
' f- o the of Said
i i" .n't ..ivi. been irrsnt
t ' ' : I . 1 . r. t y n Ive not lea
1 ' ' I e,t,i i that pay
. 1 '' 'i'- iy. ai;. those haV
' vni" mil pre.i-nt them
r t ietni-nt.
:n! A'. Administrator.
21. l-i-7
N!rilAT()IlS' NOTICE.
' -'A MM IX.YI.R, (lecM.
. , -trat",n on the vitate of J...
;-,V,'"- l,i;llr'' ny, Fa.,deceat-
, ( tr. ' I t., J. a refidinjr at
U'"J. i'a.. to whom all
aVi ..' f,,,,te " reonekted to
s,; liavii:lf claims or d.-
" "'n the .:ln,e withf.ut delay,
.-...''i. LAKE. Admini.iraKir.
:Y nonsi-:.c
'Wril.r. in Cambria
.., ot the 27th of llcceinber
'"fr, "xteen hands tiiirh
. --n tin.i eiitht years. No
;" ,'"""r ' r-nwrt&i to come
'-trtr.,... v etiar.'es and take
' ' w"1'" di.i.p.isp.1 o( accord-
-v..iJ,,.41l:,i,yt,ASH,x'VEK.
lit '
, ( yi l't rsons are hereby
'' ' if1-'',rM'"'t ''rlMirintr or trimi-
'" Son tu- ,lr. .7. . k.
",',V,,..; has lelt home without
' ' t Hi 1 "" a" 1 'n determined to
. ";ntrft unli-ns compelled
V 1. .,. ftHx-sriAN UKAKK.
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Ay
t .Ttnn it . .
, , - inu ireiniscs
W iM r.i ,t tow niliip.
, j nnilt re.i h.ifer,
J , . m r'-.i iiritrr-
" i.Bner la. hrli. n.tin.l
L''r.'HU l'r"l-r,J'. P.v charires
oc win o aot.i as
f t . w'" "e SOLI l
. , A M M eC UMKtV.
'J T"E 1'ROTF.fTION Ml
, t y. CilAIPANV F
, " hereby .iTcn tb.t
'ertMHi irf iMr'-et'.rs.
n iii.r4T, j.Baarr
' 11 K m. .nt l r M
III K. Hmvtt.f .
11 A K OX M I XI.K AAlV.
JOHN D. 5IIS9IMEU.
'Whizzing alone a mile in a minute
Ami eettinfit all out that ever wast in it !
Was the song of the fast express and mail
As it thntulored aloDg the iron rail.
Away through cuts, then out In the liKht
And then through tunnels olack as night :
Switches, bridges, levels long,
.Singing a wild, fantastic song.
That clattered and rattled along the rrark,
A hile the engine threw the echoes bai-k
And screaim d through the green and wav
ing trees.
A loud, Khrill whistle on the breeze !
And thus the train, w ith its precious load,
A mile a minute went down I he road.
Tommy Malone was the engineer.
Who watched the puffing loud am, clear.
"Alia ! old thmi.lerer, 'nave and true !
The same old motion ptill with you !
The same old stroke and giant stride
When mouths ago I quit your side t"
Ami he gave it another "notch.'" did he,
And pulled the throttle just to see
The iron giant turn its wheels,
As if old Satan at its heels
Had joined the clamor and clang of ong,
That waited iu fury the train along!
A mile a minute and more they went.
To beat the fastest train they meant;
"Give her another shovel or" two !"
Spoke Tom to his fireman, Jem Lame,
The furnace roared as the coal went in,
And the lurid sparks above ihe din
Were whirled away like a comet's tail
As the fast mail whiz.od along the rail
And sang its song in its wild flight down,
A mile a minute to the town.
'A mile in a minute, a mile in a minute,
Getting all out that ever was in it 1"
They rattled along at lightning speed,
And Tom on top of his iron steed
Kelt happy, as one who death had passed ;
tilad as a wanderer home at last !
From tinder his cap rim, snug ami tight,
He peered ahead and all was right ;
Then pelted and smiled on the ''So. One"
The engine he left w hen 1 he strike came on
"Iirave girl, we're together again, all right'
And never .o part in a smicIi-s rlht ;
Never to leave wi'.li the ill-advised,
lint frfick Jo you and the dearly prized
At home, the wife and the children three.
Who trust in God, in yon and me I"
And away they thundered down th road,
A mile in a minute the t-pee.l ihcv showed.
Ami Ihe passe'igeis smiled iu their own
good cheer ;
They knew that the brave young engineer
Was baik at his post, and at lightning speed
Was petting his engine, in his greed
"To get ail out that ever was in it,"
As they thundtred down "A mile in a min
ute, A mile in a minute, a mile in a minute."
tiii: ii:viL-i Jsii.
A TRUE STORY OK THE INDIAN OCEAN.
"Hans, did yoti ever see an octopus?"
"2S"ot that I know of. I uevei heard tell
mi ihem. as I can mind. Queer sort of
name, isn't if, sir ?"
We were lying at anchor olT Batavia, af
ter a longer Hip than usual, and I was
reading some copies of the Timet which
had been sent out from home during our
absence, and had accumulated to a good
heap while we were a way. Of course the
newest papers were looked at first, so it was
only on this afternoon, when my woik was
- ... . , . ........
done ana ui sun too nor. ior us uii;iiiiui r,
thai 1 had come upon the discussion con
cerning the existence or non-existence of
the "octopus" which had appeared in the
columns of the Timet some months be foie.
Hans was a weather-beaten old sailor, a
Dutchman by biith, who had been in the
ship much longer ihan I had, and was
known for as steady a band as a man need
wish to have under him. There was no
shiiking at the wheel when he was theie
no need to be watching him eveiy minute
to see that Ihe vessel was not casing from
her coutse. or lulling up the wind and lia
ble to be taken aback as I found was nec
essary with some of the men, who would
l.ave had her on a reef and a hole through
her bottom rattier than take the trouble to
keep her up and do their woikas they
Might. Theie was not an ..nicer who did
not think him-lf in luck w hen old Hans
w at the whel duimg In watcn, nor a
man on Ix.aid but liked and u-spected the
nm "h but kind hearted old tar.
"Vell " I replied, "that is the scientific
name; 1 dare say we should find them
something else. Hut I'll fife if I can find
any description of the creature, and I
turned over some other numbers of the
newspaper as I cout inued-"'l he doubt
seems to be about their size not their exist-
"Tliere' bigger things in the sea than
.t.t .... i.-ieii't seen il.em. ' re-
tteopie iiiiniv" , j , -
died Hans seriouMy, aa he shifted his pipe
from one side of his mouth to the other,
and leaned a little farther over the bulwaiks
watching I be clear water which lay beneath
us in the wonderful transparency which
belong to the Indian ocean.
h ' here's the account of it I A son
of devil fis.Ii, I fancy. Hot how about
devil fish being enough U kill a man nrst
and eat him aftei waid ?"
-Is it devil fish they mean by that queer
name?" asked Hans, lining himsetf up.
'I think so. I.ixten to what they say ,
and I icad out the description. .
"That', him." said Hans, who had l.a
t.,erl -vttentively "there a'n't no doubt;
bu wloe-l'f they call things by .he,,
right names? People would kno.
ll.ey was talking about then. I told jou
I d never seen two, dida I I, sir e
grant I may
TKe the smallest doubt
uitllans meant
verv bottom of his heatt. u was ,
B mistake the ear-estnessof 'tin wo ds,
nnd besides, be was in general a very rev
and, bts ues, i n wol,L,
whSc!; bhad better lave left alone nor
wiS l.i.rlng. but IUns w very now.I
ling to tell it. . .ink of u
I; mr.udhtyeara since it Lap-
NUMRER 40.
M . I'iitVimam '
s I ',..K,,rTi , j
' "
i , 7".. tf.i 4
m vBlt till W. and it'a f icht y
jieiied." . . . it can't
"Never mind that. I urge i ,
lout you no, you mow
pie in Kngland a.e 'f Snethin
lizt,T Ihe ceatuie, ,l has) en
to hear .to, J frum Ml" "0,,
'e." . , r i, too T n,
!l,n,drew VnimM toR.lLr ,th-kb
'"'Feu t? Ry Tov,. ituht to kooW
the right of If. ''; " . nW he cn
tmuiHi, ".I aui-ti
have it, but I a'n't fond of telling it to any
body. There's been some as doubted
whether it were all tine, and, when a chap
has had as close a shave as I had, somehow
it goes agen him to have folks disbelieve
what pretty nigh cost him his life."
"I quite understand that, Hans; but
you've never told me an untruth yet and I
don't believe you're going to begin now."
"Thank you, sir," said the old fellow,
looking pleased. "Well, if you'll wait a
minute I'll tell you all, just as it happen
ed." He rolled away across the deck, and went
below, but soon came up again with a
leather bag in his hand. 1 had seen it be
fore and knew he kept his tieasures in it,
so I put aside my newspapers and settled
to a comfortable smoke while listening to
the story w hich Hans told, as follows :
"Some few years ago it was about 'G3,
I reckon theie was a very bad time ont in
these parts. I don't know bow it happen
ed though perhaps yon do, sir but trade
seemed altogether at a standstill. Some
firms sent their men adrift and laid up their
ships, for it was no good fetching things
when there was nobody to buy them when
they Was fetched ; others held on and did
a little bit here and a little bit there, pot
tering iu and tint among the islands for a
log o;- two ot mahogany or sandal wood, or
a bird's nest, or whatever came handy.
But there was no hing doing to speak of,
and the t w n was as full as it conl.l hold of
men that had much better been alloat.
"I was sent adiilt early. I was not sail
ing for this litm then, and, as I was pietty
well olT when I got ashore, 1 didn't trou
ble myself for a few weeks, for I'd chanced
on a boarding-house where the g tub was
good and they made me comfortabl.i, btit
as time went on, and there came no chance
of woik, I didn't like it, and what was
more, the missus at the boaiditig house
didn't like i' either. She had need to be
sharp with such a set of beech combers as
was about hen, and I'm not blaming her
for when the money goes the welcome goes
with it, all the world over and mine had
nearly come to at, end, and my berth w asn't
what it used to be. I Mined about to see
what woik I could find, but theie was
nothing iu my line. Owners weie afraid
to risk their money, and a good many had
hard mnk to keep on at all, and I could
not hear un thing moving in t he way I w as
used to. Hut after a while I was told of a
small craft that was going out to pick up a
cargo for the China maiket nests, shaiks,
dogfish, anything they could lay hands on;
and, though I didn't half fancy the lot on
boaid, I got shipped and went with her.
"The skipper was a native, and we'd two i
chaps that it was all I could do to put up ;
with Euiopeans they were t in, but I'm i
blest if they hadn't turned Mahometans ; '
and to see ihem a bowing and a scraping i
tn the prophet, and carrying on their Rames !
about Mecca, and all that, bosh, it were i
enough to turn a fellow sick, and them
born Christians, &.o. However, I kept a !
quiet tongue and said nothing, though it j
would have done me good a score of times ,
to teil them a bit of my mind. At the ;
fishing grounds we had very fair luck, and j
got a tidv lot of sharks besides."
"What did you get them for?" I asked.
"liiess you, sir, them t bintimen w II eat
anything. The nastier it is the better I hey
like it. Dried shark andpickled fins fetch 1
lots of money out there. IJutof c diise the
nests was what we looked to make profit
by ; and the skipper took a run for the is- i
land. But he hadn't any luck to speak of,
till he got a private word from a Singapore
bout of a cave in one of the islands, that
ships did not often go near; not knowing ,
theie was anything to go for. We should
never have beard of it, only the skipper,
being a Singapore man himself, got the ,
hint from his fiiends. !
"It was a pietty place when we reached
it, that island was, or, more properly speak
ing, there was two, and we dropped anchor
between them in what looked like a bay,
though there wnsa narrow passage right
up at the far end. I
"There were lots of swallows flying j
about, but where to find the cave anil their :
nests bothered us altogether. We looked j
far about fiotn the sei, and then went ,
..l...r and woiKed alone ine cnns, ann
wherever there was a dark place one of the
Cingalese went over to search ; but not an
opening c uild we find, and the skipper got
w ild to see the birds, and know there was
a prize close by and not able to find it, and
after a day or two heofTeied twenty dollars
to any one who could discover the entrance.
"The ship was anchoied and theie was
nothing doing, except that the divers were
after pearl oyster and coral, or whatever
they could find underneaMi ; so we men
used to go prospecting, and one day I got
leave and took a little bamboo boat we'd
a lot of 'em aboard, packed one inside the
other and went off to see what I could do.
I rowed right up the bay to the end, and
found a narrow little bit of water that took
a tifYn round a steep rock and then brought
me into wide water again. I hadn't gone
far in it when a chap hailed me from the
shore, so I ran in and found he was one of
those Germans who spend all their time
getting biidsand beasts, and il iwers and
insects. There's lots of 'em about the
island, sir; and they go pretty nigh off
their heads if you show them a beetle that
is out of the common, no matter how ugly
the binte maybe. I never could see no
reason in such goings on ; but I had not
noticed before that they are wonderful
soft about teding thirg that other jK-opIe
would want to keep to themselves same
asthev are wild to get hold of what we
should be glad to let alone ; so, after we
h id bad a little chat, I asked bin, if he'd
dropped across any Caves or o;cningfcbout
'Oh, yes'lie says quite willing. There's
a large one not Tar oil. I passed it only
last night, and should have gone in, only I
hadn't got my gun. ami there was some
thing qn-er looking out of ,t ; but I shall
be round there again .
'Shall you?" thinks I. 'Then I II just
rro and liHk round fiist.
He told me where it wast, and away I
went, thinking I sure of the twenty
dollar rewaid.
"The opening wai not a large one, but
.9 noon as I ran Ihe boat inside I could we
that it was a big rc, and no mivake
about it bei"K t' Theie
were nests sluck on the walls and nests
hanging Tron the roof, and befoie I began
knocking t,bec down I miopped t think
whether t would be sate to keep it all
dark and make a venture myself when we
.! back 2tin Hatavia for tho-e nest
fetch 1 ,,t" money, you know, sir. It
wa very tempting, bu it was not very safe;
no f mad nn rr mind to let ir oit, nod
bCj.4 knocking iw kcsla with my push
ing; pole. It. was not a very long one
though, and the cave was high ; so I did
uot ttouble myself to get more than just
enough to show the skipper that it was all
right; and then, feeling hot and tired, I
sat down in the boat and looked about me.
"It was a real pietty sight ; the side of
the cave were covered with some hard,
shining sheila that looked like glaze, and
the way all sorts of different colois shone
about on it was wonderful i puzzled me
to tell wheie they all came from : bu there
wasn't one you cjuld mention but wa
shimmering and shining in that cave the
some as they do in a mackerel's sides w hen
it's took out cf he water.
"The sea wa- as still as a pond, but very
deep for theie was on seeing to the bot
ton, even iu that clear water; but it look
ed so cool and pleasant that I thought I'd
take oil my clothe and g'vetlu-ina nib,
for they weie not very clean. The,? was a
ledge of rock on one side, something like a
shell ; toward the entiance il. got very nar
row and came to nothing. Tlie other a ay
it became wider, and led to ihe back of
the cave, where there was a soit of beach
which ran up f.utlu r than I could see for
it was daiki;h theie, being a long way
fiom the opening.
T got out on to this ledge and stripped,
and soon had my tilings washed nice and
clean. Then I thought 1 would take a
swim ; so in I went, splashing and diving,
and cariyiug on like a child. It was very
good fun. sir, that weie, but it weren't
tun when I came up again and looked
about me for my boat that I'd left fasten
ed to .he ledge was gone gone clean out
of sight, as it it had never been there at all.
It made me feel a bit queer, and I rubbed
the water out of my ejes, thinking I must
have got blinded like ; but no look as I
would, theie was no Lo.il, and nothing to
show wh'Te she'd gone.
It takes a long while telling, sii, but it
wasn't ten seconds afier I was out of tiie
water before 1 was down by the slrelcher
I'd jammed into a ciack of the rock and
I weren't none too soon, for the rope was
just slipping Ji tLeciid when I fished it,
the siieicher itself being all bent down on
one side, though I'd put it upright when I
got out of the noat. There was no doubt
now wheie she'd gone; she'd gone down
and 1 began hauling in my rope, bothering
all the while what she'd gone down for
and I'd plenty of time to think about it,
for, haul as 1 would, the boat never sti, led.
There she was, hard and fast, and I might
as well have been pulling against the living
rock for all the good it did.
"It was not exactly a comfoi table fix to
be left in that cve without ihe chance of
; getting out again ; and when 1 found I
, could not. stir the boat began to think I
' might have to stay there a goodish while,
I'm-, ihoiiglj some of the crew would be
sure to find it, or the German to look
around in a day or two, I didn't make up
my mind to waiting lor them till I saw
there was no chance of getting out any
other ay. Just behind where 1 stood the
waves had made what we call a wind-hole,
but it wasn't so w ide as n common chimney,
and il would take a longish jump to get to
it, and no good then, for it nai rowed at the
top till you could only jusl see the light
coming llnough. I w is looking round,
thinking I'd fasten the lope safe, and then
go up to the beach end, when I felt a jei k,
and before I could ptili up came the boat
aain close to my feet.
" "Vou're come as you wen;,' says I, 'but
now I'll keep you safe ;' and 1 stooped
dow n to lay hold of her, w hen there hap
peued the awfulest thing I ever heard or
dreamed of. Straight up out of the water,
not thiee feet away lioin me, rose two
gieat dripping arms. There was never a
splash, never a bit of noise, but for the
riiops of waier falling back again into the
sea, but higher and hip her those awful
things came up out of the watei. a clear
eight feet, and then they turned them
selves and bent toivaid me. I gave a yell
and jumped back, for they seemed as If
they'd almost touch ine. 1 was scared out
of my senses with terror; and, iusteau ol
turning to the right, which vvoi-lti have led
me to a broad letle, and soon up to the
beach, I sprang to the left, and there I
was standing on a bit of a shelf, the rock
behind ine slippety as glass, and straight
below me the still, green water, looking as
beautiful as you could fancy, and those
two hori ible aims waving and cit'cping
nearer and nearer.
'If once they touched me, I was a dead
man I knew that well enough. I don't
think I should have been scared to die if
it came st raiglr foi waid, by drow ning or
any legular seaman's chance ; but to be
drawn into the water by those horrible
clammy arms, and pecked to pieces almost
before I was dead by the creature they be
longed to it took the heart out of me, sir,
I don't deny. 1 kept, backing close against
the rock, edging aay as far as ever I
pould, w hen up came the beast itself, and I
could see hisciuel beak and the flight fill
look of him as he put his aims closer to
ward me. With another scream for I
was otl' my head with Iright I turned and
made a spring at the wind hole. How ever
I leached it I don't know- ; but it. was my
only chance, and somehow 1 hit it. Up I
went, sweep fashion, but I could not get
far, it was too narrow, a ud, squeeze and
push as I might, I could not get on.
".Eve, so far above me I could see the
sky through :he opening at the top ot the
hole, and some bits ofgiass and leaf wav
ing about against the light, ever so pietty.
I wasn't thinking of such things, but I
took notice of them ior avll that, and can
see Ihem now, if I si ut my ryes, ju.st as
they weie growing then, when I did not
think I should ever see the sky or erass
again.
"I suppose I had been iu that hole about
ten minutes, for I'd done all I knew to get
on, and gave it up as a bad job, and was
thinking that if I was out of the creatine's
way I might slick there a good bit, and
then pel haps drop and m ike a run for it at
the far end of the c.tve. Hut it wan a des
ei ate chance, sir, fir those lieastsi don't
give up a thing wheu once they have set
tbcmst Iven to get it. They will stop and
wait as patient as yon like, but you don't
the them, and they'll stop and watch till
you go down before tbeiu, sheer woie out
and beat,
1 wan thinking of this when something
C"ld, t't and sticky toi-". i my foot. For
a moment I did not think what it was; but
it came slowly crawling above my ankle,
then another cold, soft, sticky thing got
round the other side and climbed above
ny knee ami chinir to me tight as death.
And then I knew that thecieattue had got
hold of me a' lait, d the horrible aims
wer nlmffing and sucking at my leg !
i cie.iuied then, ain How I did
scream and how I tried to kick them off
and get my leg free! I might just as well
have tried to kick off my skin ; close as my
skin they stuck to me, and swayed as I
kicked, always loose and easy but still with
a s eady pull toward the sea. They did
not drag hard ; the creature seemed in no
hurry he knew he'd got it all his own
way.and was willing to take his time. Hut,
though the drag was no poweiful, it never
loosened the strain, and I had o cling to
ine kick aim ret my ei bows on a ledge and
bear against it.
"How long I stayed theie 1 don't know
it seemed hours and hours, but it could' t
have been long, not many ninm cs, I sup
pose and all the time I was screaming as
a woman might have done for the honor
of it, when the light at the top of the hole
and ihe sky and the waving giass were
shut out, and I was all iu the da: k.
"'Halloa! Who's there ?' hailed a voice,
and then I knew our skipper was up aloft
and help near.
"I told him as well as I could, for I was
pietty nigh beat, and the cieatuie was
pulling now with a hauler strain.
'"( aught by a devil fish,' shouted the
skipper to his wen, and his voire came to
me as from a long way off. 'Hold on to
him !' he ci led to me, putting his mouth to
the hole. 'Don't let him go w e'll bo dow n
in a minute.'
"And so they were, fir the Cingalese
took a dive fioin the top and were up at
the entrance of the cave almost befoie he
had done speaking. The others weren't
long after 'em i hey were round in the
whale-boat pietty quick; and neer a
sound did I tu ai like the music of the beat
of their oais that brought me health and
life. lit, t the:, Cingalese and Malay fel
lows were afraid to tackle the brute, though
it takes a lot to (tighten those divers, they
being accustomed to queer things under
water; but when they saw what had got
me, not one of them would ventuic into the
cave. They haipooned him at hist got
one from the whale-boat and then cut
him up wilh creases and swords."
It was lucky foi you that help was
near," I remaiked, as he paused.
"Von may say that, sir ; but it has al
ways seemed to me something more than
just luck."
"You are right, Hans. Dut how was it
that they were ou the cliff just then."
"They'd gone prospecting for the new
cave just as I had, and had come to the
wind-hole as they woiked along the top of
the rocks. The skipper was for one ol the
men trying to get down it, but they said it
was no use, and while they weie talking
they heard ine scream."
"So that was the end of the octopus he
was cut up by the divers."
"Yes, sir cut up and taken to the1 China
maiket with the other things, and the
skipper gave me half what he sold for, so
wi h that and the tweiny dollors for finding
the cave, the trip tinned out pietty well for
me. Can you guess his weight, sir ?' and
Hans looked at me inquiringly.
"No," I said. "What was it?"
".Four bundled weight, or rather over,'
replied the old man slowly, as lie untied
the lea her bag, which all tins time he had j
been holding. "Eook at these, sir, he
continued, as he took out three or four
brownish giay things, rather like small
tea-saucers in shape, and measuring thite
inches iu diameter, and then another look
ing like the dned beak of a large bud,
haul, horny and sharp.
1 took them iu my hand and looked curi
ously at them.
"Alia 's the size of that, sir. do you
reckon?"' said the old man, watching me
attentively as 1 turtledove, the beak-shaped
thing.
"Three or four inches across, by seven or
eight Iron, root to point."
"High, you are, mi 1'oui by eight, that's
it ; not a nice thing to have but led in your
Ucsli, and sucking yu to pieces.
"V by
I took up the gray saucers.
"Ilia 's the cie.aiute's beak, and those
are the things ou his anus that he holds on
by sort of sue ion, you know, sir."
i I v jove ! ' I exclaimed.
Souk now, until then, 1 had listened to
the sioiy w uiioui exactly believing it a
ceitaiu allowance lor caiior exaggeration
had lingered in my miud ; but, as I held
these relics, it sutideuiy Hashed upon me
wh.l maiiuei ol creature ll must have been
in life, the diied remains ol which were
yet so te, i ible.
hen we had got the biute ou board."
Said Hans, "1 cut Ihtse oir hlin. I doubt
if them as didn't see him would believe the
bigness of him if t, weren't for them."
T daie sav not 1 don't think 1 did,"
I answered, still staring at the hoi lid beak
and strong, rough suckers, and realizing as
I gazed the enoi mous power of the spider
like ciealure, with lis eight gigantic arms
covered with those dreadful tnsl rumeiits,
and the ciuel beak ready to tear and devour
ing folks may doubt, you will not find it
hard to be credited by aoy old 6ailor in the
Indian ocean."
Some Ante-Xujytinl Dangers.
Bad spellers are sufficiently common In
this country not to be in very gteat riet.ai d
and occasionally to bring reproach on our
common school system. No posit ion. pub
lic or private, is wholly free from the per
son who misuses the "orthography cf Ihe
English language, and even tha school
teacher is often brought down by a sudden
and well-directed shot. There is some ex
cuse in cases of this kind, and a distin
guished citizen in the consular so, vice of
his country may be lightly dealt with for
his wretched way of selling heaits, as his
business is not, particulaily with heatts;
but there are cases iu which baiLspeilmg is
not only inexcusable, hut wheie ,t lias led
t" domestic ti onble and unh t ppiness such
as few other things could have ,'ist igrited.
It is a remarkable fact that no y-'iiug lady
has yet been heaid of w ho came from schi ol
wilh any really valuable k now ledge either
of arithmetic or oi t hog i aphy, and paiticu-
huly the latter. They biing home fiom j
expensive csTauitsiimen's a uunleiisome
stoieof almost eveiy other kind of learn
ing, but they write letters and do shopping
the favorite diveisions of young women
without knowing how to spell or cast up
half a dozen figures.
A shortcoming of this character lias
brought a charming young lady of Illinois
to grief. She had a lover who doted ou
hei and piided himself on his learning.
This young lady was one of the most beau
tiful and accomplished of the sex which is
noted for its beauty. She had been to
boarding school, and money bad been lav
ished without stiut on her education ; she
knew French and Latin and enough Greek
to be actually classed will, her literary
tastes ; sho read only the very best books
not the kind which young ladies too much
incline to, but those from which much
learning was to be had. And all this seem
ed to be polishing the already o!ihhed dia
mond, liesides this, she was happy in pos-
I sessuig. to an eminent degree, all those
accomplishments that make a young lady
attractive in the society of the period. She
was biilli.tnt and witty in c.nei.-;iou,
knowing exactly what to sa and wheie to
say it ; she danced divinely, dressed like a
piuicesR, and bore herself with ;he grace
and charm of 3 Juno. She was more than
a lady, for she knew how to ck and once
took the prize for the best loaf of biead at
the county fair. Ih due time the young
woman with all these splendid accomplish
ments made the usual pieparatious for
throwing herself away on the young man
who had monopolized the most ol her time
for a year or two. This innocent and con
fiding man little knew what a terrible ca
lamity lay in wait for him. Business call
ed him from home a few days while the
wedding picparations were going on, and
he wrote and she wrote, as young and en
thusiastic lovers w ill do under stu-h cuenm
stances. In a little while the neighb"i
hood was horrified to learn that the match
was off. The wedding prepai at ;oiis c ased
and all was sol; tnn.
Then the young woman sr-trght m!tes
in court. Moved by that cniosity com
mon to her sex, as weil as to the other sex,
she wanted to know why he declined to
fulfil his promise. It was such a natural
quest ion that he was compelled to give his
reasons, and did so without indirection by
producing one of her glowing letters iu
which she described he, happiness in view
: of the coming "nnpshals,"' and incident-
a.l Jy referred to her "ditnond" ring. The
stony-hearted wretch decliu-d to many
anyUidy who couldn't spell nuptials, espe
cially within a month of her wedding day.
. The jilting lady brought her portfolio into
Icomt and emptied letters out where the
what is it? And all these?" and ' " lne ,aw c ,u,n s"ine " ,,lcm-
i lie nisi, one reau was in answer io ner
gush about the "nupshils," very brief and
ti u!y business-like. He wrote, "This mar
ridge can never take place." She not only
found out why, but she recovered damages.
The judge was a humane man, and con
gratulated the young woman on her escape
from a mat, who didn't know how to spell
mariiage withiu a mouth of his wedding
day.
A B at. d-Headed Boy. The Edcnbnrg
Daily llcrahi possesses a greater curiosity
than any other printing house in the coun
try something, in fact, ;hat b is uot been
known befoie or since the days of Gutien
betg. It is no less than a bald-headed
devil of only ten years of ngf). About two
years ago his hair commenced failing out.
be being at the time in perfect health, and
in a very short time his skull was as entire
ly free of hair a9 a billiard ball. His head
is abnormally developed, but he des Mot
suffer any inconvietice therefrom. The
THAT OA I.I.
To the yard, br tire bain, came the farmer
one morn.
And, calling tlie cattle, he said,
AYhile they trembled with tright, "Now
w hich of vol last night
Phnt the barn door, while 1 w as alied?"
Each one of the fl.n-k shook his had.
Xow the little ralf, f3jot, was down In ihe l. t;
And the way the reM lalked was a shame;
For no one, niht before, jjt.r .hut up
the dor.
Tint they said that she did all the same.
For they always made lit r take ihe Maine.
Said the horse (dapple gray ), "1 was not
up that w ay
Last night, as 1 now rm-ollei t ;"
Audthc huil passing 1 , tosu-l Ms horns
very high,
And said, "Eet who may here object,
I say 'tis the ca'.f I -.us-tecl!"
Thimout poke Hie row- : -'It is terrible nowt
To acctisa hones' folks t.f s.n h trii ks."
Said the cck iu ihe tree, 'fu, sure twasnt
tne !"
And the .herp all cried, "Pa-a:" (there
were si ) ,
Now that calf's got herself in a tlx '."
"Why, of course we all know 'twas the
w ro'ig thing to do,"
Said the chickens. "Ji course," said the
cat ;
"I suppose," cried the mule, "some folks
think me a fool ;
But I'm not quite so simple as that ;
The poor call never knows w hat she is at!"
Just that moment theca'.f, who was alwava
thb laugh
And the jest of the yard, came in sight.
"Did you shut my barn door?" asked the
tanner once more.
"1 did, 1 closed it last iiigbt.,"
Said the call ; "and I thought that was
right."
Then each one shook his head. "She will
catch if," they said,
"Serve her riaht for her iiieiliDesnmp w av!'
Said the farmer, "Come here, little bossv,
dear 1
You have done what I cannot repay.
And your future is made lroui to-day.
"For a wonder, last night, I forgot the door
quite ;
And it you had not shut it so neat
All my coits had s ipped ,n, ud gone right
to the bin,
And got what they ought tint to eat
They'd ha ve found. Jed themselves imon
wheat."
Then each hoof of them all began lotidiy to
bawl ;
The very mnle smiled ; the cork crew !
"Litile Spotty, my dear, you're a favorite
here,"
They cried: "We a'i said it was yon.
We were so glad to p-ve joit your "doe,"
And thecal! answ red, know ingly, llii:"
Vure fur SrnrU-t l vt r.
A Kl.MI.DV 1:I.( "MMKMp.II !!Y ONE WHO II Al
1 KM ITS I t I it ACY.
the piey caught in those mnu.uerable toils. I Uerald d,H S V "e end to . fTi.r any rrp! .- j
' - n .......... r. .. . . . I.a A . ...... . . i . 1 . . . . . . 1. r . . i I
Well, Hans, you had an escatie !''
said at lust, as 1 gave back theieiics.
"Indeed I had ; and, if ever a man had
cause to thank the Eord for saving bin,
Iron, a hoi i ible death, I had that day w hen
the devil-fish got hold ol me ;" and the old
fellow ,t verently hlted his cap as he looked
up to the deep blue sky above us.
While we were talking our "old man"
had passed along the deck, and thai eveu
ing, at dinner, he said to me :
"Was H,i ns telling you his devil-fish
stoiy this afternoon ? I thought 1 heard a
word or two as I passed."
"Yes, sir," 1 icphod "and a very queer
story it is."
"But none the less a true one," said the
captain. "I happened to come across the
skipper he was .Ailing with a few months
alter he had told me the adventuie. I
don't genetally take much heed of sailois'
y hi its, out he w..k so accui ate iu his desci ip
not, ol t lie cave 1 have been there twice
myself that It made me cmious to know
whether he had exaggerated the lest to
make hrikk! yam, so 1 got the skipper to
talk about it, ami his account of lli ci sa
lute tallied exactly with Hans', and one of
the Malays, w ho had killed it was pieseut
also, and bore him out. 1 hey did not
know I had heaid about it from Han.; so
it was iudejtcudeiit evidence, and proved
the truth, or else I had my doubts, I'll
own."
v "So had I till I saw those remains, but
the truer a thing is the stranger is it.
What would jKtople at home say io il?"
"I don't know, llobijrts; but when you
have kuocked about these seas as king as
I have, you will know that there are queer
er tilings in them than any one could in
vent. Anyhow, there is no doubt th
flatus alviy it tiue, aud, tuoub ozo
nation as io the cause of this phenomena,
j It may be that the immense b'ain rffoit re
. quired -o conduct that papn has pri mraTed
, the atmosphne of the olhce until it "ms ex
erted a mesme, ic influeiic. upon the devil
: himself and caused him to Wcon-.e bald be
foie his time. The editor says he l as now
I under consideration the project of uitig
him as an advertising medium, dividing his
head into squaics, and contracting with d
j ver'sers for so much J-r inch, with the
stipulation, of course, tha be shall keep
his head uncoveied. Sfc: l contracts w ill
be made with hair rest.n jliv, agent and
wig manufac uieis.
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I An Ancient Pf.wino Ma hive A rat- j
ent for a sewing machine, made by Tin, i
Saint, in 179 J, has recently been found in
the archives of the English Fate, it tXhce,
and ban excited aurpiise in . nM-quence .f
its having some of the clement, of ihe
modei n sew ing machine. This might have
We,, used though it wa. no for sewing
leather, but the inventor Could have suc
ceeded in woven fabiicw. Thi. was an
Englishman's idea on paer ; but the sow
ing machine has been the eculiar product
of American mechanical genius. It 'a
scarcely thirty years since Elias Howe,
after two yea.n of di c ur.igement and
ataivation in London, returned to Bott ii
to make a fortune of 2,(X.H).C00. American
, sewing machine companies certainly have
a right to le jealous of the use of their
' names in England, and to be proud of their
i triumphs in the British Couit. 'I be great
I equity suit of the Singer Manufacturing
Company against Newton Wilson, Involv
ing the piauriifs right to the exclusive
nse of its trade name, has just, been de
cided, on pi-nl, hv tho House of Lords in
favor of the company, otsts being deci ed
against the coieudaow.
The recipe published herewith has ap
pcaiel in our paper befoie, but as it cornea
this time wilh strong endorsements as to
it fi'u acy, we deem it pioper to reproduce
the len edy as we find it in one of our ex
changes with the testimony attached:
Mr. C.'i'or I have read wi I h deep feelings
of sympathy of thed.-aih of twochildreu in.
one family, within n f-.-w hotiisof each other
by that dread ful scourge '"s.-arlet i'-v r,"uii
also the notice signed "Citiz. u" iu last eveu
i jiff's paper.
I don't know whether it Is gf-rjerallv known
or not, that a very simple remedv will cer
tainly cure the -.vor.-t case .f scarier fever.
T he lire is herein eni loM-d. If you feel like
publishing il for the bciui-t ot your readers
you can do so.
The writer has never tried it in small-po
;ases, bill wili vo-ich for it as M,ie cure in
scarlet lever, having us. d it iu his own
family iu 1S.",4 on two ciiildien, one su-veu
yeais old, the other ten. At the time men
tioned (they are lioih alive now and can r
memler it) others were dying off" in the
same village al a fearf ul rate ( I ac ville Ver
mont.) 1 could not cli'iiiti the "dieiTaMas"
nearer than St. Johiisburv, twelve miles dis
lant.
In the case of the youngest girl it eradica
ted the disease in twenty-four hours.
I have given the presi ription to numW
of families, especially in 1857-8 in Litt'ia
Falls, N. Y., wuen the distase was so ve,y
depopulating in that town. In one house
Mr. It. Mi Clintoi k's, there were five dowii
at one time. Four died. ) j tlM, j(
hand and was kept isolated in a prjTntB
rooni in the same house, unknown to ,br at
tending phvsieian She jr.,t t-tter in i.
ty-four hours. The other t.ur died. I could
give more , s. You tan give ,n, nie ,
any one th siring it. I'lki iKhA.
(From the Sto. kun (al.) Henld j
I herewith ap-iiil a ie,-iIM- w hi. U has lieen
used, to my know 1. .In..-, , ,.,lltjie,l f
cases. It will prevent ixir ,u c. -,..,
though the pttimj-s are lining When
ner discovered e..w-p..x( it. F.i. gland iti
wo-M f smen.-e hurled jp, avalan. he
tame upon his I,.., I ,,.,irn ,h, .
scientific school of m.-diciue in ihe wrrM
that :if T'-i r;.H . I. il b!l - I....I .1 i
"", as
.i1.i.vrM..i,.,"v i, ps.t nnbe.
1 Is as m, fading a, ,.,. , a, , ,,,. if
every instance. It i. i,arml. l, tj,i,,n
by a w.I. r-i-i. 1 1 wi,i ,.ur m ,
f. ver. II. re I. 1 1. r.-cls- , t,v. u m
and cured my l.il.lren f , ,,.r
Il is as 1 hive use I.. , r lljr fcula,!.klB
When . an. .-.I phvsu Uus tljc ,,,.,..;
mnt die, i i ini ;
Sulphate of 1 Cr.vr; (..p'ora ( i..i-
tails) I grain; lot a . f 1 f I
Mix with iw.. i.hp.v.,.,,. . ,,r wa-r- mi,n
thorough!, niu.1 add f.,r ..,. of w ,t ,r
Take a ir o t.f . verv L.M.r. K,.h-r dial
fa-- will di-api-ear ... lailo hM. , Kor a
tl.i.d. m;Vr .Pa., a. ,a , Jf
c nolle, won .1 .-.it . phv.i. ,a..a "
th. re wo., d U- ee. of . .uM..iw.a.
It y. it value a lvi.r a ..( eini-i.o-. u,,.
lor the te.r.b.e d IW a-e. f; j
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A IIIM-.N Ilont 'Miint ll n nnrlhT.
Seat Hi.i-elf al a table Atla.h a pier
t.f meial (ay a .hob. g l. a th.ead. Har.
ing your t-lb-.w on a lahle, l,..bi ihe ,n ad
between the ,,it f tl.nnih and f.M.
finger am) allow the shdb.ig to bane in thm
center of a g ass tu-ibl-r; tie p,ilae wil
i nmedia ly . Mile Ihe liiihtg to v-hiate
1 ke h iidnlum, mid I be v ibi w,i
C ea-ie un il it k rik. s the side of , he class
a .d mp.ose the tune of the extwiiment b
the hour t.f seven. .,r l.lf ,.,M w.ril) the
tend ii In in wid s-r.ke Ihe glass van ,,me,
aud thtu lose its m .iu -n'um sn I return t.t
Ihe c -ntei. If you hid the thread a suffi
cient hmgt h of time the effect will be it
jssated ; but not until nrHc .,t spe of
lime has clrostd I o o mvioi e you -hat ihe
wxpe, intent is complete. We'need not add
tha the thread must lie b, Id in a steair
hand, otherwise the vibrating motion won hi
b- coim'si act-d At wt a'ever hnr of the
day or ,aht rlns epe i..,-nt js tUm
cooaciaenc w ia o tu .acq. -