9A J afcV- 7 - J-iSSaaffir-:-ar' H. A. McPlKE, Editor and Publisher. 'HI IS A FREKMA5 WHOM THE TRUTH MAKES FREE, AND ALL ARE SLAVES BESIDE. Terms, S2 per year. In advance. VOLUME XII. EBEXSBURG, PA., FRIDAY, MAY 10, 1S78. NUMBER 1U. CTATEMHNT of SETTLEMENT O wi'h tbe Street Commissioner, Collector mi Treasurer of Chest Springs Borough, April M. L. Leavt, Street Commissioner, Da. TiK i.l n'1 Cash Duplicate H 22 F P Tiernev" varement bill... 20.73 Catharine .VlcUuire's pavement bill 38.00 ,,,,'t due Cornelius McGuire's baUQceof S." M. Uou'g'la'ssY bill. 15.09 I1M.37 Cr. Bt work on streets and orders .." per entasje on cash tax orier of A. Callahan, No, S m. stake of Council .81.17 . 2 23 . 1 80 . 3. 01 88.21 105 10 Balance du Borough AsriREW CAtLAHAN, Collector, Dr. To am't of Bounty Duplicate $95.18 Cr. Pv c' Oerat ion? - $ 3 33 : am i pai.l over 60.00 yer cpi.?ai;e for collecting and pay ing over 7 13 receipt of Henry Jlellon 12.00 82.48 Balance due Borough... ... 112.70 ..122.65 S. M. DrroLASS, Dr. T.)l)i'ance at last settlement Cr. By- F. I. Tierney's pavement hill. . .120 78 ' Catharine icGuire"s pavement 39.60 " ara't lue Cornelius IMcCtuire'g heir 20.73 buhnceot S. M. Douglass's du plicate, itiven to M, L. Leavy to collect 15.09 " F. Jaci.ti's sldewa.k bill, char- il I wicc. juj.ua E.ilance due Borough 17 67 M. .T. Cooper. Dr. Toani't on Duplicate '. 80.95 Cr. Evam't paid Henry Mellon per re- " . . . . Hi CI exonerations 9.72 135 65 f' I' ...... .................. . T ' Balance due Borough 17.20 Leonard Hollis, Dr. T) balance on Duplicate 113.79 Clt. Bvurlcrof H. J. Hads 5.25 Balance due Borough .$ 8 51 lVe tio certify the above statement to be -jorrect. C. D. WH XKTOX, W. W.SilTP. Auditors. THUS. CALLAHAN, S J:tv 'n hi.k Whaktoj, Clerk. Ayv.l 2 , If 8.-3L, Sheriff's Sale. 1)T virtue of sundry writs of Fi. Fit. Issued out ) of the Court of Common f leas ol Cambria entity and t me dincted, there will be ex- riiscd to public sale, at the hotel or Conrad lUmb, in Johnstown, On S'ltiinhnj, May JSfh, 1SS, it 2 o'clock. V. SI., the following real estate to wit : All t'.ie rirht. title and Interest of Lewis Whn. ot. in. and to a lot of groand situate in the Thir l w:ird. J !iT'town borough. I'amhria county, fpinnn.' mi the east on Clinton lT-ft. ad- J":n:riir lut ol t ;. Ktinpleon t he sou t h. anil lot of N. L-ntiarl on the north, extending back to lot of r.. he-ke. having thereon ereeted a two story l-r.-k budding, now in the oecupancy of Lewis rt!,n i.'-o. all the rurht. title, und "interest ot Lew: W'din. Cfcar.es VVelin. Anton Seeger. of. n. and to nit ot e round sitnate in t he t'ourih aM. Juhnstuwn borough. Cambria county. Fa., Ir itit.n r on the west on Adams street, adjoining ! i I ' hi.ru n a Watkirson the south, and lot of J din June on the north, running back to lnmlg o! ( ambria Iron Co.. having theren erected a iw.) "Tory and part one story frame building, now u."i A a brewery, and plank stable, now in the uj -in -ji iiin.iries -vl'iiii. .-i t.-o, h u ine rignc, 'le.ni l interest of Lewis tt'elin. ('harlcs Urhn Aninn S-eirer. of. in, und to a lot of k round situ- in i ne t nurth win, jolintiwn horough . t am n c uin'y. I'h., fronting on the enst oa Adams T.'et. a -lioininsr lot of l(ineh:irt llpnil-r nn th r. r:n. an. i He.if.r I street on the south, lot ol Jic-n I.eveiifood on the west, having therein cn-ett.l a plunk she. l. nut now occupied. A I'", i uit nunr. uue anil interest ot A nton tseeirpr, "f. in, an 1 to a lot o. if round sitoateinfie Four: h iri. .lohnstonn b.iroujh. (!ninbrfa eountv. Fa , tn n inn on t he .Johnstown and Senlp Level Tnrn J ke, a.:ji.ining lot of Cioorire Olissner on the - u h, and lot .f Callahan on the non h. ex- bn.i n bii-k to street, havinir thereon prcte.i n UK an, une half story plank house and i -Mine, now in ttie oeenpancy or Anton See- r lakenin execution asd to be nld it the fait r.t ;verhart Siemmer. for use of John White, Jr.. X s.,n. now tor use ol John Itibert Jk. t'o. Thhms hf Sale. One-third of the ntirchnsn fi' ii") to be r;tid when t he ii opei ty is knocked i,'wn,nnd the retnainingtwo-lhirds before the iiiirniatiou of the deed. tk JOHN KTAN, Shoriff. fhenT's Office, Ebensburg. April 31, IMS. FINANCIAL STATEMENT OF A Washinotos Township IIoad De- PAItTMtM. lur the vear ending AnrilMlli. : CHRisTorHua Kobesa. Dr. To amount of Duplicate 1 1,047 70 i oraer to balance.. 50.83 1,138.53 Cr. P.. atnoant of orders redeemed. . .Tf2 09 r-Mirned to (,'oramissiuners 27.85 ,''x' worked 504 37 Aq. :..(,, r's exonerations 12 45 J 1:1 J s" ervii-es as Supervisor. 4i.oO 4 .lavs' horse and cart hire. 83 69 t Krerntaireon f S 51 tfg 5 p,c.. 3.42 imi.j f,(t work, etc 49.66- 1.138.83 James Farrex, Dr. To am nnt of Duplicate r to balance " orJi fly am ...549 75 . . . 26.42 1576.17 Cr 't taxes worked t476 19 " am " , " nu I orders redeemed 18 64 lys' services 62 00 btor's exonerations 8 ffi t returned to Commissioners. 12.70 J576 17 the undersigned Auditors or Washington Qd. do Cfrtifif Ihn nl.j.vw ...nnta I. a . A. Jfc-OOMOLE, i AMKSMmix, VAuditors. 1 lvi.i,'-vr r. I Atten Jacob Hcuoo.nt wp.'derk. H VXDS OFF! All persons arr in a . el'v fautioned neainst intei feritig I it',Wi',y ',n ""' 'o"wing deseritel property, U r ' me 31 -Constable's sale and l.It with to ' . lc:Su"y of Carrill township, until I see fit -,, t, T r "O'erwise dispose of it. vit : 2 young ,-. -!' , ,"w-9 shouts. 1 plough. 1 harrow, 1 cook 1" o ,i,'nItoi stove. 1 ctitoar1. 0clta.ir9, 1 table. - v 1. , (. 1 3 no., nr.i.iinif Carroll T ANSKLM WEAKLF.V. April 19. 187S.-3t. I'HYSICIAN AND Sl'ROEOy, ""9 at 1318 A I.Tf 11 lit. Pa. Kleventh avenue, between 13th .1 1 n ,k - icon, wn ere night calls can be made. nl4 t 0 '"" 10 iu, a. M.. ana irom 2 to 4 ' s of'ih PV M' PW't attention paid to Dia- . ' irom a til in i u an, I from t ti A Ol.Fi 1. . e an l r ar- " weW to Surgical .koji every destrlptwu. 4 19-lf. I'HVSICIAJf AND SCRCFOX, n'f.".M n s,,''hauifirs building, north ,h're '"ight calls can be made. "uiiaiion in Uei man as well as F.ng- 3-8,-:im. M. K V. I n Pnrcic.w - " 01l-m.. ., WK"Ewyi Ebetislmr?, Of 1 -.rtw!2, 'yupied by D. .T..T. O .t man, two .! ltt.iurHlB,r House. High St.. wh-re nistht eii . r i""'1- Crftiatiltaftona in 'Jerman'aa - 'V.r-nfoh. .J-S.'T;. tf,l John murpiiy7md. " Physician and Shroeow, . Tr?iMi. Ilu.t Honnras, Ui. .J. ronnty. Pa. '"""'f. n. N 7ht m 1 nn ma. "summoI J a. P. ill. ray. (S-22.-M.-4- A SOJIKBODT'S MOTH HI. The womnti old nd rnutred and trny. And bent with the chill of the winter s day ; The street was wet with a recent snow. Arid the woman's feet were aged and slow. Ph stood at the crossing and waited long Aloi e. uncared for, amid the throng Of human beings who passed her by, Nor heeded tbe glance of her anxious eye. Down the street with laughter and shout, Olad in the freedom of school let out, Came the boys like a flock of sheep, Hailing the snow piled white and deep, Past the woman, so old and gruy. Hastened the children ou tbeir way. Nor offered a helping hand to her. So meek, so timid, at raid to stir. Lest the carriage wheels or the horse's feet Should crowd her down in the slippery street. At last cme one of the merry troop The gayest laddie of all the group ; lie paused beside her and whispered low : 'I'll help you across ir you wi.ih to go." Her aged hand on his strong young arm. She placed, and so, without hurt or harm. He guided the trembling feet along, l'roud that his own were firm and strong. Then back again to his friends he went. His young heart happy and well content. "She's"; omebody'B mother, boys, you know. For all she's old, and poor aud slow," "And I hope some fellow will lend a hand To help my mother, you understand, "If ever she's poor, and old and gray. When her own dear boy is faraway." And "somebody's mother" bowed low her head In her home that night, and the prayer she enid Was : "God be kind to the noble bov. Who is somebody's sou and pride and Joy I" THE STONE CUTTER'S STORY. lie was l:Ut.in over bis work, careless from long custom of the solemn signifi cance of the letters he was cutting in the white marble. Th June suu was nearly at the end of the day's journey, sinking slowly to test upon the bosom of the broad All im ic, whose waves washed the shores of the lutle seaport town of Monktoo. A 6traimer, handsomely dressed in pray, Tvilh large, lustrous brown eyes, came to the fence that was around the yard where the stone cutter worked, and read the let tering, almost completed, upon the tomb stone HIRAM GOLDBY, Ajjed 31. Lost at sea, January, 1866. The last 6ix was nearly completed. A strange pallor gathered for a moment upon the Hi anger's f.ice, and then he drew a lone, deep breath, and said "Js not leu years a long time to be cut ling letters 011 a tombstone, friend ?" "Eli, sir?" The stone cutter looked, shading his eyes with his broAtt band, as he turned bis face to the setting sun. "This is 1S70," was the grave reply, "and Iliram Ooldby must Lave been ttn yeais under the waves." 'Well, 6ir, that's the questiou is be there?" Is be there? Your stone tells us lie is and has bet n lor ten yeais." Yes, sir, so it does so it does. And yet she has oidered it. J?he came over a week or so back witli a worried look upon her sweet face that I never seen any but pat'ent in ten long years, and she said to me; i"ou may cut a stone, Davy,' she says, 'and have it put up in (tie chtneh-j-atd, and I don't want to see it. I'll nay you whatever yon choose to ask, Dav3',' says she, 'but lie's uot dead and don't want a tombstone.' 'Lor' mum,' says I, he'd a turned up in all Ihese years if he was not dead. But she shook her pretty bead, the pie t;est I ever seen, sir, and 6aid she: My heart never to!d me that he was dead, Davy, and I'll uever believe it till my heart tells me so.' " Ilissweetbeait?" questioned the stran ger. Mlis wife, sir, bis loving, faithful wife that's bad poveily, an' loneliness an' mise ry, her full share, an' might ha.' bettered herself." How was that?" "Mr. Miles, sir, the richest shipowner hereabouts, he waited patiently for seven lon vears, trying to viu her. Then he said that she was free even if Hir&tu came back." Enoch Arden," muttered the s ranger. 'What did )ou say, sii ? ' "Nothing, nothing. What, answer did the widow make Mr. Milts?" ' 'IT Hiram's dead,' says she, 'I'm bis faithful widow while I live. If Hiram's living, I'm bis faithful wife.' Maybe you re from the city, sir, ana uave ucaia the story of our peiil?" "What story is that?" "Well, sir. it's been told many times, wore particularly in the last year, but you're welcome to vhat I know of it. There that 6 is done, and I'll leave the scripture text till morning. If you'll come to the gateway, and take a seat on some of the stones, I'll tell you. That is if you care to bear it." "I do care," was the grave reply? "I want very much to hear the story." "Maybe you're some kin to the Pearl of Moriktou that's what they call Mrs. Gold by hereabouts, It'a a matter of thirty three years back, sir, that there was a wreck off Monk 1 011 rocks, that you can fee from here, sir, 110 jv tide's low. Cruel rocks they are, and many a wreck they've seen, the more the pity. You see them, sir?" "I see them." "Well, sir, this one wreck, thirty-three years ago, there was nothing washed ashore but a bit of a girl baby, three or four years old, with a skin like a lilly leaf, and nr. ai b ack eyes ; liiiani Gc ldbj f und her in the locks. He was a boy of twelve years, strong and tall, and he carried the child in his aims to his mother. 1 ou may see the co tage, sir, the second white one on the s de of the bill." "I see it." , "Well, Iliram took the baby there, an Mrs. Goldby was the same as a mother to ber a food woman, the widow Goldby God bless her soul !" "Is she dead, then ?' "Aye, sir.'six years agone. The baby I was telling you of, sir. talked a foreign lingo, and was dressed beautiful in rich clothes, that must have cost a power of money. lint, never would Hiram or the widow sell Ihcin, putting them up careful ly, in case the child was ever loked for. bhe was that pretty, sir, and that dainty, that everybody called her Petri, though she was not like our gills, but afraid, al ways deadly afiaid of the ea. I've seen ber cleucb ber uiite of a baud aud strike at Rird'a-eye View, Silk Dress Goods Mourning Goods Cloakings Flannels Linens JIFuslins White Goods Laces Itihbons Trimmings Em broideries Fringes Zephyrs and Worsteds Xeckivcar Gloves Toilet Articles Stationery Flowers C Feathers it, for she had a bit of a temper in ber, though nothing to harm. "W heu Hiiain made his first voyage, for they weie all seafaring men hereabout, and there was nothing for a lad to do but ship, the Peail was just a little washed outlilly, a fietting until he came borne again. And it was so w henever he went, for they were sweelheails from the time he nestled her baby face on his bieast, when he picked her up fiom the wieck. !he was sixteen when they were married, as near as we could guess; 1 1 1 am was a man of twenty four. She prayed him stay home then, aud he stayed a year, but he fietterl for the sea, and went again, thinking, I s'pose, that his wife would get used lo it, as all wives hereabouts must do. But she never did never. It was just pitiful to see her 140 about, white as a corpse, when Hiram went away, never looking at the sea with out a shudder like a death chill. All through the war it was just awful, for Hi ram 'listed 0:1 board a man-o'-war. and Pearl was just a shadow when be came home the last time," "After the war ?" "Yes, sir; but he made no money of any account, and so be went again, after stay ing home a long spell. Well, he never came back. 'T wasn't no manner of use a telling PeitiJ he was l;st ; she'd just shake herpietty bead and say : He'IIcome back.' Not a mi'.eof mourning would she wear, even after hisoAti mother gave him up and put on black ; for, sir, it stauds to rea son he's dead yeais avo." "It looks so." "Of course it docs. Nobody else doubts it but Mrs. Goldsby. Old Mrs. Gouldby's last words were: 'I'm going to meet Hi ram,' and they say the dying know. But even then that didn't make Pearl think so. She wore mourning for her that bad been the only mother she krtowed of, but not weeds. Weeds was for widows, she said, and she wasn't a widow." "But the stone ?" "Well, sir, I'm coming to that. A year ago, sir, a tine gentleman from France came bere Jointing for a child lost on this coast. He'd heaid of Pearl by happen stances, if there is such, and came here. W hen he saw the clothes, be just fainted like a woman." "She was related, then ?" The stranger's voice was husky, but the sea air was growing chill. "Her father, sir." "He took her away?" "He u ied to. Ho told her of a splendid home he had in New Yoik, for he'd fol lowed his wife and child, sir, to I lie city they had never reached. He was rich and lonely. He begged bis child to go, but she would not. 'Hiram will come here for me,' she said, 'aud be must tind me where be left me. " "On what has sbe lived ?" "Sewing, sir, mostly. The cottage was old Mis. Goldby's aud bless you. Pearl didn't eat much morn than a bud, and her dresses cost next to nothing. But there's no denying she was veiy poor very, and yet the grand home and big fortune never tempted hei. Sober father came on and on to see her, until Apiil. An' he died, sir, an' left, our IVa.lall his fortune and the grand bouse in New York. But she'll not j go, sir. She'll die here waiting for Iliram, v ixt'll never come." I The stranger lifted bis face, that had beeu half bidden iu li.o baud, aud Mid Jolm Wanamaker's Grand Depot, THE second year of the General Dry Goods Business at the Grand Depot is just opening. It is proper to say that what "was deemed an experiment, the first year, experience proves to be a success, and "we now propose to greatly improve on the first plans. The principles of X A uniform low price for everything throughout the House. 2 One Price and no partiality. 3 Politeness and Patience to rich and poor. 4 Cash Returned if buyers return ec ods (even though Dress Patterns) in reasonable time and uninjured. A very large stock of all kinds of newest Dry Goods always on hand, arranged on one floor with plenty of light to see them. A thousand people nan easily be waited on at one time. Where so many goods are selling every day the people are sure of getting only fresh goods. Earnestly desiring to serve the people well, and inviting them to visit the Grand Depot whether they wish to buy. or "only to see the fashions." If not coming to the city to see the magnificent new s'ock for Spri ng, send for samples, describ ing class of goods wanted. We do a large business through the mail. Very respectfully, JOHN WAN AM AK ER, Grand Depot. Thirteenth and Market Sts. PHILADELPHIA. "There was a shipwreck in the Pacific ocean, Davy, years and years ago, and one man only was saved saved, Davy, by sav ages, who made him a slave, the worst of slaves! But one day this sailor saved the life of the chief s daughter, who was in the coils of a huge snake, and the chief re leased him. Mjre than that, he gave him choice spices and wo xls, and sunt him aboaid the fn si passing ship. So the sailor landed in a great city, sold bis presents, and put the gold in safe keeping. Then he traveled till he reached the seaport town where be was born, and coming there at sunset, heard the story of his life from the lips of a man cutting his tombstone." Not a worti spoke Davy. Standing erect be seized an immense sledge hammer, and with poweiful blows from strong uplif.ed arms, dashed the marble into fragments. Then, paining with exertion, he held out bis brawny band to the stranger a stran ger no longer. " I've done no better work in my life than I've done in the last five minutes, Hiram. Go home man, an make Pearl s heart glad." "She don't need it, Hiram she don't need it. You asked me about the stone. The neighbois drove ber 10 oideriog it, twitting her that now she was lich. she grudged the stone to her husband's memo ry. So she told me to cut it, but says : 'Don't put dead iion it, Davy. Put lost at sea, for Hiram's lost, but he'll be found aud come back to nie.' She never looked at it, Iliram. never. And there's not an hour, nor hasu't been in ten years, that she's not been broking for you to come back. Go to ber, man, and the Lord's blesstmg be upon both of you." So grasping the bard, brown band, Hi ram Goldby took the path to the little white cottage where be had been bom forty-five years before. The sun bad set. and darkness was gathering, but a little gleam of light at n limed from the window of his cotiagp. He drew near softly, and stand ing on the seat of the poich looked over the half cuitaiu into the neat but poor sit ting room. It was not the grand borne, Peail's uer i age in New York, but Pearl was there. A slender woman, with a pale, sweet face, and black hair smoothly banded aud galh eied into lich braids at the back ii ber 6hapcly head. Her dress was a plain dark one with while inflles, culls and apron. She bad been sewing, but tier work was put aside, and presently she came to the open window and drew aside the curtain. She did not see the tall figure drawn close ly against tl e wall iu the nairow pmcb, but her dai k ey-s lin.ked mournfully tow aid the sea, glimmering in the half light. "My darling !" she whispered, "are you dead, and has your spirit come to take mine where we will pail no more?" Ouiy the wash of waves below answered her. Sighing softly, she said : "Is my dai ling coming ? I ft-el him so near to lue I coi.ld al.nost grasp him." She si 1 etched out her arms over the low window sill, and a low voice answered ber: "Peail! Pearl!" The arms that, bad so long grasped only empty air were filled then, as Hiiaiu stood under the low window. "Do not move, love," she whispered, pressing her soft lips 10 to his ; "I always wake when yn move." "But now," be said, "you are already awake. See, Pearl, your trust was heaven given. I: is myself, your foud true bus- Thirteenth Street, Ladies Misses Suits " Sacques Jt Cloak Underwear Hosiery Upholstery Goods Dlankets and Quilts Trunks and Valises Itubber Goods DTorse Covers Men's Jb Boys Clothing Hats Shoes I band, little one, wbo will uever leave you again." "It is trne. You have come ! she cried at last, bursting into a torrent of happy teais. "I knew you were not dead. You could not bo dead aud my bean not tell rue." It was long before they could think of anyth ing but the happiness of leuuiou after the many years of separation, but, at last, drawing Pearl closer, Hiram whispered, "I walked from J , love, aud I am enormously hungry." And Pearl's merry laugh chased the last shadows fiom her happy face, and she bus tled about the room p-eparing supper. "Supper for two!" she cried gleefully. The grand bouse in New Yoik is tenant ed by its owners, and Hiram goes to sea no mo.e ; but in the summer time two happy eople come for a quiet mouth to the little w hue cottage at Monkton, aud have always to listen to Davy's tale of the evening when he was cutting Hiram Goldby's tombstone, and ended by mashing it into atoms. "For." is the invaiiable ending of the tale, "Pearl was right and we were wrong, all of us ; for Hiratu Goldby was lost at sea, sure enooch, but he was uot dead, and he came to her faithful love as she always said be would." A Light Mulatto Changed to a Jet Black. One of those unaccountable freaks of nature which puzzle the biain of the scientist has just come to notice in West Baltimore, and furnishes the medical fra ternity iu particular with food for thought and theme for conversation. The case is that of a colored woman about forty-five yeais of age, who died last week in a house 011 West Lexington street f.om a complica tion of disease. Eight years ago this woman was a light mulatto, and at the lin.e of her death, ac couling 10 the testimony of several physi cians and others who saw ber, she was as black as midnight. The change during this period of eight yeais was so gradual, but soceitain withal, that the family with whom she lived could readily perceive the coior as it deeeiied from light yellow into a shining hl-tck. The w hole s3'stem of the woman under went a complete transformation. From a stout, poitly, and unwieldy person, who used to attract the notic of persons on ac count of ber size, she dwindled aw ay into the thin, spate aud regular form of the typical spinster. The physician who bad been attending her for the last four years said he could not fathom the mysteries of the case, and does not know to what cause he may attribute the transfoi nia ion that was ai paieut to the eyes of all wbo knew Mie woman. She herself was very sensitive about the matter, and ho fore her death sbe could not bear to hear niiy one pass any re marks tin the change t hat had been made in ber personal appt-aiHiice. She was a Virginian owned atone time by the fami ly of D. Wade, of the rimi of D. vYade & Co., w holesale druggists, on South Howard st 1 eel, -Baltimore A'tir. "If I was as flat footed n yon are, I wouldn't be afraid of slipping o.i the ice.'' s.ti I oho gent to another, in front of our of fice ibe other day. "Yes." was the re sponse, "some people are flat on one end and aome on the otber !" The first speak- j er looked tbougbiful, bat said nothing. MKT Jil CliASCE. 'Now, in Silvertou, Nevada, we used to Silverton?' Yes.' 'Nevada ?' Yes.' Well ! you're the first man I've seen from Silverton in a coon's age. I left there six years ago left my wife there.' Such wis the passage of a conversation going on between iwo strangers taking a meal in a Utth restaurant, which a:trtc;ed the attention of myself, eating at a differ, ent table. The man latest fiom Silvrton was a short, stout, sandy locking man, with beard closely cropped, and a scar, be ginning as I suppose somewbeie In the hair of his head, thence running down the forehead along the right of the nose, mak ing nicks in tiie lower part of the nose and in the lips, tbtn disappearing in the beard of the chin. It looked as if some one bad started to skin him, and given it up on the offer of a better job. The other man was tall, quick-spokon, nervous, and daik-look-ing, with beard streaked with gray ; and be would have been cross-eyed if he bad two eyes ; as it was, bis oue eye was set crossing. 'Well! bow isSilveiton now?" contin ued the datk lookiug man. Oh, petered !' A nybody there ?' Few old fellows sticking to claims that they think there's something in. They'll stay till Gabriel's trump races them out.' Did you know Tom Sleminons?' 'Yes; killed himself drink ine whisky.' What became of John Liuletield ?' Mose Lawler killed bim in a tight over Ibe Sweetly Dreaming claim.' 'Reckon Sandy Jones ain't there now ?' 'Sold out of the Bet Your Boots for forty thousand, went back to Pike, and is cultivating a family.' 'Dick Bi anigan made money there ?' Yes ; but he's dead whisky got him.' Did Harry Martin getiidof bis money?' 'Yes; went to the Black Hills, aud was killed by the Sioux. Did bis brother Thad go?' ' le went, made a big foi t une out of the placers, and is a member of Congress fiom Nebi aska now.' Alvin Sanders, wbo kept the Dew-of-Ileaven saloon, has left, I suppose ?' pro ceeded the one-eyed man. 'Left for gtod. Got loaded with a stray bullet while a row was going ou iu bis saloon one night.' Wonder, what became of Pat Tyburn, who ran a saloon there the Angelic?' 'lie's a banker in San Fiancisco.' John Blogden had a b.tnk iu Silverton. Wbeie's he banking now?' He's herding sheep for Tommy rug mire, on Mud Lake.' 'Tommy, the b.Kitblack?' The 6ame ; he got feet in the Sweet By-aud-By, ami sold for twenty thousand.' 'Did 3 ou know the Sloprr boys?' Well. Hariy Sloper is the Co. in Bias dale & Co., a meicantile tirni in Hong Kong, China. Luke Sloper killed a China man in Slagtown, and got six mouths in the Caison Penitentiaiy. Long sentence just for killing a Chinaman! He'll be pardoned out, though. Lige Sloper got into a shootin' scernimage with Montana Jack and killed bim. Lige afterwaid went to the Aikansas Hot Spiings ; be was uot very well. Where did Charley Maddeu go?' Dead !' Why, be was a stout, bealthy-looking man. Whisky !' Charley's wife and mine, continued the tall stranger, 'were great cronies. My wife somehow never liked my name! Heaid she changed ber pait of it so 01 as I left, and in a few mouths manied without a divorce under her new uauie manied a fellow named Scruggs.' 'Scraggs?' Sciaggs !' Ahem ah waiter, another cup of cof fee. Suppose you know Chai ley's biother-in-'.aw, Louis, that busted iu the brevveiy business?' said the sandy-looking man. First rate ; where's he ?' 'He's in Silveibrickbuiy, Aiizona. Got a big biewery there.' Remember Alf Sykes? said tbe strang er with one eye set crossing. Got tweuty years at Caison for robbing tbe mail,' Heard Ward Smithers bad some tronbb ?' Five years at Carson for robbing Wells, Fargo fc Co. He didn't play H tine, bka they say old Blivens did ; I believe that was bis name nickname, I guess.' Old Blivens !' Old Blivens. You see be robbed Wells, Fargo, just out of Silverton ; that was be fore I went tbeie ; heaid of it. The mes senger was the only witness against him ; and on the day of the tiial the messenger was found shot dead at the door of the room iu which he slept, and which opened on a narrow all-y. It was not known for certain who did it, but the Vigilants sug gested to Old Blivens that jfeihaps his health would be beueihled by a change of climate.' Said thedaik stranger, with an cxprnu sion of countenance which snowed thai he thought be was looking the sJ.oit man square in the face: What might your name be?' 'Name ir.y name is is Sciaggs ! Yours?' 'Old Biiven !' Passing out of the door just at this point, I did not learn how they leconcilcd tLeir conflicting locations. Leo XIII. is about to deserve well of all interested in art needlewoik. Hanging on the walls of mny of the 11,000 nnms of the Vatican into which sti angers cannot jenetrate anil hidden away in numberless cnpbosids, are an infinite variety ot pit ces of ancient tapestry. There are those saved from the sick of I he city in 1V27. for which Raphael mnde the cartoons; there nie splendid exampl-s of Flemish woik of the font teen! h and fifteenth cent 111 ies and any number of Gobelins, foi dm iog t w cent u lies the French kings kept up She custom of sending the Pope an annual present of a piece of tapestry. All tin se L. o XIII. ha decided shall be gathered logt-lher and placed where they oin be seen, airangeri chronologically and foi mcd into a c-illec! i r. unique of its kind a new ninsMitn,iu f.ic', to be added to the many :lie vatican con tain. IVrhaps Le III- unconsciously ac qniied a ta'e for ancient tapestry when, sixty years ago, be was playing at boise op and down that long hall bung with arras iu the family manot-ho-ise at Carpiueto where be was bom. A. Y. World. VXD Eli FALSE CO LOUS. A WOMAN WHO WAS SENT TO TIIE TKNI TENTIATtT AS A MAN. Buffalo Expres J On tbe 23d of October, 1S77, William Freeman w as sentenced to the Erie County Peuitentiaiy for one year and six months, having pleaded guilty to a chaige of burg laiy and larceny. Freeman was duly le ceived into the Penitent isry, was put to work inihesbopat polishing buckles, and continued quietly and with uniform good behavior to puisne the dreary routiue of prisou life until yesteiday morning, when a surpiising discovery was made. It be came know n to the prison au! hoi ities, and later to police officials and a few others, that the mi p posed William Freeman was a woman. It seems that some fiiends in Allegheny county bad applied to Governor Kobmsoii for a paid n lor the supposed William Freeman. In such cases it is usual for the Governor or bis authorized agent to write to the keeper of the prison in which tbe ei'Son foi whom the paidon is asked is confined, for a statement of the condition of the prisoner's health. To as certain the physical condition of tbe con vict a med ical examination was requisite. Dr. P. Sonuick, the physician tothe Penitential-, was accordingly requested to in vestigate the case, and at 9 o'clock yester day morning proceeded to peiforin that duty. It was not veiy long befoie he bur lied to Deput)' Supei intendeut Wander with the startling iufoi mat ion, "that's a woman." The prisoner, who for the past six months has toiled in the shops w ith as bard a lot of men as could easily be got to gether, was indeed a woman, aud the as touishmeutof the keepeis was increased by ber statement that she bad worn the clothes fii st of a boy, then of a man, from, the time she was eleven years o!d. As soon as the startling discoveiy of ber sex was made, Mary Aun Schafer, as she confessed her true name to be, was remov ed to another aud secluded part of Ibe prison, provided with the costume preset ib ed for female State piisoueis, and by Su perintendent Bakei's oiders was mad-- as comfoi table as the rules would pen . it. She bad utterly biokcn down, ai d begged the Superintendent to keep ber tbeie for life tather than to allow ber secitt and l.er name to be published. Mary is twenty-,bree years of age, ab "X 5 feet 7 or 8 inches inh eight; with d.;k hair and dai k eyes, but pale complexion, and weighs probably 140 pounds. Her wrists and ankles aie small, but ber l a ..Is and feet, from the toughest kind of labor, are large aud coarse, and ber waist 1 as never known the giip of a corset. As William Freeman she w as as good-look ii as the average man, as Maty Schafer she is not a homely woman. Her story, told with an abundance of tears and with much apparent feeling, was to this efft ct : She was born in New Yoik city, or on sb.p board. Her early home was in Allegheny county, with her mother and a step lather, whom she left when she was elevtu and a half yeais of" age. To make a living w as at bett a baid task for one of ber ace, and believing that as a boy she could do best and earn ni'st, she diessed herself in boy's clothes and hired out to do faim wot k. TLis she has done all ber life since ploughing, chopping wood, taking care of horses and all the rough woik of a farm and although all the tune iu the vicinity of her home, she avers that not a soul except her mother until yesterday knew ber or knew the s;-ciet so carefully preserved. The crime for which sbe was sentenced she claims she did not commit. Sbe bad rented a farm about five miles from ber family's home, which is at Wellsville. and Miited a woman to act as bousi keeoer. This woman's nephew committed a burg lary by which be si-cured a quantity of dry goods, which be concealed in ber lain. The proeity was found and she was one of the number at i t st d. Being committed to jail, she was employed by the Shei iff t lake care of horses, and taking advantage of the oppoitunity foi libeity which this seivice otleied, she escaiied and tied to Canada. In some manner she was iudnccd. to ltiuin. The man who committed tbe ciime threatened hei life if she betrayed h:s guilt, and, she says, under intimidation she mnde the plea of guilty. So long has this young woman followed tbe ways of a man that to see her in fttn. in i 11 e laiineut would be amusing if the siiectacle did not excite pity. The sim plest bl' of wen. an's wink she does wi ll all the av. k wai dness a rough mau wouid show . A Don Cat and Thuee Cat-Dogs 15 Oak LiTTEit. The Gold Hill (Nev.) AV - says: "The attent ion of a A"tr rejxu nY was to-day called to a most woudeiful case of luti natirt. The sl ou and boaiding house ol Chai Ies Ti.beiier, near the 1 nil -. 1 ial Hoist ing W01 k. Gold Hill, is t he place wheie ibis strange fieak of naturp may be seen. Entering the bar room, the reiMMtTr made know 11 his buMnes. Diving into a daik cel'.o, the boy of the house brought foi th what at liikt hijjbt pieaii-d to be au old chI a.:d a litttr ol fiuir kiltens. Upon closer exaii)i:ial ioti, l.ouevei, it was sr. q that one ol the inter wan n-t altogether fe line. With the Lead, .t.x and tody of a dog, it combines the rlu a k und tail of scat, while the muzzles aie supplied with whis ker common t, iho tat family. Tbe three temaining tiiembeik ii the family are un. tloiibtedly kiitciui, tliuuh they have a pe culiar canine lo.k about the bead. Their teeth are iet fumed copectly ei'.her as dogs or cats beinc s.i w-shajed and fittinjj into one anothei like the jiwsof a steel tiap. Th animal which iim-.t lesemblesa pup mew s l.ke a M'ten, and the ones which look most bke kit'.tns growl like young I pups. The tin' her suckles iheni all alike, and i seemingly food of ibe dog -cat fi of the cat-riov. s as tin y may be termed, in accordance as the characteristics of the diif-Ment sjx'cifs jiim'iiiini nate All the meinb-rs of the tne.licil fiaternity that have visited this ml ei est ing family bare declared the phenomena here made appar ent a trufct startling one." Tin: Tr-t '? te'li bom a Detroit man fX.laiiid ibe metrio systeui t bis wife. 'Under 1 he met lie system." said be, "you, write t votir father in Wisconsin for the money IjUui i our new d'-ess. The money o.itiies, you take I alf of it and buy nn- a oau of pants, nod then you use the rest iu puichatiiig tifi cent rirt)f tmd. It ta a ery good n.easure, very good." She said hat no such metrio system should ever oome into tbat bouse. Bound to follow suit A tailor's till, 1 II 11
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