w J- Jf-Cv i?KVM V -s ... . --"i-V''' . -'lli'' "S H. A. McPIKE, Editor and Publisher. "HE is a freeman whom the truth makes free, and all are slaves beside. Terms, S2 per year, In advance. VOLUME XII. EHENSnURG, PA., FRIDAY, MAY 31, 1878. NUMBER Ii). wJ j cm 1.1 m?&if xfmm, z:w ri tiL tajv m- h fa n, m i . Soil AV?v Xj lvUra REGISTER'S NOTICE. -OTirE i? hereby eiven Hint the follnwlnir A niuriP'i Accounts have been pas'crl ntiil filed pie lU iri'sfer'.' office at F.bensbttrir, in and for he'eminiv or Cumbria. ami will be presenter! I i ihi' il' 'a' Court of said county, f or con firmation an 1 allowance, on W funks DAT, the Siii .My of .irxK. A. I). I.7s. to wit: 1 The arcnunt of Trancis U' Frlel, administra teof Sylvester Little. tleoeaeil. o Tlie tir't and final nncmiit of John Benton, fvut'To! llenrire Younker, late of Johnstown, rCl-'t-'tl. 3 Tlie fir-t and final account of Thomas Darin, a ;mm i -t rr tor of Sirnuel Henry, late of i-'jens-f.u-n li'.rciiirh. deceased. 4 Tlie 'cnnd and final aeeruirit of Daniel I,. tit her. administrator of Frederick Tesh, latent j,,iin.ir,iTn borough, dercaseil. 5. The first and final account of Annie S. M. If;!"'". B.iminis.ratrix of (eorjje A. Bates, late of J..hn4!"iwn horouurit. deceased. i. The first and final account of .Mary Jane Larimer, executrix of Wm. Lif rimer, late of Catn l r:.i t"nship. deceased. 7. The final account of I'eter Stritt matter, prirl-.an of Anna Mary Weib'.e, late of Carrotl l,.wn-tii. ilcceased. s. Tlie first and final account of B. F. Speedy, a .IriiiniMrafor c. t. a. of Wm. McPlierion, late of j ,t,n-r..wn bnrouirb. deceased. a. I lie first and final accoont of M, B. Ellis, ad ir..niftnitor of Daniel Morion Farke, dcccaed. in. The second account of Klizabc th M' Donald, a dtnin'-tratrix of Daniel .U Douald, late of C'aui l.r; i b.-MHsh. deceased. U. The account of (lenrure Mayer. Ruardian of minor children of John Heiillgart, late of Cam l.ri i t' Tui li. deceased. 11. Tlie first and final account of Jacob Foilst, a .imimstratorol Susannah Foust, latcof Kichland I,.wn-hii. deceased. It. Tlie fir.-t and partial nccount of Thomas Iiuii 'in, guardian of F.ora Belle and Ilcr.ry H. Iiumvin. mnmr ehililren of Henry II. Duncan, Lit" "I lilarklick township, deceased. 14. The second and final nccount of Mrs. Mary 31. K ielin. administratrix of A. Kopelin, latcof J..hnri.wn borouifh, deceased. l'i The account of Sarah Boyle, executrix of I'.inlt 1 Itoyle, deceased, who was one of the ex r iit 'rs of '.lames .1 . McOoujfh, late of W'ashinjf t n tonliip. deceased. 11 The first and i.artlal account of John Wasr-T!,- and James MeMullen, executors of James ln inn-tt. deceased. IT. The first and final account of John F. Tib and .lvin Kvans. administrators of Thomas .1 L!oyd, deceased, who was itu.irdi.in of John T. i I n : ii hrevs, minor child of Margaret Humphreys, l-.-,-:i-.-d.' 1. The first and final account of Richard ftit i;:;'. enardian of Seward V. Jones, a minor c:.:l I of Huh Jones, late of Khensburtf borough, ( is d. l'i. The second and final accntint of John fleis, L"i ir li.tn of minor children of tfeo. J. Newkamp. .1 .ii-d. The -second nccount of John fr. Kaylor. Tii.i'nas S.irueant and Joseph Hmrue. executors oi l'f!er Kaylor, late of Munster township, de- riM-vd -1. The account of Joseph Criste. etiardian of l.itiie I. I'allan. a minor child of William Cal l:in. decease. I. Jl The first and final nccount of liriffith J. l.'.iy! survivinir administrator of John Iloyd, Lite n f ( 'a ml iria t own si: ip . dece iscd. '-!. The first and partial account of Jas. Hawks, iti" ol the administrators of A. A. Urm.KS, late of Clearfield township, deceased. JAMES M. SINT.rit. Itoirister. Hi iriter"9 Oifice. Ebt'iisbutx, May H, 1.-73. Notice to Taxpayers IN" accordance with an Act of t he fieiiernl As s in lil y of this Com in on fu 1 1 h. n provi i l:e ftiri ilav of April. A. I. 1.-7 2, " IScU I msr to the f"l'i ction of inn 5 in the County ol Cnmtn in." iioiuf is hf-riliv jti ven to the taxpayers re-id -Icif in the ili-ti icf s below named. I hat the Coun t i'n asiiri r. in compliance with the 'Z i'i iin;i ( said act. will attend at the places of holdinir tli- Itor.nih and Town-hip elections, on the foil iwinsf iiM'ii.'d day-, for the purpose iiT rc ceivinir the County," Ioor and Siate taxes for the year 1S7 : F r Fortaae township. Tdonday, .Time 17th. "" WiiMiorc tioroiiith. Tuesday. June ISth. ' Siiminerliill township. 'Vednesday, June lfth. " U aliinx!nn triwnship. Thursday, 2nth. " .'Miirisier townsfiip. Friday. ' 21st. ' S'liomitrille hornimh. Tuesiiay, " L'.'i'h. ' ( !!lit7in lioroiiuh. Wednesila v, ' "'Hh. ' Tiinnelliill tmrouh. Thursday, " 27th. ' I'.l tzin township. Friday, " 2th. ' Lore: In hnrouirh. Saturday. " Wth. ' A llcalieiiy township. Monllay, July 1st. " Chen Spriii.-s borough. T'ues iay. July 2d. " K'.ensl urz borouiih. Fast ward. V riday, J uly 'ili: U"et ward. Sa: urda v. J u ly 6t li. I' mii t.iwii.hi;., Monday. J ii ly 8th. " I l. ar::eld township. Tiiesdav. July nth. " White twi., at J. Beers'. Vednesday. JuTy loth: at Llov.bville. Thursday July 1 1 1 1 1 . ' Chest township, at St. Lawrence, Friday, Ju- Iv l'Jth. FI.i.t township, at St. Runt race, Saturday July Kl;h. ' Carrol'town tmromth, Monday. July 15'.h. " nrroll townsliip. Tuesday. July loth. " Suv)Hi.i;ii!ii;i fnp , Wednesday, July 17th. llarr to-Tii.-hip. Thursday, " IHth 111 i -ki . k township Friday, ' l'-'.h. ' i aniOriK towtih ip. Sa t n ni ay, 2ot h. " J o Hs..n township. Monday," ffJd. And. in neeorda oce with ihc second veeHon ' t -aid Act, on all luxes paid ! the TrenSorei 1" To;- Jt day of Sei'teml.er. fliere will be i re ! i. tiiin of 5 per cent., while o per rent, will tie added to nil iinpHid t txisand placed in the !iauds of a con-tii'ile X . J. FJtFIDHOVF, Treasurer. Treasurer's l Klicc, Kbeii-bu iv. April Id, 1-7". 1X7 I IC VS' A I I It A I ,S K .M K X TS. Notice H lereliy (fi ven tliat tle (ol lowinir named a ppraf rmrti is of propTty of ih ci io;;ts, seleeti'd Mild set apiii t lorthe widows ' t iiitetate- imiler "he Act of A embly ol lfh nl April. A. D. haw been tiled in the Hi .'i-iof olhre nt E'.h n-bii i tr. a nd will fie pre-s-nted to t'ie I b phaii-' Court of Cambi In coun 1 1 . b .r approval it nd Hllowitni-e, on W IHNF.-IIAV, Ci-.-tU. day i Ji nk, A. 1. I.-7S. to wit : 1. Inventory and appraisement of certnin real r -' i'o a; ,r.i im-.i and sei apart lor Elizabeth Bci 'ritii, widow nf Feter livrlriini. late of Carroll t -i n borough, decea'ed A.iOO.OO. - liivrntoi y an t appraisement of certain por ' i il property and real estate appraised and set i.-trt lor Jane M. Fliillips. widow of John Fhil ' i'-, late of Jdm-!own bor iiiif h. dee'd . iOO 00. 1. Ir.ieniory and a ppra iseiiient of certain pcr f t il property appraised and set apart lor Harri et IV LI -.yd. widow of Thomas J. Lloyd, late ot t.t.-'i.i.Ulif lloToUjdl. deep iscd :00 00. 4 Inventory and appraisement ol certain per il pri'tn-riv iii-iir.iHi.'i nn.1 sef nruirl for .Miir. i ' t Sin. iy. wi.loiv ot Isaac Smay, late of Adatns i i . deeea I i Z I 5. ' Inventory and ai.iiraisement of rertaln ner- il r...i-i:y appraised and ret lp rt lor Surah c. widow of 1 1 tniel Uoy lo. late of Croy le t Wn I: . i' ':..--.-is.'. - . .O I.I-). 1 1 1. . i ntory and a j.pr;. iscmcnt of certain real 'ate ippr'isc.l and set apart tor Mariraret Mc-ii-ii. widow oi t. i: ,( ;.,ii j h. laieof I'or- t.i , aiubria euiia'v. d ecus, d o.')0.oo. .1 AMIS M. SlXOhK. liesrister. I.fif i'trr'j I lltire I vl.iir . Mirrl lsT IAKMSAT IMilVATK SALE. Tl... l .- . . . : . l i..- o ii-iri..ni. finei s i pri ni" Miir f '!!' 'm.-' p. ' pert s . 1 1. wit : A t r.ict of land V1 s,,v T t"w nsh p. Blair county. miles from r'-' I';. r,.i:i. t.'aiivi lss acres, wefl iniprov. il. h ;n; i her. on all t lie necessary fai in bn, Minus. I .us larm wui be di hied Into two or three parts. 'l ? re 1 I y ;,o reh.i -ers. and it not soi l belore the the first ..; M.iri'li ii-xf. It will then be rented. Also. tin., f irm on which I now reside, in L.ojrnn wii.-h.p. V mdes fron, Altfw.a. T'li.s proper y in a l ixh natc of cult i vat ion and has a splendi I tioiHe, ,.irn n, 0;,er imjidin-zs tlo-reon erected. In "o, a tract of iiniirovni land situated imrl v olair arid l,.inbria connties. containinir 2TS res. ri..s tract is underlaid with coal ot excel "nt ijua lit y. well covered with timber, and has a " i. r ia l tu i It. lo It. ready for shipping coal. I In "e land will be so'ld as a whole or divided. atl'l I'll t'TInt til l-lil nnri'hftdn.i n. vill Ti.h'ltlilp Alt. t: .'ma, city property For further tnforma.- 'tl call Nov. n or address WM. DECK Eli. Box M-), Altoona. 1177.-1. ISSOLUTION OF PARTNER- ?Ii I l. "Voti'-t i liereliir crtveti lhaf the J 'irner-tiir recently rxi'inj between James "r ' V I" I S and John f .1 . i v.l in I In. ma. i"i r.l i li lintnr.eq l-t'i li-r I I.A fr... ,.l M t Y I I H- .. j .1 i u - l'i.-1 lit. ill c ol .oei Ct J.TOIO. .1 - 'II-.' 11 id ly nm' ii a I consent ',n t he lot h "da v of M ay. s. and the tmsiness will lierealter carried '.v John Li.ov n At. i "n.. wlia very respect full v 1- p.. a Cor.' iiuian "e and increase of paTonaue. .-1,1 .;.. It S .1 Hi. t .1 f hi t'itrirfii f . I II i ort h lli.t-tl " '"' reci-.ved and receipted lor by John Lloyd. -I all claims auitnrt said firm should be pre- tited to ii.ui lor pavnienl. JAMES MYERS, ,v .IOHN LtOVU. t-bensbnrgr, May 17, 187.-3t. reralto's Wonderful Hide, TIIUEE HUNDRED AND FIVE MILES IN LESS THAN FIFTEEN HOURS. At 4 o'clock yesterday niorninjr, in Fleetwood Park, Francisco Feralto Rgain started on a second attempt within eighteen days to ride 305 miles in fifteen bonis. About forty persons were present at the start. The track was very heavy from the late rain, and the wind blew chill and cold across the paik. The tough Mexican ap peared, at the judges' stand promptly on time, and springing on a little bay horse exactly at 4, started ntF with a yell frorc a Congo ntablemau to the mustang that re echoed from the Westchester hills, l'eral to wore a black suit of clothes and a light b!ue silk cap. The first streaks of daylight were sutlicient to enable keen eyes to fol low the horse and rider around the mile, which was made against the wind and through the mud in 2:20. The second mile was run in 2:3.$, the third in 2:31, the fourth in 2:33, and the fifth in 2:18, which elicited a round of applause. The fiist ten miles were completed iu 23 miuuies 10 seconds. In the thirteenth mile Peralto's horse broke down at the half-mile post. Another horse was sent to him, and 4 miuuies, 50 seconds were cons'imed in making this mile. The nineteenth mile was run in 2:17. L'eralto dismounting to the music of cheers. The time for the secoud ten miles was 25 minutes, 44 seconds. The thiny-secoiid and thirty-third miles were run on one hotse iu 2:3'2 and 2:33. This was the only horse that had run more than one mile without rest. Forty horses were in the stables ready for I'eralto's use. They were much belter than those used at Prospect Paik. The thiid ten miles were run in 23:40. The next ten miles were made iu 23:21, w it hout any incident of note. In the forty-seventh mile Peralto's horse bolted, and ten seconds were lost. The ten miles from the fortieth to the lif ieth were coveied in 23 minutes, 17 sec. mils. '1 be fifty filth mile was glided over in 2:17, and the intiepid Mexican mounted for the next mile amid enthusiastic cheers. The ten miles ending at the sixtieth were cleared iu 23 minutes, 1 second. 'lhesixty first mile was covered in 2:17, and the sixty-seventh in 2:18, the ten miles ending at the seventieth being inn in 23:32. The seventy first mile was tun in 2:3V. A horse bolted on the seventy second mil ', ten seconds were lost, and the mile used up 2 minutes, 52 seconds. The eightieth mile was skimmed over in 2:14, when the lider teccived another round of applause. The time of th l.st teu ruiles up lo the eightieth was 23:21. Pet alto started off on his eighty first mile as freshas a daisy, lie now wme his white cap. The sun had pai'.ly dried the track, aibl the wind had moderated. The enp came around in 2:10. The eighly-fiflh in tie was also run in 2:10. In the eighty seventh mile another bolter caused a loss of 10 seconds. The niuetieth mile was coveied in 2:18, and the ten miles to the ninetieth in 23:21. The ninety fiist mile was made in 2:25, the ninety fifth in 2:10, and ten miles to the one hundreth in 23:10. Here Peralto made his hist sop resting nin minutes. On starting for the 101st mile slow time was scored 2:37. On the 102d mile, Per alto's horse ran against the fence at the fiist turn, teanng out two of the palings. 1 Le Mexican sprang from the saddle be foie his horse sti uck, i hereby saving his legs. He then leinounted with a bound, staited the horso afiesh, and came iu in tlnee minutes, lie made the next mile in 2:11, amid loud cheers, and followed it up with 2:13, and another iu 2:10, the ten miles being run in 23:14. The next ten in ks, up to 120, were run in 22:45, without a special incident. In the 204lh mile Hie horse bolted three tin.es. Peralto slipped oil at the thud bolt, but leniountid nimbly, and finished the mile in 3:110. The 123.1 mile was cleared iu 2:10. the 125th in 2:17, and the 127ili in 2:2. l'eralto here slopped twenty four minutes for breakfast, I lis pulse beat at the rale of 130; when he stalled it was about 00. He weighed lb' pounds at me Leginning of his ride ; on being leweighed, at7he 1271 h mile, it was found that he had lost six pounds, lie rode the teu miles up to 130 iu 23:50. The next ten miles, to 140, were glided dent. When Peralto had ridden K2.t miles, ;.it i.air his iournev. be was 15 minutes ;nd 52 seconds ahead of time. He made the 154th mile, on bis favorite Tom, in 2:10, amid great applause. This was the fastest mile made. The ten tm'.es euding.100 were run in 2J:4S. The ltilst to ilift 170th miles were cover ed without special or noteworthy incident iu 22:51. Il was notv 12 o'clock. Peralto stopped 24 minutes for an entire change of clothing. He was rubbed down and washed with bay rum. His skin was a pure olive, and his muscles lay iu bunches all over his btnly. His pulse was 120 when he stopped, ami diopped to 0(5 before his next siait. Jle went oil' with relieved vigor on his 17lst mile, which was run in 2:20, the 174 h in 2:13, and the 175ih in 2:12, finishing the ten ending at 180 in 22:42. He made the ISlst mde in 2:00 and clos ed up the 100 h in 2:23, making the last tenuities in -iliX'i. r roin mat up t. ioc 200. h mile the lime consumed was 23:28: the total time from the start being 0 houis 30 minutes. The wiry Mexican mounted his horse for the 201st mils with the case of a circus ri- . anA Etillll 91'Olltlll t hfi CilCle l'i 2'.l'i). with the cheers of the spectators lingmg n his ears. He mounted his favorite sorrel mustang lor the 205th mile, which he reel ed or in 2:15. The ten miles up to 210 were spun out in 22:53. The next ten miles were galloped over in exactly 23 min- UtVViis finished 220 miles in 10 Lours 33 minutes. The next ten miles were vaulted over id 23:32, one of the horses bolting badly. At the finish of the 2331 mile Peralto tested ten minutes. His pulse beat at the rale of 120, and was the saute when he started on Ins23tili mil., which he bounded over in 2:21 ; also the 235th inside of 2:21. The time nf the ten milts up to the 240'.h was 73:10, and the time of riding from the st ait 11 houis 33 minutes. He rods over the 244th mile in 2:14 to the enlivening music of enthusiast ic cheers, making the ten miles to 2.")0 in 23 minutes. From this up to the 200th mile he consum ed only 22 miuutes 22 seconds, having mas itJtSiittSfirii Bird's-eye Vieiv, Silks Dress Goods Jlouming Goods Cloakings rianncls Linens JTu.slin While Goodi Laces Ribbons Trimmings Ilmbroideries rringes Zephyrs and Worsteds Xeclwear Gloves Toilet Articles Stationery Flowers Feathers tered a refractory horse and a bad bolter in the 253d and 258i h miles. The next ten miles were traveled in 23:30 without a break. He tlew over the 277th mile in 2:15, re ceiving a vociferous round of applause. The ten miles ending the 280th weie run in 23:05. At this stage Peralto's doctor gave him a light dose of aromatic spirits of am monia. From the 280th to the 290th mile there was an even round of running, the ten miles scoring 23:52. I'eralto's physician. Dr. John IT. Eden, informed tho reporter for The Sln that the rider had danced nearly all the night picvious to the race at a picnic, and had only about an hour's rest. Although Per alto's lips turned blue on the 201st mile, he finished it iu 2:30, and seemed infused vi?h a new life. From this ti;ne out. to the close of the 305th mile the wonderful horse man was sent elf at each mile wi'Ji cheers and yells from the spectators and stable men. In closing the 3)2d ml'.e he vaulted from the back of one h.trse to Ihe other without touching the ground. The last. 14 miles weio run in the following remarka b time: 2021. 2:13; 2J3 I, 2:32 5 204th. 3:20 ; 205th, 2:27 ; 200th, 2:24 , 207th, 2;20; 2 Sth, 2:25; 200' h. . 2:21 ; 30th, 2:25; 3 list, O:20 . 20olf o.31 . 3. 2.VJ . 30-ib and last, 2:14. The last mile was within three seconds of the quickest mile inn. It was finished at exactly 0:31, thus giving Peralto 20 min utes to spare in his great race against time. A. V. Sun. Two TJf.mahKai5I,f, AccmF.XT. In the transactions of the Medical Society of New Jeisey, for 1877, Dr. Ityeison repot ts the case of a child which lived four weeks with over an inch of No. 1 sewing needle in the heart. Search for the needle be foi e death was unsuccessful. At the autopsy it was found to have pnssed pftriHHy through the cattilageof the fourth rib, in to the wall of the light ventiicle. Pus welled np through the parforated cai tilage, and loose in an abscess holding an ounce or more of pus, in the muscular substance, lay the needle. It was supposed that un til loosened by suppuration the broken end of the needle remained fixed in the rib, thus pinning the heart to tho client wall. A still more remarkable accident, which with recovery, is reported in the Transac tions of the Medical Society of Pennsylva nia, for tlie same year. In Ibis case a boy of font teen was impaled on one end of a carriage shaft, the point of the shaft enter ing one inch below the left nipple and coming out at the back. The victim was swung three times into the air by the rear ing of the hoises. then pushed himself off, and walked home with some assistance. No cough or hemoptysis followed and apparantly little shock. Effusion into the I'letiia occurred with discharge of pus, front ami back. This gradually lessened, and finally both wounds closed, the one in the breast last. Ihe boy has recovered robust healih. Up in Ihe loft the old man kept n keg of the very best. The carpenter who had been working on the fiist floor was found in the loft, and he tried to f jol the old gent uy saying that he had 'just come up to measure a rafter.' The' old mau simply winked and said, 'I th ink you're after my measure. Jolm Wanamaker's Grand Depot, SjMO-, 1878. THE second year of the General Dry Goods Business at the Grand Depot is just opening. It is proper to liay that what was deemed n 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 througliont the House. , 2 One Price and no partiality. 3 Politeness and Patience to rich and poor. 4 Cash Returned if buyers return etods 'even though Dress Patterns) in reasonable timo 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 can 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.'1 wrtfjIf not coming to the city to see the magnificent Lil'j '" i ' '' 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 WANAMAKER, Grand Depot. Thirteenth and Market Sts. PHILADELPHIA. T1I JjyGIMlRRS STORY. BY ERF..V E. llENFORn. Ves. sir. T fo believe in r hosts. Wliv ? Well, sir, because I saw one once. Tell , you about it ? Well, sir. I will, if you'll ! set down an' listen. 'Taint very much to . tell, but it was a good deal to see, you can just bet your life, an' I never go by the place when I see it without feel in' kind o' scary. ; Leni' me sec. 'Twas iu C0. I was jist beginniii' my work on this road that year. Pd been on a road out West, but a fiiend got one the position here that I've kep' ever sence. It. was a rainy, disagreeable day when the affair I'm gom' to tell you about hap pened. Jest one o' them days that makes a Teller feel blue in spite of himself, an he can't tell why, neither, Mess ho lays it all to the weather. 1 don't know what made me feel so. but it seemed as if there was danger ahead ever after we left Wood's Station. An' what made it seem so curious was that the fcelin' o' danger come on me all to once. It was jest about 4 o'clock, as near as I can tell. Anyway, jest about the time when the dovvn express must have got safely by the place where what I'm gsiiti' to tell you about happened, I was a standin' with one hand on a lever, a-lookin' ahead through the drizzliu tain, feeliu' chilly an' kinder ojwuheartcd, as I've said, though I didn't know why, when, all of a Midden, the idea como to me that somethin' was wrong somewhere. It took hold o' the an' 1 couldn't iit red of it, nohow. I knew that all was 1 ight about the engine. Put that fcelin' that there was dauget ahead never let up once alter it got into my head. Queer, wasn't it? Hut 'twas so. Icouldlit account for it after I'd found out there was danger, jest as I'd felt, an' I hain't never been able to account for it sence. It got daik quite early, on account o' the fog an' the rain ; it was Hark as pitch afoie we left llolbrotiok, which was the last sta lion we passed afore we come to the place where I see the ghost. "I never felt so queer in my life afore," said .liicmy , the tiieinan, to nic, all of a sudden. As I was feeliu' q'-.cer myself, he kinder stall led me. a say in' what he did. Why ! What d'ye mean?" said I, with out letim' on that I felt uneasy myself. "Do' know," answeted Jimmy ; 'can't tell how I do feel, on y as if sulhiu' was goin" to happen." That was just it I I felt the same thing, an' I tole him so, an' we talked about it til we both got teal fidgety. There's a putty sharp cuive about twen ty miles from Hi lbriux. The rond makes a turn 'round a mountain, an' the river runs below ye, about forty fixit, orsech a matter. Its a pokei ish-lotkiii' i l ice when you hap pen to bo goin' over it an' thiik what 'ud be iT the train should pitch over the bluff inter the river. Wall, we got to the foot o' the mountain just where the cuive begins. The light from the heat! lamp lit up the track and made it hi ight as day, about as fur as from me to I he fence yonder, ahead " t he engine. Outside o' that spot, all as dark as you ever see it, I U Wt. All lo once I .see . it bin right ahead, in the bright liht. We alleis 1 1111 slow 'round this curve, so I could see dist inct. My hair iu titit up, I tell ye, fer nhat I bee was a Thirteenth Street, Ladies' c Misses' Suits ' Sacques cC Cloaks " Underwear Jtoslery Upholstery Goods Blankets and Quills Trunks and Valises Rubber Goods Horse Covers Men's cC Boys' Clothinff ItatS ( Shoes man a standin' right in the middle o' the track, a-wavin' his hands an' I grabbed hold o' the lever an' whistled down brakes ; an' stopped the train as fast as ever I could ! fer ye see I thought it was a live man. An' Jimmy he see it too, an' turned 'round to me with an awful scart face, for hetho't Mire he'd be inn over. I Hut I began to seej'twan't any flesh-and-blood-mati afore the t.rain come to a stop, fer it seemed to glide right along over the 1 1 ack, kcepin' just about so fer ahead of us all the t itne. "My God ! it's a ghost." cried Jimmy, a Rtabbin' me by tiie aim. "You can see 1 ight through him." An we could X Yes, sir, we could. When I come to no ticc it, the figger ahead of us was a kind of foggy-lookin thing, and onlv half hid any thing that was behind it. Hut it was just as much like a man as Von be, an' you'd a baid the same thing if you'd a seen it. The train stopped. An' then, sir, w hat d'ye think happened? Well, sir, that ffir Jr.st grew thinner an' thinner till it seemed to blend right in with the log that was all around it, and ti e fust we knew 'twas tone I "It ws a ghost I" said Jimmy, in a whisper. 'I knew somethin' was a coin' to happen, 'cause I fcl; so queer like." The. come a crowdiu up to find why I'd stopped the train, an' I swear I never felt so kind o' queer an' foolish as I did when I told 'em what I'd seen 'cause I knew they didn't b'lccve in ghosts, mos- likely, an' they'd think I was dnmk or crazy. "He see it, too," st I, point in' to Jim my. 'Yes, 'rote jod, I did," sez Jimmy, as solemn as iT he was a witness on the stand. "This is a pretty how d'yc-do," see the conductor, who didn't b'lecve we'd seen anything; I thought you was a man o' sense." 'T though so, too," sea I, "but I can't help w hat I see. If I v. as a dyin' this min nit I'd sear I see a man on ihe tiack, or leastwise the gost oT one. I thought 'twas a real man when I whistled." An' so would I," sez Jimmy. The conductor couldn't help seem' that we was iu earnest, an' b'Iccved what we said. "Take a lantern an' go along the tiack," sez he, to some o' the men. An' they did. An' what d'ye spese they found? Well, sir, they found the rails all tore up j"St at the spot where the train would a shot, over the bluff into the river if il bad a gone on 1 Yes, sir; they found that, an T tell yon there was some pretty solcin' look in' laces when it got anions the passengers bow near we'd been to death. "I never b'lecv.-d in go5ts," sez the con dnclor, "hut 1 b'leeve you see fnmelhin'. t'oniiell, an' you've saved a precious lot o lives. That's a sure thing." Well, sir, they went to hnnlin' 'round, mi' they found a lot o" tools an' thing that the men w ho d tme up the rails had 1-ft in a hurry, when Ihpy found the train wasn t goin' over the hl itl as they'd expec ed. An they found, 'o, when it. come light, the hotly o' thti tciti whose business il was to see to the cm v. where 11 bad iteen bid away alter bei ' murdered. An' that man was the m?n whose ghos, we had seen. Yes, sir. He'd come to warn us o' the danger ahead after the men had killed him, an' was a ivailin' for us to go over the rocks to destruction. An' he'd saved us. I round out allerward that there was ft lot o' motley on board, an' I s'pose the then who tore np the track knew it. So that's my ghost try, an' it's true one, sir. Chicago Lfhjtr. Ax Afff.ctino ANKcnoTF.-On one or the many biidges in ( Jheur stand two large biazen images of father and son, who ob. I tained this dist ineuished tnnik of their fellow citizens by the following incidents 1 Roth the father and the scti were, for PlttlC ofleiK-e against the State, roiit'.eiimetl to die. S itrte favorable circumstances appearing Cn the. siile of the son, he was granted a remis sion of his sentence.nnilcr certain provisions in short he was oft'ered a pardon, on a most cruel and barbarous condition tianie'.v, that he would Itecomr) the execiitionrr if his fa'her I He at first resolutely refused to preserve his life by means so fatal and de testable. This is not. to be wondered at : for let us hope, for the honor of our nature, that there are very few foiis who would not have spnr'.ied with abV.orrence life unstained on a condition so horrid ami unnattir.il. The son, though long inflexible, was at length overcome by the tears and entreaties or a fond father, who represents to him that, at all events. his (the father's lifa was forfeited, anil that it would be the greatest possible conso'ation for him in his last moments that, in his death he was an instrument of Ids son's preservation. The youth cptiented to adopt the hor: ihle means of recovering his life ami libettv, he lifted the axe hut, as it was altout to f. his arm sunk t-erveless. and the axe ilrotipetl fitsm his hand ! Hail he as many lives as hairs, re could have yielded them all, one after another rather than again conceive, rnnch less perpetrate, such an act, I,ife, lilriy, everything vanished, Wfore the dearer interests of filial afTWtioii ; he fell upon his father's neck, ami embracing biic, triumphantly exclaimed : ' My father! we tlie together !" and then called for .-mother execut'oner to fulfill '.he sentence of the law. Hani must their hearts indeed tie bereft cf every sentiment of virtue, every sensation of humanity who could stand insensil If spectators of sni'li a scene. A uilden peal of involuntary applause, mixed with moans ami sighs, rent the air. The execution was suspended, and, on a simple report of the transaction to ihe authorities, both were pardoned. High rewards ami honors were conferred on :be son ; and finally these two admirable hrafen linage were raised to commemorate a transaction so honorable to human nature, and transmit it to tlie instruc tion ami emulation of posterity. The statue represents ihe sen iu the very act oi letting fall the axe. A PF.crt.ATl IllvF.U. The Colorado 1 iver Cnotthe Texas Colorado" isnoied r.irswiils so called. Thcv occur everywhere, but on!yathigh water. A bubble lises from the bottom and burst f w ith a slight sound on the surface. The water at. this point begins a rotary motion so small that an in verted teacup might cover it. Larger and larger crows the ciicle. Sill a surface of 3" feet in dt: meter is tt motion, spinnir.g aro tnd & f jnncl shaped h tie iu the centrcj two or tin te feet ncmss the top and coming to a iHunt in tlie debth below. Often a large tree floating down the stream is caught, and its foremost Snd thrust up in air twenty or thirty Tect while the other passes underneath the exposed end to be slowly drawn down again and disappear. Three soldiers rlrseitns from Camp Mohave passing tlie ravine iti a skiff, im mediately below the folk, snflerrd their Craft to run into a sw irl. One of the crew, a' the fust intimation of danger, threw himself ovei board beyond the charmed circle, and as he swm awav, he saw the boat spin around nut il one end being dow n in the vortex and the other upheaved in j the air, it sank as it revolved into the tnt bid bosom of the iiver,its htiinan frciyht to be seen no more i for the Colorado liver does tmt give Up the dead tin corpses lodge on its shores. ?ISCl.AU PHEnomf.no?. There was Dnce found, says the Inyo (C'al.) "Inde pendent," a pair of field glasses in the desert near what is known an Death's Valley. The glasses aie supposed to have brlonecd to Hnhn a lost c tl'dts of Wheciei's Expedition. They wore brought into one of the inteiioi towns by an Indian, ami pnichascd from him. The most singula! fact connected with thfm Is that every object within rnngTi of where the glasses had beetl lying for a year or more is dis tinctly photographed upon them. We have heard of such phenomena before, but this is one of the iii'ist remai kable instances we remember.' Hoth object cl sscs are Coverrd w ith pet Toct and b.'nntitnl photo graphs or etchings oT desert shi ulx, s'enis. branches, leafstalks. Leavrts ami leaflets ate distinctly mnikcd, as if laid on by a master hand. There is no mixture or confusion of one plant with another, each having a clear bonier of unmaiked glass, rcndei ing it probable that I he sun or lie lit 11 ing photnura'ibt or whatever it mav be. I was received tin titigh t he e3-e glass. These : picture vctn to occupy a position about , the center of each of the obj-ct glasses, , bur a little uenrer the piano than the con vex sine. The Pkn. The earliest mode of wi iting was on bricks, tiles, oyster shells, stones, ivory, baik, and leaves of t rees ; and fjom the la ter th term haves of a bo k" is probably deiived. C'ppei a-id brass plates were vety early i:i use ; atid a bill 'f feoff n.etu on coiuw r w is some vcais sirce dis- coveied in India, beating date 100 yeats H. i C. Leather was also ns-tl, as wc l as i wooden tabhfs. Then t he pfpyi us came j into vogue, and about tl.ectgliih erntuty the papyms was supctseded by pitchmen , ' Paper, however, is of gieat antiquity, es- I pccially among the Chinese ; but the fi st j paper in ill in England was built in 1 "" by j a German, at Dart foi d, in Kent. Nexer-j theless, It was nearly a centioy and a half ; namely, in 1713 befoie Thomas Wat- 1 kins, a stationer, brought lmper-making to anything like perfect ion. The fust ap j proach to a yn was the stylus, 9 kind of i iron Ixidkin ; but the Iloniatis foi bade its . use on account ot its frequent and even fa tal use in quantls, and then it was made of bone. Subsequently, it etls. noiiitt d and : split, like pens as iu the present day, weie used. .TrT one," mnrtnnied he. i:iv lnn'at ily drawing closer to Ihe luscious lips that smiled upon him with sticli ravishing be witchingiiess, while his m n qttiveied in an agonv of expectant anticipation. "So I notice," replies she, coolly, glancing st th clock, "and time for you to turn up ynur coat collar and shut the door from the out iu," He went. A MIGHT1 MAX. "THE ttfcntUT.FAN HUNTETt OF TH K GHFA.T AMERICAN PLAINS. AboO.t liitee miles down the Illinois rbore, near the little town of Cahokia, lii s a very queer Indian who bus a history as 1-e ma 1 kable as it is romantic He is a !u'.i blooded Cherokee, and nccoiding to Lis own asset t ions is over 100 years old. E's name is John Mehoo, and he w as ii tn in the county iT Jefferson, M sstssippi. win 1 his tribe resided over a century :'S ai.d from which region they were transported to the Indian Tcnitory. John, ci tlie "IVtg Indian," as he is famil.aily teimtd, is ati extraordinary person in appeatsnce, being six feet four inches in heicht , weig !i ing about U'O pounds, ami in spite of his age is eiect and comparatively robust. His hair is now perfectly snow white; be has but a few teeth b it, and within the last two or three years he has grown somewhat bald. He is a fisherman and frog htin'er by profession-, and has a wife about s xtv jeaisof age, a Fiench woman, who does not speak English. His fiist wife was an Indian half-hived, by whom he had two childreni bo'.h living in the vicinity of Ca hokia, aud huntcis and fpoUsnieu by vo cal ion. .At the age of seventeen Meehoo had al ready become noted for his physical sti met h and great powers oT eiiduinnce. Uufoitu nately he became iuvolvi d in a qua: 1 cl with the chief of the Cherokees, Mahanatal, and slew him. Meehoo, w bile making an rff 'i t to flee, was apprehended by his tribe, and, after a trial according to the forms common to the Cherokees, he was condemned to be burnt, at the stake, but during his shoit confinement, prepaiatoty to his undergoing this terrible penalty, be escaped. He went o the northern pnit of the territory of Mississippi, win re he joined the Cnicka saws. Here, 1ik, bis belignerent dtsponj tion broke out again, and be killed two oT the L'hoc aw chicfs.atid made captive a woman of the tiibewiih whom be fled. His life since then has been a series of wandeiing fiom one State to another. From Mississippi he proceeded to Louisi ana, ironi llieuceto lexas. ano 110m rexas to Missouii, and lorthe last fifty years he has been living iu the vicinity of St. Loui, where be has followed the ptecat ions avo cation of frog hunting. He has always been famed lor his leinai kable strength. During biseailier life he was able to lift I.0O0 pounds on a dead level. On one oc casion he carried upon his broad shoulders a haritlof poik weighing 3i0 pounds, from the lauding at East St. Louis, to his then homo below Cohokia, a distance or sir miles. Scveial yeats ago be lived in the old town or Kaskaskia, 111 Illinois, where he was employed in the flonni g nidi. Kcmaikable sloiit s aie told id tlu-Wond ;r rul fe.ttsof muscular Mtcngth per Turned by him. It is said lhat be was in the habit ol placing ttpon his rhonldeis two bags of wheat, weighing 2 0 jKtunds each, and car lying them up a flight of stairst This la bor he would pciloiiii for hours, never seem ing to tire. While roaming through 'he woods one day his dogs, which weie following bun, bajed a huge stag in the bed of a d:icd cieek. Mehoo was unaitned, and after seveial ineffectual l'0'oits to club the deer w ith such bludgeons as he Could pick up be seized the mini i.tlcd beast by the antlers, and by main "tret'tfth, 1 unlet! him over his head, bieakitig the animal's neck. Mclu") at one time was probably tin? mightiest hunter that roamed the w tit's of the Anieiicau bottom. Foity and fifty yeais ago bears weie plentiful in the thick loiests oT the sw ampy regions skitting th eas em shoie oT Ihe Mississippi, and bear hunt ing was Mchoo's favoi ilo fport. lie s'.ill can its upon him the marks of moie that! ooe leinble contest with savage biuin. Ti a upoitur who visited him on Thursday hit, he gave a recital of a re mai kable stiujgle he bad with a bear in the winter of lS.-O, while hunting thiough the Dry Cieek bottom, about seven mile south tf where C'ciitrcvi'.le stnt ion is imw situated. It wns on the 24th day of Ie C.'inber, ami a light snow covered the ground. Met-boo had gone out, for the purpose of hunting w ild hogs and had wit U him one dog that was tiained lu that pe culiar spoit. While tiaveis ug the bottom he was suddiMily cunliotited by a huge black bear. The dog nished at. him, but the bear at one blow of his powerful paw stretched Ihe poor brute dead, and at the distance of thirty bet bruin poised himsf If iu bis hind lees its if throwing down the gauntlet of battle. Mehoo immediately pulied down upon him with his rifle, but to his dismay the powder refused to go off. The cap exploded with a locd noise. It was immediately replaced by a fiesh one, but Itefore Meehoo could lire a second time the bear was upon bun. and in such clothe pioximity thrtt it .is impossible for him even to use the title as a club. The man ami beast closed in a teiiifbc struggle, the best' in his chat act ei is? ic game of bugging, the tlp'pei ate Indian M 1 ugcling to diaw his knife from li is belt. Meehoo laughing ly said to the M iwuter, "1 ttllyou, my son, ihe hug that b i gave rve was the worst I ever ha i in my life. At tiist I thought my vety libs weie lot. ken. nr.d I ft-It as if my entire body was nvisVcd to a complete jelly. My bica'ih was ei'ti-i'y I I'kcn a aay, and for a moment I w:.s entirely exhausted, but, iealiz::ig the de cr-4;e nature of my situation, 1 made a situcgle to fiee my light nun ami si C "ceded in d. swing my knife. Hefote 1 could i:e it, the Iwar bug gel me n:jin. but I n nnagcrl to get a hniall cut in iion Ids foi e boulder. The animal iel as d me and Iwnn to snap at me with bis teeth, art' struck me wnb his foic paw. Otie b'.oT" felled me to the giound and almost s-untied me into insen sibility. I.y i.ie tone 1 i-se u:e war was upon rne, b:t 1 had my knife in time and gve him a thrnst that made him gtowl j willi anger and h-n- !witb piiu.'' I '1 he old man then p'-'.retd d to relate t3 I the repoitei Ihe stvei.il details of the fight ami its re::'?. Ihe conet lasted ten minutes, the bear ceiling in bv"w upon blow, knocking his at t lc'uost "own, b"t never succeeding in getting in a bug ripon him. In tie iiieauftre Meehoo used Lis ! ktufe in savage depcrat ion. though for a j long time onab'e to touch a vital part of j the monster. Finally be managed to stab I the itesr in Ihe btait and kill him. j Mehoo "ow owns foi ty acres of lind and i lives with his squaw iu a vety piiti'itivc i cabin. He is an inoffensive old man now, aud continues bis dai'v ;t vications, molest- ing uo oue. St. Loui Keening Pott. The ben becomes a tun goes do wd. Tookter when the i i I! I E II ii OO I 00 E I tl u
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