. T . w-a a. THE CAMBRIA FREEMAN v t-UllSHED EVERY FRIDAY MORNING At Eteraburg, Pa., by H. A. McPike. iira', Circulation - 1,12S tU KPILI. A BrtOHISC. MATCH IT? srnstiiiprinji r.itf.n. ,..f,.ny, one year. ch in alvn:ic-f T ' - " IT not p'ii witinti 3 1 7i " if not o'd wilhiri 6 nm. 2.1" . " if not p'd wiiliiu year. . 2 26 Ib-Tii p-rnn 'ridinir outiil- the county j,, ,r,nU s-Xieioaal per year will bechartred to T..T r-rslite. ' V-ln no event will thf nhovp terms he le r,.l from, and those who don't consult their f,n 'nt-r" ly parinir in ioIvhih-c ruu-t r: ;t -rci t phtcfil on the am'? fooiiPK ;i,a those ,c' , i. Let ttns f ii t he distino' y uiiiierstco.i ,,','ij:s time forwar-J. 4f pay fur your pappr before youtnpi:. Tbe larfro and rapidly increasing- rir.olo of T"t 1 ttsrxAN cimmro'l It to thr favorable cnnpl1eratHn of a.l vertior. Adirtii.(.menU will be inserted at tbe following rates: 1 inch. 3 tine 1 " 3 months I " b niontbs 1 ' 1 rear S months 2 " ! yenr 3 " 6 mnntbs 3 " 1 year V cnl'n ti months . V ' 6 months H " 1 yenr 1 " 6 months 1 " 1 year - Administrator's and Executor's Notice. Auditor's Notice Stray and s'milar Notice 1 SO I M) 3.W VW 6 i no on lS.'t) in. no '."i CO :.co 40 no r.s no s? 2. no 1.50 HiiHineiM item. first insertion lie. per Itne; each suosequetit insertion 5c. per line. 0&Irit1uti'ttiK or prtv"f froT of ntiy r'-n"'-Hn or aocirfv. owl cmmtifiimtifnh itriijtir'i to call fit trntinn Inamt rrntternf litnitnl nr iifi 'Viduil 1ntrrrt, mnt ht jmul fnr at artrrr' nvnu titt. Job Pkitiko of all kini neatly a id epli tiousiy executed at lowest prices. Ion't,for ret it. W. A. EVisPIKE, Editor and Publisher. "HE is a freeman whom the truth makes free, and all are slaves beside.' SI.SO and postage per year, in advance. volume xitt. ERENSRURG, PA., FRIDAY, APHIL 11. 1879. NUMPER 12. FMn't e a f'trt wrrt-- hie'fl ii'O h' rr. if WW r If if rr fr Tr & Fr rr 71 tr r 1 & In' In ?r It 2325a323B52333B323232525!SI2 I1' HI Tti the face of everything, Wanamakcr & Brown increased their great Clothing business last year at Oak Hall nearly a quarter c-f a million dollars, ar.d for 1S79 the new plans will make the hoi:?e more popular and increase the business much more. Ki -hteen years in the people's service at the old corner of Sixth and Market has taught us how to do the business well. mi Whatever mftv be said, no house in the United States sells any tliin hke so much Clothing at Retail as Oak Hall, and no house in l h.ladelphia sells more than a quarter as many goods as Mr. Wanamakcr sells in Clothing alone. Doing this large bn iness shows the people's regard for our goods, and enables us to buy cheaply and sell at small profits. NVw patterns have been made this year and new styles intro duced through Mr. Robert C. Ogden (formerly partner of the f mo'is firm of Devlin & Co., New York), who is' now associated vi ::h Oak Hall, and will give his whole energies and valuable experience to improving the manufacture of our Boys' and Men's Clothing. We do not buy Clothing like the dealers, but make it expressly for our own sales. The Spring stock is splendid, and no other make of goods, so far, have as much merit, or are sold as cheaply. Impressions have been erroneously given to the effect that Mr. John Wanamakcr. who founded Oak Hall, is not interested in ti c t i J store, and that it docs not have his attention ; on the ( .r.trary, his ownership of it remains unchanged, and he has lost none of hislue fr it. I.vcry tl.iy finds him supervising all its departments. Mr. William 11. Wanamakcr spends his entire time 0:1 the Oak Hall business. A VISIT THIS SPRING PARTICULARLY INVITED. WANAMAKER & BROWN, OAK HALL, 6th & Market Sts., Philad'a. THE LARCEST CLOTHING HOUSE IN AMERICA. IT SFKJIS TO Hin SO FOXT. Yes, his front nain is Tobias, And h isn't over pious. And his eyes are on the bias. So to sjioak : And his only aim and lx-nt is Nobby cli.tliino tor this jji-nt is Just a bit non compos mentis Like, and weak. And this feather-weighted (rent he Thoiitrli not over on--:t,il-t vMity Has of knowledge quite a plenty, So to spf;i k : For he'd rather be a pmncing. And kicking at a dancin;. Than his stock of wit oin-liancing Learnina Greek. Tho' he ajx-s the draw! and stammer When he dons bis sleek claw-hammer. Yet Tobias shoots his grammar, Si) to sjHNl.k : Ami he questions very rarely CSo his i lotbes an liaujh: fairly) If his brain be faslioned squarely Or oblique. No. he hns no education. And his lieauty took vacation 'Bout the time of his creation. So to s)eak : And Umu mature reflection, Taking etch distinct bisection, I've decided bis complexion's I.'atlier weak. Tho' his shirt ha not a rimple. Nor his beardless chin a dimple, Yet he boasts a chronic pimple n his beak ; And hi voice is not reliant. For at times he is defiant, And at times it is a pliant Little squeak. N"ow it seems to me so funny That this half-demented sonny Should be loaded down with money, So t" speak : Whilst the writer of this ditty, Who you see is rather wittv," Has to scrub about the city On his eheek. Xein York Commercial AdrertUer. A NKiHT OF HORROR. it- HERE I JsJSI. AGAIN! NOT A Si AN AM'IUANT R)l!- PUBLIC OFFICE HI T AS A (AM)IIATi: I'Ol! V V rII C PA TltONACK! ; polled d 11 his llliil .ll V.-s' :i ml i ml :i r! llsiVC s. ;',,. ; d in th it his ! ills' ness .;i LARGE STOPvE OX II I (HE STREET, Recently occupied by McLaughlin Crcther3f he lias jusf iqx'iieil ai d i n -.'.nit ST ) K ol v iitTeriiisr for fab i . n i k ,,r v rv .11! llTllUClre !'script ii -n. variod an 1 le- Bar- "3e.s:xjbc:o :' lllv piej M,. d to pull down in fact has pul!. d down the prices . ai d is !::( l"i hai P-.i:. .i in-.' arjaiiis ai; hind of DRY GOODS, DRESS GOODS. HOTIOHS, HUTS, CAPS, ; Boots, Shoes, Groceries, Hardware, Tinware, Soinoyca. ;;.-.) 1 was traveling through Iowa for the wt .! known house of Scuy ler. Hartley and Oraham. f Philadel phia, and having biisines in Montgomery the county scat of Powesheik county, engaged a horse at Orinnell. the nearest railroad town, for the purpose of oarry iii'jr me there. ; Montgomery wasdistant some fourteen I miles', and being in 110 particular hurry I joiinicvcd along quite leisurely so thai I 1 blight feast la eves Upon the endless. I roiling prairies, which were at this sca- ! son of the year (.J line j clot hed in wild (lowe rs of the most beautiful and varie- gated hues. The sun had aiiuo.-t reached the me ridian and. judging l'mm the distance I . had come. I in. ii,ic;:J ariiv 1 x pi-ct 1 d to see the church spjivs nf tbe town loom into view, when suddenly my horse, with a liiingh d snort ol' terror and pain, reared up with such violence as to almost un seat me. lie then began prancing foar- I fully, gazing the meanwhile with teiri- ' lied and distended eyes at the ground beneath his b'l'e t'eet. t asting my t -e in the same direction I In-held to my h u'i'oi a large snake of the eoppi rhead species, directly under '.lie Iioi's "s hoois. whii h had aheadv trampled the serpent intoa shajM less and v. ritliing mass. Dismount iiig. T oxanihud the horse and discovered, that he had been bitten on the right foreleg. Patting the jmmij fellow. I succeeded in partially quieting Ids fears, and. hading him away from tlif snake, t he sight of which appeared ; to cause all his terror. I finally reached a. cottage by tho mad side, the proprietor of which. n;xn being informed of the accident invited me into his house, whilst he made the or animal as comfortable as circumstances would admit. F.ntering the cottage. I saw that every thing was scrupulously clean, an apjiear ance of neat ness and thrift pervading the whole house and its surroundings. I bad barclv time to make these observa- b. '1 !1 vntii!lli -oTtVifl IVolo Till' loom and bade mo In- seated. 11 ns. w i adjoining i: K X s V A IiK. i : 11 ill.lge i if c ''. ir moncN . ' ii-w is In -t Ac. ,ish Ac.. HUT don't I all. l ee w h ieh caiiin t fa il to ; w ho v. ant to vrX th tt rac most i'.et Use 1 i :i:n makes t li the attention and secure ;oods and thelK'st g(M)ds rs fact iiefore you keep: A broom h ran -1 sw eep. -ra uo. M vit u i'l. I sT. '.-if. POPULAR SL0TMMG BEPOT It!:KN HEMOVF.n TO- DR. CHRISTY'S BUILDING, Corner Eleventh Avenue and 13th Streets Altoona, Pa., WHEltE HAS Jl'ST riF.EN OPKXF.II A f.AKGE STOCK OF cwmiixe, fiKXT'8 puitxisnixe goods, HATS. CATS, TRUNKS, VALISES, UMBRELLAS, tc, &t -OF TUB- LATEX!, P,EST-NEATi:ST .SPUINC; STYEES And at PRICES SO LOW that it will pay you to buy from miv on, tiiii1, 12;: 11 I DM I W Mill I'.KMt OF P. Ii. It. PASSENGER DEPOT, ALTOONA, PA. WE HAVE REMOVED To No. 1307 Eleventh Avenue, ALTOONA, PA. ' liuiluirg o;-uiicl I'y us t " 1 jesr ajo, oppo.its Kfrt' Munic Store.) Look Out for IDTEIW SOCKI'.l.'ii:" SS'S,!?; AXO IJKi HAUO.AIXff IX" I WtY GOODS AND DKESS GOODSjSynivrS MILLINERY, CARPETS, ETC., ! FOR THE SPRING TRADE, THE BEST IN THE CITY, j ji Tr " " h,)1"" w"l -"T) all our 1.1 rriend.4 mln thn pat. n.l nil now one trlio wish to g'iTP I JTonaxe. an we can ,silre 'a in that 1 110 styicj will be the latet.t ami prices tho lowest. S. B. CORN. Manager, - ALTOONA, PA. K P'-.n.., ' - T " fill J"'"-! i.ici.r "n-t . . ,.,. Ir-' ' . ' " "' ."-11 I..-IIIK.U, h eotir-r in l 'i Vi-h'. Khet"rle and the liiirlier tiram-hei th.r h"'"'t"' "HI .Me.l ir .U-.ire.l. i'or f ' inf-,rTBi. call on or a.Mr- N'OWI.KDGE IS TOWER. The "n-leriigneil would re pec t fully inform Ii t.i (it thnr?"lvp f,.r the T!irher" 1-ir int other 01!n! in iife. thxt l n a Hmih s, Hf 01. ami Normal Ink n- iiimeire Ai.nl 1:1. 1:j. at the i.uMic 1 i-n wei.i.4. In :i l lm..n to the u--ii.il '1 in eil-M cIhmi . a Pour,, in f ,r - of far- t liT'J.-t. JOHN M'( ORMICK, AViImore, l'mlir;i Co., Pa. pkJOl'ICK. Notice is hereby given lliat th first and partial account of Thumh Koki. AJiifnee t.f .lnsirn (Iantnkr nnil mle lor the hen-m ol creilltors. has linrn lileil In tho olliee of the I'rot !mniUrv of the '..iirl of i;onnni.n i'lea ol t;;in:litia county, and If no ex eepimna l,e tileil to fni.l iirrount on or before the pr?t Mon-lay ol June nxt, the fni-l account will he column1'! ah..liirf Iv. tr. F O 'l)u.VSl'.Lt. rrothonotarv. Prothonotary' .'rfl-e, KLen-tmrir, Jtarch i4. ltt'l n Monlh an. I cxim 1 I mi;u a-. ... N11 'll-'e -ruar:inti'ci to . '.. i i -t. Airnt't. I turned to thank In r. but I started back in astonishment when I saw her counte nance. Wolds arc inadequate to de scribe her as she appeared to me such an utterly woe-beg. me. corpse-like face I hojie never to sec again : it was perfectly bloodless and of a leaden hue. the eyes being expiv.srdonicss. while her hair and eyebrows were as white as the driven snow, although I did imt judge her to be more than forty years of age. Perceiving that my gaze gave her pain I apologized for my int rusion ami ac cepted the seal she proffered me. "My son-in-law informs me that your horse lias met with an accident. " said she in a quiet, subdued tone, as slit; seat ed herself in a chair opMsi:e me. '"Yes. ma'am." replied I. "lie was bit ten by a snake." I shall never forget the change that came over her in an instant : she sprang from her chair and frantically screamed whilst she shook my arm, "Asnake. where?" Her face, which a moment lief ore was so deathlike, now li-caine fairly illuminated, and her eyes, hither to so utterly void of expression, actually Mashed tire as she excitedly reiterated, "Where! where!" The next moment she hail rushed from the house and down . the road in the direction from which I ; had come, wailing as she ran. "Oh the 1 cruel, cruel snakes!" To say that I was surprised and aston- ' ished at this .: i nordinary scene but faintly expresses the true state of my feelings, ami I raked my brain in vain, seeking for a solution of the mystery. The voting man who had taken charge of my horse, entering shortly after. I infomvd him of what had occurred and requested him to explain, which he did by relating the following story : It is some eighteen years since Mr. John Atkinson, who was a railroad builder, had a contract for grading a di- 11 id owns of Hrookh n and irinnel). and in order lietter to superintt nd the work, he deter- bun l himself a small house or nding to . 1 t 1 oecunv it but tennx variiv. ne cnose a s;Mit alx.ut equi-distant from loth sta tions, and upon a large l!at rock, which he said would answer admirably for a lb Mir, he built his house. The next day he moved some f urnit are into his new house, and fetching his young wiTe and infant daughter from (Jrinnell. where they were boarding, prepared to make themselves as comfort able as possible in their limited quarters. That night before retiring Mr. Atkin son fastened the door and only shutter that the shanty could boast, and. extin guishing the light. jumiM'd into bed. The young couple remained awake a longer time than was their custom, con versing upon their future prospects, when John Atkinson, who was in the midst ot a new project for amassing wealth. wa interrupted by his wife. Mary. v his)cring "Hush. John! Listen to the queer ou;!'l in ihe room.'" John obeyed and heard plainly a e 1 euliar. rasping, crawling noise on the j stone floor, which sounded like nothing i he had ever heard lefore. j "I wonder what it can lie?" contin ! ued Mary. "I don't know, but I'll get up and ; light the lamp and find out." replied John, cheerily. j He accordingly, throwing the lx-d j clothes aside, sprang to the floor, when, j with a scream of mortal agony he cried, j "Almightv IJod. Mary! Cover your 1 self and child with the blankets. The I house is full of rattlesnakes, and I'm a ; dead man !" ! The screams of the unfortunate man j as reptile after reptile fastened its fangs 1 in his quivering flesh, were terrible to hear, and the hissing and rattling of the i horrible monsters as he vainly fought ! them from him. added intensity to the ' already heart -rending scene. Fort 11 ' nately it did not last long and his last ! words as he sank to the floor were, "liod ; bless you and the child, dear Mary, and ! in his name don't uncover your head 1 then the snakes can't harm you ! Some of the men will release you to-morrow ! (iood bye ! good bye !" Imagine tiie thoughts of the poor w ife j eoiiie'l)ed to listen to the agony of her . loved one. helpless herself and unable to j render him any assistance, and her child to save. All that long night and next morning ! she lay, covered and half suffocated, j afraid to move and quieting her child, whilst the scaly reptiles crawled over her and even coiled themselves to sleep i on and around her warm body, protected i from their deadly fangs only by the lied ! 'clothes; and. oil! horrible thought, if) she should disarrange the covering and ! they should crawl beneath. Thus passed : that night of horror to that jxxir woman. In t he morning the men who worked : ' for Atkinson wondered at his prolonged : 1 absence, he lt'ing generally the lirst to ' make his appearance, until one of the ' ; party mentioned that in passing the new , house late last night, on his way to town. : he thought he heard screams proceeding from it. but when lie got opposite and ! stopped to listen, he heard nothing and so concluded that he must have been mistaken. This was enough to alarm the work men, who all liked John Atkinson, and 1 proceeding to the house they. knocked at the door and were answered by a smoth ered voice, the only word of which tle-y could understand lieing "snakes !" 1 Just then one of the men. who had been reconiioitering in the rear of the house, startled his comrades by exclaim ing, "My liod, boys, come here! This h"nse is built on a rattlesnakes' den." It was only too true : the reptiles were weoe crawling in and out of a small hole under the rock and the truth at once Hashed ujMin their minds. It would lie certain death to some of them if they dared to enter by the door or window. Put at a suggestion from one of the party, some immediately scaled the low house and proceeded to tear the boards from the roof, whilst one or twoothers hastened in search of ropes. After having demolished the roof a sick ening sight was discovered to their view. ! In the centre of the room lay the ghast ly skeleton of John Atkinson, t he ser jH'nts having literally eaten every parti cle of tlesli from the Imhics while they swarmed in hundreds, writhing and dart ing hither and thither, hissing and strik ing at every t hing in their blind passion at being disturbed at their horrible least. The men having by this time arrived with the rojH-s. they succeeded, after many failures, in fastening the rojie to each lied jsost and. w hile one of t he men ' kept the snakes off the lied with a ole, hoisted the bed and its occupants bodily tint of the room and lowered it to the ! ground. ' When they uncovered juior Mary and the child they found that she had faint ed. IJy thistime several women had aj pcared on the scene and these took charge of her and the child, whom they con veyed to tow 11. The men in t he meant ime. having now no fear of the mother and child, batter ed down the shanty and secured the ghastly skeleton : al'ier which they roll ed a couple of kegs of powder, which they procured from the railroad under the rock, and lighting a prepared fuse, blew up the rock, snakes and all. into mince meat. The few snakes which survived the explosion they killed easily with rods. Mrs. Atkinson survived, but she w as for many years a raving maniac, and her once beautiful hair, eyes and complexion had turned in that night of horror to what yon now see. She has. however, become rational again, except when snakes are spoken of in her pres ence, and then she once more liecomes insane and lives over that night in all its horrid details. These tits are becom ing rare and less violent lately, and we have hopes that, ultimately, they will altogether cease. Yes. sir ! the child lived and is now my dear wife. You can see her coming up the road now, leading her mother, over whom she has a wonderful control when she is suffering from one of those attacks. Your horse will be all right to-niorrow; copperheads are not so oisonous at this time of the year as they will be later." Smith Floriiln Jni rii"l. "THE II Al'XTEI) HOI SE." Stranee tmt Trne Story RIateI toy J. .rrll In Hon ton IMIof. WHAT JEALOrsV IHI). A t HFLOW ITII TIIK ltODY OF AN 'AI1KK AMI THE Hiss OF A SKltPF.NT. "TITER" NREE. HIS WOMIKKI I I. TROTTINU OX. (iENEKAL M.IH'l'M ( THE MIHDEK OF MRS. M liRATT. .V Cat that will Hatch Cirn k KNs. The auctioneer Uruev. says the Madison (Wis.) nim-rnl . reorts most strange transactions of a favorite female cat in his possession. Some time ago she presented the homestead w itha large litter of kittens, all of which the master of the place destroyed. The old feline mother became terribly distressed over the untimely and most imnat ural taking off of her kind. She moped around for days and weeks and would not le com forted. At last she took to the company of the poultry of the place, ami was ever moving alut in the company of hens especially. When one of the latter would seek a nest for the pui'iose of laying the cat would le her companion and would nestle down bv the side of the fow l. P.y and by the cat liecame a nuisance to the hens ami also to the roosters. They did not want the feline intruder, and war was made iqion her. Four or live game old chanticleers finally succeeded in com pletely exterminating the cat from the premises. Put in a few days she turned up at a near neighbor's place Widow Carv's : and here she had gained the good will of several old liens that were laying in the same nest. y and by the eat took possession of the nest and could not le coaxed away from it. Then the lien used 1o get close to the cat's side, lay an egg. and after departing the cat would get np and let the egg roll into the nest. Thi n she would lie down and carefully protect the nest and its con tents. She will not lie driven from her possession ; and she evidently expects that ere long she will le the happy mother of a large family. NAiaiATlVK I. HY MVsKLF. The time of my narrative dates back to the year 170. The events occurred in the city of Springfield, Ohio, i Situated in the very centre of the city was a mansion, old and lonely in aspect, i the property of a Mr. Foos. it hadlieen for several years uninhabited, when I strange rejmrts began to circulate. Per : sons who passed there at midnight, and other uncanny hours, often saw strange lights ami heard stranger sounds, until ; people liclieved that it was haunted. At length two young men of the town j resolved to see whether it was haunted ; or not. and thus put the fears and gos sipings of the town's jieople to an end. t Accordingly they took, up their quar : ters at the mansion. About eight ' o'clock they lit their candles, and made : themselves comfortable to receive their 1 ghostly visitors. ' The clock struck nine, ten, eleven, and it was now nearly twelve o'clock, the time for ghosts to appear. The great : clock in St. Kaphael's church lx-gan to ! strike one. two, three, four, live, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven, tirth-t. land then Xo sooner had the sonorous 1 peals died away, than the candles were : suddenly oxt inguished. and they were left in darkness. After a few minutes !a bright, circular light became visible i near one of the walls, and what a terrible 1 sjtectacle was brought to view ! A man was stretched from a tree with a roK 1 around his neck, while a 1mx lay at his j feet within reach he was a suicide. I His distorted features and glaring eyes ! were plainlv visible, while his tongue. ' black and swollen, hung at least half a i foot from his month! To complete the i ; horrible picture, hundreds of demons j ; wen-dancing around his contorted ligure. 1 1 Then followed a wild burst of laughter ; and the apparition vanished. The young men hadnot exjiected this. While this strange scene was enacting , they sat stupefied with fear, their hair, act ually standing on end. At length their horrible sell was , broken, and w ithout even stopping to snatch their hats, they tied the house. As they were fleeing along the street. 1 they ran right into the arms of a tall, muscular man. who seeing their affright ed coiidition. tightened his grasp umhi them, and asked them to explain their fright. They told him all. After they had finished their story, the detective (for it was no other than Detective John Purnside. of New York, who was visiting friends there 1 told them "to say nothing about it. but wait and hope." and he would discover the my stery if possible. About two weeks after the detective returned home so his friends thought. In course of time the young men dis- covered that they could no longer Keep the secret, and so they divulged it. It raised a great excitement, of course, and the people of the city gave the place a wide berth. The strange sounds and sights were continued, until the jicople believed without a doubt that the house was haunted. We w ill pass over a year. One morning a js.-a- of police, headed by a tall man in plainclothes, approach- ; ed the l'.xis mansion, unlocked the door, and passed in. In a few minutes the sound of pistol shots was heard, and then all was still. In a few minutes the yns. emerged t rum the house, looking much larger. What ci mid it mean ? , And now. little Ants, my narrative is ; at an end, and Detective jiurnside will : finish the story. NARI1A ITVK l!. F.Y DI'.TKl TIVK hl'HX- ; i sIOK. After I left the two young men, said Detective I Jurnside afterwards in telling the story, my mind was made up 1 would discover the mystery. Accordingly, the next evening. I pro ceeded to the mansion. It was a mere reiictition of the story of the young men. as far as the apparition. As soon as the lock struck twelve my caudle was blown out by a gust of wind. I know, caused by the slamming of doors. And what a terrible sight met my eye. I ; shudder now when 1 think of it, so ter ribly real it looked. There in Ihe same sjiot that the young ; men had described. I saw a young and : beautiful girl on her knees. A form was t lending over her. its hand cia ;ed i her long golden hair, while a keen. ; bloody knife was drawn across her fair, white throat, while torrents of crimson j blood dripjied down upon the floor. j I regained by self-ossession enough to . draw my pistol, aim. and fire. A wild ' laugh followed, and my bullet w as heard 1 crashing through the wainscoting. 1 The apparition vanished slowly, and 1 happening to turn around I discovered the mystery. j It was a gang of some sort. I was j sure, and I was resolved to capture : them. A few weeks after I joined the gang, by means known only to myself ! a professional secret. There were conn terfeiters. burglars, and everything else among them. I w ill not weary the read- er with a description of the numerous burglaries they committed, or of the va- ' rious ways in which they manufactured anil "shoved" their 'queer" money." After staying with them for alut a 1 year, I resolved to break up the gang. 1 for I had now ample evidence to convict 1 them. j Accordingly. I obtained the jmssr of jHilice. and raided the house. After a slight resistance they were captured. 1 When they found" out who their cap tor was they threatened me with ven geance dire, if they ever escaped ; but ! they never did, for "there was not one of them but had committed enough crimes to condemn them for life. A few w eeks after the gang were sent to prison I took opwrtmnty to show some visitors the house, and explain the secret of the ghosts. In the room w here the apparitions apeared I showed them , a secret door, and lndiind it was an al cove. This was the place, where the ! robU-rs had hidden themselves every A correspondent of the Chicago Times, w riting from Paw Paw. 111., gives an ac count of one of the strangest freaks of nature ever recorded. lie .says : Aluuit seven years ago a family re moved from an eastern state to the town ship of Paw Paw. in this (DeKalb) county. From all aiiearancest lie family, consisting of the parents and two chil dren, lived in harmony. Thev had not lived long in their new home when the husband's sister arrived from the east and look up her .abode in their family, she was fair, and in some way formed the acquaintance of a voting and zealous minister then feeding "a flock of lambs in a neighlioring city. Through her lie w itching manner and surpassing loveli ness of form and face he liecame appar ently deeply enamored of her. It is al leged, however, that he deceived the girl and never intended matrimony. As a natural eonseouence his actions created great consternation among his flock, and especially embarrassed his victim of mis placed confidence. So great was the ex- 1 citement that the reverend gentleman ! left for parts unknown. Though 110th-! ing transpired to show the guilt of the i unfortunate girl, she was often goaded ' 1o madness by her sister with the con- j stant accusation of disgraeingthe family, i In revenge she went to her brother, w ho often sympathized with her, and made some false, startling and disgraceful re velations reflecting on the character of her sister (his wife) in connection with the jxilluted pulpiteer. ISroodinc over i his misery, he went into the havlield. : He hail not worked long, however, until , he discovered a huge snake crawling in 1 the grass. Prompted by a spirit of re venge the irate husband nicked it 1111. secreted it in his Mcket, and immediately : went to the house. In the doorway he met his innocent wife, who was utterly unconscious of the great wrong that had been jierpet rated ujion her. Approach ; ing her in his rage, he put his left arm around her neck and shoulders and with ' his right hand drew from his pocket the ever-accursed snake, which he abruptly . thrust into the Ikisoiii of her dress. Fran i tic with terror, she disrolied as rapidly ' as jxissible. but not until the serpent had glided through all the accesses of the clothing next to her person. This event though momentary in its fulfillment was , an evil, the sad effect of which brands an unfortunate creatiireduring its exist ence. Time passed rapidly away, until childbirth revealed the ever to le re gretted incident. In the meantime the innocent wife pleaded and dearly proved her innocence and wifely virtue. This allayed th- anger of the husband, and ! again united the heads of the household. The above are well authenticated facts, while the Ti:iir. reporter witnessed the following in person : n a back, out of the way road, that crossed an expanse of prairie, the Tiims corresNiudent dis covered the house, consisting of apart ments built after the manner of an ii- right and P. and standing at a consider able distan.-e from the road. He stop led. and his knock at the door was re- sponded to by an intelligent looking, middle-aged woman, w ho invited him to come in and sit down. Kverylxwly alout : , the house presented a neat and homelike ' apjiea ranee. When he made known the object of his visit he was led toa spacious room, where, in a basket about seven feet hmg and three feet wide and about two feet high, lay the animated specimen that combines in one lxidy the human , ami the ophidian. After removing the ; ! woolen blankets that covered the form, it uttered a prolongcdhissshnilar tothat of a snake. It is a male, nearly live years of age. and is live feet seven inches : in length. Peing unable to attain an upright jMisition, he crawls about similar to reptiles. lie is s;eechless. and makes no utterance except to hiss. The head is bald and spitted on the crown. The mouth contains fangs. He is carnivor ous, hreat lies slow and can live a long time without food. The lwidy is perfect in form, but spotted with black, while the arms and lower limbs are like the body of a snake, scaly, flexible and taper to points. This horrible sight only proves the truth of the adage. "Truth is st rang er than fiction." All who have seen it pronounce it one of the greatest living ciiriosjt ies. How Hi liXKl) Moi.ASsrs ('ANDY Madk ( )nf. Woman Pu n. There is a stately dwelling-house in Philadelphia which has a singular history. It stands in a grove of walnut trees ; the wood work is all of walnut : carved panels representing walnut boughs decorate the dining-room : and on the carriage of the owner, instead of a coat of arms, is a bunch of walnuts just bursting from the husks. The story is this : Aliout forty years ago a or woman kept a cent store in an alley, in the lower part of the city. One day. when making molasses candy to lie sold to the street children, it was scorch ed. The woman was in despair. The In March, ls.10. "Tater" lireen and five comrades left their homes in North ern Ohio, in the vicinity of Findlay, Hancock county, with theavowed inten tion of making their fortunes at Pike's lieak or Cherrv-creek ilie-p-inus- Fverv- thing went all right with the party until ! the f.ie thev crossed the Arkansas, when a feel ing of homesickness Wgan to make itself felt among the emigrants. Men would liecome sick for a sight of civilizal ion and break off with the party, causing a general divide. In this way they would sometimes cut va ;ons in two, ami even, (ireen says, he once saw an ox cut in two. (ireen's partner was one of the disaffected, and. in deciding to pull up stakes, a division of property was made, he taking one ox and the front w heels of the wagon. Crecn taking the other ox and the hind wheels. Out of these he made a sulky in which he drove his ox. At Denver, disheartening rejmrts began to meet him. Disgusted miners pushing for home met them every day. The tide turned, and threats of bumingSt. I.ouis ; were made. Indeed, a party was organ- 1 ized for that purjiose. but never eonsum- i mated it. Checked by the news that no gold was to lie found in the Cherry creek ; diggings, "Tater" squatted on a l'iO ' acre tract, upon which, by the way. : (iolden City now stands. j Denver, in the days of ls.V.i. was pro bably as fast a place as any city on the continent. It was the jioiiit where civil- ; ization met the wilderness. The for- 1 t lines made in lxnanza mining were spent here with an ocn hand. One day, as ! (ireen was driving his ox from his home- . stead into Denver, some fellows on horse- hack attempted to pass him. I lie ox, moved by the spirit which infested the place, probably, quickened its stejw until it went oil in a swinging trot, leaving the horses liehind. This was the first in timation (ireen had that his lol-tailed ox (it was lMilMailed) could trot. The idea then presented itself to him that if he could only accustom the bovine to trotting a certain distance on a certain piece of ground he could out -trot any horse in the neighliorhood. There was a gambler by the name of Pandale. from : Illinois, in Denver at this period, who owned a horse that could do his mile in ; -2:40. Pandale was quite a hum of I Jrecn. and would occasionally drop into his quarters and blow his horse's tin inet. , A day or two after Nreen's discovery of his ox's jiowers Pandale lropcil in on him andas usual lcgan "talking hoase. " "Watching his chance. ireen remarked that he had an ox that could beat Kan dale's horse for '' yards. Pandale laughed at first, then got mad. and at last offered to let tell to one t hat it could not lie done. The bet was promptly taken, and they adjourned to Ihe pre pared place. The ox was back d up to a little hand-cart, half a yoke put around his neck, a couple of saplings serve d as shafts, and the whole rig was completed by a pair of ox-hide traces. Pandale was to do the scoring and control his horse subject to t he act ion of hislxiv hie adver sary, as I ireen knew very well it would never do to tritle with his steed. When everything was ready, away they went (ireen. with hislongblack-snake. making things lively for the ox. and Pandale swearing iike a troojn-r at his t:4o nag. Sure enough, at theend of :! hi y ards, the ox came in ahead. On the spot Pandale lHiught half the ox for ?"Mi. The next , day he was pitted against two horses, and the whole city turned out to see the re markable phenomenon a trotting ox. Again was he victorious, and. amid the wildest excitement, he passed the line six lengths ahead. Kvery day thereafter he defeated a horse or two. and there soon became a popular demand for a share in the ox. Accordingly a stock company was form ed with a joint stock of $'.4ihi. Wing i;4 shares of .-r'li'O each. The stock went like hot cakes, and sold awayalxive )ar. Ilia wet k. during which he had won several more races, the stock wasquoted on the gambling-tables, and passed for ?1. "i a share. At last a horse sired in San Francisco came along, and a trial of sjH-ed was made up between him and the ox. If the crowd of sjeeiators had lx-eii large Iiefore. it was gigant ic on this day. It seemed as if the whole count ry t urned out. and it was estimated that there were lo.ooo people 1 'resent. Kverything be ing in readiness, a way they went, herald ed by a thousand voices. The ox took the lead from the start : at the pHi-yard jxile he was a length and a half ahead ; at the J."i the distance had widened into five lengths, and the ox still gaining, i Put the old saying. "There's many a , slip "twixt the cup and lip," was never . truer than in the present case, and when within a dozen yards of the winning xist ' his oxship liecame tired and made uphis mind to stop. Accordingly he planted his front feet and refused to budge. Moral suasion, profane abuse, physical ill-usage, all, separate or combined, fail ed to move him. and the horse quickly ! trotted past, and txik the race, the ox j never reaching the winning Kst at all. 1 That minute the stink sank from ?l.ooo fieneral II. W. Slocum. one of the most distinguished brigade, division, corps, and grand division commanders of the war. recently delivered a lecture in Piixiklyn 011 events of the great struggle, during the course of which he expressed the opinion, alwav s held by that Mrs. Sinratt was a miir- ! dered woman. He said : ) "I nni going to sjx-ak to you one word j about the execution of Mrs. urratt at the : close of the war. for I think s.nne goo.1 les sons can le learned from the story of lu-r ! trial and death. 1 lx lieve any people sjtua j ted as we are ought to 1m- cautioned against ' placing implicit confidence in evidence given : at a time id high excitement. I could stand i here to-ui!'ht and relate to you fifty in- jdeiits ' that would serve to cant ion 1-very body auaiiist taking evidence airaiiist otheis wIh-h the people w ere all in a state of intense excite '. inent. There never was a day, there never i was an hour, that I did not N-iieve that Mis. Sunatt was an innocent woman as then is in this hall. Applause. She was the keejx-r of a boarding house in Washington. She lMiarded Mr. Wilkes l;.mth and half a : dozen other rebel sympathizers, and she had : a son. John H. Surratl. Wilkes liooth win j guilty of shooting Mr. Lincoln, and this poor . woman was brought to trial in connect ion ; with Wilkes booth, and through the exeite , inent of the times her neck was brought to the halter. Her daughter, a young girl -iizli- teen or nineteen years of age ."on the morning , of theexi-ciition went to the President's nx.in : and lx-gged permission to say a few words I to him in Iwhalf of her mother, and a I". S. Senator from our own State, who acted as dxr tender, repulsed her saying, "No, no, I you cannot go in." Worse than that, niean i cr than that, the xir girl three or four years ; afterward married a clerk in the Treasury i Department. Nocharges were made against : him, but lx-cai'se this clerk had married the ; daughter of Mrs. Surmtt lie was discliar-jed. ' Iet us brag of our achievements, hut at the same time let us learn to look our fault and errors fairly and squarely in the face and know lege them when we have cause to. " The murder of Mrs. S.nratt w;,s the most cruel and cowardly act ever com mitted in a civilized country. Ii is a, curious and suggestive fact thai a!! who Were chiefly responsible for the ecu tionof that innocent woman have felt the unseen hand of the (iieat Av ei-ger. Stanton, secretary of War. wh was jierhapsthe worst of the number, com mitted suicide in a fit of n morse, al though the fact was sought to !r con cealed. Preston Ktng. the Senator from New York, w ho rcpnl-s-d A ' sm t ittt at the President's door, in like manner ended his own life bv h iii-ciatelv pimp ing Iroin a Piver at New Y self. Andrew J.-l deatli warrant ain ed the writ of A lieen granted by .suddenly vv it h 1' the Senate alle delicv. Judge fenv I nk i.-.t !'lto and di .nsoii. v." In de-l ittf ITS the ' 0111 1, wa al h uj-on his ret lie had left tl Advocate lie the North w ned bim- .sigl.ed the t i.'.lily sliseiid rt, riiiis that had Icken li: to - Pl'esi t. Who coi id 1 ic 1 I'd t he prosecnt io;i. I. ig ago d is appeared from public iew. and w let her dead or alive iioInmIv knows and nobody can s. And John A. Piuham. v. ho as sisted Holt, was driven from Congress in disgrace as one of the ( 'red it Mobiiier briix- takers, and sought n t ugt in Japan, where we Ixdieve he now is. .''.', strr 1 iii'ni. Famk Awaits Him. Many persons are evidently ImiuiiiI to fill exalted posi t ions, the buds of genius showing them selves almost as soon as the chosen one is out of his nurse's arms. Many of our most eminent statesmen gave evidence in their youth of the osscssioii of snx r ior talents, which event ually placed t le-ni uhii the very pinnacle of fame. A s.an Francisco street Ixiy has a brilliant 11 it lite lie fore him. and if he is not one day rank ed among i he noble army of newspajx-r paragraphers. this i'.eHin iit ii;1d utterly failed to read the signs aright. He came lxiunding into tin- house the other day. and approaching his mother, asked : "Ma. will can Iv rot folks' teeth V" '"Yes. Willie, it will indeed, and 1 not want You to eat anv of that mjuri stuff." The embryo laugh bi.ilder was si"; for a while, ev idem Iv n h.arsing in mind the font nmam-e of the cuvi tion. and getting his queries in a -!. that would enable bin: to steer 1 leal all pitfalls. Fina'ilv lie continued : "Will it rot girls: teeth. ti-oV" "Certainlv. mv di do us .id his a- 1 loss was a serious one in a trade whose i a share down to l-4i4th of the value of profits were counted by x.'iinies. She was quick-witted, however, and ready with exix?dients. She cracked some walnuts, mixed, the Kernels w it h the can- ) tieement dv, and w rote a placard, "The New Nut otherwise Candy, one cent a cake." The children dropped in on their way to school. The candies were liked. They came back for more next day. The fame of the cheap confection spread from one sclaxil to another. The maker shrewdly confined herself to that. Presently she tik a larger shop in the alley. In a year or two she again moved, but this time it was into one of the principal streets. To-day her original walnut candy is sent off to all parts of the country. The wo man disjxised of her business a few y ears ago for a sum which made her rich for life. Is it any wonder that she took a ri)x' walnut for her crest ? Put it w.;s not to th" w.i'nuts nor to the lucky chance that she owes her for tune. How many women have burned their candy, and the result was only scorched molasses ! How many men saw apples fall Iiefore Sir Isaac Newton ' It is the Keen eve and the ready brain that the ox intrinsically as meat. Many efforts were afterward made to cix?rce the bovine into a trot, but all en- and iKTsuasion. gentle and failed, and he never trotted again. YoL'Xfs (irr.T.s. There is no more ex quisite creature on the earth than a gill niirlil anil, when the curious came to see the ghosts, thev frightened them I an seize on failures and make them sin siwav bv means of a mainc lantern. Mv cesses. tale is done. Daxikt. Schf.ikek. shoemaker, of j j Richmond township. Perks county, has I i in his possession a stone which he uses ' i in his shop, which was found by his j great-grandfather, (iottlielt Scheirer. on I the banks of the Moiioeacy creek, while taking a load ot wheat to j'liiiadeipiua 1 nearly one hundred years ago. (ieorge j Scheirer subsequently got possession of j the stone, which was used by him for a 1 number of years in the slioemakinglmsi-m-ss. until he retired, when the present owner got charge of it. and is using it at pres--.it in the pinuil '.f hi- avoeat iou. Wn at thkCattatn Told ins w iff.. Milliner ;to captain who has been buy- ing a hat for his wife) "Tell your wife if she wants it dressy, to put a panache ' of six feathers poised high on one side. with feathers curling forward : place a 1 lizard or a lx'etle to hold it. and put an- j other lizard oil the band that covers the 1 curtain. That's easy to leinemlx-r. " The captain (to his wife) "She said, if you wanted it dressed up. to put a pan-' cake and sixteen ,oisoneil f .'at hers curled up torrid, clap on some lizards and lx-e-tles to Inlay them with, and cover the ; lj'.ird on the baud with, your curtains." 1 from twelve to fifteen years of age. There is a jxr-riod in the summer's morn ing, known only to early risers, which combines all the tenderness of the dawn with nearly all the splendor of the day. There is at least full promise of the daz zling liixm ; but yet the dew-drop glis tens on the half-oH'iied flower, and yet the birds sing with rapture their awaken ing song. So, too. in the morning of a girl's life there is a time like this when the rising glory of woman hood sparkles from the sports of a:i infant, and the elegance of a queenly grace adorns the gambols of hahyh 1. Un impeded yet by the sweeping raiment to which she foolishly aspires, she glides amongst her grosser play -fellows like a royal yacht amongst a fleet of coal barges Unconsciousness (alas, how s.n :: to de part!) has all th" effect of the highest breeding ; freedom gives her elegance, and health adorns her wnhbi auty. !n ' deed, it seems tol-e the x-i-iiliar prov ince of her sex to red. cm this part of life from ' opprobrium. TltlNOS TO 1!F. IiF.MKMlIl'.lIKI). One cannot lx your friend and flatterer. tix. The sanctity of the family lies at the very base of other sanctities. (ireat wants proceed from great wealth and make riches almost equal to ixvcrty. That family is the best who obtain not unjustly, keep not unfaithfully, and six-lid in a way that produces no rep. -,,!-iUr.-c. ir. Anot her silence a in I nu re mi-ni al film ing, and then he asked : "Ma. Potterda.iii isn't a had word, is it V" "Oli.lio. Willie, that is t lie name of a foreign city. You will iind it in vur geography." "Well, you wouldn't lick a feller for talking alxuit it. would you ?'" 'Most certainly not." "Honest Injun, von wouldn't 'r" and his face lxre an expression of deep ear nestness. "Of course not : w hy do you ask such quest ions V" "Well. Mary Dawson is coining over here to tell on me. She had a vv hole t vv o bits worth, of candy, and wouldn't give me a bite, so I told her to jist eat it her self and I hoped It would Potti iiiain teeth out." He eseapetl chastisement, but the moral lesson read to him will serve as a gnide-ixist through life. Sun Jnsf (4 ) Hi fiihl. How Font PiN Pi:rFr. vfi Man's Pfason. In the show window of one of the leading jewelei - i f Vienna is ex'jxised to view a brooch, magnificent ly studded with gems, in the middle of whose elaborate ehasin - is inclosed the n.ost singular of ci litres four comnioi,. old. lx-nt and corr-xh d pins. This bvooi h is the projxi i y of t he Count ess I.av etsko ly. The pins have a history, of course. Seven years ago Count A'lx n I.:iv-t sko ly w as arrest -d at Warsaw for an alleged insult to the Russian i overnmeiU. The . n al author of the insult, which or.sisted of some careless words s;H-k( na a s, j;1l gathering, was his wile. Pe a .-:-pt d the accusation, however, and was sent to prison. In one of tie light les d 1111 geons in vvhi'h the Czar is m, foul of confining his Polish subject, the unfor tunate martyr for bis vv ife's h.ose tongue s'jxnt six ye tr. He had only -one amuse ment. After he had lt-en searched and thrown into a cell he had found, in his coat four pins. These he pulled out and threw on tl". floor, i'lid then in thedarkness h- b' i't" i for the m. Having found them, pi Thai's lily after hours and even day s, he scat tered them again. And so the game vvci.t 0:1 for : ix weary years. "Put lor them." he writes in his memoirs. "I would have gone mad. Thev provi.hd me with a pui'lxise. S,i long as I l.:.d them to sear -h for I had something todo. When the ih-.-ree for my lilx-r;d ion fr. -m exile was ;ight t-ira-. the jailer foi::.d Irie oil In', t.: had cscaiH-1 saved mv v Mv wife, il prouder ore ices hunt ing for one which me for four days. Thev ife's husband from lunacy. ;-rc;ore. ment." could ii"t th si t ;. ;d-'i g i"1 1 1 " worl j- . W alk . FIT in
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