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n
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The "re and reltade elrrulatv.n of h Cw
Bill Fbf.eiiaw commend' ft to tba faToraela eon
anderatloti ot advertisers, whose (avers will he in
serted at the following low rates :
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il ti t i.'il within ti mns. ".no
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, inntl per year will lip charged to
" over., will the above tfrmn he de-V.-'-.i.
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fr ffrtot-tt tont or prorrrdttio nf art y TOrpoafion
or torirty, and commiintcatttni drsonrd to rait atten
tion to any matter of timitrd or individual ttifcrrsf.
n?if or paid Jor at advertmrmentt.
i .Ion Iri!tio of all kind neatly and eitpedn'
ously executed at lowest prices, liun'l yoa iorget
i it.
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Now ttit scalawags ilo oth
caiaw,r life's too short.
VOLUME XIV.
EBENSBURG, PA., FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 5. 1SS0.
NUMBER 11.
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STOCK OF
Ha v cl ware !
Stoves, rX,iiiAvie,
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t.t.t-o noun Di mill) ssssss
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, . r .cription and of liestta:ility ;
CARPENTERS' TOOLS!
'lie 1-e-t in the m:irkc
;:tr:re to k Id
Also, a
TVIUF VXDIHM'KETCUTIFHY
1 iDI.I. V.' 1' 1 V - IVIil IJ.r.Ill,
re. u ecu ware. Sill ver-l'lafed
Hare. ood hi 1 i I low Mare, Wall I'a
frr. I rimks .old lalie. Ite vol vers. A ii
tl. y ixes. Horse Mioes. It;r I ran, Itail
R..il. Horse ail. arrlase Holts, Itlv
H. fill Saw s. 4. r i ikMoiicv Steel .S hor
rl Plow 'I'Milrts. Konil .Scoops;
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lotninlliialiirs, and :i full Imcot Ilarv
rutins loots, aim., a J.irifc assortment of
Tabh'. floor ntxl Stair Oil Cloths, I
( ';ii'ii:iL:o Oil Cloth. !
! ill K .m mr.t I.OTII WlXliew siiintvn :
,V.S'1!'I. !(!-: J.tVKlll-.ioL ASil TON
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.: hMTi.n l.tM K SALI, the cheapest and i
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I , 1'i.N 1' SAFKIV KAMI'
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.: -r -t. k ol MII.lv I'i.'IK'KS ol I
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OILS. TAINTS 'if bl'ENTlNE,
: ' I r with a l.in;; and com- :
i.:.i.
TOiSAKII AM) SEfJARS,
i'i !- .1 other M-'-iuI and iieei'.ful
M.ti.;:ir 1 haven't a. I un in't
- l' " - .1 T ii i.i! -. i:i. au-l what I
;.;V I,, l.-li.',! on FPf.T-
V will inv irial.ly I c
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i- Tly niiiM v vni.f' Kxci:i'i
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ii : - i !'!i tin- very !r.-t in th'
' i . . r i i .-1' .. vc f voiir pa t run
.'. ! --I that the I'-t !.s always
if i;eer pays t- Uny an i'n
i -.:in.. 'h" .ri''i' is '..:"w. as it
t th.i'. .-;hIi ii'jit li are always
!:. IIL'XTLEV.
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bimm FOR THIRTY -FOUR VEAI1S. ;
III 1 iiM
Mil mil acturrs,
WHOLESALE AND RETAIL,
-OF-
tin, comm.
-AND -
Sheet Iron Wares
AND DGALEHS IN
S3, PARLOR aid COOKING
STOVES,
SI I IS in." METALS,
-.1X1)-
Hl'HMSHIMi GOODS 1 EN Eli ALLY.
I Clljillir ill
Tl, I'OPPER & SOEGT-IROX
HllDMl'TLV ATTENDED TO.
' 2S0 anJ 282 Wa.-Jiinglon S.
JOHHSTOVM. PA.
McNEVIN &L YEAGER,
h Copper anil SW-Iron WARE,
'!') I.KM.KCS l"
MH,KiG&llEATL(F STOVES, I
!bi;s. ii n At IS, Ar.,
,i''"' HconCi Avtp.iie, . AHoona, l'a.
Ous Door We'd of Opera House.
"'l.. AND SI'OCTINd
J c 1 1. v a ri r. m r. i to.
'"!' I OH MOT IS (OfSTA.NTLt X H.4.M.
lo. !iTii.-tf.
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M. J. DUCK",
I II VSII IAN AND Brir;KON,
(,...
Al.TIIOS. I .
uid re.-idc nee on Fourteenth street, near
'''' iiM nue. where nii?ht calls can be made,
i. -urs tr im a p, ij a. m., and Irom it to 4
r. m . special att niton paid to I'ls
e Kij and Kar. as well as to Surgical
''I i.trv d'rscription. I4-l'J.-tl-l
I
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V kendalus
3m
SPAVIN CURE.
rcJ' 'iM1. i ''l" in it.- rit.-ct- ami ,
ister. liEAlri:i)l' lJKIOW
ever di.-
hiis
ioes not
From Rev. P. N. GRANGER,
PmUlmj Khlfr of the St. Atbnn- Dittrirt.
St. AtiiAjta. Vt.. .Tun ,! kci
lr.. H. J. Kknoali. At Co
i U. i-.,t0r Wl' ""J' '' experience witl ft,
o! i !sJ,"v,n "."" 'en very sntisfarf rv
V,?, V.'.l'"'" "r. ve:T!' "-' 1 "--nr,.,l a l,ot
-tlcnt." ! In renlv to
Ken-
in-
from vonr
ent ami with it . urcl a hr.-c of luine-
IIV Miailll. I..Tiit ..:l..,r, m,. i,
nr- caused
! rame very liitne im.l 1 turncl Inn. ... i.., ..
we. - kM. when ho be. :c hotter, hut when I ..V :
, V,e.r"i,, "e Krpw when I discovered that
rinahone was formiiiit. 1 pr.M-ured a bottle of
MmM.'". '"T.""'! Uh .'! botrie
enseil lilm so that ne is nut
Intiicii h- lomiil.
Kespcctlnily yours.
ime. neither can I Im
N. tiltA MiKlt.
i n:nsi:i kkaxcv will u:ll
Stoi-iiiton, Mi-i., March 18, lso.
lrI,'n
I have removed two hone spavins with Kendall's '
i v ure-one very larae one : don't know how t
h'?T V';'"n hlt'1 ,,rrB n" ru' 1 'veown,l the !
h..re eil.t months. It took me lotir months to
take the lare ..If and two Tor the small one. 1 h ive
l!?' i l".r .Tl"' entirely well, n, i
at all stiir, and no t.iin.-li to he seen or lult This is 1
wonderful medicine. It is a new thlmf here. I.t ,
; . k- " ". 11 n:'3 louo ""-me Its sale .
Kcspectfully vouts. Cms K. Piikml
' rAKKEK.
Respectfully youts, Cuas. E.
TTi J 11 C n
ivimun o Mia V XIX VtlXXKi
Ashuxb, Schmikiii Co., im., juna a, issh.
-T- Kt'"'- A '.( lents : A eae of
UtlttVill tll!.t I'tMuu nn.l... ..... ..I. ... .
i.'. " ""--" .iuon was enttre-
eure.l l.v one tn.tt e nt ..ni- k....i.ii' w
t'ure. and the horse s.dil uftervrnr.is i... i
orcil dollars.
Yours truly,
. .
t'HAS. H. H.MiAut.
"The'' ItTujrtrist,
, STATEMENT MADE UNDER OATH. '
1o hm It Mav oncers. In the venr is.v. I 1
treated mth Kendall's Spavin Cure n bone sivin
ot everJl iiionths' trrowth. ne.nrlv half ns lariie as
n lien's cirsr. mid eoinplcicly stopped the lameness I
and removed the enlargement. 1 have winked the !
horse ever smee very hard, and he never lias been
lame, nor e.ml, 1 ever se anvdillerence in the size
of t!..- hock joints since 1 treated him with'Kea- '
il.itl s Spavin din-. H. A. tlaiNKs. !
Enosi.umh Kalis, Vt., Feb. 2a, 1st;)
... i
.w.irn an. I su. .-ii,,e,l t,, before me, this 2f.tli dav
ol el-rnarv. A. I). IsT'.i.
Jo:i r. Jknsk. .Tustlee of the Teaee.
KENDALL'S SPAVIN CUKE
V lll'IAX
I I.ISII.
I'.nTtx's Mi t.i.s.
Washington Co.. N. Y V
l-'ehruary lst.
Ii. .1. K kmm.7 . M. !. !Var Sir : The particular
eti.-e on nlii -h I used your Spavin Cure" was a
malignant ankle sprain ot sixteen months stand
t n -T- 1 lid tried niaiiv t.ims. Iiittin vain. Your
Spavin Cure" pnt the foot to the ground airain.
and. lor th- hrst tim-.i site-e hurt, in a iiMtoral l.o-
Pltloll
'..r a family liniment it excels anything
tic have ever used.
Yours trnl
liF.V. M. T. Um-f,.
'ator M. K. Church, Tatten's Mill, N. Y.
Kkxdall's Spavis Ci iik is urc in its efJeet? and '
mild in Its action, as It docs not blister, yet it is
I petictnitiiii; and powerful to reach every deep-scat- ,
' ed pain or to remove any bony un.wth or other en
i larieiiient, such as spavins, splints, curbs, callous,
sprains, swellings, any lameness and all enlarge- 1
1 ments i-f the joints or Hint's, rheumatism in man, J
. or for any purpose for which a liniment is used for
j man or beast. It is now known to be the best lini ;
, ir.ent for man ever used, being as mild in Its action
as it is certain fn its effects. Send address for il- :
i lustratcd circular, which we think gives jHisitive
j proof of its virtues. No remedy for man as well as
beast has ever to our knowledge met with such un- i
' iialitied success.
o-Trice, fl per bottle, or six bottlef for t. All
' HccofiisTB have it or can get it for you. or it will .
, be sent to any address on receipt of price by the
proprietors. Ins. It. J. KKNI'Ahh &. CO.. T.nos
' iinr.'h Fulls, Vermont. SOLD UY Abb Mil'ii
tUSTS. 10-1H. -14ra.
-iH.T--'
- 1 i:ib
VI t.&l JiA 111 - n V.rl.lS
u ..- '4iiJ-''rt
cattle un"8
t Is a sure cure for alljordinary disease of Horses,
i Cattle, Sheep and Swine. It eurrs and prevents
! Chtkex Cnui-FitA. Your cow Is certain to yield
' 25 VKH I BVr. XlWI AMI BETTER M1I.K Atl SI TTEK.
IsTtKK FATTF.NS N ON E-F ll'KTH bKSS
i FKKD!
lteimt in possession or a lare number o! excc-I-
I lent te-timoniulJ. I subjoin a few:
I I have been uslnx your Cattle Powder for horses.
: cows ehlrkens and pi--'S, and find It kikt-ci.ahs
thinz. tlKcKOK Uoso, rerurinlown, I'a.
' 1 have nsed two packs of yonr Cattle Powder on
inv cow and chickens. Thb cow "' skahi.v
Twt K thk Qt'ASTirT op Mti.K she did before. My
ehi. kens were dylnir. but were i reii im kihate-
i lv alter I had used the powder.
' Yours, truly, Jojas I'asdi r, Dallas, N. ...
I have used vour Cattle I'ow.bT and must ay it
i l the be-t for "horses, cattle, sheep, etc. Tried it
on poul-rv for many cmphiinta. with set itss is
I KVEUV ASE.-Ji.'X. WKAVf.lt, HcrTTSVllIe, I B.
but summer vou sent me a paekaee of your iw
j der which I aav'e to my poultry, and have not had
one droopy turkey or chicken since. Mrs. V .
i Kait, Orange, N. Y.
Send me a pack or two of your Cattle I'ow.ler.
I The park I nt from you last winter ct RK.n thk
( hi. kkx ( HOI.KKA. I Ko some ol it to a noiifh
.or and it enred his chtckens.-Jon?t ii.i.iams,
Si.ruee V ale. Ohio.
A.l.lress tor a namnniet. r.
A
MlbbF.K. SSI
7-'J.'S0.-lr.)
Ardi St.. rillb.lKbrHI A,
a i-T" r- rt all other liniments have failed, TKY
AFTEr. int. vAiu;-s
ELECTRIC RELIEF
llvt ikina intcrnallv it will cure cholera, cholera
rior'l. us. diarrhoea, dvsentery. cranio, colic, asthma,
phthisic, mtiuenia. spasms, sick headache, raorf-
r- -ickne-s heartburn ir stomach, pain in the
hack and sunstroke. Applied externally, it will
relieve yon ol rhetini.iti-io. ncuraliria. sore throat,
litioba -o earache. t.M.tha. he. iiiti.imed breasts,
mumps, until, pleurisy, pneumonia. Irost bites
hr ' '. s -pr.ons, "burns, scalds, wo.ii.ds, contracted
t. n.b.ns leu.-orrhoea. swollen joints, slinks and
es ol insects. Sold by drunmsts and storekeep
e cr all v W holesle depot. N. W. comer 3rd
and Callowhill Sts l'hilad n. w-2.-',i.i.J
Dr. JONES' TARAEANUM TONIC
or bvsi KisiA Mei... ik. a vetf.tal.le com.und
whos virtues ha.-sto., I tho lest ol 40 years is n
t .Uil.Ie in the cure ol I ypepsia, I reneral I vlnlity,
Chronic Weakoe-s ol bumrs. Spleen and Kidneys.
Short breath, lle.ii'. hum. St. . bus' I fc.nee. pains
In tho Stomach, b.- k and ' best. I'artiriil.irly
adapted to all Ken. ale H.-eases tin matter what
the . of the patient may he. I'rtc .Acts, s.,1.1
t.y prunists. l.-J. ".-iy.J
THE RATIONAL TREATMENT
l iirt slsrrli. mow ,, " JL
I . I.lier 4 ampiaiBt.
lillnT ll-
" -A.Mh Ik t arrive.
srinal Hsaknrss
..v.! VartaiiaDihanillan. Nopatent me.li-
cine scheme
cn s.
A .1.1 r.f It
but remedies pruscriPed t suit each
I.ANIiIS. M. I'.. f!edinc:. I'n. W rile
Tour full name. I". t ., State and Co., in plain hand
i.
i:n'ia,i:v.
A i roK.N :Y
AT-I. A W,
A I.I i ii iv., ri,
i- irKc on ll'.h bt.eet,
Ai ciiu.
lictwetn l'Hh : ad I ih
i-T.-ti.
I
'
parsapa;i;ilia
Is a romponnd of th virtue of Barsaparil
Ja, sttillinpjia, mandrake, yellow dock, with
the iodide of potash and" iron, nil powerful
Modi-making, lilootl-t leansins, anil lifo-ti-taining
elements. It is the purest, safest.
ana most effectual alterative medicine j
known or availalde to the public. The sci- I
enocs of medicine and chemistry have never j
produced so valnaMe a remedy, nor one so .
potent to cure all diseases resulting from !
impure Mood. It cures Scrofula and !
all scrofulous diseases, Krysipelas,
Kose, or St. Anthony's Fir, Pimples
nntl Facp-irrubs, I'usttiles, Blotches,
Hoils, Tumors, Tetter, Ilnmors,
Salt Ithcum, Scall-head, Hinff-Tvorm,
l.'lcers. Sores, Rheumatism, Jlerourial
Disease, Xeuralria, Female 'Weak
nesses nntl Irregularities, Jaundice,
Affections of the I-.iver, Dyspepsia,
Emaciation, awl General Debility.
By its searching and cleansing qualities
it purges out the foul corruptions which
contaminate the Mood and cause derange
ment and decay. It stimulates and enlivens
the vital functions, promotes encrcrv and
strength, restores and preserves health, and j
infuses new life and vigor throughout tho
whole system. No sufferer from any dis
ease which arises from impurity tif tho
blood need tlespair who will give Ayeh's
SAn.SArAim.LA a fair trial.
It is folly to experiment with the numer
ous low-priced mixtures, of cheap materials,
ami without medicinal virtues, offered as
bloxxl-purirters, while disease becomes more
tinrjy seated. Avrrt's Sarsapakilla is a
medicine of such conceutrated curative
power, that it is by far the liest, cheapest,
and most reliable blood-puritier known.
Physicians know its composition, and pre
acrib it. It has been widely used for forty
years, and has won the unqualified confi
dence of millions whom it has benefited.
Prepared by Dr. J. C. Ayer & Co.,
Practical and Analytical Chemists,
Lowell, Mass.
BOLD ST A Li DltCauiSTH ETBHTWUKRB.
11. I.
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'Toll tlrtoil,
.V. SlioPitial.
M. .1- Buck,
oe. A. W. !iirk
; joiinstox,
shoemaker & buck,
! BANKERS,
EBENSBURG, Pa.
m m deposit,
LI
PAVARI.Eil-l ntllAM). j
INTEREST ALLOWED ON TIME IlEPOSITS. '
i
COLLECTIONS MADE
AT At.. ACCKSSIBI.K fOINTrt.
DRAFTS on the PRINCIPAL CITIES
flonttht and Soll. anil a
GEN Ell A L BAN KING Bl'SIXESS
THANSACTKI).
Accounts tSclicitol.
A. W. BUCK, Cashier
Kbensburit, March l'.. isso.-tr.
TO ADVERTISERS.
:k. v. bow Kbb
T bIST CF bOCAb
CO.'S
NEWSi-Al'KKs
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all rut: ttriiy.H ah .;77s;.'.- ;;. "
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A lll'XDRED TEARS FRO OW.
The snrjrinn sea of Iranian Hie foreveronward rolls;
Hearing to the eternal shoro each day its frelifht
of souls.
Hut thouijh our bark sails bravely on, pale death
sit? at the prow.
And lew shall know we ever lived a hundred years
from now.
O, mighty human brotherhood, why fiercely war
and strive,
hllet Jod's irreat world has ample room forevery
tlilni? alive.
Hroa.l fields nnciiltured and unclaimed arc wait
inn 'or the plow
f progress that shall make them bloom a hun
dred years from now.
Why should we toil so earnestly in life's abort,
narrow span.
On golden stairs tocllmb sohi(;h above our brother
man.
Why blindly on au earthly shrine our souls in
homaire how.
Our frods will rtist, ourselves be dust a hundred
years from now.
Why prims so much tlio world's applause? Why
dread so much its Mane?
A (lectin echo is its voice of censure or of fame.
The praise that thrills the heart, the scorn that
dyes with shame the brow
Will be a lonsc-forg.itten dream a hundred years
Irom now.
Earth's empires rise and inll.OTime, likehrcakert !
on thy shore. j
They rush upon my rocKS oi ooom, are seen ana
seen no more.
The starry wilderness ol worlds that gem night's
radiant brow
Will l'lcht the skies for other eyes a hundred years
from now.
O. Thou before whose sleepless eyes tho past and
future stand
i An open page, liko babes wecllnff to thy protect! nij
hand.
j Change, sorrow, deatii are naught to us If we may
' safely bow
, lJcncath the shadowor thy throne a hundred ears
i from now.
SEVENTY MILES A HOIK.
I am a railroad engineer. Away along in
: '."7, during the great panic, I was running on
the F. & C. railroad. The railroad compa-
: nies were going under in all directions. Ev- ,
I cry day we heard of new failures, and quite .
i often in a quarter where we least expected
; it. Our road was generally looked upon as :
' one of the most substantial in the nation ; '
nolMHly seemed to have any fears that it j
wou'.d fail to survive the general smash-up ; j
i but yet I did not fully share in the general ;
! confidence. Wages were cut down, atrear- .
j ages collected, and a great many other mat- I
j ters seemed to indicate that the road had got j
: into rather deeper water than was agreeable
I ail round. Among other things, the master j
mechanic had told me in the spring that the i
company had ordered four first-quality Tauti
ton engines for the fall passenger bus.ine.ss. ,
The road was put in the very best condition j
ami .other preparations were made to cut j
down the time and put the trains through j
quicker than was ever known before, when j
the new engines should come. Well, there:
was but one of the engines came.
I said there was but one engine, came ; but
she was, in my opinion, altogether the best j
ever turned out at the Taunton works ; and
that is saying as much as can 1m; said in praise j
of any engine. Mie wan' put in my charge .
immediately, with the understanding that she
was mi'ie.
It was Saturday when she came out of the
s,lor. '1 I was to take a special train up to j
i . The tram was to carry up the Tres-
, ident and several officers of the road, to meet ;
' some officers of another road, which crossed j
ours there, and arrange some important bus- j
iness with them. i
I had no trouble in making my forty miles
i an hour in going out. The engine handled
herself most beautifully. We were just hold-
1 ing up at Y , when Aldrich, the Treasur- I
, er, who had come out on the platform to put i
' on the brake, slipped and fell. As we were j
stili under good headway, be was much in
1 jitred and was carried off to the hotel insen- i
' sible.
! According to the President's direction I
I had switched off my train, turned my engine, 1
' and stood ready to start Kick to C at a
moment's notice. j
Aldrich's presence was of so much import- '
j anec that the business of the road could not
' be transacted without him ; so. all those I ;
i had brought out, except the President and
Aldrich, went back to C on the 3 o'clock !
! express train. This was the last regular
j express train which was to pass overtheroad
until the next Monday. I
Karly in the evening I left the machine in
charge of my fireman and went over to an
eating-house to see if I could not spend the
time more pleasantly than on mj' engine.
The hours dragged themselves away slowly.
I was playing a game of dominoes with the
station-agent when in came Roberts, the
President, in a great state of excitement.
"Harry," said he to me, "I want i'ou to
put me down in (J at 12 o'clock."
As it was nearly 11 o'clock then, and the
distance was seventy-five miles, I thought he
was joking at first; but, when we got out
side the door, he caught me by the arm and
hurried me along so fast that I saw be was
in earnest.
"Harry," said lie, "if you don't set me
down in (' by 12 o'clock I am a ruined
man, and this road is a ruined road. Aldrich
is dead ; but lie told me, before he died, that
ho had emlvezzled from time to time ?."oo,0'io
of our monej-, and his clerk is to start with
it on the 12 o'clock boat from C for Can
ada. If we don't have that money on Mon
day morning, to make some payments with,
the road goes into other hands ; and if you
put me down in C at the right time, so
that I save the money, j'ou shall have f."i,Ki0.
Understand it, Harrj". Five thousand dol
lars!" Of course I understood it. I saw now the
reason why the wages had been cut down ; I
felt that 1 would save the road if I lived, and
told Ttoberts so.
"See that j-ou do it, Harry !" he replied as
he climbed up on the yteps of the coach,
which was coupled to my engine
I srr.mg up into the footboard, got op on the
switch-tender to help my fireman, opened the
throttle, and jnst as ahe commenced moving
looked at my watch it was just 11 o'clock,
so that I had one hour to make my scveutj--five
miles in.
From Y toC there were few curves
on the road ; but there were several lieavy
grades. I was perfectly acquainted with ev
ery rod of it, so that I knew exactly what I
had to encounter, and when I saw how the
engine moved I felt very little fear for the
result.
The road for the first few miles was an air
line, and so smooth that my engine flew along
with scaicely a perceptible jar. I was so
busy posting myself up as to the amount of
wood and water aboard, etc., that we danced
by tlie first station almost bcfoie I was aware
of it, having been five minutes out, and hav
ing five miles accomplished.
"You arc losing time!" yelled a voice from
the coach. I looked around, and there stood
Roliorts with his watch in his hand.
I knew very well that we would have to
increase our speed by some in cans if we car
ried out our plans of reaching C by mid
night, and looked anxiously around to see
what I could do to accomplish that purpose.
She was blowing off steam fiercely at 110
pounds ; so I turned down the valve to 200
for I knew we should need it all to mafte
some of the heavy grades which lav between
us and C .
It was three miles to the next station.
With the exception of a few curves, the track
wasasgoodasthelast. As we darted around j and implicating five other men in a series ; nished in Chicago in the last ten years. In
what commonly seemed to Dc a rather long f robberies and murders without a parallel ! 170 it was customary to encase the sand
curve, at the station, but which was, at our ! 'n the annals of crime. Three of these five wiehes in pressed sole leather. The leather
high six-ed, short enough, I looked at my
watch, and we had done it in two minutes
and a half.
"Gaining," I shouted back to Roberts,
who was yet standing on the platform of the
coach.
"Look out for the heavy grades," he re
plied, and went inside the coach.
The next six miles rose gradually from a
level the first, to ten and a half feet the last.
which lay between us and the next station.
j My fireman kept her full, and now shelegan
to get hot. Tho fnmaec door was red, and
the steam raised continually, so that she kept
her speed and passed the station like a streak
of lightning in five minutes.
Now came nine miles liko the last, over
which she kept pace with her time and pass
ed the station ic seven and a half minutes.
Here, for ten miles, we had a twenty-foot
grade to encounter; but the worst of it all
was, at this place we would tie obliged to
stop for wood. I was just going to speak to !
Kobetts when I looked around and saw him
filling the tender from the coach with wood,
which had been placed there before starting,
while he was gone after me.
I believe we would have made this ten
j miles with the same speed as before, but,
! through the carelessness of the fireman, tho
, fountain valve on the left-hand side of the
. engine got opened, and the water rose in t'.ie
boiler so fast as to run the steam down to lno
i pounds before I discovered where the difti-
cnlty was.
j At first Kolierts didn't appear to notice the
decrease of speed, and kept at work at the
'. wood as if for" dear life. But presently he
I shouted : ''Harry, we are stopping!" and
then, coming over to where I was, he said :
'Why, here we have been ten minutes on the
last ten miles, and I believe wo will come to
a dead stand if something is not done. The
speed is continually slacking. What is the
matter?"
I explained the cause. He was apparent
ly satisfied with my explanation, and, after
bavin? tied down the safety-valve, he climb
ed back over the tender, exhorting me to
"put her through, for (Jod's sake, or we. are
all beggars together !"
Just then wc passed the next station, hav
ing taken nine minutes for eight miles. We
were now more than half over the road, but
we had lost nearly ten minutes' time, and
had left twenty-seven minutes to do thirtj'
four miles in.
I had shut the water off from both my
pumps a little distance back, when I discov-
ereil what was the matter, and she was now
nuiMiig steam uneij tio n
a slight grade,
From less than 100, with which we started
over that ten-milc stretch, she had 20o before
we finished it : and, as the gauge indicated
no higher than that, and the valve was tied
down, I could not tell bow much over 2K)
pounds she carried, but she certainly carried
none less the rest of the journej-. And well
might she carry such an enormous head of
steam, for, after passing over that ten miles
nt eight minutes, there laj' ten miles of five
feet up-grade, and fourteen miles of twenty-feet-to-the-mile
depression between us and
C , and it was now thirteen minutes to
12 o'clock.
Now the engine was hot in earnest. The
furnace door, smoke arch and chimney all
were red ; while she seemed to fly onward as
if the very Kvil One himself operated her
machinery.
Six minute carried us over that ten mi es:
and we darted by the last station that had
lain between us and C . Now we had
fourteen miles to go and my time showed fif
ty-three minutes after 11 o'clock.
"If I live." said I to myself, "I will make
, it." And we plunged down that twenty-foot
grade with all steam on. Persons who saw
. the train on that wild run said it was so soon
', after they hoard the first sound of approach,
when the strange object, which looked as if
it was a flame of fire darted by, and then the
' sound of the traveling died awaj' in the dis
tance, that they could hardly couvince them
. selves thej' bad really seen anything. It
i seemed more like a creature of a wild dream
! than a sober reality.
And now let me tell you that no engine
: ever lveat the time we made on those fourteen
i miles. Those great wheels seven feet in di-
anieter, spun around so swift that you could
: not bo;iii to count the revolutions. The en-
gine barely seemed to touch the track as she
i flew along ; and, although the track was as
i true as it was possible for it to bo, she. swaj'
: ed fearfully, and sometimes made such pro
digious jolts that it required considerable
' skill for one to keep his feet. No engine
i could hold together if crowded to a greater
j speed.
I Well, just as I came to a standstill In the
j depot at C the big clock boomed out 12,
; and the steamboat was getting her steam on.
j Roberts got on board in time and nothing to
! spare. Uut he saved the money. He found
! it hid away in some old boxes ns Aldrich had
! directed lim.
A sKEirric who was trying to confuse a
Christian colored man by the apparently
! contradictor' passages of the bible, asked
I how it could be that we were in the Spirit
i and the Spirit in us, received the reply : "Oh,
' "ar's n'. puz7 .'lK,ut ,,at- lu ,ik dat
i pin it ill tie ine, tin ii i;cis ii-ii iii'i.. -iuw,
de poker's in de fire, an' tie fire's in de po
ker." A profound theologian could not have
made a better reply.
A rtACKWoons preacher once elucidated as
follows in connection with the parable of the
virgins: "In ancient times, my beloved
hearers, it was the custom, after a couple had
been married, for ten virgins to go out with
lighted lamps ant! meet 'em on the way home,
five of these virgins being males and five fe
males." A South Hii.l debating club is wrestling
with, "Can a community exist without wo
men '.'" We think it might exist for a w Idle,
but then it wouldn't know what v.u gobi;.
I n.J"ritH!!ot Hnvk'.jc.
THE SECRETS OF A KENTI CKY CAVE.
The reading public will doubtless rfiuem
Ikt the hanging of IJicha.'d Miuck in 1S77 in
Owen county, Ky., for the murder of one
Parrish, his father-in-law. This hanging
was witnessed by seven thousand jK-oplc,
and was attended by many dramatic and un
usual circumstances. All of the leading
daily paper of Louisville and Cincinnati pub
lished graphic and extended accounts of it,
and the Northern press congratulated Ken
tucky on having within her borders twelve
fearless jurymen who were not ashamed to
do their duty. Shuck protested his inno
cence of the crime on the scaffold, but left a
written confession partially exculpating him- I
men were brothers, and the other two were ' was prepared by a process only known to a
father and son. Their names were Goodrich Prussian, and the bread and ham were put
and Simmons. Old Jim Simmons, the pati i- J in by hydraulic pressure, and the hole solder
arch and chief of this tribe of cut-throats, j ed up. About four years ago the Piussian
was a very remarkable, although an illiterate I who had the secret, said something unkind
man, and possessed unbounded influence '. to a pitcher of a base-ball club, and the pitch-
over the minds of his associates. Jack, his
son, was, if the statements of Shuck are
true, the most inhuman wretch who ever
escaped the gallows, lie was the principal
or accomplice in seven murders, and was
j concerned in numerous robberies and moon-
He lived several years
western Missouri, and while there was
accused of being a niemlier of -Jesse James's
gang of assassins and bank rob'wrs. The
three (rood rich brothers vvito fnrmors livitirr
near the Kentucky river, and were consider- ;
ed hard characters by their neighbors and ac
! quaintances.
;
were arrested 1
Four of these individuals
and lodged in Newcastle jail, but Jack Situ
mons, the worst of the lot, escaped, and,
notwithstanding large rewards were offered '
for his apprehension, dead or alive, managed
to elude the vigilance of his pursuers. Sev-!
cnty-tive men surrounded the woods in
which he was believed to be concealed. lie '
! was seen once and six shots were fired at
him. One of the shots appeared to take ef
l feet, but he contrived to cacape. Nothing
I more was ever heard about him, and he was
j supposed to have lied to Texas or the Black
j Hills.
j "King Jim," as the papers dubbed him
' and his pals were tried by Judge Smith, of
j Henry county, and held over without bail to
; await the action of the criminal court. A
short time after the trial a mob of masked
j men, forty or fifty in number, rode into New-
castle at midnight, surrounded the jail, corn-
pelled the jailor to give up the keys, unlock
ed the door, took the prisoners from the
building, marched them to a stone bridge
near town and hung them from the parapets
an awful but doubtless fitting end to such
j wretches. Many a Ix'lated traveler wander
ing at night through tlrTj d:trk and gloomy
ravines that border on the Kentucky river,
had met a more horrible death at tiier hands,
j No man s life was safe if he ventured in
"King Jim's" dominions with a roll of money
in his pocket, or a gold watch on his jcrson.
:Ihis account of Miuck and his associates is
essential as an introduction to the remainder
of this narrative.
On the 17th of last month John Uarnrtt
anil Andrew Hawkins, two reliable gentle
men, living near i.ockport, had occasion to
look for some missing cattle that bad wan-
der.-d from their pastures. After a search
of several hours the cuttle were found
browsing on the rich blue grass that grows
luxuriantly at the foot of the "Crow's Nest,"
the fanciful name given by the natives to a
leg'n and rocky hill in the neighborh.iod of
Lodqxiit. After resting for some time, Mr.
Harnett's attention w as called to an opening
in the side of the bill that resembled the
mouth of a cave. Surprised that he had
failetl to notice this tin other occasions, he
saw at the foot of the elevation a thick cedar
tree, or. rather, bush, that for many jears
had grown on a projecting ledge of rock im
mediatel' in front of this hole, thereby ef
fectually concealing it from the view of the
passer-by. In the storm of the preceding
night this bush had been uprooted by the
wind and had rolled to the liottom, thus re
vealing the existence of the opening.
After a brief consultation the two men
decided to climb up and ascertain if the hole
was nearly a cave. They quickly made the
ascent, and as Mr. Hawkins happened to
have some candles among the goods that he
had purchased in Lockport 1 tint morning,
they resolved to explore the ajicrture if it
proved to be a cavern. When they arrived
at the hole it ap'x'ared to be the mouth of an
. underground passage of considerable extent.
They ImiIiIIv ventured in, and after crawling
along for twenty or twenty-five feet thej
suddenly found themselves in an apartment
about twenty feet square. It had the ap
' ea ranee of a square room, and was tolera
. bly wt 11 lighted from an aperture in the side
or roof.
After looking around thej' were amazed
to find conclusive evidence going to show
that it hail at one time been inhabited by
human ln-ings. In one corner they found a
! rude bench roughly made of stone, and on a
nail driven in tlie rock they saw banning an
j old worn suit of jeans clothes, mildewed and
rotten from long disuse and exposure to the
' damp air nf the cave. In another corner they
found a pallet of straw, and on this lied they
were horrified to lwhold a ghastlj' skeleton.
The flesh had left the bones, and the hair
had almost disappeared from the head. At
the foot of the bed they noticed a tin lxx.
I Instil getting possession of this lxix they
rapidly made their way to the upper air, and
in an hour were in Lockport engaged in nar-
rating to a gaping crowd of rustics their
wonderful adventure in the bowels of the
earth.
The tin box was opened, and its contents
exposed to the eager gaze of the crowd. It
contained two gold watches, a full set of
counterfeiter's plates and tools, a iiackage of
counterfeit notes, a package of bond, sup
jHwed to le stolen from a bank at Sedalia.
Mo., and a large revolver with the name of
Jack Simmons roughly carved on the handle.
All doubts of the identity of the mysterious
skeleton were removed, and the notorious
robber, counterfeiter and nimderer, Jack
Simmons, was, without doubt, the man who
! erished miserably in that lone cavern in the
'' Kentucky river hills.
A few days ago the remains were removed
! from the cave and given to Dr. Long, at
I Hcthlcheiii, who now has them in his pos- j
, session. The doctor ascertained from an ex
amination that a ball had pierced the light
lung, and had lcyond question caused the
man's death a short time after the wound
was inflicted. It is believed that Simmons;
received this fatal shot from the sheriff's i
p.s-- e, who, in attempting to arrest him, fired
i ,tt liiiii six
m l he had iu-
enough to got to this rendezvous of his gang.
His fearful death in this out-of-the-way
place was a fitting termination to such a life
as his.
The contents of the box found near his re
mains are exposed topublic view in the office
of tho county clerk, and people from all
pails of the county have examined them.
ALL AIJOtT A S.VSimiCH.
The time for getting to the Michigan Cen
tral depot at Chicago was so limited that no !
regularly prepared supper coul.l be secured,
and so it was necessary to take a sandwich j
at the Central depot. There has lieon great ,
improvement
made in tiie sandwhicl.es fur-
er took up one of the sandwiches and pitched
it curved at the Prussian's eye. Ills funeral
was quite largely attended, considering that
he was a man who was retiring, and who
made few acquaintances. Uut the secret of
making the soles and uppers of railroad sand
wiches died with him. It was about this
time that corrugated iron shutters were in-
vented, and that mate-rial was at once utilized
to make litis of sandwiches while the under
jaw of the appetite destroying substance was
made of common building paper, the whole
varnished with neat's foot oil, and kiln dried
in a lime kiln. Our object in eating one of
the sandwiches was to transfer, if possible,
the headache to the stomach, on the princi
ple tliat the quack doctor cured a patient of
paralysis by throwing him into a fit, claiming
that he was not much on paralysis, but he
was awful on fits. The entrance of the pieces
of sandwich into the stomach that is, the
small pieces that we were abl to blast off
with the imperfect appliances at hand in the
tool box of a wrecking car was signalled by
the worst upheaving that has been witnessed
in this country since lsfiO. The stomach,
liver, lungs, spleen and other insides got up
an indignation meeting, with the stomach in
the chair.
In calling the meeting to order the stomach
said unaccustomed as it was to public speak
ing, it felt as though the occasion demanded
a protest, and that in no uncertain tone,
against the habit the boss bad of slingihg
anything into his stomach that came in his
way. without stopping to consider the effect
on the internals. The chair remarked that
it bad heretofore had a good many pretty '
hard doses t. t;-.ke, not bly, army bacon, and
later some black bread that the boss had
shoved in while hunting out in M nnesota, in
107. and again last year when a pan full of
beans from Hill Wad's Wolf liver bo- .in board
ing house was sent down without any intro
duction, the stomach said it had felt like
throwing up the "sponge," and drawing out
of the game, but it had thought better of it,
and had gone on trying to digest things till
now. Uut this last outrage, this Chicago
sandwich, was too much. "See here," sas
the stomach, holding up a piece of the iron
lid of the sandwich, so the liver could see it, '
"what kind of a junk shop does he take this
place for?" The liver got the floor ar.d sug
gested that the stomach was making a terri
ble fuss about a little tiling, and told the
stomach it had evidently forgotten the good
things that had been sent do.vn from above
in times gone by. "Yon seem to forget."
says the liver, becoming warmed up, "the
banquets the boss never fails to attend, the
nice Mtix.ers he sometimes gets at home, and
the wild canvas-back duck he sends down
when lie goes to Lake Kosliktinong, as well
as the Lake House dinners that occaslonallj
surprise us. I move that the stomach be
reprimanded for kickilig and trjing to get up
a muss, and that this meeting adjourn and
we all go about our business." The stomach
tried to get in a word edgewis-.-, but it was no
use, and the thing was about to break up in
a row, when we went to sleep.
A Ixivf.k's IlKVKNfiK. When James Lick
was a young man lie fell in love with a mil
ler's daughter in Pennsylvania. Young Lick
faced the stern old miller and asked for the
hand of his daughter. Now James was a
poor j oung man, but honest and industrious,
and withal full of pride. The man refused
to grant James' request and advised him not
to marry until he had a competency to sup
' port a wife.
I These remarks were rather humiliating to
j'ouig Lick's pride, and with emphasis he
replied : "Sir, I will see the day w hen your
boasted mill would not make a respectable
; wheat bin for one I shall own." Years pass
ed awaj-, and James Lick erected in Santa
Clara county, Cal., a mil!, the wood woik of
which is solid mahogany. SUortlv after its
: erection he had photographs taken of the in
side and outside of his mill, and sent then, to
! the miller who had refused him the hand of
his daughter.
. Mk f.. Ir. Henderson confirms the story
' told by an Icelandic traveler of six or more j
mice taking a piece of dried mud, placing i
berries v.pon it and using it as a raft to cross I
i a stream. Thev range thainselves around :
, the edge, their fiends in the middle, and
their tails in the stream to serve as rnd.b-is. ,
They carry potatoes or eggs on land by one ,
lying down and holding the egg between his
' fore paws while his coin. anions draw hira
! along by the ef.rs. Mr. Oeorgc J. Romanes
i tell; tl,c story of a dog in Scotland, who, in
going to church with his master, bad to
swim a channel a mile wide. If the tide was
flowing he ran north a mile ; if ebbing, south
an equal distance, always landing at a point
near the church. Shall we not be very kind
to animals whom God has made w ith so much
intelligence?
A Wosm nri i. Watch. Mr. H. L. lVr
' den, of Elgin. III., is the possessor of a most
j wonderful watch. It gives the hours, min
: u tea and seconds, the day of the week, day
: of the month, the hmar month of tvventy
! nine days, an i the phases of the tnoort at ail
j times, it provides for the thirty and thirty
; one d.v,' months, tvventy-p'jiht days in Fcbrtv
' ary for leap year, tusking all its own changes
; at twelve o'clock night. It is a chronograph
) for timing 1 torses to the fifth of a second.
I And, lastly, it stiikes the hours, quai ters and
I minutes. This extraordinary timepiece was
made in Switzerland, and cost SrsK).
Wh at is called the ''enchanted mountain" j have the lx-st place on the programme : he is
in Texas, is an iimner.se oval rock, ."Ol feet j an older man than I am, and. besides, is la! i
liigh, and about eighty miles from Ha-trop. J of his subject." When the au 1'n-n. e renieut
Its surface Is highly polished, !! tW-e v.ho ; bered that Urotlu-r U.'s -o;.;..,.. .. -Tbe
ascend it h "vc to weal iiiocv.sips '.- iu i Dev il," a -'vi rt'u! -mite -.s-iu'-d To I :t
their -ca. kinti to-, t. i irounil the i'ss. ni'i'v .
'THE PRODHiAL S0.
Now, there. wa a man who had two sons
j Abd the younger of them said to the fath
; cr, ''Kat'ier, give me the portion of goods
! that falieth to mc."
And he divided unto him his living, uud
, the younger son purchased himself an oil
! cloth grip-sack and got hint out of that coun
j try-.
j And it came to passthat he journeyed evsn
i unto Buckskin and the country that lieth
over G"ainst Leadville.
Am, wbon ,ie was rol,e ,li;h linto thft
Ratcs of tlie ,.itVi ,ie ,icara lliusic Rnd dn(..
jn
i,i uw.n.im i,.t., thni .n,i whan
he arose and went his way, a hireling at the
gates smote upon li'mi with a slung-shot of
great jxitoney, and the youngest son wist
not how it was.
Now in the second watch of the night he
arose and was alone, and the pieces of gold
and silver were gone.
And it was so.
I And lie aro-se and sat down and rent his
' clothes and threw ashes and dut upon him
self. And he went and joined himself tinto a
citizen of that country, and he sent him down
into a prospect shaft for to dig.
And lie had never before dug.
Wherefore when he spat upon his hand
! and lay hold of the long-handled shovel,
j wherewith they are wont to shovel, he struck
! his elbow upon the wall of the shaft wherein
he stood, and he poured the earth and tho
I broken rocks against the back of hi neck,
j And he waxed exceeding worth.
! And he tried even jet again, and behold !
. the handle of bis shovel became tangled t-e-
tween his legs, and he filled his ear nigh full
1 of decomposed slat, and the porphyry w hich
is in that region round alxiut.
And he wist not why it was so.
1 Now, after many days the shovelei with
1 their shovels, and the pickers with their
picks, and the blasters with their blasts, and
' the bolsters with their hoist.-,, banded thin
; selves together, and each said to his fellow :
! Oo to : Let us strike. And they stroke,
i And they that strake were as the sands of
, the sea for multitude, and they were terrible
as an armjwith banners.
' And they blew upon the ram' born and tho
cornet, and sa.but. and the flute, and tho
j bass drum.
Now it came to pa-s that the jounger son
joined not with them which did strike, neitb
' er went he out to his woik, nor on the high
way, lest at anv time tliev that did strike
i sIl,;ilM f;lI1 ' him j n;,u.n ,,,, out ,nd
Upo
send him even into his home packed in ice,
which is even after the fashinn of that peo
pie. And he began to be in want.
And be went and joined hinwlf unto a
citizen of that country, and he sent him into
the lunch room to find touri-ts.
And he fain would have filled himse'f up
with the adamantine cookies and the indes
tructible pie and vulcanized sandwiches
which tlie tourists did eat.
And no man gave unto him.
And when he came to himself he said :
H"'W many hired servants hath my father on
the farm w it 1 1 bread enough and to spare,
and 1 perish with hunger '.'
And he resigned his position in the lunch
business and arose and went unto bis father.
Uut when he was a great waj ff he tele
graphed to his father to kill the old cow and
make merry, for, lx-imld: lie had struck it
rich ; and the old gentleman paid fur the tel
egram. Now, the elder son was in the imith field
plowing with a pair (if balky mules, and
when he came and drew nigh to the house
he heard music and dancing.
And he could not seem to wot why these
things were thus.
And lie took the girl by the ear and led
her away, and asked her. whence comct'u
' this unseemly hilority?
And she smote him w itli the palm of her
, band, and said : "This, thy brother hath
come, and was dead and is alive again," and
I they liegan to have a high old time.
And the elder son kicked even as the gov
ernment mule kickelh, and he was hot un
der the collar, and lie gathered up and arm-
ful of profanity and flung it in among tUo
i guests, and g.t him up and girded l.'s loins
. and lit out.
And be got him to one learned in the i. w,
and he replevied the entire ranch on which
, they were, together with all and singular tho
hereditaments, right, title, franchise, estate.
. both i . law inn I in equity, together with nil
dips, spurs, angles, crooks, variations, leads,
t veins of lead or silver ore, mill-sib's, dam
sites, flumes, and each and every ono of
j them firmly by these presents.
j And it was so. JJill Xye in I:w?r Tri-
i bune.
, A Litfkart Cvuicwitv. The following
rather curious piece of composition was
I placed upon the blackboard at a teachers
i institute, and a prize of a Webster's dietion
' ary offered to any person w ho would read
and pronounce every word correctly. The
j book was not carried off, however, as twelve
was the lowest number of mistakes made in
pronunciation :
"A sacriligiom son of Uclial. who suffered
i from bronchitis, li.ivingexhaused bis finances,
: in ordor to make good the deficit, resolved to
ally himself to a comely, lenient and docile
voting lad.' of the Malay or Caucasian laeo.
i He accordingly purchased a callioH and co
I ral necklace of a chameleon line, and seenr
j ing a suite of rooms at a principal lvtel, cn
i gaged tlie head waiter as his eo id jut or. II
j then dispatched a letter of the most unex
! ceivtional caligraphv extant, inviting the
voung latiy lo a matinee. Mie revolted at
the idea, refused to consider brelf sacrifi'1
able to his desires, ami sent a polite note of
refusal, on receiving which, lie piocured a
carbine and a bowio knife, and said be would
not now forge letters hyni'iiial with the
queen, went to an isolated spot, severe 1 his
jugular vein, and dis-harged the contents .f
bis carbine into bis ab lotneti. The debris
was removed bv the coroner."
j The mistakes in pronun.-k'tion were made
! on the follow ing words : S,i.;ii::iou, IV Hal,
j bronchitis, exhausted, fhiances, deficit, come
I !y. lenient, docile, Ma'.y, calliope, chamele
; on, suite, coadjutor, caligraphv, matinee,
s.uTiiioable carbine, hyinoni.il, isolated, jug-
ular and debris.
; It was at a late quaiteily iii"eL'ig of the
i Seventh-day Uaptisf churches iu Wisconsin,
, that two clergymen were to present papers
j on the same day, ami the question of prece
i deuce having iiiisen, Mr. A. sprang to his
j feet and said. il think Piotlicr U. ouuht to