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STATEMENT OF THE RECEIPTS
AM) EXJ'EMlTfKEScFttAi.MTZlM JlOR
ouoh for the year cn iiriK April 10. lsj :
Okoroe (Jrrrjin, t'olleetor. Ha.
To amount ol Duplicate $i'Tl,27
Hy im't of tax collected f2M.78
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Thomas Hradlkt, Treasurer, I)!t.
am't reo'U fr'rn F. J. Christy.
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Piilishin(r iio
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Cnnf table's salary 2.(0
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secretary's Raiary 15 0i)
Kepairinif Iick-up 1 00
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$119.44
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ouirh. have exaininej the accounts of the Collect
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Oailitiln, April 10, lSii4-3t.
I EXECUTORS' NOTICE.
-J Estate of Francis I'oopur, dee'd
Letters testamentary to the estate of Francis
Cooper, late of Clearfield township, dee'd havinic
been issued to the nndcrsiirned bv the Kritisterof
t'ambrla county, notice Is herehy"Klven to ail per
sons indebted to said estate that payment must
be made without rtelay. and those having claims
airainst the same should present them properly
authenticated fur settlement.
FH I LIP COOPER )
Joseph C( pek. Kietow.
Clearfield Twp., March 24. lSSl.-6t.
AUDITOR'S NOTICE. The m.ar
turned Anditor. appointed bv the Cnnrt of
t'ommon I'leas of Cambria county to hear and de
cide all questions arisinir under exceptions filed to
the final account of Henry Walters, Eo As
signee of ltvld Smay. and to report distribution
of the funds In his funds, hereby irives notice that
he will sit at his sfllce In Ebenshurit on Monday
the ttt day 0 May. A. D. J-Wf. at 3 o'clock, r. n to
attend to the duties of said appointment, at which
time and place all parties interested mav attend
If tlier see nr.. per. ALV1N EVA.NS.
Ebensburir, April 14,18.-3t. Auditor
ADMINISTRATION NOTICE.
Estate of Patrick Smith, dee'd.
Letters of administration on the estate of Pat
rick Smith, late of Tunnelhill borouKh. deceased
havinK been granted to the ondersiuned bv the
Kcgister of Cambria county, all persons Indebted
to said estate are hereby notified that prompt pay
ment must be mude. and those harms; claims or
demands aeainst the same will present them pro
perly authenticated for settlement.
Jl LI A SMITH. Administratrix.
Tunnelhill, April 14, lSS2.-t.
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SO IIJIE FOR IIATIXC
Becone with feud ! Away with strife I
Oar huniiin hearts unnmtinef ;
. Let us be friends again ! This life
Is all too short for hating :
So dull the day, so dim the way,
So round the road we're faring
Far better weal with faithful friend,
Than stalk alone uncaring.
The barren fiz, th withered vine,
Are tyoes of selfish living ;
But souls that give, like thine and mine,
Renew their life by giving.
Wnile cypress waves o'er early graves,
On all the ways we're going, .
Far better plant where seed is scant,
Thau tread on fruit that's growing.
Awa with scorn 1 since die we must,
And rest on one low pillow ;
Thore are no rivals in the dust
No foes beneath the willow.
So dry the bowers, so few the flowers.
Our earthly way discloses.
Far better stoop, where daisies droop.
Than tramp on broken roses !;
Of what are all the joys we hold,
Compared to joys above us?
Arid what are rank, and power, and gold,
Coniparrd to hearts to love us?
So fleet our years, sn full of tears.
So close death is awaitine
God cives us space for loving grace
But leaves no time for hating.
JlSTK FAS CKLMLS.
INNOCENT VICTIMS WHO HAVE SUFFERED
FOR THE GUILTT.
The chains of 4rcumstances which have
dragged the innocent to the expiation of the
crimes of others clank in the criminal records
of all countries anil ages. Innumerable links
compose them, some so strong that they have
endured the severest tests the law could aD
ply to them ; others mere playthings, often
forged by the victim's own act. Sir Edward
Coke affirms that the most common cause of
j false condemnation on the evidence of cir
i cumslances is the inclination of the party
charged with the offense to lie on his own be
half when he finds the evidence against him
go plausible. Ir, order to combat the coinci
dences of Fate he invents what he considers
a cogent lie to explain it away, and is Invari
ably detected. One case in the great law
yer's own cognizance was that of a gentleman
who was accused of the murder of his infant
niece and ward. He was so frightened that
he produced a false ward to disprove the
charge of which he knew himself to be guilt
less. The trick was discovered and he was
hanged. Shortly nfterward the victim he had
suffered for not creating was rescued from
the band of Gypsies who ha4 kidnapped her.
DOOMED BY HIS DAUGHTER.
In the year 1721 there resided In Edinburg
an upholsterer named William Shaw, who
had a daughter, Catherine Shaw. This young
woman encouraged the addresses of John
Lawson, a profligate young man, addicted to
every kind of dissipation. He was forbidden
the house, but the daughter continued to see
him clandestinely ; the father, on the discov
ery, kept her strictly confined.
William Shaw had for some time urged his
diughter to receive the addresses of a son of
Alexander Robertson, a friend and neighbor;
and one evening, being very urgent with her
thereon, she peremptorily refused, declaring
she preferred death to being young Robert
son's wife. The most passionate expressions
arose on both sides, and the words barbarity,
cruelty and death were frequently pro
nounced by the daughter loudiy and emphat
ically. The greater number of the buildings in
Edinburgh are tall and massive, divided into
flats. William Shaw resided in one of these,
and a partition only divided his dwelling
from that of James Morrison, a watch-case
maker. This man indistinctly overheard the
conversation and quarrel between Catherine
Shaw and her father, and was particularly
struck with the repetition of the above words.
At the end of the squabble he heard Shaw
go out and lock the door, and presently heard
several groans from the daughter. Alarmed,
he called some of his neighbors, who, in his
room, not only heard the groans, but dis
tinctly ,hearl Catharine Shaw two or three
times faintly exclaim : "Cruel father, thou
art the cause of my death." A Constable
was procured and an entrance forced. Cath
erine wns found weltering in htr blood, and
the fatal knife by her side. She was alive,
but speechless ; but on questioning her as to
owing her death to her father, she was just
able to make a motion with her head appa
rently in the affirmative, and expired. At
this criti.-al moment William Shaw returned.
At the sight of his daughter he turned pale,
trembled, and was ready t sink. The first
surprise and the succeeding horror left little
doubt of his guiH in the breasts of the be
holders ; and even that little was done away
on the Constable discovering that the shirt of
William Shaw was bloody. Evidence such
as this was considered ample to secure his
hanginz in November, 1721.
Next year a man who had become the les
see of his rooms found a scrap or folded pa
per in a crevice behind the mantel-piece,
from which it had evidently fallen or been
blown. It was a letter from Catherine Shaw,
five minutes after her father's departure, an
nouncing that she intended to cotumit'sui
cide. It may have been some satisfaction to Wil
liam Shaw that when his innocence was es
tablished the authorities caused a flag to be
waved over his grave.
WITHIN AN INCH OF HTS LIFE.
In the reign of Charles II, Jacques du
Moulin, a French refugee, having brought
over his family and a small sum of money,
employed it in purchasing lots of goods that
had been condemned at the Custom-house,
which he acain disposed of by retail. He
came frequently to persons of whom he had
received money with pieces of counterfeit
coin, and pretended that they were among
the pieces which had been paid him. This
soon brought him into disrepute, and he
gradually lost business and credit. It hap
pened that having sold goods to one Harris
a person with whom lie had no dealings, he
received the money in guineas and Portugal
gold. In a few days he returned with six
pieces, which he averred were of base metal,
and part of the sum which he had a few days
before received. Du Moulin insisted that he
bad put the money in a drawer by itself, and
locked it np till he offered it in payment of a
bill of exchange, and then the pieces were
found to be bad. Harris became angry, and
charged Da Moulin with intending a fraud
and told the story wherever he went, until
the refugee sued him for defamation. In
self-defense Harris and several previous vic
tims joined to sue out a warrant against him
on a charge of offering counterfeit coin.
ne was arrested and his house searched.
Counterfeit coin, tools, molds and the like
were found in his escritoire. On this evi
dence he was convicted and sentenced to
death. A few days before the carrying out
of the sentence a seal engraver named Wil
liams was killed by a fall from his horse.
His wife, who was pregnant, suffered a fatal
miscarriage from the shock, and at the point
of death sent for the wife of the condemned
man and revealed the fact that her husband
had bean associated with three other men in
coining base money, which she had been fre
quently employed to put off, and was In
trusted w ith the whole secret. One of these
persons hired himself to Du Moulin as a kind
of footman and porter, and beinc provided
by the gang with false keys, had disposed of
a very considerable sum of bad money by
opening his master's escritoire and leaving it
there iu the stead of an equal number of good
pieces, which he took out. The men were
taken the same day, and at their lodgings a
great quantity of bad money, and many in
struments for coining were found. Upon
this discovery Du Moulin's execution was
suspended, and a little further inquiry de
veloped the fact that the damnatory tools
found in his desk had been placed there by
the footman who, when the officers came to
search for evidence against his master on the
charges brought by Harris and his associates,
thought they were after him and srot the
criminating implements out of the way of
Joiug him harm.
THE HIGHWAYMAN'S SCAPEGOAT.
In the year 1742, near Hull, a gentleman
was stopped late in the evening, about seven
miles from the town, by a single highwayman
with a mask on his face, who robbed him of
a purse containing twenty guineas. The
highwayman rode off ad full speed, and the
gentleman, agitated by what had passed, rode
nly two miles further, and stopped at the
Bell Inn, kept by Mr. James Biunell. ne
related to several persons the fact of his hav
ing been robbed, to which he added that
when lie traveled he always gave his gold a
peculiar mark, and that every guinea in the
purse taken from him was thus marked.
The gentleman had not long finished his
supper when Mr. Brur.ell came into the par
lor where he was, and informed him that he
had a waiter, one John Jennings, who had
of late been full of money, and very extrava
gant. Long before dark that day he had
sent out Jennings to change a guinea for him;
the man had only come back since the arrival
of the traveler saying he could not .get
change, and, seeine Jennings to be in liquor
he bad sent him off to bed, determined to
discharge him in the morning. Mr. Brunell
1 continued to say that when the guinea was
brought back to him, it struck hira that it
was not the same which be had sent out for
change, there being on the returned one a
mark, which he was very sure was not upon
the other ; he unluckily paid away the guin
ea to a man who lived at some distance, and
who had now gone home, but he suggested
that Jennings' clothing be searched.
In the slumbering sot's pockets were found
the purse and nineteen marked guineas. He
was hanged at Hull, and a year afterward
Brunell himself was apprehended for rob
bing a euest, and found to have been guilty
of many highway robberies, among them that
of the twenty guineas. After robbing the
traveler, he had got home before him by a
short cut and rapid riding, and paid one of
the guineas away to a man to whom he owed
a small bill. Afterward he heard with con
sternation that the eolns were marked, and
the thought of accusinc and sacrificing poor
Jennings, who was drunk enough to be an
easy victim to his own destruction suggested
itself, and was fatally carried out.
THE VILLAGE INN" MUPDER.
The famous case of Jonathan Bradford
will bear retelling. Bradford kept an inn in
Oxfordshire, on the London road to Oxford.
He bore a respectable character. Mr. Haj es,
a gentleman of fortune, put up at Bradford's.
He there joined company with whom he sup
ped, and in conversation unguardedly men
tioned that he had then about him a consid
erable sum of money. In due time they
retired to their respective chambers, the
gentlemen to a two bedded room, leaving a
candle burning in the ehimney corner. Some
hours after they were in bed, one of the gen
tlemen being awake, heard a deep groan in
an adjoining chamber, and awoke his friend.
The sound increasing, as of one djing and in
pain, they proceeded to the next chamber,
from whence the groans seemed to come.
The dooi being ajar, they saw a light in the
room and a man weltering in his blood in the
bed, with another standing over him with a
dark lantern in one hand and a knife in the
other. The man seemed as much petrified
as themselves but his terror carried with it
aii the appearance of guilt.
The gentlemen soon discovered that the
murdered person was the stranger with
whom they had that night supped, and that
the man who was standing over him was their
host. They seized Bradford and disarmed
him of his fenire, and charged him with being
the murderer. He positively denied the
crime, and asserted that he came there with
the same humane intentions as themselves ;
for that, hearing a noise, which was succeed
ed by groaning, he got out of bed, struck a
light, armed himself with a knife for his de
fense, and had that minute entered the room
before them.
He was found guilty in spite of his protes
tations, and expiated the crime. Long af
terward it was discovered that the real mur
derer was Hayes' footman.
But there was a species of poetic justice
about Bradford's execution after all. He
had actually been on his way to kill his guest
when he discovered that some .one had
reached that end before him.
"THE FELLOW THAT LOOKS LIKE ME."
Another case, curious by reason of the
mistake in identity involved was that of
Thomas Geddely, who lived as a waiter with
Mrs. Hannah Williams, who kept a public
house at York, and was deemed in wealthy
ciicumstances. One morning her desk was
found broken open and robbed, and Thomas
Geddely disappearing at the same time, no
doubt was entertained as to the robber.
About a twelve-month after a man calling
himself James Crow came to York, and
worked a few days for a precarious subsist
ence in carrying goods as a porter. Many
accosted him as Thomas Geddeley. ne de
clared he did not know them, and that his
name was James Crow, and that he never
was at York before. But this was held as
merely a trick to save himself from the con
sequencces of the robbery.
His mistress was sent for, and in the midst
of many people instantly singled him out and
called him by name (Thomas Geddely). Ho
absolutely affirmed that he was not Thomas
Geddely, that he knew 110 such person, that
he never was in York before, and that his
name was James Crow. Not, however giv
ing a good account of himself, but rather ad
mitting that he was a vagabond and petty
rogue, and being nnable to prove an alibi, he
was found guilty and executed. Some time
after the true Thomas Geddely, who, on
robbing his mistress had fled to Ireland, was
taken up in Dublin for a crime of the same
stamp, aud there condemned and executed.
HTKO FOR A WOMAN'S CRIME.
Forty odd years ago a poor German came
to New York and took lodgings, where he
was allowed to do his own cooking in the
same room with the family . The husband and
wife lived in a perpetual quarrel. One day
the German came into the kitchen with a
clasp knife and a pan of potatoes, and he
began to pare them for his dinner. The
quarrelsome couple were in a more violent
altercation than usual, but he sat with his
back toward them, and being Ignorant of
their languege, felt no danger of being in
volved in their dispute. But the woman,
with a sudden and unexpected movement,
snatched the knife from his hand and plung
ed It into her husband's heart. She had suf
ficient presence of mind to rush into the street
and scream murder. The poor foreigner in
the meanwhile, seeing the wounded man reel,
sprang forward to catch him in his arms, and
drew out the knife. Teople from the street
crowded in and found him with the dying
man in his arms, the knife in his hand, and
blood upon his clothes.
The woman swore in the most positive
terms that he had been fighting with her
husband, and had stabbed him with a knife
he always carried. The unfortunate German
knew too little English to understand her
accusation or to tell his own story, ne was
dragged off to rrison, and the true state of
the case was made known through an inter
preter ; but it was not believed, and the real
criminal swore unhesitatingly that she saw
him commit the murder. He was executed,
notwithstanding the most persevering efforts
of his lawyer, John Anthon, whose convic
tions of the man's Innocence were so pain
fully strong that from that day he refused lo
have any connection with a capital case, very
much as a well known ex-Ring Mayor did a
couple of years ago. Some years after the
woman died, and on her deathbed confessed
her agency in the diabolical transaction.
Society, according to Mrs. Lydia Maria
Child, who tells the story, was intensely ag
itated by the discovery, but the power to
atone for the wrong had been thrown away,
and the poor victim did not profit by this
tardy repentance.
Hanging may not be played out in New
York, as a vulvar assassin once made him
self historical by asserting, but if it had many
such victims it ought to be.
What Was Heard When the Tiano
STorrED. There was a social gathering in
Rockland the other evening, and amone the
guests present was a musical genius from
Boston. A number of local celebrities had
favored the company with selections, both
vocal and instrumental, and then the musi
cal genius from Boston was with great diffi
culty prevailed upon to play a piece upon
the riano. He seated himself amid much
applause, and fell to pawing the ivory keys
with a vigor that left iw doubt of the sincer
ity of his emotions. The audience contem
plated the scene for a brief moment, and
then fell into a pleasant and comfortable
conversation, intermixed with light and joy
ous bursts of laughter, as is customary
among good society when a person is per
lorming on the piano. An idea flew into
the mind of the musical genius as he proud
ly listened to the storm of laughter and con
versation which his talent had called forth.
He suddenly stopped in the middle of a bar,
or a rest, or some musical term, and the aw
ful silence of the piano was filled by the fol
lowing fragmentary ends of current remarks :
Was awfully cold," said the thin woman
in blue dress and green libuons.
"Of the best pork." said the bald-headed
man with the mottled face.
"So we chipped another ten all around,"'
said the young man iu the phenominally
short ceat.
Tuts on airs like all Boston musicians,"
said the sad eyed party who had been watch
ing the musical genius' back with jealous
eyes.
'Soaked fat dreadfully," said the little
woman in corkscrew curls.
"Always flirts in a company like this,"
said the maiden lady, whose eyes were fas
tened on a handsome girl on the opposite
side of the loom.
"Think family albums are justheaveuly,"
said a gushing young thing in pink, who
was talking to a weak-eyed young man in
glasses.
"Can't like these mixed times," said the
prim women in gray hair and a jet black
switch.
"1 eat sours on my stomach," said the
dyspeptic-looking man in the long black
coat.
"Cut them off with father's razor," said
the girl in tight boots.
'Sewed a patch on his old ones," said the
fat woman in the baby blue sack.
And silence fell on the assemblage, and
the thermometer on the mantel dropped to
twenty degrees below zero. Rockland (Me.)
Courier.
Taking Time by the Forelock. The
Detroit Free Pres says : At the battle of
Groveton Stonewall Jackson tried an experi
ment which nearly frightened a Federal force
out of their boots. Bars of railroad iron were
cut up into foot lengths and fired from some
of his heaviest gnns, and the noise these mis
siles made as they went sailing through the
air was a sort of cross between the shriek of
a woman and the bray of a mule. The Fed
erals listened in wonder at the first few which
banged through the tree tops, and presently
one of the pieces fell just in front of a Penn
sylvania regiment. A captain stepped for
ward to. inspect it, and after tornine it over
he rushed to his colonel with the news.
"Colonel, them infernai;rebs are firing rail
road iron at us !"
"Nor
"They are, for a fact!"
"Captain, advance your company to that
tidge and deploy, and the minute you find
Jackson is getting ready to fire freight cars
at us send me word. I don't propose to have
my regiment mashed into the ground when
it can just as well be decently exterminated
in the regular way !"
The Only Full Thing. A negro family
in Galveston are everlastingly quarreling
and disturbing the neighbors. A gentleman
living close by met the wife and said to her:
"You are always kicking up a row. Why
Is there no harmonv in your house ?" "Dat's
jess what I was telling de lazy, wuffless nig-
gah. Dar ain't no harmony in de house and
no meat, and de bacon's all tat up, and de
meal bar'l is empty. He is de only thing in
de heuse what's full all de time."
The rturest. best and cheapest remedy U
that simple compound, Peruna.
A DREAM OF Ml'KDER.
The narrator said that, some years ago, he
was the "best-man" at the marriage of a
friend, who afterward proceeded with his
bride to a large town in England. The lady
possessed great personal charms, and had
qsite a following of suitors, the most con
spicuous of whom was a youtig chemist, who
dirt bear the most irreproachable of charac
ters ; but shortly before the marriage, this
young man disappeared. The married con
pie were very happy for several motths, till
an event happened which bears on the stoiy.
Returning from a concert one evening, the
young wife received a slight chill, which
threatened to rest on the lungs, and medical
assistance was procured. The doctor came,
and after ordering a simple prescription, he
retired, remarking that his patient would b
all right in a day or two. This anticipation,
however, was not fulfilled. To the great
grief of the husband, his wife showed symp
toms of extieme lassitude, and the careful di
agnosis of an eminent physician failed to ac
count for tho abnormal condition. Medicine
was of course prescribed freely, but with no
beneficial result. F.xhaust;on supervened ;
and at this crisis the husband telegraphed
for his friend to Edinburg to come and per
form some little business.
The summons was readily obeyed, as the
friend had a sincere admiration for the hus
band, and the greatest respect for the suffer
ing wife. Seated that night in a Midland
carriage, with nocompanion but his thoughts,
the young man recalled all the circumstances
of the marriage, Dot forgetting the sinister
incident of the disappointed apothecary's
disappearance. As he thought on all these
matters, he fell asleep. He awoke with a
start, and he was at Carlisle, nis sleep had
rot been refreshing, for it had been disturbed
by a dream that troubled him. Unsentimen
tal by nature, he tried to laugh the fancy
away ; but it refused to be exorcised. Still
harping on some of the incidents, he reached
his friend's home, and found the young wife
in a hopeless condition. The husband was
saddened and perplexed; and his friend,
realizing that action of some kind was neces
sary to raise the mourner from his stupor,
succeeded in getting him to talk about the
business he wished transacted. They went
through a number of streets conversing fa
miliarly, when all of a sudden the husband
found himself giasped by the arm, and look
ed around to see his friend gazing eagerly
into the window of a shop. Recovering him
self in an Instant, the visitor talked freely,
aiiu aiu not volunteer an explanation of his
rather erratic conduct; but on returning to
the house, he requested the servant to bring
the bottle containing the medicine last given
to the suffering woman. The girl broucht
the bottle, and said she had just washed it,
as the doctor had ordered her to go for an
other dose.
This w as disappointing, certainly. But the
friend was a born detective, and not to be
balked. The girl went for the medicine.
When she returned with it the young man
took the bottle, and without acquainting the
husband of his intention, left the house with
the prescription, returning after a brief in
teival with tht medicine. During the night,
the breathing of the patient became easier,
and when the doctor called the next day, he
was able to report symptoms of recovery.
In the evening the friend, accompanied by
a man of severe demeanor, entered the room
where the husband sat, and requested him
to come out on a little piece of business.
They waiked in silence through several
streets, and at last reached a police station,
which they entered. Behind the desk there
there was seated a man with his face buried
in his hands. The officer on duty, without
much circumlocution, told the business
which had called them there. Addiessing
the husband, he said fiat the man seated in
the office was charged with administering
noxious drugs. When the accused stood up,
the party saw the altered featnres of the
missing chemist. A light seemed to flash
over the husband's face ; and alter he had
made all the necessary depositions, he hur
ried home. At the next assizes, the cheuuSt
was sentenced to ten years' penal servitude ;
and as he pleaded guilty, the public knew
nothing of the circumstances more than was
contained in the charge. One of the prose
cutors, however, had manifested a great in
terest in the case ; and as the husband and
his triend were leaving the court, he request
ed the latter to give some explanation of the
manner in which his suspicions were first
called foith against the criminal. The
friend at once told his story.
In the railway carriage, he had dreamed
that he was walking through a large city
which he had never visited. At length be
came upon a row of shops, and at a window
of one of these he observed the face of a
man, debased and vindictive in its expression,
and quite familiar to him. The man held a
mortar and pestle in his hands, and while he
mixed up some drug, there was a baleful
light in the fishy-looking ryes. Then the
sharp whistle of the engine awakened the
dreamer. The sequel was plain. Walking
with his friend through the labyrinth of
streets, could he despise his sleepirg fancy
when he saw before him the actual row of
shops, while at one of the windows stood a
figure that haunted his memory like a night
mare? It was a perfect revelation. When
he returned, and secured the medicine and
prescription, he went to another chemist,
and procured the needed restorative, and
then called upon an analyst with the first
bottle. It was found to contain a deadly
narcotic; and the police authorities having
been satisfied with the main facts, ordered
the arrest of the jealous and wretehed man,
before the guilt of actual murder lay at his
door.
Natural Curiosity. One of the most
singular vegetable natural curiosities to be
seen in this section of the country can be
witnessed growing at Sharp's Ridge, May
berry township, this county, where the pub
lie road passes over the Ridge from Big
Roaring Creek. It Is two pine trees each
about sixteen or eighteen inches iu diameter,
standing several feet distant from each other.
but connected by a branch aboat fifteen feet
from the ground. This branch is as thick as
an ordinary man's body and at either end,
where it connects with the trees, has a bulg
ing growth around it, making it impossible
to tell from which tree the branch originally
sprung. MaDy surmises have been made
how the trees became so compactly united,
a pair of regular vegetable Siamese twins,'
but no person in the neighborhood can re
member far back enough to throw Mght cn
the subject. Those of our citizens who have
leisure should take a ride to the locality and
txatnine this natural curiosity, a it will re
pay them tor the jauHt Danville Intaiiiven.
cer.
BLO0I AMU THIM)LR NOVELIST.
The other day a stout woman, armed Hh
an umbrella and leading a small urchin,
called at the office of a New York boy's
story paper.
"Is this the place where they fisht In
dians?" she inquired of the gentleman in
charge. "Is this the locality where the
brave boy charges np the canyon and speeds
a builut to the heart of the dusky redskin ?"
and she jerked the urchin arouod by the ear
and brought her umbrella down on the desk.
"We publish stories for boys," replied the
young man evasively.
"I want to know if these are the premis-s
on which the daring lad springs upon his
fiery mustang and, darting through the cir
cle of the thunderstruck savages, cuts the
captive's cords and bears h nwav before
the wonderirg Indians have recovered from
their astonishment ? That's the information
I'm after. I want to know if that sort of
thing is perpetrated here !" and she swung
the umbrella around her head.
"I don't remember those ppecific acts "
protested the young man.
"I want to know if this Is (he precinct
where the adventurous bov jumps on the
back of a buffalo and with unerring aim
picks off one by one the blood-thir-t pur
suers, who bite the dust at every crack of his
faithful rifle! I'm lookine for the place
where that sort of thing happens?" and
this time she brought the unlucky younj
man a tremendous whack across tne back.
"I think" commenced the dodging vic
tim. "I'm in search of the shop in which the
boy road agent holds the quivering stage
driver powerless with his glittering eye,
while he robs the male passengers with an
adroitness born of long experience, and kiss
es the bands of the lady passengers with a
gallantry of bearing that bespeaks noble
birth and a chivalrous nature I" ccr.m
the woman, driving the young man into a
corner. "I'm looking for the apartment in
which that business is transacted !" and
down came the umbrella with trip hammer
force on the young man's head.
"Upon my soul, ma'am" gasped the
wretched youth.
"I want to be introduced to the Jars tn
which you keep the boy scouts of the Sier
ras ! Show me the bins full of the boy de
tectives of the prairie ! Point out to me the
barrels full of boy pirates of the Spanish
mam !" and with each demand she dropped
the umbrella on the yonng man's skull until
he skipped over the desk and sought safety
in a neigh boring canyon.
"I'll teach V,n," she panted, grasping the
urchin by the car and leading hira off. "I'll
teach 'em to mske it gr.od or-Jdanee. Want
to go fight Indians any more? Want to
stand proudly upon the pinnacle of the
mountain and s atter the plain beneath with
the bleeding bodies of uncounted slain?
Want to say 'hist !' in a tone that brooks no
contradiction ? Propose to spring upon the
taffrail and with a ringing word of command
send a broadside intothe richly laden gallery
and then mercifully spare "the beautiful
maiden in the cabin, that she may become
your bride? Eh? Going to do it any more?-
With each question she hammered the
yelping urchin until his bones were sore and
he protested his permanent abandonment of
all the glories enumerated.
"Then come along," said she, taking him
by the collar. "Let me catch you around
with any more ramrods and carving knives,
and you'll think the leaping, curling resist
less prairie fire had swept with a ferocious
roar of triumph across the trembling plains
and lodged in your pantaloons to slay."
The Devil Come up to Cool Off.
Capt. Paul Boyton, who made himself fa
mous by his long trips on water in his rub
ber swimming suit, tells the following inci
dent of one of his travels :
"One evening, above Lewisburg, on th
Mississippi, I was on the look out for some
place where I could stop, or for some i-erjon
from whom I could obtain information,
when, near the bank of the river, I discover
ed smoke issuing from the chimney of a
truall cabin. I hauled to and blew my bugle.
For some time the smoke issuing from the
chimuey was the only sign of life. Finally a
man, an easy kind of an individual, came
walking down leisurely, regarding me curi
ously. " 'How far is it to Lewisburg ?' 1 a-ked.
" 'It's a putty good distance.
" 'But how far do you call it ?
" 'I don't call it.'
" 'Confounded it, man ; is it two, three or
four thousand miles?'
" 'I reckon it's one of the numbers.'
"Then I realized that I had met a kins
man of the Arkansaw traveler. My irrita
tatior., which had at first been exhibited,
subsided, and desiring to get as much infor
mation as possible, I asked, pointing to a
bar :
' 'Which side of the channel shall I take ?
" 'Either side you. pjease.
" "Which do you consider the better?'
" 'I am not atWudin' to other people's bus
iness." " 'Which side do the steamboats take ?'
" 'It's owiu ter what captain is aooard."
'"Well, bringing the thing down to a
point, how long will it take me to go to
Lewisburg?
" 'It's owin' ter how fast yer travel."
" 'My friend, 1 think you are the d d'st
fool iu Arkansas.'
" 'An', stranger, I think you are the devil
come up to cool off. Go home. "
A Tree That Supports Many Others.
There is a curiosity on lower Ogelthorpe
street, says the Columbus Inquirer Sun, that
lias attracted considerable attention from they
residents of that section. It is a China tre.
that crew up very tall and several years ago
the top was taken off, leaving the tsain
trunk of the tree about twenty feet high. .
On the top it has become somewhat decayed,
but is making up for lost life by suppoiting
a young forest. There are several di3V rent
shrubs growing out from it, imorg other an
evergreen, three or four feet tall, a blackber
ry bush, which has put on leaves and flowers,
and a water-oak, which Is about two Inches
in circumference. We are told that there
are several other trees of the kiDd in that
part ol the city.
Live and Learn ! It is estimated that
there are over two thousand million chickens
hatched in the United States every year. But
not more than half of these chicks reach tha
size wLen they ase fit to market. T! e pip,
gapes, cholera, etc., kill millions o! young
chickens every year. These diseases can be
euted by the use of Pnenol Sotlique. For
sale by druggists and jrener'.l store fceepers
tee adverbssrewnt.