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'II IB A F1IIU1H WHOM Til TBT7TK Milll fill, AITS ALL iBI IL1TIS BESIDE. SI. DO and postage per year. In advance. rucvuruL iDirnioD . per line. t w R'lolutirmt or jiroerrdme of any ee7eresi or toriety, and ccnmvnicaMenj iralcn'd re tU atffeat tton 19 any wlfir of limited rr mdttulul lrM( muil br fmxi Jot a mdvertitemutt . Job Pbibtibo of all kind neatly aad imd- ,g i.iirnfl br paving in ituci nun igi ,TPrt to be piimtd on in tan Tooting ai mose wm.i 1 tan fact be distinctly understood r: r til umi forward. lay for your paper before yon stop It, If stop 1 y11 must, froae but scalawags do eth er .-V I'oa't ba a iMlawtf-life it too abort. VOLUME XVI. EBENSBURG, PA.. FRIDAY, DECEMBER 1, ISS2. NUMBER 41. u,iJ wvmu mi lowest prices, lion t yi lllililll to CHEAP! CHEAPER! CHEAPEST! GEO. HUNTLEY HAS NOW OH" HANI) THE 1AREST. BEST i MOST VARIED STOCK OF I-IaclTvae ! Stoves. Timvore, Housefurnishing Goods, k . that m be foaad In any one etaMIh inxnt In PanmrlTanta. Hil itoek aom prises mm m imm mm, e! rarlent stylet and patterns; I$uillers' Hardware of every dasarlptlon and af best quality : CARPENTERS' TOOLS! of a;' ''n It nml ih bwt In the marktt. Alio, a larj t.n''k of TABLK AND FOCKET CUTLERY. (.rv w.-xre. I(aernwsrr. MlTfr-Plnld Hitr'. nonil n I Wlllew Wsrf, Wall P prr.Trn.kitnl Tallsrs, Bffel vera, A n -VKr.. If ore ShiiM. Bar Iron, Roll Kol. Mnro Visile. 'rrliar ftolfe. HI.. M. IH tsiw.. drlndtlanes. NtaelSbeT r I'low Honlds. Read Nrnnps; wir. MirmxEs, horse ray rakes, llnrae line Fursta, Hop snd Pnlleya, lorn rnlttraters, and a full Una of llnre e.tlnsr Toole. Alto, a large assortment of Table, Ilnor and Stair Oil Clotha, Carriaie Oil Cloth. F !"FI? in mT. f-T.HTH WIM)TWSHIin' An Mf AI'K nXTT'RFfl : LiTanrrioi. 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I am enabled !. ii'ipplr roT ru.tomera with the rery best In the r. rkt. ( iVe me a II hart! share of your patron v Mien, an l be eonrlnead that the bant Is alwtyt t- .-hc:'Ptit. and that tt never pays to bny an l'n-'--i ir rtr'i'-le -.mply heeausa th pflre It low. as It m In dlpntat'le fart that such goods are always tijo learest In the end. GEO. HUNTLEY. Khec'hnnr. April 11. 1879. ESTABLISHED FOR TH1RTWIYE TIARS HAY BROTHERS, "Miirinrtvotiii'ex'M, WHOLESALE AND RETAIL OF- rxn, coma, AND Sheet Iron Wares AND DIALERS IN HEATING, PARLOR awT OKIE STOVES, SHEET METALS, -AND- ii'tSE-FURMSBING GOODS GENERALLY TIN,r0PPER4SDEEMROX PR VPTLT ATTENDED TO. s. 27.?, 253 aai 282 WasbiiUtcn St. JOHNSTOWN. PA. McNEYIN &l YEACER, CACTtrBBB9 OF E, COPPER and SHEET-IKON WARE, -A WD DBALSRS IK- '-POKING & HEATING STOVES, rxj;s, rrRjirn, '" Eleyeuth Ayenop, . Altoona, Ta. Oae Deer Wast af Optra Baaia. H()(,kino AND SI'OUTINO ritMrTLT irriapiD to. UpilRS UU XT0TH COS8T1JITL1.0.1 BA.D . ''"' '"t. 10. n:s.-tf. STIR" SHAVING PARLOR! he i)()ors We,t f p0ltffipe, 'ill STREET, EBEXSBURG, PA. Hi J- H. CANT. l-Ttd at ear place 10 ho,i hoars. Evi erything kept BCIALTT. -WERrjTIC, KILIABLE IH to sail Frolt Trees, Orape Vines. Shrubs. Nose, fco. ,ai rr.-yy" aua ANTED STRONG FACTS A great manj people are asking what particular troubles Bkown's I&on Bitters is good for. It will cure Heart Disease, Paral ysis, Dropsy, Kidney Disease, Con sumption, Dyspepsia, RhtumaUsm, Neuralgia, and all similar diseases. Its wonderful curatire power is simply because it purifies and en riches the blood, thus beginning at the foundation, and by building up the system, drives out all disease. A Lady Cured of Rheumatism. Baltimore, Md., Mar j, j88o. My health was much shattered by Rheumatism when I commenced taking Brown's Iron Bitters, and I scarcely had strength enough to at tend to my daily household duties. I am now using the third bottle and I am rajgainiag strength daily, and I cJieerfully racommend it to all I sannot sy too much in praise edit. Mrs. Mart . Biasihai, 273 Frcstmanst. Kidney Disease Cured. Christiansburg, Vs., i88x. Suffering from kidney disease, from which I could get no relief, I tried Brown's Iron sitters, which cured me completely. A child of mine, recovering from scarlet fevr, had no appetite and did not seem to be able to cut at alL I gave him Iron Bitters with the happiest results. J. Ktl MuirTAGl'Ka Heart Disease. Vint- St.t Harrisburf, Pa. Dec s, ibSx. After trying different physicians and many remedies for palpitation of the heart without receiving any benefit, I was advised to try Brown's Iron Bitters. I have used two bot tles and never found anything that gave me so much relief. Mrs. Jbhmib Haas, For the peculiar troubles to which ladies are subject, EaowN's iROPf B ITT aVE.fi is invaluable. Try it. Be sure and get the Genuine. NEW FIRM! IK ALTOOXA'8 Largest anfl Cheapest CLOTHING HOUSE I Eicher & Latterner, atcsssers to A. J. Astleran Jt Co., 1308 Eleventh Avenue, Altoona, Pa., nAVF iast reeiTod and oponrd tlio laryjt and nnest s'oca of Fall and Winter"I. THIN. HATS, I'APS. THI NKS. VALISES. SATl'H MS and OE.N'T'S FI'K.MSHIWI irlldHS of all kind, that ha. aver heretofore be en brought to ttaa Mountain City. ( ur stork emhrsu'es the rreatest variety, finest fabrio and latest styles of made-up elotklnt; for men and boys that ean be found In the martet. All goods warranted a. to quality and make, and foil value for the purchaser's mon ey guaranteed In each and evarv instanaa. Our Cerahrla eountv friend, and all others will do well to give as a call. ER HEK A LA1TEKNER. Altoona. Oct. la. 18M.-tf. ORPHANS' COURT SALE Of Valuable REAL ESTATE! TT virtue of a cfurtw order of the Orphans' J) Court of Cambria county, to ma direoted. I will expo.e to publie sale, a. the t'ourf Houit, Eb tntbvrg. Fa., on SATURDAY, DECEMBER 9, 1882, At S oVxoc. r. the following dr.erlbed real estate, the property of Emanuel Dlshart, lata of Carroll towaship. deceased : A Certain PIECE or PARCEL oT LASD situate In Carrtdl township. Cambria county. I'a., bounded as follows : Beginning at a post : thenee, by land of John Misel, south eighty-nine degrees, east one hundred and ninety-nine and one-half perches, to a beech corner : thence, by land of John AMIS, north ten degrees, west eighty-twc perches, to a post ; thence, by land of heirs of Joseph Davis, west, or nearly west, one hundred and seventy nine and one half perches, to a post : thence south, or Dearly south, seventy-five and one-half parchev. to a post, the pla-eof beginning, containing 79 Af res and IIS Hr bra, more or les. nearly ail cleared, having thereon erected a two story Eramb Hnris and a ritisa Hark. There Is an excellent Otwstis on the premises. TFJtMS OF SALF. One-third of the purchase money to be paid at the confirmation of the sale, one-third In one year thereafter, atd one-third at the death of Appol lonia Disbart, wlilow of said Emanuel liishsrt, dre,d the latter two payments, with their In terest, payable annoally, to be secured by the bond ard mortgage of the purchaser. WM H. SEI Hr.F.R, Trustee to sal Keal.Rs tat. ol FaiiciL Disbart, deceased. Real Estate at Private Sale! rpH E undersigned oflers at private sale a valua 1 FARM, situate in Mooter township, one mile west of Cresaen, containing 193 leres. about 41 Acres cleared, having thereon erected a larg-e two story rBAMB riwen iv nrsi. run stablb and aeoessary euthalldinga. There la an orchard of eheire frail trees and an abundance ef good water on the preialses. The land la la the vicinity of good markets, and la well adapted for (arm lag aad raising stock. For terms apj.lv to JOHN I SC A JfTiA T, Sspt. 1. U91.-ro. Kbensburg, Pa. NOTICE The second and partial ac count of John A. Blair and John Lloyd. As signees of ?. J. Ereldhoft. baa been filed la the Ereihonotary"! office of Cambria county, and will be preaanted to the Court of ommon Picas of said county lor eoRfirmatloo on the first Monday of Ie cemher neat. JOHN C. (JATE-S, Kroth'v. r'aothonolary s Office, Ebensburg. .Not. 14. igit. ADTFSTMEUt send for our Select List ef Leeal Newspaper. Oe,;P. Itowall A Cb., lo 9pram Straat, rrawTer. 53 1, c3 5 A ) 5 J i 6 1 z w 1 SCRAP OF UN WRITTEN HISTORY. BT JCLIA C. f MAI, LET, IX CATHOLIC WORLD FOR DECEMBER. In the course of an evening conversation with the cheerful family circle in which'our easy chair is permitted for the present to fill the privileged p!ace accorded to Ita invalid occupant, we fell to relating incidents con nected with the early history of onr republic. An aed member of that sircle Bat 'diligently plying her knitting needlps, a silent listener to our chat, instead of supplying the'ahare which we-knew full well she could have drawn from her own knnwledffo of many in teresting events of that period, at the time of their occurrence or soon after. She was, therefore, very warmly urged by the younger part of the company to "tell xxf a story," even thoueh it micbt prove, as she hinted, but a "twice-told tale" to some of her listeners. It so happened that she had on that, day taken up a stray number oT Iossing's Picto rial Field Book of the Revolution, and while glancing drowsily over its paps her eye was attracted by his account of the tragical deafh of Jane McCrea near Foit Edward, on the Hudson Rivr. in July, 1777. ITaving fre qnently.in former years, visited an aged rel ative who lived in Bennington, Vermont, through the war of the Tteivolntion, and who was well acquainted with the unfortunate girl, and with the Mrs. McNeil whom Miss McCrea was"visitine at the time of the sad event, she had heard the painful story In all Its montnfnl details from the Tips of that rel ative, with the shuddering horror and tearful sympathv which it would naturally awaken In a sensitive young heart. At the close of his narration Lossing re marks that' there were various accounts in the vicinity of Fort Edward a to the subse qnent fate of Lieutenant Jones, of the Brit ish arruy, to whom Jane McCrea was en gaged ; and that he heard, from a'lady at Glen's Falls who was 'related to the Jones family, that he lived with his friends in Can ada many years after the terrible event a melancholy and lonelv man. It is curlons to note how some such trivial eanseas this renewal of her acquaintance with that aad story will often impel an o:d person to rake up the dving embers of the past and draw from them living sparks which had long been smouldering beneath their dnat. It was thus with our serene old friend, as she closed the book that afternoon J and settled back In her "old arm chair." musing upon the narrative and recalling seenes of her early life which she 'had pot thought upon for years. TTencp It followed, of course, when onr evening chat dipped Into history and she was urged to bear her part in it, that she should recur to the subject of her late reading and reverie, and to the fact that she knew more of the later life of Lieuten ant David Jones than was recorded by Leas ing. 'Tor." said she, "all the early years of my life, with the exception of occasional vis its to friends In Vermont, were passed on the American shores of the St. Lawrence. It was then a wilderness from Saekett's Tlarbor to the 'Rapids only broken by the little village i of Ogdensurg, just starting into existence, and by small openings made here and there by such hardv pioneers aa dared encroach within its forbidden boundaries. "Schools there were none up and down the I river from Ogdensbnrg, and the children of j the 'settlers' had no means for Instruction, I unless taught at borne or sent across the river to attend schools already established in the 1 older settlementts on the Canadian shore. "No sooner had my fathertaken up a large traet of land and planted our pleasant home in this wilderness indeed, before we had been there long enough to get it reduced to a tolerable state of order we were visited by the residents of that shore up and down the river, and afterwards formed many perma nent friendships with them, among the most highly valued of which were Included 'nu merous branches of the Jones family. So It befell that when I was old enough to be sent away to sehool I was admitted into one of thoe families more as a household pet than a boarder, and was eordially invited to range freely through the whole eircle. As every separate family was blessed with danghters near my own age, I was decidedly 'in clover among them clover the luxury of which for me, who had no sister or young companions at home, save the little squaws from a neigh boring Indian encampment, cannot possibly be conceived by any small lassie who lives amidst abounding youthful companionship. I revelled in it. 5ucli parties as were given weekly at one or another house I Such mul titudes of dolls as went with us in every va riety of costume; among which my own, large and small, figured copper-colored and in full Indian dress, with hair banged according to the most approved aboriginal style whioh has been adopted by our modern fine ladies and was necessary to the completion of the Indian toilet that I took pride in arranging for them in honor of my special pets, thepa poot of the wigwams. "Among the young irls ot the Jones con- neetion wag one to whom I was particularly j attracted, as she was to me, by the similari ty or our positions. Her father lived in are mole district, and hpr home was almost as isolated as my own. while she was with her relatives for the same purpose as myself. At the close of each term of our school she was, as well as myself, carried home to pass the short Interval between the terms. On one of these occasions she was so urgent in her entreaties that I miaht be permitted to go with her for the vacation that my father consented, much to my satisfaction, and we set forth in great glee. Our Journey was very delightful, through a wild and romantic region, and I received a most cordial wel come from her family at its close. "The honse was more elaborate in style and furniture than our home se recently founded in the woods. A portion or it was built by her grandfather many years before, and extensive modern additions had been made by her father, ner grandfather died the previous year, and his brother, a very venerable old gentleman with hair as white as snow, lived In the family. I was deeply impressed by the countenance and manner of this grand-uncle of my friend. An ex pression of unutterable sadness was stamp ed upon his noble features, and a gentle dignity benign to the very verge of pity marked his whole bearing, even to the soft aned tones of his manly voice, especially when addressing the young in the few slowly-uttered but impressive words which he seldom exceeded when speaking to them. He was very fond of his grandniece, and, si lent and reserved as he was with others, lie never tired of listening to her sprightly prat tle. "As soon as I found a proper occasion I plied her with questions as to her interesting relative, whom she had never mentioned when telling me about her family. She seemed slightly constrained when speaking of him, but told me he was a bachelor, and that he met with a crushing affliction in his youth from which he never recovered. With all the eager pertinacity natural to small daughters of Eve I drew from this reluctant witness that her grandfather, Captain Jona than Jones, and this gentleman, his brother Lieutenant David Jones were officers in Burgoyne's army during the first year of the Revolution ; that the lieutenant was engaged to a beautiful young lady whose brother was a staunch supporter of the American cause and opposed to her union with the Tory of ficer, and that she was killed and scalped by the Indians while going with a friend and escort to meet that officer in the British camp by Sandy Hill not long before the sur render of Burgeyne. He was so crushed by the terrible blow, and disgusted with the apathy of Burgoyne in refusing to punish the miscreants who brought her scalp to the camp as a trophy, claiming the bounty offer ed for such prizes by the British command ers, that he and his brother asked for a dis charge, and were refused, when they deserted he having first rescued the precioni relic of his beloved from the savages and retired to this Canadian wilderness, which be had never been known to leave except upon one myste rious occasion many years before. "She did not know th name of the lady so long and faithfully mourned, but when I asked her if this tragedy did not occur near Fort Edward, on the nudsor., she remem bered to have heard that place mentioned in connection with it. She said they were all forbidden to speak in his presence of American affairs or history, but she had once persuaded him to let her see the mournful relic so precious to him. She described the hair as the most beautiful she had ever seen, light auburn in color, soft and glossy as silk, perfectly even, and a yard and a quarter In length." " 'Well, my dear A , said I. 'it so hap pens that I know more abont this aad affair than even yourself, who have always lived in the house with him. When my father and mother used to visit his oldest sister in Ben nington, Vermont, they took nie with them at her special request; for, being the only daughter of her favorite brother, she always treated me with more tender affeetion than she showed towards her other nieces. Her house, which she had long owned and occu pied, was one where the officers quartered at the time of the battle of Bennington, and I remember th speeehleaa awe with which I was wont to con over and spell out the Dames of those ofTieem, recorded by themselves on the eve of the battle, npon a pane of glass in the window with the diamond In a ring be longing to one of their nnmber, who was killed in the conflict of the next day. '"My aunt's memory was a storehouse of the tales of those times, and I never tired of listening to them. No sooner was one fin ished than I teased for another, until I am sure the patience of the good dame must have been sorely tried. She knew this your.g lady, whose name was Jane McCrea, and also Mrs. McNeil, the Tory friend whom Miss McCrea was visiting at the time of their cap ture by the Indians. I little thought when I cried over the doleful story that the lover was still living, much less that I should ever see him !' "A did not dare repeat to her venera ble relative what I had told her. but she ven tured to beg that I might be allowed to see the beautiful hair of his lost love. He was deaf to her entreaties, assuring her that she was the only one who had or would see it while he lived, and that he wished to have it buried with him when he died. "After our return to school I drew from her some facts in relation to the mysterious Journey she had mentioned his having once taken. 'I do not know much about it,' she aaid. 'I heard it from an old servant- woman of the family, who told me that many years before I was born a stranger came there one evening who appeared to be a gentleman's valet. He brought a fine-looking, intelli gent young boy with him, and inquired for my grandfather, Capt. Jonathan Jonea.' "The substance of my friend's account was that, after an interview of some length with her grandfather, his brother, the lieu tenant, was called in, and the three were to gether in the library during most of the night, discussing some very interesting mat ter connected with the boy. The buller had been ordered to prepare refreshments la the dining room, and Robert, one of the waiter bors an urchin gifted with a laigei amount of mischief and curiosity than his small frame could possibly enclose, insomuch that they were continually overflo wing.to the an noyance to the whole household was di rected to remain within eall to serve them when required. It was not in the nature of this varlet that he should continue idle at bis post during the long hours of the night, and his faculties were too much on the alert as to the subject engaging his superiors to yield to drowsiness; so, in perfect submis sion to his ruling instincts, he plied the key hole diligently for such Information as it minht convey to his ear when the parties be came o excited as to raise their voices above the low tone to which most of their conversation was confined. He gathered from these snatches that Captain Jones was urgently entreated to perform some service for the boy which he was very reluctant to undertake, ne heard him exclaim vehe mently : 'I will not he persuaded to receive under my roor the son of that detestable traitor whose treason, although to an un righteous cause, caused my dearest friend' one of the bravest and most noble officers In his majesty's service, to be hung like a dog by the vile rebels. I should be constantly haunted with the tho't that I was nurturing a viper to sting me when occasion offeied. His brother David said something in reply, of which Robert heard only enough to infer that there waa a retired officer of the Ameri can army across the river who might be per" suaded to do what was desired. 'Very well,' said the captain, 'you can undertake the task If you see fit. but I have no belief that you will succeed In gaining the consent of one who loathes the father so bitterly to take charge of the son. Still, as he Is a bachelor, he would escape the risk of exposing a fam ily to injurious consequences, and as suffic ient provision will be made for the support and education of the boy. there will be no pecuniary risk ; it will also, no douht. be easier, as you say, to keep the Secret of his birth in the States than here in tbe vicinity of his father's retreat. Tou may perhaps succeed, and I wish no harm may come of it if you do.' "Robert heard no more, and soon after these remarks the confab broke up and he was called to serve tba refreshments in the library. "The lieutenant departed with the boy and his attendant the next day. He was absent some days, and nothing further was known as to his journey, its object and result, than was gathered from Robert's story. which was soon circulated through the neighborhood. It formed the basis of many conjectures and discussions among the country people and servants. These were renewed with in creased exeiteraent when, after some months, it was discovered that a stone cottage in the English style had been built in the midst of a dense wilderness some miles back from a Canadian village situated on the bank of the St- Lawrence, and was occupied by an old man, whose sole attendant was a servant who visited that village occasionally for sup plies, but utterly refused to answer the ques tions of the villagers or give any information as to his master's name or history. "I afterwards learned from other sources the further particulars that at tbe period to which this account of my young friend re ferred a settlement was rapidly forming on the American shore opposite to this Canadian village, and that the fact that a leading man in the newly rising community, a bachelor and a retired officer of the American Revo lution, had adopted a boy whose origin was unkuown, but who bore the name of a trait or most odious to all American people, who was evidently not dependent upon his pa tron for anything but care and direction, aet rumor 'with his hundred tongues' busy connecting the youth with the mysterious recluse of the 'Forest Lodge' as the place was named by the country people and sot all eyes to watching him and his movements for any circumstance that might confirm these suspicions, nence when it became known that the boy sometimes crossed the river and disappeared with an Indian hunter In the woods under pretence of hunting the game which abounded there, remaining upon each occasion for some days, it was ta ken as 'confirmation strong as Holy Writ' of the prevailing conjectures, and he was gen erally regarded with increased aversion. Despite these unfavorable influences, how ever, he lived and flourished, became an en terprising, respectable citizen, and a distin guished officer in the volunteer service dur ing the war of 1812, his zeal and valor in the causa winning for him tbe esteem so long un justly withheld, ne married a niece of his. benefactor, and they were united in tbeir devotion to the interests and comfort of her uncle in his old age, inheriting a large por tion of his estate at his death. "The mystery surrounding the recluse, the problem of his suspected identity with the notorious American traitor, and his pos sible relationship with the boy in question were never solved. "It continued for many years to be the nbjectof evening gossip by rural firesides in that region, and strange stories were told by the Indian and white hunters and trap pers of the startling things they had seen and heard in the vicinity of the lonely cot tagelong since fallen into decay both during the occupancy of its owner and after bis disappearance. Whether he died there or left for some far-off country before his death was never known." How Angus McDonald Sold His Farm. A OAMt WHICH CATCHES NO HEWSPAFER FEADKR. Angus MacDonald wag a farmer from Charlotteburg, County Glengarry, who ar rived at Winnepeg a few days ago. Angus, in his own -estimation, and in the estimation of his friends, was a shrewd man. He was hardly in the place before an old acquaint ance of his ran up against him, slapped him on the back in a friendly way, and said : "I'm glad you've come up. 1 was Just going to send for you." After their greetings he continued : "By the way, Angus, you own a farm out near Minnedosa ?" j "Yes." "How much will you take for it?" j "I don't know," said Angus. "I thought of settling on it myself. "Well. I'll tell you what ; I'll give you 6,000 for it." Angus thought before leaving Gh-ngarry that if he not f 2,000 for it he would be doing well, but he was now in the land of Dooms, and so he asked for it 56.500. "Well, here's 30 on the bargain and we'll sign the papers to-morrow." And the pur chaser rushed off. Before two hours bad passed Angus ran against another old acquaintance. "Glad to se you, Angus ; glad yon came up. There's a splendid chance for you. By tbe way, I aee you registered as owning a farm near Miniedosa. How much do you want for that farm?" "I've ju9t sold it," said Angus. "How much did he give you?" "Six thousand five hundred dollars." "The dickens he did ! Why, I'll give you $15,000 for it. Yoa go to the purchaser and get him to release you, and I'll give you the 115,000." Angus wished that he was back in St. Raphaels or anywhere else, since he had made such a fool of himself. However, ail he could do was to try and get the farm back. So who does he run across within fif teen minutes but purchaser No. 1, Says Angus : "I'm sorry I sold you my farm. I'd like to get it back. Here's your $50. and we'll be where we were." "Oh, I can't do that! I bought the farm and will" have, the papers ready to morrow." After further higgling, Angus offered him $500 to break the bargai n. With great reluctance the first purchaser took the $500100 new $5 bills on the bank of Montreal and gave back to Angus the temporary agreement of sale. Angua was a happy man and got out to find buyer No 2. ne found him not. No. 1 and No. 2 were pal confidence men. Angus was the sucker from Ontario, and $450 was the net amount that they stung him for. Glvea Ewtlre Satiaffaetlon. As evidence that Foord's Tonic Cordial is Just as efficacious now as it was forty years ago, read the following letters : Americus Bell, of Matawan, N. J., Sept. 19, 1881, savs : "It affords me pleasure to re commend Dr. Fooid's Tonic Cordial. I have used It with greater satisfaction than any like preparation I have ever tried." E. T. Goodall, East New York. L. L, April 5, 1882,says : I regard Foord's Tonic Cormal by far the most efficacious remedy for Diar rhoea and Cholera. It has acted on me as no other remedy ever has. and I would not be without a bottle in my house under any cir cumstances. W. J. Latha, of University Station, N. C, ays: I have used EDEY'S CARBOLIC TROCHES for sore throat with the most sat isfactory results. Few men who imbibe the rye ever ac knowledge tbe corn. Strange Stories from the Moon. So soon after the enduring of a vigorous campaign suchas we havejust passed through we can hardly hope to interest many of our readers in any toplo other than politics, and when we turn to writing about a land so far away as that of the moon we can hardly ex pect to carry many eyes with us. But tiere are those who will be glad to forget this busy world for awhile and turn to so "placid a theme as this must be. Successful candidates and their friends are enjoying the delights of the sunshine of victory, but there are defeat ed candidates, and they have frienas. These will have realized more clearly than ever the meaning of the word "moonshine" in its vul gar sense. These we may turn to in the hope of convincing that woonshice in an astro nomical sense has a higher and purer mean ing. Same very curious and startling appear ances have lately been revealed by the tele scope in this straBge planet, the moon. Be cause astronomers have so long believed it to be a dead planet and incapable of supporting any life upon its surface, (a belief based principally upon the assumed absence of a ; lunar atmosphere) they have been slow to ; accept the conclusions which these okscrva- I tions suggest. But as a distinguished writer ! declares, (to whom we are indebted through ! the New York Sun, for the remainder of the j Information which follows in this article) these recent observations indicate that the j moon has an atmosphere, and, if it has an j atmosphere, it may have various forms or life j upon its surface differing as much from those ' upon the earth as the moon itself differs from ! the earth in its geological and climatological ! features. It would he very curious if the telescope, the instrument which has banished from the moon the hosts of strange creatures j witn wnicn the imagination of some of the ancients peopled it, and shown how unfitted it is for the habitation of beings like ourselves and those we see around us, should now make us believe that the moon is the home of beings more grotesque in our eyes, per haps, than any the imagination has pictured. We do not say this Is probable, but only that it is suggested by the very interesting obser vations which have lately been made, and which are now briefly described. During the latter part of the month of March last, Mr. Stanley Williams, an English observer, was looking at the moon in the ear ly evening with a telescope of considerable power, and giving particular attention to that very singular oval valley known to astrono mers by the name of Tlato. This valley is about sixty miles broad, remarkably leyel, surrounded by a ring of mountains averaging something less than 4,000 feet high, but shoot ing up here and there into peaks nearly as hi;h as Mt. -Etna. When the sunlightstrikes across the summits of the mountains on one side it throws the shining peak into splendid relief, but all the valley within remains shrouded in darkness. Thesun was justria I ing upon this mountain ring when Mr. Wil I liams made his observations of Tlato, and hi3 j eye at once detected a strange appearance. The interior of the valley, which usually ap j pears totally dark at such times, was illumi nated with a fiant phosphorescent light, making its level floor dimly visible. It waa not the effect of reflection from the illumiua ted mountains, because the interior of the valley was protected from such reflection. Some passing clouds in our atmosphere shut out this interesting sceue from the sight of the observer for about an hour. When the sky cleared again Mr. Williams looked once j more and saw that the strange light had dis- j appeared. Mr. Williams had made a similar i observation in tbe same soot about five veare I ago. About seven weeks after Mr Williams' observation, which we have described, there was a total eclipse of the sun, and a party of French and English astronomers went to Egypt to observe it. as the line of totality ran across that country. When these astrono mers turned their spectroscopes upon the edge of the moon as it bid the sun on the 17th of May they perceived indications, in the strengthening of certain lines of the spec trum, of the existence of an atmosphere on the moon. This observation, though not un precedented, was hailed with satisfaction by those who had always contended that the moon was not as dead as it seemed. The existence of an atmosphere would explain the phenomenon which Mr. Williams wit nessed in the valley of Plato, as well as va rious other equally singular observations ! which have been .made by students of tho moon .from time to time. But this was not all. On the 19th of May, two days after the eclipse, J. G. Jackson, of Delaware, while studying the moon, as be bad been accustomed to do for years, with a reflect! ng telescope, was surprised to see near the western edge of the disk, and over a por tion of the flat region known as the Sea of I Crises, something which he described as jt feathery looking cloud. Just two months later he saw a similar appearance in the same place. And now Mr. L. E. Trouvelot, a well known astronomer, commenting upon Stan ley Williams' observations, says that he has more than once witnessed similar appear ances upon the moon's disk. He has seen lunar landscapes lose their distinctiveness as if thin clouds were floating over them, and once around the crater of Kant he saw what might have been a rare vapor slightly tinged with rurple. He has also seen another large crater illuminated with a faint purple light. Mr. Trouvelot tninks these various appear ances are manifestations of a lunar atmos phere of a nature yet unknown. Scattered here and there in astronomical records reaching back more than a eentury curious observations of a similar nature can be found, but they have generally been look ed upon with distrust or totally disregarded. These recent observations give them renew ed interest and tend to vindicate their cor rectness. If it can be shown that the moon hss an atmosphere. Sir Wm. Herschel's idea j that our satellite is inhabitable will not be i deemed so ridiculous as it has seemed to some modern astronomers. e should not expeet to obtain any confirmation of the observa tions of the German teleseopist who believed he had discovered a big city and great mili tary works in the moon, but reasons might be shown for thinking that the moon sup port life peculiar to itself. The mere pos sibilitv of such a thing is somewhat startling, for the moon is really a very near neighbor j to the earth.- Few, perhaps realize how close j we are to another world besides the earth, i- . .rrw soan of space that I "" "I;:"',' ... n The mean dis- ! Dt P U3 IIWIU " w aAvr. j tance. is only 240,000 miles, or less than ten times the cireuit of tbe earth, and only about . . . ,v . iTi(,j eitthty t ines as farasthe length of the L nited f - - , ... .r..i. h.v. nroha. ! States. Not a few sea captains uavo yiuu. bly sailed as far as the elistance from the earth to tbe moon. And yet so close at hand as this there is a world differing so widely from the one we dwell uron that we can only admit the possibility of its being Inhabited by assuming that its inhabitants are as unlike ourselves as their world is nnlike ouis. THE BOOM AXD THE BABY. A WARDING FOR K7THrSI ASTIO DEMOCRATS BABIES DO MOST OF THEIR SEOW 1NQ THE FIRST FBW YEARS. . Having now somewhat recovered from their astonishment at the dimensions of their victory, Democratic leaders everywhere are hastening to express their sense of the great responsibility it places upon them, and to declare what tbe party will do when It gets control of both branshes of Congress, and above all what great things ares et down for iHi ail ii- ,i . , w A reCa"! ' I,Uto iDe,dent the When Cain was born he was a genuine surprise to Adam and his estimable wife. Tney had never had such a thing in the house bpfrrpt Rnrl bnrl rt rt t narlaniui . .. ; i them what to do with It. But Cain wa a ! pushing child and nnite er.!,if r.ici w, - a -r " r himself if occasion demanded. One of the first things he taught his proud and happy father was that a healthy infant required a vast amount of carrying. No matter how much hay was down and a rain coming up. when little Cainy decided to take a ride on pa's shoulder there was nothing to do bet to take him up. He contrived to keep Adam trotting about pretty much all the time Now, of course, they had weighed the child ; when it was born. Gieen as they were tbey j knew enough to do that. They had not the , approved appliances for ascertaining which j are in common use now, even by the dog's ; meat man, but by taking his little Cain in one t hand and a stone of about equal weight in the other, and estimating the weight of the j stone, Adam figured out that the babv weih , ed about 10 pounds, 8 ounces. He rrobably ' exaggerated a few ounce. There is no tu ; thentic record of a time when yonng fathers told the strict truth about the weight of their i first born, and it is safe to say that Adam was no better than his descendants in this regard. The child grew and flourished and kept his father up at night for a month. Adam had noticed that the baby was more of a load than i he used to be, and at the end of the month he , weighed him again. Twenty-one pounds j now. Father Adam sought out a smooth ; place on the barn door and a soft stone and j began to figure. By and by he called Eve : : "This thing evidently doubles its weisht once a month. In a month more it will weigh 42 I pounds. In two months it will weigh 84 1 pounds. I've figured it out as far as I have : room on thi door, and here's what it comes , to : In two years our darling will weigh ! .V.1,921,C36 pounds, and In the name of hea ven, Eve, how am I going to carry all that?" Eve's answer is not of pnblic interest, and it Is improper to Pry into the private life of except so far as it is necessary to point the moral. We all know how needless was Ad am's alarm. The child didn't "continue to grow at that, rate and before the twj years expired it was capable of caring for itself. Time lightens all buidens, and a boom doesn't keep on the way it begins any more than a baby. Pittsburgh Dispatch. Comfi.etelt Hemmed Ik. Two of the many Massachusetts 'people to whom the thought ot Ben Butler as Governor of the State has been a nightmare of the largest calibre, are a young married couple living in a town a few miles below Springfield. They j talked it over, shudderingly, the day before j election. The husband said that although Butler's election was confidently predicted, he could never believe that the grand old party would ever allow the grand old eom- I mon w?"Uh to be b"Kn,(, "ith th desolating ignominity of such an event, ne had too much faith in the wisdom and mercy of an i overruling Providence to credit the idea for i an instant. But if the worst did happen he j could no longer breathe the tainted air of his ' native State. "If Butler should be elected," j said he to his wife, "we will pack right up j to-morrow and move Into another State. No more Massachusetts for me." j It was late when he woke in tbe morning j after election day. His wife had been up j some time and of her he inquired about the j preparations for breakfast. "I have been 1 bnsy," was her reply, "but not with the j breakfast. I am packing up and getting ; ready to move because you slid we must get ' out of the State to-day, sure." "Gimme that paper," ssid the head of the family. His i wife handed over the Springfield Republican and Butler's deadly foe surveyed it for some minutes sadly and silently. "I guess." he observed mournfully to his partner as he threw the papei aside, "that you can unpack those things and get breakfast. I don't care much about living iu Massachusetts much longer, but just cast your eye over that paper again and tell roe what Slate there is left for me to go to. Perhaps you can find one. but I can't. They've all fcone the same way." That family has not moved. AS OLDiJOKB OM RCSSELL EbRETT. Speaking of Mussel I Errett recalls a funny I incident in his Congressional career which ! has never before been printed, nis resem blance to Bill Tweed was so great that even the friends of tbe ex-boss were deceived by it. On one occasion John Morrissey and a party of boon eomrades had ruc town to Washington "on a flyer," as they expressed it. While lounging in front of Willard's Er rett entered the hotel and passed up stairs to his room. "My God!" exclaimed John Mor rissey. "theie's Tweed." It was several slays after Tweed's escape from jail when all the detectives in the country were at their wits' ends to effect his capture. "ne will certainly be arrested," said another of tbe party, "if he exposes himself in this fashion." It was accordingly agreed that the boss should be chided for his imprudeuce, and then smugg!ed on board their yacht in the death right on tbe beach, and I had to get river and conveyed to some safe hiding place. a coroner's Jury to find a verdict from over But the boss bad disappeared. They raced heating in the water. Tbe balance of the f 11 over the town. They fumed and fuased i and perspired, but all to no purpose. Atlat, when they were ail fagged out. and almost ready to die of fatigue, they encountered the pseudo boss in the bar-room, qaietly sipping aalep. Judge of their diegust when they found him to be a reputable Pennsylvania Congressman and not the ex-Tammany chief. "c "s lTO koou to aeep, ana it ieat ed -ut- s 8Ucb thingsusnally do Morrissey, who was a philesophical chap, appreciated the joke and set up the champagne right rey- any, uuv r.rreii, who was greativ annoyed at - - th whol fflr. "d W nothing 1 I V . - i T . . . . . , . funny in it, refused to drink the wine and declined to see where tbe joke came in. Baltincre Jjay. TRIAL BY BATTLE. 1 AST ACCUSED GEPVAH inims WA5TS to "FIGHT IT OCT." Never in the judicial annals of Erie. coun ty, Ta., has the Charter Sessions furniahed such humor as tbe terra of Court now hold ing. Among the Indictments found by the Grand J ury were three for criminal '.ibel. the defendants being John Boyer, editor of the t Z)'j Levehtihurm, and Messrs. Frank Weiss ,nd Ilenry ITerblIti ediU)r, of h w v Stnntawt, a humorous ar.d Illustrated weekly. The prosecutor Is John Firch, a young member of the Young Men's Chris- tlan Association and of the Law and Order League. Firch had played the part of aa amateur detective in the League's campaign , against the liquor dealer, and tbe funny I Published a cartoon representing an representing artistic gallows, with a strangled corpse at tachment, hearing a strong resemblance to Firch. The deepest Interest is manifested in the legal proceedings, the Yourg Men's Christian Association being arrayed on the one side and the entire German element on the other. Tbe saMest looking man attending court i the editor of the runny psper. Frank Weiss. To look at him one wonld naturally suppiae him to be an ascetic, his sombre ex pression being strongly stieettiva of self abnegation ard funerals. But, withal, Wels is the rooet comical person within the purview of the court. Whi'e sitting In Court, with features of imperturable gravi ty, he conceived the i.'ea of turnlrg the whole proceedings Into rldicu'e, rd con verting tragedy into t.avov. On the sec ond morning Weiss convulsed everybody hy coming Into court with sn armful of ancient legal literature, obtained by ranarking ev ery law library in the city, and asserting a riclit, under the ruling of the Court, to es tablish his innocence by errleal, or by com bat. He contended that ir unrepealed an cient procedure is good law his claim to de mand the "wagere of battel" was as Just and eqnitah'e as the "stand aside" privi lege. Shrieks of laughter followed the sad faced man's demand, irresistably comical In itself, but the more exquisite fr.im the fact that he is a ll'tle attenuated, weak-chested, asthmatic body, weighing only PS ponndi, while hi adversary is a herculean Christian who tips the scale at 200 pounds, and before whr.ra in a personal encounter the funny ed itor would melt away like hoar frost under the morning sun. Weiss has carefully drawn up all his rights under unrepealed ! laws, and he proposes to make this Judicial district sick of King Edward the First. These alleged rights are : First The "ordeal of fire." ne claims that he can demand the establishment of bis innocence by offering to plunge into his arm in boiling oil, pick up red-hot iron, or walk bare foot over nine red-hot plough-shares, " " " . "'u . " "ur' p f "- j costs belong to the prosecutor. But this I test, after mature deliberation, he will I waive. "All that remains." says Weiss, "Is j to demand the trial by combat, and may uod derend the guiltless." He describes procedure of this combat as follows, produc ing ancient authority in its support : The Judges and clergy are to assemble on a given day, and before them the accused person must fling down his glove and de clare his Intention to defend the same with bis body. The prosecutor will then pick up and announce his readiness to make pood j the arpeal, body for body. Then both men ! will bring out their battle axes or javelius, i and, kneeling before the Judges, will make i oath that the weapons have not been eharm- 1 ed hv witchcraft etc This Anna .h I. t grasp his axe in the right hand, and the left hand of the other in his left. At a signal from Judge Galbraith the men will come out of their corners and gi for each other, and h's ca;ie siihll ie deemed Just who suec-ed i:i csriog up tLe other before the goinr; ri i'vn .f the sun. The niiiriment eaued by W.-ks' claim can bptter be imagined tlan rie-rT iti.-d. One st i ut j-iror came near having afit of apoplexy, ar;-1 nnn'lier laughed himse f into imhie'lity. During the roars r.f laughttr Weiss stood without a 6mile on his face, a picture of stolid substantial misery. While conscious of absurdity of his claims and the impossi bility of substantiating them Welsi made the appeal with a tragic earnestness that al most induced convulsions. The epshot It likely to be that the case will b laughed out of Court. rrte (Ta.) SpeHal X. Y. un. A Bathiwq Stort. "Sine" Barnes tets a Nevada paper a story of his experience at Santa Monica, the new summer resort of Southern California. "I was down in that section a few months ago," said "Sine," "and pretty nearly busted when I fell In with Jones, the senator, and told him my rendi tion, ne fell right up abreast of the situa tion and told me he could give me a jab. 'I want a lot of men to keep in tbe witer all day to show visitors how delightfal surf bathing is. You see these people torn the East have acquired a sort of prejudice against the Taciflo ocean, and I want to counteract the feeling. I want yu to boss eight men and keep them tumblirg around In the billows, the sport of the laughing sea, in striped costumes men who cab run out on the beach every ten minutes and tell how warm tbe water is. Well. 1 caught the idea, and agreed to furnish the crowd for $20 a day, and we closed the bargain. I hired eight men at $1 a head to bathe all the arternoon, and I pocketed tht balance. I got a green and blue stripped suit, with the flag of the Cnion across the stomach and rushed about keeping the gang alive. The second day they struck for J because the water was so cold. I tried to explain about the trade winds and harvest moon tide, but they wanted the money all the same. Then three quit, but Jones didn't miss 'em, and I kept even financially. Then two frore to can left, and I had to go It alone. I grt so inured to the eold that I could rush rut of tbe water, skip up to the English toarlsta and tell 'era it was Jnst lovely and keep my teeth still all the while. I got my $3tl every night, and spent it all for warm dilnks. i Then I quit as mv constitution wis giving way. When I left he had eight Irfsbmen off the railroad doing the bathing for the hotel, and tbey had a fire going all the while back of some rocks, where the men could warm, up between the swim's. That is a great cli mate down there." Scientists teach that insect have their affections, and now an exchange knows of a mosquito that was mashed on a youc lady. r. f l ! i i ! I: 1! I ) i I V i N i
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