VOL. 48.
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The Huntingdon Journal.
11111DROCLAMATION—Whereas, by a pre
cept to me directed, dated at Huntingdon, the
22d day of Jan., A. D., 1873, under the hands and eeal
of the Hon. John Dean, President Judge of the Court of
Common Pleas, Oyer and Terminer, and general jail deliv
ery of the 24th Judicial District of Pennsylvania, compo
sed of Huntingdon, Blair and Cambria counties; and the
Hons. AnthonyJ. Beaver and David Clarkson, his amci
ates, Judges of the county of Huntingdonjustices aseign—
ed, appointed to hear, try and determine all and
every indictment made or taken for or concerning
all crime., which by the laws of the State are made
capital, or felonies of depth and other offences,
crimes and misdemeanors, which have been or
chill hereafter be committed er perpetrated, for
' crime. aforesaid-1 am commanded to make public procla
mation throughout my whole bailiwick, that a Court of
Oyer and Terminer, of Common Pleas and Quarter Sessions I
will be held at the Court House, in the borough of Hunt-
inplon, on the second Monday (end 13th day) of April,
1673, and those who will prosecute the said prieoneee, be
then and there to prosecute them as it shall be just, and
that all Justices of the Peace, Coroner and Conetables with
in mid county, be then and there in their pmper persons,
at 10 o'clock, a. m., of said day, with their records, inquisi
tions, examinations and remembrances, to do those things
which to their offices respectively appertain.
Dated at Huntingdon, the 19th day of March, in the year
of onr Lord one thousand eight hundred and seventy-two
and the 97th year of Anieritan Independence.
J. A. NASH,
TbßOCLAlVlATlON—Whereas,byapre
cept.to me directed by the Judges of the Com
mon Pleas of the county of Iluntingdon, bearing test the
22d day of Jan., A. D., 1673, 1 am commanded to make
public procluniation throughout my whole bailiwick, that
a Court of Common Pleas will be held at the Court House,
in the borough of Ifuntingdon, on the 3d Monday, (and
day„) of April, A. D., 1873, the the trial of all Mooed
in said Court which remain undetermined before the said
Judges, when and where all jurors, witnesses, and snit ,
in the trials of all issues are required.
Dated at Iluntingdon, the 19th day of March, in the ye r
of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and soyenty-two
and the 97th year of American Independence.
AMON 110IICK, Damn,
T RIAL LIST FOR APRIL TERM 1873
FIRST WEEK.
Fred Klept er, Executor.
&e.,
of Wm. Euyeart vs. Jackson Enyeart.
Eli Sankey fur use vs. Martha Walker.
Lowell Shnmway sur
viving partner of W. A.
Shumway vs. James Dunn.
J. Crawford Wallace TV. G. AJ. H. Shoenberg.
Jacobs & Withington for
use VS. John G. Stewart.
Jacob Hoffman vs. John Bare.
F. B. Reese & Co., vs. A. B. Frank.
SECOND WEEK.
Rose M. Herron vs. David Blair.
Saint. R. Douglass' use vs. li. S. Wharton.
Edward Williams vs. The Adams Express Co
Margaret A. Crownover vs. Geoege P. Wakefield.
The Commonwealth of
Pennsylvania vs. John Minnick. et al.
Same vs. Adam Speck. et al.
J. M. Booker, et al ye. Wm. J. Booker
Harrison Couch vs. Thomas Knode.
Andrew Decker vs. Rebecca Gorsuch, et al
David Newingham's Es- . .
ecutors vs. A. P. Wilson's admr's
John 13. Ritter Ts. John Houck, et al.
Mordecai Henry vs. The township of West.
Joseph Douglass so. Danl Mllahan & wife.
R. Myton & Son ro. William M'Clure.
Dr. Henry Orlady vs. Joseph Johnston.
William Outshall vs. B. Stevens.
Pairrnes OFFICE, T. W. MYTON,
March 19, Ism j • Prothonotary.
REGISTER'S NOTlCE .— Notice is
hereby given, to all persons interested, that
the following namedperson's have settled their ac-
Icounts in the Register's Office. at Huntingdon, and
that the said atecounts will be presented for con
firmation and allowance, :it an Orphans' Court, to
be held at Huntingdon, in and for the county of
Huntingdon, on Wednesday, the 9th day of
April next, (1873.) to wit:
1. Final account of J. E. Harper,administrator
of the estate of Mary Waggoner, ate of Dublin
township, deceased.
2. Account of William E. Corbin and Adam
Rupert, administrators of the estate of David
Corbin, late of the borough of Huntingdon, de
ceased.
3. Partial account of George Jackson and M.
B. Massey, Executors of Martha Masse, late of
Ranee township, deceased.
4. Account of George Jackson and M.B. Massey,
Executors of the last will and testament of Robert
Massey, late of Barree township, deceased.
5. Administration account of Henry Leister,
administrator of George Noltie, late of Walker
township, deceased.
8. Final account of Henry Griffins, administra
tor of Dr. Wm. Graffito, late of Porter township,
deceased.
7. Account of James D. Seeds, Executor of the
last will of Hugh Seeds, late of Morris township,
deceased.
8. First and partial account of Abram Taylor
and Jesse Coffman, Cur
f-
Executors of Conrad Cu
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man, late of Cass township, deceased.
9. The second and final account of George
Jackson and James H. Lee, Executors of the last
will and testament of Henry Lee, late of Jack
son township, deceased.
10. Partial account of J. R. Simpson,
Executor
of the estate of Maria Steel, late of the borough of
Huntingdon, deceased.
11. Atimistration account of Sterrett Cummins,
Executor of the last will of Daniel Barr, late of
Jackson township, deceased.
12. Final account of Mrs. Martha C. Weston,
surviving Executrix of the last will and testament
of John Hampson, deceased.
13. Account of David and Joseph Grove, ad
ministrators of the estate of Catharine Grove. late
of Shirley township, deceased.
14. Account of David and Joseph Grove, ad
ministrators of Samuel Grove, late of, Shirley
township, deceased.
15. Guardianship account of John H. Glazier,
guardian of Lizzie Junes, minor child of John C.
Dines, late of Hollidaysburg, deceased, who will
.have attained her majority on the sth day of
April, 1873. . - .
. .
16. Final account of James E. and Robert Har
per, Executors of Wm. G. Harper, late of Dublin
township, deceased.
. . . .
17. Account of 'David Johns, administrator of
Joshua Johns, late of Union township, deeessed.
18. Administration account of Livingston Robb,
administrator of Joseph K. Harnish, late of Por
ter township, deceased.
19. Administration account of George Jackson,
adminietrator of Alexander Thompson, deceased.
20. The first and partial account of Geo. W.
Taylor and Andrew Crotzley, administrators of
Abram Taylor, late of Cass township, deceased.
21. Final account of Wm. R. Baker, Executor
of David B. Baker, late of the borough of Orbiso
nia, deceased.
22. Account of Robert M'Neal. administrator
of Alexander .WAnnich, late of Dublin township,
deceased.
23. Final account of Maria Shaffner and David
Detwiler, Executors of Jacob Shaffner, late of
Brady township, leeeased: . .
24:Account of H. F. Campbell, administrator
of the estate of Hannah Corbin, late of Union
township, deceased.
25. Final account of Samuel B. Grove, guardi
an of Kate Hampsoo, of Brady township, who hair
now attained her majority.
24. Account of J. Simpson Africa, Executor of
the last will and testament of Henry Sturtsman,
late of the borough of Huntingdon, Pa.
27. Account of Samuel Bolinger. administrator
of John Bolinger, late of CromWell township, de
oessed.
2s. Final account of Dr. Wm. P. MrElie, guar
aims of Stanley, Elwood and John Wicks, minor
children of John Wicks, late of Shirlyburg, de
ceased.
29. Guardianship account of William W. Stry.
ker, guardian of the minor children of Mahlon Y
Stryker. late of West township, deceased.
, .
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30. Guardianship account .
of George Garver,
guardian of John IC., Mnry Ann and George Bow
man.
31. Account of Mrs. Lucy W. Brown, adminis
tratrix of Dr. H. L. Brown, of Cassville borough,
deceased.
32. Second account of Thomas W. Montgomery,
Trustee to sell the real estate of John Armen, late
of Barree township, deceased.
W. E. LIGHTNER,
REONTER'S Orrlcs, j Register.
Huntingdon, Molt. 19. j
NOTICE is hereby given to all persons
interested that the following Inventories of
the goods and chattels set apart to widows, under
the provisions of the Act of 14th of April, a. d.,
1851, have been Sled in the office of the Clerk of
the Orphans' Court of Huntingdon county, and
will be presented for 'approval by the Court," on
Wednesday. April 9th, 18'13
1. Inventory of the personal property of John
Y. Moore, deceased, as taken by his widow, Elio.
abotbl Moore.
2. Inventory of the goods and Chattels ' rights
and credits which were of William S. Leffard,
as taken by his widow, Catharine LeWard.
3. Inventory and appraisement of the real es
tate of Robert King, deceased, as appriised fer
the nre of Louisa C. King, widow of said deceased.
4. Inventory of the personal property of Allen
S. Renck, deceased, as taken by his widow, Alley
E. Houck.
5. Inventory of the property Oet apart to Ada
line Campbell, widow of Peter H. Campbell, of
Mount Union, deoeaved.
8. Inventory and appraisement of the personal
property of Dixon Hall, late of Brady township,
deceased, astaken by his widow, Margaret Hell.
7. Inventory of the goods and chattels, rights
and credits which were of Jacob Baker, of the
borough of Alexandria, deceased, as taken by his
widow, Margaret Baker.
8. Inventory of the personal property of E. B.
Blackwell, late of the borough of Petersburg, as
taken by his widow, E. C. Blackwell.
9. Inventory of the personal property of Cyrus
Gearhart, late of Barree township, deceased, as
taken by his widow Mary A. Gearhart.
W. E. LIGHTNER,
Clerk of Orphans' Court.
();p4a..' Court Ober, M0reh,19,'77,
Bite eg novo' ,gonttx.
[For the Jon,NALJ
BY THE BARD OF THE MOUNTAIN,
On thy banks se soft and green,
Often have I loiter'd,
Gazing on the fairy scene,
Mirror'd in thy waters.
Rolling waves of liquid blue,
'Gainst thy margin dashing,
Dazzling beams of golden hue,
O'er thy surface flashing.
Sad the weeping willow's boughs,
Kiss thy silvery waters ;
Beauty rare dost thou disclose,
LovelyJuniata.
Farewell, flower-embroiderd stream,
Calmly flow thy waters,
'Heath a canopy. serene,
Bounding Juniata.
While life's mystic fountain pours,
Its current from the Giver,
Thy scenery shall I adore,
Wild, romantic river !
AMON 1101JCK, SHERIFF.
ZhE Otorg-aelltr.
THE STORY OFA SPIKE
THIRTY miles north of Salem stood, many
years ago, the house anu barn of Asa Cat
tle, farmer and cattle jobber. He was a
rough specimen of his type, but as true as
steel. The world in his boyhood had used
him pretty badly; but the death of an
unele somewhat enriched him in this
world's goods. Cuttle, being naturally in
dustrious and a-hard-working man, con
trived in six years' tine to greatly im
prove the property, and with the aid of
his two boys had cleared a good portion of
the land. He theretiare stood pretty high
in the pecuniary and moral credit of his
section. His eldest boy, Ned, was a strong,
healthy lad of sixteen, and Charley, his
brother, was but a few years younger.—
The remainder of Cattle's "olive branches"
went down on a descending scale from
eleven to zero.
One day Ned and his father were in
the barn piling up wood for winter's use.
Suddenly Asa Cuttle put his broad hand
on Ned's shoulder and said :
"Do you see that spike, Ned ?"
"Yes, sir."
"Your father can tell you a story about
that spike."
"What story ?"
"Sit do,wn, boy, and I will tell you,"
continued the farmer, filling his pipe.
Ned quietly obeyed, and wondered
what his respectable dud had to say to him.
"Your grandfather, Ned, was a hard
drinker. He sold hit land, his house, his
furniture, and lastly himself, for rum. It
was your Uncle Morris that bought the
place up again after his death. I was
born here, as you were, and always clung
to the old spot. When the Britiahers had
their tea pitched over in Boston harbor to
feed the fishes with, your grandfather went
soldiering. The regiment he was in came
this way, and the house he lived in, being
then deserted, he entered it. Remorse
seized him, and he picked up that rusty
spike you see up there in that cross-beam.
He was going to hang himself. Some
comrades entered at that moment, and
your grandfather did not hang. Reflec
tion made him a better man. Returning
to the house at night, he tied a piece of
wood to the spike, on which he wrote
these words
'This spike is not to be removed from
its place until one hundred years have
elapsed.'
"Well, when Uncle Morris took the
place, the barn wanted a 'new coat.'—
What was to be done ? Why, Morris took
that cross-beam out, rebuilt the barn, and
nailed the timber, spike and all, as you see
it now, over the new beam. It is fifty-six
years ago to-day since your grandfather
placed that spike up there and was going
to hang himself. New, Ned, it is not
likely that I will ever be at the takinc , ' of
it out. You may be, or Charley maybe.
Now, remember, don't you ever touch it
until the one hundred years are passed.
Do you hear?"
"Yes, sir."
"And tell Charley and Agnes all about
it; do you hear ?"
"Yes, sir."
"Go ahead; split and pile;" and Asa
Cattle filled the barn with awoke from his
black clay pipe.
In an evil hour Ned Cuttle stole a
sheep. It was once a hanging matter.
But civilization has somewhat
. progressed
since those days, so that young Cuttle es
caped with as nice a beating as New Eng
land's boyhood ever got. Shame drove
him from his father's roof; and off went
Ned to Boston with all he had in the
world, a bundle and seventeen cents in
good, lawful copper.
Ned Cuttle had been about thirty hours
without food, and felt preciously sheepish.
lie was standing near the theatre door,
wondering where all the gay-dressed, laugh
ing crowd were going to, when a voice said :
"Young man, take this note for me to
Beacon street; run as hard as you can and
bring the answer here."
The man was gone before Ned could
speak. He performed his errand, and was
back, panting, in half an hour. He look
ed around for his sender, but could not
see him. He next looked at the super
scription on the letter—Mr. Francis Car
doy, St. Charles Theatre, it read. Boldly
went Ned to the box office and inquired
for Mr. Curdoy.
"What do you want ?" said the ticket
seller.
"I have a letter for him," replied Ned
"Who from ?"
"I don't know; and then young Cattle
told his story.
At this moment Mr. Curdoy entered,
and the letter was duly handed to him
by Ned. Ile read it eagerly, smiled, and
putting his hand into his velvet waistcoat
pocket, threw Ned a silver dollar. Ned
felt no longer sheepibs, for heregaled him
self on mutton chops and ale.
Next night Ned was at the theatre door
again, hoping to earn another dollar.—
Well, reader such things do happen. Mr.
Curdoy did come out of the box office
with a letter in his hand, and again sent
Ned on his errand to Beacon street. The
result was another silver dollar and more
mutton chops and ale,
Two weeks after Ned Cattle was a Ro
man; a live Roman in armor behind the
footlights, with a lance and armed cap-a
pie. Ned had turned "super." Two
years after, our farmer boy was billed as
Marcellus. Five years more and lie was at
the St. Charles under the baton of Mr.
Manager Curdoy. enacting the role of La
ertes. Good for Ned Cattle.
It was the 14th of April, 1862. Ned
Cnttle was playing that. night his farewell
engagement. He had neverset foot in his
father's house since the day of that awful
beating. He had written to his friends
and told them he was doing well, and that
was all.
The Juniata ,
Asa Cuttle and Martha his wife were
now dead. Charley had gone to China.
and Agnes was married and lived in the
old house. The barn still stood, and the
spike held good in the rotten beans. Ned
had selected the part of Rob Roy as his
"bowing exit" befbre the publie. He had
just dressed himself when a letter was
handed to him. It simply contained these
words : "The hundred years expire to-mor
row at midnight."
Gray-headed Ned Cattle entered the
horn% of his boyhood after an absence of
forty-four years. It was but little chang
ed. The actor proposed to obey the wish
es of Ms dead ancestors. Watch in hand,
and axe uplifted, he stood there ready to
strike the blow, his sister Agnes and her
husband standing by.
It was twelve o'clock, one hundred years
ago since grandfather Cuttle had placed
that spike in that beam with the intention
of committing suicide. The first blow was
given. The iron did not move. A se
,nd and third we.-- Id and the
cond au, Ard were repeate, a the rus
ty spike snapped in two, leaving a part
embedded in the old wood. The beamwas
then removed frotu its position, chopped
• ..
in two, and the remaining portion removed.
In giving the final blow, a pieee of leath
er not bigger than a cent-piece fell out
from a crevice in the wood. Ned picked
it up. He examined it carefully. He
saw that it had been sewn together, and
was, in fact, two pieces of leather cut in
circular shape. Opening them, he found
a piece of tin, and on it these words: "Dig
three feet beneath the spike."
Somewhat puzzled to solve the meaning
of these words, the three last understood
that they signified that they were to dig
three feet beneath the ground, a perpendic
ular line from where the spike had origi
nally been placed by Grandfather Cattle.
A spade and pick being procured, the spot
was hit upon, and the two men set to
work. The ground was pretty hard, but
at length their exertions were rewarded.
The actor found a tin box, with a padlock
and key attached; but the hinges were
worn away by time. It was full of Eng
lish geld. On a piece of parchment was
written these lines :
"I, Abraham Cattle, bequeath this sum o
gold to my eldest grandchild to be livingwhen
it is found. If set, to the next in age in suc
cession male or female. It was placed here
two weeks after I attempted to take my life. I
found this money. I never could discover au
owner for it. I request that it be expended
in building a small school-house on the site
BY MURAT.
where this barnnow stands, and that it shall
be known as the Cattle School-house. May
God bless you all. ABRAHAM CcTTLE."
The actor rigidly earried out his grand=
father's wishes, and thus, reader, ends the
curious story of a spike.
Priding tor the intim
It is a good thing for a young man to be
"knocked about in the world," though his
soft-hearted parents may not think so.
All youths, or if not all, certainly nine
teen-twentieths of the sum total, enter life
with a surplusage of self-conceit. If in
measuring themselves with wiser and older
men than they are, they discover that it is
unwarranted, and get rid of it gracefully
of their own accord, well and good; if not
it is desirable for their own sakes that it
be knocked out of them.
The boy who is sent to a large school
soon finds his level. His will may have
been paramount at home; but school-boys
are democratic in their ideas, and if arro
gant, are sure to be thrashed into a recog-
nition of the golden rule.
The world is a great public school, and it
soon teaches a new pupil his proper place.
If he has the attributes that belong to a
leader, he will be installed in the position
of a leader; if not, whatever his own
opinion of his own abilities may be, he
will be compelled to fall in with the rank
and file. If not destined to greatness, the
neat best thing to which he can aspire is
respectability. But no man can either
be truely great or respectable who is vain,
pompous and overbearing.
By the time the novice has found his
legitimate social position, be the same high
or low, the probability is that the disagree
able traits of his character will be softened
down or washed away. Moat likely the
process of abrasion will be rough, perhaps
very rough; but when it is all over and he
begins to see himself' as others see him,
and net reflected in the mirror of self-con
ceit, he will be thankful that he has run
the gauntlet, and arrived, though by a
rough road. at self knowledge. Upon the
whole, whatever loving mothers may think
to the contrary, it is a good thing for
youths to be knocked about in the world
—it makes men of them.—
Alexander Roberts, bort in Detroit
seventy-years ago, died the other day in
Leeds, England. His father took him to
England when but a boy, and, soon after
set him up in business, with the positive
injunction never to spend more than eight
shillings and sixpenee a week. Roberts
adhered closely to his instructions from
that time to his death. He constructed
the rule to involve the rent of his store,
he gave up any outside home and lived and
slept there. As rents rose and his busi
ness—second hand clothes selling—in
' creased. he had to cut down his food ex
penses still lower, and to move into narrow
er quarters. This ho did time and again,
until the close of last summer he was near
ly starved to death.
His acquaintances finally one day found
him prostrated entirely by the overwhel
ming filth of -his narrow home and the
lack of all nourishing food. They per
suaded him to buy. 801:119 medicine, but
when be got it it only gave him an appe
tite. He could not afford to buy food of
ter paying for the medicine, so he wander
ed out to a horse chesnut tree and filled
himself with its luscious fruit.
He returned to his home and died there.
This is the brief story.
He was reputed to he' worth at least
$900,000, but his early vow was kept to
the end, and so long as he existed it was
never at a greater expense than eight
shillings and six peace a week.
His instructions were to live for that,
sum, and he thought he obeyed. Yet
living for that sum caused his death, and
it becomes a question for the logical wheth
er the man did not by dying disobey or
ders. But what will be of more interest
to the unwise is the fact that Roberts has
left no heirs, except such claims as can be
advanced by a natural son, who is some
where in America. Have we not a"elaim
ant" among ns?
HUNTINGDON, PA., WEDNESDAY, APRIL 9, 1873.
Knocked About in the World
Living by Rule ,
Pennsylvania's Claims Against the
Federal Government.
Letter of L. W Hall, Eq., to Governor
Hartranfi—Explanations of Hon. John
Scott.
The following letters will be found to
be highly interesting, as they relate to
matters in which every citizen of Penn
sylvania is interested :
HARRISBURG, Pa., March 24, 1873.
To His Excellency John F. Harem?: 11,
Governor of Pennsylvania.
SIR.-00 the 19th day of December
last, Governor Geary tendered me the ap
pointment of "Agent for the State of
Pennsylvania, to demand and receive from
the Government of the United States, all
moneys due, or to become due to the State
of Pennsylvania, under and by virtue of
sundry acts of the Legislature and of Con
gress, in relation to damages incurred by
the people of this State during the late
rebellion."
On consideration I find that my profes
sional and other ecgagements will not jus
tify me in undertaking the duties an ac
ceptance would impose. I therefore, re
spectfully decline the appointment, with
the suggestion that yon bring the subject
before the next Congress of the United
States, as suggested by the Hon. John
Scott, in a recent letter to me on the sub
ject, of which I enclose a copy. Most re•
spectfally, Your obedient servant,
L. W. HALL.
UNITED STATES SENATE CHAMBER,
WASHINGTON, Feb. 24, 1873.
DEAR SIR :-I left here on Saturday to
attend the Centennial meeting in Phila
delphia, and returning this morning, I
find your letter of the 21st inst.
I am not aware of any act of Congress
under which the claim of Pennsylvania, tb
be reimbursed the money paid to the
Chambersburg sufferers, could be present
ed and allowed by any of the departments.
It will require a special law for that pur
pose, and the presentation of a bill, to be
enacted into such a law, would bring up
the general question as to how far the
Government should recognize liability for
the losses of loyal citizens, caused by the
hostile acts of the rebel armies.
I do not now recollect the terms of the
aat of our State Legislature, but I suggest
whether it would not authorize the Gov
ernor to bring the subject before Congress
by a formal communication in the name of
the State, presented in accordance with the
provisions of that act, and setting forth
what the demands el' the State are; also
asking fur the necessarry legislation to
provide for the payment of the claim.—
Upon sack action being taken, we could
then introduce a bill for the consideration
of Congress. To do so at this late day in
the session would, of course, be impracti
cable. Respectfully, JOHN SCOTT .
L. W. Hem:, ESQ., Harrisburg, Pa
Letter from Virginia
BRAKE'S BRANCH, VA.,
March 18, 1873.
Cllr. Durborrow :—As 1 have a little
leisure time this evening, I thought I
would write you a few lines to let you
know how I got home. After leaving old
mother Huntingdon I had the luck to miss
the cminection at every point at which I
had to change cars, owing to oar train be
ing a little behind time on arriving at
Harrisburg. I had to wait there for six
hours, at Washington twelve hours, and
at Richmond ten hours. The next run
landed me at Drake's Branch safe and
sound.
I was very mueli surprised to learn,
when I awoke in the morning, to find that
the farmers were sowing their oats and
planting potatoes, as last week, when I left
you, you had just about quit sleighing. I
bid good-bye to the snow before I arrived
at Baltimore, as I saw a man plowing with
an old mule. That is Virginia style. I
would just say you don't see a Yankee do
ing things in that way. We are having
beautiful weather, balmy and pleasant.—
The ground is getting quite dry and dusty.
As I was sowing oats to-day you could see
the dust flying as far as you could see the
team. My friends up in Huntingdon
county laughed at me, last week, when I
told them I ought to be at home putting
out my seed. I think we have the best
climate in the world. . It is worth living
here, if we have some poor, worn-out land
and a great many other inconveniences to
contend with, because this old slavery-cur
sed State is about forty years bel.ind the
age, but it is beginning to look up since
the "Yanks" are taking hold of things.—
We are far in the background in regard
to churches and schools, as the school law
is a new thing here, and we have not got
suitable houses yet, but we will soon have
Yankee Directors enough to make things
move in the right direction. We have
not come to local option yet, and I am
afr-id it is far off, as these people think
a great deal more about their drinking
than anything else. I think Horace Gree
ley made it a little strong when he said
"there were ten gallons of whisky for one
spelling book"; I don't think there are
more than five. The staple articles raised
here are tobacco, wheat, corn, oats, and
the different grapes. Since the war the
people are very hospitable towards farmers
who come here, but are down on carpet
baggers and office-seekers. YANK.
Girl's Pity for a Lonely Young Man
I know nothing in the world tenderer
than the pity that a kind-hearted young
girl has fur a young man that feels lonely.
It is true that these dear creatures are all
compassion for every form of human woe,
and asious to alleviate all human misfor
tunes. They will go to Sunday schools
throuh storms their brothers areafraid of,
to te ch themost unpleasant and untractable
classed of little children the age of Methu
selah and the dimensions of Og the king
of Bashan's bedstead. They stand behind
a table at a fair all day until they are ready
to drop, dressed in their prettiest clothes
and their sweetest smiles, and lay hands
upon you like so many Lady Potiphars—
perfectly correct ones of course—to make
you buy what you do not want, at prices
which you cannot afford ; all this as cheer
fully as if it were not martrydom to them as
well as to you. Such is their love for all
good objects, such their eagerness to sym
pathize with all their fellow creatures !
But there is nothing they pity as they
pity a lonely young man.-0. IV:Brown.
A OLD lady read about the strike of the
wire drawers in Worcester, Massachusetts.
She says of all the queer things she ever
heard of, wire drawers are the queerest.
DRESS, like writing, should never ap
perr the effect of too much study and
application.
Tit-Bits Taken on the Fly,
Watch, study and work.
Hard fortune—Solid gold.
A leyer—The soap maker.
A kneady man—The baker.
Wormwood—A rotten stump.•
Logwood—The trunk of a tree.
On the track—The locomotive.
A great death scene—Kerosine.
A very grave man—The sexton.
Neither spend nor save foolishly.
Prize fighters—Men of war's men.
A question of time—What's o'clock.
Innocent fun is good for the dyspepsia.
A raw hide vigorously applied has rid
many a place of its ghost.
We should so live that none will believe
those who speak ill of us.
A man is said to be "discouraged" when
he can't get home without help. •
The test of a man's honesty is in the
sacrifice he will make to preserve it.
There is one piece of jewelry that every
young lady should wear—the thimble.
A Fort Wayne Justice goes to a saloon
and marries people for a two•cent cigar.
Byron improved—" Hell hath no fury
like a woman" whose false hair don't
match.
This life's contradictions are many. Salt
water gives us fresh fish, and hot words
produco coolness.
An Omaha bride was married barefoot,
in order that her kinsfolk might not think
she felt proud.
There is a sweet little girl in town that
wants to be adopted by some one who has
no children—she is eighteen.
True libsrty consists in the privilege of
enjoying our own rights --not in the de
struction of the rights of others.
The habit of being always employed is
a great safeguard through life, as well as
essential to the culture of every virtue. I
Philosophical happiness is to want little
and enjoy much; vulgar happiness is to
want much and enjoy little.
Tommy corrected his mother for saying
that he was all over dirt. The dirt was
all over him.
A wandering heir has turned up in
Leavenworth, Kansas, and lays claim so
ten acres, right in the heart of the city.
A pretended Malay chief, who had tray
elled eleven years with Dr. Livingstone,
was lately lecturing in Michigan.
Jenkins says his wife stepped upon a
nail which piereed the sole of her foot but
he has no fears that it will produce lock
jaw.
A man at Port Byron, New York, dis
covered that flour barrels can be made of
pasteboard, and strong enough to he kicked
about.
A meek lodger once told his landlady
that if he could have his milk and water
in separate jugs he would esteem it a great
favor.
The term "grass widow" is explained in
Montana as a lady whose husband has run
off and left her with a hay-ranch ou her
hands.
A Wisconsin schoolmaster, who does not
use the rod, owing to a lee's] prejudice
against the same, administers castor oil to
his refractory pupils.
Competition among New England un
dertakers has so reduced the price of cof
fins that thrifty residents save money by
going without medical attendance.
Denver is to have a new hotel, and the
public are assured that the walls will be
bullet-proof, so that guests won't run any
risks on account of amaffair in the other
room.
A young lady of St. Louis has just sent
to Europe an order for fifty yards of Brus•
sels carpet, twenty-five feet wide. She is
going to work a pair of slippers fir the
editor of a local paper.
One of the meanest features of the Con
gressional back-pay bill is that the fami
lies of members of the Forty-second Ce»-
g ress deceased previous to the passage of
the bill, derive no benefit from it.
It was the policy of the good old gen
tleman to make his children feel that home
was the happiest place in the world ; and
I value this delicious home feeling as one
of the choicest gifts a parent can bestow.
Many a rich man is without money.—
Thousands of men with nothing in their
pockets are rich. A man horn with a
sound constitution, a good stomach. good
heart, good limbs and a pretty good head
piece, is rich.
A gentle father in lowa, not being able
to cultivate in his daughter an affection for
his society evenings, gave her an opiate in
her tea, and afterward shaved her like a
nun. This soft persuasion will win her to
his fireside for some time to come.
The mischievous result of practical jo
king is exemplified in the case of an un
fortunate New Haven gentleman whose
wife, having been placidly dumb for sev
eral months, was instantly restored to lo
quacity by his imprudent playfulness in
suddenly startling her.
A man 34 years of age lately arrived at
St. Paul from Hudson's Bay, who had
never seen a train of !ears, a hotel or any
but the most primitive machinery. He
had been in the employ of the Hudson
Bay Company, and had just got leave of
absence to see the world
A cotton dyer and printer in Manches
ter claims to have made the discovery that
apple juico has the valuable property of
perfectly fixing the colorsof printed cotton
fabrics. This was suggested by the fact
that the same material used as a beverage
has for many years fixed the colors of the
human proboscis is Massachusetts and
other hard-cider districts.
Some go to churoh to take a walk,
Some go there to laugh and talk.
Some go there for observation,
Some go there for speculation,
Some go there to meet a friend,
Some go there their time to spend.
Some the impulse ne'er discover.
Some go there to meet a lover.,
Some go there to sleep and nod,
And a few go there to worship God.
Mysterious old uncles who have been in
California and got rich, and turn up op
portunely with big presents, are as nice as
the crooked-backed old woman in the fairy
tales. A young man got married lately in
Taunton, Maas.,—a good enough thing to
do, by the way—and was soon after aston
ished by a good-natured stranger who in
sisted upon giving him a house which had
just been sold at auction. The stranger
proved to be an uncle of the young man's
bride, who had been lost for years on the
Pacific coast. An abundance of fatted
veal was obtained and they feasted and
were merry over the return of the uncle
which was lost and is found again.
Mu &Imo' rAutlpt.
An Impatient Benedick ,
A young Montana chap got on board a
sleeping-car of the Central Pacific, and
said :
"See here, Mr Conductor, I want one
of your best bunks for this young woman
and one for myself individually. One will
do for us when we get to the Bluff—hey,
Marier !" (Here he gave a playful poke
at Marier, to which she replied "Now,
Paul, quit!!") "For :•ou see we're going
to get married at Marier's uncle's. We
might 'a been married at Montany, but we
took a habit to wait till we got to the
Bluffs, beM' Narier's uncle is a minister,
and they charge a goshfired price for
hitchin' falk at Montany."
"3larier" was assigned one of the best
"bunks." During the stoppage of the train
at a station, the voice of Paul was heard
in pleading accents, unconscious that the
train had stopped, and that his tones could
be heard throughout the ear:
"Now. Marier, you might give a feller
jest one."
"Paul. you quit. or I'll git out right
here and hoof it back to Montany in the
snow storm."
"Only one little kiss, Marier, and I hope
to die if I don't go to sleep right off."
"Paul—"
Just at this time a gray-headed old par
ty poked his head out cf a berth at the
ether end of the car, and cried out :
"Marier, for Heaven's sake give him a
kiss, and then we can all go to sleep."
Paul didn't ask for any more of that
delicious little lip business during the rest '
of the evening. "Marier," it is to be
hoped, slept peacefully.
A Neat Retort,
Adolphus Fitzmelon was a smart young
man. He considered himself a stunner.
I It was his firth conviction that with the
opposite sex he was irresistible. One even
ing Fitzmelon was at the opera, and in an
adjoining box he espied a Leautiful young
lady with a male attendant. He nodded
to his companion, and remarked that he
must make a conquest. So into the ad-
joining box he made his wa- . 7. and uncere
moniously seated himself by the young
lady's side. She looked up in surprise.—
Adolphus smiled sweetly, and begged par
don. He must have been mistaken. He
had thought he had recognized an acquain
tanee.
She informed him that he had been
mistaken.
"Still," ventured Adolphus, "I hope I
don't intrude."
The lady made no reply, but turned her
attention to the stage, where a scene was
transpiring in which shel was much inter
ested. And turning quickly ; said:
"You annoy me, sir." anel her bright
eyes flashed.
"Bless me !" cried Adolphus, drawing
back with mock terror, don't cult me."
The lady smiled a sweet, beaming smile,
as she replied :
"Be not alarmed, sir—l um a Jewess
and my religion forbids me to eat pork !"
Untortnnately for Adolphus, his friends
heard the rejoinder, and he :s not likely
soon to hear the last of his passage with
the beautiful Jewess.
Which is Which ?
Ah, Pat, Pat," said a schoolmistress to
a thick-headed urchin, into whose muddy
brain she was attempting to beat the al
phabet, "I'm afraid you'll never learn any
thing. New, what's that letter, eh ?"
"Sure, don't you know, ma'am ?" replied
Pat.
"I thought you would have recollected
that."
"Why, ma'am ?"
"Because it has a dot over the top of it."
"Och, ma'am ! I mind it well ; but
sure I thought it was a fly-speak."
"Well, now remember. Pat, its I."
"You, ma'am ?"
no ! not U, but I.' ,
"Not I; but you, ma'am. Haw's that ?"
"Net U, but I, blockhead."
"0, yes; faith, now I have it, ma'am;
you mean to say that yon, not I, am a
blockhead."
"Fool ! fbol !" exclaimed the pedagogues
almost burning with rage.
"Jiat as you piaze," replied Pat; "fool
or blockhead, it's no mutter to me which
ye are so long as ye are free to own it."
The Animal with the Buahy Tail.
Once I visited a show in Georgia. It
was a moral animal show. I he ird a fellow
shouting :
"Here's your celebrated tropical Amer.
icon that feeds on ants."
Says I,
he ?"
"eats nothing but ants. does
Says he. "sir, he is the most interesting
animal in the show. Observe his bushy
tail and his long ficc, with a tongue in it
ihrmed tbr nothing but catching ants."
Says I, "he is interesting, so he is. But
I can tell you an animal that would be just
two times as interesting if yo-i could pro
cure one."
Says he, "sir, what animal would be
more interesting than -the great tropical
American ant eater ?"
Says I , "a Juother-in-law eater would
knock the spots out of your oil ant eater"
I guess he had a mother-in-law, for he
embraced me, and gave me two tickets to
go in and see the moral was works, made
of wax.
An Irishman's Answer.
On a dispute between two °leers aboard
a vessel, whose crew were Irish and En
glish sailors, one of them contended that
the English could not answer a common
question with half the adroitness which
was natural to the Irish.
A bet was proposed; it was agreed to
try the point immediately, and an English
man was asked what he would take to go
aloft blindfolded in a hard gale.
"I would take a month's pay," was the
reply.
And what would you take, Pat?" said
one of the officers to an Irishman.
"By jabers !" said he, "I would take
nothing but fast hold."
AN Irishman being asked what he came
to America for said, "Is it what I oame
here for, you mane ? Arrah by the pow
ers! you may be sure that it wasn't for
want, for I had plenty of tha; at home."
ScnooLstismEss, to dull little boy—
" Johnny, I'm ashamed of ym. When I
was your age, I could read twice as well
as you can." Johnny—"Ymem, but you
had a different teacher from what I've
got."
Inland the ti to
Complete in Jesus.
Complete i■ Jesus I oh, how fall
Of heavenly peace the thought:
Our 83013 redeemed, oar pardons sealed,
Since Jesus' blood bath bought.
Complete in Jesus I are we weak ?
His power gives strength to all.
Sinful and helpless? he will spare,
And raise us when we fall.
Complete in Jesus I Have our souls
In bitter anguish cried?
'Tis Jesus bears and gives relief;
'Twos for our souls be died.
Complete is Jesus! Blissful thought,
'Tis ours, whate'er befall;
Our Jesus is our Savior, Friend,
Our life, our hope, and all.
Oh, let us place our band in his,
As on through life we go,
Like little children, trusting all
To him, come weal or woe I
Thus shall our trembling hearts be filled
With love which grows ■ot dim,
If "Jesus only" be our peace,
And this "complete in him."
Capacity for Scandal,
There is no better teat of purity and
true goodness than reluetance to think evil
of one's neighbor, and absolute incapacity
to believe an evil report about good men
except upon the most trust-worthy testi
mony. Alas, that this large and lovely
charity is so rare But it is only with
those who possess this charity that men
accused of sins against society have an
equal chance with those accused, under the
forms of law, of crime. Every man
brought to trial for crime is presumed to
be innocent until he is proved to be guilty;
but with the world at large every man
slandered is presumed to be guilty until he
proves himself innocent, and even then it
takes the liberty of doubting the testimo
ny. Every man who rejoices in a scandal
thereby advertises the fact of his own un
trustworthiness; and every man who is
pained by it, and refuses to be impressed
by it. unconsciously reveals his own purity.
lie cannot believe a bad thing done by one
whom he regards as a good man, simply be
cause he knows he would not do it himself.
He gives credit to others for virtue that is
consciously in his own possession, while the
base men around him, whether Christian
in name or not, withhold that credit because
they cannot believe in the existence of a
virtue of which theyare consciously empty.
When the Master uttered these words:
"Let him that is without sin among you
first cast a stone at her," he knew that
none but conscious delinquents would have
the disposition to do se; and when, under
this rebuke, every fierce accuser retired
overwhelmed, he, the sinless, wrote the
woman's crime in the sand for the heaven
ly rains to efface. If he could do this in a
case of guilt not disputed, it certainly be
comes his followers to stand together
around every one of their number whom
malice or revenge assails with slanders to
which his or her whole life gives the lie.
In a world full of influences and ten
dencies to evil, where every good force is
needed, and needs to be jealously cherish
ed and guarded, there is no choicer treas
ure and no more benefieent power than a
sound character. This is not only the
highest result of all the best forces of our
civilization, but it is the builder of those
forces in society and the State. Society
cannot afford to have it wasted or destroy
ed; and ha instinct of self-preservation de
mands that it shall not be suffered. There
is nothing so sensitive and nothing so
sacred as character; and every tender char -
ity, and loyal friendship, and chivalrous
affection, and manly sentiment and impulse,
ought to intrench themselves around every
true character in the community so thor
oughly that a breath of calumny shall be as
harmless as an idle wind. If they cannot
do this then no man is safe who refuses to
make terms with the devil, and he is at lib
erty to pick his victims where he will.
Christian Sincerity.
The spirit which is of God is a spirit of
truth, sincerity, and openness.. The citi
zen of heaven esteems truth as sacred, and
holds sincerity to be the first of the vir
tues. He has no secret doctrines to com
municate. He needs no chosen confidants
to whom he may impart his favorite no
tions—no private conventiclea where he
may disseminate his opinions. What he
avows to God he avows to man. He ex
presseth with his tongue what he thinketh
with his heart. He will not, indeed, im
properly publish truths ; he will not, as the
Scripture says, throw pearls before swine ;
but neither will he on any occasion, par
take with swine in:their husks. Arrayed in
the simple majesty of truth, be seeks no
lother covering. Supported by his con
sciousness of rectitude, be holds fast his
integrity as he would guard his life. Such
is the difference between these characters.
The man of the earth turns aside to crook
ed paths and insidious maze of dissimula
tion; the citizen of heaven moves along
in the onward track of integrity and hon
or. The spirit of the world seeks conceal.
ment. and the darkness and the shade; the
spirit which is of God loves the light, be
comes the light, adorns the light.
eo•
Oh, the Happy Child!
Elizabeth Christina, queen of Prussia,
was speaking one day to the little daughter
of her gardener, and was greatly pleased
with the wisdom and gentleness of the
child. Sometime after, as the queen was
about to sit down with her ladies at the
table, the child was brought in, and the
queen ordered her to sit beside her. The
queen was curious to see what impression
the gold and silver and bright ornaments
would make upon the little girl. She
looked around in silence and astonishment.
At last she folded her hands and said in a
clear voice :
“Jeins, thy blood and righteonsnes
My beauty are and glorious dress ;
'Midst flaming worlds in these arrayed,
With joy shall I lift up my head.”
The ladies were deeply moved. "Oh,
the happy child," one of them exclaimed
to the queen, "how high she is above us !"
WE all see farther in a rainy day than
we do on one clear and bright—that is far
ther into the day before yesterday; just as
we see more of heaven at night than we do
in the day time.
Bit particular in the choice of your com
panions; they should be spiritual, holy,
self-denying believers; if they are not,
they will injure you by their spirit and ex
ample.
God promises you all you want, and in
vites yen to coma and receive it as yea
want.
NO. 15.