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Lift up your modest waxen heads, Low lying under faded leaves ; Hark I how the west wind sobs and grieves ; Forsake your cheerless, dreary beds. I sought for yon the long day through, By streams were dryads might have strayed In many a wooded nook and glade, In haunts mavis only knew. Brave little blossoms of the north, When snow fell fast and March winds blew, Defying such a boistering crew, AU unafraid you ventured forth. What nameless joy, what strange, rare bliss, Te gather you unto my breast, And, folding you unto sweetest rest, Your eyelids into sweet sleep kiss Yet is my gladness wed to pain ; The sight of yon brings back to roe A grief from which I fain would flee, 0, children of the wind and rain. 0, grief that rankles night and day, And never more will be gainsaid ; Back to the silent years and dead ! Why do you haunt me endlessly ? FIITHFUL GUEST; -OR- A NIGHT OF DANGER. MERE was something—l forget what —to take grandfather and grandmother away from home one day in October of the year I lived with them in Burns' Hollow. It may have been a funeral or some reli gious meeting, for they both drove off dressed in their best, in the gig, with old Ajax harnessed to it, and after I had tuck ed in grandma's iron gray silk skirt" and ran back to the house for grandpa's spec tacles and had seen the gig vanish in the distance, I felt lonely. Burns' Hollow was a lonesome place at all times • and the handsome rambling mansion, which might have sheltered a regiment had a ghostly air about it when one walked through the upper rooms alone. There were but two servants in the kitchen, Hannah Oaks and the Irish lad, Anthony. I heard them laughing merrily together, for, though Hannah was as old woman, she was full of fun ; and in five minutes the door opened and Hannah came in with the tray. Please, miss," said she as she set it down, "may I run over to Mapleton to night ? My sister's daughter had a boy last night they say, and I want to see it nat'rally—it's the first I've ever had of grand neice or nephew." "Who brought the news ?" I asked. "Anthony, miss," said Hannah. "He met George—that's my niece's husband— when he was out after the cow, straying as she always is, and told him to tell Han nah she's a grand aunt." "You may go," I said, "but don't stay late. Grandpa and grandma may be away lute and I feel nervous. To be sure there is Anthony, but I never rely on him. Be certain not to stay late." I repeated this injunction with a sort of fright stealing over me—a presentment of evil I might say—and something prompted me to add, "Be back by nine." Why, I can not say; but I felt as if at nine I should be in some peculiar danger. Hannah promised, and after doing all that I required went away, and I heard her heavy shoes on the garden walk out side. WITH BUSINESS CARDS, CON,9ERT TICKETS, LEGAL BLANKS, Early as it was I had dropped the cur ' tains and lighted the wax candles on the mantel, and I sat long over my tea, finding a certain companionship in it, as women of all ages will. I sat thus a long time and was startled from my reverie by a rap at the door—a 'timid sett of rap—so that I knew at once that it was neither a member of the house nor an intimate friend. I waited, expect ing Anthony to answer the door, but find ing he did not, went to it myself. It had grown quite dark and the moon rose late that night. At first I could only make out a crouching figure at the bottom of the porch. But when I spoke it ad vanced, and by the light of the hall lamp I saw a black man. I had always had a sort of fear of a negro and instinctively shrunk away, but as I did so he spoke in a husky whisper : "This is Massa Morton's, isn't it ?" "Yes," I replied, "but grandfather is PAM: PHLETS out." I retreated ; he advanced. "Please, miss, " be said, "Judge B sent me here. lie said mama 'ud help me Poo' titutr. BY L. L. NEICE. When aro the weary bleat? When are their trials o'er Do they ever find a rest Upon this earthly share? Do they ever find a home Far from the noisy street? Do they ever cease to roam And rest their weary feet? Do they ever find repose To case the aching head? Happy indeed are those Who find it with the dead! Does sunshine fill their hearts • With singing birds and flowers, And every joy that starts In spring's reviving hours? Or, are their hearts too sad And sick with hope deferred For summer light and glad And bud and singing bird? When are the weary blest? When do they ever find, Delight to thrill the breast Or tranquilize the mind ? Does joy come in the night Borne upon slumber's sea? Does darkness brir.g them light Or hide their misery? Sometimes with aching sight, Men wit , eh all day the sea, Then turn away at night In hopeless agony. But when the mast lights, , And sea and sky are gray Like a vision in a dream The ship comes up the bay. If joy should come like this And charm them in their steep Oh! may they dream of bliss But never wake to weep. When are the weary blest? When are their trials o'er? Do they ever find a rest Upon this earthly shore ? Do they ever cease to weep? •Do they ever cease to sigh, Until at last they lie, In death's forgetful sleep ? Flowers of Spring, abt ,Otory-gditx. HUNTINGDON, PA., WEDNESDAY, MAY 7, 1873. on. Let me stay here a night, miss. I's trabbled five days since I left him. Hidin' like. I's awful hungry, 'pears like I'd drop, and ole massa's arter me. For the lab of heaben, miss, let me hide some• where's and gib me jes' a crust. Massa Judge promise Massa Morton 'ud help me land it's kept me up. Missus will, I know." I knew that grandfather had given suc cor to some of these poor wretches before; but I felt that I might be doing wrong by admitting a stranger in his absence. Caution and pity struggled with me.— At last I said : You have a note from the Judge. I suppose sir r "I * had some writin . on a paper," said the man. "but I's lost it de night it rained so. Ah, miss, I's tellin' the truff—Judge sent me sure as Fs a sinner. I's been helped along so far an it 'pears like I inns' get to Canady. Can't go back noways.— Wife's dare, and de young ens. Gotelear a year ago. Miss, 11l pray for you ebery day ov my life of you'll jes' be.so good to me. Tank you, miss." For somehow, when he spoke of wife and children, I had stepped back and let him in. It was the back ball door to which the rap bad come and the kitchen was close at hand. I led him thither. When I saw how worn he was, bow wretched, how his eyes glistened, and how under his rough blue shirt his heart beat so that you could count the pulses, I forgot my caution. I brought out col meat and bread, drew a mug of cider, and spread them on the ta ble. The negro ate voraciously, as only a starving man could eat, and I left him to find Anthony, to whom I intended to give directions for his lodging throughout the night. To my surprise Anthony was nowhere about the house or garden. Hannah must have taken him with her across the lonely road to Mapleton. It was natural, but I felt angry. Yet I longed 'for Hannah's return and listened anxiously until the clock struck nine. Then, instead of her footsteps, I heard the patter of raindrops and the rum bling of thunder, and looking out saw that a heavy storm was coming on. Now, certainly, grandma and grandpa would not come, and Hannah, waiting for the storm to pass, would not be here for hours. However, my fear of the negro was quite gone, and I felt a certain pride in conducting myself bravely under these trying circumstances. Accordingly, I went up stairs, found in the attic sundry pillows and bolsters, and carried them kitchenward. "Here," said I, "make yourself a bed on the settee yonder and be easy for the night. No one will follow you in such a terrible storm as this, and no doubt grand pa will assist you when he returns home. Good night." "Good night. and God bless you, miss," still speaking in a very husky whisper.— And so I ledhim. But I did not go up stairs to my bed room. I intended fof that night to remain dressed, and to sit up in grandpa's arm chair. with candles and a book for compa ny. Therefore I locked the door, took the most comfortable position, and opening a. volume composed myself to read.. Reading, I fell asleep. How long I slept I cannot tell. I was awakened by a low sound like the prying of a chisel. At first it mixed with my last dream so completely that I took no heed of it, but at last I understood that some cne was at work upon the lock of the door. I sat perfectly motionless, the blood curdling in my veins. and still chip, chip, chip . went the horrible little instrument, until at last 1 know whence the sounds came. Back of the sitting room was grandpa's study. There, in a great old-fashioned safe, were scored the family silver, grand pa's jewelry, and sundry sums of money and valuable papers. Thesafe itself stood in a closet in a recess, and at the closet the thief was now at work. The thief—ah, without doubt the negro I bad fed and sheltered. Perhaps the nest act would be to mur der me if I listened. The storm was still raging; but though the road was lonely,' better than this house with such horrible company. I could not save my grand father's property, but I could save my own . life. I crept across the room and into the ball and to the door. There, softly as I could, I unfastened the bars and bolts, but alas one was above my reach. I waited and listened. Then I moved a hall chair to the spot and climbed upon it. In doing so I struck my shoulder against the door frame. It was but a slight noise, but at that moment the chip of the chisel stopped, I heard a gliding foot and, horror of horrors, a man came from the study, sprang toward me and clutched me with both hands. hold ing my arms as in a vise, while. he hissed in my car : "You'd tell, would you You'd call help? You might better have slept, you had ; for you see you have got to pay for waking. I'd rather have let a child like you off; but you know me now and I can't let you live." I stared in his face with horror mingled with an awful surprise; for now that he wus close to me I saw, not the negro, but our own hired man, Anthony—Anthony, whom I supposed to be miles away with Hannah. He was little more than a youth, and 1 had given him many a present and always treated him well. I plead with him kindly. "Anthony, I never did you any harm ; I am young ; lam a girl; don't kill me, Anthony. Take the money; don't kill me for my poor grandma's sake !" "You'd tell on me," said Anthony, dog gedly. "Likely I'd be caught. No, I've got to kill you. As he spoke he took his hands from my shoulders and clutched my throat fiercely. I had time to utter one suffocating shriek ; then I was strangled, dying; with sparks in my eyes and a sound of roaring waters in my ears, and then—what had sprung on my assassin with the silence of a leopard ? What had clutched hint from me, and stood over him with something glittering over his heart ? The mist clear ed away—the blurred mists that had gath ered over my eyes ; as sight returned I saw the negro with his foot upon Antho ny's breast. The fugitive whom I had housed and fed_had saved my life._ . . Then ten minutes after—ten minutes in which, but for that poor slave's presence, I would have been hurried out of life— the rattle of wheels and the tardy feet of old Ajax were heard without, and my grandparents were with me. It is needless to say that we were not ungrateful to my preserver; needless, also, to tell of Anthony's punishment. It came out during the trial that he had long contemplated the robbery; that the absence of my grandparents appearing to afford au opportunity, he had decoyed annah with a lie and hid in the study. He knew nothing of the negro's presence in the house and, being naturally supersti tious, had actually fancied my protector a creature from the other world, and sub mitted without a struggle. Long ago—so we' heard—the slave, slave no longer, met his wife and children 'beyond danger; and now that the bonds are broken for all in this free land, doubt- less his fears are over and he sits beside his humble Canadian hearth when eventide comes en. puling for the Pillion. Triumphs of Science. Discoveries cf the Last Twenty Tears— Thrtson on "Depths of the Sea." This generation—allowing thirty-three years to the generation—has "assisted" at five primary scientific discoveries. I. Julius Robert Mayor, of Heilbronn, Germany, calculated in 1842—about thirty and a half years ago—"the mechanical equivalent of heat" —an equivalent subsequently and independently deduced through seven years, by Dr. James P. Joule, of Manchester, England. Mayer and Joule proved that forces were never destroyed, but only transformed, when to our untrained faculties they appeared to be entirely lost. The principal of the con servation and transformation of forces is the most general physical truth obtained by man since the great chemical discovery that matter was not lost but transformed, when from the visible solid or liquid state it became an invisible gas. 11. Almost contemporaneously with this discovery. N. Boucher de Perthes made his excavations near Abbeville. He found the bones of men so intermingled with the bones of extinct animals as to leave no doubt in his mind that man and the cave bear Were co-temporaneous. His discover ies were laughed at. All the naturalists were sure that man was a recent creature, as all theologians were, not long ago, sure that the earth was created in six days. six thousand years ago. Boucher de Perthes had to wait fur twenty years before his ob servations were examined. Then they were found to be real disc.weries, and the remote "antiquity of man" is now a com mon-place, which no one with any preten tionto accurate knowledge dares deny. 111. In 1859—a littleinore than thir teen years ago—Professor Kirchhoff, of Heidelberg, who has paid the penalty of his zeal by the almost total loss of sight, presented the world with a physical truth of high generality and great importance. By the aid of the prism—when a number of prisins are combined the instrument is called a "spectroscope"—it was shown that the dark lines which crossed the solar spectrum—the ribbon into which the or dinary white light of the sun is dispersed when it passes through a prism—were ab sorption bands. Fmimhofer lines, as they are eaUed, could be made in the laboratory by allowing the light of any substances to kbe analyzed after passing through its own vapor. Metals found on the earth have been detected in the sun and the stars. The fundamental conception of this new study—spectrum analysis—is, that every substance has a mark of its own by which, when it is raised to the luminous pyint, it can be infallibly detected. There is no such thing as forging signatures here. The marvellous beauty and complexity of these signatures have enraptured immense audi ences, while Professors Tyndall, Barker, and Young have recently presented them to their consideration. IV. In 1858, Mr. Alfred Russel Wal lace, who was then studying life in the East Indian Archipalago, discovered the principle of "Natural Selection"—that in the struggle for existence the fittest sur vive. He sent his paper to the Linnwan Society of London, through Sir Charles Lyell. Long before this, Mr. Darwin had thought out the same hypothesis, and writ ten a short paper embodying it. This pa , per was read to Dr. Hooker and Lyell, but remained unpublished. On the joint re commendation of these naturalists, Darwin prepared a short paper to be published with Wallace's sketch. In the following year, "The Origin of Species, by Means of Natural Selection," made its appearance. Newton's "Prinoipia" hardly achieved in a century such a revolution as "The Origin of Species" has achieved in one-eighth of that period. Its highest praise is found in Dr. Wyville Thomson's statement that, whereas before its publication no naturalist of repute accepted the transformation hy pothesis, "there is now scarcely a single competent general naturalist who is not prepared to accept some form of the doc trine of evolution." In 1858, none ;in 1873, all. V. In 1868, just ten years after the Darwin-Wallace discovery, another bio graphical discovery scarcely less remarka ble was made by Professor Wyville Thom son, Dr. Wm. B. Carpenter, and Mr. J. Gwyn Jeffrey. It was then shown, and subsequent explorations of the bottom of the sea have verified the earlier results, that the sea down to its lowest depths was fairly alive; that, far from there being any limit below which no living thing could exist, because of the absence of heat and light and the increasing pressure, the hed of the ocean swarms with life. Before proceeding to treat very briefly of this biological discovery, it is worth remarking that these successive extensions of human knowledge made in this generation, show how niisplac,..l are the jercmaids about the decay of thought. Contemporary specu lation may be in wrot ' , channels, but no want of power can be detected in its grapplings with the deep questions of na ture and life. Edward Forbes and his fellows on the Zoological Committee of the British As sociation, had thoroughly explored all marine life iu the British seas down to at least 100 fathoms (600 feet) in depth. So thoroughly bad they performed their task that mere recent investigators have been rewarded by the discovery of a few ma rine novelties in the habitat explored by them. Professor Sars, of Copenhagen, bad dredged in the North Sea to a depth vary ing from 250 to 450 fathoms and found life. Forbes's researches were prosecuted between 1830 foul 1860 ; Sars's between 1861 and 1868. In the spring of the lat ter year Dr. Carpenter was on a visit to Pro - fessor Wyville Thomson, at Belfast, where both were studying the structure and development of the erinoids. Thom son had long been looking towards the bottom of the sea as the promised land of the zoologist. The kingdom to be conquer ed was there He broached the subject .to Carpenter, who was then a Vice-President of the Royal Society. It was agreed between the friends that Thomson should write Carpenter a letter urging the Royal Society to request from the Lords of the Admiralty a vessel to make deep sea dredgings during the summer. The Royal Society heartily indorsed the Thomson-Carpenter plan, and the Lords of the Admiralty ordered the Lightning on this special service. In 1869 and 1870, the requests of the Royal So ciety were repeated, and acceded to by the Admirality. In the latter years the Por cupine performed dredging service. Final ly, in 1872, the Challenger was especially fitted up fur a voyage around the world, with the more especial purposes of study ing the distribution of marine life at all depths, the temperature of the oceans, and the confirmation of the beds of the respect ive seas. The Challenger is expected every day at this port from the Bahamas, to which islands she steered after leaving the Azores. During the years 1868, 1869, and 1870 there were in all six cruises—one in 1868, near the Faroe Islands; three in 1869, the first off the west const of Ireland, under Mr. Gwyn Jeffreys's more especial super intendence; the second off the west coast of France and in the Bay of Biscay, un der the charge of Professor Wyvill Thom son ; and the third over the course of 1868, near the Faroe Islands, under Dr. Carpen ter's superintendence; and ,'two in 1870, the first from England to Gibralter, under Mr. Gwyn Jeffreys, and the second in the Mediterranean Sea, under Dr. Carpenter Dredging was successfully oarried on at a depth of mote than 2,500 fathoms—about three miles. Nothing tells more forcibly the great place occupied by science in the popularregard than that Carpenter, Thom son, and Jeffreys determined to make a re port to the public, as well as reports to the Royal Society and the Admirality. The difficulties in the way of a joint work were found insuperable, and the duty of acting as "reporter" fell upon Prof. Thomson, whose graphic account was made public in England just before his sailing in the . Challenger.—New York Daily Graphic. A Landlord Sold, Captain S., kept a hotel in the village of M., which—the hotel, not the village —was noted for its poor accommodations and meagre tare. One day a traveler came along called for supper, partook without complaint of the slender repast set before him, paid the half dollar which the cap tain demanded, and went on his way re joicing, perhaps. So fur nothing remark able. But in about a week the traveler did what few ever did during the Captain's reign—ln came a second time and put up for the night. In the evening, as usual in small towns, a crowd gathered around the bar-room fire conversing upon 'various subjects, when the Captain began to com plain of rats. They were the pest of his life, he said, and he would give anybody five dollars—yes ten—if they would tell him a sure way of getting rid of them. A dozen remedies were immediately suggested by the loungers. One prescrib ed poison ; another suggested traps; an other rat-terriers; while the fourth thought • the best way was to singe one and let him go to scare the rest into vacatingthe prem ises. But, no; the Captain had tried all these methods in vain. The rats scorned poison, avoided the traps and whippen the terrier. As for the singeing process, the Captain reminded the promulgator of that brilliant idea that old Mrs. Glass' plan for dressing a hare commenced with the im portant item, "first catch your hare ;" and in this ease it seemed necessary to begin in the same way. The traveler before men tioned spoke at this juncture. "If you will given me ten dollars, sir," said he to the landlord, "I'll tell you how to get rid of your ruts without fail." "I'll do it, sir ! I'll do it" said the cap tain, joyfully. After handing the traveler the money, who insisted on receiving it before impart ing the secret he continued : "Now then, sir, what is your remedy for the pests ?" "Well, sir pedlar; you remember that I came along here and took stepper with you about a week ago ?" • "Yes sir." "And you charged me fifty cents ?" "Yes, sir, that is my regular price. But what has this to de with rats ?" "I'm coming to it. I paid you for my supper, didn't I?" "Yes." "Well, then, all I've got to say is, just set such a miserably poor supper before your rats as you set before me, and charge them fifty cents a head for it, they won't stand it.; they'll leave the house in disgust, and never come bask." Who Can Afford It? If we take a sordid view of the matter, how many persons are there who can afford to drink? Can the farmer, the mechanic, the merchant, the lawyer and the laboring man ? Most of them have little more money than will supply their indispensable physical, intellectual and moral Wants. It is plain then they cannot become consu mers of strong drinks, without curtailing their necessary supplies of food, raiment, intellectual refreshments and other neces saries. Who, then, can afford to drink ? Say you -the rich?" So they can, so fir as money is concerned. But is money the only thing expended by the drinker ? Ah, no. Ile alone ought to drink from the ruinous bowl who can afford to incur its moral and physical penalties—to ruin his own character and soul—to impoverish himself, and make cheerless and desolate his fireside—to givo shame and sorrow to his father, his mother, his brother and his children,—and finally cast himself into an untimely and uuhonored grave. Who is rich enough and heaven-daring enough to do and give all these in exchange far draughts at the bar of the runiseller ? If any, let them drink—let them stand as the body guards of the ruutseller before the community, and as hideous.spectacles of that degradation which is conceived, born and nurtured in the grog shops. Who can afford to drink ? should be sounded through the laud as with a trumpet! Can you, young man ? Can you, a father and a husband? If any are tempted to enter the temples of Bacchus, let them inquire of the monitor within their own bosoms— "who ean afford to drinkl" THE editors and publishers of Maine newspapers having suet in convention at Augusta the other day, the Portland Press ventures to affirm that there were gather ed the "very wisest and most virtuous lit tle crowd of men, in the seediest of last year's clothes, that ever met at the State capitol." WOULD that every poor man in the world could know and act upon the maxim of Benjamin Franklin. A PHILADELPHIA Judge has sent a man to prison for stealing a young lady's photograph from her album. Outwitting his Neighbor. Not a great while ago, an Irishman was employed in a village, where he was well known, to dig a well, pro bon° public°. The contract was that he was to be paid a certain sum per foot, and warrant a free suppy of water. At it be went with a will, and his daily progress was intently watched by interest ed parties. Early and late he delved down faithfully deep down into the earth, full of confidence in the speedy completion of his labors. He had reached the depth of abont twenty-five feet, and soon to strike water." Early one morning Pat repaired lo the scene of his labor, and, horrible to tell, it bad caved in and was nearly full. He hazed with rueful visage upon the wreck, and thought of the additional labor the accident would cause him. After a moment's reflection he looked earnestly around, and saw that no one was stirring ; then, quickly divesting himself of hat and coat he carefully hung them on the windlass, and speedily made tracks for a neighboring eminence which overlooked the Here, hiding amid the undergrowth, he quietly awaited the progress of events. As the morning wore on, the inhabi tants began to arouse and stir out. Several were attracted to the well, think ing that as Pat's hat and coat were there, he was, of course below at work. Soon the alarm was raised that the well had caved, and Pat was in it. A crowd collected, and stood horrified at the fate of poor Pat. . . . A brief consultation was held, and soon spades and other implements were brought to dig out the unfortunate man. To work they went with a will. When one set became wearied with the unusual labor, a dozen ready hands grasped the im plements and dug lustily. Pat quietly looked on from his retreat on the eminence, while the whole village stood around the well and watched with breath less suspense the work go bravely on. As the diggers approached the bottom, the excitement of the bystanders grew in tense, and they collected as near as safety would admit, gazing fearfully down the well. With great care and precaution the dirt was dug away, and, when the bottom was at length reached, no Pat was to be found: The crowd, before so anxious, gradually relapsed into a broad grin, which broke forth in uproarious merriment when the veritable Pat walked up, with a smiling countenance, and addressed the crestfallen diggers, who now stood weary end soiled with their labor. "Be jabers, gentlemen, and it's Patrick Fagan sure that is much obleeged to fees for doin' of that nice little job of work !" The fact can be better imattined than described, as the most active of the young men slunk off; several low breathed mut terings broke forth that sounded very much like k Through the kindly lid of his fellow cit izens, Pat soon finished his well, and it re mains among the monuments of his genius to this day. Youthful Depravity. The Danbury News tells us the follow_ing story of sad consequences of boyish mis chief : A rather contemptible trick was played on one of our young clerks Sunday night. lle bought a cut-glass bottle of cologne, with a glass stopper and pink ribbon, to present to a young lady he is keeping company with, but on reaching the house he felt a little embarrassed for fear there were members of the family present, and so left the beautiful gift on the stoop and passed in. The movement was perceived by a graceless brother of the young lady who appropriated the cologne for his own use, and refilled the bottle with hartahorn from the family jar, and then bung round to observe the result. In a little while the young man slipped back again into the parlor, where, with a few appropriate words, he pressed it upon the blushing girl. Like the good and faithful daugh l tor that she was, she at once hurried into the presence of her mother, and the old lady was charmed. They didn't put up scent stuff like that when she was a girl ; it was kept in a china tea-cup, and it was kept together by samples of the femily's hair. But she was very much pleased with it. She drew out the stopper, laid the beautiful petals of her nostrils over the aperture, and fetched a pull at the contents that fairly made them bubble. Then sip laid the bottle down and picked up a brass mounted fire-shovel instead, and said she as soon as she could say anything, "Where is that miserable brat ?" And he, all un conscious of what had happened was in front of the mirror adjus:iug his-necktie and smiling at himself. And here she found him, and said to him, "0, you arc laughing at the trick on an old woman, are you, you wall-eyed ?" And then she basted him one on the ear. And he, be ing-by nature more eloquent with his legs than his tongue, hastened from there, howling like mad man, and accompanied to the gate by that brass-mounted shovel. He says he would give everything on earth if he could shake off the impression that a mistake had been made. Why Sho Planted Roses. A blacksmith had in his possession, but under mortgage, a house and piece of land. Like many others, he was at one time food of the social glass, but was happily indu ced by a friend to join the temperance so ciety. About three months after, he ob served his wife ono morning busily enga ged planting rose bushes and fruit traes. "Mary," said he, "I have owned this cot for five years, and yet I have never known you to eare to improve and orna ment it in this manner." "Indeed," replied the smiling wife, "I had no heart to do it until you gave up drink. I had often thought of it before but I was persuaded that, should I do it some strangers would pluck the roses and eat the fruit; but now, with God's help and blessing, this cot will ba ours and our children may expect to enjoy the produce: We shall pluck the roses and cat the fruit. A RAW countryman, gazing at a garden 'in the vicinity of Boston, in which were several marble statues, exclaimed: "Just see what a waste! Here's no less than six scare crows in this ten foot patch, and any one of them would keeep the crows from a five acre lot !" PRAYER would be thrown away on con gressmen—they are preyers themselves— on the public purse. IF yea have a place of business, be found there whey wanted. NO. 19. Tit-Bits Taken on the Fly. Side show—An ear-ring. Men of colors--Painters. Pistols were in use in 1544. Ile that die 3 pays all debts. Joint education—Gymnastics. A put-up-job—A. new building Spectacles were invented in 1820. A tail that never wags—A cart tail. A smart thing—A mustard plaster. Slight of hand—" Giving the mitten." Early potatoes are plenty in Arkansas. . Chicago is to have a floating fire engine, Nothing is so merciless as offended Augusta, Ga., has begun to Manufacture ice. Danville is to have a $28,000 school house. Florida brags of lemons two feet in cir cumference. There are symptoms of ear shops in Bellefonte. The cattle disease is increasing in Union county, N. J. Senator Sumner is still under the care of physicians. New York will send twenty journalists to the Exposition. Troy prohibits wooden cornices on build ings within its fire limits. Four insurgent Arabian chiefs have been executed at Constantine. The Sultan of Turkey is trying to in troduce the stdVe-pipe hat. A bank check is one of the most pleas ant checks of life. If you would create something, you must be something. Difficulties, like thieves, often disappear when we face them. Misery loves company, and so does a marriageable young lady. Cincinnati clergymen refuse to marry without the cash in hand. The people of Santiago de Cuba are suf fering severely from drought. There are five women in lowa who are superintendents of public schools. Fred Doca, American consul at Manza nillo, was drowned on the 15th inst. A Buffalo clergyman lately delivered a sermon in easy words of one syllable. Part of Wilkesbarre came near being drowned out during the recent freshet. It is easy to look down on others; to look down on ourselves is the difficulty. Sunbury is becoming quite respectable. It has a floating debt already of $40,000. An Auburn woman fell dead while threshing her boy for going to the circus. A break las occurred in the French Atlantic cable, about 230 miles from Brest. Postal cards have been introduced at Shanghai. Ours will be visible this week. An advance of ten cents per ton on the whole line of coal is announced in New York. There is no truth in the report that the Indian chief Coehise is on the war-path again. . . The Middleburg Post hears good ac counts of the growlug crops in Snyder county. Navigation on the lakes and the sur rounding rivers and harbors is rapidly opening. Seventy-five of the New York gas stri kers have asked to be re-employed at the old wages. The famous Spottswood Hotel, in Rich mond, Va., was recently sold at auction for $40,000. The Empire State supports 200,000 paupers, or one pauper to every twenty three workers. A New Albany man has two sons and fifteen daughters. He thinks of starting a shirt factory. England proposes to limit the rate of speed on railways by a legislative rallen tando movement. The Sultan has sent twenty cases of ar ticles selected from his treasures to the Vienna Exposition. It is understood that of the insurance on the steamship Atlantic, about $150,000 will fall on London. The Crisping of Cincinnati are on a strike for "recognition," and nine- mills are without workmen, A decree is published in Cuba returning to loyal wives the embargoed property of their disloyal husbands. By fur the most alarming symptom of the condition of. Spain is the progress of dissolution in the ara►y; Mark Boothly, who killed his wife at Edgeworth, Massachusetts, has surrender ed himself to the authorities. Two of the richest market women in New York are known as "Strawberry An na" and "Redheaded Jane." The probabilities are Dominguez will be the next President of Hayti. The As sembly will open on the 20th prox. At Dearborn, Michigan,a g , girl of twelve years, was killed by un elder brother, care lessly handling a loaded shot gun. A New Hampshire girl named Wads worth is physician to the Sultan of Turkey and his court, at Constantinople. Governor Kellogg telegraphs the Attor ney-General that matters are quiet in Lou isiana, with the exception of four or five parishes. A California firm recently shipped a hundred bales of cotton to Liverpool, being the first consignment of California-grown eotton. A Connecticut kitten has been born with seven legs and two tails, supposed bymany to be specifically related to the cat-o'-nine A colored farm-laborer, named George Burke, of Collinsville, 111., in a fit of jeal ousy, while drunk, chopped off the head and one arm of Maria Bowman, and threw the body into a ravine. Thirty years ago a man living near La Crosse sold a pair of boots for a gun, tra ded the gun tbr a pony, sold the pony for thirty acres of swamp land, and now owns sixty-six city lots, worth $BOO each. An lowa woman brags that she could have married two men a day for the past two years, if she had had any use for such rubbish. As she has a rich coal mine and a hacking cough, her statement has an air of reliability-
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