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Says one, your subjects are too grave— Too much morality you have— Too much about religion; Give me some witch or wizard tales, With slip-shod ghosts, with fins and scales, Or feathers like a pigeon. I love to read, another cries, Those monstrous fashionable lies— In other words, those novels, Composed of kings and queens and lords, Of border wars:and Gothicisordes, That used to live in hovels. No—no, cries one, we've bad enough Of such confounded love-sick stuff To erase the lair creation ; Give us some recent foreign news, Of Russians, Turks, the Greeks and Jews, Or any other nation. The men of drilled scholastic lore. Would like to see a little more In scraps of Greek or Latin ; The merchants rather have the price Of southern indigo and rice, Or India silk and satin. Another cries, I want more fuo, A witty anecote or pun, A rebas or a riddle ; Some long for missionary news, And some worldy carnal views, Would rather bear a fiddle. The critic, too, of classic skill, Must dip in gall his gander quill, A scrawl against the paper ; Of all the literary fools, Bred in our colleges and schools, He cuts the silliest caper. Another cries, I want to see A jumbled up variety— Variety in all things, A miscellaneous hodge-podge print, Composed, I only give the hint, Of multifarious small things. I want some marriage news, says Miss, It constitutes my highest bliss, To hear of weddings plenty ; For in a time of general rain, None suffer from a drought 'tis plain— At least not one in twenty. I want to hear of death says one— Of people totally undone, By losses, fire and fever; I'd rather have the fall and rise, Of racoon skin and beaver. Some signify a secret wish, For now and then a savory dish Of politics to suit them ; But here we rest at perfect ease, For should they swear the moon was cheese, We never would dispute them. Or grave, or humorous, wild or tame, Lofty or low, 'tis all the same, Too haughty or too humble ; And every editorial wight Has naught to do but what is right, And lot the•gramblers grumble. SAVED. "Miss Violet, will you give this letter to Mrs. Maltby ?" I had my hand full of drawing materi als, but I received the letter and continued on my way to Mrs. Maltby's (hawing room. The drawing were little studies I had made while down at the seaside, where I bad spent my vacation—made for Mrs. Maltby—to whom I had been companion for a year—and Mrs. Maltby had been in terested in them, saying, "Touch them up a bit, Violet, and I will get a portfolio for them and keep them." I usually sat with her in her dressing-room through the mornings, and thither I now repaired to touch up the drawings, while she sat with her slippered feet on the fender, embroid ering with purple and crimson wools. I gave her the letter, and went to a low seat in the deep bay-window. I sharpened a pencil, and then happened to glance to_ ward my companion. Her face was ashy white. Her profile was turned toward me. In its irregularity and pallor it looked like a face cut in stone. But I bad never seen it look so sharp and deathly. The letter was clenched in her hand. I sd brought her bad news. I was shocked, but silent. I tried to remember what I knew of her family re lations. She was a handsome, black-haired woman of fifty, who had been early widow ed, and returned to her father's house.— Her parents were dead. Her mother had died in her infancy, and she had been the mistress of Redburn ever since. It was not long, however, since her father's de cease. She had never a child. She had no brothers or sisters whom I had heard of. I could not surmise what bad hap pened. I saw her burn the letter, and then she rose and left the room. WIT" BUSINESS CARDS, Afterward I guessed whom that commu nication was from. A month had passed. They were quiet and comfortable, but rather monotonous weeks at Redburn. But though young, I was less restless than most girls, I was not unhappy with Mrs. Maltby. Only some times I wishod for a little change. It came—a most startling episode. We bad company to dine--Mrs. Malt.. by's lawyer and personal friend, from New York. I was dressing her hair, as I some times did, for she liked my arrangements, pronouncing them artistic. Suddenly, without knock or warning, the door was gong open, and a young man walked in. I felt Mrs. Maltby start under my hands. I myself was frightened, the intruder look ed so bold and reckless. LEGAL BLANKS, pAmplui.ETs lle was very handsome, but he looked to me to have been traveling long, or to have come out of some revel. His linen was soiled, his tang, clustering hair un brushed, his eyeS bloodshot, yet his ap pearance was singularly attractive. I had never before seen so highbred and grace ful a man. Mrs. Maltby did not speak to him. He seated himself before and pp; far from her however. "Go on, Violet," she said. "Certainly. Let the young lady pro ceed with her task." he said, quickly.— Übe puoto' gown. The Editor, ffitory-gditr. HUNTINGDON, PA.; WEDNESDAY, JUNE 18, 1873 "What I have to say need not interfere with her employment. I understand that she is your companion and confidant, though I have not had the pleasure of meeting her before." The last sentence appeared to have been quite mechanically spoken, for be had fix ed his eyes fiercely upon Mrs. Maltby's face, and seemed to see only her. I went on pinning up the braids of her hair as T had been bid, but my hands trembled. I could not see her ilice ; but I think she met that look steadily. "You refused me he said, in a far dif ferent tone from that in which he had first spoken—low and concentrated. "Certainly," she answered. "Do you want my blood upon your head !" he exclaimed. "I washed my hands clear of you long ago," she answered, composedly. "Long ago," he repeated, and a wave of emotion that was inexplicable to me went over his face. Then ho was silent.. I don't know why, but flout that moment I pitied him. He got up and commenced walking the floor. "I tell you, Winfred, I must have this money," he said. "I must have it to night, to-night," he repeated. Mrs. Maltby was silent. I caught a glimpse of her face. Flint was not harder. "Let me have it, Winfred," he said, pausing before her, "and I promise you it shall be the last time." She made no reply. "The last time. I mean it, Winfred." His voice faltered. She did not speak. "Will you ?" "No," she replied, with no emotion whatever. His face had been working with some strong, deep feeling. But that monosyl lable seemed to strike him like a blow. He stood looking at her, his face still and des perate. "I did not think God could make such a woman as you are," he said, at first. I felt her shrink beneath the actual hor ror with which he seemed to regard her. But she spoke with unalterable composure. "I told you more than a year ago that I should pay no more debts of yours, con tracted at faro, or in any other way," she said. "I meant it; you know I meant it. I have given you fair ivarning. I shall not change." He did not speak ; his head was drooped upon his breast; he was deathly pale. "I have done my duty by you, Guy, you know that I have," she added. "Yes, you have been just, but you have never been merciful," he replied. "Oh, God He flung up his arms with a bit ter cry that wrung my heart. I looked at her. She did not relent or go to him. He had flung himself into a chair, and with his head drooped, his arms folded upon the back, was the most hope less figure I had ever seen. She rose, for I had finished her hair, and took a seat nearer the fire. Her lips were gray, as if she were cold, but her face was still as in vincible as flint. He gave a groan, and started up sudden- "I am going," be said. "I—" He met her eye, and asked : "Why did you not kill me ? I was altogether in your hands once. You killed her, you will re member." A slight flush stained her cheek. "You would have made her happy, I suppose, if she had lived," she said sar castically. But the sting did not seem to reach him. "If she had lived ! 0, heaven, if she had lived ! Winfred Sedley, may God deal by you as you have dealt by me." "I am willing," she answered. He remained not a moment longer.— Wrapping his cloak about him, he gave her one look of reproach, and left the room. I looked wistfully at her; she did not speak to me, and I, too, went away. She was ill next day, but on the day following she appeared much as usual. Of what I thought and felt, I, of course, said nothing. The matter was no affair of mine. I had not understood it. Mrs. Maltby would make we feel it.. I under stood that the two were brother and sister; that the young man was named Guy Sed. ley ; that he was dissolute and in disgrace; that Mrs. Maltby had taken care of him in boyhood, but now ignored the relation ship. I was in no way allowed to learn any more. But on the second night I was awakened by a light shining into my chamber. It was something unusual, for the little clock on the mantle was chiming twelve. After a moment I slipped out of bed and glided toward the open door. The long, embroidered folds of my night-dress trip ped me, but I made no noise with my bare feet upon the deep velvet of the . earpet. I don't know whom I expected to see—cer tainly not Guy Sedley, kneeling before a sandal-wood chest, with papers strewn around him on the floor. A taper, burning in the silver sconce upon the wall, showed his face perfectly cool, as he went on searching for something. He .oust have come through my room to reach this apartment, for it had no open ing but into my chamber. I was aware that the papers in the chest were valuable I —that there was money placed there. I saw that he was robbing his sister. I saw, too, a dirk knifeon the floor, close at his side. I looked at him an instant--even then I remembered to pity him—then glided forward, snatched the knife, and leaped back to the door. I was mistress of the situation, for I had come from behind him—done all as in a flash of light—and as he rose to his feet I stood with my back to the closed door, with a calmness that showed it was not my intention to immediately arouse the I house. I With a presence of mind equal to my own, he put the roll of bills he bad been searching for into the fob of his waistcoat, and with a glittering eye regarded me speculatively. I was petite, and I had not screamed. I know now that he was not much afraid of me. "You have been robbing your sister," I said, "but if you will put the money back I will let you go." His intense attention of me changed to a look of wonder. "You, child, arc you not afraid of me ?'' he asked. "No," I answered truthfully. "But I watched you in your sleep a mo ment ago, debating whether it were neces sary to kill you or not." "You must have been glad to find that it was not necessary," I answered. He looked more astonished than before, but I did not stop to think of that. "Pat the money back," I said. "No," he said firmly. "I' will murder you first." "2° not do that," said I. "I am your friend. I was sorry kr you that day." He did not speak, but a troubled look disturbed the pale fixedness of his face. "How much money have you there?" "One hundred dollars." "And you need it very much ?" "Very much," he replied, with a bitter "Please put it back," I said. "She has been just to you, I would like to be mer ciful. I will give you the money." "You ?" "I have it—yes--here in my room; let me show you." I flung open the door next to my wri ting-desk, and came back. 'These I will give you freely," I said, opening the roll. "You said to her that it should be the last time, and I hope—' He had taken the bills . into his hand, looking at them in a kind, unbelieving way. "You may hope that you have saved me." he said in a low voice. We were silent for a moment. "You know now that I was sorry for you," I said, with tears in my eyes. "Yes," he said gravely. "And I love you for it." He put Mrs. Maltby's money back, and re-arranged the chest. I began to listen nervously for voices about the house, but all was. vcity still. He locked the chest, and gave me the key. "You know where it is kept ?" "Yes, in a drawer in her dressing room." I wonder how he had obtained it. "Hur ry and getaway." "There is no danger; I paved the way carefully. Pure, brave little girl, how fearless you are for yourself." He looked at me earnestly as if be wish ed to carry away a clear memory of my features, then wrapped his cloak about him, flung up the sash, and leaped soundlessly out into the darkness. I extinguished the taper, and crept back to bed. I did not hear a sound about the house until daybreak. When I arose I saw the dirk-knife glit tering in the sunshine near my writing desk, where I had laid it. Then I shud dered. At eight o'clock the watchman who was kept on the grounds was found gagged and bound, just inside Redburn's entrance. Yes, Guy Sedley paved his way coolly and surely. A year later I was the mistress of Red burn ; the beautiful house, the spacious grounds, were all mine. Mrs. Maltby had died and bequeathed them to me. On her dying bed she had said : "Violet, you are my heiress. There is only one living being who has my blood in his veins; him I disown." She paused, and then went on : "You have seen my brother; I loved him, I was ambitious for him, but his nstural bent was evil. We had a cousin Flora, a lovely child, who was brought up with him. They were en gaged to be married, but I forbade it. I revealed to her his dissipation ; I told her of his debts and deeds of daring. She loved him, she trusted him ; but she was delicate and died. He said I killed her." • She grew pale, even past her dying pal lor. She went on : "When I last saw him the officers of justice were after him ; he was a defaulter, had stolen money to pay his gambling debts. He is probably lying in jail now; but I will have none of him, and I will never forgive him." So she died, hard as a flint to the last, And I was mistress at Redburn. I was young; I was fond of gayety; I had now the means at my disposal. Eve ry summer any home was filled with guests. In the winter I was in New York, or abroad. And yet I lived only on the in terest of the money bestowed upon me. Three years passed. I had never heard a word of Guy Sedley, when, one day, the Broomley's, of New York, who were coming to visit me, asked leave to bring a friend; 1 extended the solicited invitation, and Guy Sedley came. It was a shock, but he gave no token of the past. Reclaimed from his errors, he was so refined and manly that he was the most distinguished of my guests. I loved him, but I thought, "He must hate me, the usurper of his rights. He is poor because I have his patrimony. I have no right to Redburn, and I will give it back to him." An opportunity came. He was sitting on the terrace one bright evening. I went and took a seat near him. "How lovely this view is !" he exclaim ed, pointin g toward the distant hills. "Yes, and you shall wish for your right no longer, Mr. Sedley. Redburn is yours. I have no claim to it." He did not speak, and I went on. "Your sister was just, and she would have made you the heir had she lived to see what you are to-day." "But it was your mercy and not your justice, Miss Violet, that saved me. Violet, I love you, and Iwill take Redburn with your hand, not else." I put my hand in his, trusting him, loving him utterly, and proud, very proud, to make him the master of Redburn. 'fending tor the dr. Min. Slander, BY J. J. G. There is not a more common, a meaner, or a more hurtful vice in society than slan der. Few are wholly free from its commis sion, few wholly escape its venom. To slan der and be slandered is the order, or disor der, of the day. No position, social, politi cal or ecclesiastical, however high; no at tainment, however rare or profound; no age, however venerable; no piety, however fer vent or consistent, is an adequate protec tion against the thoughtless or malicious assaults of slander. A good character is of the highest value. goad name," says Solomon, "is more precious than ointment." Character is what we really are; reputation is what we are reputed or s , id to be. For character, but not for reputation, wo are each responsible. Now, the man who de spite his natural depravity, the power of temptation, and the many evil influences which ever surround him succeeds, by. God's blessing, in establishing and main taining a good character, ought to escape the shafts of slander. But be cannot wholly escape them. He must be content with not deserving them. Then let the shafts fly "thick and fast" as they may, they cannot essentially harm him. In due time his integrity will appear, his vindica tion will come. Whence proceeds the hateful vice of de famation? Generally from moral corruption which is the natural inheritance of every man. But particularly, it comes of envy, a selfish dislike of some superiority in an other—some good in another which we ourselves do not possess. We don't wish others to excel us. 'And when they rise above us, we try to pull them down. But why not be willing that others excel us, if they do it fairly ? A very dull, slow, dry and monotonous world would this be if no one excelled another ! Did we but "love our neighbor as ourselves," we would not envy him any fairly-won superiority. We would rejoice in his highest possible suc cess, whether we could equal him or not. Let us live by the rule, "Do as you would be done by," then would envy and slander quickly cease. No one likes to be slan dered. It is against nature, even when "saved by grace" to submit cheerfully to defamation of character. No one likes to have even his real faults the subject of free remark, much less does he like to havehis faults exaggerated. Yet how very few "do as they would be done by" in this regard. How savagely do many quite worthy people "pitch into the character of their neighbors !" But when they, in turn, are "pitched into," then they realize the difference between "skinning and being skinned." The evils which flow from slander are many and great. Loss of confidence, the ruin of love, the bitterness of contention, of disunion, of natural and intense dislike; and sometimes even the bloody fray, the fatal duel, and open war are the legitimate offspring of defamation. It corrupts pub lio morals, vitiates legislation, defeats justice, and embitters social life. By it church action is paralyzed, enterprise is crippled, and the dearest bonds of friend ship are sundered. It is the hyena of society, preying upon the living and de vouring the dead ! Its choicest viands are, the peace families, of the unity of the church, the life blood of character. Oh, what a demon to be detested and shunned! Oh, what a despicable wretch is the man or woman whose habit of life is to create and foster "discord among breth ren !" God pity us. A Bee Sting, The sting of a bee is naturally more vi olent than that of a wasp, and with some persons is attended with fatal effects. Two deaths from such a cause have recently oc curred. The sting of a bee is barbed at the end like a fish-hook, and consequently is always left in the wound; that of the wasp is pointed, so that it can sting more than once, but a bee cannot. When a person is stung by a bee, let the sting be instantly pulled out, for the longer it re mains the deeper it will pierce, and the more poisonous will it become. The sting is hollow, and the poison flows through it, which is the cause of the pain and inflam mation. The extracting of the sting re quires a steady hand, for if it breaks in the wound the pain will continue a long time. When the sting is extracted, suck the puncture, and thus prevent inflammation. Spirits of hartshorn, if applied to the affected part, will more fully complete the cur:). The poison is acid, and the alkali will neutralize it. If the hartshorn is not at hand, saleratus can be wct and laid upon the place; and soft soap will often ease the acute pain. On some people the sting of bees and wasps have little effect, but it greatly depends on the state of the blood whether it will prove injurious, and these simple remedies, if applied at once, will soon affect a cure. "BRIDGET, I told you to have my hot Water the first thing in the morning." "Shure, sir," replied Bridget, "didn't I bring it up, and lave it at your room door last night, so as to have it in time this mornin'?" Camp Meeting Talk A chap down South went to camp meeting, and gives the following account of the disjointed conversation he heard there : Preaching had not begun, and prome nading was in progress. We took a con venient stand and Wed to catch the re marks of the various couples as they went slowly by us. "Yes indeed, (two girls talking, of course) and my brother Tom says that Henry Soker brags about the many times he has kissed her right in the mouth and she never slaps him when nobody is by, and I am sure I should die if people was to talk of me as they do of her—" "Corn is up again, you know, that I shall make at least six hundred barrels if I make a peck, and consequently—" "What a spectacle this is to be suaw. Chaw. rah wondawh, if the people— doffed pasty gal, ain't she—build theyah own tents ow hiwah men to, do it fowah 'em. Must he a great bosh to—" "Be married in six weeks from last Tuesday. I beard ma talking about it, but you musn't mention it for the world; it is a great secret—" "Really now, and she's as ugly a—" "The finest sow you ever saw, sir. Pure Berkshire, and has nine splendid pigs. It was the best trade I ever made, and I would not take thirty dollars for—" "Scolloped petticoats ! only look, Amy ! Nine flounces and hoops in the bargain. Oh, how I should love to—" "Go to the picnic on Thursday Oh, thank you. You don't know how I would like to be present, sir, I am so fond of the exhilarating dance, but father says—" "I am truly gratified, my dear young friend, to learn that you are deeply im pressed with the necessity of immediate re pentance. I shall this very day--" "Ten yards of gimp for the bosom, and maroon velvet binding far the neck and sleeves, and oh, Emily-----" 'The finest baby you ever saw—black eyes and large limbs, six weeks old and weighs—" "Sixty-one and a quarter to the bushel. None better in the country. Free from garliek and eockrel. 1 hold it at—" "Stillopolis next Saturday. Both Botherstedes, the former Congressman, will speak, as he says—" "Ah, Mr. Pepper, you flatter me so just look how horridly Kate Wilmot is dressed. She will wear yellow, though it makes her look like—" "Fever and agy, I believe. They have all been laid up with it, and now the poor man's got—" "The sweetest bonnet I ever saw. Where did you get it? I must recommend my sister to your—" "Watermelon patch. Stole every darned one. Some of 'em about half ripe. I swow I will shoot them if they don't—" "Go to the White Sulphur, it is the best in the whole world, ma'am. I've seen some of the most wonderful effects of the water. Tom Irolacust was cured of—" "Twenty-five pounds of butter a week. And always get a quarter a pound, and sometimes—" "Four eggs, two handsful of flour, a bit of yeast, half a tin cup full of molasses, and it makes—" "The best manure I ever used, sir. Vastly superior to guano or super phos phate. Two hundred and fifty pounds to the acre raised me—" "The handsomest woman on the ground. I can see nono equal to her, except Mrs. Mary B—, and she's got—" "Spavined, and there's a speck in her eye that is bound to—" "That beautiful girl in black over there. I never saw her but onee before, and that was at—" "Mr. Maggin's failure, sir, and he had taken to drink awfully, and only last week had—" "His head under my arm, and was plugging him in the month, when he got my finger—" Between the 10th and 15th of Septem ber I will get my wheat to market, and it will bring—" His gray hairs in sorrow to the grave. Oh ! it is awful to think bow—" "Close she hangs to his arm. She ought to be ashamed of herself, and never saw him until—" "William was born twenty-five years ago last April. lam an old woman now, and these gray hairs make nte—" "Toot, toot, preaching will now com mence," said the presiding elder, and we heard so more. Man's Insignificance As the trials of life thicken, and the dreams of other days fade one by one into the deep vista of disappointed hope, the heart grows weary of the struggle, and we begin to realize our insignificance. Those who have climbed to the pinnacle of fame or revel in luxury and wealth, go to the grave at last with the poor mendicant who bogs by the wayside, and, like him, are soon forgotten. Generation after genera tion, says an eloquent writer, have felt as we feel, and their fellows were as active in life as ours are now. They passed away as a vapor, while nature wore the same as pect of beauty as when the Creator com manded her to be. And so it shall be when we are gone. The heavens will be as bright over our grave. as they are new around our path. The world will have the same attractions for offspring yet unborn that it had once for ourselves, and that• it has now for our children. A ravENui assessor in Ohio, asking the usual questions, inquired: "Did your wife have any income last year ?" "Yes, sir," replied the assessed, "both girls." NO. 25. Tit-Bits Taken on the Fly. New England is complainingof the want of rain Vienna contains fully 45,000 Israelites, with 22 places of worship. An educated. Englishman says England does not possess six orators, while America is a nation of orator.. A Greensburg, Ind , dog found a wallet in the street, that contained $B3O, and took it home to his master. On Saturday last Osage Indians attacked some herdsman in Kansas, and killed and scalped a man named Chambers. The reports which have gained circula tion that the cholera prevails in St. Louis, are pronounced entirely untrue. A child with a frog's head is the latest reported Darwinian phenomenon. It was born in Washington county, Vt. Plain white note paper, very thick and heavy, with a crest in black outline, is now declared to be the proper thing. A ghost in Springfield, 111., has a pro pensity for continually ringing bells for servants, but never gives any orders. By the ft,lling of a new frame house at Keyport, N J., on Wednesday, two no groes were killed and five others wounded. The convicts of the New Jersey State prison have refused to work for the con tractors until good food is furnished them. A recent French writer divides the sea sons in London into three equal parts— four months of winter, four of fog, four of rain. A western paper speaks of a new paper mill which "will be made of brick 175 feet long." They grow immense brinks out there. The Military Gazette of St. Petersburg, announces that an order has been given to American firms for 300,000 rifles of a new model. Pittsburgh merchants have combined to test the validity of the city ordinance for bidding them to extend their signs over the sidewalks. A Davenport editor who went out for a day's sport with a gun and rod, shot a forty-five dollar cow and caught an old hat with a stone in it. Senator Morton's health has greatly im proved at the Hot Springs in Arkansas, and he is about starting on his return to his home in Indiana. The Secretary of the Navy will institute an investigation to ascertain, if possible, the truth about the wreck of the Polaris, and the death of Captain Hall. A Kansas paper asks its readers why they will pay five cents a half pint for pea nuts, when they can make money by rais ing them at fifty cents a bushel. Au old woman at Liverpool, Ohio, 'Did not want 'em to take any trouble after she was dead, but if it was just the same she'd like to be buried with her spectacles on." A Prince Edward Island letter of May 30 states that the document of annexation of that island to the New Dominion now only needs the signature of Queen Victo ria. One of the queer featares of the Eng lish coal statistics is the statement that an additional ton of coal has to be mined each year for every person added to the popu lation. The ornaments of the Hindoo women are estimated to be worth $500,0000.00. Children that wear nothing else wear or naments; and all the girls and women wear nose rings. A Portsmouth man contracted - to build a barn for a specified sum and all the eider he could drink. It took him five months to build the barn, and he drank four bar rels of cider. The Boston Transcript says that persons who send poetry to the newspapers should always retain copies. If most of them would retain the originals perhaps it would be just as well. The Legislature of Michigan has ap pointed a board of fish commissioners and 'given them $15,000 for the next ten years for the purpose of making experiments in the artificial propagation of fish. A boarding-house fiend tells the story that in a resent thunder-storm the warring of the elements was so awe-inspiring that the hair in a dish of butter in the pantry turned completely white during the nigh t The estimated cost of Chicago's new Grand Pacific Hotel was $1,000,000. The actual cost was $1,000,857.94. There are 59 flights of stair's, 38 miles of wire, 999 windows, and 1,070 doors in the building. A young man who prided himself on his mental qualifications, once, speaking of the advantages of these, remarked, "What is better than a good education ?" "Com mon sense, yon fool, you," quickly res ponded one of his hearers. A dealer is artificial eyes, who thought to find a handsome business opening in the far west, has been utterly ruined, it is said, by a competitor who has devised a process of hardening and preserving the unclaimed natural optics which are swept out of the different bar-rooms every morning A singular epidemic broke out in a Kansas town last week. Every wife in the town was suddenly attacked by an irresis tible desire to present her husband with a nice little dressing case, with shaving ma terials complete. An attractive young wo man had opened a barber shop in the vil lage. A Texas paper tells of a man who brought in for shipment to St. Louis SOO wolf pelts. He kills the wolves by putting strychnine in the carcasses of animals kill ed for the purpose and left on the prairies- It often occurs that he finds as many as forty dead wolves about one of these car casses.
Significant historical Pennsylvania newspapers