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A Hundred Wars
BY THE BARD OF THE MOUNTAIN
When Guilford a feeble battle-cry
Fell on our nation's ears,
And Freedom bade , Opyression fly,
Mars' hand inscribed "a hundred years !'
When Hope's faint ray but dimly shone
Where power now her standard rears,
His thunders awed the British throne,
By echoing loud "a hundred years !"
When patriots bathed our sacred soil
With mingled streams of blood and tears,
Whilst Britain's vanquished hosts recoiled,
Peace angels wrote "a hundred years l"
Let despots shrink and stand aghast,
As Freedom high her banner bears,
'Twas God the mighty fiat cast
That spared her life a hundred years
In vain may tyrants strive to quench
Her fires by widowed mothers' tears,
Or from fate's hand the stencil wrench
That paints in blood "a hundred years !'
.Thus gazing down Time's rapid stream,
The bright Centennial dawn appears,
And 'neath its soft effulgent beam
We shout aloud "a hundred years I"
Let patriotic bosoms swell,
Nor bide in shame the flowing tears,
That from life's mystic fountain well,
When history writes "a hundred years
Let all the world assembled gaze,
As gratitude a column rears,
Nor any wish to dim the blaze
That swept our shores a hundred years.
Zht ffitotl-gtiltr.
A TALE OF THE REVOLUTION
BY"MAML"
It was a bright June morning in 1777.
A comfortable wagon was drawn up before
the door of a farm house on the east bank of
the Hudson river. From the happy oc
cupants, the peaceful hills with their wood
ed summits, the fair Adirondacks veiled
by a misty haze of blue, the fresh, green
meadows, and bright June flowers, shut
out the scehes of blood which had begun
to stain our country. The majestic river
rolled on as smoothly, the wild birds spng
as sweetly as when the colonists were sub
jicts of that king whose thraldom they
were now determined to throw off.
A beautiful young lady, in a plain mus
lin dress and straw bonnet, stood waiting
for some bee in the door of the farm
house, alternately smelling the roses which
she had in her hand and caressing
the little children who with their mother
stood beside her.
This lady was Jane McCrea, the orphan
of a Scotch gentleman, and was for the
present residing with her brother. A
couple of the neighbors, who were going
to do some trading, had promised to ac
company Mr. McCrea and his sister to
Fort Edward, where the latter was going
to visit her friend Mrs. O'Niel.
After an exhilerating drive they reach
ed Fort Edward, and stopped in the village
at the house of Mrs. O'Niei, a widow and
lady of high repute in the country. Her
tasteful dress and cap ltecame the dignified
matronly hostess who welcomed her vistors
into a ;_arlor, not only genteel, but even
luxurious for that day of primitive plain
ness.
The lady was expecting thew evidently,
for the table for dinner was set in the
state dining•room, and the meal was wait
ing. Elegant old silver bearing the family
crest, costly china and cut glass from the
111'Niel manor house in the old country,
had been brought from the lockers of the
great side board for the occasion.
Her young visitor was a great favorite
with the widow, who looked admiringly at
the sunny-eyel, rosy-cheekedtmaiden flirt
ing about the room, arranging her roses iu
a vase and putting back the stray curls
the wind had displaced in her drive. The
party chatted gaily, and enjoyed the pres
ent, though stern war had set his face
meaningly toward them,
Late in the evening her brother and
friends took their leave, and Jane was left
to her hostess alone. She gazed once
more upon the old family portraits, read
over the old books, listened to the harp,
or to the lazy humming,of the spinning
wheel which Dinah used to dexterously in
the kitchen.
Days sped quickly by, each freighted
with pleasant memories of friendly visits
and familiar faces. Afternoons the ladies
spent in the cool old parlor perfumed with
wild roses and lilacs which shaded the
windows. The young ladies of the village
flitted in and out like butterflies on those
delightful June days, chatting over their
sewing and knitting or talking of loved
ones far away, who were perhaps even then
facing the deadly foe.
It was on a rainy day, when the two
were alone, that the latter confided the
story of her attachment and betrothal to
her friend. It was David Jones, a bril
liant, handsome young man, then a lieu
tenant in Fraser's division of Burgoyne's
army, who had won her heart. He had
resided with his family at Fort Edward,
but at the commencement of the Revolu
tion removed with them to Canada.
The Jones' were staunch Royalists,
while the MeCreas' were as firm on the
Federal side.
But like a true woman ; Jane loved,
perhaps "not wisely, but too well," and
though Lieutenant Jones wore the red
coat and urirehed beneath the hated Brit•
ish standard, she remained true in the love
and respect she bore him.
Mrs..O'Niel was also a Royalist, and a
friend of General Fraser. She shared her
young guest's enthusiasm in her plans, and
encouraged her to keep up her correspon
dence with the gallant young officer.
little dreamed she that the name of Miss
McCrea should prove a rallying word, to
call gentlemen patriots and sturdy yeomen
from mountain and glen, front east and
west, to take up arms beneath the Ameri
can flag.
General Schuyler was stationed at Fort
Edward with a division of the American
army, while General Burgoyne was at
Skenesborough awaiting his opportunity
to advance toward the Hudson. Many
were the courtesies extended to the brave
volunteers by the kind people of the vil
lage, who became attached to them as to
sons and brothers. But, alas, the tocsin
rung, the alarm spread far and wide.
In the latter part of July Burgoyne
reached Fort Anne; General Schuyler
moved his post down the river toward Al
bany, and his place at Fort Edward or
just beyond, was occupied by Fraser's di
vision. Miss McCrea was once more near
her lover, "so near and yet se far."
The advance of the British army spread
terror through the county, and the inhab
itants made read/ to fly from home and
property. Mr. McCrea determined to re-
HUNTINGDON, PA., WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 1873.
move with his family to Albany, as a large
party of his friends were going there for
safety, and sent a message to his sister to
be prepared to accompany them. But the
young girl failed to respond. Again and
again he sent her urgent requests, but still
she dallied. Fatal delay ! .At length,
when the villagers were about to quit the
Fort, Jane prepared to leave the vicinage
of her lover.
Morning dawned, a lovely July morn
ing. The golden sunbeams played upon
the walls of Mrs. O'Niel'a quiet parlor, the
soft air stirred the muslin curtains and the
bees droned past the door where Jane stood
awaiting her brother. Mrs. O'Niel would
remain, for the British were her friends.
She stood cheering her younr , ' friend by
voice and manner, striving to assure her
that all would yet be well. But what of
a sudden blanches the lady's cheek ? Why
does the fair girl's blood grow cold ?
In terror they shut and bar the doors,
then retire for safety to an inner room.—
They pray one short prayer, abort, for the
doors are burst open and a party of Indi
ans in all their . savage pomp enter the
house. Quickly these allies of Burgoyne
did their work, plundered the house and
carried the two ladies off prisoners. Miss
McCrea, in her terror, besought the sava
ges to take her to the enemy's camp, where
she felt she had one friend. She offered
a large reward and they promised. Thus
she signed her death warrant. Mad, as
we are told, with British rum, the chiefs
began to quarrel and dispute a to whom
the prize belonged. The leading chief,
enraged 'beyond the rest, killed Miss Mc-
Crea upon the spot. The beautiful victim
was yet warm, with her rich young life
blood flowing, when the savage scalped
her and bore her bleeding scalp and silken
tresses as a trophy to the British camp.
. . . .
The broken-liciirted lover lost all inter
est in life. He brooded in anguish over
the sad but precious relic of his betrothed,
and disgusted with the world, he threw up
his commission and retired to Canada.
Living single and alone he became gloomy
and silent, his heart was filled with mourn
ful pictures of what might have been. He
was called when a silvery-headed man to
meet Jane in that far-off land where brides
and bridegrooms are unknown.
A simple stane, with the name "Jane
McCrea" cut upon it, marks her grave
near the ruins of Fort Edward, and the
tree is said to stand under which her life
was taken.
eampaign.
The Grabbers at Wilkesbarre.
Sam Randall, as soon as he saw the way
the current was running, had sense enough
to hold his peace at Wilkesbarre. Foster
and McClelland 'did not• put in an appear
awe. Not so with R, Milton Speer and
J. Lawrence Getz, Democratic Congress
men who part their names in the middle
and pocketed the ' swag." With their
packets filled with the plunder they voted
themselves, they attempted to champion
the grab—bask pay and future pay—and
we are rejoiced there was sufficient manly
self-assertion in the delegates to hoot them
down. The case of Speer is one that de
serves special mention. Twice elected to
Congress in a doubtful district because of
Republican division, he imagines himself
a coming sort of a lean in Pennsylvania
politics, and went up to Wilkesbarre sev
eral days in advance of the meeting of the
Convention to button-hole the delegates as
they arrived, and secure a State endorse
ment of his personal and political fortunes,
by his election as President of the Con
vention. The Committee was so constitu
ted as to report him for that position, 'with
a ponderous tale attached in the shape of
forty or fifty Vice Presidents and Secre
taries. Happy man was Speer. If not at
the summit of manhood's expectations he
was en route. His "able and eloquent
speech on taking the chair," arraigning
the Republican party, was in the hands of
the reporters and telegraph operators,
ready to be flashed to the uttermostbounds
of the continent. A radiant smile illu
mined his countenance as he prepared to
ascend the rostrum, and show the assem
bled Democracy what manner of man was
their future leader. But at this critical
moment a note of discord was sounded.
"Back-pay grabber," wa4 thundered at
John Milton Speer from scores of Demo
cratic throats, and the fanciful fabric he
bad lauilt, with himself as the central fig
ure,'t umbled to the ground. His zeal in
packing the Organization Committee so as
to get himself reported, only made his dis
grace and repudiation by his fellow parti
zans the more conspicuous. He dug the
pit into which be fell. In vain did Speer
urge his services and fealty to the Demo
cratic party; he told a falsehood by stating
he "had not sought the honor," when the
telegraph for days reported him on the
ground working for it; he plead that he
should not be stabbed in the house of his
friends, and begged piteously for the en
dorsement. Well, he was not "stabbed,"
but was incontinently tumbled out of the
house. Even Sam Josephs and McMullin
turned their backs on him. The Associa
ted Press report says "the sense of the
Convention was unanimously against
Speer being permanent chairman," and
Doctor Nebinger was substituted in the
report of the Committee, and accepted by
the Convention without a single regretful
vote on behalf of Speer. If this don't finish
the man, his assurance must be steel-clad.
In our recollection of Pennsylvania poli
tics, we have not known so signal a re
buke.—Pittsburg Evening Telegraph.
Milton Speer Repudiated
Hon. R. Milton Speer is the most abased
man in Pennsylvania to-day. Possessed of
a fair share of talent, and invested by his
fellow citizens with their confidence and
support, he started out in life with fairer
skies than are accorded most men. His
reputation as a legislator grew day by day,
and higher honors were popularly suppos
ed to wait him. But all this is changed.
A moment of weakness came, and by the
commission of a single act he blighted and
ruined all his future prospects. The "sal
ary grab" presented its seductive front, and
be fell ! It is true Mr. Speer voted in
Congress against the enactment of the bill
granting the back pay ; but it is also true
that ho was .nothing loath to accept the
$5,000 when the same was tendered him
by the United States Treasurer.
Mr. Speer was sent to Wilkesbarre as a
delegate to the State Convention. Him
self and lion. Sam. Randall and other self
confessed treasury thieves determined that
no vote of censure in connection with the
'salary grab" question should be passed on
them ; and in conformity with this deter
mination, it was arranged that Mr. Speer
should be chosen permanent President of
the body. It is one thing to propose,
however, and auotiter thing to dispose.
The plan worked quite well till the name
of Mr. Speer was reported by the commit
tee on permanent organization, when sueh
a howl of indignation went up from nine
tenths of the assembled Democracy that
that gentleman was geld to withdraw his
name from before the Convention. Hon.
J. Lawrence Getz spoke in fever of Speer,
and was hissed from the floor.
How are the mighty fallen ! The able
and eloquent Speer, whose name was at one
time a synonym for all that is good and
true in politics, ignominiously kicked off
the rostrum and not permitted to preside
over the deliberations of a petty Democra
tic convention ! Truly will that gentleman
commence to think that his "back pay
grab" was about as judicious a speculation
as was the acceptance by Judas Iscariot of
the thirty pieces of silver.—llltoona Tri
bune.
fading tev the
[front the Boston .Advertiser.]
The Centennial Exhibition ,
The people of this country hardly begin
to take a general interest in the great
Philadelphia Exhibition of 1876. But
the plan is so judicious in itself,, and the
national enthusiasm for anything so broad
and generous is so sure to quicken as the
time for it .draws near, that there need be
no fear butthat, when the summer of 1876
has come, the whole nation will be suffi
ciently roused to the greatness and signifi
cance of the occasion.
There is much more reason to fear that
this general enthusiasm may be roused so
late that the fit preparations may not be
made in time for an exhibition which
ought to be both an adequate and a com
prehensive display of the results of a cen
tury of national being. We have had in
stances enough of the sudden awakening
of national enthusiasm to know that it may
burn'very hotly when there has been no
sufficient preparation for action. There
was enthusiasm enough for arms in the
spring of 1801; but it proved that there
were not fifty thousand men who could
march seven miles a day to meet an enemy.
Now, in 1876, the country will be very
much annoyed, not to say mortified, if its
great exhibition is only half ready when
the time comes. If deserts of sand and
simoous of dust surround the building ; if
the fresh paint offends nostrils and ruins
tempers ; if the day of opening be a "feast
f packing-eases," we shall then have acres
of criticism, ail very good but all too late.
To render such criticism unnecessary, the
precautions are, in fact, to be taken in this
very year.
' Stiange as it niay appear to a peoplewbo
have flattered themselves into believing
that a city can be rebuilt in a twelve
month, as it cannot; or a Coliseum in
three months, as it cannot; or a universi
ty created by an act of Congress, as it
cannot,—strange as it may appear to such
a people to be taught that.threo years is a
very short tines in which to arrange a
comprehensive exhibition of the results of
the industry of the world, the truth is that
this is a short time for so vast au under
taking. • It has proved a very short time
in Austria, which is fortunately placed for
such an enterprise. Between the half
known countries of the East, and the
great workshops of the world, Vienna
stood half-way. And indeed her relations
with the countries around the Black Sea
and the eastern Mediterranean gave 'ter
peculiar facilities for that diSplay of the
products of Western 'Asia and of Eastern
Europe, which have given some of its re
markable attractions to the exhibition of
this summer. But to interest any of the
nations of Europe even, and of their
workmen, in an exhibition on the other
side of the Atlantic; to persuade them to
send valuable manufactures to a country
of which the existence seems to half of
them almost a myth, and to arrange for
the arrival here of ;hose. other collections
more precious and more valuable than
mere manufactures—collections which il
lustrate methods of education,
steps in
civilization, or the progresss of history—
all this is far snore diffieult for the Phila
delphia Commissioners than could be any
similar undertaking in any part of Eu
rope.
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The spirit, and in general the good
sense, shown at the great dinner in which
for the public the Centennial exhibition
was inaugurated at Philadelphia, speak
well for the future. There was no inde
cent boasting, no discounting cf success,
and there seems to have been, side by side
with determination, a real understanding
that there is hard work to be done bell,r'e
the "day of opening" comes. This is a
good omen. Meanwhile, at Vienna itself
the agents of the centennial committee are
makin.„,o acquaintance with the practical
men who have had the most to do with
the great display there; they meet there
the exhibitors who have, each in his place,
done most to secure the beauty and the
variety of that exhibition; they see with
their own eyes the detail and the result of
methods of administration—and it must be
hoped that they will learn much which
will be of value in the organizing of the-
Philadelphia exhibition. Since 1851 each
of these "great games of the nations" has
shown an advance, in some regards, on its
predecessors, and we shall make but a very
poor display of our inventive or our or
ganizing ability, if in some way we do not
make one step forward, when the time
shall cone for ours.
First of all, we trust the directors who
have it in charge may be early advised
that the Vienna Welt-Aus.stellung is too
large. Let it be remembered, from the
beginning, that the object is to display, in
one centre, the result of a hundred years
of national government in America; and
in the same place, in friendly rivalry, to
display the results of the present civiliza
•tion of the rut of the world. Now this
ought to be so displayed that any consci-,
encious or intelligent person can see, study
and profit ty the display. It is nut fitly
arranged if only the various articles be so
brought together that in a month's time,
by such hard work as the Emperor and
•Empress of Austria are at this moment
giving to the Welt:Ausstellung, we have
some idea of it. A man who should spend
a month in the city of London, going
from warehouse to warehouse, and exam . -
ining their contents, would obtain quite a
good notion of the results of modern in
dustry. But we do not call the city of
London, "a world's exhibition," and it is
not one. We must have the cyclopaedia
of modern industry which is contemplated
a small-enough cyclopmclia for reference.
Nay, it must be so indexed and catalogued,
it must be so arranged that the visitor can
know what there is in it, and how to turn
to every object in the shortest time. This
is not possible at Vienna, because the ex
hibition there is too large.
* . *
The preparation for another feature in
the American part of the exhibition in
volves much more difficulty. We suppose
it will be determined not to attempt any
general displays in the line of natural his
tory, such as should exhibit the geological
constitution of the country, or its laws of
climate, or of growth. These are not
matters which in strictness belong to the
exhibition. It is, however, to be remem
bered that no complete illustration of some
manufactures can be made without illus
tration derived from physical science. The
sets of silk, in every form of the raw ma
terial, which made a partof the exhibition
of Italy at Vienna, were among the most
interesting collections there. For the
proper exhibition of the products of iron
in America, there should be a full exhibi
tion of iron ores. For the proper illus
tration of cotton manufactures, the differ
ent stages and the different fibres of cotton
should be exhibited. Now evidently it is
too much to expect any manufacturer to
go into this provision of objects in natural
history. And it is very desirable that the
duty should early be assigned to some sen
sible and intelligent person of making
what we call the scientific collections nec
essary for the proper illustration of the
exhibition of the results of American in
dustry.
The governments of the various States
may, if they choose, render very important
assistance in the proper representation of
the present aspects of American life. They
will choose, if they are properly addressed,
and addressed in season. The government
of the nation also has many opportunities
to do the same, which, as we hope, may be
fairly at d fully employed. The museum
of weapons and other military resources at
Fort Monroe, for instance, one of the most
interesting collections in the world, might
be duplicated at Philadelphia. The Indian
department ought to be able to furnish an
exhibition which would show the real con
dition of the aboriginal tribes, of their
civilization and of their industry. The
I coast survey, the patent office, the light
house bureau, West Point, the observatory,
the weather bureau, the copyright office,
thermint, and those great founderies which
are almost national, ought all to make with
system, their contributions. There will
be no difficulty in including the several
States to do their part, if it is indicated to
them what the part is. The government
of Italy exhibits at Vienna the processes
by which it perforated Mount Cenis. The
State of Massachusetts, if it is asked, will
show at Philadelphia how, before 1876, it
tunneled the Hoosac mountain. Maine, if
it is asked, will show the several stages of
ship-building; California and Nevada the
critical steps iu metallurgy ; South Caro
lina and Georgia the various staples of
cotton ;• Pennsylvania the processes of
iron ; Michigan the methods of reducing
copper ; and so in every locality the local
governments ought to be relied upon for
those larger ranges of exhibitions for which
individuals can hardly be asked with pro
priety to make the full preparation.
Of the arrangements which would secure
a proper exhibition of American fine art,
we cannot speak at this time. The sad
failure at Vienna shows that we can hardly
rely here on the personal interest or even
the evrit du corps of the artists. It must ,
be hoped that such institutions as our own
Art club, the New York Academy, the
Academy in Philadelphhia, and the unions
which have similar functions in Chicago
and in Cincinnati may see that the exhi
bition of pictures and statuary is not left
to accident or to selfishness. Accident and
selfishness at Vienna gave us, on the cata
logue of two or three thousand pictures
and statues, twelve articles—most of them
deserved no higher name. We will not
leave the country's credit. for culture in
fine art to such a display in Philadelphia.
Volei,
There is something peculiarly charming
in a sweet voice, something which arrests
the attention and makes one involuntarily
wish to hear it again. When the gentle
intonations of a sweet voice fall, with their
soothing influence, upon the ear, imagina
tion immediately pictures a form or face to
correspond, -Who could ever imagine a
loud, coarse voice to belong to a gentle re
tiring creature, or a weak feminine voice
to a manly nature. Not only do living
creatures have voices, but there are.voiees
to everything. You have heard of the
•'voice of nature." Have you taken an
early morning walk into the summer
woods and listined to that voice.
Nature speaks to us not with one voice
only, but with a thousand. Voices in ti
ny brooks murmur softly to the pretty
flowers bending gracefully over their-banks
to drink of the refreshing cup held to
their lips.
Voices from the myriad 'busy bees;'
sipping the wild hotiey from every "pass
ing" flower, tell of the active, happy lite
they lead.
The bircilings tune their voices and
pour forth in one harmonious concerttheir
daily praises to their Maker.
All nature is full of sweet, hidden voi
ces; and if we but take the trouble to lis
ten, we shall find then, filled with en
chanting music delighting and charming
the ear, making the heart light, happy,
and full of thanksgiving that we are sur
rounded by a world of such beauty and
harmony.
Agaiii, other voices abound in the world,
which, to a certain class of people, are very
troublesome. They are the voices of the
heart ! Aye, the heart of every human be
ing is filled with secret voices continually
whispering to their owners, directing the
gbod to be chosen rather than the evil.
Not only do voices full of music occupy
the heart, but oftentimes harsh and discor
dant ones, always tempting their owners
to wrong or evil doing. . . _
It is hard to drown the voices of the
heart, or to shut our ears against them.
Though deafness may deprive us of hear,
ing every other sound, yet we cannot be
deaf to the voice of conscience.
Slander,
Yes. you pass ib along whether you be
lieve it or not; and that one-sided whisper
against the character of a virtuous female
or an honorable man, you don't believe it,
but you will use your influence to bear up
false report and pass it into the current.
Strange creatures are men and women.
How many reputations have been lost by
surmise. How many hearts have been
bled by whispers. How many benevolent
deeds have been chilled by the shrug of a
shoulder. How many individuals have
been shunned by a . gentle mysterious hint.
How many chaste bosoms have been
wrung with grief by a single nod. How
many graves have been dug by false re
ports. Yet you will keep it above water
by the wag of your t.ugue, when you
might sink it forever. Destroy the passion
for telling. Lisp not a word that will in
jure the character of another, and as far
as you are concerned, the slander will die.
Tit-Bits Taken on the Fly
Brownlow talks of editing the Knox
ville Whig again.
The Fayette county jail contains eight
prisoners, one of them being charged with
murder.
It is with our judgments as with our
watches, none go just alike, yet each be
lieves his own.
Trust not him with your secrets who,
when left alone in your room, turns over
your papers.
John Roberts, a minor at No. 4 slope,
Pittston, was instantly killed by a fall of
top roof on Tuesday.
A bore is a man who spends so much
time talking about himself that you can't
talk about yourself.
A lot of game cocks, imported from
Kentucky, sold in Virginia City, Nev., for
twenty dollars each.
A Lancaster former is exhibiting a corn
stalk ttf this year's growth that measures
seventeen feet in length.
A young man named Alexander Gray,
was run over and instantly killed at liar
bor Creek, on Tuesday week.
Horse-thieves are worrying the farmers
in Jefferson county, where that class of
rascals are unusually plenty.
By a recent order Turkish ladies in
Constantinople are not allowed to enter
the stores for the purchase of goods.
Berks county holds its annual fair on
Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Fri
duy, Sept. 16th, 17th, 18th and 19th.
The flax crop this year in Oregon will
be much larger than ever before. The oil
mills at Salem will start up this - week and
probably run night and day.
The new directory just issued fur
Wilkesbarre puts the population of that
city at 18,876 souls; an increase since the
census of 1870 of 9,802.
Freeport is troubled with young men
who stare ladies out of countenance when
coming out of church on Sundays. The
Era wants this thing stopped.
The contract for building the Juniata
county court house in Mifflintown has
been awarded to Messrs. Hetrick & Fleish
er, of Newport, Perry county, for $48,000.
A horse-thief named Harry Osborn, who
stole a horse front Mr. Isaac Simpson, of
Somerset, was arrested near Altoona on
Monday. He was taken to jail at Somer
set for a hearing.
The residence of Hon. Samuel Page,
at Brownsville, was damaged to the extent
of $2,000 on Tuesday last. His extensive
library and furniture were saved. The
house was not insured.
A John Deever, a lad, was seriously in
jured on Wednesday; at the cork factory in
Lancaster, by being caught in the shafting
and being whirled around at a terrible rate.
He will recover.
Gower James, who murdered Edward
Coagrove in Shenandoah City on the night
of the 11th. has been arrested and held on
charge. The testimony ie. very strong
against him.
The Lancaster Express says: Peter C. Hen
sel, residing on EastKi Stroet, Lancas
ter, has a fig tree in full bearing, with fully
one thousand figs upon it, and this consti
tutes the third crop of the season.
An infant child of Mrs. Sarah Kline,
residing near Pottsville, met a very sing
ular death on Wednsday night. The child
fell between the foot—board of the bed and
the wall and was choked to death.
• A man named Corcoran was killed in the
Reliance Colliery, Mount Carmel, Thurs
day. by a fall of coal. He leaves a wife and
family. His "butty" whose name is not
known, was severely injured also.
Tobias Kreider, an old and respected cit
izen of Fermanagh, was washed away with
a bridge at that point, one day last week,
during the prevalence of the freshet in
Horming's Run. He was seventy years
of age.
The paddlers connected with the Phoe
nixville Iron Works, who struck for higher
wages over two months ago, have returned
to work at the old wages, after submitting
to the condition that they should withdraw
from the Paddlers' Union.
A boy named William Reiggles was kil
led at Loehiel Furnace, near Harrisburg,
on Monday night, by falling off a ladder
a distance of nearly sixty feet, His back,
arms and one leg were broken, and his body
was terribly mutilated besides.
This is the way the Beaten Globe talks
about Saratoga : "Digaling, bewildering,
intoxicating life, crowling all the summer
,glories, and only suggesting, by its per
fection, tha dark contrasting picture where
woe and misery abide and sunshine is only
a mockery."
There is a town not a thousand miles
from Reading that has a sewing society
composed of thirty-three widows, and the
sound of a pair of masculine boots going
past the house when they meet is said to
be enough to stop every one of the thirty
three needles.
"On Thursday evening, Deputy Sheriff
Conn lodged the thieves, three in number,
in the Butler jail. They gave their names
as George Wilson, Pat Casey, and James
MeQuire. They are charged with robbing
boarders at the Stewart House, in Greece
City.
On Friday sear MeCliutockville, ou the
A. V. R. R. a man had his scalp torn
nearly off while jumping off a train while
it was in motion. He fell between the cars
in a peculiar position, so that the wheels
cut his hair and partly turned the scalp.
He had a narrow escape for his life.
On Tuesday evening last, during the
prevalence of a storm, the barn of Mr.
Tucker, in Schellsburg,. Bedford county,
was struck by lightning and consumed by
fire. Had it not been for the heavy rain
which fell in torrents at the time, the whole
village of Schellsburg might have been de
stroyed.
- The Charles Evans Cemetery, the beau
tiful "City of the Dead" of Reading con
tains one hundred acres of ground. The
total number of interments within its pre
cincts last year was 483; for the mouths of
January, February, March, April, May,
June, and July of this year the number
was 267.
A few days ago on the farm of of Wm.
Seidel, in Greenwich township, Rerks
county, a crow ventured near a stream of
water where he was caught and killed by
a snapping turtle. The cries of the crow
were heard by a number of laborers in a
field, who hastened to the spot and observed
the unusual occurrence.
NO. 36.
Our Book Table ,
LITERARY NOTICIL—The International
Review.—We have received from A. S. Barnes
do Co., 111 and 113 William Street, New York
City, a prospectus for a new magashie,so be
entitled, "Tux INTLRNATIONAL Rsvisw, a Mag
azine for the Times." Prof. John M. Levitt,
is announced as its editor. The following
are the principal objects to which it will be
devoted, TIE :
1. The chief object of this Review will be
the sifting and telling treatment of great
questions of our age and country above mere
sect or party; literary, scientific, social, na
tional, religions.
11. It shall bring to its pages the best talent
of Europe and America, and seek to be a me
dium of communication for representative
thinkers of the age.
111. While fearless and progressive, aiming
to lead the times by advancing every healthful
reform, it shall never assail the divine author
_
ity of the Scriptures, or the supremacy of our
Constitution over a united Republic.
IV. Seeking always to elevate style, and to
secure the very best writers in the world, it
shall not, like most Quarterlies, address mere
ly scholars and divines, but furnish .guidance
and information in pleasing and pdpular
forms to practical men in business and the
professions.
V. To the solidity of a Quarterly it will
strive to unite the sprightliness of the month
ly, avoiding extremes of heaviness and super
ficiality.
VI. Very especial attention will be given to
the notices of books in all departments of art,
science, and literature.
VII. The success of the International Resins
will be made to depend on its cothprehensive
plan, solid merit, and adaptation in style and
subject.to the times.
VIII. As our Republic sprang from the whole
past of the historic nations of the other conti
nent, and as we are now so closely connected
with all countries, in accordance with th ori
gin of our people and the breadth of (=lie,
shall this Review be a representative of the
Old World and the Neu—to the maturity of
the former uniting the energy of the latter.
Many of the ablest writers of Europe and,
America have been secured to contribute to
its pages. Subscription price, $5 for one year.
To be issued January Ist., 1874.
Lippineoles Magazine for September will be
a strikingly attractive number. It will con
tain an unusually entertaining article on
"English Court Festivities," by a writer who
had the entree to the "diplomatic circle" and
and who has given a graphic description not
only of the levees and drawing rooms held by
the Queen and the Price of Wales, with the
.ceremonials and etiquette at such receptions,
but also of the entertainments, balls, concerts,
etc., at the royal palaces. A short article will
be presented on "The Patrons of the Husban
dry," whose numbers are growing with prodi
gious rapidity, exciting general interest and a
desire for information as to the aims of the
order ' the constitution of the "Grangers," etc.
rho New Hyperion" is continued with in
creasing interest, which is not a little enhanc
ed by the characteristic illustrations of Gus
tave Dore. The number will contain the con
cluding papers on "Fruits and Flowers of the
Topics," giving a striking and accurate de
scription of the marvelous vegetation of Ori
ental countries; also a "Sketch of Eastern
Travel," treating of China, with illustrittens
of the chief points of interest. Under the title
of "A Lotos of the NiW will appear a tragical
love story by Christain Reid, the popular au
thor of "Valerie Aylmer." Another part of
Mrs. Hallowell's pleasing novelette, "On the
Church Steps," which, by the way, is delight
ful summer reading, the scene being laid at
Lenox, carries the reader further into a most
interesting story.
"Our Home in the Tyrol,. Miss Hewitt's
graphie description of life and scenes In the
picturesque region of the Tyrol, is continued
with illustratiots, and "How they Beep a Ho
tel in Turkey," by Edwin de Leon, gives a
very entertaining picture of life and manners
in the East, as observed in the native khans
as well as at the great hotel in Constantinople
and Cairo. _ _ .
Several short Poems and a budget of pi
quant "Gossip" will complete a really inter
esting and attractive number of this popular
Magazine. Yearly subscription, $4.00
Nothing finer has yet been produced in this
country in the form of a magazine than the
Aldine for September. Europe and America
have been laid under contribution to furnish
the marvellously b mutifol pictures which the
best artists can produce. Mr. A. F. Bonner
has a series of three magnificent views in the
Rocky Mountains, made expressly for the
Aldine. In these days of Yellowstone expe
ditions and excursions to this famous region,
these pictures possess unusual interest. A
Tull-page view of Clear Creek Canon, Rocky
Mountains, opens up the wonderful grandeur
of those hidden solitudes in a way to make
them seem real ; a large picture of the Snowy
Range of the Sierra Madre is wild, gloomy and
grand, while a sketch of the interior of the
Rocky Mountains, gives one the impression
that all the world is made of mountains, A
charming full-page picture after Legeune, at
French artist, called, "The Blue Bird," shows
a bewitching young woman confined in
strong tower to keep her from her lover. Mr,
John Rows, a New York artist, hairs full-page
study of "Brookside Willows," remarkable for
its faithful interpretation of nature and minute
detail, A finer picture is seldom seen. Mary
A. Hallock gives a society sketch called,
"Who Is It ?" of two ladies peeping down
stairs to cote!' a glimpse of the man at the
hall door. Dore, the great French artist, fur
nishes two large pictures illustrating the fairy
tale of the "Sleeping Beauty." One of these
shows the wonderful "Srbeping Palace," with
the huntsmen in profound slumber ; the other
mirrors the "Sleeping Beauty" in her vine
covered balcony in the golden sunlight.
These two pictures are magical in their effect,
and full of the subtle genius of Dore. Peter
Moran has a carefully drawn picture called
an "American Farm Scebe " which is truth
ful and characteristic. There is also a fine
picture of "Emperor Charles V. and Titian,"
after Becker, which illustrates a well-known
historical event. "A Skye Teener," closes
the grand list of illustrations for September.
The prose contributions are all excellent.
"On The Trap" is au exciting love story by
E. B. Leonard. James Jackson Jarves, the
well-known writer on art, • contributes a very
interesting account of "Mrs. Browning's En..
glish Home." The departments of Basle, Art,
and Literature, are each well filled with good
solid reading matter, fully maintaining the
high reputation The Aldine has long since
earned. Subscription price $5.00, including
Chromes, "Village Belle" and "Crossing the
'Boon e James Sutton & Co., publishers, 58
Maiden Lane, N. Y.
Scribner's for September has a fair propor
tion of light and summary, and solid and sub-
Ittantial fare. Bret Haute's new story, "An
Episode of Fiddletown," is continued, .with
his usual strength ; a profusely pictured and
very suggestive artisan on the New York
"Central Park ;" a curious study of Japanese
Faus, by Noah Brooks; Whitlaw Reid's Com
mencement Address on "The Seholar in Poli
tics ;" a reply to the recent article on "The
Liberty of Protestantisrit ;" a portrait and bi
ography of Edward Eggleston, author of the
"Hoosier Schoolmaster;" and the usual vari
ety of poetry. Dr. Holland, the editor, gives
as another instalment of "Arthur Sonicattle's
and the following "Topics of the Time:" The
Outlook, The New York Board of Education,
Ownership in Women, and the Liberty of
Protestantism. The Old Cabinet talks about
the People who get under other People's Um
brellas, etc. "Home and Society," "Culture
and Progress," "Nature and Science," and
Etchings are as usual diversified and inter
esting. Scribaer's Monthly has increased ten
thousand in circulation during the past year.
The first number of Scribner's Child's Mag
azine, of which the name has not yet been an
nounced, will appear in the fall.
The Repuhlie, for September, is upon our ta
ble. It is the only political monthly in the
United States. Among the contents of the
present number are the following articles, viz
The Living Political Issues of the Day ; The
Salary Question ; A Leaf from nietory; The
Cheap Transportation Question; Benjamin
Franklin Wade; The Penal System of Michi
gan ; The Future of the Blind ; Abraham Lin
coln and Jefferson Davis OteBll6llM ; The
Electric Telegraph; Our North Pacific States ;
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