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Office, No. 523 Washington street, one door east of the Catholic Parsonage. Lie n.4,'71. EJ. GRIFE NE, Dentist. O ffi ce re • moved fo Leister's new building, Hill street 11 , e-ttingdon. Dan. 4,71. a L. ROBB, Dentist, office in S. T. 'LA • Brawn's now building, No. 520, Hill St., Iluntingd., Pa. [apl2,'7l. TT C. MADDEN, Attorney-at-Law • . • Office, No. —, Hill street, Huntingdon, Pa. [ap.19,'71. JFRANKLIN SCHOCK, Attorney • at-Law, Huntingdon, Pa. Prompt attention given to all legal business. Office 229 Hill street, corner of Court House Square. [dee.4,'72 YSYLVANUS BLAIR, Attorney-at • Law, Huntingdon, Pa. Office, Hill street, hree doors west of Smith. [jan.4'7l. YCHALMERS JACKSON, Attor• • ney at Law. Office with Wm. Dorris, Esq., No. 403, Hill street, Huntingdon, Pa. All legal business promptly attended to. [janls . 1 "- R. DURBORROW, Attorney-at its • Law, Huntingdon, Pa., will practice in the ecreral Courts of Huntingdon county. Particular attention given to the settlement of estates of dece dents. Office in be JOURNAL Building. [feb.l,'7l. IV. ' - MATTERN, Attorney-at-Law Y • and General Claim Agent, Huatiugdon, Pa., S.ldiers' claims against the Government for back p:ty, bounty, widows' and invalid pensi-ss attend ..3.l to with great ogre and promptness. Office on llill street. [jan.4,'7l. -I,S. GEISSINGER, Attdiney -at • Law, Huntingdon, Pa. Office with Itrown it; Bailey. [reb.s- ly - - U. At.t.nst LOVELL. J. HALL MUSSER. LOVELL & ' MUSSER, - - Attorneys-at-Law, HUNTINGDON, PA. Special attention given to COLLECTIONS of all kinds; to the settlement of ESTATES, dm.; and all other legal business prosecuted with fidelity and dispatch. t u0v6,12 HA. ORBISON, Attorney-at-Lav7; • Office, 32l Hill street, Huntingdon, Pa. [may3l,'7l. JOHN SCOTT. S. T. BROWN. J. L. BAILEY QCOTT, BROWN & BAILEY, At -1,-, torneys-at-Law, Huntingdon, Pa. 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Fleck, Liberty P. 0., Jasper Co., Mo., take notice, that at an Orphans' Court held at Huntingdon, in and for the county of Hunting don, on the second Monday and 11th day of Aug ust, A. D., 1873, before the Honorable John Dean, Esq., President, and David Clarkson and Anthony J. Beaver, Esquires, his Associates. On motion of J. R. Simpson, the Court awarded a Rule on the heirs and legal representalives of Benjamin Beers, late of Cromwell township, deceased, to appear in Court, on the second Monday of November neat, (1573,) then and there to accept or reface the real estate of said deceased at the valuation thereof, or show cause why the same should not be sold. And ordered that to all persons interested, notice be given personally or by writing left at their place of abode residing within the county, and to all residing out of the county, by publishing in one ormolu papers directed to their nearest Post Office address, at least ten days prior to the said second Monday of November next. Certified from the Record under opal of said Court this 28th day of August, A. D., 1873. AMON HOUCK, Sheriff. Sept.lo-4t. NOTICE. 'Estate of HUGH L. KING , deceased.] To George kf." - King, P. 0. Box 274, Parker's Landing, Armstrong county, Pa.; Frances Miller, Sim's Creek, Muskingum county, Ohio; James Herman, Table Grove, Fulton county, Illinois; Isabella Herman, Table Grove, Fulton county, Illinois ; James Herman, Table Grove, Fulton county, Illinois ; Hannah Crogle, Brooklyn, Schuyler county, Illinois ; Mary St. Clair, Dres den, Muskingum county, Ohio; Mary Shorts, Adameville, Muskingum county, Ohio; George King. Guardian of Homer King, Dresden, Mus kingum county, Ohio ; take notice, that at an Or phans' Court held at Huntingdon, in and for the county of Huntingdon, on the second Mondayand llth day of August, A. D., 1873, before the Hon. orable John Dean, Esq., Preaidlnt, and David Clarkson and Anthony J. Beaver, Esquires, his Associates. On motion of Woo& & Williamson, the Court awarded a Rule on the heirs and legal representatives of Hugh L. King, late of Shirley township, deceased, to appear in Court, on the seeond Monday of November next, (1873,) then and there to accept or refuse the real estate of said deceased at the valuation thereof, or show cause why the same should not be sold. And ordered that to all persons interested, notice be given per sonally or by writing left at their place of abode residing within the county, by publication in the Huntingdon Jonas/AL, and copies directed to their nearnest Post Office address, at least ten days prior to the second Monday of November next. Certified from the Record under seal of said Court this 28th day of August A. D., 1873, AMON HOUCK, Sheriff. Sept.lo-4t. NOTICE. [Estate of ROBERT LYTLE, deceased.] To Join Lytle;Agenoy City, lowa : Charles S. Lytle, Sacremento City, California; ' William S. Lytle, Licking county, Ohio; William P. Lytle, Robert F. Lytle and Martha R. Lytle, residence unknown; Mrs. Sart& Stitt, wife of Alexander Stitt, Alexandria; Robert Lytle, Hollidaysburg, Pennsylvania ; S. D. Reagan, same place, who was appointed guardian of Martha R. Lytle, take notice, that at an Orphans' Court held at Hunting don, in and for the county of Huntingdon, on the second Monday and 11th day of August, A. D., 1873,before the Honorable John Dean, Esq., Pres ident, and David Clarkson and Anthony J. Bea ver, Esquires, his Associates. On motion of J. S. Blair, Esq., the Court awarded a Rule on the heirs and legal representatives of Robert Lytle, lute of Hollidaysburg borough, deceased, to ap pear in Court, on the second Monday of November next, (1573,) then and there to accept or refuse the real estate of said deceased at the valuation there of, or show cause why the same should not be sold. And ordered that to all persons interested, notice be given personally or by writing left at their place of abode residing within the county, and to all residing out of the county, by publica tion in one or more newspapers and send copy di rected to their nearest Post Office address, at leant ten days prior to the said second Monday of No vember next. Certified from the Record under seal of said Court this 28th day of August, A. D., 1873. AMON lIOUCK, Sheriff. . Sept.lo-4t. NOTICE. IN PARTITION in the tate of Dixon' Hall, Notice to Mary Harms, intermarried with James Harnett, of Petroleum Centre,Penna.; Catharine Lewis, intermarried with Abert Lewis, of Parker's Landing, Penna. ; Richard Hall, of Lagrange Furnace, Stewart Co., Tennessee; Win. Henry Gilbert, of Pleasant Hill, Missouri ; Mary Ann Gilbert, Married to Joseph Reed, Pleasant MG, Missouri; David Gilbert, Richard Gilbert, Thomas Gilbert, Pleasant Hill, Missouri. Take Notice,4bat an Inquest will be held at the dwelling house of Dixon Hall, deceas ed, at Mill Creek, in the county of Huntingdon, on the 4th dhy of October, A. D., 1873, at 9:45 o'olock in the forenoon of that day, for the pur pose of making partition of the real estate of said deceased to and among his children and legal rep resentatives, if the came cau be done without pre judice to or spoiling of the whole, otherwise to value and appraise the same according to law—at which time and place you may attend if yen think proper. AMON HOUCK, Sheriff. 5ept.3,1813-4t HUNTINGDON BOROUGH WATER. LOAN 8 PER CENT. TWENTY YEARS COUPON BONDS. REGISTERED OR N ADE PAYABLE TO BEARER AS INVESTORS NAY DESIRE. INTEREST PAYABLE SEMI-ANNUALLY, JANUARY and JULY. THIS LOAN IS AUTHORIZED BY ACT OF ASSEMBLY, APPROVED MARCH 10, 1871. Bonds will be issued iu denominations of $lOO, $2OO, $3OO, $4OO, $5OO, $6OO, $7OO, $3OO, $9OO, 81000 and 85000. This Loan is free from County and Municipal taxes. Subscriptions will be reocived at the offico of D. Caldwell, Esq., No. 111, Third street. J. 11. BORING, Chief Burgess. . _ Allgust2o,lB73-Gmos. TEACHERS' EXAMINATIONS. The annual examinations of Teachers fur the present school year will be held as follows : Jacket:on, Weibtmsdity, September 17, M'Alovey's Fort. Oneida, Thursday, September 18, Donation 8. 11. Henderson, Fritbty,Seplember 19, Union 8. 11. Mount Union, Monday , September 22, Mount Union. Mapleton, Tuesday, September 23, Mapleton. Brady, Wednesday, September 24, Mill Creek. Union, Tbnrsdex, Sep!!mber 25, fi n e . Genre S. 11. &se and Casevi SeptZruber 20, Ca,,, tile. Tod, Saturday, September 27, Newberg. Walker, Tuesday, September 30, lit'Connellctown Juniata, Wednesday, October 1, Bell Crown S. 11. Penn, iliureday,Wiober 2, Ha'rklemburg. Hopewell, Friday, October 8, Coffee Run. Carbon, coalmont and Woad Top City, Saturday, October 4, lidley. Three Springs and Clay, Monday, Oetuber 6, Three Springs. Springfield, Tuesday, October 7, Maddensville. Orbisonia and Cromwell, Wednesday October 8, Orbisonla. Shirley and Shirleysburg, Thurday, October 9, Shirley.- burg. _ _ Shade Gap and Dublin, Saiunlay, October 11, Shade 0 .1% Tell, Monday, October 13, Bolingertov;n: 'ilamlnatlO . n_s will conimnee:,t . 9 o:slvey, Teachers will be admitted into the enLat the opening of the exenth?ation. No certificate can be granted to an applicant found en tirely deficient in any of the branches named on the pre vhaonal Certificate. The examination on Theory of Teach ing and U.S. History will be more rigid than:last year. Examination on Theory will be chiefly on School Economy. Teachers will be examined where they are applicants for schools. All persons expecting to teach must be examin ed at the public examinations. I will grant no permit., and will examine no one privately unless he brine a written request signed by at least three members of a board of Directors giving satisfactory reasons for his non attendance at the public examinations. Directors should be presout and select their teachers on the day of exam ination. R. M. McNEAL, County Superiutendent. Ang.27,1873-3t. HUNTINGDON, PA., WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, Ultt Foto' fflower. [For do Jot:mu.] The Sunny Long Ago. I am thinking of the hours When, with eager steps and gay, I ever walked amongst the flowers That overhung my happy way, Ere rough time, with ruthless finger, Laid the golden moments low, That around my path did linger In the sunny long ago. Beaming hope on pearly pinions, Swept benignly o'er my sky, While fair fancy's wide dominions, Opened to my wistful eye. Then a joy unchilled by sorrow, With a fervent, steady glow, Ever cheered each coming morrow, Of the sunny long ago. Then uuawed by life's reverses, Aly young life was pleasure's field, Slowly now the gleam disperses To the clouds of care it yields. Then through vales so verdant roaming, Unrestrained by pain or woe, Life's warm tide was wildly foaming in the sunny long ago. Now the shadows dimly lengthen, And the wane of life declare, Time's strong fetters daily strengthen As the eve in view appears. So the rugged steep descending, With a careful step and slow, Yet I have a dream unending, Of the sunny lone ago. Zia storg-Edler. A FRONTIER EPISODE. BY W. P. CHAMBERS "Jo you think you will be back to night?" "Yes, if nothing happens. I know 'the road is muddy, and my team is heavily loaded. I may mire down, or be otherwise delayed, but I think you will see me before bed-time." "I wish the trip was over." "So do I; but are you not afraid to stay here ?" "No, not afraid,"—but the little woman sighed as the spoke, and set about prepar ing for her husband's departure. Man like, he failed to observe the anxious look in his wife's eyes, that he would have de tected so readily in the eyes of his bride. Nor when he gave the parting kiss did he observe the unshed tears trembling on her lashes, or the quiver around her mouth. With cheery words upon his lips he seized his whip, and giving the word to his team, the heavily-laden wagon rolled away. William Armstrong, his wife and babe, were among the first white settlers west of the Tombigbee. They hailed from Geor gia, and placing the Creek nation between them and their kindred, went to work with a will reclaiming the unknown forest. With the ever-friendly Choctaws they were at peace, and anticipated no trouble from their bore warlike neighbors cast of the river. For four years they lived unmolested, and, altogether, a kind Providence had blessed their labors. No sickness had vis ited them—their farm and their sleek stock yielded an ample support, and in the not distant future William Armstrong bade fair to become a wealthy man. There was one drawback, however; it was two miles to the nearest white neighbor, and their little boy, Charley—a sturdy chap of five summers--bad hardly ever seen a white boy of his own age. At that time cotton was just becoming an article of commerce. With an enter prise beyond his wisdom our settler planted his little farm in the fleecy staple. The yield was abundant and the prices high, but there was no available facilities for ginning and baling, and so be was com pelled to haul and ship his crop in the seed. It was twelve miles to the river— at a landing en which a village had sprung up, which was the "market"—for an ex tent of country that would now suppOrt a citrof no mean pretensions. This was his last load of cotton, and he expected to bring back his annual supply of groceries. Our pioneer, however, brought but little. Wheaten bread once a week, and coffee with sugar in it once a day, was an extravagance in culinary matters few could aspire to, and no woman was expect ed to have two calico gowns at once. When her husband was gone, Mary Armstrong did up her ordinary house work, and then proceeded to the spring, which was at the foot of the hill some two hundred yards from the house, to do her weekly washing. Charley—their only child—went with her and played near her till the washing was nearly completed. Saying he was hungry, he set off towards the house. His mother, intent upon her work, hardly noticed his absence, nor could she even remember how long since he had gone away, when her task was ended, and with a pail of newly-washed clothes poised upon her head, she started homeward. As ghe ascended the hill, which hid the house from her view while at the spring, a eight met her eyes that froze her to the ground with horror. Their house was on fire ! The roaring flames leaped upward, and darted forth their lurid, withering tongues in fantastic gambols, as they were swept by the winds. "Great God ! Oh, my child !" gasped the bloodless lips, as the half-crazed woman rushed toward the burningpile. Too late! wretched mother. Too late ! The roof has fallen in, and the walls and doorways are in a solid flame ! Thy child is now but a charred and shapeless mass—,a blackened cinder with no semblance of a human form. Au unseen arm seemed to hold back the frantic •mother. Essay often as she would to rush forward, an outside power seemed to restrain her, to hurl her back fltinting and breathless. "Charley ! (Amity! Charley 1" The words rang out above the din of the flames, but they seemed more like the wierd shrieks of a lost spirit than the cry of 4: human being. At last the walls fell in, and a shower of sparks shot upward toward the sky. "Charley." rang out once more like a wail of despair, and the wretched mother fell down in a deadly swoon. When she awoke to consciousness again the flames were burning low, and she looked eagerly to see the body of her child, Tears came to her relief at last, and sit ting down she cried long and bitterly. Iu her agony she essayed to lift her thoughts to God, but the soul at such times cannot at once draw near to Him who wields tho rod, that the stroke may be less severely felt. Do not blame her. gentle reader, as you sit safely intrenched behind your sys tem of reason and philosophy for giving way so entirely to passion and to terror. Have the rules you have so carefully de vised for your guidance in all emergencies ever been subjected to a test like this? He is cool indeed, who unflinchingly and unappalled, can look such a catastrophe steadily in the face. All the long afternoon—longer than a hundred years it seemed to her—the wretched creature walked around the smouldering ruins, wringing her harids in mute and hopeless agony. She could see nnthing that resembled her boy, and she almost hoped he had escaped. All around the farm she ran, back to the spring, and over hills, crying, "Charley," but only the mocking winds in the tall pine-trees an swered, or, they drowned her voice in their pitiless sweeps across the wintry woods. Back to the ruins she ran and resumed that hopeless, agonizing walk around the ashes of her boy. The sun went down, the moon and stars took their stations in their grind march, and the winds were hushed as night fell around her. The woods were silent save the distant howlings of a pack of wolves, anti the nearer hoot ings of an owl. Reader, have you ever stood and waited fur time to end If so, you can conceive how slowly passed the ages —for- so they seemed to her—'cre her husband returned. She heard the cracking of the whip and his cheery voice down the road. Swifter than the wind she flew to meet him, and fell wordless and senseless at his feet. "Good Heavens, Mary 1 What is it ?" But there was no answer. Raising the unconscious form in his arms the alarmed husband rushed homeward, leaving his team to plod along as they would. When he reached the crest of the hill, and.saw— not his home, but a vacancy—saw the black ruins still sending up a tiny smoke, he sank down with a groan helpless almost as the burden he bore. As he had climbed the hill with his fainting wife, his fatherly instinct had pointed to his son. 110 ex pected to find him a pallid - corpae ; perhaps arrayed for burial, but beautiful—so beau tiful in death. But this—homeless and childless—was more than the strong man could bear. Rallying, he lifted up his wife, and car ried her to the spot. He chafed her form till he brought her to lite again, and then she told him the sad and fearful story. Together they raked over all the embers of the burned dwellincr— together they went over the farm and the woods, and together they shouted the name of their son, till tears blinded them, and the great sobs rose up and choked them. "Charley! Charley! Charley !" the Woods rang with the e-y, the owl hooted in response, and the distant pack of wolves stopped their dismal orgies to listen, but no Charley was there to come. Morning found the wretched patents turning over again and again, the ashes and dead coals of their howe. The patient oxen stood yoked at the gate, still hitched to the wagon they had drawn all the" pre vious day. In his grief the settler had but one thought. and that thought was "Char kJ" Unyoking his team while his wife was preparing ;little food, they ate a few mouthfuls and set about a more systematic search. About two miles away lived a Choctaw hunter rejoicing in the appellation of "Big-Bear-Skin," beneath whose uncouth exterior and swarthy skin there beat a heart softened by the "milk of human kindness." To his cabin repiiired Mr. Armstrong and told his story. The Indian listened in silence; not a muscle moved in his face, not a quiver around his glittering eye as he heard the recital. When it was finish. ed he only said, "Big-Bear-Skin go and see and away he went. Further on was another encampment— quite a village in fact—where lived the chief of the band. Thither repaired the unhappy father, and as he and the chief were great friends, the latter collected his braves and set out to the burned dwelling. Arriving there they found Big-Bear-Skin intently studying the gound. "What is it detu;ided the settler. "Tracks heap. Moccasin tracks all round. Creek Indians—no Choctaw moc casins here." At the name of the dreaded Creeks a tremor crept through the frame of the set tler and his wife, but still there sprang up a little hope—their child might be yet alive and be ultimately restored to their arms. A hurried consultation was held, and the chief and his braves set off rapidly on the trail of the Creek depredators. Big.Bear-Skin alone remained behind. Mr. Armstrong proposed going with them, but the chief sternly forbade him, saying, "White man stay with squaw. Choctaw find Creek nigger—kill um heap—bring pale face papoose home—glad heap." When they had departed Big-Bear-Skin sought the spring, followed by the unhappy father and mother, When near the spring the Indian gave a sudden grunt " What is it ?" came from the parents, for a long intercourse with the red men had taught them to attach a significance to sounds utterly meaningless in civilized society. "Papoose go this way," and he struck off at right angles through the thicket. Presently the Indian stopped, and when they came up he said, "Let white squaw go back and stay— white mango with Big-Bear-Skin." "Please let me go too !" pleaded the wife as she caught her husband's arm, and looked appealingly in the Indian's face. "White squaw must stay !" repeated the Indian, and there was just a shade of scorn mingled with impatience in his tone. "It is best, he says, dear Mary," said her husband. "Go back, please,, till we return and pray that we may succeed." And the wretched husband caught his more wretched wife to his bosom in a pas sionate embrace. Back, therefore, she went to pass an other long and weary day. Slowly the sun mountcd up to the meridian—then the clouds came up, and just as the seeming endless afternoon was giving away to night, the rain began to fall.• Into an outhouse crawled the watcher at the burn ed home, and listened—fur what? Was it any wonder if site often fancied she heard the footfalls of little feet mingling with the dreary rain, and if more than once she called out the name of her boy ? How strangely sounded her voice, and how mockingly dripped and pattered the rain. When ages had passed as it seemed to her, she heard a distant shout. Nearer and nearer it came till at last she could distinguish her husband's voice. Unable to bear the suspense any longer, she rush ed blindly out into the darkness. "Have you found him?" she almost shrieked, as she could just dimly discern the outlines of two moving objects. . "Mother !" cried a ringing, childish voice. With a cry of joy too great to be ex pressed in conventional words, the mother clasped her child to her bosom. Then came the reaction, and she again fell down unconscious. This, however, was of short duration, and in a few mo- 873 ments she and her child were safe in the outhouse. Sparing the reader her profuse and heartfelt thanks and the Indian's stoical reception of the same, we will briefly re late the incidents of the pursuit as detailed by Mr. Armstrong to his wife the next day. "After you turned back, I could hardly keep up with the Indian. He seemed to follow the trail by intuition, for I am cer tain he did not see any tracks for a hun dred yards at a time. I hardly saw one once;in a quarter of a mile. Charley must have became entirely lost in the swamp, so the Indian said. It was late in the after nom when we found where he had slept. As we stood looking at the place, another grunt from the Indian brought me to his side. He silently pointed to the ground, and there I saw the foot-prints of an enor mous bear. My heart sank within me. After all his wanderings, our boy had died in the jaws of this monster. I think I groaned aloud, but the Indian, who had been inspecting the ground, suddenly cried out, Bear no kill !" and away he went again, and faster than ever. 'Three times we crossed the creek, and went through canebrakes snob as I have never seen before. I could hardly ke'ep in sight of my guide , and yet I felt sure that he was on the right trail. If I ever pray ed it was then, that God would• lead that Indian to my child. It was getting dusk, we had left the cane, when Big-Bear-Skin suddenly stopped. I saw him raise his rifle and fire. A terrible roar followed, and as I looked to ascertain the cause, I saw Charley leap from a pile of leaves al most at the Indian's feet, and dart away like a startled fawn ! In vain I called his name; he was utterly wild. Before I could think, the Indian had gone in pur suit. I followed as rapidly as I could, and when I came up the little follow was sul lenly fighting with all his might in the grasp of his captor. "As soon as he had became somewhat calm, and I had taken him, the Indian of fered him some dried venison, which he ate voraciously. We returned to where the bear bad been shot, and found that it was at the time standing guard over the sleeping boy, intending doubtless to make a meal of him as soon as he should awake. Charley said the bear had him when he awoke, but he went to sleep again before he stopped. It was - evident that be had been covered with leaves, and was asleep till the noise of the gun aroused him. It was now dark, and we were ten miles from here, so the Indian said, but we came as rapidly as we could." It is needless to add that the Creeks es caped with their booty, after robbing and Grin,' the house; nor need we :tate spe cific:l;y, that a new rifle, and whatever trinkets he wished besides, graced the lodge of Big-Bear-Skin after this. lie remained a true friend to the whites, .and I have heard him tell the.children of Charley Armstrong the story of their father's ad venture. Our lost boy is an old man now, and his grandchildren play around his knees. One of his sons ploughs over the spot where he was covered up by the bear, ana the old man sometimes rides down there and takes a look at the place. Nttforlatiou for Aportomm The Game Laws of Pennsylvania. It may be of interest to . the general public, as well as to the sporting world, to know the exact character of the general game law passed by the last Legislature. The first section prohibits the killing of wild elk or deer-in the Sate save between the first day of September and the first day of January, with various other provi sions relative to deer. Thirtysaven other sections provide that no person shall kill, or offer for"sale, a hare or rabbit between the first day of February and the first day of October, under a penalty of $5 for each one killed, and rabbits shall not be hunted with fer rets under a penalty of $lO for each ono so killed. No person shall kill, or expose Thr sale any gray, black or fox squirrel, betiveen the first day of January and the first day of July under a penalty of $5 for each of fence. No person shall kill or exposo for sale any wild turkey between the first of Jan uary and the first of October under penalty of $25. No person shall kill or expose for sale any wild duck or goose killed with a swig?, el or punt gun, or with any net, instru ment or device other than the ordinary shot gun, under penalty of $5O. No person shall kill or expose fbr sale any upland or grass plover between the first of January and the first of August, under penalty of $10; or Wilson or gray snipe between the twentieth of April and the Ist of September, under a like penalty. No woodcock shall be killed or sold be tween the first of January and the first of August, under penalty of $lO. No quail or Virginia partridge shall be killed or sold between the first of January and the first of November, under penalty of $lO for each - killed or had in possession. No ruffed grouse, commonly called pheasant, or pinnated grouse, commonly called prairie chickens, shall be killed or had in possession between the first day of January and the first day of September; under penalty of $lO for each Offense. Rail or reed birds shall not be killed or had in possession except in the months of September, October and November, under penalty of $5 for each bird. No person shall, at any time, within this State, kill, trap or expose for sale, or have unlawfully in his or her possession, after the same is killed, any nighthawk, whippoorwill, sparrow, thrush, lark, finch, chimney swallow. woodpecker, flicker, robin, oriole, red or cardinal bird, cedar bird, tanager, cat bird, blue bird, or any other insectivorous bird., under a penalty of $5 for each trapped, exposed for sale or had in possession. This section shall not apply to any person who shall kill a bird for scientific investigation or to have stuff ed. No person shall rob or destroy the eggs or nests of any-wiid bird, save only those of such predatory birds as are destructive of game and insectiverous birds, under penalty of $lO for each offense. No person shall kill, catch, or discharge any tire-arms at any wild pigeon whilFon its nesting ground, or break up or in any manner disturb such nesting ground or the birds therein or discharge any fire-arms within one-fourth of a mile of such nesting place; at any wild pigeon or pigeons, or shoot at, maim or kill them within their ronstings, under a penally of s2s_ No person shall trap. snare or net'a wild turkey, pheasant, quail, woodcock, rail or reed bird under a penalty of $lO, except when they arc caught for preservation over winter. Auy person shooting or hunting on Sunday shall be fined lrom $lO to $25. No person or corporation shall throw or deposit or permit to be thrown or deposi ted, any culm or coal dirt into or upon any of the rivers, lakes, ponds or streams of this State, under penalty of $5O for each offense, in addition to damages to individ ual owners or lessees of such vfaters. No person shill catch speekled trout, save only with hook and line, except for breeding purposes, or place any set-lines in waters inhabited by them, under pen alty of $25 for each offense. No person shall kill or expose to sale any 'salmon or speckled trout, save only during the months of April, May, June and July, and the first fifteen days of Au gust, under penalty of $lO for each sal-, mon or trout. This provision is not to prevent any person from catching trout with nets in water owned by himself to stock other waters. Lake trout or salmon shall not be taken in October, November, December, January and February, under the penalty of $lO. _ Any person trespassing on advertised grounds for the purpose of taking fish front any private pond, stream or - spring, shall be liable to the owner, lessee or oc cupant in a penalty of $lOO, in addition to being guilty of trespass. Anyp.; . rson placinia set-net across any of the canals, rivulets or creeks, in this State shall be liable to a penalty of $25 for each offense. No person shall place in any fresh water streams, lake or pond, any lime or other deleterious substance, or any medicated bait with intent to injure, poison or catch fish, nor place in any pond. lake or stream stocked with or inhabited by' salmon, trout, bass, pickerel, sun fish or perch, any drug or deleterious substance with intent to kill or catch fish, under a penalty of $5O, im prisonment not exceeding three months,- or both. • No person shall at any time catch or kill, with hook and line or scroll, or ex pose fur sale, black bass or pickerel, and only with hook" and line, &c., from the first day of March to the first day of June, under a penalty of $25. No fishing shall be done in any of the inland waters where trout or bass exist, with nets having meshes less than three inches. No fish shall be caught by draining of waters, or by dragging nets or seines when water is drawn off, except by order of the State Fishery Commissioners, under a pen alty of $25. Any person may sell or have in his pos session pinnated grouse, ruffed grouse and quail for a period of fifteen days after the time limited for killing them has expired, provided he can prove they were killed before the time expired, or went killed outside the limits of the State at some place where it was not unlawful to kill them. Judges, mayors, burgesses, aldermen, justices of the peace and other magistrates are invested with full power to enforce the provisions of the law, and to issue warrants for the arrest of any person or persons temporarily residing in their res pective jurisdiction who may be believed to have violated the law; and to issue search warrants for the searchofany house, market, boat, car or other building In which there is probable cause for believing game to be concealed during any of the prohibited period.- It is made the special duty of all constables and police officers to diligently search out and arrest all viola tors of this law-said officers being com petent witnesses to testify against persons having in their possession game out of season; the officer making information to receive one-half of the penalty imposed, the other half to go to the treasury of the county or city in which the offense was committed. Nothing in this act shall be construed as to prevent the catching of bait-fish by means of hand nets or cast nets for angling purposes. pertaing fox at Speer's Sorrows Mr. R. Milton Speer was% member of the late Congress from the seventeenth Pennsylvania D district. In that character he consistently voted against the bill to in crease the pay of himself and his official associates, and when the bill finally became a law, through the signature of President Grant, quietly pocketed his opposition and the nliftey. Some of Speer's friends,how ever, appear to have felt that perhaps the public would not altogether approve of the ready way in which heyielded to the power of a majority, and they therefore sought to obtain for him a political recommendation of good character. The application was wade yesterday at the Pennsylvania Democratic State Con vent,iou. The design was to make Speer permanent president of the convention. This design was carried out so far as to obtain ... from the Committee on Permanent Organization a report, in which the name of R. Milton Speer was proposed for the post of president. Buk , alas ! for Speer: No sooner had his name and the title of the office for which he was proposed passed the lips of the chairman of the committee than one of the delegates stood up and said, "Is interpose, right here, and move that the convention do not concur in this portion of the report." Speer began to be interested in the proceedings. Involuntarily his hand went in search of his pocket-book, as if his sensitive spirit needed some material sup port in this exciting moment. But the delegate did not stop with a simple motion. He gave a reason for it. "I am creditably informed," said the speaker, 'that he (Mr. Speer) was one of the participants in the salary grab, which we propose to denounce by our resolutions. I rise for the sake of consistency and honesty." Speer looked around for a moment in doubt. Was this a convention or a camp meeting? ,But that pooket-book acted on his system as smelling salts do on a fine lady's, and 'as the person chiefly interested' he rose to reply. Speer's oratory is of the lachrymal sentimental order, but it is easy to make out what he means. Speer began by speaking of his devotion to "the interests of the party, and through it, of the country." In this spirit he came to the oonvention, and hence he ventures to say that he does not believe the "democ racy of Pennsylvania" will "needlessly plant a thorn in my breast and make me sad in the house of my friends." If they do be warns them that '•is not the way to make a party, to strike your friends." On the particular point at issue he says : point you to my record in Congress; if I have ever been influenced by gain or the hope of gain in casting my rote, let it be named. When I voted stesofly against the bill to increase the pay of members of Congress, and then took the money which was legally mine, did I commit a wrong? I suppose some victim may be needed to appease the clamor of the people, but we should rise above NO. 37 the spirit of demagogneism and dare act as we be lieve right. The people of my district have unad , irnously endorsed my course, and why should you send me home with this stigma upon my charac ter? I seek no quarrel but I decline none. I don't want the hollers of this Convention and am net accountable to it if they can so far forget what is due me as to yield to the clamor of the hour and strike me down. Let them remember that every act of wrong has its hour of regret.•" Speer's "act of wrong" and "hour of re gret" may have a very different application from what lie intended, but in general his remarks are pretty clear. He had taken the back-pay, to be sure, but he had been faithful to his party, and, as legislative morals go, is an honest man. Now ho wanted his political friends to show the world that he was "all right with the party." He had not sought the chairman ship, but under the circumstances the re fusal to give it to him would send him home wjth a stigma upon his character. That was the way lie went home. The description is his own. He could not overcome the claims of "consistency and honesty" with his rhetoric, and finally was induced to nominate a person to take the office desired by himself. Poor Speer I He was not simply executed,but was made to commit political hart-kart. Speer made a little mistake in the man agement of his "back pay,' and he is now paying the penalty. As a "dreadful exam ple,' his experience is not uninstructive.— N. Y. Evening Post, Aug., 28th, '73• Who is a Gentleman 2 An exchange copies the following cor rect and comprehensive answer to the above question, and urges every child as well as grown persons to commit it to memory, to be recited as often as practicable. A gentleman is not merely a person ac quainted with certain forms and etiquette of life, easy and self-possessed in society, able to speak and act and move in the world without awkwardness, and free from habits which are vulgar and in bad taste. A gen tleman is something beyond this ; that which lies at the root of all his pleasing is the same spirt which lies at the root of every Christian virtue. It is the thoughtful de sire of doing in every instance to others as he would that others should do-unto him. He is constantly thinking, not indeed, how he may give pleasure to others for the mere sense of pleasing but how he can show respect to others—how he may avoid hurt ing their feelings. When he is in so ciety, he scrupulously ascertains the posi tion and relations of every one with whom he comes in contact, that he may give to each his due honor, his proper position. He studies how he may avoid touching in conversation upon any subject which may needlessly hurt their feelings—how he may abstain from any allusions which may call up a disagreeable or offensive association. A gentleman never alludes to, never even appears conscious of, any person's defeat. bodily deformity, inferiority of talent, of rank, of the reputation of the person in whose society he is placed. He never as sumes any superiority to himself, never ri dicules, never sneers, never boasts, never makes a display of his own power or rank, or advantages—such as is implied in ridi cule, or sarcasm, or abuse—he never in dulges in habits, or tricks, or inclinations which may be offensive to others. Where Did the Rich Man Go? Little Johnny was preparing for Sunday School, situated some distance away, when his mother saw one of the neighbors ap proaching in a vehicle. This man, by the' wgy, was called "The Rich Man," being both wealthy, kind-hearted, and liberal to the pot. Johnny ran out, and the rich man took him into his vehicle, as he was going right past the Sunday . chool. It was a very hot day, so Johnny took off his shoes and stockings to keep himself cool. When they arrived the exercises had al ready begun, and as the man was going to church about a mile beyond, and had agreed to call for Johnny on his return, he concluded not to put on itis'§hoes and stockings again, but leave them in the ve hicle. So he trippeddightly into the school, and the man drove away toward church. His teacher was just hearing the lesson, which, bye the bye, Johnny was not ac quainted with, which was the fate of the rich man and poor Lazarus. Soon after Johnny entered and took his seat, it came his turn to answer a question. ' , Johnny, can you tell me where the rich man went ?" "He went to the Baptist 'Meeting," re plied the little lad, thinking only of his late companion. "No, no, my son, the rich man went to hell," said the teacher with great impres siveness, while the other scholars were titterinr , with laughter. "Did he ?" exclaimed the lad, iu all honesty. "Then he has taken my shoes and stockings with him !" and up he jump ed, and. seizing his hat he put out-of the school raconi and down the road to overtake the rich man and recover his property. An Alarming Evil One - of the saddest and most alarming evils among us, is the want of parental discipline, and the lawless spirit resulting from it among the youth of our land. American children generally govern their parents. When" they get beyond the period of infancy they almost immediately become young gentlemen and ladies.— Boys and girls are generally to a very slight exttnt under the oversight of their parents. Not nnfrequently they are sent into the streets that the mother may not be troubled with them, and such boysvery quickly acquire all the accomplishments which belong to young men of thatperiod. The girls walk the streets arrayed in the fashions of the day, read the illustrated papers, and before they enter upon wom anhood, often have their minds corrupted with false views of life, and imaginations excited by images ruinous to mind and head. Why, with such an education Es our people generally obtain, need one be sot , prised at. the dissipation of our young men and the fast habits of some of our young women ? The evil seeds that are being sown every day iu our streets, must be ex pected to take root and in due rime spring up and bear deadly fruit. Has not the time come fur parents to watch more dose ly the impressions for time and eternity being daily made upon the minds of their children ? A coo.oNza's jury, impaneled to ascer tain the cause of the death of a notorious drunkard, brought in a verdict of "death by hanging—round a rum shop." la California, a coroner's jury, under similar circumstances, rendered a more courteous verdict: "Acoidental death while unpack ing a glass." WHERE is "carts unknown?" asks a correspondent of the Danbury News. To which Bailey answers very truthfully % "where they don't advertise." AL
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