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AP. AV. JOHNSTON, Surveyor and
. Civil Engineer Huntingdon, Pa.
OFFICE: No. 113 Third Street. aug21,1572.
BF. GEHRETT, M. D., ECLEC
• TIC PRYCICIAN AND SURGEON, hav
ing returned from Clearfield county and perma
nently located in Shirleysburg, offers his profes
sional services to the people of that place and sur
rounding country. apr.3-1872.
DR . . 11. W. BUCHANAN, I
- DENTIST,
No. 225 Hill Street,
HUNTINGDON, PA.
July 3,'72.
DCALDWELL, Attorney -at -Law,
•Ne. 111, 3d ,treet. Office formerly occupied
by Messrs. Woods & Williamson. [apl 2 / 7 1.
D R. A. B. BRUMBAUGH, offers his
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EJ. GRIFE NE, Dentist. O ffi ce re
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a L. ROBB, Dentist, office in S. T.
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YSYLVANUS BLAIR, Attorney-at
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YCHALMERS JACKSON, Attor•
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NOTICE.
[Estate of BENJAMIN BEERS, deceased.]
To Rebecca A. 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.
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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.
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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.
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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