VOL. 41.
The Huntingdon Journal
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ESTATE OF JOHN Z. KOOKEN.
By virtue of an order of the Court of Common
Pleas of Huntingdon county, the undersigned will
expose for sale, at public outcry, on the premises, on
FRlD.dr, December 28th, 1877,
at 1 o'clock p. in., of said day, all that certain
plantation or tract of land. containing 370 acres,
more or less, about 200 acres cleared, and the bal
ance covered with valuable chestnut timber, situ
ate in the township of Warriorsmark, adjoining
lands of lluntingdon Furnace Company and
David Mingle on the east, lands of David Hen
derson on the south, other lands of Hunting
don Furnace Company on the west, and lands
of John McCaban's heirs on the north, having
STONE MANSION HOUSE,
BANK BARN, A DISTILLERY, BOND
HOUSE AND STORE HOUSE,
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1 50
1 50
1 75
Frame Tenant House and Stable, Wagon Shed and
Corn Crib, and other outbuildings. There are two
good ORCHARDS of choice fruit, and a Vineyard
on the premises. The above property is well wa
tered, having several fine springs thereon, and is
eligibly situated in the best agricultural district
in Huntingdon county, and is within two miles of
the Penn's. Railroad, at Birmingham; 3 miles
from Tyrone, and about the same distance from
Spruce ...reek, all of which points afford good
markets for all kinds of farm products. Valuable
deposits of Lime Stone, Iron Ore and Franlinite.
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or in parcels, to suit purchasers.
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D. CALDWELL,
Assignee of John Z. Kooken.
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of which, with interest from June 13, 1877, will be
payable 13th June, 1878, and the residue, $4,000,
(with interest from 13th June, 1876,) on payment
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ESTATE OF JOHN GREGORY.
The undersigned, by virtue of an order of the
Court of Common Pleas of Huntingdon county,
will expose to public sale, at the Court House, in
the borough of Huntingdon,
On SATURDAY, December 22, 1877,
at 10 o'clock, A. u., of said day, ail that certain
plantation, farm and tract of land, situate in West
township, adjoining lands of Richard Cunningham
on the west, land of Irvin Johnston OR the south,
lands of Thomas P. Love on the east, and lands
of James Myton on the north, containing about
172 ACRES, more or less, of which about 125
Acres are cleared, having thereon erected a Frame
Bask Barn, good Dwelling House, and other ne
cessary outbuildings.
ALSO, a LOT in the village of Wilsontown, in
said township, fronting 100-feet on the public road
from Petersburg to Manor Hill, and extending
back at right angles thereto 160 feet to lot former
ly of George Hallman, bounded on the east by
lot formerly of George llallman, and on the west
by lot of James Myton, having thereon erected a
two:story FRAME PLASTERED HOUSE, Frame
Stable and other outbuildings.
TERMS OF SALE :—One-third of the purchase
money to be paid on confirmation of sale, and the
remidne in two equal annual payments, to be se
cured by the bonds and mortgage of the purchas
er. T. W. MYTON,
Assignee.
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Nora.—Mary 0. Gregory, wife of the said John
Gregory, did not join in the deed of Assignment,
but will join in the deed to the purchasers at the
sale. - [nov3o-3t.
PUBLIC SALE
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Valuable Real Estate.
ESTATE OF A. DELL, DECD.
The undersigned, heirs of A. Dell, deo'd. will sell,
at public sale, on the premises, on
SATURDAY, December 22d, 1877,
at 1 o'clock, p. m., the following described real es
tate to wit:
A Farm, situate in Hair's Valley, Union twp., 5
miles distant from Mapleton, containing 150 acres,
more or less, 80 acres of which are cleared, and the
balance well timbered, and in close proximity to
mills. The improvements are a good LOG HOUSE,
weather-boarded, a new Bank Barn, and other ne
cessary outbuildings. There is a spring of excel
lent water near the door. There is also a young
APPLE ORCHARD, in bearing condition.
Terms made known on day of sale.
ELENOR QUARRY,
MA TILDA APGAR,
Dc7-to] MARGARET A. DOUGHERTY.
HUNTINGDON, PA , FRIDAY, DECEMBER 21, 1877.
vje gluts' Nobtr.
The Two Armies.
The life's unending column pours,
Two marshalled hosts are seen—
Two armies on the trampled shores
That death flows back between.
One marches to the drum-beat's roll.
The wide mouthed clarion's bray,
And bears upon a crimson scroll
"Our glory is to slay."
One moves in silence by the stream,
With sad yet watchful eye,
Cahn as the patient planet's gleam,
That walks the clouded sky.
Along in front no sabres shine,
No blood-red pennons wave ;
Its banner bears the single line
"Our duty is to save."
For those no death-bed's lingering shade
At honor's trumpet call ;
With knitted brow and lifted blade,
In Glory's arm they fall.
For these no flashing falehions bright,
Nor stirring battle-cry;
The bloodless stabber calls by night.—
Each answers, "Here am I I"
For those the sculptor's laureled bust,
The builder's marble piles,
The Anthems pealing o'er their dust,
Through long cathedral aisles.
For these the blossoms-prinkled turf
That floods the lonely graves,
When Spring rolls in her sea-green surf
In floury foaming waves.
Two paths lead upward from below,
And angels wait abov, , ,
Who count each burning life drop's flow
Each filling tear of Love.
Though frcm the Hero's bleeding breast.
her pulses Freedom drew,
Though the white lilies in her crest
Sprang from that scarlet dew—
While Valor's haughty champions wait
Till all their scars are,Shoitnb ,
Lore walks unchallenged through the gate
To sit beside the throne !
,stotßziCtlitr.
A STORY OF THE BORDER.
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Leslie Cochran was only twenty years
old when he became a pioneer among•the
wild woods and wilder dangers of Western
Pennsylvania. But he had been caught
in that net which takes all young men—
love—had married his girl, a lass of
eighteen, as brave and hearty as himself;
and together they had decided to seek their
fortunes on the very edge of the hoiden
Annie had no relatives left since the In
diens scalped ber brother, and Leslie's
father was not the man to hold his son
back from any honorable step because it
involved hardship and danger.
Indeed, how superior in some qualities
to the people of the present day were those
of the frontier seventy-five and one hun
dred years ago. Then parents encouraged
their adult children to undertake perilous
and trying enterprises, and were proud to
see sons and daughters set their faces to
the front to battle with Indians and ani
mals, forest and fare, and establish new
homes of their own
Thus k was that Mr. Cochran gave
Leslie a horse, and mother Cochran fur
nished the "setting out" for a cabin, and
the young people departed into the great
woods.
The previous year Leslie had been on .a
scout against the redskins, and a rich
prairie flat in the French creek country
had so charmed him that he determined
to make it his home.
Thither with his buxom bride he made
his way. The horse carried all their pos•
sessions and the girl beside, when she
chose to ride.
It is surprising hem small an amount
sufficed for housekeeping in those days.—
Leslie Cochran and his wife went out
with a little bedding, a few dishes and
kettles, and a dozen carpenter's tools, the
whole making but half a load for a horse.
Everything else essential the pioneer man
ufactured in the forest. And yet such
beginnings must not be despised, for, from
them, and the families using them, have
sprung grand results.
Beaching their destination, a temporary
cabin was built, a field of c )rn planted,
and in a few weeks they were fairly at.
home, though many miles away from the
nearest settlement. Their fo)d consisted
mainly of fish and wild game.
During the summer, Leslie erected a
more substantial log house, a stable for the
horse, and dug a well, surroun ling the
whole by a stockade as a defence. Inside
of the stockade a quantity of wood was
brought, the corn when ripe was gathered,
hay was collected. and every provision was
made to supply the demands of the winter.
Two or three trips to a distant mill, oc
cupying a week, were necessary to turn
several bushels of corn into meal. These
mill join net's, the first separation our
young couple had experienced, were long
and anxious weeks.
The first was safely performed, and a
fine grist of yellow meal was the result.—
'But the second was not so successful.
lie reached the mill iu safety, and with-
Out observing anything to excite his fears,
hitt as he was starting to return he was
warned against bands of Shawnese known
to be lurking in the vicinity. lie, how
ever, set out with all the greater haste,
carrying but a part of the grist, and think
ing, anxiously of the paril of his young
wife alone in the little stockade.
All day.he pushed on, wearily, but with
the highest speed of which the horse . was
capable. At nightfall he had to stop, it
being impossible to keep the way in dark
ness. Turning into a thick copse of hem
locks he fed the horse, ate his own lunch
of corn cake and venison, and then tried
to sleep. With the early dawn he was off
again, goaded ou by a growing anxiety to
reach his cabin.
But as the horse was drinking at the
first brook crussiug, something mysterious
alarmed it to such degree that it almost
refused to go forward. Peering sharply
around, Leslie could see nothing terrible,
and attributed the fright to some wild
beast that had perhaps been prowling about
the spot dui jug the latter part of the night
Mounting and urging the animal on
ward, he had scarcely gone a score of rods
when the crack of guns startled the silence,
and he felt a bullet tear its way through
his thigh. At the same instant the savage
warhoop burst on his ears, and three or
four Indians came rushing at him from
among the trees.
The fright of the animal was now of in-
estimable value, as it sprang along the way
at a furious rate, dropping the savages
from view almost in a moment. Leslie
was badly wounded, and bleeding rapidly,
but he managed to keep his seat fur two
or three miles, gradually growing weak
and dizzy, however, and expecting at every
leap to be hurled to the ground.
Suddenly the crisis came as the horse
gave an unusual spring to clear a small
stream. On went the terrified animal at
a swifter gait than before, but poor Leslie
fell like ti dead man into the dashing cur
rent of the brook.
Fortunate for him was it that be dropped
where he did, for the cold bath revived
him at once, and as be crept down the
stream in search of a hiding place the
water covered his trail from the pursuing
Shawnese.
A moment brought him to an overhang.
lug bank upheld by the roots of a large
tree, beneath which he crept as the only'
concealment possible for him to gain, with
one useless limb and such deathly weak
ness. But as he was painfully crawling
under the bank another danger appeared
An enormous panther, probably attracted
by the smell of fresh blood, entered upon
the scene, and spying the wounded man,
sprang fiercely up the trunk of a leaning
tree a few feet away, to watch him like a
cat about to seize a mouse. Thc.position
of the leaning tree was such that when
Leslie had perfected his concealment as
well as he could, there was still an opening
among the roots, through which he and
the panther looked each other in the face.
This state of affairs continued for haft*
an hour or more, the creature lashing its
tail and drawing its claws along the bark
or the tree, as if just about to spring, when
Leslie knew from the beast's sudden change
of action that the Indians were approach-
The poor fellow's smpecise wag agoniz
_ _
ing as the panther turu&d asouud and be
zau to how! at the presence of the new
die. Ilaving traced a victim to the hole
ani•=ng the roots, the great cat was enraged
at the apparance of a rival at its feast of
But . the interval was brief. 'Aiain the
sharp crack of falliS rang out, and the
furious creature sprang into the air and
fell heavily on the ground out of Leslie's
sight.
Then he surmised from the sounds, that
the red men were removing the panther's
hide, and for half as hour longer he was
on the rack of anxiety lest they should
discover his hiding place.
But to his indescribable relief he gathered
from a few half English words, that they
intended to follow the horse's trail, not
knowing that the rider had dropped from
his seat and was near them.
In a little time he heard their tread as
they crossed the roots within a couple of
yards of his head and hastened away on
the pursuit. . _ _
But bad not the horse been also wounded
so us to mark its continued flight with
blood, the savages doubtless would hive
come back to the brook where Leslie fell
and searched him out. Little cared they
for the injured animal, and much for the
scalp of the rider ; but the continuous red
trail deceived them, and saved him.
As it was he did not dare stir from his
hiding place until the afternoon of the
neat day, lest returning past the place,
they ini;.:ht discover him.
A.ll this time lie was half immersed in
water, and suffering. untold agonies from
his wound,
-Finally, toward night of the second day,
after nearly thirty-six hours in a - living
grave, he crawled forth, like a hunted fox
from his lair. At first he put out his
head to look and listen ; and then,: dis
covering nothing alarming, he crept feebly
into the open air.
But, ah, what a situation for a wounded
and exhausted man, a long day's journey
from the nearest help, and surrounded by
an unfriendly wilderness. His rifle he
had ►eft fur his wife fur her defence if
needed, for pioneer women are often ex
pert with a gan; and hence his hunting
knife was his only weapon.
But he was more troubled concerning
his girl-wife, alone in the distant cabin,
than about himself
The pain of his wounded limb was for
gotten in the keener anguish of fear lest
the blood thirsty Shawnese should follow
the trail to the stockade and succeed in
killing or capturing the woman who con•
stituted its only garrison.
As be lay on the autumn leaves in the
afteraoon sunshine, filled with such fur
boding;, hunger began to clamor within
him, and crawling painfully to the carcass
of the panther, he cut off and tried to eat
stilt° of this most unsavory meat.
At this moment the faint jarring of dis
tant steps came through the futest silence
o his ears, and feeling his inability to de
fend himself from even the smallest danger,
he turned and began to creep back toward
the hiding place.
While he iK thus engaged. let us look
into the cabin and see how Annie is faring.
Knowing well her own perilous situation,
she kept arguA watch during Leslie's ab
sense ; and toward evening of the same
day when he was shot, what was her sur
prise to hear the horse whinnying at the
gate of the stockade, as it was nearly
twenty four hours too soon to look fur her
husband.
Running to a port-hole, her heart sank
as she saw the animal without a rider.—
She unbarred the heavy gate and let in
the panting, 'foaming streaked creature,
when, in a moment, she discovered the
bloody proof of what had befallen her hus
band. The buckskin saddle cloth was
scaled in blood !
But Annie was a brave and thoughtful
woman, and thereby gave way to nothing
weak or foolish. Firmly bolting the gate
again, she took down the gun, powder-horn
and bullet pouch from the hook on the
cabin wall, and filled an iron kettle over
the fire, determined, if the savages attacked
the stockade to resist theta with both fire
and water. Then, while keeping a k, en
lookout through the portholes and from
the cabin she thought over the case
and laid her Vans.
From the amount of blood on the sad
die, she concluded that Leslie had held his
seat for some distance after the shot, and
hence, perhaps had escaped the Indians.
She surmised that faintness from loss of
blood, together with some unusual leap of
the horse, had been the ezruse of her hus
band falling to the ground. Reasoning
thus, it seemed to her that he might be
somewhere along the route in need of her
help.
ft not alive, she might. find his dead
body.
Or, if she failed to discover him, alive
or dead, she could ride through to the mill
settlement for safety and assistance.
With such reflections, she decided to
make an early start along the wild valley
route.
She gave her horse an abundance of
food, and bound up the wound in its neck,
knowing that all depended on the faithful
creature'4 strength.
It was a long and anxious night to poor
Annie, but the dawn came at last, and she
mounted and rode away; and so swiftly
did she go, that, had anybody seen her,
she might have seemed like some spirit of
the woods.
And she sped onward along the faint
trail, marked by blazed trees, the peculiar
excitement of the horse attracted her no
tice, and it occurred to her that if she was
attentive enough to the instinct of the
animal, she might learn where• it had
parted from Leslie. And so it proved.
All day she went forward, her senses
almost supernaturally alert to find her hus
band and avoid being surprised by In
dians. As the sun was declining, she up
proa.ched the brook where Leslie had fal
len, and the conduct of the horse con
vinced her that she was near the scene of
some part of the disaster. Slowly she rode
down the slope, watching on every hand
to hear something pertaining to her search,
her heart aflame with feelings too intense
for words.
It was the tread of the horse that
reached Leslie's ears. As the animal
stepped into the stream the poor man saw
his wife, and putting forth all his strength,
he called in feeble tones, "Annie Annie !"
She heard, anti in an icatant was at his
side. And such a meeting. To each it
seemed as if the other had come back from
the dead. What followed scarcely needs
rehearsal. By slow marches and great
caution, living on chestnuts and raw pat
titer's 'teat, they reached the stockade.
A few months restored Leslie from his
wound; years brought peace and safety;
and ultimately thousands of settlers flowed
into the region. The pioneer's farm,
where once the little stockade stood so
distant and alone, became a village site,
and wealth and distinction have £&llen to
the Cochran descendants.
Whoever has heard the aged Leslie re
cite this adventure must have been in/
pressed by the emphasis which he placed
on "the three strange providences by which
he was delivered." First, had he fallen
anywhere but in the stream the Indians
would probably have found him where he
fell faint or dead, and tearing off his scalp,
would have crushed in his skull with a
tomahawk, and departed.• Secondly, had
it not been for the Indians the panther
would have finished him. And thirdly,
the bullet that drew the dripping blood.
from the neck of the
_horse, so that the
crimson trail did not cease at the brook,
saved his life by misleading his pursuers.
In closing the story he used to say, in
a most solemn manner :
"Death missed me by a miracle three
times in a single hour."
titrt Ribteliany.
Taking Comfort.
The dream of mortals is of a time com
ing when cares shall cease to infest, anx
ieties to oppress, every wish to be gratified,
and they shall take "solid comfort." Many
waste all their lives in the vain pursuit of
this dream, which,like the will-o' the-wisp,
leads them a sad chase over bog and feu
and morass, eluding them to the last. A
few thoughtful souls arrive seasonably ut.
the wise conclusion that not in this world
will the time ever cane when, without any
dregs of bitterness, the chalice pressed t.,
our lips will be full of only comfort. We
must take the bitter and the sweet -as we
go along.
o
Contentment is not of an outward growth.
Its roots spring from the very depth of
the soul, and are nourished as well by rain
as by sunshine, by sorrow as by joy. When
once one has resolved within himself to
take life as it is and make the best of it,
then he may, even in tribulation, take
comfort, though the majority of people do
not prefer to take it in that form.
The delights of life, like pleasant weather
through the year, are scattered all along
the way, and unless we enjoy them as soon
as they come, the opportunity once past
never returns.
It is all very well to provide for a rainy
day, but the man is very foolish who al.
lows himself to be soaked by drenching
rains that he may save his umbrella fbr
some possible future storms. Pleasure
taking is not nearly as much provided for
among our earnest, intense; energetic
American people as it should be. - We live
altogether too much in the future, too lit
tie in the present. We live too poor that
we may die rich. We get all ready to be
happy, and when we are quite ready, in
firtuity or disease or death steps in, and
the chance to take comfort in this short
life is gone. If we could only be content
to seize upon the little pleasures that lie
just outside and often within our daily
pathway, they would make a large sum
total at the end of the three-scare and ten
Far too many of us scorn pleasures that
are cheap and near and within our grasp,
and complain because we cannot Lave such
as are costly and remote and inaccessible.
But if we only magnify the little things
that make life pleasant as we do those that
make it unpleasant, the cup of our joys
would continually overflow. We complain
of cloud and storm, but do we rejoice in
the sunshine and fair weather ? We grieve
at the coldness of a friend, but do we value
the fidelity of those who remain true ?
We count the hours when sickness pros
trates us, but how many days of health
pass utterly unnoticed and without thanks
giving? We mourn passionately for the
dead, while we neglect the livin;.7- whom
to-morrow we may weep as dead. It is
well for us to heed the sayings of the wise
man, "There is nothing better than that a
man should rejoice in his own works; for
that is his portion ; fOr who shall bring
him to see what shall be after Lim ?"
About Teachers and Teaching
What is the use of a teacher if he or
she does not teach ? This is the question
which is agitating a good many of our ex
changes. A Virginia paper thinks that
to scud children home in the evening with
arms full of books and half a dozen les
s:. - tns "to get" by themselves, and then in
the morning to bear their recitations and
score their demerits, is no teaching at all.
The pupil should be taught how to study
and how to think, and this ought to be
done in the school-room, and not at home,
where the parents have as much as they
can do to attend to domestic matters and
bear their children recite what they have
been taught by their teachers. If hearing
recitations is all a teacher has to do, then
he is no teacher, but merely a judge of
the child's home acquirements. Another
paper says: If teachers are paid for teach
ing, they should not, in our opinion, be al
lowed to omit more than half their duty
by confining themselves solely to the work
of recitation.— Washington. Star:
VIRTUE without graces is like a rich
diamond unpolished—it hardly looks bet
ter than a common pebble ; but when the
hand of the master rubs off the roughness
and forms the sides into a thousand bril-
liant surfaces, it is then that we acknowl
edge its worth, admire its beauty and long
to wear it on our bosom.
Dont's for Old Maids.
DvU ' G get soured with the whole world
k„cuuse some of the brothers didn't take
you in out of the cold ; maybe it was your
fault
Dm't think when you look back through
the vista of years and see yourself, in im
agination, leaning over the garden gate
with that fellow on the other side, that you
made a narrow escape. He might have on
ly been fooling with you.
Don't think if you had it all to do over
again you would do differently - and better
The probabilities are you would be about
as much of a goose as you were then.
Don't try to make the whole world he•
lieve that you arc in downright earnest and
would'nt marry the best man on top of the
ground if you could, for you know you
would.
Don't say that all women are simpletons
who marry, for that is not complimentary
to your mother.
Don't thank goodness when you see half
a dozen urchins making it lively for your
neighboring sister, that they ain't yours
You dtm't know bow much fun it is to be
walloping them with a slipper or doing
them with paregoric.
Don't swear off from human society and
take ail your stuck in poodles or pet cats.
They are just as mean as men when you
refuse to gratify their caprices.
Don't think the worlddon't put a prop
er estimate upon your value. It does.—
Mothers are constantly pointing to you as
examples for their frisky daughters.
Don't think you ought to smile the less
because you haven't any ona in particular
to smile for. Smile for spite, for noth
ing eise. just to make men sorry that they
left such a bunch of animated sunshine go
uncaptured.
Don't think you ought to be staid and
sombrt - 3. That's a mistake. You have so
few of the responsibilities of life that you
ought to be as merry as a bird all the
time.
Don't think Eve made a mistake when
she concluded not to live an old maid, for
neighbors were so far apart then that she
would have been very lonely.
Don't while away the dull hours by be
coming a gossip-monger. If you want an
occupation start a base ball club.
Don't wear a long face and look as if
you dieted yourself o❑ crab apples. It is
just as easy to look bright, sweet and pleas
ant. One of the brightest mortals in our
acquaintance never acknowledged alle
giaucc to any of the lords of creation, looks
as merry as a June morning and everybody
likes her.
Don't retire like a recluse and grope
through life in solitude. The one who is
confined to his or ber own society alune
has generally very uninteresting company.
Don't thick there is something radicall7 -
deictive about the world because it don - c
run exactly according to your notion.
There are thousand 3 of people who-do think
so and yet they fail to make it any better.
Don't get worried with the little fellows
because they romp, and yell and raise the
mischief generally. That's a way they
have of letting folks know they are about.
Don't complain at the world you live in,
but niuke the best of it while you are here,
trip through it lightly, merrily as you can,
and at the end you will find that while you
have had some of its trials you have also
escaped many and enjoyed an average share
of blessings —Greensboro Pettriot.
Joe Hooker.
Speaking of gambler 3, says the San
Francisco Ivoliaut, we call to mind one
incident: Chapman and Burroughs kept
.the rooms at the corner of Merchant and
Kearney streets. We had passed through
au exciting political campaign. Chapman
and Burroughs were both New England
men, both Republicans. both loyal. It
was before the trans continental telegraph.
The pony express bronght the news of
war. Organized rebellion bad fired upon
the grand old flag at Sumpter ; the fort
had yielded, and the Stars and Stripes had
been dragged from the flagstaff, and in its
place was raised the standard cf rebellion,
the flag of the Palmetto State.
Around their rooms bun.. ' an habitue, a
gambler, and one who had lost a fortune
in wooing the fickle, wicked goddess—a
gentleman, a graduate at West Point, but
a ruined and almost reckless man. The
news came in about nine o'clock in the
night of the taking, of Sumpter. There
was no more card playing that night. Then
from the sofa, where he had been loung
ins, there arose a handsome' and manly
form. The half-inebriated, reckless man
was transformed, as if by magic, into a
splendid soldier. "Now," said be, "is my
time ! Time to redeem myself and serve
my country. I have been educated for a
soldier." Chapman went to the money
drawer of the faro table, and, taking a
handful of gold, said : "Take this; go
and purchase what you want. l'll buy
your ticket. The steamer sails to-morrow
morning at nine o'clock." The steamer
sailed, and from the generosity and patriot
ism of William Chapman and Charles Bur
roughs, the two professional gamblers of
San Francisco, the country received the
splendid and gallant services of fighting
oe Hooker, the hero of Lookout Mountain.
Left Handedness.
Many parents try to cure their children
of left handedness by using severe meas
urea, such as whipping, or obliging the
child to go for weeks with the left hand
tied to its body. Some even go so far as
to make it a matter of mortification. These
should never be tried until a patient trial
of pleasanter measures has failed. Left
handedness certainly produces an awkward
effect, but it is not one of the cardinal sins.
If a child can be taught to write with her
right hand, to use her knife, fork and
spoon properly, raise her glass, and offer.
the right hand in salutation, it is by no
means necessary to cure her of using the
left hand occasionally. In many cases, to
be ambidextrous is invaluable to women.
All needlework should be carefully taught
with the right hand as needle-holder, but
left-handedness should not be treated as a
crime to be punished. The child should
be kindly told of its disadvantages, and
shown how awkward it looks. A pretty
coral braclet of beads strung on elastic,
worn on the right hand, has a marvelous
effect on a left-handki girl, and is always
worth trying
TIIE centre of population of the United
States is said to have traveled westward,
keeping curiously near the thirty nine
parallel of latitude, never gating more
than twenty miles north or two miles south
of it. In eighty years it has traveled only
four hundred miles, and is still found
nearly fifty miles eastward of Cincinnati.
MOVING for a new trial—Courting a
second wife.
Pisciculture
- OR, -
wIIIT I KNOW ABOUT FISH AND FISHING.
I have been, from early ho) hood, a de
voted disciple of Walton. and even now in
the ninetieth year of my age, I can make
fishing a real recreation.
Fish has been my favorite food from my
early recoliection. and is so still. I heart,
ily endorse Agazzi's sentiment, that fish is
not only a luxury, but a necessity; for
they not only excite the brain to activity,
but being easy of digestion they build up
the waste tissue and give strength and
elasticity to the whole frame
My first work on the Susquehanna River
was fishing for shad in the spring of 1804,
when every family had to salt down shad
enough in the season of fishing to last the
whole year, or they would have to eat their
johnny-cake by itself, for corn was then
the chief article in this section—now Brad
ford County—in that early day. Now,
whilst writing about shad, I am reminded
about what our fish commissioner said in
his report on this subject, that considera
ble sums of money bad bean spent in e
structiug fish ladders or other contrivanceQ,
to enable shad to get over dams in the
river, and that it had as yet been nearly a
failure, I think on the whole, that George
Landon's suggestion would have been the
best. He proposed to consult the shad
first and see if they would try to come up
beF)re going to any other expense.
_ Shad are very fast swimming fish, but a
very tender fish; they will bear but very
little bruising, and this perhaps makes
them shy or every obstruction that may
come in their way ; they can be turned
from one channel of the river to another
by anchoring a few white shingles across
toe channel, and this was frequently done
by fishermen to bring them to the best
(rround for drawing the seine.
But notwithstanding all these difficul
ties, shad can be continually bred in such
numbers and put in the river at any point
year after year, (they would find their way
to the bay), so that the Chesapeake and
that part of the river below the Columbia
dam might grow shad enough to supply
Pennsylvania and Maryland for all time,
and all the expense would be breeding and
catchin g . And if some such plan is not
adopted they will eventually become ex
tinct in the bay, for it is their nature to
ascend the river to spawn, and the young
fry descends in the fall, and do not make
their appearance again until they are full
grown—and this they do in the spring of
the year flr the purpose of breeding in
water.
Now, in regard to breeding and trans
ferring fish front one water to another :
Of he breeding of fish I have but little
exper:cnc.:, although it has become an es
tabl shed science. I have transferred
them with various successes. I have taken
catiisb from the—tivoa_And put them in a
,nill pond ; they bred and soon became
very plenty, but never attained half the
size of the originals.
I have taken pickerel from the river to
a large pond, and known them to increase
and become plenty, and attain a much
larger size than the same kind in the river.
I Cook perch at the same time; they soon
became numerous, but never grew to half
the sizes of the river perch, and were of a
different shape; they were longer Record
ing to their size, and rounder, but they
have since dwindled down to a very dim
inutive size so as to be worthless.
The wall-eyed bass, or pike as they are
called at the lakes, are said to have been
taken from one of the northern lakes and
put into the Susquehanna river at an early
day ; indeed, I recollect when they were
scarce, but they became plenty and a very
important fish, and grew to double the size
of the originals. But since the construc
tion of the dams in the river they have
become very scarce, so with all the native
fish—they have also grown scarce.
Leaving the whole river fir the intro
duction of the black bass, which, by being
bred and put in all the upper branches by
authority of the 8/ate of New York, and
at the same time in the main river by
Pennsylvania, and being a lake fish, they
are now found in all the deep water along
the streams, and if the breeding and sup
plies are continued with proper protection
by law, they undoubtedly will become a
complete success.
There is no better fresh water fish than
the black bass, and they grow to a large
size, say five or six p ,nods, and might be
made plenty in all our ponds, and if the
estimation of the men who are skilled in
raising fish is correct, "That each surface
acre of all the ponds can be made as profi
table for the production of human food as
so many acres of the best farming land,
then it is the duty of the Legislator. to
make an appropriation sufficient to enable
'our Fish Commissioners to stock all our
ponds at once, and in doing so they would
be considered real benefactors to the race,
especially to the lovers of fish.
'Other fish can be bred as well as shad
and bass; the common brook trout, when
so managed, grow very fast and become
very large; they lose some of their fine
flavor for eating, that is not in consequence
of their size, but flora the food upon - hich
they are fed ; such establishments require
a large quantity of water, so .they cannot
be expected to become common.
But every person owning a large spring
can construct a small pond and procure
the small fry as they are called, and raise
their own ' trout if not for profit for
amusetudit, for they become very tame
and afford great pleasure to children to
feed them and see them swim.
Ponds and streams can be stocked with
eels only by capturing their young, for
how they propagate their species is yet a
mystery to all naturalists. And yet their
progeny is innumerable; common observa
tion can distinguish no sexual difference
among them. The most of them go down
the streams to tide water in the fall of the
year, and a certain grade of the small ones
burrow together under whatever l-ose ma
terial they can find, and are often speared
in such places in great quantities. Some
time in June their young ones mend the
fresh water streams in quantities innumer
able. I have seen them more thau thirty
miles from tide water in such quantities.
that they could be estimated better by
measure than by count; at such places
they might be caught• and made profita
ble for stocking ponds, and even small
streams. JAMES ELLitYrr.
"WHY do you continue to retail spirit
uous liquors ?" "If I did not sell, these
drinking fellows would not come to my
shop, and I should have no chance to give
them good advice."
STIKAMBOAT Yankees ,n the Western
rivers are said to. be of a very determined
disposition, there not being one of 'em
that wouldn't rather die than tell the truth.
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