VOL. 42. Professional Cards DCALDWELL, Attorney-at-Law, No. 111, 3rd street. V. Office formerly occupied by Messrs. Woods de W il iiamson. [apl2,'7l DO. A.B. BRUMBAUGH, offers his professional services to thecominunity. Office, No 52.3 Washingtonstreet, one door east of the Catholic Parsonage. jjant,'7l C. STOCKTON, Surgeon Dentist. Office in Leieter'e . building, in the room formetly occupied by Dr. E. J Greene, Huntingdon, Pa. [VIA '76. GEO. B. ORLADY, Attorney-at-Law, 405 Penn Street, Huntingdon, Pa. [n0v17,'75 GL ROBB, Dentist, office in S. T. Brown's new building, . No. 620, Penn Street, Linntingdon, Pa. [ap12.71 H.C. MADDEN, Attorney-at-Law. Office, No. —, Penn Street, Huntingdon, Pa. [apl9,'7l T SYLVANUS BLAIR, Attorney-at-Law, Huntingdon, . Pa. Office, Penn Street, three doors west of 3rd Street. Dan4,'7l T W. MATTERN, Attorney-at-Law and General Claim . Agent, Huntingdon, Pa. Soldiers' claims against the Government for back-pay, bounty, widows' and invalid pensions attended to with great care and promptness. Of fice on Penn Street. pan4,'7l LT 8. GEISSINGER, Attorney-at-Law and Notary Public, . Huntingdon, Pa. Office, No. 230 Penn Street, oppo site Court Hon.. [febs,'7l E. FLEMING, Attorney-at-Law, Huntingdon, Pa., ►J. office in Monitor building, Penn Street. Prompt and careful attention given to all legal b.inees. [angs,l4-6moe WILLIAM A. FLEMING, Attorney-at-Law, Hunting don, Pa. Special attention given to collection', and all other legal busineas attended to with care and promptneel. Office, No. 229, Peon Street. [apl9,'7l Legal Advertisements. TREASURER'S SALE OF SEATED and unseated land in Huntingdon county, Pa. By virtue of sundry acts of the General As sembly, of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, relating to the sale of seated and unseated land in the county of Huntingdon, for taxes due and un paid, I will offer at public sale, at the Court House, in the borough of Huntingdon, on the SECOND MONDAY OF JUNE, 1878 (being the 10th day of the month) at 10 o'clock A. M., the following de scribed pieties of land, or such part thereof as may be necessary to satisfy the amount of taxes and costs due and unpaid against the same, up to and including the year 1876 asainst the same, and con tinue the sale from day to day, as the same may be found necessary. TERMS OF SALE :—The amount of taxes and costs must be paid when the land is struck off, or the sale may be avoided, and the property put up and resold Acr. Pr Owners or iVarranteee. Tax , Barree Township. 865 ... James Ash or William Shannon... $59 SO 437 ... Moses Vanost 436 ... Robert Austin, (Jno. MoCahan's heirs).... 29 70 160 ... Martin Orlady lO SS 437 William Mitchenor 433 ... Thomas Mitchenor. 2B 78 Brady Township 10 ... John McComb.. 302 ... Joseph Webb 402 ... John Watson 397 ... Robert Watson 33 ... Daniel Ring 150 ... John McComb 1 lot of land, Campbell & Jacobs Cass Township. 200 ... Samuel Hartsock 207 ... Henry Sills. 400 ... John Freed 137 ... Samuel Morrison, part 150 ... Hugh Morrison, part. 196 ... Andrew 5i115.......... 434 ... Sarah Hartsock 400 ... Sarah Barrick 190 ... Jacob Barrick 400 ... Peter Hartsock 300 ... Elizabeth Hartsock. Cromwell Township. 153 53 George Stevenson 418 20 John Jourdon 393 41 Samuel Galbraith 389 31 Charles Boyles. 4J2 53 Alexander M. Keehen 250 ... George Stevenson 393 17 John Smith Carbon Township. 53 ... Henry Rhodes (M. J. Martin owner) _ _ . 133 ... Cook .1 Elder, (J. S. Castnu) 360 ... William Spring (Rebuts & Co.) 242 ... William Blan do 272 • ... John Blan do 220 ... Benjamin Price do 339 ... Henry Alexander do 228 ... Speer & Daugherty do 438 40 do do ..... 16 20 65 ... John P. Baker, (Orbison & Dorris) 741 106 ... John P. Baker, (David 81air)..... 11 76 2 ... B. C. Lytle 167 ... William Settle, (Rebuts & Co) 21 ... Andrew Anderson do . 4 ... Samuel Kefterman do . 50 ... John M'Clain do . 401 ... Shoemaker's heirs do . 47 ... Joseph Martin do . 322 ... John Murphy do . 57 ... G. W. Speer do . 60 ... W. S. Entrekin do . 163 ... Isaac Cook, jr do . 121 Jacob Cresswell do . 75 A. S. Cresswell do . 12 ... Samuel Ketterman do . 1 lot and house, Michael McHugh 336 ... John Weist, (J. S. Schmick, W k Elias Weist) l2 43 432 .. John Waist 394 ... John Weist Franklin Township, 30 ... Robert Gardner ..... ... .... Hopewell Township 220 ... Samuel Davis, (Savage)... 200 ... Conrad Bates 180 ... Leonard Rumbler 202 ... Benjamin Shoemaker Juniata Township. 340 ... J. B. Georn & Wm. Barrick.. 10 ... A. H. Brumbaugh Jackson Township. 400 ... Thomas Palmer 400 ... George Stever ll 20 400 ... Jacob Hellzheitner 400 ... Henry Baker ll 20 400 ... Thomas Russell 400 ... David Ralston 400 ... Ephraim Jones 400 ... John Brown 400 ... Jonathan Priestly 422 James Dean 400 ... Thomas Ralston ll 20 400 ... Henry Canan 400 ... John Adams ll 20 400 ... Henry West ll 20 400 Alexander Johnston 400 ... Thomas McClure ll 20 400 ... John Ralston 400 ... ( Samuel Canso ll 20 400 ... Abraham Dean. 400 ... James Fulston 400 Samuel Marshall ll 20 400 ... Robert Caldwell. H 20 400 Matthew Simpson 400 ... James McClure or McClain ll 20 400 ... John Fulston ll 20 400 ... John Galbraith ll 20 400 ... George Wice ll 20 37 ... Dernney's heirs 3 32 Lincoln Towns:hip, 174 ... Isaac Wimpler 223 ... Peter Wilson 210 ... Joseph Miller Morris Township. 354 ... Samuel P. Wallace's heirs. Oneida Township. 36 ... Samuel Gregory 19 ... James Cu11in..... Penn Townehip. 240 Jane Sellers 100 ... John & George Saylor Porter Township. 350 ... William Smith, D. D 74 ... Charles leekler Springfield Township 400 ... Nathan Ord Tell Township. 200 ... Patterson & Stem Tod Township. 40u ... Nancy Davis, Trexler and Brum baugh 100 ... Edward Tubin 40 ... Jacob Cresswell's Heirs 150 ... Miles Putt 250 ... Timpy Shaffer 395 ... Samuel Cornelius 96 ... Speer 16 Martin 152 ... Eliel Smith 400 ... Jonathan Jones 400 ... Owen Jones 310 ... Thomas Mowan 355 ... Frances Mowan 279 ... James Wister 260 ... Sarah Ilartsock 210 ... Joseph Miller 175 ... Peter Wilson 174 ... Isaac Wampler 100 ... J. R. Flanagan 250 ... M. J. Martin Union Township. 429 ... James Fea 400 ... Abraham Sell . 50 ... Abraham Morrison 220 ... Solomon Sell Legal Advertisements 195 ... Margaret Sell 100 A. H. Bowman 11 ... A. H. Bowman 16 A. H. Bowman Walker Township. 117 ... John Kerr's Estate, (Wm. Crum, owner) l7 20 422 ... Susan Laurish 10 ... Michael Low 206 ... William Stow, (G. &J. H. Shoen her) 208 ... C. Stow, ~ " .‘ 215 ... R. Stewart " '••• 34 40 30 ... Prtrick Moore's Heirs 3 00 14 ... George R080 West Township. 369 ... William Bracken lB 45 12 ... William Reed 6O 436 ... Philip Sickle 2l 80 433 ... Caldwalader Evans 493 ... George Bingham 3O 74 2 lots, Sylvester Biddle 1 12 1 lot, Stewell Bishop 1 04 2 lots, Gustave English 2 OS 3 lots, 11. Fassett 2 lots, H. D. Moore 1 12 2 lots, R. 0. Moorehouse 1 12 1 lot, Henry Simmons 1 04 1 lot, J. B. Stevenson 56 2 lots, Benjamin Tingley 2 96 2 lots, Samuel Tobias Henderson Township. 96 acres, E. A. Green. 4 24 2 lots £, d house, R. C. M'Clill 1 lot and house, John Snyder's estate 2 37 1 lot, D. R. P. Neely 7 60 2 lots, Esther Lytle 9 60 2 acres, Charles German 8 lots, Rev. Luther Smith 1 lot, George Brumbaugh... 4 acres, A. A. Cohill 1 80 1 lot, David Coble 9 50 1 lot and house, William Mitchell 1 lot, H. Miller 3 38 1 lot, Mary E. Warfel 4 75 2 lots and house, Wm. K. Burchinell 39 90 _ _ „„ 3 lots, Saniuel Patterson 1 lot, Thomas Irvin 1 65 1 lot, Miss P. C. Miller 2 38 1 lot, Margaret Roberts 1 90 1 lot, Emily S. Scott 3 37 Planing Mill, Stewart, March & Co 9l 2G Penn St., Hall, Wharton & Maguire 45 60 Car Manufacturing Co., Orbison & Co 95 95 one-hlaf lot,Mrs. Culbertson 2 00 1 lot and house, William Bouland 5 70 . -.. 1 lot, Andrew H. Frank 1 37 1 lot, Daniel Montgomery 3 30 1 lot, John M. Stonerod. 1 37 House and lot, Joseph Croney 6 05 1 lot, Robert Giffen 3 75 1 lot and house, John Gefford 7 80 One-half lot and house, A. A. Jacobs S 60 _ ._ 1 lot, Abraham S. Johnston.. One-half lot, Wm. McCauley 1 85 11 17 7 43 7 31 2 45 4 65 1 lot, Jeremiah Norris 2 37 Hopewell Township. 1975 acres ' W. W. 44 D. C. Entriken 7l 69 109 acres, Adolphus Patterson's heirs 5 22 Oneida Township. 1321 acres, Swoone & Hunter Tod Townthip. 755 acres, W. W. k D. C. Entrikin 8 64 1256 acres, John Weest, (James Entrikin's Agent G. ASHMAN MILLER, apr 12] Treasurer. H 20 11 58 22 40 , . 7 66 8 40 , . 10 97 24 72 22.40 .. 10 64 22 40 .. 12 30 ASSIGNEE'S SALE -OF- Valuable Real Estate. 1 54 4 18 3 94 3 90 4 02 2 50 3 94 Estate of BEXJAMIX RA ifSEY. By virtue of an order of the Court of Common Pleas, of Huntingdon county, the undersigned As signee of Benj. Ramsey, will offer at public sale at the Court House, Huntingdon, Pa., on SATURDAY, Alay 11th, 1878, at one o'clock, P. M., the following described real estate: S 95 No. I—All that certain farm situate in Spring field township, Huntingdon county, Pa., adjoining lands of Silas Starr, John Brown, David Wible, George Nonemaker, Elihu Brown, H. C. Cremer and tract No. 2 hereinafter described and divided therefrom by the following line, to-wit : Beginning at pine stump north 301 east 29 perches to a white pine : north 60i degrees west 36 perches to a stone ; west 30 , 1 degrees east, 27 5-10 perches to a stone; north Eli degrees west, 58 perches to a stone, con taining one hundred acres more or less, about 60 acres cleared and in cultivation—balance timber land—having thereon a two-story log dwelling house, log barn and other outbuildings end an orchard. 4 91 13 32 8 95 10 02 8 14 12 54 8 36 6 17 ... 1 7b ... 14 83 ... 1 73 ... 11 91 ... 1 54 ... 1 20 6 03 ... 4 47 ... 2 77 No. 2.—Also all that certain farm situate in the township and county aforesaid, adjoining lands of H. C. Cremer, David Ashton, Levi Anderson,Jno. Brown, Silas Star and tract No. 1 above described and divided therefrom by theabove described, con taining seventy-six acres more or less, about 40 acres cleared and in cultivation and the balance timber land, having thereon a two-story log dwel ling house, frame barn and other outbuildings. No. 3.—And also, all the right, title and inter est, which was of Benj. Ramsey, in that certain messnage and lying in the forks of the Sidling Hill and Little Aughwic creeks, in the township and county aforesaid, adjoining lands of Isaiah and Newton Madden and the heirs of Benj. Sollers dec'd., containing two acres more or less. TERMS OF SALE.—One-third of the purchase money in hand (on confirmation of sale) and the balance in two equal annual payments, with inter est, to be secured by the judgments of the pur chasers. DAVID ASHTON, aprl9-3t] Assignee of Benj. Ramsey. 9 08 14 57 10 20 24 20 21 90 ...... 19 71 22 27 TO THE SCHOOL DIRECTORS OF HUNTINGDON COUNTY Gentlemen:—ln pursuance of the forty-third rection of the Act of May 8, 1854, you are hereby notified to meet in Convention, at the Court House, in Huntingdon, on the first Tuesday in May, A. D., 1878, being the seventh day of the month, at one o'clock in the afternoon, and select viva voce, by a majority of the whole number of Directors present, one person of literary and scientific ac quirements, and of skill and experience in the art of teaching, as County Superintendent, for the 3 succeeding years; determine the amount of com pensation for the same, and certify the result to the State Superintendent at Harrisburg, as requir ed by the thirty-ninth and fortieth sections of said act. R. M. MeNHAL, 9 82 56 County Superintendent of Huntingdon County. Three Springs, Pa., Apr. 19-3 t CHEAP KANSAS LANDS ! ! 9 12 12 22 6 61 We own and control the Railway lands of TREGO CO., KANSAS, about equally diN ided by the Kansas Pacific R. R., which we are selling at an average of $3.25 per acre on easy terms of payment. Alternate sections of Govern ment lands can be taken as homesteads by actual settlers. 15 36 o 90 'J3 These lands lie in the Great Limestone Belt of Central Kansas, the beet winter wheat producing district of the United States, yielding fom 20 to 35 Bushels per acre. The average yearly rainfall in this county is nearly 33 inches per annum, one-third greater than in the much-ex tolled Arkansas Valley, which has a yearly rainfall of less than 23 inches per annum in the same longitude. Stock-Raising and Wool-Growing are very remunerative. The winters are short and mild. Stock will live all the year on grass I Living Streams and Springs are numerous. Pure water is found in wells from 20 to 60 feet deep. The Healthiest Climate in the World! No fever and ague there. No muddy or impassable roads. Plenty of fine building stone, lime and sand. These lands are being rapidly set tled by the beet class of Northern and Eastern people, and will so appreciate in value by the improvements now be ing made as to make their purchase at present prices one of the very best investments that can be made, aside from the profits to be derived from their cultivation. Members of our firm reside in WA-KEENEY, and will show Wade at any time. A pamphlet, giving full information in re gard to soil, climate, water supply, dec., will be sent free on request. Address, Warren Keeney 81, Co., 106 Dearborn St., Chicago, sr We-Keeney, Trego Coun ty, Kansas. [Aprl2-Sm. NB. CORBIN • WITH 2 40 2 00 36 90 4 44 16 66 2 00 SPRANKLE, WEAVER & CO, Wholesale Grocers and Commission Merchants, 225 & 227 Arch Street, Philadelphia. aprlB,'7B-tf. 42 08 39 40 4 95 41 14 „. -, _i',.. he .:::-i-. - Tuntingdon :.H..::.:” - ournal. itrarriorsmark Township SEATED LIST. Broad Top City. Huntingdon Borough. Miscellaneous. Ely 'tem 36 45 S 85 97 2 83 Love in Death. A mother sits by a lowly grave, A hillock small and green, With two grey stones at the bead and feet, And a dasied turf between. Silent she sits in that place of graves, As if tranced in a dream of prayer; And her hand oft plays with the rustling grass, As with curls of an infant's hair. Does she think of the time when she hushed it oft With cradle lullabies? Or when it hung on her teeming breast, With a smile in its lifted eyes? Or when she touched with a reverent hand, (When its sunny years were three,) The lamb-like fleece of its flaxen locks, As it played beside her knee? Or the hour when the sad and simple pall Was borne from the cottage door, And its dancing step was never heard Again on the household floor? Does she fondly image a cherub shape, 'Mid a shining angel band, With star-crowned locks and garments white, With a lily in its hand ? Silent her thought; but at twilight hour, Ever she sitteth there; And her hand oft plays with the rustling grass, As with curls of an infant's hair. Ire *,trq—Etiter. A TERRIBLE NIGHT. "By Jove, Dick, I'm nearly done up I" "So am I. Did any one ever see such a confounded forest, Charley ?" "I am not alone weak but hungry. Oh, for a steak of moose, with a bottle of old red wine to wash it down !" "Charley, beware ! Take care how you conjure up such visions in my mind. I am already nearly starving, and if you in. crease my appetite much more it will go hard with rue if I don't dine off you. You are young, and Bertha says you're tender "Hearted, she meant. Well, so I am, if loving Bertha be any proof of it. Do you know, Dick, I have often wondered that you, who love your sister so passion ately, were not jealous of her attachment to me." 3 37 2 42 "So I was, my dear fellow, at first—fu riously jealous. But then I reflected that Bertha must one day or other marry, and I must lose my sister; so I thought it bet ter that she should marry my old college chum and early friend, Charles Costarre, than any one else. So you see there was a little selfishness in my calculation, Char ley." "Dick, we were friends at school, and friends at college, and I thought at both these places that nothing could shorten the link that bound us together, but I was mistaken. Since my love for and engage ment to your sister, I feel as if you were fifty times the friend that you were before. Dick, we three will never part !" "So he married the King's daughter, and they all lived together as happy as the days are long," shouted Dick, with a laugh, quotino• b from a nursery tale. The foregoing is an extract out of the conversation with which Dick bilcon and myself endeavored to beguile the way, as we tramped through one of the forests of Northern New York. Dick was an artist and I a sportsman, so when one fine Au tumn day he announced his intention of going into the woods for a week to study nature, it seemed to me an excellent op portunity for me to exercise my legs and my trigger finger at the same time. Dick had some backwoods friend who lived in a log hut on the shores of Eckford Lake, and there we determined to take up our quarters. Dick, who said he knew the forest thoroughly, was to be the guide, and we accordingly, with our guns on our shoulders, started on foot from Root's, a tavern known to tourists, and situated on the boundaries of Essex and Warren counties. It was a desperate walk, but we started at daybreak, and had great faith in our pedestrian qualities. We expected to reach the nearest of the Eckford lakes by nightfall. The forest through which we traveled was of the densest description.— Overhead the branches of spruce and pine shut out the day, while beneath our feet lay a frightful soil, composed .principally of jagged shingle, cunningly concealed by an almost impenetrable bush. As the day wore on our hopes of reaching our destina tion became fainter and fainter, and I could almost fancy, from the anxious glances that Dick cast around him, that in spite of his boasted knowledge of the woods he had lost his way. It was not, however, until night actually fell in, and that we were both sinking from hunger and exhaustion, that I could get him to acknowledge it. "We're in a nice pickle, Master Dick," said I, rather crossly, for an empty stom ach does much to destroy a man's natural amiability. "Confound your assurance that led you to set up as a guide. Of all men painters are the most conceited " "Come, Charley," answered Dick, good humoredly, "there's no use in growling so loudly. You'll bring the bears and panthers on us if you do. We must make the best of a bad job and sleep in a tree." "It's easy to talk, my good fellow. I'm not a partridge, and don't know how to roost on a bough." "Well, you'll have to learn then ; for if you sleep on the ground the chances are ten to one that you will have the wolves nibbling at your toes before daylight.' "I'm hanged if I do either," said I des perately. "I'm going to walk all night and I'll drop before I'll lie down." "Come, come, Charley, don't be a fool." "I was a fool only when I consented to let you assume the role of a guide." "Well, Charley, if you are determined to go on 'let it be so ; we'll go together.— After all, it's only an adventure." "I say, Dick, cion't t ,you see a light ?" "By Jove, so there is ! Come, you see Providence intervenes between us and the wolves and hunger. That must be some squatter's hut." The light to which I had so suddenly called Dick'a attention was very faint, and seemed to be about half a mile distant.— It glimmered through the dark branches of the hemlock and spruce trees, and weak as the light was, I hailed it as a mariner without a compass hails the star by which he steers. We instantly set out in the di rection of our beacon. In a moment it seemed as if all fatigue had vanished, and we walked as if our muscles were as tense as iron and our joints oily as a piston shaft. We soon arrived at what in the dusk seemed to be a clearing of about five acres, but it may have been larger, for the tall forest rising up around it must have di minished its apparent size, giving it the appearance of a square pit rather than a farm. Toward one corner of the clearing we discerned the dusky outline of a log hut, through whose single end window a faint light was streaming. With a sigh of relief we hastened to the door and HUNTINGDON, PA,, FRIDAY, MAY 3, 1878. knocked. It was opened immediately and a man appeared on the threshold. We explained our condition and were instantly invited to walk in and make ourselves at home. All our host said he could offer us were some cold Indian corn cakes and a slice of dried deer's flesh, to all of which we were heartily welcome. These viands, in our starving condition, were luxuries to us, and we literally reveled in anticipation of a full meal. The hut into which we had so unceremoniously entered was of the most poverty-stricken order. It consisted of but one room, with a rude brick fire place at one end. Some deer skins and old blankets were stretched out by way of a bed at the other extremity of the apart ment, and the only seats vsible were two sections of a large pine trunk that stood close to the fireplace. There was no vestige of a table, and the rest of the furniture was embodied in a long Tennessee rifle that hung close to the rough wall. if the hut was remarkable its proprietor was still more so. lie was. I think, the most villainous looking man I ever beheld. About six feet two inches in height, pro portionately broad across the shoulders, and with a hand large enough to pick up a fifty-six pound shot, he seemed to be a combination of extraordinary strength and agility. his head was narrow and oblong in shape. His straight, Indian-like hair fell smoothly over his low forehead as if it had been plastered with soap, and his black, bead like eyes were set obliquely and slanted downwards towards his nose, giving him a mingled expression of ferocity and cunning. As I examined his features attentively, in which I thought I could trace almost every bad passion, I confess I experienced a certain feeling of apprehen sion and distrust I could not shake off. While he was getting us the promised food we tried, by questioning him, to draw him into conversation. He seemed very taciturn and reserved. He said he lived entirely alone, and had cleared the spot he occupied with his own hands. He said his name was Joel; but when we hinted that he must have some other name he pretended not to hear us, though I saw his brows knit and his small black eyes flash angrily. My suspicions of this man were further aroused by observing a pair of shoes lying in a corner of the .hut. These shoes were at least three sizes smaller than those that our gigantic host wore, and yet he had distinctly replied that he lived en tirely alone. If those shoes were not his, whose were they ? The more I reflected on this circumstance the more uneasy I felt, and my apprehensions were still fur ther aroused when Joel, as he called him. self, took both our fowling pieces and, in order to have them out of the way, as he said, hung them on crooks from the wall, at a heighth that neither Dick nor I could reach without getting on a stool I smiled inwardly, however, as I felt the smooth barrel of my revolver, that was slung in the hollow of my back by its leathern belt, and thought to myself, if this fellow has any bad designs, the more unprotected he thinks us the more incautious he will be; so I made no effort to retain our guns.— Dick also had a revolver, and was one of those men who I knew would use it well when the time came. My suspicions of cur host grew at last to such a pitch that I determined to com municate them to Dick. Nothing would be easier than fur this villainous half-breed —for I felt convinced that he had Indian blood in him—nothing would be easier than, with the aid of an accomplice, to cut our throats or shoot us while we were asleep, and so get our guns, watches and whatever money we carried. Who in these lonely woods would hear the shot, or hear our cry for help? What emissary of the law, however sharp, could point out our graves in those wild woods, or bring the murder home to those who committed it? Linton at first laughed, then grew serious, and gradually became a convert to my ap prehensions. We hurriedly agreed that while one slept the other should watch, and so take it in turns through the night. Joel had surrendered to us couch of deer skins and his blanket ; he, himself, said he could sleep quite as well on the floor near the fire. As Dick and I were both very tired, we were anxious to get our rest as soon as possible. So after a hearty meal of deer steak and tough cakes, washed down by a good draught from our brandy flask, I, being the younger, got the first hour's sleep, and flung myself on the couch of skins. As my eyes gradually closed, I saw a dim picture of Dick seated sternly watching by the fire, and the long shape of the half-breed stretching out like a huge shadow upon the floor. After what I could have sworn to be only a three minutes doze, Dick woke me and informed me that my hour was out, and turning me out of my warm nest, lay down without any ceremony, and in a few seconds was heavily snoring. I rubbed my eyes, felt for my revolver, and seating myself on one of the pine stumps coin menced my watch. The half breed ap peered to be buried in profound slumber, and in the half-weird light cast by the wood embers his enormous figure seemed almost Titanic in its proportions. I con fess I felt that in a struggle for- life he was more than a match for Dick and my self. I then looked at the fire and began a favorite amusement of mine—shaping forms in the embers. All sorts of figures defined themselves before me. Battles, tempests at sea, familiar faces, and above all shone, ever returning, the dear features of Bertha Linton, my affianced bride. She seemed to me to smile at me through a burning haze, and I could almost fancy I heard her say, "While you are watching in the lonely forest. I am thinking of you and praying for your ,afety." A slight movement on the part of the slumbering half breed here recalled me from these sweet dreams. He turned on his side, lifted himself slowly up on his elbow, and gazed attentively at me. I did not stir. Still retaining my stooping attitude, I half closed my eyes and remained mo tionless. Doubtless he thought I was asleep, for in a moment or two he arose noiselessly, and creeping with a stealthy step across the floor, passed out the hut. I listened—oh ! how eagerly. It seemed to me that through the imperfectly joined crevices of the log walls I could plainly hear voices whispering. I would have given worlds to have crept nearer to listen, but I was fearful of disturbing the fancied security of our host, who I now felt certain had sinister designs upon us. So I re mained perfectly still. The whisperings suddenly ceased. The half breed re-entered the hut in the same stealthy way in which he had quitted it, and after giving a scru tinizing glance at me once more stretched himself upon the floor and affected to sleep. In a few moments I pretended to awake— yawned, looked at my watch, and finding that my hour had more than expired, pro ceed to wake Dick. As I turned him out of bed I whispered in his ear : "Don't take your eyes off that fellow, Dick. He has accomplices outside ;be careful !" Dick gave a meaning glance, carelessly touched his revolver, as much as to say, "Here's something to interfere with his little ar rangements," and took his seat on the pine stump, in such a position as to command a view of the sleeping half-breed and the doorway at the same time. This time, though awfully tired, I could not sleep. A horrible load seemed press ing on my chest, and every five minutes I would start up and see if Dick was keeping his watch faithfully. My nerves were strung to a frightful pitch of tensity; my heart beat at every sound, and my head seemed to throb until I thought my temples would burst. The more I reflected on the conduct of the half-breed the more assured I was that he intended murder. Full of this idea I took my revolver from its sling and held it in my hand ready to shoot him down at the first movement that appeared at all dangerous. A haze seemed now to pass across my eyes. Fatigued with long watching and excitement I passed into that semi conscious state in which I seemed perfectly aware of everything that passed, although objects were dim and dull in out line, and did not appear so sharply defined as in one's waking moments. I was ap parently roused from this state by a crack ling sound. I started and raised myself on my elbow. My heart ceased to beat at what I saw. The half breed had lit some species of drie 1 herb, which sent out a strong aromatic odor as it burned. This herb he was holding directly under Dick's nostrils, who I now perceived, to my hor ror, was wrapped in a profound slumber. The smoke of this mysterious herb ap geared to deprive him of all consciousness, for he rolled gently off the pine log and lay stretched upon the floor. The half breed now stole to the door and opened it gently. Three sinister heads peered in out of the gloom. I saw the long barrels of rifles, and the huge, brawny hands that clasped them. The half-breedpointed sig nificantly to where I lay with his long, bony finger, then, drawing a large, thirsty looking knife from his breast, moved toward me. The time was come. My blood stopped—my heart ceased to beat. The half-breed was within a foot of my bed; the knife was raised; another instant and it would have been buried in my heart, when, with a hand as cold as ice, I lifted my revolver, took deadly aim, and fired ! A stunning report, a dull groan, a huge cloud of smoke curling around me, and I found myself standing upright with a dark mass lying at my feet. "Great God ! what have you done, sir ?" cried the half-breed, rushing toward me. "You have killed him ! He was just about to wake you." I staggered against the wall. My senses, until then immersed in sleep, suddenly re covered their activity. The frightful truth burst upon me in a flash. I had shot Dick Linton while under the influence of a nightmare ! Then everything seemed to fade away and I remembered no more. There was a trial, I believe. The law yers were learned, and proved by physi cians that it was a case of what is called somnolentia or sleep drunkenness, but of the proceedings I took no heed. One form haunted me, lying black and heavy on the hut floor; and one pale face was ever present—a face I saw once after the terrible catastrophe and never saw again— the wild, despairing face of Bertha Linton, my promised bride ! *tied glistellang. Greek Meets Greek. One day last week a lightning rod man and a life insurance agent made their ad vent in this community, and that without a knowledge of each other's presence.— They began both to canvass Merrill avenue with an ardor and enthusiasm peculiar to the profession only. It is unnecessary to say that under such an accumulation of horrors most of the residents yielded in apathetic despair. One individual remained yet to be interviewed, and as fortune ordained it the two agents arrived simultaneously one morning at his gate. They fell into the mutual error of imagininr , the other to be the person with whom they were seeking to obtain an interview. The lightning-rod man opened fire first with : "Good morning, sir." "Good morning; good morning," replied the insurance agent, cheerfully. "I am glad to meet you," continued the other. "I wish to avail myself of the op portunity of addressing you upon a subject of vital importance—" "By all means, by all means," responded the insurance agent delighted in being an ticipated, as be imagined,upon the subject nearest his heart. "It will afford me in expressible pleasure to—" "Thank you, thank you," eagerly inter rupted the dealer in lightning rods, de lighted in his turn, at getting such a cus tomer, and continuing : "I have no doubt that you thoroughly comprehend how es sential it is for the security—" "Just what I was about to observe," again chirped in the insurance agent. 'The danger " "Yes, yes," said the other, "the danger is more than enhanced by neglect, and the only effectual—" "Just so," again interrupted the life in surance agent. "I felt sure that you would comprehend at once how absolutely neces sary it was to establish safeguards calcu lated—" "Of course, of course," said the lightning rod man, running over in his mind whether he had enough rods on hand to supply such an eager customer. Then again con tinuing : "You arc doubtless aware of the fact that a false economy often leads—" "I perceive," said the insurance agent, "that your mind is above the ordinary level, and is one that can easily recognize the penny wise, pound foolish system—" "Thank you. Your opinion is but the reflex of my own," answered the other.— And they continued, the one interrupting the other, and both endeavoring co impress his listner until it became a question of endurance merely. The lightning rod man, though of a stouter build, was the first to succumb, and at length he sank with an expiring gasp, casting a look of reproach upon the insurance agent. The life insurance agent lasted a few moments longer, but he, too, at length sank by the side of the lightning rod man, whispering in his ear. They both uerished literally talked to death. The sad affair has cast a gloom over the community. "Do you know," remarked a rather fast Newark youth the other day to a stutter ing friend to whom he was slightly indebt ed, "Do you know that I intend to marry and settle down ?" "I do-don't know any thing about it," was the reply, "bu-but I think you had better stay single and set settle up." Fruits. The Prophet Joel enumerating the trees of Syria says : "The vine is dried up, and the fig tree languisheth ; the pomegranate tree, the plum tree, also the apple tree, even all the trees of the field are withered. Pliny mentions apple trees in the villages near the city of Rome, as being profitable. Grafting was not probably known at an early day; Moses in his directions to the Israelites to plant all kind of trees for food, says nothing about grafting. Hesiod and Homer, who wrote very fully, do not al lude to it. The art of grafting has been ascribed to accident, the natural union of branches of distinct trees. Within the last fifty years, great improvement has been made in the cultivation of the apple, and splendid varieties are easily attainable. In Shakespeare's time good apples were notioeable. For in the "Merry Wives of Windsor," Justice Shallow says to Falstaff, "you shall see mine orchard, where, in an arbor we will eat a last years pippin of my own grafting." Again, in some play, Sir Hugh says : "I will make an end of mine dinner— there's pippins and cheese to come." Pip pins were so called, as they were raised from the seed of pips. Although England is and has been always famous for both quality and quantity of apples, yet within a few years the United Slates has success fully rivaled her in superior fruit, and an nually exports many thousands of barrels to that country. Homer, describing the trees in the or chard of Laertes, mentions the pear. Pliny speaks of several varieties, as also of a li quor made from the fruit. France, Germa ny and Spain have paid more attentian to its cultivation than other countries. The Chinese, however, in this as in any other cultivation of fruits, have carried the pear to its greatest perfection and size, speci mens have been grown, delicate, fragrant and melting, weighing ten pounds. Recent ly, great attention has been paid in this country to its cultivation. The quince, Pliny says came from the island of Crete. From its splendid golden color, some assert it was the same with the apples of Hesperides; Galesio, in his trea tise on the orange, says that the orange was not known to the Greeks, and did not grow in the locality where the gardens of Hesperides were placed. The term mar malade is derived from the Portuguese name for the quince marmclo. Luck. Some people are fond of denying that there is any such thing as "luck," but, be that as it may, there certainly are persons to whom what seems like fortuitous good fortune comes. Colonel Green Wilkison gave a seat in his pew, in London, to an old gentleman, who left him $40,000 a year. A young Bostonian crossed to England three or four years ago and got into con versation with an elderly gentleman, who observed that they bad the same name. It turned out that they were second cousins. The elder bad gone to California, in the early days, made a vast fortune, and entire iy lost sight of his relations. That chance meeting gave the young man a fortune of between two and three millions. Two young ladies had a box at the opera, in London. An old man opposite bored them dreadfully by perpetually "lorgnet ting" them. The scene came to an end, and they thought no more about him. One day, a year afterward, a solicitor call ed on one of the ladies, Lady Frances Bruce, and told her that an old gentleman Mr. W., bad left her property worth sev eral thousand a year. "Never beard of the man," she said. "Must be a mistake." "Very extraordinary," replied the solicitor. Suddenly a happy thought struck him. "He lies in his coffin, in St. James street, close by,at Bantings, the great undertaker ; will you come with me and see him ?" She went. It was the old lorgnetter. And it is said that he left it to her in a mistake, after all, having intended to leave it to her friend, whom—not Lady Frances —he admired, but he was misinformed as to the names of the two ladies. And to give one more—a quite recent instance. A young New Yorker went to San Francisco to seek the fortune so many have failed to find. Be got a poor clerk ship, and had to be thankful for that. One evening at a place of entertainment, he watched a game of cards, saw an elderly Englishman was being cheated, exposed the - fraud, and had a tussle with the cheat. The Englishman has presented him with twenty thousand dollars to start him in business, and there is every prospect that there is more to come. Texas Caniels. There is a camel ranch in Bastrop county, Texas, which has been in existence some twenty years, and furnished many menageries with these ungainly beasts for exhibition. The Hempstead Messenger reports another shipment of a car load of ten camels from Elgin, a railroad station near to Janesville, Wisconsin, where they are to be added to the attractions of a travelling menagerie. The Messenger briefly repeats the history of the eamel breeding in Texas. The camels are the progency of the herd brought into Texas about twenty years ago, with the expectation that they would be used for transportation on the staked plains and other desert regions, about the time of the Mormon rebellion. They were landed at Galveston, but the chances of employing them profitably for army purposes failed, and they were sold. They proved some what like the elephant won in the raffle to the first purchasers, but finally fell into the hands of M. D. Mather, of Elgin, who Bow owns the whole herd, about forty in num ber. Every year sales are made of the in crease, which is usually about ten, to the various showmen in the country. The price they bring is from $250 to $5OO each at from two to five years of age. Mr. Lanfear says : They are no more trouble to raise than horses or cattle. The colts for the first three or four days are rather tender and, require close attention, but after that they take their chances with the herd. They feed on cactus and brush, eschewing all grasses that cattle and horses eat, if the favorite cactus can be had. The females, with proper care, give a colt every year, and the price at which they are sold, the ease with which they aro raised, their extreme docility, and the adaptability of our climate to their nature would seem to indicate that camel raising is a profitable business in Texas, Mr. Lanfear says there is one camel in the herd that has traveled 150 miles between sun and sun, and that most any well broke camel is good for more than one hunred miles in a day. ThE four daughters of a man named Pints aro known as half a gallon of 'lasses. Lines to Darwin. Ah, Darwin, boy, you say that we Were monkeys, lung ago ; Since your researches have been wide, Y')u surely ought to know. I shall not quarrel, learned sir, With your ancestral claims; You're welcome to the monkey-blood That courses through your veins. But though I'm not ambitious, sir, To trace my lineage back, And claim relation with the apes, I'll not dispute the fact; And, taking it for granted, sir, I'm going now to show What idiots the monkeys were For not remaining so. I'll prove that they have nothing gained By turning into c.en : They've learned one nasty habit now, They never dreamed of then. No monkeys, in the olden days, E'er held a begging paw Toward another monkey friend, And asked of him a "chew." No cheek distended by a quid, In monkey land was seen; An old baboon would hold his nose, At taste and smell unclean. Young monkey ne'cr came reeling home, At half-past one or two; They never betted, raced and swore, As now young monkeys do. They never called their aged sire That shameless phrase, "old man ;" 'Tie since the monkeys were cur-tailed, This custom they began. And she who watched their infant sports, With fond, approving eye— " Old woman" wasn't just the style They called their mother by. Old Mr. Monkey never threw The boot-jack at his wife; He never kissed the serving maid, And thus engendered strife; He never met a bosom friend, And tarried out till day, Awaiting for his own front door To waltz around that way. And Mrs. Monkey, good old soul, Ne'er let her tongue o'erflow ; For Caudle lectures were not known In monkeydom, I trow. She never teased for bonnets new, Nor followed fashion's call ; She only had one dress of fur, For Winter, Spring, and Fall. And monkey misses never strapped A bustle on their back, Until they looked the image of A peddler with a pack; They never swept the side-walks clean, With dresses flowing free, Nor wore the skirts pinned back so tight They couldn't bend the knee. That dreadful thing, the "Grecian bend," Had never come to light; And iE it had, they'd not have viewed The horror with delight. Though they were monkeys, yet they felt Some native pride was due— They'd no desire to be transformed Into a kangaroo. Young Monkey lovers wooed and wed, And mated staid for life; They never sought "affinities," Nor loved their neighbor's wife. And monkeys would have blushed, had they (Though by the law's decree) One wife in England, one in Spain, And one in Italy. No monkey held a license, then, To sell the fiery curse ; And never dipped a thieving paw Into the public purse. All this, and many things beside, My weeping Muse bewai's ; Ab, Darwin, boy, the change is bad— Just give us back the tails ! The Structure of an Iron Ship. There are but two forms of iron used in shipbuilding, the angle bar and flit plate. These plates come from the rolling mill, and are of every imaginableshape and size. The usual size of a plate or sheet is a little more than one yard wide, and from two to four yards long, and three fourths of an inch thick. Out of these two shapes nearly every form of modern iron structure may be made, be it ship, bridge, dock, or water tank. From the wooden patterns of the ship have been made the frames, and from the model are copied the shape and dimen sions of each sheet of iron that is to cover, as with a skin, the outside of the ship's hull. It seems impossible that mere flat plates and angle bars can be securely fastened to gether with nails or screws. Wood may be dovetailed and fitted together, and may be bound with nails. Iron is simply lapped piece over piece at the edge and sewed to gether. It is treated as a fabric, except that the thread that binds the cloth is con tinuous, and in the iron sheet each needle hole has one piece of thread knotted on each side suppose two plates or a plate and a bar are to be joined, holes of a uni form size are punched along the edge of each piece, and the two pieces are laid to gether so that the holes correspond. A small bolt, called a rivet, having a head formed on one end, is heated red hot and is then passed through the two holes in the plates or bars. The head stops it on one side, and the hot and soft point projects at the other side. A hammer is held against the head or the rivet to keep it in place, and with hammers the soft point is beaten down till it makes a new head by spread ing over the edges of the hole. The rivet at once cools and contracts, and binds the two pieces of iron so firmly together that only the most powerful strain can ever pull them apart. In this simple manner is every plate, bar and beam joined together throughout the ship. The Earliest Forms of Metal Money. The first forms which could be called by the name of money, were ingots in va rious shapes, stamped or sealed with the seal of the ruler, as a certificate of the quality of the piece, no attempt being made to fashion the coin as to guard against al teration of weight. Some of the early pieces were stamped on but one side, and it was only by very gradual steps, that the handsome circular pieces, which we now use as coins, were evolved. But these are still defined by Jevous as 'ingots, of which the weight and fineness are certified by the integrity of the designs impressed upon the surface of the metal. The stamping of the bits of metal has always been assumed as a perogative of the ruler, and to supply the people with coin, has become to be a generally considered function of government. It will be well to bear the above definition of coin in mind ; for the fashioning, stamping and. certification have caused a very important fact to be lost sight of which is, that throughout these changes the metals con tinue to be commodities and nothing more. The stamp works no alteration in the metal, any more than does the label on a bolt of muslin, showing the width and the number of yards, convert it into something other than cotton cloth. The conversion of the unfashioned metal into coin in no way affects the principle of exchanges, and its transfer is better just as much as it was in the beginning. FOLLY OF JUDGING APPEARANCES.- His wife caught him with his arms around the hired girl's neck, but his courage even in this trying extremity never forsook him. "I suspected some one of stealing the whiskey on the preserves, Jane, for some time, and of course you know her breath would have told if she was the guilty party."—Baltimare Sun. Cheaper Than Before the War. AN INTERESTING COMPARISON OP Tliit PRICES OF PRODUCE IN 1860 AND 1878. The Philadelphia Press lately published an elaborate table or comparative state ment of prices covering a period of nine teen years. It is a valuable paper show ing that we have at last struck hard pan. On all leading articles of consumption there has been a decline from the prices of 1860 at this time of from 25 to 45 per cent. Flour worth $6 per barrel in 1860 can now be bought for $4.75 ; with wheat the fig- ures are $1.55 and $1.35 for white at this date. But the change will be more easily seen in a short table : In 1860 Rye B5 Rye 6B Yellow Corn 7O Yellow Corn 52 Oats Barley BO Barley 6O Moss Pork 81835 Mess Pork BlO.OO Beef holds its own. Beef holds its own. Hama. lollama Iron 522.00 Iron 517(44110 Turpentine Wool 45 Woo t 33 The chief articles of food and household necessity have been the subject of investi gation. From an examination of them, it will be seen that in these lines the cost of living is from 20 to 33, and even 45 per cent., or articles of prime importance, less than in the year before the war. Had the examination been pushed into the field of manufactured articles, no doubt a like, if not a greater, reduction would have been found there. Cotton fabrics are selling at a reduction of full forty per cent., from anti-war prices on the more common and staple goods. There was a common im pression that it was only necessary to get back to the solid ground of 1860 in order to touch trade bottom, and thence to begin an improvement in business. Yet while our heaviest products are much lower in price than in 1860, they cannot find a ready market, and they are still under a dcwnward tendency. Influence of Forests. BY J. S. FAY History shows that the whole territory which surrounds the Mediterranean sea and contiguous to it was once the most populous and fertile region of the earth. The very Desert of •Sahara gives signs that it was once a well-watered plain. Tripoli, now almost depopulated and containing only about 45,000 inhabitants, in the early part of the Christian era had a population of about 6,000,000. The climate, once like Southern Virginia, is now so intoler bable that steamships passing that coast have to keep up an artificial shower of wa ter on their decks to save the lives of their crews, while on land no out of door work can be done between 9 a. m. and 5 p. m., and this change is directly attributable to the destruction of their forests. The down ward tendency in Algeria has been arrest ed by the conquests of the country by the French. The French gave immediate at• tention to this important point, and the forests received proper protection, and are yielding the result of tempering the heat and dryness of the climate and adding val ue to the country as a colony. Spain, Portugal and Italy have lost their popula tion and the power of sustaining it, just in proportion to the destruction of their for ests, until now their Governments are ta king measures to restore them. The great chemist Leibig is said to have expressed the opinion that "the decay of the ancient empires, of Greece and Rome, was due more or less to the neglect of their people to take care of their land and its fertilizer and climate regulator, the forest?' There is now no European nation that is not giv ing attention to this branch of cultivation, because their lands have been losing their fertility and their climate its moisture. Asia Minor, once a most populous and fer tile country, is now comparatively a desert, almost treeless, and has only a th;n, scat tered population. Egypt was suffering under the same condition till within the last fifty years, extensive plantations have been made to serve as a barrier against the sands of the desert, and the effect upon the climate already has been marked. Mil lions of trees have been planted, with the effect of nearly doubling the rainfall. This is demonstration, and is but the beginning. A hilly country must suffer more by de foresting than a level one like Egypt. For when the trees are cut off, there being nothing to bold the soil, the richer and lighter portions, the mold, washes down to the valleys and streams and is carried off in fn shets to the sea. This is illustrated in a large tract of mountainous country in Austria called Vinstenland, or Kartsland, north of Trieste. This was heavily wood ed until it was stripped by the Venetians and the timbers carried away some centu ries ago, when the whole district became utterly desolate and sterile, showing noth ing but a covering of rough, loose bould ers. This continued until lately, when the Austrian Government commenced vigor ously to reforest it. They have planted there 1,000,000 trees annually for some years past, and its conditions and aspect have materially improved. In our own country we have hardly lived long enough 99 a people to know the full effects of clear ing the land extensively. The springs, and smaller streams, however, are drier in summer, and in many places dig, soil is washed away. These effects apprar in the famous blue-grass regions of Kentucky. There the stock farmers are moving to ward the Cumberland mountains because the creeks and springs dried up and their wells became too low to supply sufficient water for the cattle. Of late years, also, a very marked diminution of the annual rainfall is manifested in the upper part of Vermont, heretofore one of the finest ag ricultural sections. It shows itself in the drying up of wells and springs and in the diminution of the annual crops. It is, to say the least, remarkably coincident with the great waste, destruction and consump . tion - of the forests of the Adriondacks on the west, of the Green mountains on the east, and along the lines of the railroads connecting Lake Ontario and the River St. Lawrence with Lake Champlain. On the south shores of Lake Superior there is a perceptible diminution of the annual snowfall, contemporaneously with or fol lowing the great destruction or the forest by fires, and for lumbering, furnace and railroad purposes.—Chicago Journal. "No, I can't pay you !" exclaimed he ; "sure's I stand here, I haven't got a cent of money to my name." And bringing down his band on the side of his leg by way of emphasis, he all unintentionally awoke to the echo the slumbering dimes, quarters and half-dollars in his trowsers pocket. Then as his creditor gazed into his eye, he wildly fled, while he gasped, "Silver will be the ruin of this country yet." THE pretty girls in Utah used to marry Young, but they wont do so any more. NO. 18. In 1878
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