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I shall not feel in that deep laid rest The sheeted light fall over my breast, Nor ever note in those hidden hours The wind-blown breath of the tossing flowers Sooner or later the stainless snows Shall add their hush to my mute repose— Soulier or later shall slant and shift— And heap my bed with their dazzling drift. Chill though that frozen pall shall seem, Its touch uo colder can make the dream— That wre-ks not the sacred dread Shrouding the city of the dead. Sooner or later the bee shall come And fill the moon with its golden hum ; Sooner or later, on half-poised wing, The bluebirds about my grave will sing— Sing and chirp and whistle with giee, Nothing his music can mean to me. None of those beautiful things shall know, How soundly their lover sleeps below. Sooner or later, far out in the night, The stars shall over me wing their flight; Sooner or later my sparkling dews Catch the white spark in their silent ooze. Never a spark shall part the gloom That wraps me 'round in the silent tomb ; Peace shall be perfect to lip and brow Sooner or later, 0 ! why not now? (4t *foul-Erik. THE MIDNIGHT CRY. BY T. C. lIARBAIJOII In the early days of a certain Western State a crime was committed which has gained a place among the annals of dark deeds. It was murder ; but the circum stances surrounding it are so notewiirthy that we shall here transcribe them. They present the most remarkable instance of a young man sealing his lips when his own life was in jeopardy, in order to conceal a petty vice—the must remarkable instance of the kind on record. One night in March, IS3I, a farmer named Buskirk left a thriving town where, during the day, he had disposed of a lot of hogs. He rode a sorrel horse, and carried the proceeds of his sales in heavy leathern saddle bags. The money was mostly in silver coin of the dollar denomination, arid the amount, therefore, was quite weighty. Buskirk, a fearless man, did not go armed, but rode unconcernedly from town a little under the influence of liquor, but not drunk enough to call attention to the fact. As he lived but twenty miles from the market, be expected to reach home about midnight. But when the morning dawned Zimri Buskirk was still absent from his farm. His horse stood at the stable door neighing for admittance. The well known saddle hags were tnissing. which fact im mediately gave rise to suspicion of foul kiay, and search for the farmer was at once instituted. At a distance of five miles from home the body of Buskirk was found lying by the roadside, and not far away lay the sad dle bags, rifled of their contents. The vil lain in his haste to get at the money had cut his way to it, instead of unbuckling the heavy straps. The farmer was found to be quite dead ; one side of his skull had been crushed as if by a blow from a blud geon, or some murderous weapon of that sort, and his pockets, like the saddle bags, had been despoiled of their contents _ _ The excitement from the moment of the discovery became intenFe. Zimri Buskirk was one of the most influential farmers of the neighborhood, and a man universally liked. Ile was not known to possess an enemy, and no one ever dreamed that the murder had been committed for the sake of anything but that of subsequent plunder. Though the country was scoured for the perpetrator of the deed, no traces were discovered; but a clew was suddenly fur nish,d in a startling manner The body of the farmer bad been die covered not far from a faun house occupied by a family named Mdligen, which con sisted of the parents and two children, son and daughter, who bad passed their mi nority. While the excitement still raged, Ellen Milligen came forward and desired to make a statement which she said had tortured her ever since the night of the murder. She said that she was the pox sessor of a guilty secret which she could no longer keep; she could not sleep for it, and it was the spect4 of her waking hours. The girl then proceeded to state that she was up at the hour of half past eleven or thereabout, on the night of the —th, awl that she heard a horse coming down the frosty road from the direction of P Not regarding the sound of any moment, she was about to re enter the house, when she heard an oath, followed by a dull thud and a groan. Then.she heard a name ut tered twice in a tune of mingled agony and supplication. A moment later the sound of hoofs e;ime again to her ears, atld the seethed to be galloping toward the Bu'kirk farm ' c. 4 0 The excitement that fbllovied Miss Mil ligen's narration may be in,agined, for pen cannot describe it It was believed that the name which she had heard was that of the murderer, which had fallen from the lips of his victim before insensibility or death followed the blow. The young girl visibly hesitated when asked by the mat istrate to pronounce the name. She cov ered her face with her hands, and in all probability would have fallen if she had not been supported by her brother Itiram. She did not like to utter the name that might doom one of the young men of her acquaintance to the gallows, for she could not believe him guilty, yet she had heard Zimri Buskirk call on him to spate his life on that awful night. Ellen Milligen was pressed to mention the name, and further the ends of justice, in which the whole country was interested, and at last her lips parted. "God help him and pity me 1 ." she acid. "The name I heard was Abner Tenney's." CD CD e-r • 0 1 tC .1 rIJ LTY. If a thunderbolt had fallen into the breathless crowd, astonishment would not have been more complete. Men started at the name, and women uttered cries that added to the confusion. Standing near the witness was a young man of five and-twenty, the only son of a minister who watched over the little flock of believers that worshipped in the church hard by, and a youth of exemplary habits to the outer world. His face was as pale HUNTINGDON, PA,, FR as death, and at the mention or his name he started back with a cry and round the eyes of all fixed upon him. His name was Abner Tenney. _ Ile made no effort to fiy, and when stn.ng hands were laid upon him, he smiled and 'old the people he would face the accusati The young man was formally arrested on Ellen Milligen's statement, and brought to the bar of justice. He denied the crime, but astonished everybody with his answer to the inquiry concerning his whereabouts on the night of the crime. "I :Admit that I wets not at home, but where I was I will not tell !" This answer was twitcd, as it could c ., sily be by the excited community, into broad strands of guilt, and the young man was remanded by the magistrate for a regular trial at the next term of court. There were a few who believed that he might be innocent When it become gen erally known that he had been a suitor for Eva l3uskirk's hand without the sanction of her lather, revenge was added to the motive of the murder. Ellen Milligen's word was believed ; she was a girl of vio lent passions, but her veracity in this case was not dragged into question. She ac. knowledged that she loved Abner Tenny —hence her reluctance to testify; and after the preliminary examination, she said that she regretted having revealed the se cret. But it was out now, and the young man lying in the county jail reiterated his in nocence, but still he refused to make known his whereabouts and occupation on that night. It was strange that Ellen Milligen's testimony should remain uncorroborated in its essential particulars ; but there were several parties who had seen the accused near the scene of the crime at that late hour of the night. He did not deny this, but persistently refused to explain his presence there. His father visited him and begged him to unburden himself; but to him he in variably returned the same reply ‘•Were I to tell you, you would feel as badly as though I had committed the murder " The young man was visited by many ac quaintances, to whom he would not reveal his secret, and it at last became more than half su,pected that he had accomplices who had con&aled the money, not one dol lar of which had as 3 et. been found. Ellen Mil cot tinned to re affirm her statement. t.7:he was confident that she had heard Buskirk call on Abner Tenney •in tones that left no doubt iu her mind that. he addres , ed his murderer. As the time for the trial approached, she lost her re luctance, and openly declared that she knew that the accused had committed the crime Her Mother not having been at home on the night. of the murder was not summoned as a witness. It was known that he, too, bad visited the Buskirk homestead as a suitor for Eva's hand, but that of late be had turned his attention to another lady, to whoa. he was paying his devoirs. The excitement consequent upon the farmer's violent death and Abner Tenny's arrest. did not for one moment abate during his sojourn in jail. To a young man who visited him, he said : ' Spare me, John You know where I was that night; you know what I was do ing. If I escape this time I will be a bet ter man. The murder of my honor would send my father to the grave as quickly as the shedding of my blood by the law. Do not come forward and try to save me by sacrificing my honor !" "They will hang you if you do not tell all," was the reply. "Let us swear to the truth. Do not let Eva believe that you killed her father." The last sentence drove Abner Tenney to the wall of his cell with a groan. It seemed to unnerve him. '.She will never believe it !" he cried, a moment afterward. "In her eyes I will ever remain guiltless of her father's [our der, even though they hang me for the crime." The young man's visitor left-, and joined twl other men of his age in the corridor of the jail. "What dies he say now ?" was asked with eagerness "He is still obdurate, and declares that we must not expose him." "Can we save him without the expos ure ?" "We must ! We shall 1" The trio were youths of respectable parents, but considered fast y..ung They had of late been Abner Tenney's companions, much to the regret of the tew pious people who bad noticed the familiar ity. "Look here," said one, addressing his companions, I hold myself in part re spornible for Abner's present situation. We led him into the habits that have fastened themselves upon us We must save him !" The spokesman of the dissolute party was a young student of medicine, and it was not long afterward that a learned med ical gentleman of Cincinnati came to the county. Tie body of Ziwri Buskirk was exhumed and examined. John French stood by and watched the •'Well ?" he said at last. "You say that she swore to hearing Mr. Buskirk cry out after the thud uf two blon s "So she swi,re "Tbe first blow mu-t have produeed in stant drat h. It dr , ,ve pit ees of skull into the brain A stab in the heart could not prove more instantly fatal than the it itial blow." "That is your opinion ?" 1. will swear to It.' The young wan wa4 satisfied, and tht• body, minus the head, was returned to the grave. "If he will not, saer&e him honor to save his neck, I will save it tor hint, and his fa , her need cot, know the truth." These words passed from John French's lips as he passed from the house with the professor. From that day the young student and his two friends were nut idle. They made many trips from the c9unty, and corn pared notes on their retui n The trial came at last and the accused plead "not guilty," in a firm voice. Ellen Milligen repeated her testimony, so damaging to the defence, and adhered to it through a rigorous cross questioning to which she was subjected. She had heard the crys after the blows ; she was positive of this. The other evidence offered by the State was merely circumstantial. The defence introduced the professor, who explained the nature of the wotinds, and swore that the first blow had produced instant death. This produced a sensation in court. It staggered Ellen Milligen's testimony, un til that hour believed invulnerable. The DAY FEBRUARY 28, 1879. blows that now f .bowed from the defence were hard and telling ones. No alibi was attempted. The accused had forbidden such a plan, on the ground that it would reveal the secret he was guarding so closely ; but the derenc , be came aptessive. It proved that Hiram Milligen. Ellen's brother. Wa3 not where he said he was on the nir , ht of the murder. As the 3oung man was not under arrest, the court forbade the introduction of such te..timonv, when John French arose and exclaimed : "I do now acouse hint of the murder of Zimri Buskirk ; my affidavit is in the court room ; the sheriff holds it at this moment. Look at the man ! Guilt is written on his face. He is trying to leave the house. Catch him !" The confusion that now ensued was in• tense Ellen Milligen, with a loud shriek. fell forward on the floor where she was permitted to lie, for all eyes were turned upon her brother Pistol in hand, the young man was clearing a path to the door. No one dared to lay hands on him, for he threat ened to shoot the first one who touched him, and thus he reached the door leading to the street. On the threshold he paused and faced the excited occupants of the court room. 'You will never put me in Abner Ten nay's place !'' he cried. I did kill Zimri Buskirk,•you shall not prove it and hang me !" The next moment there was a loud re port, and a human body, after swaying for an instant, fell heavily upon the floor. Hiram Milligen had taken his own life! This tragic occurrence as might be sup posed, put an end to Abner Tenney's trial. It established his innocence in the eyes of all, and the guilty was beyond the punish ment of au earthly tribunal. Upon her recovery, Ellen Milligen un folded one of the darkest plots on record She confessed that her testimony was but a tissue of falsehoods; that she knew that her brother had killed the farmer for the purpose of' g,tting his money, and accused young, 'Penney. in order to prevent him from winning Eva Buskirk. Ellen, piqued at Tenney's refusal to court her, had en tered into the plot with revengeful spirit. But the game had failed. Of course the winist er's son was released, arid Elleu Miliigen left th«t e,,tultry be tween two dlys. She did several years liter in a den of infamy in the South. Abner Tenney lt-d Eva Buskirk to the altar several months after his release. and became one of the men of the South. I believe he is still living, but his father, the minister, is dead ; and the secret which he guardei so zealously at one time is no longer one. It was simply this : Dtspite the holy in fiuences under which he bad been raised, lie had depared fr.ini the paths of recti rude and became a gamb!er, alutu with John French and his companions. On the night i f the murder of Mr. Buskirk, the quartette were in the midst of a carouse which the youth refused to conress fur the sake of his father, who never dreamed of his wild life. But John French had saved the young man whom he had led into vice, and kept him from the gallows. Tenney's secret was told by him after he had made a man of himself; but it puzzles many people who know it not to this day. ceirti Visa'lann. For Young Men. Young men do you realize the fearful responsibility that rests upon you, as you foul away the precious hours of your youth ? A few years hence and the men who are of your age to day rule the land. You will be one of them. What position will you take ? You have the mind and the ability to be a leader; to be one of those who by pluck arid culture shall be lifted abve the mediocre herd, and placed with the solid, substantial business men, or the honest, upright statesmen of your land. But the course you are pursuing to-day is nut calculated to bring about such an end. The hours spent in idleness and leafing would go far towards fitting your mind for a sphere of usefulness If you are not ed ucated, you could educate yourself in the time you fool away. if you have a fair education, you could be burnishing up the rough diamonds in your wind by careful study and by reading useful books. Du not hang around the street corners, or loaf around some store. It' you have nothing to do borrow some good book, useful and instructive, and spend your evenings at home. If a business man wants a clerk he will not go to the crowd of loafirs on the street corners, and select one as he would a man to dig post holes; but he will take one whose character will bear scrutiny. and whose associations are not those of the street. The man who wishes to employ a young man for any place of trust or con fidence, never goes to the saloons to fitid one, and very few men who drink them selves will employ a clerk who does. The eyes of the community are upon you, though you know it nor, and your daily conduct is scrutinized and commented upon by men that you do not suppose even know you by sight. If you wish to sue teed and rise io the world, you must cut loose from low and vicious associates, arid go only with persons that you will intro duce to your m ether or your sister, and not be a-hawed to si.e thew associate with. Be saving and do not spend your money fi.otishly. Instead of a spree, or splurge of some kind that cannot benefit the mind, save your money and buy sonic good arid useful book that will ad l to your mental store In short, be temperate; be Indus trious ; be studious; be frugal ; he clierul in selecting your associates, and or will have the confidence and steew of all god men, and lay a tiundation fir a life of happiness and usefulness —askaloo3c, 'Ter Chief Joseph's Wonder. In his interview with the President, the other day, Chief Joseph, of the Nez Perce., was asked what of all the wonders or civi lization he had seen in this, his first trip to the East, impressed him the most. It was expected that he would name the great "tepee," the Capitol, but he replied with out a moment's hesitation that the most wonderful thing he had ever seen or dreamed of was the bridge over the Mississippi river at St. Louis, and he went on to explain that he could scarcely believe his eyes when he looked at it. He could build a mountain of stone like the Capitol, he said, but he could not build a spider's web that would stand alone in the air. lle was afraid to cross it, but he saw that the pale. faces were not afraid, so he wrapped his blanket around him and trembled as the train was going over. Comedy on Ciphers. A SCENE FROM THE LATEST PARTISAN DRAMA. Dramatis persona :-1. S. J. T., (Lord Gram eroy.) 2. Reporter of daily paper. Scala 11, Act IV.—(S. J. T. at his office. lies just returned after giving his testimony before investigating committee.) 5..1 . 7., (soliloquizing.)—What do I sigh for! Nought. What's nought ? A cipher. But ciphers are not always naught. Their being so depends on how they're used. [Enter Reporter.] Rep.—What ails you, good my lord, you seem cast down, And sigh for— S. J. T.—Ciphers! They have done me brown. My mem'ry is a total blank. I know Nothing about them. Tell the people so. I'm sick and tired of all this talk and fuss. And wish the devil had those who rs ised the muss. Rep.—l meant, my lord, why do you sigh— s. J. T.— I hear And teil you, sirrab, that I have no ear For such converse. 'Tis scarce as sweet as honey. This "cipher" talk, and that d-d "bar'l of money." Besides the language used is rather graphic ; "Coparceners" and such—'•the cipher traffic"— I tell you, strrah, that I've had enough Of this infernal cipher. It's d—d rough That I can't have a single moment's quiet Unless I "gobble" it, which means, to buy it. Rep.—One moment, good my lord, you do mis- take. I prithee hear me for your conscience sake. I do not mean a cipher, thus (0 , , a nought, But "sigh" for blessings, or from heart o'er wrought. S. J. T.—l tell you ciphers are the same to me Whether from heart o'er wrought or Florida, I have no knowledge of them. lam dead To all dispatches under such a head. Rep.—(Aside). (He seems determined not to . . understand. I'll try again,) My lord, at your command I called to-day to have an interview Concerning matters pertinent to you. I saw you looking sad, and heard you sigh— S. J. T.—My nephew did it. All the rest's a lie, I'm ignorant of what he, Weed, and Marble, Did in the case. The papers only garble, 'Tie said they sent dispatches to the Park, Where I reside. If so, they kept it dark. I was the one most deeply interested— The one whose "bar'l of money" was invested— I was the President—that was to be, And so they kept those matters all from me, I never heard a word of hopes or fears, Or what was being done. The truth appears, Nay, more, when those d—d telegrams were sent I was in "Russia" purposely intent On keeping dark, till each "Returning Board" Should make report and t« , 11 whose "ox was gored," How, then, could I know aught of this new "Moses," Or "Gobble," and the other truth discloses? It is impossible howe'er you view it, Thus say I, Tilden, so says Abram Hewitt. Rep.—l heard your sigh— S. J. T. I tell you 'twas agreed Between my newphew, Marble, me, and Weed, That I shout nothing know. Tnat in my breast No "cipher" knowledge e'er should find a rest; Therefore my menfry's gone—clean gone away, The people won't believe me—but—good day. [Exit.) [Exit Rep., singing "Oh, I sigh for the rest," Ao. J. S. S. Trichinosis. This is a parasitic diseas,, caused by eating pork infested with minutest Irtir like worms, called trichinae It is only since 1860 that the disease has been fully investigated and understood, but it can now be traced back, under other names, at least two centuries. Since the above date it has been reconized wherever park has been eaten raw or imperfectly cooked ; and there have been many epidemics of it. The trichinae after passing through the stomach rapidly multiply in the in totines, and thence they work their way into the substance of the muscles gener ally, and of the internal organs, where they soon roll themselves up in coils, like worms in the earth. If comparatively few trichinae are taken into the stomach, either because the pork is slightly diseased, or is eaten sparingly, or the meal is not repeated, the diseaso is light and soon over. In severer cases there is vomiting ; diarrhcea, followed often by obstinate con stipation ; profuse sweating ; fever; great pain in the limbs; difficulty of chewing, swallowing and breathing; hoarseness, often with entire loss of voice; neural , zic attacks and sleeplessness, except in chil dren, with whom the opposite condition of stupor prevails In the milder cases the patients begin to recover .in five or six weeks ; in severer forms convalescence is deferred for four months, while the full strength is not re stored for a much longer time. A fatal termination is very common, generaHy from paralysis of the respiratory organs. In children recovery is the rule No means have yet been found to destroy the trichinae. American hogs seem to be especially liable to the disease. They should be sold for the market, home or foreign, only after legal inspection. Bat thorough cooking kills the trichium. Lard of course, having been subjected to a high heat, cannot contain thew. A Parrot's Piety. Capt. James Etebberger vouches fur the following bird story : About thirty years ago, when in Honduras iii command of the bark Eldorado, his wife then accom panying him, he was presented with a par rut, a sprightly bird and a fluent discourser in the Spanish language. The bird was brought to Baltimore, where, after being domiciled in the house of the captain's family, it soon acquired a knowledge of the English tongue. The next door neigh bor of the captain was a garrulous woman —an incessant scold—forever quarreling with some one or something. Polly, bo ing allowed full liberty, was pit ased to take an airing on the yard fence, and in a short time had learned to mimic the scolding neighbor to perfection, and finally Lemme aggressive. Polly not infrequently rued her impertinence by being knocked off the fence with a broomstick This brought f;irih a torre.it of abuse from her injured feelings upon the head of her assailant Finally, the bird's language became so abusive that the captain was obliged to send it away. and Polly was transferred to a good Christian family in the country, where in course of time she reformed and became to some extent a bird of edifying piety. Some time ago, while she was sun ning herself in the garden, a large hawk swooped down and bore the distressed par rot off as a prize. Her recent religious training came to her assistance, as at the top of her voice she shrieked, 0, Lord, save me! 0, Lord, save me !" The hawk became so terrified at the unexpected cry that he dropped his intended dinner and soared away in the distance. Two lawyers in a country court—one of whom had gray hair, and the other, though just as old a man as his learned friend, had hair which looked-suspiciously black—bad some altercation about a question of prat tice, in which the gentleman with the dark hair remarked to his opponent. "A person at your tines of life"—looking at the bar rister's gray head—"ought to have long enough experience to know what is custo mary in such cases." "You may stage at my gray hair, if you like. My hair will be gray as long as I live, and yours will be black as long as you dye !" The Game of Chess. SOME CURIOUS FACTS AND CONJECTURES REGARDING THE "ROYAL GAME." A correspondent . of the New York Ere ning Post thus entertainingly writes about the mysteries of the game of chess : The origin and history of the game of chess form a most curious and interesting study, upon which an immense number of volumes have been written, in prose and verse, in Latin, in Hebrew, and in nearly every living European tongue, and by authors of various degrees, including at least one King (Alphonso X of Castile), and, tradition says, one Pope (Innocent III). The different questions, to the so lotion of which so mtvzh I tbor has been given, arise with respect to not only the ganme itself, but also the name and origin of the queen. the bish,p, and the castle or rook, the other pieces—the king, the knight, and the pawn—having remained 9ubstanlially unchanged, except with res pect to their moves, since the earliest time to which the records of the game extend, to wit : about 4,000 years befbre the com mencement of the Christian era. One of the most interesting and instruct ive books upon this subject is the Syntag ma Dissertationum of Thomas Hyde, LL. D., Professor of Arabic in Oxford Univer sity, published in 1694, which contains, besides the author's own contributions to the subject, copies of manuscript works of very early authors, among them three cel ebrated Hebrew treatises, translated into Latin by the learned doctor, in two of which the Fiece under consideration is called by a name which he translates "elephas." This book, and the Ot erva— tions of the Origin of Chess, etc., by Dr Duncan Forbes, published in London in 1855, contain the fullest and most trust. worthy accounts of the subject under con sideration easily accessible to us moderns. These works agree in attributing the origin of the game to India, whence it passed into Persia and Arabia about the sixth century, and from the latter coun tries into Europe two or three centuries later. It has undergone many modifica tions since its introduction into Europe, but the game has remained substantially as we now play it since the sixteenth cen tury, which is doubtless the reason why that was supposed to be the time when the pieces which move diagonally were first called bishops. The game, as imported into Europe from Arabia, represented a battle, the piece now called the queen being the king's vizier or commander in chief, the rook being a war dromedary, and the bishop a war elephant. Accordingly, the eastern name of the latter piece was "phil," signifying an elephant, or, with the Arabic articles added, "al phil." This name was Latinized into "al philus," often corrupted into "alphinis," which, perhaps because its origin was f;t. gotten, gradually came to be regarded as a propsr name. Dr llyde says (I trans. late somewhat freely from his Latin): —The Europeans change the game from the rep resentation of a battle to that of the court, and thus have introduced the bishop and the queen, who have no business in a bat tle; and they have given them the second and third places in accordance with the etiquette of the court." 1 cannot ascertain precisely when this change took place, but it was probably about the twelfth century, for one of the Hebrew treatises contained in Dr. Hyde's work, in which the old names of the piece are given, was about that date, for the author was born and died in that century, while in the Latin poem already referred to, which Dr Forbes thinks is the same century, the second piece is called "regina" and the third "calbus But in nearly all the works of that peri od, and for two or three centuries later, the third piece, notwithstanding the change in its symbolism, still retained the name •'alphilus" or "alpinus," which became in the vernacular of many European coun tries, converted to •'alfin," "auphin,'•.fil," and other similar names, and thence un derwent several variations of sound and weaning, some of which are yet preserved Thus the Spaniards call the piece "alferez," the Italians "alfiero," which are evidently derived from "al phil." On the other hand, the Russians and the Swedes have preserved the original name as they still call it the elephant. I confess myself un able satisfactorily to account for the Ger man name of the piec:,—"laufer," the hound or runner; but the origin of the French name "fol," modernized into "foe," the fool or jester, is very clearly traceable. Here I will let old Dr. Hyde—quaint and insular as he is with all his learning— speak again :—"The French," he says, "finding in this place a •fit,' and not know ing what it was, substituted something better known to them, 'for which signi fies a fool, who cannot have a place either in war or the political economy of a king dom, unless perhaps they foolishly thought that the jester or mimic of the king was to be introduced here. The Germans placed kere a foot runner (pediseequum) or, worse yet, a dog, which shows how little they undestand the game. The Italians placed here an 'alfiero,' who is the `alferez' or the Spaniards, that is the standard bearer, which is wore to be approval. As regards the name 'bishop," as we call the piece in English, in which Dunes and Portuguese agree with us, it was doubt less given to the piece as a consequence or the change in the theory of the game which Dr. Hyde mentions, in recognition of the ecclesia.-tical element, which is also recognized by the word "calvus," applied, as already stated, to the piece in the Latin poem ()vied by Dr. Hyde. Bat I have very conclusive evidence in my own pos session that the piece was thus named long befire the moderniz ition of the game in the sixteenth century, and in the country where it is tow regarded as symbolizing a standard bearer. In an illuminated man uscript of the thirteenth century, belong ing to me, which came from Italy, with which was exhibited during the past year in the Loan Department of the Metropoli tan Museum of Art, is a treatise in Latin hexameters upon the game of chess, in which, after describing the pieces and the mcves (the bishops being designated as "alphynus"), the author states that the chess board represents the sky ; the squares the constellations; and the pieces the plan eta, among which, of course, the sun and moon were then supposed to be iccluded. He then says : "Rex est sol ; pedes est Saturnus; Mars queque miles; regia virgo Venus; Alphy tins Episcopus ipse cst luppiter ; et roccus ' discurrens tuna." I translate thus, using the modern and English names of the other pieces : "The king is the sun ; the pawn is Sat urn ; the knight is Mars; the queen is Ye nus ; Alphynus the Bishop is Jupiter; and the castle (rook) the wandering moon." The Last Dollar. BY J. L. MERSEY, Ile gave it to his wife with a sigh, yet vitt] a look of resignation. "It is our last dollar," he said. "but the Lord will pro vide." The Reverend James Heath was a minister in the little mountain village of Canaan. Ile was poor and hie congrega tion was poor; often before he had been near his last dollar, but to-day the last dollar was to be taken to buy the necessa ries of life. "So you've been always saying," sobbed his wife, "bat what is to become of us when this is gone ? They don't trust us any more at the store, and your salary won't be due these three weeks, even if you zet it then Why do you stay here, Jams, when the people are so poor ?" •I have no other place to go to, nor money to travel to it, even if, the Lord opened the way. My work for the present is here Ile feedeth the young ravens, and lie will surely lied us." "I with I had more faith, but I haven't, and it won't come to me. 0 ! what shalt we do what shall we do !" And she wrung her hands despairingly. "My poor chil dren ?" " 'Once I was young, and now I am old,' " solemnly said her husband, in the vords of the Psalmist, " 'yet have I never seen the righteous forsaken, nor His seed begging broad.'" And in answer to this pious ejaculation, there came a sudden kneck at the door. All the while the minister and his wife had been talking the storm had been rais ing outside. On opening the door a trav eler, wet through. entered. The minister and his wife were timid about entertain ing a perfect stranger, when so many tramps were about. "I was coming through the forest from Moultqnborough," he said. "and ventured to stop at the first house that offered abet ter. My horse is in your shed. Do I take too great a liberty ?" "Not at all," answered the master of the house; "we have but aloor shelter, as you see, but such as it is you are wel come to it." There was a good fire at any rate, for it was in the kitchen that this consultation was held. Indeed, the humble home boasted no parlor, and the kitehen was dining roam, drawing room, living room, and all. The stranger proved to be a man of education and intelligence, and in con vers ttion with him the minister forgot his trouble and was reminded of early days, when trouble had not come. The cloud seemed to have a sil:ery lining, and the stranger joined heartily with him and most earnestly did he invoke the great Head of the Church not to forget this branch, to water and feed it. The minis ter and his wife felt, as they retired for the night, renewed cqufi fence to trust Him for His grace, fur though prudence seem ed to frown now, the dark cloud might soon break away and the smiling face of a Friend be seen. The morning dawned bright and beautiful, and the stranger pre pared to go. James went with him to the gate and watched him till a turn in the road hid him from view. "See here, James," cried his wife, eager ly, when he returned to the house, "E found this on the table where the gentle man sat." It wai a fifty-dollar geenback, wrapped Hastily in a bit of paper that looked as if it had been torn from a pocketbook, and on the inside of the paper was written the verse of the Psalmist, which is now appar ent that the traveler had overheard. "I thought he was writing the direct. tions he asked for," said the minister. "He means it fur us—thanks be to the Lord. Did I not say, my dear, He would provide if we only trusted implicitly in His mighty arm ?" His wife burst into tears. "God forgive me," she said; "I will not doubt Him again. The Lord surely sent this stranger to our aid." "Aud He will still provide," replied her husband. "Whatever my lot may be, here or elsewhere, in Him I trust." Days fi2w away on noiseless pinions, un til one month from the time the stranger tarried over the night a letter came di rected to the Rev. James Heath, Pastor of the Church in Canaan, and while his wife and lovely daughter stood by his side, be broke the seal and read aloud its con• tents, which were as follows : L 4 REV. AND DEAR SlR:—Tbe Cis arch at Maul tonborongh has unanimously called you to its pastorate. The salary is fifteen hundred dol lars and a good parsonage house, quite a coo trast to that in Canaan." The letter concluded by saying : "The writer of this first came to know you by your hospitality to him during a storm, a Few weeks ago. Ile overheard you in a moment of distress speaking with such full faith that he feels yuu are just the person for this charge, and at my recommenda tion this call has been made." Mou!tonborough wai a rich, thriving town, n,stled away among the breezy hills of the Granite State It was a far better sphere of labor f - )r a min of the minister's abilities than the little village up in the mountains. So a young min without a family took the chinch among the Ossiper range of mountains, and the Rev. James Heath ac• cepted the call. But in his better circumstances he does riot target the past, and often when people show a want of faith the story of the last dollar is related, and how God sent one of His servants with the needful, and the dart cloud rolled away. And so, dear read er, may you trust in a kind lielvenly Father." A CLE3I4YMAN wits annoyed by people talking arid giggling. lle paused, looked at the disturbers, and said : 'I am always afraid to reprove those who misbehave, kr this reason : Some years since, as I was preaching, a young man who sat before me was constantly laughing, talking, and waking uncouth grimaces. I paused and administered a severe rebuke. After the close of the service, a gentleman said to me : "Sir, you have made a great mistake ; that young man is an idiot." Since then I have always been afraid to reprove those who misbehave in church, lest I should repeat that mistake and reprove another idiot !" during the rest of the service there was good order. "MRS. SPINKS," observed a boarder to his landlady, "the equal adjustment of this establishment could be more safely secur ed if there was less hair in the hash and more in the unattressei." A PERS(•N who was sent to prison for worrying two wives, excused himself by saying that when he had one she fought him, but when he got two they fought each other. SUBSCRIBE tbr the JOURNAL. NO. 9.
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