VOL. 43. The Huntingdon Journal. (lice in new JOURNAL Building, Fifth Street. THE: HUNTINGDON JOURNAL is published every Friday by J. A. NASH, at $2,00 per annum IN ADVANCE, or s2.bo it not paid for in six months from date of sub scription, and 93 if not paid within the year. No paper discontinued, unless at the option of the pub lisher, until all arrearages are paid. No paper, however, will be sent out of the State unless absolutely paid for in advance. Transient advertisements will be inserted at TWELVE Asa) A-HALF CENTS per line for the first insertion, SEVIN AND A-HALT CENTS for titr second and FIVE CENTS per line for all subsequent insertions. 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Hand-bills, Blanks, Cards, Pamphlets, &c., of every variety and style, printed at the shortest notice, and everything in the Printing line will be executed in the most artistic manner and at the lowest rates. Professional Cards• Whl. P. kR. A. OBBISON, Attorneys-at-Law, No. 321 Penn Street, Huntingdon, Pa. All kinds of legal business promptly attended to. Sept.l2,`7B. DR. G. B. HOTCHKIN, 825 Washington Street, Jinn tingdon. junel4-1878 T 1 CALDWELL, Attorney-at-Law, No. ill, 3rd street. I/. 081 co formerly occupied by Messrs. Woods & Wil liamson. [apl2,'7l DR. A. B. BRE NBA UGH, offers his professional services tothecommunity. Office, N 0.623 Washington street, one door east of the Catholic Parsonage. an4,'7l TAR. HYSKILL has permanently located in Alexandria 1/ to practice his profession. Dan. 4 '7B-ly. E.C. C. STOCKTON, Surgeon Dentist. Office in Leister's .1.1. building, in the room formerly occupied by Dr. E. J Greene, Huntingdon, Pa. [apl2B, '76. GEO. B. 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BROA/V:NT'S CARP ET STORE, JUST THE PLACE FOR HOUSEKEEPERS I 10 1 FREE STOCK! NEW STYLES ! ! El C.A.TRIPMFI', ALL GRADES AND AT PRICES THAT CAN NOT BE UNDERSOLD FURNITURE, The Largest Stock and variety of Chairs, Beds, Tables, Chamber Suits, Lounges, ROCKERS, MOULDINGS, BRACKETS, &e., ever exhibited in Huntingdon county WALL PAPER ! WALL PAPER ! In this department I have made important changes; procured the latest improved trimmer, and my new styles and prices for 1879, can not fail to suit purchasers. Call and see. WINDOW SHADES and FIXTURES in great variety. Plain, satin and figured paper, plain or gilt band shading, spring and common fixtures. FLOOR, OIL CLOTHS From 15 inches to 2i yards wide. Halls covered with one solid piece without joints. [Bring diagram and measurement.] For PICTURE FRAMES AND LOOKING GLASSES, This is headquarters. Mattresses, Window Cornice, and anything in the Cabinet or Upholstering line made to order or repaired promptly. UNDZETAKING Also added to the FURNITURE and CARPET BUSINESS. Plain Coffins, Elegant Caskets and Burial Cases, WOOD OR LIGHT METALIC TO SUIT ALL. BURIAL ROBES IN VARIETY. .A. PINE PD A.TE GLASS Ready to attend funerals in town or country. My new clerk and traveling agent, FERDINAND rocs, will call briefly in the principal towns, villages and valleys of this and adjoining counties, with samples of Wall Paper, Carpets, Carpet Chain, and illustrations of Chairs and many kinds of Furniture, to measure rooms, &c., and receive orders for any goods in my line. If he should not reach you in time, do not wait, but come direct to the store. JAMES A. 5215 P]EINTINI IIITNTING1100:N, March 21, 1879. There is no "Powaer in the Cellar," TONS OF IT IN OUR MAGAENE. DuPont's Powder. WE ARE THE AGENTS FOR THE 4,4 4, 4 1i# 1 1011 , % , J SEND IN YOUR ORDERS. HENRY cgr, CO_, April! 25,1879. HUN TI G- DON, PA• S. liii OLiFt ' S. At Gwin's Old Stand, 505 PENN STREET. Not much on the blow, but always ready for work The largest and finest line of Clothing, Hats and Caps, In town and at great sacrifice. Winter Goods 520 PER CENT. UNDER COST, Call and be convinced at S. WOLF'S, 505 Penn st. RENT AND EXPENSES REDUCED, At S. WOLF'S. I am better ahlo to sell Clothinz, Hats and Caps, Gents.' Furnishing Goode, Trunks and Valises, CHEAPER than any other store in town. Call at (win's old stand. S. MARCH, Agt. MONEY SAVED !S MONEY EARNED The Cheapest Place in Huntingdon to buv Cloth ing, Hats, Caps, and Gents.' Furnishing Goods is at S. WOLF'S, 505 Penn street, one door west from Express Office. S. MARCH, Agent. TO THE PUBLIC.—I have removed my Cloth ing and Gents.' Furnishing Goods store to D. P. Gwin's old stand. Expenses reduced and better bargains than ever can be got at S. Wolfs 505 Penn Street. March 28, 1879. BEAUTIFY YOUR II 0 IVI P. S The undersigned is prepared to do all kinds of HOUSE AND SIGN PAINTING, Calcimining, Glazing, Paper Hanging, and any and all work belonging to the business. Having bad several years' experience, he guaran tees satisfaction to those who may employ him. PRICES "I‘l OLI ERAT . Orders may be left at the JOURNAL Book Store. JOHN L. ROHLAND. March 14th, 1879-tf. 525 PENN STREET, I 3 UT 17; n ARIA . ;;.-- -7..• * --.-- Jr , -: - - ......., . .» 44, 1 - ,,, - A,..• .- e .. ~. v. <•;. 5.... he ~. . ~.. . ... . . „,......? . . ..• _. • .... t. 5 . ...,. .. 111 ' - ' -7t f. 11 urnat New Advertisements HERE WE ARE ! -A Ni)- GENTS.' FURNISHING GOODS, New Advertisements. BROWN, 1 4 1 1 1+ ( 17- - o Vllsts' (rfiner. "Keep a Stiff Upper Lip." There has something gone wrong, My brave boy, it appears. For I see your proud struggle To keep back the tears. That is right. When you cannot Give trouble the slip, Then bear it, still keeping "A stiff upper lip !" Though you cannot escape Disappointment and care, The next best thing to do IS to learn how to bear. If when for life's prizes You're running, you trip, Get up—start again, "Keep a stiff upper lip !" Let your hands and your conscience Be honest and clean ; Scorn to touch or to think of The thing that is mean, But hold on to the pure And the right with firm grip; And. though hard be the task, ••Keep a stiff upper lip." Through childhood, through manhood, Through life to the end, Struggle bravely, and stand By your colors, my friend, Only yield when you must ; Never "give up the ship," But fight to the last, With a "stiff upper lip." stlect Ribtrilanp. REFUSING TO EAT. Miss Root's Fast of Forty Days. WHAT LED HER TO DECLARE AGAINST ALL FOOD AND DRINK - FORCING GRUEL THROUGH A TUBE TO KEEP HER ALIVE -STATEMENTS OF THE ATTENDING PHYSICIANS. The strange * fastinc , of Miss Sarah Root, aged 28, of No. 314 South Sixth street, Reading, Pa., is attracting unusual atten tion, not only among the medical frater nity, but among the citizens in general. A correspondent of the Philadelphia Times has been in consultation with the attend ing physician, and gives a history of the case, which we lay before the readers of the JOURNAT t : "I gave her to day a fow drops of gruel and milk," he said, in answer to a ques• tion, "by forcing it into the gullet through her nostrils. She is as determined as ever, and absolutely refuses to partake of food and water. She makes no resistance to any operation, but absolutely refuses to take any nourishment whatever volunta rily. Her case is certainly the strangest I have ever experienced. The injection of the small quantity of food has just been sufficient to prolong life. How soon she may dic is impossible to tell." When Doctor Luther called he told her that if she would take but one swallow of water lie would not insert the tube in her nostrils. She refused. -lie then offered her a spoonful of gruel, with the same re sult. After the tube had been inserted a similar proposition was made, but she re plied that `.he could go ahead ;" she would make no resistance to the operation of for cing food into her throat, but that she would absolutely take nothing. Dr. Lath er's full statement of the case is as fol- lows : A HISTORY OF THE CASE "I was called in about four days ago. I found the young lady emaciated, weak and gradually sinking. She was not con fined to her room, but was able to move about the house and the rear yard. I as told by her mother and friends that Miss Root had partaken of no food.or nutriment of any kind and no water for three weeks and two days. This statement at first seem ed absolutely incredible, but I have every reason now to believe it is true. The case at once presented tha most remarkable phase I ever experienced in my entire practice. lat once entered into conver sation with the young lady and found she was as determined as ever in her refusal to take any nourishment whatever. I en deavored to reason 'with her, but to no pur pose. Persuasion seemed entirely without avail, and no argument had any effect in changing her mind. I learned, through conversation with herself and friends, that the young lady seemed to be afflicted with a religious hallucination that was an im possibility to eradicate. It is recorded iu the fourth chapter of St. Matthew that Jesus fasted forty days and forty nights in the wilderness, and this idea seemed to be the controlling influence in Miss Root's case. She positively refused to take any food whatever. During all the hot spells she drank no water. This is a most won derful and startling fact, considering the great desire people generally have for water to assuage thirst during the excessively hot months of summer. I found that Miss Root's tongue was heavily coated and in flamed, her breath was offensive, her skin dry, and that her entire system was fast sinking and wasting and the membranous lining of her stomach contracted and in flamed. I ordered a preparation of milk and gruel and determined the young wo man should not starve herself to death. A teaspoonful of the gruel was then offered to her. I begged her to take it, but she sternly refused. She was gentle, calm, re served and lady-like. Eating or partaking of nourishment did not enter into the con ditions under which she imagined herself to be laboring. I endeavored to place the spoon in her mouth, but her elegant set or, natural teeth were firmly set together, and at first it was impossible to insert the spoon. Finally, however, the spoon was inserted, but it availed me nothing. In fants are generally made to swallow by holding thir nostrils shut, but Miss Root took air through the interstices of her teeth when her nostrils were closed. I conclu ded then that it was useless to continue in the effort to administer food in the regu lar manner. I then procured a silver tube and inserted it into her nose. The tube ran up one of the nostrils, and by means of a force pump I succeeded in introducing a small quantity of gruel and milk into her gullet and thence into the stomach. After the first operation I asked her whether she desired a drink of water, and she said 'No.' STILL REFUSING TO EAT. "Yesterday I called upon the patient again. Before inserting the tube in her nose I told her she might save a great deal of trouble and unnecessary annoyance by calmly submitting and taking a few swal lows of food in the natural manner. She very gently refused. The tube was in serted, but before any food was injected she made a motion indicating her desire to speak. She requested that her hands should be freed, and that she would make no further resistance. I told the man who was attending to leave go his hold upon HUNTINGDON, PAD, FRIDAY AT: GUST 15, 1879. her hands, which he did. The patiens made no resistance to inserting the tube+, but she positively refused to open her mouth or swallow any nourishment in the regular, natural way. A small quantity of food I then injected through the tube into her stomach. This is about the his tory of the case as far as I know it. I think she first gave - evidence oilier reli gious hallucination about July 4 and ceas ed eating, too, about that time. The first week she ate nothing but a few berries; subsequently she - ate or drank nothing at all. It is a remarkable ease and one that merits a full and detailed contribution to medical literature. I might have done so myself, but I was not the attending phy sician front the start. Every.,detail should have been carefully noted and every fune, tion of her system during her: abtteuti,en; from food should have been Mibhtelg 're corded. The recovery of her full stength depends entirely upon herself, of course. I think, however, that she will become ra tional in a short time, now that she has gently submitted to the introduction of the tube." ANOTHER PHYSICIAN'S STORY. Dr. F. R. Schinucker had the following to say on the subject : "I first called on Miss Root July 14, and found disinclined to see any cne professionally. She did not desire to come into the parlor, but finally her mother persuaded her to come in She shook hands, but turned her back and said that she did not think it was necessary for me to see her. We persuaded her to sit down. She had then not eaten or drank anything at all for three days, and very little for a few weeks. She refused to give any reason for her conduct, seldom giving any reply to my questions, further than she gussed it would come all right. Her mother desired a physical examination to be made, but Miss Root was opposed to this, saying she did not desire to be an noyed and that she wanted to go upstairs. She submitted to an examination of the heart, but I found nothing wrong. She refused any and all medicine. She was uneasy and walked the floor nearly all the time. My second visit was made July 16, and I found her stilt obstinate and in the same condition. f-he took no fJod of any kind and drank no water of any kind du ring all the hot spell. I frequently asked her why she did not eat, but she would never give me a reason. I called again on the 17th and tried to convince her of the obstinate folly of not eating and tried to convince her that it was her religious duty to eat instead of to fast; told her that fast ing, in a scriptural sense, did not mean an entire abstinence from food; but she would never argue the question with me at all. I told her then that she would destroy her own life if she'd continue much longer, but she never made any reply, except that she guessed it would come all right. She some times would say : will,' but when I ask ed her to fix a time she would make no reply. That same evening the family be came alarmed and sent for me. She was up and about and was frequently on the street. I saw her irr presence of the fam ily that night, and then I emphatically and positively told her that she must eat next day; that I would call in the morning and that I should have some one with me, and we would use violent means to inject food into her stomach. She was thin, pale and emaciated. Her tongue was coated and her breath had a cadaverous smell. Up to that time she had treated my suggestions with entire indifference, and now she beg ged me very earnestly not to resort to such measures. I told her that it was no time to compromise now and that she must eat. She followed me to the door and beg ged me not to do what I had threatened. Next morning I called at the house at ten o'clock, when she came into the parlor, shook hands with me very cordially and sat down beside me. Her manner towards me had entirely changed. I found that she had not eaten anything that morning, but that she had promised her mother to take food next day if I would let her alone. She begged me to give her time until next day. tier mother feared she would not survive, but I found her condition such that I felt justified in speaking to her kind ly and saying to her that I was very glad that she bad agreed to take food. I told her we would not interfere with her that day. She seemed to feel that she was under my control, while before I could do nothing with her. I said I would call to see her next day; I bad no doubt she would fulfill her promise, and I left. Next day I called, and was told that she had eaten very sparingly of cracker and drank coffee. She washed the cracker thoroughly at the hydrant before eating, and the coffee was cooked in a special vessel, which she had thoroughly cleaned. She ate very little. I saw her the last time, professionally, about ten days ago. I stopped attending to her because I could do nothing further. Subsequently I learned that she had again stopped taking food, when Dr. Luther was called in. She was continually washing herself and used a great deal of water upon her stomach. She was a great reader. I was told that she would read the Bible and pray fbr hours at a time as late as two and three o'clock in tha morning. She is evidently laboring under a religious hallu cination, and is especially imbued with the idea that sanctification requires frequent ablutions and entire abstinence from food. It is evidently a matter of conscience with her not to eat or drink." Dr. Luther has especially forbidden any indulgence in long hours of devotional exercises, and he is in hopes that he can sustain life until the time arrives when Miss Root will consider her fasting over. For the past twen„ty-four hours she has be- come very weak, and if she continues in her refusal to take nourishment, she will surely die. She has been fasting now for thirty days, and if she persists in her forty days trial of endurance she will have ten more days to run. Letters from many sections of the State are being received. ATMOSPHERIC ELECTRICITY AND PLANT GROWTlL—Atmospheric electricity is, ac cording to M. Grandeau, a powerful agent in the process of assimilatien of plants. Plants protected from its influence build up 50 to GO per cent. less of nitrogenous matter than those subject to ordinary con ditions; the proportion of ash is higher and of water lower. In the author's experi ments different species of growing plants were inclosed within an electric screen consisting of four triangles of iron. The plants exptrimented upon were maize, to bacco and wheat—two specimens of each— of which the one was screened from at mospheric electricity, the other not. The results of these experiments agree fully with the discovery made some time ago by Berthelot, that, free nitrogen unites with organic matter under the action of electric currents not only from ordinary induction-coils, but even from feeble vol taic batteries. The proportion of nitrogen thus fixed in seven months in paper and dextrine was 192 thousandths. I He Told a Woman. A REMINISCENCE OF WINCHESTER - HOW SHERIDAN WAS INFORMED OF EARLY'S STRENGTH-BEGINNING OF THE BATTLE AND HOW IT ENDED. The Confederates had it all their own way for a long time in the valley, and Grant was beginning to fear a miss. A mistake had been made in placing Sheridan there. The Southern army were massing about Winchester, evidently for another invasion or Maryland. Affairs had a dis couraging outlook, for the Federal army's marching and fighting had ended invariably in retreat. A round moon, warm and golden, shone on the quaint old town of Winchester, Va., one evening in the mid- Ve of September, 1564. In the vine-cov ered porch of a house, whcse broad, brood ing roof enveloped it in sombre shadow, sat a brown-haired, hazel eyed girl, waiting for a visitor. A man erect and soldierly, leafing a gray uniform came up the walk. The moonlight reburnished the faded gold lace of his epaulets and sword knots with something of their pristine splendor as he advanced. They talked of the then all absorbing topic, the war, that war, that was blazing its way through the lovely valley at their feet with ashes of home steads, the charred skeletons of mills and forges and foraged lands. The officer was a member of General Early's staff, a Louis iittrian, fervid with hope and fierce with desire to drive the Union soidiers back. The girl was a Virginian of that simple faith which disbelieved in strife and Woodshed, and her name was Rebecca. It was another "Rebecca at the well," with the difference that she drew out of the glib-tongued officer the number and posi tion of General Early's army, their in trenchments and batteries on the Oppe- Tian, and what troops had been withdrawn. This was done in the most natural manner possible, for to know these things was in• teresting, and she had an idea of making a history or becoming a heroine, for the two had only met a few evenings previous at a social gathering, where he had sought au introduction and the privilege of calling upon her. This was his first visit, and it proved his last. When the young aid de camp departed that Wednesday night he had told so much that he had placed the fortune of his command in the keeping of Rebecca. On the following Friday, while sitting on the same porch, she heard a bird call. low and tremulous, -in the shrubbery of the lawn. She answered it by clapping her hands softly, when a man as black the shadows she sal in, came up, and, to king something out of bis mouth, handed it to her and vanished into the night.— Speeding up to her chamber, she found the gift to he a small roll of lead foil, such as is wrapped about various articles, among others, chewing tobacco. Carefully un rolling it, a small bit of soft paper was within, on which was written : Have you any definite informatioa of the forces and yosition of General Early ? If so, transmit by bearer. StIERIDAN. low strange is destiny She alone of the few union loving souls in Winchester k.uew what the harassed cavalry commander desired. To put the information down and roll it into the same receptacle did not require many moments, when she again appeared upon the porch clapping her hands. The slave seemed to rise up out of the earth. lie hastily placed the tiny packet in his mouth, and without a word or gesture disappeared. Before daylight on the 19th of Septem ber, 1864, the Confederate pickets were charged on the Oppequan, and Sheridan moved like an avalanche upon Winchester. A terrible contest followed, the two armies advancing and retreating like the surging billows of the ocean. The battle never ceased until sundown, leaving Sheridan the victor of the battle of the Oppequan. A series of disasters pursued Early, and on the 19th of October—a month later— was fought the memorable battle of Win chester, which brought peace to the valley of the Shenandoah. I talked with the gentle Quaker lady yesterday. She said she was not unconscious of doing anything of moment at the time. She had known General Crook, of General Sheridan's staff, and during the brief occupancy of Win. Chester by the Union troops had said to him, if he ever saw a way that she could serve the Union cause, to command her, and he had mentioned her name to Gen eral Sheridan. She showed me an elegant watch, a souvenir of the event, a gift from General Sheridan. Ou the inside is en graved : ** ** '"' '''''' Presented to REBECCA L. WRIGHT, Winchester, Va., by General P. IL Sheridan, A Memento of September 19,1864. The charm-holder is an ingenous ar rangement of a horseshoe, gauntlet and spur. The charms are a tiny cavalry sword, field glass, orderly cap and other military objects in miniature. The tate of the young staff officer is unknown to her. Snakes in Whiskey Barrels. THE QUEER HOME CHOSEN BY THOUSANDS OF SERPENTS-A GREAT SLAUGHTER. Jonathan Rockwell, engineer at the fire brick works at Sciotoville, Ohio, recently purchased five empty whiskey barrels and stored them in an outbuilding to be used for cider barrels when his apples should be ripe enough to be made into that tem perance beaverage. Near the outbuildings there is a ledge of rocks containing many fissures and openings, which has always been "a bad place for snakes." Yesterday Mr. Rockwell visited the out buildings, and on opening the door he noticed a number of snakes crawling into the bung holes of the whiskey barrels Quick 19 thought he got the bungs and drove them into the barrels and secured the snakes. He then attempted to roll the barrels out of the building, but found them too heavy to handle without assistance. He then called in J. P. Mathiot, Dustin Jones, George Sturdy, Hugh Smith and Thomas Powell, who armed themselves with hickory clubs. The bung was taken out of one barrel and some hot water was poured in, and the snakes began to come out so rapidly that all the men were kept busy with their clubs killing them. The next barrel was treated in the same manner until all the five barrels were emptied. The total number of snakes killed was 2,153. No one pretends to ac count for the snakes getting into the bar rels. The affidavits of our best and most reliable citizens will substantiate this story beyond a doubt. The snakes were not all larma ones, but there were none less than a foot in length, while many were six or seven feet long. EVEN the laziest boy can sometimes catch a whipping. The Love that Lives LOOKING FOR A SON WHO FELL LY A REBEL BULLET The Scranton RTublican, tells this touching story : Among the crowd of persons who moved about the D L. & W. platform yesterday, waiting for the after noon train from New York and Philadel phia, there appeared a middle aged woman who frequently gazed up the track with an anxious and restless look that seemed to say she was waiting for some one. She walked about nervously and seemed im• patient as the time drew nigh for the train to arrive, and any one who studied Ler countenance could not fail to see that she was in mental misery. At last the loco motive dashed round the curve, and the sad face of the woman brightened with a momentary ray of hope. She hastened forward to that point of the platform which the train would be likely to reach first, and as the cars swept by she peered into the windows, anxiously scanning the faces of the passengers. When the train halted and the living stream of humanity Poured out from the different doors on the platform, she mingled with the crowd as if in search of some dear friend, but those intent on business little knew the sorrow at the heart of the pure obscure woman who was tossed about in the bustle of life. When the platform was cleared she with drew with a sigh, but turned back again as she quitted the door to take one more look at the train and see if the face she sought was not still there. A gentleman who lives a short distance from her home in the suburbs of Scranton, told our re porter the woman's sad history. During the civil war, her only son, a young man upon whom she fairly doted, was killed in one of the hottest engagements, and the news of his death so preyed upon her mind as to disturb the poor woman's reason.— Ever since then she goes to the depot once or twice a week to meet the incoming trains in the hope that he will come to her. At other times and on all other sub jects she seems entirely sane, but she sometimes thinks that her son will come back, and to satisfy the hope that never dies, and in the depth of that love which never fades, the poor mother continues to go on her sad mission with as much earnestness as though she were performing a solemn religious duty. The Debt to Mother. Mothers live for their children, make self-sacrifices for them, and manifest their tenderness and love so freely, that the name mother is the sweetest in human language. And yet sons, youthful and aged, know but little of the anrity, the nights of sleepless and painful solicitude which their mothers have spent over their thoughtless waywardness. Those loving hearts go down to their graves with those hours of secret agony untold. As the mother watches by night, or prays in the privacy of her closest, she weighs well the words which she will address to her son in order to lead him to a manhood in honor and usefulness. She will not tell him all the griefs and deadly fears which beset her soul. She warns him with trembling lest she say overmuch. She tries to charm him with cheery love while her heart is bleeding. No worthy and successful man ever yet knew the breadth and depth of the great obligation which he is under to his mother who guided his heedless steps when his character for virtue and purity was so narrowly balanced against a course of vice and ignominy. Let tha, dutiful son do his utmost to smooth his mother's pathway ; let him obey as implicity as he can her wishes and advice, let him omit nothing that will contribute to her peace, rest, and happiness, and yet be will part from her at the tomb with the debt to her not half discharged. The Early Early Rising Delusion. For farmers and those who live in lo calities where people can retire at eight or nine o'clock in the evening, the old notion about early rising is still appropriate. But he who is kept up till ten or eleven or twelve o'clock, and then rises at five or six because of the teachings of some old ditty about "early to rise," is committing a sin against his own soul. There is not one man in ten thousand who can afford to do without seven or eight hours' sleep All the stuff written about great men who slept only three or four hours a night, is apocryphal. They have been put upon such small allowances occasionally and prospered ; but no man ever kept healthy in body and mind fur a number of years with less than seven hours' sleep. If you get to bed early then rise early; if you cannot get to bed till late then rise late. It may be as proper for one man to rise at eight as it is for another to rise at five. Let the rousing bell be rung by at least thirty minutes before your public appear ance. Physicians say that a sudden jump out of bed gives irregular motion to the pulses. It takes hours to get over a too sudden rising. It is barbarous to expect children to land on the centre of the floor at the call of their nurses, the thermometer below zero. Give us time after you call us, to roll over, gaze at the world full in the face, and look before you leap. Mosquitoes. HOW TO BREED THEM FOR HOME PUR POSES Seth Green, the famous fisherman, writes as follows to the Rochester Cu ion : am breeding a few mosquitoes for my own use. I keep them confined, and some of my neighbors do not admire the music But they are not such bad pets as most people think. Their singing is like opera music, only a little more so; for when you clap at the singing of mosquitoes you have something to clap for; but when you see old fogies clap after hearing a piece of opera music that has no more tune in it than a cow bell, I think it is a bad ex ample to set before the rising generation. I will tell you how you can raise your own mosquitoes, and not be dependent on your neighbors. Fill any kind of a vessel with rain water and place it in the sun, and you will have plenty in a short time. But if you do not wish the neighbors to get the benefit of your labors, you should keep them confined by tying a piece of cloth carefully over the top. All wigglers that you see in rain water are young mosqui toes." IT is not believed that there is an artist in the world who can catch the expression of a woman's face as she puts her nose into the milk-jug and finds that the thun der has soured the contents. THE pensive mule is not usually regard ed as susceptible to pathetic emotions. And yet he occasionally drops a mule-teer. gisiorp. THE OLD FOOT-HINTS OF THE RECEDING RI) cat AND THE EMILY WHIMS OF THE COMING WHITE MIN WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO The Juniata Region. BY PROF. A. L. GUSS, OF HUNTINGDON, FA 'Tie good to muse on Nations passed away Forever from the land we roll wee own. ARTICLE XVII. FJIt A TIME UNNOTICED, It may saem strange, that from the time when the Tuscaroras left Carolina until they were finally adopted, and became one of the Six Nations, that so little is said of them, that we have trouble to find evi dence of their location. But this is ex plained partly by their being in a frag mentary condition, too dispersed to be re garded as a nation ; and partly by the fact that the body of them were then living far beyond the range of the white habitations, and among mountains, perhaps then not yet penetrated by the übiquitous trader ; and again, partly because of fear of further trouble with the white people, they were for a season retired and circumspect. EVIDENCE FROM MAPS, Among the evidences of the locations of tribes, that furnished by ancient maps is most important and satisfactory. That the Tuscaroras were upon the Juniata is proven by the fact that after 1713, the maps give their name, as attached to the valley and mountain, as retained to this day. In the same way, the name in Brad ford and Schuylkill and other counties proves the presence of fragments of the nation in the localities where this name still adheres to valleys streams and mount ains. OTHER EVIDENCE, Since writing the above, I have found, in the Colonial Documents of New York, several passages which I think confirm my position, that the mass of the Tuscaroras lived in the Juniata valley for some ten years after they left Carolina, and prior to their formal admission into the Five Na tion Confederacy. September 1, 1722, Gov. Burnet held a conference with the Indians at Albany. We find this record : "They relate that two years ago, two Tuskarores brought a belt . from the Governor of Vir ginia, (as they said,) and thereby desired in the name of the Governor of Virginia to make war on and destroy the Taderigh rones [Saponies or Catawbas]." The Iro quois speaker further said : "We inform you also that three companies of our peo ple are gone out to fight against the Flat heads, [Choctaws,] who have been our enemies for a long time. There is also two French Indians that live at Cadarach qui, that went out a fighting two years ago towards Virginia by the way of Cayouge and have their abode among the Tinkar ores that live near Virginia and go back wards and forwards." Beyond all doubt the Tuscaroras among whom these two French Indians had their headquarters, were those in Tuscarora Valley, Juniata county. By the way, the interpreter gives them a queer way of traveling in their in cursions when he says they go backwards! A SHOUT FOR THE TUSCARORAS. September 6, 1722, is is noted that the agreement made with the Governor of Virginia, was by the whole Five Nations including the Tuscaroras." Evidently they were then only beginning to reckon the Tuscaroras as a factor in connection with the Five Nations. On the same day the Indians "gave six shouts—five for the Five Nations and one fir the castle of Tus carores lately seated between the Oneidas and Onondagas." The word lately cannot. be accidental. It is proof of their recent settlement. December 4, 1726, Gov. Burnet of New York says in speaking of the Iroquois, "who were but Five formerly, but now, by sending for the Tuscaroras from South Carolina, are become Six." September 9, 1726, the complaint of Gov. Burnet says, that"depredations were made in the heart of settlements by twelve Indians. They called themselves Sennekes, but the English knew two of them to be Tuekaroras." The becoming Six Nations was now for the first time worthy of record. Had they moved among, and formally joined, the Five Nations in 1713, as the historians all tell us, this record would not be made as late as 1726. It seems also that some of them were personally known to the Virginians, having lately resided there. INDIAN SLAVLRY, Indian slavery was not an uuctantuon thing among the English planters at this early day, but they were harder to subdue and render submissive than Africans. The Indians above all things loved freedom. and efforts to enslave them were not very successful. This was especially the case of the Iluron•lro(luois and Algonquin families. Those of the Gulf States were more tractable. In June 1713, when 800 Tuscaroras were taken in their fort, they were given to the tribes, who were allied with the whites, to be sold as slaves as a reward to those savages for their services HE IS ON THE JUNIATA. An Indian boy, of what tribe is not stated, belonged to Nathaniel Furd, an Englishman, on the Pedee river, called Constichrohare by the Indians, now the site of Cheraw, Chesterfield county, S. C., was carried away. Complaint was made, and Gov. Burnet and the Commissioners of Indian Affairs of New York, on Sept. 13, 1726, made inquiry of the Iroquois concerning the bov. In reply they used these words : "You have made inquiry concerning a slave, who you say was taken by our people. We acknowledge to have been of the company that took him. He is given to Indians who live on a branch of the Susquehannah river, which is called SOGLIN EIJADIE Therefore, we desire you to make a farther inquiry, fur that place is nearer to you than to us." N. Y. Col. His. Vol. V. Page 796. SOGII-NEIJ-AD-IE IS JU•NI AT A. Reyond doubt the branch of the Sus quehanna here named is our own beloved JUNIATA, and this reference to it is es pecially interesting, as the oldest mention of the name of our river, outside of the ancient maps, that I have been able to find. On maps I have found the name on a number of them published from 1659 to 1671; as applied to the Juniata tribe, ex terminated at an early day. And I have no doubt that the „Indians who had the slave in possession were the Tuscaroras, who still had a town in Juniata county. The whole question of the word Juniata, and the tribe of that name, will he dis cussed in a future article. SOME STILL IN TUSCARORA But while we claim to have established for the Tuscaroras a residence in the Ju niata region, with a central council fire and fort in Tuscarora Valley, between their exodus from Carolina, and their ad mission into the Iroquois confederacy; we claim also, that there were some Tuscaro ras still living at this outpost until after the Juniata region was sold to Penn. John O'Neal wrote a letter to the Gov ernor from Carlisle, May 27, 1753, in which he remarks : "A large number of Delawares, Shawanese and Tuscaroras con tinue in this vicinity—the greater number have gone to the wit." AT ACADEMIA Ik 1754. YAMOYDEN. In an old deed, or bill of sale, fur the lands at Tuscarora Academia, written in June 1754, mention is made of the In dians "settled on ye Bottom Surrounded by ye Creek." There can be no doubt that these were of the Tuscarora tribe. As the lands were sold the next year, it would be natural to presume that they then re moved, but there is evidence to the con trary. THEY SAVE US FROM THE FRENCH. In 1756, the year after Braddock's de feat, will be remembered as a time of most terrible border devastations, by Indians headed by French. Among a series of letters and reports, written Et Fort Du quesne, (Pittsburg.) we find the following, dated September 15th : _ "Two hundred Indians and French left Fort Duquesne to set fire to four hundred houses in a part of Pennsylvania. That Province has suffered but little, in conse quence of the intrigues of the Five Na tions with Taskarosins, a tribe on the lands of that Province, and in alliance with the Five Nations. But now they have de clared that they will assist their brethren, the Delawares and Chouanons, (Shawa nese,) and consequently several have sided with them, so that the above Province will be laid waste the same as Virginia' and Carolina." DEVASTATIONS BEFORE THIS DATE. It would seem from this extract that the Tuscaroras, being friendly to the whites, were for some time a partial protection to them in Pennsylvania. We have met no such evidence elsewhere. The fact is, that at the date of the above extract, they had already devastated the eastern part of the Juniata region which alone then_ bad settlers, and had made several terrible in cursions to the counties beyond, even as far as Adams county. But the intimation is, that had it not been for a desire first to win over the Tuscaroras, the border would have suffered still more. Fort Bight= in Tuscarora valley, and Fort Granville at Lewistown, were taken before the date of this letter, and if up to that time there were lingering portions of the Tuscaroras in their immediate vicinity, it seems strange that we have no mention of the fact, nor a note of their temper in regard to the white people. Yet we cannot well doubt the fact, as the French were well posted on Indian affairs, and at that time had gatties constantly out under their directitin, to the south eastward, to murder and burn in a style that is shocking to relate. In a journal kept by Col. James Burd, while building Fort Augusta, at Shamokin, Jane 4, 1757, we find these words : "This day the Tuscarora tribe informed me they intended setting off up the river ; I gave them provisions enough, and five gallons rum ; they set off accordingly." From the abrupt manner in which they are spoken of here I infer this branch of the Tuscaroras had been living near Shamokin and probably stretching along the Tusca rora Path southward to the Potomac, and scattered over the Juniata valley. IN TUSCARORA STILL. LATER. But there seems to be evidence, that at still later dates, there were members of that tribe in the .Tuscarora valley. On the 11th of August, 1762, the Governor received a letter "taken from the mouth of Angus, Tuscarora chief by Eli Forbes, missionary at Onohoquage." It is dated at "Lower Tuscarora Onohoquage, July 8, 1762." The chief Angus, or Akis, car ried this letter in person. The place is said . to be "on the Upper Waters of the Susquehanna." It contains this sentence, "We should be glad to be informed of the state and behavior of our brethren in Tux. carora Valley. and to have some dirf,totions about the way, as we propose to make them a visit, and also should be glad of a pass or recommendation, in writing, that we may be friendly received on our way to, and at the Valley." It may be argued that as there is a Tuscarora Valley in the south-east corner of Bradford county, that that may be the region referred to in the last two extracts above given, but this does not seem probable, for the following rea sons . (1) The Tuscaroras do not seem to have settled at that point until ten years later (1766) and (2) in that locality they would have been no barrier to any of the white settlements, and (3) the chief Angus would not cjme from his town a little be yond that place, to Lancaster, to inquire from the Governor the way to the Tusca rora Valley in Bradford county. Our conclusion is, therefore, that it was the desire of this chief to visit some of his kindred in Tuscarora Valley on the Ju niata. This fact is the more interesting as we find by the first assessment, wbieh was taken the next year (1763,) there were over 50 settlers already living in Tuscarora Valley. They must have settled among these red men—a condition of af fairs we have been slow to believe. HOW THE FRAGMENTS CAME NORTE!. We wiil now give a couple extraeta to show how the lingering remnants in Car olina kept coming northward, and retained communications in the meantime with those who were identified with the Iro quoin. On the 4th of July, 1741. at the celebrated treaty at Lincastcr with Com missioners of Maryland and Virginia, @a nassatego addressed Virginia as follows : "Brother Assaraquoa — : There lives a nation of Indians on the other side or your country, the Tuscaroras, who are our friends, and with whom we hold corres pondence; but the road between us and them has been stopped for some time on account of the misdemeanor of some of onr warriors. We have opened a new road for our warriors, and they shall keep to that; but as that would be inconvenient for messengers going to the Tuscaroraes we desire they may go the old road. We frequently send messengers to one another, and shall have more occasion to do so now that we have concluded a peace with the Cherokees." They also stated that , there were a few families of the Conoye living among these Tuscaroroes, for whom they desired passes to come to live with the rest of their na tion, already among the Iroquois, and that they might come "the straight road from them to us which lies through the middle of your country." Both these requests were granted. NO, 32. (To be continued.)
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