VOL. 44. The Huntingdon. Journal ()flee in hen; J•JCIINAL Building, Fifth Street TILE RIJN TINUDON JOURNAL is published ever Friday by J. A. Nam', at 1i2,00 per annum IN ADVANCE, or $2.50 it p.it pail for in six mouths from date of sub scription, and 43 if not paid within the year. No paper discontinned,unlese at the option of the pub lisher, until all arrearagee 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 AND A-BALV CENTS per line for the first insertion, SEVEN AND A-HALF casts for the 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- WILLIAM W. DORRIS, Attorney-at-Law, 402 Penn !V street, Huntingdon, Pa. [tnar.l6;77y. DCALDWELL, Attorney-at-Law, No. 111, 3rd street U. Office formerly occupied by Messrs. Woods damson. [apl2 '7l DI. A.B. BRUMB.kIIGH, offers his professional services to the comma nity. Office, No 623 Wathington street, one door east of the Catholic Parsonage. Liant,'7l DR. HYSKILL has permanently located in Alexandria to practice his profession. [janA V C. STOCKTON, Surgeon Denti&t. Office in Leister'e E . C. building, in the room formerly occupied by Dr. K .1. Greene, Huntingdon, Pa. [ap11:8, '76 GEO. B. ORLADY, Attorney-at. Law, 405 Penn Street, Huntingdon, Pa. [n0v17,*75 GL. ROBB, Dentist, office in S. T. Brown's new No. (,20, Penn Street, Huntingdon, Pa. (ap12:71 ij C. MADDEN, Attorney-et-Law. Office, No. —, Penn • Street, lluutingdou, Pa. [apl9,'7l TSYLVANUS SLAM, Attorney-at-Law, liontingdou, et • Pa. Office, Penn Street, three doors went of 3rd Street. Usn4,7l T W. MATT ERN, Attorney-at-Law and General Claim . Agent, Ituntinp.:don, Pa. Soldiers' claims against the Governmen for back-pay, bounty, widows' and invalid pensions attended to with great care and promptness. Of fice on Penn Street. Ljati4,il _LORAINE AsIIMAN, Attornep-at Law. Office: No. 405 Penn S.reet, Huntingdon. Pa. LS. GEISSING ER, Attorney-at-Law and Notary Public, IJ. !luta ingilon, Pa. Office, No. 230 Penn Street, oppo site Court !louse. Ltabs,'7l E. FLEMINCI„ Attorney-at-Law, Huntingdon. Pa., Os office in _Monitor building, Penn Street. Prompt and eareful attention given to all legal business. taugs,'74-finios WM. P. & IL A. OB.BISON, Attorneys-at-Law, No. 321 Penn Street, Huntingdon, Pa. All kinds of legal business promptly attended to. Sept 1•2;78. - - New Advertisement. BEAUTIFY YOUR 1 - { 0 S The undersigned is prepared to do all kinds of DOUSE AND SIGN PAINTING Calcimining, Glazing, Paper Hanging, and any and all work belonging to the ousinees. Having had several years' experiene, he guaran tees satisfaction to those who may employ ttim. PRICES MODERATE. Orders may he left at the JOURNAL Book Store. JOHN L. ROHLAND. March 14th. 1879-tf. CHEAP ! CHEAP !! CHEAP ! PAPERS. N./ FLUIDS. N./ALBUMS. Buy your Paper, Buy your Stationery Buy your Blank Book:, AT TIIEJOURNAL BOOK ef STATIONERY STORE. Fine Stationery, School Stationery, Books for Children, Games for Children, Elegant Fluids, Pocket Book, Pasa Books, And an Endless Variety of Nice Pangs, AT TREJOURNAL BOOS d• STATIONERY STORE $ TO $6OOO A YEAR, or $5 to $2O a day in your oTlocal iiy. . N oris k. NV oe: do melmer.man::ak,fore than can fail to make money fast . Any o ne can do the work. You can make from e 60 cts. to $2 an hour by devoting your evenings and spare time to the business. It costs nothing to try the business. Nothing like it for money making ever offered before. Business pleasant and strictly hon orable. Reader if you want to know all about the best paying business before the public, send us your address and we will send you full particulars and private terms free; samples worth 35 also free; you can then makeup your mind for yourself. Address GEORGE STINSON CO., Portland, Maine. June 6,1679-1 y STAMPING ! Having just received a fine assortment of Stamps from the east, I am now prepared to do Stamping for BRAIDING AND EMBROIDERING. I also do Pinking at the shortest notice. - MRS. MATTIE G. GRAY, No. 415 Mifflin Street Mpy3,1875. DR. J. J. DAHLEN, GERMAN PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON Office at the Washington House, corner of Seventh and Penn streets, April 4, 1879 HUNTINGDON, PA DR. C. H. ROYER. SURGEON DENTIST, Office in the Franklin House, Apr.4-y. HUNTINGDON, PA R. M'EPIVITT, ,s URVEYOR AND CONVEYANCE'? CHURCH ST., bet. Third and Fourth, 0ct.17,'79 JOHN S. LYTLE. SURVEYOR AND CONVEYANCE)? SPRUCE CREEK, May9,lSl9-Iy. Huntingdon county Pa COME TO THE JOURNAL OFFICE FOR YOUR JOB PRINTING If you \Val sale bills, If you want bill heads, If you want letter heads, If you want visiting cards, If you want business cards, If you want blanks of any kind, If yen want envelopesneatly printed, If you want anything printed in a workman ike manner, and at very reasonable rates, leave yourerders at the above named office. A WEEK in your own town, and no capital risked. You n give the business a trial witexrense. hebenoprni t ey.r o fff or i ose illing t o work ou should try nothing else until you see for yourself what you can do at the business we offer. No room to explain here. Ton can devote all your time or only your spare time to the business, and make great pay for every hour that you work. Women make as match as men. send for special private terms and particulars which we mail free. $5 Outfit free. Don't complain of hard times while you have such a chance. Address H. HALLETT a CO., Portland, Maine. June 6, 1879-Iy. JOYFUL s for Boys and Girls !. Young and Old!! A NEW I. j VENTION just patented for them, - - • for Home use f v Fret and Scroll Sawing, Turnins, Boring, Drilling,Orinding, Screw Cutting. Price 1,5 to .1 Send 6 cents for 100 pare, EPHRAIM BLOWN, Lowell, Sept. 5, 1879-eow-lyr. 1862. .16 1 :9mllyr ELECTRIC LIGHT LI T ENR FALTCY - Manufa ct ure (1 by an entirely NEW PROCESS. It is giving entire satisfaction. Dealers and Coumuiers pronounce this Flour just what is wanted. Manufactured by MACKEREL 11G E in Barrels, [La and (211rtor Barre,s. Kitts and 51u cans. We recounnend the above brands as lie vc!'y v bite and tat, and we are confident of their pleaEing in every particular. . ONONDAGO GROUND PLASTER By the car load or ton. We have secured the Agency fhr the sale of ONONDAGO PLASTER and are prepared to fill orders promptly at fair prices.- se- Orders, from the Trade SolO-ited. SALT I SALT ! SAL ! SALT ! SALT ;;;;OUND ALUM. COMMON. FiNE AND DAIRY SILT, by the Carload, Sack or Basile]. THE Ell t. is urriveNally to be the nio,:t cc.)nomical, best made and best w p!ow in the tic utwith:itauding the great advance in material we offer them at. the eld prices. July 18, 1879. .I.aving just reeeivel carloaas We arc prepared tn fiil ord2rs prunptly by railroad CARPE - TZ 1 cArrthil6i! CARPETS! BODY BEI S TAPESTRY BRUSSELS, SUPER, COTTON aud HEMP CARPET we Live ever had Call and ex-amine, FLOOR AND TABLE OIL CLOTH . IN GREAT VARIETY. FOR MEN BOYS Arl';.l) CIIILDUEN. :it prices that (.I:_try competition G.CDCDI:O 2 NOTIONS, BOOTS, SHOES, GROCERIES, Etc., Etc., Etc In fact everything you want for the FARM, SHOP, or FAMILY can be had at HENRY & CO., 732 AND 734 PENN STREET. -NEW GOODS !- Respectfully informs the publie that lie has just opened a large stock of in the room lately occupied by Geo. W. Johnston & Co., corner of 9th and Washington streets, in West Huntingdon, consisting in part of NOTIONS, BOOTS AND SHOES, HATS AND CAPS, GROCERIES, QUEENSWARE, GLASSWARE, WOOD AND WILLOWWARE CARPETS, OIL CLOTHS, and every other article usually found in first-class country stores: STAMPING Country Produce taken in exchange for goods at highest market price. By strict attention to business and an effort to please, he confidently expect a share of public patronage. [apr23-tf. TRE FINEST GRES AT THE LOWEST PRICES ! 111 . „ ROLLER / T. the roam lately or!! - ,upie,1 by Graffias Miller,oo the south west e _weer of the Dia. DRY GOODS, NOTIONS, TRIMMINGS, LACES, HUNTINGDON, ?A HATS AND CAPS, BOOTS AND SHOES, QUEENSWARE, Etc His stock of GROCERIES embraces everything in that line, and every article sold will be just as represented. His terms are STRICTLY CASH, OR ITS EQUIVALENT IN COUNTRY PRODUCE. He will do his hest, to please. you (Jo and see him, examine his goods, hear his prices, and you will be convinced that ROLLER'S is the place for bargains. april23 BE A UTIF UL GLASSWARE, By the piece or in setts, of the neweet style=, in great variety, has been added. to the elegant stock CASH & Handsome 9ctts of GL ASS as low as 25 etc. The place to buy QUEENSWARE by the piece or in setts, is at F. H. LAXE'S STORE. Handsome TEA SETTS consisting of 46 pieces of White Stone China, can be bought for $4, at F. li. LANE'S low price store. MACKEREL_ A large stock of choice Mackerel, consisting of Deep Sea, Extra Shore, New Fat, and all the best va rieties and numbers known in the market. Also Large Roe and Lake Herring, Cod Fish and Shad in season. F. 11. Lane does not buy or sell short weight packages of Fish. You do not want to buy salt at Fish prices. CANNED GOODS, including California Choice Fruits, Evaporated and other Dried Fruits. Green Fruits. Foreign and Domestic. All kinds of choice TEAS, from 15 to 20 cents per quarter, Good Sugar from 8 cents per pound to the best Maple Sugar in bricks or granulated at 13 cents per pound. SALT MEAT, FLOUR. NOTIONS, CONFECTIONS, WOOD and WILLOW-WARE, and in short. about everything to be found in a first-class Grocery and Provision Store, can be bought at F. II LANE'S Cash and Exchange Store, near the Catholic church, on Washington street, Liunting don, Pa. ,LOTTO: GOOD QUALITY—FULL QUANTITY—SMALL PROFITS. . . • .•• , .... i ... ...,. -MP. a] . l . k 4 4... • ... 0 I. • k r. . F j ~ ~!,.. ....-...._.......„.... k„,..„...... . .. ...... „.±,..,.." L.. ~. ..... , , 4 • _ 4..._____. _.,.....,..........,...__ %.,,, 4 ,_.,„ ....___''' O TO HEAMICARTHIS! Where Do You Buy YOUR ASK YOUR GROCER FOR 11 - tT & Coe We have just received A CARLOAD OF CHOICE MACKEREL which we offer at very !ow prices. XTRA F,ANCY SHORE, EXTRA FAT SHORE, FAT DILLY, DEEP SEA A: \i) MESS, gt . -N-IV E ARE AGENTS FOR THE CELEBRATED -rat 15)UP' G I\T tilij DM \;:t! Lave tli.3 'largest and most c line of cl__,orri TING- T-TA CAPS, "GUS." LETTERMAN SEASONABLE GOODS, mow:, Penn street, has ,jug; opened a large assortment of Cholco and. iSolzonalle Goods, \Vhicli he is scHing away down in price. Ifis stock embraces of Staple and Fancy Groceries at F. H. LANE'S EXCHANGE STORE. SPECIAL NOTICE. New AdvertisemenG. FLOUR? MACKEREL LL sand c:;t1 a f -NEW NODS !-- 0 / I§6 3 PLY, (Extra Super,) COTT.A.c4E RAG, HUNTINGDON, PA,, FRIDAY, MAY 7, 1880 Ety )tlnsts' (otter The Last ',Milestones. ixty years, throa Ai shine and shadow— Sixty years, my gentle wife, You and f hav,.= walked togeth.r, Down the rugged path of life. From the hills of Spring we started, And through all the Summer land, And the fruitful Autotnn country, We have j.)urneNed hand in hand. We have borne the heat and burden, Toiting painfully and slow ; We have gathered in our ha-vest, With rejoicing long ago Lea rethe uplands for our children, They are strong to sow and reap; Through the quiet Winter low.ands, We our level way will keep. 'Tis a dreary country. dariing, You and I are passing through; But the road lies straight before us, And the miles are short and few. No more dangers to encounter— No more hills to climb, true friend Nothing now but simple walking, Till we reach our journey's end. We have had our time of gladness, 'Twas a proud, a happy day, Ab ! the proudest of our journey, When we felt that we could say, "Of the children God has given." Looking fondly on the ten. 'Lovely women are our daughters, And our son: are noble men." We have had our tune of sorrow; A Ted our time of ansions fears, When we could not see the mile tones, Through the blindness of our tears. To the sunny t-_:ginn3er country, Far behind us, little May, And our Willie. too, grew weary, And we left them on the way. Are you looking backward, mother, That you stumble in the snow ? I am still sour pude and staff, dear; Lean your weight upon me—so ! Now our road is growing narrow ; And, what is it, wife, you say ? Yes? I know our eyes are dim, dear; But we have not lost the way. Cheer thee! cheer thee ! faithful-hearted! Just a little way before, Lies the great Eternal City Of the King that we adore. I can see the shining spires; And the IZiug, the King, my dear, We have served Him long and humbly; lie will bless us, do not fear. 'Oh! the snow falls. fast and heavy; How you shiver with the cold; Let. we wrap your mantle closer, And my arm around you ford. IVe are weak, and faint, and weary, And the sun's low in the west; We have retched the gates, my darling, Let us tarry here, and rest. Et•toq-Eciter. FROM THE TOMB. OD All Saints' eve, Iwo centuries ago, a well dressedtratiger ' but pale and thin. st.pped at an inn in Schweidnets He was cordially received by the host and ht,stess, and shown to the best apartments. In the room below, at the supper table, sat a num ber of burghers disco-sing public affairs. In the kitchen, on a ktone bench, sat a young and beautiful girl. Her dress was of coarse serge. and ill fitted, but her grace ful form and face shaded by a profusion of brown ringlets, would have adorned tire highest sphere. tier spinning wheel stood idle befire her, as she was absorbed in thought, and tears slid slowly down her pale cheek. A young man, of handsome face and figure, entered, and leaning over her affectionately, whispered : "In tears again, Margaret. Look up, sweet one; there is no cause for grief; I will speak to my parents to night." "Oh, no !do not, Franz! Thy father will curse thee, and thy mother will not pardon thy secret marriage. Be silent till I am dead." "No, Margaret," said Franz, "I cannot. I have met with good fortune. lam no longer dependent on my father. The count, to whom the great forest of W belongs, is in want of a forester. He is pleased with me, and has given me the place." ".A.h, my husband, I would gladly re joice with th ee; but have not thy parents often repr-aeh ed me with my mean birth. as well as my p:tvetty They shall never know I am thy wife until they are willing to receive me as web." . Just then the do, , r opened, and Franz's mother entered. .`ke confusion of both did not escape the dam e's notice. "Shameless girl T." she exclaimel, "wilt thou persist in talking w.'th my son as if thou wert his equal ? Wouldst thou en trap the heir of all me have to wed thee?" "Spare me ! spare me !" cried the poor girl. "Franz shall wed no damsel who cannot bring him a dower of a hundred gold pieties. Swear to me that thou wilt bold no dis course with him till thou canst b.-ing we such a sum as thine own, or begs ne this instant." "I swear !" The hostess became less severe, and in a softer tone replied : "I trust thee. Thou halt in truth a good heart, and art a brave girl, but the poor must not aspire to the rich, nor one born in shame to the son of honest parents." Margaret hastened to her own chamber, .vhere she wept a long while. The stranger, meanwhile, joined the company in the dining ball. The burghers readily gave him a place at the upper end of the table. Margaret soon after entered, bearing wine He looked at her earnestly, and inquired her nnne. She answered him with modest grace A conversation in a low tone had been going on between two citizens. "Have you really belief in this ?" asked one.- -Certainly," replied the other "I have heard of several who have seen the specter in times past " The stranger caught the story, and inquired about the specter, to which the burgher answered respectfully : ••It is a rumor sir, that puzzles our towns folks. There is in the churchyard an an client tomb, vaulted as they were in former times, and so defaced that the inscription cannot be read'. None, therefore, knew who lies there. For 3 ears it has been re ported that on the eve of certain holidays the dead man forsakes his tomb and walks about the burial ground. The present sexton told me but a short time since, that when he opened the tomb to deposit there in another corpse, be received a blow from an invisible hand, hard as if given by a skeleton, that felled him to the ground, and that a voice at the same time whis pered, 'Bring no one here until I myself can lie down in the grave in peace.' The sexton was naturally overcome with terror. The specter walks at midnight, but only on the eve of some holiday. But any time one may see the bleached skeleton through the open door of the tomb. They say the earth will not cover the accursed bones, because the dead man left unexpiated some fearful crime " "A strange tale !" observed the stranger. "Were I not feeble, and the night raw and cold, I would visit the spot this night my self. As a I am anxious to know the truth. I will amply reward any one who will go and bring me a token that he had actually been at the place I would tint scruple to give one hundred gold pieces: - To everybody's surprise, Margaret., timid and trt-mbling. came forward "I am ready, sir," she said, the ••um you promise." "You—a delicate girl—and at mid night !" exclaimed the physician "Yes," she answered resolutely ; "I am in need of that sum. What shall I bring as a token ?" The stranger drew a gold ring from hi, finger and said "Put this on the skele ton's finger. In the morning I will send and see if it is there. If I find you have told me the truth, the one hundred pieces will be sours." Franz was not present, or Margaret's plan might have been frustrated. She left the room, wrapped herself in a cloak, and walked with rapid steps toward the church yard. * * * * Not until Margaret was in the burial ground. and near the end of her walk, did her resolution begin to give way. She stood now close by the dilapidated tomb. The stones had fallen away from the en trance so that the vault within was quite exposed. The pale moonlight fell through the wide gaps above and gleamed on the white h , nes of the skeleton. di-tioetly seon as it lay upon the ground Marpret trembled violently ; she was obliged to lean again 4, the tomb for support, and a shad der came over her as she touched the chilly stones. By a strong effort she composed herself, pushed aside the rubbish and en rered the tomb. Ano , her moment, an.l she had slipped the ring on the finger of the skeleton. But she overtasked her courage, and she suddenly gave way to a wild, indefinite terror. She strove to fiy from the spot, but bad scarcely come forth from the tomb when she fell to the ground insensible. After some moments she was aroused to consciousness by hearing the dull, heavy tones of the bell striking 12. She rose slowly and looked around her. and to her amazement and terror she saw the skeleton standing beside her She seemed upheld by a supernatural strength. It came nearer; tha heavy arm locked its self in hers. "Depart, in the saint's name !" she ex claimed at length. _ _ A low, hollow voice answered: "I can not; I will never leave thee till thou bast obtained my f ,, rgiveness " •'ForgivenesN:—of whom ?" "Of yonder woman." Margaret's eyes followed the direction indicated; and, indeed, at a short distance, on a grave unmarked by any monument, she , aw a femk,figure I.itting. The white draper) of the-r-tonib shrouded htq. form ; her face was Wrapped in a kerchief that covered her eyes, leaving only the deathly cheeks and mirble lips exposed. Toward this spot the young girl felt herself drag ged, with a force she could not resist. by the skeleton arm that grasped hers "Forgive him," she murmured faintly The apparition shook her head solemnly and sternly "Forgive him for my sake," cried 3.llr garet, more earnestly. "He will not let me c o till I have obtained thy pardon !" Again the specter shook her head. The poor girl wrung her hands in despair.— With all the energy of passionate feeling, she made one more appeal : "Forgive him for the sake of the child I am to bear !" The apparation slowly bowed her head, and the words, "He is forgiven !" came from the motionless lips. The arm of the young girl was suddenly released. The scene vanished from before her eyes ; a faintness came over her, and she sank once more to the ground. Meanwhile the guests at the inn sat in expectation of the young girl's return.— The physician was talking privately with the host, making carnet inquiries concern ing some person. _ _ _ "If he be the persrm I mean," said he, "it is the j-iner, Hallerbach, who formerly lived in Breslau. For some Sears, as E. have learned he has resided in this neigh borhood To see him is the object of my present journey." "It will be easily accomplished. The man lives scarce a mile hence. Margaret can give you every information about him ; for she was brought up by him as his daughter " "low old is she ?" asked the physician. "Nineteen," interposed the hostess, "on St. Michael's day." "It is the same 1" exelaimed the stranger. "Where—where is she ?" "She is the young girl who went forth just now to the churchyard " The physician started up, seemed to gasp for breath, then sank back in his seat. At this moment Franz entered, and asked for Margaret. Several of the company in formed him whither she had gone. "To the churchyard and alone, at this hour !" he exclaimed. Without another word he rushed from the house. "Stop my son he is mad !" shrieked the hovess: "A thousand guilders to any one who will bring her back in safety !" cried the stranger. He had gone a few paces to ward the door, but looked so pale and wild th..a those around forced him back to his seat.. They refused to release him, in spite of his struggles, fur a suspicion of his in sanity at once entered the minds of all pri sent. several minutes elapsed before quiet was restored. The stranger's expla nation of his singular behavior satisfied every cne. At the age of thirty he had been the family physician of a rich Bohemian count. The count had a beautiful daughter; she loved and was loved by the physician ; was secretly married to him, and fled with him from her father's displeasure. The lovers went to Bresslan under au assumed name, and lived for some time quietly in the house of the joiner Hallerbach. Here the young wife gave birth to a daughter and died in the same hour. In the midst of his grief the young physician learned that the count had information of his retreat, and found it necessary to leave the country.— The father went into Italy. There he succeeded so well that he ere long obtained a lucrative situation in the service of a nobleman of high rank. Why did he not return to Germany to reclaim his child ? Many obstacles inter l i posed; he had, besides, no certain iotel ligence that she yet lived. The jourley, which he purposed some time to make, was delayed year after year; and of late a long continuance of ill health had unfitted hint for travel. It was only within a month that he had been able to accompliA whit had, in the absence of other tie,, become the wish of his life. He arrived at Bres lan; learned there whither Hallerbach had removed, and followed him. The wan must have betrayed the trust reposed in haul, or never would his daughter have been reduced to a condition of servitude. "He has indeed done that !" answered the hist -The poor girl had but a wretched home with him. And he told me, when she was placid with us as a serving maid, that she was the deughter of an advocate lone Fiore dead." The - straneer ertaned e. heird this. Meanwhile. two or throt (d' the burghers had :rime out with the intention efuarch jag fir the urissing, girl. They reture.ed in a few moments with Frenz, who sup ported in his arms the lifeless firm" of Margaret. The young .gi , l soon revived. and looked bewildered around The stranger who had hung over her in speechless emo tion, exclaimed : '.lt is—it i.4—my lost child and he clasped her in his arms. The my.tery on bath sides was seen ex plained Margaret had been found by her half frantic liver on the spot where she had fallen, and still lay insensible. She was identified, not only by a strong resemblance of feature, but also by the confession of the guilty Hallerbach himself, as the daughter of the physician. Her simple story of love was soon told, and the young. man Franz was proudly ac knowledged as her husband by the grate ful father. Dame Martha, when she Mond the poor girl to be the lawful (laughter and heiress of a wealthy man, was as well pleased with her alliance as she had been formerly sft egaiest it. The ring placed by the heroic girl on the skeleton's finger was found afterward within the tooth. She wore it as her wed ding ring There was a difference of opition with regard to the occurence in church yard, of which Margaret gave a de tailed account, as son') as she became, suffi• ciently composed. Some insisted that she had been under a delusion of the iwagina time, or that the whole fancied scene was but a vision that passed during her swoon. `to ;to fir ckct l c ici*llann. Vict)ria's Crown. As described by her inaj,.sty's mineral ogist, the crown of England's queen is quite a bauble It was made by Messrs. Ronda & Bridge in 1838, with jewels taken from old crowns, and furnished by command of her majesty. It consists of diamonds, pearls, rubies, sapphires and emeralds, set in silver and gold; it has a ciinison with ermine Ir)rder, and is lined with white silk. Its gross weight is thirty-nine ounces, live penny weights, Troy. The lower part of the band above the ertniiee border consists of a row of i 29 pearls, and the upper part of the baud .4 . a r , :w of 112 pe::ris. between which in front of the crown is a large sapphire— par ly drilled—purchased for the crown by his majesty, Kieg George IV. At the back is a sapphire of smaller size, and six other sapphires—three on cash side—be tween which are eight emeralds Above and below the i-evei, sapphires are four teen diamonds, and around the eight emeralds 128 diamonds. Between the urn-ralds and the sapphires are sixteen trefoil oroaments. containing 169 diamonds. Above the band are eight sapphires surmounted by eight diamonds, between which are eight fes toons containing 148 diamonds. In the front of the crown, and in the centre of a diamond Maltese cross, is the famou , ruby said to have been given to Edward 111., called the black prince, by Don Pedro, king of Castile, after the battle of Vabora near Vittorio, A. D., 1867. This ruby was worn in the helmet of Henry V., at the battle of Agincourt, A. D., 1415. It is pierced quite through, after the Eastern custom, the upper part of the piercing be ing filled by a small ruby. Around the ruby, in order to torm the cross, are sev enty five brilliant diamonds. Three other Magest crosses, forming the two sides and back of the crown, have emerald centres, and contain respectively 13,123 and 130 brilliant diamonds Between the four Mal teso cr sses are four ornaments in the from of the French flew lis, with four rubies in the ceetres. and -urrouteled by rose dia mends, ctinteining respectively eighty five, eighty six atei eighty seven rose diamonds. From the Maltese cross issue four imperial arches composed of oak leaves containing 728 rose, table arei brilliant diamonds; thirty-two pearls form ac - Jrns, set in cups containing fifty-four rose diamonds and one table diamond. The total number of diamonds in the arches and acorns is 108 brilliants, 116 table and 559 rose diamonds. From the upper part of the arches are sus pended four large pendant pear shaped pearls with rose diamond caps, containing twenty four very small rose diamonds Above the arch stands the mound, con taining in the lower hemisphere 304 brit liants, and in the upper 224 brilliants, the zone and are being composed of thirty three rose diamonds. The cross on the summit has a rose cut sapphire in the cen tre, surrounded by four large brilliants and 103 smaller brilliants Romance of Spring. It is moonlight on the Hid. From out the trees a gentle zephyr creeps to rub the hyacinth of its perfumed breath, and adown the garden waik the whipporwili lends his monotone of sadness unto the balmy night. - Sleep, with brooding, wings, sits silent o'er the scene Bit, hark !it is the tinkling guitar strummed by the lonely Augusta. lie comes Beneath the vine e!ad window in the ghostly gloaminz he pauses, and up the flower•treliiscd wail he shoots a mei in choly tenor fr•au_ht with the pas-i , m.ite inquiry, "Must I leave thee here. el,+lie ?" No answer returns save the hauntin7 echo and the low clinking of a distant (lion— The scene changes. It is the back yard tableaux A white. robed old man bends above a chained dog and soothes his too ewer spirits as he loosens the collar. A ' low voice says, "S cc-ceck him, Bull—take a short cut round the rose bush." A flash, and the old man is alone. The clatter of a fallen guitar comes from the front ; a sound like the rush of a steeple chase nearing a hedge is borne back, and neck and neck two figures cross the picket fence and disappear down the dim perspective of the deserted street. Then the old man meets Bull as he returns on the outer walk, and removes in a discouraged manner a dark object from his foaming mouth, while the animal re tiros to the kernel. The door opens and shuts upon the white-robed form. and all is still again. But as he gets in bed and shoves the old lady's feet out of the warm place, he mutters : "Bull is ge , ting old. an' serenades don't pay divydends like they used to, but it the busteesi keeps up. I thick you will be justifi-d ia another patch work quilt, Maria. That last fellow left real easbiffier." 'What sorter sample did you get?" "Tolerable fhir. There w.tA a long strip with a pano!-pocket bangue to it, and one gallus' butt'n." Hard-Headed People. The hard-headed man is almost invaria bly successful. "Luck," he says. "There's no such thing as luck. I simply took no steps backward." But the truth is that Fate gave him in his cradle sharper sight and a cooler brain than the rest of and he has been cooling and sharpening them ever since No nurse could frighten them with bugaboos or the dark ; and no clergy ' man's talk of remorse or the judgment day affects him now. He has never done wrong, why should he be afraid ? Nobody ever mistook his character He was known as a "long-headed fellow" when he played "mumble the peg and wore peticoats. His father never romped with him; and his mother, telling the dear old Bible stories, stammered when she clught his keen, in credulous eye. Angels, she remembered, did seem so very unlikely after all, when one lookei at things in a common sense way, and as for the old heroes and martyrs she was ashamed to let him see the glow of soul with which she thought of them. Could they have really found no more practical method of introducing the gospel than by going through the rack and fire ? He was a cynical little doubter as a boy, but now, as a man, he is well known as a Christian to all his customers, and as a tradesman to all Christians Not that he is a hypocrite. But he prefers church going people as patrons; they pay their bills promptly. And he thinks that the Christian religion teaches sound business principles. It is honesty that wins in the long run in the market; and it is the fair dealer whose profits are the biggest He is so successful a man that the public al ways give him credit either for genius or luck ; but he has neither the one or the other. He simply knows the market, and has no higher aim than to please it. If he is a tradesman, he catches the farthest glimpse of the coming whim of fashion and fills his shop with it. If he is an author, his are the "made" books, which nobody can do without ; his pictures, if he has given himself to art, are those popular studies, babies and young mothers at pray er which are first marked "sold" in exhi bition rooms. If be has devoted his life to science he seizes the crude invention of some visionary fellow, gives it a practical use, patents it, and makes his fortune. If he is a physician, be iralways at hand as an expert on trials ; you will seldom miss his name out of the papers. If he is a clergyman, he is always master of the sensation of the hour, ready to preach upon any subject upon which the public has temporarily gone mad. It really does not matter to him where the horse goes, so that he sits astride it. Other men, in short, tumble sometimes upon good fortune hiding in the field; be lies in wait for it, catches it when it is fattest. He knows how to bide his time; he is /e chat qui dort If he happens not to be a man but a woman, you usually find this shrewd hard headed eittz..n a thin lipped. pale-eyed leader of the "best society," whether fast and fashionable or sternly pious, depends altogether upon the accident of her posi• tion She is usually, however, so immac ulate es to. her own morals as to have no mercy fur any shortcomings in others. The New Testiment system of charity, in her opinion, is crude and lax. If she had been there she would have given the man beset by thieves a ticket for work to a ward mom mittee, instead of oil and wine; and she would have handed the Magdalene over to a policeman, to make sure that she sinned no more. This lady is always known as a capital manager of servants, seamstresses, church suppers or sons' wives She can get an incredible amount of work for small wages out of the people in her kitchen. Her neighbors (easy, thriftless creatures, to her mind) look on with envy. Neither she nor her mescaline congener has at heart the slightest faith in any man or woman bat themselves. It is they wbo can lay an unerring finger on the one black spot of charac , er which your friend keeps hidden, be it freckle or blood-stain. They know humam nature You shall not hum bug them. The possessions of wealth, of' pulic es teem, and of ideas of this hard headed cit izen are all so substantial that he is the man whom the world always envies most. It does not love him probably half so much as some luckless, lovable, sinful Laz arus starving at his gate, who had not the crumbs from the rich man's table here, and is not at all sure of Abraham's bosom hereafter. But what of that ? He has been shrewd, rational, practical. He has sought solid goods in the world ; money, influence, respect—and he has gained them. As for the vague cloudy world of love, friendship, imagination, he knows nothing about it; he has invested nothing in . it and he expects no dividends. His neigh bor, a widow in rusty black (one of the easy, irrational sort), gave all of her labor and thoughts to a sickly husband and son, who are now both dead. What provident folly that was ! Now, the most real things in the world to her are the love they gave her, the heaven to which they are gone, the God who cares for her and them. He listens to her as to a dying man who bab bles of green fields that live only in his fevered fhney. God and heaven and love are to him only poetic names . Perhaps as he nears the ends, the with ered little atom of a heart in him stirs feebly and craves a late tenderness from some one, a sou, or more often a grandchild. It is not often given. It is not for love he worked. Then, one day, he lies down in the middle of his solid goods and goes out. They are all left, but he is gone. His hands yonder must be quite empty. fiis forlorn little neighb.r is g-ne too; but people talk with a smile of the home which was ready for her and the friends who were waiting There are certainties which out last money or goods upon which our bard hearted friend did not lay his hand.—N Y. Tribune THERE is one thing on which a husband and wife never have and never can agree, and that is on what constitutes a well beaten carpet. When the article is clean it's a man's impression that it should be removed, and he be allowed to wash up and quietly retire. But a woman's appe tire for carpet-beating is never appeased while a man has a whole muscle in his body. And if he waited until she volun tarily gave the signal to stop he might beat away until he dropped down dead. It is directly owing to his superior strength of mind that the civilized world is not a widow this day. THE whirligig of fashion may bring round the most sudd•-m and dazzling changes, and the duties (If the toilet may multiply like leaves in Valambresa, but there is nothing that will make a woman stand before her looking glass so long as a sunburnt nose. SUBSCRIBE fur the JOURNAL. Literary Notes. Harper'. Magazine for May presents an unusu al variety of entertaing matter, and is full of beautiful illustrations. The novelty of the Num ber is striking. The opening article, by Henry J. Van Dyke, Jr., takes us to the Red River Val ley and across the border into Manitoba. The resources end the icturezque features of the o.untry and its peculiar people (including the Mennonite immigrants) furnish entirely fresh pictures for pen and pencil; and, in the use of the latter, Mr W. S. Macy, the artist, hac been very efficient. Mrs. Li second paper on "Music and Mu sicians in England" is, in every page of it, a revelation of phases of English social life unfa miliar to the majority of American readers. The social side of English musical life has furnished Mr. Abbey with motives for a number of delight ful drawings, engraved for this article. In addi tion to these, this artist has also contributed to this Number a charming illustration of Robert Herrick's poem "On Chloris Walkinge in Ye Snows." Less picturesque, perhaps, but quite as novel, are the descriptions, by the late James W. Milner, of the fisheries and fishermen on our Middle Atlantis coast (from Chesapeake Bay to Albemarle sound), with excellent illustrations. Mrs. Treat contributes a second paper of her "Home Studies of Nature," full of interest, and beautifully illustrated by J. C. Beard. The paper on the Metropolitan Museum of New York is very timely, in connection with the re cent removal of this institution to its permanent location in Central Park. Among the illustrations besides pictures of the building (exterior and interior), are engravings from some of the most remarkable paintings in the Art Gallery of the Museum. Mrs. Lizzie W. Cbampney contributes s quaint short story, entitled "Salgatos Condits," illustra ted by Pyle. Another short story by Angeline Teal portrays some characteristic features of Western life, and abounds in humorous situations. , . The serial novels—Black's "White Wings" and Blackmore's "Mary Anerley"—are continued; Among the solid articles are Edward Cary's •'Civil Service Reform in New York," and Col. H. M. Boies's "Our National Guard." The Editor's Ea,j Chair, with other interest ing matter, contains some very pithy reflections on wood-engraving. In the Drawer, which is full of bright humors, there is a new poem (illus trated), entitled "MineSchildhood," by the author of "Leedle Yawcob Strauss." St. Nicholas for May opens with an important "Talk with Girls and their .bothers," by Wash ington Gladden, and contains the first installment of Noah Brooks's new serial for boys—a base ball story, entitled "The Fairport Nine," and finely illustrated by Redwood. Of complete short stories there are five, all with pictures : "Topsyturvy's Dream," a fanciful tale by Edgar Fawcett; "The Boy and the Giant," a Bible story retold by Susan Coolidge; "Sally's Soldier," a Decoration day story, with pictures by Zogbaum; "Two More of the M jor's Big-talk Stories," being a sort of modern Munehansen adventures in the desert of Sebara, with comical and spirited illustrations; and "A Term at the District School," from a girl-scholar's point of view. There are two Natural History articles : "The Story of Lizbeth and the 'Baby,'" an account of horned lizards, with pictures from life by F. S. Church; and "Curious Facts Concerning Ants," with Ave illustrations. ' Oriental Jugglery," an illustrated paper, tells of some wonderful tricks and feast by indoo jugglers. "A. D. 1695° explains, with the aid of pictures, an interesting piece of history, "How to Care for the Sick" is a practical article, giving young folks clear and safe advice concerning nursing, how to act and what to do in a sick room. There are, besides, an out-door poem by Lucy Larcom; a humorous piece on "Ancient History," by Margaret Vandegrift, with illustrations by E. B. Ben:ell; some funny pictures by L. Hopkins; and two drawings by Addie Ledyard. The Departments provide stories and pictures for the very little folk, and pictures, items, letters e,r.d puzzles for everybody. 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The numbers of The Living Age for the weeks ending April lith and 24th respeetly, contain the following articles : llammerton's "Life of Turner," Edinburg; Charles Waterton, London Quarterly ; Sham Admiration in Literature, and Days in the Woods, Nineteenth Century; The Marbles of :Egina, Fortnightly; Among French Friends in Burgun dy, Fraser; The British Peerage, Temple Bar; The Civil Code of the Jews, and Chinese Progress and Russian Diplomacy in Central Asia, Pell Mall; llindoo Powers of Memory, Atheneum; A Tidal Problem, Nature; with installm nts of "Adam and Eve," "The Crookit Meg," and "Verona Fontaine's Rebellion," and the usual amount of poetry. As a New Volume begun with the number for April this is a good time to subscribe. 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Mr. George M. Towle writes interestingly of Castelar, the Spanish statesman, and Edward Ab bott gives some account of Mary Carpenter, the devoted English philanthropist, whose visit to this country some years since will be recalled. There are also "Getting Breakfast at Bruges," "The Preacher in Print," "Aa to Family Newspa pers," and other articles. Among the latest arrivals at this of f ice is a copy of a new paper, The Illustrated Literary Guest. The Guest is a large sixteen page paper filled with entertaining reading, finely illustrated and each number contains a piece of music from some celebrated composer. Tile publishers offer to sup ply the Guest fur a year and give a pair of Genu ine 0.1. pictures free to any one sending them 75 cents. 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