glje American Volunteer PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY MORNING RATION 3c kknneby, office-south iudeet square. p^mb—Two Dollars per year tf paid strictly • Two Uollamiidd Fifty Cents If paid ln ,.mn three montliHj alter which Three Dollars wl h l fltiurued. These terms will he rigidly ad-, ffdi i,, lu every instance. No subscription dtb* until all arrearages Ure paid, unless at ftilSStwu ul tun bMHt.r. 4iirofesoloiial tfiacDs. I *W.M. B. BAUKJiU. aUMIUCH & PARKER, ATTORNEYS AT LAW.' Oftfco on Mala Stioot, la Marlon Halt. Car* lisle, Pa* M i _ iTnitko states claim i ‘ AND ■ real ESTATE AQEEOYI M. B. 'BUTLER, attorney at law. ' office In 2d Story of iuhoirs Building, No, 3 South (j^y VO r street, Carlisle, Cumberland county *Peualon3, Bounties, Back Pay, Ac., promptly collected. Applications by mail, will receive Immcdlato attciitluu. Particular attention given to the selling or rent intc of Keul Estate, in town or country. In all let* ■ tureof Inquiry, please enclose postage stump. July U,MOT-tf- ; n E. BEIiTZUOOVBU' 'ATIOimE¥-AT-LAW, CARLISLE. Pa. ay-Ofllce on South Hanover Street, opposite Btuiz’s dry goods store. Jipc. 1. tNti. M. J. ciHEAKEH, Attorney and Counsellor at Law, has 'removed his otuce to the hitherto unoccupied room in the Nurtb East corner of the Court House, jnu, a>, ’till—iv v W KENNEDY, Attorney at Law. # Carlisle. Feuutt. Oblce sumo us that t>l Uio •American volunteer.” Dec. 1. JMW JAMES H. GKAH.AM, Jit!, attorney at law, , NO. 14 bOiUH HANOVER ST.. . / . PAI? LISLE, PA. OFFlCE—Adjoining Judge Graham’s. March til. 1870—tf y L. BHXiYUUK, Justice of the Pj. Peace. Oilleo No 3, Irvin's Row, Carlisle. Ajail 2U, lt>oll —iy I \ii, OEUKUE S. SEAKiGiJT, Dbn- I ) nsT.' from the FalUmore fulltye of Dental tuiyery. OUlee at the residence of bla motbei Boat LouLher street-, three doors below Bedlord Carlisle, Penna. . lieu. 1 1b(jo. B. KEYNOLU.S, M. I>. oiactuate of HAHNEMANN MEDICAL COL- LbUu,, Pbllddoipum.. • . OUlce/L West Loulhor fit., at residence of bla inuLuer, Cumsio. Juue 0, 70—3u»* Dii. X. Y. KEEL), Homeopathic Phy >iciun> baa located m Civilisie, uillce next lO bt. PuUl’b EVUUgIUCUI CllUfCll, NVOat Ui.illier street, Patients iioui u distance piouse cull m the loreuoou. Murun 17, ib/o—om* ' jgUWAKU SHILLING, M. D. PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON, iVb. East Fomfrct street, ■ CAULISLE. Dr. Shilling was associated with Dr. Zltzer. in Hits place, lor u year oi no, and bus been pi actie liig in Dickinson townsnip, lor uneo yeaib, Ail piuieas.oiiul business promptly utleuded to. Apul 7, lo7o—Bm ■UTES. B. HlltOoSS, ATTORNEY AND * ' COUXSELOit AT uA\V, FIFTH BTUaEf, BELOW CHESTNUT, Cor. Library. Philadelphia. Oct 4. 13 00—ly s?ats ano Clays, JjUiJiBH ei U AJL AUiU AKI4I V At OF ALL THE AiSir STYLE & OF HATS AND'CAFS. The subscriber lias just opened at No. 15 North Burner street, a few doors North ol the Carlisle Deposit liana, one of the largest and bust blocks «i ilAl’6 and CARS over oilered iu Carlisle. diia Hals, Cudaimere of all styles and qualities, fiuif Brims, didereut colors, and every deacnp tloii of 6011 Hats now made. ‘ •' The Duukurd and Uld fashioned Brush, con atuutly ou hand and made to older, all warrant ed to give satisfaction. a mil aaaoi tmont of. MENU . BOY'S, AND CHILDREN’S, HATS. have also added to my Stoca, notions of difl’er ehiaiuds, consisting of ladies’ and gentlemen’s stockings, iVcoA Ties', 9 Suspenders,’ Ojilars, ' Uloces, TenciU, Thread, Hewing Silk. Umbrellas, do PEIME SEUAKS AND TOBACCO ALWAYS UN HAND. Give me a call, and examine my stock as I feel e'juudont of pleasing all, besides saving you mo hoy. ' JOHN A. KELLER, Agent, No. loNorth Hanover street. •May, 1800. £JATS AND CAFB ! D 0 YOU WANT A NICE HAT OK CAP ? IF SO, DON’T FAIL TO CALL ON J.G.CALUO, NO. 2S. I VJSHI MAIN UTJtliliT, Whore can be seen the lineal assortment of HATS AMU CAPS ever brought to Carlisle. Ho lakes great pleas ure la inviting hla old fnouda uud ami nil now cues, to lus splendid stock just re ceived from New Yorit uud Philadelphia, coa luimg lu part of line SILK AND CASSIMERE HATS, besides ua endless variety of Huts and Capa of. Hie luteal style, allol which lie will eell at tho Luweal CUsh Jfruxs, Also, lus own immufuetuio Huts always uu hand, and HATS MANUFACTURED TO ORDER. fie luu* the best arrangement for coloring Hats anil all lands of vVooleu Goods, Overcoats, oto., ut luu Biioriest notice (ua Ue colors every wcekj and Ou tuo must reasonable tonus. Also, a line lot oJ Ciioicu brands of TOBACCO AND CIGARS always ou hand. Ho desires to call tho attention to persnus wuo have COUNTRY PURS lo neh, as ho pays tho highest cash prices, for lie ■amu. Uive min a call, at the above number, his ild *laua, as he fuels confident of giving uuure'su-ib- Imaiuii. iiuy- foul). iiiootß.aut £»ljoes. g'PKOHM & BPONBLER, No 13, Aruih Hanover Street , CARLISLE,i;PA. .Thankful for tho patronage ostomlod! them uorsiefure.do now aunouuoe.,their usual large Slues oIoPKINU STYLES o{ BOOTS AND SHOES FORI W.DIE3’ AND MIS3E3’, 1 L.OENi’S’ AND BOYS’,I , - , YuUmc’ A'D CHILDS’, wQich are unrivaled lor comfort and beauty Mso —TRUNKS AND - VAX.IS3E9, MEN AND BOYS’ HATS, All of which will bo sold at small profits. Call ah and got a .-full equivalents fur] your April, 12 1870-ly OAN DIDATE FOR BUBRIFFI The undersigned Is always open for smtu. fa vom, ami win nave no objection whatever to be “ cuudiiiute ior obenff, it urn Democratic friends buu IU to nominate mm. lu me meantime, us It **» tus custom to stay at uome and attend to bis owu business, It will tie impossible lor him to r* u upon tns irleuds m various parts oi tUo couu «• uuj Urt requests mem all to call ai hi* Shop, -n blast Loumer street, Carlisle, wuero he is oi'vays prepared to furnish mo iieat-sfUta.jn Moult uiui vhiiei, of uuy esttbllshmout lu~the bounty. Ho is now Wi/iltiug up tu < very nest of Bioca at roducea prices, Extra noavy soles sap- Piled to oui couutr iriouus wuo dou’t wuut to Da Postered with candidates. Msraa ai, hire— om. ADAM DYSEF.T. ..I . . . • . . . . . . . . . ' tit . , r%\ i,r. • , . . .•• . ...,,, . :,.. ~,•• , • •:. 4:-.:..) ~ '', :,' i' 1 ' , • ~, I i I rt tr.L.,\: - I :, ~, . • : ( i ~, ~ ___„:„, • :,, .. , :k ~., , .• .„ 1, . .0 •,. ~.. ~, .. ' ' , .11 L I'l L 4 t i l t l i' • \. E -... n , \<,...,..5,,,.. e. '"V .7 , . . . . • . . . . . - BY BRATTON & KENNEDY. 30r» (ffioous. QHEAP DRY GOODS, CHEAP DRY GOODS, AT THE NEW STORE, D. A, SAWYER, D. A. SAWYER, Irvine's Corner, Irvine's Comer, Bargains la LAWNS, GRENADINES, HERNANI9, BEBEGES, LACE POINTS, .. SUMMER SHAWLS, LACK CURTAINS. pa rasous, Pans, <sc. Piques, Marsaides, LOOK AT THE PRICES. CALICOES, OJJ, 8, 10, 12U, MUrtLINS. (J J4, «, .10, 12*4- GINGHAMS, 12$, • H, 15, 17, TICKINGS, 'l4, , 18, 22, 25, Cheapest Pants Stud In the town, Cheapest Cloths and Coasters In'be town. Cheapest Hosiery in the town. Cheapest Gloves and Handk’s, in the town. Cheapest Notions, all kinds la tho.town, DRESS GOODS, Cheapest DeLnlnos •• in the town Cheapest Poplins * in the town. Cheapest Alpuccus black a col’d in the town. Cheapest Black a Fancy Silks in the town. Cheapest Japanese • la the town WHITE GOODS, Cheapest Piques Fig, striped la the town. Chrapest' Mursallles in the town, Cheapest Percales • in .1 lie town. Cheapest Chintzes In .the town. ;uneap-si Emoroiderlcs a Laces in the town. Cheapest Collars a Cuffs In the town. Cheapest Table Ltueu in trie town. Cheapest .'Upkins, <6c. In the town. A splendid article Pique 25 cts. All olber goods In proportion. Come and examine lor yoarselveM, No trouble to show goods. Our motto Is small profits and quick sales. Ti ese goods have been purchase d for cash, at gold prices, and we can sell you now goods Lwooty-llve pe cent. less, than they Will ch <rge you for old goods at other stores. D. A. SAWYER. Juuo 2. 1870. GOODS! DRY GOODSM ATTRACTIVE SPECIALTIES HARPER’S POPULAR DRY GOODS STORE. Pure msnd daring tne greatest depression in ho market, and to be soldut correspondingly «w prices. DBEBSGOODS, comprising all the novelties of tho season. MOURNING AND SECOND MOURNING? GOODS, BLACK SILKS, BLACK SATIN TAMISES, In extraquality. Pure Mohairs, Biack Alpnccas (Specialty.)' VV H I T E GO ODS, Piques In great variety and latest styles.— French Muslins, Nansooks, Cambrics, Bishop and \ Ictorla Lawns, Tarletons, <to., <fec. • HOSIERY AND GLOVES in great variety. .Guipure Laces—host and cheapest stock In town. Real Valenciennes. Thread Laces, In serting#, Hamburg . Embroideries nud. Lace Collars. GOODS, Llnon for suits, Llneu Ducki ami Drills, Pillow Caso Linens, * '• LI non Sheetings, Whltb Holland for Blinds, Table-Linens and Napkins, Doylle. Towels, White Spreads, Ac., Ac. BOYS’ CABSIMERES AND MEN’S WEAR, newest styles, less than regular rates. SPECIAL NOTICE! Opening* of LLAMA LAOE POINTS, LLAMA LACE ROCKS, BEDOUIN MANTLES, SHETLAND SHAWLS. . • ‘ THUS. A. HARPER. Cor. of Hanover and Pomlret bta. Juno 23.187 i. QREAT. COMMOTION DRY GOODS, On acctnmtof the reduction In Gold, the Dry Qouds Merchants who undeistaud their business and the certkm signs of the times, have reduced thep l iceoi their goods con espondingly. rhesub scrlhera have just received from the cities a largo and full assortment of all Kinds of FOREIGN & STAPLE GOODS, which they will sell lower than they have done since 1801. _ SILKS, Wdol Do Lalnes, Alpacas, Poplins, Sergos, Bom buzlues, Tarmso Cloth, Grenadines, FLANNELS OF ALL KINDS, Plain and Fancy, Llnon Table Diapers, (’otton do., Checks, Tickings, Ginghams, counterpanes EMBROIDERTE a mu line: White Goods In great variety, HOSIERY, GLOVES, TRIMMINGS and a full stock of DOMESTIC GOODS, Calicoes, Muslins, by the piece or yard; Grain bugs, CLOTHS, OABSIMEE3, &0., CARPETS, OIL CLOTHS, Drugged, Window Shades. Matting' MILINERY GOODS nf nil kinds. Including Ladles and Qhlldrcns Hnta and Sundowns, and me best assortment ..im hnli nonlltvof duo Klbbons lutho county.— KHI Glov2,;\b«»"m" ice,) lewelry. Fancy Oouds and Notions iu great variety. Ibis MAMMOTH SI'OCK OP GOODS inn tamest In this section of country, Is offered nSSLldtify competition, and all we nek by tf md Judges ofßOods to satisfy the public that tula is the place to buy and save money. LADIES’ UNDER WEAR, A nice assortment or Ladles' Under Clothing very handsomely stitched nod trimmed nt reasonable prices. WOOL taken m exchange co . At the old Dry Goods fltan*l established Fob* ruary lat, l&W. 13.—'70 fMal TRODDEN FLOWERS, There are some hearts that, like the roving, vino, Cling to unkindly and.mlned towers,. Spirits that suffer and do not repine— Patient and sweet as lonely-trodden flowers That from the passer's heels arise, And fling buck odorous breath Instead of sighs. But there are other hearts that will not feel The lonely love that haunts their eyes and ears; That wound fond faith wllh anger worse than steel, And oat of pity’s spring drew idle tears. O, Nature t shall it ever bo thy will, 111 things with good to mlnglo„good with 111 ? Why should the heavy foot of sorrow press The willing heart of uncomplaining love— Meek charity that shrinks not from distress, Gentlbnoss, loth her tyrants to reprove ? Though virtue weep forever aud lament, Will one hard heart turn to her and repent. Why should the reed be broken that will.bend, And they that dry the tears in otner’s eyes Feel their own anguish swelling, without end. Their summer darkened with the smoke of sighs 7 . • M Sum, love to some fair region of his own, Will flee at last, and leave us hero alone. Love weepeth always—wcepeth for the past, For woes that are, lor woes that may betide: Why should not hard ambition weep at lost, rnvy and hatred, avarice and pride? Fate whispers, sorrow in your lot, They would bo rebels; lovo robolloth not. ~~~~~~~~~~~~n~~o THE SPOTTED DOG. BY ANTHONY TROLLOPE. { Concluded.) The violence with which he cursed the gentleman who had sat In the cupboard appalled us, and had, we think, some ef feet In bringing back to us that feeling of respect for him ..which we had. almost lost. It may be difficult to explain wliv we respected him because, he cursed and swore humbly. We do not like cursing and swearing, and were any of our younger contributors to ludu ge t|iem selves uf'er that fashion in our presence we should at the very least, frown upon them. We did not frown upon Julius Mackenzie, but stood up, gazing into Ins lace above us, again feeling that the man was powerful. Perhaps we respected him because he . was .not in the least atraid of us. He went on to assert that he cared not, not a straw, We will* say, for the gentleman in the cupboard. He knew the gentleman in the cupboard very well.; and ibegeutleman in the cup board knew him. As long as he took his wo* k lothe gentleman in the cupboard; the gentleman in the'cupboard would be only too happy to purchase that work at the rate of sixpence, lor a page of manu script containing two hundred and fifty words. That was ids rate of payment lor prose fiction, and at that rate lie could earn lurty five s* illings a week. He wasn’t' ajraid of the gentleman in the cupboard. had had some words with the gentleman iti the cupboard be fore now, and they two understood each other*very weU. He hinted, moreover, .....w. gentlemen- (■» “*** er cupboards; but with none of them could he advance beyond forty-five shil lings a week. Por this he, bad to sit, with his pen in ids hand, seven days a week, ami tne very paper, pens, and ink camp to fiiieenpence Out of the money.— He hud struck lor wages once, 1 ami for a halcyon mouth or two had curried his point of sevenpence halfpenny a page; bm the gentlemen in the cupboards had told him that it could not be. They, too, must live. Hla matter was uo doubt at tractive; but any price above sixpence a page tin tit ted it for their market. AH this-Mr. Julius Mackenzie explained to us with much violence of impression.— When I named Mrs. Grimes to him the toueof.his voice wusjiltered., ‘Yes/,said he, ‘I thought they’d say a word for me. They’re the best friends I’ve got now. I don’t know that you ought quite to be lieve her, for I think she’d perhaps tell a lie to do me a service/ We assured him that we did believe every word Mrs. Grimes hud said to us. After much pausing over the matter we told him that wo were empowered to trust him with our friend’s work, ami tho manuscript was produced upon the table, if be would undertake the work and perform it. heshgtild he paid £8: 65.; Bd. for each of three volumes as they were cjupleted. Ami we undertook, moreover, on our owu responsibility, to advance him money in small amounts through the hands of Mrs. Grimes, if he really settled himself to the task. At first he was in ecstasies, and, os we ex plained to him the way in which the in dex should lie brought out and the codi fication performed, lie turned over the pages rapidly, and showed us that he un derstood at any rate the nature of v the work to be done. But when we came to details he was le>s happy. In what workshop was this new work to be, per formed ? There was a moment In which we almost thought of telling him to do the work in our own room ; but we hesi tated, luckily, remembering thathis con tinual presence with us for two or three mouths would probably destroy us alto gether. It appeared that his present work was done sometimes at the Spotted Dog, and sometimes at homo in his long-, lugs. He said not a woid to us about his wife, but we,could understand that there would be periods in which to work at home would be Impossible to him. He did not pretend to deny that there might be danger on that score, nor did lie ask permission to lake the entire manuscript at once awav to his abode. We.know it he took part he must take the whole, as the work could .not he done in parts. Counter references lyould be needed. ‘My circumstances are had ; very.had in deed,’he said. 'We expressed the great trouble to which we should he subjected if any evil should happen to the mauu script. ‘I will give it up,’ lie said, tow ering over us again, and shaking bis head. ‘I cannot expect that I should bo trusted.’ But we were determined that it should no), be given up- Sooner than give the matter up, we would make some arrangement by hiring a place in which he might work. Even though we were to pay ten shillings a. week fora room for him out of the money, the bargain would bo a good one for him, At last we determined that we would pay a second visit to the Spotted Deg, and consult Mrs. Grimes. We felt that we should have a pleasure in at ranging together with Mrs. Grimes, any scheme of benevolence <m behalf of tills unfortunate and remarka ble man. So we tijld him that we would think over the matter, and send a letter to ids address at the Spotted Dogj which he should receive on tlie following morn ing. He then gathered himself up, rub bed himself together again inside bis coat, and took hla departure. As soon as he was gone we sat looking -at-the learned Dnctor'.a muiiUHcript, and thinking of what he had done, lliere lay tlie work of years, hy which our dear aiid venerable old friend expected that he would lake rank among the great cora luentalnrs of modern times. We In truth, did not anticipate lor him all the glory lo which. he looked fo-ward. Wo feared that there might be disappoint ment. Hot discussion on verbal acoura ,clea or on rules of metre are perhaps oot so' much in vogue now as they’.were “ hundred years ago. There might be dis appointment and great sorrow ; but we could not with equanimity anticipate tl e prevention of lids sorrow by tlie possible loss or destruction of tlie manuscript which hud been entrusted to ua. ine Doctor himself bad aoemed lo autlclpute no such danger. When we told him of Mackenzie’s learning and misfortunes, CARLISLE, PA., THURSDAY, JUNE 30, I.BTO he wa-» enuer at ou6o that the thing ahould be done, merely alipulitlmj that he should have an interview with Mr. Mackenzie before he returned to his rec tory. ■ * PART IX.-THE RESULT. There was ‘nothing more to learn, nothimr more by the hearing of which any useful clue could he obtained' What hail been the exact course of the scenes which had been exacted there that morn ing it little hooted us to Inquire. It was enough and more than enough that we knew that the mischief had been done.,— We went down on* our knees before the fire, and rescued from the ashes with our hands every fragment of manuscript that we could find. Then we put (he man* altogether in the box, and gazed upon thewietched remnants almost In tears. ‘You’d better go and get a bit of some’ut to eat,’said Grimes, handing a coin to the elder girl, ‘lt’s hard on'them to starve ’cause their father’s drunk, sir.’— Then he tf),pk the closed box In his hand, and we followed him out Into the street. ‘l’ll send or sten op and look after him to-morrow, 1 said Grime**, as he put us and the box Intrtacab. Wo little thought than when we made to thedrunkard that foolish request to arise, that we should ne'er speus to him again. A 6 we returned to our office in the c«b that we might deposit the b »x there ready for-tue .'following day, our mind was chiefly occupied in thinking over the un deserved .grievances., which had fallen upon ourselves. We had been moved by the charitable desire to* do services to. two different persons, .to the learned Doctor, and to the red-nosed drunkard, and this had come of it*! There had been nothing for us to gain oy assisting eith er the one or thenther. We had taken infinite trouble, attempting to bring to gether two men who wanted each other's services, working hard in sheer henevo-, lence; and what had been the result? We had spent half an hour on our knees, in the undignified and almost disreputa ble work of*raking among Mrs. Macken zie's cinders, and now we*,had to face the anger, the dismay, the reproach, and worse than all, the agouy of the Doctor, As to Mackenzie, we asserted to our selves again and again that nothing further could be done for him. He had made his bed, and lie must lie upon it; hut, oh ! why. why had we attempled to meddle with a being so degraded? We got out at our office door, thinking of the Doctor's countenance us we should see it on the morrow. Our heart sank within us, and we a.-kcd ourselves, if it was so had with us now, bow would it bo with us when we returned to the place on the following morning. But on the following morning we did return. No doubt each individual read er to whom we address ourselves has at some period felt that indescribable load of personal, short-lived care, which ■causes the heart to sink down into the boots. It is, not great, grief that does it; nor is It excessive fear, but the unpleas ant operation comes from the mixture of the two. It is the anticipation of some imperfectly understood evil that does it, some evil out of which there might per haps be an escape if we could only see the way. In this case we saw no way outofit' The Doctor was to be with us atone o’clock, amt be would come with Hirilies, expecting to meet his learhed col league. How should we break it to the Doctor ? We might indeed send to hlrn, putting off the meeting, hut the advan tage coming from that would be slight If any. Wo must see the injured Gte should not he postponed' We spent an, hour that morning in arranging the frag ments. Of the first volume about a third had been destroyed. Of the second nears, ly every page bad been either burned or mutilated. Of the third but little had been injured. ’Mackenzie’s o\>n work had fared better than the Doctor’s; but there was no comfort In that. After what had passed I thought it quite im probable that ihe Doctor would make any use of Mackenzie’s work. So much of the manuscript as could still bo placed in continuous pages, we laid out upon the table, volume by volume, that in the middle sinking down from its original goodly bulk almost to tbe dimensions of a po.»r sermon ; and the half burned bits we left in tbelv x. Then we sat ourselves down at our accustomed (aide, and pre tended to try to work. Our ears wen* very sharp, apd we heard the Doctor’s step upon our stairs within a minute or two of the appointed time. Our heart went to the very toes of our boots. We shuffled in our ctiair. rose from it, and sat down again, and were conscious that we were not equal to the occasion.—f Hitherto we hud, after some mild litera ry form, patronized the Doctor, us a man o‘f letters In town will patronize Ins lite rary friend from the country; but we now feared him as a.truant school boy fears his master. And yet it was so ne cessary that we should wear seme air of self assurance I 11l a moment he was with us. wearing that blaijd smi'o, which we knew su well, and which at the present moment almost overpowered us. We had been sure that he would wear that smile, and, hud especially feared'it. ‘Ah,’ said he, grasping ns by the hand, ‘I thought I should have been lute. ' I see that our friend is not here yet.’ ' V, ‘Doctor,’ we replied, ‘a great misfortune has happened.’ ' , ‘A great misfortune! Mr. Mackenzie is not dead ?’ ‘No ; he is not dead. Perhaps it would have ueeu belter (bat lie had died long since. He has destroyed your manu script.’ The Doctor's face fell, and bis ■hand at the same time, and he stood looking afna. ‘I need not tell you, Doc tor, what my feelings arc, and how great my remorse.’ ‘ ‘Destroyed it I’ Then wo took him by the hand and led him to the table. He turned first upon the appetizing and com paratively unininfed third volume, and seemed to think that we had hoaxed him. ‘This ,is not destroyed,' ho said, with a smile. But before I could explain anything, Ilia hands were among the fragments in the box- ‘As lam a living Ilian, they have burned it!’ he exclaim ed. ‘l—l—l.’ Then he turned from me, and walked twice the length ol the room, backwards and forwards,, while we stood still, patiently waiting the explosion of his wrath. ‘My friend,' ho said, when his walk was over, ‘a great man under went the same sorrow. Newton’s manu script was burned. I will take it home with me, and we will say no more about it.’ I never thought very much of the Doctor as a divine, but 1 hold him to have been as good a Christian as I ever met. . . But that plan of.saying no more about it could not ifillte bo carried out. 1 was endeavoring to explain to him, as I thought it necessary '6 do, the circum stances of the case, and he was protest ing his indifference to any such details, when there came a knock at the door, and the boy who waited on us below ushered Mrs. Grimes into the room. A*» the reader la uwure, we bud, during the lost two months, become very Intlmute with the landlady ol the Spotted Dog, but we hod never hitherto hud the pleas* ure of seeing her outside her own house. 'Oh, Mr. ’ she begun, and then she paused, seeing the Doctor. We thought It expedient that there 'should be some liuroduetlpu. ‘Mrs. Grimes,’ we said, ‘this is the gentleman whose invaluable manuscript has beer destroyed by that unfortunate drunkard.' *Ob, theu; you’re the Doctor, sir?’— The Doctor bowed and smiled. His heart must have been very heavy, but lie bowed politely and smiled sweetly. *oh, dei r.’ she said, ‘I don’t know bow to tell youl’ • ‘To tell us what?’ asked the Doctor. *'» wu uo nu»u i ***v ‘What baa happened since?’ we de manded. The woman stood shaking In fo re us. and then sank into a chair.— Then to us at fbe moment soire idea that the drunken woman, in htr mud rage, Hud (iosie some great damage' to the Spotted Dog, hud set fire to th* house, or Injured Mr. Grimes personally, or perhaps run a muck amidst the jugs nnii pitchers, window glass, and glass lights. Something Ims been done which would give the Grimeses a pecuniary claim on me or on the Doctor; and the .woman hud beet? sent hither to-make the first protest. Oh, when .should I see the last of the results of my imprud ence, in having attempted to befriend such a one as Julius - Mackenzie ! ‘lf you have anything to tell, you .had bet ter tell if,’ we said, gravely. ‘He’s been, and—’ , ‘Not destroyed himself?’ asked the Doctor, ‘Oh. yes, sir. He have Indeed, from ear to ear, and is now lying at the Spot ted Dog! # * * * . And so, after all, that was the end of Julius Mackenzie I We need hardly say that our feelings, which up to that mo ment bud been very hostile to the man, underwent a sudden revulsion. Poor, over-buidened, struggling, ill-used, and abandoned creature! The world hud been hard upon him, with a severity which almost induced one to make complaint against omnipotence. The poor wretch had been wilting to work, bud beeu in iuatrlous in his culling, had had capacity for wt>rk; and he bad also struggled gul ’antly against his evil fate, had recogniz ed and endeavored to perform his duty to his children, and to the miserable woman who had brought him to his ruin ! And that sin of drunkennessdiad seemed to us to*be in him rather tbe reflex of her vice than the result of his own vicious ten dencies. Still it mignt be doubtful as to whether she bud notlearnedthe vice from him. They had both in truth been drunk ards as.loug,as they had been known in the neighborhood of the Spotted Dog; but it was stated by all who had known them there, that he was never seen to be drunk, except when she hud disgraced him by the public exposure of her own abomination. Such as ho was he had now come to bis end I This was the upshot ol his loud claims for liberty from his youth upwards; liberty asagainstids father and family ; liberty os against bis college tu tor; liberty asagainstull pastors, masters mid instructors ; liberty as against the conventional thraldom of the world! He was now lying a wretched corpse ut the Spotted Dog, wl£h Ills throat cm from ear to ear, till the coroner’ejury should have decided whether or not they would cull him a suicide! " . Mrs. Grimes had come to tell us that the coroner 1 was to be at the Spotted Dog at four o’clock, and to say that her hus band hoped th it we would be present We had seen Mackenzie so lately, and had so much to do with tbe employment of the last days oi his life, that we could hot refuse this request, though it came accompanied by no legal summons. Tln-n Mrs. Grimes again became valuable, and poured out to us her biography of Mac kenzie, as far as she knew it. He hail been married to the woman ten years, and certainly hud been a drunkard before be married her., ‘As for her, she’d been well nigh suckled on gin,’Mrs. Grimes said, ‘though he, didn't know it,' poor fel low.' Whether this was true or not, she had certainly taken’to drink soim af'er her marriage, and t' en bis life hud been passed in alternate ills of despondency and of desperate efforts to improve lib own condition and that,of his children .Mrs; Grimes declared toils that when tin fit came on them, when the woman had begun and the man had followed, they" would expend upon drink in two da>> whal woujd have kept the family for a fortni'ght. ‘They say as how it was noth log for them to swallow, forty shillings’ worm oi uni m nni-.v eight hours.', iije Do tor held up his hands in horror. ‘Aiid it didn t, none of it, come oneway,’ sain Mrs. Grimes. ‘lndeed, John let us serve iffor'em.’ She sat-there Air h.df an hour,- and dur ing the whole time she was teding us of the man’s life; but the reader will already have heard more, than enough of it. By what immediate demon the woman had been to bu.n the husband’s work almost Immediately on its produc tion within herown home, we had never heard. Doubtless there hud been some terrible scene in which the.man’s suffer- ings must have been carried almost be yond endurance. 4 And he had feelings, sir, he hud,' said Mrs. Grimes; ‘he knew us a woman should be decent, and a man’s wife especial; I’m sure we pitied him so, John ami I, that we could cry over him. John would say a hard word to him at times, but he’d have.walked round Lon don to do him a good.turn. John ain’t, to say euicated hisself, but he do respect learning.’ • - When she had told us all, Mrs. Grimes went, and we were-left alone with the Doctor. He at once consented to accom pany us to the Spotted Dog, and wo spent iao hour that still remained to us in dis causing the fate of the unfortunate man. We doubt whether an allusion was made dnringthetlme totheburned manuscript. If So, it was certainly not made by the Doctor himself. The tragedy ‘which had occurred in connection with it hud made him feel it to be unfitting even to men* Uou his own loss. That such a one should hcve gone to his account in such a man ner, without hope, without belief, with out fear, as Burley said to Bothwell, him! B»thweil boasted to Burley, that was the theme of the Doctor’s discourse. * The raoroyof God Is infinite,’ he said, bowing hia head, with closed eyes and folded To threaten while the life is in tiie man is human. To believe in the ex ecution of those threats when the life has ‘passed away is almost beyond the power of humanity. At. the hour fixed we were at the Spot ted Dog, and found there a great crowd assembled. The coroner wasalready seat ed in Mrs Grimes’little parlor, and the body, as we were told, had been laid out in the tap room. The Inquest was soon over. The*fact that he hud destroyed himself in the low state of physical suf fering ami mental despondency which had’followed his intoxication, wad not doubted. At the very time that he was doing It, his“wife was being tukim. from the lock-up house'to the police office in the police van. He was not p« nnllei-s, for he hail sent the children out with money hr iliei r break fai-ts, giving special caution tfilo the youngest,a little toddling thing of three years old; and then he had done it, Tiu* eldestglrl, returning to thehouse, .liml found him lying dead upon the floor., ‘vre were called upon for our evidence, uid went into the lap room accompanied oy the Doctor. Alas! the very table which had been dragged up stairs into :he landlady’s bed room, with the chari ;able object of assisting Mackenzie in his work, the table at which we eat with him mulling tlie Doctor’s pages, hud now been iragged down again, and was used for another purpose. We had little to say as to the muter, except that we had known till niau to bo industrious ami capable, tail that we-ih'd. alas ! seen him utterly pr titrated by drink ou the evening be fu e his death. {he saddest sight of all on thin occasion i the appearance of Mackepzie’s wife,. )tn we hud never before seen. She been brought there by a policeman, whether she was still in custody we not know; She had been dressed, er by* the decency of the police or by care of her neighbors, in an old black gown, which wus-a'-worhl too large and too long for her. And on her head there was a black bonnet which nearly envoi oped-her. -Bhe was a small, woman, and,, ua far as we could judge from the glance we got of her face, pule, and worn, and wan, She had not such outward murks of a drunkard’s career as those which poor Mackenzie always carried with him. She was taken up to the coroner, and what answers she gave to him were spo ken in so low a voice that they did not reach ua. The policeman, with whom we spoke, told us that she did not feel it much, that she was callous now ami be yond the power of mental Buttering, ‘tf he is frightened just this minute,our; but it Isn’t more than that,’ said the policeman. We gave one glance along the lable at the burden which it boro, but wo, saw nothing beyond the outward lines of that which had so lately been the figure of a man. We should have liked to see the countenance once more. The morbid cu riosity to see such horrid eights is strong witli most of us. But we did not wish to be thought to wish to sec it, especially by our friend the Doctor, and woabstaiu ed from pushing our way to the head of the table. The Doctor himself remained quiescent in .the comer of the room the farthest from the spectacle. When tbe matter was submitted to them, the jury lost not a moment in declaring their ver dict. They said that tbe mitfi had de-. atroyed himself while s&flering under temporary insanity produced by intoxi cation. And that was tbe cud of Julius Mackenzie, the scholar. On the following day the Doctor re turned to the country, taking with him our black box, to the continued use of which, as a sarcophagus, he had been made very welcome. For our share In bringing upon hjna the great catastro phe of his life, he' never uttered to us, either by spoken or written word, aslqgle reproach. That i.lea of suffering as the great philosopher had suffered seemed to comfort him. ‘lf Newton boro it, surely I can.’ he said to us, with his bland >mile, when wo renewed the expression Something passed between us, coming more from us than from him, us .to the expediency of finding out some youthful scholar who could go down to the rectory, ami reconstruct from its ruins the edifice of our friend : s learning. The Doctor had given u» some encourage ment, and we had begun, to make inquiry, when we received the following letter:— *— Rectory, 18—. * Dear Mr. ,—You were so kind as to say that you would endeavor to And for me an assistant In arranging and re constructing the fragments of my work on The Metres of the Greek Dramatists. Your promise bus been an additional kimlnes.’ Dear, courteous, kidd old* gentleman! For we knew well that no slightest sting of sarcasm was intended to be conveyed -in these wonts. * Your promise has been an additional kindness; but looking upon the. mutter carefully, and giving to it the best consideration in my power, I have determined to relin quish the design. That which has been destroyed cannot be replaced ; and it may well be that It was not -worth replacing. I am old now, and never could do again, that which perhaps I-was never fitted ,to do with any fair prospect of success. I will never again turn to the ashes of my unborn child,; but will console myself with the memory of my grievance, know ing well, as I do so,' that consolation from the severity of harsh but just criti cism miirht have beeu more difficult to tlntl. When I think of the end of my efforts as. a scholar,.my mind reverts to ihe terrible ami fatal catastrophe of one whose scho.araliip was Infinitely more ripe than inlne. 4 Whenever it may suit you to come Into this partof the country, pray remem ber that it will give very great pleasure to myself ami to my daughter to welcome you at our parsonage. ' Believe.me to lie, ‘My dear Mr. — ; , * Yours very sincerely, We never have found the time to ac cept the Doctor’s invitation, and our eyes have never again rested on the black box containing the ashes of the unborn child, to which the Doctor will never mm again. We can picture him to our selves standing full of thought, with his* hand upon the lid, but never venturing to (urn tiie Jock. Indeed we do hot doubt hut that tbe key of the box in put away among other* secret treasures, a lock of Ids wife’s hair, perhaps, and the : jlttle Miotj of tbe t*»»y who did not live long enough to kfnnd n-t. niu miner's r’or a, tender, soft-hearted man was the Doctor, and one who fed much'on the memories of the oa^t. , We often culled upon Mr. and Mrs. Grimes, at the Spotted Dog, ami would -it there talking of Mackenzie ami Ids family. The woman soon vanished out of the neighborhood, and no ope there knew what was the fate of Iter or of her children. And then also Mr, Grimes went and took Ids wife with him. But hey could not besaid to vanish. Scratch ing his head one day, he told me 'with a dolorimis voice, .that he had—made Ids fortune. , * We’ve got as- snug a little place as ever you seen, just two miles out of Colchester, ’ said Mrs. Grimes, trium phantly, * with thirty acres of land just to amuse Jobm And a« for the Spotted Dog, I’m that sick of it, another year’d wear mo to a dry bone.’ Wo looked at her, anil saw no tendency that way.— And we looked at John, and thought that he was not triumphant. Who followed Mr. and Mrs. Grimes at the Spotted Dog we have never visited Liquorpoud Street to see. A Gradual Chanoe of Opinion. A Nantucket correspondent gives ah enter taining illustration of the “gradual pro gress of opinion” in this anecdote about a .slilpmate ; wm) accompanied him In one of his early whaling voyages ; Stiles was a simple-hearted, transparent young fol low; and, when tie sailed, hud-been pay- 4 ing attention for some time to a young lady, who, he had reason to think, did not fully appreciate his ardent feelings. At all events, the parting, on her side, was not so affectionate as he could wish, and he wua impressed with the belief that she only kept him as a stand-by, in de fault of a belter offer. ‘rdon’thelieve,’ Stiles would say, with a despondent shake of the head, ‘I don’t believe Ann Jones’ll have me, anyhow.’ When we had been out a few months, and had met with fair success, Stiles’ tone was modified. The burden of hia monologue changed too. ‘Well, Idon’no hut what Adu Joucb'll have me, after all.’ With a thousand barrels of oil under the hatches, he became still more hope ful. 'The chance is pretty good for Ann Jones,’ lie would say? ’prstty good now.’ At fifteen hundred barrels ho had as sumed a self-satisfied manner, and then soliloquized : *1 guess there’s no danger but wiiut Ann Jones’ll have me now.’ At two thousand barrels: 'Ann Jones’ll be glad enough to get mo now, I know.’ When we cut the last whale that was to fill the vessel’s hold, and squared away for home, Stiles threw his hat in the air with a wild Indian yell of triumph: ‘l’ll be hanged if I’ll have Ann Jones, any how !’ What a true picture of man’s love does ibe above little sketch contain ! A week or two aco the Governor of Ohio offered five hundred dollars reward for the arrest of a man named John Smith. There are one hundred and ten counties in Ohio, and in less titan -two days the Sheriffs of all these counties ar rived in Columbus, each with a man named John Smith. During tiie succeed ing days over two thousand detectives, policemen und private citizens from Ohio, Kentucky, Pennsylvania, Indiana, West Virginia andlllluois, arrived in Colum bus, every fellow bringing with him some unhappy wretch named John Smith; and more arrive everyday. The aggregations of Smiths at present at Columbus is simp ly awful! And the worst ofit is that every man lusists tbat .hia Smith is the particular Smith mentioned in the pro clamation, and he is going to have chat' live hundred dollars or hush the Gover nor right up: The Governor Is trying to decide whether to pay the reward to every man in t»*e lot or to resign. We knew this Smith business would get somebody into trouble some day or other. It has been greatly overdone. We have, had too much of it—much too much, Beecher accepted a present of a cat from an Indiana boy, and published the boy’s letter to him. This was the most reckless thing Henry over did, for now there are, in different parts of the couo tr over eight thousand boys prepuilng to send cuts to Beecher, to get their names in the papers. A fiddle string factory in the baamnout of Plymouth church will probably bo the next ‘dead thing’ the celebrated divine will have on his hands, VOL. 57.—N0. 3. Dnmon and l*y(liln«~>rrno Friendship UluHirntcd* About ‘lOO years before Christ, lived Damon and Pythias, Pythagorean philos ophers, who had gone from Athens to Blcllly, on a pressing Invitation of Dio nysius, called * the tyrant of Syracuse,’ in order to teach the rude inhabitants of that fertile island the arts and sciences. Falling under the displeasure of tne ty rant, Damon was condemned to death, and the time for his execution appointed. Anxious ttfsee his wife and children once more before his •xecution, he asked the King for permission to visit them. The King answered, ‘What assurance do you give that you will return?’ ‘I will give yommy friend Pythias/ said Damon, ‘for security.’ The King asked Pythias if he were willing to'become the bondsman of Damou, am) to die in his place, provided he did not return? ‘Yes,’ said Pythias, 'X .will stand for him, and if he is not here on the day appointed, I will suiter death in his place!’ ‘Well,’ says the King, ‘this is strange, but Dnmon you are at liberty to go and visit your family, and if you do not return, suppose you will hot, justice will not los* her Victim. ’ Dimou hurried home to embrace his family, and to communicate to them the sad intelligence, that in a few days he must return to Syracuse, to suffer death. When his wife learned the state of things, that he had violated no law, chat.he was condemned bya mere whirnof Dionysius, and that his friend Pythias had become his bondsman, she insisted upon his not returning. She reasoned with him, and besought him, by the affection he bore to her and her children, not to return. Put all bereutreaties were vain. ‘Would you i have me violate my sacred pledge ol honor to my fiieud Pythias?’ said he. ‘No, no, I would despise myself in that case—hut I shall return and relieve our Jriend and maintain my honor, eveu at the expense of my own life /' jDamon re mained at home, as we may imagine/as long as he could. At length, amidst the sobs and tears of,his wife and children, he tore himself away from Urns** he loved. The execution was to take place’at noon, and as It is progress was impeded' hy bad roads and high waters, on the day ap pointed he was still twenty miles )rom {Syracuse; but as he rose curly in the morning, and us thesun was approaching the rneridup, the.spires of the city were iri view. Hastening on; hu fuumi « large multitude gathered in front of the prison. The tyrant was there, sealed on a plat form, to witness the novelty of-one man dying foranother!- The hour for the exe cution hail nearly expired. ‘All/ sayVthe tyrant, ‘ where is your friend Damon ? Did I hot, tell you that lie would not re turn?’ ‘But/ says Pythias, *he will re turn, if lie is alive. I know lie will not disappoint m.e. 1 know him, mid I know he would rattier die th in break his word. The tyrant then looked at the sunnlial, and it was just noon. ‘ Now/ said he to the executioner, ‘ proceed.’ Pythias laid his head on the block, the nxe was raised, and thesharn edge glimmered in thesUn light, when lo! there is a movement in the crowd. .‘Stop,’says the tyrant, ‘till we see what this means.’ There stood Damon, panting and covered with dust. He had come in time. The tyrant was so much struck with this proof of friend ship that lie pardoned them both, and requested permission to join their Xralor niiy. It is well known that a popular ami widely extended society, the ** Knight's of Py'ihius,” is founded on this beaulilul incident. —Lutheran Observer, Otck of the saddest thingß that ever came h*»«*er my notice (said the banker’s oierkj was there in Corning, nanny mr war. Dan Murphy enlisted as a private, and .fought very bravely. Tbe boys, all ! liked him, and when a wound bv-aud-hy weakened him down till a carrying mus ket was to heavy work for him, they clubbed together and fixed him up as a sutler. He made money then, and itulways to his wife to bank for him'. She was a washer and iruuer, and knew enough by hard experience to keep money when she gut it. She didn’t waste a penny. On tbe contrary, she began to get miserly us her bank account grew. She grieved to part with a cent, poor creature, for twice in her hard-work- 1 mg life she had known what it was to be hungry, cold, frieiidlesssick; and with out» dollar in the world, and sho'had a haunting dread of suffering so again. Well, at last Dan died ; and the boys, in testimony of their esteem and respect for him, telegraphed toMrs/Murphy to know il she would*like to have him em balmed and sent horn**, when you know the usual custom was to dump a poor devil like him into a shallow hole, and then Inlorin his I ‘friends what had became of him. Mrs. Murphy jumped to the conclusion that it would only cost two or three dollars to embalm her dead hus band, and so she telegraphed ‘Yea.’ It was at the ‘wake’ that the hill lor era 'halming hrrived and was presented to the widow. She uttered a wild, sad wall, that pierced every heart, and said: ‘Slvinty-lolve dollars for stolfin’ Dun blister their sowls! Did ihim divi Is sup pose I was going to stairt a Musein, that I'd ho daliu’ in such expiusive curiassi- UesV’ The banker’s clerk said there was not a m the house. ‘Yes, I reimnnher thufanecdote,’ the Sunday school superintendent said, with the old pathos in ids voice and the old sad look in his eyes. ‘lt was about a simple' creature named Higgins, that used to haul rock for old Maltby. When the lamented Judge Bugley tripped-and fell down the court house stairs and broke his neck, it was a great question how to break the news to poor Mrs. Bug ley. But finally the body was put into Higgins’ wagon and was instructed to take it to Mrs. 8., but to be very guarded and discreet in his language, and not break the news to her at once, but do it gradually and gently. When Higgins got there with his sad freight, ho shouted till Mrs. Bagley came to the door. Then he said: ‘ ‘Does the widder Bagley,live h£l*e ?’ ‘The widow Bugley?’ No, sir!’ *l’il bet she docs. But have it your own way. Well, does Judge Bagley liveheie?’- ‘Yes, Judge Bngley lives here.* 'l’ll bet he don’t. But never mind—it I’t for mo to contradict. Is tho Judge •No, not at present.’ ‘I-jest expected as much. Because, you know—take hold o’ suthin, mum. for I’m a-going to make a little cnmmuq nlcatlou.-unul reckon maybe It’ll jar you some. There’s been an accident, mum. I’ve got the old Judge curled upuut here in the wagon—and when you see him you’ll acknowledge, yourself, that an in quest is about the only thing that would be a comfort to him! I — Galaxy for June . Making Her Fly.—Old Aunt Dinah was a shouting colored saint of the city of Charleston, who would sing at the top of her Voice, and cry 'glory 1’ above all the rest of the congregation. It was cus tomary at the missionary prayer meeting Co take up a collection while singing the hymn : '■ Fly abroad, thou mighty Gospel t” In the midst of which Aunt Dinah al ways threw her head backrshut-her eyesr and sang away lustily till tho plate hud passed. The sable collector observed her habit, and one evening stopped when ho came to her, and said bluntly, ‘Look a heah, Aunt Dinah, you needn’t be a sing ing 'Fly abroad, thou mighty Gospoll’ If you docent <jive nothing to make her fiyl ’ An Indianapolis woman recently gave birth to a child during her husband’s absence, and just before his return ‘ the neighbors’ borrowed two olber babies and placed them in bed with the little, stranger- When the father asked to see his child the coverlid was turned'down, and although ho must have been im mensely surprised, he coolly turned to hla wife and asked, * Did any get away Hates for StbocrtisinQ. ADVTtExisEsnarra win be inserted at Ten Cent per,line tor the first insertion, and five ceni per lino for each subsequent Insertion, Qdar erly half-yearly, and yearly advertisements in serted at a liberal redaction on the above rates Advertisements should be accompanied by the Cash. When sent without any length of Urn specified for publication,they will be continued until ordered out and on anted accordingly. JOB PRINTING. Oakds, Handbills, CrncuLAiw. and every oils er description of Job and Card Printing, (Sons ot mtetature. A bomb with which the French peo ple are quite familiar—Bom-bast. He that pursues two hares at oncei don't catch cue, and iels t’other go. What sort of legs does a factory mule go qpon? Spindle shanks, of course- Why is an account book like a statu ary’s shop ? Because it is full of figures. The new three cent postage stamps ought to hold out well—they are long enough. When an pftlcer kisses his wife, does ho give her a military salute? The most popular edition of The Young Woman’s Guide—young men from 17 to 25. The young lady who is unable to sport a riding habit, should get into a walking habit. Why are a pin and a poker like a blind man ? Because they have a head and no eyes. One of of the heaviest things to lie on the human mind is a lute supper of cold potatoes. Life is a good deal like a pair of trous ers—the comfort. increases as the shine wears away. What kind of essence does a young man like when ho-pops the question? Acquiescence. When a large widow weds a little man, should he be called the widow’s mite? He might. • • s - ‘The eye? of your beloved after she has been weeping/ Ptinc/i calls ‘orna* mental fretwork. .There were not righteous people enough in Sodom to save it, but there was a pretty good Lot. Anna Story was recently married to Robert Short. A very pleasant way of making u Story Short. A Centaur — A man who has ‘ walked himself oh his legs/ or a horse that has ‘ euteu Ills head off.* Many a woman who has forced herself into the matrimonial market wishes, when tor* iato, that oho hud not been so badly sold. How can the ladies ever be called dull,, when they, have so many points about them—points of pine. The last instance of originality in marriage announcements is the. follow ing : ‘No curds, no cukes, no fuss.’ The beginning of wisdom is to know nothing. An uncommon number of peo ple have apparently just begun. The difference between a fish and the husband of a vixen, is, that one lives always in coM water and the other in hot. There is a in Washington win) rejoices in tne npp opriato name of flung; and in the tume city a liquor seller named Bacchus. A young lady on being asked what calling she wished her sweetheart to fol low, blushingiy replied that she wished lim.lo be a husbandman. The man who got wise by eating sago cheese has a brother who proposes to be come skillful m the fasbiunab.e dunces by dieting on hopn.’ A lady whose husband, an officer in the army, was order d to Fort Lamed ,i..w vne xmimil trouoies, to au. company hipi, as ‘she had but but very little hair on her head, but what she bad she preferred to keep.’ A stranger In a printing office asked the youngest what his rule of punctuation •was. 4 I set up as long as £ cun bold my breath, then I put. in a comma; when I gape, I insert a semicolon ; and when I want a chew of tobacco, I make a para graph.* We learn from the Japan Gazette that a public library for the benefit of foreign residents wilt shortly be opened at Yoko homn. A scheme is also proposed for tbe establishment of public gardens at the same place. College students have a legend ofo mechanical and perhaps sleepy parson, who prayed at morning prayers that the ‘ inefficient, may he* made efficient, the intemperate, temperate and the industri ous duatrious.’ When Wemyss, a famous theatrical manager in Philadelphia, had quit.the business, and opened Instead a large store for the sale of patent medicines, a friend dryly remarked that ho would no doubt bo successful in filling both boxes and pit. The daily life of a ‘ black fellow ’ has been very graphically described In a few words. Hu gets a large mellon, cuts it io two, and scoops < ut the inside, one half io puts on his head, he sits on.the other half and eats the middle. What a contrast there sometimes is between an adjective and an adverb!— Retlcct for example, on the wide differ ence that exists between the man who la constant in love and the man who is con stantly in love.' A hack in Boston proceeding to the depot became mixed up with the funeral procession, and as it turned off into a side street was followed by about half of tbe procession. The drivers of the hacks did not dnsc »ver their mistake till \ the hearse and fore part of the procession were hopelessly los£ 1 Gentlemen,’ said an eminent coun sel, • there are three points upon which we rely for the*defenco. In the first nee. the kettle was cracked when we borrowed U; in the second place, it was whole when we returned it; and In the third place, we never bad it.’ Said a distinguished politician to bis son : ‘ Look at me! I began as an alder man, and here I am'at the top of tbe tree; ami what is my reward? Why, when I die inv son will be the greatest rascal In the United States.' To this the young hopeful replied: * Yes, dad, when you die, but not until then.’ Thr Inst year that Davy Crocket was in Congress, apolitical Jollification was held professedly in honor of the birthday of Jefferson. Davy met several of the company going homo from the festival, and thus giuphi‘cai2s ll described their con dition : ‘They were so drunk, that I’ll he if either of them could hit the ground with hie hat in three times throw ing.l In a village in Southern Missouri, u few days ago, e nice young man put a sheet around him to scare a Dutchman. The Teutonic gentleman says: ‘lJust Jump off my wagon and vip der ghost all the time. I would vip him if be was a whole graveyard.’ Some one asked the young man what ailed his black eye, and ho said-he had heard bad news from Ger many. A young man from the country—who had never seen any fish balls—handed one to his lady-lover under the Impres sion it was a doughnut; after breaking his open be carefully examined it, then. sraeltof U r and with sepulchral-voice said: - 'Sail don’t eat that doughuut, there’s something dead Iu this!” Two German beer drinkers named Dr* Ferman and D. L. Fries of Wllllams burgh, made a wager as to who could drink the moat. After the fiftieth glass the former was taken away. The latter drank fifty-five and retired* Freman died soon. Ferman was burled on Sun day. A man at Key West, Fia., cun hand le snakes and ail kinds’of poisonous things and not get injured. That is, ho * could diitil last week, when a rattlesnake he was practicing with took a lunch out of his cheek. Tho wonderful man is dead now.
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