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November 29,1857.
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romptly made.' nloincaierand York
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PRACTICES the Operative, Surgical and Meehan
ioul Depurnnents °Meting' ry;
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and Poqi Office. Columbia, Pa
May 7. Win.
pROONS.---100 Doz. Brooms, at Wholesale
or Reinil.at 11. l'F.,1111,1:11 7 1.
Dec 12,1837. Locust street.
atent Steam Wash Boners.
rim well known Boiler. are kept cosimmitly on
1. band at lIENRII
LocIIPIL street, opposite the Franklin House.
Columbia, July 1.8,1537.
Harrison's Conmbian Ink
4/111C11 i, a =uperior article, permanently
TY and not corroding the pen, can he had in tiny
daritity. at the Validly Medicine Store, and blacker
fet to that English lions l'olich.
Columbia. Jour 9.1859
CISTERN PUMPS.
rpm; subscriber has a !urge stock of Cistern Pumps
and Hams. to which he cabs the a umlaut' of the
public. He is prepared to put Mein up for use in a
4abstanual and enduring balmier. .
December 1.2.1857
GRAIIIM, or, Bond's Boston Crackers, for
Uy ,pepne., and Arrow Hoot Cracker.. far le
veil& and rhildicti—OrW articles in Columbia, at
the I , nnitly Medicine Store,
Apra ID. t 839.
NEW CROP SEEDLESS RAISINS.
T HE best for riee, Pudding, .fresh supply at
- H SUYDAM'S
Grocery Store, Corner Froin.ual Union sin
Nov. 19. 1859.
SHARER CORN
- -
t JUSI recei‘ed, a ar.d rote of Shnker Corn
11. agiVIYA
Grocery Store, corner Front and Union td.
Nov. 20, Ikaa • ,
QPALDING'S PREPARED GLUE.—The want of
In tt•J in every' family. and sow
ean Ue -opphed; for trending furniture, china
ware. conantental work, toys. he, there in 'milting
superior. kVe have found tt ureful in repairing many
article: which hove been oieleas for montliv. You
Jan Sibiu it at atm
ta.ounA EMILY MEDICINE STORE.
IRON' AND STEEL!
TOE Subscribers have received a New lied Large
stock of all kinds and saes of
BAR IRON AND STEEL!
They are con-tautly supp:ied with stock iii ibis branch
of Ins business. nod can funisle it in customer, in large
or small quantities, at the lowest rates
J. RUM & SN.
Locus, street below Seconsl, Col umbi a , l'a.
April CS, Ib6o.
ARTIST'S COLORS. A general assortment
of color., in tuhen. AI-o. a variety of Artiqt s
Brueite-. at the Golden. fifartur Drug tore- [hay
Syrup
&.c. For IT,oarr..ale.llad
! E d RSCherry, Compound
Goldon Mortar Dror,r3tore. Front rt. [July 2
AYER'S Compound Concentrated Extract
Sarraprrilla for ihe cure of Scrofula or Kilig's
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received and for wile by • -
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FOR SALE.
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17OR Dried Fruit—Apples. Peaches, Chertiee,
I? Gm beet In the market, go to H. SUVDAM'S
Grocery Store, Corner Front end Union me.
•
Dutch Herring!
Ak Ny one fond of u good Herring rat, be supplied at
*. P. latlifil.litN 7 8
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LTONI PORE 01110 CATAWBI BRANDY
and PURR WINES. copecially for lcthenlea
ad Sacramental purpwe., at the
Jan.2B. F MII.Y Al ERIC! KR STORK.
IICE RAISINS for 8 ets. per pound, are to
be had only at
EGER LEIN'S Grocery Stare,
Notch 10. 1060. No. It Locum Dec
GARDEN SEEDS.—Fresh Garden Seeds, war
rautcd pare, or all Icht,tu.tu.t reeet tied at
ELIERLIMN , S.t:rocery Store,
Alurels 1.0,1860. No 7t Lottuot treet.
POCKET BOOKS ANDTIMSES.
A LARD*: lot of. Fine and Compton Pockel Book.
pud Purses, at front 15 term to two dolloct cacti
Itt Won:inert and New Depot.
-Columbia, April 14,1 3K,
AEBW more of th ole beautiful Prints
1011, which will lie wild cheap, at
SAYLOR k 3/cDONALD'S
Columbia, Ca.
,April 14
Just Received and For Sale.
1500 SACKS Ground Alum Soli; in large
or smal: qilautt amt., at
A [TOLD'S
Warehouto Cause
bfayS,ll3o
TiIAIINDS. Jetat received a new lot of
Tamarinds, al the Golden Mortar Drug snore.
Nay 4, 1830.
COLD CREW OF OLYCERINS.—For the can
and prevengion Co chapped hande.,kc. trot oak'
at the GOLDEN MORTAR DRUG smug,
Dee. 3,1859. Front street. Columbia
Turkish Prunes!
F oR a first rata solicit of Prunes you mum en to
S.EttERLEIN'S
Nov. tit , 1869 . 1869 . O
roccry tore, No 71 Locust st
GOLD PENS,' GOLD PENS.
•
'MST received a large and fine awortment of Gold
ar Peas. of Newton end Griswold', manufacture, at
SA yLott is McDONAI.D'S SOO Steve.
Agril li. float sweet, above f.ocaw.
S 1 50
My friend, John Penruddock, over in Ire
land, with whom I spent a month last sum
mer, made a deeper impression on me than
can tell. For years I had net seen such
a man. There was a reality and honest stuff
in him, which, in living with him and
watching his daily goings on, revealed itself
hour by hour, quite new to me. The people
I had been accustomed to meet, talk with,
live with, were so different. The tendency
of each of these was towards art in one form
or other; and there was a certain sadness
somehow in the contemplation of them.—
They fought and strove bravely, but like the
Old Guard at Waterloo, it was brave fight
ing on a lost field. After years of toil there
wore irremedial defects in that man's pic
ture; fatal flaws in that man's book. In all
their efforts were failure and repulse, appa
rent to some extent to themselves, plain
enough to toe, the passionless lookers3n.—
That, resolute, hopeless, climbing of' heaven
of theirs, was, according to the mood, a thing
to laugh at or a thing to weep over. With
Pcnruddeek. all was different. What he
strove after he accomplished. Ile had a
cheerful mastery over circumstances. All
things went well with him. Ilia horses
ploughed for him, his servants reaped fur
him, his mills ground fur him, successfully.
The very winds and dews were to him helps
and aids. Year after year his crops grew.
yellowed, were cut down, and gathered into
barns, and men fed thereupon; and year
after year there lay an increased balance at
hisbanker's. This continual, ever victorious
activity seemed strange to me. We usually
think that poets, painters, and the like, are
finer, more heroical than cultivators of the
ground. But dues the production of a ques
tionable book really surpass in merit the
production of a field of unquestionable
turnips? Perhaps, in Ow severe eyes of the
gods, the production of a wooden porringer,
water-tight and fit for household uses, is of
more account than the rearing of a tower of
Babel, meant to reach to heaven. Alasl that
BO many must work on these Babel towers;
cannot help toiling on thorn to the very
death, though every stone is heaved into its
place with weariness and mortal pain;
though, when the life of the builder is
wasted out on it, it is fit habitation for no
creature, can shelter no one front rain or
winter snow, towering in the eyes of men a
Fung (as the Scotch phrase it) after all.
Peniuddock had pronii.ed to take me to
see the fair at Ke . ;itly a fortnight before it
came off; but was obliged on the day itutne
diately preceding that event to leave his
farm at Arran-More on matter of important
business. lt was a wretched day of rain,
and I began to tremble for the morrow.—
After dinner the storm abated, and tho dull
drippling afternoon set in. While a dis
tempered sunset flushed the west, the heavy
carts from the fields came mantle into the
court -yard, the horses fetlock deep in clay,
and steaming like ovens. Then, at the
Sound of the bell, the laborers came, wet,
weary, sickles hanging over their arms, yet
with spirits merry enough. These the ca
pacious kitchen received, where they found
supper spread. It grew dark earlier titan
usual, and more silent. The mill-wheel I
rushed louder in the swollen stream, and I
lights began to glimmer here and there in
tae dusky windows. Penruddock had not
yet come. Ile was not due fur a couple of i
hours.' The time began to hang heavily; so,
slipping to• my bed, I solved every difficulty
by falling asleep.
Time lowing of cattle, the bleating of sheep,
the barking of dogs, and the loud voices of ,
men in the court-yard beneath, awoke me
shortly after dawn. In the silence that en-,
sued I again fell asleer, and was roused at;
laist by the clangor of the breakfast
When 'I got up the situ was streaming glo
riously through the latticed window; heaven I
was all the gayer and brighter now for yes
terday's gloom and sulky tears, and the
rooks were cawing and flapping cheerfully
in • the: trees above._ When I entered the
breakfast room,,,Punruddock was already
there, nothing time worse for his journey;
and the tea•urn was bubbling on the table.
At the close of the meal, Tim brought the
dogcart to the door. Pea. glanced, at his
watch. "We have hit the time exactly, and ;
will arrive as soon as Mick and the cattle."
There was an encouraging chirrup... a flick I
of the whip, and in a trice we were across
the bridge, and pegging along at a great,
pace.
After proceeding about a mile, we turned
into a narrow path which gradually led us
up into a wild, irregular country. Corn
fields, flax-tanks, and sunny pasture-lands,
dotted with sheep, were left behind as up
hilt we tagged, and reached at last a level
stretch of purple moor and black peat bog.
Sometimes for a mile the ground was black ,
with pyramids of peat; at other times the
road wriggled before us through a dark olive
morass, enlivened here and there with
patches of treacherous green; the sound of'
' our wheels startling into flight the shy and
solitary birds native to the region. Ever
and anon, too, when we gained sufficient_ele
widen, we could sea the great waves of the
landscape rolling in clear morning light
away to the horizon; each wave crested with
farms and belts of woodland, and hero and
there wreaths of smoke rising up from hol
lows where towns and villages lay hid.—
After a while the road grew smoother, and
H. PFAHT.P.R,
Locu,t weet
gritttimm.
The Fair at Keady
"NO ENTERTAINMENT IS SO CHEAP AS READING, NOR , ANY PLEASURE SO LASTING."
COLUMBIA, PE
afar the little town of Keady sparkled in the
sun, backed by a range of smelting furnaces,
the flames tamel by the sunlight, making
a restless shimmer in the air, and blotting
out everything beyond. Beneath us the
high road was covered with sheep and cows,
and vehicles of every description, pushing
forward to orie point; the hill paths also
which led down to it were moving threads
of life. On the brow of the hill, just before
we began to descend, John pulled up for a
moment. It was a pretty sight! A few
minutes drive brought us into Keady, and
such a busy scene I had never before wit
nessed. The narrow streets and open spaces
were crowded with stalls, cattle, and people,
and the press and confusion were so greht
that our passage to tho inn where our ma
chine was to be put up was matter of con
siderable difficulty. Men, stripped to trou
sers and shirt, with rod hair streamii•g in
the wind, rushed backwards and forward:,
with horses, giving vent at the same time to
the wildest vocifemtions, while clumps of
sporting gentlemen, with straws in their
mouths. were inspecting with critical eyes
the points of the animals. Traveling nue
tioneers set up their little carts in the
streets, and with astonishing effrontery and
power of lung harangued the crowd on the
worth and cheapness of the articles which
they held in their hands. Beggars were
very plentiful, disease and deformity their
stock-in-trade. Fragments of humanity
crawled about upon crutches. Women
stretched out shrunken arms. Blind men
rolled sightless eyeballs. blessing the pas
senger when a copper tinkled in their iron
jugs; cursing yet more fervently when dis•
appointed in their expectation. In one
place a melancholy acrobat in dirty tights
and faded tinsel, was performing evolutions
with a crazy chair on a bit of ragged carpet:
ho throw somersaults over it, he stood upon
his head on it, ho embraced it firmly and
began spinning along the ground like a
wheel, in which performance man and chair
seemed to lose their individuality and be
come one as it were; and at the close of
every feat ho stood erect with that inde
scribable curve of the right hand which
should always be followed by thunders of
applause, the clown meanwhile rolling in
ecstasies of ..druiration in the sawdust.
Alas! no applause followed the exertions
of the artist. Too tights were getting more
thread-bare and dingy. His hollow taco
was covered with perspiration, and there
was but the sparsest sprinkling of half
pence. I threw him half a crown, but it
rolled among the spectators' feet, aid was
lost in the dust. He groped about in search
of it for some little time, and then canto
back to his carpet and his crazy chair.—
Poor fellow! he looked as if ho were used to
that kind of thing. There were many pret
ty faces among the girls, and scores of them
were walking about in holiday dresses.—
Rosy-faced losses with black hair• and blue;
eyes shadowed by long, da4k eye-lashes.
Ilow they laughed, and how sweetly the
brogue melted from their lips in reply to the
ardent blarney of their sweethearts! At
last we reached an open square, or cross as
it would be called in Scotland, more crowded,
if possible, than the narrow streets. Hordes
of cattle bellowed here. Ilere were sheep
from the large farms standing in clusters of
fifties and hundreds; there a clump of five'
or six, with the widow in her clean cap sit
ting beside them. Many an hour ago she
and they started from the turf hut and the
pasture beyond the hills. Heaven send her
a ready sale and good prices! In the centre
of this open space great benches were;
erected, heaped with egg., butter, cheeses,
the proprietors standing behind anxiously
awaiting the advances of easterners. One
section was crowded with sweetmeat stalls,
much frequented by girls and their sweet• .
hearts. Many a rustic compliment there
had for reply a quick glance or a scarlet
check. Another was devoted to poultry;
geese stood about in flocks; bunches of hens
were scattered on the ground, their leg; tied I
together; and turkeys, enclosed in wicker
baskets, surveyed the scene with quick
eyes, their wattles all the while burning
with indignation. On reaching the inn,
which displayed for ensign a swan with two
heads afloat on an azure stream, we ordered
dinner at three o'clock, and therefore started '
on foot to where Penruddock's stock was
stationed. It was no easy matter to force
a path; cows and sheep were always getting
in the way. Now and then an escaped hen
would come clucking and flapping among
our feet; and once a huge bull, with horns
levelled to the charge, came dashing down
the street, scattering everything before him.
Finally, we reached the spot where Mick
and his dogs were keeping watch orer the
cows and sheep.
"Got here all safe, Mick. I see."
"All safe, air, not a quarter o' an !unix.
ago."
Burdett. I hare opened my shop
We'll see how we get on."
By this tints the dealers had gathered
about, and wore closely examining the
sheep, and holding whispered consultations.
At length, an excited-looking man came
running forward; plunging his hand into
his breeches pocket, he produced therefrom
half-a-crown, which he slapped into.Pearnd
dock's hand, at the same time crying out
"Ten-and-six a head." "Fifteen," said
John, returning the coin. "Twelve Oil
; lings," said the man, bringing down the
coin with tremendous anew; "an' may I
nicer stir VI% give another farthin' fur the
best sheep in Keady." "Fifteen," said
NNSYLVANIA, SATURDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 6, 1860.
John, flinging the half-crown on the ground;
"and I don't cure whether you stir again or
not." By this time a crowd Lied .gathered
about, and the chorus began. "There isn't
a dacenter man than Mr. Penruddock in
the market. I've known him iver since ho
came to the eounthry." "Shure an' he is,"
began another; "he's a jintleman every
inch. Ho always gives to the poor man a
bit o' bacey, or a glass. Ach, Mr. Loney,
he's not the one to itx you too bight a price.
Shure, Mr. Penruddock, you'll come down
a sixperree jist to make a bargain." "Is't
Mr. Loney that's goin' to buy?" cried a
lame man from the opposite side, and in the
opposite interest. "There isn't sigh
dealer in county Monaghan as Mr. Loney.
Of course you'll conic down something. Mr.
Penruddock." "lie's a rich one, too, is Mr.
Loney," said the lame man, siding up to
John, and winking in a knowing manner,
' an' a power o' notes he has in his pocket
book." Mr. Loney, trim bud been whisper
ing with his group a little apart, and who
bad ng in mule an inspection of the stock,
returned the second time to the charge.—
"Twelve-at.' six," eried he, and again the
half-crown was slapped into Penruddock's
palm. 'rwelve•an' six, an' not another
farthin' to save toy sowl." "Fifteen," said
John, returning the half-crown with eroal
emphasis; "you know toy price, and if you
won't take it you can let it stand." The
dealer disappeared in huge wrath, and the
chorus broke out in praises of both. By
this time Mr. Loney was again among the
sheep; it was plain his heart was set upon ,
the purchase. Every now and then he
caught one, got it between his legs, ex
amined the markings on its face, and tested
the depth and quality of its wool. Ito ap
peared for the third. time, while the lame
man and the leader of the opposing chorus
seemed coming to blows, so zealous were
they in the praises of their respective heroes.
"Fourteen," said Mr. Laney, again produc
ing the half-crown, spitting into his hand
at the same time, as much as to say, he
would do the business now. "Fourteen,"
he cried, crushing the half-crown into Pen
rwidock's hand, and holding it there.—
"Fourteen, an' divil a rap more I'll give."
"Fourteen," said John, as if considering,
then throwing back the coin, "Fourteen-and•
six, and let it be a bargain."
"Didn't I say." tooth John's chorus
leader, looking round hint with an air of
triumph, "didn't I say that Mr. Formal
dock's a jintleman? Ye see how he drops
the sixpence. I nicer saw him do a mane
thing yet. Ault, he's the jintlemtn ivory
inch, an' that saying a dole, considerite
his size."
"Fournen-an'-six be it, then," said the
dealer, bringing down the coin for• the last
time. "Au' if I take the lot you'll give me
two pounds in't myself ?"
"Well, I. may, I don't care, although I
do," said PC117114 luck, pocketing the coin at
last. A rall of n3tes vto produce 1, the sum
counted out, and the harg tin c
The neat moment Loney was act mg the
sheep, scoring some mirk or other on their
backs with a piece of rad chalk. Penru 1-
dock szattered what spare coppers he p
sessed among the bystanders, and ;may they
went to sing the praises of the next bargain
maker.
Pen tome.' to nte, langhing. "nil is
a nice oeoupotion for n gentleman of re
spectable birth and litterol education, is it
not?"
"Old. It is amusing to watch the
routs by which your sheep aro converted
into bank-notes. Does your friend, Mr.
Loney buy the animals for himself?" -
"Oh. dear no. We must have middle
men of one kind or another in this country.
Liney is commissioned to purchase, and is
allowed so much on the transaction."
By this time a young handsome fellow
pushed his horse through the crowd and ap
proached us. "Good morning," cried be to
l'euraddoek. "Any business doing?"
"I have just sold tug sheep."
"Gird price?"
"Fair. Fourteen-and•six "
"Alt, not so bad. These cattle. I suppose,
are yours? We must try if we can't come.
to a bargain about them." Dismounting,
he gave his horse in keeping to a lad. and he
and John went off to inspect the stock.
Business was proceeding briskly on all
sides. Thera was a great Niggling as to
prices, and shillings and hilt-crowns were
tossed in a wo nderful manner front palm to
palm. Apparently, no transaction could be
transacted without that ceremony, whatever
it might mean. Idlers were everywhere
celebrating the nterits and "decency" of the
various buyers and sellers. huge greasy
leather pocket-books of undoubted antiquity.
were to be seen in many a hand, and rolls
of bank-notes were deftly changing owners.
The ground, ion, wai beginning, to clear,
and purchasers were driving otrtheir cattle.
Many of the dealers who had disposed of
stock Were taking their ease in the inns.—
You could see them looking out of the open
windows; and, occasionally, a man whose
potations had been early and excessive went
whooping through the crowd. In a short
time John returned with his friend.
"Captain Broster," said John" presenting
him, "has promised to dine with us at three.
Shup at the hour, mind, for we wish to
leave early."
"I'll be punctual oa clockwork," said the
captain, turning to look after his pluralities.
'We strolled up and down till three o'clock,
and then bent our steps to the inn, where we
found Broster waiting. In honor to his
guests the landlord himself brought in din
ner, and waited with great diligence. When
the table was cleared we had punch and
cigars, and sat chatting at the open window.
The space in front was tolerably clear of
cattle now, but dealers were hovering about,
standing in clumps, or promenading in par
ties of twos and threes. But at this point a
new element had entered into tho scene.—
ft was dinner liner, and many of the forge
men from the furnaces above had come
down to see what was going on. Huge,
hulking, swarthy-featured fellows they were,
Welshmen, chiefly, as I was afterwards
told; who, confident in their strength, were
at no pains to conceal their contempt fur
the natives. They, too, mingled in the
crowd. but the greater number leaned lazily
against the houses, smoking their short
pipes and indulging in the dangerous luxury
of "chaffing" the farmers. Many a rode wit
combat was going on, accompanied by roars
of laughter, snatches of which we occasion
ally heard, Brostor had been in the Crimea,
was wounded at Alma, recovered, went
through all the work and privation of the
first winter of the siege, got knocked up,
came home on sick leave. and having had
enough of it, as he frankly confessed, took
the oppurtunit ) on his father's death, which
happened then, to •ell nut and settle as a
farmer on a small property to which he fell
heir. Ito abetted about the events of the
war in an easy, familiar way, quietly, fL3 if
the whole affair had been a game at foot
ball; and when courage, strength, and splen
did prospects were changed by unseen bul
let, or grills bayonet stab, into a redo grave
on the bleak plateau, the thing was men
tioned as a mere matter of 13'3111'se
Sometimes a comrades fate met with an
expression of soldierly regret, slight and in
different enough, yet with certain pathos
which 110 high-flown oration could reach.—
Per the indifferent tone seemed to acquiesce
in destiny, to consider that disappointment
had been too common in the life of every
man during the last six thousand years to
warrant any raving or passionate surprise
at this time of day; and that in any Caca
our ordinary pulse and breath time our
march to the grave, passion beats the double
quick, and when it is all over, there is little
need. for outcry and the shedding of tears
over the eternal rest. In the midst of his
talk, voices rose in one of the apartments
below; the noise became altercation, and
immediately a kind of struggling or drag
ging, was heard in the flagged passage, and
then a tipsy forgeman was unceremoniously
shot out into the square; and the inn door
Owed with an angry bang. The individual
seemed to take the indignity in very good
part; along, he staggered, his hands in his
pockets, heedless of the satirical gibes and
remarks of his companions, who were smok
ing beneath our windows. Looking out, we
could see that his eyes were closed, as if he
scorned the outer world, possessing one so
much more satisfactory within himself. As
he Went he began to sing (runt sheer exec's
of happiness; the following stanza coining
distinctly to our ears:
“When I m.O a chicken ua n hen,
My malice 'e I/I, an' 'ot her merle
~ .ther 4,1111 , 101 t t -CC he r-t tiOW.
Su I I,f+tql wy h•t an I 'Ol him a CA....”
I hope that fellow won't come to grief,"
said Broster, as the forg,eman lurched
di rough a group of countrymen intent on a
bargain, and passed on without notice or
apology, his eyes closed, amli singing as
before:
"Sci my weber, at , Ow, the r?"‘ i peekr at 115 a "
"By Jury, he's down at la it, and there 11
be the dcvi! to pay We looked out; the
furgeman was prone in the dust, singing,
and apparently unconscious that he hail
changed his position. A party of ntran era
were standing around laughing; one ill' dli eat
had put out his foot Sndl tripped the for,ge
man as he passed. The nett moment, a
hare-armed, black-broweil hadumer-sinith
stood out from the wall, and,' without so
much as taking the pipe from his mouth, ,
felled the dealer at a blow, and then looked i
tat his companions as if wishing to Le in
formed if he could do anything in the saute
way for them. The blow was a match
dropped in a powder magazine. Alclu! to
the c Th7re were shouts and yells. ;
Insults had been rankling long in the breasts 1 ,
of both parties. Old scores had to be pail
nft. Frain every quarter, out dif the inns,
leaving potheen and ale, down the streets
frond salon. the cattle, the dealers came •
rushing to the fray. The forgemea nuts
tered with alacrity, as if battle were the
breath of their nostrils. In a few seconds,
the square was the scene of a general melee.
The dealers fou4,llt with their short heavy 1
sticks; the forg,emen had but the weapons
nature gave, but their arms were sinewed
with iron, and every blow told like a ham
mer. These last were overpowered for
awhile, but the alarm had already spread to
the furnaces above, and parties of twos and
throes came at a run, and dung themselves
in to the assistance of their companions.—
Just at this moment, a couple of constables
pressed forward into the mail yelling crowd.
A hammer-smith came behind one, and
seizing his arms, held him, despite his
struggles, firmly as in a vice. The otimr
was knocked over and trantpled . undez foot.
”Good heavens, murder will b e
. dime," cried
Eiroster, lifting, his heavy whip from the
table. "We must try and put an end to
this disgraceful scene. Will you join me?"
"With heart and 'seal," said Penruddook,
"and there is no time to be lost. Como
along, Burdett." At the foot of the stair
IV3 found the landlord shaking in every
. _
$1,50 PER YEAR IN ADVANCE; $2,00 IF NOT IN ADVANCE,
limb. He had locked the door, and was
standing in the passage with the key in his
hand. "McQueen, we want to go out; open
tho door."
"Shure, jintlemen, you're not goin' just ,
now. You'll be torn to paces if you go."
"If you won't open the door give me the
key, and I'll open it myself."
Tire landlord passively yielded: Broster
unlocked the dour, and flung the key nitwit
on the flagged passage. "Now, my lads,"
cried he to half a dozen cuuntrymen who
were hanging ts spectators ou the ekirts of
the combat, and at the same time twisting
his whip lash tightly around his right band
till the heavily leaded head became a for
midable weapon, a blow front which would
be effective on any skull of ordinary su-cep..
tibility; "Now, my lads, we arc resolved to
put an end to this, will yon assist us?''—
Tire captain's family had been long resident
in the county, he was hitm.elf per , onally
known to all of them, and a cheerful "a 3:
ay!" wits the respmse. '•Peatt adduck, sep
arate them when you can, knock them over
when you can't. Welshman or Iri,hman,
its quite the same." So saying, in we
drove. Br rotor clot e a way for himself. dis
tributing the blows with gre it impartiality,
and knocking over the combatants like nine
pins. Wo soon reached the faiddle of the
square, where the fight was the hottest.—
The captain Was swept away in an eddy for
a moment, and right in front of Penruddock
and myself two men were grappling on the
ground. As they rolled over, we 4atv that
one was the hammer-smith who hal caused
the whole affray. We fining ourselves upon
them, and dragged them up. The dealer,
with whom I was most particularly engaged,
had got the worst of it, and plainly was'nt
sorry to be released from the clutches of his
antagonist. With his foe it was different.
Ilis slow sullen blood was fairly in a blaze,
and when John pushed him aside, he dashed
at him and struck hint a severe blow on the
face. In a twinkling, Penruddock's coat
was off, while the faintest stream of blood
trinkled from his upper lip. "Well," my
man," said he, as he stood up, ready for ac
tion, "if that's the game you mean to play
at, I hope to give you a belly full before
I've done." "Seize that man, knock him
over," said Broster; "you're surely not go
ing to light him, Penruddock, it's sheer mad
ness; knock hint over." "I tell you what
it is," said Penruddock, turning- savagely,
"you sha'n't deprive me of the luxury of
giving this fellow a sound hiding." Bros
ter shrugged his shoulders, as if giving up
diet:VC. By this time the cry arose, "Black
Jam's yin' to fight the gentleman,"'and
wide enough ring was formed. Many who
were prosecuting small combats of their own
desisted, that they might behold this greater
one. Broster stood beside John. "Lie's
an ugly mass of strength," whispered he,
"and will hug you like a bear; keep him
well off, and remain cool, fur 'leaven's sake."
"Ready?" said John, stepping forward.—
"As a lark i' the mernin'," growled Jena
as Ire took up his ground. The men were
very wary, Jem retreating ronad and round,
John advancing. Now and then one or other
darted out a blow, but it was generally
stopped, and no harm done. At last the
blows went home; the blood began to rise.
The melt drew closer, and struck with great
er rapidity. They arc at it last, hammer
and tongs. No shirking, or flinching now.
Jeer's was flowing. Its was evidently get
ting severely punished. Ito' could'ut last
long at that rate. llc fought desperately
for a close, when a blinding blow full in the
face brought hint to the earth. lie got up
again like a madman, the whole bull-do;
nature of him possessed and mastere I by
fierce, brutal rage. lie eursel and struggled
in the arms of his sapporters to got at his
enemy, but by at tin form: they held him
back till he re.; • vere I 11 , 11:elf. "110'll
worked ell in another ronad," I heard !Ivo =-
ter whisper in my ear. Alt! here they come!
I glanced at Julm fur a mument as he stood
with his eye on his foe. There IVA 9 tilt
in his face that honied no good. The fea
tures had hardened into iron suiaehow; the
pitiless mouth was clenched, the eye cruel.
A. hitherto unknown part of his nature rc
realel itself to me as he stood there. Per.
haps unknown to himself. (1,) I help us,
what strangers we are to ourselves!
In every man's nature there is an interior
unexplored as that of Africa, and over that
region what wild beasts may roam! But
they are at it again; Jean still fights for a ;
close, and every time his rush is stopped by
a damaging blow. They are telling rapidly;
his countenance, by no meant charming at.
the best, is rapidly transforming. L,uk at '
that hideously gashed lip! But ho has
dodged Ponruddock's left this time, and
clutched him in his brawny arms. ' Now
comes the tug of war, skill pitted against
skill, strength against strength. They
breathe fur a little 'ln one another's grip,
as if summoning every energy. They are
at it now, - broad chest to chest. Now they
seem ntotionless, but by the quiver of their
frames you can guess the terrific strain gn
ing on. Now one has the better, now the
other, as they twine round each ether. lithe
and supple as serpents. Penrudd,ck yields!
; Nu! That's a bad dodge of Jena'a. By
Jove he loses his grip. All is over with him.
!John's brow grows dark; the veins start
I out on it; and the next moment Black Jena
I the hero of fifty fights, slung over his shout. I
der. falls heavily to the ground.
At his fall a cheer rose from the dealers.
•'you blacksmith fellows had better make
off," cried Broster; "your man has got teh ;
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thrashing he deserves, and you can carry
him home with you. I am resolved to put
a stop to these disturbances—there have
been too many of late." The furnace men
hung for a moment irresolute, seemingly
half inclined to renew the combat, but a for
midable array of cattle-dealers pressed for
ward and turned the scale. They decided
'on a retreat. Black Jun, who had. now
come to himself, was lifted up, and support
ed by two men, retired toward the works
and dwelling:, on the upper grounds, accom
panied by his companions, who ropyere t i
many a surly oath and vow of future_ven
geance.
When we got back to the inn, John was
very anxious about his face. lie washed,
and carefully perused his features in the lit
tle looking glass. Luckily, with the excep
tion of the upper lip slightly cut by dem',s
first blow—nn mark of the combat presented
itself; at this hippy result of his inyestiga
dons he et pressed great sati,faction—ltios
ter laughing the meanwhile, and telling him
that he wits as careful of his face as a young
lady.
The captain came down to sec us off.—
The fair was over now, and the little streets
were almost deserted. The dealers—appre
hensive of another descent front the fur
naces—had hurried off as soon as their
transactions could in any way permit
Groups of villagers, however, were standing
about the doers, discussing the event of the
day; and when Penruddoek appeared he
become fur a quarter of an hour an object of
public interest for the first time in his life,
and so far as he has yet lived, for the last;
an honor to which he did.not seem to attach
any particular value.
We shook bands with the captain; then
at a touch of the whip, the horse started at
a gallant pace, scattering a brood of ducks
in all directions; and in a few minutes,
Keady—with its white-washed houses and
dark row of ftirnaces, tipped with tongues
of flame, pale and shrunken yet in the lustre
of the afternoon, but which would rush out
wild and lurid when the evening fell—lay a
rapidly dwindling speck behind.
Interesting About Rats
In the indulgence of their predilection for
eggs, rats display great judgment. It would
appear almost impossible for them to carry
off such fragile spoil without breakage, but
they do cuutrive to do so. If the theft is
achieved without a confederate, the rat
stretches out its fore leg underneath the egg,
steadies it' above with' its cheek, and hops
away cautiously upon three leks.. To con
vey an egg from the bottom to the tip of a
house is a still more difficult affair, and
probably an impossibility fur a single.ratAn
perform. With the aid of a .partnar, "the
operation is thus managed: the. Maid .rat
stands upon his head, and lifts up the -egg
with his hind legs; the 'female ;takint it
thence in her fore paws, securesit till Wer
lord ascends a step higher; and so they-pro
ceed from stair to stair, till their: booty is
deposited safely in their•ltole: A. - paltry
cook bad seine line eggs whieh"she :prized
highly, hut the number of which was neys 7
terieusly diminished night after night. Sus
picion, of course, fell upon the domestics.—
One of them, a maid servant, hearing one
night a noise upon the stairs, stole out on
the landing, fancying that she might be for
tunate enough to detect the egg pilferer.—
She was not mistaken, although she was
considerably astonished at discovering who
the real °treaders were. She saw two rats,
one larger than die other, busily engaged in
carrying the cherished egg; down stairs, and
ton mac': intereite I in watching their
proceedings to think of disturbing them.—
The big r.tt stool on his hind tegA, with his
Gore paws hesd 'resting on' the step
above; the lady rat rolled the egg "gently tu
war Is her splose; cl.tsping . h ontly but
firmly, he lifted it carefollY'on to the step
upon which be stand, holding: h there until
she came and tank charge of it. ieltits he
deseendol a step lower, till the clever pair
reaelte.l the I..lverttrist id) tr with their prize
uninjured.
whole4ala larcency_ With which the
rat is tea justly eltargetl is criminal 'enough,
in all e.Juse:enee; bnt worse remains bd
iiifol. lie has been known to make'a nie:sl
of the fingers and toes of a _living Laky r -
Forty years ago, a pie maker, finding delicacies unaccountably disappeat.„ deter
mined to lie M wait,in his bake house, ono
night, and so catch the delinquents. I.Tsa•
fortunately they caught kiln, and devoured
the ill-fated pie-man in preference, to_ his
pies.
There is uvs dish that is more tempting
to the rat's palate than any oilier, and for
which he will desert anything else in the
eatable world, and that is, a. defunct rela
tive.
Should two ratatt,vee tosettle thew
differ
onces by a mortal combat, their friends and
acquaintances look on as complacently 114
distinguished amateurs contemplates fight
for the championship. But immediately
affair is concluded by the death of ono of
the combatants, the spectatorstweak up the
ring, and inenni inentiy set c pont the victor
and vanquished, 11111 eat them! up then and
them Woe, too, to any meeting With an
accident : or becoming infirm, fur be is gob
bled up without remorse. When a rarsleg
is found in a trap, instead of its( being a
proof of his resolution in preferring to leave
a limb behind rather than remain in cap
tivity, the chances are that some of his kith
and kin have eaten him ern-e. is ctinse
qttence of this propensity for cannibalism,
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