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Nor. 19 .1864-tf.
IC NE. NORTII,
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Columbia, Pa.
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York counties.
Cola., July 2, 1865.
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COLLECTIONS Made in Lancaster and
adjoinin.* Counties.
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°nice—Locust Strect,betwcen Front and
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vices to the citizens of Colombia and
via•injty.
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June 17 Iya
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Feb IS
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best quality served
ap in every style,
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quart or hundred,
bee. 3, "64.-tf
GEOMPiI BOGLE,
Dealer in
LITIsIDER OF ALL DESCRIPTIONS,
Also, PLASTER'S HAIR
Mee and Warehouse—Front Street be
tween Locust and Union.
July 8, 1865.
'WHEELER & WILSO%'S
SEWING MACHINES
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June 11,'64. Locust St e , Columbia, Pa
li. P. 'BRUNER. JOHN H. MOOIVE
BRUNER & MOORE,
DEALFTLS IN ALL KINDS OF
COAL ! COAL I COAL !
N'Ve have still amtpply of Coal on hand.
Coal cleaned and screened before leaving
the yard.
Some Coal damaged by the late freshet
rill be sold accordingly low. All Coal
sold by weight. Col. apt. 2L,
Confctionery
A ND FRUIT OF .A.LL ICIN . DS IN SEA.-
son. Parties and families supplied with
ICE CBEAI
1)3 , ' the freezer, or In moulds, with prompt-
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l'• S. Also a tine assortment of Toys
end fancy articles constantly on hand.
July 22,
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Manufacturers or
STMA-Ma oiT, - Ext,s_
TN addition La our Foundry and Machine
-IL work, we are now prepared to manufac
ture every variety of Boiler and plate iron
work,
Blending and Reparing Boilers
I . romptly attended to. Thankful for run
lavorm, Ave would invite the attention of
our friends and patrons to this new branch
of our business,
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. 21 „41.5. 2d Street, Columbia,
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MISIILER'S HERB BITTERS.—BeIow
the afflicted will find a condensed
statement of the cures of various individ
uals whose names are herewith appended,
whose Certificates can at any time be seen
by calling at the Store of the Proprietor,
Centre Square, Lancaster, Pa.
B. MISHLER, Sole Manuthcturer.
John C. Walton, Lancaster, cured of Dis
ease of Spine and Kidneys, tte., contracted
in the Army.
Thomas Groom, Glen Hope, cured of
Disease of the Back and _Nervous system.
Hen ry Nagle, Lan enster,cured of a stroke
of the Palsy, causing the loss of the use of
the right aria.
Joseph Witmer, Philadelphia, certifies
that Mishler's Bitters has restored him to
health. having been much afflicted with
various ailments for a long time.
James Kennedy, Lancaster, cured of
Chronic Diarrhoea and Rheumatism.
Daniel Pinefrock, Lancaster, cured of
Chronic Rheumatism, which lie was much
afflicted with while in the Army—reccom
mends the use of the Bitters to soldiers and
others similarly afflicted.
Leyi Hart, Sen., Lancaster, cured of
Rhetunattsm occasioned by exposure in
the Army.
Charles B. Williams, Lancaster, certifies
that his daughter was cured of a lingering
sickness of eight months from various
diseases. by Mishler's Bitters.
Henry Maderf, Lancaster, was cured of
difficulty in passing his water, by time use
of the Bitters, and his wife also relieve°
from Rheu matic
Philip Bence, Lancaster, Cured of an at
fection of the Kidneys :led Bladder, by the
use of Mishler's Herb Bitter.
Daniel B. Herr, Rohrerstown Lancaster
Co., certifies that ho was cared of severe
stitches in the side which he
_was Inflicted
with tom nine years.
Jas. flicking , Litiz, Pa. 'was cured of a
severe attack of Chronic Itheamatism.
Jos. 11. Watson, Lancaster, relieved of
pains in his shoulders and nuths, that he
was unable to sleep•
Andrew Eberly, Lancaster, Cured of
Cramp Cholie—was so severe that he be
came apprehensive of Rupture.
Mary J. Carney, Lancaster, cured of
weukenss of the breast and pain in the side
by Mishier's Bitters.
IVz.n. H. Jordan, Lancaster, relieved of
Cholera Morhus in 10 or 15 minutes, by
the Herb Bitters.
Jacob ILtag, Lancaster, says that his
son Was relieved of ostraordinary pains in
his arms and legs.
Samuel' Menonnel, Lancaster, cured of
Dispcpsiat of 20 years standing by Misbler's
Bitters.
II 0. Kendig, Farmer; near Lancaster,
was cured of n severe tattlek. of Dispersia,
by the Bitters.
Ifugh Daugherty, Lancaster, says his
daughter was eared of weaknes, plainsie
sore throat, fie.
J. L. Baker, Lancaster, certifies that his
tinnily hats been ninth from afilie
thm by the Bitters.
E. 11. Ithonds,Reani4town,Lanenster Co.
eared of Inflammatory Ithetunatitan o
some years standing.
Jonathan Shyer, nf Haywood Hospital
Vu. was cured of Rheumatism by the Bit
ters—contraeted in the Army.
Thoniasßrophy,Lancaster,recovered from
attack of Fever and Ague, by the use of
Mishler's Bitters.
A. AI usiteln uss,Laneaster, eared ot what
is called a Running Leg, by application of
the Bitters.
dohn Milo, Lancaster, cured of n Run
nining Log of 20 years standing, by Idish
ler's Hitters.
Isaac Mclntyre, Lancaster. relieved ern
severe pain across his kidneys. by the
Herb hitters.
C. B, Mayer, Lancaster, cured of a severe
cold xvltielt had settled is his teeth, by
Mishler's Bitters.
.T. P. Fredenherg, Lancaster, NVIIS entire
ly cured Of a rentark:khle distressing Ab
sise,:s by the Bitters.
Henry (T. Kendig, Camp Potomac, was
cured of Diarrhaka by the use of Mishier's
Bitters.
A. Fairer, Lancaster Co., Poorhouse,
cured of Ilispepsin and fibit.N.l.Se of the Kid
neys, by the Bitters.
:Vary Rives. Lancaster, relieved of a
terrible cold on the breast of three months
standing. by the Bitters.
John N‘ r eidnutn,L:mcaster,says that him
self and wife were cured of seyere Rheu
matism by the Bitters.
A Lady of Laneaster,writestomr..'Nfish
ier, that the Bitters cured her of Piles of a
year' H. St Anding.
John Gilman, Lancaster. cured of Dis
ease of the Heart and.a severe pain in his
breast, by the Bitters ;
a, \V. Whitedeld, Agent at Altoona,
Blair Co. writes of the success he has met
in selling the Bitters.
Amos Aument, of Strausburg.Lancas
tor Co., used the Bitters for it wound in the
lug received at the Battle of South Mor a
tato, and and has now no more pain.
J. C. R., a member of Co. B, 195th Reg
iment, P. V., writes to the Proprietor, that
the Bitters cured him of a distressing cold
which has uniftted him from duty.
Martha Bents, Lancaster, was cured In
flammatory Rheumatism, from cold takeu,
by a broken arm.
John Neidich Lancaster, was cured of
Palpitation of die Heart, wltich ho had for
25 years.
John Schock, Peques, Lancaster Co.
was relieved front an attack of the Gravel
by the Bitters,
Mrs. Druckenmiller, of Mount Joy, Lan
caster Co., was cured of excruciating
pains in her hands and feet by the use of
of Misider's linters.
John Leshcr, of Reamstown, Lancaster
co., was cured of a swell in the neck and
jaw by the use of Alsbler's Herb Batters.
IT. C. Ginkinger, Philadelphia, after be
ing confined to the house for two years,was
cured by the use of :dishlees Bitters.
Gen. W. Killian, Lancaster, was confin
ed to the U. S. Hospital for 10 weeks, by
prostration, is restored to health by the
Herb Bitters.
Mrs. Marg,aret Kirk, Lancaster, war
cured of a severe pain in her side and ner
vousness, by the use of the Herb Bitters.
Mrs. Eliza Wenditz., Lancaster. was cur
ed of Inflammatory Rheumatism by the
use of the Bitters.
Amos Groff, Lancaster, was relieved of
a severe cold in tho throat by the use of the
Bitters.
Henry J. Etter, Lancaster, had his sight
restored,(which he had been deprived of
for about 5 years,) by the (Aso of Mishler's
Bittters.
Charles P. Miller, Philadelphia, writes
of a lady in that city having been cured of
the Dumb Ague, by the use ofthe Bitters.
Harriet Orr, Lancaster, was cured of in
ward weakness and pain in the back, by
the Herb Bitters. -
John Kautz, Lancaster, had a slight at
tack of Lockjaw, which was eared by the
Bitters.
Theodore Wcnditz of Pa. Reservcs t was
shot in the arm at the battle of Fredericks
burg. By using. tho Bitters he li•as soon
relieved, from pain in the arm. -
NO ENTERTAINMENT SO CHEAP AS READING, NOB ANY PLEASURE SO LASTING."
COLUMBIA, PENNSYLVANIA, SATURDAY MORNING, AUGUST 19, 1865
T,oetrg.
Written for the Columbia Spy
Breaking the Shoes,
A true tale of flumilton College.
BY LIT LIGHT
"Twos a sultry. day in September,
In eighteen fifty two,
The college boys remember
How ice and lemons flew;
Ilut at the coming of the twilight
They left those college halls,
To seek the gentle sky-light
Beyond (hos,c gloomy walls.
But some remained for study,
They feared a weakened mind,
And brains with punches muddy,
Unless they staid behind.
Dan S.; my step relation,
Was one of these good boys,
And took his usual station
With his honks, his fay'rite toys.
Ho seated himself in a corner
Of his neat and tidy room,
When, suddenly, in came Horner,
His countenance clouded in gloom
Said be, "Dan, Dnn, vacation
Will soon he round again,
To bid us stop translation
And drop the busy pen,
Dat I am in a pickle
About this plague) , shoe,
And at a perfect stickle
To know what I shall do;"
Ile showed a pair of boozes
lie had that thy procured,
And they were leather beauties
Of that we felt assured.
Said lie, "my pocket money
Das taken wings of air,
And I can't raise the sponey
To buy another pair,
While one of theses° tightly
Clasps round my tender shin,
I cannot walk politely,
Itut make a horrid din.
But if you'll opiy take thorn,
Dear Dan, ad.*. or two,
And wear them till you break them,
do as much for you."
"()byes, with greatest pleavttre
MI do the thing you ask,
For they are just my measure,
'Twill be an ea. y task."
So Dan put on the bootee,
And also bootee's mate,
And made thorn both do duty
From Carly morn till Into
At night, and sore he felt a
Delight in doing good,
As vcould a chief who built
"St. Paul" with stolen wood.
A week or two passed over.
Vacation came at 111 , 4,
Davis' friend was off for Dover,
And stopped in as Ito passed,
To thank hint for assistance,
And carry off the shoe,
Which at a little distance,
Appeared as good as new.
"Tile duty you assigned me
You see," said Dan, " is done,
And you will always find me
Prepared for all such fun.
Here are the shoes you brought me,
And hero I see a hole,
Which oh-ervation taught me,
to peeping; through the sole;
Von a-ked me then to take them,
If I remember right,
And to attempt to break them
Decant.° they were too tight,
I have effectually
Performed tile work, you see ;
And walked clown to the valley
A hundred times if throe.
My labor now is ended,
The hole is broken through,
hAvo to get , them manded,
And then they'll do Sir you,
Original
'Written fur the Columbia Spy
DORA ST. IYIARX,
on
The Fate of a Millionaire
U J. WILLIAM VAN NAMEE
Dora St. Marx was admired by all who
knew her, reared as she was, in the great
metrapolib and surrounded by the gay
butterflies of fashion, that flirt along the
streets of a crowded city and through
the parlors of the wealthy. Being the
daughter of a millionaire, yet, unlike
many holding her position, and contrary
to the will of her parents, she was ever
kind to those who trod the humble paths
of life.
The irradiated smiles of friendship
ever beamed upon her countenance, her
' oyes sparkled like dew drops fresh from
heaven reposing on the petals of a moun
tain rose, to which her cheolts here a
marked resemblance. It was not the
tinctures of cosmetic art, but the pure
stamp of nature that caused the similitude
she was the persomfication of graze—
and as she moved with natural grace—at,
tractod the attention of many a young swain
and softened the heart of the wander
er as he gazed upon the pure features,
reminding him of the past-'—of child
hood scenes, of a gentle sister or a lov
ing mother that had long since left this
earth for a happier honM, leaving him to
tread this cold, unfriendly world,neglect
ed and alone.
Dora, was the only child of Baal St.
Marx, a Fifth ATenue aristocrat, who
had the control of a large mercantile es•
tablishment "down town," and was /OVA
SP patents are apt to love a single pledge
of affection. But her parents were la
boricg under the popular delusion, that
wealth, and wealth alone could bring
happiness to their child.
Her associates were chosen by her
parents. She was only permitted to
move in the most select circles, and was
often severely reprimanded for her kind
and sojiable disposition to those whom
they considered beneath them.
Until the age of seventeen, she was
under close subjection, after which she
would occasionally steal away to attend
parties at her aunt's who lived in the
vicinity, but who did not approve of the
doctrines of Dora's parents. With her,
the true gentleman was appreciated;
even though his bread was earned by
the sweat of, his brow.
It was at her aunt's she first met
George Rowland, a dry good's clerk, a
young man who stood high in the estima
tion of his employers, whose broad fore
head betokened great intellectual powers,
and whose urbanity was well adapted to
the position in which he was placed
George was a ktud hearted young
man, his integrity and polished manners,
won for him the admiration cf a wide
circle of friends, and can we wonder that
the two—Dora and George—meeting
frequently, soon learned to love each
other ? But alas, they knew the bless
ings of Mr. St. Marx would never be
given to their union.
"Dora, what infatuation makes you so
opposed to the excellent offer? Francis
Harlow is all you could wish for in a
husband. He is young, handsome and
wealth y."
"I cannot, I will not marry him. I
cannot give my hand without my heart,
and if he possesses the feelings of a true
gentleman he will not crave so worthless
a thing as an unloving heart. lly heart
is in the keeping of another, and if I
ever marry, it will be the man I lore who
shall fill the place of husband."
"And may I ask who the person is,
that has awakened in your bosom the
tender flame ?"
"George Rowland, my uncle's dirk."
"Dora, what can you mean, you my—
daughter marry George Rowland, a mer
chant's clerk—never, never, and have
you dared to think of giving him your
hand ?
"He has my heart, and the promise of
my hand." her features waxed pale as
she uttered these words, and she sank
silently into a seat.
"Dora, it can never be, you shall not
wed this George Rowland, I shall never
consent to it."
"Then dear father, I shall wed him
without your consent, even though by so
doing I incur your displeasure."
"Dora, you arc siezed with a fit of mad
ness, leave my presence—ungrateful, un
loving child ! dispel these thoughts from
your :mind, and proparo yourself to re
ceive my friend Harlow—as your be
trothed."
Tho poor girl drew a long sigh, and
staggered from the room.
The evening appointed for celebrating
tho nuptials, of Dora St. liars and Fran
cis Harlow arrived. The guests were as
sembled, impatiently awaiting the ap
pearance of the bridal train. Hark I
they are coming down the stairs. Dora
ruts her arm in that of Francis liarlow
with a coquettish •air of confidence, and
they prepare to descend to the saloons
below, but just as they roach the. stairs,
Dora exclaims.
"Oh, dear, I forgot my boquette, I'll
run back and get it," and she hastened to
the dressing room. Quickly throwing a
cloak that lay in readiness, over her
shoulders, she stepped out of the win
dow upon the balcony, and was lifted
to the ground by the strong arm 'of
George Rowland, and conveyed to a car
riage near by, and they were soon out of
sight.
The bridegroom and the bridal party
becoming impatient of the protracted de
laf, returned to the dressing room, to
hasten the tardy movements of the bride.
But where was she? Nowhere to be
found'. The house was searched and
re-searched, but no Dora could be lAiscov
ered,
The guests were dismissed, and Mr. St.
Marx retired to his library. On his
writing table he found a note addressee]
to himself. He opened it and read as
follows :
Dear Father :—T could not marry the
man you chose to select as my future
husband. I could never bestow my
band withoat ray heart, I shall in a few
hours be the bride of George Rowland—
Forgive
Your daughter,
"Never, never will I forgive you, un
grateful girl as you are, to marry that
man, not worth a cent in the world. No,
never shall you receive my forgiveness.
You are unworthy the name of daugh
ter." ,
Gemp Rowland and Dora were mar
tied, not amid the scenes of splendor that
were to characterize her nuptials with
Francis Harlow, but quigzitly in the
church, they attended.
Time rolled on, and Mr. St. Marx
wore a sad, elongated face, nor could he
comfort himself amid all the wealth and
splendor he hold in possession.
His wife was taken sick, and in a few
weeks she was laid to rest among the
sleepers that sleep in death.
Mr. St. Marx grieved much, he was
now all alone, and sought consolation in
the poisonous glass; adversity stared him
in the face as he trod the downward
road to ruin. lie met with loss after
loss, by carelessness of investment.—
Then came the great financial crisis
which prevaded the country and with
a crash, his entire property was destroy
ed.
Ire indulged freely 'fa intoxicating
drink, and bunged about the arJet fur.
saken and forlorn, taking his lodging
where best he could find it, in the open
air, beneath some sheltering stoop, or
wherever chance led him.
One night he was found lying on the
ground near the'City trail Park, picked
up and provided with comfortable lodg
ings, by a young man whom he knew
not. The young man made his appear
ance the nest day and found him to be
suffering with the horrors of delirium.—
Medical aid was procured, but to no ef
fect. lie was carefully attended for
several days when it was found that in
sanity had fastened its iron grasp upon
him. ITe was a madman, and a raving
maniac.
The young man who found him in the
' street, was George Rowland, the posses
sor of a large mercantile establishment
on Broadway. The unhappy Mr St.
Marx was conveyed to his dwelling, but
it was found necessary to place him in
the State Lunatic Asylum, where be
breathed his last, and the fate of a mil
lionaire leas sealed.
Ruins of the Rebellion
A Virgkia paper speaks of the start
ling fatality which has overtaken those
who were the political rebellious leaders
of that State. At the beginning of se
cession, Virginia had one Cabinet 3finis
ter who was a secessionist, the Secretary
of War, John B. Floyd. He is dead.—
She had two foreign Mini: , ters who were
secessionists, Hon. R. K. Meade and
John M. Daniel. Both are dead. Her
two Senators, Hunter and Mason, were
1 secessionists. One is a prisoner, the
other an exile. Her oldest and most per
sistent, and among her most influential
citizens who supported secession ,and the
man who Sired the first gun at Sumter,
was Edmund Ruffin. lie committed
suicide. The recogniied leaders of the
secessionists in the State Convention were
George W. Randolph and ex-Prosident
Tyler. Randolph is dying abroad, Tyler
is dead. She had three newspapers con
spicuously dovotod to secession—Rich
mond Inquirer, and Examiner, and the
Norfolk Argils. The journals are all cx
tinct,and the leading spirits of all—Wise,
Daniel and Lamb—are dead.
A .BLOODY 11. i oatta—The case of
Champ Ferguson, the guerilla, now on
trial for inurder,in Nashville, Tennessee...,
before a Military Commission, presents
the darkest and bloodiest phase of our
late civil war. The evidence submitted
to the court is but a small portion of
what has been adduced, and all of it is of
the same character. The atrocity of his
1 crimes is without a parallel. He is
charged with murdering fifty.four men,
but it is said, and, doubtless with truth.
that he has slain more than one hundred.
It is his boast that he slew that number,
and not in war, but in cold blood, Ile
spared no one—neither the wounded
captive, nor the siok in their bed ; all
shared the same fate—death. Ferguson
says he was an officer in the Confederate
army, but he can show no commission,
and probably claims to have been, only
to escape the fate lie richly merits. Ile
will swing from the gallows.
I —The old Revolutionary seal of Vir.
Iginia, with the motto of the Goddess of
'Liberty, of Sic Semper Tyrannis, has
been changed by the new State Govern
ment. The device of the Goddess of
Liberty trampling upon the prostrate
form of Tyranny has not been clanged
but the motto has. Instead of the proud
old Latin motto so elAerished by Wash
ington and his compatriots, and which
was subsequently used by the trsassin
Booth after his fatal shot at Lincoln, the
seal now hears this legend : " Liberty
and Union." -
DOUA
—The young man who received the
first prize for Commencement -day oratory
at Rochester University was nine years
ago a canal-driver, parentless, unable to
read, and ignorant oven of the time of
his birth.
$2,00 PER YEAR nir ADVANCE; $2,50 IP NOT PAID IN ADVANCE
gottn!.
(fly Roque.c.)
A Lady's Waterfall
She wore a monstrous waterfall, the night when
fast we met—
A roll half-horse, half-human hair, hung in a beaded
net,
It rested ocher shoulders, for the first time put to
use.
And she looked Just like a Digger squaw when lug
ging a papoose;
Or, taking a goad rearward squint at head and hair
together,
Just like a horse with tail tied up in very muddy
weather!
And she stooped beneath her burden she thought
was passing fair,
With her dainty bead drawn backward, and her
nose turned up in air,
I saw her but a moment, so graceful and so tall,
nending, 'sweating 'neath the burden other cherish
ed waterfall.
Oh, when will Fashion give us back the charms we
prized so long,
The web of silken splendor—the amine of many a
song.—
The shi ling hair that kissed the brow in many an
airy curl,
And give the erowaing b'auty to every lovely girl ?
When will sense resume its rile again—Fashion
receive a check,
And our loved ones no more carry round a pilbw on
the neck?
A thing composed of horses' tails, of wool, ofJute,ot
cord—
A monstrou;, mmtn dig figuremont, by every man ab
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Mr. Nicholas Nickleby—The Original
Sqneers.
A correspondent sends us the following
curious account of a recent conversation
he held with a gentlemanly Englishman
now traveling in this country. We give
it for whatever it is worth :
In the midst of a familliar chat, ho
asked, " Did you ever read Dickens'
Nicholas Nickeleby ?"
I answared " Yes."
" Well," returned he, " old Squeers
was my old master, William Shaw."—
And here you have the rest of his story:
" One day when I was about nineteen
years old.as I was passing by a bookstore
on Holborn Hill, London, near the Sar
acen's Head hotel, I saw a finely though
comically devised picture of a schoolmas
ter. Ou stopping to observe it more
carefully, I recognized the lineaments
of my old Yorkshire schoolmaster, Shaw,
and I went in and purchased the volume
cmataiaing the picture, and found that it
was Dickens' Nicholas Nickelby. A
short time afterward, I inet en old school
fellow by the name of Bishop,from whom
Dickens got the facts of the school part
of the story; he told me that he had put
Dickens in possession of them as the
surest way he knew of to pay off old
Shaw for his brutality."
I asked him in what part of Yorkshire
the Shaw academy (Dotheboy's Hall)
was situated ; and his reply was, at Bows.
And then by piece-meals we e4amined
the characters of Squeers ( Mr. Shaw),
Mrs Squeers, (Mrs. Shaw),Miss Squeers,
I (Miss Hellen Shaw), and Master Waek
ford, (Mr. Johnny Shaw). Mrs. Shaw
to a dot as dickens represents her. She
used to take all our lead pencils, paper,
shirts, cellars, etc., and either give them
or sell them to Johnny. O.what a hate
ful little !chow be was ; he'd steal our
balls, and as we didn't dare to speak to
his father about them, he always kept
them. Miss Shaw is unfairly drawn by
Dickens; she was well educated and con
siderably refined, having been sent to a
first class ladies' boarding school. Mr.
Shaw was a very passionate man, and
when enraged at a boy in school would
order two boys to bold him down upon a
table, one holding down his head, the
other his feet, and then would gash his
hare hack with biro!' sticks. But no boy
in school dared cry when whipped, for if
he did the other boys pinched and kicked
hint when they got out of doors. Mr.
Shaw never taught any branches except
reading and spelling. The reading exer
cises didn't satisfy Mr. Show, he would
forthwith lay him out on the table, order
two boys to hold him down and flog him
till ho got tired. One day getting mad
at a boy for a slight fault in penmanship
he struck him with a rod and cut open
his right cheek. The assistant masters
were orphaned boys whom cruel guar
dians had apprenticed to him. One of
them had had a large fottune loft him.
by his parents, but his guardian had Ark.
prentieed him to Shaw as farm-boy anti,
teacher, and had kept the fortune for
himself. Mr. Shaw's large fartnwas cul
tivated by the boys. If they didn't work
hard enough they were flogged or allowed
half rations. For nearly two months
they bad to work at haying, the school
being divided into throwers and rakers.
After the haying old Shaw Would say to
the boys in the writing class, I'll not flog
the rakers for their hands are sore ; but
wo unto you throwers !"
Ile used to go to Lomioo twice 'a year,
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and then the boys had to write letters
tolling their parents what a good roan
Mr. Shaw was, and how kingly he had
treated them. Before the letter was
written, he used to say, " I defy a boy
of you to say that ever I took away a
collar, shirt, or even pin from him; but
Mrs. Shaw always did that part of the
business. When in London he quartered
at the Saracen's Head. Once in three
weeks the boys were ranged in rows, and
the assistant masters went around and
saw whether each boy had his lead spoon,
fork and knife in hand; if he hadn't
I them be lost all his pocket money for two
or three months. After the publication
of " Nicholas Nickleby," Mr. Shaw lost
all his pay scholars, so he apprenticed
apprenticed schoolteasters,shoemakers,
blacksmiths and carpenters. Mrs. Shaw
in about two years afterward died of a
broken heart. Her contemptible old'
husband died almost au Idiot. Helen
married a low drinking fellow; Johnny
became a London loafer ; and .the second
son, Jonathan, who studied medicine,
spent what ever was left of the old man's
property among his fellow students in
drinking aad high living generally; but
for some years has been the village phy
sician in his native place, Bows. John
Brodie actually existed in John Droste,
the village shoemaker, Who had the hu
mane habit of helping the boys in run
ning away from Shaw's dungeon as he
I called. the school.
When a boy came to the school, his
clothes and other things were taken pos
session of by Mrs. Shaw, and ho was
given pants of leather which had been
worn by generations of boys before him
and which bad been so patched with
different colored pieces of cloth that the
poor schoolboys mistakingly called them
" Joseph's coat of many colors." When
Mr. Shaw and all the contemptible tribe
of Yorkshire schoolmasters had been
shown up and ruined by Dickens' Nick- •
leby, the London Dispatch came out ad
vising Shaw and his fellow-sufferere•to
prosecute Dickens for libel; but; my
brother and I, who by bitter experience
know the truth of Mr. Dickens' exposi
tion, wrote to the editor of that paper,
assuring him that th.) book was almost
literally true. And then the Dispatch
pitched into old Shaw more savagely
than Dickens had done. Nicholas Nick
lay, or rather a young Londoner, came
into the school as assistant teacher after
I left.—Springfield Republican.
A. Little Deaf
In the olden time, before Maine laws
were invented, Wing kept • the hotel at
Middle Granville, and from his well
stocked bar; furnished accommodation to
man and beast. He was a good landlord,
but terribly deaf. Fish,the village pain
ter, was afflicted in the same way.
One day they were sitting by them.
selves in the barroom. Wing was be
hind the counter, waiting for the neat
customer; while Fish was lounging before
the fire,with a thirsty look,casting sheep's_
oyes occasionally at Wing's decanters;-
and wishing devoutly that some one would.
come in and treat.
A traveler from the south, on his way
to Brandon, stepped in to inquire the
distance. Going up to the counter, he
said " Can you tell me, sir how far it is.
to Brandon ?"
" Brandy ?" says the ready landlord
jumping up, "yes, sir, I have some," at
the same time handing down a decanter
of the precious liquid.
" You misunderstood me," says the
" I asked how far it was to
stranger,
Brandon."
" They eall It pretty good brandy,".
says Wing. " Will you take some sugar
with it 7" rca'hing as he spoke, for the,
bowl and toddy-stick,
The desparing traveller turned to Fish.
" The landlord," said he "seems to be
deaf, will you tell me how far it is to
Brandon r'
" Thank you," said Fish: "I &wet oars
if I do take a drink vrith 7ou, I"
The stranger treated and fled.
UNomartay.AuLE.—The material with
which the Eternal writes his name may
vary, but the style of the hand-writing
is evermore the same. And whether in.
illuminated characters He paints it on
I the field, or in starry alphabet bide it
flame from the face of the firmament—.
whether He works in the ouriaasmosaic
of a slieD,or in Hebrew letters inscribes it.
on tables of stone, devotion recognizes its
heavenly Father's hand, and mi s takes
with reverence the matchless antogiaph.
—The boot and shoe manafactories in,
Massachusetts are now in full operation
and all the workmen find sraploymemt
with. fair wages. Goad workmen. make
from $2.00 to $3.50 per day.