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A.. M EAKBO, Editor and. Pnblisher.
VOLUME XXXVII, NUMBER 10.1
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BUSINESS CARDS
D, HE LOOP,
ATTORNEY AND COUNSELLOR AT LAW,
4...trijUill ll l bia, Pa. Office in Oad Fellows
flail.
Nov. 19 1864-tf.
ESSICK,
kTTORNEY AND COUNSELLOR AT LAW,
CULUMBIA, PA
EL W. NORTET.,
1101NEY IND COUNSEUMIi IT LAZY
Columbia, Pa.
Collection•: promptly made in Lancaster
York. counties,
Cola., July 2, MI
A. J. KAUFFIfIAN,
ATTORNEY AT LAW.
l%lade in Lancaster and
adjoining Comities.
l'em,ions. Bounty, back pay and all
claims against the government promptly
pro,ectited,
(Mice—Locust Street,between Front and
Sewn Deo.
SAMUEL EVANS,
JUS T Eof the (h. F. IN ODD FEL Lows' HALL.
COLO NMI , PA.
.1 Line IS, 1864.
J, Z. lIOFFER,
Front Street next der
, t•, It. Williams' Drug Store, between
and Walnut sts, Pu.
Dr. J. R. LINEAMEAVER,
I yFEasPROPEONAL sun
vicos•to tneciu,..m n anabia and
virmit V.
(4104.—Loettst Street, between Second A::
Third Sim,.ts.
June 17
41/11.SHINGTON EU.:USE HOTEL.
Fr 'IA Street, Columbit , Pit.
DANtICI. HP:lnt o Proprietw
FRANKLIN HOUSE.
LOCUST ST I? BET, COL UM 81. 1, PA.
MI I IS is a lirstclass I.otel, and is in every
1 respect adapted to meet the wishes and
desires of the traveling public.
JACOIS S. MILLER,
Col.. july, 15, '65 Proprietor.
WASHINGTON DOUSE RESTAURANT,
AVe EE R may be found Oysters alway
n hand, of the best quality served
spin every style,
MOM for the tmeoinedation of la
dle; or families. Oysters Can be had by the
quart or hundred.
bee. 3, '61.-tf .
GEORGE BOGLE,
Dealer in
LUMBER OF ALL DESCRIPTIONS,
Also, PLASTERER'S lIAIR
Office and Wareliouie—Front Street be
tween Locust and Union.
July 8, 1883.
WIIEELER & WILSOTV4
SE WING MACHINES
111.1FLM" 713 - I•TXLXN7 III6 .-T-i 1 . 40 .-T: ,
For Sub) by W. G. PATTON,
June 11,'64. Locust St., Columbia, Pa
Confectionery
A ND FRUIT OF - ALL KINDS IN SEA-
Xlson. Parties and families supplied with
xczi coma=
by the freezer, or in moulds, with prompt
ness et
OEO. J. SMITH'S
Adjoining the Franklin House, Locust St
P. S. Also a fine assortment of Toys
and fancy articles constantly on hand.
July's
COLUMBIA FLOUR MILLS,
GEORGE BOGLE, Proprietor.
9 111 E HIGHEST CASH PRICES PAID
for all kinds of Groin.
'upertine and Extra Family Flour for
sale, also mill feed of all kinds. Wheat
ground and packed to order
VS),.. Town and country custom solicited
July 21811 1865.
SUPPLIER Si BROTHER,
Manufacturers of
STEA M BOILERS_
TN addition to our Foundry and Machine
1- work, we aro now prepared to manufac
ture every variety of .Boiler and plate iron
work,
/Lending and Reparing Bailers
Promptly attended to. Thankild for past
favors, we would invite the attention of
our friends and patrons to this new brunch
of our business. '
SUPPLEE .t BRO.,
2d Street, Columbia.
jan. 21,
American
AICD
IRMST.A.T.TR.A.N r r ,
SAMUEL H. LOCICAIID, Proprietor,
Front St., between Lomat it Walnut Sta.,
COLUMBIA• PA
The Proprietor will spare no pains to
make his house equal to any in the bor
ough- His bar will always be stocked
with the best liquors, and restaurant with
all the raid things of the season. Oysters
for sale at all,tinies by the bushel, gallon
*llutatt." sept, ,415,
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GROVESTEEN & Co
PIANO. - FORTE
MANUFACTURERS,
499 BROADWAY,
NEW YORK.
THE attention of the public and the
trade,is invited to our NEW SCALE 7 00-
rA4E ROSEWOOD PIANO FORTES,
which for volume and purity of tone are
unrivalled, by any hitherto offered in this
market. They contain all the modern im
provements, French, Grand Action, Harp
Pedal, Iron Frame, Over-Strung Bass,&c.,
and each instrument being made under
the - personal supervision 'of 'Mr. J. H.
GnovzsTEEN, who has had a practical ex
perience of over 35 years in their manufac
ture, is fully - warranted in every particu
lar.
The " Groresteen Piano Fortes" have
received the award of merit Over all
others at the celebrated World's Fair.
Where were exhibited instruments from
the best makers of London, Paris, Ger
many, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Boston,
and New York; and also at the American
Institute for five successive years,the gold
and silver medals from both of which can
ho seen at our Ware-room.
By the introduction of improvements we
make a still more perfect Piono Forte.and
by manufacturing largely, with a strictly
cash system, are enabled to offer these in
struments at a price i.which will preclude
all competition.
Pita:Es—No. 1, Seven Octave, round cor
ners, Rosewood plain case,s27s.
No. '2. Seven Oclave,round corners
Rosewood, heavy moulding, $3OO.
No. 3, Seven Octave, round corners
Rosewood Louis XIV style $325.
Terms-Net Cash in current Funds.
DESCRIPTIVE CIRCULARS SENT
FREE.
July 20,1 y. 'A. ce C."
Susquehanna Planing Mill,
ON ntoNT sT. AND PENN. RAILROAD
Columbia, l,:ineaster County, Pa.
Trim subscriber would respectfully nu
.L nounce to the patrons of his Mill, that
the advanced prices of labor and expenses
incident to carrying on the business of his
establishment compels him to charge his
customers an advance on former rates, and
takes this method to inform theM that the
thllowing are the prices for work done at
his Mills:
For working Flooring per 1‘1.• $4.50
do Weatherboards " 4.50
• " Surfacing one side, per M. 2.50
do two do do 4,00
" Ile-sawing White Pine face
measure, per M. 5.00
" do Poplar face meas. do 0.00
" do Ash, Oak it Cherry,
lace Incas. per M. S.OO
" Ripping 4-4 per line, PI ft. la
" do 8-4 do do 1
" do Joice do do 41
La- Lumber hauled to the Mill and re
turned to 'Yard without extra charge.
Accounts for working or dressing lumber
will be considered collectable every four
months.
The subseril )ca has on hand an assortment
of ROUGH and DRESSED LUMBER,
which is tor sale at Market Prices, and so
licits a continuation of public custom.
JOHN B. BACHMAN.
Col u mbia,Ma 1864.
wor
W. W. FRT. Mann:A. KURTZ
PRY 8z 3ECT_TIVI"Z,
LuporeTEßS
~AND JOBBERS
113S1ERY, GIBES, HMS An
ANCY GeODS,
32.5 ARCH STREET,
PHILADELPHIA.
Jan. 21, 64. 6111.
COAL ! COAL!
DF. GRIFFITII, has opened a coal
. yard on the corner of Front and Wal
nut streets, Columbia, and intends keep
ing a general assortment of Schuylkill
County coal at
WHOLESALE AND RETAIL,
warranted the best and cleanest family
coal tb-;:t comes to this place.
COMM AND XIZANCENE
or yourselves.
Sales cash on delivery. A liberal share
of public patronage is solicited.
mar. 18, 'O. D. F. GRIFFITII.
BOSTON CIIAIN
wHavcjust received 700 pounds best
V V Boston Linen Carpet Chain, in all
colors which we will sell at a reduced
price. STE &CY it; BOWERS,
Opposite Odd Fellow's HMI,
May 6, Columbia, Pa.
TO TOBACCO GROWERS!
•
HAVE constantly on band at my
I
Plaining Mills, Tobacco cases, and will
furnish them at reasonable prices, to those
p
who desire to ack their Tobacco.
JOHN 13. BACHMAN,
Susquehanna Plaining Mills.
Mayl3, '65. _ _
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COAL 1 COAL I COAt !
Baltimore Co. Lump for melting Iron.
" No. 1, for Heaters, &c.
66 44 2,for Cannon Stoves
1 46 " - iifo Parlor Stoves,&4
46 4, for Ranges,' tc.
a 16 5, for Nimor Grates &
. Lime Burner.
Shamokin Stove & Nut, a meduium burn
ing coal
Pine Grove, 64 t. 66
Lykes Valley, a free burning coal.
Parties wishing to buy Coal by the car
load. which conies via llmaling at Colum
bia R. R., can be accommodated at mine
prices,_the undersigned having made ar
ruilgements so that eireet. 'Coal cleaned
before leaving the yard. Our °Mee has
been moved south- 290 from the old place.
Sept 9. BRUNER &31.00 RE.
.
IRON. STONE
Nu - F. HAVE justreccived qui—firstspring
Y envoice of Stone China and Queens
ware, which we invite the early attention
citpurchasers to, as we will sell them at
the right figure.
t4TEApY & BOWERS.
Oprsiti3 Odd Fellows'
.
Cottimhin,
fel), 41'65
"NO ENTERTAINMENT SO CHEAP AS READING, NOB ANY PLEASURE SO LASTING."
COLUMBIA, PENNSYLVANIA, SATURDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 14, 1865.
MISHLER'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 he seen
by calling at the Store of the Proprietor,
Centre Square, Lancaster, Pa.
B. MISHLER, Sole Manufacturer.
John C. Walton, Lancaster, cured of Dis
ease of Spine and Kidneys, etc., contracted
in the Army.
Thomas Groom, Glen Hope, Cured of
Disease of the Back and Nervous system.
Henry Nagle, Lancrister,cured of a stroke
of the Palsy, causing the loss of the use of
the right arm.
Joseph Witmer, Philadelphia, certifies
that "%fishier'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 Pinefroek, Lancaster, cured of
Chronic Rheumatism, which he was much
afflicted with while in the Army—reccom
mends the use of the Bitters to soldiers and
others similarly afflicted.
Levi Hart, Sen., Lancaster, cured of
Rheumatism 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 Iflishler's Bitters.
Henry Maderf, Lancaster, was cured of
difficulty in passing his water, by the use
of the Bitters, and his wife also relievee
from Rheumatic pains,
• Philip Bence, Lancaster, Cured of an af
fection of the Kidneys aed Bladder, by the
use of Iffishler's Herb Bitter.
Daniel B. Herr, Rohrerstown, Lancaster
Co., certifies that, he was cured of severe
stitches in the side which lie .was afflicted
with foi nine years.
Jas. Bicking, Litiz, Pa., 'was cured of a
severe attack of Chronic Rho am:distil.
Jos; IL Watson, Lancaster, relieved of
pains in his shoulders and limbs, that lie
was unable to sleep.
Andrew Eberly, Lancaster, Cured of
Cramp Cholic—was so severe that ho be
came apprehensive of Rupture.
Mary J. Carney, Lancaster, cured of
weakenss of the breast and pain in the side
by Mishler's Bitters.
Win. H. Jordan, Lancaster, relieved of
Cholera Morbus in 10 or 15 minutes, by
the Herb Bitters.
Jacob Haag, Lancaster, says that his
son was relieved of extraordinary pains in
his arms and legs.
Samuel MeDonnel, Lancaster, cured of
Dispepsia of 20 years stunding by Mishler's
Bitters.
H G. Rendig, Farmer, near Lancaster,
was cured of a severe attack of Dispepsia,
by the Bitters.
Hugh Dougherty, Lancaster, says his
daughter wits cured of weaknes, pnthisic
sore throat, &c.
J. L. Baker, Lancaster, certifies thathis
family has been much r li-vod from afflic
tion by the Bitters.
H. H. Rhotals,ileamstown,Lancaster Co.,
cured of Inthumnatury Rheumatism of
some years standing.
Jonathan Styer, of Haywood Htivital
Va. was cured of Rheumatism by the Lilt - -
tors—contracted in the Army.
Thomas Brophy, La n caster,recovered from
attack of Fever and Ague, by the use of
Mishler's Bitters.
1. Musketnuss,Laneaster, cured ot what
is cal tut a Running Leg, by application of
the Bitters.
John Rote, Lancaster, cured of a Run
nining Leg or•_'o years' standing, by Mish
ler's Bitters.
Isaac Mclntyre, Lancaster, relieved of a
severe pain across his kidneys, by the
herb "titters.
C. B, Mayer, Lancaster, cured of a severe
cold which had settled in his teeth, by
Mishler's Bitters.
J. P. Fredenberg, Lancaster, was entire
ly cured of at remarkable distressing Ab
scess by the Bitters.
Henry G. Kendig, Camp Potomac, was
cured of Diarrhwa, by the use of Mishler's
Bitters.
A. Fairer, Lancaster ocr, Poorhouse,
cured of llispepsia and disease of the Kid
neys, by the Bitters.
Mary Rives. Lancaster, relieved of a
terri hie cold on tho breast of three mouths
standing . , by the Bitters.
John %Veithuan,Lancaster,says that him
self anti wife wore cured ofsevere Rheu
matism by the Bitters.
A Lady of Lancuster,writes to Mr. Mish
ler, that the Bitters cured her of Piles of a
year's standing.
John Gilman, Lancaster, cured of Dis
ease of the Heart and it severe pain in his
breast, by the Bitters.
G. W. Whitelield, Agent at Altoona,
Blair Co. writes of the success he has met
in selling the Bitters.
Amos Aument, of Strausburg. Lancas
ter Co., used the Bitters for a wound in the
leg received at the Battle of South Morn
tain, and and has now no more pain.
J. C. R., a member of Co. B, 195th Reg- 1
invent, P. V., writes to the Proprietor, that
the Bitters cured him of a distressing cold
which has unfitted him from duty.
Martha Bents, Lancaster, was cured In
flammatory Rheumatism, rrom cold taken
by a broken arm.
John Neidich, Lancaster, was cured of
Palpitation of the Heart, which 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
paina in her bands and feet .by the use of
of Mishler's Bitters.
John Lesher, of Reamstown, Lancaster
co., was cured of a swell in the neck and
jaw by the use of Mishler's Herb Bitters.
H. C. (linkinger, Philadelphia, after be
ing confined to the house for two years,was
cured by the use of Mishler's Bitters.
Geo. 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. Margaret Kirk, Lancaster, war
cured of a severe pain in her side and ner
vousness, by the use of the Herb Bitters.
Mrs. Eliza AVenditz. Lancaster. was cur
ed of Inflammatory Rheumatism by the
use of the Bitters.
Amos Orel; Lancaster, was relieved of
a severe cold in the throat by the use of the
Diners.
Henry J. Etter, Lancaster, had his sight
restored,(which he had been deprived of
for about 5 years,) by the use of Mishler's
liittters.
Charles P. Miller, Philadelphia, writes
of a lady ii flat city having been cured of
the Dumb Ague, by the use of the Bitters.
Harriet Orr, Lancaster, was cured of in
ward weakness and pain in the buck, by
the Herb Bitters.
•
John Kautz, Lancaster, had a slight at
tack of Lockjaw, which was cured UT the
Bitters.
Theodore Wenditz of Ea; Beeervest was
shot in the aim at the battla of Fredericks
burg. By Using the Bitters he was soon
relieved from Train in the artn:
"govirg.
Written for the Columbia Spy
Jeff. Davis in 1863..
BY MBS". N. J. A. SIMONS
Blaze, with your mudslll columns,
We will not bind the knee,
No Linen Mite shall ever bind
The arm of an F. F. V,
We've mailed it with defiance,
And we'll meet ye hand to hand.
One F. F. V. shall whip five "Yanks,"
And drive all from our land. '
We've sworn, ou Bunker Hill we'll yet
Our slave roll proudly call,
And we will in your market place,
The auction block install.
To crack our slave whip o'er you,
Our southern bosom yearns,
And we'll drive our slaves thro' State street
Where once ye garded Burns.
Ye followed us from place to place,
And tho't it glorious fun,
Ye followed and we led ye on
To bloody dark Bull Rim.
But there we saw your Courage
Ron at a splendid rate,
Your boasted valor won the heat,
We lost a glorious bait.
We scared ye at Big Bethel,
We scalped ye on the plain,
At Fredericksburg your hirelings fell
Beneath our leaden rain.
We scorn the Proclamation,
Abe Lincoln we defy,
And all his grca:y minions
Blood is our battle cry.
We saw your armies gather,
Led by our "Lehile Mac, ,,
Down mong the swamps and ditches
lie scen ted well the lock.
But Richmond still if, ours,
Our arms ure strong and we
Will sweep the land of mudgills,
And reign triumphantly
For beauty and for booty,
Yo fight. we to preserve
Oar institutions and our rights,
And we will strain each nerve,
To welcome ye with bloody hands
To hospitable graves,
In prison pens your bones shall blew%
The just desert of knaves,
We hate, we loathe, detest ye—
Your dogs of war let fly--
We'll taunt ye with our latest breath,
And tight ye, till we die.
The flower of our chivalry,
The young the old the rich
We'll fight ye all together,
Pie in the last, last ditch.
OriOnal
Written forlhe Columbia Spy
TWO SIDES.
BY HENRY J. HOWARD.'
The war is over, and peace reigns
supreme over our great Republic. Time
is healing the wounds of discord and of
strife, and nature is fast mending the
rents made in her wooden and verdure
robe. The hearts of men are fast be
coming reconciled, and many are to-day
bowing at the shrine of a merciful na
tion, asking pardon for the crimes they
have committed against it—and its peo
ple. But when I look upon the present,
and review the past, through the same
reflecting glass, I can but wonder at the
change so mercifully wrought in this
land of Freedom for man's especial ad
vancement and social benefit.
We have had good and 'able Men at
the helm of the old Ship of State, and
she has weathered the fiercest storm that
eves swept o'er the bosom of life's ex
tended ocean, and at last entered the
harbor of peace and tranquility where
Liberty wields tin sceptre with•love and
good-will to her now loyal subjects.
In the month of December, 1860, I
clipped from the colums of the Baltimore
American., a pciem by J. S. Bradford,
headed "an acrostic for the Times," and
thinking it a tolerable good composition
in view of the secession of a part of the_
Southern States, I preserved it by
placing it carefully in a scrap-book.:--
Here it is :
"Grant that thy wisdom's mantle yet may fall,
Enrolling elunn brave soul with saving might ;
Or that, in answer to a nation's call,
Reason yet may dawn and yet disperse the night.
Grant that thy sacred heritage may be
Eternal Union, Peace and Liberty.
Would thou wort here—sage Hero of thy time
Among dibSerlBlollB, and 'midst terrors rife !
Secession standing on the cargo of crime,
lier nervous sons too eager for the strife.
in her dark train Disunion cornea ;
North Against south in dread array 1
Grant from our altars and our homes,
This gathering storm may pass away
O save thy country, it thy spirit can,
for loot o its memory to the sneers of man
rkeember 23.18G0
After having read that, then pass to
April 24th, 1861, soon after the mem
orable crime of the assault on the Union
soldiers by that merciless and wicked
mob of Maryland rebels, and road the
following from the pen of the same
author, and published in the vilest rebel
sheet then in our midst, known as "The
South."
Bark! to the clanking crash of marching squadrons
in the street;
Hark! to the martial music, aid the measured
tramp of feet I
Old Idaryland is roused r and her sons in firm array.
In theii battle harness glistening stands eager for
the fray.
ror their hearthstones And their homes, their sift
ters and their wives,
ror State Rights and far honor they stake their
blood andlives
For the hero days of old, whoa :their dauntless
fathers stood
For North Point's battiedield and McHenry stained
with blood.
On Sacred Soil ye faithless crew, we'll meet. your
Northern hordes,
And test our rights us freemen with brave hearts
and gleaming swords.
April 24th,1801.
It is almost impossible how the same
person could have written the above
lines and poems ; bow one could have
changed so much in so short a space of
time, is beyond my power of cornprchen_
sion. In 1860 he was an upholder of
our Republic, and our Union's defender,
and 1861—only four months later he
was a rebel fighting against it.
Row proud ought we to be, standing
as we are in the peaceful rays of our
new-born Republic's sunlight, gazing
out upon the fair and flourishing fields
of Liberty and Freedom, to recognize
the fact that "old things have passed
away and all things have become new."
Old prejudices are banished—old ani
mosities are lost, and we are to-day oue
great family—the most powerful either,
for offence or defence, of all the nations
of the earth.
Baltimore. JIM , 18G5
THE MILLER'S: DAUGHTER.;
Or, The Angel's Wings.
Many years ago, the community of a
hamlet in the south of France was star
tled by a crime, rare, indeed in their
quiet agricultural district. A wealthy
farmer was found dead at early morning
within one hundred yards of his owu
house. He had been killed by blows
administered with a heavy stake, which
lay near the body, covered with blood
aid all his pockets had been rifled of their
contents, including a considerable sum of
money. which he was known to have re
ceived the previous evening for some
sheep sold by him in the neighboring
market town.
When the awe and excitement created
by this event had subsided a little every
exertion was made by the authorities to
ferret out the perpetrator of the crime.
A reward was offered for the discovery
of the murderer, proclarnat;on of which
bounty was made for several successive
Sundays at the church door. 'At last
some disclosures were made implicating
a young man named Laroche—a strip
ling of eighteen years.
The person who brought the charge
against young Laroche was a man of the
name of Landry—a stranger in the dis
trict, but who had lately been appointed
by the lord of the manor as one of the
keepers of his game preserves. Laundry
testified that he had seen Laroche cut
ting a stake from a hedge in the after
noon previous to the murder, and that
he had reproved him for it,aud taking the
stake from him, had stuck it in the bank
of the hedge at a particular spot. The
was the same one that was found lying
near the body of the murdered farmer.
Landry could swear to it, because,after
taking. it from Laroche, he had nicked
it is a peculiar way with his knife.
Now it so happened that the murdered
farmer had many and influential friends
while Laroche had but few. Therefore
Laroche was convicted of the murder,
and sentenced to be hanged on a certain
day, at a certain place; until which time
hewas placed in the jail of the district—
the third floor of a large stone building
the lower part of which was a mill. The
Prison consisted of a single apartment,
, lighted by one small window at a height
of sixteen feet from the floor. The side
of the building from which the window
looked ran sheer down to the water of a
dark and deep river, which crept lazily
by the mill,but quickened its pace a little
lower down, until it gradually became a
rushing torrent, leaping wildly on to its
fall over a perpendicular ledge of rocks.
Bodies carried over that fall were said
never to have been recovered, and it was
a fixed notion among the country people
that there was a suctional force in the
whirlpool below by which everything
falling into it was carried down into un
explored abysses of the earth.
It was the day before that fixed for
the execution of young Laroche, and the
priest of the parish, Father Allard by
name, had been left alone with the pris
oner, in order to prepare him, by the
consolation of religion, for his approach
ing
doom. To his words of comfort
Laroche listened with humility and in
silence, untill the good father began to
dilate upon his chances of forgiveness in
the next world for the terrible crime
committed by him. Then the prisoner
electrified him by declaring his perfect
innocence of thatcrime—a position which
be meant to maintain, he said, with his
last breath.
To be brief the youth of the prisoner
his earnest asseveration of innocence,and
a wavering doubt of his guilt which had
all along troubled Father Allard's mind
140 wrought upon that worthy man that
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he at last consented to commit himself to
a plan for giving the prisoner a chance
of escape, if not from death, at least from
the ignominy of dying by the hands of
the accursed . hangman.
"If I die by the gallows,most reverend
father," said the young man, "a great
sorrow will some day fall upon all con
cerned in my death. The real murderer
is sure to be discovered, sooner or later
and then I shall be a murdered manolna
the just retribution of Heaven. will pur
sue my murderers. Aid me to escape,
rather than risk a great stain upon your
conscience. Stand upon this chair,which
I place upon the table, thus, and then,by
mounting upon your shoulders, I can
reach the window and drop from it."
"But the river below?"
"I swim like an otter; and at any rate
it is better to be drowned than hanged."
Convinced of the young man's inno
cence, Father Allard consented to aid
him in his escape. A moment sufficed
to carry the plan into execution. The
prisoner gained the window, and disap
peared.
Parading in a straggling way outside
the building, went oue of the minor offi
cers of justice—a stolid peasant, who had
been placed there by way of sentry, and
who at this moment, happened to be
looking towards the river wall of the
mill. His sight nearly left him, as lie
afterwards stated, when lie saw a man
drop from the window, strike on to a
platform that protruded from a doorway
in the second story,and,rebounding from
that, fell into the water with a *heavy
plunge, reappearing at intervals, until'
he was carried away into the rapids be
low.
The alarm was at once given. Village
officials rushed to the prison room,where
they found Father Allard, alone, seated
in the chair, pale, and as if just recover
ering from the sight of some supernat
ural vision. To the questions put to him
he replied that, as he was administering
the consolation of his holy office to the
prisoner, a voice sounded through the
apartment, accompanied by the shadow
of a mighty pair of wings, on which the
prisoner mounted to the ceiling of the
apartment,and was seen no more by him.
The voice, he added, proclaimed the
prisoner's innocence, and that the real
circumstances of the murder would soon
he manifest. It was a miracle, and the
good country people,ever ready to accept
that form of interposition, were easily
persuaded to do so on the present occa
sion.
Meantime, Laroche, when ha leaped
from the window, had forgotten all about
the platform. As he fell upon it, be
displaced a sack of grain, which splashed
into the dark waters of the river, ap
pearing to the eyes of the bewildered
sentry to be the body of the man whohad
dropped from the prison 'window. La
roche lay upon the narrow platform,
stunned by his heavy fall. Spiride, the
miller's daughter, saw him fall. There
was no one else in the mill at the time.
She drew him quickly behind the sacks
and great heaps of grain on the floor,and
having administered to him such restor
atives as her young experience suggested
threw some loose sacks over him, and
told him to lie still.
That night Spiride and her lover—
Laroche and she had been lovers for
about six hours only—made their way to
where a boat lay moored below the falls,
and, embarking in it, were soon carried
beyond the reach of persuit. It was
supposed by the affrighted villagers that
Spiride must have been carried from the
platform when the body from the win
dow above had been seen to strike upon
it; and, as the whirlpool below the tor
rent had never been known to give up its
dead, but little search was made for her,
and her friends resigned themselves to
mourning for her awful fate.
Less than six months after this, Landry
was tried for the murder of a brother
keeper, and was convicted and banged
accordingly. Previous to his execution,
however, he wade a clean breast of it to
Father Allard, confessing that he had
murdered the farmer for his money, kill
ing him with the stake cut from the
hedge by young Larophich as he
stated singularly enough, - suggested to
him the idea of committing the crime.
Two years elapsed, and Father Allard
had been promoted to a parish at a dis
tance of some fifty miles from tho one of
which he had been pastor for so many
years.
Shortly after his arrival there, his du
ties led him to take a journey on horse
back,some miles into the interior of the
parish of which he had charge. Part,of
the'road traveled by him wound through
a swampy forest region, and, after a ride
of several miles, he came to a sluggish
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stream that had formerly been spanned
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by a bridge of which nothinr , but abut
meats . .
now remained,however. Thepriest
turned his horse's head, and rode along
the bank of the river, hoping to find ,
another bridge, or, at least, a ford by
I which he could cross to the further side;
I nor had he gone far when he discerned
by hoof _ marks, a place where cattle
seemed to be in the habit of wading
!through, or coming to drink. The water
appeared to be shallow, so he urged his
unwilling horse into it, and had got
half-way across when the animal began
to plunge and struggle violently, sinking
at the same time, as if drawn down by
some invisible power. Aware, now that
he had fallen into one of those quick
sands which are not uncommon in that
i part of France, the good father knew
'that to throw himself' from his horse
wauld be certain death, as the water was
not deep enough to swim in, and the
hungry sand at the bottom was gaping
for him. He help his horse, therefore,
and shouted for help.
The water was gaining . upon him, as
the terrified horse sank deeper and deeper
in the treacherous stream. Up, up it
came, until it reached his saddle flaps,
and then his knees, and he had given
himself up for lost; when distant shoats
came in response to his, which were
growing feebler with each repetition.—
And now a man bursts his way through
the brushwood on the river bank, and,
laying his axe upon a tall,slender, young
tree, cuts it down with four or five rapid
strokes, leaning it so that it falls out upon
the water, its topmost boughs just brush
ing the sinking horseman in its fall.—
Grasping the boughs with all his re
maining strength, the priest was drawn
to the bank by the woodsman, fainting i
and senseless; however, with hardly a
visable spark of life.
When Father Allard recovered oon-
sciousuess, he found himself in a small,.
but comfortable ma lt Seeing him
open his 057, a baligirryoung woman,.
who was bathing his temples, uttered an
exclamation joy, calling him by name
and now ; asifis dizzy senses - brightened,
what was his,•urprise to recognize in his
attendant the lost Spiride I Explanations
ensued, and all was made as clear as day:-
without recourse to marvel or miracle:
Presently Laroche, whdhittb:Been en- •
gaged with the assistance of some neigh." . •
bora in extricating the priest's hcirie,
came in; and the meeting was an affect
ug one between the two, each of whom: .
had been thus wonderfully rq)pointed by •
Providence to preserve the other. .•
" My conscience is clear now," said
Father Allard. "Heaven has surely par- •
doned the little fiction framed by me,else.
why—"
"But hold, reverend father," cried Li
roche, interrupting him ; "theremias no.
fiction in the case ; you said I wag car
ried away upon an angel's wings, and' o
I was, and this is the angel that saved
we Vend lie laughlingly threw his aruls •
around his pretty wife, and hugged her
to his side.
Poetical justice might now have been.
wellsatisfied, but I have a few words fur--
titer to add upon the subject.
Laroche, who was now employed as
forester upon an estate, was enabled by -
the assistance of Father Allard to return
to his native village, where not long after
ho obtained an appointment to the very
keepership formerly held by the assassin
Landry. The mystery attending his
miraculouseseape and re-appearance gave_
him au extraordinary influence among
the peasantry. Stories lose nothing by
circulation. re Ho eventually became a - ,
a sanctified personage in the cotamnnity;
and a rudely carved effigy of him is still
to be seen in the old chapel of the parish' !
with a pair of angel's wings hovering
Over him, and a cross at his head and '.
feet.
—Some of the women in Haverhill,
Mass., are expert shoemakers, and turas, l
ma brogues as well as "any other man".,
—especially if any other man demands
more wages than the daughters of
Crispin are willing to work for. In one
particular they are better cobblers thrn, l44l.
the males, theyi,Sschew sherry cobbl
and dont get drunk every Motlday In AIL
this respect the example of the women - •
should be emulated, as "every shoentakei
should stick to his last",,pledge.
—lt has been decided by the Com. .
missioner of Internal Revenue that : ,
butchers who pay tax of 810 may
,also .:
retail other merchandise than meat at .
the same store. Those who pay liismist.,.
of 8.5 may peddle meat or fish without a
peddler's license, but cannot sell other
articles.
—g , I'm a gone sucker," as the, child.
said when his mother weaned him.
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