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VOLUME' XL, _NUMBER
THE COLUMBIA. SPY,
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PROFESSIONAL.
NI CLARK,
JUSTICE OF THE PEACE.
OFFlCE—friext door to Hess' book store.
Office Hours—From 6to 7 A. M. 12 to 1 P. M.,
and front 6 to 9 P. M. [apr.2o, '67-Iy.
H M. NoRTE,
ATTOII.I . TEY do COUNSELLOR-AT-LAW,
Columbia, Pa.
Collections .promptly made in Lancaster and
York Counties.
A J. ICAUFFAIAN, -
ATTORNEY-ST-LAW.
Collections made in Lancaster and adjoining
C.:onnties. _
Pensions, Bounty, Back Pay, and all claims
kgalnst the government promptly prosecuted.
Office—No.ls2, Locust street.
O AMUEL EV:ANS,
._.TUSTICE OF :THE PEACE.
Officei - on Second St., adjoining Odd Fellows'
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HOFFER,
DENTIST.
Nitrous Oxide Gas atiniinistered In the extrac
' • " . _ tion of Teeth.
OfficeL-FrOnt Street next door to R. Williams'
Drug'Store,betweenLocust and Walnut Streets,
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Columbia, a.
FHINKLE,
. PHYSICIAN-tt, SURGEON;
offers his.professional services to the citizens of
Columbia and - vicinity. may be-found at the
oilice•oonnected with- his-residence, on Second
street, between Cherry and Union, every day,
from 7 to 9 A. lit., and from 6 to 8 P. Persons
wishing his services in special cases, between
these hours, will leave.word-liy noteat his Mike,
or through the post oillce. -
D ENTAL SURGERY
.T. S. SMITH, DENTIST,
Graduate of Pennsylvania College of Dental
Surgery. Office In Wagner% Building, over
Haldeman's dry goods store. En
trance, 270 Locust Street, .
Columbia, Penn's.
Dr. J. S. Smith thanks his friends and the pub
lic in general for their liberal patronage in the
past, and assuring them that, they can rely upon
having ,every.; attention. given to them in the
future. - In every branch of- his -profession he
has always given, entire-satisfaction. ,3le calls
attention-to; the unsurpasssed - style And finish
• of Artliicial, , teeth, inserted by, him. He treats'
'diseases _common to- the mouth, arid.:.teeth' of
, ;• 2 ,childteiiinrislAulnits.-,Teeth.iilled With the.great
:'-hhtt, hh , most.j-approvedi..-ialmaer
- Achingyteeth * .treated and filled to last for years.
The best of dentrifices and mouth washes con
stantly on. hand.
N. B.—All work warranted.
ap24-lyw J. S. SMITH, D. D. S.
HOTELS.
WESTERN HOTEL,
Nos. 9; 11, 13 6: 11 CORTLANDT STREET,
NEW YORE.
THOS. D. WINCHESTER, PROPRIETOR.
This Hotel is central and convenient for Penn
sylvanians.
ABLE MrsitLEl_,t of Reading, Pa.,
Is an assistant at this Hotel, and will i ghul to
Mee his friends at all times.
" CON '.I'INENTA.L.'
THIS HOTEL IS PLEASANTLY LOCATED,
between the Stations of the Reading and Colum
bia, and Pennsylvania Railroads,
FRONT STREET, COLUMBIA, PA.
Ample accommodations for Strangers and Tray.
eters. The Dar is stocked with
CHOICE LIQUORS,
Aml the Tables furnished with the best fare.
URIAI - I FINDLEY,
Columbia, April 21, 1817.] Proprietor
- DEANE:LIN HOUSE,
- LOCUST ST., COLUMBIA, PA.
This Is a first-class hotel, and is in every respect
adapted to meet the wishes and desires of the
traveling public. MARTIN ERWIN,
-Proprietor,
FRENCH'S HOTEL,
On the European Plan, opposite City Hall Park
New York. It. FRENCH,
Sept. 19,1868. Proprietor.
MISHLER'S HOTEL,
West .afaricet Square, Reading Renn'a.
. EVA 2 MISHLER,
Proprietor.
MALTBY HOUSE,
BALTIMORE, MARYLAND
This hotel has been lately refitted with all the
necessary improvements known to hotel enter
prise and therefore offers first-class accommoda
tions to strangers and others visiting Baltimore.
A. B. MILLER,
. Proprietor.
71r4 103.L.E WORKS.
COLUMBIA. MARBLE WORKS.
The Subscribers would respectfully inform
the citizens of Columbia; andtsurrounding
country, that they have opened
A NEW ➢MARBLE YARD IN
• COLUMBIA,
• n . ree , etween Locust and Walnut Ste.,
and ask the patronage of the public.
They have bad great experience on line work,
both in Philadelphia and .New York. They will
furnish in the highest style of the art, handsome
GRAVE. STONES, MONUMENTS,
STATUARY, ORNAMENTS, ,tc.
so MARBLE MANTLES, BITILDIRG WORK,
etc. Orders promptly attended-and executed at
.heaper rates than elsewhere.- Call and see ut
resign of new styles of Fine work, such ae
•• onumental ,fine arts, dm., will be furnished
ernes upon application to the proprietors.
HEFTING &MERL
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LANCASTER
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MARBLE WORKS,
LEWIS HALDY, Proprietc;r.
All persons in want of anything in the Marble
line, will be furnished at the very lowest prices.
Only the best workmen are employed; conse
quently we are enable to turn out in a superior
manner .
MONUMENTS. STATUARY, TOMBSTONES,
ORNAMENTS, MARBL'E MANTLES,
BUILDING FRONTS, SILLS,
And Marble Work of every description.
• 13:770rde . rs promptly attended to
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LEWIS IIALDY,
May 4.'67 . ] Lancaster City, Yu.
CHARLES M. HOWELL,
MARBLE MASON,
NO. 66 NORTH QUEEN STREET,
EAST SIDE.
The Oldest. Marble Works in Lancaster County.
Thankful for the liberal patronage heretofore
nestowed upon him, he respectfully solicits a
continuance of the same. He has on hand the
largest, most varied and complete. stock of
finished •
• MONUMENTS, 31 ANTLES____.'
GRAVE STONES, &.e.,
to be found In the city. and - which will be sold at
the lowest prices. Building work and Jobbing
of every description punctually, attended to.
Persons in want of Monuments, Mantles, or
Grave Stones, aro invited to call and examine
the stock on hand, also the portfolios of designs,
June
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ALL'S
EGETABLE HAIR RENEWER
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RING'S AMBROSIA
These popular Hair Restorers and Tonics on
hand, at
R. WILLIAMS' DRUG STORE,
Columbia., Pa.
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DRY. GOODS, 4c.
SPRING OPENING.
GREAT DECLINE IN PRICES!
Goods bought at the right time, and not in
cumbered with nu old stock of goods and heavy
expenses—consequently
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FONDERSMITH,
NOS. 127 A_ ND 129 LOCUST STREET,
Is now selling many goods
FRIFFMNEMFMMrs7V , M=MrMIT3
Call anil see the late novelties In
DRESS GOODS!
RICH CORDED SILK POPLINS
AND POPLINETTES,
STRIPED tt PLAIN JAPANESE
POPLINS,
SILKS FOR DRESSES & SACQUES
WRITE, BLACK 4: COLORED
REAL ORGANDIE LAWNS,
AMERICAN LAWNS,
PLAIN ,t FIGURED PIQUES,
White Goods, &c. &e.
New Styles and Shapes In
PARASOLS d'; SUN UMBRELLAS
CLOTHS AND CASSIMERES,
At half their cost to manufacture, which we
make up to order In approved style, AT GREAT
DOMESTIC C OODS, DOWN !
The best Yard-vide Muslins in the County, at
1234; cents per yard.
The Choicest Designs :ma
BEST CALICOES AT 12% et..—DOWN TO 7 ets
HOUSE-FURNISHING GOODS!
CARPETS,
'WINDOW SHADES, LOOKING GLASSES,
At Priceg /cot to beundersolki.
• GLASS & QUEENSWARE "
In Ten, Dining and Toilet Sets.
OUR WALL-PAPER ROOM
Was never better stocked than at pre - sent, with
the Choicest Designs of WALL PAPERS, which
we are selling below Philadelphia prices.
WOOL, COTTON .4: LINEN CARPET CHAIN,
The best makes only—at the Lowest Prices
For good goods, obliging salesmen and Low
Prices—go to
myStfu 1
R EMOVAL!
WILLIAM G. PATTON
Having removed. his Store to the well-known,
large and commodious room
No. 160 LOCUST ST., COLUMBIA, PA.,
Lately occupied byW. G. eILSC & Son and added
to his former stock a large assorlment of
NEW GOODS,
Would respectfully invlte his friends; and cus
tomers, and all in want of CHEAP GOODS, to
EXAMINE HIS STOCK.
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DRYGOODS,
GROCERIES, GLASSWARE, QUEENS WARE,
OIL CLOTHS, WINDOW SHADES.
A full line of
SILKS, POPLINS. MOHAIRS, ALPACAS,
DELAINF-S, and other
DRESS GOODS,
In nil Grades , Styles and Colors, at
GREATLY REDUCED PRICES!
WHITE GOODS, HOSIERY, uLovEs,
NOTIONS, LADIES' AND GENT'S
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LA.DIES'. 'MISSES, SHOES
MERCHANT TAILORING
In all its branches, executed in the best style
and most Workman-like manner. War
ranted to give satisfaction.
A. LARGE: AND 'PULL ASSORTMENT OF
CLOTHS, CASSIMERES VESTINGS,
Of all gradts, constantly on hand.
PRIULS TO SUIT TBE TIMES!
SEWING MACHINES !
WHEELER .5: WILSON, WILCOX dr. GIBBS,
SINGER, HONE, ELIPTIC, GROCER
dr. BAKER, AMERICAN' BUT-
And all other leading Machines, AT PHILA
DELPHIA. PRICE.S.
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Machines to Rent.
BV pursuing an undeviating course of FAIR
and HONORABLE DEALING, strict attention
to the wants of Customers, and PURCHASING
FOR CASH, he hopes to convince all that his
Is the place to:get the' n:
BEST GOODS AT
The Lowest Prices !
ar.l7-.lyw. WILLIAM G. PATTON.
At his Store,
lEEMMDMI
WASH. POPLINS,
Rich Black and Corded
Popular makes of
ALPACAS-
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A Geueral Stock of
OIL CLOTHS,
FON DERSMITIT'S STORE,
Columbia.
IV. lIITESIME, Cutter
-TON HOLE,
C OLTJIVISIA , P.A.., SATB - RDAI 0 JEZN . .I - G, JUNE 26, 1869'; "
`gottry.
Tour-ILousc:
Be true to yourselt at the start; young man,
. Be true to yourself and God ;
Ere you build your house mark well the spot,
Test well the ground, and build you not
On the sand or the sinking sod.
Dig, dig the foundation deep, young man.
Plant firmly the outer wall;
Let the props ho strong add the roof be high,
Like an open turret toward the sky,
Through which hefoienly dews may fall.
Let this be the room of the soul, young man—
When shadows shall herald care—
A. chamber with never a roof or thatch
To hinder the light, or door or latch
To shut In the spirit's prayer!
Build slow and sure, for life, young man.
life that outlives the breath ;
For who shall gainsay the Holy Word !
"Their works do follow them," said the Lord,
"Therein there is no death."
Build deep, and high. and broad, young man.
As the needful case demands;
Let your title deeds be clear and bright
Till you enter your claim to the Lord of Light,
For the "House not made with hands."
Illisreliattotto gentling:
THE noLLoiV-EVE MYSTERY.
.4IL Legend of the Black Hall
CHAPTER I.
TlrE MET:NI:RS or• THE BurtsiNG HEARTS
"Their love NVIVR like the lava flood
That burns in Etna's breast of flame."
Near the end of a dark autumn-day, not
many years ago, a young couple, returning
from their bridal tour, arrived by steamer
at the oh; zity of Norfolk ; and, taking a
hack, drove directly to the best inn.
The gentleman registered himself and his
party as Mr. and Mrs. Lyon Berners, of
Black Hall, Virginia, and two servants.
"We shall need a private parlor and
chamber communicating for our own use,
and a couple of bedrooms for our servants,"
said Mr. Berners, as he handed his hat and
cane to the bowing waiter.
"Certainly, sir. What would you like for
ten?" asked the landlord.
"Oh, anything you please, so that it is
nice and neatly served," said Mr. Berners,
with a slightly impatient wave of his hand
as if he would have been rid of his obsequi
ous host.
"Ah-ha ! anything I please ! It is easy to
see what ails him. He lives on love Just
now; but he'll care more about his bill of
fare a few weeks hence," chuckled the land
lord, as ha left the public parlor to execute.
his guests orders.
The bridegroom was no sooner left alone
with his bride than he seated her in the eas
iest arm-chair, and began with affectionate
zeal to untieher bonnet strings and unclasp
her mantle.
"You make my maid a useless appen
dage, dear Lyon," said the little lady, smil
ing up_inhiS eyes. " You love me so much,
dear Lyon ! You love me so much! Yet
not too much either ! for oh ! if you should
ever cease to love me, or even if you were
ever to love me less, I—l--rdarq not think
what Ishould-do !" she muttered in a long,
4e9, shudd to
creature ! You are a true daughter of your
house! A Berners of the burning heart !
A Berners of the boiling blood! A Ber
ners of whom it has been said, that it is al
most as fatal to be loved as to be hated
by—"
Suddenly in the midst of their converse
they heard the sound of weeping—low, deep,
heart-broken weeping.
Both paused, looked at each other, and
listened.
The sound seemed to come from a room
on the opposite side of the passage to their
own apartment.
" What is that?" inquired Sybil, looking
up to her husband's face.
"It seems to be some woman in distress,"
answered Lyon.
" Oh ! see what it is, dear. will you ?" en
treated Sybil.
She was herself so happy, that it was re
ally dreadful to be reminded just then that
sorrow should exist in this world at all.
But if she could have tbrseeen the woe
that was to come to herself, to her husband,
and to the object of her sympathy, she
would have held Lyon .back, with the
grip of fate, from the mission on which she
now sent him.
For the weeper was a beautiful woman—a
deserted wife—named Rosa Blondelle, who,
although but a few days landed from the
vessel which had brought her from Europe,
had been robbed of her jewels and money
by her husband, and then left to her fate in
that Norfolk. hotel.
Sybil was deeply moved by this lady's
story, and insisted on taking Mrs. Blon
delle home with her to Black llall, and Mr.
Berners gave his assent to her wishes.
But before they got ready to set out on
the journey, Sybil bitterly repented of the
the arrangement. Mrs. Bloudello was so
enchantingly lovely, that Mr. Berners at
once began to yield to her charms; and
Sybil, for the first time, saw him pay the
homage of admiration to other beauty than
her own.
This kindled the fires of jealousy in her
heart, and by the time they reached Black
Hall, those fires had become fanned into an
inextinguishable flame.
And no Earners had ever been known to
forgive an object of iealousy.
Black Hall, the abode of Mr. and Mrs.
Berners, was a palatial old Virginia man
sion, situated in the heart of the Black Val
ley, a few miles from Blackville, the county
town. It had been in Mrs. Earners' family
for generations, and was renowned for the
scenes of gayety and hospitality which had
transpired beneath its roof.
Mrs. Berners, the lust of her race, to give
vent to the emotions of her restless, jealous
heart, resolved to roinaugurate the festivites
of the olden time, and for that purpose an
nounced a mask ball for the ensuing All-
Hallow Eve, and at once set about getting
all things in readiness.
One day while she was absent at Black
making - purchases, Lyon and Rosa
became so absorbed in one another, as to
becOme oblivious of the entry of Mrs. Win
terose, the old house-keeper, who found
theM sitting closely side by side, her
hand clasping in his. On return,
the old housekeeper described this scene to
her, with many exaggerations. The revela
tion-seemed to freeze Sybil into ice.
" Oh, say hctirc! my heart !" she moaned,
turning deadly- pale. And then, after a
long silence, she bitterly added, " Deceived!
Betrayed ! Scorned ! Laughed at! Well,
well!" she continued, nodding grimly;
" well, well, since deceit is the fashion of
the day, I too will be in fashion ; I too will
wear a mask of - smiles I. But behind that
mask, I willwatch !—Oh, how I will watch!
Not at ' my , fitney-ball alone .wiLLI playa
part, but before 'it, and. perhaps, after it!
None shall ever - know how I watch, what I
see, until I descend with the fell swoop of
the eagle. And henceforth let mo remem
ber that I am a daughter of the house of
Butlers, who never failed a' friend or
spared a foe. And oh, let the spirit of my
fathers support me, * for nsnunn
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until I can AVENGE
And oh I could those triflers with sacred
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"NO ENTIBITAINNEMNT - BO GREAT , A.f3' BEADING, NON ANY •PLNASITEE' SO 'LASTING."
love—those wanderers on the , tirinli..Of a
fearful abyss-,have. seen the foolOf.ber.
face then, they would have tied fioniteach
other for ever, rather than to ha . Viitltire'dthe
despertition of her roused soul. ,
But they saw nothing, knew nothing,
suspected nothing!
And thus all the three drifted towards the
awful brink of ruin. .
CHAPTER II
TIM FIUST FATAL 'HALLOW EVE
It was All-Hallow Eve, a night long an
ticipated with delight by the whole neigh
borhood, rind In ucli longer still remembered
with horror by the whole country.
It was the occasion of Sybil Bern ers' mask
ball ; and Black Hall, the Black Valley,
and the town of P.lnekville were all in a
state of unprecedented excitement; for this
was the first entertainment of the kind that
had ever been given in the locality, and the
gentry of three contiguous -counties-am* .
been invited to assist at it.
The throng at Black Hall was great, and
the characters assumed by the maskers
wets various and well sustained.
But fur the most beautiful, far the most
terrible figure in the pageantry of the even
ing, was that of Sybil Berners ! She had
chosen for her character the unprecedented
part of the impersonation of the •Spirit of
Fire. It suited well with her whole nature.
Her costume was bat the outward sign of
the inward fervor.
Sybil bad confided the secret of her cos
tume :to no one but her husband, who was
himself attired as "Harold of Saxon," while
Mrs. Blondelle assumed the character of
" Edith the Fair."
Sybil had not been long iu the room be-
fore the coquetting of her husband and Mrs.
Blondelle drove •her nearly to distraction.
Observing that whenever she came near
them, they were on their guard, Sybil ex
changed disguises with one of her guests
and intimate friends, Bentrix Pendleton,
and was thus enabled to watch her husband
and his companion without the least re
straint.
Sybil observed that a masker, i eiiresent
ing Death, which nobody seemed to know,
watched Mrs. Blondello as closely as sho
did herself; and she subsequently had oc
casion to remember and shudder at that
fact.
Seeing the watched couple seat them
selves on a small sofa in one corner of the
room, she glided to an ottoman near them,
in time to hear Mrs. Blondelle say :
" No, Lyon, your wife is not tur friend—
she is my deadly enemy. She. is fiercely
jealous of your affection for me, though it is
the only happiness of my uzihappy
And she will make you throw me off yet•"
"'Never l no one, not even my wife, shall
ever do•that. I swear it by all my hopes
of—"
Sybil glided away. She could bear uo
more.
Supper-time drawing near, when all the
guests would have to unmask:, Sybil and
Beetrix re-exchanged costumes, and went
down to the drawing-room together just as
the last quadrille was completed, and the
compan • began to march to the supper
.
As each couple passed into the supper- -
room, they took off their masks,and handed
them to attendants, placed for that purpose
to the right and - Lit of the door. Thus,
when the company filled tho room, every
face was shown, but "Death" was nowhere
to be seen.
AA last the party broke up. Only a few of
the guests rem:tined all night. These were
shown to their room4,and the others having
gone, as fate would hare it, Mrs. Mendell°
went into the little reception parlor to meet
Mr. Berners, who assured her that thence
forth be could never extend more than a
brother's affection.
"Then give me a brother's kiss," she
sighed. " That is not much to ask, and I
have no one to kiss me now. So give me a
brother's kiss, and let me go," she pleaded,
plaintively.
' lie hesitated for a inoment,and then bend
ing over her, said :
" It is the first, and for your own sake it
must be the last, Rosa!" and he pressed his
lips to hers.
It etas the last as well as the first ; fur at
the meeting of their lips they were stricken
asunder as by the fall of a thunderbolt !
And Sybil, blazing with wrath, like a
spirit from the Lake of Fire, stood between
them !
She looked not human—with her whole
Lace and form heaving, palpitating, dashing
forth the light:dugs of anger!
" 1" exclaimed her husband,
thunder-struck, appalled.
She waved her hand towards him, us i f to
implore or command silence.
" I have nothing to say to you," she mut
tered, in low and husky tones, as if ashes
were in her throat. "Bat to von!" she
said, and her voice rose clear and strong as
she turned and stretched out her arm to
wards Rosa, who was leaning in affright
against the wall—"ro you, traitress, who
has conic between the true husband and
his wife—in the morning you must leave the
house you have desecrated ! for if you do
not, or if ever I find your false face here
again, I will tread down and crush out your
life with less remorse than ever I set heel
upon a spider! I will, us 1 am a Demers !
And now, begone, and never let, the seeyour
form again.
Rosa B load elle,who Lad stood spell-bound
by the terrible gaze and overwhelming
words of Sybil, the wronged wife, now sud
denly threw up her hands, and with a low
ery:fled from the room.
And Sybil dropped her arm and her voice
at the saute instant, and stood dumb and
motionless
And now at lengtb, Lyon Beruers spoke
MEM
"Sybil r' he said, "this house is yours!
You must do as you please. But this I tell
yoti : that in the saute hour which sees that
poor and-friendless young creature driven
from the shelter or this roof, I leave it too,
and leave it for ever!"
If Lyon Berners really ineant this, or
thought to bring Lis lieu-hearted wife to
terms by the threat, he was mistaken in her
character.
"Oh, go!" she answered, bitterly—" go as
soon' as you like, Lyon Eternors. Good
night, and—good-bye," she said, and with
a wave or her hand she passed from the
room.
Ile was• maid to have spoken as he did ;
matdder still to let her leave him so how
mad, ho was soon to learn.
Lyon l3erners remained walking up and
down the room some time longer. The
lights were all out, and the servants gone to
bed. Yet still he continued to puce up and
down the parlor floor, until suddenly pierc
ing shrieks smote his ear.
In great terror he started forward and in
stinctively rushed towards Rosa's room,
when the door was suddenly thrown open
by Rosa herself, pale, bleeding front a
wound in her breast.
"Great Heaven! What is this?" he cried,
as, aghast with aumaement and sorrow, he
supportedthe ghastly and dying form, and
laid it on the sofa, and then sunk on his
knees beside it.
" Who, who has done this?" he wildly de-
BM
mended, as, almost 'paralyzed with horror,
he,knelt beside her, and tried to stanch the
glishing wound front which her life-blood
was fast well ; , • ,
She opened her bloodless lips, aow paling
in death, and gasped forth the words :
" She —Sybil--youy wife. , I told you she
would do it,aud she has done it. Sybil Ber-,
ners has murdered me," she whispered.
Then raising herself with a lust dying effort,
she cried aloud, "Trear, all ! Sybil Bernors
has-murdered me." And with this - charge
upon her lips, she fell back DEAD.
Even in that supremo moment Lyon Ber
ners' first thought, almost his only thought,
was for his wife. Ile looked up to see
,who
was there—who had heard this awful, this
final charge.
AU were there! guests and servants, :non
and Women, drawn there by the dreadful
shrieks.. All had heard the horrible accu
sation.
..A.pd all stood panic-stricken, as they
shrink away from ono who stood in their
midst.
It was she, Sybil, the accused, whose very
aspect accused her more loudly than the
dying woman had done; for she stood there,
still in her fiery masquerade dress, her face
pallid, her eyes blazing, her wild black hair
loose and streaming, her crimsoned hand
raised and grasping a blood-stained dagger.
"0, wretched woman ! most wretched
woman ! What is this that you have done?"
groaned Lyon Bern ers in unutterable agony
—agony not for the dead beauty before him,
but for the living wife, whom he felt that
he had driven to this deed of desperation.
" Lyon Berners, do You believe use
guilty?'' she asked.
He looked up, and their eyes met. If he
had really. believed her guilty, ho did not
now. He answered briefly and firmly :
" No, Sybil ! Heaven knows that I do
not; but explain this horrible business—if
you can !"
"The explanation is this," she said, em
phatically. And then her voice arose clear,
firm, and distinct, as she continued
in my chamber, which is immedi
ately above that occupied by Mrs: Blots
dello. My chamber is approached by
two ways, first by the front passage and
stairs, and secondly by a narrow staircase
running up from Mrs. Thondelle's room. I
do not know how long I sat there, when I
beard a piercing shriek from some one in
the room below. Instinctively I rushed
down the communicating stairs and into
Mrs. Blondelle's room, and up to her bed,
where I saw by the light of the taper she
was lying. Her eyes were closed, and I
thought at first that she had fainted from
some fright until, almost at the same in
stant, I saw the dagger—" here Sybil stoop
ed and picked up - the dagger that she had
dropped a few minutes before—" driven to
its haft in her chest. I drew it out. •In
stautly the blood from the wound spirted
u p,Coverin g my hand and sleeve with the ac
ensingstainsyou see! With theflowingoftbe
blood her eyes flew Widely open ! She gazed
affrightedly at me for an instant, and then
with the last cifort of her life, for which
terror lent her strength, she started up and
fled shrieking to :this room. I, still bold
ing the tltt,743r that I had drawn-from her
the rest," said Sybil ; and overcome
with excitement, she sank upon the nearest
chair to rest.
Her story had evidently made a very
great .itnpresqion upon the company pres
ent. But Lyon Berners suddenly exclaimed:
"Good rleavens!" that lady's mistaken
charge has put us all Off the scent, and al
lowed the Murderer to escape. But it may
not yet be too lute ! Some clue may be
loft in her room by which we may trace the
criminal! Come, neighbors, and let us
search the premises."'
And Lyon Demers, leaving the shudder
ing women of the party in the room with.
Sybil and the dead, and followed by all the
men, went to search the house and grounds
for the traces of the assassin.
But the search proved fruitless. No trace
of an intruder could be found, nor was
there any evidence of robbery. Further
more, all the windows wore found fastened
on the inside. Thei.e had been no way of en
tering the vun•dered woman's room except by
the stairway leading from Sybirs chamber.
Captain Pendleton,an old lover of Sybil's,
and a brother of Beatrix, .saw that there was
jai safety' except in instant night. no
whispered Lyon to take Sybil to her room,
and then to meet him on the back piazza.
This was done, and then the captain un
folded his already matured plans. Lyon
adopted them at once; and under the skill
int management of Captain Pendleton and
Beatrix, they got out of the house unseen,
and were soon on their way towards a place
of concealment, known as the Haunted
Chapel, where new and unexpected horrors
awaited them.
CHAPTER 111
I II
Thu Haunted Chapel to which Mr. and
Mrs. Berners were going was in a dark
and lonely gorge on the other side of the
mountain.
They arrived safely at the old ruin,whero
in the course of the day they were joined by
Mrs. Renters' faithful servant Joe, whose
affection for his mistress had led him to
play the spy, and find out where she was
going, and secretly follow her with provi
sions and means for making her somewhat
comfortable.
The fugitives felt so depressed, that even
the cheerful supper supplied by Joe could
not relieve them of the overshadowing
gloom which and settled on their hearts. A.
strange drowsiness soon oppressed them,
and they sunk into a deep sleep, as though
they had been drugged wills some power
ful narcotic. Mr. Berners was aroused be
fore daylight by joe, who instantly drew
hint outside the chapel in alarm.
Sybil, left alone in the flaunted Chapel,
continued to sleep soundly. How long she
had slept she never could tell, when she was
suddenly and fearfully aroused.
• She felt - hien& at work about her person.
They were creeping under her shoulders
and under her limbs; they were lifting-Ler
front her mattress: BM . oyes tiered open
in wad affright, rind she saw two black
shrouded forms, the one at her head and the
other at her feet.
She tried to cry out In her agony of terror;
but her voiite died away in her `bosom, and
all her powers scorned palsied. They raised
her up, and bore her On—great heave:n !
whither ?,
To the open door of the vault under the
chapel, from whose haunted depths a spec
tral light gleamed !
They bore her down the dreadful steps,
and laid her on the deadly floor!
The iron door clanged loudly to, resound
tug through the dismal arches.
"We have her now !" muttered a hoarse
voice. A hollow laugh responded.
And Sybil swooned with horror!
When Sybil recovered from her death
like swoon, she found herself in a spacious
cavern of such exceeding beauty and splen
dor,"that for an instant she lost sight of her
terrors in her astonishment and admiration,
and then her eyes settled upon a figure who
seemed the sole occupant of the place.
This was a young girl, who, with her rod
-_~ .., :1
cloak thrown uit-like .on the moss, was
seated upon it cross-legged in, the Turkish
fashion. tier elfin !lime, her Malign eyes,
her wild,bluck hair and picturesque cos
tume, were also in keeping with the aspect
of the place, that one
.Might have deemed
her the spirit of the cavern.
The two women looked at each other in
silence for perhaps bairn minute; and thou
Sybil spoke:
"What place iS this ? Who are you? Why
am I brought hither?"
"One question at a time," answered the
girl. "'What place this is' concerns you
little; I em a gipsy, and my name is Gen
tilliska ; 'why you are brought here,' aim !
that concerns you very much ! It concerns
your liberty, and perhaps your life."
"I do not believe it ! Yon have had me
orn sway from my husband ! Where is
ie now?" haughtily demanded Mrs. Bern-
"He is likely iu the hands of the consta
bles, who are by this time in possession of
the Haunted Chapel. But fear nothing!
Him they will release again, for they have
no right to detain him ; but you they would
have kept, if they had caught you. The,
constables were coining there for vs, but
they would have found you had we not
brought you away with us. That was my
doing. I made your removal the condition
of my silence."
"But when will you communicate with
my husband, to relieve Ills dreadful sus
pense?"
As soon as it shall he safe to do so. Our
first care must be our own safety, but our
second will be yours."
Sybil said no more at the moment; but
sat looking at the speaker,and thinking of
all that had befallen her in the Haunted
Chapel.
CHAPTER IV.
THE ROBBER CHIEFTAIN
Be was the mildest mannered man
That ever scut tied ship, or cut a throat.
Sybil had passed the day In the robbers'
den with her strange companion, who as
tonished her by stating that the captain of
the band had been present at her masque
rade. Late in the afternoon, dinner was
announced, at which several of , the robbers
appeared, with Moloch, a gigantic rudian,
at their head. Moloch was the lieutenant
of the band, and iu the absence of the cap
tain, ruled with brutal sway. Becoming
indented with wine, he took a seat by the
side of Stybil, threw his arm about her, and
attempted to imprint a kiss upon her lips.
Sybil struggled in terror, and the gip'v
girl cried out:
"Men! why don't you interfere" Ile is
rude to the lady I"
"AVe never meddle between other men
and their sweethearts. Do we, mates?'
called out one.
"No, no, no !” answered the others.
"Oh, if Satan were hero 1" cried the girl,
in despair.
"SATAN is alum!" responded a voice
close by.
And the rubber captain stood among
them as if he had risen from the earth.
Moloch dropped Sybil, and cowered in the
most abject manlier.
Sybil looked up, and turned cold fro
ntUstfopki,.(gman the, liandsotue,stately
1 graceful form or the brigand iihTeXiiiiirie
cognized the finished gentlemen who, in
the character of "Death," had danced with
her at ber own mask ball, and the probable
murderer of Rosa Blondelle.
While the walls of the cavern seemed
whirling around Sybil, the robber captain
calmly came up to her, lifted laid hat, and
said :
"Spirit of fire, I am happy to welcome
you to your own appropriate dwelling
place;" and then without expecting, an
answer, he turned to Moloch, and said in
the smoothest tones :
••13e so good as to give me this seat, sir."
But Sybil saw that the giant turned pale
and trembled like the fabled mountain in
labor, as he left the seat by her side, and
slunk into another at some distance.
The wine passed freely at the robbers'
table, and the men grew merrier, wittier,
more uproarious. Sybil became very much
alarmed ; and not so much by the noisy
orgies of these rude revellers, as by the
dreadful gaze of Moloch fixed upon her
from the opposite end of the table where he
sat, and the offensive language of Satan's
eyes whenever they turned towards her.
At length, unable to bear the trial longer,
she arose from her sent, find courtesying to
these brigands as she would have done to
any set of gentlemen of whom she was
taking leave, Sybil left the cavern, follow
ed by Gentilliska, the gipsy girl.
"I must take you to another Grotto. You
cannot occupy mine to-night,"said the girl,
with evident reluctance.
"But, oh ! why, why may I not stay with
you ? lam afraid to sleep alone in this
terrible place !" pleaded Sybil.
"I have a reason, but I cannot tell it to
you now. Yes, I will, too. I will tell you
at all risks ! Then it is this : My chamber
is not safe for you! ',myself, am not strong
enough to protect you! You might be
carried off forcibly from my side ! I must
hide you where no devil may find you
to-night !" whispered.the
"Oh, do not leave me hero alone' pleaded
Sybil. "If I must stay, stay with sue! I
do not fear death ; but oh ! I fear these men !
Do not leave me!"
•` I must, for your own safety. They
must not miss use, or their suspicion will
be roused."
Then pointing to u bed of moss, and re
commending her guest to lie down and seek
repose, the gipsy girl glided away through
the labyrinth of caves and was lost to sight
and hearing.
Sybil's first impulse wt .s to start up and
run after her hostess, but she restrained
herself, and sank half tainting open the
heap of moss.
There was but u thint sparkling of light
in the cave, coming limn tt crevice in the
roof through which the moonlight entered.
" Seek repose," bud been the advice of
Geutilliska. •
Sybil dared not seek it if she could, and
could not have found it if she had. Hour
after Lour passed in tranco-like stillness and
silence, when at length, she fancied alto
heard a creeping. stealthy step approaching.
Nearly frozen with terror, she listened and
watched more intently than over. Alone,
helpless, in darkness and solitude, what
horrid fate must she meet? The creeping
cautious footstep drew nearer, nearer !
Oh, Heaven it was no fancy !. The en
trance of the cavern was more deeply dark
ened for one moment, and then the huge
form of Moloch stood-within the cavern
and nearly tilled it up.
Paralyzed with horror, Sybil could neither
move nor cry outz-nbt even' when the Mon
ster approached' -her; 'and put his profane
hand upon her face. The above is all of this
story that will be published in our columns.
The continuation from where it leaves off
here can be found only in the New York
Ledger, which is for sale at all the book
stores and news depots.' Ask for the num
ber dated June tIG; and in it you will find
the continuation Of this beautiful tale, The
Ledger has the best stories of any paper in
the world ; and - Henry Ward Beecher, Jas.
Parton and Fanny Fern, have articles in
every number. '
$2,00 Per Yeem,.in Advanre; $2,50 if not Paid in 'Advance.
Position in tileening.
It is better-to-go to sleep on the right side,
for then the stomach Is very, much in the
position or a bottle turned upside down,
and the contents of it are aided in passing
out by gravitation.- If one goes to sleep on
the left, side, the operation of. emptying the
stomach of its contents is - more like draw
ing water from awell: . . , Aftergoing to sleep
let the body take its own position.
If you sleep on your back, especially soon
after a hearty meal, the weight of the diges
tive organs and that of the food resting on
the great vein of the body, near the back
bone, compresses it, and arrests the flow of
the blood more or less. If the arrest is par
tial, the sleep is disturbed, and there are
unpleasant dreams. if the meal has been
recent and hearty, the arrest is decided ;
and the various sensations, such as falling,
over it precipice, or the pursuit of a wild
beast, or other impending dangers, and the
desperate efforts to get rid of it, arouse us,
and send on the stagnant blood; and wo
wake in a fright, or trembling, or in a pers
piration, or feeling exhausted, according to
the degree of stagnation, and the length
and strength of the efforts made to escape
the danger.
13fit when we are unable to escape the
danger—when we do fall over the precipice,
when the tumbling building crushes us—
what then? That is 'death? That is the
death of those of whom it is said, when
found lifeless in the morning, that " they
were as well as ever they were. the day be
fore ;" and often,. it is added, "and ate
heartier than common l" This lust, as a
frequent cause of death to those who have
gone to bed to wake no more, we give mere
ly as a private opinion. The possibility of
its truth is enough to deter any rational
man from a late and hearty meal. This we
do know with certainty, that waking up in
-the night with painful diarrhoea, or cholera,
or billious eholic ending in death in a very
short time, is probably traceable to a late
large meal. The truly
_wise will take the
safe side. For persons who eat three times
a day, it is amply sufficient to make the last
meal of cold bread and butter, and a cup of
some warm drink, No one cam starve on
it; while a perseverance in the habit soon
begets a vigorous appetite for breakfast, so
promising of a day of coin Cert.—Hairs
.Tournal of Health.
Jay Cooke's Last Conception.
Scarcely had we predicted that the com
pletion of the Central Pacific Railway
would be speedily followed by other films
continental lines, ere the note or prepara
tion for a North -Pacific: - Railway reached
our cars. This time it is our distinguished
townsman Jay Cooke, and not Mr. Thomas
J. Eturant,who is to achieve railway innoor
fality. We gave sonic derails of his new
colossal enterprise yesterday. The North
Pacific route has many advantages over
the Central. It passes through a more
promising t egiou of country. On the line
of the' Central road there is but little land
which cull be made available for agriculture,
from the North' Platte to California, cud
much of it is barren waste: But the North
Pacific road through its entire length, we
are reliably told, would pass over to fertile,
„AvelLaitatert..4l.i-cud...KettScglithlY...:WellObtjett
country, tit for settlements, arid destined to
become in the-future,theigreat source of sup
plies to the Eastern States. And strange as
it may seem, the winters aro not nearly so
severe, nor the dangers of snow-blockade
so imminent,as on the present route. Again,
Mr. lay Cooke's route is said to be eight
hundred miles shorter than Mr. Durant's—
which is a very material "short cut." These
are a few of the important advantages.
Others have been pointed out in our ex
changes, which we quoted yesterday. We
hope Mr. Cooke, who is now on u surveying
pie-Mc to Columbia river, wilt push the en
enterprise ahead, vigorously, as soon as Ile
returns to his base of operations in Third
street.—Philacielphitt Star.
The Sensation of Drowning.
A. sailor named George Forbes, who was
lost overboard from a scow on Lake I‘lichi
gan and nearly drowned before he was
rescued, thus describes the feelings ho ex
perienced on. the occasion. We quote from
the Detroit Free Press: "I «•as feeling
more courage and striking out with a will
when a sudden cramp cinched me all over,
and I could not do another stroke. I felt
like a lump of lead. My head began to
spin around, a great lump rose in my
throat and ehoaked ale, and my eyes closed
as if a weight had been hung on the lids.
I began to drown—l felt it; then came a
feeling something like a red-hot rod being
drawn through my brain. My head felt
like fire. A humming, roaring noise went
through my ears, and my body felt as light
as a feather. The waves carried ;no about
without an effort on my part, and I laugh
ed—didn't care for Lizzie—only wanted to
float and drift forever on the rollers. The
water came into my face and mouth, but I
never tried to keep my head up. I wouldn't
have moved my finger to have been aboard
the scow. It grew darker amid darker; the
old fire feeling came through toy head
again. Something clutched me by the leg
and drew me down. I rocked to and fro,
felt a noise like the discharge of canuomand
then I dropped to sleep."
IL House in si Childs Stomach.
A very interestints and singular case of a
live mouse having obtained lodgment in
the stomach ot a little child, from which it
was thrown up alive, was brought to light
yesterday morning, in the Third district.
The facts of the eAse, which are fully sub•
stautiated in every particular, are these:
A. little girl, about three years old, named
.4:tnily Wain:titer, whose parents reside at
the corner of Spain and Greannen streets,
Third District, had been complaing for
about a week of trouble and pain in the
region of the stomach, at times being quite
sick and nanseated, and at others exhibit
ing a most uncontrollable appetite.
The parents becoming alarmed at the un
accountable indisposition of the child, and
the singular way in which it was Miected,
begun to give medicine such It., is usually
given when worms are suspected.
This morning, while suffering front ex
ce:ssive nausea, the child began vomiting,
and in the violent retchings which ensued,
throw up a live mouse of medium size,
which was taken care of, and is new on ex
hibition at the drug store of Mr. WeiMao
her, corner of Spain and Greatmen streets.
Quite a crowd of persons have visited the
drug store this morning to see the mouse,
which is alive and doingas well as could he
expected.—New Orleans Picayune.
THE Methodist churches of Philadelphia,
have thus far, with a single exception, voted
in favor of by representation in the annual
conference , of the denomination. This long
defered reform will result in great good to
the Methodists.
TztE Newport (it. I.) Mercury celebrated
its 111th anniversary on the 12th inst. It
was started by Franklin on Jane 12th, 1758,
and was about the size of a sheet of fools
cap
The wheat and barley crops in the coast
counties of California aro suffering from
the rust, ,
E=
[WHOLE NO4BER, - 2,075.,
tantt utiti'•Aituxelrolci (column.
-AtIRICULTURE is the most useful ami must noble
employment of man.—W.tsuiNcrus.
COMMUNICVVIONS. SCkm:CLODS, Recipes and ar
ticles of interest and value, are solicited for thi s
department at the paper.
.I,Ve- desire to supply the public with the best practical information in
reference to the farm, garden. and household.
R axis ing : Btickwhatt.
It will soon be time to think about sow
ing buck w heat. The Ohio Farmer says:
Buckwheat is often sown too early. When
too early -the hot sun is apt to blast the
flowers. In some parts of New England it
is sown early in Tune, even before corn is
planted. It is best to sow this,early in all
sections where there is danger of frosty
nights early in the fall, as slight frost often
destroys the crop. In Ohio it is usually not
sown until July. We must endeavor to
steer between the two dangers, blasting of
the flowers in the summer, when sown
early; and the destruction of the crop by
frost in the fall when sown Into. It:succeeds
will sown on clover or grass sod.
Formerly it was considered best to break
up the land in the spring, hut lately the
practice is to pasture the land, and break
up immediately benne sowing. Front
three pecks to a bushel is the usual quantity
of seed. Of the use of buckwheat, wo need
not speak. Everybody likes buckwheat
cakes on a cold winter's morning. It is
good food for poultry. Hogs thrive upon
and are fond of it. When crushed it is good
feed for horses, more nutritious, it is said,
than oats. It is good for mulch cows, in
creasing the quantity and richness of the
In ilk.
The amount of seed per acre is governed
by the strength and condition of the soil.
On poor lumpy land one bushel per acre
should be used; On strong mellow soil,
from half a bushel to three pecks will be
sufficient.
What is the Nat urad Food for Ilium?
\Vhen God created man he gave him for
meat "every herb bearing seed which is
upon the face of the earth, and every tree in
which is the fruit, of the tree yielding seed ;"
and when, afterwards, he blessed Noah for
his faithfulness, he gave him, in addition to
his bill of fare, "every beast of the earth and
every fowl of the air," "and all the fishes of
the sea," and told him that "every moving
thing that liveth shall be meat for him,even
as the green herb."
This would enable him to fulfil his desti
ny, and have dominion over all other crea
lutes, and to lice with the polar bear al
most at the north pole, or with the monkey
at the equator, having in each of these ex
tremes of temperature food ;Waited to his
wants. Wherever he chosen to live, in a
cola, or hot, or temperate climate, he finds
prepared at his hand the kind of food best
adapted to his wants, and has a relish for
just the article best titled to supply his
wants. If he lives in Greenland, ho desires
and has the heat-producing fat of whales
and seals, the very thought of which would
disgust him in Africa; and if in Africa, he
desires and has the cooling fruits and vege
tables which would freeze him to death in
Greenland; and in the climate where cold
and heat alternaty,:he has.
4.1.1‘tt1e.-:;pulety
Good Digestion is Promoted by
Cheerfulness.
Nothing is bettor understood than that
there is a connection between cheerfulness
and good digestion ; and the trite expres
sion, "to laugh and get fat," undoubtedly
has its origin in observation, if not in phi
losophy. When an astonishing amount
and variety of food can be disposed of, and
perfectly digested, at one sitting of two or
three hours, by a company .of cheerful anti
happy, not to say jolly and merry . , old
friends, and that without alcohol, or any
other unnatural stimulus to help digestion.
I venture to say more than three times as
much as the same individual could eat and
digest in the same lime if each took his
meals by himeelf.
And this one fact is worth more than all
else 1 run write to show the dependence of
the digestive powers on the state of the
mind, and to prove that. he must be lean
and haggard who, keeping his mind con
stantly on his business, bolts his meals in
silence and solitude, even in the presence of
his family. I recommend it to the careful
consideration of uncinnfortable mortals who
never properly digest their food, and whose
bones are too poorly clothed with flesh, and
ton poorly protected oven to allow them
quiet rest, and who, therefore, envy
"fat sleek-headed men, and such as sleep
nights."
The Horse.
The front of a horse's chest contains hi,
lungs, by which he breathes. Behind thee,
separated only by a thin kind of skin, is
the stomach, distinod to receive and digest
the food. Each of these organs becomes
larger when in use; the lungs occupying
more room when the animal is waving
about and breathing more quickly. The
space they occupy is then so filled that only
one of them can be disturbed at a time.
The horse can swell out his lungs, and
breathe hard, trot, or gallop fast, provided
his stomach be empty; he can till it with
safety when at rest, or nearly so, till the
food is digested. But if they are both full,
the greatest danger is to be apprehended ;
the horse is sure to be " blown " almost
immediately, because he has no room to
breathe, and apoplexy may cause the ani
mal to drop dead in a minute. No horse
should be allowed to get an unlimited sup
ply of food. A proper quantity should be
given and no more--enough to satisfy his
requirements, and then to allow proper
time to digest it. Many a horse has been
killed from a tit brought on by the corn-bin
having been left open at night, thus giving
him an opportunity to gorge himself to
death with tempting food .—London horse
Book.
SEvERAL young men, adherent: of a fire
company, havo been arrested in Altoona for
inceudiarism. a number of tires had oc
curred there, destroying much property,
and it wits evident incendinrism was the
Cause of them. One of Pinkerton's detec
tives was employ - ed,and brought the offend
ers to light. They admitted their guilt,
when further denial was useless, and. gave
us the eau SU for their crime that they want
ed •'tun." They will probably have a few
years in the Penitentiary as the cost of the
"fun."
lLts-r,tu, mingled with the whitewash,
applied to the interior of a hen-house, at the
rate of one gill to a pailfall, it is said will
disperse the lice.
Tun Boston Advertiser says that when
that " hundred anvil chorus" was played it
seemed " that our ears had been filled with
the oil of vitriol."
LAs•r year the term of the Michigan Agri
cultural College was so well managed that
the receipts were $1,900 more than the ex
penditures.
Tun oiled wood of the seats of a new
church at Yorkville, N. Y., ruined silk
dresses enough, lust Sunday, to pay off the
debt on the building.
HAY making has commenced,