fhole No. 2550.
A NEW STOCK
OF
Cloths, Cassimeres
AND
VESTINGS,
iias just been received at the Lewistowa
t ;mporium of Fashion, which will be made up
order by experienced workmen.
art requested to calk
\ViV v HN'D-
Lctvistown, April 21, 1839.
Removed to the Stand lately occupied by
Kennedy v Jiinkin.
EARCriLIITSi
\ leaf's Credit to Responsible
Men!
sfik hand one of the best, and large, t
stocks between Philadelphia and
Pittsburgh, in order to accom
modate business to the times, offers for sale a
complete assortment of
Saddles, Harness, Bridles, Collars, Trunks,
Whips, Mantes, Valises, Carpet Bags,
and other articles in his line, which will he
Jisposed of, when purchases are made to the
amount of $lO or more, on the above terms for
approved paper.
Among his slock will be found some highly
implied sets of light Harness equal to any inan
a fat tu red.
Let ull in want of good articles, made bj ex
trieiiced workmen, give him a call.
JOHN DAVIS.
Lewistowa, April 7, 1859.
New Fall and Winter Goods.
I) F. ELLIS, of the late firm of McCoy
V.# A Ellis:, has just returned from the city
with a choice assortment of
Dry Goods and Groceries,
..-leete<l with care and purchased for eftsh,
which are offered to the public at a small ad
vance on cost. The stock of Dry Goods em
braces all descriptions of
FALL AND WINTER GOODS
.unable for Ladies, Gentlemen r.s.d Children,
with many new patterns, ilis
GSvocctirs
t-mprise Choice Sugars, Molasses, Java, Itio
and Laguyra Coffee, superior Teas, <ko. Also,
h •.,) and Flint's. Qiiecr.siyr.re, and ail other
rtklca gjqally fogtid ln e^or'ci —all which
the customers of t!io late firm and the public
irencral are invited to examine.
it. F. ELLIS.
6^"Fish, Salt, Piaster and Coal always on
lumd.
(' untry Produce received as usual and the
Lb! inarki-t price allowed therefor.
Lewistown, Sept. 22, 1859.
ROBERT W. PAT TON,
SOtTH SIDE OF MARKET STREET,
I.ED IsiTOAVN, PA.
HAS ju_i ,-ecciyed and opened at his es
. üblishment a new supply of
Clocks, WaULes, Jewelry,
sii mdi
Fancy Articles, Ac.,
which he will dispose of at reasonable prices.
He invites ..J ;../give Lii.r a call uud examine
h: stock, which embraces ail articles in his
kne, and is sufficiently large to enable all to
selections who desire to purchase.
JJ'AIKINC neatly apd expeditiously
-h'-ndc'd to, and all 'work warranted.
thankful for the patronage heretofore re
ceived, he respectfully asks a continuance of
the same, and will endeavor to please all who
may fivor him with their custom. feb'2
EDWARD FRYSINGER,
WHOLESALE DEALER k M.AIU FACTA RER
OF
(lli IKS, TOACCftiIW,
Ac., Ac.,
wnweofmbs? ipao
Orders promptly attended to. jolG
320. W. ELDER,
Attorney at Law,
Office Market Square, Lewistown, will at
tend to business in Mifflin, Centre and Hunting
don counties. my 26
JNO. R. WEEKES,
Justice of the Peace,
Sfittjcucr K StirUrgot\
01 FICE West Market street, Lewistown, next
door to Irwin's grocery. ap29
REMOVAL.
MA DR. S. S. ctJMtaxivas
AW Begs leave to announce that he has re
moved his office to Mrs. Mary Marks'
Drug and Variety Store, on east Market street,
a few doors below the Union House.
The Fost Office has also been removed to the
ouißsd lace. mh3l If
Wanted! Wanted!
If) ( iflA PERSONS of both sexes to
I make money by buying cheap
Groceries, Baskets, Tubs, Buckets, Churns,
ater Cans, Brooms, Brushes, <fcc. &c. at
au g* EERBE'S.
HONEY, by the gallon, for sale bv
decls A. FfiLiX.
iisyi® mn
THE MINSTREL
[FLU the (iazette.j
FRIENDSHIP.
Friendship, blest friendship, that's lasting and true.
Will shine forti in sorrow as well as i i joy ,
I will illumine our pathway the whole jottrnev through
This life in which pleasure is mixed with alloy.
Fare not for the loud professed friendship of those
Who flutter around in prosperity's dawn,
But whene'er the ohill storm of adversity blows
As leaves by the winds they are scattered ami gone.
\es, such will all leave thee when sorrow and grief
Like a shadow liati davken'd thy pathway thro'life,
And n-.ne will step forward t<> offer relief.
To calr:. the heart throbs or quiet the strife.
There r- those in whose hearts true friendships
abound.
As waters that gush front the pure crystal stream,
■Shedding light, joy and happiness ever around
The hearts of their friends, like a rnerry sunbeam.
Ever cherish sut li friendships, oh, ne'er let them fade
Or perish as flowers in the chill autumn blast;
Let them ne'er by cold chilling neglect be repaid—
Prize thorn dearly, for they'll remain true to the last.
CARRIE.
Juniata Count) - February, 1800.
HON ME BELL.
Like two rose-buds crashed in snow-
Are the cheeks of Bonnie Bell,
Like tiie violets that grow
Among the daisies in the dell
Are her eyes—the stars of night
.Ne'er a mortal heart did swell
With such pure and fond delight
As the eve- of Bonnie Bell.
Music trembles on the lip
Of the fairy Bonnie Bel!,
< >h! I'd give sueli sweets to sip
Wealth that Criesns ue'er could ni.
I would coin my brain and soul,
Could the mintage buy a spell
That would waft me to my goal—
Waft and win me Bonnie Bell.
As the sound of silver fine
Is the voice of Bonnie Bell;
Wit, like bubbles on the wine,
Pure as pearls in ocean shell,
fqi.ttkles through her golden theme-
Joyful as a marriage bell,
I could glide adown life's stream
In one boat with Bonnie Bell.
rowifljpßß
LITTLE PINKY;
Or, God Will Show Me the Way.
' Yes, sir,' said the man, running his
bund through hisaihaggy locks, bis harsh
face showing the marks ok unusual intelli
gence, ' mining in this region be a hard
life, but I think we've all been better since
little Pinky went away.'
'And who is little Pinky V asked the
gentleman, while the dark eyes of the
young lady at his side sparkled in antici
pation of a story.
' Well, you see —it be something of a
tell—and if ye'tl move farther on to the
shade of the old oak yonder, it'll ruahap
be pieasantcr for the young miss, for the
sun be hot.'
The lady and gentleman followed the
brown and weather-beaten man to the cool
shadow of' the oak, and finding a seat for
the young lady on a convenient root that
came squarely up from the ground, the min
er Logan with his customary preface:
' You see, I'inky was the sou of Jesse
Pinkam, a young man, and a regular good
one, ae the saying gees. 1 recon Pinkam
was the only man of us as ever said the
Lord's Prayer, or any other prayer. He
were a nico young fellow, that's a fact!
Hut we're a rude set, sir, we of the mines,
and 'specially in this place; we didn't like
anything that was what we call 'pious.'
Sundays, sir, used to be the regular —well,
I might say the devil's day, with us. It
was nothing but drinking and dancing,
pitching, and cards, and swearing.
' Well, sir, you see, Jesse he got married
to a regular lady like-girl, sir, and it turn
ed out a pious one. They didn't none of
'cm—that is, Pinkam, his wife, and old
mother —jine us in our merry-making on a
Sabbath, but sometimes the young man and
Hessy—that's his wife sir—would walk five
miles to hear a parson preach. We was all
down upon Jesse, sir—you see the real
thing was, he made us ashamed of ourselves
by his goodness, and 1 was worse than the
rest, trying my best all the time to pick up
a quarrel with him. Well, sir, one Satur
dav night what did we see but a notice
stuck up on this very tree, that there'd be
be a parson from Frankstown on the mor
row, to preach to us. We didn't like the
news, and we could tell pretty well where
the move came from, 'cause you see we
knew Jesse was pious. So we determined,
the greater part of us, that we wouldn't
have no psalm-singing —no canting pray
ing—no reading out of the Bible.
' Well, the minister came and found a
Habel. We all got together, and we raved,
and laughed, and pitched quoits, and made
sueh a noise that the parson had to give it
up. lie tried agin and agin, and came
right among us —he was plucky, I tell ye;
but we hooted iu his ears, and threw mud
on his bettermost clothes, and so he was
fairly driven off—'cause you see we had
liquor enough in us to set us all crazy.
' Poor Jesse! —how we jeered him after
that! —but he bore it meek, sir, and I was
often ashamed of myself, thofigh I'd died
afore I'd confessed it. But I anl sorry
enough for my part of" it; for one day there
came a rumbling heavy noise, shaking the
earth, and then a crash like rattling thuh-
THURSDAY, MARCH 8, 1860.
dc-r beneath our feet, and we knew that
somebody was buried alive. T was in the
working shaft where Jos.se was, and there
didn't happen to be a scul in the place ex
cept him, poor fellow ! They'd all gone
into another shaft, where he didn't like to
follow 'em, 'cause they was such a wicked
set: and as they were eating their dinners,
and lie his, this accident happened.
'We dug him out, sir f lie was awful
crushed—all but his face—that looked sruil
ling and peaceful-like, and w r e couldn't bear
the sight; it made us think how we'd
a-treated him. So we carried him home to
Bessy. She didn't cry and take on, as
most the men's wives do when an accident
happens, but it were awful to see how still
and white she were! Awful, sir; and I
never want to see a sight like it agin.
' We all felt bad—for poor Jesse hadn't
never said a harsh word to one of us. and
he'd borne many an insult.
'We couldn't see through it when he
were living, but used to call him ' weak
heided,' and a • tame covey ;' but as lie lay
there in his coffin, there came a different
feeling over me, . ir, you may depend upon
it. Oh !if I'd a heard then to the lesson
that was tolling of me, if I'd only listened
then to the voice of God, speaking as it
were from the lips of that crushed dead
body, I'd saved myself many a day of suf
ferin'—many an hour of torment. But I
didn't.
'We all walked to the grave, and T tell
ye it touched even hard fellows like us, to
see the widder with lier little child in her
arms, foller close to the coffin—never cry
ing, only holding her head down as if it were
too heavy bowed with her sorrow to keep it
up.
' Well, we had a talk at the grave by
the same parson as we'd treated so badly.
1 don't know what his good words would
a-done in after days, if I handen't been a
leader in wickedness, a hater of pious peo
ple, and everything that had to do with re
ligion,—a wicked swearing worthless sin
ner! I say it to my shame, I don't boast
sir, —God forbid, f wish I could shutout
of my thought all the years of my life that
1 ain't spent piously. But God, 1 hope,'ll
be merciful to me.
' Well, sir—his wife —the poor young
thing ! look his death sadly to heart. They
siid the shock had been too sudden, dried
up all he? tears, like. She nevpr cried onc't
—only languished and pined, grew thinner
and whiter, and died just three months af
ter poor Jesse. That was how the little
boy—Jesse's little boy—came to be an or
phan. sir.
' Well, \vc were all determined to take
of the little one, so we cast lots every
month to see which should have the xnain
tainin' of him. It used to come to me
pretty often, but I done it willingly, sir,
because I considered I'd been hard to the
man—very hard to poor dead Jesse.
' The boy was pretty, sir, but he didn't
grow much. You see lie hadn't no moth
er-lovn to thrive on. The women they
thought did well by liiiq, but they sort o'
hustled him, and he wanted something dif
ferent, coming of a delicate stock. I don't
spose nothing, sir, can give a child that
feel, that having somebody to love and eall
mother, does—no, not all the cossettin'
in the world by strangers.
' Well, the years passed, and the little
fellow began to be handy in the mine. It
seemed a pity to Bee him beginning that sort
o' lite, but then we're not even able to take
care of one nvjre helpless hand, and there
was plenty young as he down there. But
he were so different from all the rest of the
children. lie looked for all the world be
fore he got the grim in his face, like a gen
tleman's child, sir. llis skin was like the
shells you sometimes sec with a leetlc red
tinge on 'cm, and he had his mother's large
brown eyes, and his father's curly hair, and
then he was so slim-like and girlish. Hut
he had spirit beyond strength, and gloried
in work.
' Things was going on about as usual, ex
cept that I was harder down on religion
than ever. The soft feeling wore oft my
heart, and I think I hated what was pious
worse nor before. Our Sundays was train
ing days—nothing good —everything evil,
just as evil as could be.
'Well, sir—one day the little feller was
on my beat, and he had done up his work
quick and airly, —so he stood sometime be
side me talking—l never heard such strange
things as he'd say. So says he, as I was
fixing my tools—says he,
' Keen,' —that's my name, sir,—'where'd
all this coal come from?'
'Come from the earth,' I said.
' Yes, but what made it ?'
' I prided myself on my little laming,' so
says 1,
' Why, nater made it, Pinky;' wo used
to call him Pink, and Pinky.
' Well, what made nater Keen V he still
kept askin'.
' Why—why ! nater made itself!' I said.
' Oh, no V he cried ; and with a solemn
look as ever I see orr any face—and his
voice somehow seemed strange, and deep,
like a voice of waruin'—l don't know why,
but I never heered anything like it ; says
he 'God made every thing; God is down
here in the dark "
' I declare it was nigh as if a man had
struck me as could be. Says I,
' Pinky, where'd you get that trom ?'
' Says he, ' The good man told rue'
'What good man?' I asked, and an ug
ly feeling came over me.
'What preached at mammy's funeral,'
said he.
' And wliere'd you see him ? 1 sort o'
growled, like.
'Out in the road yesterday. I seed him
on a horse, and he took me up and rided
nie ever so fur and back, and he told ine all
the good things.'
' I was silent —I tell ye. I didn't know
what to say ; but I was mad. Just then,
in moving up quick, my lamp went out.
Now, that's a thing that don't happen but
a few times in a good many years, and I
knew I'd have to wait and holler till some
body come—for the pit was lull of holes
—and so I said,
' Don't be afraid, Pinky, they'll be here
soon;' but I was shaky, for we was in a
dangerous part of the pit.
' Savs he, ' 1 don't feel afraid, Keeue
don't you s'pose God's close to us V
' I declare 1 felt my blood trickle cold,
and every wind that came down the shaft
way 1 thought was His breath —the breath
of God!
' Well, the hours passed, and nobody
come. I - eiitly says little Pinky, ' I'll
go for you, God will show me the way,'
and 1 heard his little feet patting along
them dangerous places. It was awful! —
The sweat started out on me thick, and it
seemed like I couldn't breathe. But
when I him back, he shouted with
his little voice,
' God'll show me the way.'
Gt almost makes me tremble when I think
ou't, sir—the boy went over the worst road
in the pit, full of sunk shafts and danger
ous places without no lamp! Oh! sir, when
they came for K3 with plenty of light—l
—I couldn't believe it, sir, 1 couldn't; and
though they kept telling me that Pinky
was safe, T tell you, sir, 1 thought it was a
lie till I see him, and heard him cry out —
' I am safe, Ke< no —God showed me the
way!'
' Well, sir, you mayn't ihink this looks
true ; but 'tis. Oh ! 'tis as true as wonder
ful, sir; and 1 tell you, I was a different
man alter that. Not that I gvetv good at
once —no, I didn't know (he way then, sir.
1 didn't feel like little Pinky; 1 didn't feel
sure that God'd show me, but he did.
'One day. after Pinky had been working
hard, he said lie was dry and his head ach
ed. Well, we always expected something
'd be ailing him—so that night I carried
him home in my arms arid laid him on his
bed, and he never, sir,' —the miner choked
for a moment, drew one rough hand across
his eyes, turned away lor a brief second,
then said —die never got up from it of
himself agin. Every night I came home
he was worse and worse, and I tell ve I felt
as if all the light 1 ever see was going out!
'One morning he asked me in his weak
voice,
'Wouldn't I send for the good man that !
preached for his mammy?'
' I didn't say 110 —'twan't in my heart to ;
do that thing, and before long the parson !
was there, talking and praying. That seem- 1
ed to do the child good ! And as the 1111- |
ners dropped, in, with their black faces, j
and the little lamps in their hands, he'd I
.smile round at 'em so sweet, sir, it would a
done your heart good to a seen it.'
The man paused again, overcome by the
recollection cf the scene. The muscles 1
round his firm lips quivered, and over his 1
great bronzed face there swept an expres
sion of an almost womanly tenderness.
' Did he die then ?'
The question was softly asked, and the
dark eyes of the lady were full ot tears.
' Oh, my dear miss—yes, yes, he died
then ! He grew very bright and lively,
though, and we'd all set our hearts 011 his
getting well, when there was another change
and the color left his face—and his little
hands hadn't no strength in them. The
minister came again, and as he stooped
down, says hp,
' My dear child, are you afraid to go?"
'And what do you think, sir—what do
you think, miss—he said ? Oh, how it
went through me!
' God'll show me the way!'
• And He showed him the way, sir. I
never see anything like that dying sir—
never. He held my hand —lie said,
'Keene, you love God, too !'
'lie gave a gasp and then a smile, and
then there came a bright glory-light over
his white face that made it shine all over —
Oh, sir—l—l—can't, tell it.'
The wan held his head down and sobbed
like a child-—and his were not the only
tears. The next morpiag was the Sabbath.
A near bell was heard; a plain white meet
ing-house stood in sight. The stranger
and his daughter met the miner, who,
pointing to the heavenward spire, exclaim
ed, as a smile broke over his face,
'You see, sir, God shows us all the way!'
Reclaiming Presents. —A case is under
investigation, sa3'B the Detroit Advertiser
of the 25th, in the Police Court of that
city, involving the right of a fellow to take
back the presents he has made to a girl
when she was wont to have him, and is
getting ready to many somebody else. A
young man who had disposed ol about $75
worth of jewelry in this way, during three
years courtship, is on his trial for larcen3 r ,
in invading the lady's bed-room, and seiz
ing the property, when he had discovered
it was to adorn another man's wife
MiEttUißOffi.
Terrible Tragedy in Kcnry County, Va.
The usually quiet and law-abiding people
of the county of Henry have been intense
ly excited for the past three or four days,
in consequence of a terrible tragedy, or
rather tripple tragedy, that was enacted in
their midst on Saturday last.
It appears, according to the version giv
en us, that some years since, a graud-daugh
er of the venerable and talented Vincent
Witcher, Esq., of Pittsylvania county, mar
ried a gentleman from the adjoining coun
ty of Henry, whose nauie was Clemmcns.
His christian name we are unable to ascer
tain. The maiden name of Mr. Witeher's
grand-daughter was Smith. The parties
lived hapily together until about eighteen
months since, when, upon the most un
founded suspicions, as we Lave been in
foimed, Mr. Clemmens desired a separation
from his wife, and immediately instituted
proceedings for a divorce, at the same time
impeaching her honor as the grounds for
his course.
Last Saturday was set apart tor the tak
ing of depositions, and the parties met at
a magisterial precinct in Henry county.
.Mr. Y. if her appeared to defend the
suit and protect the honor of his grand
daughter.
The taking of the depositions progressed,
and after the plaintiff had finished with a
witness, Mr. Witcher asked a question,
which greatly exasperated the husband,
Mr. (Teuimens. He immediately arose,
drawing a pistol at the same time, and fired
at Mr. Witcher. Mr. Witcher, it .seems,
also quickly rose, and drew a pistol from
his pocket, and as the ball of his antagonist
grazed around the abdomen, he fired, strik
ing Clemmcns in the forehead, and killing
him instantly.
A nephew of Mr. Witcher, and a Mr.
Smith, a brother of Mrs. Oiemmens, hear
ing the firing, rushed into the room. A
brother o! Mr. C'emniens, who had also
been attracted by the pistol reports, fired at
a nephew of Mr. Witcher, the ball taking
effect, and producing, it is feared, a fatal
wound. Upon seeing his nephew shot Mr.
Vincent Witcher again fired, striking Clem
mens .No. 2. and killing him instantly.
At, t':is stag: cf the sanguinary affair,
Mr. Smith, a brother of Mrs. Clemmcns,
drew a bewie Life, but had scarcely un
sheathed the blade, yrhen lie was fired upon
by a second brother of Clemmens, the ball
taking effect in the shoulder, and produc
ing a painful wound. Infuriated by his
wound, Mr. Smith rushed upon his antag
onist. and with one powerful thrust of the
knife completely disemboweled Clemmens
No. 3, the unfortunate man falling dead on
the Bpc:.
Three of the parties dead, and the other
thr'cQ al! wounded, the horrible tragedy
here ended.
Yincint Witchcr, Esq., the chief actor
in this truly terrible affair, is widely known
throughout Virginia. He served for many
years in the lower House of the Legisla
ture, and subsequently represented his dis
trict in the State Senate with signal abili
ty. lie is a prominent member of the
Whig party, and his name has been re
peatedly mentioned in connection with the
office of Governor of the Commonwealth.
He succeeded Whitmcll P. Tuustall, upon
the death of that gentleman, as President
of the Richmond and Danville Railroad.
After two years service he resigned the
Presidency ot the road, and lias since been
engaged in the practice of his profession—
that ot a lawyer.
Our informant states that throughout
this painful suit, which Mr. Witchcr be
lieves to have been instituted against an
innocent grand-daughter, he hag acted with
great forbearance, and the part he has been
compelled finally to act, will be with none,
a source of deeper regret than himself.
—Petersburg Express. Feb. 20.
Mnrder of Dr. W J- Keitt.
* On Sunday morning last, our communi
ty was thrown into a state of great excite
ment by the announcement of the death
of Dr. W. J. Keitt, our Senator in the
State Legislature. He had been living by
himself, 011 his plantation, about three
miles from Ocala, and has been : n ill health
for some time past. Early in the morning,
one of his servants, who had waited on
him during his illness, came into town and
stated that, as he went into his master's
room to build a fire, he found him lying 011
the floor dead. At first it was supposed
that he had died suddenly frorti an affection
of the heart ; but, on visiting his house,
his body was found bathed in b'.ocd, and
his throat cut from ear to ear. An inquest
was soon held, and it was found that he
had been most brutally murdered by one
or more of i.Y own negroes. The most
positive evidence was obtained against cue
of the negroes, and a disposition was man
ifested to hang him at once; but, with the
view of obtaining proof against others who
are supposed to be implicated, he was
brought to jail, with three others on whom
suspicion rests. The matter is undergo.ng
further investigation as we go to press, and
wo are therefore unable to give the result.
Dr. Keitt was a native of South Caroli
na, and a brother of the Hon. L. M. Keitt,
representative of that State. The deceas
ed moved to this State about six years ago,
New Series—Vol. XIV, No. 18.
and had so identified himself with her in
terests as to render hia death a public ca
lamity.— Ocala f/7e.) Companion.
Death of Arndt.
of the venerable friends of German
freedom has parsed away. Ernst Movitz
Arndt, poet, scholar, statesman, and-patri
ot, beloved and revered by all his country
men and lo- noble hearted men all over the
world, died at Bonn on the 29th of last
month, at the ripe old age of ninety. This
is not the place to give a long sketch of
his active and earnest life. But no one
who remembers the struggle of Germany
against Napoleon sheuld be ignorant of the
services which Arndt rendered to his coun
try by his pamphlets, newspaper articles,
and national songs. He stirred the hearts
of the people from the Rhine to the Xie
men, and di s l mere than almost any other
man to mouse those feelings of popular in
dignation. courage, and patriotism, which
finally incited the Germans to hurl back
their oppressors, and achieve their inde
pendence.
His liberal principles were afterwards so
off nsive to the Prussian Government that
he was obliged to relinquish the chair of
the piof'essorship of modern history at
Bmii. With many oilier patriots, ho in
d .ilg-, d in the hope for a brief period in
ISid that better days for his country wore
near, and lie labored faithfully. an, with a
youthful zeal, until it was manifest that all
efforts were tl.ga in vain. But he never
lost the noble spiiit which breathes through
every line of his famous song, 1 What is
the German's b in a. . land : '
The writer of these lines has a letter from
the ven Table patriot, which \sas wvitten'
but a few years ago. With a bold and
manly hand, the old man writes as his mot
to a quotation from an ancient poet, ' The
bird sings sweetest when it sings, 'Strike
for the Fatherland.' ' For it- he lived, an 1
toiled, and was ready to die.— I'ron'tlrnrc
Journal.
Presentiment in a Dream. —This morn
ing a young lady, daughter of Hainan Mil-
KT, track master of the Central Itailroad,
told her parents soon after she arose, that
slio had dreamed last night that Mr. Keist,
who attends the railroad bridge at Allen's
creek, was killed, and that Mrs. Keisteame
to the house to tell Mr. Miller. A short
time after relating this dream, and while
the family were at breakfast, Mrs. KeLst
came in to tell that her hu.-band was killed
by the cars last night at Brighton. So im
pressed was the girl with the force of lie*'
dream, that she ran to another room when
.she saw the woman approaching the door,
as she felt sure that she had a tale of sor
row to tell. Mr. Keist was a German, who
had worked for a number of years on H
railroad, under the direction of Mr. Miller,
and his wife had often called at his house.
When Miss Miller told her dream, Mr
Miller had not heard of the accident : ill
deed, the coroner having charge of the body
did not know who the unfortunate man
was. While there are thousands of dreams
that are not premonitory, now and then
there is one that is, to say the least, coin
cidental with actual occurrences, of which
the dreamer knew nothing.— Rochester Ad
vertiser, 24/7/.
Burnt on ,Suspicion of Cunihalism. —
The revolting practice of canibalism among
the Indian tribes is now, happily of rare
occurrence. And by none is it held in
greater detestation than by the native.;
themselves. Mingled, too, with their hor
ror of the crime is a strange superstitious
fear of the criminal, whom they believe to
be endowed with a supernatural power
against which nothing earthly can prevail.
At lkiupliiu river, at the beginning of the
winter, a tradgedy was enacted which makes
one shudder. A poor, sickly old man, nam
ed Sachctaekets, was supposed by Cusic and
Katchewa, his two sons-in-law, to show a
disposition to become a man eater. Alarrn
i ed at the thought of such a calamity, they
determined to prevent it by putting away
the object of their dread before he became
proof against their weapons. One da} T thf
; unsuspecting old man was lying helpless
i in his camp, when Cusic and Katchewa fell
upon him and barbarously murdered him.
They cut off his head and then burnt'his
body to ashes. — Montreal Gazette, Fch *2l'.*
fiss<r~A letter from Constantinople states
that the Astrologers of the Sultan have
! just brought out in that city the Turkish
almanac for the new year, which bedn's in
March. The science of astrology still en
joys a certain degree of consideration in the
I East, and faith is placed in its predictions.
On this occasion the Astrologer ot the al
manac has left the place ot a certain T ri
day in the new year blank, which has caus
ed great uneasiness in the Capitol, as he is
an old man of the time of the Sultan Mah
mound, whose death, in 1839, he indicated
by the same means. The believers in the
! science, therefore, feel fully persuaded
either that thejSultan Abdul-Mejid will not
survive the year, or that some other grave
event will threaten the Turkish Empire.
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VT in a set, at $4. $4.50 and $5, warrant
ed good. Also, various other articles, such
as Toilet Sets, Tea Sets, Dinner Sets, &e. at
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