m tmnJtaM, - V. ., ; Volume XYII-Ne. 169. LANCASTER, PA., FRIDAY, MARCH 18, 1881 Price Tw Celts. cz.eiHnra T)EAD! BEAU Light and Medium Weight Frem $G te $18 in Price, and we also make loonier anything that you may want in the line of CLOTHING. Hi Department B being fitted up for all kind ei fine work. The styleit of Clothing; for Sprint; arc coining in every day anil such heaps of reliable Cloth ing lit a wonder te everybody. Trusting you will favor us with a call, as the prices are made the very lowest for which the goods can be bought anywhere. MEN'S SUITS Frem 34.50 te $25. The money will be refunded en all goods net satisfactory WILLIAMSON & FOSTER, ONE-PRICE HOUSE, 36 EAST KING STREET, LANCASTER, PA. -Clothing, Hats Trunks and Furnishing Goods. iflfi-lydAw Special Announcement! New is your time te secure bargain.- in CLOTHING! Tomakcreon; for our large stock of Cloth ing for Spring, new being manufactured, we will make sweeping reductions throughout our large stock of HEAVY WIGHT CLOTHING, CON8I8TIKO OF Overcoats, Suits, &c, MEN, BOYS AND YOUTHS. ODDS AND EXDS OFrCLOTHlXG IX COATS, PANTS AND TESTS, BELOW COST. Call early te secure the liest bargain-". D. B. Hostetter & Sen, 24 CENTRE SQUARE, 6-lyrt LANCASTER. PA. A RARE CHANCE! The Greatest Reduction ever made in FIXE WOOLENS for GENTS' WEAR at H. GERHAET'S ilisleit A Large Assortment of Genuine English & Scotch Suiting, .sold during the Fall Season from 30 te 40. A Suit will be made up te order in the Best Style irem 20 te 30. HEAVY WEIGHT DOMESTIC Suiting and Overceating, Reduced in the same proportion. All goods warranted as represented. The above reduction will ler cash only, and terthe next THIRTY DAYS. H.GERHART, Ke. 51 North Queen Street. . rAfERUAxaisas, . N KW SPRING STYLES WALL PAPER. NEW SPRING STYLES WALL PAPER. NEW SPRING STYLES WALL PAPER. NEW SPRING STYLES WALL PAPER. NEW SPRING STYLES WALL PAPER. New Spring Styles Window Shades New Spring Styles Window Shades New Spring Styles Window Shades New Spring Styles Window Shades :e: PHARES W. PRY, PHARES W. PRY, PHARES W. PRY, PHARBS W. PRY, Ne. D7 NORTH QUEEN STRETE. Ne. 07 NORTH' QUEEN STREET. Ne. 57 NORTH QUEEN STREET. Ne. 57 NORTH QUEEN STREET. OVERCOATS FOB mm Tain DBT N Elf THINGS! NEW THINGS ! JOHN WANAMAKER'S; 13Ui Street, Market and Chestnut, DRESS GOODS. Among our new all-wool dress-labrles is an extraordinary flannel, if it Is a flannel. It is se extraordinary as te take it out of flannels altogether, perhaps ; but we have no better name ter it. Many ladies will be obliged for this notice. JOHN -WAXAMAKER. Third clrcle, southeast from the centre. DRESS GOODS. What art and skill are doing in cotton dress fabrics ! Twe counters arc gorgeous witli them. The lowest price is 5 cents a yatd, and the highest 62 cents ; but they are made in soft and delicate ways by texture or print or dye. te rival the stuffs et luxury. Here arc the familiar names : Scotch zephyrs Foulards Madras ginghams Sateens Seersuckers Lawas Chintzes Cretonnes Oxford cloths Memles Toile d' Alsace Cheviots Printed shirtings In almost every name are triumphs. Yeu arc net ettcn asked te admire se modest weiks of art and skill; but see it you cm pass these counters witneut a new view e! modern achievements. JOHN WANAMAKER. Fourth circle, northwest from centre COTTON DRESS GOODS. A lady who has bought $15 worth of sateens at several visits here, and who hss been everywhere in town, says there's" no such collection ei wonderful goods anywhere. Our usertinent is se large that many patterns are nowhere cleperlercc; bat this is especially true et small ltgurcd goods, the choicest of all. JOHN WANAMAKER. Fourth circle, northeast from centre. "reOLLEN DRESS GOODS. Y Seme neat checks te-day, browns and grays, tKUnch, 25 cents. Will pass ler all-wool ; but a little cotton is carded in. JOHN WANAMAKER. Third ciiclc, cast Irem centre. 13UUE LINENS. We hav'nt a mixed linen in the store, net even in handkerchiefs. JOHN WANAMAKER. Third, fourth and fifth circles, southwest Irem the centre. Chestnut, Thirteenth and Market streets, and City hall squat c. SCOTCH GINGHAMS. Mere Scotch zephyr ginghams are in (te day, but net all by any means. Our price is 31 cents ; 40 is the New Yerk pi ice. New don't suppose that such u diflerence as that means anything whatever In the ging- iinms. 11 uecs net. it means simpiy mat we buy et the makers, and save one profit. JOHN WANAMAKER. Fourth circle, Thirtcentli-street-entrance. DOMESTIC GINGHAMS. It you would rather buy a coarser and heavier gingham, that leeks as well a little way eif, at 15 cents, the Madras zephyrs, et American make, are what you want, They are fait colors te. Then the zanztbars, at IS cents, are a little heavier, and closer woven. The modest Cheviot-plaids at 15 cents and seersuckers at 15 and 18 cents are here also. JOHN WANAMAKER. Fourth circle north irem centre. DOMESTIC CALICOES. Chintz ei lndiee-blue around with white polka-dot et various sires, and ether little fig-J Uics 1101 unilKe me tieis 01 .auicriiaiu inane, ut 10 cents, is a great favorite. Calicoes in general arc 8 cents ; but some patterns are 5J, simply because they are net liked se well. JOHN WANAMAKER. Fourth circle, northeast Irem centre. LADIES' CLOTHS. An entire counter Is devoted te ladies' cloth ler dresses. There's nothing new in them but the colors, plain and illuminated. Xew ladies' cloths are here. It is useless te say mere et these favorite stutls. JOHN WANAMAKER. Third circle, south from centre. INFANTS' CLOTHING of like range ; very rich te Very plain, borne specimens arc shewh in the Arcade. JOHN WANAMAKER. Southwest corner et building. XTEW FANCY BRYON COLLARS 1 for ladies and children ; mere than 80 styles, some of them liumoieus (such as have been worn by yeunggcntlemcn et late). Ladles w 111 dlller about he shape as well as about the print. At this counter last Saturday the sales amounted te ever 8X cellars and cuffs. One or the busy places. First circle, southwest from the centre. JOHN WANAMAKER, JOHN WANAMAKER, Chestnut, Thirteenth and Market and City Hall Square, PHILADELPHIA. IEOX BITTERS. ritON 1UTTEKS. IRON BITTERS! A TRUE TONIO. SURE APPETISER. IRON HITTERS arc highly recommended ler all diseases requiring a certain and effi cient tonic; especially INDIGESTION, DYSPEPSIA, INTERMITTENT FEVERS, WANT OP APPE TITE, LOSS OP STRENGTH, LACK OP ENERGY, &c. It enriches the bleed, strengthens the muscles, and gives new life te the nerves. It acts pp. et useful and amusing reading tint free. BROWN CHEMICAL COMPANY, 123-lyd&w notice. TTENTION, HOUSEKEEPERS! MOVING! MOVING! MOVING! Personal attention given te all kind of MOVINGS this Spring. BEST OF CARE AND REASONABLE PRICES. 49-Leavc orders for day and date el moving, or address te J. C. HOUGHTON, CARE OF M- A. HOUGHTON, Ne. 25 NORTH QUEEN STREET, LANCASTER, PA. GROCERIES. A Z. KINGWALT'S Cheap Liquor and Grocery Stere NO. 205 WEST KING STREET. febW-lyd 8 O'CLOCK COFFEE IS THIS PUREST and best ler the Breakfast Table. ATLANTIC AND PACIFIC TEA CO., 114 North Queen Street. I'ebi2-2:ud Lancaster, Pa UOODS. N TEW THINGS: -AT- Philadelphia, Pa. BLACK DRESS GOODS. New things in black dress goods ei almost all sorts arc ready. Silk grenadines came some lime age; new the wool and -Ilk and wool grenadines are here ; and the variety is greater than we ever had before greater than anybody ever had, se lar as we knew. Xew armurcs. plain and figucd, are .notable especially the latter. Among them arc armures, with small figures and plaids, that can be seen only when looked at in certain ways. The draping of a dress of these would appear te be nartlv nlain and nartv figured or nlaid. The figures and plaids seem te have no existence at all. Yeu can't find them except byaccidenl. JOHN WANAMAKER. Next outer circle, Chestnut-street entrance. I IN ENS. j Just received a large quantity of Irish shirting linens; uncommonly satisfactery: 23 te 75 cts. Seme remnants at three-quarters value. Sheeting and pillow linens et many makers. Netice, if you please, 100-ineh sheeting at$l, and 45 inch pillow at. 45 cents. A certain three-quarter napkin at $! a dozen has been compared with one considered a bar gain elsewhere at a higher price. JOHN WANAMAKER. City-hall-square cntrace. HOSIERY. Misses' and beys' French ribbed hose at 40 te 55 cents according te size; C te 8 inch; is said te be selling elsewhere at G5 te 80 cents. Cardinal, navy blue and ecru. JOHN WAXAMAKER. Outer circle. Chestnut-street entrance. SHIRTING LINEN of a certain make which we knewall about we have In ten weights. Tin; ce.irsi'St is suit able for men's drawers; the finest ferthe finest shirt lrents. This linen we order six months in advance et our wants, have it bleached wholly en the gras, finished without dressing, and labeled "Old-fashioned linen." It is a perfect linen, if care and skill can produce such. We sell it by the slilc of Richardson linen at two-thirds te three-quarters the price of the latter, winch is net a whit better. 28 te 73 cents. All our linens are bought with 1 ust such care and skill as this statement implies ; and the largeness of our dealing enables us te add an inducement in price also. Ruyers et table, sheeting and pillow linens, towels, vc.,, for hotels and institutions had better call here first. JOHN WAXAMAKER. Cltii hall-square entrance. IINEN REMNANTS. j Anether maker's short-length remnants, similar te theshirtiug linens mentioned above, in four weights, value as geed 50 te 75 cents, arc selling ull at one price, 40 cents. JOHN WANAMAKER. City-hall-squarc entrance. SUMMER SKIRTS. . Pin-striped sateen (the French cotton silk like labile new se popular) skirt trimmeil with plaiting et same, or with that and hand of silk cmbrelderr, is the favorite of all the washable skirts we lfave ; and the variety is beyond .be lief almost. Net washable, also for summer, is Italian cloth or Farmer-fiat In, made handsome in a great many ways by combinations, plnitings, bindings, pipings, cmbreideiies, ,te. JOHN WANAMAKER. Southwest corner ei building. HANDKERCHIEFS. New fancy white handkerchief; ninny. New initials : new letters, a different letter ler each price. New colored borders. Linen cen ters with colored silk borders (nowhere else, Crebably), require te be washed with care; nt with care they wash perfectly ; colors last. Woven color borders, plaids and stripes of course. Net a mixed cotton and linen hand kerchief in the store. JOHN WANAMAKER. Third circle, southwest from pentrc. UNDERWEAR, fine muslin and cambric underwear, richly decorated with lace and embroidery, carclully finely and skilfully made. This we have In greater variety than you will find else where; but there is no difficulty in getting this grade of work. Underwear of a plainer fort is difficult te get carefully and skiltully made; but we have a really great collection of it. Fer mere than n year past we have been raising the standard of manufacture and cultluatlng simpler styles. We have work thc;iike of which is in no ether house, here or in New Yerk. The ideal of It is the best et liomc-i.nule underwear at such prices as will caiuc it te be preferred te home made and step home-making as fast as the work becomes known. JOHN WANAMAKER. Southwest corner of building. ritON HITTERS. BALTIMORE, MD. M INVENTORS. W. H. BABOOOK, Atterney-atrLaw, el Washington, D. C, form erly an examiner in U. S. Patent Office, offers his services as solicitor before the U. S. and Foreign Patent Offices. Careful work at lair prices. Was associate et Mr. Jacob Stauffcr, el Lancaster, until the lattcr's death. 110-3mdAw 1 RAIN f ECULATION JT In large or small amounts. 925 or $20,000 Wrltc W. T. SOULE & CO., Commission Mcr chants, 130 La Halle street, Chicago, III., for clx ulars. m28-iyd Hancaster Intelligencer. FRIDAY EVENING, MABCH 18, 1881. Tbc Conuneter's Story. An Episode of indwell's Bar. I think it is Emersen who says : "When you pay for your ticket and get into the car, you have te guess, what geed com pany you shall find there. Yeu buy much that is net rendered in the bill." I have found this remark eminently true en several occasions, particularly when my life-long friend Ruth bears me company. Ruth is the most unconventional of women. She travels, as she docs every thing else, with whole-seuled earnestness, and finds bread where most people could gather only stones. Thus, recently, being in the rear car of the long train, she pre ferred standing upon the platform and drinking in at one draught that magnifi cent valley of the Sacramento, through which we seemed flying; r.ither than by tantalizing sips, as one has te de from be hind a narrow car window. I followed her. I always de. And, holding en te the narrow railing, we felt somewhat like two lest comets whirling through space. Soeu the deer behind us banged, and a gcutlcman in the mid-summer of life, with a face classically beauti ful, joined us. He beamed en us almost literally. Prem the dimple in his fair, soft chin, te the ring of brown, silky hair, which lay upon his bread, smooth fore head, the expression scintillated with in telligent geed nature. Withal, there was such a retrospective back-ground te the sunny brightness that, alter a lew common-places, Ruth, the daring, honest im pudent creature, said, looking up mean while into his face with a smile se honest and kindly he would have been a Ber serker net te have reflected it : "Sir, permit me te remark that you arc a physical incongruity "Net se bad as that, madanie, I hops. I am merely a conductor, as by this time you have discovered, and a pretty well balanced one, independent of my avoirdu pois." "But your thoughtful face, sir, that is what perplexes me. It should belong te a body but one-third the weight of yours," .suggested Ruth, the wise disciple of La vater. "3Iy face is all right." he replied, stroking Ins checks and chin with an air of marvelous self complacency. " It stop step ped growing ten years age, but it is here, here," touching the region of his dia phragm with the tip of his plump fore fere liuycr, "that contentment and my rare geed luck shows itself. Once I was as thin as Peter Schcmmer.s shadow, aud" he paused, looking into Ruth's clear gray eyes as if he would sound her soul's depths "I am strangely tempted te tell you my bit of a romance, for there is a stretch ahead, and you leek like one of the kind te enjoy a touch et nature. Isn't it se?" The conductor had struck the key-note of our needs. We were pining for a verit able California story, told in an unconven tional way outside the well read romances of Bret Ilartc and the Argonaut ; te be told, tee, under such peculiar circumstan ces would be an added spice, and thus we besought him te immediately yield te temptation. " I am an old stager," he said, " at least it was as far back as the- spring of '50 that, with a blanket strapped upon my Pack, fifty cents in my pant's pockets and the biggest stock of hope and untried en ergy that ever made a lad's heart as light as a balloon, I tramped along here in search for the "geld diggin's." My ambition was higher than these buttcs yonder, by thou sands of feet, aud the top was te be cap ped with solid geld," pointing as he spoke te the three singular and isolated peaks we were just then passing, known as the Maryvillc Buttes, whose volcanic heights looked as inaccessible te us as their peaks seemed brown and barren. " It appears te me," said Ruth measur ing the almost precipitous sides of these lefty and mysterious hills, " that when a man aspires te touch the sky, he would want a higher guerdon than mere geld, net, however, that I held the metal in contempt." " I had, madam, and that was the whole matter. I was desperately in love that was a solemn factcxpregsed in as few words as possible and I tfelieved that she loved me , but the top of Mount Shasta was net mere attainable te me than Jen nic. Her father, an old Philadelphia druggist, had money, and I had none. He was proud as Lucifer, and as ambitious for his daughter as he was proud. I felt that I ceuid ' move a mountain,' if I could find :v mountain te move, se Jennie and I said geed-bye one afternoon under an old oak in Fail-mount park, and in the very depths of my heart. I believed she would be true te me. It was net a seven days' ride from New Yerk te San Francisce these days, and the tall, slender, hungry, penniless lad who tramped along here twenty-nine years age, sc.ekiug his fortune like another Dick Wkittingten, was a weary and home sick one, as well." "By here,' which you have twice used, de you mean this veritable valley of the Sacramento ?" asked Ruth. "The very same. My objective point was a place new famous in the annals of that period, called 4 Bidwcll's Bar,' en ac count of a rich bar in the Feather river, full of 'golden sand,' wlrch was discov ered by General Bidwcll. The place was many miles from me ; the country was sparsely settled ; I did net knew a soul (for even scamps 'were scarce In these early days,) and se my courage and my legs gave out together. Pulling off my old beets about five o'clock ene sultry day, I bared my blistered feet te the cool evening breeze, and creeping into a clump of young manzanitas, fell asleep, hoping that I would never awake again this side of the stars. I did, however, conscious that my tees were being licked in a gentle fashion, and discovered that it was being done by a young brown setter deg, about as hungry-looking and generally dilapi dated as I was myself. Where he came from I never knew, but looking into his half humau eye?, we speedily entered into a sort of dumb compact te trudge en te--gcther. I found that the peer fellow (I never could call him a brute) had a sere knee, iuilamed aud bleeding. I tore a strip off from my last handkerchief te bind it up, and in place of the geed Samaritan's oil and wine, gave him my laet scrap of cold bacon. It is strange, but forlorn as I was in these days, I recall them with a tender pleasure, almost unaccountable. If I had been raised a Brahmin, I would have belivcrcd that some immortal spirit of unfailing cheerfulness and unending resources was imprisoned in that deg's body. Did you ever read the fairy legend of 'The White.Cat.' who after she had persuaded the yeuus prince, her lever, te cut off her head aud tail and threw them in the fire,-suddenly steed before him a woman as fair as Aurera? Fntz, that was the name by which I called the deg, looked at' me with Jennie's brown eyes, half-roguish, half-thoughtful, and together wc resumed our journey. Ner would I have followed in the wake of the young prince; even had I known the result would be similar, for Fritz, the deg, was invaluable, just as he was. AU lonesomeness was gene, new that he rarely left my side, aud although our shadows had grown less by the time we reached the 'Bar,' our immaterial en tities were in prime order for anything in the shape of adventure. ' Have never seen any geld dug.' Then I'll net at this late day spoil your first impressions of a miner's camp by describing mine, as I ap proached Bidwcll's Bar. I may say though, that one might have supposed an earthquake or tornado had been at work there, tearing up the hundreds of thou sands of cubic feet that had been moved and removed by mqrtal hands in their fran tic and persistent search for geld. The 'Bar' was a world in miniature. Almest every nationality was there represeuted,and almost every feature of human kind but humanity. Armed with a pick, pan and shovel, I, like hundreds of ethers, began te dig, and burrow, and wash dirt. But my labor and its results would net balauce, for somehow my little leather bag of geld dust grew no heavier, toil as I would. Wages being geed, I stepped digging, and hired myself as a sort of camp scullion. I did every kind of jobbing, within the range of a miner's wants. Washing dirty flau- nei shirts and cotton overalls, patching leather trousers, and cooking flapjacks is net the most dignified and flower-strewn path te fortune you must knew ; and te a boy, whose ideas of chivalry, independence and deeds of valor were purely and intense ly Byronic,such a fete, you must acknowl edge, was a sort of poetic iujustice. My aim, though, was te earn enough money with which te buy a certain claim of which I knew, and that I had, in advance, labeled 1 Bonanza.' I might have succeeded, but I was prostrated by a malarial fever, aud for days and weeks lay unconscious, at the tender mercy of a few rough Welsh raiuers with human heaits. My little heard of money and my energy melted away together, like spring suew. But for Fritz, I'd have died of disappointment alone. He had adbptcd the ' Never say die ' motto, and I as often read in his glo rious eyes the sentence, ' Yeu great old coward ! At him again !' as a tender aud appreciative sympathy which the gift of speech could net have made mere assur ing. Mv nursed had pitched me a tent en the south side of a low hill, and left me te get well at my leisure. My ' bottom dol lar, had dwindled into the value of a dime, my legs into the thickness of a pair of tongs (for all appetite was gene), and one night hope failed me. Believing I was going te die, I resolved te de the fair thing by Jennie, appraise her of the event and ask her te forget me. .By the flicker ing light of a bit of tallow candb I com menced the letter the first I had written for months.- I thought aloud as I wrote. Fritz lay beside me, his nose wedged be tween his forepaws, but I knew bv the twitching of his cars that he understood every word I was writing. I had reached the climax of renunciation and wretch edness or rather my expression of it when he suddenly rose and went out. I seen heard him pawing, and scratching and tearing the earth about six feet from me, as though he was under contract te dig a tunuel te China before daylight. Thinking he had found the burrow of a wolf or fox I called him off, but he was as deaf as a rock te my voice. Seizing the caudle I hurried te the spot, around which lay a half-bushel of gravel, which he had loosened, when my eye caught the gleam of a dull read streak that veined a piece of quartz about the size of an egg, lying among the fresh earth. Wenld you be lieve it ? That streak was worth fifty dol lars, for it was virgin geld. Ner was it the only ene upon that hillside. Fritz had feuud a lode (thanks te a gopher), and I thereby had found a fortune. As seen as possible, I had the geld of that precious stene wrought into a ring of my own de signing ; all of it, at least, but the con tents of one blunt corner, which, in its na tive roughness. I had mounted en a simple breech. Sending these te Jennie, I " "An act of great generosity, sir, I think," interrupted Ruth, with a laugh ing glint in her eye. "One would have thought you'd have preset ved such a piece of rare geed fortune as a memorial stone." " Yeu anticipate me, madame. It was as a memorial that I sent my first bit of treasure, but I expected te get it back again within two years, and the girl with it " '"And did you?" ' Ne ; nor even received a line of ac knowledgment that my offer had been ac cepted. Nothing finds geld quicker than geld, when a man has once get a fair share of it, and in two years I had, in various ways, secured twenty thousand dollars Investing it, as I thought safely, I returned te Philadelphia in all the pride of a conquering here. My story ought te end here ; te windip with the chime of wedding bells and a 'beautiful Rachel ' as my reward for faithful serving, but I had scarcely arrived when I heard, inci dental, that Jennie had gene with her father te Europe, nor left one sign that she had remembered me." "Yeu certainly did net let that fact dampen the ardor of your pursuit?" queried Ruth; "yen followed her, of course." "Of course I did no such thing,madarac. I returned te San Francisce and plunged into the excitement with a recklessness that a woman cannot understand. Six months after I had lest every dollar, but by that time, I had learned that experi ence is worth nothing as solid capital until it has been dearly bought. I whistled my rhyme : Less and gain, pleasure and pain, Balance the see-saw' of lite. in the sensitive ears of my faithful Fritz, hugged his brown head clese te my shoul sheul shoul dereon't laugh, that deg was my friend rolled up my sleeves and again went te work with a vigor that I knew meant sue cess if the vein held out. It did, and five years afterwards I had a bank account which ran largely into the thousands. I invested In land. By that time I was a bachelor of nearly thirty. Hard knocks and my one big disappointment had shaken all the romance out of me, and when I again went East it was en business connected with the constructing of this railroad." "And you had quite outlived your boy ish fancy, as your heart began te lese its youth ?" said Ruth& with the least bit of cynicism in her tone. "I think Fritz knew," said the conduc tor, quickly, "I had become almost a misanthrope for his sake. If I left him te go into society such as we had for a few hours, he either whined like a sick child or kept up such an increasing bark ing and baying that, te save him from be ing shot as a nuisance, I went no place where it was impossible for him te accom pany me. The old fellow went with me even te New Yerk, and en the journey I often caught myself cogitating hew he- born in a wilderness of wild mustard, and as fend of camp-life as an Iudian would take te the constraints of an old city. Well, I had net been in New Yerk a week before there was a strong , tugging at my heart te run down te Philadelphia. Net that it was home for me. for my parents had died before I first left it. I called the de sire the charm of association,' and it led me. There, as I first went down Arch 'street my peer deg lest his wits and the sober dignity of his maturity. He had a remarkably fine scent, I always knew-that; but no sooner had he turned into that par ticular street than, with nose close te the ground and rigid tail, he ran zig-zag te and fro, as though he was en the trail of an erratic fox. I called him. but he gave no heed. People get out of his way. The gamins shouted, and, with a wild, shrill bark, he suddenly bounded into the doorway of a large drygoeds store. I bounded after him in time te see him rush up te a lady in black, who was examining some jjeves, and danced about her with signs of the most extravagant joy. There are tones that live without the aid of the phonographs. 'Rey! Rey! Dear old boy,' was all she said, but I'd have sworn the voice was Jennie's if I had heard it en the summit of Mount Blanc. A white hand was laid upon his head, and my ring was en the hand." He paused. "Yeura? Sir, I hope yen did net claim it," said his practical cell cell coll cuter. " I did, and the hand which were it, just as originally intended. Ner did Alex ander, in his hour of greatest conquest, ever smile a mere serene approval of him self than our conductor at this stage of his story. " But the conduct of Fritz, and the lady's silence, and all the queer concemi tants which exist only in fiction hew de you reconcile them with an "ew'r" true tail ?" said Ruth, the truth loving. " Fritz was Rey, the Rey who had often been caressed by Jennie before his young master, Jennie's cousin, get the geld fever when I did, and came te California, never te return. Jennie had written, but her letters never reached me. She thought me dead. Why the de. came te me, when his master died, is among the riddles of my life, which I will disen tangle in the herejftjr." "And te-day where is she?" He steed waiting for the question. " On our ranch, near Sacramento, and I believe one of the happiest women in the state. We have boy ten years old whose name is Fritz, and all the dearer for the sake of the old friend who has long since gene where I hope,eue day, te meet the liuuiau of him. I wish you could step off a while and see my wife. Queer, isn't it, that I should have intruded this bit of private history upon you, but the truth is Yes, coming, I'll be with you again ladies." A brakeman beckoned him inside, and we had seen the last of our handsome conductor. The evening shadows had begun te lengthen. The setting sun had turned the vast plain of the Sacramento valley into a ''field of the cloth of geld," and the dis tant peaks of the Sierra, clad in their eternal snows, but new rose-tinted aud glowing, seemed te cleave the azure above them as wiih a wedge of burnished silver. It was starlight when we reached the end of our car ride and were registered for the night. "The conductor's story was a pleasant little episode, Ruth, wasn't it. De you believe it all happened ?" I asked and leaned from my pillow te hers te leave a geed kiss en her round cheek. "I like Fritz," was her sleepy answer. "There's a divinity about some dogs that the half of mankind can neither appre ciate er.attain. I trust a man whom a geed deg loves." An Independent Line te New Yerk. Railroad Plans and Rnmers. Baltimore Sun. , It is quite evident that the friends as well as ellicials of the Baltimore & Ohie railroad are actively engaged in maturing some plau whereby independent commu nication between Baltimore and New Yerk will be established. Such communi cation is felt te be imperatively necessary by business, men and manufacturers of both cities named, as well as these of Phil adelphia ; also the producers and dealers throughout the Seuth and West. Mr. Rebert Garrett returned te Baltimore Tuesday night and was at his pest yester day at Camden station, but was uncom municative with reference te the object of his recent visit te Philadelphia. The Times of that city, in speaking qf the sub ject yesterday, said : "There is something very important afoot in relation te the effort of the Balti more & Ohie railroad te reach New Yerk by an independent reute. Rebert Gar rett, the third vice-president of the com pany and its active spirit in the absence of his father in Europe, was in Philadel phia yesterday in conference with Presi dent Gewen, of the Reading railroad, en Mis subject. They were together for three hours. It is understood that the conference was in reference te the way in which a connection can be formed with the Heading railroad without going ever the three-mile Junction read. As the Baltimore & ' Ohie company cares very little for the passenger I uusincss .irum euner new iuif or Philadelphia, but is most interested in the transportation of freight, it is said that a line is te be constructed outside the city, although adding three miles te the distance. On western freight the Balti more & Ohie people think they can coun terbalance this by the shortness of their route te Baltimore. The great aim of the Baltimore & Ohie company is te enter into competition for the tremendous freight business of New Yerk and Philadelphia with the West and Seuth. Their, design, it is reported, should they fail te get into Philadelphia, is te get freight received by the Reading railroad in the city and taken out te the junction of the read which they propose te build. In stock circles th'e opinieu prevail that the Baltimore & Ohie arc neJab9Untially the owners of the Delawtre. Western railroad and its charter, giving the right te build extenj siens. Frem Wilmington comes the defi nite statement that Colonel SIcCemb, the principal owner of the Delaware Western read, has contracted te deliver 4,500 shares te Mr. Garrett, who agrees, in return, that his read will build the line te Phil adelphia and Baltimore. In order te ful fill his contract Cel. McComb is reported te have purchased 1,300 shares from Wm. T. Carter, of this city. Mr. Garrett is also credited with having secured the stock in the" Delaware Western formerly held by Drexel & Ce., R. R. Robinson & Ce. and Elliett. Jehnsen & Ce., two Wil mingten bankers, have been buying up all tUO ISCICWare YCSlru bluck. iucy khu gvb for Col.McCemb. It is also said that a formal transfer of the Deleware Western read was made yesterday te the Baltimore & Ohie company, through its counsel in Wilmington, Levi C. Bird. A nmnrf Mi I A report that Samuel Canby and ethers were eat at Kia- mensi yesterday, making surveys, strengthens the belief that the Baltimore & Ohie people 'mean business.' Mr. Garrett came in a cab direct from tts depot, and after his interview with 5Ir. Gowan returned immediately te Balti more. " Why take these immense doses et nauseat ing mixtnres sold as " Cough Syrups when a lew small desM et Br. Bull's Cough Syrup Will cure your cold. Snort Breatk. O. Bertle, of Manchester. Ontarfe Ce., N. Y., writes : " I obtained immediate relief from the use of Dr. Themas' Kcleotrie Oil. I have had Astnma for eleven years. Have been obliged tesit up all night for tea or twelve nights in succession. I can new sleep soundly all-night en a feather bed, which I had net ben able te de previous te using the Oil." Fer sale by H. B. Cecnran, druggist, 137 and 139 North Queen street, Lancaster, Pa. MEDICAL. PROVERBS. "The Richest Bleed. Sweetest Breath ami Fairest Skin in Hep Bitters.-; "A little Hep Bitters saves big doctor bills and long slckncsss." "That Invalid wife, mother, sister or child can be made the picture of health with Hep Bitters." "When worn down and ready te take your bed. Hep Bitters is what veu need." "Don't physic nnd physic, ler it weakens and destroys, bnt take Uep Hitters, and build up continually." "Physicians et nil schools use and recom mend Hep Bitters. Test them." 'nealth is beauty anil joy Hep Bitters gives health and beauty." "Thereare mete enresmade with linn Rtr. ters than all ether medicines." " When tne brain Is wearied, the nerves 1111 strnngg, the mu-cles weak, use Hep Bitters." "That low, nervous fever, want et sleep and weakness, calls for Hep Bitters.'-' Hep Biticrs Manufacturing Company, Rochester. Xew Yerk, and Terente, Ontario. inarMvdMWF&w KIDNEY WORT. This Oreat Remedy In cither Liquid or Dry Ferm acN at the same timuen thedUe:iscset 1I10 linr, Bew els anil ayes, This combined action yice it wonderful poi a te cure nil diieusex. WHY ARE WE SICK? Jlecause wc allow thtxc ijrtut enjanx te bc come clogged or tertitl. timl jMisune'tts humor are therefore forced into the Meed Hint should be expelled natural!. KIDNEY WORT WILL CORE Biliousness, Piles, CoiintipiiUeu. Kidney Cmnpluintx, Uriimry Ul-wus, Female We.ifcne and Nervuuit IllHerdere, by causing free action of Ihcxa organ ami re storing tneir power te threw off unease. Why snuVr bilious p ihw and aches? Why tormented with Pile-. Constitution? Why frightened ever disordered Kidneys? Why endure nervous or ick lnudaehes? Why have sleepless nights? Use KIDNEV WORT and rejoice in health. 43" It is put up In I'y Vogetablo Ferm, in 45Ttin cans, one package of which makes six Wquarts of medicine. 49 Alse In Liquid Ferm, very Concentrated SS-ler the convenience nt these who cannot 4S readily prepare It. It acti with equal Em'ctjlicicncy in cither form. GET IT OF YOUR DRUGGIST. PRICE, SI. WELLS, RICHARDSON & CO., Prep's, Burlington, Vt. (Will send the dry pe-d-paid.) dec 27 lyd&w4 N1 IGHT mSPKXSAKY. The nronrieter el the IiANCASTKR CITY PHARMACY, corner of North Oiiuciu ;md Orange streets, wishes te notify his patrons and the public that he has opened a NIGHT DISPKNSARY, at his resilience, anil is therefore prepared te nil any prescriptions and lurni-di any medi cines in cases et uihergenev. ANDREW G.FRKY, 4:Vi West Orange street. LOCHEirS Renowned Cough' Syrup ! A Pleasant, Safe, Speedy and Sure Remedy for Colds, Coughs, Hearsenessr Asthma, Influ enza, Soreness el the Threat and Cheid, Bronchitis, Whooping Cough, Spit ting of Bleed, Inflammation of the I.nngs,aiHall Di-easesef the Chestaud Air Passages. This valuable preparation combines all the medicinal virtues of thou articles which long experience has proved te se-s the mnnt sate und efficient qualities ter the cure of all kinds of I.nng Diseases. Price 2.1 cents. Pre pared only and sold by CHAS. A. L0CHER, WHOLESALE AND RETAIL DRUGGISTI NO. O KAST KINtS STKKKT. eUI-tld ir 1 THIS USE- COUGH NO' MORE! AMERICAN riJIIIIH mW, A CERTAIN, SAFE AND EFFECTUAL REMEDY FOR COUGHS, COLDS, SOKE 1HR0AT, HOARSENESS, ASTHMA, ISRONUIIITIS, I WHOOPING COUGH, PAIN-IN THE SIDE Oil BREAST, And all Diseases of the THROAT AND LUNGS. Fer the relief of Consumptives in ali stages of the disease. Fer sale only at HULL'S DllUG STORE Ne. 15 WEST KING STREET, aus-lyd LANCASTER. PA. HUOKH AN It STATIONERY. N TEW AI CHOICK STATIONERY, NEW BOOKS AND MAGAZINES, AT L. M. FLYfN'S, Ne. 43 WEST KINO.STIUSKT. Tt.ANK HOOKS. JOM BAER'S SONS, 15 and 17 NORTH QOEEN STREET, LANCASTER, PA Have for sale, at the Lewest Prices, BLANK BOOKS, Comprising Day Beeks. Ledger?, Cash Beeks, Sales Beeks. Bill Beeks. Minute Benk. Re eclpt Beeks, Slcmenuiduni", Opying Beeks, Beeka. inTOjc.. Reks. &c. WRITING PAPERS. 'Foolscap, Letter, Nete, Bill,Sermon, Counting Heuse, Drawing Papers, Papeteries, Ac. ENVELOPES AXD STATIONERY el all kinds, Wholesale and Retail. FAMILY AND TEACHERS' BIBLES, Prayer Beeks, Devotional Beeks, Sunday school Music Beeks. Sumiay-aclioel Libraries. Commentaries. ,te. M18ULEK HOUSIS, (termei ly Cl'irenden.) 113 and HS SOUTH EIGHTH STREET (below Chestnut), PHILADELPHIA, Pa. On the European plan. Meals at ail henrs, at moderate rates.' Jtoeins, 5uc., 75c. nnd il per day. Hetel open all night. ABEL M131ILER A CO., Prep's, Formerly of the Mishler .Heuse, R-adiug. Pa. Harry Stewart supt., Formerly or the St. Clair, Atlantic City. ml3-3md
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