©tntw grmwat. - BELLEFONTE, PA. Tk*Largsit,ChaspMt and Bast Paper PUBLISHED IN CENTRE COUNTY. POPPING THE QUESTION. From Chmutwrt Journal A gentleman had long been paying attention to a young lady to whom ho was very anxious to marry, hut to whom he had never ventured to de clare his passion. When opportunity afforded his courage deserted him, and when ho was resolved to smak, the fair one never could be found alone or disengaged. Driven to desperation, he one day succeeded in accomplishing his purpose in a somewhat remarkable manner at a diuuer party, lo most people, a dinner party would hardly seem the most suitable occasion for overtures of thia description, especially when, as in this instance, the lady is seated at the opposite side of the table from her admirer. The latter, how ever, was equal to the occasion. Tear ing a leaf from his pocketbook, he wrote on it, uuder cover of the table: "Will you be my wife? Write Yes or No at the foot of this.' Calling a servant, he asked him in a whisper lo take the slip —which of course, was carefully folded and iliree- ! ted —to "the ladv in blue opposite." j The servant did as requested ; and the I gentleman, in an agony of suspense, watched him give it to the lady, and j fixed his eyes, with badly disguised . eagerness, to try and judge from her j expression how the quaintly made offer \ was received. He had forgotten one thing—namely, that ladies seldom carry pencils about them at a dinner party. The beloved one was, however, not to be batHed by so trifling an ob stacle. After reading the note calmly, she turned to the servant and said: "Tell the gentleman, Yes." They were married in due course. When Professor A vtoun was wooing Miss Wilson, daughter of Professor Wilson, the famous "Christopher North," he obtained the lady's consent conditionally on that of her father be- ; secured. This Aytoun was much too shy to ask, and he prevailed upon the j young lady herself to conduct the nec-1 essarv negotiations. "\Vc must deal tenderly with his feelings,"said glorious old Christopher. "I'll write my reply on a slip of paja r, aud pin it on the back of your frock." "Papa's answer is on the back of my dress," said Miss Jane as she entered the drawing room. Turning her round the delighted professor read these words: "With the author's compli ments." In Lord Beaconsfield's last novel an eccentric old nobleman poj* the ques tion in the following matter-of-fact language: "I wonder if anything would ever induce you to marry me?" This was evidently intended as a fresh illustration of Lord Montford's ecceu tricity; but it is really much nearer the terms in which the average man proposes, than is the average proposal of the novelist. The Americans, we j know, carry everything to extremes, and we are told that the New York young men have reduced the formula of the critical proposition to a couple of words: "Let's consolidate." Noth ing, however, could he neater or more ingenious than the proposal of the Irishman, who thus addressed the rustic beauty upon whom he had set his affec tions : "Biddy, darlint, they've been telliu' me there's too innny of us in the world. Now, if you an me get the praste to make us two wan, troth an' wouldn't there be wan the I As?" Different customs prevail in differ ent countries in this as in other mat ters. A curious ceremony, for exam ple, is associated with |x>pping the question among the Samoyede* of liussia. When a young Saruoyede de sires to marry, and has come to an un derstanding with the damsel of his choice, he visits her father and with a short stick taps him, and then the mother of the maiden, ou the shoulder. He then demands the girl in marriage, and offers the father and mother u glass of vodka which he has brought with him. As a token ofhis good will, the father drinks the vodka; he tells the young man he has no objection, hut that he must ask the girl's consent. A few days later the young man comes again, this time accompanied by what servants he has, and provided with plenty of vodka. His retinue remain outside while he enters the room and •eats himself hy the side of his lady love. The father hands the young man a glass of vodka ; he drinks half, and hands the half-full glass, under bis left arm, to the girl, who finishes the draught. The father then gives bis daughter a glass of vodka, ami she in like manner drinks half of it, aud presents the remainder, with her left hand under her right arm. to her lover, who drains the glass. After this the father bauds a piece of rnw meat to the young man, who eats it, and then takes a piece front the floor, eats half, and preacnts the other half, under his left arm, to the girl to finish. Khc in turn takes a piece of meat from the floor, eats half, and handa the other half, under her right arm, to the young man to finirh. This extraordinary ceremonial would appear to complete the transaction, ami may lie regarded na aynonymous with our engagement. The feasting and other ritual neces sary to ratify the contract generally take place soon or immediately after- Bard. "So you would not tuko mo to ho twenty ?" said u young lady to her part nor, while dancing thu pollenono even ing. "What would you take nio for tlieu ?" "For better, for worse," re plied he ; and ho wast accepted. Here is another ease in point. Hiding home from the hounds after a famous county meet, a lady observed to her coin pan ion : "Why should we not marry, Sir John?" "Ah!" said Sir John, "that is what I have often thought myself." And married they were. Hon Much Makes a Mun Iticli ! "To he rich," said Mr. Marcy, at one time Secretary of State, "required only a satisfactory condition of mind. One man may he rich with a hundred dollars, while another, in the possession of millions, may think himself poor, and if necessities of life are enjoyed by each, it is evident that the man who is best satisfied with his possession is the richest." To illustrate this idea, Mr. Marcy related the following anecdote ; "While I was Governor of the State of New York, I was called upon one morn ing, at my office, by a rough speci men of a backwoodsman, who stalked in and commenced conversation by inquiring 'if this was Mr. Marcy ?' I replied that was my name. 'Hill Mar cy?'asked he. I nodded assent. 'Used to live in Southport, didn't ye?' I answered in the affirmative, and began to feel a little curious to know who my visitor was, and what he was driving at. 'That's what I told 'cm!' cried the backwoodsman, bringing bis hand down on his thigh with tremendous force. 'I tohl 'em you was the same Bill Marcy that used to live iu Houth- Fort; but they wouldn't believe it. and promised the next time 1 came to Albany to come and sec you, aud find out for sartin, Why, you know mo, don't you, Bill?' I didn't exactly like to iguore his acquaintance altogether, but for the life of me 1 couldn't recol lect having seen him before, and so I replied that he had a familiar counte nance, hut that I was not able to call him by name. 'My name is .luck Smith,' answered the backwoodsman, and we used to go to school together thirty yeais ago, in the little red school house iu old Southport. Well, times have changed since then, and you have become a great man—and got rich, I suppose ? I shook mv head,and was going to contradict that impres sion, when he broke iu ; 'Oh ! yes, you are, I know vou are rich ; no use dc nyiug it. You was comptroller for — for a long time ; and the next time we heatd of yon, you was Governor. You must have lia-l a heap of money, and I am glad of it—glad to see you getting along so smart. You was always a smart lad at school, and 1 knew that you would come to something.' 1 thanked him for his good wishes ami opinion, hut told him that political life did not pay so well as he imagin es!. 'I suppose,' said 1, 'fortune has smiled upoo you since you left Souih port ?' 'Oh ! yes,' said he, 'I haiu'tjgot nothing to complain of. I most say I have got along right smnrt. You see, shortly after you left Southport, our whole family moved up into Vermont, and put right into the woods, and I reckon our family cut down tuoro trees, and cleared more land, than any other iu the whole State.' 'Ami so you have made a good thing of it. How much do you consider yourself worth ?' 1 asked, feeling a little curious to know what he considered a fortune, as he seemed to be so well satisfied with his. 'Well,' he replied, 'I don't know exactly how much I am worth ; but I think (straightening himself up) if ail my debts were paid I should be worth three hundred dollars clear cash!' He was rich, for he was satis fied." KM KM KIMI IKS OF BILLETS. At the battle of IVsch Orchard when McClellan was makinghis change of base, a Michigan infantryman fell to the ground as iff hot stone dead, and was lett lying in u heap as the regi ment changed position. The hall which bit him (iret struck the barrel of hi# gun, glanced and struck a but ton of his coat, tore the watch out of hi* vest pocket, and then struck the man just over the heart, and was stojr ped there hy a song book in his shirt pocket, lie was unconscious lor three quarter* of an hour, ami it waa a lull month before the black and blue spot disappeared. At I'ittsburg Landing, a member of the I'Jth Michigan Regi ment of infantry stooped to give a wounded man a drink from his can teen. While in the act, a bullet, aim ed at bis breast, struck the canteen, turned aside, passed through the body ofn man and buried itself, in the leg of a horse. The canteen was split open, and dop|>cd to the ground in halves. At the second buttle of Bull Run as a New York Infantryman was passing his plug of tobacco to a comrade, a bullet struck the plug, glanced off, and buried itself in a knapsack. The tobacco was rolled up like a ball of shavings, and carried a hundred feet away. Jhrectly iu tholineof the bul let was the head of a lieutenant, and bad not the bullet been deflected, he would certainly have received it. As it was he had both ear* tilled with to bacco dust, and had to be led to the rear. At Brandy Station, one of Cus ter's troopers had his left stirrup strap cut away by a grap-shot, which passed between bis leg and the horse, blister ing his skin as if a red-hot iron hnd been used. He dismounted to ascer tain the extent of his injuries, and as he bent over a bullet knocked bis hat off and killed hiii horse. In tho same fight was a trooper who had suffered several days with a toothache. In a hand-to-hand fight he received a pistol ball in his right cheek. It knocked out his aching double-tooth and passed out of the left hand corner of his mouth, taking along n part of an up per tooth. The joy of being rid of the toothache was so great that the troop er could not he made to go to the rear to have his wound dressed. An ob ject, however trifling, will turn the bullet from its true course- This was shown one day at the remount eanip in Pleasant Valley. They had u „bull pen" there in which about five hun dred bouuty jumpers and other hard cases were under guard. Once in a while one of these men would make a break for liberty. Kvery sentinel in position would open fire, and it did not matter in the least it the man ran tow ard the crowded cantp. On this oc casion the prisoner made for the camp and as many as six shots were tired at hint without effect. One of the bul lets entered the tent of a captain in the 12th Pennsylvania cavalry. He was lying down, and the course of the bullet would have buried itself in his chest. Fortunately for him, a candle by which he was reading, sat on a stand between him and where the bullet entered. This was struck and cut sipinrc in two, and the lighted end dropped to the floor without being snuffed out. The hall was deflected, and buried in the pillow under the officer's head, passed out of that and through his tent into the one behind it |Hissed between two men and brought up ugaiust a camp kettle. There is in Detroit, Mich., u man who was woun ded five times in less thun ten minutes, at Fair Oaks. The first bullet enter ed his left arm ; the second gave him u scalp wound ; the third hit him in the foot; the fourth buried itself in his shoulder; the fifth entered his right leg. While he was being curried to to tbe rear, the fir.-t two men who took hint were killed. While his wounds were being dressed, an exploded shell almost buried liitn under an avalauce ofdirt. lit being removed further to the rear, a runaway ambulance horse carried him half a mile and dumped hitn out, and yet he is seemingly hale nad hearty, and walks without a limp. The Work of I'iuntlnir WhitetUh In the (•reat lake*. Cbktfn Timn At 4 o'clock this afternoon the I'ni* ted States fish-car, J. Trash Kllis in charge, arrived in Milwaukee. The car is continually moving, under the direction of the *u|KTiutendents of the various I'nited States fish-hatcheries over the country, depositing spawn of different species nt many point*. At present the car is under the direction of Hupt. Clark, of the Norlhville hatchery, atid is carrying over the country white-fish spawn for planting in the great lakes. So far, under the direction of Mr. Clark, 2,000,000 fish have been deposited in Lake Michi gan at Sheboygan,2,ooo,ooo at llacinc, and 2,000,000 at Muskegon. The hatchery nt Norlhville yet contains about 14,000,000 of the yonng white fish. Of these 4,000,000 will IK? do poited at Oswego, N. Y., 4,000,000 in Krie, nt Sandusky, ()., and the others at different pciut* in Hu ron and Michigan not yet decided upon. In conversation with Hupt. Clark he said to the Time* corresjHn dent that they were doing a big work in whitefish, California trout, and brook trout. ~ At present the Xorthvillc hatchery contain* about 160,000 Cali fornia trout ova, and some .'IO,OOO pa rent fish or stock of that species which furnish the egg*. Of brook trout that hatchery has lately sent out 200,000 ova, and the pnt season has distri buted over the I'liitcd States 22,500,- 000 whitefish spawn. Mr. Clark de sired to say that the railroad com panics, especially tin Michigan Cen tral, and Milwaukee, laike Shore Jc Western, and the Chicago dc North western, were playing a noble part in transporting the car free of charge, Mr. Kllis, who has charge, very kindly showed the correspondent over the ear during the brief stay in the city, which was only long enough for the car to be transferred to the Chicago train, occupying about ton minutes. The car is a Hidgcway refrigerator, the best the government could secure. On it Mr, Kllis makes his permanent home. It is fitted up for his and his assistants' accommodation, and n cook is carried. The kitchen is on the same plan a* the palace dining cars, and the lierths are comfortable. The car can be kept at a given temperature, winter and summer. In the summer several tons of ice are stored in a vault for that purpose. Overhead is a watcrtank which contains the supply needed to keep tho young piece# in fresh baths. The portion containing the fish is thirty feet in length, nnd contains a number of can# for their reception. These are connected with the fresh water tank hy means of tubes, and are constantly kept full of clear water. The car has just returned from carry ing a number of carp spawn through Texas, and, in fact, it runs over the entire country from Maine to Texas. From Milwaukee the car proceeded direct to the Norlhville hatchery via Chicago. There it will again be sup plied with s|mwu aud recommence its rounds at Chicago. THE best expression of faith iu Christ is to follow hiin. You cannot go beyond this. A furious Marriage. Fourteen Year* of Age ant/ fur (he tSeeotul Time it Urtt/e. Wwtoftp, M 4., Dlipalrb to llif Tim•. The many remarkable crime* and romances which during the pnst three years have rendered the Pastern shore of Maryland and Virginia so notori ous have just been supplemented by an incid'-ut which fully sustains the reputation of the shore for strange oc currences. Last week Klla Kbores, age 14, was married to Ilowunl K. White, aged Iff, of Damo Quarter District. The interest attached to this ceremony will be apparent when it is stated that the girl was the di vorced wife of her stepfather, Sydney Shores, aged 45. On February 5, lXXtt, 'ho Key. Mr. Itowen married Shores and the girl, then 12 years old. • >o the flth of the same month Shores was arrested at his home, in Dames Quarter, and the Rev. Mr. Howcn was arreted in Mi. Vernon and taken before .Justice Robinson, of Pritiees Anne, and committed to jail in default of bail. Shores hud married his un cle's widow nod site hail not been dead more than two mouths when lie induced Kiln, his wife's daughter by her first husband, to marry him, us stated. The child was too young to know any better and no blame was attached to her. In this State a penalty of $"><)() is iiu|>osed upon a man tor marrying his step-daughter, and the minister is lined $1,500 for performing the ceremony, Doth Shores and Rowen were indicted at the April term of court, 1880. Ruth trials took place during the same term. Sho res was convicted and u title of |SOO wus ini|K>ed upon him —he to stand committed until fine and costs were paid. The convict wa- a poor man and,it looked as though the groom would pas* the remainder of his days in jail. Fortune favored him, how ever. and he escaped from jail on May 20,18x0, Mr. Rowen was tried and acquitted on the ground that he did not know the girl or the affinity exist ing between her and Shore*. The mar riage of Shores and Klla was annulled by the court. It will be seen that on the satnc dnyof the same month two years after her first marriage Klla Shores was for the second lime mar ried although only 14 years old. THEY MET BY < IUM K. About a year ago, says the Iui*- ville (,'ourirr Journal, a young man came to this city froru one of the coun ties boardcring on the Kentucky river, ami entered into the practice of his profession here. He came to the city because there was more of a field for labor before him and more material with which to build up his fortune, but notwithstanding all this he felt a pang of regret in leaving his country home, because, a* is usual in such cases,there was a girl in the caw. On a large farm adjoining the little town in which he resided, lived a very bright, hand some, and intelligent young lady, the daughter of a wealthy farmer, and con ceded to be one of the belles of the county. The young man lava me ac quainted with her. and, as others had done before him, fell a victim to her charms, and became a worshiper le --fore the shrine of her beauty. The first visit he paid her was soon follow ed by a second, until he became a reg ular visitor at her father's home, and observer* began to comment on the ad vantages of the match and their pros pects. The time finally caroc when the young man was to leave his home for the city, and, after many affection ate partings from his sweetheart ami a promise olnained from her to be true to him, he left, with the understand ing that a regular correspondence would l>e kept tip. This promise was adhearcd to until a!>nut six months ago, when for some reason or other, she failed to answer one of his letters. Thinking it might have been mislaid in the mails, he wrote ngain, aud his letter was answered in |>ereoii by the Voting lady's father, who uufolded to bim the terrible tale that his daughter had run awav from home about a week previous, in company with anoth er man, and no intelligence could be received of her wheraboiit*. The shock waan awful one,and the young man wa almost prostrated, but recov ered aud joiner! in the search of the father for bis faithless daughter ami sweetheart. They succeeded in tracing her to Ft. Louis, where they lost all trace of her, aud gradually she Itegan to slip from his memory, ami the story of his first love was almost for gotteu when it was brought hark to him with startling force on last Tues day night. About 8 o'clock two men, oneol whom was the man spoken of above, were walking along Jefferson street, when they came in front of a cigar store. A proposition was made that they go in and get a cigar, which was accedes! to, and they entered the stare. No one happened to be In the store at the time, ami the young man stepped to the lace curtained door lending into the sitting room aud opened it. The movement probably cost him mom pain than any other event in his life. Heated at one end of the room directly op|osite the door was a handsome young woman, appar ently about 20 yeara old, with black hair, large brown eyes, and a very pretty fecc. As the door opened she partially rose from her seat to greet the visitor, when her eyes felt on the face of the young man stand ing in the door. With a startled cry of surprise she turned to leave the room, but the movement and the cry attracted his attention, and ho rati across the room and catching her by the arm, pulled her face around to the light, and looked at her. The one look satisfied him. and releasing her arm, he stood for fully a minute as if dazed, and then walked out of the room without saying a word. He had re cognized in the features the one whom he had loved and who had betrayed hitn. The young man has written to the girl's father, informing hitn of her whereabouts, and tf she does not be come frightened and leave, another scene will no doubt occur. A bride's Strange Freak. iShamtrin./ heath That She Jltight Et'ipe With Her .1/ujir Tear her. A very peculiar proceeding was re lated to tne to-night effecting a gallant officer of the army, brother of a lieu teuaut at Fort Mead, ami one out of which an interesting romance might be woven. Ido not care to give tbe gentleman's name, hut will state that be is a nephew of a prominent Uniou general of the reixdliou period and ex member of Congress. A year or so ago lie became enamored with a hand some and accomplished Kastern lady, wooed and won her. Their honey moon was all that loving hearts could make it, ami their future gave promise of grcatjatid continuous happiness. The lady was blest with more than ordina ry musical talent, but uncultivated, and to perfect the divine art she was s