vr : IIXS tor-IPIDXLIOL OX. Bastaftsso .11srpszsa W lOW** enli7 TharklAT Mo bir of The Dave pet a ti nton.. ai'Aatertiainglik stl cues estftth*Of sabsteai. tiia to the paper. . SPECIAL NOTICES Inserted st Minas obis ye? , ne or first insertion. and ins camyenllCt far subsequent insertleom - • LocA L lancES, sane style as resdleg tuner. ..„ Tur_sTr CMS & ADvERTIEEMENTS mill be: bassztoil Is) he following table of *HO lw tir 2m zn _I Cm_ I,lyr inch I8L 5 ?III LOO I 5. 0 01 &OS 110.001 IS 2 Inches I too' . • ii, 2 4 1 - 07 12.50 14.00 10.00 17.00 I 20.00 130.011 Indies j 3.00 6.50 1•11.001111.25 25.00 I 63.00 column 15.00 112.05 11&00 16100 170.05145.00 , 4 110.0020.0017&o0o column I 20.00 140.00 I 60.00 00.00 1 71001 11110 Administrator's and Ezennior's Nrdbmai 12 t' hub: ; or's Notices. $1 BO ; Businees CsediktiTo MO. (Per yeti . ) $5, additiona l lines $1 each, yearly advertisers are ennead tolipurterly changes. Iv:mina advertisements Maths paid for Madames. o e mantions of AserodatiOns ; : Commurdoediona .1 Invited or individual tautest. and notices of Bar nue. and Deaths. exceeding Aye lines, see charged TEN mere per line. The Rreorrnm having a larger circulation than ell the panne In the courityconatdued. makes it the best advertising medium in Northern Penneytnnia. ' /On MIMING of every kind. is Plain and Taney ; niers, done with neatness and iakta. HandbMs. Blanks, Cards, Pamptilete , at 111. Statements, Se. e very variety and style, printed' at the aborted notice. The Rxrowna Ogles is sell supplied with rower Presses. a good assortment of new type, iMel everything in the Printing line can be executed in the moat artistic manner and at the lowest rata. TERMS INVARIABLY BASIL 81783NESS MOM C. M. TINGLEY, Licensed Atte . 'font,. /lame, Pa. An calls promptly attend ..a Willa /370 1 BLACK, , General Fire, Life, ft. and Accidental Iniatranet .Agest. 'Mee at. 'I Brown's Hotel. Wysluking. Pa. jai:l2:7o-6m TTWALLACE FEELER; ROM. SIGN AND FRESCO PAINTER, Tow:Le4. Sept. 15, 18:10-yr .13EP 1 VINC r ENT, INSURANt EE Al.ENTS..—Office formerly oeenplad by Mere= Morrow. one door eolith of Ward House. I. C IMP. maylo27o w. s. wmcErr. IFOWLER, REAL ESTATE . DEALIAL No. 160 Waahington -Street. be. LaSalle and Wells' Streets, Chicago, Illinois. llNtate purchased and sold. Inveatments made zo.! Mosey Loaned. fay 10,'70. DRESS - 11A.KING, PATTERN 17 CUTTING AND FETING in all fashionable on short notice. ROOMS in Mercur's New Maat-st., over Porter. k Kirby's Drag Store. MRS. H. E GARVIN. i , 73 nla. Pa.. April 13. 1870. TTAIR WORK OF ALL KINDS, Fuel, as FANTIVIIES, CURLS, BRAIDS, FRU ITTS, Ae., madein the best manner and latest style. at it Ward Hensoßarber Shop. Terms reasonable. Towanda, Dec. 1..11469. FRANCIS E. POST; PAINTER, Towanda. ,Pa.. with ten years experienoe. is cos fid.nt be can cite tint bed satisfaction to Painting, firalning,•Staintiag. Glazing. Papering, &c. va_ Particular attention paid to jobbing to the april9, TOHN DUN - FEE, BLACKSMITH, MONROETON, PA., , paya particular attention to Buggies, Wagons, Sleighs. ka., Tire set and repairinv done.on short notice. Work and charges gnlaraiateed satisfactory. 12,15,60. MOS PENNYPACKER, HAS again established himself in the TAILORING hrSINESS. Shop over Rockwell's Store. ;Work of t very description done in the latest styles. • Towanda, April 21, 1870.—tf ERAYSVILLE WOOLEN MILL Thy nedersinned wonld respectfully annonnce to l':.. 1 , 111,11 c that he keeps constantly on hand Woolen c C.saaimeres. Flatineht.'Y'arts, and all kinds at le.lenale and retail. HAIGH k BEOADLEY, Ang.lo:7o. Proprietor. OH YES,! OH!-AUCTION !-AUCTION 1 7 A. MOE, Li sea Auctioneer. kll calla promptly tt endod to and satlstietioli na-mitee,L Call or address, A. It. Mot, Moaroeton, county, Pa. 0ct.26, 69. ki IFFORD'S NATIONAL PAIN r Killer add Life on, are the Great Family. -ides that find a welcome in every home as a n•ret gm - Remedy for more , of the common ilk of at , than any other medicine in the' market. Sold i.y .loakra in medicine generally. Manufactured 'r. GITFOrtD. Chicago, pl., had 143 Men et. ,I, , I:NELLSVILLE, N.Y. March 10.'70-6• S. t jIITSSELL'S GEI 4 TERAL i I.\st - I:4.VCE AGENCY MEM OOD TEMPLARS rnefit AssoclitUon. M.l,ll.rshir, fee to secure at death $2,000 $lO 00 Annual Assessment.. - .. ... 200 )lortuary Assessment, age from 15 to 55 , 1 10 .". 20 to 45 160 .• ~ .. 46 to 60 210 O.F. JONES,•Wysluslrig, Ps, • ~. u, rat Agent for Bradforil county. Local Agents —: .. .1. 0 Sept. 29.'70. THE CONTINENTAL LIFE IN- A_ ...ranee Company of Hartford, Conn. Pay , nt., and application fnr insurance to be made at 11 , 1 SrEvEses otrice, Hain at., Towanda. WILLIASI BRACKEN, General agent. t. 79:70.-131;M4 B LACKSMITHI N G ! completed my new brick shop, near my r - lence on Main-street. I,am new prepared to do ite. tmusches. Particular attention paid Irons and edge tools. Having spent many ,rs in tbis community, in Aida business, I trust be a au ffirent.guarantee of my receiving a liher -•lareount of the public patronage. HENRY ESSEN - WINE- Towaßele, Nov. 3. 18119.—t1 1 TENTS! .T. N. DEXTER, Solicitor of Patents, TIROAF STREET, WAVERLY. N. Y. .I.4res drawings, specification]; and all papers • ••.r. lln making and properly conducting Appli• for PArEnrs in the UNITED STATES 11111013; ri Ck.rNtri:s. CIIABLIES IN CrICECC •uL AND NU ATTOLINEY . I3 TEZTO Iva I.:NTU. PATENT i• , • rAI,F.II. I$G9-if STEVENS, COUNTY SUR vr:Oll, Camptown. Bradt rd Co.. PL. Thank. 14i zo les many employers foriasst patrol:me. would ffitlly inform the citizens of Bradford County ht• 1. pr.•p•tred to do any work in hisline of busi c that may bo entrusted to him. Those having ' would do well to Mere their property Furroyel before allowinr tbemßelVeli to by their,neighbors. All work warrant- so far u the nature of the caw will per. unpateuted lands attended to as soon as • ••..7.,Li, are obtained. 0. W. STEVENS. !. DYEING ESTABLISH VEIN MEV^ Tho• subscriber takes this method of Informing the • X 1,1•• ~t To-vanda and vicinity that he has opened Estabhslopent In Col. Miens' new build- NO. I.GG MAIN STREET, . ,!.. ...it, Gen. Patton'sl, and that he Is now pre ptr. 1 to do all work In hie ltrie, !meta aa'CLEINLNG aL.I cuLORING ladtes'oand gentlemen's garments. kc., in the neatest manner and on the mod terms. Glee me a call and examine my ik. \ ITEN - 11.1" BEDDING. 23, I§6o. THE UNDERSIGNED HAVE A opened 11 Banking House in Towancla.underihe ~ .aa• of G. F. MASON k CO. a a- Thy are prepared to draw Bills of Riclunge, and make collections In New York. Philadelphia and an .-tons of the United States, as also England, Ger. awri. and France. To loan money. reoeive deposits, x.. 1 Lo do a general Banking business. F. Mason was one at the late firm of Laporte, ,- k Co., of Towanda, Pa., and hie knowledge o f t h. i.nniness men of. Bradford and adjoining counties i having been In the banking business for about years. make this house &desirable one through to make collections. G. F. MASON, .1 . ..Ands. Oct. 1. 1R 8. A. 0. MASON. BRADFORD COIINTY REAL ESTATE AGENCY, Ii 11. Mcr._EA.N, REAL ESTATE Atamsrr /!::able Farms, Mill Prowl:los, City and Torn otv for lade. ?artier baring property for sale win And it to their L•lvantage by leaving a description of the same, 'with rn,,, of sale at this agency, ea parties are constantly ~,, pnriug for farms, &c. B. McXEAN, Real Estate Agent. nvor Mason's Banc; Towanda, Pa. 7./. 1E57. NEW FIRM! Ell - GOODS 4ND £OIV PRICES Kr MONr.OETON, PA. TRACY HOLLON, Dealers in Groceries and Provisions, Drugs , 1•1 Medicines, Kerosene Oil, Lamps. Chimneys, :•• 4‘. Dye time's, Paints. Oils. Varnisti, Yankee No. Toh*cco. Cigars and Saud. Pure Wines and of the best quality, for 'medicinal purposes Goods Pula at the very lowett.prices. Pre. 4 . :T ` axons carefully compounded at all hours of the , Y and night Glee us a call. TRACY & HOLLON F.`a... nice 24. 1869-Iy. p R IC E .VST—CASCADE 311T,Ts Ivr sack " " hundred lbs " " barrel 890 nasally done at once..as the ca .,. -..ty of the mill is sufficient !or s large amount of %rt. i H. B. ECOHA.IIL o e:uptown, July 21. 1870. YerVICE is hereby give that theta, i vartnctsliip •lat Ely Existing wader th silent or M..xxx.E a Casa:man bas been dissolved by of - Mr...Manley. Tim boots and amounts firm are in my bands and meet be settled oxfowta v:111 be made. it.tor., Oct. 14.'70. W. R. MANUEL THE REST PlrnlT JARS IN USE at ItIcCADE C11:11103. S. W. .A.I4V0111:5 VOLUME XXXI. -:FAMES' AND , CoussztLos - AT LAW. TORIZiaI; . • I " TUX. FOYLE, ATTORNEY, AT •V 31 WV; Tainade. - Pa.„ Office with =Mean Smith, acrath eldeMereue. Block. April 14.10 aEORGE MCMONTANYE, AT ILA TOWS AT. LAIC Offico:-coraer of lialntand .Pine Streets, opposite Poiter'S Drug Store. - V" B. XE . LLY, DENTIST.. OF • nee over Wickham Elr Black% Towanda. Pa. May 2d, '7O. DRS. ELT '&. TRACEY, associate practitioners. permanently located.Borßoßtoo. Bradford co!inty. lea. _ roayslo.3m• DR H. WEST4N;•DENTIST.,-L Odias in Pattina'a Mock, over Gore's Drug and Chemical Rom jaa 1, •ea P. WILLD3TON. -LAD lerrotszy AT LAW, TOWANDA. Booth idde of Uncurl; New Block, up plaice. April 21. •70—tf. A B. MoRE AN, • ATTORNEY AZD 6 01 :71XMLLM AT LIM Tcnnuidi.Pa. Par. court. inmU . laid to btoduess In the Orptmati 701720.'611. N v IL CARNOCHAN, ATTOR- NrlT AT Lav,ODistrict Attorney fortDrad. ford County). Troy. Pa. tolleFttoas =de and PiomPt -17 remitted. febls.'64—tL JOHN N. CALIFF, ATTORNEY £T L&w. Towanda. P. Particulaiatention gtv. en to Orphans' Court business. Conveyancing and Collections- iffir Moe at the Register and Becor. dorm office, south of the Court Howe. . Doe. 1, 1864. 0 H. WARNER, Physician and a Burgeon, LeHamill% Bradford Co.. Pa. All calls promptly attended to. - Office drat door month of Leßayaville Honor. dept. 15, 1870.-yr LII BEACH, M. D.„ Physician . and SUrgem. Towanda. Pa. Particular atten tion paid to all Chronic Diseases, and Diseases of Females. Owe at his residence on Weston street, east of D'A. Overton's. n0v.11,139. OVERTON & ELSBREE, Am- NET'S AS Liar. Towanda. PL. haring entered into copartnership, offer their professional services to the ptibt a Special attention given to business In the Orp 'sand Register's Courts. spll4lo NLERC:r& • DAVIES, ATTOR ,I=B iar um, Towanda, Pa. The tinders's:nd having associated themselves together in the practice of Law, offer their profesidonal ao vlees to the public. LUSHES 11fERCUB.. . W. T. DAVIES. March 9, 1870. A. St B. M. PECK'S LAW a OFFICE. Main street, opposite the Court Roam Towanda. l'a. C 132363 BEN. MOODY, PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON, Offers his professional eon ices to the people of Wy eluting and vicinity. Office and residence at A. J. Lloyirs,Sllmech street. Ang.lo,lo TOIM W. MIX, ATTORNEY AT el LAW. Towanda, Bradford Co., Pa. GENERAL INSUEAI(CE AGENT. Particular attention paid te Collections and 611phaus' Court lumina& Offico—Etercur's New Block, north aide Public Square. apr. 1. 'SD. DR DUSENBERRY, would an nonnee that to compliance with the request of his numerous friends, he is new prepared to admin ister Nitreus Oxide, or Laughing Gas, for the, pain less extraction.citeeth. Leftaysville, May 3,1870.—1 i DOCTOR 0. LEWIS, A GRADII ate of the College of •Irlsysicians and Surgeons," New York city, Class 184 S-4. gives erselnsive attention to the practips of his profession. Office and residence en the eastern elope of Orwell illy, adjoining Henry Howe's. , kin 14, 76(t. TOWANDA, PA. - MUTUAL DR. D; D. SMITH, Dentist, has Purchased G. H. Wood's_ property. between Mercutoirßlock and the Elwell House, where he bas located his office. Teeth extracted without pain by use of Ras. Towanda. Oct. 20; 1070.—yr. Ci.,.REEINTWOOD COTTAGE.—This VI well-known house, having recently, been refit ted and supplied with new furniture, will be found I pleasant retreat for pleasure seekers. Board by the week or month on reasonable terms. E. W. NEAL, Prop'r. Greenwood, April-20, 1870.—tf WARTILHOUSE, TOWANDA, PA. On Main Street, near the Cote. Hansa. C. T.. SMITH, Proprietor. 12331231 FrENLPERANCE HOTEL!-Situa tedJL on the north-west corner of Main and Elizi beth streets, opposite Bryant's Carriage Factory. Jurymen and others attending court will IsPoot. ally find it to their advantage to patronize the Taro t , penance Hotel. S. M. BROWN. Propr. Towanda, Jan. 12. 1870.—1 y, DINING ROOMS IN CONNECTION WITH THE BAKERY, Near the Court/louse. We are prepared to feed the hungry at all times of the day and evening. Oysters and Ice Crew:li in their seasons. March 30. 1870, D. W. SCOTT k. CO. - L - I,LWELL HOUSE, TOWANDA, _LI PA. JOHN C. WILSON Having leased this House, to now ready to accommo date the travelling:public.- •Ico pains norexpenso will be spared to give satisfaction to those who may give him a ea& WBorth side et the public squire, east of afer- .„ cur's new block. R MSEERFIELD CREEK HO TEL Having purchased and thoroughly refitted this old and well-known stand. formerly kept by Sheriff Orif. fie, at the mouth of Rummerfleld Creek, is ready to give good accommodations and satisfactory treatment to all who may favor him with a call. Deo. 23, BGB—tf. M . BAIST P T S 0 HO R USE IN TOWANDA, popular' TWs ote! having been throughly fltted Proprieto r. and re paired. and tarnished throughout with new and elf,. gant Furniture, will be open for the reception of guests, on SATIJADAY, MAT 1, 1869. Neither expense nor pains has been spared in rendering this House a model hotel in all its arrangements. A superior quality Old Burton Ale, for invalids. Just received. April 28. 1869. A.MERICAN HOTEL, . BRIDGE STREET, TOWANDA, PA. Thie,Llotel having been leased by the subscriber, Las been repainted, papered, and refurnished throughout, with new Yurnituri4tedding, kc. Table will be supplied with the -best the market af fords. and the Bar with choicest brands of Ltspaors. This house now offers the comforts of a home at MODIMATE PRICER. Jurymen and others attending Court. will find this house a cheap and comfortable place to stop. Goad stabling attached. sug,lo,lo NEW PLANING ItTTJd MATCSILNG. RE-SAW:MG, MOLDINGS. At the old Auld of 11. 11. Ingham's Woolen Factory and flaninfll, In •• CAMYTOWN, PEN.N . A. A HEAVY SIX ROLL PLAN.NG ANL, MATCHING in charge ct an exporters:ed . lileeliania and builder. the public may expect a GOOD JOII t ETEIVZ- MIK From the meat enlargement of tidewater power. work con be done at all ReILIOIIII of the year and anon ae sent in. In connection with the eaw.mill wean able to famish bine at sawed Dauber to order. • EMMAUS DOSWOUTII. Camptciwn, May 13, 1830.-47 WYALUSING ACADEMY. The Fall Term will commence on the first Mon day of Septemlber.llB7o, and continue 12 weeks TERMS—For Common $4 00 For Higher Ei3glish and Classics... . .. 500 • •-•-•-" DAVD ang.l743w Principal. PO THE LAD7S AND CHlLD rmr_or /alma. xelr MILLINERY ANN DRESS AND CLOAK I MAKING ESTABLISHMENT. • $2 00 4.00 PAT17:13711 07 ALL MEE LATEST SITU.. •Z . gOOMiI ot - CT Post Offlce—lira. Hoyi.• old stand. MBEI. MARY A. WthENER, Athens, Dec. 20, DM.. Agelth AA FULL ASSORTMENT OF Duro and CANNED nom, at Marcb 10, Ha LONG & KEELER N. 'lint; GEM FRUIT JARS; THE I art" whelessbi and retell. July I. WWI i MU - -4, I.‘ • • • Hotels. PETER LAN-DKESSER, 11. G. GOFF, .o:9prktur MACHINE 7` r*tt.4;:kft . it =BB leluttb IP WE iivotris):" wi Would tint cheek the speaker, - • Winn be Soils .a neighbor's fame, , we wated but help the erring Ere we utter words of blame ; '• ' • If we-would, how many might we Turn from paths of sin and shame. • • .] the wrong that might lie righted If we would but Roo the way 1 Ah, the pains that might be ligliton Every hour iind every day, If we would but hear the pleadingse. Of the hearts that go'astray. Let us step outside the stronghold • Of our selfishness and pride ; Let ua lift ourfainting *ethers, Let us strengthen ore we chide; Lotus, ere we blame the fallen, Hold a light to cheer and guide hoW blessed--ah, how blessed Earth wound be, if we but try ' Thus Wild and right the weaker, Thus to'cleck each brother's sigh; ; Thus to' walk in duty's pathway To our better life on high. In each life however lowly. There are seeds of mighty good; 80, we shrink from sounds appalling With a timid," If we could ;" But God, who judgeth all things, Knows the truth is "if we would." 7ttistellaneous. DR. SPENCER'S CRIME. I was sitting alone in my:, office, half dozing over an interminable ar ticle on defective nutrition in the last Medical Review. The fire in the grate was low, the night was stormy, and the clock was on the stroke of eleven. I *as just about to turn off the gas and retire, for being a bachelor I slept in a room connected with my office, when there was a pull at nij bell. I started up suddenly, for this was something new. Middlebury was a decorous sort of place, and people usually managed to be taken sick at seasonable hours. Old Mrs. jOome had been threat ening to die for the past five • years, and at every visit I paid her she in formed me solemnly that when the decieive momet did come she desired me to be present. But as nothing ailed the old lady beyond now and then indigestion from too much high living, I had never yet been called upon to be present at her death. New, I . though, it must be that Mrs. Jerome is going. I took up my night-lamp and went to the door.. 4 str o n g gust, of wind, sleety wind, nearly extinguished the light, Lint shading it with my hand I dimly discerned the fOrm of a wo man. "Come in," said I; holding open the door, but , she declined with a - gesture of impatience.' - • "You must come out," she replied in a sharp, imperative tone,t" and be quick about it." I put on my overcoat without de mur, locked the surgery door, and stepped out into the storm. As I did so, the woman laid - a firm hind on my term, and putting her face close to Mine, said: "Dr. Lockwood, can you keep a secret ?" " I think so, madam." "Swear it." "Is,this secret of yours of prpfo- sional character ? That is, is` anything you wish to confide to me as a medical man?" "It is." "Very well„then, I swear it . " "That is right. A man respects an oath, though why he should, is a a mystery, since most men's mouths_ are running over with*them." " Whither are you taking me, and for what purpose " To Clifton House, to see the mis tress." I started. Clifton House was the old mansion recently taken by - Dr., Spencer, a stranger to every one in Middlebury. Spencer was tall, dark, rather distinguished looking man, i who had hung out -his sign n_ the villiage only a few doors above mine, but as yet he had got no practicii. He was unsocial in the extreme. He avoided his neighbors persist=e ently, and when he did speak he was not likely to attempt prolonging the conversation. He had a wife, it is said, but no ,one ever saw her. - She was an inva lid; and a Miss Melrose—a friend of the family—presided over the estab lishment, and sat at ;the head of the Miss Melrose .vas very beautify!' , and won the admiration of all visited at Clifton House, k ei grace of manner and fasel.,..,ting conversation. "As we walk along," said my com panion, "let me'explaiu to you just what it is necessary you should know. My mistress is ill." "I beg your' pardon—is it Mrs. Spencer or Miss Melrose ?" She laughed bitterly. " Miss Melrose ! I would stab her to the heart sooner than *n her for a mistress! 'My mistress is alady; noble, loyal and of gentle *birth. It is an honor to auy one to serve my mistress." " And she is ill? How lons since?" " Ever since she married him— curse him !" she muttered in a fierce undertone; "but I must not get ex cited. I must tell `my story, or rath er hers. Two years ago, through the desire of her dying father, whom she loved passionately, Alice Hem don became James .Spencer's wife. Before that she was a healthy, bloom ing girl-n-immediatelirtifter the mar riage she began to fall. Do you see tinyihag singular in that, sir?" she asked keenly. "Not necessarily." Let me enlighten you further. Dr. Spencer at one time was engaged to Miss Lucille Melrose, but he broke the engagement, and married my mistress instead. Miss Melrose was poor as Job's turkey; Miss Herndon was an heiress. And Dr. Spencer was deeply in debt and hard pressed by his creditors. Do you see any thing: singular in that ?" • "Perhaps, .Go on." "When my / inistres married Spen xer she was/only seienteen, and she ;had bees tightto obey her father in everything. She was agaßtle af ME TOWANDA; piAprourcCOUNTY,`TA., 4CT6iEt::*lg7oY, LW fectionati child, and; it would have been easy for Spencer to have won her lave. But he did not care for that, it was her 'money he wanted. It paid his debts, it bought him fast . horses, it set his table with costly dishes, and it put it in his power to keep Miss Melrose robed - like a queea. all this' time my mis tress has been slowly but Surely fail ing. And look you, Dr. Lockwood, I believe that she is not dying of disease, but Of—" She lowered her voice a whisper , as she spoke- the word, "POISON r "Impossible!" • This is' a grave 1 charge— " Of poison given her by her hus band, who at her death will have sole control of all her property, and be free to marry ' Him Melrose ! There is no time. to explain , to you in detail theorte-thousand-and-one circumstances which have led me to this belief, for we are - almost at the door. It is never the case that both . Spencer and Miss Melrose are out of the hedge at the same time, or I should have called anotheri . physician before; but to-night they are called' away by the death of Miss Melrose's sister, and will not be back until to morrow. With the consent of my mistress I came for you, and oh, Dr. Lockwood, pray you save, my dear mistress! I nursed her when her mother died and her a helpless infant—all through" her babyhood and her innocent youth she was like an own child to me! and now to see her fading hourly before my eyes ! Good heaven! if I knew beyond doubt that he was guilty, his life should pay the forfeit I" I was already beginning to feel a strong interest in this Mrs. Spencer, although I had never seen ther, and began to take it fOr granted that she was a much abused woman, and like her old nurse I was inclined' to feel a keen animosity for Dr. Spencer, as a man who had inflicted serious wrongs upon a defenceless woman: _ Mrs. Spencer received me in her chataber. It was on the second floor, and was furnished with exquiro, ite elegance. Everything in the room bespoke the taste and delicacy of the occupant. The warm air was fragrant with the faint odor cf helio trope, and glancing around I saw thapurple bloskoms and greenleaves in an alabaster case on the ledge of the south window. She was a woman, who, once seen, could never be forgotten. I have met in my life many beautiful wo men, but never one so lovely. She was tall and slight, with pure ly oval face, large, liquid eyes, and a dash of hectic in her cheeks, which is never seen in any person's counte nance while in perfect health. She received me as I now know - she " did everything; gracefully, and though there was a slight embarrass ment in-her manner when I spoke of illness, she answered my profession al inquiries without hesitation. As for 'myself, I laid wide all false deli cacy, and questione.d her plainly as to her , symptoms.. Mrs Hurd, her nurse, remained in the room, and added many little important items of information. - When she spoke of her husband it was with a hopeless..badness which - distressed me greatly , : Not a breath of suspicion against him in her answersio my questions, and I felt sure that at present she knew nothing of what Mo. Hurd .had such serious apprehensions. Was glad that it was se, for with her finely strung organism it might have produced serious results. I made my examinatiiin of the-pa tient as close as I could, and dreyr my own conclusions. I could have sworn ; that Mrs Spencer daily swal lowed' arsenic. in small quantities, as the deadly drug was telling' feaxfsdly upon a constitution never *veryi;yo bust. She said in answer to my ques tions, that she had had no physician except hei4husband. He had thought himself better acquainted with her case, and, therefore, better qualified to treat it. He hover left medicine with her to take; he' always brought it himself fresh from his office, and administered it personally. There was little enough that I could do in such a case. Anxious to do everything, the very circumstan ces of the affiair left me nearly pow erless. A charge of such a grave nature, of course, I could not make against Dr. Spencer with the amplest proof If I hinted a suspicon every pne would at once set it down to profes sional prejudice; and if I could not ..I*-stantiate my statements, the doq could make me pay den* 6r ach a slander uttered against him. - The only dependence seemed to bo in_ Mrs. Hard. To her I unbosom ed myself freely. I told her, with out reserve, that I believed Dr. Spen cer was killing his wife by slow poi son, and besought her to be Constant ly_on the watch to- save the victim, and to discover some proof by which we could fasten hiigailt upon hint. She smiled grimly, and promised obedience. I gave her a powerful antidote for the poison I suspected and went home, strangely perturbed and anxious in, mind. I did not sleep that night: and all the next day I was in a high fever* of excite ment. A ring it the _bell made me tremblei step on the gravel out side mioffice stopped my breath. 1 hardly knew what I l eipected to hear and yet felt sure that befere I slept I should hear something. And now I must tell the storias it was told me. Dr. Spencer returned home the 'rooming after the: visit to Clifton Howie. He looked wretchedly, the. old Nurse said, and appeared unusu ally gloomy and fdepressed. Miss Melrose came with him, and was de corously sad over the death of her sister. AVonien_Of her stamp alinye mourn, to perfection. They never, overdo nor underdo the thing as wo- Inert with feelings are likely to do. . Dr. Spencer came at once to his wife's chamber. He thought she looked ill, and prescribed a., cordial at once, saying he would go and fetch it. " You are always ordering cordials for her," said Mr& Hurd, musingly. Whrbot - take soinethiug yourself ? You look like a ghost!" He eyed her keenly, but Feplied, composedly: 6 • • - - - ~R~ , ,, , _ Y":1:' zr aulimalle torNatvialunoit" "sine QtrArga,-> I think lirill take,'ll4llo of the cordial inra4f; rot I di) notfeetvite well. Alicia, 44, &41'1 bring -it here and drink 'your' keel* r Mrs. 'Sfiencer tanned sadly in as sent—she never diquited herAtis band—and he 'went ont. Presently he-returned with two glasses.. Both contained liquid, - colorless - and in= odorous. Mrs.-Hilid was iiateking him with her heart in her thmatt for, as she , told me, she felt _that a decisive moment had -come. There was something in the gray.pallor on the doctor's mid face that told her of a desperate purpose in thn man , s soul. He lifted the glass on the right of the tray, and gave it to his "Drink it, dear,' he said, ."it is ._a panacea for all evils. I - also, amo ing to take a glass_ of it!" and he Om pointed to the still on the y. _ Mrs. Spencer accepted it, and was puttin; it to her lips _when Mrs. Hurd interposed: "H you will bring a, tumbler of water, doctor; Mrs. Spencer coin., plains th_iit the cordial leaves a 'bad tastirin her 'Month.. And my old bones are otrhaumatism that it kills me to go down stairs." ". The doctor, turned and bent on her a look as if he would 'read her through and through. But she kept her face impassive. If be 'kid any Buvscions, her manner quieted them and putting down 'the glass, he left the room. ' 4 • ,Then Mrs. 'Hurd changed the posi tionsof the kliuifes., _ _ , _ _____ 'lirlien he came bail'', an d he was absent only a moment, the nurse stood just where he had.left her, and Mrs. Spencer was lyingack in her chair vtith closed eyes. Again he 11 lifted tide glass; this time it was the. one he had designed for himself, Und placed it at the lips of his wife. She drank the contents, swallowed the water he had brought her, and thanked him in her sad, sweet way. " Now for my , own cordial,", said he, with affected gayety. "I indulge myself iksomethitig a little stronger, and, as he spoke, "he tossed off the mixture. . , "It made me stone cold to my fingers' ends to see him do it," said Mrs. Hurd, in relating the circum stance to me; " but Heaven is •my witness I felt not a single twinge of conscience. I argued like this, if it was a simple cordial as he said,• it would dO him .no harm. If. it was pOison, his blood would be on his own head." He went to bed a half-hour, after ward, complaining of fatigue. In the morning they found him dead ! L was called to the post mortem examination, and we discovered in the stomach . of the deceased a suffi cient quantity of one of the deadliest poisons known to modern science to kill a half dozen men. • " My brother physicians agreed that the man was insane, and had proba bly takenAhe drug in one of his un settled fits of mind. I did not dis ?pate them, but, even- before Mrs. Hurd told me her story, I- had my own theory in regard to his death. There was no pa is exposure, how ever. Mrs. Hurd and I agreed that it would benefit no one to make the wretched affair public, and wel kept our own counsel. Miss. Melrose, in spite of my con viction that she had been an active party to the conspiracy against Mrs. Spencer's life, I could not help pity ing. Such a miserable, Worn,. and haggare face as hers I have ' never seen, and when they burie& Dr. Spencer, she was confined to her chamber with brain fever. I attended her in that illness, but though she recovered her health, she was never'herseif again. She was a harmless maniac, whose delight was , in gathering flowers and decorating the dcietoes grave with them. She . ; is living still, and she still gathers flowers and lays them on that grave, singing to herself, mean while; a sort of low incantation, which no one ever pretends to under stand. Not until Mrs. Spencer had been many years my wife, and faithful Mrs. Hurd slept under the violets, did Allicia ever know of the perfidy of her husband. MARVELS: OF --MEMORY. The following example of the mar vels of memory would seem entirely incredible had they not been given to lie upon the highest authority: Cyrus knew the name of each 84- dier in his army. It is also related of Themistocles that he could can by name every citizen of Athens, altho'• the number amounted to 20,000. Mithridates, King of Pontes, knew all his 80,000 soldiers by their names. Scipio knew all the inhabi tants of Rome. Seneca complained of old age because luy.could not as formerly repeat two thousand names in the order in °which they were read to him; and he stated that on one occasion, when at his studies, 200 unconnected verses having been re cited by the different pupils of his preceptor, he repeated them on a reversed order, proceeding from the last to the first. • Lord Granville could repeat, fixmlegizaiing to end, The New Testament in the original . Greek. Cooke, the : tragedian, is said to have committal to memory all of a large daily newspaper. Ra-. tine could recite all the tragedies of Euripides. It is said That George 111 never forgot a face b e hal o n c e seen nor a name he had ever heard. Mirandola wont commit tontemory the contents of a book by reading it . three times„ and could frequently re usat'the words backward as well as forward. Thomas Cramner commit ted to memory in three ,montlis an entire translation of the Bible. - Euler, the mathematician could re peat the Lucid, and Leibnitz, when an old man, could recite the whole 'of Virgil, word for word. It is said that Bossuet could repeat, not only the whole Bible, but all Of Hother, Virgil and Horace, besides many Other works.--0/imr Optic's Maga zine. "How is it, my dear," inquiled s a school mistress of a little girl, "that you do not nederstsnd this simple thing r I do not know, indeed," she answered, with i perplexed look; but I sometimes think I have so many ithia. to learn ;h1 I hoe no time to nuke "• • . ~.~t. b:ni . t. y ::: ~ t. 4,1 ~ t i : - (l.i.)CP',7!: 1 i:' , ,:i.t::::: . . , Ti _.': ' HSI =ME • :it ms: c S. cit . : t• ' co. • •""t--:.oll44T,Nrricip4:7tO*l:.li:F A corre*pondent of - the Richmond fDispalch;`Writing front Iluoltineumi • county:onthe 10th inst., says: • • •; , 7 In the case of the 'drown*** 'Were petitliarly . touching,, *id asimmple :reeftillOt , the factsinukt awaken: thelivelieet-Arytn: path*, itt,everY heart not` 'altogether lout to a 'gamma emotion: t)seenut that. a. Mr.• JOnesif'i person Ilirimutme abonkfoity years' of aim iesideit-ap-1 on. a , piece oflowegrotmds the lands of 'Mr: some 7 tour' miles abii e' New Market. .1; He had a who and "two little childist—onean. infant about two years old, -the _other abOut His niece=-.n-young and beatitiful girl' Of seventeen-4%lrue Wright; Baas on a *it to hie house. - It appears from the account of the survivors diet -, they - were aroused about 4' o'clock . itthe morning:: by. the rash Of =the Wat,ers,', and awoke only to find 'escape, impossible. f. The house was surrounded, and in a few moments , was swept sway lty,the tur bid and angry current, They -were hurried along some. two or.. three Miles, when 'they came in sight: Of the - dam' across the • river at-' Near Market.. Knowing that_ his house would be crushed to atomk.and. his - family probably lost, this unfortunate man scud .to' his well beloved wife : " My wife, we ate probably . There is barely. a chance of , our res cue. .I shall undertake.. tee swim _ -to the shore, and meet_y_O • • ; with ti raft or" canoe,if possible. ,It incur only chance." H She and.his niece, in agonizing tones, begged bin' to desist, knowing thatle was not good swimmer; but , he fondly pm, braced them, and sprang from a win dow and struck out gallantly for the shore: • Her swam only. :short twice, when his strokes grew fainter, andlaintor, and he sank, to rise no more. His family were in sight; and as he had Predicted,. the: house ; was. crushed and. torn to 'pieces. by.. the concussion* the , dittn... - • • • - With high and noble heroisni : and true motherly devotion,. Mrs.4onee clasped both of her children to, her bosom andmatik with.-, them, she rose it seems that she: .placed them on the roof of the houseoround which iras' a sort of-halustrade, succeeded herself in getting upon a floating , log, as alma did Miss Wright. They were all • washed=: off .toiatkeri but Mrs. J. become, entangled, : with a tree, -and ,the children : . and _Miss Wright-swept' past her. Ten miles below Miss Wright was seen aliuging to thelog, her flowing hair 'wet with spray,. and as she passed Mr.. H., in despairing tones she asked, " Whet shall I dodo be saved?",. He told her to cling to the log; that he waepow- , erleis to assist her: A. few mihntei later she passed some other. persons, who told her to call for a Mr. Wright a lock-keeper at Willow Bank, about a mile below; but he, too, was pow erless. She rent the air with. pierc- - ing shrieks, and the last - that - wail seen of her was at SycaMore Wand, opposite the' house of , year anyes pondeht, where the rapids soon Sub merged her frail support, and she, too, went to the voiceless shore. All acounts :agree in representing her as having been a lovely and beautiful girl, full of life and hope, and tears have more than once'rtuili ed unbidden to my - eyes as I looked upon her grief-stricken father, as he, time and again, examines the themes of the river, on my premises in a vain search for her body. - I But the most piteous of all' was the sight of the .twO little children, who, when_they passed -the p ersons' mentioned above, held out their little bands in , mute but . eloquent, suppli cation. .Their little faces Were- tear-. less but blanched with woe. MoCli= oil with treacherous hope, the yoUng; eat started towards them and le% when the other ' - a mere baby L:ahnost himself, caught. him and held him. No sound escaped their lips, but the . persons who saw them will never for get their sad and piteous looks and their outstretched handsin silent but touching appeal •fOr rescue. Brats men who - had seen and felt all the multiplied horrors of civil war, bow- ed their heads and. wept - like chil dren, and looked with horror upon the angry waters, which claimed such ' victims as these to its merciless fury. The last that was seen of the poor little infants was at the_head of Syc amore island, when they, too, went down in tie rapids, and the dark and fearful element closed over them for ever. Fortunately the mother with spired a sight of this last •scene,' be ca%tse it was some time before she became disentangled from the tree and debris above. Probably about twenty niinntes later she was seen to pass, watched with anxious eyes by persons on the bank. She -was seen n Whe' she reached- the - head-of the island tospring at.sxactly the proper moments of time upon' a, stationary hammock, from which she got:to a tree, and citing to its branches. Here she remained for twelve hours, when she was gallantly rescued-by James Wright, a lock-keeper. The other family consisted of Mr. and Mrs. Woodson and their child . and nurse. They were in a freight boat, of which he was captain, and were swept over the dam at New Market. His boat was crusLed to pieces, but in the moment of peril he seized a hatchway, and placed 'upon it his wife, child and nurse. Almost immediately the nurse fell off in her fright - taking the child with her. The mother shrieked, " Oh, save my child !" And with .the noble self sacrificing devotion of a trim woman, she spreng into , the water