TERMS OF PUBLICATION. Tar llalDrdnD liciwarsa is pnbushed every • Tburedv lioruley by et W. ALvoup at TWO Dollar, yea. snow+. do advance. a,lvurnei u 4 in all cases eicltturre of anbeerip ti :peA ut ' u n tb A PlCer goTibir.B inverted at rarrw cturril P er line tar and rtva carpi per line for mbsequegit Itiairlinius. • LtaiaL'rntrierlit. dame style- ea reading matter, rwSicTl CIEPTA &DVERT.IdEIIENTB will Inserted accord rag to the following table of rate*: - uw Ito Stu Gal lln 1 inch $1,60 I SAOI 15.40 $.OO I 10.06 I 16 3 I 'aches ' j 1.001 ti.n 4.1111 Vl.lllO I I &On 20.00 4. (ache" I 8.00 I 8.601 1 woo ULU 46.001 86.00 colnmn • I .15.na I 12-90 I MOO I '22.00 I ED.OO I ifLOI `; enlnnin . I inAri . l In_no 1 nn.nn 1-tit.nn 1 na.nn 1 Tr,sn, column I in.on I iso.on A *man I im.fen $lllO I SAW Admintattstors and tnixintor's Notices, $9; Midi ; or's 'Settees, 12 30 ; Swiftness Cards, Ace lines,Sper, 7 earl $3. additional lines av Yearly aivertmers ereentttledto quarterly changes. Tracatentadvertt%amants must be pia for its advance. Re4ol ennui, of a•soistions ; Oommenteetton• a t limited or mrticlidnai .nterest. and notices of Mar rri; toe and Denthealiceeding destines, ara charged nas .0r...-re Owe 'Mai; Jag Patti fiNif; of Peery kind, in Plain and Fancy Wore. done With ossiturots end dispatch_ flandlulls. Si mks. (lards, painphieta Rillheads, Statements. ke. of every satiety and '4tyle, printed at the shortest notice. the RYZPOILTEK (Niter Ii well supplied with 'Power Preens. • amid _assortment of new typo, mod everything in the P.tnting line can be executed to t le most 4rttsite Manner and it the lowest rates. 7Pfixtft . T4 , • 11111 TIM "OM, ' CARDS. TOHI DUNFEE; BLArmsitrilw, el STONROETON. PA.. pays partlentafattrntion.to robing ittindsa. Wagons. 91eIA11e, kn. The set and repairing Ilene on short . notice. Work and charges guaranteed outtiatact.r , y. . 12.15.69. AI.IIOS PENNYPACKER, HAS is tij t i established himself In the I'm:miffs°, •lIS . Shop over Rockwell's Rtore. • Work of /eery desert ptlon dOtte. ID the latest stylee. Towanda, Aprllll. 1R701—:-tf ( 1 S. R.IISSELL'S ' X.J. I , GENERAL IN eu R A IV C E 1 AOIENC Y, ' may23ll) tt ' I TOWANDA, PA. ~. . i ~ ~ ~, I t>- -1 .0! , ; F, t.-Z r --1 ' ` 7 4 • . ; ' , x. r.-. 1 1..4,_,....... • , - - 1 ! , 1 , •-' K. ~...) 1 64 " .. ~.... ........+I -., ; ;;.;; . ~ ..r.. 1 . N., . ...4 ...+! . .. .; % 1 ' 11 ...... . ; rilrlE TINI)ERS'T(I-NF,D 'TECT %NM IttfiLDEß..oashes to Inform thr eitizena or ranch um, that ho :Pre •partuttliar attontinn to iraorini4 pL ini. •detOOlta and apootiit-Anotia for all ruannor nt topPlinga. private And ruoiic. Anp..rintetul..tioe ffireti for rea.nnaiite cAnrpeiiotttna fPhoe it mgitiflltlee N. E. corner of Sece.r.d aud..Elizabeth streets. J. E. F.T.,EMMECO, Ifni 511. Towanda. Pa. CEO '_ •7 • v , KINGSBRY, : °, • 11E41. ES ' TATE, LIFE, VIDE.. S ACCIDENT INSURtNCE !AGENCY. o:t..,c,ezzner a Main and State Streets, March 13 197,2. • _ TOWANDA. P. ASH -- , DOORS, AND BLINDS. • hon.rrezurNi to furnish Eilo-dried Doors, Fasts Ind Eirnde ofariy style, site, or thickness. on short 'notice. - Claud in ynirr orders' ten days before yon n-sot nee the articles, mid be sore that •y'on s: ill A7f.t ke..r•••ifist,will not shrink or swell. Terms cash ' Toßtod• 1i 19. 1q I.' • Gr . ). P ASH. lA S` . k7 TON ,t;B-ROTHER, - - • . DEaiera in . • HrDEFi, ,PELTS, CALF - • SIIES.A. y11E.53; &C., • F' r -whirl: th , z,h!zheit.lash price is paid at all thteg. 0 ":;ce in M. E. R0 , f,:a9,31.1's State; Main-at., Q. A. DArios, l ' " a. ;a. turroN. l ritlc.l4.'7o TOWANDA . PA: ICT E F R 311 • ,VETV GOODS, LOW : PRICES! • • • - AT 110NP.01."TON, PA. TRACT & HOLLCIN, Retail Dollars in Groceries and Provisicrns.l_ , •' , 44 and Medicines, Kerossne Oil, Lampe, Cliimi shades, Dye Striffs, Paints, Oils. Varnish, Yankee cs• Tobacco, Cigars and Hnuff. Pnre Wines Liquors, of 'the boat quality, for medicinal purr , only. All GAFaaa aald at the 3•ery lowest. prices. Pre,- acriptidna carefully Compond,led at all hours of the -lay and night. Give us a call. ' TRACY & HOLLOW. ' Ifeuroeton.Ta.,'Jnne 24,1136:4-Iy. BA.KERY ! CQNI.CTIONERY ! -. 1 7 11 - 0:C E.. it IE 5 ! The und.rslgned begs leaves to return thanks to the people of Towanda an , l vicinity 'for tho very g.tierrms patrouig- eat'oniled to him- timing the pact easnn,.atid of the 8311.1(1 time to give notiep that h. be added to hies bir,ineto ti stock of BEST FS:N.IIIJY - - GROCERIES ' Whirh he iii prepared to. offer AT THE LOWEST PRICE:. , . • • lie will - still cuntinia the Baking, bimidess In all 't.. , hrlii•ui:.s ..m.l ..:an furnish 1•11 , • - tli!ng in.thls line .in , thu short , , , st. n• lice and • GUARANTEE SATISFACTION If . nay a, ttecil DINING ROOM, - •• Whore h^ will at all Clap.' he ready to (nrniFhsleals of l'Auchr;ng at much lowar than 11 , 1141. . 3 - 11 ,I'3ri t• cn are invited to c3'l. gir Parties supplied with Ire c''.-un,Cakes, Fruit,' ud C. out,,tionery at stf4,rt itt•nneumlier the place, nearly oppoeit the Means ffougo. , S , lpt 11.12. , k4l TO 0 - CR PATRONS. _ .. . , .. GEO. H. 'WOOD - C. 0., -Ff()T 0 G APITETZ:§, To ANDA, PA . . fir tt.ful for ta; , . cen.rnua patronage.: of the ‘r,4:11,1 inform all wantin4 Patturee . t4at wn are s:allla4.ling to our establiabmeut NEW AND IMPROVED INSTP t UILENTS, f Auti adopARLI tried 'mni'approcit modes of priuttuai autl 4 retviling in order to secure '! FINER P S T11. 0 .N EIERETOF pr:E' oatklda of the calm and that, we n?Akt. • sip-cialty.to eill,,rge all kinde of:Picturt.- ..ny cure de,dred, and finlAh in Water Colo. •, India Ink, or iu Oil. in the', • BESt STYLES AND VE - RY LOW PRICES. • We al•o endearnr to take all the time poael ble in inatimu,tubirens pleturea, so as to se cure th.. ocst re.nita. We aro constaLtly adding to our *lock of FRAM S' • All , new patterns and 14, - tehal slyles..and fur nish them At a Stasi' adtance fromcost prices. Msy - 14. is 73, • 'Fti - E CITIZENS OF PENIN- T i° Bylxo7lo4—Your atteutOn is specially tu rited to the fa:t that the National Banks are now prepared to ra.zaive Pubaniipttona - to the Capital Stock the, centennial Board of Finance. The inuite realized from th saconrce are to be employed in the erection in the buildings tor the International Eiznanitua, -,nct_ the ezPenaea connected with the ;anal tto confidently b.,1 . eyed that the Reyato.e i will be revre...nted by the name of every cal- . ":.eu alive trpttriiitio comma I.oratios of the tint undrcdth birth-day of the tiatiiin. The 11414V11 or stock are offered ter $ 0 each; and Olub.crtbers will a-handsomely «Wel engraved C.rtificate of. suitatne for framing and preservation as a national metu.rial, interest at the rate of Mz per cent per annum fill be paid on all payment" of deutennial Stock from date of payment to January I. 187 d. Sahacrilers who are not near a National Bank clir , init a check or. poet - office order to the tinder. , signed. FREDR. FH.kLEY, Tretimrer. 914 walnut St.. Phil's. Sept 4. '73 ToWANDA NURSERY. The enderel.zned haring' iferehased the NETASESION TOWANDA: FLATS, Iqs attention to his :argo stock of FRUIT AND ORNAiENTAL. TREES 4;, Wird' ha now Prrparod to DZLIVEit ON xto.3r REASONABE TERMS. e!iiers is parson cir tig null promptly - attended to I , &saris; Cyril IC:l.j Da Physici4n told Sturgeon, once over Wickham & Black's emriomy atom - Tn.rosnel% May 1i1111T2.-11Y• Plir B. MoKEAN, ATTOR 1 4- • OM COVERTLLOS AT TAM, Towanda, P. • tieniar attention paid to business in the Orpba. -Conrt, P ll 7 20. 'OO r HW. PATRICK, Arronrrr • LAW. (Vim Mercor'e Block, melt door the Eipre.e 4 131ce,"Tow.nla, Pa. • • Jo y 171973. c... 4 . 2 ..., "... 4 44 61 ''.4 WH. CARNOCHiN, ATT43. • WET AT Lan (District: Attmmay for ford flonnty). Troy. Pa. Collections made and prom v •nrnttted. fob 15. la—tf. B:..KELLY. DEsTurr.—Offi 7a', ncliri Wickhßin k Black's. 'Tniirandli.-P Teeth' ineertrA !tip cirild. Rilcer. Rnbher. and Aln nirm brow Tfnlh extracted aritbovit pain : 0r21.: trgL OALEFF, ArroasEr AT,T.Aw. Towanda:, Pa.: H. J. IirLDTLI., Offtre In Wood's Block. lirit door south of Pill Notomil Bank. np Phira 11 Jan .7n-ly nvERToN k.F,LSBREE. ATT'o nvien AT LAW. Towanda Pa., hminir i n ~. np4rttiprabtp. offer their pmfeßalonal "aryl( . to the. pnhlte- RpPetal dtrntinn elven to hnatne in the nrpban'a and Reointer'm Courts. apl 14.7 e. ovvierriti. nt. ti. C. MOIR . TOFIX:W.-MTX, Roor.oll Aftortion girPn Prrainst %An l sure Corrp.inles, Office. of T'nb Slnam: ATP.' WqON. AN , p NTVCIT•NICAt. DES'TirT. North STaine44 optrlgien ebtirch4Vitanda. Pa. All di.. tal 8 rpeclB;lty, Jan 14. I BECK a, STRFEIiER: ' °Moe on 'Stain Street formerly occnpted by P Ladd. Residence, corner Pint and Second streets Towanda, dna,. 22."1871. E. ,GREDLEY, • TIOCTOR 0. LEWIS, A GRAD ato of the Collefze Phystelana 'and Rtirgeons. Now York city. Claes 1 gp-4. gives exclnaive attentin to the practice of his proresalon. Office and rf. - on the eastern Elope of Orwell Hill. adjoining Hen Ft me WS. `...) • . jan 14.'C9. I TIM D. •D. SMITH, • Donitzst, : purchased Wood's property; be • • • ‘terenes Block and, the Elwell Efortpe, where.he b lociated his often. Teeth extracted without pain $ 1 use of Oaa. ' Towind .„ Oct. 20. 1870.—yr. NOTARY PUBLIC! . Offize—lTAtWElT., TOWANDA PA., with 'Noble k Vi cent. ineuriineq Agenf E. Acirtocrled:Mients taken; • Oaths adrolnlaterel Thy Rlll)Periber itta a commi.t.foner in tat Ihg 410 ositions of witneLies. General dotira of the o 1 promptly a , troned to. Wu 9 VINCE , T; Nor. 12'73. , Notary Public. Hotel _- --. .s. . , . DINING - R 0,401.1 S , .. : ° IN CONNECTION. WITH THE BASIETLT, Neal ) Hie Court HOLM& , ' We are prepared to feed the hungry,at all timer the day ' ATI evening. Oysters and Ice Crean! their.Kessohs. . March 3( MO/ D. W. SCOTT it CO.. vrAvELL HOUSE, TOWAND • Ete. 4 . Having leased this Rouse. is now ready to sccomm il l. date the tTavelling public.. No pains norexpense • be epsred:to give satisfaction to those who may gi him a call:. AR' ,Notih aide_ef the public eqiiarr,,eagt of 31.1 neg ❑ec+ blnrk. ' p U3I3IE,RFTET D CREEK H ltiTrt.. • • ' PtTER LANTIMSSSEIt. Hawing purchased and thoroughly- refitted this and .cell-known stand. formerly kept by Sheriff grit; fig. at the month of liummerlield Creek. is ready ;to kcxid aciximmcsiations skid satisfactory treatment .to all who may farm him with a call. tl 23 gaa—tf. - ATEANS HOUSE, iTOWANDA.; PA., , COIL ILIES l.q.D BRIDGE STREETS. The fiedaes, Harness. kc. of all guest' of thie bonne, iusured against loaiby !ire, without any es. tra cbarge, - • A superior quality of Old Euglish Rasa Ale, received. - , T. It...JORDAN. Rwanda. Jan. 24.11. - Proprie HORACE A. COWLES VARD 110,1:1S.E, T9WA.NpA,. BRADFORD CO UITI„ PEWN'A. - . • This popular house. recently Island by Mesi Rprie k Thula% and baring helm completely .rOtt-Zd. fflllllo4iflPii, and rsdorniallad. afford', to the , crnhlq• all the elnotorta and rocalern wmaroulencos of a arm- Hutal. 4itnate optrafte• th• Park on Main Str,N.t. It Is eminentlyr.onvaldprd . for perilous visit ing Towanda, elther torploastirwor business , . appall - EOON'it UgANS, Proprietors. Air 4NSION HOUSE, -_ • I W. W. EiR0WN.13243.. lliorn • 1 1 Tills House is cmaneted in strictly Tempe Principles. Every effort arill be made to m i am,sts comfortable. Gored rooms And the table +essays be supplied with tho best the market! fonts. . N0v.1.18 11011 B ETHLEHEM, PA. . ... " OLD *MORAVIAN SIIN IN • R•dt in hiatorical Interest; it in the only bnildinat thh coontry ex pt Independence 11.11, hono , eo this sojonrn within its wails of Waidliontot, La Fs ette. bee. Oates and other patriots of the resell Lion. This poprear hotel hai recently chang. hands, ..been improved. entirely refurnished. a. the p - oprietor cordially inviirs his friend* and Ira Wing public to give.him ca 114420 WWI wil .sparecl to render their stay nomfortat•le. •• • p en mate for Philsdelphis.will dnd it convent.. t spent the night bore. , ensobrait the city about .lg 3n the or , rulug. A maniple room on Ant f• • . r accommodation ofeomutercial agents Keeps on hand a tall assortment of D 91713 aq siNfiLE HARNESS, and all other goods In With . Not Airing and minnisettuing dons to order. - - reWllll,, MUM. , 9 2 - 1,41 - • STEAM SAW MILL, SHINGLE MILL, 1 ' AND CIDER MILL, • I 1 tij liflll Is now in good order. sud - I an Yrepan4 to do all kinds of wore In my hue on shorktvAloo. .- LtIALBER. SHINGLES tod LATH, slwsjs on 4 hand. 1 I Ono off , r :or sale a IS Hcrse-Power Engine and noi.larr ""V• 1 o. v. • , ion.i.gorwiloofurorti ~ . Milrft PIM IMII 1 i f 4. W. AL.VORD, 611siker. r.- VOLUME XXXIV. JAMES WOOD, Ar,roaszT ~1 1 0T r ithazion LT LAW. Towanda. Ps. Q.:MTH & MdN,TANYE, A L tem2. LA2r. 443f110p--42:ftar Nan Pim.. Remit: oppostip Plebtes.Droa store. D tt T. B. JOHNSON, PIMIUTRAPI kvanitine. Olttee over Dr. U. 0. Porter k 00..111 Drag Store. MORROW, PaysiciAN L • Firranzos. offers his protessim2al eery! the citizens of Warren and vicinity. Beside. • first house north of J. F. Cooper's Store. W ("entre. Ps. 1 M. STANLEY, DErrurr, meow? to Dr. Weston. Ofilati In Pattoto Block.: up smarm. Main Rtrort, Tosanda. Pa. kind...OW*o. ',ark a spwrialtv. . /an liytt roYLE & 4ttiiP'FrERSON. Arm! a~i*.at - Lay. Towanda. Pa. Wlll Oro etteetipn to *ll matter* Potrnetea to their cb °rebate' Court business a specialty. - W. POT T.T.. rrnayl"l3l 2.irrinisso I • o A 7:TOREr--AT—LA W. TOWANDA. PA LA Jr OFFICE, TOWANDA. PA, W. A. PECT: [lnn 1514] IH. SST:STrete. i )1.1. J. I,rNtvq, • __:.PaYSICIAN A i SuFasox. ATTORNEY-AT-LAW, April 1. 1k73 JOHN C. WIISON. I Lr.RAISVILLE. PA 13 . tILT 1758. Sept 4. 1R73 CHAY,LES F. DAYTON, Successor to Itatopitrey Bros.. HA-RNESS MAKE Over Mood?. Store, n EIHESIIEQ j: ~; ~. i 111 pular , tuft. • • BATECOVE/GE TO SAT NOI [You're et'iirting to-day on life's journey, Alone ou the highway of life; You'll meet With a thousand temptations, Each city With-evil is rife. • This world is. a stage of excitement; There's danger wherever you go; - But if you are temrediff weakness. t Have courage, my boy, to say—No The Siren's sweet song May,alliire you; Beware of her ennning-and art. Whenever Sou Ito her approaching, Be guarded, Mid baste to depart. ' The billiard Saloons are inviting.••• " ( Decked out la their tinsel and show; You maybe invited to enter; . • I Have cottra,e, my boy, to say—No l I The bright ruby wine may be offered— • No matter how tempting it be, From poison that stings like an adder, My boy have the courage to see. Tne gyubling belle are before you, Their ligl-4, how they glance to and fro; If you ibotildibe tempted to enter i Think twice even thrice, ere you go I In coltrage!Ciao lies your manly, 1711 - en'you the long journey begin, And trust in a HeaVenly Father Wilt keep yin Unspotted from sin. Temptations krill go on increasing, As streams rorn,a, riv'ulek flow, But it yon arc true to your manhood, Halve the equrage, my boy, to say—No ! (For TUI4 Reportituj A OALIFOANIA INOIDEN P. 13:3=1 It was in f,be afternoon of an An - tonal day in 186 7 -,.that I (au Eng lishman and to stranger) ebtered a &inking saloon in San Francisco, called Missoula . lager, lit wy pipe, and sat dawn in an easy chair Mr a quiet smoke. It ii as a famous place for a nnoke, a place fit for any one to sit down in, and have a 'yarn with his friend,=— comfortablY; not at all like al ng lish bar,—Where he is usually glad to leave when he has finished his liquor, but with cushioned chairs and lunges, and comfortable surround ings, so that you might sit and smoke as enjoyably—as you.' would in your own house. Theta was a queer looking' man bitting near !me, who raised his eyes from theptiper he was reading and seemed to rtgard me with some curi osity. had a frank, honest ex pression of Countenance, and seemed well disposed towards me, for all that he was ratLer moody and end' looked as though he had seen 'a great deal of trouble. =l5lOl ,At last, drawing his chair - a little nearer and putting_his 'brown hands on his knee', he said : " Not been here long, ay,?" " No," said I, "only a few days." " he said, meditatively, "I thought 'Frisco is a queer kind of a °place- Or"a young hand; noiv I've took whit Of a Lucy to you, mud' as you ain't much up to things, I de'say you wimid n't cut up rough, at suthite useful in the way of advice." • I was rather astonished at this, but was quite pleased to make an.ac quaintance with him, although he was rathet rough looking, so I an swered tha v i I should be glad of any advice which might prove ueeful, as I was strange to the country. "Wal!" said he, "in the first place, if`You don't want to get mauled, the best thing You can do is to keep that thar derringer party close, seein' as this is rayther a rough place, an' some might take 'fence at it." rfollqwed the direction of his eye, and saw that my revolver—which•l always carried—was in bight, stick ing out of My belt. "If you 'carry one o' them things, it's all'usliest to keep.it dark; don't let no one know of it—till it's Want ed. Another thing I might tell.you, that is, dal to show all the dimes you carry, when you're paying for a nor; thar's I a lot of people rouad— that likes dimeti fast rate—and ain't got uorie--Latid dou't B a slant when they see it. Thar was a young ster like you might be, rotted 'Frisco once—with his pouch full of dollars, I . and . a dertinger—which he did n't know hcwa.o handle no more nor a possum. Well! he , was laid for by two "plant' smart, decent looking fellers, and took into a gamble shop, whar they let him win for a bit,— primed him with whisky till he didn't know is right bower from an ace, and enchred hiin out of his dimes bit by bit till lie was nearly cleaned, when he saw one of thee yar coons grin, and say sothin'- laughin' like to his pal. Then he see'd what was up, and that they'd gone throngli him proper, so he up and called them a darned lotlof swindlers, and said he'd have his money back. One of them pouched the dimes from the table, whi e t'other 'put a shoulder on him' and said.: " Guess you're green; don't know the ropes, ,Ijohnny, so 'I won't take no 'count of your talk—cause you are riled nat'relly at losing yor dollars, but jest yen dry up, and don't say no more or that's no knowin'. what'll happen !"I "Now the young 'an bein' wild, and kinder didn't care much what was on the cards—long as he got his dimes—said, By thunder! if you don't give! back that money, Ill— "He never finished it, for, he'd been feelin' for his shooter, but' he wasn't sharp enough, for one of the chaps outlderringer, and 'put a pea' in him —sb he didn't talk no more." "Dead !" Wal, no, he were n't that, `but he were that nein. it, that he never '"petted he'd, be tellin' the yarn to you. Yes, his name was Dick Selby, and that's me. Now he said "I don't halt from 'Frisco—l b'long further north, and if ) . ou• like my company, I'll just, show you a thing or two, and if yon don't,—you've only got to say so, and I won't both er you. The fact is, I had a son once,":---bere his voice dropped,, and ti'dark-shadow seemed to cross his face. "Yes," he said, abstractedly, and seething to talk more. to himself than. me,—"Poor Ben I—just ' such another. I had a son once, 'and he war like you—very like," he said, rousing himself, • and I fancy it's made me sorter take to you; now you must think a darned open._ soh of s and, agyhow donl ion r iiiiEE! NE3 0 iscellgneosis: lIAZAIID I<TAIIKEY, 11. FU I 1 .1 • "1, an a sonyjif you have lost your son,'l said L "and as tci your showing me ream] I shall be glad of your amtriany," "H'm, yea,l I have lost my son, poor Ben! poor Ben 1" he said ; then suddenly clenching his sineWy hands,j his face grew dark with 1 paasion, j and he said in a strange; wild sort of voice. " He was murdered! Ond have pity on the man !when I all across him 1" I stared aghast at him, his features as. mimed such a ideadly look; but it was onlyi ft:a al moment, his wrath settled down, ;and he said : "Yes, young m, I tell yer 'twas hard on me; hut spoon / you won't esre to if hear l'bo t me ` and my troubles?" I said I should; isten with the great est intereet. l ' - "Wal, then I'l he said, " I haven't alwaysl been down here. I need to l, •.t ive _m Buffalo, but times were. n't good; so .T put !for 'Big Pine,' *ay up country here, where there was good finds being made—with my wife and Son. When . we got- diet far, we had int3t Tough to keep us • goin' till I got la bi of a shanty pat together, and started mylWork. "I did a pile of diggin' fore I found anytliing,Jur things was n't so pow erful :good as 'd heard, and men was gettin' grumpy, and fightin' all round theeamti. And Ben, he work- edged;' h e worked inch for inch with pie, !Tut we did n't strike mall : in', tWarn t noi good, tore were on lucky', we noilld;n't make enough to keep us from starein' sca'cely, fur a lung pelt; an ij I was beginnin' to feel k oder, done up. Bat one day, Ben he come. up to me, with a white face, end a s ivi-ran' like l he'd got the, ague;ilie dragged me inside the shan ty, add thli b gin cryin'c and laugh. in and caakiriti round like mad. " Epithet ! 1" he said, "I could n't yell out an' tell; you 'cause of - them others, butte / tie had afind!" and be put his hand lel hie pocket and pull ed oat a nugget: "Hely goud T lifoses 1 there was a nugget enough to turn a man's bead look s h it after lain' starved for months; 1,, , I .' WhStidid you find it, Ben?" said . I. 1 1,. "In the fast 'elaim, dad," he said, "and here's plenty_ more there too, I bleeve." "That at' was a luck of a find— just` iit time, for we were wantin' it badly!; and that wernt all: we found more every day, and we were puttin' by in heaps, and soon after took it np town and changed it for dollars. • s•e worked !it quiet, did n't say a wordl to tiootie' and we had already made. consider, ble, fib at lost it got windithat pick!' Selby had .struek a vein, land eyeryoue went roarin' marl envy, andiwe bad- to take spelt, and spell, 'night and; - day, with a . shootier in leech- haudi--that is, Ber and the—td keep 'em off. "Cal, this' cou'd n't last, I could see that, arid We agreed for me to go up-t Own, and ; get some fresh bands. "There was one' man I told Ben to / spot :i his mime was ItcLaskie; he'd been everything in this world but a gentleman, and was the desperatest charac-ter II ever struck. 'lle was bardinp; and Ilguessed be would n't Mickel, nothint. ' and he hadp't been 1 at whrk for days 'since we'd struck the Metal, andjhe'd been seen haug in' retied talkie to some the wustmen in the hell eanip time and agin, and I was well nigh scared to leave. Ben and 6y wife alene,Thause of hint. ".,:iny how tyey laughed it off and pers i aded mi l t;!! one night I agreed' to ga next Moridn' up to 'Frisco. "Somehow, I' did n't feel right in ' my ihind,, and turned in awful rest liss,jwith'rey derringer and bowie oa aA& topside the bed. I could n't sleeil, not 1.1 I felt kinder queer.; a feelih as thaugh . suthin s was goin' to hapiien. I d dirt knoW-what. sr After being in bed some time, I was just fag in'; into a bit' of a snooze, when I weal wake by a- shot, and a sell i I jaMpid out like a flash,— althnugh,there was sathite cold like at My heart, and I took my shooter and straek..for the door. I. nearly run agitinst.Ben, who was staggerin' in. ,I felt, queer b —seein' Ben look so Whit:a aud_wealt like : 'Ben,' said I, 'boyf, yon ain't truck ?' "INot.mucli, lather,' he said, and touched - htsj, shoulder; then pointed to t adoPr.l " laced; onteide;—there Was the moon a shinin t with her green light, on-the trees; . — e on the ground,—on— something that made me rise my der ringer I Three men were striking for (be hotise, and before I could draw, bead-:a'bullet struck the door, -close to my head. I let drive all lily six shots at ; tne men, and 'got inside the douse, and I just gut charged when whack !; comes a lump of pine against the door, caving it in, and three or font' men, with 'ldeLaakie in front, came i_tr. ' - "tfired ray' shooter again! Ben fired ' his. We heard a couple of yellh, and,the room was fall of smoke. I wits looking . for a man to empty ,my Shooter into, and I beard a shot! Gcs:l God 1j my poor wife! ---lconld hear her shriek. I fired again as.the smoke cleared, and saw my man fall. 11 , tie next EWA ate some one laid for me jwith the nett of a derringer, and I went doWM When I came to, I began to lea around. There lay myl wife our the bed—dead 1 And Bea—be waslyingin a corner of the room—whits,and gift: Sutbin seem ed to 'go' inside my foreuead. and I fellldown again. - " didn't remember anything after thel fur a lonk spell; and when I did coins ronod, I warnt in my shanty, —rd been,took up' town, abd *lsid up with a brain fever. It was hard on me, when I came to, and remembered all , about it. I feltj bad: 'TWere like this,—l'd ray ther been finished at once, and made one job of itl—lwould been better. It were not likely I. should be any aoc9nnt when them two %ere gone; they might jest have put a 'pea' in me Ise well, l'twould have • made it eerier more complete, yon' know." ' ) ")Bat that's neither here nor there," he I 'Yetiumed; "bleeve I prom ised to.show you road a bit. Wel, / ittatl toiler, me,' And I'll show you a i gamble.ehop." 11 1 43 walked ont of the saloon, and traversed two ! or three streets, and 1 at lot mune to a rather ont-of•tbe weatipl ; sadiwsw ray -csuudizakny open- lek T L 1 • 1.1 ,1 TOWANDA, BRADFORD COUNTY, PA.. MARCH 19. 1874. ing the.door of a house, ltd the way ju. I must have Aesitated,—for the place was rather dark. and mysteri ma looking, as he said, • "You've got no cane() to be scared while I'm along,— though temp twouldn't be , well for you to come here by yourself. . " 1 "Oh, no 1" said I. "I am not afraid. only the place was rather dark, and "Oh, it'B all right," here he in terrupted, "you jest keep along after me." ' i followed him through a dark passage,, and coming to a door, which he opened—we walked into a large room. It was a pretty weli-apPrAnt ed plam, with cushioned fignitrtre— crimson curtains- r -large miriors, etc. and tables cogered with green cloth, at intervals all over the room : at which were seated men with anxious .countenances, playing euchre, btnff inonte, and other American games— with little heapS of gold, silver, and greenbacks beside them. They were evidently much interested in their games, for none of them looked up, iw-we en u red, and walked to the other end of the room. • "By thunder!" said my strange gnide, in an undertone; "we shall see a row before long. .111 be &rued if We shan't. Just spot them two fel ldra sittin down over there.—Yes! that dark-faced chap, and that man playing euchre with hiT: yes!, the one what looks like a resurrectioniz ed spirit; d'you see how the dark fel low scowls at his man, and how hap py Caber one looks? Wal, he s been winnio; you bet ! and that other one don't like it. Ye us, yoli can b'heve there'll be 'a bit of a row out of that lot." . The two men were playing with great eagerness, and I could 'see the, dark complexioned men—who was a tall, brawny fellow was gel,ting wild, for the veins of his forehead were swollen and *hotted with sup pressed'anger. "Well.jiist go over to that table," said Selby,—" where we can take a good look at them, and have a game of bluff,—‘•fot we're all 'spected to play, if we come,in here." We crossed to the other table, and calling for some whisky, we com menced playing , bluff for small, - stakes. We played for some time— all the_ time watching the .men oppo site us, until Seib' bad soon every cent in my pocket, wbicb I observed, saying I could not play any more, as I was cleaned out; when he quietly pushed the money across the table to me "I did that;' he said, "jest fur to show you how easily you Might be gone .through — so 's you wo rt try it without nu yar." I told him I was much obliged for the lesson, and he said, " T h at and nothin'—don't you talk 'bout that ; I've got no end of--stamps, and don't want anybody else's,—but louk at that ere dui k chap!" I looked across .the table ; the game had finished, and the pale, corpselike- man' was sweeping the stakes from the table into his pock ets. 6, A. card dropped on the table! Where from I did not see; the aark man did though. He sprang at the other's throat. "By G—!" he yelled, "yon —, return every cent, you sneaking thi4—or else, by he squeezed the liyiu.per'e throat in his sinewy fingers till he was nearly blank in the face. 'Let—let g9l" he gasped,—" you 4631 have every cent I—loose—loose, I'm choking 17 The other loosed, his grasp, and he put his band in his-pocket—it seem ed to draw out the cash. but instead —Selby sprang up and rushed to ward bitn,—not in time though, to stop him drawing a revolver, and the next instant his enemy was lying on the ground,—a bullet in his chest. We both tried to lay - bands ou qv; assassin, but he slipped away like an eel and was out through the door like a flash I We rushed to the door, —69 was nowhere to be seeti,-and we returned to the room. The wounded man was lying where he hail fallen ; .he had been shot through the lungs. We quietly lift ed him on to a lounge: a doctor was sent fur and soon arrived, ; And said he •• might get o'rer it, but 'twas derned uncertain." I felt almost sick at the sight. The man's features wore an expression almost demoniac; his shirt awl vest were all dabbled with blood, and the spot where be had been' lying was smeared all over . with the \poor fel low's life stream. 'WM !" said my conductor, "guess we'll travel now; we've Feed all we want to, and pimps more, bat I told you I'd show yon a this g or-two." RALPH Dana S DOOM. , If travelers see strange things, so do artists, at least landscape pan:item do, for they are travelers as well, and in pursuit of their vocation visit so many remote places, and come iu contact with so many different sorts - of people, that they ought to be good story-tellers. - The 'rural and sea faring population, with whom of ne cessity they have to mingle, offer many carious studies of charaoter ; and the sketcher from nature, who chances to be a writer a'so, may pick up among themincidents and stories by the score. I have come across many,-but the brush his claimed so ranch of my timecthat, ,like most of my craft, Ihave had but little incli na•ion to give any to the pea. However, within the last week same circumstances have occurred ,under my very eyes of so tragic nature, and associated with so %terrible a story, that I am tempted, before I leave the spok to utilize the long evenings now setting in by writing down, the Bets as they came to my 'knowledge. I- am staying at a little public house called the Pilot, the only hos telry in the small village of Pitsdetin, situated at the foot. of ,that enormous range of chalk cliffs which its highest point is marked on the charts of the southeast of shingle Head. The scant poptvation is comi oied of a few fishermen, farm laborers, and some lime burners—these latter be ing the most numerous, for lime burning is Carries} p un eitensively in that . district, and wbere the chalk bailing to rime-from Sather aouitiq Ellll =tut ANT gowns. . the beach-Una abound., Odd gape and roads wind down to' them then' the upheaved soil - and fantaatic mass-- es of hind slip, rendered more ;fan tastic by the cuttings, excavations, and b'astings COnstantly going on. Little green plateaus just out here and there half-way down mile of the taller cliffs;' and notably theta is one which, overhanging a kilni on one side, and cat off on the other by a rising precipice of chalk, is aecessilA only by, a narrow winding path 'de scending from thoupper heights. This, together with the J.ange of white el ffs, very varied in form, and rising in some places to hurOreds of feet ; the burning limekiln . 'with its film of Et moke, its dark and f cavern= one furnacaa, its adjacent Stock of dried gore' for fuel ; the carts- and horses--going to and fro d9wn the ateep road to- the beach, and across the sands to the lirile craft that has put it on a flood tide, and is; now at the ebb left stranded to receive her Cargo of limestone ;.the moving fig ures, and some boats—made up, a bit off coast scenery which tempted. we'to submit for a wei k or so to the limited ace•immodation offered by the Pilot. I bad marked dnitin the scene during a walk, and bug deter mined to bike up myquarters at the riaigh inn for the purpose 9f paint inoF' it. So six days ago I came over, bag and baggage, from 11914iistoue, the watering-place where I. was stay-, big, and set-to work betimes the next i • ‘ . morning. , The autumnal weather wasbeauti fill, It nd the effect just what I want ed ; but the little craft was absent, ; and as i-he formed a conspicuOus item in t e picture, I grew auxiona, for tier env 'trance es the tide come in. When it was ut tho highest, libwev .er, abe slowly rondded the hetidland, and dropped anchor in irr Leith a little .before noon. I knew' that by the time the men had had their din ner she mould be lying high and dry, and taking in her cargo, in the usual pie nresque fashion. • - Resting fin., awhile, I strolled down to the•beach tc get a' closer took at her. She was rough 'and tub like— as might be expected, remeaibering her trade—cutter-rigged, and of froia fifteen to twenty tons bordeu. There Was a dick and cabin hatchway for ward, 'au open bold, and the yellow letters on .her. stern announced that she was the - Betsy, of Helmstone, and that Ralph Dayner was her 'nester. ) 2 . The sea was calm, but ther was . 04 enough ripple breaking on he shore to preveut the purport of s ome very high words isautng fro the tiny cabin being heard. Nevertheless, I could make out enough to Under stand that there was a man abusing and bullying a woman. Once there was something very much' like a scream, but soon all was sileet, and presently a sailor emerged frdm the hatchway. , Calling to a boy, appar ently asleep in the hold, the two got into the tittle ;boat Which. the cutter had in tow, and pulled ashore; Then they hauled it , upon the beach, and I saw that the man was •a - huge, broad shouldered, bull-necked, ill looking fellow. , As he walked away toward the 'kilns, exchanging a few rough words with the• men at work there, and disappearing up the road leading to the village, I thoUght I had never seen a worse speciinen of this class. Sitting down again in my easel I became much absorbed, and as the .dinner hour left the 'spot quite de serted, I remained fur a long time free from the interruption of. any of those on-lookers who are. more or less attracted by the sight of an ar tist. 'sketching. Practice has made me generally indifferent to these mo lestations, and so, when after awh:le I was conscious that some one was standing near me, I at first paid lit tle heed I. the fact. Lut when for a moment.' chanced to turn my bead, I was startled by the sullen and for bidMg aspect of the individual'at my elbow. He was a tall, thin e pale faced man of about forty, with shag-. spy ironv,rav beard and matted hair. Dressed in a besmirched and seedy snit of black, and wearing an old chimney-pot hat, be looked very dif ferent from any of my usual andi deco ; bat it was not so Mail this which disturbed me us his. unpleas ant stare—a stare beat upon lire, be it remarked, and not upon ,my pict ure: I could she out of the corner of my eye that be was not regarding what I was doing at. all. He bad his back. turned too much toward the easel for that, and each time that 1 glanced up at him and our eyes met, t ‘ encouutered a dark sinister scowl. I tried, however, to ignore his presence, although I confess it afteted me disagreeably. By degrees, too, I had a sensation that he was trying to get nearer to. me -Without my knotting it, and.l became 'tire of this at last, as 'I furtively watched *him ket.-- - They were certainly creep ing, as it were, toward me, and ? with out taking a stride, he had got much nloser to me than he was when I first oticed him.. He was now no above a yard from where I sat; and so I looked up at him at last pointblank. He winced a little under my steady glance, and moved slowly around to the other side. Again I tried; to go on with my work and forget -him. In' a more solitary place I Should, have felt rather uneasy ; 'bay,: was I not really feeling so now?--for here„ at this hour, with the coast 'Utterly -deserted, I was as much alone as I • well could be. know I ° I did not ce what to Make of the fellow. Did he want to attack and rob me? Be hardly looked like a pickpocket ; but yet I' 'paid not doabt, from his strange behaiior, that by had some sinister intention. Rescllving this much in: my mind, and seeing that be Was again; creep-. ing in his catlike stealthk, way' toward me, and this time; as it seemed, try ing to get behind. me, I aced up suddenly, and facing- : him said, an grit. ," What do you , mean by this dialgiog about? If you want to see what I am doing, look at it 'and be off, and don't annoy me any longer." - I had pitched my easel, in,: such-a position as to wake it impossible for anybody to get to my rear without passing very close in , frono of me first ; for I was about half way up the cliff ro jast at one, end of its tiiyluig 6atis t with a sbsy skits down :i - BENI I t i• , , , . to tbe beaob on the left end, and! lon the right a sheer wall of rising-10k Instead of answering me, the( ,fe low , burst into a Slow impertinent Ittgb, i and, slipping bstween the easel `find v the edge of the cliff, was behind' }:De b l in, a moment. Turning' almostil as rapid, however, I was again facal to' ri face with bim, and ,now there as t barely a foot's apace between us. iHe 11 appeared scarcely prepared for t i bia li movement, and again winced per ceptibly under my meady gaze. His long bony fingers;. which were Irv- , markably claw-like "in their action and form, twitched' nervouslir at OR beard, his laugh ceased, his ey es dropped, and he shrank back as 'if he thought J' was, going to str ke :I 8 him, much as a fierce .dog that h ' d c met his master might have do P. c Before I hail time to, speak he shyly al and awk ;vanity, but , with some ilo- lil litenesa raised his hat, saying: "I beg hi your pardon ; I tholight I knew yin. of I urn sorry to have- disturbed- jidtl, tt 'and I wish your good Morninkii" tl Then, ?gain slipping' by me, be a' walked away down the road to t,Le beach, occasionally lookng back inn-- ttvely over his shoulder in my dirY,,tc :ion. Ho passed , Apse to the ctlt ter, finally disappearing round soMe jutting rocks, With his eyes bent o ward the ground, apparently dee; ly absorbed, and noticing nothing around him. • • ir , Eight glad was I to see his ba4, t I had br ....,, ins ba It .or never ,neen E o much ut oat in my life by the impertinence of an idler ;land the strange" condtict and appearance of this 'man set, me wondering who he could be., Bu t as the interest in my work once more revived, he vanished for a time fr4na my wind. Only when the short t% 1 4- light drove me to my solitary chip le the parlor of the little inn did I think of him again; or make any In quiries. I No, the landlord didn't know note= in' at all about such ,a customer; he ban n't never seen his like np"that way ; nor no more had n't the one or two natives who were by this tithe dropping in for their evening smoke and glass.' I have said that the, Pili4's accommodation is limited ; and ' fond my snug, clean little bedroo , na y privacy does not go. This is ; O I, rl hardship, however, fur I have alw.ays been used to roughing it ; and the ire is nothing objectionable to me in iie- casituially . tuingling,with the homely frequenters of a village ale-house. Thus I smoked my pipe, and listened to or chatted with the few custot4re ac they came in from time to time. Several of them had seen me at work during the day; but of course, as , it was while they were absent that strange Visitor bud appeared, and pol asy they knew nothing of him otherwise, 1114 could give no inform:Aloe'. ! At a table in the fartherest "corner of the roore—which was, filly s'pa cions, considering the size of the hotise—in company with two Work men, from the lituekilns, sat the lilt looking fellow whom I had seen come ashbre from the cutter. As it Was gettinglate, I was surprised to • ,'see hini there, and asked of a fishertheir dose beside me how it was this nien bad not gone off with his craft mad her cargo before it got dark. f "Oh, said the man in an tinder= tone, " be he's - a proper radical Sort o'. chap, that R ilpih Dyirer ; th'erel never no knowin' what he'll bei nri to r•SouuPwlailek he 'll go bisself right filo, and sotnewhiles he'll just leave it to his lad and his missus, and, go off on the drink for a week or two at a time, and frecken that's what he's np to now. I reeken the boy and one o'i one, men 'd take the Betsy round to Heltnstone to night won't, better than_he would - bisself; and his mis sus on't, be none the worse for it, neither. Proper radical he. be'ei to her, too, sornewhileti sure 4 l " "111-uSes her'?" I suggested. 1 "Yes, I reeken he does," wen on the man, "and she be a poor," sad sort o' creatur too, kiud o' craCky they do ,say somewbiles. Harmiles4 enol you know, sir,, but a little wreak in her bead like, and that, inaks it all the worse for her, don't you see ?" Of course I could see plainly enough, and of course I, could i now nnderstand the sounds . I bad beard froici on board the cutter in the nat!ruing. Our farther talk was here inter rupted by the sound , of wheels atop ping at the door of the int), folloWed by the hurried entrance •of two strangers. One.was a strong, broad shouldered man, in appearance lath erlike an upper groom out of li;ery; the other, also strong and tall, lo Iced like a doctor. He &kid, ab,raptly, "Do any of yon here happen to have sin wandering about over 1 the Owns and cliffs to=day a tall, hin t fialefa,ced man, with a beard, dr and in black, and wearing a high h t.? " I instantly replied that ce tai ly I .had seen a person answering this ii deseriptien, and I briefly " tol dl the geml.-Inau under what c reunista ces. - That's he," he repl ed, wit oat doubt ; " now look here," he add. d, addressing the company generally, " he, is a madman, and this morning he escaped from the asylum at Helm -stone. Now I offer five pounds re ward to any one who shall be the means of helping us to secure ,I him. Depend upon it t he is not far oil', "but ai it is dark I atn afraid we may not be able to find him till the morning. Still, if any of you , Who know the cenntry well will guide me and my Mau, we will go and do what we can. He 'll be stowing himself awayunder setae barn or hay-rick or, down on the shore somewhere, perhaps. Can you let ns have a lantern or Iwo, landlord? " Naturally the wbolb roomful , was astir by this time. Every one vol neteered hat services, and a couple of lanterns being produced, and is Move made toward, the door, the doe tOr paused as he reached it, and said: "Now, weady I'must warn you of one thing : he is very. dangerous. What we call a homicidal maniac that is to say, be will try,to' murder, try to strangle anybody be gets, hold of who shows the 'slightest- fear of bin. He has already killed al'man in, his matinees; that -is why be hits been shut up. But if you face hiw boldly; look straight into his eyes, and show that you are not 'afraid of bim. you will have Ho wore 1101111 y iu *slog *lli Wm Olaeu Jda vroulti =I ME iter • Uncurl I, at one ofthe t eepOn tiiti bills Dt if tie. sees yo shrink , fr; hik ro all instant, he'll . have hi , age). in yon neckcloth' before yo kno„N w ereyou are. a d' stied as be fie, Ire brat; strongl a lion,_," I need not ray what lath el 4 'lllrii a il n mind eV this! moment, 4 to r h nlifid I felt fo e jthe escape ,I bad la . is ening faces turned 1 toward tht do tor ' While be sii there' , as onl .--, on man that gr of . the lanai( an biggest ma lift the rOom was the only one wh Eitioweo the slight eet sign of co ardice.l - Tlr wa l B via ph Dyner, th owner of t it cnt er who; at.,the conehisien ttolf - 1.14. i i )o tor'' words, drew hall, .n . Pperj, ei ed b y y everybody but me, ;t4 - ) th . or er Where he had been sfttii4, nd, with soinething that eV f 'vet ke a 'shudder, sank Mood ly into is chair, and took lls deep ugh f the li„quer in fond of .him. wa i,, ho lastito leave the - 4mM as the lit{ le ernrild went forth [tit? the 'fight; LA I left biro stil I sitting the 41 ` I m Having, by the dof a 1 nterni i conducted the octor - 4o th qspoir where I bad be u- \sketchin,gii and pointed! out the waY the' tool had taken when he le t. me, llretnr-liAd tri. the 'itin' having no mind: to 4sSist farther In the exc ting!search.l ThrV.l nerladjnot mov d from his ,cPrner , in the parlor wh n I Peeped IN and I went to bed fu 1 of uncorefortabbi rtfleciions upon the escape 1 had had from the dirt h those long4ionyj fiugers. I Had n t somethinOrge me to assume a angry, do aintieti tone toward th unfortuhat 'mad man as !promptl as I did, t 're is' i i no doubt he w uld have w I 4411 his Iniuricidal propensities up iil mei' i Ho would have crept to, within a l ' springing distance, and I then,flike ti wild beast, would- hare strringledl .me, or thrown me over the cliffs! Asl it was, ffellipg me prepared and res-I olute,b'ti'encidenly assumed the fawn-1 ing tone and bypocritical rimier which I have nn erstood to b 'part' of the dunning [splayed'by hoief aftbcted with thi direst of di ases .l f c i l l With no sma 1 regret I 1- rned next morning th t the search overt' fruitless,l and- th t the lb - matte wits. still at large: It: ;vas very muc like hearing L i . .hat a m ti-eating fig.., 'wittli l prowlinh about the neighbor ood, and I Confe'ss t having besi ated, i about going on itli my work. • Ye: I could not well .ifford to loseb day, and as 4. had shown m'self ea seer of the situation nee, I woul re:y On beiug able to • oso again. ',Jere fore, keeping a harp lookout i., was! not long ere I w• s enscoucecl'll - I:ny' old postilion, andlfidly engross: clwitil, my sketeh. As luck would b - ye it,t the spot wits nunsually q . uietoi.day. i . The kiln's, thong still buruin Overt notTheing fed; the Betsy d A not conks mined from Ilehnston „;-and with the exeeptien nosy -and Li"ert of two or three natives loafing ab iit,' - oe the watch, as they sajcl, "f..rkthat !beer tricky chap, as .noboclyics:pt the gentleman draftin' s l had clapped s o eyen,' I had the cliff and the road all to mtself, in •t, at . the very ll ''..time' when I I could ave cheerfullylsub mated to a littl company. Late in the of ernoon the Doctor and his man, bo h looking i rvea4. and travel-stained roes their w "tit Hof' -rest and Yong tr mp, paid meehort 1 , Visit. Their scPuts, they said l ' bad failed to! find. ajny trace of thelfligi two. Indeed, I btlieVe • theit i ictur Was inclined to di'mbt the sta t l psent I had made, for he cross-exa tried me again' and, again upon, the Whole matter. l'An hour or more pakeed ; the beach, so fur as the eye kionld stretch; Was qtr 4 te deirrtecl, as ;also were the tops of there cliffs, slun g wliich,-from my position, I.Con q -see' some waY. l'h sun Was dec)imitig, the thin 'lm of blue smoke . free:a 'the 1 litnekiln rose p ttily aerosst4 little green plateau before mentioned:, and the whole effect at this time waa one of perfect calm and peace, bat,also one of intense loneliness. At plast, however, this was rudely brok4 by the appdarat ce of Ralph Dyntf pow ing down the road. He was far from sober, and-lurched and stagdred ie his gait.' . He stopped noiv aud (hen. and 'appeared to be looking vrtcintly 1 - about seaward for his [ vessel. I 4.s he neared me he said. sulkily; 1 1 "D 'ye apPen't ha' seen theeriboat Of mine?" " Notigince yesterd7," I ilePiied, shortly. ' -- 1 "Not since yesterday ?" Ihe 're= ipeated i i iot eye upon me and tthenmoodd li s., first' - turning his 1 bloods , toward the spot where she had[been 'lying. f` What d 'ye mean by IY*lsier ;day? What's 'i yesterday ? Twern't yesterly I broughter - ronitdi was it? No. conldin't ha' been, ci " con lit tinned to mutter; ll s was - bruin'. -Where the blaies is ri e gone ? ' l , And then he staggered a ace-or 'two fariber down the road, s opped. came hack, scewled at, me, mitttered another' oath, itnd retreated 1 by the way be,had coe. ' i , I had reach 0131 sec in and bend in th road above me, When. I stet- him sn chilly give a isticrt_ much abif he ad, seep a ghofit--and -met off rennin' With_all• his Might: Wondering wbat could I have I pro docsd ranch unlookedor agility in a man of his bult . , I beheld, al about twenty yards f Om bits,', .a tall, dark figure emeiging stealthily film out of one Of the l any•crttitingscir chalk pits by the oad. I immidtately recogniztd th , madman. e was ti witliotA his lityt and Was tato( pir.g oii I i . ' ed cronch'ng, as it seem .• at rst, Wl' ag Dyner took to; his heels, e pres ently , et off r nnieg.after h ni, 1 1 took! I stood up from' illy, .0 set- and shouted I bad a whistle with me, and blew it with allMy i 1214412 V—did every turn I could to raise an Edam. 'Fora {moment a turn, in the ;road hid alike pure; ed from My view, but ;. presenltly they both stood ot: clear agaihst. the ev ning ekY, upon the top' of the [nearest high, chilli , The pins at which the heavier man' moved was extrao i dinary t fear seemed e i to; Itave . lenthim wings' neverth esi the , other ‘4 , 143 steadily g Ming ; on liiin, 1 and for en. instant t' 100 ' d as tit ti they might pnconnt r 'at 1 the Off edge, edge, for they lwere i r 6, tinin straight! tows it. N' .de Itrembled at tti, ei thong![ of wh E l miEthe' ' folio* for I could [iii gine that inl his blind!' titatti Driate , , , , iiiil/ ill Wilifiti • 4 - ill MI ,Itl i = IN I ~,. ffi ;la Ad* NUMB ; ' .direct l ion\be was runnin l g,l he turned' 1. nimbly and \ doitbled Lisa liken hare; but-again feellng !aim i overtaken, , ..' ' hearing, doebti es;•the '' breath- , ingot Pie revile atm t 4 hi' his ear \ • _ (for the latter, Ili chtstretelied armoirmed about 0 litive"--him in Pifigrip),_the terrified*jitire took • 'euddetily to the little *riding. path that le 'from- the ripperPiight down fo-the een platea .1, u, overliahl4ig the,, limekti . The reninentti a . 8 with fairty "area out of hiw;l4,proably • 1; 11\ hardly ;saw whither he waif goin \ or • .. be would have reniembfirdd ,that, s from here there Was *eseape, striilzgle•for lifnwohld orely ensue, 1 Reaching the grass, papier made kir the!, ledge aber theikiln, and`' this' hilought„ himlto ' hit]. fifty' , yards of .where • I was Pin - ding. I 1 weld see the terror i hie white' bloated! face nand. as hist bewildered ' ; gaze fell upon the lyawnpag red hot "', pit of b l urniug lime i beneath him, and 1 he knew that he was cagiel, he threw At up, his arms with a tie* .lan'd tarn- , ing round, encountered t kiie maniac , face to face. They closed in an in stant; tie fatal grip wail unready op . , Diyners throat. I Del* every ...' effort, be failed to Ishaltlii ;it off, or s even toirelas it in the 144; but, his • enorreolas strengtlei eha ea' him to • : life his hntogniet off the' &piled as ' If if he had been a child. 61 I -As hd did so theyjfell, pit Daynef downward, arid for sever4l ; momenta. '' , : they were rolling in a 'beadle heap ' together, the thin i sineltyi form 'of the Madman Clinging to dud entWin-• • leg the ether's bulky frame as a sere ' pone m i ght coil round aili elephant. I),iyner ;struggled to' his . t i feiiiti again, and in t!he wild whirl whiph; followed' ! I Alva , frem the deeperiing color of" ' his &eel that th ose: terrible. fingers _ must -be tightening their Sofa. I '' It wai3 a fearful spectae)e i Hi her ! ' 1, -led thiiiher for, a few ,tuoinetits more i upon that narrow led:,, , e4f ' turf they 1 two belies swayed, now - going w 4 ith , 1 4 lieft'Vy ithrid against t he! wall Of Chalk • on the one -side, and :then staggering perilously near the, sheer d4wn. eliff , .. I _,, i :aboire, the kiln on the lathed., 'Twice , 42ain, they fe'l, and- twio again papier got. to his feet. Heeens now , \,' tearing pt the madMan'elbaerd and- • hair, and dealing . smai sing- blows , , with his huge fists at the face lof his ~ foe; lint the grip evidentl . t. 'Peter fur .in instant lessened; lit was I steadily doing its fatal work open; the ) 4 ictim. All of a ' sudden; th 'biginan'a serength seem to fail ' him ;entirely. . `Once lire the two dropPed Ito the , ground, this time so Cloaul to !the edge of tlfe plateau that lin tind,ther. in= • itant bilfore I could Well realize the horror ilif the event, they hail fallee, Cocked in their deadly enibiace with i each other, into the firy *Os of the ' .liceekiln below! . , 1 i-s • ! . 'Au in'quest ou a nte!, uniAccignizable charredlremains of the tvilo reiseruble' , men leis bi ought out the, terrible, - sequel o this tale of latutalify and . • unable:4i. That afserrioop, While OA _ whole v i l l age was' fn' connuOtion at .., , the news, there arrived .wci police- . !nen frniiil3alstone, dt..king f6r Ralph Di% tied It appeared mat the lad I who helped him to sail hit craft, find ing I= l bis,ltnasteridid not rer un' in time to savelthe daylight on he'previous, ,Ivolitig, got one of the boiatnien froth ' rho bedeii. to . , aid Win 'in taking her' '. had; tc the neighboring, port, as he ha',l to to on many otlat r ciecasicd:s• when, tk my I fisherman ! friend had , . itiv.ge 3 / l e.,l,the burly ruffii,n land taken • -> to a drh3king bout: , Tge _ttiiii and the bit gok r into Heluistone (that , place niot beiug above au hones' sail , fr) juqt, at nightfall; hit On, their' way, n t hearing anying liof Mrs. V . DaYne , they ;looked, in o the little fore-em in, - and; 'to ' lir ldismay, , or woman leeding found he poor and almost' senseless. She . faintly told.' them t at her hushiud; ha 4 struck 11.1 her a t emendous blew List before he' lt,ft hi boat on the winning; and ... - they had hardly got hr on shore i when she died ;rout its ffects. •• A dteadfol retribatio had over- - taken' ter murderer, 'anti I had wit nessed; it, as also had an others; , for beiades being -attrcted j . to, the ' cf spot by my shouts an, whistlings, some Of tits natives of itstlean had cangKsight of the begjiming of that chase for life, and 'of course had fol- lowed it up. 'But, from a 1 strange coinciepee, accident , oil , whatever it inv t '. eve been; `eel ; instrument 1 selecte(d by Fate to deaf thifl act' of ' retributive justice torhea otO to have, . • been 4 fearfully fitting ne—the mis- , erableimaniac being no'ie other than ''' the lother 'of Mr& Rayner.. The faint f madness 'Was' in .the family, `rind o ce, long ago, it was proved - he i5 - ad attached her husbatid, atter some high words between dill), and nearly strangled him. This was the• first . sign that homicidal Mani which, 'early leading 'to one Murder, as . the , duct had stated, terminated in the , . eatast ophe I beheld.--Illis account- 1 ed for Dayner's behaviour when he fit* heerd jof. . the - Inoiltic being :at 1 large, and the'ubjecti finer Ihe dis- played _on seeing : him - thiddenly ewer r e — from the clailk;po. _His nerve , shattered by hia disselute life,' • 1 3 doub less, the recollection (!)f tilos° , terri le fleg,ers; which hdd once ,: 1 alrea y been, at his throat'i . scared ' , his wits utterly. andiefl to his seek- ' ing safety in flight, thd One course of , t all o Pets the most atal fro have --- adoptelj'in the Treierice of such a madman. - ~ 1 i ' I - ' 1 doubt if I ever! shall have tho I :,„ , heart to finish my' eikeph. I fear I i 1 644 ever look upon itl linesiwithout: l. 1 seeingthat awful death-struggle still ' goin on npon the Mile green pia teen hich'is so promient a feature '. ' in tb subject. At present pad can- - 1 vase tends with its' face to Ithe wall and verything concer'aing the tre.- gedy being now overar d my presence of n farther use, 1. , ttiink the wisest • Ibieo I can do ia,,,,10 ipack jup 'and • quit t he Pilot to•nio*ow reorning, ende I,oring as far ais poiaible — to forg •t my visit to Pitddean,l and all conn•cted with it 3 -I A HILIA Loom.---There is often a ;dept., of wisdom M :the Shoughtu 'and ayings of the little on, which prat illy has failed tb fathom, and , Iwhic those 'Who are but lohildren jof la ger growth " rriiOrt dp well to, i l lappl . Such ' wisdom T ate beautifully exe fified in the ease of a little girl who i onm rpturned 'to !her klimofrom , la jauht; in the woods, her face coy-' lered with mosquito bi 3 i es. ‘glWhy did on not drive them]n away said her mother. " They WoUld not go," said f the,hia " Why 'did you: not kill theao" "It would ilot h 4 ove been righ ," was the answer. l "But I hay ;seen .you kill them it hotoe," nrg 4 the surprised riasithek. " Yes, ma Ma," argned; thb Child txmly, "if tkey come into any : hones and, bite me I kill their ; but if Igo into' i i the wiitids, that it their house, end I bawl no right to kill themi'' .' "--Fs this jury co wrists ts. erect," amid 4 X•asour4 roAtiag dP WI Sieves sad lispiaptor his voace4ina qIII . I S sball trei comptolod to nmeot asp °wand 1111Amtuld Pull Auto las iNtst thrtittliftlllll4llllll.. . • II =EI E
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