Gtlfc imcs, New Bloomftcfo, pa. EARNING A WIFE. A TRUE STORY. YE All after year Robert Jackson has been tho second waiter at the l'nion and the head waiter at Congress Hal), but the careless crowds hnvo not known that through his veins courso tho proudest Virginian bloods Robert is a smart, well made quadroon,, fashioned, perhaps, in about tho samo mould as Ste phen A. Douglass, for his head closely re sembles that of tho Littlo (iiant. His grandfather was General Harry Leo, of .Revolutionary light-horse cavalry fame, and his mother was a slave woman named Jenney a maid of Mrs. Lee. Soon after the birth of William Jack son, the head waiter's father, Jenny was sold to Colouel Stewart of Frederick county, Maryland. The boy William showed extraordinary intelligence, and became a pet of his master, and on tho death of Colouel Stewart, found himself free, by a clauso in tho will. William went immediately to Washington, whore ho had been many times with his master. There he met John McLean, Postmaster General under Martin Van jiurcri, and a friend of his old master. Judge McLean appointed him a messenger in tho Post Office Department at a salary of $000 per annum. While messenger in the Post Ortico Department, William Jackson met a beau tiful long haired octoroon, the slave of Judge John Stewart, of Baltimore Tho slave girl's name was Rachel, and she came to attend Miss Stewart, one of the i'ashiouablc Baltimore belles, at one of President Van 5urcu's receptions. William lost his heart with the dusky ! maid, and soon went to Baltimore to get Judge Stewart, who owned her, to con sent to their marriage. "No, sir," said the Judge indignantly, " Rachel is a slavo, and she must marry a slave. If she marries a frco nigger sho will be running away herself, and besides, 1 dont know wlicn I may want to sell her to the New Orleans traders." " Then I can never marry her ?" " Never, until somo body buys her from me," replied tho Judge. Rachel was sent to the Frederick county-farm, and thither William went in the night to hold a consultation with her. First it was resolved to run away. Rut there was no chance of success. Tho fugitive slave law was in effect ; passes were requiied by the slaves on the planta tion, and to run away was surely to be caught, returned, and then a dreadful whipping followed. . . i . " What can we do ?" sobbed Rachel. " I know," replied William, " I will buy you niygelf. . . , . , ' But you have no uiouey." " I can work and earn it," replied tho determined lover, , . I " How much will you take for Rachel ?". he asked of Judge Stewart the next day. " Well, $1000 will buy her," replied the hard-heartod Judge. William went to work. Every cent was saved, he even going on foot into Frederick county by night, to sec Rachel where they held solemn consultations' and hoped only for the time . when he could buy her and own her uud luuke her - his wife. ' ' - ' ! Think of that, mercenary beaux, the artless fortune-hunters of Congress Hall ; think of toiling night and day, and . then think of paying your lust cent for the love of woman.. . . , Two years rolled around, 'and $000 gladdened the Right of William Jacknon. Christmas came. , ,', . ' ; ,, " What shall I give you for Christmas this year, William?' asked the good old Postmaster General of his trusty messen ger. . . 1 " Anything, Mr. Secretary." " But what would you like most?" Then William told the story of his uud Rachel's troubles how he was a afraid she would be sold, how beloved her dear ly, and how still he lacked a hundred dol lars to buy her. The Post master General took off his specs, wiped bis eyes, then put them on again. Then he fumbled in his pockets. " Five tentwenty thirty" he counted and then ho handed William a hundred dollars ! Too happy to live, William started for Judge Stewart's. " Here, Master John," uid he, with his eyes sglow with joy here is the thousand dollars, Now I want Rachel." " My God! William, you don't tell me so!" exclaimed the Judgo. " Why, I sold Rachel yesterday for $1200 to co to Mobile." " When is she going?" asked William nervously. ' She's gone ulready went yesterday. She'll be in Lynchburg in three days, by the boat." ! Broken hearted and crushed in spirit, William hurried back to Judge McLean , in Washington. The Judge beard his Ktory. Daniel Webster ana John C. Culhoun were in the Judge'l room, and they both took a deep interest. " Let's raise the money and scud Wil liam after btr," said the generous Web ster. . " Ho would be seized a dozen times as fugitive," said the Judge, " and they'd sell him, too." " I'll send my private secretary," said Mr. Webster, and so he did. Thoro was no tolcgraph then, nor cars, but tho secretary took tho Potomao river boat, and with $1200 contributed by William Jackson's friends in tho depart ment, overtook Rachel, showed Mr. Cal houn's letter, endorsed by several Vir ginians, and brought her back. Calhoun Webster and Judgo McLean saw them married the next week. How Purson IHako Subdued his Horse. 7"ELL," said Reuben, tho story- ft teller, " father always wanted a horse, because the folks in Greene live scattered, and he has so far to go to at tend funerals and weddings, and visit schools, you know; but he ho never felt as if ho could afford to buy one. But one day ho was coming afoot from llildreth and a stranger asked him to ride. Father said, " That's a handsome horse you aro driving. I should liko to own such a horse myself." "What will yon give mo for him ?" " Do you want to sell '(" says father. "Yes, 1 do, and I'll sell cheap, too," says he. " O, well," says father, " it's no uso talking, for I haven't tho money to buy with." " Make mo an offer," says he. " Well, just to put an cud to tho talk," says father. " I'll give you seventy-five dollars for the horse." " You may have him," says tho man, as fjuick as a flash, " but you'll re pent of your bargain in a week." " Why what ails tho horso '(" says father. " Ails him? lie's got tho 'old Nick' in him, that's what ails him," he says. "If he has a will to go, he'll go ; but if ho takes a notion to stop, all creation can't start him. I've stood and beat that horse till the sweat run off ino in streams. I've fired a gun close to his cars ; I've burnt shavings under him. I might have beat him to death and roasted him nlivo be fore he'd budged an inch." " I'll take tho horse," says father. " What's his name '(" " George," says tho man. " I shall call him Gcorgio," said father. " Well, father brought him home, and we boys wcro mighty plcasod, and we fixed a place for him in the barn, and cur ried him down ami fed him well, and father said, " Talk Very kindly to him boys, and let him know you feci friendly." So wo coaxed and petted him, and tho next morning father harnessed him and got into tho wagon to go. But George wouldn't stir a step. ' Father got out and patted him, and we boys brought him apples and clover tops, and once in a whilo father would say, " Get up, Guor gie," but ho didn't Btriko a blow. By-and-by, he says : " This is going to take him. Well, Gcorgio, we will see. which has got the most patience, you or I." So ho sat in the wagon and took nut the skeletons " , " Skeleton ?!' said Poppet, inquiringly. " Of sermons, you know. Ministers always carry round a littlo book to put down things they think of when they are walking or riding. Father says he's planned out many sermon when lie was hoeing in the garden." . , " I saw him writing one down sitting on a potato hill," said Levi. " Well, don't interrupt tno, or I never shall never get through., Father sat full two hours before tho horse was ready to start j but when he did,'- thcro was no more trouble for that . day. ' 'The ,' next morning it was the same thing over again only George gave in a little soouer. " All the while it seemed as if father couldn't do enough -for the horso, ' He was around 'the stable, " feeding' "and fussing over him and talking to him in his pleasant, gentle way (folks say fath er can quiet old craxy David Downing across the street, any time, by just speak ing to him) and the third morning, when he had fed and ' curried and harnessed him with his own hands somehow there was a different look in tho horses eyes. But when father was ready to go Georgo put his feet together and laid his ears tack, and wouldn't stir. Well, Dove was playing about the yard, she brought her stool und climbed up to the horse's head. Dovo, tell Pop what you said to Georgie that morning." " 1 gave him an awfut talking to," said the little girl. I told him it was perfectly ' tdu ulou for him to act so ; that he'd come to a real good place to live, where every one helped everybody ; that he was & minister's horse, and ought to set a good sample to all other 'horses and God wouldn't love him if he wasn't a good horso. That's what I told him. Then I kissed him on the nose." " And what did George do?" " Why he heard every word I said, and when I got through he felt so 'shamed of himself, he could u t hold up his head; so he just dropped it, till it most touched the ground, and, he looked as sheepish as if he had been stealing a hundred sheep." " Yes said Ruben' " and when , father told him to go he was off like a shot He has never made any trouble since. That's the way futher cured a balky horse. And that night, when he was unharnessed, he rubbed his head against father's shoulder, and told him as plain as a horse could speak, that he was orry. He's tried to make up with father ever since, for tho trouble he made him. We boys have great times catching him, when he is loose in the pasture. He's full of his tricks. He'll come galloping up, almost within reach, uud when wo think we are sure of him, he'll wheel and bo off to tho other end of tho pasture. He'll fool with us that way for half an hour; but father has only to stand at tho bars and call his name and ho walks up as quiet as an old sheep. Why, I've seen him back himself bo tween tho shafts of tho wagon many a time, to save fathor trouble. Father wouldn't tako two hunndrcd dollars for him to-day ; and it doscn't cost mnch to keep him, for he eats anything you give )lim. Sis very often brings out some of tor dinner to him." "Ho likes to cat out of a plate." said Do.vc, it makes him think he's folks." How He Did It. A DAUGHTER of a wealthy gentle man, in Chicago, fell in love, as she thought, with her lather's coachman, a smart young Englishman. Her father found out how matters stood, and adopt ed the following course of action. Ho called Julia into the library and told her that ho had heard of her engage ment to John. Did she know tho con sequences ? She would have to turn washerwoman, for John could not sup port her. Julia was heroic. It was so romantic, you know, aud Julia expressed herself ready for uny or every emer gency. Very well, my dear, when do you in tend to get married ? Julia didn't know, but hoped that it would bo soon. The sooner the better, my dear, but as you can't well go to tho stablo to sco John, and as it is necessary that you should bo thrown into his society and get to know hint, you had better ask him to dinner to day. This was putting a new phase on the matter. It wasn't romantic a bit, but still Julia did her father's bidding, and bid her lover to tho feast. Dinner time came. Julia was dressed like well, Solomon, in all his glory, was not arrayed like unto her. John had got on his best suit of livery. His face was like unto a boiled lobster, and ho moped it every few minutes with a huge yellow silk handkerchief which his mother had given him before ho left homo. Dinner was served. Tho old folks sat at theouds of the table. Julia on one side, and John on tho other. It wasn't romantic a bit, and John looked well Julia since confidentially remarked to tho writer, who, by tho way, has assumed John's place in her offec tions, that ho looked awful. lie sat on the edge of his chair,' wiped his face with his napkin, and his mouth with the yellow handkerchief, broke one plato, two wine-glasses, and upset a dish over the dress of Mrs. , and then said he thought lie had better go and look after the 'orses. Ho went, and the same day got a note from Julia, intimating that he needn't come back. A Good Fuel. " The very general belief that tho Con gressman of to-day is a much worso sort of a person than the Congressman of long ago is not entirely correct. It appears from an incident related in a recently published volume, entitled " Tho Domes tic Life of Thomas Jefferson," that our revolutionary forefathers in " Congress assembled," had their little items of " in cidental " expenses, many of them qnite as queer as thoso which astonish tho constituants of to-day. The following story is related by Mr. Jeffersou, concern ing tho first Continental Congress ! Delegate Harrison, of Virginia, . de siring to " stimulate," presented himself aud a friend at a certain place where sup plies are furnished Congress, and ordered two glasses of brandy and water. The man in charge replied that the liquors were not included in the supplies furnish ed Congressmen. "'Why, said Harrison, "what is it then, that I see the New England mem bers come hero and drink ?" " Molasses ond water, which they have charged as stationary," was tho reply. " Then give me brandy uud water," quoth Harrison, " and charge it as fuel." Wonders of Chemistry, Linen can be converted into sugar; sugar into alchohol and carbonic acid ; alchohol into other and water. Sugar can also bo converted into oxalic acid, and likewise into pure charcoal and water. Alchohol will readily change into acetic acid or vinegar. Col tar is transformed into dyes that surpass tho Tyrian purple of old. Starch may be transmitted into gum, alchohol, sugar, vinegar or oxalio acid ; ond these are but u few of the magical changes which modern chemical science has mado "familiar as household words." The Diiclinwu's Cure. " Vcn I lays myself down in my lone ped room, and tries to sleep very soundt, do trcams, oh. how in my het dey come, till 1 vish I vuh under to ground ! Sometimes vcn I eat voo pig supper, I treama und out in my sleep, like tno tivil I screams, ond kicks off the pet clothes und kroans 1 den dere I layt, mit dor pet clothes all off, I gets myself all ofur froise. In de morning I vakes mit de het uke and koff, und I'm ohick from my het to my toes ; oh, vat shall pe tun for a poor mau like mo. vat for do I lcat such a life ? Some shsys dere's a cure for din trouble of mo; dinks I'll dry it, and kit me a vim !" How it Is Done Out West. IN Cheyenne, when anything happens, tho peoplo consider that a religious duty devolves upon them to hold a me ct ing, and to pass resolutions upon it, and strong has this habit become that some citizens of that place, whenever a break fast bell rings, call n meeting of the family, elect officers and rcsolvo to go down stairs and cat tho meal. The other day a woman fell into Crow Creek and sank., A largo crowd of men wore standing upon the bank at the time, and they instantly proceeded to organize a meeting for thefurpose of devising means for rescuing tho woman. After a spirited debate, Mr. A. Arnold was elected chuir man; and on taking his scat, Mr. Arnold not only thanked tho meeting for tho compliment offered him, but ho made a long spoeeh, in which he discussed tho tariff, tho coal products for 1871, and tho Alabama claims. A scries of resolutions were then offered, and after a prolonged discussion, and tho acceptance of several amendments, they wcro passed. They embraced a protest against tho depth of Crow creek ; regret that all women wero not taught to swim, aud a resolve to rcs cuo the particular woman who had fallen overboard. A committee was appointed to dive for her. He dived, and brought the woman to the surface by tho hair. Ju.st then it occurred to him that he had not been ordered to bring her to the shore so ho let her sink again, and swam to tho bank to report progress, and ask for further instructions. Action was taken on the report, and after an exciting dis cussion, ho was directed to land the woman immediately. He dived airain and drajrtrcd her out. None of the women in Cheyenne can hold their breath more than an hour at a time, so when this one was rocovcrcd hhc was dead. The meeting said it was sorry, but it was vastly more important that things should bo done decently and in order, aud according to rulo, than that tho life of a women should be saved. Very Decided. The following incident actually hap pened near Cincinnati : Esq. II. "Your Honor, I would liko to continue this case, if it bo the proper time." Judge P.-"This court cau have nothing to do with your case before security is given for. costs." Esq. II. "But, your Honor, this case was brought by au administrator, and you cannot, under the law, force him to give security." Justico P. "Mr. II., this Court, if it knows itself, is presumed to know the law, and it does not sit here to bo dictated toby lawyers. You must give security. Esq. II. "Well, your Honor, if this is your decision, I know my remedy; I will sue out a writ of mandamus." Justice P." Young man," rising to the loftiest hoight of his judicial dignity, ''If it suit your purpose you can get a writ of any kind of a damus you please, but it will not affect tho ' Opinion of this Court." A Romance. AMU. CRANSTON who somo years ago resided in Newport, R. I., went on a voyage to the West Indies, uud was captured by pirates. Seven years went by, bringing no news of the missing, man to his wife, who long before the end of that time uccountcd herself a widow. Laying aside her weeds she prepared bridal dresses anew to con sulate her marriage with a Mr. Russoll, of Boston. On the eventful day, the es caped prisoner reached his home to learn the tidings. He culled at tho house un der the assumed name of a friend of the lata Mr. Cranston, but when alone with the bride to be, ho pushed back the hair from his forehead aud pointed to a scar once well known to her. The lady recog nized him, und though in anything but groom-like toilette, tho flew to his arms, claiming him as indeed hers. Mr. Rus sell was culled in to learn the truth of the old proverb, " There's many a slip betwixt the cup und the lip," uud to re sigh his fair prospects. The story runs that the original pair were united over agaiu, and that Mr. Russell gallantly pre sented tho bride with a wedding portion. Jta?" Once u gentleman, who had the gift of shaping a good many tilings out of orange-peels, was displaying his abilities ut a dinner party before Theodore Hook sucecded in counterfeiting a pig, to the admiration of the company- Mr. Hill tried the same feat, and, after destroying and ptrewing the table with the peel of a dozen oranges, giv it up with the ex-; clumutiou, " Hang a pig ! I can't make ono." " Nuy, Hill," exclaimed Hook, glunc- j ing at the tuble, " you have done more ; i instead of oue pig, you have mudo a ! litter." j .n. H 11 l . ' -rtr mere ih a worm tu meaning in this threefold classification of the crimi nals confined in the New York City Prison. In 180!). Of the 4-7'0'J pris oners, '17,170, or iiine-tenthts, were Roman Catholics; 4, ISO Protestants, 001 Jews, and 8 Chinese; 2(,4!M, or sixty- j three per cent., wcro foreigners, and 15,- i 710 born in this ommtry; 28,000, or' sixty-four per cent , were of intemperate hubits. 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