Boots ! , I i A Full Assortment of .' ; , 1 " : THE CELEBRATED YORk BOOTS, i i ' , Hand or Machine Sewed, Whole Stock and Double . , ... Sole and , , . , Warranted to Give Entire Satisfaction, Manufactured and For Sale to the Trade by ' M. B. SPAHR, YORK, PA. A full Assortment of Boots, Shoes and Rubbers , ' ' Constantly on Hand. tt-flpectal Attention raid to Ordarif 6 23 26. New Millinery Goods A.t Newport, Pa. IBHO to Inform the publlo that I have Just re turned from Philadelphia, with a full assort ment of the latest styles of . , - - MILLINERY GOODS. HATS AND BONNETS, RIBBONS, FRENCH FLOWERS, FEATHERS, CHIGNONS, . . , , LACE CAPES,' ' . NOTIONS, " And all articles usually found In a flrst-class Mil linery Establishment. All orders promptly at tended to. -We will sell all goods as Cheap as can be got elsewhere, DRESS MAKING done to order and In the la test style, as I gut the latent Fashions from New York every month. Golterlng done to order, In all widths, I will warrant all my work togive sat isfaction. All work done as low an possible. ANNIE ICKES, ' , e - Cherry Street, near the Station, . ; 51613 ' , Newport, Pa. CARSON'S Boots! 1 STF.T.T.AT? but being much the beat U iu f OA SUULOXD, the end by far the cheapest V OIL Do not fall to give it a trial, BUU JFUU Will U9V UU UIUC1. Tl! K alarming Increase In the number of fright ful accidents, resulting In terrible deaths and the destruction of valuable properly, caused by the Indiscriminate use of oils, Known under the name of petroleum, prompts us to call your spe cial attention to an article which will, wherever USED, remove the CAUSE of such accidents. We allude to Carson's Stellar Oil 1 ' t ' FOR ' 1 ILLUMINATING PURPOSES. The proprietor of this OH has tor several years felt the necessity of providing for, and presenting to the public, as a substitute for the dangerons compounds which are sent broadcast over the country, an oil that it SAVE and BRILLIANT, and entirely reliable. After a long series of labo rious and costly exierlinents, he has succeeded In providing, and How offers to the public, such a substitute in "CARSON'S STELLAR OIL." It should be used by every family, , , 1ST, Because It is safe beyond a question, i TIio primary purpose In the preparation of STELLAR OIL has been to make It PERFECTLY SAFE, thus Insuring the lives and property of those who use it 2D, Because It Is the most BRILLIANT liquid Il luminator now known. 3D, Because it is more economical, In the long run, than any of the dangerous oils and fluids now in too common use. ITH, Because it Is intensely BRILLIANT, and therefore economical, giving the greatest possi ble light at the least expenditure to the consum er. Its .present standard of BAFETY AND BRILLIANCY will always be maintained, for upon this the proprietor depends for sustaining the high reputation the STELLAR OIL now enjoys. : ' : To prevent the adulteration of this with the ex plosive compounds now known under the name of Kerosene. &c, c., it is put up for family use in Five Gallon cans, each can being scaled, and stamped with the trade-mark of the proprietor ; it cannot be tampered with- between the manufac turer and consumer. ' None is genuine without the TRADE-MARK. STELLAR OIL Is sold only by weight, each can containing live gallons of six and a halt pounds each, thus scouring to every purchaser full meus ure. It Is the duty and Interest of all dealers and consumers of illuminating oil to use the STELLAR OIL only, because it atone is known to be safe and reliable. 3. All orders should be addressed to . jaiiii:iv & co., , WHOLESALE A&ENTS, . 136 South Front Street, 1 5 ly Philadelphia. , New Carriage Slauufaetory, OK Hiua; Street, East or Caiujbi.i sr., Xew liloornfleld, renn'a. THE subscriber has built a large and commodi ous Shop on High St., East of Carlisle Street, New Itloomneld, Pa., where he is prepared to man ufacture to order Ofi r r i a g o h Of every description, out of the best material. Sleighs of every Style, built to order, and finished In the most artistic and durable inauuer. M. Having superior workmen, he is prepared to furnish work that will compare favorably with the best City Work, and much more durable, and at much more reasonable rales. -REPAIRING of all kinds neatly and prompt ly done. A call Is solicited. SAMUEL SMITH. Sltf JAME3 33. OLARIC, MAMl'ITAOTUHXH AND DIALEU IK Stoves, Tin and Sheet Iron Ware New Bloouiflcld, Ferry eo., Pa, T7"EKPS constantly on hand every article usually a y Kept in a nrai-ciaiw esutoiuuiueui. All the latest style and most Improved Parlor and KlU-lien Move, TO BURN HITHER COAL OR WOOD I '. H. Spouting and Roofing put up in the most durable niauuer and at reasonable prices. Call auu examine uis si c. , i UNCLE TELEG'S STRATAGEM. ' T TELL you it's all nonsense," said " JL Unl Peleg. "Charity benev olence pity I it's all played out t Your big fairs may be all very nice, but people don't couio there because they . pity the poor: they come because it's fashiona ble!" , Iloratia Mere shook her pretty head. " You seo, child," said Undo Pcleg, taking snuff, " you're on the wrong plat form ever to get a peep behind the cur tain. You're an heiress, and you're tol erably good looking, and have a way that people like, and thereforo the world puts it's best foot forward, so far as you are concerned. If you were Mrs. Sikcs, the washerwoman, or Betty, the orange woman, you'd see quite a different aspect of things." "Nonsense,uncle," said IIoratia,still un convinced. "Be a good darling.old Uncle Peleg, and lot nie have the Triomphe de Grande strawberries in your south garden border for my refreshment table. Itemeniber I'm to sell strawberries and cream, and I want my table to look the best in the room.", . " Who do you suppose will buy your strawberries, at the outlandish price you'll put upon them t" he demanded sourly. " Everybody," Iloratia answered, sauci ly. " Come Undo Peleg, be generous and graceful, and say I shall have them 1" ' Uncle Peleg again took snuff. " On one condition you can have them." ' Iloratia clapped her white, rosy hands. "And that." " Just wait until you hear," said the old man, dryly.' "You can't have my fifty quarts of Triomphe de Grande straw berries, each one as big as a pigeon's egg, until you have first sold a dozen quarts from door to door." Iloratia opened her brown,' wondering eyes like twin wells of hazel light. "I, Uncle Peleg?" " . , . " You, niece Iloratia 1 And I am to specify the houses where you . are to go." " It will be fun," cried Iloratia, with a gay laugh, " I'd just as soon do it as not." " Perhaps it will be fun, , perhaps it won't," said Uncle Peleg. "At all events, I want you to get one glimpse, at least, of life through a strawberry woman's eyes." " And I am to be disguised, Uncle Pelog?" "To be sure you are. Miss Iloratia Mere would have no difficulty in dispos ing of her wares ; a friendless strawberry girl id different." " All tho more delightful a regular tableau vivant I" cried Iloratia, merrily. " Well, uncle, where am 1 to go V " I'll write down a list of names for you, that shall be culled out of your dear est friends Mrs. Montague, Mrs. Dysart, Miss Ferrars and the like." " They will all buy I" cried Horatia. " We'll see," Uncle Peleg said. " Are you willing to buy the Triomphe de drnntlp nf. atioll ft rtrinA no f.Viin Tlni-af? ?' " " t'"- i "At any price," the girl answered, gleefully. " lou don t know how disagreeable you may find it" " It will be a perfect adventure !' said Iloratia, recklessly. ' " cut mind, you re to keep it a secret. " As the grave," his mischievous nieco answered with mock solemnity. " M 188 Iloratia Mere would scarcely have been recognized by her nearest friends, when she Was dressed for the curious part she was to play " for one day only" as she declared. A calico dress ; thick boots in which her tiny feet felt unwonted clumsy, a much-worn water proof cloak, borrowed from Mary Ann, the cook, and a worsted hood enveloped in a faded black veil, and a basket hang ing over her arm these were the do- tails of her costume. " Strawber-ne !" she cried, raising her aweet voice to " C. above." " Oh, Uncle Peleg, it will be such a joke I" And she tripped away delighted at the prospect of playing at the realities of Wo. Uncle Pelog looked after her rather doubtfully, as he resorted mechanically to his untuning panaoea for all human ills or perplexities, the snuff box. , " 1 m almost sorry 1 sent ber on Buch an unpalatable errand," he said to him self; " but it's just as well she should learn to see the world as it really is. Her life has been couleur de rose, and no wonder. The strawberries will be a dear bargain after all I" While these eccentric reflections were parsing through the old man's brain, Iloratia Mere had already reached the first house on her list inhabited by Mrs. Montague, a lady who had always pro fessed the sweetest and most saintlike character, whose voice was soft and low. and who spoke in six syllabled words of WebBtonan elegance. Mrs. Montague herself was iu the hall as iloratia rang the door-boll. " If ye plase, ma'am," said Bridget, " it's a girrel selliu' strawberries will we buy a quart r ' .- " Strawberries indeed I and at the up per door I" shrilly cried Mrs. Montague, in a voice that for an instant almost com pelled Iloratia to doubt the lady's identi ty, " Uon t you know, better, girl, than to bring your' trumpery wares to the front door f What do you a'pose base- mont bolls were mnde for t Clear out, this minute I What ''art-' you standing there for ? Don't you hear what I say ?" And she took hold of . Horatia'a . arm and assisted her progress with a vigorous push. , ,',i't( . . i Mrs. Dysart came ; next an elegant widow with an ivory . pure complexion ; curls like the tendrils of a grape vine, whose obstinate rings she was always la menting. This time our heroine knew better than to go to the front steps, and made her way meekly to the area bell. " Strawberries, is it ?" said the little girl who came to the door. " I'll ask the missis t" Mrs. Dysart herself presently came to the door, and Iloratia started to see tho marvelous dissimilarity between Mrs. Dysart of society and Mrs. Dysart at home. Her skin was sallow, wrinkled and blotched, here and there, from the too frequont use of powerful coBmotics, her hair was screwod up into little papil htct secured by pins, making a perfect chevaux de rite of her head ; her beauti ful figure was lathy and straight like a pump draped in calico ! " Strawberries 1 of -course not at this season of the year," said Mrs. Dysart, snappishly. " I'm not made of money !" And Bhe slammed the door in Iloratia s face. " Miss Ferrars will buy them at ' all events," said Iloratia to herself. " Lu cille Ferrars was always noble-hearted and generous." " How much are they r said the fair Lucille, coming to the head of the base ment stairs, in a dishabille of greasy cashmere and a soiled white apron. " Kighteen conts a bosket. " Pshaw 1" said Lucille, supercilliously. " As if I was going to pay such a price as that 1 I'll give you ten!" " 1 hey are unusually nne, said Ilora tia, timidly. " I shan't give a cent over eloven !" Iloratia turned away. " I wonder you fruit girls have the face to ask such a price I" said Miss Lucy Ferrars, fingering her purse strings. " Twelve, there and that's more than they're worth !" " 1 cannot sell them under the prico 1 have named," persisted Iloratia, shrink ing from the sharp, glittering eyes. "Go about your business then !" said Lucille. " I'll seo the wholo tribe of you starvo, before I'll bo imposed upon so !" Iloratia felt herself disenohanted. Could it bo possible that this shrewish miser was her soft-voiced frieud, Lucille Ferrars t " Perhaps Uncle Peleg's views of hu man nature may not bo so very much amiss, after all," she said, with a half sigh, after she had made some half dozen or more pilgrimages, and more than half of her berries remained unsold. Mrs. Parker's house was the lost on her list. Iloratia had let it remain until all the other places had been visited, she her self could hardly have told why perhaps because Justus Parker had been her partner in tho " German" the night be fore. She liked Justus Parker yetsho somehow distrusted his gentle, nico and smooth manner. "I am afraid it's all 'put on,' " she said to herself. " But Uncle Peleg was de termined I should go there, and ' I will not shrink, now that the ordeal is so near ly over.". . The servant requested her to go up and see the young lady herself " she's in her own room mostly." Iloratia had heard of Laura Parker's lingering spine diseaso, although she never had seen her. And her heart beat slightly as she ascended the softly-carpeted flight of stairs, carrying her basket of berries. Justus was sitting on a low chair be side his sister's sofa, at the further end of the room ; he rose and came forward as the stranger eutered. " This basket is too heavy for you to carry," he said, taking it from her arm and moving forward a seat, with a sort of unconscious chivalry. " It is not so heavy as it seems," said she, somewhat bitterly, " and if it were I am nothing but a strawberry woman." " But I eupposo a strawberry woman has feelings and sensations like other people,' said Justus Parker, smiling. " Sit down a moment, while . my sister looks at your fruit." " You must be very warm," said Laura Parker, gently. " Lay back your veil. Justus please ring for a glass of water. Horatiu accepted the water, but refused to unfold her veil. It was altogether too good a medium for her to observe the quiet tenderness with which Justus Par ker treated his invalid sister tho open Bible on the tablo, the fresh flowers by the sofu, all mute tokens of thoughtful love and care. , Miss Parker bought half a dozen bus-' kets of berries, without a word of excep tion to the price, 11 They are the finest I have soon this year 1" she said. " You must come again when you have more." , Iloratia Mere's cheeks were burning when she made her escape it last, both basket and heart considerably lightened. " Well, uncle 1" she cried, gleefully, when she at length reached home, " I have earned the Triomphe d$ Grande 1 1" " Have you been to all the places V . . "Yes, all 1" '. ; . . ! . And she told him her adventures, with playful humor, ... .. J " Not a bad day's work," said Uncle Peleg,-laughingly. ' h-'.) . ' Miss Iloratia Mero had the handsome est refreshment table and tho best sales of any young lady at the fair, and Justus Parker was her favorite customer, r The result of the fair, not an uncom mon one, if all reports aro true, was one wedding if not more. Iloratia Mere was married to Mr. Parker : but not un til after the honoy moon did he know of how his aristocratio little bride had sold strawberries! " Was it wrong of me ?" she asked, wistfully. ' Under the circumstances, no," Mr. Parker answered gravely. A Fly Story. A gentleman making a call at the house of a friend was astonish ed to find the rooms and passages in con fusion, and on inquiring tho cause, was answered : " Oh, we are very much annoyed here; we have an intolerable nuisance. A rat has come to finish his existence under the floor of our large drawing room. We do not know the exact place, but we can not endure the stench any longer. So we have rolled up the carpets, removed tho furniture, and called in the carpenters, who are just commencing to take up tho floor, until we find the nuisance. " Now don't bo to hasty," said the vis itor ; " you need not pull up more than one board. ' I will show you what I mean presently ; and meanwnilo, shut down the drawing-room windows, and close the door behind mo as Boon as I return. He then stepped down tho front steps into the garden, walked round the house to the stable, and after a few minutes' absence, came back to the drawing-room with both hands tightly clasped, so as to enclose something botween them. Plac ing himself in tho center of the drawing room, he opened his hands, and out, flew two largo blue bottle flics, and buzzed around the room for a second or two. But presently one of them lighted on a certain plank of tho floor, and was almost immcdiateley followed by the other insect, " Now, then," exclaimed the visitor, " take up that board, and I'll engage that the dead rat will bo found under neath it." The carpenters applied their tools, rais ed tho board, and at onoe found the source of all the unpleasant smell. -1 CIcrygmen In a Bad Fix. OUT in Ohio recently twenty Baptist clergymen, who were attending a convention, went down to a secluded spot on the river in the afternoon for tho pur pose of taking a swim. Theso score of brethren removed their clothing and placed it upon the railroad track close at hand, because the grass was wet. Then they entered tho water and enjoyed them selves. Presently an express train came round the curvo at the rate of forty miles an hour, and before any of the swimmers could reach dry land all thoir undorshirts shirts, sooks and things were fluttering from the cow-oatcher and 'speeding on towards Kansas. It was painful for the brethren, exceedingly painful, because all the clothing that could be found, after a painful search, was a, sun umbrella and a pair of eye-glasses. ' And they do say that when those twenty marched home by the refulgent light of the moon that evening in single file and keeping close together, the most fumilliar acquain tance with the Zouave drill, on the part of the man at the head with the umbrella, still hardly sufficed to cover them com pletely. They said they felt conspicuous somehow i and the situation was the more embarrassing because all tho Dorcas 804 cieties and the women's rights convene tions and the pupils at the female board ing school seomed to be prancing around the streets and running across the route of the parade. Most of the brethren are now down on immersion and altogether in favor of the use of water only in sprinkling. . How Tat Kept a Secret. A short ' time ago, a lady and gontleman were married very quietly in the country, and procoeded in their car riage to spend tho honeymoon among the lakes, the gentleman giving strict orders to his Irish footman on no' account to Btuto to inquirers that they were newly married. When leaving the first inn on the road the happy couple were much astonished and annoyed to find the ser vants nil assembled, and, pointing to the gentleman' mysteriously exclaiming, 1 That's him 1 that's the man !' Ou reach ing the next htage the indignant master told his servant that he had divulged whut be had impressed upon' him as a secret, and thut he had told the servants at the last iun that they were a newly married couple.' Be jaber, an' it's not true yor honor,' replied the Bervant. ' I tould tho whole kit (hut yer houor and your honor' lady (God bless her 1) wouldu't bo married yet for a fortnight 1' rThe electricity gonerated by a rapidly-moviug belt from the fly-wheel of .i ' i !. ,i .... j: .i i ino large engine mat urivve uiu worm in Patterson's building, Hartford, develops cloctricity enough to iguito a gaslight sit uated at least six feet from the belt, By presenting the knuckles of one hand , to the belt, and the point of the fingers of the other to the burner, the gas will be instantly ignited. . , ' The Enchanted Mountain. IN one of the north-eastern counties of Georgia is a natural curiosity, called from Indian tradition, tho Enchanted Mountain. The mountain is not large, and there is nothing remarkable about it until you get to the top, when human tracks, or impressions in the solid rock, which appear to be human tracks, are Been. ,., How these wonderful tracks came to be impressed on the rock of this mountain is one of the many mysteries of this mysterious land of ours. There were a'great many traditions among the Indians in regard to this mountain, but none of them are satisfactory, and it prob ably never will be known who it was that left the tracks upon' the summit of the enchanted mountain. One of the Indian traditions is curious, for it shows that they had a vague idea of Noah and the flood before the advent of the white man. The story has been handed down among the aborigines that it was the landing place of the great canoe after the deluge, and tho tracks were made by the people in the canoe as they stepped upon the rocks, which had been made soft by long inundation. .;: ' . One of the tracks and tho largest one is seventeen and a half inches in length, and seven and three-quarter inches wide. Unlike the others it has six toes. This must have been Noah's track, and if there was anything in the Mosaic account of the flood concerning the size of Noah's feet we might have confirmation of the' Indiad tradition. The size of the track would indicate that he wore eightoens. 1 , There are one hundred aud sixty im pressions of feet and hands visible on, the face of the rock. , The smallest foot-track is four inches ir length and of perfect shupo. Another tradition is that a great battle was fought thero, and the large track with six toes is that of the victorious commander. This is essentially Indian, as their ideas of mental greatness were circumscribed by physical size. ' 1 A Singular Story. 1 ASINGULAIl story is told of a per son who held a promisory note of another's whioh had run for several years, but which, on maturity, he found he had put away so carefully that he could, not find it. He thereforo called on the one who had given the note, stating that ho had lost it, and proposing to give him. a' receipt as an offset to ' tho note if it should ever be found. To his surprise, the person owing the money not only de-i clined to this, but positively denied ever1 having given such a note, saying he owed him nothing. Without legal proof, he was of course obliged not only to let the matter drop and lose the money, but also endure the suspicion of trying to obtain money under false pretense. Several years passed away without the note being found, whon the person who owned the noto, while bathing in the Thames - ono day was seizod with cramp, and rescued by companions just as ho had become un consoious, and sunk for the last time., The usual remedies were resorted to to resuscitate him ; and though there were signs of lifo, there wag no appearance, of consciousness. , He was taken home in , a . state of complete exhaustion, aud remain-, ed so for some days.. On the first leturn ' of sufficient strength to walk, he went to his book case, roached down a book, opened it, and handed the long lost note to a friend who was present, Btating to ' him, that while drowning, and sinking, as, ho supposed, never to rise again, there , instantly stood out before his mind, in a ' moment, seemingly as though a pioture, evory act and event of his life, from the hour of his childhood to the hour of his sinking in the Water j and among hisaots the eiroumstanoe of his putting this note' in a book, the name of the book, and the ' very spot it stood in the book case, , . Of course he recovered his money, with in-, teres t. , .1 i .. . ' , " 1 Hog Stealing;. In the old Virginia laws for the year ' 1679, is the following in regard to steal- , ing hogs, which shows that those animals , were duly appreciated : ' ' ' 'The first offense of hog stealing shall be punished according to the former law (to . pay 4,000 pounds of tobacco, and in caao of inability, to serve two years,) upon a second conviction the offender shall stand two hours in tho pillory and lose his ears ; and for the third offense ' he shall be tried by the laws of England, as ' in case of felony." , , ,, : . h m , .,'1 Interest Honey. ' ' A good story is told 'of a rather ver- . dant agricultural laborer, who, having by ' hook and by crook scraped together fifty ' dollars, took it to Lis employer, with a re quest to take care of it for him. A year after the laborer went to' another friend, to know what would be the inter est on it. He was told three dollurs. , " Well," said he, " I wish you would lend me three dollars for a day or two. My boss has been keeping fifty dollars ( for me a year, and I want to pay him the . interest for it." UaT Two countrymen gaping around a Saratoga hotel, the other day, wore ap-. preached by a lady wearing a fashiona-, bio trail., Ono of the party dodged it, but the othor walked straight aoross it,, and on finding his error apologized with, " I beg your pardon, madam j I thought you bad passed sometime ago." , . :. It 1 ', .! J mmvmmmiutmuim
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