erije tines, Nctu BloomficGr, flla. Mrs. Blako's Visit. A 9 MOST everybody has took a tower this summor ; and I've been and took one too. I dunno but I've as good a right to as any other in dividual. I don't owe nobody nothing, except Jim Hanson, the tin pedlar, for a strainer; and I've got morne'n rags enuff to settle with him or shnll have when I cut up Caleb's cotton flannel shirts; and then I owe Tim Gorch's wife three cents for gdtting me a pound of ealloratus and not making the change. . I could pay her now just as well as not if sho'd only take a silod postage-stamp; but she don't take stamps for fear the post-office will bust up. Mrs. Gorch is the most cau tionest woman that you ever see. I've had a hard summer's work of it 1 no mistake ! It makes my back ache to think of it. Feed has been so poor on account of tho dry weather, that the cows have i 1 -i f-i- -I - wonted meirsoivos ciean inw bkiuhuiis a keeping from starving, and haint give no milk worth menshuning. Butter has been so skoerco and hicrh. that I've felt jest as if it was a sin to use it common and I aint allowed our folks none since last July. To be shure, I alias have butter on the table a plateful on it; but if anybody goes for to tech of it, I just tread on their toes, and givo era a look' that stops proseedings at once. One plateful has lasted us al summer. I . believe it is getting a little strong now; but it'll have to do this month out, I guess. Along, in June, sometime, Samuel White ho went up to the White Mountains; and when he got back he had more to tell than anybody that had been to the North Polo Need to have had. All that- he hadn't seed wouldn't have paid for looking at it. TTn Rett TTlfl intn A tilft t.n crn fn Bnn far mr. self. I spoke to Betsey Jane, my oldest, about it, but she turned up her nose, and said I'd better stay at home. Betsey is an awful hand to gad about herself, but she's never willing for me to go outside of tho thresh old. She's afeard she shall have to wash tho dishes. I never seed anybody quito so nfcared of siting their hands as she is. She takes a sight of pains with 'em, and does 'cm up in tattered rags every night of hor life, to keep 'em smooth. . But as it happens, I haint under Betsey Jane's government yet, so I made all my pi-operations just as if she was tickled to death with tho idea of my going. The first of August I sold ten ' cheeses, that come to a lectio vising seventy-five dollars. I went to Dover rite off, and bought mo a scarlet merino gownd a yallcr sattin bonnit, trimmed with blue and lalock-eol-ored roses, and the slickest green and blue shawl that ever you set eyes on to. ' I got mo some new false hair just be tween ycu and me, mine is so thin that I can't do much of anything' with it; and then I got a rat to roll it ovor so as to make me look like a girl. After I'd got dotarminod on going, I went over and asked aunt Peggy ' Miles to go with me. She 'said she'd like to go, only she dassent go in the rail-road, for bIio would cartainly expect it to blow up and carry every man, woman, and child with it ! And as for a steamboat, it would be sinful to tempt Providence by gittinginto one of them contrivances of Sntan. Aunt Peggy is lcetle pecooliar in her ideas, 1 but a nice woman for all that.'' ' ' '' So I told her to fix herself to start in two days, and we'd go with the old mare. She's nigh onto seventeen ' years old that mare is and haint had nothin but one straw to eat all summer; and she's as spunky as a colt, if you jUt teach her with the whip, I got some new shafts put in to the wag gon the old ones has been tied up with shoe-strings this two years, and we dassent step onto 'em; and I took my green flannil quilted petticoat and cushioned tho seat, and put a braided rug into the bottom for our feet to set on, and my red and blue calico comfortable to take up in front of us on cool mornings. We had considerable of baggage; but it takes a good deal for females who pretend to be ladies. I had a trunk three bandboxes, a capbox, a carpet-bag full of gingerbread, an ambriller, a parasol a peck-measure to feed the boss with, a spare shawl, a bottlo of lineament in case I should be took with the newrallogy, and a clothes-line, to tie the old mate with. Aunt Peggy, she had two bandboxes, a vallccs, a satchel of turnovers, a sugar-box, of doughnuts, a six-quart pail full of pick les, two baskets full of apples, and Bouuce, her dog. I objected to her kerrying the dog ; but she sed she woudn't be sepirated from him for any money t She shoulden't go to sleep o night without Bounce on hor feet. The first day we travelled six miles, and hauled up at the side of the road for re pairs. One end of the waggon-scut broke down, but I put the pail of pickles on top of the sugar-box, and stuck them under the scat; and made it all light. The next day we did better. We wont e'onamobt twenty miles. I held the reins and aunt Peggy she did tho walloping with the whip and tho old maroi went like a lions. Lots rf folks bantered mo to swop Lcsses. But I told 'em I hadn't no Ume'.to to talk with 'em, I was bound for the White Mountains. Aunt Peggy had tho worst of it. Hor arm was so lame after a day or two, that she couldn't skeercely git it to hor head. At the end of Ave days we got in sight of the mountains, and stopped ata Btnall house rite in under a mountain, and close to quite a smart little pond of wator. The grandest place to raise geese and ducks up there ever was 1 I was pretty much tuckored out, and asked to be showed to joiy room right off. Four tow-headed children, fighting for the one taller-dip that lit tho way, led off. Aunt Peggy she couldn't git into the room till after I was a-bod, it was so small so she staid outside and let me go in fust. The door it was off from the binges, and I told the young ones to set it up close, and put a cheer aginst it. ' Natorly, I . expected they'd obey me so I went to taking off my hair and pulling out my " rat," when I heard a giggling jest outside, and on look' ing at the door, I seed that it didn't shet by as much as two inches, and . that space was full of eyos peeping in at me. . " Mother I mother 1" called : ono of tho boys; " this woman is a peeling her head I Quick 1 quick 1 only see her 1" i , I was mad, and afore I thought of any thing about the condition, of the door, I grabbed it to open it, and down - it went bang into the floor, knocking over five children, two cheers, a cat, a table full of crockery, a pole of chickcys that was a roosting in the kitchen, and nigh about stuudiug all creation. I appollcrgised as well as I could, and ixplained to tho folks that I warn't use to ondressing before so many spectators and they sent the children off to bed. I was real mortified. For a widdor wo man that may think of marrying again some time, to be ketched ft taking off hor false hair that everybody thinks is her own natral locks, is too bad. Ilowsomever, I comforted myself up with tho idee that there arint no onmarried men about the house When I finished ondressing, I hung my clothes out of tho winder to make room for aunt Peggy to come in; and a half hour afterward wo were within the arms of Morphus. We started early the next morning and by driving the old mare hard, wo managed to get to the Glen House about dark. That is a nice tavern rite at the feet of Mount Washington. There was a black bear chained in front of it to prevent people from robbing the clothes-lines and hen-houses. Bounce he flew right at the bear; but arter he'd lost a mouthful of hair and skin, he was glad to come back and behave himself. I asked the ' landlord if he could put us up. He sed he was sorry,but he was full. I asked him if he couldn't give us a bed on the floor.' Ho said it Was out of the ques tion. ' Then I asked him if I couldn't roOst somowheres. ' Ho scratched his head a minute, and Bed we might have the dining room table. ' '' ' ' ' " ' ' ' ' He led off the old mare, and, wo; wont into the' house.' ' Tho floors everywhere was covered with people, ' wrapped up in shawls, 'blankets' and oomfortablos, and snoring like all possessed. ' '' We eat our supper, and then ' I got the comfortable and the braided rug out of the waggon, and by the help of a cheer we hoisted ourselves on to the table and turned in. I soon got to sloop, and dreamed that old Cap. Chamberlain was trying to kiss me, and in the skrimmage I thrashed ovor, and off I rooled right into a fat man who was lying close by the table, snoring loud enuff to split the univarso. .. I knocked the suoar clean out. of him, and smashed his watch-crystal, and his patunt double-barrelled squizzing-glass ail to flinders, and scraped all tho skin off from my left elbow. The fat man yelled dreadfully, and skeer- ed some of the people nigh about out of their wits. Most of 'em thought the house was afire, and the way they gathered up their baggage was lively. As soon as morning camo, I made my tollight as well as I could, though I bad a pretty tough time to make my "rat" look decent with so many folks a staring at me. As for a looking-glass I hadn't soen my face since I left home. , I asked the landlord what about going up onto the top of Washington, for I hadn't a grate while to stay. He said that most persons went up in kerridgee that belonged to the hotel, though some folks purfurrcd to go with their own teams. 1 told him I should go with my own team, then ; I was acquainted with the old mare, and she was acquainted with me. He advised mo to leave my baggage with him, but I told him no, I'd rather have it under my own eye. We started real airly. The sun wasn't moro'n up afore we was on the 'kerridge road. Ever seen it? If you haint, you've Jest missed seeing one of the slickest roads in the country. It's about nlue miles long, and jost as smooth and even as yer perlor floor. But it's awfully up hill 1 They made us pay some monoy for go ing onto the road at a little bouse, by a bridge, down at the bottom of the moun tain. I told 'em I thought that was mean when we'd come so fur but law ! you can't lxpect a man to be born over again into a giuerous one. The sun come out pretty hottish, and afore we'd gone more'n a mild the hoss was as wet as if sho'd been dipped in the river. ' Aunt Peggy and I got out and travellod afoot a piece. And aftor a spell, I took out a couplo of my bandboxes and lugged them to lighten the load; and aunt Peggy did the same by hor valloes, and the pail of pickles. Bounce he trudged on be hind, and a sorrlor looking dog you never seed. Every mite of the wag had gone out of Install, and his ears ..hung down like two wilted cabhago-leavos.),'..vi. It was e'enamost sunset when wo got to the top, and the old mare was clean tuck prod out. : For the last half-mile 1 had to hawl hor by the bridle, and aunt Peggy sho pushed bohind. ' ' We couldn't soo nothing but a couple of houses built out of rocks; and lots' and lots moro of rocks lading all around, 'jest as somebody had carted 'cm ' there for stone wall. '"' ,;' 1 "" I slopt tip-top that night in the Tip-Top IIouso, or tho Summit, I've' forgot Which. There was two of ''cm there,' and I disre- m ember ' tother from Which.' The morning was clear. We seed a sight of things. 1 It was ckal to being up in Bquird Horrlck's garrut winders, Only more so. We picked up some rocks and some pieces of moss to show when me got homo, and started to go back down tho . mountain agin.., I rid, and aunt Peggy walked. We was going down a pretty stoop place, when tho old mare pricked her ears at a stick in the road, jumped, and, law ! the wagon parted, I bounced out the. hoss k or ricd off the forred wheels, an d the rest of the consarn, baggage and all, went tumb ling to destruction down a slantendicular prccipico more'n a hundred ; feet higher than tho steeplo of our meeting house. I screeched, and clambered down after my vallorbles as fast as I could but dear mo 1 They was all ruined everything ex cept those bandboxes, two carpet-bags, and an ambrilla ! The waggon was all stoved to kindling 1 I picked up the rem nonts and clambered back with them. Annt Peggy and I strung 'om on a polo and lugged 'em down to the Glen House. Thore we found the old mare, with the fragments of them forred wheels tiod to hor but she looked as sober as a judgo, if not moro so. . We stayed there all night, and the next morning sot sail for home. " I'd seen enuff. I led the hoss, and aunt Peggy korricd one end of the polo on which the band boxes and carpet bags .was strung, and I korricd the other: Bounce ho skulled bo hind. , . . j , . Folks laffed at us on tho way, but they laffed at their betters. . Nobody keored for 'em. . . : Thank goodness 1 we . got homo at last, though I haint been able to go a step senso, my newrollogy is so bod; aud aunt Peggy haint wore a shoe for a month. Partly be cause she haint got none ' to wear. ; Well, anyhow, we made the tower. . ,,. i 1 ' V ' Not a Doctor. , A good story is told by the Salem Regit - ter of a certain clerical gentleman whom we will call Smith. Ho has lately received the honorary degree which constitutes him a doctor. A friend from abroad rang his doorbell and inquired of the servant girl a recent importation from the sweet Isle of Erin if the doctor was in. The lady from Ireland replied that no such, man lived there. The stranger responded, " Yes, I moan Dr. Smith. . Is he in?" . " Mr. Smith is here, but I'll have ye to know that Mr. Smith don't go around doctoring ! and with that she indignantly closed the door. Anecdote of the Road. . A lawyer riding through a town, stopped at a cottage to inquire the way. The lady of the house told him ho must keep right straight on for some time, and then turn to tho right ; but said that sho horsolf was going to pass the road he must take, and that if he would wait a low minutes she would show him the way. "Woll," said he, "bad company is bet ter than none make haste." Aftor jogging on five or six milos, the gentleman asked if he had not yet come to the road he must take. "Oh, yes," said she, " wo passed it two or three miles back, but I thought as bad company was hotter than none, I would keep you along with me." C27"A too-inquisitive passenger was, in the age of specie, asking a conductor ho w ho managod to build a house and buy a fast horse out of his fifty dollars a month. The answer was of the frankest. "You see," said this noble man, "some times wo get a way-passenger who pays us a quarter or a half a dollar for his fare. Well, we flip tho money up heads for the conductor, tails for the company." "But," persisted this investigator, after truth, "sometimes it roust turn up tails. What do you do then I" " Oh,", replied the conduotor with in effable contempt, " then we flip it vp a gain t" . , . . . , So that passenger went home and sold out his railway shares. Brought to Terms.' PHIPPS found it in his way, one day, to drop into tho office of the RockviUe Weekly Clarion and insort an advertise ment to the effect, that a young man pos sessing a knowledge of bookkeeping could find a good situation by calling at Phlpps' office. ''..- The advertisement duly appeared, and in answer to the appeal a crowd of appli cants immediately i apptarcd at the adver tiser's door. J Now,4 Phlpps chanced to find the young man he was in search of a fo hours bo fore; the advertisement was giterf :ib tho public, an3f consequently tho thousand and ouo young mcq, possessing good references, etc., wore forced to de part With blighted hopes. ' ' In the course of time tho printer sent in his bill for advertising 1 Phipps' did not settle the bill with his accustomed alacrity. On , tho contrary he ' demurred. He said tho advertising had been of no real' value to him, and ho most emphatically doclined $o pay it. , Tho patient printer waited for some timo for him to relont, but as no sign of such an evont appeared, and his con science told him that right was on his side he determined to try tho effect of a little strategy upon his obdurate debtor. In the next issue of tho Clarion, in a conspicuous position,' appeared Phipps' original advertisement, in all the glory of largo capitals and display lines. ' As be fore a crowd of applicants thronged Phipps ofllco. " It occupied . an hour to dismiss them, as each was eager to convlnco Phipps that ho was tho very young man wautod and all ho asked was a fair trial. After it was over, Phipps sat down, and wiped his brow, and cursed tho stupidity of the blundering printer for allowing that notico to appear again. Another week slip ped away, and again tho advertisement appeared conspicuously in tho Clarion, and again the eager throng mustered at Phipps office door. Another hour of superhuman effort, intorsporsod with no small amount of cursing, and then Phipps rushed down to tho Clarion office breathloss with rage. AVhat, in tho name of Satan, did the pub lisher mean? Would he take that confoun ded advertisement out of his paper or wouldn't he? Most certainly he would and would Mr. Phipps bo so kind as to set tle that little bill? No, most emphatically; he'd see the paper hanged first. ' The pub lisher answered nothing and suavely bowed Phipps out. ' ' . " ' 1 l J Monday morning came around and with it the Clarion, and in it appeared Phipps' advertisement in more conspicuous type than ever. Two o'clock saw a regiment of book-kooper's surrounding Phipps' doon By three o'clock all had been cursed out of sight, and again Phipps wended his way to the Clarion office. This timo ho threat enod to prosocute for : libel, for tresspass, for anything and everything, and swore he'd shoot somebody if that infernal notice was published again.. But appear again it did, more resplendent than ever, and not once only, .but regularly with every issue of the Clarion, Phipps spent ,his Monday afternoons in answering numboiless inquir ies as to whether be had all tho , book keepers ho was in need of, and . alternately swearing and threatening summary ejocb ment upon the toe of his boot, to every questioner. : i j: -. : i , i i One meok eyed young student, whose first words wore interrupted by very violent actions adverse to his personal safety was so terrified that he immediately called upon a policeman for protection. . The valient guardian of the peace administered a scathing rebuke to the prosecutor, and al lowed the persecuted to go in safety. This was the hist etraw. ; Phipps once more ap peared at the door of . tho Clarion ofllco with less of anger in his face than ever before "Ihavo concluded to withdraw that advertisement of mine," ho said, urbanely, "now much is my bill?" " Twenty-seven fifty," was . the cool re sponse v Phipps sighed, but counted out that Bum. "Thank you," tho publisher said court eously. " I shall be pleased if I can serve you at any future time." Phipps is secretly determined not to ad vertise in tho oolumns of the Clarion again. Wanted Notoriety. , A few weeks since a well educated young woman, tho daughter of wealthy parents, suddenly disappeared from her home in au Eastern city. She was Anally discovered dressed in a suit of her brothor's clothes and working in a carriage factory, about forty miles away. When taken back she avowed that her sole object was to be talk ed about. "Didn't the neighbors talk when I left," she said, "and won't they talk mora now, when they hear where I have been aud what I have done P" t3TMurder is not the only offonoe nowa days which is attributed to temporary in sanity. At Troy, a day or two ago a man who was arrested for drunkenness and disorderly conduct put forward that de fence, and was sent to the Inflmary for treatment. It is becoming a question whether all our sins ftnd iniquities are not due to mental unsoundness, . The doctrine of total depravity is being displaced by that of universal insanity, and we shall soon be praying, " Have mercy upon us . miserable lunatics.". ST. ELMO HOTEL, (FORMERLY "THE UNION,") ' JOS. M. FEWER, . . , Proprietor, 817. & 819 ARCH STREET, PHILADELPHIA. I $2.B0ler Day. Terms, rruiE ST. ELMO Is centrally located and has -A- iroll I C-llllVll mill 1U1I1I 1IIMICU, BO lllill lb Will 1.W n.iiiMi n vwiiiiiu nunc nun meusiiiiii a slopping plafe as there Is la Philadelphia, t . , V titfl Farmers Take Notice, T - t . v '' i' rjriIIE subscriber offers for Sale THRESHING MACHINES. JACKS and HORSE POWER, . . ... , With Tumbling Shaft, and Side-Oeartijg, Warrant- i' i uito niii.ini.iuMtii in njntMiy mm- panncc threshing, licht draft and durability, on reasona ble terms. Also PLOUGH H .... .. 1 (j, gUperor Jfultg., . . . . i CORN. 8IIELLEHR, f'. r . , " ' KETTLES J I ." " ' ' STOVES, .. . . scoops ' and al castings, made at a country Foundry. Alsv A GOOD MILL SCREW, in excellent order, for. sale at a low rate. I refer those wlshlnu to buy to John Adams, Samuel Hlinman, John Boden, Ross Uesch, at Iekesburg. Jacob Shoemaker & Son, Klllotts burgi Thomas Morrow, Lovsvilles John Flicking er, Jacob FUckiiiger, Centre. 620 13 . . ' ." ' 8AMUEL LIGGETT. ' Ickesburg, May 1L 1872. . . Neiv Millinery Goods ' At Newport,' Pa. I BEG to Inform the public that I have Just re turned from rhilailelphla, with a full assort ment of the latest styles of MILLINERY GOODS. HATS AND BONNETS. RIUUONS, FRENCH FLOWERS FEATHERS, CHIGNONS, n LACE CAT-ES. NOTIONS, And all articles usually found In a flrst-class Mil linery Establishment. All orders promptly at tended to. irVe will sell all goods as Cheap as can be got elsewhere. - DRESS-MAKING done to order and In the la test style, as I get. the latest Fashions from New York every month. Golferlng done to order, In all widths. I will warrant all my work to give sat isfaction. AU work done as low as possible. ANNIE ICKES, ' Cherry Street, near the Station, 6 16 13 : , Newport. Pa. CARLISLE CARRIAGE FACTORY. A. JJ. SIIE11K has a larcre lot of second-hand work nn hand, which lie will sell cheap In order iu awn room tor new worn, FOR THE SPRING TRADE. , He has. also, the best lot of . , 'new work on hand.' You can always see different styles. The matorlal Is not In question any more,' for It Is the liest used. If you want satisfaction In style, quality and price, go to this shop before purchasing elsewhere. There Is no tlrm that has a Itotter Trade, or sells more In Cumberland aud Terry counties. ' . REPAIRING AND PAINTING . promptly attended to. Tactory Comer' of South and l'ltt Streets, 8dp .. v : CAUL1S1.B, PA.; VEKUY tOl'XTl' i ; f ' f Ileal Estate Insurance, .1. .' ''. , AMU ! . : .' " CLAIM AGENCY. LEWIS POTTER & CO., Real Ettdie Brokeri, Insurance, & Claim Agent Now X31oomficia, Pa. . . "VXTE INVITE the attention of buyers and sell y V ers to the advantages we offer them In pur chasing or disposing of real estate through our of. hoe. We have a yery large list of deslrab property, consisting of farms, town property, mills, store and tavern stands, and real estate of any descrip tiuu which we are prepared to otter at great bar- f;alns. We advertise our property very extensive y, and use all our efforts, skill, and dllllgence to elfecca sale.. We make no charges unless the proierty is sold while registered with us. We also draw up deeds, bonds, mortgages, audall legal pa ers at moderate rates. Some of the best, cheapest, and most reliable fire, life, and cattle Insurance comnantes In the United Status are represented at Oils agency. Property Insured either on the cash or mutual plan, and perpetually at $4 and t! tier thowand. l'enslons, bounties, and all kinds of war claims collected. There are thousands of soldiers and heirs of soldiers who are entitled to pensions and bounty, who have never made application. Sol diers, If you were wounded, ruptured, oreontract ed a disease in the service from which you are dis abled, you are entitled to a pension. When widows of soldiers die or marry, the minor children are entitled to the pension. J'arllea having any business to transact In our line, are respectfully invited to give us a call, as we are confident w e can render satisfaction 111 any branch of our business. 1 No charge for Information. .4 ly LEWIS TOTTER & CO. JOBINSON nOUBE, (Formerly kept by WoodrutTand.Turbett,) Ntw Bloomflild, Ferry County, Tn. AMOS ROBINSON, Proprietor. This well known and pleasantly located hotel has been leased for a number of years by the pres ent pi'oprletor.and he will spare no pains to sccom. modate his guests. The rooms are comfortable, the table well furnished with the best In the mar ket, and the bar sUicked with choice liquors. A careful and attentive hostler will be In attendance. A good livery stable will be kept by the proprietor i April 8. 1871. tf JLOCIOIAX'8 Writing- Uluim THIS FLUID Is warranted EQUAL to Arnold's and Is sold at much less price. Tho money will be refunded to those buying it, if It does uot. prove entirely satisfactory. . For sale by V. Mortimer, New Bloom Held. MILLER A ELDER, Sole Agents, '' 430 Market street,' 2S031 .' Philadelphia.
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