It lit iff" 11 ill Shi itl mmw www mr'rTS'crr, AN INDEPENDENT FAMILY NEWSPAPER. TSLZfJZSZ' Vol, "VI. Now Bloomfleld, I'm,., Tuosln,y, Xoeeiiiler 17, lSTS. IVo. in rum.reiiED ktert Tuesday morninq, bt ' FEANK MOBTIMER & CO., At New Bloomfleld, Terry Co., Pa. Being provided with Steam Power, ami large Cylinder and Job-Jienss, we are pi t-pared to do all kind of Job-Prlntlnit In good style and at Low Prices. ADVEItTISINO. BATK8I Trantitnt 8 Cents per line for one Insertion. 13 twolnsertlons 15 " three Insertions. Business Notices In Local Column 10 Cents lln8' I . Alt Notices of Marrlaires or Deaths Inserted free. Tributes of Respect, Ac, Ten cents per line. YEARLY ADVERTISEMENTS. One Inch one year i2'!5 Two Inches " " 18-uu .For lonser yearly adv'ts terms will 1m) given upon application. SOWING. Are we sowing seeds of kindness? They shall blossom right ere loug. Aro we sowing seeds of discord ? They shall ripen Into wrong. Are we sowing seeds of honor ? They shall bring forth golden grain. Are we sowing seeds of falsehood? We shall yet reap bitter pain. Whatsoever our sowing be, Beaplng, we Its fruits must sec. We can never be too careful What the seeds our hands shall sow. Love from love Is sure to ripen, Hate from hate Is sure to grow ; Heeds of good or 111 we scatter Heedlessly along our way But a glad or grievous fruitage Walts ns at the harvest day, Whatsoever our sowing be, Reaping, we its fruits shall see. Bill Noakes' Trial. 1IY MARK TWAIN. APT. NED BLAKELY that name j will answer as well as any other fic titious one (for be was still with the living at last accounts, and may not desire to be famous) sailed ships out of the harbor of San Francisco for many years. He was a stalwart, warm-hearted, eagle-eyed veteran, who had been a sailor nearly fifty years a sailor from early boyhood, lie was a rough, honest creature, full of pluck, and just as full of hard-beaded simplicity, too, He hated trilling conventionalities " busi ness" was the word, with bim. Ho had all a sailor's vindictiveness against the quips and quirks of the law, and he steadfastly believed that the first and last aim and object of the law and lawyers was to de feat justice. He sailed for the Chincha Islands in com' maud of a guano ship. He had a fine crew, but bis negro mate was his pet, on bim he bad for years lavished his admiration and esteem. It was Capt. Ned's first voyage to the Chiuchas, but bis fame bad gone before bim the fame of being a man who would fight at the dropping of a handkerchief, when imposed upon, and would stand no uousense. It was a fame well earned. Ar rived in the islands, be found that the staple of conversation was the exploits of oue Bill Noakes, the mate of a trading ship. This man had created a small reign of terror thoro. At nine o'clock at night, Capt. Ned, all alone, was pacing his deck in the starlight. A form ascended his side, and approached bim. Capt. Ned said : "Who goes there?" "I'm Bill Noakes, the best man in the islands." " What do you want aboard this ship?' " I've heard of Capt. Ned Blakely, and one of ub is a better man than 'tother I'll know which, before I go ashore," " You've come to the right shop I'm your man. I'll learn you to come aboard this ship without an tnvite." He seized Noakes, backed bim against the mainmast, pounded bis face to a pulp, and threw him overboard. Noakes was not convinced. He returned the next night, got the pulp renewed, and went overboard bead first, as before. He was satisfied. A week after this, while Noakes was ca rousing with a sailor crowd on shore, at noonday, Capt. Ned's colored mate came along, and Noakes tried to pick a quarrel with him. The negro evaded the trap, and tried to get away. Noakes followed him - up; the negro began to run; Noakes fired on bim with a revolver and killed him. Half dozeu sea-captains witnessed the whole affair. Noakes retreated to the mall after-cabin of bts ship, with two other bullies, and gave out that death would be the portion of any man that in truded there. There was no attempt made to follow the villains; there wore no dispo sition to do it, and indeed very little thought of such an enterprise. There were no courts aud no officers; there was no gov ernment ; the islands belonged to Peru, aud rent was far away ; she bad no official rep resentative on the ground ; aud noither had any other nation. However, Capt. Ned was not perplexing his bead about such things. They con cerned bim not. He was boiling with rage and furious for justice. At nine o'clock at night he loaded bis double-barreled gun with slugs, fished out a pair of .handcuffs, got a ship's lantern, summoned his quarter master, and weut ashore. Ho said : Do you , see that ahip there at the dock?" "Ay-ay, sir." " It's the Venus." "Ay-ay, sir." " You you know me." "Ay-ay, sir." "Very well, then. Take the lantern. Carry it just under your chin. I'll walk behind you and rest this gun-barrel on your shoulder, p'inting forward so. Keep your lantern well up, so's I can see things ahead of you good. I'm going to march in on Noakes and take bim nnd jug the other chaps. If you flinch well, you know me." "Ay-ay, sir." In this order they filed aboard softly, ar rived at Noakes' dou, .the quartermaster pushed tho door open, aud the lantern re-1 voaled tho three desperadoes sitting on the floor. Capt. Ned said : " I'm Ned Blakely. I've got you under fire. Don't you move without orders any of you. You two kneel down in the corner; face to the wall now. Bill Noakes, put these hand-cuffs on ; now como up close. Quartermaster, fasten 'em. All right. Don't stir, sir. Quartermastor, put the key in the outside of the door. Now, men, I'm going to lock you two in ; and if you try to burst through this door well you've heaidofm. Bill Noakes, full in abend, aud march. All set. Quartermaster, lock the door." Noakes spent the night on board Blake- ly's ship, a prisoner under strict guard. Early in the morning Capt. Ned called in all the sea-captains iu the harbor and in vited them, with nautical ceremony, to be present on board bis ship at nine o'clock to witness the hanging of Noakes at the yard- m! " What ! Tho man has not been tried." " Of course he hasn't. But didn't he kill the n'gger ?" " Certainly he did J but you are not think ing of hanging bim without a trial ?" " Trial ! What do I want to try him for, if he killed the nigger?" " Oh, CBpt. Ned, this will never do. Think how it will sound." " Sound be banged ! Didn't lie, kill the nigger t" " Certainly, certainly, Capt. Ned, no body denies that, but " "Then I'm going to hang him, that's all. Everybody I've talked to talks just the same way you do. Everybody says he killed the nigger, and yet every one of you wants him tried for it. I don't undei-stand such bloody foolishness ns that. Tried I Mind you, I don't object to trying him, if it's got to be done to give satisfaction ; and I'll be there, and chip In aud help, too; put it off till afternoon put it oft till after noon, for I'll have my bauds middling full till after the burying " f Why, what do you mean? Are you going to hang bim any how and try him afterward ?" " Didn't I say I was going to hang him ? I never saw such peoplo as you. What's the difference? You asked a favor, and then you ain't satisfied when you get It. Before or aftsr's all one you know how the trial will go. He killed the uigger. guy I must bo going. If your mate would like to como to the banging, fetch him along. I like him." There was a stir in the camp. Tho cap tains came in a body and pleaded of Capt. Ned not to do this rash thing. They prom isud that tbey would create a court com posed of the best characters ; that they would empanel a jury ; they would conduct everything in a way becoming the serious nature of the business in hand, and give the case an impartial hearing, and the ac cused a fair trial. And they said it would be murder, and punishable by the Amerl can courts if he persisted and bung the accused on bis ship. They pleadod bard. Capt. Ned said: ., " Gentlemen, I'm not stubborn and I'm not unreasonable. I'm always willing to do just as near right as I can. How long will it take?" " Probably only a little whilo." "Andean I take bim up tho shore and bang him as soon as you are done?" " If he is proven guilty he shall be hang ed without unnecessary delay." " Jf bo's proven guilty. Great Neptune, ain't he guilty ? This beats my time. Why you know he's guilty." But at last they satisfied , him that they wero projecting nothing underhand. Then he said : " Well, all right. You go on aud try bim and I'll go down and overhaul his con science aud prepare bim to go like enough be needs it, and I don't want to send bim off without a show for hereafter." , This was another obstacle. They iiually convinced him that it was necessary to have the accused in court. Then they said they would send a guard to bring bim. "No, sir, I prefer to fetch him myself ho don't get out of my bands besides I've got to go to the ship to got a rope, any way." The court assembled with due cremony, empaneled a jury, and presently -Capt. Ned entered, leading the prisoner with oue baud and carrying a Bible aud rope in the other. Ho seated himself by the side of his captive and told tho court to " up anchor and make sail." Then he turned a searching eye on the jury, and dotected Noakes' friends, the two bullies. He strodo over and said to them confidentially: " You're here to interfere, you seo. Now you vote right, do you hear ? or else there '11 be a double-barreled inquest here when this trial's off, and your remainders will go home in a couplo of baskets." The caution was not without fruit. The jury was a unit tho verdict, " Guilty." " Capt. Ned sprung to bis feet aud said : " Come along you're my meat now, my Iad,anyway. Gentlemen you've dono your selves proud. I invite you all to come and see that I do it all straight. Follow ino to tho canyon, a mile above hero." The court informed bim that the sheriff bad been appointed to do the banging, and Capt. Ned's patience was at an end. His wrath was boundless. The subject of the shoriff was j udiciously dropped. When the crowd arrived at the canyon, Capt. Ned climbed a tree and arraugod the baiter, then came down aud noosed his man. Ho opened tho Bible, and laid aside his hat. Selecting a chapter at random, he read it through in a deep bass voice and with sincere solemnity. Then he said : " Lad, you are about to go aloft and give an account of yourself ; and tho lighter a roan's manifest is, as far as sin's concerned, tho better for bim. Make a clean breast, man, and carry a log with you that'll bear Inspection. You killed the nigger?" No reply. A long pause. The captain read another chapter, paus ing from timo to time, to impress the effect. Then he talked an earnest, persuasive ser mon to bim, and ended by repeating the question : " Did you kill the nigger?" No reply other than a malignant scowl. The captain now read the first and second chapters of Genesis, with deep feeling' paused a moment closed the book reverent ly, aud said with a preceptible savor of sat isfaction : "There. Four chapters. There's few that would have taken tho pains with you that I have." Then be swung up the condemned, and made tho rope fast ; stood by and timed him half an hour with bis watch, and thon delivered the body to the court. A little alter, as he stood contemplating the motion less figure, a doubt camo into his face ; ev idently he fult a twing of conscience a misgiving and he said with a sigh : " Well, p'praps I ought to burnt bim, maybe. But I was trying to do for the best." When the history of this affair reached California (it was iu the "early days") it made a deal of talk, but it did not dimin ish the captain's popularity iu any degree. It increased it luueeu. uamorma had a population then that "inflicted" justice then after a fashion that was simplicity aud primitiveness itself, and could therefore admire appreciatively when the same fash' ion was followed elsewhere. ' fyilera we have a good example of French wit; "A doctor, like everybody else at this season, went out for a day's sport, and complained of having killed nothing. 'That's the consequence of, having ne glected your business,' observed bla wife.' Bo writes a correspondent, A Americas or English woman would not have said (hat The Utah Wife. . Mrs. btenbouso bas been lecturing in Denver, Col., aud a paper of that city gives the following report of what she said, which, it seems to us, should be placed be fore the women of America : Mra. Stenhouse began her lecture with a brief sketch of the origin of the doctrine which give rise to the polygamic evil, and its effect upon the women iu Utah and else where. She was in Switzerland at the timo, and it was bor mission to break it to the sisters there. She felt as if she was bringing a blight upon every home, aud pointing a poiguard at the breast of every woman in tho land. She ' then de scribed tho practical working of the system in Utah, quoting from Brigham Young himself to prove the deep unutterable, and universal unbapiness caused by it. The murmurs aud tears of the women were un heeded. They were commanded to round up their shoulders and bear the burden, or expect a complete and lasting divorce. Those who complied were promised rule as kings and queens in heaven ; those who did not were to bo damned. Tho terrible mal edictions of Young meant something. They know he would ruthlessly apply bis doc trines of blood atonement, if necessary, and many a man and womeu bad, for their op position, been buried in quiet graves, where they wouldrest until the day when they would meet their murderer, not as judge, but as a trembling culprit. So little were women respected iu Utah that elders had said, " We think no more of marrying a wifo than of buying a cow." But there were no wives In Utah,they were nothing but slaves. Mi's. Stenhouse then gave a new start ling statement of the attitude and expecta tion of the Mormons of the great rebellion They gloried in the carnage, and predicted that the males would be killed, except a very small remnant, and that then they would then take the Gentile women as their spoil. They applied a passage ef Scripture to that anticipated result, and believed that seven women would lay hold of one man and say wo eat our own bread, etc., ouly let us be called by thy name to take away our reproach. Her picture of the plural wives, their louely, comfortless. aud sometimes destitute condition, was touching and constiuted a strong argument against the infamous practice. Brigham Young was denounced as a stem, implacable tyrant, and his conduct toward his wife, Harriet Cook, cited as proof. This young, high-spirited woman bad aspired to the position of Sultana, as having homo the Prophet the first son un der tho new system, but Young had stead ily ignored her pretentions. Once the child was punished by her and stigmatized as a bastard. The sting was not intended for the boy, but for his father, who was within bearing. Ho came forward and said, " Harriot, that is the last bastard you shall ever have." And for a quarter of a century she bas been a busbaudless wife. Other instances of similar character were narrated The fearful practice had Its female sup porters, of whom Eliza Snow was chief. She had recently published a letter pur porting to como frem a country-woman, in which the degrading vice is praised as beneficial to the temper and character of woman. Mrs. S. knew of one wile who went insane when her husband took anoth er to his home, and when he died, soon after, she ran out of her hovel, and with curses and maniacal ravings threw stones at his coffin. The Union Pacific, Railroad came, and then Young gave woman the suffrage, not that they might emancipate themselves, but because the ciphers should magnify him,' tho ouly figure recognized of value. Tho horrors of the Endowment House were then exposed, and a story told of Orson Pratt which, for its perfect tel ling and the world of woe it revoals, ought to be published verbatim as a tract, and sown broadcast over the world wherever the disciplo of polygamy seek to make con verts. . . . tW The enclosed reply to a request from a legal firm in Proviaenco for a list of at torneys from a Missouri official, though not first-class for orthography and grammar, contains a moral at Its close that seems to fit the case : " Der Sir, There is no attor- ney-at-law iu this County. There has bin four that bas tried it awhile, two of them Starved out, the third one ran off without paying bla Board, the fourth one was the Cbarpest be Stole a Bute of close, and Ten dollars in Cash and left for parte unknown, Thu account for Carter , County Mondt fa indatpare." Scolding rVamen. IIY SWKRTIIKIAK. It's a dreadful thing for a woman to swear, but it's worse to be forever scolding! A nd If I were a married man, and most choose between swearing and scolding hab its in my wife, I should choose an occasion al swear to a continual scold. But the pity is tho men don't got the privilege of choosing. Instead of this nine married womon out of every ten are ha bitual scolds. It isn't the cares of wifehood, nor the trials of motherhood that steal the roses from the cheeks. Oh, no I It's tho habit of scolding and fretting that nine out of every ten wives indulge in. Of course you'll all say this is n mon strous falsehood, and call me a sour old maid, envious and jealous of my more for tunate married sisters. I'll not deny that I'd rather be a married woman than a single one, but as heaven is n'y witness I'd rather live an eld maid to the end of my days than do as so many of my sisters do, marry nnd become, fretful scolding wives. No wonder the men learn to forsake their homes, and gradually grow indifforent to the charms that won them, when so many wives forget to be charming, ami fret and scold whenever they can secure a listener. There's care enough, aud vexation enough in tho business life of any man to mako him long for rest and quiet at homo. But to be met with a fretful complaint of his Mary Aim's daily trials every timo he stops into his comfortable home is enough to drive any reasonable mau to distraction. Oh I of course I know there's another sido to this question, but it's not my pur pose to present it at this time. And in conclusion I've only to declare it to be the result of careful observation that I have discovered this truth. The chief cause of so many married men ceasing to devoto their spare moments to wifo and home, is that the wives finl cease to be attractive, and actually drive their husbands from their sides by their own unlovely behavior. And scolding or fretting at little things, is the most common nnd tho most unlovely of all. Isinglass. A New England paper says: Many of eur readers have no doubt noticed the disap pearance of an article which years ago was no small item in the ordinary diet of the people of New England fish sounds. Though tongues are found iu the market plentifully as of yore, sounds have entirely disappeared. This mysterious disappear ance is now explained by the increased pro duction of fish glue, or isinglass, for the manufacture of which fish sounds are used. The principal seat of the manufacture of isinglass is at Rockport, Massachusetts. The manufacture of the glue was commen ced there in a small way many years ago, at a timo when sounds could be purchased at two and a half cents per pound. With tho introduction of steam power and the eulargment of tho factories, came a greater demand for sounds, causing prices to ad vance to their present rales of from 00 to 85 cents per pound, according to the quali ty of the article. So great has the demand for isinglass become, that the factories of Rockport have not only for some years ab sorbed all tho sounds to be procured on the North American coast, but have imported largely from abroad. - - - - - Saving a Life. Wellington and Soult were often opposed to each othor In the Peninsular war, and especially iu the crowning campaign of 1814 in which Wellington bout his accom plished antagonist, but always preserved a great respect for bis military capacity. Thirty or more years later, Wellington vis ited France, and was of course received by Marshal Soult with distinguished consider ation, and conducted through bis gallery. The aids of both Generals followed at the usual respectable distance, but not out of ear-shot of tho conversation of their prin cipals. Wellington ,'pnused before oue painting, iu which Murillo hud wrought some of the finest wonders of his art in representing the celestial society of the re deemed. He openly expressed his admira tion. "Ah I" said Soult, "it is not the mere beauty of the painting that attracts me ; it was the oocasion of saving a good man's life." "Yes," said the French to the English officer ; he threatened the abbot of the monastery that his brains should be blown but if he did not at once deliver up the picture ; and the good man saved bis life by surrendering to the Marshal the, artistic treasure you now soo,"
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