2 The Myrtleville . Scandal. IT commenced by Mrs. Bawyor' arrival at Mrs. Mufflt's early in the forenoon, evidently In a state of great excitement, and fulldt newi. With an air of profound mystery, she drew Mrs. Muffit from the wash-tub to the Bitting room, and said to her : ' What do you think has hnpicncd ?" Now Mm. Sawyer was" well known in Myrtleville as newsy,' as one who lost no opportunities of collecting the most reliable and startling items of information regard ing the sayings and doings of the Myrtle Tillians. Accordingly Mrs. Mufflt prepared her mind for tidings of moment. " What is it t" asked alio, drying her bands on ber apron and sotting down in a chair for a 'good talk.' " You'll not toll I told yon t" " Never." " Because it wasn't intended for me to bear. I just happened over to Mrs. Sey mour's this morning, and Mrs. Kitely was in there, and the door stood open, and I couldn't help but boar what was said, you know, and" " But whac was it?" cried Mrs. Mufflt, as Mrs. Sawyer paused for breath. " Fred Seymour and Bello Grainger have eloped." ' Eloped 1" " Mrs. Seymour was juHt telling Mrs. Kitely as I went in. As soon as they saw me coming, they began to talk about the news in the morning's paper ; but you can't throw me off the track in that way." " Oh, my goodness 1" cried Mrs. Muffit, suddenly, as if some inspiration had seized her. 1 "You've board something too," cried the widow. "No, but I saw Belle Grainger this morning, quite early, passing by here, in the direction of the depot, and she bad on ber travelling dress, and her waterproof, ' and carried her satchel." " Going to meet bim on the eight o'clock train. Ob, the sly, deceitful thing. Think of her poor father." "And her sick mother. It is awful. And everybody knows Fred Seymour is as good as engaged to Susy Belknap." "There 1 I'll go right over to Belknap's" Cried Mrs. Sawyer. " Somebody ought to break it gently to poor Susan. Poor girl . No wonder they went off slyly. And away bustled Mrs. Sawyer to find Mrs. Belknap and Susy in the sitting-room, sewing. It was a keen satisfaction to tell the news there, for Mrs. Belknap, being in delicate health, and possessing ample means, kept a servant and lived in a style of refinement that Myrtleville generally condemned as putting on airs." To take her 'down a peg,' as Mrs. Sawyer mentally resolved to do, was a vulgar triumph she enjoyed greatly in anticipation. But it was in anticipation only. Mrs. Belknap and her daughter received the news in a quiet way, as if the gossip possessed no special interest for them, asking no ques tions, and manifesting no chagrin. The story bad grown a little on its way through Mrs. Mufflt's sitting-room, and Mrs. Saw yer bad now a full description of the runa way bride's costume, and the train was specified upon which the young couple travelled. But after Mrs. Sawyer had gone to take ber news elsewhere, Susy turned a very pale face to her mother, asking pitifully : "Oh, mamma, can it be true 7" " I will go over to Mrs. Seymour's dear, if you wish it" "Not for the world. If it is true, we muBt never let any one know bow we feel it," and ber lips quivered. " Fortunately, no one knows we are actually engaged. ' If it is not true" " It seems to come very direct," said Mrs. Belknap, as she drew her daughter in a close, motherly embrace. Mrs. Saw yer is a terrible gossip and busybody, but I never knew ber to be guilty of absolute falsehood." " Sirs. Kitely is very intimate with Mrs, Seymour. I have heard Fred say they were schoolmates. So it is quite natural for her to be telling Mrs. Kitely, and speak of something else, when Mrs. Sawyer went in." " I can scarcely believe it of Fred," said i Mrs. Belknap. " Nor I. And Bollo too, who has been my friend so long, and ber only lntciest in Fred, seemed to be in bis love for me. Oh, mother I I can t believe it." la the meantime the story was spreading from bouse to bouse, gaining a little here, a little there, as it was repeated. Mrs. Gray bad seen Fred Seymour going in the direction of the depot at half-past seven, and it did not seem to occur to the gossips that, as bis business was in Now York, this was a iht of daily occurrence. Another one bad always thought Miss Grainger's quiet, modest manners, covered a deceitful hoart. Some pitied Susy, some congratulated ber upon her escape. The young couple were discovered to have every fault the imagination of their accusers could summon up, and Mrs. Belknap and Mrs. Seymour shared the odium and pity with Mis. Grainger, who certainly should have attended more strictly to the educa tion of ber daughter, and given ber a more careful moral training. Every mother to Myrtleville was piously thankful It was not her daughter who bad so disgraced herself, and the daughters, as A general rule, secretly wished tbey had Miss Grainger's chance, for Fred Seymour was decidedly a beau In Myrtleville, and his mother was known to have a property from her late husband that would make the young man independent, when In the course of nature, it reverted to him. He was engaged on one of the daily evening papers of the great metropolis, and con sidered talented and upright, a man who in time would make a name and position of honor. His attention to Susy Belknap, though the fact of their engagement had not yet been published, had been too mark ed to escape the notice of eyes so prying as those possessed by the good people of Myrtloville, and his inconstancy was a matter of marvel, as Susie was a maiden whom any man might have been proud to win. When the four o'clock train came in, Mr. Grainger, a little, nervous man, all excitability, was amazed at the sympa thizing faces that greeted blm on the plat- foim. A chill like death seized his heart. For years bis wife bad been an Invalid, suffering from spine complaint. Had she died while he was away ? White as a sheet ho turned to a friend standing near, say ing : " Why do you look so at me ? What is the matter at home ?" " My poor friend, have you heard noth ing?" "A choking sensation came over the loving husband, but he struggled against it, saying : " Quick, tell me 1 Is it Mary ?" " No. Mrs. Grainger is as well as usual I believe ; but there is a very sad story to break to you regarding your daughter." Wrath took the place of terror. "My daughter 1" cried the little man furiously. " Who dares to carry stories about my daughter ?" " Well you see," Btammered his friend "the women folks say she eloped this morning with Fred Seymour." " Fred Soymour 1 Why, he's hoad over ears in love with Susy Belknap. My Belle 1 Wby, she has been engaged for two years to Lieut. Weston of the navy, though we did not publish the fact for tho benefit of all the tattlers in Myrtleville ." " 1 am afraid, was the reply, that it was the fact of these engagements that drove them to secrecy and elopement." " I tell you the whole story is false I" roared the excited father 1 " I'll make those mischlof-makers eat their own words! My Bello, indeed 1 They must be crazy." But on bis way home. Mr. Grainger met the report in so many places, heard it in such plausible versions, that he entered his wife's room with a very grave face, from which all angry excitement had van ished. " Where is Belle, Mary ?" he asked. " She went to New York this morning to do some shopping. She will stay at ber Aunt Maria's to-night." " Did young Seymour go up on the same train?" , "I Buppose so. Ha usually goes at eiht, aud that was the train that Bollo took." Mr. Grainger was on the point of telling his wife the whole story, but on second thought be restrained the impulse. Sure in his own fatherly confidence in bis gen tle, modest child, that there was some mistake admitting of explanation, be said nothing. After all, it was a subject of congratulation that none of the busy-body. ies of . Myrtleville had invaded the sick room, and be easily mode some trivial ex cuse for going out again. He was deter mined to sift the gossip thoroughly before alarming the invalid, and his first visit was to the telegragh office at the railway station. " Is Belle at your house ?" flashed over the wires, and was carried to a handsome house in the city. " Yes. Will be down on the next train," was the answer; for poor Belle imagined there was death or frightful ill ness to cause her father's message, when a visit to her aunt's was such a common occurrence. Satisfied on this point, Mr. Grainger quietly waited until the train came in, walked up Main street with bis daughter on his arm, left her at borne, and started out to defy all Myrtleville, From bouse to house he traveled with exemplary patience, and followed the snake liko coils of the story, till he faced Mis. Sawyer, who earnestly assured bira : "Mrs. Seymour and Mrs. Kitely were In the sitting-room as I came in the back way through the kitchen. They were talking, and just as I got to the door, Mrs. Seymour told Mrs. Kitely that her son and Belle Grainger bad eloped. They saw me then, and Mrs. Seymour said very carelessly : "Heiearo the morning papers, Mrs. Kitely," just to change the conversation. " And you rushed off to carry . the news all over Myrtleville, said Mr. Grain ger. , " Well, I thought it must be true, irora such an authority." .,, , "Pshaw! You misunderstood what was said." ; . , ... i ,,, " I tell you I heard her as plain as I bear you now." "Telling Mrs. Kitlely her son and my daughter had eloped?" ' ' ' " YesY I'd swear It on my oath 1" said Mrs. Sawyer, as if there Was several other ways of swearing, if she chose to take her ohoioe. ' I- " ; i' . I " Suppose yeu step over to Mis. Kitely's with me?" - ;. : " Well, I will." But to Mrs. Sawyer's discomfort, Mrs. Kitely denied the story satirely. Mrs. Ssymour bad never given her -any suoh in formation, either in confidence or other wise.; Mrs. Sawyer tearfully persisted n 1 1 . ' ' n 11 A 1. 1 . ' 1 . uur siory , nuu uuuiiy tue trio went to jurs. Seymour's. The hero of the story was by this time at home, and eating his supper when the visitors entered. ' " 1 ' - It was an awkward story . to tell, but it was told ; and Mrs. Seymour's face was a picture of Indignant surprise. " I ?" she cried" I say my Fred had eloped with Belle Grainger 1 Why, Mrs. Sawyer, you mutt surely be dreaming I" " You said so, I heard you," sobbed the widow. "Said what?" " " , ', " You said distinctly Belle Grainger ran away with my son, this morning." At this moment Mrs. Seymour burst into a fit of uncontrollable laughter, to the great consternation of her audience. She laughed till she was obliged to wipe the tears from her eyes ; when, catobing sight of Mr. Grainger's disturbed face, she said, with sudden gravity : "Pardon me, Mr. Grainger I see I have roost innocently caused you a serious an noyance. The truth of the story is this : Fred, , as you know, has all the morning papers sent to him on the early train, and many of the neighbors come lu to borrow them. Mrs. Kitely always likes to Bee the Sun, and I save it for her ; but this morn ing your daughter stopped on her way to the depot for a paper to read as she rode to the city, and took the Sun. When Mrs. Kitely came for the papers I said to her, "Bello Grainger ran away with my San this morning I" " And all Myrtlevillo has been busy with the scandal Mrs. Sawyer manufactured out of your remark," cried Mr. Grainger. "I can only hope she will be as active in con tradicting as she was in circulating it. But to this day Mrs. Sawyer persists in declarlug that she can't see where she was to blame, after all. , Anybody, she is quite sure, might have made such a mistake on the same ground. , ., Pretty Susy was not left long in doubt, for Fred, having drawn from Mrs. Sawyer the confession that she ' thought it a duty to tell the Belknaps the first thing,' hast ened over to his betrothed wife, to give vent to his indignation against all tattlers andmischief-makers,and very soon Mr. and Mrs. Frederick Seymour's wedding cards put the final contradiction to the Myrtle, ville scandal. A New Orleans Character A Colored Mil lionaire and Miser Men whose taxes foot up from $1,000 to $10,000 each year can get two per cent, per month for it, or use it in even more lucrative ways, while the interest on their taxes is nothing in comparison. Hundreds of thousands of dollars are retained in this way. A notable instance of this practice in the case of a colored millionaire, who has dodged paying bis taxes until now they amount to nearly $100,000, due to the city and State. This man is a character for a romance. He is so abstemious that be may be called a miser, . Ho disdains rest, and with wonderful activity works on in a small and obscure one story house, re mote from the business portion of the city, This building is bis office and. his home, It is dingy and dilapidated on the outside, Within a kind of lobby, partitioned off from the main room Is the miser's office. A desk, full of pigeon-holes crammed with papers, an iron safe and a chair or two, constitute the only furniture, Beyond are the rooms where be lives with his mother, a woman almost a hundred years old. Yet this man, so unpretentious in bis business surroundings, has nearly a hundred tene ments scattered all over the city, which bring bim anywhere from $20 to $300 each per month. Ha owns over 230 different properties, estimated to be worth at least $700,000, besfdes bonds aud cash to a large amount. This man, however, never pays any taxes, except when be disposes of a piece of property, and then only on that property. , In the Sheriff's office are tax writs against him, dating ; back twelve years, and to some of them are attached as much as six yards of foolscap, . filled throughout with closely written descrip tions of his properties. . The reason for avoiding, his taxes is a speculative oue, The city charges blm 10 per cent interest on all bis money, which be never loans ex cept on mortgage, at 18 to 4 per cent, Every tenth year, also, the taxes of one year are wiped out by prescription. ivt Orleane Timet. IST" A Beaver county man threatens to bring suit against a young farmer who persists in sitting up with , his daughter Sunday night till four o'olock In the morn ing. The stern parent claims, firstly, that the following day being wash day his gal ain't of no account, secondly, that if they could only use two chairs the one tbey do use wouldn't cost hiro so much for repairs. tW Greater is he who causes good deeds than he wti dots them. A Western Parson, A ;8nORT tIme since a Missouri river steamboat left Fort Benton with 'a party pf rough and . well-to-do miners on board. There were also among the passen gers three or four " brace men," and before arriving at Sioux City they bad very gon- erally cleared out the pockets of the min ers. The boat stopptd at Sioux City to "wood, up," and found among other per sons Waiting to get on board, a ministorial- looking personage with the longest and most solemn countenance on him you can woll imagine. : He was dressed in a suit of black, wore a white stovepipe hat and a ' choker" collar, ornamented with a black neek handkerchief. Well, he got aboard and the boat started downstream. For two days he was ' un noticed by the other passengers, but one of the sports at last thought hs saw a chance to make something out of the sad and mel ancholy individual. The latter would once or twice a day step up to the bar, and with a voice that was as mild and as gentle as a maiden's, ask for " a glass of soda, if you please," and then he would pnll a roll of bills from his pocket and take a quarter from their interior layers. Then he would say to the barkeeper,as if under a thousand obligations, "Thonk you sir," and walk off again as if about to commit suicide. This thing had gone far enough, and the gambler I have spoken of at last approach ed him. " Would you like a little game of seven. Up, sir?" ' ' " Seven-up ? What is seven-up? Please tell me, my good friend." ' " Why, a game of cards, you know, just to pass the time ; let us play a game." "My good friend, I do not know any thing concerning cards ; I cannot play them." " Well, come along, we'll show you how to do it." ' And the mild gentleman in black after some further protests, at length consented. They showed him how 'twas done, and tbey played several games. The gentle man in black was delighted. Gamblers want to know if he will play poker, five cent ante, just for the fun of the thing. Gentleman in black says he can't play the game, but they explain again, and poker commences. The geutleman in black loses every time. There are six men in the game ; each one deals before gentleman in black, and ante has been raised to a dollar, Gent iu black deals awkwardly, and looks at bis band. , ' . .next man to dealer bets nve goes around and the bets are raised to one hun dredred dollars. Gent in black sees it and makes it a hundred better. Gamblers look surprised, but will not be bluffed. The bet has . reached five hundred dollars- thousand. Gent in black makes it two thousand. All draw out except a plucky Pike 8 Peak miner, who sees and calls him " What havo you?" " Weal," answers the gent in black, "I heave lot me see, let me see weal, I have four ones." The gamblers who have suspicionad something before, now look wild, and the light begins to dawn in tbe miner's mind He leaned across the table and said in the most sarcastic tone he could command : "Oh you heave, heave you. You gol durucd sanctimonious son of a gun." The gent got up from ' the table and handed one of the gamblers his card. 1 "It read "Bill Walker, New Orleans" one of the most successful sharpers in the country, A Itcmurkttble Story An Undertaker Bit ten by the Corpse. . Tho Brooklyn Eagle is responsible for the following : . , A short time since, Alexander Jones, a colored boy, aged eleven years, was buried at Evergreen Cemetery from Fleet street, where he had died of consumption. He was attended by Dr. L. B. Firth, of 233 Myrtle avenue. Certain alleged actions of the corpse whon being transferred to the coffin gave currency to a strange story. It was said that after the fact of death had been indubitably ascertained, and the ceremony usual bad been concluded, tbe dead boy deliberately lifted himself upon bis elbows, and opening bis mouth grasped the undertaker's finger between bis teeth, inflicting a painful wound. John II. Farrcll, of 201 Jay street, is the undertaker who superintended the burial. His son tells the following story : It bad been a principle of his father to exclude all members of the family from the room when the body of a deceased person was being in ranged in tbe coffin. In the case of Jones the body bad been thus de posited, and would soon have been shut from view by the 1U1, when the supposed oorpso lifted its head and seized Farrell by the flngor, so biting him as to bring both a jet of blood. Fan ell had in his hand a screw-driver, Having failed at the instant to release his band from the teeth of the boy he dealt the latter a blow upon tbe neck. This had the intended effect. 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Holdiers who receive invalid pension can now have their pensions increased to any suis or rate between $8. aud $18. per mouth. Holdlers who have lost their discharges can now obtain duplicates. Fathers and mothers who lost sons In th serv ice uiKin whom they were dependent for support, can also obtain pension. The undersigned having had over 10 years ex perience In the (Maim agency business will attend promptly to claims undrr the above act. . Call ou ur address .. , , , LEWIS POTTER, Attorney for Claimants, , , New Illoointleld, 7 20tf. Perry Co., Pa. JOBINSON HOUSE, (Formerly kept by Sweger and Sliunmn.) ' JVio Blootnjleld, Perry County, ra. AMOS ROBINSON, Proprietor. " This well known and pleasantly located hotel has been leased for a number of years by the pres ent proprietor, unit he will spare no i-alnr, toacomn modatc his guests. The rooms are comfortable, the table well furnished with the best In the mar ket, aud the bar stocked with choice liquor. A careful and attentive Iwxtler will be In attendance. A good livery stable will be kept by Uieuiopiletor April 3. 1871. tf J. II. GJI1V1N. , . ., i. U. OIl'VIH JM. GtltVIN & BON, . . . . CoinmiHhlon 3Iei-olinitH, ' NO. 8, SPEAR'S WHARF, It u 1 ( t iu o r c . Mtl, .We will pay strict attention to the sale of al Inds of country produce, and remit the amount ...iu- i:uiv kl promptly ADMINIHTHATOK'H NOTICE. Notice Is hereby given, that letters of Administration on I he estate of W llllam AUiilr. late of l.oysvllle, Tyrone township, perry county, fa., deceased, have been granted to lus subscriber residing in Madison township. All persons Indebted lo said estsle are request, rd lo make InnneiliHle payment, undlhntfl having claims will present them duly authenticated (or settlement lit ., .(..,, ANDHKW ADATR, '' . IMMIKltT.A. t.'l.AKK. September 10. 1K73 t , Administrators.
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