E. B. HAWLEY, Proprietor. uslincoo Cartlo. LlTTLlgfi — hc BLAIMSLEE, Attorneys and Cnaneeilor• Re Law. Office the one beretafore occapled by D. IL & G. P. Little; on Mom street, Nrontrose, Pa. (April ^.O. IL S. LITYLL GEO. P. LITTLE. IL L. lILAILIALEL. XCXXSIMI. C. C. PAIMOT. W. 11. MCCAIN. FACIROT & CO. Dealer. In Dry Goods, Clothing, Ladles and Mlsses dna oboes. Also, 'wants for the great AmertrAn Tea and Coffee Coml*n7• (Montrose, Pa , op. CHARLES N. STODDARD; Dealer in Boots 'lnd Snots, fiats and Caps. Leather .nd Findings, Main Street, 3d door below Searle'. Hotel. Work made to order. and repairing done neatly. Montrose. Jan. I.IBTO. LEWIS KNOLL, SUAVINU AND nets DRNSSING Shop to the ucw Poetodice halkllnd, where be will be found ready to attend all who may want anyttang In Me line. 11ontraeo, Pa. Oct. 13. Ina. P. REYNOLDS. AUCTIONBER--Bcll. Dry Good., and Iterchaelre—also attends at Vendee.. AU orders left at my hon., m ill receive prompt attention. . (Oct. 1. 18611--tf 0. M. HAW LEY, DEALER In DRY GOODS, GROCERIES, CROCKF.RY Hardware, Rats, ems, Roots,Shoes, Ready Merle cloth Ing. Palate, Ulls , etc., Now Milford, It.. [Sept.. 8, 'B9. DR. S. W. DAYTON, PHYSICIAN 4C. SURGEON, tender. his rep-lees to tree CatettS or Great Bend and -airtnity. °Mee at hth residence. opportte Barnum Hoene, GI.. Bend Sept. lat.lBlM—if LAW OFFICE & McCOLLUSI, Attorneys and Conn. senors it Law. Office in the Brick Block mer the , Bank. [Mantrogn - Anz. A. inn,. A. C11131111U15.411. . • .1. B. McCou_l.73l. A. & D. R. LATHROP, DEALERS in Dry Goods. Groceries, crockery and glassware, table and pocket cutlery. Mints, idle, dye nude. Hato. boot, end rhoen. Bole leather. Perfumery Ac. Brick Block, adjoining the Bank, Montrose. [Anr„teit tf A. LATIRCOP, • • • D. It. Laumor. A. 0. WARREN, ATTORNEY A. LAW. Bounty, Back Pay. ?clarion and Extra no Claims attended to. Office fl oor below Boyd's Store, Mont rove. Pr. [An. I.'©. WM. A. CROSSMON, Attorhey at Law, Slnhtrose, Su•q's Co. Pa., can be thornd itt hit reshoushte buhtstehh holier ht the County Cothorthatonens' 01Tac. ilitontrose, Aug. 1„ th 69. W. W. WATSON, ATTOUNET HT LAW, Montrose, Ps. Office with L. F. Fitch. Dlontroze, Aug. I. ISCI. M. C. SUTTON, Auctioneer, and Insurance Agent, Prlendavil le, Pa lEEE C. S. GILBERT, B‘acltlAcork.emar. Great Deed, Pa Q. is. Aug] au Al MI ELI, Q. ES. .131oLvoitioracor*. Aar. 1, I. Add,,, , llrooulyn, Py JOHN GROVES, F VSITION ABLE TAU, DR, Routrofe. snap Chandler's Store. ..a.!‘ order, tilled in tir.t.nor 0,3 n. t luting done on short notice. and warranted to tit. W. W. 5311711, c laity= AND CUAIN ILANUF AcTurecits.— MAila mat. Mmarc... I. Iwo. B. BURRITT, DEALER In Stiplc and Fancy Dry Goode, Cra-kery. hardware, Iron, Stoves, Dru gh Uile,and Paha.. Boots and Shwa., data & Cap, Fur., Buda lo Rob., Grocerhul,Provielone, New Milford, Pa. DR. E. P. DINES, Has permanently 'trotted to. Friendscitle for the pur. pone of practicing medicine nod snrgery lu till lip branches. Ile may be found at the Jackrou 015ee hours from 8 a. m.. to 8. p. m. Friendreine, Pa., Aug, 1. InAft. STROUD & BROWN, FIRE AND LIFE 1:157.1&NC1t ACYNTS. Al' briefness attended to prompt ty, on fair term:. Office flint door north of • Montrose Elotel," Wl,l. fide.* Public Avenue, Montrose, Pa. [ Aug. 1. Eltu.nros tirnorn, ttiunt.zs L. I.lnown. JOHN SA ETTEII, It6SPBCTFULLT atinounees that he I. pared to eat all Linda of Garments In the moe. fashionable Style, warranted to Itt with ele.pner lid ease. Shop over the Post Mace, Montrose, ' 'a. WD. D. LUSH, ATTORNEY AT LAW, Montrose. Pa. Office oppo late the Mabel' House. near the Court Mass. Aug. 1. 1865.-41 DU. W. W. svirrn, DENTIST. Rooms over Boyd A Coyote's Herd ware Store. 01Ike boors from 9 s..m. to 4p. Montrose, Aug. 1, 1899.-0 ABEL TIMBELL, DZALIGI In Drugs, Patent Cho mice!. Liquors, Paints, 011elkye igntli, Varnishes, Win Glasa. Groceries, Glass Warn, Wall dud Window Pa, per,StOne-trare, Litapt , ,Eettseene, Machinery oil. Trusses, Gans, Ammaultion, Mil vet.. bpectsclis Brushes, Fancy Goods, Jewelry, Perfn rt, dr.— being !one of the most numeroni., extender, and valuable collections of Goode to Sorqurhenna Established In 1848. (flontrioc. Pa. D. W. SEAULE, ATTORNEY AT LAW. ',flee over the Kt, ,re of A. Lathrop, In the Bsrk Block. Montrose, I . n. [nel'ffn DIL. W. L. IMICIIARDSON, PIITSICIAN B SCRGEON, tendril , him profercioonl cervical to the eitieens of Montrose cud vicinity.— Office at his residence, on the corner elm of Soyrr Bros. Foundry. [tine. 1, tom. DR. E. L. G.'kEDNER, PHYSICIAN and SCHHIEON, Montrone. I. We.- eepecial attention to disuses of Um Heart atm Lungs and all Snr- Ic3l diseases. Office OVCr W. R. Desnaßoards at.fflearie's note. [Ang. 1. Ms. SIISNS & 'NICHOLS, DEl•a$Al to Dram Medicines, Cherllll=ll., Dye- Paints, 011 c, Varnish, Llquars. tlplces. FIII3C, r: 414116 Patent Medicines. Perfumery and Tulles Ar. titles. gar Presralptlone carefully enetuutuid,ql. Peelle Avenue. above ficarlu'a Betel, Montrone, Pa A. B. Beams. • Auer Ntenova Au. 1, DR. E. 1.. HA_NIDRICK, PBTEICIAN & BURGEON. respectfully tenders hl. protesslowd services to the olds.= of Frienderille and vicinity. tar -06105 tottusofftee of Dr. Lee. Boards at J. Dastard's. . Aug. 1, Ws. PROF. MORIIIII3, The Hayti Sadler. returns hia thank* for the kind pat. emice that enabled him to ttet the beet rent—he to I - I bleat time to tell the whole store, hat come and lee en' roarama rend the Old Stand. No loud laughing allowed in the attop. [April 19. MO. DENTISTRY. MI those in want of Odle Tooth or other dental work should calla% the team of the mtbserlbere. who are pre paret7tall kinds Of work let their !Metal short notice. Parti aftentkai _paid to make; fell and partial sews teeth on gold. gayer, or alumina= plate : also on Wegatea east composition ; the two latter preferable to any ofthdtheaper enbakmmie now need for dental plates. 'teeth of yontigpemona regulated, and made togrow In ural nat shape. The advantage of haring work done by permanently lo- aced and rosponsibla parties, met be apparent to all. All work warranted. Please .all and examine sped r work 02001.91aa5, Direr Boyd it Co's hard ware atom W. W. heti= & BROTHER. Montrose, Aug,lB, Aug.lll39.—tl fotfs tamer. RIPE WHEAT. We bent to-day o'er a cofflned form, And our tears fell softly down; We looked our last on tha aged fate, With its look of pcnee, Its patient grace, And hair like o silver crown. We touched our own to the clay-cold hands, Front life's long labor at rest ; And among the blossoms, white and sweet, We noted o bunch of golden wheat, Clasped close to the silent breast. The blossoms whispered of fadeless bloom, Of a land where (hit no tears ; The ripe wheat told of toil and care, The patient waiting, the trusting prayer, The garnered good of the years. We knew not what work her handt!had found, What rugged places her tket ; What cross was hers, what blacknms of night, We saw but the peace, the blossoms white, And the bunch of ripened wheat. AS each goes up from the fields of earth, Bearing the treasures of life, Good looks for some gathered grain of good. From the ripe harvest that shining stood, But waiting for the reaper's knife. Then labor Well, that in death you go Not only with blossoms sweet— Nor bent with doubt, and burdened with fears, And dyad, dry husks of the wasted years, But laden with golden wheat- Saturday SighL Chafed and worn with worldly care, Sweetly, Lord, my heart prepare ; Bid this inward tempest cause ; Jesus, come, and whisper pewee! Hush the whirlwind of my will; With Thyself my spirit fill ; And in calm this busy week— Let the Sabbath gently break. Serer, Lord, these earthly ties— Pain to Thuc my soul would rise Disentangle me from time— Lift me to a purer clime ; Let me cast away my load— Let MC now draw near to God Gently, toeing Jesns, speak-- End in calm this busy week. Draw the curtain of repose, While my weary eyelids close ; Steal toy spirit while I rest— GiVe me dreamings pore and blest ; liaise me with a cheerfulheart— Holy Ghost, thyself impart Then the Sabbath day will be Heaven brought down to earth to ote. BREVITIES '—A Cheyenne paper says that all win- ST the birds were sAntring around there : hat they were jail birds and soar at the end of a rope. —A w,stern editor says ; " The march civilization is on ward—on ward-1 ike the clove but intrepid tread of a jackass toward a peek of oats!" —lt is estimated that there tare 50,000 of a Garlick speaking population in Glas gow, Scotland. —There are no less than 241 Minim, Temples and Mosques in Calcutta. —The largest Sunday School in the world is at Stockport. England. It has 300 teachers and 5,000 scholars. —ln Africa, if any one comes before it king without fall-drws-costnme=that a straw hat and a ring iu the nose his head goes into the waste basket before he min wink twice. —A religions paper has figured out the wealth of Job (who was said to he the greatest man of all the earth") to have been $375,000 in gold. —When a large widow weds a little man, call he be called the widow's mite —Women prisoners in lowa have all the rights of men. They are set to break ing stone. —The PtTe in buying Remington rifles seems to rely us much upon saltpetre as Saint Peter. —A punning friend gives the following definition of centaur: A man who has walked himself uff his legs on a horse that has eaten his head off." —"What do von know of the character of this tnan ?" was asked of a witness at a l'oliee Court the other day. " What do you know of his character? . '' " I know it to he uubleachable.yer honor," replied be with emphasis. —•• How are yon. Broom ?" asked a bluff old sailor of a fop who was annoyed unless he was addressed as Mr. Broom, and who responded, " lee a handle to my name, sir."' - Oh, all right ; how are you. Broom-handle." —Over-Exertion, either of body or mind. produces debility and disease. the usual remedy is to tike some stimulant, the ef fect of u Bich is the same as givin? a tired horse the whip instead of oats. 1. he true way is to fortify the system with a perma nent tonic like the Peruvian Syrup, (a protoxide of iron,) which gives strength and vigor to the whole system. —The poet Gray was notoriously fearful of fire, and kept a ladder of ropes in his bed-room. Some mischievous young men of Cambridge, knowingllais, roused him from below in the middle of a dark night with the cry of firel The stairease, - they said, was all in flames. Up went his win dow, and down. he came on his rope lad der as fast as he could into a tub of wa ter, which they had placed there to re ceive him. He was put out. —An elderly farmer living in Devon shire died - recently. When he became conscious that death, was approaching, he gave the most. explicit directions as to the disposed - of his -property and the arrange ments for his funeral, and' almost with his last breath enjoined it upon his wife and daughter VI hale;the -- - faneral.proces leave.the.hottsci- at inkea,rly . hoar, in ordetth# they inig tet home is, time to milklhotiftot Wingate,* f '" MONTROSE, PA., WEDNESDAY, MAY 18, 1870. pioctibutouo. BETTER•HALF BARTER In savage lands, women are so far mer chandisuble articles that a young man anxious of setting up au establishment of his own is expected to give the papa of the lady of his choice something hand some in the way of cattle, or whatever may be the favorite currency of the coun try, as an equivalent for the loss of her 'services. A custom somewhat ineonven ' ient in its results, leading as in Kafirland, to much discontent among the young men, from the rich old men buying up all the wives, as they are able to outbid younger wife-seekers—an evil the Legisla- Lure of Natal has sought to check by fly ing the price of a wife at twenty cows. Even in civilized communities, the selling of daughters is not entirely unknown.l An English lady travelin in Portugal' was horrified by a wealthy Moore offering' her a good round sum for her beautiful daughter, un incident evoking from the' narrator the remark: "flow we revolt from app6arances instead of realities! A proposal to buy her daughter would shock any European parent. but if a man of superior rank or fortune offered himself, though his intellect, morals, and appear mice were all contemptible, would there be the sante horror entertained of selling / her r' Certainly, in openness and lion esty, the savages have the advantage; and it must be owned that they never scent to entertain the idea of selling a woman after they have made her a wife. The idea is one. however, that has been entertained and curried often in England ; and, what is more strange still, the per petrators of the offence appear to hare be lieved they were doing nothing contrary to the law of the land when divesting themselves of a partner of whom they were tired, by such a simple and in ex pen site tinftle of ore... A correspon dent of \ores. and Queries attempted to account for the popular belief the le gality of transactions of the sort, by say ing that it sprung out - of the long war ending in 1815, when many soldiers and sailors returning home, found their wives, supposing they were &id, had re-married. To get out of the difficulty arising from the unwelcome appearance of so ninny Enoch Ardeus, it was declared to be law. ful to sell the will.• in open market, when the second husband made 1118 marriage good by purchasing her, and the first one became free to marry again. We fancy the writer iii question tv.in Id find it di lb cult to prove that such dealings were ever declared lawful; and Tinfvtimatelr fur his theory, disposing of a wife by safe was in England long before the era of Napoleonic %vat's. ln Grinialdi's -Ori7ines Cenealo7ie;e" is to b e found the follOwiv Curious docu ment. dating hack more than tive and a to whom this writ shall come. John I), Camovs, son and heir of Sir Ralph Camoys, greeting. Know me to hai, yielded and deiivered tip, of inv own fre e 'will. to Sir William De Paynei. Ki my wife, Margaret De Cannivs, daughter and heiress of Sir John De Gatesden. And likewise to have given and granted to the said Sir Willitun, and to have made over and quitclaimed all goods and chat tels which the said Margaret hail or may • have, or which 1 may claim in her right ; that neither I, nor any one is my mune,. shall at any tune hereafter be able to claim any right to the said Mar....rivet, or to her goods and chattles or their pertinents.. And I cons •iit and grant, and by this writ declare, that the said Mar g aret shall abide and remain with the said Sir Wil liam during his pleasure. In witness to which I have placed my hand to this deed before these witnesses: Thomas De Dip eston, John D. Ferriugo, William ih leombe, Henry De Biroun, Stephen De Chamberlayne, Walter Le Mound, Gilbert Dc Batecumbe, Robert lie Bosco, and! others." Despite its signing, sealing, and • witnessing, this precious eed was de clared illegal and invalid by Parliament itself. In later times, Lord Hardwicke had oc c asion to issue an information against a gentleman for disposing of his sponse by private contract ; but what came of it is not recorded. Another instance in which formality was invoked occurred in 1 . :13, when three men and three wo men went to the Bell Inn, Egbaston street, Birmingham. and made the follow ing entry in the toll-Gook kept there:—' "August 13, 1771. Samuel Whiteliou,e.. of the parish of Willenhall, in the county of Staffoni, this day sold his wife, Mary Whitehouse, in open market, to Thomas Griffiths, of Birmingham; value, one , shilling. To he taken with all her faults. signed, Samuel. Whitehouse, Mary White house. Voucher. Thomas Buckley, ol Birmingham.' In 1803, one Smith took his wife from I Ferrybridge to Pontefract, a distance of twenty miles, and put her up for sale in the mitaket place; the biddings were start ed at twelve pence. and die was knocked down at eleven shillings, the spirited pur chaser leading his bargain away by a hal: amid showers of mud and snow from the spectators. A fellow at Tuxford, let his wife and child go for five shillins ; and in 1859, a similar scandalous exhibition took place at Dudley, when the wife was put up by auction at three half-pence, and sold to the highest bidder for the sum of six pence. In the above cases, the wives seem t o have fallen to chance.bayers; but gener ally the affair was a prearraged one be tween the buyer, the seller, and the sold, who seemed to have salved their conscien ces by going through the ceremony of a mock auction. On Valentine's day, 1806, a man named Gowthorpe exposed his wife for axle in the market at Hull, at 1 o'clock in the day ; but the mob inter fered with such effect that he was com pelled to withdraw her. However, in the evening, he again brought her out, and sold her for twenty guineas, to a man who had lodged at his house, for some years. In 1764, a man and his wife got into a conversation with a grazieratPur ham Fair—a conversation resulting in th'e man offering to excban'e his better half for a bullock, if he might choose one for himself Trout the drove. . The_glazier; agreed, tilltthe iteceded, 41lir the next day wad duly delivered Up s -with the inevitable halter round her neck, the husband taking his bullock away, and afterward selling that too for six guineas. In 1844, a Olambrganshire laborirl man, 1 after living rery unhappily with his wife for some time; aiscovered that she sought I solace in the affection of a neighbor. To make the best of a bad matter, he called I upon his rival, and after an amicable dis cussion, agreed to sell the cause of it to him. The following Saturday, he accord s ingly appeared in the market with his wife, attired in a new black dressing goWn and white bonnet, with a halter round her `neck, and then and there handed her over to her paramour upon payment of two shillings and six pence—in this instance an unvirtuous wife proving half a crown to her husband; .and we are told the pur chaser boasted it was the best bargain lie ever made in his life. Not so successful in their arrangement were another couple, whose disappointment was made public in the Stamford Mercury of the 26th of November, 1858: "On Monday, a 'dis graceful exhibition—the attempted sale of a wife—took place in front of a beer house at Shearbridge, Little Horton, near Brad ford. The fellow who offered his wife for sale was Hartley Thotnpson. She was a person of prepossessing appearance. The sale had been duly announced by the bell man, and a large crowd assembled. The wife appeared with a halter, adorned with ribbons, round her neck. The sale, how ever, was not completed; the reason for this being, that sonic disturbance was created by a crowd from u neighboring factory, and that the person to whom it was intended to sell the wife was detained ut his work beyond the time. The couple, though not long wedded, have led a very unhappy life, and it is said they and their , friends were so egregiously ignorant as to believe they could secure their leg,al sepa ration by a public sale. In 1863, a work man at the Cyfarthfu Ironworks sold his wife to a fellow-workman for .£2 10s. in cash 10s to be spent in drink. The wife appeared more amused than pained by the performance, and went home with her purchaser, after enjoying her share of the beer. One tickle wretch was deservedly pun ished. Having parted with his spouse for a quartet of a guinea and a gallon of beer, he was disgusted to hear, a few weeks afterward, that she had, by the death of a relative, come into a little fortune of .£l.OO. Only a few years ago. a bachelor in easy circumstances, living at Dittisham, a vil lage on the banks of Dart, took a strung Lucy for the wife of one of his neighbors; and after some ne , mtiation, it was agreed. between him and ° the husband, that lie should take the lady for £5O, her baby be ing thrown into the bargain ; and the newly:mated pair soon set off on u sort of wedding-trip. The husband, however, found he had been sold. for, after having delivered up his wife, his customer went off without paving fur her, and the delnd . . carpenter who had sold his wife, hanged himself upon her r. fusing to return to lus r,p,ntant besom. en the plea that she was pm-fectly satisfied with the result of his trailing. The women concerned in these singu lar transfers seldom cecnt ,to have made any objection. We have only met with tw o instances of the lady proving rebel lions. Mrs:- Waddlove was one of these exceptions to the rule. Her husband, an iuu keeper at Gnissington, agreed to dis pose of her to a Mr. John Lupton upon payment of one hundred guineas -o'e highest figure a wife is recorded to have fetched—the latter depositing one g;rtinea in earnest of 1- the bargain. When lie went the .11,,,in g day to tender the remain ing ninety-nme guineas and receive the fair dame, to his dismay, she flatly refused to allow herself to be delivered up; and the disappointed wife-buyer was obliged to depart as wifeless:Ls he came; while to render his discomfiture more mortifying. mine host declined to efund the earnest money. The husb.l was the sufferer in our second instance. He was a young man hailing from Boweastle, in Cumber land, who, finding it impossible to live comfortably with his sponse, resolved to give somebody else the chance of doing so, by disposing of her by public auction. Not being successful in finding a eusto nut. his own neighborhood, his wife suggested that he should try Newwstle. They went there; and the wife so con trived matters that certain gentlemen em ployed on his Majesty's service—very pressing. service—introduced themselves to the husband, and lie found himself one fine day safe on board a frigate bound for a lone cruise in distant waters; and so the t ables were turned, and instead of get ting rid of his wife, she got rid of him. ISv law. the selling of a wife counts as a misdemeanor; and in 1837, one Joshua Jackson wait convicted of the offence at the Sessions in the West Riding of York shire, and got a month's hard labor for his pains. A young and sprightly widow once ap peared at a Bath masquerade with a pa tper to her bosom beating these lines: To be let on lmse for the term of my life, I, Sylvia .I—, in the shape of a Wife ; I am young, though not handsome, good-na tured, though thin— For further particulars pray Inquire within. Lt the Gentleman's Magazine for 1788, the taking a lady on lease is treated as a sober reality; a Birmingham correspon dent of Mr. Urban's writing c "Since my residing in town, 1 have often heard there is a method of obtaining a wife's- sister upon lease. I uever, could learn the meth od to be taken to get. a wife upon lease, or whether such connections are sanc tioned by law., But there is an eminent manufacturer in the vicinity of this town who had his deceased wife's sister upon lease for ninety years and,upward z and I know, she went. by his name, enjoyed all the privilegea,,and received all honorsdue to the respectable name of wife... Bir mingham wet:kid/appear to have,,a speci alty fur extraordinary contracts of ~,thie nature. In 1853, a worgan who accused her husband ot.u.s.saulting her, in giving evidence before the imagistratea of, -that town, said she was not living with the of fender, because he, was leased to, another I woman, Fur the satisfaction of the bench, the agrewas eroded.„ It ran thus; "AierucTiridam..o 7 agTopxept wade and antifidlatis 4.001044 sittYlof: October, in the year of our Lord 1852, between William Charles Capas, of Charles Henry street, in the beron,gh .of Birm ingham, in the county of Warwick, car penter, of the one part, and Emily Hick son, of Hurst street, Birmingham, afore said, spinster, of the othCr part. Where as, the said William Charles Capas and Emily Hickson have mutually agreed with each ether to live and reside together, and to mutually assist in supporting and main ! twining each other during the reinuinder ! of their lives, and also to sign the agree ment hereinafter contained to that effect. ! Now, therefore, it is hereby mutually agreed upon, by and between the said ' Charles Capes and Emily Hick son, that they shall live and reside togeth er during the remainder of their t ylives; and that they shall mutually exert them selves by work and labor, and by follow ing all their business pursuits to the best of their abilities, skill, and understand ing, and by advising and assisting each other, for their mutual benefit and advan tage, and also to provide for. themselves and each other the best support and cam forts of life which their menus and income may afford. And fur the true and faith ful performance of this agreement, each of the said parties bindeth himself and herself unto' the other finally by this' agreement, as witness the hands of the ! said parties, this day and year above writ ten." For this precious document five and-thirty shillings had been paid to some unscrupulous limb of the law. It may be hoped it is unique. But one must allow the agreement, so far as it goes, is a fair one; and is just such a deed as may be expected to be drawn up between man and wife iu the happy coming time when the clamorous preachers of the equality of both sexes of man shall have altered the laws affecting matrimony to the utmost of their desires, and connubiality upon a proper commercial basis. A Shlgular C.a. so It would seem, from the frequeut oc currence of remarkable iucid.•uts, that there is errtaiuly nothing of au improb able nature, judging from the following wonderfully strange and hardly creditable story which came to our ears a few days since : In the spring of 1849, when the gold fever was at its highest possible state of excitement in California, there lived in the state of Virginia, un the hanks of the York river, a few miles below Yorktown, a gentleman of culture, whose parents were in moderate cireumstances. It was during the gold excitement he left the comforts of a home, his friends;relatives, a loving wife whom he had led to the altar but a year since, and an only child— a daughter of two mouths—and took up his lonely journey to seek his fortune iu the wild, distant West, over mid beyond the Rocky Slountains, where the bright . , ' ll / 1 1 11UV W s a ran d' After years of toil, drudgery, and re verses of fortune in the mines, he came to this city and engaged in business. lie, being successful, Soon amassiol au ini- Illense fortune. Itle Laloviil wife had died during a prevailing epidemic while , on a visit to some relatives during the yellow fever season at New Orleans, as at , the sante time did a little girl of another family of the same name iota age as his little daughter. He Nisited the States, but could find no clue to his deceased wife's sister: he thought naturally. she, tau, had (lied. lie rchtrtae,l to the Golden State, and time and the' tt hitting excite ment of business soon healed his sorrows. and effaced apparently, all recollections of i his old home on the banks of the placid York. Shortly after the completion of the Pa cific Railroad there arrived at this city a gentleman, his wile, and a beautiful, well educated, and graceful. young lady just blooming into maidenhood, :waren tly,, and really of abdlit 18 summers. It was by chance the young lady and aged wid ower met—and to meet was to love. They were duly married after a short acquaint ance ; the ceremony being celebrated with great eclat, and oreating no little flutter in the fashionable and wealthy circles of our city. The fact that both parties bore the same Christian name excited no com ment or inquiry, as it was one almost quite as common as that of Smith or Brown. A few weeks after the marriage, as the husband and wife naturally inquired into each other's past history and antecedents, and were gradually becoming better ac quainted with each other, the denounce• meat c-ame—they were father and daugh ter—man and wife ; the instinctive lore of the parent for the and the daughter for the Caller, had been super seded by the strong emotional passion of sexual lore. Both innocent at heart, but foully criminal in the eyes of man and God. His daughter was not dead, as he sup posed ; but, after the death of his wife, was kindly taken in charge by his sister in-law, who married and moved to a dis tant Ititc, and who also, with her .hus band, accompanied his wife's daughter to th is coast to meet as strangers, lovers, and subsequently parent, and child, as they were, cultivated, passionate love changed into filial and parental devotion. Wonderfully strange, indeed, are the fortuitous circumstances which control and guide the footsteps of erring and sus ceptible mortals. Azil Backus, the first Presi dent of Hamilton College, was well known as a wit in his earlier days; and - while connected with the. College his quaint sayings were a constant source of aumze- Utica. Once, on being asked his opinion of a brilliant but rambling sermon, he ex tinguished the glory of the young preach er who had delivered it in the college pul- . pit, by saying: would take a spry man to think of the sermon Mid text aim-' ultaneously.They_were so Or apart that if the text, had the small poi, the Seruitm would never have caught it." ' .j —"Here, Alfred is as apple ; divide, it politely with, your little- sister.'.' "How shalt I. divide it.politely, mamma?" Give tbatrger pu _rt tA, the !other.. peuraal: Ely obil 44froviebtulded, Abu .4IIPP10:- 1 41.1 .. b is it yourself:' Who Would Bc v. : 1Boy ,Agßia r t In congiuuy one.__ ,eycning, „when! the song, "Would I were u.IIRY : w4s culled for, u gray:headed "old 40y" i coursed Aus: „ - • . , A Ley again W 49 would•, be a boy i again if he could ?,_,to have the ,:measles, • itch and mumps! to get,licked by the big , ger boys and scolded by older-brothers; to stutrtoes; to have the belly-ache from swallowiug'cherry stones; to have chapped hands and frozen toes; to slip upon the • ice ; to do chores ,tto get your ears boxed.; I to get whaled by ut liiiek-liended: school.' master; to be made to stand up :as the "dtunte" fur the amusement of the whole • schools •' to have tit/it/ors to come to school and tell how week and stupid you Were' rwhen you were born, and to ask yet/What' I would have become of you at that inter ! eating time in life, -if• your parental had not ben so kind to you ; to eat .4 the second table!when couipanv dornes,;! to tfet out cabbage plants and thin cern! bebaus6 you , fire little, and • Consequently wouldn't make your back ache so' niuch ; to be /nude to gu to school when yeti dealt want tu ; to get spelled. down in 4001! to loose your-marbles; to have ,your sled broken ; to get hit in the eye with frozen apples and soggy snow balls: to . cut your finger, loose your knife; to have' a hole in the seat of your only pair of pants when your pretty cousin from the city comes fo see you ; to be called a coward at school if you don't fight ; to be whaled at'hothe if you do fight at school ;!to be struck' after a little girl and dare not tell her; to have a boy too big fur you to lick tell you - that your sweetheart squints; to have, your sweetheart cut you dead, and affiliate with that boy Jonn Smith, whom you hate particularly because he set your'noes out of joint the week before ; to be made go to bed when you know you Wu% -a bit sleepy; to have no lire crackers on the Fourth of July, no skates at Christmas; to want a piece of bread and butter' with honey and get your ears pulled; i to be kept from the circus when it conies to-, town, and when all the other boys go; to get pounded for stealing roasting-ears ; to ' get run by bull-dogs fur trying Walla way ter melons; to have the canker rash, cat echism, stone bruises; to be called, upon to kiss old women that visit your mother; to be scolded hee.iiise you like Maggie Lon: better than putt own dear sisters; to be'told of a scorching time littlti buys will have who tell lies, and are nut like George Washington : to catch your big j brother kiZsitig the pretty school ma'am j on the sly, and wish you were big, so you could kiss her, too, and—and—why, ?vivid be e boy again ? I The Sea Elephant. At present the . true sea elephant is found only in the antarctic ocean ; a mon. ster nut finfrequuntly 30 feet long,,and measuring o'er 16 feet iu enee. ui apiwarinice, and above th e m ke, 1.40 d; when he is aroused to anger, Iris inflated trunk. whieh ordinarily hang+, louse oter Lis oilier hp. - Ills whole body is covered with stiff. sh in ing hair, an d - u uderneath his fur coat he has a layer of fat at least a Riot thick, witch protects him effectually against the terrible cold of the polar regions.. -The awkward feet are mere stumps cue in fanlike coverings and are of little avail to the giant when he moves on firm land.— After a few yards he begins to groati-and to rest,.while the whole huge body shakes as if it %mere one Nast niu,s of jelly like fat. Here he falls an easy vietiift to the sail ors, who come in search of his ivory and his oil ; they walk fearlessly through the thick, crowds. and knock them over by a single blow on the nose. The giant opens his enormous mouth and shows his formidable teeth, but he cannot move—he is entirelyhelphiss. Ve ry different, howiner, archis motions in. his own eleineut ; as soon as -he is under water he swims with amazing rapidity, turns and twists like. an eel, and is thus enabled to catch swift fish and sedias,and the web-footed penguin& lie must find it difficult -at times to Provide his enormous Musics of sea tans, and large stones have been-found in his sionniell to the number of twelve. When he wishes to sleep, he floats .on the sur face, and is rocked and cradled by the ares of the ocean. " Ever of Thee." A sad story is connected with the name of the writer of the beautiful song, "Ever of Thee,' which has 'been sung and ad mired by so many in this country and in En rope. Foley Hall. was a irentleman by birth and education. 14ealthy iu his own rota. with large expectations, lie led a heedless life—not choosing his associates, lint al lowing himself to be drawn into the soci ety of the vicious. His property soon dis apppeared, and he was left without re sources sufficient to buy his daily bread. His musical talents had been highly cul tivated, but as he never needed them. he scarcely knew to what degree•he could be made available. In his distress, however, he wrote his charming " Ever of Thee." A I. 4 ondon publisher gave him one hund red dollars for it ; but that amount, with such a spendthrift, would not lag -long. He wrote other songs, but the money not coming in as fast as he wished, in a Weak moment he forged the name of his pub lishers, and although every effort was made, even by the pi:Wisher:lo Save him, it was noose, and poor , Foley•Hall.went to Neirgate, and died broken hearted be. fore his trial came on.. • Not a Competent CAM. A story is tort cirt - WO well known law yeas of Detmit , ,Oeithet orieffifim was heard to boast of his orthography: T.hey'onee found thytneeiv'es on opposite sides of the same case in the, circuit court. • One, who is a bit of a wag, knowing his opponent's weakness in spelling, thought to,gd up a little laugh ute the olher's expense . the layers gathered within, the, cordingly he ea:molly , reached orer.:and picked up : one of his., advp !pry's, pa and glatieeil, through it for,* raiipf word. At lekigol:l4Pyo,liglitSJOrt the Ifelther at , glied thqt the;e wtgi iron ethipp Irr9PETAvialitolilikresiNgrl64l4l4 - own bnowleage of oAhograpby did no VOLUME XXVIL - NUMBER 20. correctly inihttn. Pointidg oat the word to tin attorne± who:alit-next toi him, he remarked , ' in-' a hoarse.-whisper? loud enough,,t9',,be beard. by all,within.the bar: "See lwre, the darn, fool ilidtet, know any better thati .to sjiell'ceretnony, with'a "C." The Ititigh - trag oh 'tile wrong man:' The wr9r 4l .19,Xsuk, poulticed► „ At a'fain'ous and hi = s Watering place, a - gebtleniatf tnitinight lyzeizedi in, bpd with: art- excruciating pain in -the stomach; which beither.brati4, No. 1 .6, nor any :other other : remedy. (Add. xetuove. His wife,,aftir - trying number of ..things vain,in' tind'hnilitg-allitiusted'• all her . stock , otreirielliefißeft her brisband'e bed side for thelprirpose of getting a;ftvarm up rlicttion. ,-Ginded_otther.returnlby 1110 . t..lthipl4Aio.aiw. Ojning-in tindWhichl arippOied was.tha one just left:iiitieaaftlit entered, at:awe:l - riot a j little'shrprisedlo' - firidlher 'Patient 'appa l-cantly: in a: deep :slumber. However, thinking besmight still be suffering, she gently riiiBeo,4l.lQ hed-clothes,.Ac.,and laid the scalding The uupon • . stomach— but' not The litoniach of her husband, which . no soOridr touched the body Of the person than -he, greatly alarmed, - and writhing tinder the torture of the burning application, shouted :1"Hallo I hallo I what in the mime of heaven and earth ace you about there?” than', with•Otie spring . from his‘bedrbernadelor the door,- and, -rush , hag down stairs, declared in a ..frisniy of excitement, thatsonie one had poured a shovel of hprelitiliitpon him. The wo ' man,tinie'Niiitlilefertereent and alarm, gave frantic screams which brought her husband- hurriedly in from the - next room to her-rescue. The husband was so much excited; And also. so, much amused-with the singular mistake .and the ridiculous position of Iris heeter , haif, Mit he fcirgot all his pains ; but early next morning he, his wife •andrtrunks, left for parts , un known. rbe poulticed gentleman, still retuinetheliondkere.hief-a beautiful lin en fabric, with " the lady's name on it, which he e6ndaeti of rare value. tJustice,Cbuse is going to.:Fitt rope fur the summer. —Ex-Coilector Bailey, who recently di - slippeuretV from New York, is said to have "been found 'in 'O'hio, on a : farm.'..N. —One patient in Maine has'realli 'and undobtedly been made Pervious by "smok ing._ lie putitialli;Thted pipe in theFtatme pocket with eight}-five dollars, worth of paper currency. —A felloyi,xyho mule a. return of a i large income, iith 4 aicicu , an, ...lidliantageoue matrimonial alliance,' is 'anxious 'to -cor rect-his tigurei; now that income 'returns are. note tti• benublished. rrt-alFttg,VraS6ki3ll,o4)&l3ll,4d/1 bopin buttse,•eemeut fur Ws cellar anu. u tisiti , .ehri to paint the house, and coal enough at the bottom to last the family —A negro alderman at Wilmington,N. Q., wassalletVAutliony" by the counsel iu a law ease in which he was a witness; but.,he refused_ to reply., till he was ad dressed Mr. Howe, and the Court sus tained ltitn, • -11 - utfie J - Olinson, the lady Ants brought into d ist tes ii notoriety thrdtigh her elopement.with the Rev. Home° Cook, in New Yet*, Aorne3upntlisag9, wasjoin ,A, in V : altict to a ,young man of that ci last week. -fl. mother iii CleN;eland, Ohio, as been befbre th'e courts cin'a charge of ?s -mith amthattery on her son,'but wtis 'ac quitted. Shelcus whipping the boy - for steabug . motley . and playing truant,'When an nth - nous iaterfered and had her arrested.' —Sap Fhtiticisdo hag at last lilt Upon a new, original and:very happy' plan "of rob bin7 ~litoperator kosSoes him, and after ; itisiAreatheng ceases to IA regu lar, a eenf,ederate. forms the ,ceremony of emptying hrs . . pockets. ; el tale 6reTece on account of the reCent 'Orttrages!Or the brigands'near'Marathen •is not' dated. At an early .hoar Monday. Morning the bodies of Ploytl and Herbert ; of the, Brit ish Legation, arrived at. Piraeus, near Athena, in treeian frigate, and later 'the ilaftlii , ffinertil obsequies Were eel ebratedl'in that city. The King, the dip lomatic corps,und a great number oftiti zeus and strangers attended. The fordo in pursuit of the brigands succeeded in killing or capturing the entire party, --Let us sit ; down top good Japanese dinner—clown en the floor. Food on the floor: 'Fire'and - cigars or pipes on the floor. Sit on your heels, watting.t Enter first course—Tea, sugar cake& Smoke. Second ,taintse- r -Vish,skin soup. Smoke. 'third—Fish dikeand bean chees. Sinn° Fourth—P.44r' fish and hosro radish. Smoke. Fiftlu-Broiledfish. Smoke . again. Sixth--Clistard-soup. Smoke. Seventh— Chicken stow, turnipsand onion& Smoke s little. kliglith—ckittlefish, Wafer cakes, Nipon tea. . Here if tired,lon can atop at the end otabOut two - hours' .ankle-ache. ill is cleanly;Well spiced itith tally; and served in tho-ntmest-politen4i& , Bipping tea may Ave , substituted.for the • infinitest inal whiffe.Apolite smoking. • A....grand dinner, is.much more,elaborate,„ After dinner rest.—qapti Correspondence Buf . . I frlo Ezprilis. • • ' ' —A iichiisktsraper" region, that the mimed gfate its 'Mums• win not permit it to pnblisit a furnished sketch of the lifo.of a certain gentlemen, tent.prom iseg to preserve it as igateriallar_All nary notice, —A re-enlisted soldier, named' Data ron, rind bis. on 'suicide at Atlnnta;,Georkii, on . Saturday, ths' 16th iuttant. ' They:gabli'look an ounce Of ar seniiltindretired to vfoods.ta die to- Other; fader ot:tbe poi son; they to 'returned - the barracks - and "' " " ~14- R 7Ats a , lawyer : and a, dogior mere Waging Ank .asra - a leas said to a friend. 'These - two are, ju.4 equal, one itar *resPoWAL dbo-41/44, 21 14.4. 1 4WAr1aPaii.-4.1 4,1%-- your money or your fife. f . r' 4 V AUIE'IIES.
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