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
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