THE VIONTROSE DEM 0 CRAT.
E. B. HAWLEY, Proprietor.
gittines fads.
Lrirri.Es & BLAKESLEE,
Attorneys and Cenneellors et L. Oates Ibe one
heretofore oeenplat by R. 11. 8 O. P. Little. on Kato
street, Montrose. PL. (April In.
IL B. LITYLL am. P. LIMA. M. L. MiLLUZIIIIII.
8. lielLanant. Q. C. FA MUM W. 11. ceimi.
McKEN'ZIE., FAUROT ft CO.
Dealers In Dry Goods, Clothing, Ladles and Misses
One Shoes. also, agents for the great American
Tea and Coffee Company. Montrose, Pa ap.
CHARLES N. STODDARD,
Dealer In Boots and Aboaa. Bate and Cap.. Leather and
Finding*, Veto Street, id door below Searle.. Hotel.
Work made to order, and repairing done neatly,
Montrone, Jan. 1,1870.
LEWIS lIISOLL,
SRAVING AND HAIR DRESSING
shop in the new Posteince handing. where he will
he round ready to attend all who may want anything
In his line. Montrose, Pa. Oct. 13 18651.
P. REVIVOILEIS,
ArCTIONICER—ScIis Dry Goods, and Idembanize—idao
'Uvula at Vendues. All orders left at my Image will
twelve prompt attcntion. (Oct. 1, Iti(O—tl
0. M. HAWLEY,
DEALER In DRY . GOODS, GROCERIES, CROCKERY
Hardware, Hats, Capp, BooG.Shoca, Ready Made Cloth
tog. Palate, Oils, ate-, New Milford, Pa, ISept. IL '69.
DR. S. W. DA'WT9N,
PEITSICIAN & SURGEON. tenders his service* to
the citizens of Great Bend and al. - lofty. Office .t his
residence, opposite BARIUM Goose, (Pk Bend village.
Sep[. Ist, ISlS.—tf
LAW OFFICE.
CIIAMBERLIN & MtCOI.LUM. Attorneys and Coda.
eelloes at Law. 011Ichta the Flyle& Block we the
Bank. [Montroee Ann. 4.1M1.
A. Glum.' . J. B. licCou.crit.
A. & D. U. LATHROP,
DEALERS in Dry Goods. Groceries,
crockery and glassware, table and pocket cutlery.
Palma, oils, dye staff*, Hate, boot. and *lmes, Mir
leather, Perfumery de. Brick mock, adjoining the
Bank. Montrose. ( August litf9 --tf
A. Lartraur, - - D. IL LALIMOT.
A. O. WARIIEN,
ATTORNEY A. LAW. Bounty. Back Pay. Pea•lon
and Rae", on Claims attended to. Offlee A
"or below Boyd'• Store. )iontro•e.P•. [An. I. 'fa
W. W. WATSON.
ATTORNEY HT LAW, Montrose, Pa. Ocoee with L.
P. Fitch. [Montrose, Aar. 1, ISO.
M. C. SUTTON,
Auctioneer, and Inisuranee Agent,
anl 69t* Vriendsirtllle, Pa.
C... GILBERT,
.ELIALCIICLCIIXLCA , Car.
Great Bond. Pa
117. B.
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4,7111 ELI,
V. ES. .A.N.2.4:sticoxacscoir.
Aar. 1, Itaa. Addrass, Brooalyn, Pa
JOIIN GROVES,
FASITION AISLE TAU:. 3R, Moran.... Pa. Stop oeer
Chandler', Store. At , orders tilled to drat-rate style.
~,tuts dtmr oitort notice. and aratesided to 61.
W. W. SMITH,
C tDIN ET AND 1:11Allt ANUFACTURIIIII3, o
Lot Mat. erret. SioUtrove. Pa. Isug. 1. MM.
U. ntru.urrT,
DEALER n Staple and Fancy Dry Goods, Crockery
Ilardorore, Iron. Ranee*, Dr. go, Oils, and Paints
Boot • and Shot•. Hato & Caps. For*, Bakal° Robes
Grocerin.Provloitll......c., New Milford. Pa.
DR. E. P. HIKES,
Me permanently located at Friendairlfle tor the par
pone of practicing medicine and aurgery la all It.
branches. lie may he found at the Jackson Holm.
°Mee hoar* from a a, in,. to a. p. oa.
Frlenda►ille, Pa.. Aug. 1. INS.
fiTitOCTD & BROWN.
FINE ANTI I.IFE IN'S 7 &Wien. ACNNTS. AC
too• Ines• sttended toprompcly. on fair terms. Oftee
dra d.o,r north of .•
Montrose Uotel," west side n•
Public Arenno. Montrose, PA. (A az. i. 18C9.
BiLusas Nritoun, MI MS* L. Mltosra.
JOHN SAVA-TER,
RESPECTFULLY announces that be+ l• ta.sw
pared to eat all kinds of Garments In the moe,
fashionable Style, warranted to dt with eleesaer
ad ease. Shop over the Post Mee, Itootroor, Pa
WM. D. LURK,
ATTORNEY AT LAW, Montrose, Pa. (Mee oppe
elte the Terhell House, near the Court Hoes,
Aug. 1. 'lBll9.—tl
DR. W. W. SDITIII,
DENTIST. Rooms over Floyd .9 Coryln's [lard
ware Store. Ofßee hours from 9a. m. to 4p. m
Montrose, Aug. 1, 18IZ.—tf
ABEL TEIIBELL,
13 BALER In Dregs, Patent Medicines, Chemicals
Liquors, Paints, 011s,Dyr ado. Vandalic., Win
(Ireccries, Glass Ware, Wall and. Window Pa,
per, Stone-ware. ILlltript , .l{CrOfeltle, Machinery (111 s.
Trusses, Guns, Ammunition, Knives. Spectacles
Brushes, Fancy Goods, Jewelry, Perfu
hal ng (one of the moot numerous, • fleecier. sod
valuable collection, of Goods In Suoisueboutus Co.—
Established in ISIS. [Montrose, Pa.
D. W. SEARLE,
ATTOILNEY AT LAW. office over the Store of A.
Lathrop, to the Brick Block. Montrose, Pa. [sure)
DR. W. L. RICHARDSON,
PHYSICIAN & SURGEON, tendert, his professional,
services to the eitir.ens of Montrose and vicinity.—
Office at his residence, on the corner east of Sap, IL
Bros. Poundry. [Aug. 1,1 S HI.
DR. E. L. GARDNER,
PHYSICIAN arid SURGEON. Montrose. Pa. Gives
especial attention to diseases of the Heart and
Lungs and all Surgical diseases. Office over W. B.
Dean.s Boards at Searle's Hotel. (Aug. 1. lIWW,
BURNS & NICHOLS,
D g . ...RS to Dregs, Medicine.. Chemical.. Dye
.: ..ff a. Paiute, Oils. Vantleb. Liquor.. Pettey
fly: ttee, Patent Medicines. Perfumery and Toilet Ar
ticle.. gar Preeceptions carefully compounded.—
Poetic Avenue, above bearle's Hotel, Montrose. Pa
A Beams, A.O. Ntcnota.
Aug. 1, 1869.
DR. E. L. 111ANDRICIIE,
LIJYSICIAN & 8011131302 t. respectfully tender, ht•
professional services to the citizen of Priendrville
and vicinity. yr Office intim office of Dr. lA. ,
&nerds at Hovford's. Aug. 1,1869.
PROF. MOlllllB,
The Hayti Barber, returns his thanks for the Mod -
romage that has enabl•d him to get the hest t
ha 1 I hsent time to tell the whale story. bot mote
sod we for women , tar-at the Old Bland. Ito load
laughing allowed In the shop. [April IL MO.
D ENTISTRY
All those in want of false Teeth or otherdental work
should tall at the office of the subscribers. who are pre.
paretic° do all kinds of work in their line on short nar.%.e.
Particular attention paid to making WI sad 'partial
setts of teeth on gold, silver, or aluminum plate : also on
Weston's cast composition ; thetwo War preferable to
any of the:chesper substances now used for dental plates.
Teeth ofyoungpersons regulated, and made togrow In
natural shape.
The advantage of having watt done by permanently ice
cited and responsible parties, must be appar nt to aIL
All work warranted. Please all and examine sped..
mews &plate work at our *Mee. over Boyd .t Co's tuud
ware store.
W. W.
Montrose, Aug.
W. W. SMITH 6 BROTHER.
GOLD JEWELRY.
A- New and large supply,
Moaticee, Nov. 11,1lEi. Win MULL
faro Comm
VILLAGE TATTLING.
Oh, could there In the world be found
Some little spot of happy ground,
Where village , pleasures might go round,
Without the village tattling I
How doubly bleat that place should be,
Where all might dwell in harmony,
Free from the bitter misery
Of gossips endless prattling.
If such s spot were really known,
Dame Pesos might claim it as her own,
And in it she might II: her throne,
Forever and forever:
There, like a Queen, might reign and live,
While every one would Boon forgive
The little alights they might receive,
And be offended never.
'Tie mischief makers that remove
Far from our hearts the warmth of love,
And lead us all to disapprove
What gives another pleasure.
They seem to one's part—but when
They've heard our cares, unkindly then
They soon retail them all again,
Mixed with their poisonous measure
And then they've such a cunning way
Of telling ill-meant tales ; they say
" Don't mention 'what rve said, I pray,
I would not tell another."
Straight to your neighbor's house they go,
Narrating everything they know ;
And break the peace of high or low,
Wife, husband, friend and brother.
Oh, that the mischief-making crew
Were all reduced to one or two,
And they were painted red or blue,
That every one might know them ;
Then would our villagers forget
To rage and quarrel, fume and fret,
Or Gall into an angry pet
With things so much below them.
For 'tis a sad degrading part
Te make another's bosom smart,
And plant a dagger in the heart
We ought to !ore and cherish.
Then let us evermore be found
In quietness with all around,
While felendshipjoy and pesos abound,
And angry feeling perish.
Tim SONO OF A GEUBIAZI STUDENT
Bt PROTESSOII LONGFELLOW
i moor a maiden fair to see,
Take care !
She can both false and friendly be,
Beware ! beware I
Trust her not,
She Is fooling thee
She has two eyes, so soft and brown,
Take care l
She gives a side-glance and looks down,
Beware S beware
Trust tier not
She is Cooling thee 1
And she has hair of golden hue,
Take care I.
And what she says, it Is not true,
Beware I. beware !
Trust hor dht,
She Is fooling thee I
She has a bosom white as snow,
Take care
She knows how much 'to show,
Beware! beware !
Trust her not,
She Is fading thee
She gives thee a garland woven fair,
Take care I
It is a foolscap for thee to wear.
Beware ! beware I
Trust her not,
Shs is fooling thee 1
VARIETIES.
—People' of Taste—cooks.
—A head wind—a sneeze.
—The last thing out—the gas.
—Peace-makers—Seamstresses.
—A crack corps—the burglars.
—Girl itsifers—Female bakers.
—A-mew-sing—A cat serenade.
—A match game —lncendiarism.
—Practical puzzles—the war maps.
—Advice to doctors—Live and let live.
—A laborious occupation—shop-lift i rag.
—For a broken limb—a gin-sling.
—Pressed for time,Egyptian mummies.
—Noose-paperthe, marriage certificate.
—A quick trip—to trip on an orange
peel.
—Money is hard to get—but easy to
spend.
—A bar to further progress—a mosqui
to bar.
—Can a little girl weeping be called a
cry-sis?
—The weather is getting a trifling mo
notonous.
—The most difficult, thing to remem
ber—the poor.
—Poor relief—being relieved of one's
watch.
—The swiftest arm of the military ser
vice—the fleet
—An lowa man aptly advertises "kero
sene and cofEne
—People who go to the theatre to
laugh are often seen in tiers.
—Tolase a bang up time—be present
at a boiler explosion.
Dyeing for love—coloring your mous
tache to, please a woman. .,
—The beach-erites at the seaside are not
all of the Henry Ward style—but none
more indecent.
—lt is 'announced that Henry Ward
Befcher, iaabont to take the stage in the
character of Chadband—be has been re
hearsing for flee yeara in his Brooklyn
religio-theatre.
MONTROSE, PA., WEDNESDAY, OCT. 12, 1870.
ptiscellaurouo.
Woman In the San-Bonnet.
It was about the year 1820 that two
young married poeple took a house in
G— a sea-shore town. The house was
an old-fashioned-one, but had been well
built, and was in perfect condition. It
was a pretty house, built in the irregular
style of the day, of some fifty or more
years back. A hall ran through the
house from the middle of which sprangr
broad flight of stairs. Half way up the
stairs there was a generous landing place.
with a large arched window. This hall
and stairway were the only regular parts
of the mansion—rooms and wings hav
ing been built from time to time.
The place was chosen by Mr. and Mrs.
Anstrutber, because it was retired, a bit
lonely, and with nice woods about it—a
little gloomy, to be sure, to those not in
their honeymoon.
On a very sultry July night the pair
stopped on their way up the old stairway,
on the landing, and looked long out of
the great window, for the landscape be
neath them, either by the bright light of
moon, or the lesser brightness of the stars,
was very fair. They had been talking
very earnestly, when M rs. Anstruther sud
denly broke off from what she was saying,
and exclaimed :
" George. dear, what a change there
was in the air a moment since. I felt an
icy, damp breath over my cheek."
" My dear child," he said, "the night is
hot as the infernal regions. What an im
agination you have 1"
" Well," she paid, "perhaps I am im
aginative, but I thought, I felt a shivering
breeze over my face ; but it's gone now.'
Mrs. Anstruther thought no more of
the circumstance, if indeed, circumstance
it could be called. She and her husband
had passed very happy days at the grove.
But presently there was trouble among
the servants for even lovers have such in
cumbrances. The cook said her kicthen
was her castle, and that she did not want
soy 0,, to b looking aft... hoe. intno and
kettles; that she lef t each utensil in its
place at night, but found them much dis
arranged in the morning, often upon the
hearth ; and she said if .Nlr. and Mrs. An
strnther liked a twelve o',dock supper she
would willingly stay up to cook it for
them. The laundress said her clothes
horse, with the freshly ironed linen left to
air over night, was quite overset in the
morning, that the mistress, sure, was
young and very frolicksome, indeed quite
like a miss, but she thought it was hard
on u poor servant to be letting off her
jukes upon her and giving her trouble'
work ; and so from time to time did the
young mistress apparently derange her
menage.
One morning the cook came to Mrs.
Anstrutber and said she thought, perhaps,
she had found out who put the kitchen
and laundry in such a plight, and she
begged her mistress' pardon fur having
thought she had placed tricks upon her
maids. She then described her having
gone down to the kitchen one., Monday
morning at dawn, and there saw, in the
feeble light, the figure of a woman, her
head covered by a sun-bonnet, crouching
before the kitched fire. Upon her en
trance the woman mvstenously disup
u7i. "Now, ma'am," she said, "per
t is some poor crazy creature who
gets in somehow, and orersets my pans
and Bridget's clean clothes, but sure I do
not see how any one but a ghost could
get in, for the house be locked up so close
like. I think she was trying to worm
herself, ma'am, and how ever she got out
ma'am, I cannot tell, only she was gone
in an instant, and not a door open."
Poor Mrs. Anstruther left quite dis
turbed at the cook's relation, and told her
husband of it immediately. Of course,
be only laughed at it, said Polly must
have strengthed her tea the night before,
and hadn't her vision quite clear so early
Monday morning, or that she had not
finished her dreams, to which Mrs. An
strather answered warmly that Polly was
a decent, sober woman, and wouldu t for
the world, touch anything stronger than
Weeks passed by, and the household
was not troubled by overturned clothes
horses, displaced plans or mysterious wo
man, and the story bewrne like a dream.
when one morning early, upon opening
his bed-room door, Mr. Anstruther found
the housemaid lying outside in a sort of
fainting fit. After some time, and many
restoratives, the woman was brought
back to her senses, and incoherently told
her tale. She had gone down very fate at
night to the lundry to bring np a break
fast cap which siie knew
. her mistress
would want next morning, and heard a
faint rustling, like the moving of clothes.
She thought it was the cat, which might
have got hold of one of the towels, soisiie
opened the door and went in ; there she
saw the shadow of a tall woman, a sun•
bonnet on her head, Olth long. thin.
ghastly fingers, and drearily saving, "Not
dry —oh, not dry —they chill—Chill—chill
me so." Then she moved the horse ra
pidly and fleetly nearer the fireplace, over
turniu* it, and apparently disappeared
under its folds and clothes.
Mr. Anstruther went immediately to
the laudry and there he found the cyer
turned clothes, but not even the ghost of '
a women under them, nor in any corner
of any part of the house, for he searched
very thoroughly, to quiet the nervous fear
of his wife and of the maids. The poor
frightened housemaid trembled all day,
scarcely able to stand. Mr. Anstruther
himself bad no faith in these spectre
stories, and women are always so apt to
be nervous and frightened, he ,said ; but
that very night, when he and his wife
Were standing by the window, listening
to the mash of the waves on the beach,
and saying how cool and refreshing the
sound was on the heavy August night,
the same cold, shivering breeze passed
over their faces as on that other night.
and a husky voice said, slowly : "Oh 1 I
am so cold"--so verycoldr"rhey grasped
one another convulsively, but said noth
ing, nor did they speak to one an other
of those strange, shivering words, but
seemed by mutual assent teavOid the
subject. Perhaps Mr. Anstruther thought
the remembrance of them might pass
more quickly from his wife's memory if
not alluded to. Perhaps she thought so.
The next night he went at midnight to
the kitched, looked carefully and cautious
ly in, and saw—the ghostly form of a wo
man, almost in the ashes, numerous puns
around her, hoarsly muttering. "They
will never heat; oh I never. The bad
master; he will kill me. No dinner, no
supper, no fire." Mr. Anstruther rushed
sunddenly toward the woman, who,
throwing her hands mild above her head,
melted away.
He said nothing of this to any one,
and went again the next night, but saw
nothing down stairs. He went to bed.
Scon after midnight be was awake, the
air of the room became very chilly, like a
graveyard, and he heard from every corn
er of the room a smothed voice, saving,
"lam so cold oh, so cold ! It is so dark
under the stairs, so damp, take me out,
the cruel master!" Still Mr. Ahstruther
kept a wise silence, thinking that it was
his best course to take. There were faint
sounds beard in the kitchen, laundry and
through the halls, cold, icy whispers from
the landing by the arched window on the
stairway, so that the servants refused to
go to work, until the morning Was well
advanced, and Mr. and Mrs. Anstruther
never stopped, now, on the pleasant stair
way landing to look through the arched
window at the moon or the stars, or to
hear the delicious awash of the sea. She
looked pale and frightened all the time,
and the severanta nervous and scared.
They staid only for the love of the mast
er and misstress. As for Mr. Anstruther.
he was very uneasy, yet hated to yield to
what he considered foolish, weak, su
pernatural fears; still be was exceedingly
uncomfortable.
From the time the ghostly appearance
became almost incessant. At last a friend
of Mr. Anstruther's came to visit him.
and they determined to find the ghost, it
such there was. They went every night
at midnight throughout the house ; once
they saw the shadows , woman almost in
the ashes of the kitchen fire, apparently
trying to warm herself; she was blowing
at. the dead coals which seemed to become
.saly Jcati u Ude, her o.,td bafta.a.k/s.
Sometime she seemed to be trying to dry
the clothes in the laundry, but more fre
quently they heard sighs. and shivers, and
whispers of cold, and the wicked master,
and the cellar stairs.
Once the face of the woman was to
wards them when they went into the
kitchen. A fearful gash was on one
skeleton cheek ; her hands were held
tightly over her bosom, as if to bring
warmth into it again. Then the spectre,
the groans, the sighs, ceased, excepting
from under the stairs, whence came sounds
as if of one supplicating. "Oh ! save me,
so deep, so dark, so damp. Save me,
save!"
After a time, it became impossible to
keep the story of the haunted house quiet.
People had wondered for some time, what
gave the servant who opened the hall door
and the mistress within so scared a look,
and also at Mr. Austriither's troubled
face, for he and his wife were known to
love one another very much, and to be
sufficiently well-to-do in the world. When
the story was fully told, the excitement
of the town became intense, the cry was
that the cellar stairs ought to be torn
away, and then to see what was nnder
them. After some deliberation it was
thought best to yield to the excited will
of the town's people. and . proper men
were sett by the authorities to take away
the stairs and to examine thoroughly
around and beneath them. Mr. Anstru
ther, his friend, and some of the gentle
men of the neighborhood, were present.
The stairs were removed, the brick floor
ing taken away,and the earth dug up,
but there was nothing. and they were
about to lay the ground again. when a
smothered sound came, and the words.
"Lower,Aeeper, deeper! the cruel master
put me here!" They fell again on their
shovels;:deep down did they dig, when,
oh, frightful and ghastly sight! they
came - upon the body of a woman. Her
dress was that of a servant. Upon her
head was a bonnet, she lay on her back.
A heavy scar was on her face.
The body of the woman was recognized
as that of 1c alley Gwinn, who had lived
with a Mr. Barton, a hard man, the form
er occupant of the "Grove," and who had
,one very suddenly to Australia to better
his fortunes, taking his family with
him.
It was about ten years since Nancy had
so mysteriously disappeared from G—.
But as she had always been a queer crea
ture. never making friends. no one thought
much abont her. The Anstruthers left
the house, not wishing to stay in it, al
though Nancy's poor, weary body was
laid in a decent grave, the burial service
said over it, and a headstone placed to
mark where it lay.
Since they left the house, it has re
mained shut up, lonely, gloomy. and for
saken. Whether Nancy's poor ghost is
laid, or whether it still roams the house
from kitchen and cellar-stairs to the arch
ed window on the hall-stairway, the next
occupants of the haunted house must tell
Von.
What Women know about Men.
How men behave among themselves,
their business relations, and code of hon
or towards each other, women of course
know less about. These are matters that
do not so much concern them, but in
relations social and domestic, women
judge men severely and correctly. They
recognize education. refinement and true
manliness when they find them, and de
tect qu i c kly vanity, arrowence and eel
fish peso. ']hey do not look for perfection.
understanding well that masculine human
nature has its weakness aed follies quite
as well as femine. As for instance, an
unreasonable prejudice against these vital
necessities to. domestic comfort—house
cleaning and washing day ; a disposition
t o b a d tempers when buttons come off
unexpectedly and pencils are sharpened
with pet razors; and insuperable objec
tions to looking fur anything, and an un
conquerable repugnance to being asked
for money, particularly before dinner.
ALL sorra OP 31EN.
There is a great difference in men.
Some are true hearted and unsuspicious
as Newfoundland dogs; others are like
rat terriers, always nosing around under
the impression that there is something
going on thsy don't quite understand.
Some are noble and generous; others
thoroughly mean and contemptible.
Some are modest; others overrun with
vanity and egotisms. Some are invaria
bly kind and considerate; others go about
with their eyes shut in utter ignorance of
the trouble they are giving by their care
lessness. Some slow and steady and to
be depended upon ; others quite brilliant
and unreliable. Some have a taste for
detail and attend to all the minutiae of a
subject, while others care only for great
principles, and require a thing to be
gantie before it arrests their attention.
Men of genius are always uncomfortable
to live with. Absorded in one subject,
thy ignore triB l 43, and trifles make up the
comfort or discomfort of life.
A Night In n Forest.
Desperate Fight with Wildcats
In the beginning of the present month
Messrs. J. B. Talbot, Horace Jones and
Alexander Smith visited Elk county,
Pennsylvania, for the purpose of examin
ing a piece of land therein situated,
which had been purchased by Mr. Talbot.
A terrific thunder storm camet up, and
they were compelled to seek shelter under
the branches of a venerable hemlock,
whose moss covered and thick foliage
gave evidence of great age. The storm
soon burst upon them with fearful fury.
The very air grew thick, and darkness set
in. All went well till about 11 o'clock,
when they heard a slight sound in the
brush, and peeling out in the darkness
they discovered two fiery eyes glaring up
on them. They knew that a wildcat was
approaching and they grasped their rifles
more firmly. The fierce animal quietly
walked around the tree three times, as if
meditating how to attack them, gradually
drawing nearer each time. At last it
stopped directly in front and seemed
crouching as if about to spring upon
them. At this critical juncture Talbot
discharged his rifle directly at the paiiinaL
With rteartul screech that. filled them
with fear, it bounded into the brush, and
when the echoes of the rifle had died
away all was still and a deeper and more
impenetrable gloom settled down upon
them. -
Au hour had probably elapsed when,
to their horror, the fiery eyeballs of two
more wildcats suddenly peered upon them
out of the thick, marl y darkness. They
stood erect and grasped their arms in the
attitude of charge bayonets. The ani
mals slowly approached and seemed in
tent on mischief. As they could not see
to reload their arms, and as Talbot's gun
was discharged, they were compelled to
exercise the greatest caution in order to
make their fire effective in the event of a
spring from the animals. The wildcats
walked around several times, then sud
denly stopped an instant, vhen, quick as
thought, one of them, giving a low growl.
sprang at them.
As luck would have it, Smith caught
it on the end of his rifle, and, pulling the
trigger at that moment, sent the ball
through its heart. It rolled off, uttering
a frightful yell, and by the kicking and
scratching in the bushes they knew it was
wounded. At the same moment they all
yelled as lound as they could, which seem
ed to frightened the othe?, and it bound
ed into the bushes and disappeared. They
were not disturbed again during the
night. In the morning they fond two
dead wildcats lying withip thirty feet of
the tree under which they had taken
shelter. Fortunately they took a course
which brought them to a settlement, and
after recuperating they returned to the
city.—Pittsburg Commercial, &pl. 22.
A Wife for a Watch.
On Saturday evening a most extraordin
ary bargain was made in Painesville.
The parties to the contract was Thaddeus
Miller, and Jim Gregory; the articles ex
changed being a wife for u watch. Miller
is married. Gregory is not, but he had a
silver watch, of not very great intrinsic
value, but which Miller coveted. The
two met in a barber shop, both somewhat
under the influence of strong drink.
After some conversations, the subject of
this watch was taken up and one propos
ed—which one we are not informed—that
the chronometer should be exchanged for
Mrs. Miller. Whether or not the proposi
tion was made in earnest, it was taken
up an agreement was made to carry out
the bargain.
Subsequently the watch was delivered
to Miller, who went home, and at about
two o'clock Sunday morning Gregory ap
peared at Miller's house and demanded
the fulfillment of the contract- Miller
either had become sober and, repenting
of his bar g in , intended to punish such an
impudent demand, or else he was suffici
ently intoxicated to be furious at such re
gest. Whichever was the case, he hurried
ly loaded a shot-gun, leveled it at Greg
ory's head and shot through the window
at him. No less than eighteen large shot
were lodged squarely in the unsuspecting
Gregory's face; both his eyes were put out
and his whole countunance was shocking
ly disfigured. It is thought that the
wounds must prove fatal. On Sunday
forenoon Miller gave himself up to the
authorities.—Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Religion Exchanges every Enjoy
We may , see how completely religion is
adapted to the nature of man, by observ
ing that even the elements of enjoyment
(and they are many, though fleeting,)
which this world contains, are never fully
tested but by religious persons. Those
abundant sources of pure delight which
are to be found in the heart, the intellect,
and the imagination, are never received in
their fulness but by them; and why? be
cause they are the germs of their future
and more glorious being, and can only
flourish in a soil akin to that ultimately
destined for them. In a worldly mind,
like plants removed from their original
soil and climatz, they exist, indeed, but
with a blighted existence ; and produce,
bat how degenerate is the production I
Every thing that wants religion wants
VOLUME XXVII, NUMBER 41.
vitality. Philosophy without religion is
crippled and impotent; poetry without
religion has no heart-stirnng powers; life
without religion is a complex and unsatis
factory riddle; the very arts which ad
dress themselves to the sense never pro
ceed so far towaads perfection, as when
employed on religions subjects. Religion,
then, can be no obstacle to enjoyment,
since the only sources of it which are
confessedly pure are all enhanced by its
possession. Even in the ordinary com
merce with the world, what a blessing
awaits an exemption from the low and
sordid spirit, the petty passioos and paltry
feelings, which abound in it!
Brides and Grooms at Niagara.
A letter to the Titusville Herald, from
Niagara, says:
The season. is at its heights and busy
notes of preparation are heard upon every
side for coming balls. Unlike Saratoga.
which varies in popularity as a summer
resort according to the caprices of fashion
Niagara is always popular. and. to con
clude the season without at least a brief
sojourn at this piont, shows lack of "pe
cuniary comfort" or appreciation of the
beautiful, unpardonable faults among the
better class.
And to those to whom age and exper
ience have brought the stern realities of
life and destroyed the sweet passion for
youth for caramels and cream, this month
affords better facilities for enjoyment
than the honeymoon month of June, for
the bridal parties that mark that month
have nearly or quite passed away, and au
old bachelor, or young widower, can now
live without having his feelings harrowed
up by the exhibitions of affection so pre
valent among newly-married couplezrout
side of Chicago.
June is a favorable month for Cupid's
victims to take the bonds, and so accus
tomed have the hotels proprietors become
to the influx of subjects for further divor
ces during this month, that they make
many changes in their general rules and
bilrot fare for that month, which are
through the mill and arrived at that per
iod of life where roast beef goes further
toward satisfying one's appetite than a
dozen kisses on the half shell.
One veteran landlord informs us that
the expenses of the hotel during the
Bride's month (June) are much less than
at any other time during the season, for.
said he, "a little sponge cake and a few
lemon strops serves as a square meal for
a newly-married couple, and it , don't
make any difference whether the waiters
are attentive or not, while one chamber
maid can attend to all bells during the
month." But there are a few who come
here in July, that bare the tell-tale marks
of a new wedded bliss. It is easy to de
tect them howeNer, in spite of the assum
ed boldness of the bridegroom.' , .
I saw a couple enter the vestibule of
the Cataract House last evening, who
hoped to escape the criticism of "bride
gazers," but the disguise was too thin,
and in five minutes both stood revealed
in all their deceitful imagery. True, there
was an absence of white dimity and leath
ers, of silk hat and too tight gloves and
boots, the usual signs of fresh victims,
and when the lady snappishly exclaimed,
"Wher's my fan, Mr. Glidden ?" the de
lusion seemed complete, for the same
remark would have been, "George, dear,
have you seen my fan ?" But I was not
to be dedeived by appearances, and step
ping to the clerk's office, awaited the ar
rival of this traveller under false pretenses.
He came, bold as a sheep, seized the pen
and wrote with a trembling hand, "Mr.
George S. Glidden and wife, Allagoozlum,
Pen nsylvania."
"Do you wish a suit of rooms ?" said
the urbane clerk, as he turned the Koh
i-noor upon his shirt bosom so as to blind
the unsuspecting Glidden with it.
"No!" thundered the latter, "I am
married, one room will do. I've got
through paying for two rooms now."
"All right, sir," said the clerk, "show
him to the bridal chamber next to the di
vorce apartment." As he stepped into
the elevator previous to going up to the
aforesaid chamber, I heard him say: "I
told you so, Emeline, it was that blasted
perfumery that you put on your hand
kerchief that did it. The minute that
the hotel clerk got a sniff at that, ha
said he, 'Patchouly., Show 'em up to the
bridal chamber."by which we were left to
infer that Patchouly and bridegrooms are
linked together in some mysterious man
ner known only to hotel clerks.
A Deceived Family.
A very pretty Oakland, Rhode Island,
girl, not over eighteen years of age,
brought a suit for breach of promise
against a young merchant who had chan
ed his mind, and taken a richer bride.
The trial came on. and the girt's mother,
a fat, red-faced old dame, was present to
give moral effect to the recital of her
daughter's wrong. The counsel for the
plaintiff, in summing up declaimed at
length, with moving pathos upon the
enormity of the defelidant's guilt in creep
ing into the bosom of this family—here
the old lady pinned her shawl closer,—
and deceiving and disappointing this
young girl. Here the venerable mother
could contain herself no longer, but with
gushing tears, exclaimed, "He deceivejl
us all, gentlemen! Me and all the rest—
ing and all the rest!" The effect was mag
ical, hut not just what the old lady ex
pected.
'Judge fowling has many a queer
and ingenious rascal before him, but sel•
dom ono with more delicious coolness
than was a young fellow, decently dressed
who was arraigned for having stole [match.
It was his first error, and he was ready to
plead guilty. The Judge addressed him
in very gentle tones, and asked him what
lead him to commit the theft. The young
man replied that, having been unwell for
some time, the doctor iulcised him to
lake something, which he accordingly did.
The Judge was rather pleased with the '
humor of the thing, and asked him what
led him to select the watch.
"Why," said the prisoner, "I thought if
I only had the time that nature would
effect a cure l"
The Turning Point—A bayonet.
The Aurora VarelaUh.
At the recent meeting of the American
Association for the advancement of Bd.-
erce, held at Troy, N. Y., Dr. Bradley, of
Jersey City, read a-very interesting, and
in many respects remarkable paper, on
the aurora boreallis, a subject which .haa
of late years excited much scientific inter
est. After reviewing the generally ac
cepted theories, Dr. Bradly took the
ground that the aurora is one of the nu
merous phenomena pertaining to electric
ity, and which are mainly caused by solar
evaporation from the ocean, He demon
strated that the enormous amount of va-
Po
_r dins evolved, especially in tropical
regions, becomes postivcly electrified, and
when reaching the cold atmosphere of the
northern regions is precipitated in the
form of fine, transparent needles of ice,
each particle of which must possess the
electricity that was passessd by the vapor
that formed it. These icy needles consti
tute the peculiar haze or veil which al
ways precedes and accompanies a display
of the aurora.
When such haze or particles of ice are
precipitated from vapor highly electrized,
the electrcity becomes free and luminous.
The aurora, therefore, arises naturally
from the electric discharges between the
icy particles, which in infinite numbers,
communicate electrically with the earth
or moisttnre below.
These icy needles are precipitated from
the transparent vapor without passing
through the intermediate liquid state;
they thus become independently polariz
ed, and present the parallel filaments, or
needles form, with their positive pole di
rected toward the negative earth, which,
from our view, gives the phenomena of
aurora. The aurora is not of great eleva
tion in the heavens ; there is unquestion
ably error in the notion that the parallel
axes are at an altitude of 400 or 600
miles, for at such heights there is no ap
preciable atmosphere,, or, at most, it is too
rare to suataitr clouds of any kind. An
in ten.sti ug circumstance appertaining to
the aurora is the periodic appearance co
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records show that the two phenomenal
have ina.rinart and minima simultaneously
The sun evidently possesses electro-dya
rule properties us well as magnetic polari
ty, and although the forces wjiich acts
upon the magnetic needle emanate di
rectly from the earth and are probably in
duced by the electric currants circulating
around it, still the prime source of all
such induction, is undoubtedly to be
found in the sun itself. Now, the auroral
phenomena being influenced by terreste
rial magnetism, it is not difficult to com
prehend how any such great disturbance
as must he produced in the sun's emana-,
tions, by the formations of large spots on
its surface, may be the occasion of the co=
incidence traced. •
THE LOVE OF CHILDREN.-I. were to
choose among all gifts and qualities that
which, on the whole, make life pleasant
est, I should select the love of children.
No circumstance cen render this world
wholly a solitude to:one who has thispos
session. It is is freemasonry. Wherever
one goes, there are the little brethern and
sisters of the mystic tie. No diversity of
race or tongue makes much difference. A
smile spreads the universal language. "If
I value myself on anything," said the
lonely llawthronc, "it is one, having a
smile that children love." They are such
prompt little beings too; they reqUire act
little prelude; hearts are won in two
minutes, at that frank period, and so long
as you are true to them they will be true
to you.
Esvtous.—A venerable Danbury, Ct.,
ladv, of rather credulous tarn of rind
and a poor stretch of vision, saw a pair of
greys dash by her window one day last
week, and in the agony of her envy shook
her fist at the establishment, and cried
out. "Ride. darn ye it will be my turn
by-and-by." The handsome greys were
attached to a hearse.
colored inebriate was lying on a
bench the other evening, in his cell at the
Central station at Providence, when the
officer made his rounds of inspections.
trtable by the fitful gas-light to discern
the prisoner's features the officer asked:
"Are you colored?" "No," answered the
enfranchised drowsily, ••I was born so.'l
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„An Irish tailor made a customer's
coat and vest to small, and was ordered
to take them home and let them out
days after, the gentleman was told
that his garments happened to fit a coun
tryman of his, and he had let them out
at a shilling a week,
Net H—was a queer genius. A
neighbor found him one day at work at
an enormous wood-pile, sawing away for
dear life with an intolerable dull saw.
"Why don't you sharpen you saw, Net,"
asked the .neighbor. Looking up with an
inimitably droll expression, "I should
think I had work enough to do to saw up
this wood pile, without stopping to shyr
en saws."
—When did Noah go into wine huffi
ness ? He made port about forty days
after the deluge begun.
—Meteorological finery—When is tho
worst weather for rats and mice. Whelk
it rains cats and dogs.
—Quite out of season—for a lady to
present a gentleman with the mitten at
the present tropical period.
—Why does the minister have more
wives than any one eloe? Because he of
ten ninnies a couple at a time.
—The . fellow who attempted to "cloak
his sin," found that he couldn't begin ~to
get a garment large enough.
—Louis Napoleon whihes to indentify
himself with the "Morselliaise" in order
to be considered as the national him.
—A constant reader writes to ascertain
if the cold shoulder so often given to
poor dependents is baked or roasted.
doesn't follow because a man is
after a cobbler that he wants his boots
tapped. The tap may be in another di-
—The latest,hair restorer out is that of
a thief, who s tole a quantity of wigs and
afterwards returned them to the owner.