E. B:Ttawley, - • Will: 0 Cilia E. B. HAWLEY & PITBLIBEINO B OP • • Tall lIONTROSEIEIIOOII4 • AND GENERAL JOB PRINTERS, Montrose, Susquehanna aunty, "tre,4 orricr.—Went 131de of Pilblle. Avenue Business Cards. J. B. if A. H. McOOLLUM. • - ATTATRTTI AT LAW Offire Oyer the Beak, /tote* Ps. Mentrote, Mai 10, 1571. D. W. SEARLE, TTORNEY AT LAW, *Mee over the Store orli. Demmer, to the Brick Bleek:Kontrose.PA.. [6520 W. W. SMITH. kiIISIBT AND MUIR MANIIPACTURIatfIir of Math street. Kontrese. Pa. 1111 g. 1.1 •;_' .11, C, SUTTON, . *...)1.- ktreTlO SEE% aul Luensistr—Aetsy. .• 4,- , sal 69tt k Bli " Brlendil•Me. • `,. Alfl SL Y, • -.-- VNIT6To STATES Aucrlossen. AU,. t, lesS. Addrass, ErooltlybiPsi. J. C. wzrzuroiv; 'dm. EX.:worm min Linn) Y. 0. addremr.*LottwhilDlyeatir toisoluthasias Co.att,ft JOHN GROVES, - ASMIONABLE TAIL:Mt, Montrone, Pa, Shop Cbandler's Storo. All orders filled In erst-tatestAki, ,nat ting done on abort notice. arnft trartauted to ttn!,, A. 0. WA12122N, LTTORYBY A. LAW. Bounty, Back Pay. Pend' and Baena . ) as Claims attended to. Omen elvt nor below Boyd's Store. Bontrolte.re. r/361;41) -- . W. .A. CROSSMON,. - V , ~.- atm ey at Law. 011 ice at the Court trolillt: 11 1. WS Commissioner'. 0M.,.. : W. A. asolummr . .. Montrose. Seat. Ott, 1..411.—u.. . IfeKENZIE. & CO. Dealers la Dry Goode, Clothing * Ladle, ett2llesis doe Shoes. Us°, agents for the great Muriel' Tee end Coffee Company. Montrose, July IT. Mia LA 17 OFFICE. FIT CH k. tOATS Fitch, I N. /Mo ntruee ntero Pa. a Livor, et the old Oat. of Bentley 40, P. TTCO. Vail. I '71.( V. w. arallNG: _4 BEL TURRELL, cler is Drags NedicineP, Chrmlcals, Mali; oil. nre stun, Tem Spit.. Panty Goado,Jenarelrj, Pt* Timers'. Lc-, Brick Biuck, dloutrvae, Pa. RetablEated 111411. [Feb. SCOVILL d• DEWITT. Attorney* at Lao' and Solicitors In Bankruptcy* Olke. No. 49 Court SEruct..uter etty Nottanal thudc, Lamson. N. Y. Ws. H. fiewftt44 Joao IStb. laTi. Sernons DioriTT‘ DR. W. L. STSICIAN 6 IWILGEON of , tenders IhlrL tleereledat threthee to th e tittle,. 3100U.0105 - ththelitir. Unice et eisnathler o. on the Curette...la of Ur et Oros. Foandry. 1611 d. a. 15141.: CHARLES N. STODDAnD, )talerin Bou aod Sbas, Cats and Caps. Leattierand Flodtn:s. Vain Street o . Ist door below Boyd'a Store. Work at-du to order. aud repairing done Itontrose Jan.l veri. - LEWIS KNOLL. SHAVING AND BAIR Dvsssma.„ . ,Pop l 0 U DOW PaoLoalre hulldlnd. what/p.40411 be found rtmds to attend dl Wtlll may want hatlttirt l■ Ids Hue. Siontroae Pa. *Jet. AA:-.tIM,, DR. B. W. DAYTON, - IifTSICIAS 6 SURGEON, tender. hit sartietan the citizens of Great Bend sod vicinity. Gliitellatiii• residehee. opposite Itaronni noose, art linotiVilitio. "kept. Ist. Iso. tr DP. D A. LATHROP . td aialaters ELcdrao 'rearm., Bata.. a Footr , td <A mount street. Call and consul an' a.l Chrnitir vii.eases. . , Veatroae. Jan. n. H. BUIWITT. Dealer Le Staple end FOricy efiteicrrn toves. Orrivi. 01Is, and irsiots. Bo Iron. Sots awl l's, rint...td Cops. Furs. Wel° Heart., Gro ceries. ProVisiOeS. &C. Ne04111113:ii, I a., Nov, C. EICII.I E HOTEL M. J. II N.Ttats.tt/TON %virile* to inform thelmblicttint nnvin: the Mzeiintr.to !lota In Mooting, be it sow prep are{ ACC-141111...k1e LlT.,Clingpabl:c Prin.olitroot7le LITTLES BLAKESLEN ATTTMNSYS &T L kW. b.m: ruoved h. their Few coat. opposit. t 6.• R 11. Lune. P E. L. Bi..asseutc. Ilonttotga. Oa. 15.1573. R1LL1.31 , 78 STROUD. ems tttil) LIFE I:I373ANCR ACENT. 1! baalnieer attended to prompt 17. en Ear tern. Office first door CAA. ..1 the hank 0 4 W 11. Cooper b CP. Peale Avenue. 310. troar. Pa• !Intugo [ sAup.l.lBfill J sly 17.18111 B. T. d E. 11. CASE., I.I4.IINESSAI AK EltS. Oak ilarneva.lighl end heavy, at lovre.4 can wire., Alm, lll.nkrt., •Tireart Maw kat..lp• and ererything pertaining to :he line, Cheaper than the cheapest. Repairing dune pronapt iy and in good ,tyle. Siontpute,Pa... Oct. 29, Ira. CHARLEY MORRIS THE Wart BAUDER, ha. mowed hie shop to the build log occupied by E. IcEenzie Co. men.ve he Is prepared to do ail kinds or work le hill Itne.pacti as ma king switehe.., pads. etc. All work done on short notice and prices low. Please cast and see me. VIE PEOPLE'S MARKET. Passtur flans. Proprietor. Fresh and Salted Meats. liams. Pork- Bologna Sae asp,e.ete.. of the best quality, constantly on bang at prices to snit. Montrse, Pa„ Jan. H. Inn.-to VALLEY ROUSE, VUJIAS BiBD, Pa. Sttroued near the Erie llafl.e7 Dg pot Is* large and co Trimodinar hour*. kis nude/gun* a thornoth rerrdr. Nearly tarasoned rooms sod eleep rag sirtrrmrcit..epterulill fabler...and ralthlsge cos 3s• lag a Asst class hotel. aesur ACKERTr. Sept. /874.-it Progalet4r. P. CHURCHILL, fatties of the Peace: oalce over L. S. Leech elm's store Great./lend boroterb, Smonchanns Contd.,. Peet:em it:las the set !meat of Imo dockets of the late lour Iteekhow. deceased. Officts hours from 91.019 o'clock a. and from Ito 4 o'clock p. to. Foust Bend. Oct. 2d. 1672. DR. W. E EDITH, llC.rils at hle dwelline. newt door north of Dr. Amur's, on Old Foundry street. wbrre be would be happy to see all those in 151111 L of Dental , e oric. Ile feels confident that ho can plume all. both In qualltycif work and in price. Waco hours trom9P.X. Wl:arose. Feb. 11.1971.—tt EDGaZi et. ranErzz. Cpriarszon Al. Law. 2:o. VD Broadway, New York City. Attends to aii kinds of attorney Btlfillett, and con ducts causes in all the Courts of both the State and the United &stet, Feb. r.t. 1874.-V. BURNS d+ NICHOLS. In • Drug*, Medicine*. Chemical*. D7e -6t italnta,olls. Varnish. Liquors. Spices, Pasty sn-eles.rateet lledleloes, Perfumeriand Toilet Ar• c. 0., ernserlption• es/of:lily compounded.— Brick abet. Youtrose,Pt a.B.Boase. geb. 21. 1511 ire ft ~my Xlaceossteci VIAII OFFICE. CILESS!.. VP/. i' i', 7 4-._;;' , t? is S•. c.- V4' . , , i' . ~- c l.' ,:::. i-'..V,‘,. ~ !,,,,),,,, 111...). , . - ft : ..• ' 7 '!"•., ~ -•L i . \ ic ii , , , . ~ , . ..., . TWO DOLLARS PER YEAR IN ADVANCE. VOLUME 31. irDS OLD 311111 AT Tam PAUL Pm very dusty and bred wife 1 I've prat come home from rbefair; So give me my pipe and tobacco, and I'll smoke • In my easy chair; It's a tiresome work a phyla' !or feeble old men like ow; - It's a tiresome work is *eche where every one viatica to ace, Orm fairs are a rennin` down ; they arc not like the laths of old, Whets you took prizes for bread, and butter as yellow as gold ; • were hundreds of useful things, that were worth seen' Olen. dozens of resin' horses, and hundreds of bettletnen. ' hat all this sprats will lead to Is more an I now can tell ; rat, somehow, it seems to me Ilke the down ward road to h—well, I may be a little hash, put Pm smiting the Pl; hello,' ratio,' and drlnkin: are the toes of our noble youth. We shall come to a :tattoo atgamblar4,if matter* keep on ads now -- ,vbet all goo ttAnitl a young let meshst4 ate at WOW' to ilt.st • - a Ilia illain4;—thaftasai chili:4lAM %Otte riettitilaw—brsztawered taebaaki 3 qau bar - 4 -- Tut I tut t Ingo man, salalMlult thing / limo never dune ; Coma stand by your grnnapa's kneel let me reason with you, m 4 sun." Be straightened up in his clothes and said, with a look so queer, I didn't come here far 'primula& e old man walk off, OD your eller. We never heanl talk like tliat when you and I were youn BIT father and e ither—Litre 'em—put a bridle upon my tongue. I'm old, and I'm puke blind, •but a difference I can see 'Twist the boys or eighteen hundred and eight een seventy-three., Bow is it about the girls? They, too, from the path have strayed ; I didn't see one a &bowie' the butter her hands had made; They stood in their pony pmrtons, with a wo. man's ease .nd gruel And shouted as loud ns any when a favorite won a race. 111 eyes were welching the track ; the race was every man i a theme; And I said to myself, -Is this a fair; or is it on ly a dream r• I suer 'bout a dozen boys lookin' artmad at the sheen and swine, And the tenets of seventy winters had silvered their heads like mine. Why on Carib don't they change the name whin the wrong, name it has pa! No longer call it a lair, but an agricultural trot ; Then men won't be (akin' things ter sensible men to ace, With nobody there to sea 'em but crippled old men like me. There, take my pipe and tobacco! tli Bleep in . • my easy chute; It's tiresome work a talkin . about a degenerate fair You needn't disturh me, wile, till the bells of the evening chime, . ' Furl may; o back in my dreams to the faint of MIVJELL ANEOUS READING WHEN I WAS DUOWNED -o DT Nu 11AYEIL -0- For the third time I have called on Laura Mansfield, and for the third time ne servant had m.t me with, 'Miss Mansfield is not at h o me to Mr. Talbot," anti I had turned away from the dour. What this meant I was at a loss to con jecture. When I heard it the first time I was puzzled and amazed, the next time pained, but now I was maddened, and felt that it had been intended as an in sult. "Not at home to Mr.. Talbot r—Pleas ant message from the woman who had promised to he my wife, was it Doi ? Why, it was but a week ago that she had placed her face to mine, and confessed that she was very happy because I loved her ; and now he was "not at home." I hail known Laura Mansfield many years before I hnd asked her to be my wife. So far as the world julges, I was ,her equal in wealth and family as well as in intellectuality. I say "so far as the world judges." because I do not judge men and women as the world of fashion goes. That man would be a very shallow one, in my opinion, who could think of measuring his love spinet. aught but the woman's love for him. I loved Laura and loved her truly. I was no weak i puling boy, full of crude fancies of love, hut an earnest man, who knew why he loved and trusted. She was a - woman ' guided by her reason and her love ; not a giddy, capricious girl. Rot we differed in that I was somewhat sluggish in thought and decision, while she was impetuous in her decision. I tried to recall every word and look of our last evening together, but 'could as member nothing that would give mo clue to her present action, and for the hundredth time in the last few days was timed to give it up. I "Not at home" to me ! Very well, I would not trouble her to send Vie mes sage again, The world would wag on much as it had done, and men's lives were made of tougher material than to be withered by a woman's frown. While these thoughts were runningl through my mind, I had walked on and I on, paying but little heed to my steps until I had passed the village, followed the lane leading to the river, but stopped only when I came to the hank. I was aroused from my reverie by the sound of the busy hammers of the bridge' builders, and rthrew myself under a tree, and watched thesis hew and match the limbers and planks, and then raise them to their proper ices. ..The, bum of the workmen's voices had a cheery sopnd in it, and nt r a mon g 'them. I Ricked my way ACM Ai.oo o4 r earetblly .and was 4;4 ~t a p * Atpd9f the completed part. *Am i &re§ fiegted.my name Taken Au ft, t) i t it r g tamed arittioat tkink . ing taigisql my footing upon the . phwir;t4 time to call for. belp. tied Ake stoat Ina underwater. • it seemed an - age to go 440P3 t Foss 1 0 1 .01?"... Prrav!UTDP4r7 IMO.? tt.. Aso, NICHOLS. POETRY. i: , MONTROSE, PA., WEDNESDAY, APRIL 29, 1874. greenish water4ind than without any ap parent cause kttegan to rise. The water hurt my eyet4",qind there was a roaring noise in my eats as if a thousand cannon Were thundering in discord upon every aide of roe; But my thinking faculties were unolouded, , and my mind was busy turning over ' .sand recalling all that]. had resitor heard - of. what wen should io who were in elangerof drowning. I won dered if the workmen would be ready with assistance for me when I reached the surface, and I remembered that I would have but three chances for my life. Then I was shove water. No one RAI „pear to help me. I called ont with all my htren,gth for help, and struck out :pith my hands and feet as I had seett:swimmers do ; but it was all of no ava il ; I sank again. Oh ! the — liorrible noises within my head, They were growing louder and loader. I cursed my foolish fancies, that had prevented my learning to swim when I tens a boy., And why were not the men doing something for me. They had to throw out aboard or a rope and I would be Saied.,,llliey must have seen and beard-me fitlP--Wil they be ready now ? Opetai !I. hire mercy and send me help ! • . There is a man with a rope Ah, it tell short. The fo.l f why is he so slow I "Help& Se—. The word is finished under watee;:- and I have choked myself with what I have swallowed. Thelerri- ble, terribleroaring noise I My head will split asuoder. I have bnt one more chance. It . but a hand was near me, if some one would but save me. I cannot die. I am not ready r it eanhot be ! There is light again. Father iu Heaven help me ! There entries a boat. Hurry, oh, hurry! Flow slow they come! Oh. Heaven, one minute more, but one short minute! Help I 0, the clumsy fool. He has lost his oar; and I am left to drown. I won't go down ; I will nut drown. Oh, this cursed, yielding water; these garments df lead. I won't go down. Ha, lam ciainz. No, I cannot feel my self move: ~B ut the infernal roar has in creased in my head and maddens me. There are ten thousand shrieking devils within my cars. They yell like tortured souls in belt; louder it grows ; louder Why, What is this! Music! Yes. sweetest, dieamiest music cotnes stealing upon my teases and drives away the hordes of Satan. 'Tis sweeter, this, than life. Am 4in Heaven ? No water cov ers me; nititlear or dread rests upon my spirit; I am content; my soul is full of peace and lest—This must be heaven hut I all aloe. I must have floated in the invisible eth er, f. r hetal see another wort•'. There arc hills arid mountains, trees and bow• ers, and Men and women walking to and fro. Now:like the place where first I liv ed ; it is the self saute place. I seem to rememberAut little boy who runs along the streets: 'lt is myself ! Follow him! see him pinch that lame boy, push over the little girl at the corner. worry the old bliudtildsel - Yes. I did all that—They were funny then, but they seem tearfully . cruel now, I wish I hail never been so bad Follow him still ; he drinks and swears and gambles. Stop him. Oh, if I had never done these tkingst But he ems on to worse yet. His life was all had It was my life, my own ev,l life. If I but had it to live again. But lii. , heart is .tot art and. See him kneel beside that maiden and swear to live a better life. Love has touched his t heart, and love is but another name for God. He strives hard to conquer him self; he is succeeding slowly; there he sits beside the woman he loves. Yes, it is Laura and myself. My face is trustful and happy, but Laura's is somewhat sus picion... I hear her words and am living over again my last night with her. There a letter drops on the floor. lint I do not think it is mine, end I turn to go out with "good night" nn my fore I close the door I turn around, and there is a bitter, scornful wail , - upon her face. What could that letter have been ? It was not mine. Hold! It must have been the one I lost at , d had forzotten un til now. I saw it fall, but thought it had dropped from Laura's hand. I ought to have remember d it heron.. It was from my old friend Jessie King, and thong t I bad put it on my table. That must have been the letter La -found. Yes—and it accounts for r subsequert behavior. The letter was t a line: "Dear Frank, I will wait for Au at Saturday." Laura must have supposed Jessie was a lover, -while she was I really married to my cousin John. "Saturday." When will Saturday come I wonder ? She will not find me there. And Laura ? She will learn some day that Jessie was but a friend. Row remorseful she will he. And moth er—poor old mother—what will she do when they tell her that I am never com ing to her again ? Ah. life, you were pleasant and bright but if this is death, give me what I have. I hear the heavenly music once more, and my spirit turns to it. How sweet, how enchantingly sweet ; a delicious languor creeps upon my soul, and woos me to sleep. Oh, borrors,l what was that ? There it is again. Can it be hell ? Millions of devils are torturing me. They are creep ing into my . lungs, my heart, my brain ; now they pierce my every nerve. Oh, God, have pity I They come in myriads ; they pour hot lead in my veins,they dance upon me, and their feet are full of hot irons that pierce me through and through Have pity, Lord, have. pity I Oh, they grow more cruel; let me out of Ohl! By Heaven, I will meet the very prince of [ devils hand to hand. I made a glorious fight. I—l opened my eyes. "Mother r I cried. • "Yes." 4 1end word to Lam and tell her who Jessie is." :'Jessie who?'? Vgessie King." will, butkeep quiet now." f - closed -my eyes, and when dent F moped them, Laura was sitting beside me. She kissed ma, saying, "Gan you forgive me, dear Frank ?'" Yes, I could forgive her love. PP? 414 you !KIWI X west *dm of Devoted to the Interests of our Town and Otlftity. some Jessie," she raked. "I saw it all when I was drowned," I answered. A SLIGHT AMVAiNTANCE, -0— Crevvy Mitchell and John Martin mat eta little picnic party in a country vil lage, where she was passing a few weeks of the intolerable hpt summer, and he— well he was rending law for the present with Esquire Morgan the village oracle, and working abont the Squire's farm to pay his board. John Martin was a handsome young man, and as good as he was handsome. So said Mrs, Morgan and all the ladies of the village, as also did the children, who loved him dearly for his kind acts and the cheerful words be had for every one. The young ladies all seemed to have a great deal of regard fur him, for they each and all foresaw that such a good young man must make an excellent hus band ; and besides, they felt assured that he would b"come very rich, as well as is- fiueutial ; fur was he not reading law with Spiv: Mirgan, who had gained riches and influence in the practice of his profession ? But antnahow, John bad failed to ap preciate the retard of any young lady until he met Cressy Mitchel, and from that time he felt that his heart was no longer his own. Cressy was a beauty Und she knew it, he doted on ft. It was passing strange that she would feel willing to deprive her- self of the homage of her many•suitora and banish herself to a country village, even for a limited period. But she bad on making her appearance at the summer resort of her fashionable friends, when the season was half over, coming treat) and hearty from her country re treat, while the belles of fashion would have become already worn and weary with fashionable dissipation. Thia was the reason fur her seclusion, and with a swift, comprehensive glance she scanned the face and features of John Martin. inwardly rejoicing that such a handsome and agreable young man was to be her companion during her stay in the village' She did not have one thought that he would fail to present himself as a candi date fir her favor. She knew her power' and felt sure that John Martin's love would soon be hers. It was even as she had anticipated. At every picnic, pleasure excursion or par ty gotten up in the village, Jolla Martin wes her escort and companion, and ere the time which she had allowed herself to stay had passed. she wag srue that she possessed all the love of John Martin's generous ' noble heart. She had learned to love him also. His superiority over all other men with whom she had ass +Mated, forced her to yield to him the reap •et which was doe him, and nqipect soon riPened into a warm feeling, which Cressy Mitchell would notacknowl edgeeven to her own heart. The time drew nearfor her to take her departure from the vilitigemnd John Mar-1 tin hail call-d to say good-bye. Without prelitninariei., and no words of cringing flattery such as her former suitors had invariably made use of, he told her in a straightforward manly way. of his love for her. and asked her to give him her hand in marriage. For a time there was a severe strnggle in the breast of this beatititulcteature of fashion. She lived Jo.in Martain. She knew it, and her better nature cried loud ly for a hearing in this case. But pride and ambition whispered in her err, "You must not thus fling away all your bright hopes and prospects for the future ; von may form a splendid al liance; become the wife of a millionaire; wear laces and diamonds and revel in wealth and luxury, do not let the prompt legs of your heart, but let reason guide yon." Thus importuned by the voice of sel fish ambition, she pat the one love of her heart away from her, and, turning to the man who stood with folded arms waiting her decision, she said : "Mr. Martain , I cannot afford to in dulge in romantic dreams; that I love von I will not deny, but you are poor and I am not rich ; consequently each must form a more prudent alliance." He stood for a moment, as if transfix ed while the cold, worldly ideas expressed by Cressy were floating through hl brain. Was this to be the end of the bright dream of happiness which he had so tenderly cherished ? Alas, he felt that all the world mast he false and cold, now . . that hia idol had fallen, and hia beautiful Cressy, whom he- had invested with all the charms and virtues of an angel, had changed into n cold, scheming, worldly creature. But he recovered his selfinissesion and extended his hand. he shook her's warm ly, and with a "good-bye, Cressy, God bless you and make you happy," he hur ried away. The next day Cressy joined her fash ionable friends at the -Springs, and for the time forgot John 74artin find his love. • * • • • • Summer passed, and winter came with its round of metropolitan gayety. It was *midwinter, and the "affair of the season" came off at the house of the leader of the "ton ;" none but the elite were there, of course, and indeed, they were of the "ex clusive" set. As Cressy was promenading the spa cious saloon, leaning upon the arm of a cavalier, her escort suddenly paused be fore a tall gentleman, who stood leaning against 'a pillar viewing a gay throng with a weary air. "Miss Mitchell," he said "I am happy to be able to present to you a valued friend of mine, who Informs me that he had the honor and pleasure of a few weeks' acquaintance with you dur ing the past summer." Cressy raised her eyes and met those of John Martin fixed earnestly upon -her. Her heart gave an impulsive hound, but she checked its mad pulsations and re plied coldly: "Ali, yes ; I believe I did have a alight acquamMtice with thogentleman." Withont another word she moved on, and, as the gentleman ledher to it, seat, he taid • ". • ' - • - "Really, Miss Mitchell, you arm a wcn• der of your sex." "indeed sir; and why ?" "I don't believe another young lady present would have treated John Martin, the millionaire, as coolly as you did just now." "John Martin, the millionaire," she echoed. Aye; he's rich as enema." "Bnt when I knew Lim he was a law student." "Oh, pooh I that was one of his odd freaks; he always feared he would be val ued for his money, and not for himself." As soon as Cressy could free herself from her obsequious escort and admirer, she sought John Martin, and endeavt red to explain her conduct; but he would give her no opportunity to do so, and per sisted in treating her as "a slight acquain tance." In a few weeks he bronght his bride to the city, and introdnced her to his ftsh ionable friends. She wai a simple, inno cent country girl, bnt as the wife of John Martin, she was welcomed to the bait so ciety. And Cressy never ceased to regret that she pronounced Martin oe/y "a slight acquaintance How Squire Mangum got Skinned. _o__ "Yon see.: said the squire, pitching his voica to an etcgetical altitnle, "ic wuz this way. List Chuseday wuz a week ago, I sailed down from Gwinnet to At iancy with seven bags of cotoon. Arter I sold em, I kinder loafed 'around Inokin at things in general an' feelin' jest as happy us you please, when who should I run ugin bat Kurnel Blavengaino; Me an Kurnel used to be boys together, an' wewnz as thick as five kittens in a rag basket. we drunk outen the same goad, an'we: got the hat snatched outen us by the sa, na bandy legged Pchool teacher. wuz as lonesome as the rain crow, afure I struck up with the triune!, ail' I wuz glad to see him—turned glad. We knocked roun' town right amartually, an' the Kurnel iuterjueed me to a whole raft of fellers—mighty oice boys they wuz, too, Arter sapper the Kernel says , "'Skaggs,' says he, 'less go to my room Iwhere wekin talk over 014 tinies sqrter comfortable an' ondisturbed like. '. - Oreeable ,' says 1, we walked a square Or s an' turned into all alley an walked np a nailer par of stairs. The kurnal gin a little rap at a green door, an' a slick luokin' tnerlatter popped out ,an' axed us in. Lie wuz the daintiest perkiest, nigger you ever seen. He just got up an' spun :trona' like a tom cat with her tail afire. The room wuz as line as a fiddle an' full of pictures an' sofys, and the cheers Ives its soft as lam' swool, an' I thought to my self that the kuriiel way a lugsuriant cuss That wuz 4 lot of mighty nice fellers scattered roun'a an atalkin' quite soshable like. Aperient the kurnel wuz ent much sot back, fur sorter laffil to himself an, then he says : "‘Sur.tel, what about that new parlor game you gut out the other day '"Oh, says the knrnel, lookin' sorter sheepish, 'that wuz a humbug._ 1 ,cun't make head or tail oaten it." "I'll bet I kin manage it, says Jud g e Hightower' quite amimated like. "I'll show you how. jedge, with pleas ure; says the kur"el, an' then he went to table . .unlocked a F ox, an'tuck out a deck of keerds,an' a whole lot of little what youmaycallems, similar to Itirn buttons some white an, some red." Squire Sksggs paused and supplied his tireless jaws with a fresh cpaid of tobacco. "It ain't no use to tell you any more. When them fellers got done brain' me that game I didn't have money enough to take me down stairs. I lay I looked a lit tle while, for when the Judge closed the box he said : " • -Nyt, have bad a pleasant evening" sduire. Yon'il find.ihe•kurnel waitin' for you on the steps, an he'll give you your money back.' "1 ain't never laid my dyes on the ker nel since, an' when Ido that's got to be a case for the kuri,el—yuu mind my words. I seed Rufe Lester next day—von know Rafe ; he.s in the legislature now, but 1 used to give him popcorn when he wuz en't so high—l seed Hnfee an' lie sed I was tick in by the Pharoah men. Tnok iu ain't no name for it. Darned of I didn.t go to the bottom an' git skinned alive." Couldn't Take His Own Medicine Caharrns, hoincepathic physician, who had just died in Paris : Midllu Julia Barren was out of sorts and seat fur him. "What is the inatter ?" asked the doc tor. "0 ! I hardly know myself." she repli ed, "my spirits are terribly unequal.— Sometimes I am greatly slated, and then I suddenly sink into the deepest melan choly." After a moment's reflection, Caburrus said gravely : "I'm afraid there's but one way to core you." "What is it 7', she inquired eagArly, "You mnst get married." he replied, with a mirthful twinkle of the eye, but still keeping a grave face. Bliddlie.'Barren,after a little hesitation, followed by a long drawn sigh of rebel ; perhaps you are right.—Would you mary me 7" • ")fa chere." replied Cabrrus, blandly, "the doctor prescribe!, tint doesn't, take hie own medicines.; "And have you no other eons?" asked a Curious lady of a bronzed' old sea captain 4)11, yes, madam, I had one that lived in the South Sea Islands for nearly a dozen years!" "Emily! Was he br.4l there, and what was his taste—sea or land r. "No, madam, he wasn't bread; h 'was tnetit—: leastways the natives ate him ; and for his taste—the chief said he tasted of ter. baccer." The lady walked - - to another part of the ship, and the, captain Smiled, and took a fresh quid of qterbaccer" I himself. • ' ;"What is - heavens best gift to man r asked a voting lady the other night;eml- Lig sweetly on a pleasant looking clerk. "A hose!' replied the young mon,:oith thug prudence.. • FIFTY CTS. iXTBA IF NOT IN,ADVANCE, THE LITTLE WIFE BY BETTIE A. 1101232.03. The little wife bid her knitting down, "And looked at the clock and said : "le is time I put the kittlo on, And the cloth on the table spread, For the clock is near the :stroke of six, And I've Lanny time to see That the kettle boils and the toast Is made, • When John will bo Lome to tea." The table .he drew to the coziest nook, And she laid the plates for two— They were but plain dell, there was silver none, And the dishes they were few. "But butter sad bread and some cat . and troll, As dainty as they can be; And the cloth is white," said the little will!, "Tkat is what John likes to see." The little wife took out a dressing.grown And spread on cushioned chair, And before it a pair of slippers placed, Far too large tor' her to wear, And she patted the gown and softly said: • "Lie there that warm you may be, For the night is cold, for John to put on When he shall come In me to tea." The little wife braided and smoothed her bsir, • And put on a prettier dress, A bit of son. lace and a knot of gray silk To finish it at the breast. Then she looked in the glass, and blushed and smiled. And she was a picture fair to seal And excused herself—"Johu will be so pleased With the dress when he comes home to tea." But it must be late, the kettle has boUed, and the toast is getting dry; It is growing late, and the street lamps shine, But the footsteps all pass by. The little wife peeps out of the (hint hall door, Then runs to the garden-gate;' But be does not Come, and "0 dear," she sighs, "'Tis a tiresome thing to wait." Then she tries to read, but whether or no The tale is gloomy or gay, She could no!, have told. for her restless thoughts, ' • With her heart, are far away. - Again and again to the front hall-door She goes to !rink up the street, Each far-away footstep making her heart With a hope to taster beat. "Why, It must be hours," said the little wile, • With a pot and ugly frown ; "I'd like to know what at this time of night John can De doing down town? If he cared for me he would surely come, But I've often heard It said— And I half believe it now—that a man Loves only till he's wed. 1413 •'•lint he shall not know if it breaks my heart, I will have my tea—so there r' tier cheeks are so red and her eyes are so bright ; She looks at the vacant chair, And her knito falls down, and "Ott, dear," she says, And then begins to cry, "I wonder wns ever a six months's wife - So miaerable se I?" "John would never stay if he was alive," The little wife sobbingly said, `And so all this tims I've been blaming him, It may be that John is deed,:' "Whir blesi rne,yhat's thlsr says a man. Tender as tender can be, And the clock is just pointing to half past six I And John has come home to tea. OUR LUCKY DAY. There is no lack of remarkable days In the lives of great heroes and humble yeomen alike. Cairer had his ominous Ideas of March and Jack the'rellor dreads evil Friday. The almanacs of every nation on earth are filled with mysterious signs, telling the credo loaf husbandman *hen to sere and when to reap, and the customs and usages of all lands designate certain days as favorable er foul to wedding!. The one common feature In an these super- FAlL:ions IP, however. the evil augury which retina Invariably to attach Itself to such pecu liar days; they bring death, according to an old prophecy ; or, at least, they are disastrous to *eighty enterprises. They are anticipated with vague but harass ing doubt; they are passed In deadly dread and they leave behind them, even after all has gone well, hut an increased fear of what they may bring in their speedy return. 411 the more gratifying is it, therefore, to meet with.one of those rare days which seem, Wadvance, to have been marked with a white juke, and which, , not superstition, but history Itself; points . out to sLs as full of happy auguries. Every noshrind then, a man if heard to hortst, that ouch allay has for many years been, prop s . tiOus to all his plans; and occasionally real grind fortune has come, with Strange and start lingly regularity, on the same day more than once in life. ,Bat, raro as these cases are, a 4ny toll of %Iv o promises for a whoie nation is still rarer— atni yet inch a dog we can boast of In coy Fourth Of July. ;It assumes its strange and mysterious irstin ence over our national destiny in the very firs records of-our existence. -Walter Raleigh, In his restless activity and enlightened ambition, had fitted out, st his own expense, two small but itanch, Tenets, end sett tinsel, under two trusty canteins—Philip Ami des and Arthur Barlowe—to sail toward the set-, thag sun, end explore the enknown seal that lay in that direction.' Full of courage, and high hopes, tilt adven ismers had left their native land in the month et April. 1584, and, after the , manner of those dep.:sailed slowly and cautiously by wpy of the southern route, touching hem and there Oa many a rich island, to refresh the crew and re- Victual their ships. At last they ventured boldly trim unknown' Waters, and begun anxiously to gaze from mss{. head and poop. wondering what strings mar. irels there would arise before their amend eyes on tho western horizon. Their expectations were to be fully rewarded ; for we read to the finale!, but grepio"Aceonnt of the First yoyage Made tb the Coast of America" (Railluyt, UL eol ) the following report : ' - ono second of July we found shole ;rater, iwher we smelt 9 sweet and strong a smell se webad ben° in the midst of some delicious igarden, abounding with all kinds of odnriterons ',flowers, by which we were, assured that the iland etmld not be Bev distant; and, keeping good watch and bearing but Blade sane, the_ tow* t. the mite axetttc in entratupes the Tun MoNTaosn DE,mooni* Cattalos all Oa Local sad Conant] Ilelta, l'ostr:, 801 net, Anecdotes, illscallanecnia IlcadlnA,Corraapoit ciao:And a :citable class of ailatrtlacaaattx . . One gleam Olt of an inch splee.)3 weekcer leas. $* I farrotb. 41. Z; A months. 411,0; 6 mouths. 44 COS year. 46.55. - A Liberal discorret ern advertisements of greater length. %wines* Locale 16 ttr. a line for gra insertion, and 5 et*. 41100 eachanbseen.nt utrestloo.e. 31.orlagesaud deaths. free; utdurarlep,ll.l see. a lines " NUMBER 17. oast, which WO supposed to bet a continent azi t farina land." filly that the Tudor tlog of Englaud WWI for ho first thno unfurled in sight uf•uur land, and. hat the loundati9u Woo laid. NT the empire oc new me on this continent. The delighted crew 'then went en shore, hid: tag, in ell pmbubillty, on Worken bland, out; aid, of Pamlico Sound, ant Connally took posi scion of the New World In the game of Ott 'bleeds Mitiesty. But when the two captains retuned ta of - glowing nccounia of the surpassing beauty am; the matchless fertility of newly discovered - land, and after the surprisingly short passer; landed, In the month of September of the semi mar, Med more in an English harbor, all Eng: and was in a glow of citetnent; and court; ity, and country, listened eagerly to tho straagcl Mel lit the new indlesotnci irtzed with awe and sunder on Hanby, the • ktitart; who' had cora, home with the sailors—o living evidence of whet was by ninny fondly believed to b 0 qktf true El Dorado. The Queen herself in her flight eirginity,l • could.not resist the, On'Torual, enthusiam; - and, when she heard the reports of the two It:triteWU "Its . the greatett murk of butter:she could do thi discovery, be called the * country by the name; of Virginia, as well from that It was Urst ills; covered in her reign—a virgin queen—as that' It at-still arom to retain the virgin purity end . plenty of the first creation, and the people the: primitive inncxxliihs7 tit. Beverly, "Liiitory cir Virginia," p. *1 • , . Many gencruslons of . English settlers Lad al: ready been born In the New World, and count.; less tribesot natives had disappeared forever . ; from the nations of tho earth, when the Fourth; of July unem more asserted its mysterious con; nection with thO fact of our country. A solemn nomting, It had been Gnaw]; should be held in the central town of Lancia: ter, In the new province of Pennsylvania, and there appeared on the one side commissioners of the great sea board colonies,and on the othei. a mod) , crowe. of ;deputies from that powerful confederacy of Indiana known tur the Six lija; • tiona. . . After much speaking and bargtintng, in botli of which engagements the child= of the for:: est proved by no means inferior to their wily and experienced adTentnries, the tettferentai was brought to a happy close On' thiFourth July 1744, when "tbu Indians gave in ;heir or.; der, five yo•hatil and Ole V.rtialt agehts thi'ds hurahs." . . . . Pcaumizi Bins Wistasvis MCG1131367 didveriklac [Cates: Thus, It will be seen ft was on a tbuttla .. • Two striking features characterized tide memorable meeting. On the famous day qa4- . apatego, an eloquent Cluoudago warrior, Yota solemnly from his blanket, ou which ha had been seated, and addressed the Englishmen: present In these remarkable words: "We have only one thing farther to say, and this is, we heartily recommend union and good agreement between you and your lirethersn.--' Never disagree, but preserve a strict friendship' for each other, and'thereby you, as well as wo o , will become thestronger." Strange advice,tuost assuredly to come front such a source! The practical result of the meeting in tho' next place, was, for the sum of about font bun.' dud pounds sterling, the Indians multi Itt dCod, recognizing the Sinn's rights that areoriltall , be by his majesty's appointment in the colony of Virginia;" and the lands of Maryland were; In a like manner, confirmed to Lord Baltimore: , within definite finales.. . . . . . "Thus," says Bancroft, "did Great Britain et ' once acquire and confirm its claims to the great' basin of the Ohio, and, and at the same time; protect its northern frontier." (History of Am-, erica, volt p. 453 ;) end thus: the Fourth' Of July became once more all Impoitztat 'to our destinies.bringing; us, by a solemn treaty, an absolute right to the , Great Veit by pt letup; and laying tco coiner-stone of a' new, teat !ml' Ore, soon to be added to the earliest colonial oti.' the sea-coast It was only ten short yetis later; when; ate= der peculiarly startling circumstanws,and with' the distant thunder of war already tilling al hearts with fear and awe, that anotherratath' of July added new signiSeance and greater ita *- portance to that remarkable date. Commissioners bad met In the emits of Aiba ay. in the State of New 'York, to confer Wolf . • a plan of onion of all . the agonies, in anttelpa- - • tion of war with - France. • • • • The necessity of thus securing their mist- - - ence, threatened by a' formidable enemy. was' 1 • felt by them all: the moans of averting the , danger and the way of accomplishing the on: - tun alone were doubtiuL Benjamin Franklin, whose calm, cool mlad l [Oily appreciated' the cast importance of the' • proposed unlbn, had drawn up a Plan,lirsetler ' al plant to this all the Colonies agreed, except' • ' Conneeticut, and on the Fourth of Tidy it wa . .. • signed. Although, subsequently, the British Goiere-' • ment refused its assent,' and conseqiently *ha proposed concert of action could not be made' • available for the time, there can ;be no doubt that this platy of a anion' of the colonies eel' assbasis, tf not as a cadet, for the - successfu.t union of later days, and thaf,•theiefore, . -conference of Albany,• marked once more by the mysterious date, was of the utmost itnifor , tanoe to our national calstence. 'tee paramount sigruncance op teat clay elf the date on which the Union Itself began its glorfores career, is to well known to admit of- ' more than a mere reference. The careful res.,. der of history, howereruatmot fill being struett" by the remarkable coincidence which seem to' . follow-the month and day throughout our an , • Qn the fourth of Ju1y,1751, Benjamin Await" , inn, then slowly rising in the esteem or ha l' countrymen, had signed theTicaty t4panuez• on the fourth of JolY; the Mune great - American, now litiewn all over the world as a' ' state_ and a philosopher, signed onto more the Declaration of independence: , Nor does the tinportanco of the day and . here. On the Inures cf'', July,- 1154, , George* Washington, then an biffrible officer in the colonial army; had been compelled, by the tato of War, to surrender at Fort Necessity" the rude Mocked° at Great Meadows. lle with , drew with his troops from the. basin of the* Ohio, and from its mouth in. the Gulf to tbi% head-springs of the Ohio, ' the lilies of Puma% were triumlbant. ' • . On the fourth of July; 1.110, the same George' Washington was successfully commanding all' the armies of America, and was beginning' the great war that was- to end in the 4,44 r. of England and the birth of 0 pen WWI&
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