E. B. Hawley, • we t . 0 eraser E. 8.. HAWLEY & CO., PUBLISHERS OF TIE MONTROSE DEMOCRAT; AND GENERAL JOB PRINTERS, Montrose, &ague&Jana Cortnty, Pa. omes—West Side of Public AY!TM Btutiness Bards. & A. 11. IfeCOLLIDI, A mumgre lA. Office oer the Dant, Montrosa Ps. Montrose, May 10, 1371. v If D. W. SEARLE, ATTORNEY AT LAW, °Mee over the Store of 11. Desssaer.l a the Brick Block,Montioso, Pa, Doll G 9 W. . e Eimer AxD 6H.,611 IEANIIPACTUIERIS.—Poot of Main street, Montrose, Pa. lang. 1. 180. M. O. SUTTON, itrcTIONSEEt, and bistnumi &wee, goa 6114 • - -Friandeville. Pa. Alf! ELT, CFITED STATES AUCTIONEER. Am I. Itira. Address, Brooklyn. Pa J. C. WIINATOP, WU. ilsomrin AND LAND Scrivcatin, `P. O. adckcaa, Franklin Fork. Durgnebanna Co., PA JOHN GROVES, 1111110NABLII TAILOR, Montrone, Pa. Shop over CeaOdler's,Store. All order. gllled o erahrate style. Cottloß done on shoat pollee. and warranted to tit. A. 0. WARREN; ATTORNEY AT LAW. Bounty, Bart Pay, peaeloo sod lixemot on Claims attended to. Orden 11,4 door below Boyd's Btore,Fllootross.PS. (Au. 1..69 W. d. CROSSMON, attorney at Law, Office at the Court Male, In the Commissioner'. Omen. W. A. Cuosenora, Montrose. Sent. 6th. ISM —tt, McKENZIE. it CO. Dealers In Dry Goods, Clothing, Ladies and 1111. fell line dimes. Also, agnate for th'e groat American Tea and Coen Company. {Montrose, July 11, '72,,) . • . LAW OFFICE.: rrrcti wrrsoN, Attorney. at Law, at the old office f Bentley &Fite; Moatecao, LF. rata. bran. 11. 41. b V. W. RATION. ABEL TURRELL, saler la Drugs Medicines, Chemicals, Paints, 011 S, Dye raga, Teat, spires, Fancy Uoods, Jewelry Per fumery, &Ay/kick Montrtase, Pa Establiahed tttlt. [Feb. I, NT& SCOVILL 4 DEWITT. Mantels at Law and &glutton In Bankruptcy. (Mt ca Coart Stted.,ecur City 2jatlooal Dank, Sint' bataton, W w. H. Soartkc, Jane teik.,lttn. Januar, Dom.?. DR. W. L. :WHARDSON, PIITSICIAN aSURGEON, tenders Ms professions services no the ettlinns of Montrose sad vicinity.- - 0 face at htaresideree, on the corner east of }byre la - Bras. Foundry , r hug • CHARLESR. STODD A R.D, Yealer In Boots and Shoes, Hata and Caps. Leather and Findings, Main Street, let door below Boyd', Store. ~. Work Made to order, and repairing done neatly. Montrose Jan.: 1870. LEWIS KNOLL, SHAWN° AND HAIR DRESSING. Shop In the new Thataffice building, where he will he round ready to attend all who may want anything In hie line. Niontxoee Pa. Oct. 13 .1569. DR S. W. DAYTON, PITYSICIAN & SURGEON, tender. his services to the eltizess of Great Send and vicinity. Office at Ms rtaidence, opposite Barnum house, G't .Bend village. Sept. Ist,lB69.—tf DR. D. A. LATITROP, administers Elsorao Toastast BATH,. I tae Foot of Chestnnt street. Call and coasal to a.l Chronic Diolnaserc Kaptrose. Jan. V. H. BURRITT. Dente? ,n Staple and Fancy Drs floods. Crockery, Hard watt,. Iron, Stoves, Drugs. OM, and Paints, Boote - nd Shoes, Hats and Caps, Fars, Buffalo Robes, Oro des, Provisions, Sc. flow-Htliptd,l4.,:ine, 8, '72-41. EiCELiNGE HOTEL K. J. lIARIXECGTON what.' to inform the p übllethat hating tented the .E.Letoutta llotel to Montrose. he te now prepared to accommodate the traveling pabl'a tiallrataltaaatyle. - Xon.4ofotAuZ,lB.lB7l. LITTLES & BLAKESLEE ATTORNEYS AT LAW, have removed to their no Oita, opposite the Tarbell Haase. t ' R. IL Lrritts, Oco. P. Urns, - 3Chitednitlet. 16, 18 8 Z. L. ^• =. BILLINGS STROUD FLEE AND LIFE INSDEANCE AGENT. AI: baalnemattendedtopromptly.on fair terms. °Mee drat door east of the bank of Wm. 11. Cooper ds C.. Pnbllc Aienne,lioatiase, Pa. [aug.1.11369. airrritB7l-1,- Btuaaaa STIF.OZTD. ' T. & E. IrCASE, lIARNESSAILAKBRZ. Oak Elarness, light and heavy, at lowest cash prices, Also, - Blankets, Breast Blan kets, Whips, and everything pertaining to the line, cheaper thin the cheapest. Repairing done prompt ly and to good style. MonUoie, Peg. Oct. A Ins. CHARLEY MORRIS 4 113:111A171.BARIllill., has moved bls shop to the baildlog occopled by 11. McKenzie it Co., where he is yyrepzred trbto.allutitdx.f Allrk Ildnoe4o.chnasi.bous-on ti j olosisad lira; Plesee 11 and see tee. THE PEOPLE'S MARKET. Palau? Ham, Proptictor. Weal and WWI Meats, ÜBJXII4 Pork. Bologna Ban. wayeste- af the best quality, constantly an hand, at poces to suit. Montrose, Pa,. /an. lt. VALLEY ROUSE, .o=4 Ezra, F. 61tuated our the Erie Railway De a ot. la • large and house, has undergo thorough repair. Newly hu commodiousniebed rooms and slee n p mac apsnment.,mplendidtables.sodallthlngscamprie log ► GI st class hoteL ILANRY ACKERT, 10tti,1573.-11. Proprietor. F. CHURCHILL, indica octhe Peace: ale° over L. B. Lenhelnesstore Orel Susgnehion• County - Penn'a. •ettlemenl Of the ockets of the rate hue Beano's. decessecL Office hourstrom 9 toll o'c.lock • m., and from 1 to 4 o'clock p. at. Great Bend, Oct. Id. 1911. DR. W. W. eirrni, Dwretrv..floiniraat-hiriderellygi neat doorwortb of Dr. Dalai" On Old Iferlirdry street, *Dere De would be happy to see all these to /rani of Dental IA orb. lie Pets conedeut that he can pleases% boil In quality of work and nu price. Office boors from 9 4.z. to 4 e. N. Dloutroae. Feb. 11. 1871/ SDO4B 4. TWIRSLL, C0V111130,96 AT Lw. , • No. 110 Proralw . by, To* City. Attends to all kinds of Attorney Business. find con' darts causes in all the Courts of both the Biala and the totted Sister. , Graduate of the Colsersity of Michigan, Aun Arbor. lath, and als,, of Jeferson Medical Collse of Phila delphia. 1114 has returned to Friendsvii.se, where he min Afford to allasUr his profusion te It...ld=ce to Jeude Lthsfores house. Office the same as heretotore, Trlendsville, Pa., April =b.., 1074.-6133. BURNS t NICROBS, DBALARB to Drop, Medicines, ChkmlC2lll,Pl.o - 4igno.ka, Bplces:Yoncy 4rtehri,Pittfte walcitteol Petro merjakid Vollet.tr -1112"Proscriptioes can:dolly coloixianded.— Brlck Block, Moatroee, Pa. A. B, Bvaki. feb. 21: lin p7.J.e,-p-ii er#o' iRtNrrAG Mixecistoci AT TIUSIOFFICE, CIIEAP. Try VW. Vir TO) E A \ lON OSI 0 A TWO DOLLARS PER YEAR IN ADVANCE. VOLUME 31. THE RIDE OF COLLINS GRAVES. -0 -- An Incident of the V uth. 11374.0i1a in issenchusette, lay -0- BY JOBB BOYLE O'REILLY —o— No song of a soldier riding down To the raging flight from Winchester town ; No song of o time that shook the earth With the nation's throe at a nation's birth ; But the song of a brave man, free from fear,- As Sheridan 's self or Paul Revere ; Who risked what they risked, free from strife And its promise of glorious pay—his life., The peaceful valley was waked and stirt And the answering echoes of life are hca ; The dew still clings to the trees and grass, And the early toilers milling pass, As they glance aside at the white-walled homes, Or up the valley, where merrily comes The brook that sparkles in diamond rills As the sun comes over the Hampshire hills. What was it,that passed like an ominous breath? Like a shiver of fear or the touch of death 1 What was It? The valley is peaceful still, And the leaves are afire on top of the hill ; It was not a sound or thing of sense— But a pain, like the pan ,, . of the short suspense That wraps the being of those whose° At their feet the gulf of Eternity The air of the valley has telt the chill ; The workers pause at the door of the mill ; The housewife, keen to the shivering air, Arrests her foot on the cottage stair, Instinct taught by the mother-love, And thinks of the sleeping ones above 1 Why start the listners ? Why does the course Of the mill-stream widen ? Ls It a horse? Hark to the sound of his txes, they say, That gallops so wildly Williamsburg way 1 God! what was that, like a human shriek From the winding valley? Will nobody speak? Will nobody answer those women who cry As the awful warnings thunder by ? Whence come they? Listen! And now they hear The sound of the galloping horse-hear near ; They watch the trend at the vale, and see The rider, who thunders so menacingly, With waving arms and warning scream, To the home-filled banks of the valley stream, Redraws no rein, but shakes the street With a shout and the ring of the galloping feet, And this theory that he flings to the wind : "To the halls for your tiers l The flood is &anat." He cries and is gone ; but they know the worst— The treacherous Williamsburg dam has burst ; The basin that nourished their happy homes Li changed to a demon—lt comes! It corium ! A monster in aspect, with shaggy front Of shattered dwellings, to take the brunt ; Of the dwellings they shatter—white-manor and hoarse. The merciless terror fills the course Of the narrow valley, and rushing raves, With Death on the first of its liming warm, Till cottage and Street and crowded mill Are crumbled and crushed. But onward still, In front of the roanng timid is heard The galloping horse and the warning word. Thank God, that brave man's life is spared From Williamsburg town he nobly dared To race with the flood and to take the road In front of the terrible swath it mowed. For miles It thundered and crashed behind. But he looked ahead with a steadfast mind ; squired. Why, where does that patient of yours ve ?" The doctor hingheil frankly, coloring nevertheless. "I see von understand the 'ways that are dark and the tricks that are vain' pret ty well, Miss Nancy. Aml now I don't dare to tell you what I was going to be fore you spoke." "What was it ?" queried Nancy,curions and conscious. TINE qUARREL. "It, was," said the doctor, bending his —O-- own face close to the curl shaded one at There bung heavy plumes of purple, his side, "that I wish I had the right to over the little gateway in that bright keep you with me always. Miss Nancy, afternoon—the Ist of June. A char- will you look at me—will you tell me ?" stable breeze swept one scented bunch of It was well that the doctor did not bloom a bit aside, just out of the reach guess why, amidst Nancy's bright blush of a little brown hand that had a mo• es, her lips quivered and her eyes filled ment ago ruthlessly stripped off half its with _tear& She had made up her mind blossoms, of accept the doctor, but in that decisive But the owner of the hand had already moment the thought of John Armitage turned about, with a toss of her black sent a pang, cruel in intensity, through curls, and a flirt of her pink calico her heart. Then came the memory of dress, that scared the butterflies, and be- their yesterday's quarrel, and Nancy fat lore the branch swung back ehe was has- tered, with a struggling smile." tening up the trim garden path, and "I—l don't know." flinging back a sharp speech over her She did not kr.ow that when, at a late shoulder at a tall, sunburned fellow who, twilight, she and the doctor walked to with a vexed light in his eyes, stood in gether into the dusky sitting•room at the gateway watching her. home, where her father was dozing and "Oh, it don't matter what I think ! In. her mother was knitting,to ask their con deed, I don't think at all. You may take sent and blessing. whom you like to the May dunce—you "Dear me !" said the good farmer, rub won't take mar a bing his eyes. "Two sech pieces of news .- • It was such pretty shoulder over in one day's cur'us herabouts. I heard which these words were cast, and there on'y an hour since that Jounie Armitage was such a rosy flush of auger on the is a-goin' to Texasf to kinder farm on his round cheek half veiled in curls, that it is own account. I sorter thought, too, that no wonder John Armitage took two or he an' Nancy fancied each other, but here `three steps in pursuit of the speaker : but she's wantin' to marry another man. It's he stopped, drew himself up with sudden cur'us I' pride, and said one reproachful word. Nancy had taken her hand from the "Nancy?' doctor's arm and had sitdown in the win• The one addressed wavered a little in dow. She heard, mistly, comments and her retreat, then resumed it with increas- congratulations: she answered questions, ed celerity. laughed at jokes. She walked down to "Will you stop and listen to me ?" the the gate when the doctor left, and stood young man queried, his rising indigos- theme under the lilacs, his atm about her, tion somewhat modifying his tone of rip• replying to his tender talk ; but when he peal. , was gone, leaving a farewell kiss on her "No !" and the pink calico swept the lips, she rushed up stairs and threw her myrtles on either side of the walk faster self on the bed in a perfect agony of sob yet. • bing that she could hardly stifle in the "Very well,' was the angry response, p illow. as he' who bad pleaded turned toward The story of the next spring is hack the gate. " But mark my words : you'll neyed,‘Such happeningaare toocommon. be sorry for this before these bushes here" Nancy came and went like the ghost of —brushing the low sprays sharply aside— herself, but the whole village was gossir i`itre'cint of bloom ! Now good bye." lug over her engagement, and her evi- Nancy, peeping from behind a curtain devices of trouble were ascribed to the alter his retreating figure, cried. Perhaps "queerness of a girl just engaged." Little the soliloquy will tell why. tired liscAtmitage-ran over moss lets one "Well, it's all over between us now, any afternoon - to tell the Eranses that John way. It's his fault, too. He'd no bust- was going Monday, and she guessed he news to take any one else to the May- would get over aryl bid them good-by ; dance when I couldn't go. I shouldn't a nd cried because her pet son was going wonder if he's gone down to Sarah An- away, and was cool and sharp at Nancy, (lesson's now. They'll be engaged next evidently suspecting that she was the thing, and she'll crow over me finely. cause . He'll try to make me jealous"—here Nan- Perhaps Perhaps light natures suffer most over ay had a spasm of crying. " 84e if I whelmiogly. Often in those beautiful wont' make him jealous first.." Juno days Naricy, all alone in some shad- The way she would - do it became appa owy, grassy place, with sunbeams shim. rent the next afternoon, when, dressed in mering above, would wonder in a dim, ajannty blue snit that set off well her childish way, if she should not "die when creamy complexion, dark curls, and tin- John went." Only one hope was left : led cheeks, she started for the village. John was coming to say good-bye. Oh, if The dainty blue silk parasol was lowered she could only let him know how it real ' a.litt?e as she - came to the pretentious ly was ! But how could she ? and she block of buildings opposite the hotel, iirr would look down desparingly at tho lit on one of which hung the sign, °` r• gold circlet on her finger. Miles oray. Office hours front Btolo L Sunday afternoon. -John finally came. u., from 3t05 P. If." But tbe face of the Nancy, sitting In the parlor with the building was blank, and the office car- doctor, caught a glimpse of the well tains lowered ; so, with an impatient es- known figure et the gate under the climation under her breath, Nancy went lilacs again. For a moment the room on to the, post office, where, getting no whirleil around, and gig w 44 4eathly letter, the (*contentedly tor/art}- " i hey must be twrnevir was all be said, As away on his terrible ride be sped. When the heroes are called for,bring the crown To this Yankee rider ; send him down On the stream of time with the Curthis old : Ilia deed as the Roman's was brave and bold, And the tale can as noble a thrill awake, For he offered his life for the people's sake. —Boston Pilot. MISCELLANEOUS READING ANOtt NICIIOLS POETRY. MONTROSE, PA., WEDNESDAY, JUNE 10, 1874. bow. The Fates forbade her. She had not accomplished a quarter of the distance be I f - fore the light roll of wheels made her turn her head and start perceptibly. In a mo- ; ment more young Dr. Gray, whose pretty toT buggy was the envy of all the men, anal whose fascinating smile had won the hearts of all the youg women, had drawn r , up his horse at her aide, and leaped to the ground, and had asked, eagerly. "Miss Evans, may I have the pleasure of driving you home Thq color brightened in Nancy'scheeki the light in her eyes, as she assented with a charming smile ; and in a moment they were slowly rolling along the road, and the blue ribbons were blown against the doctor's broadcloth. Dr. Gray was young, handsome, not deficient in brains, with pocket money enough to prevent him trout being tragi cally in earnest iu his profession, and very much in love with the coquettish bit of womanhood by his side. As for Nan cy, she was a little afraid of the gray eyes that could be quizzical as well as admir ing, and of the smile that sometimescurl ed the corners of the black mustache. But Nancy was minus a lover just then, the doctor was a "catch," and she laugh ed and chattered as the bay horse trotted along. The farm house came in sight too soon and the doctor stopped midway in a speech to inquire. "Won't you take a longer ride ! It's such a beautiful afternoon r' Nancy demurred, as in duty bound. "I—don't know. I guess it must be— 'most tea-time." The doctor laughed, and held his watch before her. It was precisely four. "Oh. well, then—" began Nancy, some-_ what confused. ‘.l.;ut aren't these your office hours ? ' "Confound my office hours !" commen ted the dila to himself. Aloud he said, "I'm sometimes obliged to break through my hours. I'm going now to 'see a—a pa- tient on the outskirts of the town." So they drove on. The "patient" could hardly have been iii it critical state. The doctor, leaning back in the carriage, let the lines lie loosely on the horse's back as they paced slowly thrqugh shady wood roads smell ing of pines, while the warm breeze tint tered light curls across Nalley'd arch black eyes, and the blue silk parasol had to be held up to keep the sun from her bud of a r a m The doctor had a lurking tear that Nancy was rust's and. Ignorant, but all ! she was so pretty ! How far they rode in this way, wholly rapt in conversation, is not known. How fir they would have ridden is uncertain, if Nancy had not sent a mischeivous glance straight into the gray eyes, and Devoted to the Interests of our Town and County. white ; then she rose mechanically, say ing that she must bid Mr. Armitage good by, and went out to the doorway, where John was greeting her parents, and ward. ing off the Newfoundland with a laugh ing "Yes," he was replying, asNancy came up; •"they say ther'es a pretty good chance out there for a young fellow with health and energy—How do you do, Miss Nan cy ?—and I've always been enterprising; so I mean to try it.' Nancy stood pulling the rose vines in pieces !title for half an hour the others talked crops, politics, and prospects. She could not have spoken for her life, though she longed to speak as a condemned crim inal longs to ask mercy. Not once did Sohn turn his obstinate auburn bead to look at or speak to her, and at last he rose to go. He interrupted himself, while detailing particulars about grazing lands. to say "good by," while he just touched her hand. If he had looked at her the miserable pathetic look of appeal on her childish face would have gone straight to his heart ; but he did not dare to look, and turning away abruptly, walked down the garden path with a garrulous old far mer hobbling by his side. Nancy had just time to escape her mother's eye by running up stairs. She did not faint; but God forbid that girls should often kr ow such misery as she suffered then ! When she at last voiced the doctor, as in duty bound, the stunned look in her face was pitifuL She " was not well," she said in answer to his alarmed queries. It was Nancy who proposed that they should go to church that evening. In the corner of the high old pew, with hcr veil hiding her face, she could at least be quiet, and one hoar more of effort would have peen insupportable. Mrs- Armitage was alone in her pew. and cried silently all through the service. Nancy's heart so went out to the poor woman that, when in the:nisle,•she pressed. her hand impul sively- saying iu a quick whisper, "Mrs. Armitage I'm sorry for you !" " F don't want any of your sorrow !" was the sharp response. " fine to talk ; but you and I know well enough who's the cause of all. One word from you would stop it now if you were sorry enough !" Poor Nancy ! • The clock was on the stroke of eleven that night when her lo ver finally took his leave, and she was free to pace the moon lit sitting room from end to end with set lips and wide, glitter ing eyes. She did not cry. She felt as if she were growing crazy, and in her des wration she did not care if she did. Hour after hour passed, and still she paced there, till her rigid face showed whitely in the first faint gray of morning. "Oh, would he go ? could he go ? would noth ing happen to stop him Scarcely know ing what she was doing. Nancy slipped through the door, and hatless, trailing her dainty blue skirt through the dewy grass, ran across lots to the Armitag,es.; Ic was all still, dark and dewy. She heard the village clock strike three as she paused on the outskirts of the old fash ioned flower garden behind the house, and shrunk behind a hedge of blossom li lacs, whose potent odor sickened her. Her mind was in a whirl. She did not know why she was there, or what she should do. She was in deadly fear lest some one sho'uld discover her, yet she could not go away. For half an hour she crouched there shiveringly, never taking her eyes off John's window, but starting every time the curtain blew. Suddenly a step on the garden path startled her so violently that she could scarcely suppress a scream. It was probably some of the work people—oh, if they should see her ! A hasty peep through the bushes showed her that it was worse than that : it was John himself, striding strait towards the gap in the hedge, and wearing a most un propitious face. Nancy, in blind terror of discovery, crawled ou her hands and kne ,, si closer under lilacs. He had passed, he was almost by, when a bird that Nan cy had disturbed flew out with loud chir pings. One end of the loosened blue sash had caught on a stiff bough, and the col or arrested his eye. Two strides brought him to the spot, and he stood with folded arms looking down at her a moment be fore his amazement found vent in the ex clamation. "Nancy !" He had never seen such utter abandon and agony of shame as that with which the poor little maiden hid her face and cowered in the wet grass, with the cry, "Uh, what shall I do ? Don't you speak to me ! Go.away !" and burst in a storm of tears. For answer he gathered the little wet figure in his arms, smoothed the tum bled curls, tried to warm the icy hands, and did not dare to question, while he soothed her in his tenderest way. "Take me home," said Nancy, as soon as she found . strengtli to speak at all. • "I shall dorm such thing," was the de cided answer, as John's disengaged hand lifted her face that ho could see it, "till you tell me why pea came. Nancy, I couldn't help hoping a little when I saw you here. Don't make me give it up I I thought my pride would support me tbrongh anything but I'm afraid it won't" he ended sadly. "I'm so - gladlt wohl,” breathed - Nancy in tone&of_heaut. felt. relief. - "But some body'll see us:- Take me home, John, and I'll tell you all about it." How different seemed the way home, with John at her side. But )Taney was in no hurl yto "tell about it." She only said, nervously holding „btu:Vs-hand in both • • -' "Promise "Promise me you won't go away I" "Ah, but rt want another promise first." •••Nanoir looked back at the plumy hedge whose shelter they had left, and said, with a half smile, "You see the lilacs aren't out of bloom•yet,Jolin ; and I am—sorry, as yen said I'd be !" " And the doctor ?" asks the critical reader. Ab, Nancy is no model of Chris tian maidenhood. She is only a faulty young girl, erring. and loving and suffer ing, playing her part in one of the tragee dies that are played every where in the springs and autumns, in.the time of snow drifts as well as in the time of lilacs, Dobbs thinks that instead of giving credit Where credit i 3 44 13 2 the caith pad 'Oki be rfßif Judicial Murder. —o-- The history of English law contains few more startling judicial tragedies than that to which the statute against murder owed cinch humane amendment as to muke the finding and positive identifica tion of the body of the slain person essen tial to the conviction of the murderer, and as the same remarkable case had a pecu liar moral and social significance for the young lovers of all times, who, in their passionate devotion to- each other, are al together too apt to disregard the ortunes of everybody else in the world, it may be recalled appropriately for modern read- mg. Upon the death of Mr. George Perking, a widower of considerable property in London, it was found that his will ap pointed a brother of his, living near Bp ping Forest, the sole guardian of his only daughter, and directed that said guardian should inherit the whole fortune devised in case his young ward should die either unmarried or without children. Implicit confidence in his brother, who was a mid dle aged bachelor of limited means, had of course inspired the dying man to make such a mill; but a number of family rela tives pronounced the document an extra ordinary piece of servile fatuity and dark ly hinted that harm would ensue from it. "his feeling caused an alienation between the occupants of the Epping Forest resi dence and the aforesaid prophets, and made the latter become the bitterest per secutors, of the dead man's brother in the strange and tragio succeeding events which have been described as follows: Uncle and niece were both seen one day walking together in the forest, but the young lady suddenly disappeared, and the uncle declared that he had sough t her as soon as he missed her, and knew not whither she had gone or what had be come of her. This account was consid ered improbable, and appearances being clearly auspicious, be was arrested and tu ken before a magistrate. Other circum stances, hourly coming to light, rendered his position serious. A young gentle man in the neighborhood had been pay ing his addresses to Mimi Perkins. It was stated, and generally believed, that he had gone a few days before she was mis er', on a journey to the. north, and that sbe had declared that she would marry him on his return. The uncle had re peatedly expressed his disapprobation of the match, and Miss Perkins had loudly reproached him with his unkindness and abuse of his authority over her as his ward. A woman named Margaret Oakes was produced, who swore that about llo'clock on the day on which Miss Perkins was missed she was passing through the for est and heard the voice of a young lady earnestly expostulating with a gentlemitn. On drawing nearer the spot whence the sound came, Margaret Oaka testified that she heard the lady exclaim : "Don't kill me, uncle, don't kill me 1" The woman was greatly ternfied, and ran away from the spot. As she was doing to she heard the report of firearms. Oa this combina tion of circumstantial and positive evi- deuce, coupled with the suspicion of in• terest, the uncle was tried, convicted o murder, and almost immediately after ward—according to the custom of those days—was hanged. Abut ten days after the execution of the sentence upon the uncle, the niece reappeared, and stranger still, showed b,y the history she related, that all the testi mony given on the trial was strictly true. Miss Perkins said that, having resolved to elope with her lover, they had given out that be had gone spa journey to the north, whereas he bad merely waited near the skirts of the forest until the time ap pointed for the elopement, which was the very day on which she disappeared. tier lover had horses ready saddled for them both, and two servants in atten dance on horseback. While waiting with her uncle, he reproached her with her resolution to marry a man of whom he disapproved, and, after some remonstran ces, she passionately exclaimed : "I have set my heart upon him. If I don't marry him it will be death tome; and don't kill me, uncle, don't kill me I" Just as sheproclaimed those words she heard a gun fired, at which she started, and she afterward saw a Alan come from among the trees with a wood pigeon in his hand, which be had shot. On ap proaching the spot appointed for a meet ing with her lover she formed a pretence to induce her uncle to go on before her. She then fled to the arms of her lover, who had been waiting for her, and they both mounted their horses and immedi ately rode on. Instead, however, of go ing to the north, they retired to Windsor, and about a week afterward went on a tour of pleasure to France. There they passed some months so happily that in those days, when newspapers were scarce, when there was no very regular postal communication, and no telegraphs, they never heard of their uncle's sad fate until their return to England. The patine monuments in Paris burnt down during the commune are gradually rising again. The Palace of tfie 14'gion of Honor is now completely rebuilt, but it will not be occupied before October. The Palais Royal is nearly fin ished. Tho Vendome columnlis also be. ing repaired. The woman's crusade at Washington la, has taken a curious direction. So much opposition has come from the churches themselves, pastors, an leading members, that the active crusaders have recently taken to praying for that class, instead of the dealers and venders. Sev eral large prayer meetings have been bold and quite an excitement prevailsas to the policy indicated. " Mamma, papa is getting very rich, ian't he ?." 31amma—" 1 dont know; why child ?" Boy—" cause ho gives me so much money, Almost every morning after breakfast", when Sallie is sweeping the parlor, ho gives me ten cents to go out and play: Sally received short n 0... tied to quit. Ministers of the ipterior—i4lo cook and 04 , 4903 r, FIFTY CTS; EXTRA IF NOT IN ADVANCE DEGOILATION DAY. —o— Come forth with all your beauties May, And wreath. the WIT, sylvan bowers. With greenest leaves and garlands gay 01 buds and dowers. Let zephyrasweet, the air perfume, And through the branches over-head 4., Bing dirges sad, o'er every tomb Where sleep the dead. Our noble dead, who died to save The country's flag from treason's stain, And found a soldier's honored grave Amone the slain. We bear the - cannon's roaring sound, It cannot break the solemn sleep, Though once it caused, each heart to bound And madly leap. They fought for country, home. and clod, And roused at Freedom's sacred chime Arid asked that she would keep our sod Through every time. 'Twits well their boon was granted; see Our peaceful shores as they appear Unmarked save.by prosperity To us so dear. But still to-day, some aching hearts, Ain weeping by a lonely hearth, Aml oft a tear-drop warmly starts In midst of mirth. oh! God as here we kneel, and strew These lowly tombs with blossoms white, Give to such ones a solace true A cheering light. THE FAVORITE CHILD. MEMMEM Think whitest, if the moon could see? Which of five Msebuds flashed with Juno Were reddest to the mother-tree? Which of five birds, that play one tune On their sot t-shlning.throata, may be Chief singer? Who will answer me? Would not the moon know, if around One snowdrop any shadow lay ? ..Would not the rose -tree, If the ground Should let one blossom droop a day ? Rot ilia ant) bird takes wand Into the cloud, when caught aw,ay, . Finer than all thettonnds that stay? Oh, little, quiet boy of mina, • Whose yellow head lies languid here— .. P, 'oor yellow head, its mstlem shine Brightened the butterflies last year!— Whose pretty hands may intertwine With paler hands ureic= but near; You are my favorite now, I fear I • • EDITOR'S REMINISCENCES. "...„ r- John W. Forney publishes an entertaining sketch of the growth of newspapers, and in cidentally rhapsodizes in this pleasant vela "I claim to know a little about newspapers, for Iwas fairly raised in a printing office, haying served as 'devil,' apprentice, and Journeyman ; as compositor, copy-holder, proof-reader, press man, reporter, and finally an editor. I have worked with the buckskin halls and pulled the old wooden Ramage ; have made and pushed the glue roller; have worked elf large editions an the Washington iron press, and have finally owned an eight cylinder lightning Hoe, which with its modern rivals, more than realizes the fictions of the Arabian genii. Harnessed in steam, with lightning couriers, they 'strike the loud earth breathless' with their thunder, and fill the very heavens with their millions of mes sengera. I have seen many a -muff sheet ex pand into a great blanket, and fold itself and die ; and I have watched the tew firstlings of a penny paper till they came to thousands o( households, like so many morning intelligences. What a school is a printing office! What a Short space in history is a generation, and yet what revolutions are crowded into it l The hours I spent at the case and at the press wore made delightful by the reading of the times.— We had comparatively few newspapers, and so pro read them through and through. There was no Philadelphia Ledger, but we regaled our selves with Jos. R. Chandler's 'Letters from my Arm Chair; in the United States Gazette; there Was no New York Trildrie, but we drier Inspira tion from the splendid typography find nervous Saxon of Horace Greeley's Weekly New Yorker; there was no Atlantic and Harper, but we rev eled in the pages of Waldie's Library :;a:a bad no Macaulay or Baucrolt to write us history, but we were satisfied with Hinton and Hildreth;' we had no Dickens, or Thackeroy, or Charles . Iteade, or Wilkie Collins, or Alfred Tenhyson or Oliver IV endell Holmes, with their wonder ful art, so rapid, dazzling and supernatural ; but we lived in the gorgeous world of Walter Scott, hung around with the marvelous drapery of Byron, and made musical with the enchant , Jog melodies of Thomas Moore. Byron died in 1824, Scott in 1882, and Moore in 1852, and were thegods of the reading world And especial ly of the &snail gods in the printing offices. Now we are so bombarded with books, and so 'engulfed in newspapers, that wo are lucky Uwe can rend the title-pages of the first and the tele.. graphic head-lines of the second." RIND YOUR ENGLISH. -0- ' In common talk we use.a great many gram matte vulgarisms whleh'eauld as well be avoid ed as not, and the error of which should al ways be pointed out to young men who are forming their language., The HMl:dist sensibly says : Children should learn to speak correctly 'while they am children, for It .will be bard to correct wrung habits when they become older. Many persons who have a smattering of French and even of Latin, tai, are known !Awake bad blundetfltr their Englisti: 'beanie' they never learned.to correct themselves whenihey were young. Tho other day a llttlegirl asked, " will you go to-morrer Thu answer was, " I donne How much better to 'pronounce the . Words moth', and say to.ntoiroto and 'don't know 1 New say suit fine applac but such line apples. .bat as tire fs another improper expression. You should , snyjusies lie. And. do not ;say, /ain't. There Ia no such word as ain't In the English longings. iron should say, lta not, or it isn't. ' I heard a boy Gni," I never saw sad/Imre That waa very bad pronunmation. tosother said, " I can holler louder than ran;"" bat a bright little fellow replied," I don't thloklcan Jailer at all, though I caa Milo so as to be heard a quarter of a mile." Now, children, try bard to speak properly, and never use such words as these. To toot . ; rer, Dunno, llech,-.A.lnt, Holler, riggers. There is one mistake that 'almost evil body makes in saying " Ile don't. It Is well enough to say " I don't" -or "they don't" but le the third person singular you shouaray, he •doeam' t. Muzzle4oading guns can Weltered Into breech binders without difficulty. Thu will be a wet. c.oine fact to many sportsmen who have a great reluctance to give up their old plot es to Which they have become attached and with which they bf 499 dogg ROW duty 14 *nu rel, r rILE MONTROSE DE3IOOItAT Cosealus all the Local and °metalNeve, roetry,Stol rlei, Anecdote■, Miscellaneous Beading,Correspond Vireo, and a reliable class of adrerilsements. One squire.ty. °fait:lth ipace,)3 waste, of WIZ SU I Mont $1.25; 3 montbsl/153.50; 6 months $4.00t Z Year. 166A 1 . A Mend discount an adrertimaiisats cd a greater lenlith• Duane.* Lecala.l6 cis. • lino for 111111 insertion, and 6 as. • line cub subsequent Insertion. Marriages and deaths, free obituaries, 10 eta. • lin. NUMBER 23. Ile who boasts of being Perfect is perfect in his folly. I have been a good deal up and down In the world, and I never did see either a per. feet horse or a perfect man, and I never, shall until two Sundays come together. Yon can nut get white dour out of a coal sack, nor per fection out of human nature ; he who looks tor It had better look for sugar In the sea. The old saying is, -Lifeless, faultless." Of dead "Men we should say nothing bat good, but' es for the living, they are tarred more or less with the black brush, and half an eye can see it. • Every heat has a Bolt place in it, and every heart has its black drop. Every rose has Its prickles, and every day its night. Even the son shows spots and the skies are darkened with clouds. No body is so wise but be 11118 lolly enough to stock a stall at Vanity Fair. Where I could, not tee the fool's cap, I have neverless heard the bells jingle. As there is no sunshine without some shadows, so all human good Is mixed up with more or Ices of evil ; even poor law guardians I have their little failings, and parish beadles ant not wholly of heavenly nature. The best wine has its lees. All men's - faults are not written on their foreheads, and lee quite as well they are not, or hats would need wide brims ; yet as sure as eggs are eggs, faults of some kind nes tle in every man's bosom. There's no telling when a man's faults may show themselves, far hares pop out of a di ch just when youare not looking for them. bons that Is weak in the knees may not stumble for n mile or two; but it:Ls in him, and the rider bad better Loll him up well. The tabby cat Is not lapping milk just now, but leave the dairy door open, and we will see if she is not as bad a tbiefas the kitten. There's fire In the flint,cool salt looks: wait till the steel gets a knock at it, and yon will see. Every body can read that riddle, but IS yttSIISEXD EMIT V =AMWAY MOSIXIIII Advertising Bates: IVE ALL HAVE PAUL= It Is not every body that will remember to keep Ida gunpowder out of the way of Ma candle. ADVARTAGFS OF GUYING . , A French physielin is out with a long disser tation on the advantages of groaning and cry ing in general, and especially during operations. Ile contends that groaning and crying are Una two grand operations by which nature allays anguish ; that those patients who give way to eir natural ' feelings more speedily recover tram accidents and operations than those who suppose it unworthy for a man to betray-Such symptons of cowardice as either to cry or groan. Ho tella- of - a man who reduced his pulse from one hundred and twenty rtx to sixty in the course of two hours, by givlpg : , vent to his emotions. If people feel at all unhappy about any thing, let them go to their roomsand comfort themselves with a loud boohoo, and they will feel a hundred per cent. better after wards. In accordance with the above, the crying of children should not be to greatly discouraged• It it is systematically suppressed the result may be the St. Vitus' dance, epileptic tits, on some other disease of the nervous system.— What is natural is nearly always usethl, itrul nothing can be more natural than the crying of children when anything occurs to give there either physical or mental pain. Probably most persons have experienced the effects of tenni in relieving great sorrow . . It is even anima how the feelings are allayed by free indulgence in groans and sighs. Then' let 'parents Show more indulgence to noisy bursts of grief on the part of children as well as persons, and regard the eyes and month as safetyvalves through which nature discharges her surplus steam. BOYS; 00 HOYE. Ah, boys! you have gone out from the old homestead into the rash and bustle of lite, .do you ever think of the p : atient mothers who are atretching out to you, arms powerless to draw you back to the old home nest f Arms that were strong to carry you once, pressed closely to hearts that hive you then as now: NO mat ter though your hair is "silver streaked," and Dot in the cradle calls you "Grandpa," you are only "the boy" so lung as, mother, lives. Yon are only the children of the old home. Noth ing can crowd you out of mother's hent. Yon may have failed in the hustle of life,' and your manhood crushed out against the well of cir cumstances ; you may have been prosperous and gained wealth and fame; but mother'slove followed you always. Many &boy has not been 'home' for live, ten, or even twenty years. Bnd all this time mother has been waiting, wading, waiting. Ab, who does not know the agony expressed by that word 1.--Sho• may be even now saY Jog. "I dreamt of John last night May be ho will come home today. lie may drop In for dinner ;" and the poor, trembling hands pre pare some [write home dish. Dinner comes and goes, but John comes not with us. Thus day after day, month after month, year after year, passes, till at last, "Hope deferred =kelt the heart Sick," ay, sick unto death, the fbeblo arms are stretched out no longer. The dim eyes are closed, the gray hairs are smoothed for the last time, and the tired hands are folded to everlasting rest, and mother walla no memoir earth for one who comes not. God grant that sho may not wait as vainly for his coming ; in Hesien. • Once more I say unto) , ou, boys, go home„, if only for a day. Let mother know you have not forgotten her. Her days maybe numbered "Nest winter" may cover her, zrave wig:ism:ON The French goverement,aciitig on the realm• mendation of the Committee on reitificaut has determined' to keep tot the next five yews 6,000 paha of carrier pigeons for breeding pnr poses for serricm' in wax. tlmes: . • Path . fort:cal will have a military pigeon house, and each pigeon.house will contain 1.000 bit& Two general' stations will be established, at each of which 60,000 pigeons he kept. The Ger ant fortress at biota and Strasbourg harrobeest ['or a year past connected with .other 44=aart porta by a system of carrier 'pigeons.. , Ono of the most 'renualusble failures of the nevi -. Illinois law concerning married women is the authorization of civil, enitabetweenthosband and wife. A married woman max do toudneef on her own account. with the earns T 10136101 liabilities as if she were unmarried, except es to partnership,busineas, whir-11 , 40 cannot =ten without her husband'a consent, unless he is in sane or idiotic, has abandoned or deserted Ur, or le contlaed la thopenitentlary. • • A Memphis paper sap of a Milo girl who died there : aphattoplag the ropo with iltt" awls toilet."
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