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.
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VOLUME 31.
THE RIDE OF COLLINS GRAVES.
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An Incident of the V uth. 11374.0i1a in issenchusette, lay
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BY JOBB BOYLE O'REILLY
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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."