HAWLEY & eRUSER, Editors and Proprietors. IOLUME 32. tillontrost ginuotfat 1 , I'l r.1.1%nr.r1 Ertnr W X.D2OSEDAT MOILIMIG !f ,; no N r . su n uchanna County, Pa, tame—Were Side of Public Av.4cie he LocalendGeocrolliews,Poetry.Sto- Mt.cellsncooP Reading.Correepond- L s.‘ r, Clll5, of advertleemetlte. tdvertising hates: • \ elan inch ennee,P wieate. or lea $1 ; months. 52.50; morals. $4 SA ; I A disconnt on advertieemente of a Lorale.lo rte. n line fee lint .1 I Ibe each ntlweeluent Intertion.- ,1, • s,l,lvatbs.lree ; obituaries, 10 cla. a line. FEN - E. , JOB P A SPECIALTY ! QNA iWork. - Try Us Business Cards t, ilk. EN & .31A CKE): N.C. 'Mackey. bare ibis day en ,. co-Partnere:4p, for the practice ,• isurgery. and are prepared to attend call~ in the line of their profesalon at and night. n. 1.,1 April 14, 14:5.—a-21. B D. BA LDW IN, M. D., P 11 N' P3l YS I (lAN, hit. located himself at re he will attend promptly to all.pro - •11,,, , rntraged to hta care. Vireface rms. 41L1rItoc,ocoad Also:, front. Boards at Pt, -t . Nlarch 10, 1815. I Ail ASI , COLLECTION OFFICE. n. W :1 , 06 Attorney.at-Lutv., Montroee, Peria'a. l'ro raptly Attended to. • . giveu to Orphans' Court Practice. Pen. P . J. Turrell; on Public Avenue, oppo : .tte the Turhell House. 1676. IV. 4S'4lflril, ht.. dwulfug , next doornorth of Dr. ••:. Oil Foundry street, where he would be ••• ••,•• • 1.14.0 , e to want of Dental Rork. De • . • • Out ht. can please all. both qualltyof . • : prig, °Wes hours from 9A.M. tO 4 r. r. 11. I'l4—a r.JLLEY HOUSE. c• PA• Satnated near the Erie Railway De ..r :•• :Ina commodious house, has undergone Nouly rurnisned rooms and eleep . . • viendltitablesAnd alltb ing compris• HENRY ACRERT, . -I L L Proprietor. .1 lit. .I.t.:OPLE'S ILIREET. Pnr.ur Bann, Proprietor. t•altetl Meats, Hama, Pork, Bologna San i. •ne boot conatty, constantly on band, at I'l., Jain. 14. lh'la--17 RI LLISGS S7'RO UD. .BSI. LIFE INSURANCE AGENT. Ale •.,••utterldedtopromptly,on fair terms. Offic. vaet ol the bank of Wm. H. Cooper 4L, Co Iresse.Stontrose. Pa. [Mrg.1,1869. aLLLINGS STROUD. CHA IZLEY MORRIS lIAItBER, bne racrycd hie elaop the . II: occupied by E. McKenzie a Co., where be to to do all kinde of work in hie line,ench sewn. chez, puffs. etc. all worts done' Win obort ,•,, ,„1 p r ire, inw. Plesee callnind see mt. EDGA.II A. TERRELL nisru.or. AT LAW, No. 170.. Broadway, Noir York City L.:. `.7.: 11.1874.-iy) LITTLES & BLAKESLEE I^bR.\ES• &T LAW, have removed to their New the Turbell Donne. B. B. Lrrms, MM! 15. 15772 Fk4 , oi. tationery, Wan Paper, lieweya pod, Stereuecopie Views., Yankee :Next door to tho PeetOttlce,Montruee, B. B.P.A.F§.. 1,1. • EXCHANGE HOTEL. IAtRIN,TUN wioher to Inform theputacthst the Exchange, Hotel In IdontrOed.he p,-,,red to accommodate the travelingpnbl!e le. 1571. LI. 817 RRIT7 Fnucy Du Goode, Crockery, Hard. Drags. Oils, and Palate, Banda . • and Capt.. Fars, Buffalo Robe". Gra ; • t'ro, w•M. 7-ra a., Nov 0, '72--tt. F. D. LAM.R. 3t. D.. • AND Sl l w Evil tendert% ul: 4 profession ., 0.1 , elt•zeu. or Great Dvad and vicinity • 1.4.1 Uhler, Brent Brad P. I' 2J, 1,;::).—t1 ~.. U .1. LATHROP, ..n nI E. al. BATU, n .40 FOOL of rr,. r.” and coastal to a-1 Chronic rn,3.-j. LT. 5. IF. LAYTON, EI;I:GEON, tender! Ida services to 4.4reat Deed and vicinity. Office at ale I:amain House, GM Bend village. tf LE 117 S KNOLL, • •LA !N it AND HAIR DEESSnia PootoMee bulldiad. where he will ,ae, to attend all who may want any thing Montrose F. Oct. 13 SW. 1l1I:1,ES N. STOLD.AB.D r 11.,trte and Snots, Hata and Caps. Leatherand Ntair..r.trcet, let door below Soyd'e Store. arder, rord repairing done neatlp. .I.ln. I /870. bll. Ir. L. RICIIAILDSON, '‘ITIcGEON, tenders bit , profeerelowt tt, oftimme of Montrose nl,L.ldet.:e. on the cornereastof Sore dt Folluctr. lAug.l. 1969. St'o V ILL d DEWITT. and Solicitors in Bankruptcy. ,Ofacc . over City National Bank, W. H. Scorns, I . rh. 1,1% hrunatE Dzwirr.- IL A. LYON, LI) Abel Tarrell. denier In Drrigl MedininnA, Pamtp. 011 P, Dye-scuffs. Teas, eplees. !s, c, Jewelry, PeriplteXj.ltC. 31ny Ib, 113 - 73. • • L. r AND cIieNSELLOP,AT-LAW. Soot vrtit of the Court ourtHowe. ,- u, .ackur.rj tn, 145.-431 A 0. WAIIREN, it'itsE) 2. 'A W. Bounty, Back lay, PCnaleu "' ee Canino attended to. (Mee Art, 11 0,114 Store, MontreFe.Ps. IV. A. CROSSMON, t tnlice at tin Court Mouse; tba O•tce. W. A. CaosexOti. haul , - J. 6. WILEAZON. ENnuct:CL AND LAND Orzrzyoei ' P.O. address, Franklla Forke, equetuuma Co, Pa. W. W. 4(.3f1711, •.61;;I:1 (1.911: ILASIVFAUTCIIEBB,•:-Youl - MOIL..tUbt. 1 . 11• iang.2.1669. M. C. SUTTON, • . ac criciNtiat, and ixeCHANCE ,80ENT I iti 4:41 Frfeods~Ufe. PA. D. 11'. SEARLE, !Tot:NEI' AT LAW • office over the titore'of 2,1 ihe Brick illock.Montrose TA. LitiLl Go J B. it A. IL ,ifcCO,LLUM, • , - , ,, h1.1-Te kr Lew oince ova: the Bad:, /iclarofc 31,, ntruir, to IU, /SU.. tf daft EL T o , 1, 41,1,,=• -•.• Addiebe,i3toOklin; Na. County Business Direct°ll. Two lines In adaDtrectory, one year, *1.00; each ad ditional line, 50 cents. MONTROSE • WM. FIAUGITWOUT, Slater, Whokeel° and hetet dealer in all kinds of elate rotting, elate paint, etc. Roots repaired with elate paint to order. Also, slate paint for sale by the gallon or barrel. Montrose. Pa. Hoznics STROUD, Genera Fire and Life then 'ante Agents ; also, sell Mailman and AccideutTicke toNew Yorkand Philadelphia. Office one dooreast °Ake Bank. 80YD6.41 CORWIN, Dealers In Stoves, Hardware and Manufacturers of Tin had Shectiron ware.cornet of Main and Tarnpike street. A. N. BULLARD, Dealer to Groceries, Provisions Books, Statione and Yankee Notions, at bead of Public Avenue.. WM. 11. COOPER .4, CO.. Bankers, sell Foreign Pas , sage Tickets and Drafts on England, Ireland and Scot. , land-.• WM. L. COX. Harness maker and dealer in all article *U sanity kept by the trade, opposite the Bank. • JAMES E. CARMALT, Attorney at Law. Office one door below Tarbell House. Public Avenue, • NEW MILFORD. • SAVINGS DANA, NEW MILFORD.—Pis per cent. In tercet on all Deposits. Does a general Banking Bur nese. .nll-11 S. D. CHASE & CO. D.GARRET SON. Dealers in Flour. Feed. 31ea Salt, Lime, Cement. Groceries and Pror'au.nr Main Street, opposite the Depot. S. F. KIMBER. Cairmge Maker and Undertaker on Main Street, two doors below Hawley's Store. . GREAT BEND. DORAN, Merchant Tailor and dealer in Reali Made Clothing, Dry Goods,Grocerics and Provisions Main Street, Banking, &c BANKING HOUSE U l lll. H. COOPER & CO., MONTROSE, PA GENERAL BANKING BUSINESS DONE COLLECTIONS MADE ON ALL POINTS AND PROMPTLY ACCOUN TED FOR AS HERETOFORE. DOMESTIC AND FOREIGN EXCHANGE FOR Ei ..gl6. IA M . UNITED STATES & OTHER BONDS BOUGHT AND SOLD. COUPONS AND CITY AND COUNTY BANK CHECKS CASHED AS. USUAL. OCEAN STEAMER PASSAGE TICK ETS TO AND FROM EUROPE. INTEREST ALLOWED ON SPECIAL winam AS PER AGREEMENT WHEN THE DEPOSIT IS MADE. In the future, as in the past, we shall endcav or to transact all money business to the satis faction of our patrons and correspondents. WM. U. COOPER & CO., Montrose, March 10, '7s.—tf. Gankers. anstionzea uapitat, - ,Goo f ooo 00. Present Capital, FIRST NATIONAL BANK, MONTROSE, PA. WILLIAM J. 'FUTRELL. Pre.idzid. D. D. SEARLE. Vice President. N. L LENIIEIM, - - Cashier Directors. WM. J. TURRELL, D. D. SEARLE, A. 3. GERRITSON, M. S. DESSAUER, ABEL TURRELL, G. V. BENTLEY, G. B. ELDRED, Montrose, Pa. E. A. CLARK, Binghamton, N. Y. E. A. PRATT, New "Witold, Pa. M. B. WRlGHT,Snsquellanna Depot, l'a. L. S. LENHEIM, Gnat Bend, Pa. DRAFTS SOLD ON EUROPE. COLLECTIONS 3IADE ON ALL POINTS SPECIAL DEPOSITS SOLICITED M(.nt rose, March 3, 1875.—tf SCRANIfid VMS Q. if 120 Wyoming avenue, RECEIVES MONEY ON DEPOSIT FROM COMPANIES AND INDIVID UALS, AND RETURNS THE SAME ON DEMAND WITHOUT PREVI OUS NOTICE, ALLOWING INTER EST AT SIX PER CENT. PER AN NUM, PAYABLE HALF YEARLY, ON THE FIRST DAYS OF JANU ARY AND JULY. - A SAFE AND RE LIABLE PLACE, OF DEPOSIT FOIL LABORING MEN, MINERS, ME CHANICS, AND MACHINISTS. AND FOR WOMEN AND CHILDREN AS 'WELL. MONEY DEPOSITED ON OR -BEFORE 'THE TENTH WILL DRAW INTEREST FROM THE FIRST DAY OF THE MONTH. THIS IS IN ALL RESPECTS 'A HOME IN STITUTION, AND ONE WHICH IS NOW RECEIVING THE SAVED EARNINGS OF THOUSANDS UPON THOUSANDS OF SCRANTON MIN ERS AND MECHANICS. DIRECTORS ; JAMES BLAIR, SANFORD GRANT, GEORGE FISH ER, JAS. S. SLOCUM, J. IL SUTPHIN, C. P. MATTHEWS, DANIEL -HOW ELL, A. E. HUNT, T. F. HUNT JAMES BLAIR, PRESIDENT ; 0. C. MOORE, CASHIER. • OPEN DAILY FROM NINE A. M. UNTIL FOUR P. M., AND ON WED NESDAY - AND SATURDAY. EVE NINGS UNTIL EIGHT O'CLOCik. Feb. 12. 1874. .. The Newest Sensation GROVES & YOUNGS' TONING ESTABLIS ow NT J1L1C0N1TZ11. 4 0.455317, A RUSH OP CUSTOMERS. MI Work WARRANT -11 ED TO GIVE SATLSFACTION IN EVERT RES PECT. Examine our prices and pis cua o triaL JOIIN GUOVES. - • - HENRY 'YOUNG. Montrose. February O. 1.875.-tt . Itingimanto4 Warble Works I All kinds of blonunients. - 11codstones. and Marble Mantles, tondo to Order. Also. tlrotob Granites on band. I. P/CifE,ltllso 6 CO., ricgrania. 6.9. YEGZAUSAU. r U. P. ZEOWN. *et. 24. 11374. LOVE BEFORE WEALTH. Beneath an oak tree, old and shady, Upon the sod that 'neath it grew, There, waiting, sat a lovely lady, As sweet as o'er was Byron's Bantle. Her face half hidden from the view, By clust'ring curls, that seemed to woo Her fair cheek's red and rosy hue. 'Twas thus she sat at ease reclining, Beneath that oak tree's cooling shade, And, as the last red rays were shining, There came a youth, as if undesigning, To meet this young angelic maid ; His face some anxious care t s betrayed, Now hope —then doubt—sow bold—afraid Down by her side he soon was sitting And fondly gazing in her eyes— Eyes so sparkling, flashing, flitting All th' varied looks of love befitting— The gaze of which could speak replies To him whom she did idolize— Whose RCM with hers did sympathize. On many n twilight summer's even' Had they beneath that oak tree met. Here, many a pledge of love was given And witnessed by the stars'ot heaven ; 'Twits here they vowed they'd ne'er forget, Not 'till yon polar star should set, Here parted with such sweet regret. Thus spoke the youlh,hnlf choked with sighing "To-morrow, love, I must depart, chance this fate 'twere vain In trying, But, still, I vow with love undying To ever cherish near my heart Thy lore, so tree from guile and art— Nature's perfect counterpart." "If fate commands thee thus to leave me, Must thou with its demands comply ? Fate may command thee to deceive me— Would'st thou obey and thus bereave me ? 0! what a thought—rd rather die In love while young than live to sigh An age beneath a starless sky I" "Thy words do rend my soul with sorrow, My eyes with tears do overflow, But 1 must part with thee to-morrow And the ocean's broad wares furrow, To California I must go, Here, labor gathers wea:th too slow, As all my efforts clearly-show. "When I return from California, Enriched with pounds of gathered gold, Then, with wealth will I adorn thze, And place thee high 'bore those thatecurn thee, Because we're poor the world is cold, But all the joys it does withhold With wealth can soon be bought and sold." "OR halt thou vowed that thou could'et never Love aught on earth as dear as me ; Yet, wealth alone can make thee sever The ties that might endure forever. O ! 1 would rather cling to thee, Through humble walks of poverty, =M2fl - 100,000 00 "I feel that all thy fancied scheming, Is woe to me and death to thee, 0 ! bid adieu to idle dreaming ; Think not that wmith is all redeeming ; It is as changing as the sea, Thy love is richer far to me, Than mines of gold can ever be. "If then thou dost disdain my offer, All hopes of wealth we must forego, Let gold enrich some miser's coffer, I've nothing now but love to proffer ; And I accept—for well 1 know That sweatest pleasures ever grow, The richest where love's streaudets Ltow." Some few evenings ago the rector of a little seaside parish sat conning books in,the quiet of his corm stddy. • It was a wild October evening, the wind twirling op the short drive that lay between the tront door of the house and the gate in the shrubbery which divided the grounds from the highway. Mr. Ferguson was puzzled over his t.ork, bothered, in fact; finally he sought assistalice of the interior order of crea• I tom, to wit : his wife, who sat opposite to him, busily knitting children's socks. "Kate I" be ejaculated in an injured tone. "Well John ?" "'These accounts are a frightful !mi. sauce. I wish I had ueter undertaken such a piece of business; its no end of work for me, and not half a dozen of the people will thank me for it after all." Mr. Ferguson perfectly revelled in ail sorts of parish work ;- but he was a man who delighted in a good, hearty grim bling now and then, and his wife, under standing his_rnoods well, always found it an excellent plan to treat him homtepa thically. "Suppose you shut that book up, John, and let us chat fdi an hour.— The people won't be coming up for their money before Thursday or Friday, and this is only Monday." "The people will be coming np for their money, you most procrastinating woman," answered the husband, "Sup pose you were to help me now instead of going on with that eternal knitting. ; we might manage this between us, and have the gossip you are longing for afterwards. Now, then. - litho is Simon Green—the one on the common? And did he have money out in April to.buy a pig ? Now we shall get on, perhaps. The knitting vanished, and the pair were soon immersed in club accounts, Mrs. Ferguson's capital memory supple— menting the rector's rather carelessly kept accounts admirably. An hour's work brought them to the elidof their labOts ; and Mrs. Ferguson, on going to a large,, old-fashioned .desk.and drawing therefrom three Canvas bags fall of gold and silver,had the'satisfaction of finding the snit they contained tallied ezactly with west was required to' pay ail the de. positors in the club their proper am— ounts. "I shall be glad when we get rid of it," she said as she replaced the bags.. "I am so unused to having such a sum of money as £7O in tbe house that I don't, feel quite' safe with it. It's to be hoped we shat never be- rich, Kate. _l,ve been wend tomed to having X2OO a year so long now; that I should feel out of my element with a large income." • . "By the by, was. Sarah to `come home to-night?" asked the husband, , "Not till"to•ruorrow. She wanted one more day to see a sailor, that was comiez ).2 Coon Street, Bla.gb4aton, MONTROSE, SUSQ'A COUNTY, PA., WEDNESDAY, MAY 19, 1785. ,fficlect fottrtj. Hy vs= JOIDI, FO. 4. - ,ltlecte4,storg. CAUGHT IN A TRAP. "Stand by the Bight though tte Heavens IbSP home. I think, if you don't mind, John, 1 shall not keep Sarah longer than Christmas. I don't like some of he' "Then, my dear, it's your duty to try and Improve them. You took the girl out of charity ; don't give her up in a hurry." "I am not in a hurry, indeed. It is quite two months since I found her read ing a letter of mine, which I left open on the table; and that is nut a pleasant hab it for a servant girl to have, is it ? I talk• dd to her kindly, but I believe she does the same sort of thing still, when she has the chance." "Then, don't give her a chance, Kate, Yoa never see me leaving my lettere about [Oh, John ! ] or if I do they are . such as are not of the least consequence?" "I did not know so well when I engag ed Sarah what a bad character her family bore ; one brother has been in prison "All the more reason for keeping her safe frork l ecil influence. You shouldn't be too ha:9l)7, Bate ; you are a dear little soul, but like all women, you judge too impulsively, and—Who's that, I won- A heavy step passed the window, fol lowed by a ring at the hall bell. Mrs. Ferguson opened the study door as Jane, their steady, elder servant, passed down stairs, candle in hand. "I wonder if that's Sarah come home to-night instead of to-morrow ?" said her mistress. "Laved, no, ma'am, not likely," answer ed Jane, "but we'll soon _see who it is," and pulling away theghaiii from the door, she opened it, disclosing a man's figure without. He was dripping wet, and had to hold his hat on with one hand. or the wind would have carried it far away ; in the other hand he extended a large, damp, yellow envelope t.herein.— A telegruft r cried Jane,taking the mes sage from him and passing it on to her mistress, who in her turn carried it to her husband, and watched his face anx iously as he opened and read it. A grave, perplexed look came over his features as he handed it back. The message was from his brother at. Fordham, a place forty miles distant, and ran thus : "Come immediately—another fit—my father anxiously expects you." "No help for it, Kate," , said Mr. Fergu• son, answering his wife's appealing look. "So much depends on my seeing him once more that I dare not choose but to go. How am Ito get to the station, in time for the ten o'clock mail, I wonder ? It's nearly nine now, and five miles on such a night as this would take me more than an hour to walk l" "Walk you can not, John," answer d his wife. "I know," she added quickly— "the man who brought the mu gs niost go hack nag' trorrantr'S , war note asking him to send his dog-cart up atter you. Anything is better than walking ; I know he will do it for you." Mr Ferguson wrote her note horridly. while her husband spoke to the telegraph official, who promised to go to Mr. Hol land's at once. When he had gone Jane stood looking blankly from master to mistress, and then said, dolefully, "And please, air, what's to become of us ?" "Become of you ? Why, you will stay and take care of the house, to be sure," said her master, rather shortly, Then, closing the study door upon himself and wife, be said, "But T don't half like the leaving you at such a time, and with on ly one servant, too, and all that, mone3 in the house. How awkwardly thing' happen sometimes." He was so heartily concerned, so evi• dently uneasy, that, as a matter of course his wife cheered him up by assuming ;. ....,...eo nim up .. ...tming i that, -once this money were gone, there bright courage that she was far from would be none to meet the people with— reeling. She lighted a candle and held the people who had saved it week by out her hand. He understood the ges- week,day by day, all the past year. Heavy tare. drops ran down her shaking form ; her "God bless them 1" he said, and foliow- hands turned numb and lips clammy and ed her up-stairs to where the childrei cold, while the beating of her heart was slept to give their little sleeping faces a like the quick tolling of a bell—louder, tarewellskiss. louder—till it deafened her. As be stood by their beds he heard the "11l find a way tti make her speak," horses coming up to the door—the hal said the second vmee ; "yere's another lioui had passed too quickly ; but anotti• kid in this room." Then in an instant a er thought struck him at the last ma this streak of light shot across the land went. log, and the nest— " Don't leave the money down stairs.all , Mother, mother, rm.ther I" shrieked night, Bate; put it in my dressing room, Dalie ; and at that sound Ruth redoub or stay, put it in yonder," uud he point• hd her cries, and the unhappy mother ed to a door partly covered with a cur ' tain, "that's the safest room in the house. prang up, clasping one child, mad to • Good-by, my darling; I will telegraph eye the other. then in the morning in time for the post- ' "Silence,you fool," skid the man beside p for first tie.— man to bring the message. If lam not youl! drive that harshly fellowthe m to do the child back to-morrow get Allen and his Wife sisal-el, if you don't do as I tell you.— to stay in the house. God bless you ; leep down, won't you,?" For she was good by." ti uggling to pass, to get across the room Another moment ano he was gone,and Jane and her mistress looked like tw). is Rosie--Rosie whose cries were sound- Jane strangely stifled,—"LoOk here, it you very lonely and deserted females indeed, as.they stood peering out into the dark- ton's give up this game, by the Lord, I'll wok you on the head if he don't." And ness, listening to the-wheels. . •clasiling oue wrist like a vice, the man . "Come, Jane, this will never do," mid 'heldlber fast, while with the other hand her mistress at last, wiping some rat lie turned on the light from a small lan drops and drops of another nature fr tern, slung at his side. She lilted her eyes her face. "Let us see that all the door, s lo w l y, as f ear i ng whom she might see ; and windows are fast.. Get your supper, but there was little enough . visible of the and tell me when you are ready for bed ; 'b urg i a e s fac e —a wide hat a th i ck, red- Then she reentered the study and so down to collect her thoughts somewhat dish beard, and loose, rough gray coat, were all she saw. - after the burry and turmoil of the lut "Hush I hush I" she murmured to Ruth. half hour. • i . 'Mather will send them away; don't look The illness of her father in-law " law : "1 at him," and she turned the baby's face would be relent at the last and let hr towards herself •, then raising, her trem husband share his property with his oil• tiling voice, "Rosie, my darling, ynot our er children ? Differences arising out If mother is co John Ferguson's marriage with a do mother ming." ,But Rosie ' did answer her, "Oh, my God !" she - panted less woman, lamented by petty fam and loOked up wildly. jealousies, strengthened by the indepete. "Mate," said the captor, loud enough eat attitude the young - man had assult- for the - other man to bear, "take Our ed—such differences had been, after , hand off, th . At _child's month if you aren't the heaviest .grief of Mrs. Pondered a Married life: - And now.she pondered In a hurry to be strongup." 'Lie strange snuffled sounds upon this 'broke_ out. again• them, till the clock onzthi chimney-pi.Ce into a wild err, 4 q)h f-mother, - mother '," . i struck the, hour of - ten,and .startlFdtr; -•Now," said the man, "one _good . turn out of her meditations. -- • - - ' deserves , imetber, You're plucky enough "This is the night„" she thought, "0 for 'a woman, but I cant _waste all the winding they-, t i m e :r. , , l a up, t, .and oe slight talking to you ;" sought then he gave among the ornaments - fer tbli kly. :hi her,search she found something ate. her; a look that made her shiver from head to foot arow. "Bundle tbose twts bad not . expected—this letter, not in e, Blipped behind• the tinse•Pie 4s ; ' 4 ' 'brats of yoisr's : into one •bed r •and . come and get us,What. we Want. , t most likely, as soon as read :, • • - :;.- .\ I - She seethed . powerless now, iito ber "DEAR. Sin.-;-The sum you name liil v'erY'sOul tainted within,- - her as she crept you letter of the 6th, that is, ..C.70,' sll after the tallilark figure over the landing be remitted to you in the fords you :el, into Rosie's room. - •.. -' ; quest on Monday.. the 10th-inst.. The rel "Oh, rial-,childl7 cried the poor. 'wca ceipt of Mr. Holland , will be quite suffi- man, and essayed to run to the 'title bed cleat. ,We begto remain yours obedientwherein) , the small figure pinioneddown ly, - :''..- Wit. &FRED'E MATHEItS, , , ' by i the heavY - graep:.of ,a ,taller,darker ... - Managers Fordham Savings Bank ! ". , man than her own captor. , - - - t • -• . . , . .iiiih, Soh!), .you careless thin!" uttr 'I . : "Han& Off, now t Just put that other ' mnred his wife ; and you say you never leave anything about I This is the 10th, so that has been lying there days. I sup pose. lam very glad Sarah has been out most of the time." "If you please, I'm going np stairs now, as soon as I've cleared thesi things away," said Jane, entering with a respect fully aggrieved air, "and glad I shall be to get to bed ; for what with the night being so rough, and master his gojn' off so rut:Whit, I feel all queer like, and as if I bad tht cold shivers runtiin' down the spine of i y back." When tie servant left the room, Mrs. F,tgusou, 1 ., -membering her husband's injunction, took car krz.gz .1 money from the desk, and carried them into the room he had desired;there locking them se— curely in a small closet or sale. This done, she went and stole her younger born, Ruth, from her little cot, and carried her off to her own bed. A lingering good night over her darling Rosie, her six-year old daughter, whose sweet, tender young face looked wonder fully like her mother's, and soon Bate Fergiaon was sleeping by her child, with her husband's likeness under her pillow, and a prayer for his quick return filling even her sleeping thoughts. It seemed to the mistress of the house that she had slept so long that morning must be near, when she awoke with an inexplacable feeling of fright, a feeling Of something or some one near her. "What is it ?" she cried, starting up in the bed, and instinctively catching the sleeping child in her arms. No answer. Only a distinct sound of breathing,and then a movement like a hand feeling along the wall towards her. She began to tremble violet:fly• noth• ing but the presence of the child on her panting bosom saved her from faint:mg. "Who is it ?" she cried, her voice so shaking and hollow that tt. awakened Ruth. who clang to her sleepy and scar ed. This time she had an answer. "We will do you no harm," a voice spoke out of the darkness. "if you give up that money you've got ;" and then be fore Mrs. Ferguson could muster courage and breath to speak, another voice, out of the room appiirently added in a rough under tone, "And tell her to look sharp about it, too." "Two of them ! G. God, help me !" she whispered to herself, and Ruth began to break into screams and subs. "Keep that brat quiet !" angrily mut tered the voice on the landing, "and don't keep us here all night." Now, surely, if ever a woman was in a miserable plight, Mrs. Ferguson was that woman. Not a house nearer than the Holland's, a full quarter of a mile off; no soul near to help her, for Jane,who work ed bard all day, slept hard by night, and qtrese mil e room at the . very top of the house ; all alone,- worse than alone, utterly helpless, and a woman who confessed to the usual share of feminine cowardice. Still, sae drew her breath, and there flashed from her heart a cry for help, and then for a few brief moments, she thought—thought with all her mind and soul ! Was there any way for her out of this ? And her reason told her there was none. "Come," said the voice in her own rooni,"l sm a good.tempered chap enough but my mate's in a Lurry ;---don't pro voke him. Look alive and tell us where to find the swag—money." She groaned Ana shook, and all her limbs turned cold,as the voice drew near• er and nearer ; and at the last words a heavy hand was laid upon the bed. Then further to torment her,came the thought one in here along of this one, and take and turn the key on 'em both, while you take us yonder to what we're looking after. No choice but to obey; no passionate kisses and a low "God keep you ;" and between the two men she was marched from the room, followed by the children's pitiful cries : their wild, frightful sobs. She led them down the first short flight of stairs to which, as we have already said, was partly overhung with a curtain. This door opened into a room which had been used by Mr. Ferguson's predecessor as an oratory, The rectory had been built in the time of the late rector, and consequently very much to snit his taste and fancies. One more peculiarity of the room to note ; the doors—for there were two— fastened with a spring on being pushed to, and could only be reopened by a hand accustomed to the task, and they also were furnished with heavy bolts on the outside ; one door opened on the land ing, the other, a smaller one, in one side of the recess at the further end, led into a bed room With had been Mr. Fergn son's predecessor's, and whence he could go in and out of his favorite oratory at any hour of the day cr night, as it pleas ed him. Here, as the kitchen clock below struck the hour of three, stood the strange trio the muffled, disguised men, the tremb ling, 15 bite-faced woman. But one of them carried a light ; the other had left his lantern outside. "Now," said the darker of the men, "here's the room, you say ; we can finish this business pretty quick." The small safe, let into the wall, was directly before them ; below it four drawers reached down to the flair ; in the lowest of these at the back of it Mrs. Ferguson had laid the key. She pointed silently to the drawer, which they at once dragged out, with too much strength for they jerked it quite out on die floor. One of them suddenly turned, particularly about making a noise, and bade their unwilling helper "shut the door." As she felt the spring catch securely beneath hand there sud decly flashed upon her a thought—a hope—a way of saving that fatal mon— ey. From the look the men had east around the room, Mrs. Ferguson was sure that they know nothing of their where abouts. ''Shpt the door." the man had eaid,and never so much as cast a look towards wh ere was the other door, completely concealed in the shadow of the recess. Every pulse beating wildly, she glanced furtively across the room—through the tall, narrow, church-like window yonder she could see a faint thread of light on one dale which told her that the further door stood unlatched. "Oh heaven help me, and give me Littm 13i/O prayed ; but her hand shook so thar-it enuld scarcely obey her quick thought. Another momen - 31111 .1-- took her exact position ; the men stooped over the keys, the lamp on the floor, and she had flung her shawl over the lamp, darted across the room, out into the room beyond, and flung to the door with force. Yet more to be done, She drew the the bolts with frenzied speed, above, be— low—that way was safe ; then with the passionate strength of the moment, she sped through the room, out on the land ing to the curtained door. and made that fast from without. while the furious cap tives beat at it from within ; ab, then, her fortitude forsook her, and a thousand fears she had not counted on most cruel ly beset her. She slid down a few stairs, clinging to the rail ; then loosing her hold, fell heavily on the stone floor of the hall below. Mr. Ferguson had ri ached his nearest station in safety, and sent back the wraps his careful wife had gtiarded him with. and started by the ten o'clock train for Fordbum. The rain beat on the windows as the train flew along in the darkness, and presently a prolonged whistle told him that they were approaching a certain, junction where he would have to wait sOme ten minutes or so. Two or three lamps on the platform by which they drew • up, showed some few passengers and a couple of sleepy porters. Another train had just come in from the opposite direction from Fordham, now only fifteen miles distant ; and some of its :passengers had alighted apd were making their way past the line of car— riages. Looking out upon his fellow travelers without much curiosity or interest, Mr.. Ferguson caught eight of a face he little expected to see. Shouting to a porter to open the door of hie compartment, he sprang out and grasped the arm of a man very gitich like himself—in fact, his own elder brother. "George," he exclaimed, "were you go ing for me ? Is father worse ?" . • "What on earth do you mean, and where did pop spring from ?" was his answer. 'Oh, George, did you not telegraph to No ibis evening that father had just had another fit ?" "Most certainly I did not I". "Oh, ml wire, my wife 1" said the cler gyman ; and then he staggered to a heap of lriggage and sat down and - hid his face in - hid hands. His brother eaw the matter was serious ; do he let-bis own• train pass on without resuming his jour ney, and was soon in posseeseesion of, all the explanation John Ferguson could give. "Porter," he asked; "what tithe dues the night train go through to Wheel— borougn ?" "At 1:25, sir," .answered, the man,. "reaches Wheelborough ":4 2f1.5."' The'disiance wad fire and twenty miles; the present time -a quarter, 'or, by the' time the explanation was' ended, half-past "No belp for it, John ' • we couldn't pick up a horse, nor yet pair, that would be ready to start this time of night and get us to Wheelborough before a quarter past two. Come, old fellow,cheer up ; it's no use taking for granted every 7 thing you dread P' &it George Ferguson thought in hia 'own mind that matters looked black enough to justify any amount of fears, anti bad - bard work .to find hopeful talk for the next two hours. Ito tried family tuattets—anything psi away this time TERMS :—Two Dollars Per Year in Advance. in vain ; his brother's mind was filled with overwhelming anxiety, his eyes peer ed up the line to catch the first glimpse .f the approaching train. At last the shrill whistle. the glaring lights creeping nearer _and nearer, the minute's stoppage, and then elf again homewards—and he began to dread the moment he longed for. At Wheelborough the two brothers struck at once from the station on their five mile walk ; and as they left the for. ther outskirts of the town, the church clock chimed hall-past two o'clock. George Ferguson could barely keep up with his brother's rapid stride, and thought him half crazy with excitement when he saw him lightly leap a ditcb,and start running across a broken piece of ground. "George," cried the rector, pointing to his own house, not a stone's throw dis tant, "look at that light l" And through the long narrow window of the oratory a light shone plainly. "Good God, if we are too late !" The brothers searcely knew how they covered the remaining distance. A blow at the hall window and their force at the shutters within,ated they made good their entrance to see—Kate Ferguson lying senseless on the floor ; to hear the wail ing and crying of the children overhead ; and a strange sound of low voices whis pering and hands cutting away at wood work. Late, indeed,they were,but not too late. An out door bell, set clanging, soori call— ed ready help from the villuge,while Jane already roused by the sounds, hut too frightened to venture from her room alone, busied herself over her uncon scious mistress. The captives in the oratory fought like cats, and one of them gave George Fer— guson a bite in the arm, the mark of which he will carry as long as be lives— that was Rough Dick. Gentleman Jim turned sullen, and submitted co the ibrce of numbers at last with better grace. When on their trial, two months later, Gentleman Jim paid Mrs. 14'erouson sev eml compliments, and assured the judge before whom they were tried that he es teemed it no disgrace to have been trap ped by finch a brick of a woman. The gang to which the two thieves be longed had received all their information from Sarah's brother, who • was a sort of hanger on to their brotherhood, and to whom bad been intrusted the seliding of the lying telegram which had so Cow. fortahly disposed of the matter. Tome 'fading. A CLOSE, HARD MAN A hard, close' - man was Solomon Ray, Nothing of value he gave away ; He hoarded and saved ; ' He pinched and shaved ; And the more he had the more be craved. The hard-earned dollars be toiled to gain Brougnunt., tittle hut eamttud pain ; For !title hennent, . And all he lent He made it bring him twenty per cent. Such was the life of Solomon Ray. The gears went by, and hts hair grew gray, His cheeks grew thin. And his soul Within Grew hard as the dollars he worked to win. But be died one day, as all men must, Eor life is fleeting, and man but dust, The heirs were gay That laid him away, And that was the end of Solomon Ray They quarreled now, who had little cared For Solomon Ray while his life was spared His lands were sold,, And his hard•earnedi gold All went to the lawyers, I am told. Yet men will cheat and pinch and save, Nor carry their treasures beyond the grave All their gold some day Will melt away Like the selfish savings of Solomon Ray. BALLOONS The ascent of an intrepid aeronaut, taking it altogether, affords one of the finest proofs of the art and courage of man. The great Roman lyrist (Horace) justly observed that it was a singular act of daring on the part of the first man who. In a frail and feeble bark, exposed himself to the violence of the watery element. but, had he lived in our days, be would, moat probably, have granted the wreath to the aero naut. Man, from the earliest times, must have been more or less acquainted with the sea ; be saw other terrestrial animals swim ;'he soon learned that simple and useful art, fur purposes of exercise and recreation. The knowledge of that art alone Must have removed ball* the ter rors attendant on- ins first essay to' guide his bark or canoe up and down familiar rivers.— Having once attained that object; be enlarged the` sphere of his action ; he went on by slow degrees advancing and_ Improving, until at length - he'spieridi hls mils en the bosom or the occan,•took leave of his within shore, and made the work of his bands a link that connects the most distant climes of the'world. The attempt of the aeronaut, less useful end less splendlitth its results, requires more real daring, and more constancy of mind. The aerial vessel Is of the moor delicate and fragile construction ; its course is so rapid that in less than the twink ling of an eye the adventuter , Is 'placed, In a state of dangerous elevation ;- be does not, like the mariner, approach the point.of apparent insecurity by slow and cautious degreeo ; Ins is a sudden And mighty ffight—he soars toward heaven, majestic and rapid. and, beautiful in hie course. • The beauty of his vessel, the ra pidity of Ids motion, the association of attend- ant dangers, all give to this spectacle the fea tures of the sublime, , .. „ , A desire to fly, has prevailed in all ages, and most children base a alai' to imitate the birds. Roger Bacon,' burn at licbester; in ;. Somerset shire, in the beginning of the' thirteenth centu ry, was the first that is known to baYc eenceiv ed the Idea of rising in the air, supported by exhausted balls of thin copper. lie was 'goon. imt of the existence of light air, cndoWed•with as great an elastic force - its common air, and, therefore, though his example of light balls was the 'same as that on which balloons are now 11 lade, it was impracticable. Dr. Black, of Edinburgh; is the first pais= who le known to hive suggested the . possibility of enclosing in: flammable air so es to renter it Capable or rats; ing a vessel IA the • atmosphere, which Li stated in his lectures 1707-8 ; and 4 .M. Cavallo, in ''‘72,.llrst made experiments on the subject,but he was unable to retain the air in any material light enough for the purpme, except a thick-so- ,•; .NUMBER, 20. lution of soap, which the practice orchildren had shown would ascend even With respired air rarified by beat. In the same year, StePh en. and John Montgolfier, paper manufacturers, of Annonay, about ten leagues from Lyons, fill ed a silken bay ratified by burning paper,which rose, first in . a room, and afterward to the height of seventy feet in the open air. Several repetitions of the experiment were mule in the ensuing year. and finally dry straw and chop ped wool were consumed instead of paper. One of their, Balloons, about thirteen feet in di ameter, rose to the height of 3,000 feetin two minutes. At length, on the 15th of October 1788, M. Pilatre de Restore rose. from the Fau bourg St. Honore, is Paris, in a wickertal tery" about three feet broad, attached to an oval balloon of 74 feet by 48 'feet; which, ,had been made by ltlontgolfier, and which also car- Tied up a brazier 'or grate for the purpose of continuing at pleasure the inflation of, the bal loon by a fire of straw and. woe]. The weight of this machine was 1,000. pounds.. On that day it was permitted to rise no higher than 84 feet, but on the 10th, M. Gimud de Villette-as cended with him; they role to theheight of 333 feet, being prevented from further ascent only by ropes. In November of the same year, V. P. de Roziere and the Marquis d'Arlanzas first trusted a balloon to the elements, and after ris ing to the height of 3,000 feet, descended about five miles from the place oftheir ascent. Abuul the same time, Count Zambeccitri sent up from the Artillery Ground, in - London, a small gilt balloon filled with inflammable air, which in two hours and a half reached a spot near Pet worth, in Sussex, and would not then have fal len had it not burst. The discovery was com pleted by the introduction of gas. In 1797 many curious experimentawere made at Mendon, under - the direction of M. Conte.—. By the publication of these experiments the art of aerostation was consldembly_advaneed. M. Charles and M. Robert ascended from the .garden of the Tuileries in a balloon twenty-sev en feet and a halt in diameter, and in au hour and a half descended twenty-seven miles from that,eity. In this voyage theAbermometer tell from 47 to 31, from which datum the balloon was supposed to have reached the height of 8,- 400 feet. Lunardi was equally intrepid as an aeronaut as the foregoing. But subsequent ex periments msy rather be enumerated than des cribed, for if no satisfactory discovery of the means of directing or guiding balloons can be mace, the invention will not possess half the importance suppoSed in the first instance to at tach to it, as they can only be considered-ma chines for amusement, not of utility to society; and when we know; the danger to which a hu man being suspended in the . air is exposed, the human mind cannot fairly delight In Barka spectacle. The means of controlling. - ascent and descent is therefore the utmost the most experiencedonauts . can accomplish. • Parachutes-Were first constructed and annex ed to balloons by the husband of the celebrated but ill-fated Madame Blancliard,for the purpose . of escape in case of accident. During excur sion which he undertook from Lisle about the end of August,l7B3,when this adventurous aero naut traveled, without halting, a distance of not less than 900 miles, he let down a dog froth Isolg3At iss.tho baaltata a parachute, and the poor animal falling gently through the air, reached the ground unhurt. A QUESTION FOR M:EMF:). Among the letters we receive' about love af fairs, many are from girls who desire to know_ what they shall {to about a certain- young man -Wto, having been attentive, Is now -growing cohL Shall they write to him ? Shall they speak to him ? Shall they let Lim know they never can forget him ? What shall they do to bring back the truant r We have only sympathy for the girl whose heart lingers over, her first sweet dream. She would be less than woman if it tlf'd not. But as the Surgeon buries his knife in the quivering flesh of his patient to cut away something that else would eat tho life away, so would Two, had we the power, cut the miserable .aehing . split from Lenny a fresh young heart and leave the sufferer free and glad once more. Words can do little; yet we-should like to say a . word or, two to those 'whose Inexperienced pens haver not told half they suffer—to those who desire to know how to win a recreant lover back to his allegiance. ' .* • • Ant! first: Can you not see how much better it is that he should go If he desires to do so ? How worthless ho Would be, having once wish. en to slip his chains, if you could entice him *tic'"? A true lover needs no bonds, anti only a true lover ever satisfies. The man wholoves, wtrs, , and wins, and wears his prize if he can, .has . no doubts, no hesitations; "A woman who has had Such luve could never mistake any thing ices true for the genuine ; but a girl yet InexpWenced has nothing by which , to mess ore the tenderness and passion of ono she thinks her lover. The young fellow chats with her, laughs with her, escorts her to soma plane of amusement, and geti to call her .by'her christian name ; and out of this, she makes a lover; and when the nest pretty face beguiles him, breaks her heart because he Is gone f It is so foolish, and yet so natural. Still a little thought would save the snapping of the heart strings. Shrjas_nary to reflect, for a Moment before permitatherselt to confldO In her boy. er, and never trust until she has strictly tried his sincerity. " CONSCIENCE'S PROMISSOItY NOTES.' We read with amusement the description of Wilkins Micawber's promissory 'notes—how,: with Mm, the signing of such promises' to pay were equivalent to handing over the cash itself; but we neglect to draw a moral front the pleas ant fiction. Do we not, all of us, over and ov cr again, make good- resolUtions, when convinc ed of wrong-doing, which are but promissory notes to conscience ? Notes which we seldom. take up, by the way, though we forget that our honor is compromised by the omission. It is so easy to promise. If we are remiss in our duty towards a bored one, a few kind words, promise for !Mum Amendment, In our but compensates for all past . neglect; : but lf that, loved one dies ere we have time to render Com; pensation—what then f Mend, if oats mould only keep their, promises, toward the living.. That is the neglect we must do plore. Many times promises. nersi seem to he , folly realized till the one who called them forth lies silent in death, till the "too late" stares us in the face mid removes our every opportwal- Cultivato consideration !or the tcolng of oth er poopleyif you would Royer havo your own in Jared, Thoso arho . camplida most of Oro tho ones who ibuio thontsolves and other you Arley shrink frern ttio.,far, reaching soh tulles or your 'heart, but no otter ' MA ' WA yours can tread thorn. • • IMME
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