HAW LEY & CRUSER, Editors and Proprietors.
101,ITME 32.
Miscellaneous
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i.ceflnueou, Correepopol-
I are of ROY. rtirvialeht,.
ith - ertistrig itatem:
of an inch opser.l3 wet kr. Or ler. , $1
rnonthr. $3.50: fl months, f-t 50: 1
i.rirrsl discount nn sdrertircrnentr nu s
Local, 10 ctr.s line for dm!
^i•a line each 1.0,44.qt:chi Insertion.—
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Business Cards
d. MACKEY.
• orp, and N. t' Mackey. hare thir.day
St.••, -at co-Parthert , hip. for the practice
,7 7 777 11 r;:, ry. and are pr . ,. pared to attend
• ;,• :. Si., io.an. hoe of their proteaelon at
1 deo. and tight.
I'.l ..Ipril 14. 1,75.—a-21.
.11. D..
.71' ' rm.- located Mm.elf at
•• .• • :11 attrad promptly to al. pro
... • ..- cc-- clitruetccl to ht.• care. ince
,ccond floor. front. LiPurda at
Cl=3
ll' A SG COLLET TPIN "F 77(
tome at Ltd. 'Maumee, Penn'a.
tOO% Promptly Al tended to. „
t•: n
Stein lnitheant' Pour? Practice.
t!.•• M' "Fns reli t on Public Avenue. oppo
•J.,• Jeltell flour,.
!/!: it IV.
ots next door north of Dr
•,.. Foundry el reel. where he would he
!no,e In want of Dental IN ork. Dr
he can plc ,se all, both lu qnallty of
c. , < ('face hour, from 9a.m. to 4T. y.
1014—tf
A LLEf HOUSE.
PA. ',tasted near the Erie Railway Dr
Amu er.ninoxiion, liou,e, ha , undergone
i. -ona.r Newly fort, one.: room.. and sleep
• viendid table,andallthiro, comprir
note!. LIEN RY ACli ERT,
HI, PEOPLE'S Jr.. 4 c T.
1 . 11111:1. HAIIN. PrOrtletOr.
And t.sn.lird Meer, 11:11ro., Port. Bolo,rna
, boat quail!), couttairtly on nand. at
eats
1=EIM!111113
BILLI_VWS
AND LIFE .kC.F.::NT Ale
, Atteadeci to ;.rumptly. on lair terms Offir,.
r OS Inc bank of Win. It. Cooper S Co
. ‘eune,ltontroee, In. [Ang.l.lS69.
P•su.iNor.
CILiIi'LEF MORRIS
has moved his shop to the
.opted by E 'McKenzie & Co.. where het,
• , •'I to allkincin of work iu his line,such a, ma
-.u: hr.., unlit, etc. 6 11 work done on short
iow. Plea.e call and ere me.
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No. 7TO prottOvny. New York City
Feb. 11. 1S";4
LATI.E.S" cE BLAKESLEE
i - 1;,; - :,,,1„T LAW, have removed to their _V
!Inure.
!: id Hooka 1-tattoncry. Wan Paper, News pa
ket 'tale* Stereuteoplc Yfewa, Yankee
Next duor to the Putt Office, Montt...,
‘5 , . E. DEANS.
1,71.
EX ( 11. INGE
wit‘hox to inform thepubliethat
ttd the Exchange dotal in Ettouttoite. he
• -pared to accummodfae the traveling pnhile
t I hl2.
H. BCRILI7'7,.
and Faucy On - Good*, Crockery, Bard
Braga. Uar, and Paiute, Boom
ilat, and Cnpa, Purr, Buffalo Bober, Gm
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.rd r a . Non t,
F. D. L_taus, M. P.,
c's: A NIP'S(' ftgEON tendars of pmfes aion
- 7 , t/IL ration, of Great Hood arid sic Laity
0 , ..• Ow t Oftlre, Great Baud Village.
0 Al P.
March 21,
DR D. A. LATHROP,
hug - no THUM ea. BAT/13. a :be Foot 0!
.rest. ttU and conenl to .a.l Chronic
IMIIIE
IV. DA ITOY,
lAN B <I2GEON, tenders his act - vices to
• ...tn.. 4,t Great Band and vicinity. Otice at nit
~iwsite Barnum Douse, (rt. Band village.
LEWP; KNOLL,
!I 11'1 , W AND HAIR DRESSING.
• Pottotilce building, where he will
r,tl) to utteurl all who may orant anything
Montrose Pa. Oa. 13 Itt69.
HAILLA'S V. ziTODDAILD,
• \od Shoos, flats and Capp:Leather and
Nl.r. . greet. let door below Boyd's Store.
ordvr, and repairing done neatly.
~-t Jan.l MTh.
NI. IV. L.
lAN L'ITGEON. j,eader. hie I,refesefonu
c. • 7 tie , iLiZuDE or DiOlitmec and vicinity.—
, - ,lder x, on the eornereast of Sayre It
ru-t.dr% fAuc.l. 1869.
• , 'OVILL tf, DETFITT.
.•-,•,• 3, Lan &lid Suhelium in Rankamptcy. Wier
4 • tit.r,el..u.. - ,, T City National Bank, Bing-
N Wx. 71. Scorns,
Ur.nottn Dzwirr.
EAGLE DRUG STORE.
H H Its place to got Drupe and Medcinee
100,, o. t ipee , pocket-Birokr. Spectator
•. • • N..: “,a.. Sc. Brick Block
• - r•-•pa 14,4 Sttt.
A/. .t. L
to Turrell, denier in Drum, Medicines
' -• hots, 011 e, Dye-stuffs, Teas, Spices
Ml 7 Per J."WOry, Peumery, &c.
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wok of the Court Ilocuw.
J.u.uary
A. WAB It ,
. Bounty, Una Pay. Yeneioi,
atteuded to. Unice Gc•,
Ito,yd'r Store, Mentrote.Pt.. LAu•L'6g
w. A. CROSSMO.Y,
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~ , ,n et w 01111,1. W. A. CSOSPION.
J. C. WBEA TON,
ENOINELL: Axil LAND Bur:Pr-YOE,
P. O. ucldrcre, Frauklin Forkp,
nenuchaouu Co., Pa
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D. W. Ati.E.ARLE,
coin EY AT LAW, office over the there of )1
the Brick Ellock,Montrose PA- Lan/09
d! A. H. McCOLLUI4
Law Met over the Bank, Mont ore
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County Businoss Directory
faro 'loos iu this Directory, ono year, $1.00; each ad
ditional line, 50 cents.
MONTROSE
WM. lIADGIIWOUT, Slater, Wholesale and Itetai
dealer in all kinds of slate ranting, elate paint, etc.
Roofs repaired with elate paint to order. Aloe. stall.
paint for sale by the gallon or barreL Montrose. Pa.
BILLINGS STROUD. Genera Fire and Life (DPW
once Agents ; also,sell Itailroari and Accident Tick.t
to New York and Philadelphia Oft ce one dooreaet
ofthe Bank.
BOYD A CORWIN, Dealers In Stoves, ilardwar.
and Manufacturers of Tin and Sheetiron ware.corum
of Main and Turnpikestrect.
A. N. BULLARD Dealer to Groceries, Provisions
Books, Static:me and Yankee Notions, at head of
Public AVerlUe. •
WM. H. COOPER A CO.. Bankers, sell Foreign Pas
sage Tickets and Drafts on England. Ireland and Scot.
WM. L. COX, Harness maker and dealer In all article
usually kept by the trade, opposite the Bank. •
JAMES E. CAI/MALT. Attorney at Law. 0111ce one
door below Tarbell House, Public Avenue •
NEW MILFORD.
SAVINGS BANK, NEW MILFORD Ix per rent. In
tercet on all Deposits Does a F, , eners I Banking Bur
.nll-11 . b. 11. CHASE d Cu.
Fl ARRET A SON. Dreier, in Flour. Feed. Mem
salt. Lime. Cement, Groceries and Prov'...l, ns
Main Street. opposite the Depot.
S. F. KIM REIL Carritge Maker and 1211de:taker on
Main Street, two doors nelow llawley's Store.
GREAT BEND.
H. P. DORAN, Merchant Tailor and dealer In Reoil3
Made Clothing, Dry Gooda.Grocertesand ProvtelUllY
Plain Street.•
BANKING HOUSE
111. lli COOPER & CO.,
MON=,OS - E, PA_
GENERAL BANKING BUSINESS DONE
COLLECTIONS MADE UN ALL
PoINTS AND PROMPTLY ACCoUN
TED FUR AS HERETOFORE.
DOMESTIC AND FOREIGN EXCHANGE FOR
UNITED STATES S OTHER BoNos
BOUGHT AND SOLD.
COUPONS AND CITY AN I) COUNTY
BANK CHECKS CASHED AS USUAL.
110212212
OCEAN sTEANIER PA' AGE TICK
ELS TO AND FIIMI EUROPE.
INTEREST ALLOWED ON SPECIAL
MiCM DEPOSITS,
AS PER AGREEMENT WIZEN THE
DEPOSIT IS MADE.
In the future, ss in the past, u%e shall endear
or to transact all money business to the satin
faction of our patrons and correspondents_
WM. R. COOPEK & CO.,
Montrose, March 10, '75.--tf Baulk err
Authorized Capital,
Present Capital,
FIRST NATitiliAl RANK
MONTROSE, PA.
LzrrLE,
E. L.
WILLIAM J. ‘TURRELL, Pre4idonl.
D. D. SEARLE, rice Prex;dent
N. L LENHEIM, - - ier
Ifirectorx.
WM. J. TURRELL, D. D. SEARI.E. A.
J. GERRI'I'SON. M. S. DESSAUER,
ABEL TERRELL, G. V. BE.NTLEY,
G. B. ELDRED, .Montroe, Pa.
E. A. CLARK, Biogliarntoli, N. Y.
E. A. PRATT. \<w 3iilf id , Pa.
M. B. WRIGHT, Susquehanna I'a.
L. S. LENHEIM, Ur-at Behd, Pa.
DRAFTS SOLI) ON EUROPE
COLLECTIONS MADE ON LL POINTS.
SPECIAL DEPOSITS SOLICITED
Montrose, March 3. 1875.—t f
SCRANTON SAYINGS BAH,
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 SLX 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 FOR
LABORING AI RN, MIN RRS, 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. H. SUTPHIN,
O. 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'CLOCii.
Feb. 12. 1874.
The Newest Sensation
GROVES & YOUNGS'
~~,~~~I~~~I~i~~►~~,~~~~~y~~i~i~~!Yy
XI2OOII7T3EILO/3.33, 3PB.
•-,-- • '
ARUM OF arsToAigns. ll Work WARRANT.
Fal. TO GIVE. IiATISFAC'TiON EN EVERY RES
PECT. Examine our prices and give us a trial.
-401-11" N GROVES.
HENUIIi YOUNG.
Montrose, February 8.1875.-ti: '
Binghamton Marble Works !
All klndo of Monuments, Mcadstonts, and Marble
Mantled, made to order. Aleo, Scotch Granites Cu
hand. • 1. PICK 131112C0 .k. CO.,
..r.PICIBMING, 4 .-.. 14.8 Court. Street.
.
o. W. nnuananatt,
j1.1P.118.0W2f. . , Binghamton, N. Y
Oct. 24 1611. ' • • ,
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Banking, ke
.51 AS. =.M.
$500,000 00
100,000 00
MONTROSE, SUSQ'A COUNTY, PA., WEDNESDAY, JUNE 2, 1785.
ffiekrt ,Nottvg.
A YEAIVA DIFFERENCE.
BY CLARA AUGUSTA
It was a summer evening,.
The round red moon hung high ;
No west wind stirred the willows,
No cloud teas in the sky.
We floated down the river
Close to the curving shore—
Our every wish was gratified,
We asked for nothing more.
11cr soft hand lay a prisoner
Clasped close within my own ;
I bent my head to listen
Unto her low sweet tone.
I thought the pnrest angels
That ever dwelt in Heaven,
Would lose their grace beside her
My angel fate hail given !
1 knew no life beyond her—
No thought for aught but her !
Her smile, her touch, her presence,
Wild rapture did confer !
The minutes seemed like ages
Which kept me front her side ;
But together we were happy,
And floated with the tide.
Now, though 'tis scarce a twelvemonth
Since that radiant summer night,
A change has crept across us,
And in another light
We see the things around us,
And, dear me ! their rosy hue
Is faded out, told verging
On a very solemn Mae.
She dwells in my poession—'
My own, my very own
-1 see her curls in papers,
And I hear her fretful tone—
And wh - en she asks fu money
lil cross, and : 1 / 4 laut the door,
And wish that night would come again
When we asked for nothing more I
AL ! Love's a glorious phantom,
And youth's a summer day ;
A pity for all parties
That they don't forever st s iy.
But the lover turns to husband,
And the maiden turns to wife—
And the surest cure fir romance
Is a year of married life.
ffittected ffitotH.
THE LONE CABIN.
I hsd ridden hard, and fast. and was
astonished to find myself coming into a
,traggling settlement. On the course
which I should have taken there was
nothing of the sort. Almost any travel
er iu the border sections would have
been glad to thus stumble upon a.place
for food and refreshment. Not so with
myself. In the breast pocket of my coat
I carried five thousand four hundred and
ninety odd dollars, United States money.
I had received this amount from Major
General T. M. Lacy, and it was to be car
red through to Fort L--, and placed
ir,.. 1 *,,h,r, ,- LOs of Col. Asa F. Southard, to
. 'Get through - la aY.cateuses.
said the Major, "the money is long since
over due, and Southard's rare irascible
temper must have been tried to the ut
most. You know how the soldiers get
to growling if Uncle Sam is at all delin
quent in paying up. Ride in a carless
manner, but be careful. I don't think
that any one dreams of the arrival of
this money—save, of course, the mail
agent and the clerk who delivered me the
packages."
I was directed over an unfamiliar sec—
tion, hence my loosing of the right route
I considered it my safest plan, so long as
I had blundered into the settlement, to
boldly enter and rest,as an ordinary trav
eler would do. Should I push hurriedly
on, I might, by that very act, excite sus
picion.
There were only two men in the bar
room when I entered ; the landlord and
the hostler. Under hie familiar cordial
ity the landlord furtively eyed me in a
manner that male me wish that I was
well done with the job, but I reassured
myself with the thought that it was the
consciousness of the responsibility repos
ing upon me that caused his glances to
disturb me. Before I had finished my
supper two more travelers rode up, called
out for the hostler, and ordered drinks,
or rather one of them came in with the
orders, and the other threw himself down
on a bench outside, and began loading
his huge pipe. Strolling carelessly about
the room I managed to glance out of the
window. My heart leaped into my throat,
for in the than outside I recognized —from
descriptions of him—Bill Wolf. one of
the most desperate characters that ever
figured in the annals of border inffainiem.
There was.the huge red moustache, the
thick hairy throat, and the shoulders
hunched up around his head, suggesting
the shape of a mammoth clam—and the
voice with a deep down intonation like
the plop, plop, plop, of water hurriedly
leaving a jug. If the description of the
notorious renegade is inelegant, it has the
merit of truthfullness, and must, there
fore, be excused.
I vent through my supper in form,
but whatever appetite I might haey felt
upon my entrance into the inn, had van
ished with my discovery. After a time
the other fellow came in. having been
out, he said, to look after the animals.
and they also ordered supper. Now was
my time to leave, which I did in a care
less manner, rassing some commonplace
remarks with the two men' as I crossed
the dim, smoky, bar room. 'As they
seemed. to take no notice of me whatever,
I felt my spirits rise with hope that
should make a.safe transit. it was quite
duskish outside, but the hostler was flit
ting about the stable with his lantern.
which emitted but a little more effuleent
light than a white bean wOuld have lone.
but he crracionsly brought out my steed
at the order, and, mounting, I thankfully
trotted away. The moon—a little put
full—would make her debut in - Cfnething
more than an hour after sunset, and
pushed along at a smart trot so us to get
well out. upon the plains 'and . into - 'the.
right trail before that time, the animal
went along at an assuring gait, and I was
feeling infinitely relieved,at say providen
tial escape from. contact with-the despe
rate...cliartioters - Whim' I liadsleft at, the
settlement., when my acute,. trained, ever
alert ear 'detected the zeund - ofirwift rid
ing.- In which direction? From behind'
"Stand by the Right; : thvugh the Heavens WU"
me, as the mildly floating breeze blew
from that quarter. The face oi the prai
rie in this section was a little rolling, but
not so as to afford any shelter, and not a
shrub or bush dotted the expanse for
miles.
I drew up my horse one moment to
listen. No chance travelers ever rode
like that. It meant pursuit.
I gave my horse a galling lush at d she
broke into a convulsive gait, hove her
body up with one or two plunges, stum—
bled, going down upon her knees to her,
nose, and pitched me literally heels over
head. Fur an instant I was paralyzed
with astonishment, the next I seized the
hit to fetch up the fallen animal, which
had in the brief mishap undergone a
strange metamorphose. She had lost her
white face on in the grass, and, passing
my hand between her eyes, I found the
hair was wet. Iu an instant I was ex•
„ m i n i ng th e white legs—my horse had
been peculiarly marked - with white legs
and face—and I found these sticky with
whitewash. What then ? Simply , my
trappings had been transferred to imother
animal, gotten up to exactly represent
mite in the evening. This discovery
brought an appalling interpretation of
the coming horsemen. I gave the horse
the whip, us soon as his unstable legs
were well under him,uud sent him scour
ing on ahead, while 1 ran off to the right
making for a little shallow, dry rapine.—
Here to my pr found astonishment I dis
covered a lone cabin, or hut, about the
dimensions of a common country log
house, and impulsively dashing 1,1) to
this, I gave a rapid succession of knocks.
A shrinking, pale and cowering woman
opened it.
-What i.. is ?" was her first question,
noticing my breathless haste.
Had I stopped for a moment's reflec
(ion upon the strangely isllated position
of the cabin ' I should not have pushed
in by her with the explanation.
"Is there a chance to hide here—my
horse has thrown me and I believe a pat
ty of desperadoes are close up with me."
I noticed that the moon was coming
up dry and rod in the east, when she me
c anically closed the door behind me, be
fore 1 had finished my explanation.
-No, no • there is no place," she gasp
ed her quick ear nu w catching the sound
of the coming horsemen. "This is all
the room there is—and there's neither
cellar nor attic.'
"But this ?" I exclaimed, rus'iing Mr a
dark object in the corner.
"It's a coffin." was her quick respouce;
"hut there's no other chance, they are
timing up to the door, get in."
I bad barely time to place myself in
this receptacle for the dead,when a hoarse
voice—one that I knew from descriptiohs
I had had of it, called out—
" [ICH r you dick."
The woman threw her apron over her
head and went to the door.
"Where's Dick
"He hasn't come back yet.'" said the
woman.
-oh, he ain't—Jen hey you heard a
horse go by to-dig,ht ?"
Yes, only a little while ago, a small
man ?"
:‘Yea—driving like the devil."
u yo l i Eirh e i ti s i ,sithi t „a j tiA then pansed,
listen. "" foigning to
But Bill Wolf must have been or
suspicions nature. I heard him leap
from his horse and strike, with a jarring
plunk upon the sod. A smouldering Ere
was burning on the stone hearth. I
could imagine Bill's attitude—he had a
nand on each door casing, his brutal
head was thrust inside the room ; he was
peering about the apartment.
"What in h— is that 1" he question.
ed ; and my heart stood still, for I knew
he spoke of my retreat.
"It's Stauffer's coffin. Dick is atfoing
to carry it over to•night."
"titu . ff!" ejaculated the desperado, "as
he made his bed, so let him lay—buzzards
are the sextons fur the like o'
The woman sort of groaned, and then
I heard Wolf go up and joggle the rain
barrel at the corner of the cabin, and
finally go away with the remark :
"He ain't far of; he couldn't stick to
that blind critter when he begun ter bur
.
"What shall I do ? what shall I do ?'
gasped the woman ; "they will be back
in twenty minutes, for I believe that your
horse is in sight, not more than three
quarters of a mile off, and my husband is
liable to come at any moment?
"But with him inside the house we
might—" •
"With him !" she emphasised it in des.
perate tones—"he is Bill Wolf's brother."
I was out of the coffin in a trice then,
you may w.:11 believe.
"It ia death for
.F .,u any way, fnr hest
the rattle of Dick's axles already," she
moaned.
"Stay, there's the rain barrel, said I in
desperation, "they've, tried that once they
may not again."
And before you would he able to speak
a sentence, the water was dashed out of
the cask and stealing down into arid soil,
and I was in the barrel, and the woman
dropping a tub half filled with water in
at the top as a cover.
She had barely time to enter the house,
the door of which, fortunately, opened
on the side away from the moon, when a
rattling vehicle drew up at the door. and
I heard a voice raving and swearing at
the woman for something done, or un
done, and then from the bunghole, the
plug having been dislodged in the upset
ting-of the cask, I saw the Jurious re
turn of the three desperadoes. •
There was a good deal of loud talking
and explanations, and rough remarks
about the coffin in the corner ; but Dick
and the woman both seemed sore about
the matter, and the man peremptorily re
fused to join the bunt because of the
coffin.
"Well, yon're going our way a piece,"
said - Wolf ; 'likely enough you'll have
the fun of seeing ns wing the turkey on
our way." . •
The conversation was distressingly
personal, made acutely so by Dick's ask—
ing -
"Is there water enough out there, Jen,
to drink mv -horse' ?"
"I'll see, 4 she returned, mooving slowly
over the door sill, and then leaping to the
cask she lifted .out the tub and tipped
my prison over - a little - so that I could
spring out. I - was"behind the 'cask when
Dick came to the:door, and chirupped
up his beast to the tub to drink. -•
go with , you'ea far as the forks,"
he said as two of them came out with
the coffin and slid it into the body of
the wagon. Then they stepped buck,
probably to cull the others.
At that moment a wild and desperate
plan entered my brain, but feeling for
my knife I found that it was missing,
along with the belt to which it was at—
tached. In the sudden jostle which the
falling steed had given me, the girdle had
been snupped and lust without my knowl
edge. The horses of the three renegades
—my own, which had been retained by
the hostler at the inn, among them—
were hitched on the further side of the
door where the moonlight, striking by
Elie end of the cabin, rested fully upon
them. It was suicide to attempt seizing
upon them ; but as the woman with some
purpose in her mind sang out to the men
to come buck and get the last dipper full
of liquor which she had mixed, I seized
the only alternative. I sprang lightly in
to the wagon, lifted the coffin lid, and
again crawled into the lung, narrow pris•
on.
There was no choice. The flood of
moonlight had swept so fur toward my
hiding place that only a part of my body
was concealed by the barrel, and I knew
that discovery was inevitable, fur the
man's horse stood in such a position
that in order to recover the reins he must
have trodden upon me ; and there was no
earthly thing as far as the eye could
reach over the plain, behind which,a man
could hide. Ail, but what if he should
ride on his freight ? Can you think how
my heart pumped away at the thought?
You wonder what my pian could be ? I
hand none, other than the thought of
having only one man fo deal with, if he
went on his way as he calculated. The
three ruff:tins were mounted and all were
ready to start, when the woman ran out
with some sort of a blanket and mutter
ed semetbiug about covering the coffin.—
The man yelled out to her to mind her
busines and let the thing alone.
She retreated with the cloth, but she
had accomplished her purpose. In its
folds she had concealed a bowie knife ;
under its cover she had raised the lid and
dropped the weapon inside, risking giv
ing me e cut us it fell upon me ; but in
the momentary noise and confusion I had
got the weapon in my hand, with its
point raised the heavy lid of the rough
box the fraction of au inch so that breath
ing was easy if my' position was cramp
ed.'
The three horsemen spread out, re
maked to each other : "Beat op the game
up now speeely, before, by any miracle,
he gets into the wooded belt by Buford's
Springs."
They continued to halloo to each oth
er for some time ; their liberal potations
surmounting their discretion.
"Dick" they yelled back as they were
driving off. "a cool two hundred apiece
throw out your old shell and join in the
I hunt."
The driver mumbled something, but
the liquor had thickened his speech so
that it was unintelligible to me.
If he did attempt to move the coffin I
was lost.
They kept within hailing distance for
the length of some three or four miles,
Dick smashing the wegon along at a fu
rious gait, and I expected every momo-•
that shell would be jutie sno d,- ut, --; off to the
.
right ; "a tally ho" as it the huntsmen
had sighted the quarry. Nothing but an
unwarrantable amount of liquor could
have influenced them to conduct them
selVes as they did, fur no sooner had they
called out from the right, than Dick
came to a sudden halt, leaped from his
seat and ran off towards those who were
hallooing.
Fur one instant my heart stopped heat
ing at the thought of the hazzard I was
about to run. The next moment I sprang
from the coffin to the ground. A few
lightning-like strokes, and I bad severed
the traces, and hold backs of the harness.
The whole scene is pictured vividly in
my mind. The moon-lighted prarie, the
little ravine toward which the renegades
were dashing, the wagon standing in the
trail—ther the cuttling of the thills
reached the ears of the party, and with a
wild shout they sprang towards me.
was on the horse's back, hit boldly de
fined by the moon-light. There was a
sharp report of two rifles. I felt a Win
ing in my foot, another in my ohoulder,
but the horse was uninjured end the race
for life began.
Thee was a dishooriening disadvant
age for me, for I had no saddle, but I
was riding for my lite. and I held the
steed between my knees, and took the
broad trail with the fury of a tornado.—
But the issue would rest mostly with the
horse. I knew nothing, of the one which
I rode ; I knew nothing of those that
were pursuing me, excepting my own
white-faced mare. She would run like
an antelope, and outwind a hurricane.
On and on and on my steed, desperate.
ly spared with the point of my knife,
bore ahead, actually causing me to gasp
for breath ; and two hundred yards in
the rear rode my would-he murderers.
On the rolling prairie now.aud my an
imal took the declevities with a plunge
and the elevations with a sure, fierce
stride—across the brawling ford—but
crack came another rifle echo, and apt!'
a stream of fire seemed to. strike my
shoulder. They were coming in—olosing
up, One of these had dirieharged hie
rifle at me, and the other I knew was
held at rest to come a little nearer.
A momentary dizziness lopped nie'over
on my horse's neck. The rnffains yelled
triumphantly behind, but a distant echo
brought •me up, and giving my beast a
stinging blow, I emitted the, wild, long,
fierce yell of the border rangers,and sped
on again ; but my horse had that peen.
liar squirm now and then in his gait that
told me, he was faltering.
Again that echo reached'me, swelling
out on the rising wind-it was the shrill
sequel of the fife and the rum•drd-dle•
urn, did.e•um•dnrn•dum, dam of infant
ry returning from , some expedition to
fort L. Again I sent that long, wild,
border yell, and I knew by the, quicker
breathing of the 'fife, and rapid pulsing
of the drum, that the soldiers had bro.
kon into the "double quick" in .the heed
of my cry.
A parting shot fired at, "random, and
the desperadoes turned ; but one of them
atleast I was not done-with "'called my
horse with a peculiar whistle -I repeated
it; and then heard her crashing again in
parsuit,'.while her rider shouted and lash-
ed her and tried to pull her around the
other way, Fora brief time the despe
rado wrestled with the animal, lashed,
goaded, and roared at her, but my inces
sant, jerky whistle-call kept her mind
and bead toward me. He only gave op
the fruitless struggle and leaped from her
back when a squad of infantry dashed
over a billowy swell of prank, and rush—
ed down toward us at that steady, meas
ured ran, which is so effective in contrast
with the disorderly gait.
"It'a Wolf, boys;' I exclaimed as they
came up with me.
I had no need to tell them that there
was a price set upon his head, as it had
been clearly proved that he had stirred
up the savages to commit more than one
massacre of the settlers ; and a dozen
of them, uttering a yell of fury, started
in pursuit, while the others, noticing my
swaying about on my animal which
rode, began to, think that I had found
somethi❑g serious in the race for life. In
fact the plain was rising and falling and
shuffling about so that it took a great
amount of nerve and equipoise to sit as
I ought. They got me into fort Larmie,
however, with Uncle's promissory notes
all safe in my breast pocket, while a boot
full of blood,and the galling flesh wounds
in my shoulder, accounted for the odd
manceverings of the plain while I was on
horseback.
Alter a brief but desperate conflict,
Bill Welt was :brought in, and passed
over to the proper oflicers "to have and to
hold" until there should be meted out to
him to the measure he had given to oth—
ers.
CA PTA.rN CA RN ES
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The Man who Wanted Information.
Yesterday noon while the people around
the office except the „head reporter" were
at dinner the smell of smoke became ap
parent, and a fat man, smoking a big
pipe, came toiliui up stairs. When he
had recovered breath and taken a seat he
inquired :
"Is der big editor what knows every—
dings in ?"
"No—gone to dinner," was the reply.
"Und he shall come back purty soon ?"
"In about two hours."
"I can't wait so quick as dat, I haf to
go to a funeral."
"Did you want anything ?"
"Yes, 1 want to know some ding about
dat Peecher scandal. You zee, one day
about dree mouths ago a fellow comes
mit my zaloon and he says : "Did you
hear noddings about Mr. Peecher ?" and
I says nix, and he says Mr. Peecher sthole
corn."
•
"Yes."
"Und der next day when I went home
my wife says : "Did you hear noddings
about Mr. Peecher ?' V Und she said Mr.
Peecher sthole a dog."
"Yes."
Und when I was in the Zitty Hall a
man sthrikes me on der pack, and zags:
'hello, old (rent, is Mr. Peecher guilty F'
Und I said I dunno, an! he said Mr.
Peecher hired a man to blow up a church
mit a barrel of flour."
"Yes."
"Und den when I was in Dearborn a
man looks bretty sl?area t t v rx fi," t r u di
Dedroit. tad he zays :
47 1171 int is yonr shudgment on dat Peecher
ptsiness ?' Und I said noddirgs. Und
he said Mr. Peecher had u fight mit a
zircns."
' "Und when my pig boy come home
from Deledo he zay : "Fodder, what you
dinks about dot Mr. P,>echer ?" (Sod
zays 1 ilim°, Hans. Had be zaps Mr.
Peecoer got some gloze nod shnmped der
dailor's bill."
Um! when, I goes home . or in der street
gar, or mit my zeloon, or in der best
office, some body say some clings about
dot Peecher pisiuess, and I dunno• Who
is dot Peecher ? Where he Pre"
Zo? Und what he doP"
"He got one of the& tobaco boxes with
a nee dl e I t , th e rov"•and carried it around
in his pocket: When a man tried to op
en it the needle went into his thumb
abe u t twe ,,, 9•five feet."
.41 z bossible ?" •
and he had his vest pocket made
so deep that a cigut would go clear out
of sight, and he kept it full and deceived
the public."
"Mv znul I ! but is dat zo 2" .
'•Yes and .he keeps en old wildcat bill
in hie wallet to lend out when a man
wants to secure the loan of a dollar for a
few minutes."
"Vhell I deglaree I Ven a breecher
shall do like dat we shall wonder what
nest, Zo dat is der Peecher pisiness, eh ?
Viten, chell.
Needs Shingling.
Mr. Mudge, of Jeralemon steet, mar
ried young. Naturally he is as bald as a
newly varnished Dutch cheese; and be
is as sensitive and ugly about it us was
Elisha the prophet—of the bear story.—
On Sunday morning he and his youngest
—little Johny Mudge—were sittiag in
the family pew taking in the gems of ora
tory that flowed from the distinguished
pulpit, when the divine happened to drop
the somewhat wm n proposition that
"this body is not ourself—it is only the
house we live tn."
Little Johny, wishing to create an im—
pression that he was properly apprecia—
ting the points of the diScourse, whisper
ed—" Pap, your house wants shingling!"
After the service AU,' Mudge forbore
alluding to the matter, as it was the holy
Sabbath day, but he went out aniihun—
ted up a barrel stave which he furtively
-concealed under the sofa, and the nest
morning he interviewed Johoy on the
subject.
Since the affair Johnny has been very
polite and obliging oil the horse cars,
watvmq his claim to a seat with a self
abnegation beyond his years.
"She is a perfect, Amazon." said a pu—
pil in one of
,our schools of his teacher
yesterday, to a companion. "Yes," said
the other who was better versed in geog
raphy than - history,-"I noticed sho,had
an awful big mouth."
Traveler in New Hampshire to a farm
er by the roadside—it!. oppose you enjoy.
these glorious views that people come so
far to look at." "Why, yea, but it' I'd had
the sortie' of these Pd make cm a
little peakeder."
Common Eeneerpennien.
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TERMS :—Two Dollars Per Year in. Athrtmod:,‘,-
gtome grading.
They called him tiddy icicle sing
And soothing syrups they did bring
To stem the rising squall.
In vain they sought for secret pin,
And gave him peppermint and gin—
Yet louder did he bawl.
Beneath his petticoats his feet, ,
Like little mice who pussy meet,
Did twist and twirl about ;
And, oh 1 he roared in such a way—
No costard seller blithe and gay
Giyes halt so loud a shout.
His tears an instant cease to flow—
Anon he wildly squeals, as though
Some flea had bit him badly.
Poor pa, he rises up in ire,
Strong argument does him inspire—
Things end fcr baby sadly.
MIND YOUR OWN CONCERNS.
Mind your concerns, my friend,
For they arc yours alone ;
Don't [al about your neighbors Siults
But stnvo to mend your own.
Suppose he does not always lead
A truly pious life ;
What mutter if he sometimes fret
Or quarrels with his wife ?
Don't meddle—let him know, my friend,
Your better nature spurns
To act the spy on him or his—
Just mind your own concerns:
Yes, mind your own concerns, my friend,
And presently you'll find
That all your time is occupied,
And you've got enough to mind ;
What need you care if Snooks or Spooks
Should wed with Sally Jones ?
What matter if your neighbor C.
A half a million owns
The money is not yours, my friend,
Though golden stores ho earns ;
So do not envy him his wealth,
But mind your own concerns.
Yes, mind your own concerns, my triend,
It is a better plan
Than always to be' spying out
The deeds of brother man,
Remember that all persons have,
Though bidden from your view,
Thoughts that to them of right belong,
And not at all to you ;
And also bear in mind, my friend,
A generous nature worms
No secret from a neighbor's breast,
So mind your own concerns.
The • Chicago Inter-Ocean says : There have
been some famous kissoss In history. and 5,0 m.
that have been important in shaping political
events. When Cardinal John of Lorraine was
presented to the Dutchess of Savoy she gave
him her hand to kiss. The great churchman
was indignant. "I'll not be treated In this
manner," said he. "I kiss the queen, my mis
tress, and I shall not lass you, who aro only a
dutchess ?" and despite the resistance of the
proud little Portugese princess he kissed her
three times squarely in the mouth. Voltaire
was once publicly. kissed by the young and
lovely Countess de Wiliam, who was compelled
to this salute by the ets , r.c.e in the pit, who
were man with enthusiasm over the great writ
er.
Georgiana,ducbess ut Deyonshire,gave Steele,
a butcher, a kiss tor a vote, and another lady,
equally beautiful, Jane, duchess of Gordon, re
cruited a regiment in a similar manner. She
was in the habit of putting a shilling betwvan
her teeth, the :um usually haidsd .ecruits to
hint' ~ hi bargain, and inviting any man who
filled the physical requirements of a soldier to
take the silver from its place [LEA become one
of the famous Ninety-second.
Said Daniel O'C.i ; nine% in securing votes for
his favorite candia..oo, - IA; no woman salute
the man who votes against them." Of course
he carried the day. The portrait painter. Gil
bert Stuart,once met a lady In Boston who said
to film, "I have just seen your likeness, Mr.
Stuart, and kisied it because it was so much
like you." "And did it kiss you In return ?"
said he. "No," replied the lady. "Then," re
turned the gallant painter, "it was not like
me."
Speaking of kissing, the remarks of Sydney
Smith on the subject are particularly pertinent„
"We are in tavor,"says he,"of a certain amount
of shyness when a kiss is propowl,but it should
not be too lung, and when the fair one gtves it,
let It be administered with warmth and energy;
let there be soul in it. If she close her eyes
and sigh Immediately after it, the effect is
stronger. She should be careful not to slobber
a kiss, but give it as a humming-bird runs his
bill into a honeysuckle—deep but delicate.
There is much virtue in a kiss when wall de
livered. We have the memory of one received
in our youth which lasted us forty years, and
we believe it shall be ono of the last things we
shall think of When we die. It will be seen
from the above extracts that kissing is no new•
thngled luxury, but is ancient and venerable,
coming down from the fathers. Any attempt,
therefore, to do away with it, is a plain assault
upon our liberties, and a rascally innovation
that should not be tolerated.
Truly, novelty is the spice of life. No sec
ondary sensations are like the primaries, end
habit,..in the end, stales every luxury. Repeti
tion is the thief of enjoyment, as surely as pro
crastination is the thief of time. It is with
pleasures as with sparkling whies---you. , can
have the flashing globules, the. rushing foam.
the rare baguet, but Once ; cork up for after
use, and the nest draught will be flat and taste
lesa.
And, o,middieqt,,led reader, do you remember
the pride with winch you wore your first watch?
It was a cheap affair, always at odds with the
correct time, and the gold hunting case that
now rests in your:pocket is of the finest work
manship, richly jeweled. But what a contrast
between - the indifference of to-day and the ex
ultation of boyhood marks tho . exhibstion of
your reneetive treasures. The full beard which
graces your , maturity fails new to excite . the
admiration and emotional . anxiety with which
you first regarded the Incipient moustache of
twenty years ago,and which was probably eon-.
temporaneoas with your first-love lAh that
first lova C do you not recall, 'with a smile now,
as Jack clambers on your, knee, those thrilltug
momenta ?Of 'eonrso, yen. ; the tide of
passion. may have you Many times
since, but your memory still reMitus an inefface
able 'impression of that first bliss.
It is bliss to leitri,lettons in IF•ve, for Roman
b our teacber.
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FAMOUS KISSING.
FIRST PLEASURES
NUMBER, 22.
EARLY
There can , be no question that, as a general
rule, the habit of early rising is conducive to
health ; bat, like many other similar matters,
the general application would,by many,be con-
verted into a nniverml law, and much fallacy
and no little malchief has been done by the
pr . opagation of the dogma. The poets have
given their strains, the philosophers their spite
rwn,s, and the hearty centenarian his expe
rience, to eulogize early rising as .a sort of elixir
of life, and preventive of illness and decease.—
it is a great good, but not a universal one.
It is generally said that all those who have
attained great and green old age have been ear
ly risers ; therefore, say others, early rising is a
prothoter of health ; therefore, it ittight be
whispered, those whose constitutions have car-
vied them through a long life have been able to
be early risers. As in many other things, the
truth probably lies between the two ; there
have been good vital powers on the one band,
and good habits, of which early rising is often
an indication,on the other. The wrong deduc
tion, however, that early rising is an mitnixed
`good; has occasioned much erroneous prictiCO,
and many a delicate person, either in conse
quence of the false Idea, or badly advised by
others, has injured his health, materially, by
perseverance in the practice ; this, however, is
more common among the young than among
the aged, who require less sleep.
There is no question but that the bodily
powers and constitution undergo marked and
regular Changes during the twenty-four hours,
changes which are probably influenced by elec•
trie4 and other causes not at present under
stood. At all events, In - dezease,evening brings
fever If it is present at all ; further, in health
the body, it is well known, is more obnoxious
to the causes of disease in early morning than
it is at other times ; and, lastly, persons of
weak nervous power generally feel better to
wards evening than they do in the moming,ev-
en when the refreshment of a night's rest
might be expected to have given strength. The
reason of these differences it is perhaps not
possible fully to explain, but we may' reasons-p
conclude that the same influences which
causes or aggravates the evening fever, and ab
stracts excitement towards morning, may also
act as the elevator or depressor of the constitu-
lion gerierally,although only felt when it is not
in full-vigor ; it may, or it may not bo owing
to the presence or absence M. solar influence,
hut still it is so, and the fact is - one of general
experience. The fact, too, explains why early
rising is not only not good for all persons, but
why to some it is postively hurtful, and why
those who are able to practice it are generally
of strong and good constitution. Moreover,
the fact tells that the person who cannot rise
early with impunity is not in full vigor, but re
quires means for attaining a better state of
health ; when the pa wars of life are raised to
the proper level, then, by all means, let them:
be kept to lt,and early rising used as ono of the
preservative means.
What is meant by early rising is getting "up
from rest before the sun has exerted some-pow
er upon the earth ; the exact period tOsnit. en
invalid it is impossible to specify, it ought to tie
a matter of experience. That is . to say, retir
ing to rest at a reasonable, early hour, such as
10 o'clock, the person should' rise as early as
can be done without feelings of sleepiness, lan
guor, etc., supervening during the day. There
are certainly evils consequent ripen continu
ance in bed in the morning, such as perspira
tion, etc., out they may be greatly obviated by
the non-use of feather beds or too much cloth
ing. They are less, however, 'than those which
result from a nervous system, exhausted at a
period of the day before it had come into full
nctivity. The same arguments which apply .to
early rising also do so to exertions, or continu
ance without fond by weak individuals in the
first part of the mornig ; they can practice
neither with impunity. There is no time of the
day so pleasant, and the hale and strong can
enjoy it to perfection, and gather' health in
its fresh breezes, and their description will
often teraDt the unwary' invalid to leave his
couch and follow tray entampicrautt- raverealFy .
does enjoy, for a short time, the noyelty ;
but shortly languor creeps over him ; the
breakfast which disappears before the appetite
of the strong morning walker hits no charms
for his exhausted weaker companion, Who pays
with a day of listless languor for this ill-advised
attempt. These hints will, it is trusted, not be
taken as en encouragement to laziness, but as
pointing out a very common error in popular
belief and popular practice. The person of
weak vital power, who cannot be an early.ris
er, must guard well that he does not mistake
sloth for inability, by indulging in late hours,
which are often to him the most vigorous,---
Persons who suffer much from debility ( in the
morning, and who are constrained-t 0; be up
early, ought, as soon as possible,XO have some
warm refreshment—a cup 'of warm milk,,if it
agrees, or tea, coffee, or cocoa
PROVERBS REFUTED
It has been said of old that "A bird In the
hand is worth two in the bush." Try It. Take
a bird (any bird will do) in your hand, and bold
it securely, then take a passage in the first 'ves
sel you can find (any vessel will do) and pro
ceed to the Antipodes, still retaining the bird
in the hand, where the bush is supposed to be.
When you airive, examine the bird WhiCh
have In your hand and compare it with my
two birds you can find , in tho bush. EsibiatO
their relative value. • You will find that.. the
proverb has led you astray.. •
Again, it has been said that "It is the last
straw thLt breaks the camera back."
bow long would a man go about until he
bad satisfied himself that ho had lot td the last
straw ? But we will grant; for the sake of ar -
gement, that the last straw has been found.--
Ikrow take your camel (any camel will do) and:: •'
cautiously deposit that straw upon the earners
back, and carethily observe whether the spine
of that quadruped - is dislocated. is to bo
imaginoi not. Bow then this proverb ? .
Once more. -It has been spoken, and writ
_ten, that if• you "Take care of the pence, 'the
pounds will take care of thereselves." Slake
the experiment. Take pence (say three pence)
and place them in 'your purse, and put your
purse in- your pocket. Button your poeket,if
your pocket is batten:table ; or deposit the three
pence with your banker, or invest Ahem in a
Canadian-oil•well:: Next tidte'fioorerelge
body's sovereign will do) ittlAdapelt•carefully
On the pavement 4lie center of kraal plate is,
not a bad spot,) and after retiring up the stage,
and "dissembling," observe bow that sovereign
will take mire of itself.—PurA
An edit'or In New Jersey brings aelinquent
subscribers to his counter in lively, older by ,
publishing obituary notices of them." When
they have pald 'up arrears ho- contrndlots the
report of their deaths by 034143 they woo 014
"dead beats."
MEE