NV LEY & CRUSER, Editors and Proprietors. VOLUME 32. lintrose gitntotrat Errur EDYESPAT MORNL2.3. .1; 11 susgachanna County, Pa. rrult—Wext Side of ftblie Avenue. the Locnlanti General Netre,Poetry .Sto cooT*,. lecullancone licading.Cotresportd rellahle dese of navertleemotts. idvertimlng Rates $.„ of an Inch E pace 03 aet. less $1 VI, 3 months, $2.50; it months, $4.50; 1 , A /03,31 discount On advertisements ot litn.ine,r Locals, 10 cis. a line (or flint et,. LI line each subsequent insertion.— ssd deatim.lres ; Obituaries, 10 cis. a lips. FINE J 033 P A IiPECIALTY ! „ - Quzek Win*. - • Try L's h. F. HAI% LEY, WM. C. CRUSER. Business Cards ; d _VA CKEI". N. Green and N. C. Mickey, have thing day en to4 Into a Medical co-Partnership, for the practice ct ;cc and surgery, and are prepared to attend o to all calls In the line of their profession at r of Iry day and night. ...t. o .loai Pa., April 14, ita73.—a-ta. 11. 1). BALD 111-V, M. D., 1,.M.F.P 11111 C has located himself at m here be trill attend promptly to all pro bliSinegli entrusted to his care. nitrOttlee buildmg, second floor, front. Boards at ~, , Pa.. March 10. 1513. LAW AND COLLECTION OFFICE. ATSON, Attorney-at-Law. Montrose, Penn's Collections Promptly Attended to. Attention given to Orphans Court Practice. • , th eon. W.. 1. 'Ferrell, on Puldic Avenue, oppo site the Turhell Rouse. 1611. DR. 11. W. SMITH, sar Rocanwat his dwelling, next door north of Dr on Old Foundry street, where he would be r,. all those la want of Dental Aort. De ...,,lunlent that he can pivit , c all, both In quality of latee. Office hours from 9 A. 91. to 4 P. N. Y IS74—tf - - VALLEY HOUSE. Br. D. P.L. Situated near the Erie Railway De l- a arre ana commodious house. has undergone repair. Newly furnished rooms and sleep tabies,and allthinge comprts i:, elm, hotel. HENRY ACKERT, Proprietor. TIL PEOPLE'S 374 BEET. 1 . 1111-1.11. HAIM', Proprietor. Monti., HELMS, Pork, Bologna San quality. constantly on band, at -411 st. 1ia...1aa.. 14. 151'3.-IT. BI LaNGS STROUD. AND LIFE INSURANCE AGENT. Ale toe dee to promptly, on fair terms. OfAc. 2 , t 01 the bank of Wm. H. Coopers Ce , A venue,Montroee, Pa. (Ang.I.ISS9. BILLINOS STGOUD. moßßis IiSRBER, lute moved his shop to the . t., ed by E. McKenzie it Co., where he Is io do all kinds of work to line,ench ae ma be, puff, ,gc.. All work done on short low. Pleaee call and eee me. Eff IMMO No. 170 Broadway, New York City —1n:1).11.1874.-1y) LITTLES BLAICESLEE f:NEIS AT LAW, have removed tv their New :•;;,,,,tre I he Tarbell booby. It. B. Lrrma, Gm:l P. Lirri..E, 15, IS:Z. E.. L. BLasasi.ze. IV. B. DEANS, I Books, tationery, Wail Paper, News ;a ••• PorYet Cutlery. Stereoscopic. Views, Yankee tr. Next door to the Post 0 ice, Montr.ac, NV . B. DEANS_ ESC ILEVGE Ht, TEL. • t FFUS ti TON wiehes to Inform the public that .t; rt.,l the Exchange Hotel in liontroee. be • ,a repared to accommodate the travel lug pnbE c ia."llle Aug:. 26, 1573. 11 It Willi 77 . .Im and Fancy Drs Goode, Crockery. Hurd. StOVVb, Drugs. Oils, and ?Oats, Boots Hats and Caps, Fars, Buffalo Robes. Gra , r, 'Pro% irlum, &C. II rd .1 a., Ndy 6, .7 OHN GROVES, P, 4lsi.E TAILOR. llontrol‘e, Pa. ..I.Rsop over Store. Ali ordern filled In lint-class style. :•suac to order on •[:art nOttee, and warran- Jane °.ll. ':5. DR. D. A. LATHROP, ELtento Tnanaia.t. Dania, a Om Foot of elteet. Call and conaid to a.l Chronic • LEWIS KNOLL, •If kViNG AND ILAIR DIiESSING. c. tht. new Postotlice lmiltUita, where he rt. ',ad). to attend all who may want anything ' Montrose Pa: Oct. 13 1869. 111,,ES -V. STODDARD, irrarer ocrute and Sham, Rats and Caps. Leather and nem Street, let door below Boyd'e Store. 'F,ro made to and repairing done neatly. V Latta, Jan. 1 1870. DR. W. L..IIICHARDSO.2I7, ni•Ii•IAN it SURGEON, tenders hleProfessione to the edinens of Montrose and vicinity.— , nrtat h: er.,tderae, on the eornereastotSayre & !ray Focuctry (Aug.], 1869. ~ C oVILL LE DEIVITT. and Solicitors in Bankruptcy. °Mee wtuufl street ,over City National Bank, Bing tarl:ol.. N Y. ILSCoViLL, .B BUR NS, the place to get Drugs and ItedeinCS. obacco,rtpes, Pocket-Booka, Spectates, Trr.;,,, Not lot.l,te. Brick Blott. Bay sth, 18:3. 18 A. LYON, Abel Turrca,. dealer in Dnio Modica:lei .^-,,tu/t. Paiute., pas , Dye-stuffs, Teat, Spices I,uudt, Jewelty ) , rerinmery, L. sec,3lll 19, 19Z. . Y 1• 1, N SURGEON. has located at Auburn Beer . w ViaIIIDELII Co. Pa. Jt. L. F. FITCH, ,7 701:NEY AND COMELLOE-AT-LAW. Moat !,:oflice wert of the evart BOZ.be. . ru.e..lumtar ) 27, 1b75.-4y7 i.O. W 4 /112EY, 'TUBS E 1 T AW. Bounty, Baia Pay. Pension tui ize. on claims attended to. °Mei Om noyd's Store, Nottrore.Pa. [An. 1..'69 W A. CROSS.NON, =tlamep at Office at the Court House, 1r the OttCe. W. A. Caosszoic. t.eut .—tf. • ✓. G. WIIEATON, COAL LsotstNA ♦ED LAND tCpyrtolt. Y. 0. addrese, ErgaMlD Forte. bumquel......tts,Co., Ye W. W 5.1117./.1, hLNET AND cliela MASCIPACTUBSES; , --ruoi 4!Mcr...stet. Montrure,l'a- 3licz. 2.1809. M. C. SUTTON: - • . LCTIONEEIt IxeruaNcx AGENT. tt %.10u: Frlendsvgle. Pa. D. IV. SE4RLE, :TUILNEY T LAW. °Moe over the Store of fif Lhe Ltrickillock.Kontroac Pa. 1n0169 -VA TILL. • ' 4 UNK , AT Lox. Office over .. B. Deintro 43 4tr,m, l'n. I June V, ''. 5 . -11 ) • • d 4. IL MeUOLLUM, 1 7aNkr, er Lao , Oflii 7 C over rho Bank, klOnt.rose liontrurc, May 113, 1521. tf ...TiuNT Eta: AMI EL' Y, 141 1 . eddrose,Brtooklin, County Business Direcotry. Two lines h 2 this Directory, one year, *1.50; each ad dttional line, 50 cents. NIONTROSE • WM. HAUGHWOUT, Slater, Wholesale and hetet dealer in all kinds of elate roc9ng, slate paint, etc. Roots repaired with elate paint to order. Ale elate slate paint for sale by the gallon orharrel. Montroft.. Pa. BILLINGS STROUD. Genera Fire and Life t nsu" once Agents ; slam tell Hallman and AccidentTlekt to New York and Philadelphia °thee one dooreast ofthe Bank. BOYD CORWIN, Dealers In Stoves, Hardware and Manufacturers of Tin and Shectiron ware,cornei of Main and Turnpike street. A. N. BULLAKIJ Dealer im Groceries, Provision. Books, Stallone and Yankee Notions, at head of Public Avow:m.o WM. H. COOPER A CO.. Bankers, sell Foreign Pas sage Tickets and Drafts on England, Ireland and Scot, I.nd_!• WM. L. COI, Harness maker and dealer in all article usually kept by the trade, opposite the Bank. • JAMES E. CARMALT, Attorney at Law. Other one door below Tarbell House, Avenue. • NEW MILFORD. SAVINGS BANE, NEW MILFORD.—Fix per cent. in tercet on all Deport'.. Does a general Banking Bur mess. 011-If S. B. CHASE & CO. H2OARRET SON. Dealers in Flour, Feed. Men Salt, Lime, Cement. Groceries and Prov'etcne n Main Street, opposite the Depot. N. F. KIMBER, Carnage Maker and Undertaker on Main Street, two door. below Hawley's Store. GREAT REND. H. P. DORAN, Merchant Tailor and dealer In Read) Made Clothing, Dry Goods.procerie. and Provisions Main Street.* BANKING HOUSE OP WE 11. COOPER & wrow'r - ztosm, PA GENERAL BANKING BUSINESS DONE. COLLECTIONS MADE ON ALL POINTS AND PROMPTLY ACCOCN TED FOR AS HERETOFORE. DOMESTIC AND FOREIGN EXCHANGE FOR UNITED STATES & OTHER BONDS BOUGHT AND SOLI) COUPONS AND CITY AND COUNTY BANK CHECKS CASHED AS USUAL. OCEAN STEAMER PASSAGE TICK ETS TO AND FROM EUROPE. INTEREST ALLOWED ON SPECIAL Txnerimi rbm...cates.t.reit, AS PER AGREEMENT WHEN THE DEPOSIT IS MADE. In the future, as in the past, i‘-e shall endvav or to transact all money business to the sutis faction of our patrons and corretipondcnta. WTI. U,. COOPER 86:: CO., Montrose, March 10, '75.--tf. Rankers. Authorized Capital, - • $500,000 00 Present Capital, - - 100,000 00. FIRST NATIONAL BANK, MONTROSE, PA. WILLIAM J. MIR ELL, President. D. D. SEA RLE, • I tce President N. L. LENHEIM, - Cash ire Directors!: WM. J. TURRELL, 1). D. SEARLE, G. B. ELT/RED, M. S. DESSAIIER, ABEL TUE RE LL, G,. V. BENTLEY, A. J. GERRITSON, Montrose, Pa. E. A. CLARK, Binghamton. N. Y. E. A. PRATT, New• 3lilfurd, Pa. M. B. WRIGHT, Susquehanna Depot, Pa. L. S. LENHEIM, Great Bend, Pa. DRAFTS SOLI) ON EUROPE COLLECTIONS MADE ON kLL POINTS. SPEWL DIiP4)SITS SOLICITED Montrose, March 3, 1875.—tf SCRANTON SAYINGS BM, 120 Wyoming Avenue, RECEIVES MONEY ON DEPOSII FROM pOMPANIES AND IN DIVID UALS,AND RE "'URNS 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 FOR LABORING MEN, MlNkftS, 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. .1 EEO= Dzwirr 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 JA MPS 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'CLOCh. Feb. 12. 1874. Binghamton Marble Works ! All kinds of Mouumenta, ll•adatonse, and Marble 'Mantled, made to order. ' Alio, Scotch Granites on hand. . J. PICKERING & CO., P 26 Court Rtreet. J. PIC%LLIICO• IL W. XL! ZIII.Jit7, IL r. ZIOWIT. MitMa V EECKHOW it BROTHER, General Undertakers DEALERS IN . ALL KINDS OF COP'- FINS, CASKETS, ETC., OrXILTI,LILT 23.E1g70. ALL ORDERS PROMPTLY ATTENDED TO matra—tt ; nECEIIO I, /21110 Banking, &c et .43 X-a Mt . MONTROSE, SUSQ'A COUNTY, PA., WEDNESDAY, JULY 14, 1875. ,ffielect ONLY A BEGGAR. Only a beggar, rating alone In silence and rags by the moss covered The sun in Its splendor (five glances half-tender, To him poor unknown. "Only a vagrant," hut whisper the word, For all men can feel when soul chords are stirred. Only a beggar wrecked on the chore, Of beautiful hopes that come nevermors. Away in the vanished, Axe oryaiu.s that are banished As visions of yore. Only a Ileum ; ho turned to'ard the hill Where slumber the dead in the churchyard Only a beggar ; but ah ! see him now, With loose folded hands, and uncovered brow, lie kneels, as if praying ; Oh, God 1 he is saying, Some love words--a vow. It must be her who sleeps 'neath the tomb, That smiles in its wealth of May's purest bloom. Only a beggar ; I will list to his prayer, The words that he speaks fall soft on the air, I hear him say FlOWly : "Oh vision all holy, Come near—it is there, Oh ! Mary, my wife, the years have been long, Since I heard your sweet voice In lullaby • song." `•l'm only a beggar, deserted by friends, I wonder sometimes if' life ever ends, Ob ! darling In heaven ; To you it was given, To make all amends. I'tu►only a beggar, end you are at rest, With the child we loved on your peaceful breast. Only a beggar ; but stay your rude Mot— ile tails on that grave 'mong blossoms so sweet, I see he is dying— Hush ! he is crying, To her who will greet, Only a begg,al ! dead and alone'' In Heaven perhaps he was not unknown. „§elected ffitorg. CAPTURED BY TELEGRAPH. During the winter of '69, I was em ploved as light operator in the railroad ffice at D--, lowa. The principal rkqtd twiween Chicago and Omaha runs through D—, and the great irregular night trains, and constant danger of col lission resulting therefrom, rendered the position of night operator by no means an easy one. It may be well to mention here, as necessary to the following story that besides the railroad office, there was also at D— a business office of the Union Company. This was always spo ken of as the "down-town office." One stormy night, not far from eleven o'clock,l eat at my desk—and for a wonder idle. The wire had not called for some time, and I was leaning back in my chair listening to the wind outside and reflect upon the loneliness of my situation. The eastern train had crossed the ricer more than an hour ago ; all the depot officials had gone off home, and so far as I knew I was entirely alone in the vast building. Finally, tired of thinking, I picked up the evening paper and glanced listlessly over its columns. Among other things I read the detailvd - account of a I'. arlul tragedy that had occurred fifty miles up the river on the previous night. Three raftsmen, well known as desperate char— acters in that vicinity, had entered the cottage of one Matthews, a farmer living in an isoleted spot—had butchered the farmer and his children, terribly maltreat ed his wife, and then departed as they came, having taken with them whatever plunder was handy. Whatinterested me most was a full description, for purposes of identification, of the chief of the vil— lainous trio, Tom Lynch. Here it is : $5OO will be paid for information lead ing to the capture, dead or alive, of Tom Lynch, the ring leader of the Mathews tragedy. Lynch is a remarhiably large man, six feet four inches in height, very heavy, and broad across the shoulders.— Eyes greenish grey, with deep scar over the right one. Hair, wiry black, and beard of some color. When first seen he was dressed in black Kossuth hat, faded army overcoat, pantk of grey Jean, and heavy boots. The above reward will be paid for any one furnishing positive in— formation of his whereabouts. [Signed] Sheriff of—County. At the very' uitant I finished reading the advertisement,there occured the most remarkable coincidence that had ever come under my observation. I heard "a heavy tread on the stair, and then the door opened and there entered Tom Lynch ! The moment I set my eyes up on him I recognized him as perfectly as though I had known him all his life.— The army overcoat and grey pants tucked into the heavy boots, the massive frame and shoulders, the slouch drat pulled down over his right eye to conceal—l was sure—the scar, above all a desperate, hunted look iu his foreboding counte nance—all were not to be mistaken. I was as certain of his •identity as though he had stepped forward, galled off his hat to show the scar, and told, me his name. To say that I was not alarmed at this sudden and unwelcome intrusion would be untrue. lam not a brave man; and my present situation, alone in the depot with a hunted murderer,was by no means reassuring. My beartleat violently, but from mere force iifliabit. I arose aid asked him, to be seated. - While he turn rd to cconr.iy T B ueeped e d , queiing my agitation to.soine He drew a chair noisily forward, and sitting down threw open his coat, dis Playing by so doing a heavy navy revolver stuck in his belt. Then be freed, his mouth :of a quantity of tabadcii juice d and spoke "Young feller," he said. motioning with his head towardifttre battery, "That thiug tridcbeen is !bat yer call tellygram I oepocse ?" - • - • : hWell."-I _answered with ti - faint'snik intended to he conciliatory, "that's what we sen'i telegrams by." "Stand by the Right thortgiV the Heavens Sill:" "Wal 1 want you to send a message to I a friend o' mine out in Cohoe. I tell you aforehand I hain't got no collateral.— ' But I kinder guess you'd better trust me, young feller." Here he, laid his hand on his belt signiiicantly. "I'll fetch it in ter morrow et Its convinient:' I I hastened to say that the charges I could be paid just as well at the other end by his friend. "Umph ! Maguey little you'll get out 0' Jim, I recken. Bowsumtlever, pro ' ceed." "What is the message, and to whom is ' it to go ?" "I want you to tell Jim Fellers, of Co hoe, that the bull quit here las' night, ' and the sheep'il be close on his heels." As he delivered this sentence he Wok ed at me as if he expected me to be mys tified. But I thought it best not to ap pear so, and I said carelessly : "I suppose you are a dealer in stock and this is your partner ? Ah, sir, the telegraph helps you fellows out of many ' a sharp bargain." "Ya'as" he answered slowly, evidently pleased with the way I took it. "Ya'as that's 'urn. I'm sendin' down a' lot o' stock. Bought it dog cheap over in Gen• esee, yesterday. Party lot as ever you see." I turned to my instrument.. What was to be done ? Though ours was a railroad office, we often sent business messages ; find if I did as usual now I should prob ably get rid of my unwelcome visitor without further trouble. But in the short conversation with him I bad some what recovered from my first alarm, and I now conceived the idea of attempting the capture of Tom Lynch. I was only a poor salaried operator, trying to save enough to marry in the spring. Five hundred dollars would do me a great deal of good just now—to say nothing of the eclat' of the thing. But how was it to be accomplished ? Here was I alone in the depot with a man big enough to whip his weight of such little men as I was, several times over. Any attempt to secure him single handed was not to be thought of. But could I not exe.ise myself, and going out fasten him ? No ; well I knew from the die t:ustful look in his face that any propo sal of mine to leave the room would be peremptorily objected to by him. What then ? Why, simply this, I would telegraph to :he down town station. But alas That very da} the connection between the two offices had been cut for repairs. It was seldom used at any time of course. But what of that ? It was only a question of a few seconds more time. All these thoughts went through ray mind with the rapidity of lightia^ as I went to tne clattery. Lynch regararu mr from the corner of his uncovered eye with a tuspicion thil't made me shake in my shoes. As I sat down he arose and came to my side. "Look a here, young feller," he hissed in my ear, and his breath was sickening with the fumes of liquor, "perhaps you mean lair enough—l hope ye do, for yer own sake. But I don't understan' noth in"bout them tellygrams, and I jist want to tell ye that yer'd better be squar'—for by the Eternal God! of you go back on me, I'll stretch you on this yer floor as stiff as ever I did a man yit!" and I felt the cold muzzle of his revoker on my cheek. Perhaps my voice trembled a little, bat I was still unmoved in my reso !Mine, as I replied : "Never fear, sir; I'll tell him all about the stock." He mr.tiered something to himself, and still remained standing over me. You have heard perhaps how much character and expression a telegraph op— erator can put into his touch. Why,there were dozer.s of different operators com municating with our office, and I could tell at the instant, without even making a mistake, who it was signalling. You could tell If a man was nervous from his telegraphing just as well as you could from his hand writing. The call that I sent hurrying across the State to Council Bluffs, must have rung upon the ears of the operator like a shriek. "C. B. Are yon there ?" was what I asked, and almost instantly came back a reply in the affirmative. Then with trembling hand I rattled off my message: "For the love of God, telegraph to our down town office at once. Tell them that Tom Lynch is within two feet of me, and they must send help. A short "pause as though my message occasioned surprise, and then came. the response : "all right I" which assured me that I need not repeat. "Ws!. are you going to send my mes• sage ?" growled the deep voice of Lynch. "I have sent it, sir." "What I Does all that ticken mean what I told you ?" "Yes, and if you will wait fifteen or twenty minutes, you'll get an answer." "Aral, I divine as I want an answer, Jim, he'll understan' it's all right." "But I'll tell you soon whether he's there or not. Sit down. So Lynch reluctantly took his scat. looking around at the doors and windows once in a while in an uneasy way. I was determined to take him now at my cost; and I verily believe I should have plant ed myself in his path had he insisted on going now. - "Tick, Tick, Tick, Tick I" the battery called out, and I listened to the message. "Keep cool. Gould has gone for the po lice:' Strange it was, wasn't it ? That should sit there and talk through two hundred and fifty miles of space with a man not half a mile off from me. "What does that signerfy ?" inquired my companion as the ticking ceased ; and I replied that the clerk at Colme,had plat written off the 'message and sent it out. He seemed satisfied and settled back in his chair, where -he sat in sullen silence, his jaws going up and down as he chewed his weed. O. ho r w - slow the . minutes crept along. Tile 'suspense was terrible. I eat and wateGd. the minute hand of the clock, and live - minutes - sem:led as many months. M companion Seemed nervous tom lie moved uneasily in his chair. • - . "Ain't it about time - ye heard from dint'?" he asked. • • "We 'shalt get word from him ida few rinsvered, and fell to watching the clock 'again, Five Minutes more paned. Lynch got up and began paein„ 6 ..to and fro across the NOM. - • "I don't-believe I'll wait any . .more.::— I'ye . got to a .maa down - at-the. Penn- !sylvania House, and he'll be abed of I don't get thur pretty soon." "Hold on a moment, and I'll see what they're no to,' I cried hastily, and I I touched the key again. "Make baste," was my message, "I shall loose him if you don't. Not a moment to spare." straight way came the reply, short but encourag— ing "A squad of police started to the depot five minutes age." Thank Heaven ! They ought to be here now. I looked at Lynch and thought of the five hundred dollars. "Wal, what's the word ?" he growled impatiently. "Your friend is coining," I answered For want of a better reply. ! Cumin' Whar ?" "Coming to the office of Cohoe. He probably has an answer for you." "Au answer for me ? Jim Fellers ? What should he answer for ?" Lynch stood in stupid thought for a moment and then he looked at me with a dan— gerous light in his eye. "Look a here, young feller," he cried, "ICS me private opinion you're lyin' to me. And if ye are—" here he uttered a horrible oath—"l'll cut yer skulkin heart nut. I don't know anything 'bout thet ther masheen, but I swar Jim 'Fellers hain'tgot nothiu' to answer. More like ly he'd git up and scatter when he heerd that message." He stood glaring at me when he utter ed these words, his hand on his revolver. I cannot account for it. As I before re marked, I am a timid man by nature.— Bur this action made me bolder. Every thing depeneded upon keeping him a few seconds longer. It must be done at my cost. I tried a new plan. "What do you mean sir ?" I shouted rising : by coming into this office and talk ing in that style ?, Do you think I'll en dure it ? Leave this room at once, sir,or I'll—" and I advanced threateningly to ward him. My unexpected attitude seemed to amuse him more than any thing else, but it silenced his suspicions. Ile put his hands in- his pockets and de• livered a loud laugh in my face. "Wal, wal, my, bantum, ye needn't git so can takerous. Who'd thought such alittle breeches as you had such spunk ? Haw! haw'. haw ! Why I could chaw you up 'thout makin' two bites of ye." "Well. sir," I said, still apparently Ul2l - "either sit down and hold your tongue, or else leave the office." And he good naturedly complied. Once more we were sitting listening to the clicking of the clock as the minutes dragged their slow length along. Would help ever come ? Three minutes more. Great Heavens ! The suspense wax be— coming intolerable. I must go to the stair and listen if I die for it. I arose e , step towaro me door, but a voice stopped me. "1101 d dbon ted Lynch, standing up righ t,all his suspicions aroused once more. "Ter can't go out of thet door afore me. Come back here !" -Come back here, or by the Eternal—" and the pistol muzzle looked me in the face. He stood now half turned from the .1..0r and I was facing it. Slowly. without a parcticle of noise, I saw the knob turn and u face under a blue cap peep in,— Thank God! help bad. come! I felt a joy uncontrollable come over me. I must keep the murderer's attention an instant longer, till some ous could spring upon him from behind. I walked straight up to him, but his quick ear bad caught a movement behind. As he turned with an oath I sprang upon him, and bore down his arm just as the revolver went of, the ball burying itself harmlessly in the floor. Before he could free himself froni my grasp, half a dozen officers were upon hint and be was quickly secured. The next morning the papers were filled with glowing accounts of the cap ture of the murderer, and praises of my conduct. The principal busibeLs men of the town made up a parse of five hun dred dollars and presented it to me; and this with the reward that was paid me the following week, enabled me to get married at. Christmas. But I shudder at the remembrance of that half hour, I spent alone with Tom Lynch; and I don't think one.thousand dollars would tempt me to go through it again. NOT .A. 1,1, BAD. A SKIPPER'S YARN I've been a good deal about the world in my time (said Capt. W.. stroking his gray beard with his big brown hand,) and I've seen a lot of rough customers ; but its my opinion that the very worst of them all haye got some good in them, if you'll only take the trouble to look for it ; and that,let a fellow be ever so black, he's net all bad. You don't agree with me Well, I'll just tell you a story. It is about eight or nine months ago now—afore ever this Suez. Canal, as we come through yesterday, was made—that I was first mate of a steamer from Suez to Djeddah (the port of Mecca, you • know) carrying Government stores and fighting tackle for the !'arks; for, of course; there was a row going on among the Arabs of Hedjs, as it. seems to me there always is. I had a precious rough crew" on board that voyage—all 'odds and ends, like an Irish stew—Greeks, Maltese, Dalmatians, niggers, and what not. Most of these men of mine were too thick. headed to be •up to much mischief, and I managed to get them along pretty well on the whole. Preaching at them wasn't much good, but when I talked to them with a handspike or a bit of a two— inch rope, they understood that well ehough. But the worst of the whole lot was a Dalmatian, came of .Spiro. .To give him. hie due,he was kfiust•chop sail .ur, like most or his sort; for Dalmatia's a kink of nursery of seatuen for Austria, just like Finland for Russia. Bu►, that was all the gond there was to be said for hint, for a more vicious, blood-thirsty dog never lived. 'ln the parts where he came from, - they take to bk,od'as natur— ally as a sailor does to grog ;• and he was jtist like all the rest of them—never hap py unless he was in a- row with some ; body. Now, I may say without bragging, that I've a pretty sharp eye for the curer a .man's he's going to sail with mil; and this fellow Spiro hadn't been 'Audit] two 'lays afore I'd picked him out as an ugly customer. He was pretty smart In picking me out too as a chap what. wouldn't stand no nonesense and so it warn't long afore, we got to'eye— I "-- olr• 4 - 1)..:;,Ht\:1-Itli.-:.-.i..c. ing each other, him and me, like two strange dogs making up fora fight, 'Bout a week after we had sailed on onr first as we was a lyin' in lljeddah harbor, this chap i3piro was rayther slow over some. thin' I'd told ham to do, and I began hol lerin' at him ; when what does he do but turn round and cheek me like anything, right to nay very face. I don't take tc cheek very kindly, that's a tact; and be sides, I was reg'lar mad at having all the work shoved on to me th is way ; so I just up with my fist and let him have it between his eyes, knocking him right to Collier side of the deck. It was more'n minute afore he knew where he was; but when he cum to he just gave me a wicked look out of the corner of his eye, and hobbled down below. The minute ho was gone, up come my chum, Bill Bar— low, the engineer (who had seed the whole thing,) and says to me : "Tom," says he, "now you've done that you'd better just shoot that there feller right off; if you don't your life ain't worth that." "Well, Bill," says I, "I'm pretty much of that way of thinking myself; but still I don't like killin' a feller in cold blood, Somehow. Let's wait till he does summit and then we'll let him know." But Bills words stuck in my head, and they stuck in it a trifle more two night after, when, just as we were gettin' out of the harbor, down comes a block from the fore-rigging within an inch of my head and pretty nigh knocked my braille out There was more'n a doz3n of 'em up aloft at the timemaking sail, so of course it might have been an .accident; but when I seed Master Sipro a comin' down along with the rest I 'had my own thoughts about who sent me that 'era sugar—plum. "Well, the second day after that, just as we was about half way to Suez,Spiro was on the tairrail coilin' down a rope, when the ship gave a lurch, and his toot slipped, and overboard he went. If it had been only that, it wouldn't have mattered a pin to him, for not a man on board could hold a candle to him at swimming; but, d'yd see, he fell some how fiat-ways, and cum sitch a lick upon the water that it reglar stunnei him, and he lay out on the water as limp as a wet rag. Well, I happened to be the near est, so I sang out, "Stop herel" and jum ped after him,' and collared him just as he was a sinkin' the second time. But what with his weight, and the rough sea, I had to do all I knew to keep afloat ; and by the time they picked us up I'd swal lowed more salt water than all the grog on board could have put away the taste of. "Well, Spiro was put into his hammock and kept warm, but it was next morning ann. 6 rigla -ogoick. Tho Brae thine he asked was, who saved him. And when they told him it was me he just stared at me without saying nothing, and then flew up the ladder like a wild cat, came rushing up to where I was stand ing, and threw himself down on his knees, and took my hand and kissed it, and cried like a child. I cum precious near pipin' my eyes too, I can tell ye, to see so much natteral gratitude in u great hulkin' cut throat like him. But the nest moment he got up and stood afo:e me, as grand and tall as a king and looked me straight in the face, and sups; "Captaino," he slways called me so Captaino, you know all. You remember dat block fall at your head the other night ? I trowed it, and when it no kill you, I tink kill you wid dis knife. See. you take de knife, drive it into my heart —so !" he gave me the knife, and strip— ped open his shirt) you hab revenge, and all done !" Talk of a play, the way the feller said that, and the way he stood waiting for the blow, never moving a muscle, beat all the plays that ever was. I said nothing for a moment—l couldn't have spoke to save my life—and then I flung the knife down on the deck and says to him : "I won't touch a hair of your head : my brave fell: w—only you be a good boy and don't let's have any more nonsense.' He gave my hand u grip that made it ache for a whole day after, and away he went ; and thure, us I thought, uas an end of that. But It warn't an end to it neither. "Tout a week after, we were lying at Suez, taking in cargo, and had pretty nigh got it all aboard, when one after— noon I took a thought (the weather bein' murdering hot) that I might as well have a bathe : and so I did—as jolly a one as I ever had yet. I was just thinking, after paddling about for a quarter of an hour or so, that it was about time to be coming out—when all 'at once twist me and the ship,np rose a great, black,point ed thing. that I knowed directly for the back fin of a shark. I warn't 'zactly frightened—there ain't time for that in Bitch scrapes ; all the fright comes atter it's over—l just felt my breath go for a minnte,as if somebody had hit me in the wind ; and then I found myself wondering how the shark would ketch hold of me—leng.hways or sideways, or with my head right into his mouth. I saw him lurch around in the water, ready for a rush, with all his big teeth grinning - and then suddenly there was a splash and a bubbling, and up rose up the shark almost upright'n the water, wriggling like a speared eel, and ; the clear water round him Mimed all dark with blood ; and then something gripped inc by the shoulder, and I heard Spiro'a voice -saying quite coolly, "All rignt, captain% no hurt yea- now I" The tellcw had ac— tually dived under„the Oark, and cut a gasih , in him as big as the Mouth of a letter-box—with the very same knife as he'd been a-going to kill me with. • . The shark wasn't dead; but he was too bard hit to go far ; and after they'd pick ed us up, , they settled• - him and 'hauled him aboard ; and I've gOt a bit of -his -backbone how, made into a walking stick. And after that Spiro and me were the greatest chums-going. • Smile old men, by continually praising the time pf their youth,. would almost persuade'us that..Aheni uo•fools in those days; but, unluokily,.they are left themselves for eiamiiles. ==2 The following legend is inscribed on the front of a butcher shop in an inland town in Pennsylvania "Kash Ea.de for little knives not mourn two daze old." Music by hand--a street organ. TER US .-,Two- Dollars Per Year in. Advance: gait WATCHING FOR FATHER. There's a little face at the window, Ain! two dimpled hands on the pane ; And somebody's eyes aro fixed upon The gate at the end - of the lane. The - hills have caught the shadow Which heralds the corning night, And the lane, with its flowery fringe grows dim To the watcher's anxious sight. Where, bail way down. Like a glittering crown, A &a-fly band have clustered Round an aster's leaf— A royal chief— A driven heard are mustered Away behind, With busy mind, But a step that is light and free, And a sunburnt face On which the trace Of a bard day's work you see. Comes the flamer hOme from toil, Driving the cows before him ; And the child-eyes, Strained at the window there, • Were the first in the house to see him. Ah ! would, when the day is done And I leave my cares behind me, 1 could have such a pair of winsome eyes Searching the night to find me ! A YOUNG GIRL ! gentle grace of early years, And guilelessness of maidenhood ; What timid charm thy beauty wears, Ere yet the rose has tinged the bud Ere yet the warmth within the heart Is kindled into light and flame, Since Love and Love's impassioned art Are still unknown in all but name. The dimpled cheek unstained by tears ; The furtive glance, the downcast eye, Uncertain If it hopes or fears, It knows not what, half pert,,half shy The wayward smile which curves the lip, As yet not ripe for lover's kiss ; The myriad fairy thoughts which slip Through maiden dreams of future bliss ; The thousand lurking loves which lie Asleep beneath each silken tress, Who, when they wake, shall instant fly, And wound in very wantonness,: The charms which rest as yet concealed Behind the veil of maidenhood ; The fancies which, but half revealed, Give color to the pensive mood ; When time is full and years are ripe, And nature's wonder-work is done, Shall yield a woman, archetype, Who must b.! wooed, bin would be won A RAILROAD KING A FEW ECCIDENTS IN THE LIFE OF COMMODORE From a lengthy article on Commodore Van derbilt. in the New York Nun we glean the fol lowing incidents: Vanderbilt is now eighty-one years old, yet he looks so fresh that a good many men of six ty might well envy him. His powerful frame has not suffered either from hard work or the excitement of financial speculations. The Commodore's father, a well-to-do land owner of Staten Island, rented his estate in small lots to market gardeners, and ran a . sail boat in which he carried the gardeners' prodnee to New York ut a good round tat iff, thus mak ing his land pay double tribute. He was very anxious that his son should acquire a good edu cation and strove to errit, the he?.o \ Inlaid.... in that direction ; but "Cotncle" did not take kindly to books. He was a healthy and pow erful young animal, exhibiting a greater taste for robbing melon patches and punching the heads of the companions who dared Jo -oppose him.than for parsing. Before he was ful:y sixteen ears of age he begged his lather to purchas a boat for him that ho be might earn his own living, and be gan to thin in competition with that of his gov ernor. So well did he manage the. business that within two years he becanie sole owner of two more boats and part owner andtaptain of a third, which was the biggest vessel of Iho kind in the harbor. This precocious success of the'selfmade ship owner was determined not more by his natural abilities and hard work than by the most rigid parsimony. The lad was neverknown to spend upon himself a cent more than was strictly neem,try to keep body and soul together. In terest-bearing investment was the only use ho knew for money. At the early age of nineteen Le married his cousin, Miss Sophie J. Johnson, of Port Rich mond, and settled down lb New York. Sho kept for him subsequently a hotel at Now Bmnswiek, N. J., bore him thirteen children, and to the day of her death, in 1808, be placed implicit confidence in her. At the ago of. twenty-three Vanderbilt found himself master of,a small fleet of sailing yeti, eels, and the possessor of $lO,OOO in hard cash. The invention of Robert Fulton was just then coming into practical use, and the State of New York bad given to him and Lis (tient], Chancel lor Llvingstoit,a monopoly of steam navigation on the waters - within its beandary. . Vanderbilt, who was always strongly oppos ed to all monopolies, saw at once the immense advantages of steam navigation, and chafed at the restriction. Ho made himself thoroughly acquainted with the derails of the now. inven tion. 'and while pursuing Ins inquiries in this direction, made the acquaintitnce of Mr. Gib bons, who was running_ 'a lino of watts be tween New , York and Philadelphia. : This new friend soon had built ft diminutive steamboat for his lino, hetween this city:and New Brans wick, and made Vanderbilt captain.of, it, with a salary of $l,OOO per year. Livingston it Ful ton appealed against Gibbons as one who had Infringed .on their monopoly, but, after a long litigation Chief Justice Marshall of the United States. Supremo Court 'decided that no StatO could grant exclusive privileges on any of the great waters of the country, and - the field was thrown open to all comers. - - It was about this time that the foundation of the colossal fortune of-Vanderbilt began tai be laid. =ln 1829 lie 'was able to lestici the service', of Gibbons and `to' become himself one ,of tho lhrgest ship builders and shipowners lie hail lines ot steamboats on 'the North RlfOr, on Long Island Sound, on the coast of Maine, on the Delaware, and begin hi build steamships for transatlantic voyages, of which the Prime thena rind the Vanderbilt were the large:ll'SM the best known. , lIMIE NUMBER 28. In 184 S, when the California rush began,Van.j , derbilt had a large amount of available money` and a number of vessels, which enabled him to open a new-mute of his own, in opposition to the United States Mail Steamship Company acd the Pacific Mail Steamship Company, which was then in Its infancy. - This California route induced . Vanderbilt to take part in a filibustering expedition is Nica ragua, and his plain Dutch corattion sums Ile cured him a complete victory in the overthrow of the adventurer who assumed the presidency of Nicaragua and his flight from the country.— And among all these occupations Vanderbilt found time to build the ate; yacht "North Star," and to undertake wi her 'a cruise to Europe. .zrrt . It was about 1864 that ho finally abandoned the domain of Neptune, and his. accumulated fortune at that time was estimated at forty mil lion dollars. it must not be Supposed, howev er, that be took to railways only when he left the shipping trade. On tho contrary, he with drew his capital from maritime operations, step by step, long before he retired himself from these pursuits. By means ot lending money to the president of the New York and New Haven railroad he hecame‘art owner of that road as early as 1844 In the next year he began to buy up the stock of the Harlem road, of which he and his fami ly subsequently became almost the sole owners by means of a corner, which ho successfully manipulated — twenty years later, on which oc- casino he squeezed out of Wall street all of the stock which was to be got, and something like $5,000,000 profits besides. The Erie• road, under the management of Drew and Gould, also largely contributed to Vanderbiles fortune, after a long litigatlon,dur ing which his two opponents had to intrencli themselves against the laws of the State of New York, at Taylor's Hotel, in Jersey City. Later on came the acquisition of the Hudson River and the New York Central railroads, and the consolidation of these two great companies and ultimately the great "bear" mid on Lake Shore, which resulted in his finding himself the possessor ot some seventy thousand shares of that stock, and ot something like $10,000,000 profits. The total amount of Vanderbilt's fortune at he present time can hardly be estimated, but it s said to exceed $100,09_,000. MARRIAGE AND LONGEVITY The London Iledicol Record says : "In his recently published 'Study of Sociology,' Mr. Herbert Spencer assails a theory that has long been current with regard to marriage and lon gevity. That married life is favorable to longevity has generally beeia regarded as satisfactonly proved by numerous statistics, showing, almost without exception, a greater longevity on the part of the merited. When the ratio of deaths in the two classes stands at ten to four, and even twenty to four, there would appear to be little room for doubt, But to thin astute social scientist the evidence, strong as it seems, furnishes no warrant for the current belief. He regards the case as a substi tution of cause for effect ; in other words,great er longevity is not the conseqligice of marriages on the contrary, marriages are clearly traceable ;) to influences favoring . longevity. The principles of natural selection work so strongly in deciding between the Benedieks and the bachelors, that the long livers are drawn to the formerand short livers to the later. Marriage, Mr. Spencer holds, is regulated by the ability to meet its rrfonsibillties. .The qualities which give the 9vp l ntage hero are in tellectual and bodily viOr,lprudence, and self control ; these, too, are the qualities which de termine a prolonged life tiy a premature death. An even more direct . rel Lion is to be found in the instincts which lead ost strongly to mar riage. The reproductive i s • cts and emotions are ~..oug in proportion as - the sartimsmarenergy --- is great, and this in -turn implies an organiza tion likely to last ; so that., in fact, the superi ority of physique, Which is accompanied by strength of the instincts and emotions causinz marriage, is a superiority of physquc also con ductive to lonzevity. Another influence tells the same direction.— Marriage is determined by the preference of women as well as the desires of men, anti other things being equal, women are attracted to wards men of physical and intellectual power refusing the malformed, d .o"sed and ill-devel oped types. In the operation of these three eletdents, Mr. Spencer finds all that is needed tp account for the striking difference of longevity between the classes, and declares that the figures given afford no proof that marriage and longevity are eansb and consequence ; but they simply verify The 'inference which,might be drawn a priori—that marriage and, longevity are con comitant results of the saniecause." THE LAMB OF CROWDS. We have, says the Sprin&fleld Republiean,bad experience enough to date to deduce jot a few of the laws that govern human beings under. 'panics, and we want to formulize some of than toe people to think of. 1. It de.esn't take cfblg crowd to choke a narrow pariage. A. hundred people will do it as well ns a thousand. • 2. When people ore piled on masse in a pas sage and the building is afire, there will be more corpies taken out than living beings.— Human beings die quick under those circum stances, 3. It doesn't take a big. crowd to -block a door that,..opens Inward so snugly that there is no morn passage than, there is through a brick wall. The strength of frenzied mon and wo• mon aiails nothingagainst n door. 4. It is the exits whidh 4ru In constant usd by the whole bed). of the pithlte which aro °f use at such times. No others - aro of prac.ticaly much consequence. Back yassages and private entrances might as well not be. The frantic do . not know of them and cannot beiaught them in this world. • - , • • 5. The barrenest and safest . places may be converted Into tinder boxes by very trivial cif. • entostances. Church‘n which are sate enough commonly. may be decorated murderously: • 6, "Presence of mind" may as well be coun ted out as n saving element. We can Mako ov' er our churches, 110* can't niako over moa and women ; it is pretty evident by this time that we - cah't limbo men 'and Women to'.flt thoi Chnrclles and be sure of their surviving itio pro• •. . • . Vulgarity means 'the exhibition Of those pc- - culiarities of speech and .rtanner Ofibud refinement: It makes a naked display Ant cogs°. and. uneducated Inman impalson; taty t 4' lies, in the 'absence a consulertition .010 teellngi be Obeli, in antrnyc 'xabatind 4dittMer• tlon, and la a sottish want of Control nodal propensities: - 0-; - c . 's '•:
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