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SI.-'-". oe- loiina, ,o.i ; o:ie ti.i::, t-;,oo ; mi l auuition- ul nutiil.ers, h ilt' prioi at! i for Blanks, $2,00 per iiure. C;arbs. & JEHDiiAli U 1 Mijijintown, Jtin;-i?a County, Ia., on M;i:n street out! of Drile str OfTice el. 7 1LLIAM M ALLISON, Attorney at Law, liVtlM t V til a:!-!id to r'ire. ('Iliee ou VnihicsS entruMrJ to K. C. tfTKWAKT, Ft 1 -..- Ill 3l.j!''utnvn, Juiiiiila Co., V., ''tS'ers Ins profession:'! services to the puh lic. Collect ions and all other business will roeo've pro:ipl aMenticn. Office first duor North of Utituri's Store, (upstairs.) .101 N T. L.SAI1M. aiu, a VUKi.INTO'.VX, JI N1ATA COl'NTV, Y. OVTY.W'n his professional services to the public. IVompt Rtieiuion given to the pro''uium of claims against the lioverninetit, cni'u'cti.fUS a!id all olh'-r tii:ine?s entrusted to his care- Oihcc in the Odd Folly. Hall, U.l'ijre Street. Sept. 1M."). r li; ciuiiTii AUCTIONCKa Tiie undersine I oifers Lis services to the pulilic ai; Vei'.'ioe Cryer and Auctioneer, lie has had a very larjre experience, and feels confident that hccan give satisfaction to all wl:o ujay employ him. lie may be addressed et .Mifflintown. or found at his home in l"er-T.an-.h township. Orders may also be left at Mr. Will s Hotel. Jan. 25, ISO I. WILLIAM GIVEN. ALEX. SPEDDY. il.Sl'ECTFLl.LV otlcrs his services to the V public of Juniata county. Havinpr had a l-;rg experience iu the bur-inoss of Vendue Crying:, he feels confident that he can render general satisfaction. He can nl all times be consulted at his rcsideuce iu MUiiii.town, l'i. .iuj. 10, IpOj. KILITARY CLAIMS. M'-IIE undei's-gticd will promptly a'tend to L the cuilectiuii of claims ajainsi either the State or National Government, Tensions, Uaek I'm y, liouiny, Kxtra l'ay, and all oilier claims arming cut of the present or any other war, collected. JEUEMIAII HONS. Attorney -at-Law. MilHintown, Juniata Co., l'a. febl TAT!. S. O. K.lCMi'f'llil, (late army sur- J ppunl liiiviii"- local, d in Patterson tend l ers hi professional services to the citizens of. this place aud surrounding country Dr. K. bavin? had eiL-ht. rears cxrerience i , t pr. p tivd to re.ucst a trial from those who may be so unfortunate as to need medical at- ten! nice. lie will be found at the brick Building op-po.-':e the Siinti.ski. Oi iick," or nt his resi iiLnco ia the borough of Taiterson, al all hours, except when nrofeasioUiilly engaged. July i2, IS'Jj.-tft J) KNTAL CAUL) 11 M KEEVER, Silicon Dentist, rrVKLS this method of informing his friends JL in Juniata county, that owing to the lea nonaMy good sui-cess l:c 'ihs met with, during the few no-atlis he ha- t.een practising his pro fession in said county, he feels warranted in wakifig stated viiis to Mi:?!iutown and Mc Airstersville The fit t Monday of each month Mr. Kcver may be lound at the Jiininia Ho tel, M t :11 :n, te remain two weeks. The thiru Monday, at Mc Alistersville, lo remain during the week. IceOi inserted on I I.( AMTil. GOLD & SILVER. TltKTll Kll.I.ltl) and extracted in the most approved manner, and ' with lue least possible pain. Strict attention given to diseased funis, Jie. All work warranted. C, Terms i easonable. January 21, lS00-lf. LCTION NOTICE. The undersigned JX. would respectfully inform merchants and nil other persons, that he has opened an Auc tion lioom on Main Sircet, Mitnintown, Fa. where he will receive on consii.nn,A,,t .a L;...iur,i.. ....ii. .. .. "... . on reasonable : per ceiuage" M nulTl i others having goods they wish to dispose of would do well to transfer them lo tho auction room. Sale every Saturday evening. luayO, lj?;ij-tf.J A. II. WE ID. MAN. AXDYS LAMENT A TARODY. j Why am I si; sick and weary ; come here. Cowan, smell my brent h ; i aroumi me seems reeling, is tms " ictory or Death j Au ! how well I know your answer, to my fate I "humbly' how ;" t . " Jcu on;-v tel1 tnc ,ru!J' nn0 wlU care for Andy now !'" So with traitors I am marching, With no laurels on my brow ; For the people won't sustain me, 'Who will care for Andy now ?'' I have "swung around the circle," "spoke a i .. . . I , at ecry town ; j lT ' f " Jer ne-cBu me u:y cewaru s clown. '! have filled most every office," broken al most every vow, I have always been "most 'umble,'' "Who will care for Andy now !" So with traitors I am marching, With no laurels on my brow . For the people won't sustain me, 'Who will care tor Andy now ?" Let "my policy" be my pillow, and my "ve toes" reieh the sky, 1 will be the Great Dictator, cr will like a rebel die. Soon with Clymer I'll be marching, with no laurels on my brow, Geary w.n by 17,000, "Who will care for Audy now 1" Soon with traitors I'll be marching. With no laurels on my brow ; For the people won't sustain me, "Who will care for Andy now LOOKING UNDER THE BED. FUOM IIAItrLT.S MAGAZINE. It is the habit of many persons to take a look under the bed before retiring for the uight. Mrs. Lvergrecn, my btlovtJ wile, indulges, if inJulgeuce it can be called, in this peculiar practice. I do not object to it in the least so long as bbe does not enforce the perlorniance upon myself; but when, as is sometimes the case, sno forgets it until she lias put out the liiiht aud cusconscd herself under the couiloi tcr, then it is hard that I', who am not troubled with nervous apprehensive- ness, should have to get out in the cold and do it for her. I have often remarked to Mrs. Evergreen, when I have seen her prying uuder the bed, that it was a silly habit, and that the sooner she gave it up the better. To this gentle admonition my Letter-hail invariably rrjuios : 'La, Evergreen ! what harm does it do? It's a kiud of satisfaction to know that nobody's under there, and then I don't think of such a horrible thing alter I'm ia bed." "I think, my dear, you might just as well pursue your investigations further aud look into the bureau drawers and the clothes-basket." ' Evergreen," she will rejoin, "don't mention the' idea, or I shall certainly do so. Come to think of ic a man could very easily get into the clothes basket." ' Certainly he could, my dear, quite as easily as Fal.-.taff. You 1 hould certainly ' include the clothes basket ; nd ty-the by, ' there's the chimney ; why not look u; ! i that as well V '"Xow, Evergreen, you're laughing at , i),,. y . !..,. ,,r i,ui,;f .,! I me. t never will. It's a comfort for me to kuow that there's nothing wrong about it, aud I don't eec why you should deprive me of it." So under the bed goes the candle, and, no sigus of humanity being discovered, Mrs. Evergreen is able to repose in peace. But, as already observed, this precaution ary act is sometimes forgotten, and I am myself oLliged to rise, light the lamp, aud report. I've done it more frequently of late thau is agreeable, aud have inti mated as much to Mrs. Evergreen. She Isays 'Very well, Evergreen, I'll do it my- self" But this procedure is al.nostasbad, for sdie iuvariably lets the cold in on me both in getting out and getting in. If it were not for increasing this mental idiosyncrasy on the part of Mrs. Evergreen, by giving her some good reason to apprehend dang er, I should relate to her what I am absut t, ur.,rl ilm rxa.W Tn ( his narra- l" "V "w""- h"cfore 1 ast the Pub!ic St ticulatly to bear in niiud that Mrs. Ever green is of a sensitive nature, rather ap prehensive and slightly superstitious, acd , TH COSSTITCTIOS THB UKI0S M1FFLINT0WN, JUNIATA COUNT?, PENN'A., NOVMEBER 1-1,1366. that what I have to say muht.uoW circumstances bo imparted to that lady. j If for two and twenty years (that is the , period of our wedded life, and happy 'years have they been) if, I say, I have I tor this long period rcfraiDed from im ' parting the matter to the beloved sharer : of mJ sorrows, surely the public (which, j as we kaow, always does keep a secret) ..... ' Wl" kccP TUIUO. All young men, I suppose, have lovc- ! afiairs before they eveutually fix their af fections on the cue who is to bless their lot iu life. I know that I had, and I do not regret it. Ilcgrct it ? far from it. Mrs. Evergreen is not present, and there t I f jre I have no hesitation iu saving that if i T LaJ ,;fc ,0 QVCr ; rJ liko 1 had my l.lo to live over ag to go through with the same sentimental experience, particularly if it was to he succeeded by arraia leading to the hyme neal alter the present Mrs. Evergreen. I was not bad-lookiug when I was in my twenties. I think I may go farther, aud confidently say that "Gus Evergreen" was a decided favorite among the girls of Oakvi'i'c, and I really believed that I could have had any of- ihcm "for the ask ing." As I before remarked, Mrs. Ever green is not present, and I iudulgo my thoughts somewhat more freely than would otherwise be the case. I do not j think that I cared particularly fur any of the Oakvil'e girls, however, aud I might have kept my heart whole to this day if it had not been for the circumstances which I am about to relato. Fred Evans, who Iiad been my chum at school, came to make me a visit at Oak ville for "a day or two," as he said, when he came; but he made if a week or two easily enough after I'd taken him about a little among the "young ladies." When that time had expired Fred s-ud he really must go, as he didn't know what his fath er and mother would thiuk uf his long absence ; but it ended in his relieving . i i i . . . i i- tncir auiieiy vy a iu;ier auu senutng lor his trunks. I kucw how the matter was perfectly well, and that IJelle IJronscn had bewitched him out of his five senses. Fred tried to put it on to the "country air and the quiet which was benefiting his health, etc.' but it was no use trying to deceive me, and I told bim so. Then he owned up frankly, and I promised to help htm all I could, if he required any help in the prosecution of his suit. 1 never thought Jielle a flirt, cr that she would willingly distress any human beiug; but she had a way of looking in one's eyes as if to captivate them, for her mere per sonal amusement, at any rate she had a larger share of beaux than the other girls, but all their attentions came to nothing. I feared it might be so with Fred Evans, aud warned him accordingly, but Fred said he'd "have her if he tried al! his life," that "without her life was naught to him," that "she was the only living being who had ever awakened a real emotion iu his breast," etc. After that I had said no more, but closely ob served the lovers, and soon came to the conclusion that Fred was by no means disagreeable to her. Things wcut on in this way without any definite result until Fred received a sudden summons home on accoui.t of his niolher'3 illuess. When he came back to rcuew his visit he insist ed upon staying at the Oakville Hotel rather than wear out his welcome at our Louse, aud findiug remonstrance unavail ing, there he went. The landlord (hon est old Downsbury I wonder if he yet lives) gave Fied, at my suggestion, his best bedroom, "No. 20" I am particular iu mentioning the number. "He shall have no 20," said Downsbury. "Any friend of yours, Master Augustus, shall have the best I have to give as long as 'Im landlord." It was a pleasant room, looking out on the distant hills and the beautilul wiud iug branch of the Blackwatci ; but what cared Fred for scenery ? he was in the hands of the blind god, and could not see even as far as his nose, except iu the direction of Belle's cottage. I used to go over to Fred's room aud smoke my ci gar, while he, poor wretch, expatiated on his 6uffrings, doubts, and solicitudes. Did she love him ? that was the question which disturbed every moment of his ex istence, and ta which, with the closest reasoning, he could not bring himself a satisfactory reply. Sometimes ho thought a word or a sigu settled the point beyond Joubt iu his favor ; at others he fancied read a cooluess aud indifference inhersc!f, losing hcnelfia s!eep; when suddenly, AND THS ENFORCEMENT Of THE 1AWS. ojesXilu this condition ef uncertainty he dared not press thS question lest a hasty step niigjt bring him to grief. At Fred's earnest solicitation I promis - e-1 to sound Delkas to her Bectiments, if a favorable opportinity presented itself, or at atiy rate to ht her know, in an iudi - rect way, that Frul waa languishing in distress on her acewnt, and thus give her no escuse for uniecessarily prolonging his misery. It si hapoened, however, that my serriees wre not called into re - quisilion. Belle Uronon, because of the sudden arrival at her house of some coun- try cousins, flas obliged to give up hor room her moSier's cottage being a snn;ll one and to ocoir v r,,r : sin.rln ni .' n room at the hote V.'e would cheerfully which hung around the bottom and cau have offered her jtests accommodation at j tiously rasscd her arm under and around our house, but we vp.ro. in the samn uro. as far as it could reach. I almost felt dicament. An .lgrcultural fair in the village had brought niany strangers into the place, and our ou guests were so nu uierous that I had given up my room to two ot them, and had intended asking Fred Evans to let me pass the uight with him. - - For this purpose I went to the hotel at a late hour, and rroeeidud at once to Fred's room, bul to my surprise found no one there. I did not even notice that his trunk was goce, or suspect the fact, which afterward became apparent, that "to oblige some Udy guest for this u'ght only," as the landlord expressed it, Fred Lad con sented to give up "Xo. 20" aud occupy a small room in the rer.r of the building The gas being turned up I took a book to await his return, and hearing at least what appeared to be steps approaching eatte upou me lest my unconscious roum the room, and supposing it to Le Fred, in uiate might yet peer beneath the Led for a momentary impulse to play a joke upon rubbers before she left the room ; but my him I slipped under the Led, a large and j fears were trjundlcss. She rose and high one, intending to imitate a cat (of ! dresed expeditiously, for she was to j'dn which animal I knew he had a detcsta- h'r cousins at an eatly breakfast, and tion) so soon as he entered th room she had overslept herself. When at lu.-t Tlia Jnr opened, and I was on the ptiitit she took the key, unlocked the door, and of indulging in my vc-Qirilcqual faculty depatted. I lost no time in slipping out by giving a long-drawn mnotr, when from mv liidmo-place I btlic d Be !o Bronoon take quiet possession of the apartment ! My astonishment wa3 so great, aud the sense of mortification fo intense, that 1 did not, as I should have due, make my- se!f imwcdiutely kmwn to hor. Thus the opportunity for discovery and expla nation was lost. I dared not tnovo a hair, but hopca sincerely that some ex cuse might take her out of the room for a momeut, and so facilitate my escape. She, however, locked the door, removed the key, and, as I knew by the sound, prepared to retire. Finally she kneeled down beside the bed, and clasping her hands aud Lowing her head (so fcariully near to mine that I could hear the s i. words in my very ear, ) she offered up her evening prayer in a manner so full of feeling, and with such sweet accents cf womanly tenderness and devotion, that I felt as if she was an angel Lending over the vilest of mortals. The paryor went to my heart; tut ouc portion of it went through it and held it captive. Never shall I forget my feelings of surprise aud uiy deep emotion when I heard her utter these words: "Bless my dear moth er, sisters and friends ; bless all around :uo, and, O God ! bless him I love, Au gustus Evergreen, and shower down thy mercies over him. Amen." "Ah, Au gustus," said my divinity to herself, as she arose from her devotional attitude, "if you but knew that I named your very name in my rayers, you would be less indifferent to me !'' If I breathed short before, after this u-y breath seemed tt desert me eutirely, and I verily thought that the beating of my heart would betray me. Beile, pure as an angel to me then, and white as a snow-flake, proceeded to turn off the gas and to get into bed. I felt her soft press ure over my head, aud shrunk closer and closer to the hard floor upon which I was extended. What thoughts rushed through my brain . Above me lay a young and unsophisticated girl wholly uucon- scious that the oue she loved lay so close-" him in town one day, 1 insisted on b-nig-lv to her. and who had f.r th fir:t tima ing him home with me and presenting been made aware of her interest in biru, by hearing words which she supposed went only to Heaven ! I kucw then that the night must pass away, and the morn ing come, and that Belle must first leave the apartment before I could venture to ! change my position. Be! le had laiu perfectly motionless for '. several minutes and was, I flattered my- j 'she exclaimed to heraelf,l'Ika it haven't looked under the bed !" A hor- ror ran through me; all 13 . lost ; 'vhat ' should I do ? Belle rose and I heard her feeling for the matches, b'he struck one ! ar.d was moving toward the gas light, J when the lurifcr -ent out, leaving all j darkness again. Blessed relief; but how brief! Again I heard her feeling for the ' matches and try to light one after another, j as they failed to ignite; then oc "Oh ' dear ; there are no more !" escaped from ! "cr lips. "Safe! safe! whispered my soul to me, and I thanked God in silence fur my deliverance. Belle groped back : the hod, but did not immediately get ! in : she stor-ricd and lifted the certains her fiugtrs graze my face as I held ray- self fearfully and silently against the wall loo far, just too far for her reach. Appa rently sati.-Ged that do danger was near her, she lay down in the bed again and I counted her respirations till she was lost io slumber. As for myself, sleep was utterly out of the question. I never was so wide awake in my life How I lay upon that hard carpet and thought the night out l-thou-ht of her, and her love for u.c; thought of Yes, I was j " J-elf, and my ljve for her, convinced from that moment that the baud of destiny was in it, and that a benign and allwite Providence had seen fit in this cxtroardin.iry way to open my eyes to the path ol happiness and peace. With the morning light fresh fears of my shameful place of concealment and ! cscai.tDi lrom the hotel. On the stairs I met Fled coming out of Lis room, w h j j exclaimed : 1 "Why what's the matter with you, old fellow ' You look like the last days of !in ill srent life. Aud vour coat, too why, it's all over feathers and dust. Where have you been V "Why, I slept slept oti last night; that's all. Our bouse is full, and so I had to find quarters elsewhere. I'm just 'oiti'' home to dress." O is "I should say, so, decidedly. I sec it ail, old fcl'.tw ! Y'ou've been on a lark, aud k". 1 to put up in the watch-house; come now, owe up and tell us all about it." "No lark at all, Fred ; nothing of the kiuJ, I assure you." "Well, 11 not a 'arc what kind ot a bird was it ? From the look? of the feathers I should say it was ayoo.se." " l'vu're the goose, Fred I: ut, seri- ously, I've a wotd to say to you of a mos'. important nature. Be a man, Fred, ond make up your mind to hear some, thing excessively disagreeable. It must be told you sooner or later, and I may as well tell it now." "Good- Heavens, Gus ! Low earnest you look at me; you don't mean to say that that anything has. happened to Belle Bronson?" "Don't mcntain her name again, Fred, or think of tier any more, for she'll. never be any thing to you. I have it from oue who knows all about it, that she has long been attached to somebody else, and that somebody else, and that somebody else meaus to many her. There s no mistake about it ; so bear up and try your luck elsewhere." But Fred Evans was not fo be discour aged by mere heresay. That very day he went to sco Beile, determined tj knew hisjate from her own lips. Soon after he left Oakville and 1 did not see him nrmin for several years, when, meeting ' - him to bis old flame, Belle Bronson the present Mrs. Evergreen. "Ah, Fred !" said he, after dinner, when my wife and tho little Evergreens had left us to ourselves "Ah, Fred, you served me a shabby trick when you allow- cd me to lose my heart to the girl you were all along inteuding to marry ycur- self a very shabby trick, one of which I never sufpected ypu. EDITOR ASD PUBLISHER WHOLE NUMBER 1020. S I J.IauU fci dence, of course, as I tell you reader) all about the bedroom affair at the Oakville Hotel, and the love that, grew out of it. TALE OF A STOLEN COW. A good many years ago, a man stole a cow from Morristown, f. J., and drove her to Philadelphia for sale. She waa a common cow enough, except that she bad lost all her tail but about six inches. j The thief, fearing by the shortness of her : tail he might be traced, bad procured id some way, probably from a slaughter house, an other cow's tail, which he fast ened so ingeniously to the shor: tail, that it was not tc be kuowa that it had not regularly grown there. As soon as the Jorsemaa had missed his cow, he set of? for Philadelphia, thinking she would prob ably be carried there for sale, and it hap pened that when he came to the ferry ha got into the same boat that was conveyiujj over bis cow, and the fellow that stole her. As it was natural that he should have hi thoughts very much upon cows, he soou began to look at this one with great at-tc-ution. She was indeed very much like his cow, he thought. Her marks agreed wonderfully, and she had exactly the sau.e expression of face, but the expression of htr (ail was so very much different It must be supposed that the new owener of the cow felt rather uncomfortable during this examination , for he soou saw that this was the person whose property he hud stolen, and he was very uneasy least he should take hold of the tail which ha looked at so i-outiuuully. L'pou tho whole, he thought it best to direct his at tention in some way if possible, and there fore steps up to him and says : 'neighbor, this is a fiee cot of mine; won't you bay her? You seen to know what a good ow is.' 'Oh ! dear me,' says the other, 'I'vo just had a cow stolen from me.' 'Well, says the thief, 'I'm very Sorry to hear that they've got to stealing ca'tle; but I'll sell off, aud you could not better replace your loss thau by buying this cow; I will warrant she is as good as yours.' 'Why,' says the Jerseymay, 'she waa exactly lik this-one, and if this one had not such a long tail, I'd swear it was my cow.' Everybody began to look at the cow's tail, but the thief stood nearer to it than anybody, and taking hold of it so as to cover the splicing with his left hand, and with a jack knife in his right hand, point ing to the tai1, he said, 'so if this cow's tail were only so long, you'd swear she was yours. 'That I would,' say3 the otter, who began to be very much confused at the perfect resemblance to his cow, except in this one particular, when the thief, with a sndden cut of the knife, took off the tail just about an inch above the splic ing, acd throwing it overboard, bloody as it was, turned to the other acd said, 'now swear ii is your cow !' The bewilderment of the poor man was now complete, as he had seen the tail cut off, and saw the blood trickling from it, he could of course, lay no claim to the animal from the thortness of her tail ; indeed, here was proof positive that this was not his cow ; so the thief going over with him, sold the cow without any fur ther fear of detection. Married: At Philadelphia, in tho wigwam, Mr. Burley T. Kebtl, of South Carolina, to Miss Nancy J. Conservative, of New Y'ork. N. B. No cards these Laving all been played out by the Presi dent, who gave the bride away. Died: In Pennsylvania, Tuesday, Oc tober 0th, Edgar Cowan, youngest son of Burley T. and Nancy J. Kebel. Disease softening of the brain and weakening of the spinal column. SIn a recent speech at Troy, X. Y., Hon. Lewis Barker gave the best reading of the Philadelphia platfotia we Lave ever seen. He said it would be summed up in four words : "Polly wants a crack er." The truth and force of this char-. actcriiation are inimitable. Jijyln Michigan all colored persons Laving less than one-quarter African Hood in their veins have been deflated by the Supreme Court to be white, and hence are entitled to vote. JSiyThere has been two million dollars worth of property destroyed ju the oil regions, by fire, witLin the past year,