gM',ata?fntiari.
- -' ESTABLISHED IN tM6.' 7
, r- ,v s-rr,-r- 1 ,-, .
PrUtHr ErlKTWlDNElrMT Moaaiaa,
' Bridge Street; opposite (he Odd Fellows' Ball,
MIFFLINTOWN, PA. . ....
Tat Juniata Sistisel is published every
Wednesday morning at f 1,50 a year, in ad
vance ; or $2,00 ia all cases if not paid
promptly in advance. Ko subscriptions dis
' continued until all arrearages arc paid, uelees
at the option of the publisher.
gasinfss Carbs.
JOUIS E. ATKINSON, . . .' ,
Attorney at Xav,
MIFFLINTOWN, PA.
O-Cullcetine and Cohvevanoini bromntlv
attended to ...
Office, second atory of Court House, above
Frotbonutary's office.
JOBERT McMEEN,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
MIFFLINTOWN, PA.
Office on Bridge street, in the room formerly
oocupted by I'ira D. Parrer, Esq.
LEX. K. McCLUR& ' T
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
144 SOUTH SIXTH STREET,
PIIILAUKI rillA.
oct27tf
J B. LOl'l'EX, '.
MIFFLINTOWN, PA.,
Offers his cervices to the citiiens of Juni
ata county as Auctioneer and Vendue Crier.
Charges, from two to ten dollars. Satiafac
Xin warranted. nov3-3m.
Dlt. r. C. RUXDIO,
PATTEUSON, PENN'A.
-August 18, 1859-tf.
""THOMAS A. ELDER, M.Lv
MU FL'.NTOWN, TA.
t 'rA'm U.A, lsa sl.M ak L.. C- !
Hut I (fie, Bridge street. g 18 tf
lh s. ssiits,sIo So,
HOM.EOPLIATIC rHYSICI.VN i SCWiEOS
Having permaaoa'.ly located in the borough
f Mititintowa, offers his profession.! services
to the citiaens of this place and. surrounding
country.
Oifiee on Main street, over Beidler's Drug
Store. aug 18 l60-tf
Br. R. A. Simpson
Treats all forms of disease, and may be con
sulted as follows: t very SATURDAY and
MOXDAV at Lis office in Liverpool. I'a.
At John j Lipp's residence. Mifilintown,
Juniata Co., Pa., December -'-ih, till even
ing At William Hearing's. Johnstown. Juniata
Co., Pa., till noon, ou the 3'Jth of December.
Ite punctual.
fay"Call on or address
du. k. a. siMrsox.
dec 7 Liverpool, Perry Co., Ta.
O. W. McPHERRAN,
gittorncii at Jum,
601 SANSON STREET,
PHILADELPHIA.
. aug 18 18C9-1
QENTRAL CLAIM AGESCT,
JAMES M. SELLERS.
144 BOUT II SIXTH STREET,
PHILADELPHIA.
t. Bounties, Pensions, Back Pay, Horse
Claims, Stale Claims, tc, prumptly collected.
No obarge for information, nor when money
is not eollcoted. octiT-tf
Mifflintowa, Pa-.
Agent of the CELEBRATED AMERICAS
Oltij ANS far Juniata eeunty. Tbeso are
the best OltOANS now made. Suited to all
eireumsiances. Prices ranging from- 100
$1000,
Also, Agent for FIRST CUSS PIANOS.
All instruments sold warranted for fivo years,
aug 2 1870-lf.
GEORGE FRYSINGER'S
Cigar and Tobacco Store,
' In Kirk's Room, on Main Street,
?IIi rLITOW,
Is now opn. Everybody is invited to give
bim a call. None but the choicest brands of
Cigar, Tobacco, Pipes, ice., c, &c kept
on hand.
Kca Wholesale to merchants at manufac
turer s prices. Orders promptly filled.
Sept 12-3m :
LEBANON MUTUAL
FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY,
or Jonestown. Pa.
POLICIES Perpetual, at low rates. No
steal risks taken. This is one of the
best conducted and most reliable Companies
in the Staie. The undersigned, agent, will
visit Miffl ntewn and Patterson on the second
Wednesday of each month.
. - . - ; - - i jons SWAN.
Agent for M:fflia and Juniata counties
I.ewistown. Aug 17, 1870-1
CLARK & FRANK,
HARDWARE DEALERS,
OPPOSITE THE COURT UOU6B,
m'iPFLI NT O W N , P K N N A.
Iren, Steel. Nails, Nail Rod, Horse Shoes,
Carpenters, Builders, Carriage Makers, Cab
inet Makers and House furnishing
HARDWARE.
Call before purchasing elsewhere, at
CLARK & FRANKS,
aug 18, 1869-tf- Mifflintown, Pa.
COAL AND LUMBER TARD. The under
aifined begs leave to inform the public
that he keeps constantly on hand a large Stock
f Coal and Lumber. His stock embraces in
part. Stove Coal, Smith Coal and Lime-bur-neis
Coal, at tbe lowest cash rates.
Lumber of all kinds and quality,
White Pine Plank, two inches, da 1
Pine Boards, 1 inch, d6 one-half inch. White
Fine worked Flooring. Hemlock Boards,
Scantling, Joice, Roofing Lath. Plastering
Lath, Shinglea, Striping, Sash and Doors.
Coal and Lumber delivered at short notice
Persons on the East side cf the River can be
furnished with Limeburners Coal, &e., from
theeoal yard at Tysons Look.
aug 15-ly. GEORGE GOSHEN
ALL KINDS OF BLANK WORK, &c(done
at this Office in the neatest manner and
at low prices; . ,
:, .- . ' : ' -..-.. 7 -i ; .: 1
B. F. SCHWEIEB,
VOLUME XXIV, m. 51 -
Stfe'mj'-SIafJmts.'
THE CELEBRATED SINGER
TIVl
THE superior merits of the "Singer" Ma
chines over all other, (or illir f.nil..
- ... - .. - - . ' J
use or manufacturing rtni;tn r rAti
established and so generally admitted, that
a enumeration ot tiieir relative excelleuciea
is no longer considered necessary."
OUR NEW FAMILY MACHINE.
hicU has been years ia preparation and
which has been brought in nrb.f imi rwir.1.
r- t .. - - - . ...
less of time, labor or expense, and is now
confidently presented to the public as com
parably (he best Sewiug Machine in exist
ence.
The Marhin. in n, '..
Tact, durable aitd liptiiitiful. It 14 ii.i inf titwli
, 1
running, and capable of performing a range
and variety of work uever before attempted
upon a single Machine. using either Silk
Twist, Linen or Cotton Thread, an 1 sewing
with equal facility the very finest and coarsest
materials, and anything Octwcen the two c.
trmes. in the most beautiful and f libit uiitl
manner Its attachmenis for heunui, braid
ing, cording, tucking, quilling, felling, trim
minz. bindinc. etc.. are no .i n 1 n.ii.i
and bave been invented ud adjusted especi
sl!y for Ibis Maship-,
Machines always rpl on band at our
Clothing S'f.B ou Bridge street, Mifflintown,
Pa., for the inspectien of the public, and for
sale t llic most reasonable prices. '
achine Cotton, Needles, Thread, Oil, Ac,
and everything pertaining lo this Machine
constantly kept on hand f .r sale. , . .
D. W. IIAKLEV it CO., Agents.
Mifflintown, July 13, 1870-ly
GROVER & BAKER'S
SEWING MACHINE.
- - The following are Rejected" from thou
sands of tceliHioniald of similar character,
as expressing the reasons for tbe prefer
ence for the (J rover k Raker Machiucs
over all others.
" I like the Grover 1 Baker Machine,
the first place, because, if I had any other, 1
bould still want a (.rover & Baker, and, hav
ing a Grover & Baker, it answers the purpose
of all the rest. It does a greater variety of
work and it ib easier to learu than any other."
Mrt.J. C Croly Jrnny June
"1 have badsevuial years' experience with
a Grover & Baker Machine, which has given
me great sat iNfaclion. I think the Grover &
Baker Machine is more easily inaunged, and
less liable to get out of order. 1 prefer the
Grovei & Baker, decidedly. "-Mri. lr. Watt;
y'rtc York.
' I have had one in my family for some two
years, and from what 1 know of its working,
and from the testimony of many of my
friends who use the same, I can hnrdiy see
how auythiug could be more complete or give
better satisfaction.'.'. Vri Central Grant.
" I believe it to he the best, ail things con
sidered, of any that I have known. It is
very timple and easily learned ; the sewing
from the ordinary spools is a great advan
tage ,- the stitch is entirely reliable; it docs
ornamental work beautifully ; it is not liable
to gel out of order." Mri A. M. Spooner, 36
Band Street, Urooklyn.
" I am acquainted with Ibe work of the
principal machines : and I prefer the Grover
A Baker to them all, because I consider the
stitch more elastic. I bave work now in ibe
houae which was done mueyears ago. which
is still good " Vri. Dr. MeCready, So. 43
Katt Ticenty third Street, Xew York.
" More than two-thirds of all the sewing
done in my fairily fjr the last two years ha
been done by Grover & Baker's Machine, and
I never had a garment rip or need mending,
except those rents which frolicsome boys will
make in whole cloth. It is in my opinion by
far the mist valuable of any I have tried."
Jfrt. Henry Ward Ileeeher.
The Grover 3c Baker Sewing Machine
Company manufacture both the Elastic
Stitch and Lock Stitch Machines, and
offer the public a choice of the best ma
chines of both kinds, at their establish
ments in all the large cities, and through
agencies in nearly all towns tbrougbout
the country, rnce Lists ana samples ot
sewing in both stitches furnished on ap
? - . tj-i c a.f
plication to urover unser o. vu.,
115 Market street, Harrisburg.
April 27, 1870. . ' -
a. a. rasics:.....
,.joua loam
NewPirm.
FASICK & NORTH,
GOOT & SHOE MAKERS,
MAIN STREET, MIFFLIN, - ,
In the Hold Building of Mr. Albright-
Having entered into partnership, we are now
prepared to manufacture and have for sale
all kinds of
ROOTS, SHOES AND GAITERS,
FOR
GENTS', LADIES AND CHILDREN.
Our work is all manufactured by ourselves,
and we warrant it to be made of the best ma
terial. OU work sold at our counter will be
repaired free of charge, should the seaming
'tjive us a call, for we feel confident that we
can furnish you with any kind of work you
may desire. ...
afcjRnairing done neatly and at reasona
ble Trates. , FASICK NORTH.
aug 18, 1869-tf.
KOONS, SCHWARZ & CO.,
COMMISSION MERCHANTS
AND WHOLESALE DEALERS IN
MACKEREL, SALMON, HERRING,
SHAD,
AND PROVISION . GENERALLY.
144 North Delaware Avenue, and ?
137 North Water Street
PHILADELPHIA, PENN'A.
au181969-ly ' ' ' ' ..
MIFFLINTOWN,
$Joci' s Comtr.
DON'T DRIXK TO-XIGHT. j
" left my mother' in the door, . ' -.
i My sister by her side ;-.:
Their clasped hands and loving looks. :
Forbade their doubts to hide,
I left and met with comrades gay,
. M'hen the moon brought out her light.
And my loving mother whispered me,
; "Don't drink, my boy, to-night."
Long years have rolled away since then;
My j?lly curls aro grey ; ' ' '
But, ob ! those words are with me yet,
And will tst pass away.
I see my mother's loving face,
'' With goodness, radiant, bright, "
And hear her words ring in my ears,
"Don't drink, my boy, to-night. '
My mother is now resting sweet '
: lu the graveyard on the hill ;
Eul mother's words come back to me,
And haunt cy memory still.
I've often, often passed the cup ;
Oh ! then my heart was right,
Because 1 heard the warning words,
" Don't drink, my boy, to-night."
I've now passed down the road of life,
' And soon my race is run,
A mother's warning listened to,
.An immortal crown is won.
Oh, mothers, with your blessed smile,
Look on your boys so bright, t
And say as you alone can say,
"My boy, don't drink, to-night."
These words will prove a warning when
In the thorny paths .'f life,
Thy boy is in the tempter's wiles,
And warning in the strife.
These Tords will slop the morning cup,
. And the revelry at night, , .
By whiepcring back a mother's voice, ,
"Don't drink, my boy, to-night."
Stltrt Slow.
A MtfHT IX THE OLD BAKX 0 BEAK
RIVER.
UT KIT CARSOX, JK.
"A regular northeaster !" said old San
ders ,-e may as well get out of this.
Twill lie colded than Biter by morning !"
"U-ugh ! No doubt 1' exclaimed the
'doctor,'' shivering. But how far is it
down to tbe settlement, for a guess ?"
O, twenty miles, or thereabout," re
plied Sanders, laughing g. imly.
"Twenty miles to-night ! Confound
moosehunling !" cried the doctor, looking
round to the rest of u, who were much
of bis opinion, as we stood there, with
the snow sifting down through the bare
forest branches and rattling iuclcmently
on the dried leaves.
"By George !'' cired Brown. "This is
tougher than anything I saw in the ser
vice ! Twenty miles in such a storm !"
"No use grumbling ; you would come,
you know ; may as well make the best of
it,'' said Sanders. "But we've got a long
tramp ; so let us be off."
We wete, we judged, somewhere in the
town ef Grafton, Maine, on the head wa
ters of Bear River, a tributary of the
Androscoggin. We had come up the day
before, with hounds, after a moose report
ed to have been seen some miles below.
Yesterday had been a beautiful Indian
summer day, the last of its race ; for
winter had now burst down upon us with
hail and snow, driven by the cutting
northeast wind, which sighed and . howl
ed with November dreariness through the
leaden forest.
The moose had fared much better than
his hunters, far after leading us off stead
ily into the wilderness, he had now left
us to get back the best way we could ia
storm and darkness.
Our party consie ted of five ; the "doc
tor," a young medical student, jus, out of
school and never in the woods before ;
Biown, a returned cavalry man, my
brother Tom and myself, then boys of
fifteen, and lastly, Sanders, an old back
woodsman who, in his younger days, had
been a river-driver, but latterly a hunter
and trapper. 'Twas a queer party, col
lected rathefh astily, to gratify the doc
tor's ill-timed enthusiasm to hunts moose.
Sanders was the only one possessing the
slightest knowledge of woodcraft.
For two or three hpurg we tramped on
steadily, following the river,. and consol
ing ourselves, as best we might, with the
reflection that, provided we didn't get
lost, we should get down to some farm
house by midnight, possibly. It was
now past five o'clock, and getting quite
dark, when we suddenly noticed that the
forest lightened up ahead, and a few mo
ments later we came out into a large
opening on the stream, containing a big
building of some sort.
Hurrah !" shouted the doctor; "there's
a house "
"Not a house exactly," said Brown,
straining his eyes to reconnoitre. "I
should call that a barn."
44 Hay -farm here, I guess," said San
ders; "where they cut hay for die logging-camps.
No house here,"
4,No light anyway," said Tom.
"Well, then," cried the doctor, strik
ing out across the clearing, "in lack of
a house, we will try the barn," .
We all followed; any sort of a shelter
a godsend on such a night, and we were
goon stumbling around the corner . of a
great deserted structure of rough boards,
looming up lonesomely amid the whirling
now, with one of its "great doors
the COXaTITBTIOS TBI CHUB AS tax aatoacsassT or
JUNIATA COUNTiV PENS' A,' DECEMBER 21, 1870.
swinging and banging with dismal slams'.
We dodged in, however, and contriv
ed to secure the reckless oid door by
standing a piece of timber elautltng
against it on the outside. There was a
large quantity of hay' stored within.
The scaffolds and mows were filled up to
the "high beams," aud there was aldo a
lot lying lose an the floor.. ...
It wouldn't do to kindle a fine in there,
and nobody wanted one enough to - build
t out in the suow ; so we divided the re
mainder of our "cold bit", in the dark,
and, after eating it, shook down, a bed
of the hay and turned in Bide by side,
with a heaulifuy coverlet of the same
material- For a long time we lay talking
aud congratulating ourselves in our com
fortable bunk, till, after a while, first
Brown, then the Doctor, and soon after
Sanders began snoring, drowsily, ;Tom
took up the chorus, and I .didn't listen
ni utu longer. ,
I don't know how - long I had been
asleep, when all at once I. woke with a
jump aud in conisderable alarm. Some
thing was snuffing aud scratching through
the hay down at my feet. I was sure I
felt clawa on my boot. It took me a mo
ment to recollect . where I was, and it
then flisbeJ into my wind that the doc
tor was pliyiug off uuother of his jokes
(he vat always at it) to frighten me..
The scratching and rustling continued,
workiug up nearer ; but I waited for a
good chance. "I'll fix you,. old fellow,"
thought I, aud lay motionless till I felt
what I took to be his finger nails pinch
ing up my trowser leg; theu I kicked
out at a venture, hoping to pay him for
his untimely antics. .
My foot hit something pretty hard !
There was a spit, a growl, and the flash
of two fiery eyes in the llackuess ! In
my fright and surprise I executed a roll
ing leap over Brown, who lay next to J
me, and lauded plump on the doctor. j
Up jumped the doctor, pitching medowu
into the hay at his feet. As yet none
had spoken, but the inquiries' instantly
broke out ia the dark :
"Halloo 1" from the doctor. !
. "What's up ?" from Brown.
"Wildcats ! Wildcats !" screamed I,
sprawling in the hay.
"Halloo !"' from old Sauders, waking
up.
h;tf s the matter : Irom lota.
Catamounts ! Wildcats !'' I vocifer
ted. There was an instant scrabble ! Every
body was on his feet ia no time ! Gusts
of hay flew about !
Knowing the creature was on my side,
I leaped over toward the other, rau
against Brown, was taken for the wildcat,
and got a knock which sent me sprawling
in the hay again.
"Here he is ! yelled brown. "Here
he is 1 Out with vour knives !''
41 Hold on! Don't stab!" I shouted.
You are wrong, all wrong 1''
"Strike a light! Strike a light!" cri
ed Sanders ; with "Open the door ! Open
the door !" from the doctor.
Evervbodv ran toward the door to
push it open, all together, and actually
ran square on to the cat. which had also
started for the door. A tornado of spits
and snarls arose ; the creature bit and
dug away right and left, slitting open
pant legs, snapping its teeth, and tripping
up nearly the whole party in its struggle
among our legs. The hounds rushed in
to complete the uproar, while voices not
indentificd cried all at once :
"Git ont !'' '
Ste-boy!"
"Don't strike here !'
"Who are you kicking ?"
4, Avast that kinfe !'' from Sanders
"For God's Sake, keep that gun of my
head!" from Brown.
All this, with an instantaneous rush
for the othr end of the floor ; in fact, an
other blind and unintentional run on the
already maddened aninmal, which had
gone tbeie just ahead of ua. This time
the creature spring at tbe doctor full
tilt, knocking bin against somebody else.
Another outrageous panic followed. Ev
erybody kicked and Btrugled at random.
And amid shouts, barks, growls and spits,
the beast got through the crowd some
how, and escaped up the side of mow.
"Order ! Order !" roared Sanders,
above the outcry. "Now just standstill !
Stand still everybody, till we get a light.
Matches were fumbled out and struck,
but they only seemed to make the dark
ness denser, till Sanders found some pine
splinters on the. floor, which he lighted.
Putting one of these into the muz
zle of his rifle, be thurst it upward,
disclosing an animal larger than the
houuds, crouching on the high beam.
"There ho is I" cried Tom. t
"Take your -gun, Brown," said San
ders : "but no, yon hold the torch aud
let me shoot."
Brown took the torch, and Sanders, tak
ing up a gun fired. The eat yowled, and,
bounding off side wise from the beam,
eame sailing down toward us with its
claws spread out. Brown jumped aside
to get out of the way. The splint fell
out of the gun, on the floor putting it out ;
and down eame the wounded beast, snap
ing and suarling, in the midst of us. :
Darkness reigned, and such a scrim
mage aa. followed 'there no the narrow
THS LAWK.
floor ! . I remember jumping frenziedly
backward upon so me one, who pitched
me headlong again with my face flat on
the creature' horrible fur 1 but it didn't
move, and I have no doubt was already
dead. . . . . ,
Meanwhile, somebody had struck out
at random and laid tho doctor flat for a
moment ; and somebody else had hit a
dog, who was lamcntiug piteously. But
order was at last Teslored, and another
spliuter lighted, when the creature was
fined to be stone dead in the hay.
It was a specimen of what Sander
called a "bob-cat," which is the Canada
Lynx of the naturalists. It had proba
ably been in the barn when we went in,
having gone In like ourselves to get shel
ter from the storm. Our noisy entrance
had doubtless given it quite a surprise,
a:id being of a inquisitive mind, it had
come down after all was quite, to investi
gate, with the results beforementioned.
The fur wa3 of a beautiful stone-gery
color, fading into white upon the under
parts of the body. The bkin was unani
mously voted to the "doulor," as he had
suffered most, to kep as a memento of
our uight iu -he old barn on Bear River.
Italian' JUasrazine. '
, JAXESP. HICKEESUA,.
scriaiTisicaiT or ma I'ih.vstltama
. It ClIC SCHOOLS. .
Mr Wickers l:am was born in 1S23, in
Chester couuty, Pa., about two miles
from the house originally built, in 1705,
by Thomas Wickersham, hi liucal prog
enttor. On both his father and mother s
side he descends from the Quaker set
tler of that section, who emigrated from
Englaud during the proprietorship of
William Penn. His parents are both
still living, and are noted for their integ
rity aud strength of character.
James entered school at the age of
seveu, and though he was prevented
from attending regularly, he was, while
there, always at the head of his class.
When, in 1834, the question of free
schools came up, he though but eleveu
years old, took a lively iuterest in dis
cussing it, and even contended with its
op posers. He was a great reader, and
at tbe same time an expert in all the ath
letic labors aud sports of the day.
He spent some six sessions at the
Uuionville Academy, Chester county,
where he made great progress in mathe
matics, uatural science, history, and the
English, French, and Latin languages.
This was all he had of theoretical educa
tion, lit literary degrees are all hono
rary. At sixteen rather than work on
the farm, he determined to make a move
for himself, and accepted an assistant
teaeher's position in the Academy where
he had been a student. In 1841 42 he
taught a common country school at twenty
dollars per mouth, returning to school
and study himself after his school closed.
This alternation of going to school and
teaching he continued nutil 1845, when
he became principal of the Marietta!
Academy, located at Marietta, Lancas
ter county, Pa. '
Mr. Wicker-ham's success as a teach
er was marked from the first. Resolu
tions, extra pay, and premiums from his
employers arc the best proof that his
services were highly appreciated. As a
consequence, his promotion was rapid,
permanent, aud frofitable. He was
tweuty years of age when he became
principal of tbe Marietta Academy. At
twenty-three he married Mis Eraeline
I. Taylor. In 1S51 he was elected
Superintendent of School for Lancaster
county, and was paid 2500 more salary
than any other Superintendent in the
State. 1S55 he founded and temporaily
presided over the Lancaster county Nor
mal Institute at Millers ville, which form
ed the basis of the first Normal School in
Pennsylvania and was the pioneer of
Normal instruction iu this and other
States. Resigning the position of princi
pal of this school in 1861 with the in
tention of going to Europe, and comple
ting on his return a series of works on
the "Science of Teacbiug" which he
had already commenced he was pre
vented from carrying out his plan by ac
cepting the appoiutment by Gov. Curtin
to the State Superintendency of public
Schools, in which position he served one
term, and then was reappointed by Gov.
Geary and unanimously confirmed by
the State Senate.
Under hi administration the number
of city, borough, aud county superin
tendents have been increased ; thousands
of children brought into the schools;
greater interest awakened in Teachers'
Institute ; and, in fact, all possible means
used to give greater efficiency to our no
ble free Kcbool system, He has written
many articles for the newspapers and
magazines, mostlyof an educational char
acter. He assisted in organizing the
Lancaster County Association, and was
its second President in 1853 ; assisted
in establishing the State Teachers Asso
ciation, and was elected its fourth Presi
dent in 1S55 ; he assisted in establishing
the Natioual Teachers' Association, and
was elected its seventh President in 18-
65 ; is now President of the National
Superintendents'.. Association, composed
of the leading: educational men. of the
EDITOR AM PttOPRIETOK.
WHOLE iN UMBER 1240
nation. Hi address before the National
Association in 1S65 on 4 'Education as an
element in the reconstruction of the
Union," and his address on "An Ameri
can education for the American people,
delivered at Indinapolis before the same
body, bave been widely published, trans
lated into the French and other lan
guage, and distributed ail over Europe
and South America.
While at the Normal School, Mr.
Wickersham prepared two volumes
"School Economy" and "Method of in
struction" which were published in
Philadelphia, and have had a large sale,
being used as text-books in nearly all
our State Normal Schools, and bought
and read by most teachers and educa
tional people.
Mr. Wickersham' record duriug the
late war was much to his credit. He
spent a great deal of hi time and money
in raising, and arming, aud equipping
several companies, aud would have ac
compauied ihtm; but Gov. Curtin pro
tested against such action, saying "h
could get ten Colonel to ona Principal
of a State Normal School," and through
the iufluence of the Governor and other
friend he was persuaded . to remain
though afterward he did raise a regiment
aud go to the front with them during
the invasion of Pennsylvania iu 1S63.
Since that time he ha been a prime mo
ver in organising the "home" and
schools for tbe education of tbe orphans
cf deceased soldiers and sailors, and
furthering the iuterest of all our State
charities
UlFMbiLI'S KLEPHAST.
The following we fiud iu a New York
paper, but cauuot say where it originat
ed: Mr. LIufnagle purchased an elephant ia
India, and brought him home nnder the
care of a native keeper. The design was '
to teach him to do farm-work. When
the animal arrived, it was ascertained that
he could not or would not do such labor,
aud so he was put in the stable of a coun
try hotel, near New Hope, where he con
sumed enough sustenance to baukrupt a
man of ordinary wealth.
One day hi keeper died suddenly,
and, as nobody else knew how to manage
tbe elephant, it was found inpossibln to
get him out of the stable. Tbe landlord
raved, and swore, and tore his hair about
it, but there that elephant stuck, with the
manifest intention of staying till the day
of judgment, and of battering down the
stable, unless he was fed.
At last, the landlord said that the ele
phant must be got rid of somehow or
other, if he bad to bs blown through the
roof with gunpowder. So an effort was
made to sell him, and a menagerie man
wm induced to buy hint for S2 000
This man determined to bring that ele
phant right along with strategy. He got
a car on the railroad track near by and,
after fixing a bridge to it, he lined tbe
floor with a buthel or two of apple, gin
gerbread, oranges, etc. Then he made
a regular pathway of apple and cake all
the way from the stable to the or. It
cost him S200 for bait. Tbe elephaut
followed the trail slowl, eating it up
clean as he went, He marched upon the
platform, over the bridge, and he gorging
himself all the time. Tbe meuagerie
man stood there, expecting every minute
he would go clear into the ear and finish
tbe thing np ; but instead of this, the
miserable beast deliberately stood still
and, with his trunk, reached all over the
car, and ate every solitary thing in it.
Then he turned and swooped down the
road at the rate of 12 miles an hour.
Tbe landlord, mean while, was so glad
to get rid of tbe beast that he asked all
band in to take something in honor of
the event The party were just puting
their glasses to their lips when a smash
was heard at the brauyard gate, and a
thundering crash indicated that the stable
door was knocked into diminutive flinders.
The crowd rnshed out, and there was that
very same elephant in the very same old
place !
The landlord was so mad that he
couldn't swear with sufficient vigor to
satisfy his feelings, so he got the crowd
to listen to him while he read 16 chapters
of Horace Greeley's "Table Talk" ont
loud. This relieved him for the moment.
but the next morning Hofuagle'e elephant
was found dead, aud there was thought
to be some connection between this cir
cumstance, and the fact that the landlord
was seen rolling a barrel of rat-poison np
an adjacent hill upon the previous even
ing. '
A mean trickster named merson, re
cently called upon a Miss Howe, at Man
chester, N. II . and informed her that
her brother, who resides in Kansas, had
died a few days previously, and that hi
friends there were short about $33 in ma
king np the funeral expense. She im
mediately advanced the money, suppos
ing that it was to be sent by express.
Next day Bbe discovered that she had
been made the dnpe of a wily Bcoundrel
There is a good ghost sensation in
Trenton, N. J. The. apparition has
changed it appearance from a dog to a
man several times in one nights
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What part of speeds is kissing ? A
conjunction. '
The fashioi aHle wedding fee in New
York is $100.
Wisconsin ladies walk six miles- to'
sewing-circles.
5,000 persons are employed i one tai
loring firm in Boston. '
A bullet causing a "killing stench"
has been invented by a French chemist.
A man's own good breeding is the beet'
security against other people's ill man
ner's. One of the leading papers) in Aber
deen, Scotland, is nnder the control of a
lady.
A second adventist declares4 that Christ
is now on earth iu disguise, but control
ling events to his own glory.
Mace and Coburn have arranged a prize
fight for thte championship add $3,000' a
side, to come off in Feburary.
Jno. Springer was instantly killed in
Shenango, Lawrence county, last Wed
nesday, by a fulliug tree.
A physician thinks that saw-dust piRs
would cure many of the present ills if the
afflicted would make their own saw-dust.
A fox in Randolph, Vt , has collected1
250 turkeys, 20 goslings, and several
lambs. All efforts to capture hint have
failed.
James Kerr, a son of a mineral living
at Leechburg, Armstrong county, robbed'
his father of S955, last week, and left
for parts unknown1.
Erie oysterman are shipping snow from
Corry to use in place of ice until the lake
freezes over. Tha snow is shipped in
barrels.
3,600 children are in the' Orphans
Schools of this State. Not a singlo
death has occured in that number during
the the past four months.
Cats aae now selling in Paris at 81.20
apiece, tie know of a graden fence
where 3100 worth assemble every night.
The principal Paris feline stock is said to
be Danish ; it was brought from Scata
cat. An old heirft,- ninety years of age,
ha been discovered at the foot of the
Fishkill Mountains, far away from any
other human being. Ua has a farm of
sixty acres, and cultivates it. He lives
in sqnalidness and filth.
A Saccarappa (Me.) woman has been
blind for several" years, yet performs' all
tho household labor for herself, husband
and two children, with the exception of
occasional help in washing, which she
pays for in knitting, and besides this
knits a great deal for pay. -
A man who was being shaved a few
days ago, in a Chicago barber-shop1 no
ticed that the barber did not carry a very
steady hand.- but thought it best not to
be alarmed at trifles. When however,
the tousorial artist procured a box to'
stand upon, with the remark that "the
snakes wor all over the floor and he
wanted to get out of their way" the cus
tomer concluded to fiuish the job. him
self.
SLEEPISU WITH A BEAR.
Many years ago there was a distress"-
ingly hard winter in Germany, and many
very poor people who had no fire at
home were glad to sleep in the stables
and barns of the weahy where it was
warmer. 0: man and hi family sought
refuge in a barn were a bear was kept
in a peu. Inuring the night a httle son
of the pour man supposing the bear's
pen warmer thau any 6ther par?- of the
buildiug, crept in without knowing his
danger. The hear, however, was not
angry with him, but taking it as a com
pliment and a mark of confidence, took:
the boy in hi arms and hugged and soon
the child full aleep. Ia the' morning
the hoy, leaving his warn bed-fellow,
went begging through the streets, and
returned to sleep with him again at night.
Soon the bear conceived such an affec
tion for the chLUe that it made it a point
to retain part of its food for him. So
even if the little beggar was not success
ful in getting &od from others, hi friend
the bear, did uot allow him to go sup
plies to bed. Things went en this way
until one evenibg the keeper, on bring
ing tbe bear's supper later than usual,
found him very cross. He growled sav
agely at him, and did not partake of the
food which he generally devoured vora
ciously. On looking closely at the hear
he found that he had a child in his arms.
and appeared to be afraid that the keep
er would take it from him. Thinking it
might endanger tbe child's life if he at
tempted to take it away, and seeing that
it was comfortably asleep, he went away.
In tbe morning however, he returned
with Lis master, the nobleman, to whom
he had related the strange incident, to ob
serve them. When the child had par
taken of part ef the bear's food, and was
leaving the barn-, the nobleman accosted
him aud learned the particulars of his in
timacy with the bear. Afterwards the
boy's father, with his family, were com
ortably fed and lodged by the nobleman.