CSTABLISHED I 1846. rcni.HSO IVSKT WtDMSBAT MoBI0. Bridge Street, opposite the Odd Fellows' MIFFLUITOWN. PA. Tb Juiat4 SiSTixti it published every Wednesday morning at f 1,60 a year, in vance ; or 9Z.00 ia all eases if not promptly in advance. No aubaeriptiona eoatinued until all arrearage! art paid, unless at tie option of the publisher. NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. RECEIPTS AND EXPENDITURES OF the county of Juniata, from the 4th day of January, 1870, up to the 1st day of January, 1871, inclus ive : 1871. DR. 1). WAITS, Treat. T amount of outstanding Taxes n the tint of January, 1870.. .914970,96 Amount of tax levied for the 1870 14165,24 Amount received from former Treaa 4300 Auiouut received from Commis sioners - 249,35 Amount received from other sources 80,00 $274G,01 1871 ' Jlr amount of outstanding taxes CR. p to Jan. lat, 16.1 $14484,06 Amount of Coruuiiaione.a and other onlera lilted 13166,56 4 xoaerat ions allowed Codec tora 673,73 Percentage , Treaaurers' Percentage...... ialauee in Treasurer' bane. 760.01 600,00 82,19 $29756,55 . $82,19 T Balance brought down.... 1871.1 DR. JOHN DIKTRICK, Sheriff. To amount of Verdict fees $18,00 XT. 4 T CM EXT or OatttaBdlBff Tain In the hands of the ei era! Collect's, Jan. 1, 1811 oM.icrona. H.. Tr. I. 1 C.Tlt. Wm. Cox 18'58 Jamas Unwell 1NU3 J. C Heale 1SH9 1. 11. Suloiift" 1K.3 Wm. Wright 1CU llcurv!i.irah ' 169 John W. Sartiu lWi9 eor,re Shivelv lbi9 I. MuniUirser !f Ji-sie Keed 1'J Abal.m Varncr 1H69 J. S. JlcCa'iau lSOU lrael Wcuter 1870 Wm. Kenuawell 1M70 N oah .VcGow 1875 i?nj. Jac-.be 1X70 Win. fitajterald 1!70 J. . Ho tie 1870 lnkl Knniiav 1870 llenrv Harsh 1870 Jesse KlvI 1!7'i Wm. XlcCotincll 870 John H.ileiitme 170 . Millikcn 1070 John Kennawell 1870 J. S. Hnrril 1870 llenrv Willi 1870 J. B. VI. Todd 170 Alex apsdJy 1870 (reenwood Spruce Hill Beale Turbett IVrrvsville Milrnrd Walker Fayette Ivltwi-e Greenwood Sunjucb'ua Lack $334.15 434,98 3'-.9,26 2r,,r 130,36 ' 709,99 414,99 1297,64 84 1,39 60,38 167.42 28.87 Thmiipa'twn 276 w alker Delaware Turbett Sprues II ill Beale Suwineh'na Milford. Greenwood Monroe Fermanagh Tiiscarvra Fayette I.SCtC I'errvsrille Tatter son MifHintown 12 0,26 676,08 444,08 C.17,74 10.1,34 182,51 124J." 251,46 298 66 t-'1.03 410,24 991.27 418,90 20,91 286,1 1 683,43 $1381,27 ITiTEMEIT or Outnlandlnff Militia Tax In the hand or the several Collectors, Jan. 1, 111. COLLECTOR. TEAR. TWP. Wm. Cox 1W.8 James Howell 1SWJ J.C. ItoMle 1 !''. Wm. Wright WM llenrv Harsh li9 J.ihn W. f-artin 1869 George Shivelv 1809 I. llitiubarpe 109 J ease Heed 1869 Abaaluin Yamer 1869 larael Wetiler 1S70 Wni. Kennawell 1870 Koali McGow 1x70 T.enj. Jacobs 1870 Wm. Kitsperald 1870 J. C. Beale 1870 I'aniel Knouse 1870 llenrv Harsh 1870 Jese Keed 1870 Wm. McConnell 1870 John Batentine 1870 Greenwood Spruce Hill 11c le Perry sviHtf. Miltord Walker Fayette - . Delaware Fermanagh $ 300 K7.00 lf,50 7,W 15,00 6i.50 2 ,H) 62,00 r.i,5' Susquehanna ,00 Thompaont'n 10,00 Walker 2.! ,00 Delaware-, r.,tz,0U Tmbett Spruce Hill Bear Snaquehanba Millord Greenwood Monroe i Fermanagh Tuacarora Favettc Lack Milllintowa 14,50 31 110 7,00 15 0 14..-.0 1.1,50 26,50 18,00 21,00 25,50 21,50 F. Millikcn 1870 Jchn Kennawell 1870 J. S. Ilurrull 1870 Alrx Speddy 1870 $563,50 All cf whie'i ia respectfu'llr inhmitted. A. I.AUVKR, ') ' S. S. PANNEBAER, Auditora. ' K. I.AI VKR, ) Connniaaionera' Olice, f Miff.intown, Jnn. 18, 1871. J iTATENEST or the Olabume nsent f the County Treasar er to January 1st, 1H, lor the year 1VJO: Misccltaneou. Geo. Revnolda, Serving rulea and notic-i $ 9,2.0 Jacob Bridlcr, Coul oil.. 15 Joha McNulty, Cleaning gutter.... 10 . Warrinpton &. ('o. Gross lcn&...., l6o J. McOollan, Service, by order of Court 3,90 Joshua Beal, Kvcording Cuniiuis- aionera. 13,50 Alexander Wallace, taxea overpaid ' fto Coliectora Duplicate. 14,61 Z. W. H. Kreider, et, al, Justicca ' feca osragranU...... 18,00' J. C. Moser, constable t'eea on va. ' granta : 6,72 Samuel Bridge, cleaning privy...... t 109 $ 70,78 Constable and Justices Fees in Common wealth. Cases. R. P. McWilliama, juatice feea......$ 8,55 Ji- W. H. Kreider, justices fees.... 7,70 John Campbell, et, al, constablefeea 10.00 R. P. McWilliama, Jutiticea fee.... 40,70 J. P. Wharton, et, al, justice fees.. 20,19 K. P. McWilliama, jnaticea feea.... 29,50 Collar Wix, et, al, constables fees.. 14,30 J. S. Hurrel, et, al, juaticea teea- 17,78 J. Hufiard. et, al, constables feca. . 24,48 J sreal Wetzal, et, al, constables fees 20,59 J. C. Moser, et al, constables feea 9,22 Kob't M'Meen, Dis't. Attorney's feea in Conimonwealch eases. ........ 39,00 J. Notestine, et, al, constables feea. 7,50 and others 33,25 $ 280,78 Commonuxclth Witnesses. Wm. Wright, et, al,.: $ 16,25 L. Brant, et, al,. 18,97 John Campbell, ct, al, Commonweal th Drnnely..... 678? Joseph Kaufl'man, et, al, 15,15 P. S. Liggett, et, al, D. J. Rice, et, al. Commonwealth va Smith l'iil Levi Light, et, al, li Henrv Kepncr, Commonwealth va Miller 8 J. Brown, et, al ,H0 Hngh R. Palm 22,80 Roht. M'Meen, Dist. Attorneys feea September Term 15,00 George Koons, et, al, 12,96 John Telfer, et.al, 21,99 Wm. G. Thompson, et, al, 16,88 R. L. Jones, ct, al, 14,84 Jonas Long, cost as Overseer of G ret n wood 48.86 Wm- Taylor, et, al, 6,66 $ 376,18 Hall, ad paid dia VOLUMJi IXV, NO. 8 - r Coroner's and Justices John Kelley, et, al, jurors......... 8,50 njcaenDerger, juror 2,00 &. w. H. Kreider, Justices tnoaest luul. r ut pi ui mis. onepiy. ......... . f 24 . Pannehxkw tnr... S. X. oneily, juror, iqq 9'n Dder,nt . jurors. .... - 8,00 J. D. Wallls, Justices coor, Inquisi tion on body of Webster,. .: 6,09 Jese Howe, juror,.. 100 $ 20,83 Courts and Jurors Pay. Thomas Arbnckle, et, al, Grand Jurors to Feb. T $ John Allen et al Petit Jurors to Feb 135,00 834,67 8,37 8,50 : 8,75 4,00 10,00 187,97 298,78 . 8,50 2,12 100,00 425,88 2,50 7,50 11,16 135,00 866,42 209,09 term ; Hugh Hamilton et al Jurors 1868.". Alexander Sueddy Court Crver Feb. Term " Jonas Long Tipstaver Feb Term.. Alexander ISpcddy Court Crver Specil Court H. H. Bechtel Petit Juror 1869... Wilaon Aoman et al Grand Jurats ApnITerra Joseph Ardetal Petit Jurors April lerm Alex. Speddv Court Crver Aoril T. J D Wallis Petit Juror 1869.... . Daniel Conn et al Grand Jurors September Term Joseph Adams et al Petit Jnrora September Term. .: Ephraim Mvera Petit Juror 1869... J J Patteison Petit Juror 1869.... H n Bcchtet Petit Juror : Simon Amey et al Grand Jurors December Tero T M Bell et al Petit Jurors Dec T. H Brenniahultz Petit Jurors Ad journed Court .Dec Term $2262,66 Road and Bridge Damages. Michal Toder Bridge Damages. ...$ 140,00 n in Uouaam Bridge Damages.... 12,.0 Abraham Smith Road Damages... 10.00 amuel Ivepner Road Damages. . . 100,00 $ 262,60 Assessor's Fees. W Km-U. Walker $20,00 Jonathan Keiser. lelaware..... 18,00 Joseph Thatcher, Lack 31,00 J J Culbertaon, Spruce Hill 17,00 Aaron Leidy, Fayette. 31,00 C A Lauver. Monroe ' 16,00 John S toner, Fermanagh 18,00 Jaise Reed, Ureetiwood 15,00 A B Me Knight, Thompson town. ..... 5,50 Wilaon Laird, Asst. Assessor, Beale i 1808.... 1,50 ! S U Zt-irlvr, Tuscan. n 31,00 j K A Robison, Ast. Aascasor," Beala 1868 1,50 WW Troup, Mifflintown 13,00 llenrv Harsh, Miltord, error in asaess- inent 12,00 T J Vi ldaeh, Patterson 12,00 D T Kilmer, Turbett 20.00 llenrv ( roas, Ferryaville, Ast. Asses- so.. 1S68 ..' 1,75 John Ilortiiiiff, Fermanagh, Ast. As- -sor, 18, 2,00 Daniel Knouae, Siisiiuliaunj 13,0 Alejt A 1'roaier, Perrysville 12,HJ $328,25 Expenses unJer Regisiery Law. A B McKnight Thompsontown 18ti9 $ 5.50 O P Barton, Lack 33,09 Alex Wallace, Tuscarora 81,00 Jainea Wat on, Spruce Hill 16,00 T J Midilngh. Patterson 10,00 Wm E Auman, Delaware 18,00 W W Troup, Mitttititown 11,00 D T Kilmer, Turbett 18,00 Aaron Leidy, Fayett 28,00 A B McKnight, thompsontown.... 10,50 W II Kurtz. Walker 18,00 J J Culbertaon, Spruce Hill 16,00 Jtsse Kceil, Greenwood 16.00 John Slaner, Fermanagh... 18,011 S K Zjigler, Tuscarora t. 2J.00 David kooii.st, Susquehanna..... tl.OO A A Crosier, Perrysville 10,00 ! $289,00 Enumeration for State Apportionment. ' Joseph Bell, Lack J D Millikenpruco Hill. $ 10,00 .$ 6,00 I $ 16,00 Const libit' t Returns and Tip Slaves. J I. Vaughn, Constable and Tip Stave Feb. Court $ John Dearing, ct al Constable's re turns Feb. Court.... David Dean, Constable and Tip Stave Felt. Court.'. J C Moacr, Constable and Tip Stave Feb. Court... J L Vogan, ct al Constable's Returns Apr. Term....'. J II Patterson, Constable and Tip Stave Apr. Term Israel Wetzler, Tip Sure Apr. Term Thomas Rente, Constable's Return attending Electious. John Noiestine, Constable's Return and Tip Stave Joseph Kerlin, ct al Constable's Re turns, Sept. Term F Milliken, Tip Stave and Constable's Return, Sept. Term Thomas Beale, Constable's Return and Tip Stave, Sept. Term John Xotcstine, Constable's Return and Tip Stave, Sept. Term , 6.6C 34,11 8.40 7,50 84,62 5,00 6,70 4,86 4,62 28,16 11,16 9,36 7,6J J C Moser, et al Constable's Returns T 19,88 . J E Humphrey, et al Adjourned Court 20,54 $212,79 Wild Cat, Mink and Fox Scalps. Emanuel Brtcl et al.,, Robert Kirlin et al. . . . James Groninger et al Mahlan Howard....... Solomon Bcshoar. ..... T M Bell, etal., , J 8 Laird, etal.. J C Bexle, et al Jacob Kline, et al...... Harrison Varner, eta',, Henry M'Killipa, et al.. Wm. Kenawell. jr., et 1 Varnsr, et al.,, J Anders, et al John Dean, et al Kooert Kerlin, et al.... W C Laird, et aL Levi Reihl, et al.... ... J P Singer, et al J E Whiteman, etal..., M Snvdcr, etal.. ...$ 5,60 ... 6,80 ... 19,25 ... 5,16 ... 6,15' ... 6,30 ... 70 ... 9,43 ... 18,30 ... 13,10 ... 19,15 ... 18,95 ... 23,80 ... 64,20 ;.. 8,00 ... 17,90 ... 14,10 ... 19,20 ... 7,30 ... 19,90 ... 17,76 $314,08 Poor House. David Wilson, Poor House CU'lm $ 126,33 ., 100,00 .. .. 100,00 .. .. 100,00 .. . ... 100,00 10,00 S 626,83 Eastern Penitentiary. Henry Zimmerman, 865 days... .$ John Engles, 61 days... Jacob Martin, 251 day Augustus Weimer, 365 days Christian Bearing, 365 day Peter Kvy, 365 days Joseph MUler, 188 days 96,9 11,32 69.30 82.12 83,66 90,91 86,12 M. V. Krnwnvn . $ 420,27 State junttic Asylum. . . Keeping Margaret Brackbill,! par bill J... $204,85 ( MIFFLINTOWN, v County Debt. Daniel Conn, et al County Auditor and Clerk .$ 40,00 R E Parker balance on note in bank 1676,00 George Woodward, Bounty under act of Assembly 60,00 John Servis, Local bounty for D Bousrnn..... 100,00 ' John Servis, Local bounty for D Bouaum 200,00 G A Baker. I.iirhttf'niiiv a 1 l iin p - 'a ..U(vv Henry SuloufT, Damages on contrect lor jaiioiaoie.......... ........ 86,16 Sheriff Deitrick, damages on contract as per Jail Stable an Ml Joseph Pumroy, Soldiers' Monu ment as per aci 01 Assembly 660,00 Jobn Deitrick, damages as per re port filed anna James McClcllan, attending public' gronoos... 20,00 Geo W Jacobs, Agricultural Society 100,00 . i , : $2893,20 County Prison. D P Sitlouff, coal and lumber, 1869.$ 4276 Ellis fc Son, Iron Doors.. 8800 John Deitrick, fees 82,06 3,75 ' 12,50 98,37 ' 32,60 40,71 9,38 20,S0 124,85 12,88 S B Louden, et al , R E Parker, clothing for prisoners.. John Deitrick, Sheriff fees R E Parker, goods lor prisoners . . . . John Deitrick, Jail fees Martin fc Walters, Bedding for Jail. D P Sulouff, coal and lumber 1870. . John Deitrick, Jail fees.......:.., Martin & Walters, bill of goods for Jail $553,7 ...$40 75 .. 4U 75 ... 47 76 ' JnUnsl. R E Parker, fcr note in lank. $129 25 ... $429 00 197 60 .... 211 48 .... 456 0 lt: 50 1471 48 $2 61 10 48 Public Pi inting. W W Davis M L Linlefield B F Schweier Uonsoll & Jackman J W Spetldy Stationery, ttc. B F Kepner David Walls... Solomon Books, postage, etc David Walts, blauk books, etc.... .. 7 79 .. 19 33 $40 12 Bridges, Noah ITerlzler, repairs to Port Roy al bridge $35 00 Jos. l'omeroy, repairs to Pomeroy's b-idge 7 06 J Mill km, repairs to MrCulloch'a ' bridga 76 00 W A Mct'auan, repairs le Port Koyal bridge 8 00 S K Zelfer, plank tor Bryner'a bridge 8 07 Wm llench, repairs to Port Royal bridge 4 00 tVm MctJurmick, repairs lo MoCul- loeb's bridge 37 20 Bealor & McKeehan, lumber fur Mc- Culloeb's br.dge 108 41 Geo. Uosheu, lumber for Poineroy, bridge 8 97 Henry Sulouff, repair- to Cuba dam br:dge 125 00 Geo Groninger, plank for Groning- er'a bridge - 30 00 Jacob Groninger, plank for Port Royal bridge- 80 00 Henry Vocuui, plank for Wilson's bridge .. 39 66 Henry Sulouff, plauk fer Lost Creek Bridge 70 00 Wm II a k, mason work at Cuba dam bridge 120 00 Tbos S Barnard, repairs to Pomeroy's bridge - 13 59 T-bos Beale. repairs to Lemon's bridga 7 00 J L Kennedy, repairs to three upper bridges - 18 to J M Weimer, et al ... 1 75 W I Cruver, repairs te McCoyiown bridge 60 00 James Watson, labor at Lemon's bridge 4 20 K Bortle, labor at Lamon'a bridge. 10 85 la c Hawaii Co., lumber for Lemon's bridge - 32 25 L Bucbfiel J, srone for Lemon's bridge 24 62 Tbos Beale repairs to Lemon's bridge 371 84 David Plett, inspecting bridge over Delaware Run " 3 00 " Taylor U.uvar, work on Bryner'a bridge 1 60 Wm F Thomas, repairs lo Bryner's . bridge : 6 00 W P Gruver, repairs to McCoytowa bridg ...129 00 Jacob Groninger, repairs to Uron- inger's bridge ...... 20 00 Wm llench, repaira to Port Royal bridge...... 13 60. $1404 75 Commissioners' Office and, Court House. David Sulouff, Commissioner's fees. $85 00 Waller App, ' " 60 00 E K Gillitord, " 114 00 J. Middagh, Clerk to Commissioners 450 W) J. Middagh, Clerk, extra aerviees under Registry Law 109 00 Jonathan McCoy, et al, repairs, ete. 2 60 J A Criswell, Morning Glory Steve for Commissioners, office ........ 31 75 P Pannebaker. repairs to Grand Jury Room 13 25 D P uIoalf, eoal lor Court House .. 10 00 Solomon Books, postage A stationery 18 00 E Ellis at al, cleaning snow from side walks ete. 6 60 J B M Todd, euandebar for C house 30 00 R P McWilliama, store and pipe for Petit Jurors' Room 10 00 Jobn Notestina et al, repairs to Court Yard fence. 400 John Yeakly a. Son, eijck e'e. for Court House Samuel Bridge, cleaning privy. 13 16 300 8 12 James Kobinsou et al, repairs to Court House............... Gark & Frank, glass and putty for windows 13 34 Alex 8peddy, crying court etc....; J4 60 . Clark a Frank, as pr bill ..i,...jf 601 P. Pannebaker, carpen ter work tor -t Court House. g 75 Cbas. Phillips, window blinds ami rollers for court room and office.. 17 20 J A Christ j, attorney fees 60 00 David Wans, blank books for offices 16 60 J A Criawell, aiovepipe &c for Grand Jury Room ,, 7 00 0 P Robinson, two dozen chairs for C'rand Jury Room and repairing settees in Court Room 80 00 Rossana Stutzman and Mrs. Weiser, cleaning Court House D P Sulouff, lumber ete, for repairs. 40 00 Graybill A Shelly, matting, and put ting same down in Court House A - Commissioners' Office .......147 28 E. Dolen et al, hauling waier, ete .. 4 19 George Goshea, eoal 10 00 $1292 62 Public O fires, ' 3 A Christy, auditing aeconnta for pnblie oSeet .$16 00 VV M Allison, safe for Treasurer's office tiil, 75 00 Wm Mann, blank duckets for Regis ter's offiee 64 SO F L Hotter, blank Transcripts for ; Registry Law 89 75 0 W Jacobs, fees for elerk in Quarter -Sessions...,,,,,, 14 SO Jaaiea Robinson, table for Commia- -s4obmV room 10 CO $200 16 la f ras ceseTiTBTioa tbs vaios aso ran aaroaoaasa JUNUTA COUNTY, PENN' A., . Jury Commissioners and CUsls. .. C B Horning, Jury Commissioner, part pay $8 22 N A Elder, Jary Commissioner. .... 15 00 J Middsgh, Clerk 80 00 $53 23 ' " General and Spring Elections: Thomas B. Coder.' et aL Judges, and ' ' C McClellaa. et al. Inspectors, and ; ' E. Lauver, et al. Clerks, to General Elections, and James Dean, et al, ' Constables' fees for attending elec tions and publishing notices et time and plaee of holding elections, and serving notioes to persons e'.eeted. $221 97 f; Addmda. ... Amount of Orders issued, but not entered in Order Book, aa per Au ditora Report $199 63 Recapitulation. ' Miscellaneous... $70 73 Constable and Justices' fees in Com. ' mnnwealth eases... . 280 78 Commonwealth Witnesses.. ....... '875 13 Justices' Inquests on Ieaa Bodies. 20 83 Courts and Jurors' Pay 'J.'bZ 60 Road and Bridge Damages .... 2K2 60 Assessors' Fees 328 25 Ezpenaes under Registry Law .... 289 00 Enumeration for Slate Apportion ment... - 16 00 Constables' Returns and Tip Siavea 212 79 Wild Cat. Mink and Fox Scalps ... 314 03 Poor II on se.. 626 33- Eastern Penitentiary............. 420 27, Stale Lunatie Asylum 204 35 County Debt... 2893 20 Cjunlr Prison 653 74 Interest 149 25 Publie Printing- ..1471 48 Stationery, &e 40 12 Bridges...- 1404 75 Commissioners' Offiee and Court House.:. - 1292 62 Public Offices - 200 15 Jury Cotnmiif ioners and Clerk ...... '63 22 General and Spring Elections 221 87 Amount of Orders issuel but not registered in Order Book. 199 53 $14177 21 We, the commissioners of Juniata coun ty, in compliance with the law, do publish the foregoing, as a full statement of the ReceiDta and Expenditures of the county aforesaid, for the year 1870. ft. s.1 Given nnder onr hands at the Commissioners' Office, in Mifflintown, this J dsy of January. 1871. WALTER APP. K. R. GILLIFORD. WILLIAM ULSH. Conmiitxoner$. Attest: J. Miodach, C'ert. teb. 1-4W. Rett's orntr. A BOTE THE GOLDEN STAIRS. Put away the little dresses That our darling used to wear, She will need them on earth never. She has climbed the golden stairs, . She is with the happy angels. And I long for her aweet kiss. Where her little feet are waiting, In that land of perfect bliss. Lay as-de her little plsythings. Wet with mother's pearly tears. How we shall miss eur little pet. All the eoming, weary years. Fold the daiaty little drtseea. That she never more will wetr. For her little feet are waiting Just above the golden stair. Kiss the little silken tresses, Cut from ber bright golden hair. Do the angels kiss our darling In that realm so bright and fair ? 0, we pray to meet our dear one For a long, long, sweet embrace, - Where her little feet are waiting, Where we'll meet her face to face. Angels whirper that our darling Is in lands and climes so fair, That her little feet are wailing, , Just above the geldeu stair. Illisctllaiuous taiin. .... THE GEXTLE SiTAtiE, Who Ought Kot to be Exterminated, Un- aertakea to xiermin,tc u atu. From the San Antonio (Texas) Express, January 18. From a letter received by a gentle man in this city, trots lieutenant a. a. II ill, we learn of further Indian outrages in the upper country. In Montague county, near Denton Greek, while tbe man of the house was from home, a party of nine Indians broke down the windows and doors of the houte at about ten o'clock at night, where two women and eight children were sleeping. They killed Mrs. Susan V'aschal, aged about thirty-five years They killed Billy, her son, or rather mangled him so that he died the next day. VA boy seven years old, named Johnny, was dragged into the yard, scalp ed, shot, and his bowels cut out, while his sister Mary, only four years old, was shot in the breast with an arrow and severely wounded. Ben Paschal, aged twelve years, was beaten with clubs and left for dead, but both he and Mary are now slowly' recovering. Another of the children was killed by having its head smashed with a stick, and was then brn tally thrown into the yard. Mrs. Aon Kenan, , the lady of the house was shot through the breast with two arrows, beaten with clubs, and left for dead. She lived four days, and then died. Mies Ann Kenan, her daughter, was horrible outraged and then killed. A child, five years old, was wounded in the bed. The blood of the victim ran through tbe beds to the floor in fact the whole boose was covered with blood and hair, and gory clubs,' used in the hellish work of the fiends. The writer adds : "This same pirty of Indian, f ter committing (h.ejo unrdeit, wndown the country and stole a lot of Ipra.es. on which they made their escape tftc, to their homes. There have been eve.yil families murdered, besides this mentioned, or tbb tawa.J FEBRUARY 22,1S71. and, if possible with more brutality than above described. I will tell you my honest opinion. These marauders are the re serve Indians using the Comanche ar rows and sigus, to mislead the country into belief that they are Comanches who commit these outrages." Lieutenant Hill, who seems to under stand the whole question, ' continues : "The sight of hundreds of lone chim neys now standing on the whole line of the frontier, from the Iiio Grande to Bed Hiver ; the great number of decaying fences and houses, and bouses in the vi cinity stained with the blood of men. women and children of all ages, is truly a sbame to any nation on earth, l ou would shrink and shudder if but half were told of the horrid murders commit ted." In regard to the reception of rangers Lieut. 11 ill continues: "1 am very successful in all my dealings with the whole people ; we are gladly re ceived by the citizens and soldiers of II this country." HOTEL DESIRE OF A DTI5U JCBIST. On Sttuday last says the Lexington Ky.) Press, as the venerable Chief Jus tice Robertson, stricken by the hand of death, lay almost insensible to the world hich he seened fast leaving forever, liile the gigantic brain which for so many years lias throbbed grandly to the inspirations of his genius, barely flutter ed with the consciousness of life, he ex pressed a desire to hear Miss Crry sing the ballad of ' Old Folks at Home," as if the strains of his favorite melody would have power to call back his soul from the portals of tbe grave which he was so fast nearing. The wish was at once communicated to Miss. Cary, who willingly consented to do anything in her power to rouse the ebbing current of life in one who as a statesman or jurist, has known but few rivals during the course of a long and eventful life. On reaching tbe residence of Robert son, .'Ilea (ury was at once ushered into the chamber where so much of intellect and learning was fast flickering out into the darkness of the unknown here after, without accompaniment of any kind, raised her rich contralto voice in tbe touching words "Way down the Su wanee river," but before ' she had sung three lines broke down in the intensity of her emotion. Calming herself, she again essayed the ballad, and while the venerable and stricken man lay drinking her elorious melody, poured out her whole soul in the simple o iterances which gave so much pleasure to one whose giant intellect had, in days agone, fasci nated the most talented of the land. When she had ceased. Judge Robertson could scarcely express his gratification by sigus, yet signified a desire that Miss Cary should sing for him "Ilome Sweet Home " Twice did the gifted artist at tempt to comply with the request, but her emotion was too great, and, choked with feeling, she was compelled to leave tbe room. The whole incident was one of the most touching and effecting episodes that ever marked the deathbed of departing greatness George McClean, son of Samuel Mc Clean, of North Union township, Lafay ette county, bad his great toe froaen the first week in January, and two weeks later had it frozen again, after which he complained of stiffuess in the jaw and back of the neck. Drs. Smith and John Fuller were called and pronounced it lock-jaw. The young man lingered in great agony until Friday, the 27th ult., when death put an end to his sufferings. m .mmi A heavy '-divorce case" is pending in the courts of Northampton county. Ro bert A. Packer asks that tbe connubial bonds, that unite him to Arline M. Pack er, shall be dissolved. Mrs Packer ask? $100,000 to release her husband from the "little unpleasantness' that exists be tween them, and Robert offers $50,000, and asks "how's that for high ?" Mrs. P. answers that she won't take a cent less than $100,000 unless the law compels her. A Wbstbrn editor, on entering his office, and seeing his apprentice boy cut ting some queer capers, called ont to him, "Jim. what are you doing on tbe floor T" "Why, sir, I have had a shock." "A shock t" "Yes, sir." "Whatkindofa shock V "Why, sir," said the lad, gasp ing, "one of yonr subscribers came in during your absence said he owed for two yeara' subscription paid it and also paid another year in advance." : Mrs. Emberliug. of Prairie City, 111 , a few evenings since followed her hus band into a village saloon, armed with an ax. Finding him engaged with several others playing cards, she smashed tbe table with her ax, scattered the cards piled up the astonished players, and oar ried off '0r busband. A new machine for taking off the hide of dead cattle will shortly be tried at Buenos Avers. Tbe operation i sharp, short and decisive, requiring only a minute for each hide, fjold air is. forced, by a pump bet we n the flesh and te bide, and the thing is don?. EDITOR A5D PROPRIETOR. WHOLE NUMBER 1249 CARRIER FlbTEDSS AD HOW ARE TRADED. THU ' Balloons and earrier pigeons are among the prominent agents of communication employed in the Franco-Prussian war. The carrier pigeon is larger than the com mon pigeon measuring about 15 inches in length and weighing about oner and one quarter pounds. An appendage of naked tkiu bangs across hs bill. Its value is estimated according to its shape and size. Its strong iustiuctive love of home is so valuable, and fits it for its functions aa a carrier. The birds are regularly trainer) when young, their trainers taking them at first short distances from home and then tnrn them loose. Those that fail to return home are rejected as valueless. Those that return home ace; ibec taken to greater distances, progressively increased from two miles to a thousand miles. Tbe good birds return home with certainty. unerring lue birds are sometimes kept m a dark place for some hours; bf-f re they are used, and sparingly fed, but akatid antly watered. ; The paper on which the message is written, is carefully tied around the up per part of tbe bird's leg, but so as not to impede its flight. An old English ballad and a line from Tasso imply that the origi nal way of suspending the dispatch was from the wing or around the neck, but the above method is yet now in use. The employment of the earrier pi geon dates from remote antiquity. The rapidi ty of the flight of this bird is almost in credible. AudiLon speaks of passenger pigeons shot io the neighborhood of New Turk with ther craws full of rice, which the birds could not have procured nearer than the rice fields of Georgia and Carolina. Tbe same naturalist observes that as their powers of digestion is so great that they entirely decompose food in twelve hours, the birds which were killed in tbe neighborhood of New York, roust have travelled between three and four hundred miles in six hours. When the annual trial of the prize for the best carrier pigeons was decided at Ghent, in 1833, twenty-fonr birds which bad been conveyed from that place, were thrown up at Rouen at fifty minutes past nine o'clock iu tbe morning, Tbe dist ance is one hundred and fifty miles Tbe first pigeon arrived in tibeiit in one hour and a half, sixteen came in within two hours and a half, and three in tbe course of the day. Four were lost . The rate at which the first bird flew wag ninety oiiles in tbe hour. When thrown up tbe bird rises, and when it has reach ed a good height will at first fly round and round, and then make off, continu ing on tbe wing without stop or stay, un less prevented, until its well-known home is reached. TUE DEAC0X AND TUE WASPS. A worthy deacon in a town of Maine was remarkable for the facility with which he quoted Scripture on al! occas ions. Tbe divine word was ever at his tongue's end, and all the trival as well as important occurrences of life furnished occasions for quoting the language of the Bible. What was better, however, the exemplary man always made his quota tions tbe standard of action. One hot day be was engaged in mow ing with his hired man, who was leading off, the deacon following in his swath, eoming his apt quotations, when the man suddenly sprang from his place, leaving the swath just in time to escape from a wasps' nest. "What is tbe matter?" hurriedly in quired the deacon. 'Wasps," was the laconic reply. "Pooh,- said the deacon, "tbe wicked flee when no man pnrsuetb.but the right eous are bold as a lion." And taking the working man's swath, he moved but a step when a swam of brisk insects set tled about his ears, and he was forced to retreat, with many a painful sting, and a great discomforture. "Ah 1" sbonted the other, with a chuckle, "the prudent man forseeth tbe evil and hideth himself, but the simple pass on and are punished." The good deacon had found bis equal in making applications of the sacred writings, and thereafter was not known to quote Scripture in a mowing field. : A Georgia editor says that twenty four heathen Chinese walked into bis sanc tum the other day, and, through the medium of an interpreter, paid for twenty-fonr subscriptions to bis paper The editor wondered what they wanted of an English paper, aud he was inform ed that they took it for the "pictures" in it the paper having Cos tar's rat cnt, a catarrh tut, a gus.no trade mark, and an umbrella "picture." . A Domestic IUcipk To cure scan, dal t take of good nature one ounee ; of tbe herb, "Mind your own bnsines," one ounce ; mix them wiJ a little charcoal for others ; and two or three sprigs of "Keep your tongue between you teeth." A woman in Detroit vent to church the other day, leaving- four littla children vrijh only a box of matches to phiy with. Jha von't do it again. KATES 01 ADVERTISING. AH advertising fot leswt&sT'iSre months for enw stfwlrrof eight lines or less, will be chargrd one insertion, 75 cents, three $1,50, sad 50 cents for each subsequent insertion. Administrator's. EVaftntor'a and Auditor's Noticea, $2,00. Professional and - Business Carda. not exeeeding one square,' air' inclu ding eopy of paper, $4,00 per year. Norit in reading colunna, lea eenta per line; Her eh an Is advertising by the year at special rates. 3-eM- 6 monthtt 1 'yn One square.$- 4J $e.i3 $l.0O Two squares...... 6.00 !. 15 h Three squares.... R.nrt 12.00" n,0O One-fourth ecFn. 14.00 20.00 M.CO Half column. 18,00 2:0O 46.UO One column SO.Oo 45.00 8').H SHORT ITEMS. Oyster saurtgrrars a New York nov elty. There are $12,000 in-the C!eato.U treasury,- There are 19 persons' in the Lehigh' county jail." An orphan's Skk recently held in Erie netted $4,700'. Tbejahawe begun, in'Canada, to raise? rabbits for food. Washington' t&wnsbip, York county, has the smallpox- badly. The Kentucky fear &ve the adnrisk4 of tbe testimony of colored1 persons. "Are cats good to eat mother V "Of course tbey at e goo l to eat mice " According tfrtbe TTogarcrmnty Jgiia t:r horse thieves infest Welmborough. There are sinty-tbree churches in Washington, of which twenty are color ed. The Ioe htm fires in Pbilitle!t)hiadnr. ing the past year amoufrted! t6 $i,00(T, 013 A Norwegian woman, with twenty chil dren, recently arrived at Milwaukee. The children were all Las. own. 'Three thousand Baltimoreanr WsHo boots and shoes, fur the wholesale trade-;, and last year tnrawd ou 8 369,060 wortbi A member of tfie Virginia Legi.-Utrtre' is demanding legislation to protect' the people Against paper and chip-bottonv shoes; Five thotrsanj sleighs are made' an--nually in Maine, with prices ranging from $10 to S3.51). Maine builds- men sleighs than any other Slate. A Wisconsin man, wi was bitten by a small dog, three weeks ago, became ap prehensive of death by hydrophobia, and, to avert that catastraphe, coomittc J twenty-two miles along' tbe Erie aud Pittsburg Railroad, iociauliigp New Castle aud Sharpsville, there are twenty -four large turnaees and six-; large rolling mills:- A Herman Borgran, wife and two children were fording Morean creek,. five miles from Jefferson City, Mo., last veek, their wagon upset and Mrs Horgman and the children were drowned) It is stated a contract has been signed r for tbe importation of a nnmber of cool ies to work a Schuylkill county colliery, and that tbe first batch-will arrive about May 1; A gentleman, walking w ith' two ladies stepped on a hogshead hoop that flew up and struck him iu the face, "Good gra cious '."said be, "which one of: yoa dropp ed that 1" A Burlington, Vermont" woodcboFper lost his life last week by running against a tree with bis pipe in hi? mouth. The Stem was driven into his throat, making a laceratiotl whieb resulted' fatuHy. The Chester Valley farm' contains the following ; "To be married, if divine ly permitted, Joseph Briutoa and Anna M Mowland, at '.lie residence of the fr--mer atErctldoun, Chester county Not Pennsylvania only, but the whole' country, ia under great obligations to Senator Scott for the zeal and ability dis played in bis i Aorta to procure the ex tinguishment of tbe Iuuoin6 tax. "I have thia afternoon been preaching to a congregation1 of asses." aaid a con ceited yonng parson. "Then that was the reason you cal'e-.l them my beloved brethren," replied a strong-minded lady. A female lecturer once said, "Get mar ried, young men. and be quick about it. Don't wait for the mlllefltum, for tbe girls to becouie angb'S You, vfonld look well beside an angel, wouldn't you, yttt brutes V Mr "Cbawls Thawpson' recently ran his head against a young lady during a cotillion. "Ah ! excuse me, deah," bo-. cried : "did it hurt, ah ?" "No, sir," she replied, "it's too soft to hurt any thing " At last a cure is foun 1 for cold in the head. Dr. Poillon a French pfcysf cian, says it can be cured by iuLaiing hartshorn. The inhalation by the nose should be seven or eight times in five minutes. There is the way a Colorado lover ex pressed admiration for bis fair: "She's a a peeler, she ia. She killed a bear when she was 15, and a Digger Indian when she was 18; aud now she'll whip her weight in wild-eats An old man rose at a meeting in a Methodist church in Jefferson county, Iowa, a few nights ago, and addressed the young people present, telling them that he had long sought to live a Chris tian, and life wasmost uncertain. He sat down, and, in a few minutes, died. A Gerogia lawyer refused an appoint ment as district attorney, the other cay. because the Judge is a colored man, and his letter has brought oat a reply from Governor Bullock, who publish the lawyer's petition for the very office he now so indignantly spurns, and also a letter from the colored Judge, inclosed by him, indorsing the application.
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