..JUG lor oi v.neanti Z'xt 3'JHiatJ .Sntiafl. ESTABLISHED IN 1846. PtaLISHKD CvEKT WeiiSEIBIT MORMXO, Br, jgt Street, opposite the Odd F ellows' Hall. MIFFLIXTOWX. IU. Thi Jcxiata Sestisii. is published every Wedaesday morning at $1,50 a year, in ad Yoce; or $2.00 in all eases if not paid toromptly in alvance. X subscriptions dis Bontinue J umil all arrearages are paid, unlets ml ti, option of the publisher., uiiufss;-Carbs..A;: OL'IS K. ATKINSON, M1FFLIXTOWN, PA. p3K"i'"t;ng "'' onTf yancing promptly tticsdrJ i- Office, second !ory of Court l.'onse, above Protti.)ti9i.iiy' officc- J .0!SEKT Mi MEKN, ATTOHSEr AT LAW, MIFKLIXTOWX, PA. ( fTiC"'! Itrelpe street, in the rjoin formerly Occupied liy Kira 1. Purl cr. L'sq. P.. LOl'L'EX, " MIFFLINTOWN, PA.. Offer !i:s frrjces to tli citizens of Jcn'i : ounty 8 Atic'ioneer anil Veudu Crirr. Cb ir?i's, from 1 17 j lion iM:iutrd ro ten dollars. Snlisfuc v3. VJ 0 YES! U YES! K. H. SSYDEIl. Perrysville, Pa, Tenders bis service lo the citizen i f Juni ata and a-ljoinmg cwn'ics, hs Auctioneer. Chare'"' mo lerate. For satisfaction give ihe Ihiir'im -i a chance 1'. O. address, 1 oi l Rural, Juniata Co , Ta. Fib 7. '72-ly Dll. i c. nuxiJTu PATTERSON. l'ENN'A. Angus' IS. K0!t-tf. MIFFLIXTOWX, T V. 0!5ee Lours 5 A M to 3 P. M. Office in IVfmd's building, tw doors above the Srn ttntl office, Hrid-e street. auglH-tf HOJLE'JPHATIC PHYSICIAN i SURUEON laYin periianen'ly located in tlie b rough f Mitlliiilowti. offers his professional services to itie ciliiehs of this place and si.rruuudi.ig eunui ry. (Tact on Maiu street, over PeMW I'rug (ii.,re. faug IS l'tiMf Et. H. A. Simpson Treat! all for-:!-! uf ill"?", and tuny be con niheJ as follitwj: it his office in Livst-pool r., trerv-SATl'iiDAY an. I MOXUAY ap p iintmcnn c.111 bo L.ade fur other days. tejrt' iil on or addr's DP., li. A. S1MPSOX, de7 l.ivi rrool. Perry Co.. Pa.. AITOItNEY AT LAW, 14 4 SOUTH SIXTH STRUCT, Ptlll.AHK.I PHI A. oef'7-tf c 'KNTUAh I.AiM AUKXCV, JAMES M. SELLKRS, 141 f. 0 U Til SIXTH STREET, PMILAUI I.PHIA. (3. Bounties. Pensions, Buck Py, Horce rUim;. Stutc t'l:iim, .te., promptly collected. ?o c'jarge f.ir iufoiniaiiou, uor when inuney i not collect.nl. oct7-tf ATTENTION ! TMr WATTS must respectfully unnonn cen to the public that he is prepared to furnish SCHOOL BOOKS AND STATIONER! at reduced prices. Hereafter give hira a call at his OLI STAND, MAIN St., MIFFLIN. Oct f fUJ()MIi!!i:; .VFATE XOIL.MAI. SCHOOL AXI) literary and Comaiercial Institute. The Faculty of thia lnstituli n aim to be erv ta,rpu;h in their instruction, and tc looi carefully after the manners, health and nt.irals of toe aludenis. Sw" Apply lor calaloauea lo HKSRV CARVER A. M., Sept 28. 1871-tim Principal. Hew Bjtug, Btoie IX PEllRYS villi:. DTI. J. 3. APPLUBACGII has eMnblished a0ri:gaud Prescription Store in the abne-naraed place, and keeps a general as sort went of DRI'CS tvn vrtifirir Also all other articles usually kept iti estab- I li'liments of this kind. Pure Wines ana Ltqiurs for medicinal pur poses, Cigars, Tobacco, Stationery, Coulee ions (first-class), Xotions, etc., etc. fcarThe Doctor gives advice free N EWD RU GSTO R e! BANKS & HAMLIN, Main Street. Mi til ih lour n, I'o DKVI.KIt!? IN ! ,. DEICS 1D ncDKHES, i vi"m,ls, Dve Stuff. I Paints, ; "tushes, Glass, ; '".v. Coal Oil, ; Lamp;, Burners, Cbituusys. r.rushes. ltif.ints l!ruflie. Soaps. Uir Itrushes, Tooth Ilrushes. ' 1'erfiimerr, Combs. j "ir Oil, Tobacco, c,grs, m Xolious, , and Stationary. LAUi.K VARIKTY OF PATENT MEDIfilNES, ''''ttej with great care, and warranted from "J authority. w 're,t of WISES ASD L1QU0P.S for Medi al Purpose,. l'UESCr.IPTIOXS compounded with 'care. tnal6'72-ly EST CIGARS IN TOWN AT Hollobauch' Kalonn. 'wo for 6 cente A,SOf (be Fr, l " """C'st Oy.ters, the Sweets ,, ; ?1 Domestic Wines, and, in "'"EJou may i8u in ,he 0 for 6 Cents. Alan, the Fre.leat T .wer ectest Cider, the n short, any- ETIXG OR DUISKIXG LINE 1 " ,b B refitt 'rttt'j'hil reaeon,ll'le Pr'ces. He has also MILLIARD HALL, it will ,. ...,. o that ov li ..li : " t.-uijiare lavnraoty wnu v j 1. Wrt-iv B. F. SCIIWEIER, . VOLUME. JXVt iNO. 23 of al Slbotrlistmrhtsr IX DRY GOODS, NOTIONS, QTJSENSV ARE, BOOTS & SHOES, 11 ATS AND CAPS, WOOD & WILLOW WAKE FLOOR OIL CLOTHS, TABLE OIL CLOTHS, &C., fiC. IK!, If you want to see an entire new stock of Goods at Low Prices, call at the NEW CRYSTAL PALACE BUILDINS, TlIFFIIIs TO 7?U, PA. SIIELIiEV V STAMUAUGII. X..t. 2!, 1S71. JUMATA VALLEV BANK OF M I FFI.INTO WW, JOSI'.I'H i'OMEKOY, Piesideut T. VAN IltYiN, LVbiet. LIBKCTOI'S. J.. stub !.""-. J..tni J. Patter.-on, Jeruuie X. Thotnsoa.itje'irgfc Jacobs, . Jouu Ualbbucu. I.onn money, recipe depiisits. pny interest j m on li'nt s, buy and sell coin ahd I'ni 1 Ted tateii ltnds, c.ish, coupons and checks, j Ueiui; iiioney to any part ot 'he United Ctate I .. and u.S'i to Ktigland, jco!lmid. Ireland and Goricanr. Sell llevcune Stamps. In suim .f f.ul) at '1 p-r cent, discount. In su'iig of Si'it'O at '1 per cent, discount. In sums of i-lliO at S per cent, discount. New Store and Xew Goods. GROCSSIES, PROVISIONS, &C. Ha!a Sirast, llifflht-jwn. HAVIXG opened out a GttOCEItY ASH PKOVISIOX STOKE in the old stand on Main 5treet, Mitilihtown, I would respect fully ask the attention of the public lo the following articles, which I will keep on hand at all I i Lies : SUGAR, COFFEE, TEA, MOLASSES, RICE, rlHII, SALT, )KIKI AM) CANNED FKUIT. HAM, SHOULDER, DRIED BEEF, Confectioneries, Nuts, &c, 1"olst , Oisf1"1. O L A f 8 W A K 'E , Klour, Feed, 8eo. All of which will be sold cheap for Cash or Country Produce. Give me a call and hear my prices. J. W. KIRK. Mifflintown, May 2, 1872. The Place for Good Grape-Yincs IS AT THE jiunhta UUlfD IH C il 1" U S, " " AXU GRAPE-VINE MRSERY. rpHE undersigned would respectfully in ! 1 toiin the public that he has started a j Grape-vine Xursery about one mile northeast ! of MiHIiutown, where lie has been te.ting a large number of the different virielies of Grapes ,- and having been in the busiucss for seven years, he is now prepared to furnish VINKS OF ALL THE LKAPING VARIETIES, AND OF THE .MOST PROMISING KINDS, AT I, O II T li S , , by the sinele vine, doien, bundrrl or thou, sand. All persons wishing good nnd ihriftv ; vines will do well to call and see for tbeni ' selves. fjS-Good and responsible Ageuta wanted. Address, i JOXAS OBERHOLTZER. I Mitllintown. Juniata Co.. Pa. WALL PAPER. Rally to the Place where yon can bay your Wall Paper Cheap. rPHE undersigned lakes this method of in A forming Ihe public that he has just re ceived at his residence on Third Street, Mif flintown, a large assortment of WALL lVPEIt, of various styles, which he offers for sale CHEAPER than can be purchased elsewhere in the county. All persons in need of the above article, and wishing ;o save money, are invited to call and examine bis stock and hear his prices before going elsewhere. BrnLarec sttrply constantly on hand. SIMOX BASOM. Mifllintown. April 6, 1871-tf A Large assortment of Queensware, China ware. Glassware, Crockery wars, Cedar ware, &c, for sale chtap by T I I.TEX & KmiXSCHAPE'S. 4 MIFFUNIOEJSi, A HOUSEKEEPER'S TRAGEDY; OB, ' - Dirt All Uie Way Tfcroogh. BT BATABD TATLOB. One day as I wandered, I beard a complain ing. And taw a poor woman the picture of gloom; She glared a; the mud on her door step, ('twas raining.) And this was her wail as eLo wielded her broom : "0, life is a toil, and loe is a trouble. And beauty will fads, and riches will flee. And pleasures they dwiudlc, and prices they double. And nothing is what I could wish it to be. "There's too much of worriment goes to a bonnet ; There's too much of iron'ng pots to a shirt ; There's no hieg that pays for the time you waste on it ; There's nothing thnt lasts but trouble and dirt. "In March it is mud; it's slush in December; The midiunimer breezes are loaded with dust ; In Tall the leares litter ; in mugp Sp ember The wall paper rots and the candlesticks rust. I "There arc worms in the cherries, and el'jgs j in tio roses J Aud ants in the si:gar, and mice in the pies; The rubbish of spiders 110 mortal supposes. And rarnging roaches aud damaging diss. "It's sweeping at six, and it'siliistiiignt seven; It's rictus Is at eight, and it's dishes at nine; It'a pottit g apd panning from ten to eleven ; ... We scarce brenk our fast ere we plan how to line. With grease tJ with griue from corner to centre. Forever at war, and forever alert, Xo rest for a day. leaf the enemy enter I spend my whole life in a struggle with dirt. Last night in my dream, 1 was stationed forever On a little bare isli in the midst of the sea; My cne chr.nce of life, with a ocsseless en. dcavor. To sweep off rbe waves ere they swept over me. Aln; ! 'twas no dream again I b.holj it 1 yield ; I am helpless my fate to avery he rolled down her eleeves, her rpron she folded; . ...... Then lay dewn and died, and was buried in diit ' rSolot Slory. CHARITY'S HOME. AXO I10W IT WAS PAID FOB. When I came to New Y'ork, a few ears ago, my wife said to rae one morh- Isreal, we must have a home of our own " Said I : "Charity, it's just impossible ; we hain't the means." Saitl she : "Israel, we hain't the means to pay the rent those people charge, that's clear." She begun washing tip the breakfast things, and off I went to duty. In the evening Charity said to me, as wc sat down to supper; "Israel, I've bought a lot." I sprang up from my chair and said : You've bought .what I" ' A lot.' said i he. "A lot!' siid I. "A l"t." eattl elie. " "Well !" said I. and I sat down again and went for the tea and biscuit. When I came too, I said to my wife : "Just ex plain yoltrself. Charity " "I've bongbt a lot," said she. "Mr Dodd says, the fifty dollars down are satisfactory, and the rest may run at six per cent. Twenty feet front one bun dred feet deep two thousand feet at ten cents a foot, two hundred dollars. Fifty paid, one hnndred and fifty due." "But. Charity, how about a house ?" "All right Israel I've made a con tract with Cbipps & Cullings ; house, shed and fence, fifteen hundred and fifty." "Charity, are yon " Deranged, eh ? No, love, not a bit. One hundred dollars cash when posses sion is given " "But, Charity" 'Stop a minute. You know. Israel, we can never get our large bureau, nor our large sofa, uor our high post bedstead nor our large secretary, nor our large wardrobe into this little four room house. That's dear, hain't it?" "Well ?'' "Well, then, we'll sell them all, and the proceeds will meet these two cash payments." "Exaetlr, with a little difference, may be. So yon see." "But how can we do without these things V "As easy as yon will da without cigars ; as easy as you will be your own barber and bootblack as easy as we'll both take our breakfast without half-dollar butter : as I'll make all winter's clothes carry me through uext winter; as easy as I'll carry yon through, nice and genteel; on the same principle ; as easy as " Charity I" "Well ?" "As easy as I'll do without a 'nooner' and a 'uigbt cap and my cigars, and theatre tickets, and" "Exactly, old glow-worm !" ' TBI OOKITITUTIOI THB DIIOM ABD tUt fOSOSBMT OF JUNIATA mXTTiitWXA rjiji 'afVi "Well well. Soppoa wesbonld do without these things, and I sLould be away before it is paid ; where would our own my Charity's home be then ?" "Oh, yon. can ' get your life insured' and make that all safe." "Darling here's with yon 1" I uever saw debts squared off so anon. Two hundred aud fifteen hundred, make seventeen ; and one huudred and fifty, cash off, paid by proceeds of surplus furniture leaves fifteen hundred and fifty Fifty dollars a mouih pays t'nia off in no. uot iu thirty-one months, because the interest and insurance payments put it off somewhat, and the taxes and a couple of omissions Lest it running longer ; say for three years ; and thi n we had a home of our owa. every foot of it worth fifty cent?, making a clear gain if eilit hundred dollars ; .and we were '-Slop, hu.sband let me tell it. We have a home a sivcet delightful home and I have a husband who never knew that bis soul debasing indulgences had brnur1t him down so fa as that none t I ut his own wife deuied his fallen state. or hoped to lift bita up again We have i Uiree dear children, of whom we are proud ; aud '' -Charity!" ' ' "What, h.ve V "I have just been thinking that if " "Nothing more is needed Israel." "Let me say it out. Charity. ' If you were only single, how I'd like to court , moment but alas it proved ineffective to you over a-'ain " I avelt lt'rr'b'e accident which follow "Not foHong. old Rubicund ! for I'd j cd- Discovering that ll.eir engine would drop plump into your arms at the first j come in collision "' the engine of the time of asking." And Charity suited , ballast train, which was backing at a the action to the word. j8,ow rat8 of t'ie unfortunate -It's all. no doubt, very natural for Jg men made an effort to escape the young men to love the gii Is." said Israel ; ' frightful death awaiting them by desert 'but no girl was ever half so lovable to j '"g 'h"'' engine and running back over me as this dear wife, who has given more; the train. They had succeeded in leav than half the years of her life to make me ! '(? me four or five cars between them Imnnv. and leuiinir me out of the wars I d the engine when, with a fearful nF rullv atifl nf Bin an A mir nurlinflp babies are all like unto her." And Charity broke in with an amen so emphatic, that little Abe Lincolu shouted from his high armud chair This meeting are dismissed !" iiti.r IHE"0ATE!SHCT. An English farmer was one day at : work in Lis fields, wheu he saw a party i of hunters riding about his farm. He ' had one field which he was especially I anxious they should not ride over, as the I imp was in a condition to be badly in jltred by the tramp of horses So he j Lave escaped death dispatched one of his work bands to this j A brakeman on the train who wa also field telling him to shut the gate and then J running over the the cars toward the keep watch over it, and on no account j rear of the ,rai"' WB f"rtunate enough suffer it lo be opened. The boy went as j to "P "ff "f ,nH ,a8t car tnal wreck he was bidden, but was scarcely at his j ed jU!it at ,,,e l,mP t,,at ,he accident hap post before the hnnters came up. peremp- P'"c,, thereby escaping injury and prob toiily ordering the boy to open the gate. I abiy dea,h- A """'ber of the cars of This the boy declined to do, stating the j ,rain8 ere -Acd and the en orders he had received, and his determi- g",M precipitated down a steep embank nation not to disobey them! Threatsarid j Inent lt xq-'ired two bouts hard bibor bribes were offered alike in vain; one) b7 the faine.ieo and others attracted to af-r nil,r em foro-ard na anokesman he scene of the accident before the bod but all wi;h the same result. The boy remained immovable in the determina tion not to open the gate After a while one of noble presence advanced, and said, in commanding tones : ".My boy, do you know me ? I am the Duke of Welling ton, one not accustomed to being diso beyed, and I command you to open that gate, that I and my friends may pass through." The boy lifted his cap, and stood un covered before the man whom all Eng land delighted to houor, and then an swered firmly : " I am sure the Duke of Wellington would not wish me to disobey orders. 1 must keep this gate shut, nor suffer any one to pass but with my master's ex press permission." Greatly pleased, the sturdy old war rior lifted his own hat, and said : "I honor the man or the boy who can be neither bribed or frightened iuto doiug that which i-i wrong. With an army of such such soldiers I could conquer not ouly the French, but the world " The old Duke then handed the boy a glittering sovereign, and put spurs to his horse and galloped away, while the boy ran off to his work, shouting at the top of his voice : "Hurrah, hurrah ! I've done what Na poleon couldn't do I've kept out the Doke of Wellington " A you.no lady having " eetlier cap" for a rather large specimen of the oppo site sex and having failed to win him was telling her sorrows lo a couple of confidents, when one of them comforted her with these- words, "Never mind, Mullie, there are as good fish in tho sea as ever were caught." 'Mollie knows that," replied her little brother, ' but she wants a whale !" Tue difference between a blunder and a mistake is this f when a mau puts down a bad umbrella and takes np a good one, he makes a mistake ; but when he puts down a good one and takes up a bad one he makes a blunder. "If you don't give me a dime," said a young hopeful to his mamma, "I know a boy that's got the measles, and I'll go and catch them." TBS Ufl. JUNE 5, 17! TERRIBLE ACCIDEXT. Two Yonng Hen Instantly Killed. On Thursday morning last, about one mile west of Lillys station, a frighful railroad accident occurred which resulted in the instantaneous death of two young men named Henry Hudson and Chris tian Douglass, residents of this city, the former yesiding in smithtown, in the 1'bird ward, and the latter residing on Ninth avenuH, iu the Sixth ward. Hud son was employed as an engineer and Douglass as a firenlan, running an en gine No. 2-"S, on the Western division. Early on the morning of Thursday, with buoyant spirits and lipid hearts, they left the city westward bound on their engine attached to the Altoona freight train, consisting of some forty two cars, a number of which were heavily loaded with railroad iron. A down grade in the viciuity of Lilly's station followed by a heavy upgrade necessitates a rapid rate of speed to make the up grade on schedule time. While descending the western slope of the inoutita n at the usual speed the engineer discovered a ballast train on the main track not very far in advance and immediately gave the signal for "down brakes," reversed his engine aud opened the sand pipes com municating with the track iu order to in crease the adhesion of the drivers with the rails. This was but the work of a CPasD lu I. .motived canao n eoMtaei - and the souls of the two young mm were ushered into eternity. When they met their end fate they were on a long truck loaded with track it on. Hudson beinjr crushed to death by the iron falling on htm, wlille the body ot Uonglass was terribly mangled, a bar of railroad irou entering his person near tho hips, cut t!,,S ,,im Pf n UP lo the neck and com pletely severing his head in twain The argument is advaneed by some that if the young men had remained on their cl,S'"e they would in all probability. ies of Hudson and Douglass could be extricated from the debris. When the sad news reached the city, about noon of the same, day, of the mag nitude of the accident, a deep gloom settled over the countenances of a large number of our people, for young Hudxnn and Douglass were well known and highly respected for their many redeem ing traits of character. The sympathies of all were extended to the relatives of the deceased yonng men, aud in the evening, about half past nine o'clock, when their remains were brought to the city on a special train, a large number of citizens had assembled at the depot hop ing to get a last look at the mutilaied form of their young friends. The body of Douglass was quietly removed to the residence of his mother, iu the ixth ward, while the body of Hudson wis conveyed to the residence of his parents, in the Third ward, followed by a large number of friends and acquaintances. Both Hudson and Douglass were un married, Douglass was buried in Fair view Cemetery, on Friday afternoon at three o'clock, and Hudson was buried on Saturday morning, at uine o'clock, in the Catholic Cemetery. The funerals of both were largely attended. Hudson was a member of the Good' Will Fire company, and delegations from the diff erent fire companies In the city were in attrudauce at his funeral Altoona Tri bune. - - - aSO-OSa i i. Thb local of the Atlanta Sun is a poet He grinds it out by machinery. Here is a specimen : Let dogs delight to bark and bite, For 'tis their nature lo ; But the engineer on a high pressure teamboat should never desert his engine room to go out and see the Sgbt. Or the boiler up may blow. Every act of self-denial will briug its own reward with it, and make the next step in duty and in virtue easier and more pleasant than the former. BUY iiNO all credulity is the credulous ness of the atheist, who believes that chance could make a world when it can not build a barn. . Waht is taken from yon before yon get it T Yonr photograph. EDITOR 1SD PROPRIETOR.' WHOLE NUMBER 1317. SUOOTLXU AFFRAY IX DA5 RICE'S CIRCUS. From the Lawrence (Kac?) Tribune, May T5 We received yesterday fiotn one of our correspondents the following letter, which gives the details of a shooting af fray that occurred at Baxter Srfrigs last ' Wednesday : Dan Rice's circus on Wednesday brought up at Baxter. . At this point, during the .evening performance, a new feature wss introduced not new to Bax ter, but new to the circus. It was in the shape of a first class thooting affray, enacted inside the canvas and during the performance, though not down on the bills The difficulty was between oue of the proprietors of the circus, Spaulding, and Wesby Taylor, the City Marshal of Baxter. Taylor attempted to arrest one of the candy and lemonade venders iu the cir cus for selling without a license, whereat cpaulding interfered, saying that no one could be arrested inside the tent, and at tk. Mine time drawing his revolver: Taylor generally carries such a tool him self, and naturally "went"' for it. ' As be was drawing it Spauldttfg fired at him. which Taylor returned, and then the two settled down to business and cracke i away at each other nutil four or five shots apiece were exchanged. Two of Taylor's balls took effect ia Spauldiug. one iu the lewer part of the stomach, another ia the left side, aud an other grazed Lis Ireaet, inflicting a plight wound. His injuries, it is thought, will prove fatal. Taylor c ime out of it with a slight cut on his breast. Spaulding was taken to the lggtns House, where no now ilea iu a critical coiiuiuun. I r ... t ti nco corner but a snort distance from The tettt was packed full at the time. .aad npon a m o .ccompany- and. as might be expected, the excite tbe to Father M Kee'B he remarked rat nt was intense. The screaming and . .. . i . t . j j " i that that was what lie wanted, and npon fainting of the ladies and children was j the enferii)g tU yd t!i Bcrnt huge, while the colored brcthnm m.J ;r, re ;zed him ,aJ eom!11enced err tnA H..O, .n . r . i. a .... j n J bee line in a body from the tent, and, if reports arc unlhentic, are running yet. After the row was over the showmen sallied out in a body, caught an unoffend ing pi inter named Wiggins and pounded him pretty severely, besides inflicting a tab or two in the bieast. They pre lended they thought he was Tajlor, but r.s this latter individual had just procur ed an extra pair of revolvers, aud was out on the street, the mistake was un doubtedly a very healthy one for them. The circus fixtures were soon after loaded on the cars and moved to Fcrt Sc-tt. and so ended the last " battlo in Baxter." Since receiving the above we have been informed from parties who arrived here yesterday from Fort Sco'l, that TVg weller, the ringma3ter of the circus, was also shot and wounded mortally, end has since died. Our Hn format) t also stated that Spaulding is also dead, and that in the affray two citizens were wounded seriously Encounter with Rlack Snakes by aJTe niau 94 Years Old. A few days ago Mrs. Polly Vananda, (a widow lady now above nirrcty-four yeais of age, and probably the eldest person in Lycoming county,) who re sides alone at he old homestead in the sixth ward, near the southern boundary of Wildwood Cemetery, discovered a huge black snake among the shrubbery of her door yard. The ote lady is noted among these who are acquainted with her for the remarkable physical vigor he maintains at sncli an advanced age. and her daily use of it in labor, that would wilt a modern belle in less than an hour. So when she discovered - his snakeship she stood upon no hesitation about what to do, but at - once took a clothesline prop, the nearest weapon at band, and with the vim of three quarters of a century ago. when she was a young woman, Williamsport was a wilderness, and such encouutets were not only com mon but a necessity with both men and women, attacked him and after beating him until she supposed he was dead went into the honse and thought little about the occurrence until the next day, when ber mind was very vividly recalled to it by discovering her supposed dead snake alive and stretched lull length npon a bush and (as is the habit of most snakes to go in pairs,) a companion of equal size stretched alongside of him both leisurely sunning themselves. Not to be outgen eraled in that way, uor nothing daunted. Mrs. Vanando procured her old weapon and was about to attack the two, whan a younger woman, who happened to be present, became alarmed and interposed. Mr. J. R. Clark, a neighbor, hearing the screams of the latter went to inquire the cause, and despatched both of the rep tiles They measnted seven feet iu length, aud were what are commonly kuown as "racers." Another of the same species and about equal size was killed by a gentleman residing near by ouly a few days before Lycoming San-hnd. Satan's promises are like the meat that fowlers set before birds, which is not meant to feed them, bnt to take them. A Yankkb bachelor editor inserts mar riages nuder "'Melancholy Accident?." RATES 0? ADVERTISING- All advertising for less thaa three months for one square of nine liaea or less, will ba charged nue inset lion. 75 cents, three $2.0Q a'nd 61 cants tor ea-;h subseqQeat insertion. Administrator's. Executor's and Auditor's Notices $2.JO. Professional and Business Cards, not exceeding one square, and incla. ding eopy of paper, $8,00 pryarv Kotisss in reading column, ten cents per line. Mer chactxidvemsing by ibeyear at special rates Savwirtir- Smtrtrit. 1 far. One square $ 3.60 $ 6.00.. 8.00 Two squares &,00r 8.00 11.00 Three squares.... 6. GO 10.90 1S.00 One-fourth eol'n. 10.00 - 17.00 26.00 HalCeoluma 18.00 26.(0 45.00 One coliiana 10.00 - 46.00 SO.Otl A MA5IAC HUB DEREK. Cata'avqc, Pa.. May 27. The usual quietness of this place was some, what disturbed on Saturday last by the report tha? Firther M'Kee, of St. Law rence Catholic Church, bad been shot, and npon intjuiry it was found that a man had Called at the residence of the priest, and asked to see him. Upon the man coming into the clergyman's pres- . en.ee, he was asked what was his wish, and replying. -You know," was interrogated further, wreupon be drew from his pocket a Sharp's revolver, and fired three shots at the priest, cne of which struck the aroi which- was thrown up as a ehiefcT. Propping the revolver be ran' off. and a servant girl gave the alarm to the neighbors. Before the man could be secured he had made his way to the wood at the edge of town and' eluded capture. Some excited boys, who had followed him, directed the crowd to a honse occupied by a German, nan! H inter Schlaucb, and but fr the inter ference of the burgess anJ"other citizens the jioor dab would hare been lynched. He. was conveyed to the priest, who at once pronounced him innocent, which fact hut partially relieved the minds of. the most excited In the meantime all clue to the guilty parly had been lost. Upon an examination of the wonnd of Father M'Kee it was found that the ball had entered the arm above the wrist, passed around the bone, and was re moved from under the flesh upou the op. posite side his srm no doubt having saved his life by being thrown up. Search' eing made yesterday moruing fur tba guilty party, he was found lying in a iug inurdur. He was disarmed, when it was found that he had another pistol and knife, which he held in hi? pockets while en the way to the Louse. He was also recognized by the priest. . A large crowd gathered, and' it was was with the great est difficulty the m:in was conveyed to. the lock up. Severf.l attempts were made to lynch him, and when he arrived he was bleeding considerably from blows received on the way. The man gives his name as William Pendpgraat. and says he walked all the way from Phila delphia to kill him. He worked here on the Lehigh and Susquehanna railroad. five years ago. There is no doubt but what the man is insane, as bis not trying to escape during the nhjht aud willing ness to again go before the priest shows conclusively that he is not iu his right mind. He was conveyed to Allentown for safe keeping, and will be taken t" Kaston, to the Northampton couuly jail. Sbvkral years ago there was such a tremendous freshet on the Illinois river, that It was for a long time referred toai 'the flood ! ' During a . lawsuit iu Peoria, an old man named Adam, living in a little hacilet on I lie river known as r'a;rdise. was examiued " as a witness. "What is yonr name 1 ' was the firet question asked him. "Adam, sir," said he. "Your name is Adam, is it ? Well where do yon live 1" Iu Paradise sir." "Oh yonr name is Adam, and you live in Paradise, do you I Well how long have you lived there?" "Ever since before the flood, sir," replied the simplo old man, whose words were drowned in a roar of laughter, in which the couit. Jur - V' counsel .P' Cttors all joined Geiti.no Rkdy for Jldomeqt Day. An ex-Union soldier has sent 810 to the Secretary of the treasury as a con tribution to the conscience fund. In a letter to the Secretary be says he ap propriated some sngar and coffee and a pair of Bocks' white guarding provisions in east Tennessee during the war He closes his letter by saying : "I mut get ready for the judgment day, and although this act would not be regarded very wrong, it was a violation of the honor of a soldier. A Government with sack a President as we had then ought to have soldiers that could be trusted even when they bad been hungry for a long time.. I want no shadow on my soul when I come to the judgment of God." Few men kpow the force of habit. A cobweb a thread a twine a rope a cable. Venture not npon the first ; the last is nearly past human effort to sun der Be not proud of riches but afraid of them, lest they be a silver bar to cross the way to heaven. You must answer for riches, but riches cannot answer for you. A man out west, who offered bail for a friend, was asked by the Judge if he ha i any incumbrance on his farm. "Oh, yes, my old woman," said he. Always bear in mind that yonr exam ple will speak louder than yonr tongue. Halt the truth may be a lie, in the absence of the othr h?1f .aaneeaaap j a sweet s it 46 su j-ijrw sewii ,t! a news i head with t! l abort-Try "m. - :-. ' tsa - w rwho en'tm jer. incline to t olid- o raining pit anibasea. loaa in life; t jolioe station York preaa i ting match f a. ot i i i never found not contain) i .,.- jnb fell do at Middlebu )sly injured. Jth authorit efnseto all .drought into aes which -esteem, if i ,ur. respect i ja discovei and they t I sahoppers t so, the low a at it to a ' r-'ar fnrJuenci id it ia like (t Ja panetn - -j xt into sue l roe there, i ot Me. L j, wisdom and hope, confusion, wi I rjsepadr. rty froiii Bos itrpplT run sh seeasity of box ginger ale. na.. 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