t a) . WTY CAT VOL 1. HinoWAYiPA., NOV. 13, 18G0. NO. 5, THE EL IC coo ADVO 7i itn -t nm PUBLISHED WEEKLY, t t $a k ft .v jr v jt . Rates of Advertising. idr:'r and Kx'rs notices, eiio, 6 times, 8 00 Auditor's notices, ouch, ,.. , 3 on Cau'ions and ICsirays each, 3 times 3 00 Transient Advertising per siiure of 10 lines or less A times, or lees 2 00 For each subsequent insertion... 50 Oificiul advertising fur each square of 8 liner or less 3 times or less 1 no for each suhseucnt insertion .fit) I'rofessinnal cards. 5 liner, 1 yr 0 00 Loal notices, per lina, one time 15 Obituary notices, over 6 lines ltl Yearly Advertising, one-half column -ri() 00 Tesrly Advert ising, one column 100 00 lilanks, sinplcjjuire 2 Ml Hlatiks. three ciuirc 2 IK) Wan ks. II quires , per quire 1 KlankM. over li quire per quire . ...1 50 Fur liank notes, subpoenas, summons, ex ecutions warrants, constable sales, road ami school ordors, each per dot...2" Handbills, eight sheet 2o or less I...1 fiO " fourth sheet 2Aurlcss 2 AO " hnlf sliect 25 or less 4 CO ' whole scet 2) or less H 00 Over 25 of each of ftlioveat proportionate rates. (1:1k founts 5ircrtorLg. COUNTY OFFICERS. lVot'dent Judge S. F, Johnson. Additional Law Judge llou. Jho. P. Vincent. Associate Judge E. C. Schullzo, J ewe Njler. District Attorney J. K. F. Hall. Sheriff 1 utiles A. Maloue. Prothonotary, &c. U. A. Kulhbun. Treasurer Claudius V. Gillis. Co. Superintendent Kul'us Lucore. CoiuMii.-sioiK'is JI. Warner, J. JW Taylor. Louis Vollinor. Auditors Clark Wilcox, Byron J Jone, Jacob McCuuley. County Surveyor Gen. Waltnslcy. TIM P. OF HOLDING COURT. Second Monday in January, l.ast .Monday in A pril. First Monday id August. First Monday in November. IN EiV STUMS. The snhxcvil'or begs leave to inform the citi rem o' Itidgwayatil vicitiity that ho hut openud a store where may lie found miFl'MKUY, FANCY GOODS, TOILKT AHTlcr.KS. STATIONERY, FINK CON F KCT I ON A R Y, OYSTERS, ORANGES, LEMONS, in season. iil2 vltf J. R. 13AIHD. ICKIS & C CAMEIIUN, I.cses of the Miues of tho Kersey Co.i Company. Jinrrn ami Stiijirr of. UITUinXOUS COALS! Of supeiior quality, for 1.S, OESERATING STEAM, MANUFAC TURE OF IRON, SMITHING AND DOMESTIC USE. Are propnred to receive Ordeis nnd make contract, for thcxe well kuowu coals. OFFICE, KEttSEY, ELK CO., I'A. Kersey, Fa., March 12. lSriS. vlnlTtf. l'ATRONl.E HOMtf I.VST1TU HONS. FLOUR, FEED AND GRAIN. 7TMIIK snlisciibors having completed tlieir New Grii-t Mill in Kidgway uro now prepared to furnish tLg people of the sur rounding country wiiu Flour of the Best Quality ui at' their own manufacture, at the lowes market rates. The attention of lumbermen nnd oilins is called to our facilities for furnishing them with FEED OF ALL ATA DS, cheaper than it eon be bought any other pluce in the county. JBfciyCASti I'aiu ron GtiAiN."XjSa J.S. HYDE. J. V. HOUK. J. K. WH1TA10RE. Nevembcr 7, I8U7tf JTF YOU WANT TO BUY CLOTHIJt'G for the JHIIlou Co to A. DURLACIIER, DEALER. IH CLOTHING ! CLOTHING GENTS' FUK-VISIII-VO fiOODS, HATS, CAPS, BOOTS, SHOES, TRUNKS, TRAVELING BAOS. &o. 6T. MARY'S, ELK COUNTY, PEJfJffA Jau218G8lypU HYDE HOUSE, EtnowAT, Elc Co., Vx. Y. H. SCn RAM, Froprietor. Thankful for the patronage heretofore so liberally beatowed upon him, the new pro prietor, hopea, by paying strict attention to the comfort and convenience of gueste, to merit a continuance of the same. Oct SO 18GJ. 1HK HUSBAND'S SOLILOQUY. Lovely woman, sweet and human I How her witching wava disarm us t Bright and witty what a pity, That her bills should so alarm us I Charming creature ! how each fashion Lights up with ecstatle pleasures 1 (Harmless passion) when Dame Fashion Brings to ricw her latent treasures I Silks nni laces ! how her face is Radiant ns the sunlight dawning : Eyes are glancing, curls are dancing. And her brow is like the morning 1 Da'ly shopping money dropping Fast from while and dainty fingers. Wants explicit tastes exquisite : How the happy shopper lingers I Ah, 'tis cruel, when a jewel Might light up sweet home affection Thus to sputter, scold and flutter. When wife hints in that direction 1 Woman tender, who can render Too much joy to match her beauty, How many dresses or caresses Half repay her Ioto and duty ? Then. Dame Fashion, put the lash on, Urge your steeds of daring mettle : Level woman, sweet and human. Must have dress, and we must settle ! HEAVEW Y VOICES. At the dawn's effulgent breaking, Voices whisper to my ear, Of the final, glad awaking In that brighter, purer sphere. Voices full, nnd rich, and holy, F'oaling o'er my senses dim, L'lte the iweet, entrancing inc isures Of the solemn vesper hymn. Voices gliding from the shadpws, Fast receding from the day. Like the we"ry souls of mortals, Stealing from the earth away. Voices at the stilly even. Angel whispers, hiifhed and pure, Wafted on the breath of heaven. Wandering soids to pnayer allure. Prayer soul incense, pure, aesthetic, Wreathing misty eluds of lore ; Misty clouds, spirit laden. Float to realms of light above. Morning tephvrs waft those voices, Dreslh of even, guards of night. Fill our drowsy soul with glintings, Of that, realm's serene delight. A MORASS ADVENTURE. Tn the latter part of last summer n scanty purse ld me, in company with Fomn rela tives, to pnond my hnllMay a! a little vil l:t!f on the Welch coast, out of the ordinnty heat nf tourists, hut otherwise reinarknhle for not hin tr hut its air of bleakness and sterility. The place was very fjuiet. and tho lodging chcan and tolerably comforta. h!e. These essential beitiif secured, we had tn pttt tip with the scenery, which was not very attractive. A low lino of beach. surmounted by a hi(;h ridyc, leadins on the one hand to the foot of some bold jut tin;? cliffs, and on the othr lr.sitisr itself in an estuary; behind this black and dreary lixikutir hoir, stretching three or four miles inland, and intersected io every direction by wide, artificial ditches, and deep, natu ral lii-sures connecting the inky pools. A small river flowing into the estuary divides the bor, its course being marked by-moulds of peat, cut from tho firmer ground which torDis its banks Uranchins out at riht angles to the river ore other lines of peat xtaeks, following the course of the latjrer drains, which heralds the attempt to culti vate the dreary waste. Thiii was tho view I beheld, as. standing one evening on the top of the stony ridge. I faced eastward. The sinking sun threw my shadow far over the bog, distinctly seen as it fell over tho gilded rushes and crim onine pools. I had been strolling out wi:h wy gun. in the hope of aduing some specimens to my cabinet, and was thinking of returning homewar Is, when a long legged heron slowly sailed high overhead, in the direction of the river. I watched the bird till it alighted Dear one of the peat stacks, aud carefully noting the spot. I proceeded to a careful stalk, hoping to secure an ac quisition. I coutrived to get within seventy yards of the heron, and as there was no cover of any kind nearer, I lay down be hind tbe last mould I tad reached, and with finger on the trigger, watched patient ly in the hope that my quarry would feed towards me. I was not disappointed ; it gradually approached gome y aids nearer my hiding place, and then either eaught sight or sceot of me, for it suddecly rose, but in doiog so camo within range. Bang i went both barrels. Uttering a hoarse eroak, the heron flew heavily away keeping close to the ground and evidently hard bit. I sprang up and followed, jumping the ditch and avoiding the soft ground as best I could. During one particulary long jump, I lost sight of the heron for a moment: I caught sight of it again just io time to see it fall 1 1 the gr um 1 as siltly as a sdowflake and lie still with its winirs spread to their full st'retoh. Ujtwjej tho birl a,id rao however, there was a ctevasse wider than any I h id yet le ipi)!, a id a dzui yards on the other stda lay the object of my pursuit. The black slimy side of the ditch over hun the water, wV h lay ducp nnd still some six or seven feet bjlow, and a few yards to tho right connected with a larsre pool, having enmity high nnd muddr banks. To the left was a labrynth of simi lar ditches. ooiua distance in front, i broader and struighter crack in the flat ex p:mse showed whiire the river lay. The bank on which I stood was a foot or two higher than the opposite bunk. I describe the situation thus .ninut.oty in order to make tho reader underatauj what afterwards hap ened. Not liking to lose the prize so nearly in my trrasp 1 resolved to make, the jump Laying down the gun and taking off my coat. I made tho effort and cleared the ditch, only, however, by a few inches. I secured the heron, and smoothing its benn tiful plumage, but littlo injured by tVe shot, threw it across to the bank from which I had just ca:no. Then, on lonkintr around, t found mvself in a sort of ruf L h: 1 he bit nt nrm ground on winch I stood was an island, nnd the only way ol escape was the one by which I had ar i 'ed II tving to ' take off trotn a lower'levcl. it was much harder to rct back than it had been to cn.no, but as there was no altcrna tive it had to bo tried. T did not. lean quite far enough, and pitched with hands and knees toecther jainst tho edae. There was no vetietation tc catch h.ild of, and after hangini; on the bank a few mo menN, vainly clutching nt, tho mud, I fell backwards with a hoavy splash into tho wafer. Fortunately 1 nm a eond STimmer, and at first, while treading water, the ludicrous ness nf the affair alone struck mo ; hut when I began to see that it misht. be diffi cult to eet up these slitnv. overhmffinir banks, T confess I felt rather frightened. It was impossible to get out, at the spot where I had fallen in. I swam farther up the ditch, and trying to bottom it. felt mv feet touch the soft tenacious mud, th-it gave nosuppi.rt. but was ten times more danger ous than the water. Tho water beeami shallower as I struggled on, but the muddy bottom refused to give me a standing place, and the bank ufl'orded no hold for my hands. It at last became so shallow that I had to turn on my back lo avoid kicking the mud as I swam, and when in this posi. tion 1 could push my arms into it with al most ns much ease ns I could push them lin.ugh the water, but to pull them out again was far from easy. With horrid fear of being unahlo to p. trieato myself from the mud, and of a (.low suffocation, I made a sudden dash back in. to deep water and tried the other ditches, only to be repulsed in the same manner. I swam round anil ronnd the pool seeking for an outlet, and beginning tn reel my boots and clothes very heavy. Even now T in voluntarily smiled nt the comparison which suddenly occurred to me between myself in tins pugnr ana a mouse swimming round in a bucket of water ; but the thought that I too, like it, might be swimming for mv hie, soon drove all ludicrous thoughts out of my head. Matters now began to look very serious. when I saw a root or blanch of soma Ion" buried tree projecting out. of the bank. I caught hold of it ; but it was not strong enough to enable me to lift myself out of the water. All that I could do was to sun. pott myself with my hands jut sufficiently to keep my head above the surface. I tooic this opportunity of kicking off my boots. up to this time 1 could scarcely realize my position ; but now the conviction begun to dawn upon me that I might never ugain see tbe mother aud sisters I had left in a cottage a mile aud a halt away. I looked up to tho sky, in which the twilight was last giving place to the moonlight, and across which the clouds were merrily diiv. mg before the evening breeze ; and then I looked at the black and slimy walls which hemmed me is, aud felt as though I were about to scream with terror. From my childhood, I had always had horror of confinement of any kind. I have felt strangely uncomfortable whon'I have been persuaded into exploring a cave, or when I have been shown through a prison. This feeling I felt cdw more strongly than the fear of drowuing. To die hemmed iu by those gloomy walls would be terrible. loadd to the wetrdness, a hollow boom ing sound, almost amounting to a roar, ran through the quivering bog, intensified to aie, no doubt, by my imprisonment iu the heai t of the moss. This, though I never heard it before. I knew to bo the voici of the bittern. Muring the night it was re peated several times, aud anything more weird aud dismal it would bo hard to iuia"- O ine. I hud not as yet thought of shoutin" but I now did bo till 1 was hoarse. The ouly answer was the eerie scream of the curlew. J he improbability of any one being near enough to hear me so late, struck dm, and I desisted fioni the useless labor. 1 he stillness was intense, broken only at rare intervals by the bittern or cur lew. How long I clung to the branch. do Dot know. Fortunately the water was Dot cold, Tha clouds had elearel away aud the wood, Dear the full, shone bright ly, Ilad it been dark, my courage must have given way, and I should most proba bly have sunk. But as It was, I cannot say that I quite despaired of a rescue in some waj or other. If I could only hold out tiil morning, some one might, I cor.juo tured, come tor tli9 puipose of carrying away the turf sods, and might see my coat and gun, which would lead them to a search. I hud not much hope iu any seach from the village ; I had started in the direction of the cliffs, my favorite cveuitig haunt, und I fancied that would be the direction tho searcher would take. As the night wore on oh, so slowly with tho moon so calm lv gliding through the stars abeve luc, I fell into a kind of stupor and can distinctly re member repeating scraps of verses totally unconnected with each other. From this state I was aroused by the loud note of some night bitd, probably an owl, and found my arms vefy stiff from holding on to the root ; while my legs lelt like weights of lead sus pended beneath me. Whiln trying to change my position. I fancied 1 heard the gurgling sound ot running water, and that not far off. I listened intently, aud found it was no (aney. Water was evidently running into the pool, and I saw by the root I was clinging to that the water had risen some indies. A cheering hope sprung up within me, as it flashed across my mind that the tide mn-t be rising and that the pool must have an outlet into tho river. The thought iuf'uhod new life info me. and I struck out in the direction of the sound. Then to my intense joy, Is iwdis tinotly, in the clear mo"ulight, that the wa tcr waa streaming in fast through several small iulcts and pouring in quietly nnd steadily, through one of tho ditches I had previously swam up. I knew that if the tide rose another loot or eighteen inches, I couia, by treading water last, spring up so high a? to bo able to catch hold of the top ot the bank, and so swing myself up. 1 kuew also that the water could not possibly begin to flow into the bog pools until it was nearly high tide. Returning to my resting place, I watched anxiously, the prospect of speedy deliverance ballistic i all weariness The water continued to pour in steadily and in greater volume The dawn was now breaking, aud I had not much longer to wait. The water had ceased flowing; and the hank in one place was barely fivo feet above the water. Taking a long breath, I let myself sink low, and then treading wa ter as strongly and quickly as possible, I threw hall mv body above the surlace of the pool, and caught the top with one hand. Before the solt earth had time to crumble beneath my weight, I had obtained a firmer ;rasp wuh the other hand, and in another moment stood on the moss drinking in with eager gasps the fresh air of the uior uing. The white haze wit rapidly clearing away, and through it I saw five or six men hurrying towards me. I have a confused idea af being helped to my lodgings, ami of alterwards telling mv adventure to many eager questioners. I he so iking I had bad, and the expo sure to the unhealthy mists which arise from the morass at night, caused an illness for the time, but the effects soon wore off. The heron is stuffed and adorns my cab inet, unconscious of tho reveugo which over took its destroyer. PERSONAL ITEMS. Wade is not found wanting iu Washing ton. Kate Muphy, the jumpist, turns out to be a man. Eugenie has seventy. three persons in her traveling KtVe. It is reported that petroleum has been discovered near Louisville. Cyrus W. Field hns been takiug himself after buffaloes -in Kansas. Mr. J. W. Wallack. the actor, has been naturalized in New York city. Lady Falmerston lelt 8180,000 a year to her, grandson. Foor boy ! Queen Victoria, it is positively stated, will visit Ireland in June Dext Launt Thompson is to be married next week to a daughter of Bishop Fotter. The eye gouging tariff in New York is SoO tor one aud $100 for tho pair. St. Louis admits that the lite Capital Con yen tion in her borders was a fizzle Petroleum V. Nasby has had tho measles, and of course is necessarily silent. Fx-Governor Fenton nnd daughter are expected to t'eturn from Europe this week. It is said that when Edmund Cooper vot ed ogainst his friend A. J., and for his bro ther Henry, for U. S. Senator, he wept. Hermann, the " prestidigitateur," has played his last trick on the public by dis. appearing from tbe wagio stage forever. The Eastern democracy take the defeat of Pendleton with great oomplaoency, but that of Andy Johnson goes hard with them. Adelina Patti and Mr. Burlingauie occu py the same room in Paris at such times as they are there not simultaneously, though. The tutor of the Prince Imperial tells the Emperor that the Prince had better visit the theutres less frequently. Tbe young scamp begins to wiulc at the actresses. Prof. Esty,of Amherst college.has recent ly finished a computation of the orbits ot Saturn's Satelites, a long and difficult work, said oot to have been heretofore attempted. Col. Leonard, Comptroller oi the Stale of Maryland, publishes tbe names of 263 Democratic officials, sheriffs, collectors and so on, who are defaulters of tho State A I'LLVKY M1S8. The Succcmid Fortune of a Buffalo Girl in Michigan. .. . We take the following from the Milwau kee )'iconxin : While our steamer Nor. man lay wooding up at Port Oneida, on tho Michigan shore, there camo aboard a pleas ant, barefooted German girl, with a pail of berries. She wote acheap calico dress, minus the hoops, with a little ginghan sha ker, nearly hiding her lace. She was rather undersized, with a supple figure and an air ol modest assurance that denoted a, girl ot genuine stamp, but that told the boys to keep out of her way. All the men about the boat und deck seemed to know her. The stewait bought her berries from her at her owu price. The clerk ot the office touched his hat to her as if in the presence of a Duchess. "That's tho smartest girl in Michigan," said the engineer, as she passed out of 1 lie gangway. The girl gavo uo heed to-admiring glances and compliments that followed her, but straightway sought ner mine nsn caoin, wneio she was men ding nets l y tho shore. On inquiry of tho old dockman, we learned that our little barefooted maiden, though only seventeen, was the oldest ol a family of an even dozen, living iu a little double log cabin, on tno high bank above the shoie. Iler father had camo here from Buffalo some dozen ycar.i ago, went to clear ing timber, selling wood to steamboats and raising stuff on this land. Lanie. the eldest girl, was tho "little Captain" from the start and showed pluck beyond hei years. In the winter she would got on her boots and be out among the woodchoppcrs, before she could hardly waddle through the snow. Io summer she would wander oil' a berrying, or be down among the nets or fishing boats. Tt was her greatst delight to be on the wa fer, to lock aud toss upon the waves. At ten, she was a trim little sailor herself, and would coast off for miles alone. At twelve, she would allow uo boy to puss her with sail or onr. For the past three years '"Lanie" has beeu master of a handsome fishing craft aud a set of "gill nets." She puts thctn out early iu April, and continues them until late in the fall. She is out every nnrning at daylight, and again in the cveuing, ex. cept iu the roughest Weather. She takes a younger sister along to help set and draw the nets. She often brings in a couple of huudrcd fine lake trout and whitefish at a haul. She dresses them, tries out the oil, and sends them away to market. Her August and September catch amounted to over 8300. Besides her fi-ihing receipts, she has taken io over S170 this season for berries, picked at odd hours by herself aud sister. All her money goes to her father. Month after month he packs it away in old sacks and stockings under his bed; night after night he guards it with sabro and pis tol. In all, she is said to have earned him over SCOOO. Oi course, the old man is proud of bis girl, and tells of her exploits ith the live liest twinkle of satisfaction. Banger and hardship seem unknown to her. She will go out iu any blow, and come in with full rails. Her white mast and blue pennon are known by people far along tho coast. Boats salute her in passing; boys swing their hats in proud recognition. Without knowing it, Lanie Borseine is a herone. A rumor states that gold has been dis covered in Alaski. It was just such a ru mor.afterwards verifled.whioh peopled Cali. foruia, threw open all that country west of tho llocky Mountains, and built up a great occidental empire of which San Fran cisce is the metropolis. In the same way. the reat continent of Austiaiia aud several of the smaller islands of Australasia camo to be peopled, prosperous, growing, civilized colouies. Gold itself, the philosophers stone whose very touch is tho cause of some of the most astouuding mutations. If the present rumor be true, wo Bhall before tho present decade of years has passed by, have a populous State iu that far distaut and recently acquired territory which then would uo longer bo known as "Seward's Folly." The Russian army now 000 men. numbers 1,407, Belknap make3 Grant's cabinet. the baker's dozenj in A son of Brighain Young ruus a gerie in Salt Lake City. mena- l. P. Putmau will soon publish a volume of lather Hyaciuthe's sermons. Victor Emanual has seven mistresses. Some one should remonstrate with him. Drake, the pioneer of oil srikers, who died iu the poor house, is to have a uionu. incut. Kate Bcignolds has just cleared seven thousaud dollars by five woeks of lecturio" through No Engluud. It is rumored that charges of a most se rious tiaiure are to be preferred against Senator Pomeroy whon the Senate oonvencs again. John L. Maguiro, a carpenter and builder. of Boston, was the holder of the ticket bd4o that drew the Coliseum the lottery. building in General Toombs, recently reported at the point of death, was at last accounts tryin a ises before tbe fiuprtruo Court of HatT oock county, Ga. Rev. Dr. Sprague, of Albany, has been voted an annual pension of 82,000 by the congregation pf which he leaves after forty vearb' ministry. A' A SB l'S D OMES TIC SA Cli IF1CE. I hev made other sacrifices. When torn from my peaceful home to file our friends uv 'e S"uth I a 'le w'c'1 I luvcd. Life wui a pceceful strccme and we floated calmly along. She took io washin and I talked polities at a ncighborin grocery, iti vestin the pt coeds uv her labor in tho bus-. ti nance offorded at the bar. When I re turned wat met me? The killin uv men O'Hritq wuz not the most hcart-renderjn in oidents uv that fratritidle struggle. It wuz the severin uv doinestio ties the tenriu down uv domestie alters, and thosepcratin of uv families. When I returned I wuz coldly met. Iooizer Jane wuz washin as yoosal, only harder than ever, and I notist tho childreu lied new frocks aud phops. The fust afternoon I wuz at home I nskt her in tny old familycr way fur a dollar and a half, ez I wanted to go down tho street. 'That's played !" she rcmarkt. "Ilevn't you got it ?" I askt. 'I hey," she replied, "aud I prr.pose to keep it. I huv diskivcred suthin since yoove bin gone. I hey found it's easy cuuff to support myseifand tho children, washin at a dollar a dozen, but add to that the hul. kin uiun with a noso like yoors, and its har der than I kecr. This house is niiue yoo kin vakatp." And she calmly rung out a shirt ez tho. wat she sed was t common-place remark instead uv a practikel divorse. 1 lelt her. A feendish Abhshmst had put this idea into her heud and she lied acted onto it. Since that time I hev wsn ded my way alone, subsistin bv chaucn. Ablishoism ows me the home I bed. Ab- tishnism owes Ue the likker I ought to hev nad, out uv wat that woman hez earned since that crooel day. O wat a fearful debt. Wet the Ropes. When the Egyptian. Obelisk in frout of St. Peter's, at Rome, was being raised and placed upou the pcd. estal, the engiueer had not calculated accu. rately the stretch of the tores. By this oversight, when the immense obelisk had nerily reached its position, it was found that it lacked several inches of the height. and there it swung ; while uo human ef fort could place it on tho pedestal. Tho engineer was so mortiued in the presence, of the vast multitude that he drew a pistol and was about to kill himself. An English sailor happened to be present and seeing the difficulty, crietl out, " Wet the ropes !" An engine was provided, the ropes were saturated, and slowly, but surely, the great. mass rose ana settled in its position. Theu went up a shout from tho great multitude. What a dilemma 1 And yet howsimplu. the remedy ! Without understanding the philosophy of the thing, that sailor suggest ed the remedy. Human skill and foresight are not always sufficient to accomplish a great purpose. The common miud some- -inies reaches a practical good where phil osophers ure at their wits end. How truo this is in the highest sphere of human eucy ? . An Incident of the War.-Th f ,1 . lowing aneodote of the rebellion, which comes to us from a trustworthy source, has never bofore been iu print, but it will ba read with peculiar interest at this time. During the memorable battle near Atlanta. on the 22d of J uly, in which our troops tougtit nrst lroui one side of their fortifica tions aud then the other, a rebel officer at. the head of his men, more daring than his followers succeeded in getting close un against the Union works, when a certain stalwart colonel of Iowa volunteers, begrim ed with the smoke of batth, leaped froiu the narrcw parapet, and extending his pow erful arms, grasped the gallant rebel by tho colhr, hoistod him bodily into tho liues. and sent him into the renr a prisoner of war. The rebel who turned o-it tn ha f!M. Lampley. ot the Forty fifth Alabama, died a few weeks afterwards of chagrin at tha inglorious way in which he was oaptured The captor was Col. Belknap, of the Fif teenth Iowa, new secretary of war. Arto A rich Philadelphi&n, traveling on the continent and summering at the German gamb'.ing-places. had the rare luck to keen ahead of the banks at Baden and Hombourg uutil he had won in all 135.000 franca. The bankers were thoroughly frightened, and bcsccched his to desist, but he kept up his run of luck, finished by uiuking an im. mense number af purchases, gave the crou piers a grand party (Anglice, "blow out"), and distributing several thousand francs to the Hombourg poor, wont hii ways to Par- wuere no u settled tor the wiutcr. Not long ago Pvraouse was much excited over the supposed discovery of a fossil man, exhumed iu digging a well. , It turned out to be a statue in limestone which an ama teur soulptor had out, and which waa such a wretched carioature of a man that tbe ar. tist in shame and disgust buried it and left the city. m Providenco was enlivened the other eve ning by the sight of a young woman boxiug the ears ot her lover, on the street, because be had escorted another young lady home. A hiiir dressing, extensively advertised and old at a high prioe, is made simply of a pint of aloohol, two ouaoes of glyseerna aua ha.t a piut water, the whole cheaply scented. A young Californian went to sleep, leavs I ing bis candle in the bung-hole of a powder i keg. He was picked up tho next morning , all ever the yard. j ,' ,
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