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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 ,' ,