ft UC COUNTY ABVO VOL 1. RID WAY, PA., JAN. 15, 1870. NO. 14. THE 0 Jul 1F IE! ill!! PUBLISHED WEEKLY, t t $ i k n .1 .v v w . Hates of Advertising. Adro'r and Ex'rs notices, cue, 6 times, $ 3 00 luditor's notices, each, 8 00 CauMons nnd Eslrnys ench, 3 times 3 00 Transient Advertising per snure of 8 lines or less 3 times, or less 2 00 For each subsequent insert inn .j0 Official advertising for each square ot'8 liner or less 3 times or less 2 00 For ench subsequent insertion .10 Trofessional cards, 5 liner, 1 yr ti Cm Loal notices, per lina, one time 15 Obituary notices, over 6 lines 10 Yearly Anvertising, one-half column 50 00 f early Advertisinc one column 100 00 J'danks, single quire 2 50 Blanks, three quire 2 00 tihi nk s, 0 quires , per quire 1 75 Planks, over 0 quires per quire 1 50 For hank notes, subpoenas, summons, ex ecutions, warrants, eonstnble enlcs, road and scliool ordurs, cacli per doz... Handbills, eight sheet 25 or less 1 50 " fourth sheet 25orless 2 50 " half-sheet 25 or less 4 50 " whole seet 25 or less 8 00 Over 25 of each of above at propurt ionatc rales. (Kill Ofo untj cSimlorjr. COUNTY OFFICERS. President Judge 8. P. Johnson. Additional Lav Judge Ilou. Jlio. P. Vincent. Associato Judges E. C. Schultzo, Jesse lIer. District Attorney J. K. P. Hall. Sheriff Jacob McCuuley. Prothonotary &c, Prod. Schtvniug. Treasurer Claudius V. Gillis. Co. Superintendent Ilufus Lucore. Commissioners U. Warner, Jos. W. Taylor, Louis VolImr. Auditors Clark Wilcox, George D. Messenger, and Joseph Wiibclm. County Survc-yor (Jeo. Walmsley. Jury Commissioners. Gtorjje liitkicsn, and Horace Little. TIME OF HOLDING COURT. Second Monday in January... Last Monday in A pril. First Monday in August. First Monday in November. KAILR0AD3 PHIL AD LFHIA &, EEIE HALLEOAD. WINTER TIME TABLF. Ill fUijh ami Ui'iot Font Lrlicctn I'iiltiiMjiliiii, Jittlimjre Hum's bury, Witliumiort, ami the G R E AT 0 1 L R E G I 0 A of Pennsylvania. ELEGANT "SLEEPING CARS On all Night Trains. ON and nfter MONDAY, NOV. 25th, the trains on the I'hi'.udclphin & Erie Railroad will run ns follows i wKsTWAim. Mail Train leaves Philadelphia.. " lUdgwuy " arrive nt Erie Erie Exp leaves Philadelphia... " Hidgway " ' arrive at Erie II KSTWAItO. Mail Train leaves Erie t " llidirway , 51.20 p. in. . 2.00 p. m. .. 8.15 p. in. .11.50 a. in. . 3 30 a. in. ..10.00 a. in . 8.1- a. r.o p. ' " arrive at l'lolad a o.Kl a. iu. Erie Express loaves Erie 3.20 p. m. " Vidgwuy f-11 a. m. " " nrnl Philadelphia 1-0 p. ui. Mail and Express connect with Oil Creek and Allegheny River Rail Roid. BAG GAGE CHECKED THROUGH. ALFRED L. TYLER. General Superintendent. LLEGHEXV VALLEi KAIL ROAD. The only direct route to Pittsburg WITHOUT CHANGE OF CARS from Oil City. On and alter Monday Nov. 22J 1809, trains Will run as follows : GOING SOUTH Dny Express leaves Oil City at 10,30 a. ni. Arriving at Pitiybur nt 5,30 p. iu. Night Exprrss leaves Oil City at I), SO p. m. Arriving at Pittsburg at 7.00 a. m. Kilianni-g Acc. leaves Eniltntou 0,10 p. ur Arriviving at Kittauuiug COO p. in. Mixed Way leaves Oil Oily at 7,00 a. in. Arriviug at West l'enu Junction at 7,05 p. in. GOING NORTH. tay Express leaves Pittsbitrg at 7,15 a. m. Arriving at Oil City at 1,55 p. m. Night Express leaves Pittsburg at 8,00 p. iu. Arriving at Oil City at ,00a m. Parker Aco. leaves Kittanuing 7.20 a. iu. Arriving at Parker 0,55 a. in. Mixed Way leave West Penn Juno, at 7,00 a. m. ftyiving at UU Lilly at o,uu p. ui. Connect ions at Corry and Irvine'on for Oil rjitvlind Pittsburg. At n-anuun witn James town V"d Frnnnliu R. K. Connections wjth West P.enn, R. K. at West Penn Junction for lUairsville and all points ou the main line ot the Pennsylvania R. R. Sleeping Cars on Night Trains. J. J. LAWRENCE, General Supt. Tuos. M. Kino, Asst. Supt. BOOK AU&TS WANTED Vl)R Btrugglcs and Triumphs of P. T. BAR NUM. - - - j Written by himself. In one larpre octavo vol uBie uearly 600 pages printed in English and German. 83 full page engravings. U cm braces forty year recollections of his busy life, as a merchant, manager, banker, lecturer and showman. No book published so acceptable to all classes. Every one wants it. Agents aver age from 50 to 100 subscribers a week. We otter extra inducements. Illustrated catalogue ud terms to agents sent free. J. B. EUKIl & CO-. Publishers, gv IlartforJ, Conn. he goqfs ajorn. WHC.V lOU WERE SEVENTEEN When the hay was mown, Moggie, In the years long ago, And while the western sky was rich With Bunsct's rosy glow, Then hiinl in hand close-linked we passed The dewy ricks between, And I was one-and-twenty, Mag, And you were seventeen. Your voice was low and sweet, Maggie; Your wnivy hnir was brown; Your cheek was like the wild red rose Thai shaddows its petals down ; Y'our eyes were like the blue speedwheel, What dewy moisture sheen, Whon I was one-and-twenty, Mng, And you were seventeen. The spring was in our hearts, Maggie, And nil its hopes were ours ; And we were children in the fields, Among the opening flowers. Ay! Lite was like a summer day Amid the woodlands green, For I was one-nnd-tweuty, Mag, And you wero seventeen. The years have come nnd gone, Maggie, With sunshine nnd with shade, And silvered is the silken hair Thnt o'er your shoulders strayed, In many a soft ami wayward tress The (airiest ever seen When I was one-and-twenty, Mag. And you wer seventeen. Though gently changing Time, Miggie, lias touched you in his flight ; Your voice has still the old sweet tone, Your eye t he old "love-light ; And years can never, never change The heart you gave, I ween. When I was one nud-tweuty, Mag, And you were sevent rcn. THE HUSBAND OUTWITTED. A woek nt the watering place, and most of the time each day spent iu the company of Mr. Muiyvell, the gentleman whom Mi..- Elsworth s old friend, Ned Whittn- i..., t.-j . i I, nnft Mnrninc nn the piazza. She had sailed with him along the hhoro on the moonlight evenings,' and she had dauced with him in the thronged dniwing-rooniP. Miss Ellsworth was not a flirt, who dis trilmtcd her ideals among many gentlemen, and kIic had lound her ideal well Digh re alized in Mr. Maiuwell. Only the evening hek.re their talk had withdrawn itself from the general topics to which each had been congeniul, and in her admiration of his in. tclligenoe and nianline.'s, she had encour aged an approach to that personal sort of couvcrsatiou which relates to love and mat rimony. And now to find Mr. Mainwell this mor uing, with his coat off and a smith's apron on, engaged in mending a lock. lie was doing it publicly. The lock was on the door Unit led to the middle of the front piazza, where the fashionable dressed ladies and gentlemen were silting or pronena. ding. 'Do you like that aort of work V sbe asked. 1 do, Miss Ellsworth; I believe I am a natural mechanic' 'It appoars very odd to see you doing his ?' 'It is ray trade,' he replied, rising from his work, and turning toward her. Her cheek blanched a little, 'Your trade Y she said faintly. Yes, trade, Miss Ellsworth. Thfl pro prietor stud the lock needed mending, and I told him that I could mend it for him.' A party of girls came along just then. After wanderiug at Mr. Maiuwell awhile, and laughi&g at him they proposed k ride. There were three carriages for them all. These would take the party. Ned Whittaker here joined them. 'What the duce aro you about hero 1 he exclaimed to Mr. Mainwell. 'Ah, 'he added, when the latter turned and glanced at him. 'ISut while you are here you might as wtll enjoy yourself.' Mr. Mainwell excused himself from joining the party, and they all went away, leaving him to fiuish hiswork. Miss Ellsworth left him without a Word at parting. 'It is well,' he muttered to himself. 'If sbe can't take me as I am, she is not wor thy of me. The woman that marries me must take n.e for myself.' He stood and looked after ber until sbe bad disappeared. She did not once turn to look tack. ... - , ' He ave bis shoulders a ehrug, com. 'humph 'Let it be so,' be muttered, wfeen b was through and was putting on his coat. I thought perhaps th it I had found a wo man after my own heart. Amidst this porld of wealth add fashion she too has lost her soul. Let her ge.' He avoided her thereafter. He did not seek to catch her eye for a bow of recogni tion. When she entered a drawing-room where be was, be would go out by another way. He was more than ever in the coin pany of Ned Whittaker. Ned, in passing to and fro between Miss Ellsworth and him served still as a sort of link between them 'You are a cynical fellow,' said Ned, one day. 'Why don't you tako people as they are., xou will find eoou enough in them. 'But they wont take me as 1 am. That is the trouble,' 'Pooh 1 You see yourself that she allows no other suitors to accompany her. Don't you see see sbe is alone or with the with the other girls the most of the time V Her bear is full of vanity.' Bshaw ! She is trained to luxurious notions that's all.' Mainwell's trunk was awaiting him and the stage, outside on tho piazza, at the time this converation was going on. On the trunk were the initials. G. M. Miss Ellsworth, passing that way, saw tho iuiti- ls not by chance, for she had been very buwy scrutinizing the trunks that lay to gether in a pile and when she saw the initials sbe started and turned pale. She recovered herself, aud withdrew with her companion a little way, and then stood still and watched. Presently Mainwell camb out with Ned upon the piazza. He chan. ced to turn bis eyes toward ber, and their eyes met met for the first time since she ad left him while he was at work upon the lock. She did not turn awav ber eves. She bowed. He lifted his hat. The ice was bioken. Ho approached to bid her good-by. What the conversation was that ensued betweeu the two when they were left alone I.- VJ'. i, ; " J rest of ho company, is uunkuown. save the following : 'But I am a locksmith.' said he. 'No matter.' 'Are you willing to live a the wife of one who with bis band? earns his daily bread V I am willing to undergo anything to be with you. I have suffered euough. Du ring these last few days I have learned what it is to despair of being united to the one I love.' 'But your mother jour father.' Unless I am willing to leave them for your sake I am unworthy of you.' 'But then the loss of wealth, of position, of the surroundings of refinement.' 'Do not say anything about it. I am willing to leave of all for your sake. I am weary of being without you.' 'Would you be willing to beoome my wifo this day, this hour ? Your father and mother might otherwise put obstacles in our way.' I am willing this hour, this miuute.' 'They do not not know of my position life.' 'They wili think you wealthy as I did.' Come, then, we will go our way with Ned, and become before the world what we are now in spirit, husband and wife; and then at once we will take the cars for the home I have for you a home which though lowley will make you happy.' 'Whither you go will I go.' They were murtied iu a quiet way in the little wattcriog chupel, with the wicked Ned conniving at the misbief. The next train sped with them to the city, 'I will show you the shop whore I work,' aaid Mainwell, when the carriage they took at the depot in the city bad drawn up in front of long block of brown stone hous es in a sp'.ended part of the city. 'What do you mean V she demanded, as she accompanied ber husband up the broad stone steps to the door. '1 mean,' he replied, 'that this is the home and here is the workshop.' And be led her in. AmoDg other rooms to which bo conducted bib wife was one fitted up as workshop, where, as be was accustomed to indulge his love for mechan ical work, after having, as be assured ber, regularly served his time at learning trade." Mrs. Mainwell tood. and looked at him intentl "' 'This is jour house Y she asked. Yet.' !?' "i ' ' And" foti ate not poor, tut rich V pressed his lip, uttered a cynical and turned to finish work. 'You speak the truth. 'Aud why did you play suoh a iost upon ine V ' 'To see whether you really loved me for ny own sake or not.' 'Ah, protty indeed 1 And suppose you you don't love me V But I do.' 'Humph 1' So there was a little family quarrel on the spot. 'Now invite your father and mother to come and see us.' eaid Mainwell after th clouds hud cleared away somewhat. I Will,' she replied ; 'I will. But first you must go with me to sea thorn, and to pacify them, in view of what we have done.' 'Very well.' Iu a few days they started out in a car. riage on their errand. She gave the dl rections to the driver, and her husband could not help expressing his wonder at tho increasing squalor of the neighborhood through which they rodo. The carriage drew up at length before a miserable look ing tenement house and stopped where the deuce are you taking me?' said Jlamwell, lookmg sharply at his wife. Come and see,' was her reply, as she proceeded to step from the carriage Here, wait," he exclaimed, after bis nesitaucy ; 'let me gel out and help you Out. W hot docs this nitan V 'Follow me," was her reply. KhA lod him " .l l throngs, and dirt, and smell to the fourth niaui Uu, UU LUrUUCS tory. Here she openad a door, and the two entered, without knocking. The wo- mau was dressed neatly and so were the aildren, but they were all dressed very poorly, in keeping with the place. The man was clad more poorly. On his head uu aeep uis nut, wnicn certainly was lull alf a dozen years old. 'My husband, Mr. Mainwell : my father nd mother, brothers and sisters,' said Mrs. Maiuwell, introducing all parties. Maiuwell stood und stared wiv.- 1dPask their paidofl, George,' said Mrs. Mainwell, 'for ruuuing away with me.' Who are they ?, 'Have I not told you did I not intro. uce you V Who ate they I saw at tho watering pluoo V 'Some wealthy people who bad seen me at the milliner's where I sewed for a liveli hood-served at ray trade, George nd wno lancicu my appearance, aressea me up, ad took me there with them ! 'You jest with me,' he said, with a ghastly smile. 'Do U do I, indeed ? These people seem to recognise me as a daughter and sister. 'Jest !' indeed, you will find that out.' You are too cultured, too tasteful, too ne featured V 'All this a milliner may be, or a sewing girl. Look for yourself among this class. It is not true? All that we gifls need is dress." Mainwell lifted his fist and dashed it through the air. He grouud bis teeth and, turning away, left the room slummibg the door violently behind him. His wife took off her hat and cloak and flung herself down beside the table and buried her face in her handkerchief. The door opened again, and Mainwell put in bis head. 'louhave deceived mo,' be said 'but come you are my wifo I will try and bear it.' She sprang to ber feet and confronted him 'Your wife, am I V she Exclaimed. 'Your wife, am I, and doomed to live with one who does not love ber, but who was iu love with her circunistancet. No, sir ; you may go. I will not live a wife uulov. ed for mytelfjQM must take me thus, or I will stay' Still I can work. He closed the door aud retired down the stairs to the street, clenching his Lands and his teeth as be went. The horrible disgraco of it,' be mutter, ed. 'The derision that will be my lot, And then to marry such a girl.' But at the street door he tarried. He had a long struggle with himself there all alone. Suddenly he turned and dashed impetuously up itairs, flnng open the door of the room, and seized bis wife in bis arms and elasped her to bis heart. 'My wife,' he whispered, 'such you are and ever shall be, before God and the woild. ''Row I begin to think that you do lote me,' aba said, smiling in big face. 'Yon do love me you really think you do, I George 7 I He clasped her more tightly to him. 'Come, then' she said; 'though of such parents as these, poor as they aro, I should not feel bamed, yet they are not my p rents, but have only played a part in whioh I have instructed them. Shake hands with them, George, they aro worthy peo- Ple- And he did shake hands with them and what more he he,Ped them- A merry party was gath ered that even ing at Mainwe11'8 hoaso, a party consisting 01 MT' ana 'lrs- ainvrell, and their guests 11 ' ana i Jrs- ftll8Wortn the young lady acquaintances of the watering place, aud Ned Whitaker. Nod never was iu better spirits nor, let it be siafed, neither were Mr. and Mrs. Ellsworth who forgave their daugnterand her hmband without hesita- tion. I sny, Georgo,' said Ned, whispering in Mainwell's ear, 'two can play at that game, can't thej V Mainwell took Ned's jeering very sober- 'Yes,' said ho, after a few moments of though tfulnoss, 'and the experience has taught me a lesson. What fools the pride of wealth makes of ns all. I thought she ought to have taken mo regardless of my circumstances, for myself alone, and with. out any hesitation, even, and yet when ,I,e lesleu mP) i "Jyselt was tound wuntinif. BL.II. .... - . a We "cr n t0 dlsre8a,d 8 Peon's occupation, aud look only at the character and soulr' Ned shrugged his shoulders dubiously. 'I think I have learned the lesson,' Mainwell added. THE CARDIFF GIANT OUTDONE. The Oil City Timet of Friday is resDon- Bible for the following On Tuesday morning last, while Mr. William Thompson, assisted by Robert It. Smith, was engaged in makinr an ei'cava- a half a mile north of West Hickory, pic. paratory to erecting a derrick, they exhu- med an enormous helmet of iron, which was corroded with rust. Further digging brought to light a sword, which measured nine feet in length. Curiosity inoitcd them to enlarge the hole, and after some little time they discovered the bones of two enor mous feet. Following; uo the "lead" thev had an litii'inpnleiile utrnflt in a taw L,,. Um0 the, bad unearthed n well BrCierted steleton ofanenormous n, ba. longing to a species of the human family which probably inhabited this and other parts of the world at that time of which the c , Bible speaks, when it says, "And thero Weio giants in those days." Tho helmet is said to be of the shape of those found among the ruins of Nincvah. The bones of the skeleton are remarkably white. The teeth are all in their plaoes, and all of them are double, and ot extraordinary eize. These relics Lava been taken to Tionosta, where they are visited by large num bers of people daily. WliCn his giantship was in the flesh, he must have stood eigh teen feet in his stocking. These remains were found about twelve feet below the surface of the mound which bad been thrown up probably centuries ago, and which was not more than three feet above .. . 1 ... vv tne level oi ine grouna arouua it. It ere is another nut for antiquarians to crack. INSANITY. Law of the Slate in Itcpeei to ratUats. It is not generally known, perhaps, that as the law now stands in Pennsylvania, no person can be sent to a hospital for the in sane unless upon the certificate of two phy sicians, after a personal examination, which certificate must be signed and acknowledge ed before a magistrate or other judicial of ficer, or upon the order of a court in the case of insane prisoners. Alter the person is received into the hospital upon these proceedings, any respectable person, who suspects opprtssiou or doubts the insanity ot the person, can procure a hearing of the whole case in open oouit upon a writ of ha beas corpus. These aro some of the guards which the law throws around the liberty pf the citizen in such cases. Ou the other hand, the health and safety of the patient himself are to be taken care of, with a view to his cure' and restoration, the family of the alleged lunatic is to be relieved from the great auxiety and distress eaused by this sffliotion, and society is to be protected against possible danger from the sudden and uoacoouotable fits ot violence often ex hilited by the iusau. .'- - i- a., j-'. u FEARFUL LEAF. Intelligence has been received of a sin gular and tcrriblo ease of suicide that oc curred at Suspension bridge yosterday. Tho name of the person who committed self-murder, was James Pierce, a man well known to many ofnhe residents of this city and elsewhere as having kept the Whirl-, pool House, below the bridge, for some time past. It seems that Pierce camo over to this side of the river with some frionds early yesterday morning, and after having spent the forenoon in walking about the city, ho signified his intention of going back shortly after 12 o'clock. Ho left his companions at the end of tho bridge, and started to cioss; but when near the middle of the structure ho was seen ciimbing tho railing, and before tho observers could eur uisc what he was about, he had leaped in to the roaring waters beneath. His friends hastened to the bank of the river, only to see his lifeless body carried on toward tho whirlpool by the rapid current. As to the cause of this fearful crime. nothing is known beyond mere conjecture. It is presumed that ha a temporary nberaiiou of mind, Le havin" several days einco failed in making certain payments on a piece of land which he had recently purchased in Canada BvjjXdo Exprc, Dec. 9. "Doctor what do yon think is the mat ter with my little boy ?" Why it's only a corrustified exegesis antispasmodically cm anhting from the germ o! the auimal refrig erator producing a paolific source of irrita bilty in the pericranial rpidermU ol tho mental profundity." "Ah I that's what I told Betsy, but she 'lowed it was wurrums." "I'm terribly distressed," said a clergy man of indifferent reputation foe sincerity, to a rough neighbor, "to hear you swear so." 'Oh, don't let that distress you," said the neighbor; "I swear a great deal aud you pray a great deal, but neither of us A yoting man in North Adams.'"' "MasirT- who last week learned that the woman whom ho had looked upon as his wifo for lour years was tho lawlul wile of auother man, immediately left her for his father's house, and then soon sickened and died of gnct. When the nindoo priest is about to bap tise an infant, he utters the following fol owing beautiful sentiment : "Little babe. thou cnterest the world weeping, while all around you smile. Contrive so to live, that you may depart iu smiles, whilo all aroundyou weep. The lady princii al of a school, in her advertisement mentioned her lady assistant and ho "refutation for teaching which she bears,'' but tho printer lelt out tho which, so the advertisement went forth commending tho laJv's "lenutatiuu for teaching she bears." It is stated iu the Now York S't that the heirs of Mr. Richardson will coutcst the right of Mrs. McFurlund-Richardsen to tiny portion of his property, on the grouud that the marriage was not legal. A burglar entered a house at Madison. aud was captured, by a hired girl. The on ly weapon she used was a kettle of boiling potatoes and one other weapon her tongue. No burglar can stand everything. An old lady, who pretends to "know all about it," says the oulj way to prevent steamboat explosions is to make the engi neers "bile their Water on shore." In her opinion "all the bustin' is doue by cooking the steam on board the boat. A little girl who was sent out to bunt eggs, thought it Strange she did not find any, as there wero several hens, "standing around doing nothing" Mr. William Cline, of Berks conuty shoe a grey eagle weighing 10 j lbs. and measur ing seven feet seven inches across the win"8. This is the largest eagle ot the kind that has yet been captnred. An Irish gentleman fought a duel with an intimate friend, because ho had assor ted that he was boru without a shirt to hia back. Fanny Fern having said that men of the presedt day are fast, Prentice replies that they have to bo to catch the wouiou. , - m m Somt body aptly describes oredit as1 "a wise provision by which Constables and Sheriffs get a living." . ; The neivous individual who sent for hia preacher to "come and preach him to sleep," is aus ka spiel.' - . . . Promises made iu the time of . affliction require a better memory than people com-, mouly possess. Troubles are like babies; they ' grow bigger by nursing. n
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