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SUNBURY, NORTHUMBERLAND COUNTY, PA. SATURDAY, JUNE 2G, 1S5S,
NEW SERIES, YOL. 11, NO. 14.
OLD SERIES, YOL IS. NO 10
The Sunbury American.
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BY H. B. MASSER.
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titers containing .ab.t-r.pt.r,rl rn.mey - rt.ey .re permit
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JOB PEINTJN.O
w.have connected with ur establishment well sr
l.rted JOU OF KICK, which will enable u. to execute
InThe ne."c.t .le, every v.nay of pru.tn g.
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
"SUWBUBV, PA.
Business attended f in the Counties of Nor
humborland, Uuion, Lycoming Montour and
Columbia.
Reference! in Philadelphia:
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Soaiers 4 Sno.lra.,
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3STEW STORE.
ELIAS EMEMCII,
i ESPECTFKLLY informa the citizens of
r r ..n..uta nwnRbin and the TUlb
u km, oi Iiowl-i w ----
.. . l- i ilia Store
lie generally, mm no 1.n.v..- -lately
kcptbylnsac Marti, in Lower Augusta
township near EmcricVs Tavern, anil has just
oprnod a, splendid stock of
Fall and Winter GOODS-
Hit stock consists of Cloths, Cansimeres, Cassi
nellsof all kinds, linen, cotton and Worsted.
Also, Calicoes, Ginghams, Lawns, Mousneline
Be Laines and all kindt of Ladies Dress C.ooda.
GROCERIES, Hardware, Queensware of va
tiotis styles and patterns.
Also, an assortment of Rcady-Made Clothing
of all descriptions, Boots and Shoes, Wats and
Caps. 84LT FISH. 4c., and a variety of
other articles such as are suitable to the trade,
all of which will be sold at the lowest prices.
65" Country produce taken in oxchange at
the highest market prices.
Lower Augusta twp., October VP, 1857. tf.
ALEXANDER. KERR,
IkirouTta inn WhoiSsaii Baiy.r i
S JV X. T ,
J 31 Sout Vharves, Philadelphia, Pa.
AEHTON FINE. LIVERPOOL GROUND
Ashton and Star Mills Dairy assorted siies, con
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trade.
IV. B. Orders solicited.
March 13, 18S8. 6m
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THIS Grease is recommended to the notice of
w I u.rv sikMa keepers. -Sects
leing SurEiuon to anything of the kind ever in
rnduced. As it docs not gum upon the axles
- is much more durable, and is not affected by
he weather, remaining the same in summer af
n winter, and put up in tin canisters at 37J and
5 cents. for sale by A. W. FISHER.
March 14.1857. .
Fur it, mts ai rnovisioxs.
N. riF.LMNGS.
Vo. 12 North Wharves, Philadelphia.
100,000 lbs. Dried Apples,
3,000 bushels Pea Nuts,
600 barrels Green Apples,
600 boxes Oranges,
500 boxes Lemons,
2,000 bushels Potatoes,
1.000 bushels Baans,
100 doi. Pickles.
Also Raisins, Figs, Primes, ic, in stora and
r sale at the lowc.t prices.
April 10, 1858. ly
UNBURY STEAM FLOURING MILL
rHE subscribers respectfully announce to the
public, that their new bteam Flouring Mill
this place, has been completed, and will go
to operation oil Monday the 3lsl day of Au
ist, inst.
Having engaged a competent and .careful
iller. they truBt they will be able, with all the
jjern improvements adopted in their mill, to
e entire satisfaction to all whomsy favor them
th their cu stom
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Sunbury, AuguBt 29, 1857. tl
GILBERT" B'JLSCIT,
Successor to
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(Formerly No. 15 North Wharves.)
1ALERIN PRODUCE. FRUIT AND VE
'.T ABLES, No. 4 North Wharves, 4th door
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i Nuts, Peaches, Cranberries l-.ggs, &c.
lrherafor Shipping put up with care and dis-
3T GOODS aold en commission for Farmers
Dealers.
ctober 24. 1857.
, $10 and $15 Single end Double
Threaded Empire Tami'y Sewing
Machines.
V GENCY for the sale of these Sewing
Machines can be secured on liberal terrae for
ounty of Northumberland. No one need
y without capital sufficient to conduct the
less properly and who cannot bring refer
i as to reliability and capacity. A personal
cation will be necessary,
le peculiar adaptation of these Machines lor
arposes of Family Sewing, will, where ever
are offered for sale command ready and
lited demand. v y
JOHNSON ir GOODLL,
Corner of 6th and Arch Sts., Philadel'a.
gust 15, 1857. tf
IILAMtS! ULINKSJ
ANK Deeds, Mortgages, Bonds, Warranta
A ttachments, Commitments, Summons, Su
t Executions, Justices' end Constables
Bills, Ac.. &c.,can be had by applying at
iflice.
(CKLESof various kinds, Lobsters, Bar
dines, Ac, Ve., just received and for aale
Drug Store ef A. W, FISHER,
jbi'f, August I, HiL
1 o 1 1 r g .
CF The following beautiful extract from T.
Duchanaa Read's celebrated "Pastoral" poem
describes the beauties of Pennsylvania's noble
stream eminently true and pleasant t
THE SUSQUEHANNA.
Fair Pennsylvania ! that thy midland vales,
Lying 'iwixt hills of green, and bound afar
By billowy mountains rolling in the blue,
No lovelier landscape meets the traveller's eye,
There Labor reaps and sows his sure reward,
And Peace and Plenty walk amid the glow
And perfume of full garners. I have seen
In lands less free, but far more known.
The streams which flow through history, and
wash
The legendary shores, and cleave in twain
Old capitals and towns, dividing oft
Great empires, and estates of petty kings
And princes, whoso domains, full many a field,
Bristling with maize, along our native West,
Outmeasures, and might put to shame ! And yet
Nor Rhine, like Bacchus, crowned and reeling
through
His hills; nor Danube, married with tyranny;
His dull wave moaning on Hungarian shores;
Nor rapid Po, his opaque waters pouring
Athwart the fairest, fruitfulest, and most
Enslaved of European lands; nor Seine,
Vending uncertain through inconstant France ;
Are half so fair as thy broad atream, whose
breast
It gemmed with many isles; and whose proud
ni.mo
Shall yet become among the names of rivers,
A syionymc of beauty, l-o.ckua!isa.
RETRIBUTION.
DT THE AUTHOR OF "TUB HrtB TO ASHI.BT.'
chapter nr.
A WABM.NG.
It was a blazing hot day in August, some
years later. More especially hot it fell at
the railway stntiou of Offord, a quiet country
village, for it was a small, bare station, with
not a tree and but litllu coverinp about it to
shade off the sum s hot glare. 1 ha 2 o clock
train camo puffint; up, stopped, deposited a
few passengers and a good deal of luggage,
and went screaming nod puffing on again.
Nearly all who bod alighted were of one
party Mr. and Mrs. Yorke, their two young
children, and some servants. She was young
and beautiful, but of cold, apathetic manner.
Jier liufband was older, not a bad-looking
man, but his expression of face was unpleas
ing, particularly when, in laughing, the whole
of his teeth v,ere displayed large, regular
teeth, so white that they almost glistened.
From the love, incidental to Englishmen,
of temporary change, of new scenes, Mr.
Yorke, a man of good fortune, has qailttd bis
own commodions residence fur a "shooting
box" in another county. Ail he knew of
"Alnwick Cottage" be knew through bq ad
vertisement, except what be learnt by two or
three letters from Mr. Maskell, who hud the
charge of letting it. Excellent fishing and
shooting were promised, and Mr. Yorke bad
taken it for six months. It stood nearly a
mile beyond the village.
On the afternoon of his arrival, Mr. Yorke
strolled out to have a look at the locality.
Ha was a haughty man, and did not fuel
pleased that Mr. Miskell had omittod to
receive him. When he reacbrd Offord one
of the first houses be saw was Mr Mnskell's,
as the door-plate announced "Mr. Maskell,
Lawyer and Conveyancer." lie rang, and
was admitted.
"1 am so sorry not to have met you at the
station," began Mr. Maskell, when bo learnt
who his visitor was. "I was called suddenly
out of Offord this morning to make a gentle
man's will, and have not been Lome half an
boor. I have dispatched my clerk to Aln
wick Cottage with the inventory. ir, I
hope you will like Offord."
"It seems a very poor place;" remarked
Mr. Yorke.
"The village can't boast much, but the '
neighborhood is superior a small sociuty,
but excellent. Capital footing, too 1"
'Have yon good medical advice?" J
"He is a very nice young fallow, our doc
tor. We have but one ; the place would not ,
support more."
Mr. Yorke's lips curled. He had not been
thinking of "nice young fellows," but of supe
rior medical men. "1 asked you about the ,
doctor before I decided on the cottage, and
you wroto me there was an excellent one,"
said be iu a dissatisfied tone. "It is most
essential, where there's a family, to be near a
clever medical man.
"We all think hiin very clever," replied
the lawyer. "He bought practice three jears
o;;o ; our surceon had died, and I negotiated
it for bis widow ; and has attended us ever
since, and is a great favorite. He was in
London two years before that, qualified
assistant to a large medical practitioner,
l'lenty of experience he bad there; was run
off bis legs the hole of the two years. He
as smoking his cigar with me yesterday eve
ning, he often runs in, does Janson, and was
saying "
"What is his name!" interrupted Mr.
Yorke, his accent shrill and unnatural.
"Janson."
"What?"
The lawyer wondered whether Mr. Yorke
was attacked with sudden de&ruesi, and why
his eyes glared, and bis teoth shone out, so
like fangs.
"Janson," ha repeated "Edward Janson.
Do you know him ?"
Mr. Yorke's mouth closed again, and bis
manner culmned down. "1 thought it a cu
rious name," suid be j "that's all. Is it Enir.
lish ?" b
"Of Dutch origin, I guppose. Janson is
an Englishman."
"Does be live in the village"
"A few doors lower down. It is the corner
houso as you come to Itye Lane ; the garden
door at the back opens on the lane 1 assure
you, sir, you may call in this gentleman with
every confidence, should yon or your family
require medical advice."
Meanwhile, everybody was busy at Aln
wick Cottage, as it the case wben going into
a fresh residence. Fiocb. tbe nurse, a confi
dential servant, who bad been Mrs. Yerke's
maid before ber marriage, was deputed to go
through the boose witb tbe lawyer's clerk
and tbe inventory. Mrs. Yorke declining the
troublo. Tbe eldest child, a boy of four
years, cnose and be bad a will or nit own-
to attjud on Fincb, Finch submitting to tbe
companionship, failing in tome coaxing at
tempts to get rid of him. But after a while
be greir tired of tbe process of looking at
ahairi and tables, and cups and saucers, and
uoitted ber to to dowo stairs.
"Uo to Charlotte, Leo, dear said Fiosb j
"! shall toon have done. Charlotte," she
called out over tbo banisters, "see to Master
Leo."
When Fincb and tho clerk had finished the
inventory, the latter proceeded to the small
room on the grouna-floor which had been
appropriated as the nursery. In tbe list it
was set down as "butler's pantry." Chnr
lotte, the under nnrso, sat thore, with the
youngest child asleep on her lap.
"Where's Muster Leo?" nslted Finch, ab
breviating, as she usually did, his namo,
"Leopold." "I sent him here, aud ordered
yon to see after him."
"Ha didn't come," was Charlotte's answer,
"and the child was just dropping off to sleep.
He wouldn't come here to me, if he could go
to bis mamma."
"You'd let him be witb his mamma forever,
yon would, if it saved you a little trouble,"
cried Fincb, who of court domineered over
Charlotte, tipper-nurso fashion. "1 bate this
moving, 1 do such a bother 1 Nothing to be
got at, and one's regular meals and hours
upset. I'm as tired as a poor jaded horse ;
and you sitting here, doing nothing, with that
child on your lap ! You might l.nvo put him
down and got a cup or tea for us."
Am 1 to put him or. tho floor ?" retorted
Charlotte. "I dou't know which is to bo th?
children's bed."
Finch flung out of the room in sesreb of
Leo. Her labors that day, and tho discom
fort around her, made her cross. He was
oat to bo found in doors, and she went to the
garden. Very soon a shriek of horror and
fright arose from ber. It drew her mistress
out; and tho lawyer's clerk, who had been
departing, heard it, aud ran back iu its di
rection. Leopold Yorke had met with a ladder,
reared against tho side of the house, and hud
climbed up in all a boy's adventurous spirit.
He had fallen ofl, poor child, it was iiiipc;ssi
bltt to say from whut l.cipht, mid now lay in
sensible on the gravel, with an uoly gash in
bis forcheud, from which thu - blood was
oozing.
Finch stopped ber groans and lumorta
tinns, and stooped to pick him up. lint Mrs.
Yorke snatched him from him, aud crouched
down on tho earth, witb one knee raised, and
laid him upon it, and looked up with a hope
less, helpless expression at the lawyer's clerk,
the words scarculy audible which camo from
her whito lips :
"A doctor where docs one live ?"
"I'll fetch him, ma'am ; I'll run every step
of tho way. I don't miud the heat," cried
tho sympathizing clerk.
He did not wait another moment, but sped
away. Leopold was conveyed in-doors ; and,
before the surgeon got there who also
seemed to have come on the run the child
had recovered consciousness, and Fitcb had
washed the wound, which now seemed dis
armed of three parts of its terrors. Mr.
Janson, a very fine man, wanting yet a year
or so of thirty, bound it up, ordered the boy
to bo kept quiet, aud said be would send iu
a little calming medicine.
"May 1 daro to shake bands with you ?"
he asked, with a frank, pleasant smile, but
with a somewhut heightened color, wben ho
aud Mrs. Yorke were left alone.
She placed her baud within hTS quite as
frankly, though the glow was fur deeper on
her face than on his. "How strange that we
should meet hero ?" she excluimed. ' I re
cognized you tho moment you came in."
"As I did you." be returned. "Hut I was
firfpared for it bad been a matter of specu
alion in my mind whether the Mr. n:nl Mrs.
Yorke who were coining to Alnwick Cottage
could bo you and your husband. 1 have beeu
settled at Offord these three years.
"May 1 ask if you are " Mrs. Yorke
hesitated, but probably thought she must
finish her question, as bLo had begun it
'married ?'
"To my profession I am in no other way.
My thoughts aud hopes havo been wholly
given to it since since I fully entered upou
it."
"Will the child do well ?'' she inquired.
"Ob, yes ; it is but a slight affair ; 1 was
prepared for something worsp, by the accouut
of Mr. Maskell's (.lurk. A little blood, espe
cially on the bead aud face, frightens those
not accustomed to it. 1 hose accidents will
happen whore there ure children. He is your !
eldest ( I
"Yes. I bavo but two." J
"I will send up the medicino I sp-ke of,
and call again in tbo morning, "said Mr. Jun-j
son, rising. "Make my compliments to Mr.
Yorke."
Mr. Janson departed, and Mrs. Yorke
looked after him. As he turned to cl-?e tbe
iron gate, he saw her standing at the window, i
and politely raised his hat, and Mrs. Yorke
politely boned in return. 1 outely-tue word
is put advisedly j whatever there may hove
been of love or romance between them a tew
years ago, it was over now. h.itever seu-
timenlul reminiscences each bed hitherto re
tained of tbe other, they knew that from tlrut
afternoon henceforth they subsided ioto their
proper au J respective positions Mrs. XorKe
as auothei'8 wife, and Mr. Janson but as a
friend or ber s and ber busbaud s ns honora
ble, right-miuded persons, in similar cases,
ought, and would, and do subside.
Mr. Yorke, after exploring as far as be
thought necessary that day, turned back to
his new borne. His thoughts ran not on tho
features of the villatre. or on the scenery
around, or ou tbe fishing, or the shooting ;
tbey dwelt exclusively ou the tew word.) ol
Mr. Maskell s which had reference to tue
surgeon. Mr. Xorlie bated that surgeon
witb a deep and nourished hate, and he would
iuGoitely have preferred to find he bad visited
locality where tbe arch-Ceud owned a
country-bouse, than one containing Edward
Janson.
He was drawing pretty near to bis own
gate when be saw a gentleman emerge from it.
A snudder strange and cold passed through
Mr. Yorku't veius. Was it sent as a warn
ing the precursor of what was to come?
Surely that was tbe man of bis thoughts ?
Yes. it was ! Junson, and no other 1 What!
bad be already found out the way to bis
borne to hii tcift ! Mr. Yorko't lips opened,
and bis teeth parted witb a savage motion,
somewhat like a tiger's.
Mr. Janson did not observe him. - He
walked straignt acroes the road, got over a
stile, and weut away very quickly along a
Sold patb. "He may well try to avoid my
observation," thought Mr. Yorke, in bis pre
judice; and bad he beeu told tbe real facts
be would have refused belief that Mr. Jan
son did not see biin, and being iu a burry,
was taking tbe short way through the field
to bis home.
Matters were not mended when Mr. Yorke
turned in at bis gate. There stood hit wife
at tbe wiudow, her eyes unmistakably fixed
on Mr. Janton's retreating form. She looked
flushed and excited, which indeed was tbe
effect of ber late fright about the child but
Mr. yorke set it down to different eaute.
"I am glad yon bave come borne," the ex
claimed, wben be entered. "What Jo you
tbiiiK uat happened r
"I know," burst forth Mr. Yoiko. "No
osed tu tell o-e,"
Mrs. Yorke supposed ho had seen the law
yer's clerk. What else could she suppose?
"It will not end badly," she continued,
fearing he was angfy at its having happened
"Mr. Janson says so. Only think I he is
the doctor hero. You must have seen him
leaving the houso."
"Yes, I did see him," retorted Mr. Yorke,
nearly choking with his efforts to keep down
his anger. "What brought him here ?"
"I sent for him at least, t sent "
"And bow dared you send for him, or admit
him to my house ? How dared you seize the
moment my back was turned to fefth him to
your side? Was tho meeting, moy I ask, a
repetition of the parting?"
"Whatever are yon talking of?" ottered
Mrs. Yorke, poling a littlo with old recollec
tions, and vexed at tho torn her husband
seemed to bo taking. "What do yoti mean ?"
"I mean Janson," hissed Mr. Yorke "Jan
son, your former favored lover. Have I been
so distasteful a husband to you that you rrrust
hasto indecently to fetch him to console Jr'ou
in tho first hour of your arrival hero ? Who
told you ho lived in Offord? How did yon
ferret it out ? or havo yoti known it all
alone and concealed the knowledge from
mo ?"
Mrs. Yorke sank back in ber chuir, awed
and bewildered. "I do tbiuk you are out of
your mind," she gasped.
"No, madam, 1 leave that to you ; yon oro
far moro out of your mind than I am. Lis
ten : I havo a warning to givo you : you
know me, and know that I will keep my
word. (Jet Janson to visit you clandestinely
again, and 1 will shoot him."
Mrs. Yorke rose majestically. "I do not
understand the word 'clandestine,' " she
hnnghtily said ; "it can never apply to me.
When the accident happened to Leopold
and I truly thought ho was dead, and so did
Finch, and so did the young man who bad
been going over the inveutory and I begged
tho young man to run for the nearest 6urgeon
I no more knew that it was Mr. Janson who
would come than did tho senseless child.
Hut it did prove to be Mr. Janson, end be
dressed tho wound of the child, and he is
coming again to him to-morrow morning.
He ca ne hero professionally to attend your
child, sir not to see me. Clandestine '."
Mrs. Yorke swept out of the room, her face
flushing with indignation, and Mr. Yorke
strode up stairs to Leopold's bud-room and
learnt what hud bappcued. It cannot be said
that it appeased him to any great degree, for
he was blindly prejudiced, and jualousy and
suspicion had turned his mind to a gangrene.
They bad been smouldering there for years ;
fierhaps the consciousness had been upou
lim throughout that tbey would some time
burst ioto a flnmo.
On the following morning Mr. Janson
came, according to bis promise Mr. and
Mrs. Yorke were at breakfast. He shook
hands with Mrs. Yorke, then turned, with his
frank, open countenance to Mr. Yorke. Mr.
Yorke did not choose to see it, but be did
move his own to indicate a chair.
"Thank you, I om pressed for time," replied
Mr. Janson, laying bis hand on the back of
tbe chair, but not taking it, '-This is my
hour for visiting Lady Hicb, who is a great
invalid. She lives a little past you, op the
road. How is my young yatient?"
"He seems much better," answered Mrs.
Yorke. "He is asking to get up."
"A most disgraceful piece of carelessness
to have saiflered it to happen," interposed
Mr. Yorke. "I have told tho bead nurse that
should she ever bn guilty of such negligence
again, sho quits Mrs. Yorke's service. It
might havo killed him."
"Yes, it might," added Mr. Janson. "Can
I go to bis room ?"
M rs. Yorke roso. "Tho one on the right,
on the second floor," she said. "1 will follow
you directly. Fiuch is there."
Mr. Janson passed from tho room and as
cended the stairs : Mrs. Yorke stopped to
speak to ber husband.
"1 must hear bis opinion of tbe child, and
shall go up ; would you like to accompany
mo if" she added, not wholly able to conceal
the contempt of her tone.
"No."
They came down shortly, both Mr. Janson
and Mrs. Yorke. "He is so much better
that the difficulty will be to keep him quiet,"
said the former. "He must be still for a day
or two."
"Vou aro sure there is no danger?" asked
Mr. Yorke, who was now standing at tbe
open window.
"Ob, nono in tbe world. I will look in
again to morrow. Good aioruing, sir; good
morning M rs. Yorke."
Mr. Yorke had thawed a little; pcrhapB
tlio mutter-of-fuct, unsuspicious manner of
Mr. Janson reassured him. "It is a bot day
again," 6aid be as Mr. Janson passed tbe win
dow. "Very. Hy the way, Mrs Yorke," added
the surgeon, halting for a moment, "you must
not sutler tho boy to stir outsido. J he suu
might affect bis bead."
"Of course not," she answered.
However, Leopold did get outside, he and
his white-bandued forehead, anp tore about
buy-like, the sun's rays streaming full on his
uncovered bead. I u some twenty minutes he
was discovered: the bandage off, and be as
scarlet as a red-hot engine boiler. Suddenly
bo began to scream out, "My bead aches, my
head aches 1" Finch said it was "temper" at
being brought in, and crossly assured him
if his bead did ache, which she didu't bolieve,
for be never had it, jt cume as a punishment
for slying out iu disobedience.
Hut at night the child was so ill end unea
sy that Mr. Yorke, himself sent for tbo sur
geon. Leopold's face had not paled, aud be
Etill moaned out the same cry, "My head, my
beod !"
"Ho bas been out," exclaimed Mr. Janson;
"why was I disobeyed ? This is a sun
stroke." Nobody was to blame. Mrs. Yorke bad
coaxed him iuto lying on 'bo sofa iu the sitting-room
"for a uice mid-day sleep," and
weut into the nursery, leaving him, as she
believed, safe. Up jumped Mr. Leopold the
instant be found himself at liberty, and drop
ped down from tbe low window which stood
bo temptingly open His heart was set upon
getting into the garden simply because it was
denied to him.
In a few days be was se far recovered that
only an intermittent fever remained. Mr.
Yorke, in spite of his joalous prejudices, bad
been obliged to submit to Mr. Janson's fre
quent visits, for there was no other doctor
within miles, and tbe safety of bis son and
heir was paramount.
Tbe neighborhood bad hastened to make
acquaintance with Mr. and Mrs. Yorke, and
one day an invitation came for them to take
a quiet dinner at Squire Hipgrave's. It was
accepted by botb, for Leopold's intermittent
fdver was subsiding, aud they were do looger
under alarm for him.
They found a small party of seven at tbe
squire's, themselves Included. The eighth
seat was meant for M r. Janson, but be bad
been called out suddenly, and was unable to
come. The gentlemen's conversation turned
chiefly opon out door sports, and after diuoer
when coffee was ovor they went out, that Mr.
Yorke mlpbt see a pond on the grounds
where the fish were being preserved, leaving
tbe ladies alone.
Mr. Janson came in, but scarcely bad be
bad time to explain the cause of his absence
at dinner, wben a servant appeared and told
him he was wanted.
"How tiresome !" exclaimed tho hostess.
"A doctor's time is never his own," ho re
marked, good humoredly. "Is it my surgery
boy 1" he inquired of the servant.
"No. sir. It is a footman from Alnwick
Cottage. He says your boy sent him on
hero."
This excited the alarm of Mrs. Yorke.
"Leopold must bo worse !" she exclaimed.
As it proved to bo. Master Leopold was
took worse, the man said, n talking nonsense
and not knowing a word of it. and hotter than
ever. Fincb was frightened, and had sent
him for Mr. Janson.
Mrs. Yorke grew frightened also, and said
she must go home immediately. They tried
to keep her, nnd to soothe her fears. Mr. j
Jauson said he would uo, and make hasto l
oacK to report to her. It wns ol no use.
Neither would she wait till Mr. Yorke came
iu.
"Then, if yoa will al'ow me, I will be your
escort, said Mr. Janson.
"indeed 1 shall lie much obliged to you," ;
she answered. And hurriedly putting on her
shawl, she departed with him" one of tho. la- j
dies lending her a black silk hood for her
head. She had anticipated returning in tho j
enrrioge. It wos a beautiful night in Sep. i
tcuiber, nearly us light as tiny, for the horvest '
moon was high, just the night poets nro fond .
of consecrating to lovers; but Mr. Jati3on I
and Mrs. Yorke walked ulong fast, and in so- I
date composure, neither remembering at :
least so far as was suffered to appear that '
they had ever been more to each other than I
they wero now. I
The three gentlemen were strolling along '
the banks of tho fish pond, smokinir their ci
gars and talking. Suddenly one of them es- j
pieu a couple walking arm in arm on the patb '
in tho higher ground, some distance off. j
"Jt looks like Jauson," cried Squire Hip- ;
grave. " 1 hat s just Ins walk : and that s tho I
way he flourishes bis cane, too. Who is the
lady I wonder? So ho. Master Junson I a,
good excuse for not joiuing us ; you are more
agreeably employed."
Mr. Yorke smiled grimly : his eye, keen as
it was, had failed to recognize his wife, for tbe
hood disguised her. Tbey smoked out their
cigars, and leturned to the bouse.
"Have we. not a good joke aguinst' Janson!"
cried Squire Uipgrave. "I'll rate nim for
not coming, lie's walking about in the
moonlight with some damsel on bis arm, as
snug as may bo.
"Is he now?" returned one of the ladies
humoring the joke. "Who can it bo ?"
"Oh, some of our village beauties. Master
Janson has got an eye for a pretty girl, I
know, quiet as he seems. He's making love
to ber bard enough, I'll be bound."
"Then you had better look out, Mr. Yorke"
laughed Mrs. Uipgrave, "for the lady is your
own wife."'
She bad spoken innocently, never for one
moment dreaming that her words could bear
any interpretation but that of a joke to tbe
ear of Mr. Yorke. Aud happily she did not
see the livid look, the awful expression which
arose to his face. He had turned it to tbe
wiudow, as if he would look out on the plea
sunt moonlight.
"How comes it to be Mrs. Yorke ?" deman
ded the squire. And bis wife explained.
Still Mr. Yorke did not speak. . One of the
party advanced and stood at his side.
"A fino prospect fioni this window, is it
not?"
"Very."
"Will you cut in for whist ? How unfortu
nate to have our tables broken up ! We can
not make two, uow. Junson rarely plays at
cards, but 1 meant to have pressed bim into
tbe serviuo to-night."
"1 am going home," said Mr. Yorko.
"Nousense!" said Mrs. Hipgravo. "Tbe
child will do very well. Mr. Junson did uot
sce.m to anticipate danger ; be said tiurses
were easily alarmed."
"I expect he did not," dryly remarked Mr.
Yorke. "Thuuk you, not to-night," he added
turniug from the cards spread out to bim.
"Another time."
"Yorke's iu a fever over that child," cried
tho squire, knowingly, as bis guest departed j
"1 can read it in his queer manner. Did you
notice bow it altered I What a nuisance chil
dren must be 1 Glad we bave got none."
Mr. Yorke was not in a fever over tbe
child : but Mr. Yorko was in a fever over
something else. He was positively believing
in spite of all improbabilities ; that the story
of the illness bad been a got up excuse, got
up between his wife and Mr. Janson, to In
dulgo iu this night-walk of a mile and a half.
And he clenched his bands, and gnashed his
teeth, and strode fiercely along in his foaming
jealousy.
He stole in at his own g tte and roconnoi
tered the house. The general sitting-room
was in darkness, its window open ; they weie
not there. A light shone up stairs iu Leo
pold's chamber, uud one also in bis wife's bed
room. He stole up stairs, stealthily still, and en
tered tho bedroom, his own, jointly with hers.
Tbe housemaid was turning down tho bed.
"Is your mistress come borne?'1 asked ho,
speaking', perhaps uucousciously to himself,
in a whisper.
"Yes, sir; she came in with Mr. Janson.
Tbey are witb Master Loopold."
Up higher yet, but quietly still, till he
reached Leopold's room. His wild stood
there, at the foot of the bed, her shawl still
on, end the hood fallen back from ber head
and Mr. Janson was seated on a chair at its
side, Leaning over Leopold. He lay ou his
back, his little face a transparent white, as it
bad been lately, and bis cheeks and lips a
most lovely pink crimson. His eyes were
wide open, and looked very bright.
'Tapa!" said he, half raisiug bis hood,
when Mr. Yorke entered.
"I don't see why Finch should bave got so
frightened,' said Mrs. Yorke to her husband.
"He is quite rational now, and seems but lit
tle worse than he always does when the fever
is upon bim."
"Whot do you mean by thus having sent to
alarm us ?" demanded M r. Yorke, in a sharp
ly irritable tone, as tbe nurse entered the
room witb ber eight-light, which the had
been down to fetch. "Frightened, indeed I
ltid you send ?"
"1 never knew any child change so." re
turned the, almost as irritably as her roaster.
"He was burning witb fever, as bad as ever
be bad been days ago, and delirious again. 1
was frightened, tir, and I tent off for Mr.
Janson ; 1 didn't send for yoa and missis.
No sooner bad the man gone than he dropped
asleep, and hat now woke up calm a'uioat
as much as to insinuate thut I'm tolling
stories."
"This clast of feven will fluctuate, inter
posed Mr. Janson. "Oua boor the patient
tCctiia tt death's door, aud the text tcunoly
ill at all. Rnmcthinrr has certainly increased
it to night, but he will do well."
"Jf ever I saw any human body so changed
Rji master in since we Came here!'' uttered
Finch to Chnrlotto, that, same evening.
"Formerly he used to lie pleasant ennugh in
the house, unless Anything crossed him, but
now he's as prowling and snappish as a bull
pnt up for bAiting. I wonder nVsis doesn't
give him a bit of her mind. I wish he'd go
off to Scotland, as he did last year."
'In he Continued
Another Trodigy.
A negro woman belonging to Mr Samuel
Stites, of Henderson, Ky., cave birth to four
living children, joined together by pairs in a
still more peculiar manner than the Siamese
twins. The two boys are connected at the
shoulder, and from tho hip to tho kneo joint,
leaving tho lower joint of the legs and feet
perfectly frno. The girls aro joined at the
shoulder, with this difference from the boys,
that they have but one arm issuing from the
junction of their shoulders. They ore joined
from the hip down to tho foot the two legs
ending in ono foot.
In regard to tho color of the children,
nature seems to have been quite as eccentric
as in their fot malior, ono of the boys being
black and the other as white as the child of n
white woman : and so with the girls. They
ull seem to be perfectly healthy, auJ the
mother is doing nnrommo.ily well.
Mr. Stites, who is a man of weoltb, takes
great pleasure in showing the twins to his
friends, and their "levees" have been greatly
crowded for tho last doy or two.
What is tbo best line to lead a man with?
Crinoline.
What is the best lino to lead a wotsan ?
Masculine.
defect jocfri).
EDEN IS MY IIOME.
Oh! I have roamed thiough many laii,
A ttranprr to delight j
Nit frieiKishij! hope, nor love' sweet imilca,
Could nuke my pntliwny bright,
'Till on the sky n star arose,
And lit night's sable J me
Oh ! steer my bark by that sreet tar,
Vox KJt-n is my home.
Oh ! Elcn is my place of rest,
I lnng to reach its shore.
To shake these troubles frum my breast,
And weep and sigh no more ;
To that fuir tnnd my spirit lies,
Aud Angels bid me come
Oh ! steer my bark o'er Jordan's woTe,
For Kden i my home.
Oh : take me from this world of woo
To my tweet hm above,
Where tear of sorrow never fl:w
And all the uir is love ;
My sitter's spirits wait for me,
And Jesus bids ine come
Oh ! steer my bark to that bright land,
For Kdeu is my borne.
Jennets' department.
Coai. Ashes. The inquiry is often heard,
"Aro coal ashes worth anything as fertilisers.
The following analysis, mude by the late Pro
fessor Norton, of Yale College, may servo to
answer this interrogation. The ashes were '
obtained for experimeut entirely free from
vegetable substances, aud tho constituents of
100 parts each of the ashes of white and red
ash coal, yielded of.
White Aflt. ? A.h.
Matter Insoluble i3.t'H 5.65.
Solublo Silica, 0 00 1 'Jl.
Alumina, 3 II 5 4 21.
Iron, 4 03 SR.!.
Limo, 2 11 0 16.
Magnesia, 0.19 2 01.
Soda, 0.22 0.16.
I'otash, 0. 1 1 0.11.
Phosphoric A c-iJ, 0.20 0.27.
Sulphuric Acid, O.O 0.43.
Chloriue, 00J 0.01.
93.09 99.11
These analyses, said the expetimenter, af
ford sufficient light on the subject, to con.
elude at once, that Anthracite coal ashes are
of some value as a manure, and should be
used where they enn be chenply obtained.
Of the white-ash 3.71100 lbs., in 100, were
soluble iu water, and in the red-ash, 3.35.100
lbs. Uesides, there was a fatther and larger
portion, soluble in acids, auiounting in tbo
white-ash, to 8 lbs.
I n loukiug at these results, the following
conclusion seems to bo reached ; that in the
ash of Anthracite coal, calling these fair sam- '
pies, there are in every 100 lbs., from 4 to 8
lbs. of valuable inorganic material, of a nature
suitable for adding to ony soil re-piiring man
ures. Iiituminous coat ashes, peat afbes, and kelp
ashes may also bo advantageously used as
fertilisers. boston Courier.
Ukmarkr We consider coal ashes to be
most valuable when applied either to low
gronnd, a littlo moist atlJ heavy, or to clay
moulds. They have a very good elTV-ct in
making them perinanetly mure friahK' and
productive. Our own experience satisfies ns
of this On light soils, or those inclining to
sand, wo regard coal ashes as quite undesira
ble. In such localities tho best use put them
to is, to excavate your garden avenues six
inches, and fill them' and roil them down, and
you will havo a hard, dry pleasant walk, a
littlo superior to anything yet tried. It is
always compact and always dry. For carriage-ways,
also, they cannot be surpassed.
(I'erinuntuwn 'Jilerruph.
Standard Weights Measures.
Tbe following stanJurd weights anJ mea
sures, as provided by law, within this com
monwealth, may prove of service to some of
your readers, by preserving it for reference ;
Lawful, Staxdakd of Wejoiits a.vu Mea-
Sl'KKS.
Wheat.
Shelled corn,
Corn on cub,
llye,
Oats,
B alley
Potatoes,
Deans,
CO lbs
fi6 "
C'loverseed CO lbs
Timothy seed, 45 "
Hemp seed, 41 "
Kuck wheat, f.i "
Lllue-grast teed, 14 "
Castur Means, 4ft "
Dried IVicbe. 33 "
Dried Apples, 24 "
Onions, '11 "
7tl
S6
35
4H
60
60
20
Hran,
Bait,
6'riarif'iM Telegraph.
The Bucks County Agricultural Society
will bold its aouual exhibition at Newtown,
commencing on tbe J9lb September. The
list, of premiums, already published, embraces
a schedule amounting in money, books, aud
agricultural periodicals, to about Jli-OO.
Rut a Bnga.
This is on the whole, the root best suited
to out Middle Stales and Southern agricn).
tore. It is excellent for stock feeding; thu
time of sowing snd working is at a more con;
venient period than that of others, snd Urn
necessary cultivation much lers. It mv brj
sown tho last week of June or not until" tlfl
first week of August. Have the gronnd so
farm as to be able to lake advautnue of a
rain, and sow the Feed at tir.y time after thrt
first of July. The 10th or that month is t cr
baps tho best time.
Should it happen that tbe pround on whit tl
you would grow the Kuta lingo is occupied
with another ctop. br for any other teason
the ground Cannot be got in readiness in pro
per time to raise a crop from tho seed, sow
them in beds ond transplant when the grniind
Is ready and the plants largo enough. They
thrive better thnn Cabbago plants on being
set out. It is less labor to trans-plant thai
to thin a crop from tho seed, and tbe plume
are set at more regular distanct-s than tbey
have ordinarily.
The crop is bolter rnisedj in drills tlmh
broadcast; it can bn manured moro cennonu
icuily, worked moro conveniently atid vi;i
yield a heavier crop.
Manuret. Open drills three foet apart and
strew tho manure in the furrow. Throw fur
rows over this from each side, making a ridgd
Striko this ridge down witb the line, no as to
leave a good surface tru which ta tow tha
seed. Hood composts of ony farm manures:
are suitable to this crop. They should havo
been well prepared and rot too strawy. Aj
regards bought manures, according to Kru
glisb experience, the super phefphates sliouIJ
be tho most economical. Tl.iee or fi'iir hun
dred pounds of mixed lcruvi.iu and Mexican
guanoes we think more itliabl'j.
Preparation nf Snd ami inr;. 't t
(but do not soak) in very thin tar cr pluo
water, nnd dry iu piaster. This prepartion
will hulp tbo young plants at start icg, nin!
the plaster in sowing will i'.iow whether thp
seed bo distributed over the ground. A pound!
of seed is sufficient for the nrra. c prefer
a careful hand to the seed drill for sowing.
American Eurintr.
Recipes.
HO WOHESEKVESTK AVUER
EIES.
Having had a largo supply of this fruit last,
year, and very little of any other f: uit, we pre
served it in a variety cf ways, u!i wnicii U.-pt
so nicely, and preserved their peculiar flavor
so perfectly that I havo been requested to givo
my rocoipts to your reader.
STRAWEKunr. Preserves. Select the luri
gost and handsomest berries, weigh thorn,
and sproad on platters. For each pound of
fruit, ullow a pouud of powdered white eugar,
Sprinkle half this amount over tho berries,
nud let them stnnd several hours in a cool
place, to hardeh and to form liqnor. Put
them iu a porcelain lined kettle, and by de
grees strew ou the rest of tho sugar. Uoil
tbem slowly fifteen minutes, skimming tbor
oughly, then tke them from the sirup ond
spread again on platters, to cool and burden
into shupe. 1 hen put them iuto widu.
mouthed glass bottles, pour tbe sirup ou
ooiung not, anu seal mo jars,
Strawberky Jellt. Take tbo berries
when first ripe and fresh, mash and drain
through a flannel bag. To each pint of juice
put a pound of white sngar, nnd one-third of
the white of an egg, Boil slowly about ten
minutes, skimming thoroughly, then dip it in
to I amblers or cups, aud set it into a sunny
wiudow uncovered till it jellies, then scul them
over. It will never form a very hrai jelly,
but it is delicious aud beautiful.
Straw berry Jam. Small and poor berries
will answer, if clean and free from decay.
Mash with a wooden pestle, add to each pound
one-forth of a pound of brown sugar, boil
about fifteen minutes, aud seal up in earthen,
glass, or stone jars.
Cannf.k SruAWBERRirs. Put the berries
over the fire without sugar and with almost no
water, and as soon as tbo whole mai-s is rais
ed to tbe boiling point, dip, it while boiling
into the caus, (glass is belter than tin for sukti
ucid fruit,) and pour over tho fruit in each
can a littlo boiling sirup, nearly thick enough
to candy. Fill perfectly full, and seal air
tight at once. These are very liue, tatcQ
with cream.
Strawberries should never be wasbed for
preserving. If dirty, do not use them.
.Strawberry thort-coke is a luxury. Make a
large thick short-cuke, split it twice through
and spread with butter and a layer of fresll
strawberries and sugar, put the parts together
again, and serve hut. Ohio Cultivator.
Moro Seasonable Receipts.
To Prbserve Gooseberries TaUe full
grown gooseberries before they aro ripe, pick
them aud put thorn into wide-mouthed bottles
cork them gently with uew, soft corks, and
put them in ua oveu from which the bread
bus been drawn, let them stand till they have
shrunk nearly a quarter ; then take them out
and beat the corks in tight : cut them off level
with the bottle, aud roiu thciu close. Keep
them in a dry place.
Goosf.herry Jam. Pick and t'.ean iel
gooseberries, thoroughly ripe. Boil tbcm by
themselves for twenty minutes, skimming
them frequently ; theu add brown sugar in thd
proportion of oue pound of sugar to ono
pouud of fruit ; boil lor half an hour after tho
sugar is in I skim it and pour it into earthen
ware jars ; wben cold, pi-per up thu jars, and
set aside in a dry cool situation. Strawberry
and black currant jams are made in prucis. ly
thu same manner as the above: but instead
of brown use lump sugar.
Raspberry. JajI Fuss tbo raspberries
through a fine sieve to atrnct their seeds;
add to them their wv'ight in tiuo, whitu sugar,
and boil them, stirring them over the Qru until
you can see the bottom of the stew .pan.
ClIFRRY, (tOOSKBF.URY. OR C'fl'.IUNT AX I'
Hasi'iiekuy Plddino -Make a gooj oust,
and line a puddiug-barin, previously buttered
with it ; pick your fruit and C!l thu b.isiu ; put
in a vory little watar and gome sugar, wet iltu
edgeof the paste all arounrl, then cover tho
top with a crust and pinch the edges together
tie a cloth tightly over, anJ boil the pudding
for an hour and a half, or two hours, accor
dinn to its sine. When you Wko it out m
the pot dip the basin iuto cool water, theu
turn the puddinj oat. Uermai.toun Ud
Jrar- .
Ho to Dry CherrUm.
Tuke the stems and sttmcs from rips cW.
ries spread them on flat dit-hit, aud tlry IhtLi
in the hot tun or worm oven j pour whatever ...
juice may have run from then., "tue at
time, over them stir tbcm about. tUt th
may dry evenly. When they are perfectly
dry. line boxes or jars with white paper and
paVk tbem clot, in layers. Stuw a l.tlle brown
iugar, aud fold the paper rer, an-l keep them
,n a di v placo Co "KU.Ou 'i Itlegrafh-