The Sunbury American Is Ptblibheb Eveby Fbibat, or EM'L WILVEET, Proprietor, Corner rf Tliird Strand Market S-iuare, SUXEURY, YA. At One Hollar mid Filly OntM w .;.! .ri.iv ;iilnni! 1 1.7; if i;aiJ within the year: or t ' IW i" all crnri iieu .ayii;eut w delayed till after ciiiiratiou of the "Jr. No Milcriitioii discontinued until all i rc:ira;.- me aid unlitw at the option of tue publisher. THkII TE11MS AUU KIUJ11I.T 1MK11KI ill iiuliM-ii,iii.iiii to the Amrncin by liei-aou living outaide of tbe t'ountv of XinbuuilrLiud, mum be ac r.Hiiiaiui'J wkIi til.- UH. Tins i niade umr)' by tbf diUl.-ultv r-iTu-iicl iu colluding uimaid ulHcn- tiulllt Hi A tllt 111'. j)roffsshmaI. rj. .1.KOUER. . TTiPvrv 1TUW AlU'it-1'i ...... AMI COI NTT BOI.ICITOU. Ofliee on Front Street below Market, Sunbury, Pa. Collections aud all legal business promptly attended vo. JAMES IIKARli, ATTORNEY AT LAW. Office in Haupf buildinj;, South East Corner or Market Square, Sunbury, Pa. Special Attention Paid to Collections. J A MIS II. JIcDEVITT, AtTORNEY AT IiAW AND Unitki States Cooussioncu. Office with 8. B. Boyer, Esq.. in liri;,'lit' Building, Sunbury. Pa. Aui;.22,'73.-ly. A. X" nnlVV" ATTORNEY AT LAW, AM ACTING JUSTICE or THE PEACE. Next Ioor to Judge Jordan's Residence, Chest nut Street, Sunbury, Pa. Collections aud all legal matters promptly at tended to. JEREMIAH SNYDER, ATTORNEY AT L.AW, Au ACTIXG JI STH EOr THE PEACE. ConTeyancing.tfce collections of claims, writings, and all kinds of Lral business will le atteuded to carefully and with despatch. Can be consult ed in the English and German language. Office formerly occupied by Solemon Malick. Esq., op posite City Hotel, Sunbury, Pa. March IS?:;. ly. GA. BOTDORF, Attornev-at-Law, GEORGETOWN, Northumberland Co., Pcnna. Can be consulted In the English .and German langnngcs. Collections attended to in North umberland and adjoining counties. Also a pent for the Lebanon Valley Fire Ins u ranee Company. "'hla Til. It. KASE, Attorney at Law, SUN- BURY, PA. Office in Market bquarc, (adjoining the office of W. I. (Jrecnough, Esq.,) professional business in this aud adjoining coun ties promptlv attended to. Sunbury, March 10, 1S73.-1?. W. C. PACKER, Attorney at Law, Sunbury, Pa. November 9, 1S72. tf. SI!. HOVER, Attorney and Counsellor at Law. Rooms No. 23 Second Floor, Bright'. Building, SUNBURY, PA. rrofessiona basiues attended to, in the courts of Northura oorland and adjoining cour.tie. Also, In the Cireuit and IHntriet Courts for tbe Western Dis trict of Pennsylvania. Claims promptly collect ed. Particular attention paid to tae U Lank rnntaj. Consultation can be had in the Ger man language. mar-:, .1. LII. KASE, Attorney at Law, SUN BURY, PA., office In Masscr's Building near the Court House. Front Room up stairs above the Drue Store. Collections made in Nor thumberland and adjoiuine couBties. Sunbury, Pa., Juue 8, 173. It. V 4 DIVA 1. 1 A OER.Market Street, . SUNBURY, PA. Dealer In Drugs, Medicines, Paints, Oils, Glass, Varnishes, Liquors, Tobacco, Cigars, Pocket Books, Dairies, Ac. P. 1VOI.VEKTOX, Attorney at Law. Market Square, SUNBURY.PA. Profession al bnsiuess in this aud adjoining counties pronipt- .y attended to. ' it. NASSER, Attorney at Law, SUN- BURY, PA. Collections atteuded to in the counties of Northumberland, Union, Suyder, Montour, Columbia and Lycoming. "l'110-. s OLOHOX MALICK, 1TTOPVFV T I. AW. . , A . v. - - ... ... T Offlee at his residence oa Arch street, one square north of the Court House, near the Jail, SUN BURY, PA. Collections and all professional business promptly attended to in this and adjoin ing counties. Consultations cau be had in the German language Juiy'.'7-IS7i. . W. ZIEGLER. L. T. KOHKBAC1I. ZIEULER V KOIIRBACH, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, Office in Ilaupt's Building, lately occupied by Judge Rockefeller and L. T. Rohrbach, Esq. Collections and all professional business promptly attended to iu the Courts of Northum berland and adjoiuing counties. Dec. 2. 1X71. . DR. C. M. MARTIX, Office In Drug Store, Clement House Block, Office hours : from 11 a. m., to 1 p. in., and from C to 0 p. in., at all other hours, wheu not Professionally en gaged can be found at rrsid-nce, corner of Front and Pen ii street, SUNBURY, PA. Particular attention given to surgical cases. Will vibit Patients cither in town or country. jottls aub Jjcstanranis. CRAWFORD IIOI'SE, Cor. Third and Mulberry. Business Centre, Williamsport, Pa. D. B. ELSE fc CO., Prepriotor. Jnne 29, 1S73. X1TED STATES HOTEL, W. F. KI I t'll F.N, Proprietor. Opposite the De pot SHAMOKIN, PA. Every attention given to travellers, aud the best accommodations given. April 5, 1S73- tf -1TTASHIXUTOX IIOI'SE, C. NEFF V Proprietor, Corner of Market Second Streets, opposite the Court House, Sunbury, Pa. May2S,'70. ALLEGHENY IIOI'SE, A. BECK, Proprietor, Nos.812 and 814 Market Street, above eighth, PHILADELPHIA. Terms, 13 per day. He respectfully solicits your patron age. Jano'?2. TATiOXA Ij II OTELT aTgUSTT'3 ,i WALD, Proprietor, Georgetown Nortn'd County, Pa., at the Station of the N. C. R. W. Choice wines and cigars at the bar. The tablets supplied with the best the maikct affords. Good stabling and attentive ostlers. I'MMEIS RESTAI RAXT, LOUIS HUM M EL, Proprietor, Commerce St., SHAMOKIN, PENN'A. Having just refitted the above Saloon for the accomodation of the public, is now prepared to serve jis friends with the best refreshments, and fresh Lager Beer, Ale, Poster, and all other malt urs. business (Curbs. J. PACKER HAAS T S. It II OA IIS A CO., llETAII. DEALEK8 Or NTlinACITE COAL, SVNBURV, PENN'A OrrifK wtm Haas, Faoei.t V Co., Orders left at SeasUolU & Bro's., office Market trcct, will receive prompt attention. Country ustom rcspi'i't fully solicited. Feb. , 1S71. tf. ANTHRACITE COAL ! ITAEEXTIXE DIETZ, Wholesale and V Retail dealer in every variety of ANTHRACITE COAL, UPPER WHARF, SUNBURY. PENN'A. Al! kinds of Grain taken in exchange for Coal. rdcrs solicited and filled promptly. Orders left t 8. F. Nevin s Confectionery Store, on third red, will reeieve prompt attention, and money eeeipteflfor, the same as at the olllce. DEXTISTItT. GEORGE M. UENN, n Simiisnn's liuihliwj, Market Square, Bi'NBriiT, Pa., ' prepared to do all kinds of work pertaining to Dentistry, lie keeps constantly on band large assortment of Teeth, and other Dental aterial, from which he will be able to select, id meek the wants of Ins enstomers. All work warranted to give satisfaction, or else ic mouey refunded. The very licst Mouth Wash and Tooth-Powders pt on hand. His references arc the numerous patrons for bom he has worked for the last twelve years. Sunbury, April IbtZ. "ilUIJ C'OAE! COAL! GRANT BROS.. J Shippers and Wholesale aud Retail Dealers in II1TE AND RED ASH COAL, SUNBURY, PA (LOWER WHAUF.J Orders will receive prompt attention. SEW (OIL YAItD. . HF nnilersl'-ned liavinp connected the Cottl tiiiKiness with his extensive FLOUR & GRAIN de, is prepared to supply families with the KIEV It EST OP COAL. C1IEA1' lOIt CASH n. Stove and Nut, constantly on hand. Grain en in exchange for Coal. J. M. CADWALLADER utibury, Jim. 15, 1870. If. Kstal)llBliort in lSO. PRICE 1 50 IX ADVAXCE llcta Sbbcrtiscmcnts. M,OOU IX iII'TS. A Grand Gift Concert. A G It AND (HIT roNTKKT will be iveit lit Sunbury, I'., by the lntU'4'UuVut VTASHIXttTON STKAM FIl'.K COMl'ANV, Ou MONDAY, FKHUl'Any M, 1T4. Tlie o!ijc of thin entenrine is for the pun' of se curing a S'etn Kirn hisRiue, wliieh will In- au ailvanlat'e to ml upm'ibormi; towiiH arc-ftjiek u lull, trom tu lart that it 1' an linl,MH inl,Mit :tuiiaiy. Ami as e nave ue"er failtl to diHeharce our duty when called ui on, we cf rtamly will be able to accomplish more roimI with the aid of a tluT. There M uo UsrttUau llinetet-ii lar(f. aud sm:iU towna wituiu thirty milt of Suiitury, all of which cau Im- n-aehed by railroad, thus affording thw facility of aaHialmg any uf tiioso places in bs than an hour's lime ; while at the same time our town will not lie unprotected. Our pi-ojct teiii a laudable one, we feel confident that all the tickets will !e disposed of by the tune above named for drawing. THE FOLLOWING 18 A LIST OK tllFTS: ONE GRAND GIFT OF $1,0(10 " MOO " " " CI0 " " " " 6nU " " " ano " Oiitof 200 " " loo 10 Gifts of ftfo.no l.oiio 40 (iiits of .,:.oo 1,000 lOOGliUof 10.00 1,000 JoOGilUof 5.00 1,0110 GOO Gilts of 14.00 1,000 1,000 Gifta of 1.00 1,000 1,8.17 Total f 0,000 Thia enterprise is no individual swvulatio i, such a houses, lots and furniture put up at fabulous price. Tbe holder of a duccchhIuI ticket will receive Iih GIFT in CASH. There will lie 20,0o0 Tickets of Admisxiou to this Con cert, at f 1.00 each, and at the time above stated the f9,000 iu CASH Gifts will be distributed. I'LAN OF D1STKI11UTION. Twenty thousand numbers, rcpreseutinir and corres ponding with fbose on the receipts issued, will be placed in one wheel and cards enclosed with the names of the l'reniiuma iu sealed boxes will lie placed in another. From these wheels, a number aud one of the a uovc nam ed inscribed cards will be takeu simultaneously. The number so drawn from theonewhel secures the pre mium designated by the card taken at the same time from ths other. Tuis oiieratiou will be informed by a blind person, aud continued until Eighteen Hundred aud Filly-He veil Premium are exhausted. It is evident that by this process, fraud or favnrlism will lie iuiini- bln. r.very persou lioldini; a ticket w:u lie entitled to admission into the Concert. AU Gilts Paid in CASH without discount. Mouev cau be sent for Tickets in registered letters, or 1'ost Office Money Orders, or bv Express at our risk. If dcirired. Tickets will be sent by Express, C. O. D. The following gentlemen nave kindly consented to act as Trustees for the above Gift Concert : H. P. Wolvertou, Esu., Diroctor D. H. and W. It. H.; Geo. Hill, Attorney at Law; Hon. W. L. Dewart, ex member of Congress ; Win. I. Greenoujih, Enq., Direc tor First National Hank of Sunbury; John Haas, Esq., ditto: Ira T. Clement, Lumberman: Win. 1. Grant, Coal Merchant, Sunbury. The above named gentlemen are highmuiued and honorable men, who would not lend their names and give their tssiHtaUce to any unworthy object. BA.il i. . iir.i!iiiiivnl GEO. M. ItENN, M M. H. M1LLE11, LEVI KEASIIOI.TZ, l'HILU'M. HIIINDETj, Committee. All communications cheerfully answered. Addrewi, in all canes, i'HILll' M. nlll DEL, N. S. Knole, Currcijoiidiug Secretary. TreaHtirer of Funds. Sunbujy, Itocembcr 12, lh7X 1307. RIGHTER &. GASKILL, 1307. DEALEItS.IN American ani French WMow Glass, Crystal Sheet, Rough Plate, Colored, ;Enmeled and Ornament.il Glass, 1307 Market Street, Philadelphia. January 11, 1873. ly. DEI'OT EATIXCs IIOI'SE. S. E. Comer of Arch and Third Streets, Ori-osiTe the Depot, 8 U N B U K Y, PENN'A. Toman 91a(itw, rroiriolr. OTSTEUS, Hot CofTee, Sandwitclies, Bread & Butter, Ham, Ac, ecrved up in the best style. Passengers leaving in the early trains will be furnished with refreshments, hot cotfee, &c. The eating room will be conducted on strictly temperance principles, and every cHbrt made to keep it neat and attractive. LADIES are invited to call. Refreshments and hot meals furri&hcd t resi dents as well ns travelers. The patronage of the public is resiiectfully so licited. TIIOS. MeGAW. Sunburv. Dec. 10. 1S7:. Jt. ftUIIh:tr2. CAST MAUKPT rT.. N'EAB THE CITT IIOTEI- Sl NIllKT, l'A., now open, all the novelties of the season In RIBBONS, VELVET, SILKS, FLOWERS, FEATHERS, ETC., trimmed aud untrimmcd HATS AXD ROXXETS. Notions in every variety, call and examine the fine assortment and learn the low prices. Also, Dressmaking of the latest and most fashionable styles. MISS AMELIA HANCOCK, Snnbury, Ta., Oct. 17, 1S73. EARLY PALL STYLES. A full line of Millinery Good from New York and Philadelphia, now open at MlfS M . I.. titlSM.EK'H 9IILLIXEKY STKE, trimed aud untrimed BONNETS AND HATS, Flowers, Riblions, Collars, CtiHs, Handkerchiefs, weeklies, and a general variety or MILLINERY GOODS selected with great care from the leading Im porting bouses in New oik and Philadelphia, at MISS M. L. GOSSLER, Fourth Street, below the 8. V. R. R. Every effort will be made to please tboe wlio favor her with their patronage. Octotier v, 1ST J. IS7S. FALL SEASON, 1S73. .TlILLIXEItY AXD FAXC'Y GOODS, now open. FALL STYLES. Trimmed Hats aud Bonnets, Plumes, Feathers. Ribbons, t raj Mis, Crape, Crape Hats and Bonnets, Bridal Hats and a full as sortment of the latest stvk-6 In JHILLIXEKY, TRIMMINGSOF ALL KINDS. Gloves, Collars, Cuffs, aud every fashionable article of ladies wear. Cull and sec the new styles of Goods at MISSL. SIIISSLER, Market Square, Sunbury, Pa. OctolierS, 173. FALL MILLIXEKY GOODS From FROM NEW YORK AND PHILADELPHIA, BONNETS fc HATS, TRIMMED AND UNTRIMMF.D. an extensive assortment of Fancy Goods nt MISS L. WEISER'S MILLINERY &TORE, Market Stkept, Si Eiicnr, Pa. My stock of Spring goods is unusually large and varied, comprising the latest and most at tractive styles, selected with care from the lead ing importing houses ami adapted for the present season. October 3, 1S73. MISS L. WF.ISF.R. YYIXTEK STYLI'.S. A MAGNIFICENT ST(X;K of Trimmed Hats and Bonnets, Plumes, Feathers, Ribbons, Crape Veils, Crape, Crajc Hats snd Bon nets, Bridal Hats and Bonnets, and a full assortment of the latest styles iu M ILLINE It Y AT Miss M. L. GOSSLER'S, Fourth St., below the S. V. R. R, Every effort will be made to please those who favor her with their patronage. Sunbury, Nov. 7, 1S73. NEW GOODS for FALL AND WINTER at Mix Kale lUack's, Market Square, Snnbury, Pa. LA DIE'S DRESS GOODS of every style and quality. WOODEN GOODS of every discription, Fancy Goods, Notions and 1 rimtnings a specialty. TOILET SOAPS AND PERFUMERY. The finest assortmer.t of Ladies' eoods. Everybody is invited to call and see them and buy cheap. October 31, 1873. os mm HjwjJt antr ob printing. rMIE SUNBURY AMERICAN The Largest anil Most Complete Estab lishment IN THIS SECTION. NEW TYPE, NEAT WORK, IMPROVED PRESSES, SKILLED WORKMEN. ORDERS PROMPTLY FILLED. fiS-PRICES MODERATE."- BOOK, CARD AND JOB PRINTING EXECUTED IN THE BEST STYLE. BUSINESS CARDS, WEDDING CARDS, VISITING CARDS, SHOW CARDS, BALL TICKETS, BLANKS, HANDBILLS, MERCANTILE LETTER HEADS, NOTE HEADS, BILLHEADS, ENVELOPES, CARDS, CHECKS AND DRAFTS, PROGRAMMES, DODGERS, PAPER BOOKS, MANIFESTS, CIRCULARS. Everything that Is needed iu the printing de partment will be executed with promptness aud at low prices. All arc invited to call and exa mine our samples. No trouble to give estimates and show goods. We shall cheerfully do this to all, who call for that purpose, without charge. ISyOrdcrs for Subscription. Advertising or Job Printiug, thankfully received. Address EM'L WILVERT, Proprietor, SUNBURY, PA. Shy, T HE SUNBURY AMERICAN IS THE BEST ADVERIS1SG MEDIUM In the Central part of the State, IT CIRCULATES In one of the Most Thrifty, Intelligent and WEALTHY SECTIONS OF PENNSYLVANIA. Sample co py of paper sent to auy address Ircc of charge. Manhood t HowLoM, How Restored Just published, a new edition of Dr. CtTtvtBWEi.i.'s Pi i.rBinTF.n F.HH1Y on tbe radical cure (without medi cine) of Hiiermatorrbte, or seminal weaknetw, iuTolun tary seminal losws, iiupoteury. Mental and i .by meal in- raiiaeitT. iinnedililenU to niarriaKe, etc., also Lonsunil tiou, K.ileihy aud fits, induced by self-indulgence or seitnil extravagance. t afriee in aeuled envelonc oniv six cents. The celebrated author, in this admirable essay, clearly demonstrates from a thirty year's successful practice, that tbe alarmillK oolmequeiioeii of .elf abuae may l radirallv cured without tbe danifemus use of internal medicine or the allocation of tuekjilfe; pointing out a mode of cure at once simple, certain, and effectual, by means every sun rear, no matter what bis couditiou may be, may cure I i'nself, privately and radically. - Thia lecture should be iu the hands of every youth sud iTnr man in tha land. Kent under seal, iu plain envelope, to any address, post-paid, on receipt of six cents, or two postage stamps. Address tbe Publishers, CJIAS. J. C. KLINE, t CO. 127 Bowery, N. Y. Host Office Box, 458 Jan., 24, 1874-ly. mm w . . ii r n Tr mm LVWTUC LIBtpTT SUNBURY, PA.. FRIDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 20, clcct JJoctrn. I'M WEARY. I'm weary of life aud its battles, Tired of learning so oft That our fairest and sweetest flowers Perish first in the blast of the north ; That our hopes, like withered rose leaves, Fall one by one quickly and sure ; And not even our loves and our friendships In adversity's winds will endure. I'm tired, too, of life's envies, Its quarrels, its fraud, ai:d its strife; And I fain in the grave would be lying, If death were the end of life. The friends that I loved and trusted Have failed nic one by ouc, And my loved ones too have vauished, Like the mists before the sun. I once had a darling cousin, "With eyes thnt were dark and deep ;" But coldly the death shades were falling, And she fell 'mid her shadows asleep. I once loved a pretty flowrct, That gay in a garden smiled ; But the winter's chill breath touched it," And It faded and drooped and died. Each thing that I loved and cherished Tasscd from me soonest of all ; And now all that's nearest and dearest I dare not leve at all ; The robins sing in the morning, And the lilies dance in the breeze That, whispering, tosses the ivy, And coqnets with the laughing trees. But into my heart steal no echoes ! The music of life has fled ! The hopes of my childhood are ended ! The hopes of my youth arc dead ! So I uin weary, weary and tired ; Feign would I lie asleep, Where the grass in the churchyard swaying W ith the willows forever weep. MISSIXG. I. Those are hard things to throw in a man's teeth, uncle, and I shouldn't liko to think you meant them all." So spake John Birch, the carpenter, as he stood up before the old bird-fancier tall, sinewy and strong, with his handsome face in a hot glow, and a flash of temper in his eyes a specimen of a fine physical type, showing in marked contrast with a puny, pale young mau about his own age, who sat in a corner apparently reading, but in reality intently watching what was going on. "The harder the better, so that they hit the mark ; but what I have said to-night I am ready to say again aye, and mean them, too." John Birch had never won much favor from the little, hard-featured old man, who kept the bird shop, and lived there wjth his pretty grand-daughter. But to-night he had been insulted, and before a witness, between whom and himselfjthere was an open feud, for it was as rivals that they met. Tom Bartlett, the soft-spoken school master, had managed to insinuate himself in the favor of David Birch, and was also Etriving to supplant the young carpenter in the regard of his cousin Polly. The old man was the Crst to speak. "You need not glare at me like that, be cause I have found out what briugs you sneaking round here." "I never sneak, uncle ; that does not be long to the Birches." "No, it docs not, my lad," the old man replied in a slightly mollified toue, adding, "and I am sorry you don't take afler the in. There's a spice'of your mother " John Birch interrupted him, saying pas sionately, "Silence, Uncle David, you must not dare to say a word against her." "This to my face I Get out of the house, and never dare to cross my doorstep again till you are sent for, which will be long enough, for I tell you once for all that, if I can hinder it, Polly Carson shall never marry an id!e, beggarly fellow ; always out of work, who can find nothing better to do than live on his sister's earnings." This was the stab that cut the keenest of all. The young man's voice quivered as he said : "That is too bad, Uncle David, you don't know what feelings you stir in me," and iu his excitement be laid his hand on the old man's arm. At that moment the sly, watchful reader iu the corner came forward, and, wilfully misunderstanding his intention, thrust liinstlf between them, saying, "Come, no violence, it would be a pity, and I should be sorry ; you ousht to remember Mr. Birch is your uncle and an old man." Iu au instant he found himself put back with just the amount of force which a strong man would feel needful to use in dealing with some puny obstruction which he held in contempt. ''Mind your own business, Tom Bart- ett, and don't meddle with mine; it doesn't need your sly tongue to teach what I ought to remember. My uncle is in no danger from me, and you know it." Then turn ing to the old niau he added: "Uncle, I shall not want telling twice to go. I kuow you bear me ill-will, but I didn't think it was in you to upbraid a man for what is no fault of his ; for I defy any one that kuows me to say that I ever shirked work when I could get it to do. I am sorry for what has passed to-night, aud perhaps you will be before you are many days older and snatching up his can, he strode angrily through the shop into the street, without deigning another look at Tom Bartlett, who had slunk back into his corner, and was once more taking mental note of every thing he saw aud heard. To the surprise of the neighbors, David Birch had not taken down his shutters, though it was nearly 11 o'clock ; such neglect of business had never occurred be fore within their remembrance. Uut a greater marvel Etill was the circumstanco of the old man himself being dressed iu Lis best black suit, which he only wore ou im portant occasions. It was clear that he was going to keep holiday that day, and that something unusual had happened They would have been convinced of this if they had penetrated to the little back par lor aud heard the old man talking in his unwonted flow of spirits. "Put ou thy best gown, Polly, and wear it iu honor of the good fortune that is com ing to us ; thou shalt be dressed in silks, my bonny one." "I would rather you gave some of the money to poor Nellie Birch, grandfather." A shade crossed his lace. "Yes, give it to her to support her idle brother not a shilling 1 It is enough that the will gives it to him after my death, more the pity ; if I could keep it from him I would." "Oh, grandfather !" AMEEICAN HIDEPCHDCHICS.J "I tell thee I would ; but don't talk about him, child. I do not want to be angry just when I'm going to carry my good news to old Jacob Moss." "Am I to open the shop, grandfather ?" "Do just as it suits thyself, child, we shall be rich enough not to care about the shop." While talking he consulted his large sil ver watch, which, for antiquity and size, might have been the patriarch of the entire race of watches. "I shall be back before nine, Po'.ly ; and perhaps Tom Bartlett may drop in and spend an hour with you." "I hope not, for I don't want ta sec him." "Ah 1 that's the perverse way of girls ; but never mind, I dare say thou wilt look much higher than Tommy now ;" and he chuckled as he kissed her round, dimpled cheek, leaving ber to take care of the feath ered songsters and herself, the brightest things that the place could show. hi. "Missing, since the 23d inst., an old man named David Birch, dressed in black ; height, about five feet three inches ; gray hair ; thin: He left home with the inten tion of visiting a friend at Fulham, and has not since been heard of. A reward of twenty pounds will be paid to any one giv ing information that may lead to his dis covery." So ran the advertisement which was going the rounds of the leading papers, and being repeated in large printed placards on the walls of police stations. In the imme diate neighborhood of the bird shop there was much excitement and consternation al the old man's mysterious disappearance, mingled with lively sympathy for the dis tress of his granddaughter, whose pale face and swollen eyelids told how she had watched and wept. None were more demonstrative than Tom Bartlett, who kept hovering about 'u spite of her visible shrinking from him, persistently pressing his services as though he alone had the right to act for her. Meantime, the day appointed by the lawyers for entering into arrangements with their client respecting the fortune of which he had unexpectedly come into possession by the death of a brother abroad, had come and gone. The perplexed legal firm, acting in the interest of their client, instituted a rigorous search, but without success. The friend, Jacob Moss, a feeble old man, had been duly communicated with aud keenly cross-examined. David Birch had paid his visit on the day named, arriving, as far as the old mau could recollect, about half-past i two, and starting on his return journey about dusk. Here the clue was lost. Thus the day went by without throwing any light on the old man's fate, and poor Polly, worn out with great anxiety, often cried herself to sleep. IV. "Oh ! Hellie Nellit you don't know what has happened I" It was with these words that John Birch had suddenly presented himself to his sis ter, a tall, dark-eyed girl, who might have been taken as a softened likeness of him self. She was busily at work when he came in, but on the first glance at his agitated face she dropped her needle and rose hurriedly. "Oh, John ! what is the matter ?' "Uncle David has been missing from home 81UC6 tlC 23d of last month and no one can tell what has become of him." "Missing from home, John 1 Why, it was only last week that we heard he had a fortune left him by his brother." "Yes, that's true enough, Nellie ; and I hear that it comes to me after his death. The lawyers are seeking him everywhere. But think of poor Polly be ing in all this trouble, and us never to know it. It just seems as if that odd job of work in the country came on purpose to take me out of her way ; and you're so moped up here that you never hear any thing," he added fretfully. . "John, I'll put on my things and go to her at once if you think I can do any good." "Yes, Nell, I think you may. I know I always like to have you by me when I'm in trouble. I would go myself, but I'm forbidden the house. You remember what I told you of my quarrel with the old mau. I wish to heaven those ill words had not passed between us." At that moment there was a sound of heavy footsteps on the stairs, followed by a smart rap at the door. Nellie went to open it, but start? ' lack at the sight of two policemen on the threshold. "Does Johu Birch live here ?" "Yes, I am John Birch," the young man called out ; "what do you want with me ?" "Come this way and I'll tell you." "No, tell me here." The officer glanced compassionately at Nellie's white face as he answered. "Well, if you don't mind the young woman hear ing, you're our piisoner." "Your prisoner ! Impossible! On what charge ?" I dare say you know well enough. There's been a body found iu the river, aud it's thought there's been some foul play." "Whose body?" "David Birch's, the bird fancier, that's been missing lately." My uncle 1" gasped John. Exactly. You're our man. You've had a quarrel with him, and you're arrested on suspicion. We got the clue from Thomas Bartlett." "Bartlett !" The young carpenter re peated the name with a groan, and stag gered against the wall, adding, "May God forgive him this wickedness I" And at the same moment his sister threw herself on his neck with a cry that thrilled those who heard it. Yes, it was true a body had bceu found ; and there was evidence that identified it as that of the old man who was missing. The story went that it had first been seen by some workmen on their way home one wet evening. It had floated up with the tide, and been toyed with as a ghastly plaything, then beaten against one of the low-lying river banks, aud flung out, a piteous sight for men to shudder at, as it lay with the defiling river slime clotted among its tangled gray hair, and its dead, bruised face turned upward to the sky, From examination of the body, it was thought that there had been a struggle, The motive had clearly not been robbery, for a purse containing a sovereign and soma silver was found in one of the pockets, together with a very remarkable antique silver watch, on which wa engrayed the 1874. initials "D. B.," which was readily trans lated into David Birch. When the watch and purse, with the old-fashioned coat found on the body, were shown to the be reaved granddaughter, and tearfully recog nized by the trembling girl as belonging to her grandfather, tho evidence of identity was complete. Plow had the old man come to bis death ? There was no cause to suspect him of suicidal intentions ; and it was proved that he was sober when he departed from Jacob Moss. Then had followed the query, was David Birch at enmity with any one ? ' At this point in the judicial investigation, Tom Bartlett put in a deposition to the effect that he had witnessed a quarrel between the old man and his nephew a day before the de ceased had taken his fatal journey. He detailed what he remembered of the scene between them ; how he (Tom Bartlett) had been apprehensive of violence on the part of the young man, who had told his uncle "that before be was many days older he would be sorry for what had passed that nicht." This ended in the arrest or the young carpenter. The news was carried to Polly Carson, but the sorely-tried girl rose against the crushing blow. "I cannot believe it. John Birch would not harm my grandfather ; and I wouldn't take Tom Bartlctt's word against a dog." I am doing my best, Nellie, you may be sure of that. If there's ever so small a loophole for escape, trust to me that poor : Jack shall have the benefit of it." The speaker was Nellie's plighted lover, George Denton, the detective, a thoughtful looking man, some years her senior, who had already given evidence of more than average ability iu his calling. "My brother is not guilty, George ; I could stake my life it." "So could I, Nellie ; but leave it to me. The examination has adjourned, and I may do much in the meantime." His words gave Nellie Birch comfort for the present and she trusted in them. V. The court wa3 crowded, for much inter est had gathered round the case of the old man, whose mysterious death had followed so suddenly upon his accession of wealth. The prisoner was pale aud haggard from mental suffering, and want of sleep, but holding his head erect, and gazmg before him with eyes that never lowered or shrank, and looking very uulike a man charged with murder. But the evidence had gone against him, and he was committed to take his trial for the willful murder of his uncle, David Birch. The decision was received by the prisoner with a shuddering gasp for breath, and a wild look of agony in his eyes, as a scream from a woman came from the crowd it was a voice that he kuew, for it was poor Nellie, who had dropped down insensible. He was about to be removed when there was a sudden stir in the court, and a mau whom many recognized os George Denton, the detective, forced his way through the crowd. Another mo ment, and he was standing before the magistrate, every ear drinking in his words. "The r.risouer, John Birch, is not guilty, and I am prepared to prove it." "On what evideuce ?" "That it is a case of mistaken identity; the man whom he is accused of murderiug being still alive. He lies helpless ou a sick bed, or he would have been here to set this wrong right." The deposition which was mado before the startled bench may be briefly summed up as it was afterward related in the pres ence of a reunited family circle, when the old bird-faucier got well enough to add his portion of the story. He explained that, after leaving his friend Moss, he nail Decn met and attacked by a man in an unfre quented lane. They had a struggle, dur ing which he received a blow on the head that must have made him insensible, for he remembered nothing more until he found himself in bed in a strange room. How long he had laid there he could not tell. He had been taken home by a hu mane market cardener, who found him lying senseless in the road, without hat or coat ; his injury proving to be a serious fracture of the skull, aud the Ueatli-like stupor continuing, he was left on the hands of the c)od Samaritan, who, living eomo distance from London, had no chance of gaining any information about him. At this point George Denton took up the narrative. His firr step had been to ob tain sicht of the body : he bad fouud a pe culiar mark on the right side of the neck, which led to the suspicion that, instead of ho'int? the body of David Birch, it was that of a notorious burglar with whom he had been several times brought iu contact m the course of his profession. This was further proved when he fouud on inquiry that Light-fingered Joe, as lie was caueu, was missing from his accustomed haunts, and one of his associates remembered hav- iiif seen him in the neighborhood of Put nam ou the night named. Upon making inquiry George learned that a market gar dener had been asking whether any one belonging to the neighborhood was miss ing, as a man unknown was lying ill at his cottage. Thus, step by step, the detective had un raveled the mysterious affair. It was thought the drowned man bad ended his night's work by getting drunk, and, losing his way in the dark, had fallen into the river. This was the history of the mistake through which the young carpenter had suffered. But the old bird-fancier seemed to mako up matters by a full reconciliation with his nephew, satisfying his grand daughter by his unexpected liberality to ward the brother and sister, not forgetting a reward to George Denton for his faithful service. Polly made no secret of ber feel ings toward John, and it was easy to see how it would end with the young people. And this Christmas is as happy a one to them as, I trust, it will be to us all. A Bedford. Pa., newspaper tells of a rzirl who stands on a half-bushel measure and gracefully shoulders three bushels ot wheat. To a doubting editor in an ad joining county, the newspaper mentions the fact that she is a brunette, hve leet three inches lonaitude: that her gravity is two hundred and twenty-five pounds, and that she can whip any editor in Cambria county. Milk for Diarrhea. The Milk Jor- aZ states on the authority of Dr. Benfamin Clarke that in the East Indies milk is used .n a ercat extent as a specific for diarrhea. A nint evcrv four hours will check the most violent diarrhea, stomach ache, incipient Minora and dvsenterv. The milk should never be boiled, but only heated sufficiently to bo agreeably warm, not too hot to drink. 0 c New Series, Tol. 5, X. 47. ( Old Series, Vol. 34, No. 17. tisttllimtxras. What the Grangers Propose to do. The following are main points for which the Patrons of Husbandry are organized : 1. To secure for themselves, through the Granges,'8ocial and educational advantages not otlierwise attainable, and to thereby while improving their condition as a class, enable farm life, and render it attractive and desirable. 2. To give full practical effect to fratenal ties which unite them in helping and pro tecting each other in case of sickness, be reavement, pecuniary misfortune, and want and danger of every kind. 3. To secure enconomy in the buying of implements, fertilizers, and family supplies, and in transportation, as increased profits in the sale of the produce of their labor, without enhancing their cost to the con sumer. 8. To make themselves more successful and better farmers and planters, by means of the knowledge gained, the habits of in dustry and method established and tbe quickening of thought induced by inter course and discussion. 5. To entirely abolish the credit system, in their ordinary transactions, alway buy ing on a cash basis, both among themselves and in their dealings with the outside world. C. To encourage co-operation in trade, i in farming, and in other branches of indus try, especially those most intimately con nected with agriculture. 7. To promote the true unity of the re public, by drawing the best men and wo men of all parts of the country together in an organization which knows no sectional bounds or prejudices. 4. To oppose monopolies, in every form. 9. To secure a reduction of the salaries of all office-holders to the lowest point com patible with the public interest and to abo lish all unecssary offices. 10. To preserve the public lands for the use of settlers upon them and to oppose their appropriation to railroads or other corporations. 11. To secure representatives and othet public officers who will faithfully devote themselves to the interests of the people and carry out their views, and to prevent the election of mere representatives of corpora tions and monopolies to office. 12. To resist the attempts of railroads, bankers, brokers and other representatives of combined capital to govern the country and dictate its policy to suit their peculiar interests. Columbian. The Rothschilds., A cable dispatch from Londou announces the death of Ba ron Mayor Anseim de Rothschild, a mem ber of the famous banking firm of that name. The deceased bore the name of the founder of the house, who was born at Frankfort-on-the-Main in 1744, and died there in September, 1812. The history of the great house, which is now carried on in five of the leading European cities by members of the family of the third and. fourth generation, is almost romantic in its interest. The original Mayer was educat ed for a rabbi, became a small tradesman, and eventually got a situation in a Hano verian banking house.- Subsequently he established a banking house in Frankfort, and had the good fortune to become the bauker of the rich landgrave of Hesse. He borrowed money for the government from the landgrave, to be paid as a ransom to save tho city of Frankfort from being sack ed by the French, and subsequently, when Napoleon decreed the forfeiture of the es tates of the sovereigns of Hesse Cassel and Brunswick, the elector secreted with Roth schild S3,000,000 in silver, which the banker and his five sons, whom he had as sociated with him in business, had the use of for eight years. When Napoleon was banished to Elba the elector gave notice that he would withdraw it ; but when Na poleon escaped and returned to France he urged the Rothschilds to keep it at two per cent, interest, which they did until 1823, when they returued it to his son and suc cessor. After the death of their father the five sous carried on the business under five branches. Nathan Rothschild, the first head of the London house, is said to have known the result of the battle of Waterloo eight hours before the government, and made Sl.009,000 by the skillful use of that knowledge. Three of the sons died in 1S55, and one in 1S3G, their sons taking their places. Baron Nathan Lionel de Roths child, of London, son of Nathan, became the head of the London house on the death of his father. In 1847 ho was elected to the House of Commons, but refused to take the oath prescribed 'on the true faith of a Christian.' ne was regularly re-elect ed, but did not take his seat until 1S58, when his disabilities were removed. He was the first adherent of the Jewish reli gion who ever took his seat in the House of Commons. As appears from the dis patches, he has now been defeated in the London elections. The house has loaned huudreds of millions to all the leading and most of the lesser governments of Europe. The members of the family have generally in tei married, and their immense wealth will consequently remain in their family for many years. Genuine sardines are scarcely to be had here now. Among the Ban put up in tin boxes and sold for them are smelts and a small fish called caplin, which latter is caught in the lower St. Lawrence in im mense quantities, and is nearly or quite as good as the genuine sardines. The several fish bills before the Senate ask for an aggregate appropriation of $22,- 000 for objects of pisciculture. Phoenixvillc has a "public blessing" in the shape of a debt of $200,000. "Would that I could call her mine 1" exclaimed the hopeless suitors for the hand of Lady Caroline Guest of England, who has an annual income of $1,500,000 from her coal mine in Wales. Who hurt you, bub ?" asked a pedestrian of a small boy who sat howling on the curbstone. "Johnny Kydd," sobbed the victim. "I'll see about him if he does it again," remarked the man, condoningly, but the boy suddenly stopped howling, and exclaimed : 'Must leave him alone. When I grow up I'll get on the police force, and then I can belt him all I want to !" What is invariably the beginning of love? The letter L. Who is the first boy mentioned in tbn Bibl? "Chap.l." Rates of Advertising. One inch, (twelve lines or its equivalent in Honparwl type) one or two insertions, LfiO ; Uma insertions (OA. 8 pack. In. tst. tu. w. It. One inch $2.50 $3.00 $4.00 $6.U0 $10.0 Two inches S.0O S.OO T.00 t.00 15.W Three inches 6,00 T.00 t.00 12.00 li.oe Four inches T.00 9.00 11.00 17.00 26.00 Quarter Column 10.00 1100 14.00 20.00 30.00 Half column. 15.BO 18. r SO.OO CO.OO One column 30.00 36.00 40.00 60.00 100.UO Yearly adrerUeementa payable quarterly Transient advertisements moat be paid before insertion, except where parties have aeeonnta. iocai notice twenty cents a line, end ten cents for every subsequent insertion. Cards in the "Business Directory" eohnnn $2,00 per year for the first two lines, and $1.00 for each additional line. A Fickle Woman. As odd Episode ix Wesley's Lifk. la 1749 occurred an odd episode in Wes ley's life. On one of his missionary jour neys be had been taken sick at Newcastle, where he was nursed by Grace Murray, one of his female "helpers, a handsome, clever widow of four-and-thirty, Wesley himself being twelve years older. He asked her to marry him. She seemed amazed. and replied, "This is too great a blessing. I can't tell how to believe it. This is all I could have wished under heaven." Wes ley quite naturally took this as a formal betrothal. But Grace had cot long before nursed John Bennett, a Methodist preacher of about her own age, and Wesley was soon astounded by a joint letter from Grace and John, asking his consent to their marriage. Then ensued a comedy lasting for months, the like of which no playwright has ven tured to put upon the stage. Grace would have been quite content with either of her lovers were it not for the other. But con trary to all example, it was the absent one whom she wanted. When Wesley was with her she longed for Bennett ;, when Bennett was pressent she longed for Wes ley, now many times she broke and re newed her engagement with each it would be hard to tell. "I love you." she said to Wesley, "a thousand times better than I ever loved John Bennett ; but I am afraid if I don't marry him he'll run mad." That very evening she promised herself to Ben nett A week after she told Wesley she was determined to live and die with him. She, indeed, wanted to be married at once, but Wesley wished for some delay. Grace said she would not wait more than a year. A fortnight later she met Bennett, fell at his feet, and acknowledged that she had nsed him ilL They were married a week after. This strange marriage seems to have turned out a happy one. Bennett died in the triumphs of faith ten years later. Grace survived until 1803, dying at the age of eighty-seven. For years she was a bright light in the Methodist society. Wesley saw her three days after her marriage, and but once more on earth. Thirty-nine years after, she came to London on a visit to her son, and expressed a wish to see Wesley. He was eighty-five years old, she past seventy. What could they now have to say, except "Hail and farewell ?" Dr. A. II. Guernsey in Galaxy for February. Boors Molasses. Scientific authori ties have of late directed -attention to the fact that large quantities of bogus and adulterated syrups are being sold for genu ine molasses. These nostrums are said to be largely composed of sawdust, paper, rags, and starch, chemically treated with poisonous acids. It is well known to chemists that sulphuric acid has a magical effect upon woody fibre, such as found in flax and cotton. Therefore linen and cot- - ton rags furnish the most productive source of the principal ingredient of the manufac tured syrup. Rags suitable for the pur pose can be bought from four to six cents per pouud, and muriatic acid is a cheap chemical ; so the manufacturing of these articles into marketable syrup cannot fail to be a very profitable enterprise. The de lectable compound is made in two large establishments in New York, and also to a great extent ic Chicago, Boston and New Orleans. To detect the bogus syrup it is only necessary to use tannin as a test ; and as there is considerable tannin in ordinary table tea, make a strong cup of green or black tea, and pour iuto it a teaspoonful of the suspected molasses. The muriatic acid, if there be any in the molasses, will at once uuite with the tannin and turn the tea into a black, dirty-looking liquid that no one would like to drink even if it were whole some. It will of course- be rejected when it ia known to be poisonous, as it must needs be when muriatic or sulphuric acid are used in its manufacture. The public is also swindled In an article of artificial honey, made of cotton and linen rags, chemically treated with sul phuric acid and thickened with corn starch. It is also said that sugar made by boiling down the bogus sugar syrup is extensively used iu the manufacture of confectionary, and the little children are poisoned with the oil of vitriol at a time when their deli cate systems can ill sustain its deleterious effects. There is one act of politeness which, in some of the European countries, the poor est peasant never forgets. It is tbe saluta tion of tbe dead. A funeral passing through the streets of Pittsburg or London is treated with no more consideration than a street car, but in Italy every hat would be raised in reverent salutatien as the corpse went by. There may, perhaps, be very little sincerity in feeling which prompts tbe sa!utation,but it is one of those graceful little actions by which we express sympathy for the bereaved, and acknow ledge, in the presence of death, that touch of nature which makes us kin. Does Advertisijto Pat? An ex change contains the following queries in re gard to advertising : Suppose $o0 worth of advertising bring ten new customers, with a trade of $20 each wouldn't that pay ? Suppose $200 worth of advertising will retail and increase an annual patron age of $o0, 000 won't that pay ? Suppose an advertisement that costs $56 will bring orders during the year for $500 more work than you had the year before without the advertisement won't that pay. What Is Meant by Horse Power ? The power of prime movers is measured by horse power. Watt found that the strongest London draught horses were capable of doing work equivalent to raising 33,000 pounds one foot high per minute, and he took this as the unit of power for the steam engine. The horse is not usual ly capable of doing so great a quantity of work. Rankine gave 26,000 foot pounds as the figure for a mean of several experi ments, and it is probable that 25,000tfoot pounds is a fair minute's average work for a good animal. It would require five or six men to do the work of a strong horse. Watt's estimate has become, by general consent among engineers, the standard of power measurement for all purposes. Sci entifie -American. A young man from Berks county recent ly wrote an acrostic on the word ring as follow: ; ' Refuse me not my darling, Ich liebe dich allein, Nu liebst da mier am bartzen Give thy heart for mine.
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