ThtfSunbury American I P(TBUHKD EVSBT FsIDAY, I EJiTIi WILVEET, Proprietor, Corner of Tliird St., and Market &iunre, SVTShVRT, PA. At Oue Dollar and Fifty Out If paid etriotlv in advance; $1.73 if yai.i niihin the year; or fi.00 in all eases wueo payment is delayed Ull after expiration of tne year. Jio HUlMCription diacontinnrd uuti all arrearages are paid uuleMa at tbe option of ttie pnhliauer. Thkhk tkhmh AB2 kkiidi.y adhered to. All new euheriitiou to the American by eraouK liviug outside of tbe County of XorthurabarUud, mu.t be ao conipanicJ with the 1'ah. This ia made ueowmary by the duKcult.v exwjced in olhvting unpaid aubacri tione at a aiatance. eg, BALTIMORE LOCK HOSPITAL D E. JonNSTOX, Physician of this celebrated Institution, lias discovered the most certain, speedy, pleasant and effectual remedy In the world for all DISEASES OF IMPRUDENCE. Weakness ot the Back or Limbs, Strictures, Affections of Kidneys and Bladder, Involun tary Discharges, Impotency, General Debili ty, Nervousness, Dyspepsy, Languor, Low Spirits, Confusion of Ideas, Palpitation of the Heart, Timidity, Tremblings, Dimuess of Sight or Giddiness, Disease of the Head, Throat, Nose or Skin, Affections of Liver, Lunzs, Stomach or Bowels these terrible Disorders arising from the Solitary Habits of Youth those secret and solitary practine more fatal to their victims than the song of 8yrens to the Mariners of Ulysses, blighting their most brilliant hopes of anticipations, rendering marriage, &c, impos sible. XOUtfGMEN especially, who have become the victims of Soli tary Vice, that dreadful and aiestructive habit which annually sweeps to an untimely grave thousands of young men of the most exalted talents and brilliant intellect, who might other wise have entranced listening Senates with the thunders of eloquence or waked to ecstacy the living lyre, may call with full connaence. MARRIAGE. Married Persons or Youne Men contemplatln marriage, aware of Physical Weakness, (Loss of Procreative Power impotency), nervous eitahilitv. Palpitation. Oreanic Weakness, Ncr tous Debility, or any other Disqualification, speedily relieved. H who placet himself under the care of Dr. J. may religiously confide in bis honor as a gentle man, and confidently rely unon his skill as a Ph sician. ORGANIC WEAKNESS. Impotency, Lots or Power, Immediately Cured and full Vigor Restored. This Distressing Affection which renders Life miserable and marriage impossible is the penalty raid bv the victim of improper indulgences, Young persons are too apt to commit excesses from not being aware of the dreadful conseqences that may ensue. Now, who that understands the subject will pretend to deny that the power of procreation is lost sooner Dy tnose iamng imo Improper habits than by the prudent T Besides being deprived the pleasures of healthy offspring, t he most serions and destructive symptoms to both liodv and mind arise. Tbe system becomes de railed, the Physical and Mental Functions . Weakened, Loss of Procreative Power, Nervous Irritability, l'yspe. Ja, raipitatton ot tne Heart, Indigestion, Constitutional Debility, a Wasting of the Frame, Cough, Consumption, Decay and Death. A CURE WARRANTED IN TWO DAYS. Persons ruined in health by unlearned preten ders who keep them trifling month after month, taking poisonous and injurious compounds, should apply immediately. DR. JOHNSTON, Meml-or of the Royal College of Surgeons, Lon don, Graduated from one of the most eminent Coreges in the United States, and the greater part of whose ife has been spent in the hospitals of London, Pris, Philadelphia and elsewhere, has effected some of tbe most astonishing cures that were ever known ; many troubled with ring ing in the head and ears when asleep, great nervousness, being alarmed at sudden sounds, basbfulness, with frequent blushing, attended sometimes with derangement of mind, were cured immediately. TAKE PARTICULAR NOTICE. Dr. J. addresses all those who have injurrd themselves by improper indulgence and solitary habits, which ruin both body and mind, unfitting tbem for cither business, study, society or niar rin ee. Thesb are some of the sad and melancholy effects produced by early habits of youth, viz: Weakness of the Back aud Limbs, Pains in the Back and Head, Dimness of Sight, Loss of Mus cular Power, Palpitation of the Heart, Dyspepsy, Nervous Irritability, Derangement of Dicestive Functions, General Debility, Symptoms of Con sumption, &c. MentaULT The fearful effects on the mind are much to be dreaded Loss of Memory, Con fusion of Ideas, Depression of Spirits, Evll Forebodincs. Aversion to Society, Self-Di6trust, Love of Solitude, Timidity, &c., are some of the evils produced. Thousands of persons of all ages can now Judce what is the cause of their declining health, losing their vigor, becoming, weak, pale, nervous and emaciated, having a singular appearance about the eyes, cough and symptoms of consump tion. YOUNG MEN Who have injured th niselves by a certain prac tice indulged in when alone, habit frequently learned from evil companions, or at school, the effects of which are nightly felt, even when asleep, aud if not cured, renders marriage impos sible, aud destroys both mind and body, should apply immediately. What a pity that a young man, the hope of his country, the darling of his parents, should be snatclK-4 from all prospects and enjoyments ot life, by the consequence of deviating from the path of nature and Indulging in a certain secret habit. Such tiersons must before contemplating MARRIAGE, reflect that a sound mind and body are the mot,1 necessary requisites to promote connubial happi ness. Indeed without these, the journey through life becomes a weary pilgrimage ; the prospect hourly darkens to the view ; the mind becomes shadowed with despair and filled with the melan choly reflection, that the happiness of another becomes bliirhted with onrowo. A CERTAIN DISEASE. When the misguided and imprudent votary of pleasure finds that he has imbibed the seeds oi this ainful disease, It too oRen happens that an ill-timed sense of shame, or dread of discovery, deters him from applying to thosa who, from education and respectability, can alone befriend him, delaying till the constitutional symptoms ol this horrid disease make their appearance, such as ulcerated sore throat, diseased nose, noctural pains in tbe bead and limbs, dlmnett of sight, deafness, nodes on tbe shin bones and arms, blotches on the head, face and extremities, pro gressing with frightful rapidity, till at last the palate of the mouth or the bones of the nose fall lu, and the victim of this awful disease becomes a horrid object of commiseration, till death puts a period to his dreadful suffering, by sending him to " that Undiscovered Country from whence no traveller returns." It is a melancholy fact that thousand DIE victims to this terrible disease, through falling into the hands of Ignorant or unskillful PRE TENDERS, who, by the use of that deadly Poi son, Mercury, &c., destroy the constitution, and incapable of curing, keep the unhappy suflerer month after month taking their noxious or in jurious compounds, aud instead of being restored to a renewal of Life Vigor and Happiness, in des pair leave him with ruined Health to sigh over his galling disappointment. To such, therefore, Dr. Johnston pledges him self to preserve the most Inviolable Secrecy, and from his extensive practice and observations iu the great Hospitals of Europe, and the first in this country, vU : England, France, Philadelphia and elsewhere, is enabled to offer the most cer tain, speedy and effectual remedy in the world for all diseases of imprudence. DR. JOnNSTON. OFFICE, NO. 7. 8. FREDERICK STREET. Baxtistobk, M. D. Lea hand side going from Baltimore street, a few doors from the corner. Fail not to observe name and number. g""No letters received unless postpaid and containing a stamp to be used on the reply. Per sons writing should state age, and send a portion of advlrtisement describing symptoms. There are ao many Paltry, Designing and Worthless Impnsters advertising themselves as Physicians, trifling with and mining the Lealth or all who unfortunately fall into their power, that Dr. Johnston deems it necessary to say es pecially to those unacquainted with his reotita tion that his Credentials or Diploma always bang in his office. ENDORSEMENT OF TnE PRESS. The many thousands cured at this Establish ment, year after year, and the numerous im portant Surelcal Operations performed by Dr. Johnston, witnessed by tbe representatives of tbe press and many other papers, notices of which have appeared strain and ga!n before the public, besides his standing as a gentleman of character and responsibility, is a sufficient guarantee to the afflicted. Shin diseases speedily cured. April 9. 1875. Iv LIMBER AND PLANISU MILLS Third Street, adjoining Plilla. & Erie R. R-, two Squares North of the Central Hotel, SUNBURY, PA. IRA T. CLEMEXT, IS prepared to furnish every description of lum ber required by the demands of the public. Havirg all the latest Improved machinery for asaaufavtaring Lunber, he is now ready to fill or ders of all kinds of FLOORING, SIDING, DOORS. SHUTTERS, SASH, BLINDS MOULDINGS, VE RANDAS, BRACKETS, and all kinds of Ornamental Scrowl Work. Turn ing of every description promptly executed. Also, A LARCE ASBOBTXEKT OF BILL LUMBER. HEMLOCK and PINE. Also, Shingles, Pickets, Lathe, &c. Orders promptly filled, and shipped by Railroad or otherwise, IRA T. CLEMENT. ec1IMt8:1 I2italll8hed In 18lO. PRICE 91 50 IN ADVANCE. ) professional. TII. B. KASE, Attorney at Law, SUN- BURY, PA. Office in Market Square, (adjoining the office of W. I. Grccnough, Esq.,) Professional business in this and adjoining coun ties promptly attended to. 8uubury, March 16, 1872.-ly. JOSEPH S. aTkNOLU, ATTORNEY and COUNSELLOR AT LAW, Liverpool, Perry couuty, Pa. All business matters in the counties of North umberland, Snvder, Union. Perry and Juniata promptly attended to. Consultations can be had in the German and Euglish languages. april 17, 1874.-ly. . W .11. A. SOBER. . ... ATTORNEY AT LAW AND COrSTT SOLICITOK. Office on Front Street below Market, Snnbury, Pa. Collections and all legal bnsiness promptly attended to. JAMES BEARD, ATTORNEY AT LAW. Office in Haupt's building, South East Corner of Market Square, Sunbury, Pa. Sibcial Attention Paid to Collections. A. X lUtU t ATTORNEY AT LAW, AND ACTING JU3TICE OF TUB PEACE.. Next Door to Judge Jordan's Residence, Chest nut Street, Sunbury, Pa. Collections and all legal matters promptly at tcn ded to. "Jeremiah snyder, ATTORNEY AT LAW, AND ACTING JUSTICE OF THE PEACE. Conveyancing,thc collections of claims, writings, and all kinds of Legal business will be attended to carefully and with despatch. Can co. ed in the English and German language. Ofhce in Haupt's building, Market street, Sunbury, Pa. April 0,'75. GA. BOTDORF, Attornev-at-Law, GEORGETOWN, Northumberland Co., Penna. Can be consulted In the Euglish and German languages. Collections attended to m monu umberland and adjoining comities. Also Agent for the Lebanon auey tire nu a-.i una I Vivurm nv '"" W. C. PACKER, Attorney at Law, Sunbury, Pa. November 9, 1S73. tf. SB. BUYER, Attorney ana xunseur at Law. Office In Wolvcrtou's Law build ing, Second street, SUNBURY, PA. Professional business attended to, in uic couns ot unuum nerland and adjoining counties. Also, lu the Circuit and District Courts for the esiein ltis- trict of -Pennsylvania. Claims promptly collect ed. Particular attention paid to rn tn jshhk runtai. Consultation can be had in the Ger- 1 J . a : I ci " man language. nr'" " L. II. KASE, Attorney at Law, SUN MI'P.Y. PA., office in Wolvcrton's Law building, Second street. Collections made Northumberland and adjoining counties. in April J,'75. J. Merrill Linn. Andrew H. Dili. Fraua. H. Marr. LINN. DILL & MARR, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, Next door to the Presbyterian church, Market Square, HUNBLKY, April ,'75 Northumberland Co., ra. EDMUND DAVIS, ATTORNEY AT LAW, BUM1LBI, rfc.XJ A. Office in Masser's Building, south side of Mar ket Square. April a, .o. JAMES II. MrDEVITT, Attorney at Law and United States Commissioner. Ofliec with 8. B. Boycr, Esq.. in Wolverton's Law Building, Sunbury, Pa. April 9.'75. SP. WOLVERTON, Attorney nt Law. Market Square, 8UNBL'RY,PA. Profession al business in this and adjoining counties prompt .y attended to. HB. MASSER, Attorney at Law, SUN- BURY, PA. Collections attended to in the counties of Northumberland, Union, Snyder, Montour, Columbia and Lycoming. apll(Mi9 EO. W. ZIEGLER, ATTORNEY AT LAW, Office in Haupt's building, Market St., Sun bury, Pa. Collections and all professional busiuess promptly attended to ia the Courts of Northum berland and adjoining counties. March 19. lt75. D' R. C. M. MARTIN, Office in Drug Store, Clemeut House Block, Office hours : from 11 a. ui., to 1 p. m., and from 0 to 9 p. m., at all other hours, when not Professionally en aged can lie found at his residence, on Chestnut Street, SUNBURY, PA. Particular attention given to surgical cases. Will visit Patients either In town or country. GB. CA D VTA L L A DER.Markct Street , SUNBURY, PA. Dealer in Drags, Medicines, Paints, Oils, Glass, Varnishes, Liquors, Tobacco, Cigars, Pocket Books. Dairies. &c. DENTISTRY. GEORGE M. REXX, In S'mynwr Luildimj, Market Square, SrxBCBT, Pa., 1 prepared to do all kinds of work pertainlug to Dentistry. He keeps constantly on hand a large assortment of Teeth, and other Dental material, from which he will be able to select, and mec tne wants of his customers. All wore warranted to give satisfaction, or else the money refunded. The very best Mouth Wash aud Tooth-Powders kept on hand. His references are the numerous patrons for whom he has worked for the last twelve years. Sunbury, April 21, 1872. olcls a ub ijestanrants. c R A WFORD 1IOCSE, Cor. Third and Mulberry, Business Centre, W illiamsport, Pa Wm. CRAWFORD, Proprietor. Dee. 11, 1574. CLEM EST HOl'SE, Third Street below Market, Sunbury, Pa. PETER 8. BUR RELL, Proprietor. Rooms neat and comfortable. Tables supplied with the delicacies of the season and the waiters atlcutive and obliging. Suuqnry, Jan. 'ii, 1S75. TTXITED STATES HOTEL, W. F. U KITCHEN, Proprietor. Opposite the De pot SHAMOKIN, PA. Every attention given to travellers, and tbe best accommodations given. April 5.1S73. tf ATIONAL HOTEL. AUGUSTUS WALD, Proprietor, Georgetown North'd County, Pa., at the Station of the N. C. R. W. Choice wines and cigars at the bar. The table is supplied with the best the market affords. Good stabling and attentive ostlers. CM MEL'S RESTAURANT, LOUIS HUMMEL, Proprietor, Commerce St., SHAMOKIN, PENN'A. Having just refitted tbe above Saloon for the accomodation of the public, Is now prepared to serve "jis friends with the best refreshments, and fresh Lager Beer, Ale, Porter, and all other malt qnors. ju& truss arbs. W. ft. BHOADS. 1. PACKER HAAS Wti. RHOADS & CO., RETAIL DEALERS OF ANTHRACITE COAL, SUNBURY, PENN'A. Office with Haas, Faoelt fc Co., Orders left at Seasholtz & Bra's., office Market treet, will receive prompt attention. Couutry ustom respectfully solicited. Feb. 4, 1871. tf. COAL! COAL! COALI GRANT BROS., Shippers and Wholesale and Retail Dealers in WHITE AND RED ASn COAL, SUNBURY, PA. (LOWER WHARF. ) Orders will receive prompt attention. ANTHRACITE COAL ! VALENTINE DIETZ, Wholesale and Retail dealer in every variety of ANTHRACITE COAL, UPPER WnARF, SUNBURY, PENN'A. All kinds of Grain taken In exchange for Coal. Orders solicited and filled promptly. Orders left at 8. F. Nevln's Confectionery 3tore, on Third treet, will recieve prompt attention, and money recelptedfor, tbe some as at the office. NEW COAL YARD. THE undersigned having connected the Coal business with his extensive FLOUR & GRAIN trade, is prepared to supply families with the VERY BEST OF COAL, CHEAP FOR CASH. Egg, Stove and Nut, constantly on hand. Grain taken in exchange forCoal. J. M. CADWALLADER. Sunbury, Jan. 15, 1870. tf. Sl'NBCRY MARBLE YARD, Fonrllt Street below Market, SUNBURY, TENN'A. rilll'', uudersigned has returned from the Ver J jnont Marble Quarries with 56 Tons of Mm ole for Monnnients, Grave-Stone, m iVc, &c. I"1! He has Itoticht nt such fl I'll res that wig will allow him to sell better stone, for less money, than heretofore. The best Sutherland Falls Marble, which is better than Italian. Rutland is now sold ns low as the Manchester. Those who need anything in the Marble line, for Monuments, Grave-Stoues, or other purposes, will find it to their interest to call and examine this large stock, as better bargains can be secur ed than buying from parties 'huckstering' round the country. All lettering will be done iu the neatest and most Improved style. W. M. DAUGHERTY. Snnbnry, Jan. 11, 187;). THE KING BARBER SHOP IS THE SHOP OF THE TOWN and long has been ; ask history and she will tell you Men have grown old hi our patronage Babies on their mothers' breast To bouncing boys at play ; And youths by maidens fair caressed, To stalwart nien with cares oppressed, And old men silver gray. And among the honored and lasting impres sions of time, and the crash of revolutions in circumstances, we stand a living monumental memento of the lneenuity and perseverance ap pertaining to the identity of progression, plying our vocation with the highest style of art and perfection, and aspiring to achieve the highest reward of merit attainable in our hnmble capaci ty, and tbe sentiment of respect and approbation which the presence of superior appliauces and es tablishment are always wont to inspire. Always to please We shave with ease Cut and comb with taste the hair ; Shampoo the head with soothing euro, And color the whiskers black or brown, To suit the people about the town. Then allow me politely request you to stop, And not go past nor from around our shop. To get shaved on the basis of ability nor as some have done for our use of tbe ballot for prin ciple sacred aud right nor under the common secret and invidious guise of enmity to complex ion ; for the cut of a man's coat, or the color of his skin, ought not to afreet his usefulness nor his qualifications. A fair chance is ull that wc demand, to give the proof to all the land. JAMES W. WASHINGTON. Proprietor. Snnbury, April 5, 1S73 ; No. 01, Market st. THE TIMES. A First-Class Newspaper. DAILY AND WEEKLY. Independent in Everything! Neu tral in Nothing! Opposed to all Corrupt Rins in Municipal, State and National Aflairs. The rttlly Times will be iwoiod on Satur day, tbe i: fa of March uext, aud every morning there after, Kunday excepted, under tbe fditorial direction of A. K. Mci'Ll'RK, printed compactly from clear, new type, on a large lolio sheet, containing all tbe uvt of tbe day, iucluduiK tbe Aasociated Pre Telegrams, Hpeeial Telercmp and Correapondenoe fnm all Hinta of iiuerenta, aud fearleaa editorial diacuaaious of all cur rent topic. Price, two ceuta. Mall anbacriptioua, postage free. Six dollars r an num, or Fifty centa per month, in advance. .A-tlvcrtlBenients, fifteen, twenty and thir ty ceuta per line, according to ioaition. THE WEEKLY TIMES. Will be issued on Saturday, Marrh 201 h, aud weekly thereafter, containing all iniortaut uewa of tbe week, and complete Market aud Financial Itcporta. Mailed, for one year, iKwtage free, at tbe following rates: One Copy $1.00 Ten Copies W.00 Twenty Copies v 16.00 Art-vertlsemeiltf twenty-five cent per line. Krinittauces abouid be luadebv Draft. or P.O. Orders. Address, The Times, No. 14 South Seveutu ntnet, Philadelphia. 8cto Sbbtrtistmmts A NEW STOCK OF MERCHANT TAILORING GOODS. CIIAS. MAII1L Has just returned from the Eastern cities,with an elegant seb-etions of CLOTHS, CASSIMEKES, and VESTING, of the finest French Brands, Trimmings, &c. He Is now ready to receive orders for SPRING AND SUMMER SLITS of any desired style. The latest styles of pat terns on hand, and NEAT FITS GUARANTEED. You will find prices at least as reasonable as elsewhere. Give me a call. CnAS. MAIHL, F0URT1I ST., OppoiUe CITY HOTEL, SUNBURY, PA. Suubury, April 9, lS75.-tf. m MILLINERY. 1875 TRIMMED AND UNTRIMMED HATS and J30NNETS. SPRING STYLES. CRAPE AND "CRAPE VEILS. VTEW French Styles In Infants' Caps. Straw L Gooris, In Shade Mats, School Hats and all the latest Fashionable Shapes and olors. Chip io Drab, Brown, Black and White. Leg horn, Black Hair, etc. All the novelties in Silks, Gross Grains, Sashes; Serges, etc. French Flowers, Wreaths, Roses, Buds and Sprays. Ribbons in the new shades. Purchasers will find a full and carefully se lected 6tock of Millinery nt M. L. Gossler's Millinery Store, Fourth St., below the Shaniokin Div. N. C. R. R., Snnbury, Pa. April 23, 1875. gl'RING AND SUMMER STYLES or MILLIISTE-RY NEW STYLES, NEW FEATHERS, NEW FLOWERS, ORNAMENTS. Hats & Bonnets TRIMMED AT ALL PRICES. in the Latest and Best Shades. Good Assortment of Notions CONSTANTLY ON nAND. FANCY ZEPnYR GOODS AND INFANT'S HOODS, At Misses L. & S. Wciser's Millinery 8tore, XIarket St., Sunbury, Pa. April 23. 1875. I, RT SDNBDRT, PA.. FRIDAY sok nub priJitiKig. iJiHE SUNBURY AMERICAN The Largest and Moat Complete Estal lishmeut IN TniS SECTION. NEW TYPE, NEAT WORK, IMPROVED PRESSE8, SKILLED WORKMEN. ORDERS PROMPTLY FILLED. -PRICES MODEKATE.-W BOOK, CARD AND JOB PRINTING EXECUTED IN THE BEST STYLE. BUSINESS CARDS. WEDDING CARDS, VIMTING CARDS, SHOW CARDS, BALL TICKETS, BLANKS, HANDBILLS, MERCANTILE LETTER HEADS, NOTE HEADS, BILL HEADS, ENVELOPES, CARDS, CHECKS AND DRAFTS, PROGRAMMES, DODGERS, PAPER BOOKS, MANIFESTS, CIRCULARS. Everything that Is needed in the printing de partment will be executed with promptness and at low prices. All are 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. tSTOrdcrs for Subscription. Advertising or Job Printing, thank fnlly received. Address EM'L WILVERT, Proprietor, SUNBURY, PA. rpHE SUNBURY AMERICAN 13 THE BESTADVERISING MEDIUM In the Central pnrt of the State, IT CIRCULATES In one of the Most Thrifty, Intelligent and WEALTHY SECTIONS OF PENNSYLVANIA. Sample copy of paper sent to any address tree of charge. w . tt- m. v mr , a ai in i am n 1 m a as a a in MORNING, JULY 16, 1875. - DON'T STAY AFTER TEN. I have just a word to say to you, When me you come to see, You kuow that none in all the world Is half so dear to me. 'Tis this I would request of you, That when yon come again To see me in the evening, You won't slay after ten. For after ten, as moments fly, I tremble o'er and o'er, Lest papa's visage I should see Come peeping at the door, He's there to execute his threat ; He said he'd surely come. If e'er you stayed so late again, And tell you to go home. And when I down to breakfast go Pap i will frown at me, And say "My child that beau of yours Is going to hear from me. This sort of thing I will not hare So, when he comes again, I'll just go down and show him out. If he don't go at ten." And so, though your society Makes heart and pulse throb warm. I heave a sigh of vast relief At your retreating form You know that you are welcome, aye, O ! best loved of men ! Bnt many a scolding yon have caused, By staying after ten. UNDER THE ROSE. BY ELIZABETH BIGELN. 'Katharine ! Kathenne ! 'Vy'here has the child vanished ? You really must excuse her Mr. AValdron. She ia so thoughtless and wayward !' And Katharine, a white heap, crouched in tbe corner of the piazza, could hear the little soft sigh that came from her step mot ier'8 pretty lips to give emphasis to her wolils. Jist then a provoking breeze stirred the leaves of the tall orange tree that concealed her. and she lost Mr. Waldron's reply. How much sho would have given to hear it! AnJ yet it was probably only Bome polite commonplace, if he bad condescended to speak about her at all. They had gone back to the drawiug rocm ; she heard her stepmother's soft pur ring tones jus: outside the window ; then the music crushed out again and drowned everything. - Catherine stole softly to the window, and pulled the drapery aside, just enough for one little peep. Yes, it was as she had thought. Mr. Waldron was dancing with her stepmother. She could see her blonde ringlets fluttering against his shoulder, and the arch smile with which she glanced up into his face, lie would be abundantly consoled for her desertion 1 thought Kathcrine bitterly. She had promised lo dance this dance with him, and she had run away. Run away from what aba had hppn looking long ingly forward to all the evening, the pros pect of which had enabled her to bear pa tiently Dick Bentley's unceasing chatter of his college boat races, and his open "spoon ing1 of herself (as &he had beard one of his friends call it,) had made her so amazingly good-natured as to dance with every one of her brother Tom's friends who asked her, whom she usually treated with contempt as 'small boys.' And now to be back again, to be in her stepmother's place, what would she not have given 1 Yet the keen jealous pain in her heart which had drawn her away was us strong stronger man ever. No ! Bhe did not want to be there ; to have him looking down into her face in that ten der way she knew so welj, and which only meant now she knew it that he thought of her as a child, 'a rather prcttv child,' who would be pleased with a little petting. How did he look at her stepmother ? she wondered. She was not a child ; she was a beautiful woman how beautiful she bad never realized until to-night, thought Katherine. She had just blossomed out of her widow's weeds, and she looked so fresh and bright ! There I he was stooping to fas ten her bracelet now. Was not bis manner as tender as it had ever been to her ! Poor Katherine ! her 'one little peep' was too much for her. She let the curtain full, and rushed away, she scarcely knew or cared where. Out into the moonlighted, robe-scented garden, away down one of the long paths, anywhere, to be away from the glaring lights, and the gay music that jatred upon her so, to be away from those two, so happy iu each other's presence that they had al ready forgotten her existence. She sat down on tbe steps of a little ar bor over whose sides, formed of interlaced boughs, a rosevine, now a mass of bloom, ran riot. The scent of the roses was heavy, sicken ing ; how could she ever have thought them sweet ? thought poor Katherine ; and tbe gay tantalizing strains of music would find their way even down this long winding path. Still, it was better here thau on tbe piazza, where somebody would be sure to find her, and to stay in the drawin-room, after she had heard that snatch of the con versation between her stepmother and Mr. AValdron, was impossible. She had been sitting alone in the shadow of a curtain, to rest between the dances, Dick Benllcy, who bad persisted in being her shadow all the evening, having gone for a glass of water for her. Yes, she is rather pretty, she heard, in her stepmother's soft languid voice, 'but only a child, as you say. I think, consid ering that, Mr. Waldron, you are rather severe upon her rude and awkward ways. She may improve. Dick Bentley had appeared with the wa; ter just then, and she did not hear Mr. Waldron's reply. She was so thankful to Dick ! She could not have born any more. It was evident that Mr. Waldron had been 'severe' upon her, and her stepmother was defending her. She smiled upon Dick with such unusual sweetness that be did not no tice the quivering lips, and began to think his star was in the ascendancy. Then she had sent him with some trilling message to Tom, and escaped to the piazza. He Mr. Waldron could not even come to seek her for the dance she had promised him without her stepmother ! Ho had been hanging about her all tbe evening." This was what his constant visits all the sum mer bad meant. How blind sho had been ? what a fool 1 What reason had she for that foolish fancy she had indulged that he cared for her ? Only soft lingering glances, and low tender tones ; but so soft, so ten A m IT Bi "u TT N A 1M der I Did he think she, with her eighteen years, so much a child as to be regardless of them ? No ! he had been amusing him self with her ; he liked to Bee her flush and tremble under his gaze ; perhaps he had even spoken to her stepmother about it, and they had laughed together at her folly. That thought aroused Katheriae's pride, and kept back the flood of hot tears that rushed to her eyes. He should never know that she had cared for him I They would tell ber soon that he was to marry her stepmother, and she would congratulate them both with a smiling face. Yes, they would marry, and she should go on liviog for years and years, perhaps, with the world grown so black, and that bitter, bitter pain at her heart The music sounded like a wail ; a chill wind had arisen, and made a melancholy sound in the rosevines. Katherine shiver ed, whether with the cold or tbe thought of the long dreary years that stretched be fore ber, she could hardly tell. Suddenly something white in the midst ot the red rose petals which the wind was whirling at her feet, caught her eye. Something prompted her to pick it up ; it was a care fully folded note. She opened it, half mechanically, think ing that nothing could be ot any interest to her now. 'My Dearest Marion. 'Katherine's heart gave a sudden leap ; her stepmother's name was Marion. 'You do not show that ardent pleasure at seeing me again which I had fondly hoped you would feel. Is the old love quite dead ? I do not see why my presence here should cause you any alarm, now that your husband is dead. Are you afraid of that doll-faced child, your hus band's daughter, who is forever in the way? I should think you might be able to man age her. I must see you. If you have any love for me left, you cannot deny me that privilege ; but I am perfectly willing that our interview should be sub rosa, if it is more ageeable to you. Whatever you may be to me, I am 'Yours always, J. II. W.' The note had evidently been blown about by winds and soaked by rains ; it was with difficulty that Kathcrine deciph ered it in the moonlight. It was dated May 3d. 'J. n. W. John IT. Waldron! aud written six weeks ago, when he first came here. ' Katherine grew faint and sick. She had not known how much of hope bad, after all, been mingled with her jealous fears. But this was certainly dreadful, bitter certainly, with no room for a shadow of hope. And they had been lovers before it was nothing new ; and he whom she had believed the soul of goodness and honor had written that letter ? Surely, life was too hard a thing to bear. A step sounded suddenly on the path a hurried eager step. Katherine had scarcely time to thrust the letter into her pocket when Dick Bentley stood beside her. The sight of Dick's honest anxious face was a relief to ber ; she had been so afraid it was that other one 1 I have been searching everywhere for you. Why did you run away ? You're not ill or anything ? You look so awfully white !' said honest Dick. 'O no. I was tired and wanted to get out of the crowd ; that is all. The moon light always gives one a sort of ghostly look you know.' Katherine tried to talk gaily, but the voice sounded so unlike her own that it startled her. But Dick was not suspicious, and seemed perfectly satisfied with her explanation. 'I can't go back I don't want to go in quite yet, it is so warm there, and I am tired of dancing. Let us walk to tbe end of this path and back,' said Katherine, thoughtless of what people would say, thoughtless of poor Dick, and the declara tion which she had been trying for the last week to prevent him from making. Dick, thanking his stars for the opportu nity, poured his love tale into Katheiine's ears before they had reached the end of the path. Very fervent and passionate it was, but it fell at first, upon almost utterly un heeding ears. Suddenly a thoug'at flashed across Katherine's miud there was a way of escape ! They could not laugh at her or pity her, and she could goaway,quiteawa from them both ! 'I don't love you, Dick you know. I don't think I ever could ; but 1 like you very much. If you are sure you can be content with that, I will be your wife ; if you'll take me away, Dick, if you'll only take me away, aud never bring me back here I' If it was not quite the answer that Dick could have wished for, it was even better than he hoped to have. He was very easy going and matter-of-fact, and if Katharine's manner did seem a little strange, he re flected that there was 'no understanding girls as for her desire to go away, which surprised and puzzled him for a moment, that might be attributed to her stepmother; stepmothers were always ogresses, iu books, at least, and this one, though she seemed so amiable and lovely, might be no exception to the rule. He was a little chilled by Katharine's anxiety to escape from his raptures ; but it was late, and ber absence must have been noticed long ago. That was a reason for it. The guests were fast dispersing when they reached the house, much to Katharine's relief. Her stepmother chided her playfully for running away. Mr. Waldron stood apart looking pale and grave. Had not this woo ing prospered, after all ? Katharine won dered. Her stepmother expressed the greatest delight at the engagement, which Dick insisted upon announcing the next day. 'It is just what I have been planning and hoping for, Katharine dear,' she said. 'Mr. Bentley is altogether the most eligible young man of our acquaintance, and you are so perfectly suited to each other in age and temperament.' Her brother Tom was not so enthusias tic. 'If you like him, it's all right, of course, Katy, and Dick is a right-dqwn good fel low. He isn't what you could call bril liant, you know ; we used to think bim a little well, softish. I thought it's none of my business but I thought there was something between you and Waldron.' Katharine was thankful that her step mother interrupted them just then ; she could not help flushing painfully under Tom's keen eyes. Mr. Waldron's estate, an old family homestead, to which he had lately fallen heir, adjoined theirs, and since be had first come there in the spring, he had been a daily visitor, but now for nearly a week he JJ 1 t Sew Series, Vol. 7, No. 14. Old Series, Vol. S6, No. 11. did not come. Could her stepmother have refused him ? Katharine wondered. But that did not seem likely, for she was evi dently disturbed by his absence, and she vented her ill-nature upon Katharine, as if she were the cause of it. Katharine was puzzled ; but as she had resolved, dutiful ly, to put him quite out of her mind, she would not allow herself to think about it She had determined to give the place in her heart that he held.as was her bonden duty, to poor, blundering, impetuous, affectionate Dick, who followed her about hke a span iel, and drove her almost to frenzy with his demonstrations of affection. He had come to the Cedars to spend tbe summer, as Tom's guest, and there was no probability of his shortening his visit, under existing circumstances. Unless she run away or drowned herself in the river, there was uo way to escape from him a single day. And one or the other Katharine was sometimes tempted to do. 'If he only would go away, I might learn to care for him possibly but I never can while he stays here !' she said, to herself; despairingly, only a week after she had given bim her promise. She had escaped into the garden, while Tom good, keen-sighted fellow had pin ned Dick down lo a game of billiards. In all that week she had not once seen Mr. Waldron. Was it any wonder that she could not keep back the flush that rose to her face as a turn in the garden path re vealed him to her gaze ? She tried hard to greet him as she would have greeted an ordinary friend Dick for instance and he was so grave and composed, that after the first moment it grew easy. He had been busy,' was the only excuse he gave for hia absence, when Katharine reminded him of it. 'And you haven't congratulated me yet, Mr. Waldron,' something prompted Kath arine to say. ne grew paler, and looked away from her. 'I hope you may be very happy,' he an swered, coldly and gravely. And then he passed her with a stiff bow, and went towards the house. And Katharine went on, while her heart beat wildly. What did it mean? Surely, only very deep feeling could make a strong man like him change color. What if she had been mistaken what if he had really loved ber ? But the next mom ent she thought of the letter, the heart-chilling proof, that left no room for doubt The summer days slipped slowly by. Mr. Waldron was only an infrequent visi tor, and between her stepmother's ill-nature and Dick'a excessive devotion, Kath arine's life was growing uoindurable. In the first cool days of October, Dick went not so happy a lover as he had been on that June night when he had won Kathar ine's promise. It was to evident that his captive was tugging at ber chain. She was so cold and capricious that his temper was sorely tried. Even his favorite maxim "there's no understanding girls," failed to satisfy him. If she were only a little less pretty and bewlthcing, he would give her back her freedom ! he said to himself a dozen times. The "melancholy days" had come, and dead leaves were whirling in the garden paths, where the rose petals had been when oue dreary afternoon, Katharine took her way down to that rustic harbor, where since that June night, she had never been. She had avoided it carefully, but now something drew her their. As she stepped inside, she was startled by a figure half reclining on one of the rustic seats a man she hardly knew by bis appearance whether to call him a gentleman or not who rose to his feel at sight of her, and made her a most elaborate bow. He was was dressed like a gentleman, but his cloathes were worn shabby, and their was something wild in his manner, and a strange glitter in his eye. Katharine's impulse was to fly, but before sho could carry it out, he had put his hand on her shoulder, holding her firmly. She tried to cry for help, but made her voice utterly fail. Besides, at such a distance from the house, who could hear her ? she thought despairingly. "You are my lovely little niece, whose acquaintance I have long been wishing to make ; but my charming sister, madam you r mother, has denied me that felicity. She has also, of late fallen into the danger ous error of refusing to recognize me her selfroe, her only brother, a gentleman of birth and education, as you may easily see, merely because misfortune has overtaken me ! Ab, well 1 perhaps it may be because she suspected that it misfortune had not overtaken me, that misfortune which in this ill-regulated mundane sphere, alas ! befalls often the noblest and mosi gifted I refer to the want of filthy lucre I should never havo forced myself into her charm ing society. Wo had one little interview here, in which she bestowed upon me a meagre pittance out of her abundant store but she never condescended to reply to any of the notes which I told her I should de posit here for her.' Katharine almost forgot her terror of this strange being who Bhe began to sus pect bad been drinking in the light that broke upon her mind. 'J. H. W !' She remembered having heard that her step mother had a brother, John II. Wilton but she had understood that he had died years before. Now you see, I am getting desperate ; it is very sad that gifting should be des perate ; it is very sad that giftings should be disturbed by these paltry needs, but I must have money ! My dear, as your beautiful step-mamma proves obdurate, I must ask you for a small loan as a token of regard, your watch for instance, and what other trinkets you may have about you ; and before I consent to deprive myself of your delightful society, I want your prom ise which I know you'll keep to bring me to this place this evening, a small addi tion to your loan in the shape of money.' 'I will promise to bring you the money, if you will let me go, and let me keep my watch ; it was my own mother's, aud I prise it more than anything else in the world V said poor Katharine. My dearest neice 1 1 cannot express my grief at being obliged to insist ; but when one has been so buffiled about by fate as your unfortunate uncle has been, he grows cautious and this represents so much of the vulgar metal which is necessary to one !' He had taken the watch from her belt looking with greedy eyes at its rich crust ing of jewels, and was cooly transferring it to his own pocket, when poor Kathar- Rates of Advertising. One Inch, (twelve lines or Its equivalent in Vonpareil type) one or two insertions, f UO ; three iaaertiona (2.0O. Spacb. Ik. 3m. 3m. Cm. It. One inch $2.30 $3.00 $4.00 $.00 $10.00 Two inches. S.90 6.00 7.00 9.60 li.uo Tares inches... 6.00 7.00 .00 12.00 18.00 Four inches 7.00 9.00 11.00 17.IM SUM Ouarter Coumn. 10.00 12.00 14.Wi 30.00 SO.OO Half Column 1.1.00 18.00 3M.00 30.00 60.00 One Column .0.00 36.00 40.00 60.00 100.00 - Yearly advertisements parable quarterly Tranaeient advertisements must be paid before insertion, except where parties have account. Local notices twenty cents a hue, and tern eenta- for every subsequent insertion. Cards in the "Business Directory" column yi.00 per year for the first two lines, and $1.00 for each additional line. ine scarcely knowing what she did, uttered a faint cry of 'help I help !' It was answered. They both heard a rapid step. 'O Mr. Waldron ! help me I save me !' cried Katharine, as his face looked in at the door. With one strong arm he freed Katha rine from the man's grasp, hut the next moment Katharine heard the report of a pistol, saw Mr. Waldron reel,' then fall heavily to the floor." Then everything whirled around her and grew dark, and she knew nothing more. When she came to herself, she was at home, when Tom's anxious face bending over her, and her stepmother on a sofa, in violent histerics. with three maids attend ing her. 'O Tom ! Mr. Waldron ?' said Kathar ine, with a shuddering gasp, 'Is he dead?' 'O no, dear,' said Tom cheerfully. 'Only a rather ugly wound. The doctor seys he'll pull through it if he does'nt get too weak from loss of blood. I don't know what might have happened, if I had not got their just in time That vagabond creature was perfectly desperate.' 'I I am going to him to Mr. Waldron Tom 1 1 must Bee him !' 'Katharine, aren't you ashamed of your self ? Have you lost all sense of propriety?' said her stepmother, tartly, recovering and sitting up with amazing suddenness. 'You'll take me, Tom ? I must go ? I must go !' said Katharine. Why yes, Katty, if yon must go,' said Tom, who would have gone through fire and flood for her, without a moments hesi tation. Katharine did not mind the wandering looks of Mr. Waldron's housekeeper or ser vants. She forgot everything but ber love and his danger. How his eyes lighted at the sight of her ! 'My darling ! I bave been fancying you were here. I knew you would come I and you look as I haven't seen yon since that night don't you know ? the night of the party, wheu she told mt that you loved young Bently.' The voice was very faint and feeble, but Katharine heard every word, and her heart filled with great joy. 'She told you that ? It wasn't it isn't true I I I' There is no need of telling more. You can already heaf wedding-bells, and see a vision of white favors. And poor Dick ? Well, Dick is already engaged to a dashing little belle, who is very much in love with him, and he tells Tom he has decided that it is better to have the excess of love on that side. California Delights. There are many nuisances encountered by the farmer in this part of the world which do some thing to countervail the surpassing loveli ness of the climate. Of these ants are one. Frequently food can be preseved only by being suspended in sacks, or placed in cup boards with their legs standing in water. The native Californians scrape all the grass out of their yards, and tramp the ground down hard to keep the ants away. Choppers are sometimes driven from a tree by the amazing multitude, and the stench of them. They collect great quantities of grass seed into their holes, leaving the chaff on the surface, and these chaff heaps become a resource for stock in the winter. The fleas have given rise to a fashionable folly known as the "California wriggle," which even young ladies practice in the presence of their lovers. In. the high mountain regions, strange to say, and around the salty lagoons of the bay, mo squitoes are so intolerably bad that men often wear mosquito bars on their heads. On the portion of tbe plains overflowed in the wet season, gnats are so thick that many people live for weeks in smoke, with their hands and faces lacerated by them selves to a bloody blotch. In tbe coast valleys and the interior basiou, ground squirrels swarm in countless hordes, honey combing all the surface of the earth, and devouring every green thing, unless the farmers make banded war on tbem with strychine pot, shot gun, trap, sulphur smoke, water and all conceivable devices. -Summer brings a plague of impalpable dust which penetrates even into a watch ; winter, a plague of fathomless mud and of miring down. Atlantic Monthly. In the East the locusts have been dread ed more thau war or pestilence ; but there the people catch and cook them ; the Egyptians strip off their wings and legs and bake them ; tbe Arabs dry them, pound them to a flour and use them in making bread, and so try to prevent the increase of an enemy they are powerless to deal with when let loose or. tbeir fields in full force. But for many years the Western farmera have shot grouse, wild turn key and similar birds by the million, clear ing them out of whole States, thus leaving their fields to the mercy of all kinds of ver min, and now the grass-hoppers is the re coil of the gun. The only adequate anti dote for these pests is a stock of fowls that will keep them down, and a stringent law, prohibiting the wanton destruction of birds in season and out of season for the next 20 years. Locusts may be very good eating, but tbe civilized stomach prefers to eat the birds that ate the worm. A lawyer in a court at Memphis, Tenn-, being called a liar by the counsel on the other side the other day, picked up th court bible and knocked him down, after -which he pounded him lustily. A sheriff was called in to separate them, and they were fined 850 dollars each on the spot This is another proof that the bible con tains "knock-down arguments." General Spinner, who retired .from the Treasurership of the United States last Thursday, is seventy-four years old, has spent sixty years of his life hard at work, and has not more than thirty thousand dollars to show for it He goes out of office "an honest man, the noblest work of God." The Cincinnati Commercial cyphers np the indebtedness of thirty cities of the United States, and reaches the sum of 433,532,761. Twenty-one of the largest cities in Eng'and, Including London, have an indebtedness of but 8121, 663,65?. or more than a million of dollars less tan the than the debt of New York city 3ne.
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