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OnoSiimro " . tlirne. months. 1
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Two Hiiusres, ono year Ii O
Quarter Oil. " SO (9
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in length, $10 per year.
I.eal notices nt established rate.
These rates are low, and no deviation
ill he mmlo, or discrimination amonir.
patrons. Tho rates olVnred are such, ns
will rnttke It to the advantage of men 'lei.
business ln the limits of the circulation of
t!ie paoer to advortiso liberal! v.
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' " W. R. DUNN.
DOVx la Knox' Bulldlrg, Klrt Street
EPUBLICAN.
TERMS, 2.00 A TEAR. '
?to Bnbserlptlons reeelvod for a shorter
period than throe months.
Correspondence solicited from all parts
of the country. No notice will be taken of
eanonymous communications.
Marriages and Death notices Inserted
jralis.
" Let ua have Faith that Right makes Might ; and in that Faith let us to the end, dare do our duty as we understand if--LINCOLN.
VOL. IV. NO. 6.
TIONESTA, PA., TUESDAY, MAY 9, 1871.
$2 PER ANNUM.
BUSINESS DIRECTORY.
TIONKSTA LODGE, N6. 477,
I. O. Q-. T.
If every Wednesday evening, at 8
It! o'clock.
W. R. DUNN, W. C.T.
sf . W. TATS, W. H.
I. xawiox rams, miles it. tat.
,. PltTTIS & TATE,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
Mtm Art, TrOA'fSTA, FA.
Isaac Ash,
ATTORNEY AT LAW, Oil City, Pa.
Will practice IrTthe various Courts of
Forest County. AU business entrusted to
Mi cure will receive prompt attention.
Idly
W. W. Mason,
ATTOTINEY AT TjA W. Offlne on Elm
Htreet, above Walnut, Tionenta, Pa.
C. W. Cilflllan,
ATTORNEY AT LAW, Franklin, Ve
nango Co., I'a. tf.
N. B, Smiley,
ATTORNEY AT LAW, Petroleum Cen
.Ttre, Ps. Will practice in the several
Cna.ru of Forest County, 86-ly
Holmes House,
qMONMTA, PA., opposite the Depot.
-I C. D. Malile, Proprietor. Hood Sta
bling connected with the house. tf.
Jos,. Y. Saul,
PRACTICAL Harness Maker and Sad
dler. Tbrno doors north of lfolmes
House, Tlonesta, Pa. All work is war
ranted, tf.
Syracuse House,
T1MOTJTF, Ta., J. A t Maokb, Proplo
tors. The house has been thoroughly
refitted and is now In the first-class order,
with the best of accommodntions. Any
nferinalion concerning Oil Territory at
this poiut will be choorl'ullv furnished,
-ly J. AD. MAUEE,
Exchange Hotel,
LOWER TIDIOUTE, Pa., TVS. Rams
rKi. A Ho Prop's. This house having
been rented is now the most desirable stop
Bins: place in Tidioute. A good Billiard
Room attached. 4-ly
National Hotel, -TRYINETOX,
PA. W. A. TTalleubaclc,
Proprietor. This hotel is 'iw, and is
ow open as a first nlass house, situate at
re junction of the Oil Creek A Allegheny
sliver and Philadelphia A i'.rie Rail row Is,
: p poults Uie Depot. Parties having to lay
ver trains will tiud this tho most oonven
ent hotel In town, with tint-class accom
modations and reasonable charges. tf. .
Tim Sons 4 Co. 'a
NEW ENGINES. Theunderslgnodhave
forsale and will receive ordera for the
almve Engine. Messrs. Tltll Sons A Co.
are now sending to this market their 12
Horse Power K.ngine with M-Horse Power
JBoiler peculiarly adapted to deep wells.
OrricK" at Duncnn Chnlfnnt'a, dealers
la Wall Fixtures, Hardware, ,Vc, Main St.
aext door to Clmse House, l'loaMautvllle,
and at Mansion House, Titusvillo.
tf. K. MtKTT A HON, Agents.
John Jt- Hallock,
A TTORNEY AT LAW and Solicitor of
il lateiits,?o. 6oo r ronch atreett opposite
Reed lloiiso) Krio, Pa. Will timet ice in
theaoverai State Courts and the United
Hlalc Courts. Special attention given- to
soliciting patents for Inventors ; itifriniro
' artenu, re-issue and'extension of patents
' weft jlv attended to. Kut'ereneos: Hon.
James Campbell, Clurion ; lln'u, John H.
McCitlmout, Franklin; II, L. A A. It.
Richruoud, Meadvillo; W. . Lathy. Ti
nesta. 2 7
Dr. J. L. Acom.b,
T3H YSTCIAN AND SCROKON, who has
I had tilleen years' experience in a large
and successful practice, will attond all
Professional Calls. Olllce in his Drug and
Orooery Store, located in Tidioute, near
Tidioitle House.
IN HIS STORE WILL DE FOUND ,
A full assortment of Medicines, Liquors
Tobacco, Cigars, Stationery, OIshs, Paints,
Oils, Cutlery, and line Oriiceries, all of the
beat quality, aud will be sold at reasonable
rates.
H. R. nUROESS, an experienced Drug
gist from New York, ha charge of the
Store. All prescriptions put up accurately.
tf.
W. V. Mercllliott,
Attorney at Law.
AND
R EAIi EH T A T I AGCXT.
TIOXESTA, PA.
17-af
JOHN A: DALE, FREVT.
SNA. MOfen, VICXPREST. A. H.STEELI, CA8HS,
TIOITESTA
SAVINGS BANK,
Tionesta, Forest Co., Ta.
This Rank transact! a Cieneral Bunking,
"Lol ectui ' and Kxclianiro liustnesa.
Dratls on the Principal Cities of the
United Mates and j-.urone imuirnt ana moki.
Gold and Silver Coin and Government
Securities bought and sold. 7-iU llonils
eouverled on the most favorable terms.
Interest allowed on time deposits.
Mar. 4, tf.
DR. J. N. ItOLARD, of Tidioute, has
returned to his practico alter an ab
sence of four months, spent In the Hospi
tals ot. New York, where wul altena
rails in his prolession.
Utlice in Kurrka Irug Store, 8d door
aqove tho banlt, lidioulu, 1'u. i'-m
$10
MADB FUOU
50 G1;
Something urgently needed by everybody
Call and exauiiuo, or samples scut posiago
raid for 60 its thai retail .isilv for $10. R,
W'dcott, lsl Chathrm S..,N. Y. -l'-4t
DEAFNESS, Catarrh and Hcrofula. A
lady who hud sutfered for years from
Deafnes, Catarrh and Scrofula, vs cured
by a simple lemedy. ller sympathy and
a;ratl'ude prompts her to send the receipts
Jre of charms tv any ot'O similarly allliit
i. Addr.jss Mrs. M. O. Deceit, Jersey
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SEASON OF 1870-71.
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REDUCTION OF PRICES.
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u W...I.I i. ii.nnu mid illMti'ulpri i l
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li.nars, JXO. 1-w swirooi ou, i qiiam-uia.
Love and Nitre-Glycerine.
Ever since Adam indulged in love'i
young dream amid the vernal bowers
of Eden, and wandered with Eve be
neath the happy shades of early crea
tion, the human heart has at certain
periods of its existence palpitated with
acellerated motion in the presence of
women, and there has never existed a
full-fledged man from that premteval
period to the present, who has not at
some time in the ecstacr of genuine
affection said to himself, "let her palp."
Love laughs at locksmiths, says the
old saw, and that love laughs at black
smiths is equally certain, as our brief
story will show, though the sequel
porves that blacksmiths may at times
turn the cachinatory tide upon Cupid,
and for a brief season at least triumph
over the boy with the bow and arrow.
The following fucta were related to us
by one of the principals in the affair,
and may be relied upon as correct.
In Clarion county, near the cele
brated oil producting district known as
Parker's Landing, aud not a great dis
taoce from where the Clarion river
mingles its pellucid waters with the
STviftor rolling tide of the Allegheny,
has lived for years a man named
Howitt, who, coming to the country
in its early history, erected a cabin
aud maintained au humble existence
by following his profession of horse
shoeing. The years glided along and
nothing occurred to vary the monoto
ny of his humble aud happy lite save
an occasional fracas with an unrly
horse, or now and then being confined
to his bed for a few weeks, from the ef
fects of a mule kick on the cranium,or
a dig in the ribs from the bind foot of
a rebellious ox, for Howitt used to
pursue his trade in all its branches,
and furnished shoes to everything that
came along, whereby an honest penny
could he made. Meanwhile a daugh
ter was born to him, who grew up in
her mountain home like the pines that
surrounded his dwelling, and was as
graceful and beautiful as the wild
Bowers amid which she played. Laura,
for that was her name, obtained a fair
education at the district Bchool, aided
by her mother, who was an accomplish
ed graduate from an eastern academy,
and her natural beauty and brightness
was increased by an occasional visit
to Pittsburgh and eastern cities, where,
amid higher social scenes than those
which surrounded her birth-place, she
rapidly acquired the numerous little
graces and coquetries of fashion which
co to make up the "girl of the period."
It is no wonder, then, that to the old
man she was the apple of his eye as
a bushel of apples in fact, of the old
fashioned, rosy cheeked "nono such"
kind and that as she attained wo
man's ago and stature, the futher look
with a jealous eye upon the native ad
mirers who surrounded her, and stern
ly frowned upon .the forward young
cultivator of buckwheat who, by the
slightest action, sought to win her
young heart's affections and transplant
his wild flower . to auothcr soil and
home.
About this time tho oil excitement,
which for several years previously,had
raged upon Oil Creek and its tributa
ries, broke out in the viciuity of Par
ker's ; an influx of strangers, opera
tors and speculators began, and short
ly after a portion of Mr. Howitt'sfarm
was discovered to be on the belt, and
leased for a round sum to wealthy op
erators. .Though now comparatively
wealthy, Iiowitt still followed his orig
trade, though with a light heart as he
thought of the bank account which
would eaable him to bring up and ed
ucate his family in a superior style,
and place his daughter in position so
cially to which her attractions and at
tainments entitled her.
But at this junction a cloud appear
ed upou the old blacksmith's horizon ;
at first it was about the size of a man's
hand, but it speedily grew to the full
size and shape of a man himself, who
proved to be a workman upon a well a
short distance from the Iiowitt cottage,
and who fell head over heels into that
delicious pool of affection, in which
most of mankind have paddled blind
ly during their young lives. At first
Laura resisted her suitor's advances,
but as weeks passed and tkere was a
lack of society which at other times
might have served as an antidote to
the growing admiration she began to
feel for the young driller, who was
comely, young and strong, and pos
ed the not unpleasiug name of Henry
lvichardaon. Hhe gradually sought
his society (her father had long since
forbidden hia coming to the house,)
aud hardly a day passed but that she
was seen in the derrick, watching the
pultiutious of the walking beam and
her heart at the same lime, and listen
ing to his stories of adventure by flood
aud (oil) field. "She loved for the
danger he had passed," and he loved
her because she believed his yarns, that
no one eUe would; aud, ii mil ly , one
bright day, as he 1 ad just finished a
terrible recital of escape from death
by a falling sand pump pully, the
"wished that heuveu had made her
$ui It a man," when he abandoned the
temper-screw rope and all, and, jump
ing ironi his drilling stowl, said, "Let
t!io old thing work herself," caught
the fair Laura to his petroleum-stuiucd
b-meni, wiped the bentin from his
brow and lips, kiseed her, and said, "I
am the man." While enjoying the few
moments succeeding their bethrothal
blissful moments that only come
twice in a man's lifetime, once when
he finds his mother's preserves, and
the other as mentioned, the lovers
were startled by the sudden entrance
of the "village blacksmith," who jump
ed over the bull-head, seized his daugh
ter and without a word to the abash
ed Henry carried Laura home and
locked her up. Days passed without
communication between the lovers,
and while Laura grew thin, Henry al
so experienced bad luck ; his tools got
fast, the sand pump bursted, and his
heart promised soon the follow suit.
But just here a happy thought struck
him. Outside of the derrick was sev
eral hundred feet of gas pipe; he could
not lay a telegraph wire, but he might
lay a pipe line to his Laura's house,
through which, perchance, two hearts
could "beat as one," and hold commu
nication sweet in spite of the defeated
free-pipe bill. Ko sooner suggested
than acted upon ; that night he laid
six hundred and eighty-one feet of
half-inch gas-pipe under ground, be
tween his derrick and the prison of his
bethrothed. A happy junction with
the cave-spout was effected during the
next night, and shortly after, messages
were sent and received between the
lovers, Laura having brought the end
of the water-pipe close to her window,
and Henry had his end of the line di
rectly beneath his pillow, where, after
he was "off" tour," he would whisper
words of undying affection that only
ended when he fell asleep and the pipe
slipped out of hia mouth. But while
"love giggled at the locksmith," the
blacksmith was preparing to snort
right out at love ; for one day, while
Laura was at dinner, her father '-had,
while looking around her room, dis
covered the misplaced pipe, and while
gazing with a critic's eye at the strange
spectacle, was more startled by the
soil words coming apparently from
the cistern, "Laura, dear, is the old
roan around?" Mr. Iiowitt smelt a
mouse; he did more than that; he in
haled the oder of a genuine wharf rat;
but, saying nothing, he merely de
scended the stairs, and returned with
a pint of oily-looking liquid, which he
handled with extreme care. Making
a cartridge of paper that would hold
nearly all of the moisture, he inserted
it in the pipe several feet, and then
placing a long bar of iron upon that,
called loudly enough to be heard
through cartridge, pipe and all, "Hen
ry, my dear, are you there?" Quick
ly came tho faint reply, "Yes, Laura."
"Place your ear at the hole, Henry."
Here the parent raised a sledge ham
mer and struck the iron rod : an earth
quake followed, before tho echoes of
which had rolled away could be seen
the disappearance of aa engine house,
in mid-air, followed by the gable end
of the Howitt mansion.
And now for the sequel. la his
anxiety to see "how it was himself,"
old Iiowitt remained toe near the pipe,
and when the glycerine wont off' he
did also, and was picked up in Arm
strong county a few days later. But
where was Henry ? Instead of apply
ing his ear to the hole he had Btepped
to the derrick for a tnomeot, during
which the explosion occurred. He
was only stuuned, and a fyv moments
later met his bethrothed running to
see if he was hurt. They fled at once
to a-neighhoring justice of the peace,
and were married. They have patched
up the old house and are happy .though
the mysteriouB disappearance of the
their father was a subject of conversa
tion for months after. This is the
story as told us by an old man who
lives near Henry and Laura, who
heard t'le noise, and also saw where
the ground had been torn up by the
father's vengeful experiment. If any
one doubts the story, the derrick is
still to be seen. TUiuviUe Herald.
Don't be too Sensitive. There
are some people, yes, many people, al
ways looking out for slights. They
cannot carry on the daily intercourse
of the family without some offense Is
designed. They are as touchy as hair
triggers. If they meet an acquaintance
in the street who happens to be pre
occupied with business, they attribute
bis abstraction in some mode persoual
to themselves, and take umbrage ac
cordingly. They lay, ou others the
fault of their irritability. A fit of iu
digestion makes them see impertinence
in everybody they cotne in contact
with. Innocent persons, who never
dreamed of giving etl'cne, are astonish
ed to find some unfortunate word, or
some momentary taciturnity, mistaken
for an insult. To say the least, the
habit is unfortunate. It is far wiser
to take the more charitable view of
our fellow beings, and, jiot suppose a
slight is intended unless the neglect is
open and direct. After all, too, life
takes its use in a great degree from
the color of our own mind. If we are
frank and generous the world treats
us kindly. If, on the contary, we are
suspicious, men learn to be cold and
cautious to us. Let a persou get the
reputation of being touchy, and every
body is uuder more or lost restraint
and iu this way the chances of an im
aginary offense are vastly increased.
A Party of Grumblera.
The Democratic party was once a
party of ideas-of principles ofthought
and of action. Its - ideas and princi
pics it embodied in measures, and with
these measures it went before the coun
try prepared to maintain its policy
against all assaults. Such is not the
case now. If it has any distinctive
character, separate and aside from its
ancient fame, it is that which makes
the inveterate grumbler in the every
day affairs of life a social nuisance;
hence, as the Democratic party has no
distinctive characteristic in these lat
tor days but that of a persistent grum
bler, it follows, as a matter of course,
that it is a political nuisance a nec
essary nuisance, we admit, like the
common scold, er the always, irate
viraco in social lifo. The recent Con
gressional addtess, the latest and most
authoritative exponent of the position
of the party, is an illustration of this.
That document is one continued scold
from the opening to the closing. And
what is remarkable, the tone and tem
per of this scolding pronunciamento is
but a counterpart of almost every res
olution, speech of manifesto, put forth
by the party for the past ten years.
And yet with a platform based solely
on the ideas of the common scold
adapted to political discut lions, the
leaders and organs of the party talk
coolly of the possibility of the people
trusting them with power. It seems
to us that political effrontery could ro
to us that political effrontery could go
no further. The Republican party i
rr n tt Vi a r a mala m ? of n 1r cm in f nara '
ht .honk u fnr ih.w r. ,,on
of all men ; but there is this to say in
palliation-they have all been made
iu the interest of the Union, of the free -
dom of the people, and in the mainte-!
nance of the country's integrity invio -
late. It has not scolded but acted ; it
has not grumbled, and paltered, aud
halted, and steod shivering, afraid to
move in the direction ot right, tearful
that in so deing it might tread upon
rr it tnirrht tfAtsrl nnAn
m . .
some fossilized notion that the consti -
at - - atavaova Ufsvsa
tution contained no prov'"
n n-liorotiv
its nernetuitv could b.
,.,! ii.rwl
The Rennbliran nertv i.elieven' that
this government was made for all time
and has acted npon this belief. ' In
maintainiag this belief it has some-
.
times not adooted the best means. OP
acted as wisely as it raight-but in all
cases, it is a satisfaction to knew the
"end has justified the means." The
same mar he said ofOsn. firnnfs nrl.
t-IJO
ministration; but with all its faults,
and mistakes, and shortcomings, the
people to-day would, ratner perpetuate
it for another four vears
than trust a
party which has no better platform to
offer than a string of complaints, set
forth in the language and teoiper of a
lommoD scold. If the Democratic
party can come before the country
with no better platform than this, (to
use the language of the New York Ev
ening Post) the American people will
not, whether Gen. Grant is a candidate
tor re-election or not, put into power a
nar ,. . ?, i
party which has been an unmitigated
nuisance, a breeder or disorder, a cor-
a.S.'VJ VI IfMMIIV I1VUU UWMMUUa VI
nii,; ,w. t,. ,n anA
oppression, the fomcnter of violence
and rebellion, for more than a dozen
venrs. Tn aneceed. that nartv must
cense to be a party of grumblers, and
show by its acts that it has a firmer
purpose than Falstaff had, to "purge
and liv eleanlv." The Democratic
nartv sunnorteJ slavery and wan
beaten. It countenanced rebellion
and was beaten. It set up a peace-at- j
any-price platform and was beaten. '
It advocated repudiation and was
bea(en. It opposed equal laws and
geueral suffrage and was beaten. And ,
uow it is marching on to the next Pres- '
idential election at the head of nume-
rous bands of Ku-KIux, northern aud
southern gangs whe set both law aud ,
decency at debanca; who rob where:
they do not
kill 1 who cheat where '
they caunot
ml,- men whose acta
threaten the whole land with anarchy;
and they have amongst them scarcely ;
a leader with brains or conscience .
enough to rebuke violence and law-!
lessncss, or condemn public plunder.
As said above, those Democratic lead
ers who hope to carry the next Presi
dential election, and imagine them
selves fit to rule the country, do cot
even comprehend the duty ot a minor
ity. They seem to bo mere partizans,
HOI, pullVieimis in BUT iiIqIiki ocuoi: viio u
that in which a sutler might call him
self a defeuder of his country. It is
the duty of a miuority, which hopes to
become the majority, to show an ex
ample of obedience to the laws and
respect for the riuhu of others ; to
make manifest, wherever it has the
opportunity, that it possesses stales
manlike ideus; That it comprehends
the principles -jf free government ; that
it knows how to rule, and how to keep
in subordination its bummers. If the
country is now afflicted with unconsti
tutional and dangerous legislation, it
is the fault of tho Democratic leaders.
It they chose they could in two weeks
restore order all over thu South, aud
the inuch-condcmued Ku-KIux bill,
clothing the President with dictatorial
powers, as is claimed by tho party
ortrans. would fall stillborn, aud be
come a dead letter upon the statute
books. l.rte Krpubbntn. '
. Why Women Wed.
I Some clever observer of social rela-
tions, having looked about among his
married acquaintances, ventures to
give the following list, with an attempt
10 indicate the real reasons which in
fluence too mauy to marry;
Number one has married for a home.
She got tired working in a factory or
teaching school she thought married
life on earth was but moonlight walks,
buggy rides, new bonnets, and nothing
to do. Well, she has got her home ;
whether or not she is tired of the in
cumbrance! this deponent docs not
positively know.
Number t"0 married becouse she
bad seven young sisters and a papa
with a narrow income. She consulted
the interests of her family. Perhaps
she would letter have consulted her
interest by takiutj in light washintr or
by
JJ
t by the day to work.
Number three married because Mrs.
sounded so much better than Miss. She
was twenty-nine years and eleven
months old, and another month would
have transformed her into a regular
old maid. Think how awful that would
have been.
Number four married because she
wanted somebody to pay her bills.
Her husband married her for precisely
the same reason ; so they are both la
menting at leisure.
uuoer "vo married because anny
' V hlte , a "lce newL"3banJ. d
! '.e w.ar9nlt SolnS to be left behind,
1 llT ,f she c"ldn 8et maied as
Number five married because Fanny
well as other folks,
Number six married because she
: wa9 Por aQd" wanted riches,
She nev-
; er .unted on all other things that
e 1U8parlle from those coveted
! nc'ics- . , ,
4. T.bc.r 8evea, m"r,ed because she
1 oue,u 8,he would h,ke t0 V,1'
nuua1ber changed his mmd
ffter1ward am aI1 he trav,,1;nK '
I ha d"ne. "f,." -between the well
, . " , .
I .umer eight had mai
ii ii Til i-t airrnr nun mnrrian n r tr
1 f
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: 'P' a.UW3 ner n1 ln-r? w.Keu
i " uimseii a secouu love I xuis piece
1 v xcbmmbtvu iuit:iik unvu uuuo net
' Boou a u.e nine, out , in uie run num-
be found that it did not pay
Number nine married because she
' bad read "tela and wanted ,ym
i Kvmnfitntf ia ti ua thinrr hut- if
! Bympatny is a nue tning. out it coo s
ow? at a "J" e domestic
kettle 19 n?1 kPl bo,1!S. n.d 1'
A. . I V l Jl
I unaone. oveis ana
I house-kecplUg don t run very well to-
! K?ther m ,'1aruC8S' to V8e, Pf"g.
l,1,ra8e'. aad number niue s supply ot
I mpathy don t hold out very long.
AlUIIIUCl IVU IUBI11CU UClllUW B11C
loved her husband with all her heart
and all her soul. And she loves him
still, and will probably continue to
love him, and is the happiest wife in
the world so she says.
We have all the right motive at
last one which, when sanctified by
desire and resolution to prove and tie
j ya.t0 f.ach f01"' B"'1 j iive lru? . and
i ho 7 h befira od'. cannot Lfal1 t0
call down the blessings of heaven.
But sad is the fate of those who marry
from wrong motives to escape their
1 ft i ,1 , i
"hare of life a work or to get aome
ithluS. for 1wh,ch the have Uoth,DS to
Slve ln return-
The "Fat Contributor," Oris, of the
Cincinnati Tunes, has the following in
regard to an old conductor promoted
to train-dispatcher : "Habit was very
Strong with the ex-conductor. As he
i in the office he would start every
time he heard a bell ring, and yell
'All aboard.' Then he would go
about the office at intervals and try to
collect fare of the assistants. We
dropped in causually one afternoon,
and Billy wanted to know if we bad a
pass. lie couldn't get accustomed to
his new position at all. He pined to
be again on the road. One day he
becced the boys to put him through a
collision, which they did to his entire
gratification. Ihey tore bis clothes
nearly off, blackened his eyes, broke a.
aerosene lamp over msueau.anu piuu
red-hot stove on top of htm. Billy
" n ecstacy of delight, and de-
dared be hadn t eniovei
much since he had a bile.'
uiuiseu so
Beecher says : I believe in novels.
I think that if they, are good they are
useful. I believe that they are no
more tn be disallowed than any other
part of iiterature. TneT can be made
to serve the very best eudsof economy
of virtue and morality, to say nothing
of religion; but a man who feeds on
nothiug else but these, how miserable
and how wretched he isl These are
the whips and syllabubs of life. They
are not the bread nor the meat. They
are tho confections of life. But ought
a man to sit down and rat sugar-plums
for his dinner, aud nothing but sugar
plums? The Detroit Free Tress says: "Yes
terday, on one of the ferry boats, a pas
senger saw a man bring aboard a
bubhel basket, and while looking
around, seeking to see unicr the cover
a roll ot the boat sent nun Head ursi
into tho basket with a loud crash.
Drawing his head out, the fellow ex
claimed: "Why, hang it, them's aigs,
them isl" And so they were, and he
paid two cents apiece for the thirteen
which were eruslied umlsr his head.
! , . j '!"- . gg
The Story of a Well Known Oil Man.
On Monday last Mr. Henry Fisher, ?.
of Tidioute, one of the wealthiest snt
most respectable citizens of this region,
visited the Milton Farm, on the Alle
gheny Valley Railroad. Mr. Fisher
visited that locality on btisiness.whieii
is a way Mr. Fisher has, and after trn re
acting his business Mr. Fisher proceed
ed to return that is he toek pasfltipo
on the train bound for Oil City. As
is usual on passenger trains, a conduc
tor was aboard, and on his inierog.if
ing Mr. Fisher for his ticket or equiv
alent, could obtain neither. Mr. Vizi
er was "strapped." He had lost his
pocket-book and contents ; when or
where was a conundrum which remain
ed unsolved. The loss of the pocket
book did not bother Mr. Fisher in t!in
least, but the loss of its contents whs
rather erabarrasiug for the time beinr.
In feet, such a loss would tickle the,
ribs of an umbrella. The pocket-book
contained $175 in greenbacks; ono
$50 6-20 bond with all the ceupons
attached, which was preserved as a
curiosity, a solitaire diamond pin val
ued at $150; three railroad pass?;
several business cards, etc. Mr. Fish
er quietly kept his own counsel as to
his loss, and also kept one eye open for
developments.
Last evening, Mr. Fisher took pas
sage at Oil City on the up train for
Titus ville, and was a little surprised
at observing his diamond pin adorning
the shirt bosom of a young man whoa
visible means of support are limited,
and whose front name is E. C. Cook.
It is unnecessary to sav that vour.z
Cook was "captured," but such was
the case. Air. r-islier asked him it lie
was not sporting property that belong
ed to other parties, when Cook replied
that "he'd give 'er up" the property,
not the conundrum and accordingly
handed Air. i isher his pin, pocket
book, passes, and ten dollars in money.
Cook stoted that he had found the
pocket book, but did not tell when rr
where, and that he sold the bond in Ti
tusville, and had squandered the pro
ceeds aud the balance of the money ;
that he had been offered $100 for the
pin, but thought it worth more and so
held it for a "rise." He also stated
that he did not know to whom tho
property belonged, which was undoubt
edly true, as Mr. Fisher's name deco
rated the different passes, cards, etc.
Not wishing to create a disturbance.
Mr. Fisher allowed the young man to
depart in peace, though, bad justice
been done, he would undoubtedly haTe
departed in pieces.
Anecdote of Webster.
A correspondent of Harper's Month
ly says :
In looking over an .old note-bosk of
my father's, written many years ago, I
came across an anecdote which, if it
has never appeared in print before, is
too good to be lost. While John
Brauch, of North Carolina, was Gen
eral Jackson's Secretary of tho Navy,
he, Tazewell, and Daniel Webster were
walking on the north side of thoPoto
mao, at Washington, Tazewell, willing
to amuse himself with Branch's sim
plicity, said : "Branch, I'll bet you a
ten-dollar hat that you are ou the other
side of the river."
"Done," said Branch.
"Well," said Tazewell, poiatiaj to
the opoosite shore, "ieu't that one side
of the river f"
"Yes."
"Then, as you are here, are you not
on the other side :"
"Why, I declare," said poor Branch,
"so it isl But here conies Webster,
I'll win back the hat from him."
Webster had lagged behind, but now
came up, and Branch accosted him :
"Webster, 1 11 bet you a ten-dollar
hat that I can prove that you are on
the other side of the river.
"Douel"
"Well, isn't this one side I"
"Yes."
"Well, isn't that the other side !"
"Yes, but I am not on that aide :"
Branch hung his head and submit
ted to the loss of the two hats as quiet
ly as he could.
When they petition in England.
thev do it in earnest. At a late meet-
of Parliament, two distinguished mom-
hers were to be seen hauling into the
House and up to the table in front of
the speaker what appeared to be a bale
of merchandise. It was a petition
against the Contagieus Diseases Act,
signed by two hundred and fifty thou
sand two hundred and eighty-three
women residing in one hundred and
thirty-four boroughs, villages, and
other places in the United Kingdom.
The petition prays for the uncondition
al repeal of the act as immoral and
subversive of the persoual security
hitherto enjoyed by women equally
with men. It is needless to say that a
petition of this magnitude cannot slip
into the wabte paper basket unobserved.
A young man savs that there may
have been such a thiu as real true
love in old times, but that now the no
tion obsolete, and if you ask a lady
now-a-days to share your lot, she im
mediately wants to kuow how large
that "lot" is.
Cure for train on flit blew it cnt.