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TIONESTA LODGE, NO. 477i
I. O. Gk T.
RTeeU .very Wednesday evening, at I
ua o ciock.
W. R. DUNN, W. C. T.
M. W. TATE, W. 8.
a. wton rum. milks w. tat.
, PETTIS A TATE,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
Ahm Strttt, TI02TESTA, PA.
Isaac Ash,
K TTORNEY AT LAW. Oil City. ra.
xV Will practice In the various Courts of
f orest County. All business entrusieu 10
hit care will receive prompt attention,
18 ly
W. W. Mason,
A TTORNEY AT I. AW. Office on Elm
l Street, above Walnut, TionesU, Pa.
C. W. Giinilan,
A TTORNEY AT LAW, Franklin, Ve-
x. nango (Jo., l a. u.
N. B. Smiley,
ATTORNEY aT LAW, Petroleum Cen
tre, Pa. Will practice iu the several
. Uunru or t oresi county. oo-iy
Holmes House,
rPIONESTA. PA.. nnoaito the Depot.
1 C. D. Mable. Proprietor. Oood fcta-
, fcling connected with the house. tf.
Jos. Y. Saul,
rRACTICAL Harness Mnker and Rad-
JT dler. Three doors north of Holmes
House. Tionesta. Pa. All work is war
ranted. f
Syracuse House,
fPlDIOUTK. Pa.. J. D Maof. Propie-
Jl tors. Tho house has been thoroughly
refitted and is now in the hrt-clsMs onlcr,
with the best of accommodations. Any
nfornistion concerning Oil Territory at
this point will be cheerfully rimiisneri.
ly JAD. MAUKE,
Exchange Hotel,
T OWK.R TIDIOUTE. Pa.. D. 8. Rams-
J-J pkki. A Kok Prop's. Thia house having
tieen retited is now the nio-l desirable Map
ping place ?ir Tidioute. A good Billiard
Roo.n attached. 4-ly
National Hotel,
TRVINETON. PA. W. A. Hallenback.
' . Proirlotor.,Thls hotel is Nkw, and is
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injunction oi me un crecu Aiiegneny
Viver and Philadelphia A Krie Railroads,
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for sale and will receive orders for the
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it.
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' xoTiciiT
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The Double Bed.
A new Western town, but lately re
claimed from the wilderness, where
the houses are few, nictiti aud ugly ; the
streets mud or dust ; the trees destroy
ed, and the eeneral appearance one
of poverty struggling with heavy ob- j
stacles; where ihe wolves run the
mail in ahead ot time, and night is
made hideous by a tailor practising on
a flute this is a good place to keep
away lrom.
Into such a town as this, and during
court wetk, I once rode on horseback
at the end of a weary day, passed into
a continuous mud-hole, studded with
stumps aud ornamented with logs,
that a benighted country called a road.
Might had already closed in, aud 1 was !
guiueu 10 me uotei iy ine iiiousunu
an J one boys of the place, and the
noise issuing trora the bar-room, no
less beastly aud disagreeable. I round
the landlord shut up in a corner pen,
dealing out liquid insanity to his cus
tomers. To my request for supper
and a bed he responded that I could
eat my till, but there was not a ned
unengaged or not occupied in the
bouse. I persisted until the miserable
wretch inf.rmed me that there was "a
feller" in No. 6 occupying a double
bed, and 1 could "roll in there," if so
minded.
I was dismal, but my only hope ; so,
after the evening indigestion, I climb
ed the rough stairs to No. U. I was
told by the landlord to walk in with
out knocking, aud did bo.
It was a cheerless room, without
carpet upon the floor, or curtains to
shutout the black night of the windows,
that seemed to stare blindly in on oce,
and wiuk as the caudle flared in the
wind.
I found my companion measuring
off his dreams by snores, and, undress
ing,"rolled in, "as the landlord had sug
gested. My stranger turned over.with
something between a growl aud a
grunt, as I crept to his side.
Tired as I was, I could not sleep.
The oed-tick felt as if it were stuffed
with grasshoppers, and the pill-jws
were of tlye sort to slip up one's nose
in the night, aud be sneezed out some
time during the day. Ik-sides this, my
bed-ieilow suored abomiuably. it
sounded like a giant trying to blow
"Old Hundred" through a tin horn,
without knowing exactly how. I bore
this iutiictiou as long as I could, and
at last gave my friend a dig in the ribs,
exclaiming at the same lime :
"I say!"
"Hillo sh what is it?" be asked,
in a coufused way.
"1 am sorry to disturb you, but I
think it my duty to inform you that I
walk in my sleep."
" ,v ell, walk'
"My Christian fneud, I am well
aware that this is a free country, and
if a man wishes to walk iu his sleep,
there is no constitutional provision to
prevent liiui. But I wish to remark
that if I do walk, you had better not
interfere with me.
"O, wulk ; I won't say a word about
it.
"Well, don't. When addressed or
interiered with, I am apt to get furious.
1 nearly brained a poor man with a
dog-iron the other uight."
"Ihe deuce you did!
"Yes, I did.
"Well, I II be blowed 1 That's rath
er disagreeable. A fellow m ght, un
der au impulse, blurt out something
to you.
"Better not."
"No, I should think not."
A Joug pause followed this. At last
the now wide-awake lodger asked, ab
ruptly :
"Did you notice my bat on the
floor?"
"I believe I did."
"If you walk, you know, I'd rather
you would not step in it."
"I'll bear that in mind."
After another pause he again asked :
"Did you notice that door on the
left?"
"I saw a door on my left."
"Well, if you walk, I'd advise you
not to go out there. H opens on a
porch, only the porch hasu l been
there. It
bu.lt audits weuty ieet down into
iiio s.auie-yuru.
"I don't believe I shall walk out cf
that door."
"Don't think I would if I walked
much."
I supposed my inquisitive friend
was dropping into a sleep, when be
again broke out :
"I say, you did really brain a man
with a t og-iron ?"
"I tried pretty hard."
Theu came iu a silence that was not
broken. After a little while I heurd
my bedfellow creeping softly from the
other side of the bed. 1 could hear
him feeling about for his hat and his
clothes. Then I had the satisfaction
of knowing that the door hud closed
softly ou my retreating tormentor. I
rolled over aud slept the sleep of in
lioceuce. The next morning, on descending to
breakfast, I found un old friend seated
at tho table. We had not met for
years. After a cordial g'eetiug, I
said :
"Aro you stopping here?"
"I have been trying. But I am
nearly dead. I slept on a bench in
the bar-room, amid a lot of drunken
brutes, who sang 'Bingo' for wagers
of drink all night."
"Uould you get no bed?"
"Yes, I had a double bed to myself,
when that stupid ass of a landlord
sent up a crazy fellow, who walked
and struck out with dog-irons,
"Good Heavens, Gillipsy,
was that
you?"
"And, D., you don't mean to say
you served me that infernal trick?"
It was a case that called for diplo
matic explanation.
Warning to Inebriates. Dr.
McCulloch gives the following test,
which perhaps, may be innocently
tried by al, who are at all skeptical as
to the prejudicial effects of alcoholic
drinks ou the constitution .
Hold a mouthful of spirits whisky,
for instance iu your mouth for five
minutes, aud you will Cud it to burn
severely ; iuspect the mouth, you will
observe that it is inflamed. Hold in
ten or fil'teeu minutes, you will find
that various parts of the mouth have
become blistered; then tie a handker
chief over the eyes, aud taste, for iu-
stance, water, vinegar, milk or senna;
you will find thut you are incapable of
distinguishing the one lrom the other,
Hits simple aud euey experiment
proves to a certainty that alcohol is
not only a violent irritant, but also a
narcotic; lor in this expetimeut you
have objective evidence that it has in
flamed and blistered the mouth, and
for the time being paralyzed the nerve
of taste, and, to a certain extent, thoev
also ot sensation. ow this is not an
experiment or lact upon which any
doubt hus been or eveu can be thrown
and i ak you, can yju believe that
the still more important internal or
gans of the body can be less 'injurious
ly affected lhaii the mouth?
"Even the moderate use," says Dr,
Williamson, "of such liquors, if long
continued, and grown habitual, cannot
full to have ultimately prejudicial ef
fect upon the health while it may be
confidently asserted that there are no
circumstances of ordinary character
under which it can be justified as bene
ficial or necessary.
Where re Pouohkeepsie? A well
known Brooklyn politician, noted for
his waggery, stopped the conductor of
an Albuny-bouud train on which be
wns journeying last winter, and asked
innocently it the next station was
Fouehkeepsie. "No," said the con
ductor. On his next fare-collecting
round, the conductor wns again asked
if the train was near roughkeepsie
to which ho again replied negatively,
Again and again, as the official made
his rounds, the same question was ask
ed by the anxious passenger, until at
,a9t the . nl?n )f )eck8 replied with
OV 1 1 1 V IMHUIilVII .U 0 bVFIIV
"No, sir; we are not yet near you
stopping pluce. Pray trust to me, and
I will let you know when we shall get
there.
The passenger thereupon relapsed
into silence, and the ofticiul, engrossed
in other duties, forgot his case until
the train had left l'oughkeepsie about
a hulf'a mile to the rear, when, lecol
lecting himself, he hastily backed the
cars to the station, and rushing up to
the troublesome passenger, cried out :
"This is Pougtikeepsie. Hurry up
and got ofF. We are behind time."
"Oh, thank you," deliberately drawl
ed the quondam questioner ; "but I
am going through. My daughter
cautioned me particularly to take a
pill at Poughkeepsie. That's all."
The pill was taken and so was the
joke by the passengers.
A Pithy Prayer. One of the
honorable members from Indiana,
though a "member in good standing"
of the Methodist Espisccpal Church,
is nut very much of a "praying man,"
and not a very frequent attendant at
class meetings; Being present once at
such a meeting, rather by accident
than otherwise, he was called on by
the class-leader to close the exercises
by prayer. Before he had time to de
; fi tf invitalioll tll people-rather
..i,i,i. J ri.,: n
he ttt-f on their knees, all
' -rneetant of the closing nraver. The
Hon-, gentleman thus cornered, de
livered himself of a very brief suppli
cation, as follows: "O Lord bless
this church, its pastor, and its mem
bership. Bless especially the clu&s
meeting, and, above all, give them a
leader competent to select a man suita
ble to close the meeting with prayer 1"
Every man who ran afford it should
supply bis boy with tools, and a room
where they may be used and cared for.
A boy takes to tools as naturally as to
Ereen apples, or surreptitious and for
iddeu amusements ; and teu to one,
if he has a chance to develop his me
chunicul tastes and gratify them to
their full extent, his tendencies to
vicious courses will remain undevclo
ed. Such a result is enough to com
pensate for all the expense and trou
ble the indulgence we commend would
entail ; while the chuncea that the
early development of his constructive
faculties muy, in this mechuuical age,
be the means by which he muy ulti
mately climb to fume and fortune arc
nut sniHl.
Ages of Noted Publio Men.
Jeff. Davis is 63 years old.
Gen. Tecumsch Sherman is just 51.
Charles Francis Adams is 64.
Gen. McClcllan is 45,
Gov. Geary is 56.
Senator Morrill is 56.
Charles Sumner was born in Boston
January, 1811.
Wendell Phillips is 60.
Carl Schurz can never be President
or Vice President because he was born
n Germany. Age only 42.
Oliver P. Morton will be 48 next
August.
Andrew J. Curt in is 04.
George Francis Train's age is 45.
Phil. Sheridan is nearly 40, and
there is duugcr that he will never get
married.
Henry Wilson, of Massachusetts,
was 59 last February.
Beu. Wade is 75.
James E. English was born in
March 1812.
Simon Cameron is 72.
John A. Logan was 45 last Feb
ruary.
Clement Li. Vallamligharn is ay.
Ben. Butler is 53 in years and 253
in tricks that are vain.
Saoford E. Church is 52.
Speaker Blaine is 41 aud weighs 220
pounds.
Gov. Palmer, of Illinois, oo.
Gen. Frank Blair is a Kentuckian ;
50 last February.
Keuben hi. rentnn is 52.
Winfield Scott Hancock is just 47.
Thus. A. Hendricks will be 52 next
September.
John 1. lloltman is 40.
Lyman Trumbull was 53 last Oc
tober.
George S. Boutwell is 56.
John C. Fremont is 58.
W. S. Groesbeck, of Cincinnati, is
45.
Gen. N. P. Banks is 55.
Ulysses Simpson Craut was 49 on
April it, 10 1.
Chief Justice Choso Is 63.
Horace Greeley began to learn what
he knows about farming at Amherst,
N. H., Feb. 3, 1811. He is turned of
60.
Ilannibnl Hamlin is 62.
Judge David "Davis, of the Supreme
Court; Avoirdupois, 610 lbs; girth
120 inches ; nsre about 55.
James F. Wilson, of Iowa, was born
in October, 1828, and is 42 yeurs old.
Georire II. Pendleton is "an Ohio
man. of Virginian antecedents. He
is 40.
Judge Thurman is a Virginian from
Lvnchburg, born there in November,
1813, but removed to Ohio in 1820,
He is 58.
Schuyler Colfax was born in New
York, is 48 years old, and has a smile
that is childlike ami bland.
B. Gratz Brown, of Missouri, is 45,
John Quincy Adams, of Massachu
setts, is about 33.
Unfortunates.
Soon after the close of the rebellion,
a large number of Southerners who
embraced the "lost cause," embittered
by the result of the war, determined
to emigrate. Two colonieswere formed
one in Mexico, and the other in
Brazil. The fute of these colonies is
almost identicul. After years of suf
fering and p.ivation, those who could,
came bactc to the United States, glad
la return with life. From Bruzil,
many were sent back at the expeuc-e
of the Government, and a few either
ashamed to return, or unwilling to ac
knowledge their mistake still drag
out a miserable existence iu the lands
of their penance rather than adoption.
The experience of the Brazilian colo
ny has been the hardest and saddest.
Most of those who remain in Itio
Janeiro are reduced to beggary. One
of these emigrauts, who had been an
influential nihil in the South, a promi
nent politician, and Mayor of his na
tive city, sells bud spirits to thieves in
low groggeries. The fute of these em
gran is cannot but awake general sym
pathy iu their favor.
The Emperor of Germany is a prac
tical pi inter. All his tumily are
obliged to have some trade. William
chose to be a typo, and worked at the
case three yeais. Since dropping the
"composing slick, lie has taken up
the "shooting stick," "imposed" all
Germany int'i one "form," under one
"head," given his army a first class
"maker-lip," knocked the French into
"pi, and "locked up, their "leader,
till they agreed to pass over their
"quoin."
We call the attention of Bret Harte
to the following touching episode of
Arkansas lite : J he hoarders at a pri
vate mill complained of the feed, and
at breakfast the next morning the pro
prietor laid two revolvers beside his
plate.aud smiling sweetly he rental kod:
"The cuss as says he don't like hash
lies." The unanimity with which they
"wrestled" it was a theme for "many
ballads.
"Brick" Pomerov, lately divorced
from one wife, was married to another
at New lork, on Monday, the happy
woman being IaiU'S M. Thomas of thut
city. Sho was divorced, ton, and
knows how it was herself.
Rich Joke.
Tho Troy Pre says : A few days
ago at .North Adams, the Mate con
stable seized a iur of rum, and arrest
ed the party in whose possession it was
tound, ior selling liquor. Ihe ex
amination before the District Judge
came on, when the State constable was
sworn and testified that he had seized
the liquor, and made a detailed slate
mcnt of the facts. Hon. Shepard
Taylor, the attorney for the prisoner,
asked him it he knew it was liquor,
He replied, "yes, it was rum." He
was then asked bow he knew it was
nun, and he replied that he drank
some ol it. Tho prisoner, who was a
woman, was the. i called as a witness
in her own behalf, when the following
questions and answers were put and
received :
Q. Did you have any liquor in your
house when the State constable called
there ?
A. Yes ; I had some in a jar.
Q. How long had you had it?
A. About six months.
Q. Did you have it for sale ?
A. Oh, uo ; I don't sell liquor.
Q. What did you keep this rum for?
A. 1 kept it to wash the baby.
Q. Had you ever washed the baby
in this ruin ?
A. Oh, yes ; often ! I used to turn
some out in n dish, wash the baby in
it, and then turn it back into the jar
again.
Q. Do vou mean to say that this
was the same liquor of which the State
constable drank 7
A. The very same.
lhere was much laughter in the
court, and the btateconstuble declared
he would seize no more liquor thnt was
kept in a iur. Ho is about the only
man in North Adims that will take
offence if you ask him to take a drink.
"Ueneration alter generation, says
a fine writer, "have felt a't we now
feel, and their lives were as restive as
our own. They passed like vapor,
while nature wore the same aspect of
beauty as when nature first command
ed her to be. The heavens shall be as
bright over our graves as they now are
around our paths. Ihe world will
have the same attractions for our off
spring yet unborn as she had once for
our children. Yet in a little while all
have happened. The throbbing heart
will be at rest. Our funeral will wind
its way, and prayers will be said, and
then we shall be left alone in silence
and in darkness for the worms, and it
may be for a short time we shall be
spoken of, but the things f life will
creep in, and our names will soon be
forgotten. Days will continue to
move on, and laughter and song will
be heard m the rouin in winch we
died, and the eyes that mourn for us
will be dried aud glisten again to
joy; and even our children will cease
to think of u?, and will not remember
to lip our names.
There bus not been a single year o
peace since this century began. In
the first fifteen years there wns war all
ovrr Europe extending to this conti
nent. In the next teu years Mexico
Central and south America were in
volved. In the next senty-five years
the great Europeon powers carried on
wars in Africa and Asia, followed by
the Crimean war and other wars iu
various countries in Europe, feince
1800, England has waged forty-niue
wars, 1' ranee thirly-six, Kussia twenty-
one, Austria twelve, and Prussia seven.
All this docs not include the numer
ous revolutionary movements and in
testine struggles in both hemispheres
or our owu ludiau wars aud civil war,
all of which caused great misery and
loss ot life. We may boast ot our
civilization and brag loudly of the
niorul progress ot the nineteenth
century, but the facts stated show all
such boasts and brags to be brag and
boasts only.
The Charleston, S. C, Courier says :
We differ from Mr. Greely on most
subjects on which he has expressed his
views. His philosophy is in our opin
ion tainted with eccentricity, his logic
is faulty in its premise?, his political
economy is defective, und if truth must
be tolu, his writings on the subject are
among the most tiresome in the
language, and his statesmanship is no
better than his philosophy, his logic,
and his political economy, but his
grat talents and his great heart merit
the admiration of every citizen of the
South. We are glad to see that he
has been well received up to the pres
ent time, and we shall be much disap
pointed if he does not return to his
Northern home thoroughly sntisfied
with his reception, and we shall be
equally disappointed if our people do
not extend to him, wherever ho may
go, a cordial welcome.
An auctioneer, at a sale in New
Haven ou Saturday evening, produced
a statuette of "The Greek Slave," and
said, "Now, gentlemen, how much am
1 oll'ered for this beautiful Mudouua?"
Applause followed.
The editor of a western paper savs :
"We cannot exist any longer ou tire
wood, maple sugar and sheepskins.
We bid our patrons good-bv, and oiler
for sulo two hundred bushels seed po
tatoes, slightly frost bitten.
Hunting for Sunken Treasure.
The Brig Nellie Gray is fitting np at
Norwich, Conn., aud will soon sail
from New York, or; a most romantic,
and, if successful, piofituble expedition
Since 1815 there has lain on the bot
tom of Cumana Bay, Venezuela, tho
wreck of a Spanish war vessel, the San
Pedro do Alcantara, which, as flag
ship of a fleet of one hundred sail,
bore also three millions in gold for the
payment of the forces sent by Spain
to subdue her rebellious colonies, ihe
attempt failing, the San Pedro was
about to return to bpam, laden with
uyalists aud the treasures of a king
dom as well as the spoils of countless
churches and convents, when the firing
and explosion of her magazine sent
her to the bottom in ten lathoms ot
water. Since then various attempts,
with rude appliances, have been made
to recover the treasures, estimated at
$5,000,000, but only some $300,000
have been obtained. The proposed
expedition is undertaken by the Amer-
can (submarine Company, ot which
General Burnside is President, and
George W. Fuller, the most experi
enced submarine explorer in the coun
try, is Superintendent. Ihe brig' is
filled with all the appliances of modern
ecience, and by means of his improved
roachininery.and especially ins subma
rine lantern, Mr. duller is confident
that he can tear to pieces the wreck, se
cure the most valuable treasure, and
by dredging recover the scattered
coins.
There is now on exhibition in New
York a specimen of the "big trees" of
California. It is said to have been
cut from the tree at a distance of
wenty feet from the base, and in or
Icr thnt a fair idea may be formed of
what the tree originally wns, it is said
that the stump is covered over now
and ueed as a ball room, being so
laree that thirty-two persons can
dance a double cotillion in it, and
then leave room for the band and
spectators. The age of this giaut of
the lorest is tietermineti ny me usuai
number of annual rings, of which
there are said to be 2,500. In the cut
ting down five men were employed
twenty five days, ami from a compara
tively small portion of it wood enough
was obtained to build a hotel. The
original hight of the tree wns 302 fjet,
and its largest diameter 32 feet.
From Gloucester, Mass., comes the
story of a sailing boat, merry with a
bridal pnrty, that went out to sea and
came not back again. The wedding
had been celebrated in the morning,
and the party were to leave for New
York at night, so to fill the measure
of the day went morning over beach
and scar, and finally gathered in the
boat for a short Bail upon a sea that
scarcely rippled. It was the lust that
was heard of them. Whether upset
by a sudden squall, or borne out to
mid-ocean by counter gales is un
known. The beat tf the sun must have been
terrific al Batavia the other day. A
milk dealer, after washing bis cans,
placed them against the side of a
house to dry, and the reflection of tho
sun upon them actually set the build
ing on fire. The man seemed to have
hud an idea what was to happen, for
lie hud .insured the bouso only three
quarters of an hour previous.
The Indunapolis Journal says : "A
Sullivan county man, who heard that
the safest way to commit suicide was
to shut yourself up aud burn charcoal,
was found iu a ten-acre lot with a
charcoal tire near him. Though he hud
taken the precaution to put up the
burs and stop up a crack in the fence
with a newspnper, the charcoal went
buck on him, und he lived."
Women are rapidly marching for
ward to complete emancipation. A
beautiful and well educated veung la
dy has just opened a large boot aud
shoe store in Philadelphia. She has
three girl clerks, and they all wear lit
tle fancy leather aprons so as to look
business like and, at the same time,
pretty.
Tho bead of a Vermont railroad
shop was applied to for permission to
work on Fust Duy by a couple of men
who were noted for their laziness Per
mission was given, "for," said the chief,
"you cau't either of you work bard
enough to break the duy."
A girl in Portland was reading the
parable of the wise and foolish virgins
when she suddenly paused. "Well
what did they forget ?" asked the teach
er encou agingly. "They forgot their
kerosene," responded Miss Five-year-old.
A young lady at a party, on being
asked to favor the company with "The
Maiden's Prayer," went to the piano
aud struck up "Mother may I go out
to swim, iu a very animated manner.
A baggage muster was killed the
other duy, while trying to mush a
iuuu's trunk. He hud mashed thou
suiuls of trunks and never had one
gone back ou him before.
A Western lover says of adored
one: "Her lust words fell like great
rocks, into the sea of my sorrows, and
tplaMicd the briny water into my errs."