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VOL. V. NO. 23.
TIONESTA, PA., WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 1372.
S3 ETR ANNUM.
S, WBWTOlf P1CTTIS. JLB8 W. TATX.
PETTIS A TATK,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
dim Street, TIONESTA, PA.
Isaac Ash,
ATTORNEY AT LAW, Oil City, Pa.
Will practice In'the various Courts of
Forest County. All business entrusted to
kit car will receive prompt attention.
16 ly
Qwrgt A J rain,
Mason. A Jerks,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW. Office on Elm
Street, above Walnut, Tionesta, Pa.
C W. Gllflllan,
ATTORNEY AT LAW, Franklin, Ve
nango Co., Pa. tf.
J. lb HARRIS, . D. PASSSTT,
HARRIS A FASSETT,
Attorneys at Law, Tltusvtll Pens'.
PRA CTICR In all the Courts of Warren,
Crawford, Forest and Venango Coun
ties. 49-tf
V W. P. Mercllliott,
A TTORNEY A COUNSELOR AT LAW
JTk. Tionesta. ra. umce on Kim tstreet.
The nrofesslonal services of the Hon. 8
P. Johnson can be secured through me If
desired In any business entrusted to me in
Forest Co. Collections promptly attended
to. Also ileal rotate Agent.
Tionesta House.
MITTEL, Proprietor, Elm St, Tlo-
nesta. Pa., at the mouth of the creek.
Mr. Iltle has thoroughly renovated the
Tionesta House, and re-furnished It com
pletely. All who patronise htm will be
well eutertalned at reasonable rates. 20-ly
FOREST HOUSE,
D BLACK PROPRIETOR. Opposite
Court House, Tionesta. Pa. Just
opened. Everything new and clean and
fresh. The best of liquors kept constantly
on hand. A portion of the public patron
age Is respectfully solicited. 4-17-1 v
Holmes House,
VIONE8TA. PA., opposite the Depot.
-I-U.JJ. Maoie, proprietor, uooa out
bllng connected with the house. tf.
Syracuse House,
T1DIOUTE, Pa., J. A D Magkk, Prople
tore. The house has been thoroughly
refitted and Is now in the first-class order,
with the best of accommodations. Any
nformatlon concerning Oil Territory at
mis point will ue cneorruuy lurnisnea.
-ly J. i D.MAO EE,
Exchange Hotel,
T nWKR TTDTOTTTR. Pa.. D.'S. Rama-
Li dkrl A Son Prop's. This house having
neenrenteu is now me mosiaosirauiesiop-
C" place in Tldioute. A good Billiard
in attached. 4-ly
National Hotel,
TRV1NETON. PA. W. A. ITallenbar-k
Proprietor. This hotel is Nkw, and is
ow open as a first class house, situate at
ne Junction of the Oil Creek A Allegheny
tlverand Philadelphia A Erie Railroads,
pposite the De)Kw Parties having to lay
ver trains will tind this the most conven
ent hotel in town, with first-class aooora
nodations and reasonable charges. It.
Dr. J. L. Acom.b,
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON, who has
had fifteen years' experience in a large
I and successful practice, will attend all
Professional Calls. Ofilce la his Drug and
Grocery Store, located In Tldioute, near
Yiuioute House.
IN HIS STORE WILL BE FOUND
A full assortment of Medicines, Liquors
Tobacco. Cigars. Stationery, Ulass, 1'alnts,
Oils, Cutlery, and fine Groceries, all of the
best quality, and will be sold at reasonable
rates.
H. R. BURGESS, an experienced Drug'
a 1st from New York, has charge of the
store. Ail prescriptions put up aoourawjiy
u.
mo. r. faek.
A. a KLXT.
MA Y, PARK CO.,
B A F K B E S
Corner of Elm A Walnut Sts. Tionesta.
Bank of Discount and Deposit.
Interest allowed on Time Deposits.
Collections made on all the Principal points
of the U. S.
Collections solicited.
18-ly,
JNO. A. BALI, FraM. 1. T. DALS, OuUtr.
TIOTESTA
SAVINGS DANK,
Tionesta, Forest Co., Pa,
This Bank transact a General Banking,
Collecting anusExchansre Business.
Drafts on the Principal Cities of the
DnHed States and Europe bought and sold.
Gold and Silver Coin and Government
Securities bought and sold. 7-30 Bonds
converted on the most favorable temu,
Interest allowed on time deposit.
Mar. 4, tf.
SlOAN & VAN GIESEN.
BLAOKSLdlTHS
AND
WAGON-MAKERS.
Corner of Church and Elm Streets,
TIONESTA 3P-A-.
This firm is prepared to do all work In
Its line, and will warrant everything done
at tneir suops to give sauaiacuou. iar
ticular attention given to
IIORSE-SITOEIXG,
Give thein a trial, and you will not re
gret it. 18-ly,
Tt Republican Office
TT EEPS eonstanllv on hand a larra u
XV sortment of Blank Deeds, Mortgages,
Subpoenas, Warrants, Summons. Ac. to
be sold cheap for cash. tf.
D. W. CLARK,
(OOMM TSHIOlf KR'B CLKRK, FOR VST CO., PA.)
REAL ESTATE AGENT.
JOUSEfl and Lots for Hale and RENT'
11 Wild Lands for Bale. A .
I have superior facilities for ascertaining
the condition of taxes and tax deeds, Ac,
and am therefore qualified to act in toll l-
Senuy as agent or those living at m Ols
tnce, owning lands In the County.
Office In Commissioners Room, Court
House, Tionesta, Pa.
l-ly. 1. W. tLAKK.
sn. Drrnsinni, am,
T. A. WBIOHT, Snf.
BO. W. IMTHRinflS,
0. D1THKUJUB, TNM.
HE SUPERIOR LUMBER CO.,
MANUFACTURERS OF
ine Lumber, Lath, Shingles &c.
fflllli on Tionnta Creek, Foreit Co., Pa.
lardi k Office cor. (2d k Ball Soad Sti.,
PITTSBURGH, PA.
Jos. T. Saul,
PRACTICAL Harness Maker and Sad
dler. Three doors north of Holmes
House, Tionesta, Pa. AU work Is war
ranted, tf.
"Wrr), Fellers,
LICENCED AUCTIONIER, will attend
to all business in that line promptly,
at reasonable rates. Address
WM. FELLERS. Newmanville,
9-Sm. Clarion Co. Pa.
SDVASD DITHSIDOS.
a D. DITHSIDOS
FORT PITT GLASS WORKS.
Established A. D. 1827.
anrtrntBGE & sow.
MANUFACTURERS Of
Dithridge's xx Flint Glass
PATENT OVAL
LAMP CHIMNEYS.
AND
Silvered Glass Reflectors.
These chimneys do not break by heat.
Ask for DiTHRiDOBS. Take no other.
DITHRIDQE A SON.
25-ly. Pittsburgh, Pa.
lYew Boarding Ilonse.
MRS. S. & HULINGS has built a large
addition to her house, and Is now pre
pared to accommodate a number of perma
nent boarders, and all transient ones who
may favor her with their patronage. A
good stable has recently been built to ac
commodate the horses of guests. Charges
reasonable. Residence on 2.1m tsu, oppo
site 8. Haslet's store. 23-ly
JONES HOUSE,
CLARION, PENN'A.;
S. a JONES - - -Proprietor.
GROCERY m PROVISION STORE
IN TIONESTA.
GEO. W. BOVARD & CO.
H
AVE Just brought on a oomplete and
careiuiiy selected sioca 01
FLOUR, '
GROCERIES,
PROVISIONS,
and everything necessary to the oomplete
stocK oranrst-ciassurocery House, wnicn
they have opened out at their establish
ment on Klui HL, first door north of M. K.
Church.
TEAS,
"" if n tpq
SUGARS.
SYRUPS,
FRUITS,
SPICES.
HAMS, LARD,
AND PRO VISIONS OF A LL KINDS,
at the lowest cash prices. Goods warrant
ed to bo of the b.-j quality. Call and ex
amine, and we believe we enn suit you.
GEO. W. BOVARD & CO.
Jan.9,'72.
Lloyd & Son,
WATEB STREET, TIONESTA, PA.
H
AVE JUST OPENED an extensive
Stock of
FLOUR AND FEED,
GROCEHIES PROVISIONS,
Which they offer to the publics at rates as
low as can be ottered by any other estab
lishment in town. Give us a call before
purchasing elsewhere.
40-3ia. LLOYD t SON.
A MIRACLE!
Mr. Samuel Bell, of W. E. Schmerti t
Co., Wholesale Boot and Shoe Manufactur
ers, 81 Filth avenue. Pittsburgh, Pa., has
been afflicted with clironio rhoumatish for
thiity years, from his right hip to his foot,
having to use a crutch and a cane, at times
so painful as to utterly incapacitate him
from attending to his business. Having
tried every remedy known, without effect,
finally Induced to try It. A second applica
tion enabled him to lay aside his crutch,
and a third effected a permanent cure. Mr.
Bell is a popular and well-known citizen,
is a living monument of the effacaoy of
that great medical discovery, Gilliland's
Pain Killer. The afflicted should ask their
Srocer or druggint for it, and try its won
orful power. Mr. Giililand, we under
stand, wants a respectable agent in every
town and oounty for it. The principal of
fice is at 72 Third Avenue, Pittsburgh Pa.
31-41
the Nineteenth Century-
A fearful sentence was carried out
last month, under the majesty of the
executions that elsewhere we are ac
customed to hear and read about seem
mild and merciful measures in com
parison. As far back as April the
house of a respected farmer in that
province was found broken into, and
the proprietor, with his wife and chil
dren, brutally murdered. The author
ities set to work at once to trace the
guilty authors of the outrage, and
d two men in a forest some four
miles away, Sebastulos Alexiry, a non
commissioned officer in the Sultan's
army, aod Moses Werthstein, an Aus
trian Jew, who bad some of the far
mer s money about then-, and were in
other resoects susnicious. Thev dis
claimed auy knowledge of the affair,
but filly lashes upon their bare backs
soon extorted a confession from the
Jew of all the hideous details, though
nothinz could unseal the lips 01 bis
accomplice. The evidence was ample
and overwhelming, and to the loudly
expressed satifaclion of the multitude
thev were sentenced to be broken on
the wheel, a punishment nowhere
practiced except in Servia. The Jew
tore his hair and cried for mercy, but
bia companion was immovable. Un
the day of execution a vast throng
assembled to see the punishment car
ried out. Alexiry was first stripped
and bound to St. Andrew's cross, while
the executioner raised his iron club
and crushed his right shoulder. A
shriek of agony followed, and another
as his knee-pans were struck, after
which he was unconscious. The Jew
did not die so easily, but lived for five
minutes as his bones were crushed one
by one. and only by three strokes on
the abdomen did he cease his cries.
and satisfy the cruel rigor of Servian
law.
A striking execution was that of
the murderers of M. Greco, at Mar
seilles. which has been recently an
noticed. The doomed men were Moor
ish Jews, and were brought from Aix
to Marseilles in a prison van, a rabbi
attending upon each prisoner. The
guillotine was seut down from Paris
on its wagon, a strange looking vehicle,
Strapped on ordinary carriage trucks,
the prisoners wero then taken to
house near by where the legal author!
ties were waiting lor them. Ihey ask
ed permission to write, and this being
granted, each wrote a letter in their
native tongue which they confided to
their spiritual fathers. The execution
ers then cut the shirt collars of the
convicts and bound them with leath
ern thongs, after which they set ou
for the instrument of death. The aid
took of the hats of the condemned
and before they could recover from
their surprise the youngest was behead
ed. The eldest involuntarily jumped
back, but the next instant he too was a
corpse, the double execution thus end
ing lorty-hve seconds from the time
the gullotine was reached. The exe
cutioners travel disguised in false
beards, which are at no two times
alike, thus enabling them to preserve
incognita which lets them into good
society.
The first divorce suit on record in
Virginia was decided a short time ago,
and the Judge, in delivering the opin
ion of the Court, referred to the ex
treme rarity of such cases in Virginia.
He said : "Happily for the interests
of society, and the sanctify of mar'.ial
rights and relations, suits of this char
acter are not of frequent occurrence
in this State. And, in these modern
days of so-called social progress and
social reform, it is a fact worthy of
record, and one which fitly illustrates
the purity of social life and the invio
lable sanctity of the marriage bond in
this State, that there can be found but
two reported cases in all its judicial
history, from the foundation of the
Commonwealth down to the present
time, touching questions arising out of
the separation of husband and wife.
And the two cases referred to were not
suits for divorce, but for alimony,
brought by the wife after desertion by
the husband."
An Arkansas local soliloquizes thus :
"Some of our exchanges are publish
ing as a'curious item a statement to
the effect that a horse in Iowa pulled
the plug out of the bunghole of a bar
rel for the purpose of slaking his
thirst. We do not see anything ex
traordinary in the occurrence. Now,
if the horse had pulled the barrel out
of the bunghole and slaked its thirst
with the plug, or if the barrel had
pulled the bunghole of the plug and
slaked its thirst with the horse, or if
the plug had pulled the horse out of
the barrel ana slaked its thirst with
the buughole, or if the bunghole had
pulled the thirst out of the horse and
slaked the plug with the barrel, or if
the barrel bad pulled the horse out of
the buDghole and plugged its thirst
wi.h a Blake, it might be worth while
to make some fuss over it.
A Leavenworth editor doesn't now
spend time watching the little busy
wasp that gathered lint iu his sanctum
to make its nest He came in one day
and did not observe that the wasp was
sitting in his chair.
Barbariim in
The Emperor William.
A Dresden letter to the New
York
roH, says :
The Emperor of United Germany
lost his stick the other day, and adver
tised for it in the daily newspapers, as
any old burgher might do; a trifling
tact, which indicates the finest trait ol
the German character perfect sim
plicity. The old sovereign had at
tached himself to that stick, which
was given him by an Alsatian peasant
on his return from the war. In his
private room may be seen many such
tributes of affection, carefully preserv
ed ; among others, a little white silk
i which once decorated a mighty
cake presented to the Emperor by an
old woman. That heart must be genial
which can be open to small things like
there ; he that holds the baton of a
mighty empire is all the higher for es
teeming the gifts of a peasant's walk
ing8tck. The Emperor William made
of that stern stuff of which his ancestor
was made who went about Berlin,
ratan in hand, frightening the apple
women at the street corners and re
buking lazy workmen ; but to his en
ergy and pertinacity of purpose Ger
many ones her present greatness.
There was but one voice throughout
Eurupe when, after Sedan, he pushed
foiward to besiege Paris men cried
out that it was a mistake. Germans,
proud of their national victories, now
shook their heads, convinced that this
was a false move ; but the King never
flinched : and there, on the consecrated
soil of France, he was proclaimed the
Imperial Ctesar of a revived Oerman
empire.
A curious fact, apropos of the pres
ent subject, was related to me by a gen
tleman who visited Versailles during
its occupation by the Germans. Most
of the great Marshals of France are
represented at the chateau by marble
statutes. In his wonderings about the
buildings looking at these, my inform
ant descended at last to a ground
floor, where, in an obscure corner, he
discovered a statue of Frederick the
Great. "Old FriU" stands there still,
I believe, but I wonder that the .bm
peror of Germany did not insist upon
the return of the hero's sword, which
the first Napoleon stole from off his
tomb at Potsdam.
A party of male passengers got o
a train recently at Utica, N. Y., wh
were unable to find seats. Among
them was a lawyer, who proposed to
the rest that they all decline to give
up their tickets until they were furnish
ished with seats. The agreement was
made, and when the conductor came
around he found twenty-three gentle
manly but very obstinate men who re
lused to give mm either tickets or
money unless he would show them a
place to sit The conductor replied
that there were plenty of vacant seats
in the next car; on inquiry it was as
certained that this was a drawing'
room car, for which extra charge was
made. So the twenty-three decliued
to budge, and matters remained in
this unsettled condition until the cars
had gone a long distance. T'te con
ductor finally induced two dozen per
sons who had seats to go into the draw
ing-room car, without extra charge,
and then made a place for the obsti
nate twenty-three, who then gave up
their tickets, as they had said they
would do.
Alas that there shoulu be so many
poor souls who in this world and that
which is to come, look forward to noth
ing that is substantially comfortable
and satisfying! Here, for instance, is
a veritable deceudant of St Martha,
who came into a neighbor's house in
Buffalo, a few days since, downcast,
wearied with many cares and cum
bered with much serving. 'So much
to dot cleaning, working, cooking,
washing, sweeping, and everything
else I No rest? never was, never will
be, for me 1'
'Oh, yes,' said the good woman she
addressed, 'there will be a rest for us
all some day a long rest'
'Not for me ! not for me 1' waa the
reply, 'Whenever I do die, there will
be certain to be resurrection the ver
next day I It would be just my luck I
Nearly three millions of letters wept
to the JJead .Letter Office last year,
They are partly classified as follows
mity-eignt thousand letters had no
county or State direction ; more than
four hundred thousand wanted stamps,
and three thousand were put in the
post office without any addresses at all
Ninety-two thousand dollars in cash,
and over three million dollars in drafts,
checks, etc.. were found in these let
ters. It appears that, on an average,
every letter mat is misdirected, or
goes to the Dead Letter Office from
other causes, contains one dollar.
The Danbury News having untruth
tuny saia uoston proposed to get up
a stupendous gift enterprise, with
Rhode Island for the principlo prize.
the Providence Herald says that the
lowest prizes are to be the busts of the
principal Connecticut editors, the
heads done in wood, after the model
of the never-to-be-forgotten wooden
nutmegs, which made the reputation
of the State iu foreign countries.
Shooting the Apostles.
After the city of Mexico had sur
rendered to General Scott, it is well
known that the troops were obliged to
win their way from house to house,
and street to street, until they expelled
the remnant ot the Mexican army,
which disputed every inch of ground
from the gates of the city to the pal
aces. The Second rigiment United
States infantry, under command of
Colonel Riley, were gaining ground
step by step, under a hot fire from
house-tops and church-steeples, when
Pat Mullony, a private in Company
F, made a dash and intrenched him
self in a doorway (the doorways are
large, with heavy protecting lams)
full half-square in advance of his com
pany, and commenced a spirited nre
When he bad fared hve shots he was
joined by a comrade just as he was
preparing lor the sixth round, who
asked him what he was firing at and
desired a "chance in."
"Histl" says Pat, "wait till I fetch
another of the pla'guards. I have
done the business for five of 'em and
there is another waiting to be served
the same sauce.
Bang I went the sixth shot, when his
comrade, together with two others who
had now joined them, exploded with
laughter.
"What in the devil's name be yees
laughing at, at all 7" says Pat "Sure,
didn't I fix his flint nice enough? and
oy the power there is another spalpeen
just stepped in his place, and waiting
lor a dose, ramming his carriage
home with energy.
"btop, Pat, said his comrade;
"don't you see you are firing at the
apostles?"
"An' is it the apostles, is it 7 JNow
may the howly St. Pether fergive me I"
exclaimed Pat, his eyes opening like
two saucers as he made the discovery
that he had been firing on two life-sized
statues of St. Peter and St. Paul, which
stood on each side of a church-door
about musket-shot down the street
Pat had hit St. Peter six times. It
was a standing joke against him, and
be never heard the last of it asloogas
be remained in the regiment
One of the daring Buislavs recently
had a very narrow escape from a hor
rible death a San Francisco. To com
ply with the always growing desire for
something s! ill more perilous in the
programme ot the gymnast the Jiuia
lays have introduced a balloon scene,
which it is almost impossible for the
average person to witness without a
feeling of terror. At the close of many
other wonderful feats an immense bal
loon ascends from an amphitheatre un
til it has reached such a height that
the car is just barely visible to the
naked eye. One of the male Buislays
then drops over the side upon a tra
peze bar, and performs with as much
ttangfroid as if be were still in the
theatre, with a netting beneath to
break a possible fall. On the 11th in
stant, while going into the air to show
h:s skill in this way, the balloon
took fire. When within about ten
feet of the ground an explosion fol
lowed, and the fragments of the bal
loon dropped upon the heads of the
audience in all directions. In the
midst of the smoke, young Buislay
descended without injury, if the ex
plosion had taken place ten minutes
later he would have met a fearful end.
Not long since, another member of the
same family lost bis lite under similar
circumstances in Mexico. Consider
ing the tact, it is no wonder that a
great deal of surprise bos been oica
bioned by the announcement of the
survivors that a new balloon would
soon be constructed in New York and
forwarded. Is it not about time that
we had some legislative enactment to
put a stop to such shocking exhibi
tiors?
Stop the Interest.
Daniel Webster once diued with an
old Boston merchant, and when they
came to the wine, a dusty old bottle
was carefully decanted by Peter, and
passed to 'he host Taking the bottle
tie poured out Mr. Webster's glass and
handed it to him. Then pouring out
another for himself, he held it to the
lght and said :
"How do you like it, Mr. Webster?"
tw - n -1 1
x iniDK it a nne specimen oi oiu
Port"
"Now you can't guess what that co:t
me T Baid the host.
"Surely not," said Mr. Webster. "1
only know that it is excellent."
"Well, now, I can tell you, for
made a careful estimate the other day,
When I added the interest to the first
r i e, I find that it cost me the sum of
just one dollar and twenty cents ner
glar.81"
"Good gracious ! you dont say so,"
said Mr. Webster; and then draining
his glass be hastily presented it again
wiih the remark :
"Fill up again as quick as you an,
for 1 want to stop the confounded in
terest."
The Choctaw Vindicator (Indian
Territory) was unable to get out an
issue last week, because the entire
"force," editor and all, took to the
woods after a robber.
Bringing Down a Horse Thief.
Colonel Putney favors us with the
following particulars of an occurrence
at Benton on the 4th : A desperado
named Edward White, recently of
Cerro Gordio, appeared there that
morning with a young horse which he
desired to enter for the races of the
day. Mallory, of Bishop creek, rec
ognlzed the horse as one that had been
stolen from him and laid claim to him.
White denied the claim in a very in
sulting manner, but we believe, gave
the horse up, nothing more being said
about it until about six o'clock in the
evening, when he approached Mallory,
standing in a store, and commenced to
abuse him. But a few words had pass
ed, when White jerked out his revol
ver, and aimed a shot at Mallory, they
being about five feet apart at the time ;
but a bystander knocked the pistol up,
and the ball went thorugh the ceiling.
He fired again, but with no better suc
cess, Mallory having retreated inside
of a doerway close by. White then
jumped into the street, brandishing his
pistol, and proclaiming that he was
"on it Ef you don't believe it just
pitch in. The click of a revolver is
music to my soul d n you all 1"
Sheriff Hightower tried to arrest the
raving scoundrel, but was told to stand
back or he would get his heart blown
out Hightower, not being armed,
was forced to do so, but started after
his shotgun, standing unloaded in a
room a short distance away. White,
meantime, walked leisurely off down
the road and soon alter met JJr. J . U
Smith riding along. With an obscene
oath he ordered the doctor to ' Uet off
of that; I want to ride awhile right
now. As the doctor had been cele
brating considerably during the day it
took him some to clearly understand
the exact nature of the proposition
and was finally saved the necessity of
i! i .L. . r t
compliance oy me luienereuce ui an
acquaintance of the desperaJo, who
came up and pesuaded him to let the
doctor alone. Shortly after Mallorv
and the sheriff mounted and armed
with shot guns. As there is no music
id the click of these things, the des
perado decided at once that be was
"not on it" so very largely after all,
and surrendered without more ado.
He was committed, and sent to Bridge
port on three several charges of horse
steal'ag, an assault to commit murder,
and attempted highway robbery. As
he didn't actually murder anybody
bis prospect of spending a lew sum
mers at the seaside are exceeding flat
tering. Inyo (Cal.) Independent, July,
The man with bis lung-tester, who
accompanies Barnum, and wakes an
honest penny by testing the wind of
t he multitude, came to grief at Terre
llaiue the other day. A healthy far
mer's boy with a chest on him like an
emigrant's valise, drew in a mouthful
of the atmosphere, wrapped a quarter-
section of his lips over the no ile aod
breathed. An explosion followed, first
ot tbe machine, and then ol the by
s.anders, and the "professor was
heard to say, as he gathered up tbe
fragments of tinkling brass and springs
"He had beeu eating onions; (hats
what made bis breath so strong.
According to the Rondout Ft em an,
there aie hundreds of ladies from the
city boarding in the mountains of
Stiandaken. The country is complete
ly overrun by women, one board in
house having no less than forty "schoo
ma'ams." It is said to be nearly as
much as a young man's life is worth to
ass through that locality. One who
las tried it says he never had such a
greeting. It was a perfect ovation.
Youngladies crowd the pia-as and
wave their handkerchiefs, and all the
romantic walks are fairly lined with
them. Go west, young man, go west
as far as Rondout.
The accomplishments of a sightless
man are next in order. Reading, Pa,
has him, but doesn't appreciate the
phenomenon, and leaves it for a Berks
County German paper to immortalize
him. He is a German, 00 years of
age, keeps a tavern (.which is known
as Blind Hartman's), is expert in the
handling of money, and baffles all
attempts to cheat h:m with spurious
currency, lie walks out alone, can
point to any piece of real property in
the town, aud to crown all, mends
clocks and repairs instruments.
Once on a time, at the fuoe.al of a
wW'e, tbo undertaker arranged for the
husband and mother-in-law to ride in
he same carriage. "Must I," said the
broken-hearted mao, "must I tide with
that awful woman?" "I think you will
have to," answered the undertaker. " t
will disturb every carriage of the pro
region to make a cuanzo, and you
must ride here." "Well, If I must, I
musi," said the Stricken man; "but to
r'de with her destroys all my pleasure
ca this occasion.
Harriet needier rtowe commences
her readings in SDrinficld. Masachu
sett, September 13, with scenes from
Uncle Tom's Cabin "Black Para's
Stratagem, or it's best to be on Missis
side," "Eliza escapes on the Ice,"
"Black Sara a Politician," "Uncle
Tom's Trial, Temptation Victory aud
Death," aud also selections from her
ater works.
In the parish of Cobham, Surrey,
England, in which Inigo Jones is
known to have resided, the name Inigo
perverted to Indigo is not uncommonly
bestowed in baptism on the children of
the poor. "I myself," says a corres
pondent of the Guardian, "a few years
siuce baptized in Cobham Paris Church
a child to whom the name of Indigo
was given, and was then and there told
that the name was not unfrequent in
the village, and that its origin was
that of tbe illustrious architect"
The Boston and Albany Railroad
has adopted a very sensible regulation.
All J J 4-
All station men are oruereu to stop
any freight train which may approach
within five minutes of the passage of
the preceding one. In this way the
trains are kept at least five minutes
apart. There are many other little
precautions that might be required on
railroads to the greater security of the
public, but as a rule they are only
thought of just after some frightful ac
cident has happened.
The value of a letter raav be seen
by omiting tbe 8 from speculation, and
vou get "peculation," an ugly word.
This is a mistake which American
printers should avoid from patriotism,
ii ior no uiuer reason, xaae away
this letter, and what is left of the
Stars and Stripes? Nothing more than
Tar and Tripe.
'How much money have you?' said
a rich old curmudgeon to a gay young
fellow courting his daughter. 'Ob, 1
haven't much of anything, now, but I
have a rich prospect, indeed.' The
wedding occurred and the old chap
learned from his fine son-in-law that
the rich prospect was the prospect of
marrying his daughter.
An Indiana man took a friend home
to tea the other evening, without giv
ing his wife notice. That night she
talked herself into paralysis of the
tongue. Now all the men in the neigh
borhood are sending for friends and
taking them home at all hours.
The other night the Kansas Pacific
passenger train lost its sleeping car,
and the conductor went back sixty
miles before he found it, and the pass
engers were sleeping in peaceful inno
cence, waiting for a freight train .o
run into tbem.
The Moravia Nave contains the fol
lowing advertisement: Lost A small
gold gentleman's ring, between Satur
day evening and Monday on the road
near Montville. Tbe person finding
such an article can return it to its
owner at this office and paying charges.
A little boy was seut to a store for
some eggs ; before reaching home he
dropped them. In answer to the ques
tion from his mother, "Did you break
any?" he replied, "No 1 1 didn't break -any,
but the shells came off of some
of them."
A Connecticut paper says: 1 that
accordeon artist who so assiduously
practices "Shoo Fly," and other classi
cal music, opposite this office, will
call at the American Consul's house,
Honolulu, he will be liberally reward
ed. Tbe statistician of an Eastern paper
avers that the flies are so good-natured
this season that a well-organized one
will allow himself to be brushed off
an editor'a nose eighty-seven times and
not show any temper.
A Kentucky candidate for Congres
lately fled affrighted from the rost.um
because some boys threw a pack of
firecrackers at his heels and lie mis
took them for bullets of the opposition.
A Southern paper says in its locr.l
columns : "A negro and two fine mules
were drowned in the river yesterdry.
The mules were remarkably fine ani
mals, and cennot be easily replaceu."
A woman was recently arreted in
Baltimore on the charge of being a
"common scold." In a two minutes'
'alk with the justice she proved tho
charge true and was committed.
The fullowing notice is posted con
snicuously in a newspaper office out
West: "Shut the door; and as soon as
you have done talking business, serve
your mouth the same way."
A young woman, whose pocket had
been picked ia an omnibus, admitted
that sne felt the prisoner pressing her,
but thought "he was only intending to
make love."
A Cincinnati wife left her husband's
board, but took the bed with her. He
is puzzlsd to know how to word a
legal notice of warning to prospective
creditors.
Barnura's gorilla was beard to re
mark, one hot day, that "he'd be
if he'd wear a hair overcoat much
longer this hot weather for (10 a
week."
Some unscientific thief recently rob
bed a journalist of his valise in a
Baltimore train. He secured about
two dollars' worth of writiug paper.
A San Francisco husband refused to
buy a carriage for his wife, aud the
lady is trying to swear him into an iu
sane asylum in consequence.
Au Ohio boy has walked already
13,000 miles to see his girl, and ain't
half through yet
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