1 Rates of Advertising. Pnn Srpmrn ft Inch,) one incrtion - ' ?1 no One SiiitP " cue month - :t 0i OnoHiniaie " three mouth - H on noSiiiro " nno yi-ar - - 1" Oo Two Squares, one year IS 00 quarter Col. :tn no Half " '.... GO fO One " '.... IkMi io I.ciral notices at established rates. Alarriat;e and death notice. irratiN. All bills for voarlv advertisements col lected quarterly. Temporary advertise ment must be paid for in advance. Job work. Cash on IMlvery. runLwnF.D KVEnr wkdsesday, by w. n. DUNN. (Tin Ilf BOBTHBOIf k BOHlfER'S BUILDIKO, ELM 8TREET, TIOSBSTA, PA. I TKRMS, fli.OO A YEAR. He RNhacrlpttona received for shorter pttrlnd than three months. Correspondence solicited from all parts fabe country. No notico will bo taken of AnonTmous' communications. VOL. VI. MO. 47. TIONESTA, PA., MARCH 4, 1874. $2 PKH ANNUM. BUSINESS DIRECTORY. . TIOHEBTA LOJJttE .Ao. 369, T. O. of O. IT". MEETS everv Friday Tailing, at 7 olock, In the Hall formerly ooeuplod by tha Good Templars. J AS. WOODINQTOX, N. O. A. B. K ELLY, Peo y. 27 -tf. Samuel D. Irwin, ATTORN KY, COUNSELLOR AT I. AW and RKAL KSTATE AUKNT. l,egal tinalaeae promptly attended to. Tlonesta, la. J r ' 40-ly. . nawni rams. MtLM W. TATS. PETTII TATIi ATTORNEYS AT LAW, k lm Strtt, TTOXKSTA . PA tr w if Gerr A. J.ski, Mason Jonkii ATTORNKTS AT LAW. Omee on Klra Street, above Walnut, Tloneata, fa. F. W.Hayi, A TTrfRXHT AT LAW. and NOTAHT J. Fclic, Reynolds lluklll A Co.'a Jiloek, Benec 8L, on my, ra. w-iy V, B. SMII.KT Aimy at Law, . . Franklin, Pa, PRACTICE in tha aaTaral Court of Xe ango, Crawford, Foreat, and adjoin ing ooantiaa. t-ly, n. HAIKU, P. t. VAatBTT, Jt JURIS A rASSETT, sAaroey at Iw, TUuavllla Penn'tv YACTTCK In all tha Conrta of Warren, J. Craw lard, Foraat and Vanango Coun- ea. 4i-tf J. H. HolTly, OCROEOX PENTIST, In Behonblom'a IJ Hulldin. between Contra aim oyca- Bn Mm llil (lily. Pa. All oparatlnna done In a careful manner and warrant!. . niorniorm ami amor u Hinimtarad when tonuired if the case will Dermlt. 18-I.T . Chnrlei B. Ansart, TNEKTIST, Centra Street, Oil City, Fa. AS la linens uioac. IaTrrerca House, mmiMTA PA., n. II. 'RUTTER A MELD. l'HOFBiBTon. Thla housM la aentrallT located. Everything new and wall furnUhed Superior .aeoommoda Mona and atrial attention given to guests. Vegetablee and Frnita of all klnda aerTed an thair season, sample room ior vuiu raereial Agent. "" FOREST HOUSE, T RLACK PROPRIETOR. Opposite Jm Court limine. Tlonesta: 1'a. juii .. . ,j ir.-MutliiiwF now aiirl dean and . k. Tl.. I.UI, Ar li,,imni L-Mnt COIIStjintlv n hand. A portion of the publlo pntron- aire la reaDai'iiuiiyaoiiciicu. .-,- Tionesta House. Cl T. I.ATIMEIl Ijcsaee, Kim 8U Tio T, resta-Pa., at tlie mouth of the rreok, Mr.. I Ijiw thoroughly ronovated the Tionesta llouae, ami ro-furnlnlieil It mm tletelr. All who ptttronir.o him will be Well entertained at rciiHonnblo rate. S7 ly . National Hotel, miikt.MTrV T t TJ 1 lTllln nMnrl 1 tor. Tliiu'hoiiHe has boen newly fiirn iMhedandiH kept In good style. Uuenta will he mado oomfortablo here at reiwona. kle ra!nn. t It Dr. J. L. Aconb, PHYSICIAN AND 8UROKON,whnha had ttftaen yenrx' experionrein a large mud aiifreiwful practie, will attend all I'Tofi-ssioiml Call. Ofllce In his Drug and Wrocary 8toro, located in Tidlouto, near Tidiouta iiouae. IN HIS STORE WILL DK FOUND a r..ii ..AfttnAnf. ttt MAfllcitiea. Lilnuora Tobarvo, Cl(rar, Mtimonery, uiww, riu Oila. Cutlery, all of the beat quality, and will be nold'at reaaonabte raU. 1K. CllAS. O. DAY, an experienced Ti..i..in ami riniir j iat tVoni Naw York. ha idiai'Ke nf the Store. All prescrlptious ut up aouuratoly. . B. HAT. JXO. r. TAKE. A. S. KKLI MAY, PARK it CO., B A U K E B S Corner of Elin A Walnut St. Tionesta, Hunk of Discount and Deposit. Intorest allowed on Timo Deposit. Oolleerioaa made on all tha Prineipal points ofho,U.'. Collections aoiioited. 18-ly. NEW BILUARD ROOMS! ADJOIN I NO tha Tionesta JIouhc, at the mouth of TioueHta Creek. The tables ind room are new, and everything kept In order. To lovers of the aiue a cordial mvitatinn is extended to come and play in the new room. 37 tf U. T. LATIMER, Lessee, J). W. CLAT1K, (VUlllKalONtll'l CLKRK, FOBEST CO., T.) REAL EVTATJ AGENT. 'TTOUSE.SandIrf.ta foaleaiid RKN'p 11 Wild Ioiids lor Hule. L I hnve Miipcrlor n!i'llitl for ajicrrtainin .fifAili t win nffnYAMttiwI Ijav lnnflB Jbn nml um tlifrcl'oii- nimlilled to art inU Ill gently as aont of thiB living at a dis 'Unro. ownini; lands in theVounty. Otl'ice in Coininistiiauers Ktwim, Court Ilouik. JTrwta, 1', -41-ly. . U. CLARK Dr. J. E. Blaine, OFFICK and residence opposite the Lawrence House. Olllccdays Wednoe- ava and Mattirdava. JO-u. i F. V7ENK, J I us csuiblishod a now and complete LIVERY STABLE In the burn in the mar of the Iawrcuice llouso and is prepared to furnisli rirs of all kinds on short notice. Orders loft at the Law rence House will receive prompt atton- ion. on-iy. THE BOOT & SHOE STORE OF TIIDIOTJ-TE1I NK. STEVENS. Proprietor. Parties in want of FINK Boots and (Shoes will always find a good assortment atHtevena'. W hen you cul 1 , J nst say "rrora 1 lonesia and you'will be liberally dealt with. 6-Om N. lfi. STKVJiJiJi. FINE GROCERIES, , CITOICK CIOARS, TORACCO, CANNED FRUITS, STATIONERY, AND NOTIONS, ' for sal at J. B. Amiew's Stora Room, In Bonner A Agnew'a Block. ALSO, FRESH OYSTERS, by the oan or served to order. 20 tf. Frank RobbluK, PHOTOGRAPHER, (SULTF.SSOR TO CKMIXO.) Pictures in eTerT stTleof the art. View of the oil regions for sale ar taken to or der. CENTRE STREET, near R, R. crossing, SYCAMORE STREET, near Union De- pat, Oil City, ra. zu-it LOTS FOR SALE! IX THE BOROUGH OF TIONESTA. i Apply toGKO. G. SICKLES, 79, Nassau St., New York City. WM. F. BLUM, BLACKSMITH AND "WAGON-MAKER. Corner of Church and Elm Streets, . TIONESTA I? A. This firm is prepared to do all work in lla line, and will warrant everything done at their shops to give HauaiRcuon. , rar- tiuular attention given to IIORSK-SIIOF.IXG, fiiva them trial, and you will not re- gret it. i-iy PH0T0GRAPI1 ALLERY Water Street, OVER IIILBRONNER A CO.'a STORE, Tionesta, Fa., H. CARPENTER, ... Proprietor, Aittejiijas. Pictures taken in all tha latest at vies the art. !-tr 10. KLEIN, Tipioctr, Pa. Dealer in Fist WstohM, Clock , Jeirelrr, BfMtaclu, at. All repairing in this line neatly d"ne and warranted, far tiuular attention paid to tha rciHtiring of A'aU'lies. GROCERY AND PROVISION STORE IN TIONESTA. GEO. W.BOVARD&GO. H AVE Just brought on a complete an carefully selected slocK or FLOUR, GROCERIES, PROVISIONS, and everything nceesNary to tha complete stock ora nrttl-ciuHsurocorv uouso, wiiK'l they have opened out at their establish meni on Kim nt.t um door norm or 31. i (. nareli. TEAS- COFFEES, SUGARS, BAKU PS, FRUITS, SPICES. HAMS, LARD, a so pro ris'ioxs or all kinds, at (lie'lowtt rash prices, floods warrant ed to he of the lw4 quality. Call and amino, and wa litf n xnit von WKO.W. bJV.A.RP& Ct 1 Jn, 'J, ii, ItlSSMARK. BY ELLA F. M08BY. "Xnw of nil the distinctions of man. The highest la his infinite power of amend ment, or reputation, oi recovery, oi im provement." CHAPTER I. I never liked Leigh Page. His life was of all others the most distasteful to rue an utterly aimless, drifting ex istence, without strong desire, either for good or evil. He had talents certainly, a keen wit and subtile analysis but he used them onlv for caricature and burlesqifo. Ilia very tone had a drawl, ana nis face a latent sneer. But his friends (who were few) said he was capable of kind and generous aots, and the Goulricts (his. half-sister's family) seemed absolutely devoted to lnm. Curtis Holies, my young adjutant, would have disliked him less but for this. Lik-6 him. he never could, bo cause theie was an inborn lack of con geniality between tho two; Leigh, blase and lmliuorent, and Curtis, pas sionate, shy, thoroughly m earnest. and full of intense vitality. Rut he was engaged to Rachel Uoulrtck, (Gcoree Goulrick's youngest sister,) and her admiration for . Leigh Page, and Gratification for his kindness to her trother's family, almost drove Curtis wild with jealousy, although he tried to. and I Daiieve uiu, conceal n from her. Rut I knew a crisis was imminent when I heard her reprove her lover indignantly for uttering a rather severe criticism upon Leigh Page's idle life in her presence. "No one shall speak before m acaiust him ! she said, ex cited I y. and tha quick tears stood in her dark-blue eyes, "when be has been the kindest, truest friend my brother ever had. W e might be beggars now but for hira ! i : Curtis Holies did not reply, but saw him bito his lip and clench his hand as if with sudden pain, and knew his passion was at fever-heat. lie had oltercd at the time ot George's failure to do all which Leigh had done, and he suspected the latter of making capital of his kindness to the brother in order to influence the sister. So when I entered the mejs room that night, and fouud Leigh Page ex hibiting to a crowd Of amused com- lanions some clever caricatures on Curtis Holies, and they hit fairly enough, poor fellow, for Curtis was too earnest not to be vulnerable I felt uneaev. At last I said to Leigh Page "My good fellow! you had better put these things aside. - (Jurtis will be here soon and this sort of thing won't do. One has a prejudice agaiusl a joke on one s self, vou know. Leigh Page gnvo me a defiant stare out of bis lazy blue eyes, and threw the drawings u ivn on the table, in lull view of the group 'now entering the doer. Curtis Holies was one. "What's this 7" asked Burton An drews, sauntering up to the table. "It's a mighty clever thing! Why, Curtis, it is you to the life, my boy ! Curtis Holies looked at it in silence, and his boyish features began to grow curiously stern ; but the very force of passion kept him outwardly quiet. "You meant these as insulting to me, Mr. Page?" he asked. "If you find the truth an insult, Mr. Rolles, replied Leigh, with a cool, sneering lrugh. "Your friends recog nizo the resemblance." A fierce blow in the face felled him to the earth ; another and another fell with blind, passionate power, until the men separated them by force ; but Leigh Huge had had no opportunity to retaliate, and we knew the aifair would not end there. The first stroke half stunned him, and when he left the room, bruised, scarred, and bleeding, not even bis mother would have recog nized his face. But in a few days he had recovered sufficiently to go out, and it was sus pected that a challenge had beeu sent. Thursday evening bo was among the officers on the parade ground, though there was an ugly red scar on his brow. Curtis Holies was also there, of course, but uo sign of recognition passed be tween him and Leigh Page, or his friends. There was a large crowd of specta tors present, and among them, Rachel Goulrick. She was a light-hearted, impulsive girl, almost as quick with a jest as with tho flash of temper which marked her displeasure. This even she looked pale and downcast. I was standing near her when two men be gan discussing the chauoes of a duel. 1 hey seemed to thins there was uo doubt ef it. "Oh, dear! aud will no man try to stop thefn? "she exclaimed, 'in low, pussioillito tones'; and then, bofore I quite understood the ituatiou, the whole crowd, about to disperse, were arresleJ by seeing her slight girlish figure rush into the square where Leigh rape was standing. Curtis Holies tried to stop her, but she waved him hack with an imperious gesture tliat would not be gainsaid. Ijp.igh rage did not see her; he was talking to another officer, when he heard her voice, tremulous, vibrating with intense emotion, as she knelt on the earth before him. "Since Curtis Rolles will not nsk your pardon, I, his betrothed, on whose f .... n l , heart tins lauure ana sname urs ncav ilv. I ask it on my knees. And," as she lifted her hands to heaven, as if to call it as witness to here words, "I will never marry him until ho makes reparation for the blow. Lieigh rage caught her hand in both of It is. "I recall my challenge." He turn ed to Curtis Rolles, and said, in a clear, ringing voice, "and I apologize for my rudeness before. Gentlemen 1" he said to the officers standing by, "I do not need to prove my courage now?" . There was the scar of a sabre-cut across his hand, which was visible as he turned aside from the kneeling girl, and the spectators uttered a shout of applause. No man indeed doubted Leigh rage s bravery. Then Rachel's brother came for ward, and she went with him, but not until some earnest, graceful words of praise from Leigh Page had brought tears to her eyes. They streamed down her cheeks as she .lowered her veil and moved away, without a word, to Curtis Holies. The young fellow looked cut to the soul. He had refused to acknowledge Leigh Page's words to him by tho slightest signs ; he did move once as ho spoke to Rachel the last time, but except for that, it might have been a marble statue standing there. Tlio ex pression in his face was one that Shak- speare had painted with one line of matchless pathos in his " Cymbeline." Past hope and in despair; that way past grace." And I did not know how such a rup ture, between two natures so tenacious and persiBlcnt, could be healed. CHAPTER II. Leigh Tage and Rachel Goulrick had been together for an hour in the garden. It was now twilight in the old, dark town of St. Augustine, and the early moon glimmered ou the sontheru waters, and fell, shivered in to a thousand fragments, through the palmetto leaves on the ground tinier neath. Large white moths floated dreamily in aerial circles .over its fra grant blossoms and tho moonlit orange- boughs. The voice of the speaker seemed eager and tremulous as hespoko of his love for the young girl by him, whose dark eyes drooped uuder his own. lie told her that she was like a new and pure life to him, aud that for her sake be could overlive his worthless and aimless past. - ' ' "But 1 do not love you," sho said, softly, "except as a dear friend. I love Curtis Rolles. Overlive your past fur a nobler sake than mine. He was about to speak again, when the sound of music broko upon the air. It was someone playing the love ly Haydn Sonata of Beethoven. The melody seemed to tlont into the moon light and shadow, and infuse them with a strange passion and pain. An infinite sweetness of desire thrilled through, while long, sorrowful, sighing notes trembled in the exquisite andante movement. It was as if a soul on the confines of eternity spoke to the souls behind in unearthly entreaty aud ten derness. As it died away.Leigh Page answer ed, with a pew tone : "Then make your lover happy. Do not let me feel that I have blighted your two lives; and, indeed, I was to blame for the for the first provocation. There is no repa tioo due to me now.. Do not think of me, but forgive him, and make him happy." oho turned a lace glowing with en thusiasm toward him. "I know my judgment of you was truest You are very generous, but X must be loyal to my sense of right as to my lover ; and my vow is between my soul and Heaven. You cannot lessen its force." He took her trembling haud in his, and kissed it with a reverential ten derness. "I wish that you could have loved me," he said. "I wish I could have made you happy. No one could love you more." And ho went away. Three months had gouo by, and still Rachel Goul rick and Curtis Rolles were estranged. Leigh Page was ill in the old Strega- ras house, a mile from town ; and as vet there had beeu uo further sign of reoouciliatiou between the two men, although it was understood that Leigh Page would accept any advances for Rachel Goulrick's sake. But 'Curtis Rolles was proud, (as such a keenlv-sensitive and fiery na til re only could be,) anil I thought ho would lather die than yield. He came into my room lato one night. His eyes had a heavy look about them, and his mouth wore a list less, tried expression, as different- ns possible from the bright, merry smile ol tour months ago. "I thought Rachel Goulrick's con scientiousness was morbid ; it seemed cruel and wicked to sacrifice a young life indeed, the happiness of two lives to a mere scuple ; and I said so very strongly. , He fired up at once, and, to my sur prise, defended her. ' She is right I and 1 am not such a brute yet as even to wish to change her, or lower her to my level for my plea sure. I know what she says is true. and my whole soul revolts from it. I cin't give up, and I am not worthy of hcrr "You look tired," I said, pityingly, as the flush faded, and he leaned back exhausted. "Yes," he answered, "I am glad of it. If I could only chill my own i thoughts always by fatigue I might be happier. Colonel, if you will let me, I will sleep here to-night." I agreed readily, for I did not feel easy about the boy ; such a state of misery was the very worst for soul or body. We were awakened at half past three by a dull, roaring sound in our ears, nud as I sprang up hastily, I saw the whole horizon crimson with a belt of flames. "It is on the Stregaras road I" I ex claimed, as I looked out. Curtis did not answer, but I saw by the flash in his eyes and the sudden compression of his lips that he remem bered Leigh Page. I dil not ask what he was going to do. I did not doubt him more than my own life. We dressed hurriedly, sprang on our horses, aud were oi. the road Tn less time than it takes to write these few lines. The bla'zo aud clouds of smoke were awful to the right of us. We could hear the forest trees crack nud full one by ono with a crash, as we rode. Presently wa neared the burning re gion, and our horses began to be restive and to shy from the smoking brands. We got down, and tied them near a pool of water, which had already been burned for some uistauce around. Then we hastened on, still without a word, to the old house. It was still standing, though the smoke was blown in such volumes between ns, that 'we could just see it occasionally, as a gust of wind cleared away the thick cloud for a few minutes and it rolled back again. . i . i "I am not too late!" cried Curtis, and his eyes flashed with exultation. There were some men stauding on the lawn, and they tried to stop him. iou cannot save him ; tho room is too far back. It is at the peril of your life," they shouted ; but he had already gone. I followed, but lie was so Tar. ahead that when I reached the upper stair case, l met Mm with the insensible form of Leigh Page in his arsm. A brand from the fulling door had struck hi in as he came out, and left a burned and bleeding wound on his forehead, but ho looked as if a new life were bounding in every vein aud hber. His example animated the lookers on to new ellorts, and at last the fire was suppressed. Leigh Page recovered, and after wards went to a new station in the far West, where he did his country noble and true service. I never saw him af ter he left St. Augustine. Curtis Rolles and Rachel Goulrick were married. Curtis always had a zigzag scar on his brow, which, by a curious coincidence, was iu the same place that he had struck his enemy in the face; but we, who knew low it came there, never thought that it dis figured his open, manly couutenauco. Rachel's eye were never so full of tender, passionate lovo and-enthusi -asm, nor her voice so lull ot emotion, as when she looked at it, for sho be lieved, with her whole heart, that the noblest work of man was to atone and make reparation for a wrong. This scar Aw x mark, as the old signatures have it was in her sight the sign and symbol of the noblest and highest honor, To-Day. The common phrase, "I thought I should kill myself laughiq?," became a 6ad reality with a man iu Massachu setts lutt Friday morning. Ha was engaged iu conversation with his wife and laughing very heartily, when sud denly he said, "Stop ; yon make nie laugh to much," and falling to tho floor instantly expired. A stoical Scotchurau was addressed by his sick wifu : Oh, John I shan't leave this bed alive." "Please thee self, Betty, and thee'l please mo,' re turned Joliu, with equanimity. "I have been a good w ife to you" jiersis ted the dying woman. "Middlin Bet ty, only middlin," ;OINJ TO M'KI.MNf HCIKIOI.. That fair young rreature who went with us! It don't make any didcrcnoo that she went hack on her word, grew up to be a hatchct-faccd old maid, her voice like a file and her temper catsup she was lovely then. "Would tho fair and lovely Augusta accept our company to a spelling school out at Duck Lane, Thursday night?" Tho fair Augusta would, she said, and she did. Such a moon, such an easy mo tion of the sleigh ! Such singing in chorus f Every girl had a front door key in her pocket, and every young man felt as if he could climb a shed 40,000 feet high to get into his own chamber window. That fair young creature how she pretended to shiver with cold until an arm was gently and affectionately placed around her deli cate waist. Then tho weather sudden ly grew warmer, and she didn't shiver anvmore. It was a beautiful night. We observed that Bill Jones and Sarah Smith seemed very affectionate. Sho said it seemed so to her, but having stuck the end of a horse blanket in her eye? she wasu't prepared to make an affidavit. Somehow alter that ,tho conversation began to grow more and more interesting, and -with that fair young creature s head on our shoulder we'd have sat out to ride to Vermont and back without a stop. She was so artless and innocent; so child-like and confiding. She told all about how her stepmother pounded her with tltp rolN ing pin, and when we ; thought Of a rolling pin whacking againstherfragiio form aud bounding over her alabaster shoulders, our hair stood ou end with mad freuzy. She said sho sometimes thought she'd get married to escape further persecution, and we were about to lay our hand on our heart, aud pfTer to be hcr's forevermore, wheq . (he sleigh stopped at the school house, , . Then came the spellicg down, It was Brighton against Bungtown, with tho schoolmaster in favor , of Bung town. Such words as "catarrh" "tur key," "parallel," etc., soon reduced the "sides" to a half dozen, and at length we were left to sustain the hon or of Brighton. The .schoolmaster vas determined that Bungtown should win, and it did when we spelled "om nibus" with a double 'V; He said it wasn't right, and when Brighton insisted, he ottered to uphold 'Bung town with the iron poker.." However, it was an object to be consoled aud sympathized with by "our girl." . She positively shed tears of anger and sym pathy, and sho said there, were two s's in omnibus of course, ono on each side, and she wasu't positive but tiiere was ouo on the door behind. By and by tha conversation went hack to stepmoth ers, rolling pins, alabaster shoulders and getting' married, and she said she'd be "ours." Wo figured tip how we could keep house on $3.50 per week aud have a dollar left ; just how the woodbine would trail over our door; how we'd make her stepmother die of a broken heart ; how but you all remember. It was a boy's dream. She dicouraged us when she thought she coitid marry a dashing clerk, and her father sat the dog on me, aud her brothers threatened to shoot; but as I said, it don't mado any differenco now. Wheu I think over tho past, I feel to exclaim like Walt Whitman, "Oh, gim'me back them other days!" An applicant for old clothes at a Pine street residence, Saturday, ro ccived a half dozen soiled paper col-, lure with the advice "to turn them and chalk the edges." This might bo called generosity without judgement, and is in keeping with the act of a soldier's mother during tlie late war, who sent him in a Christmas box au elegant spittoon. j "This is a very crooked path," said Jones to Brown, as they wound up the side of lontauvet. "Cooked!" was the reply, -it is so confounded igcag you can stand with ono ("ot on zig and' the other on zag without any difficulty." Gal way, the capital of the Western Highlauds of Ireland, is often humor ously called "tho nearest parish to 'America," it being the most westerly point in tho Britsih Isles whence com munication may be had with the New World. It will afford sweeter happiness in the hour of death to have wiped ono tear from the cheek of sorrow than to havo ruled an empire, to have con quered millions, or to havo enslaved the world. "Well, Bridget, if I engage you, I shall waut you to stay at home when ever I shall' wish to ro out." "Well, ma'am, I have no objections, providiu' yau do the sr.mo when l,,wih to go out." A Green Bay paper says that a widower with a clean shirt on cau marry iu that towu within three hours. Green Bay is northeast of Detroit boats leave in May.