r V S '4 . . M PCBLWIIKl) KVKI'.Y WHliNKSnAV, w. t?. dtjnnJ ! TiLM ETEnET, TrONCST A, T A. ; tf ' . .. TKRMS, 2.00 A yi: at:, f r-n "nnvi ipuon ro'-Viypn ror ' p-ariod than throo nionl!,.. Cirr'spoinlpiiPc aollnllpd from rf Mio country. No nviuo will !. ruincnv nnnm conirusjnlcn'ttoiin. MwirMnwmiMiiuiKia RUSJKCSS DiRECTO --, TI0UI3TA An. ,W -M--L. v .). or -v it I TV1KKTS rvnry I-'rld.iy trot ill o'floi k, in thnll ill I'li'incrli hr Hip Hood Templars. J. T. DAlJ i. T. I.ATIMIMt, jv.'o r. TIONESTA COUNCIL, O. XT- A. HTCI'W si f'd. t fellows' : lJl vt'rv Tuosdnv evening J. K. Ill J. It. FOX EH, n, Dr. J. K. BUlrie -"FFI('I5 mid residence, V I.awrpni'P ilmiKo, (iitli'od slays aid Matli'daya. . ATTORNEY AT .: (, tio T. W V. H;.yj, j r law. v A TTOTIXBY AT Pcrji.io. KsvuohW HuKih 3tik, Sonsea Ht., n;i Citj-, r. , SV-ly r. iiKri.it. Mi.mn.ir. . A.rmTS M I,vr, - - rrnlt:ln, r. TlUCTirK In tin frl of Vt'-J X aaniro, Jt"r f.Hi, Forest, and 'j 'h' ' tsiniio. i . w S'J-ly CKNTrvAI.. UOOSf'i O.Atsii, l'lopi lPtor. Tul i flow op, ii. bn jnt lita flt!l t fii tha P"nmiiio lation of tlii public A n'.iou f Ih pjiUviiiRg wT Uie puhlio Ifi t.oJi 4 o.l. lj ; - I i: - ..... " J--rrpnc Houtit " I mini r.?i r.v, r.i.. wrt.tiAM mw- RKXt'lC, . TKorRiKTon. . h'ix if VnlrallT m MPil. Kvrrxlliitt; nnw'nl Al frnihpi . WniiarU.1' w-ommoilw- i.m n.1 Ptrirt ttnntioit qItjmi n (T'lc . .Tp:li!p mid fc'rnlts of nil kindii kprfi l v hi U..r kPiKnii. snipl wm' tor Ct.ii ril Af;pnn. . . f-. . A. VARSFH riio:j.11Ki'on. (lppoiitp ,atL li'itinx, Timiesin, Ju-'l kMipii. , Kvoryt Nuur now t.id dun ami ,a. Tin lioii nirlijiioi-a tPijton-tt.iitly ti aanj. A tor:ioii if lli tiuiiiia iiMitni- ' : U rpo'.fall Kolinili'i. J 4ylHv - -. i - JJ....?."H 1 :iTTKT,. rrdprii-tor, r.'.ai SU Tlo- KU. 1'A., al l!:J ui.vHliof ll.i-cro.'k. Mr. JttMl Inn l!iiiouL'!)lv' niiovuU'il thit Tiists4 ll-mun, ailU vol'ui-f isiiuil itc'iin ,lui!y. All whi pilrori?u,Ulm will li nlwtaiti 'd at ro:unl-iM ratnx, U7 ly rpinot'TK. r.v. u.'i:vi.i.ra.i-itte. ,. . L Toa. 'I'tm Iiiiiuo is rSiitrally lo. alrd, ha brpa tlrr)mlijv r!i.tl and iimv 1 ax i d a U'llc sn ( !' 5.1 a- pnv Ih : tal In tbo oil rplo'is. T.jlanipt only r day.. . lr'Jn C..7!. W cr'.l"itl, j pYi,Ki:mit'i;(;ii r.v., vn. WTiBirn. llSI P po .t.w.K!on of tli mriif bl ii k v.r I l.mj wil! na tr.ppy to 4itMi:ji all l.i C-"' ' Iimium", and anv immr of Yipw ono. id will ha h nod a.'iT.ini.i.i.l itiont fur muvitu. an I i'X- ' 10-aiii. 4K.llt.iit stabling. v ,' ; - Dr. J. I.As. -,1 X, WW hail ha 1 tlfln.Mi rears px'V i'i e In a Inrt'P Hid SUcj'ttSHfiil practi'H, v: Vrafejilonal C'ails. flU'ii. Crocks y.S'.iire, iooaloU i -nltond all is l.'i lif and - XJJC III! STOUT! WTT lit rOUXD jiHl ai-iirlinciit rf Me lic-j'.a -i, Wqiiovs tvba 'O, I'ijfars Htatioiniry, iis, I'uinti, rii, Cutli'iy, uil of tii t'at bnality, and rlll b mid at r;.i'.n:birv a: f ni. (.'HAS. O. DAY. -an (. t poriMiwl rhyaifian a'.vl DriiKi't from New York, aa ciiarwu of the ,S..ro. orcKgrliitior.i put ujacourataiy. - -. ., a, a. mat. . , , , o- f. 'rim.. i. a. u.r. t f . MA y, .e A'Jt )f LfrO if. 'J3 Jr ic,tife(S C'irnr of Kim A NraSirV-'a.'rirtofita. X i. iua o nij flunt aiu 7pmi, I lutui,t al!ov.n4 on'l'.r . .. of tUo V. 0. rt.'f .yli va. ' i"-'l loiut Colieetiaii;. IC-ly. D. W, CXAFJX, (ooxiMisatoMmi's cLSitu; ro ijit ro., r.i.) ii ISA L US T i Tt- A a TJXT. TTOXJSCS and t.oN f r fi ll WUd lutU to. aticl IlKNrP 1. 1 I havn superiori'jM'iUt'o MH.-ertainint; the CMixUiU.il rirta4nd ..ix deeds, An., and am iluuo.'Vuvt, tfiiuliil ' ,o act intuili yutly as u-(iit c-P thoHO "vin r at dis .MiK'O. ow'tiinit lw:-.'ai ir ttef ,uniy. (fUvs in L'oiNtn!i.t.tonMs Kooni,-Court IIoiumi, Tionritft, 1'a. j -1 HEW CILL!AR FiOOMS! V DJOIMNU t!fTio! S MouHe, at the - uiout'ii of Tionesta CfpVt. The tables nod room ai s nnw, au.t B oi "tliiiu; kept in i rd.-r. To lovers of tl,p 'wno aeordial . a . .union ij ex!eud.e 1 u oome aul 1'J t tlso new room. if M. 11'TF.?,. riopiictor. , "I'ha. lVVxiblican gtll.:e J.' KIM'S diik1 J?rly on liaidalarpi V h'O llliOilt ..f lll.iuk bsnuli, Mort,1l f clii"' VViirraiitN, Sunnnins, '. bo -t'.i In .'..I I'r.r eait VOL. VII. NO, 10. WM. F. BLUM, j3Ii-A. OKSli J T 33. AND. WAGON-MA KE ItJ ; C orner of C.'liuroli and Elm Strpp$ TIOTSTES'TA. T3A. This firm is prepared to do h11 work In in lino, and will warrant avei-ytliinir dona r! t hoi r l pa to rive Nnt'..HjUaiyi. l'r ticulsr attention (Jlvpn to rivp thein atrial, mid von will not re efet It. bl-ly. .BUCKSHITH MDWAGOS SHOP. rPHK nndorslned hnvo oponod n llrt L rlnsa KliicUnuth and Wairon Shop, in tlip; ItnliertH Mhup, opposite tho KuihI III Ail work ill Bittior linn promptly ati a.liid to, and S'itimrtlon Kiinrutitocd. 1 1 x-iowliooinfy n Hioiilty 22 i U S1'F.AR.S A H. W 110 RUTS. 1EW UARlfESS SHOPT nT oji 'iif.il in the KoTicrts lliiildineop--i L tlip Kurnl lloimo. Tho undi'r alf l Ih prnamrl to do all kinds of work In I J lino in tho lt style aud on short uot.. . V.'V XI A IS H H H A Pifi'lnlty Ifppp on lmtid a flno imnort ni'vt.iof iirrv ('ciiiil.i, ItrunliP', lliirmsa Oil, W hips nml SiidilluH. Il:irnps of a:t kin s luii'i to order iind c!ic.'tp ns tlio clitiu.'st ltcniPinhiT thn inline mid ptiux) W KMI', Robert- Jlulldinu, 22-lV"" iipi.aito Kurat HoiiHe, Tioncatn. i ii. c. ii Aiixnr, Co reliant I1 a i lor, f Vlie Ijiwrcaco ItiiiMiiKT, ovpr Siipcr- I ir stunner l o. Nlore. I lie inmt htM-k 1 1 ooiikuiiitlr on liund, anil irmilo up in 'ipat luannor ami nuwot st l'j-ly nns. c. n. iii:atei; DFESSJIAKER, Tionosta, Pa. IS. I1KAT1I lia't rppoiitly moved to tlila placn lor thn purivmo of nvutintt a int n.iu ii llio ladios ot tlip town ami ro;My harp pr a lonir timn known, that of anvimr a drt'ssmaki-r of '.xpiritH-o anions tlini. I mil lirrp.irpd to make all kmiU if drrpHf'M In'tlio laipst Hlylc, and miaraiitPi aa'iH'a.'tiun. Stanipinn for braid ing and fiinbroiilKry donn in I ho bi'-;t man n.T, with thp ncvrt piittprn". All f attk ' i a Ifir 'rial. Ki-aidpiKu on Water St root. in tht holiso formerly o(viplid by Jacob Knher. " '5h(". 'Htlr, v PBPTOGRAPHER, I ; ' (srjc;KOll TO DKMINa.) Piritires In every atylpof tli art. Views nf thu oil rotfiong foinalo-or taken to or dr. v - (.T.NTDRSTltKKT, ucur H, R. crohslng. fvYCroiiK 8TI1KKT, iv ar 't'uion De Mt, Oil Cily,-r. M-tf PHOTOGRAPH .. , ' ' J ... GALLERY. fJOUTIt . rr,H KTituET, QV .ROBINSON A HONXEIV8 '" ! , - r . STORi;, ' LTionesta, PaT, M. CARPENTER, - - Troprietor. PicturAH taken In all tho latest stvlra tLo aiL !i'-tr IIE'tV JEWEL2Y STORE M, SMITH, i - - fATCH;.US(R JEWELER At EUPERIOU STORE. ALL WORK WARRANTED. A Large ami Superior Htock of "WnteUoBj, Cloolrsf anilJewelry, CONSTANTLY ON HAND. SMITH lias line maehiuorr for m iUiim all prta of a wntcJi or elock that mar bo misniiis or brokan. Ho wr ranUi all bis work. Tho patronago of the ei;.j.en of I'oitM Oounly is meat respeet lully Ho.ii'iwd. All ho asks is a fair trial. "4i r DVI H'i'lSKIiH send 25 cents to Opo. 1'. Howoil rf- Vo., 41 1'urk How, N. Y., for their Eiflity-pae r.-unpklet, showing rin! tif n(l VellSlllg. IS it TIONESTA, PA., Old Time3 on the Mississippi. HT MARK TWA1X. When I was a boy there was but one permanent ambition among my c in miles in our village, on the wesi bank Of tho Mississippi river. That wag to be a Bleainboatinan. We bar) transient ambitions of other eorts, but they were only transient. When a circus came and went, it left us al) burning to bu come clowns ; the first nero mim-trel show Ihnt eanio to onr nectinn left tifl all sufleriig to try that kind of life; now and theu we bad A hope that if we lived, and were good, God would per mit us to he pirateg. These ambitions faded out, each in turn; hut the am bition to be a steaniboutiuan always remained. , Once a day a cheap, gaudy packet arrived upward from St. Louis, and another dmvnwurd from Keokuk. Je lore these eveuts had transpired, the day was. glorious with expectancy; after they had transpired, the day was u dead and empty thing. Not only tbe boys, but the whole village did this. Alter all these years, I can pic ture that old time to myself now, just as it was then ; the white town drows ing in in the sunshine of a summer's morning ; the streets empty, or pretty nearly so; one or two clerks Billing in trout of the Wutor street stores, with the splint bottomed chairs tilted back nniust the wall, chins on breasts, hats slouched over their faces, asleep--with shingle shavings enough 'around to show what broke them down ; a sow and litter of pigs loafing along the side walk, doing a good business in water melon rinds and seeds ; two or three lonely little freight piles scattered about the "levee;" a pile of "skids" on the slope of the stone paved wharf, and the fragrant town drunkard asleep in the shadow of them ; .two or three wood flats ut the head of the wharf but nobody to listtu to tho- peaceful lap ping of the wavelets against t em ; the great Mississippi, the majestic, the magnificent Mississippi, rolling its mile wide tide along, (mining in the sun ; the 'dense forest a way on the other sido ; the "point" above the town, and tho "poiut" b Jow, bounding the river glimpse and turning it into a sort of eu, and withal a very still aud bril liant one. Presently a film of dark smoke appears above one of those re-, mote "points ;" instantly a negro dray man, famous for his quick eye and pro digious voiee,lifts of the cry, "S-t-e-a-iu-boat a co in in 1" and the sceno changes. The town drunkard stirs, clerks wake up, a furious clatter of drays follows, every house and store pours out a liu mini contribution, aud ail iu a twink ling the dead town is alive und mov ing. Drays, cam, men, boys, all go hurrying from many quarters to a com mon centre, the wharf. Assembled there, the people, fasten their eyes upon the coming boat as upon a wonder they are seeing for th first time. And tho boat is rather a handsome sight, too. t She is long and sharp and trim and pretty ; she has two tail, faucy topped chimneys, with a gilded devioo ot some kind swung between them ; a fanciful pilot-house, all glass and "gin gerbread," perched on top of the "lex as" dec behind them ; the paddle boxes nre gorgeous with a picture or with gilded rays above the boat's name; the boiler deck, and the tesas deck are fenced aud ornamented with clean white railings; there is a flag gallant ly fling from the jack-stab"; ihe fur nace doors are open and he fires glar ing bravely ; the upper decks are olaek with passengers ; tht cap'uin stands by tho big bell, calm, imposing, the envy of all; great volumes of the blackest smoke are rolling aud tumbling out of the chimneys a husbanded giauduur creaied with a bit of pitch pine just before arriving at a town; the crew nre grouped ou the forecastle; the broad stage is run far out over tbe port How, and au envied deckhand stands picturesquely on the rud of it with a coil of rope iu Lis baud; the pent t tea in is screaming through the gauge-cocks; the captain lifts his hand, a bell rings, tho wheels stop; then they turn hack, churning tiie water to foam, and the steamer is .at rest. Then such a scramble as there is to get ashore, aud to take in freight a:id to discharge freight, all at one aud the same lime, and such a veiling aud cursing as the mates facilitate it all with! Ten minutes later the steamer is under way again, with no flag on the jack-statf und no black smoke is suing from the chimneys. Altsr ten more minutes the town is dead again, and the town drunkard asleep by the skids ouce more. - -. My father was a justice of the peace, and I supposed he possessed the power of life and death overall men and could hang all that ollinded him. This was distinction enough for me as a geueral thing; but the desire to be a steam boatman kept intruding, nevertheless, I ti ret waDted to be a cabin-boy, so that I could come out with a' white apron on and shake a tablo-cloth nvr JANUARY 13, 1875. the side, where all my oltf comrade con Id see me; later I thought I would father be the. deck hand who stood on the end of the stage plank with the coil of rope in his hand, because 'he. was particularly conspicuous. But these were only dny-dreams they were too heavenly to be contemplated as real possibilities. " By and by one of our boys went away. lie was not heard of lor a long time. At last he turned i p as apprentice engineer or "striker" on a steamboat. This thing I shook the bottom out of all my Sunday school leadings. That boy had been notoriously worldly, and 1 just the re verse; yet he was exalted to his emi nence, and I left in obscuriry and misery. There was nothing generous about this fellow iu his greatnes. He would always manage to have a rusty bolt to tcruh while his boat tarried ut our town, and he would sit on the in side guard and scrub it, where we could all see him and envy him nml loathe him.- Whenever his boat was laid up he would come home nnd swell around town in his blackest and greasiest clothes, bo that nobody could help remembering that he was a steam boatman ; and .he used all sorts of steamboat technicalities in his talk, as if he were so used to them that he forgot com inou people could not il.i derslfliid them; 'He ""wouhP'speaTI "of the "labboard" tides i f a house iu an easy, natural way that would make oue wish he was dead. And he was always talking about "St. Lnoy" like an old citizen; he would refer casual ly to occasions when he "was coming down Fourth street," or when be wus "passing by the PlonteYs House," or when there was a ue and he took a turn on the brakes of the "old Big Missouri"; uud then he would go aud lie about how many towns the size of our were burued uuwn there that day. Two or three, of the boys had long been persons of consideration among us because they bad been to St. Louis once, and had a vague geueral knowl edge of its wonders, . but the day of their glory was over now. They lapsed into au humble silence, and learned to disappearwhen tho ruthless "cub" en gineer apnroached. This fellow had money, too, and hair oil. '" Also, an ignorant silver- watch and a bhowy brass watch chain. He wore a leather belvand used no suspenders. If ever a youth was cordially admired aud hated by his comrades, this one wus. No girl could withstand bis charms. He "cut out" every boy iu the village. Wheu his boat blew up at last, it dif fused a tranquil contentment among us such as we had not known for months. But when he came home the uest week, alive, renowned, and ap pearing iu church all battered up and baudaged, a shining hero, stared at wondered over by everybody, it seem ed to us that the partiality of Provi dence fur un undeserving reptile had reached a point whore it was open to criticism. This creature's career could produce but one result, and it speedily follow edv Boy after boy managed to get on the river. The minister's sou be came au engineer. . The doctor's and the postmaster's solis became "mud clerks;" the wholesale liquor dealer's sou became a barkeeper on a bout; four sous of the chief'merchunt, and two sons of the county judge, becamo pi lots. Pilot was the grandest position of all. The pilot, even in those days of trivial wages, had a princely salary from a hundred and fitly to two hundred and 1ilty dollars a mouth, and uo board to pay. Two mouths of his wages would pay a preacher's salary for a year. Now some of us were kit disconsolate. We could not get on tho river at least our purents would, uot let us So by And by I ran away. I said I never would come home agaiu till I was a pilot aud could come iu glory. But sou.ehow I could uot manage it. I went meekly aboard a few of the boats that lay packed together like sardines at tlx: long St. Louis wharf, and very humbly inquired for the pi lots, but got only a cold shoulder and short words from mates and clerks. 1 hud to make the best of this sort of treatment for the time being, but I had comforting 'lay dreams of a fu ture when I should be a greut uud honored pilot, with plenty of money, aud could kill some of these mates aud clerks and pay for them. .. Mouths afterward the hope within me struggled to a reluctant death aud I found myself without an ambition. But I was ashamed to go home. 1 was in Cincinnati aud I set to work to map out my ffeabpaper. I had been reading about the recent exploration of the river Amazon by an explora tion party sent out hy our goveruiuei, It was said that the expedition, owing t dillic ulties. had not thoroughly ex plored a part of the couutry Iviug above the head waters, sunfo four thousand u:iles from the mouth of the river. It wus ouly about fifteen hun dred miles from ('inciunati to .New fKWa.fft, rtorrnop.' 11 '..-."- 5J! J "'LI ?J"J.l!l!!!;j!!gggf'!?! $2 PER ANNUM. ship. lt: had thirty dollars left; I would go and complete Ihe explora tion of the Amazon. This was nil the thought I gave to the subject.. I nev-. er was great- iu matters of detail. I packed my valise and took pns.-agfl on an ancient tub called the Paul Joins, for New Orleans. For the sum of six teen dollars I had the scarred and tarnished splendors of "her" main sa loon principally to myself, for the was not a rreaturo to attract the eye of wiser travelers. When we presently got tinker way and went poking down the broad Ohio, I became a new being, and the. subject of my own admiration. I was a trav eler! A wt rd had never tasted so good iu my month bt-lbre. . I luul an exult ant senso ot. being boon t for niytcr ious lands nnd climes wh:ch I never have felt iu so titiliiiing a degree since. 1 was in such a glorilitd condition that all ignoble feelings departed out of me, and I wits able to look down, end pily the untr.iveled with a companion that had hardly u trace, of contempt iu it. Still, when we stopped a-t til lages wood-ynrds, I could not help lolling carelessly upon the railings ot the boiler deck to enjoy the envy of the country boys on the bank. It they did not seem to discover me, I preset! t ly kiieezed to attract their at (Vntioii, or iiicveiT to a po-sn. : n iun c they could not help seeing me. And as soon as I knew they saw me I gaped Hlid stretched, and gve other signs ot being mightily bored with (raveling. I kept my hat oil' all the;' time, and stayed where the wind nnd the sun could strike me, becuusc I wauled to get the bronzed and weather-oentcn look of an old traveler. Before the second day was half gone, I exper ienced u joy which filled me with the purest gratitude ; fori saw that the skin had begun to blister und peel off my face and neck. . I wished that the boys and girls at home could see me now. We reached Lousvillo in time at. least - the neighborhood of it. We stuck hard anil fast ou the rocks in the middle of the river, nnd lay there four days. I was now beginning to ted a strong sense of being a part of the boat's futility, a sort of infant son to the captain uud younger brother to the officers. There is uo estimating the pride I took in this grandeur, oi the affectiou that began to grow and swell in me for these people. I could not know hoav tho lordly steumbout mun scorns thutsortof presumption in a mere landsman. I particularly long ed to acquire the least trifle of notice from the big, stormy mate, and I was on the alert for an opportunity to do him a service to that end. It came at last. The riotous powwow of selling a spar was-going ou down on the fore castle, at;d I went down there nnd stood around iu the way or mostly skipping out of it till the male sud denly roared out u general order for somebody to bring him cupbt'in bar. I sprang to his side aud said: "Te.l uie where it in 111 fetch it!" If a rag-picker had i'i'ei?d to do a diplomatic aervice for the Emperor of ilusia, the monarch could not have been more astonished than tlie mate was. lie stood uud stared down at me. It took him -ten minutes to sjrapo his disjointed remains together sai'i. Theu he said impressively: "Well, it this don't beat h 111" and turned to his work with the air of a man who had been confronted - with a problem too abstruse tor solution. 1 crept away and courted solitude for the rst of the day. I did not go to dinner; I stdyed away from topper until everybody els had fiuislud. 1 did uot feel so much like a 'member of the boat's family now as before. How; ever my spirts returned, iu iinttaf' inents, as we pursued our way down the river. I was sorry I hi led the mute so, because it was tint In (young) human nature not to admire him. He was huge und niiiseulai , his face w bearded and whiskered ull over; he hud a red oiiihii uud a blue - womftti tfeUooed ou his right arm- one ou each side of a blue anchor with a red rope to it; uud in the matter of profanity he was perfect. When he was getting our cargo at a lauding, I was itluay where I could see and hear. He felt all tbe sublimity of his great posit inn, and made the world feel it, too. When he jrave eveu the simplest "onlor, he diacharged it like a blast of lightning, and sent a long, reverberating petl of profanity thundering after it. 1 could not help contrasting the way in which the average luudsmun. would c,ivc an order, with tho mule's way of doing it. If the luudsiuuu siiobld wishlhcguug plank moved a foot limber forward, lie would probably say : ".lames or William, one of yi.u push thut plank forwurd, please;" but put the mute iu his place, and Im would roar out: "Here, now, start that gang-plank for'ard I Lively now I HViuCre you about! Snatch itl mutch it V 'i here ! there! Aft again I all ugain ! Don't VOU Pr inT l i"wi. .... . 8IIIPP1NQ TAGS, Ac. Rates of Advertising. One Square (1 Inch,) onn Inpjjloi - $1 W OiioSpwr " fwiomonlli - 00 OnoSquaro " threp mouths DM Ono Hipisro ". ono year - 10 00 Two Squares, one year - - 15 vrj " tJiinrlorCol. " - . - M OK Halt " " - o i. - One , . : . . io (, l.Pi'al notice" at PMlabl'MiPfl rUa. Marriairn nnd death mim, aiRtiK. All hills for vearly advert ivnienla oAt lpoted quarterly. Temporary advertise -nieii " ions be paid :-in adancu. , .Job work, C'a- h on Jielivpiy. ' '"' ing. 'Vast henviiifr, I tell you 1 Going t heave it j'lcurn.-tern ? Whcre'reyott going with that barrel ! for'ard with it "lore I make yon swallow it, you tlash-(lush-dash -durlted split, between a tired mud turtle and a crippled hearse horse'!" I wis-h I could talk like that. , When the soreness of my advtntur . with the fiiue had somewhr.t worn off, I began timidly to make up to the humblest connected with thn boat, tho night watchman. He snubbed my ad- . I.... 1 .1 iiiinio nv in -i-, mi a picpcuiiy vrillur cd to oiler him a new chalk pipe,, aud iliut softened him. So 1ic allowed me ' to sit Willi him by, the bijr belf on- v : hurricane deck, aiid in ,t'irnHlse ''melted..?' - into conversation.'- lie could, not well..1 help it, I hliug with such, homage on his words Hbd so plainly ' slewed -that ": I felt honored by his notice. He. told ; .,., me the names of 'dim capes and shad"- J owy islatids us we glided by Ihem in ilie soTcmi:Lly of the night, under tho winking stars and by uud tiyjrot to talking nbouL himsu f. IIoseeoied over-sentimental for u..tniin whoso sal- ' ary was six dollars a week or rnthcr he might have seemed so to 'ftn older person than I. But I drunk iu his words hungrily, and with u faith that might have moved mountains it a Iind been applied judiciously. WJintwai--c, ,ms-ilmi Jie-frn sittieit and seedy and fragrant with gin? What wns it foiiio that his grammar . was' had, his con struction worse, uud his profanity so void of art that it was an element of weakness instead of strength in his conversation? He was a "wronged man, a man who bad eccn-irpublo and that was enough for me. As he met-, lowed into his plaintive history his tears dripped upon the lantern iu Ida hip, and I cried, too, from sympathy. He said ho was the son oi an English uoblemau cither uu carl or an alder man, he could not remember which. but believed he was both; his 1'uther, the nobleman, loved him, but his moth- .... I....-.1 i i- j - - ei nuiiu iiiiu ii'oni iiie cruoie; una so when ho was still a little boy he was sent to "one of them old ancient col- s,- leges'' hd c uhin't remember which; .. and by and by his lather died and his; , mother eiezed the property .and -"shook" him, as he phrased it. After his mother shook him, members of tho nobility w ith whom he was acquainted . used their influence to get him the position of "lob-lolly-boy in a ship ;" , ' and from that point my 'watchman" ' threw ou all trammels of date and locality and branched out iuto a nar- ' rati ve that bristled all along with in- 1 credible adventures ; a narrative that was so reeking wirh bloodshed .and so . crammed with hair-breadth escapes' '.- and ine most eiiL'Uirini' HiKllinconsciona a c o - personal villainies, that I eat speech- , less, enjoying, shuddering, wondering, . worshipping..' If was a sore blight, to find nut af- terwaros mat no wan a low, vulgar, . . ignorant, v sentimental, hilf-witted ' bumbtpr, an uutravelud. native of tho wibLs of Illinois, who had -absorbed wild cat literature and appropriated its marvels, until in time he had wuvan ' . odds and ends of the mefs into this varu, and then gone on telling it to . - !. .- i j tieogeiiugs like me until ne uaa coma to believe it himself. , , At aboii t twenty miles from Berlin is situated the village of Spereuberg, noted for the deepest well (hit has ever been sunk. Owing To the presence of gvpum iu the locality, which is at a , moderute distunce from the capital, it occurred to the (Jovernuientaulboriljes in charge of the mines to obtain a sup ply of rock suit ' Willi this eud -in view, the sinking of n shaft or well sixteeu feel iu diameter was com menced some five yeurs ngo, and, at depth of two bundud und eighty feet, tin) suit was rched. The bonug was continued lo u further ' depth uf iiino ' hundred und sixty leet, tho diumeter-' of the bore hetu; reduced til a boil ( lliirieeu inches. . Tho operations, were subsequently protocoled by thn aid of' steam, until a depth ot 4194 feet was attained. At this point the boreing.'' was discontinued, the borer being still in the salt deposit, which ihnsrxbibita tho enormous ihiekiuss of o'J07 ItfcL. Win. L.-Barry, of St. Louis, who was doubtless the oldest printer in the country, died, having attained tho good old Kg of ninety six years. 11 ban over beventy yeara' active service at the case, aud tho hrct regular "take," niter he became a lull fltdged printer, which he "hel" was a notice of the death of George Washington. The deceased was a native of Virginia. ' New York boarders object to the pudding being mixid in a coul-scuttle, ou the ground thut in these hard limes the waste of fuel consequent upou ihe pieces being coked wilh the pudding is a Uagrui.t iu gleet of the poor. Outs may he good to souk the damp ness out of wet boots, but how tnajiy St. Louis uieii cau uil'ord to keep thir- , bushels ol on t-i un hand lor that purpose?
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