SRte gtpuWton."'- M PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY, BY W. R. DUNN. ' OFFICE IS R0MJTO01T k BONffEB'S BuTLDISO ELM STREET, TI0KE3TA, PA. TERMS, $2.00 A YEAR. Wo Subscriptions rooelvod for a shorter peried tlian tliroo months. : Correspondence solicited from all parts or the country. No notice will bo taken of anonymous communications. VILl ".' . ' OUSINESS DIRECTORY. 7 . TTOWraTA LODGE MEETS every Friday oveninR, at 7 o'clock, In the HaH formerly occupied by Uio Oood Templars. O. A. KANDALL, N. O. S. IT. HASLET, Soc'y. 27-tf. TIONESTA COUNCIL, NO. 342 O. TJ. 'JL. IMI. MEETS at Oil 1 Fellows' Lodge Room, every Tuesday evening, at 7 o'clock. 1. M. CLARK, C. K. A. VARNER, It. S. 81 J. S. HI.AIKR, M. D. R. A. KG BERT, M. D. ELAINE &. EGBERT, OFFICE and residence In houso former ly occupied Dr. Winans. Office days, Wednesdays and Saturdays. 82tf E. L, Davis, ATTORNEY AT LAW, Tlonesta, Ta. Collection made In this and adjoin-ing- eountiea. 40-ly J. B. AQNEW, W. E. LATHY, TlraecU, Fk, Erl,Pa. 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AVDOLESALE & RETAIL Dealers in Hardware, Iron and Nails, Stoves and Tinware. BELTING Of ALL SIZES Constantly on hand, at low pricoa. . Also Manufacturers of SHEET I It OX WORK, Smoko 8taoks,I3reeoh. ing, Slieet Iron, Well Casing, . FORRALl'l One Second-hand ten horse power Woodberry Stationwy Boiler and Engine. II. G. TINKER & CO., . OIL CITY, PA. I EMPLOYMENT, Male and female, sal--J ry or commission. We pay agent as salary of a week andexpi'iisos. Kuro- ka fianuiacturing Co., Uaittord. Conn Paiticularu free. II 4 Jf. TIONESTA, PA., HUNTINGITHE LEOPARD. The leopard of Africa (Fell Leop ardua) there very commonly called ti ger or panther, which Captaiu Harris tells us is very similar in Appearance to that indigenous to India, is common throughout Damaraland, a9 also Southern Africa generally; lut, from its cunning, active nature and noctur nal habits, is but rarely seen.' It is about two feet seven inches high at the shoulder, And Seven feet bix inches in extreme length. The cMb, neck, breast, belly and inside of the extremities, are white, the rest varying iu different specimens between tawnv, fulvous and reddish-brown, ir regnfarly marked with spots of black, which differ greatly in number, size and appearance at different age and seasons. It is monogamous, or solita ry. In its wild slate it is an exceedingly beautiful creature, its motions in the highest degree easy and graceful,' and its agility in bouuding among the rocks and woods quite amazing. Of its activity no person can have an idea by seeing it in the cages in which these animals ore usually exhibited, humbled and tamed, as they are. by confinement and the cold and damp of v. t: f hue cumaie. Casualties from leopards in my vi cinity were riot of unfrequent occur rence. On ono occasion, indeed; my Swedish lad. Axel, was beating some low bushes in search of game and spec imens, when he suddenly found him self in the presence of one of these beasts, who, apparently, was in the very act of springing upon him, its head being ensconced between its fore legs, as is its wont on sush occasions. Being probably startled At the unex pected vision, the youth hurriedly raised his fowling-piece to his shoulder and fired. But the contents, unfortu nately, only lodged in one of the ani mal's forepaws, which it smashed, as was afterward ascertained; and before he could pull the second trigger ! he found himself in a deadly struggle with the exasperated brute.. However, being a strong-I mbed and courageous young man, he seized the leopard with both hands, and for some momenta held it down to the ground by main force. f Hearing cries of distress, some D.im aras who were herding cattle hard by came up, but seeing the danger, they beat a precipitato retreat. My poor boy repeatedly pointed with his foot to the gun, hut all in vain, and he be gan to despair of his life, as the beast had by this time dreadfully lacerated both his hands and his arms, and con sequently unfitted him for prolonged, strife with such a fierce and powerful opponeut. rrovidently the dogs, thouzh not the most courageous, came to the res cue, and by persistently worrying the beast in his binder parts, finally com pelled him to decamp, though not until be had killed one of the number. It is satisfactory, however, to add that be himself was shortly afterward de stroyed by a party of natives, who, on hearing the poor fellow a cries, prompt ly ran to the spot, and afterward went in pursuit of the leopard, which died game, having slain a second dog ; two others, moreover, being accidently shot by their owners in the general melee. As I have said, the lad was fearful ly knocked about aad mauled. In some places, especially about the hands and wrists, the teeth of the animal had actually met in the flesh. I am, how ever, happy to be able to add that with care and quiet, he ultimately re gained the use of his arms and hands, though not until after much prolonged suffering. On another occasion, a herdsman espied a leopard among some rocks, and being armed he unhesitatingly discharged his musket, but either missed his mark, or very slightly woundd the brute. The next mo ment the poor fellow felt himself struck violently to the ground, with the teeth of the unfuriated animal deeply btir ied in his left shoulder. However, by the assistance of some dogs the leop ard was made to retreat after a while, but not until it had fearfully mauled the man, who, though he recovered temporarily, eventually died from 'the effects of the dreadful wounds inflict ed. Numerous other instances of the fe rocity of the leopard have coma under my notice, and very many others are on record, of which I 6hall instance a few. Two African farmers,eturntng from hunting, roused a leopard in the moun tain ravine, and immediately gave chase to it. The beast at first endeav ored to escape by clambering up a precipice, but being hotly pursued, and wounded by a musket-ball, it turned upon its assailants with the frantic ferocity peculiar to this am mal, and springing upon the man who bad fired at it, pulled him to the ground, biting him at the 6ame time on the bloulder. and tearing oneu his v DECEMBER G, 187G. checks with its claws. The other hun ter, seeing the danger of his comrade, spraDg from his horse and attempted to shoot the leopard through tho head, but, whether owing to trepidation, the fear of wounding his friend, or the quick motions of the animal, he unfor tunately missed. 1 he leopard, aban doning its prostrat9 foe, darted with redoubled fury upon its new antago nist, and so fierce and sudden was the ; onset that, before the Boer could stab it with his hunting-knife, the savage brute struck him on the head with its claws, nnd actually tore the scalp over his eyes. In this frightful condition, the hunter grappled with the leopard, and, struggling for life, they rolled to gether down a steep declivity. AU this passed far more rapidly than u can be described in words. During this dreadful scene, the hunter first attacked had started to his feet and seized his guo, and after reloading it, he rushed forward to save the life of his friend. But it' was too late ; the leopard had seized the unfortunate man by the throat and mangled him so dreadfully that deuth was inevita ble; and his comrade (himself severely wounled) had only the melancholy satisfaction ol completing the destruc tion of the savage beast, already ex hausted with the loss of blood from several deep wounds from the knife of the expiring huntsman. ; Again, another instauce of the fe rocity of the leopard occurred in the case of the Missionary Schmidt : This worthy man had gone out with a party of Hottentots to another Mora vian station to hnnt Eome hyenas which had been very destructive to their flocks, and, in company with one of the men, eutered a thicket in pur suit of a beast they had wounded. Instead of the hyena, however,: the dogs started a leopard, which instant ly sprang on the Hottentot and bore him to the ground, l Mr. Schmidt ran forward to the aid of the man with his guu cocked ; but, before he could find an opportunity of firing, the animal left the Hottentot and flew with fury at himself. In the scuffle he dropped I lie gun, but luckily fell above the leopard, with his knee on its stomach. The animal seised him by the left arm with its jaws, and kept striking -him with its paws and tearing his clothes in tatters from his breast. Schmidt, however, being a powerful ' man, suc ceeded, after receiving another severe bite or two, in seizing the leopard by the throat with bis right hand, and held it -down, in spite of its desperate struggle, for a few minutes, nud until his strength was on tho poiutof giving way," when a Hottentot on the outside ibf the jungle, r who heard his cries, LUIU'J HI lilt leauua nuu ouub ,mo ic- rocious beast through theTieart, eo that its death was instantaneous. Had any life been left, its dying strug gles might still have 'proven fatal to Mr. Schmidt. As it was, he was so terribly lacerated that for several weeks his life was in the greatest dan ger. The Hottentot who was first at tacked was less severely wounded, but his face was so much torn by the animal's talons that his eyes were filled with blood, and he was unable to render any aid. to the missionary who had so generously come to his aid. On one occasion Mr. Orpen and President (a native follower) had gone up tlio river to shoot sea-cows, when they fell in with an immense leopard, which President wounded very badly. They then sent natives to canip to ask for dogs, of which I sent them a couple. In about an bur the na tives came running back and said that Orpeu was killed by the leopard. On further inquiry, however, I fouud that he was not really killed, but fearfully torn and - bitten about the arms and head. They had rashly taken up the spoor on font, the dogs following behind, instead of going in advance. The consequence of this was that they came right upon the beast before they were aware of him. when Orpen fired and missed him. Tho leopard then sprang on his shoul ders, and, dashing him to the ground, lay upon him, growling and lacerat ing his hands, arms and head most ,'earfully. Presently the creature per mitted Orpen to rise and come away. Numerous instances of hair breadth escapes from the leopard are also on record, among which that of Moffat, the missionary, is, perhaps, not the least remarkable, the rather as, in the avoidance of the threatened danger, he incurred another of even a more perilous nature, thus verifying the old saying'Out of the frying-pan into the fire J" "In one of my early journeys," ho writes, "I bad an escape from au Afri can tiger and a serpent, no less provi dential. I had left the wagon and wandered to a distance among the coppice and grassy openiugs in quest of game. I had a double-barreled gun on my shoulder, which was loaded with a ball and small fcbot. An ante lopo passed, at which I fired, and slowlv followed Mia coiir it tnnb KmkMh $2 PER ANNUM. After advancing a short distance, I saw a tiger staring at me between the forked branches of a tree, behind which its long, spotted body was: con cealed, twisting and turning its tail like a cat just goiDg to spring on its prey. This, I knew, was a critical moment. I moved about, as ' if in search of something on the gras3, tak ing care to retreat at the same tiroo. After getting, as I thought, a suitable distance to turn my back. I moved somewhat more quickly; but' In my anxiety to escape what was'behicd, I did not see what was before me, until startled by. treading on a large cobra-da-capello serpent asleep on the grass. It instantly twisted iu body round my legs, on which I had noth ing but a pair of thin trowsers, when I leaped from the spot, dragging the enraged acd venomou3 reptile after me, and while in the act of throwing itself into a position to bite, I, without turning round, threw ', my piece over my shoulder and shot it. Taking it by the tail, I brought it to my people in the wagons, who on examining the bag of poison, asserted that, had the creature bitten me, I could never have reached the wagon. The Eerpent was &ix feet long." The chase ef the leopard, by both colonists and catives, is commonly conducted on foot, the hunters being accompanied , by dogs, of which the more there are the better, as they are the greatest of safeguards from this fierce and agile beast; and, though the native fox-like breed are awful lock ing creatures, I have never found any others equal to them for. dariug or pertinacity, ' , The Forest and Stream, quoting a letter from New Brunswick, N. J., describes a case where several wood cocks were brought tip by" a farmer and became well domesticated. He found four in a nest, and brought them home with him, hardly expecting they would live. But he saw that by hold ing worms before their bills they would swallow them, although they would not pick them up off the ground. In a few days they became very tame, and, aa they grew older, and acquired their full plumage, they would take thort flights about the farm, but always returning to tho house, and roosting beueath tho stone slob lorroing the kitchen doorstep. When the farmer and our informant went into the gar deu, the birds, attracted by their own er's voice, came hopping out of tho brush and flew upon his ; shoulders, manifesting not the slightest fear, but nut permitting his companion to ap proach them. After taking food from his hand they again flew away. Watch, ing the birds feeding, it was observed that they would rapidly drive their bills into the soft ground, constantly boring until they found their worm, They would then give a peculiar twist, draw it out its full lengtbr and gulp the worm down. . . . , A Charlemont marketman, when de livering goods one morning, discovered on. leaving the house of a customer a custard pie sitting in a window where the lady of the house had placed it to cool for diuner. He at once appropri ated it, and driving directly to the store of the lady's husbaud, called him out and told him he had "hooked" a nice custard pie, and if he would get some cheese they would have a, nice time eating it. Of course the cheese was forthcoming, and after satisfacto rially disposing of the pie the question arose what to do with the plate, the merchaut said he would take care of that, and, suiting the action to his words, dashed it against the wall. When the merchant went home to din ner that day hia wifa apologized for not having any dinner, saying that she made custard pie for dinner and sat it in tho window to cool, and she suppos ed some boys must have stolen it. Her husband warn't pie hungry, and seemed quite plereed about something but kept "mum," Next morning the merchant meeting the marketmau cried out 'Tie!" In reply the other said: "Cheese! and whose plate was that you smashed?" The rtev. Dr. Benjamin W. Dwight says of hli ancestor, Timothy Dwight father of Yale's President, that be was six feet four iuches in height. Ilia wife, Murjr, Jonathan Edwards' daugh ter, was so small that he wonld some times, carry her arouud the room on his open palm, held out at arm's length. The physical strength of Ma jor Dwight was proportioned to hi size. His desceudant reports "two stories told of him in the family." Oue of these represents him as seizing a cart drawn by a yoke of oxen and stopping it; the other tells of a"Wo thingtou braggart" who camo into Major Dwight' garden to challenge him to a trial of strength. The Major quietly finished the garden work in which he was engaged, and then, drop in his hoe, he suddenly caught up (he rauter, and whirling him horizontally several times over his head, pitc',J lit in nut nv tlio fun. " Rates of Advertising. One Square (1 inch,) one insertion - $1 60 One Hrpiare " one month - 8 00 One Square " . ; three months - a 00 One Souare . t raw tmh i . 10 00 Two Squares, one year - 15 Oo vnsroeri'or. - --- - so 00 Half. . " , - . . . - 60 00 One f'u ' - i . . ieo 00 Lejral notices nt established rates. Marriage and death notices, gratia. All bills for yearly advertisements col lected o.n'H'to'dy. Temporary advertise ments must bo paid for in adya&cft,' Job work Cash on Delivery.' 5 A Patagonian Beauty Won, We founds however, on landing, that the Chilian Government had a penal station here, the comiuoEdant f which, with his clerk stood before us, surrounded 1 by a score of wretched specimens of' mankind.'' The padre gave us a cordial welcome; and prof fered us a supply of fresh beef and milk if we would remain at anchop until next njorning. We accompanied them, after a pressing invitation to the settlement, embowered in a dense wood about a quarter of a. mile from the beach. J I are we found eome dozen huts, and several board bouses of rude construction, while the inhabitants, consisting of abont eighty Patagonian men and women, and about thirty repulsive-looking Chilian convicts, were busily engaged dressing skinsonsist ing of lion, ostrich, and guanco, pelts. One of the Patagonian squaws evin ced the most pleased ' wondermeut at my yellow locks and long auburn whis kers, the latter of which seemed to pos sess powerful attraction for her, for she came several times to ray side, smiling and stroking them in the most endear ing manner. At leangth, emboldened by my good nature, she took me by the hand, and, pointing to a hut near by, intimated that I should eee her home. ' Reaching the hut, I pulled aside the door, which consisted of an oitrich robe that would have excited the envy of Broadway, and which I longed to throw over a pair of white shoulders even there full well remem bered. I followed the lady into the parlor, carpeted with the richest fun, and, lighting a cheroot, I smoked away, patiently awaiting the denoue ment of the adventure. . Bursting into a hearty laugh, my fair hostess proceeded to unroll bundle after bundle of splendid furs and os trich robes; and had I possessed 'John Astor's taste for skins, dazzled by such a display I should have offered myself in due and ancient form. Selecting one of the largest and richest of the robes, my fair entertainer approached me, and, holding a corner of it up with one hand, she laid the other upon 1 an elegant hunting knife which glittered in my belt. "Ahl" thought I, "the mystery is solved at last." The Pata gonian beauty had been captivated, not by any personal charms of mine, but by on invention of Dr. Bowie; ele gantly fabricated by on accomplished cutler. I had no heart to resist such enthusiastic Biipplications, and, as I had a duplicate knifb on board, I took the one so coveted from my belt, - and placed it in the hands of my pleasant and really attractive hostess. Throw ing the robe over my shoulders I,, re joined my company, while" the" grati fied Patagonian rushed through the settlement, shouting for very joy, and exhibiting her prize to every one eha met. . .. , William Abbott, who died receutly at Victoria, was one of a company who struck rich pay on William' Creek in 1861, arriving at Victoria with three hundred pounds of gold in the fall of that year. On cnSoccasipn he entered a saloon nnd shied a handful of $20 pieces at a mirror, shattering it. When reproached by the barkeeper, he "Te vuested him to "keep tho beast for the damage." Oo another occasion he and another Caribooita astonished Govern ment Btieet by throwing $20 pieces at each other until interrupted by the police. He has been known to stake $10,000 on a hand at . pokor. After two or three' years' prosperity, Abbott got to the bottom of his claim and hia purse at the same time, and was mis erably poor at the time of his death, When Mr. Doseby returned home at twelve o'clock one night last week, and found his wife had not gone to bed, he explained for the ninth time that he was down town waiting for the (hio) 'lection returns. "The name old story," she said. "Here I'vo been waiting for your return every night for more than a week, and you can't make roe be. lieve any longer that because thw M the Centennial year the election re turns come in four weeks slower - than usual. If you don't return home earlier to-morrow night I'll return home to mother." He came hone at eight o'clock, and his wife fearing he was sick, wanted to put a mustard plaster on him where it wonld do the most good. Norr. Herald, la a long and labored article on American . elections, the Ouenatort Jlomano asserts that hia advanced age alone preyented the Uepuhlicans front nominating Wm. Cullen Brrrant ; that Mr. Wendell Philips would be most likely Vice President in case of Mr. Bryant's nomination, and that Mr. Gordon Bennett of the Jflefidd would become one of the leading lights of the Administration. According to the writer of this extraordinary article, an alliance vUti Brazil aud the cession of Cuba to tho United States would be inotig ibe certaiu results to a change ill OUr administrnf inn
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