s 7 uas) it n f i rCHLUBKD KVKIIT. WKDNESnAY, BT V. R. DUNN. firrJd it BOTnrwra bthldwo ELM BTSEZT, TKlSXgTA, FA. TKRMH, $2.00 A YKAR. fa BbcriptlHiB revived for a shorter prtd than three months. Correspondence solicited from nil part f the Country. No notice will bo taken of ansaytnous communications. : I".-, v.;'.'.. . .'. . '....-j DUSirjr3 pIRECTORY. MKKTR every Friday evening, at 7 o'clock, In the Hall formorly occupied Sf Hie Oood, Templars. '-- c. a. Randall, n. n. S. If. HASLET, Scc'y. , 27-tf. TIQNESTA COUNCIL, NO. 342 M IKT8 at Odd Fellows' I.od Room, every Tuesday evening;, at 7 o. clock. 1. M. CLANK, V. A.TARXER, R.B. SI i f. . BLAlilK, V. D. B. A. 1COHKIIT, M. . BLAINE X JtailEliT, ; "VTflC-C and residence In house fbrmor l J ly ooeapied Dr. Wlnans. Offloe days, Wednesdays and Saturday. - 82tf j. " - - JE. L. Davis, A TTORKKY AT'LAW." TloneKta. Pa. MA. Collections made In this and adjoln- 1g eountlaa. W-lf .. i. W. AC NEW. ' W.' C. LATMY, AONISVT V LATHY, rternVys atYaw, - Tloneata, Pa. '."fbtteaon RlwBtrtet. Jay l,187S.-lf ATTORNEY AT LAW, -' TIOffKSTA, PA. F.W.Hays, TTORNEY AT LAW, and t foKLic, Reynolds . llnWill otk, Seneca St., oil City, Pa. JiOTART A Co.'s S5-ly i. 4aAR. K. B. BHlLIITi J; KIXNHAR ,C BMILKY, WiirutLtw, Franklin, Pa pftACTICB In the several Conrta of Ve- A aanro, urawiora, rortmi, ami ijur eoaatlea. - -7 - , ,. . . . . If ATION Ali IIOTET., . " TIX)IOTJTE., IF -A., BtTCXMH k MORE, PRorKiBTORs. ' Vrlat-Claas Licensed House. Uood aU Wis eonheoted. l-ly Lawrence Houae, MMrtHMTAv PRMN'A. C. K. J'BAT. ' Propbiitou. Thin nouw u nti-llT tooated: Kvervtliintr new and well farnitthed .Superior uccominudii- and atriet attenkon riven to xuenU TaUjlea and Fruits of nil kinds aorred U tlalr aea-son. Satnplo room for Coin- CKNTIAL HOUSE, nf)KWKU A ACJNKW HI.OCK. 1 nmr. Pronrletor. ThU la a nc aeuae, and haajuwt been fitted up for the rotation of tho public. A portion f the patrnuage of tho publio l aoticilea -ly . . FORKST HOUSK, S - A. YARN Kit Pbopriktob.' Opponite . C'nrt Mouse. Tlonenta. Ta. Junt ...it. KvarTthlner new and clean and freah. The beat ef llquom kopt constantly a kad. A portion of the publio patron la reanectfullT solicited. 4-17-lT w. a coburn, yi. r., fTrrrA?f A BUROROX offer hiH i unlm tn the neoule of Forent Co, M.Ttnv had an exoerionco of Twelvo Ti-a in oonaUnt uractice. Pr. Oobiirn miiikUm ta elve aiitlaflictton'. Dr. Co . tarn makea a specialty of the treatment t Throat. Luns and all other ' JT-hronie or llniroriiiit disease. - Having i.UUwt .11 anientiflc metlKHls of OUT i.r dineasa and aolctod the roo1 from all tina. he will sruarantee relief or a euro In all where a cure is potsible. No i h.rrt for Consultation. All feos will be reasonable. Professional vUiU made at all hours. Parties al a distance can on ..It him iiY lttttor.' im,, -and Residence second bulldln ' 1Kb f'onrt Home. Tionesta. Pa. Of- ''-itfilifi Wadneadavs and Saturdays, U5tf . . . .. : " Dr.' J. L. Atomb, ' t OMTSICIAN AND SURGEON, who has -;; t: td4!Uen years' experlenceln a large Mil auoeensfuf practice, will attend all Professional Calls. Office In his Drug and - Mroeery fltore, located In Tldloute, near YldiouU House. JN UI3 STORE WILL BK FOUND A fall assortment of Modioinoa, Liqiioin Tebaeeo, Cigars. HUtionery, Glass, 1'ainU, Oils. Cutlery, all of the et quality, and will be sold at reasonable rates. . . DR. CIIA8. O. DAY, an experienced Ssysielan anil lruglsnroiu rew .., Vs eharge of the Slere. All prescriptions g -- yotupaoourately. B. B. UlT. ' JBO. P. PISS. A. B. ISLLT. it A Y, T A UK C CO., J3 IT K E !B S Oruer of Elni A Walnut Sta. TioneeU. Bnk of Discount and Deposit. J arrest allowed on Time Deposlta. 3eUsUon mada Wu the Prinolpal poinU V- ... 41, tt a of Ue. u. a, CollootiQHS afWM- 18-ly. HEBRASKAGRISTn!LL. mjie GRIST Mil tj at Nebraska (Ia:y. .l town,) Forest county, hn bn therT wi n.arh.ulnd and rttXiUod ill lirMt: v,s order. and is now running and doii$ kindt of CUSTOM OUINDlN(3, FLOUR. yiED, AND OATS. - usiiiUy on hand, and sold at the very H. W. LEDEttUR. WW A. VOL. IX N0.3G. WILL.TAMH CO., MEADVILLE, - - , PENN'A., TAXIDERMISTS. BIRDS and Animals stuffed and mount-, ed to order. Artificial F.ye kept in stock. 2-ly nnn. c. iiiiath, af DRESSMAKER, Tionosta, Pa. MRS. HEATH ha recently moved to this place for the purpose of meeting a want which the ladles of the town and county have, for a lonfr time known, that of having a dressmaker of experience among them. , I am prepared to make nil kinds' of dresHes in the latest styles, and tuarantec satisfaction. .Stamping' for brald- ng and embroidery done In the best man ner, with the newest patterns. All l ask is a tair trial. Residence on Water Street, In tho house formerly occupied by Jacob Hh river. 14tf TIMS TRIED AND FIRE TESTED ! Tim ORIOIHAL TNAIfiSURA!(CECr'.lPUlf OF II A RTFO RI), COSN. ASAKTd Dec. tl, W73, .. MILES W. TATF. Sub Asrent. PHOTOGRAPHER , (sUtX.'KSHOR TO DKMI5Q.) Pictures in everv st vleof the art. Views of tho oil regions for sale Or taken to or dor, CENTR15 STREET, noar R, R. crowing MYCA MORE STREET, noar Union Do- P7t. m uttr. ra. w-n - - J ., ., lil.M NT ItEltT, HOUTK OF ROBINSOX A BONNER'S STORE. ' Tionesta, Pa., M." CARPENTER ... Proprietor. rioturcs taken fn all tho. latent stylos the art . 28-tr FINE GOLD WATCHES, II.TKEl WATCHES AND JEWS LIRIT I . WatchM Clock, Solid and Tlaled Jewelry i lllack Jewelry. ' Eye C(lt8eat Spec tacle, Violin Strings f tVc, tic. AT L KLEIN'S JEWELRY STORE, TIDIOUTE, IA.. WATCHES AND CLOCK8 Iljairo(t nud Worrantort. LEAVE YOUR WATCHES at O. W. llovard'a Store, Tionosta, Pa, II. G. TIIVIiliEi & CO. WHOLESALE & RETAIL Dealers in Hardware, Iron and Xnlls, Stoves and Tinware. . BELTING OF ALL SIZES Constantly on band, at low prloos. Also Manufacturer of Nil RET IKON WOIIK, Smoko Staoks,13reeoli in, Slicot Iron, "Well Casing, FOiR SALE One Secnd-hand ten horse power Woodberry Stationary Boiler aud Engine. . . . . P. G. TINKER & CO., OIL CITY, PA. IM. PLOYM ENT, Male and female, sala u. rv or coiiuni.HMoii. We pay aKcnt ai salary of :w a wtk. and vApensos. Eure ka Munufiicturiiu? t'o.. Hartford. Viin I'artiuulars tree. 411 T10NESTA, PA., THE DONATION PARTY. "Of course we Can't give our minis' ter much of a salary, you know. Miss Harwood : but we re always calkilated to get a roan whose heart wasn't set n filthy lucre, as the postlesajs. I "I mutt own we haiu't had much success, for, would you believe it? out of five candidates that moved here the year we built the church, not one was willing to stay jfndi do' the Lord's work.' "? - ''Why, there'a only about sixty fam ilies in our cUurch and it was settled that first winter that six dollars a fam ily would be a fair tax, niacin' Digh pnto four hundred a year, you je"? ;jret it's wonderful wbaVtroubU'We ve bad to git a pastor. 1 "Brother Ralph thought tht raebbe if we ha.d.a parsonag it "'uM;.h$Jp us; so ho and other lru,vijught that ' nice little cottage where Miss Gray used to live, with a whole rod of land belontnn to U: but, law I twa n t of no use; none of them staid the year but; aud I wis clean discouraged. "When Mr. Orrosby came nigh on to three rears ago. be seemed more reasonable than the rest, though he couldn't furnish part of tho parsonage, for him, as' tbey were only new beginners and hadn't much housekecpin' stuff. "Well, the ladies was so pleased with him that they took right hold of the work (he was to come back in fortnight) and got lots of things to gether. . "There was a handsome pin-cushion mndrva f(,r etfh cfSe bed-ooms half a dozen tidies f!5fttTe parlor, and me panor, ca.se fur bis ehavin': paper, and nil sent in the first week. "You've heard him preach, Miss larwood, and you kn iw how in teres- as' 1 . A x. in he was, aua wnata oeauinui rea der and sjoger, too. Why, I declare took real comfort gom to. church nd sittiu' under such nreachen'; and so we all did, I'm sure, "But I was telhu you about what we crave him. well, ueacon oiues P 1 1 W-x f . f daughter Sally made a drawiu' of the church, and framed It if pine cones, to hang in Mr. Ormiby's study, and the deacon he sent us a cookin stove out of his owu kitchiu. lied jut bought a new one" for Miss bliles, and he come over and put it up himsoli which I thought uncommon kind. Then we took up a contribution to bny some furniture, but ready money was skurse just then, so we only raised enough to get a pair-of chiny vases and an inkstand-. "But Silas Hart, that sold em' to us. was one oi our memners, so be threw in a china dog for the baby and match hox for the narson's wife. "MisiTj ones and Uncle Midian sent in anew painted bedstead and a kitch en table, .nd so I told Kalph I'd give cm a couple or kitchen chairs and our cradle, the one we was both recked m So. I did, and I pieced a real handsome ittle'Quilf for the cradle, a euunower pattern, all out of spick and span new calico, too. "Well, it's most to bad to tell, but Mandy Jonas, who went to help Miss Ormsby git to rights, told me she did act dreadful, and not a bit becomin' a iniuister s wife. " - "She went all. around' the house lookin' as if sho was ready to cry, and at last she sot down in the parlor on her trunk, and begun to laugh at the vases and the inkstand, and then wound up by finding fault with the stove which she said looked as if it came out of the ark. "I've always thought she made her husbaud discontented, for Mr. Ormsby was such a meek, quiet unselfish roan that he never would have made any trouble, if she hadn't been always complainin' and puttin' him up to grumble. "iiut I ta wanderiu oil troru my story I started to tell you about the donation party. You see, the first year we got along splendidly with it, ana 1 must say that I never saw a bet ter tea table spread than we set that night for Alias Urmsuy. "iiut that woman never could be satisfied, and she said afterward that it wouldn t take more than two such parties to ruin any family. "It seems tlat she found fault be cause we all staid to tea with era, just as if we hadu't a right to our tea after euuiu iu ait me vicvuuia iui ii.. "But I don't know as Aunt Betsey did do exactly right, for she took Mies Ormsby 's preserves to put on the table, and they was eat that night, and I s pose that put her out some. "Well, as I was sayin,' the second year come round, and it was read out in meetin' that the donation party would be given the next fridtty. "Mr. Onoaby read the noti e, uu then he looked all around and cleave his throat two or three times, a if he had somethiu' perlickler to say, but after waitin' a minute he chanced his mind aud sat down. "1 thought be acted kinder quee DECEMBER 13. 187G. but was quite taken up with noticin' Miss Umisby. blie got as red as could bo, and when meeting was dismissed she jest hurried out a if she didn't want any one to speak to her. 'Well, b riday rame, and by three o'clock we was mostly all at 'the par sonage. Mr. Ormsby looked dreadful sober, more as if it was a funeral than a merry-making, I must say; but his wife was awful, bhe was jest as hulfy and short as she could be with every one, and she went and locked the study door and put the key in her pocket right before us all, as if she was afraid we'd touch some of Mr. Ormsby's pa pers or books. "liimeby, we.ban to think about sbttin' tfte table: so Aunt Betsey, Mandy Jones and mo went out into the kitchen to unpack the contribu tions. There were aorae pertaters and turnips (them we put in the suller) a fuece of corned beef, two or three biled lams, a pot oi butter, some apple sass, and such a lot of biscuits it would have taken ull nirrht to count 'em. "I begun to be start when we took out panful after panful of biscuit, and no-pake- to speak of. At last we come to Miss Jones bascuit aud there we found 'lection cake, as well as a great batch of iiiossesacooki "I was glad enough Cd sent pound cake aud, crullers; but somehow when the table was ready, there was more buscuit on it than anything else, though we did the best we could. "Mr. Johnson sent tea and coffee from his store, besides sugar and crack ers, and A tu os Hull brought a bag of nuts and some apples for the young folks nfter supper, he said. "There were so many there we had to devide 'eni i to three lots, the din in' room bein' small ; and 1 was 'most 7 o'clock when they got through eatin'. "Aunt Betsey stayed with me to clear up some; and I thought I never should get all the biscuits put away, for they 'most filled the pantry. "For all there had been so many eaten, yet there' was piles and piles left, and, as aunt Betsey said, they wouldn't need to bake for months to Corao. "It happened so that , I, didn't go out much the week after the donation party, but the second Sunday after, I started off good and early for church, and as I turned the corner by tho par sonage, I saw something that 'most took my breath avuyKvery one of them sharp pickets ' roti rid the house had a good biscuit stuck right atop of it! Yes, Miss Harwood, jest as sure as you live, there was Aunt Betsey's nice raised biscuit I could tell hern by the shape and Miss null's rusks, and Miss Stiles' soda biscuit, and every one of 'em wasted in that shameful way. "Well, I stood and looked - I hadn't the strength to move and soon some. of tfa64-i8 came, along RflaMlaWl mo; and there we nii itd'o'd till the last bell began to ring, talkin'.-he matter oyer, and feelin' pretty mad, I can tell you. 7 "Mr. Ormsby had a good sermon that day, but I could hardly hear a word, my mind was so full of tiia.rbis: cuits. ' , "Miss Ormsby warn t there, and as soon as the last hymn was sung, he got up and said that he had a call Irom a church in the far west, and that he bad made up bis mind that it was is duty to accept it. He went on to say that he would like to go that same week, and then, without so much as lelliu' us he was sorry to leave as, or offerin' to wait uutil we got some one else, he gave the benediction and dis missed us. "I can toll you there was talk enough when wo got out that moroin' and some of the folks thought to 'p'int a committee to ask Mrs. Ormsby about jt, but bro'-her Ralph said: 'No; if Ihey was go;u let em go peaceable ; s) lliey all agreed to say iioiuiu at all. "We heard afterward, from, little Johnny Hall, who was playiu' near the parsonage late on baturday after noou, that Mr. Ormsby he brought the biscuits out in a big basket, and then Miss Ormsby she helped him to stick them on the pickets, and she laughed all the time as if it was a good joke. "I don't want lo judge auybody, but I never did think that woman was fit for a minister's wife, aud I don't think bo now. "Well, they moved off, bag and bag; gage, on Wednesday of that week, and we've uever heard'of Mr. Ormsby since, and I don't know as we want to seein' be hurt our fuel in 's so, though we've never found as good a preacher as he was, and never will. And this was Miss Melissa's story. Parliament at Us last session cut down Queen Victoria's allowance to $8,270 per day, and now tho poor girl spends hours sitting with a fashion magazine in her lap and holding an old drt-ts in each hand, wondering hew she can contrive to make one n.j y one out of the two. Heaven help the poor. $2 PER ANNUM. AN AUCTION SCENE IN MERRiE ENGLAND. Old traditions linger in country places long after they have perished in great towns. Were the English provinces to be groped fo? modern antiquities, and the sum total prepar ed, the general reader would be amaz ed at the mass of ancient superstition lingering "in mo Jem England. Not only do popish practices, popish le gends and charms, flourish in our most puritanical counties, but even pagan rites and ceremonies. In the north the mummers at Christmas, of all days, dance a sword-dance which be longs to tho worship of a Scandina vian god ; in Northumberland, and parts of Ireland, the young folk still make little bonfires and leap through them on a certain day, though the practice is forbidden in the old Testa' ment as an abomiaation, for this is no other thins than "going through the tire to Baal," and is one of the many signs that we Celts were an Oriental ttible. Any novice wishiag to strike this vein of lore without much trouble has only to read the excellent book of Mr. Henderson, and grope the index to "Notes and Queries. I strongly recommend the latter course. For lndexreadinr turns no atudont pale, Yet takes the eel of science by tho tale. My own reading in such matters has taught me one thing to respect old traditiou whenever I encounter any strange practice down in the country. Why, even rustis misrepresentation is often a relic, where it passes for an er ror. Kusticus calls a coroner's inquest "crowner's quest," and the educated smile superior. But Rusticus is not wrong; he uonly in arrear. "Crowner's quest" is the true mediseval from, and was once universal. Every English peasant calls theater a theater, and young gentlemen sneer. Yet theater is the true pronunciation, and fifty years before Shakspeare nobody, high or low, mispronounced the word into theater, as he does and we do. To the tenacity of old tradition I ascrib a provalente notion, in rude parts of this country, that an English man and his wife can divorce them selves under certain conditions. First, the parties must con seat ; second, there must be a public auction ; third, the lady must be sold with a halter round her neck. That our rural pop ulation ever invented this, law is im probable in itself and against evi dence ; there are examples of the prac tice as old as any chronicle we have; and I really suspect that in some bar barous age later, perhaps, than our serious worship ef Ii-Ll'.but auterior to our earliest Saxon laws this "rude divorce by consent was the unwritten law of Britain. The thing has been done in my day many times, and related in the jour nals, and 1 observe that it ua-filwaya done with similar ceremonie;.iRod thatklAi.a,. lower erfi "r of people, though they jeer,arB ncfihocked at it, nor does it seem to strike them as utterly and profoundly illegal. It dates, I apprehend, from a time when mar riage was a partnership at will, and Iioman theory that marriage is a sac rament, and the English theory that marriage is not a eacrament, were alik unknown to a primative people. My note-book contains numerous examples. ' I select one with a bit of color, which was published at the date when it cocurred. Joseph Thompson rented a farm of forty acres in a village three m'vlas from Carlisle. In 1829 he married a spruce, lively gill, twenty-two years ef Ihey bad many disputes, and no children. So after three years they agreed to part. Ibe bell-man was sent around the village to announce that Joseph Thmn son would sell Mary Ann Thompson br auction on April . loJJ, at noon precisely. At the appointed hour josepn . a.va V Thompson stood on a table, and his wife a little below him on an oak chair, with a baiter of straw around her neck. lie put her up for sale in P terms that a by-stander thought it worth while to take down on the spot "Gentlemen, I have to offer to your notice my wife, Mary Ann Thompson, otherwise Williamson. It is bcr wish as well as mine to part forever, and will be sold without reserve to tho highest bidder. Gentlemen, the lot now offered for competition has been to me a bosom serpent. I took it for my comfort and the good of my bouse but it became my tormentor, a domes tic curse, a night invasion, and a dai lv devil. The Lord deliver us from termagant wives and troublesome wid owsl Gentlemen, avoid them as you would a mad-dog, a roaring lion, loaded pistol, cholera morbus, or any other pestilential phenomenon " Here it seems to have occurred to Joseph Thompson that he was not go ing the way to sell his lot at a high figure; so he tried to be more the auc tioueer and Jens the husband Rates of Advertising. One Rquaro(l Inch,) one Insertion One Square one month - One Square " three months - 8 00 00 10 90 15 00 90 M 60 C ne Mqnare " one year -Two Squares, one year ... vuaricr uoi. ... . . Half One " " . ... 100 ( Leiral notices at established rains. Marriage and dentil notices, gratis., ' All bills for yenrlv advertisements crA locted quarterly. Temporary advertise-" ments must be paid for in advance.. fob work, Cash on Delivery. ' "However," said he, "nowA I have told you her little defects, I will pre sent the bright and sunny side of her. She can read novels, milk cows, and laugh and weep with the same ease that you could toss off a glass of alt. What the poet says of women in ga eral is troe to a hair of this one; rieavcn pave to women the peculiar jtraee To laugh, to weep, and cheat the human raco. .- ..jv She can make butter and scold the) maid ; she can sing 'Moore's Melodies' and pleat her own frills and caps. She cannot make rum, ner gin,' nor whisky ; but she is a good judge of all three from long experience in tattif g -theni. What shall we say for her, with all her perfections and imperfec tions? fifty shillings to begin? ' There was a dead sileace. IT had ' better have employed George Robins, . Sr. "Cuillbet in sua arte credeadum.". There was no bidding at . all. Thea. the auctioneer was angry and threat' ened t take the lot home. ;. - - The company in general sustained his threat with composure ; but; eae , Meara conceived hopes, and asked. , medestly whether an exchange could not be made. "I have here," said he, . "a Newfoundland dog a beauty. U can fetch and carry ; and if yen fall in the water, drunk or sober, he'll pull you out." Thompson approved the dog, but objected to give a Christian in even exchange for a quadruped.' Each species had a prejudice in its own fa- vor, owing to which the company backed him. So at last Mears agreed to give the dog and twenty shillings'' -to boot. . . '. The bargain was made.' Thompson took the halter off" the wife and put it ' round the dog, and Merrs lead his purchase away by the hand, amid the houts and huzzas of the multitude, in which they were joined by Thompson. After a while, however, the. latter recollected he had a duty to perform. I must drink the new-married coup e's health' said he, gravelfC Accor dingly he adjourned with his dog- and his money to the public house, and toasted he delivery so zealously that he took nothing borne frenr the sal except the dog. Funerals as Disease Breeders. ' There is a rood reason to believe that disease is occasionally dissemina ted through the medium of funerals. We have at least one fairly authenti cated instance iu this country of dip- theria being diffused broadcast through the crowdiug incidental, occasionally to the last ceremony. In America this question is beginning to receive much attention, and several oases have been reported of lato where the transmission of the disease from the corpse seemed highly probable. The Suffolk District 7 Medical society sent out 400 circulars to medical practioners with a view to ascertain the opinion of the profession on the alleged danger of permitting public funerals ef persons who had died from diphtheria. Two hundred and thirty-nine answers were received ; of these 143 writers express a belief in the possible danger of contagion at - such funerals in the houses of tb dead, but none in churches, 29 fancy tham the present state of knowledge there is no justification in prohibiting public funerals, ana o record circum stances which occurred in their own experience confirmatory of the propor tion that peril may ensue, but the tes timony these latter advance is not 3 uite satisfactory. The society after ue consideration recommend that funerals at the houses of those who have died of diphtheria should be pri vate, owing to possible exposure to the poison of the disease. "When a Franklin Square girl's father at a quarter past elevea cau tiously entered the parlor with a hat m each band remarked quite firmly: 'Mr. Hotclotb, I was just going out t take a snuff of air, and thought I d ask you which hat was yours, so as not to snake a mistake?', youag Hot cloth took hit arm from the girl's waist, and as a shade streaked out over his features he sii-'l : "Oh, Mr. Coldbath, I must r i and see the election bulletins bef. i, they're takea in ;' and after lookiug j.t the girl with a variegated aspect, he passed oat, bidding tbe old man a heartfelt good night robed in about as much feeling as a champagne headache." General McCIellan is said to be wri ting a history ef the war, his main idea being his personal vindication. He has already thrown up intrenchments arouud the title and is approaching the prefaee by aigaag. Graphie, A tall man having rallied a friend oa the shortness of his legs, the friend replied: "My legs, reaeh to the ground what more can yours do?" An Irishman complained to hia phyiician that he stuffed him so much with drugs that he was sick a long time after he got well. 4
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