EST REPOBLICAN id every Wodncaday, by . .WEMK. h & Co.' Building (ONESTA, Pa. 1.00 per Year. for shorter period rom nil tmrta of the taken of iuonymoui MISSISSIPPI. a a dolorous shore, .on of ryprwa trees, .orevormore, ny toward tho Mexican ng for some lost mate, I ntiil de solate. ,ry ns tho Famlg are gray; i the (reus in their cloaks of rising and drifting away IK its weary long log acrosn over the gray wood's brink; . Inxiy and wml, to think. y levels of cypress wood, oldieiV grave; and so, God's trooa' roots are still running of buttle in their mosses still iird wearily drifting away 1 soiiio long-since battle day. aijui.t Milter, in the Current E LUCKY SHOT. )t day, sir," said the cheery "Traveler's Rest," as he aa- to take oil my heavy riding ct, indeed," I replied. "I've haio of it during my thirty lo-uay. 4. I . oi, conuuetea mo to a room eery firo burning in the crate. ig been served with a good hot ucgan to leel more comfortablo IV chair tin to the fire, encased m a pair of easy slippers and t pipo preparatory to a quiet vhcu I was disturbed by the en f my host. j't you join the company in the 4PJ; sir? We havo a social club aru fwicn a week, and perhaps ly amuse ytyi during the evening." h pleasure," I replied. So, tak my pipo I "followed my . d into the largo room, which was fiilcd'wiih'a numerous company, moment-tf uiy.entronce they were A ig with evident satisfaction to a old by one of their number. My riefly introduced me, and I took a tloso to the story-teller, and pro to enjoy my sniok. ow, Air. White, you must begin story again, in honor of tho gentle So Mr. White recommenced, fou must know, gentlemen," he be "thut the scene of my tale lies in . .njiilia, just about tho time of the gold ever there." The tones of the speaker's voice seemed familiar to me, and I gave him a search ing look. What did 1 sou? Tho lobe of his left ear was missing. I half started from my scat, upsetting a glass at my eibow, and startling tho company gen erally. - " I beg pardon, a sudden " "it. . I w VOL. ITII. NO. 46. Wo went on this way for mouths, then our claim began to give out. "Just about this time a convoy was going to Molbourno to tnke soma gold to tho bank there. We therefore nirrccd to send somo of ours to bo deposited in the bank and get notes in cxcha:i!- When we got to the placo of etmling I was surprised to see, among t!w mounted troopers forming the csroii m lilnvii. headed voyager. 1 mentioned my dis trust of him to my chum; and m consequence wo only went half of the intended quantity. The fellow evidently kucw I distrusted him, for when I went up with our parcel ho gave a malicious look that boded mo no good. The escort numbered about ten or fifteen well armed troopers, with a four-horse wagon, and they left early in the morning for their destination. We gave them three ringing cheers at the boundaries of tho camp, and wished them a safe return. I had a singular forbodinsr that I had seen the last of my gold, but I mentioned my lean to none out my cnum. I ho day following I went to Mat Dm n'a drinkinar-hut a place freauented by tho lucky finders and loafers to hear the day's news. The saloon was full of diggers. Sonie were discussing the day's iiuas; orners wero playing poker, the Btakos being nucsjefs of dust; tho major ity were standing at the bar drinking ana Brooking, i called for a drink, tinea a short cutty, and took a seat amoncr tho card-olavors. " 4 Well, Tom, how's your luck?" said a broad shouldered Yorkshireman who bad come over with me. " 'Very poor at present,' I replied. dust at poker is better thnn digging.' atavu I jitiii., IIIUII. iUU W U li I IJ LT I joined the came and nlavcd a whilo, At last one of tho players threw up his Jianu ana saia lie was cleaned ont ; so, thinking it might be my turn soon, J stopped. I finished my glass and pre- pared to leave tho room. Just as I cot t .1 . l i : , F Kvt iuu uuur uuriy uiggor came running id, almost upsetting me, and uttered the most frightful oaths. The entire saloon was in an uproar in an instant. Revolvers and knives were drawn, and a dozen voices shouted out, 'What's the matter 1 ' " 'Matter enough 1 ' cried the invading uigijur, wun anoiuer vouoy oi expletives. ' The escort's been attacked, and tho gold is gone i -vvoras iau to describe the scene that ensued. Men swore, tore their hair, danced and raved like madmen. When the tumult was somewhat subsided. uianagea to maKO out innt the wagon aau ueen aitacxca in the aeaa or night, by a party of armed rangers. A tight had taken place, not a trooper had been killed, and tho gold had been taken. The attack had evidently been pre-arranged, for half the troopers had been drugged, and wero consequently unable to fight. Three of them were re ported missing, Wapping Bill among tho number. I went oil to our tent and told Bandy. 'You're right about tho villain, but we'll bo even with him vet.' "We went back to the saloon, where wo found nearly all the diggers assem bled, listening to au account of the affair rrom one of tho troopers. It appeared v"rtly after leaving the camp the f tho wagon broke, neces " - Night came on iind "ed by the broken ome of file troop keep out the 'roopers who rmcd by id bush nke up ered Us TIOSESTA. PA., WIDKSDAT, SUCH 1 1525. intending to reach a tree, which grov about twenty yards from the fire of the bushrangers. Suddenly a hand was laid on my shoulder. I hastily turned and saw a tall ranger close by my side, lie grasped mo by tho collar, and, presented a revolver to my forehead. " 'One sound and I'll blow your brains out,' ho hissed. "Resistance was useless, so I submit ted, llo disarmed me, flung mo on tho ground and fastened my hands behind nie with a cord he pulled from his pock et. Ho then went a few yards away to warn tho rangers, I suppose. I heard a ringing cheer, shots, oaths, and the usual noiso of a hand-to-hand encounter. Giving a short and sudden wrench I got loose and rushed forward to see tho re sult of tho fight. Just as I advanced 1 heard two shots fired almost simultan eously, and a bullet just shaved my head. I clapped my hand on my left ear. Heaven! the lobo was shot away. An other inch and I should have been killed. " 'Rather a narrow shave, that,' said one of the troopers, coming forward. 'I just saw the fellow drawing a bead on you when I dropped him.' "I went forward and found tho'victory had been ours. Three of tho rangers hnd been shot down, one of them Wap ping Bill. Two wero wounded, and lay on the ground, whilst one had escaped. Judge Lynch soon settled tho two pris oners. "We recovered all our gold and made preparations for our return. Wo gave the dead a hasty burial, casing them of course, of all valuables, etc. I found a pocketbook on the body of my would-be slayer, and from it gleaned a full account of the gang. From information therein contained Bandy and I some weeks later made a little expedition of our own to a placo in the bush, where we found quite a collection of nugcets and dust tho result of many months of a bushranger's life. As it was impossible to restore the treasure to its lawful owners we were obliged to keep it. We returned to the camp, and, in consideration of our suc cessful efforts, we received a share of the gold. Borne months later I left the diggings, and returned home, married Mary, and settled down hero. I ought to add that I gave tho trooper who so bravely saved my life an old silver ring to wear for my sake. I have never seen him since; but if ever do, he shall be welcomed as a kin?. Such, gentleman, is the story of tho 'Lucky Bhot.'" The hearty thanks of tho company wero devoted to Mr. White for hisstorv. and the company drank tho trooper's health. You never saw him after?" I asked Mr. AVhite. "Never, sir." "Could you recognize him if you wero to see him?" I asked. an'tsay; he may have altered con siderably; but I should recognize the riug immediately." lhen is that it?" said I, puttinrr out my right hand, on the little finger of which was the identical ring. "It is; and you are Jack Fox?" "I am; and I am exceedingly clad to meet an old friend oneo more." Lotid were the exclamations of iov at this disclosure. I accepted Mr. White's invitation to stay with him for a short time, and I must admit that I spent some very happy hours in "Tho Traveler's Rest." A Famous Inventor's Rise. In a letter from Farero, Dakota, to tho St. Paul Pioneer Press we find the follow ing: On tho train from Bismarck to this city I met J. P. Rossiter, who had charge of all the Northern Pacific roll ig stock between Fargo and Livingston, -eaking of electrical inventions and "ovements, Mr. Rossiter said he Prof. Klisha Gray very well. "We orked at tho same bench in a cab ker's shop in Oberlin, Ohio, in 'i8 genius was a part of his 1 remember well his coming me day with his face badly vith which he had been ex- the mixture of chemicals, year or two together, and d Delia Shepherd. Ikncw i lived only a mile west that he moved on to md commenced ped- g butter. This he 'onstrated his ma id succeeded in -law to mort- her property, Uudy oi tele' instruments, v nothing in fool lntil his extent 'riends t life. - her, ent )ne om HIE CURSE " 01' GUITEAU. PBOH'OtTH'CED " BY THE AS3ASSIU UPON TttB SCArrOLD. How lm People Who Were Promi nent at the Trial Trouper I 'nder the l.oency. For some weeks past, says a Washing ton letter in the Chicago A';s,a paragraph has been floatinir about tho eotintrv set ting forth the fact that Guitcau's curse which he pronounced upon tho scaffold has fallen with baneful effect upon a number of those who wero connected with his trial and execution. Last even ing tho Ae"' correspondent directed the attention of General Crocker, tho Warden of the jail, to the article, and asked him how much truth there was in the state ment. "It is utterly without founda tion, and is as flimsy and unsubstantiul a ngmcnt of the imao-matiou as could well bo devised," replied the general. mere were prooaoiy tifty persons more or less directly connected with iiiuteau s imprisonment. Nineteen of these were the guards and prison attaches were uuueau was conhned. Twelve were mcmlicrs.of tho jury, and the remainder, including Judce Cox. were otiicers of the court, government counsel, and oth ers.- inree of these gentlemen have died since the hanging of Guiteau, but when it is remembered that most of these peo ple wero men of middle age or even older, it lw a matter of surprise that so few should in tho course of nature have passed away. Policeman Fowler has been mentioned as one upon whom the curse has fallen with particular violence. Fowler was killed a few months ago by a prisoner whom he was attempting to arrest. As a matter of fact, ho had no more to do with the trial than any of a dozen newspaper men who were present from day to day. He was sometimes de- I tailed for duty at the court room, but 1 J Al A. . . - ueyonu inai no naa no connection what ever with the proceedings. Dr. Noble Youcg, the jail physician, who died re cently, is anotber'victim. Dr. Young died calmly in his bed at the advanced ago of eighty-two years, and tho only wonder is that he lived so long, as ho had been a constant sufferer from kid ney troubles for the past decade. The last of these alleged unfortunates is juror Pettibone, but as you may remember, Pcttibone was sick during the course of the trial, and a postponement occurred several times on his account. His death, which followed a few months later, can hardly be coupled with any curse Guiteau might have uttered." "Does it not appear to you, general," interrupted the correspondent, "that, so far from the people who surrounded Guiteau being cursed, the very opposite proves to be the case?" "That is tho very suggestion I was going to make. Colonel Corkhill, tho United States district attorney who had charge of the case, has fallen heir within the past eighteen months to a fortnne variously estimated at from $70,000 to $100,000, and is to-day more prosperous and wealthy than ever before. His assistants, Messrs. Davidge and Porter, are well and happy and enjoy a large practice in this city and New York. Sergeant Mason, who attempted to kill Guiteau by firing into his cell and in fact narrowly missing tho assassin, is living in peace and retirement on his farm in Virginia, purchased with the f 7,000 con tribution which was raised by voluntary subscription during his confinement in the Albany penitentiary. Prior to this Mason had drawn a salarv of 17 a month as an under-sergeaut in the regu lar army, while his wife had helped sup port the family by taking in w ashing and performing other menial services. They are ricti to-day beyond their wildest expectations. But for Guiteau they would still bo living a hand-to-mouth existence. Bill Jones, the avenger, as he was facetiously called, who, in a drunken frolic, also attempted Gui teau's life, pursues his vocation as a farmer just across the Maryland border, and finds great comfort in the thought that his name will be linked with that of the assassin of Garfield by the historian of future ages. Tho eleven jurymen who survive Mr. Petti bouo are all leading contented and peace ful lives, and the same may be said of the prison attaches. Perry Carson, tho tall, good-looking negro who drove tho prison van from tho jail to the court house, became a figure of such iinport- ance during the mm mui. uis numuin? colored friends of the district sent him ns a delegate to the Republican conven tion at Chicago. He is now the proprie tor of a flourishing liquor-saloon near tho Pennsylvania avenue railway station, and has a substantial sum to his credit in one of tho local savings banks. Ho never probably earned $30 a month be fore the shooting. Mrs. Garfield, as you know, is worth half a milion of dollars. Presiaent Arthur has lived to finish his term as chief magistrate. So you see there' nothinir in Guitcau's curse. The people who' fell under his displeasure seem to have prospered, while, so fur as I am 'ilo to judge, it has iujured no one." "What disposition of Guitcau's body made?" ueral Crocker, who had been talking great glibness, began pulling his neivously, and vhen ho replied with evident embarrassment. "I swer that question," he replied, not? Is there any mvstery with it?" re but two other people in ho know the placo of Guit-Tht-re are reasons why it .opt a secret. " is skeleton is said to be on at the medical museum?" pie choose to believe so, that e its correctness, does it?" jut why should you object to men?" at Washington, higher and haa I, desired that the secret $1.50 PER ANKUM. of his grave should die with those of u who performed the interment. I do not think the exact placo of his burial will ever bo known to another living soul." There was the same mystery about John Wilkes Booth's last resting place. Years afterward it was discovered that ho had been buried in the basement of the United States arsenal, where the re mains had been deposited in quick-lime and almost entirely destroyed. Within recent yers tho few bones that re mained were disinterred at his brother Edwin' request, and now rest in the family vault of the Booths at tho cemo tery in Baltimore. Beauties of Madngsear. Lieutenant Shufeldt, of the United States navy, who recently crossed Madagascar from east to west, accom plishing what few white men and no American had done before, said in a re cent lecture about the island and his ex plorations there : "Madagascar is Ukj third largest island on tho globe. Its area covers 230,000 square miles; being 1,000 miles long, and averaging in breadth 230 to 400 miles. It is lour times the size of Great Britain. The interior gives the observer a potent sense or silent and majestic vastness. It exhibits some of the grand est specimens of nature's handiwork, consisting of mountain peaks, plains and forest cataracts and waterfalls. Around tho area coast stretches a dense belt of tropical forest, the home of malarias and deadly fever; the abidinsr place of sav age and barbarous people, and of richly J piumea oiras. ine chief river, tho Sizebouge, is the size of the Ohio, and shows some of the most magnificent scenery in the world, thunderous water falls and cataracts bordered by primeval forests." , The speaker said ho thought this river would prove navigable and might bo made tho highway for the products of the interior, ebony, sngar, rice, and other articles of commerce, in quantities sufficient to mako it "the El Dorado of the Eastern seas." The climate he de scribed as variable. In the interior it is equable and temperate, frequently re minding one of a New England autumn, but about the sea coast it is always warm and unwholesome. Ho estimated the population at 5,700,000, embracing many races of men varying in color, physique and civilization. The principal'tribe. the Hovas, are men of Malay origin, with fair complexion, bright and spark ling 'eyes, aquiline noses, numbering about 900,000, and far in advance of the rest of the inhabitants in intelligence and the arts of civilization. The women are often handsome. Some of these ad vantages can be attributed to climate, the region inhabited by them averaging 4.550 feet above the sea level, and af fording a bracing atmosphere. Next in importance and intelligence he placed the Betsilco tribe, the men possessing lithe and active frames, but the women, unlike the Hova women, are seldom or never handsome. The Barra people, in the southern part of the island, are dis tinguished by their lack of ennobling qualities. iue morality ot the iiarra. said Lieutenant Shulcldt, might thus be flnmmpd im- v nn .,i spear, my rum and my wives, and my oxen; let me steal, plunder and destroy - l' uV "'J t U1J everybody ; let nobody molest me, and I care not who is my king." Artificial Stones. Tho ruby and sapphire have been closely imitated by Fremy and Feil, two French chemists, and tho chief interest in this process is the fact that the arti ficial stones possess essentially the chemi cal composition of the real ones. To produce this, equal weights of alumina aud red lead are heated to a red heat in an earthenware crucible. A vitreous substance is formed, which consists of silicate of lead and crystals of white corundum. To convert this corundum into the artificial ruby it is necessary to iuse it with about two per cent, of bichro mate of potassium, while, to obtain tho j sappiiirc, a lime oxiue oi coualt aud a very small quantity of bichromate of potassium must be employed. The stones so produced possess at least very nearly the hardness of the real stones, as they scratch both quartz and topaz. The Fiench "paste," which imitates the dia mond so closely, is a peculiar kind of glass, the manufacture of which was brought to a great degree of perfection some fifty years ago by Donault-Wieiand, of Paris. The finest quality of paste de mands extreme care in the choice of materials and in melting, etc. The basis of it, in the hands of the expert manufac turer just named, was powdered rock crystal or quartz. The proportions he took were six ounces of rock crystal, niue ounces two drams of red lead, three ounces three drams ot pure carbonate of potash; three drams of boracic acid aud six grains of white arsenic. The product thus manufactured was extremely beauti ful, but rather expensive, compured with the prices now cha.-ged for artificial jewels. It has never been surpassed in brilliancy, but of late years the greatei purity of the potash and lead oxide used. and the improvements in the furnacet and methods of heating them, have all tended to reduce the price of the " dia monds" thus manufactured. Ctuunlers't Jiurnal. A pie in 1770 was made Tf two bushelt of flour, twenty pounds of butter, foui geese, two turkeys, two rabbits, foui wild ducks, two woodcocks, six snipes, four partridges two ueats' tongues, two curleys, seven blackbirds and six pig eons. A pie can now be had from one slice of dried apple and a piece of soggy dough, such is the march of improve ment. Cuur ier- Jo u rnal. A New York woman ate a porous plai ter instead of applying it in the usual way. Her uqighbors declared sua was j terribly suck-,up thing. BLtvurd. RATES OF ADVERTISING. One Square, one Inch, one In ertion. f One Square, one Inch, one month One Square, one Inch, three m'nth. . One tfqnarc, one Inch, one year li Two .Squares, one year H Quarter Column, One year. , si Half Column, one year M One Column, one year joo I .ieal adveriiji'ments too centa .n line eact aertion. Marriage and death notices ffntls. All biJ for yearly adverticeinenta collected no tcrly. Temporary advenlteiuent muai be oaiu aUvunce, Job work cash on delivery. rules for a happy lifb. Wouldst thou be a happy liver, Happy and studious to enhance The glory of the great Life-Giver, v Launch not thy boat to drift at cban'ca Where strong floods roll and wild wavei dance On life's broad-rushing river. Live as a man and count it treason I To man to live divorced from reason; l rove your ground and know your game, and ply your task with stout endeavor, Nor courting praise, nor fearing blame. . Know your own worth and know not less Your neighbor's weight and worthiness; And where he work well let him do The work that might be spoiled by you. Make a good friend where'er you can; Not wise is ha who hath no eyes To know how fools may help the wise; With loving deeds bind man to man, But never shrink with blinking eyes From what they only learn who try; And though you stand alone, in sight Of God be bold to hold the right. March bravely on and if you stumble Never groan and never grumble; Rise again with wise forgetting; Wounds were never salved by fretting; Watch your chance and know your hour And let the moment feel your power; Bhape your path and keep your rules With deaf ear turned to meddling fools. 'Tia dull to wait and hard to stand, But God's time comes with high command, That claims the service of your hand. Let the wise farmer teach you knowledge, Oft sought for at school anl college; Split the rock and turn the sod, With busy hands cast hones ', seed, Stoutly uproot, each harmful weed And let the seasons wait on God! John Sleieart Blackit, in Leisure How HUMOR OF THE DAT. An early riser Yeast. A wet day Wash-day. Tho dark cages Dungeon cellsT"" -V A man need not necessarily be pos sessed of musical ability to strike a liar. Bioomington Eye. None of our dentists have yet evinced enough enterprise to advertise "Misfit teeth a specialty." Norrittoten Herald. A little New Hartford three-year-old boy, in admiring his baby brother, ex claimed, "He's "got a boiled head, like papa." The f&ct that the poet is born, not made, relieves our educational system from a serious responsibility. Botton Courier. They are experimenting at Statea Island with some new cannon. These cannon have the latest style of breeches, with four pockets, and 'are very killing. Lowell Courier. Miss Angelica: I suppose you havo been going out a great deal lately, Mr. McF.iinishi" "No; 1 have only been to one dinner in two weeks." "Dcarmel You must be hungry." "I am surprised, JoliD," said an old lady when she found tho butler helping I f'm8e" 80me 01 om V?n: So am I, ma am. I thought you had gone out," was the reply. The true use of a porus plaster, ac cording to a Milwaukee druggist, is "to retain the back in its proper place and let the pain crawl out through the" holes." Newman Independent. "Have you any 'home ties?' " asked a lady of a young man whose appear- ance indicated dissipation. "Oh, yes nic) nome ties, lots ot 'cm, g-g-got a J mother-in-law T'CaW Pretzel's Weekly. As we look through the lIsU of " the dead of the vear," We notice without surprise, The names of a great many business men, Who refused to advertise. Merchant-Traveler. An exchange has an article on "The rise of tho roller rink." This ought to confirm the theory of the young man new io me roiiers mat me noor new up "d Ult hlm 111 th back of tho neck Blizzard. An Australian naturalist is reported to have discovered that sponges are en dowed with a nervous system. All tho "sponges" known to us socially certainly display a great deal of "nerve" in their own peculiar way. Lowell Citizen. Reciprocity Landlord: "Havo you any family?" Intending lodger: "No." L. : "That's right, for I don't let my rooms to lodgers with families." I. L. : "Have you a family?" L. : "Yes; foui children." I. L. : "Sorry to hear it, foi 1 never take apartments with landlord! who have families." St. Pctertburger Zeitung. An eminent sportsman was boasting his skill, And was "going it," too, pretty hot. He swore on his honor, thta ouce on a time He hit seventeen liares with one shot. But a friend standing by rose up in bi wrath And exclaimed, "That there statement's too big: We can't swallow it, unless you admit You were shooting that day at your wig." Judge. A Bean Feat. Tho following story of a bean feat, oi of feet and beaus, appropriately enough comes from Boston and tho columns of the Journal: A Florida youth who bought a pair of shoes without trying them on found on reaching home that they were just aa eighth of au inch too small all around. He thought, however, thut he would en large them sufficiently by tho "bean" process, so he filled each shoe to the top with large white beans the variety that swell nearly double their size gave them all the water they would hold, and left them over night to the mercy of the beans. Iu the morning he found that they had iucreascd in si.e from No. 5 to apparently No. B, and that the uppers had raised up on oue side, exposmg a huge crevttase and allowing the beans to escape for several feet around. The next j tune ho will pate down his feet,
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