The Tioga Count; Agitator:
sr ii. a. oobb. -,.j(
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jig. LOWBEV & S. F. WIIsSOM,
Attorneys & counsellors at law,
A ff ui attend the" Conns of Tioga, Potter And
jlcKee o counties; < :■ - [WeUshoro, Jbd.1,:186v5 ,
JOHN I. MTCHELI, , ; ;
ATTORNEY AND 'COUNSELLOR AT
Tioga Village, Tioga County,-Pcon’a
Prompt attention to Collections,
March 1, ISSS.-ly.
JEROME B. WI3LES,- - ,| : i -r
ATTORNEY & COUNSELLOR AT LA '
Wcllsboro, Tioga Conn tv, Pa-t i
HsrinE 116611 E P eciall J’ Ucsnsed-by tho TJniledS dtes.
tbo prosecution of Claim! for Peneione, I tick
Pav cod Bounties.
particular attention will bo given to that ola-'t of
toU*. ■ J - B- i
ffcllsboro, Feb. 15, 1865-ly* J.|_
PfiSSSYLVAIIA HOCSf, «
COJtNEE OF MAIN STREET AND THE AVENI £,
Welliboro. Pa.
j. w. BIGONY, t.Propfitior.
THIS popular Hotel, having been re-f-ited
md re-famished throughout, isnow open t'j'the
public as a first-class boose. , [Jan. 1, 186. t]
HHART’S HOTEL,.
WELLSBOBO, -TIOg A CO.. FEN AGL
THE subscriber takes this method to inform
his old friends.and customers that bo ha* re
umed "the conduct of the old “ Crystal Fountain
Hotel,” and will hereafter give it his entire attention.
Timntfnl fer past favors, he solicits a renewal")? tfe'e
uMt. ■ DAVIDHAB*.
Wcllsboro, Nov. 4, 1883.-ly. ‘ 1 a* .’
iZiAK WALTON HOUSER
Gaines, Tioga County, Pat ,ri
g. C. VERMILYEA, Proprt tor. 1
THIS is a new hotel located within eas 'ac
cess of the best fishing and hunting grounds in
Northern Pennsylvania. . No pains will be span .1 for
the accommodation of pleasure seekers and the,, rav
elling public., [Jan. 1, ISd i. J
A. FOLEY, ' -J
patches, Clocks, Jewelrv, &c„ Hr,
REPAIRED AT OLD PRICES.
POST OFFICE BUILDIN G,
NO. 5, UNION BLOCK.; ')
TTcllsboro, May 20, 1863.
H. W. Williams,
WILLIAMS af SMITH, -
ATTORNEYS AND CO UN SELOUS A T
BOUNTY & PENSION AOEtICY.
ISain Etroot, Wcllaboro, Pa.
January i, 1865-ly.
„g. F. SBAIBUH,
BARBER & : HAIR-DRESSER,
Shop Over C. L. Wilcox's Btoee.; .
Hellebore, Doe T, 1664. yV
WESTERN BXCHAHGE HOT £X.
KNOXVILLE, BOKOUGH, PA.., i
THE undersigned having leased the above 'Cotel'
for aterm pf years. would respectfully. Worm,
the traveling public that he has put the HoteU# first
class order for the reception of guests and ntf- tains
will be spared in the accommodation of traveler ! and
1! tar as the situation will allow, he will keep >(: first
class Hotel, in all things, except prices, wild:,' will
be moderate. Please try ns and judge for yonl»-Jves.
Knoxville, Oct. 18, IBG4-tf. J. H. MAR'.'XH.
kbvenue stamps.
JOHN M. PHELPS, Deputy Collector-of- Mans
fiold, has just received a large lot of Revenue
Sums, of all denominations, from one cent up to $5.
Any person wishing Stanps.can get them at my office
in Mansfield, or of M. BULLARD, Assistant AisesSor,
ttVellsboro, Pa. J. M. PHKLPc.
Mansfield, May 2, 1864.
P. TEtTELL, DESTIST,' . .
MAKSFIBLD, TIOGA COUNTY,’}?!..
IS prepared to operate in ali tbe xo
'•the various departments of filling,
terting artificial dentures, Ac. - - ''Vi
.Mansfield, August 10, T864-ly. .
WELLSBOBO_ HOTEI^i
(Oorner Main Street and (he Avenue •
Wellsbobo, Pa. / c ' :
B. B, HOLIDAY, Proprietor. ;s ’
One of the most popular Houses in fcha Shinty.
This Hotel is tho principal Stage-house in WaSftboro.
Stages leave daily as follows:.- {
For Tioga, at 9a. m.; For Troy, at For
Jersey Shore every Tuesday and Friday atiprjn-}
lor Coudersport, every Tuesday and Friday at?2«p: m.
Stages Arrive— From Tioga, at 12 1-3 .o’clock
p.m.: From Troy,atfi o’clock p. m.-: Froitf Jersey
Shore, Tuesday and Friday II a. m.: From Ghuders
lort, Tuesday apd Friday II a- m. ' . 1 \
X. B.—Jimtny Cowden, tho well-known 4°stler,
*iU be found on band* - ;
WelUboro, Oct. 5, 1864-ly. ' *
HUGH YOUNG.; {-■
BOOKSELIiER' A STATIfMIER,
AND DBA DEB IN " ■ •
American Clocks, American, English, ind 'Swiss
batches, Jewelry, Silver Plated Ware, Spectacles,
Picture Frames, Photographic Albums, Stereoscopes,
Hicrosoopes, Perfumery,- Yankee Notions, Fishing
laetle and Flies, and Fancy and Toilet Articles.' - -
m- SCHbOL BOOKS of every kind asodrin the
County, constantly on hand and sent by, mail or oth
erwise, to order, , "
A’O, 5, UNION BLOCK, WELLSBORGf* PA.
FOR SALE,—HOUSE & LOT on Mft&f-fitfeet,
adjoining Wright & Bsllgj’s Store. Zf Vjcres of
hjid in Deltnar, between John Gray and (lck. ’
House and Lot on Covington Street. . y ?
?or terms, apply-to HENRY SHERWOU.*, Esq.
Welltboro, May 31, 1865-tf. ■
FhOUR AND FEED, BUCK WHEAT ’ jIiOUR,
Heal, Pork and Salt, Tea, Dofiee, Bug; Soap,
handles, Saleratns, Tobacco and Kerosene 0-l».
Also, Mackerel, White Fish, and Trout, *fy the
package or pound. J"1 1
■ CHAS. &H. VAN VALKENI |JRG.,
"ellsloro, June 28, 1865. J ; I
PROTECTIVE WAR (CLAIM AND PENSION
AGENCY OF THE U. S. SASITAR f COM
—AU the papers and correspon '6nce re
tired to procure Pensions, Ronnty, and £ tdk Pay,*
Money for discharged SOLDI JRS end
“ULORg, and for the RELATIVES of SoMiers and
osilors dying in the service of the Unitof States,
prepared* anil forwarded;" and' the proceeds of ali
'isims, when collected, remitted to tho parses FREE
0f CHARGE. -a
OEet ISOT Chestnut Streor.'P'Mladrtphiar -
Cr for further information or assistance; iSjtply to
Ldct Moons Hotchkiss, Wellsbajp, -
, S. E. Morris, Mansfield, - Jf
'■’AsScreKfriasSS'gerSTorTiogtt- Srasty;
• — r .'-i-i——i |L—
ITEEOSINE LAMPS J at : i,
Jj*. ROY'S DRUG & PORE.
tiik
vol. xii.
RICHMOND HAS. FALLEN 1 ; r
DET GOODS
LEE- HAS SURRENDERED, AND W.E
HAVE SURRENDERED -THE' EX- ' .
‘ ; TEME HIGH PRICES OF
‘ : ‘ GOODS, f
THE PEOPLE’S STORE,
is now receiving additions to tbeir stook of
GOODS,. BOPGHT DURING* THE ‘ XATE
DEPRESSION IN PRICES; - :
andtbey will be soid at
THE LOWEST MARKET RATES.
Wo have made arrangements to get Goods every
week, and. as we keep posted in regard to. ■
the Nets'. Fort we .shall at
, all times make the stock on i , : :
1 hand conform to
5..,, new prices.
and we with it. distinctly understood, that however
much others may blow,
WE DO'NOT INTEND TO BE UNDERSOLD
P BY ANT, ’ ‘ ” ’’
quality of goods considered. It shall he bur aim to
keep constantly on hand a good stock of’
tncfa goods as the community
; require, and
SUCH ARTICLES AS WILL GIVE SATISPAC
■I XION TO THE CONSUMER,
THE ONE PRICE SYSTEM
Wu. H. Skim.
under which our business has constantly increased'
for the last ten yean will he adhered to,
as also the
' ready ,pat;'system;:, ,
more recently adopted! Yjon’t tiny until- - " -
YOU HAVE EXAMINED : OUR STOCK AND
. •• SpBICES.-' tin-,'.- •" - .'-1;
STORE DIRECTLY:OPPOSITE THE JHCKIJL
.. BON HOUSE, ..
and firqt door east of Hungerford’a Dank. '
. ; SMITH A ; WAIT®. '
Corning, Hi. Y,, May IT, 1865.
THE BIG FIGHT haring been' ck»ed /up by
Meaara. Grant, Sherman Sheridan, & Co.,
KELLY & PUfiVife
have volunteered fora war t>f extermination agailfst
high Prices, and will be found entrenched behind r a
huge pile of . .
at the old OSOOOD 6XAND, wifere thelucomiauni.
tions YedueaMOtilUßimnpted.
They have just received-a good stock of • r .z ■
SPRING.AND SUMMER GOODS,
such o. Prints, Delaines, Bareges, Mnalinsp Hosiery,
Notions, Boots and Shoes, etc., nr fact everything in
the Dry. Hoods line may he found at our counters,
and purchased at prices corresponding to the late
We also invite purchasers to ‘examine oar fine
stock of • '
Can’t bo beat this side of New York.
Remember tho place, " t' Osgood’s Carnor-“.- :.- V'.: -.
KELLY &' PURVIS, ..
Wellsbord, Apr. 22, 188Sr-ly. . '
J>ETEOLEUM! PETROLEUM 1
- *tal'commander on the vote of the field officers and
>. . . . , ~ " , _ _ company commanders on duty with the-regiment at
Geologists and practical men unite in their belief tho {imethe appointment shall be made/'.. -
an sorepn at e . How could Mr.-Wilson, have been appointed on a
Discovery of Oil m WeHsooro * _• fair, vote when one half of tho voters knew nothing
is near at hand. , 1 of the election ? What I claim is that Mr. Reynolds
_ _ . was elected in good faith by a convention of officers I
Ba y Ibe people of __ assembled at your request, and -that all honorable*
* mrnftfl - ftnTTRfnMT fir VlflTUnTlT men who participated in. that election, should have
110 U& LUUWXX a V *° considered themselves morally bound, by. it^-eape^
(before investing your Capital in Oil Stock) that I dally,.it like yourself, they had received promotion
have recently purchased tho Stock of Goods convention. The election of Mr. Roy-
Bullard,‘consisting of ' ‘ ” ----- nolds could have been made binding in law only when
* ' the proper officers had been mustered and fao had
CLOTHING, BOOTS, SHOES, HATS, GAPS, txomo forward with the proper recommendations. He
all at a great reduction from - performed his part as his friends pledged he would,
„ w " ' • | while we trusted to your honor for the opportunity to
NOW YorK JODDIIKg * rtces, his appointment- Whose fault was it that be
and am bound to give to’my customers the advantage was not mastered as- chaplain of our regiment when
_ _ ' k so large a number of both officers and men so earn*
OF MX.FU RC SA SE . j estly desired and expected it?
Being desirous of closing out the Clothing part oft I cannot agree with yoh nor your quartermaster as
this Stock, I now offer the entire Stock - , to the time find place of several things stated in his
• __ _ ---l*- ; affidavit which may be* otherwise correct. Captain
AT COST FOR CASH I Wood's csrtiificate shows at what time the friends of
_ T . rn o ; a KT "Pt P’Av'OQ Mr.,Rejrnolda first learned that Mr. Wilson had been
JbL A. JL to - l - A. .W XX Kj A. Xr to 9 mnstbted, and that his appointment had been sighed
I will almost give' away; at all events, will sell Jfcem I by officers wbo;were not mustered. It was after.my
so cheap you will hardly- know the difference, -return; on the 13th of September, and,not on the 9th
CsU Boon and aviU yourself of this ’ 'beriro X weot home. Is it reasonable that I would
. - have advised Mr. Reynolds as a friend to go hack
RARE OPPORTUNITY. I with me when ! knew that ■'another man. had. been
• Bemember the place, the. Cheap Cash Store, Bov's i .his stead? Does the, quartermaster's
Bniidinfr ' ' " Q P CARD affidavit prove your oft repeated excuse, that I told
Wellsboro. Jan. 25, 1865-tf. ’ ' '• i yod that I did not know whether Mr. Reynolds would
■ ■ i accept tho chaplaincy or not ? On the contrary, it
WALTER A. WOOD'S PRIZE kOWEiU--Ihe.u” ho ' f s I , sa ' d h .° c ‘* ai pjs woald. One more quea-
V,~T , iZ.uZ.I s_ TU_ tIODI - By what rule,oi arithmetic did you ascertain
Wood Mower has been in general use th - f * ara f d bet ween the 7th and
past nvh years. It omhraccsall the qualities noces,, J
eary to make a perfect Mower. It recommends itself 1 _ , , ,■■
to every farmer for the simplicity of its construction. To- refresh your memory,as to your course in first
It is proved to he the lightest draft. It takes- the i promising, and then secretly preventing the approval
preference .for durability, easy management, andgobcT/ 2*. l?, ave - a kserjce, I introduce the testimony of
wo?k —Machines fully warranted. Send. ,fpr Circa- 1 9 008:
lars —Price $ll5 delivered on ther cars "at Coming, i 1, A. B. Cloos, of Westfield, Tioga county, Pa.J on
EDGAR HXLLi Agent, Corning, N. T. I oath say that I was Acting Assistant Adjutant Gene-
May 31,1805-tO . J ,J. ral at head quarters, l 2d Brigado, 3d DivialoD,9th A.
'-"I C., daring the latter partoC Jauna*y, : lBfts; £ and that
on or about the fifith.ofsjvidmpnth Major V..A. Elli
ott made appUcation for a leave approved
by ColoiiCtß. C.'Cox, 1 Commandinghia
obtained the promise of CoL Mathews, his brigade
'XjrrA NT E I X , ARMY
YV which Cash will he paid.. Apply at the
tutor* 1 Office. . r :~c -t ~
Wellsbore, Aug. 9 , 1865-tf.
HeboieD to the of tljr Bvm of jFmUmti sud t|re SpreaH of Befotriti*
WHILE THEBE SHALL-BE A WRONG UNBIGHTED, AND UNTIL “MAN'S : INHUMANITY TO MAN" SHALL CEASE, AGITATION MUST CONTINUE,
And ( 9o baa the price of c - ,
REGARDLESS OF COST,
NEW AND CHEAP GOODS
HEAVY FALL IN GOODS.
GROCERIES
WELLSBDRO, TIOGA COUNT Yv PA., -WEDNESDAY MORNING, AUGUST 23, 1865.
Col. R, C. COX:
„ .Str: —Tour interesting 1 Ibtler'of-lb'e 9tb instant-in
"answer ta mine of- the 20tS uUlmois thismomenttp
ceired. I hasten to reply.
- You attempt to excuse your underhanded double
dealing course in the organization of the 2071 h regi
ment by assuming that 1 worked against you in rais
ing men' last fall; and that I. found;' it impossible to
recruit men without your aid—lndeed, bow modest
you are !! Who gave you d monopoly of the recruit
ing service at that time ? -Will you be so kind as to
give to the public the names of the two officers whom
you.told to -vote for_me after Capt. Hale was defeated
for the Lieut. Colonelcy which he, claims you profit
tsedhim? But to the'point.: The Quartermaster's
is the only real testimony you ptoduce in
your defence. That you used some such language as
be alleges, in my presence is quite probable; but that
you said it in my hearing at the time stated, I most
emphatically deny. ‘lt is very evident from affidavits
hereby subjoined that very much might have been
said by yourself to* a certain class oi officers in our
regiment, which was entirely withheld from another
class. Please consider the testimony of the following
witnesses: „ 1 ..
- “I certify on honor that' X ■was at Ihe European
Hotel,-ln Harrisburg-, on the evening of Sept. 6th J 64,
at -a meeting ceiled by CoL R. C. Cox for the organi
zation of the reg't P. V. ; that Rev. N, L._ Rey
nolds was duly elected chaplain of said regiment at
-that time; that I remained in'Harrisburg till about
the 10th of September following,-when I came home
on: the same train with Col. Cox and Major Elliott;
that 1 1, never heard Col. Cox, or any one else, gay,
'neither did I by any means learn, that Mr. Wilson
was to receive, or had received, tho appointment, or
had been mustered as Chaplain of our regiment, till
‘my rotnrn to Harrisburg about the 13th of Septem
ber? I- then went in company with Maj. Elliott to
the Adjutant General's Office where we were told that
Col. Cox had returned Mr. Wilson oa Chaplain of onr
regiment and that be had been mustered as such. We
then .went to the XL S. mustering office where we
found that Mr. Wilson had been mustered on the 9th
t>f September, and that bis application for 'appoint
ment was signed by the Colonel and fivo Cap
i tains, four of whom bad not been mustered at the
time .they gave their , signatures. This, application
was approved by the Colonel. It also contained the
names of two or three staff officers who by.the army
regulations were not entitled to vote.'
• . - " R. T. Wood,-
Late Capt. €o. H, 207th P. V,
ElkJand, August 12, 186 5.
s
I, Elmer Backer, of Rutland, Tioga county, Pa.,
late Captain of Co. A, 207th P. V., having read the
letter from Major V. A. Elliott to Col. R. C. Cox,
‘published In the Agitator of August 9th, 1860, on
•oath eay, that so much of said letter as relates to the
election of Mr. Reynolds •to the Chaplaincy of the
aforesaid regiment on the evening of the 6th of Sep
tember, 1864, is correct and true to my personal
knowledge. Also, that I was in Harrisburg' daring
the whole time from the organization of our regiment
till th* time of its leaving for the field on the 12th of
of September,-1864, and that I never heard Col. Goz
nor any one else say, neither did. I.by any other
means Jcarn, that Mr. Wilson was to receive or had
received the appointment of Chaplain ol eur regl
meot np-to thef time of-onr tearing for the field as
•^aforesaid l , - -* - - • ;Elmeb Backbe,, 5
' . -1 ~ Late Capt, Co. A, 207th P. V.
Sworn aedaubeoribed before me, this 11th day of
1). 1865, at Rutland, Pa. ' J J *
, ' ■ - - • • Daniel Watson, J. P,
I, S, D. : Phillips, late Captain. Co. D, 207th P.Y.,
on oath saythat X was at the European Hotel in Har
risbnrg~on the,evening of the 6th of September, 1864,
.at it meeting called by Colonelß. C. Cox fori the or
•‘gonjcattcrjilof- the .207th f regiment P. ,V*r * and that
'Rev. N. L. Reynolds of'this connty was fairly elected
Chaplain of the aforesaid regiment, and'Coionel Cos
expressed no dissatisfaction at'that time with the
election—also that I remained in Harrisburg in dis
‘charge of my duties,till the 9th of September, when
I went home and returned on the 12th, and then went
with the regiment to the field; andTfurtber declare
that*up to the time of my arrival at Bermuda Hun
dred with the regiment, I had. never board Colonel
Cox say r nor any one else, neither had 1 heard by
any means that Mr. Wilson to receive or bad re
ceived the appoatmentof Chaplain in our. regiment.
S. D. Phillips,
<- - Late Capt. Co, D,‘ 207th P. V.
Sworn and subscribed before me, this the 12th day
of August, A. D„1866. Charlton Phillips, J. P.
Here we have the testimony of three Captains from
this county, each of whom, osyrell as myself, took, a
full cotapany into your regiment; and it appears by
. them that a man who bad been fairly elected Chap-'
• lain when all concerned were present, was.tbmst aside*
and man who had been.as fairly, beaten, was
hy you appointed and mustered without their knowl
edge; atid it further appears* that to accomplish this,
you received the signatures of four Captains who were
not mustered, and then ynhrself gave the casting vote
for Wilson, For as Wilson's application contained
the names'of only oub field officer and five captains
.when you approved Uj so there were five captains and
jddu field officer who knew nothing of the transaction.
In view of these facts what becomes of yopr regrets (?)
that the election of Mr. Rey nolds was not legal ? Did
yon nbt vohmtarilyidentify yourself with the Wilson'
party by giving them your vote when there was a tie ?
Thus you went back on ;your friends who. enlisted
your men for you, and elected you Colonel; but you
seemed "to lack the frankness to acknowledge what
you bad-done in time to save them from trouble. As
“to the legal manner of choosing'a Chaplain, see Re
vised Army Regulations for. 1863, page 507; - ,
“.The Chaplain shall be appointed by tho regimen-
i- L \ I v>-1
AGITATOR.
[Advertisement.] ..
Mansfield, 16, 1865.
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commander, and Gen, Hartranft/his- division com
mander, that hia appHcation should, have their ap
proval. Within six hours from tho time Maj. Elliott
left his application with me, and before ii was time to
forward it with .the-.regular dispatches, Colonel Cox
forwarded charges against Major Elliott " approved”
by himself, but not signed by chaplain Wilson, on
whose behalf the charges purported to be brought.
In receiving’these charges',Col.‘Mathews' could not
forward Maj..ElUott's application for unlearn of ab
sence. A. &. Clods,
Late L!cnt.'2o7th P. V., and A. D. C. Yd Brig;
Sworn to and subscribed before -me, this 12th day
of August, A. D. 1865. G. Close, J. P,
This puts an effectual quietus on your version”of
the affair. The’ truth is you'did send up my applica
tion for a. leave, and then:.immediately .forwarded
charges to kill it. If you were so fearful of " impli
cating"’yodrself,' why did you not wait till Mr. Wil
son signed themor to' be-more safe, why did you not
take the advice which your brigade commander gave
you several wreeks before, and “put them in the
stove V 1 \ _
How poor your memory is getting to bo sir! Why !
wo served in the army'of the James two months and
aix.days, eight days’ of which I suffered an arrest, not
for my own- lault, but for negligence in yonr Adju
tant's office. - Don't attempt to dodge this: for I have
the written certificate of yourself Lieut. Col-'
onel, showing that yon_were aa..ignorant of Potter’s
order as I was, though it was received while yon
were in command of the regiment. I have also a
complimentary letter from Col. Potteraa to my con
duct while in his command. But I forbear publish
ing these papers because they have no hearing upon
your course which I am considering.
. As to my reinstatement,! never expected it of you,
if yon could find any pretext for avoiding it. I con
fess that on a single occasion, near the close of our
term, under circumstances particularly aggravating
to my feelings, I used rather harsh • language for
which I cheerfully and voluntarily made explanation
and apology in the presence of yourself and others.
But I cannot understand how those words of mine,
though somewhat exaggerated, can be tortured into
any excuse for the duplicity and utter want of manly
frankness which marked your course from the begin
ning. Tours Respectfully, - . V. A. Elliott.
P. S. The following has been received since the
above was written:
I, B. B. Holiday, of Wellsboro, Pa., on. bath eay
that 1 was inHarrisburg on or about tho 13th of
.September, 1864, and then and there heard Maj. V.
-A. Elliott nse the following language to Colonel Cox,
to wit: “ Colonel, why did you not tell me that Mr-
Wileon had been mustered as chaplain of oat regi
ment when we went home on the train together and
then Mr. Reynolds and myself would have been saved
all this trouble,” or words to that effect; and T'far
ther .declare that Colonel Cox made no reply.at that
time that he had given Maj. Elliott such information.
B. B. Holiday,.
Sworn and subscribed before me, this 17th day of
August, 1865. * - J. E. Donaldson, Proth’y.
Hoes not the date of this conversation convince you
of your error ? .. V. A. E.
y saatßcellattg.
HannabOnoldt’s Doorstep.
Hannah Gneldt leaned upon her broom, and
looked ; 6ut from the low kitchen door across the
wintry-fields and the ice-glazed streamletwhieb
laybetween her home and the little village of
Ore'Qock v witb its one tapering, spire and slop
ing roofs and blank white walls, bare now of
the summer verdure. She had dona her house
hold work, polished every article, of polish, and
soapedand sanded all the rest.. At the last she
had swept clean her dooratorib, and now felt
free to do what she ohose, to rest or gossip, or
sit down to needle work—a-thing impossible
to her while a spot beneath her ro.o_f wpa out of
order. Just now she felt neither like gossip
ing nor sewing; her heart was very full, and
she found it necessary to stand still and think
awhile. Only'that she was not used to it, she
would have cried, she was so very sad. It see
med to her that the happiest people were those
who lay in their green graves in the churchyard,
with crossed hands upon their bosoms, and felt
quiet from all earthly eoing to and fro forever
more. ' ' ' ’
Not that Hannah Gneldt was tired in body, or
weary with the toil of household, duty for she,
fras strong, of frame, and her health was per
fect, as her bands were willing. It was on her
bumble heart the..burden,. lay, her spirit was
worn with earthly travail.-
' “Twenty-three years to-day'.l've been his
wife,” she muttered, “ and I’ve loved him well,
and worked hard and faithful to keep things
decent, and it’s come to this -at last"! “ Things
had been better,” says, he, •“ if he’d married
Hiss Lester ?”. , -
, Yes, that was .what farmer Gneldt, harrassed
by toil and debt, bad said to her that very morn
ing ; and it seemed to Hannah like the con
fession of a long repentance, forced from her
husband’s Ups at last.
“doorman! I wish I could help him,” she
sighed, leaning on her broom . beside the door.
“ I doubt not he’s right about Miss.. Lester.”
With that her eyes rested by chance on the
doorstep.-
“ I can mend that, anyhow,” she said, “ and
I have time, for thework is done;"
So she hong up the" broom, and peeped into
her oven, and set the kettle on, and then, hood
ed and shawled, crossed the fields to where the
farm joined that of Simeon Gray. . ,
On one spot were men at - work, and stones
lying about.
Hannah Gneldt nodded to the old farmer,
and he came to meet her. ’ 1
■••-I want a stone, she said. “ May' I have
one?” ,
. ‘‘l wish you'd taka 'em all," said the farm
er ; “a lot of rubbish. Yon see I'm clearing
away what they call the old graveyard at last.
My wife talks to me o’ sacrilege and disturb
in' the bones. Bless you, there ain't been none
for years and years; and these bard , times a
man can't let land go to waste. I tell wife she
don’t know nothin’ about it. . What d'ye want
to do ? Pave a bit arqund_the well ?"
“ No, I want a' step," said Hannah. “ That
great white one is just the thing.” And she
pointed to a slab hard by.
“ Ike shall bring it over to night,” said the
farmer. - -
“ No,” said Hannah, “T can roll it along.”
And her arms, strong as most. men’s went to
work at once, and the slab was rolled, and
poshed, and lifted on its way. It was toil for
a laborer, but it did Hannah good— She tugged
away, pnshingand lifting, and adding woman’s
ingenuity to man’s strength; so that at last it
was at her own door. There she let it rest,
and dug the "old ‘stone out, and" afterward
brought water to wash the slab with ; white ns
snow; for the most part, with some little l wea
ther stains about the edge, and on one eide the
black inscription—a name, a line of eulogy,
) L
and dates’. Hannah stared with the cariosity
of one whacannot read.
“ I wish I could tell. what, that was,” she
said. “ Some ono’s namejand age. Ah, there
were sore hearts when that was new. I hope
when I die Oliver will have written over me
that I was a good wife. I’ve tried to be. I
•ought to know that big letter—wait a bit, I be
licve.it is Z." • - ...
Then she turned the’ inscription downward
and washed the other side dijar and white, and
fitted it into ita place.
She received little credit for her work. Oli
ver only muttered.—
' “ You needn’t have published the fact that
I could not afford a porch to all the place.”
And no one noticed tbs step afterward save
Hannah when she scrubbed it.
Matters were very bad at the Gneldt’s. Oli
ver brooded over the fire in speechless sorrow,
and grew grayer and balder with each passing
day- Harmah kept ruin off a little by making
a Home of the humble fare, by her housewife
skill. She might even have been cheerful but
for the memory of that luckless speech.
Working-in her garden one day when the
first grass was growing green, Hannah heard
•footsteps, and lifting her head, saw two gentle
men beside her, and arose precipitately with
womanly anxiety about her ankles, not strictly
covered perhaps by her cotton gown. The
nearest gentleman, an elderly man with bright
dark eyes, addressed her:
“ Mrs. Gneldt, I presume.”
“ Yes, sir;”
She asked him to walk in, and he did so, the
other following.
In the little parlor they sat down.
“ Yon are Mrs. Hannah -Gneldt,. Oliver
Qneldt’s wife?”
“ Yes, sir. It is about—about—excuse me,
you look like a lawyer, and I fear it's more
trouble for Oliver.”
“ Reassure yourself, madam,” said the gen
tleman. “Your husband is not concerned,
save through you, and that I hope pleasantly.
Tour name was Barns before you were mar
tied ?”
“ Yes sir ; Hannah Burns.”
“Do yon remember dates well?”
“ No, sir.”
“Yon have, perhaps, records of family events,
yonr own birth, yonr parents, marriage, yonr
grandfather’s death 1”
Hannak Gneldt wonderiugly replied—“ I
have mother’s Bible, and they tell me it is all
there.”. 1
“How far back?”
- “To grandfather’s birth, I believe—grandfa
ther Burns. He had one child, and lam the
only one my parents ever had. Oliver set
our wedding- day, and our two boys’
birthdays.”'
“ And your great-grandfather. The record
of bis death is there.”
“ I don’t' know; you may see. Wait, I’ll
call Oliver.”
Going to the door Hannah took down a born,
need for that purpose, and uttered a call which
brought Oliver Gneldt home from the field at
once.
He also felt alarm, but explanations quieted
him. Almost as much astonished as bis wife
be brought out the old Bible.
“ The death of my wife’s great grandfather,
Zebulon Burns, is not here,” he said. “ The
first record is in bis hand, I believe. It is the
birth, of his eldest child.”
So it proved, and the lawyer looked disap
pointed. ’ ’ :
“ You cannot remember the day of his
death ?” he said. “ I mean the date of it.” -
“ He died long before I was born,” said Han
dab, “and, though rich, left nothing to grand
father. ■ They bad quarrelled, I believe. He
told, odd stories "of ■ him. '-He must have been
very ;epcentrio, and a servant or house-keeper,
had great influence over him. She had the
property, I think. Margery—Margery . ”
“ Margery Wilber, I think,” said the lawyer.
“Yes,” said Hannah, “I remember now.”
“ Yon are qniet people, not likely to talk too
much,” said the lawyer, “I will tell yon
something. We have found a will among the
effects of a legal gentlemen who died very sud
denly in a fit of apoplexy. Don’t hope too
mnoh, mind. A will in your favor, as yonr
father’s only child.”
Hannah clutched her husband’s hand. •
“It is written by one upon his deathbed,
dated on the 10th of March, 18—, and leaves all
his property to your father, his grandson, then
a boy. Hush 1 don’t hope too much. Margery
Wilber or her heirs now hold this property un
der a will dated March 15,17 —
“ A later will,” said Oliver. " Then, of
conrse, they are the rightful What
need of all this?—the latest will mast stand.
“ Not if it is a forgery," said the lawyer.
Oliver langhed the bitter laugh of care and
disappointment.
“Who can prove that?” ha said.
“No one,perhaps. Yet the record of the
old man’s death might.”
. “ A man whose dying hand signed a will on
the 10th of March would scarcely make an
other on thelStb. - We believe the will a for
gery, written on .old parchment, since the dis
covery of the one I have spoken of. Margery
W'lber look possession with no legal forms, for
no one appeared to contest her title. Where
was your great-grandfather buried ?
“ Here,” said Hannah. “ They say he was
brought down at his request—Mrs. Wilber as
chief mourner, and his son—grandfather— not
even sent for. An old graveyard somewhere.
0, Oliver 1 Oliver I
She turned quite white, and uttered a cry,
“ Oliver, that must be the graveyard on Gray's
place that he dug over last winter in the
warm spell.”
“ Then, it is gone,” said Oliver, “and onr
last hope with it. No, gentlemen, good lack
could never come to us. Poverty means to
cling to us to the last. I wish you batter cli
ents."
“ Oliver, Oliver L” gasped Hannah Gneldt,
“ tell me one thing. Zebnlon was great-grand- ■
father's name. Zebnlon ie spelled with aZ,
isn’t it 1 0, do speak 1”
“ I think you are going mad, Hannah ; of
coarse, it is." t. :;i ...
“0, the big Z, I remember it bo well 1 I
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NO. 1.
knew it was Z: and it would have been bro
ken to pieces before now. Oliver, don't you
remember my doorstep that yoa were so angry
at ? I believe that it is my poor old great
grandfather’s tombstone. And I not to know
it, when I stared at the great Z !"
Oliver Qneldt said nothing. Ha feared bia
wife’s brain was turned, and that mads him
faint and cold as he followed her into the gar
den, and there watched while the three others
lifted the fiat slab.
It lay before them on the green spring grass,
black letters on its whiteness; and bending
over it, they read aloud :
“ Zebnlon Burns. Born May ■■■■. Died
March 14,17 —with eulogistic verses, with
long ss’ underneath, as in duty bound.
“It’s poor great grand-father I” said Han
nah. And the lawyer extended his hands,
grasping those of Oliver and his wife.
“ The proof ia found!” he said, “ The lat
ter will is a forgery, for it ia dated the day
after the old man’s death. Mrs. Qneldt i#
heiress to a large property. I congratulate
you.”
And Hannah ; with her head open her hue
band's shoulder, whispered, “Oliver, it would
not have been batter to have married Mile
Lester, after all 1”
The Burning of the Pithole WelL
[Pit-Holo (Aug. Sd) Cor. Clerelaad Harold.]
The intelligence sent you concerning tile
great fire last night was so unsatisfactory that
I avail myself of the earliest moment this mold
ing to write you a more extended account.—
Yesterday morning, about ten o’clock’ a new
well, tubed the day before on the Holmden
I arm, and on lot 19, near the northern line of
the farm, began to be pumped. It was situated
on the west side of Pit-hole Creek, between it
and the “ second bottom.” After fifty minutes
pumping the well began to yield at the rate of
three to four hundred barrels in twenty-font
hours. The well would have flown that amoant
without further pumping one hour after they
began. It is deemed advisable, however, to
pump a well that begins to flow, on the doctrioS
that agitation does it good. Aa the owners of
the well had no idea what they had when they
began to pump, no tank was prepared for the
reception of the oil, it was, consequently, pump
ed out upon the ground. During the day con
siderably over one hundred barrels had been
pumped upon the ground, Ailing all the little
pools creeping among the grass, gliding grad
ually down the creek bottom and along the
bluff, fifteen or twenty rods. Such things had
been done before, and no serious apprehensions
of danger were felt. f
Crowds-of people visited the well daring the
day for snob a remarkable well was the great sen
sation of the day. It promised to be the lar
gest of all the mammoths on Pit-hole. At va
rious times there were from fifty to a hundred
persons present. About half-past seven o’clock
last night, a large number of people were pres
ent, and half a dozen were on the derrick, and
others were ranged about at various distances.
Tonr correspondent, providentially, did not
happen to be of that number bat was at the
moment about thirty rods away. My attention
was suddenly arrested by an explosion as loud
as a good sized cannon would make. The first
impression was that soma blasting operation
had taken place, but on immediately turning
about, the scene presented was before me in all
its awful grandeur. Suddenly as powder ig
nites, suddenly as lightning from the skies
there swept up from the earth, from an area of
three-fourths of an acre of ground wbioh the
oil had covered, a flaming, hissing, howling
firespout that rose nearly an hundred feet into
the air, the whole fiery mass surmoated by a
thick black pall of smoke, as from a hundred
throated furnace. Above the high tree-tops it
leaped as if springing in impotenoy at the very
skies. Everybody had heard the explosion, and,
in a moment, everybody saw the fiery demon
overshadowing the creek. Lot Nineteen is hot
twelve or fifteen rods from the tanks of the fa
mous Holmden well, in which were thousands
of barrels of oil stored away. One hundred
rods farther down the creek ware fifteen or
twenty thousand more barrels of stored oil in
huge tanks, near the Frazier and Twin Wells.
As the seething flames mounted upward and
ran into every nook and cranny where a little
pool of oil had been formed, every one expected
in a moment to see the whole creek bottom a
boiling lake offite. Instantly on the explosion
the people ran in every direction, soma towards
the fire and others from it. Man looked exoi- .
ted and alarmed. ' The few woman in the crowd
cried and already saw their own friends among
the many that all felt mast have been caught
in the whirlpool of the fire and dragged down
with hungry fury to an awful death. Hanning
in the direction of the fire, I met three wretched
men that had barely escaped from the flames.
One of them, howling in agony, “0, my God,
what shall I dol what can I do,” had his
clothes almost wholly burned from his body.
His hack, and breast, and legs were brown,
with enormous fire blisters hanging to the skin,
while his hands were burned to the bones. At
the time of the explosion he was sitting in the
derrick, and, in running through the flames,
fell down with both hands plunged into the
burning oil. He was able, however, to leap into
the creek, fortunately not covered with the oil,
and thus barely got out of the hissing, crack
ling blaze. His name was Lucius Kingsley,
of Syracuse, N. Y. On the heels of Kingsley
was another man, bleeding and burnt, and bold
ing out his charred hands te the passing, fright
ened crowd. Still another man, bleeding, howl
ing, and fearfully burned, followed. The alarm
was so great that neither of these could tall
how many others had shared their fate, or suf
fered even more by burning on the ground.--.
They reported as many as fifty persons having'
bean in the immediate vicinity of the well when
the explosion took place, and that at least half
of these had been probably burned to death on
the ground. The consternation for ten minutes
was immense. Millions worth of property were
in peril, and much already lost. Immediately
squads of L workmen ware organized, who, with
shovels and spades, worked upon tbs outer edge
of the fire to [stay its progress. So soon as
the fire demon had licked up the oil on the
ground, it began gradually to die out on the