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4.66. 6.01 6.01 ' 1000 21 00
8.10 16.03 21.03 60.03
10.03 2100 93.00 60.01
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MO) MOO 60.03 160.00
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ROBERT IREDELL, Jn., Punvisuun,
ALLENTOWN, PA
Drn Gootio.
6 4 SUDDEN MANGE."
WILL LOW PRICES INFLUENG'E YO U 7
OLD TIMES AGAIN
IMMENSE REDUCTION IN PRICES I
THE OLD CORNER
Just opened an enormous
STOCK OF SPRING GOODS,
Pirhictina usual (or
STYLE, VARIETY, AND LOWNESS OF PRICE
shall and cannot be aurnaseed
lar Competition deed with any other Eetablishment
outside of the larger eities.ja'
SPACE WILL NOT PERMIT OF NAMING such an Im
mnmsosattCOMPLETE! assor tm e n t
Mc
Le
a o d l ma . y '
Dthaotn W G G o ode,
Dress
Dress Sllke, Poplins, Shawls, Dalmoruln, Mom Pura',M
ing Goods, Ladlos' Clonklng,Cloth, Mon'. Wear In Cloth,
,A d d n j 171 A dd 0 ` l4 ;31 "
07{11 '' i n . g oVig.::/.71 t 11. ° FL ' Voi
•. QUOTE PRICES' . a. Immo houses do, but will guarantee
ASTONISHING FIGURES.
The difference In price. of goods to•day, and a month ago,
I. really painful for nom lobe have boon caught with
large stocks on hand at high prism, but as that Is not tho
Oa. with me, I shall ne heretofore make tho OLD COR
DER
TEE GREAT PLACE OF INTEREST
AND HEADQUARTERS
for the mattes to get their geode of the
LOWEST MARKET PRICES
I (ally realize that no permanent Herren can be achieved
unless the promises hold out by advertisements are found
to be fully costumed on a Holt to the store. Nor can it be
• large success without scrupulously rellablo and (air
dealing at all times and uniform courtesy to overt' curio
moo, and tho endeavor to muko every buyer a constant
dealer. AU I ask Is eimply to decide by admit that
whether or not it la to your advantage to become a M.N.
100 r.
Respectfully Yours,
M. J. KitAMER,
" OLD CORNER,"
OPPOSITE THE EAGLE HOTEL
april 14
GREAT REDUCTION OF PRICES
WOOLEN. GOODS
I=l
FANCY SPRING CASSIMERES,
FLANNELS, JEANS, CARPETS, &C
In consequence of the abundance and over , clock of the
above Goode In the City Markets,
they cannot at present
os
be disped of except at a loon t o the manufacturer and
many Woolen Mills are either cloned or working on half
time. Under "these , circumstances, wishing to keep his
mill running,
HENRY GABRIEL,
ITEM
ALLENTOWN WOOLEN MILL
END Or 1100 TO BOVIINTIT 81.1111 IT
nST log a large and lino stock of tho bost ‘ ale(Of Fancy
Casslmeree for mon's and boy's wear, an e a 'variety of
other Woolen Goods and Carpets suitable for
too season
atukdoelfed In every household, has concluded to
RETAIL
AT THE PRESENT LOW
WHOLESALE PRICES
Ills entire stock of Woolen and other Goode, among
which are /lateral hundred pieces of
ALL WOOL DOUBLE AND TWIST
CABSIMERES,
FLANNELS,
Of all trades, and nt prices greatly reduced• Also a
splendid assortment of
INGRAIN,
LIST,
RAG,
AND 'OTHER
CARPETS,
IoW as 60 cents yard
BALMORAL SKtRTS,
at 75 cants.
WOOLEN CARPET YARN,
all colon!. lied quality reduced to PO cants
BED COVERLETS,
Alljtiada,Whlte or Fancy, at greatly reduced Nicol
(74811LiffYERS, or (how haylng - Wool to exchange, wit
certainly find It to their interest. in exemining the flood
at his bonne or factory, where ho hao fitted up tenon
roomy for showing the name and reepectinily Incites th
Publio to call and judge fur iherarelyes. • •
HENRY GABRIEL,
ALLENTOWN WOOLEN MILL,
South Eud of &month Street, Allentown. Pa
ETIMHZ3
1115 HOOP SHIRTS. 1115
WM. T. LEOPKINS
Has Removed his Manufactory and Salesrooms to
NO, 1115 CHESTNUT STREET, PHILADELPHIA,
Where his "Own Make: of Champion Hoop Skirts, N.
Fealty adapted to Firet.claas 'Wholesale and Retail will
found to embrace the most extensive assortment in the
nion, and all the latest and mostdesirable Styles, 81111pos.
Lengths and Sloes, 2, 24, 234. 2M yards round, of Plain
and Oored Peelers, Walking Skirts, Reception Trails.
&e., &a., together with over ninety different varieties of
Missom andChildren'a Skirts. all of which for symmetry
of style, Petah, lightness eluticity, durability and reed
Cheapneu, are unequaled by any other goods in the mar
ket, and are warranted in every respect. Shirts made to
order Altered and Repaired, Wholesale and Retail.
Full lino of Low Priced Eastern Made Skirts,_l3 SPringe,
32 Cents ; 20 Spring:, 45 Cents; 21 8 prings, Centel 3D
BP AYgOB C l " glit ' SE l TlTT rh ahag . mi 27 different
"I t la r i e ley a , nlp H rates 'Fr°. Oloc.7l;ttru r s7 , indeauditT i gy l 4
Cornet mart Supp o rter., Mra, Moody s Patent "Self-ad
justing Abdominal" Corsets, French, English and Domes
tic Hand-made
Corsets, and superior French Pattern. of
Cotell Corsets, "Our Own Make." to which we invite
esPecial attention.
Completeassortment of Ladies' Under Oarments, at very
biweiirii, AGENT for the BARTRAIf & PANTON
FAMILY SEWING MACHINES, superior loan other be.
fore the public. Fifty-Mato( these Igo. 1 Mach ines,
nes, Price
tiff seek, aro, WM/ Irite3 4 .WAY to our mutomors, In order
a get them introduce.. Ever, Person In want of articles
In earthy,. should examine our geode before_ purchasing
elsewhere. Call send for circulate, at our Manufactory
and Salesrooms,
,N0..1116 Chestnut St, Philadelphia.
mar 31,1M0i • NYM. T. HOPKINS.
PENNSYLVANIA HOTEL,
COIL 7th AND LINDEN 11113., ALLENTOWN. PA.
The undersigned has taken this well-known stand. The
Dar, Table and Beds have all been newly furnished. Its
Is also w
M l supplied with stable roam. Everrn f at
y attenti on
will be bb or make d up.. the guests to the
bone (sop 1- 01141 9109118 OUT .
VOL. XXIII.
WHAT THE PAPERS
SAY OF US!
We have good news for our readers this week.
One of the celebrated Foster Brothers, the great
dry goods merchants of New York City, la coming
to do business ,among us. They promise us a
New- York stock of goods at New York prices.
Read their advertisement. It has the true ring
about it. We believe they mean what they say.
We welcome them among us, and promise them
our hearty thanks If they will persist in the war
they have declared upon high prices.—Allentoten
Democrat.
Foster had a big rush at his opening on Monday.
The whole population seemed to be there to secure
the greatest bargains ever before offered. Enter
prise Is stamped everywhere and he is sure to suc
ceed, though he sells goods at smaller profits than
they do anywhere this side of New York. The
rush still continued yesterday, continues. to-day,
and will ever continuo so long as people have a
chance to get so much for Shah* money. Every
thought is of Foster, and no man in Allentown Is
more talked of by the fair sex. Goods sold for
greenbacks at gold prices.--Lehigh Register.
We advise our readers to go to Foster's for their
dry goods. They are New York mon and will sell
you goods at New York prices.—Allentown
densbote.
"I saved seventeen dollars on one Poplin dress
I bought at Foster's the other day." So we heard
a lady saying recently.—Lehigh Patriot.
lltary Ward Beecher once told a gentleman to
" foliew the crowd" if he desired to find his way
to his (Beecher's) church. The way to Foster's
Now York Store is found in the same way.—lnde
pendent Republican.
FOSTER.—Foster bas made good his promises.
HO has most decidedly "revolutionized the Allen
town Dry Goods trade." We are just finding out
what exorbitant prices we have been paying for
dry goods in Allentown. Foster actually sells
many goods for half the price we have been paying
for them. The crowd at his store is as great as
ever, and of all who have been there to trade we
have yet to bear of a single person. In any way
disappointed with his purehase.—Attentotm Demo
crat.
We hear that there has been a tremendous ex
citement in the Dry Goods trade In Allentown,
during the past week. Foster's New York City
Store, just opened, has been fairly packed wlh
people. They aro selling goods at about half the
prices other merchants charge for them. Ono of
two things is true ; either our merchants in this
locality have been charging ns outrageous profits,
or else Foster, nt Allentown is selling less than
cost. As be says he is making money even at his
low prices, wo are forced to accept the first conclu
sion, and we think It but right to advise all our
people to go to Allentown to trade with Foster—at
least till other merchants conform to the new order
of things which this New York City Store has es
tablished there.—Carbon Democrat.
We wish to say to our readers that they need
have no fear of being deceived by the advertise
ments of Footer's New York Store at Allentown.
They will always sell as they tidvertlse.—Stat Mg-
ton News.
We don't wish to flatter Mr. Foster. We have
no "axe to grind," for ho advertises with us al
ready. But we cannot help saying that be is ben
efiting every kind of business In Allentown. He
is bringing the people in from every direction'. Ills
store is literally packed much of the time.--Lehigh
'Register.
On our own account we wish simply to say that every
article we sell we warrant to be as low, and in ninety
nine cases out of a hundred lower than it can be
bought for elsewhere.
FOSTER'S •
NEW. YORK CITY STORE,
. Opposite German Reformed Church,
21.2 NOUTII 11111DREIMET,
HAMBURG EDGINGS AND INBERTINGS,
Together with a fall supply of goods In their Rae Just re
calved at LaMAISTRB & ItOSS.
Plaid and Sqlped ORGANDIES.
•• • NAINSOOKS.
64 46 BWIES MULL.
Tarlatans, Tacked Nalimooks, and French Muslin..
Soft and bard finished Cambric. and Jaconete, Bobinots,
Wash-Blonds. Illusions for Bridal Veils.
Lace and Embroidered Curtains, and Curtain lace from
auction, and VERY CHEAP.
for A Irrgt::l c flOTt u Misses assortment
t ßly i ;l n ivlgra d n k d e i r it h
lefs
u tic l e ly s all figur es.l e. ax Crochet,Valencia English and
German Thread and Gulpuro. realaud imit'ation, Cluny,
Black and White 1111 k laces, &a.
Fins Linen and Lace Collars and Cuffs in all styles.
Pique Braid, Daisy,
_Dimity, Magic and Coventry Rat
ings, Empress and Metternich Frillinge, &e.
gi
A largo and moat , select stock of Linen and Nottingham
Tidies, Toilet Mats in sets. at 31 cents.
Loon Jaconet Edgings. 3 yards at 20, 23 and 30 cents.
Pairings and Shined Muslim,.
Plain Linen, and Linen Shirt Fronts. Handsome Lad
cheap Embroidered Infant Waists. apr It-ly
IMPORTANT TO FARRIERS 2
CALIFORNIA AND OREGON
SEED WHEAT AGENCY
JEANS, Ov.,
BEST SEED WHEAT IN THE WORLD
Perfectly froo from Insectlform or other Impurities,
grown from AUSTRALIAN and CHILI Seed, yielding...
good 8011,
83 POUNDS TO THE MEASURED BUSHEL
The Ears o( Wheal, when mature, are usually eleven or
vrolio Inches long.
/Sir Put pp and aocurely tied and sealed In linen bags,
and soul by mail froo to all parts of the country, on re.
colpt of Price.
SAMPLES' 10 CTS. EACH I DAOB 500. and M EACH
El2E11:1
CALIFORNIA AND OREGON
SEED WHEAT AGENCY,
BAN FRANCISCO,
el 10- 4:11•If
BOWER'S
COMPLETE MANURE,
Super-Phosphate of Lime, Amonia and racial
WARRANTED FREE FROM ADULTERATION.
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This Manure contains all the elements toproduce tart
crops of all kind.. mud Is highly recommended by all who
used it, also by distinguished chemists who ham by an
&Ira., tested Its qualities. Packed in Bags of 200 lbs.
each.
80 South Water and 40 South Delaware Av.,
Par sale by WILLIAM REYNOLDS, 7D South Street,
Baltimore, Md. For Information, address Hoary Dower,
Philadelphia. fob lO.'oli-ly
COMMISSION & SHIPPING MERCHANT
No. 215 South Water St., Chicago. /11
airrarticular attention given to Eastorn shipments.
REVERENCES:
O. W. Butts & Bro., ettleago;Sarger & Allentown.
Pa. t CAPt. Erdman. Centro Valley. Pa:; Wm. Hackett,
Cashier Easton 0... )llank ; Bonnet, Dusesbury & Co., 7 50
West-st., New Irork; Hushong A Bro.. Basihers, Read
ing, Pa.; B. G. UnangeL_Bethiehem, Vs. t John Boger.
oproshors, Pa.; John gahnstock, igillway. Lancaster
county. Pa.; Joseph Helder. Sweetland Centre. lows.
Aug 94.1 y
FUIaiOIJR INUNIMER FARMS FOR
SALE, ranging in price from SBtc Winer am, nocord
to Improvements, location dm. hood soil, genial climate.
and near market.. These farms are situated In Vignola
and If aryland, some In the Immediate vicinity of Waiik
ilig"flitgalierglue.7.°e.g. Vag g8112.Z12:
setts Avenue. nese Sixth street, Washington, D. O.
Iltotter.
erg Gpobis.
ALLENTOWN, PA
♦ NEW AND EMI/NT LOS 01P
agrinaturat.
We Wulf& Parents with the
SIXTY BUSHELS TO TILE ACRE
And weighing
MEM
Or la larger quantities at raasonablo rate.
133313=112
MAIIIITACTITIIRD /ST
HENRY BOWER, Chemist,
C=!
Mario from
DIXON, SHAMPLESS & CO.,
AGENTS,
PIIILADF.LPULA.
ALLENTOWN, PA., WEDNESDAY MORNING, JUNE 2, 1869.
LIFE AT WHITE PINE
THE NEW SILVER MINES OF NEVADA-GRAPH
-10 PICTURES ON THE WAY AND THERE-A
GENUINE GLIMPSE AT LIFE AND DEATH, VICE
AND VILLAINY, FUN AND FROLIC IN A NEW
MINING TOWN.
r 0.7
The Overland Monthly, of Ban Francisco,
for march, has an admirable story of winter
life at White Pine, whither all the roving
speculators, and hopeful miners of the great
West are now rushing. The new mines, so
wonderfully rich in silver, are located in south
eastern Nevada, not far from Utah, and 140
miles south from Elko, thonearest point of the
railroad lino in the Humboldt valley. The
point is about 000 miles duo east from San
Francisco, 1,000 duo west from Bt. Louis. We
quote the Overland writer, who brings the
scenes'of fresh and furious mining life most
vividly before the reader:
Across the wide, treeless Mirage valley, over
the low Pancake mountain, across another
and narrower valley, and we enter at last the
long winding canon which leads up into the
White Pine mountain range and terminates at
Hamilton, where we found ourselves, tried,
weary, worn out, half disgusted, and just a
trifle homesick, soon after noon. Long lines
of mules, and oxen drawing heavy wagons,
laden with supplies of every kind, mill ma
chinery, whisky, provisions, whisky, hard
ware, whisky, mule feed, and whisky again:
mine owners, or those who had but recently
sold mines, and were flush, on horseback ;
Lull-whackers, in soldiers' coats, with whips
a dozen feet in length on poles lo'nger still,
just in from Austin or Wadsworth ; honest
miners with salted claims, ready to sell to the
newly arrived greenhorns ; foot-packers, with
out a cent, who had packed their blankets
and luggage all the way from the railroad at
Elko, sparing their meals and sleeping in snow
drifts if they slept at all ; painted Jezebels
from every mining camp from Idaho to Sono-
ra; Shoshone Indians, Chinamen, and " cap-
Mists," who in San Francisco wero never
known as men with plethmic bank accounts,
crowded the streets of llamilton. All was
bustle and hurry, noise, excitement, and con
fusion. The stores and saloons were crowd
ed with men in huge overcoats, the pockets of
which were filled with big specimens, small
silver bars and rolls of location notices and
assay certiffcates, buying selling, and talking
mines, and " bummers" of the seediest class,
who drank at the expense of every stranger
who approached bar—swore, talked, fought,
and "swapped" filthy lies from morning to
night. In the evening the streets were de
sorted, but the mad excitement indoors was as
great as ever: The bartenders were kept in
incessant motion in their frantic efforts to sup
ply the demand for drinks which poured in
from every direction. The express office was
crowded with men * writing letters, or sending
off packages to their distant friends. The
dance-house was filled with half or wholly
tipsy miners, with a sprinkling of abandoned
women, whose smiles and favors were so ea
gerly sought for and as jealously observed by
the unfavored as were ever thosc.of the most
gifted and virtuous of their sex in the abode of
wealth and refinement at the East on a gala
I night.
In the rear of every bar-room was a door
bearing a sign inscribed " Club Room,"
through which was heard the strains of dis
cordant music and the chinking of coin. These
club rooms were crowded to their utmost en-
pacity, and the tables were piled with coin and
checks, while hundreds of men who had made
lucky strikes at finding, working, or, more
frequently, selling mines, were betting away
in a single hour what might have kept them,
for years in comfort, or served as 5 foundation
for a collossal fortune. Every five or ten
minutes the dealers would pause in their work
of turning cards and raking down the coin, to
ring a bell, when a bar-tender would enter the
club room.
" Gentlemen, what will you take ? You
drink with me, you know I" said the smiling
dealer in pasteboard and other people's hard•
earned coin.
" Whisky toddy whisky straight whisky ~
hot 1 whisky sour I whisky and gum 1" repli
ed the crowd; the fiery liquor was swallowed,
and the game went on. Bang, bang, bang,
bang, bang, came from the fandango room.
The players at the gaming table remarked
that there was fun / going on there, • but were
too busy to go and see what it was. A man
told us the next morning that he believed
somebody was killed, but he was not certain ;
and another man, who was there, and, knew
all about it, but had no time to go into details,
corrected him by saying that "there wasn't
nobody killed, and the affair didn't amount to
much, anyhow. Only ono man was hit, and
he an outsider, who had no part in the affray,
of course ; only got a bullet through the shoul
der." We found a place to spread our blank
ets at last, and from the bottom of our hearts
echoed the pious remark of good Sancho Pan
za,, " A blessing on the head of him who in
vented sleep."
" All aboard for Treasure City ! Carry you
right up the hill for three dollars," was the,
first thing we heard the next morning as we
stepped forth from the canvas-walled and saw
dust-floored restaurant in which we had obtain
ed our dollar's worth of slaughterhouse steak,
North America hash saleratus biscuit and fri
jol° coffee. The distance was two miles, the
ascent fifteen hundred feet, the road slippery
with ice, and the wind sharp and strong
enough to make sitting still in a sleigh any
thing but fun, and we concluded to foot it and
save our money. Up, up we go. We are al
ready eight thousand feet above the sea, On
air is becoming every moment more highly
rarefied and electrical, our breath becomes
short and quick and sharp, and still the sum
mit of Treasure Hill is a thousand feet above
us. Jolly old jokers are these Po-go-nippers,
and calling this a "hill" is one of their best
efforts.
A long, crooked street, rocky and ungraded
bordered by one-story shanties, of rough
boards, slabs, cedar posts, stones, and mud,
with vacant lots fenced in with little narrow
strips of raw-hide, led us on into Treasure
City, the business center of the White Pine
Silver Mines. The four-horse sleigh which
had started from Hamilton with a load of pas-
Imagers just as we left ithere, arrived at the
usual stopping place in front of Wells, Fargo
& Company's in Treasure City, a few minutes
behind us. There was a female dressed in
moire antique and furs, painted like the bar
racks on Alcatraz, and glittering with cheap
but gaudy jewelry, in the sleigh, and when
the vehicle stopped, two six-foot gallants,
bearded like the the pard costumed like esqui
manz, sprang out simultaneously and offered,
their hands to assist her to alight. She had
but one band free, and cold of course give
that to one only. Which would it be ?
Neither gallant would yield the point—both
were in blood earnest. A. shove, a push, a
stinging blow and out came the revolvers of
course. The combatants were so hampered
with their heavy clothing they could tako no
accurate aim, and fired at random. A few of
the bystanders, seeing the unsatisfactory re
sult of the fight, throw in a few spare shots
at random, on the principle adopted by the old
lady out 'West, who, having no idea whatever
of the nature of her husband's malady, pro
scribed calomel, and ipecacuana, paregoric,
salts, Swain's Vermifuge, camphor, opodeldoc,
quinine, Bmndreth's pills, tincture of ammo•
nia, croton oil, Godfrey's Cordial, and a few
other trifles which sho had in the house, 'pious
ly trusting that in the multiplicity of remedies,
with the blessing of Providence, some one of
them would reach theright spot in his system,
and help him out of his misery. The bullets
hummed like bees through the sleety
.mist,
causing the crowd to scatter right and left,
but nothing practical came of it until ono of
them struck ono of the horses In the head, cut-
ting an artery, and giving him a death wound
from which the blood spirted in a stream over
one of the combatants who sto d partially un
der him. The blood-covered combatant, sup-
posing himself shot, threw down his revolver
and ran down the street, groaning and crying
murder alternately, and the fight was ended.
The woman meantime had been sitting quiet-
ly in the sleight an impartial spectator of the
conflict, and patiently waiting to see which
gallant would kiss the snow-drift, and which,
as the survivor and winner of he tournament
would have the honor of helping her out. It
is gratifying to see that amid'all the rush, ex
citement and struggle for wealth, our people
do not wholly forget the chivalrous deference
which, above all other nations, it is our proud
privilege to pay to the gentler sex and still
find time to indulge in the small courtesies of
civilized life. What other people can boast as
much
Pious, too, as well as courteous, in a certain
rough, off-hand sort of a way, are the dwellers
in the Po•go•nip. They will put themselves
out of the way sometimes to give a friend a
cheerful and pleasant burial. Instance a case
which came under our notice while coming up
here on the railroad. One of the seekers after
sudden wealth sickened and died by the way-
side, and his companions desirous of bearing •
testimony to his many good qualities, decided :
to do the handsome thing by him in the way
of respectable obsequies. They accordingly
went around taking up a collection, and in due
time succeeded In getting together enough
boxes and bits of lumber to make a sort of
rough box resembling a disproportioned hen
coop, in which to bury hfm. "Sardines a
Phuile" and "Deesiccated codfish at the head .
and foot ; Peach blow" and " Private Cuvee"
on the sides, with "glass with care" on the
top—will be likely to puzzle the antiquarians
of 1069, who may chance to light on his grave,
as badly as did the inscriptions on the earth
phagus of Gliddon's mummy the learned se
vens of Boston. They wrapped him in his
second-best pair of blankets, placed him in the
box, and consigned him to the bosom of
mother earth. Then they tossed up to see
who should read a chapter of Scripture over
his grave, and the lot falling on one not well
versed in such matters, he opened the book at
the story of Susannah and the Elders, and
read it through from first to last, with solemn
unction. Then they dumped the earth and
rock upon the packing box, and were prepar
ing to leave him alone in his glory, when it
occurred to somebody in the crowd that there
should be something to designate his resting
place. So they drove an old pick handle down
into the dirt at the head of, the grave, and
nailed a narrow slip of a soda-cracker box
horizontally across it. The cross was now
two-thirds complete ; but the lumber was ex
hausted. A lucky idea occurred to help them
out. One of the party had a bottle about half
full of whisky. They finished the whisky,
tilled the bottle with sand and gravel, to keep
the wind from blowing it away, and set it up
right on the board ; the emblem of the faith
was complete. But there should be some in
scription on it. Oh, yes ; that is so I 3. H. S.
or INRI, was proposed ; but the learned man
of the party, Who took some pride in his scho
lastic attainments, thought it beet to write the
inscription out in full, which he did, after his
own ideas—and the label now read: "J. H.
Cutter's old Bourbon whisky. In Hoe Sign°
Visas." It was such a capital joke on Cut
ter, they said ; it would be a pity if the dead
man could not see it.
Passing on down the street we met an old
San Franciscan, now a real estate and mining
broker, who was standing in' front of his place,
bantering with the proprietor of two diminu
tive jackasses, and ono pack load of wood,
weighing about ono hundred pounds.
" What is the least you will take for the
load ?"
" Wall, sec'n it is you, I'll take four dollars
and a half; I wouldn't let anybody else have
it for less than•flve dollars."
"Four dollars and a half? Why, I bought
two loads for that yesterday, and you haven't
packed this over forty rods."
"Two loads for four dollars and a half ?
Well, if you want wood given to you, you had
better patronize somebody else. I sell my
wood—l do. alt up 1 Yamos
The man with the jackasses waved,his hand
in supreme contempt, kicked oneof the ani
mals with all his might and a number twelve
pegged boot, and started off in disgust. The
jackass which caught the kick' being without
a load, went off with a jump, and as he passed
his loaded companion caught the iron hook of
the aparejo in his tackle, and supposing him
self suddenly loaded, doubled down like a
wood-chuck to his work. Ice on the road and
a descending grade favored him, and the last
that we saw of the party, the heavy-burdened
animal was spread out like a turtle, vainly en
deavoring to regain his grip, while the other
was towing him at a "two-forty" gait down
the road toward Silver Springs, his owner,
fairly turning the air blue with curses and
anathemas of everything bipedal and quadru
pedal meantime, as he vainly endeavored to
cast off the entangling alliance, and reduce
things to a normal condition once more.
"This is a pretty fair room you have hero,
as things go in White Pine."
"Well, yea;" said the ex-San Franciscan,
meditatively ; "but I came mighty near not
getting it. You see the gentleman from south
western Missouri who owned the shanty, had
rented the basement for one hundred dollars
per month, and asked the same for this part of
it. I wanted him to put a roof on it, and after
a time he agreed to do it if I'd pay in advance.
I agreed to this, when ho remembered a trans
action with another party, and said ; 'Come
to think about it, stranger, I'M too fast. I'm
afear'd after all that thar room is rightly let.
I told t'other un that ho might have it, and
dog-gone him I wish I hadn't. He's ono o'
them bilks as parts his har onto the middle on
head, and talks like a preacher. When ho
started to go he shaked 'my hand like as if
he'd known me from a baby, and was sweet
on my sister; and, says he, ".Good bye, Mis
ter Smith, God bless you.' Now, that may
do for Yanks ; but it don't take with me, I'm
right smart dubersome, and I've a good mind
to shako him ; but I allownfter all I'll have to
let him take it.' "
We remarked that ho seemed to have got It
after all.
"You bet that I did," said our friend, with
emphasis. "I had him down to a dot in my
measure book at once. I turned as If to leave. J
and then, whirling around, held out my hand
and said Well, good-bye, old Persimmons,
d—n you l' throwing my whole weight (one
hundred and eighty pounds) on the d—n.
That got him. The words were not fairly out
before he slapped me on the back and Bung I
out, 'Now, old hoes, that gait suits me. You
can have the room, and if that thar long-haired
God-bless-you customer comes foolin' around '
with any more of his scripter, we'll make him
roost mighty high, or leave Treasure Hill in a 1
hurry ; let's go and take 'pizen, then we'll
sign the lease.' So I got the place, and the
other fellow had to roost on a snow-drift,
until he got frozen out and left."
Now faces at every turn, strangers fill every
street. The crowd which we met sixty days
since has hardly a representative left. One
sold out a claim for a fortune a hundred times
greater than he ever had before in his life, and
left for the States ; another kept drunk until
his friends, from motives of economy, made
up a purse and sent him to San Francisco ; an
other is dead ; another gone down to the new
districts to the southward ; another gone cast,
and another west, lo sell their claims, and
spread excitement far and wide. Nothing
save the mountain has stood still, and change
is written all over that. Even the dead man
rested not, for they moved him twice already,
on account of new discoveries, and chlorides
have been struck again in the vicinity of his
last location during the week.
The Eberhardt is the representative mine of
this wonderful district, and seeing it we have
'seen all the rest concentrated in one. At the
door a pack train of Mexican mules are being
loaded with the precious ore for the mill, two
miles to the southwest, and two thousand feet
lower down. In the shed, men are busy at a
great pile of brown, blue, red, green and black
rock, breaking it to pieces and sorting it, the
richest being thrown aside for the crucible s ,
and the rest going into the sacks to be packed
away to the mill. There is a princely fortune
in this pile of ore, which to the uninitiated eye
is but a heap of broken rock, fit only for
building walls or macadamizing public streets.
Over one of the hoisting shafts there is a
large wooden bucket with a rope and rude
windlass, such as you *might see on the pro
specting shaft of the poorest miner. It has
served for hoisting all this wealth to the sur
face. In this bucket we descend into the
mine. A long, narrow chamber, with dull,
dark walls, and a few men at work with pick
and gad, were all that the fini glance revealed
and there was a momentary feeling of disap
pointment. A closer inspection showed that
the walls, the ceilings, the floor, were silver ;
even the very (lust on the floor was silver.
This lump will yield five dollars a pound, this
six, this seven, this, eight, and this, which will
flatten like lead under the hammer, is worth
within a fraction of ten dollars . a pound.
They tell us that there is s a million 'of dollars
worth of silver piled up before our eyes in this
gloomy cavern, and such is indeed the fact.
Talk of the power of gunpowder, of steam, of
the whirlwind, of the earthquake ; here is a
power which Is greater than all 1. There oper
ations are but local, partial and temporary ;
this can replace what they destroy—this can
rebuild what these have hurled down ; all save
"The touch of a vanished band,
And the sound of a voles that Is still."
can this bring back to its possessor.
Back in the sunlight once more, we look
down the steep declivity of Treasure Hill
stretching away to the southward and west
ward. Hqndrede of prospecting shafts dot the
face of the hill ; men busy "developing the
rescources of the country" are running about
the country like ants. Blasts, or "shots," as
they term them here, are being let off in the
prospecting claims every minute. With lum
ber at four hundred dollars per thousand, it
won't pay to cover the shafts when blasts arc
being let off, even if there were time to be
spared—so they are let of at random ; heads
at the risk of the owners. When the fuse is
lighted, the owners calls out "shot l" antyets'
under cover of the nearest rock, well satisfied
with himself for having shone so much regard
for public safety ; a careless fellow would not
have called out at all. One passer-by runs
ono way, another the other; bang goes the
blast, up goes a volley of rocks, some of them
weighing perhaps a hundred pounds each, and
then they come ratling down on everything
in the way. "Why, you have filled up my
house plumb full of rocks," exclaims the pro
prietor of a cabin, with sides of cobble and
mud, the cloth roof of which has been riddled
like a cullender by the flying missiles, as he
rushes out in breathless haste. "Yes, you
were In big luck to get out alive I" is the good
humored reply. Both parties consent to adopt
this view of the cause as a finality ; they take
a drink together, and the owner of the cabin
goes back to finish mixing his biscuit, and the
miner gets ready for the next shot, which may
have more serious consequence.
THE JURYMAN'S STORY
BY JUDGE CLAM{
We bad been out twenty-four hours, and
stood eleven to one. The case was a very
plain one—at least we eleven thought so.
A murder of peculiar atrocity had been com
mitted ; and though no eye had witnessed the
deed, circumstances pointed to the prisoner's
guilt with unfailing certainty.
The recusant juror had stood out from the
first. He acknowledged the cogency , of the
proofs, confessed his inability to reconcile the
facts with the defendant's innocence, and yet,
on every vote, went Steadily for acquittal.
His conduct was Inexplicable. It could not
result from a lack of intelligence; for, while .
he spoke but little, his words were well chosen;'
and evinced a thorough understanding of the
-..-
Though still In the prime of manhood, his
locks were prematurely White, and his face
wore a singularly sad and thoughtful expres
sion.
lie might be ono of those who entertained
scruples as to the right of society to inflict the
death penalty. But no, it was not that ; for,
in reply to such a'suggestion, be frankly ad
mitted that brutal men, like the vicious brutes
they resemble, must be controlled through
fear, and that dread of death, the supreme ter
ror, is, in many cases, the only adequate re
straint.
At the prospect of another night of fruitless
imprisonment wo began to grow impatient,
and expostulated warmly againstwhat seemed
an unreasonable captiousness; and some not
over kind remarks were indulged in as to the
imo.3priety of trifling with an oath like that
under which we were acting. •
"And yet," the man answered, as though
communing with himself rather than repelling
the imputation, "it is conscience that hinders
my concurrence in a verdict approved by my
judgment."
" How can that be 4" queried several at once.
" Conscience may not always dare to follow
udgment." .
"But hero she can know no other guide."
" /onco would have said the same."
"And what has changed your opinion 4"
"EXPERIENCE."
The speaker's manner was visibly agitated,
and we waited in silence the explanation
which he seemed ready to give.
Mastering his emotion, as if in answer to
our looks of inquiry, ho continued :
" Twenty years ago I was a young man just
beginning life. Few had brighter prospects,
and none brighter Lopes.
An attachment, dating from childhood, had
ripened with its object. There had been no
verbal declaration and acceptance of love—no
formal plighting of troth; but when I took
my departure to seek a home in the distant
West, it was a thing understood, that when I
had found It and put it in order, she was to
share it. •
" Life in the forest, though solitary, is not
necessarily lonesome. The kind of society
afforded by Nature, depends mucli on one's
self: As for me, I lived more in 'the future
than in the present, and Hope is an ever-cheer
ful companion.
At length the time came for making the final
payMent on the home which I had bought. It
would henceforward be my own ; and, in a
few more months, my simple dwelling, which
I had spared no pains to render inviting, would
he graced by its mistress.
"At the land-office, which was some sixty
miles off, I met my old friend, George C. Ho
too, had come to seek his fortune in the West ;
and we were bah' delighted at the meeting.
He had brought with him, he'said, a sum of
money which he desired to invest in land, on
ivhich it was his purposd to settle.
"I expressed a strong wish to have him for
a neighbor, and gave him a cordial invitation
to accompany me home, giving it as my belief,
that he could nowhere make it better selection
than in that vicinity.
". He readily consented, end we set out to
gether. We had not ridden many miles, when
George suddenly recollected a commission he
had undertaken for a friend, which would re
quire his attendance at a public land-sale on
the following day..
"Exacting a promise that he would not do-
lay his visit longer than necessary, and having
given minute directions as to the route, I con
tinued my way homeward, while ho turned
back.
I was about retiring to bed on the night of
my return, when a summons from without
called me to the door. A stranger asked shel
ter for himself and his horse for the night.
"I invited him in. Though a stranger, his
face seemed not unfamiliar. He was probably
one of the men I had seen at the land-office, a
place, at that time, much frequented.
"Offering him a scat, I went to see to his
horse. The poor animal, as well as I could
see by the dim starlight, seemed to have been
hardly used. His panting sides bore witness
of merciless riding, and a tremulous shrinking,
at the slightest touch, betokened recent fright.
"On re-entering the .house, I found the
stranger was not there. Ills absence excited
no surprise ; he would doubtless soon return.
It was a little singular, however, that he should
have left his watch lying on the table.
"At the end of half an hour, my guest not
returning, I went again to the stable, thinking
ho might have found his 'way thither to give
personal attention to the wants of his horse.
"Before going out, from mere force of habit
—for we were as „yet uninfested by either
thieves or policemen—l took the precaution of
putting the stranger's watch in a drawer in
which I kept my own valuables.
" I found the horse as I had left him, and
gave him the food which he was now sufficient
ly cooled to be allowed to eat, but his master
was nowhere to be seen.
"As I approached the house, a crowd of
men on horseback dashed up, and I was com
manded, in no gentle tones, to 'stand/ In
anothermoment I was In the clutches of those
who claimed me as their 'prisoner.'
"I was too umbh stupifled at first to ask
what it all meant. I did so at last, and the
explanation came, it was terrible
" My friend, with whom I bad so lately set
out in company, had been found murdered and
robbed near the spot at which I, but I alone,
knew we had separated. I was the - last per
son known to be with him, and I was now ar
rested on suspicion of his murder.
"A search of the premises was immediately
instituted. The !etch was found in the
drawei in which I bad placed it, and teas
identified as the property of the murdered man.
His horse, too, was found in my stable, for
the animal I had just put there was none other.
I recognized him myself when I saw him in
the light. •
" What I said, I know not. My confusion
was taken as additional evidence. And when,
at length, I did command language to give an
intelligible statement, it was received with
sneers of incrdulity.
"The mob spirit• is inherent in man—at
least in crowds of men. It may not always
manifest itself in physical violence. It some
times contents Itself with lynching a character.
But whatever its form, it is always relentless,
pitiless, cruel.
"As the proofs of my guilt, ono after an
other, came to light, low mutterings gradually
grew into a clamor for vengeance; and but
for the firmness of one man—the officer who
had me in charge—l would doubtless have
paid the penalty of my supposed offence on
the spot.
" It was not sympathy for me that actuated
my protector. Ills heart was as hard as his
office ; but he represented the majesty of the
law, and took a sort of grim pride in his post
' lion.
"As much under the glance of his eye as
!icier° the muzzle of his pistol, the cowardly
clamorers drew'back. Perhaps they were not
sufficiently 'numerous to feel the full effect of
that mysterious reflex influence which makes
crowd of men so much . worse, and at times so
much better, than any one of them singly.
* • * • * * • •
"At the end of some months my trial came.
It could have but one 'result. Circumstances
too plainly declared my guilt.' I alone knew
they lied.
" The absence of the jury was very brief.
To their verdict I paid but little heed.. It was
a single hideous word ; but I had long antici
pated it, and it made no impression.
," As little Impression was made by the•
words of the judge which followed it ; and his
solemn invocation that God might have mercy
upon me which man was toofust to vouchsafe
sounded like 'the hollowest of hollow mock- .
cries.
' It may be hard for the condemned criminai
to meet death ; it is still harder for him whole
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innocent. The one, when the first shock is ,
over, acquiesces in his doom, and gives him
self to repentenco ; the heart of the other,
filled with rebellion against man's injustice, -
can scarce bring itself to ask pardon of God.
" I had gradually overcome this feeling, in
spite o: good clergyman's irritating efforts,
which was mainly directed towards extractifig
a confession, without which, he assured me,
ho had no hope to offer.
"On the morning of the - day fixed for my
execution, I felt measurably resigned. I had
so long stood face to face with death, had so
accustomed myself to look upon it as a merely.
momentary pang, that I no longer felt solid
tons save that my memory should ono day be
vindicated.
" She for whom I had gone to prepare a
home had already found one in heaven. The
tidings of thy calamity had broken her heart.
She alone of all the world believed me info
cent ; and she had died with a prayer upon
her lips, and that the truth might yet be
brought to light.
"All this I had heard, and it had soothed as
with sweet incense my troubled spirit.
Death, hoWever unwelcome the shape, was
now a portal beyond which I could see one
angel waiting to receive me.
" I heard the sound of approaching foot
steps, and nerved myself to meet the expected
summons. The door of my cell opened, and
the sheriff and his attendants entered. Ho
held in his hand apaper. It was doubtless my
dcathwarrant. He began to read it. My
thoughts were busied elsewhere. The words
'Pow, AND PRIEg 'unwire were the first to
strike my preoccupied senses. They affected
the bystanders more than myself. Yet so it
was : / had been pardoned for a crime I had
I never committed.
"The real culprit, none other, it is needless
to say, than he had sought and abused my
hospitality, had been mortally wounded in a
recent affray In a distant city, but had lived
long enough to make a disclosure, which had
been laid before the Governor barely in time
to save me from a shameful death, and con
demn to a cheerless and burdensome life.
" This is my EXP ' ERIENCE. My judgment,
as yours, in the case before us, lends to but
one conclusion, that of the prisoner's guilt;
but no less confident and apparently unerring
was the judgment that falsely pronounced my
own."
We no longer importuned our fellow juror,
but patiently awaited our discharge on the
ground of inability to agree, which came at
last.
The prisoner was tried and convicted at a
subsequent term, and at the last moment con
fessed his crime on the scaffold.—New York
Ledger.
A BASHFUL BRIDE ON HER
WEDDING TOUR.
While we were making arrangements to
pass the night (we cannot say sleep) in the
sleeping car which carried us from Macon to
Montgomery, Alabama, and just as we bad
begun to wish fora better bed, the cars stopped
at a smallstation, and a blushins couple, "hold
of hands," came into the car. Their appear
ance as they stood hesitatingly in ..the door=
way meant "mischief," and were just starting
out on their wedding tour.
" Would you like a berth, sir 1" said the
lively, jolly-faced conductor of the miserable
sleeping car.
"No, sits—l reckon—as may be—that aint
what we want," stammered the bridegroom.
" Haint you got no bridal chamber on this ere
hear ?"
"Oh, the bridal chamber 1" exclaimed the
conductor. "Come this way, sir."
The couple went tremblingly through the
car to the " state Aom," which looked about
as much like a state room on a Northern sleep
ing car as a cell in the county jail appears like
the Parker House parlor.
'• Does that door shut up'?" anxiously in
quired the bridegroom. •
"Oh, yes. See how it slides," said the con
ductor.
"But I'm dogged If I see any place to sleep,"
suggested the applicant for the chamber.
"Oh, we'll flx that, if you will be seated,"
said the conductor, pointing to a low, hard
sofa on the opposite side of the car, close to
the headof our curtained couch.
"I don't like it ; so there—," 'whispered
the bride.
'• Don't like what ?" said her partner.
"I won'tso no further, I won't, if you keep
talking so."
" What have I done, I'd like ter know 4"
" You told him you didn't see no place to
sleep, and I don't think it was usin' me right."
" Well, I don't see no place now, neither.
If we've got to be tucked away in that little
hole, we'll haf ter stand it all night, that's
sartin."
"Let's go back, Johnny; I'm afraid to go
any Further."
"Oh, no, don't let's go hack. Let's stick
er eout."
"I can't, I won't, I don't like ter. I can't
stay hero. There's lots of men behind those
curtains. I'm sick. I won't go no further.
Bay, Johnny, let's do go home. Do, I want
ter so much." And the fair ono began to
weep as though her heart would break.
"Wall, don't cry, Mollie, we'll get right
eout at the next place. But you hadn't orter
be so 'fraid 'o folks, now we,.'re married."
This seemed to quiet her grief, and at the
next station the afflicted cipple left the cars,
having paid for the "state room," and wo
heard him, as he stood on the platform out
side, remark that :
"That ar sleepin' kear was ,dog-gonned
small quarters for married folks."
—A fellow who has been shaved in China
says that the barber first stropped the razor
on his leg, and then did the shaving without
any lather. The customer remonstrated, but
Was told that lather was entirely useless, and
had a tendency to make the hair stiff and
tough, and was therefore never used by per
sons who bad any knowledge of the face and
its appendages. After the beard had been
taken off—and it was done In a very short
time—the barber took a long, 'gbarp, needle
shaped spoon, and began to explore his cus
tomer's ears. He brought up from numereua
little crevices bits of wax and dirt that bad
been accumulating since his childhood. The
barber suddenly twisted his subject's neck to
ono side in such a manner that it cracked as If
the vertibrce had been dislocated. ". "Hold
on I" shouted the party, alarmed for the safety
of his neck. " All right," replied the tensor,
"me no Mit you ;" and he continued to jerk
and twist the neck until it was as limber an
old woman's dish rag. He theri fell tybeating
the back, breast, arms, and sides with his fists,
and pummeled the muscles until they fairly
glowedwith the beating they had received.
He then dashed a bucket of cold water over
his man, dried the skin with towels, and de
clared that his work was done. Price two
cents.
UPBTAIfts,
ALLENTOWN. PA
NEW DESIGNS.