ADVERTISING , TIATS.
Nt 1 Inn. 2 mos. 0 mo. lyr•
1.00 1.70 1,50 0,50 12.0 0
2.00 3.50 6,00 9,00 31.0,4
4.50 5.20' 9.0) 17.00 2 25.1
11.50 17.0)) 2.1.00 45,0 9
13.5000 40.00 19).4e,
20.00 4 , 1 22. X1 3 00.00 110.0 ,
30.00 41).00 110 00 290.10
10 , 1 3 , 111yr* .
!To 'Einar.
thre• Squared
llle sunaroo. .
Sun rler Column
Unit Calm.. •
)N6 Column
rl
p
122
LI
Protestional Cards $l.OO Per line Per year.
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Administrator's and Auditor's Notice., 4?.00
City Noncom, 2,3 cont. per line let insertion 1.5 coats per
no each anbsequent Insertion.
Ten lines agate constitute a squall,.
ROBERT IREDELL, ,TR., PUBLISHER,
I=
Coal anti Lumber.
ILLLIIERT. 0. OTTO. ILK. OTTO. 0. W. KILLER
FILBERT, OTTO 4. MILLER,
MANUFACTURERS AND DEALERS IN
LUMBER,
W LLIAMSPORT, PA
SIILL ON CANAL WEST OF MAYNARD STREET
OFFICE AT TILE MILL
F CRANE AMIN.L.
JAS. H. RITTER. CIIAS. W.,ABLIO CT. OWEN RITTER
.1 0 RDAN ST E AI
PLANING MILL,
SASH, DOOR,
AND
BLIND MANUFACTORY,
Union Street, near Jordan Bridge, Allentown,
[UTTER, ABBOT I 7 & CO.,
MANUFACTURERS OF
ftneh, Doors, Outside Blinds, Inside Blinds,
, •
lugs, Brackets Balusters, Pickets, Stair Rail
ings, Windom Frames, Door Frant;s, Glrr•e
Windows. Bleu* tre'.lfoulelings, &e.
BRIO LL SAWING
TV RNINo.
PLANING.
mATeit isri.
Loom No nod
RI PPINO
DONE A T 'THE SIIOI2 TES T NOTICE.
ALSO. STAIR BUILDING done uud lIAND RAILING
mule to order.
Haying now had almost three yearn' possession of t h e
refurniebed It almost wholly with now and Improv•
ea machinery. and baring none tut experienced work
men, We aro prepared to defy competition from at home
and abroad. both In price and workmanship.
Do you contionpiate building ? Call at our Factory and
antinfyyourself with a personal examination.
Drawings* for buildings. brickets, patterns for orna
mental work, scrolls for porches. can be soon at all times
by calling at oar otter. Any Information to the builder
furnished cheerfully and freely, by calling at the Manu
factory, ou Union street, tit the Jordan Bridge, Allen
town, Pa.. or by letter through the post °ince.
tog 3-1 y) RITTER. ABBOTT St CO
REVIVAL I !
sub4crlbera . liar lua tea.ad the "Old Horn Coal
Yard," would re...11001)111y anatomic.. to the eltlxona of
Alloulowo and the public In tttataral, that they have juht
Nut
=9
COAL
(lAnhi4ling of Stove, Egg, Cbestuut hod Nat from too
BUCK MOUNTAIN
' Orden, loft with A. A. !labor, Sieger A liottot4ein, nt
Om Engle. Hotel, Napo Rolling Mill, or the tort will be
attended Will
BUSINESS
111, manner.
Ordrra far Coal I.y car 111414 at abort no Ilea
the loweal.
Alrstyr hau.l a largo stock of
BALED HAY,
Which Arlll be sold nt the lowest market prices
L. W. KOONS & CO.,
at the Old Hope Coal Yard
ilnthilt.to Street, corner of Lehigh Volley linllrottd
EME=I
1.. W. l 00 ,1
et ti
A NEW FIRM
AN)
NEW LUMBER YARD
TO BUIDLE S!
TREXTAI, & WEAVER
Would hereby announce to tha public that they here
ant opened a new Lumber srd 011th0 Neliehtile and con
venient grounds no long accepted by TRIO:LEE BRO.'S
on Hamilton street, near Tenth, north Mee t Where they
ore now prepared with a full assortment of everything
pertaining Cu tho business. c tinprisluir lii t
ELbOW PINE, WHITE PINE, SPRUCE and HEM
LOCK FLOORING, WHITE PINE 110 A Hos,
SCANTLING and PLANK of all sizes
and well SeWlO,lO.l.
FRAMING TimitEit, Saperior II ENILOCK JOIST and
SCANTLING of assorted sire.,
CEDAR, CYPRESS AND WHITE PINE SHINGLES of
extra quality.
HEMLOCK and SPRUCE PLASCERING anti SHING
LING LATHS, mud in large assortment of
WEATHERBOARDING, also W MITE OAK PLANE and
HOARDS of all thicknesses,
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NV II IT E PINE and iWILLICE PALINOS and• PICKETS.
superior ht anytlOnK In the ono ket
'NIIITE PIN ElLnd II E311.00K FENCE HAILS, WHITE
0 'Ai and CHESTNUT POSTS, Ste.. &e.
All i lex{ roux of purchasing Lumber to as good advantage
is Is offered at any other Yard In the county, are request
ad to call and exnminu our stuck before parch:v.llw else
where.
Satisfaction Guaranteed in Quality and Price.
The Stellar inetnberof the lino would hereby expre , ..t his
thank n for past favors while a member of the firm of 'Fraz
ier Droe., mud renpeettully nollelts acoattail:tore of the
ame, pronnelog to apply ilk bent endeavors to render
antlnialaltat to all patron. of the New Yard
11...spectfully
F.D. W. THEELEIt.
litigant 11l
cSitinr IJ.atrb 'Marc
svinTEL IC SUYI'II,
724 Ci Es;TNCT STREET, tf ik 1
(ll ,CONn r.ou). "47
PRACTICAL MANUFACTURER OF FINE y
SILVER PLATED WARE,
‘Vooldro,poctfally IlI1110111)C0 to I) iF pole°. that he has
a fall stock of the late , 4 styles of
DOUBLE AND TREBLE
ELECTRO- PLATED WARE
=I
Plated nu Nickel and Whir° Metals, suitable for fatally
4, city trade•
Asthen nallty of plating( can only be known to the ult
er, urchaser mast rely on tho manufacturer's state
ment; dire being so touch worthless ware in the market,
all remeseuted no treble Mate, at urines' Impossible to be
mane acturml.
All his goods are marked "S. K. SMYTH."
Call and examine the moods hot.o hurcitaslak else
where.
e'OLD WARE REPLATED
nmy :say
Carptt3 anb Oit Cloth
R''' ll AND ELEGANT
CARPETS, OIL CLOTHS, &C.
• S. C. FOULK.
NO. 19 S. SECOND ST., I'IIILA.,
(FR nt Carpet Etoro below Market, Rant aide,/
Inv attention to his spieroßd assortment of Imported
and American CARPETS. which will b 4 mold at a very
mall nava., floods warranted an represented no that
all can boy with round, nee and satisfaction.
ion
gor the janitcr
For. Pure Water,
this celebrated Vu
entirely tasteless
durable and tolls•
blo ; equal to the
gw:idold-fushlour
wooden Primp, a
met hiss than hal
money. Daily er
so as to be non
and In construct!
that any one car
keep it In repair.
THE BEST AND CHEAPEST PUMP NOW MADE
pANCOAST WAVLE,
THIRD AND ,PEAR STREETS,
PHILADELPIIIA;
PLAIN AND GALVANIZED
WROUGHT IRON TUBES,.
Lap-welded Boiler Tubes,
•
lira. and Iron Valvett and Corks; Fillifign for Clan, Steam
and Wxter; liongh and Fint•lonl Ilram. Work:
0. owl Minim Enters' Tools. etc.
118111 Tubs and kinks. Bath Bollera, Enamelled Windt
Staudit, etc., Cons of Tulle t. bleam Keffi t ,
anti Trap+.
Pipe of all Sizes fitted to Sketch. .
Stlecetoors to 310111215, TAttKER & C 0...
CONTRACTORS
th 'il i ji" . ",..l'.. r ,LTi l l'i l , i ,in.:l f u'iVo l v7ll7Zed s . , ! ""'
Entimaien b'urniAlied Graaf.
fcbl•ly
VOL. XXV
7-30 GOLD LOAN
OF TIIE
NORTHERN PACIFIC RAILROAD.
RAPID PROGRESS OF THE ROAD
The 6ndmng or the Northern Parille
begun July lasto Is being pushed forward with
Brent moo gy front both extremities of, tin. line.
Several thousand men are employed In illitteso
ta and on the l'acltic coast. 'Fite grade
C./Mph/tell 206 11111 i, Well, ward from I,olce Supe
rior; trains are runningover 130 miles of finish
ed road; and track-toying Is rapidly progressing,
toward the eastern b0r414•1 . of Dakota. I nelutling
Its purchase of the St. Paul & l'acllle flood, the
Northern Pacific Company now has 413 mil's /if
completed road,and by September next thin will
be Illel,lo/0/1 to lit 1,110 560.
A GOOD INVEST.IIENT. Joy Coo::e & Co.
are now selling, and unliesltatlngty recommend,
118 It Profitable livid perfectly Sate Investment, the
First. Nlortunge Land Grant (101 l Bonds of the
Northern l'aettle Railroad Compo have
30 years to run. bearSoven and 'I hree-Tentits per
cent. gold interest (more than 8 per cent. curvet,.
evl 21,141 are secured by lirst and only inortgoge 011
tile ENTIRI: ROAD AND ITS EQUIPMENTS, 'old also,
IS fast os the road Is e pilled, on
23,000 ACRES OP LAND to every inile of
tracil,or 500 Acres tor sash 221,000 Bond. are
exempt troll, S. 'Pax; Principal nll4l Interest
are payable In (:old; DenotnlnatittllS Coupons,
hail to .1.11011: Registered, MOO 10 $lO,OOO.
LANDS FOR BONDS. Northern Pacific 7-210'41
arc at till times revel Vable at ten per cent. above
par, In exchange Ibr the Company's !AIM'S, /It
their !OWL/St enrh price. 'Phis renders them prac
(loony Interest hearing land warrants.
SINKING FUND. The proceeds of all sales
of hands are required to be devoted to the re
purchase and eancellotion of the First Mortgage
Bonds of the Company. The 1,a1141 - Groat of the
R. 414141 exceeds Fifty MIIIIIM Acres. This immense
Sinking Fund will undoubtedly cancel the prin
elpni of the Company's bonded debt .before it
falls due. With their ample security and high
rate ”t interest, there is no invest mentoteeessible
to the people, whieh Is more profitable or safe.
EXCHANGING U. S. FIVE-TWENTIES.
The success or the New Uovernments per cent.
Loan will compel the early surrender of. United
States 11 per cents. diaviy holders of Vi ve TRIM
tIeS are now exchanging them for Northern Pa
elite Seven-Thlrt les, thus realizing It handsome
profit, and greatly Increasing their yearly in
come.
OTII ER. ECURITIES. All tuarketahle Stocks
nod Bonds will be received at their highest cot . -
rent price in exchange tor Northern Pacific
Seven-Thlriles. Express eitarges lilt )holy or
hoods received, fool on Seven-Thirties sent Itt
return, Will he paid by the Ebullient! Agents.
Full informal ion, mops, pamphlets. 'lc.. exto
obtained on application lit tiny agency, nr 111111
i/1' undersigned
t ! , For sale by
IMMEEI
JAY COOKE & CO..
phil.letrikK New l'ork. Wl,lll ntil un
Finanvi iI .\ gent,: Northern l'at•lau Ita !road Cu
11.1N1:: - ...atut BANKER -4 generally through
out the country. may
G IRARD SAVINGS BANK,
NO
(Ormized under a State Charter),
EAST HAMILTON STREET;
NvAlti.T OPPOmITB TrlB COURT ROPER
Moshe received on deposit nt all times from ono dollar
upwards. Pays SIX per cent. Interest for six mouths or
longer. Four per cent. on daily balance, subject to check
at right• Cold and Silver, United Staten Bonds end other
Secnritios bought and sold. Interest collected on Govern•
men Securities at fair rates.
All t
deposits of mrawn oney will
any he
titne held .
strictly confbiential,
and may be withd at
Married women nod minors Intro special privileges
;ranted in our charter, having full power to transact busl•
noon with tie in their own anion.
This Institution In a legal depository for monies paid
.dadaurt and receives money in trust from guardians,
ktrntor, treasnrers, Iran calleclorx owl °tit,.
Jr - TRU:YET LOANED ON FAVORABLE TERMS•
Pli AON AL BRIO llT,Prosident•
dlawrzgm., Cashier.
Dfreetortr—Vhaou Albright. James F. Kline, Tilghman
Mertz. David Weida. Aaron Eisenhart.
F ARMER'S SAVINGS BANK,
Incorporated under a Slate Charter of 1870.
Fogetactile, Upper Macungie township, Lehigh Co.
Tub Institution has been organized and opened under a
State Charter. MONEY will be taken on deposit at all
Omen and in any sum from *land upwards, for which
6 PER CENT. INTEREST
It. E.' DONAUtiIIHT
Denntsita may tin withdrawn at any thno.
Alto money loaned out
W on fityarahM
Moltß, Provident
It. 11. FOGEL. Cori, for.
TI•ATEE,
Dr. 11. A. Saylor, .T. 11. Straub,
DIIII.I Moyer, David Peter,
.Lainti Rauch, Samuel Kahan,
Danlol 11. CreDv William Stein,
r.
MILLERSTOW N HAVING BANK
MILLERSTOWN, LEHIGH COUNTY.
Title inetitellon will be opened no or before the 1.1 any
of April. Money will he token on depo.it at nil Omen nod
In any emu. from one doll upwards, for which
SIX PER CENT. INTEREST
per aflame will be palfl.
:nay be withdriwn at any time Ako, money
eaued out favorable tor.,
JAMES WEILER, Pre shield
f RANKLIN Smxra, Duthie r.
.1. F. M. Shl!Teri, Georg Ludwig.
Frederick C. 1t,b,1, Chrkl , I K. Ileuuluger,
Ihtvicl Donner, WIMt ni '',lll,llty.
Innac Oriebel, 111ilvou S. Eguvr,
Horatio T. Ilvrt7.og, Benjainlo J. Schrooyer.
Jani,Sitlnoutster mar 16.6111
AJAMESTOWN SAVINGS INSTITU
-110:7,
Organized an "Dimes Saving
0.. 58 EAST HAMILTON ST.,
THOS. WEAVER
-tf
(NEARLY OPPORITE TUE AMERICAN ROTEL.)
PAYS SIX PER CENT. INTEREST FOR
Tido Institution, (Lo °Wont Savlog Bank Jo Eastern
Pennsylvania, has Leon lu continuous nodeureossfol
opertmon for ten yearn, nod contioutPt to pay SI X PER
CENT. INTEREST ou looney for ono year, and sperlai
rat,s of Interest fur short., periods.
1t,9,-.111 deposits of tnuttey will Ito held smelly
deutial.
Executors, Administrators, Trustees, Assignees,
Treasurers, Tax Collectors,
nod oilier rtistodiann of public or private motleys, are of
fered liberal rates of Interest.
Far,lcrn, Mcrrhants, Laborers, and all who have
money to pot on intere a g reeabl e o and nhort period will
find our lustitotion an ;0,1110,R...inn one in
which to do boidnunn. Wo espechilly Invite in
trannact their bunking hipline.. with on,
MARRIED WOMEN and .M Noltti taro special privi
leges granted by our charter—having foil power to Iran, -
net buslnens with um In their own Willies.
Money deposited with this Iniditution
IS SAFE AND WELL SECURED,
bya Capital Flock and surplua money . curtly of over
SI XTY THOUSAND DOLLARS,and nildittou. tho
Board of Trustee., lanve as required by hurter, given
bonds under the surerviiiion of the Court lu the nuts of
FIFTY THOUSAND DOLLARS, which b;unlii are regi..•
terod in and held by the Court of Cononon Pleas of thin
county for tho ,oicurity of depiiltors.
Our Iron Vaults are of the must mecum and extensive
kind kuown lu thin country, as a nominal Inspection will
show, and to which we itivlto our friends and costioners.
Wo refer to Oils, believing that safe Burglar Prool Vaults
complete the ',limy nod rellithllity of n good Saving Batik
V.
LLIAM 11. Al N EY, Preslibint.
C RISTI AN ricurz, Vivo Presideut,
REUBEN STABLER, Cushier.
Tar Wirt.:
William H. Alney, Churle. S Muth,
Chrivtiau Preto, John I). Stiles,
• F. E. Santii's, Benj. J. Hagenbuch
George Hruhst, Saumul
Nathan Peter.
-,F9
FRANKLIN SAVINGS RANK,
Located la (Ito corner of Hamilton otreet and Chureh
alloy, In Lion Hall, mecouri 'dory, opposite limn Herman
Reformed Church. In the City if Allentown. In organized
and ready for business. It Toil! ymy SIX per , cent. /am
f] re et on el f deposits cretin busi ness deposits, for any
period,
period of time, fir lie m17,441..101 from the date of iirposll.,
To secure which, the Trnotees of time Institution toren
filed in the Court of Common Ch. of Lehigh County.
Tmotor the direction of the Court. a bond in the mum of
wenty•five Thousand Dollars, conditioned for mho faith
ful keeping and oppropriatiou of all such sumo of Tommy
o Morn be Pinned In charge °lmola FRANK LIN RAVIN US
HANK. whether itodirposltm,or shares of mock. which
bond may be outraged by the Court w betrayer It may ho
deemed neresmary
lu addition to this.
thin Act of Incorporation makes the
Stockholders yrtra 1111 11.thle 1.1 Ole depositors in dolt.
to tile the /MIMI nt J u.e Capital Stork of. the Bank, which
Ix fifty thousand dollars, wall liberty to increase It 10 ono
hundred and fi fty LllOlll.llll tiollaro.
'Chem° provisions will mako It IL very desirable and !DA
piaco of deposit.
Resider.. It may be proper to kale that the deposits will
lie kept in true or 1110 VOX/ 111/1/ boot PrOftettti ru IL UN ill
thfr ear/.
Arrangements will be matte to furnish drafts on the vitt°.
of New York nod
11C ES. pre,,,,,t,
.1. W. W11.511N. Clem Pr...trident
J. K. ZII3tEIt3IAN. Cermnitr.
Trumtemo.:
Daniel 11. F. A. Bridge.,
John Holbert, J. W Wilmot],
Baer. J. E. gliontertnan
D. 11. Creirr. Peter Gross,
•
Edwin Zimmerin nu.
LEM BER ! 11 . .1:31BER !!
WHOLESALE AND RETAIL
STEAM SAW MILL,
LEMUR • YARD !
FRONT ANT) LINDEN STS
WHITE
which ton
iTinancial
WILL BE PAID
MONEY ON DEPOSIT.
. Now, because the looking-glass was oppo
site the window at which Sary Jane did not
make vests, and because the ratters sloped,
ard hi cause the bed lay almost between the'
looking.glws and the window, the Lady of
Shnlott was happy. And because, to the pa
tient heart that is a seeker alter happiness
"the little more. and how much it is!" (and
the little less, what worlds away !) the . Lady
of Shalott was proud as well as happy. The
looking , glass measured in inches IOnG. I
think that the Lady of Shalott would have ex
perienced rather a touch of mortification than
of envy if she had known that there was a
mirror in a house just arotuld the cnrner meas
uring almost as many feet. lint that was one
of the advantages of being the Lady of Shalott.
She never parsed life in the comparative de
' grey
I suppose that one must be the Lady of Slut
lott to understand what'comfort there may be
in a 10x6 loch looking-glass. All the world
! came for the Lady et Shalott into her little
looking-glass—the joy of it, the anguish of it,
the hope and fear of it, the health and hurt
10x6 inches of it 'exactly.
"It is next best to not having been thrown
downstairs yourzelf I" said the Lndy of She :
, lott.
To tell the truth: it sometimes occurred to
AND BLACK OAK SAW Inas wanted, for her that there was monotony about the
klatteAt market mica will Le paid upon &Dv
cl-w July 1:2-ly world. A garret window like her own, for
HOFFMAN'S
MD
KINDLING!
BILLS CUT TO ORDER !
OFFICE AT THE MILL,
c"'he ebiob
VII E LADY Sl] A 1,017 , instance, would fill her sight if she did not tip Oh, the beautiful thing ! That the glass
the glass a little. Children sat in it, and did should have nothing to do with it, after all!
not play. They made lean faces at her. That Sary Jane, in flesh and blood, and tuto
r IMEI ~ ! They were locked in for the day, and were bled hair, and trembling, lean arms, should
It is not generally known that the Lady of hungry. She could not help knowing how I stand and shake nu armful of Church towers
Shalott lived last summerdn nn attic, at the hungry they were,, and so tipped the glasS, I and silver bells down into the Lady of Slut
east end of South street. , 'Poen there was the trap-door in the sidewallf. „ j
lott's little puzzled tace and burning hands ! *
.
The wee-est, thinnest, whitest little lady ! I She became occasionally tired of that traff- , And that the Lady of Slndott should think
And yet the brightest, stillest, and 'all such n ' door. Seven people lived ander the sidewalk; that sligninst have gut into the glass herself,
' I .
smiling little lady ! and when they lifted and slammed the trap, by a blunder—as the- only explanation possi-
If you had held her tip by the window—for coining in and out, they reminded her of ble of such a beautiful thing !
hold up herself—she woulo have
she could not something which Sary Jane bought her once, • "No, it isn't glass•dreams,” said Sary Jane,
hung like a porCelain transparency In your when she was a very little child, at Christmas • winking nt the church towers, where they
hands. And if you had said, laying her gently time—long ago, when rents were cheaper and Inutile a solemn green shin lox against thedown,
down, and giving the tears a smart dash, that four low. It was a monkey with whiskers I Leidy of Shalott's bent check. " Smell 'em
they should not fall on her lifted firm, " Poor and a calico jacket, who jumped out °fa box and see. You can 'most stand the yard with
child 1" the Lady or shoott, would have said, when the cover was lifted ; and then you them rotund. Smell 'cm and see ! It ain't the
"Oh, don't !" and smiled. And you would crushed Idin down and hasped him in. Some-' glass it's the Flower Charity."
have smiled yourself, for very surprise that times she wished that she hail never ha 1 that , "The what ?" asked the Lady of Shaloti,
she should outdo you ; and between 'the two monkey, he was so much like the people ' slowly.
there would have beon so ankh smiling done I coming, in and out of the sidewalk. •' The Flower Charity. Heaven bless it !"
that one would have fairly thought that it was In fact, there was a :non stony about all the , " Ileaven bless it Fl said the Lady of Sha
n delightful thlng to live last summer in an people in the lady of Shubilt's looking-gloss. ' holt. But she said nothing more.
attic at the 'east end of South street. is their faces were not dirty, their hands were. She laid her cheek over into the shadow of
This perhaps was the more natural in the If they had hats, they went without shoes. If the green church towers. " And there'll be
Lady of Station because she had never lived they did not sit in the sun with their heads on more," said Sary Jane, hunting for her wax.
anywhere else. their knees, they lay in the mud with their j " There'll be more, Whenever I can call for
When the Lady of Shalott was fl ye yors heads "" a •htf;• 'em—bit .15 it I"
old, her mother threw her down stairs one "'Their fact a look blue !" she said to Sary " Heaven bless it !" said the Lady of Shit
day, by mistake, instead of the whisky jag. 'time' loft again.
This is a fact which I think Mr. Tennyson "No wonder !" snapped Sary Jane. ' 6 But I only got a lemon for dinner," said
has omitted to mention in his poem. . " Why ?" asked the Lady of Sladott. Sary Jane.
They picked the Lady of Shalott up and " Wonder is we itiii't all dead !" barked " Heaven bless it l" said the Lady of Slat
puther on the bed ; and there she lay from Soy Jim": 1011, with her face hidden under the church
that day until last summer, unless, its I said, "But we ain't, you know," said the Lady towers. But I don't think that she meant the
lemon, though Sary Jane did.
somebody had occasion to use her fora trans- I
of Station,
after some thought.
pa rency. The people of the Lady of Shalott's glass " They do ring," said the Lady of Shalott,
by and by. She drew the by of her thin tin-
The mother and the jug both went down died, however, sometimes—often in the sum
gers across the tip of the tiny bells. " I thought
the stairs together a few years after, and never mer ; more often last summer, when the iodic
they would."
came up at all—and that was a great coo_ ' smoked continually, and she mistook Sari
venience, for Ilan Lady of Sludotes palace in ' Jane's voice for the rat trap every d ay. " Humph 1" said Sary Jane, squeezing her
lemon under her work-box. " I never see
the attic was not large, and they took up much I The people were jostled into pine boxes (in
your bent for glass•drenms. What do they
unnecessary room. ' the glass), and carried away (in the glass) by
say ? Come, now !"
Since that the Lady of Slialiat had hued ' twilight, In a cart. Three of the, monkey.
NOW the Lady of Shalott knew very well
with her sister, Sary Jane. , from the springboK in the sidewalk went, in
what they sale'. Very well ! But She only
Sary Jane made nankeen vests, at Sixteen one week, out into foul, purple twilight, away
I drew the lips of her poor fingers over the tips
and three quarter cents a dozen. from the looking-glass, in carts.
or the silver bells. Clever mind ! It was not
Slay .Tone had red hair, and crooked shout- I "I'm glad of that, pour things t" sad the
necessary to tell Sary June.
ders, and a voice so much lake a rattrap which Lady of Shalott, for she had always felt a kind ,
But it grew hot in South street. It grew
she sometimes set on the stairs that the Lady /of sorrow for the monkeys. Principally, I -
very hot in South street- Even the Flower
of Shitlott could seldom tell which was which I think, because they had no glass.
Charity (Sirs:: it!) could not sweeten the
until she had thought about it a little while. When the monkeys had gone, the sickly
dreadfulness of that yard. Even the purple
When there was a rat caught, she was apt to I twilieht folded itself up, over the spring -box,
, wing above the sprung-box fell heavily upon
ask, " What'?" and when Sary Jane spoke , into great fathers, like the feathers of a wing.
the Lady of Shalott's strained eyes, across the
she more often than not said, "'There's anotli- I 'Chat was pleasant. The lady of Shalott could
, glass. Even the gray-haired waves CeaSen
tr !" almost put out her lingers and stroke it, it
running up and down and throwing back
Her crooked shoulders Sary Jane had ac ' hung So m ar, and was so clear, and gathered
Unit . hands before her ; they sat still, in heaps
quired from sitting under the canes of the ' such a pcefulness into the looking-glass.
a upon a blistering beach, noel gasped for breath.
palace to sew. That physiological problem I " Sary ea Jane, di nr !" added the Lady
„um. pleasant; The Lady of Station herself gasped sometimes,
was simple.' There was not room enough un- I Shalott, " I see so many
der the eaves to sit straight. . I things." I in welching them.
Sary Jane's red hair awns the result of sh- , "The more fool 3 ou!" sail Sary J an e / OnedaY she said : "There's a than in them,"
"A what in which?' buzzed Sary Jane.
Ong in the sun on July nouns under those But she wondered about it that day over
, " 011 ! There's it man across the yard, I sup-.
eaves, to see to thread her needle. There , her tenth nankeen vest. What for * example,
was no question about that. The Lady of could the Lady of Shalott see: pose you mean. Among them young ones,
,
sud. / yonder. I wish held stop 'eni throwing
Shalott had settled it in her own mind, past ' " WaVes I''' said the Lady of Slialiat,
dispute. fury Jane's hair had fern—aches I deal}', 719 been relied if she had bee ask "ed the question. stairs, plague on 'cm ! See him, don't you ?"
I don't see the children," said the Lady
was it? brown ? once. Sary Jane was slowly I Sary Jane jumped. She said, " Nonsense ! '
taking fire. Who would not, to sit in the ;roe the Lady of Shalott had only seen. the lof Shalon, a little troubled. Iler glass had
/ show's her so many things strangely since the
sun in that palace? The only matter of sure , little wash-tub full of dingy water on Sunday
Prise to the Lady tirShalott was that the pal_ I nights, and the dirty little hydrant (in the I ditr' grew hot• " But I see it man, and he
Walks upon the waves, See, see !•' . 1
ace itself did not smoke. - Sometimes, when f glass spoutheg dingy j,ts.) She would not :
flue Lady of Shalott tried to pull herself up
Sary Jane h W
it the rafters, she as sure that I have known a wave if she had seen it: '
upon the elbow of her calico night-dress, to
she saw sparks. I '• But I see waves, - said the Lady or Slot-
As for Sary Jane's voice, when one kneW bill. She felt sure of it. They ran up and sue - .•
that she made nankeen vests at sixteen and I down across the glass. They ha 1 green faces „ That'; one of them hos; tit al loch ors,"
said Sary Jane, looking out of the blazing 1
three.qtatrter cents a dozen, thin was a mat- ' [lna gray . ' hair. They threw hack their hands
ter of no surprise. It never surprised the like cool people resting., and it seemed unac• wind°w• '• I've seen him round before.
D on ' t hum'. w
hat business he's got down
I countable, id the east end or South street last'
Lady of Shalott. if on l y a here ; but I've seen him. llii's talkin' to them
But Sary Jane was very cross; there was summer, that anything, anywhere,
no den : viva that; vary e 1..., ' , wave iu a looking-glass, could he caul or at, bo y s n ' tw • about the stones. Th e w I li e' d
And the palace. Let me tell you about the rest. Besides this, they kept then . faces clean.c l'ult"1.! If lh i l * I° "' t I°°l ' "ql• they'll lilt"—
palace. it measured ju,t, 12 by 9 feet. It Therefore the Lady or siladat took pleasure " Cill t the [fa"! the g ltt ' s I"
would have been 7 feet post—lf there had been in watching them run up and down across the The hospital doctor stood still ;so did
a post in the middle of it. From the center ! glass. Phut a thing (amid be clean, and gr em, Sary Jane, hair risen o rrice her chair ; so did
it sloped sWity to the windows, Where Sary and awhile, Was only less it wonder than cool the very Smith sire , t boys, gaping in the gut
ter, Willi their 11:111 , IS full
Win,h,w.
Of smnes, such a cry
Jane had just room enough to sit crooked un- and rest last summer in South street.
der the eaves at work. There avers two win- ' '• Slay Jane,llear," s aid th e Loy of ;41, a , rang out from
l''' mo the pilace
lows and a loose scuttle to
. the palace. The ;lull, one day, "bust hot is it up there ?" " , g l ' H ' .' the g in " ? the fi`"" 1"
In a hi , inkling the South street boys were
scuttle let in the snow in winter and the sun I " Hot as hill !" said Sary Jane:
at the mercy of i lie South street police ; and
ill summer, and the rain and wind at all " I thought it was a little warm," said the
the hospiml doctor, hounding over a beach
times. It was quite a diversion to the Lady I Lady of Shalott. " Sary Jane, dear It Isn't
rtd or :Andtered, scattered waves, stood, ont.
of Slntlittt to see how many different ways' if f I the yard down there a little—dirty ?''
of breath, beside the Lady of Shalott's bed.
doing a disagreeable thing seemed to be prat? - I Sary June put down her needles and looked
"Oh toe little less and what worlds away."
livable to that scuttle. Mishit s the lied on I out of the blazing, hlindless, window.' It had .
Flue Lady of Shalott lay quite still in hi r
wit
which the Lady of Shalott lay, there sa I always been a subject of satisfaction to Sary '
little browo calico nig ht-gow n-1, I cannot
stove in thou falac ~ two chairs, is very ragged Jane somewhere down below her lean shout
learn, by the way, that Buifinch's studious
rag-mat, a Shelf, with two notched cups and , dery and in the very teeth of the rattrap that
and in pmeral trtistworilty researches have
plates upon it, one pewter teaspoon, and a , the Lady of Slialott could not see out of that
looking-glass. On washing-days Sary Jane / Window. So she winked at the window, us h all him in p us-sinn a lids p ut" ' indeed '
I teel justiti. d in asserting that Mr. Bultinch
climbed upon the chair and hung her clothes if she would caution it to hold its blirning
never so much as iitallt./ted that the Lady of
out through the scuttle on the roof; or else I tongue, and said never a word.
Shaloa Wore a brown calico night dress. ]—
she ran a little rope from one of the Windows ' "Sary Jane, dear," said the Lady of Sim. .
the Lady of Shalott lay finite Fill, and her
to the other fir a drying-rope. It would have I lots, once more, "had you ever thought that
lips turne 1 blue.
'
been more, exact to, have said on washing- , Perhaps I was a little—weaker—Blair I was— Are you very mmilt hurt? Where were
nights; for Sary Jane always did her wash- ouve ?" "
you strut k ? I heard the cry. all-1 cam e. Can
hug after dark. The reason waS evident. If : " I guess you can wand'it ill eau'" said the
you ten me Where the bliiw was ?"
the rest of us were In the habit of Wearing all I rat-trap. Bat Mai the Doctor saw the glass, broken
the clothes we had, like Sary Jane, l l have lit- I "Oh, yes. dear," said the Lady of Shalott.
t and Idol, nin it thousand glittering sparks
Be doubt that we should do the same. " e can stand d if you can." ,
across the palace 110 ir ; an I then the Lady or
1 should Mention that there Was 110 sink in" Well, then l" said Sary lane. But she
a
the Lady of Slialott'S palace ;no water. There I sat and winked at the bald window, awl the Shh)" gar" him a little bloc smile'
" It's not me. Never mind. I wish it wits.
was it dirty hydrant in the yard roar flights' nt indow held its burning tongue.
I'd rather it was are then the glass! But never
below, which supplied the Lady of Shalott : 'lt grew hot in South street. It grew very
mind. I suppose there'll be some other—
and all her neighbors. The Lady of Shalott , hot in South street. The lean children in the
kept her coal under the bed ; her thntr,apolind / attic opposite fell sick, and sat no longer in the pleasant "lin g :. "
Were Y tal 'in laud ~
n,I the glass ?" ltskl d
at a time, in a paper parcel, on / the shelf, with ; window making facts, lathe Lady of Shill/A:Cs 'l
the Doctor, taking one of the two chairs that
the teacups and the pewter spoon. II she had 1 ffinsi•i• Sur}' .111.1;e brought him; and looping sof roW
any thing else to keep, it went out through ' Two more monkeys from the spring -box
fully about the nom. What other "pleasant
the palace scuttle and lay manic roof. The were carried away one ugly twilight in a cart. I
thing" could even the Lady of Shalott dlscov
Lady of Sludott's palace opened directly upon Tie purple wing that hung over the spring
rin that room last summer, at the cast end
a precipice. The lessor or the house called it box lifted to let them pass ; and then li•11, as I
or small select
a flight of stairs. \V hen Sary Jane went up /if it had brushed them away.
" How long have you lain lucre ?" asked
w w
and down, she scent sideaysdo preserve her I "It has such a-soft color !" said the Lady •
the sorrowltil Doctor, suddenly.
balance. There were no banisters to the pre- "Since I can remember, sir," said the Lit
cipice. The entry was dark. Some dozen or thy Id Shalott, 'with that Ithw smile. But
twenty of the Lady of ;ilialott's neighbors then .I have always had my glass."
patronized the precipice, and about once a " Al, i - said the Docbtr, " the Lady or Shie
week a baby patronized the rat-trap, instead.
Once, when there was a fire alarm, the preci
pice was very serviceable. Four women and
all old man went over. • With one exception
(she was eighteen, and could bear a : broken
collar bone), they will not, I am informed,go
=I!
MEM
over again.
The lady of Shalott paid one dollar a week
for the rent of her palace.
But then 4. - tr i ) Wll3 a looking-glass in the
palace. I 110 n I noticed it. It hung on the
slope of the rafters, just opposite the Lady of
Shalott's window—for she considered that her
window at which Sury Jane did not make
nankeen vests at sixteen and three•quarters
cents a dozen.
MEE
ALLENTOWN, PA., WEDNESDAY MORNING, AUGUST 16, 1871
ofShalott,
"So has night-shade !" said Sary Jane.
One day a Leautilld thing happened. One
scarcely understand how 0 beautiful thing
could happen tit the cast end or South street.
'chic Lady of Shalott herself ,lid not entirely
understand.
" It is all the glass," she said.
She was lying very still when she said it.
She had lidded her hands, wlnch:were hot, to
keep thent quiet, too. She hail closed her
eyes, which ached, to close away the glare of
the noon. At once she opened them, and
said :
"It is the glass."
Sary Jane stood in the glass. Now Sary
Jane, she well knew, 1) as not in the room
that noon. She had gone out to see what she
could find for dinner. She had five cents to
spend on dinner. Yet Sary stood to the
glass. And in the-glass, ah! wwluu a Mautiful
thing !
"Flowers !" cried the lady of Shalott aloud.
But she had never sell dowers. But neither
had she seen waves. So she said, "They
[ come as the Waves And knew them
and lay smiling. Ah ! what a beautiful, beau
tiful thing I •
Sary Jane's hair was fiery and tumbled (in
the glass), as if she had walked fast and far.
Sary Jane (in the glass) was winking, as she
had winked at the blitzing window• ; as if site
[ said to what she Itch' in her arms, Don't to I
And in her arms (in the glass), w her the
waves were—oh ! beantiful, beautif I The
Lady of Slialott lay whispering: Beautiful,
beautiful I" She did nut knowwhat else to do.
She dared not stir. Sary Jane's lean - arms
(in the glass) were full of silver bells; they
=hang out of a soft green [ shadow, like achurelt
tower; they nodded to and fro; when they
shook, they shook out sweetnefts.
" Will they ring'" asked the Lady of Sits
lutt of the little glass.
I doubt, in my own mind, it you or I, being
in South street, and seeing a lily of the val
ley (in a 10x6 inch looking-glass) for the very
first time, would have asked so sensible a
ttestion.
"Try 'em and see," said the Inoking•glass.
Was it the looking-glass? Or the ratfinp?
Or was it—
' I )tt ''
"Sir':"said the Lady of Sletlott
" 11 . 10 re is the pain'?" the Doctor,
gcntly, 'With his linger on the lady (ii' sh:dott's
pulse.
Ludy of tilmlott totielted the shoulders
ii' her Mown calico night-tires,
" And what did you s, in your glass ?"
aslu•d the Deetor, once mere, stopping to cx•
amine t• tiw,pain."
n The Lady of Slutlott tried to tell him, but
lilt e, nfused ; so many strange things had
been in the glass since it .grew hot. So she
only said that th . ere were Wares and a purple
wing, and that they were broken now, and
lay upon the floor.
Purple w Jugs ,shed the Doctor.
"Over the sidewalk," nodded the Lady of
Shalott. "It conies up ut night."
"Oh :" sold the Doctor, "the malaria. No
wonder l"
" And What ahlnit, the Wares? " asked the
Doctor, talking while he touched and tiled
the little I I'o NV II calico shoulders.. "I have a
little girl of my own down by the waves this
suinnier. She-1 suppose she is no older than
you ;"
" I am seventeen, sir," said the Lady of
Shalott. '• ibt they 'have green faces and
white h ? Does she s,•e them run up and
down ? I nisei: sittv any waves, sir, but
those twiny glass.. I ant very glad to know I
that your little girl is by the waves."
" Where you ought to be," said the Doctor,
half under his breath. "It is cruel, cruel !"
" What is cruel 1" asked the lady of Slut
lott, looking lip into the Doctor's fade.
Ike lit:le brown cane night dress swain
suddenly betbre the Doctor's eyes.. Ile got
up and walked across the room. As he walk.
ed he stepped upon the pieces of the broken
glass.
"Oh don't I" cried the Lady of Shalott.
But then she thought that perhaps she had
hurt the Doctor's feelings: so she smiled, mid
said, " Never mind.''
" Ilercase could be cured," said the Doc
tor, still under 1114 breath to Siitry Lane. "The
case could be cured yet. It is cruel
" Sir," said Sary Jane—she lifted her sharp
face sharply out of billows of nankeen vests—
"lt !nay be because I make vests at sixteen
and three-Tetrtee roots a doz-n, sir; but batty
before hot tit ..re'N 4 , lllleik ng cruel Bomeloherea.
Look at , her. Look at me. Look at them
stairs. Just see that'scuttle, w ill you? Just
feel the sun in't these! windows. Look at the
rent we pay for this 'ere oven. What do you
'spose the merkiey is up here? Look at them
pis -n fogs firkin' out over the sidewalk. Look
at the dead as have died in the Devil In this
street this week. Then look out here !"
Slay Jane drew the Doctor to the blazing,
Mindless window, out of which the Lady of
Slutlott had never looked.
" Now talk of curio' her . 1 " said Sary Jane.
The Doctor turned away from the window,
with a sudden white face.
" Tbe Board of Health--"
" Don't talk to me about the Board of
Health !" said Sary Jane.
"I'll talk to them," said the Doctor. "I
did not know matters Were so bad. They
shall be attended to directly. Tomorrow I
leave town"—lie stopped; looking down at
the Lady of Shalott; thinking of the little lady
by the waves, whom he would see tomorrow,
hardly knowing what to say. " But some
thing shall be done atonee. Meantime, there's
the hospital."
"She tried Hospital long ago," said Sary
Jane. " They said they couldn't do nothing.
What's the use ? Don't bother her. Let her
be.;
" Yes, let me be," said the lady of Shalott,
"The glass is broken."
" But something must be done I" urged the
Doctor, hurrying away. " I will attend to
the matter directly."
Ile spoke in a busy doctor's busy way.
tilidouhtedly he thought that he should attend
to the matter directly.
" You have flowers here, I see." Ire lifted,
in hurrying away, a spray of lilies that lay
upon the bed, freshly sent to the Lady of Sha
lott that morning.
"They ring," said the Lady of .Shalott,
softly. " Can you hear ? Bless—it ! Bless—
it Alt, yes, they ring l"
" Bless what ?" asked the doctor, half out
of the door.
" The Flower Chanty," said the Lady of
Shi.tlott.
"Amen I" said the doctor. "But I'll at
tend to it directly." And he was quit° out of
the door, and the door was shut.
"Sary Jane, dear?" said the Lady of Shit
bat, a Jew minutes after the door was shut.
" !" said Sary Jane.
"The glas is broken," said the Lady of
'• Should think I might know that !" said
Sary Jane, who was down upon her knees
sweeping shining pieces away into a paste
board dust-pan.
"Sary Jane, dear ?" said the Lady of Sha-
bolt a.,rtin
•` Dear, dear !" echoed Sary 'Jane, tossing
Purple feathers out of the window and seem.
ing, to the eyes of the Lady of Shalott, to have
the spray of green waves upon her hands.
"There th•y go '•'
Yes, there they go," said the Lady of
Shnlott. But she said no more till nigltt.
It was a hot night for South street. It
was a very hot night Mr even South street.
The lean children in the attic oriltosite cried
savagely, like lean cubs. The monkeys from
the'spring-box came out and att upon the lid
for air. Dirty people lay around the dirty
hydrant ; andlhe purple wing stretched itself
a little in a quiet way, to cover them.
" Sary Jane dear?" said the Lady of Shalott
at night. "The grass is broken. And.Sary
lane, dear, I am afraid I can't stand it as well
as Oil
Sary Jane gave the Lady of Shitlott a sharp
look, and pat away her nankea•u vests. She
came to the bed.
"It isn't time to stop sewing, is it?" asked
the Lady or Shalott, in faint surprise. Sary
Jane only gave her sharp looks, and said :
"Nonsense ! that man will be hack again
yet. Bell look after ye, maybe. Nonsense!"
Yes," said the Lady of Shalott, "he will
coon back again. But my glass is broken."
"Nonsense !" said Sary Jane. But she did
not go back to her sewing. he sat down on
the edge of the bed, by the Lady of Shalott ;
and it grew dark.
" Perhaps Ihey'll do 'something nbout the
ids ; who knows?" said Sary June through
growing dark.
' lint my glass is broken," said the Lady
of ',hitlott
" Sary Jane, dear said the Lady of Sha
lott, when it had grown quite, quite dark.
Ile is walking on the waves."
•' Nonsense !" said Sary Jane. For it was
quite, quite dark.
•'Fart' Jane, dear l" suulthe Lady of Slut-
Lott. " Not that man. But there is a man,
and he is walking on the waves."
The Lady of Shalott inised herself upon her
little calico night•dress sleeve. She looked nt
the wall where lie 10x6 inch loohing•glass
had hung.
"Spry Jane, dear!" said the Lady of Sim
am glad that girl is down by the
waves. I ant very glad. lint the glass Is
broken."
Two days after, the Board of Health at the
foot of the precipice, which the lessor called a
!light of stairs, which led into the Lady of
Shalott's palace, were met and stopped by
another board.
"'Phis one's got the right of way, gentle
men ?" said something at the brink of the pre
cipice, which sounded so much like a rat-trap
that the Board of Health looked down by in
stinct at its individual and collective - feet, to
see if they were in danger, and dared not by
instinct stir a step.
The board which had the right of way was
a pine board, and the Lady of Shalott lay on
it, in her little brown calico night-dress, with
Sary Jane's old shawl azross her feet. The
Plower Charily (Heaven blesi !) had half
covered the old shawl with silver bells, and
solemn green shadows, like the shadows of
hurch towers. And it was a comfort to
know that these were the only bells which
lolled for the Lady of Shalott, and that no
other church shadow fell upon her burial.
" Gentlemen," said the hospital doctor,
" were too late, I see. But you'd better go
The Lady of Sinßutt went out into the curt
that carried away the monkeys from the epring.
box, and the purple wing lifted to let her pass;
and tell again, as if he had brushed her away.
• The Board of Health went up to the prod,
pice, and stood by the window out of which
the Lady of Shalott had never looked.
The sent aders to the scavenger, and or
ders to the Water Board, and how many oth
er orders nobody knows ; and they sprinkled
theMselves with camphor, and they went their
•
ways .
And the board that had the right of way
went its way, too. And Sary Jane folded up
the shawl, which she could nut afford to lose,
and came home, and made nankeen vests at
sixteen and thrcc•quarter cents a dozen in the
window out of which the Lady of Shalott bad
never tool:ed.—lndependent.
A bawl room—the nursery.
. A hack In Chicago Is called a verminagory
A Kansas man is in Jail for letting a neigh
bur's mule follow him
• -
Virginia crop . prospects are brightening :
Richmond athlete has made a hop measuring
twelve feet. .
Escape from the Eastern Peniten
tiary.
From the Phihylelphin 8,,t1,tt0. Arlgn.ti
That any one could escape frOm within the
State Fortress situate on Coates street, be
tween Corinthian avenue and Twenty-second
streets, seems at first thought sheer nonsense;
then if such be the case, the announcement
that, not one, but three parties have effected
their escape, will doubtlessly be taken as a
gross fabrication. Nevertheless, such is the
fact, and to-day three colored men, who
were yesterday inmates of the Bastile,
are to-day at large—freemen I Two
years ago John and William Thomas, both
mulattoes, were brought to the Eastern Peni
tentiary, from one of the counties of the State,
to servo an imprisonment of eight years, each,
for horse stealing. About the same time
Thomas Dare, also colored, was received In
the same fortress, his crime being arson, and
his term of imprisonment eight years. The
prisoners, on account of their gond behavior
and tractability, were soon selected to fill the
position of" runners," which gave them the
freedom of their corridor. Yesterday they
were apparently as active and as unmindful of
the outside world ns though such did not ex
ist, but beneath their caputs there was being
concocted a scheme that was to lead them to
freedom. Beneath the Penitentiary runs ft 1
sewer, through which the refuse of the prison
is carried into the culvert on Coates street. At
the end of corridor "5" in which the prison
era were, is a sluice leading into said sewer.
Watclling for a favorable opportunity the
three convicts raised the covering of the sluice,
dropped down, pulled the iron grating into its
place, and then set off amidst the darkness,
filth, slime and Norwegian rats, for , --they
knew not where.
At 4 o'clock P. M. they should have report
ed, but not doing so it was at once known that
they had fled. They had not passed out the
gate ; they had not sealed the wall, and there
fore it was but fair to presume that they were
yet within the enclosure.
About 8.05 o'clock some boys who were
standing near the corner of Corinthian aver e
and Parrish street, noticed the unusual sight
of the trap, covering the opening of the cul
vert, being forced heavenward by some power
beneath, and soon they wore still more sur
prised by the issuing from this hole of a stal
wart, six-foot negro, and then another, and
then another. By the time No. 1 and 2 hail
helped No. 3 out some 150 persons had assent
bled; but, singular to say, no one questioned
the three parties, nor even thought of so do
ing. The colored men walked off Corinthian
avenue, and were soon lost to sight, no one
following them. About ten minutes past 8
o'clock, Off i cer Horn, of the Ninth District,
came along, and was told that three men bad
emerged front the hole named, and that they
had escaped from the Penitentiary. The offi
cial at once notified time gatekeeper. Word
was scot to the Ninth District Station-house
and thence fo the Central Station.
Why no one out of the crowd arrested or
even molested the criminals as they emerged
front the street trap, seems the most singular
part of the whole affair. They were no doubt
dirty, but still, hands are washable. That the
fellows had been inmates of
.the Penitentiary
could plainly he seen, as they were clad in
the usual prison garb, and the fact even or
their appearing before the assemblage in such
au unusual way, was at least enough to have
led to their being queationed.
At what particular moment they entered
through the sluice is not known, but that they
were engaged for four long hours in groping
their way amidst dirt, filth, water, rats, slime
and darkness is a fact as positive as that day
is day and night is night. Their path was ac
billows : Across the Penitentiary , yard into
the Coates street sewer; thence along Coates
street to Corinthian avenue ; then along tin:
avenue two long squares to Parrish street.
where the chinks of light told then of the
manhole, and climbing on each others shout
ders two escaped and then dragged the titled
one out. From the point of entrance to the
point of exiist about 3,200 feet, and through
sewers they tramped this distance.
That they knew little bout what they were
doing, is shown in their passing down the
avenue towards -Coates 'streets, or, In other
words, almost walking back to the Peniten
tiary gate. If the neighborhood was not built
up their escape would not be marked by any
singularity of circumstances, but that they
should pass through so densely populated a
locality and escape scot free, does not speak
well for the intellectual brightness of the Fib
teenth Warders.
The negro Dare was born near Hagerstown,
Maryland, and was raised and eilueeit , d 1w a
Quaker lady, at present residing in 'this city.
Some three or four years ago this lady secured
him employment with a Quaker family resid
ing near Ambler Station, on the North Penn ,
Sylvania Railroad. For a time he worked Well
but soon he began to grumble about his food
and not being allowed to roam where and
whither he pleased. Early one morning he
went to the cornfield, worked awhile and then
came Into breakfast: While eating the same,
the crackling of flames was beard, and the old
lady with whom lie resides, saw the barn
wrapped in flames. Dare at once ran out, and
by hard labor succeeded in saving the animals
that were in the place, but the barn was en•
tirely destroyed, involving a loss of $5,000.
After the fire, a despatch was sent to this city
for Fire Marshal Blackburn, but that official
being sick, Detective Gordon was sent in
his stead. Mr. Gordon immediately suspi
cloned Dare and charged hint with the crime,
but he stoutly denied it. Finally' the lady
who had reared hint paid him a visit, when his
conscience weakened and he confessed his
guilt, lie having fired the barn •on his return
front the cornfield. He was then taken to
Norristown, tried, convicted, and sentenced
to eight years' imprisonment. Ile is but 20
years 14 age.
L.snets • r IN •ritt Wont.n.— • l'hu American
Wood Pulp Company have in Manayunk the
largest works in the world for manufacturing
Paper from wood pulp. The buildings occu
py a space of 1000 feet In length and 350 feit
in width, and cost $OOO,OOO. Logs of wood,
principally poplar, which are brought mostly
from Virginia, are cut into chips by large stec
knives, set In revolving circular iron wheels,
which have the capacity of cutting about forty
cords of wood every twenty-four hours. The
chips arc then boiled to a pulp in alkalies, and
by a peculiar process of evnperation, about 80
per cent. of the soda used Is saved. Several
thousand pounds of printing paper are prodoc ,
ed hero every day. These works arc run day
and night they car round ov Willie exception of
Sundays, and afford employment to about 200
nayunk Sentinel.
The editor of the Elmira Advertiser has poor
luck buying medicine. He says: "I went to
a drug-store early one morning for a dose of
morphine for a sick friend. The night clerk
objected to giving it to me without a prescrip
tion, evidently fearing that I might destroy
myself. 'Maw l' said I, 'do I look like a
man that would kill myself ?' Gazing at me
steadily for half a moment he replied : .1
don't know. Seems to me, if I looked like
y(iu, I should be greatly tempted to kill my
self.' "
" I wonder what causes my eyes to lm so
weak?" said a fop to a gentleman. "They
are In a weak place," replied the latter.
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NO. 32.
TILE GREAT OHIO SENSATION
Alleged Poisoning of a Wealthy Ohl
Farmer by his Young and Beauti
ful Wife—A New York Journalist
Mixed up in the Case—Facts on
Both Sides -- Who Makes the
Charge, nod the Motive for Mak
ing it.
The following facts connected witirthc mat
cr of the alleged poisoning of Peter Buffett
wrg, by biswitc, in Madison county, Ohio,
are condensed from the Cincinnati Enquirer
of August 3d :
The people of Madison county, of all ages,
sexes, colors and conditions, think and speak
of nothing but the great poisoning case,
wherein the wife of a New York Banker is
charged with administering arsenic to her first
husband, in order to marry a 'man younger in
years, but not so great in wealth. Opinions
as to the guilt or innocence of the woman
charged with this Borgian crime of poisoning
her husband aro about equally divided. The
oldest and best citizens believe in her inn()
cence ; °them equally respectable, in her
guilt.
About the year 1857, Peter Buffenburg, then
a batchelor verging on to 70 years of age, was
married to Angeline Hutson, aged about 20
years. Buffenburg was hale and hearty, and
was one of the nabobs of the stock raisers of
Madison county. The bride was very beau
tiful in both thee and figure and of a gay dis
position. She was the daughter of a farmer of
moderate circumstances.
While at the Burnet House in Cincinnati,
during their wedding tour, Beffenburg intro-
duced to his wife Mr. It, T. Colburn of the
New York Tribune's staff of reporters. Be
tween Colburn and the young bride an inti-
mac} - is said to have sprung up, which con
tinued until after the death of Buffenbilrg„ anti
in a year after the death of the old man they
were married
For lam) than two years before Buffett
burg's death, which occurred In September,
1669, he was sick, eat during the last twelve
was confined to his room. His wife - attended
on him faithfully and affectionately. Before
he died he gave her, of his own free will, a
farm of 600 acres of the richest soil, worth then
between $35,000 and $40,000.
At his death lietll•nburg left property mil
lands, money and personal property, worni
near seven hundred and fifty thousand dot
bars. Ile mode no mill, but left his large for
tune to be settled as the law directs when n
will hi made.
Mr. R. T. Colburn, the second husband of
lie former Angeline Hutson, was on , the Tri-
bune's staff of reporters before and during the
war. He was with Grant at Vicksburgh; and
in running the batteries at that place ho era ,
captured and held for a time as a prisoner by
the Confederate General Pemberton. After
his release lie entered the bank of Fisk, Hatch.
Co., No. 5 Nassau street, New York, when
lie is still.
Since their marriage Colburn and his wife
hare resided nt Elizabethtown, N. J.
When Buffenburg died he lett two children,
ono vow a young lady of eighteen, and the
other a miss of six years.
After Bufenburg's death the widow received
the usual dower. The remainder of the pro
perty was placed in the hands of Washington
Witherow, a reliable citizen of :Madison
County, he being appOinted guardian of the
children by the Probate Court. None or the
Bufenburg real t state has liven converted into
money.
Thu devoted attention of Colhorn to Mrs.
B. before the death of her husband, together
with the fact that rs.• B. in her girl as in her
wife life was not above suspicion, caused many
to charge that hothchildren were (lie offspring
of illicit love, and that their father was Col
burn, but against this is the fact that both of
them bear many marks of resemblance to
Butknburg, while they have not one trait in
feature or complexion in common with Col
burn.
Buffenburg, after being: burled several years,
was disinterred, and his stomach analyzed by
the best poison chemist In the 'United States,
and found to contain large quantities of ar
senic, is a fact well established. How it canto
there is the question.
The Ohio Statesman (Columbus) of August
3 says : After Bufenburg's death It was whis
pered in the neighborhood that she had admin.
istered poison to her husband, in order to ex
pedite his death and assume the marriage re
lation with Colburn. Fuel was added to this
dreadful scandal by the appearance of a print
ed circular, setting forth in extravagant I,cins
that Mrs. Ittifenberg had been untrue to her
husband, that she hail maltreated him, and
that circumstances ilemaudeil an invmtigation
as to the cause of her husband's death. The
circular was signed " Swamp Angel." There
are thosa who profess to lie able to recognize
in " Swamp Angel" one Maley Thompsomthe
aiusbnnd of one of Bufenburg's relatives; who
would have been one of the hairs to the. estate
if the old man had not married. It I. W ,. 11
understood that Thompson is the midi), lev
haps the sole prosecuting - party in the eve
sought to be made out.against•Mrs. Coiburn
Ilis reputation among the people of Madison
county is not good, and it is substantially
stated that he has several times been arrested
for felonies, and that he broke jail twice ; bun
for certain reasons the indictments were sup.
pressed.
NV Mt such n character as this there are
sons who assert their belief that Tdompson's
object in prosecuting Mrs. Colburn is to levy
black mail. The estate has been settled up in
such a way that he can scarcely expect to re
ceive any portion of it.
Mr. Colburn publishes a card, in which he
refers to the "atrocious calumny of my wife
and myself published in an anonymous article
in a Western newspaper," and stating that
"the whole account of the alleged poisiming
3f the, late Peter ButTenbarger in this ,and all
the additional circumstances related therewith,..
are a tissue of monstrous and villainous
without a shadow of foundation, as we Anil
be glad to prove Weyer we can he confronted
with the accuser."
Ile says lie recognizes In the anonymous
article referred to the style of Mayley Thomp.
son, who, he says, sent n black mailing circu
lar abroad among• his wife's relations.
The friends and relatives of the widow of
ButTenbarger, in Madison County, state that If
there is any truth in the report or arsenic hay
ing been found in the exhumed' remains,. it
had been placed there by relatives after his
death In order to injure her. It is alleged also
that several circumstances point to a deep laid
conspiracy to secure the property of the de
ceased by this and other fraudulent means.
New Hampshire Is described as a State which
would be as large as Illinois If it were only Oat
but it is crumpled up until it can be tucked
into a mere corner of the mad.
Many ladies are walking nr. mid with crutch
es or a cane, the effect of having mistaken their
ow•n foot for a croquet ball, and making effec
tual strokes nt it with their mallet.
School-boys in Wisconsin fill their pockets
with locusts, and at a given sign,al each boy
taps on his pocket, causing the locusts to give
forth their deafening, doleful cry.
•
A five year•old city boy told his mother how
to make butter: "You Just take a' long stick
with a cross at the end or it ; then you get a
big tub ; and then you borrow a cow."
A young doctor, on being asked to contri
bute toward inclosing and ornamenting the
village cemetery, very coolly remarked that it
he helped to fill it he thought he should do his
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part.
ALLENTOWN, PA
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