ADVERTIBINGEATES. •
:11 1 mo. 3 mos. 6 moo 17r,)
1.50 1.75 3.50 0.50 12.06
3.00 3.50 6.50 9,10 20. 0 0
4.50 4.23 9.00 17.01 25. 10„
11.50 .17.00 2.1.00 45.0 ,
19.50 2100 40.00 60.11 3
7,1.00 40.00 60.00 110.0 9
90.00 60.00 110'00 200.0
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Administrator'. and Auditor'. Notices, $l.OO
City Notices, 'DD cents per line let insertion 15 cent. per
Ins each subsequent insertion.
Tan lines agate constitute a square.
ROBERT IREDELL, JR., Punmelinn,
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Coal attb Lumber.
4 FILBERT. R. OTTO. R. M. OTTO. O. W. MILLER
FILBERT, OTTO cir MILLER,
MANUFACTURERS AND DEALERS IN •
LUMBER,
WL LI AMS PORT, PA
MILL ON CANAL WEST OF MAYNARD STREET
OFFICE AT TILE MILL
W F CRANE •onNI.
JAS. M. BITTER. CHAS. W. ABBOTT. OWEN RITTER
JORDAN ' . 47, STEAM
PLANING MILL,
SASH, DOOR,
AND
BLIND MANUF.A.CTORY,
Unlon Street, near Jordan Bridge, Allentown,
LOMMIIMM
MANUFACTURERS OF
Sash, Doors, Outside Blinds, Inside Blinds„lfoulft
Days, Brackets Battistero, Pickets, Stair
Windom Frames, Door Frames, Closed
Windows, Block Mama ifouldirags, etc.
SCROLL SAWING,
TURNING,
PLANINO, •
MATCHING,
FLOORING and
RIPPING,
P NNE AT THE SHORTEST NOTICE.
ALSO, STAIR BUILDING done and HAND RAILING
m pin to order.
Having 1101 C had almost three years' neseCelltiOn of 1110
Mill, refurnished it almost wholly with unw and improve
ed machinery, and baying none hot experienced work
man, NCO :Leo prepared to dot competition from at borne
and throat, both In price and workmanship.
Dr, you contempt ato building? Call at our Factory and
satisfy yourself with a personal examination.
Drawings for buildings, brackets, patterns for orna
mental w
4 ork, scroll., for porches t. Cllllllll seen at all times
by Cllllll flt. our Auo der
furnished cheerfully and freely n , bynnati calli on ng t at tho
the buil Moot,
factory, on Union street, at tlin Jordan Bridge, Allen
taws, or by letter through the Pant
nag RITTER, ABBOTT St CO
R EVIVAL !I
•
The subeerthers haring leipied the "Old Hove Coal
Yard," would reepeetrully /11111011.11 to the eltilons of
Allentown mud the public id generel, that they haeoillel
got
Roporlor n+xortmont of
COAL
ennalatlng of Slave, Ega, Chextunt and Nut (rum the
DUCK MOUNTAIN
. • .
Ordure left ivlth A. A. Haber, Sieger St Ilottooetele, at
the Eagle Hotel, Hope Rolling 11111, or tho Yard will be
attended to to
BUSINESS
like manner.
Order,. for Coal by the car filled at abort entire
the lowest price..
Ahvayx on Laud a largo clock of
BALED HAY,
I=1:2
L. W. KOONS & CO.,
at (LW' Old 'Hop° Coal Yard,"
Hamilton Street. corner of Lehigh Valley ReWont]
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1.. W. }Cc
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A NEW FIR'I
AND
NEW LUMBER YARD
TO BUIDLERS!
TREXUAL & WEAVER
Would hereby announce to the public that they have.
lust opened a new Lumber 1 and on the Hamann% and con
venient grounds no lung nrcupted by TRENLER BRO.'S
en Hamilton etreet, near Tenth, north nude, where they
are now prepared with a full assortment of everything
Pertaining to the buslues, comprising In part
YELLOW PINE, wurrE PINK, SPRUCE and HEM.
LOCK FLOORING, WHITE PINK BoARDK,
SCANTLING nod PLANK of all sires
and well Reasoned.
FILAMINO S A34IM,; ( tiorior H I E:MI : OCR JOIST and
CEDAR, C WHITE !NG LES or
HEMLOCK r‘nd SPRUCE R.Vemil No nod SII I NG-
11121ZZONIOnttel
ItiEGUI
WEATRERBOARDING, 111. WHITE OAK PLANK and
BOARDS of oil thlckno-ge, .
• • •
WHITE PINE and SPRUCE PALING and PICICETS.
aitrarlor to anything In the mai ket
'.VIIITE II EAtIOCK PENCE RAILS. WRITE
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All de.drona of plirchasing Lumber to as good advantage
an In offered at any other Yard In the county, are request
ed to call and examine our stock before purchasing else
where.
Satisfaction Guaranteed in Quality and Price.
The Senior member of the Erni would hereby express his
thanke for past favor% while a member of the I 1 rut t,f't'rex•
ler Brox., nod reqtectfitlly solicit.. a euntinuatsee of the
name promisiux to apply his host endeavors to ready,
ratldfactlou to nll palmate of the Now Yard,
Itoepeatfully
ED. W. TREXLER
nuguet 31
liatcl3 ZUare.
SAMUEL K. SMYTH,
724 CLESTNUT STREET, H A
14.:0
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PRACTICAL MANUFACTURER OF FINE
SILVER PLATED WARE,
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rexpnelfully 1111.1111r0 to hiti patrons (lint 110 1101
fttll 'dock of the latent otytoo of
DOUBLE AND TREBLE
ELECTROPLATED WARE
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Plated on Nickel and White kletuls, suitable for family
or cit trade.
As l y e unality aplating can only beknewn to the plot•
or, the pnrclumer must rely en the manufacturer's suite
ment ; there being no much worthless ware In the market:.
ull rep e 1 an treble plate,at prices impossible to be
menu actured.
A111:1:: goods are mitrked "S. K. SMYTH."
hull and exemlnu the goods Wore purchasing else.:
Where.
FOLD WARE REPLATED..in
va y 7,41 y
Carpt3 and Oil (Trott).
RUM AND ELEGANT
CARPETS, OIL CLOTHS, &C.
S. C. FOULK.
NO. 19 S. SECOND ST., PIIILA.,
(First. Carpet Shiro below Market, Emit aide.)
and Amnrlrna CA
Knott! nava., Good. warranted RR rePrOtleited so that
all coo buy with cuulltleace aud tottlafactlua.
non 2.l•tf
gar tljc garntrr.
for Pure Water;
thin celebrated Put
entirely tasteless,
durable nud relia•
ble; enoni to the
good 01,140410 nm
wooden Pump, at
cost less than hal
money Easily art
en 1111 to be noo•fr
and in conetructloi
that any one can
keep It In repair.
THE HEST AND C
pALNCOAST *f:
THIRD AND PEAR STREETS,
PIifLADELPHIA,
PLAIN AND GALVANIZED
WROUGHT IRON TUI3ES,
Lap-welded Boiler Tubes,
Bras. and Iron Valves•nd Corks; Fitting. for nom. Steam
and Water; Hough and Fltil•lted Bran, Work t
fins and adv.'. Fitters'Toole, etc.
Balk Tubs mid Hints. Belli Hollers, Enamelled Wanl,
Stands, etc., Coils of Tube; Steam Nettle,.
and Trams.
Pipe of all Slzen fitted to Sketch.
Snoccesoro to MORRIS, TASKER A Co., ft.
CONTRACTORS '
F u r the fleeting of finildluge of ell (Nagle. with gleam
nut Wuter, by the nava annoyed teethed..
Estimates Furnished Gratis.
MEM
VOL. XXV
7-30 GOLD LOAN
OF THE
NORTHERN PACIFIC RAILROAD.
RAPID PROGRESS OF THE ROAD
The budding of the Northern Pacific Railroad.
;begun July last,) Is being pushed forward with
great energy front both extremities of the line.
Several thousand men are employed in Minneso
ta and on the Pacific coast. rite grade is nearly
completed 266 miles wend wool from Lake Supe
rior; trains ire running over 130 mileo of 11111811-
cl road, and track-laying is rapidly progressing
toward the eastern border of Dakota. Including
Its purchase of the St. Paul & Pacific Road, the
Northern Paelne Company now has 413 !silks of
completed road, and by September next this will
be iIIeMISM to it tenet 560.
A GOOD INVESTMENT. Jay Cooke & Co.
are now selling, and unhesitatingly recommend,
as a Profitable stud perfectly Safe Investment, the
First Mortgage Land Grant Gold Bonds of the
Northern Parole Railroad Company. They have
30 years to run,'ltear Seven and 'I hree-Tenths per
cent. gold interest imore than S per cent. curren
ey) and are secured by first and only mortgage on
the ENTIRE ROAD .AND EQI'IPMnSI'S, +till Idea,
12 ,, fast ns the rout Is c..mphledoln
23,000 ACRES OF LAND to every mile of
track, or 500 Acres o.r each :1,000 Bond. They are
exempt from U.S. Tax; Principal and Interest
are payable in Gold; Denominations: Coupons,
to .1.000: Registered. SlOlllO ZI:0,0)41,
LANDS 10E BONDS. Northern Pacific 7-30'n
are at all times receivable at ten per cent. above
par in exchange for the Company's Lands, at
their tomes; cash price. This renders them prac
tically Interest hearing land warrants. •
SINE' !NO Er N.D. The proceeds of all sales
of hands are required to lie devoted to the re
burehase find eancellation of the First Mortgag e
onds of the Company. The Land (Dant of the
Road exceeds Fifty Mlli lon Acres. This Immense
Sinking Fund will undoubtedly cancel the prin-
Moat of the Company's bonded Mid before IL
falls due. With their ample security and high
rate of interest, there In no invest meat, accessible
to I he people, which Is more profitable or safe.
ENCH ANO IND U. S. FITE-TWENTIES,
Tile SUCIS,S of the New Government 5 per cent.
Loan will the early surrender of United
States ii per vents. Many holders of Five Twen
ties are time 07(01111101M them hit Northern Pa
eine Seven-Thirties, thus realizing It handsome
petit, anti greatly increasing their yearly in
-1,.1110.
MEE=
0T111.7t S ECI - R %TIES. All n r
and Bonds xv 1,1•10001% . t.11 it t111•1r Ugliest eur
n,nt prleo• In eNt.ltnnue for Northern Pnrllir
tirrrn-tillrtl s. 1t:S111,It elntrtn, 011 Money or
Bonds res•eive4l,llll.l on Se‘•en-Thlrtles t4Olll 111
1,111111, kill be 11:11.1 by 11111 Flnnneial Agent,
Full 11110,11:111011, 111111 N, 1111111111110 , . 110., (till 110
01111111101101111111110,11011 11l any (II from
the unilor,h;in , (l.
i.e sale by
New Y.wlc, \\•nsllinglnn
Innnrlul Agent,: Northern foci Ile Ito Iron,' Co
and ISA EltS through
Mt the eetlillry. 'tray :t-:tot
GIRARD SAVINGS BANK,
NO.
(Ontani.l nOrr a Stato Charter),
EAST nAmi uroN STREET,
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Monies received on deposit at all times from one dollar
upwards. Pays SIX perent. tutored for six mouths or
longer. Four p
er rent. on daily balance, subject to chock
at night. Gold nod Silver, United Stoles Bowls cud other
Socoritien bought and sold. loterent collected on Govern
ment Socuritien at fair rates.
All doposita of money trill ho held strictly confidential,
tad may be withdrawn at ally time.
Married women and minors have special privileges
gran with
our charter, having full power to transact basi
ntheir owe .1111 ,6
This Institution it a legal depository for • monlea paid
Into Court, and receiver money in trust front guardians,
e Jniluktratorm, treasurers, tax collectors and others.
O"0-HONEY. LOANED ON FAVORABLE TERIBS.
PIIAON ALBRIGHT, President.
II a di AItiZELL, Cashier.
Dir,fors—Plotou Albright, James F. Kline, Tilghman
Mertz, David Weida, Aaron Lineation.
MILLERSI'OI N SAVING BANK
MILLERSTOWN, LEIIIGLI :COUNTY.
Thbe inalltutlen will ho opened on or before tho let day
of April. ➢Toney will be taken on depoalt at all llama and
In any come from one dollar unmade, for which
SIX PER CENT. INTEREST
per annum will bepald.
Deposit.. may be withdrawn at any time Also, money
oaued out on favorable term,
JAMES WEILER, President
1NE011410.14 Saimaa. Coehitr.
.3. F. M. Shifforl, fleorg Led.. lg.
Frederick C. Yoboi. K. Henninger.
David Donner. Wllllani Sallday.
Isaac °Hebei. Gideon F. Egner,
Horatio T. Hertrog, Benjamin .1. SchinoYer.
JittllCXBlnginanier mar 16.6 m
R. E.7Danwonar
EOMMilial=Go
'Located at the corner of Hamilton street and C,horcb
alley, In Lion Hall. second story, opposite the Herten
Reformed Church, in the City of Allentown, Is organised
and ready for business. It mill pop SIX per cent. in
terest on all tep.llB except ',omitsn depoidte, for ,iny
period of t (me, to be calculated hum the date depoeit.
To secure which, tho Trustees of the institution have
Sled in the Court of Common Pleas of Lehigh County,
under the direction of the Court. a Wad in the sum of
Twenty-five Thousand Dollars, conditioned for the faith
ful keeping and appropriation of all suchsums of money
as shall be placed its charge of said FRANKLIN SAVING
BANK, whether as deposits, or shams of stock. which
bold may be enlarged by the Court whenever It may be
deemed necessary
In addition to this. the Act of Incorporation makes the
Stockholders pereonolly liokle to the depoodtore
isle the amount of the Capitol Stock d the Bank. which
is fifty thousand dollars, with liberty to increase it to ono
hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
These prov igloos will make It ti very desirable and safe
place of deposit.
Besides, It may be proper to state that the deposits will
be kept in ono of the ertieet mud beet protected molls in
thlo city.
Arrangements will hon.& to furninti drafts on the cities
or New York and lililliidelphln
S. A. BRIDGES, Pre:lid:lit
W. W Vice President
J. E. ZIMIIERMA.N. Cushier,
Trustees :
Daniel 11. Miller, S. A. Bridges,
John Bothell, J. IV Wilson.
William liner, J. E. Zimmerman
D. 11. Creltz, Peter Gross,
Edwin Zimm ern.
THOS. WEAVER
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A LIA:NTOWN SAVINGS INSTITU
TION.
Organized as "Dimes Saving rniaiififion,"
NO. 55 EAST HAMILTON ST
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PAYS SIX PER CENT. INTEREST FOR
Thix 11,dllutlon, the Wert Sevin Bunk to Easton
Penn.ylvannt, h. her u In continuous so
und cresKrit
notrat ton for ton ytntr., audcondemn. to pay SIX
r,yr. INTEREST on looney for cue year, and ppeela
rates of Ititere,d for nhorter period,
depoAls of motley will be held etrirtly coutt
dential.
Exe,:ators,iministralors,Trustees, Assignees,
.7'reasurera, Tax Collectors,
and railer eusiddlaux of poblic or ',flout(' moneys, tea of
fered liberal rates of inter,t.
Farmers, Abreliftoto, hrtbortrx, and all who have
money to put on Interest for a long or short period will
thud our I ust It ntion an agreeable and advantageous one In
which to do hndm•sn, We especially invite LAMna to
tranmact theirbankine Lust toss with as.
MARRIED WWI l nod MINORS have special Print
loges granted by our charter—having full power to trans
act businesm with as in their own names.
Money deposited with this Institution
IS SAFE AND WELL SECURED,
by a Capital clock and surplus money molly of over
SIXTY 'I'IIOPOAND DOLLARS, and addition. Ito
Hoard of Trustees have, an toothed hy t barter, given
bonds under the sopervision of the Court to the sum of
FIFTY THOUSAND DOLLARS, which bonds are regle
tered and held by the Court of Common Pleas of this
county for the security of depohlters.
Our Iron Vaults are of the moat secure and extensive
kind known In this country, a, a remnant lusPectioo trill
show, mad to %V Ich wo Invite our friends and contortion , .
We refer to thin. believing thm safe Burglar Proof Vaults
sAlete and relialoilit of a good Ravin Hank .
"'""ki" WILLIAM 11.
, oddent.
CHRISTI A N PRETZ, Vice President.
. . ,
BEUBLN STABLER, Cushier.
TRUSTEES:
William H. Ala..), Charles 8 Bush,
ehristluu fret:, Johu D. Stiles,
F. E ha:inlets, Bow. J. Ilagoubuch,
Ueurge BruLht, Satuuol Seth
Nathan Peter. Jun 12. tr
FARMER'S SAVINGS BANK,
Incorporated under a State Charter of 1870
Fogulsvllle, Upper Macungie townehip, Lehigh Co.
This Institution flax been organized and opened under a
Mato Charter. INION will bo taken on deposit at all
times and lu any awn (rum +land upwards, for which
G PER CENT. INTEREST
Dopnalto tnay La withdrawn nt any limo.
Alm) money loaned out on favorithln term,
WILLIAM !MORE, l'rfsiefent
R. 11. FOGEL, Cashier.
Dr. 11. A. Saylor
Daniel Nloyer,
Juua• Rauch,
• •
thullel 11. Cr;ltx,
William Mohr • tummsiciu.Cunra.ae
LEMBER 2 LIMBER 12
WHOLESALE AND RETAIL!
HOFFMAN'S
STEAM SAW MILL,
AND
LUMBER YARD!
KINDLING!
BILLS CUT TO ORDER !
I
i
1 OFFICE AT THE MILL,
I FRONT AND LINDEN STS.
WHITE . )1N ., 1) JILAcli, Cq.K. EAW•LOgE wanted. for
g rit Um /110 041 malice( prico will De 11111.dwtralw.
financial
JAY COOKE & CO.
MONEY . ON DEPOSIT.
WILL BE PAID
TratsTaunt
J. ❑. Straub,
Day Id Peter,
• Saul net Huhu.
~h~ ~~'~~z~~ e~z~~e~.
i THREE BRAVE MEN.
Pretty Barbara Ferrop would not marry.
Her mother was in I consternation. " Why
are you so stubborn, Barbara ?" she asked.
" You have plenty of lovers."
" But they do not suit me," said Barbara,
coolly tying her curls before the mirror.
" Why not?"
" I want, when I marry, a man who is
brave—equal to any eptergency. If I give
up my liberty, I wnnthto be taken care of."
" Silly child I What is the matter with Big
Barney, the blacksmith ?"
" lie is big, but I never learned that lie
was brave."
"And you never heard thst he was not
What is the matter svith Ernst, the gun
smith ?"
"lle's as placid as goat's milk."
"That is no sign he is a coward. There is
little Fritz, the tanner ; he is quarrelsome
enough for you, surely."
"lie is no bigger Hum a bantam cock. It
is little Ile could do if the house Was set upon
by robbers." . .
" It's not always strength that wins n flght,
girl. It takes brains as well as brawn. Come
now, Barbara; give these fellows a fair trial."
Barbara turned her face before the mirror
letting down one raven tress and hooking up
another. " I will, mother," said she at lust.
That evening Ernst, the gunsmith, knocked
early at the door. " You sent for me, Bar
bara ?" he asked, going to the girl, who stood
upon the hearth, coquettishly warming one
foot and then the other.
" Yes, Ernest," she replied, " I've been
thinking of what you said the other night
when you were here."
" Well, Barbara r
Ernest spoke quietly, but his (link blue eyes
Hashed, and lie looked at her intently.
" I want to test you...
" How r
'1 want to see if you dare do a disagrees
ble thing."
" Wliut is it ?
"'There is an old coffin up stairs. It smells
of mould. They say Redmond, the murderer,
was buried in it, but the devil came for his
body and left the coffin empty at the end of
week, and it was finally taken from the tomb.
It is up stairs in the room my grandfather
died in, and they say grandsire does not
rest easy in •his grave, for some reason—
though that I know nothing about. Dare you
make that your bed tonight ?"
Ernest laughed. "Is that all ? I will do
that, and sleep soundly. Why, pretty one,
did you think 1 had weak nerves ?"
" Your nerves will have good proof if you
undertake it. Remember, no one sleeps in
that wing of the house.”
" I shall sleep the sounder."
"Good night, then. I will send a lad to
show you the chamber. If you stay there
until morning," said the imperious Barbara,
with a nod of her pretty head, " I will marry
lESI
" You vow It ?"
"I vow MI-
Earnest turned straightway, and followed
the lad in waling through dim rooms and
passages, up echoing stairs, along narrow,
damp ways, where rats scuttled before them,
to a low chamber. The boy looked pale and
scared, and evidently wanted to hurry away
but Earnest made him stay until he took a
survey of the room by the aid o f his lamp. It
was very large and full of recesses, with high
windows in them, which were barred across.
He remembered that old Grandsire Ferros had
been insane for several years before his death,
so that this precaution bad been necessary for
for the safety of himself and others. In the
centre of the room stood tt coffin ; besides it
was placed a chair. The room nas otherwise
perfectly empty.
Ernest stretched himself in the coffin. "Be
kind enough to tell me, Miss Barbara, that it's
a very good fit,!' said he. The boy went out
and shut the door, leaving the gunsmith alone
in the dark.
Meanwhile, Barbara was talking with the
blacksmith in the keeping room. "Barney,"
said she, pulling her hands away from his
grasp when he would have kissed her, " I've
a test to put you to before I give you any an
swer. There is a corpse lying in the chamber
where my graudsire died, in the untenanted
wing of the house. If you dare sit with it
there all night, and let uolhingdrive you from
your post, you will not ask me to marry you
in vain."
lEEE3
" You will give me a light, and a bottle' of
wine, and a book to read ?"
" Nothing."
" Arc these all the conditions you con offer
m'e, Barbara ?"
"All. And if you get fiightened you need
never look me in the face again."
" I'll take them, then."
So Barney was conducted to his post by the
lad, who had been instructed in the 'secret,
and whose voluntary stare at Ernest's placid
face as it lay in the coffin, was interpreted by
Barney to be natural awe of a corpse. lle
todk his sent and" the bay left him alone with
the darkness, the rats, and the coffin.
Soon after, young Fritz, the tanner, arrived
flattered and hopeful, from the fact that Bar
bara had sent for him. " Have you changed
your mind, Barbara ?" he asked.
" No ; and I shall not until I that you
can to a really brave thing."
" What shall it he ? I swear to 'satisfy you
13arbara.'4
have a proposal to make to you. My
phin requires skill as well as courage."
"Tell me !"
"Well, in this house is a man watching by
a corpse. He has sworn nut to leave his post
until morning. II you can make him do it,
I shall be satisfied that you are as smart and
as brave as I require a husband to be."
"Why, nothing is so easy!" exclanaed Fritz,
"I can scare him away. Furnish mo with a
sheet, show me the room, and go to your rest,
Barbara. You will find me at the post in time
morning."'
Barbara did as he required, and saw the
tanner step blithely away to his task. It was
then nearly twelve o'clock, and she sought
her own chamber.
Barney was sitting at his vigil, and so thrall
had been well. The night seemed very long'
for, he had no means of counting the time.
At times a thrill went through him, for it.
seemed as if he could hear low, suppressed
breathing not far away, but he persuaded him
self It was the wind blowing through the
crevices of the old house.' Still, it was Very
lonely; and not at all cheerful,
The face in the coffin gleamed whiter
through the darkness. The rats squeaked as
if famine were upon them, and they smelled
flesh. The thought made hint shudder. He
got up and walked about, but something made
a slight noise, as if somebody was behind him,
and he put his chair with the back against the
wall, and sat down again. Be had been hard
at work all day, and, in spite of everything,
he grew sleepy. Finally he nodded and
snored.
Suddenly it seemed as if somebody bad
touched him. He awoke with a start,: and
saw nobody near, though in the centre of the
room stood a white figure. "Curse you, get
out of this !" he exclaimed, in a fright, using
the very first words that came to his tongue.
The figure held up its right arm and slowly
apprOached him. Ile started to his feet. The
spectre came nearer, pressing him into the
corner. "The devil take you,"cried Barney
in his extremity.
ALLENTOWN, PA., WEDNESDAY MORNING, AUGUST 23, 1871
Involuntarily lie tib pped back ; still the fig
ure advanced, coming nearer and nearer, and
extending both arms, as if to take him in a
ghostly embrace. The hair started up on
Barney's bend ; he grew desperate, and as the
gleaming arms would have touched lain, he
fell upon the ghost like a whirlwind, tearing
MT the sheet, thumping, pounding, kicking
and beating, more and more outraged at the
resistance he met, which told him the truth.
As the reader knows, Barney was big and
Fritz was little ; and while pummeling the lit
tle tanner unmercifully, and Fritz was try ing
to lunge at Barney's stomach, to take the
wind out of him, both plunging and kicking
like horses, they were petrified by hearing a
voice cry : "Take one of your size, Big Bar-
CM
Looking around, they saw the corpse sit-
ting up in his coffin. This was ,too much.
They released each other and sprang for the
door. They never knew how they got out ;
but they ran home punting like stags.
It was Barbara herself who came and
opened the doUr upon Ernest the next morn
ing.
"It's very early ; one more little nap," said
he, turning over in his cont.
So she married hint ; and' though she sent
Fritz and Barney Invitations to the wedding,
they did not appear. If they discovered the
trick, they kept the knowledge to themselves,
and never willingly faced Barbara's laughing
eyes again.
QUILL SCRA'T'CHES
BY MAX A DLI.EII
A prominent undertaker was observed a few
days ago, to stop beside a fruit stand in the
street, and to watch the aspirants for grave
yitrd honors as they came up one idler another
and bought the peaches which were exposed
for sale. When the four-hundretlth customer
had departed, our undertaker advanced, and
with a bland and benevolent smile he hat,di•d
the fortunate fruit-fiend a dollar and blessed
him, and said : " Noble young man ! Go on
in the course you are pursuing ! Continue the
good work ; dispense your concentrated stom-
Dutch-ache and your condensed eholera.roor.
bus in this noble•heturted manner all Summer,
while I go home and hurry up my ready made
coffins. There is nothing in trade like co
operation. Bless you, my child—bless you!"
They say that the last missionary who was
attacked by the hungry members of his church
out In Fiji was entirely too much for the eon
regation. It seems that in his sinful youth
he missionary had been a travelling professor
of Mesmerism ; hut he had abandoned the
business to go into the ministry and to preach
to the heathen. Well, the elders ()rids church
got up a Sunday school picnic, it appears,
• nd, when the people all arrived upon the
grounds, it was with pain that they perceived
that the provisions had not arrived. A meet
ing of the vestry was calW, and after a brief
consultation, It was decided that the only
thing which truld be done to meet the emerg
ency was to barbecue the minister. The in
ducement to this course was all the stronger,
because his salary was six months in [mean+.
and the church was entirely out of funds. So
those benighted heathen built a hinge fire, and,
seizing the missionary, they began to strip
him, and to stick him with forks to see if he
was tender.
In order to snvo himself he immediately
mesmerized each member of the vestry. and,
when they were all fixed, he called up the
Sunday School schohus, class by class, and
put thefn comfortably to sleep. • Having them
all completely under his influence, Lv cave nn
entire class to each one of the vestrymen, and
assured them that the innocent children were
the most luscious kind ormisitonary. There
upon the hypnotized vestry immediately ate
up all the somnambulistic Sunday Schiml, and
picked the bones clean. The missionary was
a conscientious man in the performance of his
sacerdotal functions ; so he rend the funeral
service over each class as it disappeared. This
done, he whispered to the magnetized wardens
that their fellow-vestrymen were also succu
lent propagators of the gospel in heathen land,
whereupon the unconscious wardens Instanta
neously fell upon their colleagues, and in 11
very few moments nearly the whole vestry
was in the process of assimilation.
There remained now but the two wardens,
and the missionary, having prevailed upon the
younger and more vicorous of the two to eat
the other, then-seized the slumbering body of
his converted but erring brother, and stood it
on its head in the fire. The missionary went
homealone froni that distressing, picnic, and
he went with a heavy heart. When he got
home, they asked where the rest of the folks
were, and he said they were up there in the
woods, having fun in their own untutored
way. And then he packed his trunk and got
over the back fence all of a sudden, and bor
rowed a canoe and paddled away to sonic sun•
trier clime where the heathen rages less furi
ously, and where the popular appetite for
warm clergyman is not so intensely vivid. Ile
has written to the 'United Slates to advise all
the divinity schools to establish a professor
ship of mesmerism, and we think there is n
certain amount of judiciousness in the advice.
A MONIiEY STORY.
We met a friend of ours, WiIOSC exprt scion
of lace was indicative of the greatest sorrow.
".You know Sancho," he said, "my mon
key?" We assented. "Well listen.
Christmas week somebody gave my little girl
one of those fearful toys called jack-in-a•box.
It was an awful thing, fully two feet high.
The monkey saw it. When the child went
to bed I was busy reading, when all of a sud
den I heard the most awful noise in the next
room. I rushed in,.and on top of a chest of
drawers lay Sancho, in a regular fit, with the
jack-in-a-box sprung alongside of hint; he
had stolen it from where it had been hid out
of reach. Front his terror I thought his cu
riosity had been well punished. We were
mistaken. That box had an awful facinntion
fur that monkey. Ho absolutely craved the
excitement. Life was apparently a blank
monotony without It. For days he would
not go near it ; then again he would hind of
pine for it. Ile got the hang of arranging
the wire fastening, and wouli touch it off
with the end of his feiot. Instead of getting
accustomed to it, every time it jumped up the
same scene would be enacted. After a while
It had positively an effect on his health. It
became too much for his nervous system,
though the stimulant he must have, cost what
it would. Some few days ago he began to
mope, though always hankering after the
box. Yesterday the poor little fellow was
very bad—so weak 'he could not crawl to
Where the box was. In order to revive hint
we sprang it for him. That seemed to stimu
late him a little, though he was just as fib:fil
ched as ever. This morning we found him
dead, alongside of the jack-in-a-box. It
seems during the night he must have had just
strength enough to set it off for the last time,
and get the last shock. It was a clear case of
felo do se. , Poor Sancho I"—N. r. Times.
A. warrant has been issued for the arrest of
Mrs. Colburn, charged with poisoning Peter
Buffenburgh.
A general drouth prevalla throughout the
northern tier of counties in Texas. All
kinds of vegetables and farm products, except
cotton, are so nearly a total failure that a
sttunpede of ::,ettlers is expected as soon AB
(Old weather sets tn.
Remarkable letter from► the lion.
110MCC, Greeley-Ile Declares Him
self Unalterably Opposed to Wo
men Sngfrage—Whatile and Theo
dore Tilton Know.
=
Sin: Your article on this topic Is so forcible
and Just in the main, that I presume you will
be quite willing to have its slight inaccuracies
corrected in your column.. Ido not assume
that my views on the Woman Qet slime are of
much consequence to others ; but, in so far as
they may possess interest, it is well that they
be clearly understood. Let me, then, indicate
your misapprehensions without further pre
face.
I. You say I "hold that there ought to 1 c
no divorce at all—not for any crime, even the
worst." So far to I can recollect, your only
authority for this statement is a remark that,
had not the Master spoken otherwise, I would
not have deemed adultery a sufficient reason
for dissolving a marriage. As you seem td
have given these words undue weight, allow
me to explain my view more fully:
Thnt persistent, flagitious adultery in hus
band or wife affords good cause for divorce, I
have not meant to deny. But there have
teen cases. of transient infidelity to mertiage
vows, under the influenccof pasSlonsinflamed
by wine and other unbatural excitements,
which, being followed by prompt end profound
contrition, I would no: judge an adequate
reason for divorce. You and I both know that
trine hare often paeganed such lapses in hus-
bands; you and I agree that husbands have
no rightful immunity in such matters which
ought not also to be accorded to wives. And
I profoundly honor and reverence the husband
who can say to his erring wife "Though I
know that you have been false to,God and to
in, yet, because of the love I have borneyou,
uf the vow which pledged me to love and
cherish von till death, and for the sake o r the
dear children which God has given us, I, be-
fleeing you truly penitent, will forgive and
try almost to forget your crime, and thus
shield our little ours from undewrved shame."
I regard the husband who thus speaks and
acts as a better Claistian, a truer man, than
is he who exposes, discards, and outlaws the
wife of his youth for a iligrant transgression,
now sine rely and bitterly repented. I sug
gest, therefore, thit you henceforth represent
me as holding that adultery may, but does
not always, justify an application for divorce.
You say 11101(1 that " if a man marries and
his wife dies, there should be no second mar
riage." This, also, is too sweeping. Some of
my last and most esteemed friends are remar
ried—happily, I am sure ; wisely and nobly,
I judge. Nay ; I can imagine a case in which
the poor, hard-working , , widowed father of
young children whom he cannot take with
inn to his daily labor, should feel constrained
fOr their sake to replace his lost wife by
another in whose perfect acceptance and dis
charge of a mother's duties toward those chil
dren he could implicitly trust. Pardon me
but I am quite confident that the casual re
mark on which you based your broad asser-
tion referred to a remarriage follom lug sepa
ration by divorce, not death.
111. Let toe state my own conception of re
marriages as complicating marital relations in
the other world.
I do not dispute the doctrine or Jesus that
"In heaven thrre is neither marrying or giv-
ing in marriage," if you have quoted his words
exactly. And yet I feel that there are couples
so completely and nappny 11111tc,1
world that they . will be nearer and dearer to
each other in the nest than they would or
could have teen had they failed to meet in
in this life ; nod I think. these are happier in
either world than though one or both of them
had remarried. Ido not hold that either
would have been culpable in remarrying if
widowed on this planet ; I only insist that
they will both rejoice—and with reason—in
their higher life, that neither in this life was
married a second time.
IV. You are entirely, eminently right, Mr.
Editor, in asserting that my conviction of the
proper indissolubility of marriage Is the main-
spring of my hostility to Woman Suffrage,and
to the social philosophy from which many
vainly seek to separate the woman movement.
Thonot I have written or dictated very little
of what has, during the last ten years, bet n
printed as editorial in the Tribune on this sub
ject, it is nevertheless true that my conception
of the nature and stop' of the marriage relit
lion renders my conversion to Woman Suf
frage it moral impossibility.
I have but two left of seven children, and
these are both daughters. I would gladly tit
Cain tbr lives of usefulness and honor, as be
loved and loving wives of virtuous, upright,
'tidily nun, and mothers, if it shall please God,
of good, healthy, happy children. if it be
deereed that they are to be, wit such women
as those I have most admired and reverenced
but men with a female physique—powerful
Want catelltiCS and nominating ConVention
vehement in senate and on the stump, and cf.
iective before juries In the trial of actions
crim. con —I. pray that my career on this globe
shall close before theirs is fairly began. When
and where they shall thus shine, it will not be
plea,mt for me to stay.
Mr. Editor, I believe our countrymen are
indebted to you for having discovered (per
haps I should say invented) Inc as a' passible
(thou2h most improbable) candidate for the
Picsideney. Allow me, then, to thank you
for your early and frank demonstration that I
Call in no contingency be counted on or hoped
for as a Woman Suffrage candidate. As you
forcibly and justly say, there Is not even a re
mote posAlnlity of my ultimately adapting
myself to this end. My difference with your
crowd is ton vital, too radical, to permit. the
most sanguine dreamer to hope to• my con
version. I ion growing old ;my opinions are
tolerably firm ; who kills the paraMour of
whom she claims to be the rightful affinity,
and gives the lie in open court to the wife she
has doubly widowed, Is my pet aversion.
lint why should any man be the candidate
for President of the Woman Sulfrag'sts?
Logically and consistently, 1 fuel that their
candidate should be a woman. She ought,
moreover, to be One thoroughly emancipated
front the " nbsurfiity and folly," the " narrow
ness," mid the " baleful conservatism," which
I ant now too old to outgrow. Could you not
find one who illustrates in her own person
and history what you so felicitously term "the
liberal thought of an enlightened age? Let her
be one who has two husbands after a sort, and
lives in the same house with them both, shar
ing the couch of one, but bearing the name of
the other (tu indicate her impartiaiity . per.
hops), and cause and candidate will be so fitly
mated that there will 1)6 no occasion, even
under the most liberal, progressive, enlight
ened rtpinte, to sue for their divorce. Could
not one of this class lie persuaded to overbear
her shrinhini, modesty and nominate herself?
lit a spirit of hearty hatred for Free Love
and all its Infernal delusions,
I remain yours, 110 RACE OREELEY.
TrinuNE OFPICE, Aug: 7, 1871.
Ole Bull is reported seriously 111. Ile re
cently fell Inn fit in the do e r yard of his res
idence In West Lebanon, ligine, and Is now
In a critical condition,
The First National Bank of Evansville,
Ind., has given notice that it will subscribe
to $500,000 of the five per cent. new funded
loan by a transfer of that amount in five
twenties held by the Treasurer of the United
Slates no security for circulation.
NASBY.
The High to Parade—Mr. Namby Sug
gests any Arrangement~ by which
Riots y be hereafter Avoided.
r , P1.D11.11 ROADS,
is in ow Slate of Kentucky,
July 15, 1871. „1
The riots in Noo York affected me terribly.
Viewed from any standpint, the occurrence
wuz drplarnlde. Two hundred Dimocrats
shot down liy the br.,;fiti military who will
never rally to the polls ugh], and will never
agin repeat their votes, no matt er
. how high
the price. And all this becoz them noble
minded sons ny Erin insisted on the right to
dictate who shoed and who shoed not parade
the streets uv their city tie Noo York ! I hey,
however, the cousolashen uv knowing that it
won't make any difference in our majority in
that city. There is ships on the sea bringin
more Irishmen, who kin be made voters in
four hours after they land, and of no more
comes, them cz is here kin vote oftener. It
may be necessary to furnish sum uv em bosses
and buggies, that they may get around to the
polls faster, but, that will be all.
1 lied my little trouble on the same day. It
so happened that the children of our church
lied pitched on the 12th uv July ez the day for
their pic-nic, and it so happened that Pollock
Kevin a lot of damaged yalle'r calico, Deckin
Penn i backer bought 'it to make rosettes for the
children and a sash for myself, who wus to
cheer morsel cm. The site afore we received
letter 'from Dennis O'Shoughnessy, Patrick
(:'Brien and Shamus O'Daly, the three Irish—
men who live at the Corners station, that they
understood it was the intention uv the Prot
estants uv the Corners to celebrate the battle
uv the Boyne with an Orange procession.
They gave notice that it had better be aban
doned, for they would not hey their feelins in
jured. After the warniu ef blood shoed be
shed they could not be held responsible.
No one in the Corners—that is, the natives,
—had ever lieerd uv the battle uv the Boyne
or knowd wet: "Orange" meat, and so, takin
it as a joke, no attensbun wus paid to it, for
no peicesshun had ever been mobbed at the
corners but nigger pereesshune. But next
mornin when the perseshun moved a volley
ue stones greeted us.
I was riding proudly at its head on Bascom'S
mule, and one well-directed rock hurled me
senseless to the ground, and cz the sheperd
woe smitten the sheep wuz scattered. Dennis
O'Shoughnessy told us that the fcelins uv the
Catholic citizens uv the Corners should never
be outraged so long
_ez he lied strength to
handle a club or heaV'e a stun. Sum uv our
[ample wus indignant, but I, the chief sufferer.
woe not. I lied lived in Noo York, which is
mostly Irish,and knowin their idiosyncracies,
wus willm to forgive cm. Their ain't no bet
ter Dimocrals anywherthan these men, and
no rock kin malt me do anything agin that
organfmtion uv which these nun is the back-
And when I got a paper and read nv the
riots in Noo York a lite beamed onto me. Es
the Catholic Irishmenllou't like the orange
color on the 12th uv July, I wonder that the
three we hey contented themselves with
merely heayin rocks at us. It is not to be ex
pected that they will allow any demonstrashen
which hurts their feelins to be made without
any attempt to suppress it. The ardent son of
Erin is an impulsive creacher who dates in
Kevin his own way. They hey taken charge
nv thn voyertmtent uv the city of Noo York,
and they (Mgt", - • - ;..h.rrornd with. nor
will they be.
I see.but one way to prevent Sidi difficul
ties hereafter and that plan 1 submit to the
considertion of the American people, ez
Let mi ordinance be passed by the common
council oh Nt» York, providing for the ap
pointment uv a committee who steel hey sole
control uv processions and all public displays,
said committee to consist uv ten Catholic
priests or Irish birth, and ten Catholic laymen
of Irish birth. To this committee all these
matters steel be referred. They shel hey the
power to say wat societies stud, and wat so
cieties shel not parade, and also wat banners,
colors, and insignia shel be displayed, what
toons shell be played, and on wat (lays sick
displays shel be made.
1.:( course this committee would be liberal.
They wood never object to the celebrashen of
the Fourth of July (for that commemorates a
triumph over British tyranny); perticulerly
of the procrsshen wood pledge themselves to
carry the green flag and hey their bands play
national airs only.
The fil( win, I suppose, would be the tenor
lIV most of he answers to applicasltens for the
privilege oft. vradin :
To the supc; intendent uv —th street Net
tol t Sunday School: Permission refused.
On the route proposed f.w the procession lives
three hundred Catholic families With wood
be offended at it. The committee does not
want to be bothered with rich applications,
cc none of em will be granted.
'his
PATRICK Vi MCGEE
SiLnetl
This wood save a riot and bloodshed, fur
UV course the procession couldn't take place,
and the Irish people couldn't be offended, on
less It woe, at the presumption of the Metho
dists in making the request. Then Again :
To the Commiltee on Pereeesion no Lodge
21 uniber--Knights uo Pythi tfi: The com
mittee Navin carefully examined the ritual uv
sed order, and findin therein nothin offensive
to the Irish citizens uv the United States, and
nothlu partikerly offensive to the Holy Catho
lie Church, the sed order is hereby permitted
to parade July 12, 1871. It is suggested that
the parade is not intended ez nu inselt to cm,
that the green flag uy Erin be displayed above
the banner uv the order, that the members uv
the order wear green Sashes, that an Irishman
be employed to net.ez marshal, and that the
band be instructed to play nothin but " The
Wearin uv the Green.".
PTASEY ;r: MCSHANE ,
mark
Chairman, 7 ro tern
There mite be cases where the same society
mite receive the followin notice the nite afore
the intended parade:
• To the President us Lodge number--
Knights us Pythias: It Lavin come to the
knowledge uv this committee that the Ancient
Order-uv Ilibernians end also the Young
Men's Society uv the Church uv the Immacu
late Concepsbun t intend td parade to-morrow,
and cz both uv these percessions will cross the
streets named ez your route, the order per
mitter' you to parade is hereby revoked.. The
Committee will give you nulls uv the first day
on with no body uv Catholics or uv Irish citi
zeus desire to yooze• the streets, that your
demonstrairheu may take place peaceably.
In addishun to this,. it mite be welt to make
St. Patrick's day a legal holiday, the same ez
the Fourth uv July, and that our Irish fellow
citlz4N mite not annoyed, deli days ez the
church holds servis on mite be made Sundays
Signed
uv.
Let this be adopted and no troubles like
that uv July 12 will ever oceurr agin in Noo
York; onless, indeed, some headstrong Pro
testants mite question the justis uv it. This
plan merely legalises what hes been practised
in a loose way for ten years. I steel hey this
root adopted at the Corners, for our Irish
friends not only vote viggerous, but they hurl
stones with wonderful precision.
PETROLEUM V. NAI3IIY,
(With WrlIZ Postmmiter.)
A REMARKABLE ESCAPE.
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Perils by Land and by Sea.
A correspondent of the Times of Indiagives
the following account of a remarkable escape:
" ADEN, June 11.—One of the most remark
able escapes from the perils attendant upon a
disabled steamer at sea, and. the wonderful
good fortune which brought safely through a
dangerous country a party of volunteers from
the ship, I herewith send you. The steamer
Vixen, Captain Maipe, from Calcutta for Lon
don, encountered bad weather, and shortly
before reaching Aden she ran out of coals, and
everything available on board was burnt. She
than drifted down on the Arabian coasti some
one hundred and fifty miles from Aden. After
anchoring, the captain and the surgeon, Mr.
.T. W. Matthews, went on shore to see if wood
was procurable, but none was to be had. The
doctor and Second steward, with two Lascar
boatmen, now volunteered to proceed to Aden
through the Somali and other tribes on the
coast, which mas consented to by the captain.
" Starting on the afternoon of the 7th of
June, they walked all night to avoid what ras
cals might be on the way, while some friendly
Arabs accompanied them, and made a detour
to obtain camels of a Sultan named Hyder.
On reaching him they were most hospitably
received, great state even was observed and
salutes fired ! The Sultan kindly congratula
ted them on their getting safely through some
hostile tribes, and he offered them it boat to
Aden; but the weather being unpromising
this offer was declined. The journey was
now recommenced, partly on foot and partly
on camels when procurable. The tribes
through which the adventurers passed were
in such a state of poverty and wretchedness
that no provisions could be obtained ; so the
poor fellows suffered very much In conse
quence, and their sufferings were aggravated
from want of water also ; the intense heat,
too, nearly overcame them. However, with
much pluck, though driven almost to despera
tion, they persevered, and, without any rest
or food for twenty-four hours, they reached
Aden on Sunday, the 11th. The surprise that
awaited them here is hardly to be described
for the Vixen was lying in Aden harbor, and
all belonging to her safe I She had got coals
from a bungalow procured at Aden by the
chief officer, who some days previously had
sailed front
. his ship in an open boat for the
purpose of getting assistance.
" When the weary and footsore travelers ar
rived at Aden and the community bad become
aware of their dangerous trip they manifested
the greatest delight, and numerous were the
congratulations bestowed. Had bad weather
come on at any period front the steamer break
ing down, while she was at anchor, or when
the small boat was on its way to Aden, a dif
ferent tale might have had to be told. As it
turned out, it was a remarkable escape front
dangerd which were sufficiently threatening to
make all on board ever remember their visit
to the coast of Africa and all that followed.
" I am no. versed in diplomatic matters, but
it is in my mind that, seeing how generously,
and funny, indeed, Sultan Hyder treated the
poor wayfarers on their perilous land Journey
ought not some special mission to be sent to
His Excellency, direct from the British Gov
ernment, with a suitable letter of acknowl
edgment, and something more substantial be
sides ? I think so. , On the way the members
of the mission might give the people and tribes
to understand that if they protected white
men (and black men, too, for that matter)
hey would be repaid and rewarded."
Calvinism and Life Insurance.
Just before Vallandigham's departure from
home to defend IlleGehan, a life insurance
agent urged him to take out a policy for $lO,-
000. Vallandigham's reply was :
"It is quite unnecessary. I come of a long
lived race. My father, and father's father, and '
their progenitors, for a long period, were long
lived ; and I inherit their longevity. I feel
that I will live to be an old man. My vital
energies arc as vigorous as ever, and I ant to
day as hopeful as when I was twenty-five
years old. No, there is no use for me to take
out a policy of life insurance."
And when it was further suggested to him,
that as he had occasion to travel much by rail
and otherwise, it would be prudent to insure
against possible death by accident, he cod
dently answered :
" You know that Iconic of Calvinistic stock,
and that I am pretty thoroughly indoctrinated
with Calvinism. If lam to go that way, or
ally other way, why, then it is so ordained ;
rind I will not insure against Providence. But
I have no fears in that direction. Consider
.the chances I have run the past ten yeiirs. It
is not probable that now, when I have got to
fair sailing, dangers, plain or hidden,,will mil
tiply in my course. Besides, I feel that I have
a great work to perform for the Democratic
party and the country, and I believe that God,
in Ilis Providence, will preserve me to accom
plish it. When I begin to distrust Providence,
It Is possible that I will resort to life insurance."
In less than one week from that interview,
the strong, confident man, who came of along.
lived race, whose belief that he woo predes
tined of God to do a great work fc r the Dem
ocratic party and the country, lay dead in his
coffin ! The chances and probabilities upon
which lie hind so certainly calculated as be
ing in his favor had all failed ; and the one
chance; the mere possibility againSt which he
had neglected to provide, had become ri dread
fact !
There is a lesson in this which men would
do well heedfully to consider. Death has but
little regard for the strong man's vigor, his
resolute purpose, his grand mission, his faith
in the future. It is well, doubtless, to trust in
Providence ; but that trust is best shown by
providing, so far as• possible, for that which
Providence may have in store. Calvinism Is
a good enough form of religious faith, but
while it is prop . er to believe that it is fore
ordained when a man shall die, itis eminently
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Chairman
proper also to believe that it is fore-ordained
that he shall leave his family comfortably pro-
tided for, and to act upon that belief by tak
ing out o life insurance policy.— The Harald,
Uhi•ago.
The celestial reporter of the Chicago Tri
bune makes the following statement: "There
Is now a large pear-shaped spot on that side of
the sun which is turned toward us. It Is about
40,000 miles in diameter, which is will:tient
to three-quarters of a minute of arc: equal to
the angle subtended by ln inches at the dis
tance of one mile from the eye. It Is w very
good test of vision, through a smoked glass,
requiring an eyesight of a little more than the
average penetration to sea It without a mag
nifier. The spot is a little lo the left, and
about the same distance below the apparent
center of the solar disc."
If the Pennsylvmila railroad succeeds in
leasing tho New Jersey lines, it will also be
come possessed of the Stockton and the Sea
Breeze hotels, and of much of the best real
estate at Cape May, besides the West Jersey
Railroad, which cost ono million of dollars
and the Cape May Bailway, which coat
$500,000. This combination will then control
access by land from -Pennsylvania and the
Weat to both Cape May and Long Branch,
leaving only one other point on the New Jer
sey sea shbre to be reached by an Independent
line of rail : Atlantic City.
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ROBERT mEDELL, JR.
Vlttin nub ifrincp .lob Vrinter,
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THE ()MEAT POLITICAL CORPSE.
Mr. Jefferson DIII7III.
Memphis Correspondence inthannpolts Journal. j
The deadest man in the South is the great
rebel ex-President. He flavor was very popu
lar with either the Southern people or the
rebel army. The non-combatants, particularly
the feminine portion of them, strain a point
now to make him a lion, but by the soldiers of
the South lie is totally repudiated. They have
no use for him for any purpose. His late bald
erdash speeches called forth a general expres
sion of contempt for him, and his recent
sleeping-car performance has raised against"
him a perfect storm of virtuous indignation.
They conceive that by accident the honor of
the Southern people was, in a measure, in
trusted to his keeping, and when he fell a
victim to the wiles of the syren, they said ono
to another :
"Then you and I, and all of us, fell down."
Little did the fascinating Mrs. B. imagine
that, in the person of ono man, she was de.
flouring the whole Southern chivalry.
The great unhung boards with his wife at
the Peabody Hotel. He is fully six feet in
height, his shoulders are narrow, he is very
slender, but is as straight as an arrow. He
looks like a clean cut race-horse. Ho wears
a mustache, and beard all over his face; ho
keeps it trimmed, but never shaves. Ills beard
and hair are quite gray—almost White. His
eyes are gray, and the right one is blemished.
His face is short and thin. His head appears
to be unusually small. At Prstaight lie looks
like a man who has suffered and is broken by
misfortune, but when engaged in conversation
he displays an air of conceit and arrogance
which drives away all sympathy, and excites
a feeling of surprise and disappointment. He
is one of the most conscious men I have ever
seen. As he walks the street ho constantly
glances about him to see whether lie is observ
ed. He carries upon his face an expression
which constantly asserts that, instead of be
ing ashamed of his crimes, he has done some
thing which he thinks was smart. He is
proud of his treason, and improves every
opportuny to exhibit his pride. llis voice Is
little feeble in its tones, but this is the only
indication of infirmity. Ho is sixty-four
years old, yet is the most extravagantly gal
lant man among the ladies anywhere to be
found. Any day in the halls or dining-room
of the Peabody he may be seen seeking and
making and taking advantages of all imagina
ble chances to display his chivalry. He Is an
officer in St. Lazarus Episcopal Church. The
congregation of this church Is composed en
tirely of aristocratic rebels. They arc his ex
clusive associates. Most of the men care
nothing about him. With the gentle sisters
he is an immortal hero, and is flattered and
petted and caressed in the most extravagant
manner. They call him "The President."
One lady said to him recently: "You are
our President, you know. We will never
have any other President—never!" He was
Mrs. B's President, too; very'much so. But
now, since she has gone to live in Nashville,
he Is still more the President of the remaining
fair spit -fires. Mrs. Davis is a very large,
fleshy lady. tier complexion is rather dark,
Ler hair dark.brown,a little linger with grey.
She is altogether fine looking; and is said to
be a good woman. She clings to her hus
band through evil as well as good report.
I=
Tile Pro'. Auk..—No
son In Ilenry Wharton-04e Sus
picion Cleared Away.
Prof. Aiken delivered yesterday to Fred.
Pinkney, Esq., Deputy State's Attorney, a
communication, of which the following is a
copy:
UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND, August 15th
1871.—A Leo Knott, Esq., State's Attorney—
DEAR : Alter completing, a carefulanal vats
of the various matters brought over from Nor
ristown, the fact has been established that they
do not contain any of those poisonous com
pounds one might reasonably have suspected
to be present. The same fact has also been es.
tablished in relation to the brandy you handed
me some time since, and consequently pone of
these substances can supply any evidence
against any suspected party..
Very respectfully, \V. E. A. AIKEN.
The above communication refers to the
stomach and liver of Henry Wharton and a
liottle of brandy sent by Mrs. Wharton to a
lady in this city. Thus the charge against
Mrs. Wharton of poisoning her own son falls ,
to the ground for want of evidence. Mr. Pink.
ney had anticipated the report of Professor
Aiken, and had previously informed Mrs.
Wharton's counsel of the result of the analysis,
that it might he communicated to her. It is
only charitable to presume that she foresaw
what would be the tenor of the report.
This intelligence will doubtless be matter of
congratulation to the friends of the accused,
but it dashes the hopes of nt least one New
York Insurance Company who had cherished
the expectation of being able to recover $lO,-
000 paid to Mrs. Wharton at the time of her
son's death. Whether there will be an loves.
tigation of the charges against Mrs. Wharton
of poisoning Mr. Edward Wharton and his
daughter remains to be seen. In justice to the
accused the bodies should certainly be exam
ined. The result of the analysis of the remains
of her son will have a telling effect upon the
sentiment of the community, thougbps,,maiter_.,
of evidence it is only negative in its character.
All traces of vegetable poisons would long
since have disappeared, and a chemical analy
sis at this late day can only show that no ap
mei:title amount of metallic poison remains in
the body. Mrs. Whartou's health has steadily
improved since her removal to the tower of the
Jail. She Is still weak. however, and seldom
leaves her bed. Iler daughter is unremitting
in her devotion to her mother, and furnishes
no example of final affection as rare as it is
beautiful.
Ton "Grecian Bend," which it was thought
had had its day, is assuming, according to the
Philadelphia correspondence of the Bucks
County Intelligencer, a new phase, which lie
says is about the most ridiculous piece of
foolery in the way of fashionable fancies be
ever say. The correspondence says : "The
original bend was had enough, but the varia
tion Is tun times worse, for the panniers on
the dresses have multiplied in number and•
size, and to this is added an immense bustle
ahout three or four times the size of the old•
fashioned affair, made of some elastic mate
rial and to be seen in the shop windows in
Chestnut and Eighth streets. These arc tied
on the back, and on each side or hip arc worn
false arrangemehts resembling shields, _so
that the skirts set off all around except in
front. All this might be tolerated, for there
can be no question that when the dress is
costly and. the cut stylish there Is a distin
guished air about the wearer. But the car
riage of the wearer—the gait—well, that is
nigh indescribable. The elbows aro pressed
close in at the sides, and the hands held In a
drooping fashion In front, exactly like the
fore paws of a kangaroo, and tho walk is such
a skipping, mincing, Dundrearyish piece of
affection that the young fellows abOut town
call it the Kangaroo galop. At first sight a
young woman afflicted with this gait walks as
though she was lame, and the current belief
is that the fashion must have been set by
some one afflicted with an irregular step. At
the fashionable watering places it is all the
rage. It is said to be worse among Philadel
phia women than New Yorkers, and to im
imported fresh from Paris and London."