ADVERTIS 1 mo. 3 moe. 0 mos /yr. 1.50 1.75 2.60 0.50 12.6 S 5.00 3.50 6.60 9.00 20.0, 4.60 5.23 9.60 17.00 IN 11.60 17.01 23.00 .4). (P 19.60 22.09 40.00 60.0 20.00 40.00 60.00 110.0 30.60 00.00 110 00 910.0 0 Professional Cards $l.OO pc r line por year. Admlntstratorie and Auditor's Notices. 11.3.10 • City Notices, TO cents per line let Insertion 15 cents per me each subsequent insertion. Ten lines agate constitute a square. ROBEIet IREDELL, JR., Puntisus.n, 473 8 8 , eu Qu t r ; • Three Sciunre. Nix leunare•. . LuarterColumn e Column . Ose Column ALLENTOWN, PA Qr oat nub Luntber. 1. WILBERT. E. OTTO. 11. N. OTTO. 0. W. MILLER F ILBERT, OTTO it MILLER, MANUFACTURERS AND DEALERS IN LUMBER, W LLIAMSPORT, PA. MILL ON CANAL WEST OP MAYNARD STREET OFFICE AT TILE MILL W F CRANE Aussi. 1 ion 70.1 y JAS. M. RITTER, CTIAS..,W. ABUOTT.OWEN RITTER JORDAN STEAM PLANING MILL, SASH, DOOR, AND BLIND MANUFACTORY, Union Street, near Jordan Bridge, Allentown, RITTER; ABBOTT & CO., MANUFACTURERS OF Sash, Doors, Outside Blinds. inside 81111,18, Mould inv. Brackets Balusters. Pickets, Sentr Rail ings. Window prames, Door Prams*, Glazed Windom Black Wrshott Mouldings, &e. SCROLL SAWINO. TURNING • PLgNINO, MATCHIN FL G, OORING and RIPPING DONE AT THE SHORTEST NOTICE. • ALSO, STAIR BUILDING done and HAND RAILING mole to order. Having now had almost three years' posseeelon of the M.ll, refuraiehed It almost wholly with new and Unprov ed machinery, and having none but experienced work men, we are prepared to defy competition from at home and abroad, both to price and worknottthip.• 110 ,you contemplate building I Call at our Factory and natiery yourself with a penmen' examination. Drawings for bulldlugs, brackets, patterns 'for orna meubil work, scrolls for porches, can be coon at all times by calling at our Wilco. Any information to the builder furnished cheerfully and freely, by calling at the Manu factory, on Union street, at the Jordan Bridge, Allen town, Pa.. or by letter through the Pont °Mee. nog ti-ly] BITTER. ABBOTT At CO REVIVA .! The nutaterlbers having leaned the "Old novo Coal Yard," would eep , •rt folly announce to the eltizeue of Alleutown null the pu Idle ill geuentl, that they hayejnet = COAL 01,1,1141ns( of Stova, Egg, Chestnut end Nut from the BUCK MOUNTAIN MINES. Ordere left with A. A. Huber, Sieger At llottoosteln, at the Engle Hotel, Mope Rolling MIII, or tho Yard will be atteudod to lu a BUSINESS like manner. ordure for Coal by the car filled at !Mort notice thu lowest prices. Always nu hand a largo stock of BALED HAY, which will be sold et the lowest mitrket prices L. W. KOONS & CO., at the" Old llopo Cool Yard,' ll4llllltoo Street, corner of Lehigh Valley Railroad =I 1.. W. li 10., oct Li A NEW FIRM AND NEW LUMBER YARD TO BUIDLERS! TREXLMt. & WEAVER Would hereby Ammon to the public that they have Just opened a new Leather srd on the 'rpm-lour end con yenieut grounds so lung occupted TREXLER BRO.'S on Hamilton nireet, near Teeth, north ride, where they are now prepared with n NU motorttnent of everythiug pertaining to the huskies., c otiprtetrlE In Part YELLOW PINE, WHITE PINE, SPRUCE and HEM CK LO S CANTL I NG WHITE PI o NE BOARDS, SCANTLING and PLANK f all eires and troll No:wooed. . . FRAMING TIMB E LI R NG o Suporiur II EMLOCK JOIST sad SCANT Haeorted 0171,. CEDAR, CYPRESS AND f WHITE PINE SHINGLES of extra quality HEMLOCK' and RPRUCE PLASTERING and SHING LING LATHS, sad a largo arixortin.int of WEATHERBOARDING, Klan WHITE OAK PLANK and BOARDS of all thlckne.iera, WHITE PINE and PAI.iNOS and PICKETS, WHITE Prg:. ° l r t i nTallVl l .lin Ta e Crai t i.s. WHITE 0 tK nod CHESTNUT POSTS, Ac., Ac. All desirous or purchasing Lumber to an good advantage MI is offered at any other Yard In the county. are request ed to call and examine our stuck before purchasing else where. Satisfaction Guaranteed in Quality and Price. The Senior member of the firm would hereby express his thanks (or past favors while a member of the firm of Treks ler Brox., and respectfully solicits a coalition°. of the 'enure, promising to apply hie best endeavors to render satlslaction to all patrons of the New Yard, Respectfully RD. W. TRE,XLER, an gust sl.lbrr ilatcb mare SAMUEL K. SMYTH. 724 CLESTNUT STREET, w PRACTICAL MANUFACTURER O.F FINE SILVER PLATED WARE, =IR Would rospectfully announce to lila patrons that ho ha stock of tho 1nt0 , 4 style!. of DOUBLE AND TREBLE ELECTRO- PLATED WARE, = Plated Nickel and White Metals, suitable for family or city tratlil. An the quality of plating cau only be known to the plat or, the purchaser 101. t rely on the manufacturer's stale latent; there being so much worthless ware In the market all rept °seated as treble plate, at prices impossible to b menu a u ,fol4 are marked " S. K. SMYTH." Call and examine the goods boron, purchasing else Where, ir'OLD WARE REPLATED.jm way Is-iy earptt3 aub Oil elotb. RICH AND ELEGANT CARPETS, OIL CLOTIIS, &C. S. C. FOULK. NO. 19 S. SECOND ST., PIIILA., (F lt - Kt Carpet Store below Market, ERNI alde.) Inv Ilex attention to blx apiend'd aasortmeat of Imported and Maeda. CARPETS, will b. , old n very amali advance. (Imola warrouted repreneated no that all eau boy with coutidenru nud NOV 23•1 f iror flit Jlarmrr For Pure Water, this celebrated Pu entirely lastelest durable and rella. his: equal to the good old•fashlone‘ wooden Pump, in post less than hal money Easily ar so as to be non. and In constructt that any one car keep It In repair. THE DEBT AND CHE pANCOAST THIRD AND PEAR STREETS, PII [LAD ELPIIIA,, PLAIN AND GALVANIZED WROUGHT IRON TUBES, Lap-welded Boiler Tubes Bras. sad Iron Volues•od Cock • Flttlngs (or On., Steam ..d Wolarl Rough and Filltftill`d Uhl. Work • • C. and Stearn littera' Tool., etc. Bath Tuba nod Make, Bath Bogota, Enamelled Waah tit•ndo, etc., Cotta of Tube; Steam Kettltot d Tripe. • • Pipe of all Sins filled to Sketch. . Successor( to 310111118, TASKER & Co., an CONTRACTORS Yor the fleeting or Ilull,lloe or ell Melte. with Steam Rot Water, by the au g ttet approved utetbotle. Estimates Parnialied Gratis. tota.ls VOL. XXV. 7-30 GOLD LOAN. OF TOE NORTHERN PACIFT R AILROAD. RAPID PROGRESS OF THE ROAD The budding of the Northern Pacific Railroad. (begun July last,) is being pushed forward with great energy from both extremities of the line. Severnl:thousand men are employed In Minneso ta and on the Pacific coast. 'Tile grade is nearly completed 266 miles westward from Lake Supe rior; trains are running over 130 miles of finish ed road, and track-laying IA rapidly progressing toward the eastern border of Dakota. Including Its purchase of the St. Paul & Pacific Road, the Northern Pacific Company now has 413 miles of completed road, and by September next this will be Increased to at least 560. A GOOD IN Jay Cooke dt Co. are now selling, and unhesitatingly recommend, as a Proti table and perfectly Safe investment, the First Mortgage Land Grant Gold Bonds of the Northern Pacific Railroad Company. They have 30 years to run, bear Seven and Three-Tenths per cont. gold Interest °nom than 8 per cent, curren cy) and are secured by first and only mortgage on the t.:STIRF: ROAD Ann ITS EQUIPMENTS, , nd also, as fast as the pied Is rompleted, on 23,000 ACRES OF LAND to every mile of track, or COO Acres tore:telt 81,00) Rend. They are exempt from I'. S. Tax; Principal mid Interest are payable In Gold ; Denominations: Coupons, 8100 to i 1.001): ReMstered, 0100 to 510,000. LANDS FOB BONDS. Northern Pacific 7-30's are ut all times receivable at ten per cent. above par In exchange for the Company's Lands, at their lowest cash price, This renders them prac t lenity interest hooting tend warrants. SINKING FUND. The proceeds of all sales of Lands are required to be devoted to the re purchase and caneellation of the First Mortgage Bonds of the COMmmy. The Land Grant of the • Road exceeds Fifty Million Acres. Thls Immense Sinking Fund will undoubtedly cancel the prin cipal of the Company's bonded debt before it falls due. With their ample security and high rate of interest, there is doinvestment,accessible to the people, which Is more prnfltable or safe. /AT/MVO/NG U.: S. FIVE-TIV.ENTIES. The success of tile New Government 5 per cent. Cann Will compel the early surrender of United States 0 per cents. Many holders of Five Twen ties are now exchanging 1110111 for Northern Pa cific Seven-Thirties, thus realizing a handsome ill, and greatly Increasing their yearly in- OTHER SECURITIES. All marketable St ocks anti Bonds will be received at their highest cur rent price in exchange for Northern Pacific Seven-Thirties. Express charges on Money or Bonds received, gnu Seven-flirt les sent In return, will be pall a lly the Flinineini Agents. Full Information, maps, pamphlets. etc., can he obtained on opplication ul tiny agency, or from the undersigned. Fur sale by Philadelphia, New York, Washington, Financial Agents Northern Pacific RitAroint Co By BANKS anti BANKERS generally through out the country. may 3-Bln GIRARD SAVINGS BANK, NO (Orgatlled under a State Charter), EAST HAMILTON STREET, I= Monies received on deposit at all times from one dollar nrwards. FoursPys SIX per daily interest fr subject onths or longer. per cent. on daily balance, to shock at right. Gold and Silver, United States Bonds and other Securities bought and sold. Interest collected on Govern ment Securities at fair rates. All deposits of money will be hol strictly confidential, and may be withdrawn at any time d . Married women and minors have special privileges granted in oar chnOer, having full power to transact busi ness with us In their own names. This Institution Is a legal depositors - for monies paid into Court, and receives money In trust from guardians, administrator, treasurers, tan callectors and others. STIR/NET ll LOANED P ON FAVORABLE HT, TERMS• AON ALBRIG President. II 7. •BARTZSI.L. Cashier. Directors-I'lmm Albright. James F. Kline, Ti l g hman i Meets, David Weida. Aaron Eisenhart. 'el-3m MILLEBSTOWN SAVING BANK MILLERSTOWN, LEIIIGH COUNTY. Thin lontlintlon will be opened , on or before the let day of April. Money 1,111 be taken on deposit at all times and In any soma from one dollar upWards, for which SIX PER CENT. INTEREST IL E.'DoNavoner —IT per annum will be paid. Deposits May be withdrawn at any lime Also, money anteed out on favorable firma. J AMES WEILER, President fa•strun gallat, Cashier. .1. F. M. Bilittert, Georg Ludwig, Frederick C. Yob t, Christ . ..1 K Henninger, David Donner, William Saliday. I SM. °Hebei, Gideon Y. lignee, Horatio T. Horizon, • Benjamin .1. Scilmoyer. Jam. Singnmater mar 10.0 m A LLENTOWN SAVINGS INSTITV 1 - 3... TION, Organized as "Dimes Saving ingiiniion," NO. 58 EAST HAMILTON ST (NEARLY OPPOSITE THE AMERICAN HOTEL;) PAYS SIX PER CENT. INTEREST FOI This Institution, the oldest Saving Dank In Eastern Pennsylvania, has been In continuous and successful operation for ten years, and el:m(11111.ln pay SIX PER CENT. INTEREST on money fur one year, and special rates of Interest for shorter periods. 03..,111 deposits of money will ho hold strictly confi dential. green tors, Administrators,Trustees, Assignees Treasurers, Tax Collector.s, and other custodians of public or private moneys, are of fered liberal rates of Interest. Farmers, Merchants, Laborers, and all who have money to pat on interest for a long or short ported will and our Institution an agreeable and advantageous ono In which to do business. We especially Invite LADIES to transact their banking business MARRIED WOMEN and MINORS 'have special prlVl leges granted by our charter—having full power to trans act hu,,lneer with on In their own names. Money deposited with this Institution TUOS. WEAVER -tf IS SAFE AND WELL SECURED, by Capital stock and notrplus money entity of over SIXTY THOUSAND DOLLARS,and addition. the Board of Trustees have, required by t barter, given bonds under the enpervisien of the Court In the sum of FIFTY THOUSAND DOLLARS, which bonds are regis tered to and held by the Court of Common. Pleas of ihis c o unty for the •,ecurity of depositors. Our Iron Vaults are of the meet Bemire nod extensive kind known in this country. es a Personal Mermen.n will show, and to which we Invite our friends and customers. We refer to this, believing that safe Burglar Proof Vaults complete the safety and reliability of a good Saving Bank, WILLIAM IL AINEY, President. CHRISTIAN BRETZ, Vice President. REUBEN STABLER, Cashier. 11WSTRIN: • William 11. Alec), Charlet; S Bush, Chrimion Prem, John I). Shl F. E. Sault...b., Benj. J. llngonbuch Peter, Sell ! fixlhun (Jourge Brobet, P FRANKLIN SAVINGS BANK, Located at the corner of Hamilton street and Church alley, in Lion ILAI, second story, opposite the German Reformed Church, In the City of Allentown, Is organised and ready for bushiest, It ten/ pay SLY per cent. In terest On aft tirporits except boneless deposits, for any period f tient. to be en lculated.from the date eel deposit. To secure which, the Trustee,- of the ' institution have filed in the Court of Common Pleas of Lehigh County, under the dir ection of the Court. It blind In the sum of Twenty•tiv e Thousand Dollars, conditioned for the faith ful komilng and appropriation of all such sums of money an shall be placed he charge glfsald FRANKLIN SAVINGS. BANK, w bother depoalts, or shares of stock. which' bond near be enlarged by the Court whenever It may he deemed necessary In addition to this, the Act of Incorporation makes the Stockholders peroonally liable to the depositors in tit/U• ble the amount /,/ the Capita/ Stock of tho Blink, which is fifty thousand dollars, with liberty to Increase It to one hundred and fifty thousand dollars. These provisions will make It a very desirable and ante place of deposit. Besides, It limy be proper to state that the deposits will he kept in ime of the, ripest and best protected walla in th Arranis eity• gements will lie made to furnish drafts on the cities of New York and Philadelphia S. A. BRIDGES, President W.WILSON, Vice Pre ident J. E. ZIMBIERMAN. Cashier. Trustees Bendel 11. Miller, S. A. Bridges, John Rulheu. J, W William litter, J. E. Zimmerman 1).11. Creltr, Peter Grose, Edwin Zimmerman. mar 10 FARMER'S SAVINGS BANK, Incorporated under a State Charter of 1870. Fogelsville, Upper Macungie township, Lehigh Co. Thls Institution has been organized and opened under a State Charter. AIONEY will be takenn deposit at all Dines and in any sum fromiil and upwar o ds, fur which 6 PER CENT. INTEREST WILL BE' PAID. Deposlts may be withdrawn at any time. Also money leaned out on favorable terms. WILLIAM 5101111, Preftident. • It. 11. FOUEL, OtiAlifer. cur ar REM: J. Dr. 11. A. Saylor, J. 11. Straub, Daniel Moyer, David Peter, Jonas Rauch, Samuel Ittihns, Daniel 11. Creltz, 0 William Stein, William Mohr Carr 645 LUMBER I • 11.11,9111111,1 t I I WIT.OLESALE' AND RETAIL! HOFFMAN'S STEAM SAW MILL, AND • LUMBER YARD! KINDLING! BILLS CUT TO ORDER ! OFFICE AT TILE MILL, FRONT AND LINDEN STS. ' WIIITE AND BLACK OAK BAW LOCIB wanted, for wkdoo . tho highest market prier will be Vold upon dolly ors. d-w joli 12-1 T ffinaucial. JAY COOKE k CO MONEY ON DEPOSIT. c'h:c: ..If.tbid:.../o,iotdi. illtil=2 At sunset(f d.. a summer's day All eerie upAn a funny heap Beneath the currant bushes lay A boy named Willy, half asleep. But peeping through lila sleepy eyes Ile watched all things as If he dreamed And did not feel the least surprise However strange and queer they seemed And every creature going by Fle balled with questions from the grass, And laughed and called out sleepily, " Unless you answer, you can't pass." "0 caterpillar! now tell me Why you roll up so tight and round : You are the drollest thing to see— A hairy marble on the ground." • " I roll me up to save my bones When I fall down ; young man, If you Could do the same, the stumps and stones, , Would never bruise you black and blue.' " 0 spider! tell me why you hide The ropes and ladders which you spin, And keep them all locked up Inside Your little body slim and thin." " I hide my ropes and ladders line Away from neighbor's thievish greed ; If yon kept yours as I keep mine, You'd always have one when you need." " Why do you buzz, so, busy bee ? Why don't you make your honey still ? You more about so boisterously, . I'm sure you must much bouey spill." •' I buzz and buzz, you silly boy, Because I can work better so ; Just as you whistle for pate Joy When on the road to school you go." " 0 robin, wicked robin ! why Did you my mamma's cherries eat? You thought no mortal rout was nigh ; But I saw you from bill to feet." And I enw you, my duo young lad, And waited till you'd left the tree; thought when you your fill bad bad, There would be little left for me !" " 0 big bullfrogs ! why do you make Such ugly noises every night 7 Nobody can a half-nap take ; You make our baby cry with fright." " 0 Willy ! we suppose the noise Is not a pleasant noise to hear ; But we've one hundred little boys— Frog-boys so cunning and so dear ; "And It Is not an cosy task, • You may believe, to put In beds A hundred little frogs who ask All questions which pop In their heads." H. 11., in Our, Young Fo HUNTING A SERVANT. From pl„ ono l og ,,„1 Journal [The following sketch Is au Interesting one. We have had some personal experiences In back lanes and up creaking stairways of almost pre cisely the same character, and doubtless many of our housekeeping readers will recognize their own "hunts for help" as their eyes glance down the columns. Perhaps some friend of the "help" side, however, would like to rend a lecture from the practical experience of that side. If as, let us have it; but It must be Interesting.] My wife Is a delicate little woman. She was esteemed a great beauty when I Married her. Her mother told me if I would preserve the roses in the cheeks, I must be very tender of her and shield her' from ton much care. For that reason I have always advocated the dismissal of servants who were not absolutely perfect. One morning last week Jane omitted to put the large spoons on the table, and the cruets were entirely empty. I took the mat ter in hand, as a good, kind, considerate thoughtful husband should, and spoke sharply to the girl. She undertook to answer me hack, and I sent her straight out of the house. "That is the way to do it," I said. "If one girl doesn't suit, try another." " But, my dear, Jane was a good servent in most respects." "That is what you say of them all. I tell you, and hail° told you repeatedly, that it is just as easy to get those who are right alto gether. You arc too gentle a mistress, and you servants impose upon you. If I had charge of the house they would have to toe the mark. lam tired of seeing you so over shadowed with household atftirs. Even now there are wrinkles settling in your forehead, as if you were forty•five Instead of twenty- seven." "Alt the wrinkles date far back of Jane's forgetfulness. lam not sure but they have been produced by the frequency of my visits to intelligence offices. I thought the last time I went to one that my hair would turn white before I got away." " Why don't you follow up some of those girls who advertise in the Union ? My moth er used to,' and was very successful," I con• Untied. " I have, a score of times. I got Delia from an advertisement—the one who sat down on the baby, thinking he was the rag-bag—and Alice, who stole all my best towels ; and Julia, who would take her beaus into the parlor every time we were out in the evening ; nod I don't know how many more. I have come to the conclusion, that when a servant is neat and honest, it is best to overlook trifling short comings. If my husband was just a little more patient, I think I could manage very well. lam worn out with servant-hunting." "Servant-hunting I I should think it would be a pleasure. I can't imagine anything so dreadful about it." ME " Suppose you try it. I really do not feel well enough to make the effort ; I had rather do my own work for a month." My wife did not usually speak with so much earnestness, and it surprised me. Besides, she looked pale, and, as I said before, I am a meth] of huSbands. I was a pleasant morning. I had enough to do, but, then, I might as well be hindered half an hour to oblige my wife, as to waste so much time smoking after lunch. "I will, darling. lie down and rest your self, or read the papers. Take no more thought about the matter ; and now, good morning." I kissed her, and went on my way. I bought a daily paper at a stand on the corner. Glancing at the list of " Situations Wanted," I smiled at the absured idea of putting up with incompetent servants when such an army was in the field. I selected two numbers which I thought would suit. They each contained three figures, and, of course, were some dis tance away across the avenues. It was not an inviting looking neighborhood, and the building Into which I entered was far from prepossessing. I knocked at the first door on the first floor, a fat, red-faced woman left the wash-tub and opened It. " Did a girl advertise from here for a place this morning ?" " Not us I knows en. May-be it is in the back room." I knocked at the next door. It was opened by a little girl of nineor ten, barefooted and ragged, and her mouth full of baked potato. Four other children of various sizes came run to look at me. "Is your mother in?" I inquired. " No." "Is there a little girl that wants a place " No." . "Do you know whether there is one in the building 1" " No." " May•be it is up stairs l" screamed an old crone trom abed in the corner of the room, as I took out the paper to seo If I had not mistaken the number. I ascended a narrow staircase, and passed along a dark, gloomy corridor. I knocked at a door, and repeated my inquiries to a yellow sickly-looking woman with a babe In her arms. She knew nothing of any such advertisement, but It might be in the next room. At the next room they thought that perhaps it was up stairs. So I Was handed along from one to another until I reached the fifth floor. There I gained the extraordinary information that It was probably in the back yard. Reach• lug the ground floor in safety, I proceeded to the rear, where there was a three-story ALLENTOWN, PA., WEDNESDAY MORNING, AUGUST 30, 1871 house on the same lot, with a space of only about ten feet between. An old man sat on the pavement smoking. " How many families are there in the build ing?" I asked. He cogitated a moment before he replied : " Twelve, sir." It was true I" The hall ran through the cen ter of the building, making four rooms on each floor, and each room contained a family. One man a shoemaker, had a wife and seven children. I visited every room before I found the one the girl had advertised from. It was the most respectable•looking one of the lot and the occupant was ayoung,tidy,well.dress ed Woman. My spirits rose like foam, and went down as quickly. The girl herself had not come yet. I wheeled very abruptly and hurried to the sidewalk, Ugly words rose to my lips, but I did not speak them. I won dered If Effie had ever visited such an abode. Taking out the paper again I read : "No. 138 West—Street—a young girl who understands her business, and is neat and obliging." It was only two blocks off. Thu time I was fortunate enough to hit the right room at the first knock. The girl herself opened the door. Her manner was a little forbidding. I fancy , she belong to the snapping turtle order. Nothing daunted, however, I explain ed my business. "flow many be's therein your family; sir?" she asked, as she surveyed me frdm head to foot. I dressed well, as a general rule; built was a windy day, and I was in the part of the city where the streets were not watered con sequently the damsel before mu could not make up her mind on the instant whether I would answer for a master or not. I gave her the number she would be expected to serve. " Do there be a carpet on the girl's room " Yes. Now please inform me if you know ow to take care or the whole upper part of e house and dining room, and will do it IMM " Do there be any fires to matte ?" " One or two, I think." "I guess the place wouldn't suit me. I never makes fires. Boys always does them where I lives." I was again afloat. I didn't fold and put my newspaper in my pocket any more. I read as I walked. According to my printed information, the most desirable person for me to visit was u "smart, capable, willing girl," in the neighborhood of Myrtle Avenue. Quite a stretch from the west part of the city, but I went. It was a five. Story tenement house again. I gave a dirty boy a quarter to run up stairs and make inquiries for me, and he never came back to report. Near the third landing I found the maiden. She was stay ing with a " friend" in a little room twelve by fourteen. 'The "friend," was n dealer in old clothes, and was just Bolting over a cargo. The smart, capable, willing girl had seen slaty-live summers, and her hair was as white as snow. She was sitting with her ftet in a pail of water, trying to cure corns, so she said. I left. I was getting slightly out of temper when I reached the sidewalk. A dog harnesSed into a small cart, obstructed the way. I raised my foot and removed the whole establishment into the Wed. After that I felt better. Turning again for comfort to the pnper, I found " situation wanted" by several in the immediate vicinity, and I rendered unto all the light of my countenance. One girl had just "engaged." Another did not like to go. where they did not keep a " full Bet of help." A third seemed qualified for our purpose, but her cousin was dead,aud she could not come for a week. The fourth didn't like our location. The fifth made very pointed inquiries about the number of girls we had during the last year, and then declined engaging where they Changed help so often. The sixth didn't ever " negoshumate" with a gentleman ; " the madame must come herself." The seventh wanted too many privileges, and had lost her front teeth. The eighth asked my name and place of business, but never having heard of me be fore, very drily remarked that "she only lived with the first families." The ninth was a air-haired, blue-eyed German, who was not only willing, but exceedingly anxious to un dertake anything. She promised to go to my wife in the course of an hour, and 1, thor- ()uglily disgusted with this world, and partic ularly the portion of it which I had just ex plored, looked at my watch and found it was two o'clock r. .74. When I reached home, nt the usual dinner hour, Effie met me, smiling. " Did the new girl come ?" I inquired. "No, I haven't seen any." • I did not give vent to my pent-up emotions; I only-played the sympathizing husband, and, somewhat crestfallen, started on another tour of the same nature the next morning. Without confessing it to Effie, I determin ed to save time and try the intelligence office. A polite clerk at the entrance stopped me and registered toy name, then I passed Into the main room. A clerk sitting by a table num bered me and gave me a card. I was to take a seat eorrespondingly numbered. The room was filled with ladies talking to servants, and all.sorts of personsburrying hither and thither. A clerk spoke through a tube and called for 'chambermaid and waitress fornumber twelve. In the course of tell minutes a tall, greasy• looking Irish girl came toward me. • "If you are sent to speak to me," I said, "go back and tell them you won't suit. Lit another conic as quickly as possible." Instead of obeying, she dropped into the chair near by. "Won't suit, oh? What ails me?" "You are not neatly clad." ,'Oh, that stuff on my dress is nothing, it will come out with a little sponging." I stalked across the room, and advised the young man in attendance to send a decent girl to me in short order. I conferred with six before I gave my address, anti sent one to my wife. Title little performance occupied an hour and a half, and my office work crowded me the rest of the day. I dined downtown. Having lost my key, I rung the bell of my own door about half-past nine. The discarded Jane admitted me. "Effie, how is-this?" I asked, before tak ing a chair. "Oh, nothing extraordinary. The girl you sent came. Site scented perfectly satisfied with the place, but In the course of an hour we heard the lower door slam, -and saw hi r running clown the street. Toward evening Jane came for her money, and not ,having enough by me, I detained her until you should come in. She went to work of her own accord, has put the house in order, and assisted me in every way possible." Keep her, if she will stay. I will promise never to complain of anything hereafter short of hair-pins in the gravy. A dishcloth or two in the soup will be a trifling grievance compared with what I have been through in limiest thirty-eight hours. And, Elite, say to your lady friends, that if their husbands are too exacting in little things, and meddle in domestic matters where it would be more sensible for them to mind their own business, you know of a remedy." I have always been a model; I ant now the most docile of husbands. And -It pays. Ef fie looks five years yonger, and the servants no longer creep around the house in constant fear of my making discoveries to their disad vantage. A few words of well-timed com mendation have cured Jane oilier chief fault, and since I have seriously thought about it, I believe her to be a most excellent servant. A BOLD STROKE. It was my first visit to the North since I hid taken up my abode and entered on the prac Gee of my profession in New Orleans. In the city of New York I had a very dear friend, my old chum and classmate, George Dickson ;'and as he was the only person I knew !n the great metropolis, of course I lost no time in looking him up. Three yet.rs had passed sines our late meet• nag, but ten could scarcely have produced a change more marked than had taken place in the appearance and manner of my friend. Our first greeting and friendly inquiries over I longed, yet I forebore, to ask the cause of my friend's melancholy. I felt sure in due time of being made the confident of the secret, provided no motive of delicacy prompted Its concealment. That evening in my room at the hotel, George told me his story. He had formed an attachment for a young lady, whose graces of mind and person he portrayed with all the fervor of a lover's eloquence. She had re turned hisaffeetion, but her father had opposed his suit, having set his heart on the marring. of his daughter to a nephew Obis. The nephew was a young physician of pro. fligate character, my friend assured me, [but that may have been prejudice] who had long but unsuccessfully wooed his cousin, to whom his protTerawere as repugnant as to her father they were acceptable. Some months since, Mr. Parsons, the young lady's father, had gone South on business, ac companied by his nephew. At'Ncw Orleans he had been seized by sudden illness, which terminated fatally in three days. On the day preceding his death he had exe cuted a will (which had since been proved by the disposition of the attesting witnesses,) containing a solemn request that his daughter to whom he had left the whole estate, should accept the hand of his nephew in marriage, coupled with a provision that in case the hit ter offered and she refused within a specified peeled, to enter into the proposed union, the entire estate devised to the daughter should be forfeited to the nephew. To sacrifice her fortune to her heart's choice would not have cost Julia Parsons a moment's hesitation, and nothing could have more de lighted George Dickson, than so fair an op portunity of showing how superior his devo tion was too all considerations of personal advantage. Bother father's dying request, in Julia's eyes, was sacred. It had surprised and stunned her, It is true, for in their many conferences on the subject, he had never gone beyond the most kindly remonstrance, and had never even hinted anything like coercion. Young Parsons had not the magnanimity to forego his ungenerous advantage. He Might have been content with . his cousin's fortune alone, but his right to that depended on his offer and her rejection of an alliance which she felt in conscience bound to accept. The. brief season of grace, which she had been compelled to beg even with tears, had already almost passed, and a few more days would witness the condemnation cf two lives to hopeless misery. At the conclusion of any friend's narrative, In which, for reasons that may hereafter b e developed, I felt a peculiar interest. I pre vailed upon hlm to accompany sue to a place of amusement to which I had previously pro cured tickets. When we reached the theatre, the perform ance had already begun ; but we succeeded in finding' seats watch commanded a fair view both of the stage and the audience. In a few moments George touched my el bow. "Observe the gentleman nearly opposite in front of the parquette, seated next the column leaning Ids arm on his cane," he whispered. I looked in the direction indicated, and saw u face whose striking resemblance to one I had seen before caused Inc to start with sur prise. " Who is it 1" I asked. " Eldridge Parsons," was the reply. "The nephew of whom you spoke ?" " The same," my friend answered. " Does lie resemble his unele,?" I was on the point of inquiring, but just then the stran ger drew the glove from the right hand and saw that first joint of the middle finger was Wanting, a circumstance which, for sufficient reasons, absorbed my attention. "Do you know the exact date of Mr. Par sons' death?" I asked, when we had gained. he street at the close of the performance " Yes," said George. "It was the twenty third of December. His daughter received a telegram from her cousin announcing the fact the same day. But why do you ask ?" • "I have a reason which may or may not prove a good one," . I returned, and stating that I had business engagements fur the next day, I parted with my friend, promising to meet him on the following evening. Next afternoon found me M the office o Dr. Parsons " Dr. Parsons, I presume ?" were the words with which I accosted the gentleman I had seen at the theatre. " Yes, sir." " You may not remember me, Doctor, bu I believe we have met before." • "I beg pardon,'sir, for not recollecting the occasion." . . "Tow were In New Orleans last winter,' were you not 4" "I was," he answered, with some embar rassment. " I am the gentleman on whom you called to draft a will." He turned pale and made no reply. " I saw the record of that will in the Sur- ' rogate office this morning," I resumed, " and—" " You speak of my uncle's will," he has lily interrupted. "And yet," I continued, "you said it was yours when you applied to have It written: You presented yourself as desirous of exe cuting such a document preparatory to em barking on,rt perilous voyage.. The paper I was drawn iu accordance with your instruc- Lion, leaving the date to be filled at the time of signing. Your locks were gray then, and you certainly looked old enough to have a marriageable daughter, but your disguise was not to perfect," and I pointed to the inu: tilated finger. " What do you mean?" ho shouted in a de fiant tone, springing to his feet. "Simply that your uncle's signature to that paper is a forgery," I answered, rising and confronting him. "He died on the tirenty-t .ird of December. Your own tele gram to that effect is in existance. It was on the itoentwfourth, the day before Christmas, that you called on me to prepare the gaper now on record ns his will. The inference is plain ; you undertook to manufacture this spurious testament after your Uncle's death, and wishing to clothe your villany in legal form, you procured from me the required draft. You, or some one at your instigation. Imitated the Signature of the deceased. The witnesses,who have since perjured themselves in their dispositions, were procured in some manner best known to yourself—" " Enough sly ?" he ejaculated, placing his back against the door, "you have shown yourself in possession of a secret the custody of which you may prove dangefous." "I am not unprepared for your threat," I replied. "In the first place I did not conic here unarmed ; In the neat, I have prepared a Ifull, written statement, of the facts to which I have alluded, with information, besides, of my present visit to yourself. This paper will be delivered to the friend to whom It is di- rected, unless within an hour I reclaim it from the messenger, who has been instructed for that length of time to retain it." His face crew livid. His frame quivered with mingled tear and rage, and his eye gleamed like that of a wild beast at bay. " What is your purpose ?" lie exclaimed, in a voice hoarse with suppressed passion. " To keep your tiecret while you live," I answered, " on one condition." • "Name It." "That you write instantly toJulla Parsons renouncing all pretensions to her hand, and absolutely withdrawing your proposal of marriage." • Alter a moment's pause he seated himself at his desk and hastily penned a brief note, which he submitted for my inspection. It was quite satisfatory. "But so good as to seal and address it," I said. He did so. " I will see that it is delivered," I remark ed, taking it up and bowing myself out. When I met George Dickson that evening his old college look had come back. Ho had great news to tell me. The next thing was to take me to see Julia, and it is needless to tell that n happy marriage followed not long after. Eldridge Parsons, I have just learned, joined one of the late Cuban expeditions, and was killed in a recent encounter with the Spaniards. AN EDITOR'S TABLE. Will M. Carleton, 113 a recent poem, draws the following picture of an editor's table: The odttnr at In bin sanctum. It la countenance furrowed with care. Ilts talml at the bottom of bonteese. hie feet at tho top of a chair, II lx armchair an elbow xupportlog.his rigtt hand uphold lug lilt, hoed. Iliaon duuty old table, with different document. spread ; There wt. thirty long nag. (rum howler , with tinder lined capital,. topped, And e F.hort regnieltion tromOrowler.mineeting new. paper stoop.. Thorn were lyrics from Ousber,the poet.concerning sweet liewrets and zephyrs, And a stray gem from Plodder, the farmer, describing a couple of nutters: Tere were billets from beautiful mtudene, and bills front . . grocer or two. And his host loader hitch ea ton loiter. which Inquires if ho wrote it. or who? Thoro wore raptures of praises from writer...of thostnooth mollitlnous school, And ono of hie rival's last papers. Informing him he was a fool; There Were several long resoluticum, with comet lolling whom they were by, Canonizing some harmless old brother who had done no thing worse than to din; There t oore traps on the table to catch him, and serpents sting end to smite him; There worn gilt miterprises to sell him, and bitters at• tempting to bite him; There were long staring "ads" front the city, and tanner r with never a ono ' Winch added, " Please gl•e this insertion: and send in your lull when vou'or done." There were letter., from orgsnisations—their meetings, their WILLIIX and their laws— Which. said. "Can you print this announcement for the good of our glorious cause 1" There were tickets Inviting his presence to festivals, pectins and shows, Wrapped in notes. with "please give us a notice," de murelY slipped In at the closet In short, an his eye took the table, and ran o'er, Its ink spattered trash, Thorn was nothing it did not encounter, excepting perhaps Is was cash. A JOKE ON GILIGSON Theo. L. De Vinue, in an article on news paper headings, relates the following :—There are men who, from a moment's Inspection of n fragment torn from the centre of any of the leading newspapers of this city, will give the name of the paper from which it was taken with never-failing accuracy. But the mass of newspaper readers have no been educated in habits of nice observation They cannot tell the World from the Tribune, until they see the printed verification on the Paper. Father Grlgson was of this class. For more than twenty years he had been in the habit of reading the morning paper at the Astor House. A sound Democrat of the old school, who had voted for Jefferson and Jackson, who believed in the Virginia resolutions of '9B and the States rights theories of Calhoun, and whose sympathies for the South during the late " onpleasantness" were undisguised, how could it be expected that he could read anything but undefiled Democratic literature? For ho was full seventy•tive years old, his eye sight, even when aided by spectacles, was fail ing, and reading was somewhat of an exer tion. Every day at 12 o'clock, Father Orig son entered the reading room of the Astor House, and peered through his spectacles in quest of the World. He would read no other paper. If it was engaged, he would wait his turn, and amuse himself in the meanwhile by a stroll in the hall, and by " talking politics" - - , with that clever fellow, but incorrigible Re publican, Stubbs. Talking was his strong point. Grlgson had a rasping tongue, and in debate Stubbs was always worsted. Stubbs planned revenge. Early one morn. ing he selected a clean copy of the New York . World, rind with great neatness cut out all the headings. Then selecting a flne,cony of the New York Tribune, he proceeded to overlay and paste thereon in faUltlesa style the clipped headings of the World. After an hour's labor in pasting over and smoothing down edges and creasing folds, he succeeded in making a counterfeit that would have imposed on a better judge than Grigson. The ravening radical wolf of a Tribune was completely metamor phosed in the sheep'sclothing of the guileless World. This done, he laid the sophisticated paper in the way of Grlgson, took the opposite seat, tilted up his chair, lit a cigar, and waited developments In duo time Father "Grigson arrived, and siezed the shameless fraud. After the usual preliminary of wiping his Spectacles, he com menced to read. And there sat Stubbs, calmly puffing and philosophically surveying the ex pression of wonder and perplexity that stole over Father Grigson's face, as he read an edi torial criticising the conduct of the Democracy. He shook his head, skipped the conclusion of the half•read article, and commenced the next editorial. Horror llt was a most outrageous assault on Southern statesmen—Calhoun, Mc Duffle, Toombs and Davis were abused, and the war on the South was justified and applaud. ed. Father Grigson surveyed the paper with intensest bewilderment. lie read the World, on every page. There could be no mistake. The World had gone over to the enemy. Just Heavens I what were we coming to I Ben But ler had apostatized, and Dan Sickles had made clean shipwreck of faith, and now comes the high treason of Manton Marble 1 And all with o.it a word of explanation or apology. Yester day, a sound conservative paper ; to-day, a pestilent breeder of strife and radicalism. Sadly he took up the paper again, and ex. amined a third editorial. Who shall describe the disgust that siezed him as he read the mus cular English of Horace, crying aloud for the Emancipation Proclamation and the Arming of Negroes ? Just then be saw the malignant Stubbsgrinning sardonically. It was too much. He was consumed with wrath and indignation, but he said not a word. He siezed that NV cabb ed, traitorous sheet, tore it to tatters, and smote It with his cane, stamped on it, spit on it, and then strutted out of the house, In amen ner that Cindolanus would have commended. Stubbs was avenged of his adversary. The recent storm at the South damaged the crops very much. The Ohio Democratic State Committee Is about to be convened for the purpose, It is re ported, of substituting Ewing for McCook. The Delaware people are awakening to the truth that their school system Is greatly in sufficient, and this will no doubt before a great while become h party Issue in that State. The Rothschild family is about to celebrate the centenary of the banking-house which it owe its fortune. The firm was established at Frankfort in 1771. MYSTERIOUS FOUL PLAY Bloody Death of a German Tobacco Broker. Diedrich Hoedgman, a German tobacco broker, ago 30, has occupied a room on the third floor of the tenement No. 70 East Fourth street,.for several months past, and boarded with a Mr. and Mrs. Miller. Hoedgman, who was an inoffensive man, had been in the habit for a long time of getting up and going out on the street at 2 or 3 a. m., for the purpose, it is conjecture 4, of procuring something to drink as he was rather intemperate. On Monday evening Hoedgman dined with gome friends in the Bowery, and returned home soon after 10 o'clock. Ile retired to bed, but between 2 and 3 o'clock on Tuesday morning was heard to leave the house. About 6a. m. Catharine Miller heard an unusual sound, and on look ing into the hallway saw Hoedgman bent over apparently in great pain, and with his cloth ing saturated with blood. She asked him what was the matter, but he returned no reply. Mr. Miller was called and assisted Hoedgman Into his room, and laid him on a'sofa. Two physicians were summoned, who pronounced him in a dangerous condition. The efforts made to restore him to consciousness were unavailing, and he died in a few hours. Coroner Young caused the body to be re moved to the Morgue, but nothing was said by the friends of the deceased of the strange man ner in which he met his death, and not until the preparations for the Inquesthad been made did the Coroner learn the facts. lie commu nicated immediately with Sergeant Buckley, acting Captain of the Seventeenth Precinct, and the police were directed to Inquire through out the precinct if any trouble bad occurred that morning in any of the saloons or liquor stores or on the street, but they could learn of nothing of the kind. A post- Mortem examination disclosed an eaten- . sive contusion of, the right shoulder, contusions of the left arm, a lacerated wound , inches iu length on the right temple, and a bloody tumor of the size of an orange on the right parietal bone, anteriorally. A large quantity of extravasated blood was found on the right temporal and parietal bones, which were extensively fractured. A large clot of blood was also found between the dinameter and the brain, the result of fracture of the skull. The investigation was adjourned by the Coroner, to allow the police to make fur ther inquiry. The deceased leaves a mother and sister in Germany, but had no relatives in this country. Ile was a member of the Union Singing Society.—N. Y. Tribune. " ARTMIUS" VISITS THE SUAKEIIS.—" Mr. Blinker," sell I, "you see before you a Babe In the Woods, so to speak, and he axes shelter of you." "Tay," sed the Shaker, and he led the way into the house, another beta sent to put my horse and wagon under kiver. A. solum female, lookin somewhat like a last year's bean pole stuck into a long meal-bag, cum in and axed me was I athirst and did I hunger? To which I asserted, " A few." She went orf and I endeavored to open a con• versation with the old man. " Elder, I spect," sed I. " Tay." he said. " Health's good, I reckon ?" " What's the wages of a Elder, when he un derstands his biziness—or do you devote your snrvices gratooitous ?" " Yay." " Stormy night, sir." 44 y a y . ll "If the storm continues there'll be a mess underfoot, hay ?" y ay. " " It's onpleasant when there'S'a mess under foot ?" y ft y . , "If I may he so bold, kind sir, what's the price of that pecooler kind of wesket you wear, includin trimmins 1" yay . t! " pawsed a minit, nod then, thinkin I'd be faseshus with him and see how that would go, I slept him on the shoulder, burst into a hearty larf, and told him that as a payer he bad no living ekel. He jumped up as if Win water had been squirted Into his ears, groaned, rolled his eyes up tords the sealln and sed: " You're a man of sin 1" He then walkt out of the room. Directly thar cum in two young Shakere sect; as putty and slick lookin gals as I ever met. It is troo they was drest in meal-bags like the old one I'd met previsly, and their shiny, silky hair was hid from sight by long white cups, sich as 1 suposo female Josts wear; but their eyes sparkled like diamonds, their cheeks was like roses, and they was charrnin enufl to make a man throw stuns at his grandmother, if they axed him to. They commenst clearin away the dishes, castln shy glances at me all the time. I got excited. I forgot Betsy Jane in my rapier, and sez I: "My pretty dears, how. air you?" "We air well," they solumly sed. "Where Is the old man?" sald I, in a soft voice: Of whom dost thou speak—Brother HOW" an Bill, gay and festive cuss who calls me a mail of sin. Shouldn't wonder if his name wasn't Uriah." " He has retired." " Wall, my pretty dears," aez I, " let's have sum fun. Let's play puss In the corner. What say ?" "Air you a Shaker, sir ?" they asked. "Vail, my pretty dears, I haven't arrayed my proud form in a long weskit yet, but if they wus all like you perhaps 'em. As it Is, I run a Shaker protemporary." They was full of fun. " I seed that at foal, only they was a little skeery. I taws 'em puss in the corner, and etch like plase, and we had a nice time, keepin quiet of course so the old man shouldn't hear. When we broke up, sez I : . . "My pretty dears, ear I go you have no objections, have you, to a innersent kiss at partin 4" " Yay,".they sed, and I yayed—fdrietnua {Yard. ilia Book.] TOBACCO CULTURE IN lOWA Very extensive experiments, we are infor med, have been made in tobacco growing this year by the agriculturalists of lowa. Recent ly published statements allow that they have been attended with excellent success. A. Mr. C. D..Tohnson, of Chickasaw county, lowa, has a fine field, the plants standing three feet high on the 10th ultimo. Several other far mers in the same neighborhood had equally vigorous fields, and it was estimated that the combined crop of that county would average fully 2,000 pounds per acre, which at fifteen cents per pound would pay 000 per acre. It is believed that tobacco can be raised in lowa with full as much certainty and success as in Connecticut or Missouri. The farmers have good, roomy barns, the land is rich, the cli mate Is favorable, and labor is not dear. It has always been our belief that this industry would prove successful and remunerative in California, were the culture of this plant at tempt on a largur scale than has ever yet been tried. The soil and climate of that State would seem to be excellently' adapted to the production of a superior article. It is stated that the damage Inflicted by the grass-hoppers in Maine this year, must be measured by millions of dollars. In some places both on the Androscoggin and Ken nebec, the farmers are turning their starving cattle into their grain flields to pick up what their arch enemy has left • ROBERT IREDELL, Piain anb gancp , 31ab printer, No. 603 HAMILTON STREIT, ELEGANT PRINTING LATEST STELES Stamped Check., Card... Circulars, Paper Books, Cons Lotions and By-Lawe, School Cataloue' BLILITeads Env°'open, Letter Heads Bills Posters ,. Wig Bills, Tao and Shipping Cards, of any Ile, etc ., etc.; Printed at Short Notice', NO. 34- LOVE IN THE OIL DISTRICT In Clarion county, near the celebrated oil producing district known as Parker's Landing, and not a great distance from where the Cla rion river mingles its pellucid waters with the swift-rolling tide of the Allegheny, has lived for years a man named Howitt, who, coming to the country - in its early history, erected a cabin and maintained an humble existence by following his profession of luorse-shoeing. When the 01l excitement brought numbers of speculators to that section of Pennsylvania, it was discovered that on theblacksmith's farm was a series of 011 wells, and ho sold It for a large sum, purchasing for himself a stylish residence in the neighborhood. Here, with his only daughter Laura, now of marriageable age, lived happily until fate threw in his daughter's way an affinity—a young man named Harry Richardson, a driller by occupation, and as poor as a church mouse he sought his society (her father had long since forbidden his coming to the house), and hardly a day passed but that she was seen in the derrick, watching the pulsations of the walking-beam and her heart at the same time; and listening to his stories of adventure by flood and (oil) field. "She loved h'in for the dangers ho had passed," and he loved her because she always believed his yarns, and no one else would. Finally, ono bright day, as he had just finiehed a terrible recital of escape from death by a falling sand-pump pulley, she shrieked, and said she "wished that Heaven had made her such a man,"when Harry abandoned the timber•screw ropo and caught the fair Laura to his petroleum-stained bosom, wiped the benzine from off his brow and lips, kissed her, and said : " I am the man I" , While enjoying the few moments succeed ing their bethrothal—blissful moments that only come twice in a man's lifetime: once when he finds his mother's preserves, and the other as mentioned—tLe lovers were startled by the enterance of the "village blacksmith," who seized his daughter, and without a word to the disconsolate Henry, carried Laura home and locked her up. Days passed without communication be tween the lovers, and while Laura grew thin, Henry experienced bad luck. His tools got lost; the sand-pumps bursted, and his heart promised soon to follow suit. But just here a happy thought struck him. Outside of the derrick was several hundred feet or gas pige. Ile could not lay a telegraph wire, but he might lay &pipe line to his Laura's hou so, through which, perchance, two hearts could "beat as one," and hold communion sweet, in spite of the defeated free-pipe bill. No sooner suggested than acted upon. That night he laid six hundred and eighty-one feet of half-Inch gas pipe under ground, be tween his derrick and the prison of hls be- EMIE A happy junction with the cave-spout was effected during the next night, and shortly afterwards messages were sent and received between the lovers,. Laura having brought the end of the water-pipe close to her win dow, and Henry had his end of the line di rectly beneath his pillow, where, after he was " off tour," he would whisper words of un dying affection, that only ended when he left asleep and the pipe slipped out of his hand. But while " love giggled at the locksmith," the blacksmith was preparing to snort right 'our at love. One day while Laura was at herdlniter, her ether had, while looking around the room, discovered the misplaced pipe. and, while ga zing with a critic's eye, at the strange specta cle, was more startled by the soft words, com ing apparently from the cistern : " Laura dear, is the old man at home ?" Mr. Hewitt smelt a mouse. Ile did more than that—he inhaled the genuine odor of a wharf rat ; but saying noth ing, lie merely descended the stairs, and rev turned with a pint of oily-looking liquid, which he handled with extreme care. Making a cartridge of paper that would hold nearly all of the mixture, ho inserted it into the pipe several feet, and then placing a bar of iron upon that, called loudly enough to be heard through cartridge, pipe and all : " Henry, my dear, aro you there ?" Quickly came the faint reply : " Yes Laura." "Place your ear at the hole Henry." Here the parent raised a sledge hammer and struck the Iron rod. An earthquake followed, before the echoes of which had rolled away, could be semi the disappearance of an engine-house In mid-air, followed by the gable end of the Hewitt man sion. Aud.now for the sequel. In his anxiety to see how it was himself," old Howitt remained too near the pipe, and when the glycerine went off, he did also, and was picked up in Armstrong county a few days later. But where was Henry ? Instead of applying his car to the hole ho had stepped to the derrick for a moment, dur ing which the explosion 'occurred. Ile was only stunned and a few moments later mot his betrothed running to see Vile was hurt. They fled at once to a neighboring justice of the peace and were married. They have patched up the old house, and are happy, though the mysterious disappear ance of their fattier was a subject of conver sation for months after. This is the story, as told us by an old man who lives near Henry and Laura, who heard the noise and also saw where the ground bad been torn up by the father's vengeful experi ment. If any one doubts the story, the derrick is still to be seen. ARE SUNDAY WEDDINGS VOID. There is, we heard an eminent lawyer allege a few' days since, no marriage legal which is celebrated on the Sabbath day. There are, no doubt, twenty thousand couples in this State alone for whom the marriage ceremony was performed on the Sabbath— many of them in the evening of that day. A note drawn anti signed on the Sabbath Is ille gal, or any other legal agreement between parties. Marriage is a legal contract, which if per formed out of the legal time, necessarily must be void ; and claiming this, the sons and daughters of a recently deceased millionaire mean to contest his will, because in that a large portion of his estate was willed to the children of their stepmother, who was wedded. to their father on the Sabbath, in a church In the city of Rochester of this State. If the question is to be die ded that such marriages are Illegal, another long catalogue of vexa tions suits will be brought Into our courts by parties similarly related to the one above men tioned. The decision lately rendered by a learned Judge of our courts, that marriages 9f minors are illegal, and a divorce for such not necessary in order that they can separate and and remarry legally, shim it was carried into Inimediate practice by the partit s for whom the decision was rendered, is provin bneful to society.. The harm that this decision does to our social system Is temporary only, and If the entire marrying population but learn of this decision, the future will witness less elope ments of young couples, and a less number of cases were guileful and designing men entice young ladies from home in order to wed them. That the ceremony of marriage performed for minors on any and all days of the week, or for a couple where Ono is a minor and the other an adult, should be pronounced illegal and non-effective, is not strange. But In the face of long practised customs, that Sabbath day weddings are illegal will strike thousands with feelings akin to consternation. With all our laws and codes it Is, Indeed, strange that those legal enactments which most concern our personal welfare and happiness are least known and least understood by the general public, including our most intelligent people. —From American Society. • ALLENTOWN. PA NEW DEMONS
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