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1.60 1.75 3.60 CM Mt
CM CM .CM 0.00 pm
cm .2.5 om Moo mmg
m 6 m 17.00 25.00 cCT,
mm 72.0010.00
20.00 40.00 00.00 110. d,
90.00 00.00 110 00 200.0
One 13 ,51usre
Two ugusros
ere. Squares
Big soiree, .
flstarter Column
air Column .
One Column
Professional Car& $l.OO per line per year.
Administrator's and Anditor'n Notices, $3.00
City Notices, 20 cents per lino let insertion 12 cents per
lee each subsequent ineertion.
Tontines agate conetitutal equare.
• ROBERT IREDELL, JR., PUBLISUICR,
10213:=3!
Coal anti Rambler.
•ILDRRT. D. OTTO. R. X. OTTO. 0. W. )MLLE{
FILBERT, OTTO it MILLER,.
MANUFACTURERS AND DEALERS IN
LUMBER
w L LIAMS PO RT, PA.
MILL ON CANAL, WEST OF MAY LL NARD STREET
OFFICE AT THE MI
W F CRANE AoKsl,
JAS. M. HITTER, (MIAS. W. ABBOTT. OWEN RITTER
JORDAN ?. 314 7 0 7 7, 5. STEAM
PLANING MILL,
SASH, DOOR,
AND
BLIND MANUFACTORY,
Unton Street, near Jordan Bridge, Allentown,
RITTER, ABBOTT & CO.,
MANUFACTURERS OF
Bash, Doors, 011iSidE Blillo. Instils Blinds, Mould
Ines, Brackets Balusters, Pickets, Stair Rail
ings, Window Frames, Door Praises, Glazed
Windows, Black ll'rtin of „Mouldings, fir.
CI:ROLL SAWINO,
P
TURNING
d
ILINO,
MATCHING.
FLOORING awl
RIPPING
DONE AT THE SHORTEST NOTICE.
ALSO, STAIR BUILDING done aud RAND RAILING
made to order.
Haying now had almost three years' possession of the
Mill, refurnished it almost wholly with new and improv
ed machinery. and haying none lutt experienced work
men, )we
are prepared to defy competition from at home
and abroad, both In price /Mil WOI km lushly,.
Do you coutmnplatu building 1 Unit at our Factory and
satisfy yourself with a personal eXalllinNtiUl3.
DTMVIIIIIN for baildings, brackets, patterns for erne-
Men tal work, scroll. , for porches...ll be seen nil trines
by carnal( at our °lnce. Any Intermatlon to the builder
furnished cheerfolly awl freely, by calling_ at the Manu
factory, ou Union street, at the Jordan Bridge, Allen
town, or by leiter thromth the post lam
at i-131 HITTER, ABBOTT & CO
R EVIVAL I I
Tho aulnicrlbera having lomed tho "Old Hop) Chial
Yard." ‘lOlllll reKpotala y at...aura to the chlrons omf
Alleutown and tho public In ..touvral. that thaoy have just
a noporlor assortment of
COAL
Consinting of Stove, Egtr, ChontiMt nod Not from the
BUCK MOUNTAIN hIINLS.
Ortyrn loft with A. A. Huber, Shiner Sr Ilutterint In at
thn battle lintel, Iloilo Rolling Mill, or tho lard trill be
attended to lo u•
BUSINESS
like lilBll.r.
Order• for Cool h. Om car filed Lori no,
ILo lowed price,
Alwoym on hnod n largo 'dock of
BALED HAY,
which wilt La gold at tho lowest taarkot prices
L. W. KOONS & CO
nt tho" Old (lope Cool Yard
Flom:Iton Strrel, cornor of Lehigh V3lloy Ro.llrond
I=l
1.. W. K ,ov
net ti
A NEW FIRM
NEW LUMBER YARD
TO, BUIDLERS!
TREXLML & WEATER
Would hereby announce to the public that they have
.itint opened a new Lomb, 1 till on the Plll/1(11,11r1 And coll.
'indent grounds no long ocraim,d by IRK): LER BRO.'S
on Hamilton street, near Tenth. north, 1 , 111.1, when, they
are now prepared with a full annortmotit of overythlog
Portaining to the Muslims, comprising in part
BLlsmr PINE,. WHITE PINE, SPRUCE and HEM.
LOGE noonuio. witiTE PINE BOARDS,
SCANTLING and PLANK of all nixes
and troll 0,11010111. d.
FRAMING TIMBER, Soperior, HEMLOCK JOIST and
SCANTLING of imsorted Mite,
CEDAR, CYPRESS AND WRITE PINE SHINGLES of
extra
HEMLOCKnod SPRUCE PLASHRING and SHING
LING LATHS, and a Norge sxmortmont of
WEATIIERIIGARDMO, also wn rrE OAK PLANK and
BOARDS of all thicknolnen, . .
WHITE PINE and SPRUCE PALIKOS and PICKETS,
nunerlor to anything, In the market
WHITE PINE and HEMLOCIs PENCE HAILS, WHITE
0 r.K and CHESTNUT POSTS,
All desirous of purchasing Lumber to a.,4 good advantage
as is offered at soy other Yard In the county, aro rennest•
ed to coil and estouluo our stock before purchasing else•
horo.
Satisfaction Guaranteed in Quality and Price.
Tito Senior memborof tho lino would In enuress sin
thanks fur pant rayon , while a member of the first of 'nex
t.' Ores.. and respectfully solicits a COleieUleleti of the
mi me, prompting to apply his bettt eudeavore to render
eatinlactiou tu all patrons of the New Yard
it ,l
ED. W. TILEXLEH
august 31
Silber llateb Mare
SANIUEL K. h.lll-Tll,
724 Ci ESTNUT STREET, t i t
"91
gR ,
PRACTICAL MANUFACTURER OF FINE y ,
MYER PLATED WARE )
=I
Wont,' reSprctrully unnotvice to Ilk palrouß loot he lone
A foil xtock of tt.o lateet ntyles of
DOUBLE AND TREBLE
ELECTROPLATED WARE
ALLOY lIIS OWN PLATING
Plated on Nickel and White Metals; sultablo for family
or city trade.
An tho quality of plating can only be known to the plat
er, the purchaser must rely tho manufacturer's state
ment; thorn being no much worthless wear
In the market,
all reptesented as treble plate, at prices impossible to be
mane actor..
All lain goods aro marked "S. K. SNISTIL"
Call and catmint) the goods before purchasing else-
Whore.
. "OLD WARE REPLA.TED._ffiI
nut y s-ty
earptt3 anb Oil (rloff)
RICHAND ELEGANT
CARPETS, OIL cLoTils, &C.
•
S. C. FOULK.
NO. 19 B. SECOND BT., PHILA.,
(Flr.tt Carpet Store beloW Market. End nide.)
I nv Rea attention to his .plead Id lowortment of Imported
and American CARPETS. {Tidal will bo sold at a very
wall advauce. Rood.. warranted aa ropnoicuted no that
.all con boy will. count'. ace and malefaction.
nov Ltf
sor the ffarntrr
for Pure Water,
Ws celebrated l'u
entirely tasteless
durable and retie.
Wel equal to the
good ohbfashionet
wooden Pump, a,
cost less than hal
money E6llfly 6r
to ad to be non-1
mud la cotuitructi
that any one cal
keep It In repair.
THE DEBT AHD.CHEAPE
pANCOAST
THIRD AND PEAR STREETS,
PHILADELPHIA,
PLAIN AND GALVANIZED
WROUGHT IRON TUBES,
Lap-welded Boiler Tubes,
Dnna and Iron Valsea•nd Cork.; Plition. for Mt., Steam
sad wstcri Hough and Fint.lol Nu.. Work;
Bas and Steam Fitters' Tool., etc. •
Bath Tubs and Sinks, Bath Dnllera, Suanielled Wash
Stand., etc., Coll. of Tot t steal. K e w,
and Trapse BILLS CUT TO ORDER !
Pipe of all Sizes fitted to Sketch..
OFFICE AT THE MILL,
Bintessore ' to MORRIS. TASKED. St• Co.. ae
CONTRACTORS FRONT AND LINDEN STS.
For the Healing of Buildings of all Cleuee with Steam
Hot Water. by the mei approved tueHitelt. 1
wi
lITE AND BLACK OAK BAW LOOS wanted. for
• Estimates Furnished Grati s. which the Molten market price will be pold upon delly•
febl.l7 try. d-w 12•1 r
VOL. XXV
NO GOLD' LOAN
OF TILE
NORTHERN PACI Fl RAILROAD.
RAPID PROGRESS OF THE ROAD
The 111111111111 j of the Northern MOB,. Railroad.
theemn July lasst,l losing poshest forward with
great energy front both extremities of tile line.
Several thousand men in . (' employed In Minneso
ta and on the Paoßic coast. The grade is nearly
completed 260 miles westward (caul Lake Kip°.
rlor; [reinsure running over 130 miles of finish,
ed road, and track-laying Is rapidly progressing
toward the eastern border of Dakota. Including
Its purchase of the St. l'stul & Tactile Road, the
Northern Millie COMpany now has 413 miles of
eompleted road, and by September next this will
he Increased to at least 560.
4 GOOD INVESTMENT. Jay Cooke Jr. Co.
are now selling,and unhesitatingly recommend,
as n Profitable and perfectly Safe investmerit, t he
First Mortgage Land Grant. (fold Bonds of the
Northern Pacifist Railroad Company. 'they have
30 years to run, bear Seven end 'Three-Tenths per
cont, gold Interest (more than 8 per cent. eurren
es) and are secured by first end only mortgage on
the ENTIRE ItoAD AND liSt EQUIPMENTs, MHO,
as fast fls the rose' Is completed, on
f. 13,000 ACRES OP LAND to every mile of
track, or 500 Ayres for each $l,OOO Bond. They are
exempt from U. S. Tax; Princlpal and Interest
are payable In Dull; Denominations: Coupons,
MINI tst =LIDO; Reglst.trosi, $lOO to ;340,000.
LANDS FOR BONDS. Northern Pacific: 7-30's
are at 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
tieally loterest. hearing land warrants.
SINKING EC ND. The proceeds of all sales
of Lands are required. to be devoted to the re
purchase and cancellntion of the First Mortgage
liondsof the Company, The Land Grant of the
Road exceeds Fifty Million Acres. This immense
Sinking Fund will undoubtedly cancel the prin.
eipal of the Company's bonded debt' before it
falls tine. With their ample security and high
rate of interest, there Is no investment otecesslble
to the people. ‘yltlell Is More profitable or safe.
EXCILING IND Ir, S. FIFE-TWENTIES.
The seeress of the Ness' ooVernment. 5 percent,
Loan will conned the early surrender of United
States it per cents. Many holders of Five Twill
the{ are now exchanging them for Northern Pa
cifie SeVen-ThlrtieS, thus realizing a handsome
ors slit, nisd greatly Inereasing their yearly
In
v
°THEE SECIDITIES. All marketable Stocks
and Bonds will he received at their highest cur
rent pricy In eXehanee for Northern Pacille
seven-Thirt his. Express - charges on Money or
!hoists received, tool 011 51,1'11.111111108 Sent in
• return, will he paid by the Finanelstl Agents.
Full information, maps, pamphlets, me., con he
obtained On nppiicatlon at any egent•y, Or from
the Undersigned.
KOl . lOllO by
IZESUI
Philadelphia, New York, Washington,
Financial Agents Northern Pacific, Ito iroad Co
Ity It. and lIA N KERS generally through
out the country. may 3.3111
GIRARD SAVINGS BANK,
NO
(Organized nutter n State Charter),
EAST HAMILTON STREET,
=I
Monies received on deposit at ell times from one dollar
onward. Pope SIX per cent. Interest for six swathe or
longer. Four por cat. on daily balance, sobject to check
at night.
boughtd Silver, United States Bonds and other
Securities and sold. luterest collected on liovern•
meat Securities at fair rates.
All deposits.of money will be hold strictly confidential,
and may be withdrawn at any Gum.
Married women and minors Inter special privileges
granted in ear charter, having full Potter to tratmact bust
ao. With 11 , . 11.1 their awn 11311108.
This Int:Goat. Is a legal depository for monies Paid
into Court, and receives money in trust from guardians,
administrators, treasurers, tax callectors tail others.
ar / riItINEY LOANER P ON FAVORABLE TERMS.
H AON ALBRIGHT, President.
It n
11 ARTZI,I.I., Cushier.
Directors—Ph:mu Albright, James F. Kline. Tilghman
Mertz, David Weida. Aaron Eisenhart.
MILLERSTOWN SAVING BANK
MILLERSTOWN, LEHIGH COUNTY.-
Thls hantltittlon Nv 111 1,0 opened on or Wore the lot day
of Aprll. Money will be taken on depoolt at all times mad
In any soma from one dollar upwards, for which
SIX PER CENT. INTEREST
It. E.lDorrsuoma
—lr
per annum will bepaid.
DepoKits limy be withdrawn at any limo A 1,., money
ottued out uu favorablo te
ARIESJ WEILER, President
011•1.1111.111 SIIII,IER, Cashier.
J. F. M. Shllferl, Georg Ludwig.
Frederick C. Yob 1. Chrial - , N. Benninger.
David Donner, William SAlidity.
Immo Griebel, Gideon F. Boner,
Horatio T. ii,rtzog,_ Benjamin J. Schmoyer.
JlllllMlSillifinaster war 16• Gm
A LLENTOWN SALVINGN INSTITU.
Tiov,
Organize,/ as "Dimes Saving Institution,"
NO. EAST HAMILTON ST.,
(NEARLY OPPOEITE TEE AMERICAN HOTEL,)
P. 4 YS SIX PER CENT. INTEREST FOR
This I nvilttitiou, the oldest Saving Bank In Eastern
nsylvania, has been in continuous and successful
op Pen eration for ton years, and continues to pay SIX PER
(.EST. INTEREST on money fur Ono year, and special
rote of Interest for shorter Periods:
1tt."...A 11 deposits of money will ho held strictly confi
dential.
Executors, Administrators,Trustees, Assignees,
Treasurers, Tax Collectors,
and other custodians of public or private moneys, are of
remit Itio rater of interest.
Fartntrm, .11errhanlx, Laborer*, and all who have
money to pot on intoroot fora long or rhort period trill
find our thrtitution au agreeable and advantageous one In
which to do Int.inexii.
Inurea invite LAMER tO
tranonot their banking bu with uo.
(IA Rill El) WOMEN and MINORS have special
grant,' by our charter—having full power to trans
act lominers with ur In tei own names.
Money !1.0.M.! with thin Institut!.
TIIOS. WEAVER
-tf
IS SAFE AND WELL SECURED,
by a Capital nt. , Ck and surplus money curtly of over
SIXTY THOUSAND DOLLARS, and addition, the
Board a Trust°. 11.0, nequired by t barter, given
bonds under the supervinion of the Court the mum of
FIFTY TDOCSAND DOLLARS, which bonds are resin.
Awned in and lirld by the Court of Common Pleas of this
county for the securityof depositors.
Our Iron Vaults are of thin mint secure and extensive
kind known iu this country, as a personal inspection will
show, sod ti which wo invite oar friends and customers.
We refer to thin believing that safe Burglar Proof Vaults
complote the sandy and
lAM reliall. bilit Al N y of a Y good Saving Bank.
. WI LL E, Preside:..
CHRISTIAN FREI', Vice President,
REUBEN STADLER, Cludder,
ThlrplTELil
William 11. Aluoy, ---- lutrles 9 Bush,
Chr1,41.1 Pr,ir., J.I. D. Stllex,
F. E. Smom.lm, Benj. 3. litigeubuch.
tieurgo Brubett, Samuel Sell.
Nuthati Peter.
FA RBER'S SAVINGS BANK,
Incorporated under a State Charter of 1870.
rock.- ilk, Upper Macungie township, Lel:hit:Co.
Thlm 111r.41IntIn has been organized and opened under a
Shoe Charter. MONEY trill be taken on deposit at ell
times and to any sum from bl and upwards, for which
6 PER CENT. INTEREST
WILL BE PAID. •
•
Deposits :nay be withdrawn at any time.
Also money loaned ou W n LL v AM b MO e H rm ,P resident.
R. 11. FOOBL, (high hr.
1111,1TREtl ,
Dr. 11. A. Saylor, J. 11. Straub,
Daniel Moyer, David toter,
deux. Ranch, Sionnel Kuhns,
Daniel 11. Creitz,
Wl fllhuu Stain,
Main Mohr tapr 6.6E1
FILANKLIN SAVINGS BANK,
Located at the corner of Hamilton street and Church
alley, In Lion Hall, second story, oppomite tho German
Reformed Church, lu the City of Allentown. ix orgenired
nod reedy for business. It toil! pap SIX per cent. In
ferret on oil deposits except bitinness drposite,/or any
period o f time, to he Clliralotrit from the date o f
To secure which, the Trustees of (Ito Institution have
filed In the Court of Common Pleas of Lehigh County,
under the direction of the Court. a bond In the sum of
'rwenty•tive 1'110..4 Dollars, conditioned for the falth•
ful keeping end appropriation of all and. 'mum of money
am shell be pieced In charge of oak! FRAN KLIN HAVINGS
BANK, whether am deposits o oiler. of oiler of clock. which
bond may be enlarged by the Court whenever It may be
deemed necessary
kddltiou to this. the Act of Incorporation make* tho
Storkholdorn pereolllfily indite to the depositors in dot,•
ble the amount of the (Nipital Stock of the Bank. which
Is fifty thonottiol dollars, with liberty to Increase it to one
hundred and fifty thousand dolkirs.
Theme pros Wiens will make it a very desirable and ears
placo
lde of
IloN ~, i t may be proper to elate that the deposits will
be kept in one of tho sit.fesi and beet protected ra nds In
title city.
Arrengetnento will be snadetofurnimh drafts on the cilia/
of New York autl Philadelphia
•ti. A. BRI DO ES, President
S. W. WILSON, Vire Preeident
• J. E. ZIMMERMAN. enabler.
Trneters :
11noirl 11. Miller, 8. A. Bridges,
John 11011 , eu.
Wtllinto Baer,
.1. K. Zimmerman
I't
ter lt. Crelts, W
ter 0 rota,
Edwin Zimmerman.
LUMBER I LUMBER I!
WHOLESALE AND RETAIL
STEAM SAW MILL,
LUMBER YARD
ginanrial.
JAY COOKE & CO.
MONEY ON DEPOSIT.
HOFFAIAN'S
AND
KINDLING!
3 ):rbiob
ROMANTIC PAUPERS
Two Penniless - Women live To
gether as Man and Wile—Their
Strange Histories-An Unfortunate
Girl.
In Jackson township, Monroe county,
Penn., there appeared, in the Fall of 1867, a
man and woman styllnt. - themselves Mr. and
Mrs. Joseph Israel Lobdell. The woman was
18 or 19 years of age, and quite handsome.
The man was tall and gaunt, and at times act
ed as If lie were insane. They lived there In
abject poverty for some time, having no visi
ble means of support, but roaming about the
country and eating where and what they could,
and sleeping in caves and barns.
At last they became a nuisance, and were
twice arrested and lodged In Stroudsburg Jail.
While thus confined, in the early part of the
present mouth, a letter came to a neighboring
post-office addressed to Lucy Ann Lobdell,
and postmarked " Long Eddy, N. Y." This,
with other suspicious circumstances, led the
authorities to believe that Joseph Israel Lob
dell was not a man, and investigation proved
that he was of the other sex, and had success.
fully concealed the fact for nearly four years.
The letter in question was from a person at
Basket Station, N. Y., stating that Lucy Ann
Lobdell's mother needed her support, and that
she should come to her at once. When the
true sex of the woman was ascertained, the
"wife" stated that her name was Ada Perry,
and that she was the daughter of Daniel Perry
of South Abington, Plymouth county, Mass.
On learning these facts, the authorities of
Monroe county decided to take the woman to
Basket Station and learn more about :item.
The two at first refused logo, but were finally
induced to accompany the officer, ".Toe" be•
ing furnished with woman's clothing.
On arriving at Basket Station, last week,
the officers were directed to the residence of
old Mr. Lobdell, but they failed to get rid of
their charge there, as the old, people were
helpless living by charity, and Lucy refused
to stay with them. The women were conae
quently brought back to the station, where it
was ascertained that they were runaway pau
pers from the Delaware County Poor House,
at Delhi, whither they were taken. The his;
tories of these two women are very strange.
About five years ago, there was put off of a
train one night, at this station, a girl of about
17 years of age, who gave lair name to the
depot agent as Ada Perry. She was very
handsome, but rather scantily dressed. ller
story was that she had 'run away from her
home in Massachusetts a few months before
with James Wright, a young man, with whom
she hat' since lived in Jersey City. The night
before her arrival ut Basket Station, this man
had deserted her, and she had every reason to
think that he had gone away with another girl
to Buffalo. She was following him, when her
money gave out, and the conductor on the
train would let her go no further. She re
fused to be sent back to her parents, and
placed, herself In the poorhouse at Delhi.
In the poor-house at that time was Lucy
Ann Lobdell, or rather Lucy Ann Slater, as
she had married a snail by the name of Slater
about six years before. She was 32 years old
when Ada Perry first met her, and notwith
standing the hard life she had led, was rather
prepossessing in appearance. Between her
and the young . girl a singular attachment
arose, and after remaining in the poor-house
about a year and a half, the two disappeared
ode night, and nothing was heard of them un
til they were brought back last week.
The history of Lucy Ann Lobdell is equally
singular. Twenty-one years ago site was a'
young girl living with her parents at Basket
qation, which is a settlement mostly composed
of people engaged in lumbering. •She was
handsome, but possessed few, if any, of the
characteristics of her sex. Her tastes were
masculine, and she hunted, fished, and worked
in the woods with the into, She had offers
of marriage from respectable lumbermen, but
always refused. She finally married Henry
Slater, a worthless fellow from Hancock.
For two years they lived together, when he
deserted his wife, leaving her with au infant
two months old. Soon after her husband left
her she donned men's apparel, and, leaving
her child in charge of her parents, followed
the wild lite of a hunter in the region, then a
dense forest, in the counties of Delaware and
Sullivan in this State, and Pike, Wayne and
Susquehanna in Pennsylvania. For several
years she roamed the hills and valleys,
and wrote in the mean time a history of
her life. She became known in the country
as the " Female hunter of Long Eddy." In .
her " history" she recounted her adventures
as a hunter and trapper,, and stated that in two
years she bad killed five bears, a large number
of deer, and much small game, and had trapp
ed many of the fur-bearing animals of the re
gion, including mink, otter, and foxes. ' In
1860 her mood sui denly changed, and she
again assumed the garb of her sex, and saddled
herself upon the community, begging front
door to door, nod finally becoming an inmate
of the Alms-llouse of Delaware County. Here
this singular person remained until she and
Ada Perry disappeared together in 1867.
Mary Slater, the child that was born to
Henry and Lucy Ann Slater, was taken out of
the poor-house about the time her mother ap
plied for admittance, and was placed in the
family of Daniel Portman, at Tyler IEII.
Wayne County, Penn. There she has since
lived, claiming no kin of friends but the faint
ly of Mr. Forttnan. On the night of the 16. h
of July last, she was forcibly abducted from
Mr. Fortnum's by a gang of fiends, and, after
being chloroformed, was thrown into the Del
aware River to drown. She. was rescued,
however, by n farmer living near, but she again
disappeared, and was not found for four days.
She had lost her mind by the fearful events of
the night though which she had passed, and
had been wondering through the woods all
that time. The cause of her attempted mur-
der was her repented rejection of degrading
proposals made to her by Thomson Keats, and
a suit having been commenced against him for I
slander and threats made against the girl, in
which she was to be principal witness, he had
her abducted and thrown Into the river. At
least strong suspicions exist against him, and
he is now in jail at Honesdale, Penn., await
ing trial. The girl has not yet recovered en
tirely from the shock and the consequence of
ter wanderings.
lEEE
EEO
,iFono"•i Iron—Coot .Per . Ton of Pig MOW $31,-
71—No Margin pr the Capital invented.
A. writer in the St. Louis Democrat states
that during the. past year the average cost per
ton of making Iron at Carondelet has been as
follows : Two and one•third tons of coal, at
$3.35 per ton ; twenty-seven bushels of Con
nellsville coke, at 18 cents per bushel. This
reduced to raw coal would make 3} tons, at
$4:35 per ton.. Iron mountain ore, one and
two thirds tons, at $5.50 per ton. To this
add labor, $4.31, Interest $1.14 ; expenses
$1.50, limestotie 27c., and we have a total of
$31.71 as the cost per ton of all pig metal
made at Carondelet: The cost of making iron,
the writer says, leaves no margin for the cap
ital'invested or the very great uncertainties of
a blast furnace. - It shows that while the labor
and Interest accounts are small comparatively,
the fuel and ore cost more than three-fourths.
lle goes on to say further : "In Missouri we
pay two and one-third cents per ton per mile
for transporting iron ore, while In Pennsylva
nia It costs only one cent per ton per mile.
There is a monopoly at present of iron ore and
fuel, but the railroads now being built will
place the iron men In neondition - to bring com
petition to hear on this matter."
ALLENTOWN, PA., WEDNESDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER .6, 1871.
A NIGHT WITH A MANIAC
=
The maniac was a giant. 110 had broken
his.henvy chains as Samson broke the willies
—had torn open the door of thecell—torn the
keeper, literally, in pieces—burst open the
dour—kiiled'tho watchman, with °heavy iron
bar he wrenched from the door—and escaped
with his formidable weapon into the city.
The whole place was aghast at the news ; and
we students at the hospital and dissecting
room, who were connected with the asylum,
had to nerve ourselves to help capture the es.
coped wild beast.
I had gone to thedissecting room alone, and
was about to cummence using the knife on a
subject. There was a storm raging, and with
a low sob the wind shelled through the long
aisle of forest trees, and flashed with the gath
ered force of an ocean wave against the dead
house. Simultaneously, a hand struck the
light door, and the yell of a maniac rang
through and through my. brain.
Above the door, through the small ventila
tor, the face of the madman and the =Me+
peeled down at me. •
"Ali. ha ! I have caught you at last—hero
—and alone. I have been waiting for you.
You took me once, didn't you ? Ha ) ha ! Let
me In."
The coolness of Imminent peril brought my
powers to action. I held his eye an instant ;
but It was evident he was too wild for that ;
his blood was up, and it roved with eager
ferocity through the room and, over the frail
walls. With the light bound of a leopard, I
gained the door, and shot the double bolt. A
gleam of rage darted from his eye ; but he
laughed, " Ila, ha! You think that will keep
me out r!
Ile leaped to the ground. In an instant the
girt was out.
" Wait," I cried, "I have a weapon in my
hand keen as a razor. It is poisoned by the
dead body I have been working on. Burst
the door, and I'll plunge It in your heart. If
It but touch you, you are a dead man. You
may kill me, but I'll kill you 'as certain as
there is a God."
The swarthy giant shook the door until Its
hinges creaked and groaned:beneath his hand.
Then laughing again low to hiinself, mutter
ed, " Fool, I'll outwit you yet l"
And stole off in the darkness. I heard him,
for au instant, pressing against the wall of the
of the building, and it swayed and bent in
wards with the weight. Then silence. The
din of my pulses made thundca fumy ears, as
I Wel to hear his stealing tread, and the: sob
bing wind rose anew with a wierd shriekonak-
ing my efforts fruitless.
A thoussnd times I heard his low, devilish,
murderous laugh. A thousand times I felt his
brawny strength against the door, and saw
his wild face look down at me through the
gloom; but still he did not come. I tried to
think he had abandoned the design, and slunk
off discouraged ; but Iltnew it was not 50 -
I knew he was crouching in some corner, on
the watch to spring on me when I passed.
Could I stay there all night ? No ; cer
tainly not. An hour more, and Harry Leigh
(my young wife's brother) would come to seek
me—come unconscious of the danger, until a
bloodhound at his throat would choke the
brave young life down there for ever.
I listened, in the intervals of the now fitful
storm, to hear if he was breathing near me.
I waited for the next lull. It came—that dead
hush that follows the gusty wind. I put my
soul in the sense of hearing, but no human
shadow of sound greeted it.
When the storm swelled again, I drew the
bolt, and looked into into the night ;' a black
pall hung over the earth and sky. I had as
good a chance to pass him in the obscurity as
he to catch me. With my knife in my teeth
and the massive thigh-bone of a negro'to fell
him with. if I must, I drew of my shoes, and
stepped out into the darkness. A sudden
whirl of the tempest almost took me off my
feet, and a brick, dislodged from one of the
chimneys, grazed my head in its passage, and
broke in half on the pavement.
With bated breath, and a step like the tread
of a panther scenting his prey, I parted the
thick darkness and turned my face towards
the hospital. He might be either here—at
any step along the passage—or hid In the
angle of the wall at the door through which I
'inlet enter. This seemed most probable ;
but there was another door known only to the
MIEM
I thanght I would elude him. With infi
nite caution I began to scale the high wall,
dreadlitg horribly lest some sudden break in
the sky might reveal MC to the wild eyes that
watched for me—but no.
Safely passing the summit, I threw my leg
over• for the descent, and felt my foot seized.
It was but the climbing tend ril of a wild vine,
skirting the wall. Grasping my knife in my
right hand, I crept along the bushes kir fifty
yards, then struck across the lawn fur the
side enterance. The darkness perplexed me,
but I thought I was steering straight. Sud
denly my foot struck bricks. What was this?
I tried to recolect. There was no pavement
round that part of the hospital.
I pushed on uncertainly; and feeling .a,
weight in the air, put out my hand to grope
for some clue to my whereabouts. I was in
au alley—flanked with stone walls far above
'sty head. I . gave a sudden turn. •In an
instant I knew I was in the subterranean pas=
sages of the asylum. • Turning to retrace my
steps, the opaque density of some heavy body
crouched between me and the outer air. I
hetfrd its stifled breathing—its stealthy tread
approaching toe. Just heavens! A struggle
for life with a madman in these narrow gloomy
vaults— to lie in a pool of one's own heart's
blood in this undiscovered tomb—and :my
young wife, Constance !—was maddening!
For an instant my brain was e n fire. Then
I thought there might be au• exit—other
devious windings in which I could elude my
deadly pursuer. Going deftly backwards, I
turned the angle in the wall, and then plunged
at the utmost speed of a young and active
man , along the back passage. Instantly I
knew I was pursued. Meeting another
crossed path, I struk into it in the opposite
direction. The maniac instantly followed me.
What a race through those cavernous depths
of the madhouse! What tragic pitfalls might
lurk at every stepl—what black stagnant pools
lie waiting to engulf met—What deeper depths
of icy blackness into which to fall—and fall
for ever.
The passage grew narrower. We were, per
haps, under the very centre of the building,
and farthest from the outer air.. I had tried
to breathe noiselessly; the effort exhausted,
me. I knew nothing of the labyrinths ; could
only guess at our position by the distance from
the entrance. I bad counted the turnings we
had made. I thought I could retrace them.
3ly strength' was falling. I was fleetest, but
Le was most enduring.
Presently be would run me down. It would
be a terrible venture, but the necessity was
imminent. I would try It. Gathering all my
force, I darted like an arrow. on into the dark.
ness. The suddenness of my increased speed
baffled him. I succeeded in putting fifty yards
between us, gained and turned and the next
angle ; then, drawing myself against the wall,
With every nerve and muscle strained into pre•
ternatural tension, with the mighty heaving of
my spent chest crushed into silence by au effort
of despairing will, I waited for him to pass me.
Iheard him come rushing on with new strength
- through the:blackness, teach the angle, turn it,
striking his massive body against the jutting the body ns that of a relative' but in all cases
stones. I heard him rpring like an animal on I the evidence offered was unsatisfactory, and
along the track. I felt his hot breath like her identity is a problem yet to he solved.
steam—the foam of his set jaws flung 'across This afternoon a man called at the Eight
my face—and he stopped. I felt that lie was Meal( precinct station house and stated to
feeling for me I—that he was crouching on the CaptiOn rumor , - Van t'•nnght he knew'
stones. I saw the red of his eyeballs glare up something to telm.(rn to the "Trunk Horror."
at me through the darkness. I felt UM touch I The capt&nimmediately ask- d him into his
of his icy fle . sh on my hand. Like lightning private room, and after being seated, the man
he raised himself, and, throwing his vast weight made the following statement :
against me, pinioned me to the stones. And On last Flidat a man c a w into my place of
the mad rage of a man at bay surged upward busin . rs. No. 658 , lec.dol avenue, and stated
to my brain. I clasped my knife convulsively, that he wished me to bury his servant girl,
and slezed hint by the throat, resolved to die who hal (lied at h's home, where the body
hard. It was hair—it was shaggy. The hands was lying. He also stated that he wished me
against my cheat had a thick coat of fur. I to have the body removed to my place, and
clasped him to my breast. It was Lion -my that he was not p: r ku'ar how she was burl al
dog, Lion I y y y as ho did not want anything to go but a
hearse. I asked him to give me a certificate
of burial, when he Made some evasive answer.
I then : asked where the body was, and his an
swer was " close by."
Ile then left without making any agreement,
and I had not since seen him
Dr. Rosenzweig was then brought in an
identified by the map as the party who bad
called on him.
The undertaker gave his name ns James F.
Boyle, and signed the above statement. This
is,conclusive proof as to the guilt of the doc•
tor, and there cannot be any shadow of a
doubt but that he is the party who packed the
body of the young girl in the trunk.
"Great heaven, Keene I what kept you the
whole night in that cursed dead•house ? It ie
near day ; the door has been open this two
hours, and Derby and King have been asleep.
I was gritting on my boots to look for you."
"Why In the name of common sense, did
you let this dog out after me ° Will you tell
me that 1"
"IVIly, he howled like a maniac, and claw•
at the door till I thought you were in some
danger, and I could`nt keep him in."
"Danger I Well, we can't talk now. Rouse
yourself ; I have had an interview with your
maniac, and he is prowling round the grounds
atter me now. Call up the men. I must go
after Philip immediately."
"You don't say so ?"
"Yes ; don't waste a second."
In five minutes the whole force of the hos.
pital was out in the grounds. We took him
in an angle of great door, crouched behind
the jutting wall, ti siting for me ! Ile drew
his lips back over his teeth, in the dumb fe
rocity'of a mad brute, as he saw me, and his
eyes settled into a dull, lurid glare, impossible
to describe, es he hissed out "Ha I this is twice
—twice you triumph ; wait till the third
time !"
Around the blazing grate, in the closing
hour of the tempest-tossed night, we Shook
hands over the gladness of our reunion, and
after the story was over, and the horror first,
and the hualtter after (at the close of my ad
venture), and Derby and King had lett, and
Harry Leigh and I stood at the window watch
the young winter day rise over the hills, there
was something very like tears over the bold,
bright blue eyes as he pointed to the granite
walls of the mad house, and said, " Constance
would hive gone there, Keene, or died and
mine would have been a heavy, heavy life af
ter."
THE TRUNK HORROR
Arrest of the Supposed Principal—
The Trucknu►u's Statement—Au
Undertaker's Story.
NEW Yong., Aug.. 30.—The New York
Papers of last evening have the following par
ticulars respecting the arrest of Rosenzweig,
the supposed murderer of the girl found in a
box at the Hudson River Railroad depot : The
trunk mystery has been partly solvedin a man
ner totally unexpected by the police authori
ties.
At a late hour yesterday afternoon Inspector
Walling received a telegraphic despatch from
Captain Cameron, of the Eighteenth precinct,
to the effect that he had in custody the truck-
man who had conveyed the box containing
the body of the murdered girl to the Hudson
River Railroad depot. The inspector immedi
ately 7 proceeded to the Eighteenth precinct
station house, where he found Warden Bren
nan, of Bellevue Hospital, and a truckman
named William Pickett, of No. 471 First
MEM
Warden Brennan has known Pickett for
ninny years, and gives him an excellent char
acter. Yesterday afternoon Pickett visited
Bellevue Hospital, In great distress of mind,
and after telling the warden that he was the
man who had taken the mysterious box to the
railroad depot, asked for his advice. With
great difficulty Mr. Brennan induced his visa
for to tell his story to Captain Cameron. He '
said that about 1 o'clock on Saturday after
noon a woman came to his stand on the car- I
ner of Twenty-ninth street and Third avenue,
and asked 111th to go to the basement of No.
687 Second avenue and get a trunk of hers,
which lie would obtain by ringing the bell
I and telling the purple what lie wanted. Then
he was to put it on his truck and lake it to the
.Iludson River Railroad depot, whither she
was going in a coupe. She paid him in ad
vance, changing a $5 bill to do so, and They
parted. Ile went to the house, rang the bell,
and, the door opening, was ushered into the
basement chamber. There was no hall. here
he observed several women and a . tall man,
who the carman described so accurately as to
enable Acting Police Sergeant Rooney to
identify him as Jacob RosenzWeig, whom lie
knew well.
As soon as Captain Cameron learned the
address of the house from which the trunk
had been tabu', he despatched Sergeant Roo
ney and several officers to keep a watch upon
it.
Rosenzweig was absent front home when
the sergeant first inquired for hint, but was
shortly atterwards.observed entering a liquor
saloon in the neighborhood. The officer
rushed after him, when Rosenzweig maths a
determined effort to escape, but was promptly
seized and taken to the Eighteenth precinct
station house. The police had some difficulty
in saving him front the fury of a number of
persons, who, by some unexplained means,
had ascertained the reason of his arrest, and
only kept them at bay by displaying their re
volvers.
The prisoner, when safely lodged in the
station house, was confronted with Pickett,
when he strenously denied having seen hint ,
before, He also asserted his perfect ignorance
concerning the trunk and its contents, but was
nevertheless locked up.
Mrs. Rosenzweig denied all connection with
the trunk mystery as fluently as her husband,
hut in the course of conversation she said that
when the truckman called on Saturday site
'was too ill to go down stairs. She afterwards, '
howevers denied that she had made such a
statement. Pickett says that he believes she
was present when the trunk was given to
him. The exact part which Mrs. Rosen
zweig played in this dark mystery is at
present uncertain, and • the police .are
equally at a loss concerning the , woman
to whom was entrusted the delicate task of Ce
corling the body to the railroad depot. They
have, however, now a good case to work on,
and are confident that the chief agents in this
horrible business will soon all be, in prison.
Rosenzweig claims to be a Russian, but has
the appearance of a German. De carries on
his business in South Fifth avenue, near
Amity street, under the name of Dr. Ascher,
Laving, it is said paid /NO for a diploma.
This place was last night searched by Inspec
tor Jameson, and the inmates confronted with
the boy Parks, but he failed to identify any of
them as the womau in the calico 'dress who
hitel th.: coupe on Saturday.
In the meantime the body of the murdered
girl was visited by hundreds of curious per-.
suns, and by a few who were in search °float
friends. Several men and women during the
day visited police headquarters and claimed
ANECDOTES OF PUBLIC MEN.
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From thin Irnshinutult Sunday Chronic!,
Steam is your real revolutionist. It has
altered the physical geography of the civiliied
world. It has bridged the seas, partially an 7
nihilated space and time, opened new high
ways into and redeemed the wilderness,
neighbored far distant States, converted old
cities into new ones, changed deserted villages
into tluiving towns, levelled the forest, crossed
chasms and connected mountains, and ele
vated skilled labor into a science. Imagina
tion is Willed by its present and vainly at
tempts to anticipate its future triumphs. But
in nothing has steam so transformed the face
of the country and the habits of the people as
in the substitution of railroads for turnpikes.
While I was preparing my last sketch, In
which I recalled the genial Zeuos Barnum, of
Baltimore, to th e thousands who knew him
in by-gone days, the famous hotel and inn
keepers of the past rose before me, with the
stage coach, the Conestoga wagon, and the
ancient system of laud transportation. Where
are they now Who that has passed his half
century does not remember them with pleas
ure ? In my young manhood their decay had
begun, but it requires no strong effort to revive
the long train of canvas covered wagons pass
ing through my native town on their way to
and from Pittsburgh and Philadelphia, carry
ing the produce of the West in exchange for
the merchandise of time East, with their hale,
rough drivers, and their long ICather whips,
the corona' of bells on their horses, and their
stoppage at the old taverns for food and water.
They were to the more ostentatious stage coach
what the baggage train is to the lightning ex
press of the present day.
And when these coaches dashed Into Lan
caster, and rushed down the streets, the driver
winding a merry air on his horn, accompanied
by the crack of his long whip, women, children
and dogs rushed out to greet the meteoric
chariot as it drew up with its foaming steeds
at Slaymaker's hotel, on East King street,
and began to throw off the mails, while the
passengers alighted, thirsty, hungry and cov
ered with dust. It was the event of the day.
Repeated at every other station and in every
other town, it was one of a thousand similar
Pictures in other States and countries. Old
England's great highways were made jocund
with post conches, fast horses, daring drivers,
uniformed guards, and jolly passengers. It
was a favorite amusement fur the nobility to
mount the box and hold the reins with four
or six in hand, and ,to course along the level
roads, excelling In feats of daring drivership.
They were ns ambitious to lead in 'this sort of
exercise as their descendants are in boat and
foot races, in pugilistic encounters, and general
gymnastics. Of these scenes the central fig
ure was always the innkeeper, who did not
hold it beneath his dignity to stand in his
doorway, engirthed its his white apron, to
" welcome the coming and speed the parting
guest.'' The class is nearly extinct, though
happily not forgotten. The old-fashioned
publican aspired to tie a gentleman, and was
generally the associate of gentlemen—a con
noisseur of wines, a judge of horseflesh, a crit
ical caterer, and In politics so unexceptionally
neutral, that, when the probable votes of a
town were Estimated, it was generally "so
many Whigs, so many Democrats, and so
many tavern-keepers." These Sir Roger De-
Coverleys—for they were men , f substance
and hospitable to the extreme—have given
way to a generation as different as the Cones
toga wagon differs from the locomotive, the
old stage•driver from the car-conductor, the
railroad director from the stockholder of the
turnpike company. They are the dileitanti of
the hotels, and like Pontiff's robe, rarely seen
and much wondered at. Living in gorgeous
private residences, away from the splendid pal
aces which bThr their names,they in fact vicar
iously feed, room, and care for more human
beings in one day than the men of the past
did in six months. One of these men was
John Guy, who may be called the hero of three
cities—known alike In Philadelphia, Baltimore,
and Washington, though better appreciated in
Baltimore. Born In Lancaster county, Penn
sylvania; I believe, he was the founder of a
family of unrivalled hotel•keepers., He still
lives in Guy's, on Seventh street, Philadelphia
now in curse of rehabilitation and soon to ex
pand into an ostentatious establishment on the
European plan, and in the uneqalled
meat House, nearly opposite Barnum's, in
Baltimore. When I think of him I think also
of Dorrance and Pope Mitchell of the United
States Hotel, of Joseph head of the Mansion
House on Third Street, of Dunlap of the City
Hotel, of Hartwell of the 'Washington House,
and Jones of the old Junes' Hotel, in Phila.'
delphlit ; of Oadsby In Washington, Stetson of
the Astor Hou e; In New York, and many,
many more. There is not a State in the Union
North or South, which could not furnish an
ecdotes of its representatiVe inn-keepers ; of
their relations to public men—to Calhoun in
South Carolina, to Webster In Massachusetts,
to Clay in Kentu ky, to Sergeant S. Prentis
in Mississippi, to George D. Prentice In Louis
ville, and to the lawyers, divines, and orators
who for half a century dominated in those sec
tions. If. these Bonifaces could have kept
records of their experience, what anecdotes
they could relate of the giants of the past, of
their private troubles, their public ambitions,
their contrivances and =cusses, their friends
and their foes I knew many of them, and
could relate many Interesting Incidents if I
had space and time.
Let me recall One in regard to this same
John Guy, sometimes told by my friend
Dougherty, When wo can win him• to
social familiarity and make Imi:n forget
professional responsibilities. • Guy _bore a
triking resemblance to General Loyd
Cass, and while he was proprietor of the
National Hotel, In Washington, the Mich
igan , Senator was among his favorite
guests. Guy dressed like Cass, and
although not as portly, his face, including
the wart, was strangely similar. One day
a western friend of the house came in,
after a long ride, dusty and tired, and walking
up to the office encountered General Cass,
who was quietly standing there. Mistaking
him for Guy, he slapped him on the sholder
and exclaimed: "Well, old fellow, here I am;
the last time I hung my hat up in your shanty,
one of your clerks sent me to the fourth story;
but now that I have got hold of you, I insist
upon a lower room.
The General, a most dignified personage,
taken aback by this startling salute, coldly re
plied: "You have committed a mistake, sir.
lam not Mr. Guy; I am General Cass, of
Michigan," and angrily turned. away. The
western man was shocked at the unconcious
outrage he had committed ; but before he had
recovered from his mortification, Gen
eral Cass, who had passed around the
office, confronted bins again, when, a second
time mistaking him for Guy, he faced him and
.said: "Here you are at last. I have just
made a devil of a mistake; I met old Cass and
took him for you, and I am afraid the Mich'.
gander has gone off mad." What General
Cass would have said may well be imagined,
if the real Guy bad not approched and rescued
the innocent offender frOm the twice-assailed
and twice-angered statesman.
A ODE TO THE POTATO DUG
Composed whilst a pickin' ora 'em altr
You nasty, little, streaked bugger,
There won't be scarce a lat. r dug or
To be had for cash or lawlu',
If yon keep on your cursed chawln' !
Tho sweetness of the Early Ross
Is wasted on your pesky nose ; •
The "desert alr" le where yon prune
To barren stems each Early June.
Could Parson Goodrich from his grave
Behold the seedlings now, he gave
To cheer mankind with good, rich Caters,
he'd want to pay that debt of Natur's
A second time—lie snugly snug
Itcyorayour reach, your buggerly bug !
Pegasus,whoa! whoa! stop your toggle'
I must Ismount, and—back to "
ELLIE'S PRESENT
DY W. G. IT., JR
Ellen Cartwright, "Our Ellen," as we called
her in the village, was the affianced of Charley
Miller.
Charley was a wild, handsome lad, formed
like an Adonis. His hair, which was black as
night, curled luxuriantly from his manly fore
head, in strong contrast to Elbe's golden
tresses.
They loved each other, and their love had
been growing in their hearts ever since they
had been children. Ellie and Charley bad
grown up together. Many were the hard•
fought battles in which Charley had success
fully vindicated the honor of his little sweet
heart.
Often had Ellie caused him pain when they
were children, for sho was inclined to be co
quettish, and many times have the hat, angry
tzars sprung to his eyes, when she would with
a quiet dignity refuse the little gifts which he
would offer.
But Charley was in love ; and Ellen, al
though she tried hard to make herself believe
that she care tk lot nobody, was at last forced
to acknowledge that she did like Charley
" Just a little." '
This little soon became pretty large, and as
they always went to and from school together,
and seemed to avoid their companions, we
must suppose that Charley looked forward
toward the blissful harbor of matrimony.
But the course of true love never does and
never will run smooth, and at the age of six
teen Charley was placed on board a ship, to
learn the brave but arduous profession of a
The day came when Charley was to bid
adieu to home and friends, and we may be
sure it was no easy matter, especially when it
came to taking leave of Ellie. Neither of
them had ever thought of anything so horrible
as having to part, and now when this dread
ful event burst upon them in Its full force it
was terrible.
Any now, Charley determined to bear up
under it, and on the eventful morning he sum
moned up all his courage and knocked man
fully at the door of the little cottage where
Ellen lived.
It was a neat little cottage, with its pretty
porch, the woodbine clambering over It, as
though it was envious of its dazzling white
ness, and sought to cover it with somber
green.
Now although Charley's courage had been
screwed up to the highest pitch while the door
remained closed, no sooner was it opened,
and he caught a glimpse of Ellen sitting on
the little bench he had made, and weeping as
though her little heart would burst, than ho
felt it all melting away like wax before a hot
fire.
In vain he endeavored to speak ; sobs choked
his utterance, and unable to restrain himself
any longer, he sat down beside Ellie, and gave
way to a copious flood of tears. Yes, dear
readers, I am almost ashamed to acknowledge
it, but my hero cried like a girl.
After they both had recovered from their
flt, Charley said : " Never mind, Ellen deur,
I shall be back again in five years."
Five years. It might as well have been five
centuries, and so Ellen thought.
"Five years," said she. " Oh, how is it
possible I can wait five year to see you?"
" Well, Ellen, don't cry," said Charley.
" Some of these days I may be captain of a
fine ship like father was, and
Here ho suddenly stopped, for he saw the
death-like paleness that spread over Ellen's face
as he mentioned his father In connection with
himself, for he, poor man, had been lost at sea
not many years before.
" Oh, Charley I" said she, her voice broken
by sobs ; " should you share your fatlier's fat,?,
what will become of the ?"
' Here she completely broke down.
_ .
" Well," said Charley, who began to feel a
good deal like crying himself, " gond-by,
dear, and when I come back I hope to find
you as good and pretty as you are now."
" Good-by, Charley," she replied, " but
before you go I want to give you something
to remember me by when you are far away."
With these words she ran to the little work
table that stood near, and slezing a pair of
shears cut off one of her beautiful ringlets and
gave it to him.
Cfli:Iill
Five years have rolled on in their swill and
certain course, making considerable changes
in ourselves and all around Farmer Cart
wright's little cottage has been enlarged, and
his farm lies increased in size. He has also
been heard to hint something about giving up
farming in a couple of years, with vague ru
mors of a town residence, if crops prosper, etc.
• His daughter had just returned from a fash
ionable boarding school, and is now a finished
young lady. -
The inhabitants of the little village are in high
spirits, for theirold favorite, Charley Miller, is
expected home shortly.
On the porch of Farmer Cartwright's cot
tage are seated an old man and a young girl.
In the old man we easily recognize the honest
old farmer himself, and after some difficulty
we find the young lady to be neither more nor
less than "Cur Ellie."
"Ellie, my daughter," says the fanner, " I
run 'glad to see you looking so happy. I know
the cause, and It puts me in good spirits, for
Charley Miller is as fine n lad as I know of in
all the States." •
ROBERT IREDELL; JR.
Pain Ant
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ant; ifancv Sub it - tite,
No. 603 HAMILTON STREET,
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" Yes, father, I know ho is a good boy, and
1 shall be so glad to see him back: I wonder
if he is much changed. But, father, who is
this coming up the road? Ho is drased like a
sailor." And then to herself, "what a hand.
sonic young fellow I"
And indeed ho was. His thick black hair,
curling mound a finely moulded head, on
which his little tarpaulin hat was set jauntily;
a black mustache, encircling a pair of ripe
cherry lips ; his fine form, shown to advantage
by his sailor's dress, all went to make up one
of the handsomest young men that had been
seen in that part of the country for many a
long year.
He advanced, whistling a merry tune, to
the gate leading to Farmer Cartwnglit's cot
tage lifted the latch and entered.
"who can it be? "thought Ella.
Ile came nearer ; Ella's heart beat falter ;
surely she had seen that eye before.
"Ellie!" he exclaimed, "can It indeed be
you ?" And in a moment they were clasped
in each other's'arms.
"0, Charley !" said Ellie, kissing him rap
turously, in total disregard of all boarding
school principles.
"Charley, my boy," said the old man,
slapping hinOon the back, " I'm heartily glad
to see you home safe, and looking so well."
" Well," said Charley, " I must return the
compliment. Ellen, you've grown lovely
since I left; and you, Mr. Cartwright, are
growing young again."
" Well, boy," said the old man, laughing,
" come in to supper, and tell us all about your
voyage."
So saying, he caught Charley by one atm,
and Ellie caught him by the other, and mar
ched him off Into the house.
The next day the Cartwright cottage was
besieged by the villagers, all anxious to get a
look at the returned mariner.
One month from that day Charley again bid
his friends good by. But this time there was
no crying.
Ills last words to Ellen wer ' Good-by,
Ellen, darling, this is my last voyage. In one
year from to-day, I will return and cla you
as my wife.;'
The old farmer said, " Charley, 1 know
Ellen will make you a good wife. May God
be with you, and bring you home safe."
* * k k * * *
This brings us to Ellen's birthday.
Ellen was sorrowtul on this birthday. On
her lest, news had been brought her that
, the
ship in which Charley had sailed was wrecked,
and every ono on board lost.
This news, had nearly killed our poor, tender
Ellie. However, she recovered from the effects
of this blow, but an expression of melancholy
resignation had settled itself on her lovely
countenance.
As WRS.IIIB custom, herliither had made her
many beautiful presents on this birthday, but
none of them had succeeded in brightening,
for a moment, her angelic features.
Tier father and she were sitting on the porch
as usual. Three years had passed since the
evening that Charley had entered that porch,
when Elicn had been so joyful and happy.
What a sad change, those three years have
made?
While they sat there, a stranger was seen
coming up the road. He was pale, wan, and
feeble, no shoes on. his feet, and his clothes in
rags. lie came up to the gate, opened it and
entered.
"Does Farmer Cartwright live here?" he
asked, In low, hollow tones.
"Yes," replied the farmer.
Ellen on seeing the stranger had sunk into
a reverie.
. -
"I have come," said he, "to give you news
of Charley Miller, who left here some three
years ago and has never been heard of since."
At the mention of Charley's name, Ellen
brightened up.
"Ohl quick, tell me what has become of him;
does he yet live?"
"Ile does," replied the stranger. "Oh
Ellen, don't you know me?"
"Old Charley, is Ryon?" she exclaimed, and
fell fainting in his arms.
"A fit birthday present," murmured the old
man.
Any person in the neighborhood of Cart
wright cottage, next morning, would have
been surprised to see the old man's capers in
the only°. He would run and jump, then
dance; and, we were informed by an eye
witness, he actually tried to stand on his head.
Fancy an old farmer of sixty trying to stand
on Lis head. But then, we must make allow
ances. Charley had come horns safe, afu r
being supposed by everybody to be dead. He
had escaped by means of a spar, been picked
up by a French ship and taken to France.
From there he. worked his passage to New
York.
One week from the day of his return Charley
and Ellen were married. They Lave had
children and grandchildren, and th „. ..llttle fel
-1 lows are never so happy as when grandma
takes them on her lap, on some cold winter
evening, and tells them the story of her birth
day present. •
GLEANINGS AND GOSSIP
Queen 'Victoria don't give her royal retain
ers enough to eat.
Au Irish girl in Pottsville blew out the gas.
A sick lady in the room narrowly escaped
suffocation.
Reading has a remarkable case of catalepsy.
The average circulation of the New York
Daily News for the past year was 103,152
Charles \Vinson, ago 99, hanged himself in
Duxbury, Mass., on Tuesday night.
Eli Carr of Cleveland was crushed to death
under a car, at the Ohio Falls car works on
Tuesday.
A well fell in at Staunton, Va., yesterday,
burying alive two colored men - who were
working in it. The bodies have not, yet been
recovered.
A sailboat upset off Bristol, It. 1., last eve
ning, and Frank, son of Jacob 11. Martin
of Providence, was drowned. Ills two com
panions were rescued.
Mrs. Alexander Taylor of Newburgh, N.
Y., was struck by lightning yesterday morn
ihg, while engaged in household work, and
was seriously injured, remaining M40E1860119
for four hours.
David Tilton of New York, convicted in
Buffalo of complicity in smuggling, was yes
terday sentenced to five months' impriaonment
in the Erie County Penitentiary, and to pay
a fine of 161,000.
Mr. John C. Cleary, who was founil with
his throat cut in Washington, on Tuesday,
received his wound in an affray with a former
business partner named Gorbutt. The wound
was made with an eraser and is not serious.
The bark Alice Campbell of Boston, from
Gottenberg, with iron, was picked up aban.
doned in miles south of Black Island and
brought into Newport, yesterday, by the pilot
boat A. Leggett of New York. She had been
,in collision. No papers were on board.
Tile L 0111816128 Secretary of State hat been
removed. Charges of corruption are made
against the New Orleans Common Council.
The recent rains have caused destructive and
widespread freshets.
A compromise has been agreed .on in the
French Assembly on the question of prolong
ng M. Thiers's term of office. M. 0 smbet
has withdrawn his proposition for the disso
lution of the. Assembly. Another initallment
of the war indemnity has been paid.
ALLENTOWN, PA
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