13 ADVERTISING RATES 31 1 mo. 3 mos. 6 moo 1.91. 1.50 1.75 3.50 6.60 12.0 . 9.00 9.50 6.50 9.00 20.0 . 4.50 6.23 9.00 17.00 25.10 11.50 17.00 25.00 45. 19.60 2200 40.03 60. 1 0 20.00 40.00 60.00 110..0 30.00 60.00 110 00 200.10 One lr s krie S quares Six nurtures, Quarter Column Halt Column . Ole Column Professional Cards 111, 03 per line per year. Administrator's and Auditor's Notices, $3.00 City Notices, 20 cents per Haslet Insertion 15 coats per Ins each subsequent insertion. Ten lines agate constitute a square. ROBERT IREDELL, JR., PUBLIOUSIIs ALLENTOWN, PA D 1: Exactas. LeIIIAINTRE do ROSS, 212 North Eighth Street, Phila. By confining thsmeolves lo a opecial line. of goods and debt ir i l l ' oTer ro d ?. tro e g i Vis e7al o ;s a y " " Arl e :l ' ag th d a e n , Shone le wanting to make up the mast thorough stock of • WHITE GOODS, All sorts of Laces, and at this season a specialty Is made of ' NOTTINOTHE LACE CURTAINS gro lM..lll 3 l , c o nal: s l t n o er i t . bi o th n e c i . yard. The choicest Our 27M pieces, representing more than Ni MO yards of HAMBURG EDGIHGB AND INSERTINGS All select patterns and blittoirAole edged, Bias tacking and hies tucking combinations made solely fur their Owli 61.08. WHOLESALE AND RETAIL. may I•tfw • E. 8. 81113111 R.) uR EA. 8. EMIBIER Increase in Businses NECESSITATED INCREASE IN STOCK I SPRING AND SUMMER ANNOUNCEMENT DAIL Y ARRIVALS, Emma " MAMMOTH STORES." E. S. SHIMER & CO., 705 AND 707 HAMILTON ST., ALLENTOWN, PA., FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC DRY GOODS OUR frYnClt Is entirely too extsnal•e to euumerate ar ticles. end will only air that It la Itt'l nud com p .. to every part color, comprising ail the d.tfe rut novelties of the tacos, and at prices ,bat rautett be endemid by any our. We keep everything usually kept la a well regulated Store. In DRESS GOODS Such au BL,4"K SILK% FANCY COLOlir FANCY .Y PRIPRD SI R. JAP SR.AR S TRIPP') SILKS. BLACK .01IAIR and ALPACAS. BLACK WOOL BELAIVRS BLACK HOMO 12 , NHS and OA NTON CLOTH, ALSXRS CLOTS all SI1.11)LS CNA:TONS. LAIRS I• STILES. IVIHOOT COLOSSI) MOIIAIRS OuLoRIIII A) PAPAS. CH aNE DEES., GOODS, hc. DOLLY YARDENS, of ever/ Possible description and dotign SHAWLS ! SHAWLS ! CASHMERE, THIBET, BROCTIE and FANCY and STEWED BiIAWLS WHITE GOODS ! Plain and Plaid Naintook", Victoria Lawns, French Naineo• Ice and Organdie", Piques and Afarsaillee, Swiss Cambric', s•c. AIARSAILLES SPREADS, EMBROIDERIES. HAMBURG EDGINGS. LACES and IN .%TRTINGS. PARASOLS AND UMBRELLAS, FANS; &C Cloths and Cassimeres, Prints, Sheen vs, Checks, Tiekings, Cottonade , , lientueky Jeans, Denims. Chambray, Flannels, &c. ALSO, ALL KINDS OV GRO CERIES WOOL. goiLdongl,.bgrP6o..doKe for wldch e)ex- c od ch. highest tharset price. Respectfally. E. g. OOIMER St CO.. Nov. 705 and 707 ilumlitoo Street, atirl7-lf tv) ALI.ENTOWDI, PA. TO THE PUBLIC. REMOVAL. tiUR NEW STORE. GUTH_ & KERN, DEALERS IN DRY GOODS, WOULD most respectfully call the attention of their friends.cuatomere. and the public gouerally, to , the font that they have Jost removed to their newly xad elegantly Stied ¢p STORK BUILDINO, one door went of their form• or loottion.and immediately adjoining the Pint National Bank. being the bonding formerly occupied by Schreiber Bro. • where they propose to continue e • DRY GOODS BUSINESS in all its Teri. branchee. They have the lipoid, boat and cheapeet /lock of 000D8 ever offered to the public, embracing everything that the public eau wish. They would eepecially invite the attention of all, to their doe assortment of LADIES' DRESS GOODS. This department they flatcar themselves to be the best ever offered to the public of Allentown ■nd •lelnlty, for style. quality and oheapneoo, good. of the moot approved pitterno, de., eonslotlny .f Black and Fancy Sllka. Black and Panay 811 k Poplin. Black and Paltry Mohair, Mack and Fancy Alpaca.. Black and Colored Btrlped Suiting.. Black Born baalnes, Black Amarallan Crape. Black Pop. liar, Bleck' Velveteons, Bilk Velvet, Sat. In Striped Vernalller Cloth. Satin Striped Lorne Robe.. Silk Strip. • • ed Mohair. Silk Pillared Sol. • taus, Brocade Japan,. Bilk,. Brocade Pop lin., Berge Wool . Plaids Scotch Wool Plaids. Cord lad Colored Velveteen.. Eng lish 'and French Chfatrea, Plaid Poplins, Plald Chintzes. Plaid Nainsooks, BrOche. Thibei, Ile lona, Saratoga, Vieille, Loot Branch. Ni. and Watervliet Loot and Square BFIAW LB, in GREAT VARIETY. arCA LL •and SEE. As that are buying strictly for cash. they flatter them• selves that they • can afar go eat inducements to patio. er Ming to boy good Goods at reasonable prices. The* only set the public to tire them a call and exam• las their at.k, and compare prices and gustily. They defy 'competition. Thankful for past favors. they will endeavor to merit • continuanee,of the patronage of their old castomera, as well as of all new comers. HIRAM GUTH) Jan 2111 m d Inn ...mem 101rAPSIVIV, The treat remedy( to for bola, coVe, and ill Alevines ante stomach tad bowei. born. U . ures every Clll.ll. ./SOLD SR IS ail..i • Ina frith, mentor Fifty Casts. flagr a leeted eeeee wham irkt. 11W U., W. YiDAlf,_ O. e. VOL. XXVI umsEel mum DER I I WHOLESALE AND RETAIL! HOFFMAN 'S STEAM SAW MILL LUMBER YARD ! KINDLING! BILLS CUT TO ORDER OFFIOE AT THE MILL, FRONT AND LINDEN STS. • Winn, AND BLACK OAK RAW LOGS wanted, for which the highest ',bullet prico will be paid upon deny- Tr. JUIY 12.1, NOTICE. OPPI.III OP THE CITY TRRASITIIIta. ‘I.I,P.NTOWN. 312.1 Th 2.9, 1872. „ . . Notice Is hereby Sleet, that' ho, Unptlcato .or .ho collec tion.( Water Panto for OP engolog year ha been placed In 'he haude of the nodontigned. I accordance with the Srevint.e of tholt Pecltna tr an Orthned a regulating the ietribatlen of wailer m Cm City of A Ilentowthan follows: ” Fite. 3. That all recta for the nee of the scoter othall ho Payable In advance to dot !trot day of April ti a. niter the contra t, and r 'tonally In advance Ira. Mot day to the City Treasurer, to hit. office or hi. pinee of lot and to all rents remaining nopaid om the:hult day of x.. 1,1 mouth of April there plod' ho 11.1.10 d 5 par coot., owl to rota rr• mainlng nun 1 on the !trot tiny of Jou., 1011. ruing there Ith II he lidded 1 'per cool.. and to 0.1 routs rentatning nn paid on tbe tient dov ofJuly thereafte• thero shall he added IN) per neut., which atioto.4 shell be collected with the said rent, and all dklinquents at that data The Treasu re/ In forthwith to give t e pornna owning limo pr..tolann written note of sold ord. (meanie., stating 'ho :mount of rent, ocludlng the Wean , et per eetlto{l.l hr 0011 pa. lineal In full to hold date.'and on the fit lure of the deltegoontit to make too requorod payment witiou ten Oily-lilt, r nu to thereof. It nhall bit the duty oft o %kat, Committee forth. with to coon° the feretdes of such deltequent ti be de la. hod from the tope of m oadnit.•lllid 0140.0 ..111 PI le be In• 'dilated for the recovery of the rest, tool p r ceetago no due.. an for .1 '•x Incurred to detaching the ferrule.. order of rho C•onteltioe. JONATHAN REICHARD, City Treasurer. rnay2.9wd mat ft ettv WINDOW SHADES ! and Ilollands, all colors, plain and bardorod. at SAMZEL G. KERR'S, 63,2 Hamilton Streot, (Nort door to Until .11 Korn'tt.) A. R. WITTMAN, NOTARY PUBLIC AND CIVIL ENGIALER T. B. LEISENRING • INSURANCE AGENT, FIRE, LIFE, AND LIVE STOCK WITTMAN & LEISENItINO Real Estate Agents and Scriveners 70S HAMILTON STREET, (Up-Stain.) Have which among' upon their boots some very dentrablu propertle will be sold at low prices and on easy / Ferree which are the following 142 N. Sle•enth Street. I 210 N. Ninth Street. 321 0 . Fountnin Street. i 4:18 N. Seventh Street. 8 I Hamilton titieet. 110 y. hint h street. 841 I Vile int Loin 1111411 parts of 101 North Tenth Street. the Oily. 449. Fifth Street. The Moth-Proof Chest Co ', Of Philadelphia, Pa. Theorporatrd Aug.. IS7I. I 8 NOW M ANUF ACTURING 'AIR-TIGHT, COD• 114•111 ED Corers and Tr 1.,0.nr Venous slay.. PAP. a box go for MeV. II Ott CAPER Ur.. I one and whole Sulte.of every dory Ifni,. 'byre articles are lull‘• recor.d by letters 0,1001 or the U. B , and are believed to be unwell the nowt denirahle of anything now reeking Iho noble favor A INDIA and nealefr w ant. d Cu loiroaneo them in every towh in the U. h..tawhom st liberal discouoi will be given, Addreee, RI". W. FKAACIS, lion'y. • SI. P. (.. Co. niar27 Sto dill] CV W.I Ili Kr.. PHI, P.. GAS FIXTURES. THACKARA, BUCK & CO., MANUFACTURERS, Hayejlast opened nt their wholesale at d retail salesroom 718 CHESTNUT STREET, PHILADELPHIA. NEW STYLES OF GA S FIXTURES, TO WHICH THEY INVITE THE ATTENTION OF PURCHASERS. Their new styles, color and finish are nosUrpasesil LOW PRICES.. They also 'novae the attention of the nubile to their llos assortment of lirot,zon. Capt2dandew JEWETT'S PALACE EVE!? HWILA TOE ! The Coolest and Mora Perfee A I'OR evor Conatrue,ed. ALSO. SA 1 - 191? Y'S PATE NT COMBINED Dining Room Water Cooler AND REFRIGERATOR .Vor sale at ISAAC S. WILLIAMS & CO'S. ROUSE FURNISHING STORE, No. 728 Market Nt., Philadelphia Deecriptive Circuisis sent on aPplice.lo/3. Established 1804 mayl7•2m dtir] .HAYES, COULTER & CO., (THOR. KERN. in 0.91.3133 w Heaters, Ranges, Low Grates, MARBLEIZED SLATE MANTELS, No. 13,15 Chestnut ISt., PHILADELPHIA us.sidad for talologne AND PATENT 0:=1 Litsc . cessors to W. A. Arnold I=l finT7 Omdiw • • Ir •t • • 4 ':to' • . . I+ t y, a t• • • 4" , e. ; • tr r tri . . doctored, spiced, and sne-teneil to plence the taste, called "Tonic , '" "APPeliters," " Restore, 3," Le., that lead the tippler on to drunkenness and ruin, but are a true Medicine, made front the native root: and herbs of eali fornia, free front all Alcoho:le. Stimulants. They arc the Great Illood Purifier and a Life-giving Prinrip:e, a Per. feet Renovator and Invigorator of the System, carrying off all pols matter, and estoi . :lls the Wood to a healthy innott enrichitot it, refreshing and invictiratiog both Mina and body. They are r.oy of ailintnistraiion, prompt its their action, cert in their rostilt , ,uio reliable in all forms of di .e.e.o. No PertiOln eon take thetie Illttrry croon!. log to direc;ions, and rennin 1.1115 t i, IWO, laud their bones arc not destroyed by mineral pokon or other memos and the vital organs nose I beyond the lep.m. Driorpoln. or lotll.4eslion. 11,1(1.1rhe. Pain in the Shoulder:, cough , , Tig!ann :4 of the ( Dirri• 11[6‘, Sour Eructatont,ot the Stonlorlt, Tall, in the Aloud', Mullis rt nark:, I'n past of the Ile irt, 111 , 11.1totinatitut of the Lull •, l'alo in the reoiort, of the KA. nevr, and a lotiolied other 101 : 111 : 11 , synod:cep, are ilie off. sprin7,o of )yrpepri.l. 111 1 he, complsont: it 1101 no equal, and one 1.1 1:0 Nvill pro, a hytter •,..,11,12,ttilee of its nieiits thin lene,tliv akveitkeinent. For Female Compiniva. to rigid or siogle, at . the 11.111 11 I d of lice, %hone TI MM, I:.Ntel, Al 11, 11%1 :lit iiillti.c., that a niarl.e.l inuonvenlent • 11l p...epi.' l'or lullnuutlutory and l kroute ItIo•o— -loot 1 , 1111 and ' emitt. ‘tt,l:l, 1. 11 , , leolittent and Intel/11;1,m V. ni., 1 /..o•res du. I to, Liver, Kidney, .11111 I:101111er, the:, :::•1 11, slit. Snobl J., .tr . ..le 10, I 1: ' wh l rit is gener.l.lyponlun,l of the 1)t -geq.i.ve (hg tog. 'Flat.). are n Gen: Ptiegltl lee well gpi the ...1 ir r f 3: 1..g.1.1.111.11,11 of - tilt:l.ll,r and Vmitir.ii it. I i. Irnr Skit. D/sritste4, Ene.e m , „ Rheum, 1:' , .“.11,, Stet:, , , Koigils.orlll,, I 1 Itch, SClll'l. l , Co- , Lip at the. do:. t itit. .1 time I,v th, re iof the .0 I: pi:, ill., •. i.t raceswill convince the 1110, 11:101/11:1111. effect:. elloutge the VII Intel lilnod 111111 its unputi, but-torz thlov . ;:t Y.e 1 I : All:I:1, El - 11101011, 10 SI:0 . 1:C11,11. fi .1 tt structvil and ,10;p4isl ill the se c itt • at- • 1, v ' , ,•,1 i• full; your feelutt;s tda t, I you win:. K I. pure, and the Ites , th id the •-.),e111 v.. I t., • •, Grateful 111.111.41111k114 110. ' A I'l \ II: Itrr. Tr,: the 11111-1 woutlettul I uci;; , ,lstitt thst v‘cr ,11•1.11111, the .inking sy . teni. Pln, u:ol other NVorr cvstent nt Inv 1 . ..1:Ani1 , . ate r,t, cut, and reoluved. S ivs a tl..:111 4 .• Ii II pII ItL is ccatvely ;nth. s, upoo the t e 111 • t stilt utu..o I iir exempt Item the 1 .ie,•ll, •or vssit, It i up°n the he tltlivitlenv•nt; nt II.• I I,llv 111.11 mom, y:. , but upon the d . ',l 11,V ,•0I that th,e tinv,,, • I' I 0•. . • rtt 1.11 an h. , t... ..Irtit nut. %%sum I: •• tilel 'on .31rellmblhal Ptivirtag its Paints; mist Nlstscitiarit., Nits Is as l' svis'iss eirs'illtei.ittisit, anti Nisiest. as :Li.; :siva s.. s ,• . lis• stasisict to 'lit s iti is ss, this tale it tisste ss 1111,, lVOC:, as n 11111(mx. It ettastletti, 17'ieverg, which al', I 1. • great I,e, rhnott,ll , mt the 1 . :. • .. thn, of Ow 111i...i5:i11., (Ph' • Ni.A. I. 'I (:onberl.rorl, Ir. rl. .ionAtio, linAtto 12i,oCoratide. A'AbArll.l, ,Loor , , mod maw: other, ~th vA thr,l4hoot Our LIAO, r SinmolL n Atlontro, annri reinal!ral. v ot, v.t.tvu.ll he. dryne , l,ll• rivn.wgvowsnt i!..• 10..• n, r strut:Lion: 1111/1, lIVC, aN%I• •P, I a• t• !tala clozged NVII!I 611111 , 1 .1...11!:01 . ,1 11, 1:41 .11. Illellt, poggaiva, eNraie;.; a ,lae,a ip.. thew vaame; ea: IS ,y Tili I, 1 , 111, ier purpo.e e.pt.d, to 10, .1 IV N1.1Z1,11 . 1i VINEGAR i:/ rri 1., a: thav • peadi v Clll,l' are datka , dawil yea d ei.t•ler ... loaded, .a •. hver, ahtl gencrAtty I,2,:ttritt . ; t,to ittit, httit. tti the igest, weatt+. Scron.lP. 01. Ern, \"!t'te Ulcer% N, t (;tt.t. 1. ntl ottt. Intlltnnhttittl, 1nt1.,: rot Intl thlttt t., 't tt ttl fectitth:. (t:tl t.4ttrt. , , tt;elt•tt.. tt! tht• e~c Wnht,thit's Vt.trt,tt 1:r, IV '110,% „rt., Dr. NVnllcer't. Cznlifttrltist ittet.t . te r lii tlerot act tat all 0w.... ia c,roir.t Ilic C 1,.. lc -c .m.ic the cliect: 1e01 , 1,11. rc..!al the affected pa .t: ...I .1 j` , 1111.11,1/L Lute is efferted. The propert I. of I)u. BiTTEit: ar, palient. hl n 'Play .Iperient 111 Ws; rr. N. a, th • guard ul .01 m opt :t,l hum, a of the taucm. .1 .tut in the nervous m.s:t. Irmo ill.lm.im. ‘,ll t Coontr. , .ll.lllL . I).nrc‘ic nd 11,11 ' 1.1,; •, ;:, 11,n. propeLtiv. ‘11.2 1., l it , tl.-cll.vg, th... 11,11 • 11... i tclneri:3l I'lll VO, r and .1 111 .kt,ll I: Ipt:L.. .1 .64trtlfy the body it:settle I: ,•::• r. , l tt : CI It, c. t:t I:c , make 1..,'d of.t i,ien: 11111 s I.l,.‘rrhrd. 'lllO 1.1. ~ ;I m.l 1.. stoch. C , ie ;1,1 the nerve, rendvred The Fitllettey of I /n. ,t 4EO VIN 1.1,11 1;11 . - Tear. 111 Clll./.110 /,',ll/...1.1. Cl/11 , 11:11, , I. 11,'!“ v.:.,1 .1.1 nn a.: c. th, ,t,mtach, 1.. t or tau ct . . y.tem, of thot...ml:, and looKlred, th.m: .1 I, in,: lot 112 ..tole of the rm.,: red at night from a 11.1 . . t one 011 d 01, 11...111.11 , ..,....1..1111i. Eat pied ettetisiting lood. .Itc It a, I mutt, 11 'chop, veni,o, 11.4 ,• .11! tale titter exvrci,.. 'I hey ar, como.. L.wc.y iogrudtews. and 0 , ,1:11 111111, j. \VA LEER. PI It• MeDON.I.I.D& Drop:J:4s and Gen Salt aerl comer :it , lettgitott . SOLD lIY AND AIATTINGS ! Canton, Con ;a, and Can Mats. Rug , . itiootorks. Cornet-I ntlrl ov , r y t hwg pettotoot t , to tt well ailtoistod Cu et otute,ut SAMUEL G. KERR'S 632 Hamill on St.. MEMO D RS. JORDAN x HAViESON, Proprietor. of tho Gallery of Anatomy and Museum of Science, MO7 CII ESTNUT ST., PH I I,A. llnvejont publlebed n uow edttloo of their lecturee,con• tithing must valuable tufornottlou ou rho CA 111 , 1,4, eonne• quoucen nod trenttnent elioinelie or the iFlitiolllCllVe eyillatn, With RRX•RICti 'OS bIeRRIAOR and the variant. onto. of the Lose tat lileolloon,. wit, lull Neut.:U.le rot ito complete riotorolluo,; Rl.o n .11117 , 1..1 . 00 IN PICNICS, oat the Iliac OF CORR, boleti the 1101,1 coil FlLKlllifielVat WORK un thesub3ect oiler yet pub.l.hed— ootttpritoOn WO pages. blade free to nun admires ft. Twenty-llva coots. Address brs.JORDAN & DATIESON . CONSULTING OFFICE, 1625 Filbert Street, Philadelphia. 21.1 r dlegr CAUTION. To families who nse:tho Koroarne or Combination fills Hems... ull is not safe unless It's from 110 10120 &great w hich yon can always find tattle troll known Chinn titors IVAL REIMER 611 HAMILTON STREET, M=E! Alan, anything In the CHINA, CLASS or (WRENS WARE line at the vet) , lowest rate, and alive), the Tort beat ENGLISH WARE, warranted not to graze. N. B.—ln regard to the Combination nit, which annuls tell you Is nou•saplosl•n. I hove thoroughly •--ted Nand I say It Is Explosive dna Mani/mops. I can te.er to five •iplonlons le uou wren In this Llty where toe Colilbina lion Oil wan In use, 0a12(4. d LADIES' HAIR BRAIDS, I yard bug. v , rl/.( 011 30 inches feng. rerY /0 II Dingern ltruitlx arrow? the Gad. thick. without ra/L5 4 00 Long Sl,le Curls, Natural 9 01 Very Loll(/ Curtx. Nat urn/ a no MEM GUARAN ME FOl2 REAL _NATURAL lIAIR, LOUIS BALZER, mapl.3md.lov7 IVO CHI:Sr:MT ST., P 1111.5 CARPETS. A large annortrnent tu Bruisele uf the newest u Slagle nut Double WitWIN .1 SAMUEL G. KERR'S GAIWET IVIREHOUSh7, 632 Hamilton St. AU the new color. le Tbreo•Ply, Ingrate, Danteek and Venetlm Carpet. at SABIUE.I. 0. wEll'S POPULAR STORE, G 32 Ilamll.on SI.; Allentown QAMUEII. A. RUTZ, ATTORNEY Al' A 7 LAW. °Mee, No. GU Ilatolltoo street, over tiara- Wen store, ALLLNTOWN PA.w ALLENTOWN, PA., WEDNESDAY MORNING, JUNE 19, 1872. " New Oiti.m.;:s, •Setoh,r 30th, 18—. "I write to you, Bator, to say that no option will be allowed you as to your removal from the vielnlty of MC and nitric. " I Caine buck to my native lan', bringing with me it mesh] of my lost one 101 MY wife, the resem A BEAUTIFUL BUT DANOEItoUs nrittolNE. [dance in person and character between the two M iss (7ranston, a very accomplished woman, att raet hut ale IrreSi.tibly to 1101011. 111 ISM Mille Mliell her In Le ffocage to Merl kept it female school near Blanton, a otiiet " I town In New Jersey. This place hod been the stini,7 , terrible foie, leo! I nut here encountered ,wh.oto.l tic Mrs. ishdio, the mother oh . ono o r t a li d p r rh c • e s i t: ,., , , v i l i tt , , ,, at . t . 7l ,, , i l Zelina lu her last illness, the Rival tatters, a. her liimie , on account of .. A n .: my to.or,:ire„::;„ write it! the [alumni, in °title school. Mrs. Blake leach , "Gn far away—take your daughter. her dvent in Blanton in the character cif a t'• 1 .ou net Huh in my owe right, toll when she widow who hail ri emitly lost her hushand, Is old enough to marry, I will give her is suitable and she brought with her a daughter ten yearn dower. Tlll4 Is all I can, or will do. of age, named dotter, who Woo 010,11 Wall '. ARMAND LANDIFY." Miss Cranston as a pupil. " I had nothing to do but obey Armand's Hester Bloat, was a remarkaille child. Command," continued Mrs. Illalte,•" anti so I Miss Cranston found her a curious study. cane. hither with you, where we have lived "It she is not letnnted, all may go well with till now. 'fins Is my history." lier," thought the old lads ; '' but if she i 4—" cii.kprEit It. andtii,.. , ,»in., shiik, or the head expressed I In. ore than words. . / A PHYSICIAN IN LOVE: WITH THE DAUGHTER- Mrs. Blake had fifteen hundred thdlars 11 A FILNIII,II I PLOT. year, which she anted wits deri red Iran prop There woe residing in the same village with erty In the South ; but where it was situated, Mrs. Blake and her daughter a physician, 1111‘1 ill what place she had lived before she I twenty-eight or thirly years or age—Dr. Ma• c. n —.owlet tor Ili it years had been ardently in :mule her advent in Blanton, was a matter of conjecture. No amount 01 pumping host been love with the daughter. She had toyed aid succes+ful in extracting such information from trilled wi Ii hint during all that time ; hut he e tie r mother or daughter. . had finally ksistufl upon 0 decided answer to For a few years 1 111. stranger lived almost I his suit, and tin that very evening he was alone, for her frietiilkas tole, in among them chnhttg. in !earn inn We ' As he. .urPinwhed hail not inspired Jo r [wielded:A whit mulch the house lie overheard .the yokes of mother coati ;once in her antecedents ; , hut as time and daughter engaged in close converation, went 011, she won 1111011 tllO good opioion oh I sad drawing near to lie window and meanly tau.,' around her, and at the time Inv store listening, lie had obtained lull possession of „ 1 „.,, 5 , Mrs. 111,,k,, w oo n 05 .,v,,,i e,,, a guest by the li risible secret of Mrs Bfalte's lily. Molly the best 'amines ill the village. in love, and utterly unscrupulous, lie at once People did not trust her, bin they admired ,:elerolhlNl to tuna , ' tiny use whiell 'night he and pined her ; for M..) . said "AO is LOl , l I v 111-CeSOlry or his newly art - mired advantage to to look at, and SllO 11;l4 OVlllellt Iv 1,1.11 Il•SIIII.r:I SITIO,. the 1110111 01 Heeler.. tot in the battle of Itht." Al, i. if they had On that very evening 1)r. Macon was en known how, and under what cheninst owes ght:e Ito lake Ica with Mrs. Blake and her that toile fuel been wa ,, e•l, 1 ant inclined to oitughter ; toil their old It mselteeper return hojok 1 1:A , No , oloom , widow ~,,0 1, 1 1 , 1 ,.,. id 'tom tit . village with the intelligence that !mind few trends or dell:Alders in that strait a shoetting 'unload .:Weident had occurred in laced neighborhood. the vicinity, and the Doctor had hastened off The cotta g e occupied by .lies. Illalte stood I . to ilit. as-isiance 01 tile wounded. ',boot a little from the town. It was a COM • On the 0 turn of Dr. .laciiti he called upon Ittriu le loan •, will it veranda in flow, over 31 is. Blake and surprised her with the infor which flowering vines were trained, and the notion IMO 10110ag the Ilan. Wits Armand LOC. large yard that surrounded it wits shaded by I d ry , InhrtatlY blithe , ' ! Ile was aceomPanied elm trio s. • by los daughter, the hale-sister of 11. suer, and Sh e w, now th.,.„ nt ity ~....4 itra in g i n ,,..l an „.b. I she had 110e11 stunned by a blow On the In ad. ter, who scan I in front of a mirror combing They were both lying at a ham-house near out it mass of Mad: glistenin 2.: It llr. - by, and Mr. Landry', knotting tli it lie must TI „. ii ,,„,.,. „, the g i r l w „,,„,1,.m.d n r, r file, hail I equested that 'luster should visit that .of tier mother; Inert, was the 5 11110 le 0 hint tile next not ning, that lie Might inform keti ,,,, or out , lie;ow ~.,„„,, s.„„0„,, elastic her of the p colliery provision which he had ! movement ; but, the tares were not alike. , made tor her 1010111111. SileSlldliellly turned, and litchi s ; her mother, • ,\ nil now was C meowed one of the most said: . ; fiendish plots evi r devis-d by the human THE RIVAL SISTERS . . .. " I . IIC dull MOLION'IIy Of this pl ice j, - . , , 1), c f m, , Olio I. It was stlizgesteil by Mrs. Blake, and im; unendurable to ine. I wish LO See ,0111 C• IIC,IIIieS C ,SI 111 by Dr. M con and !tester, that thin:, of the world—l la'141; a e it, mther." , the I' iii sister, who was still unconscious, Wit li II Sigh, )[n.l; li;a1:0 aii I : 1 siimild be kept in it slate or imbecility by '' drugs which the 1 " ( "" st"'ull! 81,1 ""IlY l o re quiet while I speak of thin, 1 1,, 1 ti h nos t L k.. minister to bar for that purpose, and Ili ster II mined never 111 reveal to yon." , •Wil4isa TeSClllbiallea lii her Was BO Clone as to Ile,ter sat down, an I prep ,red In listen to 4lelY delection —should usurp her place as 1 unless of tile flittnense estates entailed upon what die had So 1011C.' dealr. d to 1•11o1V. rs. Blake at I.• 11,10.11 ,poke: : lilt' hall . sister thr..ti4ll her mother. " Yon ask me how it, happened that 1 was ! , The inducement, to 1)r. Macon was Nester's cast oil ny the Illall 1 adored'? . why h, „., l proinisemn the arc . unplishini nt of the schetne, permitied to wrmi.4 Mt! S. bitterly as to tiring , I" b""'""u lit"v". to his Mime another wile while I yet lived I But \viten Hester came to read 'over the let awl-,uttered ? I tars which lay concealed in the bottom of her I must gr. MCI: to my early lift, and felt hair-,intirc, trunk slu t haunt among them pin of myself h I m I became the wile otl several Irian iyniond Df•hiirme, a handsome Armand I , alldry. My fattier was a dissipated, I y mug man wwnu she rein , innered us her own !its! 'lover aL the Smith, Whet site was little Le litteage, as the Landry itl,tutation was I 111511 a Mere mind. Liese letters were culled. I was his , unit child. I mute+ educated i written in ii mist humme d strain, and in a g.invelit school in France, till I was tear- i showed !pat between bin) and his Fair eorre ly cll.:111(1 - n years old. l'hen my ;tuna tool: mute I sianideni —Estelle Landry, Nester's nbw kome, haring already arranged a marriage lir ,trick, n nail•sisLer--11 marriage engagement inc. I wai. tout ettnaulted, out I did Ina rub l existed. . . against it, tor Claude Ileltot was young and No sooner had Hester discovered this fact good inciting, told I preferred ren n utnin to than tilt old love lot DeLorme was rekindled, France as his wife, to returning to the dull. 111111 Silt; at once to IliaVO him also, us ness of plantation well as Estelle's' flirtune, let whatever oh " My I !her gave 1111, twenty th o usand francs r stacks might be in the way. lie was now alt as my dower, and llultot expected to get HMCO i ill Europe, to remain a year or two, and more from hon. I. think that • proliect• in. 1 Iter ptupose must be carefully concealed from ductal him to marry m e , i o r 1 shun 111111111 that : Dr. Macon ; but, come what would, the you g lie was IN iudilfurcut to hie as I to 111111. UM!) should .yet he hers ! Mts. housekeeper, Mrs. Muller, a German woman with an American education, was a ~;reitt gossip, and a cunning, selfish. evil minded woman. Hester, at her mother's suzgestion, had turned the key on the outside of Mrs. MuPer's sleeping room, while the'r Internal plot had been planned ; but the sits- Melons woman happened to be awake, and s .e [hid risen and emerging through 'a window arclped around where she could listen to all they said. she too, now, me du to have her profit nut of the scheme, the secret of which she had attained unknown to them. OA the tollow ing day Mr. Landry felt his end rapidly appriiatming. lie had tiubldd n peremptorily that Mrs. 131ake should be admit ted to Ids pidsence ; but nrs. Blake had deter mined to Siu! Lli•Illre he died. lie was very anxious pr a con lessor; and was finally told that altiniugii tiiere was no priest aettessi .l)l,, a Sister of Charity might be obtained. ilS,lllrallee rled 11i111 gr at retie:, and lie desired that nu time might be lost in send tug fur her. Mrs. Blake determined to improve this op. par tunny to sue it im, without his recogn 'z ing le r, dud to visit Ilium iu the disguise of a .Sister. it was arranged that after ni.:ht, when the imun was thinly lighted by a single candle, slim. w.itild go in add listen to slice conlesiimis a: he w 'stud! to idalid. In them, it he spoke li..r tenderly, compassionately, she would forego the dire vengetie. she had Maimed to Millet on hint Wllell lie lay helpless before hl r, bre a thing his soul away in doubt and dread lit what the Mture tile might bring to It lie judged her hardly and cruelly at On my side, and something It, overdo!)nu his. IYe had evidently mode a nr.-iched ni;A 1:110., and Wu were glad to separate by blutitul co sent. 1 returned to Lothsiono, and 11eRot -went to Algeria. " When I came bas k to my early home 1 found my fe:ner living 114 reeklei.sly as ever. Among the youol . men who edam to his house WilS Armand Landry. Ile Wzti IWi, years VOIIIIgIT 111111 I, bur Its 11,1t1 111 , a C. , 111- plvted his twentieth year when I first art hull. 1k SUOII 1 . 01 . 9 , h1: 1110 table t. Wlltt illi never tried to win. I loved hint to titat do gnat that 1 thottLtht lire would he worthless unless it tics share(' a'ilh him. " Armand seem ~1 devoted to me, Imt he never asked mt. to marry hint. 11 . knew that his proud old !attar tvoithl look with scorn on the daughter of such a man IS my tallier was. " .11y hither swore that Arm phi smnultl yet be my husband, and for that. purpose he oh. tattled a ttivoree tor are trout Itelt.d. 1 wa, so in lantana] that 1 'eared la‘le by what 111C1111,4 Al'lll , lllll.WitS to Ili. 1•11SII,L11,1, I Ih'etlllt• Ills Wife. I entered itit 't his plaits, slentieltil its they were, null allowed myself to be withal In a matt tylpi Itiel been hired ng:tin to t ole Itott , w, and tvlten theapattle id s tICIIIM thr himself, was pr.mounetal my lonthand by missimiary %elm had been so Aida a time In the country that he knew nothing or the wrong he ,tats lodpitm to carry inlo elr et. Ile was I/1'11114h! In the inmse a tow 111 , 11111'1115 he. rme the ceremony tell-, pelltll Med, anti It it iltinnallittlelymrterward. "A to had been ennAen when the eld,•r I.andry wns ansent frnin hinny. I helteve,l that \rnnuid 1.0vt.,1 our as I nr,y as I it iti 111111. It Wll, , betor• hn n•cwered all the natural enerzy of ha mind, and I b, - gap once to fear Ihnl hr ‘voill.l lie peri.oleilt ly blitiroqi by the drag I hid perniiittql to be 11‘1111;111,1 , 1'01 (II 111111. lila tt1•• lime elm. when he In ly uoh•rstod the position in which he wit p'aeed, and as passed betwet.n it I cannot ileserioe. Ile li,•rc. ly raseah•d toe part I laid taken in i.n hipping bier ilium a arrrrht•St twd . would he odious pr. al 1 litlier; and d, nerd that I= " Vainly I tried all my pow, rA of tascina lion to enthrall him, and win forgiveness from him. " soon as he wit; well ijmugh to leave the house. he Wert .dl in semen of his fttier. lit spite of all I could do to detain him. His father institeiteelprocecoins for it divorce, eater ' , violin!! Armand to Europe to :mike it tour. in company wills .11r. Ititeisell and his two e1ein.....10..r5. .4 tCIi is I h .arel that I wns devoured. wire jealousy ; for liliinor %%iv+ ilte. lady two hod by Mr. re endry her Isis son's wife. and report said that she sits both rich and I niterward lenreeed he {Van betrothed to Miss Itit,sell. " N heti this lautut.itittl, put were but a few weeks ultl, and I was left with you to take care or, anti little enougth to 110 it with. 4lt ! how I hated that lair beauty who had caused me so much woe ! Nlato, at niald, alter you were asleep, have I s , olen front my cotta,!..,and made my way to the Stately home in which that wonlan dwelt, surrounded by loving care that of rizlit belmze.l to me. Coney.'led in the shrubbery, I have to lit voice speaking to her In ace. nts of deeper Wilderness than he had ever ns 'd to and I Vowoo within my sold that I would find means to blight the happiness they seemed to find In each other. They were marrivd. " My hate culminated wash a daughter was horn who mot dvslitled to till the place in latliveS liOnse of which you had been defrauded. WM. H&111 SF. " Your half.t‘ister. is two years younger than you,and in your childhood yOu were so much alike that but ter the ddl;•reiire in size pin unigGt have it , en taken for twins. Armand's Joy in Ins note treasure wits S xro honed to sadness, tor the health it Its tt ale begin to lid. She laded slowly away with a mysteriou's disease. Everything was tried that promised roher, hut the spell ~r nn evil eye tins upon her, and there was nu help for her. MEI "The doctors said It wax the climate that did n4O suit her. hut I knew hatter than that. "She was taken away hir change of air,bot %Amu, the NVOIIIIIII that Went With her 'HS muse, was one of the slants that had helong• ed to my father, and WllO Ili'Vpleki 10 nu'. "Mrs. Landry lingered for many months, but she at. died, when you were five yen no old. "The years pa4sed on, and Armand was tray , hing in Europe, rarely writing home, and Doer sending me a line. "You were ten years old «•lien he came hack. Z •Ima waa dead, and I felt safe now that the only one who could license me of in stigating the death ut Russell was gone. "But all my hopes were fearfully ditched to the earth ; for he brought with him a young wife, a cousin of Ellinor's, and also a n heir. ess. They stopp din New Orleans, and from there Armand wrote to me the follow ing lines: CHAPTER I CO, :L dcat 1111 , 1 MiU1111) servant girl w lln IiIIIII,II.USV, was safely ai,leep, Mrs. Blake made Snell alteration in her dress us neeess.,ry. A. white hantlkerchiet was erua II lOW dll,ll on her Mrehead, and bilded over her lace in such a manner us to conceal the greater minion of it, am! Macon ' s' black silk cravat win smoothed nut and tied over that, in tine lortn ail the hoods worn by Catho• I , e 111ths , when walking abroad. Sim then en. ter..d the leeloy I Oiled room, and sat down ill ihi-chair %%hiell Hester re,igaud at her up Drench. At Me mov.2ment. the thing man nucl..sed his eyes, and in a land voice, saki: '• gond you were to come to me in this extremity. This young girl .lias explained to me that you consented to do so lISSOOII us you heard that a foot tit Mother Church needed your help ;" but some subtle power must have CIIIIVe\ ell ul id e the ktlOWlellge . OM i some thing inimical had approached hini f for he slid• denly seemed to struggle Willi Bottle deadly opprcssam, and si..l: ing hack, he murmured : ••'l'uo hoe ! I tear that I shall die before I can say what I wished. I must confess—must have absolution, for I -have sinned. But I have sell red—how bitter a cup I have dra nett in idiot. 111(•111 of the one act of my lilt which hr i im;ht unhappiness '0 one it Ito thought she hail the mitt to avenge berselt upoti me." In a voice sctucely above a whisper, Mrs. Blake said : •• My son, forgive as you hope to be for given, and all will be well with you." . Ah ! that is what I cannot do; for there is one sin and one clutter that I have not forglv en. lint for that 1 could die in peace." •• 11 as the wrong against you no unmerited, that you feel thus bitterly ?" •• Unmerited I Yen; I assert that, and I be lieve it. She who committed it was one did not love, though I was tricked into a tour rings with her." In a faltering voice Mrs. Illalce said: •• You'llid not love her ! Are you quite sure of that ? Landry was too deeply absorbed In his own theaglos to nolice the menacing tone that thrilled through the muffled voice of the malther. '• No I never loved her." " 18 it just to I y all the blame upon the wo. man who neked so much to gain a legal claim upon you? To those who have loved truly, much should be forgiven; and she, you say, loved you." " I gave her all that she had a right to claim at ply hands—Mid had she so willed it, would have sent her limn llle as free, from reproach as in the hour of our flint unf.atunate meet ing. lint she would not go. I was very young. I loved the child she gave me, and th roach her the m o ther hoped, if I were Tree aga n, to win me back, and —and— I cannot LI: )(in what she dill in return for the for- Mai aim • I had shown toward her. It is lor secret, iind I will not reveal it even in this but it' ib that which I Mow find it im possible to lorgi ye. If you can give me abso lution, knowieg that, I will accept it gladly at our hands, althougleyou are not one of the aucredicted m ukters of our lloly Church." The heart of Mrs. Blake hardened us she the cued. Shp felt the blood surging through her veins with fiery swiftness, and all the passion of her ironical nutuf c burst forth. She tore the•shrouding folds from her head ao and stark d to her lea, standing over him as a menacing fate, as she mecking• ly said: "Such consolation as I can give, you arc welcome to, Arm: nd Landry, WM Cher it will facilitate your entrance to the Paradhie In which your lost Elinor dwells, or into the Haden in which ishull hereafter claim you, I leave you to imagine. Lcok at the woman you east off so lightly—the woman who he lieved that you loved her—and cower before her glance as you soon will'shrink before that or the Omnipotent Being who will judge be. tween us." " Yon—you here !" he exclaimed, In a loud harsh voice. " How dare you apprcach me ? How dare you profane the sacred character you have assumed for the purpose of intrud. tug upon a presence that was forbidden you ? 11a2ar Blake you have been the curse of my lite, and in death you persecut t me still. Go. , I command you to leave this loom impointed by the presence of a murderess." lingar's i,ling e s y tid es : blazed back defiance, and she unt You are In no position notn to enforce your will. You are In my power. not lin yours, and I intend to pay you hack drop for droy, for all the bitterness 3 oulbive poured into my cup and forced me to drink." The features, of Landry were blanched to dhe hue of death, and his black eyes gleamed fiercely from their pallid setting, as he hoarse ly asked: "ILy whose' connivance were you permitted to enter here y If Hester or her betrothed hostfand aided you, it will be the worse for them, for In that case I will give her nothing. The paper I caused her to write this morning will Ifs valbeless unless it is signed and wit. nessed, and now I will do neither." "Oh, you threaten - me with consequences, do you ?" she mockingly asked; hut let me assure you thst it is a matter of indifference to me, and also to my daughter, whether that. paper is valueless or not. We have settled our plans, and rave against them as you may, von will be powerless to prevent them from being carried intrueffect. Hester will not ac cept. the paltry provision you have IM magani ['musty -made tor her; she will claim what is hers. in justice at least—the half Of the estate which is now held by yonr other children." tt Woman ! what do you mean by that ? Ab 1 my God ! have I fallen Into a den of thieves ? Is there no one to help me ?" Ills voice broke suddenly, and he fell, back upon his pillows gasping tor breath. Noose !" repeated Mrs Blake, with stern emphasis. You are in this solitary country house, entirely at my mercy, and that of those Who are willing to do all that I wish. The darling daughter on whom you have lactated so much indulgence lies stricken into idiocy by the injuries her head has received. She will never more walk the earth in pride, look ing down in scorn upon the sister whom you have bequeathed to her compassion. In place of that I have decreed, that the two shall change places, and the child'of your adored Elinor shill stay with me, while my daughter assumes the station of the heiress, and wears the honors of her Mther's house. The two sisters are so much alike that no one will ever be able to distinguish the true one from her counterfeit." The, listener felt that the shock of this an nouncement had shortened his brief span of life ; he knew that the death clutch was al ready on his vita's; but he rallied his last re• main ing strength, and said, with solemn em phasis : "If you consummate this wickedness, I leave to you, and to the Imposter who will take the place of my darling, my undying malediction. God is over all, and he will not permit such villainy to go unpunished, even In this world." Mrs. Blake unclosed her lips to reply, but Landry nisei his hand appealingly, it change pasied over his sunken face, and with a prayer on his lips in behalf of his favorite child he p li+Pd away. Hester arrayed herself in a black dress which she found in Estelle's trunk, and assuming the name and character alter haltsister,prepared, on the following day, to accompany the re. mains of her holier to New Orleans, for burial, in company with Herbert Spencer, a young man front Boston, a cousin of Raymond Dc Lorine's, who had been sent on by the family relations for that purpose. What happened there, and indeed the whole of the thrilling story of the rival half-sisters, Hester and E 3 tulle, will be found in the New York Ledger, which is now ready and can be had at all the book.steres and news depots. Ask for the number dated .Tune 22. and in it you will get the continuation of the story from where It leaves oil here. Aunt Polly gl Q ar u . hnby's Bar- Oh my, but didn't the wind blow f When I went around the house that night, locking doors and windows before going to bed, there was just a breath of a breeze singing about— nothing more; but by the time I had fairly plumped upon the pillow, the gale was going it like mad. When I first Caine to this west ern country. I used to be surprised at the quick uncerimonious way storms bad of coming upon people—half the time it seemed to me out of a clear, innocent-looking sky. In my old home I prided myself upon read ing the signs of skies; but here, goodness me, when I thought it would snow, it was sure to ruin, and when I could have taken a solemn oath that the clouds were going to pour, why, Whisk they'd go, an' the sun would shine out as though It was in high glee-st having fooled me. So I gave up being a mather.prophet, and took it just as it came. That night everything out of doors seemed to be in commotion. The leosh shingles on the house clattered up and down, the win dows shook, the blinds rattled, and half the titan it seemed to ins that the bed on which I lay would be blown through the side of the house. I know I'm a foolish old woman, but at the thought I couldn't help setting my ruf fled nightcap stiaight, and smoothing back my huh., because if 1 should go, why, there was Deacon Alhee's house right opposite, nod —but Lord bless me what am I saying Well, naturally, I was lonesome 'enough, without child or chick to speak to, but I did very will until I somehow got it into toy head that burglars always choose such nights to do their mkchief In. After that I started at every sotind, and as there were thumps and clatters on all sides, and in every direction, it isn't to be supposed that I got much rest. I didn't stop to reason that there wris very little in my poor little house to tempt evil-do ers. I knew I had forty dollars and eighty cents laid away in my poor departed Jason's old wooden chest, and I felt to lose that would be a terrible thing to me. The house was a cottage, with a hall run ning the length of the two rooms—an "L" being built beyond. lily room was at the' back, opening Into the hall and the front room adjoining. So my eyes went first from one door to another, lingering I must say with more dread upou the one leading Into the hall. • a "If I should' be robbed of that forty dollars and eighty cents—" said Ito myself. Just then a blind went whack, and springing up in bed, 1 began to say the prayer my mother taught me—" Now I lay me down to sleep," though I'm sure it looked a great deal more as though I was sitting up to sleep than lying down. "What nn old fool you arc, Polly Quimby!" I below to say, aloud, trying to get up my courage by the sound of my own voice. At that moment I was sure I heard a step in the little hall, and before'l had time to move from my place. the doorintch lifted, the door swung back, and there he stood, the very ob• jest that I had been dreading, Mr. Burglar n int self. "Good evening, ma'am," he said, In such a way that I found m 3 ,801113 the motion of bow ing hack, and saying good evening, too. fie was a middle•aged man, with mustache and whiskers, and the brightest eyes that I .ever saw in a person's head. The hairon his temples was quite gray. All in all he looked like a respectable Christian gentleman, and not a iniduliiWthief. " Quite a windy evening, ma'am," he went on, as he stepped into the room. "You must be lonely here by yourself." Somehow, this touched my temper. I for. got who was speaking, and answered back as tart as could be: " I pref. r to choose my company, sir I" lie laughed, and f.hrugged up bib shoulder. " You do Indeed ISodo I. In this case I have my preference—not you." Then he sat down leisurely in my rocking. chair, and stretched nut his feet, as though pc Intended to stop awhile. ill you be so kind, sir, as to go about your business ? What do you think of your self, sir, to be Intruding upon the privacy of my rooms at this hour of the night, sir?' lie leaned his head back upon my bright worsted tidy, scrl laughed fit to kill him self. "No harm is Intended you, my charming woman," he said: "I swear it—no harm is intended youl" • • And saying this, he laughed louder and longer than ever. "Do you come Into my house to mnke game of me before my cry eyes r' I asked, my temper pretty much stirred up. "If you were a gentleman, str—" , This was ton much for him. " A gentleman ? Oh, aw—that's too good? If I professed to be a gentleman, you'd stand a good chance of getting your throat cut With• nut on much as by your leave, ma'am,' to begin N., ith I A gentleman ? With all my faults, thank heaven, that is not among them?" " You needn't have gone on that way to prove it." I said tartly. "Well, you are a sharp old damsel, aren't you !" turning his big eyes upon me, and twisting up his mouth In acomical way, which I shall never forget. "I swear, you'd he pretty good looking, if you didn't wear such a wale ruffle on your nightcap. dolly, isn't it a lunker —big enough for a graveyard fence." "Sir !" I said, looking very savage. " Ma'um he answered,imitating my voice and tone to perfection. "Oh, if I were only out of this hel, sir !" I began. " And pray, madame, what is there to hinder you from geolog out, I'd like to know?" " Do you intend to insult me, you good.for nothing creature ? Oh, if the wind only would blow you away." " If one goes, the other is sore to go, too," j he said stolidly. "If brother Joe would only waken," I said He cocked his eye knowingly. " You want to make me believe that he is in this house somewhere, eh ? Mydear mad ame, you are as transparent as air. Had he been under this root,you would have screamed blue murder long before Oils time." "Oh, oh, you varmint !" I groaned in pure agony of spirit. " Wits! do you wart?" "Weil, ma'am, since that is a fair, honest question, I 7111 attempt to answer It. To begin with, my financial affairs are in a coin plicated condition. Money, I have but little of—credit, none ; so I ant forced to levy a trilling tax upon my friends in this and other neighborhoods, to extricate me from my die •astrous condition. As 'soon as I collect a certain amount I intend leaving this country or France or Italy, never, perhaps, to return. Do not shed hairs at this, dear madame, for wherever my footsteps tend, your image—ruf fled nightcap and all—will- remain for ever imprinted upon my heart." "Yon old goose I" I said. "Please do not interrupt me, madame ; I have but a few moments longer to stay, and I must to business at once. I have learned that you hove deposited In a trunk in an ad Joining closet forty dollats and i-igloy ciente. The forty dollars I would Hie to borrow ul you for an intl finite length of t que. The eighty cents Ido nut car: anything Maud. You can retain that, an a trilling evidence of my generosity in this great emergency 01 my "You are a robber, a thief, then !" I said, spit efu lly. "Either, at your si.rvice, madame," rising and makinr a bow t!,r all the world like a French dancing -master. "Now, the money, if you please." He wasn't joking now. Th , :re. was a deter. mined look in his eyes and about his mouth. "He that glveth to the poor lendeth to the Lord," he said, speaking just like a preach er, "And he that steals from the poor, what of him P "Ale Bible does not dispose of It is case es pecially, madame." "And you came here to rob me—me, a poor woman ?" "I came to borrow of you, for nu uncertain length of time." I saw it was useless to waste words with him, besides, I didn't altogether like the look in his eyes. I closed my lips tightly together, r. solving that I would not speak again. "If you've no objection, ma'am, I'll look around a bit," he said, taking up the lamp as he spoke. `ill' I hear any noise from you my dear, or If I see in any way you are be. coming nervous,.l shall be obliged to 'quiet you by the use of-" He held up a small vial. "Chloroform I" I gasped. "At your service, madame." "It would be the death of me," I moaned. "I should he sorry to bring such a loss to the world, but, believe me, all that rests in your own hands. This door leads into the closet where the trunk is, I believe," he said, making straight for the closet where my forty dollars were put away for safekeeping. I didn't say a word. To tell the truth, the chloroform had scared me nearly out of my wits. lie turned the key In the door (I had always kept it locked), and glanced into the clr sit. It was large, and the trunk was at the further end of it. Let me say here that this closet or storeroom was In the "L" part of the house, fully a foot lower than my room, Mr. Burglar was not acquainted with this fact. Glancing toward me with his sharp eyes, to see ,if I was (inlet, he took n step for ward and went 'Trim li„g upon all•loura. I don't know to this day bow he managed to sat c the lamp es he did, bui it was not broken in the fall, and burned as brightly as ever. My wits came to the here. I sprang as light• ly as a cat out of tied, and betere he could get upon his feet, I had the door of the closet shut and locked upon hint. He grew lamb like in a moment. "You've done it now, haven't you, my charming crea'ure ? I swear Um iu love with you from thin hour to the end of time. You've got me tight nod fast. What's the use of money now? I'li•take the eighiy cents, and you may have the forty dollars, if you will let me out." "No, sir; lam going to call the neigh. boas." I said, resolutely. "Going with that nightcap on ? make your fortune. But don't hurry, that's a dear. Let's have a little friendly talk. sae, I'll give you a hundred dollars if you'll let me out." " Yea, and leave you free to scare some] ther woman nearly to death—no, sir I" " Well. then, I'll give you two hundred." MEE " Name your price then, dear girl. I sup• pose every woman has her price—they say every man has." " Nu ; it wouldn't bo right," I said, hesitat• ingly. I heard him chuckle: "First step toward It ; she begins to talk of what is right." I thought of my poor girl out to work by.the week, and so anxious to get an education, and I'm sure it isn't to be wooder..d at It I did be gin to thirik or setting a price. But I said not a word. " Look hero I I'll put five hundred dollars in good sound gold under the door, and you call count it us I push It through piece by piece, if you'll only let me out of this cursed hole. I am smothering." " 'fry some chloroform." I whispered through the keyhole. "Curse the chloroform I Will you let me out ?" I had a light by this time, and had slipped Into a calico wrapper and my slippers. If I got the money, how could 1 let him out of the closet ?" I wondered. " I shouldn't dare to meet him ; 11...'d rob me again, and perhaps murder me." But I said, " take tile gold," resolving that I would try to get out of it someway, just for the sake of poor Rebecca, who so much wanted to go to school. " Your heart is iu the right place," he said, and the next moment a big round gold piece came through the wide crack under the door. " I couldn't withhold an exclamation 'of de• light." " It's right enough now, isn't it ?" he sneer. ed. " There's nothing like gilding over our sins a little. Bah I all the world's alike I Here goes another, and another, and another. Count fast, my p ous damsel. I dare ts...y there's no confessional in your Church," " Islhere In yours ?" " Well, if there was,gold gets Into that some. times, they say. Hold fast there ; lou've got the last clinker ; now set too " Wait a minute." " But I won't wait. I swear I won't." " Can you hop yourself ?" " Well, no; not much ; but I'm smothering in here. Can't you take pity on a poor tel. low ?" Sit down flat on the Door," I said. I beard him plump down as obedient as a schoolboy. " What next ?" I turned to the kitchen door to see if the lock was all right. Then I turned the key with a sharp click, which sounded to me like the re port of a pistol, " There I" I cried, and sprang into the kitcit-• en,' locking the door behind me. . Ile came out of We prison swearing like a trooper. "Sharp old Satan, she's locked herself up somewhere,", trying the kitchen door as he spoke. " Good night, Madame Do'il—good night I You've got the beet Willie. You have robbed me. foot night—get down and say your prayers." ' Anti I did. What is more, I cried like a baby over my money, thinking what it would bring to us. I never saw tile strange burglar ugam, and In a few weeks Rebecca was comfortably es tablisbed at school. No one everknew where the money came from. An uncle died about that time, and some of my neighbors shrewdly suspected that he bad left us something ; I bed nothing to ray upon the etadeet. ROBERT TR EDT4ILL, JR Vain anb ffaucri 3ob yrintrr; No. 608 HAMILTON STREET, ELEOAST PRINTING LATEST STYLES Stomped Checks, Cards, eircolars. Paper nooks, ron.ti tutioox sad BY•Laws. Rch.l Catalogues. Bill !leads Hu•elopes, Loiter Ilen.ll, Bills of Lacllog. WaY Bills, Tugs arul shipping Cards. Posters of 507 elle, etc., etc., Priutod at Short Notice. NO. 25 About six months after my adventure,hroth or Joe came to me one day, and said that he had been stopped in the street by a strange man that morning, and that he had begged him to say to Madame Quimby that the /HI of her night-cap was just a little too wide. saying., he passed on. " What did it mean ?" Joe asked. "Nothing, only that ho Wan crazy," I an• swered, quickly ; but my face wan us red ns a blaze. 311M1110T11 . SIllidgit - Y. TunnNlfnp« Lire Flephant trill. Red lint Cense Bang—The OM Irarrior .71emea « 17rt Du to lieleatille Surgery. Fran) the Ch The most colossal surgical operation ever performed up , n a living creature was wit nessed by a select few in this city on yester day morning. Everything about the affair was on the most stupendous scale, as the subject himself is the largest bitof flesh and bones now in this country. Of course, this means the ele phant Romeo, now performing iu this city. Romeo is getting old ; his flesh is slow to heal ; and a lack of knowledge how to treat elephant sores, coupled with many tra'sapplied remedies soon placed the old hero in a sad plight. The wounds festered, inflammation Increased, bad became worse, until now hia legs resemble the catacombs of Berne, being mere receptacles of corruption. When the menagerie reached the city, It became pain. fully evident that Romeo could nut well . go any further unless some relief was afforded, and as Chicago is lemons for the quality Just now, It was determined to take advantage of the respite afforded from travel during a nearly two weeks' stay, and place the great hulk on the stoca. . After n full hour spent in slashing, gouging and scrieping, dining which the poor beast was rid of fineen or twenty pounds of putrified matter and flesh, and a pound or two of bone the surgeon concluded that sufficient for day might be the evil thereof, and desisted from that pelt of the opermion, to enter upon an other ten-fold more painful anti harrowing. While these excavations had been progress ing, men were busy at the furnace heating huge soldering irons, several Inches in diame ter, to a white heat. These were now brought into requisition to remove the proud flesh. When Dr. Withers approached the animal w ith the firstglowing iron a shiver ran through his frame, and he Was disposed to resent any Inviter aggression, but being convinced by the 'Hinted arguments of his keeper that it was all for his goo I, he issued another large thunder, which was echoed from every cige, and straikittened Ilis trunk, and braced himsell for Nether martyrdom. The red hot iron was now run into tunnel No. 1 the length Without a foot, and a hissing sound, followed by dense volumes of fumes nod an intolerable stench, Issued from the opening. The poor brute shook like an aspen, made a slight elfort or two at resistance, but soon settled into quietness again. Ameliar red hot iron was introduced, again there was a quiver of the whole frame, but this time he only drew up his back and changed his posi• lion a trifle. The blood now began to flow from the ca. .verns to copious supply, a sight that made all the animals of the cat species desperate, and lions, tigers,leopards, hycnas.pantbers,w•olves and others of the innummable horde whose cages formed a c4cle about the martyr, joined in low growls, which were intensified to roars and shrieks as the fumes oh the burning flesh tilled their nostrils. When the din and noise were somewhat quieted, the operation was proceeded with,and during the two following Incurs above thirty red but irons were thrust into the poor brute's carcass. When the surgeons finally desisted it was not because they believed their task completed, but because the caverns had as sumed such dimensions that the two inch irons proved too small to be further 'effective. Besides Romeo was evidently weakeninA and getting a little " groggy" from loss • of blood. The openings were then thoroughly wnsbe 1 with lotions, and afterwards carefully bound up. The old fellow has always displayed astrong predeliction liar candy and other sweet things. Alter the operation, a nice,big st.ck was prof fered to him, but he refused it with a solemn shake of his head. When the animal's naturally vicious tem per Is hiked into consideration, his noble lac• havior during the painful operations can only be accounted for on the hypothesis that, wilt. an elephant's proverbial sa . gacity and line in stinct he was convinced that it would redound to his good. Otherwise he would have strewn his tormentors about like "the leaves on the strand," and might, controlled by a.pioua in spiration, have knelt on one or two. The gentlemen who operat A upon him ex press strong hopes for hid recovery. (Romeo subsequently diva from the effects of his Ali ease and its treatment.) The body has been donated by Mr. Fore paugh to the Chicago Medical College, where the mounted skeleton and stuffed skin will be placed in the anatomical museum. 'Scarcely had " Romeo" breathed his last, when Mr. rorepaugh, with characteristic energy, sent a telegram to his agent in New York, authori zing him to draw upon Jay Cooke 4: Co. to the amount of $30,000, and directing him to proceed at linen by the first steamer to London and purchar the wild and ferocious elephant caged In the British Zoological gardens, pre lerri ng an untamed specimen, IA muse, as he queerly' expresses, he will be " less stupid and more ambitious" than one which has been St.:roughly subdued. TICKET MIEN rs. Rolling Tickets in rinintion of II .V.itnte From the Phhudo. Poet of the 10th lu the'Quarter Sri-sloes on Sat urday,before Judge Pierce, M. D. Whitesides was put on trial, charged with selling a Pennsylvania Railroad ticket in violation of a statute. Thu case In question seta forth that any person having purchased a ticket from the railroad company, and not desiring t• 1 eve . it to its full extent, may apply to the company for rede v np• tion, and then enacts that if any person, not being an authorized agent for the company, shall still any ticket flu' travel on that rimil,he shall be deemed guilty of misdemeanor and punished. The purpose of the net was said to be the prevention of frauds upon travelers. The evidence In this case wan that the defend ant, described as a citizen of Ohio, 011510 to the city a few days bi.fore the convention met and started the business of buying anti selling ex• curston tickets that the delegates It Mild nut wish to use. John E. Dodd, traveling agent for several railroad and steamboat companies, learning of the enterprise, went to the place where defend ant wan located 110,1 saw him buying and sel ling. tickets. A clerk of the Pennsylvania Railroad also went to him nail purchased a ticket to Pittsburg for $7, the fare being $lO. It was a genuine ticket, nothing fraudulent about 't, aid the purchaser did not buy it for the purpose Ol travel. L. C. Cassidy argued to the court that, as no fraud was committed here, Mete should be no conviction of a crime, uud he did not un derstand the law to mean that a person having bought for lull price a ticket of this company, and not desiring to use It, could not sell it to whom and for what price he pleased, but must apply to the agents of the company. But the court charged that, for the purpose of this trial, the offense had been saillciently made out. The quesvous of law he would reserve to be determined upon a motion in arrest o . f judgment. A verdict or guilty was rendeted,•and a motion for a new trial and an arrest of judgment was made. IN no quartet Is the nomination of Senator Wilson more heartily Indorsed than Indiana, Mr. Colfax's own State. There is a heartiness in the support which the Repuh!lean press of that State give to the nomination which leaves no room for doubt. 'the Fort Wayne Gazette declares that it Is a stronger nomination in Indiana than that Of Colfax would have been. It is to be remarked that Mr. Coliax had been understood to decline to he a candidate and that Senator Wilson's caudidney wag 'hermit of the assurance which his competitor gave him some time ago that he would not be a candi date. It is known. moreover, that Mr. Colfax personally urged Senator Wilson to come out and pledged his influence for him. In Indi ana this seems to be well understood, and the nomination of Wilson is conunent,d on ac• cordingly and Is perfectly satisfactory. Trim Hartford Courant tells the following: " k worthy man in a neighboring town, who labors under the tutemphonious, name of Pigg —uneth honiore, yi t highly appropriate to any' descendent of Eve, the 3pin:4lb—recent ly married a holy whose maiden name was Young. A few days since, a child was burn to the wedtiCd pair, and a rich • uncle of the • young 'lan, who, like Gilpin, 'loves, a timely_ Jule, promised to heavily endow:the boy if the farents would christen him with the ma. Wool name. Tnif fond but thrifty parents consented, and the youth will hereafter be known as •‘Young Pig." If that youth doesn't rise up and call them ail the reverse of blessed he will be a spiritless, fellow. I=l . NEW DEillONli
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