COLUMBIA DEMOCRAT, AND BLOOMSBURG GENERAL ADVERTISER, ffiEVI L. TATE, Editor. $2 00 PER ANNUAL "TO HOLD AND TRIM THE TOUCH OF TRUTH AND WAVE IT O'ER THE DARKENED EARTH." VOL. 14.--NO. 17. BLOOMSBUUG, COLUMBIA COUNTY, PA-, SATURDAY; JUNE 30, I860. VOL. 24. 4 THE 'Columbia Jeniorrnt i rcflLisniD ccny Saturday mormko, by liCi'I li. TATJE, IN BLOOMSDURO, COLUMBIA COUNTY, PA, o fITo e In the mm llrUk Building, erpntit Ihc Krraasjjr, b) Midi ........ if . 4i IWnfMlI, limit CJiiArf rrt." vj ihc mar, ivutt, vw.... ... ..... tkhms or suneciiiPTio.v. l 00 In advance, for ono copy, for all mouths. 1 75 1 n u Iv mice, for ono copy, one year. It 01) If not paid within the lirst throe months. !2 2.1 If iii1 p.ill within the llrst six months. .5 50 Knot pall within the year. H7"Ko siib-tcriptloii taken for lean than MX months, Ind no paper discontinued until nil arrearage! aliall have been paid. , , , . ... f7" onlinary AnvtRTi"iiMtiralnicrtea,nnd Jobmobk xecuted, at thii elablielie J prices. OVEll THE RIVER. & i,ovedonehohaecroeiitothe oilier aide i j n.-ar llift li i-r hev ,rkoll tn H1G !?., The clcani or lliclr sunny rones I see, There'll ono with ringlets of sunny cold, nut men , i,v ic is , '"v o Andocsllio reflection of heavens own liluc i liocross.-d tin t llljht Cray anil cold. Audtlici'ale mitt hidlilin from mortal lew. We saw net the angels who met him there, Tho gates of the city we could nut see - , Over the river, over the river, My lirolle r stands waiting to welcome me. Over lh river the ho,itin.in p.ite. Carried another, th household pet i yv!s j,.r ,rtt-n rurl moved in the gentle gale f "& Hurling Minnie, I sec her Jet. P1' ' f"'-1 1,11 ll(,r hotoinher dimpled hands, And fearcs-ly enured the phantom harKj Wef-.lt it s'i le from the silver strnnds, , And nil our siiiitlnn-grew Strang, ly dark, i& -ninv hM" 1)4 f,llf,i 111 ' lusher "i'1''. N hue all th- ransomed and angt li ho fcr On r the river, the injttie river, .MycluUllood thiol is Wdltiuj lor m;. ytwt Tor none r tarn from thote 'pil, t h,,r-s H"h trots with th., hoatmtiu rl,l and pile. W We hwirthe dip of tlie golden iwm. And catLll n yrl am of 111,- muwj sail, Andlol lliey have passed fr th jearniii; hearts. Tiny criHS the ttrenni niiH are gone lor ne ! ' We may not Minder the ml apart Th.it linletlroiii our utioii the gates of , lay. , We only know tint th ir harks no nior' M i) sail with tn o" r life's "tormy sea; , Vet somi where I know on the mis t n shore They wait h, and iK'tkon, and wail for me. And I flT .111,1 tlil.ik. wll '11 the sunt.tgol.l Is 1) ishim; river, aud lull, anil shore, I idi ill tin,, d.iy -Mo I liy Hi l nut 'r eol 1 Ai.J lit Ui th JV f tlu hiatiiian's oar. I thill witili for th cl.'.im t'f.i Happing tail. I -n ill ll ,tr til li ,it as it g.iiilH th- ttr.iud, I .h.iM pisi from -lit with th., hoit'ii.tn palo To t . h tt r i r-- ,f tlie spirit I m.l. I it'i ill kn v th lo tl who have none liefer, n I Jo; filly -w. . t will th met.li.ig he Wli 'li over Hi rivir. the piMc, fill riier, 'I'll ati'; I of ! -,ith th ill r.irr) me. Sciccl Stovn. XOT IX OUlt SET 11V KI.IXN ASIITOX. ?5ev -4e.It was between tho first and second acts ofa celebrated opera. Tho audience had than tho-e who are a cultivated as your just ceased applauding l'atti, who had been vlvc. Let mo tell you, coz, that you lose -called liefore tho cuitain twice : and now more than ou are awaroof. for Miss Vau- everybody was looking round to see who , was in the hou-e. A gentleman, who appeared compara tivcly a stranger, leaned over to speak to a lady before Lint. 11 I have been so long abroad," he said, "that I hardly know anybody. Yet I never, in any opera house, saw so many pretty faces AVho is that beautiful crea ture opposite ? I mean tho -one in pink, on'thc second seat of tho balcony, playing her fan with tho graco of a lady." " Oh ! that girl 1" was tho contemptuous reply. " That's Marian Vaughan, tho daughter of a retired pork merchant, or tailor, or something of that sort. She's not in our set, however, and I know very littlo about her." " I was going, coz, to ask you to iutro iluoa mo,1' said Harry Berkley, who had been tho first speaker. " But I see that won't do." "Dear mo 1" cried tho lady. "Tho girl isn't in society, at all I tell you." " Tho truth ii, Harry," interposed Charley Thome, tho last speaker's broth er, "the girls are all jealous of Miss Vaugh an: Sho is beautiful, as you see, and wit ty and accomplished also. Then, too, sho's full of character. Quite independent, I assure you, doing exactly what sho likes, though she uever docs angthing unlady like. Her father is enormously rich, aud so she is able to gratify all her tastes. All 'our set,' eh 1 Amelia ! vow the is extrava gant, and try to frighten us poor fellows from marrying her, I'm very glad," he added, satirically, "that some of 'our first families' have tho reputatiousof our grand fathers aud great-grandfathers to live upon, for, 'pon my soul, they've neither money nor brains in goncral." Miss Thorno turned her white shoulder contemptuously on her brother, eyed Miss Vaughan askance, and commenced piaking her fan to pieces, in which delightful oc cupatiou sho was most assiduously assisted by.'a female friend "in our set," who had aeoompanicd her to tho opera. Harry Berkley was the match of the reason. Inheriting a vast estate, while yet in Lis minority, ho had gono abroad, as soon as ito had completed his studies, and had remained there, principally in Paris, until his twenty-fifth year. His return to America, unmarried, had put all the mar riageable young ladies in the city into n flutter. His claim?, to be "in society," nobody could deny, for his great-grandfather had been a colonial governor, his grandfather a general in the revolution, and his futhcr a Senator of the United Statetj while his mother and grand-mother had each been favorite toasts in their day, and fashionable leaders in the most select circle of their native town. Hence, no young bachelor was more courted. But Amelia Thome, his second cousin, had sccretely appropriated him to herself. One so gentecly bom, she thought, should marry nobody less genteel ; and who was there, she added proudly to herself, with an equal quantity of tho "blue blood ' of America as herself. Tho nest opera night, howere, Harry did not invito her, as she had expected, and she was forced to press her father into her service as a cavalier. Imagine her chnrgin, on taking her scat, to observe her cousin talking to Miss Vaughan, the latter looking more beautiful than ever. "(Jood heavens ! pa," the cried, "do you see Harry J He is actually with that Vaughan girl." " And 1 hear," replied her father, un conscious of his daughter's plans, ''that she is very fascinating. I shouldn't won der if Harry was to marry her." Miss Thome colored with anger, and bit the end of her fan. The opera, that might, gave her but little pleasure, for she was watching Miss Vaughan, and was mad with jealousy. The next morning her truant cousin pre sented him-u'lf. .She welcomed him with M)inethiiig of a sneer. ' So you got introduced to Miss Vaugh- ! an V were her words. I suppose, next, 1 you'll want to know our cook." j " My dear eo:i-in," said Harry, grace . fully taking his sat beido her, "you don t know how yuu girls the girls ot 'utir set i 1 mean, a-tonisli me. 1 liae just come j from Europe, wlicr- I have been preach ing up republican in-tiltitions, and yet, the 1 very tir.-t thing 1 hear, at home, is that aeeomp UhineiiH and original worth are i nothing, and being in 'society' everything.' " 'I'd bo sure. A real lady owes it to herself nut to as-oei.ite with cveryboJy " ' lly which you mean that you, and a doen or two others, pretend to be better ghan, and others liko her, who rest their social claims on their accomplishments, aro as Charley says, far more agreeable ac quaintances than 'our set' generally. You are only laughed at, and this, not merely by tho-o you think you put down, but by all sensible people." Mi-ss Amelia was purple with rage. Sho had never been talked to so plainly before, and she was not di-poscd to submit to it, even for the best match of tho sca-ou, much less from a cousin. " Laughed at, am I ?" .she cried, rising. , "Sir, you forget who you are speaking to. Hut when people consort with tailor's daughters, their maimers leave them." "As 1 shall leave you, fair coz," an swered Harry, determined not to quarrel, "for I see you are not looking quite as lovely, at this moment, as usual, and I try never to see a lady except in her best looksj so that I may always remember her pleasantly." Half an hour afterward, Miss Amelia could have bitten her touguu off, in anger at herself. What if sho had also driven him to Miss Vaughan l Tho suspicion, alas, proved ' eorrctt.; Harry's engagement has just been announ ced. And those who used to sneer at Miss Vaughan, as "not in our set," are already making interest for cards for the wedding, which is to bo ''the affair of tho season," and is to come off early in the summer. Take my advice, Charley," said Harry, tho other morning, "and marry a wife who rests her claims on personal amiability, in telligence and accomplishment; for she'll make you a thousand times happier than any of the haughty girls, too proud to learn anything, and too selfish to earo foi anybody but themselves, who chiefly make up what they call 'oun set.'" tr An editor wanting a line to fill up the column, gave Shoot folly as sho flies. Pope. In setting up the above, ths devil had it thus ; " Shoot Polly aa sho flics, Popl" Violent Storms Crops Destroy- uu" l.oss oi L.UO in lowa ana Illinois Shocking Scraps The unu.mally cool weather which wo aro now, alinott in tho middlo of Juno,ox pcrioncing, U accounted for by tho fre quent occurrence of violent and destruct ive storms of rain aud hail, and wind, in almost every section of tho country. Tho express train from Ualtimoro for Wheeling was attacked by the heaviest kind of hail storm whilst passing Cranberry Summit on Thursday evening. The hail it is sta ted, rattled down upon the car top? liko a never ending charge of grap'e shot, and in iuimeu5o quantities as to nearly obscure the tract. There was also a heavy hail storm on Thursday on tho National road, west of heeling, aud it was with difficulty that horses caught upon tho road were kept from running away, Tho hordes attached to tho omnibus coming cat became fright ened aud tried to run away, tho windows of thu vehicle were broken) llio passenger-- jumped out to bo pelted, and tho greatest alarm was occasioned. On Friday afternoon last a destruct ive tornado passed over thoj'iciuity of Norfolk, Va. There was not much rain, but the Vtiud blow with great violence, ac companied by hail. The Norfolk Day lio'c, after stating that the fctorm wa? preceded by a heavy, dark cloud, which suddenly d'mded, Fays : The cloud that passed off in tho direc iiou of Tanner's Creek gathered strength as it went and when it reached Mr. Win. Jones' farm, on Little Creek, had become almost a whilwiud. In its course it took up treci, pioitrattd fences, and almo-t de stroyed vegetation. In Mr. Jones' field the tomato vines were uprooted aud .sent sailing thioiigh tho air, while bushes and limbs of trees rode upon th? wind like things of life. The cloud that passed off in the direc- tion of Craiiy I-land cut across the country in tlie tear ol J.'ui tsmoiitli, anil, swept ev erything before it j what the wind did not pull up the hail cut down and its breath is said to have been as devastating as the much dreaded simoon of Egypt. Cabba ges were destroyed, tomato vines torn up, fences scattered, trees prostrated, and iu one or two instances hnues unroofed. At Weldoii, N. C, on Friday evening, tlicrii was a violent tornado. A letter to the Petersburg Puns says: Tlie whole of Col. N. -M. Long's gioning crop of corn and cotton is swept clean, and not a soli tary stalk left standing on the plantation. Every plantation is seriously injured. The roof of Happcr'.-, Hotel was blown off, and a large number of trees uprooted in the town and vicinity. Col, J. B. Zollicofi'cr has but one chimney left to his house, and a tree Inn fallen three feet through the roof. We continue to receive the mo-t painful accounts of the terrible tornado in West ern Illinois and Eastern Iowa, on the yd iust. No similar calamity over has be gun to equal this one iu actual destruction of life property, and iu all the attendant frightful circumstances. Sovcro as the storm was, and groat as was the damage on tho Illiiiois side of the Mississippi river, the storm visited with far greater violence the section of Iowa lying between Cedar Bapids and tho river. An extra of tho Mount Vt nion A'cwt, Linn county, Iowa, contains thrilling accounts of tho tornado and its disastrous effects iu that quarter. We quote tho following : Tho whirlwind, when first seen, proba. bly sis or seven miles away, had tho ap pearance of a largo black shaft or column, shaped liko an upright hour-glass, extend ing from a tremendous, threatening cloud, which for some time had been hannin" over tho wcit to the ground Hundreds watched it as it swept on its courso, seem ingly bearing directly towards Mount Ver non. It was attended with a heavy roar as of a huudrcd trains of cars. Branches of trees could be sccu iu tho air, while its changing form and the flakes of clouds thrown from its sides showed its whirling motion. When within two miles of us, whilo peoplo wero seeking safety in cellars or as in somo eases, running wildly about iu tho streets, it veered on its course, aud swept by iu full sight sublime but fearful. Hardly had it passed ere a half dressed man, bleeding from wounds upon his head and reeling upon his horse, rodo furiously iulo town calling for help. Talking inco herently, ho reported persons killed and others injured at a littlo villago or hamlet ono aud a half miles west, known as St Mary's. In a few miuutes huudieds were on their way there. The wild scene of desolation they found beggars description Wo had imagined the horiorn of a battle but never had pictured anything so awful as the sight of those poor victims, disabled dying and dead. Tho power. and force of this "demon of the elements" must have been immense. AVo reached tho path of its fury loss than an hour after it went howling on. AVe found a hundred men slandiug around muto aud aghast the sufferers had been home away but there were other eviden ces of its fearful mission. Houses gone, utterly goie, and nothing but blackened aud smeared foundations told whoro they had been ; trees, one and two feet in diam eter, and even larger uprooted aud hurled many rods, robbed of branches and foli age j carcasses of horses, cattle and swine Strewed tho farmers' barnv.ird. And yet the track of the whirling demon ! was not more thau twenty rods in width- j wo speak of the central force which work- cd the destruction j outside of that there was a mighty wind, but no such traces of . power were left. As heretofore stated, tho town of Ca maneho, Illinois, was entirely destroyed. The editor of the Chicago V(sj,w1io sub sequcntly vNitod tho place, says : While there, the sight that met tho eye was perfectly horrible to look upon, aud no pen is adequate to tho task of conveying the mo it faint idea of the disastrous effects of the tornado as it passed over that place. Horses and cattle aro lying in every di rection, killed from the effects of the storm. The buildings look as though they had all been torn iu small fragments, scattered over the whole country, and feathers from tho bed clothes line the ground, and then all had been ovcrswrpt with rushing wa ters. Wo went into one building where fifteen bodies, some mangled in the mot fright ful manner, and only wrapp'd up in a sheet, and put into a lough box, ready for burial. Jr Howell informs us that, from buiiday cven'niL' to Monday noon, he had I . visited niiiety.one wouudcd,and jet twenty three broken liniln.-' W dead bmlics, an I there ity-two that requited strict medical attendance, and ai many that are more or le.-s hurt, yet arc able to be around. In addition to thi number twenty-eight wero swept from a rufi iu the river that was passing at the time, and ten arc yet lnis-ing from the town, that are supposed to be buried in the ruins, or are blown into the river and drowned. With tho exception of half a dozen houses on tho north side of tho town, (Virij single building is cither toin down, un roofed, or otherwise damaged. A werso sight no human eye ever beheld, aud tho heart grows sick at seeing such a destrue tion of life and property. Tho town is en tirely ruined, and we do not see how it can ever bo re-built There are whole blocks of lots that aro vacant, entirely, with nothing hut the cellar to indieato that a houso ever stood there. Out of the con tents of threo dry goods stores not one cent's worth of the goods have ever been found. Tho tornado struck the town a little past seven'' o'clock, and in less than ten minutes the whole was iu ruins. After it had passed, the town was all afloat with water; all that could, began to run from place to place screaming at the top of their voices, calling for friends aud children. In every pile of rubbish, and from every demolished house, tho groans of tho dying aud wouuded were heard, and as the sound came from every part of the town, no ono knew whore to go first. Tho darkness oc casioned by the black cloud", tho air beiug filled with rubbish of every conceivable character, and the near approach of night rendered the scene still more appalling, and such a wail of lamentation, sorrow aud woe never went up from any place in tho history of tornadoes, as did from tho ruins and de.stroyul city. Nothiug could be found to bind up the wounds of the suf fering, no mcdiciucs wero to bo got, and the wails of tho mother over her dead children, the anguish of a wifo over tho lifeless remains of a husband, the father over tho slaughtered children, limiting in vaiu for his wifo all these are scenes that cannot possibly bo descsibed. Iu ono family all that was left were three littlo girls, tho father and mother aud two children having been instantly killed. We saw where a fence board had been forced clear through the side of a house, end ways, and hundreds of shingles had forced themselves clear through tho clap boards of a house. Wo visited the grave yaul and saw twenty-eight graves, side by side, all dug, waiting to reeuivo the rough boxes eoutaining the remains of tho slaugh tered ncoplo.T,io wholo atmosphere nioHHIHBHhMhUtdatcnch is prevailing tho whole path of tho storm that is almost impossible to endure. In this vicinity near Sterling, tho woun ded arc dying almost ovcry day, and every farm house is a hospital for the dyiug and wounded, THE DEATH-UED OF A LION. Every one may not bo scientific ; but every ono may at least boa close observer of nature animate and nature inanimate. If plain people, with good eyes and open hearts, would, but keep a note-book for their original observations, and jotdown in a few words, tho simple facts of life among God's lower creatures, tho great men of the day would always have a good 'story or fine mateiials to deal with. The Ilitophor would stand at case on the gwnd platform of truth, and build with bt,"US rC;ldily t0 UmA iu5tCCd f havluS to scnd hu thoughts wide over ""-' "" "" ul "" w.ieruw.iu w illilJvU fJllUa lUi LIIU UL Ilia WlUUUlj or perhaps to gather oziers for tlie wad died wigwam of a nomadic theory. I " Do animals tindcrstatid wlmt. dnntli is? Do they recognize its coming signs?" asks the uninitiated. " No," says a gifted philosopher of our acquaintance, " you never see animals apprehoudiug the meatin iog of death." Very well, then, here is a fact : Tho writer onco strayed into a mena gerie in the North of England, which had camped for a day or two iu a little mouu tiin metropolis. A large, elderly lion was making an involuntary tour of the coun try, iu company with his wifo, and a fine family of youug people. What an insult to put tho desert monarch into such a vul gar elap trap traveling carriage as this! But what is the matter with the grand old lion? Hois in pain ; surely he is in pain. His breathing is short, and is drawn with effort ; his nostrils are spread Willi- lltW (llMMVtl t,V ntw ll.nt , --- 0 , iaggy chest heaves uneasily. He is suf- furiuz from bronchitis, for ho evidently iwtvvontyeiglitjt.,llmot boar the keen air of the North. fu is couchanti but now he lifts his head high, and looks round aud round the show into the huudrcd faces of that unfeeling crowd, as it searching for sympathy. But no ; they cannot read his eye of mute appeal ; he is, nothing to them but a great, tawny lion, with a shaggy mane, and tutted tail. Suddenly ho rears him self up to his full stature, throws back his grand head, utters a tremendous desert roar, and falls down heavily on his side dead. Dead ; but with an imperial ges ture, such as Cresar's, when ho fell. Look at the widow! She has been ta king short and stately turns up and down tho den a very Juno in her gait, and in her temper, too. But she stops, looks inquiringly at the prostrate figure, draws nearer, bends her head with an anxious, bewildered look, and then, as if at last receiving the great ide.i, she throws her self down upon tin dead monarch with great abandonment. Presently up comes the heir ; crown prince he was ho is the young king now. Ho stops short, in a fierce, brusque attitude, spreads his nos tiils, flashes his eyes, aud snorts aloud That was a long and searching gaze, tru ly. But at last ho, too, (lings himself down with a great sounding Jlop upon tho dead body of the old lion. Up comes the coarse looking keeper, aud dogs away tho widow and the sou. But they watch their opportunity, and stalk forward again, aud throw themselves down in tho same atti tudo of grief. Again the hateful whip, and again they spring to the other end of the room, with a short, impatient roar. Three times did this take place, and threo times did they return to the samo posi tion, abandoning themselves to the same eloquent symbols of grief. Not many can say that they have been present at the death-bed of a lion ; and never can the scene, so touching, aud yet so grand, be forgotten. tgy A New York paper, in announcing tho wreck of a vessel near tho Narrows, says : " The only passengers wero T, B. Nathan, who owned threo fourths of tho cargo and tho captain's wife. In another paper wo find tho following advertisement . Fok Sale. An excellent young ho rso ; would suit any timid lady or geutlcman ' gustus II, King of Poland, could roll up a with a long silver tail. 1 silver plate liko a sheet of paper, and twist We heard a good Methodist preacher the strongest horse-shoo assuuder. A lion go on iu this way : 1 ;s paid to havo left tho impression of his " As I was riding along on ono of those teeth upon a piece of solid iron, The beautiful Western prairies, with my dear most prodigious power of muscle is exhibi old wifo, who has since gono to heaven in ted by tho fish. Tho whale moves with a a buggy." . velocity, through a dense medium, water, Elopement cxtraordiuary Mr. Jonc's that would carry him around tho world in dog clopca with Mr Smith'-s dinner less than a fortnight. A sword fish has KINDNESS NEVE It LOST. "I was escorting homo tho lovely Char lotte D , to whom I was, ab iho lime quite devoted ; we got into one of tho crowded Avonuo cars. Charlotte could scarcely find room to spread her criudline aud arrange her voluminous flounces ; I stood up near her, there being no vacant scat. After a few minutes came iu a poor wo man who deposited a basket of clothesou the platform, and held in her arms a small child whilo a little girl hung td hdr dress. She looked tired and weary, but there was no vacant seat to bo sure Charlotte might have condensed her flounces, but sho did net. Besido her, hoftover, aii a very elegant and lovely young woman, who seemed try ing by moving down closer to others, to make room between herself and Miss D, At last she succeeded, and with tho sweet est blush I ever saw, she invited the poor burdened female to bu seated. Charlotte D , drew her drapery around her, aud blushed too, but it was not a pretty blush at all, and she looked annoyed at the proximity of tho new comer, wild vra9, however, clean and decently, though thin ly clad. The unknown lady drew tho litile girl upon her lap, aiid wrapped the velvet mantle around the small, half clad form,' and put her muff over the half-frozen lit tle blue hands. So great was the crowd that I alone seemod to observe. The child shivered" softly put on the shoulders of the little one the mother looking on with confused wou det. After a short time she rose to leave the ear, and would have removed the shawl, but the unknown gently whispered, "No, keep it on, keep it for her." The woman did not answer ,thc conductor bur ried her out, but her eyes swam iu tears, which no one saw but inc. I noticed her as sho descended to a basement and I has tily marked tia house. Soon after my uuknowii also rose to de part. I was in despair, for I wanted to follow and discover her residence but could not leavu Miss 1). To shorten the story as much as possible that lady is now my wife. In tho small I incident which introduced her to me, she tne Keen wmu irom tue uoor blew upon ; me same manner now provided, by law lor her uncrotectcd neck.' I saw the young I naMj township returns ; Provided, Tho i ...i.. r.:.t.. t. i. i....i .i -i. . i. i provisions of this act shall not effect anv iimj wuiuuv itiliu uii iiul auasij r.'ililu sue i showed her real character. A few days J required that every application to tho after our marriage showed her the bles-! Et for,ay. of incorporation, , . , , , . , T , i , , sua" 08 preceded by a public notice or sed crimson shawl, which I had redeemed advertisement of the same in two newsp&. from its '.wicr aft'd shall always keep as a pcrs in tho city or county for which the momento. There aro sometimes pleasant legislation is demanded, or in which the things to be found in unpleasant places P"''" ayPb t,'. for it reside, if two news- certainly I may be said to have picked FW??1 "Tl " ,, , ty, aud if there be not two newspapers out my wile in the cars, 1 published therein, then in ono newspaper, - - if oi)o is published therein; which said MUSCULAIl STRENGTH. public notice or advertisement shall set Tho muscular strength of tho human lort1' tno names of tho commissioners or body is wonderful. A Turkish porter will fTri,to'! .t. 'Jf 1511 Prol'osl!d 1?,?j3 L ' .. . lation, and its title; and the same shall bo trot at a rapid pace, and carry a Weight puWic'C(1 or a(Jvcrti-ed in said papers bo- of six hundred pounds. Milo, tho cele- fore the bill or proposed , law shall be pro brated athletic ot Cretona,in Italy, accus- seutcd to cither branch of tho legislature, tomcd himself to carry the greatest bur- I Approved1, April 2d, A. D., 1800. dens, and by degrees became a monitor in j - - - - - - strength. It is said that he carried on his ' A DELIGHTFUL LEGEND, shoulder an ox, four years old, aud I There is a charming tradition connected weighing upwards of one thousand pounds witb the site on which the Temple of Sol and afterwards killed him with one blow onion was erected. It is said to havo been of his fist. JIo was seven times crowned 1 occupied in common by two brothers ono at the Pythian games, and six at the of whom had a family ; the other none. Olympic. Ho presented himself the scv- On this spot was sown a piece of wheat. euth time, but no one iiad tho courage to On the evening succeeding the harvest,the enter tho list against him. Ho was one of wheat having been gathered in separate the disciples of Pythogoras, and to his un common strength that preceptor and hi pupils owed their lives. The pillar which supported the roof of the houso suddenly gave away, but Milo supported the build iug, and gave tho philosopher time to es cape. In old age he attempted to pull up a tree by the roots aud break it. He par tially effected it, but his strength being gradually exhausted, the tree where cleft re-united, aud lolt his hand pinched in tho body of it. Ho was then alono, and uua- bio -o disengage himself, died in that posi- ' tion. Hallcr mentions that ho baw a man, whoso lingers caught in a chain at the bot tom of the mine, by keeping it forcibly bent, supported by that means the whole weight of his body, ouo hundred aud titty I pounds, until he was drawn up to the sur face, a distance of six hundred feet. Au been known to strike his weapon through tho thick plank of a ship ; a specimen of such a plank, with Ike sword sticking in it may bo seen at the British Museum. IMPORTANT LAWS OF THE LATE LEGISLATURE, The following acts are published for the benefit of readers : AN ACT relating to Township Elco. tions. WlIEUKAS, Tho laW of 1801, authoriz- inn the courts of ouarter sessions to divide any borough, ward or township into two or more election districts, fails to provido C 1.1!.... . il . ., ' . 1.. . . lor uuuing logciucr ino yoies polled, in each district at tho borough, ward or town ship election ), therefore, Sec. 1. Bo it enacted, &o, That the judge, inspectors aud clerks of each elec tion district ot any borough, w,ard or town ship in the counties of the Commonwealth which shall have been divided by the court into separate election districts, under the provisions of the act of April Oth, 1854, suan um&e out a compicie return oi all tue votes given at any borough, ward or town ship election, designating the number of votes each person received ; aud tho judge aud inspectors shall appoint ono of their number for return judge, to mcetthe other return judge or judges of the said borough ward or township iu s,a!d county, at the oldest election place, on the third day af ter any borough, ward or township elec tion, and then add together the number of votes given for each person voted for, and make out the returns as the nature of tho olection may require, complying in all re spects with tho provisions of existing elee-t tion laws; and after tho performance of said duties, deliver tho full returns to tho court ot quarter sessions of said county, in existing election law relative to the city of Philadelphia, city of Pittsburg and Erie. Approved, April ad, A. D,, 1800, A Supplement to an act relative to Un- adjusted Claims against tho Common wealth, passed the lath day of April, 1S50. Sec. 1. Beit on acted. &c. That all ' the provisions of the third section of the act relative to unadjusted claims against the Commonwealth, are hereby extended aud continued in full force for and during the period of one year from and after tho passago of this supplement. Approved, April 2'd, A. D., 1800. AN ACT relating to tho Publication. of Notice of proposed Acts of Incorporatiou of this Commonwealth. Sec. 1. Be it enacted, Ac., That from1 and after the passage of this act, it shall shocks, tho elder brother said to his wife, "My younger brother is uuablo to bear the burden aud heat of tho day ; I will arise, take off my shocks and place them with his, without his knowledge. Judge of their mutual astonishment when on the follow ing morning, they found their respective shocks undiminished. This course of events transpired for several nights, when each resolved in his own mmd to stand juard and solve the mystery. They did so ; when on tho tollowing night tucy met each other half way between the shocks, with their arms full. Upon ground hal lowed with such associations as this was thctomplo of Solomon erected so spacious and magnificieut, the wonder and admira tion of tho world. Alas! in these days) how many would sooner steal their neigh bor's whole stock rather than add to it a single sheaf. 1ST If we work upott marble, it will perish ; if we work upon brass, time will effaco it; if wo rear temples, they will crumble into dust ; but if we work on mor tal minds ;f we imbue them with princi ples, with the just fear of God and our fellow men, wo engrave on those tablets something that will brighten through all eternity " Daniel Wefater
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