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TRIAL LIST, APRIL TERM, 1856
FIR ST WEEK
S. S. Keen,Adx. of J. Likens, vs J. R. Madden
G. W. Bowman &c. vs P..Shoenberger, et al
Heckman vs Same
J. H. Wolverton's adm'rs vs Jas. Entrekin
Elias Hoover vs Brice X. Blair
David Caldwell vs,Dell & Crotsley
Matthews heirs vs G. K. Shoenberger et al
Charles Bratton vs Wm. Ctrbin's adm'rs
Thomas F. Stewart vs Alexander Steel
Matthews Ex'rs vs E. L. Plowman
Horatio Trexler & Co. vs J. & W. Saxton
Thomas Clark's heirs vs Brisan Clark
Ganoe vs Shoenberger & Co.
SECOND WEEK.
A. P. Wilson vs. Michael Buoy
John Lee vs Joseph P. Moore
Mary Ann Smith vs Peter Moore's Ex'rs
Samuel B. McFeaters vs Alex. Beers et al
John Long vs William McNite
James Gardner vs Joseph Richardson
Samuel Fanestock vs. S. L. Glasgow
John Fleming vs Brice X. Blair et al
Sterling & Alexander vs Bracken, Stitt & Co.
Robert Stewart vs John S. Miller
John Savage vs James Entrekin
Woolheater for Lee vs Isaac Hill
lohn Penn Brock vs John Savage
Patrick Kelly vs Penna. Railroad Co.
John Penn Brock vs John Savage
J. W. Riley for use vs H. & B. T. R. & C. C.
Henry D. Moore et al vs John Savage
Anspach Jacoby & Co. vs J: Jamison & Blair
Abraham . Lewis vs Pa: R. R. Co.
J. Maguire, surviving partner of the firm of
Maguire & Dorsey, vs J. Africa's Ad. & heirs
GRAND 317RORS---.APRIL TERM
John Beck, farmer, Warriorsmark. .
William Couch, farmer, Barree.
Abel Corbin, farmer, Henderson.
Peter Crownover, farmer, Shirley.
Peter Grazier ; farmer Warriorsmark.
David Hammer, laborer, Morris.
John Kyper, farmer, Hopewell.
Isaac McClain, farmer, Tod.
Samuel Musser, farmer, Barree.
Job Morris, mason, Huntingdon.
Samuel Morrison, farmer, Barree.
Daniel Neff, farmer, Porter.
Andrew Park, farmer, Cass.
James Posten, farmer, Cass.
Samuel Peightal, cooper, Huntingdon.
David. Rupert, farmer, Henderson.
Edward Roberts, farmer, West.
David Sheesley, farmer, West.
Jacob Spanogle, farmer , . Dublin. .
John Silverthorn, farmer, Tell.
David Summers, farmer, Hopewell.
Jacob Shaffer, Brady.
William Smith, farmer, Union.
William Campbell, fanner, Tell.
TRAVERSE JIT.RORS.
FIRST WEEK.
Samuel Bucher, jr., manufacturer, Cromwell.
David Burley, laborer, West.
James Bell, inn-keeper, West.
Samuel Buggs, jr., farmer, Tell.
Abraham Branstetter, laborer, Warriorsmark.
John Cummins, farmer, Jackson.
Frederick Chrisman, farmer, Franklin.
William. Cornelius, carpenter,
.Clay.
William Culshall, farmer, Springfield.
Ephraim Chilcot, farmer, Union. •
Samuel Coen, gentleman, Barree.
Lewis R. Corbin, farmer, Cass.
Ephraim . Doyle, carpenter, Shirley.
Levi Dell, farmer, Union.
John Davis, sr., farmer, Morris.
Isaac Enyart, farmer, Cromwell.
James Ewing, farmer, Barree.
James Fleming, farmer, Jackson.
James Goodman, farmer, Henderson.
John Garner. jr., farmer, Penn.
Samuel Grove, farmer, Hopewell.
William H. Harper, merchant, Jackson.
John Heeler, farmer, Tod. .
Leonard Kessler, merchant, Brady.
J. Wareham Mattern, merchant, Franklin.
Andrew Mattern, wagon-maker, West.
Christian Miller, farmer, Brady.
William Miller, farmer, West.
William Oaks, farmer, Barree.
Alexander Oaks, farmer, Barree.
Henry Peightal, farmer, Walker.
Joseph Rodkey, farmer, Penn.
Milton H. Sangaree, teacher, Walker.
Jacob Snyder, tailor, Huntingdon.
Lewis Snyder, farmer, West.
Jacob Snyder, wagon-maker, West.
Fred. Thompson, blacksmith, Springfield.
William Trexler, laborer, Tell.
William Wible, farmer, Springfield.
Armstrong Willoughby, tailor, Huntingdon.
John Jackson, farmer, Jackson.
William Johnson, farmer, Hopewell.
Samuel Long, farmer, Dublin.
Daniel Logan, farmer, Cromwell.
Abraham McCoy, brickmaker, Huntingdon.
Andrew P. Swoope, farmer, Clay.
Michael Kyper, farmer, Walker.
J. Simpson Africa, surveyor, Huntingdon.
SECOND WEEK.
Robert Anderson, farmer, Tod.
Philip Boustough, farmer, Porter.
George Berkstresser, farmer, Hopewell.
John Benson, farmer, Tod.
Henry Cremer, blacksmith, Springfield.
Jas. Chamberlain, inn-keeper, Warriorsmark.
James Clark, merchant, Warriorsmark.
Jonathan Doyle, miller, Union.
James Entrekin, farmer, Hopewell.
Josiah Fleck . , farmer, Cromwell.
James Fleming, farmer, Dublin.
Jacob Fe!mice, farmer, Tell.
Samuel. Fridley, butcher, Henderson.
John Fink, wagon-maker, Penn.
Benjamin Fink, farmer, Cass.
Hays Hamilton, manager, Franklin.
Mordecai Henry, farmer, West.
Samuel Huey, tailor, Porter.
Isaac Heffner, farmer, Walker.
Peter Harnish, farmer, Morris.
John Hunt, laborer,Cromwell.
David Henderson, armer, Franklin.
Wm.. B. Johnston, farmer, Franklin.
Abraham Lias, farmer, Tod.
George Price, farmer, Cromwell.
Samuel Read, farmer, Penn.
Jacob Sollers, carpenter, Springfield.
James Sharrer, wagon-maker, Dublin.
Samuel Stryker, farmer, West.
Thos. Stewart, Esq., manufacturer, Jackson.
John Swan, jr., farmer, Dublin,
Abraham Shore, farmer, Cass.
Solomon Taylor, farmer, Springfield.
Martin Walker, farmer, West.
John Walls, farmer, Cass.
Eli Plummer, farmer, Hopewell.
MILN WOOD ACADEMY,
Shade Gap, 'Huntingdon County Pa.
W. H. WOODS, A. M.,
Proprietor and Principal.
SAMUEL CAMPBELL, Assistant.
Assistant.
JOHN MeCAUSLAND,
Teacher in preparatory Department.
REV. W. S. MORRISON,
Lecturer. on Evidences of Christianity.
REV. JAMES CAMPBELL,
Lecturer on General Literature.
J. A. SFIADE, M. D.,
Lecturer on Anatomy and Hygeana.
The semi annual Exhibition of this Institution
will take place on the Ist Wednesday of April.
An address will be delivered before the societies
in the fore part of the day, the Exhibition will
come off in the evening ; the examinations the
week previous. These exercises the friends of
Education arc respectfully invited to attend.—
The next session will open the Ist Wednesday.
of May. This Institution holds out peculiar in.
ducements to young men seeking an education.
The Board of Instructors is composed of Gentle
men of high Literary merit and skilled in their
profession. The location is very healthy, hav
ing the fine mountain air and free from all nox.
ious vapors arising from stagnant water and
marshy grounds. Those subject to ague could
not find a more desirable place. The 'Tempta
tions to vice, idleness and dissipation are few.—
There is nothing to draw the minds of the stu.
dent from his books, no liquor is allowed to be
sold in the place nearer than Mount Union 17
miles oft; it is just such a situation as a young
man delirious of improvement would seek.—
The societies are in a flourishing condition and
each has a fine library of choice works. The
buildings arc large and commodious, capable
of accommodating some fifty students. Shade
Gap is a quiet and retired place, situated on
the main road between Chambersburg and the
Mount Union station on the Pennsylvania R.
Itoad.
TERMS.—For session of five months, for
board, tuition and room rent, $52,50. Washing,
light and fuel extra. Students are charged from
time of entering until the close of the session.—
Payments quarterly in advance. For catalogue
and further particulars, addrsss
W. IL WOODS.
Shade Gap, Huntingdon County, Pa.
Alum') 5, 1856
HUNTINGDON, APRIL 2, 1856.
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REPUBLICAN ARISTOCRACY.
BY JOHN G. SAXE
Of all the notable things on earth, .
The queerest one is 'pride of birth,
Among our "fierco Democracy 7"
A bridge across a hundred years,
Without a prop to save from sneers—
Not even a couple of rotten Peers—.A
thing for laughter, sneers and jeers,
Is American Aristocracy
Depend upon it my snobbish friend,
Your family thread you can't ascend,
Without good reason to.apprehend
You may find it waxed at the further end
By some plebeian vocation !
Or, worse than that, your boasted lino
May end in a loop of stronger twine,
That plagued some worthy relation
Because you flourish in worldly affairs,
Don't be haughty and put on airs,
With insolent pride of station !
Don't be proud and turn up your nose
At poorer people in plainer clothes,
But learn for the sake of your mind's repose,
That wealth's a bubble that comes—and goes !
And that all proud flesh, wherever it grows,
Is subject to. irritation !
PRE BATTLE OF LEXINGTON.
BY E. S. THOMAS;
The British in possession of Boston had
learned that a quantity of public stores were
deposited at Concord, nineteen miles distant,
and determined to destroy them. Another
and a much more important object of the ex
pedition was, to capture, if possible, John
Hancock and Samuel Adams, who were
known to be in that neighborhood and upon
whose heads a price had been set.
On the night of the 18th of April, 1775,
the British landed eight hundred men in
Charlestown, who took up the line of march
through Mertomy (now called West Cam
bridge) and Lexington, to Concord. It was
a calm starlight night, and they moved with
all possible stillness; at West Cambridge they
passed my father's house, and their tread
awoke him, he arose, stood at the window
and counted their platoons. As soon as they
had all passed, he sieze,l his musket and start
ed across the country, every road of which
was familiar to him. In his progress he fell
,in with numbers on the same errand—that
was to get ahead of the enemy, and alarm
the country, in both of which they succeeded,
so that when the British arrived' at Lexing
ton, eleven miles from Boston, at five o'clock
in the morning,- they found the millitia as
sembling; they had received intelligence of
the enemy's movements, some hours before,
and promptly assembled at the beat of the
drum. When the British came within strik
ing distance. Major Pitcairn rode forward
and called out, "Disperse, you rebels, dis
perse r and without waiting to see whether
they would or would not, 'fired his pistol
which was a signal for a volley from the ad
vance, which killed eight; the others disper
sed, and the British pursued their way• to
Concord, where they arrived without inter
ruption, but Hancock and Adams had made
their, escape. They then commenced a re
treat to do which they had to pass the north
bridge; at the foot of it Capt. Davis had
drawn up his company, (the Concord Light
Infantry,) and then and there the first volley
was fired by the Americans, in that cause
which gave independerce •to America and
freedom to the world. In the meantime the
minute men were pouring ia from all quarters,
and the British found themselves so hotly
pressed, that had it not been.for a reinforce
ment of about a thousand men, with two
field pieces, under Lord Percy, whom Gov.
Gage had dispatched to their assistance,
not a man of the detachment would have
reached Boston.—The reinforcement met the
retreating column near Lexington, greatly
diminished, almost exhausted having taken
no refreshment since.they left Boston, whence
they were yet distant eleven miles, and had
to fight every inch of the way.
The plan then adopted by Lord Percy, was
one of the most savage warfare ; his troops
fell off from the front, entered the houses of
the Americans, plundered them of whatever
they could carry, set fire to the houses, and
then joined the rear, thus giving an opportu
nity' to their whole force to plunder ; but so
hot was the pursuit, a large portion of the
fires were extinguished before they had done
much damage. When they had passed
the foot of the rocks, they entered the
plain of West Cambridge, seven miles from
Charles River, and quite a village for about
two-miles ; at least I found it so when a
school-boy ten years after, and there was
no appearence of any addition to it since the
theßevolulion.
It is proper here to remark, that there were
two taverns near West. Cambridge—one kept
by a Mr. Cooper, the resort of
,the Whigs ;
the other the resort of the Tories kept by a
Mr. Bradish. There were three families on
the road -within a fourth of a mile ; by the
name of Adams, a name . hateful to the British;
in one of those a lady was confined the night
before; the enemy entered the house, took
the bed on which she lay with her infant at
the breast, and carried them into the yard and
left them there. A little boy about five or six
years old bad taken shelter under his mother's
bed—his foot projected from beneath the dra
pery—a British soldier thrust his bayonet
through it, and for a minute pinned it to the
floor ; the boy did not even utter a cry : this
fact I had from his mother. They then plun
dered the house and set it on fire, but the
Americans entered in a few moments, extin
guished the fire, and restored the mother and
infant to their room and bed. Their next ex
ploit was at the Whig tavern, into - which
they fired more than a hundred ballets, the
holes made by them were filled up but the
marks are visible to this day. It was a sin-.
gular fact that three old men, seventy - years
and upwards each, who were Tories, the bat
tle coming on so unexpectedly, took shelter
in this tavern, (Coopers,) where the British
found them and put them to death.
The name of one was Winship. I well re
member his son. The heavy discharges of
musketry at the tavern brought my mother
into the streets or road, who had learned no
thing certain of what was going on since my
father left her on the previous evening. To
her utter i astonishment she saw the battle ra
ging at less than half a mile distant ; she in
stantly returned to the house, secured a large
bag of currency so much wanted at this time,
and a few small articles, then taking one
child of two years old in her arms, and hav
ing two older hanging 'to her apron, she sal
lied forth to go to a Captain Whittemore's,
about two miles distant across the fields, on
the bank of the Mystic river, (women and
children had already fled there, to the number
of a hundred of the, former, and two or three
hundred of the latter.) She had scarcely set
foot on the road when one child cried for
bread ; she returned to the house, and cutting
a loaf, gave a piece to him that wanted it and
wrapping the remainder up in her apron, she
was again in the road. In the meantime the
battle had approached so near, she was within
point blanc shot of the retreating enemy, who
let go a whole volley at her, which did no
other damage than to pass two balls through
her cap. The Americans saw her perilous
situation and called out to her, " Ran, good
woman I" She did so, and arrived safe at the
house of refuge.
The enemy in the meantime, sent out a
flanking party with the intention of cutting
off the retreat of the mother and child—an
object which they came nigh ancomplishing
—for the Americans did riot succeed in turn
ing their flank until they had approached the
house near enough to lodge bullets in it—and
a verry large elm tree, within twenty-five
feet from the house, was spattered with them
which I took great pleasure in cutting them
out ten or twelve years after.
After my mother's escape, they entered the
house, took every article of clothing and bed
ding, except the beds themselves, which they
tipped open, split up the luruiture, and then
set fire to the house— but the building was
saved. They also killed a horse in the stable
and some hogs in the pen.
Near my father's dwelling was Bradish's
Tory tavern. When They arrived at that Mrs.
Bradish, was in delicate health, rose from
her easy chair to retire from the front of the
house ; she had not left it a minute, when a
,balla-passed through the back of it : it was
the only one fired at the house, and was pro
bably done inadvertently. The British offi
cers, whO had been in the habit of making
trips to the country particularly on Sunday,
knew every family which was Tory, for
many miles around, and dealt' with them ac
cordingly, when they had the opportunity.—
It was not until dark that they arrived in
Charlestown, when the Americans withdrew
from the contest, and the British encamped
on Bunker's Hill. The next morning
.they
entered Boiton.
The loss on both sides has been differently
stated and my memory does not serve with
certainty on this subject; but a pamphlet
which I remember to have read, affidavits of
many occurrences of the day, it seems to me
put down the loss of the British at 245, be
sides many wounded, and that of the Ameri
cans at i4o—but I am not certain, nor have
I any authorities at hand to refer to on the
subject.
,prink Less with your Meals.
One great error we commit is that we drink
too much at our meals. Before we have suf
ficiently masticated and insalivated our food
to enable us to swallow it, we force it down
by taking water or warm drinks. This not
only dilutes the saliva, but weakens the ac
tion of the gastric juice after the food gets
into the stomach. Most persons take a swal
low of fluid with almost every mouthful of
food. Look along the bide of the dinner
table in any of our hotels, and you will be
surprised at the quantities which are drunk
during the meal; and, if your mind be not too
much taken up with observing the errors of
others, you may discover the same evil in
yourself, and thus be led to correct it. This
habit, sooner or later, ends in producing dys
pepsia and constipation, than which there
are no affections more destructive of comfort
and health. When we are thirsty, at our
meals or at other times we should drink to
allay thirst only. All solid food should be
thoroughly ground and mixed with saliva a in
the mouth, unaided and undiluted by other
drinks. Rely upon it, this apparent necessi
ty for drinking is a mere habit whiCh we can
correct at will, and all who prize health at its
true value will not consider its preservation
or purchase too high at the cost of attention
to so simple a matter.
In this age of tobacco smoking and chew
ing the salivary glands seem to be turned to a
new office—that of cleansing this filthy nar
cotic from the teeth and gums. Were they
endowed with lan4page, verily might they
exclaim—
"To what vile uses have the come at last!"
Who can wonder at the hollow and wan
cheeks of mankind, when such a continuous
drain is established upun them—a kind of
perpetual catarrh. or lachrymosis of the
mouth. Take warning by what we say : If
you would have good digestion, proper action
of the system, and full ruddy cheeks eat
slower, masticate your food better, drink less
at your meals: and you who smoke, if smoke
you will, avoid spitting as much as possible.
The latter have a two-fold reason for observ
ing our last injunction: they will save, at the
same time, their own health and the feelings
of their friends.—Medical Specialist.
117 The _sieve through which the man,
"strained every nerve" is for sale at half the
first cost.
Ttrear are only two things in which the
false professors of religion have agreed ; to
persecute all other, sects,, and to plunder their
ow U .
' LIFE AMONG TIDE HILLS.
ny LACKAWACK
(From the Newark, N. J., Mercury.]
George McMullen became a settler of Wayne
county, Pa., in the year 1800, and was then
fourteen years old. He came from Luzerne
county, below Wyoming. His father was in
the battles with the Indians and escaped into
the fort, the balls from their rifles having rid
dled his clothes. •He soon after moved north
and took up his abode where the son, George
McMullen, now resides. The whole country
was then a wilderness. The nearest• settle
ment was six miles off. The country was
all wooded, a wilderness of trees. .Nor was
it then so cold in the spots cleared up as it is
now. Good wheat could be raised in the
clearing sheltered by the woods. This is
McMullen's statement; undoubtedly he felt
the cold less, because sheltered ; but the win
ters must have been long and dreary, as no
sun could reach and melt the snow which lay
with an even surface throughout the woods.
As the country is cleared, the winds are more
piercing and the snow lies in drifts more than
formerly. The rain, when it falls, runs off
more speedily, and consequently the moun
tain streams quickly rise and fall. This fact
has compelled the Delaware and Hudson
Canal Company to provide immense reser
voirs of water for the dry season.
I have given you several sketches of con
flicts which our hunter had with the wild an
imals in the woods. Perhaps your readers
will be interested to hear something more
When I set down by the side of an old settler
in the wilderness and hear him relate his ad
ventures, I feel more interested in his story
than in any of the fictitious narratives got up
in modern taste for the amusement of man
kind. I seem, to place myself in his circum
stances. The battles with beasts and Indians
were a part of their occupation. They were
obliged to become hunters. Often the safety
of the family depended upon the food procur
ed by the rifle. Protection for their flocks
and herdd demanded the extermination of the'
enemies which would destroy them. George
McMullen has killed in a season sixty-five
deer and eleven bears, besides other wild
game. There is one hunter in Wayne coun
ty now, who, within a few years, has killed
one hundred and twenty deer in a single sea
son.
Sometimes a wounded deer becomes a most
formidable foe to the hunter. George Mc-
Mullen on one occasion caught a glimpse of
a fine buck on a ledge of the mountain ; aim
ing at his head, he planted his bullet at the
root of one of his antlers. It knocked out a
piece . of it, and the buck fell to the ground
as if dead. George advanced with his knife
to cut its thrcut. He had thrown down his
rifle without having taken the precaution to
load it. For a hunter usually charges his
gun the first thing after a shot, to be always
ready. But in this case our hunter was ar
med with his sheath knife only. Suddenly
the buck, which had been only stunned, rose
upon his feet, and, his hair all bristling with
rage, he made a dash at him, knocked the
knife out of his hand, and tore his hunting
coat from bottom to top. There was no
refuge •but in dodging behind a tree, the
deer after him. Long was the battle wa
ged in this way, the hunter fleeing from
tree to tree, and the enraged buck following
with fury, and aiming to get him within the
toss of his horn. At length, wearied with
his impotent efforts, the buck stood a moment
to get breath, when seeing a hemlock lying
at his feet, George seized it and struck him a
powerful blow upon the small of his back,
which broke it, and he fell.
A mad buck is most fearful to a hunter.—
He strikes so powerfully with his antlers and
his hoofs as greatly to endanger life. Many
an old hunter has told me that he has been in
more danger from a wounded buck than from
all the bears and panthers he ever found in
the woods.
the way a deer kills a rattlesnake is to
strike it with both feet while it lies curled
up, and to do it so quickly that the snake is
killed before it can strike. An old settler on
the Wallen Panpack once told me that he
was with a neighbor pursuing deer after a
deep snow had fallen, and they came upon a
buck which seemed to be tired. His neigh
bor, being upon snow shoes, rushed upon him,
though admonished of the danger, and took
the buck by the horns, when the enraged an
imal instantly struck him with his sharp
hoofs as quick as lightning, and severed the
main artery of the man's thigh, so that he
bled to death in a few moments.
A Yankee pedlar stopped at the house of !
an old settler of Mount Pleasant, who kept a
tame fawn in and about his house. The
stranger appeared disposed to handle it, and
took hold of its ears, when the hunter told
'him to be cautious or he might receive some
harm. The pedlar laughed at the suggestion
of being in any danger from such a little
quadruped, and seized hold of boll' ears and
held them rather more tightly than the inve
nile animal relished, when it rose on its hind
feet, and, at a blow with both his fore feet
stripped the man of his clothing and left him
standing with only a remnant of a coat and
a rest hanging upon his shoulders, and but
for this, as naked as when born.
Elk were formerly in great abundance in
Wayne county. Some of the early settlers
killed numbers of them during a season.—
But in George McMullen's time they had be
come scarce. As man became an inhabitant
of the wilderness, the elk retired. One of the
last that remained fell under the aim of George
McMullen's rifle. It had been pursued by
the hunter to his vicinity and lett. qe took
the trail, followed it about ten miles, and shot
it in the mountain near the head-waters of
the Sterucco, which empties into the Susque
hanna at Lanesborcrugh, where the Erie Rail
road crosses the Sterucco viaduct.
George was out on one occasion at some
distance from his house when he saw four
bears upon a chesnut treegathering chesnuts.
They would creep out upon the stsong boughs,
bite the small limbs, and then pall them in
with their claws, breaking them, and thus
reaching the fruit. Who will say that bears
are not canning 1 Presently a young bear
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descended to gather the nuts which had fah
len, and at this one George leveled his rifle
and shot. The bullet went through his bodyi
but too far behind to prove fatal. The bear
screamed, and the others hastened down and
seemed to hold a consultation about the
wounded one. Presently they concluded to
beat a retreat, and rushed into a neighboring
swamp. George crept along after theta intd
the outlets and saw them all standing about
the wounded bear. He then shot one of the
old ones in the shoulder, high up, and he ran
off crying with pain. They all retired, and
he crept after them. Presently he saw the
bear wounded first under a birch tree which
had fallen into the crotch of another so as to
throw its roots high out of the ground. He
was on the point of firing when he heard a
crackling behind him, and turning saw the
old bear coming at him with mouth wide
open, prepared to take vengeance. He in
stantly ran up the birch ; and she started to
come after him, when he shot her through
the eye. The bullet, entered her brain and
she fell dead. He loaded immediately, and
the other young bear hove in sight, which he
shot. He then shot the bear first wounded,
which made three out of the four dead; and
the next day he found the other one dead also.
It must require a good deal of nerve thus
single-handed to encounter the beasts of the
forest, and when, if his gun had missed firei
it might have cost him his life.
On one occasion George had been to Dun
doff for medicine, and was at the Lackawan
na at the foot of the mountain which he had
to cross, when night overtook him. 1
crossed the stream upon a fallen tree, hitch
ing along with a log each side of it, as well
as he could. Presently he heard a rustling
behind him, and found it was a pack of wolves
Upon his track. lie got to a clearing and
stood with his back against a tree, to bring
them out into-the snow where he could see
them. He tried to strike fire, but lost his
flint. After skirmishing around him for some
time, the wolves left him in pursuit of some
less dangerous game. He returned next day,
and found that he had held thirteen wolves at
bay. ft was the same side of the mountain
where he had previously entered a cave and
destroyed eight young ones, having shot an
old one at the entrance.
We will now take our leave of George Mc-
Mullen. Be is only one among many who
are now fast passing away. I have spent
many a pleasant hour at the houses of these
hunters, taking notes. of their adventures,
and conversing with them upon their life in
the woods, while as yet they were inhabi
tants.of a mighty wilderness, and before the
country had become settled.
I was ever a lover of nature; and though
now shut up in town, yet my thoughts delight
occasionally to roam over the wild woods,
the streams, hills, valleys and mountains of
one of the most lovely countries ever trodden
by the foot of man.
Volcanic Eruption.
The volcano at Hawaii still continues in
violent action. The flow of lava has reach
ed within five miles of Hilo, thecapital of ther
island, and the total destruction of that town•
is confidently expected. A. native, in at-.
tempting to avoid the stream of lava a few
days since, plunged into the Wailuku river,
bur was scalded to death almost immediately,
as the lava had penetrated an arrn of the river,
and had in its advance heated the water to
almost'hoiling temperature. As the current
is now running the advance of the lava is•
about one mile per month, the stream of
burning matter is from three hundred yards
to a mite in width, and at night presents a
magnificent spectacle ;in many places there
is an outer crust so solid as to bear a parson's•
weight. The liquid fire beneath occasional
ly bursts a vent through l and a stream is pro
jected far into the air. One entire side of
the island of Hawaii seems on fire when seen
from the sea, so dense is the smoke which
the fiery torrent raises in its track. It, is now
rapidly burning through the woods back of
the town of Hilo, and ere long will no doubt
reach the devoted place, and passing on find
a terminus in the waters of Byron's Bay.
A day of fasting and prayer has been ap
pointed, and the inhabitants were commencing'
to make preparations for leaving the town.
FACTS ABOUT Muir.—Cream cannot rise
through a great depth of milk.. If, therefore,
milk is desired to retain its cream for a time,
it should be put into a deep, narrow dish ;
and if it be desired to free it most complete
ly of cream, it should be poured' into - a broad
fiat dish, not much exceeding one inch in
depth. The evolution of cream is facilitated
by a rise, and retarded by a depresSion of
temperature. At the usual temperature of
the dairy-50 degrees of Fahrenheit—all the
cream will probably rise in thirty-sii hours;
but at 70 degrees it will perhaps, rise ir half
that time; and when the milk is keptnear the
freezing point, the cream will rise very slow
ly, because it becomes solidified. In wet and'
cold weather the milk is less rich than in dry
and warm, and on this account more cheese is
obtained in cold than in warm, though not'
in thundery weathery. The season has . its - ef--
fects. The milk in spring is supposed to be
the best for drinking; hence it would be the'
best for calves; in summer it is the best sui- .
ted for cheese ; and in autumn the butter
keeping better than in surnmer=tbe cows
I Jess frequently milked, give richer milk, and
I consequently more butter. The morning's
milk is richer than the evening's. The laser
drawn milk of each milking, at all times and
seasons, is richer than the first drawn, which
is the poorest.—Western Ag-rtculturist.
117' A humorous young man was dating
a horse which was in the habit of stopping
at every house on the roadside. Passing a
country tavern, where were collected togeth
er some dozen countrymen, the beast as usu. ,
al, ran opposite the door, and then stopped is
spite of the young man, w ho applied the whir
with all his Might to drive the horse on. The
men on the porch commenced a hearty
laugh, and some inquired if he would sell titer
horse.
"Yes," replied the young man; "but cane
not recommend him, as he once belonged to a
butcher, and stops whenever he hears tro
c.ilves bleat."'
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