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IbITICEM Di' COLCUMA 4*4).
trmihiont Judge-A(on, \VIMaul Elwell.
Arsociute Judges— {
f'roth'y And (1` k or Ontrts—,Jemme Coleman
Rttgister and Recorder—John U. Freeze.
( .11Ien Munn,
ConnuiNdonem— John F. Fowler,
I Montgomery Ode.
Sheriff—Snumel
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'reneurer—John J.
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Snyder,
Auditors— 1,..11 Rupert.
I Joht. I'. 1180WD.
Courtuissiener'A Cterk--NVut. Krieklututo.
Cottnioioner's Attorney.- FL 11, Little.
Mercantile Appraiser—Capt. (leo.
County Surveyor—Woe A. I)ewitt.
Dbuitet Attorney—Milton M. Trough.
Cltroner—Willittut Ikeler.
'ounty 4uperintetelent—Clue4. (;. Barkley,
Adsesror Internal Revenue-1i Clark.
.101ilt Thomas,
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AuNi4ilitit A S:+es-Ore—
-11. Newer,
.1. 11. Ikeler,
J. Wowd,
COlector—Beidatnin Ilirtalati.
N EW STU% I!: AND TIN SllOl l .
ON MAIM e4TRIIKT. (NEARLP OPP'HIV:
MI L LEK'S Kroll ) IMMUAISSUR PA.
TM: utoirrolontot halo ost, fitted op, nod opetooi
too no*
ST I'VE AN DTIN NI IMO P t
i n this pinery, where he is prepared to make hp new
T 1; WARP: of 311 kinds its his lino, and do r..Pitir•
1.1 with heftiness oh.l disteaeli, upon the meat 11 , 11•
alin Ole terms, Ile also keeps In hand ATOVE4 al
ear1 ,, 410 patterns and ,tyleo, which he will Oen Upon
terms to suit nurritimsrs.
ial%o ht."" /it Ile is n stm4 Ifiethank, 71114
serving of th ,9101 c patronage.
JACott SfETZ.
misborig. Sep/ 9, 14411,—1y,
pi. ‘ tsToit• Fon .SALE
The wide/reigned in ahem fitting op a
A th” VENN rUnNACI: MI 1.1 s, nuA v. ott
the wet tie fiNt; inSis (11 , :41:
Novia Scotia iVhite Platoter,
;irefiskrea reaily for use to Ittoottries to rod porch:is
r co, at any time from the first or March lieu
J. 3, NIrNINCII.
k:utun Jan..JJ, 1,,G1
BOUT ANI) SHOE Sin'
P
11,:+pertfolly iufnruia ltt petrlie that he it tine.7pre
pm,' IA manufacture all kitads of
fin BOOTS AND SHOES,
In at the LOWEST
moan ardiro and in thr. vr,ry
Mr. Girton, (kk to Writ -F :1:5
had tuktiv yarns of o , lt , . 00.1 1 t'Xito
ithattoll for pool work, iwt,paty and b.iltrpt I' !, it;
/NI tinworpkAked.
Irk Plat , f bu.inoss on Swab Goat 0,141i5:r of
Main and iron rtrerts, 4 , V.r J. K. Girwo's Stow,
Mio , rok4kurk„ oe. RI, Pqrti —4us
~; ~~r,KS MOTEL,
GlO. W. !HUGER, Proprietor.
Tie , ahoy« wellitnewo hotel has recently 1111401 ,
vim radieaf Changes to its internal arraoltemetit*,
slot it* fitahrietet etttethimet to his tertuoo Ctittinn
end the treeelhelf pl44e that his accommittlatie*
for the ermine', of his guest* hie 000004 10 Mew in
the tie/hill. 11111 1140 will always he foino
',tied, too only with solo:ward heel, hot with *I
the defirarioo of the 004.0 e, 111 Woe and Iftnnre
t . .. , tropt that impel:if heVethee known as 'A ikery.'s
porehastsit direct time the importing looses , are en.
melt' phi.", and free rum ail tha t amtata ding*. lie
thatittlet for n litienti pat motive in the part, and
euntittue to deserve it in the future.
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tuna 13. 1064.—tt.
ANri itM'AIR SUO';
TIM, natter/ivied yrnitlel ino/t re/pertfolly an.
runtime to the ptH/He etivrally, that he is prepared
to exernta all knot/ of MACHINERY. at JP) EN'
atiIARFLES•O FOUNDRY. in thoorn/hurit. where he
ran always he fo u nd ready to do all Mad/ of repair
ing. Int hiding Thee4ing Me - bine*, and in ehort. alt
Mind. of Fannin* Cienrila ALS.), 'EC RNINO AND
FITINO UP CASTINO AND M ACHINERY.
done nn .bort notice, in a goad n orimianlike man
het. upon the tuna rieoroothfr lerstoi.
1114 long eaperiente in the 1,11.'11..0 as foreman in
the shop 01 I.ettle H. Matta of* tiee, for over
Ulan year/. warrant/ n an it the can erne
emirs oxti.hterton to all who may faro, huu with
thei. wet*,
Monnisburg. Nov. 1. 1466.
INVENTORS' OFFICES.
VENNI:Mt & EVANS,
civil Engineers and Patent Solicitors.
No, 414 %V A 1.% T :ern ELT., Pim. tsnanti
PATENTA pry li ejtea—refi Mi
tatiS Crigkuerritig
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maratho n and aketrber,tiothdr and Multi nory
ter all Motivator. and itillAitly attended to. '4l , mA:it
ottrittion 'weft to h l.113:11 t,Atrlsand INTEt•
Anthrotic Uigtioa o( all tiocutonots
from Patent *Orr imwor,4l.
11. OVe youra.trett +hole trouble and traV•
etitte eXpensecti4 Otero! 10 ntractnai need (or persMl.
at Intorviaw with at. All tataloo.ta with thooo tnn.
WO calk ho tcitt.arttat in writing. For (archer in for.
tlital4lllillreCi MI above, with stamp enclueed for
CUNT With retereUre#.
April
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Houee." is
LOCK 1114 V EN, Pa.,
Property E. W. !holy. Eau., wouhl gay to tho
from& he Howie, his acquaintances, and the pub ,
tic tworrully, that he itlfrtidl4 to “keep a Itirtat.,
with the actouitatidatione And entailing of . a Narita,
and humbly outwits their patronage,
1. OTT ENEIEK,
Late or the Madison Howie, Ph Aladelphin,
Lock Eiweu, Wei Sid, tttta
m ISS LIZZIE PETER3LAN,
Would Immure to the Whey ni Monalybarg and
the public generally, that Yhe has just received tyota
the ttaatern ceiet her
Spring And Summer
Flock Of
MILLINERY GOODS,
eormisting fi ail nrtiele* nenally found in Arm claim
Millinery Biome, per goods are of the heel quality
and among the most handsome nod ebtateem in the
musket. Call and exaunioe thane for yousieteee,
Nobody should earthase ~tam nm ose tome examin •
jut Mine nod( 0 , 1 goads Befineld made
In owlet, no the shertmt nom*, or repaired,
tenor on Main Arm*. 3d dour below the store of
MendeiMall k Rupert,
Bloomsburg, May St, IFhiQ—lf.
NEW TOBACCO STORE.
IL IL lIUNSBEIIGER.
Ma 14 SOtt 2, &l ow €1 "-tau rican Howe,-
116002UntiRG I PA"
iYwnrn 64 Swap* nn hand, and forniAno to tit. holm.
and anent .1 trade, at littlad..llo4n (I,,west)
FINE fin' AND PLUG TODACCO4,,
DOMCSTIC AND I NPolVrEn rlr %R Ai , kind.. of
SiIIOKIAG ‘oil 4.-. 4k,
ofre NtoPraehnow end arpir WIRO '11 0 "t mid MI
it
fr ' s ri P infs t ril ib lit i a ll il F:t h r: , t 4 ,711,1:; 4 in tip firm ionic fp.w.
t: , .t0r. , 04, would do W. in imp hi , e ftli in
~ , • pendide to th't 6604 Mr every , rthig liwy
"ii . , , porch-I.w, a ih.a eoltrittp pmliistr.
,',i, ~
..u. ow V ,ittif, 3m.
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pomading p, tutocrat.
IS PUIII.II.IIIED 'NEM' WEDNESDAY IN
111 10M$flC It 1, PA., DY
TGPMA.-- nil fin in *thinner. If not peed within
011 X MO TI'S, tie felts addition*, will he charted.
ii I` . Wirt 41110Thitn004 MOOa l t nUMITtI#A#
UM paid eaeept at Oa *Okla of the editor.
it.vms or ADVERTISII4).
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this opiate NM Or HMO ittAertiOno .
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l`ron.i,ut udoorthwinents payable in nil% mire nil
fifitent doe tho flat IlLoterflon,
r 7. 0E1141; —in dnivo'o Block, Cor. of Main thin
Irmo S;rooig,
Address, W. IL JACOBY.
Monmi&on, Columbia County, Pa
TINE :MAIDEN TO THE MOON.
Iu the culler beneath the hyettniore tree?
Tu4:4 nothing anti. 4, you know very w ll'
t Mom !----yon know,
A long time nuo,
You kft the sky and dese , qelefl below,
4 tt a t , iininier's night.
By your own sweet light,
To meet your End) inion on Latino., height
Ana ilwro. 0 Moon s.
Ytat gave him a lanai.
Vtat l'ilhure. have antutkal at Holm
'Tole= nothing
Heinz only the
0C giving— and taking—an hutment
S.ooe elmrl6li lout.
Who uas spying
Went mat,b, , ,i—and so it got out;
Ilot 14 the gohl
The ..ea eouhl hold,
) ?Ikea ;—I woul d n't have gone and told
)tom--don't tell
H' whet beret
3lv lever me in the leafy dell !
Ik i honest and true,
remmber, too,
n „., , ,
nly behaves like your lower anal you?
IFront Rut ledge's (lirWiwi Annual.
We must have a lemon or two. S a to,"
she saga. and so, thotrit Id ink 41.1%1
to toy pipennd drop or beer, I ;Yu tip again.
and I says, "now I tell you what it is, lass,
it's just two miles to the town, and it snows
like fury, .40 if you can think or auything
else' pot want, just stty so, and I'll get it the
~ m4O time,"
worth while to if
“nevermind, and I'll make shift
without. But, 0!' she cried all at unto,
"l'ather's coming to-morrow, and you've no
tobarvo."
Well, rd never thought about that, for
when I'd fuel my fingers in the liltle,iar there
se-med enough for me, even if the next day
was elnistma-; day; but with compaby
why there would not be half enough. So
that settled it, and I got my stick and hat,
when Polly declaired I couldn't g,-• out such
a night like that without something round
toy neck, so she tied a comforter round twice,
elome up to my no t e and ears.
"Now. don't be silly, Sam." she rays.
- IVdy, wat'- , silly. - I says.
"Why, your being mull an old goose, and
making so uneh fuss after being married
all these months. Now e let me go, do, - she
says. liut I didn't, course, but help her
14 just a few moments while I looked down
in her laughing eyes that seemed to have
grown brighter since we'd in arried ; and then
I smoothed,—no I didn't, for no hair could
have been smouther.—T i asscol my:rongb,
ehopped-about old hand down the bright
shinyjudr that I felt so proud of, anethen
kissed both her pink cheeks. and felt seuu
how half glad, half sorrowful, fur it seemed
to me that I was too happy Ihr it to last.
- There now," she says, at last, "make
haste, there's a dear, good boy! and get
back ; perhaps I shall be done by that time.
and then we'll have a snug bit of supper."
Lint I couldn't get away, somehow, but
watAted her busy fingers getting ready the
things for the next day's dinner,—chopping
suet, stoning plums, mincing peel—and all
in such n like, neat, clean way, that, it was
quite enjoyable. Sr
UNUIII76 II ASSERT
"Now, do go, Sam," mho says, pretending
to pout, "for I do want you buck so bud:.
So I made a start or it, unlatched the
door, when the wind came roaring in, laden
with flakes of snow : the sparks rushed up
the chimney, the Candle flickered, while
Polly gave MO jUbt one bright look and nod,
and then I shut the door. But there—l
couldn't get away even then, but went and
stood loy t h e window for a minute, where.
little branches of holly were stuck, ',listen
ing green, and with scarlet berries amongst
the prickly leaves ; and there stood look
ing in at the snug, bright, warm kitchen,
with Polly making it look ten times more
warm and bright. It wasn't that it was a
handsome place, or well furnished,— for
those sort of things don't always make a
happy home',—but plain, bumble, and poor
as it was, it seemed to mo like a palaco ; and
after watching my lass for a few minutes as
sloe was busier than ever,—now frowning,
now making a little face at her work,—now
with a bright light in her eye, as something
s eemed to please her,—l all at once thought
to myself, and, what's more, I says to myself,
"Sam Darrell," I says, "why, what a don
key you arc, not to get what you want and
make haste back !" which, when you my
BLOOMSBURG, COLUMBIA CO., PA., WEDNEMAY MA
kJIIDI
'II`ILLI4IIIIO3I 11. JACOBY.
JOHN U. SAXE
4) Moon! dill pot see,
3ly lover anil me
Whatever th , lo,
Moon—don't teli—
Ili A SORE STRAIT•
milder that it was snowing bard, blowing
hard, and that where I stood the snow-drifts
was over my knee«, while inside there was
everything a reasonablo workingman could
wish thr, you'll say was, just about the
truth.
So I gives myself a pylAtngether, hitches
up my shoulders, its head down to
Nee the wind and tote blinding snow, and
then, with my bands right at the bottom of'
my pocket, off I goes.
N o w, w e 'd been together into the town
that night to bring home a good basketful
of Christmas cheer ; for even if you do live
in the black country, amongst the coal
mines and furnaces, and work as pit car
penter at making brattices and the different
wood-work wanted, that's nu reason why
you shouldn't spend a merry Christmas and
a happy one. lint now there was this tobae
co and the lemons to get ; and from where
we lived, right across the heath to the town,
being two miles, and me being alone, I made
op my mind to cut off a corner, so as to get
pack sooner. So I turned out of the road as
soon as 1 was out of the colliery village,
made sure of the town lights, and then,
taking my stick under my arm, set off at a
trot to the loft of the old pits.
The wind was behind me nou', and though
t:ie snow made it hard work walking, It
wasn't long before 1 was trudging like a
white shirty through the town streets, then
thronged with people, when I goes into a
shop, and, after a good deal of waiting. gets
my lemons and tobacco, pays for 'cut, and
starts off home.
- it
Assoon as I wa4 out of the town again, 1
gets out of the road to take that short on,
and now I began to find out what sort of a
eight it was, for the wind was right dead
in my teeth, while the way in which the
show into wy eyes W:IS something ter
rilde, lint I fought my way on, setting
up an opposition whistle to the wind, and
t'linkin2; about the warm fireside at home.
with the snug supper•tahle. and then I
thought of what a blaming it was in a hard
winter to live dose to t h e pit's mouth, aid
get plenty of'coal for next to nothing. We
could afford a good fire there, such as would
dicer the heart of soup , of the London p a n•,
while wages were not so bad.
Every now and then I had to stop and
kick the snow oil my boot-soles, for it col
lected in hard balls, so as to make , walking
harder: then, not having the town lights to
guide inn I found I'd wandered a bit out of
the track, so that the ground grew rougher
and rougher. and fume 11)::1,
bled. The wind heat w.moe than ever, the
snow blinded nit so, that T could not look
out for tho ~t * and at last
I tea's to } do; a• a foolish
Odin, ;, t: al ,r t cut. But
then • to be
and stinn-
lilt iii ,
bled : but : • ..,.,, wanking for Nom e
time, I was obliged to own to myself that I
was lost in the snow.
"Stuff and nonsense!" I says the next min
ute. ;old then I had a look mom d to try and
make out v, here I was. for 1 knew every
foot of almost. but nothing could I see
but :now Ildling almost like in a sheet all
round inc, so that I could only see a few feet
each way, while the snow where I stood was
nearly up to my knees. I listened, but
there was nothing ti be heard lut the
whistling of the wind, I shouted, but the
cry sounded tnufHod and close just as if I
bad been in a cupboard, then I walked a
little one way, and then turned and went
another, and at last, to my horror, I Ibutal
thatJ was regularly confused, and could not
make out in what d'reeth n lay town or
village, while the snow covered in every
, footmark in a very few minutes. .
Now. I did not feel alarmed, only bother
ed and confused ; firr I felt sure that, it' I
kept on walking, I must come to some
place or another which I knew, unless I
walked right out on the great waste, where
I might go for miles and miles without find
ing, a howe, but I was hardly likely to get
there. the thing I most cared for was my
poor gal at home getting upset about me,
awl thinking that I'd stopped in town
drinking with some mates, being Christmas
eve, when I'd promised her over and over
again most faithfully that I'd always have
my drop of beer at home.
"'here's no danger, that's one comfort,"
I said, - unless I run bang into the canal :
and even then I shall know where I ant," 1
says, "so that won't be such a very serious
matter," and then I tried again to make out
where I was, but the snow came down inure
than ever, and at last, feeling worried and
cross, I started off afresh its hard as I could
go, when all at once 1 let go of my stick,
fur I felt one foot slipping, and, as I felt it
go, a fearful thought came across my mind.
With on agonized cry, I tried to recover
myself, but, from leaning forward to face
the wind, this was impossible, and then
shrieking out:—
"My liod, it's the old pit!" I was falling
and rolliu down—down into the black dark
ness.
It was like being in Anne horrible dream,
awl fir a moment I fancied it might be;
but no, there I was falling faster and faster
for a length of time that seemed without
end, as I waited for the coming crash when
I reached, the bottom—to be found :tiler
wards a mutilated corpse.
I thought all this and much more, as I
fell down the sloping shaft of the coal pit,
and then came a tremendous splash as I
Was plunged down beneath the .icy water
which roared and thundered in my ears.
I had been down pit after pit in my time,
working in the Amite at the wood cuing,
snaking new or repairing the old, perhaps
half-way down, hanging in a ungo, or Tiled
been working at the traps and doors in the
most dangerous parts, whore you might
hear the gas hissing through between the
seams of black slaty shale, but I never befbre
knew so hideous a sense of fear as c,:,ml
over mc, when, rising to the surface of the
water,= I struck out, as if by instinct, for the
Si4le, and then, clinging to the roughened
wall with one hand, and with the other
thru,t into n Fort of hole, "I remained for a
few evetm.l4, panting and half mad, up to
my neck in the cold water, while the dark
ness was terrible.
It is impossible to describe the horrible
thoughts that came hurrying through my
mind as it' to unnerve me,—thoughts of foul
chucking gases, of fearful things swimming
about in the black water, or of horrid mon
sters lurking about in its terrible depths
ready to drag the under and drown me; but,
worse still, as I began to recover myself a
little, were the calmer thoughts of the
length of time I could hold on there without
becoming numbed, and then slipping off and
&Ailing. I shouted, and the sound went
echoing up the shaft with a horrible unearth
ly tone that made me tremble. I cried
again and again till I was hoarse, but I
knew all the while that it was useless, for
there was not a cottage for at least a mile,
and then terror seemed to gut the better of'
no., as I felt that there, in the midst of that
fearful darkness, I. must drown and then
sink to the bottom of this old, old, worn-out
coal-pit; while no one, not even my pour
with, would know of toy tide.
With the thougths of my wife, came
thoughts of the pleasant scene I had so
lately gazed upon, when something almost
like it sob seemed to come front toy heart.
and then value weak despairing tears, but I
roused up and shouted again and again,
throwing my head buck to try and see the
mouth of the pit, but, though imaginatiou
peopled the darkness with horrors, there was
nothhig around but the intense blackness;
while, to add to my despair and terror, I
could feel that my hands were slowly slip
ping from their hold.
I swain slowly along, striking toy right
hand against the side at every stroke, but
after a few stroke., it did not mach anything ;
and then, striking out more boldly, I swam
on, turning to this right with a ray of hope
in my heart, for I knew that I was on the
level of one of the old veins, and, though
swimming farther into the bowel: of the
earth, yet I had net the horrible de, 0 , o'
the shaft, under me, wh'l
core long, I should rind hottom tor toy too t.
All at once my hand tonohe the side,
then I raised one up, and could touch the
roof; and then, slier a few more strokes, 1
let my feet down slowly, and limml the bot
tom, but the water was to my lip ; still, by
swimming and wading, I soon stood where
it was only to my 11141,11 e: and now, paus
ing to rest for a while, I leaned up against
the side, and. in the reaction that came on
aga i n , cr ied weakly and like the despairing
wretch I was.
By degrees, the heavy panting of my heart
grew le , : painful, while heated with the ex
onion, I did not feel the cold, but soon an
icy chill crept over me as I stood there
listening to the low echoing "drip, drip,
drip," of the water far away to my right.—
Racking thoughts, ton, oppressed me, and
despairing, I felt that there was no chance
of my being discovered, since, to keep olive
I must penetrate farther into the mine,
rt. , orli even from where I was then, it was,
whetter Illy coil he heard.
; knew ver) well where I wa4, it
v..ry dtt:e t:atlic lay by the old pig. mouth ;
while the next day being Christmas made
the chances less. But would not my wife
give the alarm, and would not there be a
.sear eh ? Surely, I thought, there must be
hope yet; and then in a disconnected, half
wild way, I tried to offer up a prayer for
succor. Not standing—not with my hand
resting upon the wall—but kneeling, with
the water rising to my neck ; and I rose
again stronger, and better able to think.
And now I began to look within, and to
think of the dangers I haul to encounter.. As
to there being things swimming about, or
anything terrible to attack me, my common
KIM told me that there was no cause for
fear in that direction ; but the next thought
was a terrible one, and nay breath came
thicker and shorter as I seemed to feel the
effect of it already,—"Was there any foul
gas T' But I found that I could still breathe
Pre vly, and by degrees this fear went off;
while, summoning up my courage, I waded
on -splash-splash" in the echoing darkness,
farther and further into the mine, always
with the water growing shallower and shal
lower as I receded from the shaft; and at
last I stood upon the dry bottom, but with
the water streaming off 111 r.
The place did not feel cold, while as I sat
down I could not but wish that my clothes
were dry. for they clung to me till I stripped
a part of them off and wrung out the water,
when I felt on putting them on again com
paratively warm. But what a position I
Trembling there in the midst of that thick
darkness, with a wild imagination peopling
it with every imaginary horror, I lay des
pairing, till, with the thought strong upon
me that I was buried alive, I began to run
recklessly about, now dashing myself violent
ly against the sides, now tripping over the
fragments that had fallen from the roof, till
at last the splashing water beneath my feet
warned mo to go book, when, with my bead
feeling almost on Ike, I crawled back to lie
panting amongst tho coal and slate.
All at once I recolleeted the tobacco and
put a wet piece in my mouth, and after a
time it ;armed to calm me. :o that I could
it and think, though at times I would have,
given worlds to have run away from my
thoughts. How time went I could not tell ;
but it seemed after a while that I must have
slept, !Iv I leapt up all at once with the
fancy strong upon me that I had beard.olly
calling : but though I strained my cars to
listen, there was nothing but the "drip drip"
of the water ; while I feared to call out, for
the sound went echoing along, so that it
seemed to be repeated again and again, till
I felt to creep with dread.
Many hour's must have passed, for a
heavy, dull, sleepy feeling oppress me as
I lay there, numbed bodily and in mind :
but at length I started up thoroughly awakes
feeling certain that I had heard a cry which
seemed to have whispered like in my ear.
I sat up trembling, when again thene came
the slung faintly heard as it caw along the
top of the water, and then I gay() a iota
despairing shriek fur help three times, and
then tainted.
When I Mille to again, it seemed like
waking from a dream ; and I felt that von
fused that I could hardly believe that I was
not in my own room at home ; but as I sat
up, the thought of' where I was came upon
me :main, while like a faint, buzzing, whis
pering 'wise, I could hear voices. To rouse
up and give a tremendous shunt was hut the
work of a moment, when my heart rose, for
it was answered, though but faintly. and
knew that 1 was being :ought fir, awl sat
listening.
But soon f crew impatient, and began
wading into the water, en as to be once more
nearer to the living creature, ; and I. waded
on and on till the water was up to my chin
and I email hardly stand, when 1 shouted
again, and now I could hear the reply quite
plainly.
After a while i AMY a faint light flash
along the wall, and knew that a piece of
something burning had been east down the
pit ; and then again and again f saw similar
flashes, while I stood there trembling lest I
should sink from exhaustion and be drown
ed. lint now something far more reviving
came, fig, like a star shining along the water,
I could see the light of a lantern that had
been lowered down, as it swung slowly about
at the mouth of the passage ; while at
length dose by it I saw something move,
when I felt choking, as I knew that a man
had been lowered down, and was swinging
beside the lantern ; while, when his 'voice
came ringing 11101Ig the passage with a
cli -ry are you, Inute? '' fur it few
my head swam, and I couldn't
a saver.
- Can't you get to me?" he says, after I
had answered.
"No !" I says, "I aren't try to AWitil it.'
"Then I must," he rays ; anal then he
shouted out "Slack out," and an echoing
splash came along to my ears. "How far is
it?" he says.
"About sixty yards," grasped; and then
he stopped and called out to me to keep up
my heart, and he would soon be back ; when
shouting to those above, he was drawn up
owe more, eotl it seenicil hours before
hoard the mould of his voice again ;
directly after, I could see the lantern corn
ing towards me, and then I've a recollec
tion of seeing some one with a light splash
ing about in the water, and of having some
thing tied under my arms which floated me
up till I was pushed along So the mouth of
the passage, where 1 can recollect clinging
to the rope, made fast around me ; and
then I was swinging about and knocking
against the rough styles of the shaft, while
a voice at my ear kept saying, "Cheer up,
n►atey !" Then in a sort of sleep I hoard
people talking, and some one said, "Here,
catch hold of these life.helts !" and it seem
ed like the voice of the man who came
down to me. But the next thing I recol
lect is lying in my own bed, with some one
sitting at the side, as she used to all she
could for the next three days; and told me,
she did at last, of her horror when I did not
conic home, and of the search next day ;
but there were no footsteps on the waste on
account of the snow, so that no ono would
have searched there, had not a boy been
seen with my walking-stick, which he had
found sticking up in the snow by the old
pit's mouth, just as I must have left it when
I fell into the fearful gull which held we Ibr
two long days!
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AP -Zr .1u old woman 0114 Molllllbuill observ
ed two men pumping up water to wash the
deck, and the captain king near by, she
accosted him as lidlows : captain,
got a well on board, eh?" "Yes ma'am,
we always carry one," said the polite cap.
tain. "Well, that's clever. I always did
dislike the nasty river water, especially in
the dog days,"
VS.. The Newburyport /kmla tells a
story of A newly married couple who attend
ed a launch in that city. A staging gave
way and let the gentleman into the water.
Before ho was rescued his wig came off and
floated away. When he was pulled oat,
bald and drenched, his wife refused to recog
nize him, and besought the crowd that they
would save her husband, pointing frantically
to a bunch of hair drifting down the tide.
CArrtovs.—A wealthy bachelor having
had one or two suits for breach of promise,
now replies to any young lady who wishes
a few moment's private conversation
"No, you don't madame. It cuts me to
the heart to be compelled to doubt the hon
orableness of your intentions, but that sort
of thing is played out. My rule is impera
tive, and if you have ray businen with me,
it must be transacted in the pressman of two
witnscres
1, 1867.
Education In the Printing °Mee.
The late witty Mr. Brown (Artemus
Ward) has lea, among other directions in
his will, that a youth, whom he had adopted,
should be sent to college, but that before be
ing sent there, he should be put as an ap
prentice in a printing office, "that he might
ascertain how little he knew, and hoW
portant it was to learn."
This was a most sensible provision for the ,
lad, fur we can conceive of no plum better
oalculated than a printing office to tomb a
boy the practical parts of an education,
Mr. Brown knew well how little is often
learned at school of even the plainest sub
jects which all ought to know thoroughly.
A great many boys of sixteen cannot write
a page of note paper without several glaring
mistakes in grammar and shelling, and as to
punctuation, that is a thing that. not only
youth, but often older people, know but lit
tle, if anything about.
A lad put to setting typl makes but a bail
out of it at first, With the greatest care
be makes many mistakes, and it. takes some
time to get him to set typo rapidly and ow
redly,
In the process of learning to "compose"
as setting type is technically termed, the
youth insensibly acquires the habit of spell
ing and punctuating correetly, and improves
his grammar by constant repetitions of cx •
1011ples of well constructed English.
We have often seen practical printer, avler,
had reeeived no regular education, who nev
ertheless could put to the blush those who
hati thousands spent upon their instruction,
and who, though in college they had learn
ed all the "elegies." could not construct
dceent English sentence,
In addition to this thorough instruction
in what may be called the elements of edn.
cation, the printer, if observant of what he
is "composing," can collect iu a few years
a va.t body of information on almost any
subjeut ; for it is astonishing to consider what
an amount of knowledge of all seen is con
tained in the columns of a daily paper.
Moreover, so much of a literary and sci•
' , milk , nature comes under view in —vont
plking," that the young printer necessarily
aoquu•es, at least, eoteish of the various de
partments of knowledge tilikaelnee him to
investigate mote deeply, and the same para
graphs which excite his desire of iuereasing
his stores of inthrniation, will diereet him
to the best sources from which lie may de
rive Venerate] more methodical instruction.
These facts and reasons explain why prin
ters are generally, a- a Pla: so Weil inform
ed, and why so many men of distinction in
our land begun life at ''the inflect],
next to the Law, which is the great avenue
to popular distinction, we believe that the
Profession of the Printer has furnished by
fur more men of political and literary die
tinetion than all the rest of the profc-,ions
put together.
An Asylum for Prlnterr.
It has been stated that this will or thc
late Charles F. Browne (Irtenius Ward)
provides that his property should be used
after tho death of hir mother. in fbunding
and asylum for printers. Mr. Browne left
some 5,150,1 10, n stun by no means inconsider
able, hut still hardly sufficient of itself' for
the subject named. In view of this, the
('Mauro reitoot makes the following sug
gestion :
"We propose that the craft in all parts of
the country, by a united resolve, provide
that there be retained by the foreman of
each newspaper and printing office, from the
earnings of each journeyman, a sum equal
to live mills upon each dollar of his weekly
bill. This small tax, of one half ant on
the dollar, should be paid over to a local
treasurer weekly, and by him forwarded to
a general treasurer to be invested until such
time as the asylum fund will be available.
The tax is A small one to each person, but
in ten years time, if properly invested, with
its earnings, would constitute a fund equal
to the establishment and the endowment of
an asylum equal to the demands of the craft,
and worthy of the men whose infirmities of
body make then► its inmates,"
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DESERVES I 'mv-turnm.—The miserable
cowardly wretch who steals his neighbor's
paper. May his dreams ho married by the
mewing of a thousand eats, his waking
hours be haunted by the appariation of
departed skunks, his thirst be slaked with
ceyenuc pepper and Jersey lightning, may
his pants be full of spnnish needles, and he
turned over to the tender mercies aa'
thousand Norway rats and mice.
This -is expressly intended for the low
born wretch who steals neighbor S— -'s
DEMOCRAT. Why steel his paper? We
furnish the DEMOCRAT at $,OO per annum,
a sum which is in the possession of every
person.
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In a certain town in Michigan
B—a very good sort of man, who once in
a while unintentionably gets off something
pretty pod. fle attendtd a political meet
ing during a recent campaign, where the
gentleman appointed to the chair made a
long 'ambling speech which very much dis
gusted B . After the meeting was over
he gave vent to his feelings in the following
manner :
"What business has C—(the chairman)
to get up and talk so long." In these
meetings they always appoint the poorest
material they have to the chair--the man
they don't want to hear speak. Why in
Wisconsin where I came from, I was (*air
man more than titty times.
M' AWO advertimo in a Glasgow pa
paper that elm maple gentleman "for
brealthat and lOa."
%EVER GIVE VP.
Many a premature death has canned in
consequence of giving up. The sick person
bottoms dbasourntrod, thinks he is going to
die. middies. Friends think they have done
all they could, death is inevitable, and let
disease take its otiose. There can be to
doubt but that in many sneh eases hope still
cherished, and the persevering use of ratans,
might have saved useful lift..
do also its the struggles of life, Ties
first speech of Disraeli in the ifonse of Corn
mons was a complete failure, his speech iG
is said, being stifled in the derisive laugh
ter of the Iloase, ale thus clotted
shall sit down now, but. the time will coma
when ;-on will hear me." Numbers havp
sunk into in.ignitkance under a less rebuff.
Disraeli was made of sterner stuff. Though
it took hint seven years to recover from his
disaster, he redeemed his promise, and on
becoming ebansellor of' the exchequer, clad
in the same ParfllVlltS he had worn at the
time of his renowned failure, delivered to a
closely al,emblatte the most brilliant and
the ablest Image, speech that had been
heard there since the day: of William Pitt.' '
Everyteely should that he i , humor.
tap until, his worL is done. "Try again,"
is as genii 114 the :Malt n • fur the child. if
9nvine , l that our '11 . 1 , 11V, the ,iflOn
er it is reeein i eud the rea-.0 to drt
evil ; hut h+ 'n fir the rit;hr,
admit no d,,f n rotal. Welearn at timr.4
more from a 1:61.1 , . than a alai turn
it tpl .,,, :fcrHo t sushi 5 h.,41 ever bq
our aim. 1 . . , std hmyralple mean , , rely 01
the ultimate tritmiph er right, persevere
the shirt ,deserve aml Failure will
your Tim
irro4olitte nnl hall'heartel Imo no gee
to expect, 1 1 4 that would Only he a premium
on imlweilit v,
Una at Home.
Don't be afraid (f a little fun nt
pill mnit to ruin your
let them think that all mirth and
social voi..yntent neat b.., left to the thre4h
old w:t lotto. when they come home at, night.
wh o' home it regarded a+ only ti
Mao , to cat. drink and ',loop in, the work is
begun that end. in patubling houses and
degradation. Yonne people must have fun
and relaxation !..unieWilyg ir they do not
find it at their own heartivenne., it will ho
sought at other and perhaps lees profitable
places. Therefore let the fire burn brightly
at night, and make the homestead delight
ful with All tlio.m , little atts that teexmts so
perfectly understand. Don't reprrms the
buoyant spirits of your children. lialf nn
hour of merriment. round the lamp and
firelight of a home, blots out thg remem
brance of many a care and anuoyanee durinc;
the day ; and the best safeguard they can
take with them into the world is the unseen
influence of a bright little domestie sanctum.
V 3.. The Sunbury Gaze le and other Ne
gro organs aro trying to make a rm.; over
the fact that John Hughes, fornne>h• of
Schuylkill county, Pa., has recently been
elected too the North Carolina State Senate.
31r. Hughes ►teat Knuth in /8112 upon the
outbreaking of hostilities, and fortltelNlow.
reason: Ilis wife was a native of Nt rth
Carolina, and the conduct of the highly edu
cated, highly civilized and super•tlned and
religious loyall people of I'enrn•ylvania who
were her neighbors, was such that a lady
from the South could not live at peace amongst
them, and she was almost compelled to leave
to escape the blessings of northern civiliza •
Lion; and, of course, her lowband, as any
men would have dom., accompanied her as
natural protector when she should get down
among the cannibals of the South! John
Hughes is a nephew of Frank Hughes, of
Schuylkill county, an able lawyer and a very
prominent democratic politician, and what
is said by these papers is said with the in
tention of indirectly injuring Frank Hughes.
They want to use John's record to injure
Frank. MI their blowing amounts to noth
ing, however, as the terms loyal and rebel
aru played out or don't benefit or hurt any.
body anymore. Besides, it will POOR be
mere creditable to have been a rebel than a
loyalist. We would rather to-day be Jeffer
son Ibrvis in Fortress Monroe than Andrew
Johnson in the Presidential ebair.—Selins
vrocc Times.
IZETI
How Loser'.'- -A correspondent asks us
how long is the infamous, unconstitutional
annoying, prying, troublesome Income Tax,
to continue °'' We answer, that rt 01 lot
entioiotoctl too ! , pis the Republiroo party
hold powor ! That party has discovered
whnt they call "the resi.ttrov:l or the country."
Having done so they intend to enjoy them ;
and being in possession, obviously proceed
as miners do, when they discover a golden
gulch. They arc ,)•otlet'og preltorolions to
stay—and this is what the Reconstruction
and other bills in Congress really mean
with a determination to get at the gold by
all known processes, and if these fail, to in
vent new ones among the miners. If it is
contained in quartz, it must be "crushed out' '
of it. The Republicans being like the
miners, the people are comparable to the
quartz. They must yield their gold to sup
ply the extravagancies of myriads of Re ,
publican tuz-gatherers, and pay Ihr the costly
experimente in the government of the Re
publican party, even though they are
emished. Arjus,
Sir "I wish I had your head, - said a
lady one day to a gentleman who had solved
far her a knotty point. "And I wish I had
your heart," was the reply, "Well," said
eke "linen your bead and my heart can
arse, I do not see why they should not g
into putstaskip."
O. 10.