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Give yonr name and pontile mti uty ana wk, erBoe 1 . - 1 Your ape end sex t t. Occopuilont 6. Height, weight, n"1' it a How lonff have yon been !" T ?! yoePlexlon.oolororhalr .nt e, teyesf ar,out your JXStlfoSi a consultation fee, J our l"r w J" "oa r'.re oar aUent ioa .lid Uif l" JA tbi n nature of yonr oiem- op ai." concern t0 eorre In ten enilM Competent ruyHsjan !" ",,,4 Virata. A lleltcis -nouiu k -:-7,.- - t)nenaury, dcipbia, i'a. 1S17 i Ubert treet, Fbila XL T. Hi LH BOLD, Druggist n Chemist, Fbilade'pbU, It TWO SIDES OF LIF!. There ia a shady rU of life, And a snn:iy .id aa welt. Aal 'lis for any oue to aay Oo wlUh he'd abooaa to dw.U; For every one nut himself Ccinauta grltr.ut tin. Who baia tbe blessed sunshine out. Ai.d shut lb shadows Io The cljcds may wear their saddest rubra Tiie aua refuse to amila, Aiid aorrow wilb her troop of ilia. May threaten 1 1 tbe wlule; Ect utill tbe ebaei f ul heart baa power, A a'ubeam to provide; And ouly tbo-.e wbbse soul are dark Dwell o a bfe'a ahady aide. Lightly Won and Lost. Tbe last luad uf Lay bad been carried from tbe upland: and stored within tbe barn. Tbe heaviest task of summer lad Just end' il, and narly everyone on tbe "Old Holland Fann'' was rejoicing over the f jet. Farmer Hon land sat back in his easy chair, with a look of satisfaction on bU honest face. The meadows and the ipliuds had each yielded a plentiful crop of grass and clover that year. The skks had been fair, the weather calm and bright ; men, women, and chil dren had worked throughut the season with will; and only one or two slight thunder-showers Lad fallen before the fra grant loads were cut, and raked, and tossed, and dried, and stacked, or stored In tbe barn. An EcgUab. fc.ruier, in the same frame of mind, would hive called for an extra fiagon of old October ale, and Mi good wife, hale and hearty, would probably have shared tbe sturdy draught with Mm. But Mr. Howland only smoked his pipe on the porch of the farm-house, without even s drop of cider to wash it down nithal; ind his wife plied her knitting-needles in her own particular civr-chair beside the open door, aaJ never dreamed of '"stimulants'' of any kind; save such as her own content ed niiuj and calm, approving conscience gave her, at the end of the unusually heavy household task, which Lad bee. faith fully attended to during the past four buy weeks. Did I say that every one on the old Hotrland farm was rejiicing, because "the hayinj" had come successfully ti an end? Nay, thtre was one the farmer's only daughter, and the helres of the green do nia.u k who each successive swinr of the lalKtrers' scythes had Jeen like Ihs measur ed stroke of down. There was one whi had long looked forward, with tears of sad j ! nesA, to that day of all; one, who, now that it had roally co.ne at last, was more unhappy than she cared to say, or voJl have dred to shosr. Fretty Margery IlowUnd sat on the orrh ard wall at tbe foot of the ' ten-acre lot," tyinj many a knot in her straw bonnet, and fie pink strings of j listenins eairerlv and iwiciuui, cj.rii ansiotwly to every word that fell from the lips of a tall, athletic. hadaoa;e, but somewhat stern-looking voting man, who leaned against one of the apple-lrer beside her, tlkin; in a low, even, composed lone, while his grave blue eyes were studying the fsr away lamlscape, rathtr than the sweet face beside biin. AlasI iu usual light and b f.'Orn were cTjrsnsaowru ' . :.w .!i . l I j IV.-.- Marzciy was dui sixiecn; anu .i -u7 . i ... . .u. i i . i.;. I y.Mingman, who stood so calmly at her j jmista sir m awiri ai cm pur; I ' ' 1 1 side piking of the morrow, which was to j separa'. tbcm, perhaps forever. He was poor, and also ambitious; an or. phan, without resources, without nesr rel aUves, almost without friends, for his proud, self-contained spirit was by no m'-ans apt to win him favor, except from those who knew bim well. In winter ho tanght the district school ; In sumrier be worked irom tdace to place among farmers, studying " 1 ... . i tl 1 meanwhile "filtuig lor college, wmij a New England lad can do. Be was .rady now to go. His work upon the Howland farm was dine, aud the money received for It, would help him tit uoon his way. Early the next morning be wis lo leave the farm. Dy nightfall of tbe next day he would be regularly entered ai a student at Tale. Margery listened to it all 'And when will you comeback!" she a&ked at last, with a little sih. 'Back?" H glanced t'owa at her wit. I'll face, with a look of surprise. "Back hyrci Never that I know of ci,. inrno.1 Hpadrv pale, Hut he was looking away toward the dis'ant mountain., .nil did cot notice it. l.fe lies vonda Margery, beyond those hills. Once clear Of this httle town. I know nothing that will bring me lack." She was silent. Ah, the relief:" he exclaimed sudden ly, lo "think that I have done forever with this rough, rude labor that dris a man Hown to the level of the beast-: In future ' shall win my bread by the exercise of my brsin. I can hardly wall f-r lo morrow's light to dawn, I am so eager W be away. pull she was stiem. it. uvid lost in a leverie for a few mo. menu, and then suddenly roused himself. Well. 1 must bo and pack my dooks an.. ,..n-a. I suppose. I shall oe ou e r.j- i ' : km, before those aara eye. 1- Mareerr. r i wlu ' 5"--J He held out bis nana. She laid hers in ; , , ....j. u ,i.. r.vi. aUUieaTWcesa ia Ufe that I am sure you VOU will deaene. "Thank yon. I will try to deserve the Mt..-u " he answered, a little puzzled by her words and Ibe look she gave, "Good- Not a word as M her f Jture, not a word .to their past. Full of hi. cal thoughts, the vounj man strode on to- ward the house, and went nP And Margery . uneiiui :- . . .. . i a i.jsbp sirinaJi 's . . i .lt That .ret! fche had eavca u - AndaotlietrialcawheTw come, to every woman once hwhle, Ind which mskcormarsthst bf accord Si to bar capacity for iru ei.dun-6 sTr ylsiBa above that grUfc Tm fesw pMd bf. Clinton Parke, no longer a college stu dent, but a weary anil nnmocesaf ul man, found himself once more at the old IIow land farm, just as summer was giving place to autumn, and the uplands, ahum (l tueir green burden, smiled bravely beneath the Indian summer sua. Alas! the bright visions of his youth bau J by no means been realized. Tbe wor'id was full of greater men than he. Once having discovered that truth, be soon grew wife enough to act up jn it. During the ten years of his absence, the little country village near the llowland farm had grown into a town, and now it wanted an acadcuy to educate its youth, in place of the o'.d district schools, that bad served their fath ers aud mothers in their day. Of tbe academy, Professor Parke, grad uate of Yale, was now the acknowledged head. Here, in the quierplace to which he had once said it wjs impossible that he could return, his days was likely to be spent his grave to be made, for aught that he could ssy. lie was glad to u!l even so small a place in life as this, so moderate had bis once soaring axubiiion become of late. Musing on these changes, he walked slow ly one cveuing up toward the llowland farai. At the foot of the ten acre lot, where he and Margery La i rested on that far-away evening, he paused again. A lady silting there, on the broad stone wall be neath the apple tree, moved slightly and looked up as be came near. It was Margery grown older and more beautiful, richly dressed, and with a name less ease and grace hi her manner that were not of the old time the old which he began to remember suddenly and so wclL She greeted him quietly, and made room for htm in the old place by her aide. Tbey talked of other days till the twilight cloaed in around tbcm, and the dusk of summer's night, full of sjft influences, and sweet shells and sounds, descended, like a veil of ' peace, up-M a weary heart. And suddenly Lis eyes were opened to his early and his life-long mistake. He knew now what he had always uiiM'-Ki and unconsciously yearned and longed f-r, yet never ound. And something told him that for waut of the lost love, this woman's life had leen barren, and cold, aud unsatis fying, too. " "ilargery !" ho said, in a low voice, as iic roe to return to the house. bhe stopped short and turned toward , him, trembling slightly at his tone. : " ears ago I left you here, when l ought ; to have taken you with me," he said, earn- estly. Since then I have gro,d biin.lly on through life, never really knowing what I sought or missed till now. I am a poor , nan, Margery. I can offer you little more j than I could have oaered you then, iiui, is il too late too Iste for life and love, for ! I wouM think that you might. 1 dirk aj as to bo fully prepared to lay his me, for you, f.ir both of us, Margery i" j "f ertapt . if you wul he.p me. But lntsoniJIt mtUm t:suu The reverend doc J , . ' , wllat ffln 1 take? tor also armed himself to Ihe teeth, in cac lie lent toward ner, holding both herl "oli, anything for this lime; bat really. of , eaierg;ncy, and went about Lis hands in his. His cheeks were niulien, j his bine eves, nojonger cold or grave, look-! . t -w -t 1 : . vlrMk Of tl r,. t Pbe onlysighel and drew away her tands. -Years ago I loved yon worBhipcd you!'' s'-ie said, sadly. ''You left ir.e for a nliiiion, and hre, in this very place, my heart was crushed and changed to stone, ,. , , , . vi. Y ou won me l.ghtly-yon lrt me as lgbt- 1 v and now I can be won no more . I am - . . . . ... - , . , i married, nir husband is neb. and luxury , , ,..,1 and splendor fid my home. I fill my life with thing, like these Il mwht have bcon H!(Tp.nL if when I loved von. rou had loved me back again. Now it is too i late! She left him and went toward the house. It was bis turn now to sink down beside the orchard walk to hide his face upon the cold grav stone, and pray for strength to 1 . 1. - V. 1, 1 m. .,-1 .11.1 , l.-nlv upon him. Ala: my roadrr, now many nuniaa lives might be changed and glorified (yours frnir and mine, it miy be, among the rest), if onlv whes we" love our dear oac mnst tenderly and fondly, they as tenderly and fondly would "love us back again." It seldom happens so here on earth. Perhaps it may in heaven: rroverba A faithful friend Is a strong defence. Anger and haste hinder good counsel. Be Just, but trust cot every one. Bettor are small n4h than an empty dish. Conduct and courage lead to honor. Dependence is a poor trade to follow. Despair blunts the edge of industry. Envy sraits at virtue's elbow. Exalt wiadom, and she will exalt thee. Friendship is stronger than kirdred. Fear of God is the beginning of wisdom. (Jreat gifts make b ggars bold. Great qualities make great men. Hope is grief a best music. Hear first ; sp?ak afterwards. In order to learn, we must attend. Idle people have tbe most labor. Judge not men or things at first sight. Jests, like sweetness, have often sour sance. Keep good company, and be one of the number. Knowlcdg- of ourselves requires great penetration. learning refines and elevates the niiaa. Iiove and lordship like no fellowship. Mi'dness governs better than anger. Meditation is the fountain of discourse. Never sport with pain or poverty. . v. r. I an Twit but time wid lessen A Femal Sharper. . t, tnVV. olared Loon shop- I V'UO ' r J - . . - ! l-.i--. vita ur.i. I -; t . . " i-l - .-A . ,niiAr her arm. and. when the groceryman was iw,nt txwir the coffee in a paper bag, Ihe corner told him to dump it into the jar lneaiL The man am so, me icmn.- iramu, ,- . . , . i i the mnnter and still holding the Jar under her arm, with the bottom of the ves- set concealed. When she naa recetvea tnc coffee female put her band in her i... .t with a well-foiimed exDression of annnranoe, cried : "I do declare, I have left my'purse at home! I'U jut t the jar I L. JwLVwn on the enanler here while I w. v-.-v si,, .-j.v. aaw w t i. cj.A failed to return, ana, wnen iiwiin," - . .-"-; v - . .. . nrid to find IhU It did not contain any E and that the bottom had beoa knock. . . . m J .1. t, rfi.t nnt eonf!n anv coffees and that wtnnt- It thMcaSBea upon nisnunuuiat ... .t . il.. . K tnen -i-- througk tabs a bag smMale. by th faaaaJa aharpty- The Shadowy Driver. A commercial traveler representing a well , known house m Fort arne, recently ar rived in Cincinnati, from Jonesboro. a guod sized town in timet couutv. He started for Muncie and intended to take in the way ! stations and make that city early, lie was i uuavoiuauiy ueiameu. tue ruaun were.iuai wnen i neeu anyiuiug ucreauer i euau IKVI utuKI w u um.1 ipvu. lie n it. driving through a piece of woodlau'.L, nour 1 the northeast corner of Grant couuty, just after du-k. . The horses were dragging tbe I . . 1 1 1 - 1 liUl sitrms wa;on tnriHimuo, iu;' wnicn i their hoof sank a foot deep or more. r-Jd-denly the hinges s(rang for wan I with all the power possible, and a f'lrmidahle being ; appeared in front of them. It was a black to make bricK without straw, and 1 m not object, and, stalking about like llaaqno'e ; going to do it any longer." zuost. w ith oue wave of its bony hand stop- j "All owing to the hoop bursting off the ped the frantic steeds and chained llirm, es j wash-tub to-day." il were, in their tracks. The occupant of i "Yes that was tbe last feather that broke ibe wagon says be was overcome with a the camel's back; that and the new horse feelinz peculiar to death. Ho could not rake came too near together. I could not Tcam, talk or move. He sat like a statue. The ghost-like personage, with one ercat step, put itself into the wagon and seating itself bcsiilo bi:n took the reins from his hands and, puiling the whip from its socket aud cracking it over the head of the horses, tbey started off in a rapid gait. Not a word was saiil, but tbe mysterious being guided the horses a quarter of a mile over tbe most horrible road in tbe ountry, when it arose to its feet aud placing its hand on the head cf the drummer, as if blesttiug him, it sprang iuto the mire and vanished. The drummer could not speak for near an hour, so overcome was he, yet he tows he knew everything that passed. He soon reached a farmhouse, stopped his team aud tried to call out, but bis voice failed hint. He drove to the next one, aud then was able to ask for lodging, and got it He did not tell a word of bis adventure, however, to the farmer, fearing he would make a dunce of himself, he said; but the real cause was superstition, no doubt. The next morning be started for Muncie, sxd was quite nervous when he arrived. Tbe traveler declares that be saw the sirangs being as above stated. When asked how it looked in the face its counte:jince he replied that he did not observe closely, tut when he looked for its face all was blank blank. Yet he saw the forjt. and believes that had ie put forth his hand he would have felt something tangible. The Forgetful Uutbaad. "Oh. dear, what shall I do? The ho.-p has hurst off my wash-tub, and my suds are all over the A':" said Mrs. Alden In a tone of 2ei)omlencr to her husoano. as, 1 j he can to wash bis hands ia the sink after . ..Th3t ig Ju!ijL y m wU ,,aT8 to llM1,lta, ,,, falher.in let yoiir washing go until to morrow; thcn!.w -online out beet. This so cnraired you can uorrow airs, aei.ion s mo. his will all fall to pieces 11 11 we company t v It ran't heln it: I can't stOD the work to- on nn w;.k B You must make hiv while the sun shines, if you make it at all. ;ini you ue 11 up so m u " m uo i.T . 1 ougnl aoi to iop a minuie. ncero 'he clothes-line?" ....-! .Th rolorcd rlf th are on it to ilav. ' . " . - t "Jiang mem on in" iikt, anu iei uir j h,Te tbe ilne qnickly." i Jlrg. Alden went out and moved her lhes and took the line down, while Mr. J Ald"n stood in the door and whitled im- ; patiently. j -1 mop up Ihis water Julia. How can rou stand such a puddle? There, I forgot J BOn LndK hu: you can make .- , one do ,.dav. cn't you?" I 1 KIIIlOflM; L 9I1.IU USC 1'. A UU 1MV T 1 -I. 11 1. T".. mijed to 2rt me one three weeks ay, when ! rou broke Ibis." "1 1 '. u'" 1 nover la,nK "!." a man has so many things 13 see to. There that will do this wetk; it doesn't leak much. I don't see what made it break." The hoop rusted out. The old tub has done good service; it has been in use fifteen j year.' i "There, confour.dlT! what did you leave ! that wah-brard there for? I have broken : 111 j '-it is worn out and rotton. I wish yon wouj ect me a new one. I can never tink- j er jt up again. 1 l. ..n - ... : .. "Rub your clothes with your hands; my mother always did, and she never bad a wasu-board in her life." Alden marched off to the hay-fleld before he met with another catastrophe to take up his time. He was hardly out of sight before a tin peddler's cart stopped at the door, contain- j ing a collection of all articles n-d in a ramily, trom wasn hum aown to uwiun, trtona and nins. "Anythinc in the way ol traao 10-oay, 1t"L';jt,kri,hes,,1.nd ,.J not like to have me buy of peddlers. He mts I alwsys get cheated." ..,-. . . : i. i .. nave you D a-8.i . S"' suitable apparatus to work with as he has? ne has a new boree-rake and abay-treader. and his wife is washing in a tuo tied up with a rope, and a wash-board that looks as if Noah's wife Lad brought it out of the ark, as a leaky water pail; and a dipper without a handle, a broken mop handle t bless me, Mrs. Alden: What is the use Yon had more money when you mamet than be had, and I would have tools to work wiih that were comfortable, to say the least. He never slops to think what a thing costs if it will make his work easier. It tires you more to get along with these things than it does to do yonr work." Mrs. Alden sat down and looked the pro- i nerty over. It was nuicuious 10 got aiuii this way. 1 he pcauier wae nRiu; sue uu more money than her husband when they 'ried life, and slie had worked harder .i ... i.a Kb. hnd manared everv t lunu rm i' . way to get aion?, aim w- to , think that she needed anything new or con ver.ient. Her setting out was almost worn o-il and nothing was ever replaced. 'Yon must mak- it do; it cts everything to live!" aud so she had dragged along. y(ar , . ,j ,, wore out and were t! s lump rose in her utK I i:ji,i. i 1 1- wash-tub?" she f t! U.l U" ,111 i"i - - mqnireu a. koriu. . . " i wo uouar. , ... a- - - and a frarw" ,'rl: i.uTi.-iii-. :rr a nuanen waau-uoarus iui . j - . .i.t- , quarter, Cippers iwemv cem urouul Vu..., cents . tf vm " " - . i Toa can riTe him of your Interest tn wi please-one of eaca stze; tine wash-board 1 4 Iooki Um Is of th i tco. .!.: s "1 ami a a uipper , : would hare them. And aae did have them, and sundry mher necessarr thiaffs. amounting tn au to t ' .... . 4a. ananK mm toarnnrw ri rrw mvir. nnm all v ' .U. hilto mnn Vfni in VlWK Tim tC IUU uutivs renewed courage ! renewed COuratw DUl sne snew ma uet renewed courage ma aw ""t!, b.lp ,0 Redoes Of thOTgbt opoa , husband would l powl j at the , outtar, and . .vKMti a rum ir umnni uoiaDW, , "LZ ncJ dissrinted. But shs had ,.i.i-- --:" r . ai the things, aa wss glad it, aai w LuJda't to, vsty bad. Mr. AJV fi his eyes in astonishment. You paid twice whit the things are worth. I could have bought them cheaper. We could hxve git along a while longer." "1 suppose I Lave as good a right to judge of what I need to do my work as you have to get things to muke your work easy; and I have made up my mind to-day uaic 1 1. a v. .nun uih ttcij .1 1 .iiu iiui 1 bought to-day was actually needed in the house. You have said time and time again that you d get them, but you never remem- , 1 . 1 . 1 r . . uer iu 11 is a nam piacc iur a woman to be in to have to do all her own work, and not a thing convenient to do it with. It is liko the ancient Israelites being compelled avoid comparing your conveniences with mine; and you can see yourself how it stood. You have every new machine that is intended to make farm work easy, and I have nothing at ail." Mr. Alden said no more, but ate his din ner in silence, and the hired men exchanged significant glances with each other. They had thought and spoken of tbe patience which the little woman had shown in work ing at such a disadvantage, and always try ing to make the best of what she had, aud tbey were heartily glad that she had at last made a protest against the injustice. After the day's work was done, Mr. Al den drove his team down to the village, and when he came back he brought a new stove for the kitchen, and a new pump for the cistern, and a butter worker for the dairy, and the little wife has found, since that day, that her rough places have been smoothed in a most satisfactory manner. Her good man had never thought about it. He did not mean to be unjust, but he didu't think! At Tea race. Rev. Dr. Wade Hill recently ahot and killed his son-in-law, Major Andrew Scrog gins, in North Carolius. It appears that Scroggins, while in a passion, stripped and whipped Dr. Hill's youngest daugh ter. Scroggins' wife was present and begged her husband not to hurt her sister, but he paid no attention to the tear ful entreaties, aud indicted painful chastise ment on the girl. As sooa as tbe father beard of his son-in-law's conduct be went to bim aud demanded an explanation. Scoggms said be had acted on the impulse of tbe moment, but Dr. Hill replied that lie ., r:., ... .- 1,;. i,,i n- ,1.. 1.1,1.1 11 ai.i. w inj Hi' unun wa '" " ...... aml lUfJ lwo gentlemen becmiM Involved ,JaJ. Scrogirins that he Mai. Scrogtins that he went home, ami. after consulting friends, sent a challenge to the reverend gea'.leman. which was prompt ly declined by the said gentleman. The major then vowed to his friends that be would get tbe best of the o'.d man, even if ho had to throw poison in his coffee. He nlc(1 himself wiih a navy revolver anil a spiritual work as usual. Kecently the two rn'n chanced to meet on horseback in the 1 .1.- j 1 .i lUl-J UL-M HIP 1' '1 " II l3. ' , gins exclaimed with a sneer: Ana. 1 v got you now:" The doctor replied, "Ke-p oxiL" The major replied, "Ten minutes lo aay yo:ir prayers.' Hy this time they were ten paces apart, and the impromptu duel was soon to take place. Dr. Hill said, "Well, sir, I'm ready," at the same time drawing a Derringer. MhJ. Serogsrins sab!, "And so am I. May the Lord have mercy on us both"' With that he tired twice in rapid siicccsson, neither shot taking effect The doctor fired once, killing his antagonist instantly. He then rode back home and told tbe asful news. Friends carried the major's remains off fr burial, and tbe doctor gave himself up. The greatest excitement prevailed, though Dr. Hill is iiutifljd in the opinion of the public The deceased was quite a promt ncut farmer and politician. Dr. Hill is a Baptist minister of great popularity and usefulness in North Carolina, and has written several orthodox works which have received the commendation of bi brethren. Tbe Tforld Is If one. A dt ten men were loafing away the rainy hours In a business place near Ihe ferry dock Detroit when the conversation turned upon the subject of general public rascality. A citizen said he had given a boy a quarter to get changed end had never seen hira again; another said he wouldn't trut his own grandfather, and a third would give tllKiO to see an honest man. I nave not jr kjo uiy im in human 1 t .... i' en.li nam.rlrivt a nun on a hirk '"Anyof yon ma, call in a stranger to us all and I will give him a five-dollar bill to go and get changed. If he fails to come back I lose the money; If he returns , win see how foolish yonr assertions ; " Half a dozen men rnshed to the door. A seedy, gaunt and evil-looking African was paddling by in the run, and he was eeieci ed to nuke Ihe test. "Stranirer," laid tho man who hadn't lost confidence, "take this five-dollar bill around the corner and get it changed and I will rive von ten cents." The black man departed without a word and for the next ten minutes the laugh was on the man who sent him. It died away, however, as Ihe African slouched in, band ed out the bilk and said: "I runned all c-ber an' nobody could ehsnire bim." He was eiven his len cents, and the man who lost the quarter by tbe boy said he couldn't believed such an exhibition of hon esty if be had not witnessed it, and he was willing to buv ihe cider for the crowd. It was only after the cider had been de stroyed and paid for that he learnd that tbe bill 'given the negro was a base counterfeit which no one would actep:. Clrs Bins Taar Eye Looking at the preacher encourages him helieve yon are aitenuing to auu . t ifirrMPti in una. uo aw jt would be nncourteous not to look . . hMi-e . conversation with you, ! i. It less so to avert the ere. from the niwher while he :s aaaressinr yon i - . . motnentus of 1 all troth he has a right to every testimony he rre.cUer, because yout -good example will aid In recalling the wandering " I - . , lnalten,i01. , snH MMAM infff IOK1 WDM) Ol L 1 " . 1 1 1 . I rvin. t the nrearher is eminently - 1 o - f.ww.hle m keenine ; np the mind's alien- -. tKon.t mw A aevi. stlrrin UeUat Treadlag a lata flii f a Uk. Humors of Uaiublinf. It is odd that among all the desperate people who shoot themselves at Monte Carlo not one has spared a bullet for the croupier who deals out destiny. cry latelv some traveler chanced to knock at ibe door of a lonely American shanty No one answering, the traveler entered. He saw a dead man sitting at a card table with tbe blue mark of a buliet wound iu his fore head. The murder was easily explained. The dead man held four aces in his stiff ened hand. Opposite bim on the lough log table lay four kings, with which his oppouet had hoped win, and, being met with four aces, bad taken a baity revenge. Now, confirmed gambierj believe religious ly in Ihe g'xxl and bad effect which certain croupiers exercise on their fortunes. tue croupier always deals in sue a way that there are no regular "runs" or eric, not even a run of alternate blacks aud reds Another is a more fortunate croupier, when his hand is in. "runs" are not infrequent. As the dream of the gambler is to back a run and see his capital doubled at every cow, this croupier's luck is eagerly fol lowed aud he receives elegant presents of cigars and clutmpagne. It is unnecessary to add that these observances are as purely superstitious as the red man's dance round bis red cellar tree. Croupiers know the value of their place loo well to Uy the trick of substituting arranged packs of cards for those of the direction, and theories of their luck are wholly fantastic. A place like Monte Carlo, full of money and lull of dupes, naturally attracts gentlemen who correct Ihe errors of Fortune in ways more or les ingenious. A certain Conite de MontviUiers has left a legendary fame. At Wiesbaden he found out a way of stopping the gas by which the rooms were lighted. He laid "his plans well, in a mouicnt all was dark, and the Count was off with an armful of bank notes and as much gold as the ancestors of the Alcma-onida carried from the treasure house of Ciuhus. Next nicht the rooms were lighted with lamps. Montvilliers, who was an intelligent bandit, changed bis method. He managed to sneak under a divan in the rooms, and stayed there until all the company and croupiers had departed. When ail was darkened and silence he cret out, lighted a dark Ian torn, and uncovered the roulette table. With a pair of pinchers ha gently tightened the wires of all the red compartment, so tnal the roulette ball could not easily enter them. Next day be backed black, and naturally with success. But a judicious croupier bad marked the run on black and examined the roulette whecL Without saying anything, he reversed at night the arrangement of Mont viUiers, who next day lost all he had gained by resolutely backing his favorite black. Scoundrels who hsve nt the nre for these heroic measures watch the tables and sweep up the stray money of the unobser vant. It has happened to detect an ameteur thus removing a stake to another color, where the ameteur proved unsuccess ful. One of these scoundrels hit oa a real ly happy thought. A player had left a large sum of gold on red, where it was doubled and doiibb-d again. Two louis rolled off, undetected by the owner, to the marked off space called encrrt, where ihey pro-p-'red acd became twa.ity-four louis. A thief who was looking ou knew this, and the hea l croupier was also well aware of it, anil of the intentions of the robber. Hut the latter succeeded. Sliding up to tbe real owner of the money, he said, "Sir, wiil you do me a favor f I have twenty four louis on rnrer: I d ire not take them up f-r my father-in-law baa just entered the pmm. ami I have promised him I will nerer play." Tho other bowed politely, raked in his own twenty-four pieces of gold and shiTtly afterward presented them to the ingenious guardian ol orphan moneys. I egrad nf a llas:irase,Sma.ier. I knew him. It was years ago. His name was wclL call it Bumps. If you ever gel into a railroad struggle, where one struggles to get another off the tiack, you will know more atiout Humps, or your frit mis will. This Bumps was a nice young man. His hair always comld low down; he wore brass buttons; and there was a mysterious report current that be bad been known to call oa tbe sherry for three, on the Fourth of July, and had actually ptid for it paid for it, sir: YV e held him in awe, we boys did He could talk about lever watches, pointer docs, steam barges, and he could relate incidents of tliluculties in prize rings so beautifully that I used to wish to knock some one in the stomach, and break some ambitious Englishman's jaw-bone. If Bumps said anything tlie whole town swore that it was sx If he didn t say anything we stood back and waited fyr developments. At last he went away. His uncle used his influence to get bim a position as baggage master. I never heard of him for years, but I was called one day to see him (tie. 1 went w ith' great pleasure. Bumps was a mere skeleton ; his eyes were like saucers; his hair was all worn off from tearing around so in his bed. He told me all about it. He drove everybody out ot the room, bade me string up my n rves to hear a won derful tale, and then be commenced. He went on the railroad a pure J oung man. He took charge of trunks and boxes, and commenced by lifting them by the handles, and setting them down carefully. He had not served but a month when the president of the road called him into the office, cut down his salary, and told him if there were any more complaints from Ibe conductor, Bumps would be dumped out of a berth. Then the young man grew cold and sicra. He was bound to stut tbe railroad corona tion or die. He began by walking up to a poor old chest belonging to an orphan, and nutting his foot ihroutta me corner. 1 do conductor aiw the act; the two shook hands, aud they w ept for hours on each other's breasts. Bumps had not made two trips before he could sling a satchel eleven yards, retaining both handles in his grasp. Innocent owners ot such things threatened him, and commenced suit against him, and swore they would never ride on that road azsin : but Bumps was firm. He was dig, nitied: he was solemn; be was working for a higher sphere ; he was treading in the path of duty. When gentle females would bang up their tender little baskets and satchels, Bumps would smile a diabolical smile, and get in a corner and jump oa the articles and toss them up and kick them, and fling them through ethereal space. And when the train stopped he would throw out a waterfall and a UvKh-bnish in answer to call for check "22." Husbands threatened him, and dared him out of his den, and called bim a base fiend ; but Bumps was solemn. He knew his line of business. When he got hold of a nice trunk ha would carry a coun tenance like a stiawherry for Joyfulncss. He would jerk off one handle, then another, then kick in tbe ends then take an axe and smash the lock, and then let the shirts and things rattle out on the track. It got so at last that people actually paid high price for the privilege of living aloof tbe Ha cf that road, as they got their shirts for nothing. All that was needed was to have th child ren fullow up Bump's train. But there cam black day. A miserable, contempt ible, sneaking wretch, who owned taw. mill went traveling. B rsa hi factories lw wwk mothtag rat wuak Muff, and he brought out th wickedest trunk that ever went into a car. It was ssven feet thick all round, and there were sixteen nails driven in, one cn top of the other, un til the thing was clear proof. Then he gave it into Bumps' bands, charging him to be "very careful, if he pleased." Tbe train started. Bumps gut the axe as usual, and struck at t"ie lid, but the axe bounded back. He struck once more; the ax flew in piece. Then be got a crowbar and a can of powder, but he couldn't burst a rail. He swor and jumped up and down, and want ed te die, and wished he'd never been born. He got ail Ihe train men in ; they all pound ed, but the trunk held firm. It went through all rittht. It was handed down without a jam, and the wner was there to say, "Thauk you, sir," and he pretended he was going back again, and had tbe chest put on bourd once more. Bump grew pale. He grew sick. His lees shook. He had chills all over bim. The trunk went back, a witness of "man' inhumanity te in. Bumps grew worse. He felt that he wss forever disgraced, and went to bed with the brain fever. Tbey tried to console him, and said that they could have trusted ihe chest if they bad ouly thought to have a collision. I was there when he died. 1 never want to weep as I wept them. He just shrunk right away, murmuring : "Curse U:at t-r-u o-k.1 Oat of Matter. "Here come Hobby from Sleepy Hollow, with a load cf butter. We're short, aru'l we, Jonas?" "lea, all gone but the bad lot, and they are all crying for something good." Kobov. from bis wagon "Mr. Nipper I've got some butter for ye," dipper is busy and does not hear. "Hello there, Nipper; com and aa this butter:" Nipper slowly close Lis order book. directs the delivery boy to hop around with the codnsh, shifla a yellow ham, near the door from one peg to another, cocks his stovepipe hat on the back of bis baldhea.1, thrusts a thumb in each arm-hole of his vest, and shuttle slowly toward the street. as though about to squint at the stale of the weather. "Why, Hobby, what ye got there?" "Butter, Mr. Nipper." "B-.itter, heyi Now if re bad esnrs 1 might buy. Butter's dull, Robby; th town's lull of butler. I "Is that sot Daisy heard a It had gone up." H,one up welL yes: eone up Ihe snout: Dick, lake them turnips to llichfingcr," turning away. "Wont you look at this lot, Mr. Nip- perl" "Itobby, we i fuIL Jonas was jest sav in be couidn t store another tub. I he town's glutted glutted. Hobby; and heaps of it spoiling iu New Y'ork, and no buy ers." 'But this is an extra fine lot, from tbe best feet of the pasture with tbe spring brook in it, where y used to catch trout. Mr. Nipper, sr.d Daisy mad it with her own hamia." "Yea, yes, but it looks salvy-iike worked loo much no texture you see, and full of buttermilk; won't keep, Kobhr, won't keep. Then it lacks the gild-edged tone aud flavor. Whs, do you ak for "Well, Daisy thought as bow she orter hev fifteen cents." "Too high; can't buy; good momln." "See here, Nipper; what'll ye givef "Hobbv, if I give ve ten centa for that butter. Jonas will be as a boiled lobster Jonas will swear and make things lively. But you re aa old fnend. and 1 m ilu lo do it and take the consequences:' "Hichfinger, come this wav; I can show rou an awful nice kit of butter, there it is. That's what 1 call elegant; made by Daisy Buttercup, tbe neatest and prettiest girl in the country. I used to spark her mother be fore she marrioL She's d-ad now; old friends, ye see, and can't help dentin.' Look at tho color there's dandelions and buttercup; look at the texture aa free from salve aa snowflakes, and if ye find a hair or bug I'll make y a present of lL Smell ot it I dare say y can scent the clover blossoms. Tsste it; notice the tone, the mellowness, the aroma equal to cream candv any time. What do you ibink of it. Kiehfingcr?" "What's the price, Nipper!" "Twenrv-five cent to an old customer."" "Pretty high, isn't it?" "That depemia on what ye'r buvln.' Grease is grease, and butter is butler. If ye want grease I can sell for less; but if ye want the best grade, the gilt-edged, the gold-leaf, as it were, June butter butter that'll keep, mind ye, y might go further and fare worse. 11 me teil y that butter is oa the rie; the town is cleared out, and them New York chaps are out loobiu np round lots. That means a foreign demand. anil great scarcity, sir great scarcity."1. A Mia Owarra a Utah A man now a prominent merchant of Virginia City won at poker an undevelo ped gravel claim near Nevada C ty, worth Ml fi neighborhood ot two hundred dollars. His friends had the laugh on him for sever al days regarding his "investment," ami asked him what proportion of the taxes he would pay in case Ihey accepted the pro perty as a gift. He finally got mad at their incessant guying, and told them tbey would see he was not such a fool as they took hiui for befor he got through with that mine. He Ihen wrote to some capitalist acquaint ance that he had a claim worth a fabulous sum, which he would sell for $2,000, bring bard pr&Med financially. The bank was next visited, f-tOO worth of gold dust and nuggets bought, and th claim thoroughly "salted." When the Intending purchasers arrived Ihey prospected the ground a little, and the panning out was attended by big cleanups. They paid the f J.OoO the same day. and got rjosscssioo of the ground work waa at one begun, and they took out A,0o0 inside of three weeks. Th "Salter" was so taken aback that he did not smile for a month, and th parties to whom he confided bis shrewdness at th time of Its perpetration never meet bim to this dsy but Ibey A'k bim u be has another gravel mine te sell. DM It at Las. Aa old Virginia (Xev.) stag driver says that he has been mora exasperated and chagrined at his fsilurs to run down a hog than by being robbed by road agents. He ssvs be bas gone with a rush down a steep grade with a five-ton staee and six-in-hand after a hog, and just at the moment when he expected to catch Ihe flying grunter under tbe fore wheel, he would lurch to one side with a crtint of satisfaction at bis escape. He never succeeded in running down a hog except in one Instance. In that rase the hoar had hist ioeeeedrd In dodging a train of cars coming out of a tunnel, acd was loo much startled to rap Win. lie ran It down, but unset hit stage and killed two passrngers, beside maiming twe for life. Varlr 19 ner cent, af th colred children of leanesse wr last yaj arUM i to pueii missii. torloe of Reast aa Hird. A magpie worried a toad into a bole made for a fence pott and then gathered pebble and stones it. A Buffalo musician, Geo. Benzino, has a canary bird that imitates th long drawu notes and astonis'ies visitors with his sweet melody. A beetle was found in the centre of a loaf of bread. In five minutes it began lo crawl arounii, none the worse for its nearness to cremation. Joseph Chapman, of Geddes, N. Y., his wife and daughter, were warned by a Cat that the house was on fire. They had bare ly time to escape iu their night cloihes. A four months old dog in I-rxiugton, Ky., when any oue sings or wbiatles, sits upon his haunches, elevates hU heaiL abuts bis eyes, and bowls in unison, modulating his voice to tbe notes of the music. A singing mouse is the wandering ruin, strel in the. house of Joshua Grtl'lti. of Jack son, Mich. It is seen ia different cloeets, snd always tuouuts an overturned dish or other alight riuinen-.-e heft-re il begina to sine. Washington, D. C, has a pig that insists upon living in the kitchen of its owner. Il wallows in the mud as deep aaany pig, but plunges iut a brook uenr by to cieant it self before asking admission to the house. A beer drinking donkey is one of tbe at tractions of an Indiana;Hlis, Ind., barroom. The animal never drinks water, but w ill drink anything kept at the bar. The little best has lived in a brewery most ot bis Ufe. Dick is the name of a rooster that baa great affection for a H.ches;er W. which feeling is reciprocated. lhck perches ou the back of Sandy while he U stretched be tween two chairs, and performs many tricks. Ia a Pennsylvania barnyard a gander was having fine fun flopping bis wings in the face of a steer, when the steer got hiiu iuto a corner and cooked his goose with one thrust of his horns, pinning him to th fence, A canary bird, in hot weather, was try ing to hatch some eggs. She drooped, aud the male bird plunged into a cold bath, then went to the edge of the nest, and the other buried her head iu his breast and w as re, freshed. A rat that bad been seized by an eagle, in Scotland, and carried to the neat of tbe bin), feigned death, and was left bv the cattle with he; young ones. A soon aa the eagle was gone, the cat killed all Ihe eaglets ami. Satisfying her appetite, disappeared. A parrot died of a broken heart iu 1U11- ston Spa, After it had been twenty-five years in a family its ow iht went lo Minne sota. Th bird soon missed him, and its only cry was. "Where is Jor?" It ale noth ing, ami continued its csll until it fell ex. ha usted. lavid S. Forney, of Virginia, has a dg that saw a man take his master's pocket, book and go away with it. Upon being allowed out dotaa, the dog went to tbe place where it waa hid, took it from th lop of a high fence, and brought il lo hi master, aying it in his hand. (.hi tlie doorstep of a bouse In San Fran cisco a dog found a pitcher that bad just been tilled by a milkman. He put his ik into the pitcher ami drank till it touched tho bottom He was about to withdraw hi head, but Ihe pitcher would not coiuj off till it was broken. A Nevaiia rat crushed a bee on tbe base of the hive. Iters by the score darted into Tabby's fur, and she spit, bit, and clawed herself, and rolled in Ibe grass. Mie was at length hauled away w ith a gardt n rake. She could never be induced af icrward to g within sight of the hive. A ship crossing the equator recently was stopped by Jelly tisa. It was one o'clock at night and thousanils of fish floated on the water. The condensers got so stopped up that water could not enter. They then be came so hot that steaming had to tic stopped altogether and the strainers taken out and cleared. A delay of live hours was occa sioned. The Steaaa Vetorlpede. M the recent Industrial Exhibition at the Champe Elysees, Paris, M. IVnvaux. ot Orue, exhilMlcd a steaiu. velocipede. The; generator, the fireplace, and the motor are arranged behind the saddle of the veloci pede, after the manner of the portmanteau ot a horseman, i'haina or belts transmit motion from the engine to the wheels. All the parts axe small, well put together, and very comimet. T he small tubular boiler Is cylindrical and has a capacity of about three quarts: and at the sides there are two re ceptaclea containing a sufficiently supply of water to last during a journey of two or three hours. The piston of the engine ia about one inch in diameter ami has a three inch stroke. Tbe whole engine ia a mere plaything, and vet, with a pressure of threw and a-halt atmospheres, it has Bullicient power to drive the velocipede at a speed of from fifteen to eighteen mile per hour. The fireplace which heats the boiler ia an iugentou novelty, and consists of a gaso meter fed by wood spirit. The vapor of the alcohol issues through holes, and give a flam endowed with great calorific pow er. Tie fir is lighted at will, and in a few minute steam is up. A method is provid ed for regulating the escape ot the alcohol Vapor, and consequently tlie intensity oi the heat. Externally the boiler is furnished with two tubi rolled in the form of a spiral, so that the steam which is produced circulates through these continuously, and is exposed directly to the fire before euter ing the motor. "The steam being super heated, no water ia carried over with iu Wiih a speed ot fifteen miles an hour, th alcohol consumed is from forty to sixty cents, (thU calculation of course lor France). This ia certainly not very economical, dux it is very pleasant to have a horse under control which cats only when it work, A Mawatala .1 Ciiaaw. Another marvel recently brought to light in the Yellowstone park of North America is nothing leas than a mountain of obsidian, or volcanic glass. Near the foot o( the Beaver Lake, a band of explorer came upon this remarkable mountain, which rise at that place In columnar cliffs acd rounded bosses to many hundreds of feet in altitude from hissing not springs at the margin ot lb lake. As it was dtnirabl to pass that way. the party Lad to rut a road through tlie ateep glassy barricade. This they effected by making huge Area on tbe glass to thoroughly heal and expand it, and tben dashing the cold water of the lake against the glassy surface, so as to sudden ly cool and break it up by shruikage. Large fragments were in this way detached from the !id side ot the mountain, and broken np byaledgo La nuers and pick, not, however, without severe lacerations ot the hands and faces ot the men from flying splinter, in th grand canyon of the Uib son Hirer th explorers also found prect. pices ot yellow, black and banded obsidian, bnndreda ot feet high. Th natural glass of these localities has from tint immemo rial been dressed by the Indians to tip their spears and arrows. A storm moves thirty-six mil pr rrnr. t f i ! I , I i t t i OLD KTIETWBX1 J
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