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.F.vei•y l'hursdiq,
t:"roWANBA, PA ~ BY
HOLCOMB & TRACY.
sl:sn yer Annum, in Advance
rt Rates—Six cents a line for Ant
Let it,❑, an'i lire cents per line for all inns°.
;11,11i Ls.•rti s. Reading 'notice advertising
t . ec: .is icr line. Eight lines constitute a
an.l twelve lines an inch. Audit Or's
Adrainistrator's and Esecutor's
2.".. Yearly advertising Illto.oo per
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1:!.1 buc4.l4 is published tn the ltacy,
y L d Nobles Block, at tho corner of ]fait
strr•vtg, over J. F. Optier'sllootio.l
s tor, , . Its circulation is over '..X100„ Ae ii
t..iv'Cresing mediate it le•ruzerregled
c;ilste tic! t.
311siness Direci:ry.
rTORA EY S. A T-Lc.4
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Er„ kN!) NOit)V RN. (S. J. Cletland
canton, Bradford County
.101,11‘ , 9 entrusted to their care in
I:r,titura will receive prompt attention.
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Li F :r .t tank. up stairs. June 12,78
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“sitEl: & sOls IA ,C Elthrei and L Elsbree.)
LI 01:1.,• In Mercur Block. Park St. mayl4;lB
ItTON' (lien j 31 peck and D A Owr
,iver Market .49-'i9
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Office over - Dayton'• Store
1 .5prt114,76
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PHEW. Office in-. Mean's Block.
apr 14.76
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D 6 - 1 E: (..otN9ciaAN.• tc HALL. T Davies.
L M HaU.) Office in rear
il.• 1. , :: n trance on Poplir St. (1e12.75
I.NEY A. Solicitor of Pi4enta._
iV`i • 'S:,,:nar attention paid to business In
--; C•iurt and to the settlement of estates.
ll , ;Ttanye's 4%79
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1" 1 1.1! • Zi:i 1 N S YOUNG.. , ilk/lungs and
1• ) Office south glide of Mercnes
fab 1,7 N
ME
rmi 'ms. ANGLE 4t BUFFINGTON. (H N
VV E J Any* and S D Buffington).
Main street, two doors north
;r.; AU Lusiveus 'entrusted to their
r,;•-trei prompt attent on. oct 26.77
Amr.s ii. AND .10111 W. 031.)41113, Atter.
.1 : ... AI) • I ~ 1 111ileilOrEl•it•IAW.71;CMC0 in the
r ovc-i C. T. Kirby Drttg St re. '
Aly:3. li tr.
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NI Y .1 P. AtOrno-st-4% - : ce
m. , :.tinve's Block, Main Streeti;
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1,M1 . -;. , N. \V.. 11. and, A. Attomeys-at
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Office in Niercur
: I _RI rby'll. Drug Store, entrance on Slain
stairway north of Post-ogles. All
raptly attended to. Special atten
:. to claims &pinta the United States
- I*, Bounties: 'Patents, etc.. and to
seltlement of decedent's eslates.
IIENBY B. M'KEAN,
.11 - 1 ORNEY-AT-IMN
r Government claim* at.
llt;febB2
l'llystca NSA 26 - SURGEONS
j..i: T. 8.. 51. D: office over Dr. H. C
ti Drug store: teb 4,78
. &F. G: (Mica at Dwelling
t, corner Weston St. feb 12.77
rc ..C. Drs.
LI" a Llver titre
`," •i., Odic, lsf,door above old
44a.b building, on Main street:. 'Special at
- ,f:ven to diseases of the:, throat' and
jtifyl9,7B
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8. 5f., M.D. Office and red.
iv Main street. north of M.E.Chnrch.
Lsamiuer fcr Pension Dr tArtment.
f3b :238
p E. E. D.. 31. D. Office Pine St., opposite
(Rice bowel from 10 to i 2 AL. sl. and
to 4 r. at. Skald attention given to
• , ` , lSt S of the Eye, and Diseases' of the Ear.
oct 20,77
71,
4 1 4 I.l44mcviroaTinc PIITHICIAR k SVIICIZON. _
L. , 41.1:4,4 and office must north of Dr. Corbon's
AtrPOt. Athena, Ps. .4‘
HOTELS
HOUSE Main st., next corner south
Bridge street. New house and new
throughout.- The ;proprietor has
•i t 11.11 her pains`" :expense in making his
NI .2 Ni-class end r ctfully solicits a share
patronage. 314 ■ - 11 hours. Terms
Large
- - Wait. EMMY.
SECRET SOCIETIES
ITTATEINS POST, :iO. 6S, G. A. R. Meets
cry Saturday evening, at Military lien.
GEO. V. MYER, Commander.
Ki rIuiDGE, Adjutant. feb 7, 79
('ti:'i , •TAl. LODGES. NO. 57. Meets at K. of P
Ball every Monday evening at 7:30. In
$2,00t), Benefits $3.00 per week. Aver
lg. coat, 5 yeara_expertencti..sll:
JESSE ?LITERS, Reporter.
Dictator. feb 22.78
~ DF, )1lT) I.00(ft, N 0.167. I. O. 0:F. Meet
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qkl Fellow's gall. every Monday evening
st WAIV , EN HILL. Noble Greed.
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11(L SE AND SIGN PAINTING.
F. E. No. 32 Second street All orders
reciive prompt attention. 'June 12,75
EDUCATIONAL
5' . . 1 *: , ,,1 - 11. , ,L1N!liA COLLEGIATE INSTITUTE.
11.0 s PRING TEEM will begin Monday,
i; For . catalogue or other
• address or call on the Principal. •
EDWIN E. QL'INLAN, A.
Towanda. Pa.
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PLUMBER ti.,YD GAS FITTER
IX7II.LIANIB, EDWARD. Practical - Plumber
vvvv and.(las Fitter. 'Face of business in lier
r.r nit door. to Journal office oppoalte
1 - 11,11 c T.:yore. Plninbing, • Gas Fitting, Iteisir.
P:i%Zps of altkinds, and all kinds of Gearing
44.t1y attended to. All wanting work In hi.
should give him a call. July 27,77
INSURA.VCR
(1. B, Oeneral Inonirance Agency.
F. Office in Whitcombq Book
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25 CENT DINNERS
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ORNAMF,NTAL JOB , PRINTING
& enecialty at thi itsronicax ate*.
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NEW FIRM I NEW STORE I
Ed. ouillesseaux,
(Formerly with gadabout.)
OFElillD •
JeVi.Bl - CY Store
or me oivN
IN PAT TON'S iiLOOK
With Swarts Sz Gorden'aStore,
Main Street, Towanda,Pa.,
- Whore he keeps s PULL ABSCIRTMENT cos
- Gold Silver.--Watches:
SWISS AND AIIERIaAN;
CP / CICS I JEWELRY,
SPECTACLES, ETC.
ar His Stock to all , NEW and of the FM=
QUALITY. Call and see for yourself.
REPAIRING DONE - PROMPTLY.
deal*
TROY, PA.
We keepon hand constantly for builders.
LIME,'HAIR, BRICK, LATH,
' • • SHINGLES, SASH, DOORS,
BLINDS, SHEETING PAPER,
PAINTS, OILS, VARNISHES,
CHESPEAK NAILS.
also - .
WAGON MAKER'S SIII'PLIES
Fellows, Spokes, Hubbs, ThiUs, Poles
Carriage Trimmings.
Also a full line of Shelf and Heavy hardware, and
full line-of -
Carriages, Platform and Lumber 'Wagons,
Made by neir;th stilled workmen, and warranted
in every particular. •
BEARDSLEY i!k . SPALDING,
Hardware Dealers.
Tr4y, April 27-ly
BLANK BOOK MANUFACTITRER,
BOOK BINDER,
Alfred J. Purvis,
TgivAN DA, I'.►
All work in his line done well and promptly at
lowest.prics.
Paities having volumes incomplete will be fur
nished with any missing numbers aCcost price.
All orders , given to J. J. Scanlan, Agent for
Bradford County. will be promptly executed ac
cording to directions. sep9-tf
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GEO.° ROSS
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Now occupies the Corner Store opposite Dic•ll.
C. Porter's Drug Store, Main Steeet,
with • large stock of
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unocrrlizs,
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Mr. Ross has OTIIKS STORE ON BRIDOZ exam=
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J. L. - Schoonov r is clerk. The two stores are
connected by Telephone. Mr. Ross can DOA feel
satisfied that he can give the ,
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BEST GOODS FOR THE LEAST MONEY
His experience enables him to select the best
goods, which he is bound to sell at a LOW PRICE.
Ton can always gets bargain if you
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BUY YOUR .GROCERIES AT ROSS'S.
All goods delivered in the Borough FREE.
FARMERS will do well to call with their Produce
and get the CASH. 20apr82-Iy.
M. HENDELMAN
JEW EL LER,
le Mill to be found at the OLD STAND t
Next dgor to Dr. H C. Porter's Drug &Ore
FINE AMERICAN AND SWISS
JEWELAY,
FINE PLATED . WARE,
SPECTACLES 4i EYE GLASSES,
FROM THE CHEAPEST TO THE BET.
ALL OF , WHICH WILL EE SOLD AT THE
- VEET LOWEST PRICES, •
Clocks. Watehee and Jewelry promptly repaired
by in experienced sia competent workman.
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- A. N., NELSON
DEALER Et
W4 6 IIC LOOL IES9,
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FINK GOLD 'AND PLATED
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of atm vortotrAnd EPectiellis• air Poreleul •
Watt= paid to matins. nap In Docket
-Pe troostal (Mom Bton. Nan Street, Towoo4,
tit& 0•1194
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NEW GOODS 1
p:owinNo4 BP-I:"4.LLTY.
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PAPER RULER, Bro
No. 131 . Gonessee street;
UTICA, : N. Y
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All.Ar STREET, Lli
WITH j FULL LINZ or
WATCHES,
STERLING SILVER 'AND
CLOCKS,
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TRUTHS
The blood is the fmnAttion of
life,l it circulates through eve ry part
of thst body, and unless it us Pure,
and rich, good health is imposuble.
If diastase has entered the system
the only sure and quick way to drive
it out is to purify ' and enrich the
- blond. • • •
These simple facts are- well
known, and ' the highest medical
authorities agree that natAisig but
iron will restore the blood to its
natural condition - and also that
all the iron pre parations hitherto
.maile blacken the teeth, cause
ache: mat are-40bWriselajarkitts.
BROWN'S IRON Brrransaill thor
oughly and quickly assimilate with
_ the blood, purifying and strengthen
ing•it, and thus drive. disuse. from
any part of the system, and it will
not blacken the teeth, cause head
ache or constipation, and is posi
tively not injurious.
Saved his:Child.-
L 7 i K. _ •,
, Eutaw St., Baltimore, Md.
Feh. :a. Lela
Gents:—Upon - the recoamtenda•
Con of a frjend I cried - Blowit's
IRON Burins as a tonic and re
- -iterative far- daughter Whom
I was thoroughly convin ced was
wasting away with Consiunption.
. Having lost three daughters by the'
terrible disease. ureter the care of
eminent physicians, I was loth to
believelthat anything could arrest
the progress of the en but, to
my groat surprise, before my daugh
ter had taken one hot& of Baowres
Isom Hirraps, she began to mend
and now is quite restored to former.
health. A fifth daughter began to
show signs of Consumption, and
when the physician was consulted
he quickly said "Tonics were re
quired;" and when informed that
the elder sister was taking Brepwri's
Isom BlTreas, responded s 2ft . at is
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a good tonic, take t."
ADORAM P 'art.
BRONIXS IRON limns effectual
ly curesl3yspepsia, juAigestion and
- Weakness, and renders the greatest
relief and benefit to persons suffering
. from such. wasting diseases'as Con
sumption, Kidney - pamplaints, etc.
Various Causes—
Advancing years, care, sickness,
pointment, and hereditary p posi
tion— 11 operate to turn the hair gray,
and either, of them inclines it shed
prematurely.- AItER'S HAM VW ' will
restore] faded or gray, light or r • g hair
to a rith brown or deep black, is may
be desired. It softens and cleanses the
scalp, giving it a healthy action. It
removes and cures dandruff and humors.
By its use falling hair is checket , and
a.new growth will be produced lin ail
cases where the' folikles are not de
stroyed or the glands decayed! Its
effects are beautifully shown on brushy,
weak, or sickly hair, ou which a few
applications will produce the gloss and
freshness of youth. Hirmless and sure
in its results, it is incomparable as
a dressing, and is especially valued,
tot the soft lustre and richness of tone
it imparts. -*
AYER'S HAIR VIGOR is colorless;
contains neither oil uor dye; and will
not soil or color white cambric, yet
it lasts long on the hair, and keep.;
It fresh and vigorons, imparting au
agreeable perfume. ,
For sale by all druggists.
are never imitated or counterfeited. This
is especially true of a family medicine, and
it is positive proof that the remedy imitated
is. of the highest value. As soon as it had
been tested and proved, by the whole world
that Hop Bitters was the purest, best and
most valuable family medicine on
.earth,
many imitations sprung up and begin to
steal the notices in which the press and peo
ple of the country had expressed the merits
of H. 8., and in every way trying to in
duce suffering invalids to use their stuff in
stead, expecting to make money on the
credit and good name of H. B. Many
others started nostrums put up in similar
style to H. 8., with vario usly devised names
in which the word "Hop" or "Hops" were
used in a way . to induce' people to believe
they were 'the- same as Hop Bitters. . All
such pretended remedies . or cures, no mat
ter What their style 01' name • is,' and espe
cially those with ' the Word "Hop" or
"Hops" in their name or in any way con
nected with them or their name, ,are ind
tatipus or counterfeit". Belem them.
,Touch none of them. Use nothing but
genaine Hop Bitters, with a clues
ter
or
ter of green Hops on the white label.
',Trust nothing else. Druggists and dealers
are warned against dealing in imitations or
counterfeits. .
Nothing Short Of Unmistakable
Benefits '
`Conferred upon tens of thousands of
sufferers could origbutte and maintain
the reputation 'Met, 'Avsn's SAWA.
PAMLLA 'en i jijors. It is a compound of
the best vegetable alteratives, With the
lodides of Patissitint and Iron —all
4 powerftd, blood-making, bloc4cle:un
Fold life-sustaining—and is the most
'effectual of all remedies for scroll
lons. mercurial;' or' blood -disorders.
Uniformly successful, and_c - rirtahr, it
produces rapid and compli* - ones of
Scroftria, Sores, Bier; „Ucto..l l lo.
pies, Eruptions,..Elkintilf and all
disorders arising ty of the
blood. By its .Inv
_sends it
always relieves, and often . 'curet Liver
Complaints, Female Weatnesias and
Irregularities, and is a potent renewer
-of waning vitality. For purifying the
blood it has no equal. It tom up the
system,. restores and preserves the
health. and imparts vi,gor,and energy.
For forty years it has been in extensive
use, and .is• to-day the most available
medicine for the suffering sick.
For sale by all druggists.
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AGENTS! A NTS! AGENTS!
Fat GEN. DODC•Wrbthenetir Wok. entitled
Thirty• Three:
OUR' iillll INDIANS
4 elin recall ci as Authors rhim,-211/“TioriPermat
grperiflla eagle OSP Adios. 'Mgt as able letrodistiew
By GOWSktVnian.
This new weelewee at beat entWerThed for by Palatia!
Awrste wed cstirs MA K and by Gra.Sheraus.Gar -
Gratit. Gee. taguidest, Qea Ilareoek. sad tiowsiedeetEsiv
hunt Yes. Gas. GRAS? 4 41 11 :— .11 is the bed book ea
&Nu Li d a ever wvirsei. - Buser Wn.zr Methodist)
a l as-Acaita beak efiwaseese refer - It le tba eefeteuthel,
lie seermat of ear Indians ever published. fatly revel&
tag their 'laser llf. ewes *tape mkt* de.
midi wt Oulglag enniesees et the Author. and of (s
-ip*" erOlthoTlONPM,Ctne4Me. Meas. lioedarliaddene. -
ea. partsayisti Lite la the Greet Vat se It nook.
{id dowsed tares' With tied Migelailil and lisperb
ChweetAttlitigreph Plays It 111 flare. hen photegrrphs
reeds by the 17. i. Goveriureattori#4 , 7lofibinag Int -
AGENTS! This peed bock /s untintsictlift
edamWeL Zarawqrdithei. Ideets nen* 1010 SO.
arders•day. Memt -111111 more meats a anal Ex
claim Zariisat *Kid Drasairm. Ow. laws /bea
k" vizi fan - posiipdops mat j9va. • lbw Ilipsehme Aids
seat is additive fir s i Nat stamp. Adana the mole pub's.
A. D. WOrNMOTON I CO.. Ramon. ,Coss.
TONtAMM.. _BRADVORD -COITPA4
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The Bad and Worthitia
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OPP GAPS ANN.
Au through the summer tdi* we Wiled
Beneath the slim skies;
And saw Arcturus as ft - l OW,
And Atiettwan !tee.. • • , •
- Tlien Wiles; Orion bold;
Whole constellations Tain t
That grew and heightened, maids untold,
Meariniesmarddsgpast. • ,
The late moon tore, and limed nsimed
Amid the deeding throng;
Yet scareet, seemed to dim the sheen—
And sUll we swept gong
! Boon's sea-girt beacon sank away;
The Isles of Shoals slipped b 7 ;
I And swift a-lee went shadowy tat
• And ghastly headland - high. -
The twin lights up on Thaebees isle
NUMMI ahead. abeam. - '
Then far astern; and all the while
- We recedes in 'a dream. • .
The world waenot;: , The stare Mom
Looted on us speeding past,
Out trout some Infinite Unknown
• To one as vague and vast. - .
AM ao,:till Aldebaran came,
• high tier the Mast away, _
When 10, the dawn. And all attune,
i -- , .* ,Itadled forth the competing day.
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Oh, night or night; your stunt hare paled,
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- .4nd dna' you come tome .
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A , Asit a utrid when once I OM
Some tort Eternity.
—Charles J. Peterion.
i'I44DTIV:ISODOI:IOCMI
It was the sweetest little thing you ?vet.
saw—a wee carrier-pigeon, with pure white
breastjts wings a soft pearl-gray, and its
arching neck gleaming with iridescent hues.
A boy had brought it over from Elmwood
that rnorikkg in a dainty willow basket, lined
with pink cotton-wood, and its handle
adorned with bows'of pink ribbon.
"From Larry, of course I" cried Aunt
Judith, as I entered the breakfast-room.
"I don't believe- earth ever .produced so
gallant a lover!" she continued, taller teas
ing way. '''l believe he sends you a pres
ent every day. Yesterday it, wag abelmtiful
bouquet of limier's, the day beiare I box , of
bon-bons, andthe tray before thit=iellf let ,
me see—he came himself ! :And what have
you now, pray-is turtle-dovel"
"No ; a carrier-pigeon, and Larry says it
is a trained one too," I replied, raft wing to
the letter—a dainty billet which had accom
panied the gift. •
" Aha! Now we shall have tender Tula
dyes , flying over our heach, I presume !
Amity with prosaic postage-stamps, and all
that !" : - i
" I'wish Itrtry had sent her a big bull-dog
instead of the bird," said papa, as he belied
himself to the toast.- ' 2
" Why, papa i" I goallwd• . "-How unpo.
etical !" • •
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"yen , useful, my dear. Especially just
uow when there are so marry -burglars
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about." . .
•" I hear . Sayre's hmise has ' been
robbed, and Idea's jeweliy store, too,"
said Aunt Judi . " Gooduesa ma, tI hope
they won't wale here ! We're
. iu Saar a
lonely, out-of-the-way place, tool -.lTheut
as !". turrdng to my father, "don'ttyciu thirst
that you had better take the sparesilver'imd
the family diamonds 'to a - more secure
place ?" . -
" rye been thinking about that very
thing," said papa. "We shan't need them
till Meg here," turning to me, with a smile.
si•becomes Mrs. Lawrence Carrell. So I
might m well take them down to the bank
and lock thew up in the safe."
" But what if they break in the bank ?" I
naked.
Papa laughed derisively. Ho was always
boasting of the safety of the bank. .
"They couldn't open the safe unless the
cashier and I were both there. It's one) of
the best combination-locks made. I'm post.
iiTO that anything put in that safe is perfect.
ly secure."
" Poor papa! How little be thought—
But there,, that's just like me—always get..
ting ahead oUmy story !
Larry didn't spend Wet evening with me,
and so I went to bed quite early. I soon
fell asleep, but somehow I didn't rest very
well, and was glad when I awoke; for I was
dreaming that Larry and I had an awful
quarrel
But the sick, wretched feeling didn't pass
sway with awakening. I had a smoth
wed, suffoCatectfieling that made me seta.
idly gasp for breath. Thinking that the
bedclothes were lying across my face, I
reached up I:anima to draw them 'Sway,
and found thete, instead, a handkerehief
saturated with al subtle, overPOWeing ,scent.
Cldorofortu! ).eYes., that, area it. Bat
what did it mean? %Shivering With ename
lesiterror, but with my sens es all aroused, I
sprang from the bed and went to the door.
It was slightly ajar, and through the open.
km a light shone faintly. I crept softly out
into the hall, and, leaning over , the railing,
looked down. ' Oh, leavens! what did I
see?
Fonr etrong men, wearing pack weeks"
and armed with.-revolvers, dragging along
my deer aid father ! •
"Yon villains'. What is the use of this
heard poor, dear papa say. " I shall nev..
er, never do it !"
"You won't see the sunrise again, then!'
said one of the men, with an oath.,
• "Fd rather die than have you succeed in
yon f' nefarious plan!" was papa's reply. •
"Mat's game, boss,"• said another rough
voice. "Bat wait till we get there. We've
pit the cashier in our clutches, and when be
saves in, youvill„ too." -
"Gag him, boys, before We put him is
he wagon !" ordered the leader.
Papa's struggles - were , of no arul, and,
gigged and bound, he was carried oat of the
house, and soon I heard wheels rolling
away.
Two of the burglars 'stayed behind—to
ransack the house,l supposed. Hearing
their TOiCee r I turne d and fled into my room,
looking the door behind'me.-
Oh, what could I do? At that moment I
realized bow weak a woman' is t Oh, if
there were only some way whereby I might
save my father from death or infamy
Crouchii2g upon the floor, I wrung mj
hands in agony ofspirit, striving to think of
.some plan.
Footsteps were heard coming up the stairs.
I held my breath in suspense. Would the
eaStisans try the door, and, finding it locked,
force it opts ? No, they paused on,
dust then a link rustle in one- corner of
my room made my heart beat with renewed
terror; but relief came instantly, when . I
pereeived thatithe noise was made by my
little pet—the carrier-pigeon. • _
I knelt doim beside its cage, sobbing
softly.
"Oh, you poor, little thing I whit:.
pared. "Heiptes and tiny as you _are, you
are safer than. I am !"
Suddenly, likes divine revelation, there
AM a thought:
Could not Bijou, the pigeon, carry a mes
age to Larry?, Larry had mid that the lib
tie mann coda &dm& a thing. 'Why
not try him?"
With trembling angers, I seised pencil
and paper, and wrote the following words
_:
_ " Limy!
_lLorryt for God's sake go to the
barat Tab plenty of men with you.
&Wars bare carried papa there to compel
him to opmthe sate.
Your Mao.
",P. a.: load this by Illitou.”
OP TEE= PEOPLE irtl4lo PEOPLE =AHD FOB THE PEOPLE."
Mb I gut in an anwdope, Acid-. tied the
. ;
latter twoondr ! the. Unite' no& i The little
creators did oat seem the hest 'hit bight.
mad, but looked intelligenDy at nai with :ite '
brighVgentle eyra.- - to quietly iii- bl.
I op - exied the wham dad act the on the
Bill. ' - ' , - ~ 1 , 1
Fora
b p
it stied there, torwini On
pretty . drudged,' ; thekspreeding ite
wings, li rose end sorrel 'away-=ob.'
heaven thentait—in the direction of
Ehnowcid. ' -
Jjinen there was a stoked Whet st the
door—o eurceshon at kicinc - which sou
eplin the punk 4 - - ..
+ Au io6asitletor, es I stood there peza
lyi,cedtericii, the two bug Olus burst into
Die • -
"auraeit l!' asked one, "that' Chloroform
didn't Ai her, after ail" i - 1
" - Blind and gag her, like we did the l old
L'then ru bet she'll be tale," said 1 the
ett rough hands seized Er e . and I knew .
more.
soinemees ante to me, Llama nip,
sell lying on the coach in' the 'sitting-room
down stair
It'was bright daylight; and L the soft,
mer wind, laden with the breath of flowers,
was stealing in at the open windoW. Lar
ry's foto—kind, loving, anximm—was bend.
ing over me. Then I heard gear old DOetot
Rogers' kindly voice say, " Drink this, little
gird, and you'll feCI better," pressing tom:
bier to my Ups.
"Where's papa ?° I murmured, faintly.
"Your father's all right, darling,", said
• " And did Bijou come to yoi ? Oh, I
prayed that the UM would carry the note I
Did you - get it ?"
" Yes, love , but never mind it now. ru
tell you all about it when you get stronger."
• "Tell her novr,-Careoll. She is all right.
It will do her good to hear al!. about it," 'said
the doctor, patting' my cheek . ; and he i con.
tinned : I'll leave you two together, while
I go and see
,••to Miss Judith? Oh, I you
needn't be frightened'!" seeing my anxious
look. "There isn't anything the matter
with Your aunt. Only she's been ..pretty
badly' scared--that's all !" .
" Well, you see, little Meg." tarry wtian ,
when we were alone, " I happened to sit up
ratheriate last night. I bad been' away all
lay, and when I returned home at tes.time,
I found some law business awaiting my 'im
mediate attention. As
. I sat writing jai my
room;--it was after midnight, I thinkend.
denly I hear 'a tapping at the window-Pane.
At first I paid no heed to it, think ihg it to
be only the-wind blowing a twig or bit of
vine, but as the sound. continued, P arose
and went to look. -
• "I beheld 'something white fluttering
against the glass. ; 1 What was my =Prise In
find that it was little Bijou! I opened the
window and hnriiedly read the letter he
brought ; and it wasn't long before my fath
er, Uncle -Henry, the deep men-seevants,
and a couple of policeman ind myself, were
huirYing down to the batik
"We leached there just in time, too; bad
a grand scuffle in which we antic out victor.
ions, I'm glad to say, and—well, the result
is that four of the burglars are in jail, and
the other two, whom we found here; have
gone' to render up their final account.. The
safe is unluirmed, and none 'of us are in
lured, except a few scratches and bruises."
I kill end my story by saying that larrj
and I have been married two years now.
We are keeping house in a cozy, comforts,
hie way, and most impo•tant of all Our ar•
tidos Of furniture is a cradle ; but, after all,
I don't knew which is the greatest pet—sa.
by, or my little feathered postman; Bijou!
OLD EZRA'S PLOATINO P'ARIL
Tlas Way a Yaskee Avoided raylair' Taxis
—Stales of Flautist lalaialit.
"Speaking ,about paying taxes," said a
man who had perhiPS been performing that
pleasant duty, "reminds me of an. old' fel
low, a sort of hermit, who lived where I did
in a small town in New lianipstdre, and if
he wasn't the out-and-outest chap for ilvoid
ing the, demandi of the State, then
taken."
" ' y didn't they sell him mar
"g • use they couldn't get hold of the
property. • NO, it wasn't air castles, *and he
didn't live in a balloon, but on solid prop.
erty, and every time the fax Collector came
&rentl in New Hampshire Ezra and his
property Were in HassactUtietts."
" Oh, I see. He bad the State line on
wheels, dad shoved it about to suit.? •
"Not exactly, but his had his property*
fixed so that ho could shift it anywhere ho .
wanted. It was nothing more or less than a
floating Wand made up of bog and stuff, and
for a good many .years it blew about the'
pond, until finally the old chap put np a hut
on it, kept a cow, chickens, and decks, sat
had a regular floating farm 47 But one day'
he heard the assessor ;Was coming, so he cast
off the moorings that he had rigged to the
Wand, and before tne next do , the wind bad
carried him over the State:- line• that Tan
through the pond into Massachusetts, and
when the oollector went ;ea in a skiff the
old bog4kipper, as they tailed him, actually
threatened' to have him arrested for trying
to collect the taxes of a neighbor State. • He
anchored the island on the' Massachusetts
side until the Selectmen got after him there,
and for several years he dodged back and
forth, and didn't pars cent on his font
acres. But'finally they pat tip a job on him,
and two asseezes, one from each State,
went out in skiffs, the island being anchored
in the middle of the lake. The old man
said he was ready to pay, only he wanted it
just right, as he lived in both States—the
house was in one State and,the barn in the
other. The pollectors got so mixed up. try
ing to straighten it that ilbelieve had
to take it into goad. Anyway, 4.4ilon't
think the old mai taxes are square
"A 6itnilse case 'might happen ale W:Aber
place in New England," said one fof the
groip• of listeners. "On Lake larnome
cenk there is ell Wand that for a long time
was called the mysterious island. -It be
longed to the town of Viinehendoli„Maiii.,
contained about ea acres, rind
with trees thirty feet or more Seine
of the people declared they had;seen the
Wand move years ago, but they were gener
&Di 'sighed at; until one moriiing they
foundil gone, and now it is, or was a abort
time ago, Over the State line in New Hamp
shire, nearly three miles 'froth where it at
first stood. It was originally bog held to
gather by roots, and the sister had grad
=By underminded it, pitil a good, sharp
breeze took the trees is sails and sway it
went. ; -"
"Many lakes hive simllar ',binds, even
streams affected by tide. I They are f
anchored by roots, rising and falling with
the water, and swinging by their vegetable
cables. 13outs of the European lakes have
such islands ; that ars used for pasturage,,
and they often awry the island population
togs distances. I •
" touring Ur , Veal Pokit th•
pi in 1874; vast floating iidands were formed
in the Aver and calthdfar
_Out into the Gulf
Stream. One that a ',bud ran into 100
miles fri&Oilhedellinvas over sal imm& in ex
tat, sad populated within great variety of
OEM
: •-• : , • .
• - „• , ..''',VIITT- -- ' 1114 . DAY,7 -- E - 0- Ef 11111" -: 't'R - - fli iB'., 1882.
r!
ffirM2l
I=
Malt* foga, iiiiffkaithei,bye a number'
of of animals Gil had 'Knight protectitur
Ilreir hymn t e, Adne ineenc only to he
inept °aft) The gvo l graphicitt, &dd.
lotion
at life, ft be +teen, depends Much
spit these r floating hot: proved
miming the inhabitants of " hands
muss apart. &Vend years ago *large snake
nu picked up of ttmakellUtltilllam:Sollng
tiff to si flatting iabind that, witkout .doubt,
bid come,from the Amazon. Miles of cord.
VA hat out of the fitooktivOr In ttio =WI
way, carryint . seeds and Oven animals far
mud the circuit of the Atlantic. • Tif'
:s cams
is true of the Ganges. Great ntfts,, pule
ted with animals from the inn* ", have
been found by vesselt! over 200 . 4inilis from
the mouth of the river.
" The great mans of seaweed, occupying
an area of many thousand' *are miles is
the Atlantic, better known `en the Sargasso
Sea, Is a vast Wand inhabited by a fauna
entirely different from- that of the wean/.
lug waters, and all the animals are in some
way peculiarly adapted or modified te their .
ncnotmdings. Similar tracts occur in mi.;
sus pinta et the timid, often so thick that
, the tessageor vend" enough them is earl.
• easily impeded." •
. " Well, I declare," mid the first speaker.
• then old Fare's floating farm wasn't such a
very singular thing after all bu I reckon
be made an original use pt . h."
AN ACT OF HEROISM.
now a Mao Helped Yellow Fever Patients
at the Aldus! Ws Life.
A lecture wasAlivered at the Wagner In.
stitute by Charlei P. Sherman from notes of
Professor William Wagner, giving a vivid
description of gist ravages of tho yellow
fever scare which our city in 1793
and carried- off so nifty hundreds 'of the
citizens. The Professor Is well able to speak
upon this' subject, fOr, although but four
years old et the' time,, the fearful scenes
were freely described.tabilli in later years
by Mr. Girard, who _was an active partici
pant in the, many deeds- of kindness and
bravery which mitigated the horrors) of the
time. At a meeting of the Committee, of
Safety, on Sunday, 'September 15; , , 1.79
Mr. Girard, who was e member, voluntingy
and unexpectedly offered himself as . superin
tendent of the Brush Hill Hospital (which
was then situated on the -rise of 'ground
north of CallowhM and west of Broad
streets, - called GallowOlill from the &-
pent executions whicli',.took place, there).
Incited by his example, Peter Hahn, another
member, also offered himself. Their ser
vices were accepted, add the same afternoon'
they entered upon their dangerous ar
ducras duties, the management of the inte
rior department being ssigned to Girard
and that of the exterioirto Helm.. One day
as a Mr. T.. who had fled from the city ,
with his family, but had returned for the'
day. to attend to imperative business, turned
the comet; of Walnut and: Second • streets,
and came opposite the avenue called Farm
er Bow, where the pestilence had • made
special havoc, . Carriage drove up rapidly
and stopped at the door of one of the
houses.. The black coachman laid his whip
upon
.the top of the carriage and tied a
handkerchief tightly over his month, while
the-door of the carriage opened and a short,
thick set man stepped from itand went into
the peat - haunted house. - Interested in the
result, and wondering that a person Of such
apparent allinence shOuld venture into such
a neighborhood, where deathlike stillness
reigned supreme, and from which the vira
-1 lent presence of the disease bads - - driven
'every one who could crawl away, Mr. T.
tied his handkerchief, saturated ,with cam
phor, over his mouth; and approached to a
point from which he could see more clearly.
and could look into the Open doorway.
Shortly artervisiza 'Lie sew a
. slow movement
on the stairs, as if some person was descend
ing with difficulty. In a few momenta the,
man who had entered appeared upon the
.steps and descended to the pavement. 'sup
oorting4n his left arm a man once large but
now emaciated: and death-stricken, with
hitt right arm thrown around the tottering
form, which he pressed to his breast for
support. The feet of the sick man 'dragged
_upon the pavement, and. his yellow, cadav
erous face rested against the cheek of his
-conductor. In this situation the well man
partly carried and partly dragged the sick
one to the carriage, into which, with great
difficulty, he succeeded. iu placing him, the
driver meanwhile refusing to' help, from
fear of infection. The {door was drawn to
and they Fere driven off, the sick man Ding
in tie arms of his . savior. And that savior
was Girard 1 -Philadelphia Press..
THE TERRIBLE CHILD.
Some of Gavarni's -" enfants terribles"
were almost too terribly-candid to bo funny.
They let out the most compromising things
about their parents. In English stories of
the same type, the " enfant terrible " con
fines lthimulf to identifying a casual amesint
ancte as the man who kissed his - sister on the
night of a party. There was not much, in
the indiscretion committed by a child *Who
bad been warned not to make any personal
remarks to a gentleman who had recently
lost his arm in battle; "She obeyed orders
implicitly until shei!ient to kiss him : Good.
night,' she exclaimed, adding, ' I haven't'
said anything about your poor arm, have I?'
Heroes do not as a. rule resent allusion to
wounds honorably gained.- The case may
here be mentioned of a boy who in a large
assembly caused a general feeling of coaster.
nation by clainling a pecuniary reward for
sleeptionsl merit just displayed. He had
nem cautioned not on any account to laugh
luting the singing of a lady who could not
sing, without making grimaces, and had
been promised sixpence if he' succeetied in
complying with the injunction given to hini.
"I want my sixpence, ma," be cried out sel,
the end of a more than madly showy Fan&
tins; "I didn't laugh mice." Some -of I&
Ho,ward.Panra best stories of clever 'sayings
by children present, as before observed, the
defect of endowing the little ones with . a wit
beyond their years. The explanation, how.
ever, is good, whether "a little girl " gave it
or, not, of "bearing false witness against
neighbor," to the effect that' "' it was
when nobody did nothing and somebody
vent and told it."
MEXICAN PEOPLE.
A writer in the Chicago Trent, who
km recently been sojourning in Mexico,
Scan not seem to entertain very sanguine
hopes as to the future of that country. He
rays "It mist be confessed that the Max.
lean people give, -as a- whole, but small
promise for'iailway business. Their wants
seem to be reduced to the lowest' *celerities
orhumanity ; iin fattt, not very tar- shire
those 'of our Wiens.. Clothing of .the sim
plest and2mostly of the coarsest fabrics:
food of beans and caber: of coarse dour
babskin the ashes, with very -small allow.
wee otuteit of any kind; funsitnro in their
adobe &Mill of the rudest _ make; minylof
them can pht all their earthy possessions
a donkey or two, behind which they trudge
in a manned pace. Ot coupe, there are
maga= to this, for' there were wealthy,
welitchdo people on the cam and in the
skids ; but great majority sadly need
ihs elevating influences of our Christian civ.
IlintiOn."
'llllllrlregiallt A LOST PIG.
Mai Camel Sleet be Wildest limerader
Ever Mooing at Abler Gulag.
, One of .the wildest idarupedwi that - eier- 71
.took plaice from Alder Gulch, said an al?
time Alder Gulches Yesterday,waa cans , di
by the Simplest thing one could imagine.
It was in '64. Everything was flush.- It
was nearly two thousand miles to the near
eat railroad and settlements in between were
,scattering. Now, it is clunneteristic of hs
igen nature to sigh after the unattainable.
In this particular case fresh pork was the
Unattainable. There was plenty of bac=
and pickled pork, but no-fresh ,pwir. Cari
boo Tim was the only one in the camp who
ever owned a pig. Tim was WVery vision
ally sorts of cuss, who was not satisfied at
:working along the gulch at, fifteen or twenty
dollars a day, but was eternally searching
throught the mountains , is that' region for
place where he could gather up gold by the
shovelful. One day Tim returned to camp
to learn that his pig had escaped from its
pen under his Re did not tarry an
hear, bat, pacft all his provisions, started
oat the piffit bail tip the mountidris.
Straightway two or three hundred men
decided to follow Tim, supposing that he
had strut it magnificently rich. The lead
er of the e kept track of him—one
nun tee "ng him in sight; a second keeping
• first sight and so on until the gang
stretched for half smile behind this
pima th rabble. Tim:seemed to know
when! he waspOing, and kept steadily on.
This but rvedto confirm his followers that
he had eidy made the rich find and was
returning to it. When came' Tire
camped. His followers• - didilikewise, a half
n being detailed to take turns
;hard, so that he might not slip
le night. Eariy next morning the
was, maimed. Onward went
mseioni of the men: on, his trail,
was Made, the necessity of si-
dozen m
standing
awaylin t
the m ` :
Tim;. 1:111 ,
for no no
tens having been impressed upon all the
stampeders. From camp they passed down
the range' to the Madison and on toward
Norwegian gulch. Again they camped, and
again were guards 'stationed. The night
passed quietly. The first of the stampeders .
to awake in the morning crawled up the hill
side to a point where he Icotilk see cnriboe
'Tim's-camp, and looking over saw that the
guards Were asleep and Tim gone. The
guards and the remainder of the sleeping
stampeders were awakened. .1%.' scene . of,
great '• excitement followed, The guards
were cursed up hill and down fei-their neg
lect; which the poor fellows took with meek
stbmission.
The gang now started hurriedly in the di
rection which Cariboo Tim had been follow
ing on the previous day, hoping to overtake
him.. Each man tried to get ahead-of his
neighbor and the rapid time made down the
mountains was remarkable. AU this time
Tim had gone leisurely on, his head doubt
less filled with visions of remit pig. Atter
a march of an hour or two he sat down on-a
log to rest. While sitting there he heard
voices. Presently though an opening in
the timber he saw the blanket and grab-la
, den brigade dashing . rapidly along a half
nine away. •
" A l stampede, by the eternal !" ho ejacu
lated, springing to his feet and hurrying off
after them, with no farther thought of his
pig. After going two or three miles
)vertook the hindmost of the band 'and from
them learned that s new gulch had been dig
covered, rich beyond canipare ; they didn't
know where it was nor who was leading and
didn't care a tinker's —;
only it was some
fellow whom they had been trailing for
day and a half. A halt was soon called , at
the front and the stragglers, including Cari
boo Tim, came up. .!ds Tim approached the
leaders, who .of course inew him, he was
immediately surrounded And earnestly be
sought tOtake them to his new diggiegs.
" What diggings inquired Tim.
" Why, the ones that, yon diaxivered on
your hist:trip, and that you have been mak
ing for,•' was the reply, and they then re.
lated to him bow he had been watche.i and
finally followed, together with the subse
quent circumstances of the stampede. .
When Tim explained the true object of his
search and wound up with "Stampede be
I I was only looking for me kmht
pig!" the remarks that were made then and
there were of too emphatic a nature to be
appropriate for the columns of a paper.—
Helena Independent. j
CUTTING OUT A KIDNEY.
Tie Tenth Operation of the Mad Known In
American' surgery. •
An operation of an advanced nature in the
science of -eurgery has recently been per.
formed in this city, ibmarkable frOm the
danger attending its performance, except by
the Most skillful surgeons, and also as being
the first of the kind that has ever been suc
cessfully performed, in this State, the tenth
is the United Stated and the seventy-dixth,
it is said, on record in _the world., ~ ..4he op.
eration consisted in the extirpation or cut
ting out of a kidney, known to- the profesr
ion as nephreetomY. The patient - was 'a
married lady residing in this city,- . *
The operation was performed on October
14 by Dr. de Vecchi accordn;ag to. the meth.
xl of Knowlsley Thornton, who,, at the
samaritan 'Hospital, London, „removed the
right kidney from a young girl on the 11th,
of last month. The surgeon Made an incis.
ion of.three inches down to the peritoneum ;
and then extended it to. five inches. After
tearing with the hand a few recent sillies.
ions, the enlarged kidney was raised; the
measures necessary to prevent, hemorrhage
were adopted and the" °ruin wns then cut
from its attachments. lqo hemorrhage oc
nirred and the smaller vessels were carefully
kiwi with catgut. After the mind process of
cleaning the wound the Incision was sewed
up, lightly dressed, and the patient was put
to bed. -Of course she was in a condition
that required careful treatment to keep . her
from sinking.- .This consisted mainly in ad
' ministering stimulautii, and Without any re.
lapse or unfavorable symptoms she recov
inWd rapidly and is now. entirely out of dark
ger—in- fact, almost entirely well. The
hay is rathecioting and of ; a delicate con
' ttitution. • °.
This is the second attempt that has been
made to perform.tins operation in this State.
The first one was made some yews ago by it,
physician intthis city, and the patient, who
waa a 'female, died under' the operation.
Ellis is tit& first time it his been successfully
iknie.—Son Fianeisto Chronicle
New Uses' ar Stirs..—A resolution in in
dilate's great as that when cast iron nails
inpenadiel wrought iron apes is impending,
if the Bessemer steel workif about being es.
tablisbed at Wheeling pious a success. Thi
reject contemplates the drunmfacture of
low grade of steel for the manufacture of
steel nails, which will not only be produce ,
cheaper than iron nine, tat will be far
lighter, • stronger, and more servieeabk
The projectorsdeclare that this is not the
only article in which a low grade of steel
will supersede iron. Barb-fence wire, horse
!hoes, 'lolled **tin, agricultural' imple
ments, end stamped and hollow ware will be
made of ideeL In less then,five years, one
enthusiast predicts, paddled iron will not be
in the market.
1111M1
THE ARRIVAL.
There came to port, last Sunday night,
The queerest Ilttle man', -
Without an inch ot rigging
11001:#4, and looked, and laughed.
It seemed so curious that she
Should cross the unknown water
- A, And moor herself right In my room—
My daughter, 0 my daughter!
She hills no manliest but this,
No Bag floats o'er the water::
She's too new for the British Lloyds— -
My daughter, 0 my daughter I
Tung but, wild bells, and tame ones, too !
Ring out the tenni moon I
Ring in the little worsted Boas !
Ring In the bib and spoon
4
Ring out the muse! ring in the nurse!
Ring In the milk and water!
Away with paper, pen and ink—
My daughter, 0 my daughter!
--CI. W. Cable.
A DEGRADED 'RACE.
The Siusdtill,rs of Soulk _
The mid halm; are'a race oflitites whe
live among the sand hills of South Carolina.
Ther seem a distinct type. From whom .
they descended
I, io ono knows. Moadlip
they are wrecks yond rgdempticit : They
are miserably poor. They are despised by
whites and blacks ahlte. They have no am.
hitiOrb no hope, no thought of a higher life.
No. effOrt has ever been made to elevate.
these, degraded people. Thetreatment they
receive shows plainly the utter indifference
of the Southern _ gentleman to the welfare
of all whoin he thinks are below him soci
ally. = '
Before the war these s poor : whit i ss were
treated worse than slaves. They had the
ballot, and when election day drew near the
South Carolina gentlemen used to herd
them in cormis, called bull pens here, and,
supplying them .with whiskey, kept then,
drunk until they were ready to have . them
cast their vote. Incredible as this story
sounds, it has,been told to me ty so !Amy
persons that I believe it is trim:
A sand hiller is a raw-boned, gaunt.' cadaY
verous man. He is put - together loosely.
He slunxibles in his'gait. lie is humble in
spirit, 'and looks_
_downward as though
searching for lost coin. There is a peculiar
side glance from the corners of his eyes, a
furtive, timid, abashed glence that thorough.
ly expresses the craven spirit of the creature.
His wife is generally a depressed Woking fe
male much given to pipe smoking, tobaCco
:chewing, and occasionally to the pleasure -ot
;lay eating. His children aro simply young
iine•hillers.' Some of them, of tender
areslaves of the clay habit. These
people live in squalid lioyels hidden from
the sight of passing travellers by trees.
Many ef these wretched dwellings stand in
s ravines where there' is a little land fit for
agriculture. A few chickens stalk sadly
around the yards. A pig, lean, active;
straight-tailed, walks with hungry briskness
about the honie... The sand biller who does
not own a dog does not live in South Caro.
linaH They'generally have more than one
—mean, sneaking cars, mangy, flea-bitten,
and always tired. '
There has been a week effort at
around the houses of the sand hiller&
A few acres of; the sandy soil have .been
scratched with': a light plough, having a
wooden monld-lxrard, atid,drawn by a'single
mule, steer, or cow. A feti vegetables,
some corn, and oecesionally,.a little patch of
cotton, a very smell patch this, as the true
sand_ liller is not given to working the soil,
are planted. They raise enough to feed
Itheir families, generally. If they do not,
they supplement the supply-by stealing, or
by selling wood. They hunt, they fish, they,
sit in the sun. When they are tired of jest
ingithey cnt a little wood, by, preference the
resmons heart of the pitch pine, called light
wood. It takes a long time for a sand hiller
to cut the eighth of a cord of this wood, pos
sibly an entire week.' When Saturday
Morning comes the torpid animal dresses
himself in his best clothes; hitches his single
animal to his cart,"which is loaded with the
wood, and slowly travels over miles of
sandy roads to market. Arriving there, he
sillekhis'wood, receiving from fifty cents to
a dollar and a half for the load. This
money he promptly invests in whiskey,
which he carries home. He does not linger
in town, preferring the solitude of the sand
hills, where, surroußdeci by his !quad fam
ily, he can quietly get drunk and thoroughly
enjoy sand hill society.
A DAKOTA •TRAGEDY. .
Wessington, Dakota, has come, up like a
mushroom.. A stranger appearing in the
town is a stranger for an hour only:: His
name and purpose known, te is admitted to
citizenship.. On the 10th instant a robust
fellow entered the tavern kept by Daniel
Wolfe in: - Wessingeon and, as he' tossed his
grip.sack on the , bar, announced that he ,had
come to buy a farm. He gave his name! as
William McConiber, but he did not mention
the place whence ho bad departed.. The
next day Wolfe happened to let it be known
that he was going to Hnron to pay „Some
McComber asked permission to join
his host in the buggy ride, explaining ' that
he wished to get a glimpse of the country.
An hour afteithe two men bad started the
grass on the prairie between Wessington
and• Huron was seen to• be on fire. Smoke
curled skyward and
,forks' of flame burst
through. While the Wessington people
were wondering as to the cense and extent
of the fire Wolfe's horse came galloping in,
snorting with fright and dangling the wreelt
ed buggy at his heels. A party starting
posthaste_ into the burning grass found
Wolfe's dead body. The remains were
scorched, bat, black as was the face, a - brit.
tet.hole in the left temple could bo seen : as
well as .grimly probed with the finger; • 'For
getting the fire, the searchers, amonirwhom
. was the Sheriff of the county, • ran ton to
Lawrence. Tke murderer h4d beenren in
Lawrence, bat was thought to have'ghne on
to the town of Straight to Miller
pushed the crowd. At the first public house'
McComber was found. • " McCOMber," said
the Sheriff, " 1 have come to arrest4on on a
very grave charge." !` Are you , an Officer?"
said McComber, coolly. The Sheriff-handed
out hii commission. McCombex took it in
his left hand (his right hand in his- pocket),
read it slowly and carefully through, re
marked that it appeared all right and in a
Bash whipped out his revolver. The Sheriff
and the others of the party also - drew.. But
McConiber was toolpick. Placing the ' re.
volvei in his own month he shot himself .
died before one could count' en.
, A SUGGESTION volistmLOßDS. What the
.American people want Joseph Cook to ex.
' plain is 'when and why hotel keeperi; fell
into the fashion of , charging people $4O a
;reek for Coard, and then calmly speaking
of their.victiins as their "guests." No hotel
of any respectibility has any boarders now ;
they only receive " guests." And what we
want to know is when the lairs of hospitality
were so amended as`to allow a host o pre.
,sent his " guests " weekly bills? , What
profanation of the"sacred name of "guests!"
Let us hive reform before this pt.e. ns
English language shall utterly lose it Savor
and be trodden under the feet of men. Are
we the landlord's " giesta ?"‘ Never; by
Heaven I we are his boaiders- and no
" guests."--Burtington Sockeye.
IBIG]
$1.50 a Tear, la Litman.
ITEMS OF INTEREST,
Internalise Vert* Calied:Trees. Here as/
There.
•
—Cincinnati is going to spend $1,000,00C
OD gewers
—Labor unions aro forniiirg'ninong tte .
negroes in =4 . pints of this Sougt.
—ln the round.up of the Judith country,
M. T., covering 100 miles pf territory, there
were 125,000 cattle and 75,000 sheep. - -
—There are 8,391 private banks and
bankers in the United States, with a capital
of 8114,258,892, sisd deposits atnonnting•to
8295,622,169.
_
--;`..‘ Between the ages of twenty _ and
thirty," says a, cynical philosopher, "love is
an ` ; event; between thirty and farty, it is
an accident; after forty; it is an incident."
—A concession has been granted for an
electric railway to run fru Modling to
Bruhl in the suburbs of Vienna. This will
be the first electgia line in the Austrian capi
tal. It will be about two miles in length,
—The United States is 'now regarded u
the richest' country in the world. The value
of its property is estimated at esoooo,opo,-
000 ; England possesseis $44,100.000,000
worth of property, and kiance $37,200,000,-
000. •
—An English compa4 offer Sl,000:000
for the privelege of - draining Lake Leman
is Switzerland, provided they can hive the
land thus laid
_bare. They propose to drain
it into the River Rhone by means of a canal
twenty miles long., - t" .
The late H. D. Hirst, of Germantown,,
Pa.,
was remarkable for his mcsnia•for roses.
He had in his collection about 1,500 rose
trees 'which he cared for with religious
faithfulness. He literally lived ins bower
of rare and beauteous roses.
—A religious tract, called " Put Not Your
Trust in Princes," was thrown lito the sa-
Loon of a simple old Gerinan. reed the
title aria soliloquized : 7 " don't put
some &list in princes. - Dey mist pay der
.cash insdis shop elitist der ssrae as white
mans." '
—An Indian girl at Ban caL,
ing sick, consulted a lilexicar q doetor, who'
told her that she possessed •ettlPernatural
powers which could be developed .by ab
staining from food for two months. The
prescription she too faithfully follotted, and
a few days ago died.
Wititeley, county (Ky.) man who bor. -
rowed his ineight r i's pig without leave was
unwiselygenero4 - roasted the squealer
and invited his • hboi to the feast. He .
neglected'to remove the porker's ears, and
the tell-tale &aria secured for him -a free
pass to the county jail,
—The London Laneet arguei that ner
vous diseases and weaknesses increase as
people come to live on the. flesh of warm- -
blooded animals, the 'fact being that meat is
highly stimulating, and supplies proportion
ally more exciting than actually nourishing
pabulum to.tbe nervous system.
—An exhibition of skill with the lariat at
Austin, Texas, a few days ago, drew a
crowd of 10,000 persons. • Ten cowboys
contested for a silver trimmed saddle worth
e3OO, to be.given to hini who roped, thre4
and tied down a atm? the shortest' space
of time. The Finner accomplished the feat
in one minute and fort Ave seconds. --
—" One hundred Years ago," says the
Medical and Burgle:o'i Reporter, in urging a
national board of health;.. "the annual death
rate in Friglard was mini°, than eighty per
1,000. Health boards nitd sanitary amnia.
done were unknown. !since -then well or.
ganized sanitary associations have gradually
h'een brought into existence, with the result
that the death rate is now only about -eigh
teen per 1,000." -
—Samuel Kintner, of Cain township,
Chester county, Pa., last Jnne imposed ea a
punishment upon -his son Samuel, Jr., for
going swimming on Sunday, -- ;the task of
copying with pen and ink the" entire Old
Testament. The lad was kept at his task
"during all his leisure time, and ill) to - last
Friday bad got as far as the , thirty-seventh
Psalm, when he concluded to give it up -and
ran away from home in the night.
—The Wytheville (Va.) Dispatch records
•a brays deed by J. L. ' Johnson, a conductor
-on the Norfolk and Western railroad. By
an accident to his train he was ,thrown
and severely hurt. As soon as he rallied he
thought -or- the coming train. Moving
among the debris as well as mangled limbs
, would permit, he picked out from the wreck
'a l broken headlight, and holding it aloft in
higlacerated hand he dragged himself al
most by inches for nearly a mile and signal
ed and sa`ied an apProaching train freighted
with human life.
:-John L. Cruse, the constable at Cum
ming, Ga., went to_ a farmhouse one day
last week to levy on 2,000 pounds of seed
:cotton belonging to Jonathan Potts. • Mr::
'Cruse tried all the doors about the premises,
but was linable to get at either Mr. Potts or
the cotton. It seemed that the owner, the
owner's family and the owner's dog all were
away. The constable knew, however, that `
3 i rtk
the cotton was in a certain building. He ,
reconnoitered for 'moment and then'
climbed to the roof, rout which ; perch he
was able to look do the chimney; Un
daunted at the 'soot sight, he entered the
chimney and, like Banta Claus, slid down
feet foremost. He found:the cotton, leviet
on it, opened the door frcim the inside and
rolledthe cotton out:. Then. the enetgetic
constable fastened the door, climbed up the
chimney and drove triamphantly into Cttoi
ming. , '
GIRLS.
The girly girl is the truest girl. She is
what she seeilts, and not a sham and a
pretense. The slangy girl has a bard job of
ititot to forget her chaxacter. The boys
girl and theorapid"girl are likewise wearers
ern:tasks! The girly girl never,7 bothers
'about -women's rights and women's Wrongs.
She is a girl and is glad- of it. She weukl
not be a boy and,grow up — into a Juan and
vote and go to war and puzzle her brains
about . stocks for a kingdom.: She knows
lothing about business,- an — `d does not want
&lows , outbid* about it.2 - _, Her aim is to
marry some good fellow and make him a
good wife, and she generally succeeds in ag
ing both.. She delights in dresi and every
-thing that is pretty, and she is not ashamed
to own up that she does. ,She is _pleased
*heti she is admired,.and'lets yod see that
the is. She is feminine from the top of her
bead to the end of her toes, and if you try
N 3 draw her into the discussion of dry
themes she tells you squarely that the con.'
versation does not her: She is the per.
sonifieation of frankness.- 1-1 1 , he:e is not a
particle of humbug in kir , composition.
Here is a health to the girly.girl! My her
1 sumbers never grow less.,--Progress, - : -
,
How • GZOROLAN MADE W 3,000 There
lives a man in this town ‘ , who claims to be
the boas swapper. Ten years ago ha:bonght
a pocket-*e for which he paid $2. !Be
swapped ibis for a pistol; he -swapped the
pistol for i l 'almtgun, 'the gun fora cow, the
cow for a horse and sold tho horse fcr $5OO.
He invested the $5OO for the first five years
and drew ont- $2,000. He has -bad the
$2,000 our at interest for five years at ten
per cent. and he now has the result of his
Imifatrade-43,000.--Conyerl Weekly.
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