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September 5,1854.
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July 1, 18,i4-Iy.
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Surgeon and ,kcouchour
OFFICE at his residence in Vitt
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July 1, 1564.
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April ii,
E LIG E S. SE A
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Lout her street, three clears below Bedford.
July 1, 1h6.1.
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Jul) t, 1854
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NI) 1,1h14
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Cai liar, .lanuary 5 , Itiii6-3ui'
CARLISLE' FEMALE COL
LEGE
Rev. T. Daugherty, President.
FOR BOA RD INO 6. DA SCHOLARS.
rrms Seminary which includes the
school lately under the charge of Miss. Mary nit
nor, will be open under the direction of Ittiv. T. Daugh
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so as to give to the young at thorou h education in
English and Classical studies In the French and Ger
man languages, in Sl usie, Painting, and other orna
mental branches.
Espechtl care given to Lottrders in tho fluffily
of the Prosident.
A primary dephrtment fur the younger scholars will
br had i n connection with the collegiate department.
The session will open on Wednesday, September oth.
In the four elegant School rooms designed for that pur
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Aug. 18, 1805.
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Ambrotypes inserted In Rings,"Lockets, Breast Pine,
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SOMETHING NEW.
Porcelain Picture or
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ento the First National Bank, with such perfection and
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'CARD PICTURES and AMBROTYPES,
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ty of Frames and Passapartouts, Cases, Albums arc
on hand and will be sold cheap.
Copying done in the best manner. Tho public to re
spectfully invited to examine specimens.
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Fair to 0. L. Lochman, for
The Bost Photographs
Fob. 0,1800
COAL AND LUMBER.
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keep the beet and
CLEANEST COAL,
in the Market, and perfectly dry. Kept under cover.
Families 1011 do dell to try us ' • as we e doter.
mined to sell cleaner coal, and at as low prices as - any
h y
other yard tl. the town. Try uaand be convinced.
'Wo have so on hand '
• ALL KINDS 0,1 7 LtafikEß
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A. K. RHEEM, Publisher
JNO. D. GORGAS,
DESIRES to return his sincere thanks
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have been his patrons for the more than Thirty Years ho
has boon , n business in Carlisle. Sensible of former
obligations, ho asks a continuance of their custom.
If you went the very hest Cooking Stove at the lowest
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March 23, JorrN D. 00110 AS.
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ern Cities, to lay in a stock of manufactured articles,
and material for the menu lecture of ell kinds of ware
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lishment, are prepared to prove to the citizens of Car
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To A Arp ENAMELED WARE
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duce. 'noir stuck of consists In part of the fol
lowing named
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Prairie Flower,
and the Barley Sheaf,
with all varieties of Parlor,
Bed•rootn and Office Stereo,
of the neatest pattern, and befit quality. The Gover
nor Penn, which they guarantee to give entire satis
faction in every respect, with rapacity to prepare the
co kid or baked fare of any fimily with less consump
tion of fuel titan any other stove, they will warrant
for six months. They manufacture Zimmerman's
Rion] Cook Kettle, In a filch all klnds of vegetables
can be cooked at the same time. without the nno fla
voring the other. Best of references given. They
have purchased for cash, and therefore har e the prices
of their goods reduced to a very low figure, feeling
confidant that "large sales and small profits,' Is the
best policy. They call attention to their large stork of
Tin, Sheet-iron, and
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,onsihtin g of Buckets, Ilasons, Wash-hollers. St ash
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livr offered in Carllble be has an band the latest im
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Prarie
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Thankful for the Liberal Patronage heretofore ex
traded ho hopes by strict attention to business and a
desire to please all to merit a continuance of the same.
March 23, 1866-Iy.
NEW CHEAP CASE GROCERY,
AND
PROVISION STORE !
Great Excitement on the Corner of Pitt and
Louther Streets, opposite the German
Reformed Church, Carlisle, Pa.
Subscriber begs leave to Inform his friends and
the public, that he hits just returned trout the Eastern
cities, with a full and choice :Issortmeut of
GROCERIES,
lie will keep bonstantly on hand an extensive and
general assortment of
Coffers of all kinds, Brow n Sugar, Crushed Sugar,
Pulverized Sugar, Rico, Tallow Candles, Star
do. Starch, Teas of all kinds, Salt by the
Sack,DucketsandJubs, Wash Boards,
Brooms, Bed °liras, New Orleans,.
Molasses k in ds, Pep
per, Spice, Soda, Cream Tar
tar, Best IndigojCinna
mon, Cloves, Matches
Mustard, Blacking,
Twist Tobacco,
Navy, Spun,
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• Leaf,
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Raisins, Can Peaches, Ctackers, Essence of Coffee,
Dandelion, Cheese, lit m is ty, Beans Cigars of all kinds,
Nuts—all kinds, ac.,
NOTIONS OF ALL KINDS,
and everything else that Is kept in a grocery store. I
invite the public to call and examine my goods nod
prices before purchasing elsewhere, as I em determin
ed to sell at very small profits.
The highest prices paid for all kinds of Country Pro
duce JACOB SENBIt.
April 6,1866-6 m.
Newville Stoneware Works.
111-1 E subscriber is now prepared to de
liver to Merchants, the largest assortment of
Stoneware, Rockingham Were,kc.,ever offered In Cum
bode ml Valley, llfifntork consists In part of
S T O . N E RP ,
Cream Crocks, Butt& Pots, Milk Pans, Ppittoons,
Pitchers, Jugs, Fruit Jars, &c.
ROCKING HAM & 'YELIJOW,
Eipittuone, Pitchers, Nappies, Bakets; Pie Plates, &c.
Glass Flasks, El ult Bottles and Patent Fruit Jars.
Stone Water Foxintainif Ghoorrisi Water Pipe, Drain
Tile, &c, furnished when ordered. ' •,.
In facilities for manufacturing, quality of wares and
prices, ho would defy competition. For Price lists &a.
Address SAIWUEI, I. IRVINE,
April 13, 1866-6 m. Nowville.
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Lumber ! Lumber !.
A T the, Duneannou Union, , Ltithher
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ml os west of Darwin:mon, 1 mile south of Dillow's
Bridge, near Grier point.
100,000 ft, .Yellow Pine iloorlng, dry. ,
50,000 ft. Scantling,both Oak and. Pin e, all
40,000 ft. 2 inch Barn flooring, Yellow, Pine, 10 toll
foot, dry.
25,000 ft 134 In Yellow Pine Boards, Dry.
A largo lot of Weatherboarding.; • -,• • , - •
A large lot of Onk BoardS:: •- • •
A largo lot of Sealing'Laths.
A largo lot of White Pine Shingles.
• Poplar Boardei Plauknad Scantling./ t) t •
Oak Wards, Scantling and Plank: .
Sawed Oak post'and fencing boards: .
Chestnut rails and cord wood, $1,40 per cord. • '
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'The above we have always on and. and are prepared
toms,* all kinds ' Of bills to otanytuartia Machine aid
.Car Lumber, Wagon Maker Lumber, we Cat( MN 67 IC
In length, and are so fixed that wo can 011 orderal
the very sbortose notice, at any time also so. prepared
to deliver Lumbar fat any point rby ralbroad Pr 10 ,
team's.
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FLORENCE VANE
The following beautiful words wore *ritten by
Plume PENDLETON COOED, of Winchester, Virginia. They
were pronounced, at the time of their appearance, by
Jiiaekwpod's Magazine, as the most exquisite poetical
gem American had produced. Although the hand that
penned them, and the brain that conceived them have
mouldered into dust, their sweet and mournful ca
dences will long find echo in the hearts of the ad
mirerii of true genius.—Ezchange
I lov'd thee long and dearly,
- Florence Vane;
My life's bright dream and early,
IMO come
I renew within my Claim],
My heart's dear pain—
Its hopes and they derision,
Florence Vane.
The ruin lone and hoary;
The ruin old,
Where though didst hark my story
At even told;
That spot—the lines elysian,
Of sky and plain.
I treasure in my vision,
Florence Vane.
Thou earl lovlier than the roses
In their prime;
Thy - voice excelled the closes
Of sweetest ryine ;
Thy heart wue as a river
Without n main;
Would I had lov'd thee, never—
Florence Vane.
t fa i rest, coldest w under!
Thy glorious clay
Liefh the greet...a under;
Alas! the day.
And it booty not to remember
Thy aindain,
To quicken love's pale ember
Florence Vane.
The Mlles of the valley
liy ymlng graves weep ;
The love to laity
Where maidens sleep;
May their bloom, in beauty viewing
Never WOO,
Where thine earthly part to lying,
Floret., Vane.
Eintlingon.
THE BRICKLAYERS STORY
CIIAPTER II
=I
About a year after my scaffold accident I
goes home one night, and Mrs. Burge—thals
our next room neighbor—shows me some
thing wrapped up in a flannel, all pink and
creasy, and very snuffly, as though it wanted
its nose blowed ; which couldn't be exliected
for it hadn't any to signify.
"Ain't it a little beabty?" she says.
Well, I couldn't see as it was ; but I didn't
like to say so, for I knew my wife Polly
had been rather reckoning on what she said
we oufrht to have had more than a-year ago;
so I didn't like to dis,ippoint her, for I knew
she lay listening in the next room. -
Polly always said there never was such a
baby as thntone ; and somehow it was taking
to see how her face used to light up all over
with smiles when She thOught I warn't look
ing ; and I knew it was anon account of the
little un. She never said she felt dull now ;
and when at, borne of a night I used to think
how my mates would laugh to see me hand
ling the little thing that was allus being
pushed into my face to kiss ; when Pm blest
if ever 1 see such a voracious fun in my life;
it would hang on to your nose, lip, anywhere
—in a minute.
One day, when it was about nine months
old, it was taken ill all of a sudden like with
a tit. Polly screamed to ins to run for the
doctor; fur it happened that I was on the
club that week, and at home with a bad
hand. I run for him, and he soon come;
and then there was a warns bath and medi
cine; but aftorward, when I saw the little
thing laying on Pullys lap so still and quiet
and with dull film forming over its eyes, I
felt that something was coming, though I
dared not tallier ; arid about twelve o'clock
the little thing, suddenly started, stared
wildly and instant, and then it was all over.
My hand warn't bad any more that week
for it took all my time to try and cheer up
my poor heart broken lass. She did take on
dreadful, night and day, night and day, till
we buried it; and then she seamed to take
quite a change, and begged me to forgive
what she called her seltlshnesk, and wiped her
eyes once for all, and she said, and talked
about all being for the best. But she didn't
know that I lay awake of a night, feeling
her cry silently till the pillow was soaked
with tears.
We buried the little ono on Sunday, and
on the Monday morning I was clapped on
to a job that I didn't much relish, for it was
.the rebricking of a sewer that ran down one
of the main streets, quite fifty feet under
ground.
After two years in London I'd seen some
change, but , this was my first visit to the
bowels of the earth. I'd worked on drains
down in tho' country, but not in , such a con
cern as this; ,why, 'a life guard Might have
walked down it - hasy ; so that there was
plenty pf. room to work. But tiom mind
you, it ain't pleasant work ; there .you go,
down ladder after ladder, past gas-pipes, and
water',.lllll9eie,OtichiWpi and till you
gtitiO"'the - stiiife fo.Fotoh i 4,ll t OTONS pnrt th rs
yon.. {ire at work on, with, tio „daylight so
eo high tip, as seen- thiough :the bbthlds and
saffolds and laddar,s, that it's no We to you
wim are working
, by,the light of ilaring : gas,
Thee in of you'is the darkhlack arch;
and there behind yoti is aislaihar,; while un
der your feet the foul rushing water hurries
along,sending up a smell as turns your silver
watch, and every sig.ponco and shilling you
have in your pocket, black aglhe water that
asvirls ,IlverY , word you
speak sounds hollow and eelioini, 'While it
goes, whispering, ,and rumbling • along the
dark arch till you think it 'LAS &lie, When
• •
all at once you hear it again, gusto plam in a
way as. would ; maim you jump; as much as,
when half a brick or a bit O' hard 'mortar.
dropphd •;" ' ; ;; ,
tal.VOM,ln`riPing, nhihing made
junspmore than when a bit of • soil or astone
Was:loosened aP ut6e, and' came rattling .
dolvn than an° chap n_hanO°
color ' , and 1 know, bee from, tho thought
-that; Ailifige,thiharib: 'caveda in, whO l ioi
should we bo ? No doubt OAS &Ai crutch' in,
would dojit,4Ed
,t,hero'd beianend of `work-',
.man and foreman; but thorn seamed
Aliixig :Werry awful in the; idea
Big 'as 6,3 4iming Was; when, I Wont . to
work it niadii ono- shudder ; `sy,es : the;
earth thrown out
•; was the rope at the
side; there width(' bArding around ; there
niV was foilillihtitWorldl'-lik t'big graYe,,
same as },ood by cuA MOO , 441(ittrioadY
pdfa 9
almost svnlnd as though Waslgoing down
into,44'pW4,, gx wee • ,navor ,to, come up any
Carlisle, Pa., PridaY, May 4, 1866
Worry stupid and foolish ideas, says you—
far-fetched ideas: Worry likely, but that's
what rthought; and there are times when
men has worry strange ideas ; I'll toll you
for a fact that something struck me when I
went down that hole as I shouldn't come up
it again ; and I didn't neithBr. Why, the
worry feel o' the cold damp place made you
think o' being hurtled.down upon the stage
above my head, as soon as the first start was
over it seemed to me so like the rattling o'
the earth but a fow hours before upon a little
coffin, that something fell with a pat upon
my bright trowel, which, if it had been
left, would ha' been a spot o' rust.
Nothing like work to put a fellow to
rights; and I soon found that I was feeling
better, and the stokes o' my trowel went
ringing away down the sower as I cut the
bricks in half; and after a bit I almost felt
inclined to whistle ; but I didn't, for I kept
on thinking of that solitary face at home—
the face that always brightened up when I
went back, and had .mido such a man of me
as I felt I was, for it was enough to make
any man vain to be thought so much, of.
And then I thought how dull she'd be, and
how fond she'd be o' looking at the drawer
where all the little things were kept; and
then I—well, T ain't ashamed of it, if I am
a great hulking fellow—T took care that no
body saw what I was doing, while I had a
look at a little bit of a shoe its I had in my
pocket.
I didn't go home to dinner, for it was too
far off, so I had my snack, and then went
to it directly again long with two more, for
we was on the piece. 'We bad some beer
sent down to us, and at it we went till it
was time to leave off; and I must say as I
wtt glad of it,' and didn't touch envy the
fresh gang coming on to work all night
though it might just as well have been night
with us. I was last down, and had just put
my foot on the first round of the ladder,
when 1 heard something falling its it hit and
jarred the boards up'ards ; and then direct
ly after what seemed to •be a brick caught
me on the head, and, before I knew where
T was, I was off the little platform, splash
down in the cold rushing water that took me
off and away yards upon yards before I got
my head above it; and then I was so con
fused and half stunned that I let it go un
der again, and had been carried ever so far
before, half drowned, I gained my legs, and
and leaned, panting and blinded, up against
the slimy wall.
There I stool for at least ten minutes, I
should suppose, shuddering and horrified,
with the thick darkness all around, the
slimy, muddy bricks against my hands, the
cold, rushing water beneath me, and my
mind in that confused state that for a few
minutes longer I didn't know what I was
going to do next, and wanted to persuade
myself that it was all a dream, and I ,hould
wake up directly.
All at once, though I gave a jump, and,
instead of being cold with the water drip
ping from me, I turned all hot and burning,
and then again cold tad shuddery, for I hail
felt something crawling on my shoulder, and
then close against my bare neck, when I
gave the jtunp, and heard close by men light
splash in the water—a splash'which echoed
through the hollow place, while, half to
frighten the boasts that I fancied must be,
in swarms arou,nd me, llalf wrung from the
a cry of fear and agonyo yelled out:
" Rats !"
Rats they were; for above the hollow
wash-wash, hurry-hurry, wash-wash, hur
ry-hurry'' of the water, I could hear little
splashes and a scuffling by use along the sides
of the brick work.
You may laugh at people's hair standing
on end, but I know that there was ai_creep
ing, tingling sensation in the roots otmine,
as though sand was trickling amaitgat'it
cloud seemed to come over my mind, and for
a few moments I believe I was mad—mad
with. fear ; and it was only by setting my
teeth hard' .and clenching my fists that I
kept from shrieking. However, I was soon
better, and ready to laugh at myself as I
could only be a little way from the spot
where the men worked ; so I began to wade
along with the water here about up to my
middle, All at once I stopped, and thou gh t
about where I was at work.
Which way did the water ran ?
My head turned hot and toy temples
throbbed with the thought. If I went the
wrong way I should be lost—lost in this hor
rible darkness—to sink, at last, into the foul,
black stream, to be drowned and devoured
by the rats, or else to be choked by the foul
gases that must be lurking down here in
these dark recesses.
Again the horror of thick darkness come
upon me; I shrieked out wildly, and tho cry
went echoing through the sowe; , sounding
hollow and. Wild till it faded, away,. :But
:of - ft; aril per=
suadod myself that I had only cried aloud
to scare the rats.' What would I not have
given for a stout stick as a defense against
attack ns . l groped my way on, fooling con
vinced , that I ;should be right if I crawled
down stream, when a little reflection would
haVo told Me that'igi'strhani must be the
right way, for I must hay() been borne down
by the water. But I could not. rollect,.for*
My brain' seemed hi' a'Statc of fever, imanciy
and* 'theiY r My' teeth",'cliattercd * As' 064g1i
lied cue aguq.,
, .
groped on for' quite a qUarter' nof a, bon
'when the harrid'AhOught',etinie ,
upon me
that I was going wrong, and again I tried
to lean-up, against :the! „wall, which -seemed,
to'nuuse 'rnefeet to 'Blip' from 'tinder me,
'Olt ;no' i aold; for ,the'perspirtitiott 'drOpp4d
from,. ,tpa turne,cl..haolc ;Mid
tried to,retrace any steps, guidirig'myself by
running u..hand against • the wall, where
every now and then it entered the mouth. or
n 611411 dritin; When;;Stu Sure its, it,' 7 didill?o(l)
* 1 4!:E'44114191-.it,Ti4g l ;oo, , , ' inere; 1 , 1;44. once:
ll,iduehed,the cold. l ppery body of u
ItOueli'lhat made Imo' , start b'ack as' though :
, ;v 9o,lwerit,,and cm, and still no !seutfold,'
and 'no, gleain. of gaslight, ' Thmight • after'
'thciught glivb , frosh , horror tO`niy .
jldJYtoNY: l ' ofeji , ' fi'4 l c,
had.tniaori,.sonle9rong,turii, or ; nu- ,
tered a.branch oftthe. Main place and at last,
completely hciWildored; .I;rulierd'' headlong
but
iihad,ititood effect.;'-for it putjnstop to hay
*lld liitiugtilesjiivliidttinnet.sOonintve
in my failing nr3onsiblo into what
tain death. The water cooled my head, and
no*, feeling completely lost, knowing that
I must have been nearly two hours in the
sewer; I made up my mind to follow the sow
er to its mouth in the Thames„ where. if the
tide was down, I could 'get from The mud on
to the wharf or bank.
So once more I struggled on, following the
stream slowly for what seemed to be hours
till at last, raising my hand, I found I could
not touch the roof, and by that knew-1 was
in ft larger sewer, and therefore not very far
from the mouth. But here there was a new
terror creeping up me, so to speak, for from
my waist :the, water now touched my chest,
and soon after my arm-pits ; when I stop
ped, not daring' to trust myself to swim, per
haps a mile, I felt that weak I conld not
have gone a hundred yards.
I know in my disappointment 1 gave a
howl Mai a wild beast, and turned again to
have a hard fight to breast the rushing wa
ter, which nearly took one off my legs. But
the fear of death lent me help, and T got on
and bn again till I found myself in a turn
ing which I soon knew was a smaller sewer,
and from thence I reached another, where I
had to stoop, but the water was shallower,
not above my knees, and at last much less
deep than that.
Here I knelt down to rest,„Aqattlt posi
tion brought something else from my heart;
and, after awhile, still stooping, I went on,
linviag passed dozens of drains, I deter
mined to creep up one, and I did.
Frain: you won't think it strange as I
dream and groan in bed sometimes, when I
tell you what followed.
crawled on, and on, and on in the hope,
that the place I was in would lead under
one of the street-gratings, and I kept staring
ahead in the hopes Pf catching, a gleam of
light, till at last the place scented so tight
that I dared so no further, for fear of }wing
fixed in. So I began to hack very slowly,
and then feeling it, rather wort:, stop
ped for a rest.
It WAS quite dry here ; but, scuffling on
in front, I kept hearing the rats I had driven
On before Inc ; and now that I stooped and
was quite still, half a dozen of them made a
rush to get past me, and the, little fight which
followed seven now gives uni the horror,.
I'd hardly room to move ; but I killed one
by squeezing him, when the others barked
uhf, but not till my face was bitten and run
ning with blood.
At lust, half dead, I tried to back out for
the place seemed to stifle me; and r pushed
myself buck n little way, 1111 d bets I was
stopped, for the skirts of my jacket filled up
what little space had been left, and I felt
that I was wegded in, stuck fast
Sow came the horrors again, worse than
ever. The hot blood seemed to gush into
my eyes; I felt hair suffocated; and, to add
to my sufferings, a rat, that felt itself, as it
were, penned up, fastened itself upon my
lip. It was its last bite, however, for, half
mad as I felt then, my teeth had closed in a
moment upon the N ideas beast and it was
dead.
I made one more struggle, but could not
move, I was so knocked up, awl then I faint-
It must have heen some Lime heron: i conic
to myself; but when I did, the first sound I
heard was a regular tramp, tramp, of sonic
one walking over my head, and I gave a
long yell for help, when, to my great jay,
the step halted, and I shrieked again, and
the sweetest sound I laic ever heard fu my
lire came back. It was a voice shouting:
"Hallo!"
"Stuck fast in the drain' I shouted with
all the strength I had left; and then I swoon
ed off once more, to wake up a week after
ward out of a brain-fever sleep in a hospi
tal.
It seemed I had got within a few yards of
a grating which was an end of the drain,
and the close quarters made the rats so
fierce. The policeman had heard my shriek,
and had listened at the grating, and then
got help ; but he was only laughed at, for
ho could get no further answer out of me,
It was then about half-past three on a sum
mer's morning; and, though the grate was
got open, they were about to give it up, say
ing the policeman had been humbugged;
when a couple of sweeps came up, and the
little 'au eiferered to go down, back-ards,
and he did, and came out directly after,
saying that he could feel a man's head with
his toes.
That policeman has had many a glass at
my ezpense since, and I hope he'll have a
many more; and when he tells me the story,
which I like to hear—but always take care
shall be when Polly's away— he says he
knows I should have lik6ll to•see dow'tbey
tore that_ drajn,itti—lf.;•*+9 'tlMe: A:0 Wliab
,tlierßi. ,C aiways each an echo in my heart
that it conies quite natural to say, "You're
right, my boy!"
. T.uis MEN TO AI.4IRItY.—PiOICh. givep some
good advice to women. in looking for suita
ble husbands. Among other things he says:
"The man who don't take tea, ill treats the
cat, ttikes snuff', and stands with his back to
the fire,, is a brute whom I would not advise
you to marry 'on any , consideration, either
folgove or nioriey, but decidedly not for 16N 4 e.
Put the'man . Who, When tea is over,' dis
iiovey,ed to hair . o had none, tAiy
•make the best , husband. . Patience like his
dOseyves being•roWa,rded with :the . best of
Wives And the liese i of MOthers.4tiL•law.,
dearS, ;when you meet With such:, a map,
•your, , best.to,: Marry him.:.' In the ,severbst
Winter ho Would 'not' inind goingtobcd
OUT OIP DANadut.—A hard shell preanher
wound up alflatningnOrinOn, With'ttils
":ast s . laetiidrii and Makin), ef inen i e,foll
,of religion you oau't hurt him. There lyerc;
• threO:Afelean 'children ;'they •,put thein
fiery'furniico,e atea , pq v . e s.,i q 44B.,lk`d,i,Vi;i!
could ,het,',and didoit ~ winge, a,
on their hods: ,Anththavwere"John Evan
..gler; they IsAt hiin 7 lvhdie- aw'you think
they p f ut him?
; .° 44o n.
audfdidn't, fasedds ,sh cid And tben tiler :was'
Daniel; th'ey'liaV.liim into a' lidu'a l
,
',e,d,ayditaides,,do you think lie was,put.ioto t ,
a lien's don for? Why, for prayie threa l
Aimee , a day:' Don't be alarmnd.brethera i tind
I tJi. l 4oYil:doll'f ' 4 ll 4 li ..th 'l 4,4o i ; i4ir /
into
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•
THE PENNSYLVANIA BARN
BY HON. FREDERICK WATTS, OF CARLISLE, PA
it is by no means a &weeded principle
that a barn is a necessary or even a useful
appendage to farm operations, for we find
the people of entire districts of country, and
they not differing much in their climate
or agricultural productions, whose views, if
we may judge from their habits, differ es
sentially on-this point. As characterizing
States, indeed, Pennsylvania stands promi
nent in the importance which her people
have attached to a barn, as an essential el
ement in the constitution of a farm. Their
estimate of its value, in the profitable prose
cution of their business, has given to It as
form, shape and
,structure which distin
guishes it from a mere shelter for animals or
cover for hay and grain, whither they be
stables, corn-houses, ricks, or other such de
vices. The Pennsylvania barn combines all
these and oilier profitable conveniences
within itself ; and it is at least questionable
whether, on the whole, it is not at less ex
pense . There is, perhaps, no section of
country in the United States where agricul
ture is pllrSind with such profitable results
as in the southeastern counties of Penn
sylvania including Cumberland, York,
Dauphin, Lebanon, T.ancaster, Chester,
Delaware, Montgomery, Bucks, and B Tlfs,
where farms rarely exceed one hundred and
fifty acres, and upon ipcli of which the bank
barn is deemed as absolute a neces:ity , as the
plough itself. Apart from any theoretical
view or 11, subject, much weight Will latitril
to the judgment which this experience has
pronounced, when it is perceived that the
result of that experience has been an amount
of solid wealth that is not to be found else
where. It must be eonceded, however, that
long habit had made such an impression of
thi , cempleteness or the Pennsylvania barn
us t‘i have forbidden any impr"ve"'"1111"
its structure for ft long time. But the pro
gress of the ago has made its innovation
here too, with results highly practical and
useful. It is our purpose to delineate an
improved bank-barn, keeping in view a
moderato cost or construction., convenient
stabling for cattle, the most capacious storage'
for loty, grain, and straw, corn in the ear,
lied wagon shed, cistern, rout cellar, all
combined under the same roof, and i;pecial
ly econemy of labor in the use of these de
partments. The business , f a farmer con
sists of bodily labor. and in every improve
ment for 11 , 0, the study should be to
economize the , work of the hands, substitut
ing that of the horse, mule or ox. •
There is a principle which should enter
into the construction of every barn, that
its size should be in its height, whilst its
height should not necessarily increase the
amount of labor requisite for its use; for it
will be readily perceived how much the
weight of the grain itself must contribute
to the capacity or the mew which holds it.
A few feet of ad Ttional frame in hi•ight
adds but little to the original eost whiLt
to extend the frame horizontally costs the
same, and requires additional roofing, and
the advantage of iveight is comparatively.
lost. This height of barn, and economy of
labor in using it, is attained by constructing
the inner frame with two sets of floors, one
above the other, using the upper uric to drive
into, thus reaching with the loaded wagon
the height of the middle of the mow. instead
of the bottom of it, and thus, too, supersed
ing the necessity of pitching grain to any
great height. And here it must be observed
that the frame across the barn, which is be
tween this floor and the mow, must be so
constructed as that there shall be no cross
timber in tins way of the free use of the
horse-power fork. In barns heretofore built,
this principle lasts not been observed, where
by it has boon necessary to raise hay over
these cross-timbers to as height which re
quires much more time and unnecessary
labor than is otherwise required. The hay
fork should be used with a double pully, and
the horse, walking on the opposite floor,
can raise, without tiny extraordinary exer
tion, as much hay as the fork can take; in
fact, with a now thus constructed,
.a horse
w.II, when the wagon is full, throw off al
most one-fourth of the load at the first
&might ; the bottom of the mow bang
about nine feet below, the hay passes off
without the immediate necessity of a mar,.
its the mow to dispose of it. And it will be
found that the' capacity, of the two mows
filled up to - a point about three feet above
the siding of thtillocir, when pressed down
by the 'grain afteriVa'rds put upon it, is equal
to about sixty tons. And in putting away
grain, which must necessarily be done with
a hand-fork, this "node . ' of construction
the (friths() Conitanient,
inasmuch as there is nu timber in the way
of iron access to, the mow. The bairn should
be built as as bank, having an elevation of
about nine feet; and by giving tP the w4mn
waty an elevation of asbciut eight feet More,
the 'tipper flooris reisched,syithout any severe
draught upon the. town; In this wagon- way,
and ten feet from the barn, is erected a Cis
tern or reservoir for' waster, capable of con
taining,' abort three hundred hod #scads,
flared-fourths of which will be above ground,
and, the bettoni be about
eighteen inches ,abevei the bottom of the
stables, the water from which, with the use
of anolidinary -hydrant, be
the barn-yard or any.: ofqe stables? Thia -!
beingjanilt of sto ne, .
,Wong,-W,ell. - cemented within, and tightly
weatherboarded- upon , four-inch studding
on'the ontsidd,'o,ll6Whig fag.
.the',pretentren : Of, 'the water, from the frost
in winter and • the heat An summer. - - ThiS
reservoir, , extending entireiYfiereS.4l,iie`rOMl4
Pi g19 1 4 '
Coveree',, With Pluber,,,eXtending:.from•the
, barn net. so far as to` cover the ..
fr, eisterm , and
•
the flooris
of the barn •ettend"Out a fin' •ns
'the On& of the "nribs;: and hero ; 'tho be,r,u
4oersnre,plueed,'4,unkin,, i ,cerstro
.apace,betweem.the dribs the horse-power
•lieraintifentlY , A.X - ed; ifileWing robin:qt oft*
'Ade l for'ihe paseaigo of thei;Oiigi.iii'-;.;.l)ify-,0,16,.
Apors,;,,lo9ing iim.iy.'nacenstary..to;renetavil the,
• nems•when thei,poister ;is +not in - use."- , BY•
*anti the'operation'• of , threstaing
~lor lie reef ';'000
apartro alongside ,;of
the,eiaiterivin the Avagon-4ay for - roots;• , for
Thd
*O4 ~! #49-t#o6 i i*oo4,o4Vici:
barn turnialios tinSnecopaaryvngon-shed and
TERMS:--$2,00 in Advance, or $2,50 within the year
gives itemise to the lower floor, from which
all grain is if:aided. One of the lower floors
is occupied with garners, and inasmuch as
there is more room than is required for this
'purpose, one end should be occupied as a
workshop, where all tools are kept and used.
In one of the upper floors, where the thresh
ing is done, and immediately under' the
shaker of the threshing machine, there is an
opening of six feet by three, having an iron
grating, with meshes two and a Half inches
square, sunk into the sleepers so deeply as
to allow their being covered by plank, fitted
in when not in use. Through this the grain
and chaff pass to the lower floor without in
termixture of straw, and thus saving all the
time usually occupied in covering up and
disposing of the grain upon the same floor
where the threshing is done. And it will
he found, from experience, that this sailing
will enable the farmer to get out, with the
same power and hands, just double the
quanity, in any given time, that he can clo
in, a barn differently constructed. Another
advantage is, that any quanity of grain may
be threshing without stoppin to clean up,
which is a part of the process requring fewer
hands. The band wheel of . the horse-power
should be under one of the cribs, which is
effected by raising the floor about eighteen
inches, allowing one-Half of the diameter of
the wheel to be sunk below. The cribs
should have no doors, but openings should
be made by moveable slats, so dovqtailed as
to keep their place, and the corn is taken
from the cribs by boxes at the bottom, the
sides of which are se constructed 216 that they
may be removed when it is necessary to take
out any quantity.
There is much improvement to be made
in the construction of the stall, floor, rack,
and trough of the stable. The stalls should
be partitioned by oak slats, two inches wide
and two inches apart, 011 each side ontud
ding four inches square, whereby the free
p115311/411 of the air through the entire stable
is secured, for there is nothing more impor•
hint than perfect ventilation where there is
such constant necessity for it. The floors
should be paved with blocks exposing the
end of the timber. In the erection of' a
barn, the ends and waste-pieces of square
timber, out into six-inch lengths, may b
thus used. 'They should be paved together
upon a bed of lime about four inches deep.
to prevent the decay of the timber. Fill up
with wood any interstices there may be be
tween the blocks; pour gas pitch upon it,
(toyer it with sharp sand, then the whole
with straw, and put the horses upon it, when
it will become a solid mass impervious to l i
water. A floor thus, constructed we have
had in use for ten years, and it is now up
pearently as good as when made. The frame
of the racks should be fourteen inches in
the clear, and the rungs of throe-eights iron,
with a head at one ehd and e nut screwed
on the oilier ; it should be placed perpen.
dicularly behind the trough, and over a
board sloping to the trough, whereby the
hay seed is carried into it. The slet,e, which
gives capacity to the rack, is into the gang
way, whereby access to it is rendered the
rre.re easy, which, in feeding long fodder to
cattle, is 11 ,matter of much moment. The
spac, , under the trough is boxed, sloping IC-
so into to the gangway with a lid, and
which has a capacity for grain equal to all
the demands of the stock. The gangways
themselves may be either planked or filled
with gravel properly shaped, and saturated
with gas pitch, which becomes perfectly
hard and impenetrable by rat. The space
under the stable floors is usual'y the hiding
place of rats ; the proposed method of mak
ing the fli;or, precuts this.
One of the essential elements in the value
of a barn le, that it affords the means of
malt i rig and preserving manure. Barn-yard
manure, in the process of farming, has no
substitute of equal value; and without the
barn you cannot have the manure, and de
pendent upon the character of the barn is
its quantity and quality. If straw, hay, end
fodder are thrown directly from the burn
floor to the yattd, they, in a great measure,
remain straw, hay and fodder. The tramp
ing of cattle upon it gives it the appearance
ef' manure, but the'appearaneo is in a meas
ure, deceptive; it Wants the process of hav
ing passed through the stables. A farm
must, i . . the course of time, become exhaust
ed and fruitless unless replenished by manure,
and this cannot otherwise be so cheaply
attained as, through the medium of the barn.
In the southeastern part of Pennsylvania,
already mentioned, there has been a longer
practical application of mind to the subject
of agriculture than is often to, be found, and
perhaps with more profitable results.; and
'here a barn is the first building in thq con
•s (ruction ,of -fa.rm. •. :.• ," • •
A . very fatal mistake is sometimes made
in the erection of ventilators' in the shape
of cupolaS'upon the comb of the roof. LH
'hay and grain undergo a state of fermenta
tion a few weeks after 'they' are put away.
The emission from it is -a dense, damp fog,
which primes thrOugh the cupola and con
stitutes the very bast conductor of lightning
-that could be devised-; and as this process
happens at a season when thunder-storms
prevail, it is doubtless - the cause . -'of the
destruction 'by lightning of .ninny 'barns.
The , object is better:attaiited by, cribbing
the gable ends of the barn for ten 'feet be
le with° , top of the- roof, i by. phicing the
iweathordiOarding:thren4oufthis :of. an Ina
apart;, and feather-edging the , :boards-- so as
te-preserve its..solidity :of appearance from
the , ioutside. , . -The substance -ventilated Irtim
the barn is thus so diffused and broken up
as to,avoid app danger from .rho power of
conduetion..by Its aseenaing ,, columni s i
.. , .,.,Whilst.the water from ,the cisternimitylo
. easily i conducted to 'any part of the stdblingi
'experience . does n'ot.itaanotion.iits - lititroduc 7
jion, there are at
~all., , Thei drippings and
,aeeidents - occasion . a. dampness- and 'wet
which are objectionable,, whilst the _ pipe
passing.undor the:fitalde,,and depositing the
water irt; a eqvereil,trough,i9.4he barn!yard
lminediatelY. : . in. ifrertt •Of ; tile stables , is sttf-,!
.lielently L convenient , ; for. la practical par :..
; pops;...vio i 049 of the. ; piaterzy,- :with ..Jhe
.constant ;useof Water,;by; lite : stock of the
farm,flare . 4 offrlY, I ,eqlitt . t .! 1.0 All -the-water
which will fall upon the roof during „the
I .
~
ye ~,spth4° „. ,th?r:,errlyAp.m.
~itij,..„tp._..rn.i
!;;ff,frbn.oe,,escapaTipp, at tpetcp,...,oo
iv9O.PO 0 1 . 4q1?0F19 6 5°F94 „Y 11 e41441:
ycm;rMitfrPT9'? 95 1 0?9f,°KPfPAtPr;
11?AllY9, manure 3 41., ,i; :I : I r f';': , •:'i
..,.',
We . may add , in ihisconnex :.; iO, that ra9kB
swung upon a' gallows in the barn:yard is
a very 'decided' improvement in the way
of feeding cattle. They possess two mark
ed advantages: first, suspended by ,chains,
they may be readily raised or _loWered, as
the manure pile Increases or entirely
r9moved ; and, again they yield to the fre
((tient necessity; of 11:(e escape of , one ani
mal from the attack of another. A con
venient shape of such a rack is ten feet
lof4, fifteen, inches wide intithe bottom,
;slid :three feet at the top in the clear, with
rungs four feet long of three-eighths iron,
with a head below and a nut above, sus
pended by a loop of ° tho middle end rung,
which is made of a little stronger iron,
and put in by a nut below.
NO_ 18
A FUNNY ADVENTURE.
" I never attended but one temperance
lecture," said our friend B-, with a
peculiar smile, " and I don't think I shall
ever attend another."
"You probably found it dry ?"
Well, yes—but that isn't it. The lec
ture was well enough, but I got into such
an awful scrape after it was over, that I
never think of temperance without a shud
der. I'll tell you 01l about it?
"I was in N—, where I was some ,
what of a stranger, and the night
. was one
of the worst of the season. Boraas I how it
blew I It was enough to take one's breath
away. Well, the lecture was over, and
making my way through the crowd, I
ling
ered in the doorway, contemplating the
awful scene, when somebody suddenly thrust
an arm within my own, and clung to me
with a bear-like hug. •
" Where have you been ?' said the sweet
est voice in the world ; I have been looking
for you everywhere.'
"Very much to my surprise, I turned and
saw—but I tan't describe her.. It makes me
sad to think how prodigiously pretty she
was. With her left hand she leaned on my
arm, while with her right she was arrang
ing her veil, and did not notice my surprise.
" You have been looking for me?'
" Yes, and know,let's be going,' was her
reply, pressing my
" A thrill went to my heart. What to
make of my lady's address I did not know—
but to accompany her. We started off in
the tempest, the noise of which prevented
any conversation ; At length she said with
IMEMEEM
4 • Put you arm around me, I shall blow
away!'
'• I need not describe to you my sensation
as I pressed her to my side and hurried on.
It was very dark; nobody saw us; and, al
lowing her to guide my steps, I followed
her mot un thr. ugh two or threeshoristreets,
until she stopped before an elegant mansion.
Have you your key ? . she asked.
My key!' I staininered ; ' there must
.be some mistake.'
"As she opened the door, I stood ready
to bid her good night, or to have some ex
planation, when, turning quickly, she said :
•'' how queer you act to night —ain't yoli
coining in ?
"There was something very tempting in
the suggestion. Was I goingin ? A warm
house and pretty woman were certainly ob
jects of consideration, and It was dreary to
think of facing the driving storm, and see
ing hi;r no more. It took me three-quarters
of a second to make up my mind and I
went in.
There was a dim light in the hall, and
as my guide ran rapidly up the stair's, why
I could do no better than run up too. I ful
followed her into a very dark room.
Lock the door, John,' she said.
"Now, us if I were the only John in the
world, I thought she knew me. I felt for
the key, turised in the lock without hesitu
tion, wondering at the same time what was
coming next, Then ar . awful suspicion of
some horrid trick flashed upon my mind;
had often heard of infatuated men being
lured to their destruction by pretty women,
and I was on the point of o,,ening the door
when my lady struck a light.. Then to my
dismay, I discovered I was In a bedroom
alone with ti strange woman. 1 said some
thing; I don't know what it was; but the
lady looked, stared at me an instant, turned
as white as a pillow ease, and screamed.
" Who are you ? How came you hero 9
Go, quick ; leave the room ; I thought you
were my husband;' and covering her face
with h r hands, she sobbed hysterically.
wis nearly petrified. 01 course I was
as anxious to leave as she was to have me;
but, in my confusion, instead of going out
at the door I came in at, I walked into a
closet, and before I could rectify my error
there came a thundering at the-hall door.
" The lady's real husband had come, and
she flew to let him in. Well aware that it
would be of no use to try to get out of the
house by any other way than that in which
I had entered it, and convinced of the dan
ger of meeting the man, who might fall in
to the vulgar weakness of being jealous, I
was trying to collect, my scattered senses in
the darkness, when the wrathful husband
burst into the room, followed by madam.
The light was extinguished, and While she
was searching for a friction match, thegruff
voice raved and stormed, jealous -nrid re
vengeful.
I know ho is here; I saw him' come
into the house with you 1 You locked the
door ; P.ll have his heart out—whero is he 7'
'• Hear me 1 Hear mo I will explain
urgei the lady.
" As I was Ilstening to hear the explana
tion, the husband walked plump against me,
and at the same moment the light appeared."
" Well, B—," we cried, deeply inter
ested, for we knew that every word, of his
story was true, " how did' you get out of the
serape ?"
4, I used a violent remedy for so violent' a
complaint. Driven into a •corner—my life
in dunger 7 perceilling, at a glance that
Othello was not so strong as I was, I throw
myself Upon him, fell 'with him, 'and: held
him there until I had given him a full ex
planation of the error, made higi hent 'rea
son; and. turned him to be gentle as a lamb.
Then. I left' rathei , unceremoniously, and I
haVei never seen Othello or DeAembnasince;"
TIFF; RiNDEttI'EST.-A new ntenalier of
Li; English llouse of Corm:aims,. who bad a
'slOW 'iind hesitating voice; :recently 'under. -
ioolt to' debate the cattle plague bill,' and aa.
',Etoitte` s4trig "I've . hitd
'he'rinderp'eat' After the buret of laugh
er' which followed, the 'member . 11111.3 . per.
'rnitted to continue, "on my fartn," whith
"considerably 'changed the
. aspcct °fanlike.
.VlO are loved by those arouiia Ike
'64n bdar the hostility of ail trio r e#-"Brihe
liarld; fest Vl° were before 4 Warm
ive' need not bare for all ':the ice in' the
Poltir regions. •
c. The blusg, of 'modesty upon' the'.,eheelc • of
iy,,ung Ana -virtuou 9rnblamatio
gf ; purtty,of,soul• Lholiiight,torcinkei_bad
mew goott ,
A mal?'94ot tg 344 1 4 4 ;N4, Pii4ki 3 !,PX*4
for perfections he does not pouw'S. •