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TREASURER'S JSAIE
Of Unseated Lands acd LoU in Cambria Con&ty,
. A. D. 1554.
I, Andrew J. Ruey, Treasurer of Cambria
County, in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania,
in pursuance of the several acts of Assembly of
said Commonwealth directing the time and man
ner of selling unseated lands for Taxes, do here
by civil notice, that the following described
tracts of unseated lands and lets of ground in the
said county of Cambria, or such part thereof as
may be necessary to pay arrearages of taxes due
thereon for one year or more, will be offered lor
sale at the Court House, iu the borough of Ebons
burg, on the Second Monday, (being the 12th
day,) of Jane next, and continue by adjourn
ment from day to day until the whole be sold f-r
such arrearages of taxes, and costs necessarily
accruing thereon.
Allegheny Township.
Names of "Warrantees or Owners.
A. P.
100
30U .
410 44
96
425 30
100
183 10
318 119
400 137
100
80
xes.
4,75
23, 0 i
32,18
7,00
23.30
3,10
11,40
14,79
25,40
6.20
2.50
James C. Maguire
Aaron Bowen
Abrahani "White
James llammen
Eleanor C. Iiiester
John Benuon
Warren Ilarumt-n
llufus Ilannum
Mifflin Ilannum
"William Wcakland
Martha Ilannum
Blacklick Township.
Andrew Duff
Parts Daniel Benjamin. Fred.
Stineman & Jno. Ilambright
Cambria Township.
107
97
5,07
1.59
300 Michael Zeiglcr 10 25
50 Jonathan "Walker 2,89
400 David E.Jones 10,80
200 Griffith M. Joucs 3,20
Carroll Tomiship.
100 - John Redman 5,80
372 : Sarah Barr 21 ,50
385 Wilson Barr 22,32
401 Daniel Barr 23.28
383 Lewis Barr 22,14
e5 : Peter Sawyer, W. M. Adams
and Joseph Lyons 1,88
Chiirfull Towushij).
William Barton
Samuel Bethel
George Bickam
John Ely
John Fisher
John Fenn3
John Frarnbergt-r
Ezckicl Fannon
John Harrison
David Jacksou
Ilenrv Keiple
John Mitchell
William Fictoii
William Smith
J.ihn Sinrer
Lewis Wolf
"V, ii;am '('ill
John Youns
William Bi.ldlc
Michael Kepple
G. Cottinger
James Bryson
John Mease
Joseph Hutchins
Abraham Singer
John Caldwell
Jacob Cox
' Jesse Bush
Mahlon Hutchinson
John Servoss
George Horner
Jonathan Lewis
Robert Jones
Joseph Jones
Hilary Baker
Wiliiam Lambert
William Will
George Cobb "
Conemaugh Tcwnthip.
George Funk & Yickroy
Alexander McGregor
George Shrum
William Beatty
John G. Brown
James Gill
Alexander Cochran
1 Shoenbergcr
433 151
433 154
433 151
433,151
433 154
433 151
433 154
433 154
416 21
433 153
433 153
433 153
433 153
133 153
433 153
433 153
433 153
433 153
y
433 154
433 154
2U0
150
150
400
100
433 151
330
395 4
407 120
215
433 153
H00
419
433 154
433 154
233
406 134
21,41
15,97
20,02
21,44
21,44
19,40
15,97
21 ,44
20,f
21,44
21,44
14,72
17,bst
21 .44
17, u;
IS,4 1
18,44
14.72
1,45
7,10
7,10
3,3.)
2,47
2,47
0,60
4, CO
21,44
5.43
19.53
20,15
14,lf
21,41
39.00
20,71
21,44
21.14
3,82
6,69
152
133
106 ir2
86
400
400 .'
400 ,
400
150
207
123 120
155
113
401 141
8,20
7.47
5,83
0,09
14,20
14,20
14.20
14.20
5,32
7,38
7,24
5,45
3,97
14.20
14,20
14,20
14,20
14,20
14,20
14.20
14,20
1,42
6,60
16,78
18,24
11.49
9.42
King & Storm
Benjamin Williams
Richard Smith
John Haydon
Jchn Teeter
William Brown
George Moore
Thomas Wilson
Andrew Kennedy
James Roberts
Charles Jones
John 1M1
M. Bracken
" (J. Oal'.an
WillianVClark (J. Kerr)
Adam Ream
Jackson Twrnship.
Thomas Yickroy
James Steele
John Clarke
William Clark
Samuel Stitt
John Crawford
John Steel
Peter Bortman
James Steel
George It. Shoup
James Stitt
Thomas Stitt
George S. King
,E. Yickroy &, Jac. LeTergood
John Simpson
John Kibbett
John Titsworth
Robert Grey
Robert Murdock
Charles Irvine
James Latinioro
Benjamin Shoemaker
Henry Shoemaker -John
Stoner
Christian Stoner
Jacob Rupp
John Hubley
Richland Totcnship.
William Nichols
Jacob Clements
Robert Ross
Henry Barrington
Joseph Yickroy
Hugh Roberts
Storm & King
401
400
400
400
400
400
400
40
100
308
404
25-
60
21
51
324 150
210 81
23 135
440
422
220
400
34,05
18,92
30,28
18,92
30,10
21,80
30,10
6,89
30.10
2,58
22,57
22,57
8,64
20,50
17,41
4,3(
23,00
13,43
11. C5
8,21
35,72
33,66
4,e5
25,80
17,20
17,20
17,40
290
400
80
8
400
30
300
300
100
275 '
405 135
100 .
130
S13
271,
191
426
371 131
113
300
200
200
403
400
401
533
-11, 8u
11.80
12,71
11,80
3,97
11,89
6,41
40
401
63 -. -405
120
126
Summerhill Township.
11 Christian Smith 72
250 Robert Stewart 16,50
400 Arcnt Souman 39,60
439 80 Jacob Nagle 28,96
439 80 Henry Wood " 28,96
439 80 James Dalton 28,95
439 80 James Searight 28,90
439 120 John Everman , 28,96
410 80 Isaac Branan 29,01
430 John Nicholson 28,38
438 Charle3 Smith 28.90
440 William Smith 29,04
440 William Smith D. D. 29,04
440 Henry West 29,04
200 Isaac Jones 13,20
220 ' John Simpson 14.52
400 John Nicholson 26,40
190 John Nicholson 12,54
443 131 Jacob Goughenour 29,24
443 121 Jacob Goughenour 14.65
ltO " Frederick Croyle's Estate 11,88
400 JohuKean 13:20
Susquehanna l"oirnfh ip,
816 10 Isaiah Jones 18.21
160 Patrick McCoy 528
306 4 James Whitehead 20,18
20O Barnabas Ikmglass' Heirs 6,00
Washington Township.
Fl Thomas Jackson 5,79
50 James Johns 3,42
1 23 James Magellan 33
173 John Taylor (part) 6,88
439 80 George Gutwalt 14,90
150 Peter West 5,41
2800 Arent Souman 72,80
120 " 44 55,20
1400 " " 04,40
200 Abraham Morrison 7,20
201 43 Francis John 8,51
200 Arent Souman (rart) 9,20
Wti ite To wn ship.
216 156 Thomas Trun 4,78
433 120 Robert Atkins 9,39
4:!3 156 Garret Cottinger 6.69
359 119 Joseph Hutchins 22,25
433 153 John Martin 12,58
552 William Spayd 21,78
433 153 James Thompson 7,01
106 35 Richard Seely (part) 6.14
405 106 John Seelv 17,65
400 100 William Servoss 8,70
373 13 Casper Liuder 10,78!
400 100 George Hill Jr. 14,50 !
116 Robert Evans 4,20
230 J-hn Marshall 6,85
263 120 James Wilson 15,30
2r0 109 William George 19,43
4:33 153 Cadwallader Evans 9,39
433 153. Timothy Paxton 9,39
433 153 Thomas Stewartson 9,49
433 153 Joseph Sausom 9,39
433 153 William Sansom 9.39
433 153 John Clarke 9.39
433 153 George Peddle 9,39
377 106 James Hunter 5,44 1
313 John Servoss 16,18
30 Thomas L. Moore 46
333 Ann.McMiirt.-ie 4,;-2
- 200 James Cra-g 2,90
210 Joseph Ashmead 6.08
5 t),wen Jones 30 j
300 James McMu'rtrie 4,36 !
250 Thomas Murgatroid 5,04 j
350 Jobn Brown 10.44
199 7 Michael Musser 10.11 j
2U0 7 Abraham Wliitmore 10,15 ;
100 James S. Gallagher 2,90
Tuu:i Lots.
Lots No. 2, 3, 4 & 7 in town of Summcihill,
Amariah Y. Btllac's Estate, 1,32
1 Lot iu Munster, T. Reilly. 1,30
ALSO,
At the same time and place, will be sold the
following Seated Lands and Lots of ground on
v. liich the taxes remain unpaid, and which have
been re turned to the Commissioners agreeably to
me act, i -isenuiiy, 01 -ipruj, ict-t.
A.
Allegheny Toicnship.
Taxes
12,11
37,70
90
3,90
3,20
2,02
1,95
1,30
27,09
75
78
1,38
1,95
3,12
13
39
1,63
78
3,90
260
322
80
300
100
55
10O
100
300
50
10
53
50
80
1 Lot
1 Lot
1 Lot
2 Lots
5i A.
Silas Moore's Estate
J. Conrad & Co.
William Gibbons' Estate
lilacUkh Township.
Thoraas Yv. Jones
James Luke.
George Rink ,
Michael Donegan
Carroll Township.
llcnrv Aible
Hugh Boyle
1 lenry Grey
Francis McKce
Michael McCawley
Isaiah Delozier
Thomas Priestly
Geo. W. Todd
r
Concmauh Forovgh.
Edward Cassiday
Ferdinand Darner
Snowden
John Young
Jackson Township.
Iliram Ragar
Teeter Brtuneman
Charles Murray
Thomas Ragar
David Stewart
David Caldwell
Elizabeth Carman
Peter Dillon's Heir
R ich land. To wash ip.
Patrick Keclan
100
50
300
CO
120
100
415
86
1,50
2,05
6,44
a.ei
4,95
1,63
16,18
2,14
56
65
. Summerhill
"o-icnship.
20 James Boyles
50 T ' Jacob Crum
50 " ' Nathan Crum
-.lLot John Holder
147 A. John Eagaii
100 Thomas Patterson's Estate
400 James McKee
160 Philip & Matthias Biter
104 Ambrose BranilT
103 v David E. Davis
100 ' Samuel Earnest
140 Thomas lieonard
10O Richard Lilly
4u Stephen Plummer
80 Sarah Roberts
191 John Skally Jr.
1C0 Jacob Settlemoyer
288 . Barnaba3Sweeny . ,
110 James Young ,
37 , Bernard Wilinore 'a Estate
400 John Weaver
Susquehanna Toicnship.
100 Lloyd Hoke
Treasurer's Office,
Ebeasburg, April 5, 1854. 30-4t. j
1,38
O 1 o
1,81
69
12.57
6,39
15, S3
1,54
4,63
4,11
2,53
57
1,01
1,71
1,51
16,91
3,52
1,88
7,66
3,42
6,25
1,80
W
OOL, Butter, and aU kinds of Grain, taken
in exchange lor goous ai
J. MOORE'S STORE.
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The lartli is full cf Sunshine.
BX M. L. MUURAT.
The earth is full of sunshine
When the heart is full of glee.
For the light within our spirit
Shines on everything we see ;
Then it finds the smallest trifies
For its happiness suffice,
And pleasure in the smallest thing,
As in the things of peace.
There is sunshine in the flowers,
In the shadowy forest trees
There is sunshine in the rippling brook
That whispers with the breeze :
1 1 looks on us from every face,
The homely aud the fair ;
And the happier the spirit feels,
The more it seeks its ihare.
A lovely thing is sunshine,
And gladdens where it falls :
But more beautiful the sunny heart,
That all things blessing calls
That is always seeing something
For which to render praise ;
A spirit full of thankfulness .
In all its works and ways
That can pass along earth's pilgrim.
And not tluuk of all untrue,
To whom earih's hope seems not a shade,
(Alas ! they are but few)
And the bitter leaves lor others,
Extracting but the sweet:
For such hearts make their own happiness
From every thing they meet.
And they who thus unruffled
Can g!:dc- down' the str eam of life.
With a spirit that elastic springs
From all its care and strife,
Have a well of joy within them
That not slightly will depart,
For they bear about their Paradise,
A kind and joyous heart.
And are not such more happy,
And more likely to be right,
Than they w Lo would persuade us earth
Hath nought for us but night !
For I say and 'tis a doctrine
That the many will reccive
There is hope lbr every one on earth.
If they only will believe !
Slistflhncous.
Tho Great Principles cf the Law.
FP.OM BLACKSTONE OX " REAL ESTATE."
Blacksicne divides Reality into three grand
divisions: Lands, Tenements, and Heredita
ments. " Land is a cry comprehensive term, includ
ing every thing of a permanent, substantial
nature. Tenement' literally means anything
that may be held ; and, therefore, if a man
should catch a fox by the tail, he.'d be a ' tene
ment,' as long as he could hold Lir.i, but if he
should get away, in the eye of the law he'd prob
ably be nothing but a 'tiling in action ;' rather
lively action, too, perhaps, especially if the dogs
were after him.
" ' Hereditaments' are of two kinds corporeal
and incorporeal ; corporeal are those visible, tan
gible objects ia nature that may be seen and
felt, or,' as Glanville has it, they are such as
affect the senses ;' therefore' if a horse should
throw a man who should light on liis head and
be stunned, that, according to the books, is a
-uoiporeal hereditament.' 'Incorporeal heredit
aments issue out of the land ;' rents and profits
come under this head, and so, we suppose would
fishing worms ; tho' the prophets that 4 issued
out of the laud of Judea along with Saul, would
not come within the definition ; but if a man
should catch his coat-tail on a nail and create a
rent, the nail being annexed to the freehold, and
issuing too far out; would probably be in tail
male, and the man would be remanded to the
Court below' to have his coat mended, as the
devil sows tares. Under tho name of ' Land' is
comprised everything upon the surface of the
earth, and under it ; and water passes under the
name of land, though we don't see how a heavy
rain ia any point of view, could bcconsidercd
as real estate, and a practical difficulty would
arise in conveying a spare acre of thunder-shower
by inctcs and bounds, though, since Black
stone wrptc, conveyance by water is a very com
mon occurrence. ;
" Trees and growing crops belong to the laud ;
and punpkins, being 'attached to the Reality,'
go to the heir' till they're pulled op, and then
they generally go to' the piga ; bo wheat and
barley ' go with the land,' and so docs the rye.
unless it is made into whiskey, and then it goes
best with a little water; so of the ' standing
corn :' though wc don't suppose that if the pro
prietor was drunk for three weeks before he sold
his place, it would be such a standing corn' as
that he would 4 go to the first purchaser,' unless
indeed ho went to take a little something.
44 A man has a - fee' in land when it is given
to 4 him and his heirs for ever,' but if he hap
pens to have no heirs, it goes to the King, who
stands graciously ready to nab any valuable
corr.er lots, when the proper population does cot
turn up.
44 4 Our Bracton' says that the word 4 fee' is
derived from the Saxon word feud or fight, be
cause all the tenants used to be continually fight
ing for their landlords ; and in contemplation of
law, were supposed to be crpetually standing
out:ielo the gate, armed and equipped and ready
for a LrccMS at the shortciS. notice ; these were
called 'retainers,' hence our term of Retainers ;
so that if John Doe retains A. B., counsellor at
law, to defend him, at tho suit of Richard Ike,
tb4sid V ' 6UPPSC1 t0 march about town,
wi.'j-j band of "music and a battle-axe, ready to
touzel, maul, and maltreat the said John Doe,
to wit, at the county aforesaid and prcbably
take depositions in uniform.
44 4 Estate for life, is a less estate than a fee,
and may be ' created by deed;' but you cannot
create an estate by deed for more than three
lives, unless, perhaps, one of 'em should be a
cat's and then it would probably extend to ten
or eleven.
44 4 Curtesy' is an cslato for life by the 4 act of
the law,' though enrtesies arc sometimes the acts
cf the ghls. Curtesy is where a man marries a
woir.au 4 seized of an estate or inheritance ;' and
if the small-pox or seven years' itch were here
ditary in the wife's family, and one of 'em should
seize her, this would be a seizen by inheritance;'
but first he must have children born alive, oth
erwise the law says to him, 4 You ain't in.'
44 Tenant. fordife is entitled to emblements, or
4 away growing crops ;' and if a man should
plant a patch of peas and potatoes, and then
moe oir, in the eyes of the law, the peas and po
tatoes are supposed to follow Lim; and if you
looked sharp, you would doubtless see them
climbing over the fence after Lim, and calling
out to be dug ; the same is true of trees and
shrubs, and tliis is what terrified Macbeth, so
when he saw 4 Birahara-wood comi'-g to Dunsi-
nane ;' for when he saw the' emblements' mov
ing, lie was lawyer enough to know that there
was a change going on of lauded proprietors that
boded hi hi r.o good.
44 The tenant-for-Iife also 'takes' all the catnip
and boccsct on his place, becau.-e they belong
to lh coil ; but the law would not compel Lim to
tak-. thorn, unless he wanted to, and if they
woe vie into tea, Spellman thinks he could
put in a little milk and sugar. A tenant-fordife
is entitled to cut wood, and if the landlord should
iutci fe'e and laise a lutiss, he would be com
pelled to cut a stick ; but though a tcnant-Jor-life
is entitled to cut wood, yet if his son should
whittle the fence, or mutilate the parlor chairs,
or throw down the axe, and the landlord should j
come in, and they should have a regular pitched
battle over the fallen furniture, it would clearly
be an 4 action on the case,' aud the landlord
would recover.
44 V"hen a man owns the soil, ho owns it clear
up to the sky and down to the 4 other place ;'
but I can't build my house so as to overhang my
neighbor's, and if he has a window built so long
that the memory of man doesn't run anywhere
e'se, you can't stop that window up ; for it is
an 4 ancient light,' and therefore, if you should
go and look in at the window you would be guil
ty of ' obstructing ancient lights,' and lie could
tako your head off even wilh the window sill, but
no farther, using no more force than was neces
sary ; and if an old man should die of consump
tion, that would be an 4 obstruction v ancient
lights ;' but the law would not undertake to pro
vide a remedy, not being an undertaker in such
circumstances. How far the principle of anci
ent lights extends, is, perhaps, a doubtful ques
tion, as most legal questions are ; if you agree
to let your neighbor keep his window open, and
he so keeps it open for any length cf time, it docs
not become an ' ancient light ;' and you may
shut the shutters on him at any lime ; but if he
opens it against your will, though you should
go aud shake your fist against him every day
for twenty-one years or thereabouts, it becomes
an 4 ancient light' in spite cf you, and he could
blov- wads out of it at you every morning, be
fore breakfast, if he wanted to, and you'd have
no remedy.
44 All real estate tny Lo bought and sold ; for
this purpose we have real estate agents, who
generally take the property as a part of their
commissions ; and when property is conveyed in
this way ; tho buyer is f aid to be 4 in my pur
chase,' that is, if Lo pays fur it: but there is
another way of comiug by property by which a
man, in legal phrase, is said to le 4 iu by de
scent :' but we don't suppose that if a man should
tumble out of a three-story window, into a bas
ket cf eels, he'd be 'in by descent' in such a
manner as that he could 4 Loll the property'
long.
4 Every man's land is called his ' close,' and is
eupposcd to-be surrounded by an ideal, invisible
boundary or wall, which exists only in the 4cye
of the law,' tho law being generally wall eyed
and befogged; though nobody can sec it, yet if
any person oversteps this boundary, he is guilty
of trespass ; and its no excuse for Lim to say
he couldn't sec it, for the law says to Lim, 4 it's
all in my eye, and this is a 4 trespass qmrc clau.
sum f regit ;' and if a man should be chasing a
rabbit, and the rabbit should run over this liue,
every action of the rabbit thereafter is void ; as
no one can take advantage of their own wrong,
and the law would not j ermit Lim to move a
step farther, though the man could easily catch
him ; so if a man wore a wig, and thould sleep
at a tavern and put Lis wig in his pantaloons
pocket and a thief should come and steal his
wig out cf Lis breeches, that would fcs a 4 tres
pass quart clausun iYir,' for that he broke his
4 close, and stole his hares.
4 So, as every man's lot is thus fenced in, it is
a fine old maxim of the English law, that every
luan's house is Lis castle, which, says Magna
Charta, 4 the King cannot enter,' therefore, .
she went out to see his market gurdner, simply
for the purpose of walking about, and looking at
the pigs and poultry, the market gardner can
slam the front d or in his face, and bet tho dogs
on him, and the King couldn't lift tholatch ; for,
savs Glanville, 4 where the king is concerned,
trtere are no latches, and so, under the eld law
the King was absolutely forbidden to enter any
house in the kingdom, so that his social inter
course was extremely limited: and hence the
maxim, 4 Nullum occurit reci,' or the King doesn't
Lave any sort of time ; and so every man's house
is his castle, he has an undoubted right to for
tify it, and may plant cannon in Lis door yard
and pile bombs in his front parleir ; but the bombs,
not being attached to tho reality, wouldn't go
w ith the land, but if they went off the house
would probably go with 1dm ; and so a man
would have an undoubted right to maintain a
regiment of cavalry for the protection cf Lis cas
tle ; but the theory of the Englit-b. law is such
that the king can't take the castle of Lis mean
est subject ; so that if the King should turn out
his whole military force, horse foot, and dragoons,
and they to take a man's Louse, that man could
walk out in the street and wallop the whole
of 'em.
44 Such are some of those great principles on
which is founded our wholo system of jurispru
dence ; and it is a beautiful fictiou of the law,
and one tending greatly to the increase of knowl
edge, that every one is supposed to know the
law ; and therefore, if a Chinese should coico lo
this country, he would at once be an able law
yer ; and so if any one should say to Lis honor,
4 Judge Beeswax,' he don't know any more law
than a Chinaman,' it would be the highest com
pliment that could be paid to Lis legal abilities."
Knicksrbyelcr.
Indian ETcther'a Affecticn.
The ensuing incident is related by the Rev.
A. Stevens m the National Magaz'ne, in his Edi
torial Jottings in the West :
A Chief and Lis two w ives were converted,
and wish-d to join the Church. He was a truer
man, and had 'a warmer heart, than was usual
among Lis race. It was necessary that one ff
his wive s should be put away ; they themselves,
as Christian converts, saw and considered the
necessity, but the process of effecting the sepa
ration was heart-rending. The elctails of the
process eould not be determined in the wretched
family, and the missionary was sent for. He
found them in the decpest'grief. One of the
wives was young and beautiful both in person
and character : the other was aged and infirm,
but equally este-cmed for her virtues. It was
settled that the latter should be retained : the
other bowed her Lead and consented ; it was
right ; it was the most merciful arrangement.
Hut a fearful struggle remained ; the young wife
was a mother ; she had an only child, an infant.
The chief loved it ; it was, perhaps, to be the
i -.heritor of Lis authority and honors ; he eould
not part with it. 44 Never," said the missionary,
"did I witness a more atrecling scene than now
followed. No possible terms could be agreed
upon between the contending affection of the two
parents. The mother sat on the ground heart
broken, he-r tears dropping upon the child that
lay in her arms; the chief stood off, agonized
and weeping, and the elder wife shrunk away
from the scene." The missionary proposed at
last, I think, that it should be decided by lot,
and the child fell to the chief, but the mother
clung to it. The missionary urg' d her to carry
it to the arms of the chief, but .'.he could not
her sobs were her only reply. He then directed
the chief to take it, but the latter, overcome
at the grief of its heart-kroken mother, could not
step forward to do so. What was to le done ?
The agreement was binding. In Indian life the
father was the only sure protector of the child ;
tho mother's own future marriage and protection
would be affected, too, by the result. It was a
painful, a heart-rending case, but had no alter
native. Tho missionary had to advance to the
prostrate woman, and take the chili! Lirnsclf.
She reveienced his office : she believed the act
necessary ; and with irrepressible tears and sobs,
yielded the child ; but no sooner had he taken it
from Ler bosom, and placed it in the arms cf the
father, than the woman leaped toward it, and
wilh outstretched hands, struggled to regain it,
crying frantically, "Giveine lay child! Oh,
give me my child. Do what ycu will with us,
but give me roy child !"
I saw the retained wife cf the Chief at the
camp ; she lears the highest Christian character,
and Ler husband has, I understand, maintained
his christian integrity. The broken-LcarUd mo
ther has found a refuge in the grave.
Too Good to ue Lost. A few days since a
good old lady of this city meeting a farmer in
our streets on a load of hay, inquired if it was
for sale ; on being answered in the affirmative,
she asked him to turn Lis team around and drive
to her husband's yard some quarter of a mile dis
tant. Her request was complied with, and af
ter reaching the barn yard, the old lady informed
Lim that she only wanted a cent's worlh of hay
for her hens nest, and that while he was throw
ing it off, she wonld step into the house and get
the chango ! Tho driver v as ungallant enough
to curse the old lady, and the hens, aud lefiisod
to retail his hay. Portland Transcript.
A deputation of Nebraska Indians arrived at
Washington last week, for the purpose of treat
ing with the Commissioner of Indian Affairs tx
the relinquishment of their lands.
Lotus Kapolecn and the Sultan De
scended frcm American Ancestors.
Fri.1.1 lac Pr.tsburgh Tost.
The past history of the families cf Louis N a-
I polcon and the Sultan of Turkey is full of inter
esting and marvellous incidents, Beta of wfcicTl '
arc piobably, not generally known to our read
ers. . '
These two monarchs, now so cordially anitod
in the struggle to maintain the integrity of th
Ottoman cm pira, areboth grandsons of i inert-"
can ladies. These, ludies were bom and raised
in the same neihberiiood, on the Iiland of Mar
tinique, one of iho West Indies. They wero of
Fier.ch origin, and companions and iutimato
friends in cl.i'.dhocd and youth. TLey were Ja-
j sej hine de Trscbor and a Miss 3 ;j
Ihc history of Jcitpliiue is generally kr.cnrn.
She went to France, and was, inarrlevi to II. 4
Beauharnais, by whem Ene had one sen. Eugena,
and a -daughter, IIrtse. -Son time- af-.
tcr tho death cf Beauchariiais, Jcphino was
married to Napoleon Bonaparte, and becamo
Emperor tf France. Her daughter, Ilortensa
was married to Joseph Bonaparte, then King of
Holland, and the present F.aipsror cf France is "
her son by that marringe.
Miss S. quitted tho Island cf Martinique some"
time before Ler friend.- But the vessel that was
carrying her to Franco was attacked and taken
by the Algerine Corsairs, and tho crew and pas--sengtis
made prisoners. Bat iLis Tunis chip
was in turn attacked and pillaged ly Tunis pi
rates, mid Miss S. was carried by them to Con
stantinople, and efTered for sale as a elave. . IIm
extraordinary beauty and accomplishments found
her a purchaser ia the Sultan himself ; and sh
soon became tho chief lady of Seraglio and Sol
taness cf Turkey. MahmoudlL, was horaon.
end the present Sultan Abdull Modjid, is tho eon
ofMahmoud.
TLius the two fovercigr.s who cow occupy o
large a space in tho world's cyo are grandsons of
two American crcole girls, T7I10 wcro playmates
in their youth ; and were as remarkable for their
beauty eud excellent disposition41, as their Tariod
and singular fortunes.
Both these women, in the height of their pow
er, remembered all the friends of their youth,
and provided magnificently for their welfare.
Many of the relatives of the SultanetS left tLa
island of Martinique, and settled at Constanti
uople, where their descendents still reside, and
enjoy tha favor of the Sultan. , . , -
Tho Sultanees died in IS 11,' tho Empress Jo
sephine in 1814, and their grandsons now rul
over two wide and powerful empires, and are
entering,' 'as friends and allies, tpon'one ortba
mosl momentous and sanguinary etruggles In
which Europe was ever involved. ' -
Mere about Little Folks.-
A very little-girl, rouog enough to eloep In a
crib by tho bed of her parcnt3, awoke ono nigh
whe-n the moon was shining into her bod room, -and
calling to hir father, she cxelaimtd :
44 Father ! father ! God has forgot to blow the
moon oat ! Won't you open tho window and let
me blow it out ?"
Another little girl of nearly the same age, and
living near to her, was found ono evening alone
in her mothet's bed-room, when she very quickly
remarked to her mother :
' I have been having a season of prayer far
the poor children at the Five Points. Will not
such prayers go up higher than taany others
from older persons ?
'I Lave a couple of littlo nieces twins o
much alike as to render a distinction impossible
to any but their parents. I remember once of
teaching one of thera a lesson in the catechism.
1 commenced with the question: Wao made
you?'
She replied correctly : God.
4 Why did he make you V
A correct reply, again.
4 In whose image and likeness did he make
you V
4 Why, says the, speaking very quick, 4 D
made rne the very image and liiencS3 of my sla
ter Clara!'
A little nephew of mine, a 'five year old,'!
whose mind was running on the holiday enb
jects, said to his father :
4 Papa! does Santa Clans trayci all ever the
world at Christmas ?'
4 Yes my son, was the answer.
4 1 shouldn't think he'd go to Africa,' sai 1 the -child.
' ' ' -
4 Why not, ho was asked.
44 Why, lccause they have no stockings oror
there !' " '
Oar little 4 Eddy' sometimes flays queer things,
most little boya cf two years cf age do. A few
nights ago, having just finished a famous piece of :
pie, of which he is very fond, he was summoned
by his mother to 'say his prayers and go to bed.
Kneeling at her side, Lo .repeated after her that
bkaven taught petition, 4Our Father which art in
heaven,' etc, until tho came to the passage,
4 Give us this day our daily tread,' when, rais
ing his Lead, and looking up into her face, Le
said - .
4 Oh, no, mother ! pie ! Bay pie !
A war, like that which has now been inaugu
rated, cannot Tail to involve the whole of Europe.
We saw how the troubles of IS 18 extended from
nation to nation, Russia and Turkey alone stand
ing out nnharmcd and indifferent, and England
kept quiet only by the utmost, vigilance and Tig
er. ' At present, the theatre has been '.S3 enlarg
ed as to include all who were not inrolTedin the
tumults six years ago. We shall be surprised if
it docs not ertend himself to every government
jn Europe, and nearly affecting Asia itself ulti
matcly. Washington Union. ' : 1
44 riung'd in a gulph of dark despair,
Witlvut a flannel shirt to wear !"