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°LUSE %Va.-NUMBER 38
THE
POTTER. JOURNAL,
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1 M. W. lIIeALARNEY, Proprietor.
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•Itsar'Devoted to the cause of Republicanism, the tn
tiiresta of Agri° ulture, the advancement of 'Education,
and the best gocd of Potter county.
Owning no guide
s{cept that•orPrlneiple' it will endeavor to aid in the,
work of more fully Vreedotillzing our Country.
rinLisiten DT
IllarAdvertisements inserted at the following rate.,
except where special bargains are made, A "square"
ie 10 lines of Brevier or 8 of Nonpareil types :
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. .I . square, 2 or 31nsertions ....... ---- ...,...- 200
.. 1 , Bach eubAcquent insertion less than 18 40
1 square, 1 year • 10 00
Badness Cards, 1 year
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AdmiMstrator's or Isecntor'A Notices 300
113pecial and Editorial Notices per lino-- 20
_ lliarAll transient advertisements .mtist be paid in
advance.and no notice will be taken of adeerti -ement 8
from a distance, unless they are accompanied by the
money or satisfactory reference.
I sa-Uob Work, of all k lade,. 'executed with nestnefre
and despatch.
BUSINESS NOTICES.
M. A. DRAKE, M. p.,
- D nynor:l.N• /EL SITHOEOY, offer% 1114 ervicerk to:
the citizens of OM:place vleioity
to inform them that he will promptly reopood to 3111 1
c4lla for profea+iousl aervick4. Office on Rain .treet,l
over C. 1' , .11f,t00tt13'. , . Jewelry . store ; ReitMle.lee nearly.l,l
olr,posite the 011iee of the Fox &
Free and Aceepted'Anelent York Masons,
VULALTX LODGE, No. 542, F. A. Al. Stated ,
Mee tog lon the Srd and 4th '''ed l ip orel4oll
lion, in the 3d Story th.• ihn‘o.d Block;
.31:VirlicAl.Anwey.Sce. of
LARRA. BEE, N.M
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TTORNEY LAND COUNSELLOR AT LAW.
Coutlergport, r:.., will :Wend the several Courts
in Potter, Canteren and Nießean counties: All bum
nleas clam:red to hie care will rec.,4, - e won'iln atten
tion.- ounce on Mao' street, iii re.idence.
i Awriatut G. 0 - 101MTED,
ATTOUNEY;A ND . COUNSF.I.I.EId AT LAW,
Coudersport. , wwillo all business en
usted to his cnre with pr ,mptheakand fidelity. Office
the second storey or the Olmsted Block.
, ISAAC BENSON,
ATTORNEY -AT-LAW, Couder , port, Pn., -will
attend to alt bo.,ioods ~.I:trllliteti to 11',711 wilt Care
and promptneos. AtteudA Courts of udjuinitri coun
ties. Odle& on titcond street,near the AllegAny bridge
'F. W. 'KNOX. -
A TTORNEY AND COUNSELLOR AT LAW,
Con sport, Pa.,w II attend the tiourt ln.Put
tiT and the Adjo , nieg euuttUva.
•' ,LAPIN
:ITOlt cEYS•AT LAW, H lARPOSCRG,
Agent. , for the Collection of Clnitusitimil ot the
, truitcd states and ~talel:OVH111/1t4lt,,,,,11•Ii RM Pensions,
lionnty,A.rrearit of Pay,&c-Address 1i, , =96, itereitiora
MILLCC, J. C. jl'ALivmgy
DAN 3iIILEII,,
E N. 919 g; )t'Vr . f . i! . :“.1 WAR CLAIM eill-FNCY
Paiiions procurild for Sdldiein of toe preacnt
ar who are disabled by rea•ion /If wound,' received
diaeme contracted while In the aervice of the U.iite
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Gtatea • and peindinia, bounty, and ai'reli s'of ray ob.
- tabled for ividowa or helm of thii.e who have died or
been killed while in aervk.e. All blicrei if inquiry
Tiromptly nnawere 1, and on reeeipt by mail of a gate.
men; of the caize of claimant, I will forward the he
•Ueaintry papers fcr their &en:dime. Fees iu Pemilon
'caries UM fixed by law. Refer. to Ity
A. G. Olmsted, Julio S. Vann. nod F. W. Knox, Eeq
DAN BAKER,
Junes 54 " Clrilm'Atrent, eouderaien
' neALAIINEI - ,
- IDEAL 'ESTATE. and. INSET. tiNCE AG E
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Land Booglit and Sold, Tax... paid and Taloa
'ltiveatlgatod. Inez roa property acaio4t fire in the beet
4ziompanica In'the Country: s.a4 rerannaszain-t Amt.
•denta in the Tr tvelers Inatrranae Comii•my of Hart
' ford. 13.141nme transacted promptly 1729
*. I P. A. OMB BINS et Co,
TEEll .4 2, ,, N e T r tfr3ro m, i i l o l , :r3;i. i. G a i r )o F t d 9 o n , eiy
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and everything you .ily kept in a good country store.
Produce bought s a nd 8 , 91 d 17'A
i C. U. 141313101+15,
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ECII.A.•:T LW ELLEN . 3.LLE
.. .N. , Y., Whole.
'1 sale and Retail Peale! in Dry Goo! s, Fancy and
taple Goods ClothinalLarhea Dremli soda Grnceriea,
Irlour, Feed, te, FL-tailera A uppned M liberal terms
C. R. & E. A. JONES,
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IVIERCITANT:3—DesIertin Drcer,
Sihtionery, Dry Goode,
Matt Stret, CouderAport, Pn
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D . E. OLMSTED,
TERM - LlNT—Dealer in Dry:Goodq,Really.made
Clothing, Crozkery, Grc.ceriea„Ft , ur, Feed,
lork, &e., 11:dwatroet, Coudersport, Pa
COLLINS. SMITII,
litHr ERCITANT—DeaIer in Dry GoodF, Groceries,
Provisions, Hardware, Queens:l:are, Cuilery,
and all G.,0.1s u-uaily found in a - eau:qr., store. n'tH
. 3. OL3LSTED,
ATtIINVAIIE Ilferemint, Storc.s,
■ Tin and Sheet Iron-W.l-e. 'Main street, fonder
,port,..Pent,'a. Tin and• Sheet Iron Want made to
order, in good style, on alert
RIARBLE YAILI),
MITE subscriber desires to inform the citizsns of Pot
'll_ ter that he can supplelliern wah nil kinds of
Markle work: is chenp and as cool as it can be had
an s place in the count , y. NEC/NUM ENTS and itnilt-
Erros ES of all kinds furnished on short notice.
1 Coudersport, ehl3'6s ly C. B ftEUN LE.
COUDERSPORT ROTEL
D, F. OLASSMIRE, PilOPßl:roft, Corm‘r !SIM
..nud B , coodstrects Coade•eport ,Potter
('eryll St.s.tite is also kept ec:ion this
Hotel. Daily St:wes to and from the Railroads. •
7 • Patter Journal Job-Cake.
HAVING lately added a fine new assortment of
JOB•TYPE to our nivady largo a-sortment.
we are now prepared to do all Linde of work, cheaply
and with date and neannn , A: firde polico.d
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AS6S • •
& Erie Railroad.
THIS great line traverses the Northern and North
' Nrsst Counties of Pennsylvania to the city of Erie
Ort lake Erie. It ban been leased and is operated by
the PESNSTLVANI,a RLILIIOAD COMPASS,
Time of passenger trains at EMPORIUM.
1 ).EAkVE EASTWARD
i Erlo Wel Train....
Exprees
LEAVE WESTWIARD.
I Edo Mail Train 10!12 e. M.
i Edo Express Train 8:10 P. M.
Puutenger earn run through on the Ede Mali an
•Erprels- rraing without change both ways between
hiladelphia and Erie.
NEW YORK CONNECTION.
Leave New York at 6.00 P. 31., arrive at Erie 337.3. u.
'Leave Erie at 1.55 r. N., arrive at New York 1.15,0. at.
NO CHANGE OF CARS BETWEEN ERIE& NEW YORK
I t. , F,(3I.ANT SLEEPING CARS on all Night trains
Eer information respecting Pa•utenger business,ap-
Irply at earner at 30th au d Market streets,Phlad.dpina
And tor Freight b.asinese of the Compauy's Agents
11.8. 4. Kingston, Jr., Cur. 13th and. Market streets,
Philadelphia„
1 T. W. Reynold's; Erie.
Wm. Brown, Agent, N. OR. , 13altimore.•
H. TIOIISTOisI, General Freight Agt. Philada.
U. W. GWINN Ea, General Ticket Agt. Phiiada
A.. L. TYLER, General Supt, Williamsport.
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The iollowing is pronounced by the "Westminster
Revieto to bd unquestionably the' finest American
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Within the sobetlrealms of lenfleas trees,
The , russet year inhaled the dreamy air. :.,
Like aoine tanned 'Caper in his hour of else,:
When all the fields aro lying brown and hare:
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The gray barns looking froni their hazy 11110. j
O'er the duo aaidra winding in the tales,l;
Sent aleten the air ;i greeting to the mills, I'
On ihk) dull thunder of alternate flails. i •
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All sights were mellowed, a"d all sounds aabdued,
The, llilla seemed fn a ther Sad the streams Sang to w,
li.e in a dream tete clistna.t woodman betted. 1
Ills Wintry log; With many, a muffled L 1.4.
The embattled fo Ole, erewhile armed with . gold
Their, lianalens bright with oeery martial hue,
Now even'al hke some sad, beaten host of old,
Withdrawn afar in Tmic's remotest blue,'
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On sombre wings the vulture tried his flight : .
The d i ce scarce laiJardh s night Ng tnate'sc,tmplaint ;
And, like & star sloe; droa tatag in tie Fglit,l
Ilie viilage church vane seamed to pale and faint.
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The sentinel 1
cock upon the hill-able crow— e l
Crewititrace—and all was ea dier than before; 1 '
zillen.t; till some rellykg warder blew 1
Hie a fOll 110 M, and 1.1.0 u wits heard no more
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Where rat the 14, Within the elm's tall creit,
Made garrulous truuhle wind her unfklged young ;
And tt here the oriole hu mg her s wept)); nest,
13y ',Very light wind like a oebeer swung.
Where *ling the no'sy martins of the eaves,
buoy IliVilatme circling ever near— • •
Forehoiling, - as the rustle:mind be li eves,
An uSrly turvesau'd a plenteouit yeAr. •
Where 've.y bird that waked the vernal feast, . ,
Soul the sweet slumber fr)m wings at Mora-; Tower the realer of the rosy tu.t ;
'All now was euoto-e, empty and forlorn.
Alone, from out the stubble, piped the quail ;
And Sroatied the *row through all the weary gloom
Alone ' iiiel•he.reant, drumming in the vale,
31:itlel'ec.i.) in the distant cottage loom
There Was ro bud, t.o bloom nrol the bowers.,
Tito glad, re moved th Irtiou Atrou night by night,
The ti, stle.dowu, the 0..1y ghost of dowers,
ki.oled slowly by—passed noiseless out of sight.
Amid all this—in tide most dreary air, •
• And ;%'ltele tiai woo ,hitte ailed upon the porch
Its critun,.tt leaves, an If the year stood there,
Kirinig the door with its inverted torch. I
Amid all th 7 e, the centre of the scene,
lho canon with monotonous tread
Piled the it wilt wheel, and with heir joylena melt r
Sat like a fato,l'eud watched the hying thread.
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tihe had known sorrow. lie had walk,d with her,
Oft nipped, and broke w.th her the Willi:11 cru.d,
Audits the deadlea% , ,s null she heard the stir,
Of his thick tuautle tisideg in the dust.
While .yet her cheek was bright with eummor blood,
Iler country . ninumon , d alto at,elgava her all :
And twine oar l],owed to Ler in sable plume—
lte.gaeu the s ord to runt upoultlievall.
Re-gale the air rd, but list, the h tind that drew
And l struck J . -Jr I,berty the dyidg blow,
Nor him who, t itf3 Aire and e net, y- true,
Nell told the rivals of it, iu.adii r foe.
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Lo •g burnot lodd the drooping wheel went on,
Like the low Murmur of a hive it non.;
long but not tot!, the memory of ithe gone
Dreutheo thro gli her hot a rad sod tremulous tone.
At last the thread MSS enspped—her head was 134 w ed,
Life upped the tt wad' through her 1.33d 3 -311,1,
And lOving heighbors'emuothed her careful ehrotol ;
I While death knd wioier closed the autumn 113.... r.
VI MARY J. ALLVf.
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It Was a bittir night; one of those time,
happily ull frequent in this latitude, when
everything animate and inanitnate,seows
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to shrink and cower from the intense
cold. i The very air was full of icy parti
cles which one was forced to draw in with
every breath ;and when the moon rose,
round and clel r
and bright, and the wind
o Line up with lit, penetrating every , crack
and crevice, no matter how minute, the
passengers by the night express gathered
closet to the stove, crowding and jostling
each 'other, as' even well-bied people will
sometimes do in their efforts tb keep
warm.. ,
All but one man, who sat in a seat by
hituShlf nears lie door, a tall man, , r apped
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in an overcoa of army blue, the visor ot
his cap drawnc low ever his eyes--deep,
dark eyes, wit i t a strange expression in
them—such dyes as a man might have
whn bad been fated to stand for a time on
tt e brders of he!l, ai.d having seen must
bear 'with hi through life the Memory
of its horrors I
lie sat theiro , quietly enough taking
little heed, apparently, of what was going
on about! him All the evening he had
sat - sn, seldom mioving, not speaking, only
once, when he bad given up his cbmfort
able Seat Clear; ttte:fire to x poor !yoking
woutan.with al child in her arms,and him
self taken thi4 one farther back`; and the
passengers, noticing the little act!, of po
liteness, land l observingi his - dress as well.
decided that he ras 'la soldier on his way
a
home;veteran, probably," and then
dropped him Out of their thoughtS. l
And while Ithp hours of early evening
wore away the irain thundered on, over
miles and milhs of level prairie; past farm
houses nestled down among the trees and
barns - and cord dribs; past little 'groups
of dwellings with their home lights shi
ning, cheerily outH 1
. The man byt e h window watched them
as they flitted! by,l an eager hungry look
coming into his leYes. Was he, thinking
`of a house at
i flac end of his journey,where
the lamps we l e lighted by this timb, and
three faces, PO enough now, would grow
suddenly bright 'at his coming? I do not
know. The cton'd, botor caiae in presently
bringing a little Of the ke en outerair with
him. "
.lie padseil with his hand on the
back of the seat in which 'the soldier pat
smiling doWn lint() the globiny Eyes lifted
to his face;as heisaid, chehrfully.,
We shall be tit,M. in eleven minutes.
You're almostl home, Rio'
i.Yeat r thank Gad !"
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Debote l ,D to ti)o ?tiqciples of Iry lei eehgcg, ao the DisseNtrAtioil of Volll4, EiteNtlite 4 1 0 Webs.
TH CLOSIIuI SCENE 4
ING HOME.
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COUDERSPORT, POTTER COUNTY, PA., TUESDAY JANUARY 16, 1
Howe! . Did Conductor Hines know all
that word meant to the wan sitting there
80 quietlyl hethought he. did; thoUght ,
he could understand his feelings, for he
himself had served! three years as a sol
diet, and well remembered the home-sick- .
nelis, the weary waiting, the longing that
grew aluiest insupportable sometimes for
one glimpse of dean faces left behind.
.. Something of this he said in his earn
est way, still standing there, his hand on
the back of the seat. The soldier grasped
it, and -the two looked steadily into ; each
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other's eyes. 1 • '
Two faces, so Tory, tell unlike. One
pleasant to look upon, though shadowed
a little by the carol- and . responsibilities
of middle life. The other showing worn
• anti. white under the lamplight, grey hairs
scout the,templei lines upon the forehead
deep lines around the. inbuth. The face
of an•old man; and'yet .14 was but thirty.
His very voice had a curious; unnatural
lone in it as he said; still looking at the
kindly eyes. "It's three years since I saw
my family-;--two pars since I heard from
them. I. have been a Prisoner eighteen
months at Salsbury."
What a story was outlined in those few 1
words. Ocly outlined the details will
never be known till the great'day of le
membrance, when the secrets of all pri. on
ouses shad be revealed, and black record
of Southern cruelty bo shown'. up to the
gaze of angels and men. Eighteen
Months! They had done the work of
eighteen years on the once powerful tram-,
Of this man whose whole heart seemed
centered now on the one' thought of get
ting
h amp.
Howe 1 Who can tell how biased mem
ories of it had steadied•the soldiers brain
and kept him from madness during those
-days, and weeks and i wont hsof lingering
torment, *hen hope . and courage and.
manly fortitude alike gave way before the
horrors of the situatibe, and brave men
who.had ilooked death in the face many a
time without blauchieg,shrank now when
it came iii the form Of slow starvation -7-
But they,' lived through it—some of them
—this l urk Ryder among the rest.
He sto,ld now on the.platfortu of the car
as the train stopped I riloogsidea lowroofed
dingy little building, dignified by the
name of a statiou. ' The Station•master
stood thilre,his larop,in his hand, and be
side him l a man suite boy waiting to get
on the train. The man on the platform
did not lance own at them nor at the
woup ofia dozen heiSses on a bill side to
the left; though he had itiny friends
there when be went away. lie W 39 look
ing off across the -fields to Where a Mile
away, a single light glowed steady as a
star.
"ChriStie's up yet. Likely enough
she's thinking of the this minute," voice
and hand both trembled with eicitement
as he turned up the collar of his overcoat
for protection againSt the wind thatroarne
sweeping, bitterly cold, across the bit of
open codutry.
A t friendly hand was laid on hts shoulder
as he turned away, 'and a friendly voice
,said '•Good night comrade •God give you
a happy home o.itning " Then the hand
was gone from his , shoulder, the train
dashed on, and the ' soldier struok out
cucru across the fields steering straight
for. the light which glowed steadily in the
distance. Die air Was still biting• cold,,
but he did not feel it. How should he
when his heart war aglow?
"It's early yet—hardly eight. I shall
find them all up Dear Christie ! wha:
mill 8b e say I wonder."
. No shadow; of doubt or fear dimmed
the eager joy of anticipation , no thought
of change. :dud yet two •years is such a
long time. This was his home he was
coining to--his and Christie's—and (Mils- .
tie loved him. It was Christie ho thought
of; always Christie.
• How familiar the old gate looked and
the bats' be,youd. He would not go in
that; way thouga ; the gate used to creak
he remembered, and lie wanted to sur
prise thcm---wauted, too,. to get one look
Aiken] all before he wadi, his prLsetwe
known. The blinds were up. arid the
1 g'it shone full to his eyes as he approached .
the window,! stepping lightly that no foot- .
fall might ! betray him. Nearer and
nearer ttll he stood close to the sill.
What 'a pleasant room it was with its
pretty carpet and burnished stove and
the pictures on the walls. A little
boy sat with his 'book and slate be
side the lamp. That was &idle, studious
Eddie, and the' pink-cheeked' child who
leaned on his knee was baby, Flop. A
woman sat in a rocking-chair before : the
stove—a fair young woman with Chris
tie's face and smile, 'and Christie's band
of dark hair: - .
Bat' who was the man beside her, who
held her hand in such a confident, lover
like waY, and even bent down to kiss her
right there in the broad light, before- the
children, before the veiir eyea of the hus
band whose presence none , of them sus
pected ? In God,s name what did it mean?•
Nark Ryder clenched his band and
took a Oct) nearer the door, - but stepped
as a voice that thrilled to his heart, as it
had done so often before, said, "Come
Floy, Eddie, it's time for little folks to go
to bed." The youngest child came obe
diently, and the man siautitog outside
saw this otber man 'patch her out of the
mother's arms and siring, her high above
his head,, while the little one laughed and
shouted in glee, and Christie said.ert&
ingly, -Please don't, husband, it makes
me afraid to see you throw her up so."
Husband :1
'The mystery was groviing Jolene now.
Tbe moonlight fell on a white convulsed
face, and the angels seeing it, must have
pitied the tuan.l There was none other to
pity; no kindlY human voice, only the
remembrance of the conductor's face which
stayed by him somehow, and the words
that curiously enough recurred to his
mind now, "God give you a happy home
coming." He uttered no syllable of re
proach, only the words that were almost a
cry, "Oh, Uhristie I—Christie 1"
Even at this moment of bewilderment
and torture the wronged husband saw
cleat ly howlthe wrong had been done. He
had been reported dead, and Christie, a
timid wouitin always, had married again.
She had been married many mouths—
his eyes told him that—and he could not
bog chants and disgrace on her. Another
train would puss in two hours. lie would
take it and go tar away, back to the army
perhaps, anywhere, it did not matter,ana
she should never know but that he was
really dead. It would be best so.
Oh, Christie ! if you had only known
whose eyes looked upon you that night 1
Whose unselfish heart was planning for
you, placing your. future peace and well
being before his own craving hunger for
home-happiness-twzd children's love.
When Mark Ryder glanced 'again towards
, the window, the strange man had.trioved
`aside out of his range of vision, and he
saw only Christie sittiog there with her
child in her lap, while Eddie leaned on
the arm of the chair., Home, and wife;
and children—all that he had hcped_ and
prayed for through three years of absence
and eighteen mouths of captivity.—before
his eyes, within his reaoh at last. I think
none but God knew what was in that mans
soul then when he gave them all up and
elected to become a wanderer. One long
look at the dear faces he should never
see again this side of heaven—then he
turned resolutely away.
He had his hand on the fence to get
over when a dog cani6out of a kennel near,
by, growling savagely. "Bruno's a good
fellow." Hearing his name called in that
voice,the dog knew his masterand sprang
up with a quick, glad whine, licking the
hand that caressed his shaggy head and
the face tbatbent down close for an instant
as the man knelt on one knee upon the
frozen ground, his arms about the dog's
neck.
"You will see them all to-morrow, old
fellow—Christie, and Eddie, and baby
Floy—but *I shall never see them again
until I meet them, up yonder. They'll
never know that I have been here tonight
and you can't tell them, can you ? You'll
keep my seerct.and when all the rest have
forgotten, my dog will remember. No,
lOU must not follow. Back, I say und—
yed-bye."
Ile did not look back once as he went
—kept straight on across the fields towards
the station, in the same path he had come
over less an an hour before. The wind
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was in
his face now, that bitter, piereine•
wind which scented to pentrate the blue
overcoat so easily, chilling him, through
and thrOugh. Ho shivered at first and
shrank as it swept over him. but -after a
while he did not feel it so muon.
It must be getting late, be thought; he
was getting very sleepy--walking slower
and slower, pausing once as The mournful
howl of a dog fell on his ears. 'Poor
Bruno. He `s grieving for me. Nobody
elsc'll grieve. Nobody: else knows or
cares. It's strange—what. makes me so
tired. I wust—sit down—here—and
rest. There's time—enough. ,N>—need
—to--hurry. Christie—is asleep—by
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.Leaning his elbows on his knees and
his face in his hands, ho - sat quietly. Not
asleep, for he heard still -the howling of
the dog, but it sounded to him miles and
miles away. His senses were getting
dulled his faculties benumbed.
Au hour , passed—two--then the shriek
'of a locomotive broke the stillness, start
ling the echoes far and near. But Mark
Ryder did not move. Had he forgotten
that he meant to take this train ? When
daylight, came, he was sitting there still.
Later in the morning Christie's husband
coming down through tuts veg field paused
at' the sight of a man in uniform, sitting
there, in that, dejected attitude.
igAre - voal sick, sir ? Can I help you in
any way
But the soldier did not look up or speak.
A strange fear fell upon the questioner
He came nearer and gently lifted the
soldier's head, pushing slack the cap that
shaden the white, white fOrehead and the
closed cps.
} '•head l 'Frozen to deal
near I This le terrible!" I
No ‘ slightest glimmerinc• ° of the truth
dawned upon his mind. Ho 'bad never
seen Mark Ryder, and to a stranger's
oyes this palefa ce, turned up mutely to
the winter skyi bore little resemblante to
picture he had; seen Christie kiss. So he
called a neighhor, and between them,with
reverent tench, they lifted the poor palid
image of what had been a strong, loving
man and, and bore ,it to the nearest house.
And the news spread that a dead'soldier
--a stranger evidentlypassenger from
'one of the night trains, was lying at Dr.
Purcell's house, awaiting a coroner's in
quest.
What impulse was it, that prompted
Christie,when she heard of it, to take her
two, little ones by the hand,and go down
there? Her husband met her at the
door with an awe-struck face. Some one
who had known Mark Ryder had recog
nized the body, and one after another his
old neighbors crowded around and also
recognized it; They would have kept her
away then, but she only said, "I must see.
it," and putting aside their detaining hands
she stepped into the room.
Epite of grey hairs,spite of worn features
and altered look, she knew him instantly.
She did not faint or cry out, but just
knit down beside the low bed where
they had laid him and dropped her head'
~onl his shoulders,kissing his cold lips that
would never again thrill under the press-
urn of hers, calling him by name : "Mark
Mark, my lcva, uiy husband I' and the
neighbors standing there lifted up their
voices. a nd wept.
In his pocket they found his papers—
transportation ticket and discharge--and
in, his knapsack the gifts he had brought
for his•dear dnes—a shaivl for Christie, a
music box fo . i. Eddie, and a doll for baby
Floy. Tlid gifts had reached their desti
nation—but, al ell for the giver.
Oh ! true heart strong for right, tender
and faithful unto death, do you know, in
that "better country" in which you dwell
bow one walk& the earth for the sake of
you, longing only for the time when "This
mortal shall ptit on immortality." and the
little household band be gathered in an
unbroken circle once more.
A RMNIZIAKABLE WOMAN.-A woman
died recently at Staamore,'England, who
was born in the last year of the reign of
George H., when Gen. Wolf fell before
Qoebeck, three years before George IV.
canie into the world, just after India had
been conquered by Colonel Clive, when
'Handel was just dead, and tiogarth was
still! living. On. Christmas Eve-106
year ac , . ' o l—she was baptized at the parish
Chutch of Shebbiugton, Backs, when she
was five years old, and, the following is a
copy of the register : "Sarah, the natural
daughter of Elizabeih Edwards, a. travel
ing woman, was, baptized December 16th
1764:" Sarah Edwards, afterwards, "wid
ow Ilqwbottom"—by which last name she
was well known--became,like her mother
a,"traveling woman," that, is a lawker of
small wares about the country., She was
not a temperate woman, but frequently
drank hard, save in her latter years. It
was her custom to attend the local fairs
and feasts all her life, and on 131411 occa
:ions she was always I:conspicuous merry
maker, being specially. fond of dancing.
She was partially blind before her death
but kept her other physical powers in a
remarkable manner to the last, and her
mental faculties were remarkable too.
This woman was twenty three years older
than, the Independence of the United
States, She was folowed to her grave by
a daughter about e;ghty year of age.
,
CAT, PARODY ON POE'S RAAEN.—Th e
editr Of the 3lontezuma (loWa) Repubh
can appears to have a great horror of cats
and adwiration for the style of Poe's "RI
yen." Witness the following poetic effu
aion
The other flight while we lay Musing,
and our weary brain confusing o'er the
topics of the day, suddenly we heard a
rattling, as' of ;serious hosts a battling. as
they! mingled in the fray. "What is
that ?" we cried, upstarting, and into the
darkness darting slap! we ran against the
dear. "Oh, nothing," Edward g,rum
bled a's oter a gore arm chair he stumbled
"'tis a bw!, and nothing more." Then
said we, our ange!r rising,(for we thought
it so surprising that.a bug should so off
fand)--"Do you think a small iosect, sir,
thus all the air infect, sir ! No, 'tis not a
buf.., , ,'my - frientl." Now becoming sorely
frightened, round our waist oar pants we,
tightened, anti put on our coat and hat
when into the; darkness peering we .saw
with . ; trembling and much fearing the
glaring eyes or Thomas Cat Esq. •With
astouinent and wonder we gazed upon
this son of thunder, as he sat upon the
floor—when resolution taking,and a rapid
movement making, 10, we opened wide
the door. Now clear out we hoarsely
shouted, as o'er head our boot 1933 flouted
"Take your presence from the floor." Then
with an air and mien majestic, made his
exit' ,
through the door. Made his emit
without growling, neither was his voice a
howling, not a single word he Said. And
with feeling much elated,th escape n'doom
full fated, we went baok to bed:
th with help so
E
M t~
TERI4B,- , 51.50 PER
orrodeed With Thy tiepti'ple
In Columbiana pouety„, Ohio,_ resideo -
an old fellow renowned for hii belligerent
disposition, Who is generally kittown tra
Friend Shaveri. Born and bred a, claw -
ker s he was long sincelread out of Edgar
ing. on account, of bit quarrelsome go.
penalties, but he'still pertinaciously cling
to the plain clothes end the plain ,lan=
guage of his earlier clays, possibly es
protection against the Wrath he is ctott ,
tineally provoking by his overbearing and
irritating demeanor: He• is always , the
owner of the crassest dogin the neighbor=
hood, the most troublesome, breach,
steers, &c , and is continually in hot VW
ter with some of his neighbors in eons&
quence of the depredations committed by
his unruly live stock. ; A few weeks since
Van Amburgles Menagerie, traveling
through Columbiana, was obliged to pass
his residence. A little before daylight,
Nash, the keeper of the elephant-Tippet)
Saib, as he was passing over the road with
his elephant, discovered this pseudo Qat ,
her seated upon a fence by The roadside.
watching a bull which he had turned out
upon the road, and which way pawing,
bellowing, and throwing up a tremendout
dust generally, In fact, from the fuiry
of the animal's demoristrations, one would
readily have taken . him for one of the
identical breed that butted a locomotive
off a bridge.
"Take that bull out of 3 tbo way I''
'shouted Nash, as he approached.
"Proceed with thy elephant," was the
. ''lf you don't take 'that bill away he
will get hurt," continued Nash, approach
ing, while the bull redoubled his bag ,
erant demonstrations.
"Don't trouble thyself about the bull '
but, proceed with thy elephant," retorted
Friend Shavery, rubbing his hands with
delight at the prospect of the approaching
scrimmage, the old fellow having great
confidence in the invincibility of his bull,
which was really the terror of the whole
country around.
Tippoo Saib eame,on with his uncouth,
shambling gait; the bull lowered his head
and made a charge directly upon the ele.
pliant. Old Tippoo; without even paus
ing in his march; gave his cow-cetehen
sweep, catching the bull - on the side,
crushing his ribs with his enormous tusks,
and then raised himl about thirty feet in
the air, the bull striking upon his head
as he came down, breaking his neck and
killing him instantly. 1 •
"I'm afraid your bull has pent his neck
a shouted Nash, as he passed-on.
"Bent the devil," cried old Shaveryy,
with a troubled look at his defunot bull;
"thy elephant is too hefty for my beast,
but the will not make so much out of the
operation as thee supposes. I was going
to take my family to thy show, but I'll
see thee and thy show blowed to blazes
,before I go one step, and now thee may
proceed with thy elephant and be d— -d,
please ;" the "please" being added as
Shavery took a second. look at the pro
portions of the stalwart , elephant.keeperi
CEIURCII ETIQUETTE.—It is fashiona.
big with some people to go late to church,
long after the services have begun, to . the
edification of the curious in the. congre=
gatiOn,and the annoyance of the preacher.
A contemporary says it has lately bees
decided, on high authority, that the fol
lowing rules are to lie observed on such
04CaSlOn9
"Let the lady' advance one pace beyond
the door of the pew she wishes to later t
halt, about face, and salute. The pet , /
must then ba vacated by such gentlemen
as are in it, by flank movement: Thd
squad should rise simultaneously when
the lady presents herself, and face by the
right flank, then deploy into the aisle /
the head man facing the lady; and the
rest walking to his right and rear, the
direction of the line baint , changed by,e
right countermarch, and forintng ag,aitt
into line ti and down the aisle, still faced
by the rig it flank, The lady ? when she
sees that t e coast is clear ; completes bee
salute, and.advandes to her position in the
pew..'.The gentlemen break off by files
from the rear and resume their places
Great care should be taken, of course, by
other parties i not to enter the aisle when
this evolution is in progress, until it it
completed." .
A Dutchman in Albany, some Hail
ago, wont outto his milkman in thd
street; with a dish in each hand, instead
of one as usual. „-The dispenser of attenz
noted milk asked him I
,if he wished hurt
to fill both vessels. The Dutchman re•
plied, suiting the action to the Word, --a
"Dm for de milli* and (Es for de waters
and I will mix dem shut swan to abate
myself."
. . „ .
"Jane, has 1;:i at surly fellow 0160'4 off
the snow frnm the pavement
' - "Yes ale."
I'Did be Clear it off with alacrity ?".
- air; with a shoed."
"tam a gone suoker,'` as the oaiu. orgi
when his mother weaned him.
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