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Redfield, COHNEY AN) COUNSELLOn AT LAW.—CollOct ,,rw, pr , noptly atteutlod. to.—Blossburg,lioga coon• t. • I'.•on'a., Apr. 1, 187'2-11m. 0: H. g6rEttour, A ITOitBEY AT LAW, Tiygn, Pa. All business en iLk,A.Al to hut care will eetzewe pTowpt utteutiou.- 1.0. I, 1871. Geo. \V. I%lerriek, • I'OP.NLY A.T LAW.—Well born, Va. OfliCe Ott 131'n:a Block:, Main street, second Boor, 11411 14010 Am rATon Mitchell Cameron, A r iogISTYB AT LAW, Claim ainl Insurance Agents. in Converse & %+, nliatns brick block, over Coil% erne k Oegood's store, Wellsboro, Pa.—Jan. 1, William A. Stone, roItNEY AT LAW, over C. B. Kelley's Dry Good store, Wright St. Bailey's Block on Main street. NrelkbOro, J 311,1, 1812. Josiah Emery, ATTORNEY A.T opposite Court Ilouse, No I Panty e Block, Williamsport, Pa. All business promptly attendAto.—Jau. I, 1e.12. Strang, ATTORNEY AT LAW A: 13.1i3TRICT ATTORNEY.— gill e . D. Niles, Esq., Wellsboro, Pa.-Jai. 1, '72 C. N. Dartt, UENTNT.—ToCth made with the NEW IMPEOVEMENT. \\u-b 41V(' better satisfaction then any thing else ni (Mice in Wright Is; Bailey's Block. Wells- Oct 16, 1571.. J. B. Niles, A r tom:EY LAW.—Will attend promptly to bus inooo otrto,tl t,, his care in the counties of Tioga 1 , 44u0r. oih4 a on the Avenue.—Welieboro, Pa., Jan.], Jno. IV: Adams, A t Itd:NEY Al IA \V, Mananeld, 'lioga county, Pa prtmipty attended to.--Jatt. 1, 1872. C. L. Peck, ( A I W.:. 1.1 AT L IW. And:dins prolaptly collected r L.• ‘s ,C, t% B. tinuttt, linoxydle,7L'ioga Co:, Pa. C. B. Kelly. CroLgzery, China and Marisa ware, Table Cut Plated Ware. Also Table and House Fur holow; (foola.--W:ellsboro. Pa., Sept. /7, 1872, Jno. W. Guernsey, rwiLNEV AT LAW.—AII business entrusted to him m be promptly Attled W.—Office tat door south •,: Mia & m Parr's tore, Tioga, Tioga county, Pa. lam I, H 72. Armstrong Linn, Arrtatsus AT LAW, Williamsport, Pa Wu. 11 AInIsTRONO• I SAMUEL LINN. Win: B. Smith, PENSION ATTORNEY, Aounty and Insurance Agent. CemmualLatfous sent to the abate address will re cure prompt attention. Taws moderate.—Knox ville, Pa. Jan. 1, 1872. Barnes Sr. Roy, JOB PRINTERS.—AII kinds of Job Printing done on short notice, and in the beet manner. 01:Becht Bow• en k Cone's Mock, 2d. floor.--Jeu. 1, 1812. S abinsville House. Tioga Co , Fa.—Beau liro's. Proprietors Ti/1 . 1 house has been thoroughly renovated and is iv. , i ui good condition to aeinunidate the travelno pubh: in a superior manner.—Jan. 1, 1873. D. Bacon, M. D., PtaiktlNN AND SURGEON—May be found at his Dail•., Ist door East of Miss Todd's—? Min street. will attend promptly; to all calla.—Wallaboro, Pa., Lin. 1, 1812. Seeley, Coats Se Co., BANKER:J. Ki oxville. trioga , Co.. ra.—Receive money ( t, dept,tit, discount notes, and Hell drafts on Now I City. Collet Ilona promptly made. tittvi.vv, Okada. V INV. CRANDALL, llu 1, Ix;2. DA YID COATS, Knoxville D. H. Belcher, M kNl'r tCTITREIt and Dottier In Tin, Stoves, Copper Shirt Iron Waro. Job work proniptly attended i trot door below A. D. Eastman.—. March 11, 1 3 etroleum House, 0, 10 . Qloyr, PrivrietC2r.--600d ac ‘r both matt and 'beast. Charges rea , qkable, and good ;Mention ON en t" gliests. 1311. 1, Pi 72. W. W. Burley, NIANUI'A ,- 11 , 1t1.1t 01. all et) les of light and heavy Carria,es. I'm nage:3 kept coostdr.tly nu hand. All Work wart:anted. Coen.u. CAMS and 13ufralf) Streets. 11. , 1 ilk. N. 1" 0r.1,.r4 left. althC 13? Helley, \‘',ll I: It. Burley, Chatham, will reeeivc --Wile 187:1.-1,11)0R. M. L. Sticklin, Ag't., in enliiin , t art , of all whielt will to I I,tttet than Ow lowl qt. Ile itoitea all to take I af Lie goothl Itt , natt put% IntAing elf:any/ten,- 111111‘,..16 , 1).11 It's Wagon :3110p, R. t Main Feb 25, I!7.1-1v. M. Yale& Co. manufacturing several brands of choice Cigars NN 111 2s , II at pro..cs eammt but please u4e Lunn; but the' bCst Yara 'robaCCOs \Vu. ucako our owu (hot rcasou call warrant 1.11101. we If—, g1..11,r31 nssorthwut of good chewing ami tt., ktit_t Slinfrs. eltsy th t, t,,t .t r y. whol, ati.l 1,4111. fo-±.l • Jahn A..ndersott, r , I , EALEIC 1N IIAIIDWARE " 01. k,t..‘,:t. Ti;liruniztgi, ". • 17 , v1, Imittil . nit , Dt..4, Carting. 1. `titi 110:4, ttllll- , NC . Turk. t Ilild Tttiolt ' ll Pl.`l. Wltii Pqmp , —w,11 , 11 and iron—tln.lnst 'Afanufac , It , ahse tlt Tin, awl Isheet-inn 111 Till .111.1 trim. .111 work warrafit tit 1, 1-1;3 11 ELLSBOIOI Iltfl'EL, ci)lt MAIN NT. A. THE 'AVENUE. P.U.SPORO, PA /B. B. HOLLIDAY, Proprietor. 11,14 1, ,t, 11, W e ll 10,,,d 4 ,- d, and Is in good condition N a,. elite tlts trat'oliup , public. TII proprietor !l"1` re no pains to make it a first-class house. All b + • ,•ta:.•e. arry.o and depart from this Louse. _froo at dant con all trains. Bober and industrious tiost ' tu attendance_ Nhr,l, IS, 187.1.-U. JUST Itl CEIVEII; A VERY LARGE STOCK OF BEAVER, BROAD. A cum', cASsOJERE, VESTINGS, AND TRIM -3111 whieh I will soil very cheap FOR , CASE. 1,1 v 11.,ct, beg aßiorttur,qa of Goods ever brought to l i , boro, of various styles. Please call and lock theta erex Suits, Overcoats, and Repairing done with , uglatch and as cheap as the cheapest GEORGE WAGNER, CraltOn Street. Wellsboro. Pa. JILL 118724 7 RAILWAY TIME TABLES. Blogsburg & Coriiing & Tioga U. U. Time Table N0..32. •• . . Takes Etna Haydn Jima 86; 1872. DEPART PEON 00ERTRO. ARRIVE AT DLOSEODILO. ' No. 1 800 a. m. No, 1 10 46 a. m. „ 3 7 35 p. ra. 3 102,0 p. m. 220 p. m, 15..... 6 ' 25 p. 10. DEPART TORII Btossvcract. • ARRIVE AT 0011HINO. No .... 246 p, m. No. ..... 85p. mi 705 m..; 4. ...... Nq. 8 720 a. m. No. 8.... 11 as a. mi A. H. GORTON, Sap't B. & 0. R. R. L..H. SHATTIION, Supt Tioga R. R. Corning, Cowanespue and Anirini TAKES &ITEM MONDAY, MAY 26th. MS. NORTH. &SOUTH. 18 6 4 STATIONS. I 3 15, p.m. p.m. u.m 160 3 4019 15 Ar. Corning, Dep. 715 736 345 12,35 257 808 - Lawrenceville. 820 837 501 12 17 248 759 Dep. Dunning. 829 840.6 19 1212 244 755 •Lathrop, 883 860 011 a m. , 11 47 233 746 Tioga Village, 842 8 59' 688 11 27 2 23 730 *Hammond, 852 909 656 30 *Hill's Creek, 11 07 2 13 726 _ Holliday, 902 919 6 12 10 55 2 07.4 18 Middlebury. 909 925 622 10 45 2 02' 7 12 Nilea Valley, 915 932 628 10 24 164 '1 03 Stokesdale, 9 22. 941 644 10 15 1 45,6 55 Dep. Welleboro, Ar. 033 950 656 1 27 *Round Top, 9 47 • 1 1,2 *Summit, 10 07 12 50 Antrim, 10 311 *Flag Stations. A.ll. GORTON, Sopt. F. A. 30111480 N N. IN. GLASSMIRE & CO., WOULD resnectfully Inform the 'people of Wells born and vicinity that they have opened a store neat door to C. W. Sears'a Itoot and Shoo store, where they intend to keep on baud a first-class stork of DDDDD ,RRRER DD DD RR -ER DD DD RE RR VD bp RR RR P 1) DD RRRR PU DD RR RR YY DD DD RR RR YY DD DD RR RR YY DDDDD ROHR HERE YYYY 0 - 001)S, BOOTS AND SHOES, HATS AND CAPS, __Wood and Willow Ware, T Al' D.W AR, E We call your attention to our lino 'of atomics, as wo intend to givo this our utmost care SUGAR, Coffee A. Ex. C. 6l Medium, Best M. Prints . Mosline, Best Japan Tea, " Gun Powder Tea . . 1.25 " Young Hyson " from 50tp1.00 Black Tea . 1.00 WE WILL HERE SAY that wo intend to let NO PERSON OR PERSONS UN DERSELL us on the above and many other articles too numerous to mention. r1"1i77420 VLSI ft REMEMBER THE PLACE. April 22, 1873-3 mos. N. M. OLASSMIRE & CO General Insurance Agency, Life, Pire, and Accidental. v 1 Alemania, of Cleveland. Ohio ) ,435.03<3.4.1 New York Life and Fire Ins. CO 21;000,000 Royal Ins. Co., of Liyerpool ........ ..... 10,515,501 Lancashire, of Maneheater, Capital,- 10,000,000 Ins. Co., of North America, Pa . $3,050,635 60 Franklin Fire,lna. Co. of Phila. Pa ' 2,087,452 26 Republic Ins. Co. of N. Y., Capital, $750,000 Niagara Fire Ins. Co. of N. Y ........1,000,000 Farmers Mut. Fire Ins. Co. York Pa ...... .. .909,889 15 Phcenix Mut. Life Ins. Co. of Hartford Ct.. 5,081,970 50 Penn's Cattle Ins. Co. of Pottsville 600,000 00 JIM. 1, 1877 Total Insurance promptly effected by mail or otherwise, on al] kinds of Property. All losses promptly adjusted and paid at my Wilco. All communications promptly attended to—Office on Mill Street 2d door from Main st., Knoxville Pa. WM. B. SMITH Agent. Jan. 1. 1873-U. General Insurance Agency, Jr: U. &J. D. CAMPBELL A RE issuing policies in the following Companies A against firo and lightning in Tioge and Poter counties : QUEEN, ... ..Assets, $10,000,000.00 CONTINENT 4of New York, ...... —2,509,526.27 HANOVER, of New York 083,881.00 GERMAN AMERICAN, New York.. ...1,272,000.00 WYOMING, of Wilkesbarre, Pa 21908,42 WILLIAMSPORT; of Wm'sport 113,000.00 All business promptly attended to by mail or other wise. Losses adjusted and paid at our office. Nelson, Dee. 10, 1872-Iy. LOOKS L OK DRUGS, MEDICINES, PATENT MEDICINES, Paints, Oils, Glass, Putty, Brusllds, Tr usse's, • Supporttfrs, (1d Surgi u . DOI:SE& CA T7'LE PC T 1 DERS, • . Liquors, Eicoteli Ales, Cigars, Tobacco, Saufl, kc., kc P=EW Groceries, Sugars, Teas, CANNED AND DRIED FRUIT, slim. Lead Powder and Cape, Lampe. Chinmeye lips, Labitoe. &e. fie BLANK & MISCELLANEOUS All School Books in use, 'Envelopes. Stationery, Bill and Cap. "Paper: Initial paper, tdemorandtuns, large and small nirlionaries.l.epil paper, School Cards and ['inners, Ink. Writih Irluld. - Vhess and llaelierimmou Boards. Picture 'Frames, Cords aild Tassels, Mirrors, Albums, Paper Collars 'and Cuffs, Croquette, Base Balls, parlor games, at wholesale and ['Will. Wallets, port monies, combs, pins ,and needles, scissors, shears; knives, violin striuks, bird cages. A great variety of pipes, dells, inkstands, measure tapes, ruleP,. Fishing Tackle, test troutflies, lines, hooks, Special attention pal to this line in the season. TOILET AND A = I4CY ARTICLES. ACiiNTS FOR A ERICAN STEAM SAFES. VILLAGE LOTS ter sae in the central part of the Boro March 23, '73-tf. HASTINGS Ar. COLES. For Bale or .Dent. TTI C OM AND L corner of Pearl ,atrect and Av enne. Also i gale, seven villag lota pear the Academy. Apply t ELIN.ETI/108A/tD. . Oct., 29;187241.- ;VY ' . ' .. •-: , r P. 77. ' • .. .. , • , , . . . _ , , . . s _ :, . , .. . . .. . k i ~ • . ~., ; 0 „,, , ,. ' a ,-- . • it ' ~.,_.. 0 . '. . . ' ;,.,' -: 4 ,4,,,,,,,.?,,.,.., - . :_.,-- .7.,:‘ ,.., . : ,,, v, .';',1 16 Ir,' '.'., . ; ' a IN " 7,7 -.. ' • : ' , Oltik" 1; '. • 4 ~., '. :2 . : . . 4 ~.._.. :. ........„ ,i_. i. ~.._.„ .. c 31 i •'''' ''',- '-- .S - 11.1 , ,.. i .3 , Vi§ %I- " I p i . llr .. _. -. ® ) '. . . ~ 1 :,„•:.,..-,,,..„_........ ..r...„-:•...,„...„:- : ~. 10.1,I ttii o t . ....., ..„ ...._..... ~„. pt„, .I r 6 ' •• 6 . ' 6 . . • ' " • 6 ' 1 • ' ' ' - a•J.k- . - ." ",' - - 6 6 . , . . 6 . D YYYYY ^ YVYYY YY s YY YY YY YYY YY - NOTIONS, Grit 0 CLUMLEO,4II CROCKERY. DRUGS. SC WLieh they will sell Cheap for Cash . . 120. . 12 11 . . 121 fronilo to 15 1.10 ' KNOXVILLE., TIOGA CO., PA ASSETS OVER *55,000,000. Agssris oa Comvexma. NELSOr, TIOGA CO., PA HASTINGS & COLES FOR Artist's Goods in Great Variety Z4o%ttp NOTIONS. baskets and rods ;..- ; L. P. Tar Mat. W. P. •DIGORit. J. W. VAN VAT-N.2I;IMM TRUMAN & CO., New Firm, New Goods, BOTTOM PRICES. PRRIG& SUMMED Groops a.m. p.m. p.m. FOREIGN & DOMESTIC, afalics' Pros 6tobs, ALAPACAS, POPLINS, CAM BRIGS, FRENCH: JACON ETS, (MG A.ll I DIES, PEQUAS, VER SAILES, BLACK 4. COLOit'ED SILKS, Beautiful Summer Shawls, YANKEE IVOTIONS, BOOTSgSHOES, Ready-Made plothing, FreSh Groceries, Best White A Sugar, 12 1 1. cents r MTTTTTTTTTTI"IT at very law prices. We keep the beat 50 cent Tea in A large Opera IIlouse; Mock. hiay 6, 1873 We have Shed the Shanty ! . $65,431,4M 91 1' L BALDWIN&CO And now have but time to Bay 0 our Woods and customers that we have good BARGAINS 0 to'r Elegaul New SI Ore 11KSIRABLE GIIOIIS Call and you will know how it is yonree iveb Oct 15,1672 WELLSBORO, TIOGA CO., PA., TUESDAY, JUNE 17, , 1873. NEW STORE, 1 A largo stock of Ootifillitlui of All styles, colors and pattorns, -ALSO HATS f CAPS, and plenty of cloth to make more d 1 largo and cholco stock of 1 WFT.TABOBO Call and see us. TRUAIAN A; CO T/OGtL. PA - FOR THEM le filled fill: of at the lowest prim,/ to t' round T. L. BALDWIN & CO The Guest. lle ennui uubid; I know not whence, This woudrouu guest, uukuctrut.Tiorei All snout and uusbeil he came Within my door. lie gently Igeaie u,y, life-long pain, lio charms the frequent tears away, And all - my grief from mo begnifee- And atilt will stay. , - Sweet thonghto arise and eager climb, Like birda that sing, in upper air, The song that close to Beaven'a high gate.? Becomes a prayer. Yet half I &Artie tender wiles; 0, tardy Love, too late delayed! My coward heart shrinks back in doubt, And hides, afraid, And fain would trust, but questions etlll .Too late delayed! Apo long forlorn I Can night so darksoute break so soon To such fair morn ? • Not for pale brows And faded hair. 0, Love do thy red roses blow; Take back thy crown, 1 weeping cry— ' Ile doth not go; Hut lingers still and lingers yet, And bears him in such winning %fee, Such holy benedictions shine In his dear eyes, I can but trust, I can but list The winged hopes that softly sing; Canceled at last wino ancient wrong, And Love IE king. My Narrow Escape. I never told anybody how very, rem pear I was to death that night, just a year ago; but as I can now look back and calmly re call each thought, each word, each act, I think I will writ,e4t down as a warning to all who may find themselves cir cumstanced, hoping with All my heart that the number may be few. In the first place, my name is Frederick Putnam. I am, and have been for the last ten years, the foreman and bookkeeper of the large lumbering establishment of \Yin. Winston & Co., and hope to be for another decade, unless something, better turns up. Mr.• Winston Is the resident partner • and manager of the manufacturing part of the business. The other members of the firm, of which there are two, live in the city, at the foot of the lake, and attend to the sales of lumber, which wel3end them by vessels. This is by far the largest share of what the mill cuts, although the amount of our sales directly from the 'dill to supply the country west of us is quite large. . Well, ono cold December evening just as I was preparing for home I heard footsteps on the creaking snow outside, and preSently the office door flew open as though some one in haste had given it a push, admitting a tall, stout, wellAressed man with a small traveling bag in one hand mind ti shawl over ono arm. I was alone, Mr. Winston having gone to the house some half an hour before, locking the safe, in which we kept our books and papers, and taking the key with him, as usual. I had already cldsed the damper to the stove, put on my overcoat, and was just in the act of turning down the lamp—but of course I waited. "Gtood-evening, sir," said the man, bus tling up to the stove and kicking the damp er open with his right foot. Has Win ston gone to the house?" I answered that he had. "When? I was afraid of it.' lie drew out his watch—a ye y fine one? , I thought. "I shall not have time to go up," he said; "the train is due in fifteen minutes." " Is there anything; I can do?" I asked. " I wanted to leave some money with Winston. 1 intended to stop in town a day or two, but I have just got a dispatch' that calls me home." "What name, air?" " Afiderson, of Andersonville." I knew him then, thoughl had seen him but once before. He had been one of our best western customers. I say had been for the reason'that during the past year his pay ments had not been so prompt. In fact, he was considerably behind, and Winston had that very day told me to write. him and "punch Lim up a little," as he expressed it. The letter WC.. •1•,... Asa- alt, myierront m_ ott can leave the money with me, sir, and I will give you a receipt. , ' He seemed to hesitate, which nettled me somewhat. I have never blamed anybody since, however. kery. "How much is my bill, he asked, eying me sharply. I answered promptly, for I had struck the balance not more than half an hour before; " Eleven thousand seven hundred and + fifty dollars and twenty-three cents." "Humph! less than I supposed. Write out a receipt for that amount." He left the' stove and came and looked over rny'shoulder while I wrote. "It is , all right, Mr. Putnam. I know •ou now. You've been with Winston a or% time. I can tell your signature any where." He drew from an inside pocket a large black wallet, very . round find full, and counting out eleven different piles of bank notes, he told me to run them over. It was a short and easy task, for each pile contain ed just ten one hundred „loner bills. The balance was in fiv..s, tens, and twen ties, and it took more time to count them; but at last we got it, so that both were sat isfied. At this moment we heard the 'whistle for the station.. Anderson sprung for his trav eling bag, and giving me a hasty hand shake, was off on the run. I closed the door, and counted the money again. Finding it all right, I wrapped a piece of newspaper around it and slipped it into my overcoat pocket. I did ngt feel quite easy to have so much money about me, but as Winston's house was at least a mile distant, I concluded to keep it until morning, wheti4-pould depo'sit it in the bank. I closed the damper again, drew on my gloves, took the office key from the nail just over the door, and stepped up to put out the light. As I did so I saw a piece of paper on the floor, which on picking it up I dis covered was the receipt I wrote for Mr.,An derson. Ile had dropped it in his hurry. I put iCin my pocket, and thought no more about it, only that I would mail it.to him,— I would have done it then, but as the last mail for that day had gone out on the train which took Mr. Anderson, I could do it just as well in the morning. Then, too, I was in something 'of 'a hurry that night, for I had an lappointment; and I may as well state here that it was with a young lady who, I hoped, would ?be my wife before many months. I hastened to my boarding place, ate my supper, and then went over to Mr. Warner's, wearing the overcoat with the money in it, as I did not feel easy about leaving it in my room. Carrie was at home, of course, as she was expecting time, and leaving my coat and hat iii the hall, I went into the parlor. I do not think a repetition of our conver- sation would be very interesting, so I will pass it, merely remarking that nothing oc curred to disturb me until I arose to take my leave. Carrie went into the entry for my coat and liat, that 1 ntight put them on by the warm tire, but lie came back with only my hut._, Why, Fred, you certainly did not yen lure out on such a night as this without al overcoat r' "No coat!" 1 exclaimed, in a &Zed sor of a way—for the thought of the atone} Hashing upon me so suddenly had almos stunned 1110. • The next moment I tore past her like a madman—as I was. The coat was gone! Then I was unnerved. I grasped at the stair rail, and caught it Just in time to sup pint myself. Carrie came running out, her face pale with alarm. "Oh, Fred! are you sick? Let me call mother and the doctor! You are as white as a sheet!" " No, no, Carrie!" I entreated. " There I aw better now." ' And I was better. I was strong all at once—desperately strong. And what bro't about this change? That simple receipt which I ‘ bad in my pocket. Anderson bad nothing to shoal that the money had .been paid; and was not my unaided word as good as his? I was foolish enough to believe that I could brave it through; and I grew confi dent and quite easy at once. " There, Carrie, I am much better now. The room was too warm, I guess. • So some sneaking_tbief has dodged in and titolen my coat? . Well r let it go. It was an old one, and - now have a better , one. "But was there nothing in the potkets?" asked Carrie. - It is (strange - how suspigious" guilt will make us. I really 'thought that Carrie sus .peeted me, and an angry reply was on the end !of my tongue. I suppressed it, Imi . y l ever, and uttered a falsehood instead. Nothing ,of consequence, Carrie. A , ;gopil,pair of gloves and some other trifling notions." "1 am 'glad it, is no worse; Fred. Now, if you will wait just a moment, 1 will 'get you one of father's coats to Wear home." Thus equipped, I left her. You may guess that my • sluinberA that night were not very sound nor very refresh ing. I never passed a more miserable night,. and in the lumping my haggard looks were the subject of remark. "Why, Fred, you look as though you had met a legion of ghostn last . night!" said Winston. '`What is the matter? "I had a bad night of it," I answered, with a sickly smile. "And you'll have another if you're not careful. -You had better keep quiet to-day. By-the-by, did you write to Anderson?" I do not know how I managed to reply, for the question set me to shivering from head to foot, and I was so weak that I could scarcely sit in my chair. I must have answered in the affirmative, however, for he said: " Then we may look for something from him to-morrow or next day." Immediately after he added: "Why, Fred, you'shiver as though you had the ague, and you are sweating like a butcher!, You're sick, man! Come jump, into my cutter, and I'll take you home." I was glad of the chance to get away, anld reaching my room, I locked myself in. • Winston sent a doctor around, but I re fused to see him. .Then Winston came himself, but I would not open the door.— Then toylandlatly came, then some of my fellow boarders; but I turned them all away. Ali l those were terrible hours that I pass ed, and the night coming on brought me no relief. Can you not guess what I was med itating? Coward that I was, 1 had at last resolved upon self-destruction. • - 1 commenced my preparations with the same calmness and deliberation that I would have used in the most common transaction. I wrote a short explanation for Carrie, :an other for Mr. Winston, a third for my poor mother; and I sealed them all. In a fourth envelope I inclosed the receipt to Mr. An derson. All this accomplished, I went to my see- Mary and took out the weapon of death.— It was simply a revolver, small and insig nificant enough in appearance, but ,all-suffl cient. Having examined the cartridges, to make sure that there would be no failure, I sat down before the fire to gather courage, It may be interesting to know =that no courage came to me; for the desperation— the growing fear of life—l can in no wise call by that name. It was, simply coward-, ice. Yet, whatever you may term it, it was all•sutficient for the time.' It nerved my arm, and lifting the revolver, I placed its cold, death•dealing muzzle against my fore head. In another second I should have been life• less; but just as my finger began° to press the trigger there came a tap on my door. It startled me, and hastily concealing my weapon, I called out that I could admit no one. • " Not pie, Fred?" I knew Carrie's voice, and a yearning to look on her loved face got the mastery of me. Quietly slipping the tell-tale letters,: which I had left on the table, i into my pock et, I opened the door. "Oh, Fred, you are real sick!" exclaimed Carrie the moment the light, fell On my face. " Why - did you not send for me? Aren't you better?" " Woh - se," I answered, huskily; Carrie—good heaven's!"— As I uttered this exclamation I started back, and then forward; and then—l hardly know what—for, hanging across carrie's arm, was my overcoat I Recovering from my astonishment, I eafrkedpAtikrent MokadthPailiZAWS seven hundred and ply dollars and twenty three cents! You have beard about, and perhaps seen, the singular capers of a madman, or the wild antics of those crazed with rum, or the grotesque dancing of savages. Well, judg ing from what Carrie told me, and from the appearance of my apartment after it was all over, I am led to believe that, were it possible to concentrate the three above men tioned species of demons into one, their ca pering and dancing *ould appear tame in comparison with mine that night. But I cooled down after awhile, and just in. time to save Carrie's bead a thump from the chair or the washstand, which I had se lected as partners in my crazy waltz. Then I asked for an explanation. the simplest thing imaginable. I do not know why I had not thought of it before. It was iimply a blunder of Carrie's father. He had mistaken my coat for his own, and worn it down town, never dreaming that a small fortune was lying idly in the pocket.. Well, I didn't have the brain fever over the affair, but I was the next door to it. I madt.ta clean breast of the -whole thing ex-' cepting my attempt, or rather my resolve, at self-destruction. No one ever guessed that part of it, and I tell it today for the first time. I sent Mr. Anderson his receipt, handed over the money to Mr. Winston, and went right on with my duties, a wiser and a bet ter man, I hope. And to-morrow, GoA willing, I shall lead Carrie to-the altar.— Chimney Corner. Your Mother-in-Law's Bedstead It is a little singular why ;your wife's mother will persist in sleeping on a cord bedstead. But she does. You don't think so much of this until you are called upon to put it up, which event generally takes place in the evening. The bedstead has been cleaned in the afternoon, and having been soaked through with hot water, is nowi ready for potting up. Your wife holds - the lamp and takes charge of the conversation. The rope has been several, times under water in the cleaning, and having swollen to a diam eter greater than the holes in the rails, has also got into a tit of coiling up into myste rious and very intricate forms. You at:first wonder at this, • but pretty soon Wonder eereies to be a Virtue, and you then scold.— The thread wh'elt had been wound around, the end of the rope to facilitate its intro duction into tb boles has . come oft; and you I have to roll it up again. Then, after you have pulled it through eight holes, your wife makes the discovery that you have started wrong. The way that rope conies out of those holes again makes your wife get closer to the dirk. Then you try again, and get it tangled in your legs. , • By this time you notice that this is the smallest bedroom in the house, and you call the attention of yonr i wife to the fact by ob serving, " Why on earth don't you open the. door? Do you want to smother MeY She opens the door, and yOu strut again, and she helps you with the lamp First she puts it on the wrong side of the rail, then she moves it so the heat comes up from.-the chimney and scorches your nose, lust as you need it the roost you lose sight of it entirely, and tinning around, hind her examining the wall to see how that man has put on rite white wash. This excites you, and brings out the perspiration in greater profusion, and you declare you will kick the bedstead out doors if she doesn't come'around With that light. Then she comes around. Finally the cord is laid all right, and you -proceed to execute the very delicate job of tightening•it. ! The lower ropes are first walked over. 'ThiS is done by stepping on the first one - and • sink • hag it down, while hanging to the headboard with the clutch of 'death, Then 'you step with the other foot bn the next line, spring that down, lose your balance, grab for the headboard, miss it, and .come down in a heap. This is repeated more or less times across the length of the bed, tthe only vari ety being the new places you bruise. . The top cords are tightened in - another way, and you now proceed to' that. You first put one foot on each rail,which spreads you some, and as you do It the frightful thought strikes'you that if 'one of those feet should slip over nothing'-on 'earth would prevent you from being split'tbrough to the chin. Then you pull up the first rope until your eyes see' to be on the Point of roll ing out - of their sockets, 'add the blood in your veins fairly groans; .andfon 'being con= vinced that you„ - can't *pun' it any further without • crippling yourself for life, you catch hold'of the. next rope and draw that . up,,and grunt. Then you move alongto the next and pull that up, and grunt again: Just as you have got to the middle and com mence to think you aro about through, even if your joints will neverset again as they. did. before, you some way or other miss the conneOlon ' and find that you have to go back told dolt all over. Hero you pause for a few minutes of orac• ular ' refreshment, and then carefully and slowly work your way back. You don't jump down and walk back, because you are. afraid to spread out in that way again. You sort of waddle back, working the way inch by inch, and with consummate patience.— A man thus stretched across a bedstead never becomes so excited as to lose his pres ence of mind. It would be instant death to him if -he did. Then lie goes over it again, waddling and pulling, groaning and grunting, while his wife moves around with the lamp and tells him ib take it easy, and not scratch the bedstead any more than he can help, and that • she. can't tell which creaks the most, he or the bedstead. And after he gets through she has the audacity to ask him to bring in the feather beds. In the dead of night that man will steal up to that room and look at that bedstead, and swear.—Danbury Nem General Canby's Wife. The following tribute to General Canby'. wife is published in the Indianapolis (Ind., Journal: "More than thirtyyears ago, in the little town of Crawfordsville, Indiana, there was a merry, old-fashioned wedding, and Capt... E. B. S. Canby and Louisa Hawkins were married. Both were young, the bride was beautiful, gifted with a reed-like grace of movement, and . a rich arid exquisite/voice that still haunts my ear with the echo of its remembered music. The old people shook their heads thai;o3ight, and said she was too tender for a soldier's wife; it would not do for her to brave the hardships and dangers of the new countries. His calm, earnest way of loving her wdn her whole soul, and throughout the shifting changes of alt this tract Of years she has gone with him, and where he was there' has been her home—her very home. Along the lonely frontier, at desolate outposts, in Florida, in New Mexi co, in California, even on the, rough edge of the battle, that gentle, delicate woman has hovered near her husband, and the banner over her head was love. "In the fruitless march to Utah under Buchanan's administration her tent was Pitched among the mountains where the troops wintered. And I recollect a letter written to kindred at home describing their camp, and how gladly she ate the wild gar lic as a preventive to scurvy, when it started under the melting snows of a late-coming spring, " What the husband gained in moral bight by the companionship of th 4 Christian wife, how much-he owed to her, and we through him, has not been recognized. His inherit ed tendency to gloom was charmed away, in that serene and gracious presende. There was healing •in the wings of the guaidian spirit, and, thro4gh her ceaseless vigilince - ,- whatever ,coulc) harrass and - annoy was smoothed rom pefore him as by the unseen agency ofl faify l hands. Partly to this un failing care is due that even poise, of brain which kept his, judgment so finely balanced that, as has been said of Washington in ac tion, 'he nev r ailed to observe all that was possible, a at the same time to bound his aspiratio s by that which was possible.' "Nothing could exceed the knightly ten derness, the courtly deference. of his man ner to her. Ile early learned—as sooner or later all must learn—that 'a little love is much better than fame; and those who knew him merely as the silent, inflexible of ficer, could not guess how the loveliness of her life wa blended with his, and' filled it with, an undersong of wonderful sweetness. "It is pleasant in this age of individuality and self-assertion to find a woman like her of whom I write, wholms never considered the question of rights, is content-to-vesther. ambition in another, and he simply a wife. .....- ......,-,,, iivm like. the lilies who toil not, but has ever been an auti,,,, —....,,, ~.„...1.,„ mindful of others, forgetful of nothing but self. Her household was directed with a wise and elegant thrift, more abundant than any _ waste; tin.d once when the General laughingly cbmplained of being kept on short allowance, she surprised him with a sum saved from his pay sufficient for the purchase of a farm in Missouri. This, too, was forothers. In Richmond she made ur enemies love her, and in New Orleans l said, ' I can hardly keep anything, th6re issticli suffering about us.' How many she has warmed and cheered and comforted ` - only the recording angel has written. " During their first married years her early beauty Sprang up anew at their feet, and a little girl's earcssing. , \schatter filled their house with music; but the Divine friend of children took th3•young child in His arms, even as he took 1)16 child of old, and has kept her safely hobsed in Heaven—safe from sickness, from 'the battle, from the tempta tion, from the weight of years. Immortal ity would be a cheat if with the dust died our affections.' When the everlasting doors were lifted, and the hero, crowned and anointed, went up to see the King in His beauty, there was his little girl. Perhaps I no more ft child, ' But a fair maiden in her Father's mansion. Clothed with celestial grace.' "This true husband and wife may yet have their quiet evening together,) God's love will take her to his side again, the sunset will lie fair, and at evening tinije ' there shall be light. " I write of Mrs. Canby in the past, be cause the light of her life i)gone out, and she lies sorely smitten, ye ruing for rest near the-sunny hill-slope t , which she is r li drawn by such strong and su the ties: " This is Memorial Day, a d our soldiers' graves are green and glorious. The spot where her heart with her hero lies buried " but— It wa l s is rich with perfume, heaped 'with blossoms and verdure, and there with reverent hand I lay this little leaf. Like Ophelia's rose mwrv, 'lt's for remembrance.' "May 80, 1873. 8. E. WALLACE:" Thiers, Burke, and Sumner.- The following comparison of three grey orators, written by Dr. Shelton Mackenzie appears in the Washington Sunday ehroni cde : "In February, 1871, Adolphe Tillers was made President, of the French Republic by a vote of the National Assembly. It can not be truthfully denied that he was well adapted, probably beet adapted, for that gr'eat office. lie was nearly seventy-four years old; he had no son in whose favor he might have been likely to go in' for establishing a new dynasty. , Ile was a great writer, an astute politician, an experienced and liberal statesman, a man ,of high personalcharac ter, well and favorably regarded by foreign governments, and, to crown all, (most un fortunately, as it has turned out,) a very clo, quent, as well n 8 a thoroughly well-informed speaker. Of such a man in Ireland it wo'd have been familiarly and flatteringly said, He has the gift of the ,gab,' 'Folks who possess that gift are generally too fond - of parading it. "There was the great Edmund Burke, Who used to speak so much and so long, though he also spoke very well, on whose rising to address the House of-Commons, honorable members, rather than listen to the `linked sweetness long drawn out' of his mellifluous brogue, would rush en masse to 'Bellamy's, (the official restaurant of the . House,) the ,great but irrepressible orator to spout to empty benches. Hence Burke obtained, the parliamentary nickname of The Dinner Bell.' Members hurried out to avoid being bored by his long ha rangues about everything and nothing. At the risk of having my opinion challenged, I am not afraid ofd saying, that in Parlia ment Burke must 'have been a terrible bore. •Of him it might be , said that, like. Hope, Le perpetual Springs.' S fond of hearing his otvn voice was - he, that I e would speak ppm almost every subject, a d speak briefly up on very few. In general learning and the other attainments of the highly cultivated publicist,, though net_ with his personal ex perience in and observation of foreign coun tries, Edmund Burke, of a century past, it England,' Edmund Burke may have been almost upon a level with our own brilliant and sound Charles Sumner, but he wasted himself by perpetual speech-making, where as Charles 'Sumner properly. reserves his great powers of thought and knowledge, reason and expression; for great occasions. - 4 ` When Burke arose in the Home, the rush of members to the doors proved that the title of ' the dinner bell' had been prop eriybestowed. - When it is expected that Sumner may speak in the Senate, the galle:, ries are crowded - by, I may say,- thousands of listeners. The corridors aro thronged; and the floor of the Senate, chamber is ' thronged also. Sumner does not make WM ' self common by speech-Making, ' de omni bus rebus,' but when he does speak it IS with effect. 'What man living,. what enemy ---if, so noble s man has &Quailone enemy —has gyer:said, ' Rather a du t l , long-wind ed speech! from Senator Sum err NOno, because Senator Sumner is never dull. His oratory does not come slowly `through the filtering recesses of lore and of thought,' but is an affluent and spontaneous fountain,' ever clear, sparkling, and refreshing. " "All this is episodal, though somewhat: apropos of the oratory of M. Thiers. But ere 1 return to the main subject let me ex 4 press a second opinion,•which may startle some of my readers. It, is that we of the present time are almost, ignorant of what the eloquence, or rather the oratory, of Ed mund Burke really was. Some one may say, ' Have 'we not several volumes of Burke's pUblished speeches to judge by?'—t Yes, but' his published' arel not his spoken speeches. A century ago, when Burke waS in his prime, one of the mouthpieces of the, Whig party, the discussions in the English Parliament were so very wretchedly and imperfectly reported that when a member of either house made what he considered a crack speech, he published it in a pamph--- let. Burke was always issuing these speech pamphlets, and must have been a profitable customer to the printer. His speeches, thus given to the public, were not what he had actually delivered. He composed orations, based upon what he really said, and he coil , rectal these compositions over and ove again, until he hed;polished them down iut their present shape. I have been told till more than once by aged persons who ha heard Burke speak during the excitement of the French Revolution, in 1789-1792, and scarcely could recognize the spoken speech in the printed pamphlet. It is the «whor, not the orator, whom we meet' in the copi ous Volumes called, ' Speeches of the Right Hon. Edmund Burke.' lie was neither the first nor the last of l3ritish orators who thus manipultited their speeches. A friend of mine who had a fancy for autograph col lecting showed me Canning's famous speech in which he said of the recognition of the South American Republics, ' I called the New World into existence to redress the , balance of the Old,' ' in which were bound up with the pamphlet, as finally published, a series of sixteen different proof sheets, so covered with Canning's corrections and ad ditions that, at last, the whole printed mat ter had to be re-copied by a careful clerk in the Foreign Office, and given as new " copy' to the troubled compositors. In that same collection', as I well remerhher, was also a pamphlet speech by Williamilluskisson, an early English free-trader, . and orce of the most lumbering and heavy speakers I ever heard, of which six successive ' proofs' and ' revises' had been made. Even Mr. Glad stone considerably alters and recasts, when he publishes them separately, his most suc cessful parliamentary orations." The Woman's Life Insurance Company. IWith more or less of that mystery so dear to the feminine heart, it is announced in va rious qaarters that certain wealthy and, ex cept in this connection, well known ladies of New York, are about to organize on a scale of magnificence only comparable Wirt Saratoga - trunk fully equipped for if season at the watering places, a mammoth life in surance company, It is proposed to stirrt on a large capital fully paid tip'; the stock holders being exelusively female; the direct ors, officers, medical examiners, and agents likewlise to be female, and the insurance of female lives to be made a specialty; altho' if a member of the inferior sex shall insist Upon taking a policy his application will not be rejected because of his s xual misfor tune. The idea is a novel one, but lot impracti cable. We see no reason why women can not transact the business of life insurance a., ii,ii .t 7 —e[,. -.eii, j - ha.cs vlr ego ..• vs.-1. -1.,1........, it as the average president and director al ready, and though what these latter do not know is Aat the ladies will most need to knw, they are quick to learn, and will soon acquire it. As for agents, if the ladies will only be discreet enough to choose good-look ing ones, what a revolution they will make in the business! The common taunt flung at the life'solicitor now is his " cheek."— But when that cheek shall be plump, and fresh, and soft, and rosy, who will be unap preciative enough to say there is too much of it? What will become of those placards that hang in so many business places say ing, "No life insurance agents, wanted here"? Down they must come at the ap proach of the dainty damsel who 'represents the Woman's Life Insurance Company. It.fB a confounded bore to be talked at by the hour by a man concerning sOlemn du ties, rates of preinium, and all that sort of thing; but when a pretty Woman - shall do the talking it will be quite another thing.— She can make the Carlisle tables as interest ing as a dime novel. The susceptible bach elor or the bereaved widower can't put her off, as he does the masculine solicitor,' with the plea that he "has no one dependent upon him," for she will answer at ~oneg, with an air so innocent and yet suggeStive, I" Why donl you get Somebody, then?" Ink the confusion incident tol the propounding of such a conundrum that bachelor or wid ower will be very likely teosay, " write - me up." - , Bill it will never do to send the good -1 tilting girls, to. insure tt c ladies. fhey N ould get to mentally co nparing dresses, complexions, ages, etc., and while outwardly all would lie smiles 'and politeness, _each would inwardly resolve that the other was " dowdyish," or " brazen;" or a " painted thing," or something else objectionable, and the company would receive no addition to its premium income. Better' employ men for this purpose, or else a special detail of scraggy, spectacled, and venerable females. Will the new company advertise in the insurance journals? Shall we have to puff the officers and agents? Ilow would:this sort of thing de? ` Mrs. ---, , the able and 'acemplished president, is a lbeautiful widow, ova whose blonde head Scarce twenty-live summers have - lightly frOwn, and has hail a large and instructive experience as a life underwriter. She wears a delicate (size 1) gaiter, and has a well turned ankle and rare executive abil ity, wllich she exhibits in the discharge of her with duties. Thoroughly familiar with all the details of the grand business system which She 4o well administers, she disposes the gi'aceful drapery of her camel's hair shawl stunt her superb shoulders in a manner never 'ilirpasseil in the annals of life insurance. A rich eivs , ,fp7rin silk dross, without other iniortnnent than live flounces around the slot t and $'..,000 worth of l'a- lenciennes lace ppon the Allll5l and sleeves, attests lier eNquisite taste and the financial standing of the company. She carefully superintends the investinellt of the coin pa- 1 ny's funds iulthe best •approved securities, and wearAJnilY her own hair, which is abun 'dant and beautiful as the IreSSCS of Venus. She has tit% rare faculty of fully control ling, witliqut ever ollending, her large force of subordinates, and *of making the most perfect of toilettes without the aid of cos metics ~yanci• adventitious aids to beauty. We cat' but pteiliet for the company a fu ture as brilliant as are the dark soulfuLe,yes of its lovely president." When the company ii fully organized and in operation,•if an insurioule journalist shall think that his paper: is not being patronized as its merits deserve, he will prepare an ar ticle speaking of " the Venerable president, who for:the past forty years," , etc. ; the "able, but skinny, vice president, who so adroitly conceals the furrows made by long years of devotion td 'business," etc.; the " painstak ing and bard-working secretary, who is too hOnest top - idthe assets of the company, but pads tiler bosom instead," and send the proof arrd ltO the othiie—if appreciation or Lisle rnalistie merits' is not forthwith shown ban order for a page "act," then WIC know nothing of feminine human nit• n - lure.—T e Iferald, Chicago. 1 Don't, inveo, all your money in lottery tickets. Give some other man a chance for a prize. Don't imagine that the Lord will call a first-class preacher to a church paying a sec ond-class salary. lie doesn't treat his chil dren so shabbily. :.