'&hc Orlh gjLiiroqatc, A wki.kly NEvsrAn:n, Devoted to the Interests of the People of Elk Co. is n ni.isiii'.n rvrnv Tin rtsivw, HY'joiix v. i()m:r:. , Ojiir in the Court l!"ii-r. Tr.nMs One olhir nml Fifty Ci nts per nnnuin. invmiably in ndvnncc. No divia- lion from I hoe terms. JOHN O. HALL, Pnornii-.TOR. ltatos ol Advci'l iint?- Adra'rs and Execute's Notice, each t! times f - 9 .Auditor's Notices, each ot) Transient Advrlisiiifr, per square of 10 lines or loss, ') times or Icfs 2 00 J-'.ir each (nihseiiijnt insertion (0 J'rofesaional cdars, 1 year 6 00 rl oecinl notices per line 13 .Obituary nnd Marriage Notices, eneh 1 00 Yenrly A'lvrrtisini. one square 10 00 Y;arly Advertising, two squares 15 00 .Ysni'y Ailver'inp thvco squnrcs 20 0(1 Y larly Advertising, V column -" 00 Yinrly Advert isng, I column .13 o Yjnrly AdACtisiujr, 1 column TOCO Advertisements displayed more tiinn ordinarily will bo charged for nt the late (per column) of CO 00 ) DBBIMG DEPARTMENT. Having lately ndded materially to o.ir slock of )oh Type, we arc prepared to Mo nil kinds of work in a manner which can not. be excelled by any establishment be tween Yt'illianisport and Erie. Cards, Hill Heads, rrnirnmmcs rheck.1. Notes, Handbills, Blanks, Envelopes, Labels, Tags, Yi'iting Cards, I.ctlcr Heads innd nny other work usually done in a coun try office. Orlh 0oiiiifi girertorjj. COUNTY OFFICERS. President Judge It. G. White. Ad-.lit jon:il Law Judge Ilcury W. Wi'lintns. Associate Judges E. C. Sehultzc, Jesse Kjler. District Attorney L. J. Blakely. Sheriff James A. Malono. Frothonotary, &o. G. A. Rathbun. Treasurer James Coyne. Co. Superintendent James Blakely. Commissioners "Willi'iin A. Bly, J. W. Taylor, Louis Vi.lhr.er. Auditors Chirk Wilcox, Byron J. Jones, Jacob MeCaulfy. County Surveyor Geo. Walnisley. TIME OF IloUHNa COURT. Second Monday in January, Last Monday in April. First Monday in August. First Monday iu November. B E A L E ' G (i.ate row:'.i.L's) JZ M IJ 11 O C A T I O N ! 1.V1R ALL DISKASHS INCIDENT TO Jlorscn, Cattle and the Human Flesh, i e.)iiiring the use of an ext ernal application. This new Compound, repaved by a prac tical Chemist having a lull knowledge of nil tho medical virtues of each ingredient thai enters into its coinpositio'i, is wan-an-tod to pvooil noytbtiifi; of the kind ye.t of fered to the ptib'.ie as an cxl'-rnnl nnplic.v tion for the diseases ."it v. hieh a is recom mended. Wo are satisfied .hat it will wovk its own road into the -,,!,!";. let. ee of ail who use it, and those w ho try it once will never be without it, and llierct'ure wo r:-'y '-a ex perience as the b"sl test of its us-fuhics.;. It is pronounce 1 by Farrier.:, and all v. ho have tried it to be the best apj l'.'-uiir.n ev er used. This Eillb: ii'.at i U II li.'l-i Il-'CIlplI up for over eight years, an 1 it if only through the inei ei.sio i. and urgent request of my fi i( lid.! and t lie I'u'-'.ic that 1 send it forth as tlu grand rrraodiat ii'Biit for the various iiis-.!so ; t. v.-hi!i that noble. and useful animal, lh:s II')!!MK, is subject. Many rem' ties h-ive 1 e .-n o'l'cred to the Public iiiid'-r ditiV-rcut fonts.'', some of these are injurious, othci:; at best of litlln uf.e, nnd many who'.ly in. propt-r to nnsv.'cr the purposes for which they arc reeomn.-:ided. A judicious and really useful composition frecfroiathf.se objection!, has therefore long been desired by n.iroy gciitlenim wdio havo valuable horses, anl are unwilling to trust them to the caro of designing and pretending Fairieip. Their wi-dics are at length fully gratified, by Dr. ISeale being prevailed upicn to allow this valuable Em brocation (which has proved so cfJca-jious to the various diseases i to be prepare 1 and brought out to tho puV.ia. Tliis embrocation was extensively used by tho Government during tho war. Address nil orders lo DM. LDMOXD I5EALH, 002, South Second St. I'hil'a. KfiyFor Sale by Dordwell & Messenger, Ridgwny, Ya. opBtily rilTlE MOST RELIABLE CUSHION use I J ou Milliard Tables ij tho CAT-GUT CUSHION", Manufactured by Knvunajrli & Decker, mi l patented Dec IS, 18-'.'i. (See Seieutific Ani ericun, volume 1'!, number 11.) It i3 tho ONLY Cushion that possesses nil the qualities essential ton perfect Cush ion. If is tho most clastic nnd most durable Cushion eer oticre ito the bi'.liard-playinij public, aa is abundantly proven by the great demand for it since its introduction. The peculiarity which distinguishes tiio CAT -OUT Cushion renders' it superior to nil others, is the tightened cor-l of cat gut which overlies (lie face and ed;re of tho rubber, and viinuiu;; the lull lciii'li of tho Cushion, which ju-events the hall from bed ding into the ru' ber and jumping from iho table. The addition of tho cat-gut cord also adds r.iueli to the elasticity of the Cush ion. The CAT-CUT Cushion has already been applied to over 1000 tables which are in constant uso. It can be upplie I to tables of anvinako, for $" per set. KAVANAOH & DECKER'S Factory, nt the corner of Centre nnd Canal .Streets, N. Y., is tho most complete of its kind in the world. The machinery is of the most im proved character, the lumber drying room the largest in iho United States, the mate rial used tho best that can be purchased, and the workmen thoroughly bkilled. Billiard Clutb, Ilnlls, Cues nnd Trim mings, a'l of the best wake, constantly ou hand. KtvanagH and Decker nre the only agents in this country for IC VY S CUE CEM KNT, adjudged by cmpeteut authorities lo bo the best cement ever used. Full Size Table cut down for $100. Send fur Ji'ustfuUtl Price List. K WAN AO. II 1 F.OKEU, Cor of Conire and Canal Pts., apMly New York City. J01LXG. HALL, rmjmdor. JOILVF. MOORE, Puhlisltrr. VIOLETS. It was Spring. nnd golden arrows Melted through the purple showers, And t lie orioles uud sparrow s Twittered of the coming flower3. Life nnd Lovo with Flora tripping Gaily down the wooded n isles, Into light their brushes dripping. Tainted nil the earth with smiles. Golden days they were, nnd faster Never ran the sweet hours by. As we strolled ncroes the pasture, Yiolet hunting, Eelle and I. V,'e were young, and she was fairer Than the common type of girls ; Nea'h her jaunty hat tho wearer Shook a wealth of glossy curls. Teeth of snowdrops set in roses, Eyes like blue-bells in the snow What to me were all tho posies, If her smiles were mine to know ? Wliilc we loitered in the meadow Where the blossoms earliest grew, Bello wit h voico of music said, " 0, I have found a violet blue ! "This woe little flower and tender Will you deign for me to wear ? " And she twined its stem so slender In my button-hole with care. And I said, " O ! Belle ! a fairer Than the meadow ever knew, Waiietii for the happy wearer Who for his shall gather you ! " Every spring, from out the grasses, lilue and sweet tho violets peep, Smiling- upon him who passes By the treasures thai they keep. There the marble cnst3 a shadow, Lengthening o'er a little mound ; And alone I walk tho meadow Where a fading tlower was found. elected Iftiscellanij. TILS LAST OF THE COHANS ; OPt, THE FATAL SHOT. Among the many fair castle homes of England, there could be none fairer or more stately than Co an Castle, Suffolk. Tlicro lived Squire Coran, a fine specimen of tho olden slio.il stem, r ... gcd, ad ;ibt ndi g as ouc of his own oaks, yet, vrillial geuiul nud kiudly. Tho meanest peasant on his estate walked brisker when he saw the squire, and atu'iled for Gvc minuter alter hearing his merry " Fine morning ; first.rate wcatl er '. " ic:ir!y for'y years had passed since llic flquiro laid his lair prirl -wife in the vault, of the Gorans nearly twenty since he. had buried by her sido tha one son ( f tiioir bhort wodiuek. Yet Goran Ciisile ffas not deflate. Tlie heir," though he had died young, had lived long enough to leave a widow and two orphan babes to his father's cure. These orphans were now grown up, and the names ol Hugh and Emma le-ounded through the castle, bhouted iu the lull, cheery voico of tho hearty old im.n. Dearly did he love thctn both ; hut Hugh was Eonewhat wild and wayward, and would sometimes, thoughtlwsly thwart his grundsire's imperious will. One sore subject ever lay botweeu them. The old tquitu was a f;taut in stature and strength ; his youth had been signalized by feats of prowess uud daring, of which ho never wearied to boast. Hugh Goran, on the contrary, had email tasto for field sports, and, being stijall and dc-Iicnto in lramo, con stantly took to himself his grandfather's careless scuffs about ' ladymca " nud " degeneracy." Not half a :n!lo from Coran Castle was a lrtrgc tract of heath aud moorland, very wild tiud lonely, and at that time inlestcd with high way men. It viai necessary to cvo-.m this district to lvt'eh the neighboring village of V rot tel. One day, in the winter time, Hugh Coran had occasion to go to this village, He did not return when expected, and diuuer was served without him. Ju.-t as it was 07cr, lw came in, excusing bis tardiness by saying that suspicious characters had been seen ou tho moor, and, thereforo, tie had waited for com. panious ou his homeward journey. His mother was about to commend what to her Keemed but prudence, when the squire b-ir.-t into a storm of iuvectivc nt Hugh's "cowardice." When had he feared any mortal man least of all, a midnight robber ? The moorland offered uo shelter for a band of highwaymen, and lie took shame that ouc of his race dreaded encounter with a singlo foe. Old a ho was, he would ride over Coran Moor alone nt midnight, nnd no hand bhould harm him or toueli his purse. He blushed yes, that was the stinging word for tho hut of the Gorans of Coran. In vain did Hugh answer gently that ho did not thiuk his courage would fail if put u&efully to the proof ; that he owned he had hut little of the reeklcs3 dariug of the ancient Gorans ; Iu htill ho thought ho modestly" said lie thevyht, for the youth was no brag gart that ho would ri.-k his own life to save another's. 1'ut tho squire's last words were o michl His blue eye Cashed, lie threw down his knif-, hft his dinner unfinished, and his mother and bUter in tears. mm niDGVi'AY, PEKXA., lie did not show himself nli that evening. I,to at night a messenger came from Wrottcl, bearing tidings of the sudden and dangerous illness of an old friend of tho squire's. Tho man who brought the letter went on with another to n more distant neighbor. " I shall go at once," said tho squire to Emma and her mother. " I must fee him again in life." "TIimi lingers will attend you?" said the widow, timidly. No, Latyiner Goran was no court pop injay, who could not take caro of him self ; he was not afraid of tin d irk cowards were unknown iu his younj; days. iSquirijj Coran went to his room to prepare for his journey. JJoasting never strengthens one's own courage, and he took great caro that his pistol was in good order. At another time, notwithstanding tho reality of the danger, ho would not have taken the pistol ; but now ho loaded it with deadly precision, and laid it carefully in his great-coat pocket. Emma ran to call her brother to say good-by, but she found his door locked, and could get no answer. " Let him alone," said her grand father, " let him alone ; example is better than precept," nnd so he rode away. There was only a cloudy moon, but tho stout hearted traveler know his road, and was as little likely to miss his way on tho moor as is a straet Arab to lose himself in London. His thoughts went beforo him to his dying friend, and his indignation with IIuh slowly faded from his mind, when, just as a cloud obscured the moan, he heard the snort of a spurred horse, a shade w fell on his path, a hand suddenly caught his bridle, and a pistol was pointed at his head. " Your money or your lifo ! " Tho words were spoken quickly, in a disguised but agitated voice. There was just light enough to sec tho high, wayman was a slight built man, of uo apparent physical lorco, yet the squire remembered his vain boast as he felt how completely he was in the stripling's power. There ir.is a moment's silence, The squire's hand was in his great-cuat pocket. Did the robber thiuk he was getting his pnrso 'I Did the squire know ho was searching for his pistol 'I The high wayman fpoke again iu the same strange voice, which Kcenud full ol smothered passion or grief; " J 'have heard you would never yield to a single man." The squire's blood boiled at the im plied tauut, but yet tho pistol was tcr. ribly near his head, and ho felt that in ! uch a case neither strength nor cour. age can always win victory. " Nor would I yield to you," he said he knew not what prompted him " not to you al'itio ; but for that oth:r fellow ljoking over your shoulder! " The robber started shudderingly, and turned. Swift as lightniutr the squire aimed his own pistol, and fired. For a moment tha in iorland seemed illumined ; out of the fiendish bright, ncss came a light, sharp, almost girlish shriek. A second mor-j all was dark and quiet, and tho squiro realised he stood alone in tho dim moonlight with a dead man at bis feet. A stern man was Lalymer Coran r.f Coran, and ho was not to be brought to a pause on his journey because ho had chanced to slay a thief. Nor was it the nwo and horror of juatico which Idnnoh. cd end flushed his cheek as ha rodo on. No, his rigid justice argued that tho man det-erved his death, only it wan not meet that such as he should have bo. t rayed an honorable gentleman to dc-eoit. For he krew that he had veritied bis bca-t, and saved bin nelf -by a iii ! That haunted him as he idoo i.J in the grim chamber of Wrottcl Clock Imn-o, aud saw tho last of his old friend, tho county inagistratrt. He dispatched uo one to tho dead robber time enough for that when he returned in fie morn ing. Then he took officers of justice with him, and they respecting his position and tho depression in which he seemed plunged, walked quietly tide by side, a a little way behind his horse. At last they reached the spot where tho deadly deed had taken place. To their nstou Lhmcnt, a little group of people were gathered about, nud as they drew near they heard a sound of lamentation, and tho squire 6aw his own livery servauH, one of them holding the bridle of a ri derlcsi horso. They turued startled, white faces to him, as he rode up, aud wero silent. " What is the matter ? " he demaud e 1 imperiously. " Cb, he canna be dead ! " the b.rjnie lad lio !" sobbed an old Seo'eh gioom. " t?omo ono has shot Mr. Hugh," said two or throe at ouea "It must havo been a duel," said sumo one, " for the young master has his own pistol with him." The squire pushed his horse tl. rough tho crowd. Ou the blood stained heath er lay his antagonist of tho uierlit beforo MAY 2M, 18G7. his own young grandsou tho back of his head completely shattered, and stains of blood on his fair, boyish face; Tho steward knelt by tho corpse, disen gaging the pistol from the stiff gtas-p of tue dcaa. lie looked at it with won. doring, bewildered eyes, and said : " It has never been loaded 1 " Then the old squiro understood it all he understood that his boastful, pro Toking words had aggravated Hugh to put his courage to the test, iu tho hope of convincing him there is uo trial of bi'avcrj betweju a honest man and arjb ber. And the squire understood also that had that unloaded pistol been what it seemed, he, tho honorable Goran of Coran; had only escaped by a lie ! '.' I did it! " he said, gloomily ; aud the two deferential officers of justico came aud stood at either sido of Laty mcr Gorau, aud his own servants fell back in horror and dismay. Alas I for tho twice bereaved women, who sat waiting and weeping, nnd as yet hoping, in the proud old castle towers 1 Latymer Corin was spared the igno miny of a trial he did not even live to hear that tho coroner's jury returned a verdict of "misadventuro." The stout old hca rt was broken. Hugh's funeral was delayed but a singlo day, that his grandfather and he, " the last of the Corans," might bo buried together Their names the murderer and tho mur dered, were written on ono tablet. Not a word was said of the ancient and hon orable lineage, nor of tho tragedy in in which both lives closed only their ages, the old man aud the boy, and the text " Fathers, provoke not your children to anger." The breaking up of a gambler's retreat in Boston, the other day, led to the discovery of a closet with a small pane of colored glass, and inside of which a man was discovered with a telegraph machine. The man in the cloSiit and the telegrapd were useful iu in tl.is wDc : Whenever a countryman eutcred to play and try his luck at cards, he was seated at the table with his back to the closet door, thereby giving the man in the closet a fair chance to see the cards held in his hands. The telciriaph machine was supplied with a wiro running from the machine under the carpet, to the burincss man at the tablo, who was thus acquainted with all the cards ho was playing agaiust, thus gaining advantage aud ultimately fleecing his victim. A frightful crime is reported to have come to .ight at Dlandville county, Ky. A man uamed Hudson went to that place about eleven years ago, from South Carolina, leaving his lamily be hind him. In Iilandvillc he seduced a girl named ISolcher, and on her asking him io marry her, he told her that he had a wile and family. This enraged her, and with tho assistance of her sister aud a man named McNabb, she killed him by driving tho spindle of a spin, ning wheel into his ear. The body was then nung up in tho cabin which Hudson had inhabited, and when found ;t was supposed ha had committed suicide. Tho girl married McNabb. A short timo since romorse compelled her to divulge tho fearful secret, and she has been arrested with her nccorn" pliees. A most atrocious criminal, convicted of having brutally outraged and thou murdered a littlo girl of less than too ycnrR, hm just boon, hung in London. Although quiet during tvs confinement, lie was seizjd by an uncontrollable ter ror, and struggled against his doom with tho utmost vl ilenec. It took four or Eve wardens to restrain him, and it was not until ho was thrown upon tho the ground that it. was possible to pinion him. Another fit of terror soized him when ho was brought in night of tho scaffold. lie again strug'ed violently to release himself, and he had to bo dragged up the steps of tho scaffold by two or three wardens, and held under the beam while the rope was adjusted. The bolt was hastily drawn, and it was while still wrestling with his fato that the couvict was hurried out of the world. George Francis Tiaiu says our modem marriago service should read thus ; Clergyman Will you take this brown stone, this carriage and span, these diamonds for thy wedded bus baud? Yes. Will you take this un paid milliner's bill, this high waterfall of foreign hair, affectation, accomplish lu.'nts aud feeblo constitution for thy wedded wife '( Yes. Then, what mar. has joined together let tho next best man run nway with, so that the first divorce court may tear them asunder, The police authority of St. Louis havo hit upon the novel idea of disguis ing a member of the police forco in wo niau's gr.rments and sending him to thoso I'iciilitts in the city wheie reapeo. table ladies are insulted by loafers. T! e result is that several of the loungers a o i.i custody. VOLUME SEYEX-m'MBERW. TERMS I 50 PER ANNUM. A HOTJSE TTH A BOMANCE. Thrco miles west of the village of Georgetown, Madison county, New York, is a phce known as Mather farm. It comprises some seven hundred und thirtysfive acres. A corrspondcut, of the Oucida Dispatch furnishes some interesting facts in its early history : In tho year 1810, an individual known at that time as Lewis Anatho Mullcr, and as a French refugee, settled on this tract, then a wilderness, more desolate than now, nnd attempted the establishment of a village. He erected a spacious dwelling, strong and solid wails being constructed of hewn timber, every bent being raised clo?cly npainst another, making a wall of solid timber twelve to fourteen iuches thick. This fortress liko frame was well covered without, and most carefully finished within, after a style best fancied by the strange builder. Tho walls, present a nieo finish and time has proved their durability. The building is of the Eu ropean style of architecture of that time, being not far from eighty lect long, nnd of proportionate widtlt, divided into rooms and halls. Originally, there were seven fire places. It is said that in the cellar an apartment, uudiscoverablo by a stranger, whose secret purposes were never told, was provided. Large, com. niodious out-buildings wero erected, two largo store houses, numerous fruit trees planted, and nn artificial pond raised, the dam of w'uic h years ago was leveled by subsequent occupants, none of whom, to my knowledge, have owned it or any part of it. Muller brought here with Lira about one hundred and fifty hands, as stated by some of our oldest men, who knew him and assisted him in his enterprise, and 150,000. Many sup. posed him to be Louis l'hillippe him self, King of Franco, and that he sought this secluded hll and costrueted this house in its peculiar manner as a means of defense iu case of danger. At any rate thcro was not, and is not to-day any doubt that ho was one of the nobility of Franoo, for when Bonaparte abdicated ho returned to Franco, leav ing his family (wife and cliildern') in New York. Evideutly no pains were spared to make this lonely placo pljasant, and render tho lands, naturally sterile, fruitful and agreeable to the apparently cultivated taste of the exiled French man. Consequently forests wero leveled, and hundreds of acres cleared with par. ticular care. Money was lavished, i.nd labor without stint applied to beautify this wild, secluded hill. On going to Franco ho left his property iu care of his servants who acc nnpunied bin: bete. But after a few years he returned to New Yoik theoc : to leorg.down tifiud his adopted home nearly deserted, every, thing iu a dilapidated state ; his valtia. bio and costly lurn'.ure carried away or broken, and of all the property which he bought, amounting toI50,0U0 or more, it is related that ho did not recover 5150. He returned to New York, dis posed ol his lands aud immovablo estate at a ruinous bargain, and sailed for Franco' None in this vicinity know to this day who ho wa, or what was his real character. The farm has ever since been owned by parties living in New York, or iu eastern counties, aud bus lecu worked, when worked at all, by teaatiU who wanted to live bad enough to do it, always at a poor lay," even if all their own way. An air of romance Ins ever since clung around that stern but r-tttely mansion rith its lofty poplars nnd spacious green in front. And, until recently reports were lite, and frequently believed, that this house was haunted, and its oceuptinls have peon frightened palo, nud some have becu known to leave, actually believing in tho mysterious talcs of haunted houses, and that this was one- A TlIOUUUT FO!l T1I13 Dr.iCONTEN'- TED. Iu tho days of the Old Brewery, nt the five Points, New York, a woman and her only daughter, a child five years of age, occupied a loathsome cor ner of tho first floor. It was tho custom of the mother, alter covering the child with all the rags which hud been collect, cd duung the day, to place a Tew broken boards, digniQed by the title of a door, iu such a position as probably kept tho hjrrible plaeo half a degree warmer than it would been without such a shelter. Ou one occasion, after the mother had adjusted the l-;ir-l.- f..r the uigh', tho child, probably c.pV..-n i:ig eouio seusutious al comf it, tail : " Mother, what does poor p. . pie do that's i:ot no door to cover thorn '! '' Hon. Thcodoro S. Fax'on, of Utica, New York, has subscribe 1 820, 000 upon o m iitio i that the county ivi'.l raise 820,00 J more, tj provide a home for the aired. It has been agreed by the Court and counsel that John II. urratt shall be tried ou tho ''7lh in;;t. Cablegram is the tntost n m f..r iu ssages kuut Ly the Atlantic telo. graph. I wast a wi?i". "" I want a w ife To cheer my lifo ; I care not what shn lacks in beauty, Ko I but Tind 'J tint, she is kind, And knows and practices her July. I want a wife Who through her lifo Was licver known to bo a flirt ; Who'll bring to mo A recipe To keep the buttons on a ehirt. If such a ono Dwells 'nenth the sun, And don't mind leaving friends behind her With tho n'ulhor of this She'll find true bliss, By informing him where he may find her. The new india-rubber ears for ladies aro boxed every night. When is a tombstone liko a rushlight? .When it is sot up for a late husband. What's best to prevent old men from despairing ? Echo : " Fairing." A young lady must make a hit if she dislikes to be a miss. Give strict attention to your own af. fairs aud consider your wife oneof them. A Nevada paper wishes bachelors to be taxed heavily enough to bring them cither to matrimony or suicide. A young v. oman who went to buy a sewing machine blushingly requested to sco one with a " follor." It is well enough that men should bo killed by love. Man born of woman should die of woman. Those ladies who have a passion for tea. parties should remember that tattle begins with T. A young lady, if a visitor knocks at the front door, will sometimes send word " engaged," though she' never had on offer in her life. Thirteen old maids recently assembled at a tea party iu Twenty-third street, N. Y., whoso combined ages wero nearly a thouand years. A clergyman gave a toast that was not very gallant at a late fireman's celebra tion : " Our fire engines May they bo like old maids, ever ready but never wanted." In Washington a man shot a woman because he did not marry her J in Cin cinnali another shot one because ho did. What can a bachelor do to save his ba con ? " Mrs. P. is happy, ain't she? " said a husband to his wife. " I should think she ought to bo ; she has a cam el's hair shawl, two-thirds border," was the reply. A very modest young'lady who was on board a packet ship, it is said sprang oil of her berth and jumped overboard on hearing the captain, during a storm, order tho mate to " haul down tho sheets." A young girl was one day asked : " Do tell mo why it is Cupid continncs so long after the invention of powder ti uso arrows ? To avoid the report of fire-arms, which would attract the jeal ous, was tho reply. A lawyerj neither young nor hand, some, when cxaming n young lady wit ness iu court, desiring to perplex her said: "Miss, upon my word, you are very pretty." The young lady replied: " I would return tho compliment, srr, were I not under oath." A young gentleman named Harry Turn recently married hij cousin of the same name. When interrogated as to why ho did so, he replied that it had always been a maxim of his that " ono good turn deserves auotber," and he had acted accordingly. " If you ever marry," said a Roman Consul to hi3 son, " let it bo ono who has sense enough to superintend the set ting of a meal of victuals, taste enough to dress herself, pride enough to wash beforo breakfast, and sense enough to hold her tongue when sho has nothing to say." Josii Billings on tue Death dP Art em a s Ward. Doth has done a cruel thing lately. Doth seldom is kind, but Deth iz imparshal ; that is all that can be said iu his favor. He mows with hiz sithe awl round the world, now ia this field, now iu that; wheat flowers and weeds diop, will cud wither, for ho sit lies early and late, iu citti rind town, by the hurthatUu aud awaonh whare the wanderers are. Deih hez done a cruel thing lately. Deth seldom iz kind. Hero a lather, a mother, a wee small thing, but a month on a visit ; thare, .Mary aud Charley go dowu in white clothes Deth mows aud uever iz weary ; Deth whistles und mows ; inenny it. Ids are all bare, for Deth cuts elus.-', as well ns cruel. Deth luvs to r.iow ; 'tiz bis stile. Ho iz old, nnd sligh with hi, sickle ; ho mowed for Abel ef'ell at.d t a- Abel ov yeerday. Deth mows strangely, and round fall the darysinl grass; nl-ine, snarling, statu the Luavse tt.is.-sel, left for wh it ? IVlh kaut toll, I .r God only knows. Dct'i yu hev dun a cruel tliim; late'y ; yu have ivotc! whero the wittyest ono ov them awl sto '!, whnze winds hav gf no l : '.' a v i er the wcul 1, v ho,e ill ,iz soft az a liari w..7. goe r.i IV'i, u ! frien ! A.ii n. i niTvel wh ire inv ' I, in 1 If Jin ir wean iui.u n:: g im.u f..r the il 1 o ' lor hc.ii l, I am sad an i 1 am .-nny. M'l.V i- I'm i t.' , "as I k i a p-i. knili ? !! cause tl.e si rini; br'nts cit the IUij. i
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