She (fillt guluoc,
A WEEKLY NEWSPAPER,
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Nov. 28, 1807., JOHN F MOOTtE,
Editor and Proprietor.
TIME OF HOLDING COURT.
Second Monday in January,
Lost Monday in April.
First Moaday in August.
First Monday in November.
J. S. BORDWELL, M. D.
ECLECTIC PtiTS ICI.1 r.
rilhe word telectio means to choeso or
JL select medicines from all the different
schools of medicine: using, remedies th:il
are safe, and discarding from practice all
medicines that have an impurious effect ou
the system, slcU as mercury, antimony,
lead, copper, te.
' I lay aside the lance the old blood
letter, reducer pr dcpleter, and equalize the
circulation nnij restore the system to its
natural state by alteratives and funics. I
ehall hereafter give particular attention to
chronio disen'S, such as l'obcnmatism,
Dyspepsia, Liwr complaint. Catarrh, Ncu.
ralgia, disease! of the throat, urinary or
gang, and all ciseases peculiar to females,
&c.
CATARRIT 1 treat with a new instrument
of a late invention, which cures every case.
TEETH extracted without pain.
Office and reiidcnce south of the jail on
Centre St. Office hours from 7 to 8 a. m
12 to 1 p. m : il to 7 p. m.
Deo. 23 07. -ly. J. S. BORDWELL.
GREAT REDUCTION
IN THK
PRICE OF FURNITURE !
Mr. Charlos L. Bayer desires respectful
ly to inform the citizens of Elk County that
he has now the most complete, cheapest,
and best lot of Furniture in tho coun'y.
IIU Furniture is all made in his own shop,
lie can therefore warrant it to be neat and
durable. He has a largo assortment ol
Bureaus, Lounprcs, Sofas. Chairs, Tables.
Wardrobes, Cupboards. Bonkeaes, Hook,
stands, Washstaiida, Towel Racks, Iluli
Racks, What Nots, Bedsteads of Whitewood,
Walnut and Cherry, Brackets, Picture
Flames, and everything usually kept in a
first class Furniture Ware-Room.
He has connected with his establishment
a steam turning lathe, which will enable
him to do all kinds of turnlag in a neat niul
workmanlike manner.
All he asks is a fair trial, and if his
wares do not give satisfaction, he will re
fund the money.
CIIARI.F.?. L. r.AVF.n.
my2218071y Ft. Marv's. Pa.
HKKLEH & WlTON'iTis KW
ING MACHINES. Tic under
signed having been appointed Sola A pent
for the sale of Wheeler & Wilson's Kcwing
Machines for i'lk county. He keeps an
assortment constantly on hand. Machines
eoid at Philadelphia and &ew Vor prices.
Any parties desirous of obtaining them can
address J. K. WIHTMOItE,
.. March Ot-'CG-ly. at Ridsway, Ya.
"VfOTICE OF APPEAL. Tho Commis
(ioners of Llk County, will hold ap
peals, at the time uud places mentioned as
follows :
Feb. 18, for Spring Creek, at Irwins.
" lit, for Jones, at the Wilcox House.
" 20, for Highland, nt Charles Siubbs.
" 25, for Horton, at D. Oysters.
" 2tl, for Fox, nt John Kochs.
" 27, for Jay, at M. Spangb r'g.
" 28, for Benezet, at Aliza Winslow'g.
Mar.. 2, for St. Mar's at M. Wellendorf's.
" 8, for Benzinger, at J.. Windfclder's.
: ' 4, for Ridgway, at Com. Office.
On tho 5th of March the appeal on un.
seated lands will be held at Ridgway.
pROPOSALS FOR
L U MBER!
The Columbia Zfiidge Company will re
eive proposals, addressed to G. Ji. Rob
ert Chief Enginneer, Office Pennsylvania
failroad Company, Philadelphia, until
February 20, 1808. for about
3,300 OOO Feet White Pine, B. M.
TOOjMJO Feet White Oak, Ji. M.
1,900 000 Short Joint Shingles.
To be delivered on the framing ground,
t the iridge In Columbia, Pa., on or bo
fere the 1st day of August 1808.
The lumber to be of the best quality of
bridge lumber, and subject to the inspec
tion, measurement, and approval of such
. .Cni tM Company may appoint. Do
tailed bills and specifications can be pro
cured by addressing o. Ji. KOVKltTS
1en"'a ll- U- 0mc0' 1,u''ad'a.
A TTE.&rrOX L UMBERMEX !
f I mr. MULE lUHUl.NE W A T E U
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iiiitu.1,. natcntea .iuvhi. iki7 ;
nnruir in nnv w m uUA
noil lifivi. lm n.n.. ...1 1 :
Miicuuy iui pum nuici in
jnend it us beinir tho best manufacture J.
For further particulars, and circulars, in.
.quire at our Foundry in Kersey, where
machinery, mill-geuriug, castings and steam
engines will be made to order at reasonable
k prices. We expect by giving satisfaction
If our work to receive a good Bhare of pub
Ipatronaae. J. F. ROBERTSON,
4, L
I, Kersey, T i jaulO lS08pd.
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JOILVF. MOORE, EJitor fc Proprietor.
The Utile Old .Haiti.
' Oh, Aunt Fanny, how lovely I Are
they for Laura, or for me V Tho spcak
cr, a pretty, but rather an insipid look,
ing blonde held tip, as she spoke, a
cluster of fine gold ornaments for the
hair, n sprig of" wheat and shipped
grass, very graceful and pretty. Where
have you kept them hidden f
" They arc a keepsake from an old
friend, and have been nninng'niy treas
ures for thirteen years, Bertha," was tho
reply.
' And now they ore for me,' said the
young girl caressingly ' They' will be
so lovely for to-morrow evening, and I
must look my best ; for the girls will all
don their most fascinating attire, un hoo
or of tho occasion.'
' Ts it not rthcr marked to be so very
nnxious?' iuquired her aunt. In my
young days, ladies waited to besought
and courted; but, to judge from what
you have told me, this hero of yours
may have any one in Silvcrdalc for ask
ing.' " Well, he won't know it." replied
Bertha. ' But Lawrcnco. Lane, has
more than riches, Boforo he went
abroad, report says, ho was one of the
most taleuted men of the day; and that
old Methodist, Lucy Hatding, always
speaks of him as a ' true Christian gnn.
tlcman ;' sj I suppose he adds charity
to the best of attractions, for she is not
lavish of praise except on those who arc
willing to assist her.'
' A true Christian gentleman V
Aunt Fanny repeated the phrase in a
musing tone, while a soft light came in.
to her dark eyes and a smile hovered
over hei lips. Bertha, seeing that the
gold ornaments were not to decorate her
hair, went off singing, with tender touch
Aunt Fanny replaced her treasures in
her jewel case.
The next evening, Laura, and Bertha,
in fleecy white blush roses, ami other
delicate flowers in their hair, and looping
the lace folds here and there, stood be.
fore the long mirror iu the drawing room,
pouting.
" I can't see what she wants to go
for,' said Laura, pettishly. 'She has'nt
been to a party since ma died, and that's
ten years ago that little old maid !'
' I woudcril she's husband hunting
ut her asjo V said Bertha. ' Why she
is thiitv if she is a day,' and the beauty
of eighteen shook her curls contemptu.
ously at tho idea of such an advanced
age being attractive.
In the meantime the object of their
ill-natured remarks the gentle aunt, who
for ten years had filled a mother's place
to these, her sister's children, waited in
her own,room for her nieces. She had
clad her small, slight figure in black Bilk,
the severe simplicity of which was re
lieved by rich falls of black lace, deli
cately embroidered with goldoa clusters
of wheat. Her round white arms and
throat were not decked with jewels, but
in the braids of olack hair g!i anted the
golden ornaments which the little old
maid had cherished for thirteen years.
She was not beautiful, yet there was
a charm in her sweet face, a grace in
1 e" gentle movemeats, and a music in
her voice that were sought in vain in
her more dashing nieces. As she wait
ed, her eyes tested upon a letter, discol
ored and worn, which had been long
hidden under her treasured ornaments,
and she read :
'Dear Frances. Since you will
not disobey your father, and I cannot
command the sum ho demands to pay
my father's debt to him, we must part
part for a time only, for though seas
roll between us, and wo may not write,
your heart and mine can never be whol
ly severed. Trust me trust mo, dar.
ling ! for though years may elapse I will
return, true to my pledge to you. Will
you keep the little gold sprigs I ventur.
cd to offer on your birthday, that sonie
ting of mine may be yours I Oh,my dar
ling, bow I linger, dreading to write
farewell I Bui it must be done. Your
resolution nevei to marry clandestinely
commands my rerpect, as your gentle
sweetness has long ago won my love.
Heaven guide you, and keep you from
further sorrow ! Till wo meet pray for
La WHENCE,'
IDG WAY, PEXXA. MARCH, 14,
It was a brilliant party that Mrs.
Haskins, the lender of fashion in Sil.
verdale, gave to her returned nephew.
He had lei t home struggling against
fortune, and depreserd with a knowl
edge of his father's large debts. Vainly
striviug to p.iy these, he had lived close,
dressed with economy, and been well
known as ono upon whom the iron hand
of poverty rested heavily. No farewell
party had been given when ho announc
ed hit; intention of seeking his fortuuu
in a foreign land. II is" relatives were
rather glad to got rid of him ; and of
all Sikerdulc, but ono voice bad sent
forth prayers for his safety ; but ono of
nil his friends watched for his return.
No word had conic to any, till a letter
to his aunt had announced his return
after thirteen years sojourn in Austra.
lia. All his father's debts were paid,
and his letter spoke of large sums in"
vested in various ways, so Mrs. llaskios
oonsultcd "her set," and the result was
tho brilliant assemblage which Laura
and Bertha wcro to honor, and where
that "little old muid," their aunt, was to
appear in society after ten years scclu.
sion.
The hero of the evening had not np.
pcarcd when the trio, under the cscoit
of Mr. Leslie, Bertha and Laura's fath
etitercd, but soon a movement towards
tho door announced his arrival, a tall,
distinguished looking man of thirty-five
or six with finished manners and well
modulated voice a man to notice in
every circle, for the broad, intellectual
brow, aud large honest eyes that greet
ed yours; but now, with the glitter of
his wealth, a man, Silvcrdalc thought,
to full down and worship.
He had greeted his hostess, had made
nearly the circuit of tho room, bowing
to new friends, greeting with srarm cor
diality bis old ones, when h's eyes fell
upon a golden car of wheat, resting up
on a broad braid of black hair. The
light that sprang in his eyes, tho smile
upon his lips, carried such deep peace
to ono heart, gave one lifo of patient
waiting such a new spring of happiuess,
that the words of polite greetiug fell
upon cars that scarcely heard them.
True true ! Her trust repaid hor
long constancy rewarded 1
No one else noted more than the qui.
et greeting of old fricuds, but two hearts
were full of deep joy, rest after weary
longing. Some of the guests were in
vited by the returned Australian to a
house warming, learning for the first
time that a new mansion, tho building
aud furnish iug of which had long been
a source of speculation, was to be the
future home of Lawrence Lane.
Of course, everybody accepted tho
invitation, and mauy a young heart flut
tered at the thought that so splendid a
mansion must soon need a mistress.
One week noon glided away. Aunt
Funny was very kiud in helping to trim
new peach colored silks for the sisters ;
but there was an odd smile on her lip
when Lawrence Lane's matrimonial
prospects were discussed.
A few days before the eventful night,
Aunt Fanny, to her Dteces' surprise,
went on a visit to some old friend
The evening appointed for the house
warming came at last. Carriago after
carriage set down its load of fair beau,
tics before tho superb mansion, the win
dows of which blazed with light. Merry
voices rang through the hall and rooms,
gay footsteps flew from ono beautiful
apartment to another, till it was whis.
pered no ono knew by whom that tho
revelers were invited to meet tho mis.
tress as well as the master of the man"
sion. The closed doors, which shut off
a small room, were eagerly watched, as
the guests assembled, and no host came
to welcome them.
At length they were opened, and the
tall handsome hero of the hour entered ;
with a small, white-robed figure on his
arm, ud more than ono cry of astonish,
mcut greeted "Frances Somers;" and
more than one ill-natured whisper was
directed at Lawrence Lane's taste in
choosing, when all the beauty cf Silver
dale was before him, '-That Little Old
Maid."
OirJJoot read this liuu.
18C8.
VOLUME SEVEXXUMBER 52.
Eighty thousnnd people hnvc fled
from Buenos Ayres to avoid the cholera.
In January, 19,000 acres of land
were disposed of at the United States
Land OlEce at Ionia, Michigan.
The Kcarsarge, which punk tho
Alabama, sailed for tho Pacific last week
from Boston.
Gold bearing bonds tho bonds of
matrimony. The coupons are payablo
annually, or thereabouts.
Mr. Adams held tho office of Min
ister to hngland longer than any other
petson since 1835.
La Crosse, Wis., has had a skating
park benefit, with the mercury thirty
degrees below zero I Nobody frozcr; 1
Louis Napoleon gets $14,240 per
day ; Queeu Victoria, 0,029 ; Francis
Joseph, $10,050, aud tin King of
1'russia, $8,210.
In reply to n paper which called
Gen. Sherman ' the coming man," a
Georgia journal pettishly says it hopes
ho is not coming that way again."
A greenback of mammoth poster
size, bearing a portrait of Mr. I'cndlc.
ton, is oue of tho devices at the West
to secure the nomination of that gentle,
man for President.
Highway robbers in Montana arc
known as 'road agents," and their
sworn enemies are the " Vigilants," who
hang them without judge or jury when
they catch them.
The Murfrcesboro (Tcnn.,) Watch,
man says : ' We have had a greater
amount of cold weather this winter in
this latitudo than has been known for
many years."
Tho wife of a retired soldier living
at Nunn's Hill, near Valparaiso, has re
cently brought forth, at one birth, four
boys and two girls, and is suckling her
children herself.
J udges Black, of Pennsylvania, and
Curtis, of Boston, and Mr. Evarts, of
New York, it is said, have boon select,
ed to defend the President in the court
of the impeachcrs.
Plato was wont to say of his mas
ter, Socrates, " Ho was like tho apothe
caries' gallypots, which had on the out
sido apes, and owls, and satyrs ; but
within, precious drugs.
An Abolition sheet asks, " What
holds tho llcpublican party together ? "
That's not a bit hard to answer it's
tho ' cohesive power of public plunder,'
of course.
Burying alive their new-born chil.
drcn is a common practice with the
Southern negro women. Tne .quantity
of voters thus saorificod is alarming.
Radicals should look to it.
Why is a thief your only true Phil
osopher? Because he regards every
thing from an abstract point of view, is
opposed to all notions of protection, and
is open to conviction.
The cemetery at Tippinsville is
about undergoing various improvement.
In the courso of an argumont in favor of
the proposed renovation, good old l)ea.
con T remarked that il was a duty
to render the place as attractive as pos.
sible, " because," with a sigh, " we shall
all be buried there if we live I"
Every third man and boy in Boston
whistles the air of the Grand Duchess
as he goes through the streets. An
evening or two since one of the broth,
rcn at a prayer meeting unconsciously
led off with th Sabre Song, and only
discovered his error when the meeting
didn't join iu the " chorus."
Sir Matthew Hale says: "Con"
verse not with a liar, or a swearer, or a
man of obscene or wanton language ;
for either it will corrupt you, or at least
it will hazard your reputa.'ion to bt of
the like making; and if it doth neither,
yet it will fill your memory with such
discourses that it will bo troublesome to
you in after time ; and tho returns of
the remembrance of the passages of this
nature which you have long since heard,
will haunt when your thoughts should
bo better employed."
THE OLD UNION.
Reader havo you ever seriously
thought of how glorious a fabric was
the old Union f
Have you ever reflected on the beau,
tics of that simple structure of civil
government that hath passed away like
tho baseless fabric of a vision ?
Have you ever contemplated tho fair
proportion of that temple of freedom,
now crumbled to the dust through tho
corruption of the priests of the sanctuary
Have you ever formed an ndequnto
conception of tho benef ts conferred on
huraanitybythat highest .'triumph' of
man'a gci.ius, that' brra?cst-effort of
man's philanthropy the Old Union?
Havo you ever realized the controlling
influence exercised among tho nations
of tho catth by that original creation ct
American liberty the Old Union ? '
Not alone was it a blessing to tho
dwellers beneath its starry sogis.
Not alono was it a home for the wea
ry and oppressed, who fled from the
iron heel of tyranny, or from anarchy's
dread blight.
Not alono was it the peculiar home
and proviuca of earth's unfortunates,
who gathered to worship beneath its
protection.'
Nat alone to these, but by the mag'o
of it3 name and the influence of its
lofty statesmanship it exerted an ameli
orating influenco on tho condition of
those whose homes were on other conti
nents, whose destinies were linked with
other climes.
To tho dwellers by tho Rhine, the
Danube and the Po ; on the sunny
plains of India, and the vine-clad hills of
Italy ; to those who dwell where the
fairy isles of the Pacific sleep upon their
coral beds, to the toiling Astatic, as
well as to the ambitious European, the
namo of America was synonymous with
the name of Liberty.
The Old Union was tho gift of tho
Creator to the human family it was
tho lumintry from which tho rays of
Liberty were to permeate to the remot
est regions of the globe.
With the fall of this majestic struc
ture camo the deep wailing from the
myriad crushed hearts of Columbia'3
children, who were mangled and torn
by its dyiug convulsions.
But they who went down amid tho
din and shock ot contending armies ;
they who died in tho serried ranks of
war ; they whoso requiems were sang
by the hissing bullets ; they who were
ushered into eternity from tho red
fields of strife, they were not s deeply
to be pitied as many who survived them.
Ask of the thinly clad widow, shiver
ing over the tireless grate, vainly trying
to warm her perishing babe ask her
why is sho thus reduced to want and
misery ?
Ask of the homeless orphan, implor
ing for shelter from tho mighty blast,
and a mouthful of food to sustain ex
hausted nature.
Ask of the maimed soldier, striving
to eko out a scanty subsistence from tho
grudging charity of tho purse-proud
parvenucs, whose flaunting robes were
purchased by trafficing in his blood
ask of these stricken ones, why they ar
reduced to this pitiablo necessity and
they will toll you it is because of the
drca lful wtii- that 1ms compassed the
destruction of that more thau human
edifice, the Old Union.
The Union of love.
The Union of mutual respect and
confidence.
The Union cemented by tho blood of
pure patriots, and sauetionedby the p.
proval of incorruptible statesmen.
Tho Union that was based on the afV
feotions of tho people.
The Union that was canonized in the
hearts of all the friends of liberty.
Tho Union, that was .the grandest
practical illustration of tho great truths
of Democracy.
The Uoion that wa3 dissevered and
destroyed by the fell spirit of Radicalism.
The Union that was prostrated by the
iron hond cf military power.
The Union that was established by
the Conservative, and destroyed by the
Puritan.
Democrats, freemen, is not tho re
establishment of the Union as it was an
undeitiking worthy of your noblest
effjrts ?
Can there bo any sacrifice too great,
any offering too costly, any price too
exorbitant for the resuscitation of the
fires of liberty ?
May He who who holdcth the wa,
ters in the hollow of His hand," aid
and defend tho RIGHT in the coming
struggle with the hireling instruments
of illegal power.
May the true whi'e men of America
again shape tho destinies of their native
laud, until it shall regain its ancient
power, aud prestige, aud splendor, and
may iu future bo as bright as its past
is glorious. La Crosse Democrat.