Northumberland County Democrat from Sunbury, Pennsylvania • 1

Wfflffl MM w. 1 tin Inoortle Party of 1 ComsUy. A A WEEKLY JOURNAL FOR THE HOME CIRCLE, THE MECHANIC, THE BUSINESS, MAN AND THE POLITICIAN. Eat-H-- "flu. ULEYEiSTH XEAE.

SUKBUKY, FEIJA FEBEUAE 16, r. $2.00 AITi; I I 111 II 1 I I 11 1 111 .4 For the Old Lore's Sake. arew inere was no burry. Tee rrain Facts al I. COKLEY CO.

A 1 Jdst one kiss twd fades moti But the brows were knit and the dideks Were wet; Just one kisa then np and away i. But ite mark will last for many a day. Kecovering Lis prSseriee of mind, he pushed the automaton qnickly the screen, and then proceeded to reassure the audience, who, byMthis seeing and smelling no snioke, had begun to think it a false alafrnj i btnV whose attention heretofore had so luckily boon Oft gUDat I Published every Friday by J. E. EICHHOLTZ, Editor fc Proprietor.

Oj in ifiwonte JJw'Jdin, on Third Strut, i Burmese Courtship.r The Burmese are Buddhists, and Brtddr ism has nothing; to do, with marriage. In other words, marriage is contrary to the principles 6f tho Buddhist religion. So says a correspondent of the Pall Mail Gazette, writing from Rangoon he adds; A Burmese damsel is demure, laughter-loving and Self-reliant. Her manner is graceful and pleagi g. She wears a bright silk petticoat, a white jacket, a fold necklace, and has glossy black hair ecked with flowers.

She often smokes a green cheroot. Of course she has ad 17 you court a young wort; 3 1 are woit and she is won, you i be A sarcastic your lady 'says a most unpleasant in r- a lovers and pig. The latest style of trirr- --fie over-skirts of dresses is with fringe and velvet or, chenille Uimmiitg. "Where have you been sice the cow kicked is a delicate wsy Chi oaroans have -of relerrmg to ve late calamity, most fashionable style of presents to give to a bride is handsome bronzes cr jewelry1 and lace, silver being at present quite at a discount. i A polite philosopher once thantted a lady who had been singing to a party for au hour by the remark, Miftm, yon jj have wasted Otur timemctt ctrnrrr-'y." Fame is Iik a shaved- pir wii.i ft greased tail, and it is only after it has slipped through the hands ef some thou- sands, that some by good luck holdiontoii The new Freneh Tariff bill imposes the following duties: On wool, 80 franca per 100 kilogrammes cotton, 4 francs resin, from 1 i to 7 iranos cneese, ixuxu 15 to 18 francs hops, CO francs.

A friend who did the Colorado monn- occupied with themselves and their means of escape that they Lad not mind ed the antics of the The ruse of his rival, thus oromwtlv met, did no harm, and the field pf battle was left an quiet possession of the greater but Maelzel often said he could afford to pay that man ibr 1. ..1 3 1 i.t 1 it 1 cuuwru xixiH-. me oiuy uoiovi la jiia The Town of Sitka, la Alaska. The Village contains forty or (fifty houses. The population consists of one thousand Indians and two.

thousands dogs. Of the dogs, all but one. are of the same sharp-eared, wolflijl. type seen among the Indians of the plains, The exception was a bandy-legged, lop-eared cur or civiiizea oreea. the oniv One among the two thousand that showed a lack of civility by barking at our heels, The bouses ranch" more resemble the semi-subterranean abodes: of tbe Lan.

landers and Esquimaux than the wig warns of American Indians. Like the oak described by the American poet, they extend as far into the earth as above it. Some of them are from twenty to thirty feet square, and built of very? wide cedar planks, many of them more than four feet aorpsa, worked out by these xude i (- We entered several. Creeping through apertures, both square- and round hot more than three feet in diameter, we descended flights of steps into the1 large single roonv In' the centre of each a Ore was bnut on the around, and in the centre of each roof a hole, nnt of nrhihit passed a smalt portion of the smoke, the most of it remaining for the benefit of the salmon hanging over our heads, and to tnake sore eyes for the inmates, The whola inside is floored except tbe fireplace in the middle. On, both sides are the sleeping-places', covered with skins and blankets, and in' some instances separated by low partitions.

In the j-enr, and on shelves below the dormitories; were stored potatoes and dried salmon in small covered with Their largest potatoes are the size of a hnlled Walnut. a. 'The ladies beautify their complexions with soot and red paint, and still further enhance their charms by wearing a bona through the upper tbe size of whieh ia increased from year to yeai until, in some of old ones, it attains a width tains last Fall-has informed, us that he got as Ravenous as a raven among the ravines, and sat down in one of the gor- i geous gorges and gorged himself I Darin the last more than 250,000, 000 worth of land has been washed away from the eastern coast of England by the encroaemftnts of fha Holland.has lost 500,000.000. 1 1 i of. two rAn Jady thusfcaveia pearly 800 feet below the surface f- -i menial pxauonn, twujusi iub i.iuti muubo, and swing off into that silent bourne from whence they can never return save by the Indianapolis or connecting lines.

r'. The last subiect discussed 1t inif society1 rrat, I-you, to have a boil, where would you prefer to have it The unanimous deeiftian 01 tne members was, "Ott sort tier fiJow." Decatur, boasts of adO never hnVtrc. hat crows like a cock inst- id. He has been brought up and ednce tei mong the fowls the farm-yard, a ad has learned their language and forgotten his own. At Kansas City, the drill whichls boring a shaft for a coal mine went throngb-a cave 44 feet deep before reaching the rrw.k: underneath.

The bottom 01 tne of the earth. A D-Antleman riding in a Taris fiaors indignantly abused the coachman for driving so slow. The latter disdainfully replied "Do you think tciat simpiy to please you I am going to spoiTa hit of horses worth thirty-five francs, The Chinese have a custom, at their weddings which we protest is no improvement upon our own prae'-Ice on trrna MiaRTnl occasion. Inatasul kiss ing the bride the bridegroom and guests hi! Il rm tV- i tUair sasdols. It is a noticele fvt i 1 ciety flirting is not carried on in as great a degree as was formerly the case.

It is indeed cause for sincere congratulation, as in most instances what was life and pleasure to one party was intense misery to the other. A Calif ernia Judge recently had a grocer brought before him for selling match es without stamps. He decided tbat tri erocer had not violated the law which forbids exposing for sale" unstamped packages, because the matches in question were sold from under tthe counter. Two citizens of Grundy County, Nevada, settled an old grudge lately by a resort to the code. One of the duelists was armed with a revolver, and the other with a musket, which, either by accident or trickery, was not loaded.

The result was that the man with the unloaded weapon was killed. I weeded my friends," said an eccon-trio old man, "by hanging a piece of stair-carpet out of my first floor front window with a constable's announcement affixed. It had the desired effect. 1 soon saw who were my friends. It was like firing a gun at a pigeon-house.

They forsook the building at the report. A man stopping at a hotel in Bieh-mond, lately caused no little trouble by the reprehensive habit of walking about at all hours of the night. Having established the reputation of a first-class somnambulist, he walked off to an early train with his carpet-bag as naturally as though he had been awake, and lelt his bill unpaid. i Mr. Jones," said a clergyman at a pastoral visit, I never see you at church parishioner; "to tell you the truth, I on isnniiav evenings 1 xiv, icucu cannot very wen pt night, for I am obliged to take care 01 tbe children." "Why, how is mat; have yo no servants?" "Oh, yest" said poor paterfamilies "weTteep two, but they don't allow us many privileges.

The Offended Bandy. I had quite a laugh in the park the other day. Not far from Where; 1 was tnnnirinff a crantleman was promenading, To hiin I seemed a celestial ylsitant. The Cold-irfeat Train is now a thing of the past, I believe. A luggage train carries belated officers back to camp; but, to this day, I confess that I always prefer to in broad daylight, and that I carefully look inside the carriage before I enter it, I desire no more Loans from the Cutting and Polishing Diamonds.

The. art of cutting and polishing diamonds is supposed to originated in Asia at.a very early period, but was first introduced into Europe by Louis Ber- quen, of Bruges, about the middle of the fifteenth century. Hi accidentally? dis covered mat ruDDing two' diamonds to. gether caused an abrasion of their? sufc- faces, and from, this 'eon deduced the art as it is now, practised. The process Of poli8hinp- and entting.

as I observed xu xb stow sraa tedious, nearly every part of it, from the delicacy and exactness requirt)d. needinc to aone Dy nana. xne of a ain ele demands two months of contirninns labor; and the famous Pitt or Retrent tiiamona underwent two years of con 9 5 0 stant mairipulation before it was cam. plete. In the mills one diamond is em ployed upon another, each being cemented into the enda "handle, and a model of lead being taken of the gem to be cut, which determines the The stones are then rubbed together with a strong pressure, and held over a metal box with a double bottom, the tipper bottom being perforated with small boles, through which the diamond dnst falls.

The dust is of value that it is vey carefully collected, and, after mixture with vegetable mil, is Used, for polishing the gem upon a steel or cast-iron nlate. which is made to reyolve rapidly, sometimes by steam, as I have said, but generally by means of a tredle. The diamond powder is also used for cutting. It is placed upon a.steel wire or iaw, and this, drawn swiftly, backward and forward, makes the required incision. When wbxitje piuuovf the -atone is to be remov ed, tt 13 OCCttBiOoalljrbMit.

wiUx chisel and hammer bat this 00 increases the danger of breaking or destroying the gem, that it is rarely resorted to. No kind of work can be ideer or more diffi cult, for tie workman must thoroughly understand the character and peculiaiity of diamonds, and must have an absolute knowledge of the cleavage planes before he can be trusted with their manipulation. How to Mak In New York a discussion exists as to the cost of living. A. lady housekeeper sends the folio win fft i i iet a young pig's head fe8h, weiau- ing.

five or six pounds, which can be bought for twenty-five or Uxirty "cents one from tn.e country preferred." Clean it well, cutting off the ears to enable yon to clean them well inside. (Get the butcher to take but the eyes and teeth when you buy it)1 Put tbe head in two gallons and a half of cold water. Xet it boil until the bones can be easily separated from the Chop the meat very put it bak into the liquor i.lias.IieeB boiledJn. and seaarm with pepper, txlt( ibfe, nngewftwf5et marjoram. (Don't put too-much of the herbs.) Jen take equal parts "ol buckwheat and corn-meal, and stir in until the compound is abomfc the consistency of mush lifting it off the fire while thickening, to prevent it getting lumpy.

Then let it boil for about fifteen or twenty minutes, stirring it to prevent burning. Turn it into pans to cooL Cut into thin slices, and fry brown as yon to use it. The eost will be about fifty cents. For that sum my family of nve grown persons have plenty for breakfast every day for a week. As my husband is, as he calls himself, somewhat ef an epicure, and decidedly objects to an uninterrupted course of beefsteaks and chops, which mainly comprise the range of Bridget's bill of fair for breakfast, I have several domestic dishes, the result of a long experience houskeeping, which I will be happy furnish at some future time, as.

1 am afraid I have already tret passed too much on your valuable space. Mapb him Pat. When Gen. Jackson was a heartless, clerk in the Treasury Department np an indebtedness with a poor landlady to $60, and then turned her off, as he did every other creditor. She finally went to the President with her complaint, and asked if he could not compel the clerk to pay the bill.

"He offers his note," she said, but his note is good for nothing." Said the President, Get his note and bring it to me." The clerk gave her the note with the jeering request, "she would let him know when got the money on it." Taking it to the President he wrote Andrew Jackson" the back of it, and told her that she could get the money at the bank. When became due the clerk refused to pay the- note, but when he learned who was the endorser, lie made haste to "raise the wind." The next morning he found a note on his desk saying that his services were no longer required by the government and it served him right. Superstition. A frightful event that just taken place in Arkansas, illus trates the power which a belief as old and childish as that in witchcraft may still exert. It appears tbat a negro of Little Rock, named Francis, deliberately shot and killed another man of the same race named Vaughan, as the murderer alleges, bewitching him.

Francis says Vaughan was a regular Obi-man," in power; that he poisoned" his hand that it was always cold; that he had charmed'' many persons of both sexes who had the misfortune to ottend him and that he had shot him for trying to throw men into spells, and enchanting various women. "I don't feel sorry for shooting" him," added Francis, frankly, for I didn want him deviling round longer, and he ought to have been killed long ago." On this persuasion the man walked qmtely up to within five of his victim, and blew his brains with a Colt's revolver. Peanuts. The peanut, which is so popular a commodity, has one peculiarity of growth which distinguishes it from other known plants. The flowers and leaves are produced as they are in other plants of the pea or bean tribe but when flower has withered, the stem which supported it grows rapidly in a curved manner, bending toward the ground, in which it penetrates several inches.

In this position the fruit becomes ripened and from this singular operation the peanut has derived the name of earth-nut Europe. This hut is a valuable article food in many tropical countries, and extensively cultivated. Formerly it largely imported now we depend chiefly on the crops from Virginia and Carolinas. It contains a large percentage of clear yellow oil, which is largely esteemed for domestic purposes, and frequently used to adulterate olive oil. Cochin China and in India peanut oil used in lamps.

The Western New York Poultry Association opened their second annual exhibition under the most flattering auspices. The collection of domestic fowlx and Other birds was admitted to be the finest exhibition in the section of the country. Over $2,500 in prizes were offered, and the attendance was large. Two miners were Helena, Montana. frozen to death, at pounds with compound interest.

of ful $5 I as did not stop till it reached Woking. could not possibly be disturbed. I wanted a Mgnal: the whistle of the engine, as the driver sighted-the red lamps at VVoking, should be the signal for my departure from fhe world. Yes," I said, aloud, turning upon my self, as it were, in a sort of frenzy yes! the moment the whistle sounds, William Heathcote, you shall die." have said that the rising moon was shining brightly into, the carriage, full upon the coffin, and upon the mysterious in scnption. I don't think I really believed that this coffin had any tangible existence.

It might be but the production of my own levered brain, but none the loss, on that account, was it a veritable warning of my (loom, booking up, however, to see if it had indeed disanoeared, I saw no longer tne comn-iiu, but a white shrouded figure, apallid, tsorpse-lik) face, the eyes of which, InThe moonbeams, shone unone me with a sepulchral gleam. For a moment, I thought that I had in deed passed into the land shadows that a was a disembodied spirit, looking upon my own mortal remains and the thought that I had ceased to be an individuality. and Dad Decome the mere shadow of a thought, struck such a chill terror and hor- r. to m7: that eTerv impulse of it was lest in an eager effort to resume my individual existence. I came to myself with a deen gasp' dig ging my finger-nuils into my palms.

Ah, the joy of that moment, after the torture of.the "fpe back to life Life-ragged, miecriible. it might be but still dear life precious it seemed bow unfathomably deep, below the utmost wretchedness of being, was the dread abyss of non-existence! Shadows! I defied them. Come forth, old mole I shouted to my double in the coffin. He came forth As I live, he stepped out of the coffin, seated himself opposite to me, and laid a finger on my arm laid a linger on my arm, and leaned forward to speat in my ear. Mercy, mercy," shrieked the figure, in a voice that pierced the roar of the tram.

then "thunrlrring-wer "trtdge. Seel' cried the figures, slipping a paper in my hands keep it: keep it; only don't be- trav me. WBew-w went the whistle of the engine. shrieking, as it seemed, close into my ears. I turned head for a moment tbe moon bad Just passed into a cloud the figure had vanished tbe coffin still stood the corner, dark and grim.

The train slacken ed, stopped. Jem," said a voice that of the guard's there's a body in that middle first-class coach there's some parties coming to meet it with an 'earse." "All right. Jack." said another voice; "they've come to fetch him. Bear a hand here, will you Ob, Lord shouted the man. as he saw me sitting in the coi corner.

"Oh, I beg yonr pardon, sir. I hope you did nreu i uccu-aiinuyeu, Bin iatx, tt iai you mean by putting the gent into thw compurtrffent 1" rt I didn't," growled Jack; he mast 'a got in by hisself." "All right," said, getting out and stretching myself on the platform. I'll get into the next carriage. No bodies there, are there D'ye call me nobody said Pat "Jump hr, Billy, me bhoyl I've cleared out the rest of the company 5 ye'll introduce a little fresh capital into the concern." What a contrast to the scene I had quitted was the cheerful, lighted carriage, with its occupants, all brother -officers ol mine, smoking, cbailing, and playing loo on a rug stretched over their knees! Surely the whole of the previous scene had been dream, or could it have been an incipient attack of D. not brought on by drink, indeed, for 1 was not given to that, but by irregular habits and stress of mind.

It wasn't till I had reached my own hut Aldershott, that I thought of the paper l. i- xl 1 i ji 1 1 i- WUIUU lfliegUUSl 11UIX 1WU UlC, H11U WU1CU, my delirium, I had imagined I had thrust into my waistcoat pocket. Here was a test, at all events if there was a real paper, bearing signs of its ghostly or igin, then I was stilt sane, and the separ ation 1 bad witnessed was not a delusion the brain. In the corner of my waistcoat pocket was a crumpled piece of flimsy paper: I unfolded it, and found it a Bank of England note for one hundred pounds. From that -time I was ai altered man.

paid my gambling debts confessed all vuiisiiiao-iuioiiv lAij liivnuo. vv aavs lifted me out of the mire never touched a card or a die; studied the Staff College passed a good examination went to Sandhurst, came out with high bonors.and having a little interest at headquarters, an appointment as commissioner, to watch the operations of the American War of Secession, on General 's staff. -i It was at the close of a bloody but des- perate battle, or series of battles, which resulted in the retieat of the army the South, that I visited the field-hospitals at the rear of the army, in search of a friend who had been wounded during the day. The doctors and attendanfs were busy to pay any. attention to my wants, and I walked down the long rows hastily improvised couches, trying to recognise my friend.

Scraps of paper, on which tbe names of patients had been hastily scrawled, were pinned to the coverings, and I started I read on Heathcote" own name. The man appeared to be sinking from exhaustion, but he brightened when he heard tbe tones of a friendly voice. I knelt down beside him, and asked if I could do anything for him. He nodded his head. "You're English T' whispered.

a 'Yes, I "So am f. If you should be in the neighborhood of Bedford, and should be able to hear of an old man named Heathcote, a retired draper, will you tell him his died in a creditable way I was a disgrace to him, sir, when I was alive; but when I am dead, perhaps he'll tjiink kindly of me again. I'll tell yon my story, sir. was a rogue I was an undertaker, butl was a collector of taxes too and I enttred into a conspiracy to defraud the government. It came out; but I had warning in time.

I shammed dead, and got away in one if my coffins with all the swag. They wasn't very keen after me; don't knw why but just at tbe last moment I thought they'd have me. A detective followed me right to Working but I squared biin with a hundred pound note, and got clear away to America by-tbe Southampton packet. It never prospered me, tbat money and I got lower lower, till I listed as a soldier, and here I am I'm getting tired sir. Don't forget 1 Bedford Heathcote, retired I passe 1 on in wonder and astonishment and, if I must confess, a little disappointed and disenchanted.

I was no special care, then, of any overruling Providence, as 1 had fondly deemed myself. My wonderful warning and deliverance was a mere affair of chance and accident. As I passed tbe man's couch again, he lay on it stiff and stark and dead. On my return to England, I made inquiry of the officials of the revenue department, and found there really bad been fraud of the kind ir. question, that the collector implicated in it had died suddenly by suicide, it was thought.

As to defalcations, the defaulter's surietics had paid a part one of them, his father, having been sold up in consequence and rest bad been paid over again by the parishioners he had defrauded. So I found ont tbe old man at Bedford. was living with a daughter, in abiect poverty, and paid to birn the hundred in to she on it has as full so any feet out all the to in' of is was the is In is And have you forgotten me quite, dear, ur say, ao you sometimes a ream What life might have been if we wandered still Together bv wood and stream Do you think of days when my love was all The world could give or take, And say, with a sigh, they were happy days," just ror tne old love sake 1 Do you ever sit in the twilight, dear, And think of that wintry day When we met and parted and journeyed forth Each on our separate wav 1 1 turned, and stood for a moment, dear, Ana looxeu in vour lace, to take Its memory far on my way through life, Just for the old love's sake Just for the old love's sake, Sweetheart, ust ior tne 01a love's Bake. Do you ever think they Were bitter words Their memoir haunts me vet. Do you wonder how you could say them all Tea, dear, my heart has forgiven them auu wuuutsr lorcet xnougn 1 xnouent at nrsc 'twouia Dreak And whenever I think, ilia kindly still.

Just for the old love's sake. Sweetheart, us roT we oia love sane. AND FROM SUCH A SOUBCE. A good many years aeo the retrimcnt to which I then belonged vrss auartered at Aldershott. After a long absence from England, spent on a parching rock in the middle of the Ked Sea, bleak and dreary AiacrsDott seemed a very paradise.

Jt was delightfully near London, too leave was easily to be obtained and a great part of my spare time, and more than all my spare in the metropolis to confess, in not- nrAnr shii h. money, was spent by roe spent, am ashamed ous living and much disorder. Still, had it only been that. I should, possibly, like many of my brother officers, at the cost of much subsequent pain, and weariness, and pinching, have passed through rov cycle of dissipation, and settled down at last but, in addition td my youthful aberrations, I had a fatal predilestion for games of skill and chance. I was the best whist-player in tne regiment, and could hold my own with the crack players of the clubs 5 and had I stuck to whist, which, in my belief, never ruined any man who had a head up on his shoulders, I could have made a de cent income out of my skill but my mod erate winnings at whist were swallowed up, and much more lost besides, at unlimited loo, blind hookey, hazard, and other kindred games.

To crown all. I took to back ing horses, and lost at that, I need hardly say. A long run of eyil luck beset me; I had lost all my available funds, had mortgaged my commission to the utmost penny I could raise upon it, and found myself, at the end of the Epsom week, fevered and parched in body, in soul wretched and despairing. I had come to the end of my tether; I was regularly done had nothing but evil in store for me. On the following week I should be posted as a de aulter on the turf 1 should leave the armv ai8Pce) such tidings would kill my oiu wiaoweu movceB.

I Tt. was Sunday night I had been in Lon don, trying to raise money, but uselessly ids jews ciosea tueir lists to only wanted a hundred pounds to nay mv Der by losses this achieved, I could sell out, ana retire without open disgrace but 1 couldn't rake it One man offered me fifty pounds for my bill of two hundred and fifty pounds at three months, but I wasn't auite so. mad as to take that I might as well smash for a hundred as fifty. Mv lanr. anvenMirn u-iw rhann-orl in rsvinr my hotel bill on that Sunday night.

I had a return ticket to Aldershott in my pocket, and a few shillings besides nothing else in the world in tho way of available assets. I think if I had been possessed of sore pound note I should nave gone down to Liverpool and taken a steerage passage to America. It was the limited extent ol my means which made me resolve to go oacK to my quarters at Aldershott, and appear on parade the next day. A he cioct in the cotice-room where 1 was sitting showed half-past eleven as the hour of night the waiter only was in tbe room, arranging bis spoons and napkins, in the buffet, yawning surreptitiously every now ana then, quite indilterent to thespro- blems which were agitating me. Waterloo Bridge or Aldershott 1 I must make up my mma quickly; another five minutes.

and it wou'j be too late for the one the other was always open. Waiter, a hansom I shouted all of a sudden in a tone which made the man jump. At that time there was a train which left not Waterloo, but some station a little distance down the line it might have been Vauxhall, or possibly Nine Elms, I scarcely remember which left the station at midnight. It was popularly known among as the Cold-meat Train. Its passengers were dead bodies for the Woking Cemete ry.

1 he railroad company, ever solicitous accommodate the public and turn an honest penny, had, for the convenience of the camp, affixed to this train one first- class carriage. After leaving the dead bodies at Woking, the carriage was run on to arn borough, whence you could walk to camp, if you had not been prudent enough order a fly to meet you. The hotel servant who ushered me to the cab got a handsome gratuity for his pains. was my leave-taking of the world pleasure, and I was too insolvent to be careful about little matters. The cab sped me quickly to the station but the clock the hotel had been slow as we passed under the railway arch, a premonitory shriek from the engine overhead warned me tuat the tram was on tbe point or starting.

stopped the cab at the bridge, and ran quickly up a narrow flight of steps which led directly on to the end of tbe platform- known only to the initiated the train was moving on, but 1 bad just time, despite warning shouts of guard and porters, to open the door of the lastxarriagc and jump xne omer compartments ot the car- rige I noticed were lighted, but this one was dark that didn't affect me, I didn't want to read. I took out a box of wax matches and proceeded to light a cigar. as tne glow ot the match lit up the interior of the carriage, I saw in the corner a long dark object, quite black, and yet with some little metallic gleam about it it was coffin, reared npat the farther side of tbe carriage, a board being plsced behind it, against which it leaned. As I looked steadfastly at the coffin, it appeared suddenly to glow with a faint radiance. Every nail and every plate upon it began to gleam with strange mysterious light.

Bah! it was the moon. We had just left tbe clouds of London behind us, and the great round moon, rising out of river-mists, cast her glorious beams right athwart us. Butl tuf id away from her hi disgust. What wasXbe beauty of trie night to me a ruined spendthrift -the scorn and laughing stock tne wona i me black coffin on the other side was a more congenial companion me. I lit another match, and read the inscription on the plate "William Heath cot, died 25th May, 18, aged twenty five years." The hair on my head rose in amass; my heart heart ceased to beat.

My own name, my own age, and the very date of me aay mat was now just born It chimed in, too, did this inscription, so mysteriously with that impulse I had felt the whole day a turning to self destruc tion as a means of escape from all the degradation of life. I would accept the omen. carried with me, a practice I bad acquired tbe a small American revolver which fitted in my waistcoat pocket. It would kill at twenty paces, and would give me my mittimus easily enough. I drew it out and placed it against mr forehead: then it struck me that the ball, after passing through my head, might pass also through the partition dividing the com partments 'and strike some one in tbe next carriage.

I turned, therefore, my back to tbe window, and again placed the muzzle the pistol to my forehead. Again I wish- a at in I su got of too of the as my up he son I I and a tbe the He Market Street, East of the Railroad, SUNBUBY, Dealers- in American and Foreign HABDWABE AND CUTLEBY. rr I HB attention of Mechanica, Farmers, Builders, and buyers generally, is in vited to the fact that we are now ottering a better selected assortment of HARDWARE, IE than ever 'was offered In this market, at prices much belowthOM heretofore demanded by Our stock comprise, all article, in this line of business, em Bracing a general assortment 01 too is ana material, used Dy CARPENTERS, BLACKSMITHS, CARRIAGE Ss WAGON-MAKERS, together with a Urge stock of Iron, Steely Kails. Spikes, Ropes, Chains, Grindstones, Mill and vut saws, so. -NOACHMAKERS.

We are elline Hubs, Spokes, Springs. Canvass.Bol fte.Cllps, Axels. very low. A large stock at O. XX.

fJUlX CC UO. IRON! IRON! A large assortment of the very best manufacture. Bar, Hoop, Band. Blister Steel, Drill Steel, Horse Shoes, None jwunu itiiu ouuiuviivu. nail miub.

useai. IN ails, anvils, Bellows, ices, Hammers, Sledges. Basps and Files for sale by i CONLEY CO. TDAINTS, OIL, A full stock of Oils, com- uiwiiin ijii.Ttcu k'ii, twi vu, run ou sua Lubricating Oil for Engines and Machinery. Varnishes, Glass, White Lead, always an hand at low prices Dy wmIjMsx cc CO.

BIRD CAGES. 11 different "kinds. If yo want good and cheap Bird Cages, go to SHOEMAKERS The best qualities of Sols Leather, French Calf-skins, Moroccos, Linings, Lasts, Nails, Pegs, Tools of all kinds, and eyeryumiK uwu ut uiu craue, xer sale Dy CONLEY CO. CARPENTERS will find In our establishment superior stock of Planes, Saws, Augers, Hatchets. Hammers, Files.

Chisels. tar sale oy uu.mjsx A CO, BAD PIPES All sizes In store and for sals SJ Dy CUJNLH.lt os w. BUILDERS are especially invited to call and examine our stock of Builders' Hardware, comprising Nails and Spikes of all varieties Butts and Screws, Strap and Hinges, Locks and Latches, Bolts, Plastering Trowels, xsnca Trowels, Plasterers Selves, for sale by VUf XX5.X Ct VV. AGRICULTURAL IMPLEMENTS. Hoes and Iron Garden Rakes.

Grain Rakes. Lonir and Handle Spades, Shovels, Manure and Hay Forks, Grass and Grain acytnes, urain raxnes, Cradle Fingers, Traces, Halters, Breast, Tongue and LogChains, Grindstones, Fanning Mill Seivea Of all kinds and sizes, a large assortment of Bed Wai I KOI on Hamesfor Plowing, Farm Bells, CultJva tor Teeth, tor sale Dy cujnaixix cc w. 1 Tvy iv oAiyvuciivij vvmireoxuuio imsiiniM, t' Buckles. Gin Trees. Pad Trees.

Hames of all rk-a 0 OTIO I .1, HIMw and everything? pertaining to the business, for sale by CONLEY CO. Twa. TT sTI dr-m LUElber aild FltllliDg llillS, Are now prepared to furnish every descrip tlon of LUMBER required by the de-- mands of the public. We are now manufacturing FLOORING, SWING, DOOBS, SASH, SHUTTERS, BLINDS, MOULDINGS, BRACKETS, VERANDAS, and all kinds of ORNAMENTAL and SCROLL, WORK. TURNING of every description exe cuted promptly.

We have large quantities of all kinds of ILL MB ER HEMLOCK and PINE Also SHINGLES, PICKETS, LATH, fcc Orders promptly filled, and shipped by rail or otherwise. The Mill Is located on Third (Railroad) street, two squares north of Market street. IRA T. CLEMENT. Sunbur- Dec, 18, 1868.

ly Valentine Dietz, Wholesale Eetail Goal Dealer, SUNBURY, PA. OULD Inform the public thathe hasopen-V ed a wholesale snd retail Coal Off! cein the river bank, near Boyd's Wharf, and will furnish kinds of coal at the lowest market price This best quality of White and Red Ash Shamoken Coal alwas on hand. He also has at the same place a Weigh Scales, which farmers and other, will find a great con venience in weighing bay See. B. L.

Raudenbusta, FUIl.VITURK DEALEB AND UNDERTAKER, MASONIC HUILDma, SunFury. JpARLORjtnd CHAMBER SETS, BEDSTEADS, BUREAUS, of all kinds, MATTRESSES, BOLSTERS, and PILLOWS, AND LOOKING GLASS PLATES, WINDOW SHADES, FIXTURES and TASSELS. UiiilBrtfiliAia in all its tiranclies. FISK'S PAT. MET ALIO BURIAL CASES, Walnut and Rosewood Caskets, broads and Undertaking Materials always on hand.

WM. P. ROBERTS, Agent. SrnrBUBT.Pa., June 23, 187L JOSEPH JOHNSON'S LUMBER YARD NORTHUMBERLAND, PA. OFFERS for sale, cheap for csfh, Surface and Floor Boards, Siding, Joice, Scantling, Roofing Lath, Plastering Lath, Broom Handles, Sash, Doors, Blinds and Lumber of all kinds.

HTOVE TITS ESTABLISHMENT, Market Street, Sunbury, Pa. Alfred Krause, Proprietor. Successor Smith Gxktheb.J Having purchased the above well known establishment, Mr. Krause would respectfully in- ferm the public, mat ne now has on hand a large assortment Cooklne Stoves, SPEAR'S-COOK ANTI-DUST, REGULATOR REVOLVING TOP, COMBINATION. SUSQUEHANNA and others, which are so arranged to be used for Coal or Wood, and are warranted tperform satisfactorily or no sale.

HEATERS OF ALL KINDS put np to heat one or more rooms. HEATING STOVES different kinds, namely, SPEAR'S REVOLVING LIGHT, (self-feeder,) MORNING GLORT (self-feeder,) GAS BURNERS, EGG STOVES and many others. Tinware of erery description kept constantly on hand. All orders promptly Oiled. ROOFING SPOUTING with the best materials done at short notice, REPAIRING attended to with dispatch.

COAL OIL and LAMPS constantly on hand. JAPAN WARE KIND8. In short, everything which can be found in a well ordered Stove and Tin establishment is kept constantly on hand or made to order. The patronage of the public Is respectfully so ilcited. ALFRED KRAUSE.

BFWBpTty, April IS, 190V, I ua to to It at I iu. a 01 to I in of Just one kiss and Just one word, Softly spoken and hardly beard Just one word that was said through tears, Aild tdld the story of all the years, 1 Just One look from the deep dark eyes i' Just one grasp at a glorious prize Just one kiss then up and away: But ah 1 such a heavy debt to pay Automaton Beminlsences. A large proportion of onr readers have probably seen or heard: of the automa ton chessrplayer which -was exhibited throughout the States, sdme years agd." 'Eo'sttch. and to' others, the subjoined reminiscences, which we find in a late translation from the French, will be found interesting Maelzel and Mouret as partners, were exhibiting at Amsterdam before the king ana court. Toe? Jang Had announced his intention, of having a game Of chess with the automaton.

The day Mael zel occupied himself with the decorations, to give the greatest eclat possible to the coming contest between the king and the machine "a mere machine, gentlemen 1" The exhibition was ordered ior and aa 12 clock -sounded, his accomplice not being In the dressing'-room, as was always his custom, Maelzel stepped across the street to the hotel to hurry him up. Imagine his surprise to find poor Mouret in covered to tho nose with the Goodness gracious I What do I see What is the matter cries Maelzel. Oh, I've got a fever oolIv replies Mouret. "Afwer! How so? You were all right at breakfast 1" es but this nas come on since like a clap of thunder." Well, but Why-the king is coming. manriveT greatly excited.

Ub- be will nave to go back cool as a cuoumbsr-4--7- i-1- "But what can I tell him him the automaton has got a fever. Oh, quit your joking, and get tip 1" imperatively. r. c1 Ah I but I "Why, we have never received more money lor one exnibition. 5 "I know but you can give it back me aevu you say a 11 run lor a v.

11 1 1 If Why 7 Wiiat can 1 do is there no way to break the fever Oh I now you Yes there is a way one way. leu me tne way. Pay me thai Ihou o'teesij' 1 Oh, weU is that; aU Yee so I will, when the soiree is over." 1 "No sir I I must have it here. "Now?" 1 "Before we begin. I want the 2,000 francs that was paid you this morning." tt 111 AH Ol Hi i il H.

i. 1 Jnst that and no more and no less. Then I will play and not till ,7 Maelzel looked the little man in the eye, but determination was written there. He money, and his partner knew it, fthd, besides, was only asking what was his due. He looked at his watch it marked 12:15, and His Majesty, who was known as a model of punctuality, would be there at 12:30.

He took out his pocket-book from his breast pocket, and counted out the four notes of 500 francs each, with a groan. The cure was marvelous to behold for, as soon as Mouret's hand closed on the money, he jumped out of bed, full dressed, boots and bit The artful dodger had been watching for Maelzel from the window, and when he saw him cross the street had just time to pop into bed. The soiree came off as appointed, and never had the automaton seemed to play with deeper inspiration. The king did not move the. pieces himself he simply counseled his Minister of War, who played for him, but the coalition was completely routed in two games.

The defeat, however, was put wholly on the shoulders. of the Minister. "Had they won, it would have probably been the king who was the victor 1 In tins same city, a few days after wards, ended the travels of the machine in Europe. The partners separated, the best of friends, and Maelzel began his preparations for a tour in the INew World, the details 01 which were -aoiy recited in the Chess Journal, formeily edited by Paul and published in New York. Schlumberger, a German, and a very strong chess player, directed the movements of the machine, and the secret was undiscovered, except by some boys in Baltimore, who, not having the cash to pay for an admission, climbed upon some sheds overlooking the rooms in the, rear and were so startled upon the conclusion of the exhibition to see a little man in shirt-sleeves hop out of the machine, that they nearly broke their necks in their efforts to get away, and, upon reaching home, repeated what they had seen.

These facts were published by a Baltimore newspaper, but Maelzel had the good sense to buy its further silence, But their fate was more especially set tled by some of the leading JVew xork and Boston papers, who took them np (f their own free will, and combated them as the most preposterous ideas ever put forth, and worthy of the childish minds they came from," and the machine continued to be considered the greatest mechanical triumph tbe world ever saw 1" Oh I most learned pundits 1 There was one thing among the numerous instructions which Mons. Maelzel invariably gave his accomplice that deserves to be remarked. If any one, at any exhibition, should cry "said he, don't you be in the least bit alarmed. Depend upon me. I will get yott out safe, if I die in the attempt.

Upon this pointhe was always extremely urgent and his reason for it was this tn the course of his travels he had arrived one day at a little town in Germany, where a celebrated prestidigitateur, the Professor Anderson of that day, was giving his exhibitions. The automaton soon eclipsed the lesser humbug, and he, in pique, jealous of the superior power of his rival, who caused his audiences to become small by degrees and beautifully less," closed his doors one fine afternoon, and went to see the wonder, determined, if possible, to discover its secret." Fifteen minutes in its' company, and this skillful manipulator of humbugs saw through the veil and knew there was man in that box. Where he was concealed he couldn't say, but he knew he'must thtre, and seconded by a friend, he raised the terrible cry Fire I Fire 1 Fire 1" One can judge of the terror spread in the audience, and of the immediate rush for the door, but strange to relate, the automaton, too, partook of the panic, apparently, for the most frightful noises oame from its bowels, aud a perfect succession of thumping and kicks, as though was trying to break loose from itself, while Maelzel Btood aghast stiuo i speechless. His surprise, however, was only mo mentary, and was caused by the faot of a catastrophe he had never prepared lor staring him in the face, menacing him with ruin, and demanding an immediate remedy. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION, $2 A TEAR, 8alcribn out of the county are required to pay in auraace.

Subscribers In the county will be ehareed an additional fifty cents if the do not pay within uiejear -lZ ADVERTISING ATE3. 1 Exeentors', AdminUtratora', and Auditors' S3. Other legal advertiae-ments, Sheriff'. Writ, of Partition, lOcent. a line for each imertion, of this (nonpariel) type.

Mercantile and miseeUa-aeou. advertiaing will be charged at the iollow ng raicr. I week 1 OO: 1 2 60i 25i ft eo: 10 00 1 1 SO- 60! 25i 4 00i 7 28; IS 00 aooi.a 85i 4 as sso; 8 com a oo 1 month. 00 4 60? 6 80:1000: 22 00 3 SO: 6 7 00 1 8 00il22Si 27 00 2 4 SO: 00: 9 00 10 00:1860: 32 00 i00; 9 00:12 00:14 00:2000:. 40 00 i i7 00:20 00:30 oo- ss 00 1 10 ooiaooi2o 00:30 00; 100 00 One inch in leng-th of column a square: JOB PRINTING Of erery description neatly, cheaply andexpe- dltiously executed.

Can be consulted both in English ec German mj n.Aiu a 1 n.bwa iiv sa isi tt unu ui -f H. KASE, Attorney at Law, Bunbury, Pa umM on nestnui arree. WOODS BBOWN, Attorney at Law, Mil- i ion, x-a. vmce on roni street. WOLVEBTON, Attorney at Law, Snn- nary, ira.

vmce on jnaraet square. CA. REIMENSNTDER, Attorney at Law Office in Masonic Building, Sunbury, Pa. TEEE. SNYDER, Attorney atLaw.

Office on CJ North Fourth street, Sunbury, Pa. EO. HILL, Attorney at Lav. SuDbarr. ViUOV VBiUSUSkSS WlfUMVl rt.

H. TINCENT, Attorney at Law, Xorthum. fj oeriana, trm. ADAM CAKE, AttobksV at Law, Sun- fj 0 Dary, ra. umce in uaxe's Auuiuon.

Prompt attention given to all legal business. CI -W. THARP, Pa. Profes.1 Attorney at Law Milton. Pa.

Professional busmen, in this and ad- Joining counties promptly attended to. I A Ji. 11 j.i Dk. shall Pa. All bus hies, entrusted to his care receive prompt attention.

WJ" R. M. ORAM, Attorney at La.r, Shamo-YV kin, Pa. Will attend promptly to the collection of claims and other professional business Intrusted to his care in this and adjoining conn, ties. vlonlyl rpaUMAN H.PTJRDY, Attorney st Law, Snn-1 bury, Pa Writer of Mortgages, Deeds, Wills and 'Agreements Collector of Claims, Counselor for Executors, Administrators and others; Procurer of Naturalisation Papers, Divorces, Licenses, Ac, and Agent for Purchase and Sale of Real Estate.

Office on Market one door east ef S. J. Packer', residence. CHARLES C. LEIDY, A.

Oak Stokkt, Mi. North 'd Pa. All kinds of legal writing carefully and neatly executed, Collections promptly made and all other business connected with his profession, committed to his charge will be attended to in Montour, Xrorthumbeiiand and Columbia conn ties. DecLly. PHYSICIAN AND- SURGEON.

I offer st-r 'icr. ma a Physician and Surgeon to this community. I can be found at my residence, on A ten Street, (house formerly occupied by Jere. Savidee.) from 11 to Ilia the forenoon, and fmn 4 to 5 in the afternoon, and at my store during the other business hours of the day. Wat.

W. MOODY. A N. BRICE, Attorney at Law and Justice ill of the Peace, and Agent of the National io-uperauve Agency ror Northumberland for the Collection of Pensions. Bounties and x-roennng 01 x-scenes, collection or Claims, All legal writings, executed promptly, deeds, agreemrnU, acknowledgments, c.

Particular attention paid to the Collection of Claims. Office in the Masonic Building, second floor, Sunbury Pa. Sckbcat, Oct. 4, 1871. T-VBUMHELLER'S HOTEL, East Market St.

JLr Sunbury, Pa. This Hotel has lust been rvouiltand refurnished throughout. The Tablo is always supplied with the best the Market affords. The Bar contains the Choicest Liquors, and his Stabling, is good and well attended by careful Ostlers. ED.

T. DRITMHELLER. rpEETH I TEETH 1 Dr. J. R.

J- CRESSINGER, Sargeon-Dentist Sunbury, Pa. Am thanklul to all for the kind ness extended toward me by giving me their patronage in the past, and hop a continuance and increase of the same. All work carefully attended to. Office 8econd floor in Haupt's Bmldinr corner Market Square. tx W.S.Ehoads.

J. Pacmb Haas W. S. Eboads 'DEALERS IN i Antbraclte and Bltamlnoa COAL. OFFICS ON FRONT near the Wharf STJNDUBY.PA.

AH orders left at Seasholti St office, en Market street, will receive prompt attention. COUNTRY CUSTOM respectively solicited. ShaTlng Hair Dressing ONE of the most fashionable aud at the same time largest establishments to be found any where entside of the Metropolis is the Shaving and Hair Dressing Saloon of W. N. KELLER, on Railroad street, Sunbury, Pa.

He uses none but the very best of materials. All kinds of Perfumery on hand for sale. Three hrst-class Barbers employed. hair -wouk, W. K.

KELLER also Informs the public that, having thoroughly learned the trade, he does all kinds of Hair Work in a superior manner. Wigs, Curls, Switches, made equal to city work. Laille. can bring him their combing, and he will guarantee to make them ap as they want them, to their entire satisfaction. ang26tf PompCret Hanor Cemetery eo.

THIS Company is now prepared to sell lots fn the new cemetery located on an eminence aoeutone lonirn 01 amne easxoi ounnury. xne increase of the population of 8 anbury and consequent advance In the ratio of mortality, as well as the limited facilities for the Interment of those who have fought life's battle, have suggested the organisation of the above named Company. Plans ef Cemetery may be seen at the office of J. A. Cake, or Lloyd T.

Rohrbach. Price of lots from to tiff, according to location. Deeds will be executed for lots sold. LLOYD T. ROHRBACH, Seo'y.

Sunbury, May 12, 1871-tf. Merchant Tailor. Miller's Building, near Clement House, (recently occupied by J. M. Ziegler.) STJNBUBT, PA.

Kzz restocked his establishment with the beat qualities of CLOTHS AND CASSIMERES AND French and Domestic Goods every grade en hand. Tashtonable Clothing made to order at short notice. Gentlemen who desire clothing made to order, will eall at the above place and examine the well selected stock and have their suits made np to the latest style. Call sad be convinced. -THOS.

G. NOTT. Sunbury, Sept JUDGMENT NOTES, EXEMPTION notes, and ordinary Promissary Notes, for sale at the Democrat oflBc. ETTER HEADS BILL HEADS EN. vaxopss, for business men, printed la the best style of the art, at the Democrat office HANDBILLS for the sale of Real Estate or Personal Property, neatly printed on shortest notice at the DEMOCRAT 't OFFICS.

7 1 1 1 1 TT EASEHOLD AGREEMENTS for sale cbiap at the Democrat office-. US ICES' BLANKS of all kinds sale at the "Democrat" Office. for TSED9, Mortgages, Bonds, Ac, for sale at the "Democrat" office. ECE1PT BOOKS for sale at the "Dem ocrat'' office. all of or as 9f mirers, and she gives them' all 'a fair chance." Every evening she feceives a Visit irom all these -young gentlemen ana sucn 13 tne waywardness 61 human yjatore that the samelrwaiH wiH often pay similar Visits outhe -same evenina to other young ladies of the same village or wwnsmp.

this courts hip is always going onr ana courting time nas Deen an acknowledged institution from time im -v Here some explanation is necessary. The Burmese evening is divided into three watches, viz. children's bed time. old folks' bed time, and young folks' bed time, bed time is or shortly -afterwards. Courting time be gins soon alter children's bed time, and it continues long after old folks' bed time, which is about nine o'clock.

Young folks' bed time depends a great deal upon tne win ana pleasure 01 tne young people in question we will say about eleven dock. i r- is When tbe hour of courting approaches the yonng lady trims her little lamp, so that it gleams through the window, and taxes Per seat upon a mat on the floor. Meantime the young; gentlemen have been patting on their best btlght silk putzoes, a nondescript garment, something between a pair of trousers and a petticoat, have donned their clean white jackets, have tied colored silk Jhandker-chiefs on their heads in the most approved styles, and have turned out-altogether in the brifrht nf Tinrinono fnnbton Thev enter, tbev seat themselves on the xuuui xoixxiu we xair odp, ana men tne rii -1 1 1 chaffing beffina, If a gallant has been unsuccessful in a boat race, or has tumbled into tne water, or has paid too much attention te another damsel, or has been deserted by another damsel, or has made himself ridiculous in any other way, the chances are that his feelings wm be hurt before tne evening is over. How the lady receives each lover, esoe- oially in the presence of other lovers, is more than we can describe. She herself requires considerable attention, and the old people never interfere, Indeed, why snouia tbe old louts interfere 7 1 Tbe young folks can take care of themselves.

Land are only doing what they themselves did in tne days when they, too, were young. of the United States State tares is as follows Bhode Island SI per diem, mileage 4 cents Maine S2 per diem, mileage 10 'cents one way New Hampshire $2.50 per diem, no mileage New Jersey K3 for forty-days, after that $1.50, mileage 10 cents Delaware 83 pr-d rem; -ruiles ge Soffuttr; est Virginia, Michigan, Indiana.Kansns and Nebraska, each 82 per diom, mileage 10 cents Oregon and New York $3 per diem, mileage 20 cents Tennessee $4 per mileage 10 cents Missouri and Kentucky each 95 per diem, mileage 10 cents Iowa $5 per diem, mileage 25 cents North Carolina, Arkansas and Alabama each $6 per diem, mileage 10 cents Virginia, South Carolina and California each $6 per diem, mileage 20 cents Georgia and Mississippi $6 per diem, mileage 20 cents Louisiana $8 per diem, mileage 10 cents Texas 88 per diem, mileage 20 cents Nevada $10 per diem, no mileage Wisconsin pays 8350 per annum, mileage 10 cents Pennsylvania $1000 per annum Maryland $5 per diem, end 5 cents per mile. In Illinois and Florida the rate of compensation is fixed each session. A Sinoulab Stoby, A Btrange story of swindling and malpractice comes from Detroit. A couple of doctors sporting the name of The Twin Doctors" have been performing surgical operations and prescribing medicine solely for the purpose of obtaining money.

Among others they visited a farmer who had a boy about nine years old who has been a cripple for three years past, the cord of the right leg being drawn up. lhe doctors, no sooner saw the boy then they said they could cure him for $25, and so they strapped the boy's crooked leg to a straight ooard, but as the pain was terrible, and they found they, could not bend the leg to any extent without the poor little fellow fainting away, they said they would cut the cords at the back of the knee, and then, they asserted, they could straighten the limb at once. The father fortunately was aware that such an operation would ruin his child, paid the men the $25, and in his own words told them to clear out." These brutes deserve State prison, and we are glad to hear the authorities are after them. 1 Tkopblks. The troubles on the Mexican frontier still continue, and matters there seem to be drifting into a border warfare as the only way of repressing the Mexican raids of armed men whioh have late become so frequent.

The Governor of Sonora, whence the marauding parties come, having been appealed to in vain, our Minister in Mexico has been directed to call the attention of that Government to the facts; but, in the disordered state of the conntry, it is doub" whether it is powerful enough to put down these distant irregularities. Fatxlb and Silk. The palest tints of silk are most stylish. At the beginning of the season only fine failles, worth or 6 a yard, were produced in the faint shadowy tints, but now cheaper silks marked 82.50 or $3, are shown in a pale rose, sky blue, light green, and the delicate ecru and cuir shades, that combine so prettily with rose and violet, and may be trimmed with either black or white lace. These cheaper silks, when lined, are quite handsome, and are so covered with tulle, grenadine, and muslin over dresses that their quality is not apparent.

How they po rr. A printing office in Chicago is selling to anxious whiskey bummers the following blank form Permit, Permission is hereby granted by me, the lawful wife of and declare and witness by my own signature that my husband has the perfect right and liberty to drink, and as often he chooses to drink, and I hereby relinquish all the claims arising therefrom. -J- L.S." Fabmino Ijands in New Yobk. The cash value of farms in New York has doubled during the last ten years, while the value of implements has increased from twenty-five to forty-five millions of dollars in value. We believe this is a fair index of the general advance in property throughout the country during the last decade.

Onob fob all. "Mistress "By the way Anna Hannah I'm not sure. Is your name 'Anna or 'Hannah'? New Cook (tartly) "Which my name is Anna, mum Haich, Ha, Hen, Hen, Ha, "csy-rJuistresB (giving it up in despair)" Ah! Thank you," a it adorned, with her coarse, black uncomb ed looks hanging matted profusion around her beautiful pig eyes and lop ears, is only resistible to those whose affections, are thoroughly preoceuoied, The delights of courtship must be doubled by the pleasant aroma of salmon which prevades the premises and, J. have heard, their persons. rr Among them the crow ond.

the raven are held sacred, and ny around 'their abodes undisturbed. They live mainly on fish, and have a monopoly of the pet' iir-tHfOonritrv, fX il pt Coolfct Inlet, six hundred miles west northwest. He came dwn" td Sitka once to go to Lodiak. Learning that no vessel wonld sail for a month, and growing tired of the place, he said he would take "a little walk." He started with his nhe and a pocket full of salt, aud traversed alone that mountain wilderness for three weeks. He had no covering at night but the skins of freshly slaughtered animals.

He returned in good condition, and in answer to questions, boasted that he had lived better than his questioners. Tbe Extent of England. Hon. James Brooks, in a. letter from Calcutta, speaks as follows England, once more, one everlasting imgiana 1 That little sea-girt island has not only girdled the great isles of the world, and Jut its stamp upon them, but, here am in the portals of a great British East India Empire, the very magnitude of which is astounding, think of it, over 200,000,000 ofpeople, native and British in the Indian Government proper, under the British flag I Satiated with the very vastness of dominion herei tnfe British Crown declines more land, and all the population it wants nay, more, too, and refuses, actually, to be bothered with yet more 1 Think of the revenues ana ex penditures of this British Indian Empire, 8260,000,000 of onr money, incoming and outgoing, each year.

'Think of its immense army, in all, or wnom 70,000 are European soldiers, the others, Indians, under British officers, all I Think of a Christian Government over 110,000,000 of Hindoos, 25,000,000 of Mussulmans, 12,000,000 of Aboriginal Nothingarians, 3,000,000 of Buddhists, 1 What a medley of humanity to rule 1 What a mixture of laws, as well as of creeds, and of tongues, and languages (There are sixteen, or more, languages that a British ruler ought to learn. What a vast tradej some of imports, and over of exports 1 The little England at home, which governs all this vait territory, and these millions of people, dwindles, herself, into insignificance, when contrasted with this, her mighty Empire of the East. 1 A Hint. If a youth is wooingly disposed towards any damsel, as he values his happiness, let him Call on that lady when she least expeota him, and take note of the appearance of all that is under her control. Observe if the shoes fit neatly, and the hair is well dressed.

And we would forgive a man for breaking off an engagement, if hs discovered a greasy novel hid away nnder the cushion of a sofa, or a hole in the garniture of the prettiest foot in the world. Slovenliness in a woman will ever be avoided by a well regulated mind. A woman cannot always be what is called dressed;" but she may be always neat And as certainly as' a virtuous Woman is a crown of glory to her Lusband, so surely is a slovenly one a crown of thorns. Ait Insane Woman. A young woman whose father's palatial residence in situated in one of the principal streets of Missouri's capital, recently in the space of a single twenty-four hours managed without discovery to get herself tied in Jhe matrimonial knot of eight different roen, and told them all to come at tho same time the next day to obtain her father's blessing on their union.

They all did so and the scene that ensued can be better imagined than The lady meantime had left the State disguised as a Jew peddler. Thk Camp Gbant Massachs. The testimony taken on the trial of 100 Mexican Papagoes and Pimas and seven Americans, for the massacre of the Apaches at Camp Grant, Arizona, is published in the AUa California. It was sworn that, the Apaches stole stock from the Mexioans near Tucsan, were pursnedi and trailed directly to their caaap, four miles from Camp Grant. One of the Indians was killed while riding a stolen horse.

The Indians fired the firBt shot at the pursuing party. The jury in nineteen minutes returned a verdict of not guilty." All the New York City Notaries whos terms expire March 30, 1872, have beet renominated by the Governor, and wer confirmed by the Senate, accompanied by a maghjftcitIirgITyv hound, while just in advance 01 him walked a well-known dandy. The gentleman called, "Bruno, Bruno!" The dandy stopped and looked around, but not knowing tne geniiumeM, i.j suined his walk. the gentlemen called "Here Bruno ceme here 1 Upon this the dandy turned, thus an grily demanaea, What is your pleasure, sir 7 With you nothing." "Then now dare you, not knowing me, thus address me on a public promenade?" Pray, air if I may aalc what is yonr name "How, sir Do yon wish to insult me?" But will you please give me your name quietly pleaded the owner of the greyhound. C- "There is my card, sir And the dandy handed forth a slip of pasteboard.

Why," said the gentleman, reading aloud the letters pipon the oard, 'this is jB-f-w-n-o-t. You need borrow no further trouble, sir. My dog spells his name without the tt 1" Stokes-Mt. Southack the father-in-law of Edward S- Stokes has been prostrated with two or three attacks of apoplexy since the tragic occurence. Pre-' vions to the murder Stokes corresponded regularly with his wife, who has been in Europe some months educating her little daughter.

-Since the- tragedy he has received no letters from her, and as at last accounts Bhe was in Paris, the shock to her pervous eystem in consequence of her husband killing a fellow-man, had probably prostrated her to a bed of sickness. A staou employee near Newtown, Kansas, fired at one Taylor, with whom he had quarreled, and killed a man named Merrill, a friend of Taylor's whereupon Taylor phot and killed the stage-man..