Pittston Gazette

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DEVOTED TO THE COAL INTEBESTS, P0LITIC8, NEWS, LITERATURE, AGRICULTURE, AND GENERAL INTELLIGENCE. Auditors' and Communications of limited or Individual Interest, 90 cents por lino. Notices of Marriages ud DmUii roo; notices accompany in* the him, 20 eta. per Una i' Notices, |3 e*oh. All VOL. XX.—NO. 43. PITTSTON, PA., THURSDAY, JANUARY 20, 1870. WHOLE NO. 1,03 £ AT LAW. HOTELS. DEAD IK THE STREET. farm* in the country." Than, after a little pauee and one or two steadily aide glances at the girl'a face, ahe added, "Belindy iija he took yon hone from the quiltin', t'other night" with a yearning that the ealm and ailanee of the «olt rammer night {night infuse itself into her weary life, for, being young and ardent, and a very novice in sorrow, she felt some way aa if her years had been many and full of trouble. The world receded ; the gleam of white grave-atones in the little churchyard, now lying all alight under the moonbeams, was a grateful sight to her, and she felt that it would be pleasant to lie down under the green turf, and know no more of this cruel world and the hearts that were so cold and untrue. As ahe looked with dry, burning eyes upon the lovely night, she saw some one coining slowly past the window—the figure of a man. It stopped at the gate, leaned wearily upon it, and looked long and wistfully towarda the house. Susy could see the slouched hat; ahe even fancied that under somewhat seedy babilimenta the stranger carried the look and manner of a gentleman. The moonlight fell full upon him, and, but for the peculiar head-gear, she could have seen his features distinctly. She had drawn back from the window as he stopped, and surprise sad curiosity overcame for the moment her deeper emotions. Preaently the man lifted the latch cautiously, and name up the path that led to the front door. Suay'a window was directly over it. She heard three or four quick raps, and then a moment after old Biah's shuffling steps across tba ball. The man spoke low, but audi- Wy. His voice thrilled her, she could not have told why. He was a stranger, and had lost bis way, very weary, willing to pay for a night's lodging, and he seemed very grateful when, after a somewhat tedious eroae questioning, Biab consented to let him share hia own bed. Pelt, watching the stranger aa he went with rapid strides away from the house," "what can it mean ? Gracious meroy !" Wedding Bazaars. O.HAHA. Under the lamplight*, dead 1b the street, Delicate, fair, and only twenty, There she lies, Face to the slciea, Starred to death in a city of plenty. Spurned by all that ia pure and sweet, Paaaed by busy and careless feet- Hundreds bent upon folly and pleasure, Hundreds with plenty, and time, and leisure ; Leisure to speed Christ's mission below. To teach the erring and raise the lowly- Plenty, In Cnarity's name to »how That lit* has somethinf divine and holy. Hast over been to Omaha, Where rolls tM dark Missouri down, Aud four strong horses scarce can draw An empty wagon through the town ? CS. STARK, • ATTORNEY AT LAW, PITTSTOH, PINN'A. H Y T E ' S BY HENRY WARD BeiCHER. HOTEL AND RESTAURANT, Suay'a face grew flame red. "He did! I did not want him; but he did," aha said, in low, hall-smothered tones, UI don't care about it; I don't want to talk about it," she added, nervously, and touched the heavy burning log with her toot. The exclamation (such were seldom heard in Deacon Pelt's house) was called forth by the sudden noise overhead—the fall of a heavy body. Susy turned white; Biah and the deacon hurried up the stairs; Susy and her mother stood trembling below, when the deacon called out— How beautiful ia tho beginning of wedded life. Not tbe first bloom of snow-drops and crocus in spring; not tbe budding and blossom of tbe honeysuckle or magnolia; not tbe earliest •ongs of birds, and their sports among the tender leaves but half opened, is so charmhig to the imagination ! If the young hearts are simple, loving, and sincere, thore rises before their imagination a series of joys which fill the whole horizon. They know that there is care and labor for every one, but love shall gild the one and lighten the other. (a la sc*or*AD), ant uiot nuii, OPPOSITE THE JAIL, WILKES-BARRE, PA. Meals at all hours. Meats, Game, Oysters, and everything In season. Liquors A Mo. 1. Charges moderate. JOHN U. HORN, Feb. SS, 1869-1 y Proprietor. Where every babble, late or soon, From frolhy substance overfluw'mir, Is made a very large balloon, By constant and persistent blowing? * eg. 10,'85. E. H. PAINTER, ATTORNEY AT LAW. Where muddy waters rise and swell, With fearful and resistless might; Where tish are caught by sense of smell, Because they cannot see to bite? Businesa promptly attended to—Collections ete. Office In «umi Building, MAIN STREET, PITTS tun, PA. [May «. iM»-tf. QWAITHOTEL,  O PITT8TON. PA. The undersigned haa lately purchased the Hotel property known as the Swan Hotel, In tk* borough of Pittaton, and ia now prepared to moot the dsmands of the public for a first class Hotel. Sept. 90, et.-ly CHA8 BOH RANK. "Shoes cost something, Susy," said her careful mother, startled out of her previoua train of thought by the thousands of stara that snapped and shot up and ont like the scintillations of spent rockets. "It's time for honest folks to be a-bed, I reckon," she wenton, putting her needles away. "Biah'U come in and see to covering the coals." "Wife, there's trouble here; this youngster has fainted, or maybe"— Where sand is blown from every mound. To till your eyes, aud ears and throat; Where all the steamers are aground, And all the sh.inties are afloat ? Susy and lier iLother flew to the deacon's side Philip lay stretched upon the floor like one quite dead, and the descon was pouring water over his face. C. ■. WtlQHY. 6. C. BiUIHIOI. WRIGHT & HARRINGTON, » * ATTORNEYS AT LAW, Boasted charms—classical brow- Delicate features—look at them now I Look at her lips; once they could smile; Eyes—well, they never more shall beguile ; Never more, never more word of hers Where taterns have an anxious guest ,ir-.?r^\e/7iv"Tner- shelf, and crack, \Y jth half the people going west, all the others going back ? WILKEB-BASSE, PA. FOREST HOUSE, It is a world of sorrow; sickness and death befall every one. But what are those spcctral thoughts to young hearts that mean to go triumphing over every ill by tho irresistible power of true love ? Even those who have seen their visions melt away, and who have been disenchanted, love to go back for the hour to the old fond delight. They look with pleasure upon two souls leaving the shore for tho wide ses, fondly believing that there will never be a wave upon the water, nor a gale in the air. Those even who have had stormy days and a dreary voyage, are glad that the beginning of it should be bright. "Dfficeon Main St., above Z. Bennett's Store, k ill practice in Courts of Luierne County and *.*yor's Court* of C&rbondale. onsullations in German and Engliah. D. C. Harrington, Notary Public. Feb. 4, 1S64. "Biab, you'd better go for the doctor," lie said, as all remedies seemed to fail. "Susy, do not cry,child; the wheels of life ain't stopped forever, I reckon, though it looks mighty like it." scranton,:pa. A blush shall bring to the saintless face She has found—let us hope and trust— "Yea, mother, I'll go in a little while," said Suian, lifting herself wearily; "there—there's something I want to do; it won't take me but a minute, and then I'll go." Where whiskey shop the livelong night Are vending out their poison juice; Where men are often pretty tight, And women deemed a little loose? 8. J. REED. July i2,1869-ly U. O, SCHOONMAKER. Peace In a higher and better place; And yet, despite all ill, I ween. Joy of some heart she must have been. Some fond mother, proud of the taak. Together the deacon and his wife placed tlie helpless body on the bed. Susy went below, wringing her hands in helpless agony, and (she could do nothing now) stood at the gate to watch for the approach of the doctor. She had never known before the strength of her love. Without recompense or hope of reward, it seemed to her that she could give her life for him; and oh ! how fervently she prayed that God would not punish her by taking him away. HOUSE, Where ' heats"and "blacklegs," thick as hail, Are deep in faro, cards, and vices; Whore real estate is still for sale. And held at most outrageous prices? S SUTHERLAND, • JUSTICE OF THK PEACE, FOE WEST PITT8T0K BOEOUOH. «- Offlce corner of Exeter ud Warren Street*. Ml buiinets pertaining to Ma o«ee promptly atlefided to—Collections made, Ac. May XO, ISM-ly. Had stooped to finger each dainty enrl; Some Tain father had bowed to aak. "Well, good-night, dealand the woman bent forward and kissed the cheek of her woman daughter—the only child left to her of seven. ' Very tender waa the touch of hand and lip, and the mother tnrned away with a moan in her heart. The child of her old age waa in trouble, and ahe knew not how to comfort her. WlLKESBAMtE, PENITA. Busies free to and from *11 train*. T. B. HULL, Proprietor. Where the theatres are all the run. And bloody scalpers come to trade Where everything is overdone. And everybody underpaid? A blessing for her, hii darling girl. Hard to think, as we look at her here, Of all the tenderness, lore and care, Lonely watching and sore heartache, All the agony, burning tears, Joys and sorrow*, and hopes and fear?. Breathed and suffered for her sweet sake. Jan. 7, llft» If not. take herd to what I nay; You'll tind it just as I bare found it; And ff it lies upon your way. For God's sake, reader, go around it. HORSE HOTEL, PHYSICIANB. MARKET STREET, WILKES-BARRE, PA. The silence grew oppressive when the door had closed, and the lingering echo of footstep* quite died ewe jr. 8uij Mt motionless, her heads dropping at her side, one oyer the other, her heed drooping, her eyelids ehat eloee to keep beck (fielding tears. All the evening a struggle had been going on within her. Ii was a etrnggle that a year ego wonld have culminated in aa obstinate and prideful silence, aad her heart, like a caged bird, might have beat itself to death against Abe cruel bars of her determination, fer pride end stubbornness had bean her beeetting sins. Susy bad bean the darling of two old hearts, and had eome very near being ruined through their constant indulgence. Bat, though the ebild of an almost idolatrous love, ebe was also the ebild of prayer. Old Deacon Pelt, to use his own words, had "wrestled mortielly lor hie one ewa lamb, that aba might be brought into tba kingdom." His prayer had been ens wared, for Susy bed bowed that fair bead in sincere penitence, had been edmitted into the visible fold ot the Oood Shepherd. 80, though it was s hard matter for bar to overcome ber natural worldliness, other motives uuderleid bar purposes—a supreme power guided bar thoughts into right channels, and where onea aba would have died sooner than confess herself in the wrong, eha now, though it almoat tore soul from body, put self oat of sight, end elevatad bar moral nature by penitence end confession. { Three long weeks of fever succeeded. The life they watched, under the roof of the deacon's farm house, hung for days upon a thread. Susy shared with her mother in nursing him. If they forbade ber, and hinted at her pallor, she wept, implored and insisted, until they could not refuse. The old deacon shook his head at the change in his hitherto dutiful child, snd tor the first time seeing how matters stood, looked forward with new anxiety to the result. The d00lor came and went without speaking, until, one day, he took Susy's hand, as he said, "My young friend, your good nursing has saved his lite;" and, aa a matter of coarse, Susy went by herself and wept as if her heart would break— but they were happy tenrs. There is one point of univeral sympathy, the wedding hour of two ingenuous youths. Every one rises out of his dull and droning life into his best moods. Every one's eyes look benignly upon the happy pair. Every one would fain throw a flower upon their path, and if he could, a flower without thorns. gLAKELY HALL, L. B. PERBIN, Paeranroa. W Oood Stabling attached. Oct. 13, *M. Fancy will picture a home afar. Oat where the daisies and buttercups are, Out where the llb-r Wing breeses blow, Far from them sodd»n street*, foulsome and low, Fancy will picture a lonely hearth, A ad an aged couple dead to mirth,— Aa aged couple, broken and gray, kneeling beside a bed to pray; Or lying awake o'aighta to hark For a thing that may com* iatheraia and the dark A hollow-eyed woman with weary feet. Better they never know She whom they cherlahad *o Lie* this night, lone and low, Dead in the street , SCISSORIWXTOIIBS. CSX if 1ST AlfD DRUGGIST, The panel game—drawing ajury. The rage at Washington—out-rage. The Baptist's complaint—Dip-theory 4 Preventatives of consumption—High prices. Nice figure of speech—a well formed woman. A -'weed' sewing machine—a tobacco planter. A military road—One that i9 full of cartridges. A progressive air—the march of improvement. The man who rote to the occasion was a florist. Eve was a blonde, according to a French author. A terrible bore—The inside of a fifteen inch gnn. The French bail in New York was not a balmoral. Chicago granted five thousand marriage licences last year. Maxim—A poor man is to be avoided—lis lacks principal. Cannot a gentl eman properly have a black gnard to his watch 7 Why is a wax candle like a contented man? Because ft wants nntlin'. Hotspur waa an herb of quite an unique Ikind. He was one P«r-$e. A young son of Mr. Jay Cooko promisee to become a famous magician. One of the best women's rights is an exemption from man's duties. Do yon know any word that contains all the vowels ? —L nqaestionably. Oeore Sand Raid recently, "I do not love money, but I love to spend it." Alaska, by and bv, will have sleeping cars; at prett ent it has only a Sitka. Mrs. McFarlaod-Bichardaon is to seek refuge in a Sub-Treasury sinecure. • The Queen of Madagascar has accepted Christianity and burned all her idols. Always be up at sunrise, if you wish to have the most golden of prospects. The Pifcsburg Republic, a newspaper, was sold this week for sixty-eight dollars. An infantry officer mentions twins as pair-o-pets a • tached to the breastworks. How can history be believed in, when the very books themselves lie ou our shelves. Why is a prisoner's time like an abominable joke ? —Because it's past endurance. ' She was always busy and alwajs quiet," was written on the tombstone of a lady. It is Car better to do good than evil: good aotioi a merit, if they do not get reward. The more ha-te a man makes to nnravel a skein of thread, the more he entangles it. Brigham Young is preparing to put in operation a cannon foundry, with a powder mill. Eugenie gave away over two hundred rings, as sou▼enirs, during her East Indian tour. • A governess, advertising for a situation, says "she is peneot mistress of her own tongue." When does a severe cold resemble a bright idea t When it comcs into one's head suddenly. Tailors are always in luck when snow comes—liecause every one of them keeps his cutter. . An ingenious mechanic in this city has got out, for the use of lawyers, a drill to enter complaints. Nf w Y'ork has a ''Bald Headed" association. None out smooth pates are admitted to membership. So stubborn was a negro violator in Georgia that he refused to kick when hanged by a party oflyneher*. During a recent religious revival «t 'Equality. Ill, two liquor dealers emptied their whisky in the street. Always be amiable, no matter how much your temper is tried, for good humor is the best kind of beauty. Chinese girls are for sale In tbe streets of San Francisco, but the purchasers are the most thoroughly sold. (CENTRAL HOTEL, J UPPBB HITS TO*. MAIN STREET, - tT.UW.4m PITT8TON, PA. i. B. BINDS, Prwp'r. The leu* ha* beea thoroughly reaerated and much improved, and the proprietor bale aaeared that he can make hi* gueau comfortable ia every iq. Hi* table will be s«MMed with the beat ef provtader and hi* bar with tbeth«capt of lieoare. The patronage of the publl* Is restAilljr solicited. Pittston, June a, 'gj-y It is under this generous impulse that the custom arose of making presents to the bride. Probably it began in simpler ages than ours, when men were shepherds and husbandmeu. The young people must be set np in housekeeping. One, therefore, would give a garment, another a cow, another a piece of furniture. In some villages in Europe, to this day, the young pair walk from the church to their new home, by the side of a loaded cart whereon their neighbors have'piled all the miscellaneous stuff of a rustic household. So that, when they are settled down at home, alraoit every article speaks to them a language of kindness from some Tillage friend. In this simple way a rural community set up each new household. JJR. N. C. GIDDING8, Meantime Philip Ash had closed his book* and, as tha stranger's knock sounded at the door, he had opened a window that lad to a small aids porch, and quietly stepped oat. For • moment ha stood gasing straight before him on tha glory of sky and forest; then ha moved down tha garden till ba came to the banks of a little stream that ran through tha farm, terminating some half a mile away in the wider river and pretty falla that made tba village picturesque. Campaia mill, for which ho was tha agent,stood in fall view; its many windows illuminated, aa with silver tape re, by the mild lustre of the moonlight. Beneath tha water glittered a stream which he might have leaped with safety, but deep and rapid at times for all that. Philip paueed here with folded arms, aad mused half-akmd. PHYSICIAN AKD SURGEON. If Office in Bepe Express office, PITTSTOJf, P A. May 13, MW~ly. MB AT XABKXTB. J}R. P. J. O'MALLEY, Late Resident Burgeon and Pkyaieian ef St. Vtoeenta Hoepital, NEW TORE. Office—lain street, oppoaite Battle'* briok boiMi ng, Pltteton, Pa. Aug. », '*•—S«a.* XTEW MEAT MARKET. XI The nndenigned baa ittad up a cenveaieat and aeeeeiible Heat Market in the Boon* formerly ocenpi«d aa a Bar-Roeni, ia the " Butler Houae" Building, where He will keep a constant supply of the beet of Meat* ef all kind* auitable to the eeaaoa. A (hare of public patronage «.  Plttson, May a, 1*». THE LOT! 07 PHILIP ASH. Very faint, wan, and weak he was, as he lay there past the verge of danger, and Susy sat watching him, with a now light in ber beautiful eyea. Itaeemed to her that now that God bad spared him, ehe bad nothing more to ask. One morning be called ber to him. BY KM. iniKI. "If a man's brought up right," said Deacon Bate, "under the prayer* of a good pioa* mother, I toll ye he'* got to wrestle like all nater, afore he take* evil weya oa him. What'a dene hae got to be ondid, and at the beginning it's mighty hard work to go wrong, though it's like geing down a hill—after the fait few step* yon haw got to no. It don't take ao long a puUin' down aa it doaa a baildin' up." n.EO. W. BRAINERD * CO., VX siocim, 103 Murray, neer West Street, NEW TOBBj {s»v» uuw, (.auBAW.aaina PITT8TON MEAT MARKET. Jl PETER SEIBEL. At the Pitt*ton Meat Market, oppoaite the Bank, desire to inform tbe patlic that ttier are ae heretofore supplying jheir numerous customers with the beetef FRE8H BEEF, PORK. MUTTON, LAMB, and all other aeasonable is cats. They are alao dealing Ik HIDES SHEEP SKINS, and FOR*, for which ther will at nil timea pay the "Susy, it has preyed upon me—the memory of my crael coldness that night. Now, lying here, helpless, brought up from death's door, as tha doctor assures me, by your unwearying care,. I ask you to forgive me. Will you, Susy ?" But as wealth increases, and new manners prevail in refined society, it is no longer an object to furnish the lodgings of love's young pilgrims. The custom of giving presents remains, but the motive changes; and unless great caution be used, such custom degenerates* and becomes offensive. To those who are rich, and "who can repay again," presents abound. the less favored, to whom help would be most timely, little is given. The daughter of a rich man marries a rich man's only son. Every one would fain stand well with them all. Diamond rings, bracelets of great price, silverware of every kind, with and without a use, books, pictures, curiosities of every hue abound, and the long table groans with needless profusion. There is 110 thought of setting up in life this joyous pair, for they are full rich already, and able to furnish their costly dwelling munificently. If the motives be worthy of ibe gifts, how much must theso two people be beloved f "Another dream," ha murmured, bitterly. "Another temple fallen at my feet in ruins. God help me, for I love the girl as I nevsr loved any woman before. And I built my hopes upon her because I thought a Christian would be tender, and loving, and true. Mora fool I! They are all alike—worldly or religious, saints or sinners—they must play cat-like with the very siuews of men's hearts, and wrack them utterly for the pleasurings of their vanity. And I had hoped so much from a anion with her ; she seemed so to fill my heart, that haa been hungering and thirsting for an bonest love for years. Life has shat down before me in cruel darkness; its light has gone utterly and forever. I shall never love again." J A. WI8NER, e No. M Front Street, NEW YORK. Old Daaeon Rale, or Uncle Rafe, aa everybody called him, stood on the broad hearthatone, aa he delivered himaelf of thia speech, holding hia hat in hia hand. A candle burned on the ahelf, whieh Suaan, the daughter of Deacon Pelt, had lighted to ahow her Uncle Rafe the way through the long, dark entry. It wa* early October, bat the day had been cold, and the ruddy firelight flickered, and flashed, and leaped out raddilyi now revealing  smooth brow of the girl, anon the gleam of a aolt gray eye, dark with thought, and again the fine curve of tbe red lipa that were lightly preaaad together, aa aha atood looking atraight before her, aaeming to aee through the thin, angular frame of the deaoon—through the aquare of darkncaa caused by the open|door. "Oh, no, no; don't ask me that," sobbed Susy. "I was in the wrong; oh,T3oiI is so good to give HIGHEST MARKET PRICES IN SASH. Bring them alone. P. 8. Pitlslon, Nov. l.ltto—tf. you back"— BONNELL A ADAMS waoLiaau eaocaa*. '•To you, Susy? Say it, for I feel that heart and soul 1 am yours, my darling." Uis voice lingered over the luv4 word, and both were silent for some moments. "And now, dear, I will tell you about Kim—the brother whom I so strangely met and parted from. You will know then what has darkened my life, and made it for nearly ten years a burden and a bitterness to me. My brother possessed a strange and jealous nature. He was older than myself, and I being ambitious and fond of study, outstripped him at school, and gained the warmer approbation of my father. He never forgave me for that. As we grew older, I tried to conciliate him, but be never behaved towards me as a brother should. When I was twenty I was engaged to be married to a ward of my father's, a lovely girl, seemingly innocent, and singularly fascinating. I need not tell you that I thought I loved her, purely and fervently ; that I felt in all the world there was nothing so dfear and beautiful. It was my first hallucination; I know now that it could not have been such love as manhood,matured and purified through trial, experiences. The wedding-night drew near. On the eventful morning of the day, whose close was to make me the happiest of mortals, I drove over to the house of my bride elect. Even then she met me, all smiles and eraciousness. That night there was no »ride. A note, hurriedly written, given to mo in the presence ot a bundre 1 expectant guests, in the midst of perfumes, and flowers, and beauty, informed me that the womsn at whose feet I had poured all the treasures of my heart, bad gone sway with my brother." rjl McNAMARA. After a while sha lifted her head slowly, and stola a glanca at Philip Ash. Would ha never move T Sha telt instinctively that he was not reading, that if there was burning thoughts beneath tha pressure of his hand, under the cold, anmoviag glare of his ayes, they kindled no inswering lira in his boeom. Should she go to him ana confeas ? Sha shivered at the thought, aad ha sitting so still and passionless. If he would hut move, but turn and look at ber, though tha look might chide. Her heart beat with sack fierce, atrong strokes that it seemed to her they must ba audible to him. Could sha stifle tha terror with which his silent presence ftlled har heart, and go to him, and say forgive?'* RS8TAXTSAKT8. Dealer in Dry Good*, Groceries, Crockery, Provie- DHN U. HORN, PITTSTOK, PA. MARKET STREET (oppoaite the jail) WARD k CO., VJ (SUCCESSORS TO J. B STARK A CO) WHOLESALE A RETAIL DEALERS IV Groceries, Provision*, Flour, Salt, Wood and Willow Ware, Did nothing whisper to him that there was something noble in tbie woman's nature, since she had brought herself to ask. for forgiveness, humbled a heart that was naturally proad, and stubborn, aad. unrelenting ? Did not the fair young face, all flushed as ha felt it was, and more beautiful for its clouding, plead with him? Tee, these had their influence, but the poisonpoint of an arrow that had lodged in his soul years before, rankled there still, and fevered his blood and steeled hishesrt. JTILEMAii'8 SALOON. HART PHILLIPS. Proprietor. EmI Side of Public Sqnar*, (Nn, SB and 30.) WILKSS-BARKK, PA. (A.OUN, C Jom M. ViU, r I. M. Koiiimu. ! The Bar u4 Restaurant of this eetabliahment will be kept up ia the beat of style, aad the Billiard dapartmeat admlaiaiered with a new to aaUafjriag all who patron lee IL The preaaat proprietor hopea bp atrict attentiau to buaiaaea to mafaMatke liberal patronage aad popularity of the establishment. PHtston, March 11, tD. Not fai from Ik* old fireplace stood a table, square and lolid, shining in the warmth and honeaty of raal mahogany, • piece of farnitnra that the good deaoon wai wont to bo ait waa nearly ft hundred year* old, and had been in the family for three generation*.. The keroaene lamp upen it, a very small one, sent a luminous circle of light from under the painted ■hade; the light fell upon a thick, old-faihioned volume, with clasp*, but the face that bent above it, a man'* face, bronsed and hand*omeD wore an expression that waa almoat heartbreaking to look upon, when a* now hi* eyea •ought the lettered page ; but hi* *oul eeemed to be far, far away, intent upon some memory, perhaps, that the old man'a speech bad awakened in hia mind. But if it be done in a truly charitable spirit, it will not be au ungracious thing to trace these gifts, and to unveil the motives which have brought hither such rare and costly things. Just than tha great log broke with a sound like on explosion. Philip Ash did turn at that but Susy was busy doing battle with the flam, ing coals that had fallen out upon tha hearth to tba vary verge, where the new rag carpet enlivened the sombre red of the well-worn flag stones. When she lifted herself breetbless and flushed, Philip still sat in the same statue-like attitude. Map to, Iwe-iy. QOOD8! The parents, tbe brothers and sisters, the near relatives, of course filly bestow these offerings. The near neighbor recalls, when his daughter was married, that the bride's father gave her a Bilver urn, and surely it would rot do for him to bs less generous. Under the form of affection, he settles a debt, and says, when all is over, "There, that score is cleared. No man say that ho outdid me." A less favored suitor, of tolerable means, thinks within himself, "He has supplanted me. She more than half favored my addresses. But no one shaU suspect by my manner that I care for either of them. Besides, it never does any barm to stand well with such people of influence." And so a shining gift goes from his i.inmo. r. h. com*. pAYFAIR, COYNE A CO.'S I. I. HOMY THE WANT8 OF THE PEOPLE DULY OONSIDKBKD! lAdlee' and Gentlemen'* "One woman haa deceived me, no other shall," he muttered, bitterly, and wended his way back to the house, gaining entrance by his night-key ; for "Biah" had locked the vrindow and the deer, and* the stranger was long sgo sound asleep, under the protecting wing of the good old manservant.The undersigned having jut returned from the head of market with on* of the bmI ex tensir* stocks of merchandise ever offered to tk« people of Luxerne County, would respectfully announce in a few words, totheir friendsand th* public in general, that their purchase* hare been made with a y iew to the want! of the people, the miner and laborer, a* well a* the clean banded gentleman, or fair lady. Goeeriei and provisions, flour and feed in large anppliet always on hand. law a McMillan. Odd Fellow*' Block, North Sid* Pittaton.Dec. 29,1M4. DINING ROOMS. 3ZS LACHAWANNA AVENUE., 8CRANTON, - Wbissing and whirring tha old corner clock struck eleven. Startled at the eound, Busy decided to retire, but first she would put ber resolve in execution. With a trembling hand, a crimson face, and glittering eyee, she moved unsteadily to the table. He might have felt ber approach; but if ba did, ha gave no sign. PENNA Game and Shell Fish of ail kinds, la 8eaaon. Oysters received by Exprcrs dally. Meals sereed to order from « a. m., to 12 p. m. Dinner daily, from IS till 3 o'clock. Aux.28.-3m Morning broke in *11 the glory of autumD, and found Susy in a better frame of mind, though ■till quite unhappy. "If religion is good for anything," aha said, like a philosopher, or rath* er like a Christian, "it will carry me through this .sorrow. At all events, I shall not beg for bis love;" and then, shining through the clouds of her darkness for a moment, all manner of golden visions of possible relentings and unforeseen chances brightened the shadows, and set the bow over the small world of ber regrets and longings, and for a brief time she was almost cheered So she went down stairs, and quietly assisted in getting breakfast, looking so busy and pretty in her neat dress of ginghamD protected by the apron of spotless white, that her mother, and even old Biah gszed at her with admiring eyea. Thi* ipeech had reference to wme matter of diicipline is the chtuch over which theae two men hold the rod of authority, for Deacon Rafe and Deacon Pelt were the two strong pillar* of the spiritual Zion on Milton Hill. Both were powerful men in their way, both were old and tried citizen* and Chriitiam, and both had more than a tufficiency of thi* world'* good*. The caae about which the/ had been talking wa* a aad one—a woman—a wife and a mother had gone astray, and the wa* to be *ent out of the fold that had *av«d and iheltered her, leit •he bring diigrace upon the church. Manners :»nd measles somewhat resemble each other, and both are said to come out whether or no, you know. VXW8PAPSSIAL. "There must be something crael ia his nature," Susy thought, bitterly, and then she stepped beside bim. "Philip 1" Indiana has a lav which exempts from cily taxation five-acre lots, provided they are held for agricultnral purposes. The trial of Tropprrinn. for the murder of the Kinek family, closed in Paris December SO, in conviction and sentence of death. A "wealthy imerican." who recently married an aristocratic yonng lady at Milan, proves to be a roving journeyman larber. A man in Wisconsin, while eating caDDbage, laDt week, swallowed a needle, which was pulled out 01 the back ot his neck. "Let the women rise by their own efforts," sa s Jenuie June, remembering that alie rose, and subsequeutly became the head of sorosis. A splendid marble colossal statue of Esculapetis was found by a countryman in a field at Puzsuoli. It belongs to the best school of Roman art. A discarded lover in Louisville wreaked his vengeance by stealing the trousseau of the young woman the day before she was to marry his rival. Beecher that almost "every scrape into which he ever fell, has been in attempting to befriend some unpopular cause, or some unfortunate man." Good nature is the beauty of the mind, and like personal bei uty, wins almost without anything else  sometimes, indeed, in spite of positive deficiencies. Three thousand letters from fools to New York swindling firms have already accumulated at the dead letter office, under the recent order of Mr. Creawell. Brimfield, Massachusetts, has a thiel detecting society. Ample funds have been provided, sad the society is financially and physically qualified to deal justice. H. WHYTE. hand NEWS DEALER, AJfD CIBCULATI2TQ LIBRARY. Dealer la Foreign and Domestic News Paper*, Macastaes, School Book*. Blank Books, Stationary of all kinds. Yankee Notions, and everything connected with the trad*. Order* taken for anything and every* BASS BALL EMPORIUM. *+ T&Y MS. [Pittston, June 10,'60-tf. At the sound of her voice he looked up at her, oh ! so cold and stern. The lawyer who did the father's business, and expects the son's, says, "It will never do lor me to be stingy op such an. occasion. Money given away to such people is planted.'' Correspondents and bankers, political friends and partners, must send or BuOer. The young cousin who is clerking at a small Salary dare not- withhold his gift, and is ashamed to send such an one as comports with his means. He dreads to see his meagre offering obtdone by blazing rivals, and so, taking counsel of fear and vanity, he goes against his conscience, and pinching himself for months, he pays for a gift beyond his means. lie might be strengthened against a second temptation, if he conld hear the bride's father saying, "What! Jacob sent this ? The young dog is extravagant. Wonder if he thinks he's rich !" New bakery. The undersigned would respectfully anaeuuee to the publi* that he ha* opened A half articulate cry escaped the pale lips of the listener. To her this story seemed almost too horrible for belief. "I wounded your feelings last night, Philip. It was thoughtlessly done, and—I am sorry." She gave a little gasp, but bravely kept the tears down "I was very calm. I believed nobody saw that I suffered. Unforeseen circumstances, I said, had prevented the wedding, but the guests must nevertheless enjoy themselves. Tho people with whom this girl bad been stopping were furious, but I was calm. I felt as if my heart had turned to stone, and would never love again. Nor did it, darling, till your sweet face stirred its pulses. I will say nothing of all my life between that time and this. I put no faith in woman; for years I scarcely spoke to one- My brother had gone abroad. From that night till the morning I met him, I had not seen him or heard from him. Well, God's wheels grind slowly, but surely the retribution comes. My brother married her, but she has served him worse than she treated me; ignored the sacred ties that bound her, forgetting her babes, gone off with one dead to all morality, and God alone knows in what part of the world, abused and forsaken she suffers to-day. And now you know why I seemed so unkind that night. The old trouble was revived by the conversation between your father and Deacon Rafe—the old wound torn open afresh. I feared that you, so young, pnre, and good as you seemed, had still~ that strange leaven of deception in your nature ; that you, too, could taunt, and madden, AN BXTENBIYi BAKERY IN PITT8T0N adjoining the Butler House, where he will he prepared at all times to supply families aad parties with Bread Biscuit, Cakes and Pies, ei all kind, oa short notiee. From an extensive experience in the bakery business they feel so hesitation in saying that he will he able to satisfy all as te the quality offBread Ac,, which ha offers. A share of patronage is respectfully solicited. L. BLTBBICH. PitUton July Ith, ISIS. "So am I j" voice and manner were alike cold. . "WeH, good evenin', brother 1" laid Uncle Bate, holding out a wrinkled hand all covered with thick blue-gray vein*. "I'm very sorry this thing has happened, hut aa matters stand we must act upon it immediately, and not give the world a chance to talk. Good-night, Susy, my dear; oh, you're grin' to light me out; that is very kind of yon. I s'pose I ought to know the way, but my sight is growing poor, I believe, and I ain't aa (toady on my feet a* I used to be." '*0 Philip! I- want yon to forgive me.*' There was another gasp more like a sob. Vf cDOUG ALL'S ifj. CENTRAL BOOK AND MUSIC STOBS, Opposite Cooper's Hall, "I dare not deny your forgiveness." And still through the calm voice ran a thread of condemnation that fell lead-like on the sensitive young heart beside him. She stood there for a moment in the shadow; pressing ber dry lips together, wringing her slender hands, moaning in her inmost soul that all was over, this precious love vas over. She should bury it, and go mourning all through the dreary days of her existence. '*0 Philip I is that all f at last burst like a heavy sob from her overburdened bosom. "Biah had a man sleep with him last night," said Mr*. Pelt, turning the delicate rice cakes she had prepared. "Seems quite the gentleman, too, Biah says. Of course we wouldn't let him go away without breakfast" v Kmh constantly on bud a food uMrtnrat *1 Book*, Muite, ud Stationery of «I1 kind*. PENCILS, DJEVTISTfl. f AFSK, SCHOOL BOO*8, BLANK BOOKS, MKMORAMDCM8, Ac. Tb* Villi— will tMttl* ctnhl rttwtlw ml *VieLIk** pTWBpUf n»s4» itetk pa bite t frapcet luUj^Mlicttrt. PittMOB, April It, 1MT. CS. BSCK, M. D.— • late of PHILADELPHIA.— JB Office,—Two 4mH aboT# hi* f«r-  mer reiidence, £a*t tide of UDiD St., aboy* tkl 'ublicSquare, Wilke*-Barre, Paan. July 1», !•••.»—ly. He was there when Susy carried in the tea. (Philip Ash had not come down yet; he seldom c»me down till the family were well seated at Susy was startled when she saw him; he was older than Philip, but there was an unmistakable likeness between the two; who coald he be ? He looked haggard and worn, and like a man whose shoulders had long been wearily bent under some crushing affliction. I seldom take pleasure in looking at the wedding treasure chamber. The gold and silver have no beauty in my eyes. If I am sure that love gave them, and was able to give, the presents cannot be too profuse. But I think of the bumble cousins, the poor young men wtabing to stand well in society, the outside friends that dare not come without gifts when all are expected to give, and this takes away all pleasure. Each man's gift is marked with his naui«, that every one may know how well each has done his duty. "Have you been op to see the presents?" is the familiar question. 8u*y wral with the old nan ai far aa the outtida door,«toed there a momtnk holding tha candle back and gating out into the bright moonlight. How baautiful, how aaintly atill tho mom wat! Tho grooa hoforo tho door Wad bleached to ft silver whitobooa, tho trooa woro tipped with ft clear radianco, that glorified tho night; tho groat vault above hung like ft p«le curtain, faintly atudded with ftara, oubbone by tho greater luminary. Through tho branch* tho myateriouo voice* of night whiipored, and underneath, at gnarled root*, and below tufted bom and odorou* grauei, tho happy inaoot world held ita muiical carnival. 8u»y looked over all thi* with • yearning glance that yet wore the peniive abode* of *ome recent oorrow. Tho girl'a nature had apparently boon rouiod by aom* auddon ahock from the apathy of cftrele** youth. Far and soar Susy had alway* boon quoted a* "that thoughtl*** croature," and tho old adage, "a deacon'* daughter," had been again and again applied to her, but within the paat lix month*, I might a* well add ainec Philip Aah had come to live with them, ahe had *o perceptibly that more than one gotaip wagged her tongue over the fact. lR J. M. BARRE1 ' DENTIST, "What mora would yeu have V he askedD coldly. Believe nothing against another but upon good authority ; nor report what may huit another, unleaa It be a greater hurt to others to conceal it. This applies to Pittston. The N. Y. Sunday Times knows a Congressman who always sends home, under his frank, enough public documents to sell tor a couple of hundred dollars, as waste paper. Atlantic City, Iowa, has a secret societv known M "Revellers." They don't do all the revelling them* selves, but supply the poor with meat to their bread and bread to their meat. The statistics of the colored Baptist churches in Virginia show a membership of 43,313, exclusive of those* yet in communion with the white churches. The negroes have 132 churches. There are three things in the world that know no kind of restraint, and are governed by no laws, but merely by passions and brutality—civil' warm family quarrels, and religious disputes. Sylvester Marsh, the projector of the Mount Washington Railway, has received a letter from the Bwiss government inviting him to superintend the construction of the road to the top of the Bigi mountains. The body of Joseph Heitkamp, who apparently died at St. Louis, nearly two weeks since, still retains the appearance of vitality. The doctors say he is certainly dead, but his relatives will not bury the remains. A Fort Plain audience were so avideutly displeased with a lyceutn lecturer the other evenlife that he stopped and gave those who were dissatisfied an opportunity to leave the .room. The hall was closed in about five minutes. OOM it hi* re»ideace _ potite the Kethodiit Church, wh*ro he may hereafter be _ Dr. B.iniert* Teeth on Gold  *o., uC operate* in *11 the breach** of SurjerY.in the be»t manner.  A Mm|wi from uiual charge* *u£ei*nt to carer eimiei, allowed to p*rwu who com* rem a disUnct. April II IIW.—I7. li*. Ofrn,Tm.,WYOMING FIRE INSURANCE CO". If WOJOMAAKM, nmu. CkpiUl and Surplus, "One word that would |hs me assurance that I jvas pleading to a human being," she said, paseionately; "one look that has at least the gentleness of friendship. You cannot know how hard it haa been for ma to conquer myself —and—I hoped at least yon would shew—a little pity"—her voice chokedrher cheeks became crimson, and bar hands trembled, though they were locked lika iron. Presently they drew up to the well spread table; the deacon's sonorous voice sounded in thanksgiving, the pleassnt clinking of cups and saucers succeeded, when the door opened, and Philip Ash tutored, stood there like a man struck into stone, his eyes dilated, his lips parted. The strange guest, startled by the silence that followed, turned; the eyes ol the two met. Never was consternation more strongly painted on a human countenance than on that of the man who had chanced among them. An expression of deadly terror succeeded ; he turned pale to the roots of his hair, and stammered out in a hoarse voice, "You— Philip?" |170,009 DIRECTORS: CHA8. DORRANCE, L. D. SHOEMAKER, JOHN REICHARD, O. COLLINS, STEWART PIERCE, G. M. HARDING, CHA8. A. MINER, TE08. FORD, A. MORSE, C. I. BUTLER, A. C. LANINO, R. C. SMITH. CHARLES DORRANCE, President, L. D. SHOEMAKER, V. Preeident. R. C. Sun, 9»c ratary, TH OS. FORD, Agent, PltUtom. Pa. May l«th,'CT. nR. C. M. WILLIAMS, SURGEON DENTIST, MAIN STREET, PITTSTON, PA. Amoij the many improvements recently i»- . roducea in hi* practice, he regards nene of mar* i mportanee than hit Bithoj of EXTRACTING TEETH WITHOUT PAIN, which he ii doing successfully every day, by the Ml «f NITROUS OXIDE GAS. Ik is perfectly safe and very pleasant toinhale. Ita results have been en tirelyaatii factory in every instance. C. M. W. Kooms with J. W. MILLER, adjoiniM the Caih Store of Chu. Law A Co. PitUtoB, May 1st 11(4. snd"— It is sad to think that such presents should be made a matter of calculation, but they are. The very bride does notsbriuk from calculating the probable gifts. And the wedding bazaar is closed, an account of stock taken. For the moment they are the best friends who have given the most choice and flattering gifts. The meanness of some, the stingyness and neglect ol others, is severely "noted. The fiend has overleaped the walls of Paradise, and soiled the innocence of the early hours ot a new life. Philip never looked up; he dared net. One glance might have overcome his stern resolve, and softened the anguish of his heart. He gloried in hiaown martyrdom, perhaps, for he had suffered more than this proud girl at his side. She could not know how much nor bow long. "I said I had forgiven you, Susy. I can say nothing more. Yeare ago I made a vow that if the woman I had loved should trifle with me in the most ordinary acceptation of that term, I might forgive, but never should consider her as holding any more intimate relation thereafter than thatof an ordinary friend. This decision waa forced upon me by circumstances of the most painful character. I cannot speak of them now—I"—he paused, looked up at the empty space beside him. The girl had vanished like a spirit; an angry light in her eye, her lip carved nevertheless to the grieved outlines of bitter agony, her heart aching as in hsr young, pleasant life it had never ached before. A soft hsnd was on his lips. "Alice Hunt told me that jou were trifling .with me; that you had trifled wfth her; that she had heard you were already a husband, and my mind was poisoned, Philip. But, after a little reflection, I believed she had told me nothing that was true. I hated myself for what I said, for what I did. O, Philip! you shall never think, never have cause to think unworthily of me again. I have been only half-hearted in everything, and yet God has been so good to me." •CRANTON AD'S. Philip Ash said nothing. If his look conveyed a menace, his lips had not the power to utter it. He turned slowly, closed the door, and they could hear him afterwards pacing the floor ovsrbead. There will be many to whom these words will seem severe and unmerciful. But it is in no spirit of censorious criticism that they are written. There is need that ijien should beware least pride and vanity eat out the value of those gifts which should coma only from love—which should be valued not for what they are but for what they express. She broke down, crying again, and Philip, putting his'arm about her, drew her wet cheek closer to his lips. . "Nothing, thanks; I can eat no breakfast, now. That man,God help me, is my brother; How can I find his room? I must see hiui. I have done him deadly wrong." Last month Mrs. Sophia Meylin died in Lancaster, Pa. bequeathing $1000 to Trinity Lutheran Church, aud jln.ooo to Zion's Lutheran Church. Both beqamts are void, because the will was executed less than thirty days before hor death. FISH AITD OT8TKB8. At last tome noii« within recalled the girl from ber dream. With a deep eigh (he cloeed the door, lingerinfly, a* if loth eves in her abstraction to (bat out the beautiful picture, and with alow eteps aha wended her way back into th« old-fashioned kitchen. There was a slight rustling at the door. MONIES & PUOHE, "Well, deacon," said Mrs. Pelt, a moment after, taking up her knitting, "1 see now what's been the matter with our Susy. I guess after this you and I must be contented with each other." A few years ago an ingenious gentleman rnanafed to get drttuk, free of expense, almost daily in the streets of London, by falling down in a fit, with a placard on his breast, '-I'on't bleed me, but give me a glass of hot br.indy and water." ».a.BAW FR. BAIRD k CO., a Packer* and Dcaltn in ». f. NMMH. MjlXVrA CTVWMXB 4as WHOUUfU MttHI UD UX KINDS or CRACKERS, CAKES, The word* seemed to b« forced from him ; he arose from the table, went over to the nail on which his hat hung, and turned to the door through which Philip had disappeared. The deacon had alio ariien. "Young man, let there be no violence," he laid, in hii firm, eren tones. CAN, TUB, SPICED AND SHELL OYSTEBS, Love op thk Beautiful.—Place a young girl under the care of a kind-hearted woman, and she unconsciously to herself grows into a graceful lady. Place a boy in the establishment of a thorough-going, straight-forward business man, and the boy becomes a self-reliant, practical business man. Children are susceptible creatures, and circumstances, scenes and actions always impress. As you influence them, not by arbitrary rules nor by stern examples* alone, but a thousand other ways that speak through beautiful forms, pretty pictures, etc., so they will grow. Teach your children, then, to love the beautiful. Give them a corner in the garden for flowers, encourage them to f ut it in the shape of hanging baskets; show them where they can best view the sunset: rouse them in the morning, not with the stern 'time to work,' but with the tnlhusislic* 'see the bcautilul sunrise.' Buy for them preiiy pictures, aud encourage them to decorate their rooms in his or her cltil.lisli wny. Givo tham an inch, and they will go a mile. Allow them the privilege, and they will make your home ' beautiful. A sensible contemporary says, "The women ought to make a pledge not to kiss a man who uses tobacco, and it would soon break up tbe practice." A friend of ouis says, "They ought also to pledge themselves to kiss every man that don't use it—and we go for that, too." No. 533 Sooth Front Street, CONFECTIONERY, •CRANTON, PA. Sine* ib« had left not a leaf had been turned by the itudcot; the yellow light atreamed orer the eama page, on the hud, white and well•haped; and the face, (till wrapped in tbadow, held the same gloom. He did not look up a* the girl brushed put him, breathing quick, but kept hi* eyelids straight and etill. There wag a smile on her lips, but under her glasses the tears could be seen welling up. The deacon made no reply but he understood her, and said softly to himself, as the sweet face of his child came before him:— By ipecial arrangements with tha Express Companies and Railroad*, thoae who order may rely ea a constant 11 apply aad prompt delivery. W« bog a continuation of tho favors of our old frioad* and customers, aad solicit tha orderi of dealers generally, promising every satisfactiea la our power to giro. Bead in yeur order*. . „ _ Jaa.3- F. ft. BAIItD 4 00. "Oh, why he come here—why?" the cried, in a voice of anguish, as she threw herself down upon bar bed when aba bad reached ber own room. "Did God lead him bare to make ma suffer because I bad resolved to live a truer and better litef Is this the cross that I must bear ? Are these the thorns that are to bruise and wound me, because I choose the narrow road ? Is this what I receive for trying to live the life of a Christian ? I cannot bear it, I cannot! What aball I do? Who will Mlp me7 Ifj I could only have told him what led me to do as I did—if be had not been so cold, so cruel, so wicked I fit never loved me, he has tired of my devotion j he never loved me if b* can give me up for that. And yet he bore with me that night. Three times he suffered himself to be slighted, almost insulted, and even at the last, if I had let him come home with me, as |was his right, all might have been well. Nojr I have lost him forever, oh! forever." "God forbid f was the answer; "there will be none, assuredly on my part;" and he was gone. A "hard times ball" is to be given in a New England town on the lith inst. No lady admitted except in calico dress, and gentlemen must appear in coarse, every-day clothes. The invitations are -printed on rough straw paper, and the order of dances Is en straw box board. VU|Vl! V1IWI!!-YD5WS!! "Deacon, hadn't Biah better stand on the stairs? I'm mortally afraid they'll come to blows. Philip's face has almost given me a chill, it was so awful. What can be the matter between them? Dear me, to think of brothers being enemies." Susy was a little frightened. Instinctively she took sides with Philip; whatever it was, tAt man with the fierce eyes and fiercer moustache was in the wrong; she settled tbat in her mind. "God bless her!" While the mother's heart rpHE labkcriber haying purehaaed the X entire View Apparatus of Mr. F. H. Simpson, are She only parsons in the city who hare the faciUtica for makiitf large views of echoed :— CABB1AQ18, WAGONS, *o. 8uey went to the fire, enuffed out her candle, and, with a mute woe in her face, lank down heavily. Mrs. Pelt,jmt putting the finiahing touches to a stocking of coarie blue yarn, gave her girl a aide look under half-abut lids, and pureed up her mouth a little ae aha drew the laat needle out. "God blsss them both !" A new thing for brides is a ffUin gold bracelet, twhlch fastens with a lock ai d gold key,and which the husband places on her arm at the altar, locking it, and placing the key on hi* watch chain. The bracelet cannot Tie removed without the husband'" assistance. and thus both are constantly reminded ol oat h other. pARRIAGE AND WAGON MAKING, AND COAL BREAKERS, DWELLINGS, ■ LANDSCAPES, Ac, Ae. Among the articles which comprised the outfit of a blushing bride in New York, was a nightdress worth $150. BLACKSMITH!* 0.  Aad are nay prepared to *11 order* with promptness and dispatch, and oo reasonable terms. We sine hare a great number of large view negatives. taken by Messrs. Simpson A Johnson, from whieh duplicates may bo had. ALSO; A Communist society has recently been incorporated as llm'Keunion Community." in Jasper county, Missouri. Jt consist* of three men three women ai d live children, all established at Centre Creok post-. (• fioe. The societv has lost two important members by their withdrawal with their means. Oue man edits the Communist, a small monthly, published in i-t, t.ouis for the society. It is stated that the white rubber used for nursing bottles and infants' toys is poisonous, csusing skin eruptions,sore mouth, Ac. In Europe the ale of it has been prohibited. r E Undersigned la now prepared at his Shop In West Pitts ton, to do a geaoral business, In CK8MITH ING, and the manufacture of WAGONS, CARRIAGES AND BUGGIES. Having been particular to secure the best of Wagon and Carriage Makers, as weil as Blacksmith*, he •eels ao hesitation in assuring the publis that the work made at his shop will compare favorably with the best in Northern Pennsylvania. PAINTING AND TBIMMINGl "John'* bought that eolt, Susy." said tha gray-haired, pink-cheeked little woman, who, though nearly aixty, atill retained the bloom of her youth. At first there was silence overhead, when the man seemed to have entered, and then burst forth a storm of language, surging above all other sounds. Then there was a lull again, and presently the stranger came down, still white and terror-stricken, looking about him, as if he saw for the first time the faces tbat were gathered there. Stereoscopic V~iewsD "Hae he V and the voice waa very unlike the cheerful tone* of the girl. With a single exception . the chief officials of the General Government at Washington furnished neither wines nor liquors to their guests on New Year's Day. This temperance feature was due to the suggestion of President Grant. The Adrian Times is responsible for the last *ood etorv at the expense of a justice's jnrv. It saysthata recent case of assault wa« tried iu that city. Ml which six jurors voted fDy ball-.t. .luror No. 1 voted 'Noe: sr of action.' No. t voted '"Salt aud Secon 1 etltee." No. n deemd the pi isoner "tiilty ot Salt." No. 4 decided there was "n:D action of cans." No. &vo ed it "assault and Haiory,' while No. G deeidid the pr so tier "Uilty ot an a salt only." An assortment of Local Views will be kept constantly on band. Now la the time for those wishing pictures of their Of all kinds. "Yei, and 'twaa&'t for Dorcaa, neither, I'm a thinking. Dorcaa haa been at him for a long time, but I heard him aay that if he got her, he ebouldnt give her to anybody ia the family- He came out of meetin' laat Sunday with Jared Pinkham's cousin. SheAl from the eitj, aad la full of faahionable waya and notiona. I guess John might do better than that; I don't know* He'a a mart, anyway, tad owne one of the beat For this department also, he has eeeieatilc workman of ample experience in the beet shops in the state. With the facilities a&d workmen with which my establsiuaant is new furnished, there is ifcthing F.r*"V being able to nroduce as neatly and well-made a wagon of any kind as can be made in Northern Pennsylvania. Those in need ef anything I n my line, are requested to call and give me a trial, a ud satisfaction Inevery particular will  w PHUt„,«.,Sum,09,traES5L RESIDENCES, The Suez canal does not appeir to lw nm-h As we are prepared to make all slaea, from Stereoscopic to the Urgest. 4VCall and examine specimens. Gallery ea the comer of Lackawanna and Venn Avenues, over Gregory k Snover's Tobacco Store. E. A. HHERMANS. 8c ran ton, August it, lira.-ly "I—must go," he laid. "Many thanks for your kindness, though if I had known," he added, in a lower voice, "whom this house contained, I would have walked a thousand miles rather than meet him." of a success after all. A Lou.l.ui IW cirr The Common Council of Grand Rapids Vavir.c pro hibite.l the bovs from coasting on the sidew .Iks, th» juveniles sen. a petition to the village dads af er the tolloaing effect: "The undersigned boys of to-rtsy, but voters of a few j-ears hence, respectfully request your honorable body to enforce the ordinance reouiring our fathers to keep the sidewalks free from snow. If we may not slide upon the sidewalks, we would like them kept so we can walk upon them," She lifted herself and moved for a moment hurriedly to and fro. The words "forever and forever" aeemed to sound in her brain. She railed the window wh higher and leaned out pondent wr ites from Egypt "that it requires a mint of mo ney to keep the work open," and the company decline to take any risk whatever. Nothing drawing over fifteen feet can get through wit hout being lightened. Wo are informed oy a southern paper that "nothing but red neckties are now worn," which must be a rather cool customs for this season, even at the south. "Well, it that isn't curioui!" exclaimed Mrs-