Lancaster Examiner and Herald

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VOL XL.
LANCASTER, PA., SATURDAY, MAY 5,1866.
NO. 24.
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TEIP LIGHTLY.
Trip llgiitly over trouble.
Trip lightly over wronu, ¦\Vc only make grief double
By dwclliiii; ou it long. ¦Wby cl.-isp woe's Ij.'xnd .so tightly?
Why algb o'er biossoni.-i dend 7 Wliy cling to forms unsightly;
Why notscekjoy Instead?
Trip ligiilly over sorrow.
Though nil the days lie dark, The sun ma.v slilnc to-morrow,
And gaily sin2 tholnrk; Fair hopes liavc'not departed.
Though roses may have flod. Then never be down-hearted,
But look for Joy Instead.
Trip lightly over sadness.
Stand not to rail at doom, We've pearLs to string, of gladness.
On this side of the tomb. WlilLst stars nro nightly sliinlng,
And heaven is over head, Encourage not repining.
But loolr for joy instead.
insroiE mGOT.
"If over you or yours get Ave pounds out of me, matlaiii, before I (lie, I jirora- i.se you, you sliull have five tliousaiul; anil I am a man of my word." So spoke Jlr. Ingot IJcardinoi'e,   drysalter aud oominou couucilnnm of the city of Lon¬ don, to Dorotliea Elizabeth, his widow¬ ed sister-in-law, who  Iiad applied to liim for iieeuniaiy succor about three mouths after tiie death of his younger brother Isaac, herhushaiid. There were haishiiess and stuijborn determination enough in liis reidv, but tliere waa uo fc_    niggard cruel t.y.     Mrs.  Isaac wanted inonev.  it is true, but only in tile sense in wi:i<-b wo all want it.   .Slie was only potir  in  comparisoii  M'ith   tho  grcit wealth of this  relative by  marriage. Her ineomc was large eiiotigli foi'auy ordiuaii"—Jlr. Ingot said "legitimate" —purpose, but not- sullieient for send¬ ing Iier boy fo Eton, aud finishing him oifai the univcj'.-ities, as it wtis the ma¬ ternal wish to do.    Mr.  lu.got hated sueli genletilintcuiions;   Christ's Hos¬ pital had been a lasliioiuible enough Bcliool forhim, and ho luiil " fuiislied oil"' as a clerk at forty pounds a year iu lliat very respectable house of which he was now the senior ijartner.    AVith the results of that education, as exem¬ plified in himself, lie was perfectly sa¬ tisfied, and if his nephews only turned out  half as   well,   their  motlier,   he thought, might think herself uiicom- ¦    monlj' luek.v.   Her family had given *   tliemselves airs upon tlie occasion of her marrying I.~aac,—"allying herself Willi eoiumciee," seme of them called it,—and Ingotluul never forgiven them. He gloried in his own profession, al- thouglr goveniuient had never seen lit to ennoble an.y member of it, and per¬ haps all the more upon   that account; for he was of those ratlicals who are not "suobs" at heart, but rather aristocrats. He honestly believed  that noblemen and gentlemen were the lower orders J    and those ivho toiled and strove,  the upper crust of the human pie.    When he was told that the former cla.sscs often toiled and strove in tlieir own way as niucli as the otiiers, he luade a gesture of contempt, aud "blew" lilce an exas¬ perated whale.    It was a vulgar sort of retort, of course, but so eminently ex¬ pressive, that his opponent rarely pur¬ sued the subject.
He rather lilvcd his sister-in-law, in spite of her good birth, and would have, doubtless, largely assisted her liad she conseiitcil to bring up her children ac- * cording to his views; but since she pre¬ ferred to take lier own way, he with¬ drew himself more and more from her society, until tliey saw nothing at all of one another.    He had no intention of leaving his money away from his brother's cliildreu;  he had much too strong a sense of duty for that;  aud as for marriage, that was an idea that nev¬ er entered into his hard old head.    He had not made a fool of himself by fall¬ ing in love in middle age, as Isaac had done (in youth, he had not time for such follies), and it was not liltely that atsi.xty-five ho .should commit any such imprudence.    So his nephews and nie¬ ces felt confident of being- provided for in the future. In tlie present, however, as time went on, and the education of both girls tmd boys grew more expen¬ sive, Jlrs. Isaac's income became grcat- 1.V straitened.    Her own family very much apphindcd the expensive way in j^whifh she was bringin.g up her children, aiidosiieeiall.vlicrinilepeiidenceof.si)irit with relation to her trtulesniau brother- in-law, but they never assisted her with a penny. TIic youn.ggentleman at Cam¬ bridge was therefore kept upou very short allowance; anil the young ladies, who.se beauty was something remarka¬ ble, allected wliite muslin, tind wore no meretricious jewelry.   TJieir pin-money was very limited, poor things, and they made their own clotlies at home by the helj) of .1 sewing machine.   If Uncle Ingot could have seen them thus dili¬ gently employed, his heart would per¬ haps have softened towards them, but, as I have said, they now never got that chance.   Julia, tho elder, had been but six years old wlien he had last called at their highly-rented Viut diminutive hab- ittttion in llayfair, and now sho was eighteen, and had never seen him since. ^  Although she had of course grown out of the old man's recollection, she re- moiulicreil his figure-head', as slio wick¬ edly called his rigid features, uncom¬ monly well; and, indeed, nobody who had ever .seen it was likely to forget it His countenance was not so much hu¬ man as lis^neous; and his profile Keph- owJack had actually seen upona certain nobly tree iu   the lime-walk of Clare Hall at Cambridge,—much moro like than any silhouette ever cut out ot black paper.   They had laughed at the old gentleman in early days, and snapped their fingers at his churlishness, but it had become no laughing matter now.    I That remark of Uncle Ingot's,  "If ever you or yours get l\ve pounds out of me, madam, before I die, I ijromise you, you shall have five thousand; aud I am y.   a man of my word," had become a very serious sentence, condemning all the family to, If not Poverty, at least very urgent AVant.   "Whatismeantof course was, that he was resolutely determined to give tliem nothing.    In vain the young ladies worked Jbr Uncle Ingot slippers and hook-markers for his birth¬ day, and sent to him their best wishes at Christmas iu Eimmel's highly-scent¬ ed envelopes ;  in vain Jack sent him a pound of the most excellent snuff that Bacon's emporium could furnish, at the beginning ot every term.   He always wrote back a civil letter of thanks, in a clear and clerkly letter, but there wiU never any enclosure.   When Mrs. Isaac asked him to dinner; he declined in a ca'istio manner,—avowing that ho did not feel himself comfortable at the aris¬ tocratic tables of the AVest End,—and Bent her a pine-apple for the desert, of his own growing.   He had really no k     ill-feeling towards his relatives, altho' ~     he kept himself so estranged from them; but I think thia soi-t of conduct tickled the old geutleman's grim sense of hu¬
mor. If hie could have found some le¬ gitimate excuse for "making up" with his sister-in-law, within the first year or two of their faUlng out, perhaps he ¦would havebeen glad todo so; but tiine had now so widened tho breach, that it was not to be easily repaired. "What he had satirically written when he dftcU- ned her invitation had grown to be true; he rarely went into society, and almost never into the company of ladies, the cider portion of whom he considered frivolous and vexatious, and the young- per positively dangerous. He had a few old bachelor friends, however,. with whom he kept up a cordial intercourse, and spent with them various festivals of the year as regularly as they came round.
On the 31st of December, for instance, he never omitted to go down to Read¬ ing, aud " see the old year out and the new year in," in the company of Tom .Whaffles, with whom he had worn the yellow stockings in these school days that had passed away more than half a century ago. ' Tom and Isaac had been even greater cronies as boys than Tom and Ingot—the latter did not like Tom the less upon that account: secretly, I think he esteemed him the more highly as a link between himself and thatluck- less family whoso very existence he yet chose to ignore. Mr. WhatBes had in¬ timate relations witli them still; they eame down to stay with him whenever his sister paid him a visit, and could act as their hostess; bi/v this never happen¬ ed in the last week of the year. Tom was never to speak of them to his old friend,—that was not only tacitly un¬ derstood, hut had oven been laid down ill writing, as the basis of their intimacy. On the ;!lst of December last, Mr. In¬ got Beardmore found himself, xs usual, at tlio PatUlington Station, looking for an, empty compartment, for his own company had got to be very pleasing to him. Having attained his object, aud rolled himself up in the corner of the carriage iu several greatcoats, with his feet upon a hot tin, and his hands cloth¬ ed in thick mittens, and looking alto¬ gether like a polar bear who liked to make himself comfortable,—when eve¬ rything was arranged, I say, to the old gentleman's complete satisfaction, who should invade his privacy, just as the train was about to start, and the whistle had sounded, but one^of the most be¬ witching young ladies you ever set eyes on!
"Miidam, this carriage is engaged," growled he, pointing to the umbrella, carpet-bag, and books, which he had distributed upon all the seats in order to give it that appearance.
"Only engaged to^o«, I think, sir," replied the charmer, flippantly. "Hap¬ py cjirriage! I wish I was. Is n't that pretty?"
Mr. Beardmore had never had any¬ thing half soshoekingsaidto him in all his life, and if the train had not been al¬ ready .set in motion, he would have cal¬ led upon the guard for help, and left the carriage forthwith. As it was, he could only look at this shameless young per¬ son with an expression of tlie severest reprobation. At the same time, his heart .sank within him at the reflection, that the train was not to stop till he reached his destination, — Heading. What indignities might he not have to sufler before he could obtain protection! She was a modest-looking j-onng lady, too, very simply dressed, and her voice was particularly sweet and prepossess¬ ing, notwithstanding the very dreadful remarks iu which she had indulged. Perhaps she was out of her mind,—and at this idea, Mr. Ingot Beardmore broke out, notwithstanding the low tempera¬ ture, into a profuse perspiration.
"Kow, what will you give me for a kiss, you olil—you old polar bear?" asked the fair stranger playfully as the train flew by Ealing.
"Nothing, madam, nothing; I am astonished at you,"answered Mr. Beard¬ more, looking anxiously round the car¬ riage in tlie desperate hope of finding one of tliose newly patented inventions for affording communication with the guard.
"Well, then, I'll take one, and leave it to your honor," continued the young lady with a peal of silver laughter; aud with that she lightly rose, and before the old gentleman colild free himself from his wrajis, or ward her off with his mufretces, she had imprinted a kiss upon his horny cheek. Mr.Beardman's breath was so utterly taken away by this assault, that he remained speech¬ less, but his countenance was probably ¦ more full of exjiression than it had ever been in his life. "Ono, lamnotmad," laughed she in reply to it; " although I have taken a fancy to such a wonder¬ ful old creature. Kow, come, if I kiss you again, what will you give me?"
"Ishall give you in charge to tho police, madam, the instant that I arrive at Beading."
" Give mc in charge! What for you curious piece of antiquity ?"
" For au assault, madam; yes, for an assault. Don't you know that you have no right to kiss ppople without their consent iu this manner?"
Here they young lady laughed so vio¬ lently that the tears came into her eyes. " Do you suppose, you poor old doting creature, that any body will ever be¬ lieve such a story as that ? Do you ever use siieh a thing asalooking-glass, you poor dear ? Are you aware how very unprepossessiugyour appearance is even when you don't frown, as you are doing now, in a manner that is enough to frighten one? You have, of course, a perfect right to your own opinion, but if you suppose the police will agree with you, you will find yourself much mistaken. Tho idea of anybody want¬ ing to kiss you will reasonably enoush appear to them iireposterous."
" What is it you require of me, you wicked creature ?" cried the old bache¬ lor, in an agony of shame and rage,
" I want payment for my kiss. To a gentleman at your time of life, who scarcely could expect to be so favored, surely it is worth,—what shall I say ? —five pounds. What! not so mucH ?— Well, then, here's anotherfor youroth- er cheek." Like a flash of lightning, she suited the action to her words.— " There, then, five pounds for the two, and I won't take a shilling less. You will have to give it to the poor's box at the police station, if not to me. For I intended, in case you are obstinate, to complain of j/otir disgraceful conduct to the guard, at the first opportunity.— I shall give you into custody, sir, assure as you are alive. You will be put upon your oath, you know, and all you will dare to say wiU be that I kissed you and not you me. What 'roars of laugh- tor' there will be in court, and how fun¬ ny it will aU look in the papers!"- Here the young lady began to laugh again, as though she had already read it there. Mr. Beardmore's grim sense of humor was, as usual, accompanied by a keen dislike of appearing ridiculous.— True, he hated to be imposed upon; still, of the two evils, waa it notbetterto pa^ five pounds, than to be made the laughing-stock of his bachelor friends who are not the sort of people to com¬ miserate one in a m'isfortune of this kind?
¦ In short, Mr. Ingot Beudmore paid tho money. Mr.Thomas"Whaifiesfound
his guest that evening auythiiig but talkative. There was a select party of the male sex invited to meet him, by whom the rich old drysalter was accus¬ tomed to be regarded as an oracle; but upon this occasion he had nothing to say; the consciousness of having bocu " done" oppressed him. His lips^ were tightly sealed; his cheeks were still' glowing from the audacious insult that had been put upon them; his fingers clutched the pocket-book in wliicii there was a five-pound note less than there ought to be. But when his host and himself were left.ilone that night, "see¬ ing the old year out, and the new year in," his heart began to thaw under the geuial infiuences of friendship and gin- punch, and he told his late adventure to Tom Whaflles, not without some en¬ joyment of his own mischance.
" I could really almost forgive the jade," said ho, "for having taken mo iu so cleverly. I dare say, however, sh6 makes quite a profession of it; and that half a score of old gentlemen have been coerced before now into ransoming their good name as I did. And yet she was as modest and lady-like girl as ever you saw."
"Was she anything like thisf" in¬ quired Mr. Whaflles, producing a pho¬ tograph.
"Why, that's the; very girl!" ex¬ claimed the guest. "Ha, ha! Tom; so you, too, have been one of her victims, have you? Well, now, this is most ex¬ traordinary."
"Not at all, my dear fellow. I know her very well; and her sister, aud her mother, aud her brother too. I eau in¬ troduce you to her, if you like. There's not the least harm in her; bless you, she only kissed 3-ou for a bit of fun."
"A bitof fnn!" cried Mr. Beardmore. "Why she got a five pound note out of me!"
"But she does not mean to keep it, I am sure. Would you like to see her again ?   Come, 'Yes' or 'No' ?"
"If sho will give me back my money, 'Yes.'"
"Very well," returned the host; mind you asked for her yourself" ; aud he rang the bell pretty sharply twice.
"Here she is: it's your niece, Miss Julia. Her mother and sister are now staying under this very roof."
"Yes, uncle," said the young lady de¬ murely, "Here is your five-pound note: please give mo that five thousand which you promised mtmima if ever she or hers got five pounds out ofuou; for you area man of your word, I know. But what would be better still would be, to let me kiss you once more, in the character of your dutiful niece; .and let us all love you as we want to do. It was an auda¬ cious stratagem, I admit, but I think you will forgive me,—come."
"There go the church-bells!" cried Tom Whaflles, "Itis the new year, and a fitting time to forget old enmities.— Give your uncle a kiss, child." '
Uncle Ingot made no resistance this time, but avowed himself fairly con¬ quered; and between ourselves,' al¬ though he made no "favorites" among his newly reconciled relatives, but treat¬ ed them with equal kindness, I think he always liked Niece Julia best, who had been tlie cause of healing a quarrel which no one perhaps had regretted more at heart than Uuclelngot himself. —Chambers Journal.
WAS IT A GHOST?
Ifso, itwas a-stranglo place to see one; in the midst of noise and revelry, of gleaming lights and crashing music; with happy faces around me, and joy¬ ous laughter sou nding from floor to ceil¬ ing of a crowded circus; wljore horses pranced, and merry clowns joked, and jiretty girls leaped over spangled ban¬ ners and siirang through garlanded liooiis; yet it was there I saw it; but I will tell my story, a true one in every particular, aud my readers may decide for themselves the knotty question, "Was it a ghost?"
In the latter part of the year 18—, I, a bride of some two months, was trav¬ elling with ray husband and little step-daughter througli Scotland, and Edinburgh, with its many attractions, was of course oue of our stopping-places. I h.ad never been iu tlie modern Athens before, and seldom had I enjoyed two such days as those we spent iu seeing all that was remarkable for beauty, or interesting from associations, tliatcould be compassed in so short a time.
Tlie second evening—tho last, for we were to leave per steamer for Lioudon the next morniug—we visited the cir¬ cus of the Messrs. ,tlieu makiug a
very successful stay in the city. Well conducted and and handsomely fitted n\>, exquisitely clean and well ventila¬ ted, and with a company performing therein above the ordiuary talent,-it had become quite a fashiou.tble plaoeof resort, and was nightly filled, not with the middle and lower classes, but with the cii^c of the upper ten thousand'as well; and handsome equipages wailed at the door, aud daint.v ladies might be seen tripping alongthesawdustcovered passage which led to the arena.—Itwas fitted up some what in the Style of-a theatre, with boxes extending round three sides of the interior; and to one of these we were shown by tho obliging attention. ¦
"Can we not go in there?" asked lit¬ tle Marion, pointing to threo vacant places in tho centre, somewhat better for seeing than the ones wc p(;ctipictl.-p Her father chocked her, and bade her sit still; but tho box-keeper replied courteously that two places out of the three were taken, aud tlie iierformances commencing, we thought no more of the matter.
We saw tho occupants of the two seats come in, a lady and gentleman, elderly and pleasant-looking, and my husbaud laughingly remarke'd to mo how close they sat together, as if they feared to encroach on the remaining vacant space in any way, or kindly wished to make the fact as public as possible that there was still a seat to spare.
No one came to it, however; half the performance passed over, and still that one corner of the front row of the cen¬ tre box remained unoccupied. Then came the usual pause and the raking of the sawdust in the circle, which the audience watched with a solemn inter¬ est, as through it were a mightily im¬ portant part of tlie evening's entertain¬ ment. The second half of the amuse¬ ments commenced with the great at¬ traction of the establishment, the skil¬ ful riding of a little girl, daughter of one of the proprietors. Very graceful and pretty she appeared as the ring¬ master led her in; a petite fairy-like creature, with golden hair hanging iu curls to her waist, and her white dress floating about her like a cloud. . In a moment she was mounted and careering round the circle, her little arms waving and the gaslight gleaming on her grace¬ ful head, making it look as if surroun¬ ded by a golden glory. Not a leap did she miss, not a false step did she- make in her rapid course, and the applause was long and loud as she sprang down at the end of her act.
" Capital! capitaV!" exclaimed .my husband, spplauding with the^ rest, while little Marion clapped jor heads
iu childish glee.   I was still and quiet, and.they remarked it.
"Mamma," exclaimed the child, " what is the matter?" while her father looked at me in a.stonishment.
" Why Kate," he said what ails you? You are quite pale." ,
" I am cofd7'I replied; " I have been shivering eversince thatchild camein." Shuddering would have been a better word to express the feeling that had come over me, a gloomy kind of fright, not connected with what I was seeing, but something in myself.
" Cold!" he repeated, " in this hot place; you must be ill. Shall we go home?"
"No," I replied, seeing the child's clouded face at the prospect. "It will soon go off; I would stay.
And indeed -I felt strangely impelled to remain, I could not teU wby, though I stUl shook with the same strange mix¬ ture of cold and fear; I tried to think of what I was seeing and that only, but I felt chilled and gloomy. Presently my husband spoke to me again.
" Kate."
" Well?"
I was watching tho antics of the two clowns in the ring, and trying to fancy I was enjoying their performance.
" Who is that man staring at you?"
"Whatman!"
" That oue there, mamma," said tho child; " I've been watching him ever so long."
I followed the direction of her eyes and finger, and looked. The vacant place was vacant no longer, and with an exclamation of surprise and delight, I rose from my seat.
" Who is it?" asked my husband.
"Harrj-," I replied—"my ,cousin Harry.   I wonder how^ he came here !"
" I thought he looked as if he knew you ; ask him to come here: there is plenty of room."
He did not know Harry; they had never met, but he knew how dear he was to me. We had been brought up together like brpther and sister, and had looked upon each other as such till circumstances separated .us and he was sent abroad. When he returned I was on the eve of marriage, and he engaged to a young lady he had met in Home. She was to come to England to be mar¬ ried, and then tliey were to go back to Italy. During his stay in this country ho helped me to arrange my affairs pre¬ vious to my own wedding, but before thcy-werc settled he was seized with a serious attack of illness. Recovering slowly, he was ordered to tbe seaside, and before he left it I and my husband were travelling northward for a wed¬ ding tour. There had been some money transactions between Harry and myself; I was his debtor to a small amount—so .small as to be hardly worth mentioning but for what followed. I heard of him ouee or tSviee, and always that he was better; but our movements were uncer¬ tain, and our correspondence flagged. I hud had no news of him for a month when we reached Edinburgh, but I ex¬ pected to see him in the course of a week or two. It was a delightful sur¬ prise to meet him thus unexpectedly, and well enough to be in a place of pub¬ lic amusement. He was looking intent¬ ly, and as I thought somewhat sadlj', at me, not regarding the performance iu the least, but gazing straight across to where we sat, with a wistful look in his usually merry eyes that troubled me somehow. He seemed thinner, and his hands, one of which lay idly on the front of the box, were very white and delecate looking. I do not know what made me note his .appearance so partic¬ ularly, but I did—his fair hair with a wavy inclination to curl, which he had a habit of throwing off his forehead by a peculiar toss of his head ("like a young lion shaking his mane," his fa¬ ther used to say); his regular features a little drawn it seemed, as if with some suffering or other: the diamond ring he was proud of wearing, from which tho clusters sent out shimmering sjiarkles as the hand moved now and then; his dress quiet and gentlemanly, as it al¬ ways Was; the curiously carved handle of an umbrella, one of the souvenirs of his stay in Rome—all seemed to strike me with a strange force as I waited for a pause in the performance to go and speak to him. I nodded across the space and smiled a joyful welcome, but he took no heed; he made no sign that he was aware of my presence save the earn¬ est, mournful gaze he had fixed on me from the first.
" Go now," my husband said as the act concluded: "I will come with you."
AVc made our way round anil sought admission to tho box where he sat.
" Only room for one, sir," said the box-keeper, looking at us, wondering, no doubt, at our return.
"There isn't room for anyone," I said ; " we want to speak to a gentle¬ man—the one who came iu last in the front row."
"Onlyone gentleman in the front row," he replied.
" Oh, yes, there are two; one has on¬ ly just come in."
" Not to this box," replied the man; " it must be the next, no one has either gone out or come in here since Mile. Emma's performance."
" Perhaps you will let us see," said my husband somewhat haughtily, an¬ noyed at the man's pertinacity. " I am ceitain the gentleman we want to see is in this box, on the very row whero we wished to sit."
"Certainly, sir,",he replied, throwing open tho door, and we entered eagerly. The man was right; the place was va¬ cant; there sat the elderly couple on the front seat, the people behind them tho same who had been there all the evening, and beside the lady the empty place where not five minutes ago I had seen my cousin sitting.
"He must have gone out," I said; " he will come back again; I am sure he saw me."
We returned to our box, and when we had taken our seats I saw him sitting as before. "He is there now," my hus¬ band said, and we went back again.
" The gentleman is there now," he said to the attendant. " Be kind enough to say we wish to speak to him."
" There's no one come in since you went away," he replied somewhat rude¬ ly; "I can't disturb a whole boxful of people for your fancies."
I checked the angry reply I saw ris¬ ing to his lips, and again asked the man to open the door. He did so, grumbling audibly, and I entered again, to see again an empty seat. The lady spoke to me this time.
" Have you not made some mistake," she said, "and taken me for an ac¬ quaintance? I saw you nodding to me two or three times."
!' Not to you," I replied, " but to the gentleman who sat there."
" The gentleman who sat there!" she repeated with a puzzled expression of lace.
"Yes, he is a relative of mine; I am disappointed that he is gone."
" Gone!" she said, " my dear young lady, there has been no one here; that seat has not been occupied at all!"
It was my turn to stare now, for I ful¬ ly thought sheTra^s laboring under some delusion, but tlie other opoupazts of the boa oorroBorcitec; aji' ^,tai£:;i;3at, qhu
was fain to think we had aU been mis¬ taken somehow, and go back to my place.
" It is very odd," roy husband remark¬ ed: " I am sure I saw some one there."
" And I am sure it was Harry," I re¬ plied, hardly able.to sappjreas.4.scream' of terror, for, raising my eyes as I Spoke, I saw him again sitting in the same place, and gazing as intently as before over to where I sat.
"It is he," I said, "what can it mean?"
" He is there sure enough," said my husband. "What could those people mean ? Don't look so frightened, Kate, it is some mistake; we will catch him coming out; the performance is nearly over."
During the last act of horsemanship we left our seats, determined to solve the mystery if possible, and stationed ourselves in the lobby opposite the door of the box in which we had seen my cousin, assuring ourselves that he had not left before we moved. He did not come out, however; no one but those we had seen when we went in passed out at that door. Again we spoke to the lady and gentleman by whose side Harry had been so long; they were at a loss to understand our persistent asser¬ tions that the seot.had been filled dur¬ ing the evening, and again assured us that there had been no one there.
'' It was entirely vacan t, said tho lady, " for a strange feeling I cannot account for has kept me from encroaching ou it, as one is apt to do sometimes on au empty place. I have fell; all the even¬ ing as if I coultl not sit there."
It was as much a mystery as ever, aud we weut away comjiletely puzzlcd.-r Neither of us had the slightest tinge of superstition about us, and «e looked upon the whole affair us a mistake in some way or other. Arrived at our lodgings, we found a letter from my husband's employei's in London, re¬ questing him to attend to somebuslness iu Glasgow before returning, so thatour journey was put off for a few days. When we did start, an uuiisually rough passage fell lo our lot; and I was so ex¬ hausted when we arrived in town that we put up at the nearest hotel for the night, and saw uo one till tbe next day. My sister had arranged our honse for us, and.was to be there to receive us. Iwaa surprised to find her looking pale aud harassed, aud dresaediu uewmouruiug. She apologized for Ih'ngs not being in order by saying she had a sad time for the last week, aud a harassing journey. I was comiiletely puzzled.
" Time! journey!" I said. " What do 5'oumean?"
" Surely my letter wasclearenougli,"
she said.   " I have lieen to T , you
know."
"I received no letter," I repliedl " When did you write?"
" On Wednesday."
" And we left on Thureday, too early to have had it. But what has happen¬ ed?  What took you loT 'V
"Poor Harry! " she began; and
smoothingherdress.nervously, she burst into tears, and could say no more.
" Poor Harry!" I repeated in aston¬ ishment. "What has happened lo him since last week?"
" Nothing smoc."
I did not note'the emphasis, and re¬ plied, " Then nothing was wrong with him, then? He was in Edinburgh— we .saw him."
" You saw him, Kate! yourself?"
"All of us,"—I said—"my husband and little Marion as well as us."
"When?"
I named the time and place, and my sister's face turned white to the lips.
"Kate," she said, " It was no living man you saw.   Hairy is dead."
" Dead!" The room seemed to whirl round with me as she spoke. My old playmate—my childish companion—my brother of old days—dead! I thought of his sad look at me, of how I had tried to speak to him on the eventful night, aud the terror I had not felt then came upon me now. What had I seen?— Why had I seen it? Was Harry think¬ ing of me? were the thoughts that flash¬ ed through my mind as I sank into a chair. It was long before I was suffi¬ ciently composed to hear any particu¬ lars, for the shock was a terrible oue—I was so sure I had seen Harry alive and well. .He had been recovering fast, my sister tokl me, though his lungs were very weak, and he was ordered to take great care. He bad somewhat disre¬ garded tho injunctions given him, and over-fatigued himself, but he thought nothing of it, and trusted to rest to res- torehim. The mischief was done; how¬ ever, and one night iu a fit of coughing, he ruptured a blood vessel, and from that time his decline was rapid, a few days only intervening between that event and his death. My sfster was summoned to see him, and nursed him to the last. He spoke of me, she said frequently, and begged her to write to me, but she did not know our where¬ abouts till we wrote from Edinburgh to say we were coming home. Then it was too late—my cousin died on the evening of the day on which my letter reached her, and she could only write to apprise me of his death. He died the very hour I saw him in the circus at Edinburgh, aud his last intelligible words were the commencement of a message to me—"Tell Kate not to mind "
What more ho had to say was never spoken; death arrested the words upon his lips, and he died with the sentence uncompleted. As his last words in this world were forme, so was his lastglance, for I s.aw him gazing at me with a wist¬ ful look at the very hour when he pass¬ ed from this world to the next. Was it fancy when three people saw him as plainly as we see any one whom we m'eet in our daily life ? and that not for a moment only, but for an hour or more, two of them being entire strangers to him, and having no interest in him whatever.
If it were only fancy, it was a most extraordinary coincidence; if not, what was it? I have told a simple unvarnish¬ ed story of facts aa they occurred, and I will leave my readers to settle the ques¬ tion for themselves, and decide as they please—was it a freak of imagination, or " Was it a Qhostt".—English Mag¬ azine.
Every man hath a domestio chaplain within his own bosom that preaches over the sermon to him again, and comes over him with "Thou art the man."
Every man who haa a heart to pray, a tongue to speak, or a penny to give, may be a " worker together with God." And who has not one or all these to work with?
At the present time a voice comes np from every part of the land, that the work of recruiting goes on cheerily, and many are proclaiming their readiness to become gdodaoldlersof Christ. What will be the result? Will tliey remain true to their profesaion ? Will they be¬ come a power in theLord'a camp? will they, with all their heart aad soul, re¬ deem their pledge? Will they, in fall¬ ing into the ranks, under the service which ia reaaonably expected of them ?
As gunpowder bloweth a man into sausage meat, so  & scolding tongue 't breedeth a fuss, aud tumetb comfort out jSjOf iii3 vindow.
FOE THE XITXLE FOLKS.
KATY MUST WAIT. Little Knty, good and fair,— Rosy cheeks and yellow hair, YeUow ringlets, soa and curly,       * Walking in tho morning early,
Waking at the dawn of day, On her pillow as she lay, Heard a robin, loud and clear, Sing, tho chamber window near.
Katy listened to the'bird, Tllfl not stir nor speak a word, . Happy thus to hear him slug, Thinking, now it would be Spring,—
Thinking that there soon would be  ¦ Blossoms on the apple-tree,— Smiling, that ere long she should Hunt lor violets in the wood.
Oh! the winter had been long. Without flowers and without song, Without rambles in the grove. Such aa eager ehildren love.
Spring was coming I To begin It, She would rise that very minute. Offwlth night-gown, off with cap! Hark!  She listens: tap, tap, tap 1
Drop by drop the pattering rain Felts against the window pauo!  . Katy shall not havo her will; But the robin charms her' still.
Bo by him her heart Is stirred That she does not speak a word,— Docs not speak a word, nor stir. While the robin sings to her ;—
Tells her how he came tobrlng Earliest tidings of the Spring; How the flowers will earlier blow. For tile rain that makes them grow;
How there will be pleasant days. Sunshine follo^ving rain always. Thus sings robin unto Kato, "Trust me, Katy,—trust and wait."
Our Young Folks for May.
mFbeeakfast.
I don't know why they called him Hebby, I'm sure. Everybody khows there is no H in Ebenezer.
A queer name, Ebenezer; a Biblo name, and yet funny. I mean funny to give to a boy, for in the Bible it is given to a stone, and means "the stono of help." But our Ebenezer was not a bit like a stone. True he was always roll¬ ing about; but then a stone will lie still if you don't throw it or kick it, and Ebenezer would not keep still at all. Not in the day time, nor yet at night, for he made a practice of tumbling out of bed in his sleep, at least four nights in every week. So his poor mother used to tell everybody. And the good min¬ ister would sometimes pat the boy's uncombed head, give his own a shake, and say, " Ebenezer, I am afraid you are anything but a stone of help," at which Hehby would look very solemn for about a minute aud a half, and then be off at full speed to hunt for birds' nests, or chase a butterfly. It was quite true, though. Hebby was not a help of any sort, except at getting rid of the bread and butter iu the cupboard at home.
He could get in people's way and hin¬ der them, and the great fault of this small boy was that he did hinder them, father, mother, sister, and all. They were very fond of him, but they could not help being glad if Hobby's back was turned when they had anything partic¬ ular to do. Not that Hebby wa.s fretful or passionate, or o'bstinately disobedient, or sly.and deceitful; but he was heed¬ less and wilful, and he did naughty things without thinking, and got into many "awful scrapes," as his brother Tom used to call them. And this brings me to my story..
One of Hebby's favorite tricks was to rush down-stairs in the morning half dressed, with hair "all sixes aud sevens, 'i and boots all unlaced, get his sister to give him a slice of bread and butter (to keep him from losing his appetite for breakfast), and thenamusehimself with driving the chickens all over the garden, frightening the poor birds, and not at all improving the appearance of the flower beds. Hehby had often been told not to do this, and had promised to obey, but unfortunately he had abad memory, and his promises eame to nothing. However, a lesson was in store for him which he did not expect.
One night, after Hebby was in bed, his father brought home a pair of fowls, a fine large cock and hen, aud shut them safely in the fowl-house. Next morning down came Master Hebby for his customary hunt, .and having found out the new comers, proceeded to give them the usual bit of exercise; Whether they did not like running so fast before bre.tkfast, or whether they wished to teach him that chickens were not mado to be liunted like foxes or hares, I can¬ not tell, but no sooner did Hebby begin his usual sh-sh-sh! than the new cock, instead of running away, set up his feathers, spread out his wings, aud came full tilt at Hebby's fat legs.
Poor Hebby rushed helter-skelter into a corner, with one boot off and one on and his bread and butter hid behind him. Here he thought himself safe, but no sooner did he try to take a bite at the bread and butter, than cock-a-loo made a jump, snatched the slice out of Hebby's hand as cleverly as" you could have done it yourself, and then rushed offto the rest of the chickens, who speedily divided it among themselves as they seemed to cackle in chorus, " Well done! Serve him right!" Hebby looked very foolish, and still more so when his father told him that he would get nothing more to eat until dinner¬ time, as a fit punishment for his dis¬ obedience.
I don't know whether Hebby was cured by this lesson, or .whether there are any heedless Hebby's among my little readers. If there are, let them re¬ member that heedless folks are always getting into trouble, aud that boys aud girls who will not do as they are told, must expect to suffer much greater troubles than even tho loss of a nicg breakfast.
Perhaps not much op a Preacher. —^Last fall nearly all the ministers of the M. E. Church stationed on Lake Superior, went down lo Conference on the propeller Lac La Belle, the first mate of which is a gruff but dry old joker. Having heard that there were several preachers on hoard, he remark¬ ed in a gruff sort of a way that the trip would be a stormy one.
" How so ?" inquired oue of the min¬ isters, who happened to overhear the remark.
" Because there's so many ministers on board," said the mate.
" Why," said tho minister, " I've travelled on the lake for the last five years, and never was in a storm yet; how do you account for that?"
"Why," said the mate hesitatingly, 'perhaps you're notmuch of a preacher.'
COTOD'NT TELI BY HIS DEESS.
Some years ago a wealthy carriage maker residing in Philadelphia, was very much annoyed by calls of hack- men, coachmen, omnibus drivers, etc., who, under pretense of wishing 'to purchase would put him to consldera- able trouble in showing them all tlie various vehicles he had on hand and telling them the difference, the very_ lowest price of each ; and would leave with the consoling idea that they would " think of it" and If they con¬ cluded to purch.ase, " why they'd call again to-morrow." But it so happened that they never called again the second time. The daily inquiry we say, had become so annoying that tho owner, in self defense, had resolved, ounotpaying any attention to a customer, unless he came well dressed. About this time the owner was one day standing at his door, when up camo a rough looking man, well bundled in his overcoat, wearing coarse unpolished boots, and Carrying in his hand a whip, who thus accosted him.
" Good day sir. Aro you the owner of this establishment."
" Well, I am," replied tho other, with a look which seemed to say."— Now you want to try it don't you ?"
"Haveyou  any  fine  carriages   for sale?" inquired the stranger, aiiparantly not heeding  tho  boorishness   of the other. "Well, I have." "At what price?" " Different prices of course." "Ah! yes.   Cau I look at them ?" " You can do as you please, stranger. They are in there."
The stranger bowed politely, and passed in, examined the vehicles for o few moments, returned and said:
" Tliere is one I think will answer my   purpose,"   pointing toward one. " What is the price ?" " Two hundred dollars, sir." "Is that the lowest?" " 'That is the lowest." " Well, sir, I will call and give you my  decision   to-morrow;"    and   the stranger walked aw'ay,
" Yes, you'll call to-morrow! O, yes, certainly," replied the owner in a tone of irony, not so low but that the stran¬ ger heard him; but he kept ou his way, taking no outward notice of it.
The next day came, and with it came the stranger also.
" I have come according to promise" said he.
I see you have, sir," replied the owner, a little abashed.
" I will take that (j(irriage, sir," and to the astonishment of the other, he pulled out an old wallet well stuffed with bills, aud deliberately counted out two hundred dollars. The owuer was completely staggered. Here's somethiug new, a cabman with so much money! He look the money, looked at it, and then at the stranger, eyed him from head tofootandexamin¬ ed his boots attentively. Theu he counted his money over and held up each bill to the light lo seo if it was counterfeit. No! all were good. A' thought struck him. Ho would find out his name!
" I supijose you would like areceipt!" said he at length to the stranger. " It may be as well." " Yes sir.   What name ?" "Washington Irving." " Sir," said the other, actually start¬ ing back with amazement,   " did I un¬ derstand your n.tme was—"
' Washington Irving' replied the oth¬ er, an almost iroxiereeptible smile hov¬ ering around his mouth.
"Washington Irving—sir—my dear sir," stammered the owner, confusedly, " I—I—I—really, sir, beg ten thousand pardons sir, but pardon me!—but I mis¬ took you for a cabman, sir ! I did in¬ deed !"
"No excuse, my friend," replied Ir¬ ving. "I am no better than you took me for. You acted perfectly right" aud having at length succeeded in getting his receipt, amid a host of apologies, he politely bade the humble carriage maker " good day," and left him to the chagrin that he had mistaken for a cab¬ man a man whose lofty genius had commanded tho ' admiration of the whole world.
The friend who related this anecdote, asserted that it was a fact, and told lo him'by the veritable owner himself. It doubtless proved a lesson to him not to judge men by their dress.
LEGAL NOTICES.
NOTICE.
IN the matter of the Petition of Hannah Coy, M-itlow and surviving e.-tecutrix of the last will and testament of James Co.v, late of the city of Lani-,i3tur, dec'd, prayliig'tobe discharg¬ ed from her trust.
Anil now April 2ist, ISGC, on motion of Jesse Laudls, E.sq., Court grtmt a rule on the Heirs of James Coy, dee d, to appear in Courton MON¬ DAY, tho25lhofi[AY"n«t,at 10o'clock AM. to^how cau.so If any they [uwc; why Hannah Coy, surviving executor of said deceased should not be alseharged agreeably to the pray¬ er of said petitioner.
JOHN C. BALDWIN,
apr 2>-'jt-23 Clerk Uriihaus' Court.
Isaac HAzT.Enur.sT, Trustee, &c..
Alias Lev. Pac.
Ex. Doc.
April Term, 1800.
No. 2C.
Lanc.vster & SCSUUE-
UAN5f.V Hr.ACKW.iTEn .
Nav. (». J
Tho undersigned, appointed by tbo Court of Common Pleas of Lancaster connty. Auditor to distribute to and among those legally entitled thereto, the money made under the above exe¬ cution aud paid Into Court, hcrehy gives notice that he will sit for tho purpose of his appoint¬ ment in one of the Jury Uooms, in the Court House in the city of Lancuster, on FRIDAY, the 25th day of .^I AY, A. D. imj, at 2 o'clock, P. M., when and where all parties interested aro notUlcd to attend.
WM.AUQ.ATLEE,
apr25-td-23 Auditor.
LEGAL  NOTICES.
Al'DITOK'S NOTICE.
Estate of Jolin Hoffman, late of Rapho
township, dec'd. rj"'HB undersigned Andllor, apirolnted lodis- X tribute the halaiiee remainin'' In thohandsof Jacob M. Greider and Michael Whitman, Trus¬ tees, to and among those legally entitleil to the same, will sit for thatpurposeon SATURDAY. the20th day of MAY next at 10 oelock, A. M., in the Library Room of the Court House, in the City of Lancaster, where all persons Interested In said distribution may attend, apl 25-lt-23J J. B. AMWAKB, Auditor.
ADMIjriSTKATOKS" NOTICE.
Estate of Abraham S. Hackman, late of Mount Joy township, decoiised.
LETTERi? of admiuistration on said estate having been granted to the undersigned, all persons iudebted thereto are requested to make immediate paj'ment, and tlioso having claims or demands against the same will present them without delay forscttlement to the undersigned IL SlUSSELMAN, Marietta, Adin'r. SUSAN UACKMAN, Mt Joy, Adin'x. apl 23 lil'SS
EXECUTRIX NOTICE.
Estate of Valentine Reich, late of Earl township, dec'd.
LETTERS testamentary on said estate hav¬ ing been gr.-mtcd to tho nndersigued, all persons indebted thereto are retiucsted to make Immediate payment, and those having claims or demands against the.same win present them without delay for settlement to tho under¬ signed, residing in said township.
liARBARiV MICH, widow, apl 2fl-0t'23] Executrl.x.
AUIUTOK-S NOTICE.
Estate of Christian Bassler, sr., kite of Manheim twp., Lan. co., dec'd.
THE undersigned Auditor, appointed to dis¬ tribute the bahiuce remaining in the hands of Christian IL Bas.sler, executor of said dec'd, toand among those legally entitled tothcsame ¦will attend for that purpose on TUESDAY, the 22nd day of MAY, ISWi, at 2 o'clock, p. m., in the Court House in the city of Lancaster, where all persons Interested iu said distribution may at¬ tend. SIMON P. EBY. apr 2j-lt-23 Auditor.
Christ gave himself for ua. But are not too many of our gifta for Christ like the one illustrated by thb following in¬ cident?
To a little fellow at the breakfast ta¬ ble, hia father aays, " John, you know your teacher tells you you muat deny yourself in order to present an accepta¬ ble offering to the missionary cause; now, what do you think of doing ?" "I have made up my mind, father; I won't eat salt mackarel for breakfast." "I am glad, my child, that you are wiUing to deny yourself anything tot Jesua' sake. Why do you select that ?" " O, father, I am' hot ai allXond of it, and it is very easy to give it'up, and hesides, we don't very often have it."
EXECUTOirS NOTICE.
Estate of Gotlieb Bierengel, late of East Hempfield township, dec'd.
LETTERS testamentary on said estate liavinS been granted to tlie undersigned, all per¬ sons indebled thereto are requested to make immediate payment, and those having de¬ mands against the same will present them for settlement to tho undersigned, residing In said township. DANIEL HEiiS, apl 21-l>t.22    Executor.
NOTICE
TO the members of tho Northern Mutual In¬ surance Company of Lancaster County, AN election will be held on Monday May 21, A. D. 1806, between tlio hours of 10 aud li o'¬ clock of said day, being the third Monday in May, 180(1, at tho public house of Samuel G. Hacker, In Lincoln, Lancaster county, for the purpose of electing Three Directors and One Auditor, to serve for threo years, as by tho act of Incorporation of said company Is provided. By order of the Board of Directors.
JOHNS. HACKER, Seo'y. apr23-2t
ADHINISTBATOIt.S' NOTICE.
Estate of Christian Stoner, late of West Hempfield twp., dec'd.
LETrERS of Administration on said estate having been granted to the undersigued, all persons Indebted thereto are requested to make immeillate payment, and those liavlng claims or demands against the same, will pre¬ sent them without delay for selUcment to tile
PROFESSIONAL.
PEXSIOS XOTICE.
THE snbscriijor i.s ohLainin-; Bt.ito PcnsIonB for tho soldiers of ih^yi.xv%Tm2 nnSXS Vfidowi^, untlcr the Iato Act of .VsHi-inlily
-I-IJ. KAIJI.'MAN, apl 2lHL*22 ^o. m Eiwt Kiuy street.
SOI.DIER.S OF T]X£ IVAlt OF IHi-j.
PEXSIONS,I?ENSIOXS.-Soldieraof th(j warof 1812 or thctr widows can, now receive ny»;j>.r- ly pension of Forty Dollars £rom tho Mt.iUt ol rcnusylviinla, and a Gratuity of Forty DollarM. For liroinjjt attcntloTi apnly to—
JAMIvS BL.Vf I'C, Attorney at fjiw.
apr 18-
Ko. uUE. Kiug.St., L!tnc;wtcr, i';c. ¦it-ii:
undersigned.
gpl 18-flt*22_
JACOB K. STONER, East Donegal twp.
ELI K. STONEH,
West Homptieid twp. Adminiiitrators.
EXECBTOB'S Hi'OTICE.
Estate of Jacob Eohrer, sr., late of East Lampeter twp., dec'd.
LETTERS Testamentary on said estate hav¬ ing been granted to the underalgueil, all persons indelHed thereto are requested to make iininediate payment, and thoso having de¬ mands agaliwt the samo will pre.sent them fur settlement to tlie undersisned.residing in said townsliip. AliRAU.\AI ItOHUEK,
apll8-6t-22 Executors.
T>E.WOVAl.  «F r. S. CI.AIM ACEXCY.
-it ,T. n. KAaFF.M^VN,
Has removed his Ijiw and Coilt'ctlngOfnre to
his new residence, at No, UG Eii-st Kiim .street,
BCvr Pensions, Uouutlcs, Back i'ay, Ac., col¬ lected as usual. iii\i 17 ly*lj
^MjTM. K, SELTZER,
JT     ,     ,            .          ATTORNEY-AT-TjAW. Ephrata. Lanca-stcr Couut>-^, Vn., between tho Railroad and EpliraLa Mouutuln Sprlugs. Jan 17- ly-0
MEEN' FBANKMN-
, ATTORNEY AT LAW, Has removed his olllco to Nortli Duke Klreet directly opposite tho eastern door of tlie Court House, Lancaster, Va.. All professional busi¬ ness entru.sted to hia care wiU meet witli prompt attention. dec O-tf-3
AMOS ir. MYEIX. ATTORNEY AT LAW. Oillce, No. 8 South Queen street, ca.stsldc, a few doors below Centre Square, Lancaster, Pa. mar 20 't;5 ly 19
JOHN Ii. UOOI>« ATTORNEY AT LAW, Ofnce,No,.W Ea-st Klnc street.  Special atten¬ tion Klven to Orphans'Ckiurt businessanU U<m- veyanclng. [ap i 't;>iy«
FRED. S. FYFER. ATTORNEY AT LAW, umce In Wldmyer's Row, No. J South Duke st., Lancaster, P.-i.   Pensions and Bountv Clatma promptly attended to. [ jy lu-tf a5 'fS
AD:tIINXSTBATOR*S NOTICE.
Estate of Michael Moore, late of West Hemplield twp,, Lancaster co.,  dec'd,
LETrERBof cdmlnlslratlon on said E.state- havlng been granted to tho undersigned, all persons Indebted thereto are requested to make Immediate settlement, and those having claims or domands against the same will present them without delay for settlement to the undersign¬ ed, residing Jn said township. 	
MICHAEL H. 5I00RE, JOHN H, MOORE, CHRISTIAN HIESTAND, mar 31-6t-19 Administrator,
EXECUTOR'S NOTICE.
Estate of Christian Nissley, late of Mt. Joy township, deceased.
LETTERS leatameutarj on .said estate having been granted to the undersigned, all persons Indebteu thereto are requested to make Imme¬ diate settlement, aud tiiose having claims or demands against the same will present tliem without delay for settlement to the undersign¬ ed, residing in said twn.
HENRY H. NISSLEY,   . apr U-Gt*2l Executor.,
EXECUTOR'S NOTICE.
Estate of Maria Smucker, widow, late of Earl twp., deceased.
LETTEItS testamentary on suldestatc having been granted to theunderslgned,all persons Indebted thereto are requested to make imme¬ diate paymont, and those having claims or demands against the same will present them without delay for .settlement to the under¬ signed, residing in Upper Leacock twp,
JONATH.AN F. aTOLTZFUS, apl 18-61*221 Executor.
ASSION£E*S   NOTICE.
Assigned Estate of George Frantz and Wife, of Ephrata twp., Lanc'r co.
GEORGE FRANTZ npd wife, of Ephrata twp., having by deed of voluntary assignment, dated AprllSu, ISlIG, a.sslgued and trfinsferred all their estate and effects to the undersigned, for the benefit of the creditors of tlio said George Frantz, ho therefore gives notice to all persons Indebted  to said ajisignor, to make payment to  tho undersigned without delay, and thoso having claims to present tliem lo AMOS FASNACHT, Assignee, Residing in Ephrata twp,, Luuc'r co., apl 1-Gt* 21]	
AUDZXOIt\S NOTICE.
Estate  of Hannah  Mclntiro, late of
Drumore twp., Lanc'r co., dec'd. rpHE undersigned Auditor, appointed to dl.s- JL t rlbute the balance reinat ning in llie liaiidii ofS. L. Gregg, Administrator of said decc^.i to and among those legally entitled tcrThe same, will atteud for that purpose ou THURS¬ DAY, the THIRD DAY OF jLVY, ISOfi, at two o'clock, p.m., in the Library Room of the Court House, in tlio city of Lanca-ster, wlicru alt per¬ sons interested in.said di.itributiou may attend. apll-4t 21]       D. \V. PATTERSON, Auditor.
AUOITOB'S NOTICE.
Estate of Ann Mary Ihling, late of the
City of Lancaster, dec'd. riiHE undersigned Auditor, appointed to dis- X tribute the halauce remaining in the luinds of John Shaeffer, David Weidman and David Kemper, Administrators, to and among those legully entitled lo tlie same, will sit lor that purpose on TUESDAY, the 2L'd of M.VY, at 10 o'clock, a.m.. In the Library-Room of the Court House, in tho city of Lancaster, wiiero all per sons interested in said distribution may attend apll-Jt2ll A. HERR SMITH, Auditor.
EXECUTOR'S NOTICE,
Estate of Hugh Donley, late of Eden township, deceased.
LETTERS Testamentary on said estate hav¬ ing been granted to the undersigned, all per- .sons iiiUcbted thereto are requested to make Immcdiatesettlcment, and tho.se having claims or demands againsttiie same willpreseiit them without delay for settlement to the undersign¬ ed, residing at Christiana, Sadsbury townsliip. y.VMUEL SLOKOM, ap7-6t-20 Executor.
ADMINISTILVrOILS' NOTICE.
Estate of David  IC. Stauirer, lute of Bapho township, deceased.
LETTERS of aiUnlnlstratlon on said Estate liaving Ijeon granted to tlio undersigned, all persons Indebted thereto are re(iuested to make Immediate settlement, and those iiaving claim.s or demands against the same will pre¬ sent tiieinwltliout delay for settlement to the uudcr^jigued. _
SAMUEL AUNGST, Penn twp., CU'N GINGRICH. Raplio twp., JACOU N. BRUI3AKE11, Rapho twp., BENJAMIN NISSLEY, llaplio twp,. apr7-fit*2{)] Admini-strators.
ADMINISTRATORS' NOTICE.
Estateof Henry Stanim, late of Rapho township, deceased.
LETTERS of administration on said estate having been granted to tlie undersigned, all pet*.sons indebted thereto aro requested to make Immedlatesettlement, aud those liavingclaims or demaudsagalnstthe same will present liiem witlirmt delay fur .settlement to the undersign¬ ed, residing In said twp.
ELIAS DUNDORE, Administrator, ¦ of ,Soutli Iicbauon twp., Lebauou co., or to C. it. MARTIN, Es(i., Agent for administrator, Mount Joy, Laucastercouuty, apr 7-Ot-20
AD.IIINISTBATOB'S NOTICE.
Estate of John Sheafler, late of the City of Lancaster, deceased.
LETTER-S of administration on said Rstate liavlng been granted to the undersigned, iUl porson.s ihdebteil theretoaro requestedlomake lininedialescttleinent, and tho.se havlug claims ordemands against the .same will present them without delay for settlement lo the under¬ signed.
JOSIAII U. SHEAPFER,
of the Citv of Lancaster. DAVID UOCIISTETTER. of Ponn twp. mar 28 Ut ID Adm'rs,
ADMINISTRATORS' NOTICE.
Estateof Ulrich Hostetter, late of Manor twp., dec'd.
LETTERS of administration on said o-sUite having been granted to the undersigned, all persons indebted thereto are requested to make immediate settlement, and thoso having claims or demands against tlic same will pre¬ sent them without delay for settlement to the undersigned residing In said township.
' CHRISTIAN E. HOSTETTER, A. E. HOSTETTER, mar 28-Gt*lft Administrators.
MISCELLANEOUS.
WANTED—^This    coming    Season—^TWO THOUSAND CORDS of
BLACK OAK BARK.
Also, Sp.ani.sh and Chestnut Oak Bark, for which the Iiighe.stca.sh price will be paid, de¬ livered at H. SHIRK & BRO.'S Tannery, Bird- In-Hand ltivilro.ad Station, Lancaster county Va.   Address Euterpri.>*e V. O.       [apll-2ra* 21
KEATEBS   A COOKING •RANOE.S.
rnHEmo.st improved HE.^TERS & RANGES J. for sale and lit up.
ParUcniar attention given to repairs, at the House Furnishing Store of
apr -I-tf-iO A. C. FIjINN,
FOB   SAEE.      •
A LARGE a.ssortment of Hospital, Wall Shelter nnd Sibley Tents, at cost of raw material. Also, 500 Wagon Covers, fn lots to Bultpurcl-ys6rs; A. PURVES &. SON,
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W. SHENK,
Ix. ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Ollico with O. J. Dickey, South Queen strc-t, Lancaater, pa. [ jy 22 'UVl i
C. KREADY,
  ATTORNEY AT LAW,
OlIIco with Hon. L E,  Hie.slcr, No. ao' North Duke St., Lancaster, Pu,
B.
JK. ALEXANDER, .     _    ,    , ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Oillce in Duke street, opposite theCVmrt lloii.ep, BauciLSter, Pa. tinny2S '&>ly*
SAMUEL KC. PRICE, ATTORN'EY AT L.\W, OfliceinSoutliDuke street, ;i doors l)eh)w th^ Farmers' Bank, opposite Lutlieran Cliurch. Jaul 'ta-lf
ilxrASUlNGTON W. ITOFKtN.S.
! V V ATTORNFY AT L.\W.
jNo. 28 North Duke Street, Lancaster, Pa.
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WTM. AV'«. ATLEE,
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ATTOItNEY AT LAW, Ofllce, No. 4.-) Ea.st K'ng St., opposite Jonathan SpreC.ier's Iloti-I, Laujaster City, Pa. ot-t 18-ly* IS
WM. WHITESI WE. DENTIST. Office in Fahnestock's Building, East King next door to the Court House.
J    II. I.ONO, IIEXTIST. CHURCHTOWN, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.
SETTS ON GOLD, SILVER &. VULCANITE
At Moderate Prices,
«S* AU work warranted. ap 21-Gm*-^
AB. WITMEB, .   COUNTY SURVEYOR, DEPUTY CORO¬ NER, JUSTICE OF THE PEACE AJ^HU CON¬ VEYANCER.
Also gives particular attention to clerking salesof real and personal propi.'rty, at anv tils- tJinee wltliln tiie county. Orders from ii. dls- Uiuce promptly attended to.
Olllco in Manor townsliip, Laucastercouuty, one mile uortli of Safe JIarljor, on the I«niea:;- tur road.   Address Safu llariior l*ost Ofiice.
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AUCTION EZ:SIIN< J. BENJA.MIN F. ROWE respectfully informs tiii*;pul)Ilc tli:it ho will .^t- f^'iid to Crying Sales of real and pursonal prop¬ erty in any part of the couulj*.
Those wlslilng his servlrcs are requested In apiJly to GERARDUS CLARKSdN, l-:sq.,at :::f. Protlionotjir>-'s UlUce, who v.Mll pronipily at¬ tend to the matter.
Letters addressed lo me at SiniLhviUe V.O., Lancxstereounty, will ije prom plly at teudLdl-.>.
JOHN II. ZELLER. SURVEYOR AND CONVEYANCER, Also gives particularattention to clerking sr.lrg of real and personal pruperty at auj- distit:;;.o within the county.
OlHce iu Si>Wng\-Ille, Mou.it .Toy low::.ship Lancaster couuty. .\ddress Sptiiu: Gnv.'.tn P. O. foci 't>5-Iy- •!.')
FINANCIAL.
INTEKEST ON SPECIAL DEi'OSST.-J.
FlIlHT NATIOX.Mj B.VNK,    \
strasburg. Pa,, April Vi, IjiW. j rilHIK Bank will pay Interest on Ci-rii(ii-.^les JL of Deposit (witliout notieej at tlie foiIu-.vj::g rates:
•I PER CENT. Per Annum for ;Uo C MONTH;;;. 5        do. do do. (j t(»l2      dn,
e.>^.ebi-:rman,
apr l-l-lm-21 Ca.'shier,
REED aicORAN.V AND C«,"tIl*ANY>
LANCASTER CITY, PA.
BANICERS and Dealers in Government Se¬ curities.   Buy Compound  Inten-st   Notes, Gold, United States Coupons, and .Silver. PAY li'TKiiKSTS OX i>i:t'osn>*.
5 per cent 6 months.
^y,    " 12     "
4 per cent, on call. 4J^      *       ;i montlis. mar 21-3m-18
TIEE FIBST   NATI<»NAL   BANI£   OF MARIETTA, I'A.
[January 10,18GG. CAPITAL, $100,000.
SURPLUS FUND, 822,228 70. This Bank will pay 5J< per cent. Interest for Deposits mado for oncycar.
AMOS BOWMAN, Jan 17-3m 9 Cashier.
INTEBEST ON DEPOSITS.
rpIIB CODUMBIA NATIONAL BANK will JL pay interest on deposits at tho following rates:
4 .percent, forSmonths. 41^      " "  0      "
5 " " !l      "
bM     "        " 12     "
nov25-(ini-lj S.V.M'L SUOCH, Car-hlcr
u. s. sta:»ifs.
A GENERAL ji.s.>.-m-tmont of Vn\\f\ .^^iates Revenue Stamps, are (.'11 han<l and fur saie at Government rates, by tlic Inland Insurant-t) and Deposit Company, Centre S<iuare, Laneas- caster, jCS-Agcnt for the subscriber.
J. K. ALI-:XANIiK.^, sept 21-tr-'05 C. S. Assessor.
MANHEIM NATION.VL HANK.
MANUF.r.M, May IB. ISC"..
I^UE Manlielm National Bank pays intent;! on depo-slts as follows, vl/.: For six months aud upwards 4 percent, per annum. '
For twelve  " " "     5      "
J. HOFFMAN IlERSHEY. Jno 17 'C5 tr-26 Cas'.i'.er
REMOVAL
Of the Banking House of Reed, Hen¬ derson & Co. riMlE undersigned liave removed into their X NewBankliigilouse, In Duke strt-ct. oppo¬ site the Court House, in tlicctlyof Laneaslt-r, where thoy will continue to don general bnnlc- ing business, receive monoy on di-posll and pay Interest for .same according to time. Joiix K. Rkkd, Aaios.s. Hkniikrsos', ls.iUic E. lIiK-aTw:. Bankers a.s
RI::ED,HI>NDERS0N &. CO. Lancaster. March 22,18ti0". CuuirSJ.-'-imlS
FIICST NATIONAL B.4NK.
LANC'.tSTKit, March 20, ISW. rsiUlS BANK win pay Interest oil Certilicates Xof Deposit, at the fuiluwing ralt-s:
4 PER CENT. FOR :i .MONTHS.
5 "        .     '*      6      du 5M      *' '*     12      iln
HORACE RATIIVON, mar 21-3ni-IS Cashier.
BAIB «S: CXABKSON,
BANKER.S.—Offlco, North East Cor. Centrfi Square: Deal in all Kinds of
GOVERNitF^'T SECL'RITIKM.
Stocks  Gold aud iiWvv.r .<^<)ld and Bousjlit. ' INTEREST paid on deposits.
DAVID il.Mi:, mar21-3m-13 J(.)SI-:riI CLAIJICSON.
O.VS FITTING^ AND PLUMBING
EST.<UJLISHJIENT, No. 11 North Queen Street, Lancaster.
PARTICULAR attention clvon to flttingnp buildings with Gas or Water Pipes, Water Closets, Basin, Bath Tubs, Ac.
Repairing promptly atVended'to. apr4-tf-:^ ¦*   '
A. C. FLINN.
100,000 Split lllckorj-Spoken. 1 ao.ooo feet Poplar Seal
SFRECHER & S
apl 2.1-1 m-2:1
Sean tl Ing.
' SHRtVFFER.
NOTICE.
THE public arehereby notified not to take up or in any way interfere with saw logs found afloat ontne Susquehanna River below "Wll- liamsporLIn the ensuing spring freshet, or at any time daring tho present year, as all the logs in the river below that point are intended to ue driven to Havre-de-Grace, Md. D. W. SMITH, A. G. P. IX)DGE, DUDLEY BLANCHARD. yfThLUkxavos.T,   \ Commltieo.
Feb. 15th, \m. S feb 213m U
TURNPIKE DFVIDENI).
r'pHE Lancuster ALltlz Turnpike Rond Com- X I'any have declared a DivIaond,pf S1.50 per share, equal to (i percent for the lastslx months,
Eiivable on demand at tho Treasurer's office at ltlz,or at tho Farmers'National Bank of Lan¬ caster. J. B. TSIIUDY, apI2t-3t-2t]  Treasurer.
NEW METHOD
FOItTIIE
CABINET ORGAN,   MELODEON, HARMO- NEON & OTHER REED INSTRUMENTS.
^'ZUNDEUS  MELODSON  INSTJtVCTOR;'
To which is added a collection of tho
MOST POPULAR SONGS OF THE DAY,
And a variety of P.salm   and Hymn Tunes.
THE above Work contains !IS largo pages, elegant illustrations of the proper positions of the Bodv and Hands, illustratlonsand descrip¬ tions of instruments, a coploii-s Dlctioiiarj* of Musical Terms, and other matters pertaining to the study and practice of MUSIC for Reed Instruments.
Price 31 rX). on receipt of which copies will bo sent by mail, postpaid.   Fubllshed by
•^ OLIVE.l DIT^!CN & CO.,
apr i3-tr-23] '-JH V/f.i:,lu:;Co:* Zt., Bostou.
PIItST NATIONAL U.VNK.
STKAsncuo. I'a., March 15, ISIki.
INTEREST paid on Special Deposits at tho following rates: Three inoiitJi.s, .v per cent, pcr.iiinum,
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Twelve 0
E. yi. EIJERMAN, marl7-K-I7 C::sliier.
LOOK TO YOUK INTERXIVI-S.
ONE dollars worth Of ICE per week u-iU hc-cj your provisions COOL and SWEET iu th".; warmest weather, by using one of
SCHOOLEY'S LARGE REFl{TGERVTOi:S. They have three apartments and arc (lu'ronu-h ventilators. Tho small sizes reouiro !»ut iu y-is. wbrtli of ice per week.
E. S. FARSON & CO.,Manura((urer.s. apl25-Sm-2:j] 2-J) Drtek street
PATENTS
Procured for Inventions in tho United Slates and Europe. EDWARD BItOWN, Engineer nnd Patent Agent, .311 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, I'enn'a. N.B.—Apcr.-<onalinter%iowlsdesirui)le,tliu::;;;i it Is not nccessarj', ns the busine.s.s e'.n bj done by correspondence. Washington visited every month.   Circulars of information freo ba. Rpplieation. mar-:.^o:i:-lo
FOB SALE.
ABOUT TEN TONS OF FiATE HORIT SHA^ VINGS—one of the l>est fertllizera that can beputonland, andeonccded to bo amor.*; tho strongest of manures, and speei'illy a-'ai)ted for Wheat and Grapevines.   Apply nt tho COMB MANUFACVC'-tV. nprll 4-0t-20 Laaaaf:tcr. I'."..
NOTICE.
MY Wife MARY GOOD, having left ir.y Ticl nnd board v.'ithout nny Just cr.'.i.''.i', i.a ri'*"- sons are hereby cautionedagr.lnst tnisi'ii": ln-r on my account as I will pav no i.U-hi:i oi lioj contracting. FREDI-iRICK KKLLI-:R.
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PURE LIBERTY T/II.'TS L"AD, wiLId« more r"d bctrr? vcr": at a s'tot Cost, thnu any otlicr!  Tr;-i-!  .^Ilonufac-Luod only by
ZIECLi:^...; ELirrii. "\Vhole9aloDrcf:.I'-''int«'.;C'.'.-:i)c:!rr3„ No. iy7N.-^-.-th V.lilrv.:.'::-c ,j.-ij.liuueli;hlfl.