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VOL. 2. ALBANY, OREGON, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 19,1870. NO. 24. ' rilUlIlD 1TI1T SATURDAY BT COLL. VAW CLflVE. orr-ica ox corses op vbbbt and first-sts. TERMS IN ADVANCE. One Year.. ..I... ....... L.l....Three Dollar Six Months ...........i.........Two Dollars Single Copies Ten Cents ADVERTISING KATES. Transient advertisements per Square of ten lines or less, first insertion, $3 ; each subsequent insertion. $1. "Larger advertisements inserted on the most liberal terms. . , v v. . - - JQB WORK. 'Having reoeirea ew type, stock of colored inks, eards, a Gordon Jobber, etc., we are pre pared to execute all kinds of printing in a better manner and fifty per cent, cheaper tnan ever be fore oSered in thli oity. i : " 'Af ants fee h Register. The following gentlemen are authorised to re ceive and receipt for subscription, advertising, ete., for the Rbgister : ! HIRAM SMITH, Esq L Harrisburg. Judge S. H. CLAUGHTON.- Lebanon. PETER HUME, Esq. .... ..Brownsville Vf. R. KIRK. Esq E. E. WHEELER. Esq ! Scio. T. H. REYNOLDS, Esq- Salem. Om. W. CANNON, Esq....... Portland. LrKHERsq BUSINESS CARDS. A. WHEELER, JVota-ry ..P,ublic-. BROWNSVILLE, OREGON. r EGAL INSTRUMENTS OF ALL KINDS Jf made an i attested. Conveyances and col lections attended to. ' 1269 J. HAIWOX, Attorney and Counsellor at Law, A LB AN Y, OREGON. OFFICE On Main street, opposito Foster's Brick. 1-G9 , : Hiltaoiael & Co., DEALERS IN GROCERIES AND PR0 visions, Wood and Willow Ware, Confec tionery, Tobacco, Cigars, Pipes, Notions, etc. Main Btreet, adjoining the Express office, Albany, Oregon. 1 S. A. "Treeland, DEALER IN EVERT DESCRIPTION OF School, Miscellaneous and Blank Books, Stationery, Gold and Steel Pens, Ink, etc., Post office Building, Albany, Oregon. Books ordered from New York and San Francisco. 1 S. H. Claug-hton, NOTARY PUBLIC AND REAL ESTATE AGENT. Office in the Post Office building, Lebanon, Oregon. Will attend to making Deeds and other convey ances, also to the prompt collection of debts en trusted to my care. , , 1 j. . an-casi-i.. J. . DOIM. A- SMITH. - Mitchell, Dolph & Smith, ATTORNEYS akb COUNSELLORS at LAW, Solicitors in Chancery and Proctors in Ad miralty. Office over the old Post Office, Front street, Portland, Oregon. I rowiu. i run. Powell & Flinn, ATTORNEYS A COUNSELLORS AT LAW and Solicitors in Chancery, (IV. Flinn, Notary Public,) Albany, Oregon. - Collections ! and conveyances pTomply attended to. I a J. QDTNN THORNTOn7 Attoruey and Counselor at Law, ALBANY, OREGON, WILL practice in the superior and inferior courts of Marion, Linn, Lane, Benton and Polk counties. . Five per cent, charged on collections when made without sueing. jl9-9 " F. K. BEDPIELD. P. W. SPIXK. F. M BEDF1ELD 4c CO : CONSTANTLY on hand and receiving, a large stock of Groceries and Provisions, ; Wood and Willow Ware, Tobacco, Cigars, Con fectionery, Yankee Notions, Ac, Ae., Wholesale and Retail, opposite R. C. Hill A Son's drug store, Albany, Oregon. 6oct9 ALBAi Y IIATII HOUSE. THE! UNDERSIGNED WOULD RESPECT fully inform the citisens of Albany and vi cinity that he has taken charge of this establish ment, and, by keeping clean rooms and paying trict attintic 3 to business, expects to suit all those who may favor him with their patronage. Having heretofore carried on nothing but First-Class Hair Dressing- Saloons, he expee'a to give entire satisfaction to all. ar Children and Ladies' hair neatly cut and shampooed. JOSEPH WEBBER. evl9y2 E. F; RUSSELL, I JAMES ELKINS, ATTOMEY AT LAW. HOTASY PUBLIC. RUSSELL & ELKINS, ' (OSes In Parrish A Co-'s block. First street,) . " ' " . Albany, Oregon. ' !' " ) HAVING TAKEN INTO CO-PARTNERSHIP Jambs Etnas. Esq., ex-Clerk of Linn county, we are enabled to add to our prac tice of Law and Collections, superior facilities for Conveyancing, Examining Records, and attending to Probate business. Deeds, Bonds, Contracts and Mortgages care . fully drawn. - - Homestead and Pre-emption Papers made, and claims secured. Sales of Real Estate negotiated, and loans effected on collateral securities on reasonable rates. AH business entrusted to them faithfully and promptly executed. . . . .. - RUSSELL. A ELKINS. Albany, Oct. '10, '68-5y "ON TO BXTV YADSYQRfir& KUHFJ , Are now ready to execute all kinds of Plain and Fancy - Painting ! each as Signs, Carriages, Buildings, n-i- as well as Graining, , Paper hanging, Calcimining, ' - and ia fact all kinds and styles of risAlV AND ORNAMENTAL WORK, '' that eaa be done with Paint and Brash, at '!" FAIR, itVINQ KATES. -831 . Give as a sail. Shop oa Ferry street, ever JCnhn M Adams' wagon shop. -. augSl-ia ., . BLANK 'Deed, Mortgages. v. on hand latest style, and for a low, at this effea. UNION REPUBLICAN CONVEN TION OF OREGON. The Union Republican voters of the State of Oregon will meet at the City of Portland, at 10 o'clock A. M., on Thursday, the 7th day of April, 1S70, in Delegate Convention, for the purpose of placing in nomination a State Ticket to be sup ported at the approaching election in June, and the transaction of such other business as shall properly come before said Convention. Counties will be entitled to delegates as follows: Baker 1 Benton 10 Clackamas 12 Clatsop 3 C003 4 Curry 2 Columbia 2 Douglas 12 Grant 7 Jackson 10 Josephine 4 Lane...... 12 Linn.... , 18 Marion ................... 24 Multnomah 20 Pulk....... 1 1 Tillamook .. 2 Umatilla.... 5 Union 6 Washington.. 9 Wasoo... ...... 6 Yamhill 11 The Committee recommend that the County Conventions for the election of Delegates be held on Saturday, the 26th dy of March, 1870. By order of the State Central Committee, M. P. BERRY, Chairman. T. B. Odenkal, Secretary. Portland, January 19th, 1870. ' PORTLAND CARDS. S. D. SMITH. THE GEO. B. COOK. OCIDENTAL, FORMERLY Western Hotel, Corner First and Morrison streets, Portland, Oregon. Messrs. SMITH A COOK have taken this well known house, refitted and refurnished .. -.!..... 1 : i - 1 -..;: thirty more pleasant rooms, enlarged the Dining and Sitting rooms, making it by far the Best Hotel in Portland. A call from the traveling public will satisfy them that the above statements are true. SMITH A COOK. Props. N. B. Hot and cold Baths attached to the house for the benefit of guests. 50 Portland, August 15th, 1869. AMERICAN EXCHANGE, CORSES OP Front and Washington Streets, PORTLAND, OREGON. It. P. W. Qnimby, - - - - Proprietor. (Late of the Western Hotel.) THIS HOUSE is -the most commodious in the State, newly furnithed, and it will be ths endeavor of the Proprietor to make his gneste comfortable. Nearest Hotel to the steamboat landing. . jg!" The Concord Coach will always be four at the landing, on the arrival of steamships ar river boats, carrying passengers and their bar gage to and from' tbe boats free of charge. Mouse supplied with Patent fire Extinguishers. COSMOPOLITAN HOTEL. (formerly arriooxi's,) Promt street it i Portland, Oregon. THE UNDERSIGNED, HAVING PUR chased this well known Hotel, are now pre pared to offer the traveling public better accom modations than can be found elsewhere in the city. Board and Lodging $2 OO per day. The Hotel Coach win be in attendance to con vey Passengers and baggage to and from the Hotel free of charge. J. B. SPRENGER. t Office Oregon & California Stage Company, B. G. Whiteroese, Agent. 2tf Jew Columbian Hotel, Nos. 118, 120 and 122 Front street, PORTLAND, s i t OREGON ED. CARNEY, PROPRIETOR. The Largest, Best and most Convenient Hotel in Portland! Located in the center of business and near all the steamboat landings. Board and Lodging From one to two dollars per day according to the room occupied. Rooms newly furnished and well ventil ated. Superior accommodations for families. 29- The New Columbian Hotel Coach will be in attendance at all tbe landings to convey pas sengers and baggage to and from this Hotel 17 ?S Free ot Charge I 69 : NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. C. ME ALE Y DEALER IN A MANUFACTURER OF FTJjaXITTJRE! and CABINET WARE ! Bedding, Etc., em er First and Bread Alhin streets, ALBANY, OREGON. PABTxCULAB ATTBBTTOB PAID TO ' ORDERS OP AU ETNSS . in his line. October : 1888-8 '. . - r : I rVRNING. - - TURNING. a cs H O a I w oa a I AV PBBPABBD TO DO ALL KINDS OF TURNING I - , I keep on hand and stake to order -rWxXXBE-BOTTOaXED CHAIRS, An Spinning Wknli. Shop near the "Magnolia Mills."1 JOHN M. METZLBR : Albany, Nor. 28, 1888-12 o J ALi SXStVS, pristoi at the very lojntt rate, as ordered, atuus onwa. LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS. Called. Postal Agent, Hon. Ben Underwood, called on us Saturday, en route for Portland and Dalles, on biz Ben is an indefatigable worker, wide awake to the interests of the people in mail matters, and is giving good satisfac actiun throughout the valley as postal agent. We have received the prospectus of a paper to be published at Roseburg; Ore gon, by Win. Thompson, to be called the Plaindealer. It will sustain the doc trine that this is a " white man's govern ment," and will doubtless go after the Radicals regardless of taste or expense. Gone. U. S. Assistant Assessor, Col. Folsom, who has been shedding the light of his genial countenance npon us for two or three weeks past, having "finish ed up" for this ciy, took up his line of march for Corvallis on. Monday, to fix up his lists there. From thence he goes to Harrisburg. The Colonel is a jovial, whole-souled man, and of course makes friends wherever he goes. From Scio. The Scio JVeics of the 10th instant received.' Following is the gist of its news : A correspondent differs with the editor in regard to tbe propriety of building a macadamized road from Scio to a point on the Railroad. He thinks a railroad is what is demanded, and that ten miles of railroad will cost the people less than the same number of miles of macadamized road. With a railroad, all the produce raised in the vicinity would find a ready market in Scio, building up the town and surrounding country, whereas a macada mized road would build up a market at the railroad point ten miles off, to the material detriment of Scio and the coun try adjacent. . A party of hunters- had returned, bringing the carcasses of twelve deer the editor was remembered. A new billiard saloon is soon to be opened in Scio. Received. The Excelsior, a monthly magazine, published in New York, by C. L. Van Allen, at $1 per annum. It is a neat 82-page journal, with illustrations, about one-third larger than ordinary double-column magazines. It is neatly printed, and filled to the brim with in teresting literary and miscellaneous mat ter. Through arrangements with the publisher we are enabled to furnish all new subscribers to the Register, who wish it, with the Excelsior one year free. The European Mail, published weekly in London, England, at 13s per annum. It contains a vast amount of general and miscellaneous European news, reviews of new publications, markets, etc. One of the editors in Reading bad a shirt, about which he made his brags, and abused his cotemporaries for having none. It afterwards appeared that he had stolen it off a pole from a brother editor, who was in bed waiting for it to dry. i Black Lead. The Enterprise says that Dr. Ross has found a very pure arti cle of native plumbago, in the upper part of Oregon City. The deposit where it crops out is about one foot thick and twe rods wide. i In Stockton, a few days since, a man named Crabb entered a house in the day time and stole a watch." The lady ot the house returned from a visit to a neigh bor just in time, caught the thief by the throat, and choked him till he dropped the watch and ran. Grant's administration is reducing the public debt at the rate of $182 a minute one hundred and eighty two thorns in the Democratic side every sixty seconds. During the month of January one hundred and forty-eight marriage licenses were issued from the County Clerk's office in San Francisco, and twice that number of souls "with but a single (or simple") thought," made miserable or happy, as the case may be. Back Again. H. W. Scott, Esq., editor of the Oregonian, arrived at Port land on the last steamer from San Fran cisco, from his late visit East. New Locomotive. The bark Wrh- foot brought to Portland anew locomotive to be used on Hoi lad ay's road. Judge Lorenzo Sawyer, having quali fied, entered upon the discharge of his duties as Judge of the United States Circuit Court at San Francisco, on the 2d. - It is not work that. kills men ; it is worry. Work is heathy ; you can hardly put more upon a man than he can bear. Worry is rust upon the blade. , It is not the revolution that destroyes the machin ery, bat the friction. Fear secretes acids; bat love and truth are sweet juices. : NEWS ITEMS. : A new double shotted projectile, in vented by J. H. Hill, of Jefferson, Iowa, it is claimed, will throw shot eight or ten miles. ; The Legislature of Tennessee, by bill, has postponed county elections to the 4th Monday in March, in order to submit the amended Constitution at the same time. -(An American citizen named Vincent Danny, of Florida, for relating a some what modified account of the assassina tion of Castanon, was set upon by vol unteers, in San Jose street, Havana, and beaten to death. ' Nino Cubans were also masacred in Havana and Matanzas. In New York city, -John Goulding, a well known politician, ' was discovered having intimate relations with, the wife of Joseph Sinnett, a seaman. He fled from the wrath of Stinnett in the even ins, and the wife at once cut her throat with her husband's razor. j The new naturalization bill, now be fore the House Judiciary Committee, takes the matter from the State Courts and puts it into the hands of the United States officers. Four years of continu ous residence before application for nat uralization must be proved by persons intending to become citizens. The people of Long Island still con tinue excited over the Mormon question. The Legislature of Virginia has elect ed Gov. Rice, of Shenandoah county, State Treasurer. His county cast its vote for Fremont and Lincoln for Presi dents. The steamer Anna reports having suc cessfully landed, December 19th last, on Cuban soil, 22 men, including Col. Ryan, Cespedes and Gaicuria, with 2,400 stands of arms and 30 tons of powder, shot and shell. Gov. Butler issued . a proclamation calling the Nebraska Legislature together on the 17th, for the purpose of ratifying the 15th amendment, dividing the State into Congressional districts, providing for the erection of a new penitentiary, elc. The Territorial government asked for by Alaska will probably not be granted by Congress. Horse racing has been restored at Rome by the Papal authorities. From Madrid (Spain), it is reported that another Carlist insurrection is in preparation. A minority of the Committee investi gating the alleged defalcation of the M. E. Book concern at New York, report heavy irregularities in the printing and binding department ; give the total de falcations; implicate the son of one of the ex-managers, and reflect upon the the father. The report is signed by the Revs. S. Slicer and Pike, and by the Secretary of the Committee. Julian, Chairman of the House Com mittee on Public Lands, has prepared a bill prohibiting further grants of public lands to railroads or other corporations, under any circumstances whatever. , Counterfeit five cent nickels are in circulation. It is announced that twenty-five per cent, of those now in circula tion are spurious. All the old issue will probably be called in, and a new issue made The Mormon Legislature of Utah has passed the bill granting the right of suf frage to women, and acting Governor Mann has signed it. In San Francisco last week, articles of incorporation were signed, creating the San Francisco & Northern Coast Rail road Company. The design is to con struct a railroad from a point near San Rafael to Healdsburg, with a branch to Bloomfield and Tomales. The company is said ta have the capital and enterprise to carry out the project. The man James Dwyer, who was out on $16,000 bail to answer for the murder ot Ueitrich Wohler, in San Francisco, was arrested on Saturday last in that city, charged with robbing a man named Ball, a tew hoM after his discharge on bail. ; ' On the 12th inst., Oregon oats brought $1 60 per 100 pounds in San Francisco. Wheat firm at $1 40 1 65 per 100 pounds. Flour, in sacks, $4 505 50, as to quality, per barrel. . In San Francisoo, Charles Kyle & Samuel Carr, keepers of a saloon on Kearney street, on Saturday last were sent to the penientiary, each for his nat ural life, convicted of the crime of mur der. Brick Pomeroy boasts that he once worked by the side of a negro composi tor. The negro compositor turns out to be one Noah Pickett, who writes to the Herald that he did work along side of Brick, and that he is ashamed of it. That Brick still owes him $2 70 ' bar rowed money, and that he would be happy to receive it at his home in Tali madge, Summit ooanty, "Ohio, and adds : "I am now rather crippled up, but my Heavenly Father knows that I would starve before I would again work at a case along side of Brick Pomeroy." The Eugene Journal says that Chief Engineer Brooks with a party ot men are between Spore's Ferry and Spring field, making a survey the second and probably the final survey on that route. ' A Maine soldier has had his name re- 9 moved from the pension rolls, saying he has regained his health and does not need the pension. Commissioner VanAernam wrote to him that his name " should go down into history as a worthy example for the coming generations." Spiritualism. Lebanon, O., Feb. 14, 1870. . Our village has been yisited by some of the inhabitants of "That undiscovered country, from whose bourne no traveler returns." Mr. McCord has taken it upon himself to enlighten - this benighted community on the subject of spiritualism. His zeal and disinterestedness are highly com mendable. It is true he usually charges each an admission fee of fifty cents ; but, of course, he must have some compensa tion for his valuable time, and incidental expenses must be paid. He appeared here before a small audi ence last Wednesday evening ; and to convince them that he is a fa.orite of the spirits, and that they came to his assist ance at his bidding, he solicited some one to tie him, which being done, he was taken into a dark, very dark room, and in aliout twenty minutes he came out with the rope in his hand. Now, sir, is not that enough to convince the most skepti cal that there is a reality in spiritualism? For, remember, he was bound hand and foot, and cast into that dreadfully dark room ! Certainly none but a spirit could see how to untie those hard knots! Is not this "a most wholesome doctiine and very full of comfort ?" For, if by any means, its disciples should incur tho displeasure of the civil law, and the au thorities should bind them with chains and cast them into prison, the first dark night the spirits would come to their re lief, remove the chains, turn the bolts and let their wards go free. We sup pose, of course, that spirits have as much power over chains and bolts as they have over ropes and cords. Then, again, is it not a source of com fort to the friends of the deceased to know that their departed sisters, friends and children are permitted to attend De Wolfe, Todd, McCord and others for the purpose of tipping tables, rapping to questions, untying knots, &c. ? This is ennobling employment for the great and good who once inhabited earth 1 How much more ennobling than that in which we have been accustomed to sup pose them engaged ! A tree is known by its fruits. Hence it is just that spiritualism should be judged by its fruits that is, by the in fluence that it has on the characters of its followers. Not by isolated cases, but by the characters of its leading advocates and the masses of its followers. Could you find a more noble example of a true man than is exhibited in the lives of its leading advocates ? Are they not noble examples for the youth ? It is true that De Wolfe got into trouble at Olympia by ignoring the law regulating marriage ; and Mrs. De Wolfe was arrested in San Francisco by the police for appearing on the streets in attire which they thought was not becoming her sex ; but might not the fault be in the laws? Spiritualists do not visit saloons, the race-course, or gaming table ; neither do they violate the Sabbath, or take the name of God in vain. Do n.ot their lives recommend their doctiine ? Credo. Married in a Cornfield. A high ly dramatic episode, showing how the course of true love does not run smooth, transpired here the other day. The daughter of a rich planter, who lives a few miles from the city had fallen des perately in love with a young lawyer from the same neighborhood. The affection was mutual, but the old man, the girl's father, was bitterly oppos ed to the match, and packed his girl off to Nashville, to one of the strictest female seminaries- Love, from the foundation of the world, has been found fertile in re sources, and, as might have been expect ed, the young people were not long in finding means of interchanging notes, and afterward meeting at the house of a mu tual friend. They had arranged for a sort of clandestine mairiage, when the cruel parent got wind of the matter (cruel parents always hear of these things), and took the girl home for a day or two till he could take her to New York and incarnate her in a convent. Af ter much difficulty the lover got a note to her, and the day before the intended departure for the East she went into a back room, under pretext of getting some article to pack in her trunk, slipped through the window, across the yard, and into an adjacent cornfield, where the lover was ready with a "Squire,", and standing amid the corn ricks in a drizzling rain, the two were married. That was pretty plucky on the whole, wasn't it? Cincinnati Times. "Big Injan' Downing, Chief of the Cherokees, is in Washington to secure the ratification of a treaty by which hid nation will receive $3,000,000 for 13, 000,000 acres of land. , A To. Let Inquire Within. The lady flounced out in a rage. Two young damsels and a spiBster aunt followed, and after a lengthy in spection of the premises, came to a state council in the parlor, ;. " I like the house very much," said the spinster aunt solemnly, " and with a few alterations, I will engage it for my brother's family." "Very good. Ma'am," said Nahum, rubbing his hands, and scenting a speedy termination to his trials. "Name 'em." " The door handles must all be gilded, and I should like the house newly paper ed in velvet and gold, and repainted,and the partition between the parlors taken down and replaced by an arch, and an extension dining-room built on behind, and a new style of range in the kitchen, and a dumb - waiter put in, and new bronze chandeliers throughout, and an other furnace in jhe sub-cellar, and " - " Hold oil, ma'am fust hold on one minute," said Nahum, feebly gasping for breath. "Wouldn't you like the old house carted away, and a new one put in its place ? I think it would be rather less trouble than to make the trifling alterations you suggest." 1 " Sir " said the spinster loftily. " I don't think we can-agree, ma'am." " Very well very well come girls." With prim dignity the lady marshalled her two charges out, muttering some thing about the " extortionate ideas of landlords now-a-days." While Nahum, wildly rumpling his iron-grey hair with both hands, solilo quized : " Well, if Job had been alive, and had a house to let, there never would have been any book of Job written. There goes that everlasting bell again I I'll haul it out by the roots, if this thing goes on much longer. I'll tear down the bill, and put up the old place at auc tion." Another lady, but quite different from the other a slender little cast-down lady, with a head that drooped like a lilly of the valley,1 and a dress of brown silk, that had been mended, and turned, and retrimmed, and even Nahum Briggs, man and bachelor though be was, could see bow shabby it was. Yet she was pretty, with big blue eyes, and shining brown hair, and cheeks tinged with a fair, fleeting color, where the velvety roses of youth had once bloomed in vivid carmine. And a golden haired little lassie clung to her dress, as like the tiny lily buds to a blooming chime of flower bells. As Nahum Briggs stood looking at her, there came back to him the sun shiny days of youth ; a field of blooming clover crimsoned the June light like waves of blood, and a blue-eyed girl leaning over the fence with her bright hair barred with level sunset gold, and be knew that he was standing face to face with Barbary Wylie, the girl he had quarreled with years and years ago, and whose blue eyes had kept him an old bachelor all his life long. " This house is to be let, I believe ?" she asked timidly, with a little quiver in her mouth. " I believe it is, Barbara Wylie." She looked up, starting with a sudden flush of recognition. And then Barbara turned very pale, and began to weep, with tbe little gold haired girl clinging to her skirts, and wailing: " Mamma, mamma what's the mat ter, mamma ?" " Nothing now," said Barbara, reso lutely brushing away the tears. " If you please, Mr. Briggs, I will look at the house ; I am a widow now, and very poor, and I think of keeping a boarding-house to earn my daily bread. I hope the rent is not very high ?" " We'll talk about the rent after wards," said Nahum, fiercely swallowing down a big lump in his throat that threatened to choak him. " Come here, little girl, and kiss me ; I used to kuow your mamma when the wasn't much bigger than you are." Barbara, with her blue eyes still droop ing, went all over the house, - without finding a word ot fault, and. Nahum Briggs walked at her side, wondering if it was really fifteen years since the June sunshine lay so brightly on the clover field. "I think the house is beautiful," said meek Barbara. " Will you rent it to me, Nahum ?" "Well, yes," said Nahum, thought fully. " I'll let you have my house, if you want it, Barbara." " With the privilege of keeping a few boarders ?" " No, ma'am." Barbara stopped and looked wistfully at him. " But 1 : don't think you understand how very poor I am, Mr. Briggs." " Yes, I do." "And that I cannot afford to take the house without the privilege of boarders." " I tell you what, Barbara," said Mr. Briggs, dictatorily, ", I'll , give you the privilege of keeping just one boarder, and him you have got to keep all your lift long, if you once take him." "I don't think I quite understand you, Nahum Briggs," said Barbara, but she blushed very becomingly) and we are rather inclined to think that she told a naughty little fib. " What do you say to me for a board er, Barbara ?" said the old baohelor, taking both the widow's hands in his. " Barbara, we were young fools, onee, but that is no reason why we should be old fools now. I like you just as well as ever I did, and I'll do my best to be a good husband to you, and a good father to your little girl, you'll be my wife." Barbara blushed again, and hesitated. But Nahum was not to be eluded thus. " Shall I take down the sign ' To Let,' Barbara ?" ;,. V "' -" Yes," she murmured, almost under her breatn. , , So Nahum went deliberately oat, and coolly tore down the bill, to the great astonishment and disappointment of a .arty of rabid nouse-hunters. who were just ascending the steps. "Ana when shall we be married, Bar bara ?" he next demanded. " In tbe summer, perhaps," said Bin, Barbara shyly. . : " To-morrow," said Nahum decisively, and " to-morrow" it was. : " - " Upon my word, Barbara," said Na hum, on the first day of May, as he watched his wife's blooming face behind the coffee urn, " yon ean't think how much jollier it is with you for a house keeper than that hag, Mrs. Parley." Barbara only laughed, and said " he was a dear, good eld stupid." So the probabilities are that neither Mr. Nahum Briggs nor bis brown stone house, will be in market again as "To Let Inquire Within." Job's Comforters. The following deeply interesting "narrative" is credited to a "School Boy." It has very many "fine points" in it that leads us to be lieve the credit is correct or not. But in any case it. presents the subject in its very best light, and we hope those who read it will take as much comfort in it as we did : A boil is very small at first, and a fel low hardly notices it , but in a few days" it gets to be the biggest of tho two, and the chap that has it is of very little ac count in comparison with his boil, which then "has him." Boils appear mysteri ously on various portions of the human body, coming when and where they please; and often in very inconvenient places. Sometimes a solitary boil is the sum total of the affliction, but frequently there is a " rubbishin' lot of 'em " to help the first one. If a boil comes any where on a person, that person always wishes it had come somewhere else, al though it would puzzle him to say just where. ' If a chap has a boil, he generally gets a good deal of sympathy from others. Whoever asks him what ails him laughs at him for his pains to answer, while many unfeeling persons make game of him or his misfortune or boil. It is very wicked to make sport of persons with boils ; they can't help it, and often feel very bad about it. Physicians don't give boil patients much satisfaction as a gene ral thing, although young physicians who are just beginning to practice are fond of trying their lancets on them. Boils are said to be "healthy," and from the way they take hold, and hang on, and ache and -burn, and grow, and torment one generally, there is no doubt they are healthy, and have good constitutions. They are generally very lively and play ful at night, and it is very fnnny to see a chap with a good large one prospecting aronnd his couch for a place where his boil will fit in "without hurting." Boils tend to "purify the blood," strengthen the system, calm the nerves, restrain the profanity, tranqnilice the spirits, improve the temper, and beantify the appearance. They are good things fur married men who spend their even ings away from home, as they give them an opportunity to rest their night-keys, and get acquainted with their families. It is said that boils save the patient Ma fit of sickness," but it the sickness is not the best to have, it must be an all-fired mean thing. It is also said that a person feels better after he has had them, aad there is no doubt that one feels much better after having got rid of them. Many distinguished persons have enjoyed these harbingers of health. Job took the first premium at the county fair for having more acbers under cultivation than any other person. Shakespeare had them, and meant boils when he said, "One woe doth tread upon another's heel, so fast they follow." : There are a great many remedies for boils, most of which are well worth try ing, because, if tbey don't do any geod, they don't hurt the boils. Ha chap goes down street with a boil, every man he meets, will tell him of "a eood thing" for it, among which are Shoemaker's wax, Mrs. Winslow's Syrup, Trix, Spald ing's Glue, Charlotte Russo, Gum Drops, Water-Proof Blacking, Night-Blooming Ceres, Chloroform,' Kissengen, ete. Bow-legs. Bowed legs are not caus ed by a baby's being placed npon its feet too early, but to a habit children have of rubbing the soles of the feet together. They seem to enjoy the contact only when the feet are naked ; they dont attempt to make it when the ieet are socked. So tho remedy is obvious ; keep the baby's feet covered. Knock-knees are ascribed to a different childish habit that of sleeping on the side with one knee tacked into the hollow behind the other. When oni leg has been bowed inward more than the other, tbe patient has always slept on one side, and the uppermost member has been that most deformed. Here the pre ventive is to be careful every night to place the child to sleep in different posi tion. Indeed, all through life, it is well to sleep on either side. , To Remove Diet Trom the Etk- Take a bog's bristle, double so as to form a loop. Lift theeyelid "ftKg the loop up over the ;. n occasion Tno 'disagreeable Now close the lid down upon th ' bnstJe h.ch may now be withdrawn The dirt wdl surely be upon the bristle. . , ....... Our irood minister once said that if we were so foolish as to allow people to laugh us out of onr religion .toll at last we dropped into Jiell, they oould notlauga ne out again. - ,;v