Image provided by: University of Oregon Libraries; Eugene, OR
About The Albany register. (Albany, Or.) 1868-18?? | View Entire Issue (Aug. 24, 1877)
. - .. 1 VEIUtNC'E WITH THE KEDSKINS- WIFE AND TWO DAUGHTERS SACRIFICEP, HIMSELF SHOT Al l. TO riKCES, AND A SON SCALPEI, BU STII.T. ALITK. a see, as I ' SAVKI BY STKATEGV. erwards re-: , ' . , "i'V Jove, wnat can this mean? Is -is found thoy tl!;s stupendous fraud, a trick, or what? t:t by assaults t1 id Proctor Pomeroy stared almost va - little womarfT cantly st the closely written sheet he t ., i I held in his hand. He read : were loo much lU, T .,, , - . I Ijt. I'omcrov, I will not apologize s. After losing tor the uuparaki'lled t-er v ice I.arn about : about a dozen ' to ask of you ; sutlice to say thai, I have lected at fhe west lCa, J jour history, heard ot yourstrug ut of race -ml ; S'S to mailltaln yourself and mother, " ' " . and realize how hard a task it is forone -r out the logs, young in the profession and without . four hours getting friends m the groat wilderness of houses out w hen the time came called a city. Also, permit me to add, ..e end of the building went 1 ,,av mod f the cruel blow o-eo. My wife and children loved, who was unworthy of yon, and ieivaly flu-them. They defended vet I am not acquainted with you nor .ie ilooi'-wn v for full fifteen minutes, or yu with me. Indeed, we Jiave never uiie ? until all but this boy were shot tW luo,k'1 "H0" e, a-'ot-ser's face. Nev- c !.! iv! .itt , . ' ei-theleKs.l am a!.ut to request vou to stab . hen the I.uuans finally swarmed in Ja me a gr?at ,avHf WjJj yon' come jvj! it he was the only one left to wreak veil- to South-street church to-morrow even ing ar o chic!-: i Come privately, un attended, and never reveal that which takes plpca there. Wilt yon eive me, an entiie stranger, a lawful claim to your name, and yet seek not to know whom you many? If you wiil do so, I will make over to you twenty thousand dollars,, payable to your order at the i It y I lank, as soon as this ceremony is over. Trusting that the money will be a temptation tu yuii, I shall anxiously await you at the appointed time. 1 hat was all. There was no signa ture, nothing to give any clue to the writer's address or abode. Indeed, it was too tei-e, and so unlbminine in its details that he was almost iomi.1,.,1 .. i i- .... . ,. , . . " Ol'i IV V e: gallop- I gence on. They tomahawked him. and . a bulletin--; started to scalp him, and lie was the .i In't know it un- ; same as dead for hours. Ife is sure the or the rocks to find ' others were dead before the -Indians I dropped among came through the door, and I praise JCts aiter a bit, and it wasn't God for that consolation, while it near over a minute before I knocked over t ly dr'ves me crazy to think of it." two of them. That cooled the pursuit, j There was a period of silence, the bov but they surrounded mo, got secure po- ' weeping bitterly, and thou Greer braced bitione, and I was blockaded." j himself anew and continued : "And your family?" j "And what did I do ? God forgive At this question the little boy began j me .' but 1 couldn't do anything? I to cry, and the father could hardly con- 1 was wild with excitement, and while T trol bis emotion as he answered : j was trvinc to vlaii something the reds unknown woman who bad :n.. changed his life. , They traveled leisurely through the tour they had marked out before they started, and one night found themselves m a French village. About the middle of the night the Doctor was awakened by some one tap ping at bis door, ami calling for him to come out. He did so. He found the landlord, who told him in broken Eng lish, that one of his countrymen had ju.vt fallen down stairs in a fit, and see ing his -name registered as an M. D. they called him up. ' He went into an elegantly furnished room where a man some fifty years of age Has i mg m a dying condition liar fate. I never expected to meet you. I intended to have yon sue me lor a di vorce as soon as he should die, and it would not endanger my safety." "But that intention will never be car ried into effect," Dr. Pomeroy exclaim ' ou be miDetorever, Ellen ?" 1 ours forever," she answered. And when they went to see his moth er there were no three happier people to bo found in the world. lears have passed since, and Ada nods a home with her sister, who never repents that she was saved from a fate worse than death by strategy OPEX-IUm SHIRTS. . . - -v 5oung laJy sat near the bed fann- Thev were a Kl-, w . , ii.g him. i y , a &l,epy lot on a 4 o'clock The Doctor hastily examined the pa- ! Terdlv ""Iv ICh!'ga'; tieut and found that'it imr..: .n. t. . Jh& ?a . was ot, and the i;,r!,imtli,0. i i' " . V1""- l",CK? a,,a.0,"y one man, and he it was awful, sir. I ne boy here made a dash at me. They poured down I playing a joke niwn him Jackson, Mich , July 16, 1877. David I. Greer, a man about fbvtv-five -- .....v., j iii-it: , tuiiue it uasu ;ti me. ;v" vv, .... iiie boh a uov m : savs ll:at U:e lluiiaus nntmai-.-.l tn-.n ! ,v, if tl.,.. .... .i,: 1 - i I on niv d r- ii inv.it; iu.' i iitj iu tlJUit 'teu, reached this city two or three days j ler I loM and asked for powder. She 1 number. They were right on me the ago, intending to remain here for a week j wouldn't open the doors and they got a first I knew," shooting, stabbing and or Bo among relatives, and then pro- log and was goina to batter their wav striking at me will, il . h- ons F ,',f somo of bis inale friends were coed to Uenuington, Vermont, where j in, when she killed the iwo I saw as I rotle np. They then surrounded the Mr. Greer has two sisters and other rel atives. Ioth father and sou are iu a j weak and nervous condition, and the reader will not wonder when it is stat ed that the boy is partly scalped and has a tomahawk wound in the shoulder, while the father has a riflo bullet in his shoulder, a bullet wound in bis log. a rap on U.c ucal then, and also this building and the battle opened. There was not a better wife and mother in the. world and I never dreamed that she had such pluck. When I think when I think, sir, of how she must have look- 1 ej for me back, and how she thi bullet in the shouliler. but thev didi linish me. I fought thorn, but how long, I don't know, for I was crizv. .1 - r of them dodging aronrd 1 re me; n.e, ct st the rage lion. It was long after dark before T cooled down a:iu . kocw mv situation. riki.ig at them, and of fooling and strength of a Wounded wondered U'lint l:!d hifr m.-i ..f r-..- rti-.l 1.. ... .1 i v. uiv, liuw oo o.'lt'ti f.livv; . ho:l K i, i l. . ,i i... i j i ! " ",,u a "au wwunu on ! -ar crept into her heart, I wish I was I I was then carrying this bov in mv arms thebead where au I ud:au clubbed him dead. The other two children were ' to the river, "wice I found "him 1 wt a rifle. ... ! girls, one aged twelve and the" other don't know. After plundering, mv .. . . I .i ven. i no Doy says tfcat -Mary, the ; post the Indians set .fire to it. was a citizen of Cottonwood river, near oUq uscj the" revolver .Jrom one of child m;;-t have crej-t out and This hid in I will not 2-' I will not hr fool,1 ! he said to himself. lie ib.mg thr missivet down, then he picked it. up, folded it carefully, and thrust it ii.to bis pocket. .1 ic remembered' that ho had a patient to visit, and went, out; but everywhtro. the contents of that strange letter were, ringing in his cars, ife then went to see his mother. h0 was s.dfeiing even more il.tr, u.-nal, anl a nuiubc-r ofd uun mg bi'i-- had been left tor his earnest consideration, bills whieii he had rot the remotest idea how he was to meet. He threw them down and buried his face in his hands. 'Poverty is a curse, mother ."' he groaned. "I do not know which wav to t urn." She tried to cheer him, but in vain. everywhere be turned, n. hoo(4,.v 7 l - . ........ for him to live: but thod still another, before he drew las' lat-t breath. He never . recovered his con sciousness. The lady told Doctor Pomeroy that he was her father. His name was Eu gene Sydenham, a native ot England, and she wou'd like to have him buried where ho died. They wevo tinT-i;., for the benefit of his health, she went on to explain, and Tie was a widower. Her only remaining relative was a younger sister, who was being educated m the Convent of the Pacrc-d Heart, in i'aris. After Mr. Sydenham was buried. Miss Sydenham Went, under the care of the )octor and lits mother, to Paris. She insisted upon them taking up their abode where she had apaitnieis, a..d so not a day passed but what she was with Mrs. I'om,..ov 'n, i..i l.i , "" v seeing inau no one else seemed got warmly attached to her, and talked I interested. do.efully i, her son about the lime when "I sorter was, and sorter wasn't " he Sho t'n 1 rlflralr ;replied,as he worked a faint smile to Mie loin them i confidentially not to ! his face. '.'tV1' r "!'e I11'1 1"ot mol,rn ,or 1,er ! "X was y'" S "'at' wonderful how T f''deavored to wrong much the inventive Cet,ius oflhiscoun t -o leep ,v that ,t was not love that . try has done for us on the shirt ques he Id her to his side; and that m all her ) lion." , H h-.e she had never; been so happy as now j She hitched away a little that she was free.; f "Twenty years ago he' mused, as WfCtor lumen iv -nt.hr.,1 1,-, : i. l . i i. i ! first Jo -o , . ---u;. i. teneo auer nor, "it any man fiad lLvl, , , ''yl Ia,,t' ,,,,t at at i t,,K1 me tliat le dormant 2enius oi this n7 I rv r 1 c"1:1-. ;v ru i cou"try would ' p uve..t looked beyond the prime'ot life i.ina,i i,; - J j - v. t- IJIo eyes as a woman crawled in with a Ion" paper box under her arm. His eyes opened a little more as she sat down near him, and, presently, they widened to their fullest extent as he read the la bel on tho bov. "(inn t.Un 1 l ed ffurts. He glanced from the box to the female and back, and granted out : "Land o' love ! but what will come next :" She looked around at him as if she feared that a case of colic would come next, and he brightened up a little and said : "Well, I've worn 'em for a year, and I know they are handy and reliable. If my daughters want to get half a doz en apiece 1 shan't cry over it." ' V ere ou speaking to me?" she ask- ic h be dared not cherish was j a button behind shirt I'd have 1!! , . . uvijihu suit i i. u nave loosen (is heart, and it alarmed iumm liimasmnw - Ti, . n-.I; love her, he mutter was all O. K. She roused, she invent- TT " ; J ! tl10 djors -l-no her mother defended the bushes, while the bodies of the d-ad tile Indians have put in their most sav- 0,i ,i,f , I , , . , , . , i the other, and that little Clara earned were burnea. lie says he was consci- ago work. He had a wife and three !,. , c,,- .11 1 r . " i- , , ., , - , , . . j cartridges to both of them from the clos- ous when I crept upon him. and that children, and the boy Charles is the ou- j ct There was hah' sioiv .-j.in-.v..r-1 i 1 ,1 T ... . . J ., '.. ,. i1' 1,lere .wa - talt-stoi3 coatuoerto j when be Ix'irgetl for water I took him IV- memher or llir rami k- nnm lofi Mm .. i - 1 .i i . .. -, i ' . r" J L,JU HU" lno '' was siauoned vp 1 ln my arlns :lna stared Ibr the . ,,u.r r e was comronaoiy there to look through tlie crevices and Wd, ,.adly wotmded as T was I fc t lt itlllllivl Via voir, nil ll,, . , , . 1 . .... . . . - . .,-. 1.1.1. , ...... H M, ita.ll-3 01 j watcn lor me. n r.cn us mother knew ' t,,r tj.c 0 , t j w, ,; - . ' m CaViaS "P SOmCthh,S- Ue ,,ad ! tl'at V t I"-l" -ad suddenly Pavo U,e boy ai.dthm Uli-ed 'Z me a eert of traumg-poet connected with withdrawn, and when she heard the iir- I ,!p TIiC water caJl o -r 1 ur's biB cabin, and was well patronized by j i,.g on the bluffs, she called him down ! rfr. . .J -B" , . ' " - ' " t t . j . .-. , - i 1 1 .0111 leiiesi.ed us and letweeti ten Indians and hunters. hen asked j and gave liim a rifle which I had laid i ..1...,- at ,.; . ' ,,ar,:, t t, what caused the sudden outbreak, ho away to sell to some Indians. He savs !...: r , " ; - : lin-'l iJll;-: l u IKt'l I ht ill V T ill! ,11; ' seemed to envelop him -Mi, it ti, at letter were only real.'" : he thought. "Twenty thousand dollars would make me rich !"' -nd so he trotted and worried until ; the ajipointed hour came one moment I vowing bo Would not ne.-ir t !, river. 1 ti e next temptcl to see -"the iaiee out." a.iglit o cloetc found him stealing in. tie sav.- two ladies c!' isely veiled, and a glowing him. "1 dar KTTr'l 7!:m1""";11'" cd,a,.d I've got one o' them very shirts . hen tor the fir.-t time he felt bow ; on " J i. L f' "ere 1,8 1,a1 tursud 1 TI,e ,ook p,ie Savc " oneht to have Sf.o , 1 1 , i f-rn him all to pieces but it didn't, to , ! !l?jc,ia-'- Mf tried I "One year ago," he calmly resumed, was e i len h wearing on him ; and at j ler sex would soon demand open booked last, m a ht of desperafon, he told her j shirts I'd have gone a fishing and nev- itiumeu. uui me epoch has hove he said, im- : in siglit she's riol.t bor if r Special roltccs. ,,, - . MisiCAi.. Mi&s Xettie Piper, teacher ot Vocal and Instrumental music, has recent ly located in Aibanj and prepared to give lessons in the above named branches. '- lla had several years experience ln teaching, and cyi give the best of references. . 4 l'UITIMJ, M-iniplng:, Cutting and Tit tinPlain Sewing, Hair Weaving, etc. Cutting and fiftinsr Children's VlotTihie a aporteffr. 1'n.U at the rooms ailjoininsr the KMiSTF.Boftlce, Albany, Oregon. . MK8. Cull, VasClive. Major White Is located one door west of Fox Bro.'s, First street, Albany, where he is prepared to do all work in his line, such as repairing watches, clocks, and jew elry. Also, engraves door-plates, silver- uuv. vjive mm a can. ; - The Richmond Kange is a great wood saver, and as it throws one less heat thata any orlier good range or stove, it is way up tor Summer use. . . . ... A. CAD. 1 5 v f 1 f To ull who nre sutreriii from tbo errors and indiscretions of yont'n. nervous wenknesa, early uot-ny, loss tf iuanhof.il. &c. I w ill arn4 a reclpa tlmt will cure you, fllKK OF CHAUUB. Thlf Sjcjir reniwlj- was cl isco vci-ed !v a missionary in Sxiiuh Amci li-a... Scn.1 a Keir-nddresseA envo ?,the JiKV- Joissru T. Iicam, Station D, fidile IfotuK. At-w I w. ii8v9.. . for sxia: I 4 "VITW V 111-L-iTi TrTi..i . .- ....... i. J'liuiiDfc UUM.iIl'fW KIT. WiTIWIIWt, on 1 he eorno- if isii.nni-i vl- fzrr: rr stieeta, Albunj-. -A Hot, Kieim.i Bollr' and Ma rt. -: "-1"'-' 'ot. oi ii-nliur, lua Jk, ?' arrow. !'ar,iw8- -". &c.,,U to be sola off chenn for nsh, in coiisoin,.ni O of re moval on account of sickness. Enquire on tb prtinlscsof PUTNAM & CO. Albanj-, Jan. 19, 3877-nl7 FOI1 i. BLAMK DEEDS, Kcatly esccutod, ' Call a th.p Register Ollice she jioiitloman nandiny in the upper part ut inini!-tc tnc bmiiliicr. wbiir- I b. clifiir. !h ed, and 1 u'rnis.. vs s.mii 'ts bo oMii.rn.1 replied ; 'I haven't felt safe for an hour du ring the last five years; it was like landing beside a boiler which would eoouer or later explode. While there had been no open ruptnre until this came, the redskins picked off a white man whenever they could tafely do it. Thy were always boasting ot what they would some day do, and the long er peace lasted the more they seemed to be spoiling for a row. A few old heads aruon the tribes were against war, and their counsels have put it oil until now." "Then ycu knew that war was brew ing?" "We all knew it ; but all we could dp was for each man to loon out for himself. I had real estate and live Block worth $5,000, and I did not want to jump the country unless forced to. And I was fool cnovgb to believe that the redskins would pass me by if they killed all the rest, for I've fed them, and given them credit, and made them pres ent, and treated every mother's son of the gang like a brother. These wounds here are a proof of an Indian's gratitude, d -n 'em?" When asked to detail the particulars , of the first outbreak, 31 r. Greer, aiid : " Well, I was ready, and yet I - wasn't. The reds had been sulking around lor a week, and everyone entering the store wanted ammunition and nothing eLue. I had overhauled tho houses as well as I could knowing that I would have to defend them until help could come, and one morning I didn't open the store at all. but pet out to brincr in my three horses which I had grazing about a mile down the river. I gave my "wife orders to keep all the doors fastened, and not to let . any Indians in, wo matter how friendly they apjieared. She Lad a Spencer carbine and a revol- ver, ana i took witb me a Henry nflo and another revolver. I was in a hur ry, having my mind made up that there would be trouble before night. Having a good horse under me, I soou reached tb( valley, only to find that my horaea were gone, rnn off the day before by the Indians. I didn't wait around there long as I feared an ambush, and I was abont half way home when 1 heard shots and yells and knew that my post had been attacked. The trail was aloi?g the river ami I couldn't see the cabins till close on" them. While I was riding that Lalf mile I heard the Spencer car Wine growling away, and I knew that jwy wiie Lad not been taken by ftirpi ise." that she was very pale, and that her hauds. trembled, but that, she kept tho Wondcrt' t vvc penccr going. J.ymg-among the rock I asilt to T,ifi ,R,V Us ca lying the bay hall the time. You hut it pretly s;it ii, a ro was hut one .ira jet li:ll t- c in 11 jii.-t ditii;giii.'n the t ho ucn- and ked , . .. ... t .... . .i . i i nun t -kc to ore or tiic .'adsc-s then .-ho advanced to meet him. 4i Arc you .Mr. .l'cr.ncr.y ?" she a in a low tone. "1 am" She icd him to where the gentleman stood., and he extended his hand. Indians could gather" there and be safe. It was about 8 o'loek in the morning when I took to the Lhiff", and when noon came I could ' still hear that car bine going. I was wondering all the time why the devils didn't set fire to the post, but they had' other plans. I had tl irec kegs of powder, lots of lead, two barrels of flour, twenty pairs of blankets, fifty powder horns and various other goods in there, and they wanted them. They several tiroes called on my wife to surrender, but she kept up her fire and encouraged the children. About 1 o'clock all the Indians surround ing me, except about half a dozen, drew off and joined those around the post. I was in a safe place, and yet St was a hard place. They couldn't reach mo i with their bullets, and yet they had po- J Biuons irom wi.icn tney could have kill ed me had stood up or moved six feet to the -right or left. Tho excitement kept pain away for an hour, but after that I was pretty badly used up, having not a drop of water to wash my wounds or quench my thirst. "About 1 o'clock," he went on, after a short rest, "all firing ceased, and I thought the post had been captured. Half crazy with anxiety and distress I rose up, determined to dash out, but the bullets came so fast that I was frightened under cover again. Few men ever put in such an afternoon as E did there. Pain and I thirst were terri ble enough to fay nothing of my ment al distress. I hadn't the least hope of getting out alive, and along toward night I got reckless as to consequences. I should have made a dash for the river which was iu plain sight and not over a half a mile away, and was on the point of rising up when yells, and shouts from my cabin held me back. For about five minutes there was a roar of fire-arms, and above all others I could hear that carbine going boom ! boom ! boom ! The Indians who had been left to watch mo now opened fire and began yelling, and it wasn't lonor before 1 . -1 i ... . .. ....... ...... .c.i a.. ...... an j tenderly treated, but I haven't fooled ritle popping at me every second. I : .:,i. , -t . ... could hear that carbine above the din. j , "S I ol "" V"yn ' My post couldn't Uandan attack, an. i tTL . P, I - ' " wu ue- :ui ngiii again, i m con." m me i-y jiank. "J am I knew it, as there were, too many doors j to lake Ci:ai.jie tl -ermont a(j lhcl i'-'' j'y.the rcpn-st U this young ladv" aud windows to defend. The licure ril (x la,.T. , T P,:'t"5- to the one who had not mo v- i ii l ac to itiano an-.i knl inu ans id or mir,tf... , and t-tore-rooui were-. connected by a I , , T. , T r r , ' orsjiokc t j n.fonn you that if . r . , , as. ioi.g as I live- I've made a vow you agree to her pr. .p. .sit ion I am -v. door-way, but thereto no loop-holes ! pve .worn by all that's good and sacred I rl1 u' my ylur order tl:e,um at the end of the store-room, and the ! thnt T'n ..-. t ! of tweniv thouand dollar'" and have no other plans but to kill In- was choked. iV V arans wlicncver and wherever I can reality! he was to bid farewell to pov findthem! I'll shoot . down old and ! 'l t; young, I'll kcc,. right on killing Ihrou-h 1 ,, f1"1 mi'nless , f,,r a moment, war and peace " i oZuX 'T' f l 1T , , .ct , , . snont iadv. Mi0 took it without a lie was asked if l.e had read (Jener- iiyr, and went with him to where the als McDowell and Howard's official j !l;iVi:t-!' awaited them, dispatches, and he excitedly exclaimed ' n j,c "'''J was quiekly performed. "I i.aye,eurse 'em ! Tney are make- aS' LiZ.W l ,," , , , , . ' .-"iii ieiauie curl ing a great b.ow and brag, while scores sitv at the bold, plain signature "Kllcn ,t,.o.. .. I .: . 1 i - oi i-eiuers are oesiegea or have aiicaiiy .' " "'- " "'s ontie wrote down j I no minister hat "I am a married man PCI lloll.-l V. "1 love VOII. ami I nm ,,..t ' .1 . 1. M free to love! i nin . . , , , , , , . ' U 1)U are you talking to, s r ? ,j ', " "! itrn ner : oeiiiiinucii in an awluf voice. 81 ' , . , ; " you madam I was saving that it v . M-ui, :i! d ... kind of her to if I wear Vm. there's no reason why bmd.jou s... she said. ' ou shmt d not." J "No, no I" 1 e tjaculated. "She saved ; "1 appeal to the passengers ho evcit me, she b essed me, ai ,1 I shall always ' cdlv exclaimed resi. et her ; but never did my b.c.ds i "So do I," he answered "Fverv i;1', j"" 'l XC'W 1 th'lU i 'rly i!' ",is Cl Whh a -Uon.bohind V i " '.',v pr,.'YT' " I Sl"rt n' " Hl stand up until -I ou mav mea her. j can count noses." ''i'TT' i -t , , I ,T,i0 Mniail JP, I'ewas all .:.,, t .. . , V , '. """V. "e "oKen arouua and in a sor- ...... .,i,u iuok. l Know your ; rowlul way, said: v,r" " s -a,id 1 m,ist ' tu, ii- ti,0 re.iu. g.ve von up. , tlon ls jaul tliPiabl TT...,..- vOUT ,:r:'" t j stick to mine, and I don't believe this "7 '",V",!"W 1 w'" -"iron uce woman How will go back on her dozen you to her. She is anxious to see you ; i till she has given them a fair show. .. .uym !B ,,ere aim sue ie- j H inch side of the neckdo they button ioeo m..-, huh woiuiere.i ir . on, maoam ' you were as upright as the had always? The yells that followed brought in - ' V- T' - , - , , io onver. J lie old man was poinled III HllV.lil lll f.l.-c ... I.... . T -. - ;-- " ...ai.ws, anu i o.n. :ls !t urunKaro and woman iusuller iniss -vaennam leit l.un. and tho driver f.i:.... . .i Tl i ii , . , , , , i . " 'i"i!i iui His necK i ii.Mii i, mm -ii nc wnien iif nno i wiion i no o.tni. .,..1 . . i .... . '. - ! . viiiri.tii ill. Ill C11LH1 our hoped for in by-gone days he was to j "Who's drunk ! Who's insulted anv Icarn to whom lie was wedded but it : body?" gave him no pleasure now. , '-'lie kept on talking about shirts'" .,t an early Injur the next day, a ser-' screamed the woman with tl. !..- yant toid htm that .Miss I-atonr awaited ! "And you'vuot a box fiill'" Kliont 1 " " OREGON SOLID FOR SHE RUIZ, L ' S CULTIVAT071 AND SEEDEE. All lacrtaat Parts zaaia cf mcy, aad. Durable as Iroa caa Tse. 'Vl- '. . been murdered. The Government was ""i'D" 7, 0,,t a VCtM' i , . . ; hich he had brought w th him informed months ago that everything ; by-request, and which the maid and the pointed to war, but it slept on aud left ! ""-"Ker signed as witnesses. The bride us tomeet.it when it came. When her she took it. kissed it, nndfhrust it. iu these generals telegraph that only a few j gdticivvvS settlers have been butchered, they lie, ! Dr. Pomeroy wiped the perspiration sir they deliberately and wickedly lie ! j f'',n brow, and then asked : "Who Dozens and dozens of pioneer families. ! V? . i . -. . i . , 4 "o i it-1, Kiiovv, sai.l tho minintdr i m -a,, have been wiped i "I was requested by letter and paid to .y.i nm ...ej oi inu carin. ana the red 1 't""1"1 me ceremony and keen it w ret fiends are still at it. Folks said the bov ' lt is r,erfwtly law -Jul." - I ' .lint atld l WOllld (llO if Wn didn't rr , f, 1-.,1 1 for six mo.nhs.butI wouldn't wait. J "7 I -TC: ivd . the j """"-j "o-ii me, auo requestea my at- day. We've traveled lying down, sit- j tndaiico here, to assure you that her ; t - .. . i iiin i iviii. J lie three men separated ; the gas was turned out; the curtail, fell on the first act. . ting up and ever.y other way, but we both fee! better than vve did when we started. I'll go back. ! I'll stab, shoot and destroy until death takes me." The next day, Pomeroy tried to real- So sai.l tho man ov-or 0il.-nr .i S lz0 what he had done. lie had sold he will keep his word. , D. C. ! ,Va , n,,k""w'" W'"n.,an' b"1 ' v ' ! he thought that could not injure him. ' , ' . j "'he must have, been in deadly neril " I he monument to Stephen A. ioug- lB medltateil, "to "nay sueh an exo.bV las, in Chicago, after the foundation j taut price for a single name !" and tomb were completed in 18GG, lias: He took an office further up town 1 1 , 1 1 . . . 1 . 1 ... . . ' 9 him in her private palor, and he wa ushered ii.to a .-I range, room. llescaicely liiseil his evos as. he enter, cd ; but. w hen they did, they fell upon Miss Sydenham. "I am Kl'en I atour," she said. "That is my real name, though I never anticipaled revealing the truth to vou." "Eden I.aiour? My wife?" ed the man. "I hain't i,e- he turned up the box, and saw the label for the first time. She grew red then white and there was an 'awful si. lence. Kipping off thecover she exhib ited a bolt of mosquito iieltinfr nestled away in a box. Xay, sho held it up, shook it at the old man. He smiled , 1 T 1 l 1 i . . t:. . i.' p-ooi , noooea ins head a dozen tines Listen to mv storv- before von ilar.i i i i i i. - . nixies, . . . , - -I " oianuiy said : me, she said i he .nan you saw die f "Correct, madam -Humble to it That was my slep father He married my ! don't look like a dozen button behiill mother when I was but five years old ci,;Pt . i n ! and sister Ada was a baby. J ! lm , grled offended. or was weakly, and she died a fw years UVi Z k A hf y 67 i i..:. " ii . .. , 3 er saw wear any kind vou aro i - - later, leaving all our father's property in that man's hands. Ho was our sole guaidian, to hold our property under his control until wo married or became of aoe. lie placed me in tho Sawo,! Heart, and kept me there until I was v . t i - i i i , ' ' unti. i was i , i' ba,,lie,, noti sixteen ; then he brought me out and ip'eted feet hisrh with a diameter- nr. its bas of 52 feet. At its top will stand a bronze statue of Douglas niiso feet high. Joseph Mishow, who was buried at Williamsport on July 1st, was the old est man in'Nfortheru Pennsylvania,, his age being 103 years, 3 months, and 23 days- lie had French blood in his veinp, but was born in Maine, where ho lived more than ninety years, lie en joyed remarkable health for a -hundred and one years. Then his Uesli began fairly to dry on his bone-J until lie was i .1 . , , . . . . reduced to a skeleton. During his last month on ear.th he resembted a mummy more than he did a living being. one. Five years had passed awav, and he had gained a reputation, aud added con siderab'e to bis bank account, lie had been an indefatigable worker, and now he felt that he needed rest for a while we will take a tup to Europe mother," he said. " h . will do you' more good than you car. imagiue." A. great many gentle hearts felt a pang to see tho good Doctor leave, al though . their endeavors to catch 'him were in vain. He felt no preference to to any of the opposite sex ; he had re covered from hisdisappointmout.and he never ceased to remember that he was a married man, or think kindly of the proposed to marry me to a friend of his r !.. tl.. 1 y-v ... x icoeiicu. v;ne higni i overheard a convocation between them, and found that ho' was selling me for twenty thau sand doilais. that being the sum that was to be paid down to him ot my prop erty, the moment Turner become my husband. I was shocked. I had no friends to go to. He did not allow me to go into society ; I made no acquaint ances, and instead of al!owii,g me to sta ui mv mowim s noue, hckoept metravei ing around the Country. At last I prom ised to compromise; I told my stepfath er to take mo t. America, and when I returned I won d marry his friend He complied, and I got my maid to gossip with one of the servants ;..ii. i.... a mind to." and by chance she told your isto y a al ,ie off Li. mortal her sister ...,(.-,..; e "l-orj,as and "passes in his checks." As 1 iLtSZ TUrU, y '- "raked in" by a "spade." life', i list before I started fn.m V.io, uncle ot my mother had died, and left mo twenty thousand dodars in my own right, which my stepfather cm id not touch. ... I had it tr.Wl.m-d to New l ork, and determined to save myself with it. Hearing of yon, I adopted the p. an of getting you to marry me. When we returned to England and my stepfather commanded me to fuliiil my promises, I showed him my marriage certificate. He swore but he saw his case was Jost; I had outwitted him. I did not loave him. We patched up a leace ljetween us, and I remained with him to protect my sister Ada from a sim- TIIE UAME OF HI E. Man's life is a game of cards. First it is a "crib-age." Next he tries to "go it a lone," at a sort ot "cut, shuffle and deal" pace. Then he "gambols on the green." Then he "raises" the "deuce," when his mother "takes tt hand in" and, contrary to Hode, "beats the little joker" with her "five." Then with his "diamonds" ho wins the "queen of hearts." Tired of "playing a lone hand," he expresses- his desire to "assist" his fair "partner," "thrown out his cards, and the clergyman takes a ten uoiiar on! out of him "on a air." .She "orders him up" to buiJd tho tire. Like a "knave" he joirm the "clubs," where he often gets--"nigh," which is "low" too. It iie keeps" "straight" he is often "flush," He grows old and "bblrt" tnnc n ".tool' tr.nil.ln iclinn at last he "shnllles" off his mortal coil. Adjust&Ua to cTiy roq."oirc4 Depti ' whilo Li action. ITsvsr Clccs cr Ciclics ca Stu"b"blo cr "Trasay" Ciouiil. y Arrniicreil for two. thioo or four horses abreast I.ightcst iMuft Mm hiue.in . ' t'oveix and outs ull t lit- ltronnrl. Hi-iwUiiu-t St').tfts -will bow all kinds of tf ritlit, wet or Ury. EV23KT E'ACSIIXE .. XV A K -". it A ?i T E 1) . t 1 nfk iivery fiinncr to oxn initio my Seeder and ,.ij..:iiiii.i.i ;iii ivusid n m iv fliine. For lurtlicr puiiieiiluis ii'Ulivss 1-ebvnary 9, -2kv9 s JOBING TTAVINO PUCHA&EI) THE EX- I E lAnuiL'i fl. T.i. t "... T.-....!.! . . v. .. .. i, ' .lumi i w iiini'ii of tho "State Rislita Democrat," and the "Albanv Itefris er," wo are prepared to ; execute in lir.st-elas:s stylo, ' PROMPTLY & Itr.AtjOXAnLrM AU kinds or BOOK & JOIi ?llifll&:l le is raked in" by a "spade." life's fitful j mons of ( Jabriel's "trump," which shall "order him up. ... At nil liniM docs a bachelor ulance EO tenderly backward into the past, and sih over misplaced oprx rtutiiliep, tliarf when pitting in scanty costume on the edge of a discorded bed, he attempts to find a hole in a uhirt button with a needle, and the first notice of his suc cess is the needle suddenly reaching through far enough into his thumb to cause him to jump up and kick over the lamp stand. POSTERS AND PROGRAMMES Of Every Demc-ripf ion. BILL -HEADS .LSD. STfiTEREKTS, IJili ot Fare. LETTER HEADS BBIEJP K& LEGAL Cards of all 'Kinds and Colort Circulars, 9Sart)p:ilc-(!r, ; HEank Cltcclis, Iteceii!, . B;rlggrs, -.. - and DecA: