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~ ego _ remind Fou? Vol. 2. No. 25. \ggfw Qisegs Fonrnat, ® WILL M. DEITZ, t- -EHerror AaxD PRoOPRIETOR, 0 . TErxg.-1.00 per year in advance ; if 'not paid until th. end of the year, $1.25 will 'be charged. Those livingout of the Coun- hi must send.$1.10, and they will receive the papér free of postage, as we shall be obliged to pay postage in advance on all pa- pers leaving the County. TERMS OF ADVERTISING, . 1 week, $ ,50 | 1-4 col'n 3 mo. » '75 g e 1,00 1 year, 1,25] 1-2 6 mo. 3,50 1 year, . 5,00 | 1 3 mo. 7,50 609 10,001. 1 year,. $ 6,00 10,00 18,00 19,00 30,00 20,00 20,00 50,00 1 in » » p » o mo f » o 15. G 1 year, C Business Cards, five lines or less, Threo © Dollars and Fifty Cents a year. JOB OFFICE,-Now compl --attend orders a) u..) - ‘ gain—egg Wards, ete, is ready to | < * seu s FOR SALE. =| _A LIVE LOCAL PAPER, Cilbertsville, Otsego County, if. ¥., Wednesday, Oct. 24, 1877. Co *. foekg. <- - ban JOHRNMNY'3 SOLILOQUY. It seems to be father's greatest joy-- - To toll what he did when he was a boy, Nothing very wonderful, so far's I can-see; And\ it seems pretty rough on a fallow like me, When I've worked like a man all the long sum- mer day-- And boys can get tired, I don't care what they say~ To have father declare, in his evening Shat, \When I was'a boy I did better than that. \I was-bound out when I was a boy, Had never a play day, a book or a toy, I earned my first suit when I was of age, By working at odd bours-fur old Deacon Gage 1 often Went barefoot; huvixigaeldom a hat, Aud as for a cont, I was too poor for that. Of course I had extra dlothes in cold weather, But the elothes were not broadcloth, Nor the boots patent leather,\ Then he talks ofthis and that wonderful feat, With little to wear and little to ent; How he never went either to church or to school. Just picked up his learning without guide or rule, And.says: \Jobn to be sure, is easy to learn. And always stands first at the close of the term, But if I'd his chance at books in my day, Idon't think vou'd have found me always at play.\ A Quantity of SIDING; Planed and Joint. ed. - Also Six Inch Flooring ready for| | use. -.- oswW Bq O LUMBER | A large number of Doors and Sash, Blinds. | Mouldings, etc., for sale Cheap at H. C, BUSHNELL'S Sasi Axo Bux» Factory, 9m6 (CGilbertsville .N. Y. ALVIN BENNETT, ATTORNEY AND COUNSELLOR AT | LAW, AND NOTARY PUBLIC, Mt. Upton, N. Y. (&Office in Drug store Building, adjein cisEint's | ing the Post office. \ xEW FoR VILLE! Robert Drysdale, The New Tailor. - | Is prepared to make you a good Buit of. Clothes and give a first class fit, Cutting, attended to promptly, asic | Fall Fashions of 187 7 Miss M. N. Rodmon, Invites the ladies of Gilbertsville and virin-/ ity to call and examine her new stock of Mil linery Goods, consisting of Bonnets and Hats with all the materials for making up! Stock | consists of ll the most fashionable styic« of the season. | Prices made to suit all. | New- (Roods constantly received\ from the city. ; Come and see. 20nd} | samififikki I 1 RS. J. BHO has juse returned from New York with a fine assortment 0 Millinery and Fancy Goods, For Fall and Winter wear, and desires the ladies of @ilbertsville and vicinity to call j and examine at her store in the stone house | opposite Oliver's store. yl o RICHARD MORRIS SALTUS, L, L. B., | Attorney and COU N SELLOR AT LAW. -MURRIS, N. Y. g@~Office in the residence of the late Gen Morris, midway between Morris and Gil-| bertavilie s §Qvi , ot THE DAILY PRESS. Gives all the news of the World by tele. graph every mormng. Is sent by mall post- paid for only TEN CENTS A WEEK. Try it a week. 18 BEAVER ST., ALBANY, N. l John H. Farrel, W. A.Rooker, James Mc. Farland Editors and Pubsishers. - i | Closing Out Sale The Executors of the estate of Wim | Oliver, deceased, offer for sale his largefthen. ( ter.\ | DRY GO ODS, stock of Boots and Shoes, Hats and Caps Books, Notions, &c., At Cost And - Less Than Cost (We would call the attention af CASH BUYERS to the unequaled rargain« that we can offer as the tronds must oe sold within siz months from date, H. HASTINGS H D pONALDSQN. Exerntar | woman. Now I'm just as willing as can be to work, Nobody.cun eall me a bit of a shirk, ~ 1 don't ask for fine clothes or frequent pley-days, For 1 know father's money has pleaty of ways; But when I've done as well us 1 can, They might treat me as though I'd some day be a mus, I'm so tired of the song father always has sung \I did better than that when I was young \ Bfliscsllansons. DICK. Te was it tall, thin, starved-looking boy, with a littie jacket, the sleeves of which crept half-way up his arins,.and a bat that was nothing but a brim : and when shoo first saw him he was cuting a ernst from the gutter. She wys only a pour old woman who kept a litte shop for eandy and trim- mings, and poor cyough herself Heavy: en knew ; but, as she said, he looked a ittle likr what her Tom might if he i nad grown up and been neglected.and she couldn't stind it. She called to him« 'Come here, souny,\said she. and the boy came. Before she could speak he said : j \I didn't do it. on anything I didn't do it. InCil. Didn't do whant ?\ said the old wo- man. i TC \Break your winder,\ said the boy. «Why, L_ broke that myseif with my shutter last night,\ said the old \I'm not strong enough to Til take my oath I nin't so lift 'em.\ ©If I'm around here when you shut up, I'll come and do it for you,\ said the boy. '*Was that what you wanted me for ?\ \I wanted to know that dry crust out of the gutter for said she. Iungry.\ said he : \I've tried to get a job all day. - I'm going to sleep in an area over there after it gets too dark for the policemen to see, and you an't haye a good night's sleep with- out some supper.\ ©I'll give you some that's cleaner, said the old woman. That will be begging.\ said he. ©No,\ said she. \you can sweep the shop and the pavement, and put up the shatters for it.\ CYery well,\ said he. If 1 sweep up first what you ate yn H '''Thankee T'll feel bet- Accordingly she brought him a broom, and he did Afterward be eat his supper with &a relish. - That night he slept not in the area, but under the old woman's count- 'er. He had told her his story. His name was Dick : he was twelve years 4 old.and his father whom he had never '* seen sober, was in prison for killing his mother. ! His antecedents were not elevating, 1 it the boy seemed good and the nest morning the old woman engaged a ~rk for her small establishment. The terms wore ample, is- 'long and a he counter.\ When the r: heard of it they were shock slo A stres Buff-A tey whom nn one Anew | Did Mrs. Briggs really wich to be murdered in her bed ? Bat Mrs . Briggs felt quite safe. She had so puch nme now that she was going to v 1 his work well.[ +/ mas? take in sewing.. - Dickmttendddetofiths' shop altogether... He kept it in fine order, and increasing the. business by introduing candies, dates on sticks on chewing-gum.~ Penniés came in as they never _did before, since he had painted signs in red and bine ink that the real old molasses candy was to be got there, and this was the place for peanuts. ' And in the evening after the shop was closed up, she began to fake him into her confidence. Her gl‘e‘fit dream was to buy into a certain Home for 'the Aged. - It would cost her a hund- red dollars. She was saving «for it. twenty-five cents a quarter, and loaves so small, and she had been sick, and there was the doctor and Mrs, Jone's Martha Jane to be paid for minding! her and the shop. After this Dick took great interest in the savings, and? the winter months increased them as thoug he bad brought a bless- ng. ee I One night in the spring she. took the bag from under the pillow and counted what it held. It was thirty dollars. \And I'll begin to make kites to- morrow, Mrs. Briggs,\ said. the boy, \and you'll see the custom ®that will bring. Ifa little shaver sees the kites, he'll spend all be hasfor/em,and then coax his mother for more.\ . \You're a_ clever boy yourself\\ sud the old woman, and patted his hand. ' It was a plumper hand than it had been when it picked the crusts from the gutter, and he wore clean, 'whole garments, though they were very coarse. . \How wrong the neighbors were,\ she said. - *''That boy is the comfort of my life.\ » © She wont fo bed with the treasure under her whim, and slept., Far on in the nigl't $h0 was nwakened. | The rdom wis fittorly dark-theré was not w'ray of light-but she heard fa step on the floor, hom #Who is there ?\ she cried. There was no- answer, but she felt that some one was leaning over her bed. 'Then a hand clasped her throat and held her down, and dragged out the bag of money, and she was releas- ed. Half suffocuted.she for a moment found herself motionless and bewilder- ed, conscious only of air from an open door, and of some confused noises. 'Then she sprang 'to the door and hurried into the shop. Dick .' Relp ! bed !\ But there was no answer ; the door tuto the street was wide open, and by the moonlight that poured through it she saw,as she peered under the coun- ter, that Dick's bed was empty. - 'The boy was gone. (Gone ! gone [:Oh, that was worse to poor Granny Briggs than even the lors of the money ; for she had trust- ed him and le had deceived her. She 'had loved him and he had abused her Morvg. - The neighbors were right ; she was a fool to trust a strange street boy ‘smd had been served right when he ! robbed her. When the dawn broke the wise neighbors came into poor (Granny's ! shop to find her crying and rocking to and fro: and they told her that they had told her so, and she only shook 'her head. The shop took care of itself wake up | I'm rob- that day - Life had lost its interest for} \her. - Her vocenpation was gone,\ but :not with her savings. - Money was but moner after all ; he had become to be | the only thing she loved,and Dick had robbed her. It was ten o'clock, Granny sat moan- ing by the empty hearth. Good-nat- 'uted Mrs. Jtues from up-stairs was | secing to things.\ and trying to cheer her, when suddenly there came a rap ion the door. and a policeman looked \Mrs. Briggs ?\ he said. . \Here she is,\ said Mrs. Jones. Yes, I'm that wretched critter,\ said she. | Some one wants to see you at 'Rkead-quariers,\ said the policeman. There is & boy there and some mon- ev\ {0 Dick * cried Mre Briggs. \Oa I can't bear to look at him \_ _- But Mrs. Jones had already tied on her bonnet,. and wrapped her in a shawl. and taken her arm. *The wretch ~ she - said. t “I'm a; But it cost so much to live,. with tea \Dick! Dick !\ she cried, \Dick!} money baek.\ And she lead Mrs. Briggs along- poor Mrs. Briggs, who cmed all the way and cared nothing for the money. Aud soon they were at their destina- tion, avd then, and not before, the policeman turned to the two women and said ; \He's prett?7 bad, they'll take him to the hospital'in an hour. _ I suppose you're prepared for that. He's near- ly beaten to death, you know.\ \Did you beat him, you ernel wretch ?\ said Mrs. Briggs. \I would not have had that doue for twice the money. - Let him go with it, if its any comfort to him.\ - \1 beat him !\ said the man. 'Well if I hadn't got up when I did he'd have | been dead.. He held the bag of mon- ey tight, and the thief was pummel- ling him with a loaded stick ; and the pluck he had for a little shaver-I tell you, I never saw the like !\ « You shan't take Granny's money from her, says he, and fought like a little tigers If its your money old lady, he's given his life for it, for all 1 know,\ - 'Then poor old Mrs. Briggs clasped ther hands and cried : \Ob Dick ! Dick !I knew you were good. I must have been crazy-to doubt you,\ and then She wrung her bands and cried : - \Ohb for just a paltry bit of money !\. and so she knelt beside the pale, still face upon the pillow. and kissed it and ealled it tender names. Aud Dick,never gnossing het suspi- cious of him, whispered : #I was so afraid he'd get off with it ithe killed me, granny, and you in such high hopes last night.\ He did not know what she meant by begging him to forgive her. It would have killed him if he bad, for he was very near death, But Dick did not die. THe got well at last, and eame back to the little shop ; and though Granny Briggs had her savings. she never went to the Old Ladies Home; for long before she diced Dick was one of the most prosperous inerchants in the crty, and his hand- some home was her's, and she was very happy in it. ntop he A British sea captain, lately arrived at San Francisco, relates an interest- ing episode of the voyage thither, Two days out from Liverpool \a litte round-faced stowaway | was dragged from his hiding place before the cap- tain. and after usual nautical cursing on such occasions, the youngster was set to working his passage, in doing light chores about tEe ship. - A young and likely turned up as the ac- quaintance of the stowaway ; and they were much together, their relations finally becoming the occasion for much speculation among the crew. One killed ; and the mystery was solved- the stowaway was a young womian,and bthe sailor her husband. The latter was inconsolable over her death. | He sat by the corpse all one night, and when nett day it was shotted and sunk in the sea, the husband with a .c climbed the mast and plunged over- board, and never more was seen. From letters found in the young sailor's chest it was learned that the couple were of good family, but had married against much opposition, and on the old folks refused to be reconciled, the young pair, scarcely more thar -ehild- ren, and with not @ sixpence between them, resorted to the Quixotic and ro- mantic expedient of a sea voyage to California. i How to Prerare Actray Leaves., -Press the leaves carefully between newspapers, taking care to avoid lap- ping oue over another. The next dat take out the leaves and dry the papers. \Put the leaves again in press and the {nest day repeat the process. This i should be done three or four times un- “11 the moisture is extracted from the lenves. - This is troublesome, but the- resalt will be brilliant. Tf the face of /each leaf after the first pressing 1s brashed over with sulphuric acid. di- luted one-half with water, the color will be still brighter. - Do not wax or garnish the leaves, as it gives them an 'unnatural gloss. They can be made into sprays or garlands by means of the ins wire which florists use, tmist- '¢d around their stems. t glfifltcjjés'maught. Yqu’llhgefi‘ your |\ day the fair-faced waif fell from the i mast to the deck and was instantly | ry | 31:00. a Year s AROHSISHOP BATLEY'S, The death of the distinguished Catholic Archbishop of Baltimore ve- calls to the memory of some of those | who remembered him in his youth the romance of his early life. decided to leave the Episcopal nfinis try, for which he had been trained, mid study for the priesthood, he made sacrifices that fow men arc called upon to endure. __, le gave up at once not only his soe- ial position, but the great fortune which his uncle, Mr. James Roosevit, after whom he was named,intended to bequeath him, and worst of all to some hearts, he renounced the woman whom he loved. One of the most famous bells that New England ever produced was Miss Julia Beers,ia daughter of Judge Beers of Litchfield, Goun. - During the first thirty years of this century the law 'school of Litchfeld was considered the most distinguished institution of the kind in the country. - It drew to this bleak New England village the young 'men of the best funulies throughout the country, and one of its most hon- ored teachers was Judie Beers His daughter was a houutifel blonde of the rarest C vyou, wo lo Wicking hl ul pale gold, lar_o blue eyes, and a figure remarkable for its tall and slender grace. - Added, to these natural gifts, she possessed also n fine voice of re- markable power and compass, which she was constantly improving by train- ing, while her fine natural powers of mind were cultivated by every advan- tage of education, so that at twenty- five she was it woman of rare and re- markable fascination. At this time, during a summer pleasure trip, she met the young Epis- copal clergyman, and the two became engaged. | The Hey. MrSBayley was, at this pemod, iv strikingly handsome ninn. possessing qualitiog of heart ind mind sure to endear him to those with whom he was brought in- contact. They were, indeed, a remarkable man and - woman - who met in that long past summer, and she, who had been ' (indifferent to a hundred adorers, listen- ed with pleasure to the address of a man who felt that until now he had neyer met a fitting mate. lut powerful as love might be in an organization like his, - the: honesty of religious conviction was still dearer to the heart of the young clergyman,and after his transference to Hagerstown, Md., where he met the present Car- dinal MeCoskey, Mr. Bayley resolved to become i Cutholic priest. _ This de- tersion was a death blow to Miss Beers. 'She herself, ]H‘l‘§llaxl](‘(l by her love, embraced the faith of the® Church of Rome, and for a while took refuge in a convent. This departure of one of society's ornaments to the gloom of a cloister produced a groat sensation among the fashionable circles of that day, and when, - after a_ brief period, - she, under cisenmstances of. peculiar ro- mance, fled from the conyent and re- (turned to her- friends, all sorts of speculations were sct afloat. - For a few years she led a life of retrrement lat her home in - Litehficld, and then fell a viefim to consumption and per- ihups to a broken heart. -(Fraphic. 1 o ! __F OM. Conley, of Cohocton, had a sick cow. and in spite «of the applica- tion of such soothing remedies as split- ing her tail and inserting red pepper sprinkling the same in her ears. bor- ing a hole in her side with a jackknife ete., -very singular-died | to - all ap- pearance. - At the time that a decision { of her real death wus reached, evening was nigh, and so it was though best to postpone the process of divesting her of ber raimory of cow-hide until the next morning. Now, in the morning the hired man proceeded to sharpen his knives and prenare for business ; but on going to the place where the cow lard the evening before, to all ap- pearances dead, ne Tool lor uelymayp on her fest calmly ces hor god. Mr. Conley as a' ous : few books on tue toring. 240 fa so Lec _ _--_--p__-- \What can be mere wonderful than the grass \C asked a (California news- paper. - We think a weli-des eloped Canada pastle lanes tae paim for start- tling effect. When he .~
