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nees Bye Elbe Offeqo . ' A_ LIVE LOCAL PAPER. ©\ Vol. II. Mo.51. Che Qtos Joarssl. .W ILL M. DEITZ Eprror AND Proprietor. 0 T¥Rxs.-The Journal will be sent to subscribers In 'the county for $1 per year if pald in advance. If not 'pald until the end of the year $1.25 will be charged. Subscribers residing outside of the county must send '10 cents additional, as we sttall be obliged to pay pos- \tage in advance on all papers leaving the county. We would be pleased to recieve Items of news from all neighboring towns and a copy of the paper will be sent free to regular correspondents. 0 TERMS OF ADVERTISING. 1 inch 1 week,...... $ column, 3 months, $ 6.00 @ 0g ou Io Hse a Cg 4 10.00 80 « ...ll 100) 9 400\ 6 months, 18.00 1.95 1g 3 months,... 8.50) 4 1 year,.... 80.00 6 a ... 6.001 3 months, 20,00 9 l «.. 1.50 6 i £0.00 1 year,...... 10.00 i 1 year,... 50.00 Business cards five lines or less, $3.50 per year. All bills for advertising payable quarterly. For all translent advertising payment must be made in ad- vance. - Jon have good facilities for exe» cuting all kinds of work in a neat and tasty manner, Address all communications, Editor JOURNAt, Gilbertsville, Otsego Co., N. Y. Bnsines$ gently, 1 year,.... 18.00 ~* ' 188 M. N. RODMAN, WOULD INFORMLTHE Ladies of Gllbensvlllgruud vicinity that she has Just received a Splendid Assortment of SPRING MILLINERY GOODS: »Conslating of all the latest styles and shades. Prices made to sult the times, | Please call and examine my © Goods before purchasing elsewhere. My residence Opposite the Presbyterian Church. 49w13 Aitention Farmers. =p WOULD ANNOUNCE To the Farmers of Butter Inuit! that I have opened a shop for the manufac ture of Butter Firking, Tubs, Pails, Barrels, etc. «and will gell cheap for Cash, All work warranted to ROBERT LBMLEY, give satisfaction. d , sence ikl 2 2 _ RS. J, B.HOWLAND, has jus, returned from New York with a fine assortment of Millinery and Fancy Goods, For Fall and Winter wear, and desires the Jadies of Gilbertsville and vicinity to call and examine at her store in the stone house opposite Oliver's store, 22y1 RICHARD MORRIS SALTUS, L, L. B., Attorngy and COU N SELLOR AT LAW. MURKIS, N. Y. t Office in the residence of the late Gen Morris, midway between Morris and Gil- bertsville. 88y1 FOR SALE. TE HOUSE AND LOT Occupied by C. F. Bush- nell, in the village of Gilbertsville, will be sold cheap. %, of an gere of land with the house or more if desired. - A good barn upon the premises, 45w15 M. C. BUSHNELL NOTICE. The American Express Co. are now pro- YIN-“d to ship Butter, Eggs, Cheese, Dressed 'oultry and Fresh Meats from Mt. Upton to New York at the low price of $100 per 100 lbs. Arrangements have been made with Wi. New man of GilbertsviHe to receive Ex- Press matter for all points, and all goods de- ivered to him will be forwarded protiptly. Have made the following rate from Gilberts ville to New York'on butter: Tubs (ordinary size,) 70 cte coach. Pails (ordinary size) 80 cts. Pailr returned to Gilberteville for 15 cts. each. All Express for N. Y. leavo Qilberteville in the morning ; will arrive in N. Y. same night, Bear in mind that ail goods shipped by ex- press are delivered to consignes without any charge for Cartage. - All goods aside from But- ter will be delivered to Mt. Upton on reason- able terms. H. A. TRUESDELL, Ag't American Express Co., Mt. Upton. 483m8 Mt Urtox, Feb. 20, 1818. a GEEAT CLOSING OUT SALE 1 OF DRY GOODS AND CLOTHING AT COST, And Less Than Cost. At Sturdevant's. OWING TO IMPORTANT CHANGE To take place in my business this Spring I shall offer for the next Sizty Days my entire stock of goods at prices so low as to insure an immediate sale. The stock is now full of new and desirable goods. Come one, come all. and we will do you good in this our closing ost sale. To commence THTRSD 1 y. FER. 2sth, AT THE STONE STORE, G.lberteri\s Ce= Tork 422 Lo e- Cilbertsville, LBootry. [For the THE OHILDREN. Sailing on an unknown sea, Or the breakers threatening, Father steer them ; May engulf them. Stepping forth on life's rouggllwg‘bu lead them : Through the quicksands and the rocks, Father lead them,. In temptation, sorrow, danger, Saviour, save them ; From the stains of gullt and sin I Wilt Thou keep them ? When for help they cry to Thee, Father, hear them ; All other helpers falling P & Be Thou near them. In their path we know must be Thorns to pierce them ; Father to Thy loving care We will leave them. SAVED BY &A DOG. What I am about to relate occurred dur- ing the Fenian agiffition, with which the whole of Ireland was disturbed some years ago. My husband was agent to Lord Ry- mer, and, as his property was very exten- sive, it took a considerable time to collect the rents from the numerous tenants. I al- ways folt nervous while my husband was away for this purpose, but more than usual- ly so at that time, because, in all directions around, bands of them were going about making raids on houses for arms, some- times, but very seldom, demanding money, [and altogether causing great terror and ex- citement. The place where we lived was about seven miles from the town. - The house was a large one, and there was a nico lawn > in frontyand at the back a flower garden, be- you? ch was a shrubbery leading down to afbofeen that joined the high road, about a raile further down. On account of the disturbed stato of the county, the former tenant had had every window shutter lined with strong - {ron plates, and extra strong bolts and locks put upon all the doors, which were also pro- tected by thick shects of fron. _ My father and mother lived near the town, and before my husband and I came to Ashgrove we had a pretty place near them ; so Fused to feel very lonely sometimes at being so far uway, and wished from my heart that I could us- tablish a telegraph communication from one house to the other, so that wo could send messages to und fro; for messengers were searce in our neighborhood. How- ever, At last I thought of a plan. We had a splendid Newfoundland dog, a most intelli- {gent creature; he could be taught anything and understood almost every word we said to him. I would teach Rory to carry anote for me and to bring back ther Very quickly he learned his lesson, and greatly gelighted my mother and sisters were. when they saw him coming up the garden path, knowing that be had a note: from me tied around his neck, hidden in bis curly binck hair. - In the same way he would take ia message to my husband's office, and, if Wil- liam was out, he would wilt for him-but he never dreamed of coming back without AD Answer. It was near the end of Septembef, and the half year's vents hivd to be eollected,. - Wil- liam usually went by himself, hut, as there had been frequent robberies lately, I entron- ted him to take Jerry the eonchman with him. - Me refused at first, but, on seeing how nervous I was about it, he at length consented to do so. I asked him to try to be home before dark if possible, but he told me not to expect him before ten o'clock. I felt very uneasy all day, as of course it was known to many that he world have a large aum of money with him on his return, and I feared he might be waylaid and robbed, the road he had to come by being a very lonely one. « As ten o'clock drew near I conld not reat. and every five minutes I ran to the door to try if I could bear the horses coming up the avenue. I heard them at last; and, oh! how thank{nl I was that William was safe at home again ! Had you any adventures on your way ?\ I asked. ''No. indeed, Bella, except that about three miles down the road. just in the turn. Jerry's horse came near falling over some- thing ; It was too dark to see what it was, but Captain must have seen it, for he gave a sudden spring. and jumped clear over what- ever was there.\ Deed. ma'am,\ said Jerry. \It war some thing varry strange, and I heerd a quare kind 0° noise like in the hedge alongside of us. - 'Ride on sit, as fast as ye can,\ I ses to the masthur. 'and may the holy virgin be between us and all harm.\ The horses were taken to the stable and put up for the night, and we had nearly done tea, when Jerry came to say that he dead. and to know if he might go to the wake.\ - As It would have been considered a dreadful insult on his part not to have gone, of course we gave him the desired permission. We sat and chatted for a while by the fire and then went up stairs to go to bed. - Pres- ently we heard a loud knocking at the hall door and a violent pull at th? boil. William opened the window and asked who was there and what was wanted. © Are you Mr Thorton \\ said a voige do pou want\ 'The house next your office is on fire. sir.\ replied the stranger Ihave seen seat to tell you so - T! you have any thingm of vage there you had better go at onee and have them removed to a safe piace T wiil ride a z / \ \ Otsego County, XN. Y., Wednesday, April 24, 1878. gufit 3100 a Year. as you arrive at home, tired after being out all day, and Jerry goné away, too! Who will saddle the horse for you?\ \I can manage all that myself, Bella; but I confess I don't like leaving you with only the two servants, when thero is so- much money in the house. I brought nearly two thousand pounds back with me. (As I pass the lodgo I will sond Jerry's son Ned to stay here untill I return ; he is a strong, courage- 'ous fellow, and I can trust him entirely, Keep up a good heart, little Bella, and don't look so miserable.\ & After William loft, I waited up for some time, expecting Ned, but, as there was no sign of him, I got tired at last and went up to bed, as I'supposed he had gone to the \'wake\ with his father. I brought Rory with me for company, knowing what a cap- ital watch he was. I did not undress, but lay on the bed ; I was too anxious to be able to sleep, and was frightoned at the least noise. I nearly sereamed once when a cin- der fell out of the fire, and every moment I fancied I heard footsteps. _I got up and walked about the room, and stirred the fire down. Presently Rory gave a low growl and raised his head as If to listen. Then he growled again. -That frightened mo very much, for I know he must have heard some one; so I listanad A \ Yes, I did hear footsteps-\w was no fancy this time ! Quite distinctly I heard them on the gravel outside. - In the greatest terror I went and called the servants. I told them to dress as fast as they could. We then went to the bedroom next to mine, the shut- ters of which werenot fastened. I peeped out, and, as well as the darkness would per- mit, I saw six or eight men trying the win- dows of the lower rooms, and alsg the hall door. 'i'Let us pray to Heaven to help us,\ I said. _ \They are come for the money ; they must know it is here. It will take them some time, however, to break in, for they cannot casily cut through the iron shutters. Just then there was a crash of glass, Rory tried to rush down stairs, but I held him back, not wishing the robbers to know that we heard them. 'How stupid of me not to think of Rory before, Ellen,\ I said. As quickly as I could, I got a sheet of paper and a pencil, and wrote to William, telling him that the robbers were trying to break into the house, and asking him to come back without any delay, an bring a sufficient guard of police to take them. I tied this round Rory's neck, and, having as- certained that there was no one rs. yet at the back of the house, 1 opened the door lending into the garden, and sont the faith- ful dog to find his master, praying fervently that he might be successful. 'The wall at the end of the shrubbory was low enough in one place for him to jump over it, and was his usual way of going and coming. But what if any one were in the garden on his return'? I could only hope for the best. I returned to the room where the two ser. vants were., We had no light, so could not be seen from the outside. I softly raised tho window a few Inches, so that we could hear what the men were saying. | They seemed to be dreadfully disappointed at not having effected n entrance. \If we don't be quick about it now, Bill, the master will have found out by this that the story of the fire was all a sham, and he will be hore in a fifty.\ . © Here was a revelation! No fire UTE wag all a plan of theirs to get William out of the way, knowing there would only be women in the house then ! For of course thoy know the conchman and his son were at the \wake Finding they could not get in through any of the front windows, to my horror I heard them say they would try the back. ''Then my poor dog is lost ! J aagd. With breathless anxicty we watdhed and listened. - At last, having no better success with the back windows than with the others, to our great relief we heard the men leave the gatden, and as they did not come round to the front very quickly, we fancied they were having a consultation as to what they would do next. - All this time I was in the greatest agony of mind. for, unless something had happened to Rory, he ought to have been back before. I went down to the garden door, to be ready to let him in when he came. - I strained my ears to listen, but there was not a sound of any kind. The robbers were not in the garden-that was one comfort. I heard something soon, however. It came nearer-nearer still. Ah, then. I knew what it was, and with thankful heart I ; opened the door. Rory, dear, faithful Rory was back again, panting, after his long jour- ney. |_ Had he brought me an answer? Yes-he had a note for me. I tried to read it, but ' could not see, my eges were so full of tears, and my hand shook so. At length I was :ah§yto make out these words. lita g own darling. Have courage a little !longer. I will gag back immediately with : help.\ ; I knew nothing more. overcome at last. I had fain » a I was completely . When I had just heard that Tom Hurley's wife was , recovered I found William standing by me, , holding my hand in his. It was some time before 1 could remember all that happened ; however as soon as I was able to attend to | him, he told me that when he arrived at the office, and saw ro sign of fire anywhere, thought it very strange. i 'I feared ail was not right.\ he said, ''and determined to ride home as fast as possible. I was about two miles on my way, when I met Roty. Captain knew him at once, and stopped of his own accord. I wondered why the dog should be out at that hour. and looked to see if he bad a note. Finding that he bad. I lit a match and read the message. I wrote an answer on the back. tied it round his neck. and sent him home the poltee-<tation. and brought a mumber of men with me As coun as the roblers saw as cominar up the avercge thev made wif in Abc directiims Howessr tre peuee are ow their track and | hope. eacceed (~ comhing them | Iam qpatescre tow that A K2 <~7 should occur mint, Willia¥C* X\ said, \Just to make a blaze, as the candle had burned. I ther gailoped as fast as I could to ' on'my first re'td‘m home thero was a rope put across the roml, and that the robbers were watching for mo behind the trees, hop- ing that my horse might stumble, and that they could take the money from me then, not thinking that I\ should have any one with me, But on thi horse getting over It safely and seeing Jerry with me, they did not attack us, but planned the story of the fire to get me away. 'They did-not-know I had such a brave little wife or such a swift faithful messenger as Rory. Only that you sent to me so quickly, Bella, I really don't know what might have happened. Let us all thank heaven no lives are lost.\ From that time forward Rory was consid- ered quite a hero, and wherever ho wont he was potted and made much of. - o-- A REVOLUTIONIZING THREAT, I have heard the story as applied loosely, but as Jenkinson's father-in-law tells it, It has more of point and pith thin in the other cases. Jenkinson was the man who entered the complaint. He was a young merchant, and had married the daughter of an old merchant, and said daughter was inclined to be headstrong and independent, plainly giv- ing her liege lord to understand that she should be her own mistress and do as she pleasod. >- 7 Jenkinson regarded this as an outrage, and in the plentitude of his indignation he bétook himself to his wife's father, and thore entered complaint, deep and bitter, against the fair recusant and, unfortunately in his blundering he more than half in- timated that the girl had not been brought up as sho ought to have been. But the old man betrayed no ill feelling toward his son- in-law. * 'Did the vixon say sho would do as she had a mind to do?\ Yes, sir.\ ''And shema kes you generally uncomfort- ablo? ''She does indeed, sir.\ \Goodness mo! What Ingratitude! And only Tast week I gavo her that beautiful sot of rubles.\ . \I know It, sir.\ R 'Jenkinson, I paid $1,200 for those stones and the setting.\ \I should say they were cheap at that.\ 'So they were, so they were, and I thought they would make her so happy and so good. But Ihave a plan in my mind. I shall put up with no more reports of har shortcomings. Sho thinks she will Inherit a fat pleco of property from her old father, but she may find herself mistakon, I have given her the rubles, but I will give her nothing more until I know that she has mended ; and if I hear another word of her wilfuiness-if I hear another word-I will scratch her name from my will and leavo her but a lesson on behavior. If she troub- les you any more, you can tell her what I say ; and be sure I mean It. Itis timo sho should allow her old father to rest in peace. A month later, and the old merchant asked his daughter how she was flourishing at home. \O grandly !\ sho cried, \You won't be- liove how good and kind James is. - He isn't cross any more at all.\ The old man nodded with satisfrction. hls threat had its effect. Eagle. EXODUS TO LIBERIA. - Liberia is an independent nogro republic, In the north part of Upper Guinea, tn Africa, founded by the United States In 1820, as an asylum for negro slaves that became free be- fore the general emancipation by | Abraham Lincoln. During the last fow years, the pro- Joet of a general exodus to that republic has been ngitated | among the colored people of the south, and as a result a joint stock com- any of transportation bas been organized. ' The last week In March, the ship Azorsailed | ( from Charleston,South Carolina, with 250 of , Africa's sable sons and daughters, (or; Liberia. | It is said that 160,000 are enrolled ; on the list, and ready to go when occasion j offers. Only those will be taken who have) Jmoans to support themselves in the new | country for six months without rssistance. , | It is to be hoped that those who are among i | the first to venture, will not be overwhelmed / / with the trials and discourngements that us- ually await emigrants to a new and unfamil- j lar country. | The strengthening of Liberia by the ace sion of an industrious and intelligent population, accustomed to self-goveroment, | and tolerably well trained in mechanical f and agricultural pursuits, will greatly aid in the work of civilizing that vast continent, | and opening up its mighty rivers and lakes to commerce. | | The colored man in America is casliy per- 'suaded to liken himself and his people to 'the ancient Isravlites, who were held in | bondage in Egypt, and now the prospect of, returning to his home in Africa, may mat,-l ' urally appear like a heaven-directed exodlm) {toward the Promised Land; indeed, one of {the colored speakers, on the occasion of the , consecration of the shipAzor, said. ''The ; work inaugurated then would never stop un- {til the blaze of Gospel truth should glitter , over the whole broad African continent.\ Should the present enthusiasm for emi-' gration continue, the time will come, and at no very distant time either. when the pres- ence of the negm in this country will be : more of a memory than a fact. ---o__- i country writes home-' The chief branch of edacation of young men here is rewing. The peopie have largs beat houses ral ed sem'ieges. and the principal of thee are Yale and ~ Before hemnring the second peal day a hasgo« n preket and et he canbed the {-at gases a ; mgregatim augh when he nead eaveth to the aust.\ Con in association cti ITEMS. . Diphtheria is making fearful ravagos in Putnam county. D. R. Locke (\Nasby\) has resigned the editorship of the New York Zvening Mail, and gone back to his Tolodo Blade. EuntzABETE, N. J., April 6.-Two men and a woman were burned to death in a barn at Plainfield yesterday. They are unknown. There are thirty-seven papers in this Con- gressional district. . Otsego county, 15; Delaware county, 12; Chenango tounty,10- Mirror. Over $2,000 a year is the value of tho suds of a Bonanza minet\s wash. The dirt washed from their shirts has been found to assay $259.10 to the ton. What a field for Novada washerwomen ! A minister in Rockport, Me., 92 years old, has concluded to give up tobacco. belfeving it to be injuring his health. He has used it seventy-cight years. Patrick J. Welch, a tramp said to be from Chicago, had both his legs cut off at Tribes' Hill, by a Contral railroad freight train. That will very likely stop his tramping. The brutal tramp has started on his spring travels. In Passaic county, N. J., a cit. izen was attacked and left with a fractured skull across arailroad trams in an insensiblo condition. ' A German in Buffalo fell into a beer vat the other day and was drowned. He drank as hard as he could to save himself, and would have succeeded had not a floating cork choked him, At the Parsons-Heron wedding in Cincin- nati Mrs. President Hayes discarded thoe usual black silk and appeared dressed in elogant white satin, carrying a while fan and bouquet. Captain A. H. Bogardus, the champion wing-shot of the world, has fssued a chal- lenge, offering to shoot a pigeon match at Paris during the Exposition, against any other man in the world for from $1,000 to $2,000. . Two brothers, James and Patrick Reilly, living in Chippewa, we swept over Niagara Falls in a boat, Apr. Ist. Pieces of the boat were found the next day, but neither of the unforturiato men have As yet been dis- covered. Bostox, April 7.-Last evening n fifty horso-power boiler in the engine room of the stamping manufactory of Zavey & Co., Cambridge, exploded, killing three men, fa- taily injuring another, and more or lees se» verely six others. WitartNaTo®, April 6.--William Thomas, a blacksmith employed at Harlin & Hol- lingsworth company's ship yards, cut his wife's throat with a razor at about nino o'clock last night, in a drunken quarrel, killing her outright, and then cut his own throat. On the morning of the 5th inst., an oil train ran Into a freight train of the Lehigh Valley milroad near Slatington, Pr. - Sever- al cars of ofl were burned.and the Williams- burg foundry caught fire and was totally de- stroyed. One man was instantly killed, twelve seriously wounded, and a lurge num- ber slightly burned. Tho necident is at- tributed to tho neglect of the station master, In not having the signals fixed correctly. The Delnware - Republican mentions tha following singular fet : In the Downaville Cometery, that lias been used for such nly about 14 years, in digging a grive a fow days since the tops of two coffins were dis- covered. | Within the memory of the ofdest inhabitant, no person had been buried here previous to the time of its purchase Tor a cemetery, nor since where the: coffins were found. -- The followings an amendment offered by Senntor Edick to a bill passed by the Senate for the: preservation of wild\ deor, birds and fish. _ It will meet the approba- tign of all in this vicinity : No person shall kill or catch any fish, ex- cept minnows for bait, bullheads and cels, in the lakes, ponds and waters of Madison and Otsego counties, except as hereinafter | provided, nor in the canals or feeders in the county of Herkimer, nor in the Owasco lake in the county of Cayuga, hy means of any trap, dam, weir, net, set line or line«, or by any device whatever, other than that of an- gling with hook and line, under a penalty of ten dollars for each fish killed or taken, ba. : and fishing for trout in Houghton lake and In Bchenevus creek and its tributaries in Ot- sego county, is hereby prohibited for a pe- rlod of two years. Epikes says he has thought over it a good deal. and he wonders if the curious phe- nomena have been generally chserved that to-day was tomorrow yesterday, and yes terday yesterday was to day. ,To morrow to-day is to-morrow, but to morrow to-mor- row is day after to-morrow to-day, | Yester- day to morrow is to-day, and yesterday | to- day will be day before yesterday tq. morrow The day after to-morrow to day will be to- morrow to. morrow, and io-morrow - to-day will be to day to-morrow Liane Firein Oneonts. A fire broke out in Oneonta alout 40> lock Monday morning last in an eo dwelling house in that part kpown as Low r Deck | The A distinguished Japanese traveler in this R ie cee
