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GrllbeI-tsvflle Otsegro Co : Whole N os] M DEITZ R AND PROPRIETOR, er year if paid In advance, of the year £1.25 will be charged, all papers leaving the county. that a renewal is necessary. 'to regular correspondents, \ 0 OF ADVERTISING. Business cards five lines or less, £5.00 per year mt! all kinds 6f work in a neat and tasty manner. ddress all cnmmunlcutlons, t JOURNAL, Gllbensvme Otsego Co., N. Y. =-- gamma? Wards, | ®°_ ALVIN BENNETT, Attorney & Counselor at Law + fs 3 - § 5 mer B 4 a LL PERSONS H&VING UNSETTLED AC a counts with the undersigned are respectfully BF requested to call and settle the same before 3 The First of January Next. ii I would further state that I offer my unusually large A and varied stock, which is particniarly selected . I \ POR THE HOLIDAY TRADE $ advance from cost, for cash. : Yours Very Respectfully. f F. BLACKNAN f i *We are prepared furnish all who wish with the al elebrated ., And Notary Public, 'Mr:~Urron, Chenengo, co., N. Y. Iam giving special “tendon to Pension. claims. Persons having business of that nature will do well to consult me. 17-°Office in Postofice building. 4tojant A. G. W 4 S HB O X, Attorney at Law, Gilbertaville, N. Y. 14 Seto ~ TBAMING. T x M. M. NEWMAN would aunounce that he will continue to doteaming from Gliberts- .. Ville to Mt. Upton. Goods will be carried to and from the depotat reasonable rates. Express packages re- ceive prompt attention. I willaiso keep for sale atmy residence in Gli- ville, the best quality of Salt, Feed and Corn, for gale at the lowest Cash Prices. By1 Yours, &c., WAL M. NEWMAN. \F. BLACK MAN, DEALER IN - CABINET FORVMTUORE, Gilbertsviile, N.Y. SPECIAL, NOTICE \ONEONTA CLIPPER. 'This Prow has taken the first preminm over all other reversible plows wherever exhibited. Also the Excelsior chilled P cw, :- Forleyelland acknowledged by all to be the best | - and cheapest plow in market. We warrant our - plows to suit. _, Our Stock of Cultivators Is large and complete Prices lower than ever. hé art Horse Hoc, no comment, It is too well known. Va firmer should be without one. We have a fine \Brfoox or WatErtowx Woop Pru, ust recelved. Allin want of a Good Charn Power a-find them at oor foun: Call aad look our < tor. ~~ \\\\ © I hfluced Rates Lowest Rates on Tickets to the AM) SOL {WEST 5 AGENT, . Bianey Plains N.Y. Mummy 5 to the wants of Ihe Simasnouay p Breiway I'unfiwwpunmlmumum 0 MES.3. aaowmu cool « ego Journal. rnal will be sent to subscribers In} If not e of the county must send 1, as we shall be obliged to pay pos- ig d cross before their name on the understand that their subscription leased to recleve Items of news Ing towns and a copy of the paper coluren, 8 months, $6.00 15 t g @ 10.00 Au bills for advertising paynble quarterly. For all 1311: advertising payment must be made, in ad- JOB PrixTINg.-We have good factlities for exe- flaw, Aggie only laughed in her mysterious Way, \ Cover them Over,\ WILL CARLTON: Cover them over with beautifal flowers, Lying so.silent, by night and by day, tL Sleoping the years of their mauhood away ; ~ Years they must waste in the sloth of the grave All the bright laurels they fought to make bloom Fell to the earth when they went to the tomb. Give them the meed they have won in the past ; Give them the honors their merits forecast; Give them the chaplets they woa in the strife ; Give them the lourels they. lost-with-their-life; - # + # # « a » + f t , if éfi’ggfié i 13-83 Cover them over;-yes, cover them over,- ST 3:50, © 1 year,... 80.00 Parent, and husband, and brother, and lover; §' 4: g i .. 5,001 ii & months, 38-88 Crown in your heart those dead heroes of ours, 21 #> l. iso 600g \ Y + a \o 10 00‘ # T year;... $0.00 And cover them over with beautiful flowers, % 4 Cover the thousands who sleep far away- Sleep where their friends cannot find them to-day ; They who in mountain, and hillside and deli, Rest where they wearied and le where they fell. Softly the grass blade creeps round their repose ; Bivectly round them the wild flow'ret blows ; Zophyrs of freedom ty gently o'erhead, Whispering nares for the patriot dead. Bo in our minds we will name them once more; Bo In our hearts we will cover thein ber ; : Hoses, and lilies, and violets blu, Bloom in our souls for the brave and the thie, Cover them over,-yes, cover them over,- Parent, and husband, and brother, and lover; Think of those far-away heroes of onrs, And cover them over with beautifui towers. Qur Slaw gellar' THE MORTGAGED FARM. \ Six o'clock !\ said Marion Hillyard look- ing up suddenly as the tall, old fashioned clock in the corner rang out its shrill an- nouncement ; | ''aix o'clock and oh! mother, here is Jeimmy Lane, punctual to the very moment. Now we shall have some good newsifrom Jack, I hope.\ She rau out to the gate, Aushed and eager to receive the letter from the country carrier ; and returning, seated berself on a low stool at her mother's feet and broke the envelope. On the first glance at its conténts a shade of disappointment dimmed her bright face. Instead of reading the note aloud, she glanced hurriedly over the brief lines, and then silently, with a quivering lip, placed it in her mother's hand and turned aside to the window. This is what Mrs. Millard read : Dran Manan: I saw your son a few days! since, when, to my surprise, he expressed himself reluctant to apply his money to the redeeming of the mortgage, saying he re- quired it for speculation which promised to be more profitable to him than the holding of the farm. - I have, therefore, been compelled to dispose of the mortgage to a gentlemin of my acquaintance who proposes to take imme- | diate possession, and consider it my duty to {inform you thereof, in order that you may [lose no' time in making arrangements for a removal. Very Respectful); B\h.K HARRIS. , Mrs. Hillyard returned the letter to its en- velope with a trembling hand, and a dazed, bemldercd’ look, as though unable to realize | {the blow which had so suddenly fallen upon (her Her eyes met Marion's and the girl threw herself upon her knees by her mother's side [and bust into a passion of tcars. '*Oh, mother, mother! what shall we do? What will become of us ?\ \'The Lord will provide?\ said\ Mrs. Hillyard, raising her overflowing eyes to the motto on the wall, embraidered by Marion's 'own hand. | * Where is your faith, my child, [that it should fail you in this, the very hour ' of need ?\ ** Mother, it is not the loss of our home, nor the poverty and trial in store for us which grieves me, but that Jack-your own son, 'my own brother-should have so changed Ob, mother, I know that our Fatherin Heaven will not desert us, but to whom on earth can i we turn when even Jack can become worldly and heartless ?\ At thimmioment a little blue-eyed girl burs into the room v ith : \* Mamma-Marion! here is Miss 'Melia Anderson at the gate, in her buggy. She says you will step out a miuute for she wants to tell you about old Mr. Millard's be- ing sun struck; and she daren't leave her horse without somebody to hold him \ Marion was in no condition to listen to Miss \Melia-the greatest gossip in the neigh- box-hood} so Mrs. Hilliard, drying her eyes, was in civility compelled to see her visitor. Marion, ber head resting upon the window si\l behing the screen 6£- clinging roses,. could sorbed fn her-grief, «he atteation until the name of Wat Hinton strock upor lke ther ear. \Its time, for censing fermmhadm Deck them with garlands, those brothers of ours; _ Years they had marked for the joys of the- brave; , <_ | balk was growhig --- lp She could scarcely Took back upon any ob- - {have heard every word spoken; 'but; alri my new earrings which he has sent me.' bring his bride , to visit _his family, and then, tell Marion, we may look out for a grand party. When the Hiltons undertake to do things they do it handsomely,\ out of & side door, she crossed the garden, ' | passing little Myra, who was fondling a snow white calf, her great pet and treasure, and who called out to her to see how fast \Snow course Maria wanted to know all about it, but until Maria says, *I believe you're joklnv\ e when Agsie replies, 'If Wn1ter ien't married before winter, I'll make you & present of So you secrits certain sure; and no doubt he'll {i Marion'stayed to hear no more. Gliding ic fin her retreat. So she thought ; das herself. ive her hand in silence. It wasWnt. § ‘ldenly with the sight of him came path led\ past the arbor, But at the fe steep bank she would not be dis- | i but jot or two after, there was a sound of s'nséenaing‘ the bank a rustle of the moment they gazed at each other- ale, and the stranger with a flush ris- Then he smd as A Big Jurap st Niagara. Wednesday afternoon, Mr. H. P. Peer, of Tectersville, Ont., necomplished the, daring but silly feat of jumping from the new sus- pension bridge at Niggara Falls into the river below, a distance of 192 feet. 'This entirely eclipses the famous performance of Sam Patch. - Peor's dress was of merino hose and a full suit of tights, a rubber life preserver, fun- nel shaped and of his own constructio 1, which covered his hips and exten led up to the arm- pits. - Cotton cloth was handaged tightly over the preserver, about the hips and loins, while a broad sponge protected his mouth and nos- trile, and his ears were stuffed with the same A Yankee F okay. ® On the bank of the Hudsom vaer, i’n ‘é’ of the villages that dot its-shores, a 19 idlers were stundlng, seeing which 'could: throw; stones the furthest into the stream. ' A' raw-boned, slab-sided Yankee, and no~ take, come up and looked on. Fora whil he said nothing, till a fellow in a green jacke . the leader of the party, a conceited broth of, boy, began to try his wit on Jonathan. ' **You can's come that,\ said he, as he hur ed a stone away out in the river. 'May be not,\ said Jonathan. - \But up in our country we've a purty big river, consider» in , snd tother day I hove a man clean norms Poor little sister! It would be as hard upon her as upon her mother and herself to leave the dear old home, with all the scenes and objects endeared them by the associations of their lives. Forin that ample, plensant old-fashioned farm house, Mrs. Hillyard bad been born and married, and her children also had first seen the light. Two years ago her husband who had been a little too practical to make a farmer-had died suddenly, leaving his affairs in a very embarrassed state, sud the farm burdened with a heavy mortgage. Then Juck, good son and brother that he was, had thought it best to go to the city, taking advantage of a situation offered him by a distant reldtive until the mortgage should be paid.\ Only two weeks ago he had written cheer- fully, saying that the matter would be speed. ily settled to their satisfaction; and now, just as they were expecting to hear home was their own again, came this cruel letter. As Marion had said to her mother, not even the loss of their home went to her beart witht so~sharp a pain as did this evi- dence of a change in her only brother. That Jack should have grown so worldly and heartless as to consider his pecuniary ad- vantage before the gratification-of-hismother's comfort; that he should allow them to he actually turned out of the dear old house and goto reside in the strange city where they could feel at home-oh ! this was thegrent- cst pang of all ! So Marion had thought upon first reading the letter; | and. it- was not until\ hearing Miss 'Mella's words to her mother that she awoke to the consciousness that fate could have even a greater gorrow than this in store for her. One year ago she had parted from her ac- cepted lover, Wat Hinton, in mutual anger on both sides. - Wat had become jealous and had spoken sharply to her, and in a manner which she considered herself justified in re:| senting. Wat was too proud to apologize, and Ma- rion too proud as well as too delicate to make advances looking to a reconciliation ; and so they had drifted apart, both miserahle, until Wat had broken the last liulg by going to the {west. She heard of him from time to time through his family, but no word or message to herself ever came. In all this while she had looked forward with a faint yearning hope to the possibility of his some time re- turning, and all being made up between them. But now this last hope was rudely stricken to the ground. - Wat was going to be roarried. He had forgotten her, and was lost to her for- ever. 1 ** Oh, it is hard-so hard to bear !\ thought Marion, as with hands unconsciously tightly clasped, she passed slowly under the apple boughs of the old orchard. \ Life is bitter. It bas taken 'all front we. It can have no more to give. Only my dear, dear mother and Myra! For their sakes I must be strong, and try to bear it all.\ On the verge of the orchard, where the high wank sloped sbruptly to the meadow, she came to a mass of tangled honeysuckle, fashioned into a rustic arbor. Wat had made it for her, and here in fact it was that they had last parted. . Down in the meadow ran a little pathway, leading by a short cut to Wat's home a cen- ple of miles away. How often she had sat here of an evening and watched for him. ject now before her eyes which were not con- nected with some sssociation of Wat. There was a walnut tree that he and Jack used to chmb, and there the clear laoghing brook, in which he had taught her to steer the little boat which be had made for het, laden with grain, to Jack's famous water mill, af the reots of the old willow. ' Further up was thereal \grist sod saw mill,\ which everybody said would be such a good investment for one who could manage it properly. Andthen Marion seated oaths bench ia [the- turned and Tooked lorg mflymmgyumodfiumlxmepeepsng \od : 4 matoon ti an apparently excited runner, mep {ped bnstity up to the haz, and acids «m, gs that he was lost to her forever. v0 to her. «\I a“ you hetfi in this dear old spot,\ he said. not I had seen you.\ ve you ?\ - \YeS; for all my absurd jealousy and pride and folly. F have never had s happy momenéfimce I parted from you, Marion, and I hifiye come back at last to beg your forgiventss, and to beg, too, for the love which i orfeited; but which I cannct live withoutdt \I danot undmmnd you, Wat. I do not know WE¥ you should speak thus to me when -when: $311 are going to be married.\ i Whtgtold you that of me, Marion ?\ \ It came from Agnes, your own sister.\ He smi‘led “Aggie knows my wishes. It was she who . eri purnnul me to come back, Sht thought would forgive me. Will you, Marion dziiling i verted her face to hide her tear- ut he now took both her hands, figw her towards him, a great tide bl te joy rushed over her, and she When they were both calmer, she told him of the heavy grief that had just fallen upon them. - They must leave their dear old home, which has passed into the hands of strangers. ** Of strangers, Marion ? Do you call me a strang r?\ \ You, Wat ?\ He loked surprised in his turn. * Did you not know that it is I who have purchase l the dear old farm? Did you not reccive Ja k's 'etter ?\ \Ob Walter, it cannot, cannot be true !\ He took from a pockcthook a paper, which he opened and placed before her. It was the mortgage which her father had givea Nt. Abner Harris, ** And the place is really yours now ?\ she tears. ** Not mine, but ours, darting !\ Bhe was too happy to speak a word in an- swer. * You, seo, dear,\ Wat said, \ Jack and I talked it over the ot ier day, and we agreed, as he was so anxious to purchase the mill and lad not the means sufficient for both, that I should take the farm, and leave him at liberty to invest in the mill property. It is the very best thing for Jack and his mother, as I explained to her, if she had only received his letter. - Jack was never fitted for a farm- er, wad could never have made much of the form, as he certainly will do with the mill. He came up with mein order to attend to matters. Forgive me that I neglected to in- form you, but T left him behind in the maple field talking with Aggie.\ Marion started up with a glad ery. Com- ing down the opposite declivity: of the mead- ow was somebody, joyously waving his band, and in two minutes she was sobbing in her brother's arms from a fullness of joy such as she had pever in her life known before. They hastened to the house, all three eager to gladden the heart af the mother.. Jack sprang up thé steps and took her in his arms,. while Wat lifted Myra, who had! ran to meet them in a frantic delight. As Marion crogsed the thresbold, the old clocE tang buf & welcome chime. \Seven o'clock,\ the gird, softly. Her heart was full snd sho turned away quietly and went to her zoom. As she passed the clock, she looked up at it with an express- fon almost of awe. a Iife-umte of misery and hupxnnea inane-hgur, mm filial“: Tribune tells ofan \advanced\ MhWQQ who rusted into af nothing to him now, and he must f glad to have so unexpectedly found 6x I nmvefi t-home ouly an hour ago, and could She Hiet his:eyes bent upon her with a stmng’ ges, and her pale check faintly flush- ed, butghe could not have spoken a word. “M \ he said suddenly, \ have you no gum? Is it possible you caunet suid, looking up radiantly through sudden | fhitterness of her. sorrow, in the con- u flash, while the thousand spectators who 4\- s i [esteem Is volatile and capricious, esteem with- material, the sponge being slightly moistened with spirits. | His thighs were confined with an elastic strap, and likewise his feet. Over in the centre, to which was attached a cable composed of 220 feet of No. 24. brass wire in six standb. 'This was called a balsuce and was for the purpose of assisting him to retain his position, particularly if the wind should be strong. | It was reeled over a cylinder at- tached to the guard rail of the bridge, and which was operated with a brake handle like that used upon old-time wells so that the man's-speed, as he déscended, could. be con- trolled, to a certain extent. It was hot fas tenéil, and the final end followed the man mto the water. Mr. Peer took his place upon the temporary platform from which he was to drop. 'The platform consisted simply of two planks fas- tenud about cighteen inches apart. | After taking a little stimulant and displaying a lit- tle nervousness, for this was his greatest un- dertaking, he suspended himself between the boards with his hands for a moment or two. The word was given, and he was gone like lined the bank looked on with suspense, fear and trembling. | The four seconds that enter vened before he struclg. created terrible ex- citement, but as he passed under the water, feet foremost, with a great splash, and came up in few seconds more and began to swin, cheer after cheer rent the air. | He was picked up by some boatmen, and was in no worse condition that if he had jumped into a elstern pull. the-boat- to the shore.. Mr. Peer was born July 14, 1844, in the county of Halton, township of, Nelson, Do- minion of Canada. | He stands 5 feet 74 inch- es high, is of slender frame, weighs 148 pounds, and in manner is rather gentleman- like and unassuming. - He has a wife and one child. - The highest point from which he has ever jumped before is 108 feet. - He has been a sailor, and his experience fins been obtained in jumping from the mastheads of vessels. It is announced that he will try it again July 4th. Diaxoxbs Uxzartisn.-As without love out love is languid and cold. He that falls into sin is am»; thit grieves at it may ben saint; that boasteth of it is a devil. A weak mind is like a microscope, which magnifics trifing taings, but ca imo. .ecsive great ones. Short, isolated sentences was the mode in which ancient wisdom delighted <0 convey its precepts for the regulation of human con- duct. Yen! this is life. - Make this forenoon sub- lime, this afternoon a pssim, this night a prayer, and time is conquered and thy crown is won. Children's singing breathes of Paradise: clear, liquid tones that flow from lips and in- nocent hearts like the sweetness of a flute, or the falling of water from a fountain. There were moments of despondency when Shakespere thought himself no poet, and Rapheal no painter ; when the greatest wits have doubted the excellence of their happlest moments. On one occasion, when General Butler was in command at New Orleans, a Colonel up in the Red River region made application for a furlough, which was refused him. Sew after the Colonel left his command without permission and went to New Orleans, where he was arrested and put in frons as a desert». Upon an intimation that he wished to mat sn explanation, Gen. B. bad lmn brought to his headquarters. ''Well, sit,\ said the General sternly, \what have you to say in explanation of your con- dect 1\ \Well General, there are tyro jews up youder who have same cotton: may wanna get through my lines. First they offered me $500, which I refused. Then they. offered $1,000, then $5,000, ther $35,000, and, at Isst $100,000; and iI tell you, General, they Pa beau: Ieave.\ finfifia‘ub tfixii his shoulder was a leather brace with a ring L. mmwwmgamfialw £ it, and he came down fair and square on t'other side.\ I \Ha? ha! ha!\ yelled his auditors. \Wal naow, yeou may laff, but I can dew it again.\ ‘ 'Do what ?\ said the green facket, quickly. ° \I can take and heave yeou across that river yonder, just like open and shet.\ + \Bet you ten dollars of it.\ _. * \Done said the Yankee; and, drawmg forth an X (upon a broken Down-East bankyy*>; he covered the bragger's shinplaster. t \Kin yeow swim, feller ?\ \'Like a duck,\ said the green jacket; and;- 'a. a without further parley, the Vermonter scizetl j\ the knowing, Yorker stoutly by the nape of the neck and the 'busement of the pants, jerk- ed him from his foothold, and, with an almost gaperhuman effort, dashed the bully, heels over head, from the hank, some ten yards into * the Hudson. A terrible shout min through the crowd aq he floundered into the water, and amid the Jeors and screams of his companions the ducked bully put back to the shore, and scrambled up the bank, baif frozen by this sudden and in- voluntary cold bath. \Tl take that ten spot, if you please,\ said the shivering loafer, advancing rapidly to the stakeholders, - \You took us for greenhorns, eh? - We'll show you how to do things down in York.\\ And the fellow claiined the twenty dollars. Wal, I reck'n yeou wunt take no ten spoth jis' yit, captin.\ ''Why ? You've lost the bet.\ ~~ edssony: ~T exliaitate on deh it the first time: but I tell you I kin dew it.\ And, in spite of the loafer's utmost effort/s to escape hin, he seized him by the scruff; had. the seat of his overalls and pitched him three yards further into the river than upon the first ' trial, Again the hully returned, amid the: shouts of hissmates, who esjoyed the sport immensc- ly. \Third time never fails,\ said the Yankee, stripping off his cont. \I kin dew it, I tel; ye. 'Hold on !\ said the almnst petrified victim. \'And I will dew it, if I try m1 to-morrow > mornin.\ \I give it up!\ shouted the sufferer be- tween ly teeth, which now clattered like a - mad badger's. | 'Take the money.\ The Vermonter very coolly pocketed the ten spot, and ns be tursed away remarked: \We ain't much acquainted with your smart folks disun bere in York; but wo soinetimes take the starch sout of 'em up pir way, ond p'raps yeou needn't try it ontu - strangers agin. - I reck'n yeou wont,\ he con- tinued; and, putting on a broad grin, he left | the company to their reflections. A Touching Execution. Few executions have been more touching, or have more beautifully, though sadly, ex- emplified the devotion of woman, than the recent execution of Walter Watson, of New- ton, Ind. He deserved his fate, if any man, ° deserves death for murder. because ho bad :\ AJ killed a fellow-cresture after a petty .quarré} about a bit of money, without giving him the‘ least chance for self-defense. - From-the day of his srrest until he was swung from th gallows, his wife, a mere girl in years, duh to him with a lwe that was consecrati She was with him during his trial; she his sentence pronounced; she journeyed to the caplm‘ ber babe in her aims, to. She pleaded it was in min, there i lation for Watson's came. I \¥y Eale girl,\ t nites caremed . dpam’ mwwm a main-iii
