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Jl mtm Clark & Beden, FuUiskers. W = BE JUST AND FEAE NOT. Terms, $2.00, In Advance. V O I i . l . CLA-YTON, nsr. Y. THURSDAY, DEO. 13 , 1873 . H © 5 GUYTON INDEPENDENT, rUHLISIlED S t XRT T h URSDAT M o RMIRO^ AT . Clayton, Jeff. Co., N. Y. ------- BY ------- TERMS,. . . . . . $2.00 I n A dvance . liATjeS OF ADVERTISING, y,vrjhM _ I co l.j 8.()0 ~2:w “ 3.00 -'4.00- '7T w ^ 13.00 Im. I 3m. I Om. ♦2.00114.00 1 ♦«. “-3.Wl-0.50r\^ 4.25 I 9 . 5 ^ r ’l2. Biialrtcf»8 CsirdB, five lines,' or less, ♦5.00 a Aflvcrtisenicnts In local colnmn«, ten cents l>cr iiiie the first vreek : iind five pchts iwr line each subsequent insertion. Obituary notices will be clnirgcd five cents per line for all over six lines. Noliccs of Marriages and deaths Inserted BUSmESS CARDS. CJTAIILKS Ml IfARSJIALL. f A EWKHAt, Insurance Agent. Clayton, Jef- *-ITferRou Co., N. Y- nl! yl CLAM K tl- JiE l/E N and .Toh Printers—All kinds of .Job i neatly and prcnnirtiy executed. DM, s i r. FRAME. n AX * SUROKOX, will attend to ftU calls tr nlirbt, Otllee a t the Store o f .James -lohnson. TtcsldcJd on Main Street. ly l -^work SW A M I & DUNTON. /^MTTON MB\T-WAUKET. \Vc ^■^assortinent e kinds, and pay 5\T-WAUKET. \Vc k«Cp R tlliO af fixusli and salt meats of all cash fi>r Pork, hides ft pelts. 1 AI. CANTWELL. TXEKrs constantly on hand the choicest ns- jLV.8ortnient of Family Groceries, Beer on draus:ht, and lunch rooms. No credit given, idease don’t ask jf'RS ’tls unpleasant to refuse. rKWKi.kn. and .Jewelry .Ions wclry done m the most workninnllkc m r. inTCKLET, x . d . c . m . \l^jtv.^iciAX SnrgcojiJMid Accoiiehcnr. Grad- nate of MfGill'University, Montreal. Of fice i»< Halpiirs block, Main Street Clayton, N. Y. Ki'sidence three doors alwrc the Catholic WALTON JWJTSE. ^T.ATTOX, X. V., River St. I.nwrenee.— The Vydceiides of Sirli— '* ’ ---------------- Isaak iviU find cA'cry accoin. laGon at this hosse, Gor>d boats, Fishing klc and Kxjwrieneed oarsmen always In lekcd and shlpiicd for S. 1). JOHNSTON,-Propilelor. Tackle and Kxjwrie attendance, and fish pai s when desired. miiWAiw n ovsKy T T. IIimuARP, Proprietor, Cldytoh, N. Y. ’RU'er St. I.awrenec. The lovers of dc- llghtfal scenery, pure air and excellent fishing will find every faellfty afforded them at this o<l Boats, Fishing Tackle, and Ex- when desired. SlcaiiH'TS f Toronto, Rochester, Osw and Ogdenshurgh, daily. Jape Vinca A WOUNDING WORD. .. A frivolous word, a sharp retort, A parting in angry hnslc. The rose on a bower of bliss, The loving look and the tender kiss, ' Has set on a barren waste, Where pilgrims tread with weary feet Paths destined never more to meet. A frivolous word, a sharp retort, A monicnt that blots out years, Two lives arc wrecked on a stormy shore. Where billows of passion surge and roar. To break iti a spray of tears— Team shed to blind the severed juilr, Drifted seaward, and drowning there. A frivolous word, a sharp retort, A flash from a passing cloud. Two hearts are scathed to their inmost core Are ashes and dust forever more ;> Two faces turn to thO crowd. Masked by pride with a llfc-long lie. To hide the scars of tliclr agony. A frivolous word, a sharp retort, i An arrow at rnndotn sped, ' Jt bai rut in twain the mystic tic That had ixnmd two souls in harinjony, Bwcet love lies biceding or dead. A ]>oieoncd shaft with scarce an aim. Has done a inischicf sad ns shames A frivolous word, a sharp retort, j Aids! for the loves and lives So little a cause has rent apart. Tearing the fondest heart from heart, As the whirlwind rends and rives, NfeVer to reunite again, BsU live andl die In secret pain. ADVENTURE WFIJIA RUROLX r . BOOTUSlioes! D ear S ir .—^I, the undersigned, having just returned from Hew York,\with the largest and hcst-sc- lected Stock of BOOTS & SHOES, Ever offered for sale north of the Black River, would respectfully call your attention to an examination seiinjig of/heeame. Feel! sure that an Eiperiencef o Ti 1 y-FiY 8 YeaK in the Boot and Shoe bnsiness will enable me to buy as cheap and sell a t ns small a profit as any retail store In the connty. And In or der to enconrage the Cash System, which Is now being very generally adopted throngbout the country, shall mark all goods to sell at three months, and to any who chooe to pay Cash, I will deduct 10 per cent, from marked )>rlce on nil amounts of |5 or over. All goods purchased from me on time will be due Qf»mr~ (erl^, on the first of Aprils and OctobiTy unless by special agreement made at the time of purchase. I shall alsoeontlnue to a nu fac ture BOOTS & SHOES, lad.all ripe in goods of my manu- fi^fteEiD will b e ^ p iiired Gratis. H ^ n g to p e rit a eontlnnatloti of your pat* roB^d In tlwfotare, I ,P kbry C abwkll . D a ( ^ C U ty^, N ot . 1st, 1873. ul-yl I went to Convent Garden' Tlica- ter one niglit last season. We were let out at twelve, and I set off to my lodgings. I knocked : there was no answer. I knocked again: a w i^pw was tlij-own up, and my ?*Wlio fire you ?” she screamed. “Lot’s in, please; it’s me I” I an swered. “Tlicn, Mr. Me, if you don’t eoiuf home before ten you may stay out till morning. I never wait up for my lodgers—my door is closed al ten !” and tlMin the tvindow cljosccl with a hang. I “Ko go I” thinks I. I havd lu money. I ’ll go to the railway sta tion and wait in the waiting room till morning;” which resolution 1 proceeded to carry out by walking briskly for the Bank. I turned into Moorgate street, and was just thinking whetlier should go to the London, Brighton and South Coast, or the London Bridge Station. I stopedto think. Tliero was a confectioner’s shop just in frontf of me. Oh, that it wi open! I had a threepence left. Just at this moment a tall,hroad- sholdcrcd man came up to nie, and viewed me from top to toe. I look ed at him. He was dressed in dark clothes ; a pea-jacket and a clap trap cloth hat, with a peak lying level on the forehead, gave me a feeling of awe. The thought forced itself upon me that he was a garrot- er. He spoke first. “You’re Mr. Sam?” and he laid his finger upon his nose. “You’ve guessed it,” said I think ing it best to agree with him, al though my name was Tom. “Then come along I” and away we went “Did Butler give ye e’er a pistol?” he asked. ■ “No,” said 1 b a n n in g to trem ble. “H e said he wanted them him self.” “Just like him. H e told me I’d find you standing in Mooi^ate street between twelve and 6ne, opposite the confectioner’s, with your riglit band in your pockdt'” “I’m in for it,” thinks I; “but must go through* with i t But v/hat ever will it come to at all, at all?” He led me through a labyrinth of streets, walking rather fast, till we emerged upon the City Road. Teen he made straight for The Angle, and from thence took a cab for Fleet street What object he made in do ing this I can not say. ite did not offer to explain ; in fact not a \bord passed between us till wc got out at the top ot“ Ludgate Hill. From thence we went into a hack street, and out of that into another, no matter whidi, and suddenly stop ping opposite a shop, he exclaim ed : “There’s our crib!” “Is it?” SaysL AFIierenpon lie produced from his pocket a rule. The sliop was evi dently a taylor’s, as had bars standing out like the rUngs of a J a cob’s ladder, from each side of the door, to cxliibit stock ..upon. My friend steppe^ upon the first of these wliich was three feet from the ground and speedily measured the liiglit of a large glass fanliglit over the door; then, stepping down again, he meas ured the breadth of the door, and as the fanlight was square, he mut tered to me, by way of giving me its dimensions: “Three and a half by two high I” d chuckled quietly, then looking at his Avatch, he cri ed : “By gosh! he’ll be here this min ute !”and away aac * walked. A glance behind us, as Ave turned tlie next corner. Not yet in sight! We stopped and waited, hut the police man came not. My friend mutter ed an oath, adding : “I’ll go. Come along; keep your Aveatlier eye open! and off Ave went. “Ferha]>8 he is Avatcliing us ?” I suggested. But the idea wa^ dis carded as not in the nature of a policeman “like the one Ave saAA’.” We arrived at tlie shop. He mounted again, and drove a string through a liole in the cloth. Tlien he ran a diamond around the edge of the glass. A gentle pat, and it gave away. N oav I see f.he use of the string and cloth, lie could hold the glass by the string; and he sloAvly let it doAvn into the shop, and, producing a long shaped pad, he laid it along the bottom of the fanlight to cover the glass edge, and threw one log into the opening, and got astride of it! “Follow me,” ho muttered, and ducked his head under the door- head. But before he could dra\v in the other leg, I mounted the ladder, and seising it gave it a pull that kept him from going in, at the same time yelling “Police I Thieves 1 Murder 1 Thieves 1” at the top of my voice. And, lo and behold! the folloAved, he explaining that Ave must Avait till the policeiban passed, lie hoved in sight about ten min utes afterwai’ds, Avhilc Ave Avalked pastbini. Then Ave Avaited till he returned. This time we did not pass Iiim, hut Avatched him from a corner at a distance. “Tw^enty minutes and a half he- tAveen going and coining.” exclaim ed my companion. “And a handy heat; for he comes up the corner there”—pointing to a little beyond the shop—“and goes doAvn this street next ours.” Tlie impression began to steal over me that I was committing, Ijelping commit, a felonjq and that if cauglit I niiglit get into trouble. I thought of rnnuing for it ; but the remark my companion made at that moment, to the cfiect that it Avould he a short rim if I deserted him (for he seemed .to sec I did’nt like the job), deterred me. I dared not ex plain that he had made a mistake, for I felt sure that he must have mistaken me for .some ally of his rn. “I must go through wdtli it,” thinks I. “He’ll leave me out side to watcli, and I ’ll hook it then! So I Avent on. He crossed tlie street again the moment the policeman Avas past in terfering Avith us, and, producing a piece of stout black cloth, lie appli ed the rule thereto, I liolding it against the shutters Avhile ho set off three and one-half by tAvo thereon. This done, he cut itV ithin 2 inclies from the measurement all around; and then prhducing a trcacle-|)ot he smothered one side o f the cloth with treacle, and,desiring me to hold it he mounted the shop door, so to speak, again; and I gave him the cloth, w’hich he immediately clap ped on the skylight, the treacle making it adhere firmly to the glass. that moment. , — — . ...... - ----- from within, a pistol bullet Avbistl- ing by iny head, and I ran for death and life. I did not stop till I found myself in in Broad street. In the next day’s papers IsaAv the account of the capture of a burglar by one policeman, wlio had Avatch- ed iiuo burglars from a corner, and saAv one enter the house, and the other leap up the wall like a cat, grab at a disappearing leg and yell “Police” and run. Tlie one that was caught got sev en years’ penal siirvitude ; and ‘the police are searching vigilantly, though as yet unsuccessfully, for the otlier, who, it appears, is a desperate charaef^r I” They never caught liim. Avcli as navies, schools and othens, had shared in its benefits alike ; that it keeps the price of bibles down, saving at least one-fourth the cost; that the society is not a denomina tional society in any sense, hutratli- er the peoples’ cause for the good of the people. Summary reports of treasurer ami clopositories: DcpoRltiM-y at AVato-rtowii, Adams, Carihnjee, Snles-WWas, etc, SJSftJW ♦23,50 Don’s & nnmiit’R 1)1,35 30,23 3,50 Total, 8553,37, $124,08. Contributions, churches, life memb’s $888,82 Resolutions passed to a]3portion to CO operating churches so as to raise at least $1500 the coming y ear; to send out circulars at least 6 or 8 Aveeks previous to the next meeting; to publish abstract reports in the county papers; to secure canvassers under the direction of pastors, to act gratuitously for the society, pi Sermon by Rev, Mr. Linney at 2 p. m., most ably delivered, from 1st Jolui, 5th chapter and 10th verse. Good music by the choir, encour aging and kind hospitalities enjoyed by all. Committee on nominatiolift re ported the re-nomination of the old officers. The next meeting is to he held at Adams, in December, 187«3. S. D . H unoeeford , J . M. A dams , President. Secy. THE S P I R I T OF THE AGE. JEFFERSON CO U N TY B IB L E SOCIETY. OFFICIATE REPORT. The 56th annivei-sary of the Jef ferson C o ., Bible Society w’as held Dec. 3d in the Congregational Church, Carthage. After the usual religious exercises at 10 a . m ., The folloAving are the condensed minutes of the meeting:— President Gen. S, D. Hunger- ford ill cliair. Report of Executive Committee stated that the society Avas one of the oldest and strongest in the State; that life memberships were rappidly increasing Avith good results; that sales of bibles and test- aincuts increased anmially; that the benefits of the Society Avero to all, and all should contribute, even those not in tlie churches; that the society could help good active can vassers among the poor and desti tute in each school district. Remarks by Rev. Mr. Long, Agt., that the society is the only concern that makes a special canvass through this and other counties to supply the poor and destitute, and almost every charitable institution in the land, as Catholic Archbishop Baily, of P-Aicim^re, in hie installation ad- We live in the time of grea\. ex citement, of great change, of great spiritual danger; a time when every thing in Heaven above, in the earth beneath and the Avaters uiider the earth is brought into discussion Avhen the best recognised truths arc questioned : Wlien the falsest principles in re gard to everything, almost, that man has reverenced in regard to religion in regard to government, in regard to well regulated liberty, in regard to science, in regard to social life and Christian family, are , spread about on every side by the j^riodi- cle press of the day, a great majori ty of Avhich, Avliethcr daily weekly or monthly, are on the side of nat uralism or against superratiiralism. Journalism, as we all well know has become a scliool which, to a cer tain extent domineers over all other teaching school, and to which almost every one goes during the whole of his life. N ow there are some per sons very learned in human nature and in the history ofthe human race who regard all these things as *m some manner the forerunner of tlie Millennium. I am willing to acknowledge that I am one of those avio I look upon them rather as signs of the last day, and of a deluge, not of water but of evil. We may both of us be had prophets. What God, Avho rdles over everything, may do to put a lull oA'cr thcrusliing waters, no man can tell; but this one thing is cer tain, that tliesc principles to which I abide are making their way into so many honest hearts and subverting their obedience, their faith and love suhvercive of that regular liberty and of that Christian family which is the boast of Ciiristain civilixation —subversive of all those things which men have loved, cherished and suffered for in days gone.
