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ADTAJVCE. A Family ftcwspapcr^llcvotetl to Polities, Literature, Agriculture, Local Interests, ana General News. VOL. 12, NO. .'J5. PLATTSBURGU, N. Y, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1867. PU1TU8.«D KV.KV telwglt f wtmcl Hotels. MONTREAL HOUSE, J\ I l-Mlim.lJiv.in,^..... ••, , j _y _ i ...... la Warren's Block, over Laforce's Store. &• »>. LflnAbtt, By w. LANSINC &soN. Ausable Forks, Clinton lo., N. ¥. FortS^Oiicrnnnnmoin^niilt lit Advance. | lflntcr<fUnm<in< protii|i(ly furnished,nn<I Music. Music and Musical Instruments* For Sale, SHEET MUSIC, PIANOFORTES, Mason & Hatnlin's Cabinet Organs, The l»«st Italian Violin, Gnitar ami Dnnjo I Physicians. U . 3X. LVON, 31. _L>., Physician and Surgeon. THE CARTE DK TISITJE. '<'<lliinHKlliH.i,J6porj R. JQHNSON lt, W. Y . PROPRIETOR. .>]yor l Dentists. G. F. B XBY, Dentist, PLATTSBl'RGH, N. V. VJITIUHJS OXIDE OAK, (Till! g.\ KKST AX- I>r. V. l-. IIOWAH1), Surgical and Mechanical Dentist. kofHPvlllc, TV. Y. K. V. JlOWjVltO, DENTIST. OPERATIONS PERFORMED IN SARANAC HOUSE. ryniR srnscuiBi:n, MAViwft TA UNION HOUSE, Teacher of Vocal mid Instrument 'Pianos, Organs and Mclodconsi t U N E D. i The Plntt»l»uj-£li Sentinel Office. ..r H. A. LYON, ot Bliolburn, VI,, orOIl ARI.ER B. DAY, Vftlaour, N. V., agents for J. Esty & Oo.'s \ A tL ii Painting;. Paint\p p nr. CJWTHIER & aonr HAVE OPEN- <louputu ftll kinds pf work In tlmir lino. House, Sign aud Carriage Painting, LANDSCAPE AND ORNAMENTAL, 4ilVX)IlStl, PAPER HANGING, ic, &.O., f *'rinttK'l'ur'jl \ jlmtj^nK^! 11 \ 8 ^ tllB \ bU8in °\ 3 New Paint Firm 11 CRAMER & TAYLOR, TIAVB OPE5ED THE F.VIXT-SHOP foi- T Vrtt»lj- IM»« IT-. 1,.. S. W. HlTCHr Proprietor, Ctiateaugay, N. Y. fIS ITOTJSK HAS BKKKF NK »XY FIT- C-vni.i ! ill wuillns£AttlR I)|mtMii l Ouwt j CM Cimtuuugsiy , JuiH' i!7, 1800. 675 CLINTON HOTEL, I>AJV;VX::3J:OIIA, iv. Y . I A VING RECENTLY PITTED VP THI DUNLOP HOUSE, Fos. 715, 717 719 Broadway. ALBANY, N. Y. B. U. WEL.1..S, Proprietor , Late of thu Steamer n. W. SHERMAN, Lake Chumplain. C'Jl Board , i$JS.f»O. 111) FLOUY, Physician and Surgeon, PLATTSBURGH, IV. Y. nllnB Carrinpo, •SIOVII^LIO, K\. Y . RIKTOH OF THIS HO I'SI? BRASS AM) fclUVER INSTRUMENTS. ll.fn. RDWAR O !T1AYO, OP PJTJAT •—'um^V'f'r ASt '\ 1 '' l r J > *\• f \ rnUol|l K evlvh BANDS. MASONIC HARP, A UOLLEOTION OF Masonic Odes, Hymns, Songs, &c , FOR THE rUBLIO AND PRIVATE Ceremonies and Festivals OF THE FRATERNITY. By G. W. CHASE. - - - Cloth, 75 els. ' MASONIC IIARFAND MONITOR, JRIA I'KAYKRH, CHARGES, KXl'LANA- ORGANS Pianos, CHAMPLAIN VALLEY tZya «fe Ear Inurmary, I'ljVrTSlUIKGir, IV. Y. AYNK8,M.I1 5, N. T. J. Estey & Co. <n I The Pateiit lla TUttBbui-glf. Nov. 23.1S0&. Attorneys. r X\. AllMKTHONG, Attorney and Counselor at Law, MOOERS, N. Y. Attorney aud Counsellor at Law, IX HA.ILKVH 11LOCK, PLRTTSBURGH» N. Y. Sewing Machines. Sewing' Machines. C ALI.. AT W. 13. MOKOAS'S ANI> PH t j tlio foilowinu facts: >f ICcefli'd lu-.tru.ncn 1 Sub Bass, ! Patent Vox Humana Tremolo, '; tL\ui 1 t i:ilJ ' < \ t \ J HW< -\ t ' lllC1 - 3 o l !u ' 1Ul \-'\ lo -' t ' - Cottage Organ, Hoop Skirts. The^lLVER SKIRT. More Durable, More Elastic, More Grace Till! And will keep its shnpc better thu my other Skirt. t was amusing to soe what the mother ld do to keep her family looking decent i the little means she bad. For Jedwort the Ugliest screw you ever saw. It was I avarice that had spoilt him, aud came near ! turning him into a beast. The boya used to j say he grew BO bent, looking in the dirt for ! pennies. That was true of his mind, if not I of his body. Ho was a poor man, and a , very respectable man when he married his I wife ; but he had no sooner come mlo pos- 1 session of a little property, than lie grew ing sepa hiU society that used to ated, one division of h Village, the Ccii he peculiarity about the old church property was, that nobody had any legal title to il. A log inceUiig-house had been milt there when the counfry was first settled .nd land was of no account. In tlie course if time Ihnt was torn down, and a good framed hoi .•68 ami ii t loop up There are figuroa us fruil And music and inoonlltfl Wlioro rich garments mMlu and rare Howy-m wiHh you eo'il fli-o from It n At the foot oi the staii-a with your lm yotf try U mit-Rmllc and oul-flutt put up izyiormore. mere are a good many; Ion gedto tho whole n iu tho world, that nobody looks upon as! either to tlie house or land momaniacs, who are crazy in just that sort [ and it wasn't until afti its place. As it unumuity, no title, ever recorded; ;iety dissolved tVMiiuumvo, i* u v t*X\s \jlt*£jj IU JUDL ftUVkk O\Jlk ttllU 11. VV11911 K U11 HI iiltC l L11C O\J\jiKs%jJ IU3OU1YUU 'ay. They are all for laying up money, that the question enmeup as to how the pro- : depriving themselves of comforts, and their I perty was to be disposed of; While the old ••-\\•-' » ' • ' ' • • - 1 ' - carefully thinking it over, a band, to settle it by putting The Man who Stole a Meet- [ouse. rhey to the Pennsylvania iped one evening with a a village which had juat n turmoil of excitement by ' ;-thief. As we sat l henrth, aftci pillars of the rogu( l>lHlJJil.lj ! I many another tale of thoft and rol supper, e's cap ien follow saptur The Combination Silver Skirt! Favorite Skirt! ;r Skirt ami Wir iy Street , NKW YORK. ng*pu!Ys qf tobacco-smoke it the close of an exciting story, one of the mtives turned to my traveling acquaintance, md, with a broad laugh, said, 'Kin ye beat ''Well,' I don't know—may bo I ootiltl if I ihould try. I never happened to fall in ' :li tall horse stealing as you tell cw a with about, but I k ing-house once. 'Stole a raeetin'-hot beyant anytlung ^ who stole a meet- stole it and 'Stole it ; lis cha A him. ;peated my rossiug his le back of 'And, more than all that, I help- d carried it away,' mpauuni? seriously. 3O &. 3 2 Barcl T. 8. HPERBY. Sup'*. Empire Shuttle Sewing Machines Harmoni c Organ, FAMILY AND M AXUFACTUU1XU VI pOSTTAIW ALL TU B I.ATKST J fy aro ]jrepar t ew invention, t y Boudoir Organ, Attorney and Counselor at Law, and Notary Public. Office on Mnvgarp* Street, ovur H:>ll)a*aj-'g Store, NOS from nil tlio beat -! i; Attorney and Counselor at Law, Hliucr fe< Above B; l'LATTBBUKOH.N. 1 Attorney and Counselor at Law, Land ana Insurance Agent, CjrncrBrliU'i- and Margaret Streote, over II. W C J A O'l > Bt riUbu) Attorneys & Counselors at Law, sa MiKlinery. MUVmery Goods. Druggists. DRUGS flND MEDICINES. G. B.BALCH, T. DeFOR'RIS. piIE CITIZENS OF PLATTSBl'GH, AND Ojrolclen Mortar, Ilendo f ISUIDU K STRK1CT, wliiTf llc y will find a FIRST CLASS DKUG STORE. Plntteburjsli, N. Y. April 18, ISC'). f.OCtf JAMES S..GALli M. D., Druggist ami Apothecary, Hlake's Block, Pint (Kliuigli, N. \ ., DruffS, MEDICINES, CHEMICALS, EX- TRACTS^, PAINTS, OILS. happened that ? for you don't look uch like a thief, yourself.' All eyes were now turned upon my friend, a plain New Englaud farmer, whose honest, homespun appearance and candid speech 'I was his hired man, and I acted uuder his orders. His name was Jed wort—Old Jedwort, the boys called him, although he wasn't above fifty when the crooked little | circumstance happened which I'll make as •raiglita story as I cau, if the company •ould like to hear it. 1 Sartaiu; stranger! sartin I about stealii '-house!' chimed i :• three face, but with (i I ^^Xort^I 1 shall : front gate- red his throat, put his hair and with a gravo, smooth merry twinkle in his shrewd, co in the Iron Bank Building, over Hoot and rihm-Hlore. PLATTSBURCH, Now Yo - - - rk. Gr. J>X. BKCKWITII «fc KON, Attorneys and Counselors at Law PLATTSBURGH, N. Y. Offloo, Brown Building. Kortli .Side of tlio Pink. PLATTSBURGH, N. Y. •3 1 I Fall and Winter FASHIONS i i At Miss Kean and Mrs. Brenan'a MILLINERY ROOMS, ; ; Over Win. H. Morgan's Store, Pittsburgh. 0 5 u \ i npire SUBSCUIRBHS KESPKCTF»I,I/ Y w ^- : Ih.it tli^y liuvc just j'occived i'rom Nuw York u full ni I 'Hifs , BONNETS, FLOWERS. RIBBO'S w ~ Velvets aud Jet Ornaments, a -J. . of tin- liilcct mylvs, scioi-Ux) by Minn Kuan, anil MI-H. WSI. KKKNAN\. Shnknr licrba, AH Patent Medicines of the Day, A Ful l A«»ortmcnt o f Famil y » J « Color My nn.fts inall]H-w, anil IlnK lifen l.oimlit for ra» &lTPhysician^ Prescriptions Accurate!*/ Prcpmcd, IL W7CADY & CO., Apothecaries, oruer Bridge and Margaret Streets, FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC DRUGS, Medicines, Chemicals, Choice Perfu- meries, & Drug£ ist's Faucy Goods* elfwn :;)iil<] could; areakiiig it do^ 3liild. Think o legged man, with liroiigly suggestive lor his shirt'and yoi iginary grist bad bei It,'for tlio ia-tfiftec rather on the post, for the i such a shackliug concern a have leaned on't without And Jedwort was no stoutiah, stooping, duck >f a ba,bag p ntain families of the advantages of society and I deac education, just to add a few dollars, to their • Jedwort \x hoard every year ; and so they keep on till i in hH they die nd 1 all to their childreu, who would he much better off if a little more had been expended in the cultivation of their minds aud manners, and less in stocks anil bonds. 'Jedwort was one of that class of altliougk perhaps he carried the fault I speak ! get ti. of a little to excess. A dollar looked so big | wide-j to him, aud he held it so close, that at last .in a gak ' 'Now, boys,' say a he, 'ye s \Yes I, provoked as : B mean liick, 'and I knew ch mean trick all along. Yo jntcrprise, as you call it, i what I'm :onld bo. at , , ldn't ace much of anything else. By degrees ho lost all regard for decency and his neighbors' opinions. His children went barefoot even after they had got to be great boys and girl$, because he was too mean to buy them shoes. It was pjtiful tose a nice, interesting girl, like Mafia, going about looking as she did, while her father was piling his money into the bank. She want- ed to go to school, and learn music, and be somebody; but he would not keep a hired girl, and so she was obliged to stay at home nd do housework ; and she could have no dollar of him got i clothes and tuition, thai it of a hoe handle. e only way his wife thing new for tho family was t pay for uld squeeze iver get any- by 8tcaltn •n dairy and selling it be- ou needn't say anything butter from he _ o hind his back. 'You needn't say anything to Mr. Jedwort about this batch of butter,' 'ie would hint to the storekeeper ; 'but you lay hand the money to me, or I will take m^ pay in goods.' In this way a new gown, --• a piece of goods for tho boy's coats, or mething else the family needed, would be luggled into the house with fear and trem- bling lest old Jedwort should make u row id find where the money came from. 'The house inside looked as neat as a pin, hot everything around it looked terribly ihiftless. It was built orignally in an auibi- ioLis style, and painted white. It had four tall front pillars supporting the part that the porch—lifting np the eyebrows if the house, if I it look as if it Half the blinds the rest flappec doorstep had rot was going to sneese. off their binges and iu me wind. The\ front ed away. The porch Had •, but for years Jedwort had een in the habit of going to it whene- 'anted a board for the pig-pen, until not a it of the floor was left. 'But I began to tell about Jedwort leaniug on the \-' - •' -' \ - ' \' start of a t : of wind. 1 eighbor. Then yon are jou are busy as the devil 1 'But what arc you up to, pa?' says Dan, ,-ho didn't see the trick yet. 'The old man says, 'I'm goin' to fence the cst. part of my farm.' ' 'What rest part/ 1 ' 'Can yon swear tf iTseyre your raila J' 1 'Yes; I can ; they're rails the frcsjjot car- ried off from my farm last spring, and landed on yourn.' l 8o IVe heard you say. But, can yon swear to the particaldr rails? Can you swear, for instance, that this «erw tail ia yourn ? or this'ere one?' , 'No, I can't swear precisely lo them two 'Can yon swear to iLcse two, \or to any one or two?' says Jedwort. {'No, yecan t Ye can swettr to the n-hole lot in geoefal; bnt ye can't swear to any particular rail, and tba^ kind o'awearin' won'* stand law. Dea- con Talcott. I don't boast of bein' an edu- cated man, but I know something about •what law is, and when I know it I drora line there, and toe that line, and have my neighbors toe that line, Deacon TalcoJ,t, Nine pints of the law is possession, and • H i have the possession of this ere HoiisV and land by fencing on't in, and tnougn every man Ibat comes along sho'd say these 'ere rails are his, i'il fence it in witJU these 'ere very rails.' \•''-\ 'Jedwort said tnip, -wagging^ his obsti- nate old head, arid grinning with Ms-'Jam *•—ied up pugnaciously at the Deacon; then .t to work again as-if lie had Betted the question, and didn't wish to discuss it any further. As for Talcott, be waa too full of wrath and boiling indignation, to answer such, a speech. He knew that Jedworfc had man- 'This part that was never fenced'; the i. . , . Did meetin'-house common.' j aged to get the start of him with regard' to ' 'But, pa.' says Dave, disgusted as I was, i the rails, by mixing a few- of his own ; \witli 'you've no claim on that.' I those he htid stolen, so that nobodjrv\c6nia ' 'Wall, if I hain't, I'll make a claim; give tell them apart; and he saw at ooce &t|.fne \ 3 crowbar. Now, here's the corner, meeting house was in danger of going , the nigh a t bar , .. _ , n squint;' and he stuck the bar d 'M k f t h n g q; ar into the ground. 'Make a fence to here f th ll bt h sides' ildered ; meetin'- Go g from the wall, both sid ' 'Sho, pa,' says Dan, looking b ye ain't goin' to fence in the old m honse, be ye?' ' 'That's jest what I'm goin' to do 1 . bi f and get some big stones from tho wall—the biggest ye'ean find, to rest the corners of the fence on. String the rail9 along by the road, Stark, and go for another load. Don't stand gawpin' there.' '^Gawpin'r' says I ; 4ts enough to make anybody gawp. You beat all the critters I ever had to deal with. Haven't ye disgraced, yourself enough already without stealing a meeting-house' ; ' 'How have I disgraced m 7 family V says he. 'Then I put it to him. 'Look at your children; it's all your wife can do to prevent 'em from growing up in rags and dirt am\ because yon are too cloae-fistec to clothe 'em decently or send'em to school. Look at your house and yard. To see an Irishman's shanty in such a condition seems appropriate enough, but a genteel place, a house with pillars,. run down and gone to seed like that, is an eyesore lo the communi- ty. Then look at your wife. You never would have had any property to mismanage, if it hadn't baen for her; and see the way ye show your gratitude for it. You wont let her go into ise, but <x have company at won't allow a hired girl in the gate that morning. We all noticed mil as Dave and I brought in the milk his mother asked, 'What is your father i =>---- -- • planning now 1 Half the time he stands I swear, if it wasn't for yonr wife I wouldn t .berc looking up the road, or else he's walk-' work fo r y° u an °l- ue r hour longer; but she's • • • the best woman in tho world, and I hate to , and Maria have to do all the idgery. You make perfect sl if i ' f if seting- ing up that way in a brown study. \He's got his eye on the old hause, 1 said Dave, settinerdown his pail. ' has been watching it and walking around it, \and on, for a week.' 'That was the first intimation I had of what .s up to. But after break- W fast he followed i But ate r e t of the house, as if he id ' mething on his mind to say tt 'Stark,' says he, at last, 'you have al- s insisted on'J that I wasn't an euterpria- 333-3 I ; for I was in w ighty plain to him, .nd joking pretty hard sometimes.' ,'If I had ou't still,' : talking back, ; this far g p y I'd sho nterpri d of grist un- j time him. That ira- out. ! and n intil his he a.l ami neck just came forward behind his shoulders, like a turtle from :ell. His aims hung, as ho walked, al- to the ground. BHn« curved with the rs outward, he lookwf for all the world, ront view, like a waddling iiHcrrogn- joint enclosed In purenthesis. If man waa ever a quadrupled, as I've heard some folks tell, and rose gradually from four legs nst iinvo been , time, very about to two, there •ly in Ilia like Old Jedwort. I 'The gate had been a very good gate in its I clay. It had even been a genteel gate when j Jedwort came into possession of the place, I by marrying his wifc, who iuherited it from ; • ' Thnt was some twenty years be- fore, and evcrUiing had been going to rack '- f In \' 1OO Dollars Bounty,: And Increase of Pensions ; UNDEE THE NEW LAW, PliUMfTLY COF.LKUTEI), IiY I I . S - 1 1 J± F F 9 U.S.CLAIM ATTORNEY. / \FFICE OPPOSITE THE BEPOT, AT — J FOR THROUGH TICKETS, j Via all Lines to all Points, [ EXCJIUKK AT TIIK Union Ticket Office, New and Splendid Assortment -W1XTKR MILLINERY GOODS. Wioicc Wines and Liquors ^liJE HOUSE, PLATTSBURCH, N. Y. Increased Pensions, To Economize Fuel/ Additional tloimius, kr. qiH E I'XDEUSIXGEI) IS SO « PRIi-i fAT USE. WOQ A an* STU.UV :.'.! m | Eid Windows , i Family Groceries. GJ-lsxss \Wave , I^i\M\y> Wooili-u Wan , Stone Ware, *,c. &..• \V. j). MnlU'.VN I'lMthliui-jjli, Doi;i'nibi.')-il.lSiyJ. 8 SftVoon. rui ; SirKSCKlJM-.lt HVS TAKES 'I Saloon and Eating House /[AlivKVwiT lmru-il, Nc-v I.\ liii-l. 100 lJAURELLS\ ,MK«S l'oitK, i ore SAM-: i: MISSES CATEUNE'S HftT, GLftDlA- tors, Central Park, Arcana Turbano, OCK1-1Y HATS, CMILDKKN'S Oll'SKV HOODS. BRILLIANT DISPLAY f Millinery Goods AT MRS. BIRD'S. RS, ,T. BIRD WOl'LDAKSODM'E 1 Fa n \anil Winfer ttoo.ls, OLD GUSTOFrtERS flND NEW, M- , English Bottled Porter, or Br'n Stout. JPnve alcoliol, Sec u»scs Alxloiuiusil Supportera, loulde r Braces, ftjiprovM Patteus. -ry POPULAR PATI-:XT ^lEDICINK TOILET SOAPS, a fine Assortmeni, HAIR BRUSHES, TOOTH BRUSHES, CL0TH flND Hft T BRUSHES f TO ILET ARTICLES. Penny's Extract of Egyptian Lotus, IMialon's M^ht lilooiniiii? Cerens. i 1-a to 1 o'clock 1*. 'Jedwort himself had been going to n [ ruin, morally speaking. He wa Idling 'decent sort of a man when I 1 2\v him; :md I judge there must- h n soniethinsr about hitn more than c< n, or he never could have got such a wife, j to yours, and you grabbed; t, then women do ' marry, sometimes, un-1 but stealing U •oiini'flbly. I've known downright ugly | ' 'That was luck. He ildn't see the hogs in the garden half the ic, for want of a good fenee to keep them ,. Yon wouldn't see the best strip of land lying waste just for want of a ditch. You wouldn't see that stone wall by the road tumbling down year after ye;ir, till by and by you wou't be able to s,ce it all at for the weeds and thistles.' \Yes says he, sarcastically, 'ye'd lay out ten Ii ' ... k ag'in, I've ag'in, 1 >my.' ie a little, 'ye'd la the plac ye'd ever git bac But I believe in eco 'That provoked , 'Economy! you're one of the kind of that'll skin a flint for six-pence and spoil jack-knife worth n shilling; and thnt isn't doubt, lid, stick. iomy no mo: :. Yon was cob is a fltldle- r and grain loth DUgb —to 6ay ry year lo pay for a bigg hing of the inconvenience. 1 Wai, Stark,' said he, grinning and atching Tiis head; 'I've made up my mind have a bigger barn, even if I have to steal I shouldld do withh it,t ve eoDcluded to make a barn on't.' :ike a barn ! make a barn I' cries the HI. 'Who givo ye liberiy to make a 'That Wt be th C first thing you've stole ^^T1TZ liberty. Why He flared up at that. 'Stole?' says he. shouldn't I do what I please with my own 'What did I ever steal'*' property J ' 'Well, for one thing, the rails the freshet! ._\'X ou r owu Property-w^t ^o ye mean? last spring drifted off from Talcott's land'on ! • ' ' --' - ' raa that lea-ve her. 'The old fellow squirmed. nd wrenched the crow-bar in the ground, then snarled back : 'Yes! you're waitin' for me to die; then you meap to step into my shoes.' ' 'I hope you'll leave a decenter pair than them you've got on, If I'm to step into your shoes.' ' 'One thing about it,' says lie, 'she wou't have ye.\ i ' 'I should think,' says I, 'a woman that would marry you wouW have 'most any- body.' 'So we had it back and forth, till by and by he left me to throw off the rails, and went to show the boys how to build the fence. < ' -Look here,' says he ; jest put a thander- ing big stone to each corner; then lay ypur rail on ; then drive your stakes, like a letter X.' He drove a pair. 'Now put on yoar rider. There's your-letter X, ridiu''one length of raits and carryin' another. That's what I call putting your alphabet to a practi- cal use. Aud 1 say there ain't no aease in havin' any more edlcation than ye can put to practical uao. I've larnln' enough to get along in thu world ; and if my boys have as much as I've got, they'll git along. Now work spry, for thwe comes Deacon Talcott.' ' 'Wai, wal !'\says the Deacon, coming up, puffing with excitement; 'what ye doin' to the old meetin'-house?' \Wal says Jedwort, driving away at his stakes, and never looki ' t, driving away at his in' up, 'I've beea coa- t I h d it i ible fcllc d by they would get a pretty girl fas- ti by 1 something in them which nobody mid sec, and then marry her in spite rvthing; just as you may have sccu a •i'm-v on the siage make his subjects do just what he pleased, or a black snake bird. Talk about women marrying h- eyes wide open under such cir- cumstances. They don't marry with their s open ; they arc put to sleep in oue se, and ain't more than half responsible wlint they do, if they arc that. Thou •s the question that has puzzled wiser ,ds than-any of ours here, and will puzzle re yet, Jjll society is belter than it is now, master, legally called her husband^ bc- 3 she is en (Tiled to break off a bad bamain scarce had a hand in making. I've sat •o to night, and heard about men gelling uls under false pretences ; you've told me jut rogues stealing horses and sleighs; 1 I'm a going to iefl you about ldn't ! : to his rails. By the way, they'll just come in play now.' \They've come in play already,' says I. 'They've gone on to all \the old fences over the farm, aud 1 could use a thousand more without making much show.' ' 'That's 'cause you're so dumbed extrav- agent wit Ii rails as you. are with everything else. A few loads can be spared from the fences here and there, as well as not. Har- ness up the team, boys, and get together enough to make about ten rods of zigzag, two mils high.' \Two rails!' says Dave, who had a healthy contempt for the old mau's narrow, contracted way of doing things. 'What's the \-ood of such a fence as UiatT 1 'It'll be, says I, 'like the single bar in music. When our old singiug muster asked his class once what a sijgle bar was, Bill Watktns spoke up and said. 'It's a bar that horses and cattle jump ovur, and pigs and sheep run under.' What do yoa expect to keep out with two Tails ?' 'The law, boys, the Aw, 1 says. Jedwort. 'I hat I am about; I'll 'Tain 1 ' 'V lifting his in't mine V says Jedwort, :ead from between his mtal shoulders, and grinning in the Deacon's face. ' 'It beloug's to the society,' says the Dea- ' l But the society has pulled up slakes and gone off.' ' 'It belongs to individuals of the society— to individuals.' ' 'Wal, I'm an indivldooal,' says Jed- wort. ' 'You ! you never went, to meetin' here a dozen timps in yonr life t' - ' 'I never did have my share of the meet- in'-house, that's a fact,' says Jodwort, 'but I'll make it up now.' ' 'But what arii ye fencing up the com- mon for!'says the\ Deacon. ' -It'll make a good calf-pasture. IVe y share of the rally o' that either. Neighbor's pigs and critters run pngU; and now I'm jest goin'to ,-n!' says tlie Deacon, iu perfect n. 'You'veno deed ou't.' here,' you young villian 1' says the e way, just for a want of an owner' t6 swear out a clear title to the-property. He did jost the wisest thing when he swollowed his vexation, and hurried qff to alarm, the leading men of the two societies and to con- sult a lawyer. •Hell stir ap the old town like a bnmlile^ bees'nest,'said Jedwort. . 'Hurry top, boya, there'll be a buzzin' round oar ears before we get through 1' . . ' . ' 'I wish ye wouldn't, pa,' said D3vid.— Why don't we ten<J to our own business\ aba be decent like ottajr folks? I am sick»f this kind of life. > . , ., , . 'Quit it then,'said Jedwort. 'Do you tell me to quit itt' sauf jDaye, dropping the end of the rail he was haird-- ling. : ' • ; 'es, I do; and do it dumd qnicfc, if ye cant show a proper respect for yoarfetaer, David turned as white as a sheet, and he trembled as be answered back, 'I should b« glad to show you respect, if yoa W&^ataad I could feel any respect for.' \ At that, Jedwort caught hold of the irop bar that was sticking in the ground, where he had been making a hole for a siakti, : aiia pulled away at it. THmatee * stake hbieia you I' said ho. 'It's enough to have a sas- sy hired man, without being jawed by one's wn children.' : . , '. Dave was otrt of reach by the time the bar came out of the ground. 'Come old man. 'I'd rather be excused, 1 said Dave, back- ing.off, I don't want any stake holes made in me to-day. You may steal yonr own meeting houses in future; I:won't, help.! - There was a -short isace, f.Jkwe'a,, toga proved altogether too smart for the old wad- dler's, arid he got off. Then Jedwort, com- ing back, wheezing and Bweatingy wit* his iron bar, turned savageiy.oo m.e, 'I've a good notion to tell you to. go toc^ sir I 1 \-..'' 'V»ry well, why don't you,' said I, Tn i ;ady.' 'There's no livin with ye* ye>e gittin so umbed sassy 1 What I keep ye for is. a tistery to me.' ' : 'No it ain't; you keep me because you cant get another man to fill my place.; You put up with, my sass for the money 1 bring you in.' .'.:\' 'Hold your yawp,'says he, 'and go and get another load of rails. If ye see Dave, tell him lo comeback to work.' I did see Dave, but instead of telHng.him to go back, I advised him to put put from the old home, and get his -living somewhere else. His mother and Maria agreed; with me, and when the old man came home that night Dave was gone. When,I got back with my second load, I found the neighbor3 assembling to witness the stealing of the old meeting house; and Jedwort was answering tbeir remonstrance*.... • . .* 'A meutla'-house 's 4 isapectable kind.of sity to have around,' says he. W.heri property to have around, says he. W.he folks ride by they'rt stbp'and siyi *There's' man keeps a private meetih-hodse df ! b ; expense.' 'Of tti bis I can Imve preachia' in It, too, if I I'm able to liir^a preacher of, my r I can preach myself and save the ttisc, neither sarcasm nor argument any effect qn. such a own. A b i Jd tin' and it'll be a ineetin'.-lu m- liad e let my coukl.ha. the neighbors were going away, JedwOrt shouted after them: 'Call again. Glad to see ycra. There'll be more sport In a few days, when 1 take the dumbod thing away. (The dumbed thing was Jhe mecftingrhpuse.) 'I invite ye all to see the.show. Free gratis. It '11 be »s good as a circus, and a tarnelsight. \ vper. The worrien can. firing their knit- ' ' gals thotr ever) astio'tattin. As .iU3 .kind o' .show., bein' it's, a se, I g,uess Til have notices gi'n out from tlie pulpits the Sunday afore/ 'Th J common wasfenced in by su&dt>wn ; and the next day Jedwort had over a house- mover from tho North Village to see what' could be done with the building. 'Caa ye snake it over and drop it back of my house?' says he. 'It will be a hard job,' says old Bob, 'with- out you tear down the steeple first.' , 'But Jedwort said, 'What's a roectinV house without a stue$e ? live got/my: heart kind o* set on that steeple, and I'm- bound to go the hull hog on this concern, n&w I've begun.' 'I vow,' says Bob, examining the timbers. *r won't warrant, but wliat the old thing 11 all tumble down.' . Til risk it.' 'Yes; but who'll risk the lives of me and my men ?' 'O, you'll see if its really goin' to tumble and look out. I'll engage that me and my part u't agre bl1 i f y f tho rido wa8 [ gu ; \hut when all ia said, , l a ,c can't run under or jnmi ,vill be found that more extraord-! don't care a cuss for the cattle and pigs; iving thau all that goes on \ you git the rails, aud I'll rip some boards ofi'i own eyes ; and nobody takes any j 'm the pig-pen to make stakes. 1 - | s P Ht t 0 I 1 \ . There's such a thing, gentle-( \Boards ain't good for noHiin' for stakes,' | —»\>' ln / ndur false pretenses. siysDave. 'Besides none cau'L be spared \ ig a from the pig-pen.' ' 'I'll have boards enough in a day or two I for forty pig-pens, •r km LIVERY STABLE. LEAKMEKT & CUSI[MAN'S Livery Stable. merly Conducted by L,. THOMBLY. j > PAIN S HAV E i»i',i-;ai sp.\i;i;i) r o inn; on this subject, ft of seeing w ;> with fro P could a, ust the prci nd ' a pi t it a pig ' ong y. •hal Mrs. Jed- lythitig but I along the | road for body.' 'We L> pn nd dump say notiiin' to ails, -and he would Im .T.-dwort. ii K>r- e ii i ;• j 'We got Ui ouc was even ' and right away alter dinner ne cancu us ou;. tied to such a I'Come boys,'says he, 'now we'll astonish ) cultivated the tho natives.' ilities of a wild-1 'The wagon stood in the road with the one good fight, i last jag of rails still on it. Jedwort piled on ! I\ con living, and his stakes, and threw on his crowbar ami i n ' dead, and that axo, while wo were hitching up the toarn. f it. But Mrs. ' 'Now, drive on, Stark,' says he.' Id miseries, ami i ' 'Yes ; but where shall I qrive to ?' She had had J ' 'To the old meelin'-house,' says Jedwort, •it)it\ wefo miller • twitlsEiu^ on ttlic'iti, rn Jedwort ran j 'The old meeling-honso stood on an open n Hie. way I am common on tho northeast corner of fiis farm, was Maria, tho ! A couple of cross-roads bounded it on two re of what her> sides; ami it was bounded on the other two j •ii. Then thWe i by Jedwort's overgrown stonc-wnll. It was ,1 Dun, both-tine ; aVijuare, old-fashioiifd building, that had tJ ,i- fiithcr. Tlien bjltVy, but no bull it, aud Vith a high, sqiuu-j; • .1 then Willie, a \ pulpit and high, straight-backedpowsiuside. ; •• Lt wiu now surnc lime since meetings had . il left me 11; a deed of thia 'ere property ; ,-er hail a deed of Um 'ere property. tr rau(.laddy when he took up the , °va$ a good-natured sort of a man, lowed a'cornei on't for his neighbors a temporary meetin'-house. That d up; the kind of preach: ' Ti-mnm.' •„, i 1<v ' e never liear d tUi U th( J promactl notices 'g 0C i et y', 3 I were read from the pulpits: but it wasn't >eietv now I inall v t1a 3' 3 i)elif)r e B « b carae over a S»' t ln < •tcr vou've bl ' iu £ iu £ wlth uim tWs time hi » 9Gfews.and ••• *i,^ ,-,itr ropea and idlers, his men und timbers, horse • ° i aud capstan ; and at last tho old house might luivc been seen on its travels. [OON'OMJDED NEXT WEEK.] Th >ckny|, ,hey had them days i little Urn nough to u up m that ras preached to pieces they in another shelter in its place. And 't the land ain't used any more for the purpose it waa lent for, it goes back.n*t'rally • place-•,twos took from,-and,jUw-buil- .long with it,' That's all sheev fabrication,' says the Den what is n 'This laud < r farm, any' ' a part ( 8 than iys Jed wort, 'I look at it in my u have a perfect right to look at But I'm a goin\ to make >• hy putting a t'c-uco aroun 1 jern,' v. usin' some of my rails to dc way. T.HK RBASOS WHY.—The re43on why the stars refused to perform their part of the programme on the 14th of November, has caused much speculation and research. As- tronomers have made long figuifs In their efforts to ascertain how the awkward mistake occurred; but after all, its solution is very simple and easy of comprenension. Any one enn sea that when the melagtetrie temperature of tho horizon is such a s :toca>- loreeise tho impertciient hulenUtfioa^jOf \»e - hemisphere analosry, the cohesion of the bo- rax corbustus become surcharged With th o itifiuetisnuK which are thereby virtually de- prived of their fisural disquisitions. This ef- fected, a rapid change is produced in the tho- ramubcr of tho gyniROStkuts palcryum,- which ' causes a contaculav in the hexagonal antipa- thes of tlie terrestraum equa VestiiTa.— Clouds then become a mass ot'deodato.ralneil specrilte,, of ceremocular light-, which caa only bo seen when it is visible. —R'jwi Coin- .
