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Lewistown gazette. [volume] (Lewistown, Pa.) 1843-1944, 1860-01-19
LEGAL Advice

A gentleman ordered a suit of clothes
from a tailor, and especially enjoined him
that they must be made by the next Tues
day, and that they must be made in the
finest style, and that unless the tailor could
have them ready to certainty, beyond a
peradyenture to the day, that he must not
undertake them; but Snip promised faith
fully that they should be finished, ad diem.
Tuesday came, and no clothes; the enrag-
ed man flew to the cabbage mans house,
and said -
whats the reason my clothes were not
ready, as you promised Here you have
kept me in the town at a loss Of time and
business only to disappoint me now, if we
had you in our part of the country, tell
you what they would call you, they would
say you were perfect squirt
The knight Of the goose explained that
the only competent workman he had, capa-
bic Of making the suit, had wife lying
at deaths door, and he could not possibly
leave her. The outraged gentleman was
not able to smother his disappointment, and
berated the tailor pretty soundly for failing
in his positive promise The ninth fraction
Of the genus homo could not stand this, and
plainly told his customer to 90 to the calor-
ic regions Of Pandemonium.
The customer, red with rage, rushed
across the street to lawyer, and in an ex-
cited and hurried manner said - Do YOU
know Snip, the tailor across the way p
'Yes | know him. answered Brief.
well, nov, | want your advice said
the gentleman, want to know what you
would do in such a case. That infamous
stitch-louse has not only kept me here in
the town on expense, to the great detriment
Of my business, and disappointed me in a
suit Of clothes, but when | went to remon.
strate with the fellow about it, what do you
suppose the impudent rascal told me? He
told me to 60 to hot place down below
With these words the gentleman laid ten
dollar bill on the desk, and said, Now
what would you do?'
DO you mean this for a rctainer| asked
Brief
4 do was the reply.
'Then,' said Brief, quietly folding upt the
X and putting it in his pocket, he told
you to go below Well, my opinion and
advice to you is, don't do it. There is
moreover, no statute or local law that can
compel you to a specific performance. !
say don't YOU do it,
Lewistown gazette. [volume] (Lewistown, Pa.) 1843-1944, 1860-01-19
New Series---Vol. XIV, No. IL.

Going Different Ways.-Rev DR.. With
erspoon, former President of Princeton
College, was once on board packet-ship
where, among other passengers, was pro-
fessed atheist. This fellow was very fond
of troubling every body with his peculiar
belief, and of broaching the subject as of
ten as he could get any body to listen to
him. He didn't believe in a God and a
future state-not he By-and-by there
came up terrible storm, and the prospect
was that all would go to the bottom. There
was much fear and CONSERVATION aboard !;
but no one was so horribly frightened as
the atheist. In this extremity he sought
out the clergyman. He found him in the
cabin calm and collected, and thus address
ed him: 'Oh, DR. Witherspoon DIR.
Witherspoon we're all going for tive
have but short time to stay Oh, my
gracious how the vessel rocks We're
all going-don't you think we are, Doctors?
The reverend gentleman turned on him a
look of most provoking coolness, and re-
piled in broad Scotch-'Na doubt, ma doubt,
mon, were a ganging; but you and I din
ma gang the same aCay'
Lewistown gazette. [volume] (Lewistown, Pa.) 1843-1944, 1860-01-19
THURSDAY, JANUARY le, 1860.

Blessed is that servant! Glorious shall be his
untadIng crown, and pure beyond description
his everlasting joys.
The true minister of the Gospel of Christ
Is never proud Of his person. or ashamed to
be seen In the company of the most wretche
OF his fellow creatures. lie is never proud of
his sermons or prayers; for he knows that
" the wrath of God is revealed from heaven
against all unrlghteousness of men who hold
the truth IN unrighteousness." Pride is the
very image of Satan on the soul. The more
any man has Of Christ in him, the more hum
BILE will he be, the more low and vile in his
own eyes, and the more empty of himself
Psalms, xix. II, l3; xii. 9; Proverbs Ill "a;
XVI. Il; xvii 70; Ezekiel, xvi. 40, so; Mat,
thew, vii. 2l-23.) There never yet was a
preacher of the Gospel that grew proud of his
fine feathers, but what the Lord plucked them
out by and by. There never was an angel
that had pride in his heart, but he lost his
wings and fell into Gehenna, as Satan and
those fallen angels did; and there shall never
be a preacher of the Gospel of Christ who in
dulges selfconceit, and pride, and selfconfi-
dence, but the Lord will spoil his glories and
trample his honors in the mire. "Thus saith
the high and lofty One that inhabiteth eterni-
ty, whose name is Holy; | dwell in the high
and holy place, with him also that is of a con-
trite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of
the humble, and revive the heart of the con-
trite ones" Isaiah, lvii Is; Psalms, eli. II J
God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace to
the humble" James, iv. 6; Samuel, i. II, l3. J
''The Lord is nigh them that are of broken
heart, and Saveth such as be of contrite
spirit. Many are the Affections Of the right
eous: but the Lord delivereth him out of them
ALL" Psalms, xxxiv 18, 19.) Like as ia
ther pitieth his children, SO the Lord pitieth
them that fear him." Psalms CHI. l3 Deu,
teronomy, viii S. Blessed are they that
keep his testimonies, and seek him with the
whole heart" Psalms. cxix. q Q.
Lewistown gazette. [volume] (Lewistown, Pa.) 1843-1944, 1860-01-19
She Works for a Living

Commend US to the girl of whom it is
sneeringly said, she works for living ;
in her We are always sure to find the ele-
ments OF true Woman-a real lady
True, we are not prepared to see min
cling step-a naughty lip-a fashionable
dress-or hear string of splendid nom
sense about the balls and young men-the
new novels and the next party-no-no !;
but we are prepared to hear sound words
Of good se,-language becoming woman,
and to see neat dress, mild brow, and to
witness movements that would not disgrace
an angel.
You who are looking for wives and COM
panions, turn from the fashionable, lazy,
naughty girls, and select one from any of
those who work for living, and never
our word for twill you repent your choice
You want a substantial friend and not
doll a help-mate and not help-eat: a
counsellor and not a simpleton. You may
not be able to carry piano into your house,
but you can purchase a spinning wheel or
set Of knitting needles. If you cannot
purchase every new novel, you may be able
to take some valuable paper. If you can
not buy ticket to the ball, you can visit
some afflicted neighbor. Be careful then
when you look for companions and whom
you choose We know many foolish man,
who instead of choosing the industrious
and prudent woman for wife, took one
from the fashionable walks, and is now la
menting his folly in dust and ashes. He
ran into the fire with his eyes wide open,
and who but himself is to blame?
The time was when the ladies went Wis
iting and took their work with them This
is the reason why we have such excellent
mothers. How singular would gay wo-
man look in fashionable circle darning her
father s stockings, or carding wool to spin?
Would not her companions laugh at her
And yet such woman would be prize
for somebody. Blessed is the man who
chooses his wife from the despised girls
'who work for living
Lewistown gazette. [volume] (Lewistown, Pa.) 1843-1944, 1860-01-19
AWFUL CALAMITY!
Falling OF Mill at Lawrence, Mass
lis Lives Lost and 165 wounded.

About 5 o'clock on Tuesday afternoon of
last week the Pemberton Mills, at Lawrence,
Mass, fell with tremendous crash. Six
or seven hundred operatives were at work
in them at the time and the lowest esti-
mates state that the number of those buri-
ed in the ruins was nearly three hundred.
In the midst of the efforts to extricate the
sufferers, new horror was added to the
scene. The ruins took fire, and before the
rapid progress of the flames, the reseuers
were forced to remit their labors and leave
the sufferers to terrible fate The calam-
ity is attributed to the insecure construc-
ton of the Mills, which had previously oe-
casioned doubts for its safety. The loss of
property by the disaster is estimated at half
a million of dollars, but in the presence OF
the cruel suffering and destruction of life
it sinks into insignifcance. We subjoin
such particulars Of this terrible catastrophe
as are of interest:
The factory employed $50 operatives, but a
portion had gone to supper.
The building was five stories high, $50 feet
long, and seventy feet wide, with wing for
ty-Gge feet square. 1t contained 2,T00 spin
dies,
Lewistown gazette. [volume] (Lewistown, Pa.) 1843-1944, 1860-01-19

DiStressing-A house near Montgom-
ery's station, in Clinton township, this
county, belonging to John Kinsey, Esq,
and occupied by John Murphy, was des-
troyed by fire on Wednesday afternoon last,
and two children of the latter perished in
the flames. 1t appears that in the absence
of Mr.. Murphy, Mrs. Murphy left her
three children alone in the house while she
went to her mothers short distance off,
and it is supposed the eldest boy Of four
years, set fire to the window curtain with a
match, and then made his escape from the
house-the two younger ones perished-
Nuncy Lumiaory.
Lewistown gazette. [volume] (Lewistown, Pa.) 1843-1944, 1860-01-19

passing through large hole in the lower
lip, which is thus made to protrude fright
fully.) | am thus particular, says the Dr.,
in case our own ladies, who show noble
perseverance when fashion dictates, may
wish to adopt lip-ornaments.'
Lewistown gazette. [volume] (Lewistown, Pa.) 1843-1944, 1860-01-19

The Black LaU IN MjSSouri-The St.
Louis Evening News says the free-negro
law, which has just passed the Senate Of
Missouri, is harsh and oppressive in the ex-
treme. 1t prohibits any Shareholder from
rewarding his faithful slave for long years
Of devoted service, by giving him his free
dom, unless he enters into bond of two
thousand dollars to remove the emancipa-
ted slave from the State forever 1t pro-
vides that every free negro or mulatto over
the age of eighteen years, now living in
the State, shall leave it before the first Mon
day in September, 1860, on pain of being
sold at public auction into slavery for life.
All free negroes and mulattoes under eigh-
teen years of age shall be bound as appren-
tees till they are twenty-one years Of age,
twelve months after the expiration of which
they shall leave the State or be sold into
slavery. Any free negro Or mulatto who
shall come into the State after the first
Monday in September, 1861, and remain
twenty-four hours, shall be sold into slavery.
Such are the leading provisions of the bill.
Lewistown gazette. [volume] (Lewistown, Pa.) 1843-1944, 1860-01-19

A Boys Head BJo'en OG.-A little boy,
residing in Union county, KY, had his
head blown off one day last week. He
bored hole in log and put powder in it,
ramming the powder down with stick.
He then laid a coal of fire on the hole, and
before he could get away it exploded, the
stick striking him on the head, knocking
the upper portion off, and killing him in
stantly.
Lewistown gazette. [volume] (Lewistown, Pa.) 1843-1944, 1860-01-19

last weeks paper, written in his own hand He had
arranged them, from in his possession. The
note below was added by friend. W
CLINTON TO HIS MOTHER.
CLINTON.
Ny mother, my motherl Q, let me depart!
our tears and your pleadngs swords my heart
hear gentle voices, that chide my delay;
J see lovely visions, that WOO me away.
NY prison Is broken, my trials are Ger!
u mother, my mother, detain me no more.
MOTHER.
And will you then leave US, my brightest my best
AND VIII you run nesting no more to my breast?
Inc summer Is coming to sky and to bower;
Inc tree that you planted viii soon be in flower;
You loved the soft season Of song and of bloom;
y, shall 1t return and find you in your tomb:
CLINTON
Yes, mother, loved in the sunshine to play,
And TO tall, of the birds and the blossoms all day;
But sWceter the songs of the spirits on high,
And brighter the gores that shine in the skyl
! see them, hear them, they pull at my heart;
My mother, my mother, o, let me depart!
O, do not desert us! Our hearts will be drear,
Our home Will be lonely when YOU are not here,
Your little sister will sigh mid her Paythngs and say
wohder dear Clinton so long can delay
That foot like the wild windthat glance like STAR
Q, what would this world be when they AFFAIR."
CLINTON
This world, dearest mother!-o, live not for ths
No, press with Inc to the fulness of bliss
And trust me whatever bright fields may roam,
My heart Will not wander far from you or from home
Believe me still near you, pinions of love;
Expect mo to hail you, when soaring above.
MOTHER.
Well 90, my beloved! the conflict is DER;
My pleas are all selfish urge them more.
Why chain Your bright spirit down here the clOd,
So thrsting for freedom, ripe for its Godr
Farewell, then, farewell till ut the throne:
There love fears parting and tears are unknown.
CLINTON
O, glory! o, glory! what music! what light!
What wonders break in on my heart on my sight!
come, blessed spirits hear you from hight
%, trall, fatheSs nature can thls be to dlef
SO near what, near to Saviour and kingg
., help me, We angels, His praises to sing.
[Oh, reader, if you have ever added to the
SOUL furrow the brow of an atfectionatc parent
if YOU have given one mmerited pang to that
heart which now lies cold and still beneath your
feet-then be that every unllind look, every
gracious word every ungente action will come throng
ing back upon your memory, and knocking dolefully
at your soul; then be that you will lie down
rowing and repentant the grave, and utter the
heard groan, and pour the unayailng tear,-Inore
deep more bitter, because unheard and unavailingI
Lewistown gazette. [volume] (Lewistown, Pa.) 1843-1944, 1860-01-19
Rag-It would be necessasy to go back to

B8~It would be necessasy to 60 back to
the Biblical times to find the trace of a
longevity so extraordinary as that of Cap
tain Alexander Victorian Nircissus Viroux,
of Belgium, who has been put on the pen
sion list by royal command of the 10th
of September, 1859. What makes it more
wonderful is, that Mr.. Viroux, born at Chi
ma, November 8, 1909, and who has con-
sequently attained the age of one hundred
and fifty years, took the strange fancy of
entering the service the 18th of October,
1880. But the independence of his coun-
try called him, and in spite of his one hun
dred and twenty-o -one years, he did not hes
itate to fly to her defence. The military
state pleasing him as he felt young and
vigorous, he remained in its service, and
attained the rank of Captain 1t is only
the last few days that he felt the desire Of
retiring to the place wherein he first saw
the light of day.
Lewistown gazette. [volume] (Lewistown, Pa.) 1843-1944, 1860-01-19
REMOVAL.
Wanted! Wanted!

I'D O00 PERSONS of both sexes to
ddV"OOO make money by huving cheap
uIrroeeFles, Ir Baskets. Tuas. Bac' .--. Cs.rns,
"".er EaHs, Drpoa,s, Brushes, DC. &c a.
ZERBBS,
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Lewistown gazette. [volume] (Lewistown, Pa.) 1843-1944, 1860-01-19

R%There are nearly 10000 liquor shops
in the City Of New York.
Lewistown gazette. [volume] (Lewistown, Pa.) 1843-1944, 1860-01-19
YHB MHN


The following beautiful lines We're found by the pa
rents OF the youth whose happy death noticed in
last weeks paper, written in mis- own hand He had
arranged them, from verses in his possession. The
note below was added by friend W
Lewistown gazette. [volume] (Lewistown, Pa.) 1843-1944, 1860-01-19
CLINTON TO HIS MOTHER.

Ny mother, my motherl Q, let me depart!
our tears and your pleadngs are swords my hear
hear gentle voices, that chide my DELAY;
see lovely visions, that me away
NY prison Is broken, my trials are o'erl
., mother my mother, detain me no more
The weekly Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1854-1861, 1860-12-07
Improving tae Psalano ody.

Somebody says, that dewn.east chori is.
ter set some music OF his own to Watts
psalm, in which occur these lines:
go let my heart in tuno be found,
Like David's harp of solemn sound"
Calling upon bis pastor, who had more
music in him than was supposed, the chor.
lister asked his appreciation of new YER
sion Of these adapted to the mus ic he had
proposed. He proposed to read as follows
"oh let my heart be tuned within,
Like DaVid's sacred VIOLIN"
The good pastor having some internal ten.
deDcies to lsugh in the singing mans face,
maintained his gravity as he could he said
he thought he could improve the improved
vsrsio ion, admirable as it was. The delight
ed chOrister begged him to do so and the
pastor taking his pen, wrote before the eyes
Of his innocent parishio these lines
so let my heart go diddle, diddle,
Like uncle David's sacred nddle."
The poor leader, after vain attempt to
defend his parody, retired, and will probably
for the future sing the psalm as it stands.
The weekly Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1854-1861, 1860-12-07
Durtiital.
From the New York Home Journal.
The Fearful Change of Years.

The hour so prayed for-weary years are ned-
The parted long, the wanderer, comes at last.
How have / signed for thisI
How have struggled through the lettering past,
And lopged to reach this haven.hour Of blissi
And now-o, is 1t that my heart is dead p
Now that see thee. hear thee, feel thee nigh,
l shrink into dull, cold apathy;
Or, art thou changed2 And was this waiting vain'
And all that might have been;
Hath it all passed, and can we never, never
Be as we were in years now fed forsverl
Never, o, nevermore ! my days have passed
In woman's quiet, meditative ways
Weaving fair dreams Of thee,
And fondiy lingering oset those parted days, y
When thy bright smile all sunshine seemed 10 me
And now meet thee, clasp thy hand at last,
And gaze into the depths OF those dark eyes,
Longing to wake their buried sympathies-
And know thee not, nor ever shall know again,
And yet, cit might have been.'
We might have grown together, heart to heart,
And lived and loved till death should fail to part.
Now naught remains but that drear word, farewell
'Tis better SO, for we have grown apart;
The dream of youth is o'er.
Ha we meier met again, within my heart
still had cherished thee foIevermore;
But now so far apart we seem 10 stand,
The darkness Is 40 thick I could not reach
The ever, either in thought or speech:
should but strain and struggle all in vain
And yet, ''H might have been.''
Once could touch thee, in these vanished years,
And now 1 cannot see thee for my tears.
Unclasp the hand that lies so still in thine;
This trembling hand, IL hath no power to bless.
Why clasp it tondly now2
It trembles-but for very helplessness.
One moment let these hstless fingers twino
And wander softly through this clustering hair.
Alas! how once the touch had fingered therel
''It might have been.' In youth we cry .tAmen.''
In age. sit might have BEEN"
OF all earth's music 'tis the sad refrain,
The touching minor in each human strain,::
Once more, farewell! know love thee true,
And when, perhaps, stand with spirit shriven,
And meet thoe face to face,
Gods truth on either brow in His own Heaven
Perchance at last, through His divinest grace,
] there may know thee, and regain thee, too.
Till then, cd keep thee When this cloud ha III past
In His clear ether may we meet at last;
No more our dirge the wild and wailing strain,
No more SIT might have been -
But Heavens evangels trembe on our lips,
And Eden's glory drown this earth's eclipse.
The weekly Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1854-1861, 1860-12-07

rSong is the tone of feeling. Like
poetry, the language Of feeling, art should
regulate, and perhaps temper and modify it.
But whenever such a modification is intro
duced az destroys the predominance Of the
feeling-which yet happens in ninety. mine
settings out Of q hundred, and with nine
hundred end ninety taught singers out
Of thousand-t the essence is sacrificed to
what should be the accident; and we get
notes. but no song. II song, however, be
the tone of feeling, what is beautiful sing
ing3 The balance of feeling; not the ab.
sence Of 1t.
The weekly Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1854-1861, 1860-12-07
RAvENNA, FRIDAY, DECEMBER I, 1860.

A few short years more, and Napoleon 10y
chained TO ST. Helsnu's rock, and Josephine
lay sleeping peacefully beneath the sod
The rule of the BOnspartes was over, the
sceptres Of France, Belgium, Holland, Spain,
Italy and Westphslia had been transferred
to hostile hands. The only scion OF the
great man fallen, the Duke de Reicbstadt,
CT devGnt King of Rome, roamed a virtual
prisoner in his grOndfather's palace at Wen
ma, bearing in him the seeds Of mnlndy to
which hs was early doomed TO fall victim.
The family name Of the ambitions Napoleon
figured in none Of the courts OF Europe.
The children OF the discarded Josephine,
on the other hand, were rising into power,
and forming slliances with the proudest
blood in Europe. Her son, Eugene, already
added to the royal house Of BasariS, by his
msrrisge with Amelia, daughter of the King,
was living with bis father in.law under the
title Of Duke oil Leuchtenberg. His eldest
son, Augustus, married Donna Maria, Queen
of Portugal, in 1884. His younger son,
Prince Maximilian, married in 1899, the
daughter OF Emperor Nicholas, Of Russia.
The eldest daughter Of Eugene Besuharnais,
Josephine, married Oscer, afterwards King
of Sweden, son OF Marshal Bernedotte,
and successor to his father in 1874. The
second daughter Eugenie, married The Prince
of Hohenzollers, who, it will be remember.
ed, are allied to the reigning house Of Prus-
sia, only the Pruesan monnrchs are descend.
ed from a younger son Of Rodolphus II,
while the Hohenzolern. Hechingens beast
of descending from younger SOD. The
third daughter, AHeIs, married Don Pedro,
the Emperor OF Brazil The only surviving
son ol Horte nse, Louis Napoleon, is now
seated more firmly then his uncle ever was
on the Imperial throne OF France.
Thus, at the present day, the descendants
Of Josephine are allied TO the thrones OF
three Empires-France, Russia and Brazil :
and three Kingdoms Bavaria, Portugal and
Sweden; without mentioning the connection
with the Hohenzollerns, and the reminf-
censes Of Eueene's vice.roysly in Italy,
and Hprtense's clouded reign in Holland.