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Smethport M Kean Miner (Newspaper) - November 17, 1860, Smethport, Pennsylvania9 in e r. " Al maj ctr 3 it i Lull Arlitt ref i. Is every saturday by Stebbi Isyle Smethport East Side of Public sq0abe. Mow than where payment i for mow thas filfly additional will b. Of advertising. W oat. Of 1 c. To Bow 2000 1200 3 Ach insertion j Job priming. Miser office i. Applied with Large of Job printing material of us we prepared to do Milb including i us Sceo. B. Allyx. Corx h. Maion Erin we japanes Ware of the Poblic Square Smethport in forlorn work done to order on the shortest no fee and in the Raport manner p. Ford dec will attend to All bus Lawf of nested with Bli hmm port or 8. Maffet. Alwright Bradford h Kean to Wotton and repairs of saw Grin us old a. All work warranted._______vtn2t or. J. Darling. And surgeon Praet port. A. Offic Kinf few doors Bast of the acad 1. L. Brown Reyor. Dra Niraan conveyancer Bui real be in agent. Bolce at co. P Haply a Boyle Ridgway a. Hon. Thoa. Struthers Warren a v. 8. Browne eat Smethport a. Son. A. I. Wilcox Baena or gun. A. Or. R. Winter. And surgeon Smethport will n and to All proposal anal Calls with promptness Pulec in Sartwell Block second floor. Eim b. D. Prew Nan m. D. B ionic Ltd and Smethport a. Offic be door Forth of the Miner Daniel Kin Gathary a to the United states land compan re Cipal office at Bradford m Keau co., a. In Chat pox township Elk co., a. Goo Irmino Limber and Mineral for Sale i Rire and Small quantities containing Batum con and Cannel Coal Lime Stone Iron Ore an a funeral paints of sep error qualities. Achi Plo tick. -48jl in n. J. M. Mullin proprietor. The Obes Houne is a new Brick Structure jus opened furnished in modern style and a Tuple for 160 guests. By pc Ivet Hla House daily going North South test Cowley Nichols a news at m Kean county. A Cape Cinelly of the collection of of and titles payment of tax Tud nil Hui near relating to real entrusted a. Jii Nois. Wash in c. D. Webster lil Engineer sir Tenor draft Man and con office of d. Icing Bury Yancer. At land a. We. Wilkon a Lechanic millwright Bridge bal Lei Pott Alleghany m Kean county a olt in or Jufu Ai Smith Brothers 1 Excelsior Block Oleun a y., wholesale id retail dealers in dry goods groceries its. Caps. Bonnet boots shoes carpets 01 Lothi and All other kinds of arms Cash. 2-48 a. Blakeslee Ler in drugs medicines oils tuft varnishes books and stationery per. Mery fancy and toilet articles. Ac., clean y., 1869. I Nelly Smethport mean co., a satan a lot. No. A. H. S. Baker m.d., of vhf detail. Surgeon and dentist will attend to i professional Calls with promptness. Dent try in All branches attended to and Al Ork warranted. Office Over l. T. Harper s Bradford. n. F. Marah and surgeon. At Wii Dence t Side Nobuo Square bred font a Kean co will attest promptly to to Profe Vional lot thing Miller. And retail in Staple and fan t dry goods carpeting ready clothing p general furl bhang goods and shoes and window paper looking Glades a. N. N. N t Village drag store 1 Olean Hogue Olean , is Ftp we with a foil and Complete assortment medicines Dye Tomb lard and lamp pore liquors for medical Pur perfumery native and imported Cit. A cheaper than at any other . Or Northern a _ from 9s per alcohol Wery Day at 76 Eta per Gal. Gal. Put up carefully. Additions Are to be full a dutch Core. Yen i lays myself Down in my lonely pet room und diet for to sleep very sound de to Rural of How into my net Dey vill come till i Vish 1 was under de ground. Sometimes Ven f cats von big supper i trams Dat toy Stomack is flit foil of Uli tones and out indy Hleap like de Naglit owl 1 Schrama Piid kicks off the and groans. Den dare Ash i Lay Matte pet clothes All off 1 kits myself All Over froze in de morning i Mit de Het Ach an Liff und i m thick from mine Het to mine toss. Of vat shall pc Dun for a poor Man like of vat for 1 Leat Mich a life some Shays Dere s a cure for Dis Trp me of Pink ill try kit we a Vick. Mahb Ying for Momey Aud the term was ended at Academy. There bad been tearful partings and Hur Riec farewells but All were gone now except Rosa and stood alone on the porch. She was a Lovely Young Friend of the sunlight of seventeen Summers dancing in her deep Blue eyes and playing among her brow a Little Sunbeam Ever dispelling1 but now a Eldow rested on Ber face and tears trem bled on her Long lashes. I said choking Back my sobs i can come Here to school no she noticing what she was laying. You know that i am an orphan i replied and have nothing but these two Little hands to look to for a livelihood. Of Rosa Why is it that i who Long for knowl Edge so much must be cast upon my own resources and consequently must neglect my education while Many a pampered child of wealth who despises every thing that is Good and Noble is compelled to come Here year after year. Why. Is it a Why is said Rosa echoing my words i too must bid Farewell to the old school h0usfc" you Rosa Why sol yes i must bid it Farewell much As 1 desire to stay. My father is about to fail. Everything will be taken and i too will be cast upon Ray own resources. Of Belle it is Deri Fuu god bless and strengthen was my prayer As we turned a few later that or. Rosa s consequence of his failure had removed Fiton the City. Six months passed months fraught with sorrow Ere i saw Rosa again. I had begun to think that she had forgotten Pae Stltt none Day glided softly into my room Aud wound her White arms around my neck almost before i knew it of i cried i am so glad to Sec you where have you been so a Shadow gathered on her brow As she answered i have been a Bard working count girl und have not bad much Tarmu for visit ing. But to make a Long Short belly i have Drudgery. I am to be married "to.whonr? Clinton i asked so it in not Clinton. It a or. Hit voice Tri a blvd now and tears Goth ered inter of of Are jesting. He is nearly scanty Yeimi a "1 know it but map is very Rich and can be a Lily. Yet it is not for myself thai i make the sacrifice. To see Ier toil in the Way she docs nearly Breaks my when i am married my shall live with alus Rosa you have forgotten Pooi forgotten Bim of , if you knew How Bard it is for me to part with him would not mention his mime. He is poor and for my Mother s Suku i must marry a Rich and would your Mother accept pleasure at such a sacrifice t i indignantly. She does not know that i love she replied. So you barter your happiness for Gold i thought better of do not me Belle. Every one docs and poor Clinton More than All. I do l sometimes my heart would fail he heard1 that Rosa bad quite a by her grandmother coming to her on he the report proved to be had married her and heaven Only knows what will become of them it was after this before i saw again. Then i met them both on the Street very strangely did they decree id old Man leaning on the Arm of that fair Young girl. She turned very Pale he head in anguish As i passed her of Rosa for you then. Six years have passed since we stood on the porch of Iha t old school House and Clin ton Forest is now called a wealthy a Beautiful Bouse is his and a fair Youni head rests nightly where Only yours a Faoul rest. Some say that he has forgotten Rosa a and loves the Young creature thai he Calu wife but i do not it j Sladow rests Ever in those dark eyes and though in the prime of Silver threads gleam amid his hair if Fie had never seen you fee that they would not be there. Sitting Here in the often flunk of you and. What you have lost and when i think How you toil Day and night to sup port that childish old an unloving with every Hope crushed and Joy dead i wonder that you do not of Rosa my heart yearns in wards you now. I would clasp you in my arms again and wipe away your tears. But Long Miles Lay Between us and i May not Hope to see you on Earth again. Per haps it Best May god wha doth Al things Well hear my prayer and strengthen you. god Grant that for your happiness it it must not it shall she answered firmly. We talked for s Long time but when we arted she was As firm in her resolve to Narry or. Lac when we met. Or. A had failed. The news spread like wildfire. It surprised every one for no one thought of his failing. Only two weeks had Rosa been an inmate of Bis spleen id Home and now she must leave it what can it mean i i asked a Mutual Riead i win fell she replied. Speculated rashly finding himself reply in debt and unable to extricate him and being too old to work resolved to marry some one who could support him. 401. A laughable Stoby. Jake Willard and the Blind horse. For Twenty three years old Jake Willord has cultivated soil of Baldwin county and drawn therefrom a support for self and wife. He is childless not Long ago Jake the House in search of a missing cow. His route led him through an old worn out Patch of Clay land of about six acres in extent in the Centre of which was a Well Twenty five or thirty feet deep that at some time probably had furnished the inmates of n dilapidated Bouse near by with water. In passing this spot an ill wind lifted Jake s tile from his wafted it to the Tolge of the Well and in it tumbled. Now Jake bad always practice Filotio Ray and he immediately sat about recover ing the lost hat. He ran to the. Well and finding it was dry at the Bottom he uncoiled the rope which he had brought for the Pur pose of in put Rig the truant cow and after soveral attempts to catch the hot with a noose he concluded to save time by going Down Iulo the Well himself. To Aeop Meluh this he fast one end of the rope to a Tom p hard by and was quickly in his Way Down the Well. It is a fact of which Jake was no less of Liv Iotis than the Reader Hereof that Ned Wells was in the dilapidated building1 Afore and Tiit an old a horse with Bell on his who had been to die was lazily within a Short Dis Tanee of the Well. The Devil himself or Somis other wicked spirit put it into Ned s cranium to have a Little fun so he quietly slipped us to the horse and unbuckled the Bell strap a with slow measured tick a Ling Well. J Dang that old Blind said Jake he s this Way sure and abut got no More sense than to fall in Here. Whoa. but the continued approach of the Ting a Ling said just As plainly As words that Brill w Oulen t whoa. Besides Jake was it the Bottom resting before trying to Shin it up the Ropp. Great says he cuss will top of me before i can say Jjack Robinson. Whoa Dang you whoa Ned Drew up to the Edge of the Well and with his foot kicked a Little dirt into it. Of Loidl exclaim act Jake falling upon his Knees at the Bottom. I a gone now whoa. Now i Jay me Down to we of a Ball a i Pray the lord my soul to now. Obj lord have mercy upon Ned could hold in no longer and fearful Jake might suffer from his revealed himself. Probably Ned did t make tracks with his heels from that Well maybe Jake was t up to the top of Itjin Short order and you might think he did t try every night for two weeks to get a shot with his Rifle at Ned. May be not i Don t know. But i do know that if Jake finds ont who sent you this to print it will be the Hist squib that you la get the wife of a Man name j Collins died recently in new Orleans and As he was poor Bis neighbors contributed to pay for Ber funeral. He took the Money and went on a spree and it was a. Week before it was lie Cleveland Herald. A. going on Bawd the Steamer Ocean a procured tickets for Detroi in with the crowd to see and then. The sights. The late Accident to the lad on Lake Michigan had a. Tendency make Pur Load of passengers somewhat lighter than we were yet we had Between one and two Tundra of he different biases combined and a Large Foad of and peaches. Noticing a Little Billing and cooing Progress on the pile of cheese boxes w happened As soon As the vessel left the dockland witnessed one of the riches courtship in Tow life that Ever occurred out Side of imagination. The Man was about Twenty three years of age stood nearly or quite six feet the straight if lie Ever got he was quite round move when walking with about the Grace of lame Goose wore punts coat and Vest faded Kentucky Jean had Long coarse Dar Brown ii air matted like a cow q Tail in a Burdock Field had a Sharp Long nose an a pair of Large Calico eyes that were expressive As a Saucer of scalded cheese b5s lad Yee like himself was o the darkest Darker in fact than Many of our citizens in Oberlin inf Royce lived As she appear to be about 16 or 17 years of age. She had started with her two orphan Brothers and 13 years from Alleghany Sylvania to go to her Uncle in Miebi after having purchased second class tickets for she had spread her of bed quilt on the pile of cheese boxes am red to pass the night in quietude hardly arranged her nest however before she was accidentally discovered by a Send cons passenger who had loved her in secret from her infancy and who for the past tvo years had been rafting lumber on River. Having acquired about two Hundred dollars in hard currency be came to Cleveland on the tenth to participate in the Celebration when As he expressed it some cuss picked his pocket of every darned cent but four to find the thief or Money and not daring to Tell the Story tothe police or fear of being fun of in the in had started for the West with the determination to hire out on a farm. To his Surprise and Joy he found himself on Board he same Statger with the object of his heart s Offe Tiona. Sliding up to her like a Hen trying to Bok into a bottle he exclaimed Why Cynthia Ann i Why Heow do Tedulo know Yeou Why Low where Are you i m going to Uncle s in was the feeble reply. You knew Mother was dead did t Why not and his when ack pm else they Ain t Worth shucks. If uck runs aging you pretty Strong Don t Cave a and look like a sick Chicken on a Rainy Lay but hold your head up and make pm Olieve you re flush of Trumps they won t by to hard agin you. Five lived and rave led around some Bob and i be found it that As soon As Tolks thought you held it a weak hand they d Back agin you trong., so when you re sorter weak keep m a bold front but play cautions be Antis red with a pint Many a the hand i be seen euchre cause they played for too ouch. Keep your eyes Well skinned Bob Ion let pm on you recollect the ame lays As much with the head As with de hands. Be temperate never get rank for then no matter How Good our hand you won t know How to play it oth Bowers and the Ace won t save you r there s Sartin to be a or some Ling and another Bob this was spoken in a Low Don t go too much on the women Queens is Kinder Oor cards the More you have of them be worse for you you might have three and nary tramp. J Don t say discard pm 11 if Yon get hold of one that s a tramp it s All Good and there s Sartin to be one out f four. And above All Bob be honest Ever take a Man s trick wot Don t belong o Yon nor slip nor for then on can t look your Man in the face and Rhen that s the Case there s no fun in the in it s a regular Cut Throat so now too Farewell remember wot i Tell Yon and you la be sure to win and if you Don t you right to get skunked t or Paris when dealers in precious incs Pur Clinso rubies they behead live the blood of the Binl shall in on a Sheet of Whita of 10 Gem is a test of its color the blood of Pigeon being a Standard of color and transparency. A Yanke White Tam ing Down the Ohio i heard one that wan genuine. I had been sitting under the Lee of of nerf the in Iraneus and on the Hurricane deck Reading in which i was so much absorbed that i did not notice we was it until my attention was attracted by a Yan Kee and a Cockney who were evidently trying to find ont who could Tell the most unbelievable yarn., _ the cock Fly led Way and turning the subject upon hog killing told of a gang of six hands in Merrie England who would kill six bogs n minute and clean them. Wai Yankee i believe i know o Eum Jhin a Lect to ahead o that notwithstanding that s a purty big of Sthart Well you see my Friend ave got an old Uncle Nate my Mother s who got up a Beetle the cussed St clean hogs with that you Ever did it wan Flike nut Hin in Alt Nat urbut it worked mighty Slick. You see Uncle Nate spent his Hall life at it and got it just e in a Mort perfect he d drive a hog in and Wun knife would strike it and then hot water d squirt on to it then another knife d Crapo off All the Bessels and take ont the inwards and a cons arned thing would Cut it up and drop it into the clean Idun. Feller Cam Down All the fray from besting to see the thing run for he was in the pork packing business no Thair and did t he might want to git Wun. I 5val, sir Uncle Nate got the thing in Runnin and then fetched the Fetter out to look at it i happened in jest then so Uncle Nate got me to drive in the pig while he let on steam. He had t More n touched the lever tilt the thing started and Yon had ought to bin Thair. You in oilers squeals when he pastuck. Wai sur Heerd that and i Heer Liim fall nto the bar l after he was Cut no but i Swan to Marvel never could Tell which happened will Yon Havo something to drink with me or. Filkins asked the Cockney. Don t care if i do replied Filkins. They went Down after their again turned to my novel. Arrest for mar Der committed four teen years a soap most this City by tits Tele graph saturday night announced the arrest of Attica Indiana of Fox for the murder of 3ol Davenport at Bock Island-14 Yenta ago. Some two or three other men were implicated with Fox and were arrested tried and executed. Fox escaped at the Ime but was arrested some year or so afterwards in this state by the then marshal if the Lovoi James Johnston a former resident of Indianapolis. On his a Back to Bock Island or rather Daven Ort opposite Kock Island Johnston stopped with his Prisble f at Washington Ball after Ward known As the Wright House when be Glenn Block now is. The hotel was Ben kept by or. Edmund Browning Ohnston placed his prisoner under guard in a Back room of the front building in which. Was a window overlooking a court that ran Between the two wings of the rear part of he hotel during the night Ana White Lis guard was asleep Fox took the Cord. Rom the Bedstead fastened it to the bedpost powered himself to the ground and escaped trough the Gate at the end of the court be has been at Large Ever since until his recapture at Attica several Fen Kmen of this City who were Odgers at the Washington Hall at the Timo of escaped heard the noise he m getting out of his room and outside of ourt he was not missed us he had been gone Long cough to eludes Al Pur Uera. The murder of col. Davenport was looked and caused great excitement at Luik me. Fox is Likely at hut to receive the pm ashment which is uis due. He has Al ways been represented As a desperate Man and in All probability will meet the end that he Law prescribe for those who do Viola no to their Fellows. The present flourishing City of Davenport n the state of Iowa was named in Honor of be Man who met his death at or near it ago a Small and insignificant a " journal 23. A new York boy Sperin Tower Tho Rann facture of Orange Wood tooth picks in Chili South which Are whittled us by the Childre Ivand the aged and decrepit and he sends Thorn to by Mother in new York who Sells Large of them t Twenty Cento a thousand. The Touse buys flight or ten barrels at a and popular a sturans coat ump about thousand a week. Sons the fur of which m soft and Ful finest Wool were recon try shot n the Borders of the River Vir inia. They were the finest err in int state

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