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> a WEEKLY POLITICAL, AND GENERAL ADVER TISER iam . wuibal | -- ny PROVINCE OF ONTARIO, THURSDAY, FEB. 14, 1878. ! WHOLE NO 1054 ee Pn rr AGRICUL- "TURAL § FAMILY NEWSPAPER, 18 PUBLISHED AT pont. ki ONT., EVERY THURSDAY MORNING, BAIRD & "PARSONS. | TERMS. --$1 per annnm, if paid in ad- ¥ance ;.if not*$1.60 will be charged. No subscription taken for less than six months; Pid no paper discontinued until all drrears re paid. . RATES OF ADVERTISING. For each line, first insertion . +1 $0 08 Subsequent insertions, per line «002 Cards, under 6 lines, per annum ..... 5 00 B&F Letters containing money, when ad- dressed to this Office, pre-paid and regester< ed, will be at our risk. w. ok Advi aud charged according to the space they oc- ou ND vertisoments received for publication. without specific instructions, will be inserted antil forbid and charged accordingly. No advertisement will be taken out untilpaid for. A liberal discount allowed to Merchants nd others who advertise by the year or a These terms will in all cases be ed to Job Department. Pamp'ilets, Hand Bills, Posters, Pro- grammes, Bill Heads, Blank Forms, Receipt Books, Checks, Books, Circulars, "Business Cards, Ball Cards, &c., of every style and color, executed promptly and at lower rates than any other establishment in the County. G5 Parties from a distance getting hand bills, &c. printed can have them done to take ome with them, btrictly "Business Cardy. WW. WILT00X| avd] gif 71] 3 di LICENSED AUQTIONEER. REtursiNg my sincére thanks to my: numerous friends and patrons for their liberal patronage bestowed upon me as Auctioneer during ' the 'past eight years, 1 would now beg to offer my services to all who may have Farm Stock, Implements, or other property to sell by Auction anywhere in North Ontario, the township of Mariposa or Cartwright. My long and extensive practice as Aucs tioneer has enabled me to judge the value of Farm Stock with an accuracy second to noue in the County, and this is of import- ance as it the Adctibneer fs not a good [ndge of the value of Stock he may soon lose far more than his fee in any sale, Bill stamps always on hand. Sale Bills wrranged and notes supplied free of charge. Days of Sale may be arranged at the .Onserver Office, where a Sale Register will be kept. Terms Liberal. Port Perry, Supt. 4, 1877. E. MAJOR, " [CENSED AUCTIONEER. All parties I. wishing his services can call at the "Observer" Office, Port Perry, and arrange for days of Sales. Glen Major, Oct. 10, 1876. WM. GORDON, W.M. W, J. BAIRD B. Vrofessioni Savas. H. SANGSTER, M. D., Physician, Sur- J . geon and Accoucheur Coroner for the Connty of Ontario PORT PERRY. OMece over Nott's Furniture Store, corner of «ueen and erry Streets. Office hours from 9 a. m. to 12 m. Residence, the dwelling recently oeeupled by Mrs. Geo. Paxtos R. WARE, Coronor for the County of untario, Physician, Surgeon and Ac- ezoucheur, Oftice, opposite | the town hall. Port Pérry. RS. MOGILL & RAE, Physclans, Surgeons, &e., &e, Office and Residences, King st., Oshawa, wat. M'GILL, M.D. FRANCIS RAE, M,D. M. F. MCBRIEN, M.D, M. R. C, 8,, Guy's Hospital, London, England. The "hoy eR. Oshawa; = FAREWELL, LL. B., County Crown 1 Attorney for Untario, Barrister Attorney, Miieitor, « and Notary Public. Ofifée laely oc- pied by 3. H. Cochrane, Esq., Brock street, Whitby. s YMAN L. ENGLISH LL. B,, Solicitor in Chancery, Attorney, Conveyancer; &c. Oshawa. )Mce--Simeoe street, opposite the Post Office YOUNG SMITH, Llu B., Barrister, At- X. torney-at-Law, Solicitor in Chancery, nd Insolvency, Notary Publie, &e. OfMce--MeMiilan's Block, Brock street, Whitby. L da A 14 . &e. JOR the Township of Beey Uxbridge, Scott, 'Phorah, Rama, Mara, Mariposa and Eldon, p&@F™ Parties entrusting their Sales to me may rely on the utmost attention being given, to their interests. WM. GORDON, Sunderland, Brock. T: H. WALSHE, ICENSED Auctioneer for the Township 4 of Brock, Thorah, Mara & Rama in North Ontario ; Mariposa, ete., in the County of Victoria. Residence--Cannington, Brock. Orders left at this office, will be punctnally attended to. Debts col- lected in Cannington, or otherwise, and prompt remittances made. Remember-- WALSHE, the North Ontario Auction- eer. JAMES W. BEALL. FYOWNSHIP CLERK, TOWNSHIP OF EAST WHITBY. Conveyancing and General Inswmance Agent, Office in the Town Hall, from 9 a. m. till 5p. m. The Clerk will be home for township business on Mondays and Saturdays JAMES W. BEALL, Tp. Clerk, Business hours Qaiumbs, March 28, 1871, . BURNITAM, Clerk of the Third Divi- JJ. id Court. Office in Bigelow's Block, Port Perry, OMce lours from 10a m, to3 p. m. T. C. FORMAN, INSPECTOR of WEIGHTS § WEA SURES For the County of Ontario. i Port Perry, Nov 1, 1875. 45:tf A. HURD, Attorney at Law in Chancery. Office In the Hon a Arcade, Port Perry: W. Maurice Cochrane, TTORNEY-AT-LAW, Sotieosin Chan- [\ cery Notary Public; xe. Jffice hours punctually from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m Monsy vo Loan at 8 per cent, on all kinds of good security. Office, Bigelow: 's Royal Arcade, PORD PERRY. . A. _MURRAY, ATE Patterson & Fenton, Surgeort Dentist, Office over Corrigan & Camp- & bell's Store, Port Perry. All work fone in the very atest and best style and warranted to give batisfaction, Port Perry, March 28, 1877. CO. N. VARS, L. D. 8. ETH inserted on all the latest princi- ples of the art, and ssshienp as the cheap- est, and as good ast he best. Teeth filled with Gold and Silver. Teeth extracted without pain by producing local anmsth- esia. - * Dentical Rooms--in Cowan's new block, over Atkinson's Drug icin King Street, Oshawa. OHAS. THORN, V 8, EMBER of the Veterinary Institute, - Chicago, Il. Gold Medalist for the Dest examination on Horse Practice. Author of a First Prize Essay on hosing. Gradu- ated Sept. 16, 1867, Dr. Thora begs to announce that he nat taken up his residence at Port Perry, and is now prepared to treat all cases entrusted to bis care in the most skillful and scientific manner, All orders left at the Medical Hall of Mr Allison, wlil receive prompt attention. #6 The Veterinary Stables may be found on Lilly street, opposite Cossitt's Factory. Port Perry, Oct. 28, 1873. |rchitetts, Ke. RY GRIST, Pitev. Soviciron AND : AUGHTNAN, Busts, Canada to Teaneusts, husjnesy with the "Patent Office id hts and the iat f Trad Co an © on 0 e Pe Disigns procured. Drawings, © Specifications, and other Documents neces to secure Patents of Invention, prepared | _ 6m receipt of the 'model of the Invention. oi SPENCE, CoxTnacon, 'Burton, - % Journ his sincere 'thai Ine wr Mg er Lt ry EEE be- ta Indo the st 2s a or whole dor, and is - undertak oo therewith: hh Stetateont she HE ¥ i sty! SE pid the SE at giro ue wh M. SPENCE." a Albert, Apri 5,187. ' - - JRusic. Phe HARRINGTON, Teacher of Mu Ts pt dealer in cal In Derr Restdonoe, on Hon A venue. His fs FARRINC oN; Teacher. of rss or in person tie on Anplieaiicne Lgl |The 'Rooms are over Thornes New Marriage Act. Port Perry, July 1st, 1874. - ENRY CHARLES having been re- appointed Marriage License Agent-- (after sixteen years duty) continues fo "fur- nish Licenses as heretofore--at Port Perry. R. RICHARDSON, Re-appointed Issuer of Marriage Licenses. Under the New Act, 1st con. Brock. Brock, Aug. 65,1874. Office, lot 10, in the 33 C. FORMAN, 1SSUER OF Marriage Licenses. One door west of the Walker House Port Perry. . OHN CHRISTIE, TOWNBHBP OLEREK, ssuer of Marriage Li ~Conveyancer, Tein Subscribers habe Ja or at his residence [gage Lo MUNEY TO LOAN || MORTCAGES, WANTED. ; "sums of thon- ey placed in their hand: investment on mproved Farms, Village Propertie: es, other Securities in this pac adjoining oust ies at the lowest curtent Intes: il nterest. As we have funds on hand Seal times elr s Borro bdo 12k tonst gop. 2d on Eiky jog ¢ money 'with AH WANTED TO PURCHASE, Any number of Mortgages for which the high- ash Agures will be reaper i Weareal A ALrojeers for the Canada Per- manent, Arhdin Socletv, the cheapest and largest Monetary Institution in Canada. Paid ww Capital $1, fin Instalments re-payable infrom 2 to 20 y Lands Bought and Sold. Sev eral good farms for sale; FA Agents for several first class Fire Inh- surance Companies. Collections made and a general - ness transacted. ene Sgeney bug = DEBENTURES BOUGHT." &x JOHN & DAVID J. ADAMS, General Agents, Office in Mi. Ross' Ontario Buildings, 1 Port Perry. Port Perry, Oct. 11, 1872," JAMESLUND, MONEY, LAND & INSURANCE BROKER, CONSE YANCER, Commissioner for gh CT EY its in Court of Queen's Bench, «ce. MONEY TO LOAN In any manner to suit horrowe Bouglit, Accounts, Notes, &e. Prompt remittances ma The party borrowing money can get it Withont eintm sion, 4 at the Lowest rate, and Mortgages ected and binding thems | such sum, wl ob it as a di "dintely small, and a prineipal, im on the sum 0 nent. Loans m farm, or good pig y re EA town hg In all eases whe cost will be very ght to the borrow am acting bol E gent and Val ator iH several Companies there ean possibly be no publicity in the transaction. If the title is perfect the money will he ptt here in two weeks after making applica lon. the title is p cet, the JAMES Parrish's Block, Cor, Brock and | seom streets, Uxbridge. Uxbridge, May 17, 1877, LOAN The undersigned hasany amount of Money to letid upon Farm and Town Property, at Unusually Low Rates of Interest! Loans can be repaid in any manner to suit the borrower. Also several Improved Farms, and Wild Litinds for sale, cheap. Investments made in Municipal Deben tures, Bank and other marketable Stocks, Apply to TO JAMES HOLDEN, Official Assignee, Broker, &e. OfricE=Over the Dominion Bank, McMil- fan's Block, Brock st., Whitby. Whitby, April 10, 1873. NOTICE TO FARMERS & OTHERS MONEY TO LOAN. HE undersigned would say to the owners of Real te, that he has in his hands a amount of private funds which he is » d to invest for periods to suit borrow- rest at eight per cent. Fxpedition and x most Teasonable terms assured. 8. H. SGHRISTIAN, Manchester, October ber 17, 1877. MONEY [Private Funds,] 'I'o Loan on good Farms, at 8 per cent in- terest. . LYMAN ENGLISH, BARRISTER, &C., Oshawa November 21, 1866. 4 Money to Loan N Farm Property at Seven and a half per cent. No Commission. Enquire A. Huré's Law office, Port Perry. P. A. HURD, Solicitor, &e, at P. Port Perry, Jan. 9, 1878. Commissioner &e. Office--Manchester. WHITBY STEAM MARBLE WORKS. J. & R. WOLFENDEN, HOLESALE and Retail dealers in Foreign and American Marble Man- tlex, Monuments, &e., Dundas St , Whitby, Also, Agent for the Scottish Gramte. Also' Building Stone out to orde. JOHN NOTT, Agent, Port Perry. 32 Whitby, July 2 29, 1874. The VICTORIA MUTUAL Fire Insurance € oripany J "of Canada, HEAD OFFICE, HAMILTON. HIS is decidedly oneof the Best companies T in the Dominion, and parties hd¥ing property to insure will do well to consider the many advantages of insuring with' this [7 Tela! {whidue] Agent, 'annington, Ont. Seablogtod; Sept. 26,' 1876. tga el hould:bp ba HE lied in on © pers of the wo fikt done. Ts . web: Has created qui excitement with their Smooth Shave and Artistic' a N Store, opposite the Walker oe An e and smpoth' shave and bair and whiskers cut in a stylish manner. 'Remember the place, over Thorne's Dry, Goods Store and opposite the Walke# shflopse. Port the, Dec 5 wr. L= OF DIVISION COURTS FOR THR County of Ontario, For the, year 1878. -D rE leh | Big'Eln'g »Elaizie Hd i Whithy | NEE EERE 1 1 uy He mE mE 151817 216 | 4121127 ojrz, bap Lal 15 0 | aa) fatal ght w [1a] [ hl | 1s] lig Atherly ... ol | $n @. H. DARTNELL, Junior Judge. Whitby, Jan'y 7,188. | } M . 5 r. having now fully ec nipped E Si 4 bi hie new an Sense Livery Stabl»s with a suppl, Superior Horses and Carriages, is pre first clas LIVERY RICS On Moderate Term : PORT PERRY LIVERY STABLES, | ook | Shaving and Heir Outing as thoy Fol Saintfiétd, Dec 4 Lo, ONTARIO BANK. CAPITAL B33, 000 L000 PORT PERRY BRANCH. ton| SAVINGS DEPARTMENT. | A Savings Department is now open in connection with this Branch. Deposits of Five Dollar and upwards received and inter- est allowed thereon, ; No notice of withdrawal required. A. A. ALLEN, MANAGER. THE WALKER HOUSE PORT PERRY HE Subscriber having leased the above hotel, it will be his endeavor to conduct it in every particular go as to merit the approbation and patronage of the public. THE WALKER HOUSE whether for extent ot quality of accommo- dations is cqualled by few Hotels in the Province and surpassed by none out of the best cities Commercial Travelers, the Traveling Public, Farmers and others doing business in the Village and the general public will find in THETWALKE® HOUSE all that can be required in the matter of accommodation and moderation in charges. The Charges are No Higher at the Walker House than at any other Hotel in Town. The House is fitted up throughout in FIRST CLASS STYLE. The Tables and Bar supplied with the choice of the market and the utmost atten-- tion paid to the convenience and comfort of ALL GUESTS. An abundance of comfortable Stable and Shed accommodation, and attentive hostlers. Ww. B. NGAW. Port Perry, April 20, 1870, per PERRY HOUSE, PORT PERRY THOMPSON, - P; ROP, RIETOR. The above House is now most comfort- ably furnished, and Guests are cared for in the Home Style. Good Liquors and Cigars, also, first class Stalling and good Ostl Additions have been made which make JAS. V. ¢ this the largest and best House in this section of country. Fare $1.00 per Day, [)AFor nous, ron PERLY, The Subscriber having leased this comfort. able and convenient Hotel, will spare neither labor nor ex) in providing for the com. fort and convenience of guests. will always be supplied with the best to be had in the market. Cigars at the Bar. Any quantity of firstclass Stable and Shed accommodation properly attended to by careful Ostlers. CHAS. IIOLT. Port Perr; 1 March §, 1876 ERE HOUSE, MANCHESTER. By GEO. HOUCK. Having leased the above excellent Hotel it will be my endeavor to conduct it in every particular so as to merit the appro- bation and patronage of the public. Manchester, Oct. 6, 1875. Q5raRlp AOTEL, WHITRY, T. MASON, - - PROPRIETOR. The public well cared for, and all Guests will please feel at home. Whitby, Nov. 9th, 1876. H 0 TE ¢ of Cameron and Laidlaw ord CANNINGTON, Oxr. D. CAMPBELL, Prorrigror This Hotel is now furnished in the best style, and offers every accommodation to travelers B&5™ First class Sample Rooms. attached, Cannington, Oct. 20, 1875. A NGLO-AMERICAN HOTEL, Livery 43 PRINCE ALBERT. W. H. PARK, =~ - - PROPRIETOR. Having purchased the above pleasantly situated Hotel, 1 have thoroughly repaired and renovated the entire premises even to the Sheds. The Hotel has been furnished in First-Class Style and Stocked with the best Liquors and Cigars! Strict attention paid to the comfort of guests. The table and bar well sunlied, Ww. PARK. Prince Albert, June 12, hii AZYSTRORG HOUSE, (LATE ALBION,) WHITBY, ONTARIO. E. ARMSTRONG, PROPRIETOR. The Only First Class House in Town. Basoy HOUSE, Inte late Jewett House, Kent Suet Lindsay. Board, $1.50 per day. E. BENSON, Proprietor. ROYAL EXCHANGE HOTEL, WILLIAMSBURG, CARTWRIGHT. RB. BRYANS, Proprietor, The Subseriber having succeeded Mr. Mason in this pleasant and commodious Hotel has spared neither labor nor expense in re-fitting. and renovating the entire premises. Sh he Bar Sap lied with a superior class of Li rs and it brands of Cigars. The cho vg Rr the A Dos provided for the Tables. Excellent |'stabling and attentive Ost! Ee E. BRYANS Williamsburg, Dec. 6, 1675. 4 bigs QUEEN'S HOTEE, WHITBY, ONT. McOANY & TAYLOR, Prorrretons. Every accommodation for the traveling REE i) PRCTICE. EE a is happy to, Cafe bis numerous friends and the general public of the locality that during his somewhat brief season of relaxation he has recovered his wonted health and now resumes the e practice of his profession and to attend to all calls, N. McCLINTON, M.D, The Tables | Only choice Liquorsand | = THE 'SOFTIE ad DREAM. IN Wo CHAPTERS --CHAPTER 1. In the fertile val ley of the tiver Suck, just where some ycars ago such, ¢ nation was ted by a | portion of the Bog of Allen showing an inclination to settle for good, there stood many years since a farm-house of rather a better class than any of those in the imuiediats neighborhood, o. indeed in any of the adjacont villages. The house stood alittle of the high-road from Castlerea to Loughlinn, and tew peo- ple who passed failed to gbsetve its well-to-do, comfortable appearance and 'snug' haggard (steading), Its occupier, Owen Kearney; was avery hard-working sober man, who "not only minded his own business, but let his neighhors' affairs alone. Ie was never in arrears with his rent, his turf was cut a year in advance, and got down his crops first and ; 80 that it was not without on that people said that one of the most comfortable tarmer in the village of Glenmadda. Added to being the industrous, Owen Kearney was (what few tenant farmers in the west of Ireland were thirty years ago) something of a speculator.-- He did not tie his savings up in an old stocking and hide itin the thatch of the barn or the cow house, as the mujority of his neighbors who had any savings usually did; but dispite the many and repeated warnings of most Shann More Morris, the philosopher and wisaere of the village, invested in new and improved farming im- of which he was not unjustly considered the best judge in the County of Ros- c¢ymmon, As he did all his busin- ess when he was perfectly sober, he seldom had cause to repent of bargain; and the 'luck penny,' stead of spending in the public hosue, he made a rule of giving to the priest for the pogr of the parish. Not being in the hibitof gossip- ing either alot his own or his neighbors' affairs. no one could form lany correct idea of how rich Owen really but it generally known that he kept his money in the bank, as on fair and marketdays he went into that build- ing with his pockets well filled and came out with them empty, and mounting his cob rode home quietly long before the fun or faction fights commenced. Not so, however. the younger of his two sons, Larry, a wild, restless lad of seventeen, on w hom neither precept nor example of his father and brother seemed to have the least influence. Martin, the eldest, was steady and thoughtful like his father; but Larry, with his hoistrous laugh and ready joke, dancing blue eyes and flaxen hair, never spent a min- ute in thinking during his life -- while he worked, which was not often, he was as good as two, father used to say; and when he took his divarson he was the divil at it, Martin used to add good nataredly. Innumerable wero the scrapes Larry got into, and mirac- ulous were the methods by which he managed to extricate himself. -- There was not a wake, wedding or christening for miles around that he was not to be found at. No merry gathering or fair wascomplete with- out him; and it was almosta pro- verb that Larry Kearney was the last to sit down where there was a dance, and the first to shake a shill- elah in wherever there was a shindy Of course he was his mother's fay. orite; such boys invariably are.-- She shut het eyes to his faults, sup- plied bim with money without any questions, and being a very religi ous woman, or what in that part of Ireland is termed a voteen, she at- toned for all his shortcomings. There was another member of Owen Kearney's family as fall of fun avd mischief in her way as Larry ; this was Pora Coslello, the farmers orphan niece. Little Dora as every one called her, because' when she lost her father and mother, and went to livewith her uncle and aunt, she was a little toddling thing of three years old. At the time (this story tells of she was a fine girl of seventeen, tall finly formed and gracefull as a willow. A fine speci men of an Trish peasant girl was 'Dora Costello, with her red-and- 'white'complection, merry changeable hazel eyes and rich, reddish aungurn hair. There was not a farmer's daughter in many a mile who could gutch or spin as much flax of an evening, mor one who cenld better || milk a cow or make a roll of butter. Bright intelligent, and good temper- plements and in horses, his in- { Kearney was; was his 'led, with a tongue as ready as her fingers, and asense of humor as brich as ber brogue, Dor's' was a gen- eral favorite, and as a'natural con- sequence had numorotis admirers.-- Being by nature somewhat of a co- quette; she managed to play 'them one against another with an ease and grace which a London 'belle tight hive dnvied, keeping good triends with all, and giving none tha slightest preference. But when it came to a question of marriage it tras 4 different thing altogether. -- Dora declared she was very happy with her uncle and aunt, and uncer emoniously refused all eligible young men in herown and the next village. declaring to each in turn that she would 'as soon marry Barney Athleague.' Long ago, in almost every Irish village there was to be found hang- ing about the farm-bouses some poor half witted creature, called in one place an 'onsha,' in others an 'omadthaun,' and ih the county of Roscommon a 'softie'. They were boys without any kuowledge of who their parents had been, cast as child- ren on the charity of some villages; from which they usually took their names, Barney 'Athleague." Tow Barney came to make his way to Glenmadda no one knew, but tne day when about ten years old he was seen fol lowing & hunt. Stumbling over a loose stone, he sprained his akcle, and so was thrown upon the protec- tion of the villagers. A glance at tho lad's motely appearance and vacant face was sufficient to show what he wi of Ireland, as in Germany, there ex- ists among the pesantry a sort of superstituons regard for silly people poor Barney found food and shelter, now from one now from another, indeed softies invaiably did; in re- as turn for which they ran on errands try, and were always inband inan emergency. er fool than he really was. He con- trived to live and be fed, clothed and lodged without working. Ho was generally treated very well, and never by any chance treated badly. IIe knew everybody's busi- ness (for curiosity was one of his virtues or vices) dhd with the speci- knew nothing at all. matters were discussed freely round the hearth in his presence, he mean- timo staring into the fire, sucking his fingers, or rolling on the floor with the dog, no more heeded than that animal ; yet all the while drink ing in the conversation, and with a| sort of crooked wisdom treasuring it! up. Animal were generally the most marked in the softie; as a rule he was greedy, selfish, and unclean in his habits, violent in his antipathies, yet with al capacity for attaching himself with | a strong, dog-like fidelity and affec- tion to a friend. Such was Barney Athleagto--=per- haps a trifle better and more intelli- gent than the generality of his s; and there was not a place in the village where he spent so much of his time, or was so well treated, as at Owen Kearney's; first, because they were naturally kindly people; and next, Mrs. Kearney's religious feelings made her especially good to the poor and friendless; and there was uo person in the world whom the softie cared so much about as Dora. Wherever she went, Barney was not far behind. Ie was always ready to do anything id the world she asked him, no matter how wear- isome or hazardous. When she was a child be climbed the highest trees to get her bird's nests, tumbled like a spaniel in the river to get her lilies, und walked niles and miles to recover a pet did of bers which bad gone astray. As she grew older, he carried her cans when she went milking, fed her poultry, and in short waited on her followed her about lke a lapdog. It was great fan to the boys who tised to assemble in the farmer's kitchen of a winter's evening to tell stories and gossip, to see Barney fly into a furious passion if any one he did not like touched Dora, or even put his hand on her dress. One of thé persons the poor softie most ¢ordially detested was Larry | Kcaruey ; perhaps becaus the young man was too fond of teasing him, or else too much given to sitting beside Dora, How or whatever the cause the poor fellow hated him; but with a prudence one would hardly bave expected in a softio, he kept his 'opinions' to himself, and watched his enemy like a lynx. Naot once or pLwice he saw the young man descend from the loft where he slept with Luke the help, after the family were sound asleep, and opening the door, as Jonnie 'Loughlinn' and | ; and as in some parts | and looked after the pigs and poul-| As a rule, the softie looked a great- | made himself at home everywhere, | al advantage that people thought he | All sorts of | tastes and instincts | after much consideration Barney de termined to follow him and learn his destination, expecting it was tho village public-house or shebeen, or the forge, which was often a haunt for the idlers to play cards or get tipsy in. But Larry took the very opposite direction from what the softiv imagined. Crossing two or three fields, he skirted a planta= tion of ash, or the other side of which was a rath or forth, said to be haunted, and the resort of ' the good people.' The place was very gen- erally avoided after nightfall, and 'Barney's courage began to fail him, when Larry was joined by two or three other young men, which re- vived his spirits, and nerved him to follow silently and cautiously as a cat. On ronnding a hill he saw diese were between thirty and forty men assembled in a field, and after a few minutes one of them advanced to meet Larry. The softie on seeing the man approgch, concealed him- | selt behind the ferns and brambles, [all his curiosity aroused, and strain- ed his ears to ¢ateh the conversa. tion, but-the men spoke so indis- tinctly that he could not distinguish a word till after a little while they drew nearer to his cover. 'Look here, Larry,' said one, drawing something which gleamed | in the moonlight from a cave or hol [low in the hillside, within arm's {length of Barney's crouching form. | Look, my boy, there's two score {pie bends lying snugenongh in |b ere.' 'Good, captain," Larry replied, with his merry laugh, 'and there's [two score boys ready to handle them.' | 'Yes, but we want more," the captain said, as he replaced the wea. pon in the cave, and carefully drew | the thick grass, ferns, and black- berry bnshes over it. 'Did you speak e'er a word to Martin ?' Larry laughed again, word, captuin, and if Molly hersclt was to go and ax him he wouldn't join us; and bedad may, added 'Sorra a be he might inform !' he and the men moved away* 'Ha, to bimsclf as he crept from hi lidg place, and made his | way LACK 10 (hE Tarm-LOUSE | * Wiats where Lary goes. An' who's Molly? Molly? I'll ask Miss Dora to-morrow who's Molly,' and with this reflection he crept | back to bed and fell asleep. merrily-- a |' Barney said who's CHAPTER IT. ¢ Father, IT think I'd like to join the vol | unteers,' said Martin Kearney one day, about 4 month after the above event ; ' the counfry | isina bad' way, and it's time for thin that | love peace and quietness to spake up.' 'True for you, do Martin, and if I was younger I'd the same thing,' Owen Kearney said, looking up from the newspa- | per in which he was reading an agcount of | the arrest of several of the rebels known in | 18 1--as the Molly Maguires, from their first having met in the house of a woman of that | name. ¢It's Lad for the poor boys thst went with the Mollies.' + Will you join with me, asked. But he shook his head, as he replied some. what hastily, ¢ Not I, faith, the boys never did anything to me.' Larry? Martin + And I'm not going to do anything to them,' answered Martin quietly. Only I think it's right for us to show that weer honest Roscommon boys, and have nothing to do with the villains who go round the country at night frightening women and children, and murdering the poor, innocent cattle, not to mention shooting their next door neighbor from behind a hedge without any reason, I know I'd liever be a sheep- stealer than a Molly Maguire ; and to Show that I've no dealings with them INI go to Boyle to-morrow and list in the volanteers." Larry used every argument fo prevent his brohter going to Boyle as he said, but with- outany avail, and early the next morning Martin started to do what numbers of the better class of farmers' sone in the vicinity of thy small towns had already done, About twelve o'clock on the night that Martin left his home, Owen Kearney and his wife were startled out of theic sleep by the softie rushing into their room screaming wildly that he had had a dream, « What is it, Barney ¢' smd Mrs, Kearney kindly, 'don't be frightened uow, but tell me.' « Arrah, ma'am,' he sobbed, ¢ Idramed I blackened rode up to him on the plains of Boyle an' shot him. Oh, wirra, wha, au' wan o' thim was Larry I Poor Mrs. Kearney fell to wringing her hands and sobbing wildly at the extraordi- Loary dream of the poor fool, while her hus. band rushed to his €on's room hoping to find Larry ; but bis bed was empty as was that of Luke the servant. Full of terrible forebodings the farmer began to question 'Barney more patticular'y as to his dream ; 'but he could only repeat again and again that two men fired At Martin on the plains of Boyle, that one of thew was Larry and the other was Luke ; this he maintained with a persistency which it was almost impossible to doubt. No one thought of returning to bed, and while they were consulting what was best to be done, thie softie again uttered a wild shriek and rolled over on the floor,"as a bal let entered the kitchen window and lodgeo in the opposite wall, followed by another which whizzed past Owen Kearncy's head, steal noiselassly from the house; but| saw Martin ; an' two men wid their faces The Lord have mercy upon nx! [he ttex~ claimed, crossing' himself devoutly; Wibere will it end?' And he held his wife, who was almost insensible from the fright, Gjose in his arms: At that instant a bright 1 ht illuminated the kitchen, and in a moment the truth flashed across his brain--his #fead- ing was in flames. Not daring to' oper] his door to look out, he tried to think what was best to be dove, for perhaps the house over his head was blazing too, or would be in a short time. Casting a hasty glance rolind, he lifted his wife in his arms, meaning to carry her to the front of the house and efit of sight of the flames ; when a violent kndck- ing at the front door startled him, and he re- cognized his niece's voice demanding admit - tance. Hastily unbarring it, he saw her accompanied by & party of oldiers, who, when they found no lives had been taken set to work bravely to protect the propirty which was yet antonched by the fhm s, But there was fittle left for them © ta Odo. The cattle had been hamstrung, the horses stolen, and a lighted brand placed in every stack of outs and the thatch of every ont- house. | The work of devastation had Been done ouly too well. * They're taken, uncle--them that st * the baggard a-fire,' sxid Porn as soon" ad she was able to speak, I brought the gol diers to the house, and,' she added, 'ung of the villains said he had finished off Owen Kearney. Thank God, it is not true!' and she threw herself into his arms, 'Yes, I heard him,' said one of 'the soldiers, 'and we've sent him to safer lodg. ings than we took him from, It Reems, Mr. Kearney that your niece was returning home from a visit to a neighbor's when she heard two men whispering in €:e lane at the end of the wneadow. Ag they were in front, and she didn't like their looks, sshe kept behind, and heard them say that there were two gone to Boyle to look ont for the Voluntéer, and that they were going to do for old Kearney and hig wite, string the cattle and five the haggard, Like a sensible girl, she tnrned round quictly and ran as quickly as she conld towards Castlerea, By good luck she met us half way, and though we were going on another errand we turned back with her at once, and netted ths fas-- cals who did this pretty piece of business -- I sent six men on towards Boyle to sce if they could learn anything of the villains who folowed your son,' added the sergeant: ¢ Where's Larry. uncle ?* asked Dora, after she had tried ineffectually to console her aunt. ' Why isn't he here? 'You're all I have now, alanna,' said Kearney, pressing her to his breast. ¢ Mar. tin is gone, and Laray is gone. God isgood.' ¢ Miss Dora, Well, well, Miss Dora!' cried Barney Athleague faintly, ¢ come here a minu'e.' In the general confusion every one had forgotten the poor eoftie, whe lay on the Monn LE 'What is it Carney ? Are you hurt ?' in- quired Dora, bending over him, ¢ Not much, otly my back is bad, cannot lift my legs. Tell your uncle, Owen that Martin isn't dead, He's lyin' on a settle in a shebeen with his hand ou bis ride, calling Dora, I see him--sure I see him ; and Lany and Like is took,.and the sogers is Oh, wirra, wirra | ¢ Sure the poor creature is frightened to death's door,' said Owen Kearney, trying to induce him toget up and drink a littl» But the mug fell out of his hand with dismay and horror, for he found the poor softie bathed in blood. ¢ He's shot, he's shot I" he exclaimed, and of the soldiers drew near and examined the wound. and I Kearney, ing them to Roscommon, water, one "There's a bullet in his back," said the man, 'and he'll never eat another bit of this world's bread, And may Ged forget the mun who forgot that he was an omadbaun !' EY Nothing could have saved his life. But his dream was # literally true. At moment Id awoke screaming, Martin Kearney was fired at by his brother Larry and his father's ser- vant ; at the hour he mentioned the murderers taken ; and Martin himself was taken into a shebeen, as he said, and laid upon a settle in the kitchen, where he called untiringly for his consin Dora, Poor Barney never spoke again. the very were Such was the softie's dream ; acd such sad stories as that above related are a part and parcel of every Irish rebellion. Martin Kearney did not die; and Larry pleaded. guilty, declaring that he was forced. to ate tempt his brother's life both by a solemn oath of obedience and by lot, at the same time confessing all he knew of the strength and doings of the Mollies, . assuring his judges that he joined them in ignorance,'and now thotight of them only with horror and regret. "Pherefore, in consideration of his youth, rep , and the valuable infore mation be gave with regard to the rebels, his life was spared, and he was sentenced in- stead to twenty-one years' penal servitude, while his, companion Luke Murphy, was hanged. It would have been almost a kindness to Larry to have been permitted to share the same fate. Before two Jets he 'died of & broken heart, Owen Kearrtoy's house was not bugned 7 but after his son's transportation, wothing ¢ould induce him to live in it, He here. fore sold his furniture and such ot bis stock as the cruelty and viplence of the Mollies 'spared and went to end his days amongst his wite's relations in the county of Galaway. SG iDora and Martin were: married, 'and after some time emigrated, and pent the remain. der of their days in comfort and happiness: vlouded only by the memory of | how much pleasanter it would have been if 'they could 'have settled down in the eld farm house dear to them both, to be a comfort to their 'father and mother in theiv old age, and at last to sleep beside them in 'Glewntadds «hurch, [} srA ear? . The stock, of one of the wealibiest - tlemea in the County of Roscommon ia? graze where Owen Keartiy's house once' stood, Not a trace' of his faniily teiintna in' he Green Isle. Their tragical ligtdty is | 1lmost forgotten ; but amongst: the : gassips' and old women the. sultien ah membre, Lx