l)c 3cffcvsonian. THURSDAY, MARCH 18, 1875. fi-ir Wo arc pleased to sec that our distin guished neighbor over the way has, In one respect, come back to first principles, and in hunting arguments in condensation of some of the acts of Congress and of the national administration, does not hesitato to quote freely from those sterling Republican sheets the Philadelphia Inqvircr, the Boston Adier t'jt'.r and the Utica Herald. The fact is that true Democracy runs in those channels, and when the bnjus articles, as set forth in th Monroe Democrat for the last twelve or fil toon years, turns its eyes in those directions for political light, it is infiuiately a better show ing than was the Coon's in his remaining out in February when he thought he saw hi nhadow, when, really, he should have gone into his hole because lie did not see it. Th fact is, that the Democrat might have found nearer home, an authority upon which to bs.se a leader that, in the general run of the acts of the administration, relative to south eru affair, there was a Democracy which ought not to have been over looked, and which could not be, without endangering the t-uperstructure upon whieh the Republican party rested. The Jeffcrsonian has been no ways mealy mouthed in condemning act- which the administration thought necessary i'ir the salvation of the country first and the party afterwards is the country first because tint is always to be considered before al party, and the principle should be to sink rvorything, if necessary, to maintain, the country and the rights and liberties of the people intact :.ut our neighbor is not used to an inde pendent, marly course. Even in a littl rough and tumble scramble for the '"loaves and fishes" within his own part', he has not thus far, dared to speak out openly for the best incumbent for whom the party was seek ing. lie was afraid really, because he did'nt know which side was going to win forget ting that as the organist of the party it was hi: doty to lead the singing, and pipe the tvr.5 to which hi? co partizans were to dance. j.nl often times we have fe't constrained to go t.) his rescue ; ani as often have we suc cessfully brought about peace among the brethren, and made Democracy a unit, when otherwise, but for the Jeff, it would have been loose at ends, and a family quarrel of 3w;::i-'.ntionab!c magnitude would have been ".:: result of his weak-knecdness. Why, for tr.vcr.il years past, because in a contest for a tl.r.v dollar job of post ofHec printing he hap ptii' l to underbid and defeat us he has h ir'i'y dare to venture a word of his own in condemnation of the administration believ ing, verily, cither that that job had bound hi.u to silence, or that, in the far distant i ui jr.-, anuther job might loom up, whieh an fo .'penucnt expression of opinion would T: ras not because of want of will, nor dis crimination, nor capacity, that our distin- bed neighbor acted thus. Ile possesses I.C sc to a remarkable ueirrce : and. bar- 1 r? an idiomatic trait possibly, can handle th .-iii to an infinitely better degree than even bis favorite c. temporary the New York Tri tv.nc. Rut bis knees, politically speaking, nr.- weak, and when it comes to the question u: 'clure to do," he lacks the manly spirit to do in spite of all daring. And just here lies the d life re nee between the independence of the Jeff, and the subserviency of the Demo crat the former dare condemn where he latter iuu.it keep quiet. The one is moved by right, the other by the mere p'jli'Jcians policy. The one professes to be t captain in the grand march of the army of progress, and leads successfully the other is a kuibering baggage wagon, lumbering oi: in the rear, and following only in the track in v.-:. :ca u is .cel. Ii is not remarkable that the Democrat cid cot recognize the Jeff, in its comments upon the administration wrings. That would have been an acknowledgement of its nan lack of independence, and. our distin guished neighbor is too wise for that; and yet he shows a great lack of wisdom in cn tJeavorkg to ignore the Jeff because the people are cognizant of its existence, rely upon its integrity and manhood, and gener ally act upon its suggestions. Whether it is a Judge, a Congressman or a Legislator that :s wanting the Jeff, shaped public opinion, even in Democratic Monroe, when the Demo crat dare not, politically call its soul its own. It was the Jeff, which elected Judge Dreher, John B. Storm and Win. Mistier, and later fti'.l Frank D. Collins or rather the Jeff's influence, which, as Democrats bad to be elected, pointed out the best men for the party to select, and it did so because the Democrat did'nt like to for fear of giving tScaoe. TvLi'.p it before the people that those cis terns are a prime necessity for our safety from the ravages of fire. They will cost but little comparatively with the good they would secure in case of necessity, and our citizens fchould not lose a moment in pressing upon the "borough fathers" the duty of building them. If one but eousiders that there are but few points at which the creeks or the race can be reached, in order to make the work of the "Pocono" effective, the truth io at once made apparent that we are badly prepared indeed to battle with anything like tsuch a conflagration as we are at any moment uiject to. We need the cisterns, and we must have them, if we would not one day feel cause to regret our criminal negligence at net having had them built. The total value of property in Massa chusetts exempt from taxatiou is $55,0S8 51 of which Roon's share is? 18,7 13,1 00. Get your seeds and garden tools ready. . March is over half gone. All-fools day close at hand. A mi L showers will soon be here lioru. -in a What a world of rejoicing there will be when the stones get lose. WriKRE are you going to move to? ia now an every day question. Slush, enow, rain and mud these arc the mixtures we have been taking lately. - For the cold, the snow and the slush this winter we expect to find a liberal compensa tion iu August. Our town has been unusually free from shows this winter, for which we have all rea son to be thankful. And soon will come the whippoorwills to wail a plaintive accompainment to the "swinging on the gate." Scranton had a big day over the parade of the St. Patrick's yesterday. It was "St. Patrick's day in the morning," you know. Money is as scarce here as white mice, and we have none of these since neighbor John's died. No body is flush just now. '- . Things are progressing so gently and neat ly thawards, that we apprehend .no danger from the ice gorges on our mountain streams. Our young friend, Mr. E. L. Wolf, Jr., of Serantrtn paid us a flying visit on Tuesday last. The latch string is always out for such as Ned. Port Ji.rvis used a hundred barrels of naptha on Saturday last, in trying to burn up the ice gorge but it was no go. It would'nt burn worth a cent. The next regular monthly mcettng of the Y. 31. C. A. will be held iu their rooms Fri day evening, March 19th, 1S75. All are cordially invited. We commenced a new feature a couple of weeks ago that of publishing a summary of town council proceedings. We design con- tinueing this feature monthly, or as often as our borough fathers meet. C. H. IIaney, Esq., of Chestnuthill, who las been serriously indisposed for some time past, is, -we are pleased to learn, getting around again. Hope to hear, very soon, of lis complete restoration to health. The Rev. Dr. Chapliu preached his last sermon previous to conference, last Sunday. Many persons here, both in and out of his congregation, will regret any action cf the conference which may locate him elsewhere. The "beautiful snow," of which we have iad such a superabundance all winter and tha "glittering ice" which has kept even march with the "beautiful," are raipdiy softening and wearing away, and it is not ap parent that any one regrets their departure. Strange isn't it? Those of our readers who design raising fancy chickens, should read Mr. R. T. Wolf's advertisement in another column. We have seen Durr's stock, and as it ia the product of premium imported fowls can confidently re commend it as a starting point for successful breeding. A finer lot of birds can scarcely be found. The robbins, or rather the advance friend of these cheerful warbb-rs and cherrv thieves put in an appearance here on Friday last, and a dove was seen hopping around P. II. tobeson's barn yard on Thursday. We rather think the feathered songsters. got their foot in it, and evidently had not remembered the vagaries of "gentle Spring." They will have o go back, and come again after a while, when Winter has surely departed and Spring las set her house in order to receive cona- panj Mr. Morris Smiley, from boyhood a resident of Stroudsburg, and more recently of Hoboken, N. J., d:ed at the residence of his brother, in Stroud township, this county, on Friday last, lie had been in poor health for several years. His remains were followed to the grave in the Stroudsburg Cemetery, on Sunday by a large number of relatives and friends, including among the latter the ui em bers of the Phoenix Fire Com pan, of which organization he was a member. Mr. Smiley's life was marked by characteristics, which drew around him a large circle of warm friends, who sincerely mourn his death. o Now push the gas project don't let it lie idle a moment don't suffer the possibility of its dying out don't allow anything to op perate as a brake to retard its rolling on to a speedy completion. There is no knowing but that mother McGinnis's cow is, at tlm very moment, practicing with her heels to kick over the kerosene lamp that is to furnish us with a Chicago conflagration in miniature. Let us do away with the kerosene, and thee let the cow kick as much as she pleases. Gas should be burning in our houses and along our streets by the first of May at farthest. Scranton uppertendom is just now enjoy ing a sensation, growing out of an attempted skedaddle on the part of an unloving "hubby dear" from libs overmuch loving "partner of his buzzum. Wifey, however, was too smart for hubby. She "smelled a mice" of more than ordinary proportions, and when "hubby dear" thought himself safely ensconsed in the cars on Friday evening last, along came "wifey," a constable, and a warrant, and hustled "hubby dear" before Alderman Ful ler, who held the absquatulater in $3,000 for his appearance at court, to answer the charge of desertion. Scranton is overly blessed with excitements of the sensational kind. Ho wonder the mines are compelled to biuk oc casionally, under ita loads of sin. Scranton's I iggest bugbear, is Scranton' a Ma3'orality. At the recent municipal elec tion in that city of magnificent distances, it appears that R. II. McKune the Twelfth ward candidate was elected by a handsome majority, and although the present incum bent, Mr. Loftus, refuses to resign his official position until November next. Mr. McKune etill asserts his executive authority. A ques tion of authority has now arisin between the two mayors, which promises to be finally set tled at the next term of court. Already the movers have began to move, and business changes are being made here abouts. We have the following to move this week : Mrs. Jane Ilolliashead ha3 removed to Port Jervis, where she designs making her future home. Mrs. II., and her accomplish ed daughter, Miss Lizzie will be much missed by the .social and religious circle here, which during their long residence here, their presence so much graced. Mr. John T. Hoffman has sold his interest in the brick yard, on the road to Stokes Miil, in Stroud township, to Garret G. Ram sey, of this place, and moved to RIoouis burg, Pa. John was an industious citizen, and made warm friends here by his kindly disposition and genial cleverness, who will regret his departure. Mr. George Deer, of Easton, an employee of the Stroudsburg House has taken the house vacated by John T. Iloffinau, and oc cupies it with his family. Garris & Morgan, of East Stroudsburg, have dissolved partnership. Mr. Morgan will continue the business at the old place. Mr. Garris has taken the store-room of Mr. Richard Storm, and will commence general merchandising on his own account at once. Daniel R. Drown has taken the house vacated by Mrs. Jane Hollin.-dicad, and will occupy it as soon as some conveniences, which arc in course of addition are completed. Resolutions olCostdolcnce. At a special meeting of Thoenix Steam Fire Engie and Hose Co., No. 2, held at their Hall, Friday evening, March 12, 1S75, the following preamble and resolutions were unamiou.sU adopted : Wheheas, An allwise Providence, lias in his Divine wisdom, been pleased to call away from our midst Morris Smiley, a member of our Company, and Whereas, In bis death the Company has lost a faithful member, his family a kind and affectionate father and society an upright christian man. Therefore be it Ilcs'Jvcd, That while we deplore our loss we submissively bow to the will of our God and maker; and be it further Retched, That as a testimony of our respect to bis memory our Hall, Engine and Iloee carriage be draped in morning for the period of thirty days; and be it further Resolved, That we deeply sympathize with his bereaved family in ihcir irreparable loss and that a copy of these resolutions be present ed to them ; and be it further Resolved, That these resolutions be spread upon the minutes of the Company and a copy be presented to each of the county papers for publication. r.EXj. F. r.UTTS, ) IIokack IItstox, fComittec. John Kleckler, J I'l'ZZLLS. Henryville, March, 12th, 1S75. Theo. Sciioch: Dear Sir: In your issue of the 4th inst, you say my solution of J. Zabrbkie's "puzzle" is "incorrect," Is'ow it does not make any material difference to me whether you call it the one thing or the other, but I am not convinced yet that the solution as givcu by me is "incorrect" and I have good authority to bear me out in that assertion. Prof. Stoddard, who has pub lished a whole series of Arithmetical books, w hich are of a high standard too. In bis Mental Arithmetic he has a similar question to the one referred to,, and he gives the explanation, as I gave it. The first lot at the rate of 7 for o cents and the remainder at 0 cents each. Now as far as the condition of the question is concerned, I can see no difference in the two solutions given. I do not dispute the correctness of the solution, as given in your paper, but I Jo maintain that if the 07?e is right, the other is right also, for the principle is all the same, the ouly difference is, in the one case the price of the apples as sold, is proportionally three times higher. Therefore I say in conclusion (and I think you will agree with me when you have examined it carefully) that both ways arc correct. In the one case they all received 10 cents for their apples and iu the other 30 cents. I see in this week's paper you have'a good supply of "puzzles" on hand so I will not send you any at this time. May do so occa- sionauy. jl our s nespectiuiiy, S. Datesman. Answers. -.The answer to "J. W. McK's" puzzle is "The Jeffersonian." Mr. Zabriskie's postal card puzzle is the alphabet reversed. Read 31 r. Zabriskie's "Pi," puzzle backward and you will have the answear. Harrie Price, Henryville, your answer to Mr. Zabriskie's tard puzzle is correct. Let us hear from you again. "Pottanatomine," is the answer to "G. W. W's," puzzle of last week. The answer to the following is au old adage very familiar. He sty eyes Tea lie Rest Pea O wcl I see. Still Water. Flanigan, will please forward answer to bis Arithimetical problem and we will pub lish it next week. The Democrats are great economists. In Schuylkill county, where they control everything, they recently built a barn on the County House property, in which 1, 500 feet of lumber was used ; and the war rants drawn on the Treasurer to pay for it amounted to only 820,000. The ice gorge on the Juniata ia fourteen miles long. Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, has just ground out one hundred and seventy, new doctors. Pennsylvania will be physicked by ninety-two of them. The following are the graduates from Monroe county : J. Pace Mutchler, of East Stroudsburg, a student of Amzi LaRar ; Horace Rush, of Smithfield, a son of Dr. P. M. Rush, and student of Dr. Lewis Rush of East Stroudsburg; A. Lewis Kirkhuff, of Hamil ton, a student of Dr. George W. Jackson. They have our best wishes as they certainly deserve of all men. Mr. Gen. T. Oplinger, of Slatington, is the owner of an orange tree at present having hanging on it lu'7 oranges in dif ferent stac.es of growth. The House of Representatives at Ilar- risburg presented on Friday last a scene o disgraceful rowdyism that has never been equalled. The session, which lasted al night, is described as having been far worse than a Fourth ward political meeting. The greatest disorder existed, and no attention was paid to common decency by cither the Speaker or the mass of the members Dozens of bills were rushed through with out reading or consideration, so rapidly that the clerks gave nn the job of keeping even a list of them. Patterson, the Speaker after the House had been declared ad jourued, called it to order again and kept it in session until morning. Questions o order were decided without the slihtcs regard to parliamentary rules, but only to suit the controlling majority. It is Ion since the State has been disgraced b per formances of this kind, which appear to be particularly enjoyed by the Democrats who control the House. It is fortunate that the Senate remains steady and true, for upon that body rests all the responsibility oi correcting the loolish and partisan va garies of the other branch. It the people of Pennsylvania are not already heartily sick of the Democratic House they elected last fall, they are in a fair way to become so before its term is tended. Bucks Co Intelligencer. The Kentucky library lottery, the tick cts for which were lavishly advertised all over the country in this State in viola tion of law turns out to have been the biggest kind cf a swindle. It appears that much lcs3 than the whole number of tickets had been sold at the time of the drawing at Louisville, and the prizes were all scaled down accordingly. After they had held the drawing, nobody was able to tell who held the fortunate cards for the larger prizes, while the "approximato" prizo list is even vet unsettled. It is now s;iid that legal proceedings will be taken to compel the managers of the fraud to fulfil their promises. The only certain thing about the whole business is that thousands of peo ple have been induced to bu3 the lottery tickets, often with money that they could poorly afford to spare, in the delusive hope that they might jx;ss.ibly receive a fortune. 1 Ins mone bus ironc into hands from which it cannot be reclaimed, and there is very little probability that a cent of it will ever go to the '"library" about which so much was said. There are a good many news papers m this part of the country which helped along this swindle, knowing at the same time that thev were transcrressincr the law as well as aiding a most nefarious busi ness. Thirty-one years ago a little boy, four years eld the son of Daniel Ilutchins, of Rurlington, N. J., while playing outside the door of the home of hi3 parents, was kidnapped by two men and taken to Phila delphia on board of a steamboat. From that city the boy was soon aflerward taken to the West, where he grew np under the charge of his captors. Upon arriving at the age of manhood he started out in" life for himself, and traveled nearly every part of the civilized world. At the time" of his disappearance from home his parents be come almost frantic with grief because of his loss, and had the Delaware river and its tributaries, together with the surround ing country search for his whereabouts, dead or alive but all in vain. The people of Rurlington showed the deepest sympathy for the sorrow-stricken parents and large rewards were offered for the recovery of the lost one, notwithstanding which the event remained shrouded in mystery for the long space of thirty-one years, when the lost one appeared at the scenes of his childhood in quest of his parents. In the meantime the father and mother died, it is supposed from pure grief, thinking that their boy must be dead. After fighting the bat tles of the world and making for himself a snug competence, the young man became convinced that he was not the child of the men with whom he had been living, and he determined to find his parents. He enter tained a slight recollection of his old home, and he finally ascertained tbat he could find tidings of bis parents iu New Jersey, and aided by inquiry, he fked upon Rui Ungtoa ss the place, arriving only to find his pa rents dead. Successful Blasting at Port Jervis. ; Pout Jervis, March l.". Rlastiug is still being carried on. and quite successfully. Ry night the keystone of the gorge will have been blasted through, thus, to a certain extent, weakening the clam and making fu ture operations more rapid. Breaking Up in the Alleghany. Pittsburg, March IS. the heavy gorge existing in the Alleghany river at Kittanning for some weeks, broke up at four o'clock this afternoon and reached here at 8:20 P. M., and is running now. The ice is very heavy, and the river running full. There was no serious damage along the Alleghany as far as heard from, but fears are entertained for the safety of the lower coal landings. The Kiskimiuetus gorge broke this af ternoon, carrying away the county bridge at Leichburg. Reports from the upper Alleghany show good prospoct3 of a Gen eral break up. Trout fishing will be legal after the 1st of next month. Hot lemonade is claimed to be the best known remedy for a cold. The woolhat factories of Reading will suspend operations on April 17. Sixty-two inches of snow in Anthony township, Lycoming county, this winter. A German infidel was refused his na turalization papers in Philadelphia last week. Kansas promises soon to produce silk at lower figures than any other country in the world. One Reading man has paid, since February 7th, nearly $10,000 tax on whiskey. It is rumored that Tweed's lawyers are confident of his release before the fall "primaries" are held. The Finanncial Chron icle estimates that there is uow over $300,000,000 of specie in the United States. George Wheeler colored, was hanged at Easton, Talbot county, Md., on Friday for the murder of Mrs. Whitman in July last. It is not generally known that the butter crop of the United States is now greater in value than the wheat crop. Yet such is the fact. Joshua Griffin, colored, was hanged near Relair, Md., on Friday, for the murder of Miss Susan Taylor, near Aberdeen, Har ford county, in October last. The saucy Rrooklyn Arjvs believes if Jay Gould could run a railway train to Heaven, he'd take Rrooklyn piety as a head light for the locomotive. There were 11G births and 4'1 deaths in Allentown, during the months of Jan uary and February. The population of that enterprising city is increasing. A. Mrs. Evans, residing in Seymour, Connecticnt, on Monday, cut the throats of her two children, aged throe and six years, and then cut her own throat. A number of buildings in Allentown arc cracking, owing, it is supposed, to the set tling of the foundations. In Pottsvillc the frost has been raising the foundations. You no: man, go East. Good farms in Aroostook county, Maine, may .be bought of the State at Sfy cents an acre, payment to be made in labor ou the piibl;cldgh - ways. Mr. Joseph "Walker, manager cf tlio Opera Ilonse in Scranton, was the hicky holder of a ticket in the Kentucky lottery scheme which has dravu the sum of $'J, 501. It is rumored that Carl Schnrx will prac tice law in New York, and that he lias already been engaged as counsel of the Hamburg Steamship Compav. at 010.000 annually. Xew Jersey hx? jest passed" a law impos ing a fine of five thousand dollars and im prisonment for a term of one year upon any person who shall transfer his property to avoid taxes. From February I to March. 1 there was an increase of fifty distilleries with a dailv capacity of OS.O.'iS gallons. There are -10(5 distilleries in all, with a total caracitv of -Vo.bLo gallons. . a Mrs. Ma sen D. Custard, of Egypt Mills, Pike county, died at ber late residence Wednesday evening of last week. De ceased was the largest woman in the coun ty, her weight being upwards of 300 pounds. All the scientists of Europe are rushing to Paris to sec a man whose nose took a sudden start and crew half an inch longer. Such is the desire of humanity to see a man who nose more than than anybodv clse. Joseph Augustine, of Eastville, Clinton. count-, is the champion shaver, not of notes, but of shingles. He shaved eight hundred singles in nine hours, or an aver age of one shingle in forty and a half see- on di. At the annual meeting of the Lehigh Coal and Navigation company it was shown that the receipts of the year were $1,932, 321 ; deducting the expenses this leaves a balance of S 115,205 to the credit of the dividend fun. A Susquehanna county lawyer drew a writ, the other day, whieh a denutv sheriff went to serve, and found the party jaa oecn aeaci lor a week or two. The ohiecr returned the paper indorsed, "Pres ent place of abode unknown." A finely dressed lady who slinnod and 111 the other day, nnd the boot-black who assisted her to her foet inquired. 'Did you break any bones madam ?' 'No I guess not she replied ; 'but I am just as mad as if I iad broken a dozen of era. A Montana editor bemoans the of 1S74, in the following touchim- stnin Firt. that Reccher business, then thr grasshoppers, then the Democratic victories aiKl now an increased tax on whiskey. Y hat u this poor country comin" to ? A rather curious arbitration mm a nfT-.t Solinsgrovo la&t week tb, n-ivf'nc l Henry Walter and Elli Hartman, and the contention a bond of SI. 000. whii-h tl,o 1 f J atter had given conditioned that he was not to visit the former's wife. The arbitra tors gave judgment for 81,010. Joseph Mishow, of Williamsport, cele brated his one hundred and first birthday March 11th. It is claimed as a remarkable iacc mat lie has never had a single hour of sickness m his life, and at the present time is reported to be in the enjoyment of good health, and daily moves about araon his friends and acquaintances. ttSr- Win. Lanjar, of whom wo spoke in the nemocrat sometime ago as having been found sick, with some of his limbs frozen in a farmer's barn in Smithfield township about the holidays, died on Thursday, the 4th in.it. He said he came from Detroit Michigan, was about 38 years of age, was o feet 8 inches in height, sandy hair, fair complexion, light built, and at times seemed to be deranged in his mind. Any one identifying the person by this notice can obtain further information by addressiu Imely Rush, Shawnee P. &, Pa. Ex. changes please copy. Demo. j. wo persons, both .,f,ri... high age of over one hundred??4 in Raltimore last week. On , a,rs Mrs. M:irv Smitl, 111 T ... 2w had been lur some years an iu hospital in charge of the Litt tl the Poor, on McKim's Hill i '-sterHf have reached the age of one hW S? t eleven years. The other WH, M Carr, a colored woman, one lmf" iCill five years old. Her ie,,S fl". J not impaired until a fow Wck- T t: Wen 1 ueain. The Reading Engh s iv.s It -n ollected that Dr. R MiW,l,, 'r- Li 1 - uicr er"-t i ancaster city a twWr. i , '-i iu ten hours and a throiw i . Us- in nineteen hours. He now t,r,.. u'ei'i v uri..!- i. on the Centennial grounds t' f? phia, next summer, u twosi1- hou.. 21 ly 40 fU lias arranged with Cart. ,,tt Reading, for the furnishm- c,fVv??'r' .of iriil . 1 .- s v. .1. uuvi uwi umi wniuow ca i ,i .... i , u - v iriirpi... I, which will ot galvanized .iron. Th 11 IllO IB wl C v,uri!:iiti ...:t i anow eu nail an hour in whi. h i " m hi the cornice, thnuo-l, ,,-, , , i , l'ut u:, thinks ... . V in a quarter of and hour. Tweed has as many lives o Saturday the Supremo Court r-f Xcay Y i in gcneral term, rendered a dcion A case, denying las appeal and a WUl, tv judgment of the Court of Over und T miner, which had sentenced te fyT -Ross" cn every count of the C!Z upon which he was convicted. Uat'tv protection thrown around the rrimirji the revised statnes of Xew York indefinite, and we are notscrnriie-J uirr that iu a il-w hours his ingenuous and r" scrvering counsel had secured from a JU(j. of the same Court, '-sitting b tkmv' a writ of error enabling them tD am-al again. The case new g.,ci to th Court tf Appeals, whosi decision -will be final Oat in Nevada a rer preacher w;.s de livering bis first sermon, urA er.deav..r,..l to make Lis remarks more impressive lv informing bis bearers that they could uJt expect uto win the- heavenly sLAe with the four acc of faith, hope, eb;rity and virtue wdiilo the Lrd held a flush "lie 'ot J, further in his fig-are &f spwch nhs ! hi had not studied Scheuck for t tins in stant there w;u a hubbub in the ciain awr iv velocity irom tne pulpit and disn; paired l't - 'ir6Kon t,iC door just ahead ela Nu. deacon was heard to exclaim : '-W.. d.,n want no snooxer of a preacher what !oi."s krjer-; as four aces bc;;t a pluiu fiui'.i-'' The Colorado Potato. Beetle, the me '-Uig having appeared last year in parts of Now Jersey, Pennsylvania, an I in other Eastern lueahics not before vis LuL its appearance in foil force m-.iv l looked for the coming season. The'fiM, beetles will come from chrysalis, which have been in the ground all winter. These will lay egg?, and the larv;o from thear change to beetles in about a rac-nth ; '.Lis first brood will produce a second, and tl.at a third, which w"d remain in the crnur.d to furnish a stock for 1S7G. The vit:i!h important thing to do, is to watch for tU first beetles wuh the appenrance of the first potato tops, and not wait until tin. rivals of hordes cidl for active measures. Viilano-, whether they appeared last year or njt. : the one essential thing. XcLircu,t-iitrhtl kill, in the beginning. Ye will talk almut poisons and. ether aids another time. Ajri culturist. The old swindling device of the -patent safe" bus recently gone into voir1!- cn r;:ii way ears. It consists cf a small bruss pol lock with, several ingenious cnibiiuions for locking without a key. The swindle is generally conducted as follows : One :f the swindlers approaches a person whom he considers verdant enough for his purp-'sc. in. rvi-i;j iu.-. v...7's,.i ;t'i... can open it. If the man "bites' ho will un dertake to open the padiock an.l fail, when the swindler shows him a concealed spring, by which it is unlocked. At this reor.ic-iit a confederate approaches and inquires wlu-.i puzzle they have, lie is shown the pad lock, undertakes to open it, fails, and olferi to wager ten dollars that no one in th"! crowd except the owner can open it. " dant gentleman takes th? bet, puts np di-; money, trios to open th.? padlock, and fans, a second combination having been c!i:;ng: 1 by the confederate. Colorado was admitted as a n?w St iteiu the last hours of Congress, but the hill admitting New Mexico was rejected. T h. r.' was a majority vote for both, but the "two thirds" vote which prevails in the ia. daS of the session was the cause of New Mexi being rejected, the bill for that State not receiving the necessary two-thirds vote in the House, whilst the Colorado bill receive it. Colorado is not to be admitted until ISTt), however, and her new Senators and members cannot take their seats until after Presidential election, in which ti:C people of the new State will not particpatc. Ry the census of 1870 Colorado had a population of 3,.).Su,4, whilst New Mexico had 01,874. The prospective new SM of Colorado, in 1870, did not have much populaiton as cither of three varus Philadelphia the Fifteenth, Niuetecuth and Twcutieth whilst the Twenty-sixth Ward very nearly approached it. - A curious suit will come up in the Ma)' session of the County Court at Millonl 1 It is a twenty-year-old allair, and grew out of an election bet. During the liuchaiun Fremont Presidential campaign, Major Colvin L. Seymour bet with AUw Westfall several hundred acres it I;1 that Fremont would be elected. deeds to both pieces of property vere placed in the hands of Daniel Van Aukm, District Attorney of the county. Of coursa Scymour lost. The property has now ris in value tremendously. Several famoin stone quaraios have been in operation there, and Mr. Seymour repents hw dp He brings suit against Westfall, on ttu. ground that the whole transaction was l.it gal. Retting debts being usually cj. by civilized nations among 4Job i it ,i . , . 7 Min ueai n twenty years after its payment snou characteriza Mr. Seymour's suit 5 4111 nonor, uie aiiempi io evauo i fter it Seymoi m . tion of dishonor.
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