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Dcuotci to politico, Citcrature, Agriculture, Science, iiToralitn, an& cuernl intelligence.
VOL. 34.
STROUDSBURG, MONROE COUNTY, PA., SEPTEMBER 28, 1876.
NO. 17.
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Published by Theodore Schoch.
Terms Two dollars a vi'ar in advance nl if not
r si 1 l-.'!"rc the end of tile rear, two dollar and fifty
ii':it' i'.l be ehsrosl.
No paer discontinued until all arrearages are
rai'l. ev.-ent at the option of the Editor.
ay- .vlvertis. lueut.s f one square of (eight lines or
.:ie or three inertiotis Si .". Keh additional iu
ter!i 'ii. -rn cent. Lon-e r one in proportion.
J OK IMIIXTIXG
OF AtX KINPS,
i:xo-.:toJ in the hi-rhest style of the Art, tid on the
mo-t reasonable terms.
J.
II. Sill M,, M. L.
S.-.inl door below Burnett House. Residence
;' d r c-t of Hiokvite Quaker Churvh. OSte
1 .. -ir- :u., 1 to 3 p. uxn 6 to a p. in.
!.n- -". Wt"-f.
D
K. S. JULldCIl,
Physician and .Surgeon,
.STROUDSBURG. Pa.
t'x, formerly ooeuyded hy Dr. Strip. Reidcnc with
.1. U. Mill-r, one door Udow the jer!Vrsonian Office.
h-ir, T to 'J, 1 J to a and 0 to y.
: :t : i. i7t;. u.
D. ii:ck,
Siugeou Dculist.
ii:r: :i .tl-.. E-linser's n:-w ImiHiiij:, nearly opposite
t. - :r '.i i-'-'i : 1 "ail it. ri- adiiiiiistered for ex tact inij
u h- ii d-:r"i.
Srr i-irj. Jan. fi,"76-4f.
jii. vr. j.4CKSo.
r;iYsirnx. surgeox and ArnirrncriJ.
" "Ii in Sjiii-i-i 1! -d's nw ""n:.i.:i). n-nrly op-p--i:
t-'-l oifi.-o. II '-ideuce on Surah street,
r Franklin.
. i.-.i-; sTJ-if
ot;;t v !!i??!ir,
i:at n;orivi;i im pa.
'. '- .-. "-' '-"i t::- taV.-n -n 1 " ?i!iin' crtr.Inin,:
t : -v- V e i-jr.-t-'!:v .-. !-M.
iK.:- 'N A TiiOMIX N,
I: v:i !"-:';- 1 r.-n rmu e At.-:it.
Kitl -r' t-'mt l,.iM-li!i n.--r the iVt.
r-- : i.. Pa.. Jan. 1'7, i7 ".. !
j 7 ttloi'isey at Iav,
. .1 .-.r -S-.vo the ".tror.-l-biirg House,"
:.- -i M..jrr. Pa.
iir'.'-; I ST 4.
" WILLIAM S. RESS,
Surveyor, Conveyancer and
Esal Estate Agent.
Tims, Timber L?jids and Town Lots
FOR SALE.
:T. ? nrirly opjxe: it? Aioerlran IIouc-s
ir. i -J. ! -i.tt.r '-.:!. nr the Corr.t-r tv-re.
Much '. I-T.Mf.
D R. J. LA N T Z,
JURGEON & MECHANICAL DENTIST.
v",' ha oTj.-e fn M-.'in r ct. in te cfnd try
' t "r". : : . . .-i 1: .r.;'.! 1 i: ?-:irlv ii-:tjife the
. ,S ' . fi,4t-r' himif thai by t-i
ltd i
. ::-:j'uh to a i :n:ttl-r rt:i:ii!iiz to His f t-h ,
j". 1" f abi - to p-Tform all r ratj.n i
i i n:;.i line iu tb la -l careful aui Vi'ii;"ul man- ;
- m' : -r.t"-'. ) rlT ar:r:; th- Natural Teth : i
: h i:j"-tii"H tf Art;- iI Tt-f 'h ri Ii-.ib5 -r. j
. vr. or f u!iur!U iic. an ! p -rfet-t t Js io all 1
:;--'-1. !
,.-.!- fc.i.,w th- cr-at f-.T'y sod danzr "f en- j
,!!' :'.e: ir v. r' lo the i n-x f ri- :; 'T to t hex- !i v-
April 1", 1 7. It j
r, -i l-r-:L-r.-l h--r-hv ai;n-ur.-.- that li; l:a. r-
. , , ri ! h 1 s'aii'i. ji- r.l d-r to !:ii.-t'
r". '. -". T--.1. T": -".i r. I 'a., and
.. ; ir-.-i : Ai eoTij:;". -itv s!i in w-iit c,l
BOOTS and SHOES,
. :h- l-t.-t tvai.'l of cw? mafrial. Itepair
; Iv allrMlol to. l.Jive m a e.U.
:-;viT.; c. L5:wi watkks.
A.OTI!CU TUOI'XIV 1VO.
liY THE
ESTEY COTTAGE ORGANS!
T:ie 't'Trinr anJ Tteatitifiillj fini-hed in
tr:::uents ij far c-c!ijw:d their comtetilor in
T"la'ae. I'.irlt v fwettnts and delicacy oS tone,
to carry o.Tthe fir.-t a:id ostly premium jiv
n to exl.U.iturf of refd Orgins at the Monroe
jnty Fair. he!d Settemler 18T4.
K:v on!r t) brxt. Yor price list add re?
Oct 1-tC ' J. Y.SICJAKUS,
PAPER HAiMiER,
GLAZIER AND PAINTER,
MONROE STREET,
Nearly opposite Kautz'e Blacksmith Shop,
Steocdsbcro, Pa.
The undersigned would respectfully in
fortn the citizens of Stroodeburo; and vicinity
that he ie now fully prepared to do all kinde
of Paper Hanging CJIazing and Painting,
promptly a:il at short notice, and that he
:!; keep constantly on hand a fine ttock ol
Paper Hangings of all descrip'ions and at
'w prices. The patronage of the public
earnestly dieted. May 16, 1672.
Dwelling House for Sale.
ues-iraMe two story J)wf-il;is jious ct
Jt-'vmtX ice seven rooms, one of which is su
tifX for a Strt Hym, hituatc on Main i
USJlTji in xh Borough of Stridburjr.
IliilSbuUdicRis ncarlv new, and cverj
A Try dc-sirah'io two storv Dwelling House, contaia-
suttablt:
rirwt,
. The
Illi.'sjgSbuUdicsis nearly new, and every part
tBg-jM 'f it iu good couditiou. Tor terms Ac,
i his cgice. De. 9, 1 87-Vt f.
TViVT you Kuou" fbat J. II.
J McCarty k Sons are the ouly Under
im in 8troudsburg who unders;tan-ij their
mesg? If not. attend a Funeral managed
lY any ot her Undertaker in tovrn a thi you
tr.e proof of tLe f.ct. - '
MA
TILDEN'S LAMENT.
et e. r. nrsTox.
Ti-e Tillikens his THnah.
I'm lonesome and weary, my story i ad.
My 7)Twpwts for Preident looks wighty ld,"
The burden I carry is wearing nie out,
f h, I wish in my heart I bad never come out,
Iti toorel li toorel li toorel li-a.
The only support I am -certain to g.t.
Is the ku-klux and rebel and all of that et.
The Demoerats North show a differ nt phae.
And I foar every one i for Governor J lave;.
There's Morrlsey, too. he is Aaing we harm,
With hi:u at luy he ls, it injures "reform,"
AV'uh that little word 1 thought I saw clear.
My way to sit in the Iresident chair.
And for every darkey dowu South we trarrote,
It only makfs Hays and Wheeler a vt.
Oh, dear, I'm so sad, and I ft t l so Torlorn,
Twer Ixtter for nie I had never been bom.
My letter ef aeeej.tance awhile I suppressed,
Til! I'd h-9r from the people, I thought it the iKt,
Tor Thomxs A. Hcudrickw, my DcuocraX "iard,"
(ioe in for "soft mitiey," vhile I am for "bard."
Mr railroad adventures th.-y're brin-ina to light,
And deedj I had done under cover itt nijht,
And evtu the Credit Mobilier aCair,
Is dania'iug me nearly everywhere.
My colleague, Tom. Ilendrick. has trials like me,
His record is wor.e than I thought iteonld le.
It steins thro' the war he waa ''..Lay-at-homc' man,
And worked for the "Sons of Liberty clan."
Our party is waniusi, it is eafr to see,
Ii-feateil thi- fall I am certain to he,
Itnt one tli:n consoles me, I can truthfully say,
I have plenty of money to last out my day.
'Tis a fact I confess, that we cannot diuise.
Our course through the war was very unwie1
A ft-eling to- warm for the South yt-t is found.
And it keeps us continually iu the lack ground.
( lay Ontr, Kan., An... 1S7G.
AN "OPEN LETTER" TO SAM TILDEN.
15 V TKKLNCi; O ToOLE.
My uarl-nt Mither T'lldt-n,
We all wr bu-y Tot i I ':;'
i:r hop-.'soii y..u for l'rf:dfl;t in thi C'eutennial year;
Whin you tuk the "!y'' liy toria
Wid your war-cry f "Uvfcrm,"
We thought you wur invincible, n i J uought on earth
to f -r.
l'ut we are fill onsNy
An" withty near p-'in" crszy
Would rou t-!l n.- now, voru fex, at-.ut that income
tax r
An make an explanation
That will plazetliis mighty nation.
Or I f-Ttr :'. 4loys"' will throw you t the divil ofl"
thrir backs.
It's mighty bad, the phase is,
An' it's Diihty !a-l that Hayes is,
An" the party'il t l la-?- if ytu can't explain away
That :-:a:e:!n.t:t f.f y-r taxes;
An' r.'l v.i earth I ax is.
That yc:";; say y.et didn't sware fale or pet such
awful ay.
CKh! turf an" t3r-r.-?r".
What mighty fine 1,; raes
Vvu m -d upon thoe niiroad. Sam, in aiy le;al pay.
While niy-ielf un" Iarby tlr.-vly
An' Mike an" IV.; ai." Tl.r. ly
Hal to work an' sweat our eyes our for a dollar every
day !
Troth. Sam, avi.-k, I'm f-arin'
The prospect isn't heeri:i".
For th y say as a "it-former," you're a detnajojjue uo
tj:or -:
Aa tLcy'il tare way the giidiu'
if yr !a::ri. :s, S.-tf.my Ti' len,
An" -lio y..u to the world a" a man who falsely swore.
The "boys" say yo-ire to weighty
You are l.'-avjer than eighty
Wid your incom? tax an' perjury an" other tUncs as
wll ;
An' the Diniotretii pr.rty
Is not very hearty
So void bet her clear your skirts, or the "ship" '11
Vi the Utteia.
Scran ton IUjvhlleaiu
St.EAsroN, Sept. 11, ls7.
He was Mistaken.
This norninsr. -cays the Cincinnati Tiinrs,
a jreiitleir.an entered a shop on Fifth street,
and askc-d tlic dork
'What is the rice of knit undershirts
with Lrcait pockets ?" He added.
"I travel a irreat deal and carry large
amounts cf iuoiic-y, and I think that idea
of pockets an excellent one, and I am sur
prise! that some one has not thought of it
Lefore."
"Hcally, Mr," replied the clerk, 'T think
myself it would be a good plan, hut I am
sorry to say we have none, aud I did not
know there were any made."
'You did not ?" said the customer.
"Wei!, that's singular. They are exhibi
ted in your own window, and caught my
eye as I was pacing.
" "You rnut be mistaken," said the clerk.
"I know every article in the store."
"But I am not," jersisted the gentle
man. 'tep around and see for yourself."
The wondering shopkeeper did as reques
ted. He stepped briskly to the front of
the window, lxked iu, then looked at the
gentleman, then coughed, and acted as
though he had just felt a sudden pain in
the stomach, and then rammed a handker
chief into his mouth and stepped back be
hind the counter.
"Well," exclaimed the customer trium
phantly, "ain't they there ?"
"Ye'-yes," said the clerk, appearing as
though he had a fish bone in his throat.-
"They are there, sure enough. But, sir,
those undershirts are not for men, and those
pockets are" and at this point he dived
under the counter and disappeared, while
a young lady clerk standing near smothered
a convulsive giggle in a cambric handker
chief, and started off with a very red face
on important business to the rear part of
the store.
Two colord politicians of Vicksburg
recently discussed the situation thus :
Radical darkey Up here in dis Demmi
catric meetin' dey keep continnerly talkin'
about Tilden, Hendricks, and Ree Form.
Who de h is Itee Form ? Dat one is
morn we got in the Radikul party. Demo
cratic darkey Don't know llee From hay?
He's our main man, he is. -Your Raddikul
agrees never did knew rutbic'.
Fearful Turkish Atrocities.
A BLOOD-CURDLING RECITAL OF WARFARE
IN Kl'ROPE IN THE CIVILIZED NINE
TEENTH CENTUUE.
A letter to the Loudon "Daily News"
says :
In Phanigurishti we were shown in the
ruins of the church, before where had stood
the alter, a black spot speckled with calcined
bones-, on which lay abouquet of flowers.
This was the remains of a priest, Theodor
I'eofF, 85 years of age, who had been seized
and tortured in the hopes of obtaining
money, mutilated and maltreated in ways
which only the foul imagination of a Turk
could invent, then killed and burnt here
before the alter. In another place wc were
shown a black spot where an old blind man,
Dondje Stregleyoff, was beaten half to death
and then throwo senseless on a heap of
wood and burnt alive.
There was an old man here, Zwatko
Boyadjieff by name, a public benefactor, a
liberal contributor to the school fund, who,
in winter, supported half the widows and
orphans of the place, who was renewned
fur his charities to Christian and Turk
alike. He was likewise seized, tortured
and maltreated. His eyes were put out,
and, after undergoing the most fearful
torments, he was thrown on a heap
of wood fainting or dead, the people do not
know which, aud burned. They seized the
priest Noster and t ut off his fingers one by
one to extort money, and, as the poor man
had none to give them, they continued by
cutting off his hands, and finally his head.
We were shown iu the yard of a neat little
cottage, cmbored in trees, a grave, beside
which a woman was kneeling as we passed.
It was the grave of a young men of eigh
teen who had just returned from school
when the troubles begau, after an absence
of two years, and who had taken no part
in the outbreak.
They had seized him, and. in mere sport,
cut off hi? hands one by one in the presence
of his mother, and then killed him. What
made these acts more terrible was that
main- of them were committed iu the pre
sence of the weeping relatives wife,
mother, brothers aud sisters of the victims.
And they were repeated by the hundred.
But it was not only old and young men who
suffered ; women, yonng girls, children and
infants were ruthlessly slaughtered. These
Turks, these strong, bearded men, picked
infants up out of their cradles with their
bavonets. tossed theui iu the air, cauirht
thcin again and Sung them at the heads of
the shrieking mothers.
They carried little lubes about the streets
on the points of their bayonets, with their
poor little heads and arms dropping around
the barrels of their guns, and the blood
streaming down over their hands. They
cut off the heads of children, and compelled
other children to carry the still bleeding
heads about in their arms.
I should, perhaps, beg pardon of my
readers fur dwelling on these harrowing
details. But everywhere here I see the
Turks looking upon the English as their
friends and allies, counting upon us for
help against their enemies, looking to us
for aid and comfort, and believing most
exasperating thing of all that they have
our approved in everything they do.
How the Eve is Perserved.
There i dust on sea and land ; in the
valley and on the mountain top ; there is
dust tdwavs and everywhere. The atmos-
! phcre is fall of it. It penetrates the noi
some dungeon, and visits the deepest dark
est caves of the earth. No palace door can
shut it out ; no drawer is so secret as to es
cape its presence. Every breath of wind
dashes it upon the open eye, which is yet
not blinded, because there is a fountain of
the blandest fluid in nature incessantly
emptying itself under the eyelid, which
spreads itself over the surface of the eyeball
at every winking, and washes every atom
of dust away. This liquid, so well adapted
to the eye, itself has some acridity, which,
under certain circumstances, becomes so
decided as to be scalding to the skin, and
would rot away the eyelids were it not that
along the edges of them there are little oil
manufactories which spread over their sur
face a coating as impervious to the liquids
necessary for keeping the eyeballs washed
clean as the best varnish is impervious to
water.
GOVERNOR HAYES.
The following story of Governor Hayes
was told at a Republican meeting recently
held in Cleveland :
At South Mountain the boys of the
Twenty-third having appropriate! two stacks
of straw for use in their dire distress, the
general in command rode up to the regi
ment and ordered the straw returned. R.
B. Hayes, thn lieutenant-colonel, replied:
"My boys have neither tents, blankets, nor
overcoats. The mud is ankle deep, and
the loss of the straw will cost more in
quinine to the government, to say nothing
of the suffering of the regiment, than ten
times its value, and if the government will
not pay for it, I will." And R. B. Hayes
paid for that straw. out of his own pocket,
and this man R. B. Hayes worshipped by
his regiment is the iiiun whom the Cop
perhead Democracy would pollute by relat
ing the infamous story that he appropriated
the money of a bounty jumper to his own
use. Tho boys of the Twenty-third fling
it back in their teeth as a "dirty, iufamous
lie."
Canned vegetables will be twenty per
cent, higher in price the coning; winter
than tiey e;e the hzt.
DUTY OF YOUNG HEN.
Young men should start right in all
things. At the coming November elec
tions many young men who have attained
their majority since the last Presidential
contest will cast their maiden votes. By
their votes they will decide between the
candidates and policies of the two great
parties. They owe an important duty to
the State and nation. The owe much to
business and to family ; but they owe much
more to their country. They should al
ways cling, therefore, to honest principles
as the outy true rock of safety. The Re
publican party embodies those vital princi
ples. Whatever has thus far been done
from the time we were emancipated down
to the present moment, has been done by
the Republican party ; a party not without
faults, not without grave defects, and not
without bad followers, but still a party of
noble record and a naturally high duty to
perform. It. behooves us therefore to exert
every energy in the coming contest, and
young men like those who organized last
week the Antoine Cadets have started in
the right way to vindicate the wisdom of
their choice between the two parties. We
understand that Governor Hayes docs not
represent the political shrewdness of the
land, but he represents an honest desire
for purity in our public affairs and fur Re
publican simplicity and ecouomy wherever
it may be found. It is enough for us to
know that he represents those who have
made and will continue to make the Repub
lican party the part- of reform, and not a
lefuge for the wicked. He represents the
great mass of the people who, when they
saved the Union, purified it, and who are
determined there shall be no step backward
in the work they have undertaken. Our
political future is iu the backward move
ment that a Democratic success means, and
we should see that by no votes of ours will
that end be obtained. Our candidates for
President aud for Governor represent
honestly and faithfully these vital princi
ples of our party with sturdy common
sense and with that self praise, which iu
the practical affairs of life outshines the
more brilliant and glittering faculties
which dazzle and astonish. To the standard
of this part and these candidates, a stand
ard of patriotism, of loyalty, and of political
integrity, the State and nation call upon
young men. Let us respond to the call,
and by earnest and united help preserve
blessings of free government. Xec Orleans
Wclily Gazette.
Dldnt Understand It.
Perhaps if that box hadn't been in the
way he would have gone by without tumb
ling down into the basement. When they
separated him from what was once a rather
respebtable beaver, he sadly said :
"I suppose if I was Commodore Van
derbilt there would be half a dozen car
riages at the door ready to convey me
home, and a score of newspaper reporters
asking me how I felt. But because my
name is Joe Morgan, I have to go unhou
orcd and unwept."
He slowly went out, and as he did so a
bottle dropped out of his pocket and broke
on the stone steps. He regarded it a few
moments in silence, and then tragically ut
tered :
"And thou, too, the sole remaining link
ot all that bound me to myself, art thou,
also, gone ? Oho, heavens ! have I deserved
all this ?"
The Greatest Drouth.
The Paterson "Press" says : Wc have
recently come across au interesting record
of severe droughs, dating back as far as the
landing of the Pilgrims. All who think
the drouth which we have just passed
through was an exceptional one, for length,
will do well to read the following account :
In the summer of lGl'li there were 21
davs in succession without rain ; 1S30, 41 ;
165S, SO ; 1075, 45 ; 1GS0, 81 ; 1704, C2 ;
1705, 40 ; 1720, Gl ; 17C2, 123 ; 17S0, 93;
1S02, 24 ; 1S12 , 2G ; 1S74, 2G ; 1S75, 28.
It will be seen that the longest drouth
that ever occurred in Ameirca was in the
summer of 17G2, in which year no rain fell
from May to September, making 123 days.
Many of our countrymen were compelled
to send to England for hay and grain and
various articles of food for both man and
beast.
Increased Powers of Notaries.
Among the important laws passed on the
last day of the late session of Congress is
the following which has not been hereto
fore published, and which will be found of
interest to parties having business with the
United States court :
Be it enacted, etc., That notaries pub
lic of the several States, Territories and the
District of Columbia be and they are here
by authorized to take depositions and do
all other acts in relation to taking testimony
to be used in the. courts of the United
States, taking acknowledgements and af
fidavits in the same manner and with the
same effect as commissisners of the United
States circuit courts may now lawfully take
or do.
A Democratic investigating committee
investigated the administration of State af
fairs iu Ohio covering the period Governor
Hayes was in office. The committee re
ported : " Your committee take pleasure in
reporting that, so far as elective officers and
their subordinates are concerned, very com
mendable honesty and fidelity have been
observed, and that in the ofacial conduct
of no public offieer, whether elective or
if relative, ha ccrrartion been dlsclcred."
The total coinage of the miuts, the last
month, was $7,152,350.
The foreign exports from Baltimore last
week were valued at $1,10G,1SG.
Twenty-one of the thirty-eight States
elect Governors this fall.
There arc 360 journals in the German
language published iu this country.
The foreign exports from Philadelphia,
last week, announted to $1,218,SCG.
Bethlehem is going to number its houses
and put names on its Street corners.
Coldwater is a queer name for a liquor
dealer. There is one iu New York.
New York city has expended $250,000,
000 on new buildings in the last decade.
Baltimore canning houses are putting up
all the fruit this season that they "can."
It is estimated that San Francisco will
spend fu education next year $317,000.
A Reading terrier dog gets drunk on
larger the Tinus says so. How about
the hogs ?
Chester county jail has seventy-four
prisoners the largest numer ever con
fined there.
Florida has just contributed to the list
of curiosities a calf with a human head.
No joke here.
The total quantity of salmon caught in
the Canadian waters this year was about
950.000 pounds.
The Hon. Ben Wood of New York city,
has bet $400 against $200 that Hayes will
carry New Jersey.
A carefully revised summary of the gu
bernatorial vote
in Vermont gives Fair-
banks 23,732 majority
A Lehigh county turkey gobbler recently
hatched out five guinea hens and now cares
for them like a mother.
The Tamaqua Courier finds the surest
remedy for potato bugs is to have a brass"!
baud play close by the potato patch.
General N. 1. Banks has consented to be
the Republican candidate for re-election to
congress from the Fifth (Mass.) district.
They have cockroaches down in Flordia
four inches in length, and yet they com
plain of a lack of sporting privileges in that
section.
They are beginning to estimate the com
ing cotton crop in the South. It is said
that it will vary between 4.250,000 and
4,500.000 bales.
The number of shingles annually pro
duced in this country is estimated at 2.2G5,
000,000, and there's a good bit of country
not yet roofed in.
The Democrats have lost their only Sena
tor in Vermont and thirty of their sixty
members of the House of Representatives,
aud they are talking about their "gains."
Three English children, acrobat perform
ers in Murray's circus, were taken charge
of by the society, for the prevention of cru
elty to children at Poughkeepsie, Saturday.
The New York World, a Democratic pa
per, has the following sly dig at Tilden :
"There is money enough stolen every year
from the railrords in this country to pay
all their debts."
Colorado was the twenty-fifth State ad
mitted in the Union since the Revolutionary
war. The United States is composed of
thirty-eight States, nine Territories and
the District of Columbia.
A few days ago a leading Philadelphia
Democrat remarked to a Republican friend:
"You needn't tell everybody, but the
election is over !" That is the war a good
many of them are feeling about it just now.
The number of veterinary surgeons is
ridiculously small, compared to the live
stock in the country. The last census
shows the number of surgeons to be 1,100,
and there are over S,000,000 horses and
mules.
A fatal disease has broken out among
the cattle at Hawley, and large numbers
have died. It is supposed to have been in
trodnced by Western cattle, a herd of
which was brought to that locality last
spring.
It is said that the " silent population " of
the cemeteries of Brooklyn, X. Y., out
number its half million inhabitants by at
least 100,000. The interments in Green
wood have reached 182,244. and in Calva
ry 270,000 are buried.
Vance, Democratic candidate for Gover
nor of North Carolina, is the man who said
he would "like to fill hell so full of Yan
kees that their arms and legs would stick
out of the windows." These are the kind
of men to govern the country.
A chap was arrested in Philadelphia the
other day for stealing a clock. The judge
told him that he had taken another man's
time to begin with, he could now take his
own time to reflect upon it, aud sent him
up for three months forthwith.
Oue of the notable features in New York
harbor at present is the monster ship which
Commodore Vanderblit presented to our
Government. It is three hundred and
twenty-five feet in length, and can spread
24,000 square yards of canvas, aud is the
largest sailing vessel in existence.
It is probable that W bed en, the prize
fighter, who killed Walker in the ring a
few days since, will be tried in New
Jersey. There is one advantage of being
tried in that State for such a crime. It
stimulates a man to discount all chances,
itil: hla will ana ct rady to be ha.-ij.
Two little girls were lately pratling to
gether, and oue of them said : -We keep
four servants, have six horses, aird a lot of
carriages ; now, what have you got ?" With
quite quite as much pride the other answpr
ed "We've got a skunk under our barn."
S. C. Ball, the defaulting cashier of tho
I la tho ro Bunk, is now called a bass Ball.
He. is "out on a Hy," and will not make
"home run" until the ofneers get their
hands upon him. The officers of the bank
cry "foul" and "pitch" into him. Ball will
be "bounced" when caught. Xurristoicn
Herald.
Tho telegraph announces the arrest of
Boss Tweed and his cousin William Hunt,
on Imard of a Spanish merchant vessel, in
the port of Vigo, Spain. The Boss was
traveling under the name of Secor. Both
prisoncs were lodged in the fortress in that
port, where they will be retained until
extradited to the United States.
A mass convention of officers and repre
sentatives of the bauks of the United States
has been called to meet at Philadelphia ot
October 3d, 4th and 5th. for the Purpose
of discussing matters of importance to the
banking interests ot the country, and to
complete the organization of the American
Banking Association,
And now a farmer in Orange cr., N. Y,
has turned swindler. In a bale of hay re
cently shipped by him to New York, was
found a stone weighing sixty-two pounds-.
It was returned to the swindler, the weight
being deducted from the bale of hay, and
freight was also charged for the return of
the stone to its owner.
Mrs. Ellen S. Tupper, who has been for
years studying bees and bee keeping, and
who has become known as the "Bee Queen
while in Davenport, Iowa, last wiuter ut
tured forged notes on which she raised
money in considerable sums. She was ar
rested a few days ago at her home in Dakota
Territory on a charge of forgery, and is
now in jail awaiting trial.
The Republican conferees of the Fif
teenth Congrefsional District, after several
sessions at Towanda and an adjournment
to Montrose, on Monday concluded their
labors by nominating Edward Overton, of
Towanda, for Congress. The contest lay
between G. A. Grow, cf Susquehanna, Ed
ward Overton, of Bradford and C. C. Jad
win, of Wavne.
A Harrisburg hotel keeper has been vic
timized by a fellow who had with him two
boxes which were supposed to contain
valuable goods. The individual remained
at the hotel a few days, when he disap
peared, forgetting to pay his bill, but leav
ing behind as an equivalent his boxes,
which on being opened were found to eon
tain nothing but scraps of tin.
The mails continue to bring news of ter
rible atrocities in Bulgaria by the Turks.
At one place 3,000 people were killed, child
ren of both sexes were carried about tho
streets on bayonets, and people were burned
alive. At another place 1,000 persons who
offered no resistance were killed, and a bag.
full of human heads was opened in the street
before the house of the Italian consul, and
eaten by the dogs.
Two-thirds of the willow for the manu
facture of willow-ware in this country is
imported from Europe at a cost of $5,000,
000. The cultivation of the willow is con
templated by some Americans, they think
ing that by cultivating superior grades of
the basket willow they can make a profit
per acre of $150. A manufacturer asserts
that fully 5000 articles are constructed from
willow shoots chairs, sofas, aud baskets
beiug the most common.
Sixty years ago was the "year without a
summer." Frost occurred in every month
of the year in 1S16. Ice formed half an
inch thick in May; snow fell to the depth
of three inches in the interior of New York,
and also in Massachusetts in June ; ice was
formed of the thickness of common window
glass throughout New York ou the 5th of
July ; indian corn wa3 so frozen that the
greater part was cut down and dried for
fodder in August, and farmers suplied
themselves from the corn produced in lSlu
for the seed of the spring of 1817.
An imp-ortant decision, of interest to all
who reside in cities, towns or villages, was
recently made iu the Lebanon county
courts, by Judge Henderson. A man was.
indicted for an assault and battery on a
neighbor because he claimed the fruit on
the branches of the tree overspreading
prosecutor's lots. Judge Henderson said
that every owner of land is owner
of it from his line upward as far as he de
sires to make claim, of it. This being the
law the prosecutor had the right to the
fruit on the branches extending over hit
lot. This decision is important at this par
ticular time, aud is generally misunderstoc d
by the people.
One evening, while Harper, the clown,
in Barnum's circus, was passing up Broad
way, a little girl slipped from a three-story
window, and came headlong toward tha
pavements. Harper at the instant, and, it
would seem almost providentially, caught
sight of the child as it left the wiudow
above, aud with the alacrity cf a cat, placed
himself in a condition to break the fall.
When it came down to him he caught it
with a firm grasp, and not only broke its
fall, but held it from going to the pave
meut. The act was bold and dangerous,
but successful. The athlete suffered some
little injury, but not enough to speak of iu
connection with so extraordinary a feat.
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