El)c "Scffcrsouian.
THURSDAY, AUGUST 2, 1855.
" - " J'1'"' irj'ywot1M wfca,,MP,'h
(Kr On Thursday last, a man named Wil
ii am Hays, wns found dead, near the resi
dence of Frederick Fable, on the public road
lead inn- from this place to Btirtonsville. The
following facts, in relation to this sad affair,
wore elicited, upon an examination by Silas
L. Drake, Esi. The deceased, who was n
foreman, in the employ of II. S. Wells & Co.
upon the Delaware, Lackawanna and Wes
tern Ruilroail, at Dug Hill, i iis County,
had been to Uelviderc, N. J. on business, and
when he reached this place, on his return
home, complained of being unwell, and after
a few hours rest left for home, and was found
n above stated. The deceased had with him
when found, a watch, revolver, and 010 02
He leaves a wife and six children to mourn
iiis loss.
lYT The ou. George B. Barrett,
arrived in town yesterday, and will leave
to-morrow, lie looks well, and is sur
rounded by a host of warm friends. We
learn that bis name will be presented to
the people of this district, as a candidate
for President Judge.
OCT The Whig State Central Committee
met in Philadelphia, on Tuesday of last week,
and resolved to call a Whig State Conven
tion, to be held on the 11th of September, at
llarritbunr.
Elour Going a Begging.
At Wellsburg, Ohio, last week, a lot of
tlour was offered at seven dollars a barrel,
lor which the holder had refused ten dollars
n few weeks ago. The flour would not bring
the seven dollars, and was left on commission
lor want of a purchaser.
UJ'A Nantional Convention of Colored Men
is called to assemble in Philadelphia, on the
lGth of October next, to further the educa
tion, progress and elevation of their race.
A Convention of the kind was held at Ro
chester, in 1S53, and the one this year is to
review the field of operation, see what has
been done, and what remains to be done.
This movement looks to the acquisition of
complete political and social rights, and the
encouragement of mechanical, artistic, and
agricultural skill among the colored people.
OCT" A very important discover' has just
been made by M. Petit, of Lyons, of a means
of impregnating silk, by a chemical process,
with gold, silver, brass or iron, so that it can
be woven with perfect flexibility, and thus
form, as it were, stuffs of these metals. The
;:ive:ithn has bpen secured by patent, and
will be worked by a company of capitalists.
Permission has been given to place a speci
men in the Universal Exhibition. It is said
that the price of this new material will not be
high.
Removal of Governor Keeder.
By the following Telegraphic Despatch, it
M-iH'be seen that the guillotine has done its
-work, and dough-faceism is triumphant over
public sentiment :
Washington, July 20. The President
has spppointcd John L. Dawson, of Penn-f-ylvauia,Governor
of Kansas vice A. II.
Keeder, removed. Dawson was an effec
tive member of the last Congress, voted
for the Kansas-Nebraska Bill, and was a
-trenuous advocate of giving homesteads
to actual settlers; at each session be in
troduced a bill for that purpose, which
passed tho House, but failed in the Sen
ate. !
Eg?- Apples are exceedingly abundant
in the Philadelphia market. Prime ripe
apples sold on Saturday last, for 37 cts.
per basket.
Later from Havana.
Cltarlcston, July 28. The steamship
Itabcl arrived to-day from Ilavana, bring
ing dates to the 2-ith inst.
The cholera was raging at Ilavana, and
numerous deaths bad occurred among the
military. Several citizens had also died,
and great alarm prevailed.
Yellow Eever.
Norfolk, Va., July 31. The yellow fe
ver continues its ravages in this city.
There are 20 cases to-day and four deaths.
In Portsmouth, G8 cases and twenty-six
deaths. There is great excitement in the
community. The infected districts have
been fenced in and the occupants removed.
The U. S. frigate Potomac, sailed on
Saturday. The Constellation dropped
djwn to the naval anohorage yesterday.
Singular Suicide.
On Sunday afternoon last, eays the
Doylcstown Democrat, Joseph Carver, a
wealthy and respectable citizen of Sole
bury township, Ducks Co., committed
tuicidc bT hanging himself to a hay rack
in his barn. The dreadful deed was com
mitted about two o'clock, with a very
small cord. He has no wife or children
living, and has been in much trouble fox
some time about his temporal affairs, be
ing weighed down with the belief that he
would come to want. It is said that he
has had' several thousand dollars about
his premises for some time, being fearful
of losing it, if he should loan it out upon
interest.
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Programme of the Examination and Ex-
mbition ot tne upper .ueparuiieui. ui tuo
Stroudsburg Free Union School.
August 2d and 2d. Thursday Morning.
Arithmetic. Algebra. Geometry.
Afternoon.
Geography. Constitution of the U. States.
How Michael Fagan cured
his pig. Dunil C. Staples.
Dialogue Choice of Seasons.
Spring,
Garrit V. Clake.
John Huntsman.
Charles Wintemute.
Charles Starner.
William B. ys.
Charles D. Clarke.
Morrison Dean.
Wm. D. Walton,
William Kutzlcr.
Stewart Kintz.
bummer,
Autumn,
Winter,
To-morrow,
Destruction of Senna
cherib's host,
Washington,
Appeal to the Hunga
rians, A word in kindness,
Give a trifle,
Play and Study,
Dimmick Coolbaugh
Dialogue, Story Rca- S Louisa Treat
ding,
) Susanna Kutzlcr.
Thermopylae,
The sea of life,
Dialogue-about laugh
ter, John F. Drinkhouse.
John A. Gross,
f Annie Knecht,
J Eliza Knecht,
I Mary A. Davis,
C. Swartwoou.
Friday Morning.
Reading. Spelling, Grammar,
Afternoon.
Mental Arithmetic.
Famine in Ireland,
Close of term,
Every one can do some
good,
Rules of school,
Death of Leonidas
A lost day,
Things that I love,
The Tempest,
The richman and the
Latin.
Theodore B. Staples
William F. Walton.
James Keener.
William Dean.
Arthur H. Davis.
Ehilip Postcns.
Michael Brown.
Sarah Dichl.
poor man
Adam Overfield, jr.
The Old Bachelor sale, George W. Best.
The Idle Boy,
The River,
Star in the West,
Dialogue,
Valedictory,
Friday
Opening address,
The light of science,
The school for me,
New England's dead,
Merchant's Career,
Charles Mnjor.
William Henry.
William Cahill.
( Susan Wintemute,
Esther Wintemute.
John Storm.
Evcnitig.
Daniel C. Staples.
Peter S. Brown.
William Keller,
Conrad Z. Warnick.
Stewart Kintz.
Franklfn Starner,
( Eugene B. Walton.
Dialogue
The Vol
unteers.
SONG Come, come away.
Speech of John Adams, Theodore B. Staples.
Human Life, Edwin A. Schoch.
The Sleepers, John M. Boys.
The march of mind, Robert D. Bogart
The Frenchman and
the rats, George W. Best.
SONG The Academy Bell.
Public opinion and the
sword, Arthur H. Davis.
Maternal Love, Leonard Andre,
Elijah's Interview, John W. Burnet.
Eulogy on Washington, John F. Drinkhouse.
Rhyme of the Rail, James P. Edinger.
SONG Long live America.
Apostrophe to Wash
ington, William D. Walton.
Onward, John Storm.
The Modern Belle, Benjamin F. Butz.
The clock on the stairs, John W. Clarke.
Dialogue The student and his neighbors.
Ponderwel fa Student") William D. Walton.
Graball (a miser)
Swagger (a gentleman
at large)
Van Koot (an ignorant
dutchman)
John F. Drinkhouse.
John Storm.
Theodore B. Staples.
Steepletop (a young man
of pretensions) George W. Best.
Sobersense (an intelli
gent farmer, Arthur II. Davis.
Noisybreath (a garrulous
politician), Adam Overfield, jr.
O'Mulligan (an Irish ser
vant) Daniel C. Staples.
SONG School Days.
Landing of the Pilsrims, Theo. C. Hammon.
Speech at a debating society.
Question which is the greater evil a scold
ing wife or a smoky chimney 1
Affirmative, Davis J. Walton.
Closing address, Adam Overfield, jr.
Exercises in the morning and afternoon at
the Academy, commence at 8h and of 2
o'clock. Admittance free. In the evening
at the Court IIouec. at precisely 8. Admit
tance 12h cents. The proceeds will be de
voted to purchasing books for their library.
Personal Matters.
Ex-Governor David H. Porter has writ
ten a letter, which appers in the last Penn
sylvania Patriot, in which he takes strong
ground against the legality of the proposd
election of a United States Senator, on
the first Monday of October, to which pe
riod the Convention adjourned.
Sickness at Kavre-de-Grace.
Disease of a violent character has bro
ken out at ilavrc-de-Grace, Md., within
a day or two past, and several cases have
proved fatal. The following persons are
said to have died: Miss A'lola Dradber
ry, daughter of Mr. John Dradberry, the
operator of the magnetic telegraph at that
place, aged 15 years ; W. Pennington's
child; Mrs. Blaney and child; J. Mitchell;
Mrs. Pickett, (of Daltimore, it is said,)
and P. Donuell'a bov. The deaths of
only three of the parties Mrs. Pickett,
J. Mitchell, and Miss V. Bradberry are
attributable entire to the disease, which
is represented as a violent dyseutary.
The others had been sick or unwell for
several days.
No Accounting for Tastes-' A
mong the marriages recorded at the City
Register's office, in Boston, Mass., with
in a few days, is that of a colored man of
40, to a while girl of 19.
Greai Mortality among the Fishes.
Tho Indianapolis Sentinel says that for
miles in tfce waters of the Beech Fork of
Salt River, Kentucky, the fish are dying
by thousands. The shore is covered with
their dead bodies to such a degree that
the atmosphere is loaded with an offen
sive smell. The hogs have been turned
loose to feed upon them. No reason can
be given for this fatality. Every kind of
fish ever seen in that region, with the
single exception of the cat fish, ha3 been
found killed,
Destructive Ereshet in New Scotland.
Three Dams carried away Harrow
Escapes.
From the Albany Journal, July 28
The recent heavy rains had swollen the
creek at Clarksville, about fourteen miles
from this city, much beyond its usual size;
and Bennett's mill dam, about two miles
above the village, gave way. The stream
came rushins down, carrying devastation
in its train. It destroyed Jones' sawmill
which stood a short distance below, anu
that dam also giving way before it, new
volume was added to the torrent. It men
sweDt towards Clarksville spreading over
the fields, prostrating grain ana sweeping
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away outbuildings. Temporarily cuecneu
hv the Turnmko bridee, it dashed up a
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n;noi im rvntn lmnsp. sweat awav nart ot
it, and swung the remainder round on its
foundation. The gatekeeper's wife and
children were in the house at the time,
and were rescued with some difficulty
from the upper windows.
The flood then rushed down into Clarks
ville. and entered the heart of the village
like a wall ten feet high, surmounted by
saw Iocs, tons of bay, cram and other mat
tcr. It knocked the stone foundation out
from under G. Long's house, and injured
several others, and dashed completely o
ver the roof of Simmou.s blacksmith shop
A woman in the house adjoining, seeing
it cominc. had barely tirao to run up stairs
leaving the outer door open, through
which the water entered the house and
sweet the furniture before it. The heavy
boulders of a stone fence were carried off
by it like so many feathers, and a garden
had the soil and everything growing on it
completely washed out of the rock on
which it rested, iiennett s grist mm aam
in iho village, withstood the pressure a
short time, and then gave away, which
probably saved the mill itself. Then with
acain renewed force it swept off two
bridges and tore away much of the plank
road. Many persons narrowly escaped
drowning, while others, who saw them
and even within a stone's throw, were un
able to reach or assist them. What dam
aire the water did below the third dam
we do not learn, but probably this wa
the worst for it. The loss is estimated to
be at least $20,000.
Regulations at the Mint.
Purchase of Silver. The Dirccto
of the Philadelphia Mint gives notice, in
consequence of the present accumulation
of silver coin at the Mint, that from and
after the first day of August next, and
until further notice, the purchase of silver
for coinage will be paid for in silver coins
only, and not m gold. I he Ledger savs
The silver offered for purchase will be
weighed, melted, and assayed as usual
and the standard weight determined there
from in ounces troy to the hundredth part
of the ounce, and will be paid for (as a
present) at the rate of one dollar twenty
two and a half cents per standard ounce
The receipt given at the first weighing
must be nresentod bv tho seller or his
order, and usually payment may be ex
pected on the day follwing the date of re
ceipt or the second dav following. For
the information of bullion dealers, coun
try banks, &c, it may be stated'that, ac
cording to the above rate of purchase, the
yield of various classes of coin or bullion
will be about as follows :
Five franc pieces
Mexican and South American
dollars
Old Spanish dollars
Revolutionary or 'hammered'
dollars
Half dollars, U. S., coined be
fore 1837
99 cents
106$
105
101
52
52 A
The same since 1837 to 1853
Quarter dollars are proportionally less
productive of premium, while dimes and
half dimes coined before 1837 have lost
rather more by wear on an average than
the premium would make up. Those
coined since 1837 to 1853 will average a
premium of 3 per cent, on their nouiin
al value.
German, Swedish, Danish, and
Norwegian crowns
Old French crowns
German florins
Prussian and Hanoverian
balers
Ill cents
114 "
4U"
70
American plate, 120 to 122 cents per
ounce.
Genuine British plate, 125 cents per
ounce.
These regulations will take effect at the
branch of the Mint at New Orleans when
the purchase of silver is resumed at that
institution, of which notice will be given
by the Superintendent. At San hran
cisco tho purchases may bo paid for in
gold or silver, at the option of the Super
intendent thereat, until a sufficient sup
ply of silver bullion is received to meet
the publio demand for silver coin at that
institution.
A FormidableBody. Welearn from
the Pennsylvanian that the Liquor Deal
ers' League for the State of Pennsylva
nia now number about twenty thousand
members, and are thoroughly organizing
in the interior of the State with great en
ergy and rapidity, their object being a
concert of action, to protect themselves
and their interests, by legal, precuniary
and political process, against legislation
upon the prohibitory question.
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A Novel Law Suit has been commen
ced against the citv of Boston, bv the
friends of Mr. Albert Stoughton, who was
killed by being thrown from his horse, in
consequence ot nro crackers thrown into
the street by boys. They allege that as
the crackers were fired in violation of the
law, the city is responsible for tho mis
chief which occurred from a neglect of
employing the proper means to 6ee the
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ordinances enforced.
The latest estimates of the population
of the world make it eleven hundred and
fifty millions, viz: Pagans, 676,000,000;
Christians, 320,000,000j Mohammedans,
140,000,000; and Jews, 14,000.000. Of
Christians, the Church of Rome numbers
tbo Greek and Eastern
churches, 60.000,000; aUd Protestuntc,
(W.00Q;000. fX
Execution of David Stoaaara lor me
Murder of his Wife. His uoniession.
This wretched roan, whose crimo was
the result of intemperance, was hung at
Rock Island, Illinois, July 13. 'ihe ltocK
Island Gazette says:
TTnon arrivinc at tho gallows, wmcu
was erected in a gentle ravine outside the
limits of the city, we louud present a
crowd of fully 10,000 people gathered
upon the rising ground in the immediate
vicinity, and crowding aown to ine very
foot of the gallows in a dense and swaying
mass, so that the Rock Island Guards
with difficult? finally succeeded m clear-
inir n Rircie arouuu iuu scuuum. jluv
i . i xi. yt1 J rni.
criminal, dressed in a iiguc suit oi sum
mcr clothing, with his arms pinioned, was
nssistnd out of the omnibus and up the
stairs of the scaffold by the officers of jus
tico and several ministers, and also by a
brother of Stoddard, who had como all
the wav from Peoria in order to be with
him in his last moments. Rev. Mr. Morse,
hv reouest of thVprisoner, proceeded to
speak to the multitude for him as follows:
He began by saying mui., wuiwu
ago, Stoddard and his wife were both
professed Christians and members of the
i.iimli mid hvfid together happily and
?r. nonc( with themselves. God, and th
world. But he had been oharged by the
criminal particularly to stats that the
cause of the breaking of this peace was
intemperance. He begun to drink by
little and little, until his home became a
raging hell, and he himself a demon of
evil passions which he found it impossible
to control. Under such circumstances it
was that his family became broken up,
and were wanderers and outcasts with
himself upon the face of the earth. He
said further, that he had been requested
by the prisoner to state, that he had no
particular confession to make in regard
to the crime of killing his wife, at that
time, leaving the question of his guilt to
be settled by the public that the Court,
the Jury, and the Sheriff and his officers,
were blameless, and that he had not a
word of accusation to bring against any
of them.
After he had taken his seat, Stoddard
was again assisted to rise. He proclaimed
in a loud and emphatic voice, that what
Mr. Morse had stated was true that he
owed all bis crimes and misfortunes to
the curse of intemperance that he for
gave every one and was ready to die
that he feared not the terrible death be
fore him so much as the eyes of the peo
people now fixed upon him. He warned
young men against the begining of crime,
which was a use of the intoxicating glass,
if they would avoid the miserable life he
had led for the past five years, and per
haps its dreadful end. "Remember" said
ho, "remember my dying words and
FLEE PLEE TIIE WRATH TO COME !"
After a short address from another
clergyman, Stoddard again arose and
said, that his time upon earth was now
short that he was addressing the world
now for the last time. He then confessed
to the crime of killing his wife, adding,
"I did the deed, but many wrong stories
have been told about it. I did it in a
moment of passion. I was often so temp
ted before that I could scarcely keep my
hands off her. I am now ready to die."
After this, as a general leave-taking of
all present on the scaffold, and kissing
his weeping brother, the prisoner stepped
on the drop. The fatal noose was adjus
ted around his neck, and the cap drawn
over his face by tho Sheriff, assisted by
his deputy. He then commenced singing
tho words, "I'm going home, which he
repeated twice, and the drop fell at ten
minutes after one o'clock. He struggled
but little, and in seven minutes had ceased
to live. After hanging twenty minutes,
his body was taken down and conveyed
to the graveyard, and buried beside his wife,
according to his request.
Gold on the Continent.
A letter from Strasburg to the Phila
delphia Ledger, says :
Commercially speaking, the war has
bad a great influence on the precious
metals. Gold has actually become a drug
on the Continent, and exchange on Lon
don, from Germany, Belgium, and even
I ranee, is actually below par. On bill
on St. Petersburg there is a heavy dis
count, while in Germany gold loses in ex
chango against silver. In France too,
gold has become the circulating medium,
pure gold five franc pieces and ten franc
pieces, to double Napoleons or forty franc
pieces. It is tho silver which is now
hoarded by the peasantry, as the article
on which less depreciation is feared than
any other. American stocks are active
ly inquired after, and large investments
are mado in them in small towns, with
out producing any sensation whatever.
In like manner arc large sums going to
the United States, to be invested in pub
lic lands; for even colonels and generals
begin to grow timid, and seek investments
for their money in countries not subject to
revolution. In a word, a general feeling
of insecurity pervades the whole of Eu
rope, and as each party is happy to as
cribe all its mistakes to the blundcrinfr
want of sense of its opponents, political
rancor increases in proportion to the in
security of property.
Potatoes.
At Syracuse potatoes aro selling for 87
cents a bushel.
We hear that one of our householders
has contracted for -his potatoes for the
coming year, at fifteen cents per bushels.
Syracuse Standard.
And wo are informed that a party in
this city has contracted for several thous
and bushels in Monroe Co. at fourteen
cents per bushel. The day of high prices
of provisions is fast passing away. Al
bany Express.
Prices of Flour in tho principal cities
of the Union are tumbling rapidly. In
fact quite a panio exists among specula
tors, in consequenco of the abundant har
vest. It is said that one speculator in Phila
delphia lost 89000 by holding on for 3
a bushel for the stock of wheat he held,
S?.yO wasn't enough,
Legislative Doings in Kansas.
Jjetters received from Kansas on 5at-
nrdnv show that the aliairs ot tne legisla
tion of tho Territory have arrived near
lv at a crisis. We had been already m-
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formed by telegrapu inai me xjugwiaiun.
had adjourned from Pawnee (a town near
tlu forks of Kansas river, where trov.
Reeder had called it) to the Shawnee
Mission, in the immediate neighborhood
of the Missouri line. Oui readers will
remember that Gov. R. vetoed the vote
for an adiournment. The Legislature,
however, passed the vote anew by more
than two-thirds over his veto.
The telegraph, as is usual with it in
Kansas matters, lost in its passage thro:
the negative electricity of Missouri the
much more important news that the Leg
islature had first unseated tho eleven
"Free State" members who. in spite of
4 A.
Missouri invasion, had been returned to
the lower House. The fifteen members
elected by the army of Gen. Stringfellow
seem to have feared even the presence of
a minority of men legally elected, and so
initiated" their proceedings by vacating
their seats.
They had also, we learn, with remark
able rapidity, voted that the whole code
of Missouri should be tho law of Kansas.
It was then that, for after purposes, they
adjourned to the immediate neighborhood
of that State to the Shawnee mission
"We confess that we do not look with
anv ereatreoret on this procedure. With
the evidence we have had that the elec
tion of these men was a mere sham, it is
rather a satisfaction to find them proceed
ing with a wantonness of absurdity which
must show, even in the most prejudiced
quarters, that they know they nave no
tho support of the people of Kansas.
Wo learn from private sources that the
ejected members of tho Legislature were
to meet on the 12th at Lawrence tor con
sultation. Meetings of the people, at dif
ferent points through the Territy, are ev
erywhere disavowing the authority of the
worse than Rump Parliament which is
forcing upon them the laws of another
Commonwealth. Boston Daily Adver
tiser. -o.
A Fun-gent Fun. Prentice, of the
Lousvillo Journal, says: "A correspond
ent wishes us to publish a defence of Gen
eral Stringfellow, the border ruffian, who
beaded the invasion of Kansas. Our o
pinion of Stringfellow is, that if he had
his deserts, he would be a strung fellow."
A Severe Storm in Maine.
Portland papers give an account of a
terrific thunder shower on Thursday even
ing, of last week. In some instances
damage was done to a serious extent.
Awnings, blind3, &c. were handled with
out mercy, and several barns in the im
mediate vicinity of the city were unroofed
or blown down. A little girl of six or
seven years, named McLucus, was killed
by lightning at Brownfield, Maine. She
was playing on the floor, and was struck
by the fluid, which passed into the room
by way of the iron stove funnel. A wo-
man was also Kmeu in iimington and a
voke of oxen in Limerick. In West-
brook the wind in its course took a barn
on the farm of John Reed, Esq., seventy
feet long by thirty in width, completely
demolishing the whole, throwing boards
and timber in all directions.
The Last Notion.
The Philadelphia Times says that de
cidedly the coolest specimen of Yankee
dom we have seen during this hot weather
is the man who walked into our sanctum
the other day and exhibited a dozen tin
shirt collars for our inspection. We were
not prepared for this innovation on the
linen trade, and were about to pronounce
the notion impracticable, when the exhib
itor triumphantly pointed to his own col
lar, saying, " D'ye think this ere collar
will loilt?" On taking another look, we
tound it to be the "genuine tin, but not
observable except on close inspection.
The thermometer stood at 96 degrees, but
had no ctlect on the new lankee collar
We advise all who wish to cheat the wash
erwoman and the starch manufacturer to
substitute painted tin for linen, for over
them perspiration hath no power.
Juice of the Water Melon.
A correspondent of the Prairie Farmer
presents the following method of using
water melons: "I endeavor every year to
raise a good water melon patch. They
arc a healthy and delightful fruit, I think.
1 cultivated the icing variety: plant early
in May, and again toward the end of the
month, so that they may come in success-
"WIT! . .
ion. vvnen they commence nponinw we
commence cutting, and use them freely
during the hot weather. When tho weath
er becomes cool in September wo haul a
quantity of them to tho house, split them
open, with a spoon scrape out tho pulps
into a cullender, and strain the water into
vessels. Wo boil it in an iron vessel into
syrup,'then put in apples or peaches like
rnaKing apple butter, and boil slowlv un
til the fruit is well cooked, then spice to
taste, and you have something that most
people will preter to applo-butter or any
kind of preserves. Or the syrup may be
boHed without fruit down to molasses,
which will be found to be as fine as tho
t 1
best sugar house molasses. Wo have
made of a fall as much as ton gallons of
vu ajjpiu uulloi, 11 x may so can it, ana
molasses, which has kept in a fine condi
tion until May."
Oxyde of Lead. Tho Sciontific A-
mencan says "common red wafers scat
tered about the haunts of cockroaches
will often drive away, if not destroy them.'
These wafers, like candies, are colored
red by oxyde of lead, a most deadly poi
son; and so is the aoetate of lead, or su
gar of lead as it is sometimes called, on
visiting cards, which, being a little sweet
ish, has been known to destrov voun
children to whom they wero handed to be
amused with, haslnon for once acts sen
sibly in discarding glazed cards, usiu" in
stead JJnstol board, more pliant, less
cumbersome, and really more delicate,
Sequel to the Oilman Snake Story.
A nnrnrrrn nh wafl nublished in The
Boston Journal a few days ago, stating
that a little daughter of Mr. Hill, in Gil
manton, N. H., had been discovered to
be on very intimate terms wuu iwo uiac
snakes, which she was accustomed to visit
and feed daily. The Manchester Mirror
states that on Sunday morning. 8th inst.,
Mr. Hill pursued and caugnt ine smanesu
of the two snakes about four feet fcmg
and brineinsitkome.cageditin a su-
rar box, where it is now kept. Although
it is very tond o.t the little gin, comug
itself about her lap, it is cross to the oth-
. 1. . 1 e .
ers of the family, and. reiuscs 190a irom
their hands. The Mirror says :
"The little girl wa3 asked if sho was-
not frightened when sho first saw the
snake. She said she was .terribly frigh
tened; and when asked why she did not
run, she said she tried to scream ior ubi
mother, but could not speak a word. The
idea is that she was paraiyzea oy iuu
magnetic power of the snakes. The first
time she remained witn tuem a very iuug
time could not tell how long. After-
wnrd dailv she staid with them several
hours, feeding them regularly. She says
they liked sweet things nest, anu mat suu
stole three cakes of maple sugar that her
mother had laid away, and sweet gingcr
flread whenever she could to give them.
Tho big snake would try to drive tho
small one away from her when fed, and
she cuffed him several times, and ho re
turned the compliment by taking her
fingers into his mouth several times, with
out doing much harm. Consequently sho
don't like this snake as she does the oth
er one, though he is generally fond of
her.
Fine Wheat. Mr. Glenn cut on his
farm near Warsaw, Ky., a field of twenty-one
acres of wheat, which averaged
twenty-seven bushels to the acre, weigh
ing sixty-three pounds, and sold atPeters
burg at one dollar and twenty centa per
bushel.
Progress of Mormonism. Twcnty-fivo
years ago the "Prophet" Joe Sn.ith organ
izedthe Mormon church with six member..
At the present time the Church in Utah
Territory has three Presidents, seven a
postles,two thousand and twenty-six "sev
enties," seven hundred and fifteen high
priests, nine hundred and ninety-four eld
ders, five hundred and fouteen priests, four
hundred and seventy-one teachers, two
hundred and twenty-seven deacons, be
sides the usual ratio of persons in training
for the ministry, but not yet ordained, and
four hundred and eighty-niue mission
aries abroad. During the six months
ending with the begiuuiug of April last,
nine hundred and sixty-five children were
born in tho Territory of Utah, two hun
dred and seventy-eight persons died, four
hundred and seventy-nine were baptised
in the Mormon faith and eighty-six wero
excommunicated from the church.
Tornado at Canajoharie. On Thursday
afternoon last, a severe tornado passed
over the village of Canajoharie, blowing
off the roof of the Lutheran church and
completely demolishing the new shed
in the rear, which had but recently been
completed. The shingles from the roof
of the shed were blown with such violenco
against the side of the church that the
thickest ends genetrated the clapboards
like a wedge driven by a sledge hammer.
Wc understand that a man who was fish
ing in the river, near the bridge, was
blown out of the boat into the water, but
succeeded in regaining the boat. Mohawk
Valley Register.
New York Markets.
New York, July 31. Flour firm. Sales
6,000 bbls. straight State S3 25aS8 56.
SalesOOO bbls. Southern at 89 50a$10 12A
Wheat Prices stiffer but not quotably
higbor. 18,000 bushels sold. Corn is a
trifle lower. Sales 40,000 bushels at S8A,
Pork firm. Sales 1,000 bbls. Beef firm.
Lard dull and decliuing. 200 bbls. sold
at 1U. Whiskey heavy. 150 bbls. sold
at 41.
2bi:i.
In Stroudsburg, on the 26th ult., Jer
emiah, Son of John and Mary E. Thom
as, aged 18 years, 1 month and 5 days.
E. B. WOODWARD,
Violhiist and Teacher of Dancing
Has permanently looated himself at the
house of William A. Brodhcad, at the
Delaware Water Gap, where he may bo
found in readiness to play for daucin"
parties, either at the House, or surround
ing vioiuity, on reasonable terms.
August 2. 1855.
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with correct construction.
Hernial or runiured patients can be suited:
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number of inches round ihe hips, and statins
side affected.
Post of Sincle Trusses. $2. S3. S i ami Sr,
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Instructions as to wear, and how m pfn-
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Also for sale in great variety.
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STROUDSBURG, JIOOE COUXJPV . V
Office on Elizabcvn street, fnrnmrlv
oupied by "Wn Davis, Esq. '
may Bj