JDcuotci to Jpclitics, literature, Agriculture, 0ricncc, illorcilitn, emit cncral jJxitciixgcitce.
VOL is.
STROUDSBUKG, MONROE COUNTY, PA. JULY 1,1858.
NO. 28.
Published by -Theodore Schoch.
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THE THIRD CHOICER.
A FRENCH WILL STORY.
'Is she dead, then!'
'Yes, madam,' replied a little gentle
man in brown coat and short breeches.
And her will!'
'Is going to be opened here immediate
ly by her solicitor.'
'Shall we inherit anything?'
'It must be supposed so; we havo o
cliim.'
'Who is that miserably drcs.ed person
ace who intrudes herself here!'
i'Oh, she," said the little man, sneering-
ly, he wont have much iu the will; she
is si.-ter to the deceased.'
What, that Annie, who wedded in 13-
42 a man of nothing an officer!'
'Precisely .ao.'
She must havo no small amount of im
pudence to present herself hT0 before a
respectable family.'
'The more so, as sUtcr Egerie, of noble
birth, had never given her that Mcsalli
liancc.'' Anne moved this time acros
the room in which the family of tho dc- j
ceased were nsciubleu. fche was pale,
her fine black eyes were filled with pre
cocious wriukles.
What do you come here for?' said, with
great haughtiness, Madame dc Villeboys,
the lady who, a moment before, had been
interrogating the little man who inherited
with her.
Madam,' tho poor lady replied with
humility, I did not come here to claim a
part of what does not belong to mo; I
come solely to sec M Duboi, my poor
sisters solicitor, to inquire if she spoke of
me in her last hours.'
What! do you thiuk people busy them
selves sbout vou! arrogantly observed
Madamo de Villeboys 'the disgrace of a ,
great house you wedded a niau of noth- j
mi?, a SOldier OI UOnspane S.
Madame, my husband, although a
child of the people, was a brave soldier,
and what is better, au honest man,' obser
ycd Anne.
At this moment a venerable personage,
the notary Dubois, made his appearance.
'Cease, he said, 'to reproach Anne with
a union which her sister has long forgiv
en ber. Anne loved a brave, generous,
nnd good man, who had no other orituc
to reproach himself with thau his poverty
and tho obscurity of his name, neverthc-
1c?f, had he lived, if his family had known
hira as I knew him I, his old friend
Anne would bo at this time happy and
respected.'
'But why is this woman herel'
Because it is her place to be here,' said
thc notary gravely; 'I myself requested
her to attend here.'
M. Dubois then proceeded to open the
will.
I, being sound in mind and heart, E-
yjerie de Damening, retired as a boarder
in the convent of the Sacred Heart of Je-
sup, distate the following wishes as the
cxprcssiou of my formal dexire and prin
cipal elau-e of my testament.
'After my decease theere will be found
two hundred thousand francs in money
ct my notary's, besides jewelry, clothes
and furniture; also a chateau worth two
hundred thousand francs.
'In the convent where I have been re
siding, there will only be found my book,
'Heurcs de Vierge,' holy volume, which
remains as it was when I took it with me
at the time of emigration. I desire that
there objects bc divided into three lots.
'The first lot, the two hundred thous
and francs in money.
'The second lot, the chateau, furniture,
and jewels.
'The third lot, my book, Hcures de la
Vierge.
I have pardoned sister Anna, the grief
which she has caused to us, and I would
have comforted ber in her sorrows if I
had known sooner of her return to France.
I compromise ber in my will.
'Madame de Villeboys, my much be
loved cousin, shall have the first choice.
M. Vatry, my brother-in-law, shall
have the second choice.
Anne will take the remaining lot.'
'Ah! ah!' said Vatry, 'Sister Egerie
was a good one; that is rather clever on
her part!'
fAnne will only have the prayer book.5
exclaimed Madame de Villeboys, laugh
ing aloud. The notary interrupted her
jocularly.
'Madame,' he said, which lot do you
choose.'
.rfThe two hundred thousand francs in
Money.'
' 'Have yon quite made ap your mind?'
'Perfectly so.'
The man of law, addressing himself
then to the good feelings of the lady said,
'Madame, you aro rich, and Anne has
nothing. Could you not leave her this
lotj and tako tho book of prayers, which
the eccentricity of the deceased has plac
ed on a par with the other lots!' j
'You must be joking, M. Dubois!' ex-
claimed Madame do Villeboys, 'you must
really be very dull not to see the inten-
lions of sister Egerie in all this. Our
honored cousin foresaw full well that her
book of prayers would fail to the lot of
AnnA nrKrk flin Inof Vi nlna '
'And what do you conclude from that?'
inquired the notary.
'I conclude that she means to Intimate
to her sister that repentance and prayer
were the only help she had to expect in
this world.'
As she finished these words Madame
the ready money for her share. Mons.
Vatry, as may be easily imagined, select
ed the chateau, furniture and jewels as
his lot.
'Monsieur Vatry,' said M. Dubois to
that gentleman, 'even suppose it had
been the intention of the deceased to pun
ish her sister, it would be a noble act on
your part, millionaireasyou are, to give up
at least a portion of your share to Anne,
who wants it so much.'
Thank", for vour kind advice, dear
sir,' replied Vatry. The mansion is sit
; , ' ,, J r c i
uatcj on the very confines of my woods,
, , , , ,, ., '
! nnii sin ; mo nri nup.nh v ?i tho mnvfi so
and suits me admirably, all the more so,
' that it U ready furnished. As to the jewels
! of nster Egerie. they are reminiscences
j which one ought never to part with.'
'Since it is so,' said the notary, 'my poor
: Madame Anne, here is the prayer book
, that remains to you.'
i Anne, attended by her son, a handsome
! boy, witli blue eyes, took her sister's old
, prayer book, and making her son kiss it
i after her, she said:
j 'Hector, kiss tbis book which belonged
I to vour poor aunt, who is dead, but would
have loved jou well had she known you.
When you have learned to read, you will
pray to Heaven to make you wise and
good as your father was, and happier
than your unfortunate mother.'
The eyes of those who were present
wero filled with tears, notwithstanding
their their efforts so preserve an appear
aucc of indifference.
The child embraced the old prayer
book with boyish fervor, and opening it
exclaimed: 'Oh! mamma, .what pretty
pictures!'
'Indeed,' said the mother, happy in the
gladness of her boy.
'Yes. The good Virgin, in a red dress,
holding the infant in her arms. But
why, mamma, had silk paper been put
upon the picture?'
ou iluh mtj ujiuu uui uc- mjuicu, iuj
dear.
"But. mamma, why nre there ten silk
papers to each engraviugl'
The mother looked, and uttering a sud
den shriek, she fell into the arms of M.
Dubois, the notary, who, addressing those
peut, said:
'eave her alone, it won't be much;
people don't die of these shocks. As for
j you, little one,' addressing Hector, 'give
; me that prayer book, you will tear the
engravings.'
' The inheritors withdrew, making vari-
j ous conjectures as to tho cause of Anne's
J sudden illness, and the interest which the
notary took in her. A month afterward
i they met Anne and her son exceedingly
( well, but not extravagantly dressed, tak-
.ing au airing in a two horse chariot.
This led them to make inquiries, and they
learned that Madame Anne had recently
j purchased a hotel for one hundred and
j eighty thousand francs, and was giving a
j fir?t rate education to her Bon. Tho
news came like a thunder-bolt upon them.
i Madame de Villeboys and M. Vatry has-
tened to call upon tbe notary forexplana
tions. The good Dubois was working at
his desk.
'Perhaps we are disturbing you! said
the arrogant lady.
No matter. I was in the act of set
tling a purchase in the state funds for
Madame Anne.'
What!' exclaimed Vatry, after having
purchased house and equipage, she has
still money to inveit?'
'Undoubtedly so!'
'But where did the money come from!'
'What! did you uot see!'
'When!'
'When she shrieked upon seeing what j
tue prayer ooou contained wuicn sne in
herited.' 'We observed nothing.'
Oh! I thought you saw it,' said the
sarcastic notary. 'That prayer book con
tained sixty engravings, and each engra
ving tvas covered by ten notes of a thou
sand francs each.'
!
exclaimed Vatry, j
'Good Heavens!'
thunderstruck.
If J had only known it! shouted Mad
ame de Villeboys.
'You had your choice,' added the nota
ry, 'and I myself urged you to take tho
prayer book, but you refused.'
'But who could have expected to find
a fortune in a breviary!
The two baffled egotists withdrew, their Qr brers by tbc side of a log. ;fc jg of sim.
hearts swollen with pasf-ionate envy. pie struoture, being composed of a few
Madame Anne is ftill in Pans. If dried leaves ln this receptacle, tho eggs
you pass by the Rue Lafitte on a tine are deposited, sometimes to the number
summer evening, you will see a charming of twentyf but more usually from nine to
picture on the first floor, illuminated by gfteen; tfcoy are whitish, spotted with red
the pale reflection of wax lights. j igQ Drownf like those of the domestic tur-
A lady who has joined the two hands jjej The female always approaches her
of her son, a fair child of six years of age nest with great caution, varying her course
in prayer before an old book of 'Heures so ag rarely to reach it twice by the same
dc la Vierge,' and fogwhich a case of r0ute; and on leaving her charge, she is
gold has been made.
'Pray for me, child,' said tho mother. ' leaves, with which she conceals it so care
'And for who else!' inquired tbe child, j fully, as to make it extremely difficult, e-
'For your father, your dear lather, who
perished without knowing you, without
being able to love you.'
j 'Must I pray to the saints, my patron?'
' 'Yes, my little friend; but do not forget
a saint who watched us from Heaven,
and who smiles upon us from above the
nlnnflu "
'What is the name of that saint, mam
ma?' The mother, then watering the fair
child's head with tears, answered:
j Her name is Sister Egerie.
Wild Turkeys their History and Habits.
noe and to the order maleagris gallopavo,
' and is found only in America. Its orig
inal range extended from the Northwest
j ern part of the United- States to the Isth
mus of Panama. It is now mostly eon
fined to the unsettled or thinly inhabited
portions of Arkansas, Louisiana, Tonnes
see, Alabama, Ohio, Kentucky, Illinois,
; and the vast territory lying west and
j south-west of these States, though found
; in small numbers in Georgia, Florida,the
- - -j
Carolines, Virginia and Pennsylvania.
Turkeys of a mongrel variety, produced
. J . e . s ... ,f ' r , ,
by a crossing of the wild and tame breeds,
Jo
are found in the mountainous parts of
Sussex County, N. J., and in Western , elected Just,co ot tb? i c6- owJohn
New York; and are commonly called wild , dld nofc Profe8S to. skilled in all the
turkeys. J mysteries and intricacies of the law, nci-
Some of the peculiar habits of this bird ' ther did he tbiulf U necessary that he
are thus described in tho "Transactions should bc- for' os he understood it his du
nftli Amf.r;,.an Tnstimtfl" for 1852 . ty as squire was simply to preservo the
The wild turkeys do not confine them-
selves to any particular food; they eat Iu- tenaea to ao ai au nazarus, wnciuer uu
diaucorn, all kinds of berries, fruits, did it legally or not. He had books con
grains, and grasses; and even tadpoles, taming the laws of the State of Vermont,
grasshoppers, young frogs, and lizards, also several decisions, forms of deeds,
arc constantly found in their crops; but mortgages, warrants, etc., which were of
where the pecan nut is plenty, they pre- much service t0 h5m in tQo discharge of
fer that food to any other. Their more his official dul5es- 0ne daJ his neighbor
general predilection is, however, for tho A- camc t0 bim 10 8reat haste. Sajing he
acorn, or mast, chestnut, etc-, on which had hissed a handsaw, which had proba
they readily fatten. About the begiuniug blJ been stolen and suspected B. to be
of October, while the mast or shock, still fiuilty of the . theft, as he was the only
remains on toe trees, tucy assemme in
flocks, and direct their oourse to the rich
bottom lands. At this season they are
observed in great numbers in the valleys
of the Ohio and Mississippi. The time
of this irruption is knowu to the Indians
by the name of turkey month. The males
usually termed gobblers, associate in par
ties numbering from ton to a hundred,
and seek their food apart from the fe
male.; while the latter cither move about
singly with their young, then nearly two
thirds grown, or, in company with other
females and their families, form troops,
snmntimfis consisting of seventv or eihf,v
individuals, all of whom are intent on a-
c ' o j
voiding the old males, who, whenever an
opportunity offers, attack and destroy the
young by repeated blows on the head.
AH parties, however, travel in the same
direction, anu on loot, uniess tney are
compelled to seek their individual safety,
by flying from the hunter s dog, or their
march is impeded by natural obstructions.
When the turkeys have surmounted all
difficulties, and arrived at their land of
abundance, they disperse in small flocks,
composed of individuals of all sexes and
.. -llll 11 . i
nrroK inrprminrrifiii. wnn n ft vour an tho
iges
mast as they advance; this occurs about
the middle of November. It has been
observed that, after these long journeys,
tbe turkeys become so familiar near the
farm houses and plantations as to enter
the stables and corn-cribs in search of
food; in this way they pass the Autumn,
and part of the Winter.
Early in March they begin to pair; and
for a short time previous the females sep
arate from and shun their mates, though
tbe latter pertinaciously follow them, ut
tering their gobbling notes. When ma
ted for the season, one or more females,
thus associated, follow their favorite and
roost in the immediate neighborhood, if
not on the same tree, until they begin to
lay, when they ohange their mode of life,
in order to save their eggs, which the
male uniformly breaks, if in his power,
that the female may not be withdrawn
from his company and attention. At this
time, the females shun the males during
the greater part of the day; tho males be
comes clumsy and careloss, meet each oth
er peacefully, and cease to gobble. The
sexes then separate: the males retiro and
conceal themselves in secluded parts of
tbe forest, or in the almost impenetrable
recesses of a canebrake. About the mid
dle of April, when the weather was dry,
tbe female selects a propper place in which
j to deposit her eggs, secured from the en
croachment of water, and as far as possi-
blc, concealed from tbe watchful eyo of
tne crow. ch-js crafty bird espies the hen
I going to her nest, and having discovered
the precious deposit, he waits lor tho ab
sence of the parent and then removes ev
ery one of the eggs from the spot, that
he may devour them at his leisure.
The nest is placed on the ground, cith
er on a dry ridge in the fallen top of a
. lonfu troo nrwlnr tlnnlror. nf Rnmnnli
9f A
very careful to cover tbe whole with dry
- m m m m .
ven forono wno nas waicuca ner move-
ments, to indicate tho exact spot. When
laying or sitting, the turkey ben is not
easily driven from her post, by the ap
proach of apparent danger; but if an ene
my appears, she crouches as low as pos
sible, and suffers it to pass. They seldom
abandon their nests on account of being
discovered by man, but should a snake,
or any other wild animal, suck one of her
eggs, the parent leaves them altogether.
If the eggs be removed, she again seeks
the male, and recommences laying, though
otherwise she lays but one nest of eggs du
ring the season. Several turkey hens
associate, perhaps for mutual safety, and
deposit their eggs in the same nest, and
rear their broods together. Mr. Audu
bon onoe found three females sitting on
forty-two eggs. In suoh cases the nest is
constantly guarded by one of the parties,
so that no crow, raven or polecat, dare
approach it. The mother will not for
sake her eggs, when near hatching, while
life remains; she will suffer an cnolosure
to be made around and imprison her,
rather than abandon her charge.
:
The Way He Got over It.
Among the first settlers of Kentucky
, was one oan wno was atierwarua
X.I. X . I- - I - f 1-
' Peace and dspcnse justice, which he in-j
. ijii j-iiii j i. i i. .
" "v .6w. " ..
ly to do such a thinjr, consequently he
wanted a search-warrant to search the
premises of the said B., whereupon the
squire turned to his books for a form of
a search-warrant for a handsaw ! He
was quite sure he must have one some
where, but a'ter looking for an hour,
without finding anything about a hand
saw, be concluded it must have been mis
laid. However, he found something rel
ative to stolen turkeys, which would an
swer cveiy purposo, so ho issued a search
warrant for turkeys, instructing A at
the same time, if he found the saw while
, i p .i . i i i. i :
loOKing xor ine lurxteys, iu iuhe uuu u
would be all right.
Gin. A citizen of Jersey City, says
the Courier, had occasion to purchase a
small quantity of gin the other day up-
on recipe of bis physician. It appearing
"ugntnmg" iikc to nis tasie no uccuuea
to use it, and passed the bottle overdo
his wife for cleaning purposes. Being
troubled with bed-bugs, she applied it to
tbe bedstead with the idea that they would
at least scamper off at the smell, when
relink in a K n natnni jli mnnf fr, aan flii In.
nuau 3 uo uaiuuiauuiuu "
sects drop dead upon the first apalication
of the liquid. Let human gin drinkers
therefore beware.
Delicate Eating. The "Digger In
dians," of California, catch cart-loads of
grasshoppers by driving them into a pit
dug for the purpose, after which they are
baked by fire encircling the pit, and then
pulverized into flour, from which various
delicate viands are prepared for the Indi
an palate.
A man named William Simcock, of
Washington county, Pa., recently lost his
wife in tbe morning married his second
wife before night, and followed the re
mains of his first wife, in company with
the second, to the grave the day after.
A "boss" doctor in Olean, made a bet
of twenty dollars that he could remove
from any horse anything nature had not
placed upon the beast meaning ring
bone, spavin, &c. A wag took the bet,
showed him a mortgage for one hundred
and fifty dollars on a favorite horse, and
pocketed the twenty dollars.
Prentice of tho Louisville Journal, ob
jects to the five minutes rule in tho New
York prayer meetings. He says, "im
agine for instance, Old Bennett, of the
Ilerald, confessing his sins in the ridicu
lous space of five minutes !"
Danger From noors. Tho Peoria
Transcript, says that, in the recent torna
do in Illinois, "two ladies were blown a
way, and have not since been heard of.
They probably woro hoops.''
Alter asking your name in tne state or
.
Arkansas, tho natives are in the habit of;
saying in a confidential tone: "Well, now,;oot 0f tne unwise legislation of Congress,
what wer yer name alore yer moved to
theso parts !"
It is stated that there are at least two
thousand people, of both sexes, from oth
er States, sojourning in Indiana and Illi
nois, for the express purpose of getting
rid of their wives and husbands.
.nl . i . -r, r
. m nomuj .. . vjv.,
which chews tobacco with a relish, and
not only acorns wasting the juice by filthy
expecioraiion, pm swanows jum buu an.
Senator Cameron's Speech.
The following brief preface to a mo
tion in the Senate, two or three days
since, is one of the most remarkable and
forcible we have ever seen in the procee
dings of that body. It is, in a few words,
a most admirably condensed and sen
tentious embodiment of the flood of
thoughts which tho great question it re
fers to presses upon us now. It is a
speech which tens of thousands can and
will read, and the eminent speaker well
said, at its close, that he was speaking to
the petitioners and their associates, and
speaking for them in so doing. This
pithy and conclusive enforcement of the
duty of tho unfortunate workers in coal
and iron to consider the question of po
litical direction at the polls and not in
vain petitions, will have more weight with
those to whom it is especially addressed
than any former argument emanating
from the House or Senate. Philcul.
North American.
Mr. Cameron said :
I am requested to preseut a petition,
signed by a large number of laboring men
engaged iu the manufacture of iron, in
1 ennsylvania. I receive a great many
letters, dailv. from nersons of this class.
and I will say here, what will savo me the
hrrmliln of mrJtin.T n rrrnnt. mnnv 1ottorvi
They thiuk the Congress of the United
States can relieve them from all their trou
bles. There never has been a time ia the
history of the iron business of Pennsyl
vania, when there was so much real dis-
he ! tress among the laborinrr men of my State
the men who do the work, the men who
go to the torge colore uayiigtit, and re
main there long after the moon has risen
than there is at present. It is not a
complaiut now on the part of the capital-
ist. Men of capital, men of fortune, can
ways take care of itself; labor, poverty,
indigence and want, always need sympa
thy and protection.
These persons reside in the town of
Norristowu, on the Schuylkill river some
twenty miles above Philadelphia. The
river Schuylkill is traversed on both
sides, by railroad, one extending some
twenty or thirty miles, auother one hun
dred miles. On the one side of the river
is a canal. All these works have been
made for tho purpose of conveying coal
and iron to tho place of manufacture and
sale. The county of Schuylkill, the great
coal denosit of Pennsylvania, has a non-
ulation of some 80,000 or 90,000 people,
which has grown up within the last twen
ty-fivc years.
At this time the whole laboring popu
lation engaged in the iron and coal busi
ness of the whole country extending from
Philadelphia to the mountains of Schuyl
kill county, are idle; boats are tied up;
locomotives are, in a great measure, stan
ding still, and laborers arc running about
hunting employment and hunting food.
These are the persons who complain;
they think that Congress can relieve them.
I have told them, and I have written to
them, that they have the power in their
own hands.
Tho laboring men of this oountry are
powerful for good always. They do con
trol when they think propper, and I think
the time is coming when they will control
tbe politics of this country. I tell them
that before they oan get common protec
ting they must change the majority in tlie
Senate they must change the majority qf
the otfier House of Congress; and, above all
tltey must clvange the occupant of the White
House, who is the dispenser of this power
which controls the legislation of tho coun-
-T- i n .1 t
try. in place or gentlemen wno sneer
when we talk about protection they must
send men here who know something of
tho wants, something of tho interests,
something of tho usefulness of the labor
ing man.
Hitherto, they have not acted as if they
cared for their own interests. While they
talked about a tariff which would guard
their labor from competition with the pau
per labor of Europe, they would goto the
elections under some ward leader and
vote for men to represent them, here and
elsewhere, who cared only for party drill,
and who had no interest above party suc
This system they must change, iAmc, he shall bc committed to tho jail of
cess.
they hope for success. I think the laboring
men of Pcnusylvauia, at least, aro now
beginning to put their bboulders to the
wheel, and I believe they will make such
a noise in next October as will alarm the
gentlemen all oyer the country who laugh
at them.
The canals, railroads, and mining op
erations of this region of country, have
cost moro than a hundred millions of dol
lars; the furnaces aud other works con
nected with tuo manutacture ot iron, au
enormous puni. i no people interesieu hi ,
f i i . . i '
tlm iron and coal
oal husinss, directly or m-
directly, along the valley of the Schuyl-i
kill amount to more than three hundred
. . t i
tuou5aud souls. Since ldoo, tbere lias,
ijeen a blight unon the business, growing
whicn bas really pro.ectou tuo . " 'fret your ears cropped they are entirely
England. Russia and Sweeden, and thuao" J vv J
taken the labor and the bread from our
own workmen.
Tbis iron interest of Pennsylvania, in
which these men aro employed, commen
ced, in 1820, with a production of only
20.000 tons. In 1855. when it was up
I to its greatest extent, tho production wus
:i i: nrc nf ni fr metal. Whnn this
i mi? a Tiirr motnl Whrn rhJ :
u,,,,uu. ..::,A,B. . .i - I
pig metal is woruu ,ulu w,c .auu.
in which iron is to bo consumed, it a -
j of.ru mnnv mi inns ot do Wars,
uuu.u
The annual produce of coal in Schuylkill
county alone, in 1855, amounted in val
ue to some S20,0U0.000. When it ia
known that it requires two tons of coal
to make a ton of iron, you can imagine
the number of persons who rely for their
daily bread on the production of iron and
coal. Iron, in its native mountains, is
worth but 51) cents a ton; when it is work
ed into pig metal it ranges in price from
$20 to 530, and sometimes to $40 a ton;
and when worked into various uses it fre
quently amounts to hundreds of dollan
ton.
I have said that these people have tho
power in their own hands. I am speak
ing to them now, and I wish them to ex
ercise the power they have. I can not
help them, much as I desire to do so, nor
can any of their friends here; but when
they go to work as men determined to
succeed should do, I havo no doubt they
will get protection. The people in tbis
valley and on the slope of the Schuylkill
mountains have votes enough to change
and control the politics of the Union; for
as Pennsylvania goes, so goes the Union
in all great elections; and their votes can
at all times decide the politics of Penn
sylvania. Let them exercise the poicer
j elyt and they will no longer bc without
plenty of work and good prices. I move
mittco on Finance.
The New Game Law.
In the Jeffersonian of the 10th of Juno
we published the new Game Law passed
at the late session of the Legislature, but
(owing to material errors in the paper from
which wo copied it, its force and opera
tion aro considerably impaired. Wo
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law as it was passed, and approved by
the Governor:
An Act for the better preservation of Gams
and Insectivorous Birds, fyc.
Section 1. Be it enacted, fyc, That
from and after the passage of this act, it
shall not be lawful for any person within
this commonwealth to shoot, kill, or in a
ny way entrap or destroy, any blue bird,
swallow, martin or auy other insectivor
ous bird, at any season of the year, under
the penalty of two dollars.
Section 2. That from and after the
passage of this act, no person shall shoot,
kill or otherwise destroy, any pheasant
between tbe first day of January and tho
first day of September, or any woodcock,
between the first day of January and the
fourth day of July, or any partridge or
rabbit between the first day of January
and the first day of October, in the pres
ent year, and in each and overy year
thereafter under the penalty of five dol
lars for each and every offence.
Section 3. That no person shall buy
or cause to be bought, or carry out of this
State, for the purposo of supplying any
private or or public house, or market, a
uy pheasant, partridge, woodcock oc rab
bit, unless the same shall have been shot
or taken in the proper season, as provi
ded for in this act under a penalty of fivo
dollars for each and every offence.
Section 4. I hat no person shall at any
time wilfully destroy tbe eggs or nests of
any birds mentioned in the different sec
tions of this act, within this common
wealth, under a penalty of two dollars for
each and every offence.
Section 5. That the possession of any
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person in tuis commonwealth, ot any ot
the game and birds mentioned in tbe dif
ferent sections of this act, shot, killed, or
otherwise destroyed out of season as afore
said, shall be ;w;?w jacia evidence to
convict under tbis act.
Section 6. That any person offending
against any of the provisions of this act,and
being thereof convicted before any alder
man or justice of tho peace aforesaid, or
by the oath or affirmation of one or moro
witnesses, shall for every such offenco,
forfeit the fine or fines attached to tho
same, one half for the use of the county
in which tbe complaint is made, and tho
other half to the iuformer; and if tho of
fender shall refuse to pay the said forfcit-
the proper county, for every such offence,
for the ipace of two days, without bail or
mainprise; Provided, hmccver, That such
conviction be made within sixty days af
ter committing the offence.
Section 7. That any act or acts con
flicting with this act, be and tbe same aro
hereby repealed.
Approved April 21st, 1857.
Locusts. The seventeen year locusts,
as Doctor Smith of Maryland, predicted
t i . 1
nave maae tueir appearaueu iu cuuuuuaa
multitudes in the neighborhood ot V loks-
burg, Miss. Except for tbc incessant
jroning they keep up, they aro said not
.
to be troublesome.
"Paddy," says a joker, "why don't you
i too long for a man!'
"And yours," replied Pat,"ought to bo
lengthened they are too short for an
ass.
"Does your razor take hold well!" ask
ed an agonizing Bufferer of the' tonso'rial
OOCratOT.
i.y was the consoling reply, lit
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takes bold first rate, tut it don t lrt go
wonu