JOcuotctr to politics, f itcraturo, riatltun, Science, iHoralitij, auir encral intelligence- VOL 18. STROUDSBURG, MONROE COUNTY, PA. AUGUST 11, 1859. NO. 32. Published hv Theodore School!. TERMS. Two dollars pcralinum in .nlvnnec Two dollars nnl h quarter, half yearlv ami it" not paid be fore the end of the year, Two dollars and a hair. No pipers discontinued until all arrearages ate paid, txeept ai the option of the Editor. 1CT Advertisements of one square (ten lines) or less, one or three insertions, $1 00. Each additional inscr tion. 25 cents. Longer ones in proportion. JOB PRIXTIKG. ilaving n general assortment of large, plain and or haniental Type, wo are prepared to execute every do scription of Cards, Circulars, Bill Head". Notes. Blank Receipts Justices, Legal and other Blanks, Pamphlets. Sec.., prin ted with neatness and despatch, on reasonable terms nt this office. j. Q. DUCKWORTH. JOHN HA.YX. To Country 5)c:tlc2s. DUCKWORTH & HAYN, WHOLRSALE DEALERS IN Jroccries, Provisions, Liquors, &c. No. 80 Dey street, Now York. June 1G, 1859. ly. AN OVERLAND JOURNEY, xr. TIIE KANSAS GOLD DIGGINGS In tue Rocky .Mountains, ) Gregory's Diggings, June 9, 1839. $ We left Denver at 0 yesterday morn ing, in a wagon drawn by four mules, crossing by a rope ferry the south fork of the Platte directly. This fork is a swift, clear, cold stream, some thirty rods wide, fordable except when snows are melting in the mountain?. Many gold-seekers' wasons were waiting to cross, and more were momently arriving, so that the fer rymen at least mu&t be making his pile out of the diggings. Henceforward, our way lay northwest for fifteen miles across nrolliogand wi'll-grassed prairic,on wbieb one or two farms have been commenced, while two or throe persons bave just es tablished "ranches" that i, have built each his corral, in which cattle are herd ed at night, while allowed to run at large on the prairie during the day: SI 50 per month ifl the usual price per head for herding cattle in this way, and the cattle arc Eaid to do very well. The miners leave or send back their cattle to herd on these prairies, while they pro-ecute tlieir operations on tbe mountains, where feed is generally scarce. Beaching Clear Creek, (properly Tes ter's Fork) a cold, swift, rocky bot tomed stream, which emerges just above a- deep narrow canon from the ilocky Mountains we left our wagon-, saddled the mules and forded the creek and it was all our mules could do to stem its impetuous ourreDt ascended a gentle, grassy slope to the foot of Ilocky Moun tains which had for an hour seemed al most within a stone-throw on our left. Now they were to be faced directly, and the prospect was really seriou. The bill on which we were to make our fir-t essay in climbing rose to a bight of 1,600 feet in a little more than a mile, the as ceut for most of tbe distance being' more than one foot in three. I never before bbw teams forced up such a precipice; vet there were wagons with ten or twelve hundred ions, &5 weight of mit.ing tools, provis bcing dragged by four to eight oxen ud that giddy precipice, yoke of with four or five men lifting at the wheels of each. The average time consumed in the ascent is an hour and a half. Our aiules, unused to suek work, were visibly appalled by it; at first, they rented ev ery effort to foroe them up, even by zig sags. My companions all walked, but I was lame. and had to ride, to my mule's intense disgust. lie was stubborn but BtTong, and in time bore me safely to the summit. New as this rugged road is it was first traversed Go weeks ago to-day death bad traveled it before me. A young man shot dead, while carolesly drawing a rifle from his wagon, lies hurried by tbe road side on this mountain. I have beard of so many accidents of this nature not less than a dozen "old-seekers having been shot iu this manner during the lust two months that I marvel at the care IcBsness with which fire-arms are every where handled on tbis fide of the Missou ri. Had no single emigrant across the Plains this season armed himself, tbe number of them alive at this moment would have been greater than it is We traveled some two miles along tbe crest of this mountain, then descended, by a pitch equally sharp with the ascent but shorter, to a ravine, iu which we rested our weary animals and dined. That din ner of cold ham, bread and cheese--was one of the best relished of any I ever shared, He-saddling, we climbed anoth er precipice a little less steep and so up and down for ten miles, when we descen ded into the narrow valley of a little braneh of Clear Creek, und thencefor ward had ten miles of relatively smooth going, crossing from one valley to anoth er over hills of moderate elevation and easy ascent. A wilderness of mountains rose all a round us, some higher, same lower, but generally very steep, with sharp uarrow ridges for their summits. Some of them are thinly grassed, between widely scat tered trees up their sides and on their tops, but they aregcuerully timbered, and mainly with bellow Pine, come ot it quite large; but more of it pmall and apparently young. High on the mountains this pine is. short and scraggy, while in tbe ravines it grows tall and sharply, but average not more than a foot in diameter, Hur ricanes bave frequently Hwept the moun tains, prostrating the pines by scores, fires have ravaged and decimated them; is, one which a pony may traverse with 'proposed new Ilocky Mountain State, still pines on the summits, pines on the one end of tho ledge-polo on his back,tho Temperance, Gambling, &c., &c., were hillsides, pines eveu in the ravines, are other trailing behind him exists from discussed with force and freedom. Such all but universal. Tho Balsam Fir grows this point to the open prairie near Clear a gathering, of men suddenly drawn hith-f-paringly in the ravines; Hemlock, also, Creek a trail which doubtless winds a- er from every section and nearly every is reported, though I have not seen it; long the steep sides of tbe ravines and a. State, in a glen where the first ax was but the Quakiug Asp or Aspen which voids tho rugged bights necessarily trav- raised, the firs tent pitched by white men, seems but a more delicate species ofCot-'ersed by the minor's wagon-road. Should less than six weeks ago, should have in-ton-wood is thick-set in (he ravines, and these diggings justify their present prom - spired the dullest speaker with earnest somctirtics appears on the more moderate . ho, I doubt not a road will in lime beness if not with eloquence, acclivities, an do gooseberry bushes in tho made, reducing by one half say 5,000 j Mining quickens almost every depart raviuos. Brooks of tbe purest water mur-. feet the present aggregate of accent and , ment of useful industry. Two coal pits mur and sing in every ravine; springs a- descent between this and Denver. But are burning close at band. A black bound; the air is singularly pure and bra- an unworked wagon-road must avoid the j smith has set up his forgo here, and is cing; the Elk, black-tailed Deer and sides of these steep-bank ravines, run-j making a good thing of sharpening picks Mountaiu-Shcep are plentiful, except ning square up the faces and along the , at 50 cents each. A volunteer post-office where disturbed by the inrush of cmigra- crests of the mountains, so that this spot is just established, to which an Express tion; Grouso are common and bold: the is destined to remain barely accessible Office will soon attach itself. A Provi solitudc was sylvan and perfect until a for at least another year. sibn Store will soon follow; then Groce- weeks ago. All is now being rapidly; This narrow valley i3 densely wooded, ries; then Dry Goods; then a Hotel; &o., changed, and not entirely for the better, maiuly with tho inevitable Yellow Pine nuti), within ten years, tho tourist, of the We had a smart shower, with thunder which, sheltered from the fierce winds, Continent will be whirled up to these andlightning, during tbe afternoon, which which sweep the mountain tops, here J diggings over a longer but far easier road compelled us to halt a few minutes. An- grows to a hight of sixty or eighty feet, ' winding around the mountain-tops rather other such tbis afternoon indicates that it though usually but a foot to eighteen inch-' than parsing ovor them, and will eip his in a habit of the country. I am told, es iu diameter. Of these pines, log cab- chocolate and read his New York pa- howover, that, though thunder is com- iiion, rain is generally withheld this seas-' on, or confined to a mere sprinkle. ! Night fell upon us while yet six' or sev- miles from the diggings, and we camped iu the edge of the pines on the brow of a gentle acclivity, with a prospect of grass as well as water for our weary, hungry beasts down tbe slope south of us. Mine had fallen to his kness in the last water- - couse we had passed, very nearly throw- living with white men sleep in tents, j time threatened a heavy shower. We ing me over her lead; had she done it I or under booths of pine boughs, cooking , made a poor shelter of a buffalo-skin and am sure I had not the strength left to and eatiug in the open air. I doubt that' a rubber blanket, stretched across a fal rise and remount, and hardly to walk the there is as yet a table or chair in these Ion tree, and their waited half an hour rcmairig half mile. As it was, I had to digging, eating being done around a but, finding the rain neither stopped nor be lifted tenderly from my saddle, and ( cloth spread on the ground, while each grow violent, we saddled up and came on. laid on a blanket, with two more above one sits or reclines on mother earth to Two accidents which might have proved mc, whvre I lay while the fire wa3 built, 1 enjoy. The food, like that of the Plains, serious happened to members of our par supper prepared, and a lode of dry polo is restricted to a fw staples Pork, Hotjty the first to Mr.Villard of Cincinnati, and greeu pine boughs hastily put up. I Bread, Beans and Coffee forming the al- wlio, riding at some distance from all wis too tired to cat, but the bright, leap-'most exclusive diet of the mountains: but ntWa thmven mnl' BnrTr1i log name irom tne ury pines ucaped on our fire gradually overcame the shivering, which was about the ouly t-ign of vitality I owed when first laid don, and I at length resumed the perpendicular by an effort, and took my place in our booth, where sleep hut fitfully visited mc during -1 - : t I that bright short Summer niht. But this left me more time to rub my chafed so dry during the Summer that their gras ' ing heard his call for help, was coming and stiffened limbs, so that, when break- is very icanty. It is melancholy to see 'up in front. Mr. V. was released witlT fast vrai called iu the moruinir. I was so many overworked and half-starved i n:! fnrthnr ininrv hnt hi nrm in tom. ready, appetite iueluded, and prepared to dispel the apprehensions of those who had 1 . t r preuicieu, on seeing me tauen oil my mule that I mu-t be left there for at least ; a day. iy o o cIock, we were again in the saddle, and pushing on, over a stony but rather level table land, which extend ded for two or three milc, thickly cover ered with youug Pines and Aspens, to our next ravine, whence the road leads up a short, steep hill, then down a very long, equally steep one, to Clear Creek being as rapid and rock-bottomed as where we crossed it the day before thirty mile be low, but with only one-third the voluce of water, so that we crossed it easily with out a wet foot. A little runnel coming in from the west directly at the ford, with it-? natural transluccucy changed to milky whiteness by the running of its waters through sluices in which the process of gold-washing was going forward, gave us assurance that we were iu immediate prox imity to the new but already famous 1 1k Sk 1 1 workings called after their discoverer, ii Uregorv a difrincs. I shall not here f-peak of their pecuni ary success or promise, thouh I havo vis ited during the day, a majority of those which have sluices already in operation, C- and received reports from my fellow-vis itors from nearly all the others. Having, united with them m a statement to be j herewith forwarded of what we saw and learned, I refer those who feel any inter- est in tho matter, to that statement. What I proposo here to do is to give the reader borne idea of tho place and iti general as pects. The little brook which hero joins Clear Crock from the west starts at the foot of mountains ihre.e or four miles distant, and runs in a usually uarrow ravine between generally steep hills from 500 to 1,500 ieet nign. jt is unruly wortu a name, but that of "llolston's Fork" has been bestowed on it. Gregory's lead is very near its mouth; half a mile above seems the heart of tho present mining re gion, though there arc already sluices in operation at intervals for at least two miles up. the fork, and others aro soon to I mining, and consequently of all other be started at intervals-above them. Ilocky Mountain industry. With tbe Three or four miles south-west from the gold just wrested from the earth still glit mouth, are Russell's digging, where j tering in my eyes and one company has coarse gold is procured, but I was unable j taken out to-day, at a cost of not more to visit them. Prospecting is actively go- than S25 a lump (condensed by the use ing forward in every direction, ond vague of quick-silver) which looks like a hteol reports of lucky hits or brilliant pro-pects yard poise and is estimated as worth S510 aro started on this Mde or on that, but1 t adhere to my long-settled eouvictiou I have not been able to verify them. It that, next to outright and indisputable is no disparagement to tbe others to say 'gambling, the hardest (though sometimes that though raining is carried on at va- 'the quickest) way to obtain gold is to rious points within a radius of thirty miles ; from this spot, "Gregory's diggings" aroiohanio will usually make money faster by - -I. i - . 5-r : i -:i.: i.: .. i ... .: n l j j iu uay me cmei nope 01 coiu-iuiuiuz iu , the Ilocky Mountains. Six weeks this raviDe was ajsoli- tude, the favorite haunt of the Elk, the Deer oud other shy denizena of the pro- foundest wilderness, seldom invaded by the foob-teps of man. I believe tbis strip, of country has long bceu debatable land between tue Lies and the Aropanoes, which circumstance combined with its rarely acceesiblo situation to secure its wild tenants against human intrusion and persecution. 1 hear that tuo Arapauoes 6ay that a good "lodge-pole trail" that ins are constructed with extreme facility, and probably one hundred are now being built, while three or four hundred more are in immediate contemplation. They are covered with the green boughs of the pines, then with earth, and bid fair to be commodious and comfortable. As yet, the entire population of the valley which cannot number less than four thousand, in- eluding five white women and seven squaws l.t- i . i i ' a meatsnop nas just Deen esuDiisnca on; t 1. .y , ..... i , I wnose a:tar are otierea up tne ill-leu and well-whipped oxen who are just in from a fifty days' journey across tho Plains, and one or two cows have been driven in, as more would be if they could here been subsisted. But these mountains arc main- ly wooded-, while tho open hill-sides are ! cattle as one meets or passes in this ravine 1 1 i . t i and on the .way hither. Corn is 85 per bushel in Denver, and scarce at that: Oats are not to be had; there is not a tun of Hay within two hundred miles, and uone can ever be brought hither over the present road at a cot below S40 per tun. The present shift of humane owners is to herd their oxen or mules on the rich gra?s of the nearest prairies for a week or so, letting them subsist on browse and a very little grat.9, and then send them down the mountain again. This, bad as it i seems the best that can bo done. Liv ing of all kinds will always bo dear at these mine.-, where American Flour is now selling at the rate of S44 per barrel, and Baoon is worth 50c. per pound; Su gar ditto. I presume less than half the four or five thousand people now" here in this ra vine have been here a week; he who has been here three weeks is regarded as quite an old settler, The influx cannot fall short of five hundred per day, balanced by an eflluz of about one hundred. Mauy of tho latter go away oonvinccd that Ilocky Mountain gold-mining is one grand humbug. Some of them have prospected 2 or 3 weeks, eating up their provisions, wearin2 out their boots and finding noth- j. Others have workodfor the more for- tunate for SI per day and tbeir board and lodging certainly not high wages when the "duality of the livin? is considered. And I feel certain that, while some perhaps many will realize their dreams of wealth here, a far greater number will expend their scanty means, tax their powers of endurance, and then leave, soured, heart sick, spirit-broken. Twenty thousand people will Iirvo rushed into this ravine beforo the 1st of September, while I do not see how half of them are to find prof- itablo employment here. Unless, there fore, tho area of tho diggings shall mean time be greatly cularged of which there is no assurance I cannot imagine how half the number are to subsist hero, even up to that early setting in of Winter which otU'-t cause a general paralysis of mine for it that a good farmer or me- ewv t iuv, i buukiu't iu uia uwu uusiuuss man oy ae- ;serting it for gold digging and that the l II r t . t n,an wuo saving railed in some otucr pur- suit, calculates on retrieving hia fortunes by gold-mining, makes a mistake which he will likely to rue to the end of his days, ! hr'usb and tho ucsfc morning wash as We had a famous gathering a few rodsLi na annn n,i roritnr nn ,Bt-a i,m from this tent this evening. Tho csti - mate oi saie men puts tne numner pres- ent at 1,000 to 2,000. Though my name was made the excuse for it, brief and for- cible addresses were mado' by several others, wuereur Mining, i'ost! and .bi:- press facilities, the Pacific Railroad, the per not yet fivedaysold ory "House," in utter at the "Greg- unconsciousness that this region was wrested from the Elk and the Mountain Sheep so recently as 1859. Denver Juno 10, 1859. We left tho diggings yesterday morn ing, and came down to the foot of the mountain, in spito ot a drizzling rain from noon to 3 or 4 o'clock which atone slipping forward and turning under him. r T . O 1 . - ' . so .that he fell heavily on his left arm, which was badily bruised, and thence dragged a rod with his heel fast in the stirrup. His mule then stopped; but when I rode up behind him, I dared not ap proach him lest I should start her, and waited a moment for tho friend who. hav. norarily useless. The other casualty happened to Mr. Kershaw of New-York, who, riding to my assistance at Clear Creek Crossing at nightfall, was thrown by his mule's starting at the rush of a savago dog, and considerably iojured, though be is nearly well to-day. It would bave been to me a source of lasting sor row had his fall resulted in more serious damage. c When we reaohed Clear Creek on our way up threo mornings since, though the current rushing from tho mountains look ed somewhat formidable, I charged it like a Zouave, and was greeted with three ringing ahouts from tbe assembled Pike'a Peakers, as I came up, gay and dripping, on the north shore. But now, though the water was but a few inches higher, tho starch was so completely ta ken out of me by those three days' rough experience in tho mountains, that I had neither strength nor heart for the pas sage. I felt that the least stumble of my mule over tbe round, slippery stones that fill the channel would fling me, and that I was unable to stand a moment in that rushing torrent. So, driving in my mule after tho rest of the party, and seeing her reach the south bank safely though with grcatdifficulty breaking a girth and spilling saddle, blanket, &c, into the wa ter I betook myself to a spot, half a mile up (stream, where thp creek ia split by islets into three ohnnnels, and where a rude foot-bridgo of logs affords a dry shod passage. Hero I was met by my friend with his mule, and in a few min utes rodo to our wagon, beside which wo found supper in an emigrant tent and lodging in several, and at 4 o'clock this morning harnessed up and drove into Denver just threo whole men out of a party of eix, and all as weary and care worm as need be, but all heartily grati fied with our experience of threo days in tho Ilocky Mountains. Horace Greeley. "Washing Horses Legs. It is quite a common oustom for car men ond hostlers to "founder noble hor ses, by the erroneous practice of dashing cold wuter on their legB when they arc dirty. In regard to this practice Sir George Stephens, the eminent veterinary surgeon Hays, "Whenever it is necessary to wash horses' legs, do it in tho morn ing. -Most grooms, acting on a different principle, wash them as soon as the ani mal comes in. I am convinced this is a bad practice. Wrhcn tho roads are dir- ty, and tho weather wet, and the legs al- , i i .!. : .1 . i . UrtUJ H"' , 7 K - , , ' but to doiueo the lees with water the uio- , " , , . , ment a horac enters tho yurd, heated with exercise, is to my mind, as unnatural and absurd as to jump into a shower bath af ter playing ait hour at cricket. My plan is, running down witu straw ana a ary picb amI wa6, t,e sole3 as SQ0Q a3 tho horso comes in." The. last Legislature' of Tcx'as contain5 od thirteen "men 'qf wark." Not ono of them could write bis name, A Cheese Stoiy. One night in Autumn, two traveler. whose homes was among tho preen bills of Vermont, btopped at a small country . tavern in New llamp.'hiro. Duritij; the I evening, one of them got talking with a farmer of tho place upon farming mat- . ters generally and the relative agricultu-" ral advantages of Vermont and New Hampshiro particularly. The farmer, ' as might be supposed, maintained tbe su- , riority of his own State, New Hampshire; and to prove it, told how much butter and cheese his wife had made that season. ' Not so much to show the excellent labor- ! ing capacity of his wife, ho added, by i way ot explanation, did he mako this statement, as to prove how much greater in quantity was the milk of cows fed on New Hampshire grass, than that of those that grazed elsewhere. "Well," said the traveler, "that's noth ing to what they do in Vermout. WThv one man up there made thirty tons of cneese last summer, and he was a Btnall larmcr, too." 'I guess you have set that a little too high," said the farmer, unwilling to con oedo that there was a better farmer in Vermont than himself. "Didu't Jim Mayuard mako thirty tons of cheese last summer, Tom ?" asked the traveler of his companion. 'I dont know how much cheese be made," replied the other with gravity, "but I remember that he run two saw mills with the whey " The farmer "caved," and acknowledg ed that such farming as that could not be excelled. Self Evidently Drunk. Old P., who resides at Okoloma, Miss., is well known as one who never pays a debt if it can bo avoided. Has plenty of money, however, and is a jolly, rollicking old chap. Gets pretty drunk occasion ally, when, of course, some friend takes care of bira. Not long ago he fell into the hands of a friend who held his note for a sum of money, and, as it was a last chance, tho friend dived into old P.'s wallet, took out the amount of the note and put the note where the money had been. When he awoke to consciousness, as was his wont, he took his wallet out to count how much money he was out. Fin ding his purse almost empty, ho thunder ed: "How in b-l-a-z-e-s did I spend all ray money "You paid off that note I held," an swered the friend. "Well, muttered old P.,' quietly stow ing away his wallet, "I must have been most orful drunk I" inplt ia related that when tho Boyal Society was first established in London, Charles H., who was a bit of a wag, gave its members the following very important Bubjcet for scientific discussion : "Why is it that, when a fish is placed within a basin full of water, it does not make the basin run over?" Night after night the sages discussed the question, to the great anjusement of tho Merry Monarch. At last, Sir Christopher Wren ventured to ask him if be was perfectly sure no wa ter could be forced over tbe tbe edge of tbe basin when the fish was placed in it. With a sly twinkle of his eye, Charles answered, "Ab, Sir Christoper, that I do not know; but I would adviso the gentle men of the Society always to be Bure that such ond such is tbe case before they proceed to account for the cause." Low-neck Dresses. A city servant girl, in a letter to tho "old folks at home," thus describes tho prevailing fashion of low-necked dress es: "As for the lo noes the loer it is the more fashunabil yu air, an' the les cloz yu were the more fashunabil yu air drcst. Mis Goolra giv me a blu silk ov hern an' I cut its neck orf an' Suzin Simmons cut orf hern and we attrax a grato deal of attenshun to our nccs, promioadin' in the streets lyko uthcr ladys an' holdin1 up our cloz. Nobody if n't nolhin' now whitch dusnt hold up her cloz, and the hicr yu holds them tho more yu air thot ov." Political Chip?. An ofliice-holdcr remarked tho other day at tho National Hotel, iu Washing ton, in reply to tbe question, "Who aro your folks going to nominate!" VOh I have itock in all the candi dates.', "What any in Old Buck?" "Yes: two chips." "Goodl Just enough to carry him out on. March 4, 18G1." Officeholder caved and stood treat. ' Sarcastio Shots "Accept a lock of my hair," said an old' bachelor to a widow, handing her a large curl "Sir, you had better gi0 me the whole wig." "Madam, you bite hard, but pray don't risk breaking your beautiful porcelain teeth." A down-east girl being banfefed ono day by fiomo of her female friends in re gard to her lover, who had the mifortuno to have but ono leg, f ho replied to them very smartly, "Pooh 1 1 wouldn't hove a than with two legs; they're too common!" r .. ica, 200,000,000; of Africa, 89,000,000; drinking, water neither makes a man of Australia 2,000,000. Total popula Bick, nor in debt, hor hja wife a widow. tion of the globe, 1 ,2s3,000,QOO. A Uegto Discussion about Eggs. Geneva, tho lovely village on Seneo Lake, furnishes the following specimen of Parliamentary rulingr In the fairest village of western New York the "culled pussons," in emulation' of their white brethren, formed a deba ting society for tho purpose af improving their minds by the discussion of instruc tive and entertaining topics. Tho delib erations of tbe society were presided over by a venerable darkey, who performed his duties with the utmost dignity pecu liar to his color. The subject for the dis cussion on the occasion of which we write was: "What am de mudder ob de chickens' de hen what lay de eggs, or do hen wat hatches de cbickl" Tho question was warmly debated, and manyreasons pro and con were urged and combated by the excited disputants. Those in favor of the latter proposition were evidently in the majority, and the' President made no attempt to conceal' that his sympathies were with the domi nant party. At length an intelligent' darky roso from the minority side and' begged leave to Btato a proposition to this' effect: "Spose," said he. "dat you set one dozen duck eggs under a hen, and dej hatch, which am de mudder de duck or" de hen!" This was a poser, was well put, andf nonplussed the other side, even stagger ing tho President, who plainly saw the force of the argument, but had com mitted himself too far to yield without a struggle; so, after cogitating and scratch ing bis wool a few moments, a bright i dea struck him. Biaing from his chair in all the prido of conscious superiority be announced: "Ducks am not before de house; chiclc ens am de question; derefor I rule de ducks out;" and do it he did, to the com-' plete overthrow of his opponents "Worth Knowing. A young lady of this city, while in the country, stepped on a rusty nail, which ran through her shoe into her foot. The inflammation and pain were great, and look jaw was apprehended. A friend of tbe family recommended the application' of a beet, takon from the garden and pounded Sne, to the wound. It was done, and tho effect was very beneficial. Soon tbe inflammation began to subside, and by keeping on the fresh beet, and chang ing it for a fresh one, as it virtue seem ed to become impaired, a speedy cure was effected. Simple and effective rem edies like this uhould bo known lo everj one. He Eoes'nt Take the Paper; The man that does no paper take. Grudging two dollars once a year, Will neier a good husband make, Because his wife can never know what U going on in the world, and his children will very ignorant appear. The last line is rather long for a good! jingle, but the moral is rublime. .g There are two eventful periods in- ther life of a woman: one, when she wonder's who sho shall haVe tho other, when she wonders who will bave her. JXJI can tell you how to save that horse,' said a darkey to a man in West street, who was looking very earnestly at a skeleton of a horse attached to a vehi cle heavily loaded with oysters. 'Will you? say on.' 'Why, just slip him away while, the crows aro at roost.' fiiV 'I ' n vni"A mtflAAnttln 7 m...?mA1m 1 we get on, the better the better for our neighbors. The wisest policy isy if a man , cheats you, quit dealing with him; if be 'is abusive, quit bis company; if he slan- dcrs you, tako caro to live so that no body will believe him. JJx'Aunt Betsy has said many good thing, one among them (hat a newspa per is like a w.ife, because every mas abould have one of his own. (K7When you bave anything to do5, go ahead and do it. A man who has tbe op tion of two roads, either of which will tako him to his journey's end,-1nu3t not statid too long in considering which to take. gJThe greatest height at which visi ble clouds ever exist does not exceed ten miles. A beautiful thought islaiiggesfed in the Koran: "Angels, in tho grave, will 'not ques tion thco as to the amount of wealth thou has left behind thee, but what good deeds thou hat dono while in the world, to en title thee to a seat among the blest." Good Stock. A coif, sired by -tho celebrated racer George M. Patches a ad which is said by tboso who know, to give promise of out footing his illustrious pa rent, was disposed ot at private sale, in Bristol, recently, for tho round sum of 81 1,000., He must bo a bully nag. ! cSrThe population of Europe is 272, 000,000, of Asia, 720,000,000; of Amer-
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