0 WILJL-Ljuii!- i , . ulilMJ , m ..,-M,..l,..,.,....lll.lll,,.,l ' - ' '- t!t?? ; JDatci ta politics, Citctatxxrc, Agriculture, Science, ilXoraliiij, aufc eucval Intelligence s. VOL. 24. STEOUDSBURG, MONROE COUNTY, PA. MARCH 16, 1865. NO. z; Published -by Theodore Schoch. TERMS Two dollarsaycar in advance and if no paid before the end of the yc:u, iw o dollars and filfy ets. will be charged. No paper discontinued until all arrearages arc paid, except at the option of the Editor. ItAUVClilSfUltiiw ui wuu i!u.Mi; ui mica; Ul less, oneor three insertions $1 50. Each additional irAd-crtiseinciiis 01 one square 01 (eigr.i imesj or insertion, 50 cents. Longer ones in proportion. JOB PR-IffTIRfG, OF ALL KINDS, Executed in the highest style of the Art, and on the most reasornoic terms. THE LITTLE CHILDERN. God bless the little chiidern, Meet them evenvhere ; We hear their voices round our hearth Their footsteps on the stair ; Their kindly .hearts are swelling o'er With mirthfullness and glee; f God bless the little children Wherever they may be. 3-. We meet them 'neath each gipsy tent, With Visage swarth and dun, And cye3 dial sparkle as they glanco With roguery and fun ; We find them fishing in the brook For minnows, with a pin, Or creeping through the hazel-brush The linnet's nest to win. Wo meet them in the lordly hail, Their stately father's pride"; We meet them in the poor man's cot lie has no wealth beside, Along the city's crowded street Thr-y hurl lhe hoop or ball ; Wc find them 'neath the pauper's roof The saddest sight of all. For there they win no father's love, No mother's tender care, Their only friend the God above Who hears the orphan's prayer ; But dressed in silks or degraded rjgs, In childish grief or glee, God bless the little children, Wherever they may be. Dawson's Ale. The following, says the Gennantowii Telegraph, is too good lo be lost, although it occurcd some years agq in Germantown, in a botel not many .miles from the railroad : "Will ycu give me a glass of ale, if you pleased" asked a rather s'eodish-looking per son, with an old but wcll-brushcd coat, and a most too shiny hat It was produced by the bar-tender, cream ing over lhe edge of the tumbler. "Thank ye," said the recipient, as ihc placed it to his lips. Having finished it at a swallow, he smacked his lips, and said ; "This is very fine' ale von'. Wiiose is it!" "It is Dawsoifs ale." "Ah ! Dawson's, eh 1 Well, give us an other glass of it" It was dene : and holding it up to the light and looking through it, connoisseur said : "Ton my word, it is superb ale superb ! clear as Madeira. I must have some more of that. Give me a mug of it." The mug was furnished; but before put ting it to his lips lhe imbiber said : "iriasc ale did you say this was!" "Dawson's," repeated the bar-tender. The mug was exhausted, and also the vo cablory of praise; and it only remained for the appeciative gentleman to say, as he wiped j his mouth and went toward the door. i "Dawson's ale, is il ! I know Dawson verv well I stall see him soon, and will settle with him for two glasses and a mug of his incomparable brew ! Good morning'!" A fac simile of the following inscription on a toomstonc in Williamsport, Pa., is in circulation ; "Sacred to the Memory of Henry Harris Born june 23th 1631 of Henry Harris and jane his Wife. Died on the 4th of May 1837 by a kick of a colt in his Bowles peace able and quiet, a Friend to his Father & Motler& respected by all who knew him and went to the world where horses can't kick and sorrows arid weepings is no more, An exchange sa-s there iaa,cmarked des - titution of religion in the oil region, and scanty accommodations for holding .services i that famous region of country." The following letter was written by a young lady : "Der kufczen : We is well, and mo thers got the his Xcrrix. : brother Tom is got the Hupin Kaugh and sister Ann has ota babce. aud hope these few lines will gck following proved that Mrs. find you the same. Kite soon. Your F0isom had bceu iu earnest when she had apfhectionate kuzzeu." declared her intention of beginning to be TTTT j p j genteel, There were mysterious confab In a recent case of assault, the delend- ( Iatious with lcr edest daughter Jemima; Ant pleaded guilty, "I think 1 must be diverg visHs fcQ tho COUIltry slorcs fr0ln guilty," said he, "because the plaintiff j which , h W(jrc geufc to thc fam and me were the only ones, in thc room, hmQ daj, aud a geucrai ncglect of the and the first thing I know I was stand-!culi affairs thafc mado Mr. Folsom mgup, aud he was doubled over the, , ihc doors, and filled the mouth of eiuve. O.OU u ucucr can nguiiujr. The cultivation of frogs as an article of i food, is largely carried on in' the neigh borhood to New York. One of thc priuci- dot nopu to new x or, vne oi tne priuex-, pal hotels possesses ponds for :jts .exclusive, nul;,wu,.w..uJ),uu u h0USc of Deacon Babbit, up from lively -tadpoles, unmolested by weeH allierin s wcr0 tho ex pickerel or cruel boys. citcmcut of the place, and the occasions It is stated that while only five revolu-'on which the ladies congregated; to show iionary pensioners arc alive, there are one their new clothes, and scandalizing their thousand four hundred and eighteen wid-, ueighbors hwc nfoJ, m ;nrl ilvAWHi" who ui ouvn ;uoivuuia " . . - a pensions. Human existence hinges upon-triflcs what is beauty without soap"? SIIKY FOLSOM'S GENTILITY. BY CLARA AUGUSTA. In an unlucky hour, Mrs. Susan Fol ' j " - ' . , SOm paid a Visit to her COUS1D, Sally SnOO Kcrs, who resides in the city of Plnladel phia. Sally lived in style. She had a three story house :.four servants and a carriage , Sally's husband was in the hardware bus- iucss, and had made a fortune by tho rise in mctaist Mrs. Folsorn returned home in a dis contented frame of mind. In conse quence o'f which unfortuuate condition, poor Mr. Folsoni was treated to a double distilled curtain lecture, the salient points of which all married men, with strong minded women for wives, are fully ac quainted with : "Now, only to sec cousin Sally's house " pursued Mrs. Folsom "Its worth a v'yagc to J errycow. It's got a purgatory on top where you can see all over crea tion, ifnotfurdcr; and there's a purtu- gucsc over the front door, with a vine, that looks some like a bean vine, only it ha iut, -creeping all over it. Aud-then its lit, clean from garret to seller with lamps stuck up against the cciliug, and all you have to do is jus.t turn a facet, jest as you do to a cider barrel, and its all fixed." "What's all fixed V queried Mr. Fol- "Why the gas to be sure. The rooms are as light as day." "Don't have 'to use no watches, nor nothing, then- Cracky, what a saving." "Of course you have to light it the same as any other lamp. Folsoni. ou pliant quite so bright as you might be." "Well, I hainfc without company " muttered Folsom, whopping over with his face to tho wall, and simulating a snore. "Now David, don't you go for to turn your back expecting to be allowed to snore, for yon shaut " with an emphatic ! dig of the elbow "I haint half done yet. j I've worked like a siava all my days, and it s mighty hard if I cau t take some com fort of my life." "I doiA bender you," said Folsom meekly. "Well then, keep your eyes and cars open and hear what I'm going to sa 1 m going to see if I can t have things a lectle more geuteel. If I can't fix up the house to my mind, I guess I can dress kinder fashionable. I've been to the city, and know what's what. I mean to make Squire Jones' wife ayl old Mrs. Simp draw in their feathers. They're alius a thinking that nobody knows noth ing about the fashions but them. And Mrs. Jones' buunitdon'tstick upsomuch by two inches as the fashion, and her gound is full a finder too loner in frunt. I mean to have a new suit, and have it made up ar le mood." "How in lime's that ? taint a bloomer I hope." "That's the French for in the fashion. Almost everybody talks French now. I've larnt lots of it sense I've been gone. There's e plury buss unum, and bony fide and il penscross, and parly-vous, and in finitive, and lots more of the sort' "Yes, but what does all that jumble mean V "The land ! I hope you don't think I know ? Nobody pretends to know the "meaning. Them words is only throwed into conversation to make it sound grand. But about my dress. In the fust place there's my hair, Cousin Sally has hern rolled round a rat and two mice, aud fixed with a waterfall behind." "Lord, Suke ! you haint in earnest, be you I "To be sure ! dou't bounce up in bed so ! you'll bust- the bed cord, it's rather week now, in places. I've got ta get the rat trap fixed right off." "The rat trap; now Suke, somebody's been imposing onto you." "Noj Maggie Sally's little gal, told me about. 1 asked her what made her inarm's hair stick out so behind, and she said it wa3 a rat, and she bad mice in front." 'The dickens, didn't they smell rather Lng' "Not a mite. Ye see the musk and perchooly takes all the scout away. And then I'm goiug to have a flounced goun, and a stick up buunit, aud a long crincr line, aud a cane, and and and a a Here "tired nature's sweet restorer" stenned in, and stopped Mrs. Folsom's tongue for the night, greatly to the satis- faction of her husband, the hired man with the very biggest kiud fs' grand denouement came full soon. On Thursday the Foreign Mission So--j fm amclioration of thc c0lldition q heaUjcn -n Twangtopiauy mcfc at i:uisum wuuu """6l'u niD' Her pink barege dress, tucked and flounced trailed a full yard behind her; her crinoline was the most expansive that could be purchased and full a foot too long. Her outer covering was a nonde script plaid sacque, trimmed with buttons, bugles, fringes and gimp. She had one of the smallest of hats on her head ; and in her hand a cane, a parasol and a bun dle of tracts for the littlo benighted hea then. "The land of the. living ! cried Mr. Folsom surveying her with awe struck a niazcment, "how are you going to get in to the waggin with all them are "flandan gocs a flying ?" "Carriage, if you please," replied his wife loftily. Jerry Blake, the hired man, led up a horse, and Mrs. Folsom essayed to mount into tier ciiarnot. Uut in vain. She was altogether unused to the management of such drapery, and being with all a heavy woman the thing could not be done. Jerry solved the enigma by bringing forward the wash- bench and a board. Mrs. Folsom was helped to climb the bench, from which the board reached to the side of the wagon, and though tho set board bent and cracked fearfully, she made the transit in safety, and seated herself in the vehicle filling it completely. "W.here m time am 1 going to ride r queried Mr. Folsom, scratching his fore top a habit he had when exercised in his mind. "You will be under the necessity of preambulating " said -Mrs. Folsom. "lhe dickens r cried iolsoiu, "what is mat t" "It is the genteel for walking" replied she. The husband said not a word, but trudg ed on, leading the horse by the long rein, while Sam, and Dick and little Molly, the three youngest children, ran whooping behind. In due lime the deacon's house was reached. It was afine day, and a large portion of the compauy were out on the green before the door telling over the news, and eating berries from the old tree near the horse block. All eyes were directed to the unusual cavalcade. Mr. Folsom sweat profusely Mrs. Folsom reposed against the high back of the wagon in sublime indifference. "Whoa hish !" cried Mr. Folsom, bringing his beast to a stand still. "Now look here Suke ! how be you a going to get unloaded ?" Mrs. F. arose majestically and surveyed her position.- "ITere Xcke, you come here and help, and sometime I'll do as much for you " saiu X'Olsom aauressinor a stalwart vnnnn- fellow who was talking nonsense to the bell of the society, across the well curb. A half dozen men came forward, each one anxious to inspect the fashionable cu riosity. "Let mo git holt of ye," said Zeke, "and you hold thc boss, Folsom. Sykes, you keep her petticoats clear of the wheels and I'll hoist her out of that jest like a book." Release me, Ezekiel, you muss my gound," said Mrs. Folsom waving him back. "I will take hold of your hand and alight." She wavered a little from side to side i made a final spring, and brought up on the shoulder of Phincas Dean, an old bachelor, and the most confirmed woman' hater in the universe. Her cane made a red mark down the side of Zeke's face, aud knocked off Parr son Grub's new beaver ; her parasol took a flying leap at the back of the horse, which set the frightened animal off upon a canter; thc string around the bundle of tracts burst, and the wind scattered the two leaved scraps of literature to parts un known. Mr. Dean was horrified, Mrs. Folsom clung frantically to his neck while ho struggled with all his might to release himself. "Let go of me, you wild cat !" he cried striving in vain to unloose her arms. "Somebody take her off, do ! she's strangling me ! oh, Lord! that ! should ever come to this, and with thc homeliest woman in thc parish too !" Mrst Folsom heard and understood this ungallant speech. No woman will bear to have her good looks made light of. She dealt .Mr. Dean a Btinging blow in the face. "Tukc that I you old niggered face donkey !" cried she, "and that, and that," following up the onslaught with a second and third blow. Peggy Prime, an ancient maiden who years ago had set her cap for Phineas Dean aud was still supposed to entertain a lurking tenderness for him, rushed forward and seized Mrs. Folsom by her waterfall. "Let go of him, or I'll Sho did not finish the threat, for the waterfall came ofFon a sudden, and Peggy went over backwards into thc watering trough. In the confusion, Mr. Dean made his escape, and Mrs Folsom findiug that her pink dress was hanging in shreds, and thc crowning part of her head dress was amoug the missing, submitted to be load ed into Deacon Babbit's wagon and sent home. - . n t Sho never essayed gentility after that. It took too much time, she said, and did not pay for the trouble. Her brief practice of it made one match, however. Mr. Dean firmly believed that his honor was saved by Peggy Prime, and out of gratitude he made her his wife. It is often a pretty good matrimonial firm that consists of three quarters wife and one quarter husband. First Flow of the Oil Fountains. A gentleman whose observations arc recorded in the Olcavland Herald, has been out among the oil wells of Penusy-,or crook, get from his pen into the ad lvania, and his report of the operations in 'joining corn field. The Deacon studied that extraordinary and suddenly transmu-jlong.but in vain, to find out by what ted section, are deeply interesting. We means the pig accomplished his thieving copy a part of one of his letters on the raids. Piggy always made his expedi "fiowing wells." tions in the night, but becoming fat and Thc first flowing-well ever struck, was bold, one day -so far forgot himself as to on the McElhenny, or Funk Farm, and attempt the feat by daylight. The deacon was Known as tne iunt Well. liank was a poor man when the well was sunk It was struck June, 1861, and com menced flowing, to the astonishment of all the oil-borers in the neighborhood, at the rate of 250 barrels a day. Such a prodigal supply of grease, upset all cal culations, but it was confidentially pre dicted that the supply would soon stop. It was an "Oil Creek humbug " aud those who had no direct interest in the prosperity of the well, looked day after day to see the -stream stop. But like the old woman who sat down by the river side to let the water run itself out that, sho might cross dryshod, they waited in vain. The oil continued flowing with lit tle variation for fifteen months, and then stopped, but not before Funk became a rich man. But long before the Funk well had given out, the wonder in regard to it was overshadowed by a new sensation. Down on the Tarr farm, thc Philips Well burst torthwitua stream of two thousand barrels daily. Not to be out done by the terri tory down the Creek, the McElhenny tract "saw thc Tarr farm, "and went it a thousand better." Tho Empire Well, close to the Funk, suddenly burst forth with its three thousand barrels daily, a figure subsequently flowing wells vainly endeavored to equal. The owners were bewildered. It was truly "too much of a good thing." The true value of petroleum had not yet been discovered, and the market for it was limited. Foreigners would have nothing to do with the nasty, greasy, com- Dusuoie tmng. uur own people were divided in opinion. Some thought it a dangerous thing to be handled at arms' length while other set it down as a hum .bug in some way or other, of which the community should keep as shy as possi ble. Thc supply was already in advance of the demand, aud the addition of three thousand barrels a day, was monstrous aud not do be endured. The price fell to twenty cents a barrel, then to fifteen, and then to ten. Coopers would sell bar rels for cash only, and refused to take their pay iu oil, or in drafts on oil ship ments. Finally, it was impossible to obtain bar rels on any terms, for all thc coopers in the surrounding country could not make barrels as fast as the Empire could fill them. Thc owners were in despair, and tried to choke off their confounded well, but it would not be choked off. They then built a dam around it, and covered the soil with grease, but the oil refused to be dammed, and rushed into tho stream, making Oil Creek literally wor thy its name. For nearly a year it flow ed, and then dropped to a pumping well, yielding about a hundred barrels. Late ly it stopped, but on the application of an air-pump, it revived, and now runs about fifty barrels daily. The Sherman Well,', which was the next "great flowing well," .was put down iu the year 18G2. It was sunk under great difficulties! J. W. Sherman, who was the original owner, commenced sink ing it on the Foster farm, next above thc McElheany, with very .United means. His wife furuished thc money, and the' well was sunk under great difficulties. After a while, it became necessary to procure an engine, and there was no mon- cy to make tne purchase, and two men who were in possession- of the desired article, were admitted to a share for the engine. Soon after, when but lew more feet were necessary to reach thc supposed deposit of oil, the funds wore exhausted. A sixteenth interest was offered for 100, and refused. Ultimately, it was sold for 360 and an old shotgun. A horse became necessary during thc work, aud a sharo was bartered for thc animal. At last when all means that could be raised by borrowing or selling were about exhaus ted, oil was struck, and flowed at the rate of 1500 barrels a day. The flow con tinued at this rate for several months, when it declined to 700 barrels. For twenty-three months, the well continued flowing, and then it stopped. For thc flrstycar, the proprietors made but little, lf anything, owing to the low price ot oil, jmg for the issue of Umtetr btates sccuri and the difficulty of getting it to market ; i ities, and such checks and drafts as arc but during the second year, the market '.required in the department, as well as cir improved and an immense fortuue was culars, envelopes and other letterpress made. The well now pumps from thirty printing. Thc expenses of the division to forty barrels daily. Thc stock of wines and liquors belong ing to the estate of Daniel Webster which were packed at Washington 12 years ago, and have be'qn in the hands of trustees at llnslon since, sold at Boston rm TnnsdaV. ' Tl10 lmnnrs TOfMw qnlrl fnx- ihn T.nn.ifU nf Ashburton Webster, and brought good prices, tne wines selling tor !?o ou to 0 per bottle, and one demijohn of brandy contaiuing 2 gallons, selling for 52 507 It was lately stated at a Bible Associa tion Anniversary, that a calculation had been made respecting the proportionate .value of tho services of gentleman and la idies as collectors for charitable and reli gious' purposes, when it was found that one lady is worth-thirteen and a half gen .tlemen. , ' A Somewhat Unsavory Comparison. Our readers have- doubtless heard the story of the Deacon's pig, would by hook discovered inm m the corn field and at uie uouoin onus pen. x ne beacon saw it then, aud so he quietly changed the position of the log, so that both ends terminated inside the pen, and then he awaited the denouement. About the usual time the piggy started for the corn field, but found at the end of the journey that he was back again inside his enclo sure. Piggy snuffed the place all over carefulfy for a solution of thc puzzle, and not being satisfied tried the entrance at the other end of the log, and, of course, with the same result ; and so, over and o vcr again with unsatisfactory grunts and squeals, his efforts went on until he was exhausted. The Deacon elated at having circumvented the pig, cried out, "Ah you thieving rascal, I've got you now; you may know how to steal corn, but you haven't got sense enough to dig." The situation of the pig in his dilemma illus trates thc position of our somi-seccsh, Democratic friends. They do not exactly like the political filth of the pen in which they find themselves, and having so long fed on thc sweet corn of the public crib, they are struggling in their accustomed tortuous way to get back to it, but only to find themselves still confined, and dee per still in the mud of the pen which they have so long tenanted at thc dicta tion of thc slave power. Although they would like mightily to get out into the companionship of honost Union men, they do not know enough to dig under thc crooked, hollow log of sham Democracy, .and make for themselves a straight way out of the sty. Jersey Oily Times. . A Hew Article. A manufacturer in New York has 'suc ceeded in making cloth from thc Milk weed, as it is variously -called, from the white, glutinous substance which exudes from the stem, and the silk-like substance which is enclosed iu thc seed pod. This seed covering feels exactly like silk, and looks something like cotton. It has gen erally been considered unfit for use in making textial fabrics, because of thc shortness and want of strength of its fibre. But it appears by the New York Tribune that the fabrics made for it are very soft and pleasant to the touch, and aslo quite firm and strong. It takes dyes admira bly much better than cotton and sheds its seeds without ginning or other dif ficult labor. Thc Silkwccd is a very com mon plant, growing over the whole coun try. "When the rebellion broke out and thc supply of cotton was cut off, thc Led ger called the attention of manufacturers to this plant as a possible subsitute, for some inferior articles of manufactured clotlf. Wc have no-doubt that the glut inous milk of its stalk may be converted into a substance similar to rubber. Let some one try it. The cost of India rub ber would warrant experiments to obtain a substitute nearer at hand to thc manu facturer. Philadelphia ledger. Abernethy "Floored." The following anecdote is told of tho celebrated surgeon, Mr. Abernethy : One day, during an examination of a class of students, ho asked one of them what he would do in a case of a man be ing blown up by gunpowder. "I should wait till he came down again," was the reply. "True," rejoined Abernethy; "and suppose I should kick you for such an impertincut reply, what muscles should I put in motion V "Tho flexors and ox tensors of- my right arm," said the stu dent, ''for I should floor you directly." Making Currency. J The Secretary of the Treasury, in an s'w.er to a resolution of thc House, has comunicated a report of thc condition of the printing division, from which it ap pears that there are 31 sub-divisions, era ploying 52 1 operatives. 222 of whom operatives. LIZ ot whom arc males, aud 305 ara females, engaged eu- "gaged in engraving, printing and prcpsr- up to the ztn oi .June last were ouuu, 000, aud thc,cxpcnse3 since that date have been 8395,000. There is a company at Freedom, N. IT. engaged iu manufacturing tar from pine stumps. They produce -10 barrels of tar nd SCVCU 01' eignt ui spin is 01 turpentine I l t 1- A 1- . : per week. 'j. no stumps are arawn anu 1 cut up as for stove wood put into a t mi i T 1 cord of pitch wood gives three bbls. tar worth 14 per bbl. and 18 gallons of spirits" of turpentine worth some 7 or 8 tho gallon. O 1 The Chincso are queer people to go to market. A gentleman at Canton writes that a neighbor of his.has.got in winter's provisions a quarter of a horse and two barrels of bull dog patiently watched to see.bv what moans , -. . it",. . Ul utiuiu ui uuscrtion iroin ino mmta his sagacious pig would get back again, I or navaI scrvi all Qn3 ' wuuu, w ms amazement, ne saw tne pig , deserted the urawi lurougu a very crooKca uonow loir A last Calf to Deserters. By the President of the United States of America. A PROCLAMATION. . . Whereas the twenty-first.section of .the Act of Congres approved on the 3d inst., entitled "An Act to amend the several ! acts heretofore passed to provide iprj ttie j enrolling and calling out the National for , ces and for other purposes " requires that. in addition to the other lawful penalties military fTin TTnitnrl Gfnfna m ..1ml! ; to said service or report theraselve.3 to k ' Pmft!t MnrQiini within fin A. ,ft tuJ proclamation hereinafter mentioned ahalf be deemed and taken to have voluntarily 1? v t n n -. t .1 , . . relinquished and forfeited their right to. become citizens ; and such deserters iha be forever incapable of holding any offit of trust or profit under the United States or of exercising any rights of citizen?' thereof; and all persons who shall here after desert the military or naval service" and all persons who being duly enrollett shall depart the jurisdiction of the Dis-" trict in which he enrolled, or go beyond the United States with intent to avoiftf any draft into the military or naval ser vice duly ordered shall be liable to tho' penalties of this section ; and the Presi-i dent is hereby authorized and required, forthwith, on thc passage of this act, to; issue his proclamation setting forth tho provisions of this act, to issue his procla setting forth the provisions of this section in which the President is requested to no tify all deserters returning within 60 days as aforesaid that they shall be pardoned on' conditition of returning to their regiments1 and companies, or to such organizations as they may be assigned to, until they shall wave DUUUU lUl il UUilUli Ul UIIUU1 W tneir original term ot enlistment. Now, therefore, be it known, that 1 Abraham Lincoln, President of the Uni ted States, do issue this my proclamation,, as required by said act, ordering and re-. quiring all deserters to return to their proper posts; audi do hereby notify them that all deserters who shall, within the. next GO days from the date of this procla--mation, viz.: on or before the 10 tb day of! May, 1865, return to service, or report" themselves to a Provost Marshal, .shall be pardoned ou condition that they return.to' their regiments and companies, or to-such' other organizations as they may be as-, signed to, and serve thc remainder of their original terms of enlistment, and in' addition thereto a period equal to the timb' lost by desertion. ' . Iu testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and seal of the United State's"' to be affixed.. . - . Done at the City of Washington this 11th day of March, in thc year of our.. Lord 1S65, and of the- independence of? the United States the eighty-ninth. ABRAHAM LINCOLN By thc President : William H. Seward, Sec. of State & The Deepest Mine in the United States A. Pardee & Co., of Hazleton, are now. working what is considered by competent judges to be thc deepest coal mine in the United States. It is situated on the lands of the "Diamond" Coal Company, and is" known as the Sugar Loaf slope. It is 970 feet in pcrpeudicular depth which', is below tho surface of tho Lehigh- river. aE Penn JTafdn, The slope is in tho neighborhood of 3000 feet in length. r. This niino has been worked successfully; lor nearly thirty years, thus proving tho inexhaustible wealth of our anthracite coal deposits. The Climax. A clergvman in Wisconsin, one Sun day, informed his hearers that hc.sKould' divide his discourse iuto threo parts: ttie first should be terrible, the second horri-" ble, and thc third should be terrible hor-7 riblo. Assuming. a dramatic tragic atti-' titude, he exclaimed, in a startling! ago- nizing tone "What i3 that I see there Y Here a little old woman. in black, crioa out, with a shrill treblo tone It's noth ing but my little black dog, ho won't bite nobody." A Speculation. . u Thirty gcutlcman last j-ear put in Si",- 000 each, bought a tract of land, expen ded 5000 more in boring for oil, but' meeting with no success at the time, con cluded to let it rest awhile. Last week? they disposed of their claim to parties in New York for 350,000, oil having show- cd itself in great quantities. , - Thc Printer. The master of all trades, ho beats tho farmer with his fast nor., the carpenter with his nuLfc, and the raasons in setting tall columns; ho .surpasses' tho lawyer and doctor iu attending to hia' case, and. beats the parsoii in the management of , the DEVIL. "Do you' think I'll jet justice dohp' mo 7" still a culprit to his counsel' ,"I don't think you will." replied the other," "for I see two men iu tho jury who arb4 opposed to haugin 1 Chicago pays $100,000 a year for hand labor in grain shoveling.- It is now pror posed, to save time and labor by employ nig machinery for this work'. - Thc prico of a substitute in Now Or?- leans is about 2,300. nil t iHiLY lne uran created profound excitomeut thole:' i -a. 1 i
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