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VOL. 24.
STROUDSBURG, MONROE 'COUNTY, PA AUGUST 17,
NO. 24?
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Published by Theodore Sckoch.
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JOB PRINTING,
OF ALL KINDS,
fextcttcd ia the highest style of the Art.andonthe
most reasorriblc terms.
THE OLD WOMAN.
There was a good old woman now list the
song I sing
Who with a tin pail on her arm, did start
forth to the spring ;
Iler steps were very feeble, and her form
Was spare and bent,
But her daughter was a loving one, and help -
ed her as she went
This rood old woman wore a veil a thick -
ly folded veil
i :r i, o,:n
shouldn't fail:
i tr i t , ,
nr female Vanitv rnmains whnn K-antv'a
i o M J
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And, lilcc her gift of speech, endures
the very lust.
L.11111 Alio ua j 11131 i
unto
A eoldier passing in the road the good
old
woman spied,
And wondered at the kindness of the daugh
ter by her side,
"Sure never love like this was seen or told vcuger comes into camp with his wag
in any a tale" ion. ne fills it with dry bones, bro-
And then, 'twas very strange, the old one ! ten bottles, decayed food, aud the rub
borc the pail. jbish of the prison ; aud down belowt un-
... , , , . , 'dcr a blanket; he stows away the Texan.
The soldier was inquisitive he had a right ( A luntircj comrades gathered round to
t0 j shut off the gaze of the guard; butout-
And cocked his pistol and his eye, that bet- siUe ii5 thc reaj aanScr. He has to pass
ter he might see; j two gateSj anj run tj,c gauiltjet 0f i,ajf a
And lie was soon rewarded, an richly, too,! dozen sentinels. His wagon is fuller than
I guess, usual : and the late hour it is now after
For he
he saw a pair of high old boots beneath
the old ojjc' dress.
A death-like silence then ensued thc "old!for the sentries bayoucts. are fixed, aud
one" xtoofl strx still. ! their guns at the half trigger : but he
Because she was not quite prepared to take
a leaden pill.
The soldier did not "drop a tear," but he
dropped, instead, his hand
Upon the ''old one's-' shoulder, ana said,
"JelF. Davis stand i"
'You have played out, Jeff. Davis ! Not one
step or you die i"
Your Government has gone up, and youllgo
bv-and-bv.
IV'o single word of pity shall e'er be breath
ed for you ;
Thc 'apple tree' and the Devil, thoy both'
shall have their due !"
Internal Revenue Decisions.
Tfce Commissioner of fnternal Revenue has
liiTitle the following rulings:
A person employed by an Insurance Com
pany to take the general care and supervis
ion of the interests oi" the Company, either at
a fixed place or by traveling from place to
place, must have license as an insurance
agent, whether he solicits risk and negotiates
insurance or noL
The assignment or transfer of a judgment
eliold be stamped us an argeemcnt or con
tract. Domestic bills of lading arc considered as
receipts for tho delivery of property, and
should be stamped os such.
The bond given by the g-iardian of liie mi
nor heirs of a deceased soldier in order toap-
plv for the pension, bounty, or arreages ofl
pay, is subject to stamp duly of 81 as a bond
given for the due execution and performance
of the duties of any office.
Read the following so as to make
good
tciuc:
I thee read see that me
Love is down will I'll have
Hut that and you have you'll
One and up and you if
Mr. Barnum asked the advice ofhis freinds
nsto continuing in business after his Mus-jan(i
cum was burned. Among others, he r.sKed j warm WQrj. js dajj . cxected. Has
Horace Urcelcy, who replied, lahc me resi b t hinj he hag
ot your life easy - go fishing. 1 ve been am- '-S whh hjs Suuday clothes,
ingiogo nsmng .or m.r.y yuaiC,uuu . Ue funds
O -r- O-
A medical man says that those ladies who
make it a business to trouble dry-goods clerks
and never buy anything, ought to be called
counter irritants.
"I wonder how they nnke lucifer match
es!" said a vounr married lady to her bus-
band, witli whom she was always quar-j
Effi, :riYlr??afl ,
you manage it 1" "By leading you to
alter."
Here, Barnum ! A Mercer County, Pa, pa
ter says a child was recently born in the.
western part of the county
with .two per-
fectly formed heads on one body, and is now
doing well. Freeze to it !
Forty-three post-offices in New York Statetsmali table, on which is apian of the
re engineered bv famales. This number prison. One is about forty-five a tall,
it n 1...
tc ciis uiccicu uy muiuH-o. -....w .7. twwU. - . , l.. , . .... life"-
J . ... .. ... . . . -.1 r (., 1.: ,-.-!. n nnnhnri Ilia Ol'dS IliiSlllllcr
does not include the "old women" wno run thin man, with a wiry irnmv, juvim iu mw u.. ..vuvu, -j---";-o-come
offices, nor the hundreds of females and eves wbieh have the wild, roving j lie is stirred to the depths ot his being,
who enigner post-masters ; and through foot 0f the Arab's. He is dressed after. Can he be the Texan i"
them their offices. The gentle sex always' the fasijjon 0f English sportsmen, and his "What is the matter ?" asked the Cem-
4id have a hankering after the "mails." j Qtt ft gne .ray blood-hound is stretch-' mandaut.
- . 'cdon the hearth-rug near him. He looks j The other sits down, and, as if only
Ayoungvvifj lately 'lea her husband of sixty ,j desperate character, and has 'talking to himself, tells him. One hour
Hi Michigan, took WO ot his money, went ;SPhiBtory. In battle he is 'has swept away the fallacies of his Hftr
LfeTneatitPi:fCdclo?he Zk y M U ba thunderbt-lightning bar- time. He the Rebellion as it is
;Tn took t"e ctoihel ?U ffiim. At lait nessed and inspired with the will of a de- the outbreak and outworking of Uiatspir
accounts the two men were in company, Yn. He is just the character to lead the it which makes hell horrible. Hitheito
looking after the woman. ; darki desperate expedition on which they ; that night, he had acted from love, not
i ... ' l..a Tf. ; Rf. Wor Grenfell. dutv. Now he bows only to the All-
isxcitea uraior. -
We have taken Atlanta, we nave uiKen
Savannah.Columbia, Charleston, ana nowai
- . , i : c
iea Kiciimond ano. wnai reiuumo iui
us
to take!"
An Irishman in the crowd shouts,
"Let's take a
j :..i. i tm j cmrsis
ia various directions.
via auv v v j
JFVom fte Atlantic Monthly for July.
THE CHICAGO CONSPIRACY.
What passed between
the
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and tUC VOUD
! . J.
J """fa
vnii ri t
g man
woman
ln..l.,,. 1
x uu uui tvuuu, lur i. am not writing ro
T ,J 1 r T . w ...
mance but history. However, without
lifting the veil on things sacred, I can
say that her last words were, "Do your
duty. Blot out your record of treason."
bod bless lier lor saying them ! and let
Amen be said by everv American woman
On his return to camp the Texan mere-
j ly said) "J win do lt and the detai,s of
the plan were talked over. He was to
I escape from the prison, ferret out and en-
trap the Rebel leaders. How to manage
the first part of the programme was the
, query of the Texan. The Commandant's
! Drain is leruie. An adopted citizen, in
i i: i t i .
1 uuur , mes periodical vis-
j lts t0 tne camP 10 tue waJ of nis business,
!and n5m the Commandant sends for.
i "Arrah, yer Honor, thc Irishman says,
' i ut ii Liaiiur. jjiuss vcr ueauiuui
. . , . . . J. . "u"u""
(CT ii T1 i .-f i
soul I 1 love the kintry : and besides, it
ICS,
Uliirht damage mo "ood nnran nnr? mo nnr.
fP -...? -
lie is assured that his name will be all
the better for dictiur a few weeks in
dieting a
a
dungeon, and did not the same thing
make Harvey Jiroh immortal :
Half an hour before sunset the sea
sunset will of itself excite suspicion.
jt n,igl2t test the pluck of a brave man j
i i
reaches the out gate in safety. Now St.
Patrick help him ! for he needs all
impudence of ati Irishman. The
the
gate
uer-
rolls back; the Commandant stands
vously hj', but a sentry cries out
"You can't pass ; it's agin orders, No
wagins can go out artcr drum beat'
"Arrah, don't be a fool ! Don't be af
ter abstructin' a honest man's business,"
answers the Irishmau3 pushing on into
thc gateway.
The soldier is vigilant, for his officer's
eye is on luni
"Halt !" he cries again, "or I'll fire I"
"Pi re
friends,
! Waste yer powder on yer
like thc bloody-minded spalpeen
ye are i sa3's the scavenger, cracking his
whip, aud moving forward.
It is well he does not look back, if he
should, he might be melted to his own
soap grease. The sentry's musket is lev
eled ! He is about to fire, but the- Com
mandant roars out J
''Don't shoot !" and the old man and!
the old horse trot off in thc twilight.
Not an hour later, two men, in big
boots, slouched hats, and brownish but
ternuts, come out of thc Commandant's
quarters. With muffled faces and hasty j
strides, they made their way over the
dimly lighted road into the city. Pass
ing, after a while, before a large mansion,
they crouched down among the shadows.
It is the house of the grand Treasurer of
the Order of American Knights, and in-:
to it very soon the Texan enter. The
good man knows him well, aud there is
great rejoicing. He orders up the fatted
calf, and soon it is on the table, steaming
hot and done brown in the roasting.
When the meal is over they discuss a bet
tie of champaue and the situation. The
Texan cannot remain in Chicago, for
there he will surely be detected. ne
mUst be off to Cincinnati by the first train;
t,e wju arrivc iu the nick of time for
he
left
in
but
the worthy gentleman can lend him none,
for he is a loyal man ; of course he is !
was he not thc people's "candidate" for
Gorernor 1 Uut no one ever heard of a
woman being hanged for treason. With
this he nods to his wife, who opens her
purse, aud tosses the Texan a roll of grcen-l.nl-a
Thov nre honest notes, for an
f . j Afc the cnd of
an hourgood night is said, and the Tex.
thc ' an goes to find a hole to hide in. Down
j the street he hurries, thc long dark shad
ows following him.
He enters thc private door of a public
cnenk-s a niaeic word, and is shown
, . atnr MMir W
i nroloned raps on the wall.-and he is a
to a ruuiu iu iiiu u iiisi um. j.wh
! mou" them. They are seated about a
arc culuiuu. a." a
j fc jj-
man of about
0'iaciie
i ii nlnco tnniif.il. a
uarp, hiHtr.l
coarse, iiaisn voice, auu a -
TT X
His face tells of dissipation
r,o . ' ... , ' b . . i.c. i- , lur nnn li n'imr mili f lmvo. been snruncr a little
i i i ft. i i fMAtf iivhf o n t in t 1 1 a iii. i iii ii ii i. iiiiu i ii no iiuiu vwitu luuuibuui
thirty, with large, promt-mean is mac psaim uj. wuin., ono mj ...y -----
tmibjrj " o i r .... , , 1 ,, , iu J, 1 ..MAi.. Qn thn (Inninmnnnnt was
and thin b ack hair and mus-'of old, and oy an true men mul-o t . ua, wu BuuUu...j . - -
C,"S dark complexion, has a of creation :-"IIere am I, Lord 1 Send none too soon ; who tha roads this can
ous manner.
and Ins dress shows the dandy : but his
deep, clear eye, and pale, wrinkled fore-
head denote a cool, crafty intellect. This
is the notorious Captain limes, the right
hand man of Morgan, and the soul and
'brains of the conspiracy. The rest arc
'the meaner sort of villains. I do not
know how they looked, and if I did, they
would not be worth describing.
-times and Granfell sprang to their feet,
?na grasped the hand of the Texan. He.
!ls a godsend sent to do what no man of
them is brave enough to do lead the at -
tack on the front gateway of the prison.
So they affirm with great oaths as they
sic aown, spread out tne map, and explain
to him the plan ot operations
j.v uuuuiuu xiuum luiuguus iiuiu jau-
ada, they say, and a hundred "butternuts"
rp i i l tui r. r n
from Fayette and Christian counties, have
already arrived ; many more from Ken
tucky and Missouri are coming; and by
Tuesday they expect that 1,000 or 1,200
desperate nie,n, armed to the teeth, will
be in Chicago. Taking advantage of the
excitement, of election night, they pro
pose, with this force to attack the camp
and prison. It will be divided into five
parties. One squad, under Crenfell, will
be held in reserve a few hundred- yards
from the main body, and will guard the
large number of guns already provided to
to arm thc prisoners. Another, command
. j of which is offered to the Texan, will. as
sault the front gateway, and engage their
attention of S00 troops quartered in Gar
rison Square. The work of this squad
will be dangerous, for. it will encounter a
force four times its strength, well armed
and supplied with artillery; but it will be
speedily relieved by other divisions.
Those under Marmaduke, Colonel llobert
Anderson, of Chicago, Commander of thc
American Knights, will simultaneously
assail three sides of Prison-square, break
down tne lences, nocratc the prisoners,
and, taking the garrison in the rear, com
pel a general surrender. This accom
plished, small parties will be dispatched
to cut the telegraph wires and seize the
railway-stations ; while the main body,
reinforced by the S,000 and more prison
ers, will march into the city and rendez
vous in Court-House-square, which will
be the base of further operations.
The first blow struck, the insurgents
will be joined by the 5,000 Illiui (Amer
ican Knights,) and, seizing thc arms of
the city, six brass field-pieces and 800
Springfield muskets, and the arms and
ammunition stored iu private warehouses,
will begin thc work of destruction. The
banks will be robbed, the stores gutted,
the housc3 of loyal men plundered, and
the railway stations, grain elevators, and
other public buildings burned to the
ground. To facilitate this latter design,
the water-plugs have been marked, and a
force detailed to set the water running.
In brief, the war will be brought home
to thc North ; Chicago will be dealt with
like a city taken by assault, given over to
the torch, the sword, and the brutal lust
of a drunken soldiery. On it will be
wreaked all the havoc, the agony, and the
desolation which three years of war have
heaped upon thc South ; and its upgoing
flames will be the torch that shall light a
score of other cities to the same destruc
tion. It was a diabolical plan, conceived far
down in hell amid thick, blackness, aud
brought up by the arch-fiend himself, who
sat there, toying with his cloven foot beat
ing a merry tune on the death's head and
cross-bones under the table.
As he concludes, Hines turns to the new
coiner
'Well, my boy, what do you say ?
Will you take thc post of honor and of4
danger V
Thc Texan drew a long breath, and
then, through his barred teeth, blurs out:
"I will."
On those two words hang thousands of
lives, millions of money !
"You are a trump !" shouts Crenfell,
springing to his feet. "Give us your
hand upon it !"
A general hand-shaking follows, and
during it, Hines and another man an
nounce that their time is up :
"It is nearly twelve. Fielding and I
never stay in this d d town after mid
night. You are fools, or you wouldn't.
Suddenly, as these words are uttered
a slouched hat, listening at the key-hole,
pops up, moves softly through thc hall,
:ind steals down thc stairway. Half an
hour later the Texan opens the private
door of the Richmond House, looks cau
tiously around for a moment, and then
stalks on towards the heart of the city.
The moon is down, the lamps burn dimly,
but afler him glide the shadows.
In a room at the Trcmpnt House, not
far from this time, the Commandant is
walking and waiting when the door open
and a man enters His face is flushed,
- .. . n t. iri s :..
mi
Tb, fW. .rav of the morning is streak
ing the cast, when he goes lorth to find a
. a y . .. . . .
it (louht t int turougu it an uu io-u dim Buiu-
hiding-place. The sun is not vet up
and the early light comes dimly through
the misty clouds, but about hita still hang
, the long dark shadows. This is a world
, of shadows. Onlv in the atmosphere
; which soon enclosed him is there no uight
and no shadow
Soon the Texan's escape is known at
the camp, and a great hue and cry follows.
I Handbills are got Out, a reward is offered,
1 and by that Sunday noon his name is on
, every street corner. Squads of soldiers
, and police ransack tho city and invade
overyRebel asylum. Strange things arc
brought to light, and strange gentry drag
, gea, out ot dart closets : Put nowhere is
found the Texau. " The search is well
done, for the pursuers are in dead earn
est; and, Captain nines, if you don't
truat him now, you are a fool, with all
your astuteness !
So the day wears .away and tho night
cometh. J ust at dark a man enters the
private door of the Tremont House, and
goes up to a room where the Command
ant is waiting. He sports a light rattan,
wears a stove-pipe hat, a Sunday suit, and
is shaven and shorn like unto Samson.
What is thc Commandant doing with such
a man ? Soon the gas is lighted ; and lo,
it is the Texan ! But who in creation
would know him ? The plot, he says, thick-v
ens. More "Butternuts have arrived,
and the deed will be done on Tuesday
night, as sure as Christmas is coming.
He has seen his men two hundred, pick
ed, and everyone clamoring for pickings.
Hines, who carries the bag, is to give him
ten thousand greenbacks, to stop their
mouths and stuff their pockets, atuine in
the morning.
"And to-morrow night we'll have them,
sure ? And, how say you, give you shack
les and a dungeon?" asked the Command
ant, his mouth wreathed with grim wrink
les. "Anything you like. Anything to blot
out my record of treason 1"
He has learned the words they arc in
his heart, not to be razed out forever.
When he is gone, up and down the
room goes the Commandant, as is. his
fashion. He is playing a desperate game.
The stake is awful. He holds the ace of
trumps but shall he risk the game upon
it ? At half-past eight he sits down and
writes a dispatch tothc General. In it he
says :
"My force is, as you know, too weak
aud overworked only eight hundred
men, all told, to guard between eight and
uine thousand prisoners. I am certainly
not justified in waiting to take risk, and
mean to arrest these officers, if possible,
before morning."
Thc dispatch went off, but still the
Commandant is undecided. If he strikes
to-night, Hines may escape, for the fox
has a hole out of town, and may keep un
der cover untill morning. He is the king
devil, and much the Commandant wants
to cage him. Besides, he holds the bag,
and the Texan will go out of prison a pen
niless man among strangers. Those ten
thousand greenbacks are lawful prize, and
should be the country's dower with the
maiden. But are' not republics grateful?
Did not one give a mansion to General
McClcllan ? Ah, Captain Dine, that was
lucky for you, beyond a doubt, it saved
your bacon' 1
The Commandant goes back to camp,
sends for the police, and gets his blue
coats ready. At fwo o'clock they swoop
to thc prey, aud before daybreak a hund
red birds are in. the talons of the eagle.
Such another haul of buzzards and night
hawks never was made sines Gabriel cag
ed thc Devil and the dark angels.
At the Richmond House, Grenfcl was
taken in bed with thc Texan. They were
clapped iuto irons, and drove off to the
prison together. A fortnight later, the
Texan, relating these details to a stranger,
while the Commandant was sitting at his
desk writting, said :
"Words cannot describe my relief when
those haudcuffs were put upon us. At
times before, the sense of responsibility
almost overpowered me. Then I felt
like a man vho had just come into for
tune. The wonder to me now is, how
the Colonel could hafc trusted so much
to a rebel."
"Trusted !" exclaimed the Comman d
ant looking up from his writing. "I had
faith in you, I thought you would'ut be
tray me ; but 1 trusted your own life in
your own hands, that was all. Too much
was at stake to do more. Your every
step was shadowed, from the very moment
you left camp till you came back inirons.
Two detectives were constantly at your
back, sworn to take your life if you wa
vered for half a second." "Is that true?"
asked the Texan in a musing way, but
without moveing a muscle. "I didn't
know it but I felt it in tho air !"
In the roem at thc Richmond House,
on the table around which were discussed
their hellish plans, was found a slip
of paper, and it, in pencil, was scrawled
thc lollowing:
"Colonel : You must leave this hotfso
to-night. Go to the Biggs " House to
night. J Fielding."
Fielding was the assumed name of the
Rebel who burrowed with Hines out of
town, where not even his fellow-fiends
could find him. Did the old fox scent
the danger ? Bevond a doubt .ho did.
Another day, and the Texan's life might
Another day, and
guided by the good Providence that guards
his country (
1
1 m n A Vv n A w I v In iIa1
But what said Chicago, when it awoke
in the morning? Let one of its own or
gans answer :
"A shiver of genuine horror passed o-
ver Chicago yesterday. Thousands of
citizens, who awoke to the peril hanging
over'their property and their heads in
the form of a stupendous foray upon the
city from Camp Douglas, led by feb6l of
ficers in disguise and rebel guerrillas
without disguise, and concocted by home
Copperheads, whose houses had been'con
vertod into rebel arsenals, were appalled
as though an earthquake had opened at
their feet. Who can picture the
letting loose of 9000 rebel prisoners upon
a sleeping city, all unconscious of the
coming avalanche ? With arms and am
munition, stored at convenient locations.
with confederates distributed here and
there, ready for the signal of conflagra
tion, tha horrors of the scene could
scarcely be paralleled in savage history.
One hour of such a catastrophe would de
stroy the creations of a century, and ex
pose the homes of nearly 200,000 souls
to every conceivable form of destruction."
Chicago Tribune, Nov. 8th, 1864.
Uut the men ot Chicago not onlv talk
ed, thoy acted. Theywcnt to thc polls
and voted lor the Union; and so told the
world what honest Illinois thought of
treason.
More arrests were made, more arms
taken, but the great blow was struck and
the work over. Its head gone, the Con
spiracy was dead, and it only remained
to lay out its lifeless trunk for thc burial.
Yet, even as it lav in death, men shud-
dered to look on the hideous thing out of
which had gone so many devils.
The National Debt.
The official statement of the public
debt, as appears from the books of theJ
Treasury Department at Washington, on
the Jlst ot July, shows the amount out
standing to be $2,757,253,275 85, divi-
ed thus, viz :
Thc debt bearing interest in coin is
$1,108,662,041 80, on which thc interest
is 64,521,837 50.
The debt bearing interest in lawful
money is 61,289,156,545, on which the
interest is $74,740,630 78.
The debt on which interest has ceased
is 31,527,120.
The debt bearing no interest is $357,-
906,969.
The total interest bolh'in coin aud law
ful money is $139,262,468 28
The legal tender notes in circulation
are as follows :
One and two years 5 per
cent, notes, $39,954,230
United States notes old issue 472,603
United States notes new issue 432,6S7,966
Compound Int. note, Act of
March 3, 1863 15,000,000
Compound Int. notes, Act of
June 30, 1864 197,121,470
Total Legal Tenders in cir
culation, $685,233,269
The amount of fractional currency is
$25,750,000.
Thc uncalled for pay, requisitions and
miscellaneous items of the War and Navy
Departments amount to $15,736,000.
The amount of coin in the Treasury is
$35,338,000 ; and of currency, is $81,
402,000. Total amount in Treasury,
$116,739,632 59.
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scription. Ex. Paper.
The sagacity of the canine species has
often been a subject of admiration, and
innumerable inslauces have been record
ed where human life has been preserved
by the noble animal. An illustration of
this occurred a' few days ago near New
port, Perry county, Pennsylvania. A
party of ladies were gathering whortleber
ries. One of the ladies had a child with
her., which she seated on a flat stone near
whereshcwas picking berries. Shortly
after a dog, which acconVpsn'rcd the party,
set ifp a loud barking around thc child,
and smelling at thc edge of the stone.
The child was taken away and the stone
turned over, when a large rattlesmake
was found under it. Tho dog attacked
the snake, was bitten twice, and diod
shortly after.
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Who's Hitl
Rev. J. Hyatt Smith, of Philadelphia,
in an address to his people, said : "I have
heard censure prono'uuccd upon' President
Lincoln because he visited a theatre.
My friends, I look upon a patriot in a tho
atre as better than a copperhead at a pray
er meeting."
A Capital'Bath.
An open widow with thc direct rays of
the sun coming in, will be good for tho
little one. On a hot summer day, to lay:
it down near the window, quite nude, and
let it lie for some minutes where the rays
of the sun may fall on its skin, will giTO
it new life. There is hew vital relation
between sunshine and a vigorous human
being. Seclusion from sunshine is ono
of the greatest misfortunes of civilized
life. The: same cause which makes do-
tato vineVwhite and sickly when grown
in dark cellars operates to nroduce the
pale, sickly girls that are reared in our
parlors. Expose either to the direct rays
of thc sun, and they ;gin to show -color,
liealth and strength."" When in
Lincoln, some j'ears ago, I visited an
establishment which had acquired a wide5
reputation for the cure of those diseases
in which prostration and nervous derange
ment were prominent symptoms.
I soon found thc success in the use
made of sunshine. Thc salt roof had
been removed and a glass one substituted.
The upper tory was divided into sixteen'
small rooms, each provided with lounges,
washing apparatus, etc. The patient, on
entering each his little apartment, remov-.
ed all his clothing and exposed himself
to thc direct rays of the sun. Lying on
the lounge and turning over from time
to time, each and every part of his body
was thus exposed to the life giving rays'
of the sun.
SevcralLondon physician candidly con
fessed to me that many cases which'
seemed only for the shroud were galvan
inzed into life and health by this process'
Dr. Dio Laces.
Practical Joking.
A few days since, writes an attorney,'
as I was sitting with brother C in
his office in Court Square, a client came
in and said :
"'Squire, D W , the sta
bler, shaved (mc dreadfully, yesterday
and I want to' come up with him.
"State your case," says C .
Client "I asked him how much he'd'
charge me for a horse to go to Delham.
He said one dollar and a half. I paid
him one dollar and a half, and he said he
wanted another dollar and a half for com
ing back, and made me pay it."
C gave him some legal advice,
which the client immediately acted upon'
as follows :
He went to the stabler and said :
"How much will you charge me for af
horse and wagon to go to Salem ?"
Stabler replied, "Five dollars."
"Harness him up."
Client went to Salem, came back by
railroad, went to the stable saying
"Here is your money," paying him"
five dollars.
"Where is my horse and wagon ?" says
W -.
"He is at Salem," says client, "I only
hired him to go to Salem."
B$guJohn W. Forney in a letter to tho'
Philadelphia Press, charges that an or
ganized conspiracy is on foot to repudi-
ate the National debt. He intimates that
some of the most prominent leaders of
thc Northern Democracy are now actual
ly working to bring about this end.
Their plan is to get a sufficient number
of Representatives into Congress from the
late Rebel States, to form a working ma
jority in both houses, when the ball will
be opened. It becomes our citizes whoso
saving are invested in Government bonds,
to see that this gigantic conspiracy is;
promptly squelched. Kational honorand
self-interest, alike call for vigilance ori
thc part of the loyal people of the coun
try. Money
Men work for it, fight for it, beg for it, stca!
for it, starvo for it, lie for it, and die for it:
And all the while, from the cradle to the
grave. Nature and God are thundering in
our ears, the solemn question "what shall
it profit a man, if he gain's the whole world
and lose his own soul 1" This mad
ness fur money is the strongest and lowest
of thc passions ; it is the insatiate Moloch
of the human heart, before whoso remorseless'
alter all the finer attributes of humanity arc
sacrificed. It makes merchandise of all that
is sacred in human affections ; and even traf
fics in the awful solemnities of thc eternal;
"A fool and his money is soon parte'd,"
saya the old maxim, and there is one of
the many illustrations daily met with :
One of the members of the Pifty-first
Pennsylvania Regiment, after receiving
three hundred dollars in greenbacks from
tho paymaster at Harrisburg, left the camp
and shortly after returned, having spent
nearly the whole sum in purchasing a;
suit of clothing, a gold "bogus" watch;
and other jewelry.
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Not a Candidate;
Wc sec that a number of our exchanges:"
still men'tibn the name of Gen. James L;
Selfridge, ag. one of the candidates for ho"
Surueyor G6ncralship of this State. Wo'
have been authorized by thc General him
self to state that he is not a candidate, nor
does he desire to be one. Euston Express.
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John, did Mrs. Green get tho medicino
I ordered ?"
"Igucss so," replied Johu,'taI saw crapo1
on tho door thc next morning,"
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Oil City is progressing rapidly in a ro-,
ligious as well as an oleaginous point of
view. A new Presbyterian church was'
to be dedicated there last week. It cose
$10,000, aud will seat about sir hundred
.persons.