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EIcDolci to Ipblitics, ittrature, Agriculture, Science, iHomiitn, auo encval JnteUigcnrc.
VOL. 23.
STROUDSBURG, MONROE COUNTY, PA., AUGUST 1G, 1866.
NO. 22.
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Published by Theodore Schoch.
TERMS Two dollar a year in ilranre and if not
paid bpf-re the end of the year, two dollars and fitfy
ct. will be rharpod.
No paper discontinued until nil arrearages are paid,
except at the oprion ol the Editor.
lOA hertiseineutsof one fiiuare off eight lines) or
lisj, nne nr three insertions $ I 50. Each additional
insertion, 53 cents. Longer Ones in proportion.
JOB IM&IXTIXG,
Or ALL KINDS,
Executed in the highest style of the Art, and ontbe
most rensofi tble terms.
S. HOLIES, jk.,
ATTORNEY-AT-LAW, AND GENERAL
CLAIM AGENT:
STROUDSBURG, PA.
Office tcith S. S. VrcJicr, Esq.
All claims against the Government prose
cuted with dispatch at reduced rates.
0- An additional bounty of $100 and of
$50 procured for Soldiers in the late War,
FREE OF EXTRA CHARGE. TQ
August 2, 1666.
DB. A. REEVES JACKSGM,
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON,
Begs leave to announce that, in order to
prevent disappointment, he will hereafier de
vote THURSDAY and SATURDAY of
each week exclusively to Consvltations
and Scrgical Operations at his office.
Parties from a distance who desire to con
sult him, can do so, therefore, on those days.
Stroudsburg, May 31, ItSGG.-tf.
Furniture ! Furniture !
McCarly's New Furniture Store,
TMIEHER'S NEW
BUILDING,
two
XJ doors below th
he Post-office, Strouds- j
selling his Furniture 10 j
burg, Pa. He is
per cent, less than
Easton or Washington
prices, to say
age.
nothing about freightor break-
May 17, lSG6.-tf. j
Tables, any size you
new Ware-Rooms.
May 17, 1866.-tf.
ROSE AND GILT FRAMES made to
order A fine lot of Ovil Frames on
band J. II. McCARTY.
May 17, 186G.-tf.
F YOU WANT A GOOD PARLOR
Suit in Rose, Mihoffany or Walnut,
McCARTY has it. May 17, ISGG.-tf.
IF YOU WANT A GOOD MELODEON,
from one of the best makers in the Uni
ted States, i-olid Rosewood Case, warrauted
5 years, call at McCARTY'S, he wculd es
pecially inv'ne all who are good judges ot
Music to come and test them. He will sell
you from any maker you wish, 810 les.-than
those who sell on commission. The reason
is he buys for cash and sells for the same,
with less thin one-half the usual per centage
that agents want. J. H. McCARTV.
May J7, IsG6.-tf.
UNDERTAKING IN ALL ITS BRAN
ches.
Particular attention will be gnen to this
branchof the subscriber's business. He will
always study to please and consult the
wants and wishes of thos-c who i rnploy him.
From the number of years experience he has
had in this branch of business he cannot and
will not not be excelled either in city or
country. Prices rn-lhird less than is usual
ly charged, from 50 to 75 finii-hed Coffins al
ways on hand. Trimmings to suit the best
Hearse in the country. Funerals attended
at one hour's notice. J. 11. McCARTY.
May 17, ISGG.-tf.
Saddle and Harness
Manufactory.
The undersigned respectfully informs
the citizens of Stroudburg, and surroun
ding country, that he has cotuii.cuced the
above business ia Fowler's building, on
Elizabeth fctreet, and is fully prepared to,
furnish any article in his line of business,
at short notice. (Ju haud at all times, a
large stock of
Harness, Whips, Trunks, Yolices, Car
pet Bays, Horse-Blankets, Bells,
Skates. Oil
Lluths. dc.
Carriage Trimming promptly attended
to. JOHN O. SAYLOU.
Stroudsburg, Dec. 14, 18u).
Gothic Hail Drug Stoic.
William I2IHitlicad,
Wholesale and Retail Druggist
STROUDS 13 una, Pa.
Constantly on hand and for
sale cheap fur cash, a .fresh sup
ply of Drugs, Medicines, Paints,
Oil, Glass, Putty, Yarnish, Ker
osene Oil, Perfumery and Fancy Goods;
also
Sah, blind and Doors.
Pure Wines and Liquors forMedicinal
purpose.
P. S. Physicians Prescriptions care
fully compounded,
fctroudsburg, July 7, 18C4.
TIN SHOP !
The undersigned begs leave to inform his
friends and the public generally, that he has
now opened a TIN SHOP, on Main street,
near the Stroudsburg Mills, opposite Troch
& Walton's, formerly R. S. Staples' Store,
where he is prepared to manufacture and
sell at wholesale and retail, all kinds of
Tin, Copper and Sheet Iron-Ware.
ALSO,
St o vex, Stove Pipe and Elbows.
Old and second hand Stoves bought and
fold, at cash rates.
CASH paid for Old Lead, Copper and
Brats.
07" Roofing, Spouting and Repairing
promptly attended to aod warranted to give
wtisfaction. Call and see for yourselves.
, , . WILLIAM KEISER.
otroudeturg, Dec. 8, 1665.
JOB PRINTING OF ALL KINDS neat
7 and promptly executed at this office.
DINING-ROOM FURNITURE in Yal- j neets at Manuiika Chunk w .th the train lea
nut. Oak and White Ash, Extension vn,S Philadelphia (Kensmg DeprA) at 3.30
wish, at jjct-AKi l o , ? ... r' ;r . " .
Delaware, Lackawanna & Western
RAIL ROAD.
Spring Arrangement, Feb. 26,1866.
PASSENGER TRAINS LEAVE.
WESTWABD. - EASTWARD.
Morning
STATIONS.
Irani
A. M
New York,
New Hampton.
5.20
2.30
2.08
M
1.45
1 39
i.:w
1.03
12.44
12.30
12.19
12.09
11.53
11.35
11.16
11.02
10.37
10.27
10.15
9 55
9.23
9.15
8 oil
8.35
8.13
7.55
7.34
7.15
I. M.
10.35
6.10
7.50
7.40
7 30
7.25
j v,i.nington.
Oxford.
Uridgevllle,
Manunka Chunk.
Delaware,
Mount Bethel.
Water Gap.
Slroudsburjr.
7.20 3
6.55
6.41
6.29as
.I9
6.10
5.5r;
5.413
5.23S
4.495
4.4ir
4.32J
4.15
3.48
3.40
3.25
302
2.47
2.26
5.07
1.50
P. M.
"a
j Sprnguevllle,
iieniyvme.
Oakland.
Forks.
Tobvhanna.
5 Goulds. boro'
'f Mostov .
5 Duniiint.
Gjeenville.
4.08. 11.30
4..V2 10.47
5.(o; 10.55
5.ll 11.11
.5.3C; 11.31
5 5S 11.53
6.2(1 12.15
rUlJ 12.36
7 00? 12.55
M. P. M.
SCKAiN Mir.
j Clark's Summit,
Abinglon.
I Factoryville.
Nicholson,
) Hopbottom,
Montrosn,
New Mil ford,
i Great Dend,
CONNECTIONS Westward.
The MORNING TRAIN from New York
connens at MANUNKA CHUNK with the
train leaving Philadelphia (Kensington De-
i pot) at 7 30 a. m., and Grear Bend with the
liruh iMs
wilh
ail Train on the Erie Railwav.
car attached, stopping at all
1 : ihft rir!nir:i1 Kl.-if inns nn tlint rn.-irl an1 pri.
nl tAF.!., t r in n m
f he Evening Train from New York'con-
remains till IV. next morninr, when it
leaves, arrivingat Great Bend at 12.55 p. m.t
connecting with the day Express on the
Erie Railway.
attvar1.
The Morning Train from Great Bend co n
nects there with the Cincinnati Express on
the Erie Railway from the West ; at Manun
ka Chunk with a train for Philndeidhia and
intermediate stations, arriving in Philadel
phia at 6.30 p. m.; and at New Hampton
with a train for Easton, Bethlehem, Allen
town, Reading and Harrisburg, arriving at
Uarrisburg at 8.30 p. m.
The Evening Train from Great Bend con
nects there with the New York Express on
the Erie Railway from the West ; at Manun
ka Chunk with a train uhich runs to Belvi
dere, where it lies over until 6 o'clock the
next morning and at New Hampton with an
Express Train for Eiston, Bethlehem, AI
lentown, Reading and Ilarrisburg.
At Scranton, connections are made with
trains on tite Lackawanna and B!omsburg
Railroad to and from Pittston, Kingston,
Wilkesbarre, Berwick, Bloomsburg, Danville
Northumberland, Ilirrisburg and interme
diate stations, and with trains on tht Deli
ware and Hudson Railroad to and from Car
bondale and intermediate f-tations.
WATTS COOKE, Superintendent.
It. A. HENR I", General Ticket Agent.
THERE IS NO DEATH.
Tiiere is no death ! The etars go down
To rise upon some fairer shore;
And bright in Heaven's jeweled crown
They shine forever more.
There is no death ! The dust we tread
.Sh.ill change beneath the summer showers
To golden rain or mellow fruit,
Or rainbow tinted flowers.
The granite rocks disorganize
To feed the hungry mass they bear:
The forest leaves drink daily life
Froin out the viewless air. '
There is no death! The leaves may fall
The leaves may fill and fide away
They only wait, through wintry hours,
The coming of the May.
There is no death! An angel form
Walks o'er the earth with silent tread :
He bears our best loved things away,
And then we call them " dead."
He leaves our hearts all desolate
- He plucks our fairest, sweetest flowers:
Transplanted into bliss, they now
Adorn immortal bowers.
The bird like voice whose joyous tone
Made glad the scene of sin and strife,
Sings now in everlasting song
Amid the trees of life. ,
And where hjtT so bright,
Or hearts too pure for taint or vice,
He Lears it to that world of light
To dwell in Paradise.
Born into that undying life,
They leave it but to come again,
With joy we welcome them the same :
Except in sin and pain.
And ever near us, though unseen,
The dear immortal spirit tread ;
For all the boundless universe
Is life there is no death!
Henry G. Gunn of Missippi bad a se
cond wife who took more of a fancy to a
son of his than to the old gentleman.
They accordingly ran oil togethar. Ihe
ungrateful son of-a-gun (since both guno,
went off together) has caused a very scan
dalous report.
As an instance oP the value of small
things, it is ascertained that eyelets cost
ing but 17 or 18 cents per thousand, are
ETin'g f
Morn'g Even'g
Train. Train.
P. M. j P. M.
l Train. S
P. M.
9.00 i 4.00 i
1 1.30i 7.05
ll.50 7.34
1 Vi 10! 7 54
12,13; 7.5U
I R 12.45; 6.20
"J 19 sv u oo ?
. (
2 M; 8.45
Z I- 8-53
O 1 i! V.2U
O 2.08 9 35 5
2.26 9.52 I
X 2.4rt 10.11
300 10.24
- 3 23 10.46
W 3 35 10.58
, J- 3.48 11.10 i
i m 1 1 ill Mrrivfi mi ti'rx immii zi .ii i u n t m 1 1
consumed to the value of 84,000,000 per way found to have wrapped in rags on his
year, so that over 25,000,000 of these lit-; person $224,50 in coin, and 8329 in cur
tie conveniences arc aDUually used in'hoop'rency. He said that some of the coin
skirts, shoes, &c. ' had been in his possession for forty years.
Mount Ararat
Mount Ararat is 6000 feet higher than
Etna, and 1523 feet higher than Mount
Blanc the latter the point of greatest
deration in Europe. It is detached from
the other mountains of Asia, and is divi
ded into two conical peaks. Sir Robert
Porter paints in vivid colors the magnifi
cence of the spectacle when he first came
in sight of Ararat, majestically rising
from a widely extended green plain, fer
tilized by the clear waters of the Aras.
(the ancient Araxes,) and covered with
Armenian villages. In various points of
view, the summit has a striking resem
blance to a ship a fact which has been re
corded by all travellers to the spot, and
the whole country round is full of tradi
tionary stories relative to Noah's ark and
the flood.
It is a common belief among the Ameri
cans and Persians, that the remains of
the ark still exist on the summit. Sev
eral attempts have been made to reach the
top of the mountain, but rarely have any
such attempts succeeded. Moving sands
which threaten to overwhelm the travel
ler, flinty roads which cut his shoes to
shreds, terrible precipices, with overhang
ing rocks, and above all, nests of snakes
have constantly struck terror ; into the
stoutest hearts, and nearly in all cases in
duced the abandonment of the enterprise.
At Ervin, the Americans show the spot
where Noah first planted the vine, and
the town of Nakhdjovan (place of descent)
is believed to mark the spot where the
patriarch first settled on quitting the ark.
Sayings of Josii Killings. Early
impreshuns are the most lasting." The
fust kiss and the fust licking kum under
this bed.
Ileputashun is a good deal like a bon
fire you have to keep piling on the shav-
ings. It you aon t the names will soon
subdew.
I was once asked if my fourfathers was
Englishmen. I told the illiterate cuss
who "propagated the question that I didn't
have but one father, and he was strickly
ov the Massachewsetts perswashun.
Good wit is something like good luck
the more soon and unexpected is it, the
better.
They tell of a feller in Injianna who
kan't wear any stockings. His feet are
so big that he has to wear sock dol lagers.
Them who make the most blow have
the least frangranse it is jess so with the
holler hauk.
The best educashun a man receives in
this life he ?its just before he dies, and it
mostly consists in forgetting what he has
larnt before.
In the United States there arc about
60,000 common schools, which are sup
ported in part by the State Treasury, and
partly by school funds and school taxes.
In England and Wales there are 56,042
public and private schools, attended by
2,144,378 scholars. In addition there are
1,545 evening schools, which provide for
39,783 children. The number of Sunday-schools
is 23,514, with 2,407,642
scholars. It is estimated that in England
there is a scholar for every 8,36 persons;
in Scotland about one seventh of the peo
ple are at school; while in the United
States there is one scholar for every two
hundred persons receives instruction in
schools; so that while at nine o'clock on
every Monday morning there are 4,000,
000 American boys and girls at school,
there are in Russia only 100,000 enjoy
ing the benefit of instruction.
Execution of an Elephant
An American circus has been travell
ing about Switzerland with great success
this summer, but at Friburg, last month,
the male .elephant, over fatigued by the
constant marching, and. irritated by the
rough treatment of his keeper, suddenly
seized his keeper and tossing him to a
great height, on his fall crushed his chest
with his foot before any assistance could
be afforded. As it is generally understood
that after once killing a man those ani
mals are dangerous, the director of the
circus decided upon having it killed, and
for that purpose applied so the authorities
of Friburg for a piece of cannon. This
was granted, and the animal having been
enticed into a favorable position, the gun
was fired, and the brute fell dead.
The following are the designs on the
backs of the several denominations of na
tional bank notes, viz : On $1,000 notes,
Washington resigning his commission;
$500 notes, surrender of Gen. Burgoync;
SI00 notes, Declaration of Independence;
50 notes, Embarkation of the rilgnras;
820 notes, Baptism of Pocahontas; 810
notes, De Soto Discovering the Mississip
pi; 65 cotes, Landing of Columbus, 14
92; 82 notes, Sir Walter Ilaleigh, 1585;
81 notes, Landing of the Pilgrims. All
national bank notes the back of which do
not correspond with the above, are bogus.
. . . .
A few evenings since a young lady, in
fashionable attire, was observed iu a street
car in Washington, tenderly caressing
an ugly brown toad, which she held in
her hand, stroking its back fondly, and
occassionally raising it to her lips for a
salute. The creature ( the toad we mean)
seemed to be thoroughly tamed and quite
at home.
A ragged old man, who was recently
arrested in St. Joseph, Mo , for vagranoy,
What Becomes of the Pins? This
question has often been asked, but we
have never yet met with a satis fa tory an
swer to it. Few persons are aware of
the enormous consumption of the useful
little instrument. The annual report of
the Secretary of the Treasury, ten years
ago, contained some interesting memoran
da relative to manufactures, furnished by
Hon. Philip Allen, then Senator from
Rhode Island, in which, amonc: other
things, he stated that the number of pins
nyide per annum in the United States was
two billions, six hundred and seven mil
lions, three hundred and sixty thousand.
Now the old question comes up for solu
tion what becomes the pins? The popu
lation of the country was then twenty-six
millions. Does each individual man,
woman and child consume one hundred
pins a year? for that would be the aver
age supply. But it is well known that it
is only one sex who use pins at all. Does
each example of the feminine gender con
sume two hundred pins a year? From
babyhood to maturity, and from that to
the grave, the passion for pins it is ad
mitted, is part of a woman's nature; but
we submit that this fact affords no satis
factory explanation of the disappearance
of twenty-six hundred and seven billions
of pins per annum. The question there
there remains what Joes become of the
pins?
A Blessed Day. What a blessed day
is the Sabba'th to a man who necessarily
catches but brief glimpses of home dur
ing the toiling week, who is "off in the
morning while little eyes are closed in
slumber, nor back at night till they are
again sealed with sleep. What would he
know of the very children for whom he
toils were it not for the blessed breathing
respite of the Sabbath? What honest
working-man's child will ever forget this
day, when clean and neat; it is his privi
lege to climb on father's knee, and tell
him of all the news which goes to make
up his narrow little world. " Narrow,"
did we say? We recall the word, for it
widens out into the boundless ocean of
eternity. Sabbath is for the working
man's children? So wo'd we have it a
day hallowed by sweet, pure and home in
fluences! when the little band quite com
plete, shall rest from labor, and love shall
write it down the blessed day of all the
seven.
. -
A Keen Retort. The postoffice in
our village was kept in the bar-room of
the tavern a great resort for loungers.
An old chap, more remarkable for his
coarseness and infidelity than his good
manners, was sitting there one day with
a lot of boon companions, when the Meth
odist preacher, a new comer in the vil
lage, entered and asked for his letters.
Old Swipes asked bluntly, " Are you
the Methodist parson just come here to
preach ?
" I am," pleasantly replied the minis
ter. u Well," said old Swipes, "will you tell
me how old the devil is?"
" Keep your own family record," quick
ly returned the preacher, and lett the
room amidst the roars of the company.
Statistics of Milwaukee. The
population of Milwaukee, Wis., in 1S40,
was 1750 souls; in 1865 the inhabitants
numbered 55,640. During the season of
navigation . last year the importation
amounted to 50,000 tons of Eastern mer
chandise, principally sugar (mainly from
Portland, Maine), coffee, tea, sugar, oil
and salt. The receipts of wheat amount
ed to 12,043,659 bushels, which is ahead
even of Chicago in this item of such im
mense magnitude. The shipments of
wheat from Milwaukee in 1865 amounted
to 10,479,777 bushels. In the port trade
last year 457 vessels were engagsd in car
rying, and rates of freight are always re
munerative. By the late act to amend the postal
laws, it is provided that Postmasters shall
return to the writers, free of cost, all let
ters not delivered or called for, when re
quested to do so by the persons mailiug
them. Persons mailing letters should
bear this in mind, and write on them a
request to the postmaster to return the
letters to them if not delivered in any
number of days they may choose to men
tiora. By this course much delay and
anxiety may often be avoided.
A Colifornia editor, participating in a
debate as to the best method of building
a certaiu bridge, objected to a coffer dam
for making the pier. He said he early
formed a prejudice againBt the thing; his
uncle once had a cow choked with a tur
nip, and a long time it was thought she
would coffer Jam JieaJ off ! ,
Information Wanted.
Any one knowing the whereabouts of
William Purcell, who was a member of
Company "C," 109th RegimeutPa. Vols.,
and whose testimony will add much to
the relief of tho wife of a deceased com
rade, will confer a favor by informing
Chas, Albright, Attorney at Law, Mauch
Chunk, Pa.
m
Debt of Easton.
The public debt of the borough of Eas
ton is $120,290. A largo proportion of
this debt was contracted in the payment
of bounty to volunteers.
A 1 1J,:1,J11,:., t.rn Vna
acquired a state for porter, and will now
drink a bucketful iu preference to water.
A Lesson For Dad. An old gentle
man farmer, who had two or three very
pretty daugthers, who was very anxious
of his charge that he would not permit them
to keep the company of young men.
However, they adopted the following ex
pedient to enjoy the society of their lov
ers. After the old man had retired to
rest, the girls would hanjj a sheet out of
the window, which was quite a distance
from the ground, and the beau would
seize hold of it, and with the assistance
of his lady-love who tugged lustily at the
cnu above, would thu3 gam entrauce.
But it so happened that one evening the
girls hung out the sheet rather early ;
for the old gentleman by some ill wind,
was blown around the corner, and spying
the bed covering, could not conjecture
the meaning of itsjbeiog there. He took
hold and endeavored to pull it down. The
girls, supposing it to be one of their
beaux, began to hoist, and did not dis
cover their mistake until the head of the
old man was level with the window-sill
when one of them exclaimed, "O ! Lord,
it's dad !" and letting go their hold, souse
came the old man on the hard stones and
ground below, dislocating one of his shoul
ders, which convinced him that his ef
forts to make old maids of his daughters
was
uot a matter so easily accomplished.
and withdrawing all opposition to their
keeping company, he wa3 soon a father-in-law.
The Moral Market. The follow
ing report of matters in the moral market
has been made. We hope it is not en
tirely correct:
Honor Scarce. Old stock exhausted
and the new will be a complete failure.
Virtue Old growth uearly consumed.
Young growth prospects very unprom
ising. Honesty None itf market.
Patriotism First quality scarce; none
to be disposed of. Second quality easily
bought on speculation at 100 per cent,
discount.
Prudence All in the hands of old
stockholders.
Modesty Stock badly damaged. Xone
for sale.
Vice Market overstocked.
Pride Market glutted.
Politeness Cheap. Holders unwil
ling to dispose of stock at present rates.
Scandal None at wholesale. Dealt in
chiefly by hawkers and peddlers at re
tail. Religion None genuine on hand.
Stock generally adulterated.' Very few
investments.
Love None offered except for green
backs. Talent Scarce article. Sold cxclsive
ly for cash.
Consistency Oat of fashion.
Lost and Found.
On the morning of July 26th. says the
Allentown Register as Joseph Yeakel, a
son of Mr. Benjamin Yeakel, of that place,
was going to his father's farm in the coun
try, he iound a well filled pocket book ly
ing in the road. A short time after he
saw a man driving slowly along the road,
looking carefully on each side, and ap
parently in great distress of mind. An
ticipating the object f his search he ap
proached him and learned that he -was
looking for the lost pocket book. To the
great. joy of the loser, Mr. Yeakel pro
duced it, and wa? informed by the owner,
named Henry J. Smith, that it contained
$17f300, the proceeds of the sale of his
saw mill property in Carbon county, and
a portioa of his wife's legacy, which he
had just collected. Smith rewarded
Yeakel by giving him 8100. A few days
after, Mr. Yeakel received a letter from
Smith enclosing $5, requesting him to
come to Philadelphia. Yeakel went down,
met him, was introduced to his wife, and
received an additional reward of 8160.
Carbon Democrat.
A Sad Case. Acting Ensign Wm.
R. Cooper, o( the U. S. Army, lately on
duty in the Bureau of Navigation at
Washington, was married on the morn
ing of the 2d inst., to Miss Julia Defrees,
niece of the Public Printer, an heiress,
and a highly accouipliscd young, lady.
A few hours afterward he was arrested
as the person who had recently succeeed
ed in swindling the government out of
860,000 by means of forged requisitions
on the Navy Department. All of the
860,000 with the exception of about 82,
500, was recovered when Cooper was ar
rested. The largest brick-yard in the world
is about to be established at Chicago. It
will be eight hundred feet long by four
hundred wide, and will contain machinery
adequate to the manufacture of two hun
dred thousand brick per day. A canal
two thousand feet long, two hundred wide
and twenty deep, is to be dug, connecting
the ard with the south branch of the riv
er, the earth exoavated to bo used in the
manufacture of brick. The work is tote
commenced immediately, and tho kilns
will bo burning this season.
An Internal Revenue Decision.
It has been decided by tho Commis
sioner of Internal Revenue, that if a per
son loses a sura of monev, in cousequence
of having become security for another or
indorsed the note of another, the amount
lost can be deducted from income.
I II llrovnf ll 111. n nit" 13 tho title U0W
'given to men who axe Dot married, but
fought to be.
"The School-Master is m that Bed."
The following is one of the many inci
dents that befell a boarding-round school
master :
I had been teaching in Lewis county,
in the State of New York, and this term
was boarding round. One evening after
school cue of my scholars stepped up to
me and said :
"Mr. Jones, father said you would
come home with me."
"Very well," said I, and forthwith set
out for my patron's house, which was some
two miles distant. Now be it known that
James McIIenry for such was his name
had two daughters, the pride and en
vy of the whole community. I had heard
so much about them that I was anxious
to see them. It seemed, however that I
was to be disappointed. m
When we arrived, I heard that the
girls had gone to a party on the other
side of the creek ; so I went to bed exe
crating the luck that deprived me of see
ing them that night. The night had well
advanced when I heard one of the girla
come, and passing into an adjoining room,
warmed hercsclf before some coals which
were alive on the hearth. It seems that
the old gentleman and lady slept in the
same room, which I wa3not aware of then.
Having warmed hereself, she turned to
leave the room, when the old man spoke :
"Girl," said he, "the school-master is
in your bed."
"Very well," said Sarah, and -passing
through the room I slept in, went up
stairs. .
An hour elapsed when I heard the oth
er come. She stood at the door a long
time talking with her beau, then entered
softly.
Disrobing her feet, she entered the room
where I lay, in her stocking feet, care
fullv undressing herself and coming to
the side of the bed preparing to get in.
I lay in the middle, and turning back the
clothes, she gave me a shake and said in
a suppressed whisper :
"Lay over, Sarah."
I rolled over, and whipped the corner
of the pillow into my mouth to keep from
laughing. In she bounced, but the bed
would squeak. The old man heard it and
called out :
"Judy!"
"Sir." wa3 responded in a faint voice
from the bed beside me.
"The school-master is in that bed !"
With one loud yell, and "O heavens,"
she landed on the floor, and shot up staris.
She never heard the last of that, I can
tell you.
A Feminine Freak. A week
ago
last Monday morning, a young person in
male attire and of a feminine cast of coun
tenance, took passage at Waterloo in the
Morris'and Essex train for New York.
The appearence ot the passenger excited
suspicion that all was not right, and a
gentleman of this town after a conversa
tion with the "fair wanderer" was satis
fied that the person by his side was a girl
in boy's clothes. He bluntly told the
young adventurer what he believed to be
the case ; and upon arriving at Newark,
she was placed by the Conductor in charge
of officer Burt, to be kept under arrest
until the up-train arrived, when she was
put aboard and sent to her home. She
made no opposition to returning, but de
clared that she would run away again on
the first opportunity. She gave her name
as Fanny Drake ; but subsequent inquiry
showed this to be a ruse. Her name i3
Ellet, and her parents who are worthy
people reside, we believe, at qrpear Spar
ta in this county. A Newark officer ac
companied the girl to her home. Sus
sex Register.
Mill
Way to get a Seat. A few weeks
ago an old gentleman and his lady were
coming from Iowa City to "Davenport,
when the cars were full. A young man
got up and gave the old lady a seat,
while his companion, another young gent,
remained steadfast, and let the old gen
tleman stand. This did not suit our old
friend, so he concluded to get a seat some
way, and as quick as thought turned to
the young man silting on the seat beside
his wife, and said: " Will you be so kind
as to watch that woman while I get a seat
in the other car? She has fits." This
startled the young gent. He could not
bear the idea of taking care of a fitty old
woman ; so the old gentleman got a scat,
and his wife was never known to take a
fit afterwards.
A man in Philadelphia has been sued
for 825,000 for a breach of promise. His
defense is and it ought to clear him
that he was ready to marry her last Win
ter, but she kept putting it off, and as she
weighs 285 pounds he prefers not to mar
ry during the warm weather.
A snake measuring fourteen feet aud
seven inches, recently crawled iuto a
house in Galveston, Texas, and swallowed
a leg of mutton.
A man in Connecticute has been fined
81 for getting in his hay on Sunday to
prevent it being ruined by a thrcutenel
rain.
A telegram, over the Attantie cable,
was sent from Eastou to Germany, one
day last week, the cost of which amount
ed to $357,81 !
In New York, during July, 21,620 ar
rests were made by the police, of which
16,358 were males, and 6,262 females.
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