u u v' I;. . v JL -iLJLJELj eJI.:4L Jj I1 Jld ScuoJcb ta politics, fitcrntitrc, ..agriculture, it. VOL.27. STROUDSBURG, MONROE COUNTY, PA., JUNE 4, ISC8. NO. 10, Published by Theodore Schoch. TERM3-TwortolUr a rear in Uvnc--and ifnot pil before l te ed ofthe yetr.Uo dollars and fitfy rt. wfllbe .charged. . No paperdiscofHiRtied until nil nrrcniagesii re paid, ficii!rtthe option of the Editor. . ICTAavmsytntiits ofon F(?unr-of(eigt.tline)or lasj.one or three iitrrllon l SO. Eafh additional uertion,5G rents. Longer ones in propoition. SOU PRINTING, - OF ALL KINDS, Executed inthe highest style of the Arl.andonthe ' i most reasonable terms. " . Drs. JACKSON & BIDLACK, FHYSKIAXS AM) SURGEONS. DRS. JACKSON &, BIDLACK, are ; prepared to attend promptly to all calls of a Professional character. Office Op posite the Sfroudsburg Bank. April 25, 1967.-tf. ' Siargeoii Deii.tist, Office tn Main Street, opposite Judge Stokes' residence, Strocdsbvro, Pa. ' C? Teeth extracted without pain. '' ' August I, 1SG7. .A. Card. The undersigned has opened an office for the purennse and sale of Re;il Estate, in Foler" Building, on Main street. Parties h-ving Farms. M ill. Hotel or other proper ty ox sals will find it lo their u'dvantngc to call on m?. I have no agents. Parties must 6ce me person-, liy. GEO. L WALKER, Ilea! Estute AireiiU Slroudsburg, Pa. C. V. SHIP, Physician and Surgeon, Has removed hi office and residence to the building, lately occupied by Wm. Davis, Esq., on Main street.' Devoting all his time to h:s profe.-sion lie will re prepared to an swer all cal! either day r night, when not profess iona I !y engaged, with promptness. (7" Charges rensonob'e. StrouJ-burg, AjTii 11, lSt7.-tr". ISIJ.tai', Jr. ATTORNEY-AT-LAW, AND GENERAL CLAIM AGENT. . STROUDSBURG, PA. Ojjicc, one door Mow Flory's Tin Shop. All claims against the Government prose cuted with dispatch at reduced r.ites. Aa additional bounty of 81(H) and of SoO procured for Soldiers in the late War, rEK OF EXTRA CHARGE. August 2, 156G. .A. Card. Dr. 1. REEVES JAlHSON, Physician and Surgeon, BEGS TO ANNOUNCE Til AT IIAV iug returned from Europe, he is now prep i red to resume the active duties of his profession. In order lo prevent disappoint ment to persona living nt a distance who may wish to consult him. he will be found at his office every THURSDAY and SAT URDAY for consultation and the perform ance of Surgical operations. Dec. 12, l'rCT.-l vr. WM. W. PAL'L. i. D. HOAR. CHAELES V. DEA17, WITH WM. W. PAUL & CO Manufacturers and Wholesale Dealers in BOOTS & SHOES. WAREHOUSE. 623 "Market St., & 611 Commerce St abev SixMi, No'th side, PHILADELPHIA. M.rch 19, ti. Itcli! Itcli! Itcla! SCRATCH! SCRATCH! SCRATCH! L'SK EOLUXSIIEAIi'S ITCH & SALT RIIEDI OIADIEST. No Family should be without this valua ble fitedkjnv, tor on the firt appearance of the d harder t th-v. rM, betweeu the fin ger, s'laM application of the Oint ment will cut" ii, and prev nt its being t Jcen by otht r. Warranted to give satisfaction or, money refunded. . .'-." Prepared and oU- who!esle and retail, by - W. IIOLL1NSIIEAD, Stroudsburg; Oct. 31, G7.J Druggist. J . J, A IVTZ , E " Tf ST. Has permanently located him- self in StroutUburg, and moved ;- his office next dooi lo 'Dr. S. Walton, where he is fully prepared to treat the natural teeth, and also to insert incorrup tible artificial teeth on pivot and plate, in tye latest and ' most improved manner. ; Most persons know the danger and folly of trust ing their work to th ignorant as well as the traveling dentist. It matter not how uuch experience a person may have, he is Jiatte to have some failure out of a number of cases, and if the dentist, lives at a distance it is frequently put off until it is too late to save the tooth or teeth as it inav be, other wise the incoivenier.ee and trouble'of going so far. Hence the necessity of obtaining the services of a dentist near home. All work warranted. , Stroudbburg, March 27, 1662. DOST joti know llial 'McCariy is the only Undertaker in Slroadsburg who understands his business! If not, attend a' Funeral managed by any other Undertaker m town, and you will see the proof of the fact. Sept. 26, '67. DON'T FORGET tliut when you want any thing in the Furniture r. Ornamental line that McCarty, in the Odd-Pcllowa'-HiU, Main Street, Strouds burg, Pa., is the place lo get it. Sept. 26. GRANT. COLFAX. NOBLE RECORD OF THEIR LIVES. TIIE MEX DESERVING OF LOYAL MEN'S SUP PORT. : Ulysses S. Grant was born April 27, 1822, at Point Pleasant, Clermont county, Ohio. Like Lincoln, his early intellect ual advantages were of the most ordinary kind, but he was enabled to educate him self sufficiently to enter the Military Academy at West Point, to which he was fortunate in procuring a oadetship, though at the expense of his name, Hiram Ulys ses, which was given him in infancy for the one which he has become known all over the world. If the clerical blunder which inscribed him Ulysses S. could not be erased from the records of' the Acad emy, neither can that name be blotted from the scroll of honorable history. He graduated in 1843, and was brevctted Second Lieutenant in the Fourth Infantry. Ho served through the Mexican war, re ceiving brevets of First Lieutenant and Captain, for meritorious conduct at the battles of Molina del Hey and Chepulte pec. After the war with Mexico ho con tinued in the army for a few years, and wnue serving in Uregon, in Ic-ois, was promoted to a captaincy. The next year he resigned, going into business at St. Louis, and in 1859 he removed to Gale na, III., where be was conducting an ex tensive tannery when the war broke out. Captain Grant was among the first to of fer his services to the government, "and was given command of a regiment by the Governor of Illinois, with which he went into active service in Missouri. It was not long until he was appointed a Brigadier-General of Volunteers (August 1861) and assigned to the command of the Dis trict of Cairo. The unfortunate battle of Bull Run and the varying fortunes in the South west, had a depressing effect upon the country, and the pccple were willing to take a leader on tru-t if he would only come heralded with a victory, however insignificant. Rich Mountain gave Mc Clcllan command of the armies of the United Statesj the unfortunate expedi tion to Belmont doomed Grant to com parative obscurity at Cairo, until near the close of the first year of the war. Then the brilliant victories of Fort Don clson and Pittsburg Landing, the first of any significance gaiaed by a Union army, could do but little for him, and while the former made him a major-general, the latter deprived him of a command. All eyes were turneJ toward the Grand Ar- J my of the Potomac, in anticipation of the great things it would accomplish when its leader chose to move upon Lee at Man assas; and decisive actions upon the Cumberland and the Tennessee were not considered, while people were amused with promises never to be realized, and kept in constant expectation by assur ances that all was quiet along lines a little nearer home. 'It were useless to attempt a description of these actions now, but when Grant completed a victory that, had begun as a defeat, .by leading in person a charge of six regiments, he showed that a General might promise little and yet accomplish much. Soon after he had worsted the ablest Rebel leader in the South, who was killed in that fierce engagement at Shtloh Church, Halleck assumed com mand in the Southwest, and the victor was rewarded for his two successes by subsequent -neglect until September, 1862. He was then appointed to the command of the Army of West Tennes see, his force constituting the Thirteenth Army Corps, and fixed his headquarters at Jackson, in that State. In the mean time McClellan had been driven from be fore Richmond, Pope had been defeated at the second battle of Bull Ran, and an uncertain victory at Antietam had closod the career of a General who was called to the bead of the army in the fervor of pop' ular enthusiasm, and had been restored to command in a moment of popular de spair. During the dark and terrible winter that followed, the Army of the Potomac, under its successive commanders, lay on the banks of the Rappahannock, and fought the ill fated battles of Fredericks burg and Chancellorsville, while Grant and Sherman were quietly working out their plans on the 3Iississippi and the Ya zoo Wheo Lee moved northward in the spring and summer of 18G3, and Meade was enabled to gain his great victory at Gettysburg, the capitulation of Pember ton added Vicksburg to Gettysburg in the associations connected with the ever glorious Fourth of July. In detailing the appointments of Major Generals which had been made ia the regular army, Grant once modestly said: " After the capitulation of Vicksburg I was added," as if himself unconscious of the import ance of an event that had given the army a leader who conquered a peace for the country, and makes him to day the can didate ofthe great Republican party for President, an office which he would not desire were not the people intent on giv ing him this last mark of their confidence and esteem. One who was within the Rebel lines during the invasion of Pennsylvania in 1803, was told by on arrogant Southerner, whose deserted home was near the' spot where Grant's army lay, that the dark and fetid waters of the Yazoo would de stroy his men even if there were no in trenched enemy iu front to pick them off in detail. But the same flash of the lightning that brought the news of Meade's victory at Gctfysbur rrr brought word of Pemberton's defeat at Vicksburg. As a reward for this victory, Grant, in his own modest words, was added to the Major Generals already appointed for the regular army, but unlike the time when he was commissioned a Major-General of Volunteers, no fortune now could doom him to inactivity. Before he was or dered to assume command at Chattanooga, after the unfortunate battle of Chicka maga, President Lincoln . wrote him a characteristic letter. It was dated July 13, 1863, and was as follows: " My Dear General: I do not re member that you and I ever met person ally. I write this now as a grateful ac knowledgment for the almost inestimable service you have done the country. T wish to say a word further. When you first reached the vicinity of Vicksburg, I thought you should do what you finally did march the troops across the neck, run the batteries with the transports, and thus go below, and I never had any faith, except a general hope that you knew better than I, that the Yazoo expedition and the like could succeed. When you got below and took Fort Gibson, Grand Gulf and vicinity, I thought you should go down the river and join General Banks; and when you turned northward, east of the Big Black, I thought it was a mistake. I now wish to make the per sonal acknowledgment that you were right and I was wrong." A victory which could call forth such a letter as this from President Lincoln would produce in the mind of the Execu tive the most unbounded confidence in the capacity of the commander by whom it was gained. It k gratifying that that confidence was never betrayed and never disappointed. He first justified the Presi--dent's-faith, soon after he assumed the chief command in Tennessee, by the brilliant victory at Lookout Mountain, driving the Rebel General Bragg from the Chattanooga Valley and Mission Ridge, and opened up the way for Sher man's great march to the sea. Then the National House of Representatives passed a unanimous vote of thanks to General Grant --for his victories, and ordered a medal to be struck in his honor, while both Houses of Congress concurred in the passage of an act reviving thcgrade of Licutecant General, a rank never held by any one except Washington, and Grant was recommended for the post, it being prescribed that the Lieutenan-Gen-eral should have command of the armies. President Lincoln formally presented him with his commission March 9, 1804, and having opened up the path to the final victory in the Southwest, he at once pro ceeded to pave the way to success in the Southeast. The Grand Army of the Potomac, smarting under its many misfortunes, notwithstanding the bright spot of Get tysburg upon its banners, and its imper ishable record for heroism, needed the pres tige of Gen. Grant to give it confidence in itself. Those noble veterans felt that success was nssured when they found him willing to join his great fame with theirs, and to link his destiuics with their for tunes. He received his commission from the hands ofthe President with but few words, and without indicating his pur pose, left the Executive presence to be gin his advance upon Richmond. The Rapidan was crossed, and Lee fought in the terrible battle of the Wilderness; then he advanced to the North Anna river, and making a flank movement upon Coal Harbor, fought another sanguinary battle, the assault upon the Rebel works at that place; and then swinging around the trenched lines of the enemy, he cross ed the James and invested Petersburg Desperate engagements followed, and daring the investment, he rained and blew up Fort Hell, a Rebel stronghold, with the view of taking the town by as sault; but the operation failed, with se vere punishment on our side, and heavy losses to the enemy. This, together with the desperate straits to which Lee was reduced, emboldened him to take the of fensive, and on the night of the 27th of Jlarch, 1865,. he moved three divisions of his troops before Fort Steadman, and surprised and captured the position. Be fore night it had been retaken, and at the same time the battle of Hatcher's Run was fought, continuing until even ing. On the 2d of April the Rebel in trenchments, with COOO men, at Big Five Forks, were captured, and an at tack was ordered along the whole line, under General Grant's direction, which ended in driviog Lee from his works and the abandonment of Richmond. Lee's retreat was cut off by the rapid movements which Grant instituted, and on the Oth of April, just one week after the last great battle, the Army of Northern Vir ginia capitulated. Soon after the Rebel General Johnston surrendered to General Sherman, on the same terms granted by General Grant to Lee, and the great civil war was ended. If General Grant was appointed to the command of the armies with a rank never held by any one before except Washing ton, a greater honor if, possible was in store for him. 'He is now simply General of the United States Army, and soon will be President of the United States. T1JE HQS. SCHUYLER COLFAX. Schuyler Colfax, the popular candidate of the National Union Republican party for the office of Vice President, is a na tive of New York city, lie was born in N. Moore street, March 23, 1823, his father having died a short time previous. With but limited means, his widowed mother could alford to keep him at hchool but a short lime, and ct the age of 10 he was' placed in a mercantile establish ment, where he remaiued for three years, contributing materially . from his small salary to the support of both himself and mother. In 1836, he and his mother, in company with others, left their home in this city and settled in St. Joseph coun ty, Indiana. Shortly after his arrival id the West, he was appointed Deputy Coun ty . Auditor for St Joseph county, and employed-his leisure hours in the studyj of State law, in which he is said soon to have become an acknowlegcd expounder. I ., He read law. pretty, thoroughly during these. leisure hours, but not with a view to adopting it as a profession. He had but little idea of what great benefit the information he was then gaining would prove to him in after years. In 1845 he started a weekly journal at South Bend, the county seat of St. Joseph county, call ed 1ie St. Joseph' Valley Jicister, be coming its sole proprietor and editor.- Ajarily, however, it has profited him but writer in The ImlianpoUs Journal cor- j little, for that liberality which has ever rccts a mistake into which the public has been a marked trait iu his character, the fallen relative to Mr. Colfax's connection ( entire proceeds of a lecture have a3 often with the printing business. Mr. Lanman, been donated to some charitable object in his Dictionary of Congress, says: jas they have found their way into his "lie was bred a printer." He never was y own pocket. He ha3 now served in sue apprenticcd to the printing business, and cession fourteen years in the House. He knew nothing of the practical part ofthe - was urged, but he declined, to accept a "Art preservative of all arts" until after 'seat in the United States Senate, prefer he had commenced the publication of ring his presiding chair in the House. The RegUtcr. With'his ready tact and j As a presiding officer, he is the most po quick perception however, and great (pular the House has had since Henry anxiety to economise, for his means were i Clay. A writer in Putnam's Magazine yet very limited, he soon mastered the . truly observes that Mr. Calfax "has no art sufficiently to "help out of the drag," , ecentricities, but great tact. His talent but he never attained to any great pro- arc adminissrative and executive, rather ficiency in the buisncss, his editorial la- bors, the business of the office, and other appointments and adopt sure policies. duties soon claiming his entire attention. He would make a better President, or The Register prospered, and soon be-j Speaker of the House, than Senator. came a source of profit to the proprietor, j He knows men well, estimates them cor It was ably edited, and was a model of j rcctly, treats them all fairly and candid courtesy and dignity. Every paragraph, j ly. No man will get through his busi however small, seemed to have passed un- ness with you in fewer minutes, and yet der the supervision of and to reflect the none is moro free from the horrid Irus mind and elevated thoughts of its editor. qneness of busy men. There are heart He continued his connection with this and kindness in Mr. Colfax's politeness. paper writinir until three or lour years ago, uuea leave ins presence with the lmpres a regular weekly letter for,sion that he is at once an able, honest its cloumns, during his first two i terms in Congress. It was during the earlv davs of The Rcoisttr that Mr. Col- fax was laying the foundation for the re- rutation he has since atttained as a deba ter. A debating club was formed, which held regular week meeting?, during the winter season, and it was a rare occurrence! indeed to find Mr. Colfax absent from one of these stated gatherings. Politics, the temperance reform, and other sub jects were, often as ably debated in this society as kindred questions -are in many deliberate bodies of much greater preten sions of the present day. The Hon. John D. Defrecs, now Superintendent of Go vernment Printing, and for many years editor and proprietor of the Indianapolis Journal, to which Mr. Colfax was also attache as Senate Reporter for some time after he commenced the publication of the Register, was also a participant in these debates. They were both Whigs, both ardent and sincere advocates of, and believers in the temperance reform, and were consequently seldom pitted against each other in these debates. The attach ment formed at this early day between those gentlemen still continues with un abated fervor. In 1848, Mr. Colfax was chosen as a delegate, and elected as Secre tary of the Convention which nominated General Taylor for the Presidency. In 1850 he represented St. Joseph county in the Convention which framed the present Constitution of Indiana.' In this Conven tion he opposed, with all his ability, the adoption of the clause prohibiting free colored men from settling in the State. His opposition to this measure was the cause of his defeat the following year, when nominated for Congress, in opposi tion to Dr. Fitch. But, with all the ability, tact, and shrewdness of this old politiral wireworker, he only distanced his young competitor two hundred votes, in a district which had been strongly Democratic for years. In 1852 he was again a delegate to the Whig National Convention. He took an active part in the campaign which follow ep, speaking often and writing much. In 1851, when the "great deep" of In diana Democracy was broken up, and old Hunkers laid in a grave from which it is hoped they may never be rcsurrccteJ, he was renominated and elected to Congress, and was consequently more active than ever before. His experience as a deba ter, and familiarity with State and na tional politics, rendered him an overmatch for his opponents, whom he was always anxious to meet iu an open and fair dis cussion before the people, where he was always certain of a victory. Iu 1S56 he was again nominated for Congress, and rc-clcctcd by a handsome majority. His entrance into Congress was in the midst of the great strugglo over the Lccompton swindle. A writer says of his tiniJca speech in the House, "His first speech in Congress went forth to repel tho tide of terror which was sweeping over strug gling Kansas, and clearly showed that ewen then he was one of tho best debaters in the Lower House." Over five hundred thousand copies of this speech were print ed and circulated a compliment perhaps never before received by any member of Congress. . He was first chosen Speaker of the Thirty-eighth Cougress by a voto of 101 to 81. ,11c has been thrice elected to the samo position, each time by. an increased majority. He was appointed Chairman ofthe Ooannittce on Pc.-t OQce and Post Roads on the organization of the Thirty seventh Congress, and did much to ex tend mail facilities throughout' the West, lie was one of the first advocates, and is still one of the warmest friends of the Pacific Railroad. Iudced, ho takes a warm interest in any movement looking to the development of the boundless re sources of the great West. It was, doubt less, the interest he feels in this section of the country which induced him to take his celebrated trip "across the Con tinent." His trip, was a pcrilou3 one, but his welcome at "the other end of the line" was so spontaneous truly genuine and heartfelt, that it more than repaid him for all the dangers and hardships he passed through. This trip prepared him for one of the most entertaining lectures ever delivered in this country. It has been listened to with wrapt attention by the people cf al most every city in the North. Pccuni- than deliberative. He would make good and kind man. l'olitical opponents like him personally, as well as his political friends. We have never heard that he has any enemies. The breath has been silent towards his fair, spotless fame. The wife of hisyouth, after being for along 'time an invalid, sank to final rest several years ago, leaving him childless. lUs mother and sister preside at his recep tions, which, for many years, have been not the most brilliant, but the most popu lar of any given at the capital. Socially, Mr. Colfax is frank, lively, jolly. It may be that he feels his oats ia some degree, but dignity hasn't spoiled him. The everlasting I-hool and Usncss of great men is forgotten in his presence. His manners are not quite so familiar as those of Mr. Lincoln, but nearly so. They arc gentle, natural, graceful, with a bird-like or business-like quickness of thought and motion. But they are very far from the high and mighty style of Sumner, or the judicial coldness cf Fe3 senden, Sherman and Trumbull. Though manly, they are genial and winning. American mothers believes in Schuyler Colfax. There arc more babies named for him than for any public maa since Mr. Clay. The intimacy and confidential it- n i ; .,, T. , relations of Mr. Colfax with Mr. Lincoln are well known. They labored hand in hand as brothers in the cause ofthe Uni on, holding frequent and protracted in terviews on all subjects looking to tae overthrow ofthe Rebellion, for there were no divisions between the executive and legislative branches of the crovcrn- ment then as there arc now. During the darkest hours of that bloody drama which shall ever remain a reproach upon the people of one section! .i .i i i i i oi me nation, iney were ever cneeriui and hopeful. Confident in the justness of the war waged for the preservation of tho Union, and placing a Christian reli ance in that providence which guides and shapes the destiny of nations, great re verses, which caused others to fear and tremble, at times almost to despair, seem ed only to inspire them with, greater' zeal and a firmer belief in the ultimate tri uroph of our cause. Mr. Colfax is rather' under the medi um height, with a form firmly and com pactly molded. His hair i3 brown, now slightly sprinkled with grey ; eyes blue ; forehead high and arching, indicating, great perceptive faculties and deep ven erations. His faco is open and frank, and as yet unmarked by ago. He pos sesses great vitality, and can endure an extraordinary amount of labor with but little fatigne. This, coupled with his temperate habits, has caused him to wear his age so well that but lew persons would place him even at 40. He is yet in tho prime and vigor of manhood, with all hisiGo Railroad have been finished west of cares and responsibilities, as most people Omaha, sixty miles having bejn built at CO . Fast Freight cars have recently been transported from New Orleans to New York, a distance of 1825 miles, in six days' running: timo. This is the shortest timo on record, but with the increased fiisttlilTrta .-v C ranonnrf it inn n r . i tliA i rt-t rrovements of tho roads the freight will soon be moved over the route in a much shorter period. A man living at Cohoe?, New York, las week applied oil from the bowel of a tobacco pipe to a burn on tno up oi a m tlo daughter, and tho child died in con ntwenty four hours thereafter. VUliftO Show us a "carpet bagger" and we will show you a supporter of Grant and Col fax. Show U3 a loyal Southerner who is true to his State and his country, and we will show you a man who will not support Grant and Colfax.JV. Y. World. Show us a soldier who fought for tho fiag,oracivilian who encouraged thesoidier with his vote and his purse, and wa wilfr? show ycu a supporter of Grant and Col fax. . Shov7 ns aa original rebel wao dil all he could fo precipitate the war, aad wo will show yoa a man who will cot support Grant and Cclfaz. ' Show cs a Confederate who starved th: Federal prisoners at Libby, Andsraon-. ville, and Salisbury, and we will shoxyou a man who will not support Graat and Col fax. Show us a Northerner who kept up constant fire ia the rear of tho boys in hie?, cr who voted ia Conventions that" the war wa3 a failure, and we will how you a man who will not support Grant and Colfax. Commerical Ad cert tier'. Voting in Greece is somewhat different from voting in America. The polling places are churches. Thirty bailot-boiea are pheed oa the iloor of the church, each of tlicm bearing the name of a can didate. Upon one half cf the box, paint ed white, is written "Yea," -isd on the otherlhalf, pciLied black, is written "No." A clerk attends the voter, with thirty bullets, and, when opposite a box pro nounces the name of the cradidata and hands the voter a bullet. Passing- kis arm up a funnel about a foot ia hngth, the voter's hand arrives unseen a a di vision box, and drops the ball to the right or left, "yes" or "no," as the case may be, and so on throughout the whole thir ty. The system is said to insure sccresy and perfect order. A Chicago paper gives a long list ot Pepubiican successes which have recently -been achieved at the West. The Repub licans have carried by deceive tisjorties Madison, the captal of Wiconion, St. T 1 -t: j ti Til? .11 I l aui, .uiuuusuiu, auu x euna, Alliums, an hitherto strongholds of the Democracy. Kenosha, which went Democratic last year, and Racine, which is usually close, have now chosen Republican munscipal tickets. The Republicans have likewise, aside from the vote on the new Constitu tion, swept Michigan by their usual ma jority, and increased their majority ia Wisconsin to the extent of several thou sands. Grant's name is a tower of strength to the Western Republicans. Omaha is full cf men looking for em ployment ; and thousands arc almost starv ing who would willingly return if they had the means. There are so many ap plicants for work that the Pacific Rail roadompany have reduced the wages of mechanics, "cc, to $2 per day, aad la borers SI 25, and are still overcrowded with applications. Hundreds sleep ir! the frieght sheds nightly, not having the means to pay for shelter. The city id overrun with gamblers and thieve3, and robberies and murders are of frequent occurrence. A curious method -of killing rats is re- commended in a German journal as every J. tuicicuu inufu ui ucw snoii'ie it unused sponge is cut into small pieces, which ara smeared with butter, and placed within the reach of the rats, next to a diah of water. The rats cat the sponge, and be coming thirsty drink the water, which swells tho sponge, and in a short time kills the animals, which are found lying dead all around. The new Georgia Legislature is com--posed of Democrats, Republicans, and Conservative Democrats, the latter hold ing the balance of power. Mr. Gordon and United States Attorney Fitch- are to be the Democratic nominees for tho Uni ted States Senate. What den is the most disgraceful ia Maine? Fessen-den. What bull should everybody shuaf Trum-bull. What son deserves the contempt of every honest man ? Hender-soa. The elephant Romeo, tho largest in the country, i3 now entirely blind, having been shot in his eye a few days ago tor subdue him. Stato Fair. The next State Fair will be held at Ilarrisburg commencing cn the 23th dy of September. Six hundred mil?3 of the Union Pa- mis spring. It has been settled that the rale that "nothin" can be doncwell which i. dono in a hury," don't apply to catctung ucas. t J 1 M In Detriot, this year, there is only one incoino over $70,000, and only nineteen , over J510,UUU. . Tho English Government has a reve nue of 1,800,000 from dog licenses. Chicago is to pay 8800,000, for tho support of its public schools next year A Crochet shawl in a shop window ia Broollvn, N. Y T is labelled 4150." V i t ; , '1 i' n n
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