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VOL. 27.
STROUDSBURG, MONROE COUNTY; PA., AUG. W, ISC8.
NO. 20.
Published by Theodore Schoch.
Two doUn r yrsir in drnncp-nnd If not
tid before the end (lhe yeur, two dollars anil filfy
Ct. will be rhAi?rl.
fa pper4?cnntirtiied until allnrrcaiasesare natd,
crHheiorrtion ofUie Editor.
KX.drertieineiitsofone qure ff (eight linen) or
Wftv one or three insertions 91 50. Etrh additional
IftveWiAR, iQ cents. Longer ones in proportion.
I JOB PRIftTINC:,
OF ALL KINDS,
Biccuted in the highr-il Mrl? of the Att.and onthe
most icuson ble terms.
: - HI. D. COOLDAlGDf
Sign and Ornamental Painter,
V; SHOP ON MAIN STREET,
Opposite Woolen 3iHi,
; STHOIJDSDIJRG, PA.,
Respectfully announces to the citizens of
Stroudsburg and vicinity that he is prepared
to attend to all who may favor him with
their patronage, in a prompt and workman,
like manner.
CHAIRS, FURNITURE, &c, painted
and repaired.
PICTURE FRAMES of all kinds con
etantly on band or supplied to order.
June II, IS68. ly.
Drs. JACKSON & BIDLACK,
: PHYSICIANS AKD SURGEONS.
DRS. JACKSON &. BIDLACK. are
prepared to attend promptly to all calls
of a Professional character. Office Op- j
posite the Stroudsburg Bank.
t April 25, 1667,-tf.
r c.w. seip, Tm7d7
Physician and Surgeon,
STROUDSBURG, PA.
. Office at his residence, on Main Street,
nearly opposite Marsh's Hotel.
All calls promptly attended to. Charges
reasonable.
Stroudsburg, April 11, 18G7.-tf.
DR. D. D. SMITH,
Surgeon Dentist,!
- Office on Main Street, opposite Judge 1
Stokes' residence, Strocdsbvro, Pa. I
CT Teeth extracted without pam.Q
August 1, 1867.
Js Card.
The undersigned has opened an office for '
th.3 purchase and sale of Real Estate, in j
Fowler's BuiMing, on Main street. Parties
having Farms, Mill, Hutels or other proper
ty for sale will find it to their advantage to
call on me. 1 hive no agents. Parties
must see roe personally.
GEO. L. WALKER,
Real Estate Ageut, Stroudsburg, Pa.
.A. Card.
Dr. A. REEVES JACKSON,
Physician and Surgeon,
BEGS TO ANNOUNCE THAT IIAV
ing returned from Europe, he is now
prepared to refcume the active duties of his
profession. In order to prevent disappoint
ment to persons living at a distance who ;
may wish to consult him, he will be found
at his office every TilUlusUAi ana oai
UROAY for consultation and the perform
ance of Surgical operations.
Dec. 12, 1507.-1 jr.
WM. W. PA IX. J. D. HOAR.
CHAELES W. DEAN,
WITH
VM. W. PAUL & CO.
Manufacturers and Wholesale Dealers in
BOOTS & SHOES.
WAREHOUSE,
623 Market St, & 614 Commerce St
above Sixth, North side,
PHILADELPHIA.
March 19, 1808. tf.
Itch! Itcli! Itch!
SCRATCH I SCRATCH! SCRATCH!
USE
HOLLIXSHEAD'S ITCH k SALT EIIEIM 0LHLM.
No Family should be without this valoa
tl medicine, for on the first appearance of
the disorder on the wrists, between the fin
ger, &c, a alight application of the Oint
ment will cure it, and prevent its bring ta
ken by others.
Warranted to give satisfaction or money
refunded.
Prepared and told, wholesale and retail,
y ... W. IIOLL1NSHEAD,
Stroudsburg, Oct 31, '67.) Druggist.
J.JLANTZ, DENTIST.
)fm Has permanently located hira-
(Yv Nself in Stroudsburg, end moved
UJHI'his office next dow to Dr. 8.
Walton, where he is fully prepared to treat
Hie natural teeth, and also to insert incorrup
tible artificial teeth on pivot and plate, in tqe
latest and most improved manner. Most
persons know the danger and folly of trust
g their work to the ignorant as well as
the traveling dentist It matters not how
much experience a person may have, he is
liable to have eoi.ie failures out of a number
of eases, and if the dentist lives at a distance
it is frequently put off until it is too late to
t$ave the tooth or teeth as it mav be, other
wise the inconvenience and trouble of going
eo far. Hence the necessity of obtaining the
.services of a dentust near home. All work
warranted.
Btroudsburg-, March 27, 1862.
DON'T FORGET that when
you wint -any thing in the Furniture
or Ornamental line that McCarty, in the
Odd-Fellows' Hall, Main Street. Strouda
burg, P., is the place to get it. Sept. 26.
B
LANKS OF ALL KINDS fur Sa!e at
thin Office.-
ALMOST AT THE TOP."
A Soldier on Seymour-Speech of Gen.
Woodford.
At the Academy of Music, in Brook
lyn, the other evening. Gen. Woodford,
wl
io was evidently suffering from a re -
ut sickness, was received with cnthusi-j
cent
astie cheerinjr. and notwithstanding his
weak bodily condition, spoke with intense
energy and fire. We regret that our
limits exclude the whole speech. We
make some extracts :
''I wish I could justly
close these words without reference to
Horatio Seymour. But fidelity alike to
history and to my old comrades in the
army, living and dead, compel ' that I
should speak of one passage in his his
tory. On the Fourth of July, 1863,
when Governor of the State, he stood at
the Academy of Music, in New York, and
in a most elaborate address apologized a
like for slavery, the South and the Re
bellion. He had no word of cheer for
the patient man who was bearing the na
tion's sorrow (cheers) in the Capitol at
Washington. He bad no word of en
couragement for our gallant soldiers, who
that very hour were grapping with Lee
in a life and death struggle among the hills
in Pennsylvania (cheers and cries of
"You're right") ; nothing but icy sneers,
but i old calculations, and but illy concealed
sympathy with treason. Thank God, at
that same hour Meade gave the lie to his elo
quent sophistry as he hurled Lee back in
terrible defeat . from Cemetery Hill and
Round Top at Gettysburg, and Grant's
cannon made strange echo to his coward
ly but concealed appeals for compromise
and surrender as Vicksburg' s host cast
down their flags in defeat.
"A few short days passed, and on July
13 of that same year the terrible draft
riots broke out in New York city. I
charge that these riots were the natural,
logical and almost necessary results of his
speeches, his teachings, and his public of
ficial acts. And then when the storm
had gathered, he addressed those mad
dened, brutalized rioters as his "friends,"
and besought their patience by the plea
that be had sent his Adjutant-General to
Washington to hez that the draft might!
be suspended. (Laughter, hisses and
cheers.) When the tidiDgs of these riots
and of Seymour's conduct and speech
teached m with my regiment, I was toil
ing aloDg a dusty road of Maryland in pur
suit of the retreating rebels. Fainting
under the terrible heat, some falling and
even dying by the wayside, our men were
still pressing on.
"The loyal arms had been victorious at
Gettysburg, and we had heard the glad
news irom lcksburg. He were weary,
bat still we co aid see the end and the Vic-
tory drawing nigh. Like thunder from
a clear sky f ell the tidings of this coward
ly uprising at our own homes against the
government and the flag. Strong. men
wept with shame and rage.. Firm lips
closed in a fiercer wrath a they whisper
ed the news down the ranks, and muskets
were gripped with a vengeful feeling such
as we had not known before in skirmish
and battle. Could we have filled that
day in 'o Broadway there would have been
a bloody reckoning, and short work would
have been made with His Excellency's
special friends."
A sudden movement was here visible
through the whole audience: an instant
afterwards an electrical cheer burst from!?,11' amnS ?,a nr8t aul'e8' 10 Pa8S UP
every part of the building ; many people
stood up, and handkerchiefs and hats
were waved at the speaker.
We had left home to fight your battles,
and we felt that you were bound to tax
yourselves, if need be, to your last dollar
to pension our widows, to succor our
wounded, and feed our little ones. We
were there just as much for your sake as
for our own, and we felt that when our
ranks grew thin wo had a right to rein
forcements j that you were bound in hon
or to send us your young men and your
strong men, even if your old men and
boys had to work your factories and your
women had to till the fields. We were
terribly in earnest. We were fighting re
bels. We meant to stand up to our work,
and we very solemnly intended that you
should stand squarely up to yours. 1
(Cheers.) How reverently we thanked
God, when the good Lincoln and the lion
hearted Stanton said the drafs shall be
enforced. And how we cheered the sol
diers who where sent from our midst to
enforce the law and uphold the honor of
our flag against the Nothern mob.
"You can now understand how we sol
diers feel towards his Excellency, Horatio
Seymour. In the hour of our sorrow and
weariness he had no encouragement for
us, no faith in our courage, and no faith
in the final victory. Now in our triumph,
when the flag steams out on every brezze
i ii i ? i
ana an our iana is one again, we nave no the tide"tbat is 8weCping everything be
need for thee, Horatio Seymour. Let fore u for GrtQt aod fc0,fax 1Ie kea
the burners of orphan asylums, and
deserter, and the skulker from the dra
twine laurels for tby brows; we will 6tandcoffeo iUilTed Mturliutioo papers, but it
by the old flag, all battle-scarred, butglor
ious iu victory, while we follow the grea t
captin of our armies, our own Ulysses Grant
' "At the battle of Jookout Mountain, as
following the line of fire, our surgeons
climbed up the hilly steep, they met four
soldiers coming down and carrying in a
blanket a shapeless mass. Laying their
burden tenderly down, they asked the
doctor to look at their wounded color ser
geant. His shoulder and forearm had
been torn away by a shell.
"The surgeon knelt, and putting the
hair back from bis manly brow, asked)
"My brave fellow, where are you hit 7" J A motto for the Blair family : "United we
His eye unclosed for a moment, as ho faint- jtand."
ly answered: "Almost at the top." "No,' Tlie Fort Wayne (Ind.) Gazette announces
no, my good man, whereabouts are you Ge" TJJ"!ae8 R Stecdman repudiates Sey-
' ijt . . . . ' mour and Blair. .
nuuuucu i ..-igaia ms u viutr eve uucu-i
J : vs i i: . "i i I
ed. again his Palo libs moved, and
he
whispered : "I was almost at the top, sir, !
bearing the flag, when the shell struck !
me. One moment more and I should
j have been clear up' He gave one gasp,
.and bis brave spirit was gone forever.
Exclamations.
I "And so. dear friends, it is with us to-
day. We arc almost at the top. In faith
and love we have carrried the dear old
flag for four long years of struggle, un
til now we are above the clouds, fighting
as Joe. Hooker fought up in the clear
sunlight of absolute justice and right.
Only once more close up the ranks. On
ly once more pass up the mountain
slope, and we shall plant our dear old flag
clear up on the mountain top of a final
victory for liberty and the rights of man'
Let any true soldier, or soldier's friend,
or lover his country, read the above, and
then rote for Horatio Seymour, if he
can !
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Ready Responses.
The following reply to a life insurance
circular, requesting information as to the
health and habits of an applicant, was re-
iceived at a prominent life insurance of-tral
ficcs in Hartford:
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! Since two years after I was born.
2. hat are his general habits f In
winter, red flannel shirts and blue beaver:
In summer, a straw hat canted to one
side, and nankeen trowsers very loose in
the legs.
3. What is his profession 7 Congre
gationalism 4. Has he ever had fever and ague ?
Had a fever last summer, when the ther
mometer was at eighty, but it was no
great shakes.
5. Has he ever had heart disease f
Yes, but was cured of it by Rev. Dr.
Hawks years age.
6. What state was he in when you saw
him last ? The state of Michigan.
7. Has his application 'ever been re
jected 7 Yes, once promptly by a lady.
8. What age do you consider him 7
Old enough to know more than he does.
9. Does he smoke or shew 7 He
smokes when be chooses.
10. Has ho children 7 Yes ; two
nephews.
A Shrewd Southern editor says : "The
popularity of Seymour and lilair is some
thing like the fever and ague it cannot
be found in any place where particular
inquiry is made for it. In the settle-
ments, where the "shakes" are supposed
to have a lodgment, the people inform in
quircrs that they do not have them there,
but the inhabitants of another place
which they designate have them "awful
ly." So Eastern Democrats declare that
their ticket, though not strong here, has
great popularity iu the West , and Wes
tern Democrats, while confessing to Dem
ocratic disappointment in that section say
that their ticket will run well iu the
East.
A justice of the Peace, who has but re
ccntly assumed the dignity of that impor
tant office in one of the mushroom towns
on the Union Pacific railroad, was called
me gum or innocence ot a mau arrestee!
for murder. The following colloquy con
stituted the examination
Justice "Darn you, sir ! did you kill
that man.
Prisoner "Yes, sir.".
J ustice "Was any one else present at
the time 7"
Prisoner "No, sir."
Justice "Then as it will be impossi
ble for thecourt to prove your's guilt,
you are discharged.
.
As a person was shooting swallows at
Osbaldick a few dajs ago, he fired at and
wounded one, which fell as its wing was
broken, to within a few feet of the earth,
when another swallow flew directly un
derneath, and bore it gently up. After
having attained a considerable elevation,
the bird underneath withdrew its sup
port ; but finding that the bird was sink
ing again to the earth, it resumed its sta
tion, and onee more raised it in the air
This was done several times, till at last
the bird flow away, as if it had not been
hurt at all its companion followed. This
is as remarkable an instance of attach
ment and sympathy in the feathered tribe
as we ever heard of.
Ilon. Wm. . Wallace, Chairman of
the Democratic Committee, publishes an
addreas calling upon the copperheads to
wake up and make an attempt to turn
. . m ml
1. HOW long have you known rnaiine ltepuuneans on me x acinc coa are
. . jiure u ior uram ana voiiax. ne maaes
.e no allusion to the copperhead frauds in
Jei Luzerne last year, neither does be say
that he is prepared at present to furnish
7
is understood that he is to make use of
the same means to carry the State that
were so efficacious in electing
wood, .
Shars-
Brick. Pomcroy denounced all the
B lairs, and Frank P. Blair, Jr. in parti
cular, as political mouutebanks and men
of no character or standing. "Brick"
now supports Frank P. Jr. for Vice Pre
sident. "Birds of a feather flock together."
There is no hope for Democracy this fall.
A. J. Donelson is out for Sevmour. We un
derstand that Donelson claims that he once ran
for Vice-President wi
more.
ith a man named Fill-
The Boston Pot--t. Democratic, says :
The
names of Sevmour and Blair have ran like wild
fire from hill to valley, all over the land."
That's a correct figure down hill all the time.
The Chicago Post says : There is a hiatus in
Grant's history pay the Democrat a. : That may
be, but it is nothing compared with the hiatus
he made in the Democratic partv at Vicksburg
in 1863, and at Appomattox in 1865.
. It dosen't become Frank Blair to prate alout
the carpet-bapsrer?. There has been no time
rince the Blair faruilv could crawl that each
member of it lias hot Wen in Washington, ear-Iet-bat
in hand, clamoring and begging for
office. .
It has been discovered that horseradish and
sweet-oil a tablespoonful of this mixture as
often as it can be swallowed and retained on
the stomach, together with a poultice of the
rime over the wound has proved a prompt and
perfect cure for hydrophobia.
The Hon. John S. Carlisle, formerly of West
Virginia, and United States Senator under the
restored Government, now residiutr in Balti-
more, declares emphatically for Grant and Col-
!!
'try th:iT Mr. Carlisle,
a c f T?,.,,iki;,., st-. rw
Committee of California, writes to the
Congressional Republican Ere cutiyt Committee
making preparations for an energetic canvas.,
and that they believe Grant and Colfax will
carry that fetate by 10,000 majority.
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To Destroy Warts.
Dissolve as much common washing soda as
the water will take up ; wash the warts with
this for a minute or two, and let them dry
without wiping. Keep the water in a bottle and
repeat the washing often, and it will take away
the largest warts.
Recent explorations thow Northern Minnc
Fota to be perhaps the most remarkable elate
region in the world. The slate ridge is some
twenty odd miles in length and six in width.
In one place are mounds of slate coverning a
large extent of territory, which have the ap
pearance of a city, there being streets, houses,
and towers of regular ehape, the whole presen
ting a most singular and interesting appearance.
At one point in the SSt. Louis river is a large
Island of pure, workable slate, towering above
the surface of the ttream to a hight of seventy
five feet.
Mrs. Betscv Eodgers of Newburg, Mas Lai
followed the business of picking berries for 70
years. She will be 95 next month. The New
buryport Herald says : "On her birthday she
proposes to walk to town a half dozen miles
with the same old berry bas&et on her arm, and
walk back She ought to have a public recep
tion by her old friends and patrons. She be
longs to a tough and long-lived race. Her
mother reached the age of 97. There are oth
ers of the same sort in By field. We saw an old
woman the other day who had lxcn picking
berries all day in the hot sun, walking over two
miles to her work, who was 81 year. old, and
whose child was over 63. She told us that she
had walked to town to sell 1'crrics.and walked
back a journey of ten niiles six diOcrent
times this season."
Farm Items.
The lest time to buy a farm is in August
and September, for then the poor spot appear
One of theliest farms in Kansas is the Gover
nors. His wheat 4crop amounts to 10,000 bush
cls. The farming land" of Nebraska increases in
value at the rate of a million dollars a month.
June 1, in Australia, grapes and apples were
gathered, and Winter had set in.
It is said that cattle -can bo raLed best on
sand stone, and fattened best on lime stone land.
The only animal if it is an animal, which
will eat the Colorado )otato-bug and not get
sick is the striied snake.
In hot weather milk is worth more fed to
calves, whirli are to be cows and oxen, than
made into butter.
A single pair of caterpillars, if lot alone, will
strin the leaves from a young orchard in a few
weeks. They need as much watching as politi
cians. Now that the wheat crop in Australia has
failed, they proiosc growing hops to use up
what little barley they may raise.
An acre of fresh water is more profitable for
fish growing than ten acres ofgood6oil for
gram growing.
Western wool-growers get five cents a pound
for their wool more than Eastern growers, be
cause they make so many complaints.
The Pennsylvania Agricultural Colleirc has
only 13 students, and it is a failure. Other
like colleges fail, ami all because they have no
teachers who understand farming.
The Rev. Father Cabley, President of
the great Catholic University of Notre
Dame, was in tho procession which escor
ted Mr. Colfax from the depot to the Fair
Grounds, on his recent rcceptiont at South
Bend, thus giving evidence that he Cat
holics of his homo resent the base Demo
cratic fabrications, in regard to the as
serted hostility of Mr. Colfax to the
Catholics and foreigners.
The St. Joseph Mo. Herald, spcakinS
of the distrubancc created by democrats
at the reception of Gens. Grunt and Sher
man in that city last week, says , "In the
noisey mob hooting and yelling insults at
bens, brant and Sherman, we recognized
. . a
tne same boisterous eicincut which pas-
sen a resolutions at meeting in the Court
House in 1861, that no'appoiutee of Mr
Lincoln should ever occupy St., Joseph
Fust-Office: the same element that raised
a Reblc flag at the foot of Felix st. and
killed the commerce of the city dead as a
door nail for four vears: the identical ele
ment which tore the flag from the roof of
the Post-Office, aud threatened with death
any man who dared insult the chivalry
of the South by unfurling the banner of
his country..
Grant acts, Seymour talks, and Blair
blows.
The Beetles In Utah.
The Austin (Nev.) Reveille of June 13
gives the following description of this for
midable and dreadful plague.
Utah is not only plagued with locusts, but
with an insect called the "elephant beetle.
A reliable person who returned from the
neighborhood of Salt Lake last week saw
myriads of them covering the earth with
their shining, brawnish black bodies, and
destroying everything which they met in
their path. Even small animals, he was
informed by the ill-fated residents, did not
escape the voracity of the horces: their
bodies were crowded upon, and worried,
and wounded cruelly with powerful anten
nae until they fell ' down exhausted by
their struggles and loss of blood, when
they were fastened upon by thousands and
devoured. The entire carcass of a sheep
was eaten and the bones picked clean in
two minutes, and a quarter ; and
it is said that a dead ox would be gob
bled up in a quarter of an hour. So fer
ocious arc these giant beetles that mothers
are afraid to let their children go out of
house unattended by a grown person. In
the frequent bloody contests the wounded
are uerourea on the instant, uur in
formant says they are about four inches
long, with legs three inches long; their
antennas are stiff, sharp, and full four in
ches long; they have a short tail armed
with a powerful horn, and their slfells arc
so hard that the weight of a man scarcely
will crush them. They are very frisky at
times and jump with the agility of fleas.
No other species of the beetle possesses
their faculty of uttering a loud sound,
which, made by thousands of them at
otfee, resembles the braying of a band of
jackasses. Their noise terrified the horses
of our informant and his companion, who
could not be kept upon the plain, so great
was their fright. On one occasion while
they were riding in a valley that was black
with beetles, and crushing them under
their horses' hoofs, when their hard cases
would crack with a report like a rifle, the
fierce insects showed a disposition to at
tack the horses, and fairly drove them
out of the field. We were iuformed that
a scientific man in Salt Lake City was
collecting specimens of this formidable
elephant beetle for transmission to vari
ous learned institutions of the country.
The Astors of to-day.
The Astors will probably hold their prop
erty for many generations to come. Wil
liam B. was trained by bis father to the style
of business which had gained his fortune and
increased it. Since the death of John Jacob
Astor the business has been couducted in
the same style that marked it bc&rc hedicd.
William B. Astor has two sons, John Jacob
and William B. jr. They hive been care
fully trained to the same style of business
that distinguished their ftthcr aud grandfa
ther. In the little one-story building on
Prince street, looking like a small jail with
the iron bars in front, the father and two
sons can be seen daily taking care of their
immense estate. The sons are quiet and re
ticent like their father. No bank clerk goes
to his business more steadily than do they.
At a given hour m the morning they enter
their office. At a given hour, arm in arm,
they walk down Broadway to Wall street.
Between two and three they can be seen re
turning from their down town office, lhcy
arc seldom separate. They are capable, in
dustrious, economical and pre-eminently de
voted to business. Should their father die
to morrow, everything would be taken up
just where he left it, and all his plans would
be carried out. nor wou'd any change be
mode in the mode of doing things during
their lifetime, The utmost care was ta?n
of their uncle John Jacob, who died the oth
er day. Every wish of his father in regard
to him was scrupulously carried out. His
fine residence on Fourteenth street, with its
garden occupying a whole square, with his
coaches and horses, were preserved to him
to the last. . It is rare that three generations
of men exhibit such characteristics. Thrown
into offices, its commanding position would
make the Astor House a source of revenue
such as it can never become as a hotel. But
the wishes of the founder, though dead, stil
prevail, and a hotel it willbe, probably, du
ring the lifetime of its present owner. Bos
ton Journal.
The Democrats attempted a ratfication
meeting at DccrfielJ, Oneida County, a few
rods from Gov. Seymour's door, a few
days ago, but only ten or fifteen men
came out. The meeting adjourned with
out even a cheer for Seymour. But some
of the Governor's "friends," having be
come intoxicated, went into the street and
commenced abusing peaceful citizens, two
or three of whom were knocked down and
severely beaten. Oa their way home,
however, they met several sturdy brick
makers, whom they ordered to hurrah for
Seymour. This they refused to do, when
an assault was made upon them; but the
brickraakers proved to much for these
"friends," and several of the rioters were
severely and righteously puuished.
.
A fond father the other day, wishing
to form an alliance between his stupid son
aod a fine young lady of his acquaintance,
sent him to her mother with tho follow
ing note :
"Dear Madam ; Allow me to present
my Bill for your acceptance."
The lady sent the tpoouy back to his
father with tho following reply :
"Dear Sir : Your Bill is vetoed."
Tho Democracy of Maryland had a
Seymour and Blair ratification meeting
last week, at which a negro was murder
ed. Good, sound Democrats 1
Jeff, Davis supports Seymour and Blair
Quite natural ho U opp
i treason odious I
oscU to uukiug
Blue Blood.
A naval officer, writing from "Off Cap
St. Lucas," gives an anecdote of one who
duriog the war was a great favorite with
the North Atlantic squadron,, a thorough
seaman, navigator, and gentleman, some
what erratic, perhaps, but enthusiastic,
and excellent company. On one occasiony
while ashore ia Newbern, he visited a
lady who was somewhat aristocratic ri
her pretensions. The lady engaged ia
conversation, and in the hearing of sever
al became quite eloquent about "blue
blood." "New, you, my dear M.
said she, "you must be of our set Let
me see; ah, yes! your family are from
the Surry Berkley side,I presume. Was-
your grandfather General 7" "Xd,
Madam," was the reply. "But. your
father; he " "Madam," said our tar,
"you are quite wrong; my father wa..
hung, and my mother was a washer-wo
man !'. Further genealogical inquirj
The Southern Vindictaor of Pine Bluff,
Ark., warms the people of that Stater
"not to be misled by lying Radical emis
saries, it says :
We desire our Democratic friends to Ee-
wary how they listen to the voice of ther
Radical rrcss. Since the Presidential
nomination a movement has been set on.
foot to prejudice the Southern mind
against Gen, Blair. It is published for
the country that he is the individual who,
when Postmaster-General, refused to al
low Democratic papers to come South.-
This is vile fabrication an election trick
to carry out their infamous plan to further
persecute us. It was Montgomery and.
not Frank P. Blair who was the corrupt
Postmaster-General.
How will Montgomery Blair like tho
compliments of his present bed-fellows?
And what will Frank think of this attack
upon his brother 7
Rancid Butter.
To a pint of water add thirty drops
(about half a teaspoonful) of liquid chlo
ride of lime. Wash in this two and a
half pounds of rancid butter. When,
every proticle of rancid butter has come
in contact with the water, let it stand au
hour or two; then wash it well in pura
water. The butter is then left without
any odor, and has the sweetness of fresh
butter. These preparations of lime have
nothing injurious in them.
We copy the above from one of our ex
changes, the editor of which says:
"We forthwith obtained some of the.
most rancid butter, and it wasbad enonglr
for any stomach that had more sensibility
than a wagon wheel. We doctored it aaf
per recipe, and when placed on the table
along with the new, good butter, very
able judges could not distinguish which
was the new butter. Here is a fact worth,
a year's subscription to a paper."
James Parton, in an article on lc7c-
anVs Monthly, cutitlcd "Don't be amere
Money Machine," fays: "Among twenty
men who can make a fortune you will
hardly find more than one who can found
a family. It is when I think of the chil
dren of the men who are called successful,
that I feel how profoundly foolish those,
men among us are who devote their whole
time and the whole force of their natures
to business. How strange to expend life
in accumulating the means of living, and
forget to live !"
A man callinghimself a "professor' dvcfi
tUed an entertainment in Sl Louis the othe
n'ght, at which he was to expose the mys
teries of spiritual manifestations, allow himr
self to be shot at with pistols, and let the
audience in to all the secrets of jugglers.
After appearing before the audience and
requesting those who desired to shoot at hixa,
to prepare their pistols, he went behind the
stage curtain and that was the last of him.
He obtained about $200, and left his hall
rent and printing bills unpaij.
A witness in a late divorce case lept
saying that the wife had a very retaliat
ing disposition; "that she retaliated foe
every littlo thing."
"Did you ever see her husband kiss
her 7" asked the wife's counsel.
14 Yes sir, often."
"Yes, what did she do on such, oeca-
sions 7
"She always retaliated, sir." (Great
laughter, and wife triumphant.)
A warrant for the payment of tho pur
chase money for Alaska, in the sum of
$7,200,000 in coin, was on Saturday sign
ed by the Secretary of the Treasury and
transmitted to Baron DcStocckl, the Rus
sian Minister. The draft for that amount.
payablo in New York, was signed ' by
Gen. Spinner Saturday morning and a
receipt given therefor by the Russian
Minister. A little up town five year old, who was
hungry one night recently just at bed
time, but didn't want to ask directly for
something more to eat, put the proposi
tion in this way, "3Iamma are little child
ren who starve to death, happy after they
die 1" A good big slico of bread and
butter was the answer.
i - "arr t t a 1 i
The Schenectady Evening Star put
. . i! - : . i u - r
tno l'euiuuruuu uuiuiuues at mc ueu v
its column, and directly underneath say
"Tho Road to Ruin."
Sinco the new Georgia Senator, came
out for Grant and Colfax, the Ptmocratio
party in that State has becu rapidly rua
a"tu dowu bill
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