l)c cffcisonian,
.THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 13G8.
03-WiIAT MAKES YOUR HAIR SO
nsAVTiruL? Mrs. S. A. Alle.n's improv
kd new shj1e)UiR Restouer or Dressi.no
(in one bctlle ) Price One Dollar. Every
Pruggiet sells it.
Preaching.
The public may expect preaching, next Sun
day, morning and evening, in tbe Court House,
hr Rev. D. M. Ilenkel.
S3uln our next iue we hope to l;e able to
give full return of the vote for President in all
the States. In the mean time the Electoral
vote may be net down at 217 in 27 States for
Grant and Colfax, against 76 votes in 7 Stated
for ScTiuour and Blair.
j3STThe weather during the pa.t week, ha
been a regular niixtre of the calm and beauti
ful, with the boisterous and di.mal. The dom
ing, throughout, though cool, were, fairly spe
cimens of a glorious Indian Summer; while
the afternoon an J evenings assumed more of
the cpiinodal turn. Sunday, Monday and
Tuesday, however, were modl days ; just fucIi
Ait we would have made to order.
STuiiie practice oi stopping norns ana
wagons on a street cro-va'k, which some peo
ple have, and of keeping them thereuntil they
are done talking, or transacting business, and
compelling pedestrians to wade around in the
mud, is an unmitigated nuisance which com
mon sense should teach every man to abate.
We have seen great hulks of men thus eb
mnict the crossing?, and compel delicate fe
males to wade around their wagons, with the
mud ancle deep.
CsoT'That was a most commendable spirit
which prompted a number of our business men,
at their own private expense, to place street
lamps in front, or in the neighborhood, of their
several places of busings?. We are glad to see
that others arc preparing to follow the exam
ple, and there will be then even room for
snore. Citizens on the cross and back streets
should club to secure the same convenience
a brightly burning street lnirp on a dark
night.
LOST.
t;n .'ionuar, the bta oi Uetober mat., soir.e-
whc re on the road, via the "Wind Gap, from
Suoudburg to Kaston, supposed between the
Wind Gap and Easton. a velvet satchel, con
taining several school books, ambrotypes and
"photographs. The books haTe written in them
the name cf Annie Stone, and the photo
graphs being likenesses of friends, some of
them now deceased, will be prized by no one
o h:hlv as bv the owner. Anv information
Tweeting the lost property, will 1-e thankfully
.received by Morris Ii. Stone, at the Daily Ex-
pr. oCce, Easton, l'a., or mnr be left at this
ofiice.
Accidents.
Mr. Webb Gari.-, carpenter, while at work
on the new stable ere ting for Dr. Jackson, on
Franklin street, o:i Saturday last, misled his
f Kiting, and fell from the t; of the building
T the ground, a distance of some fifteen feet.
He wa-s severely bruised, but we are glad to be
abl to say, was not dangerously hurt. We
were pleased to sec Mr. G. so far recovered, as
to be able to be out a dav or two o.
Mr. Julius Marsh, while at work chopping
lumber in the woods near Gouldsboro, a couple
of weeks ago, accidentia cut himself cn the in
side of one of his knees with an ax. The
wound inflicted is severe and causes much
r-ilering to the patient. On Monday he was
brought in town, and now lies at the Indian
ueen Hotel as comfortable as can be exert
ed. Home ai jIeaiith," U to.be the title of
a new rural and family newspaper soon to be
issued by " S. M. Petting:!! & Co." so well and
so favorably known to the newspaper world,
as the honorable and gentlemanly advertising
firm of 37 Park How, New York. In the ad
vertising business the Crm have deservedly
won success by wise and untiring effort, and by
scrupulously honest dealing, and we have but
little doubt that the same spirit applied to the
new undertaking, as it certainly will be, will
secure the production of one of the lx--t family
papers ever published. "Home and Hearth"
will be under the general editorial charge of
Mr. Donald G. Mitchell; while the Lome and
fireside departments will 1 subject to the su
pervision of Mrs. Harriet Peeeher Stowe, who
will also contribute regularly to each number.
The paper will be devoted to all that pertains
to country life in its broadest sense, but will be
neither sectarian nor partizan. Pettengill,
Pates, & Co., 27 Park Row, N. Y., U to be tbe
publishing firm.
I ron our Scranton Currctjionden!.
rtiiAsrTo-, P.., iNov. t, 1SW,
Mr. Editok .'Election, the all absorbing
theme for the past few months, is over, j
muet say, I think it very fortunate that we el
et a President onlv once in fjur rear?. Not
since the fall of Pachmond, that never to be for
gotten day, have I seen such a general drunk a
we made out to have here last week. The cit
izens irrespective of party joined in parade,
headed by the .Nay Aug Drum Corp?, about 1!
o'clock, on Tuesday night, and euch an on
elought as they made on the juirt, is not with
in the memory of the oldest inhabitant. This
proved to be a protracted celebration, latin
until Saturday night-
The procession of German Deniocrat., who
made their appearance on the streets, on Wed
nesday, headed by Charley R. playing a vio
lin, fully prepared with passes and provisions
for a trip up Salt Pive-i-, reached Locher's La
ger Beer Garden, on the Providence road, du
ring the afternoon. They were too mucha-
tigwd to jj-o any farther, or even to re turn home
on that uy. They managwi to get back, how
.ver on 'L hureday, after having had a joIJy )er
fgnanation around the head of the old Salt.
Murders are of about as frequent occurrence
acre now. asMrert fiu-hf
c v v vi--. i tari
Tuesday the body of a main, who had been the
vietim of a "murder most foul and unnatural,"
was found rcar the Pawnee Coal Co's. Coal
Cracker. There is, as yet, no clue to Uie per
petrators of the deid. L.vt night a man nam
ed I Jam, was locked up, on charge of having
murdered his wife-. It appears they were both
drunk and quarreling, when lie split her skull
with a spade. In the melee her left arm and
leg were broken. The murder was committed
at No. 6. on the Ptnnsvlvania Coal Co's. road,
on Fridav night lat.
The large bridge, connecting Scranton with
Ilvde Park, built br the city Rt an expense of
over forty thousand dJlurt, and finished about
two month since, will probably have to be ta
ken elown to prevent its falling. Ihe abut
ment on the Scranton side is caring, and the
pier in the middle of the river lias settled about
eight indies.
We are now enjoying what I would call the
Indian Hummer; and after the wet and disa
greeable weather, we know how to spprcciate
it. Yours, T.
Monroe County Election Returns.
OFFICIAL.
We give below the returns from the sev
eral townships of the county Oficial.
It will be aeen that Slroudsburg is a partic
ularly bright spot a genuine oaiis, in this
S-hara of Democratic waste and weariness:
State. President.
5 P
Township, f 2
2 - 2. 5
B-rrett 20 143 25 149
Chestnuthill, 47 242 51 2G1
Coolbacgh, 33 . 17 30 1S6
Eldred, 3 163 3 191
Hamilton, 54 293 95 310
Jackson, 24 142 23 140
Middle Smilhfield, 11 203 17 318
Paradise, 32 72 39 r-3
Pcomo, S3 ISO 47 185
Polk, lfl 1?1 21 179
Price, 9 3$ 10 42
Ross, 27 113 20 120
Smilhfield, fG 227 50 230
Stroud, 113 233 13G 242
Stroudsburf, 202 123 209 127
Tobyhanna, 20 69 19 77
Tunkhannock, CO 50 00 56
Total, 733 27S0 613 2915
735 613
Dem. rnaj., 2054 2102
Republicans in italic-.
i
FRAUDS.
The following gentlemen compose the
special committee ordered by the Union
League Club, of Xew York, to take into
consideration the whole subject of the
frauds by the issue cf counterfeit natura
lization papers, tha registration of alien
non residents as legal voters, and the pol
ling of illegal vote3 by repeaters with au
thority to institute and prosecute any
measures connected therewith wbich shall
be deemed proper and expendieut, aud to
c !!ect subscriptions for the purpose above
indicated :
William E. Dodga, Horace Greeley
Moses II. Grinuell, Isaac Sherman Isaac
II. Dailev, Marshall O. Roberts John II.
White.
Mr. Dodge's experience, when he cue
cossfully contested the Congressional seat
of James Rrooks, is probably that which
lei to his being chosen to tlJs very im
portam Chairmanip. This committee
may, if it will, do a great public good.
We have at last found the one unre
constructed Southerner, the Rebel who
will not le comforted. He writes for
The Memphis Avalanche, and this is hi
lamentation :
'The tote of the North yesterday
branded cs as outlaws. Re it so. Let
this outlawry rest upon those who, for
vile party purposes, have published us as
such. Since prudence and submission
to humiliation and degradation brinj-s us
no relief, we feel no iutre3t in the Re
public." Gen. Grant, yesterday took the pains
to make a speech for the purpose of stat
ing distinctly that be wished tu be spared
any public demonstration. Ha remark
ed : I am not unmindful of the feeling
intended to he displayed by a public de
monstration, and you must take all this
(or granted." The General evidently
means to fight it out oa that line. Let
him have peace.
The Spanish authorities in Cuba admit
that several towns in Puerto Principe are
in the hands cf the revolutionists, and
that there is much fighting in the whole
neighborhood. Mexicans are arriving in
Havana with the supposed intention
aiding the rerolationists in their s'ruggle
tor independence. Ail this looks ominous
We admire those Democrats who now
elaiai that Grant will make "almost
Democratic President. We always did
aumire that conservative who. when re
fused admission into the ark, favored
faithful rvoah with the prediction that
the coming delujre "wouldn't be auch of
"a shower after all."
The Sew-Orleans Bee thinks that the
great mistake of the recent campaign was
that Gen. Grant was not from the first
the chief of the Democratic party, as "the
oniy man in tne Uovernment who wa6
friendly to the Southern people."
The rhiladefjjhia Morning Post sug
gests that the Democrats, after they are
through trying to steal Gen. Grant, might
attempt the larceny of the Rocky Moun
tains. Seymour carried but one conntv in .
braska, and that was Sarpy. He received
10 majority there. Iowa must look to
her laurels.
It takes 1.100 officials, at salaries Tary-
ing from $1,000 to 310,000 a year to
'jsj vii v jiv c n 4.ur cm jr g'iTcra raC-0 1
POPULAR M.U0RITIES.
As near as can now tc ascertained
Gen. Grant's majority orcr Gov. Seymour
on the popular vote is about 2o6,000.
. . . . t J
This is the largest majority ever ODiaineu
over all his opponents by any Presidential
candidate, with one exception. Ibe ex
ception was in 18G4, when Mr. Lincoln
reccired 411,261 majority over Gen. Mc
Clellan. But this was an extraordinary
occasion, since, because of the rebellion
eleven States did net vote at all. In
1832, when according to the traditional
belief, Gen. Juckson carried the country
over whelmingly against Mr. Clay, be re
ceived a popular majority of about 100,-
0U0 . in 1540, when Gen. Harrison
was regarded as having swept the field,
he only got 145,000 over Mr Van Burcu
The neatest approach to the recent
election in this particular is that of 1852,
when Gen. Pierce obtained 214,.by ina
jority over Gen. Scott; but, as John J.
Hale at the same time received 150,149
votes, Pierce's absolute majority was only
58,220. Polk, Taylor, Duehanan, and
Lincoln, (at his first election) obtained
but a ruiaoritv of the Dorular vote. The
ouly candidates who have received an
... . . .
absolute majority of the votes of the peo
ple siuce l"32 are, Van Uuren in lboG,
Harrison in 1810, Pierce in 18o2, Lid
coin in 18(54. and Grant in 1863.
From these statistics it appears that
Gen. Grant has now received a larger
popular majority than any candidate that
ever ran lor the Presidency siuce Elee
tors were chosen by the people, except
in the unprecedented instance of ISG.
Do not these facts teach a serious lesson
to the Democratic party 't During the war,
that party was defeated by an overwhelm
icg majority. At the recent election,
when there were no exceptional elemeuts
pertaiuing to the cafe, it has again been
signally beaten. Does it need a philoso
pher to declare that it was overthrown in
1SGS Lecauso the issues which it, and its
platform, aud its eaudidates themselves
needlessly pressed into the canvass, were
practically indeniical with those of 18G1?
Sad Accident at Eckley. On Tues
day night a melancholy affair occurred at
the residence ot Dr. Wens, by which one
of his childeen lost its life, aid another
with the lather making a narrow escape
from death, ihe Doctor wiih two chil
dren was sleeping as usual in his bed
chamber, through which passes a pipe
from a 6tove below. Duriir the ni?ht
this pipe fell down, anJ the room bein
without efficient ventilatioi, it soon filled
with gas, and before morning stupified
the occupants. The girl in the moruing
repaired to the door of the chamber to
to call the JJr. lor Dreaktast, cut rcceivea
no answer to her call, when suspicious
were aroused : she called several tieigh-
bors who broke open the door, when a
siirht met their case. JJr. Wentz was
laying on the floor nearly dead, and the
two children totally unconscious. Medical
aid was immediately summoned and dur
ing the day the Dr. and one of the child-
reu was resuscitated. Mrs. Weutz was on
a visit to her friends here in Mauch
Chunk, and received the news of this sad
affair , during the forenoon. The little
girl, deceased, was about six yoars of ago.
Carbon Democrat.
A man was arrested in this place on
Saturday morning last, by a police officer
from Philadelphia, on a charge of illegal
voting at the recent election in that city
It seems that the individval, who i3 an
unnaturalized Englishman, voted in two
different Wards in Philadelphia, lie ar
rived in this boriugh a few days previous
to his arrest, in company with another
person, who afterward proved to be a dc
tectivc. After obtaining from his
victim the information desired, he left
for the city, returuing the next morning
with an officer. The arrest, wbich was
made after a short race through the
tret3, caused considerable excitement.
In the afternoon the party left for Phil
rdelphia, where the gentleman "from a
foreign shore" will doubtless be afforded
ample time for reflecting upon the injus
tice of not being allowed to vote early
and often in this free and happy land.
H'njhtstoxtn Gazette.
m
A Runaway Locomotive.
A locomotive while standing at the wa
ter tank between Stanhope and Drake
vills, on the Morris & Esex road, on
Thursday, was run into by a coal train,
which jarred the valve open, giving the
engine a full hem! of steam, and causing
it to con.e thundering along toward Stan
hope at tlw; rate of a mile a minute. Orr
its way it met the banton express tram
200 yards wet of the depot Stanhope.
The train was luckily iroing at a slow rate
of speed and slacked up at the approach
of the engine, but as thercwas no one on
hosrd the latter (the engineer have he-
come frightened and jumped off at the
water tank on the appearance of the coal
train) the furious monster dashed pell
nicli into the baston express, completely
demolishing the two engines and shatter
ing the cars of the Easton train. The
loss resulting from the collision will pro
bably be about $12,000. It seems a Pro
. a . a
vnieutiai occurence mat no lives were
lost.
The Massachusetts Ilotnorpathic Socie
ty declare against the use of butter, which
they aver "contains no element of food
required by the human system." Con
sidering the ruling price of butter, the
present is as good a time as any we have
ever known to make a "raid" against it.
The venerable Secretary of the Navy
is reported to have had an idea. He pro
poses to withdraw some of the expensive
war steamers at foreign statioua and sup
ply their places with sailing vessels.
Very good J It is never too late to mend.
Gunners should remember that a law
was passed last winter at Harrisburg in
flicting a fine of 825 for shooting ot kil
ling insectivesou3 birds at any season of
the year.
Four babies were cntero for premiums
at the Trempealeau Couuty Fair, in Wis
conic, all of Seaudioavhu pareutsjc
Remarkable attempt at Bank Robbery.
One of the boldest attempts to rob a
bank occurred in this village in broad
daylight on Monday afternoon, the, 2d
lust., hat has ever been recoraeu : j-e-
twecn o aud 4 o'clock p. m., a stranger
entered the .Geo. Washington Bank, and
inquired of the teller, Mr. Gerge Eaton,
for the proprietor, Mr. Geo. W. Patter
son, jr. Iking iuformcd that ho was net
in, the straoger announced himself as a
special Government detective officer, and
said that he had warrants for their arrest
"Very well," said the teller, "I will lock
up, and go with you to find Mr Patter
son," and with this he gathered up all
the monev and bezan putting it in the
putting vault. -'No,'' said the detective
startii g to go behiud the counter, "I must
effect vour arrest3 separately." George
directed the stranger to remain outside ol
the couuter while he locked the vault,
telliiiir him. that he mijiht then arrest
him : but the man didn't do so. George
however, had the vault locked before his
visitor could reach him. The detective
then handcuffed him, took him into the
atiit.t
back room ot the Dans ; locked all the
doors, and taking the keys, weut to arrest
Mr. Patterson. lie immediately return
ed, however, and holding a revolver to
George's head, he said, '-Vouog man, you
inay as well know my business at once
I want the money at this bank, or 1 Hov.
your brains out." George replied, -'blow,
you can't have any money. ' lie knew
that if he let him get the money, death
was certain, for the robber would then
kill him to be rid ot the only witness
against him. If he refused to give up
tho moucy, that would be paved anyway
aud he stood a little better chance ol hav
ini his life saved. In vain tha robber
threatened, and getting angry commecc
cd to throttle George. George theu cried
for help, and the man pulled out an ar
ranirement to irajr him with. A scufHe
cusued during which the robber's face
was badly scratched. He then offered to
compromise, but George still refused to
surrender a ccut of the funds. I he thie
could not jret into the vault uule.-s the
teller unlocked it for him, and becoming
alarmed at the delay occasioned by hi
persistent refusal to do so, he finally told
George that he didu t want to kill him
and that if he would promise net to ex
pose . him, and would give him a chance
to get away, he would release him ; and
that if he would not do this he should be
obliged to murder him. George had to
agree to this, and soon afterward the two
went out of the bank and together walk
ad over as far as the Erie passenger de
pot. Here tbe teller crossed over the
street, expecting to find Mr. Patterson iu
his hall. Mr. P. was not there, however,
and George then went to his house. Not
finding Mr. P. there, he did not stop to
tell even Mrs. P. the circumstances, but
hurried back lo the depot where he found
him. Here he quick! related to Mr. P.
all the facts, and measures were at once
instituted for the arrest of the would .be
thief Mr. "Government Detective,"
however, had taken due advantage of the
delay, and his whereabouts aro as yet
undiscovered.
Coining (In. Y.) Democrat, Nov.
5.
Internal Revenue Decisions.
The Commissioner of luternul Revenue
has very recently made the following im
portant decisions :
"Where an administrator ia the final
settlement of his accounts assigns a mort
gage not due to tha guardians of his de
cedent's heirs, the assignment requires
the same stamp as a new mortgage for
the sum still secured, though no cocsi
deration passes from the guardian to the
administrator. The tax iu caso of amort
gage docs not depend as iu the case of a
conveyance upon a valuable cousidcra
tion.
"All persons who come within the deS
union ot wholesale Iinuor dealers, must
keep his books prescribed ia section forty -five
o! the acts of July, 1SGS. They will
not, however, be required to enter in dc
tail eales of packages less than five gal
lons. Hotel keepers, whose falcsatthr
bars amouut to sufficient to make them
wholesale dealers, have the wholesale
dealer's sign, the Lw making no distiuct
tion between the cLsses of such dealers.
"Smoking and fine cut chewing tobac
co and snuff sold or offered for sale after
January 1, lHU'J, and all i.tlier manufac
tured tobacco of every description sold or
offered for sale alter July 1, ISti1.), mu.-t
be in stamped packages ; and tobacco on
on hand alter the respective dates named,
not in such package?, must be repacked
to comply with the law by the owner
thereof. The expenses of repacking and
stamping tax paid tobacco at those elates
must be borne by the owners.
The snow problem on the Central
Pacific Koad is uot yet solved. The com
pauy last winter built sheds for the pro
tection of their tracks over the Siena
Nevada. TLcy were, however, crushed
by snow. The company are now engaged
in constructing new sheds, with frame
works of heavy timber and pointed roofs.
About forty miles of track will require to
be covered, and it is stated that twenty
two saw mills, most of them worked by
steam, are ruuning night and day, em
ploying nearly 10,000 men, and six more
arc building. It is estimated that it will
require 800,000 fect of timber to the mile
for the sheds.
Dangerous Counterfeit.
There is a ucw and dangerous counter
feit $2 greenback on the issue of the
Sixth National Rauk of Philadelphia.
It is uot very well executed and a little
caution will at once discover its falsity.
Tho clubs above the female on the left
end have a scratchy appearance ; the
shading under the words "National Uni
on Rauk" is course and irregular. The
paper is of a bluish tint. The engraving
on the bank is coarse. Rettcr examine
all bills of this denomination carefully,
as the plate will undoubtedly be altered
to other hauls.
The old Jeremiah Carrioton tavern.
in Walliogford Ct., now owned by Colonel
Dwight Hall, sheltered General Washing
ton orcrnisht. October 18 and 1780
'just scrcnty iiitic jeirs ago.
MISCELLANEOUS.
Getting shorter the days.
A good deal longer copperhead faces.
Mexico is again in a state of fermentation.
On the increase murder and crime in the
South.
A new Odd Fellers' Hall was dedicated at
Catasauqua on Saturday.
$jGt5,300 in specie was shipped from New
York to Europe on Saturday.
President Johnson has proclaimed a treatr
with the Sacs ar.el Pox Indians.
On the increase murders and crime in
the South.
The Canadians have subscribed S3.000
for D'Arcy M'Gee widow.
A late Quarterly Review estimated th
population of the world at l.:oO,'2t0.l)0.
bt ndon has a Mormon Church with
20il0 members.
The women ef this country wear 351,'
000,1101) yards of calico.
One county in Nevada casts luttix
voies.
Fih were boiled in the cccan of Chili
in the earthquake of August last.
The wheat crop r.f 1SG- i aid o be lar
ger than bus been known for several year
Drighatn Young, it is siid, is going to re
tire to private lite with the prophets $y.
000.000.
One of the survivors
of Kane's Arctic
Expedition is helmsman
of a Cincinnati
street car.
A cow in Nashville, the other dav ate
farmer' coat with "200 in greenbncks in
ihe pocket.
About Sl5.000.000, were transmitted by
the money order post offices during thepasi
fi.-cal year.
An Iowa girl of sixteen recently killed a
large lynx wi;h a corn cutter, after it had
whipped two dos.
Mrs. Mary Smdl, of. Maine, hasonehon
dred ar;d nineteen great grandchildren liv
ing. Multurnia pano.
A Ne York jeweller his rnide a gold
c'laiti worth SI. 000, which he intends to
give the next Present.
The Presbytery of Newton, by a vote of
'20 to 14. has disapproved tha nrsi artic.e of
the Gont-ral Asecmbly basis of reunion
Mary J Bliss has obtained a divorce from
Frank Bliss, in New ILiven. for abandoning
his wedded Bliss in q:teet of illegal bliss.
A black 6nake measuring 5 feet 11 inch
es, was latelv shot on the Lelrgh Mountain,
by Chas T. Lucti, of South Beihlehern.
The Commissioner of Internal Revenue
has declared that all stnaM stills are to be
stopped.
Som of our grnin merchants predict a
heavy f.ll in the price of cram. Those who
have it to t-eil had better watch the market
The total value of the 6late quarries west
of the Lehigh river and in the vicinity o!
Slatmgton, is about 551,070,000,
The author of the hymn beginning ,4I
w.-uld not lie always," ia still living; and
is eighty years of age.
A woman in Troy has been arrested
r inadvertently stealing her own ch;ck
ens.
. An inglifch rcc'or was caught usin
rravestones for a ner and much admired
sidcv-alk in front of his residence.
Gunners .should remember thit a lv' was
parsed lat-t winter infl.ci inir a fine of iwen
ty-five dollars for f hooting inscctiverous birds
at any season ot the yetr.
The reason lhat ladies get ahead faster in
this world than gentlemen, is because they
walk upon the fore part ol their feet princi
pally.
All subscriters who owe us more than 3
years subscriptions are requeued ti s n-1 us
a lock of their hair so that we msy know
that th-y arc living.
The Ci'inmisiMCucr of Agriculture say:
that if our soil ws cultivated one inch deep
er. 150,000.000 would be added to the
wealth ot tur country.
A gentlenmn who chews fine cut ay!ihai
with n a few wm k the quantity of the weed
mcl .-ea in the ordinary papers has been d;
miuibhd one third
Bishop Kemper, of Wifconsin, visited
Easton. his birth-p'ace. Sunday a week, and
preached in Trinity church in the mornii.g.
He is seventy-uine yenrn old.
Furty Thousand yourg men come of
aj;e in Pennsylvania this year. As a resuii
the luilura are all busy making freedom
suits.
Five Thousand dollars insurance was
paid this week by a Hartlrd Co. on n sin
gle sheep hichdiedin Middlebury, Vcr.
morn.
In Hivrrhil?, Mass., last week, lv.
little boys found a jug of nun, and botheirmk
freely oi th! Iiqur.r. Oneol them, tenyeais
o age, died in a iew hours.
A correspondent wantstoknow whatkind
of an agricultural product horr-e-racen ure;
ihey bi'injj the chief thing exhibited at ag
riculiurai lairs.
Bnghntii Young eaye he wo!;!dbe willing
t gtH up half of hia Wives ll lie were cer.
tain they would ge t husbands, who Could
"had them to eternal salvation."
Mr. Seward has made a grand Contribu
tion to hci- nce in the purchase l Alaska.
Over twn thousand varieties of birds are on
their way. from his new acquisition.
A man in New Jcr.ey has recovered a
verdict ot $500 against another, because a
child of the former was drowned in a tub
wh.cb the latter had placed at his door.
"Mother" Bickerdyke, the famous hospi
tal nurae of ihe Western o rimes eluriri" the
wur, is keep'mg a hotel ut Salina, one of the
bt.i tioiis on the Kuusus Pacific railroad.
Swearing on the Bible was fut intro
duced into judicial proceedings by the S.ix-
ons, ubut A. I). 600. It was called a cor
poral oath, because the witness touched with
his hands part nt the Holy Scriptures.
Tho total cost of tho Government build-
m2i grounds and improvements in Wash
ington, D. C, including the l-i-htincr and
cleaning the streets of that city up to June
30, 16G3, according j.o the appropriations
made by Congress, amounts it is tlaled, to
$11,534,840.
An eminent lawyer in Wall street, New
Yirk, having lost heavily on the late elec
tion, rcceired a package last Friday, He
began lo take off the wrappers, and when
ha got the eighteenth off h discovered a
tweniy-five cent bottle ot Mrs. Wintdow'e
foolbing eyrup.
For destroying moths in carpets, a plan
which has been found perfectly succes-dul
ia: Wet a pieee of muslin, (n old sheet
will answer very well) spread it upon the
carpet, and iron rapidly with a hot smooth
ing iron. This not only destroys the moths
iu whatever stage they may bo but alto
clennsnnd freshens the c-irp-t,
An Iowa Divorce.
Indiana divorces have become so noto
rious, from the facility with which they
are obtained, and the Mick of respect with
whicu mey are generally regard by tho
courts of other States, that they have
become a by word among all the people
Dut ludiaua paomises to b-jvc' company
in the loose divorce business. Iowa i
kindly taking rauk with Indiana ; at least
there is a case which indicates as much
Several years ago a man residing ia
Pennsylvania visited Iowa, in company
with his wife. He was so pleased with
the state that he resolved to make it his
home. Returning to Pennsylvania, ho
made preparations to remove his family
to Iowa. But his wile absolutely refus-'
ed to accompany him. She would not
leave her com tollable home in Peonsylv--ania
for the comparatively unsettled prai--rics
of the West, Her husband, however,,
was determined to remote to the West,
and leaving his wile, fame to this State'
:nd located near Waterloo, in Black
Hawk county. Altera few years passed,,
property in Black Hawk county increased,
in value, and the Penny vanian. with thd
property which hud hit lehind him and
:h;t- which he had acquired iu his new
home, was accounted wealthy. HN wife
steadily refused to live with him iu Iowa,
and he therefore sued lor divorce on thet
Mnuud of desertation. The divorce wat
c
granted by the District Court of Blark.
county.
Not long ago the Pennsylvanian diol,
leaving a 'arte propeity iu Pennsylvania5
ii ii. i . i i
uU'i lowa. iit uiviircci wiresue'i in inn
courts of Pennsylvania for her dower ia
the et.-.te, ind recently obtained judg
ment in her favor, the court holding that
the divorce obtained in Iowa was a fraud,
and nail. The Pennsylvania judges
have not a high opinion of Iowa divorces.
Duli'que (loica) Times
III jfc- I M
School Directors' Duties.
The lat number of the Pennsylvania
School Journal has the following-sensible
artscl on the importance of school direc
tors visitinsr schools :
"The duty of visiting the schools if
consideted one the mot important
duties that discharged in the administra
tion of the system. The Lw makes the
duty imperative, and no peruon should
accept the ofiice of school director on leaf
he is willioir to peiform it. Wkeo well
done, its effect is always to make tb
schools more efficient. It stimulate!
pupils in their studies. It enables di
rectors to ascertain the exact condition of
the schools, schoolshou i-es and grounds.
On the whole, so high a vklue does tha
Departments upon the local supervi
sion of the schools that it always expect
to 2nd the schools of districts wlnca ar&
regularly and systematically visited hj
Boards of Directors, accordiug to the pro
visions of luw, oilier things equal, fifty
per cent, better than those of districts in
which the schools are entirely r.eglected
in this respect an 1 this otin.ate is made
from personal oh3rr;ti.jn iu huudredi of
dlitricts."
Tha President Elect.
General (Jrsnt front
the most cf his
time on
Monday, at his headquarters.
having ridden up early in the morning.
One o! his Cr.t arts was to order the de
struction of several bu-he!a of lettere
which hare hem fnt to him here in re
lation to t Gcer, Ac . hich bad been
opened and briefed by his Stiff. No re
cord of them wn kept, and this timely
warning will probably save a vast amouut
of importunity in advance, and indicates
h determination nut to allow the cares of
State to weiiih him d i'tn prematurely.
He was visited d;irin thjdiy by i?L-na-tors
Morgan. Corbctt and Cameron. Thia
evening he had n few friends vihh him
to dine, smon whom was Mr. Colfax.
OZcial Returns of Pennsylvania.
Haruisbukc, Nov. ') OihVial re'ures
have been received in the ofiice of the
Secretary of the Commonwealth from all
but eight counties in the fc-tate. Beaver,
Crawford, Fulton. JetTeisnn. McKean,
Monroe. Susquehanna and Wyui,aug.
From Crawford, Fulton, Je.Tersun aud
Monroe we have the official majorities ;
Beaver, McKean, Susquehanna and Wyo
ming are estimated from report. With
ile.-e Enures we obuiu a majority of
for ticueral draut. TIks will not
vary one hundred from tho ofioial an
nouncement. Tha Oldest Turnery in tho United States.
The oldest tannery in this country is
at Bethlehem, in this Stale. It wan built
originally by the Moravians iu 171-. and
rebuilt and enlarged by them in 1751
They !utik eleven vats, which have been,
repaired but are still is use. The build
ing is of stone, three stories high : the
walls on the first story are thirty inches
thick, and on the uext two stories tweu-ty-six
and twenty inches respectitely in
thickness. The Moravians who scttlsd
in Bethlehem, under the leadership f
Court Ziozeiidorf. erected thia very sub
stantial structure to tau tho hides and
deerskins used by them.
When the public debt of the United.
States caused by the rebelliou was at its,
highest point it amounted to nearly oca
dollar a minute for the time that has
elapsed since the creation of the world.
According to uenerally accepted chro
uolony it was 4,004 years from the cre
ation to the birth of Christ; that makes
this year of the world 5,87-. The re
are 525,000 minutes in a year of S65
days; the whole number of minutes, then,
since tho beginning is 3,03:1,010,200 iu
round numbers, three thuusand millions,
which was the number of dollars, of our
debt at its highest figure.
The sugar crop of Louisiana is now set
down a 1,200,000 hog!.eids. This is a
vast increaso oyer the crop of last year.
A correspondent of the New' Orleans
Picayune, writing from the Pariah of
Palqu.etuir.0, one of the best sugar Parish
es iu, the State, says : From every locality
wherein the suga'-caoe is cultivated ou
this coast the yield, both iu quantity and
quality, promises to bo a tit ending to a
gloriuu orin -, summer, and y,:J, uiyt;.