u u WWW 1" H A JJJL1 JL JDcuotcb ta )alitic0, itcraturc, Agriculture, 0cicncc, itforalitn, auit cueral ihitclligcucc. VOL. 27. STROUUSBURG, MONROE COUNTY, PA., JANUARY 21, 1869. NO. 42. Published by Theodore Schoch. TERMS Two !:IIars n ytar In ndUtnre nnd if not p;iJ tiff.no t!i- v:v. ot the year, two xluUurs uiul fifty rents wiil 1:p cti:tipet. No p.iprr (I'.M-oninuicd Unif! :t!l arrearages ore paid, Txropt h: t lie option t i!ie Editor. 1117 A.lv'rlisenicnt.- of one square rT (riRht lines) or 'lets, one or lliroe luiiioii (1 J-tt. JSat-h additional nseitioii-, 50 t. I.ikict otpcs in pn.trltnn. sort piiiTiKoi OF At. I. HtM-8, Executed in the inhct riylc of the Art, and on the mosa ic.ison.ible terms. mi. D. W. SMITH, Snigeon Dentist, Oilicc n Main Street, opposite Judge Stokes' residence, Stroudsbuug, Pa. 07" Teeth extneted without pain.Q August 1, Drs. JACKSON & BIDLACK, PIIYSK'IAXS AX!) Sl'K(iE0XS. IRS. JACKSON & BIDLACK, are prepared to attend promptly to alt calls of a Professional character. OJfice Op posite the Siroudsburg Bank. April 15G7.-tf. C. W. SE!P, IV3. D., Physician and Surgeon, sti: o unsn cna, r. 1 . Office at his re.-idence, on Main Street, nearly opposite Marsh's Hotel. All c iils promptly attended to. Charges reasonable. Stroudsbiirg, April 11, 1507.-tf. J. B. COOPER. E. L. ROGERS. mmm & rouers, GENERAL COMMISSION MER CHANTS fur the sale of Flour, Grain, Fe'd, Seeds, &c, 217 North Waier Street, and '2'ZO Nurth Delaware Avenue, Philadel phia, Pa. OCrPnrticuhir attention paid to BUCK WHEAT FLOUR. Oct. 1 '69m6. .A. Card. Dr. 1 REEVES JACKSON, tit Physician and Surgeon, BEGS TO ANNOUNCE TllAT IIAV ing returned from Europe, he is now prep 1 red to reume the active duties of his profession. In order to prevent disappoint ment to per.-ons living at a distance who mav wish t consult him, he will be found at his c ftice every THURSDAY and SAT URDAY for consultation and the perform ance of Suric-il operations. Dec. 12, 107.-1 : r. MM GROCERY STORE. riMIE PUBLIC ARE IN YITED to call at JL the New Grocery Store of the eutacri hr. on Main street, one door below the "JefTersotmu" otTlcc, Stroudsburff, Pa., and cxamiue of the test stock of GROCERIES. PROVISION'S, FLOUR 4-c, ever bought to the place. Everything in ihe Grocery line will be found on sale in great abundance, nnd at prices at wbich all can purchase and live. Purchiser6 will save money by heeding this r.o'ice. GEORGE F. HELLER. October 22, 1SG9. tf. n. 13. CttOIiBAUGH, m and Qmamental Painter, SHOP ON MAIN STREET, Opposite Woolen Mills, c- s w nt. r bt TP tn t RcFnectfuliy announces to the citizens of attracted me numer s attention, wuuaee Stroudsburg and vicinity that he is prepared ; ing the eagle quite near him, and a lady to attend to all who may favor him with j rushing down the slope with streaming their patronage, in a prompt and workman- hair and garments, and wildly shouting, like mmner. ! concluded at once that there was sonie- CIIAIR.', FURNITURE, &c, painted j tniDg strange, and, perhaps, dreadful and repnired. PICTURE FRAMES of all kinds con stantly on hand or supplied to order. June II, itGS. ly. BEEF, IRQ AsSD PURE BRANDY, J i MY 1 h T Y I r 1'F M A V i Regular Graduate of the University of Penn- ! eylvania. j 07 It will positively cure Consumption, Cou'ha and Cold.-, ind all diseases of the j Luns cr lirirnchiul Tube?. It has been tba mean ot UbolUKliNU THOUSANDS La health who haV- been giv- ,cn up beyond th? rczfsh of medical assist- clothes, otherwise uninjured, endeaYonog ,ance. It d'ss tr.orc iq ieiis vo the Consump- : j0 rise upon his little feet. The tears five tUac at yllii-ig ever fcii.on. Unequal- ' streamed down his innocent cheeks, and led strengthener for delicto Ladia and . fuce wore a mQ!ii piteous expres Childron. Even dottle cow aim ftiK xt j gioQ Tlie i:uatCr took the baby in his rRiTioi-8P03TisoKTWOPoi:sMOjrcijc :jirnjgjind carricd it t0 the girl, who was Th tiro of Consumption was firt rflvet ed by 'the use of RAW BEEF and BRANDY in ltuxiia, allerwards in France, in which countries I have travelled for years. I h ive o-ed it with perfect tuccess in my own family. In presenting this preparation to the public I feel confident that every af - flicted one who read this (even the most :iep icaij uny uecome conviuceu, uy a mi pie trial that it is truly a most valuable med icine. Circu'ars aiid medicines sent to any ad dres. Price . SI per Lottie si jc for -r. Laboratory 12 Smth Fifteenth Street, 'UlL.AlJttL.rillA Wholesale Affcnts. French, Richards & Co., Tenth and 2.1a rket streets; Johnson, Iloll-nvay u Cowden, G02 Arch street; R. .-Shoemaker Co., Fourth and Rr.ce streets, Philadelphia. CC-So!d ly Druggists Everywhere. Cheap Feed. fT RAIN AT 25 CENTS PER BUSHEL. Apply at tho BREWERY, Ju.V.3 leae.-tfj East Strcfburff. CLEAR THE WAY. fcY CltAItT.ES MACliAY. Men k( thought, he up .ihd tJmng, Xight and day I Sow the red, withdraw the curtain, Clear the way ! Men of action, aid and cheer them As ve mar ! There's a fount about to stream ; There's a light about to beam; There's a warmth about to glow j There's a flower about to blow ; There's a midnight blackness changing Into gray. Men of thought anil men of action, Clear the way ! Once the welcome light has broken, "Who shall say What the unimagined glories Of the day? "What the evil but shall perish In its ray ? Aid the dawning, tongue and pen ; Aid it, hopes of honest men ; Aid it, paper; aid it, type; Aid it, for the hour is ripe ; And our earnest must not slacken Into play. Men of thought and men of action, Clear the way. Lo ! a cloud's about to vanish From the day : Lo ! the right's about to conquer Clear the way ! And a brazen wrong to crumble Into clay. "With that right shall many more Enter smiling at the door; "With the giant wrong shall fall Many others great and small, That for ages long have held us For their prey. Men of thought and men of action, Clear the wav ! A child was captured by an eale near Meigsville, Tenn., on Christmas Eve, and carried about two miles before it was re scued. He was a bright little fellow, just old enough to be learning to walk. When no one was in the house, he mana ged to roll out of his trundle bed and crawl iuto the front yard. A great gray eagle came swooping down, and fastened its immense talons in the clothing of the little boy, then rose up with much dif ficulty, and sailed eff across the adjacent woods, just skimming the tops of the trees. Its course lay towards the Cum berland River. A servant g'ul saw the eagle, and gave chase. She dashed into the tangled wood, and tried to keep a straight line, thinking the bird would do the same. The path of wood was fully a mile and a half through ; but the girl made the run to the other edge of it with out feeling fatigue. Beyond the wood, i and between it aud the Cumberland Liv er, lay a patch of cleared ground, partly marshy and partly corn field, full of old stumps. When the girl left the wood, aud had a clear view, she saw the eagle in the air ; he seemed inclined to alight with his burden somewhere in the neigh borhood of the river. This gave her new courage. It happened that there was a man hunting in the neighboring marshes, and, just at the moment when the eagle reached the ground with his burden, a shot went off so dangerously near him that he mounted into the air again, but this time without the boy. The pursuing girl be can a vigorous shoutimr as she ran. which in his immediate vicinity: he also set up ! a vigorous haooling, and proceeded to re load his gun. The eagle soon became aware of the formidable oppositiou he ' would meet if he attempted to recapture his prey, hovered over the spot a mo ment, and then wheeled around in one grand sweep across the river, and disap peared behind the shelving rock which forms the opposite bauk. When the girl came down to the hunter, she fell stiff, end was not able even toindicate what was the matter. The rough gallant then heard the scream of a child, and soon found a fine, healthy, rosy boy, with torn now recovered. She clasped it to ier bosom, covered it ?nth kisses, and wept with joy. The parents in the mean time had uiisEed the little one, and had become very uneasy. There was Ijughing and cry id rr nnnnnli si when the wanderers . re- ' turned, and the wonderful voyage of the j:uje feuow wag explained. The wife of Stephen Dunn of Stillwa ter, Saratoga county, and recently of Saratoga Spriogs, was safely delivered on the 16th ult. of seven (7) children four boy and three girls all hale, hearty and . t . . i . ,lveiy ana comp.eujiy uouc, 6cij ut JJunu done as the law directs. One "Rilly Railow" has written a let ter from Philadelphia to the Secretary to of the Treasury, enclosing ten cents as an annual contribution toward tho liquidat ion of the national debt. The Rank at was robbed Dec. Candor, Tioga County, 17 th, of 931,090. A Formidable Gang of Horse Thieves Broken Up. ARREST OF THE RINGLEADERS. For the past year or two Carbon, Luzerne, Monroe, Northampton, Schuykill, Bucks, Berks and Lehigh counties have been infest ed with what was supposed to be a gang of horse thieves. Many valuable horses have been stolen, os well as carriages, buffalo robes, &c., and in but few instances recov ered again by their owners. Those return ed were brought bpek by the offer a liberal reward, which was generally pocketed by pocked by some interested party in the gang. About two months ago, two horses and a wagon were stolen at Ricgelsville, Bucks county. Bills were printed and sent out all over the county offering a reward for the recovery ot thief and property, but no trace was obtained until about ten days ago a de tective officer of Read in sr. who had "heard of i " . . .1 the theft, accidently overheard a remark made by two parties in conversation, that "the Riegelsville horses went to Hazleton." The detecivc started at once for the latter place, and in a livery stable there found the horses. He questioned the attendant as to how the horses came there and was told that the proprietor, Jacob Roth brought them, there. Roth was found and questioned, but j could give no satifictory answenslo how he came in possession ot the animals, when he was placed under arrest and taken to Doyles town, locked up in jail anJ subsequently released on $3,1300 bail. About the same time, a suspicious character was arrested at Ilazeleton, who, becoming alarmed, divulged the whole secret of the exislence of a most formidable gang of horse thieves. He gave ihe names of thirteen who were known to operate, nearly all of whom have been ar rested. He also gave a description of the modus operandi: A horse stolen in this sec tion ol country was at once taken south from here and transferred to some member of the band, who would transfer it to another, and he still another, when the animal would be sold to 6ome unsophisticated individual, who, if called upon for the horse by the owner, of course, could not give the name of the party of whom he bought it. Carriages were taken to an isolated point near Hazleton, where all the appliances were ready, and they received complete overhauling in painting and trim ming, miking so complete a charge that the owner himself could not recognize his pro perty. Robes and whips were also mani pulated to a void cognition, and thus their nef arious work was carried on. A large amount of property has thus been stolen and disposed of, and no doubt the profits of the gang were quite large. Roth is a young man, formerly from Sau con township, Northampton county, where his family is well known and highly respec ted, his father being a wealthy farmer and one of the most respectable citizens of the township A few years since, young Roth went into the livery and horse jockey busi ness at Hazleton, and was continually re ceiving fresh horses from ''down country" as he expressed it, which were disposed of as opportunity offered. These were evidently the fruits of his colleagues' labors in the lower counties. The breaking up of this gang of villains will be gratifying news to all honest people, and we hope no efforts will be spared to ter ret out and bring every one of them lo jus- tice. Pretty Good. A man being lately on a tramp to Canada says that at a certain farm house in the back woods, where he had occasion to stop, the following rich scene took place : The fam ily were about to partake of their breakfast, and sat down for that purpose. The old man being a lover of squirrels, and that being the principle dish of the morning's repast, had his particular piece laid on the side of the dish next to his. The old man commenced j saying grace, as follows: "Oh Lord, we thank thee for the bl-ing thou hast set be fore us: do thou guide and direct us through life" here, raieing his eyes, he perceived his son Gideon laying his hands on his choice piece of squirrel, and hen in a hurried man ner ended the grace "deliver us from evil, for Ihe Lord's sake, amen, by golly, Gid, that's my piecel hand it here!" Bad cooking and hurried eating are uni versally allowed to be the prime causes of that terrible enemy of mankind, indigestion, or dyspepisj. Yet, for every poor man who eata badly-cooked food hurriedly every day of his life, with the dvspepsia, you will find fifty rich people who eat food prepared by scientific cooks, and sit at dinner by the hour, the prey of that disease in its worst forms. Who will solve this apparent riddle! In the accounts of Rev. John Emerson, the first minister of Conway, Mass icbusctt, who was settled in 1799, occur fiequcntly such items of expenditures as these: "Pint of rum at Bardwell'e store. 20," "Two quails of rum. Bardwell, SI 50." "Two quarts rum, Williams, 75," &c, and on the credit side of his books, "Thirty-eight barrels of cider, 832." A Little boy had his first pocket-knife, and for several days used it himself, and extend ed the privilege of occasional use of his treasure to his little playmates. One even ing he was kneeling at his mother's knee, saying his customary prayer, which he clos ed in these word?; "And please, God, give little Jimmy Bailey a knife of his own, so he won't want to borrow mine all time.' Mr. Wm. Barry, tavern-keeper in White hall town.-hip, Lehigh Co.. has a porker which weighs nearly 1,000 lbs. He meas ures nearly f-even feet in length nnd thut much around the girth. He will be killed on the 4th, in,t. "What's lhtt 1" ked a schoolmaster, pointing to the letter X. I ts daddy,s name." No, you blockhead, it's X." "Taint X nuther; it's daddy's name, for I seed him write it many a lime. A Toronto paper lately said the members of the Legis'ature wished logo home for the holidays, and kindly added; "It is a pity the holidays don't last all the year." It don't fid low that n man dislikes his bed becauee ho tunia his back upon it. Passing Away. An exchange beautifully treats this subject as follows : "It is astonishing time passes away ; weeks, the months with what rapidity . Upton, in the Chicago Tribune in a for how the days, the'cible manner. At the opening of this and the years roll severe winter weather, let parents heed round, carrying: with them the beauty; and the hopes of this world into a vastj In these cold, blowy snowy days, I am and unknown future. It seems but a pained to seo the efforts of foolish par short time, indeed, since we all felt and ents to freeze their little girls. It is an enjoyed the springs and buoyancy of outrage. Girls should be dressed just as youth, the delights of home, the influence comfortably as boys. Ou the countrary, of paternal love, the society and counseL the poor little shivering things a resent out of friends who now sleep in the grave ; into the streets, with their heads comfor and jet some of us are aged and the ma-, tably protected, thick shawls around their jority have attained to mature manhood. ' shoulders which comparatively need no The young of the present generation are protection, their skirts standing out at an growing up around us, but in our youth angle of forty-five degrees, and their poor we knew them not. While wc have been . . . . . . . .. passing on, in the direction of the grave, they have sprung out to occupy our places and follow rapidly in the rear. IJefore us we see the aged tottering along in their feebleness and learninj: upon their staves; j behind us the youth flushed with promise and the infant prattling in its mother s heads. arms. That circle has been kept up un-j As a general rule, parents should de broken since the morning of the creation; vote their entire attention to their little that circle will be kept up, unbroken, un-' girls' legs and let their heads alone. The til time is lost in eternity. j heads will take care of thauiselves in due "Our life is a moving panorama the pictures on the canvass rass tetore our eyes, delighting us for a moment, but containing a solemn lesson ana warning. i , i He is but an indifferent observer who does not study himself. There is the j and the vale ; the one swells in its ma-jat the same their legs they acquire colds, j jestic grandeur and murmurs its defiant coughs, headaches, weak backs, pipe stem tones, which are heard upon either shore;1 legs, hollow chests, neuralgiae and other il,,. ntUr mn I1U , Mtm mlrmr r.flt J nnmr.laintj which either send them to ! W I W vui uj I tawwv iug the light of the millions of stars that : sparkle iu the blue concave ; the river ; dashes on in its way to the sea ; the moun tain lifts its head among the clouds and casts its following shadows into the vale below ; the vale echoes to tho songs of its birds, the hum of human voices, the low ing of herds ; while here and there is the busy town, with its active life, its cease less commotions, its impetuous struggles, its attractive homes, aud the spires of its ; VUUIVIIC9 I1UIUIIUL1 lUVta.ua WCatCU. J lit 1 i. .,....!, ' ' .n bell nogs and the picture passed away from our sight to be seen no more. Thsu is with human life. It is an as sociation of objects, interests, attractions and beauties, which burst upon our sight, perform their mission aud accomplish their purposes, and are then lost to sight. The bell tolls, the canvass moves, the lights are put out, and the vision is lost in darkness : silence reigns, the curtain drops, and all is ended in the sleep, the forgetfulness and the inscnibility of the grave. Antiquity of our Political Parties. Every lrce community naturally di vides itself into two parties, one in favor of keeping thing3 as they are, the other strenuous for making them better. Until George III began to reign iu 1700 politi cal parties of the American colonics were about the same as those of England. J ohn Adams, who could himself remember as far back as 1755, has a great deal to say in his diaries and letters about parties and partisans in America before the Rev olution. Besides Whigs aud Tories, he records there was a party for the Preten der in the colonics. One of his letters contains the following passage : "You say our diversions began with Federalism and Anti-Federalism. Alas! they began with hnman nature ; they have existed in America from the first plantation. In every colony divisions always prevailed. In New York, Peunsylvauia, Virginia, Massachusetts, and all the rest, a court and county party have always contended. Whig and Torry disputed every sharply before the Revolution, and in every step during the Revolution. Every measure in Congress from 1771 to 1787, inclusive ly, was disputed with acrimony, and deci ded by as small mnjorities as any question is decided in these days." Light Hoarted People. There are people who habitually make the best of things, not from a sense of duty, not from dislike of sympathy, not from any shrinking from pain on their own account or for others, but simply from a natural and unconquerable light nc?s of heart. These people supply the oxvzen of the moral atmosphere, and shouldbemaintainedatthepublieexpcnseU, lhc Jollowi reccdcnt,: Adam and to keep it sweet, and pure. Even if i-I i.'VQ n- ShaWeare 1- Ren Johnson "1 - i stead of being, as they generally are, ac ; tive and otherwise estimable members of ! society, they did nothing but enjoy life, 1 they would Etill be worth cultivating for i the sake of thc light and heat which they j kindle. The only difficulty is how to rc ' "iilate them. They are aro so irresisti- j bly impelled to singson-'s, that in a world where heavy hearts are unfortunately common, it is difficult always to keep the vinegar and nitre apart. Efficacy of Onions. A writer says : "We are troubled often j with severe cough?, the result of colds of turn to con ioii DiiiiiuniLr, which may iuiu m uu- sumption or premature death. Hard ings since, to enjoy the fun, but vhcnj Henry Rear, a resident of St. Clair, coughs cause sleepless uL'hts by constautjthc colored minister roo up to preach, ' township, Redford county, was, week be irritation of the throat, aud a strong effort s before anuouueing his text, he leaned for-' fore last convicted of fraudleut voting, to throw off offensive matter from the j ward on the pulpit, and looked slowly ' and sentenced to three mouths' imprisou lungs. The remedy proposed has often around on his eongregatiou. "Rredren," , ment iu the county jail and a fine ol fifty bceu tried, and is . simply to make into said, he at length, 4,may le Lor' hub dollars. His oileiise was voting twice the stomach before retiring for the night mercy on all de scofiers." A long pause. :nco iu Napier township and afterward in a piece of raw onion after chewing. This "May de Lor' hub mercy on all de laffers." St. Clair. Ho seems to have been iutox csculent in an uncooked state is very heat- Solemn paue. "May do Lor' hah mercy j icated and made the tool of certaiu seal ing, and collects the water from the lungs on' do peanut eaters by da door." Tho 0us Copperheads, and throat, causing immediate lelief to voun-r men did net wait U hs-r the leu- j the patient." ' ' " Dressing Girls. The customary practice of dressing oar girls is takeu up by the sharp pen of Mr. these admonitions and I warnings little drum-stick legs as unprotected from i.i . 11 . .I . 1. f . t 1 the blasts as the legs of a turkey hanging in a meat-stall. And thus we pack off these little girls to school, with their big heads to be crammed lull ot learning, at the expense of their legs, which, at a ten- der age, are of more importance than their .time. Ihe legs arc helpless and need legs looking after. By ti kinir care ot tne heads little girls acquire a knowledge, I :sucn as it is, oi music, urawiug, an iuei r a nii modern languages, botany, the use of the! globes, embroidery, poetry, and in gener-1 j ' ------ ; Heaven before they ought to go, to be made into premature angels : or if they live to grow up, make them drag through a miserable, unhappy and unhealthy life. And all this time you take your great strapping, tough hulks of boys, who are - i i : nrA ! hardy as your girls, and wrap them up, and lit them out in thick woolen trousers and drawers and heaw top boots. The result is, they grow up to be tough, sf rong j n.nn in, i lw.cn lift a irro p hOi1 nrtin--lll : lutu, uuu .j..-iv. iiv-h, . u..awu, v.iw. . . feminine creatures don't grow up at all, or if they do, they develp, into a seort of human curiosity, far better for preserva tion in a case of butterflies than for con-tnr-r. with thr sham pdos of the world. If had absolute power granted me i wu ungnwr uajs, wnvu luieiicauoi wu.- would call together every mother in this' panionsihp had not been the rare thing it city and I would whisper in their ears;;wa3 now UP among these hills. "Take those girls of yours and cloths At last the storm abated, and the strang them properly. You have no business to " rosc t0 go- 1Ils host accompamed hiru embitter their future lives with the mis- j to the gate, and watched him till he dis ery of poor health, and some of you I no- appeared behind a turn of the road, tice are murdering your children. It is "See here, J ames," sa;d his wife, eager therefore ordered that within twenty-four jty, he turned to the house. "I hours, every one of those blessed little j und this on tfie table near where the girls shall have nice, warm woolen gar-; gentleman sat ments. her lczs protected thoroughly, and It was a fiftJ dllar greenback, wrap- . her feet shod with thick comfortable shoes, , through which dampness will not pene-i trate." And after the twenty-four hours, ! if I found a little girl runuing about in ' any other condition, I would hang the ! mother for murder or malicious intent to kill. That is what I would do if I had solute power. Get Married. Voltaire said, "The more married men you have, the fewer crimes there will be." Marriage renders a man more virtuous and more wise. An unmarried man is but half a perfect being, and it requires the other half to make things right: and it cannot be expected that in this imper-jThese testimoniais 0f esteem aud admiral fectstate he can keep the straight path of, tioa haye probablj without exception. recuiuuo auy uioie man a uuu w.i.i u., oar or a bird witu one wing can keep a ; r cspect3 a retarn o somo kaJ. h& straight course. In nine cases out of ten, j waQts aQ oQce or he waQts notcriety and when married men become drunkards, or!c, newspaper fame, when they commit crimes against the j General Grant has so fine a seen of pro peace of the community the foundation -t that W(J hav(J no joubt he is anQOy. of their acts was laid while iu a ?'ns'; CJ by these gifts, which yet he may be. state, or where the wife is, as is sometimes, t0Q soflhcartCvl t0 rcfuse. Jut wc hopef the case, an unsuitable match. Marriage ; ncvcrtueicss that he will refusa them. changes the current ot a man s feelings, i JjCt them b(J picturc3) carriages, books, and gives him a centre for his thoughts, j ho or barrcb of le sauce he ht his feelings, and his acts. Here is a ; t0 iostruct General Badeau, whoso ad home for the entire man, and the interests luirab, doe3 hU iuciviHties, to send theso of his better-half keeps him from erratic . gift3 back with thc notification that nei courscs, and from falling iuto a thousand j lhcr ,,ift3 Dor bciUg letters can bo re temptatious to which ho would otherwise ;ccived by the jresident elect. uc cxposeu. xucieioru, mo inuuu o marriage is a friend to society aud to his country, i eopio auoui to marry, wish to know the nror.er aue. are referred Frauklin, 24; Mozart. 2d; Dante, Kepler, Fuller, Johcson, Rurkc, Scott, 20; Tycho llrahe, Ryron, Washington, Rouaparte, 27; Penn and Sterne, 2f; Linuaeus aud Frauklin, 24; Mozart, 'lo; Dante , Kepler, Nelson, 29; Rums, CO; Chaucer, Hogarth, and Peel, o2; Wordsworlh and Davy, 33; . . . 1 .,- t-- ii:u: .... t 1 Aristotle, oi; Wellington, o7 Sir William Joues aud u uociiurce oo, nuu.cr, i2i.;Vd?.rS' i ' rfl fo 0IunS;-4i:"iJo for four years, and present fewift, 49; haffon, So; Old Parr, last time Q wheQ thfl 120 lhese are good prece Je.it.-, rang.; Th w. then le te(ul, iug from Adam and Eve, before they were a year old, to tho veteran Parr. A couple of idle fellows strolled into a - 1 collored church at Hartford, a lew even-! edktion, The Last Dollar. lie gave it to his wife with a sigh, yet with a look of resignation. "It is our last dollar," he said; "bat the Lord will provide." Rev. James Spring was minister in the little mountain village of Thornville. He was poor and his conegrgation was poor. Often before he had been very near his last dollar, but he had never actually got to it until to day. "So you've been always saying" sobbed his wife ; "but what is to become of us when this is gone ? They won't trust u any more at the store ; and your salary won't be due these three weeks, even if" you get it then. Why do you stay here-, James, where the people- r.re so poor V "I have no other place to go to : nor -money to travel to it if the Lord opened a way. My work lor tne present 13 nerev lie feedeth the young ravens. He will surely feed us." "I wish I had your faith, but I haven' and it won't come to me. O; whrit shall we do !" And she wrung her hands des pairingly. "My poor children I" "Once I was young and new I am old,rr solemnly said her husband, speaking in the words of the Psalmist, "yet never, have I seen the righteous forsaken, nor his seed begging bread." As if in answer to his pious ejacula tion, there came a sudden knock at the door. All the while the minister and his. jwile had been talking a storm had beenr S,DS outside. On opening the door, a traveler, quite wet through, entered, "I was coming through the forest front arvville, he said, "and ventured t . r " ""c " i is in the shed. Do I take too great a li- berty ?" "Not at all," answered the master of the house. "We have but a poor shelter, as you see ; but such as it is, you are wel come to it; there is a good fire, at, any rate." For it was in the kitchen where this conversation took place. Indeed, this- humble home boasted no parlor, and tho ivii..iiuli nao uiuiu-iwm drawing-room , and all. The stranger proved to be a man oi education and intelligence, and in con versation with him the minister forget his trouble and was remineded of earlier j j l ... 1 1 ... 1 Vcd hastily in a bit of paper taat looked as if ifc ha,i been torn from a pocket-book, a" on the inside of the paper was written the verse of the Psalmist, which it was dow apparent the traveler had over beards "I thought he wa3 writing the direc tions he asked for," said the minister. ab-("He means it for us. Thanks be to the Lord ! Did I not say, my dear, He would provide V Ilis wife burst into tears. "God forgive me !" she said. "I will never donbt again. The Lord surely sent this stranger to cur aid." Presents to General Grant We uotice that the people are beinning; tn rnnlo Tvrpnnt tn triA 1 'ri :lnt lot ulterior mot ve. The generous H0 will, if he does this, save himself 80me unpieaaant remarks. Mrs. Lincoln, usej. it was said, to receive oifts of dif- i r . i j. v . ner hUsb and it w-is alo said that 1 , u" d ' , !t was SJld j course of time to receive somo office or course 0 jaco jn warn;n J .,,." return. Let General Graut take; n t5m nnd tivA nntiA tbnfc ueither ho uor his family will receiva t j 1 , f ' 1 -s ior a number of persons who doubt less are preparing testimonials of esteem for (he ncw pJeut et thetu lay thcsa them to presiden- cy. ihey will then be grateiutiy recei ved as evidences that his administration has been successful, aud that tha people's. inlands accompany uuu uuu moUf ,v(W l'orc I'ust. .i i i. :... his retire- ! -3Rc juactual in ull tbin.. I n t ! : .' i -s. 4-- : t i;.-- u j A' a- : i n- , -it ; - n n n
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