u u 1 EJeuoici to $olttic0, literature, Igricnltitre, Science, iiloralitn, ani eneral ntelligeuce. VOL. 27. STROUJDSBUEG, MONROE COUNTY, PA., MARCH 18, 1869. NO. 50. rnu inn JEFFERSONIAN. Published by Theodore Schoch. TERMS Two dollars a year in advance and if not paid before the end of the year, two dollars and fifty cents will be charged. No paper discontinued until all arrearages are paid, xcept a: the option ot tlie Editor. IL-Adrcrtisements of one square of (eight lines) or Uss. one or three insertions 5150. Each additional Insertion, 50 cents. Longer ones in proportion. JOB PRINTING, OF ALL KINDS, T8xtotfd 4 the highest style of the Art, and on the mot reasonable terms. DR. I. SMITH, Surgeon Dentist, Office on Main Street, opposite Judge stokes residence, Stroudsbvrg, Pa. 07" Teeth extracted without pain. August 1, 18G7. Drs. JACKSON & BIDLACK, PHYSICIANS AND SURGEONS. DRS. JACKSON &, BIDLACK, are prepared to attend promptly to all calls of a Professional character. OJJice- Op posite the Stroudsburg Bank. April 25, 18G7.-tf. C. W. SEIP, M.D., Physician and Surgeon, STIiOUDSBURG, Office at his residence, on Main Street, nearly opposite Marsh's Hotel. All calls promptly attended to. Charges reasonable. Stroudsburg, April 11, lS67.-tf. J. B. COOPER. C00PE8 E. L. ROGERS. & ROGERS, GENERAL COMMISSION MER CHANTS for the sale of Flour, Grain, Feed, Seeds, &c, 217 North Water Street, and 220 North Delaware Avenue, Philadel phia, Pa. 0OParticulr attention paid to BUCK WHEAT FLOUR. Oct. 1 '6SmO. .A. Card, Dr. A. UEEYES JACKS ON, Physician and Surgeon, BEGS TO ANNOUNCE Til AT HAV ing returned from Europe, he is now prepared to resume 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 THURSDAY and SAT URDAY for consultation and the perform ance of Surgical operations. Dec. 12, 15G7.-1 yr. NEW GROCERY STORE. rpiIE PUBLIC ARE INVITED to call at JL the New Grocery Store of the subscri ber, on Main street, one doir below the 'Jeffersonian" office, Stroudsburg, Pa., and examiue of the best stock of GROCERIES, J'ROVISIOXS, FLOUR fc, ever bought to the place. Everything in the Grocery line will be found on sale in great abundance, and at prices at wbich all" can purchase and live. Purchasers will ave money by heeding this no'ice. GEORGE F. HELLER. October 22, 1SG3. tf. 31. D. COOIiBAUGH, Sip and Ornamental Painter,1 SHOP ON MAIN STREET, Opposite Woolen Mills, STllOUDSCURG, PA., Respectfully announces to the citizens of Stroudsburg and vicinity that he is prepared to attend to all who may favor him with their pitronage, in a prompt and workman like manner. CHAIRS, FURNITURE, &c., painted a.nd repaired. PICTURE FRAMES of all kinds con stantly on hand or supplied to order. June U, ISG3. ly. BEEF, IRON A74D PURE BRANDY, BY DK. IIARTMAN, Regular Graduate of the University of Penn sylvania. 5-It will positively cure Consumption, Coughs and Colds, and all diseases of the Lungs or Bronchial Tubes. It has been the mean of RESTORING THOUSANDS to health who have been giv en up beyond the reach of medical assist ance. It does more to relieve the Consump tive than anything ever known. Unequal led 6trengthener for delicate Ladies and Children. Each bottle contains tub nu tritious PORTION OF VWO POUNDS OF CHOICE Tto ure of Consumption was first effect fid by the use of RAW DEEF and BRANDY fa Russia, afterwards iti France, in which countries I have travelled for years. I have used it with perfect success in my pwn family. In presenting this preparation to the public I feel confident that every af flicted one who reads this (even the most skeptical) may become convinced, by a sin gle trial that it is truly a most valuable med icine. Circulars and medicines sent to any ad 4 rest. Price 1 per bottla six for $5. Laboratory 512 South Pifteenth Street, PHILADELPHIA. Wholesale Agents. French, Richards & Co., Tenth and Market streets; Johnson, Holloway & Cowden, 602 Arch street; R. Shoemaker &, Co., Fourth and Race streets, Philadelphia. fXySold by Druggists Everywhere. Cheap Feed. GRAIN AT 25 CENTS PER BUSHEL. Apply at the BREWERY, July 30, 16fi8.-tf. East StroudjAxntf. LANDS IN THE SOUTH. OLD VIRGINIA. A LETTER FROM GEN. IMBODEN. To the Editor o The Tribune. Sir : On the 28th of J anuary, you very kindly published a hastily written letter from me in favor of emigration to the South generally, but more particularly to Virginia. For this courtesy to me per sonally, and the evidence you are daily Riving of interest in our material recu peration, I thank you most heartily. That the subject is ot absorbing interest to our people, is manifest from the fact that some of the leading journals of the South have reproduced the letter, imperfect as it was ; and others have epitomized it and cordially indorsed its sentiments and state ments of fact. Hut, even more gratify ing than general sympathy of my South ern countrymen in the objects I had in view, is the overwhelming- testimony I have received from all parts of the North that we are about to have an invasion that will bring life, prosperity, and wealth, in its train. Not an incursion of hungry "carpet-baggers," to stir up strife, and re open the wounds left by the war, and which, God knows, heal slowly enough under the best treatment but a countless host of earnest, honest, active, industrious, and enterprising men and women, who mean to settle here, buy land, build houses, establish stores, shops, and fac tories, and become incorporated with us as ''bone of our bone and flesh of our flesh." I have been absent from home for sev eral weeks, and find on my return hund reds of letters from your Northern read ers, of almost every pursuit and walk in life, seeking information of every conceiv able nature in regard to Virginia, and all expressing an earnest desire to move aud settle here. I would like to answer all these letters directly and at length, but it is physically impossible for mo to do so. It has taken me to-day, from morning till night, to read them. Fressing business engagements forbid the hope that I can reply to more than one in every ten or twenty. I am glad these letters have been written, and thank the writers for them. They bring hope and encourage ment that we are indeed about to enter on a career of renewed and unparalleled prosperity. The wide range inquiry made by the different writers shows that we have yet much to do to inform the public mind beyond our borders of tne surpas sing natural advantages and resources of this State. One great Virginia mind is now engaged in this important work. That most distinguished of all American scientific men, Commodore Matthew F. i Maury, is applying his great intellect to the enlightenment of the world in regard to the soil, climate, productions, mines, forests, rivers, harbors, commerical ad vantages, cad population of this State. IIt3 preliminary report has just been pub lished, and I hope will soon be spread broad cast throughout the North, and in kEurope. A book, too, has been recently published by Frederick B. Goddard, No. 432 Broome st., N. Y., entitled "Where to Emigrate, and Why," that will aid us greatly. But it may be a long time be fore these important publications will reach the hundreds who have read my letter in The Tribune, and written for immediate information to guide them in the election of a home. To greatify these your read ers, and in the only way possible to an swer all their letters, I propose to group the subject? of inquiry, and reply to them, with your permission, through your col umns. The information thus imparted may not be in every case as minute and specific as some of the writers txpected ; but I pledge my personal honor for the truth of every statement, inasmuch as I shall confine myself to facts within my own knowledge, being acquainted with almost the entire State, and in my early life a plowman and farmer in my native Shenandoah Valley, and, I think, and competent judge of our soil, climate an impartial and productions, and in all my feelings and sentiments a Virginian, in full aceord with my own people. Above all things, I wish to avoid misleading any one. With this preface, I proceed to answer the most important questions that have been asked me. First: Can a Radical Republican live here in comfort, and vote his princi ples with safety t Yes. Hundreds of puch have settled in the State since the war, and thousands have visited it, and I have yet to hear of the instance in which thero was any fur ther restriction on freedom of speech and action than there is in Massachusetts. The laws of genteel society are in force here, and a bully or a blackguard who trangresses them so far as to offer a per sonal insult by wholesale criminating re marks, will be as readily accommodated with a fight, as I would expect to be on Boston Common, were I to "Huzza for Jeff. Davis" there and "Damn the whole Yankee nation." Dut a gentleman and man of sense and character can speak, write, and publish, with perfect freedom, any of the political dogmas of the day ; aod if, in other respects, he is what he should be here, or in any community, his social standing will be exactly what he chooses to make it for himself. We have had so many hard cases to swarm down upon us, and so many instances of hum bug and swindling by such people since the war, that we naturally receive total strangers now with caution and reserve, j till ve find them to be worthy of confi dence aod esteem, when the? arc as cor dially treated as they would be anywhere. But upon this point I think nothing more need be said, as the intelligence of the North is beginning to discover the truth, and the malignant party hacks who have sought to keep up strife or falsehood are being found out Second i Ant tht negroes troublesome or dangerous ? In a few localities, where they have congregated in large numbers, especially discharged negro soldiers, in some of the lower tide-water counties, there have been some trifling disturbances. They are nowhere dangerous. As a race, the ne gro is harmless and inert. If let alone by bad White men, there never will be any trouble anywhere with them, except the trouble of inducing them to work and support themselves. TJiird : What can negro laborers he hired far ? The best of them, ranging from 25 to 30 years of age, of known good character, hire to farmers at about $120 a year and rations, with the use of a cabin and "patch," or garden. The negro ration here is a peck and a half of corn meal and three pounds of bacon a week, with vegetables, in season, such as the farmer uses himself. Good women hire at about half the above. On large tracts of land, the negroes in many cases work for a share of the crop. They are not active good hands unless the employer or an overseer is long to lead and direct them. Money wages are paid, about half monthly, and the balance at the end of the year. Fourth : Is the whole State healthy ? Yes, almost the entire State. In the lower counties, where there are marshes, they have chills and fever, but ot a mild form. Away from the miasmatic locali ties there is no healther country on the globe than Virginia. Fifth : What is the quality of the land? As various as in any State in the Union. There is a great deal of very fertile land in Virginia, a large quantity of fair quali ty, and much that was once exellent, but has been exhausted by Tobacco and bad husbundry. But the worst worn-out land that was originally good is very easily re claimed, especially by the use of clover. Sixth: What is the price of land T In all the country ea3t of the Blue Ridge lands are very low, ranging from $4 to 830 per acre, according to quality, improvements, and location in reference to market. Between the blue Ride and Jamyes River, I would put the average at about 8 12 to 15 per acre. Between the James and North Carolina line, in 20 or 30 counties, the averrge is under C10, including all improvements, borne or the finest estates, combining river bottoms J and upland, with ample buildings and good market facilities, in tracts of from : 1,000 to 5,000 acre3, are now on the market at from 10 to 815 per acre. Tracts as small as 300 to 500 acres in the , best south-side counties are offering at from 88 to 810. Exhausted but improv- able land can be had in tracts of any size desired at from 83 to 8G per acre. The proportion of cleared and wood land sold is about half-and-half. This section of the State is not naturally a grazing coun try, but all the cultivated grapes do well. The staple crops are Wheat, Corn, Toba cco, and Oats. The variety of fruits and vegetables, embraces the whole catalogue of this mild latitude. Gardening in the open air has already commenced at this season. In the Shenandoah Valley, lands com mand from 830 to 8150 per acre. That is a limestone, blue-grass region. Along the eastern slope of the Rlue Ridge, grass grows remarkable well, and it is a fine stock region. Excellent farms can be bought there at from 820 to 840 per acre. In the Upper Valley or South Western Virginia, toward Tennessee, is the great grass region the best for cattle, perhaps, this side of Texas. Improved farms there are worth from 825 to $00 per acre ; but much cheaper lands can be had, perhaps equally good, but on which costly im provements have not been made. Tide water is the great gardening and fishing region of the State. The best river land is worth $100 ; but any grade can bo pro cured from that down to $5 or 6. Seventh : Where would you advise a Northern man to settle ? It is impossible to say, unless he tells me what he wants to do. To the indus trious man of small capital say from $500 to 85,000 I would adviso a settlement south of James River, where lands are cheapest, and where every variety of crop is produced. In almost any county there, a man can purchase from 20 acres up ward. Generally, by paying one-fourth cash, he can get from three to five years credit on the residue, and thus use a large part of his capital to get himself fairly under wav. The man of larger means - j - u , can aiso De suited in mis eecuuu, or ue can buy a princely estato in the rich val leys of the James, Roanoke, or Dan, for one-fourth the valuo of the property be fore the war. Eighth : Can lands le leased, with an opt ion purchase during the term T Yes. to a verv large extent. 1 he usual rent paid to the landlord is one-fourth of. the crop for the land. A man, with eay 8500, can lease a farm and readily 6up- port a family on it, and, by ecnomy and industry in five or six years, own 150 or 200 acres in good heart. Ninth : What opening is therefor poor men mere laborers, without means ? It is not good, and will not be till our people have further recuperated their chattered fortunes. There is too, litUs money here to pay good wages. I would not advise the farm-laborer to come here to hire himself out. Mechanics can do well whose handicraft is needed in the country, such as blacksmiths, carpenters, wagon-makers, coopers, &c. Small coun try stores do well. Formerly the planters brought their large supplies in the cities where they sold their crops, including all that was needed by their negroes. The latter are now depondent on their own resources, and are compelled to sup ply their wants at the nearest country store, where they spend about half their wages. The Whites also deal largely at these stories, which are multiplying all over the State, and generally doing well. For professional men, the opening is still loss inviting. We have more native law yers and doctors than are needed, and the professions are languishing. We have no free-school system, but generally through out State good common schools, taught by our own young men and ladies whose reduced circumstances lead them to turn to profitable account the finished educa tion they had received at the best insti tutions of the country in their more pros perous days. On the large plantations, private tutors trs frequently employed. Frcedmcn's schools arc springing up and are generally taught by Northerners, ma ny of whom are faithfully doing their work. To that class cf inquirers who de sire to come here to engage in teaching, clerking, and other light employments, taere are no strong inducements now, nor win tuere dc until general Dusiness has been re-established on a larger basis, and prosperity renewed in the State. The sort of population we need most, and that will undoubtedly do well, are toorJcing men of all classes who have enough capi tal to become freeholders, and the will and strength to engage in productive in dustry. No man of this class will ever regret settling here. Every settler may expect to do more or less building to grat ify his taste and promote his comfort. Our country houses don't suit Northern farmers well, ncr indeed our own people 1 i 11 r now. They were built when every fami ly kept the house full of negro servants, and lack the modern conveniences of "Yankee" farm houses, in which economy of labor is a paramount consideration. By slight changes and repairs, many of our dwellings can be made all that is desired; but, where large plantations are to be cut up, some new houses will be necessary. The materials for these are very abundant and cheap, and beautiful sites and gush ing springs of purest water are found on almost every tract. Tenth: Eow can a man ascertain whers he had better settle? I would advise him to come directly to this city, and spend a day here conferring with those whose acquaintance with the Statewill enable them to direct him where to go and look for a home that will meet his wants. Any of us will gladly render this service. I suppose it is no exaggeration to say more than 1,000 Northern, men have applied to me within 12 months for this sort of information ; and many of the have purchased before they returned to the city. All the railroads terminating here iSsuc half-fare tickets to men looking for land along their lines, and also to their families when moving to occupy them. I now extend an invitation to everyone who may read this and visit Richmond to come and see me, and I will give him all the assistance in my power to accomplish the object of his visit, freely, cheerfully, and gladly. I have said nothing of the vast mineral wealth of this State second to no other nor of its untold waterpow er. These are attractions mainly to the capitalist, who has the time and means to investigate the subject at his leisure, be fore making his large investments. I will only remark that shrewd, sagacious, farsceing men of fortune and enterprise are beginning to appreciate our vast re sources in these respects, and are bring ing down their capital to open mines and quarries, build furnaces, and start factor ies. Our Railroad system is comprehensive and rapidly extending, and a few years will sec an immense tunnage pouring out of the West through Virginia to the sea. Great cities and innumerable towns will are long grow up among us. Come and help us to build them! We join you now in "On to Richmond !" Enormaus wealth was destroyed in four years' fighting and war. Can it not be reproduced in four years under an administration that wo trust will be guided by the sentiment, "Let us have peace ?" In conclusion, let me say to the hund reds whose letters are on my table, I will answer as many a I can, and as fastas I can. But let no man who intends to come here put it off too long. Lands will soon be gin to rise in price. The demand, I am satis fied, will be great before midsummer, and with numerous sales prices will go up. Mero speculators night amass farge fortunes by purchasing now and selling next year the large and splendid estates in the market. Gen. Butler is reported in the newspa pers to have sM. to a distinguished Vir ginian a short time since that the people of. Virginia are still disloyal because he had heard they would not sell land to a North- em man or a negro, as to tne latter, they do not sell because poor Sambo has no money to buy with ; but, if he wishes to test our layalty by our disposition to j sell to Northerners, I would like him to induce a few thousand of his constituents I to try us, and pay me 5 per cent commis- siou on all the land I can soil thorn in 30 day3 after their wants are mado known. I would not exchange my profit for the most lucrative business ho ever engaged in, in peace or war. But for the great length to which it would extend this letter, there are certain spccilties I should like to refer to Fruit culture, Wine-making, Hop growing, Lumbering on tho large rivers, Sheep husbandry, small manufacturing, Fisher ies. Gardening on a large scale for our own and Northern markets. I have in my mind's eye half a dozen healthy and j beautiful localities for the establishment of towns and villages, where the most diversified pursuits would yield the means, comforts of peace, and contentment to hundreds of inhabitants. I hope to live to see this State dotted all over with these little busy centers of industry. A large Northern immigration is very desirable to us in another aspect. We had a peculiar social system before the war that made us the happiest and most contented peo ple in the world. I admit that there was much old-fogyism in it, but that was one of its excellences. But since the change we cannot afford to hold these old-fogy ways and ideas. 1 he world is running away from us. We think it is a o o coiner little too fast for its own good j but being rather slow ourselves, we have an idea that a good mixing op of Yankee enter prise with our slower notions, will result in good to both. We think if your peo ple come hers we can infuse into them a good deal of our conservatism, and rub off the sharp points of Yankee character which we never admired, and, on the other hand, we will receive new ideas and adopt new habits from you that wiil greatly improve our condition. Now that the Government of the country has been changed from a Confederation of States to a great, consolidated national Republic, it seems to me it should be the higest aim of the statesman and political philoso pher to produce homogeniety in the nation. I mean by nation the White people of this country, for other races will soon perish under the crushing power of the American type of the Caucasian. The wonderful national energy of this country has sprung from the intermingling of the nationalities of Europe. America has been peopled by the most vigorous indi viduals of the populations of Europe ; for it is only such that emigrate to a wilder ness world. Here intermarriage has led to still higher developments of individual energy and power. A longe peace was tending to slight stagnation in the old and settled portions of the South, where there were few immigrants. The convulsions of the last eight years have stirred up the silent life of the South the political cauldron has boiled over the social life of the country has been equally disturbed. Statesmen should now aim at harmoniz ing all these discordant elements, and thus consolidate a power such as the world has never seen. The work must be perfected in the social and industral pursutis of the people of America. The people must be "mixed up," in business affairs. Social intercourse and moral causes will lead in time to closer ties Northern and Southern character will be blended intermarriages will ere long take place, and assimilation, in course of time, produce a new race, as it were, pe culiarly American, possessing a national power as superior to all other peoples as this vast continent surpasses their limited territories. The first step now is to mingle our peo ple and our interests as fast as possible. I believe you are working in that direc tion. In this I am with you heart and hand; and so are thousands of others in the South. The past that we loved so well is gone forever. The present has its trials, which we have endeavored to bear without unmanly rcpinings. The future we look to hopefully, even though memory may go back regretfully to the lost principles of our earlier and happiest years. Very respectfully. J. D. Imboden. Richmond, Va., Feb. 22, 1SG9. Betting on a Sure Thing. A lake steamer was being repaired and repainted, near one of the wharves of a western city. A single narrow plank served for communication with the shore. A large quantity of white lead was pro vided for the painters, and one night be fore going ashore, two of them whom we will call Smith and Jones, thought they would appropriate some of it to their own use. So they tied a strong twine around their over-alls, at the ankle, and filled in the space between their trowsersand over alls with forty pounds more or lass, of white lead. Going ashore in the dusk of the evening, and walking clumsily in con sequence of the unusual leading, Jones tumbled overboard into the lake. Of course he sank liko a mill stono. Tho alarm was given, and immediately there were boats got out, and every preparation mado for the rescue. Meantime, Smith stood on the shore loudly bewailing: "Oh dear, dear I Jones is drowntd 1 His poor wifo and five children what will become of them ! And Jones is dead! Oh dear, dear I" "What are you blubbering about ?" said a bystander. "Don't you see they are 5 getting ready to haul him out? lie's, t to riso three times, you know." ! " Wh what's that you say?" asked got Smith. 1 "I tell you Jones aint drowned he'll, be rescued. He's got to come up three, A good story ia told of a German shoe times." ! maker in Utica, who, having made a pair "Got to come up three times!" repeat- of boots for a gentleman of whose fiuan ed Smith, pulling out his money, and cial integrity he had considerable doubt, changing his whining tone to one of ex- made the following reply to him when ha oited interest "Bet you stamps he don 't called for the articles : "Der poots ish come up oncl ft The Drover's Story. My name is Anthony Hunt. I am a drover, and I live miles and miles away upon the western prairie. There wasn't a home within sight when we move there, my wife and I, and now we haven't many neighbors, though those we havo are good ones. One day about ten years ago, I went away from home to sell some fiftvhead of cattle fine creatures as ever you saw. I was to Duy some groceries and dry goods before I came back, and above all a doll for our youngest Dolly. She had never had a store doll of her own, only the rag babies her mother had made her. Dolly could talk of nothing else, andfc iwent down to the very cate to call after me to "buy a big one. iNobody but a parent can understand how full my mind: was of that toy, and how, when the cattle were sold, the first thing I harried off to buy Dolly's doll. I found a large oner with eyes that would open and shut whet you pulled a wire, and had it wrapped ia paper and tucked it under my arm whilo I had the parcels of calico and delaines ... . . .. -r . and tea and sugar put up. Then, late as it jras, I started for home. It might havo been more prudent to stay until morning,, but I felt anxious to get back, and eager to hear Dolly's prattle about her toy. I wa3 mounted on a steady going old horse of mine and was pretty well loaded Night set in before I was a mile from town and settled down dark as pitch while -I was in the middle of the wildest bit of road I know of. I could have felt, my way, through, I remembered it so well,, and it was almost that when the storm that had been brewingbroke and down pel ted the rain in torrents, five miles, or, may be, six, from home yet, too. I rode on as fast as I could, but all of a sudden I heard a little cry like a child's voice ! I stopped short and listened L heard it again. I called and it answered me. I couldn't see a thing, all was dark as pitch. I got down and felt about tho. grass called again, and again was an swered. Then I began to wonder. I'm not timid, but I was known to be a drover and to have money about me. It might be a trap to catch me unawares and rob and murder me. I'm not superstitious not very. But how could a real child be out on the prai rie in such a night, at such an hour. It might be more than human. The bit of a coward that hides itself in most men showed itself to me then, and I was half inclined to run away, but once more I heard that cry, and said I: "If any man's child is hereabouts An thony Hunt is not the man to let it die."' I searched again. At last I bethought me of a hollow under the hill, and grop ing that way, sure enough, I found a lit tle dripping thing that moaned and - sob bed as I took it in my arms. I couldn't see it, but I thanked heaven. I called my horse, and the beast came to me, and. I mounted, and tucked the little soaked, thing under my coat as well as I could promising to tike it home to mammy. It seemed tired to death end pretty scon cried itself to sleep against my bosom. It had slept there over an hour when I saw my own windows. There were lighta in them, and I supposed my wife had lit them for my sake, but when I got into the door yard I saw something was tho matter, and stood still with a dead fear at my heart, five minutes before I could lift 4 the latch. At last I did it, and saw tho ' room full of neighbors, and my wife. a-. midst them weeping. "What is it, neighbors," I cried. And one said, "nothing, now I hope -what's that in your arms V "A poor, lost child," said I. "I found it on the road. Take it, will you, I've turned faint," and I lifted up the sleep ing thing and saw the face of my owa child, my little Dolly. My little child had wandered out to meet "daddy" and tho doll, while her mother was at work, and whom they were lamenting as one dead, I thanked heavert on my knees before them all. It is not. much of a story, neighbors, but I think, of it often in the nights, and wonder how I could bear to live now if I had not stop ped when I heard the cry for help upoa the road, the little baby cry, hardly loud er than a squirrel's chirp. That's Dolly yonder with her mother in' the meadow, a girl worth saviug, I think (but then, I'm her father, and partial, may be.) The prettiest and sweetest thing this side of tho MississippL A Doubtful Story. A young fellow was taking a sleigh ride with a pretty girl, when he met a Methodist miuister who was somewhat celebrated for tying the matrimonial knot. at short notice. He stopped him, and said hurriedly : "Can you tie a knot for me 7" "Yes," said Brother B , "I guess so; when do you want it done?" "Well right away," was the reply; "is it lawful though, here on the highway?" "O, yes ; this is as good a place as any as safe as the church' itself." "Well, then, I want a koct tied in my horse's tail, to keep it out of the snow!" shouted the wicked wag, driving off very fast, fearing lest tho minister in his pro- fane wrath, should tall from grace. nut quite done, but derbee! bh made out. s5 'S I vi " i .. . 1 ' it 4 IS i.-ii 1 r in HI . - w 1 1 . f s . 1 ? . H if f I- c 1 1;- n a . .. -:r. t 11 t! 1 t n n
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