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JDcootcb to politico, itcratuve, Agriculture, Science, ittovolitn, anb General Smclligcucc.
VOL. 29.
STROUDSBURG, MONROE COUNTY, PA., AUGUST 24, 1871.
NO. 18.
Published by Theodore Sclioeh.
TEfOI Two d.ill ir. a yc:r in advance and if not
pai l l)cf"ic the en. I of the year, two dollars and fifty
,.ts will I' cliiirped.
No ruiier ilicoiiiiiiue.l until all arrearages are paid,
ev'fp' ",e - ot ,,,e Kdttor.
'jjjA Ivcnisements of one square of (eight line?) or
Kjt.oiin or t!ir-e insertions $1 50. Ea-.tt nddilioual
iif iti.Hi, 51) rent.. Longer ones in proportion.
JO 15 PRINTING,
OF ALL KINDS,
Executed in the hialie.t style of the Art, and on the
it reasonable terms.
DR. J.LANTZ, I
Surgeon and Mechanical Dentist,
still has his ofSee on Main Street, in the second !
siiirv of Dr. S. Walton's brick building, neaily oppo-
Mtr'tlie Siromlburg Hone, and Ue flatters himself !
that bv eighteen years constant prartiee and the uitfet
e.i'rnet and careful attention to all matters pertaining
t his prefesMon, that he is fully able to perform all :
.ralioiK in the dental line in the aiosl careful, taste- j
lul aji'i skillful manner.
Special altrntion gneo to saving the Natural Teeth ; .
also, to the insertion of Artificial Teeth on Rubber,
W.ilil, Silver or :ontinuous Gums, and pertect fits in
all cities insured. j
M.st persons know the great folly and danger ol en- J
trusting their work to the inexperienced, or to those j
living at a distance. April jj, io.i. ly
drTnTl. pece
Surgeon Dentist,
Announces tint ha vinr just returned from
Denial Collets, ho is fully prepared to make
artificial teetli in the most beautiful and life
like manner, and to till decayed teeth ac
cording to the most improved method.
Teeth extracted without pninvwhen dc
fired, by the use of Nitrous Oxide Gas,
winch is entirely hirtnles. Repairing of
n l kinds neatly done. All work warranted.
Charges reasonable.
Office in J. (i. Keller's new Brick build
ing. Main Sireet, Stroudsburg, Pa.
February 23, 1S71. Cm.
J)
II. GEO. W. JACKSON
Physician, Surgeon &ccoucher.
Office, next to Smith's store, residence
Kresgey's Hotel.
EAST STROUDSBURG, Pa.
June 3, 1S70. tf.
Dit. c. o. uorm.ix, ji. i.
"Would respect fully :tni:oiince to the
public thit ho ln.s removed his office from
Oakland to Canadensis. Monroe County, Pa.
Trusting that many years of consecutive
practice of Medicine and Surgery will bo a
.vifhVient guarantee for the public confidence.
February 2o, 1S70. tf.
JA.MCS ?a. 1VALTOX,
Attorney at Law,
Office in second story of new buildinsr, near
ly opposite the Washington Hotel, Main st.
.troudsburir, Pa.
January I'). S7. tf.
s.
HOLMES. Jr.
Attorney at L.atr,
STROUDSBURG, PA.
Office, on Main Slreet, i doors above the
StrouJburg House, and opposite Iiuster's
clothing store.
0OBusine.sS of all kinds attended to with
promptness and fidelily.
May 0, 1SG9 if.
i)'
lO.VT you know ilia! J. 13.
McCartv is the only Undertaker in
SiromWburg who understands his business?
If not, attend a Funeral managed by any
other Undertaker in town, and you will see
lhe proif of th-; fact. Sept. 16, '6?
j EV. EDWARD A. WILSON'S (of Wil
IV lum-burgh, N. Y.) Recipe for CON
SUMPTION and ASTHMA carefully com
pounded at
HOLLINSHEAD'S DRUG STORE.
0C7" Medicines Fresh and Pure.
Nor. 21. 1SG7.1 W. H0LLINS1JEAD.
jK LLKitS VI LLE HOTEL.
lhe undersigned having purchased the
above well known and popular Hotel I'rojior
ty. would respectfully inform the travelling
public that he has refurnished and fitted up
!io Hotel in the I test style. A handsome
Bar. with choice Liquors and Segars, polite
attendants and moderate charges.
B. J. A' AN COTT,
H-p
2'.). 1870. tf.
HOC K A FELLOW,
Proprietor.
A,
DEALER Iff
Rcady-SIadc Clothing, Gents Fur
nishing Goods, Hats & Caps,
Coots & Shoes, &c
EAST STROUDSBUJIG, PA.
(Near the Depot.)
The public are invited to call and exam
ine poods. Prices moderate.
May 6, 1S69. tf.
PLASTER !
Fresh ground Nova Scotia PLASTER,
f t Stoke Mills. HEMLOCK BOARDS,
FENCING, SHINGLES, LATH, PA
LING, and POSTS, cheap.
FLOUR and FEED constantly on hand.
Wi l exchange Lumber and Plaster for
Crain or nav tlip lutrlipst Kmrket nriee.
.., . ..' ' e- r
..uiiiioiiur just openea ujr ;
fJione. an PX'nrripnpfl wmtmnn
Stone, an experienced workman
Public trade solicited.
N. S. WVCKOFF.
ktukes' Mills-, Pa., April 20, 1871.
THE STROUDSBURG
Passenger R, W. Co.
7 cr cent. Bonds.
Interest payable iu January and April.
l'or fey.le at
Bank.
the Monroe County
THOS. A.
March 16, 1871.
BELL,
'Treasurer.
MONROE lOIVfl
N EC!
STROUDSBIIKG, PA.
ON THE FIRST OF APRIL, 1871,
TI-IIS BANK
will commence paying Interest on
DAILY DEPOSITS,
at the rate of
Four lcr Cent
SUBJECT TO CHECK AT SIGHT.
Accounts rendered, and interest credited
monthly.
SEVEN PER CENT INTEREST PAID
on permanent deposits, as heretofore.
Checks on all parts of the Country
COLLECTED
Free of Cost for Depositors.
DEAFTS
FOR. SALE ON
England and Ireland.
All deposits in this Bank are secured by
Bond, with sccuricty to Thos. M. Mcllha
ney. Trustee, in trust for Depositors, which
bond is recorded in the proper office.
THOS. A. BELL,
Cashier.
March 10, 1871. ly.
P.
S. WILLIAMS,
W atchinaker & Jeweler,
MAIN-ST, STOUDSBURG, PA.
Located in corner building, third door be
low the JeiTersonian office. Room handsome
'y filled up, and heavily stocked with the fi
nest assortment of
Clocks, "Watches, Jewelry, Jewelers No
tions, &c,
ever offered in this section of countiy.
A full assortment of Spectacles, of the
best quality, and suited to all ages, always
on sale.
Silver-ware, and Silver Plated ware, al
ways on hand at manufacturers prices.
ORepairing neatly executed, and char
ges extremely moderate. Calls irom the
public respeci fully solicited.
Side Agent for the celebrated Diamond
Spectacles.
November 5th, 18GS ly.
NEW STORE
-:and:-
NEW GOODS
UEDITED PRICES!
DARIUS DREIIER, begs leave to an
nounce to his friends and and to the pub
lic generally, that he has just received a
general assortment of
Dry Goods, Motions, Dress Trimmings,
AND
MIL L 1XKR V GOODS
m
consisting, in part of the following desirable
articles, viz. :
Calicoes,
Jaicns,
French Chintz,
Child rat's Dress Goods.
Ytorlrrd Hdglntx,
1'araaols, Zpherx,
Shetland 11 VW,
Shetland Wool Shaicls,
Delaines.
Jluslinx,
White Dress Goods,
Insert inijxf
Lady's and Children's Sachs
Flannel and Cloth,
Lady's, Misses and Men's Hoes,
Gloves and Collars,
Mourning Goods,
Shroudings. E-c, f-c,
Goods fciiown with
sales and small profits1
pleasure. Quicks i
at the old and well
known Millinery Stand of F. A. DREIIER.!
The Millinery business will be carried on
as usual by Mrs. Deeher
Patronage respectly solicited.
DARIUS DREIIER.
April 26, ISCg.
NEW FIRM.
The undersigned having formed a co-partnership,
under the firm name of Burt & Her
zog, for the purpose of carrying on the Brew
ing business, at East Stroudtsburg, Pa.
would respectfully inform lhe public that
mcjr win u anie, all imies, to lurnifcii 10 or-
...:n i , . i
der, a pure article of
ALE
at short notice. Their stock of materiafLe-
;nw tho Kpct the r.tv ,.. ,? ,i
pure-t and best malt liquors will be permit-
ted to leave iheir establishment. Thev re-1
1 spectfully solicit the patronage of the pub-
Jic. richest portions ot our territory, jney
JOHN BURT,
are invited to do this, not from charity or
JACOB F. IIERZOG. ! patriotism, but simply from intelligent
East Stroudsburg, Pa. Dec. 1, 1670. j 6elf. interest ; for no safer or more remun-
Cjy YOU VEIjli Wit V IT IS crative investment cau be found iu our
that when any one comes to Strouds- markets than the first mortgage bonds of
burg to buy Furniture, they always inquier the Northern Pacific Railroad, Philadel
tor McCartys Furniture Store! Sept. 26. phiu Bulletin.
OL it SCIMXTOX LKTTI3II.
Scraxtox, August 10, 1S7L
Prominent among the many other
powerful enterprises of Scranton, is the
press of this city. Tim department of
industry is fast looming up, aud each day
becomes more formidable than is generally
anticipated. The Seranton Republican
may be mentioned first iu order, as being
not only the best conducted, but the most
influential paper in Northern Pennsyl
vania complete in alt its departments.
The editorial department is under the
immediate control of Mr. J. D. LaOair.
of Carbon county, and . as a zealous ex
ponent of Republican principles, stands
seoond to Done in the country. Mr.
LaCair may be termed an easy and very
spicy writer. The local columns are also
conducted by a very efficient corps of
editors, thereby making it a very interest
ing and readable paper. The energetic
proprietor, Mr. J. A. Scranton, has
spared neither paius nor expense in build
ing up his paper, and his unceasing labors
have been crowned with abundant suc
cess, lie is at present engaged in erect
lug a very handsome ''Printing House"
on Wyoming avenue, which when com
pleted, will add greatly to the beauty of
that portion of our city. The circulation
of the "daily Republican is bctwen 4,000
and 5,000, and it is the only paper in the
city that recives the Associated Press dis
patches. The Daily Democrat is the next oldest
daily, paper in the city. Mr. J. B.
Adams, the enterprising proprietor, has
labored very hard in the cause of Democ
racy, and has, we believe, fiaally succeeded
in placing his paper upon a paying basis.
"J. li. assumes the editorial
manage
ment himself, while the local columns are
edited by Mr. E. R. Williams, better
known to the outside world as "Jenkins,"
both of whom are live newspaper men.
The Democrat appears each evening, aud
boasts a fair circulation, notwithstanding
the fact that it recives no telegraphic
news.
The Daily Times, a morning paper of
rather tender years is fast growing in
populor favor, especially among the work
ing classes. This paper is owned by a
stock company, the editorial management
being under the immediate control of Mr.
J. W. Stanton, while the local depart
ment is very ably conducted by Mr. J. C.
Coon, an agreeable and sociable gentle
man, and a man of many years experience
in newspaper tactics. During the whole
of the suspension, the Times zealously
advocated the cause of the workingmen,
for which fact alone it deserves unlimited
success. In politics it is Democratic.
Then we have, in the way of weekly
editions, the weekly Republican, Demo
crat, City Journal, Raner America
(Welsh), and the Wacheublatt (German),
all of which are very ably conducted. For
the present, adieu.
Critic.
Where the Immigraats Go.
This is the season when immigration is
at its maximum, and the people of North
ern Europe are pouring into this country
at the rate of forty thousand a month.
Every steamer that arrives is crowded, a
dcw line with new attractions has entered
the list with the old ones, and New York,
Roston, and all ports of entry are swarm
ing with the recent comers. The late
war, which claimed the attention of all
Europe, seems scarcely to have affected
the steady tide of emmigration to our
shores.
Where will these immigrants go ? is a
question which it is difficult to answer,
but which is of vital importance to the
nation at large. Many of them, no doubt.
will remain iu the large cities, to swell
the Borrowful ranks of the workers with
no work, more will go South, and beyond
the Mississippi to the vicinity of the re
cently built railways ; but by far the larg
er number, especially the Scandinavians,
are moving towards the great North-west,
whose area of Fettlement and attractions
to settlers have been immensely increased
by the building of the Northern Pacific
Railroad already the results of this
movement are becoming conspicuous.
Minnesota is filling up even to ' her
western boundary the broad prairies
of the Red River Valley are beiDg staked
off into "claims," colonies are buying
large tracts in order to prove on an ample
scale the advantages or organized and co-
operative industry, and ac me ouier end
of the road, in Oregon and in Washing-
ton Territory, the better lands are rapidly
being takcu up by settlers. Jjven to
j Maritoba arid the adjacent 'British pos
! sessions, the tide of the population seems
; to be rising, aud there cau scarcely be any
'doubt that in a few years, as the ad van-
ta'-cs of the Northwest arc more aud more !
understood by the world, a broad belt of
j towns, villages and prosperous farms will
; extend across the continent, from Lake
Superior to the
Pacific.
The public
would not believe
. . .
this
a year ago, when
the Northern Pacific enterprise was first
broached, but the curtain has already ris
eu oh the first act of the drama, and
'events in our day move iast.
Let the people come forward now, and
with their meaus expedite the enterprise
which is thus transforming ouo of the
AWFUL TRAGEDY.
SicJccniug ami Heart rcnJiny Scene, A
Husband IVitiusses the Death of His
Wife and Three Little Children Poi
soned by Her Own Hand.
The most awful and appalling tragedy
that has stirred the hearts of any commu
nity in this section for many a year, if
ever before, occurred in Ellington county,
about two miles above station 31 on the
Central railroad, about o o'clock yesterday
morning.
Mrs. Ash, the wife of John II. Ash, for
merly of this city, killed her three chil
dren, and afterward committed suicide by
administering a sufficient quantity of
strychnine to produce instantaneousdeath.
It appears from what we could learn
from a gentleman who wa3 an "eye-witness
to the horrifying scene, that Mrs. Ash,
formerly Miss Laura Dasher, of Effing
ham county, has for a short time past been
slightly deranged, at least she was suspect
cd of being in this condition, from certain
singular appearances and conduct noticea
ble to those nearest her and in most con
tinuous association with her. However,
nothing serious was apprehended, except
that her husband felt a little anxious
about her, and communicated with her
brothers on the subject. This was all.
.No more
serious apprehension was felt, I
although her husband continued to kccpvuich, as fast asjt is filled, is removed to
a strict waicn over ncr conduct, a snort
time previous he had purchased a small
bottle of strychnine lor the purpose of
destroying the rats and dogs that were
rapidly killing off their poultry. This he
secreted in the night time, taking the
precaution to lock it up in an old bureau
drawer, hiding the key in a place least
likely to be discovered by his wife, no
other person iu the house knowing of the
hiding-place.
Sunday night all went to bed as usual,
though before retiring Mrs. Ash sat down
and wrote a long-letter, but did not sus
pect anything, although it contained an
account of her feelings towards certain
members of her family, with whom there
was some unpleasantness. Mr. Ash took
all three of the children in bed with him
self and wife. Mr. George Patterson, a
friend and relative of Mrs. Ash, occuupied
an adjoining room.
About three o'clock yesterday morning
he and Mr. Ash were aroused by the cries
of two of the children, and entering the
room found Mrs. Ash in the act of taking
a spoon from the mouth of the oldest
child, a little girl, who had struggled aud
resisted until her cries woke her father
and his friend, both of whom feeling
alarmed asked her what she was
uoiug.
one repuea, "uniy giving itie cniiaren a
little powder, aud I am afraid that I have
not niven them enough " Thev bezed
and eutreated her to tell them what she
i l .: .1 A r u ,i I
nau giveu liiem .ur. is-u lasting me ,T ... . ...
powder which he discovered on the mouth j r,ew fining; District,
of one of the children, discovered that it T!ie Eureka (Lander county, Nevada)
was quite bitter. She fiually took him Sentinel of July 24th had the following
to the bureau drawer aud showed him the I in regard to Fish Springs mining district:
bottle of strvchuinc from which she hadiTh3 ncw district is situated about eigh-
doscd herself first and then each one of
her three little ones. It was but a short'
time after this before the mother, n vniinir .
woman about 25 years old, and her three
interesting little childrcu, two girls and
one boy, were lying still aud cold in the
arms of death.
Dying in rapid succession, one after
the other, the mother, although the first
totake the poison, lived to see her children
die, and then followed them herself. It
is said the struggles of the poor little
creatures were awful : the oldest falling
backwards, was drawn together in such a
, manner that her head and feet nearly
touched each other. The afilcicted father
held his little ones and his wife in his
arms till they breathed their last.
The time was too short from the discov
ery of the deed to procure any aid, al
though a physiciau was immediately scut
for. He arrived in time to save the fath
er,' who, iu his efforts to discover what
the drug was, had swallowed enough to
render his condition dangerous. Mr. Pat
terson carac to this city yesterday after-
noon 10 procure comns 10 oury inc aeau,
- re i ..111
and as soon as he returns an inquest willj
be held previous to the interment. Keen
ing Bulletin, P'lila.
Very extensive deposits of sulphur :
a i
have been found in California, but for ; iug houses arc going up at once, aud with
some reason the working of the beds have! iu a week all the appearauces of a village
not been profitable. Surprised at this : will be given to a section of country that
fact the San Franciseon "Bulletin" says :' has been a waste aud totally unoccupied.
"In the region of Clear Lake we hear' The timber is good much above the
that the work of preparing sulphur for'average and is easily obtained. There
market has been abandoned in several : is already talk of a furauee and other np
instances. An inexhaustible sulphur bed I plicauces to work the ores. The uew dis
ouirht to be a desirable property. Accord-' trict is near at home, anil may be, as
lDS t0 Ls Commissioncr ells forty seven (
millious of pounds of sulphur arc annually
imported into the United States, lhej --.
duty on crude sulphur i3 six dollars a ton; Patches may be fastened upon rubber
and on refined ten dollars. The bulk of boots and shoes, or cracks aud rents clos
the sulphur used in the United States is cd up, with a cement made by dissolving
brought from the coast of Sicily, where it rubber cut Cue iu benzine.
is obtained for a little advenccon the cost;
of collecting. But to this must be added ; False hair is iroinir out of fashiou.
the duties "nnd
freight
money. It has
been stated that the anuual consumption
of sulphur iu California is six hundred
tons, which equals one fourth of the
amouut imported into the Untied States. !
The production of refined sulphur in this
State
ought to be a proutabie business.
. . rv.lftl
It is stated that the wedding-ring used
at the marriage of Miss Swan, the Nova
Scotia giautess, was about the size of a
muffin-ring.
Type-Setting by Steam.
M. D. Conway writes from Londou to
the Cincinnati Commcricul : One inven
tion, however, did iutercst mo; it was a
steam type composing maehiue. A Mr.
Mackie of Warrington has patented this
affair, and it is now used in several print
ing offices, among others that of The
Graphic, in London. The invention con
sists of two machines. One of these is a
small one which has a key-board, like a
piano, of 14 keys. The operator sets be
fore him the copy which is to be put in
type, and manipulates the keys, where
upon there is evolved from beueath an in
terminable strip of paper, two inches wide,
which is full of puuetures. Each one of
these punctures corresponds with a letter
of the copy. The whole manuscript hav
ing thus been copied in punctures the,
roll of punctured paper is set in a machine
that looks like an iron centre-table. The
top of the centre table has all around on
its edge little boxes containing type. The
top of the table then revolves. The
punctured paper runs around, and when
a certain type needed is reached, a little
lever falls (by reasou of the opening al
lowed one end of it by the hole in the pa
per), the other end touching and select
ing the letter that i3 needed. The type
so selected falls into place, and the row
of selected type pours in continuous stream
out upon a regular composer s stick.
tne forui. his may all seem complex in
j tie description, but it seems wonderfully
smootn anu simple when seen. A man
engaged at the perforator, and three boys
at the composer to feed the boxes with
type and space out the lines, set up a
newspaper column large as one of The
Times in one hour, which Mr. Mackie
maintains is equal to the composition of
eight men. It economizes 50 per cent,
of outlay. The inventor has been 10
years on it, and has now certainly gained
a success. When our commerical houses
have Rabbidge's calculators instead of
clerks, and our news-paper offices have
revolving centre-tables instead of compositors,-why
should not Mr. Carlyle's dream
of an iron automatic Prime Minister be
realized ? The Republicans of Englaud
will do the handsome thing by any Yan
kee who will invent an automaton Queen
that can sign her name and not have a
large family. To return to Mr. Mackie
for a moment, I add that Im machine
costs $500, and the inventor advertises
that he is prepared to undertake typesetting
for one year in any house that purchases,
at three pence per thousand (whatever
the size-type), set in 18 inch lines
Mackie is proprietor of The Warrington
Guardian, the largest paper iu England,
equal to 1 12 columns of The Times, and
it certainly is set up very neatly, set up
by his machine, all varieties being used
sma11 P",C3 minion, and nonpareil
-jr.
tecn mil" southwest of Eureka, and the
best road by which
Spring V alley, and
to get there' 13 by
then down Spring
Valley canon, where the water will be
found and the camp of the proprietors.
The district was organized a few days
since, and about twenty claims have been
recorded. The claims arc situated upon
a low hill of a few acres, aud the dis
coveries so far made do uot cover but a
few acres in cxteut. The appearances
now indicate, on the east side of the hill,
that there arc regular veins of quartz ;
and the west side seems to be eutirely
carbonates and galcuaores. The carbon
ates at the surface assay from $30 to $35,
while the galena ha3 assayed as high as
100. The Mountain Queen is the first
locatiou in the district, and shows ore
fully fifteeu feet in a regular fissure vein.
Several specimens have been assayed, and
the average is 5212 in silver and forty
per cent, in lead. There is a good na
tural road to the district, and although
there were only half a dozen persons there
when the district was formed, there are
now about a hundred. Over twenty claims
havG been rccorjPti nnii ,1 is much
excitetueut about them. The entire trade
of this new district will come directly to
Eureka, and we presume the increase from
this source will make au addition of no
small importance. Restaurants and lod-
worthy of attentiou as some that attract
people many miles.
What will the poor
drls do who have
burned off or worn out all theirs 'crimpiug
and frizzing it ?
A mineral which performs all the duties
0f SOap, aud has an aromatic odor, has
been discovered
near Iowa City.
in immense quanlites
A contented mind is a continual feast,
consequently, contcntmcut is better thau
wealth.
An Arab Prince on tho Wife Qaestion;
A writer in the Cornhill Magazine has
had an interview with an Arab d'rincc,
and gives the following as his views on
the woman question :
English women think of themselves,'
always think of themselves, thiuk very
much of themselves, think very little of
their husbands j so they arc disobedient,-self-willed,
do what they like, and will
not do what their husbands like; but
Arab women think more" more of their
hu sbands than themselves ; they live to
please their husbands ; they are obedient;
they are much better than English wo
meu ; a man may do with them just as
he pleases. Suppose she should disobey
him what docs he? lie savs to her,
"By Allah! I will leave you." And if
she disobeyed him three time and be
says that three times, she is uodooger his
wife ; she must go back to her father's
house. But suppose an Englishman mar
ry a woman, and she proves to have a
very bad temper and disobeys him always;
a very hot tongue, and scold all day anil
night too ; lead him a devil of a life ; make
him sweat very much with trouble, make
him wish to kill himself what can he
do? He can do nothing; he must keep'
her, and must uot take any other woman
to wife to comfort him. Ah ! the Arab
custom is better than the English cus
tom ; aud the Arab women arc better for
the man than the Euglish women. I am
sure of that.
The Pennsylvania Bible society, in it3
sixty third annual report, gives its total
receipts during the past year as 46,113,
23. It has distributed 107,374 volumes
in eighteen different languages, and rais
ed letters for the blind. Siuce its or
ganization iu 1S08, this society has issued
2,542,051 volumes of Bibles and Testa
ments. The cattle exodus from western Texas
still continues. Three droves for Kansas
passed Gonzales last week, which makes
a total of 1S7 droves, or upward of 250,
000 head, that have been driven over the'
Gonzales route since spring oponed,
against 55 droves, or about 45,000 head,
for the corresponding period of last year.
During the May anniversaries in New
York the following dialogue wa3 over
heard between two newsboys : "Say,
Tim, what's the meaning of so many min
isters bcin here altogether?" "Why,"'
answered Jim, scornfully, "they always
meet ouce a year to exchange sermons with
each other."
The capital of the Bank of Montreal is
to be raised to $12,000,000, which will
make the bauk the third largest iu the
world, coming after the Bank of France
Sand the Bank of Englaud ; 12,000,000
is the largest capital or any American,
bank.
Our devil says he never heard of but
one old woman "who kissed a cow," but
he knows hundreds of young women who
kissed great calves. The poor "imp" has
had his share no doubt.
Gentlemen having hip pockets in their
pautaloons, should be careful in deposit
ing their handkerchiefs therein. They
look rather suspicious when the tip hangs
be'ow the coat tail.
The apple crop throughout Pennsyf
vania, as far as we arc able to learn from
our exchauges, promises even a large?"
yield thau last year, when they were verj
pleutiful.
A great pear-shaped spot, forty thou
sand miles long, is now to he observed oa
the sun. It is said that it can be seen?
without a telescope through a dark color
cd glass
Daring a game of base ball, at Tama:
City, Iowa, the batter, iu throwing back
his club far a telling stroke, hit the catch
er in the temple, killing him instautly.
The hay crop must bo a failure in Ltt
conia, N. 11., for tho local journal says
that "grasshoppers have got lame trying
to hop from one blade to another."
"I read my papers with moro satisfac
tion wheu they are paid in advance," i
the testimony of one who has tried it for
years. Others should do likewise.
A colt in Cambridge, Mass., about a
week old, is only tweuty three iuches hi
height and weighs twenty-seven pounds.
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The Canadian revenue for this year
will exceed 18,500,000, which is largely
in advance of last year.
The United States army comprises at
present 30,000 meu divided into 40 regi
ments, of which teu are cavalary and five
artillery.
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The President has signed the postal
money order convcutiou with Great Bri
tain, aud it will go iuto effect oa Ootober
1st.
Law is like a sieve ; you may see
through it, but you must be considerably
reduced before you can get through it.
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On the li'th ult. snow fell at Ream's
Gap, Rappahannock county, Va., to the
depth of throe inches.
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Eight hundred new buildings have
been erected iu New Voik siuee January.
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