1 A Bcuotci to politico, literature, Agriculture, Science, iHoralitn, nno cncral Sntclligcncc. VOL. 29. STROUDSBUR-G, MONROE COUNTY, PA., OCTOBER 26, 1871. NO. 27. h 71 Published by Theodore Schoch. TEilvl Two dollars n yearin advance and if not hai ftief'Me tho en i of the ye:r, two dollars ttnd fifty lcl,l will be chained. V i iner (continued until all arrearages are paid, exreit : 'he option ot the IMitor. ijA ivoriisotneiits of one wiuare of (eight line) or oiie or lln e insertions $1 50. Each additional to-itirii. 5" cent?. Longer.one io proportion. JOl? PIIINTING, OF ALL KINDS, Executed in ihe liiahcM style of the Art, and on the most, reasonable terms. DR. J.LANTZ, Surgeon anil Mechanical Dentist, Still has Ins ofline on Main Street, in the second rtiiry of Dr. S. Walton's brick building, nearly oppo site the stroudsburg House, and he flatters himself that hv eishu-rii years constant practice and the mot earnest and careiul altenlic-n to all matters pertaining t.i Ins puf sion, that lie is fully able to perform all rations in the dental line in the mo careful, taste Itl and skilllul manner. ijt rial attention given to savin; the Natural Teeth ; to the insertion of Artificial Teeth on Rubber, , Id, m1vt or Continuous Gums, and perfect fits la il cac insured. M'-t persons know the prent foly and danger ol en-irii.-iins tlu'li" work to the inexperienced, or to those linnq at a distance. April 13, 1ST!. ly DR. N. L. PECK, Surgeon Dentist, Announces tint ha ving just returned from Denial Collegs, he is fully prepared to make artificial teeth in the most beautiful and life like in nner, and to fill decayed teeth ac cording to the most inprcved method. Teeth exfracted without pain, when de sired", hv the use of Nitrous Oxide Gas, which is entirely h i runlet. Repairing of ail kinds neatly done. All work warranted. Chiracs reasonable. OSce in J. G. Keller' new Brick build ing, Mai.t Sireet, Stroudsburg, Pa. au:; 31-1 f JjU. GEO. W. JACKSON Physician, Surgeon & 4ccoucher. Office, next to Smith's store, residence Kresgey's Hotel. EAST STROUDSBURG, Pa. Jane 3, 1370. tf. Dll. C. O. IIOFF3I4X, 31. O. Would respectfully annouri-e to the public that Ik; has removed his office from Oakland to Canadensis. Monroe County, Pa. Trusting tli.it many years of constx-utive practice of Medicine and Sunrery will Ik? :t sufhVienf iriiarantee for the public ronfidenec. Kebniarv :T. 170. tf. 8. 2 HOLMES, Jit. Attorney at L:uv, STROUDSBURG, PA. i Olnce, on Main Sireet, 5 doors above ihc Siroudsburg IIous, and opposile itu-tcr's cJothinj store. $3-Bashcs of all kinds attended to with promptness and fidelity. May (i, 1SG0. if. P.LA.WrrUll! Tresh ground Nova Scolia PLASTER, at Stokes' Mills. HEMLOCK BOARDS. FENCING. SHINGLES, LATH, PA-. i LING, mid POSTS, cheap. FLOUR and FEED constantly on hand, j Will exchange Lumber and Plaster for ! Grain or pay th highest market price. ! BLACKSMITH SHOP just opened by ! C. Stune, nn experienced workman, i Public trade solicited, i ' N. S. WYCKOFF. Stakes' Mills, Ii April 20, 1671. A. KOCKAFELLOW, i DEALER IN Ucadv-3Iade Clothing, (ienls Fnr- iiisaiiig Goods, Hals & Caps, Cools & Shoes, &c. EAST STROUDSBURG, PA. (Near the Depot.) The public are invited to call and exam ine goods. Prices moderate. My C, 19G9. tf. A FULL ASSORTMENT 11 OF HOME MADE CHAIRS Always on hand at SAMUEL S. LEE'S New Cabinet Shop, Franklin Street Stroudsburg, Penn'a In rear of Stroudsburg Bank. April G, '71. ly. EV. EDWARD A. WILSON'S (of Wil. t Iiam-turgu, N. Y.) Recipe for CON SUMPTION and ASTHMA carefully com pounded at HOLLINSHEAD'S DRUG STORE. Medicines Fresh and Pure. Xov. 21. 18G7. W. IIOLLINSIIEAD. Io.VT foicgvt that when you want nny tiling in the Furniture "r Ornamental line that McCarty. in the Wd-Fdlows' Hull, Mai,, Street, Strouds Pa., is the place to get it. Sept. 20 C. YOU TELL WIIV IT IS ) thit when any one comes to Strouds "fjr to buy Furniture, they always inquier r McCartys FurnituTe Store! j-Seut. 26 ; BLANK LEASES For Salt! at this Office JHWROli COURT! A N K! STROUDSBIIUJ, PA. ON THE FIRST OF APRIL, 1871, THIS BANK will commence paying Interest on DAILY DEPOSITS, at the rate of Four Per Cent SUBJECT TO CHECK AT SIGHT. Account 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 securiety to Thos. M. Mcllha ney. Trustee, in trust for Depositors, which bond is recorded in the proper office. THOS. A. BELL, Cashier. March 16, 1571. ly. JpKAC'IJ DLt'LAKED AND THE PETER BORA, respectfully announces 1o his friends, the generous public, that his SALOO jST is again opened, for the sale of L.AGCI1 DEER, PORTER, ALE, WINES, CIGARS, SCHWEITZER, &c. &c. &c. at hi? old stand. Call, see and try. 07" Minors not allowed to visit his Sa loon. March 4, '69. tf. p S. WILLIAMS, Watchmaker & Jeweler, MAIN-ST, STOUDSBURG, PA. Located in corner building, third door be low the Jefferson ian office. Room handsome ly fitted up, and heavily stocked with the fi nest assortment of . Clocks, Watches, Jewelry, Jewelers No tions, &c, ever ofiV red in thissection ofcounliy. A full assort ment 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. ("Repairing neatly executed, and char ges extremely moderate. Calls from the public respectfully solicited. Sole Agent for the celebrated Diamond Spectacles. November 5th, 1 868 ly. NEW STORE kev'goods- i' REDUCED PRICES! DARIUS DREHER, 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, Notions, Dress Trimmings, AXI) MILLINERY GOODS consisting, in part of the following desirable articles, viz. : Calicoes, JjOlCHS, French Chintzs, Children's Dress Goods, Worked Edgings, l'arasoh, Zcjdiers, Shetland ''Wool, Shetland Wool Shawls, Delaines, Muslins, White Dress Goods, Insert lugs, Lady's and Children Sachs Flannel and Cloth, Lady's Misses and Men's Hoes, Glows and Collars, Moii ruing Goods, tViroudings, f-r., f-, Goods shvwn with pleasure. 44 Quicks sales and smll profits" at the old and well known Millinery Stand of F. A. DREHER. The Millinery business will be carried on as usual by Mrs. Dreiier. Patronage jespectly solicited. DARIUS DREHER. April 26, 1SC. ONE FLAG OVER ALL Columbia welcomes to her doors The Gentile and the Jew, And finds a home upon her shores For men of every hue; She asks not what their creed may be, Nor if in prayer they fall ; Yet, while she gives them liberty, One flag must cove? all. The Christian bears his chastening rod Beneath the stripes and stars, The heathen comes from wooden god And Juggernantal cars All freely come to dwell in peace In liberty's grand hall, And all rebellious wars must cease, One flag mast cover all. , The pretty flags of clique or clan, Of friends of foreign birth, Should not insult the hope of man Our flag, the best on earth. - , Let factious banners pass away, Nor prove fair freedom's pall ; Oh ! heed Columbia's words to-day One flag must cover all. Dexter Smith. THE FOREST FIRES. The Devasted Districts. EXTENT OF THE FIRES THE LOSSES The map printed herewith shows the districts that have suffered the most severely from the forest fires. It must not be understood, however, that all the region distinguished by the dark shading has been burned over, but the fires have occurred at places not widely separated throughout the sections of country so de signated. To give accurate boundaries of the tracts actually ravaged would re quire a map upon a very large scale ; for, while in some places the flames have mowed a swathe of destruction ten or twenty miles wide by a hundred long, in others the area burned has been but a few square miles, including perhaps a vil lage with the adjacent forests. In many places not indicated on the map fires of Email magnitude are reported. The map gives a knowledge ot the location of the larger towns that were consumed, and an appropriate idea of the rastness of the re gion ravaged. The most striking fact about these great fires' is the apparent spoutaneity with which they burst forth in a hundred wide ly separated places at the same time. If a band of incendiaries, scattered over two States, had lighted the fires by precon certed arrangement, the result would not have been widely different from the ac tual fact. There are reports of villages ablaze all along the Huron shore, from the St. Clair River to Saginaw Bay. The east aDd west shores of the Bay have alike been devastated ; conflagrations are re ported in the Saginaw Valley, at various points along the Detriot and Grand Haven Railroad, and even as far as far south as the Central Road ; while on the western shore of Michigan, from Grand Traverse Bay to South Haven, over 200 miles, the destruction has been great. It was on this coast, about 20 miles south of Grand Haven, that rhe prosperous town of Hol land stood, which was entirely consumed. Further North, Manistee, a lumber town, was in great part destroyed, and Glen Havon, on Grand Traverse, Bay, was wholly burned. Across the Lake, in Wisconsin, both shores of Green Bay were ravaged, and the fire swept along the whole length of the Door Peninsula. Fires are also re ported in the Counties of Fond du Lac, Manitowoe, Sheboygan, Dodge, Marathon, and Winnebago. There is no informa tion to show how much of the uninhabited country in the northern part of the Low er Michigan Peninsula has been swept, or how far into the wild region north and west of Green Bay the fire has penetrated. Some exaggerated accounts represent Michigan as burned from lake to lake. but these are manifestly based upon the number of fires reported at many different points, which to one not knowing the fre quency of forest fires in dry seasons ia the North-West would give the ioopres-, eion that the whole country for hundreds of miles was in flames. The character of the country desolated in Michigan and Wisconsin is quite eiini ler. Vast forests of pines and hemlocks, with occasional groves of beeches and maples cover, the land. It is a gloomy wilderness, whose monotonous loneliness is relieved by an occasional manufactur ing village on the shore, at the mouth of a ttream,or a camp of lumbermen in the interior. The villages are created by es tablishing extensive mills for sawing the logs that are floated down the streams, and shipping the lumber or workiog it up into tubs, pails, barrels, chairs, bed steads, end a variety of other articles. There are few farms. The climate is black and the soil generally thin and sandy. On the Door Peninsula, in Wisconsin, however, there is considerable good land cleared and devoted to wheat culture; and it is here that the principal destruction of farm houses and crops has taken place. In some parts of interior Michigan and in the country around Fond du Lac, Wis consin, damage to farmers is also report ed. The lumbering villages along the lake and Lay coasts and ou the rivers are seldom surrounded by clearings. The forests, from which only the large trees have been removed, are in imuiediare proximity to the louses, and this made the destruction of these places certain when the woods took tire. The viltages reported as burned -in Michigan, are Birch Creek, Little River, Center Harbor, Sand Beach, White Rock, Forestville, Cato Verona, Huron Citv, lort Austin, and half of Port Hope, a'll on the Lake Huron Shore; Holland, Grand Junction, part of Manistee, and Glen Haven, on the Lake Michigan sfiore. In Wisconsin, the villages of Peshtego, Upper Bush, Lower Bush, Williamson ville, llosiere, Minnekawee, and part of Marrioette, on the west shore of Green Bay , were destroyed, and on the east shore of the bay, Little Sturgen, Frank, Scoville, and Casco perished. The camps of the workmen on the railroad constructing north from Fort tloward were consumed, and so were many lumber camps. The loss of life by these calamities can not yet be ascertained. In Peshtego over 100 persons were burned or drowned, and 150 were seriously injured. In the neigh boring lumber districts over 200 dead bodies have already been recovered.: It is believed that SOU persons perished in the Green Bay region, and the victims in Michigan will swell the total number of the lost to uearly a thousand. The con dition of the survivors in the burned dis tricts is pitiful. Many are far away from towns or railroads, and . they cannot be promptly reached and relieved like the sufferers by the Chicago calamity. Prompt measures for their relief ought to be tak en by the benevolent throughout the country. Their needs are pressing, the Winter is approaching, and navigation on the lakes, which gives the only ready ac cess to them, will soon be closed. At last accounts rain had fallen in the burning districts, the wiud subsided, and fears of the further spread of the flames had abated. Neio York Tribune. A Machine That Can Talk, Laugh and Sing. A persevering Frenchman once con structed a machine, in the form of a duck, which could walk, clap its wing?, pick up grains of corn, and, more wonderful still, digest them, but a machine capable of talking was supposed to be beyon'd the power of human ingenuity to construct. Kempelen, a German, made a number of puppets, that uttered the words 'papa" and "mamma," but after devoting his life to perfecting them, he asserted that a machine which could utter all the words in use in European languages was as im possibility. After his death his puppets became dumb, no one understanding the mechanism by which they were made to speak. Kempelen's impossiblity has been at last overcome. In 1841 Prof. Faber exhibited a machine which could utter a great number of sounds and words, but it was by no means perfect. His nephew took up the machine that his uncle had failed iu perfecting, and completed it. After exhibiting it before all the crowned heads and scientific sociefies in Europe, he has brought it to this country, aud some time since gave an exhibition of it in private. The machine, which stands on a small table, conists of a complicated arrangemeut of rubber tubes, reeds, keys, pedals, striugs and wires. The lungs are represented by a small pair of bellows, the glottis by reeds and pipes of different sizes, the lips and tongue by pieces of india-rubber. Beneath the table is a pedal by which the bellows are worked, on the right hand side a series of keys, on which are marked the letters O, U, I, E, L, R, W, P, S, B, D and G. Wth these and some supplementary arrange ments, all sounds used in the European languages can be enunciated. There is aso an arrangement resembling the key board of a piano, by which the machine can be made to sing. Every portion of it is open to view, so that no deception is possible. Yesterday the machine, under the deft hands of Mine, Faber, enunciated distinctly all the letters of the English and German alphabets, numerous Jong and difficult words, such as Constanti nople," "Politzka," "Mississippi," "Bade tzky," "hurrah," and then darted off into long sentences in English, German and French,, winding up with a laugh of the most natural kind followed by hisses, groans and murmers. Every word pro posed was pronounced at once and with out the slightest hesitation. Of course some words werenore clearly enunciated than others, but the majority were given far more clearly than the majority of human beings pronounce them, and even the nasal twang which French people often adopt was closely imitated. In Prof. Fabcr's machine the motions of the mouth and tongue imitate precisely those of human beings. Differcut keys or tones can be given by proper manipulation of the pedals. Takeo altogether, the "talk ing machine" is a wonderful specimen of man's ingenuity. Whether it can ever be anything more is doubtful. It connot be applied to any practical purpose, unless, indeed, dumb or weak nerved and feeble voiced individuals should choose to pur chase them and use them as medicums through which to address the public Prof. Faber, we believe, intends to ex hibit his machine in pqblic as soon as ar rangements can be made for that purpose. The siogiBg portion of the machiue not being iu order yesterday, we were unable to determine what merit the invention possesses as av ocalist. N. Y. Times. A shrewd little fellow was entrusted to the care of his uncle, who fed the boy very poorly. Oue day he happened to see a gr&yhound, whereupon he asked the little fellow if he know what made the dog so poor. The reply was,' "I expect he lives with his uncle." An Obstinate Elephant. The New Haven Register of October 0, says: O'Brien's menagerie exhibited in Mcrideu yesterday (Thursday), accord ing to advertisement, at the usual grounds on State street. Just after the close of the afternoon performance the great elephant Mogul took it into his head to enact a tragedy not on the bills, so walk ing majestically out of his enclosure, he went for his keeper in a fit of rage. The keeper sought refuge under the cage con taining kangaroos, which Mogul majestical ly turned over in a jiffy, and walked through the canvass out of doors. Then he went on a tour of iuspcetion, and if not "seeking whom he might devour," he certainly seemed willing to accom modate anybody or anything that might wish "for" a set to. Meeting a pile of lumber in the adjacent lumber yard, he quickly spread the boards in good shape for seasoning. Then meeting iu his path one of the mules belonging to the com pany, he ran his tusks completely through its body, pinning it to the ground aud kil ling the animal instantly. The next obstruction in his majesty's path was a wagon belonging to Messrs. Grether & Hall, which he scornfully seized with his trunk, and raising it smashed it to pieces; then he returned to the dead mule, and again plunged his tusks through it, and breaking off one of his tusks close to the jaw, sauntered carelessly into State street, with none to molest or make him afraid, the crowd following at safe distance be hind, while before and about him every body seemed to be very busy in getting out of his way. The keeper and other attaches of the menagerie soon rallied, and by strategy and good tactics he was induced to enter a field belonging to Mr. Camp, thence into au orchard, where he indulged io the pastime of tearing and smashing whole lengths of picket fences. The novel mode of subduing him, tem porarily, by shooting him in the face and trunk with buckshot, was adopted. Some fifty heavy charges were GreJ at him ; the stinging effect acted well as a slight check upon his operations, during which his keeper fearlessly approaehed and chained him to an apple tree about twelve inches in diameter, which was no sooner dis covered by the enraged animal than he instantly and without apparent effort, but with the greatest ease, tore it up by the roots, and again created the greatest con sternation among the immense crowd who had now collected in the immediate vi cinity. All went, and stood not on the order of going, but some tall running was done, and some laaghable incidents oc curred in the stampede, leaving the ground free to Mogul and his would be captors. He was. by great daring and agility on the part of his keeper, again secured by chaining his hind feet to a very large tree ; here he was left for the nicht, and a guard stationed with rifles loaded with ball, to kill him should he again break loose during the night. He was evident ly much chagrined at his confinement, and continued to snort and struggle to break the chain, affording much excite ment throughout the city during the en tire night, but fortunately he was held uutil about 5 o'clock this morning, when his keeper, with the assistance of the en tire force of the concern and about 500 citizens, undrtook the job of punishing and subduing the monster. Large ropes and chains were procured, and after many attempt?, in which the same were easily broken, he was finally, at the cud of two hours, thrown dowu and secured in that poition, when simultaneously his beating began by a dozen strong men, with clubs, iron bar3, spears, and pitchforks, and con tinued until the men were exhausted, and again renewed from time to time for about, two hours, at which time, after many wounds, and pounding enough to seemingly kill him, he was as obstinate as ever. Refusing to surrender, he was left to his owu reflections iu this condi tion, and the beating abated for a time. At the present time of writing, (twelve hours), he seems determined not to suc cumb. A choice he has of doing so or being killed, as in his dangerous mood he will not be allowed to rise without evi dence of a change of heart. It is esti mated that the damage done in his tan trum will cost over $700. Fortunate it is that no lives were lost. Advice of an Old Lady. Now, John, listen to me, for I am older than you. Never 'do you marry a young woman, John, before you have contrived to happen at the house where she lives at least four or five times before break, fast. You should take notice whether her complexion is the same in the morn ing as it is in the evening, or whether the wash and towel have robbed her of her evening bloom. You should take care to surprise her so that you can see her morning dress, and observe how her hair looks when she is not expectiug you. If possible, you should be where you could hear the morning conversation between her and her mother. If she is ill oatured and snappish to her mother, so she will bo to you, depend upon it. But if you find her up and dressed neatly in the morning, with the same rounteuance and same smiles, the same neatly combed hair, the same steady and pleasant answer to her mother, which chur.icterized her de portment iu the evening, and particularly if she is lending a hand to get the break fast ready in good season, she is a prize, Johu. and the sooner you secure her to youiK-ll the better. Taking Thing3 without Asking. When I was a boy, I was playing out in the street one winter's day, catching rides on sleighs, and it was great fun. Boys would rather catch rides any day than go out regularly and properly to take a drive As 1 was catching on to one sleigh and another, sometimes having a nice time, and ofltimcs getting a cut from a big black whip, I at last fastened like a barnacle to the side of a' countryman's cutter. Au old gcntlemau sat alone on the sect, and he looked at me rather benignautly, as I thought, and neither said any thing to me nor swung his old whip over me ; so I ventured to climb upon the side of his cutter. Another benignant look from the countryman, but not a word. Em boldened by his supposed goodness, I ven tured to tumble into the cutter and take a scat under his warm buffalo robe be side him, and he then spoke. : The col loquy was follows : "Youug mau, do you like to ride V "Yes." "Do you own a cutter, young man V "No, sir." 'It's a presty nice cutter, isn't it ?" 44 Yes, sir, it is, and a nice horse draw ing it !" "Did I ask you to get in V "No, sir." - "Well, then, why did you get in ?" "Well, sir I 1 thought you looked good and kiud, and that you would have no objection." "Aud so, youDg man, because you thought I was good aud kind, you took advautage of that kiudness, and took a a favor without asking for it V "Yes, sir." "Is the ride worth having V 44 Yes, sir." "Well, now, young man, I want to tell you two things. You should never take a mean advantage of the kindness of oth ers ; and what is worth having, is worth at least asking for. Now as you tumbled into this sleigh without asking nie, I shall tumble you out into that scow-drift with out asking you." Aud out I went, like a shot off a shovel, and he didn't make much fuss about it either. I picked myself up in a slightly bewildered state, but I never forget that lesson. Stoping a Nevvspapar. One of our exchanges has the follow ing allegory, which we commend to the careful consideration of those gentlemen, who, the moment they see anything which displeases them in the colums of their lo cal journal, rush to the printing oSce and cry out, ''stop my paper." It is cer tainly a new song upon the old subject : "A certain man hit his toe against a peb ble and fell headlong to the ground. He was vexed, and under the influence of an ger and self sufficiency he kicked the earth right saucily. With imperturbable gravity he looked to see the earth itself dissolve and come to nauirht. But the earth remained, and only his poor foot was injured in the encounter. This is the way of mau. An article is a news paper touches him in a weak spot, aud forthwith he sends to stop his paper. With great complacency he looks to se-e the crash, when he finds he oulv hit his own too against a world that does not perceptibly feel the shock, aud iu jures no one but himself " Prevention of Disease in Fowls. There would be less need of publishing instruction for the cure of disease iu poul try, if more attention w.erc paid to preven tion. Ordinarily it is not worth while to give' medicine to a sick fowl. The value of the animal is so small as not to pay for the time spent. Besides, so little is really known of the ailments of poultry that treatment is uncertain. The best way i to get souud, vigorous stock at the outset, and secure ftr them natural condition, when diseases of all kiuds will be crj rare. A Valuable Receipe. s Nothing can be applied to a severe cut or bruise that is better than cold turpen tine ; it will give certain relief almost! instantly. It is also said to be a tiovcrein remedy for croup. Saturate a piece of flannel with it and place the flanuel on the throat and chest and iu very severe cases three to five drops on a lump of sugar may be taken inwardly. Every family should have a bottle on hand. It is a simple reme'dy, and can be easily tested- . Duck or Dog. There is a story told of the ofjeers of a British ship dining with' a luaudarin at Canton. One of tho guests wished a second helping of a savory stew, which he thought was some sort of dnek.' Not knowing a word of Chinese, he held his plate to the host., saying, with a smiling approval. "Ouack. ouack. on nek !" rni.i. , . -I --'! - ine how his conutenance fell when the host, pointing to the dish responded, "Bow, ow, ow !" LOUIS XIII.. sneakim- to linsrom. . m n pierre, his Ambassador to the Court of Spain, rcran ked : "Yon cannot imagine how I laughed when 1 heard you- entered Madrid on a mule. Just to think! a jackass on a donkey!"- "Very true, sir ; but you must remem ber, I rej lescnU'd y,u at that time !"
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