-gT3 1 i ii am mjjiiu mum mi 1 1 1 in, muii irrmnmmr i. . i. EiunijtiT.w Beuotci to politics, literature, Vgricnltitrc, Science, ilioraliti), ano cncml 3ntc!li9cutc. 3d iT1VTJ A AT VOL. 29. Published Iy Theodore Schoch. TEH'.H -T3 .loll rs a yearin advance and if not paiJ tu f-nethe end of Hie year, two dollnrsand filly will b chrceJ. . ..mr 1iifi.i! mup'I until all arrenMtps nrn r i i,l urept -tt t.'ie i tion 'l the Editor. i;7.V Kertie:ne:it. of one s.inare of(ciglit li .rift or thfo insertions $1 5i. Enoli add (eight lines) or .icli riildiMiiii.it B,rii:.u. adeem Longer ones in proportion. J OH Pin TI AG, OF ALL KINDS, ttrruted in the highest style oT the Ai t, and on the most reasonable terms.'. DR. J.LANTZ, Surgeon ami Mechanical Dentist, T:!1 In his office on Main Street, in the second ,;,iiy l lr. S. Walton's brir.k hiilMmg, neaily oppo t!i STKii.Nhur House, and be ll.i iters himself IB.! bv e!i'!ecu yeais constant praetire and the mo.st tirnr -I mi l careful nltenti.-n to all nui'tcrs pertaining h:s pn.fi-ion, that he is fully able to perf.irm all .ppr-tions in the den'al line iu the most careful, taste It, uJ ski!'.!ul manner. ;t.ritl f.eii:ion given to saving the Natural Teeth ; ,i. to liie insertion of Artiticiat Teeth on Rubber, t;',;j. Si!r or Continuous Gums, and perfect tits In ail insured. M si persons know the jrreat folly anil danger el cn uiii!'i2 the!' worktotiie inexperienced, or to those hrinj l .u-l..nce. April 13, ISTl. ly DR. N. L. PECK, Surgeon. Dentist, Announces ih it ha ving just returned from Pental Collets, lie is fully prepared to make sruficial teeth in the most beautiful and life like manner, and lo fili decayed teeth no cording to the niCHt inprcved method. Teeth ex'racted without pain, when de sir.!, bv the use of Nitrous Oxide G.s, which is entirely hirmless. Repairing of ail kinds neatly done. All work warranted. Ch.fTj reasonable. O.-Sce in J. (I. Keller's new Brick build ing, M i in Sreet, Stroudsburg, Pa. aug 31-tf DSC. C O. ISOFF3IAX, 3. i. Would reiect fully announce, to the jmi lie that he li:s removed his otliee from O.iMand t i Canadensis. Monroe County, Pa. Tnistin that many years of consecutive prj'-nce of Medicine and Surgery will be a Futticient guarantee for the public confidence. I-Vbruarv Sj. 170. tf. s:s 13. iTASros:, Attornoj al Law, 0:Fi'-i in the building formerly occupied br L 31. Ilursuii, and opposite the Stnuids hirz ll.itik. 3Iain street, tftrou-Jsburg, l'a. ian D-tf AUorsiey al Ia.v, STROUDSBURG, PA. Office, or. Main Street, 5 doors above the StrouJj-bur;: lIous-, anJ opposite Kuster's cbihinj store. jsine.-s of all kinds attended to with promptness and fide'.iiy. May (, 1?G9. if. PLASTEE! r- i. i v iir a vitpp f at Stoke' Mills. HEMLOCK UOAIIDS. KECL(J, .SHINGLES, LATH, l'A LIXG. and POSTS, cheap. FLOUlt and FEED constantly on hand. Wi l exchange Lumber and Piaster for G.-jin or ptv the h'ghet market price. I'.LACKSMITll SHOP just opened by C. Stone, an experienced workman. Public trade solicited. N. S. WYCKOFF. S'.ckcs' Mills, Pj., April 20, 1871. i:ockafj:llow, DEALER IN Rfad.v-5Iadc Clothing, Gents Fur nishing Goods, Hals & Caps, Coot's & Shoes, e. EAST STROUDSBURG, PA. (Xear the Depot.) The public are invited to call and exam ie zoo-ls. 1'rices moderate. Way 6, lbUU. tf. REV. EDWAUD A.TTLirS(of Wil-ham-burgli, N. Y.) Recipe for CON SUMPTION. nd ASTHMA carefully com pounded at HOLLINSHEAD'S DRUG STORE. Medicines Fresh and Pure. Xr. 21. 1-507. J W. HOLLINSHEAD. A FULL ASSORTMENT A OF home made chairs Always on hand at , SAMUEL S. LEE'S Nev Cabinet Shop, Franklin Street Stroudsburg, Pecn'a Iu rear of Stroudsburg Bank. April G,'7L ly. Do.vt rojie:r iu-.it when you want any thing in the Furnilure t Ornamental line that McCartv. in the Odd-Ptllowb' Hall, Main Street," Strtids burj, Pa.f is tie pjace l0 gel jt Sept. 20 DOX'T FOOL, YOUU JIOrSJiY way for worthless articles of Furni ture, but go to McCarty's, and you wdl pet e!l paid for it. Sept. 26, '07. DOST you know itisit J. EI. McCarly is the only Undertaker in o'roudeburg who underbtands his biisinet-sl If not, attend a Funeral managed by any ther Undertaker in town, and you will see the proof of the fact. Sept. 1 0, 'G7 NOTES ON IOWA. Editoral Correspondence of the Tribune. Dubuque, Iowa, Sept. 25. Iowa is jubilant. Though hardly more than twen ty years old, she claims to have produced this year more Wheat than any other State, and more Indian Corn than any but Hiiuois. Missouri was somewhat ahead of the Corn last year, but the Iowa Corn cropoflSTl covers a much larger area than did that of 1870, and is nearly a quarter heavier per acre, so that the yield is eutirely beyond precedent. Then the award to this State of the first place in Apple-growing at the recent National 1'oruologieal Exhibition at Richmond has still further exalted the honor of the Ilawk-Kycs, who seem to me to give that award undue emphasis.. That they arc succeeding admirably with Apples, I can personally testify. The display at the Des Moines Fair would have done credit to a local Fair in any State of the Union. The fruit was not only large, fair, and abundant ; it included most of our favorite varieties, with several new ones, and some that seemed to have been improved by transplautation. In Grapes also, Iowa has done well. I judge that she grows concords as easily and bountifully as any other State, and that her growers could afford and would contract to supply them iu large quantities at three cents per pouud, aud would do better at that price than at Wheat growing. Of Delawarcs and the more delicate varieties, the pro duct is far less, and I judge more precar ious ; still, they all thrive here under care ful pains taking culture. Of Fears and Feaches little is said and not many of them exhibited. I learn that the Feach- this as oa the other henies. . w . . . n uib j ii.vi.uiii euuiundiu uu side ot the Alleg- Iowa has this day not less than One 31illion aud a Quarter of people, with am ple space lor Teu Millions. She has at traded emigration more rapidly than any other State. Is seems but yesterday that she had ouly two llepreseutatives in Con giess; now she has six, and in the next House will have eight. Aud she is like ly to grow quite as fast during the next decade as throughout the last.' She is building Ilaihorids with great energy and spirit, and each line opened invites and secures a newtide of emmigration. The north west quarter of the State had very few inhabitants up to a recent date , but they arc now pouring in, along the lines of the newly opened or half constructed Railroads, iu thousands. I learn that barely lour counties remain unorganized, and tliey will not remain so long. If she encounter no lack set, Iowa will double her population betweeu 1870 and 1830. The town of Grinnell was to me an ob ject of greater interest than any of her thriving cities. It can hardly be fifteen years since the Rev. J. . Grinnell, then pastor cf a Congregational Church in New York, resolved on migration to the West, and took several of his congregation with him. lie pitched on a location in Iowa, perhaps fifty miles eastward of the center cf the State, where settlers were few and widely scattered, and purchased here some six or eight thousand acres of rolling prairie, with perhaps a few lumps of trees on the water-courses, when millions of just such acres were offered, in every part uf the State but the vicinage of the Mis sissippi, at Government price. This tract was he'd iu subordination to the purpose of establishing "Grinnell University" at its center, aud sales to settlers were made f rom time to time to that end. The Uni versity has been for some years in opera tion, and though (like most American Universities) as yet in the germ, is of greater promise than most of its kind. The Common Schools is its only rival here in architectural pretensions,; and it will surprise some to learn that these to gether afford such educational opportune ties that scholarly. parents have migrated hither from the East in order to secure the best itiptmctiou for their children. And I doubt if there is a spot on earth better suited to their purpose. . For Grinnell has one advantage as the site of a College any other within my raDgc of observation, in that no glass of Alcoholic Liquor is or ever was sold here. Though now. a village of some 2,500 to 3,000 people, it has no bar-room, uo "saloou," "lager beer" or otherwise ; no reset of tipplers, even in the most re spectable stages of their downward pro gress. Every deed covenants that the purchaser shall not sell Iutoxicating Bev erages uor allow them to be sold on the premises ; and auy violation of this com pact would be sure to cost tho violator more than he could make by it. Need I add that Griunell has no paupers, no loaf crs, no rullians, no brawlers, and that her people are equal in morality, intelligence, and culture, V) any community on earth ? '. I found near Griuue'.l the niau I have long been looking foi he who grows nearly or quite one hundred bushels ol shelled Indian Cora per acre ou a large area year after year. II is name is Wal lace Clark, and he has grown Corn for the last five years successively on the same huudred acres ou which 1 found not less than nine thousand bushels fully ripe, whereof enough had been gathered to de termine the average yield. Of course, Mr. Claik sells little of it as grain, but turns it iuto Fork and Beef, and so keeps up the fertility of his soil. He iuformed me that, by plowing each year an inch deeper than the preceding, he could, in his black prairie mold, averaging more than two leet deep, maintain the yield of Corn without manure, which he mainly STROUDSBURG, MONROE COUNTY, PA., DECEMBER applied to his grass. He had thirty-three acres planted in one day by one man, run ning a planter that planted two rows at once, and having a change of teams. I understood him to say he had one hun dred and sixty five acres planted, tilled, and harvested by one man, using two span of horses alternately. On reflection, I believe the man did not gather-all this crop ; though as the harvesting may continue from some time in August, when the grain is in the milk, to near the end of Winter, that would not have been im possible, Swine pasture on clover through Spring and early Summer, have Corn cut up and thrown them as soon as the ears have filled, and thenceforth till they are ripe for market. Many farmers feed so long as they have Corn to spare,1 thus converting their great staple entirely in to 13cef and Pork, so that it will bear transportation to distant markets. .'. ,, I am daily asked to remark tho rapid growth of Western cities and villages, as though mere bulk were an incitement to admiration. I cannot so regard it. If these cities embryo and full fledged were thus expanded by the introduction and successful establishment of Manufac tures, I could rejoice in their enlarge ment. Half a dozen Woolen or Cotton factories in each of them, with as many founderies, shoe factories, &o , would justify their growth and sanguine antici pations. If they are to live mainly by Traffic by exchanging the farmers' pro ducts for those of other climes and coun tries they are quite large enough already, and their further growth would not pro mote the general welfare. These cities ought to establish and encourage Home Manufactures, even though their capi talists might not directly realize as large profits therefrom as they are now making by land" speculation and usury. They ought to establish Manufactures if only to back up their large investments in real estate. Were Iowa this day making her own Wares and Fabrics, her cities would have a far broader base for prosperity and crowth than thev now have, while her farmers would sell Fruits and Vegetables to a far greater profit than they now sell Wheat and Corn. These may be very stale truths"; yet they need to be retained until heeded and deferred to. II. G. A SAD CASE.'- A HOME . DESTROYED BY TIRE -THE CORPSE OF T1IE FATXIER BURED TO A CRSIP. ;-. About twenty minutes past one o'clock yesterday. morniDg a fire broke out in a three story brick building, owned by the estate of Solomon Cans, deceased, and located on Perth street, above Parrish, undone of the results of the conflagra tion is as sad as any that occurred dur ing the great VTestern conflagration. The first floor of the building was occupi ed by two families, one being that of Charles Malone. consisting of a wife and three children of tender years. On Satur day afternoon Malone died from the small pox, and his little daughter was suffering from the same disease. The mother, fear ful that the remaioing children might be taken ill unless the corpse of the father was interred, hastened to three under takers, who refused to do thi3 final ser vice. They advised her to see the Guard ians of the Poor. She saw the Guardians of the Poor and they referred her to the Board of Health. Before the Board of Health she preferred her desire, and was referred to the Coroner. Failing to see the latter she returned home. - When the fire broke out at the time mentioned . above a large crowd was at tracted to the scene of the conflagration, but when itbecame rumored that the pesti lence was in the house the crowd quickly dispersed, and the poor woman was lei t with her three children, and nothing but night dresses to protect them, upon the sidewalk, without friends or shelter. , The corpse of the' father was burned to a crisp. Sergeant Wartman on arriving at the scene, gathered some old . horse blankets and wrapped them around the nearly half crazed widow and her freezing child ren, and had therr. conveyed to the sub station of the Fifth Police District, Eighth and South streets. : . . , The cause of the fire is not jet defiuite ly known. One of the .inmates of the building says it was caused by the explo sion of a coal oil lamp ; another that it originated from some infected clothing j being burned on the floor, aud auothcr, that an intoxicated person set fire to some curtains of a bed while carrying a light ed caudle unsteadily about. The matter will be investigated by Acting Fire Marshal A. II. Randall. Inquirer, Dec. 12. ' , . Leap Year. Talk about "womeos' rights." The coming year gives - them all the rights they need ask for, tho right to "pop the question," and ''lead captivity captive," in the the person of the lucky or luckless swain as the ease may be, who becomes entangled n the meshes of the charming net they throw over him.'. And a "sure pop" they make of it, these witching dam sels, when they "go for a fellar." So, boys, at the incoming of the year, fortify yourselves, or you will be fascinated and captured before pou know it ; ana if the lady "pops in" aud "pops the question," you cau't then well back out. So look out for leap at you by the girls during tho next "leap" year. ' . ' , . . The number of Germans in Iowa, is over CG,000, about 10,000 of whom are voters. THE LAST SPANISH CONQUEST. Again our duty to the public compels us to record the horrible butchery of eight beardless boys by the military assassins, yclept "volunteers," at Havana. The heart grows faint as the eye scans the particulars of the many flagrant out rages perpetrated on the inoffensive, upon the plea of military necessity. It seems that, on Thursday, November 23d, a party of medical students visited an old ceme tery, Jong since given up as a burying place, and while strolling about, were deteeted by one of the volunteer soldiers from the like of whom the Lord deliver any people whe made some insulting remarks to the boys, which they retorted The volunteer staid some time, and pass ing by the niche in which the body of Castanon whom the Spaniards venerate as a political martyr, and who was killed by the Cubans in Kev West is deposit ed, noticed that the glass which covers the end of the niche was marked, ap parently with a diamond, and that some letters uncomplimentary to Castanon had been scribbled on it. The volunteer call ed the attention of the curate to the fact, aud rushing out, returned with several companions. This was the whole offense that had been committed. The boys had not even been near the niche r,f rw.irmn but as they happened to frequent the cemetery, usinir it Dartlv as a nlavcrnund. - " r J I J c- and partly for the collection of human Dones lor the study of osteology, they were accused aud arrested. On 3Iondav a courtmartial was convened, composed. nrst, ot au the omcers of the regular army ; but as thev refused to find cause for trinl another was subsequently assembled. which belonged body and soul to the volunteers. The poor victims were draft ed or chosen by lot, one out of every five. The oldest of the eight was not eighteen years of age, and one was under fourteen : ji.i in . . ' ana aunougn an communication with any of the forty-two has been impossible since, it has been proved that, of the eight executed, three at least had not been in the cemetery. The thirty-one not sentenc ed to death by lot were condemned to the chain gang for periods varying from two to ten years; and the sentences of these latter were carried into such immediate execution, that they appeared with their hair cut short, in convicts' dress, and guarded by armed volunteers, at the murdering of their classmates, which they were forced to witness. At four o'clock in the afternoon, a detachment of volunteers was seen to issue from the jail, closely followed by several priests, by the students sentenced to death, and by the commander of the place, Colonel Villalooga. Not a sound was heard, the young men thus cruelly esntenced to meet an early, and sudden death marching firmly forward. They knelt down, muttering a prayer, the firing party of the volunteers was drawn up in order, the command to make ready was almost whispered, the commanding officer of the volunteers turning his head aside to hide his emotion. Then came another short command to take aim, immediately followed by the fatal word "fire," when all were seen lying on the ground, four motionless, and four in the last agonies, from which kindly bullets relieved them. Such are the details of the murder. When we read that the assassins marched through the city a mob feared by all local authorities shouting, "Death to the students!" and demanding the right to discharge their rifles at pleasure ; when we know that many students, arrayed in the obnoxious costume of the chain gang, are now sweeping the streets of Havana, by the decree of this model court martial ; when we are assured that the bodies of the youthful victims were deuicd their relatives for ordinary Christian burial; and when, as a consequence of the mur ders, fathers, mothers, sisters, and rela tives are shrieking throughout the city hopeless cases of insanity every sym pathetic feeling is wrought to the highest pitch of indignation, aud an appalled civilization joins in the cry : "Good God ! how long?" At this rate, the volunteers in Havana will far surpass the Com munists of Paris in atrocitv. Re-Vaccination. On this subject, now so important, Pro fessor Geouoe B. Wood speaks as fol lows, in his "Practice of Medicine," vol 1, pages 461 6 7, edition of 18GG : "This operation should be employed in every case which has not been tested by ex posure to small-pox contagion during an epidemic prevalence of the disease. It may be asked whether vaccination should be employed in persous previously affect ed with the small pox. I should unhesi tatingly answer this question in the affir mative. It has been before stated that, though fewer persons are attacked with varioloid alter iuoculation or natural small pox than after vacciuation, yet a great number perish. Tha same protection thai a secoud vaccination extends in one case will probably be exteuded: by vacci nation i in tho other, and , is even more needed, at least fo far as life is concerned. It is generally stated in the books that vaccination after small pox produces lit tie or po effect. My own observation has been exactly the reverse. In concluding this subject I would again strougly .urge the propriety of universal re vaccination, as the means not only of promoting the comfort and possibly of saving the life of the individual, but also of preventing the spread of small pox and of ultimately eradicating it, if not from the globe,' at least from extensive communities." 21, 1871. The Power of Kindness. In all the daily things of common life wo may see the working of this great law of Love. Suppose there are two child ren ; one of them has a brutal father, who starves aud beats him ; the other has a loving father, who cares well for him and treats him kindly. Which of these two children will turn out best, and grow up to be a comfort to his parents ? Suppose, again, there are two teachers ; one of them tries to teach by brute force, and flogs his lessons into his scholars, till they hate the very site of a book, and always run away from school when they have a chance; the other teacher makes his les sons so pleasant, by the kindness of his manner and by the interest he himself takes in them, that his pupils like to learn and remember them," and come to school willingly. Which of. those two teachers has the most trouble 1 and which of them succeeds the best ? It is the same with our fellow creatures, the animals. Treat them kindly, and they will give us their love ; teach them kindly, and they will give us their service. Every day of our short lives we can do something to add to the happiness of those that live with us and about us, or to lesssn their suffering A "Confidence Man." A short time before the Orange train left the Baltimore depot in Washington last night, a genteelly dressed young man entered the cars and took his seat by the side of an old gentleman, with whom he immediately entered into conversation, and discovering that the latter's destina tion was New Orleans, said that he was also going there, and expressed his grati fication at having so soon found a com panion lor the trip. The old gentleman seemed ..equally delighted, and the two were talking very agreeably, when another man came into the cars hur riedly, and interrupting, said to the younger: "Colonel, I find I can't go un til to-morrow, and you must let me have forty-five dollars at oacc. The young man responded by saying, "Jim, my pocketbook is in my trunk," and then turning to the old man, said, "If you'll be kiud enough to let him have the sum he asked for, I'll return it as soon as we reach the 31aryland avenue depot, where my bagzage is." The request was im mediately complied with, the borrower left, and the conversation was renewed. When the train arrived at the 3Iaryland avenue depot, the young man said he would unlock his trunk and return the. borrowed money, and left the car appar ently witn that intention : but man s fickle, and the road to perdition is said to DC paved with good intentions. So the ouly oue surprised when he did not come back was his victim. Alexandria Ga zette, 6th. ' How to Get Out of Bed. Dr. Hall does not approve of the old fashioned doctrine which was instilled into the minds of children namely, that they should spring out of bed the instant they awoke in the morning. He says that "up to eighteen years every chili should be allowed ten hours to be in bed. They may not require ten hours' sleep, but time hhould.be allowed to rest in bed, until they feel as if they had rather get up than not. It is a very great aud mischievous mistake for persons, old or youug, especially children, and feeble or sedentary persons, to bounce out of bed the moment they wake up; all our instincts shrink from it, and fiercely kick against it. Fifteen or twenty minutes spent in gradually waking up, after the eyes are opened, aud ia turning over and stretching the limbs, do as much good a3 souud sleep, because these operations set the blood in motioti by degrees, tend ing to equalize the circulation ; for dur ing sleep the blood tends to stagnation, the heart beats feebly and slow; and to shock the system by bouncing up in an instant and sendiug the blood iu overpow ering quantities to the heart, causing it to assume a gallop, when the instant be fore it was in a creep, is the greatest absurdity. This instantaneous bouncing out of bed as 60on as the eyes are opened will be followed by weariness long before noon. Dangerous Greenbacks. We lear from Petersou's Counterfeit Detector, that a number of exceedingly dangerous counterfeits have male their appearance. How large the number may be canDot be known, for tho counterfeit is so uearly faultless that it is with the utmost difficulty ihat it can be distinguish ed from the penuine The spurious bill is a twenty dollar greenback. The only weak point in the execution seems to be the central figure, which is a little too coarsely done. When presented in a package, however, this figure is not seen in rapid counting, it being hidden by the hand or the overlying bills. The other points of the bill are so excellent as to stand the test of the strongest light. Ye are told that two or three banks have been deceived by the bills. There has not becu a more dangerous counterfeit put afloat. Business men, bank tellers, railroad ticket agents uud others, would do well to keep a sharp look out lor these bills. The latest individual who has voted for all tho Presidents has appeared in New York, and is 113 years old, an additional qualification being that ha saws wood vigorously. NO. 35 The St. Joseph I'rra'd tc!!s i a ! " dinner taken iu by T. II., a clerk in i "3Iissouri Valley House," of that city Thanksgiving Day. A wager was J.u i that he could eat more than any man i'i town. They sat down to the table. T. B. ate a plate of soup, two white fish, a bunch of cellery, oue pound of roast beef, the half of a turkey, five sweet potatoes, four slices of bread, a whole pumpkin, and two pieces of mince pie, a dish of pudding and a pound of grapes, and wash ed this delicate repist dowu with two bet ties of scotch ale. When asked how 1 : felt, he quietly remarked he "thou-ht ha could wait till supper time." The chairman of the principal House Committees, announced by Speaker Blaiae on Monday last, are as follows : VvaysanJ 3Ieans, Dawes, of Massachusetts ; Appro priations, Garfield, of Ohio; Banking and Currency, Hooper, of Massachusetts; Foreigin Affairs, Bauks, of 3Iassachusetts; Elections, McCrary, of Iowa ; Claims, Blair, of Michigan; Pacific Railroad, Wheeler, of New York ; Public Land, Kctcharo.of New York ; Military, Coburn, of Indiana ; Judiciarv. Bingham, of Ohio: Naval, Schofield, of Pennsylvania; Pat ents, Myers, of Pennsylvania ; Post Office, Farmsworth, of Illinois ; On Insurrec tionary States, Porlaud, of Vermont. On 3Iouday last, before Judge Paxro.i, of Philadelphia, Edward McNulty was convicted of assault and battery with in tent to kill John Gilbough end wife Judge Paxson sentenced him thirteen years and five months imprisonment in the Eastern Penitentiary and to a f ne ofS2000. McNulty is the villain w ho was tried and acquitted for the murder ot" Gordan, the colored man who was shot to death the night before the October elec tion. For Mothers. Send your little children to bed happy. Whatever cares press, give it a warm good night kiss as it goes to its pillow. The memory of this, iu the stormy years that may be in store for the little one, will be like Bethlehem's star to the bewildered shepherds. "31y father, my mother, loved me." Nothing can take away that bless ed heart balm. Lips parched with the world's fever will become dewy again at the thrill of youthful memories." Kiss your little child before it gois to sleep. . A clergyman in Tipton, Ind, has hvA a somewhat chequered career in the last five months. During that time he has buried his first wife, become engaged to three women, married one of themgot a divorce from her, been sued for breach cf promise by another, and been suspended from the ministry. He has jut married the woman who was suiug him, and join ed a differeut church, aui thinks now of retiring from public life. Salt for Chickens. A poultry man says be always lost more or less chickens every year from gapes until lately he has adopted ihs plan of feeding salted dough and loses none ; the chickens are vigorous and al ways commence laying early in the fall. The Ohio Farmer adds, 4 we huve had chickens commence laying withiu oua hour or two after eating -?ait, and lay cou tinually." Ou the 5th of December, a young lady residing in Piedmont, West Virginia, ex tracted a sewing needle from her side which she had swallowed when she was about three years of age. During nearly eighteen years it had remaiued iu her body, passing in various directions, as she could feel it at several times in different places. At last, ou the morning in ques tion, it made its appearenco under the skiu and was extracted. Another defalcation is reported from Washington. Tho defaulter is F. A. 3Iardeu, Chief of the Division of Accouuts in the Treasurer's Oa.ce. an 1 the amount is stated at upwards 12,000. The pecu niary loss, it is stated, will fall upon Treasurer Spinner. It is thought thit accomplices of 3Iarden, inside or "outside of the Dcpartmcut, have stolen o'j,G00 more. A suicidal Iowau called on tho drug gist for arsenic, and was soon iu the agonies of dissolution before the fainilv. Conceive his disappointment wheu tho apotnecary dropped m and told him that tti ... ine aeauiy potion was chalk. The railroads of Ohio earned S50.101.. 848 last year. . - Buffalo meat is sold at five cent pound in Nebraska. . They have a rooster in Atlica, Indiana, that catches mice. It is said that there are more brass bauds in Pennsylvania than in any other State in the Union. A man in Taunton, Mass., has beeu fined six dollars for spitting tobacco juice on a church carpet. Estimated that the population of Ne braska has increased 40,0 JO during the past six months. The 31ichigan silver minej ar p.;d f- have yielded ore this year worth ? 1,000 -000.
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