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VOL. 29.
Published Iy Theodore Schoch.
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urept -tt t.'ie i tion 'l the Editor.
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(eight lines) or
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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.
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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.
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Buffalo meat is sold at five cent
pound in Nebraska.
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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.