ILL! r 1 4 1 H A JJJJ Bcuotcb to ipolitics, literature, agriculture, Science, iHornlihj, ana etteral 3ntclli9cucc. VOL. 29. STROUDSBURG, MONROE COUNTY, TA., APRIL 11, 1872. NO. 50. Published by Theodore Schochs -rgaMS -Two Jailer a yearin Advance and if not B.lbfMtp""' nil of the year, two dollars and fifty v, ,,prr lti o itimie l until all arrearages are paid. ir7A.iriieineiits of one square of (eight line) or - a i cn o ie or inrrc in-cinunj ji 'einons ?l an. L.ir.n additioual Loiijer ones in proportion. ,rti ih, 5" crni JOB PRIXTIKG, OF ALL KINDS, routed in 'he higliest style of the Art, and on the most reasonable terms. Valuable Property FOR SALE. The subscribers offer for sale, rTita their residence in Stroudsburg. If ifir The Lot has a front of 1 45 ft ?53 n Main Street, with a depth of Jjii feet. The buildings consist of a convenient dwell ing houe, torc house, baru and other out building There i an abundance of choice apples, ;.i-ar, plums grape and small fruits, with fvclleiit water. f-b 2-2 12. A. M. & R. STOKES. D R. J." LAN T Z, Surgeon anil Mechanical Dentist, full h Ins office on Main Street, in the second ry f lr- s- Walton's brick bui'din;;, nearly oppo ,ir the Mriiu Ulxii; House, and lie fl.ttters lntnself tnat by eia'itrcci yeai constant practice and the mot uirnr-tani raieful attention to all matters pertaining I hu profession, that he is fully able to perform all titrations m Hie dental line in the mort careful, tante il slvllif'il manner. i.wrul aUfi;uii given to savin; the Natural Teeth ; i:n, to the insertion of Artificial Teeth on Rubber, C.U. Siivr or t'oiiUiiuims Gums, and perfect fits in til !.' insured. M it persons know the creat folly and danger l en irutii;s tliclr wo'k to the inexperienreil, or to those Imiij at a iiitani:e. April 13, 1871. ly D St. C'. O. IIOFFJIAX, 31. I. Would respcctftdly announce to the public that he has reuioved his office front Oakland to Canadensis, Monroe County, Pa. Trusting that many years of consecutive practice of Medicine and Surgery will be a ufnoient guarantee for the public confidence. FekuarV LS70. tf. DR. J. E CAS LOW, Oculist, Aurist & Surgeon, of spxnrnr, pa. Km thken room at the Stroudsburg House, n'ntre lie will operate and treat all disease of tiif Eve n:td Ear, and all Deformities or In j'irie requiring Surgical aid. He also locate here for the practice of medicine and midwifery. Worthy poor attended free of fciree. For consultation and adrice, free. February 1, 1872. 3m. G?3. "W. Jackson. Amzi LeEar. Drs. JACKSOX & LcBAR rarsiruss, simeons s irrcitiiERS, StrouJ.Jjiirt ami East StroiiJ-Jsiirg, Pet. DR. GEO. W. JACKSON, Stroudsburg-, in the old office of Dr. A. Reeves Jackson Kwidence in WyckofTs Building. DR. A. LeBAR, East Stroudsburg, elSoe next duor to Smith's Store. Residence Mi- K. Heller s, fcb. 8 72-tf DR. N. L. PECK, Surgeon Deitist, Announces lint hi ving just returned from Denial Collets, lie is fully prepared to make artificial teeth in tlie most beautiful and life like manner, and lo fill decayed teeth ac Curditiy to the most in proved method. Teeth extracted without pain, when de ;red, by the ue of Nitrous Oxble Gas, wh.eh is entrely lnrmlcts. Repairing of !1 kinds neatly done. All work warranted. Chjrjre, reaoiiHble. Office in J. G. Keller's new Brick build lrf. Main S'reet, Stroudtburg, Pa. uff 31-tf Tajiks jg. WALTO.V, ) Attorney at L.uw, Office in the building formerly occupied jr b. M. Hurson, and opposite the Strouds !tiik. Main street, Stroudsburg, Pa. jani:;-tf C HOLMES, Jr. Atforncs' at Saitiv, STROUDSBURG, PA. Office, on Main Street, 5 doors above the &!roudburg House, and opposite Itueter'a eluthinj store. ("Busitiovs of all kinds attended to with promptness and fidelity. Miy C,l&G9.if. PLASTEE ! Fli ground Nova Scotia PLASTER, Stokes' Mills. 1 1 RM LOCK BOARDS, WING, SHINGLES, LATH, PA UNG.md POSTS, cheap. FLOUR and FEED constantly on hand, exchange Lumber and Plaster for Wain or pny the highest market price. BLACKSMITH SHOP jnst opened by - Stone, an experienced workman. Public trade solicited. , , N. S. WYCKOFF. Bteg' Mills, Pd., April 20, 1671. DEV. EDWARD A. WILSON'Sfof Wil Jiamsbursb, N. Y.) Recipe for CON- ilPriONand ASTHMA careful! carefully com- runded at HOLLIXSHEAD'S DRUG STORE. Medicines Fresh and Pure. Nov. 21. 1S67. W. HOLLINSI1EAD. IO.X'T FOKGI3T tlisit when AJ you want any thing in the Furniture ' Ornamental line that McCarty, in ibe Udd-Fcl lows' Hall, Main Street, Strouds 'urff. Pa., is the place lo get it. Sept. 20 THE STORY OF LUCY. Last week, in a neighboring city, a sud den end came to a little domestic drama, lor which we propose to make room here He believe its meaning bears more on the lives of a large class of our readers than even the national debtor the choice of our next President. About twenty years a?o, a girl-baby was bom to a carpenter and his wife who had five boys already swarming and squab bling about tho three roomed house. The baby shared the fate of solitary girls among brothers. She was the something rare and unwonted which had never come into their common life before ; she was the bit of porcelain among rough rock ery ; her father and the bigger boy dub bed her "little lady carried her out proudly on Sunday afternoons, when their own clothes were coarse and patched enough ; but she never lacked a bit of embroidery or a father in her cap. She, unlike myriads of other children, was born to no inexorable inheritance of pover ty or dnt or crime. The carpenter was a hard-working, honest, domestic old man, whose highest ambition was to give each of his boys a steady trade, "that they might never need to take to shifty ways to earn a meal." For Lucy, of course, he hoped for something better. His wife was a thrifty Scotch-Irishwoman, who had lived in one house at service for fif teen years before her marriage, and could command a high salary at any time now as housekeeper. "Girls in the old coun try," she said, "were set to work from the time they could walk. They did not need to drudge so here. There were chances for them in a free country." She never passed a rich man's daughter, delicately dressed, that she did not think of these "chance j" chances that num bered not only eaey living and refine ment, but equipages, velvets, diamonds. Education placed all men on a level. Her mother's heart was sore and tender. Why should not her little girl enter into that high unknown world of luxury from which she had been shut out? God has made no life so full of blessings that it ought not to be possible to Lucy with her loving blue eyes and wonderful bright hair. It was quite true that God had made no life of happy womanhood which was not possible to the child. She had a practical, nimble intelicct, was frank, earnest, affectionat; blushes and tears came quickly, signs of a delicate nature and tender conscience, befitting to a ser vant as a queen, bote of them being God's children. One would have said the girl was born to be in time a pure maiden, a loving wife, a faithful mother. She went to school years after her brothers were at work, but learned little more than to read and write j whatever ability she had assuredly did not lie in book-knowledge ; and the boys bought her a cheap piano at auction, on which she strummed a few stteet airs. People who noticed the girl's readiness and win ning manner, told her mother it was time she was making some provision for her, and offered to take her into their houses as servant. But menial work was a cer tatnty which to Lucy's vague chances was an insult. Even drudgery at home was spread her that she might run with her school companions, or read the cheap newspapers of the day. Gradually the delicacy faded out of her face ; her voice grew loud the quick step dragged lazily; it became a matter of course for her to watch her old father work for her while she sat idle. At last the turn came ; the elder brothers married ; the old man and his wife died ; a deformed brother kept the house with Lucy, but it was necessary that she should earn her own living. There were half-a-dozen homes open to her, when she would have had light work, which would have fitted her for her duties when she married, high wages, and the protection and seclusion of a refined Chris tian family. But this girl, whose Master was born in a stable, was indignant at be ing asked to take the place of a servant. She went into a mill. The wages were good. She had her ambition. Velvets and diamonds made the lady. She could at least flaunt in ferry and Milton gold. She had the imagination of other young girls the zest for love, adventure. No knights or gentlemen came about the mill, or lovers to the house, but there was the chance compliment from young men on the streets ; the encounter on the street cars going home at night. The story ia told. There came a day when the deformed brother, who had watched over her - since she was a baby with a sorer tenderness because no other woman could ever be near or dear to him, cursed her and drove her from the door She went gladly. The street life suited her now ; for the change ia the cirl did not begin in dress or face or voice; it worked out from within. Year by year her training had corrupted soul and brain It mattered little when the symptoms of decay showed themselves to the world. For years she had tested the street life. Last week it ended. In the bright sun light a bloated, filthy woman crept out of the prison van into the stone archway of the city prison, and the iron gates with their heavy clang shut on her, not to open for two years. "Lucy .sentenced for grand larceny." Whether, when they open, her ruined body will be there to drag itself out into the sunlight again, matters very little. It may live until old age. But Lucy, honest, unsel fish, pure in thought, died Ions aco. If it had been only to sleep with her moth er on yonder hill side, we might have made the grass green above her, knowing that the child would come again. But she, still living, went down into a grave from which there is no place of resurrec tion, though we seek it carefully and with tears. Perhaps it is a story without a moral ; at least it has none, if mothers do not find it for themselves. Tribune. Sick-Room Hints. A sick-roim should have a pleastant as pect. Light, ia essential. Blinds and curtains may be provided to screen the eyes too weak to bear full day, but what substitute makes up for the absence of that blessed sunshine without which life languishes 1 The walls should be of a cheerful tint; if possible, some sort of out-door glimpse should be visible from the bed or chair where the invalid lies, if it is but the top of a tree and a bit of sky. Eyes which have been traveling for long, dull days over the pattern of the paper- hangings, till each bud and leaf and quirl is familiar and hateful, brighten with pleasure as the blind is raised. The mind, wearied of the grinding battle with pain and self finds unconscious refreshment in new interest. All, tncre is a bird s shadow flitting across the pane. The tree top sways and trembles with soft rustlings a white cloth floats dreamily over the blue, and now, oh delight and wonder, the bird himself comes in sight and perches visibly on the bough, dress ing his feathers and quivering forth a few notes of sons:. All the world, then, is not lying in bed because we are, is not tired of its surrounding has not the back-aeht. ! What a refreshing thought 1 And though this glimpse of another life, the fresh natural life, the from which we are shut out that life which has nothing to do with pills and potions, tip-toe move ments, whispers, and doctor's boots creak ing in the entry may couse the hot tears to rush suddenly into our eyes, it does us good, and we begin to say with a certain tremulous thrill of hope: "When I go out again, I shall do" so and so. Ah, if pnrses, if friends knew how how irk some, how positively harmful, is the sameness of a sick-room, surely love and skill would devise remedies. If it were only bringing a blue flower to-day . ' . i ana a pinK one to-morrow ; nanging a fresh picture to vary the monotony of the wall, or even an old one in a new place something, anything it is such infinite relief. Small things and single things suffice. To see many of his surroundings changed at once confuses an invalid ; to have one little novelty at a time to vary the point of observation, stimulates and cheers. Give him that, and you do more and better thau if you filled the apart ment with fresh objects. It is supposed by many that flowers should be carefully kept away from sick people, that they exhaust the air or communicate to it some harmful quality. This may, in a degree, be true of Buch strong, fragrant blossoms as lilaes or gar den lilies, but of the more delicately scen ted ones no such effect need be apprehend ed. A well aired room will never be made close or unwholesome by a nosegay of roses, mignonette, or violets, and the subtile cheer which they bring with them is infinitely reviving to weary eyes and depressed spirits. Scrilners fur April. : The first American, gaslight company was chartered to light the city of Balti more in 1816. In 1822 Boston adopted the new method of illumination, lhe old New York Gaslight Company, which lightu the city from Grand street to the Battery, was chartered in 1823. Bristol, II. I., was lighted by gas as early as 1835. General Jackson and ths French Min ister. During Jackson's administration, while Mr. Louis M'Lane, of Delaware, was Secretary of State, France sent a certain dashing minister to Washington a young man just elevated aboue the grade of charge, whose passion was display. His outfit of equipage, grooms, pastillions and gold lace was magnificent. He called on tho Secretary of State to appoint an audience with the President and Mr. M'Lane, an accomplished, easy gentle man, bagged him to call the next morn ing at 10 o'clock at the State office, and he would accompany and present him to the President. Monsieur lo Minister mistook as to the place of calling. He thought he was to call at the President's mansion at 10 o'clock a. in. Accordingly, in full panoply of costume, in coach-and-four, with attendants, grooms, postillions, out-riders and footmen, at the hour ap pointed he drove up to the front door of the White House, Instead of to the State Department, where Mr. M'Lane was awaiting his arrival. At that time the President was served by a French cook, and the celebrated Irishman, Jimmy O'Neal, was General Jackson's petted major-domo. The hour was about the time of General Jackson's finishing puff of the pipe after breakfast, and he smok ed, as he did everything else, with all his might ! His mode was no Latakia curl, no dreamy, thready line, from barely opened lips; but a full drawing and expanding volume of white cloud, rising up whiff after whiff, puff after puff, and bowl and stem and pipe all smoked as hard and as fast as they could, and the fire was red and the ashes hot, and the room was so obfuscated that one could hardly breathe its atmosphere or see. His usual mode of sitting while smoking was with his left leg thrown across the right, and the left toe brought behind the right tendon-Achilles, and the long pipe stem resting ia the fork or crotch of the two knees, and reaching nearly to the floor. He smoked the old Powhatan bowl, with red stem very long. In this attitude he was sitting and smokins. whilst Mr. M'Lane wa3 waiting at the State office for Mr. Minister, and whilst Mr. Minister was riding up to the Presidential mansion. He arrived the French cook in the kitchen, Jemmy O'Neal about his busi ness, and Gen. Jackson alone in his office. A bustle was made, bells began to ring. Jemmy was summoned to the door, and there presented itself all this parade. The devil a word could Jemmy understand, and the best he could do was to run up stairs to the General and announce some body very grand; but Jemmy winked that all didn't seem right, as there seem ed too much fuss for that soon iu the morniug, aud it might be, after all, an imposition. "Och ! there was no telling about the thing, it was so unusul ! It might turn out what afterwards occurred a Lawrence affair. The General quietly replied : "Oh ! Jemmy show the stranger up; we will see who it is." Jemmy ran, and Jackson sat smoking, when presently the room-door was throwu wide open, and a manikin of gold lace en tered, cocked hat with bullion and white feather, .flourishing in baud, making a salaam to the right and a salaam to the left with "tremendous sweeps, whizzing aud whirring French with vehement gesture. and approaching nearer and nearer. It seemed threatening in the extreme ! The president quit smoking, beat the bowl of his pipe in his hand, arse quickly, took hold of the back of his chair, and exclaimed, with strong voice : "By the eternal gods ! Jemmy O'Neal, who is this?" Jemmy, with eyes and ears open, and,hands ready was amazedly looking on, when for tunately, he bethought him the French cook, and ran for him. There was no time to be lost ; so the French cook, with his shirt sieves rolled up to his shoulders, and just as he was besprinkled white with flour ran up with Jemmy, arriviug just in time to save Mr. Minister's pate from being smashed by tho chair iu Qen eral Jackson's hands. "Mm diai!" ex claimed the cook ; ."it is the grand minister of Louis Phillippe !" "Oh !" said the General ; "walk in, sir ; there is no cereniouy here !" And he was about taking the minister by the hand just as Mr. M'Lane entered to see the mistake, to witness the pretention of the cat astrophe, and to enjoy the joke, which made him a thousand times afterward "shake" with jollity "like a bowlful of jelly." Virginia has 8G,4G8 farms. The Ocean Queen Mutiny. Col. Forney, in his "Anecdotes of Public men, says Tho other day I called on Commodore Daniel Ammen, chief of the Bureau of Yards and Docks, and asked him to tell me about the celebrated mutiny on board the California steamer, Ocean Queen, in May of 18G4. This event, though of a recent date, has been literally sponged from the slate of the general memory, though still preserved among the records of the navy. A contingent of over 200 men, most of them "roughs" who had served in the army, and had volunteered for naval service on the Pacific coast, were shipped for their destination on board the "Ocean Queen," in charge of Commodore Aromen and asubordinate officer. There were over a thousand other passengers, including many ladies and children. Jus tice Field, of the United States Supreme, Court was among the cabin passengers. The vessel itself was commanded by a fine old seaman, Captain Tiuklepaugh. On the first day the new recruits began to show dissatisfaction with their accommod ations and food, and it was soon evident that under the counsel of two or three desperate leaders, they were preparing to seize and rifle the steamer and the passengers. The Captain proposed to run into one of the enarest ports and get ride of the dangerous conspirators, but this was resisted by Commodore Ammen, who had the turbulent men in charge. lie quietly reasoned with them, and assured them that as he was responsible for their good conduct, he would see to their proper comfort, but that if they resorted to violence they would be severely punished. He was so cool and kind as he made this statement that they did not think him in earnest, and proceeded with their plans. Their chief, Kelley, was a young fellow, six feet four inches, very athletic and determin ed. When then first demonstration was made Commodore Ammen was in a distant part of the vessel, and on hearing the noise proceeded to the scene of action. There he found Captain Tiuklepaugh in the hands of Kelley, who was surround ed by the other mutineers all evidently under his orders and ready to proceed to the worst extremities. The crisis had come, and Ammen, seeing that prompt action was beccseary to save the steamer and perhaps the lives of the female pas sengers, drew his revolver and shot Kel ley dead on the spot. One of his imme diate followers was killed at the same time. The effect on the others was in stantaneous. They saw that the quiet man who had them iu charge was resolved to enforce his authority, and they quailed. He then briefly addressed them, telling them of his determination, exhorted them to remember their duty and their flag, and was greeted with three hearty cheers. After which, under his advice, they went to their dinner. There wa, of course, great cousteruation among the cabin pas sengers, but they were soon reassured by the calm demeanor of Commodore Am men. His next step was to go straight among the remainder of the mutineers, and to call out the leaders and order them in irons. One or two attempted to resist, but wheu they saw that they would soon be made to follow their dead companions, who had by this lime been sewed in can vas and cast overboard, they submitted. The whole affair occupied very little time; and the commander, crew and passengers were so impressed by the resolute courage of Commodore Amman that they joined in a hearty commendation of his course. Justice Field himself addressed a strong letter to the department in earnest vindi cation of the wisdom and energy of his action. I do not pretend to tell the story as it fell from Commodore Ammen so modest and so clear. Ho printed defense before the court martial, which he de manded, is a model of candor, and was followed by his unanimous acquittal. Had he been weak or impulsive, the scene would have ended iu a grand tragedy, and perhaps hundreds ofinno cent persons would have perished. An editor out in Cicero, Indiana, on taking charge of tho Areio IJra, greets his readers with this vigorous salutatory: "It is the fashion for an editor to write a long introduction on taking charge of a paper ; but as we are well acquainted with ueary every man in the county, it is only necessary to say that we intend to do as we please, nnd announce that our motto is 'two almighty dollars a year iu ad vance. A Flirtation With Miss Spotted Tail. A correspondent of the Ironton, Ohio, Register, who was with the Grand Duke and Sheridan on the recent raid among the buffaloes, describes Spotted Tail's family as follows : Old Spotted Tail, Mrs. Spotted Tail and Miss Minnehaha Spotted Tail (I don't know whether that is her name or not, but will consider it so) dined with us that day. Miss M. is a charming young lady of about seventeen, with a dirty face partially covered by an immense blush of vermillion on each cheek, and a line of the same down the top of her head. I sat next to her at the table, and perform cd such little delicate attentions as spread ing her biscuits, showing her how to eat celery, teaching her that soup was not to be eaten with a tumbler or coffee stirred with a knife, and gradually growing struck with the idea that such beauty as hers should not be destined to blush unseen, I sent an order to my tent for a large oval toilet glass, which I presented to her with a complimentary little speech, at which (the speech or glass I don't know, sho grainned and did not say nay). The old lady and gentleman were evidently as tickled as the daughther, and sat chatter ing away like a couple of antiquated magpies, whib the blushes of the damsel (even through her verm'rilion) suddenly gave Gen. P. the idea that the old folks were eugaged in an amusement popular in more civilized circles, known as match making. When he said that, I began to get scared, and wanted to make known my utter innocense of any servious intention, but fortunately was not well enough ac quainted with the beautiful language of the Sioux to express myself, I only know ontr word washeeli, which means good and this wasn't good by any means. I had no doubt that the old gentleman wanted to do me proud and make me, as he said, "heap chief heap brave," but then you know well, in short, I could net think of it. So we parted with a "how good bye" from Old Spot, and hand-shako (nothing more, upon my word) from Miss and 31 rs. T. Mark Twain Tries his Hand at Shovel ling Sand. "I had to go to work in quartz mill at 10 a week. A nice place, truly, for the proprietor of a hundred silver miles ! But I could not keep it. They did not want me. t did'nt know why. I was the most careful workman they ever had. They said so. I took more pains with my work. I was shoveling S3nd. Tho technical term was 'tailing.' The silver rock is ground over or twice, and they clean it over again. Wrhcnever I had a lot sand to shovel I was so particular X would sit down for an hour and a half and think about tho best way to shovel that saud. An if I could not cipher it out ia my mini just so, I would not go shovel it round heedless. I would leave it until next day. "Many a time I would be carrying a bucket full of sand from one pile to an other, thirty or forty feet off, right in tho middle, suddenly a new idea would strike me, and I would carry that sand back, and sit down and think about it and liko enough get so wrought up and alorbed in it, that I would to sleep. Why I al ways knew there must be some tip top, first-rate way to move that sand. "At last I discovered it. I went to tho boss and told him that I had got just tho thing, the very best and quickest way to get sand from the one pile to the other. Aud ho says, I am awful glad to hear it.' You never saw a man so uplifted as ho was. It appeared to take a load off his breast a load of sand I suppose. Aud I said : 'What you want now is a cast-iron pipe about 13 or I I feet in diameter, aud, say 42 feet long. And you want to prop one end of that pipe up about 35 or 40 feet off the ground. And then you want a revolving belt just work it with the waste steam from the engine a revolv ing belt with a revolving to it, I ara to sit in the chair, and have a Chinaman down tliero to fill up the bucket with saud, and pass it up as I come around, (illustrates with gestures) and I am just to soar up there and tilt it into that pipe, rnd there you are. It is as easy as roll ing off a log." "You never saw a man so overcome with admiration so overwhelmed, lie fore he knew what he was about he dis charged me." 1 A late flood iu Oregon drowued ouo thousand coous. TT TT i I
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