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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
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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."
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A late flood iu Oregon drowued ouo
thousand coous.
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