lLi THE JEPFE RS ONI AN mmti 10 ??Htlto' tcraturc, gricnlturc, Science, ilTovaliin, anb General 3ntdli8eure. VOL. 29. STROUJDSBURG, MONROE COUNTY, PA., APRIL 25, 1872. NO. 52. : J .3 ? f j I Published by Theodore Schoch. fERvH-Tol-IUrii jre;trin advance and if not rli4 t!ie e'", of lhe 'ear' lvvo dollar and fifty r,nt will b charged. Sa prer IiM oiUmie'l until all arrearages are paid tir.eM ' 'he fliii ol the Clitor. ' tCrAlverJisements of one square oT eight line) or ,M.oae r three insertions $1 50. Each additional (eiiitiit cent. Longer one in proportion. JOB E'ZCINTIHG, OF ALL KINDS, ricrutfJ in the hiehest style of the Art, and on the most reasonable terms. Valuable Property FOU SALE. The subscribers offer for sale, their residence in Stroudsburg. The Lot has a front of 145 ft. m Main Street, with a depth of '.v Kvt. ... Tlic buildings consist of a convenient dwell in; Iioue, store house, barn and other out building Tlicrc is an abundance of choice apple, pears plums, grapes and small fruits, with ricrllcnt water. f-b-i! 1 A. 31. & R. STOKES. DR. J. LANTZ, Surgeon ami Mechanical Dentist, st II h is his office on Main Street, in the 5erond c.rv f lr. S- Walton'5 brick hinlfling, nearly oppo ,tre'the S'.roii. Ishuig House, and Ue il.titcrs'liiinself IMt tiv eisMeeit years constant practice and the innt arne-t arH r.irrhil alteiitu-n to all mutter pertaining ta hi prnff ssi.'ii. tli;it lie- is fully able to perform nil rrtin in the dental line in the most careful, tate pil u:iJ SKillfil manner. ,mu! attention ?iven to savins the Natural Teeth ; j..i. tu the liisrrti.in f Artificial reclh on Rutiher, Ci.t. Silver or iNiiilinuous Utiuis, and per lee t fits in ,,l rj-ci nisiirc.l. M.ist per.ns know the great folly and danger ol en (niU!ic their work tot lie inexperienced, or to those litiii? at a ilistance. April 13, 1671. ly Dr. y. o. isorrji.tx, 31. i. Would respectfully announce to the public that he has removed his office from OAl.inl to Canadensis, Monroe County, Pa. Trunin? that many years of eonsoeutivc practice of Medicine and Surgery will lse a l ifTn iciit guarantee for the public confidence. February 'o, 1870. tf. D K.J.r.CASLOW, Oculist, AiiriKi & Surgeon, OF SUXBURY, FA. Ha taken rooms at the Stroudsbitrg House, where he will operate and treat all diseases of the Fc and Ear, and all Deformities or In juries requiring Surgical aid. He "also Ideate here for the practice of medicine and KtiJiferv. Worthr poor attended free of cairje. y or consul vxi ton ana advice, tree. Ftl.ruary 1, 1372. 3m. Geo. W. Jackson. Amzi LeBar. Drs. JACKSOX & LcBAR rnisiruxs, SIRCEOXS k AlCOiaiEES, SfrottMjnr and Ftst Strondsbnrg Fa. DR. GEO. W. JACKSON, Stroudsburg, In the old office of Dr. A. Reeves Jackson KeMdenee in WyckofFs Building. DR. A. LeBAR, East Stroudsburg, office next dor to Smith' Store. Residence at Mis K. HelkrV. fch. 8'72-tt DR. N. L. PECK, Surgeon Dentist, Announces th it bavins just returned from Dentil CoMegs, he is fully prepired to make artificial teetn in the most beautiful and lile 1 ike manner, and to fill decayed teeth ac cording to the most i-n proved method. Teeth ex'ract-'d without pain, when de ;redt by the use of Nitrous Oxide Gas, which ii entirely harmless. . Repairing of I kinds neatly done. All work warranted. Char?? reasonable. Office in J. (J. Keller' new Brick build in?. Main S'rcCt, Stroudsburg, Fa. uy 31-lf TIMES U. WALTO.Y, 0 Attorney al Lau, )Ti-. in the building formerly occupied arson, and opposite the fc?trouds II:,k, Main etreet, Stroudsburg, Pa. jan 1.1-tf C HOLMKjnJk. 0 Attorney al Lsuv, STROUDSBURG, PA. Office, on Main Street, 5 doors above the S'roudburj Hous, and ofposite Kuster'a eluthinjj store. 0Busiues8 of all kinds attended to with promptness nr.d fidelily. My 0M6G9. if. PLASTEE! Fresh ground Nova Scotia PL A ST Eft, t Stoke Mills. IIKMLOCK BOARDS, f'EN'CIXG, SHINGLES. LATH, PA LI XG. and POSTS, cheap. FLOUR and FEED constantly on hand. Wi;l exchange Lumber and Plaster for yrain or pay the highest market price. BLACKSMITH SHOP just opened by C. Stune, an experienced workman. Public trade solicited. N. S. WVCKOFF. okc3' Mills, Pj April 20, 1871. y EV. EDWARD A. WILSON'S (of Wil- V lum-burgh, N. Y.) Recipe for CON- SUMPTIONanJ ASTHMA carefully com- Pounded at HOLLINSHEAD'S DRUG STORE. CO" Medicines Fresh and Pure. Nv. 21. 1S07. W. HOLLTNSHEAD. For Sale, at tlii Office. Dead and Alive. MT?A... T . ucver swear now. ITnrn'l usea an oath since 1 was dead !" He was a tall, one-eyed man, wearing a broad brimmed hat and red flannel shirt. Ho sat on the railing of the bridge, whit thng and taking to three or four others standing near bj. Yes, sir, said he, I was dead once. It was the strangest thing you ever saw in your life. You don't believe it, ha ? Well, I don't wonder much. I don't suppose any man went through such an awful siege, and I can't expect anybody to look at it as I do. You sec, it hap pened like this : It was winter ; we lura bered on Whitcomb Creek, six or eight years ago. It was war times then and wages were good. I was getting forty dollars a month and worked like a beaver till this little affair came off. Wc went at work about a mile from the shanty Jim noomsou ana me and had slashed into the pine like all possessed. The boys were hauling pretty lively, for it was early in January, aud sleighing was good. Jim was at work on a big tree about twenty rods from where I was. Pretty soon, after he yelled to me, his tree top pled over and fell. It was as handsome a piece of pine timber as ever you saw, and 1 watched it as it fell. Crash it went right into the branches of an old oak, and hung just there. I never saw a feller madder than Jim was we did some tall cursing about them pines. He tried every possible way to loosen the pine, but couldn't get it off. Finally we made up our minds to go for the oak tree, and in about ten minutes we had cut through so that it trembled like a leaf with every stroke of the axe, he cuttiug on one side, and I on the other. When it was almost through, as I was the biggest and best chopper, says I to Jim (and then I rip ped out a big oath), let me finish her. Get out of the way, and I will have her through in half a minute. I had been chopping a minute or two when Jim let loose a scream that would have made an Indian's blood run cold. I had just time to look up and see that pine tree tumbling' down, when I drop ped my axe and run. I couldn't have got far when something seemed to strike my eyes, and then everything was dark. I suppose I was dead. May be you don't believe me, boys, but that's all I can make out of it. All at once the light, the looks of the snow oo the ground, everything was shut out from my sight. There was an uncertain kind of feeling, just as a fellow has when he's asleep. I knew something awful had hap pened, but could not move hand or foot. It seemed as though it was night, and that I was covered up by something that pressed heavily upon me. Still there wasn't any pain, and for a long time I staid there ; I can't tell. I suppose it wasn t long, when I felt somebody pull my arm, and I heard Jim Robinson say: "O, Lord ! Poor fellow I" I knew be was there, aud I could feel him touch me, and I couldn't speak or open my eyes. He thought I was dead. Then I wondered if all dead folks could hear and think things as I did. I tried to move my bands I tried to breathe I tried to scream. But I couldn't do any thing. Jim left me, and the next I re member of, I was hauled to the shanty on one fide of the sleds. You may bet there was considerable excitement among the boys when I was taken into camp. I could leel that I was dead. My heart didn't beat I couldn't move. But I could hear, and had kind of a misty no tion about everything that was going on about me. Some of the boys, feeling of my fore bead, wanted to send for the doctor. 'It's no use boys," said the boss, "the poor fellow's gone. His neck was broke. The most we can do for him is to take him to bis folks " Well, they laid me out on one of the sleighs, and aster fixing me up in as de cent a way as a corpse could be in a lum ber camp, one of the teamsters started with me for Osbkosb. I first didn't relize just bow bad the situation was. When it began to leak into my bead that I was really dead, and was going to be buried in the ground, and shut forever from the light of the sun, it frightened me. The long ride to Osb kosb passed like thoee things that bap peu in a dream. We got there, and I was taken to my brother's bouse. He felt terribly bad wheu I was brought home. I hadu't any idea he thought so much of me as he did. I could hear him cry and talk, and still hadn' the power to move a muscle. I was put in a coffiu, and it finally came out that I was to be taken to Watertowu to be buried. My old mother lived there you know. Oh. boys, I hope none of you will ever be made to feel the horrors that I felt when I found I was boxed up in a coflin and would soon be buried. Seven years have gone by since then, but 1 never thiuk of it without a shudder. -I could hear them putting on the lid of the coftlu, aud then 1 knew I was fastened up. From that time until the coGin was raised again I haven't any recollection of what happened, only that I was coustant lv in motion. Though I couldn't open mv eve I sorter felt that it was dark and I was goins somewhere. All of a sud den I felt that some one was turning the screws of the coffin lid, and after a while the cover was taken off. 1 would rather die a thousand times over than go through the horrible suffering of mat anair again. Ihere I was dead and going to be buried, and yet so near alive that I knew what was going on. Boys, you may talk, but there is nobody in this world that thinks as much of you as your mother. You can imagine my feelings no, you can't have the least notion of how I felt, when she was taking on so over me. After awhile I could feel that my moth er stopped crying. Then I thought she might have fainted. I never was much in the praying line, but if any one ever made a strong try to call on God for as sistance, I did then. I could feel my mother's hand on my head. "George," said she to my brother, "his head don't feel very cold. How strange it is. Then George's hand was put on my forehead, and I could feel him place his hand on my breast. They seemed to think that I might not be dead. Pretty soon a neighbor came in, and there was a good deal of talking that I couldn't understand. Then I was lifted out of the coffin and placed on a bed. I was rubbed all over with a coarse towel. Still I couldn't stir or open my eyes. Then my mother came to give me one last look. I could feel her near me just as she used to do when. I was a boy, and her hand smoothed my hair in the old way, that seemed to take me back to the time when I wasn't so bad as I am now. I tried with all the force I could to speak. I made one strong effort to arouse myself, and finallv broke the snell and looked up. My mother fainted ; but help soon came, and after taking some medicine and doctor stuff, I was able to think freely and breathe again. In a little while I was well again, with the exception of an ugly scar on the back of my neck. The doctors said I had a narrow escape. My spinal cord, they said, had been struck by the branch of the tree, and I was as good as dead. It was more than a miracle that I was brought to. They had a good deal to say about my paralyzing my nervous system and stopping my circulation and all that, but, at any rate, I got well. TOO MUCH STUDY. Are the children in our schools oblig ed to Btudy more than is consistent with mental or physical strength and growth ? It is an important question, and one that should receive atteutiou. The tempation on the part of parents and teachers to crowd study upon a bright child is very great, but it is too often done at the sacri fice of physicial health, and too often the mind itself breaks down from the severe tension. The brain is cultivated at the expeuse of the body, and in all such cases there is a fearful penalty to be'paid, for nature will not be trifled with. How many precocious boys and girls who "stood at the head of their classes" term after term, and gave brilliant promise of high attainments and usefulness, have utterly broken down before gettiog out of their teens" simply because of the unwise, hot house pressure of the school-room. But if the evil was only in the school room it would be less than it is, but the pupils are compelled to study many weary hours at home, when they should be per fectly free from mental exertion and be attending to physical culture. The school room has become too much of a recitation room. Wc asked a bright Latin school boy the other day about his studies j he said he studied three hours a day out of school, and it was nccessray for him to do it to maintain his rauk ; "We have to study more at borne than in school." Wc submit that this is wrong, and parent and teachers who foster or com pel this course are bringing sore evil upon their children and pupils. There must be sound bodies, vigor of muscle and nerve, or the brain will fail, and our boys and girls need more open air, more exer cise, more relaxation. Our schools are a source of pride, but let them not be for mistaken modes of culture. A Japanese Bed. As I was about to pass my first night in a Japanese house, I watched auxiously the preparations for sleeping. These were simple; a mattress in the form of a very thick quilt, about seven feet long by four feet wide was sprccd on the floor ; and over it was spread an ample robe, very long, and heavily padded, and provided with large sleeves. Having put on this night dress, the sleeper covers himself with another quilt, aud sleeps, i. e., if he has bad some years practice in the use of this bed. But the most remarkable feature about a Japanese bed is the pillow. This is a wooden box, about four inches high, eight inches long, aud two inches wide at the top. It has a cushion of folded papers on the upper side to rest the peek ou, for the elaborate manner of dressing the hair does not permit the .Japanese, especially the women, to press the head on the pil low. Every morning, the uppermost paper is taken off from the cushion, ex posing -a clean surface without the ex pense of washing a pillow case. I passed the greater part of the night in learning bow to poise my head in this novel manner ; and when I finally closed my eyes, it was to dream that I was being slowly beheaded, and to awake at the crisis to find the pillow wrong side up, and my neck resting on the sharp lower edge of the bus. Fumicdly's Travels. THE NOMINATIONS. From the Fress we copy the following sketchesof the three candidates nominated for State offices, by the Republican Con vention. GOVERNOR QEN. JOHN F. 1IARTRANFT. John Frederick Ilartranft, who has been selected by a vote of eighty seven to forty-five by the State Republican Con vention held on the 10 inst. Harrisburg, was born in New Hanover township, Mont gomery county, Pennsylvania, on the 18th of December, 1830. He graduated from Union College, Schenectady, New York, in 1853, and during the ensuing year he was employed as a civil engineer. In 1858, after serving for four years as de puty sheriff of Montgomery county, he turned his attention to the study of law, and was admitted to the bar in 18G0. At the outbreak of the rebellion he, be ing a colonel of militia, proffered his ser vices to Governor Curtin. They were accepted, and his regiment, the 4th Penn sylvania, rendezvoused at Harrisburg on the 20th of April, and, as soon as equip ped for service, entered the field. The term of the regiment (three months) ex pired just before the battle of Bull Run, but Col. Ilartranft volunteered his ser vices for the battle, and was assigned to duty on the staff of Colonel (afterwards General) Franklin, and as a staff officer General Ilartranft saw bis first battle. Subsequently, in November, 18G1, he went into the three-years service as col oncl of the 51st Pennsylvania, was or dered to North Carolina, and took part in the battle of Roaonke Island in Feb ruary, 1SG2. In that year his regiment fought in the battles of Second Bull Run, Chantilly, South Mountain, and Antie tam. In March, 18G3, be operated un der Grant at the siege of Vicksburg, and shortly alter the fall of that city he suf fered so much from sunstroke that he re turned to the north. In November of that year he rejoined the army near Knozville, Teun., and commanded the 2d Division of the Dth Corps. He subse quently commanded the 1st Brigade of the 2d Division of the corps, and serv ed in the battles of the Wilderness and succeeding battles of miuor importance. He was appointed brigadier general, to date from May 12, 18GL In March, 18G5, he commanded the 3d Division of the Oth Corps in their assault on Fort Steadman, and was breveted ma jor general. His command saw no more active service, but Gen. Ilartranft him self occupied the unenviable position of guarding and executing the sentences of the Military Commission which tried Mrs. Surratt, Payne, Harold, and others for the murder of Abraham Lincoln. Returning to civil life, Gen. Ilartranft boldly braved the sneers of his former political associates, and in 18G5 accepted the Republican nomination for Auditor General, and was elected by a majority of 22.GG0 over W W. II. Davis. In 1863 he was re elected by the greatly re duced majority of 9,400, his opponent be ing Charles E. Boyle. Last year he was not renominated, but at the death of Col onel David Stanton, his successor, a special act of the Legislature continued him in office. FOR JUDOE OF THE SUrREME COURT, HON. ULYSSES S. MERCUR. Ulysses Mercur, of Bradford county, was born at Towanda, Pa., August 12, 1818, and is in the fifty fourth year of his age. He graduated at Jefferson Col lege, of this State, and practiced law. He was elected in 18G0 as Presidential elector for the lamented Lincoln, and in March, 18G1, was appointed president judge of the Thirteenth judicial district, and soon after elected by the people to the position for a term of ten years, from December, 1861. but resigned on being elected a member of the Thirty ninth Congress, to represent the Thirteenth district compos ed of the counties of Bradford, Columbia, Montour and Wyomiug. He was re elected to the Fortieth and Forty-first Congresses and again to tho Forty-second Congress, receiving 11,117 agaiost 10, 903 for C. B. Brockway, Democrat. Judge Mercur has takeu a very pro minent position in Congress, serving upou the Judicial Committee, aud by his largo experience contributing much in framing wise and wholesome measures. Iu the formation of the the present uatioual ap portmcot bill he was the author, and in every position be has always been found equal to the duties imposed upon him. Recently his constituents, learning that he did not desire to longer represent his district in Congress, in the most flattering manner endeavored to persuade him to change his determination, and again to allow his name to bo used as a candidate, but he steadily refused. AUDITOR GENERAL GENERAL HARRISON ALLEN. General Harrison Allen is a native of Warren county, and is in the thirty eighth year of. his age. With the limited op portunities that farmers' sons usually enjoy, when he was a boy he acquired a good education, and btudied law. II o lost no time entering the service when the rebellion commenced, and, beginning as captain, was promoted to major of the 10th Reserves, colonel of the 15 1st Peun sylvania Volunteers, aud breveted brig adier general for meritorious services. General Allen reprcsuted his county in the Legislature during the sessions ol 1&G0 and 1867, and took a prominent aud creditable part in legislation. His fpeches ou the thirteenth amendment, soldiers' orphaus' schools, and other measures, were highly commeded. At the Chicago Convention, in 18G8, that nominated General Grant, General Allen was both a delegate at large in the soldiers' conven tion and a delegate in the nominating convention. He took a leading part in the successful canvass that followed. He was elected in 18G0 to represent his dis trict (Twenty eighth) in the State Senate, and in that body gained considerable prominence and influence. AN ACT To enable honorably dicharged soldiers and sailors, their widows and orphan children, to acquire homesteads on the public lands of the United States. fie it enacted by the Senate and Home of Rejire&entatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That every private soldier and officer who has served, in the army of the United Slates during the recent rebellion for ninety days, or more, and who was honorably discharged, and has remained loyal to the government, including the troops muster de into the service of the United States by virtue of the third section of an act entitled "An act making appropriations for completing the defenses of Washing ton, and for other purposes," approved February thireentb, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, and every seaman, marine, and officer who has served in the navy of the United States, or in the marine corps, during the rebellion, for ninety days, and who was bonrrably discharged, and has remained loyal to the government, shall, on compliance with the provisions of an act entitled "An act to secure homesteads to actual settlers on the public domau," and the acts amendatory thereof, as hereinafter modified, be entitled to enter upon and receive pateuts for a quautity of public lands (not mineral) uot exceeding one hundred and sixty acres, or one quarter section, to be taken in compact form ac cording to legal .subdivisions, including the alternate reserved sections of public lands along the line of auy railroad oi other public work, not otherwise reserved or appropriated, and other lands subject to entry under the homestead laws of the Untied States: FroviJcd, Xhat said homestead settler shall be allowed six months after locating his homestead with in which to commence his settlement and improvement: And provided also, That tho time which the homested settler shall have served in the army, navy, or marine corps aforesaid, shall be deducted from the time heretofore required to perfect title, or if discharged on account of wounds received, or disability incurred in the line of duty, then the term of enlistment shall be deducted from the time heretofore required to perfect title, without reference to the length of time ho may have served : Frovidedf hoiccvcr, That no patent shall issue to auy home stead settler who has not resided upon, improved, and cultivated his said home stead for a period of at least one year after he shall commence his improvements as aforesaid. Sec. 2. That any person eutitled under the provisions of the foregoing section to enter a homestead, who may have hereto fore entered uudcr the homestead laws a quantity of land less than one hundred and sixty acres, shall be permitted to under the provisions of this act so much land as, when added to the quautity previously entered, shall aot exceed one hundred and sixty acres. Sec 3. That in case of the death of any person who would be entitled to a homestead under the provisions of the first section of this act, his widow, if unmarried, or in case of her death or marriage, then his minor orphan children, by a guardian duly appointed aud official ly acredited at the Department of the Interior, shall be entitled to all the bene fits enumerated in this act, subject to all the provisions to settlement and improve ments thereiu coutaincd : Frovidcd, That if such person died during his term of enlistment, the whole term of his enlist ment shall be deducted from the time heretofore required to perfect the title. . Sec. 4. That where a party at the date of his entry of a tract of land under the homestead laws, or subsequently thereto, was actually eultstcd and employed iu the army or navy of the United States, his services therein shall, in the administra tion of said homestead laws, be construed to be equivalent, to all intents aud pur poses, to a residence for the same length of time upon the tract so entered : Fro tided, That if his entry has been canceled hy reason of bis absence from said tract while iu the military or naval service of the United States, suid such tract has not been disposed of his entry shall be re stored and confirmed: And provided further. That if such tract bus been dis posed of, said parly may cuter another tract subject to eutry under said laws ; and his right to a patent therefor shall be determined by the proofs touching his residence and cultivation of the first tract, and his absence therefrom in such tcrvicc. Skc 5. That any soldier, sailor, marine, officer, or other person coining within the provisions of this act, may, as well by an ageut as in person, enter upon said home stead : Frovidcd, That said claimant in person thall, within the time prescribed, commence (settlements and improvements on the same, and thereafter fulfill all the requrements of this act. Sf.c G. That the Commissioner of the General Laud Office shall have authority to make all needful rules and regulations to carry iuto effect the provisions ol this act. Adprovcd April 4, 1872. An Electrical House. Sometime ago an account of a house in Worcester, Mass , was given in the pa pers under the above head. We have a case in every respect as remarkable right at hand. In this village of Freehold, for several weeks back, electrical phenomena of an intensely interesting character have been constant at tho residence of Charles A.Boonett, Esq. Wc devoted a very pleas ant evening to a visit, and what we shall mention is what our eyes beheld. Tho house is warmed with a furnace below and commands a uniformly dry atmos phere, though not dry in an arid sense, as water is kept in a condition of evapora tion in the lower part of the house. The building is lighted with gas. This of course secures a metallic distribution of the best conductors through the house. It is also surmounted by a copper lightn ing conductor, which is a very effective one. The roof is also crossed by a row of copper points. .We should thiuk these conditions would of themselves secure a large amount of diffuse electricity, though we were uot prepared to find it to the extent which prevails. The house may be said to be every where filled with this diffuse electricity, but chiefly in the two parlors ; and of these, one is more so than the other. With the feet dry, a person may go to a register and a spark iustantly leaves him with the well known electrical "tick !" If one walks' over the floor and then pre sents a finger to the gas fixture, or any mctellic body, the pretty blue spark of electric flame at once leaves him with a snap, and a slight but a genuine electric, shock'. If a lady walks briskly over the carpet, giving-' a'slight drag to the feet, es pecially if her dress is long, and she then presents the finger to the gas fixture, the spark is half an inch in length with the characteristic blue color and the sharp clicking sound, and a shock very appre ciable. : It was strange to see our accom plished hostess simply walk across th floor, touch the gas jet which was turned off, and then put on. as she approached, when lo ! at the lady's touch, click ! went the spark and flash, six inches high sprang the lighted gas. This was. done repeatedly, and would as wc remarked, to some minds, easily suggest the idea of withcraft. But a stranger fact was that which now followed, for next three of us joined hands and to gether walked the length of the room ; then one touched the gas fixtures with the Soger, and a shock was ex perienced up the extire length of the arm, which to a novice was equally startling and unpleasant. Indeed, the discovery of the electrical Condition of the house was. itself novel' and startling. The son of fered his mother a piece of apple, which on being accepted a shock wa3 experienced by the lips of the receiver. It should be mentioned that the car pets arc, we believe, Brussels. They have a good stiff nap, and the friction in mov ing over them is considerable. That of the parlor, where the phenomena are most abundant, is also to some extent insulat ed from the floor, as it lies upon paper. These electrical exhibitions arc not rare, and it is not di&culfc to find la-lies who can licht the ras from a fin; good amount of foot friction on the car pet. The marvel in the present case is uot one of kind but cf degree. Aud iu this respect we have never seen the like elsewhere. In fact it stands, in this re spect, remarkably alone, since the con tiguous residences do not exhibit these, phenomena, even in the smallest degree. JlumiHcrnth Democrat. In the Lion's Den. For some time past a young man, nam ed Joseph Whittle, has been engaged in handliug and taming lions and other ani mals belonging to Mr. O'Brien's mena gerie, now under shelter iu the rear of the Seven Stars Hotel, Frankford. Tues day afternoon the cage containing a largo performing lion, was wheeled into tho yard, aud Mr. Whittle eutered the cage for the purpose of practicing the animal, one tlut had been performed with for several years, but few persons being in the yard at the time. After part of the performance had been successfully gono through with, Mr. Whittle put bis head into the liou's mouth, but just at this time the animal closed his jaw upon the un fortunate man's head, the teeth entering his chin and throat. The men standing in the yard immediately commenced an attack upon the lion with iron bars, sticks, &o., but his hold could not be broken un til au irou ncraper, used for cleaning the cage, was forced between the lion's jaws. Whittle was then released, but before ho could get from the cage the lion again sprang upon him, wounding him on the breast and throwing him down. The linn then caught him by the leg and com menced to tear it in a dreadful maa ner. Boards were eventually insert ed into the cage, aud the lion, after be iug forced to let go his hold, was penned up iu a corner loug enough for assistanco to reach Whittle, who was removed in an iusensible condition ' to the hotel. Uo has since been in a critical condition. The wounded man has been in the em ploy of Mr. O'Brien for several years, but uever handled the lion that injured hint until recently. After lingering in great pain for two days Whittle died on Thurs day afternoon at the Episcopal Hospital. Cott.m is a native ol Iudia, from whence it was brought to this country in 1789, V ' 1 nrr
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