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VOL. 29.
STROUJDSBURG, MONROE COUNTY, PA., APRIL 25, 1872.
NO. 52.
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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.
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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,
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