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EJcuoteb to Ipolitics, ilitcraturc, OlgdcriUurc, Science, JHoraliti, nub cturnl Tntcliigcutc.
VOL. 30.
STROUDSB UR G, MONROE COUNTY, PA., MAY 2, 1872.
NO. 1.
Published by Theodore Sclioch.
-ci(J-Td dollars a year in advance and if not
j'srf.irr tt nl of Ihe year, two (lollitra and fifty
Uui. be charged.
rt nmf .liooiuinued until all arrearage, are paid,
t!ie iirtion ot the Editor.
,', ri kertisemeiits of one square of (eight lines) or
" ' . : a, tn r. . - - - .
oie or inrre incnni jf. Dcn aauuioil-1
n,'iiin. s" cent. Longer one in proportion.
JOB PRINTING,
OF ALL KINDS,
PrfcutrJ in the hi?he.t style of the Art, and on the
most reasonable terms.
Valuable Properly
IOR SALE.
The subscribers offer for sale.
3 1 Atiieir resilience in Hroun.srnirr
on Main Street, with a depth of
The bull Jings consist of a convenient dwcll
irj lious, store liou.se, barn and other out
ruilding
There Nan abundance of choice apples,
jvar. plums, grapes and mall fruits, with
rxrlleut water.
frb-i! '72. A. M. k K. STOKKS.
A Civ A WM A AIIO IS E.
j OPPOSITE THK DEPOT,
East Stroudsburg, Pa.
B. J. VAX COTT, Proprietor.
The ran contains the choiest Liquors and
taelk is supplied with the best the market
ifTiink Charges moderate, may 3 1872-tf.
" DR. J.LANTZ,
Surgeon and Mechanical Dentist,
SMI! h-i his office on Main Street, id the second
ierv of Dr. S. Walton's 'jrick. building, neatly oppo
(;f the MrouJsburj House, and be Walters" himself
lr cihlrt ii years ronstant prarure and the most
rnr-t and careful attention to all matters pertaining
to M profi-ssion, that lie is fully able to perforin all
-vrrjt;o,i in the dental line in the ino.l careful, tasle
n! 4d sktlif'il manner.
:rul attention given to savins the Natural Teeth ;
o, lu l!e iiiMTtiua of Artificial Teeth on Rubber,
C.-U. Silver or ('onliuuous Gums, and perfect fits In
aii ra-es insured.
M.t pcrs tus know the great folly and danger ol en
ruling their oik to the inexperienced, or to those
hrrg at a ftitance. April 13, 1971. ly
D
It. V. O. HOFIMIAX, 31. D.
Would respectfully announce to the
public that be has removed his office from
Oakland to Canadensis, Monroe County, Pa.
Trusting that many years of consecutive
liracpiv of Medicine and Surgery will be a
luScient guarantee for the public confidence.
February ', 1S70. tf.
I)
R. j. r. CASLOIY,
Oculist, Aurist Si, Surgeon,
OF SrXBCRV, PA.
ITaa taken rooms at the Strondsburg House,
witerc lie will operate and treat all diseases of
ise Ere and Lar, and all Deformities or In
juries requiring Surgical aid. He alio
locates here for the practice of medicine and
aiJwiferr. Worthy poor attended free of
inarge. r or consultation and advice, free.
February 1, 1872. 3m.
iti. "W. Jackson.
Amzi LeBar.
Drs. JACKSON iV LeBAR
MYSIfMS, SURGEONS k AUOITIIERS,
Sirotukbnrg and Eist StrovdLvrg, Pa.
DR. GEO. W. JACKSON,
Stroudsburg,
in the old office of Dr. A. Reeves Jackson
'.irio!)ce in WyckofTa Iinilding.
DR. A. LeBAR,
East Stroudsburg,
o5.-e next dor to Smith's Store. KcMdence
Mi- K. Htllers.
frb. 8 'T2-tf
DR. N. L. PECK,
Surgeon Dentist,
Annonncfs lint having just returned from
Rntl Col legs, he it fully prepared to make
ruficial teeth in the nio.sl beautiful and lite
iile unnr, and to fill decayed teeth ac
cording to most iTiproved method.
'i'eeth extracted witliout pain, when de
ird, Ly the use of Nitrous Oxide Gas,
hicli i entirely harmless. Repairing of
1 1 kinds neatly done. All work warranted.
Charts reasonable.
. Oftce in J. (. Keller's new Brick build
nr. Main S'reet, Stroudfburo;, Pa.
u?31-tf
v Attorney at Law,
OfTi"" in the building fonncrly occupies!
J b M. Ibirson, and oj)t)osite the Strouds
buT Hank, Main street, Stroudsburg, Pa.
Jn 1.1-tf
Q 1I0UIKS,"Jr.
Attorney at I-an,
STROUDSBURG, PA.
Office, on Main Street, 5 doors above the
"'roudsbury Hous, and opposite Kueter'a
el!hing store.
!rfiusiue.s of all kinds attended to with
Pro'nptneh8 and fideliiy.
My G,lS09.tf.
r PLASTER !
F.sh sround Nova Scotia PLASTER,
pstoke' &liii8. HEMLOCK BOARDS,
fvoCIXG' SHINGLES, LATH, PA
uJG.h! POSTS, cheap.
fOUR and FEED constantly on hand.
I1' exchange Lumber and Plaster for
rain or pay the highest market price.
BLACKSMITH SHOP just opened by
Stone, an experienced workman.
J'ublic trade solicited.
, N. S. WVCKOFF.
wesMills, Pa., April 20, 1871.
1 1 V. EDWARD A. WILSON'S (of Wil
jL bi.burgh, N. Y-) Recipe for CON
oujlPTIONand ASTHMA carefully com
landed at
HOLLIKSHEAD'S DEUG STORE.
"-Vedtripef Fresh and Pure.
Kw- 21. 1S67J W. IIOLLINSIIEAD.
The Lumber Regions.
We copy the following i
tide from a late number of the Port
Jervis Gazette :
The lumbermen in the regions up the
waTM t t 1 1
.ci uave naa a ousy winter, notwith
standing the lack of snow at mmv nnini.
The wheeltnR has been good, and proba
bly as much sawed lumber ha boon
"banked" as would have been had there
oeen sleighinp. Not so with logs, although
at and above Xarrowsbnrgh large numbers
have been brought to the water. Millions
of feet of round lumber have been left in
the woods owing to the absence of snow.
Considerable oak, nsh and maple will be
run down the rivea this season. .Pine
has been growing scarcer each year for
ten years in the forests along and adjacnt
to the Delaware, and the product now is
very small not enough, in fact, to sud-
piy me nome demand, it operators were
satisnea to ai.pose ot it at home.
There is piled on the banks at Har-
ryvilte, drawn the past winter, 1,500,000
feet of sawed hemlock, to be rafted this
spring. It was hauled from Johnson's
nulls, at Pine Grove, Brodhcad's mills, iu
Bethel, and from Morrison's. These mills
arc all in a flourishing condition, although
operations on the lirodhead tract have
been somewhat limited since the death of
John Urodhead. Gen. Walker is still
interested iu this tract. The lumber at
liarryville was drawn on wagons, the
nearest mill being 14 miles away. The
Johnson's are talking of building a wood
en railway from their mill to the river.
To get 500,000 feet of lumber in the past
winter cost them 5,000.
The Ilolbert's at Mast Hope, will
probably send more pine to market this
season than any other operators along the
river. They have an immense quantity
banked ready for rafting, both sawed
and round.
John D. Uranning has 2,000,000 feet
of hemlock logs at Narrowsburgh, on the
Pennsylvania side, to run this spring.
Iloldert & Uranning, at Equinunk,
have over 6,000,000 feet of Iumbej to
run. This firm has three steam circular
mills, one alone having a capcity of 20,
000 feet a day. This mill has the largest
engine of any in the whole section. They
will construct soon a shute from their
mills, ou the south branch of the
Equinunk creek, to Cooley's on the
Delaware, between Little Equinunk and
Ilaukins, a distance of five niies, for the
purpose of running their lumber to the
river. It will be similar to that of Beales
& Ifolconib which will be described here
after. The shutc will cost about 86,000.
Wood and Boyd, of Eld red, Wayne
county. Pa., will ship 1,000,000 feet of
hemlock and considerable other sawed
stuff this Spring. They haul their lum
ber three miles to Milanville, wbere it is
banked. Believing that an outlay of 83,
000 to build a shute that distance will be
economy in the end, they are about con
structing one. This fiim is one of the
most popular in the whole region. Capt.
Lennox, who has towed rafts from Tren
ton to Philadelphia for years, will put a
new tug-boat in the river this season,
which he has named the Thonxa Y Boydt
in honor of the junior member of the firm.
Isaac Young, whose steam mill on the
Little Equinunk, between Ilaokins and
the B sket, was destroyed by fire week be
fore last, has 1.500,000 feet of hemlock
to raft. Mr. Young will probably dis
pose of it to other parties at home, in
consequence of his losses by the fire, and
not seek a market down the river.
Dodge & Tyler have recently erected a
new mill at tbe Basket. They have 1,
500,000 feet of lumber to raft this Spring.
At Hancock the East Branch of the
Delaware comes in. This stream traverses
the best lumber region. Immense quanti
ties of lumber come into the East Branch
out of the Beaver Kill and its feeder the
Willowemoc, which comes in at Westfield
Flats, Delaware county. Kaftmen never
have time to fool much with the Beaver
Kill- It is liable to a freshet at almost
any moment, and lumbermen, must be
ready for It, and pull right out. . They
say a railroad train has no business with
a raft coming out of the Beaver Kill and
Willowemoc creeks'
Ou West Branch rafts run some times
from as far as Delhi, but tbe region there
about is getting pretty well thinned out
of lumber. The heaviest operators along
the Weft Branch are Samuel Sands,
Stephen Whittaker, Geo. Hawks, and
Marvin Wheeler of Hancock. They are
not manufacturers, but buy and sell on
commission, and on speculation. Mr.
Wheeler probably superintends the run
ning of as much lumber as any other man
in tbe business.
The most extensive operators in the
Reaver Kill region are Beale & Holcomb.
Their mill is ou Trout Creek, a tributary
of the Beaver. Kill, having its head in
Long Pond, in thfl town of Fremont,
Sullivan county. The mill . is run by a
55 horse power turbine wheel. ' The
water comes from a reservoir covering
200 acres, and has a head of 26 feet at
tbe wheel; four circular saws in the mill.
Tbe capacity of tbe mill is about 5,000,
000 feet a year. The lumber tract be
longing to this firm contains 5J)00 acres.
A novel feature at theso mills is the shute
by whieh lumber is "rafted" to the mputh
of the Beaver Kill, seven inilles distant.
It is made of heavy hemlock plauk, and
is 14 inches wide, and the same depth.
Water Is" supplied at ilia same lieadj.and;
there are several other feeders to make
up wastage. In constructing it about j
200,000 feet of lumber were used. It
was built three years ago this month. A
log is adjusted at the mill, and as fast as
the boards arc sawed off, they are run on
rollers to the month of the shute, and in
forty minutes they are on the bank of the
East Branch. Obstructions are kept out
of the shute by boys, who are placed about
every two milles. A continual line of
lumber, is running through during work
ing hours. This firm have in the neighbor
hood or 2,000,000 feet to raft this spring.
At Deposit, Devereaux & Clark have
1,600,000 feet of hemlock, sawed, which
they are hauling to the bank of the Dela
ware to raft this Spring. They have a
portablr mill whih is moved from one
tract to another, where the lumber is
sawed and hauled in to raft.
beveral million feet of . hemlock logs
will be rafted from Hales' Eddy, and
Henry Evans has from 800,000 to 1,
000,000 feet of hemlock at bis mill.
- Jen Mile lliver. This rough and
rapid stream traverses a fine lumber sec
tion in Sullivan county. It starts in the
town of Bethel, and empties into the
Delaware at Delaware Bridge, in the town
of Tusten, abut Mast Hope. Stanton &
Calkins have a large steam saw mill on
this stream, and have 1,000,000 feet of
sawed hemlock to run this spring. They
bring their logs into the mill from the
woods by a wooden railroad. Their mill
was ereted last summer. Previous to that
their lumber was all sawed at Locke
meyer's mill, the logs being floated down
the stream to the mill. The capacity of
Stanton & Calkins' new mill is about 2,-
000,000 feet a year.
Nathan Calkins & Bro. have manu
factured about a million feet at their mill
on Ten Mileltiver. Calkins & Van Tuyl,
at their mill on the Last Jsranch of Ten
Mile River, have several thousand feet of
logs to run. They generally get out a
large number, but owing to the absence
of snow their run this Spring will be light.
They have a tract of 1,500 acres at the
head waters of the East Branch. Their
mill is run by water, a large reservoir
supplying the power in dry weather.
Willinski s mill has from 500,000 to
800.000 manufactured hemlock.
Like all the lumber regions in this sec
tion, hemlock takes tbe lead on Ten Mile
lliver. There is considerable second
growth pine, which presents a very hand
some appearance when sawed, but is not
stable. Ten Mile River is not navigable
for rafts, and the lumber is hauled to the
bank of the Delawre by teams from the
mills, which are distant from three to
eight miles.
The Lackawaxen River is the largest
tributary to the Delaware, and immense
quantities or lumber annually find a mar
ket from the vast region that this stream
affords an outlet to. The Wallenpaupack
creek empties into it at JTawley, and the
Dyberry creek at Honesdale, down which
millions of feet are run, and swell the
grand aggregate on the Delaware.
Kimble & Stanton, whose mills are on
the Dyberry, five miles above Honesdale,
have 1,000,000 feet of hemlock ready to
be rafted. E. & G. Kimble have a mill
farther up the creek. They send olso a
large amount of lumber to market. Kim
ble & Stanton arc among the most ex
tensive operators in the Lackawaxen
region Farnham & Collingwood, at
Wilsonville, being the only firm exceed
ing them at present.
Hawley is tbe first place that rafting
has commeccd this season. The Paupack
is navigable for rafts from Ledgedale, 14
miles up, to the Falls at Hawley, where
the lumber has to be taken out of tbe
water and hauled to Hawley, where it is
banked and rafted, or shipped by canal
and railroad. Since the opening of the
Hawley Branch of the Erie Railway, the
amount ot lumber raited lrom Hawley
has decreased materially. Lumbermen
from up the Paupack seeking a Philadel
phia market have a precarious undertak
ing. They start down the Paupack with
rafts, and they must trust to luck for the
freshet to hold out while they take out,
haul, and re raft their lumber in the
Lackawaxen!1 If the" freshet continues
they go on down the river; if not, the
lumber is piled up to await the next
freshet, causing very frequeutly serious
embarrassment to operators.
At Ledgedale are the extensive mills
of B. G. Morss & Co. They rafted 1.2U0,
000 feel of hemlock to Hawley this season,
where it was bought by George llittcnger
and Ed. Malooc. who are rafting it at
that place.
The upper waters of the Paupack
furnish power for many mills, and Green
township, Pike county, has a abundance
of them. Horace hip, tbe Gilpius, Borsc
& Bortree, and others, are among the
minor lumber operators, borne ot their
lumber reaches maket by the river, but
the most of it is hauled to Gouldboro, ou
tbe Delaware, Lackawanna and cstern
R. R., and shipped by rail.
The Promised Load Mills, in Pike
county, now owned by Dr. Jos. Jones, of
Honesdale, manufacture lumber ex
tensively. Theso wills are twelve miles
from Hawley, and the lumber is hauled
to that, plaee by teams. Dr. Jones
purchased this tract two or three years
since. It is one of the most valuable for
timber in the whole sectiou, and the pro
prietor recently exchanged half of it with
a society of Shakers for a valuable tract
of land in Jlerkimat county, N. Y. He
has a large amount of lumber on the bank
at Hawley, which he intends to raft. .
Farnham & Collingwood are the most
extensive operators on the river. About
iiaiwuujm.iaiCBB
two years ago Mr. Farnham bought 3,000
acres of timber land in Pike oounty, of
Hon. John Shouse, paying the handsome
sum of S60.000 for it. Subsequently he
disposed of half of it to Mr. Collingwood,
of Pougbkeepsic, N. Y., and the two
went into the lumber business at the mills
at Wilsonville, three miles above Hawley.
They run three circular saws, and their
capacity is 40,000 feet a day. There are
at present at the mills 6,000,000 feet of
logs, and the firm expects to ship 2,000,
000 feet of sawed staff this Spring. Their
lumber is shipped entirely by rail and
canal, for Newburgh and Poughkeepsie.
Joseph Atkinson, of Paupack, is doing
a lively business at his mills at that place.
His lumber is mostly taken by the Dela
ware & Hudson Canal Co. Mr. Atkinson
has considerable poplar this season, as well
as the more common lumber. This mill
has a capacity of 800,000 of 1,000,000
feet a year.
Ames& Bro. and the Purdy's at Purdy
town ; llittinger at Coopertown ; Ephriam
Kimble, at the Narrows; G. II. Rowland,
and many others manufacture lumber to
a greater or less extent in that vicinity,
most of which is sent down the river.
On the Ice.
"Marie Aun went to the front door,
last eveuing, to see if the paper had come.
She had been delivering a short address
to me concerning what she is pleased to
term my 'cold molasses style' of moving
around. ' As she had opened the door she
remarked, 'I like to see a body move
quick, prompt, emphatic,' that was all ;
but I heard some one bumping dowu the
steps in a most prompt aod emphatic
manner, and I reached the door just in
time to see my better half sliding across
the sidewalk, in a sitting posture, I sug
gested; as she limped back to the door,
that there might be such a thing as too
much celerity; but she did not seem in
clined to carry on the conversation, and I
started for my office.
"Right iu front of me, on the slippery
sidewalk, strode two independent knights
of St. Crispin. They were talking over
their plans for the future, and as I over
took them, I heard one of them say : I
have only my two hands to depend on ;
but that is fortune enough for any man
who is not afraid to work. I intend to
paddle my own canoe. I believe I can
make my own way through the world'
his feet slipped out from under him, and
he came down in the shape of a big V.
I told him he could never make his way
through the world in that direction, un
less he came down harder, aud that if he
did he would come through among the
'heathen Chinee and he was really grate
ful for the interest I manifested. He
invited me to a place where ice never
forms on the sidewalk.
"Then I slid along behind a loving
couple on their way to hear Madame Anna
Bishop. Their hands were frozen toge
ther. Their hearts beat as one. Said
he: 'My own, I shall think nothing of
hard worLi6can make, you happy. It
shall be J Oly aimA surround you
with comfoY ftfii y sympathy shall lighten
every sorrow, and through the path of life I
will be your stay and support ; your '
he stopped. His speech was too flowery
for this climate, and as I passed by she
was trying to lift him up.
"Two lawyers coming from the court
house next attracted uiy attention. 'A,'
said one, 'Judge Foster would rule that
out. We must concede the two first
points. WTe can afford to do it if evidence
sustains us in the third : but ou this posi
tion we must make our firm staud, and
'his time was up. If left him mov
ing for a new trial.
"I mused
teaches us.''
What a lesson the ice
How easy is humanity con
trolled by circumstauces and the attrac
tion of gravitation. What a sermon
might be based I got up and took the
middle of the street to prevent further
accidcuts.
Warter-proof Glue.
if.;)
Wfe have recently met with a very use
ful form of cement for woolen or other
similar' articles which are employed for
holding water or nonalcoholic liquids.
Although the formula is not a very novel
ouo, we know it to be useful aud likely
to suit the requirements of some of our
readers. It stands as follows : Alcohol,
(spirit of wine) 1 piut ; sandarac, I ouuee;
mastic, 1 ounce; common white turpen
tine. 1 ounce ; glue aud isinglass, suffi
cient; water, sufficient. Dissolve tbe two
resins sa ndaracaud mastic iu thcspirit.
aud then add the turpentine to the solu
tion. Make some very stroug glue, and
add to it ojgood pinch of isinglass. Now
heat the alcoholic varnish until the liquid
begins to boil, and then very slowly stir
in the warm glue: ' The amount of the
liquid glue to be added is determined by
noting the point at which, after thorough
mixture, a magma or thin paste is formed
capable of being easily strained through
cloth. When required for use, tbe strain
ed mixture is to be warmed and applied
like ordinary glue to the articles to be
united.' A strong junction is effected,
which is not destroyed by cold water, and
only af(.er a comparatively considerable
time bv hot water or ordinary saline solu
tions; -British Journal of Phatoqritpluj.
A gentleman of Ellsworthl Mo., made
a bet with his wife that he could undress,
go to bed, gel up, dress and'thea undress
and go to bed again while sue was pre
paring to 0 to bed. He won his bet.
Wholesale Thieving-.
A remarkable series of robberies, in
the vicinity of Trenton, has recently been
brought to light. About two weeks since,
a man named Henry Taylor, residing a
few miles from the city, in Mercer coun
ty, was suspected by one of the neighbors
of stealing some ' grain bags. The loser
obtained a search warrant and in com
pany with an officer visited Taylor's house.
On making an investigation they were
astonished to find the building crammed
full of articles of every description, which
had undoubtedly been stolen by the oc
cupant. Among the things in and about
the house were qantities of corn, oats,
wheat and clovcrseed, and an almost end
less number of bags ; lots of building
timber and slabs of marble; numerous
sets of harness, straps, blankets and buf
falo robes; large amounts of carpets and
matting, and other house and church
furniture ; carpenter's tools of all kinds ;
wash tubs and boilers ; wearing apparel
of every description, towels and sheets ;
running-gears and tops of wagons ; in
fact almost every conceivable kind of por
table property, amounting in value to sev
eral thousand dollars. Taylor was at
once committed to prison, and the articles
found on his premises conveyed to Tren
ton, where most of them have since been
identified and claimed by their proper
owners. The plunder seems to have been
gathered from at least a hundred differ
ent sources, scattered over a district ex
tending from Ewing to Allentown, in
Monmouth county. The curious part of
the matter is that this system of stealing
was carried on so long and extonsively
without detection. The accumulation
was so great that it could hardly escape
observation. Now that the facts have
come to light the mystery that has so long
enveloped the various thefts in the vi
cinity of Trenton ha3 been solved. Some
time ago the Presbyterian church at
Hamilton was completely despoiled of its
carpets aud movables. These were all
recovered at Taylor's place, to which they
had secretly been carried. What he pro
posed to do with so much plunder has not
yet appeared. A thief of so much shrewd
ness and smartness should have sold them
or passed them to other hands ; but it is
geue rally the case that a rogue is even
tually caught napping somewhere.
Wonders of the Lightning.
A flash of lightning rushes through
space at such a rate that it might go from
tbe earth to the moon in one second.
Then what time is allowed a man's nerves
to transmit to the brain the impression of
a stroke of lightning? And what time
has the brain to understand such a crash?
Absolutclv none ! The flash occurs,
and in darkness a life is cut off. Exper
ience bears out this deduction, for Prof
Tyndall relates thus his own experience :
"Some time ago I happened to stand in
the presence of a numerous audience with
a battery of fifteen large Leyden jars charg
ed beside me ; through some awkwardness
on my part. I touched a wire leading
from the battery and the discharge wcut
through my body. Life was absolutely
blotted out for a very sensible interval,
without a trace of pain. In a second or
so consciousness returned, I saw myself
in the presence of the audience and ap
paratus, and by the help of these external
appearances immediately concluded that
I had received the battery discharges.
The intellectual consciousness of my posi
tion was restored with exceeding rapidity;
but not so with the opitical consciousness.
To prevent the audience from being
alarmed, I observed that it had often
been my desire to receive such a shock,
aud that my wish had at length been ful
filled. But while making this remark,
the appearance which my body presenied
to itself was that of a number of separate
pieces. The arms, for example were de
tached from the trunk and seemed sus
pended in the air. In fact, memory aud
the power of reasoning appeared ; to be
complete long before the optic nerve was
restored to healthy actiou. But what I
wish chiefly to dwell upon here is, the
absolute painlessness of the shock ; and
there cannot be a doubt that to a person
struck dead by lightning, the passage
from life to death occurs without con
sciousness being in the least degree im
plicated. It is an abrupt stoppage of
sensation unaccompanied by a f aug."
High Heels.
Or
Nearly all the corns, incurvation of
nails, etc , which are peculiar to civiliza
tion, beitig unknown pedal troubles in
savage or barbarian life, are traceable to
high heels..
Notwithstanding shoemakers know this
to be true, they continue the fashion,
which gives employment to chiropodists
or, as they arc known in plainer lang
uage, corn doctors a lucrative profes
sion, which thrives by the folly of those
who would rather to lame than wear easy
shoe3 or boots of vulgar patterns. Any
elevation of thh heel drives the toes into
closer quarters, and corns develop to noti
fy the individual there is not room enough
at the point of the .hoe. Being too tight
across the ball of tbe great toe joint in
flames it extensively ; that is a bunin. If
the pressure is not removed, which is the
ouly permanent relief, a distortion of the
toe juints follows, and a perpetual crop
of cui us is ui 'certain as seed time and
harvest. No hecb-uoue of that trouble.
A Butter Tree.
Tallow trees, milk trees, pitcher trees",
and bread fruit trees are found in various
parts of tho world. They are no longer
wonders. But a new discovery in apart
of Africa not frequently visited by travel
lers has been announced thatquite eclipses
anything in the tree line. It is a tree
yielding butter, but not such as they sell
in Washington Market. It belongs to a
natural order sapotaceie.
According to M. Chevaul, the product
consists of a small proportion of aromatic
principle, oleinc and stcarine, very much
Iika mutton tallow. At 23 Fahr. it is
liquid, becoming turbid at 1C0, with
globules floating through the nasi. It isr
a poor substitute for butter, yet there is
an approximation so that an amateur
would pronounce it strong tba regular
boarding house article. Salt improves,
but under no aystera of treatment can id
be introduced to take the place cf that
churned from milk. When heated slight
ly the new product it easily converted in
to soap with a solution of potash or soda,
and thus becomes inodorous. Probably
this new article may have some future
commerical value in the manufacture of
saponaceous compounds and mixing with
ordinary butter on the principle of put
ting sand iu sugar.
California.
The California newspapers have lately
been occupying considerable space with'
what are presumed to be careful estimates
of the products of the State during tho
past year. The wheat and barley crops
are to be aggregated 36,05 1,500; the
clip on basfs of 30,000,000 pounds io?
to fetch ?12,000,000, and the fruit crop,
including grapes, from 5,000,000 to 6,
000,000. Taken as a whole, it is thought
the agricultural ond hertikural products
will enrich the people to the extent of
53,000,000. Of this amount it is ex
pected that least 835,000,000 will bV
gained by exports to Europe, Asia, and
the Eastern States. They yield of the
mines will add $18,000,000, while lum
ber, fish and live stock are counted upon'
for a like sum. Altogether the total
should reach $89,000,000, but we haVe
no doubt there are a great many persons
who believe that it will not fall short of
$100,000,000. Now, the contemplation,,
even in imagination, of such a vast pih
of gold, as a matter of course, would be
comforting to the California mind under
ordinary circumstances, but we are not
prepared to say how far it may be so at
this time, when the convulsions of the
earth are doing so much to "shake" the
popular belief in it3 realization.
A Hard Fate.
A Boston woman, who had for a lg
time been given up for dead by all who
were dear to her, lately appered, "the
ghost of her former self," to those who
had thought never to see her again. She
told a story of etrauge and horriblo
suffering. More than a score of years ago
she had sailed, a young girl of eighteen,
with her missionary husband for "India's
coral strand." The vessel was wrecked on
the Arabian coast, and all on board perish
ed save her husband and herself. Ho
was preserved only to fall a victim to
Arab cruelty and she to Arab slavery.
While her beanty lasted she was the
favorite wife of the most powerful chief
in the South Arabian desert, but when
that waned she fell from her "bad
eminence," aud was transferred to the
harem of an inferior sheik. And so she
lived, praying for death, but not daring;
to die till, bandied from one barbarian to
another, sho Boston lady, iu whoso
veins flowed the purest Puritan blood,
fouud herself the wife ol an Arabian
water carrier. From his power an Ameri
can traveler freed her, and provided her
with tho means to reach her home.
. The Schools of New York.
There are 11,728 district schools in
New York State, and the school houses
are valued at nearly twenty three and a
half millions of dollars, viz : 23,463.266.
The past five years have witnessed an
outlay of nearly ten millions of dollars for
new buildings. During 1871, over a mil
lion and a half pupils, (1,502,634) be
tween five and twelve years of age, have
attended these schools. Tho attendance
has been eighty per cent, of tbe entire
youth population of tho State. During a
part of the year 28,251 teachers were em
ployed, and the cost was in cities 3,066,- :
788; in rural districts, 3,586,305.
Why are Times Hard ?
People talk about hard times, and well
they may. An exchange ventures a few
plain words on tho situation, and here
they are for the benefit of our readers : ;
"We are fast becomiug a nation cf schem
ers to livo without genuine work. Our :
boys are not learning trades ; our farmers
sons aro crowding into cities looking for
clerkships and post offices ; hardly one
Awerioan girl in each hundred will do
housework for wagos, however urgent her
need ; so we are sending to Europe for
workmen, and buying of her artisans mil- .
lions' worth of : products that we ought
to make for ourselves. Wc must turn
over a new leaf."
Several prominent Mormons have been
appoiutel to proceed tj Europe on missions.
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