HPJ-T A Bcuotcb to palitics, literature, gricnlturc, Science, illaralitn, anu cneral 3ntelU9cuce. VOL. 30. STROUDSBURG, MONROE COUNTY, PA., MAY 16, 1872. NO. 3, 'mmm''mmmBaasm IIJIUIII- I,,, i ,M, , n Ill II Ill I II III! II i Published by Theodore Schocbi TEHMS -To dollar a yearin advance and if not BiJt)pf reth! eml of the year, two dollars and fifty ,ful ill e charged. N meriliscoiUimiel until all arrearages are paid, irerl ' the option ot the Editor. Advertisement of one square of (eight lines) or ta.mie oritireo insertions $1 50. Each additional nition, 50 rent. Lonjer ones in proportion. JOB IMtlMTlicS, OF ALL KINDS, Eicr.uteJ in the highest style of the Art, and on the . most teasonuble terms. Valuable Property FOE SALE. JFjk Tlic suliscribcrs offer for sale, jtiWlie'r residence in Stroudsburg. P? 'A The Lot has a front of 1 45 ft. 6?&?K3on Main Street, with a depth of i.Vt feet. ... The buildings consist of a convenient dwell in; house, store house, barn and other out buildines. There is an abund.-inee of choice apple, pear, plants, grapes and small fruits, with lAcellent water. M:.v K, 72. A. M. k R. STOKES. I ACEt.lWA.WA IIOLSi:. J Ol'lMSITE TI1K DKPOT, : Eat Stroudsburg, Pa. 15. J. VAN COTT, Proprietor. The bam contains tho chuiest Liquors and the T.vr.LK i. supplied with the best the market afford. Charges moderate. may 3 1872-tf. DR. J.LANTZ, Surgeon ami Mechanical Dentist, Still U.is his .1i:e on Main Street, in the second tory f Hr. S. Walton's brick building, lira i ly oppo me'lln; Striiiil!nirg House, and lie flutters" himself ttui toy ctsj'iu-tn yens t-.onsLiut practice and the morl ciin-I and caitrfiil allrntu-n to all matlers pertaining l hi piofrtssi.iu, that he is fully able to prrfurm nil nrratmns in the dental line in the mort caieful, t.mte Iil and sktlll'nl manner. ,!( u I attention given to sarin" Hie Natural Teeth ; :.. to Use insertion ofArtifirial Trelh u:i Rubber, Cil. Silver r C.intiiiu.ms Gums, and pertert fits in all m-es insured. M-ist pers iiis know the great folly and danger of en tru'tmc ilieir woiktothc lnexperienred. or to those lions at a instance. April 13, 1ST I. ty DEI. '. O. ISOFFHAX, 31. I. Would iviK?ct fully announce to the public that he has removed his office from O.ikland to Canadensis, Monroe County, Pa. Trust in? that many years, of consecutive practice of Medicine and Surgery will be a mfficient sruaranteo for the public confidence. February 15. 170. tf. Qfo. W. Jackson. Amzi LeBar. Dis. JACKSON & LcBAR MIS1CIAXS, SiRCMXS i AITOITIIERS, StrntnJsbni'f nid Kx:t StroiidnLvrg, DR. GEO. W. JACKSON, Stroudsburg, in the old office f Dr. .A. Jeeves Jackson Kmidence in Wyckofl"! JJiiiJding. DR. A. LeBAR, East Stroudsburg, ofljoe next door to Smith' Store. Kesidcm-e at Mim K. Heller'-, feb. 8 '72-1 f DR. N. L. PECK, Surgeon Dentist, Announces th it ha vinjf just returned from Denial Coilegs, lie is fully prepared to make artificial teetlj in the most beautiful and life line manner, and to flli decayed teeth ac crd:n to the most i-n proved method. Teeth ex'ract"d without pain, when de sired, by the use of Nitrous Oxide Gas, ltic!i is entirely harmless. Repairing of 'l kinds neatly done. All work warranted. Chfirz? reasonable. Office in J. G. Keller' new Brick build in?. Main S'reet, Sfroudeburg, Pa. uf 31-1 f Juics ii. w nro.w Attorney ul Iiv, Office in the building formerly occupied 7 Ii. M. Ib-.rson. and opposite the Strmids-kur- H.mk, Main street, Stroudsburg, Pa. jan ir,-tf KELLERSVILLE HOTEL. Hie undersigned bavin? purchased the altvc well known and jntpular Hotel Proper ty, would rcsjKrt fully inform the traveling that he has refurnished and fitted up ' Hotel in the best style. A handsome 15;ir. with choice Liquors and Segars, Mjlite attendant. and iuod.rate charges. C1IAKLKS MAXAL, JKt J '.i 1ST1. tf. Proprietor. IVdid out why,pwple go to McCartyV to ;t tluir furniture, Ikh-jiusc he Imivs it at the "are U.h.ius of Jxxi & Co. and 'isells it at ') advance of only tirnttti-tir iid tim ''iiith yr c,.t ()r 0ther words. Hocking ' luirs that he buvs of Jx;e & ('o. (through the runners he doii't have) for 4,.r0 he sells . I'njx u,n to hint some qinttl Fur- "''" jj:i: & co. Nriudburg, Aug. IS, 1870. tf. p '1? LA STEEt" Fresh ground Nova Scotia PLASTER, t Stoked Mills. HEMLOCK BOARDS. fJACING. SHINGLES, LATH, PA UXG. , POSTS, cheap. f LOU It and FEED constantly on hand. pi exchange Lumber and Plaster for tfmin or piy the hipheet market price. BLACKSMITH SHOP just opened by L. Stuno, an experienced workman. Public trade solicited. N. S WYCKOFF. tolie MilL-, Pj April 20, 1871. REV. EDWARD A. WILSONS(of WH ..fT hamburgli, N. V.) Recipe for CON GUMPTION and ASTHMA carefully com pounded at HOLLIKSHEAD'S DRUG STORE. OCT" Medicines Fresh and Pure. Sv. 21, 167. W. IIOLLINSHEAD. Curious Facts and Customs Relating to There are many curious customs in ro tation to teeth in different countries. In some parts of Sussex, England, there is a supersition that if jou put on your right tuv.King, rignt suoe and right trouser leg, before the left, you will never hare a toothache. To drink out of a skull tak en from a graveyard ; to take a tooth from such a skull, and wear it round the neck; to applythe tooth to your own living but aching tooth ; to a double nut into your pocket; to pare your finger nails and toe nails, and wrap the parings in a paper all are charms against the toothache. When an aching tooth is extracted, mix it with salt and burn it. ( Iu other parts of England, there is a custom of calling the tooth ache the "love pain," for which the sufferer is not entitled to any com miseration ; whether he. or she fully as sents to this may perhaps he doubted.- Many other items of toothlore have no connection with toothache. For instance; if the teeth are set wide apart, there will be good luck and plenty of traveling for the fortunate possessor. When a tooth is drawn, if you refroin from thrusting your tongue into the cavity, the new tooth to grow in its place will be a lucky one. Lady Wentworth, in a letter written in 1613 to her son, Lord Stafford, spoke of the efficacy of wolves' teeth set in gold, to assist children in cutting their teeth : "They are a very lucky thing; for my two first ones did dye ; the other bred his very ill, and none of ye rest did, for I had one for all the rest." There is reason to believe that the Greeks and llouians kuewsomcthiagabout false teeth. Martial, in one of his epigrams, said that Thais' teeth were dis colored, while Leucania's were white. Why 1 Because the former wore her own teeth, whereas the latter wore those of some other person. One of the old ltoruao laws allowed the gold setting of false teeth, or the gold with which they were bound, to be buried or burned with the deceased. Deutistry was known in England three centuries ago. Uelgrave's Mathematical Journal, published in the time of Queen Elizabeth, tells us that "Sir John Belgrave caused his teeth to be all drawn out, and after had a set of ivory in agayne." Ben Johnson, in his 'Silent Woman, published iu 1G07, makes one of his characters say: 'must vile lace ! and yet she spends me forty pounds a 3-car in mercury and hog's bones. All her teeth were made in the BJackf riars!'' An almanac printed iu 170D mentions one John Watts, who was the maker of artifical teeth iu Backet Court, Fleet street. Some barbarous nations draw the two teeth iu the middle of the jaw. The sable females of Africa go still further, and one of the charms they are most solicitous to acquire is two have four teeth deficient two above and two below. The woman who would want the courage to have them drawn would be so much despised as a young girl in China with feet of the na tural size. The Japanese women gild their teeth, and those of the Indies paint them red. A custom prevails among the Siamese to stain their teeth with a sable varnish, which they renew annually. In the Sandwich Islands persons desirous of going into mourning, paint the lower part of the face black, aud knock out their front teeth. No doubt this causes a very sincere kink of mcrning for the time. Some years as$o all Germany was in commotion in relation to a rumor that a child had a golden tooth. Of course it was an eye tooth, and everyone wanted to see it. The literati were exercised over the phenomenon. Philosophers and anatmoists wrote essays and large volumes on the possibility of the event, and each ascribed the freak of nature to a different cause. But, eomewhow or other, not one of them ever thought of examining the tooth. If they had, they would have found that a shrewd imposter had cover ed it with gold leaf, with a view to ex hibit the child as a prodigy. The tooth was sebsequently examined, and the trick of the showman discovered. The latter disappeared, and the .child was sent to an orphan asylum. In 1816 Lord Schwarterbury gave 16, 595 fraucs for a tooth of Isaac Newton, which is now set in a ring and worn by the eldest branch of that family. During the days of the resurrectionists or body snatchcrs, when grave yards were subjected to pillage for supplying anato mists with subjects for dissection, the teeth from the dead bodies formed a fre quent article of sale to the denists. Sometimes graves were opeu for the teeth alone, as being small and easily concealed articles. Mr. Cooper, an English, surgeon, re lates an instance of a man fcigniog to look out for a burial place for his wife, aud thus obtained acess to the vault of a meeting house, the trap door of which he uubolted. At night he let himself down iu the vault, and pocketed the front teeth of the whole of the buried congregation by which he cleared 50. Mention js al so made of a licensed sutler or cautiueer, during the Peuiusular War, who drew the teeth of those who had fallen in bat tie, and plundered their persons. With the proceeds of these adventures he built a hotel at Margate. But his previous oc cupation being discovered, his house was avoided, and was disposed of at a heavy loss. He afterward became a dealer iu dead men's teeth. Mr. Catlin, who some years ago had an interesting exhibition of scenery, dresses, weapons, etc., noticed that North Ameri can Indiana have better teeth than the whites. He accounts for the difference in this strange way that the reds keep their mouths shut, whereas whites keep them open. The teeth, he says, require moisture to keep their surface in good working order; when the mouth is kept open, and the mucous membrane has a tendency to dry up, the teeth lose their needed supply of moisture, and thence come discoloration, toothache, ticdolou reux, decay, looseness, and eventual loss of teeth. Shakespeare, in "Midsummer-Night's Dream," says : For there was never yet philosopher That could endure the toothache patient- ly. Shakspeare once had the toothace. An Imperial toothache once made the fortune of a poor barber. The Sultan of Turkey having a touch of toothache, sent for the court physician. He was hunt ing and could not be found. The do mestic hurried about Constantinople, and at last found a poor ragged barber sur geon ; they took him to the place ; and furnished him proper clothing. He drew the offeuding tooth, and soothed the pain of the Commander of the Faithful. A nice house aud one thousand six hundred piasters a month were awarded to him. "You are a foe to your life if you do not masticate well," says the Latin prov erb. Those who have good teeth and do not masticate well, can profit by this lesson. A7. lr. Times. RAIN WATER FOR HEALTH. Ve take the following from a letter on this subject, from D. S. Carter, published in the Washington Chronicle : It is a well established fact among med ical men that the stomach and bowels and mucus membrane are far less liable to attacks from epidemic diseases and to other derangement under the constant use of cloud water than earth water ; that attacks of cholera and summer complaints and like diseases are much less frequent and less fatal than with those who use hard water. During the cholera season of 1350 the writer had large opportunity to see this fact emphatically demonstrat ed, while passing those summers in sev eral cities on the Mississippi river, where portions of the towns are built on the high, rocky bluffs, and other portions dowu by the rive side. In the former no water was used but rain, the rocks rendering it difficult to dig wells, Hence cisterns were the only resources for wa ter, and here were no fatal cases of chol era or summer complaints, and very few caes at all, which were very mild ; while in the lower portions where earth water was used exclusively, the cholera and other diseases raged with fearful and fatal malignance among old and young. A French Commissioner of Health about that time wrote as follows: "It has been clearly ascertained both in 'Paris and elsewhere, that rain water is a pro- pJiylactic (antidote) to cholera, and that the disease was not proved an epidemic in any city where rain water was exclu sively used ;" and upon all communities the general use of rain water is urged at whatever cost. At about the same time Dr. Ilobbs, of Memphis, reported the following : By the exclusive use of rain wator, cholera will speedily disappear and not return ; this is known from both analysis and an experience of twenty years, and proves that it should be latihfully used for all personal purposes. And further Dr. John Lea, of Cincin nati, bears the following testimony ou the same subject: "It is a verified fact, which will stand the test of the strictest investigation, that the exclusive use of rain water for all purposes of drinking, cooking, and bathing, instead of hard water, is a sure preventive of cholera and bowel complaints, and that no town or city supplied exclusively with raiu water ever suffers seriously from epidemic cholera." This array of testimony could be ex tended by hundreds in Europe and Amer ica, but it is deemed sufficient at this time. A distinguished London physi cian, who had long studied the subject, wrote: "Hard water for cooking is decidedly bad, many vegetables are near ly spoiled by being cooked iu it, and it is impossible to get a good iufusion of tea or coffee in hard water : one fourth ltss will give the same strength it rain water be used." The writer's only object, in this com muuicatiou, is to awaken the people to their hiiiheBt iuterests on a simple sub ject, and oue of econmy, aud health, and 1 Drake county, Ohio, is iu a terrible state of excitement over the liquor law. Nine suits, for sums varying from 1000 to 10,000, each, have been eutered against saloon keepers and the owners of property occupied by them, the plaintiffs being the wives of intemperate husbands. Oue woman uriose husbaud was killed in a drunken brawl, has brought 810,000, while the wife of the man who perpetrated the homicide, has sued for $5,000. AH tha saloons are closed. A Kansas faimcr, iu Sumner county owr g Ol,0UU bead or came. vjoiouc. r nf Tpm has a sous little farm of Ki in h acres, whereupon are pastured 000 horned cattle, 10,000 horses, 7,000 84 65 fehcep aud 8,000 goats. The War-How Soldiers Drew Lots for Death. Col. Henry W. Sawyer was among the Federal prisoners in Libby prison at the time when the Confederate government determined to retaliate in kind the execu tion of two rebel officers by one of the Federal Western generals. Mr. Sawyer was at that time a captain in the First New Jersey cavalry, and was one of the grade of officers from whom selections were to be made for the victims to Con federate vengeance. The officer who was in charge of the prisoners at that time was a . kind-hearted, agreeable man, aud was regarded by them with feelings of gratitude aud affection. On the morning in question, this officer entered the room where the prisoners were.confiucd and told all the officers to walk into another room. This order was obeyed with par ticular alacrity, as the prisonesr were daily expecting to be exchanged, and it was supposed that the order had arrived, and that they were about to change their prison quarters for home and freedom. After they had all gathered in the room their countenances lighted up with this agreeable hope, the officer came in among them, and with a very grave face took a paper out of his pocket and told them he had a very melancholy duty to perform, the purport of which would be better understood by the reading of the order he had in his hand, which he had just received from the War Department. He then proceeded to reud to the amazed and horrified group an order for the immediate execution of two of their number, in re taliatiou for the hanging of two Cou federate officers. As the reader ceased the men looked at each other with blanch ed faces, and a silence like death prevail ed for some minutes in the room. The Confederate officer then suggested that perhaps the better way would be to place a number of slips of paper equal to the whole number of officers from whom the victims were to be selected in a box, with the word "death" written on two of them and the rest blank the two men who drew the fatal slips to be the doomed men. The drawing then commenced, the men advancing aud taking out a slip, and if it proved to be a blank, taking their places in another part ot the roum. The drawing had proceeded for some time, aud and fully a third of the officers had exchanged gloomy looks of ap preheusion for a relieved aspect they could not avoid showing after escape from such terrible peril, before a fatal death slip had been drawn. At the end of about this period, however, the first slip was drawn, and the name of "Captain Henry W. Saw yer, of the First New Jersey cavalry," was called out as the unfortunate man. The Captain was, of course, deeply agi tated, but did not lose his self-p ossessiou, he immediately begau revolving iu his mind some plau fur averting, or at least postponing the immediate carrying out of the sanguinary edict of the Coufcd. erate government, and by the time that he was joined by his companion in mis fortune who turned out to be Captain Flynn. of an Indiana regiment he had resolved upon his course. The officer in command, as soon as the drawing was completed, ordered the two men to be taken out and immediately executed. Captain Sawyer, however, demauded, as a request that no civilized nation could refuse under such circumstances, that he should have permission to write to his wife, to inform her of the terrible fate that awaited him, and to have her come on and bid him an eternal farewell. Respite for a day or two was thus ob tained, and Sawyer subsequently obtained an interview with the Secretary of War, and secured permission to writo to his wife, which he did. His object in writ iug to her was principally for the Federal government to be made acquainted with the predicament in which tho officers were placed, aud secure hostage and threaten retaliation should the orders of the rebels be carried out. It turned out precisely as Sawyer hoped and expected. Our Government was iuformed of the condition of affairs, and promptly seized a son of General Lee, and oue of some other prominent general, aud threatened to hang them if the Union officers were executed. By this meaos the lives of the two men were saved, as the Confederate Government did uot dare to carry out their threats. After a few months' more confinement. Captain Sawyer was exchang ed. Capt Flynn, his companion in mis fortune, came out of the ordeal with his hair as white as snow, turned gray by the mental sufferings he iudured. Capt. Saw yer served through the war. The Year of Disease : Bv the testimony of medical men and of the press all over the world this has been an exceptional year fur the preval ence of diseases of a malignaut type. What peculiar state of the atmosphere causes this spread of disease is not fettled, butthcreis a deficieacyor superabundance of some element to occasion it. The man ner iu which confluent f-mall pox has traveled in this country; the steady ad vance of cholera over the world from its Asiatic lair ; the alarming development of the ppotted fever, or ccrebro spiaal meningits ; the unprecedented spread of malignaut scarlet fever, diptheria, black measles aud like diseases in their worst typo, avo illustiaiious of this uuplcusaut fact. Discounting. The following article from the Phila delphia North American, contains some excellent suggetions on the subject of loaning mouey, which we commend to many of our capitalists : "A paper published at Bangor, Maine, pleads with the capitalists of that place to be more liberal in their policy toward the young and struggling business men of the town, and then asks this question: "Is it not better lor the rich man to loan money at six per cent, and have the city grow" and flourish, thau to exact twelve per cent, and have it wither and wane V We wonder how many men of fortune in Philadelph ia ever think of the matter in this way? And yet it is, after all, the soundest calculation that a capitalist can make. For the geueral prosprity of a comrauuity affects every persou in its own ing cither fixed or floating capital. And as prosperity is enhanced by an easy mon ey market aud low rates of interest, aud is retarded by a stringent money market and high rates of interest, itstauds to rea son that if the capitalists generally agree in their policy of squeezing as much mon ey as possible out of borrowers in the way of interest, the rest of the people who are not capitalists will retaliate in some way that will tell upon the money-lender. "Is not this clear ? The mau who is compelled to submit to an exorbitant shave must either become insolvent or realize a higher profit on what he deals in. If he fails, the loss comes at once upon the money lender, and this is quite a common case all over the country, and will contin ue to be so long as the rates of discount arc unhealthy and abuormal. These rates are not such as the people generally can afford to pay, and consequently some one is certain to fail. Yet the discounter in variably ignores this fact and goes on shaving as before. If, ou the other hand, the borrower does not fail, he must save himself by realizing a higher profit on the articles he deals iu. In New York and Chicago, where the rates of discount are always exorbitant, prices of all kinds are very high. Heal estate in both cities brings rates and figures that seem prepos tcrous, and the expense of living is enor mous. It cannot be otherwise while cap ital costs so much. "Let us suppose a real estate owner has a store on a business street occupied by an old, prosperous, and reliable tenant, at a moderate reut. Incited by greed he aais es the rent one third, which is quite a common case. The tcnaut refuses to pay it, aud having the means at command buys auother property and fils up a store of his own. The owner of the old store has his place empty for a time during which he loses the rent, and then be leas es it to a new tenant who does not succeed, and either fails or moves off. Now we maintain that the low rent of the first teu aut is a better return ihan the precarious chances of the succeeding one. Mauy landlords govern themselves by this prin ciple. And the case with regard to mon ey is the same. The man who makes up his mind to invest his money in such a way as to risk no losses is sure to accumu late aud grow rich. Moreover, if we re vert to the text from which we started, it is better for the capital to foster the gen eral prosperity of a community, by lend ing at moderate rates of interest, than to screw every dollar out of a needy bor rower that can be exacted. Suppose two private discounters to pursue opposite lines of policy. One fakes every possible advantage of the needy borrowers, while the other, wheu he finds a business man in trouble, who deserves a better fate, examines into his a flairs closely, ascer tains ihe weak point, advances the re quired capital at a moderate rate, and secures a permanent and profitable custo mcr, who sends all his friends to the same banker. Which of these men is the shrewdest? Which will grow richest? Which is the truest exponent of the uses of capital and the advantages of bauking ? Which is best for a community ?" Be Economical. Look most to your spending. No mat ter what conies in, if more goes out, you will always be poor. The art is not in making money, but in keeping it j little expenses, like mice in a barn, when they are many, uinke great waste. Ilairby hair, heads get bald ; straw, by straw, the thatch off the cottage ; aud drop by drop, the raiu comes in the chamber. A barrel is soon empty, if the tap leaks but a drop a minute. When you begin to save, begiu with your mouth ; many thieves pass down the red hue. The ale jug is a great waste. In all other things keep within compass. Never stretch your legs fur ther thau the blankeU will reach, or you will soon be cold. In clothes, choose suitable and lasting stuff, aud not tawdry fineries. To be warm is the main thing; never mind the looks. A fool may make mouey, but it uccds a wise man to spend it. llemeuiler it is easier to build two chimneys than to keep one going. If you give all to back and board, there is nothing left for the savings batik. Fare hard aud woik hard while you are young, and you will have a chance to rest wheu you are old. 1 ' With the exception of Nebraska and Nevada, every State iu the Uniuu reports citizens born ia every other State. m xi - Cleat field has a school boy fifteen years old, who stands six feet two. Ho ttands very hib. iu Lii class. A Novel Idea about the Sun. The astronomers of these latter days talk about planetary distances and spaces with as much confidence as a surveyor gives the dimensions of a city lot, or the metes aud boundaries of a farm. In our schoolboy days the astronomers said the sun was about 1)5,000,000 miles from the earth, but now the exact distance is laid down at 01,500,000 miles. This cuts off a trifle of 3,500,000 miles ; still the dis tance, even as that astronomers now foot it up, wound be a long way to travel. If our Puritan fathers had set out from the sun, instead of from England, on that eventful day which witnessed their em barkation, and had traveled by an air line continuously at the rate of forty miles an hour, which is a good deal faster than Dexter can go, they would not be' due aS Plymouth Bock till late in the year 1883, which would be seven years too late for them to take part in our graud centenuial celebration ou the 4th of July, 1876. The astronomers tell us the gravity is so increased at the sun that bodies would weigh twenty eight times as much there as here. What a lift she would be for a lover scekiog to rescue her from her papa's burning dwelling ! Then just con sider the avoirdupois of a man heavy oa earth say a three hundred pounder at the sun. There he would weigh eight thousand four hundred pounds. Imagine such a man falling from the fifth story window upon the head of an unsuspect ing passer-by ! The coming down a thous and of brick on earth would be nothing to the impact of such a creature ou tha sidewalk in frcut of his sunny home. But the astronomers are unanimous ia the belief that the sun i3 without inhab itants ; and we agree with them, if it be true, as .they say, that the temperature of that orb is ten million degrees Fuhreu hcif. Rights of Married Women. The Legislature of Pennsylvania last winter passed the following Act, securing to married women their separate earnings, which has been approved by the Governor, and is now the law of the land : That the separate earnings of any mar ried woman of the State of Pennsylvania, whether said earnings shall be as wagea for labor, salary, property, business or otherwise, shall accrue to and inure to separate benefit and use of said married woman, and be under the control of such, married woman independently of her husband, and so as not to be subject to any legal claim of such husband, or to the claims of any creditor or creditors of such husband, the same as if such married wo man were a ft inc sole : Provided, that iu any suit at law or in equity, in which tho ownership of such property shall be in dispute, the person claiming such pro perty, uuder this act, shall be compelled, iu the first instance, to show title and ownership in the same. Skc. 2. That to prevent any fraudulect practices under this act, before any mar ried woman shall be entitled to its benefits, she shall fir&t prcseut her petition, uuder oath or affirmation, to the court of com mon pleas of the sity, or county where she residcst stating her iutention of there after claiming the benefits of this act, whereupon the said court shall direct her petition aforesaid to be marked filed, aud to be recorded in the office for recording deed'fof such city aud couuty ; and such record shall be conclusive evidence of tho right of such married woman to the bene fit of the first section of this act. Duration cf Vitality in Grain. "A young Earner" inquires if seed of the different kiuds of grain a year or more old, will grow as well as fresh seed. Our answer would be, always sow seed as fresh as it can be had, for although some seed will germinate after it has been kept for years yet these are exceptions. We du not know of any distinct experiments oa old aud new grain, except it be a 6tngle trial which we made in pots. Fresh seed wheat was sown in pots in autumn, one inch deep, aud kept properly moist. Ia another pot, subjected to the same tem perature aud the same degree of mois ture, was sown wheat kept over oue year. In other pots, seed five years old, was swon uuder similar circumstances. The first or fresh seed came up in eleven days, the weather Leing rather cool ; the second seed, one year old, came up in thirteen days. The five year seed iu the other pots came up irregularly, the first in eigh teen days, aud afterwards for nearly a mouth. The grains of all were counted when placed in the earth, and the result was that all the fresh seed grew ; all or nearly all the one year; but uot one half the five year seed ever grew at all. From these limited experiments, we may infer that fresh seed is always the best ; if on ly u year old it may do well, although tho plauts will hardly have the vigor of the first ; but seed several years old should bo employed only for preserving or securing some desirable variety. We hope some of our leaders will repeat the experiment ou oats, barley, &c., by accurately count ing, measuring depth, reeordiug dates, &c. Country Gentleman. . A Troy court bus decided that, if a drunken mau offers hid fare on a street car, tho conductor canuot put him off. A young boy iu Lafayette, Ala., phot h's mother dead the other day ou her re fusal to allow him to go hunting. NTT
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