JUL
THE
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Bcmch to politics, literature, Agriculture, Science, ilToralitn, aui (Sencra! intelligence.
VOL. 30.
STROUDSBURG, MONROE COUNTY, PA., AUGUST 22, 1872.
NO. 16.
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Published hy Theodore Schoch.
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JOl5 PUINTIffG,
OF ALL KINDS,
t-iited in the liahe.t style of the Art, and on the
inl reasonable terms.
Valuable Property
FOB SALE.
The subscribers offer for sale.
rtlieir roidence in Stroudsburg.
x he Jjrtt ha? a front of 145 ft.
SS3on Main .Street, with a depth of
I'jil feet. ...
The buildings consist of a convenient dwell
ing house, store house, barn and other out
buildings.
There is an abundance of choice apples,
pears, plums, grapes and small fruits, with
excellent water.
May If., 1 A. M. ft R. STOKES.
" DR. J.LANTZ,
Surgeon and Mechanical Dentist,
Still lias Ins o.lif-e on Main Street, in the second
nory 'if Or. S. Walton's brick fomliltnp. neaily oppo
rr the strotulshiirg House, and be filters' himself
tk! bv ris.i!en vcars tTonslant praclit-e and the mi.t
r-t hii.I rart'l'ul altrniion lo all mailers pertaining
la Ins pmffSMoit, that he is fully able to perform alt
.nrratmns in the denial line in the most careful, taste
til n4 sniii'.'iI manner.
s,ir-u! aitniiimi gncn to snvin the Natural Teeth ;
. t the insertion .f Artificial Teeth fin Rubber,
OcM, Silver or Continuous Gums, and pertect fits In
all fa.-e ins'iT.I.
M's! perns lnoiv the (;reat folly and danger ol en
trii'iirii tlilr work lo the inexperienced, or to lhoe
linnj :.t a distance. April 13, 1S7I. ly
D
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PHYSICIAN, SURGEON & ACCOUGHER.
In the old office of Dr. A. Ileeves Jackson,
rfiJeiice in Wyckolfs but Ming.
STROUDSBURG, PA.
Aui'Uft e, i8?2-tt:
If. J. IMTTERSOX,
OPERATING AND MEfHAMUL DEMIST,
Having located in East Stroudsburg, Pa., an
nounces that lie is now prepared to insert arti
ficial teeth in the most beautiful ami life-like
manner. Also, great attention given to tilling
tad preserving the natural teeth. Teeth ex
torted without pain by use of Nitrous Oxide
Om. All other work incident to the profession
Hone in the moat skillful and approved style.
All work attended to promptly and warranted.
Charges reasonable. Patronage of the public
wlicited.
Office in A. W. Loder's new building, op-
fwite Analouaink Ilou.-e, East Stroudsburg,
a. July 11, 1S72 ly.
" DR. N. L. PECK,
Surgeon Dentist,
Announces lint having just returned from
Denial Collegs, he is fully prepared to make
trtiticial tcctli in the most beautiful and lite
Mi manner, and to fill decayed teeth ac
curding to the mot i-nprcved method.
Teeih exfracted without pain, when de
!rfd, by the use of Nitrous Oxide Gas,
which is entirely harmless. Repairing of
;l kinds neatly done. All work warranted.
Chiracs reasonable.
Office in J. CI. Keller's new Brick build
i", Miin Street, Stroudsburg, Pa.
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K. C. O. IIOFFJI.tX, 31. I.
Would resiiectfnllv announce to the
puWic that be has removed his office from
Oak laud to Canadensis, Monroe County, Pa.
framing that many years of consecutive
yreticc ot Meuicine and Nirgery will be a
$cient guarantee for the public confidence.
February 2o, 1870. tf.
JAMKS . W.tLTO.,
Attornej at Kaiv,
Oftfe in the building fonnerly occupied
7 h. M. Uurson, and opposite the Strouds-
ar i,,:,ik-, 31aiu street, fctroudsbur
jan I.",-tf
J'a.
T AtKAWAXXA HOL'SC.
JU Ol'PdSITE I'll E DEI'OT,
Ka st Stioud.-burg, Pa.
li. J. N'AN COTT, Proprietor.
The hai: contains the choicst Liquors and
.e taele is. supplied with the best the market
Eork Chargus moderate. may 3 lS72-tf.
vrso.vs
Mount Vci Jioii House,
117 and 119 North Second St.
Ar.ovi: Ar.cir,
PHILADELPHIA.
May 3.'), 1S72- ly.
KELLERSVILLE HOTEL
Jhe undersigned bavinrr uttrciiased the
, "ii'JviMimcu iiavnirr inirciiasM
" o ivuoHii ana iojmiar iiotei i roiier-f-
would respwtfullv inlbrni the traveling
rW!o that Ite has rtiurnished and fitted up
J lutein, the best style. A handsome
,ir" tUoivc Liiuors and Segars, jwdite
'tcalauts and uiodcrate charges.'
n t , CHARLES 5lAXAL,
,jctlO 1571. tf. Proprietor.
linVl waII i 1 v t I 1 It
AItTO.SVILI.C IIOTKL.
?!J abli-bed Hotel, having rceentlv
'""Red hanU, and been throughly overhauled
"u paired, will reopen, for the reception of
r.ft n Tuesdav, .May 27th.
iril i p,.'hlic wiU iwav ibis bouse a de
U , l la(,L' of rewrt. Every kpartment will
! l, an.aSed in the lHst jKssible manner. Tlie
t!o l1 "Pplied with the liest the Market
Wti 'u'1 ""oisureM will always find none
" 'e best winea and liquors at the bar.
fcuna "tabling beloning to the Hotel, will be
. t at all times under the care of careful and
"Ul8Jg attondautii.
v 1S72. AXTIIOXY II. IiOEMEIl.
GEN. GRANT.
What He Is His Great Onnlitips His
Genius Pre-eminent Among all Gen
erals ms Heroic Determination
Sureness of Judgment &c, &c, &c.
Gen. Grant's history should teach us
to discriminate better than we Americans
arc apt to do between glitter and solid
work. Our proneness to run after dema
gogues and spouters may find a whole
some corrective in the study of such a
cnaracter as nis. 'lhe qualities by which
great things are accomplished are here
seen to have no necessary connection with
showy and superficial accomplishments.
When the mass of men look upon such a
character they may learn a truer respect
for themselves and each other; they are
taught by it that high qualities and great
abilities are consistent with the simplicity
of taste, coutempt for parade, and plain
ness of manners with which direct and
earnest men have a strong Datural sym
pathy. Ulysses Grant the tanner,
Ulysses Grant the unsuccessful ap
plicant for the post of City Surveyor of
fc't. Louis, Ulysses Grant, the driver
into that city of his two-horse team with
a load of wood to sell, and within him
every manly quality which will cause the
name of Lient.-Gcn. Grant to live for
ever in history. His career is a lessen in
practical democracy ; it is a quiet satire
on the dandyism, the puppyism, and the
shallow affectation of our fashionable
exquisites as well as upon the swagger of
our plausible, glib-tongucd demacocucs
Sot by any means that great qualities are
inconsistent with cultivated manners and
a fluent jellction ; that such superficial ac
complishments are no measure of worth
or ability.
Gen. Grant's last brilliant campaign
sets the final seal upon his reputation. It
stamps him as the superior of his able
antagonist as well as of all the com
manders that have served with or under
him in the great campaigns of the last
year. It is not necessary to sacrifice any
part of their well earned reputations to
his. biiERMAN and biiERiDAN deserve
all that has ever been said in their praise ;
but there has never been a time, since
Grant was made Lientenant General,
when anybody but Sherman, on our side,
could have been classed with him. Since
Sherman's bold march through Georgia,
and his capture of Savannah and Charles
ton, there bavc been many who, in their
strong admiration of his great achieve
ments, inclined to rank him as the greater
Generalof the two. Thatjudgment, we take
it, is now reversed by the court of final
appeal : not by dwarfing reputation of
Sherman, which suffers no just abate
ment, but by the expansion into grander
proportions of that of Grant.
Grant stands pre eminent among all
the Generals who have served in this war
in the completeness of his final results,
lie has owed nothing to accident; and,
both in the West and the East, he has
accomplished the most arduous things
that were to be done. The great thing
in the West, without which the rebel
power could never have been broken in
that vast region, was the reopening of the
Mississippi ; the great thing in the East,
the taking of the rebel capital. Rich
mond was the right leg of the rebellion,
and the Mississippi Itiver its left. Roth
were coutested by the rebels with a full
appreciation of their value. The resistance
was, in both places, powerful and obstinate
enough to put the most heroic tenacity
of the most indomitable mind to a proof
sufficient to test its quality. Gen. Grant
has exhibited the utmot strength of will
of which the highest typo of manhood is
capable. The defenses of Vicksburg and
the defenses of Richmond were both
deemed impregnable, and were defended
with a proportionable confidence and
obstinacy ; but they both yielded, at last,
to Gtant's matchless persistence and
uncqualed strategy. And, io both cases,
he not only took the long contested posi
tions, but compelled the surrender of the
whole force defending them. Nothing
could be more clean and complete, even
in imagination, than Gen. Grant's
masterly execution. He did not merely,
in each case, acquire a position which
was the key of a wide theatre of opera
tions ; be did not merely beat or disable
the opposing force ; he left no fragment
of it in existence except as prisoners of
war subject to his disposal.
If anybody is so obtuse or so wrong
headed as to sec nothing great in Gen.
Grant beyond bis marvelous tenacity of
will, lot that doubter explain, if he can,
how it bus happened that, since Grant
rose to high command, this quality has
always teen exerted in conspicuous
energy precisely at the point on which
everything in bis whole sphere of opera
tions hinged. There has been no display
of great qualities on small occasions ; no
expenditure of herculean effort to accom
plish objects not of the first magnitude.
It is only a very clear sighted and a very
comprehensive mind that could always
thus have laid the whole emphasis of an
indomitable soul so precisely on the
emphatic place. How, if he be not a
General of the first order of intellect, as
well as of the most heroic determination,
does it happen that in assigning great and
brilliant parts to his subordinate com
manders, he has never, when the results
of bis strategy were fully unfolded, ap
peared io the picture except as the central
figure ? However it may seem during
the progress of one of his great combined
campaigns, it always turns out at last,
when it reaches that completeness and
finish in which he contrives to bavp. Ms
campaigns end, that we see htm standing
in the foreground, and that the grouping
is always such that the glory of the other
uenerais instead ot eclipsing his own
gives it additional lustre. It'ia this snre
ness of judgment which sees precisely
where lies the turuiug point; which sees
precisely what are the objects that justify
the utmost stretch of persistence ; it is
this ability to take in the whole field of
view in just perspective and due sub
ordination of parts, that is the mark of a
superior mind. Gen. Grant has taken
out of the hands of all critics the question
whether it belongs to him. He has won
his greatest triumph over the most skill
ful and accomplished General on the
other side ; over a General who foilpd
him long enough to
prove his great mas
tery of the art of war ; and the complete
ness of whose defeat is a testimony tn
Grant's genius such
as a victory over
any other General of the Confederacy, or
even an earlier victory over Lee himself
could not have given. Apply to Gen
Grant what test you will ; measure him
by the maguitude of the obstacles he has
surmounted, by the value of the posi
tions he has gained, by the fame of the
antagonist over whom he has triumphed,
by the achievements of his most illustrious
co workers, by the sureness with which
he directs his indomitable energy to the
vital point which is the kev of a vast field
. J
of operations, or by that supreme test of
consummate ability, the absolute com
pleteness of his results, and he vindicates
his claim to stand next after Natoleon
and Wellington, among the great
soldiers of this countrv. if not on a level
with the latter.
It may be thought that the above
article is quoted from some "Grant
organ :" but it is in reality copied from
Grant's most persistent slanderer, the
New York Worl7, of April 11, 1865.
The truth icoultl force itself out just then,
for all mankind could sen what this coun
try owed to Gen. Grant, and it would
have been useless for the World to bavc
denied the cre'dit due to the great com
mander. What was true on April 11,
18G5, cannot be untrue in Aug. 1872.
STOCK RAISING IN TEXAS.
Sand Mounds on the Laguna Madre-Sheep-Raising
and its Profits.
The correspondent of a New York pa
per writes from Carricitos, Texas, July
22 : The surface of the land along the
western shore of the Laguna Madre, and
for 80 or 100 miles back is level and not
more than ten or twelve feet above low
tide mark,
tions, but
iug sands.
There arc some slight undula
these are caused by the shift
These shifting sands are one
of the great features of the county. They
extend for a distance ot sixty miles north
and south along the coast, and fifty or
more back into the country.
The sand is very fine, and, during the
prevalence of strong winds from either
the north or the south, it is blown about
furiously and promiscuously. The whole
surface of the earth is covered more or
less with it. In some places it is only two
or three inches deep, and here the grass
grows well, even raukly, and makes a fine
pasturage. Immediately underneath the
sand there is a deep, black loamy soil,
which is very rich, and which, when the
seasons are favorable, yields good crops
of corn, cotton, vegetables, etc.
There are ridges and mounds, or banks,
of sand scattered all over the country, of
various 6izes, lengths, heights, and ages.
The sand is driven before the wind uutil
it meets some obstacle that breaks its
force, when the sand falls to the ground,
thus beginning a deposit. There are
ridges of saud two or three miles long,
and from five to twenty-five feet high,
and they have apparently been undisturb
ed for many years. The grass is begin
ning to grow over them, aud young live
oaks trees to spring up. In fact, on some
ridges there are live oaks trees apparent
ly a hundred years old. The course of
these ridges is east and west, at right an
gles to the direction of the winds and the
coast. The larger ones do not exceed in
width, at the base, more thau 200 feet
Ou each 9ide, the rich black soil is gener
ally clear of sand.
In some of these formations arc im
bedded large live oak trees, with only
their top limbs out, while in other places
the trees have formerly been in the sand;
but from some cause, after remaining in
that coudition for a long time, perhaps
200 years, the winds have blown away
the sand, and thus left the roots that had
grown out from the body of the tree nak
ed and exposed. I noticed one tree, near
the road leading from Rrownsville to Cor
pus Cristi, that had growu on top of a
sand ridge when the ridge was about ten
feet high. After the tree was of some
size the ridge seems to have increased six
feet more iu altitude, and remained so
for many years say 100, judging by the
size aud appearance of the trees that have
grown on it since its second elevation.
Then the wind made a break through the
ridge at this particular place, and soon
denuded the tree, trunk and roots, and it
now stands supported by the bare roots,
so that a man can walk under the main
body of the tree by passing between these
uncovered pillars. This is the oddest in
stance, but there are hundreds of others
in the same predicament. There are
many banks of sand that arc yet moving,
and new ones arc forming, which move
across the country slowly westward. The
new loruiatioud arc entirely bare of vege
tation, and in a strong wiud present the
appearance of drifting snow, with the dif
ference that on a clear day they are rath
er warmer than a snow drift.
Stock ranches have to be frequently
removed on account of the sand. The
horses aud cattle iu the corrals break the
light turf and loosen the soil, so that the
wind takes up the sand carries it to the
fence, where it is lodged, aud in a few
years the sand is piled up over the top of
the fence, so that the stock walk in and
out over the top of a fence ten or twelve
feet high. As the fence rots away the
sand is blown away, till it meets another
resistance, perhaps a mat of live oak trees,
which in their turn are buried alive.
With the exception of this disagreeable
feature of the country it is a good stock
range, and thousands and tens of thous
ands of tine horses, cattle, mules and sheep
range over the plains keep fat during the
whole year. Aud it is a notorious fact
that during the last winter, when more
than half the cattle between Gaudaloupe
and Necbes rivers died during a cold
sleet storm in January, not ten per cent,
of those south of the Necbes were lost.
In this county (Cameron), and iu Hidal
go, Starr, Zapata, Webb, Kucinal and
Duval counties, the mortality during the
wiuter is usually small, as there is a great
deal of mesquit timber, which lorms a
good shelter l0r stock against the uor
thcrs. There are two kinds of grass here
the mcsquit grass, which is the better
of the two, and is a coarse grass commou
to prairie countries, and the Rermuda
grass, which doc3 well, spreads rapidly,
and soou kills out weeds and the other
grasses. The soil being of a porous na
ture, the roots run down to the depth of
four aud five feet in search of moisture.
It thus stauds the drouth very well, and
furnishes food for stock when there is no
other fresh grass. When raised in Gelds
for mowing it yields two and three crops
of hay during the summer. There arc
some sheep raised in this part of the coun
try which yield profitable returns for the
amount of money invested and the time
employed in taking care, of them. The
dryness of this climate is very favorable
to sheep raising, and the sandy uature of
the soil is equally so. There is no dan
ger of the foot rot, or other diseases, which
arc caused by the feeding of sheep on
lana that is solt or muddy, lhe shep
herd can easily keep them out of the pools
of water that arc found during the rainy
season, lne disease known as the Iotn-
briz, which kills so mauy j-oung lambs,
has heretofore proved very .unfavorable
to sheep raising. This disease is describ
ed by a successful sheep grower as fol
lows : "1 he seat of the louibriz is in the
maw, which, in the last stage, is filled
with myriads of hair like rcdish brown
worms. From being in a good condition,
the Iamb gradually droops and dies iu a
few weeks. This decadence is some
times more rapid, the nose meanwhile be
ing white, the eyes dull and the cars
drooping. Adany theories have been ad
vanced to account for the lombriz. The
most intelligent opiuion, however, seems
to be that the worm is a parasite, and
that, like other varieties of worms iufest
ing animals, it is the product of an egg
deposited by some insect upon the grass
eaten by the lambs. It has been the
means of nearly destroying flocks, and
also deterred others from engaging iu the
business. An efficient remedy has been
found, consisting of copperas, salt and sul
phur, in equal parts, well pulverized.
The does for a lumb is from three fourths
to full teaspoon. One or two does are
sufficient, the second one should be at an
interval of two or three days Mr. 1). W.
PuTrish, of Rocrne, Texas, is, I believe,
the discover of the remedy.
The people of this section, a majority
of whom arc Mexicans, are so averse to
labor that they do uot raise sheep, for the
reason that they require more attcution
and labor thau horses or cattle, though
the profits here on sheep raising arc much
larger than on other stock. The business
cau be counted ou as paying fully 50 per
cent, on the capital invested. This is
the estimate made by successful wool
growers in Western Texas. Another great
advantage here that the sheep raising has
over that of other stock, is, that the Mexi
can soldiers and citizens do not cross the
Rio Grande, and steal them as they do
horses and cattle, 'lhe mcsquit timber
forms a very good protection to locks dur
ing cold storms of slcct or rain storms,
which, however, are un frequent here.
C ATLLE-RAISING IiTcOLORADO.
WILD AND TAME STOCK COLORADO
SI'RIMjS CATTE AT DENVER.
Con'esronilait of lhe Tribune
Denver, Colorado, Aug. 1. Buffalo
can be seen every day along the lines of
our for Western railroads. They have
become so accustomed to the cars that
they pay no more attention to them than
do the cattle grazing beside thu road.
For 50 or 70 miles along the "buffalo
range" the carcasses arc almost as thick
iu some placces as the bunches of ''grama
grass." Whole herds died during the
terrific snow of last Winter ; some of ihein
appear just as they fell mumificd, as it
were by the dry air. Others, by far the
larger number, have been turned into
clean white skeletons by the wolves. Go
ing from Denver to Colorado Springs,
one journeys through the Platte Valley,
which has the appearance of an old,
healthy, and rich country. Colorado
wheat promises well this year, and Colo
rado farmers say they cua prove it to bo
the best wheat in the world. In Denver.
Colorado flour is 814 per 100 pounds, and
Eastern flour 10, really a good argument
to proe "what Colorado wheat can do."
Leaving the Platte, we follow the line of
a small stream, where we find some farms
cultivated without irrigation. Passing
the summit, we arc ou the head waters
of the Fontaine Que Rouille, where im
mense herds of cattle and sheep are living
happy, fat, and growing lives. At Colo
rado Springs, one man has 14,000 sheep,
and other persons have 150,000 herd of
stock in the small valleys around. This
is really the heaven for 6heep, being high,
dry, and cool in Summer, and not in
juriously cold in Winter, and having
moisture enough to make the grass excel
lent. Here at Colorado Springs arc the
celebrated medicinal waters which make
the place a haven for the sick, .as well as
a gold mine for stock-raisers.
Coming back to Denver, I examined
stock-raising operations there. It is be
coming generally known that all the
country between the Rritish possessions
on the north, the Rio Grande on the
and the Missouri River on the east,
south, the Rocky Mountains on the west,
is destiued to be the best stock-raising
country on the North American continent,
if uot io the world. When we begin to
fully realize that we h ive, between the
Rocky Mountains and the Missouri River,
1,050,000 square Biilcs, or more than
1,000,000,000 acres, which form au im
mense pasture, millions of cattle and
sheep will live, thrive, fatten, and
multiply where there arc only thousands
now. Millions of buffalo, antelope, deer,
and eiks have for ages roamed over this
so called "desert," and lived luxuriantly
on its sweet, nutritious grasses. There
are now about 700,000 head of cattle and
sheep scattered over the area mentioned,
and there are certainly room, water, and
food for as many if not twice a3 many
millions.
There are five great natural grazing re
gions in the world. The interior of Asia
has furnished rich pasturage Summer
and Winter since the time of Abel, "who
was a keeper of sheep." TLc second
great pasture is South Africa. That im
mense region lying south of the Moun
tains of the Moon, in 10 north latitude
to the Cape of Good Hope in 35 south
latitude, feeds immense herds of gramiu
ivorous animals the year rouud, and has
done so for ages. The interior of South
America is the third great pasture-ground,
and the fourth is Australia. The fifth is
our own trans Missouri and Mifsissippi
country, as "yet imperfectly developed,
but which perhaps surpasses in every
natural advantage any part of the knowu
world. It is not unreasonable to predict
that twenty years from to day America
and Europe cau and will be supplied with
meat from the Great Amcricau Desert
with its packing bouses and . pastures.
Most of this great region is as yet un
tracked and untraveled by human feet or
by tame animals. While thousands and
teus of thousands in Colorado, Utah, New
Mexico, Montana, Nevada, and California,
are trying to mine their way to wealth,
it will be well to remember that while the
annual products of all the mines in the
world iu ItCtO was onlv 61.000.000.
Australia alone furnished more than
$150,000,000 worth of wool, and the
manufacturer iu turn by his skill and
labor produced $500,000,000 worth of
goods, and thus the enormous amount of
five hundred millions was added to the
commerce of the world.
Stock raising brings
many other useful and
in its train so
paying employ
tncnts that we say it is preferable to
almost every other business in the' West.
It is the sure guide to wealth ; it will
diversify our productions, give scope to
national enterprise, subsistence aud hope
to those who would find homes ou the
public domain ; build up our manu
factories, retain and multiply capital in
the country, foster an infinite variety of
industries, increase the fertility of our
soil, aud will make our trade and com
mcree as ubiquitous as the waters of the
sea.
Mark Twain's Report of the Farmers'
Club.
Ex Constable Quinn desired the club
to inform him how to make hogs root.
Dr. Show had been a practical farmer for
the past six weeks, aud iu all his varied
agricultural experience no such article as
hog's root had come uuder his notice.
What was it? Was it edible ? Was it
useful iu auy way, or was it, as he more
than suspected, auother worthless bum
bug ; devised by the sharpers to defraud
us practical farmers. lie knew not
whether it was propagated by seed or cut
tings, but be would advise Mr. Quinn to
be shy of hog's root, especially if it is a
new-fangled or high-priced tuber.
Mr. Mokcr, the agricultural writer, ex
plained the anatomy of the bog's pro
boscis. It is designed for cubtcrrauc -m
foraging, by a process vulgarly called
looting, to which .Mr. Quinn'a inquiry
probably referred. Rcing a delicate or
gan, it is liable to injury. Ho would ro
conunend that Mr. (uinn wipe his hog's
nose. If he finds it red, be may be sure
it is tender aud needs protection by a me
tallic shield. Some resort to the strategic
device of insertiug a ring in the hog's
nose, in his effort to remove which he
would naturally insert his snout into the
soil, and thus root unwittingly. That was
rather playing it low on the hog, and the
metallic shield wuo preferable ou the score
of fair dealings and philanthropy:
Mr. Greeley exhibited a pumpkin of
his own raising. At it embodied his soli
tary and crowning success, after several
years of discouraging failure in pumpkic
culture, the club surrounded it witk un
covered heads and mingled emotions of
surprise, admiration, and envy. It was d
superb fruit ; and when Mr. G.'s hat was
placed on it, to illustrate its size and
symmetry, the hat and pumpkin seemed
so perfectly adopted to each other, and
together produced an effect eo startling
that several enthusiastic members swore
they would have known who raised that
pumpkin if they had seen it anywhere.
It is to be photographed by Gurncy;
and next year's Tribune subscribers will
receive copies. The pumpkin was the
flattering product of the bushel of seed
planted on the farm at Chappaqua. Soori
after blossoming, the vine manifested ari
inclination to wither. It was, therefore',
transplanted to a large flower pot, and re
moved to the town residence of its found
er. For some time it pined and dropped,'
and they sat up nights with it. expecting .
that every moment would be itsast, but
every moment turned out not to be its
last, and with careful nursing it finally
ralied and came up to maturity, as cherish
ed aud tough a pumpkin as ever grew.
Dr. Sixhammcrs suggested that the re
sult of Mr. G.'8 indomitable struggle with'
this pumpkin showed how every city
family could provide itself with pumpkin
pic. He hoped to sec the day when every
window-sill, iu every city, would be adorn
ed with fructifying pumpkin pots, and
every workman's cottage embowered in
pumpkin vines.
Thomas Dodd, of New Hampshire,
writes to the club that he is fifty years
old, inQrm with consumption, has a larger
family, ten dollars ia money, and wants
to know what to do.
Mr. Moker Go out to Greeley Colony
and invest in our irrigating ditch.
Mr. Layman Ruy a Texas raccbe of
Florida orange grove.
Dr. Stimble His health requires lighfi
farming in a bracing climate. Let him
start an indigo plantation in Alaska.
Mr. Greeley He mustn't come to New
York. His $10 wouldn't last a year ;
but out West he can invest it and grow
up with the country. If I had gone West
with S10 at his age, I would be a happy
man now, with two suits of respectable
garments, an office, and a conscience guilf
less of distracting tariff and farming es
says. Mr. Hastings invited the club to vrsiS
his farm, thirty miles up the river, next
Wednesday, aud inspect a horse-radish
that he bad persuaded to vegetate. The
ground was tilled, sub soiled and top
dressed. He had expended on that plant
only half a ten of bone-dust, one cart-load
of ashes aud barrel of guano ; yet in spite
of his neglect, it had within a year grown
to the size of his. little finger. His fore
man would explain to the clerk the pecu
liar difficulty of raising this rare exotic.
He would treat the club to a regular far
mer's dinner, the materials for which he
had already engaged at the City Market,
Tendency of Railroad Decisions.
The law courts are gradaally getting
the matter of the obligations and reponsi
bility of railroad companies settled on a
solid basis. The courts in several State.t
have decided that a ticket sold for a ccr
taiu distance, or any line, is good for any
time within tho six years that will in
validate any other unwritten contract -Notices
to the contrary arc of no effect.
A Roston court has now gone a step fur
ther and decided that a ticket sold to a
man to take him from New Haven to New
York, will also take him in the opposite
direction, from New York to New Haven,
and a man who was put off a train be
cause he insisted on having a ride when
be paid for one, has obtained a verdict
for $5,200. We do not know the law rf
Pennsylvania on the subject, but un
doubtedly it will be tested whenever au
opportunity occurs.
This is how an editor lost his credit by
promptness in paying back borrowed mon
ey :
"Colonel, will you lend me a hundred
to day ?'
''Can't possible do it, sir. I never loan
a man mouey the second time wheu he
disappoints mc the first."
'"Some mistake, I reckon, colonel. I
paid you the fifty I had last week."
''That's just it. I never expected i!
back, so you disappointed rac. Can't do
it sorry to say I can't do it on principle."
Abraham W. Rallard, of Michigan, was
killed by ligbtuing a few nights since,
while iu bed a.leep. His wife, who was
sleeping with him, knew nothiag of-Urn
occurrence until sho awoke quite late iu
the morning and found him dead.
An infant left in a radla ia York
borough, was bitten no badly in the face,
last Saturday, that it died in great agony.
Chester county is O. K. Tho treasurer
collected iu a term of twenty four days,
from the collectors, S 13,000.
There is a gentleman living at Cham
bcrburg who has a collection of oil paint
ings valued at SS0,000.
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