11 L HI 1 -1 JL ILiLJJJJ JJJJL Ekuotcu ta politics, itcratuvc, Agriculture, Science, ittoralitn, anb ctteral intelligence. VOL. 30. STROUDSBURG, MONROE COUNTY, PA., DECEMBER 19, 1872. NO. 33. JEFF 3arVTT A AT Published by Tilcodore Schoch. TE&'-H - Tl" 1"U irs yc.tr in advance nd ifnot pil ticf''i itc rfil of the year, two dotltusitml fifty teilts will e charge-l. v i tc lioo.iiinnc I until all arrearages are paid, eicept t". the ,.ti.n o! the Editor. r7.V Iveriiscinents of one square of (eight lines) or 9M.on or thre insertions $1 SO. Each additional Tt-iti-iii, 50 cent.. Longer ones in proportion. J on IMS STING, OF ALL KINDS, 4 - -I - ' Pteciiled in the lushest Myle of the Art, and on the in.t resson.i ble terms. DR. J.LANTZ, Surgeon and Mechanical Dentist, Still h is his oiHie ri M;in Street, in Uio second ntury of Ur. S. Waltmi's brick hui.iling, nearly oppo site the irou lsSury Itou-ve, ami lie fl.iiters lnin.-elf t!it tty rijjhu-en yeats constant pfcti-e and the moyt 0true'-i iJ careful atteiui-'-n to nil matters pertaining f tf ifi?iM, that he is fully able to perform all Iteration in the denial line in I lie iuo.i careful, tante anJ fcKilUal manner. Siun;i4l ati-iiiioH ien to saving the Natural Teeth ; also, to tlic ink-Tien f Arltuitial TrelU on Rubber, Ci'l J. Silver or ro:tUuuou Gums, and perlect fits in nil cj.'i-s insurrd. Mst persons know the great folly and danger of en (nisiiiix their vioik totiie inexperienced, or to thoe tjring at a ili.Uuce. April 13, 1 ST I . 1 y D U. GEO, IV. JACfiSO. PHYSICIAN, SURGEON & ACCOUCHER. In the old office of Dr. A. Kceves Jackson, residence in Wytkoff's building. STROUD SBURG, PA. Aujust 8, 187'J-tt: OPERATING AM) JiEHIAMrAL DEMIST, Having liK-ativl in East Stroudsburg, Pa., in ntnnvM that he is now prepared to insert arti ficial teeth in the most beautiful and life-like manner. A No, great attention given to filling and preserving the natural teeth. Teeth ex traded without pain by use of Nitrous Oxide Gas. All oilier work incident to the profession dont in tlie most skillful and approved style. AH work attended to promptly and warranted. Charge. reasonable. Patronage of the public olioited. Office in A. W. Loder's new building, op posite Analomink House, East Stroudsburg, Pa. July 11, 1S72 ly. DR. nTl. PECK, Surgeon Dentist, Announces ih it h vitijj just returned from Dental Collegs, lie is f.dly prepared to make artificial tet!i in the mo.-t beauliful and lile liks manner, and to 11 1 decayed teeth ac cording to the mot in proved inelliod. Teeth extracted with. tut p i in, when de eirel, by the oss of Nitrous Oxide Gas, which is entirely harmless. Repairing of 11 kinds neatly done. All work warranted. Charges reasonable. Ofice in J. (J. Keller' new Brick build ing. Main S'reet, Strou Jeburg, Pa. auj 3l-if ) Would resjtoet fully announce to the public that he has removed his office from Oakland to Canadensis, Monroe County, Pa. Trusting that man' years of eonvutive practice of Medicine and Surgery will be a sufficient guarantee for the public confidence. February 2o, 1870. tl". JA.12S2S 3. VALTOX, Attorney at isiv, OflW in the building formerly occupied by I j. M. Uurson, and op)osite the .Strouds burg Hank, Maiu street. Stroudsburg, Pa. jan 13-tf LACK A IV AW A HOl'SK. OPPOSITE THE DEPOT, Kast Stroudsburg, Pa. R. J. VAN COTT, Proprietor. The bar contain" the elmiest Liquor. and the table is (supplied with tiie best the market afford. Charges moderate. may 3 1872-tf. "ITT" ATS OS'S l JUotini Vernon Honxv, 117 and 119 North Second St. ABOVE ARCH, PHILADELPHIA. May 30, 1672- ly. KELLERSVILLE HOTEL. The undersigned having purchased the above well known and popular Hotel Proper ty. would resiectful!y inform the traveling public that he has refurnished and fitted up the Hotel in the best style. A handsome liar, with choice Liuor.s and Segars, iolite attendants and moderate charges. CHARLES MAN'AL, Oct 1 9 1 87 1 . tf. 1 Proprietor. JARTOXSVILLE IIOTKL. ThU old established Hotel, having recently changed hands, and been throughly overhauled and repaired, will reopen, for the reception of f guest on Tuesdav, May 27th. The public will always find this house a de irable place of resort. " Every department will b managed in the best possible manner. The tabU will be supplied with the best the Market afford, and eonnoisures will always find none but the best wines and liquor at the bar. Good stabling beloning to the Hotel, will be ound at all times under the care of careful and obliging attaudants. m.j 23 1872. ANTIIO.VY II. ROEMER. Found out why people go to McCnrty s to get their furniture, because he buys it at the Ware Rooms of k Co. aiyl sulls it at an advance of only tirenty-tiro and tico minth per a-nt. Or in other words. Rocking '"hairs that he Luvs of Lee k Co. (through the runners he don't have) for $4,50 he sells or $5,5l'.' Poys him to birj some food h ur vsilurr. LEE & CO. Strwdsbu-rg, Aug. 18,' I8T0. tf. C1AN VOU TELL WIIY IT IS J tht when any oneeomes to Strotidn Wg; to buy Furniture, they always inquire ar McCartys Furniture Storef Sept. 2 From the New York Era. The Free-Love Missionary ; OP., HOW I LOST ONE THOUSAND DOLLARS. As the possessor of a pretty wife and lour bouncing little boya and girls, I know I ought to be ashamed of myself. I allude to the scrape I got into at At lantic city. I decided to spend a Sunday at Atlantic city, unaccompanied by my wife and the other responsibilities. I thought I could have more fun by leaving the dear ones at home. One does not always care about having a jealous woman tugging at his coat tails when he is trying to excite the admiration of the fairer sex, and to have four little boys and girls claiming you as a parent, and begging pennies for candy, when you wish to pass off as "a gay old bach," is an abomination and a curse. Rut I digrcs?, as the parsons say, after trying to relieve a heavy sermon by a heavier auecdote. Four o'clock, on a picas int Saturday afternoon, found me comfortably seated in a car, bound for Atlantic. The seat beside me was vacant, but all the other seats in the car were occupied. I was speculating on what sort ot a person would occupy the vacant seat beside me, when I heard a sweet voice say, in acccut that sent a delicious thrill down into my very boots: "Is this seat occupied, sir 7" Looking up, I discovered I was ad dressed by one of the loveliest females it had ever been my good fortune to gaze upon. She was a large womau well form ed, with plenty of bust, low necked dress, short sleeves, and about a yard of train lollowing behind her. I took this all in at a glance, aud describe her as I first saw her. Her neck and shoulders were delieiously white her arms of an at trative, smooth nod round appearance In spite of the whiteness of her shoulder, however, she was partly a brunette, and had black glossy hair, and dark eyes that seemed to sparkle with life and intelli gence. She was about thirty five years of age, and, in my quick summary ot her, I classed her auioug the dashing and festive widows. 'The seat is not occupied, madam," I said, politely, in answer to her question. 14 Perhaps you would prefer this seat, next to the window, where there is more air ?" ,4And more smoke and dust," she re joined with a smile. 4,No, thauk you, I will take this seat. She had a free, bold, independent way of speaking and acting that won me to her at once. She was encumbered with several packages and small satchels, and she was not at all backward in asking my help to stow them away in the basket overhead. 'You seem to be quite a traveler ?" said I, when we had got all things ar ranged, and the train had started. 44 What causes you to think that?" she asked, with a smite. "Recause you have the air and confi dence of an experienced traveler." "Thank you fcr the compliment," she said, lightly, "but am sorry it is not deserved. My travels,, in the present instance, only exteud from Oaeida to Atlantic ci'v." "Oneida l' said I. 4 Oh that's in New York State. It is a free. love paradise, is it not ?" 'If you choose to call it so," said she, rather coldly, I thought. "I am a mem ber of the Oneida Community myself, and I am proud to add, as a missionary of that sect, I now visit Atlantic city to try and bring new converts into our society. I shall strive," contiuued the lady, "to teach the young bloods of that famous watcriog place, the great lesson of love." "There are different kinds of love," I remaiked. The celebrated pastor and physician of our city. Dr. Laudis. remarks in his "prison thoughts," ''When I endeavor to love my neighbor as myself, all the people cry out, 'Landis is mak ing love to Mrs. Williams.' If you allude to the kind of love Dr. Landis hints at, I am afraid the young bloods of Atlantic city are too strongly imbued with it al ready." "Then I shall endeavor to teach the staid men of older years the beautiful lessons of our love. I shall endeavor to gather the irreclaimable bachelors, ami teach them that the love of an aflectionate woman." ''Should you not make woman plural ?" I inquired. "I believe when a gentle man enters your society, he is not mated with one woman, but is considered the common property of every woman in the community. The same as every woman who enters is the wife of all the men." "And is not that the most blessed con dition in which the members of the hu man family could live, untrammeled by trite marriage laws, or the old fogy circle for too long a time? How absurd the idea that the same uiao and woman can spend a lifetime together, as man and wife, and never tire of each other! Is it not natural for us to desire a change of associates even the best of friends and deavest of relations must pall upon us in time. Suppose you are a married man I a married woman. Where is the sin, if you leave your wife, I my husband, aud associate together for a time, if, by so doing we beeomc better and purer?" In her eloquence, she laid her hand upon my shoulder, and was leaning i.JO;itr noamst me. for her last words wcie spoken in a whisper. I felt a strange, enrapturing sensation prevail, and know that, under her influence, I was losing my power of self control. I knew that the doctrines she taught were false and pernicious, but with her lovely face be side me, how could I utter a word of scorn or unbelief? I replied that I had a. wife and four children living in Philadelphia, who look ed to me for bread and butter and the general attention of a parent. Rut still I might throw these considerations aside and become, my fair companions better half for a day or so. if I wasn't afraid of being detected at the little game, and having Jersey justice . served out tome by wholesale. "Pshaw 1" said the lady, laughing. 44 Your fears are groundless. Ry the way, what is your name." "Thomas Goodwin," I replied. "Then suppose you change it," 6he said, "and register your name at the hotel as Mr. Andrew Jackson. We will keep to our rooms, and even if your neighbors should be stopping at the same house it is not probable they will detect you." As my evil fortune would have it, I acquiesced in this, and a short time after wards, when the train arrived at Atlantic City, I registered our names as "Andrew Jackson and wife," at a large hotel, and then a servant ushered us into a luxurious bed room, with the information that these would be our quarters during our stay. I had scarcely shut the door upon the servant and turned to look at my lovely companion, whern there came a heavy knock at the door, and a loud and angry voice demanded that it should be instantly opened. "Oh, goodness !" exclaimed my fair companion, clasping her hands in evident terror. "It's my big brute of a husband ?'' "I thought you had no husband ?" I whispered, my legs shaking under me. "I understood you to say you were a free- lover, and a missionary from the Oneida Community. ''So I am, but I married this man prior to going to Oneida." "Come ! open the door you scpundrcd or I'll break it down," said the voice. "I have the strength of twenty men in me." "I do not doubt it, my dear sir," I said ; 4:but if I open the door what will become of me ?" -You had better open the door and let him in peaceably," said my fair inamorata, "or he will raise the whole house by his noise, and perhaps some persons who know you may be brought to the scene." I was horrified by the supicion her words had arouse!. Suppose my busy neighbor Smith should be stopping at the hotel, and discover the scrape I was in The rascal would be sure to tell ray wife, and then I would never hear the last of it. It took but a second for me to decide, and I then opened the door, and admitted the infuriated husband. I expected he would turn" me inside out when he got inside, but he did not. He quietly took a seat, and eyed me and the lady quietly, calmly and philosophical ly. Nevertheless, he wa3 a big fellow, and I was afraid of him. I took my sta tioo behind the bedstead and eyed him cautiously over the head-board. "What is your name you scoundrel ?" he inquired, calmly, as he drew a revol ver from his pocket "Mr. Thomas Goodwin," I replied, scarcely able to articulate ray name. "Mr. Thomas Goodwin," he said deliberately cocking his weapon, "I am undecided whether I shall or shall not mar the general cleanliness of this room by sprinkling your brains against that wall." ; "Don't do it my dear sir don't do it." I remonstrated. "I object to such treat ment. I assure you your suspicions are groundless. I am as innocent as a lamb." "I don't believe a word of it. I know all about you," he said. "Nothing can heal my insulted honor except blood or money. H hich shall it be. "Money by all means," I replied quick ly, but put in a saving clause, "that is, if you don t want too much. "My honor is priceless, sir priceless. Ry the way, how much cash have you." "Fifty dollars is all I have, upon my honor." "Fifty fiddlesticks! Why I could snend that amount in a day. You have a Inrrrft amount denositcd in the Rankin Philadelphia, and have blank checks in your pocket. Fill one up for five thousand dollars and 1 II let up on vou." I don't know how the fellow discovered I had any money in bank or any checks about me, but he spoke the truth. I was afraid to contradict him, and thought while he held that loaded pistol so dan gerously near my head, that I had better comrdv with his request. I quickly filled oat a check for five thousand dollars and gave it to him, and then he placed the revolver safely away iu his breast again. "Adieu," said he making a polite bow, as he left the room, "tools, 1 leave you to your folly- Ai for you, despoilcr of my sacred honor, we shall meet again. He left us. My first impulse was to go straight to Philadelphia and stop the the payment of the check, but my companion said it won Id not be wise for me to leave the room jut yet, until 6hc had discovered if the coast was clear, one tui uunu stairs, and returned with the information that her husband had informed the guests of the hotel of the scandal about me, am a vigilance committee was the forming to ta" and feather me, ride ma on a rail or hang me from the light house. "ihe best thing you can do is to keep quiet for a day or two my love, until the matter blows over, and then you can leave in safety. In the meanwhile, I will go down stairs, and clear away these suspi cions against you." ohe went. She was a long time clear ing away tho suspicions, for she never re turned, I had a suspicion that she never meant to return, and another auspicion that the vigilance commitee, and the threat of mobbing me, was a hoax, and I a victim. I finally summoned courage to go down stairs, and instead of being seized by the stern .ministers of the law. was thus interrogated by the polite hotel clerk : "I hope yeu feel better, sir. Your wife told me you were very sick ?" "lies, very sick ! I replied, thinking best to keep up the "sell," for my reputa tions soke. 'She left for the city on the afteruoon train to bring down your family physi cian," continued the clerk. The next morning, I left for the city. Arriving there, I quickly sought the bank, but found that my check had been honored. It was thus I lost five thousand dollars. I. discovered that the mau and woman were accomplices, and had been spotting me for a luug time. Let my sad fate prove a lesson to all loose husbands, who don't object to a little fun away from home, and who may feel disposed to listen to the seductive flattery ot a free love missionary. A Disappointed Woman. A few months since a gentleman had the misfortune to loose his wife, a liter ary lady of some reputation. After griev iog for a number of weeks, a bright idea entered the head of the widower. He thought that he could do something to lessen his sorrow, and for that purpose he called upon a lady of his acquaint ance, and requested to speak a word with her in private Thinking that she was about to receive a proposal, the lady pre pared to listen with becoming resigna tion. : "Myrrah," said he, with downcast eyes, as he took her hand, "you kuew my wife ?" "Certainly." "It is not good for a man to be alone." "Perhaps not." "D'ul you ever reflect on the part of marriage service which requires couples to cleave into each other until death do them part 7" "I have." "I have often reflected upon it myself. Now death has parted me from my wife, and I feel very lonely." "I should think it likely." "I think I must do something to re stare me to her kind consolations and the memory of her virtues." lle pressed the lady's hand and sighed- She returned the pressure, and also suf. fered a sigh to escape her. "My dear," said he, after a long pause, "I'll come to the point at once. . I have a proposal to make."- "A proposal 7" "Yes ; I have resolved to write my wife's biography. "Now, I have but lit tie skill in literary matters, and it you will correct my manuscript, and write headings for the chapters, I will give you fifty dollars." She sprang from his side, and her eyes flashed with anger. "You wretch monster " She left the room, not being able to express her rage. The widower sighed, took his hat, and went home. He has not yet published the book. Curing Pork. Some thirty years ago I lodged from Saturday to Monday with an inn keeper in the country, who was also a farmer. On the table for Sunday dinner there was a nince piece of pickled poik, boild the day before. On tasting I thought it the most delicious I ever ate. I requested "mine host" to give his receipt for caring pork. He replied as follows : As soon as my bogs are dressed and cool enough to be cut, I pack the side pieces in a barrel or cask, with plenty of salt on all sides of each piece, and when my barrel is full I immediately roll it to my pump and pump in water until I can ece the water cease to sink iu the vessel, or to moisten the salt on. top of the cask. I then lay a flat stone as large as the vessel will receive, on the contents, so as to keep the pork always under the salt or pickle. I put it in my cellar, covered 60 as as to exclude the flies, and there it remains until a piece id Wanted. Care roust be taken to keep the meat under the pickle, other wUo it will rust. QUICK WORK. One Hundred and Ninety-Five Miles of Track Laid in Twenty-Three Hours. The following is from the Detroit Post of November 10th : On Sunday, without the slightest de lay of the passenger trains, the guage ol the Grand Trunk Railway, from Sarnia to Ruffalo, a distance of 195 miles, was changed from the wide to the narrow a work never before accomplished or at tempted. Mr. C. Rrydges, the manag ing Director of the road, iuformed our reporter yesterday that some months since it was decided to change the guage of the road, experience having proven the narrow guage to be the best in all respects. Resides, nearly all the connections of this road, especially those in New England, are narrow gauge, and this change will obviate much of the heretofore necessary delay and trouble of trans-shipment or change of car-guage. Oucc decided upon this charge, and the preparations commenced in earuest. At the car shops a large set of men were at work manufacturing narrow gauge cars, and already 800 freight and teu pas senger cars have been a completed. These will be used on the Ruffalo line, and the passenger train that left this city last eveuing was composed of a portion of these ten passenger coache3 A sufficient number of narrow guage locomotives have also been procured to operate the road from this city to Ruffalo. In fact this line is now unusually well supplied with rolling stock, most of which is entirely new. W'hile the cars, locomotives, etc., were building, other preparations were being made elsewhere. Gangs of men were set to work all along the line from Saruia to Ruffalo (the section between Detroit and Port Huron was already narrow guage), clearing away all obstructing earth and driving the spikes that were soon to hold the inside flange of the rails. This done, there only remained the drawing of the present inside spikes, the pushing of the rails over to the newly driven ones, the drivinz of still others at the outside of the rails, and the guage of the road ia changed. This great work was accom plished in a stogie day and night. At G o'clock Sunday morning the last train on the road was switched upon a side track at Stratford, at which hour GOO men, in small gangs, commenced la bor at nearly 100 diflerent points. The levers with which the spikes are drawn as easily and nearly as rapidly as nails pulled with a claw hammer, were first brought into play, and the spikes holding the rails on the inner side were drawn, the rails pushed over to their places, the spikes redriven and slowly and surely the work went on, hand-cars following the gangs with provisions, extra tools, and everything that there was a probability would be needed. Each gang of men had a certain specified section of road to com plete, and a majority of these finished their work in fifteen hours ; but for forty miles west of Ruffalo about two feet of snow had fallen on Saturday, and this had to be removed with shovels. At 5 o'clock yesterday morning, however, the whole had been completed, and at the hour (the regular time on Monday morning) a train left Stratford for the West, and all other trains ran during the day the Fame as usual. Upon the main line no change of guage will be made yet for two years, it bciog impossible to sooner construct the immense numbers of cars and locomo tives required to operate the seven hun dred aud eighteen miles of continous rail way between Stratford and Portland, to say nothing of its hundreds of miles of branch lines. At the expiration of that time, however, it is expected by the of fleers of the road that the guage, both of the Trunk line and its branches, will be changed Meantime, shift gauge cars will be used, the change being effected at Stratford, thus avoiding transship ment. To meet the pre-cut requirements of the road sixteen hundred of these cars have been provided, and more are being constructed. Wash for Fruit Trees. The Western Farmer says : Wm. liar den, Esq., has for years used with very good success as a wash for fruit trees, a compound of clay, cow manure, and ashes, mixed in soap suds and applied with a brush to the trunk and branches as high as cau be reached. He finds it drives away bark lice, and cleans the tree of moss. etc. IMPORTANT MEDICAL DISCOVFRY It appears that an accident, as in many other discoveries, is about to render an important service in the cause of medi- cine, by which the eves will bs able to locate many diseases whose source and locality must now be determined by in ference rather than sight. It appears that Dr Richardson, of Loudon, while experimenting with electricity about two years ago, was surprised to fiud a portion of his hand so illuminated as to become perfectly transparent. This fact, and al so a similar experiment bv Dr. Thomas j Nicholson, of New Orleans, not long since. to pursue the subject till hs succeeded iu completely illuminating the whole body, from the result of these experi ments it scemsthat in order illumin ate the whole body it would only be necessary to increase the vividness of the calcium liht used and enlarge the magnifying lenses employed, so as to gain sufficient power. When all the laternal organs of the human system are thus in spected by actual sight, there will be no need of diagnosing a case to discover the cause of the seat of the disease. In tb case of wounds or internal bruises, the surgeon can determine at once the loca tion of the bullet or the couditon of the part affected ; also tumors, ulcers, or any internal malady, as easily as can a house keeper the displacement of an article of furniture, or an ink-spot upon the carpet. It can be readily perceived that' this dis covery may become an eScieut aid to medical science, and an incalculable bless- ing to mankind. Suicide, The following is taken from the El mira Advertiser: On Tuesday last ia Ringhamtor, a' man was found lying in the open air with a few signs of life about him. A doctor was called and the'man, stupid and senseless, was carried to a saloon, where means were taken to revive him. They were partially successful for he was sufficiently aroused to say that hi3 name was Robert Crowle, that he came from Wilkes Rarre and had made short stops at Scranton and Tort Jervis ; that he had bought some laudanum at an apo thecary's shop in Pittston. Pa., and be cause he could find no work had taken it. liinghamton had no other place to send him but to jail and thither he was sent where he sank rapidly and soon de parted to that place where work is un necessary. It was learned that he was about twenty-three years of age and came to this country from Hamburg, about four years ago. As showing in what extreme poverty and want he was, the only ar ticles found upon his person was part of a small onion and a nubbin of corn. "Alas for the rarity " : Contagious Diseases Spread by Flies. A curious and perhaps important dis covery is stated to have been made re cently by M. Kletzinsky, a Viennese Pro fessor. Noticing that persons sick with the small-pox were often visited by flies, he placed near an open window of an hos pital a saucer filled with glycerine. Soon the flies gathered and were caught like birds with glue. In their endeavors to free themselves, all the foreign matter which had adhered to them was left in the glycerine, which was at once submit ted to observation with the microscope. It was found that the glycerine, which was chemically pure when offered to the flics, was full of strange cella, very sim ilar to those seen on persons attacked by small pox, but never on flies a dis covery which proves conclusively that these insects are not only fiithy, but can be a very dangerous means of spreading contagious diseases Figures. Any number of figures multiplied by 5 will give the same result if divided by 2. Rut remember to add a cipher to the ans wer when there is no remainder; and when there is, whatever it may he, annex 5 to the answer. Multiply 4G4 by 5, and the answer will be '.2,320. Divide it by 2 and there will be 232. There bein" uo remainder, now add 0, and next 357, and multiply by 5. The answer will bo 1,785. Ry dividing the first sum by 2, there is 178 aud a remainder. Place a 5 at the end of the line, and the result will be again 1,785. The Rutler oil fields are now among the most productive an 1 uustpromisin territory in the whole oil region. Develop ment is poing on rapidly, and with tho most satisfactory results.
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