vmu hi ip nnTir 7 n 9J) 3 ja . Ocuotcb to politics, Citcraturc, SVgricnlturc, Science, iHoraliiij, anb cncral Jnidligciuc. VOL. 30. STR0UD3BURG, MONROE COUNTY, PA., JANUARY 16, 1873. NO. 36. A Published by Theodore Schoclii TSUvlS Two JolUrs a yearin advance -and if not pH foef.ire the en. I of the year, two dollaraitnd fifty tints will be ch:traeJ. s. ),ier lnooiiinue I until all arrearages are paid, tixeept ai the o;,linn t the Editor. iGPA. Ueriisements of one square of(eight line?) or t.nne or l h tw ui-eri.)in $1 50. Each additional fietti'Mt, 50 cent. !.nger ones in proportion. JOX PRIXTIXG, OF ALL KIHbS, f icculcd In Ihe litaliest style of the Art, stfcti on the int leason-ibl? terms. DR. J. LANTZ, eon ami Mechanical Dentist, Surg Slttl h his olfice nn Main Sirrfl, in the second tory of Dr. S. Walton's brick, tun. ting, ncaily oppo u the Stroudslttirij Itooe. and be flaOers" himself t hat by risl'U-eii yens cotishuil (Mi-tli-e and tlie imit irnet and cxit-hil atteiiti n to xll maOers pertaining to hi piof?ion, lliHt he is fully able to inform fi per atoms in the rfeittnl line m the iolo,tieful, taste ful and skillful manner. 3r-nl attrnitmt given to savin the N itura' Teeth ; al5s lt the tuj-eni.in of AriiAt-iitl recti) on Rubber, Wnld. Silver or i:iliatlous Ouuis, and perlei t fits la ll ra.M-s i5'.lnrd. M.yt persons know the gre:it f . 1 1 y and dangar en trains their work to the liiexprienoed. or to ihote lting at it distance. April J3. Iti7l.-lv D k. gi:o. vr, jacksox PHYSICIAN, SURGEON & ACCOUCHER. In the old office of Dr. A. Reeves Jackaon, residence in Wyckoff's Luilding. STROUDSBURG, PA. Aujust 8, lS72-lf. JU. 51. J. PATTERSON, OPERATING AND MECHANICAL DENTIST, Having located in East Stroudsburg, Fa., an Bounces thai lie is now prepared to insert arti ficial teeth in the most beautiful and life-like manner. Also, great attention given to filling and preserving the natural teeth. Teeth ex tracted without pain by use of Nitrous Oxide Ga. All other work incident to the profession dona in the most skillful and approved style. All work attended to promptly and warranted. Charge reasonable. Patronage of the public solicited. Office in A. XV, Loder's new building, op- JiOMte Analomink. House, East Stroudsburg, . July 11, 1872 ly. DR. N. L. PECK, Surgeon Dentist, Announces lint having just returned from Dental Colleg-s, he is f.illy prepaid to make artificial teetii in the oio-t beautiful and lite likt manner, and to fill decayed teeth ac crdin to the most i-n proved method. Teeth exfract-d without pain, when de fired, by the use of Nitrous Oxide Gis, which is entirely h armies--. Repairing o 11 kinds neatly done. All work warranted. Charges reasonable. Office in J. (i. Keller' new Brick build ing, Main S'reet, Stroudsburg-, Pa. iuo;31-lf Dtt. C. O. IXOFFJI.4X, 31. U. Would respoetfully announco to the public that ho has removed his office from Oakland to Canadensis, Monroe County, Pa. Trusting that many years of consecutive practice of Medicine and Surgery will Lc a sufficient guarantee for the public confidence. February 25, 1870. tf. JAJIES II. WALTO.V, Xiiomey at Law, 0Sr;e in the building formerly occupied ly L. M. Rurson, and opposite the Strouds lurg Bank, Main street, Stroudsburg, Pa. jan 13-tf jii'E.c iiorsi:, HONESDALE, PA. Mo-t central location ct any Hotel in town. R. W. KIPLK & SOX, ICO Main street. Proprietors. January y, 1873. 1'. LACKAWAS. 4 ISOISE. OI'POSITK T!IE DEPOT, Kast Stroudsburg, Pa. 13. J. VAN CO'iT, Proprietor. The bap. contains the choiest Liquor and the table is supplied with the best the market pfflrd. Charges moderate. may 3 1872-tf. ss Jlount Vernon IZouse, 117 and 119 North Second St. AIIOVE AXLCU, PHiLADELFHiA. May 30, lb72- ly. JiRTO.SVfiff.I.K HOTEL. This old established Hotel, having recently hanged hands, and been throughlv overhauled and repaired, will reopen, for the reception of of pnests on Tiwwday, May 27th. The public will always find this house a de arable place of resort. "Every department will managed in the best possible manner. Tie will be supplied with the best the Market affords, anrJ connotPtire will always find none out the best wines and Hqtioj-s at the bar. Good stabling beloning to the Hotel, will be fonnd at all times under the care of careful and 0,)hginK attandauts. ttr 23, 1S72. ANTHONY II. ROEMER. Found out why people go to McCarty's to ?et their furniture, because he buys it at the arc Rooms of Lec & Co. and sU it at at advance of only twnly-Uco and tiro per ct:nt. Or in other words, Hocking Uairs that he buys of Ixie k Co. (through Nic runners he don't have) for $4,.r0 he sells for $5,50. liy Jiitii to Out some rood I ur Z'furc. LKK&CO. troudfthurg, Aug. 18, 1870. tf. CAN YOU TCUi U'HY IT IS th it when any one comes to Stroud. pTg to buy Furniture, they always inquire fjf McCarrys Farntture Store! Seof. 26 NEW ENGLAND TOWNS. A New England town is often not a town prr se, but two or three tillages, with a population of about 2,000, and some, 3,00 voter?, and an average terri tory of ten miles This -town" i9 one of the sources of all the political power of (he Commonwealth. OrgauiEed on the principle of the representation of. small constituencies in local and State LeMsla tures. any voter of the average three hun died is directly interested in fair play. Rogues are scarce where honest men are on the watch. Kach town i.s "a corporate body" under the law. This body can Bne you a dollar for driving over a bridge faster than a walk, or twenty dollars for declining a town office. It cau itself be fined fifty dollars for not having a "cattle pound," five hundred dollars for not elect ing; town officers, a thousand dollars if a person falls through a rotten bridge and loces his life, and three thousand dollars for sending more members to the Legislature than it is entitled. It can sue and be sued as if it were one man. It can tax and be taxed ; cun raise money for schools, public libraries, burial grounds, bridges, roads, maikcts. pouuds, hay hcales, stand ard weights and measures, public clocks, houses destroyed to Mop conflagrations, &c. The governing power of every New England town is the whole body of the pcop'e in towu meeting assembled. All men are excluded Irom the polls' who can not read, aud the system works nothing but good. The following clause in the constitution of Massachuselts is commend ed to the Pennsylvania Convention to re form our State constitution. "No person shall have the right to vote, or be eligible to office under the constitution of this Commonwealth, who shall not be able to read the constitution in the English language, and write his name ; provided, however, that the provi sions of this amendment shall not apply to any person preveuted by physical dis al iiity from complying with its require metits. nor to any person who now has the riirnt to vote, nor to any persons who shall be sixty years of age or upwards at the time this amendment shall take ef feet " A native of a New England town . who cannot read and write is pointed out as an object of curiosity to strangers. Col or d people are equal to the whites be fore the law ; their children sit in the schools side by side with the wfiite chil dieti.; they vote with the whites at the. ballot box, and have the same advantages in the purchase and holding f property Once a year the voters of thin small re pubUc hold a town meeting to elect towu officersconsider improvements and vote tax' s This town meeting is a parlia metjt in w hich every voter in an equal member, arid its acts are final. The New Eniilanders have governed themselves by public meeting lor two hundred years, aud how governed, let their spleudid sys tern of education, freedom from heavy debt, purity of the ballot, ability in Gov ernment, State and National, and in their Execcutives, and safety from the open purchase of legislation, testify. This town meeting is regulated carefully The people must be duly notified in advance ; the business to be done must be express ed in the call, aud nothing can be con sidered unless it is previously expressed in the advertisement. Every possible guard is provided against fraudulent or bad nominations. Ihe principal town meeting is held in the spring, when the town officers arc elected by ballot. There is absolutely no chance to cheat where everybody knows every one of the three hundred voters present. The town rulers are three, five, seven or nine select men, who are the chief officers and take care of things in general ; a towu clerk, three or more truant officers, three or more assessors, three or more overseers of the poor, a town treasurer, one or more surveyors of highways, a constable, one or more collectors of taxes, a pouud keep er, two or more fence viewers, one or more surveyors of lumber, one or more measurers of wood and bark, a sealer of weights and measures, a guager of liquid measures, and a superintendent of hay scales The emoluments are as light as the duties ; but every man must serve in the place he is chosen to, in default pay iug the fine of twenty dollars, which is so striefly pxacted that refusals to act are infrequent. The town meetings are de corous and quiet ; there are no flights of oratory ; every man talks and acts be cause he knows he is responhible and a part of th little republic. The "truant officer" is he who sees that all the child ren goto schools. The primary priuci pie of New England government is that no child, of whatever race, or color, or capacity, shall erow up amongst thcui in ignoraoce 'J hese people began early, and in the primitive towns there was ul wajs a school house, which often aos weied for the church, the court house, arid the towu hall ; but to day nearly every New England town can boast of all, of these edifices, including-' free library. A New England public school is a study; for indeed, it is an excellent thing to be a child in this land of Yankees If you are a good boy or girl, you have the com nion and high schools for a first class train ing; if a bad boy, you are tent to a re formatory to be made better, or to a ship school to be made a sailor ; if a bad girl, you are sent to a girl's industrial school to learn good morals and to be taught the sewing machine. Had bojs and girls are Dot allowed to go on in their evi! waye till they are developed into criminals. "The truant officers" take care that every child between the age of six and sixteen shall avail itself either of public or private means of education. No harsh guardian, or employer, or careless parent, can depriv? his ward, or apprentice or child, of a good education to start him in life, and to make him fond of study and of knowledge as he grows in years. The rules to compel attendance are brief and severe. Two years in a reform eohool, if the child has no one to look after it, or twenty dollars' fine on the careless par enf, master or guardian, is the Hue of willul truancy. Children within the same age, wandering the streets or loitering in shops, stores and public places, are either sent to reformatories, or their parents and guardians are fined The truant officers koow the whole population and perform their duties sternly. If they obtain satis factory pledges of reformation, they give the offender a new trial. The New Euglanders pay their teachers well. Fe male teachers in common schools get from five to eight dollars a week, aud the mas ter of a country high school from eight hundred to two thousand dollars a year A twelve hundred dollar salary is fre quent in these towns. On this last pay a good teacher, with a saving wife, and a fair garden, may live decently, send his sons to college, and give his daughters lessons on the piano. Property is more equally divided in New England than in any other civilized region. There are New EuoglaO'l towns where nearly every house has some United States bond in it. aud savings batiks wielding a capital of half a million. Reason: Diversified iudustry, that enriches all New Euglaud. Streams useless Cor navigation supply wa ter power for'tiomberlesa. factories. Says Parton : "Anioog the glorious wood crowned hills of Berkshire I have pused in an afternoon ride, au iron smeltiug fur nace, two very . extensive manufactories of the finest writing paper, the linen rags of which are brough from the shores of the Mediterranean, a large woolen mill, a factory of folding chairs and.camp stool, a cotton factory, a mill for grinding poplar wood iuto material for paper," &e. New England farming is becoming profitable through railroads and labor saving machinery, especially ia milk, but ter and cheese. Rut in nothing are these New England towns so agreeable as in the trouble of the residents to make them pleasant and comfortable. Parton has been in New Englaud villages of three to fo'ir thousand inhabitants, iu which he could not fiud one squalid house or untidy feuce. They make their very woodsheds ornameutal, and pile their wood into even walls. Everywhere you see inventions of labor saving machinery and apparatus novel hinges locks, padlock keys, latch es. currycombs, horse shoes ; a beautiful little (rout door key, capable of turning a huge lock ; a stove that puts on its own coat ; a gate that opens as the horse man approaches, and closes when he has pass ed through ; a flat iron that keeps itself hot, &c ; The stranger looks with wonder at a New England farm, including house, fences, gates, barn, stable, wood shed, chicken-yard, pig sty, tool box a perfect museum of curiosities, all made "to work, aud constructed with universal symmetry and elegance. The towns are all becoming villa like. The streets are generally lined with grand old elms, with tawns, shrubbery and flow ers around every house. The cost of these natural adornments is very little. In one Vermont town Mr. Parton was shown a splendid display of those grand old elms that have been planted for twenty five cents each. Rut then everybody feels an interest in the matter, and each house is a rival to the other. Parton refers to the "Laurel Hill Association," at Stock bridge, founded by Mrs. J Z Goodrich, in and since imitated by other New England towns, the objects of which were "to improve and oruameut the streets and public grounds, by planting and cultivat ing trees, cleaning, trimming and repair ing the side-walks, and doing such other acts as shall tend to beautify and improve such Ptreets and grounds." Every per son over fourteen who agrees to pay one dollar a year for three years, or who plants and protects one tree, is a member; life members for twenty five dollars ; to in ducc the children not to injure the trees or tread on the sward, all persons wider lourteen, who pay twenty cents a year for three years, cr who do an equivalent of work ou the grounds, are members. The ladies are included in this organization The result is one of the loveliest spots in New England. Twenty years have im proved the whole place amazingly, and increased the public interest iu the work started by a refiued woman. Rut while this example is one that Pennsylvania should pouder, there is a still more iu terestiug feature of it. This little village of Stock bridge, situated among the Rerk shire hills, where the lynx aud otter are still to be caught, has about sixty houses, and the whole town a population of niue teen hundred and filty and yet the move ment to improve it has induced some most valuable douatious. from the rich and well doing. The' Sedgwick family presented twelve valuable acres for the public green in the village ; Mrs Goodrich erected a fine stone edifice for the public library, and gave it to the vil lage ; and another native, Mr. Jackson, sent two thousand volumes for the shelves; and President Hopkins. Williams Col lege, healing of what others were doing, contributed a Suo collection of mineral:. Presents of books and pictures, statuary and drinking fountains followed, and a "town meeting" was called and a hand some aunual appropriation voted. statFlands. Annual Report of the Surveyor-General Condition of the Commonwealth's Glebes. Th following are the principal points of interest in the report of the Surveyor General, Geo. Robert R. Reath : The amount of money paid into the State Treasury through this office during the past official year, although a little less than the year 1871, is about the average of yearly receipts since the passage of the act of 20th May, 18(54. Notwithstanding the fact that the revenue received by the Commonwealth from this source since 18U4 amounted to $471,981) 30, aud much the larger part of this sum within the last three years, yet it appears that the stimulus given to patenting lands, by the act of 181) i, and the earnest efforts of the S-irvyor Gene ral to carry that law into effect had reached its maximum iu the year 10. After that time the applications for patents were considerably reduced. The state of facts doubtie induced my predecessor, (who had given the sub ject close attention.) to recommend the passage of an act requiring the county sur veyors to notify the owners of unpatented lauds of the amounts of the liens held against them by the State. It was be lieved that au act of this kiud, while re lieving the then existing laws from the appareutly hvae feature of bringing suits without previous notice, which might have beeu done at any time, would go far toward closing up the unfinished business of the department, fwr it was supposed that lew, if any of thoee notified, would delay the payment of the liens agaiust their lands longer thau the time given iu the notices to be served by the county surveyor, as they would thereby secure from the Com tuoo wealth the fee simple or complete title. A supplement substantially embodying the suggestious of Surveyor General Campbell, but changed in some of the xuiuor details, whs passed during the session of 1872, and approved the 11th day of April last. As too little time re m lined for my predecessor, whose term o! office expired ou the 7th day of M-iy, to do anytiug toward carrying the surp'e ment into effect, that duty devo ved tp ti me. A meeting of the Ro.trd of Pro perty was at ooce called for the 15th of May, to take action iu relation thereto The board at this meeting alter having taken into cansideratiou the duties en joined upon them by the act, together with the probable amount of other work required to be performed by this office during the summer, adopted a resolution directing the Surveyor General to make out and forward to the county surveyor', respectively, partial, special lists of the unpatented lands of their counties said social lists to contain twenty five tracts for each county, except in those contain ing more an average number of unpatent ed tracts, in which cise the lists were to be increased to' fifty tracts each. The work of preparing these special lists was at once commenced, and as many of the clerks as could be spared from other passing duties of the office were employed in making copies of the sur veys of the unpatented tracts, and also of the surveys of the parts heretofore patent ed, when any portion of a given tract had been patented, in' order that the county surveyors might the more readily and with greater certainty find the location of the tracts and ascertain the names of the owners, agents or occupiers, and there by be enabled to intelligently perform their duties under the law. The first lot of these special list completed was for warded to the proper county surveyors on the 20th day of Jily, and others from time to time after that date as they were finished. These lists embraced 14'J2 tracts and 52 town lots, covering U21.470 acres, against which the Commonwealth has liens for uupaid purchase money and fees, exclusive of interest accrued since June 1, 18G8, amouuting to over $100, ooo. - Many of the county surveyors have made their reports,' as required by the 3d section of the act of 11th April, 1872, and generally have been quite successful in finding the location of the tracts con taincd in the special lists sent them, as well as the names of the present owners ; and so far as they have expressed au opinion on the subject, agree in say iug that the owuers so notified will at an early date take steps to secure patents, and not compel the enforcement of collections by process of law. The notices not having been served until late in the summer and fall, and six months time from the date of the service being allowed by law, in which to pay off the liens, it was not expected that the ap plications for patents would materially in crease doting this official year, but after the 1st of January nest, a coo&ileruble sum will be derived from this source Refore the passage of the supplement of April lat, many land owuers whose lands were patented, but who were them selves iguorantof that fact, went to much trouble and expense Jo trace up their titles, fearing that suits might be brought ngainst theia and costs imposed, or their lands, if .unseated, sold without their knowledge. The present law obviates that difficulty aud assures the owners of notice before proceeding agiinst the land, yet it demands that an early payment of the liens shall follow, such notice. The liens against lands not embraced in the special lists sent out this year, and which under the law remain for the further action of the Roard of Property, amount to about 8500,000, thus showing the aggregate due the State from unpatented lauds, at this time, to be say $600 000. In this estimate allowance has been made for liens entered against tracts which have been fully paid for and patent el in other warrantee names, and for which applications for releases will pro bably be made under the provisious of the act of 15th April, 1SGD. Who the amounts due on the liens shall have been collected, and the tracts against which they are entered, numbering not over 12.000, have been patented, the business of the department will be almost entirely confined to furnishing connected drafts, copies of surveys aud other records, for the use of parties contesting lund titles and iu making conveyance, so the expenses of the office will be greatly re duced. THE GOVERNOR'S MESSAGE. Governor Geary's last message is also his best and his longest. In parts it is unnecessarily prolix ; but its earnestness excuses its prolixity, and it is well en titled to all the space we give it this morning ami to the patient and thought ful consideration of our readers. The greater portion of its many recommenda tiotis is founded upon sound, convincing arguments and facts, and, if we cannot always accept its author'sdeductions there from, we are satisfied that his suggestion to the Legislature should command the attention of that body. Very many of them aresuggestionsof importance, which, if practically consummated, would result iu the enhanced prosperity of the Com uionwealth. The fiuancial exhibit set forth in the message is sufficiently full to be explicit, an ! explicit enough to be exceedingly satisfactory. The total payments of the debt of the State made during Governor Geary's two terms of office have amount ed to very nearly nine millions of dollars, showing an annutl average extinguish ment of one and a half millions of do! lars On November 30, 172, the ostensi ble debt was hut a little over twenty seven millions; the real debt unprovided for, after deducting assets and cah, was sixteen and a half millions, which could be dischrged within the next ten years if the policy of extinguishment which ch iracterized the retiring Governor's ad ministration is carrie 1 out by his suc cessors Rut, if it is essential to pay it so rapidly, it would be paid at a much earlier date, for the reason that the re sources ol the Treasury will each suceed ing year be largely in excess of the neces sary expenditures of the government and of prccediug years We are not assured, however, that it isneeessary to extinguish the debt absolutely, because debt, whether borne by men or States, has a teudency to make both weigh all expenditures cure fully. Reside, it would, we think, be wiser to discharge our indebtedness with moderate haste, in order to relieve as much as poosible the overburdened tax py ers. Indeed, the strongest aud most striking feature of the message is a recommendatiou to the Legislature to lilt from the shoulders of our vast industries, upon which the very life of this great manufacturing Commonwealth rests, the Onerous taxes which they ate compelled to bear, when they are conducted, as is often the case, by incorporated companies in-tetdof by imlivi lualy. The Goeruor very happily illustrates the monstrous wrong that is done the State in cramp ing its enterprises, and, at the same time, the injustice wrought against legal coin btnations of capital, by citing a hyp t helical case of twenty persons, each subscribing five thousaud dollars to the stock of a co.npiny organized for any legitmate business object. This company is compelled,, under, the preposterous corporation laws of the State, to pay three or four di-tinct taxes, ainouuting in all to nearly ten per cent of its profits, while any individual citizen pursuing precisely the same business, with similar capital,, is absolutely exempt from every one of the levies made upon the corporation. There can be but one result from such mistaken legislation, viz , to deter any but men of the largest means from entering into important business enterprises to develop the resources of the State. Other Commonwealths en courage combination of capital while we discourage them. Rat the injustice ol such discrimination agaiust men of email capital, to say nothing of its want of wisdom, should lie enough to condemn it. This last message reiterates the Gover nor's roeommeudrttion upon the subject of a geological aud mineralogical survey of the State, suggesting that the results ol such survey combined be demonstrated upon a State map, which map, accurately representing by colors and other means, the various areas occuping by the differ ent geological formations, the Governor thinks would be an invaluable source ol information to capitalists of every court try concerning the incalculable mineral wealth of Pennsylvania. The Rureau of Labor Statistics and of Agriculture," while fulfilling the pur po.'es of its creation so far as to justify its coutinuance, has not fully developed its uselulase on acfouct ol too limited powers aud want of funds. The Legisla ture will do well, we think, to give it both. Iu this connection the message supplies certain coal and oil statistics which are worthy ol attention. The Governor refers to the fact that our Election laws are not what they ought to be, inasmuch as they do noS protect the ballot box from corruption? and fraud, lie recommends legislation to correct the great abuses of those laws but we feiir he has appealed to the wrong body, tor the Registry Law, the law most destructive to the purity of the bo! lot box was the act of oue Legislature which? succeeding Legislatures have refused tor repeal. We look not to the General As sembly, but to the C n-titutioual Conven tion for relief from this greatest of evil and dangers. The message recommends compulsory education and compulsory vaccination, aud the Governor gives good reasons for his faith iu the correctness of both sug. ge;tions. The workings of the Roard of Charities is very warmly commended by the Gov ernor, and its forthcoming report, he says, will demonstrate the worth and cxteut of its services. The other im portant matters the message touches upon are the Nationl Guard; Penitentiaries aud Reformatories ; ijamitary Regulations, in which a Stats Roard of Health- is re-' comuieuded. aud Pardons. . If everything in the administration of Governor John W. Geary bad been as wise and satisfactory as this message, the people would have for it a very grateful memory ; and tbi., his last message, is-,, without exception, the best advice he ever gave to our Legilature Inquirer AN DGLYSCEAPK. A Desperate Encounter With a Panther". From the Portland Orcgonian, Dec. 6. A professional hunter, named Kept0, was out hunting this week on Martin's Island, down the Columbia.' The hunter was aceompatned by a young hound only,, which started s-otne animal a little dis tance away in the dense brush. Rcpzs ran from the thicks timber in which I e was standing, to ward the edge of the wai ter. A clear space of several rods di vided the brush and the river margin. On reaching the bank, Repzs halted and placed himself in an attitude of defence. In a few minutes the hound emerged from the timber an I came running toward its master. Immediately following the dog. and in hot persuii, a large aud fero cious panther bounded in sight. Repz3 raised his gun to his shoulder and fired. The ball took effect in the jaws of the animal, but did not inSict any herious in jury nor retard its advance toward the Jiuoter On firing, llepzs retreated into the water up his arm pits The wound ed and infuriated animal sprang after and tackled" the hunter. The dog came 'cr the rescue of his master, and made it warm for the panther that it abandontd Repzs and turned or the hound Reps wailed out toward the bauk. turned around aud fired the secoud barrel of his gun as the panther. The load was large- buck shot, and took effect in the panther's tdde-. The wound was very severe, but did n t entirely disable the auimal, which w. s getting the best of the dog Seeing th; t the hound would soon be drawned, Repzs resolved to rescue it if pt-s.-itde He h d discharged both barrels of his gun and' cast aside his large howie knile in the edge of the limber when he started to rt -treated to the water. No time, howevc, was to be lost, aud Repzs sprang into th river to save his dog Uy this time the panther had lost much blood and wis growing weak from exhaustion. Tl o hunter, who was a powerful man, seized hold of the panther's head, and after a fierce "tusel," broke its hold on t! o hound. The panther now turned on Repzs A long aud desperote encounti r ensued between the hunter, panther and dog At last Repzs succeeded iu keep ing the animal's nose under water until it wa quite dead, alter which ho drew the body to the shore and fainted from his wounds and exhaustiou The hui ter was severely lacerated in the conflict, and has scarcely been able to leave his bed siuce. Tlie hound is also badly torn. A young hopeful at one of the leading colleges wrote a letter home, requesting his father to send him some "stamps;" the kind father responded at ouce, and enclosed a good supply of postage stamps. Hopeful wrote a secoud letter, stating that he did not want postage stamps what hp wanted was spondoolics " The father, fearing to-make another mistake, wrote to the President of the college thus: "My son wishes me to send him some spondoolics; I do not find any for sale in this place, and would be obliged to you if you would supply htm, provided you have any t.f the article on hand, and charge to my account The President gave the boy an order ou the Tieasurer for some pocket money. "Jack, I wants to ax you one of deru thuuperuma " "Well Sam proceed." "Why am a nigger after eating salt fish, like a celebrated poet ?" "Du'o. less bekase bekase " "Well, bekase what ?" "Why bekase he's Dry den." Cows are bringing about 20 at auo- ! tions in various p;:rt3 of Rrudiuri county. i t i f V (hr
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