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Vol. 3i.
STROUDSBURG, MONROE COUNTY, PA., MAY 15, 1873.
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Published !' Theodore Schocb
TRIALS -Two loiliia year in advance an;! j'"1
pulnef iicihft ral of ihe year, two dollars and -''
(rut n il! he cli:u qvl.
N i li:n.i!t:iiio I uniil aM arrearages are ''''
exnrtitt .i tn i.iiii t itie Eiiitor. '
irjA Iver' i-e.aeriK of one -"niarc of (eight liiy") or
oiii? or liific- in-orli.iiis $1 50. Each ailiht-'""'
ti"tti n, 51 fc:ii;. Longer ones in proportion.
jo is t'sss.vraa'c:, ,
OF Al.ti KINDS,
Executed in V.c liiulirst Myle n( (he Art, a ni! 'in l',c
most i easouablp terms.
William s. rees,
Surveyor, Conveyancer and
Real Estate Agent.
Farms, Timber Lauds and ToVn Lets
FOR SALE.
Office iu-xt door above S. Jceffif- Depot
and 2d !Mr Lt'lnw the Corner Store.
- March 2, ls?:Mf. '
D It7 J Li AN t'z
Bnrnoon atul MeclianiealDeiitist,
Soil lias his nTu-.e on Main Stn-i-t, ; ;!'C srreiid
lory "f Dr. S. W.ilt.iii's In irk titnMing. 1 '' 'PP- j
me t!i" stroiilt.!H! an.l kc ;0m hottM-.f i
t li.it ny t'l j Ml t- it Vti.n i: ni.-i ..lit nMf!U't -a. in t lie luo.-t i
-4.ai--l arv! c.'U OO at!, I- i to all nvi"iS perlHiitinp .
to his pt(-f.'i.iii, lli-il liM fii'.iy able ' perf'Tiu all j
irnTat'i'lis in I Me ileiita: line !a liie t:i(- c-'.'Clul, taflf-
.'il a:hl S-O !:!'( i man 1 1 . !
S;iei-.l alTt rn; )! s;mi to :aviH2 'hi 1 ( Ih ; j
to tin- i . i - . 1 1 ii o I ' Ai-tuu-iil f itiion Ki:!:er, j
; .! l. Mivi'r or I :.ii.l:n'i.)ii Cuius, an H i lcct tits In
Jtll M-l- tl!VI!-'l. .
M i !,ri-so:! ktio-A !!; 2:- eat fol'.v :" la"E,' 'f en
K r-i-: ins 'l ri.- r w k 'a t in; H;r v ju ! i , '1 r of'C
Iuu.;.i!.u,Nji'cc. Is7!.-!y
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PHYSICIAN, SURGEON & ACCOUCHER.
In i!h? -hi o ffiw f Dr. A. :: eves .Tack.-;r.:
v.-:denee in Wv, k';it 's 1 nild C
STROUDSBUR1, PA.
(fKK?lfi AND 3iErKA'!UL DOTIST,
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S; iiVoiirr, Da., r.n-
no men thai m- is now pre. -'fid to insert nrtt
ftci il teth in the in --t Lvii'ol nnd iiiV-like
mitiiicr. Also, reai aire: ' : uivt-n ti; (iiiiiijr
an 1 prcsrrviiii: the nattir.i teeth. Tteih ex-tn.-ti-.l
witjjoot p:-:n !y ;e f Niirons xi le
i 'i H. All utiK-r vork incia-:.t to tiu- pro!V.-.-ii'n
d!ieint!iv m'ist skillftdjad approved style.
.VII w-jrk :tt.c!i(h-d t jircr i !y and warranted.
'!:ir'e- re.isonahle. Dan'n.tge of the pnhlie
rolirited.
Office in A. W. I an! :'- new ouildinjr, op
posite An:t!o:.jink IIouo, Kast Strotulshur,
V.iV Jnlv 11, I.s7-J ly.
DR. N. I. PEGS,
Surgeon Dentist.
Ansto'inces t!t it h-. las jti?! returned from
D!it.nl Collets, he is'Vdly prepared to make
artihcinl teeth in themosl betiutilui and jile- j
like manner, and If iill decayed teeth ac-j
cording to the most nnroved method. I
Teeth exrract; d vithout piin, when tie- j
eireJ, hv the itte if Nit mm Oxide (las, !
which is entirely Itrntie?.0. Kcpairinj oi
all kin.is neatly dor. . All work warranted.
Charges re ionnl)I.
Oficc in J. (I. K '.icr's new Brick build
ing, Main Street, Mrondiburj, I'a.
auj yi-tf
Jk?n:s si. VASiTo:.",
AtUv.nry stt 5iiv,
Office iii tlio Liihiing foniu rly ixcupie;!
Iit 31. IJnrson. and ojipotte the .Stronds
bVr r.fk. Mai iit reef. Stroadsbare:, I'a.
ja'il '
The Kub-rrih.-r v .ratio inform the public that
be has b-a-ed the 1. mt-c formally kept by Jacob
Kr.echt. in the I'oti.y;h of Stro.;dbur, Pa.,
and having repaioud and refurnUhed the same,
in prepared to entertain all who may patronize
him. It is (he ain: of the proprietor, to furn
ih s-ipcrior aocuriiodaiions at moderate rates
.and will spare n. pains to promote the com
fort of the jrnesU A liberal share of public
patronage solieitv!.
April 17, 'TlMf.J D. :T--j
IV.
HONESDALE, PA.
Most central ..' ttioti o anv Hotel in towu.
Jl. W. KirLEcv SON,
f') Main st!v...-t. Proprietors.
Ianu.iry '.t. 17.). 1'.
I A C Si A W 4 X V 1 3 i: S .
J tiflM.siiK TUE J'KJ'C'T,
l';it h'trouusburg, Pa.
li. J. VAN COTP, Proprietor.
The lUtt contains the choiest Lbjv.ors and
the tablk is supplied with tlie best the market
affords, t'luirges moderate. may 3 1872-tf.
AY
.-lot! lit Vcrztoti laoiise,
117 and 119 Korth Second St.
A HOVE AIICII,
PHILADELPHIA.
May 3", 1672- ly.
REV. EDWARD A. WILSON'S (of Wil
lia.asburgli, N. Y.) Recipe for -CON-SUMPTION
and ASTHMA carefully com
pounded at
HOLLINSHEAD'S DRUG STORE.
(k?" Medicines Fresh and Pure.
Nov. 21. 1867. W. HOLUNSIIEAD.
""blank leases :
Fr Sain at this Onicc.
Theo. F. Eallock. N. H. Shaffer.
I1AIX0CK & SIlAFFfiR,
Hous6,Sign& Ornamental Painters,
AN1
PAPER HANGERS.
Shop on Mtiin ?t. 2il floor in J. S. "William's
htildinpr, next iioor to Flory's .S'tove 5"tore
1. S. Orders hy rn.ti! promptly attended to.
January 30, 1S7: llm.
T. Or i-I tJ CJ j,
(.Sucei-?r;or to J. K. Krdman,)
Monroe o. Marble Works,
Main St., Stroudsburg, Pa.,
Where vi'I he fu.md constantly oji hand or
ir.ade to order,
of thcher-t hr.Unn .-Ji l Atnerlean larhlo.
Having been in the employ of Mr. lltdman
for nt-arly t i yt ar, I f'.cl coiifideiit in n:y
al'iiity to please all that give me a call. All
work warranted to rive entire satisfaction.
tr-'jy OrdtTs hv mail oromotly attindcd to.
IV h -J.'i'TJ-tf
Court 3vocIamation.
Vkcrcix, the Hon. Samull S. DrKi;ER.
President Jntle oi t he'J-Jd Judicial District of
Pcnns !va ni:i, composed of the counties of
Wayne, Dike, Monroe end Carbon, and
Joint Do Wing, and Dcier Gruver, Eqr's,
Aj-soci.tle Judges of the Court of Commoii
Dleas of the Connty of Monroe, and by vir
t ue of their ofiiee?. Justices of the Court o!
Oyer and Terminer ar.d General Jail delive
ry and Court of General Qmrter Sessions in
and for tlio said County of Monroe, have is
sued their precept to mo commanding that
a Co;irt of Quarter Sessions of I he Peace a nd
Common Pleas-, and Court of Oyer and Ter
miner and General Jail Delivery and Or
phanV Court, fur the said County of Monroe,
o be liolden at Stroudsburg, on
MOyDA V, the -JfiA ihrj cf
1S7, to coalititto one week, if necessary.
Is hereby giver, to t!;o Cioioi.er, the Justices
of t he IV ice, a ml Constables of the sa id coun
ty of Monroe, that they be then and there
ready with their rolls, records, inquisitions,
examinations ami other remembrances to do
tiiose things which their offices are appertai
ning, and also that those who are bourd by
recognizances to prosecute and give evidtnee
against the prisoner.- that are or shall be in
the jail cf lite said county of Monre, or a
irninst persons who stand charged with the
commission of offences to hetlien and there
to prosecute or lest ify as shall be j'-t.
(God sa vc tlie Commonwealth.)
CIIAIILES HENRY, .Sheriff.
Sheriffs Office St rotidsburg,
May 1, 1873.
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LOOK! LOOK!!
M!i J. J. JrXays,
CF THE
Popular Hal & Cap Emporium,
ILiF just returtmcd from the cities with
an immense stock of
Hat?, Caps and Gents' Furnish
ing Goods,
for Spring and Summer wear, which he is
offering at
GREATLY REDUCED PRICES.
Thankful for past favors, I respectfully
csk my old customers, tmd the publio
generally to examine my Stock and Prices
before making purchases elsewhere.
Store on Main Street, Stroudsburg, Pa.,
a few doors above the Washington Hotel.
J. A. HAYS.
April 21, '73-tf
Executors Gale of a valuable
PIECE OF LAND.
The untlersiguej offers at private .sale, a
valuable FAR 1, situate in Stroud town
ship, Monroe County, I'a., one utile from
the Stfou.lsburs Der-it, on the Mi'dbrd road,
adjoining lunJ of Stroud Uursun, John W.
Vaniieet, Daniel Caliaghan, containing
Thirty -two Acres,
more or lo?, all cieaied, and in a high state
of cultivat'to!).
The improvements are a two
tory v fiZih
Frame Dwelling House, 1J4M
18 by 28 feet, a FJIAMIJ JUIIX Zu by 40
feet. Carriage House 20 by 20 ft. and other
cut-buildings. A i;ever failing well of water
near the door, and a lot of choice fruit trees
on the premises.
SAM UEL MTCHTLK, )
JACOli F. HKIiZO'J, ; J-:t Cllt01'
Stroud tsji., Sept. 2o, JS72.
PAS YOU THLL WHV ST IS
J tint when any ons comes to Strom's
ciirir to buy Furniture, thev always ioeuire
ftr McCartys Furniture Siurel Scot. 2t3
lie Great Snow Storm !
THE HURRICANE IN NEBRASKA.
s.os or j.s viz Aa property.
THRILLING ACCOUNT OF THE STOBM.
Omaha, Neij., April 21. Those who
judge of the climate of tins section of
couutry by its position on the map would
be surprised to feel the keeu dry wind
which rises on these bi-h plains io a nio
uscnt and furnishes a taste of the pole
with tropical surroundings. ut this
wind of the plains is a matter of course,
auJ people are prepared for it. Not so
such a visitatiou as that ol Sunday, Mon
day and Tuesday, the loth, 11th and
15th. A storm ol snow which is un
paralleled in well authenticated local his
tory, coming after a particularly well
developed spring and almost on the ihrcs
bold u!' speedy .summer, is an evcut for
which no preparation can be niadc and
no satisfactory reason provided. For
forty odd hours a wind blew strongly and
steadily, frequently with a velocity of
seventy miles an hour. It sufiiecil to
carry houses boJily from their founda
tions, to overturn walls of solid steue, to
blow cars from t lie track and land them
beyond the ditches which drain the
embankments on either side. The snow
fell in sheets and masses, actually bridg
ing over considerable rivers, and making
at noonday an Egyptian darkness a
darkness which could be felt. The rail
read cuttings were blocked up with masses
of snow and ice, and so penetrating was
the wind and so fine the drilt at times
that passengers within the ears, the doors
and windows being locked, were covered
with a srjowy powder that, forced its vay
in through, the wood work and round the
window catiugs so rapidly that the panels
inside seemed to bo saiokiug io a smoulder
ing conflagration.
The snow ia'l did not present a less
remarkable aspect in the matter cf in
tensity. It not only swallowed up and
destroyed all laud marks, but drew before
the places where they had been so thick
a veil that the keenest eye could not hare
distinguished them at a rod's distance
At Scandinavia the night was no darker
than the day. For the two days that the
storru i.'igcd, the storm-bound residents
could not see the hitching posts or garden
fences which were only twelve feet from
the wiudows. Strong men who were
visiting or had gone to the postofiiee,
failed to distinguish the way home, and
were forced to rcmuiu where the storm
fouud tiitm, till its fury was assuaged,
thus adding intolerably to the anguish ol
their families, who feared them buried
under the mountainous drifts. Residents
round the public square could nor, be
tween the blindiug drilts aud the violent
wind, reach the cistern in its midst,
though the distance was less than twenty
rods, and so were forced to melt snow' for
water.
At Hastings people were forced to take
refuge in their cellars and burrow there
like rats, for the snow drifted in through
the wails of the houses and formed piles
round every article of furniture. At
Graud Island, when the chimneys became
choked with Enow po that fire were impos
sible, whole families went to bed in their
clothing and remained there for two or
three days, without fuel, food or water.
At Gibbon twenty. five men, most of whom
had gone thither to open a lodge of Odd
Fellows, were cooped up iu a small house
from Sunday afternoon to Wednesday
noon, unable even to open the door. At
Lone Tree a man named Durton, who had
gone to the wood ehed to bring in some
fuel for his family, found it impossible
to return, and had to remain there from
Monday morning till Tuesday night. At
Belleville a German named Koch i3 said
to have groped his way from his house to
the yard for wood, but to have been over
powered by the snow, and wind and never
to have returned. His wife, rendered
desperate by bis absence, at last ventured
out to seek for him, but lost her way, and.
lortunately, brought up at the stable,
where she remained from Tuesday morn
ing till the Eamc nt'ht, her two children,
one three and the other nine, beiug left
m the house all alone.
The brute creation suffered terribly
Those that were corralled or out on the
plains were suffocated by the snow ; those
that were in stables went mad with famine
aud thirst. Even the wild birds, to whom
the storm is a parent and playmate, were
overpowered. At Wood river praire liens
were found under the snow so bcuumbed
that they could neither fly nor run, and
giving no tokens of life when (ten took
them up and handle! thorn, save by the
pulsation cf their scared hearts and the
upward plance of-their inquiring eye. .
At Grand Island they were picked up by
dozens, dead, little lumps of ice aud
touzled feathers. At Stevensou the
resideuts found birds that had brokers
their necks aud v.inps ugainst the houses
and barns in the blind terror of their
aimless flight, flung by the hurricane
like stones from a sling. At hone 'Tree
almost every hog in a blockade cattle
train was lost. The weakest were trodden
under foot and rca by the stronger. Many
mere were suffocated.
The loss of etock on the plains must
be immense ; probably a half of the
uusheltcrcd cattle have been suffocated
or drowned. Some herds stampeded in
the pauie caused by the first gale ; their
members were scattered. over the plains ;
some tumbled into ravines and broke
their necks or legs, being killed outright
or disabled to linger till they died ol
hunger or suffocation ; others blundered
into rivers and were drownod ; others
roamed about till they were exhausted
and lay down panting and sobbing, to be
covered ten feet deep by snow before
they died for lack of air..
Among the fatal accidents recorded,
the most terrible was one which occurred
at Belleville, in Republic county, 150
miles west of Atchison. A prairie lire
swept over the country on Saturday, the
day preceding the storm, destroying mauy
buildings and a great deal of grain.
Among the dwellings barnt was that of a
Mr. Crane. He was a bscnt at Atchison,
but his wife and four children were in
the house. They escaped with their
lives and the clothes they wore and took
refuge with a neighbor named Burnett.
Nest day, from a sea of Cre the laud was
:i desert of snow. The two families
sought refuse in the cellar, fearing lest
the house should be carried away. . The
storm drove in the solid stone gable as a
man might drive in the side of a paste
board bos with his list. The structure
tumbled into the cellar. Mrs. Burnett
being very badly crushed. Ou Monday
morning her husband ventured out for
assistance. Ere he returned the floors,
bending beneath the incumbent weight
of tons of snow, fe41 in as a dead fall trap
tumbles on the prey, Mrs. Burnett and
her three children were killed instautly ;
so were Mrs. Crane and two of her little
ones. Two others of the four survived,
though terribly mangled, but one died a
few minutes alter ho had been extricated.
Of the ten inmates only one little girl
survived. The child said, amid her sobs,
4,We were all crying together, and then
the house tumbled so (clapping her little
hands), and that was ail."
At Belleville several other buildings
were wrecked by the storm, though no
other lives were lost. At Gibbon a snow
drift forty feet high is the cenotaph which
marks where a house once was inhabited
by a newly married couple, till the wind
in a moment made a ruiu of the house and
corpse.? of the bride and groom. At Scau
dinavia a flour mill, GO by 40, was moved
bodily about four feet from it3 foundation
and tilted all askew. It looks like a stiff
hat knoeked all aslant by violent contact
with a beam. Near by a stone stable was
blown down, the roof being carried across
the yard and flung upon a carriage-house.
At Grand Island the wind blew in the
widows in one gable of a frame house,
and lifted off the roof as if by the
explosion of a barrel of gunpowder,
though not a pane of :1jss in the sides of
the house was cracked.
Among the many cases of death report
ed some are of a peculiarly harrowing cr
extraordinary character. At Cawker lour
bodies were fouud, one in front cf a house,
and so uear the fcuce that the gate, when
opened, smote against hi3 corpse. At
Lone Tree a servant in a tavern went into
the yard for wood, groped hs way into
the road, and died. Those who weut out
to seek in a lull of the storm stumbled
over a body within forty yard3 of the
house. It was uot that of the boy they
sought, but of a trapper, whose woodcraft
had uot availed to guide . him a few steps
further to safety. At Hastings a farmer
named Marshall went to feed his cattle.
The barn was about 200 feet from the
house, directly in the rear, but the snow
was over the fences, and he wandered to
one side and was suffocated. At Grand
Island two men were lost in a drift about
thirty feet apart.
At lied Cloud Mrs. Bent and her child
tried to grope their way to the next house,
the wind and the snow having rendered
their own untenable. Five days after the
two bodies were found iu the road less
than fifty yards from the refuse they
sought. The child had given way first,
and the mother died beside it. Near
Tehama they found an unknown mau,
wi'h a dog keeping watch over the dead
Lo.ly. Vt Grafton Mr. Kceler, his wife
and child tried to reach a neighbor's
house. They struggled on it was only
half a mile the feebler ones tired aud
sat down to rest, "it felt so warm." Only
a miuute, they said. A childless widower
strove desperately through the drifts and
reached the house, leaviug all who bore
his name buried in the highway. At
Chapman's a woman is said to have left
her two children, in the house while she
went for wood, and t;cver to have re
turned. The childreu only know that
she "went out there," aGd they "waited
and cried so long and so hard."
Tii3 New Law cf Pennsylvania,
We give below a copy of the bill re
gulating the sale and inspection of refined
petroleum iu this State, which has bceu
passed by the Legi&laturc and will go in
to operation on the fiit of May.
8i:eii'N 1. Be it euactC'l by the Sen
ate and House of l'epreseutativcs of the
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in Gen
eral Assembly met, and it is hereby en
acted by the authority of the same, that
no refined petroleum, kerosene, naphtha,
benzole, gasoline cr any burning fluids,
be they designated by whatsoever name,
the lite test of which shall be less than
one htuidred and ten degrees Fahrenheit,
shall be sold or offered fjr s? tie as "an il
luminator, for consumption vi?hin the
limits of the Common wealth of Pennsyl
vania. Suction 2. The said fire test shall be
determined by an inspector appointed un
der the provisions of this net, who shall
use "Tagliabuics" or such other well de
fiucd instrument as may be used by the
inspectors of export oil according to the
following formula: Heat with alcohol
small flame ; when thermometer indicates
ninety, degrees remove lamp; at ninety
five try for fiuMi with small bead of fire
ou cud of string hel l within a quarter of
an inch of surface of oil. Replace lamp
aud work oil up gradually frm this point
uutil the burning point is reached, remov
ing lamp every four degrees, and allow
ing oil to,run up three degrees before re
placing lamp,, flashing the- oil each time
just before lamp is replaced, until result
is attained.
Section S. The said inspector shall be
appointed by the Governor, one for each
County in the Commonwealth, wherein
said burning oils or fluids, as before men
tioned, are manufactured ; provided, that
iu counties of this Commonwealth, where
iu the ofdec of inspector of spirits and
gauger of oils now exists, that cfiicer shall
perform the duties of inspector of oils and
fluids, and shall j:ive bonus, and be sub
ject to ail the conditions and penalties as
provided by this act. Tho said inspectors
shall held their cilice for the term of three
years, unles3 sooner removedy by the
Governor for incompetency or found guil
ty under the provisions of this tict va
cancies in said uulec to be tilled by the
Governor. The said inspectors shall be
authorized to appoint such clerks or de
puties as they may find requisite for the
perfect carrying o;Jt of the dutie3 as
specified under this act. The said clerks
or deputies shall be pai l out of tho fees
of the offlce by the inspector of the coun
ty wherein the service is performed. All
clerks and deputies are held amenable by
this act, and subject to the same penalties
for vio'a'ing any of i s provisions as
are provided in litis r.cl lor the punish
ment of the appointed inspectors Each
inspector, deputy or clerks, after receiv
ing his appointment, and prior to enter
ing upon tho duties of the ofliee for
which he is appointed must and shall
file iu the oSce tf the I'rothonolary
of the Court of Common Pleas, an
oath or affirmation that he will well
aud truly perform the duties of the ofliee,
aud carry out the provisions of this act ;
and said inspectors shall also hie a bond,
with one or more approved sureties, in
style similar to that of the Sheriff of the
county, iu the penal sum of ten thousand
dollars, for the faithful performance of
the duties of said inspector's ofiice, as pro
vided in this act. The said iusf ector is
hereby empowered to receive and collect
from the manufacturer or owner, the sum
of twenty cents per package, for each
package inspected, in any lot under ten ;
ten cents per package for each package
iuspected iu auy lot nor more thau fifty ;
seven cents per package, for each package
inspected, in any lot, or all lots over fifty;
and one dollar for each car of bulk re
fined oil ; and ia case any person shall
call upon said inspector, to inspect one
package of re lined oil, he shall charge
said person for such inspection fifty (50)
cents; and when the inspector of spirits
and gauger of oils of auy county in the
Commonwealth shall become inspector of
refined oil and fluids, under the provisions
of this act, the fees which he is authoriz
ed to charge shall include aud be in full
of his fees for gauging and inspection."
The said inspector shall provide, at his
own cost, steucils, for the purpose of brand
ing packages, to read thus : State of Penn
sylvania, lire test, one hundred and ten
degrees, with name of inspector. Vrovid
cd, when oil so inspected shall stand high
er test, the inspector shall designate such
actual test by his brand. The said in
spector or his clerks or deputies, shall
and arc hereby empowered to cuter any
place or building, where oils or fluids, as
before designated in this act, are manu
factured, kept in store, for sale or con
sumption in this Commonwealth, and iu
such counties, whereiu oil is sold and not
maulactureil, lor witieii no inspector na
been appointed, or iu any other place
wilhiu the limits of this State, wherein
he has reasons for believing that oil is be
ing kept or solJ, contrary to the provi
sions of this act, or for the purpose ol car
rying out the true intent aud meaning of
this act. Any inspector shall have the
privilege to rcinspeet, and is hereby em
powered to inspect any oil, as hereinbe
lore designated in section first, which he
may by any reason believe to be under
lire test, and if so found by him to be un
der tire test and falsely branded, he shall
prosecute, or cause to be prosecuteJ, the
offender as herein authorized in section
four of this act. No charge shall be made
for reinspection.
Section 4. Any person violating auy
of the provisions of the act, .shall upon
conviction thereof, be deemed guilty of a
tnisdeameanor, and shall be subject to a
fine of not le?.s than two hundred and fif
ty (250) dollars, nor more than five hun
dred (500) dollars, or imprisonment uot
less titan one year, or both at the discre
tion of the Court. One half of sai l fine
to go to the prosecutor and one half to the
school fund in the district, where such
misdemeanor may have been committed.
AlaO if auy person s.huli sustain damage
to his property or injury to bis person by
reason of violation of any of the provi
sions of this act by another person the
person guilty of said violation shall be
liable to the person injured for all dam
ages sustained thereby.
SecjiON 5. All the oils or fluids sub
ject to inspection under this a--t thU may
be found in the hands of those who sell
ia lesy quantities than cue barrel, With a
fraudulent brand or mark of .inspection,
or fouud to have been adulterated, or
not coming up to the fire test, as tho
mark of inspection would iudieate, shall
be subject to seizure by the said Inspec
tor, and the same shall, after ten days pub
lie, notice be sold, solely for re distillation ;:
the proceeds of such sale, after deducting
the necessary expenses of sale and seizure,
shall, ouc half be given to the school fund
wherever, the ssiaurc was made, and one
half to the informer.
Section (. Any Inspector or deputy
appointed under this act, who shall violate
an' of its provisions by neglecting to in
spect upon request, or shall falsely brand
any oil or fluid shall be deemed guilty of
a misdemeanor, aud, upon conviction
thereof, shall be Sued not less than two
hundred and fifty dollars, or more than
one thousand dollars, and be subject to
imprisonment for not less than three
months or more than one year, or both
subject to the discretion of the Court ;
one half of the fine to go to the informer
and ouc-half to the school fund of the dis
trict wherein the offence is committed.
Section 7. That packages containing
oil manufactured for export, shall bo
branded with stencil by the manufacturer,
and with the words, "for export." All
benxinc, naphtha, or any hydrocarbons
created in the manufacturer of refined oil
from crude petroleum or otherwise manu
factured, shall be inspected and brauded
"benzine," and shall not. be kept for ssl.e
or used in any way forgiving light to be
burned in lamps, and this act shall Dot
be construed to prohibit their use in mak
ing gas to be conveyed through pipes to
burners similar to gas in city gas works,
to be used for the same purpose, aud fur
ther, the penalties for violating this sec
tion sdiail be the same as these applied to
the use of refitted oil below the legal test.
Section 8. Nothing contained in this
act shall be construed or he'd to apply in
any manner to any kind of oil or fluid
manufactured for export from this State"
or ia transit, from one State to another
through the limits of this Commonwealth.
Any person or persons who shall sell or
cause to be sold, any barrel or package, or
who shall rcSll the same, without first
removing the brand of the Inspector, shall
be liable to a fine of three hundred dol
lars for every barrel or package sold, or
delivered, or refilled. Said fines shall bo
recoverable as other fines of like character"
are recoverable by lav? ; and cne-half shall
go to the informer, and enc half to tho
school fund of the district in which the
offence was committed.
Section 10. The provisions of this act
shall take effect and go ic force on tho
first day of Ma)', Anno Domini oue thous
and eight hundred and .seventy-three.
Section 11. All acts or parts of acts
inconsistent herewith be, and the same
arc hereby repealed.
THE BLOW AT THE COUNTRY PRESS.
There was no greater outrage eTer con
mitted by Congress than which defeated
the free exchange of newspapers through'
the mails. It was done cs a piece of
revenge because the press almost un
animously advocated the repeal of tho
franking privilege, which so incensed
Congressmen that they retaliated by .re
pealing the free- exchange of newspapers
through the mails. The newspapers of
the large cities, which enjoy the advan
tages of immense patronage, encouraged
this repeal, hoping thereby to break down .
country newspapers, aud thus give them
a wider field of monopoly. It'was ouly"
rare exceptions where this was not done.
The Philadelphia 1'rtss from the first
opposed tho repeal, and did all in its
power to prevent the outrage, but it was
unavailing. Now let the country press,
unite, and there is no doubt the next
Congress will do what is right and proper
on this subject. It will only require a
plain statement to reestablish the free
exchange of uc.vspnpers through tho
mails.
We endorse this. The law giving coun
try newspapers circulation, free cf postage
in the count' where printed, was repealed
out of-pure revenge, but our virtuous
congressmen did not do this until tney
had passed the Salary Grab bill which
puts 5000 each into their own pockets.
While sterling this large sum they
begrudg-j country Editors their frco
exchange, and tax our farmers and
mechanics twenty cents a year for their
home newspapers. If the couutry presi
will unite uot to Rapport aoy iaau for
Congress, in the future, unless he pledges
himself to vote to restore the free news
paper law, it v.-.i!l rj doubt have the
desired effect. J)1c&'o:i'n Democrat.
A talented young African of the boot
black persuasion,' observed a neighbor
poring wisely over a newspaper, v here
upon h e addressed him thus:
"Julius, you can't read."
"Go way, fellah," replied the other,
indiugnantly, "guess 1 cr.a read. 1'ec
big 'nuff for dat."
"Big 'uuiT," retorted the ether scorn
fully, "dat ain't luffiu. A cow's big 'nulf
to eotch a mice, but she can't."
.
The smelling of Uath .nd Colorado
lead and silver ores is cow successfully
canied on in Pittsburgh. The lead pio
dueed is equal in every respect (cr rd! pu;-posc-s
to the best Kojjisdi and German
bron Is. Now smelling works are about
! to bo erected at Mamti ld, stx :n:!es from
Pittsburgh, which will !.: ixtensivt;
I enon-'h to make 100 ton
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