THE
JEFFERSONIAN.
Ocuotcb to politics, Citcraturc, gvicnlturc, Science, JHovalihj, ani cucral Intelligence.
VOL. 31.
STROUDSBURG, MONROE COUNTY, PA., JUNE 12, 1873.
NO. 5-
Published by Theodore Schoeh.
T Joll.irt n jrearin advance and if not
fi I fef.r" th en i of the year, two dollars and fifty
cpnls ill he charged.
. ! Iiciiiliniie I itntil all arrearages are paid,
except the option ot the Editor.
ICA tveritsenieiits of one square of (eight line?) or
r.me or three insertions l 50. Each ndditional
n--ili"n, 3 centi. Longer ones in proportion.
jo iMti.vrixci, T
OF ALL KIND8,
Executed in Hie hicliest 5lyle of the Art, and on the
most reasonable terms.
WILLIAM S. REES,
Surveyor, Conveyancer and
Real Estate Agent.
Fanns, Timber Lands and Town Lots
FOR SALE.
(Mliec next door above S. llces' news Depot
an. I "J'l door below the Corner Store.
March 20, lS7:J-tf.
D R. J. LAN T Z,
Surgeon ami Mechanical Dentist,
S'iIIIii In oiTjne on Main Street, iti the second
M.iry ( li . S. V:!ions buck builiJuig, neaily oppo-i!-
tnc STniid.-iiiiig iriHM, ami be llallers hnnt,lf
til it ly eiiii.ecn yeais cons; nit practice and the mor-t
ejruel a.i.l c iirliil attenli.n to all mailers pertaining
to in irfi'Miii, that lie is fully able to perfunn nil
pvatii;i m t lie dental line in Hie inocl caieful, tasle
t'il j;i'l skilll'il manner.
Sjei-ial aiu-nium given to saving the Natural Tetlh ;
lso, to the insertion of Artificial reeth on Rubber,
i I. Si'vt-r or Continuous (Juins, and pcrteit fils l
Ml! IIIS'lK ll.
.M M nersons know the great folly and danger of en
( niMin; tiielr nk lo the inexperienced, or lu those
living .it a instance. April 13, I sT I . ly
JU. .1. II. SIII I.L,
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON.
)ii"e 1st floor above Stroudsburg House,
re-idem-c 1st dour above Post OtHee.
Oilice hours front D to 12 A. M., from 3 to 5
ami 7 to 9 r. M. May 3 '73-ly
D
K. Gi:0. Y. JACKSOV
PHYSICIAN, SURGEON & ACCOUCHER.
In ihe old ofllce of Dr. A. lleeves Jackson,
rcsiJtnce in Wyekoff's building.
STROUDSBURG, PA.
August 8, lS72-tf.
jn. ii. j. patti:umo.,
0FERAT1XG AXD MECHANICAL DENTIST,
Having located in East .Stroudsburg, Pa., an
ai 'incvs that lie is now prepared to insert arti
ficial teeth in i!ie most bountiful and life-like
manner. Also, great attention given to filling
1 pref-rviim the natural teetli. Teeth ex
r.u te.l wiiiio it pain by use of Nitrons Oxide
ijs. M lu r -,vork inebb-iit to the profession
f-;i? ia tk? wL skillful and approved style.
All work attended to promptly and warranted.
Onirics reasonable. Patronage of the public
to!ieileJ.
lSue in A. Y. IJers new building, p
jioi:e Auuljmiak House, East Stroudsburg,
Julr 11,1872 Ir.
D
It. .V. i" I'KtK.
Announces t!i it In ving just returned from
lewul Collets, he is fully prepared to make
artificial teetli in the most beautiful and life
like manner, and to fili decayed teeth ac
cording to the most i nprcved method.
Teeth exfract-rd without pain, when de
sire.!, by the use of Nitrous Oxide Gas,
which is entirely .harmless. Repairing of
all kinds neatly done. All work warranted.
Charjes reasonable.
Office in J. (J. Keller's new Brick build
ing, Mnia S'reet, Stroudsburj-, Pa.
ug 31-tf
Atloi iif j at L;uv,
();Ti -o in the building formerly occupied
by L. M. I -arson, anil opposite the Strouds
btr unk, Main .street, Stroudsburg, I'a.
jan i:j-tf
V
32i:iiica aiori:i-
J.
The Rubseribcr would infornt the public that
lie has leased the house formally kept by Jacob
Kneeht. in the IVrouh of Stroudsburjr, Pa.,
and having repainted and refurnished the same,
is prepared to entertain all who may patronize
him. It is the aim of the proprietor, to fam
ish superior accommodations at moderate rates
and will spare no pains to promote the com
fort of the guests. A liberal tdiare of public
patnmae solicited.
April 17, '72-tf.J D. L. PISLE.
X
iij,i; iioirsi:,
HONESDALE, PA.
Most central location oi any Hotel in town.
K. W. KIPLE & SON,
lo'j Main .street. Proprietors.
January , 1873. ly.
I
A C Ii A YA S AIIO t'S K.
J OPPOSITE TIIK DEPOT.
East Stroudsburg, I'a.
1). J. VAN COTT, Proprietor.
The bar contains the choiest Liquors and
the table is supplied with the best the market
affords. Charges moderate. may 3 1872-tf.
7ATSOWS '
Jiotmt vcinoa iiou.s,
117 and 119 North Second St.
ABOVE AKCII,
PHILADELPHIA.
Way 30, 172- ly.
T EV. EDWARD A. WILSON'S (of Wil-
- Iiamsburgh, JN. Y.) Recipe for CON
SUMPTION and ASTHMA carefully com.
pounded at
HOLLINSHEAD'S DRUG STORE.
(r Medicines Fresh and Pure.
Nov. 21. 1607. W. HOLLINSIIEAD.
MONROE COUNTY
Mutual Fire Insurance Company.
STROUrSBURG, PA.
CHARTER PERPETUAL.
The By-L-tws of this Company, and the
regulations governing insurance have, re
cently been very materially changed, pla
cing it upon a basis eual to that of any
Fire Insurance Company in ihe Slate.
Imporlant among these changes are the
following, viz :
Policies, instead of being perpetual, are
i.-sued fir live years.
All property is classified and the rate of
premium is fixed according to the risk of
the properly.
Premium no'es are taken, and all as
sessments are made on the notes.
Property is insured for not more than
two thirds of its actual cash value, and the
full amount of insurance paid in case of loss,
provided the !os be equal to the amount of
insurance.
"Annual assessments' only are made, ex
rept in cases of heavy loss, and where a
special assessment is necessjry.
The Company is therefore prepared to in
sure property upon terms much more desira
ble i Im n -under the old system.
Applications may be made to any of the
Managers, Surveyors, or Secretary.
MANAGERS.
Slodel! Stokes, Jacob Knecht,
J. Depue LeBar, John Ed i tiger.
Richard S. Staples, Francis Ilagerman,
Silas L. Drake, Jacob Stouffer,
Chas. 1). Brodhcad, Theodore Schoeh,
Robert Boys,- Thos. W. Rhodes,
William Wallace.
STOGDELL STOKES, Prcs't.
E. B. Dreiier, Secretary and Treasurer.
SURVEYORS.
For Monroe County:
Silas L. Drake, Tiios. W. Rhodes,
William Gilbert, J. Depne LeBar,
Geo. G. Shafer, Jacob Sfouffer.
For Wayne County:
F. A. Oppclt, Jos. I Miller.
For Pike County :
Samuel Detrick.
For Northampton County:
Richard Camden.
For Carbon County:
Samuel Ziegenfus.
03" The Managers meet regularly at
the Secretary' Office in Stroudsburg, on
the hrst 1 uesday ot each monih, at 2
o'clock P. M. May 15,73-tf
GOOD NEWS!
NEW FIRM AXD NEW GOODS?
WACMR.'& 'RHODES
would announce to the public, that they have
taken the stand latelv occupied bv L. T. Labar
tS: Co., and litted and stocked it with choice
lines, of
Groceries,
Provisions,
Crockery ware, &c.
Every article in store has been selected with
the greatest care, and they can assure custo
mers, that no matter at what price sold, every
thinjr purchased of them will prove to be of
the best quality.
It is the design to keep a complete assort
ment in each line, so that all tastes may be
suited.
Whether in want of heavy or fine
Groceries or Provisions, Crockery Ware,
and Glassware, Tobaccoes
or what not. This will be found to be the
place to call. A speciality with them will be
a No. 1 brand of
St. Louis Mills Flour
which stands at the head of the list every
where. Call and examine goods. Prices
marked down to the lowest living figure.
CHOICE CLOVER SEED ON HAND.
o
ALSO:
On hand and for sale a supericr Jot of
Ceiling Lath, Hemlock Boards and Scant
ling, Matched Flooring, and White
Pine of all kinds.
II. S. WAGNER.
April 10, lS73-tf.
M. II. RHODES.
Found out why people go to McCarty's to
get their furniture, because he buys it at the
Ware Rooms of Lee & Co. and sells it at
an advance of only tumtu-tuo and tiro-
viith pvr cent. Or in other word, 1 locking;
Chairs that he buys of Lee & Co. (through
the runners he don't have) for $4,50 he wills
for $5,50. 1 'ay him to Lvy some good Fur
niture. JiEE & CO.
Stroud&burg, Aug. 18, 1870. tf.
From the Aden nee.
Correspondence of the Advance.
BY J. It. DURFEE.
Stroudshuro, Pa., May 2G.
Mr. Editor It is now some time
since we have written for the Advance,
but as the winter of our fjuictude has
been made glorious by the return of
spring, as usual we become a bein; of
passage. Having within two weeks
passed through nine different States, and
having had an eye to the many scenes of
interest, we purpose to give to your nu
merous readers what we can recollect
while on our pilgrimage. First, we give
an account of Stroudsburg and its sur
roundings, and then fake our excursion
by course. Arriving here on Saturday
evening, after a journey of over 1000
miles, with all its attractions, one feels
somewhat the worse for wear. On last
Sabbath, one of the pleasanlest Sabbaths
that the sun ever shone upon, we were
invited to go to Quaker meeting in the
town. Stroudsburg is one of the oldest
settled towns in Pennsylvania, originaily
settled by German Quakers, but like all
other institutions has given way to some
thing more popular. A great number of
other churches have been established,
with their tall spires reaching heaven
ward, while their little old plan stone
church has almost gone into obscurity,
and but very few of these plain, honest
people are left as ancient landmarks to
tell of the past. But Home benevolent
friends of Philadelphia, feeling a desire
to perpetuate their institutions, have had
new seats put in the church, and other
wise improved it, and yesterday they
were to have a new opening. Having
always had a respect for the lJroad IJrim
ever since we read the history of Wm.
Penn's coming over to this country, and
his amicable arrangements with the In
dians fur their lands, without a Modoc
war, and the attempt of Cotton Mather,
an eminent divine of those days, who
wrote on to Capt. Grecnway something in
these words :
'There is now at sea shippe, as I was
advised by the last packet, which has on
board one hundred or more of ye here
ticks acd malignants called Quakers, with
W. Penne, who is ye caif scampe, at ye
hedde of them. Ye general Court has
accordingly given secret orders to Master
Iluxet of ye brig Propasse, to waylay ye
said welcome slyly or near the coast of
Codde (Cape Cod), and make captive ye
said Penne and his ungodly crew, so that
ye Lord may be glorified .and not mocked
on the soil of this new country with ye
heathen worship of these people. Much
spoil can be made by selling ye whole
iotte of them in liarbadocs, where slaves
fetch goode prices in rumme and sugar,
and shall not only do ye Lord good ser.
vice by punishing ye wicked, but shall
make great gayne for his ministers and
people. Master Iluxet feels hopeful,
and I will set down the news he grings
when the shippe comes back."
Master Iluxet missed his reckoning
and Penn sailed secure within the Capes
of Delaware, lo this noble man Penn
sylvania is iodebted for mueh that is good
and great in the Keystone State, and had
he lived in the present period and been
President, probably there would have
been no Modoc war or Gen. Canby's
funeral, and we should have heard but
very little of the hostilities of the Indians
on account of the wrongs that have been
imposed upon them ever since the white
man set foot on these shores and the
people furnished them the fire water.
On going into their neat little church
we met a few sisters of the goodly Qua
kers with their plain drab bouncts, and
very soon there entered a goodly delcga
tiou of the real broad brims, who took a
seat with backs to the wall faciog the
congregation. The fjuakers are prover
bial for not speaking until the spirit
moves, or in other words, until they have
something to say. After some fifteen
minutes, after they had seemed to hold
communion with the inner world, one of
the ciders arose, laid off his hat, and pre
pared a beautiful discouse from the
words of Paul : "Thank God that I am
what I am." We would gladly give a
synopsis of this interesting discourse, but
time and space forbid. After a few mo
meuts of silence another elder gave an
excellent address, exhorting all to be
come followers of Christ". After an invo
cation, and a general shaking of hands,
the interesting exercises closed. Put
that is not what we eat down to write
about.
The Delaware Water Gap, three miles
from where we now sit, has of late be
come a favorite resort for Philadelphi
a's, and is becoming more so every year.
It would not be easy to find grander
mountain scenery, more remarkable wa
terfalls and refined society. For charm
ing walks and rides aud drives the coun
try about the Water Gap is surely
unsurpassed. An easy carriage and a
pair of mountain horses, born and bred
among the hils, taking from habit the
steepest and stouiest part of the roads,
asccut aud descent, makes the road a per
feet delight. Uest of all to those who
fly from the cities is the pure bracing
mountain air, and on these heights one
enjoys the coveted luxury without stint
or qualification. As one says, a ride to
Stroudsburg, overlooking the silver wind
ings of Cherry Creek to Mosier's Knob,
and sit or recline on the breezy surait
of crumbled rock or stinted grasp, seeing
afar off the blue bills and misty Pocono,
and tracing sometimse the smoke from
the locomotive some twenty miles away
up the mountain road, commanding per
haps in one direction the farthcrest and
finest views, beside the dark and shaded,
ravine called Wolfs Hollow, gives you
a glimpse ;of dashing cascades and still
pools and numerous rapids. All the en
chanting forms that water can take in its
way down a rocky hill side, through the
Gap to Columbia, the most delightful ride
of all, when you are in full view of the
Delaware rolling, or. rather gliding be
tween the towering mountains that stand
the one on the Pennsylvania and the
other on the Jersey side, and from the
brisk wind always setting through the
Gap you take all the mountain air. These
which are. all short and easy drive." from
the Kittatinny House, from Glenwood.or
any of the boarding-houses in the neigh
borhood, all give one some idea of the
recreation of body and soul.
A more extended account hereafter.
TIMBER PROSPECTS FOR THE WEST.
BY C. S. IIARRISOX,
Oj Mai Floiccr Colony, Yorh Xclraslca.
Thousbands in the East would like to
have western homes. They have heard
of the returns which reward the laborer,
and the ease with which farming can be
carried on by machinery ; "but then,"
say they, "there is the scarcity of timber."
Having lived thirty years in five Western
States, we are, prepared to say something
of our timber prospects.
Timber with us grows with wonderful
rapidity. Thirty years ago people made
the same objection to going to Illinois
which they now make to going to Nebras
ka; but notwithstanding the wood that
has been burned, and the millions of rail
road ties which have been furnished,
there is more timber in Illinois today,
than ever. All through Nebraska timber
planting is ao enthusiasm. Every farm
er plants. Stock companies plant large
tracts ; and Railroad Campanies are rais
ing timber. Millions of trees are annual
ly set out from the forests, and hundreds
of nurseries are propagating on a grand
scale. Gne firm raise over twenty mil
lions of coniferic alone, and cannot sup
ply the demand. One Patent Office Re
port estimates that 150,000 acres are an
nually planted to timber. Last year one
third more trees were planted than two
years ago.
Tree culture has proved a success. It
is no uncommon thing to see groves of
evergreens in the heart of a once bleak
prairie. Coniferaj succeed much better
in the loam of the West, than in their na
tive Michigan or New York. Arthur
Bryant, of Princeton, Illinois, brother of
the poet, has a great variety. Some of
his evergreens are forty feet high, and five
feet in circumference, though only twen
ty years old. Mr. Scofield, of Elgin, has
European larches fifteen years old, forty
feet high, and a foot in diameter capable
of making two railroad tics and two fence
posts, to the treo. A few months ago we
visited Mr LdwarJs, one of the tree plan
ters of the West, and it seemed as though
the wand of a magician had passed over
that prairie land. What a transformation 1
had been produced in a score of years!
Walks wind through his grounds, em
bowered with perennial green. Here are
firs which you would think half a cen
tuary old ; there pines, large enough for
house timbers ; and the Norway spruce,
serving as stable for fowls and cattle.
Many cattle raisers are planting ever
greens for the protection of their stock ;
and the shelter-is so comple that a few
dollars save the expense of a barn. The
Norway spruce, by its foliage, with limbs
overlapping, is especially adapted for stock
shelter ; aud we have seen a hedge of this
tree, six years planted, and four feet apart
in the raw, so interlaced that the snow
could hardly How through it.
Iu Iowa aud Nebraska, fine artifical
forests diversify the once unbroken prai
ries ; and we have seen soft maples so
thrifty, that after six years, ten acres
would supply a family for ever. Black
walnut, eighteen years old has yielded at
the rate of forty cords of wood per acre.
Cottonwood, fifteen years old, are found
that will yield a cord to the tree. Iu one
instance a row of Lombardy poplar, feu
rods long, and twenty years old, yielded
twenty cords of wood two cords to the
rod. White willows, set out as a hedge,
soon yielded ample returns of fuel.
There is an alarming prospect for our
Northern forests. Having visited the
centers of our lumber trade, we fiud that
seventeen years will complete the destruc
tion of our pineries. Soon after our pine
is gone, our hard wood forests (which
uow supply our manufactories, our agri
cultural enterprises and car works,) will
also be destroyed.
Thirty years will, inevitably, see Ihe
East denuded of timber, while groves,
large enough for building and manufac
turing purposes, will adorn the West. If
properly tended, trees will grow to a good
size in thirty years. There is a great dif
ference between a natural and an artificial
forest. Before us, as we write, is a sec
tion of Scotch pine, thirteen years old,
and thirteen inches through, and the tree
was thirty-five feet high. Go into arti
ficial forests, and you will find trees often
make a diameter of one inch a year, and
a height of two feet ; and we have known
white pines to grow even three' and four
feet a year. The olt woods sometimes
show a yearly circle of an ioch in thick
ness, giving a diameter of two inches it
year.
We must plant them both East and
West. The ease with which our Wes
tern soil can be cultivated, its freedom
from stumps and stoues, and its cheap
ness, give every advantage to the Wes
tern planter, But it is said there arc
beds of coal at the East ; so there arc in
the West. Illinois, Iowa and Nebraska
appear to be well stored with coal.
But too much reliance should not be
placed on coal. It does not grow and
consequently it must . ultimately become
exhausted. England supposed she had a
supply for a thousand years; but last
summer a coal panic so severely affected
the industries of that country that the
shock was felt almost all over the world.
The only trouble with the luel ques
tion in Nebraska is for the next few years.
We can raise wood in that time. There
is a grove of Cottonwood in Seward coun
ty. which, when only four years old, show
ed trees four inches through and fifteen
feet high ; and if there had been ten acres
of it, it would, from that age, have yield
cd a family a perpetual supply. Cotton
wood from the seed often springs up in
corn fields, and grows as high as the corn,
(six feet), the same year. "Well, for
the next five or ten years what will you
do ?" The herd law obviates the neces
sity of fencing, yet the people are plant
ing fences, which caunot blow down and
do not rot ; and, harsh as it may sound to
Eastern ears, corn makes an excellent
fuel. It is ascertained that a pound of
corn is worth as much as a pound of
coal ; and there is generally such a ple
thora of this commodity that it can be
had for fuel much cheaper than many an
Eastern household can be supplied with
coal. The question of pressed fuel, from
weeds and straw, is now being agitated ;
and in western Iown, compressed hay is
already used. Seedling forest trees are
furnished at from 52 to 10 per thous
and. In the United States Land Office, at
Lincoln, more thau 25,000 homesteaders
and pre emptors, have filed claims to
prairies, and nearly 3.000 others have
bought them of the Burlington & Mis
souri Kiver Railroad, on ten years' credit,
six per cent, interest; and on contracts
since 1872, no part of the principal pay
able, till the beginning of the fifth year.
Collegiate Education for Women.
At the Social Science Convention held
in Boston, on the 14th of May, President
Eliot, of Harvard ; President llaymoad,
of Vassar , Professor Agassiz, Colonel
Iligginson, Wendell Phillips, Mrs. Liver
more, Mrs. Julia Ward Howe, Mrs. Chey
ney, Mrs. Dull, Miss Mitchell and other
distinguished men and women were pre
sent, all anxious to hear or participate in
the discussion on the "Higher Education
for Women." Colonel Iligginson was
the first speaker, and he opened with a
very fine and telling address, strongly ad
vocating the opening of our colleges and
universities to women. Prof. Agassiz
then took the floor and said that he held
it to be an imperative necessity, in an en
lightened community, to grant to women
all the privileges, political and cduca
tional, which man may claim. He did
not see any necessity for discrimination
between what shall be taught to woman
and man one sex being intellectually no
more active than the other. When he
took his degree at Muuich, in 1830, the
subject of his thesis was " Femuta hu
ni'inn superior marc," and in this he
had assigned the better part to women,
because they control the future destiny
of nations by the education they initiate.
At the time he was appoiuted professor
at Harvard he opened the museum and
his lecture room to women. Now, among
the assistants in the museum, there arc
about an equal number of either sex, and
the hearers iu the lecture room are also
divided. The same is the case in the
Anderson . School of Natural History.
President Raymond held it to be an un
settled question whether a liberal educa
tion is the same, thing for woman as for
man. The intellectual pabulum for the
two might require some modifications,
but he believed that sound philosophy
and the result of experience would war
rant the statements of Prof. Agassiz. At
Vassar they had far outgrown the qucs
liou whether girls can keep up with boys.
They have gentlemen professors at Vas
sar, and the question among them is how
to keep ahead of the girls. As to the ef
fect upon the health he would challenge
the United States to turn out 400 young
women, between the ages of 10 and 24,
who would compare with the Vassar Col
lege girls. Ho knew of no healthier oc
cupation than study correctly pursued.
Miss Mitchell corroborated the statement
of President Raymond relative to the
health at Vassar. Pres. Eliot next came
upon the platform, aud as the representa
tive of Harvard University, was listcued
to with attention He thought that the
co education of the sexes was a compara
tively ucw experiment in this country.
It has been tried priucipally iu the West,
but is now on the wane there, and seems
to be reviving iu the Eastern and Middle
States. The expericucc of Obcilin Col
lege, which has been one of the most suc
cessful of theso institutions and has the
services of the most devoted men and wo
men, has been such that they have es
tablished a separate or ladies department.
They still admit ladies to the college
course, but their last catalogue shows 140
students in the ladies' department and 8
ia the college. This it the case in many
institutions in the West. Mr. Eliot thetf
referred to the personal testimony of
teachers, citing the matron of Oberlin,
who told him that she would allow no
girl in whom she was interested to enter
the college. In the public school system
there is no more safety for girls than for
boys. More than twojthirds of the' boys
who enter Harvard College are educated
by tutors or at private schools. Wendell
Phillips followed in a short address. He
maintained that the University was a pub
lic institution, and that girls who had the?
properqualificatioas had the right to en
ter it. If he had a daughter whose health?
and education were such as to warrant
her in entering Harvard he would carry
the case to the Supreme Court and de
mand it as a right. Mrs. Howe made a
few caustic remarks, indulging in some
severe personality toward Pres. Eliot,
wnicn brought 1'rof. Agassiz to his feet
to defend that pcnUeman, the latter bar
ing left the room during Mrs. Il.'a re
marks. Mrs. Livermore spoke of the abil
ity of woman to endure the intellectual
strain of a college course. She had tried
to enter Harvard at 17 and had felt the
disadvantage all her lire of her inability
to do so. Colonel Iligginson closed the
debate. He thought that the remarks of
Pres. Eliot that 400 young women away
from home would be subject to greater
dangers morally than 400 young men un
der similiar circumstances, was particular
unfortunate, and he could not expect any
woman, solicitous for the character of heir
sex, to hear such a statement without in
dignation ; and that assertion concerning
the co education of the sexes being an ex
periment was a mistake.-
Wild Girl in Greene County, Pa.
We are indebted to John Messinger
Esq , of Windridge, Greene County, Pa.,'
for the following account of a young, wo
man, who for eighteen years has been
running wild in the woods in this neigh
borhood. We know Mr. Messinger to be
truthful and reliable man and every word
of his statement can be depended on. In
fact he so enters into particulars, and gives
names and dates, that it is impossible' to
disbelieve his statement, extraordinary as
it is. He writes :
A man living near Windridc, Greene
County, Pa., had borne to him five chil
dren, four girls and one boy. Ilia name
is Daniel Lewis. When quite young tBe
boy and second daughter, named LucindW
Lewis, developed quite a fondness for
hunting, and were out nearly all the time,
roaming the woods in search of game.
They seemed to delight in nothing so
much as the life of a hunter, and wobTJ
be gone from home for weeks at a time.
After some four or five years, the boy quit
it and entered on the more industrious
pursuits of life, but the girl continued ia
the chase. Drawing herself more and
more from human intercourse and re
straint, she has become a wild woman,
fleeing from the approach of her kind
with the speed of a deer.
During the early years of her solitary
life she used to approach her father's
house and entice the dogs to follow her,
learning almost any breod of dozs. to be
come good hunters. In the hope of bring;
ing her back to her home and to civiliza
tion, her brother followed her and shot
the dog she had taken away, using every
inducement to get her to go back with
him. But all ia vain.
For eighteen years, since she was
twelve years of age, she has lived this wild
life ; sleeping in the center of straw stacks
during the Dight and hiding in them dur
ing the summer the wild and cultivated
fruits she intends for her winter store of
provisions. She is now thirty years old,
and is as wild as the most untamed deni
zen of the forest.
Mr.Messingcrsays he at one time while
out hunting, met her in the woods. Her
long black hair, covering her face and
her eyes, was matted with burrs and
leaves, and her Mack eyes made her a
startling picture. She remained perfect
ly still uutil he got within twenty feet of
her, when she turned and fled with a
swiftness no man could hope to rival.
A faw days since she was sceu again
and then had in her hand three pheasants
and four rabbits, but although these en
cumbered her, felie eluded every attempt
to capture her. She has been so long in
the woods that she has become perfectly
wild. Her dress is made of the skins of
wild animals and a blanket that she has
taken somewhere duriDg some of her
nocturnal predatory tours.
The case is a most extraordinary one.
That a girl of twelve years oi l could thus
give up the endearments of home, the
pleasures of human intercourse and the
delights of civilized life aud for eighteen
years live like a wild animal as Lucinda
Lewis has done seems to us something be
yond possibility, and nothing but our
having fho fullest coufidenco in our in
formant, would induce us to ask the pub
to believe such a thing possible. Wheel
imj Jiejistcr.
An elderly lady, residing in Buffalo,
rcceutlyhad the remaiusof her.husband,
who died twenty five years ago, diseuter
red, and caused the pieces of the coffin
to be collected, aud had the bones
thoroughly washed. They were then
placed iu a new coCia aud re buried iu
another cemetery.
A man of 73 and a womau of (ii) eloped
from West Amesbnry, Mass., last week,
becauso their childreu objected to their
marriage.