Ul 1 JDcuotcb ta politics, Citeraturc, Vgricnlturc, Science, iiTovnlitn, awb General JntcIIigcttcc. FT JEFFERSONIAN. VOL. 31. Published by Theodore Schoch. Tt(S-rvJ I ilUrs year in dmnce and If not i 'f lhc ' ',f lhe year dolUrsmni fifty St -ill be chrReI. , n n liei itiuu I until all -trrearages are paid, ttcent i: 'he . ti u l the EJitor. CT Vlfii merits ' ne square oftciglit Nn) or ,. ., ,, , .r t!ire itiirti.ii $1 .VI. Each attdiliuioil ill 'It ' ' rflUS t"-li-,t ......cr 'i -.'w, .r-. JO -IMtlflTIXG, OF ALL KINDS, EiTteJ ia the lii;lieit flyle of the Art, and tin m.t riMson.itile term. WILLIAM S. REES, Surveyor, Conveyancer and Real Estate Agent. Farms, Timber Lands and Town Lots FOR SALE. O.fice next door almve S. llees news Depot ,:! (Inor below the Corner tore. JIan-h IST-Vtf. D R. J. L A N T Z, .Surgeon ami Mechanical Dentist, still In In 'ifi'- 'i M liu Street, in the second t h v .if Or. . ilt'iii! tn ick ixu. ding, neatly oppo Mir ' t ' S'nm !'ung ll"Ue, mid tie l...Uei himself ( ut I V trunlvf n yeis ..iiMt uit p.'actli-e and the innM tr.ieU 4ii i iMi'-I'll aitfiill n In -ill millers A rial ni up .i In ri i;f :--i hi. t Iml tie is fully aide to (wrf-jim :1 1 .i-ier-Un'ii in l lit denial line In the iiiuj-t c-n-ful, tunlr f il 4.1 1 .kliil'il ni-tii ner. s if-riil aiu-iiiinii siveii to savins the N itura' Teeth ; j,'i. t'i 1'ie iisTlini of ArtiUi-i-tl rt-ctli on Huhlier. ; l I. silver or I'niitinu ms ( ii mis, 4ii J jici lei t tils in all la-r ini'd. it iirr'ia k llie tjreat f illy anil d.mper ( en iruiii; ttielr o;k to the iiiexpcrienred. orlo those IiTini ;il -i .list iii. e. A p ri I 13, 171.-ly J) It. J. EI. MH .LL., PHTSIOIAN AND SURGEON. Oilirc 11 iloor alhive Stroudsburg House, tt-ideiice 1st door hInivc Post Ofl.ce. Oilicc hours front 'J to 12 A. M., from .1 to 5 and 7 to 9 v. M. May 3 7:5-ly. it. i;s:o. iv. J.4tRSo. PHYSICIAN, SURGEON & ACCOUCHER. In tlic olil office of Dr. A. Keeve Jackson, rrsidence, corner of Sarah ami Franklin treet. STROUDSBURG, PA. An; list 8, l57-J-tH OPERITING AND 31CCHAMr.lL DEMIST, .ivin; Incited in Kat Stroudsbnrg, Pa., an ni'Kiw t Ii :t t In? is now prcjiarc-l to insert arti l'ui:il tei'tli in l!ie nv-t ie:i'ililul anl life-like nun irr. Alo, ;reat attt-iittoti given to tilling aa-1 I'rvserviiijj t!ic natural teclli. Teeth ex-trK-tcl wiilwint jciin lv use of Nitronn O.xiJe j. All otlit-r work iiic iilr nt to the pnifession louc in til.' m -t skillful and ajiiirnved !yle. All work attended to promptly and. warranted. Ch irues reasonahle. I'atronajje of the public solicited. Office in A. W. Loder's new building, np poite Analomink llou.-e, East Strondsburg, July 11, 1873 ly. D n. . is. rrt'K, Suigeon Oculist. Aunoiinci's lint Invinff just returnrd from Djulal Collets, hr? is fully prepared to make rtificul teth in t)i mosi beautiful and lite lik iiimi'ier, and to fi'i dccaveJ teeth ac cordinj to the mot i nnrcved metho.l. Teeiti exfract-d without piin, when de- irel, by tlie use of Niir-un Oxide Gf, which in entirely inrmles. Ilepairinj of II kind. neatly dono. All work warranted. Chirjri rejsouible. OiBce m J. ( Kcller' new. Brick build in. M.ii'i S reet, StrolJbur":, Pa. ati 31-1 f J i'i::s us. ii'Air, Attorney ut L;tw, nii" in tlio buil .Iiiiir lbrmorly tKUttpini ly L. M. Hursuu, anl oppM.s'tte the S t nut .!.-bur- Hank. Main trji;t, rftrouburji, I 'a. jan i:;-tf ii:kica i!ot:l. The Kiibscribcr would inform the public tint lie lias leased th- bo isc formally kept by Jacob Kneclit, in the Horough of Stnmdsburg, Pa., and hiving reiai:itud and refurnished the f-ame, wjrepared to entertain all who may patronize Jiiai. It is the aim of the proprietor, to furn ish superior accommodations at moderate rates and will rpire no pains to promote the com fort of the jrtiests. A liberal !iare of public patronage fili iti.il. April 17,'7itf. D. L. PISLE. HONESDALE. PA. I 3lDft central location ot any Hotel in town. 1 R- W. KIPLK & SON, lfjJ -Main street Proprietors, j'lanuary 1873. ly. i-Li 01'POkitf. tiik n-ior East Stroudsburg, Pa. . J. VAN COTT, Proprietor. The bar contains the choiert Liquors and 1'ie table U Kiipplied with the teet the market nora, vnarge moderate. Lmy lo7i-lr. Mount Vernon House, 117 and 119 North Second St. ABOVE AKCIT, PHILADELPHIA. May 30, 1672- ly. REV. EDWARD A. WILSON'S(of Wil-lum-burh, N. Y.) Recipe for CON UMPTIONund ASTHMA carefully com founded at I HOLLINSHEAD S DRUG STORE. i OCT Medicines Fresh and Pure. for. 21. ige?. W HOLLTNSIIEAD. THE PENNSYLVANIA LAND CASK Fifteen Square Miles of lhe Anthracite Coal Region in Dispute The Heirs of Governor weary Interested. The following account of the great land controversy. in the anthracite coal region is condensed from the Pottsvillc Stan thin J : The matter lias been the subject of con iderable controversy, and several suits of ejectment have been entered, in the ad joining county of Cnrhon, against the Philadelphia and Reading Coal and Iron Company, to dispossess t hetu of the land, and a number of suits of the same charac ter are about to be begun in the Common Pleas Court of this county against the same parties. For several year? pa?t there have been rumors of a title to the.se lands, dating back to the early history of our national existence. When General Geary was Governor of the State, he gave consider able attentien to the merits of this claim, and after his term of office expired, de voted himself assiduously to ascertaining what, if any, rights the New York par ties had to the land. For some time be fore his death prepirations had been made to place the management of (his tract of land in the hands of Governor Geary, and a few days before his death he had gone to New York for the purpose of con summating the matter. While there he met the parties interested in the land, and entered into a contract with them by which he was to pay them S-.500 for one tenth interest in the claim. $1,500 of which be paid in cash, giving his obliga tion for SI, 000. A coal and iron com pany was to be formed among the parties who claimed the land, of which Governor Geary was to be the President ; and to the developing of the lands and contest ing the claims thereto he was to give his entire and exclusive attention. On the morning after his return, lie died sudend ly at the breakfast table. The II on Francis Jordan. Secretary of State, who was made administrator of the estate of Governor Geary, found among hi? assets this interest in the land. He discovered its great value, and the rjuestion of the title he found to be as follows : The lands were patented to several par ties then residing in Schuylkill county, N-jw York and Philadelphia, and the money was paid by Robett Morris, Secre tary uf the Treasury under General Wash ington. In those early times when com paratively nothing of the great wealth of this region had been developed and was by no means comprehended, little atten tion was aid to these lands, and they were allowed to remain untouched until a latter day, wheu another patent was taken out by another party, and laid up on the same lands covered by this original patent which is now on the lands, and up on which the claim of this party is based. During the time that the land remained undeveloped ami worthless, it was sold under the tax title laws of the State, in tracts, and was bought by several parties. The brief made of the oriioal title avers that the claim of the Philadelphia and Heading Coal and Irou Company to a title to these lands is based upon the second patent laid years after the first patent, and therefore of no value ; and that the Phil adelphia and Reading Coal and Iron Com pany, to sustain its title, has purchased these tax titles, with a view to strengthen their ri.ht to the property, and that these tax tiib-s and the claim under the second patent arc the on!' right or show of title that the Philadelphia and Reading Coal au J Iron C n.n iny bus to the property. . Thee Iiuds cover an area of fully fif teen square u.i'cs and are situated in the counties of Carbon and Schuylkill most ly in the county of Carbon and embrace in their extent the most available and valuable coal laud? iu the Stat of Penn sylvania The tax title claim to some portions of this property Ins tccu decided by Judge Rockafellow, ofa ciicuit ad joining this, to be wholly worthless, and the case has been carried to the Supreme Court, by the parties to the controversy. Should the Supreme Court decide that the tax title ia worthless, then the basis of the title of the Philadelphia and Reading Coal and Iron Company, according to the statement of the parties interested in the original claim, would lie upon the patent grauted to these other parties years after the original patent had been granted to Robert Morris and the parties claiming under his title. The parties composing the Compauy Sghting for the possession of these - lands are men of vast means, and they arc in clined to fi"ht the battle in the courts to the bitter end. Naturally enough the Philadelphia and Reading Coal and Irou Company, now holding possession, will meet them with the same spirit of deter mination. Success of Independent Newspapers. An exchange very pertly remarks : A great many persons think that a newspa per cannot flourish unless it has a party organization at its back. Such persons predicted that the New York Tribune would fail when it cut loose from the Re publican party. Rut notwithstanding the unpopularity of some of the principles advocated by the Tribune it cleared some $80,000 duriDg the first bix months of the prcscDt year, which is at the rate of 16 per cent, per annum on the price of the latent share sold. STROUDSBURGr, MONROE The Nathan Murder. Arrival of John T. Irvin from California. New York, Oct. 0. At Police Head quarters this morning there was consider able excitement, owing to the arrival of John T. Irvin, the self professed murder er of Benjamin Nathan, in charge of Cap tain Irving and Detective Dusenbury. lhe prisoner was immediately locked up in the cell in which h orrester was lodged during his imprisonment iu this city about a year ago. He was subsequently taken across the hall and lodged in the cell op posite, as in the former cell persons could sec him from the windows in the hall, aud the crowd of curiosity seekers was becom ing so large that it was almost impossible to pass through the hall.' An officer was then stationed outside his cell door, with instructions from Captaiu Irving not to allow any person to see or speak to the prisoner until he had been arraigned be fore the Superintendent and the District Attorney. The news of Irviu's probable arrival attracted numerous reporters, law yers and others to the building, all anx ious to see the man about whom so much has been said and written ; but perm is sion to do so was absolutely refused, on the ground that it would only interfere with the euds of justice. Up to I 'oclock Superintendent Matsell had not seen the prisoner, aud said, in answer to a ques tion, that he did not want to see him or hear anything from hiui until the arrival of the District Attorney, for whom he had already sent, and who will visit Police Headquarters during the day. Captain Irving this morning said that he could not repeat anything that the prisoner said to him, as it would interfere with the in vestigation of the case, which will have to be all gone over again. There seems to be a probability that there will be new developments in the Nathan case befre many days elapse. Captaiu Irving says that since he went to California, and heard Irving's story, he is inclined to believe that the man does know more about the murder than he or any of the Police Department gave him credit for. It appears that Irvin, while locked up in Sau Francisco, merely told the officers, reporters and others who in terviewed him, enough to excite the curiosity of the reading: public aud awak en the interest of the New York author ties. From the first story that he told uone of the officers here believed that he knew any thiug more than he had read in the newspapers, but as soon as he was taken in charge by Captain Irving and Detective Dusenbury he, it is reported, proved to them that he did known some about it, and more than they previously knew, themselves. The officers and their prisoner left San Francisco last Thursday morning on the Union Pacific Railroad to Omaha. They then took the Quiocy & Durltngton road to Chicago, where they took the North western to Detriot, then through Wind sor, Canada, to Niagara Falls and to Buf falo where they took the Erie & New York Railroad to Jersey City, arriving in this city at 7 a. m. to-day. A carriage was in waiting, and the three were rapiJ ly driven to police headquarters, arriving there unexpectedly, as no one in the build ing expected them until to-morrow or Saturday- When they were leaving San Francisco the officers at that place said it was likely an attempt Tould be made to rescue the prisoner on the way, but no demonstration was made, nor did Irvin seem to care about getting away. In fact, he seemed only too well pleased to again arrive in this city. In short, the officers observe the same mystery in Irvin's case as they did in that ol Forrester, nod it as yet almost impossi blc to ascertain what they do know and what they do not. The truth, however, must be known in a few days, and it will then be proved whether Irvin has once again deceived the police or whether there is at last a chance that the my story of the Nathan murder is at last to be solved. A Chiistiaoburg (V.) paper contains the following curious account of how a stolen horse was recovered and restored to its owner : The horse, which wai stolen from the Rev. Mr. Leslie a few weeks ago, had been taught to extend his Iroot foot whenever asked by any one standio'r near its head. The thief was ignorant of this, as he was of the neighbor hood through which he was traveling. Fortunately for Mr. Leslie, every boy along the road knew the horse, because of the foot lifting. The thief stopped at a farm house iu West Virginia where the Rev. Mr. Leslie had frequently spettt the night, and asked for diuncr. . The little boy who rode the horse to the stable rc cogoized the horse as Mr. Leslie's, and, to confirm it, asked for the foot, which proved the matter. He ran to the house and told bis father, who at once com menced catechising the stranger, which resulted iu his arrest and imprisonment and the recovery of the horse. The Scrauton Republican say s : Miss Niven, ol Spring Rrook, now IU years of ase, when 5 years old had a very severe attack of small pox, which left her nos trils entirely closed, aud she does not re member having taken a breath of uir through them. Yesterday Dr. J. W. Cobb, of this city, performed no opera tion upon them, and to day she has the satisfaction of breathing through them freely. Pittsburg Commercial. The Downiugtown Chester county fcboe factory turss out 300 pair a day. COUNTY, PA., OCTOBER The Evangelical Alliance Gathering from Every Part of the Wolrd. : From the New York World. The proceedings of the Evangelical Conference which formally assembled on rnday last have in the main closely ac corded with the objects for which the Evangelical Alliance was formed. That Alliance is in no sense an ecclestical body. aud the churches informally represented iu it are in no way committed to the pro ceedings of its conferences. It is merely an association of Protestant Christians, who have organized for the ostensible pur pose of promoting h-irmouy among the several elements of Protestantism, and of combating tendencies hostile to the unity and integrity of that branch of Christan ity. Former conferences of the Alliance have been chiefly noticeable for the pro test which they have passed against real or supposed infringements of religious liberty by governments inimical to pro testants, or certain sects of Protcstauts And though these protests have. not been very graciously received by the govern incuts to whom they have been addressed, they have, we believe, in some instances had the desired effect. But the Confer ence now in session will lake uo action upon the grievances, if such there be, of persecuted or ill used Protestants in any part of the world. There are certainly no grievances of the character named to accupy the attention of the Conference on this side of the Atlantic ; and at this distance from the scene of all religious persecution or restraint the gentlemen composing the Conference can perhaps more prontably devote themselves to pure ly evangelical subjects. As was said by ut. nooisey, in ins opening address on Friday, they have assembled mainly be cause they all agree in believing iu the commuion of the saints ; and even though there there be some lack of saintly toleration iu the organization and the tone of the assembly, that communion may perhaps be accepted as typical of the object of their coming together. For the commuuion of saiuts is necessarily the es aeoce of harmany, and the prime object of the Alliance is to promote harmony among its several branches. The topies discussed on yesterday all had some rotation to this parise worthy object, and excepting an occasional growl at the Church of England, the general tone ol the discussiou could hardly fail to softer. denominational prajudices and promote a spirit of liberality between the members of the several denominations. But the Enangelical Alliance has thus far evinced no charity for Catholics, whom perhaps few even among the members of the Con-, ference would venture to place without the pale of Christianity. And when a few iutemperate speakers name Cath olicism and infidelity in the same breath, as the two great foes of the Alliauce, they encourage a spirit which under circum stances of less restraint may find expres sion as between Protestant denominations. What We Buy Abroad. The United States, during 1S72, im ported foreign goods to a greater value than during any previous year. The im ports for the year amounted to the large figures of 6077,145,279 iu gold over 887,000,000 more than during 1871. Of this immense importation about oue fifth came in as free goods, being chiefly the raw materials of foreign production, en tering into American manufacturers. The other four fifths paid duties, and these duties were the chief source of rev enue of the Treasury during the year. Of the aggregate importatins only sixteen millions came into the country overland from Canada and Mexico. The greater portion of the import trade is usually made up of a few classes of staple articles, and more than one-half of the imported values of 1872 some 350, 000,000 was composed of sugar aud mo lasses, coffee, cotton, wooleu and silk goods, and of iron and steel manufactures thereof. The heaviest importation was of sugar and molases and their manufactures. The value of these articles was over 800,000, 000, this being nearly oue seventh ot the entire trade. The second was woolens, of which we imported nearly 882,000, 000 ; iron and steel were third in the list. England and Germany sending us nearly $02,000,000. The fourth article was col fee, of which we got S12.000.000. The fifth, cotton goods, 836,000.000, and the sixth, tilk goods, 835,000,000. These six clases, or articles made up more than oue half of the import trado of last year. There are several other articles of which we also received Iar:c aaiouuts from abroad. Thus of tea, during 1872, we imported over 821.500,000 ; of hides aud leather, $28,000,000 ; of flax and linen goods, nearly 823,000,000, Nearly 11, 000,000 of chemicals also came iu, exclu sive of a large amount of acids, suits and similar goods that are separately classified. Of foreign fruits we eousumed $11,500, 000 worth ; of tin, over 817,000,000, and of foreign woods and furniture, 11,000, 000, 80,000,000 worth of foreign wine was imported, and a little more than that amount of Cuban tobacco and cigars. We got nearly ten millions worth of bread stuffs. Of foreign crockery, nearly six millions came iu and nearly seven millions of foreign plass We also took over seven millionsof India rubber, while the growth of our silk factories is attested by an im portation of nearly seven million dollars worth of "raw bilk." rkllathlphii 23, 1873. 1,1 11,1,1' n.im Preserving Celery. How to keep celery over winter is a question that perplexes nearly every one who cultivates that palatable plant. Many methods are practised, some of which arc suited to milder climater, but will not answer. We have kent celerv very successfully for one or two winters past by packing it in an upright position in large boxes, half buried ia the ground, and covered tightly with boards. Over the covered boxes earth is heaped suf ficiently high to keep out the frost. The boxes are opened when necessary, and a quantity sufficient for a week or two taken out at once. We believe the idea was obtained from the Germantown Tile graph. That paper now suggests another plan, which is probably just as good, and may be more easily followed in some cases. It is this : A trench h dug from twelve to fifteen inches in depth, and as: long as may be suitable ; the roots are placed in this singly side by side, at an angle, that is leaning somewhat; three inches of soil are packed against them ; then another line of stalks, until the ben is as large as may be convenient for cover ing, and another if required can be made. Soil should then be added until within six inches of the top of the stalks ; then a layer of straw, then a layer of dry leaves; the whole to have a good board covering to keep out water. Of course rather high ground for the bed or beds should be sellected, and a trench should be dug around the bed deeper than the bottom of the celery trenches, so made as to be sure to carry off all the water. If this plan is followed strictly all others may be abandoned, as the celery will keep not only till spring, but as long in the spring as may be desired and it is Dot all eaten beforehand. How a West Chester Drover Lost His Money. Lawrence John is a drover that resides at West Chester. He was in the city on Monday, and in the evening he went to the depot for the purpose of going home. hue there a man approached him said that he was from West Chester also, and asked him if he knew certain persons, residents of that place. Mr. John respond ed in the affirmative. Finally the stranger invited Mr. John to go and take a drink. The stranger then asked him to accora pany him to Third and Chestnut streets, where he had left his bapgage. Mr. John agreed to this, and the two started out together. After proceeding about a square, a third party stepped up and said to No. 2, ''Well, I've sent your baiingc to the depot, and now I want 8150." No. 2 examined his pockets; he only had a twenty dollar greenback and some gold. He didn't want to give the gold, so he asked Mr. John for a loan of 8130 until he could get back to the depot. "My wife," said he, '"has the money in her satchel, and you cau get it from her, or you can take this gold lor security." Mr. Johu had probably read of swindles by bogus gold pieces, as he utterly refused to have anyihiog to do with the gold, remarking : "I will wait for the green backs." No. 3 got his money and de parted. No. 1 then said to Mr. John : "Here's my umbrella. My wife will recognize it. You take it to her and tell her that I sent you for the money." Mr. John took the umbrella. No. 2 wanted to take a drink, and stepped into a tavern. Mr. John continued to the depot and looked for a woman, but couldn't find the one he wanted. lie did not sec any more of his uew made friend. He is now the owner of a pretty nice umbrella, but it cost him exactly 130. Jiallctin. Feminine Peculiarities. The correspondent of the Graphic thus tabulates the result of his observations : After observing young ladies in Sara toga all summer, I have concluded thusly about the girls of different cities: Baltimore, the sweetest and prettiest. Boston, the most self sufficient aud in tellcctual. St. Louis, the most dashing and the fastest. Washington, the most board huusey and' airy. Chicago, the worst flirts, the most atrocious man deceivers uud heart break ers. Philadelphia, the quietest, most refiued and lady like. Cleveland, the prettiest dancers and sweetest talkers. Richmond, the poorest and most aux ious to get married. Toledo, the biggest mouths, hands and feet. Buffalo, the stupidest aud dullest. Rochester, the cleanest, sweetest, and prettiest hair. Detroit, the wildest, and craziest. Xew York, the smartest, the most chic, or style, the best dressed aud the gay est. New Orlcaus, the most Ficnchy, the most languishing, the longc.-t hair aud the gprawlingcst dresses. Mobile, tho most coquettish eyes, the loveliest brunettes, and the uio.it anxious to catch a rich Yankee. Louisville, the gaudiest dresses, the cooleot flitters aud the shrewdest maua ger. Cincinnati, the most prudish, old maiditib, and the craziest ou army offi ee, NO. 24. A Desperate Murderer. The Williamsport Bulletin gives the following in reference to Wade, who murdered an old man and woman neur that city a couple of months ago: "About five o'clock on Monday evening Wade was removed to an adjoninin" cell. as it was feared that he contemplated making an effort to get out. He had not been in his new quarters long before ho seized the water pipe and wrenched it off, when the water flowed rapidly. Think ing to cool his ardor somewhat, it was determined to leavo him alone for a short time. He then broke down the ham mock, and securing a bar of iron com menced digging through the wall into his own cell, and in a short time bad made n opeuing large enough to admit the body of a man. The sheriff, with several policemen, then approached, but brandish ing a piece of iron, ho defied that official to enter his cell. After some parleying a rush was made upon him, when he was seized, thrown and secured. He was then handcuffed and tied with an enor mous rope, somewhat on the principle of Moing up the Davenport Brothers, when it was supposed that he could not possi bly get loose again. Bat, Davenporflike, Wade was determined to show the officers a trick or two. During the night, it is supposed, he secured a broken tumbler, when he deliberately went to work and succeeded in cutting the rope that bound him and released himself. Then, by a desperate effort, he wrenched off his handcuffs, and, as if scorning to be encumbered with such trifling things, threw them out of a window into the jail yard. Then he broke his cell, and was found roaming through tho hal's of the prison in the morning, apparently a free man ! He was then recaptured and locked up again. Whether he will perform' another 'trick or two'. rcmairjs to be seen. He professes to have experienced religion ,, and states that he prayed fervently to be granted strength to free himself from his bonds, and his prayer was answered." Convict's Distillery. Several of the convicts of Sing Sing Prison having recently been found druuk, it was ascertained that they obtained their liquor of a convict named John Short, who worked in the marble quarry. The quarry was searched, and a most remark able contrivauce for the manufacture of whisky was found, secreted by a few rough boards. A couple of the prison tubs, holding perhaps ten or fifteen gal lous each, contained themssh, which was composed of potatoes, scraps of bread, a sprinkling of tomatoes, with some corn and coarse meal, collected in the prison stables. Au iron kettle onswered th 3 purpose of a still, while a section of half inch gas pipe, artistically bent, formed the worm, thus completing au apparatus which, it is understood, was capable of producing about five gallous of homespan spirits daily. Short was in the habit of selling this exquisite beverage to his fel low convicts for one dollar the sarsaparilla bottle full. Though Short in name, ho was by no means short of funds, for, oa being searched, he was found to be the possessor of SGQ0, which he had realized in celling his uutaxed whisky to the rij oners. Amoug the articles to be exhibited at the coming Ccutennial in 1870, at Phil adelphia, from the county of "Old Betks," will be a wagon with lumber that has stood loaded at the same place siuce Juue 10, 1S22 filty oue years ago. It is at the village of Hamburg, eighteeu miles from Reading, aud belonged to Johu Bai ley, an cccenliic old gentleman cightv eight years of age. Having hauled a load of boards into the shed, oa the then new wagon, and letting it stand several weeks his neighbors suggested that he had bet ter unload the boards, which made him angry, and deciding to ottend to his own busiuess, said : "That, will not be uo-' loaded as long as I live," and it never was. The iron work of the wagon lays on the ground, and the wheels and boards arc begiooiug to decay. It will be suffi ciently preserved to plaee on exhibition, and has already been secured for that pur pose. The act of Congress to prevent cruelty to animals while being transported by railroad went into effect on the first of October. The act imposes a' fine of not less than one hundred dollars, or more thau five hundred, for confining animals in a boat or car longer than twenty eight consecutive hours without unloading for at least five cousecutive hours for rest, water aud feediug. Few persous have a conception of the enormous mortality among men, caused by wild beasts. In East India nearly 15, OuO persons were killed iu one year(lSOy) by snakes alone. In that same year a single tigress killed iu oue district 127 people. Iu the year 1871 more thau 20,000 were killed by wild auiwal cf all kinds. "Now, young people,' of Natural History to said a Professor his class, "now, then, as to hens. A ben has the capacity ol laying just six hundred egs, Hud no uiore, and she finishes the job iu just five years. Now, what is to be done with her after that?" "Cut her head off aud sell her for a spring chicken !" exclaimed aa urchin whose father dealt in poultry. The populatiou ot Loudon is tiven in ' tin Ijst rusus uv'rt -t c.2"-i 2vj0. i J rnr ir
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