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VOL. 31.
STROUDSBURG, MONROE COUNTY, PA., NOVEMBER 13, 1373.
NO. 27.
I
Published bj Theodore Schoclh
-T A r a yearin advance and if not
i',,f ,,etie ph I of 111 e ye n , two dollars Mnd fifty
,.eilt will be cli irge I.
i it ?' !!: itiiiue I until all arrearages are paid,
-tre.it : he ".-li"' l,,e Editor.
J V I k ?r; i3 nciils nf me square of (eight lines') or
ii le '' fife niertijn $1 5a. E;ch addittuiiul
I,iU i. j ' ,:c;" I'st ones in proportion.
JOB "iMtl.tTIKG, '
OF ALL KINDS,
EcrrHtcJ in the hishest style of the Art, and oath
iiu.-t icason iljlc terms.
WILLIAM S. REES,
Surveyor, Conveyancer and
Real Estate Agent.
Farms, Timber Lands and Town Lots
FOR SALE.
Office next door above S. Kees' news Depot
ami -1 door below tite Corner Store.
March iU, 1873-tf.
"dr. Ilantz,
Surgeon aiul Mechanical Dentist,
still 'm In oTice on M.iin Street, in the second
iry lr. S. W-ill i)rick. lull ding, ne.iily oppo
ito '.ii'? SToti'I!urj; 1Ihum ami lie liuier himself
t ut i'ii'i'eii ye. its i:n:isl:i;it n-;tctii-e and the inort
cni"-t 11 1 iM'ciul allcis'i n to all m:itters rilaiiting
1. 1 iiirf -J i that lie i fully .tlile to i-if.rui Jii
mier r i 1 1 s in ! le til ul line in the nios I oaicIiiI. l.ile
l il . i I .i'!!'i! ntaniier.
S.i. vi il i-'ii given to saving the N.itura Teeth ;
! tin- nixTii-Mi of Ail iln-ial reeili mi Rubber,
C 'i I. Miv"!" "i" 'uiiiiiiU'jiis Gu:us, and perlert tits In
al! r...i-. ln'i -I.
t k:imv the sre.it Tilly and d.inpr o en-
i i as i lie! if wi k to tlif. inexpci ieiu ed. or t o thusc
li i i.:s at i'itaiii-.!. A ril 13, IcTI. I y
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON.
():!i. e 1i door above Stroudsburg House,
ro -i u-iict' 1st door above Post Office.
o.lii L- hour- from i to 12 A. M ., from 3 to 5
ar..l 7 to 0 p. M. May S '73-ly
WO. V, J.tt'iiSO.V
PHYSICIAN, SURGEON & ACCOUCHER.
In the old oflice of Dr. A. Reeves Jackson,
re-iJei;ce, corner of . Sarah and Franklin ftreet.
STROUDSBURG, PA.
.iii-u.-t s, 1 372-11:
II. .1. ZM'ITERSOX,
til'SKlTiXG AX8 3iEniAMr.lL DEMIST,
Hiving located i;r East Stroudsburg, Pa., an
n i in.-ill it h is now prepared to insert arti
lic'al levili in the most beautiful and life-like
ut iii -.-. AIo. gre;it attention given to tilling
a:i i preserving the natural teeth. Teeth ex -tr
t-:.-I .. itiioiit ja:n !- u-s-i ( Xitrons Oxide
it. All ,t!it-r work iiu idi-i;t to the jirofession
! vie in tlK most skillful and airoved style.
All w.irk atteiuled to roinjitly and warranted.
( ii irj, - reasonable. Patronage of the public
Ktiirited.
(I. lice ia A. W. I.oder's new building-, op
): -its Analuiiink House, Kast Strud-burg,
i'.i. July 11, 1S73 ly.
11 9
S. I.. l'lit'K,
.Surgeosi Oculist.
Aniioiincrs I h it h vlnz j'ist returnr.I from
Diviial Collets, he is fully prepared to make
nnific.a.1 td't.i in the mosi beautiful and Iile
li'ie mtu ier, and to fili decayed teeth ac
c rd:n to the mo-t i n proved tnelhoJ.
'IVeili ex'ract'd without pain, when de
sircl, hy the use of Nitrous Oxide Gg,
tvh icfi in entirely harmless. Repairing of
a I kinds neatly done. All work warranted.
Chir-i-i reisoirible.
Olic-; in J. (2. KeilerV new Rrick build
in, Mii i S reut, .Strotidb,jr";, Pa.
aa; 31-if
T"1S:S II. WA3L.TO.V,
f) Atlorncy at Iair,
(Hi" in th o building fonn-?rIy occupied
by L. M. li::ro:i, ani opposite the Strouds
hv:s liank. Main street, .Stroudsburg, Pa.
jj't n-tf
3Ii:U2CM. ISOTKL.
The subscriber would inform the public that
li'.- has b ased th-; bouse formally kept by Jacob
Knei lit, in t!i Iiorough of Stroudburg, Pa.,
an I having repainted and refurnished tbesame,
is prepared to entertain all who may patronize
liim. It is the aim of the proprietor, to furn
i!i superior accommodations at moderate rates
ana will pare no pains to promote the com
fort of the guest. A liberal share of publii
public
patronage solicited.
April 17,'72-tf.
D. L. I' ISLE.
: isol.ss;,
HONESDALE, PA.
M t central location ol any Hotel in town.
11. V. KIPLE & SON,
l'-'J Main street. Proprietors.
January 1S7-X lj'.
I Atli tWAXX.i BIOS'SC.
J OWOSITK TIIK DEPOT,
Kast Stroud.sburg, Pa.
K J. VAN COTT, Proprietor.
The da fi contains the eboiest Liipiors and
fhe t.velk is supplied with the het the market
affords. Charges moderate. may 3 1872-tf.
7ATKOXS
Blount Vernon House,
117 and 119 North Second St.
ABOVE AHCH,
PHILADELPHIA.
May 30, i72- ly.
RKV. KDVVAR D A . W I LSON'S (of W il
liam.burh, N. Y.) Recipe for CON
UMPTJON and ASTHMA carefully com
pounded. c.t
HOLUNSHEAD'S DRUG STORE.
CO" Medicines Freth and Pure.
Nov. 21. 1667. W. HOLLINSHEAD.
A Boston View of Money.
OU and AffC, for November, has a
readable article upon Money, placed like
an exclamation point after several, articles
written from the standpoint of the Labor
Reformer, the IJanker and the Manufac
turer, which may be considered as the
view of the subject from an editorial and
transcendental point 4ol observation."
The article being written by the editor.
Rev. Edward E Hale, may be said to
embody the Religious aspect of the sub
ject also. We extract :
Money real money, to day, within the
business world, as a whole) is cold or sil
ver. Nothing else is real mouey every
where. Currency is a convenient name for that
mooey, or that substitute for it, which
Jloics, like currents, throughout the com
munity, within a single nation, and serves
to transact the daily business of exchang
ing all sorts of values within that nation.
Money, therefore, is the currency of the
world, by this deGoitu n.
The name money is usually applied,
for shortness, both to specie and to bank
notesthat is, to currcucy also; and the
practice has caused a confusion in some
minds, where it is found that bank notes
and specie arc equally reckoned money.
Paper money will jcrvc exactly the pur
poses of srecie only on one condition
that the bidder of it can get specie for it
on demand. This condition is subject to
modifications. Pataiotism has served in
stead of gold for a time, but has never
prevented paper from becoming worth
less in a little while, if specie could not
be had for it. Mutual confidence is far
less efficient than patriotism. An agree
ment may be imagined by all the people
that there need uot be any gold at all in
the United States; but that "scrip" like
our present paper small change, and bills
lile our "greenbacks," should be used a
tl.ey are now. but without any prospect
or purpose of gold ever being asked or
iven for them. Rut this is only an
imagination, because no approach to
unanimity, if even a majority, could, as
things are, be secured for it. And
secondly, it is a melancholy fact, that
ncn have, not so much faith in each
oiber's honesty, or wisdom eithpr, as
would be necessary to support such a
I 'an.
The rc.i-on why gold and silver are
chosen fr money arc plain ; they have
il c qualities (or it namely : beauty and
i.scfuiiiess, divisibility and consolidability
without change of quality, incorrupti-
ility, costlines", and steadiness of alue.
I'iamond cannot be suitably diviJcd and
united, and is not useful enough. Iron
is too cheap and too corruptible. Plati
num is uot useful enough, because it is so
unm magcable, and it is not beautiful
tnough. And so on about absolutely
everything except gold and silver. Find
another article having similar qualities,
nd you will assuredly have another ma
terial for specie currency. Tie main
basis of the value of real mooey is the in
ttiusic value of the material as mcrchand
i.'C Coining is an authentication or en
dorsetnent, which is supposed to certify
everybody that his dollar is a dollar, and
such a certificate adds something to the
intrinsic value. Convenience, as a uni
versil standard for valuing, add further
to the merchandise value of coined money,
just as a yard-stick gains value over its
firewaod value, or its slat value, because
it is a standard of lenth ; and a further
value il it has" been adjusted and certified
by the inspector of weights and measures.
How much money does a community
need? Ansicer : Enough to carry on
with case all the transfers of value in the
community; the payment of wages ; the
daily expeuses ; the sale io the chops ;
the transportation of freight ; the fares of
passengers ; the sales of real estate ; in
short, the daily life in business. So far in
civilized hiftoiy, the quantity required
bears a proportion to the number of pco
pie who use it, and to the property ihey
own, which has an analogy with the pro
portion of oil in the bearings of a steam
engine to the engine itself. For instance,
during the four years ending June 30.
1871, it may be stated as a rough approxi
mation that the currency which oiled the
business bearings of the United States
was rather more than ten dollars to each
soul of the population. This includes
whatever yon happened to have in jour
wallet in those years; all your bank
account; what the storekeeper was usin
in his business, and so ou. The round
sums total which arc near enough to the
exact figures to chow the oiliny office of
money, are these ; the whole of our cur
reney, about four hundred million dol
lars ; the whole of our property, real and
personal, about fourteen thousand million
dollars; the whole of our population,
towards forty million. Omit some ci
pliers and we may cay. in handier figures,
that on an average, in a nation cituafed as
ours is at present, every four souls, woith
fourteen hundred dollars amongst them,
do not need more than foity dollars in
cah, being ten dollars a head, to keep
their business straight This would be
very likely to fail with any one separate
four; but it holds good of the whole of
the men, women ami children tngethcr;
and if a larger sum is in anybody's hands,
a less sum is in the hauJs of somebody
el?c.
i paper mouey will not do alone, that
is, wilhout any specie at all, why will it
da io part? Answer: liecauce paper
promises to pay (greenbacks, for instance)
will do a great part of the changing of
values, although they will not do all of
it; and if there is specie enough within
reach at any time to serve the purposes of
those who will not take promises to pay
specie, that maintains the credit of the
rest of the promises. It turns out that in
practice, and on a large scale, it will do
if there is about a quarter as much specie
always ready as the whole of the paper
money that is going. This is pretty sure
to meet the wants of all who insist on
real money. That is, mutual confidence
will uphold three quarters of our cur
rency; we niicht almost say Christian
civilization is at present at a business dis
count of tweuty five per cent.
But we cannot get gold for even a quir
ter of our greenbacks, execpt at a heavy
discount, and yet they serve a pretty good
purpose so far. Ought they not to break
down on these principles ? Answer :
Their gold basi? exists, but is is two stories
down initcad cf one. The United States,
under certain conditions, gives its bonds
for greenbacks; this is th first story
down. Under certain other conditions,
the United States gives gold for these
bonds, and meanwhile it pays gold inter
est on them. This is the second story
down, where you come to the real specie
foundation. Mutual confidence keeps the
greenbacks as near gold value as they are.
Anybody who wants to see the way in
which changes in mutual confidence
change the value of paper money, need
only follow the gold speculations of the
war period among the respectable gam
biers of New York. If the Untited States
paid gold for greenbacks, instead of in
this indirect way, they would be worth a
gold dollar for each paper one, instead of
from ten to thirteen percent, less. Prae
tically, there is from teu to thirteen per
cent, of doubt about the future contingen
cies of human life, between the average
citizen and his Government, in conse
quence of this slow way of paying gold.
Some conclusions about the recent
panic, on the basis of these doctrines, are
these :
It is a carious fact that paper money
was hoarded during the panic, instead of
specie, which has usually been hoarded at
such times. This shows how thoroughly
our paper money is accepted in lieu of
specie. Why not? Tt is th nearest we
can get to specie. Wackford Squeers,
his father said, was "next door hvt one to
a cherubim." Greenbacks are next door
but one to gold.
There is not far from money enough
for all the honest business in the country.
Those men who wish not to give value for
value in an honest business manner, but
only to get away other people's money for
nothing, that is, the stock gamblers and
corner makers, and others who trade in
what they do not own those and such
others want more paper money afloat.
Naturally enough ; to put out more paper
money is to make a change in value. It
is by taking advantage of changes io val
ues that these men live. If no changes
happen, they start a lie to make one.
There are also, as the reader sees men
of incorruptible honor, who want more
paper money. Rut their demands are
limited to the claim that the currency
shall keep exact pace with the business
of the country. That, is, every additional
soul wants his teo dollars. The increase
of ease and quickness of communication,
however, enables a less total amount of
currency to do our exchanging ; that is,
it tends to diminish somewhat the average
of ten dollars ; how much, is not known.
The paoic of September was caused
more by a loss of confidence than by any
real business misfortune. What real
business misfortune there was (at first)
befell enterprises and persons entirely too
speculative in character. Because the
genuine business interests of the country
are too closely mixed with the stock
gambling and speculating interests, they
suffered also.
The real preventive against other such
panics will be found so far as humanity
can furnish it iu an elevation of the av
cragc tone of business honor and honesty.
It is theft to get value from another
man without rendering value for it.
It is gambling to bat on the future val
ues of other people's property.
It is conspiracy and lying to set afloat
false stories and get up operations for the
purpose of diminishing the value of other
people's property.
Let these plain truths be felt ; let theft,
gambling, conspiracy and lying be turned
out of public places like the New York
Stock Exchange and the Chicairo gra
market, and drived info even such an im
perfect secrecy as that of area thefts, faro
gambling, blackmailing conspiracies, and
legally tangible lies, and business panics
will be greatly lessened in number and
severity. But in New York, such thefts
and gambling, if perpetrated io the Stock
Exchange, are actually affirmed to be
honest by law.
American extravagance in Europe has
frequently been made a subject of ud
verse criticism. But the value of cs
lablishiug a reputation for "good pay"
abroad has ia a certain way been ex
cmplified by soaie of our countrymen and
country worse io Paris, whose means of
support through letters of credit were
curtailed by the receut panic. Id some
cases shop keepers and dress-nuakers,
recognizing the neees&itias of those who
have beea good customers in the past,
have advanced to their patrons money
enough to pay their passage borne.
Colonel Crickley's Horse.
I have never been able to assertain the
origin of the quarrel between the Crick
leys and the Drakes. They had lived
within a mile of each other for five years,
and from the first of their acquaintance
there had been a mutual feeling of dis
like between the two families. Then
some misunderstanding about the bouodry
of their farms revealed the latent flame,
and Colonel Crickley having followed a
fat buck all one altcrooon, and wounded
him, came up to him and found old Drake
and his sons cutting him up.
This incident added fuel to the flame,
and from that there nothiog the two
lamilies did not do to annoy each other
One evening, Mr. Drake, the elder,
was returning home with his "pocket full
of rocks" from Chicago, whither he had
been to dispose of a load of grain. Sam
Barstow was with him on the wagon, and
as they approached the grove which io
tervened between them and Mr. Drake's
house, he observed to his companion,
"What a beautiful mark Crickley's old
roan is over yonder 7"
"Hang it !" muttered Drake, "so it is."
The horse was standing under some
trees about twelve rods from the road.
Involuntarily Drake stopped his team,
lie glanced furtively around, then, with
n queer smile, the old hunter took up his
rifle from the bottom of his wagon, and
raising it to his shoulder, drew a sight
on the Colonel's horse.
"Beautiful !" he muttered, with the air
of a man resisting a powerful temptatiou.
"I could drop old roan so easy."
"Shoot ?" suggested Sam Barstow, who
loved Cud inany shape.
"No, no; 'twouldn't do," said the old
hunter, glancing around him again.
"I won't tell," said Sam.
"Wal, I don't shoot this any way, tell
or no tell. The horse is too uigh. If he
was fifty rods off instead of twelve, so
there'd be a bare possibility of mistaking
him for a deer, I'd let fly. As it is I'd
give the Colonel five dollars for a shot."
At that moment the Colonel himself
stepped from behind a large oak, not half
a dozen paces distaut, and before Drake.
"Well, why don't you shoot ?"
The old hunter stammered, in some
confusion : "That you. Colonel ? I I
was tempted to ; aud as I said, I'll give a
V for one pull."
"Say an 4X aud it's a bargain."
Drake felt for his rifle aud looked at
old roan.
"How much is the horse worth?" he
muttered in Sam's ear.
"About fifty."
"Gad, Colonel, I'll do it. Here's you
'X' "
The Colonel pocketed the money, mut
tering : "Hanged if I thought you would
take me up !"
With high glee the old hunter put a
fresh cap ou his rifle, anJ standing up in
the wagon took a clos sight at old roan.
Sam Barstow chuckled. The Colonel
put his hand before his face and chuck
led too. Crack went the rifle. The bun
ter tore out a terrible oath, which I will
not repeat. Sam was astonished. The
Colonel laughed. Old roan never stirred.
Drake stared at his rifle with a look as
black as Othello's.
"What's the matter with you, hey ?
Fus' time you ever served me quite such
a trick, I swar !"
And Drake loaded the piece with great
wrath and indignation.
"People said you'd lost your knack of
shooting," observed the Colonel, iu a cut
ting tone of satire.
"Who said so? It's a lie !" thundered
Drake. "I can shoot
"A boss at ten rods ! Ha ! ha !'
Drake was livid.
"Look yere, Colonel, I can't stand
that," he began.
"Never mind, the horse can," sneered
the Colonel.
"I'll risk you."
Grinding his teeth, Drake produced
another ten dollar bill.
"Here !" he growled. "I'm bound to
have another shot any way."
"Crack away," cried the Colonel, pock
eting the Dote.
Drake did crack awa-y with deadly
aim too but the horse did not mind the
bullet in the least. To the rage and
unutterable astonishment of the hunter,
old roan looked him iu the face as if he
rather liked the fun..
"Drake," cried Sam, "you are drunk !
A horse at a dozen rods oh, my eyes !"
"Just shut your mouth, or I'll shoot
you !" thundered the excited Drake
"The bullets were hollow, I'll swear. The
man lies who says I can't shoot. Lust
week I cut oQ a goose's head at fifty rods,
and kin do it agiu. By the Lord Harry,
Colonel, you ean laugh, but I'll bet now
thirty dollars that 1 can briug down old
roan at one shot."
The wager was readily accepted. The
stakes were placed in Sam's hands Elated
with the idea of winning his two tens,
and making an "X" in the bargaio, Mr.
Drake carefully selected a perfect ball
and buckskin patch, and loaded his rifle.
A minute later Drake was driving
through tho grove the most enraged, the
most desperate of men. llis rifle, inno
cent victim of his ire, lay with broken
stock on the bottom of the wagon. Sam
Barstow was too scared to Uugk.
Meanwhile the Culoeel was rolling cou
vulsed with aiirlh, aBd old roan was stand
iog undisturbed under the tree.
When Drake reached home, his sons,
discovering bis ill humor an J the mu
tilated condition of his rifle stock, has
tended to arouse his spirits with a piece
of news which they were sure would make
him dance with joy.
"Clear out !" growled the angry man.
"I don't want to hear any news ; get away
or I'll knock one of you down."
"But father, it'a such a trick !"
"Hang you and your tricks."
"Played off on the Colonel."
"On the Colonel," cried the old man.
beginning to be interested. "Gad, if
you've played the Colonel a trick let's
hear it." ' .
"Well, father, Jed and I, this after
noon, went out for deer "
"Hang the deer come to the trick.'
"Couldn't find any deer, and thought
we must shoot something ; so Jed banned
away at the Colonel's old roan shot him
dead."
"Shot old roan ?" thundered the old
man. "By the Lord Harry, Jed, did yuu
shoot, the Colonel's boss?"
"I didn't do anything else "
"And then," pursued Jed, confident
the joke part of the story must please his
father, "Jim and I propped the boss up
and tied his head up with a cord, and
left him standing under the tree exactly
as if he was alive. Ha, ha ! fancy the
Colonel going to catch him ! Ho, ho, ho!
wasn't it a joke ?"
Old Drake's head fell upon his breast.
He felt his empty pocket book and
looked at his rifle.
Then in a rueful tone he whispered to
his boys :
"Yes. 'boys, it's a joke ! But if you
ever tell of it or if you do, Sam Barstow
I'll skin you alive. By the Lord Har
ry, boys. I've been shooting at that dead
hoss half an hour at ten dollars a shot."
Origin of the Farmers' Movement.
The farmers' movement, says a West
em correspondent, dates its origin back
about four years. Emigration has been
so great of late years iuto our Western
States, particularly in the wheat growing
regions, that the country has been rapidly
settled. This has given a temporary
market for brcadsuffs to the uew comers,
while they were themselves making a new
farm. But when they had brought uew
acres under cultivation, their labors in
creased the amount of crops, so that it
became necessary to send a large amount
of products to the market. Meanwhile
there had been a considerable increase iu
the number of railroad miles in the West.
The extension did not, however, keep
pace with the development of the conn
try, aod was inadequate to the transports
tion necessities required for the removal
of the superfluous products. Consequent
ly, each year when navigation closses,
about December 1, a great amount of
superfluous products accumulates to be
sent East. The amount of these super
fluous products annually increases. The
extraordinary severity of the last winter,
aud the mechauical and physical difflcul
ties resulting from the intense cold, ren
dered it impossible for the railroads, after
the close of navigation, to move tho crops
as rapidly as the demands of commerce
required. According to the law of sup
ply and demand, the scarcity oT transpor
tation facilities during the last winter, in
duccd the railroads to increase the prices
of railroad freight. This iucrcase in the
cost of carriage was of necessity paid by
the farmers, and was a tax deducted from
the price of their graia at the farm. This
increased freight tariff caused great dis
satisfaction. There soon grew up an ill
feeling on this account between the rail
roads and the farmers, the latter insisting
that the railroads were extortionate iu
their charges, and unjust in their dis
criminations. During the last five years
there have been many attempts in the
Western States to control railroad freight
tariffs by legislation. Almost without
exception, tho railroad companies have
refused obedience to those cnactmeuts.
And when suit has been brought by the
authorities to enforce these laws, the rail
roads have been almost uniformly success
ful in the litigation. This fact has iu
tetisified the irritation on the part of the
farmers. The almost unprecedented large
corn crop of last season brought on a
crisis between the railroads and the far
mers shortly after the close of navigation
in December last. The supply of corn
was so much in excess of the demand that
the price at the farm io. many portions of
tho North west was reduced to the price
of fuel, and iu some places even lower,
so that in many localities corn was used
as fuel. Meantime the railroads were
overburdened with the superfluous crops
to be couveyed to the sea board. The
unusual intensity of the winter created
many unaccustomed obstacles. The nc
cessary delays in transportation caused
lar-'e quantities of breadstutts to accumu
lato in local centres awaiting shipmeut.
At the same timo the local storekeepers
were pressing the farmers for the pay
ment of their bills, which they could uot
well discharge until they had realized
from their crops. The iow price of the
crops induced most of the farmers to keep
them, i the hope that, in the spring, bet
ter prices would be obtained. These var
ious circumstances increased the bitter
ness id the feeling on the part of the fr
mess toward the railroad companies, which
they accused of combining to iucrease the
pi ice of freights and to demand eitor
tionate rates, and is the first cause of the
movement now to. exteukive, aud known
as the "Grange."
A Chinese Burial.
A China woman died at Sacramento,
Cab, and her husband being well pro
vided with money, gave her what he con
sidered a first class funeral. The Sacra
mento Union describes the ceremonies:
"About 5 o'clock in the afternoon the
body, inclosed in a coffin, was placed on
the sidewalk in front of her late residence,
and by its side were ranged tables load
cd with roast chicken, roast pL'. boiled
rice, candy, nut, brandy, whiskey. &c.,
suBiuicnt iu quantity to keep the spirit of
the deceased from being huugry for a
month. Thcsc articles remained on the
sidewalk utitil late I lie next forenoon, sur
rounded by paid mourners, who seemed
to be carrying on a lively competition in
the matter of giving full value for the
umney received. At the cemetery, after
the eiGn had been lowered, hired mour
ncrs aud the two children of the deceased
walked round the grave once, while the
husband remained standing silently by.
Then vessels containing food-were put ia
the grave at the head and roit of the cof
lin, followed by a small quantity of earth-.
Next to be put in were live chickens aud
ducks, aud these were promptly covered
with earth. The grave having been filled
up, braudy and whi.-ky were sprinkJci1
upon it iu a liberal manner, while a pig's
head, roast chicken, boiled rice, oranges,
apples, nuts, candy, &c , were laid upon
the mound. The ceremony being con
cluded, the Chinese returned home in
their carriages, while some Christian bo)s,
who had becu closely watching the pro
ceedings, gathered up the fruit, candy,
&e., aud likewise left for home."
Winter Shawls.
The camel's hair are uuusually hand
some this fall, says a fashion journal. The
Colors are richer and clearer, the beauti
ful Tyrian red being conspicuous, and
the designs finer and more delicate. The
prices rauge from ST 5 lor an uly, square
shawl such as nobody wants to So.UUU,
which few would be likely to pay. Those
at oOO and SGOU are very handsome, fine
and soft, and more frequently bought
than any other grade. Camel's hair
scarf's, for which there is little sale, can
be had at from 5 to 100 They are.
ordinarily worn mantle fashion; aud: are
sometimes employed for sashes. The
superb French cashmere shawls, hand
some as their Iudia rival?-, eume in simi
lar designs and equally--' beautiful colors ;
but tkey are woven, iustead of being made
by hand ; aud they will not bear such
hard usage. Their value is frsu 5l) to
$7U0 eertaiuly dear enough, to satisfy
the greatest spendthrift
Among the most attractive shawls of
cheaper grades are the Ottoman reps,
which, notwithstanding their Eastern
name, are of Scotch origin. They vary
all the way from 3 50 to $30, presenting;
the most attractive variety of brilliant
hued stripes. There are quieter chawls,
however, and the haudsctuesc have phia
grounds of scariet, black or white, with
broad stripes wrought in bright silks aod
Persian patterns. These are extremely
pretty aud elegant, aod nice enough iu?
aoy occasion. Warm, comlortabic and
pretty traveling chawls can be had at
prices between Sti and SI5, and are suffi
cient to satisfy fastidious tastes.
Sleeping in a Cold Room.
Hall's Journal of Health siys that cold
bedchambers always imperil health and
invite fatal diseases. Robust persous
may safely slesp ia a temperature of forty
or under, but the old, the iuta-ut and the
frail should never sleep in a ruixu where
the atmosphere is much under fifty
degrees Fahrenheit
All know the danger of going direct
into the cold room from a very warm
room. Very few rooms, churches, theatres
and the like, arc ever warmer than severity
degrees. If it is freezing out of Jo irs it
is thirty degrees the difference being
forty degrees more Persous will be
chilled by such a clringe in ten minutes,
although they may be actively walking.
But to lie still io bed, nothiug to
promote the circulation, and breathe for
hours an atmosphere of forty and even
filty degrees, when the lungs are always
ut uinety eight is too great a change.
Many persous wake up iu the morning
with infl jmniation of the lungs who went
to bed well, and are surprised lh-.t this
should be the case The cause may often
be found iu sleeping in a room the window
of which had teeu foolishly hoisted for
ventilation. The watercure journals of
the country bavo done an incalculable
injury by the blind and indiscriminate
advice of hoisting the window at niht.
The rule should be everwherc during
the part of the year when fires are kept
burning to avoid hoisting outside window.
It is safer and better Ij leave the chamber
door opes, as also the fireplace theu
there is a draft up the chimney, whilo
the room is uot so likely to become cold.
If there is sou.c fire in (he room all night
the window may be opened an inch. It
is sale to sleep iu a bai air ail niht with
a temperature under foty. The bad air
may sicken you but caouot kill you ; the
cold air cau and does kill very ofteu.
Dr. Batts, convicted in New York if
sending obscene- matter through the mail,
and sentenced to a jear ia the peaiteu
tiary, made tin unsuccessful attempt to
escape Irota Ludljw street jail in wotuau'a
clothes.
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