I "THE JEFFERSONI ANT" 0cuotci ta politics, Citcraturc, gricniturc, Science, iHoialUij, anfc cncral intelligence. VOL. 31. STROUDSBURG, MONROE COUNTY, PA., NOVEMBER 20, 1873. NO. 28. 3 (published by Theodore Schoch. to f!Uri a yearin advance and if not lf.ili' nJ ' lh year, l dullartand fifty P!'.n ilH char-el. ' ,., t!.c Home -I until all .irrearagei are paid, ,.i 4 ihe ! tlie Elitir. "rT VlKfin'? nesit f one a-piare of (eight line) or a,e ( thrfe i:ieriM $1 5". Ejk-.Ii additional -ill'. I, 3J rriu-. . . . . i f - JOR PStlSTIKG, Or ALL KINDS, r..rtfd i U' hiaheiltvle of ihe Art, and the WILLIAM S. REES, Surveyor, Conveyancer and Beal Estate Agent. Farms, Timber Lands and Town Lots FOR SALE. 0:!i v next loor above S. Iiecs news Depot mi ' J 1 ' l"w l',e Corner tore. MarJli 2", lS7.f-tf. DR. J. LANTZ, Siirueon ami Mechanical Drntist, iu.l'ii "'n M.iin street, in the fecoixi ,i ..'v t Ur. . 'VjII 'ii' tirtrfc Uuitling. nearly ujipo- ..,'t:i v.-u-.liat H.u- a ii J fee d. tltrr himself ' 1 '"' vc - iii'l tut pcartire .niJ Ilir in.t f.nf-t ' -n-mi ittitiCi ii t all m:iUrrs pertaining t r-i f i -'. t lixt ! i fuily rtblf l furO-rm -jM fSTA'.f"' '' Hie ih; cr ful, lirtc- !.i i H''.'ll miinn-r . i ii jvnt.un sli ca ! f avjn I lie Vitnia1 T ctli ; ' tV l iwrii'iii if Artificial rtxlli wii Utiburr. 4j , j s,.v -r in- i:.i.i:i;ujus Gum, and prricrt li lu ,; , j- ! -i'i-J- i .-; ;is IkH'iw re?.U f-iy !.ingr ! en .f i ic i!:tti ?o tl:e iiicxji.:rii-iirrl. tr i th-s-r tl r.s 'l ';! 'uce. Ajirii u. is.i. iy i) PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON. n.7,.v i-l h;or above Stroml.sbnrg IIo;ie, rk-i ir-i.e 1-t door al-ove I '? Oflice. o.ii. o !iu'ir ftom 'J ty 12 A. M., from :i to 3 ami 7 i r. M. Mar :J 'T.'My. 1) PHYSICIAN, SURGEON & ACCOUCHER. !n ht -il l o'Se tf Dr. A. Itocvcs Jaok.-in, rc-iJeti'-f, c orner of Sarah and Franklin r-tret-t. STROUDSBURG, PA. jIt. II. J. IMITCRKUX, CS1TI.C AM) SEinAMCAL DENTIST, r!: In -aLvA in l'at Stroijilfljnrg, 13., an iD in -- lha' !;. t now rejjartnl to insert arti ia'ul m: ii;? ir.-j. t beautiful ami life-like msrier. A!o, preat aiteniion given to filling a:i 1 rrt-rrinj llie natural tcetli. Teeth ex-iricte-i without pain ly use -.f Nitron Oxide ia-. All otlirr work iiu ident to the rtfes.-ion tl-e i;i the nnwt killful and airovc-d titrle. All work attended to promptly and warranted, l iuro rea-ionuMe. I'atronage of the public k-ili.iietl. iti A. V. IxKler." new building, ojv te Aiulormuk House, Last trotitWmrg, Julr 11, 1873 ly. R. A. 1a. I'ECK, Surgeon OcnIHt. Anaouaccs tint having just returned from Dtatil Collets, he is fully prepared to mke r:;nc l teetii in Hie most beautiful and life lii manlier, and 10 fill decayed teeth ac cordinj to tlie inot iuprcved method. TreiU ex'ract-d without pain, when de- rr l, lie tle uve of Nitrous Oxide Gs, h;ch n entTcly lnrmlei. Repairing of ti 'J u-atjy u'oiie. All work viirratited. ('htrji!. ri: r-vnie. 05-;- J. t;. Ke!lr new Brick build in. ili S reet, Stroadtburg, la. aj;31-tf rin:s ii. w ilto., ') illorney at Laxv, " Ti in tl? bu'il liujr fnuerly rwcuivunl ry L M. HarvHt. au l opposite t!ie Stroml.? Y i'z UjiiV, M;tin ,-treet. .irouJ-burg, Pa- ja:il3-tf A ?ii:iiic IIOTKL. The kuS-iHIk t would inform the public tliat L'- ha le -.l the u4- formally k-pt by Jacob KuM-.t, in the DorMrh of Stroudr.burr, l'a aii i having rcpaiuttd and refurnished the name, i rtj.tired to entertain all who may patronize l ira. U i the aJiu of the j.-roprietor, to furn- 'jieriyr arcoui rk dations at nixleratc raU- vi!l sjv-trc K'i pains to romte the -om-f jrt cftkt A liberal share of iublic April 17;j-tf.j J). L. PISLE. Jn,i.; igor.si:, HONESDALE, PA. I't m-tral kcation of any Hotel in town. 11. W. KIPLE 'c SON, Main strot. Proprietors. January 'J. I7:i. ly. T At ivivA. not si:. Ol'POSiTK THE DKI'OT, East Stroud.-burg, Pa. I. J. VAN COrr, Proprietor. The hap. contains the c-hoieft Liquors and TARI K 'u t.i,,.,!;! with llio Iue mirLpI Charge moderate. itiay 3 1872-tf. 31uutit Vcriion House, 117 and 113 North Second St. ABOVE ARCIf, PHILADELPHIA. Jay 5, 1S72- ly. REvTkuvVARD A. WILSON'S (of Wil-ium-hurgh, N. Y.) Recipe for CON o U il PTION a ad A ST H M A carefully com Pounded at HOLUNSHEAD'S DRUG STORE. CO" Medicine Fresh and Pure. Kv. 21, I&67.7 W. H0LL1N3IIEAD. NASBY AT HOME. From the Toledo Blade. MR. NASBY TROPIIE1ES OVER THE RESULT OF THE LATE ELECTION IN OniO. Coxfedrit X Roads. ") (Wich is in the State u? Kentucky,) v October 16, 1873. ) I am back agio in ray old home, tod onct more, thank IIcaTen, in mj proper character ut a Dimoerat. The minote the election in Ohio wut orer I dropped the G ran;c bixois, nerer to take it up ain, onle$, that is, the necessities ut the Dimocrapy are sich ez to make it nesary. In that grand old coz I kin do anything puffer anything bear anything. The result ut the election in Ohio filled us with joy onatterable. To think that the State uv Ohio, wich perkekuted the Mints durio the war, wich sent out sol jers ajrin the South by the hundred thou sand, wich refoosed to accept the sainted Johnon, and wich give the tyrant and the butcher Grant sich enormous majori ties both time to think ut that State election a Dimoerat Lejislacher, is enu3 to make one's blood bile with ecstacy. Deekin Poram, Kernel McPelter, Tsaa ker (ravitt and Iacom jincd in the gen eral rejoicin. 15 ifcom, in pertikiler, was enthoo.-iastic. lit mjde his bar free for ih:it niuht, or wat wuz the same thiog in effect, he give us onlimited credit. To say that this result fills me with ccsfacy is to very mildly express my feclins. I cast a prophetic eye forrerd nd wot do I see t Under twelre glasses uv l.-:com's newest and wildest I set me down and sec n:any things : I see a revival uv the Dituocratic party uv the ol.leu time, rallied under the old piinsiples uv that great organizasben, wich ie not dead, tho it wuz auiost. I tee Noo York a follerin Ohio back iuto the Dimocratic fold. I see a Lcgielacher in Albany wich shel hev therein anybody that Tammany selcckj, and the great old Empire State shel puss airin under their rool. I see Uoss Tweed, and Coonolly and Oakey Hall dragged out ut obskoority aud brot to (he front. I shel see Catholic vote fastened to us with hooks uv ."teel ; lor the priests and bishops .she! hev all that they ask far, and the O'Shaghnessys, and O'TooIes, and Mick Fuddens idiel her all the minor of fiscs. ez uv ol I I see the Dimocrisy ut five years ago controllin all the boards in Noo York, aud them which wuz expelled from power put back agin, stronger than before. I see iu 1870 a Dituocratic President, backed by a Dimckratic Congress, which the same will make it lire! for the Ethi opian. I see the old Confedritheroes restored to their former places, and the revenge they want aecotuplinhcd. I see Kernel McPelter Assessor, Isaa ker Gavitt Collector, aud my old quarters in the Post OfEs, wich know me not now, tbel know me forever. I see IJascom smilin behind his bar, for he ahel be paid for his liker. I see Davis, Dean and sich in the Senit, and them ez hez bin waitin giren the places they heT hungered for. I ice the British importers furntshin us mooey, and the hauty manufaktercrs ut Noo England, and PennsyWany, grovelin in the dust. I seo the paternage'uT the GTernment is safely in our hands never to be desturb ed till we hev made our respective piles. I sec oulimitcl plunder for the faithful, and a sufficient multiply io ut offises to 'ire ue all one, aod some uv us more than one. I see the nigger disfranchised, and the Northern man hustled out uv the South cz tho he wuz a pestilence I see the Dimekratic papers filled with Government advertidtn, and the mouths uv their editors stopped with ginekures. I see a Dimocratic riogin each Custom House, aud every officer thcrcuv clothed in purple aod fiae linen, and driokin only shampatie. I 6ee the South restore! to her former posisheo, a dictatin the polisy uv the gcverqmcnt, aod a ruuuiu uv it ez she did in the pauimy days afore she wuz crushed under the iron heel of despotism. I shood hev gone on secin' things hed not Kasccni remarked, "Now, boys, one more drink to the old party a remark, I may say that wood stop me from a dream of immortal dory. That drink finished me, and I fell out uv chair and on his floor dreamed till moruin of Dimocratic triumphs. May my food autissipashuns oe rcaii d. Dimocrats uv Noo Yo:k, it rests zed. with yoo ! Pktkoleum V. Nasbv. f Wich wuz v. M.) We believe that more than fifty thous aud retuedie for rl eumation,all iufallible, have been promulgated. Here ii yet auotber ! Deacon Ralph Peltoo of East Hampton, Conn , when not eogsged in his ecclesiastical functions, catches rat tlesnakes, which, considering the circum etaces of the Full of Man, may be regard ed as a sort of reliiriouii duty. Deacon Pelton, who the other day bagged eight of these sonorous serpents, sell the skins to be woru as curative zoueg about the bodies of rheumatic persons. It would be of small use to get augry with the Dea con for eugaging in uch a business ; for doubtless, he beliaves in the skius, aud, is the liutuau imagination is potent, probably some of the purchasers are what as called cured. At any rata, East I HarjptoD gets rid of the rattlesnakes. DRIVEN TO CRIME. A Poor Man Driven to Desperation Steals Meat for his Hungry Children They Eagerly Devour it Raw. It it well known that at present much suffering exists among the poor people of this city, many of whom are out of em ployment, and consequently without the meant wherewith to procure the actual necessaries of life. However, most of these manage by some meaus or other to procure enough to stay the pangs of hung er, but on Saturday morning an incident occurred which showed that one family at least had descended to the lowest depths of want until at last it reached that point at which must be chosen one of the three terrible alternatives beg, steel or starve. Too proud for the first, too hu man for the last, the second alternative was accepted. While hastily engaged in serving his numerous customers, on Saturday morn ing, a butcher in one of our market houses observed a poorly dressed anxious looking man sidling cautiously up to his stall, and casting longing, hungry eyes upon the joints and steaks so temptingly displayed. Carelessly keeping an eye up on the man and pretending not to observe him, the butcher soon saw him hastily snatch up a piece of steak, slip it under his coat, and dart out of the market house. Without making any fuss, the ower of the meat' beckoned to a policeman - who happened to be standing near, told him what had occurred, aod directed him to follow aod arrest the man with the meat. The officer soon came up with the cul prit, but being currious to know what mo tives induced the sict he followed the man to his home, in the western portion of the city. He arrived at the house a minute or two after the man entered, and look ing in at the window, saw a sight which entirely numauncd him, and caused him to relinquish whatever thoughts he had previously entertained of making an arrest. There, seated around the room, were' sev eral wretched looking children devour ing, with fdtnithiug eagerness, the raw meat which their father had just brought io. So great was their hunger that they could not wait for the meat to be cooked, but devoured it io its raw state. The officer hurried back to the butcher and told what hehad seen. The tender sen sibilities of the latter were touched by the recital, and seizing a basket, he placed therein some fine pieces of meat. A call upon his fellow butchers and a statement of the case soon filled the basket, after which a small sum of money and the meat were then taken, aud io as delicate a man ncr as possible, presented to the poor man. He acknowledged them thankfully with tears of joy, and gratitude, and related the motives which impelled him to act as he did. Out of mouey and out of work, he was driven to desperation at the suf ferings of his wife aod hungry little ones and left the house, that morning, with the determination to obtain food or be sent to prison for the attempt. The above recital is strictly true, but we forbear to mention any names, out of respect to the unfortunate man, who has hitherto borne an honest, irreproachable character. Such suffering, however, is painful to record, and we hope that all similar cases will be discovered and re lieved, before the sufferers, in their des peratioo, are driven to violate the laws of the land "Wilmington Gazette. : A German Sunday. , m The German's idea of Sunday is any thing but Puritanic. It is the Tary oppo itc. It is for them a day of amusement. It is no unusual thing to be asked by a German on Monday morning, "Well, how did you amuse yourself yesterday ?" There are those among the Germao. of course, who respect and keep the Sab bath ; but then there arc always enough of them who do not ; and to judge by the numbers in which they frequent their places of amusement on Sunday the parks, beer gardens, and public halls a slranger might possibly be tempted to in quire whether the Germans had any idea of a Sabbath. Men, women and child ren, eld men with their wives, and young er ones with their sweethearts, throng these places every Sunday, and enjoy themselves, careless of what impression they make on their fellow citizens of American origin, to whom the sound of brass instruments on the Sabbath air is anything but welcome or edifying. In the cold days of winter, when the parks and beer gardens are dreary and shorn of their beauty, the German seeks amuse mentin some hall instead. Here he treats himself to a compound of rather hetero genous elements to music, beer and smoke ; aod to all of them at once. Any Sunday afternoon in the cold of wiutcr. you may find him, with his wife or child, or both, in some largo hall, oca of a hundred or fire hundred, smoking his meerschaum or his ciyar. sipping his beer, wine, or coffee, and listening to a selection from Meyerbee or Beethoven. Were it sum mer, he would add the odor of roses to tba fumes of big tobacco and the swell of his beer; for ho ia a fond of flowers as he is of any of these, and bo is never happier than when the air, trembling to the note of the nrchatrn, is redolent with tobacco smoke, the perfume of rose, heliotrope, aod bop. aud he ia himself iu the midst of them all. Miaul La MoiUhfy fur October. An untamed white partridge is one of the noTfilties of York county. - A Japanese Execution. The London Times has received from a correspondent the following account of a Japanese execution : "I went to see an execution at Yeddo out of a vile cur iosity. I repented of it, but still it was a most extraordinary spectacle, and im pressed me very much. The culprits were eight in number, one being a wo man. They were all beheaded with a sword. The operation was performed with wonderful dexterity and coolness, and not one of them, even the women, showed the slightest symptom of fear. There was a space of ground roped off ; inside were three holes dug in the ground, with a little mound behind each, on which was spread a mat for the crimiual to kneel on. On one side of the ioclosure were two Japanese officials, in chairs, to see the thing properly conducted. I bad a place directly in front of the mounds, at about six feet distance. The criminals were placed in a row on one side of the incloiure, blind-folded with pieces of pa per (they use paper for everything there). What struck me most was the horrid coolness of the executioner's assistant, a good looking lad of about eighteen. He went up to each poor wretch in his turn, gave him a tap on the shoulJer, led him up to the mound, and made him kneel on the mat ; he then stripp?d his should ers, mads him stretch out his neck, said ''That will do," and in a flush the man's head was iu the hole in front of him. and his bleeding neck was, as it were, starioz me in the face. The assistant, still with the same pleasant smile, picked the head up, threw some water over the face to wash off the blood aud mud, and presnted it to the Japanese officials, who nodded and signed to go on with the next ; the assistant then gave the corpo?e a blow be tween the shoulders to expel the blood, and finally threw the carcass aside like a log of wood. He then repeated the same pleasant programme with the next. I never thought a man's head could come off so easily; it was like chopping cab bages, only accompanied with a peculiar and most horried sound that of cutting meat, in fact. There was a dense crowd of Japanese present, including many w men and even children ; these people never ceased to cat, smoke, and chatter the whole time, making remarks on the performance, and even occasionally laugh ing, just as if they were at a theatre. The executioner poured water on his sword between each decapitating, as one wets a knife in order to cut india rubber. Why Silver is Coming Into Use. The much excited question of a re sumption of payments in silver coin by the Treasury, aod of the possibilities of its general distribution again into the pockets of the people, makes interesting at this time a statement of the present comparatively low value of silver, and its abundance at this time. It is generally known that silver having been recently denomitized in Germany, a large amount has thereby been released to supply the regular drain of this metal in India the point of ultimate absorption. The sum released for this purpose Lrpely exceeds the required supply to the East this year, and under the conditions of trade exit in" between Great Britain and tho Indies consequently the demand in the London market has lessened in a sensible degree. The price has there receded two or four peoce per ounce, and the exporation from the Unitdd States the point of general supply has almost ceased. The produc tion of our mines has, at the same time, more than doubled ; even the production of Mexico has again reached the largest figures attained during the greatest de velopment of its mines under old Spanish proprietors 820,000,000 annually and notwithstanding an increased coosump tion of the metal by our manufacturers, to the extent of about twenty per cent., the quantity on the markets in the shape of bar a, or uncoined, is larger than the dealers can manage, and in excess of the preseut means of the bauking interest to carry. As a consequence, the price here is to some extent nominal, and has been mentioned at legs than the stated value of the greenback dollar. This, in part, is correct; but more positive is the fact that io the crude condition at the iniues throughout Utah, Colorado, and Nevada, where it lies io immense and, we may say, innumerable heaps, it cao be bought at the rate of about eighty ceuts currency for an ounce cf staudard fiueness, or cquiva lent to about fifty eight ceuts on the dol tar of paper, without allowance of the cost of transportation, refining, and coinage. The Johnstown Voice tells this story ; nobody is compelled to believe it if they doa't choose to: Mrs X , of Kern ville, during the summer, treated au egg to vinegcr until the shell was softened, then slipped it into a five gallon demijou, which she put iuto a steadily and uni formly heated oveu,'Until a chicken was hatched iuide the demijon, remember. This alio has carefully nourished, and now has one ol the greatest curiosiiien small pullet liviug in a datnijon. ho in tend Bending this wonder to the Phil adelphia tfoolu-ieul Gardan. Every ope should go sad ee it. Next summer she is going to aomcieace, in the same man. ner, to rr au Americau Eagle, in a gla carboy, which she will eeud to the Ceu. teunial Exposition. She allows she'll be the only person who ever boUUtl the American Eagle, Caring for a Passenger. A well known Philadelphia went to Pittsburgh, a few dtys ago, and wfcen he entered the sleeping car he thought struck him that he might get to walking about during the night while asleep, as he was something of a somnambulist and walk off the platform into a better world. So he went to the brakeman and gave him a dollar, with strict instructions that, if be saw him walking around the car io his sleep, to seize him aud force him back at all hazards. Then the Philadelphiao turned in, and soon his reverberating snore echoed the screech of the locomotive. About two o'clock Loomis awoke, and as the air of the car seemed stifling, he determined to go on the platform for a fresh breath or two. Just as he got to the door the brakeman saw him, grasped him, and held him down. When the Philadelphiao recovered his breath, he iudignantly exclaimed, "What do you mean 1 Let me up, I tell you ; I am as wide awake as you are." But the brake man put another knee on his preast, aod insisted that the roan was asleep, aud then he called another brakeman, and after a terrific struggle, during which the an fortuote received bumps and blowcs innumerable, the railroad man, jammed him into a berth, put a trunk an i ei;iht carpet bags on him, aud then sat on him to hold him down until morning. The first thing the Philadelphian asked for when he arrived in Pittsburgh was a respectable hospital where they cured the temporarily io-ane. He thinks his reason was partially dethroned by his efforts to conprehened how that brake man could have the face to ak for an other dollar because of the trouble he gate him during tho night. The Value of Gold and Silver. Many people have a great desire to know the value of gold and silver iu bulk, and to this pod we have secured the fol lowing from Professor J. h Sehirmer, Superintendent of the Branch Mint in this city, and it may be relied upon as cor rect. The fineness of Colorado gold and the calculation of values on gold and sil ver are also given. It is a matter of con siderable value, and should be cut out and preserved : One ton (2,000 pounds avoirdupis) of gold or silver contains 29,163 troy ounces, and, therefore, the value of a too of pare gold is S602799.21, and of a ton ofsil ver, $37,704 84. A cubic foot of pure gold weighs 1, 218 75 pounds avoirdupois; a cubic foot of pure silver weighs C56 25 pounds avoirdupois. One million dollars gold coin weighs 3,685.8 pounds avoirdupois ; S 1,000,000 silver coin weighs 58,929.9 pounds avoir dupois. If there is one per cent, of gold or sil ver in one ton of ore, it contains 291.63 ounces, troy, of either of these metals. The average fineness of the Colorado gold is 781 in 1,000, and the natural al loy ; gold 781, silver 209, copper 10; to tal. 1,000. The calculations at the mint are made on the basis that 43 ounces of standard gold, or 900 fine (coin) is worth $800. and 11 ounces ol silver, 900 fine (coin, is worth 12.80. Denver Col.) Xeics. A Boy's Courage. Governor Letcher the other day related a very iuterestiog incident of the war, while io Kemper's room at the hotel. He said that iu one of the battles below Rich mond, four Mag bearers had been shot down and a call had been made for a vol unteer to carry the eolors. A stripling took the torn standard. In a few minutes the staff was snapped by a shot. The boy sit down, unloosed a shoe string, and tied it. He started in front again. Another bullet splintered the staff. It was fasten ed by the other shoe string. He had, hardly shook Ihe folds out a second time when down fell the fia, struck by a ball. The shoe strings had given out. He un buttoned his jacket, ripped his shirt into ribbons, and wrapped the broken rod and carried the tattered ensign through the fight. Governor Letcher said : When they brought tue the boy, with the shattered staff patched up with shoe strings aud shirt tail, I made him an cfileer and give him the best sword" Virginia had. The gallant fellow was from Monroe county. He was killed in battle. Lexington Ga zette. Tbe following tender missive was pick ed up in the ladies titling room cf the railroad depot at Fonda : Dear Charles, do you love me as much as you did at a quarter to 12 last night f Say you do, deare&t, and it will give me spirit to go down and tackle "hem cold beans left from yesterday." The answer seut was. "Yes ; hoist them in, my angel." The total number of immigrants who arrived at the ports of Ihe United States during tho year ended June 30, 1873, was 459,803, of whom 275,792 were males and 184,011 females ; died on pas sage,5i7 J immigrants under fifteen years of age, 101,672; Gfieea and under forty years of age, 2SS.272 ; forty ysars of age and upward, 66,859. The Smithsonian Institute. Washing tou, has received Captain Jack's head 'Sight seen,' says the Washington Chronicle, "always stop about ten minutes to look at it io gainf through tbe animal curiosities.' MISCELLANEOUS. "Pilot Temple," the well known trot ting stallion, was sold in St. Louis on Saturday for 85500. An Ohio soldier, who was prisoner in Libby for a year, is now foreman ol a to bacco factory in tbe buildin" General Ryan and three other' Cuban' insurgents, captured on the steamer Virglnlus have been snot by the Spaniards. Death is as near to the yon ng as the old. Here is all the difference : death stands behind the young mau's back, but before the old man's face. An American reronaut, named Well?; 'a announced for a bolloon trip from lenna to the United btates by way of Asia aud the Pacific Ocean. In Ceylon, the marriage ceremony is perlormed by tying the couple together by the thumbs. In this country they are usually put together by tbe ears. The cost Bd equipments of the Le hiah Valley railroaJ is given at 19,750, 425,49. The oat earnings cf the liae last year amounted to 2, 113,262,50. There is a family of three in Pulk county. Iowa, aiut v:bom thirtv indirt- ra ents are pendinir, and two huudrcd and eventeen witnesses are ready to testify. "That bed is not lone enough for ras.'K said a gruff Englishman. "Indeed it i, sir," said the Irish waiter. "There will be two more feet added to it after you get' to. Prince Bisraark has recommended that the invitation from the' United States Government to participate in - the Cen tennial celebration be aceppted. Some of the manufacturing establish' ments of New Castle and Sharon have issued scrip, in order to carry thenv through until currency becomes mora plentiful. A sharp boy in Cincinnati was sent after kerosene, but he spent the money, filled the can with water, and his father went over and pounded the grocer for swindling him. A Chinese firm has located in Pitii burg. In addition to dealing in celestial workmanship the firm will-start a laundry at which work will bar" Chxit at fifteen cents per dozen. Sarah Harding, colored; agU ninety eight, and the mother of twenty children', has been sent to the Berks county poor house, her son, a local preacher, refusing, longer to support her. A community of women is to be estab lished at Woburn, near' Boston, from which men are to be rigorously excluded. It is to be supported by vaTiousindustri-. carried on by its members;; An uncle left io his will eleven silver spoons to his nephew, adding, "If I have not left him the dozen, he knows- the reason." The fact wag- the nephew had' some time before stolen it: Japan does nothing by halves. At a recent execution of three criminal there, the victims were beheaded, the skulls battered io, their brains scooped out, aud their hearts cut out. None of them survived this treatment. A Dakota Sheriff attached a shoT t he other day, and while tacking np a "sale notice" on the elephant's hind quarters, which the official took for a 6mall birn, the animal swunr his tail around. 'There, were eight hacks at the funeral. It was a Portland fellow who, after com ing to a railroad crossing the other day, and reading the sign ''Look out for the locomtive," climbed to the top. and oa gazing up the track, wanted to know "where'u thunder the old thing was?'' An Irishman, writing from Philadel phia the other day to his fricud in the Old Country, concludes a letter thus : "If tver it. me good fortune to live till I dy and God uose whether it is so I'll visit ould Ireland afore I lave Philamade lify." A despatch from Monongahela City, Pa:, says that on Friday evening a young man, named Charles Clemens, stabbed his father io the abdomen with a butcher's knife, and then thrust the weapou info his own side. The young man died instantly, and his father's wounds aro believed to be fatal. There is at present in course of con struction at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, a pair of pumping engines said to be the largest in the world. The following are the weights and dimensions of certain parts : cranks, nice tons ; shaft, twenty four tons ; four sections of tha two valve chambers, one hundred and tweuty tons ; fly wheel, seventy tons ; four plungers, nearly four hundred, tons; cylinder, six ty four inches in diameter ; stroke, four- . teen feet; diameter of plungers, sixty in ches, with a length of stroke of eleven feet. These engines are designed to raise water iuto the Highland Avenue Re servoir, in the city of Pittsburgh, which is located at a height of three hundred and fifty six feet. It is estimated that seventy tuilliou pounds of wuter can be raised lor every one hundred pounds of coal consumed, which would make an average cost of one cent lor every thre-4 thousand and scveoty gallons. n
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