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VOL. 31.
STROUDSBURGr, MONROE COUNTY, PA., NOVEMBER 27, 1873.
NO. 29.
JEFFERSQNIAN.
Published by Theodore Schoch.
TE'-l -T I 'll irs a yearin advance and jf"not
piilrf re the eat of the year, two dollars and tlfty
ceiili will be charge.
.i liCi iiinue 1 until all arrearages are paid,
except A'.the ,.tiii ol the Editor.
Cf.V leriie:ne:ts of one square of (eight line?) or
est. ine or three insertions $1 50. Eh additional
ii'eili n, M cent. Looser ones iti proportion.
J OI? I'RIXTIXG,
Or ALL KINDS,
EcceuteJ in the highest style of the Art, and oth
inw5t reasnn.ible terms.
WILLIAM S. REES,
Surveyor, Conveyancer and
Real Estate Agent.
Farms, Timber Lands and Town Lots
FOR SALE.
Office next door above S. Kecs' news Depot
an 1 2d IKr lclow the Corner Store.
March 2, 187:Mf.
dr7jTl, A NT z,
Surgeon atul Mechanical Leutist,
his his office on M.iin Street, in thw second
r'j mC' Or. S. W.ilr-m's brick huiidiug, neaily ipp
ni t!i Slr.m l!'iug House, and be ll.ilters"liiii!M-!f
fiat iy i-utiircii ye.is const.mt pim-tire and the most
elite -I jul rt-i!l JtU'iUl II tti all mailers pertaining
to hi. m ifrsia, lttl he is fully .tble to n-rf'riii :H
w?r 4tius in tie de'( in the mt.ncnrfW,l;uite
Cil I kl.ill!il manner.
S;i,vul aueiinon given to saving the N.ttura Teeth ;
l, i. t!ie iinerti.m of Art initial reeth on Kublier,
C t'J. silver or :o:itinuJus Ouuis, and pcrtert fits In
a r-rmur"J.
M 'si er.in? kii'i the great f.jlly and danger ol en
ir.i.'Hig the.ir work to the inexpiriciioed. or to iho.se
Ininj 1 a diiUace. April 13, I8TI. ly
JQIt. J. II. XUVMA,,
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON.
Office 1st iloor above Stroudsburg House,
re-Menee 1st door above l.t Office.
O.liee hours from 9 to 12 A. M., from 3 to 5
and" 7 to ! p. m. May 3 '73-1 y
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si. weo. w. J itKSO.
PHYSICIAN, SURGEON & ACCOUCHER.
In the old office of Dr. A. Beeves Jackson,
residence, corner of .Sarah and Franklin street.
STROUDSBURG, PA.
Anju 8, lS72-tf.
Jn. II. J. PATTERSOX,
f)P RATING AND MECIIAMfAL DEMIST,
Hiving located in East Stroudsburg, Pa., ati-uoiru-e
that he is now prepared to insert arti
ficial teth in the most beautiful and life-like
mnnuer. Also, great attention given to tilling
and preserving the natural teeth. Teeth ex
trade 1 without pain by use of Nitrous Oxide
Gas. All other work incident to the profession
done in tlie m-t skillful and approved style.
All .vurk attended to promptly and warranted.
Clurge reasonable. Patronage of the public
a-dii-ited.
O.Tue in A. W. Loder's new building, op
posite Auiloiuiuk House, East Stroudsburg,
Ta.l Julv 11, 1873 ly.
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11. V. C PECK.
.Surgeon Dentist.
Announces th it having just returned from
Denial CoMegs, he is fully prepared to make
artificial teetli in the most beautiful and Itle
like manner, and to fill decayed teeth ac
ceding to the most in proved method.
Teih extract d without pain, when de-
ireJ, by tlie use of Nitr-us Oxide G;is,
which is etitrely hirmless. Repairing of
il kinds; u-atly done. All work warranted.
Chirre reasonable.
O nce in J. (i. Keller' new Brick build
in, Mii.i S-reet, Stroudsburf;, Pa.
"uui 31-lf
JAMES II. WALTO.V,
Attorney at I-aw,
OS -a in the buildin? formerly occuiicd
ty It. M. liurson, and opposite the Strou Js
bur Uiuk, Main street, Strou-lsburg, Pa-
j.in 13-tf
EUICAX IIOTEI
Tliettbs:riler would inform the public that
be ha leased the house formally kept by Jacob
Ku edit, in the lUrwugh of .Stroudsburjr, la.,
and ha r'mz repainted ajtd refurnished thepame,
h prepared to entertain all who may patronize
him. It is tlie aii of the proprietor, to fum
ili mperior aecf)iniuxlations at moderate rates
and will spare no pain to promote the com
fort of tke guests. A liberal hhare of public
patronage wditUal.
Aj.ril 17, '72-tf. D. L. IMfcLL.
JII'EE IIOl'SE,
H0NE3DALE, PA.
yiost central location ot any Hotel in town.
li. V. KIPLK k SOX,
1 V. Main street. Proprietors.
Jauuary y, 1873. ly.
I A CKlm'AllOtS E.
J OPPOSITE THE DEPOT,
Vast Strou3sburg, I'a.
15. J. VAN COrr, Proprietor.
The bail contain the ehoiest Liquor and
the table in Pftpplted with the lest the market
fiords. Charges moderate. may 3 I872-tf.
J ATSOX'S
Mount vernoii nouu-,
117 and 119 North Second St.
ABOVE ARCU,
PHILADELPHIA.
May 30, 1672- ly.
REV. EDWARD A. WILSON'S (of Wi
ham,sburgh, N. Y.) Recipe for CON
SUMPTION and ASTIUIA car-efcJJy. com
pounded at
HOLLINSHEAD'S DRUG STORE.
(7" Medicines Fresh and Pure.
Xov. 21. l67. W. HOLLINSI1EAD.
The Children.
When the lessons and tasks are all ended,
And the school for the day is dismissed,
A id the little ones gather around me
To bid me good-night and be kissed :
Oh, the little white arms that encircle
My neck in a tender embrace I
Oh, the smiles that are halos of heaven,
Shedding sunshine of love on my facel
And when they are gone I sit dreaming
Of my childhood too lovely to last;
Of love that my heart will remember,
When it wakes to the pulse of the past,
Kre the world and its wickedness made me
A partner of sorrow and gin,
When the glory of God was about me,
And the glory of gladness within.
Oh, my heart grows as weak as a woman', -
And the fountains of feeling will flow,
When I think of the paths, steep and stony.
Where the feet of the dear ones must go;
Of the mountains of t-in hanging o'er them ;
Of the tempest of fate blowing wild;
Oh ! there's nothing on earth half so holy
As the innocent heart of a child !
They are idols of hearts ami of households ,
They axe angels of God in disguise ;
And his sunlight still sleeps in their tresses,
And his glury still gleams in their eyes.
Oh ! those truants from home and from heaven,
They have made me more manly and mild !
And I know how our Saviour could liken
The kingdom of God to a child.
I ask not life for the dear ones,
AM radiant, as others have done,
But that life may have just enough shadow
To temper the glare of the sun ;
I would pray God to guard them from evil,
Hut my prayer would bound back to myself;
Ah ! a seraph nny pray for a sinner,
Hut a sinner must pray for himself.
The twig is so easily bended,
I have banished the rule and the rod ;
I have taught them the goodness of knowledge,
They have taught me the goodness of God .
My heart is a dungeon of darkness,
Where I shut them from breaking a rule ;
My frown is sufficient correction ;
My love is the law of the school.
I shall leave the old house in the autumn,
To traverse the threshold no more;
Ah ! how shall I sigh for the dear ones,
That meet me each morn at the door ;
I shall miss the "good nights" and the kisses,
And the gush of their innocent glee,
The gronip on the green, and the flowers
That are brought every rooming to me.
I shall miss them at morn and at evening,-
Their song in the school and the street ;
I shall miss the low hum of their voices,
And the tap of their delicate feet,
When the lesson and tasks are all ended,
And death says "the school is dismissed I"
May the little ones gather around me,
To bid me good-night and be kissed!
THE LITTLE LADY.
I was stopping: at the Hotel Windsor,
at Hue de llivoli, Paris.
One morning I was smoking in the
colonnade, when a tall, elegantly-dressed
gen?leu.an asked permission to light his
ciirar bj mine. I saw at ooce that he
was a Frenchman, although his "Eog
lish" wa nearly perfect.
' Have jou heard the news j" he in
quired. 4 No."
' Is it possible ! Why. all Paris is
alive with it at this nioment."
'What has happened T"
"The Countess de Marville, the fairpst
of the fair, was found murdered in her
bed last night, her bureau broken open
and 10.000 franps missing from it. It
was terrible ! Th brute who did the
deed effected his eutrancc through the
window of Iter chamber, near which, un
fortunatelv. was a tall tree planted by the
distiDguihed grandfather of the Couo
tess years ago Little did he imagine
what a terrible use would be made of it."
This U bad new. Now any man
could harm a woman thus in cold blood
is more than I can imagine."
"Ah. Monsieur, if you had ever seen
the Countess you would wonder still
more. She was beautiful beautiful as
au angel," he added, striking his whiskers
with an unmistakable air of vanity; "I
knew her well."
lodtcJ."
' Oh yes. There arc in Paris few po
pular women unknown to me.
II manner now was decidedly con
ceited, and felt diusted. My cold
.....
ness evidently repelled him, lor ne soon
left me.
Afterward I heard other accounts ol
the late tragedy.
Among the details of the affair was
one which peculiarly impressed me and
which mj firt infbitoant had pot spoken
of ao overtight which surprised me, as
the occurrence he had not mentioued was
of that kind which would be most apt
to Mrike the fancy.
Upon the throat of the Countess, the
murderer, io throttling her, had left a
mark from a rinir he wore the impres
gion of a chariot wheel with a star in the
center.
"This," eaid my latest informant; "may
lead to the discovery of the murderer
Jean Mosqueau is already visiting the
jewelera shops to fiud out from which
and by whom a ring with a chariot wheel
device was purt based."
Who is Jca Mosqueau f"
"What, Mosqueau, our famous detec
tive 1 Although bis counge is well
known, yon would not, to look at lis fair,
believe that he
could fight a gnat !"
A week later I was aboard the steamer,
bound from Calais to Dover.
Among the passengers I beheld one
whose face looked familiar to me. I was
not long in recognizing this person as the
same I had seen in front of the Hotel
Windsor, and who had first informed me
of the murder of the Countess.
lie was certainly a very handsome
man, although his conceited air was a blot
upon his good looks.
He moved languidly hither and thither,
turning his brown eyes admiringly upon
the pretty lady passengers, while strok
ing his whiskers with one white hand,
upon the middle finger of which was a
superb diamond riog.
I am rather of a suspicious nature,
which, combined with a lively imagina
tion, had often led me into singular er
rors.
Now, a strange impulse moved me to
advance and hold out ray hand to the
man whom I had involuntarily disliked
from the first, in order that I might have
a chance to glance at his ring. Some
how the idea possessed me that I should
discover a chariot-wheel device upon the
glittering bauble.
The stranger did not at first recognize
me. lie soon did, however, and frankly
extended his left hand, which was not the
ooe containing the ring.
My brain fairly replied ; the man's be
havior was a confirmation of my suspt
cions.
"The other hand, if you please," I said,
in a low, stern voice.
"Monsieur, will you please excuse me ;
my other hand is lame with the rehuma
tistn." lie beheld me glance toward the half
hidden riog, and I was sure I saw him
start and turn pale, at the same time look
ing much surprised. He, however, open
ed bis right hand, as if perfectly willing
for roe to shake it if I chose to.
Then I had a good look at the ring,
and felt ashamed of my suspicious. The
device was a common heart, which cer
tainly bore no resemblance to a chariot
wheel.
After a general conversation to recover
my self possession, I turned away, resolv
ing iu the future to have a better opinion
of my fellow creatures.
The stranger's good looks seemed to at
tract the attention of a good many of the
ladies. One especially, a modest looking
little thing, attired in black, kept direct
ing furtive glances at the handsome pas
senger. Fioally she glided so close to
him that in
turoiog he brushed against
her.
An apology, smilingly received by the
little lady, a remark about the weather
on the part of the gentleman, and the two
were soon conversing with animation.
Meanwhile the blushing cheek and bright
eyes of the fair one seemed to betoken
that she was well pleased with her com
panion, whose air was more conceited
than ever.
"I am afraid we shall have a storm,"
she remarked, pointing toward a dark
cloud upon which the captain of the boat
was gazing anxiously.
"V may, but do not be alarmed, mad
amc." With an air of nonchalance he pulled
a red cigar-case from his pocket and ask
ed his companion if she objected to a
smoke. Then he started, and quickly
returning the red ooe to his pocket, pull
ed forth another of a blue color.
"Uow many cigars do you smoke a
day ?" inquired the lady, evidently amus
ed at the sight of two cases.
The other colored, and it struck me
that his voice slightly faltered and his
hand trembled, as he made some laugh
ing reply.
Soon the storm came pouncing down
upon us- We were midway in the chan
nel, so that we caught the full force of
the sea and gale Both were terrific.
The sea snept the boat, which lay so
far over that her machinery was soou
damaged so thai it would not work. The
wind, screaming like a demon, threw her
over still further. .
Suddenly we observed the sailors en
deavoring to loosen a long boat on the
davits at the stern. Meanwhile, there
was an ominous grinding, smashing noise
under the counter. The truth could not
be concealed ; we wera sinking.
The ladies screamed, the handsome pas
senger lost his self possession, ane ran
higher and thither.
The cool bcheavior of the little lady in
black contrasted strangely with the
tated demeanor of those around her.
agt-
There 6he stood calm and immovable,
her bright steel-blue ejes fixed upon the
handsome stranger. of whom she did not
lose sight for a moment.
"Keep quiet ladies and gentlemen !"
rang out the Captain "Keep quiet, and
, . 1 1 .1. l . t T I, ...
lon ( crowu arouuu me uout bu . i ici
will be room io it for you all, and besides
there is a schooner coming to our assist
ance," pointing to vessel bowling to
wards us before the wind.
There was, however, a panic among
those addressed. The moment the boat
was lowered, into it they all bundled,
among them the handsome passenger.
A huge sea coming along, roaring like
thunder, parted the tackles, tearing the
boat from the steamer before the lady io
black or I could enter it. The handsome
passenger, losing his blance, fell over the
gunwale, and I eius unable to swim, wild
ly threw up his arnn.
I must acknowledge that I was bo cd-
delicate face and form,
grossed with the perilous situation of my
fair companion and myself now the on .
ly two left aboard the steamer that I
paid little attention to the drowning man.
- The steamer was, in fact, going down
fast, was already nearly engulfed in the
stormy waves, her heated and half sub
merged bpilcrs hissing as the steam came
guishiug out like the spout of a whale.
I was advancing to throw an arm
arounJ the little lady, fearing to see her
washed away, when, quietly motioning
me back with one hand, she seized a coil
of rope and threw the end to the hand
some passenger. He caught it, when,
turning to me, the lady requested me to
help haul the man aboard. I complied,
marveling at the love and devotion thus
shown by a woman to an acquaintance of
ao hour.
His power over the female sex must be
great, I thought. He is conceited, but
not without reason.
The idea flashed clearly across my
mind in spite of my danger. The
schooner, however, was very near, and I
had every reason to believe that we should
be picked up.
I was right. We were all taken
aboard the schooner, the handsome pas
scngcr among the rest. Then the lady
in black pulled forth a revolver, pointing
it at the head of him whom she had re
scued. "Out with that red cigar case !"' she
said, sternly. "I would like to see what
Monsieur carries in it."
"Why why," stammered the stranger;
"what is "
Before he could say another word, the
little Amazon thrust her disengaged hand
in his pocket, pulled forth the red cigar
case, and opening it, a riog dropped to
the deck.
The ring she picked up, and holding it
up before us all, exclaimed,
"I havo it at last. The jeweler as
sured me it was the only one of the de
vice in Paris a chariot wheel ! This
person is the murderer of the Countes de
Marville !"
The handsome passenger stood as if
frozen to the deck, making no resistance
as the lady in black slipped a pair of
handcuffs over his wrists.
"By what right," he then stammered,
"do you "
He paused as the other threw off her
dress and false hair, revealing the person
of a slender man with delicate girlish fea
tures. "I am Jean Mosqueau, the detective !"
he quietly remarked, "and I robbed the
sea of this man that the scaffold might
not be cheated."
There is little more to add. The main
proof having bceu obtained, other proofs
on the prisoner's trial were brought forth,
showing him guilty beyond doubt.
Long before his execution his name
was ascertained to be Louis llosseneau, a
noted adveuturer and gambler, who, how
ever, by cool effrontery and a winning
address, backed by his good looks, bad
been enabled to move among the first cir
cles of Parisian society.
ABigBlow.
Lat evening, while the chief engineer
of a lung tester was expatiating upon the
benefits to be derived from the free use
of his instrument, a cadaverous individual
stepped out of the crowd and remarked
to him :
"Mister, do you think it would help
me any to blow into that can 7"
"Yes, sir ; certainly ; it would expand
your chest, uive elasticity to your lungs,
and lengthen your life. Why, you'd
soon be able to blow 500 pounds and win
the $5 prize."
"Why, does a fellow get S5 when he
blows that many pounds?"
"Yes, sir; wouldn't jou like to make a
trial ?" with a knowing wink to the
crowd.
"I don't care if I do," . said Greens,
walking around and planking down a
dime of the greasy shioplaster sort.
Then taking the mouth piece in his
hand, he made ready. He opened his
mouth uutil the hole io his face' looked
like a dry dock for ocean steamers, and
besan to take in wind. The inflation
was like that of the Graphic balloon, I a
not so disastrous. I hat fellows chest
bc"an to grow and distend until he re
sembled a pouter pigeon more than a man,
at which point he put the mouth piece
to his lips and blew with such force that
his eyes came out and stood around on
his cheek boues to see what was the mat
ter but that can top went up like a flash,
and the needle of the indicator spun
around like the buttou on a country
school house door, until it stood still ut
500 pounds ! The crowd cheered, and
the keeper of the can paid over the 85
in stamps, with a matter of astonishment
But Greens pocketed them coolly, and
turning to the spectators, said :
"Look here, gents, that ain't nothing
to do at all for a man who hak been a
bugler in a deaf and dumb asylum for
neven years, like me 1" New Orleans
Herald.
One of the young ladies at the Elgin
watch factory, it is said is at work upon a
ntnt watch, which will have hands so
made and adjusted as to seize the wearer
by the coat collar every evening about
ten o'cluck, and walk him off home.
.
'Death is as near to the young as the
old. Here is all the difference : death
stands behind the young tnau'a back, but
i f .l. .il r
oeiore tue oia uiau s laue.
WHAT IS LEPROSY.
A visit to the Settlement of Lepers in
the Sandwich Islands.
The leprosy of the Sandwich Islands,
says a correspondent v of the N. Y.
Tribune, is a disease of the blood and not
a skin disease. It can be caught only, I
am assured, by contact of an abraded
surface with the matter of the leprous
sore ; and doubtless the habit of the peo
pie, of many smoking the samo pipe, has
done much to disseminate it. Its first
noticeable signs are a slight puffin ess
under the eyes, and a swelling of the lobes
of the ears. To the practiced eyes of Dr.
Trousseau, the attending physician, these
sins were apparent where I could not
perceive them until he laid his finger on
them. Next follow symptoms which
vary greatly in different individuals ; but
a marked sign is the retraction oi the
fiogers. so that the hand comes to resem
ble a bird's claw. In some cases the
face swells in ridges, leaving deep furrows
between ; and these ridges" are shiny and
without feeling, so that a pin may be
stuck into one without giving pain to the
person. The features are thus horribly
deformed in some cases ; I saw two young
boys of 12 who looked like old men ol 60
lu some oiler men and women, the face
was at first sight revolting and baboon
like ; I say at first sight, for on a second
look the mild sad eye redeemed the
distorted features; it was as though the
man was looking out of a horrible mask
At a later stae of the disease these rugous
swellings break open into festering sores ;
the nose and even the eyes are blotted
out, and the body'becomes putrid.
In other cases the extremities are most
severely attacked. The fingers, after be
ing drawn in like cl-iws, begin to fester.
They do not seem to drop off, hut rather
to be absorbed, the nails following the
stumps down ; and I actually saw finger
nails oo a hand that had no fingers The
nails were on the knuckles; the Sogers
had all rotted away. The same process
of decay goes on with the toes; in some
cases the whole foot had dropped away ;
and in many the hands and feet were
healed over, the fingers and toes having
dropped off. But the healing of the sore
is but temporary, the disease presently
breaks out again. Emaciation does not
seem to follow. I saw very few wasted
forms, and those only in the hospitals,
and among the worst cases. There op
pears to be ao astonishiog tenacity of life,
and I was told they mostly choke to death,
or fall into a fever caused by swallowing
t hi poison of their sores when these attack
the nose and throat. Those diseased give
out soon a very sickening odor, and I was
much obliged to a thoughtful man to the
settlement, who commanded the lepers
who had gathered together to hear ao
address from the Doctor to form to
leeward of us. I expected to be sickened
by the hospitals ; but these are so well
kept, and are so easily ventilated by the
help of the constantly blowing trade wind,
that the odor was scarcely perceptible in
them
You will perhaps ask how is the dis
ease contracted. I doubt if any one yet
knows definitely not from all I heard. I
judge that there must be some degree ol
predisposition toward disease in the person
to be contaminated. I believe I have Dr.
Trousseau's leave to say. that the contact
of a wounded on abraded surface with the
matter of a leprous sore will convey the
disease ; this is of course innoculation ;
and he seemed .to think no other method
of contamination probable. I wa careful
to provide myself with a pair of gloves
when I visited the settlement to protect
my hands in case I should be invited to
shake hands; but I tjoticcd that the
loctor fearlessly shook hands with some
of the worst cases, even where the fingers
were suppurating and wrapped in rags.
There are several women on the
islands, confirmed lepers, whose husbands
are at home and sound ; ooe, notably,
where the husband is a white man. On
the other hand a woman was pointed out
to me, who had three husbands, each of
whom in a short time alter marrying her
became a leper. There are children.
lepers, whose parents are not lepers ; and
there are parents lepers whose children
are at home and health.
There are three lute men on the
island, lepers, two of thim in a very bad
state. So far as I could learn the partic
ulars of their previous history, they had
lived flagitiously loose lives ; such as must
have corrupted their blood long bofore
they became lepers. In some other cases
of nativo lepers I came upon similar his
tories ; and while I do not believe that in
every case, or indeed perhaps io a ma
jority of cases, involves such a career of
vice, I should say that this is certainly a
strongly predisposing cause And as to
the danger of infection to a foreign visitor,
thero is absolutely none, unless he should
undertake to live io native fashion among
the natives, smoking put of their
pipes, sleepping under their tapas,
aud eating their food with them ; aud
even in such an extreme case his risk
would be very slight now, so thoroughly
has the disease been "stamped out" by
tho energetic action of the Board of
Health In short, there is no more risk
of a white resident or traveler catching
leprosy in the Iluwiian Islands than iu
the City or State of rsew lork.
I have heard odo reason why this dis
ease has beau mote frequent in the last
ten years. About that tiuio the islands
were visited bv small poj. This diseme
made terrible ravage, and the Govern
ment at onee ordered ihe people to 1c
vaccinated. There seems m n .
- -ww - J U VI U U V
that the vaccine matter used was often
taken from .persons not previously iu
sound health ; this was probably unavoid
able, but intelligent men. long reidnt
in the lslaud. believe that vaccination
Hills performed wilh impure matter had a
bad effect unou the nenr.l .
of a resulting corruption of their blood.
Salt-Rising
Bread.
A correspondent of IliustlLl ;v
the following receipt for matins ..! rs.
ing bread, which is said to be superior to
common yeast bread, and is eonsidprr.,1
by some as more wholesome.
Tut three teacups of water, as warm
as you can bear vour fioirer in. in a tn.
quart cup or bowl, and three fourths of a-
tea-spooulul of salt ; stir in flour enough
to make quite a stiff hittfr thu ;a
the rising, or emptjings, as some call if.
oei uie dowi, closely covered, io a kettl?.
in warm water as -warm as you can 'jear
Tuui ui.i iu, anu Keep it as near '.his
temperature as Dossible Vm!.. K
time when you "set" your rising ? i0 three
siir iu two iatiespoonluIs of flour,
put it back, and in five aad one half hours
from the time ol setting, it wtil be within
one inch of the top of your bowl. It is
then light enough, and will make up
eight quarts of flour ; make a sp.m-c in
the center of your flour with one quart of
water of the sarr.e temperature as- lim-,
stir the lising into it ; cover over wiihH
little dry flur, aud put it where it will
keep very warm, but not scald ; io thrce
fourths of ao hour mix this into a stiff
dou-h ; if water is used be sure it is very,
warm, and do not work as much as yeast
bread ; make the loaves a little larger and
keep it warm for another three quartets
of au hour ; it will then be ready to bake.
While rising this last tirno have your
oven heating; it needs a hotter oven thau
yeast bread. If these rules are followed,
you will have bread as white as enow,
with a light brown crust, delicously sweet,
and tender."
A very strange proceeding occurred it
a wake down town Wednesday ni-ht ; at
was not only strange it was bar
barous. The deceased was a man named
Kenedy, whose place of abode when he
lived was somewhere in the vicinity of
the Hill and Washington streets. The
house was small, the party was large and
refreshments plenty, and as soon as tho
good cheer began to tell the party bc
eame frisky and wanted to have a dance.
The room was too small to dattco io un
less the corpse was removed, aud there
was no other room in which the body
could be stored. For a time the dance
was postponed, but more refreshments,
made the party more clamorous, and at
last an attempt was made to set the body
on a chair and put it on occ side of the
This failed, and as a last rcsor
tthe corpse was taken off the table
on which it had been placed and
stood up in a corner, and the dance went
on. We have heard of rows and fights,
and io fact all kinds of- revelry taking
place at wakes, but never before have we
heard of anything occurring iu a civilized,
community so barborous as this. lli-oy
Times.
Things were affecting: at' Towa City or
election night. The rcss wan carolled
Brainard of the liepuLUcan, the pot mas
ter, and his partuer, in a fire brigade saloou,
singing :
I want to be a granger,
And with the grangers stand
A homey-headed farmer,
With a haystack in my handk
And anon, his partner, a nice young iuat
wilh a good voice, joins In :
Beneath the tall tomato tree
I'll swing the glittering hoe
And smite the wild potato-bug
As he skips o'er the snow.
When the post-master continued :
I've bought myself a Durham ram
And a gray alpaca cow,
A lock-stitch Osage orange hedge,
And a patent-leather plow.
.
llecktown, Lehigh county, has physi
ciau worthy of notice. Tlie Allentown
Democrat relates that Dr G. J Scholl
has now been- practicing his profession
for'an uninterrupted term of fifty four
years; during -ghich time he was present
at the birlh of more than seven
thousand infants, some of whm
ara now not only mothers but grand
mothers. He is now in the seventy filth
year of his age, with as clear a miud, as
elastic a step, and as black and sparkling
eyes as most persons of forty. He is iu
the full tide of practice yet.
The Mayor of Reading received a let
ter from au, aaouynious source, threaten
ing to destroy half the city by fire if icuts
were not immediately reduced two, dollars
per month on, each, house. As the- Mayor
controls all such business as that, aud
"their is a ging of loteeo of us," "tetor.
ment," according to the writer, to carry
out the fiery programme, a reduction in
rents may be looked iur in the capital of
o!d Beiks.
Do not run iu debt to the shot-maker.
It is unpleasuut uot to l e able tusay your
sole is your owu.
There is nothing so effective iu bring
ing a man up to the scratch as a healthy
ai d high bpiritod fiea.
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