IONIAN. A 11 A 11 1L JJLdL EDcuotcfc to J)olitic0, Citcraturc, Igricnlturc, Science, iiloralitn, ani) (Sencral Jntdligcucc. VOL. 31. STROUDSBURG, MONROE COUNTY, PA., JANUARY 22, 1874. NO. 36. Published by Theodore Schocli . xo liHrs yearin advance and if not ncf .re i he en I of Ihe year, two dollar and fifty ,1 TCI . . ct 7 rr ii..-.iMiiueJ until all arrearages are paid, tVt theo ti..t oithe Editor. ,c,l i .rti;ent "( ,,ne S'l're r (eight line) or e oM.Ve insertions $1 30. Each additional iT-'rt'i 5" i-enti- Longer ones in propottion. JO B PIl nTli OF ALL KINDS, r.. i,jeJ in the hiatiest style of Ihe Art, and nth 61 must reasonable terms. ""WILLIAM S. REES, Survevor, ConveyanceT and Beal Estate Agent. Farms, Timber Lands and Town Lots FOR SALE. ):!k-e next door above S. Rees' news Depot and J i K.r below the Corner Store. March 20, lS7:Mf. DR. J. LA NT Z, Surgeon ami Mechanical Dentist, stiil hi hi o'fiee "n Main Street, in the second fnry ( Ur. S. Walton's brick building, neaily oppo M! xnr Strmidshtiig House, and lie flatters himself fui iiv rii(!tirta yeis con sunt practice and the moot ,vtl an 1 iMieful attention to all matters pertaining uhi! piiki"ii.tlut lie is fully able to perform all acr ratlin in the ucnUl line in the most careful, tate i il and Hll'l manner. i-ici-ial nitciiiiin jivcn to savin; the Natural Teeth ; fj, tn tUe. insertion f Artificial Teeth on Rubber, CuiJ. Silver r Continuous Gums, and periect fits In all r- Hi'!" J- M pervms know the great folly and dangtir ol en-iru-tiii? liieir mk to the inexperienced, or Jo those lit in; "Usance. April 13, I ST 1 . I y i !i h cn.irceJ. J) K. J. II. MIirLTa, PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON. office 1st door above Stroudsburg House, re-ideiice 1st door alove Post Office. OfSVe hour from 9 to 12 A. M., from 3 to 5 and 7 to 8 r. M. May 3 '7:My I) r. i:o. w. j.icksox PHYSICIAN, SURGEON & ACCOUCHER. In tlie oM oflioe of Dr. A. Reeves Jackson, rc-idence, corner of Sarah and Franklin street. STROUDSBURG, PA. AnuFt 9, 1372-tf. jR. II. J. 1MTTCIISOX, OrESiTING AND MECHANICAL DEMIST, Hiving 1 -ited in East Stroudsburg, Pa., an no iHa-K that lie is now prepared to insert arti liiial teeth in lite most beautiful and life-like in inner. AUo, great attention given to filling an 1 preserving the natural teeth. Teeth ex tracted" without pain by use of Nitron Oxide ia. AH other work incident to the profession d-ne in the most skillful and approved style. All work attended to promptly and warranted. Charges reasonable. Patronage of the public solicited. t!k-e in A. W. Ixider's new building, op posite Anulomink House, East Stroudsburg, Pa-1 July 11, lb73 ly. D R. .. I,. PECK, Surgeon Dentist. Announces th it having just returned from Dental Collegs, lie is fully prepared to make artificial teeth in the most beautiful and life like tiunuer, and to fill decayed teeth ac ctrdiny to the most improved method. Teeth ex'ract-d without pain, when de fire.l, by the use of Nitrous Oxide Gas, which is entirely Inrtnless". Repairing1 of 'l kitnid n-atly done. All work warranted. Chirks re isontble. OSce in J. (J. Keller' new Brick build n, M.iii ;S'reet, Htroudbbury, Pa. uj 31-lf JiMLS II. WALTO.V, Attorney at Law, OTi-e in the building fonuerb occupied ' Ii. M. IJurson, aud opo.site the Strouds larg Bank, Main street, JStroudsburg, Pa. jm 13-tf JMEKICAX HOTEL. I lie subscriber would inform the public that be ha leaed the house formal I v kept by Jacob W lit, in the Jiorough of Stroudsburg. Pa., and having repainted and refurnished the name, J prepared to entertain all who may patronize urn. It in the aim of the proprietor, to furn n superior accommodations at nioderate rates and will pare no pain to promote the com- of the guest.. A liberal share of public patronage oolieited. pnl 17,'72-tf.l D. L. PISLE. I Jv,l ,K IIOLSC HONESDALE, PA. Postcentral location ot any Hotel in town. . R. W. KIPLE & SOX, , - 'treet Proprietors. Jaiiuaryj, 1873. ly. ' T a t kT iv a x a noi: SK. Aj OPPOSITE THE DKPOT, East Stroudsburg, Pa. B. J. VAN COTT, Iroprietor. i ne bar contains the choiest Liquors and 'e tablk is supplied with the best the market nord. Charges moderate. may 3 1872-tf. ATrATSOX'S Mount Vernon House, 117 and 119 North Second St. ABOVE ARCH, PHILADELPHIA. May 30, l72 iy. 1 EV. E D VV A RD A 7w I LSON'S (of W il-k"Tv,iliVl:burN-Y0 Recipe for CON--MPriOXand ASTHMA carefully com- Hnded at 20LLINSHEADS DRUG STORE. fT Medicine Fn tk and Pure. ov- 21. IW7.J W. HOLLINSIIEAD. THE MONROE COUNTY Co-Operative Life Insurance COMPANY. STROUDSBURG, PENNSYLVANIA. Limit 5,000 Members. CHARTER PERPETUAL. Any person of sound body and mind, of eilher eex, not less than fifteen nor more than sixty-five years of age, and not enga ged in any occupation, exceedingly danger ous to life, may become a member, of this Company, by paying an admission fee, as follows : From 15 to 40 years of ag S3 00 " 40 to 50 " " 5 00 . " 50 to 60 10 00 " 60 to 63 " " 20 00 And one dollar for Policy. No other charges will be made at any time, excepting one dollar and ten cents for each member who die?. The advantages of this COMPANY over the ordinary Life Insurance Companies are. that the fees are so small that the man of moderate means can secure a competency to his family at a trifling cost, and payable at such long intervals, and such small sums, that no person can be inconvenienced by them. This company cannot fail; no panics can affect it. Persons holding cer tificates of membership in this Company, are sure in case of death that their families or heirs will get as many dollars as there are members in the Company. No restrictions are placed upon traveling or residence. Applications for insurance, or informa tion, may be made to the Directors or Secre tary, at Stroudsburjr, Pa. DIRECTORS. R. S. Staples, II. R. Biesecker, M. F. Colb.iugh, Wm. Fine, Kindarus Shupp, J. H. Fetherman, C. D. Brodhead, Peter Gruver, E. B. Dreher. R. S. STAPLES, Pres't. M. A. De L. Van Hcrx, Sec'y. March 6, 1873 tf. MONROE COUNTY Mutual Fire Insurance Company. STROUTSBURG, PA. CHARTER PERPETUAL. The By-Laws of this Company, and the regulations governing insurance have, re cently been very materially changed, pla cing it upon a basis equal to that of any Fire Insurance Company in the Slate. Important among these changes are the following, viz : Policies, instead of being perpetual, are issued for five years. All property is classified and the rate of premium is fixed according to the risk of the properly. Premium notes are taken, and all as sessments are made on the notes. Property is insured for not more than two thirds of its actual cash value, and the full amount of insurance paid in case of loss, provided the loss be equal to the amount of insurance. "Annual assessments only arc made, ex cept in cases of heavy loss, and where a special assessment is necessary. The Company is therefore prepared to in sure property upon terms much more desira ble than under the old system. Applications may be made to any of the Managers, Surveyors, or Secretary. MANAGERS. Stojdell Stokes, Jacob Knecht, J. Depue LeBar, John Edinger, Richard S. Siaples, Francis Hagerman. Silas L. Drake, Jacob Stouffer, Chas. D. Brodhead, Theodore Schoch, Robert Boys, Thos. V. Rhodes, William Wallace. STOGDELL STOKES, PresU. E. B. Dreher, Secretary and. Treasurer. SURVEYORS. For Monroe County: Silas L. Drake, Thos. W. Rhodes, William Gilbert, J. Depue LeBar, Geo. G. Shafer, Jacob Stouffer. For Wayne County: F. A. Oppelt, Jos. L. Miller. For Pike County: Samuel Delrick. For Northampton County: Richard Camden. For Carbon County: Samuel Ziegenfus. v 0 The Managers meet regularly at ihe Secretary's Office in Stroudisburg, on the first Tuesday of each month, at 2 o'clock P. M. May 15,73-tf CAW YOU TELL WHY IT IS that when any one comes toStroude burjr to buy Furniture, they always inquire for McCartys Furniture Store! SeDt. 26 BLANKS OF ALL KINDS for Sale at thie Office. A Curious Fact in Natural History. The Lemming multiplies so rapidly that in the courte of ten or twelve sea sous food becomes scarce, and on the ap proach of some Winter when the food question has become one of life or death, the over stocked market is relieved by an expedient unparallelled in its nature among four footed animals. This singular little creature is so local in its habits, that, unless under the circumstances we are about to narrate, it never, leaves the mountain regions to establish itself on the plains, where food is more abundant. The inhuman suggestion of a modern wri ter that our paupers should be packed into rotten ships, which should be sent out to sea and scuttled, is something like the method adopted by the Lemmings themselves, to avert the famine which threatens to annihilate the entire species. When the time for the settlment of the question of partial extermination for the benefit of the race, or total extermination by starvation can no longer be delayed, they assemble in countless thousands in some of the mountain valleys leading in to the plains, and the vast artsy of mar tyrs being selected, they pour across the country in a straight line, a living stream, often exceeding a mile in length and many yards in breadth, devouring every green thing in their line of march, the country over which they have passed looking as if it had been plowed or burned with fire. They march principally by ni"ht and in the morning, resting the day, but never seek to shelter iu any par ticular localityi however abuudant food may be it, for their final destination is the distant sea, and nothing animate or inanimate, if it can be surmounted, re tards the straight onward tide of their ad vance. When the reindeer gets envelop cd in the living stream, they will not even go round its limbs, but bite its legs until, in its agony and terror, it plunges madly about, crushing them to death, in hundreds, and even killing them with its teeth. If a man attempts to stem the liv ing torrent they leap upon his legs, and if he lay about him with a stick they seize it with their teeth, and hold on to it Kith such determined partinacity that he may swing it rapidly round his head without compelling them to loosen their hold. If a corn or baj rick be io the way they eat their way through it, and on arriving at the smooth face of a rock they pass round it, forming up in close column again on the other side. Lakes, however broad, are boldly entered, and the passage attempted ; rivers, however deep and rapid, are forded, impediments in the water being as boldly faced as those on shore. They have been known to pass over a boat and to climb on to the deck of a ship, passing without stop or stay into the water on the further side. Their natural instincts are not in abey ance during this migration, as females arc frequently seen accompanied by their young and carryiog in their teeth some one which had succumbed to the fatigues of the march, which might not be stayed until the helpless qce was recruited. Fox es, lynxes, weasels, kites, owls, &c , hover on ther line of march and destroy them in hundreds. The fish in the rivers and lakes lay a heavy toll upon them, and vast numbers are drowned and die by other accidents in "flood and field ; but the survivors, impelled by some irresisti ble instinct, press onward with no thought of stopping, until they lose themselves in the tea, sinking in its depths as they be come exhausted, in such numbers that for miles their bodies, thrown up by the tide, lie putrefying on the shore. Com paratively few ever return to their native haunts, but there can be no doubt that some do so, as they have been seen on the return, pursuing their backward journey in the same fearless and deter mined manner as their advance. Temple Bar. How Long ShaU we Sleep. The fact is, that as life becomes con centrated, and its pursuits more eager, short sleep and early rising becomes im possible. We take more sleep than our ancestors, and we take more because we want more. Six hours' sleep will do well for a plowman or bricklayer, or any other man who has no exhaustion but that pro duced by manual labor, and the sooner he takes it after his labor is over the better. Hut for a man whose labor is mental, the stress of the wsrk is on the brain and nervous system, and for him who is tired in the evening with a day of mental application, neither early to bed or early to rise is wholesome. He needs letting down to the level of repose. The longer the interval between the active use of the brain and his retirement to bed, the better his chance of sleep and refreshment. To him an hour after mid night is as good as two hours before it ; even then his sleep will not so completely and quickly restore him as it will his neighbor who is physically tired. He uutst not only go to bed later, but lie longer ; bis best sleep probably lies in the earlier mojoicg hours, whet, all the nervous excitement eas passed away, and he is in absolute rest. "A horse ! a horse ! my kingdom for a hore !" cried a celebrated tragedian. "Wouldn't a jackass do us well V inquired an affected young man rising in his seat. "Yes," triumphantly exclaimed the aetor, "just step up this way, sir." The young man sat down. Some Modern Sayings. BY M. QUAD. Remember the poor. If you know of a family who is out of provisions and fuel, keep them in your thoughts until you meet Smith or Brown, and then tell them that they had better make a dona tion. If they hold off tell them that "he who giveth to the poor lendeth to the Lord." It is very easy to remember the poor. I can remember cases twenty years ajro. Respect old age. If you have a maiden aunt forty years old, and she is passing herself off for a girl of twenty three, there is no call for you to expose her. The more you respect her age and keep still about it the more she will respect you. Never marry for wealth, but remember that it is just as easy to love a girl who has a brick house with a mansard roof and a silver-plated door bell as one who hasn't anything but an auburn head and an amiable disposition. Love thy neighbor as thyself. Borrow his plow, hoe or horse whenever you can, but if he wants to borrow yours tell him that you're very sorry but you were just going to use them yourself. lie guarded io your conversation There are times when you may freely ex press your opinion of a political candi date, but you had better wait until his friends are over in the next county visit ing. Remember that appearances arc often deceiving. Many a pale, thin young lady will eat mora corned beef than a carpen ter. 'Because you find the playing a piano in the parlor, it is no sign that her moth er is not at the corner grocery running in debt for a peck of potatoes. Rise with the lark. That is during cold weather as soon as the lark rises, waken your wife and tell her that it is time to build the fire. If she makes any objections you can refer her to a dozen works on the benefit of early rising. Any man who cares a cent for his wife's health will take pride in hearing her about the house at daylight of a winter's morning getting up a red hot stove and warming his socks and boots. Our Fireside Friend. Prospects Brightening in the Shenango Valley. From the Sharpsvillc Advertiser. Since the commencement of the new year, there has been a marked improve ment noticed in the business affairs of the Shenango Valley, and especially is this so in respect to Sharpsville. Last week the Allen Furnace and one of the Spear men Furnaces weut into blast, and pre parations are now going on for the early resumption of operations at the Douglass, while it is highly probable that the old Sharpsville Furnace will shortly follow in the wake of the others thus giving our our town its old and wonted appear ance, with all the furnaces in blast. The iron business is looking, up, but has not yet reached that point which would au gur any unusual activity. The price of pig iron must still rise higher to prove profitable to producers. The furnaces will doubtless run at a loss for several months to corns at least while working up the present stock of ore, which was purchased when the price ranged very high. But the resumption of operations will at once restore confidence and tend to revive the market, so that we may look for a steady improvement hencefor ward. AH the mills io this vicinity are now working, though not to their full capa city. . The Oakland mine will resume operations to morrow. When the fur naces blow in there will be an increased demand for coal, and, consequently, this important branch of industry will ex perience renewed activity. The number of tons produced in 1873 fell largely be low that mined in 1872, but to the de pressed state of the iron market and the panic may be attributed the cause of the limited production. Already a healthy activity is being manifested in other branches of business, and money seems to be getting plentier. We sincerely hope that the last traces of the panic of 1873 will soon be obliterated and the prosperous times we formerly en joyed be vouchsafed unto every kind of trade and industry. Passing by a marable yard the other day, we happened to hear a conversation between a friend, who is an artist on monumental marble, and a Teuton who had just buried his wife. "Mister, I vants a doomstone for my wife vat's dead, und I vants you to make him leedle an gels on." "All right," responded the ao conamodating artist, and the price was arranged. "Veil, now," said he, "vat do you charge for one doomstone for me, as dies soon, too, und I may as veil get him now 1" The price was named, and the old man, turning to go, said, "Hat's all right I gives you dat but mind, mister, I vants my lcetle angels mit trow sers on." A German peddler sold a man a liquid for the extermination of bugs. "And bow do you use it V inquired the man, after he had bought it. "Ketch te bug, uh drop von little drop into his mout," answered tho peddler. "The dence ye dot" exclaimed tke purchaser. "I could kill it in half the time by stamping on it." "Veil," calmly exclaimed the Ger man, "dat is a good vay, too." Pens for Pigs. Farmers in a great majority of cases, have less pride io what they do for swine than any other labor upon the premises. First class barns fur horses and cattle, convenient sheds, etc , foe sheep are numerous, but it is something of a rarity to see a nice, airy and really convenient pig sty. The reason of this is doubtless attributable to the generally conceived idea that the hog is a filthy animal, and not fit to occupy a decent place ; but the fact is, swine are made more filthy than it is their nature to be by being confined in unwholesome and uncleaned pens. A pen can be easily constructed so that the floors of the different departments may be kept dry and wholesome. The floor should be tight, on a little decline, and kept littered with obsorbents. In the construction of pens there is a gen eral fault in the way of having them too low between joints, most of them being not over, five feet, when there should be no less than seven, so that a man can stand erect iu them. We have seen many expensive pens having this fault and the swine therein absolutely neglected on ac count of the back aching work i clean ing the different sections out. Every sty should have a good yard at one side, so that the swine may get at the earth, but they should not be allowed to run therein at will,, nor should the clean ings of the pen be thrown into the- yard to be mixed with the soil by the stamp ing and rooting of the hogs, for it is one of the most valuable manures that can be produced upon a stock farm. The farmer who makes most money from pork raising, is the man who not only is careful in the selection of breeds, but particularly careful to have good eoni tnodious pens and give the swine all the attention required to make them grow aod lay on the fit rapidly. When we see fattening hogs in rail pens with the earth for a floor and the sky for a roof, our opinion is at once formed as to the chances of that farmer to prosper, and they are decidedly unfavorably. 0tib Farmer. A Working King. The lute King of Saxony was in the habit of attending all the State institu tions to see that they were kept in work ing order. One day King John appeared at the telegraph office of a small station, taking the clerk by surprise. This official had only just time to telegraph te his colleagues at the next station. "The King has just arrived on a visit of inspec tion," before he was summoned to give all possible details to his sovereign with regard to the amount of traffic in the place, the number of dispatches received, the number sent out, ete. Presently a message came along the wire, which the clerk read in much embarrassment. "What are the contents of that dis patch ?" inquired the king. The official stammered out that Lhe contents were unimportant, but, as his royal master insisted on being informed of them, the unhappy clerk was at length compelled to acknowledge that he had telegraphed to his neighbor. "The king has just ar rived" and that the answer he had re ceived ran thus : "The king pokes his nose into everything." He was an Irishman, and when first seen he was coming down Montague street, Brooklyn, on his way to the Wall street ferry. Over his port shoulder hung a bag containing about a bushel of pota toes, and in his starboard hand he carried a stout stick. Being under full sail the momentun acquired in coming down the steep grade canied him nearly through the gateway, when, seeing a boat about ten feet from the dock, he shook out an other reef, made an astonishing burst of speed, and jumped. Just as he reached the deck the potato bag shifted heavily to port and laid out a Broad street clerk who was smoking a Henry Clay through a meerschaum holder, while the stick hit a rotund South street merchant in the waistband, shutting him up like a jack knife, and Pat himself assumed an invol untary devotional attitude. He was the first to recover his perpendicularity, and as he replaced the bag in its normal posi tion, he complacently remarked : "Be my sowl, but I got the boat anyhow." "Got the boat 7" screamed he of Broad street, spitting thn piece of amber out of his mouth, "Why, you double blank idiot, this boat is couing in !" And so she was. The small pox still prevails io the 'vie inity of Scranton. The Republican says : "In a house where ao illiterate, yet law abiding citizen keeps a temperance saloon, this disease found its way. The owner of the place withing to give notice to his neighbors of its presence, wrote with a lead pencil on the stave of a barrel the sign ' Small Boxes. A tobacconist liv ing near desiring io purchase some small boxes stepped ia to inquire the price of the article, but was nonplussed when he learned that instead of having small boxes for sale they had two real cases of small pox in the house. Drydea and Otway lived opposite to each other in Queen street; Otway com ing home one night from the tavern, ehalkcd on Dryden's door, "Here lives John Dryden he is a wit." Dryden knew his handwriting, aud next day chalked on Otway 's door, "Here lives j Totu Otway be is opposite." "Dear old Aunt Sarah." said a school eirl, "don't see very well, aud last Sun day she was buzzing arouud getting ready for church, looking for umbrella, specs, over shoes, and last, but not least, her prayer bowk. The latter she thought she had secured by grabbing something off her bureau at the last moment, bat when she got to church it proved to be my musical box, and the old lady, in trying to find her place iu this uncommon book of prayer, touched the spring, and it went off io fine style to the tune of lO, Jim Along, Jim Along, Josey.' " Pope Pius, in a letter to a Brazilian Bishop, conveys to Roman Catholic mem bers of the order of Free Masons the in telligence that they are in danger of eter nal damnation, aud that there is but one way for them to escape They can only avert perdition, it appears from the Papa! letter, by promptly paying up their dues and withdrawing from their lodges This, to be successful'as a means of salvation, must be done within a year from the date of the Pope's epistle. But, then, tho Pope didn't date his letter. The ruiaous extravagance of a large permanent public debt was never more conspicuously shown thai in the case of the city of New York, where the annual interest account on the municipal debt has reached 9,120,513 87, or nearly 25 per cent, of the total tax levy, which i 38,740,740 5'J. The consequence U that the increase in the rate of taxation over last year is one third. The aggre gate debt is about $135,000,000. Tho rate of taxation for the ensuing year will be not far from thirty three dollars on, the thousand of assessed valuation. Trees that have lon stems exposed to hot suns or drying wind become what gardeners call "hide bound." That is, the old bark becomes indurated cannot expand, and the tree suffers much in con sequence. Such an evil is usually indi cated by gray lichens, which feed on tho decaying bark. In these oases a wash of weak lye or of lime water is very useful; indeed, where the baik is healthy it is beneficial thus to wash the trees, as many eggs of insects are thereby destroyed. A country pedagogue in Henry county Ohio requested all of his scholars to "write a piece" under penalty of a thrash ing. A risiDg genius got off the follow ing .' "Lord of love Look down from aWvC' On us poor scholar ; We have hired a fool To teach our school And1 pay him fifty dollars." . Mr. Hansel, an elderly gentleman, who' was wounded at Secretary Seward's house, while protecting Mr. Seward from assas sination, is endeavoring to receive some reward from Congress. Judge Poland, who has the matter in charge, thinks Mr. Hansel entitled to some pecuniary re cognition, as on the night of the assassnia tion he was injured io such a manner as to prevent him from attending to his duties at the State Department. : The Farmers and Mechanics' Bank of Philadelphia, which is the fiscal agent of the Commonwealth, gives notiee to hold ers of ten thousand dollars and under of the 5 10 years of six per cent. State, loan, known as the first series, that inter est on such loans will cease on the las-t day of April next, and that the loan, with accrued interest, will be redeemed forth with on presentation- at that bank. A pow wow woman at Nazareth, North ampton Co , high bled a lady patient week belore last, and couldn't stop the blood, when she thought it necessary. A phy sician was called in, who closed the open ing, leaving clotted blood iu the artery. A second physician cleaned out the clot ted blood, but it was too- late, and the wo man died. A negro named Santee has bceu creat ing a sensation in Louisiana and Missis sippi by doing a lively business as a pro phet. Tho curious thing about his pro phiccies is that they prove to be true. He foretold the pestilence at Shrcveport, a year ago, but then, anybody with a nose ini"ht have done that. The savings banks of ihe State of New York contain over 5300,000,000. ThU vast amount of money is owned by the moderately poor people. It has been earned io small amounts and deposited in sums of from ten cents to five hundred dollars. The German government is wautonly depriving itself of a valuable ally. Its treatment of the press trows worse aud worse. It punishes it not only for tnak iug adverse comment, but for publishing unpleasant news. Any one who visits Childewald, Eng land, can read in the cemetery the fol lowing epitaph : "Hero lies me and my three daughters, Brought here by Uning Seidlita waters, If we had stuck to Epsom salts, -We wouldn't have Wen in these here vaults." An Irishman, seeing a ship v ry heavi ly ladeu, and scarcely above the water' edge, exclaimed : "Upon my sowl ! if the river was but a little higher, the chip would 0 io ihe bottom !"
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