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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
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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 !"