-4v. ... - I it I h - sl 15L 1 ITTTTHl Si H ' JJ JLUJL i 1 1' mm a war n m MWIHI1UII 111 EJcuotcu to politics, itcmtuve, agriculture, Science, ittorditn, ani ctieral Jnteiitgeuce. VOL. 31. STROUJJSBURG, MONROE COUNTY, PA., APRIL 23, 1874. NO. 49. TaATT A AT ptj!)lishei! by Theodore Schoch. Tci7j -Ti il illiirs :i ye:r in H(lv?nrp and if not i'h -ti'f Hi' e :i I ofH.e year, two dollars and fifty n il I ru- i i ilwHiumiPil until all arrearages aie p;iid, Kte op:i 'i of Hie Eilitor '"Jj .'lie'!! nnpii'.s 'f square of (eight line.) or "')Vf tr t:irce iuerii.m $1 50. E.tr.ti additional ..'ti'm c-ii?s. Longer ones i:i pioporlion. J025 I'KITI.G OF ALL KINDS, f,i in t'r.e liichpst Myltf f lh Art, and on the BifC'i in lit reasonable terns. WILLIAM S. REES, Surveyor, Conveyancer and Real Estate Agent. Farms. Timber Lands and Town Lots FOR SALE. 0;lu'C next door above S. Bees' new3 Depot an 1 -J J,v,r I,eIow l'ie Corner Store. March l73-tf. D R. J. LAN T Z, Surgeon and Mechanical Dentist, sui; i;;i "(Ti'-e on M.iin street, in the second fto t 'l V'-' W.in's hrici buiNiinir. ueui ly opposite t c sii.i i hinii y ll ini-e. uiid he fl. liters himself Hint hy r'-t-.rrn ve n constant practice and the most earnest -...i .itAi.n tit fn :) ! I iii:I1 fr rtt t.iiuinrr l. hu t;,j rjiii..' ; .. : : . , ? ' li? is fiillv able to pctfoim alt onera :i . is i:i tli" Jf nt.it line in the most careful, tasteful i .i::ful !ii.iiii:ri'. s-v i.! a!tei.ti"n given to saving the Natural Teeth; ti ' t ;if- liisei !t"ii of -A ilifiial Teetli on Kubber, M-ver. or i'u&t;ntnus Uuins, arid peiftct tiu in , 1 c im "i laMi i P'l . i,,vt i.itoiis U.iow the s"'1 folly !id dxnger c 1 en . hi K to the inex jenei:red. or to those liuii; .t :i lilM.tnce. A?nl 13. ISTl.-Iy. I) ?i. noir AK1 IMTTERSOX, physician, Surgeon and Accoucheur, i'.Siicofs.'or to Geo. AV OiTioc Mtin s:rc?t. Stro!id4!irg, Pa., in Dr. S-.-ij ImiiiinjL', rosi.itMire arali street, next "rit ik!.- new inciting Iioase. Prompt attention t calls. to 9 a. m. in. in. OiTict- hours 2 2 p. " 0 April 10 S74-ly. 0 PHYSICIAN AND AC OUCHEUPw, MOUNTAIN HOME. PA. March 2'V74-Ciu M. J. 2!. SHI 7 W PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON oo7 a'cve Stroudsb'jrjr House, Te-i;i?ace 1-1 door above Po;-t Office. 0:2i.-e hour from 'J to 12 A. M., from anti 7 to '. r. M. May o '7 to -lv. D CEOX AXD ACCOITDEIR. In the old'oilure of Dr. A. Rteves Jackson, residence, earner uf .Sarah and Franklin street. STROUDSBURG-, PA. An: ES. J. IMTTERSOX, "OPERATING AXD MEniAMCAL DEMIST, dnv-g 1 ,,-st-d in Kat Stroudsburg, Pa., an- iivtnc..'. t.'i ii iie i now prepared to insert arti lef.h in t!:e wt beautiful and life-like "in.r.er. A!, reat atletition given to filling v-'A kt-i:z the natural teetli. Tefth ex- Inictt.'d vit! o:;t pain bv ue of Nitrons Oxide (', '2. A.l :ith-r wotk tnfident tuthe trofcssion j:ie in the most skillful and ajproved rityle. A!l work attend'.-J to prompt! v and warranted. variv-- tea-un.ible. Patronage of the public J.iClICJ. Oni.'e 'm A. W. Loder's new builclinsr, on V'lt Al! 'lominL- Ihiil-n T'-tit Sjlfniitl-'tiiriT fil July 11, 173 lv. Aono:jMcr?.s ih .1 hiving just returned from ujn:a! Coili.'irs, hij js fully prepared to make '';Sc a! tectii in the most beautiful and life int!i;ier, and to fili decayed teeth ac crdinj i0 t,e mot i ,)rcved inclhod. T!eiij exrracl"d wit!ioit pain, .when de by the use of Nitruu Oxide Gas, wacd is entirely harmlpss, Repairing of 1 ki-i.Js neatlv rione. f1'- All work warranted 'r-s reasonable. . in:e in J. CS. Keller's new Brick build lnr, M ii,i S-reet, Stroudtburj, Pa. uj31-tf J" HIS 5S. W lLTOY, Atloriiev :it fiaw. I-i Tt'1 building formerly occupied ' -M. Harson. an J opposite the Strouds 0,J.r? bank. Main street, Stroudsburg, Pa. Jan 13-tf A'!: KIJA HOTEL h,'CTI'0S,'ri,'Pr wo,,1J inform the public that v f !t';'d th iiouse formally keptbv Jacob ht, m t!i liorongh of Stroudrbtifg, Pa., ii i p.!!V:r'" rel)a,,u-Hl refurnished theBame, ,:'t''jrt t,J entertain all wlio may jiatronize "u; ' .'s l'le f the proprietor, to furn- f . 'iI1;lr-' no pains to promote the coin- u i lie: fn-ct A liberal share of public APrill",'72-tf. D. L. PISLE. HONESDALE, PA. central location of any Hotel in town. jf,MT. R. V. KIPLE& SOX, JV'S lr r"etorS. EV. EDWARD ATvviLSONCof Wil- tfMpJFnv rh' N' Y" IleciPe for CON' rounded a? d ASTIIa,A carefully com- HOLLIMSHEAD'S DRUG STORE. Medicines Fresh and Pure. 'or 'l 1537. J y. HOLLINSIIEAD. House-Cleaning. Every woman knows all about house cleaning, to bo sura, but we take the lib erty of ranking a few sueycstiotn about the bct way to do it. Nearly everybody does it the way we recommend, so of course it must be right. Id the first place, then never clean one room at a time. It is too much trouble, aud it doesn't seem as if so much i? being done. Upset the whole house from attic to cellar. Tear up the carpets take down all the curtains, and bedsteads and store?, and fling the whole concern out of doors to air ! rothin like thoroughly If it rains, as most likelv airing things ! it will, and the house should be chilly without the stoves, let the family fly round and help elean ! That will warm them up if anything will. Have foap dishe3 aud plates of sand in every room. Leave some pieces of soap on the stairs. If anybody falls over them it will be a pood lesson it will teach them to look before they leap, uext time ! Always begin your house cleaning wilh nothing eooked in the house. Dieting once in a while is conducive to health, and if auy of your family should con tract the small pox directly afterward the cold tea and hard tack o! house cleaning will be found to have been an invaluable preparation of ths system for the disease. A low diet previous to small pox sickness prevents pitting. Have the dining tablo covered with books, and vases, and brackets, aud bed tead casters, and looking glasses, and fiat irons, and crockery, and sofa follows, and jars of pickles, and lamp shades, and a thousand other trifles which have been thrown out of their legitimate places by the house cleaning, and then you can eat off a flour barrel in the pmtry. It will savo work, and be so cosy. Scold all you want to. A woman has carle llanche at such a time to put her scolding machinery at full speed. 2Si mun who had not the heart of a Nero would wish her to hold her peaee at this time. Soap suds and scolding invariably go together. Who can tell why? When you berio to put things to rights after the scrubbing; your patience will be sorely tried. Thomas will have to be en listed to held put down the carpets and fix the curtains. The tacks will all be crooked, and some body must go for new ones. There will be rips in the carpet to sew up. There will be signs of moths, and pepper must be called in to disgust them. Thomas will sneeze, and wish the carpets iu some other place. Then puttiog down begins The hiiiitcer will come ofl from the handle, and yuu will raise a blood blister on your baud trying to fasten it on by the help of a nail and the carving knife harpeoer. Thomas will have mud on his boots, and leave the print of his foot on the pale lavender roses in the carpet. Men wilh muddy boots always step ou ths lightest colored spots in a carpet. The bedsteads will all have swelled with washing, and have to be pounded together. Two or three casters will be missing. After you have searched for thorn a couple of hours, you will find one in the jar of quince preserves aud the other dowu eel lar in the coal bin. The third one will not turn up before the next hou3e-clean-iDg revolution takes place. The cat and the dog have flad. The canary has sought his very highest perch, and sits there shrinking into his yellow feathers, not daring to say nee ! nee ! ever so faintly, until this domestic earthquake has ruabled itself away. Carpets are down, curtains up, bed steads trot together, beds are made, and the refreshing smell of soapsuds is every where ! Your house is clean. Yes, indeed ! You ache in every nerve and sinew. You feel as if you had been taken apart by a blacksmith and put together with red hot darning needles in all your joints Your hands are blistered, your finger nails torn down into the "quick,' you have taken cold in your head, and freckled your Dose wnn beating carpets in the tun. nut never mind ! Your house is cleaned ! And you eall Thomas to look around and see how nice it looks, and he, unfeel i Ti wretch ! says he don't see but it looks jutt as it did before ! Then you go to bed in a huu, and dream of striped snakes and yellow boa constrictors, and wake in the morning considerably more dead than alive but your house is cleaned. Kate Thorn, in N. Y. WccMy. The Lock Haven Republican says : Mrs Mary l erer, a widowed lady resid ing iu this city, has a Bible in her pos- c . ..i i - i ::j.: tesMon witn wmcn a curious mciueui is conHCCted. During a terriblo hurricane which passed over some portions of West i , r i wen moreiauu county io me summer ui xcuo, this! Bible was carried a distance of four ana oue uau mnes uv me joitc wi wind, and lodged in a pine sapling. The book was lying across a limb of the sapl iog opened at the 122d l'saloi, which is nearly the exact middle of the book. Not a leaf was torn, not a scratch to be r-il .1, I. ...... 1, seen, save wuere n jcu uu mo uuui.ii, and there ouly a slight impression made oo the leaf. Mrs Ferer was thrown down aud had her arm broken iu three places the same storm. Ths story conies lo us duly authenticated, and though it i heeui kcarcely probable, it is undoubtedly j true. A True Story. Two or three weeks ago an accident did not occur Dear Scranton, Pa. : the newspapers missed a sensational horror ; and a dozen men, instead of being hurled iuto eternity without time to breathe a prayer, walked quietly home to their din ners, quite unconscious that death had them by the throats. It might, after all, be worth our while to look into the cause of the loss of this tragedy to the world ; we should have been enough to unearth the guilty party if it had ocourcd. The facts are briefly these : In the largest anthracite coal mines in the State, the care of the engine by which the cars for passengers are lowered and hoisted is placed in the hands of a Scotch Irishman, an ordinary fellow enough. The cable, necessarily of great weight and thickucss, passes through the roof of a slightly built shed under which he stands. One morning, as the man stood smoking hi pipe, his hand upon the lever, his mind very probably busy with his dinner, and assuredly not wrought up to any he roic resolve, the ascending car (loaded with coal) at one end of the cable, broke aud fell crashing iuto the dark shaft, to be shattered iuto a thousand fragmeuts. He knew that in the next minute, the cabls, released from the strain, would fly. back and fall with crushiug weight on the rickety beams and boards of the roof. Death was absolutely certain if he did not escape from the shed. But if he took his hand from the lever, the descending car, full of men, must fall one or two hundred feet. He had but ouc instant to face his death and theirs, and to choose between them. There was a boy iu the back of the shed ; the man motioned to him with his head to go out. Then he tightened his hold on the lever. The loQsened ca ble struck and caught somewhere below against the side of the shaft. Surely God meant it should so strike ! It was the delay ot but a breath ot time; but it was enough. The car grated with a jar against the ground far kelow ; its occupants step ped leisurely out, while the man who had saved them above, threw himself from the shed, just as its roof, beams, and all, crashed down on the spot where he had been standing. We do not know the mau's name, and should scarcely need to publish it if we did. Fauieor reward jar somehow against the deed itself. There is a wholesome tonic fur all of us in the certainty, which is forced upon us now and then, of the uuknown, unmeasured resources of cour age and heroism and unflinching integri to duty which we possess among what we choose to call the mass of the people. It is, after all, only when a man reaches the certainties of middle age that he is not surprised every Dew day by the knowl edge of how admirable a crew has been put into the world for its leng voyage ; how many of the women are gracious and finely natured ; how many men respond promptly to the call of honesty or duty or even self sacrifice because it is the sim pie and natural thing for them to do so. We will congratulate ourselves, then, not that his class can boast of one such brave fellow as this Scotch Irish engineer, but that, like King Harry over Percy's grave, we believe that it "has a thous and such as he." Xew York Tribune. A Deaf Editor Stirs Up a Book Peddler. We thought everybody in the State knew that we were deaf, but once in a while we find one who is not aware of the fact. A female book peddler carao to the office the other day. She wished to dis pose of a book. She was alone io the world, and had no odq to whom she could turn for sympathy or assistance ; hence, we could only buy her book. She was unmarried, and had ne manly heart into whieh she could pour her sufferings, therefore we ought to invest in her book. She had received a liberal education, and could talk French like a native : we could not, iu consequence, pay her less than 2 for a book. We had listened attentively, and here broke in with, "What did you say ? Wc are deaf." She started in aloud voica and went through her rigmarole. When she had finished we went and got a roll of paper and mado it into a speaking trumpet, placed one end to our ear, and told her to proceed. She commenced : "I am alone" in the world ." "It doesn't make the slightest difference to us. We are a husbaud and father. Big amy is not allowed in this State. We are uot eligible to proposals " "Oh, what a fool the man is," she said, in a low tone ; then at the top of of her voice, "I don't want to ruarry you. I want to sell a b o o k." This last sentence was howled. "We don't want a cook," we remarked, blandly ; "our wife docs the cooking, and she wouldn't allow as good looking a wo man as you to stay in the house five min utes She i very jealous " She looked atus in despair. Gathering her robes about her, giviog us a glace of couteiupt, she exclaimed : "I do believe that if a 30U pounder were let off along side of that deaf fool's head he'd think somebody was knocking at the door." You ehould have heard her slam the door wheu she went out. We heard that. At Bioghamton, N. Y., the other day a man was blowu into the air ninety-Dine iiud a half feet, and the local papers re fused to stretch the iitaace ix inches. That is probably because it would appear too high la the "gentleruou of the iuttitu tiou." Popular Weather Signs. Would it not serve a useful purpose if some meteorologist were to gather into a mass the various weather signs whether valuable or not treasured by the far mers and other coumiou sense people of tne country, and then sift them, so that those of real value may have their pro per influence, and those which are njerely lanciiul may cease to mislead f That there are weather signs in abund ance, every body knows. That the greater part of these signs are utterly valueless, every persou of intelligence can testify. Yet that they do practically influence the time and mode of planting the crops, and of theirafter culture, willbeacknowlcdged by many who would not be suspected of the folly, aud who can give no other rea sod for it than the force of habit. "We are going to have a dry month," said a farmer, the other day. 'How do you know H" he was asked. "By the Indian's sign of the new moon," he replied. "Its horns hung so sloping that they could hold no water." His companion laughed. "Why, that's my Iojin sign for a wet moon. The horns slope so that they let loose all the water." lhe sign in the one case was bo doubt as prophetic as iu the other. "Always plant your potatoes in the dark of the moon, if you wish to have a full crop," I heard my neighbor say. "But never kill your pork, nor boil your soap at such a time, unless you are wil ling to have them shrink to nothing." "What is your authority for this V "I have always so heard," he answered with some heMtatioD, "and always so prac tised. Potatoes you know, being roots, naturally love darkness. And soap and bacon I suppose they take their cue from the state of the moon. The fact is. I only know that this is the old timeru'e " 'We are to have a frost on the 19th of May,' said a farmer to me on the f.th of April. 1 was shocked, for he looked so wise and lugebrious, and a frost at that time in our latitude would have cost millions of dollars. I asked, "How do you know ?" "Because we had a fog on the 19th of March." He saw mo smiling, and added, "I have heard this rule, and never have known it to fail yet." "The surest rule I know for foretelling the weather throughout the year," said a planter, possessed of at least a semi col legiate educatiou, "is to note the twelve days between the new Christmas and old Christmas (frota December 25 to January 6). The months of the ensuing year arc apt to be wet or dry, cool or warm, ac cording to the days corresponding." He seriously declared that for many years he had "pitched his crop" and ordered his plantation work under the guidance of this rule, and found that it served well No doubt for that amount of time in ad vance, it was quite as good as any other rule in ordinary use. Hearth and Home. Chinese Pottery. Ia Chiua tho potter's is a very ancient art. The date of the first fabrication of pottery is lost in the distant mists of early Chinese history ; the native chronologists themselves are not too skeptical to assign it to about the year 2698 before the Chris tian era ; the discovery of true porcelain as fixed by them, having taken place an der the Han dynasty, between 185 B C and 8S A. D. Without drawing so large ly as this upon his credulity, the reader must yet believe that wares correspond ing iu texture and appearance to our glazed stone ware Jaienccs were made by them many centuries before they were dreamed of in Europe. The Chinese had early made one important discovery which they long kept to themselves, and which relieved them of a great many of the dif ficulties which in our ignorance of it were iucideutal to our making of glazes. They found a material which combined in itself silex, an alkali, aud alumina ; in fact a fubstance which contains in itself all that goes to make a glaze. This was the variety of felspar which mineralogists callorthoglaze a hard grey stone, known to the Chinese as petuntze. This rock is occasionally found as geologists term, it degraded, or decomposed ; iu other words, reduced by the action of the atmosphere to a powder. The rain falls on it iu this state and makes it into clay, and in do ing so washes from it all that water, will melt ; that is, deprives it of its alkali. In this state it is the famous kaolin of the Chinese, the possession, of which has en abled them to make the semi transparent pottery which we'call china or porcelain. The kaolin is a pure white clay, absolute ly infusible by heat ; being mixed with the before oaraed petuntz ground to pow der, the potash makes it slightly fusible slightly disposed, that is, to run into glais when fired. It stops short of this point, and yet it is far more vitreou than the common day pottery we have hither to bceu dealing with. It is precisely in that intermediate condition between glass and earthenware which we know as por celaiu. The appearauee of this beautiful ware, vyiojj in tcuder coloring with the translucenoy of pearls aud opals, was the deathblow to the coarser wares of Europe. The first specimens of true porcelain were imported ut the beginning of the sixteenth century, and fetched enormous prices ; aud the decadence of the various ll3nais sauce wares date from tho time wheu the markets of Europe began to bo flooded wilh Orieutal Chiua ware The A'cjt j Quarterly .Vrrjaxine. A Sad Story. A little boy having heard a beautiful story about a little boy and a hatchet, aud how, because the little boy wouldn't tell a lie, he, in time, got to be President of the Uu:ted States, was very much im pressed by it. Now, it so happened that on the last day of March, he was just ten years old, and his father asked him what he would like to have for a birth-day pre sent. Very naturally the boy's auswer was, "A little hatchet, if you please, papa." The father bought him a little hatchet that very day, and the boy was so delight ed that he actually took it to bed with him. Early tho next morning he got up, dressed himself, took his little hatchet and went out iuto the garden. There, as luck would have it, the first thing that caught his eye was his father's favorite cherry-tree. "My eyes !" exclaimed the little boy to himself, "what a time my father would make if a fellow were to cut that tree !" It was a wicked thought, for it led him iuto temptation. There was a tree tall, straight and fair stand ing invitingly before him, just the thing for a harp little hatchet. And there was the hatchet strong, sharp and shining, just the thing for a favorite cherry tree. In another instaut the swift strokes of an axe were heard in the still morning air, and. before Iodit. a small bov was seen running toward the house. His father met him at the door. "My boy, what noise was that I heard just now ? Surely, you have uot been at my favorite cherry-tree . The boy stood proudly before him, but with downcast eyes and flushing cheeks. "Father." he said, "I cannot tell a lie. That cherry tree is " ay do more, said tne lather, extend log his arms. "You have done wrong. my son ; and that was my lavonte tree ; but yoa have spoken the truth. I for give you. Better to " This was too much. The boy rushed into his father's aims. "Father," he whispered, u April fool! I haven't touched the cherry-tree; but I 'most chopped the old apple stump to nieces." You yoaDg rascal, you !" cried the father, "do you mean to say you haven't chopped my cherry-tres ? April-fool your old faher ! will you ? Take off your coat, sir !" With a suppressed fob, that littla boy obeyed. Tfcea, shutting his eyesj ha felt his father's hand descend upon his shrink iog lorm. "My son," said the father, solemnly as he stroked the little shoulder, "it is the first of April. Go thy way." From Jack iii'the Pulpit, April. St. Nicholas for One Possible Causa of Fire. A correspondent of the Boston Tran script relates as follows the results of an investigation following the accidental dis covery of a narrow escape from home burning , "One day last winter poking about the by ways of my cellar, I came across a demoralized bottom part of a trunk, which was among the receptacles used for houldiug kiudliDgs. It was comfortably full of burned paper, charred kindlings, and a miscellaneous medley suggestive of a place where a sluttish par lor girl had tipped up the couteuts of a parlor cupsadore, which proved to be the fact. Well, there was no fire, but the discovery was interesting, aud in the in terest of domestic economy, art, and science, I investigated, aud, as will straightway appear, I myself would have been the most culpable if a fire had come of this matter. Thus it was, carefully ridding the place of the burned stuff, and scrutinizing the rcsidum, there appeared at the bottom, with the rest of it, numer ous used up matches, suggestive of the scratch, the light, the brimstone, the puff in the pipe, and, of course, the toss into the cupsadore. So far, so good. No ad vance yet in domestic economy of safety of the individual. But I persisted. Pre seutly, plain to bo seen, werc'numbers of little brimstone ends of matches, fresh and poteut as they came from the prime val dip. Iudeed, here was food for reflec tion. I took one, relighted my pipe, and thought it out. Said I to myself, and was sure of it' 'Why may not that care less fellow up iu the parior who runs this and thinks neither master nor mistress ever does a stupid thing, doing always as he pleases why not may he, I say, have taken a match some time, and woolgather ing over a problem not half as consequeu tirl as this, just scratched wildly, snap ped off the life aud light-giving cud, aud tossed the whole into the cupsadore, and tried another ? And why may not that little end of a match, iu due course enip tied here, have met its fate (a little attri tion), and, respouding to its destiny, pro duced a fljtne, aud that flame set fire to this uis3 V Eveu before I had woiked out this problem to this wise result, 1 caught myself breaking a match aud tos sing the useless to me, but nethertheless dangerous, fragment somewhere ! Yes, that must have been the way, and had uot my cellar had a brick floor, wilh a brick partitiou next to tho kindlings, aud some other safety notions, pcrad veuture good luck, too, who knows but . what tuy house might have burned up and the iuytery of the fire ocver have been fathomed' The Scranton Republican of the 11th says : A very singular and uncalled for hhootiog affair occurred at Griffin Corners, Green Ilidge, on Thursday evening. A young man and giil entered the 0:15 car on the 'Green Bidgc line at the coiner of Lackawanna and Penn avenues, on tho evening above named. They were evi dently lovers from their actions, being too affectionate for man and wife. When the ear arrived at Griffin Corners, tho lovinj pair alighted and started in the direction of Foret Dill cemetery. They had gone but a short distance when they halted and fee rued to be talkiug quite seriously. Presently a little daughter of Mr. Thomas Price, on her way home from one of the neighbors, passed the couple. She had advanced but u few paces beyond where they were standing v. hen ?he heard the report of a pistol and found that shu was shot in the back. She had on u heavy woolen jacket which broke the force of the ball or the affair might have proved more serious. There can be no reason assigned for the shooting. The little girl says they had their back toward her when she passed them, and she said nothing to them or they to her. The parties were strangers. They were not known by any one io the car. The new issue fifty cent nctea beariug the vignette of Samuel Dexter, secretary of the treasury ia 1801, seems to be very extensively counterfeited. The street car canductors report that great numbers of counterfeits of this note are offered every day, and dealers frequently detect them in business transactions It would seem surprising that so bad a counterfeit should God any circulation whatever, but for knowledge of the fact that many peo ple never scrutinize small chauge given them. The counterfeit ought not to de ceive any but the ruo?t i-noraDt persona. It is a mean engraving in every way. The vignette of Secretary Dexter is very poorly executed, and bears but very littla resemblance to the portrait oo the gen uine note. The paper of the counterfeit is tough and thick like that of the good note, but is without the colored silk threads which seem like hairs worked in to the body of the paper, and for which there is a secret process exclusively with the government. Sundry grceu scratches on the back of the counterfeit note seem to recognize thin deficiency io the spur ious paper and proclaim the cheat Ex. It is strongly intimated in New York that the recent strikes and other serious labor disturbances along the lice of the Erie Railroad were primarily instigated and fomented by Gould and other specu lators in his iutereift who have been cou spiring to depress the price of the stock with a view to either making a handsome turn in the market or to buy io a control ling interest in the roads at lower raten. If this charjjj can be sustaiucd by evi dence, they should be brought itistanily to book and ruuished to the utmot extent of the law. A youug mau recently wrote to the Mayor of Pittsburg : "I desire to get some information in regard to ruzorgriud iog. Will your honor please visit the place where they grind them, and write to Die whether they grind them cn one side or both sidrs at the same time, what size stones or wheels they use, and if dry4 ana cbli iigo V" Wheu poultry is kept iu a yard, it is best to dig up a small corner occasionally, to let them limit for worms and beetles, and then sow it in oats and corn and let tuce. They always want a dusting place; a box cf ashes with sulphur intermixed is what they need for this. To advertise, in any guise, i very wise; and he who buys, discreetly hies wherever lies the surest prize. He who defies this rules on empty guys; his business dies, Dor can it rise to any size until he plies his skill, aud vies with others, wise, who advertise. The smallest postoffice iu the world is kept in a barrel, which swings from the outermost rock of the mountains over hanging the Straits of Magellan, opposite Terra dsl Fuego. Kvery passiug ship opens it to place letters in or to take them out. A man in Fayette county read iu an almanac that his feet could be kept warm by lining his boots with Cayeune pepper. He don't feci much like walking now, but he "would like to find the man what put that in the almanac." Shad are so plentiful on the St. John's river, Florida, that they cau be hid at five cents each, or one dollar per barrel. Farmers are buying them for manure. . Mrs. Wheat, of Alabama, had three little Wheat's a few days ago. It looks like going against the grain to be crad ling wheat at this time of year. Many people will be astonished when they get to heaven by finding angels lay ing no schemes to be archangels. Tl ;a number of cans of peaches packed last year approximated about 12,000,000, tomatoes 18.000.000, aud corn from G, 000,000 to 8,000,000. The war waged by the wtr-ieu upuu whisky shops has uot progressed further fVuih thun Andy Jobasju'i towu.
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