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Scuotcu to Politics, itcraturc, Agriculture, Science, illoralitij, and cucral Intelligence.
VOL. 31.
Published by Theodore Sciiocli.
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, cuic.'i;i t he Jiis;hrst style of Hie Art, and on the
E ni't reasonable terms.
"WILLIAM S. REES,
Surveyor, Conveyancer and
Real Estate Agent.
Farms. Timber Lands and Town Lots
FOR SALE.
0:T:ee next door above S. Rees' news Depot
jni door below the Corner Store.
March 20, l$73-tf.
DK J. L ANT Z,
Surgeon and Mechanical Dentist,
h: office on Main street, in the second sto
rv""t,f ' ir. S. Walton's brie' building, neaily opposite
j'.c S i i tiisbttrg li'Mise. and he flatters himself that by
( !i:fi-;: ca:s riititatit practice and the most earnest
tZ f4ieiI.il attention to ail matters pertaining to Inn
,'rii:'ei';t. t'vat be is fully able to peifoim all opera
! ,n: i i "e di-iital line in the mokt careful, tasteful
all k1 : It'u! n.atir.er.
Sne t.i attention pi wen to savingthe Natural Teeth;
,,c,'i.tn tlie riseti,:i of Aittfi.'lal Teeth on Kubbci,
Gild. Si pr. t' ' 'oiitiiiuous Gums, and pcifect fits in
k;l csi-s .nstned.
Mi; iirrsons know the great fully and danper cf en
tn;t!nj i.irtr oi k to the inexperienced, or to those
lirtiij 'li -ian.-e. ' A? nl 1 3. 1ST I . 1 y .
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. IIOWAKD 1M.TTEKSOX,
Piysician, Surgeon aDd Accoucheur,
(Successor to Geo. W. cip.)
OiTut M:iin street. .Stroudsburg, Pa., in Dr.
S-i br.iliiinp. residence arah street, next
riciiii new meeting house. Prompt attention
t. calls.
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Office hours I V2i " 2 p. m.
April It. l?71-ly.
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PHYSICIAN AND ACCOUCHEUR,
MOUNTAIN HOME. PA.
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II. J. EI. SIS I'LL
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON.
Oftioe 1st door above Stroudsburg Iiouse,
re-Htiee 1st door above Post Office.
0:'riv-e Iiour from 'J to l'J a. M., from 3 to 5
and 7 to 'J ?. m. fMay 3 '73-lv.
rnisiciix, srr.GEo. and alcolciieik.
In die old office of Dr. A. Reeves Jackson,
residence, corner of Sarah and Franklin street.
STROUDSBURG. PA.
August 6, 157'J-tt:
jyi. II. J. PATTCRSOX,
OPERATING AND MECHANICAL DENTIST,
Karir,? Wated in K.i-t Stroudsburg, Pa., an-
innricM that he is now prepared to insert arti
t:.i. ! . 1 .......
"uu leein in the most beatitiltil and lile-like
uamier. Also, great attention given to filling
aad preserving the natural teeth. Teeth ex
tracted without puin by use of Nitrous Oxide
j-is. All other work incident to the profession
wneinuie most skillful and approved style.
Ail work attended to promptly and warranted.
.nar?(?s reasonable. Patronage of the public
Offlce in A. W. LoJer's new buildinar. or-
An-ilutnink Iiouse. East Stroudsbunr,
a. i t..i.. ii ic-'j
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R. A. L. PKCil,
Surgeon Dentist.
Announces tint Iiavinj just returned from
e"!a! Coilegs, he is fully prepared to make
Weal teeth in the most beautiful and Jife
manner, and to fili decayed teeth ac
c -nj to tiie most i-nprcved method.
extracvd without pain, when de-
b lby tl,e "se of NitrtfUS xi,,e GaF'
ach I8 enlirey nrmess Repairing of
I kinds neatly done. All work warranted.
La"5 reasonable.
. Oiace in J. f; K"pii.rV n,;t.
.Mit;, S reel, Stroudsbur-, Pa.
Attorney at Law,
'tvi hz building formerly occupied
iP i Jr!1' anJ P.Pfwte the Strouds-
,!;,iC; -"ani stroet, .Stroudsburg, Pa.
Jan i -i-tf e
T',
teUiU V'7Iw W0,,11 inform the public that
K't. d hr"' formallv keptbv Jacob
j.d', 'ln the liorotigh of Stro.idsbiirjr, I'a.,
ii p-Vr, 3 reI'ai'ed and refurnished the same,
U "'t,- l? r'ltrt:in all who may patronize
Uh -...ie e !ll,n of proprietor, to furn
M winrUjr acco" '"Nation at moderate rates
'oft! no l'ains t0 promote the cotn-
p:tr.,i i-, ,. '. ' A liuerai share ot public
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EONESDALE, PA.
Central location ot any Hotel in town.
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W. HOLLTxNSHEAD.
LOCAL INSTITUTES.
UY V. AV. WOODRUFF.
The public school sy.tem of Peon
sylvanu is, in the best sense of the word,
democratic; it is of the people. It is
flexible, and can be made to subserve the
want of any community, however
peculiar those wants may be. It is
administered by directors chosen by the
people whose schools those directors are
to organize and control. The branches
of study required are reading, spelling,
writing, grammar, and history of the
United States; or, comprehensively,
lanijuoge and calculation. It would be
impossible to conceive of education with
out some knowledge of these subiects
Tq what extent they are to be taught, or
what other branches may be introduced,
the law does not specify. This is left to
the judgment of the directors of the
district, without any limitation, except
what may be lound, practically, in the
maximum tax. It follows, then, that our
schools can never be permanently better
than the directors choose to make them.
The directors, as a rule, will not choose
to make them may better than the people
demand. The people will not demand
better schools until they are convinced
that it is practicable, aud that it will Ic
profitable to make them bettor. It i
necessary, therefore, to convince the peo
ple that better schools are practicable;
that better teaching talent can be secured ;
and that better houses, better furniture,
more illustrative apparatus, and better
appliances generally, would be profitable
investments. We do not say that the
people would always adopt and pursue
what is shown to be for their highest
interest. Habits, prejudices, irrational
desires, or the love of money may inter
fere. A present inferior good will some
times be preferred to a more remote
though superior ono. Hut it cannot be
expected that the people will enter upon
any course of action involving heavy
expenditure, whose results lie far in the
future, and pursue it steadfastly, unless
they are convinced that it is wise so to do.
Under our system, this result must be
reached through the people. The appeal
must be made to the only power that can
achieve tho result desired, or that can
secure and sustain it when it shall be
once attained. Iut an appeal alone will
not accomplish the work. The balance
of power is in the hands of those whose
habits of thought are somewhat fixed
They are distrustful of new things. They
incline to the adage "if true not new ; and
if new not true." A plain statement of
the facts and figures in regard to educa
tion will not arrest attention and awaken
the required interest. It will be con
sidered simply a school report. "Seeing
is believing."
The most successful and legitimate
method, therefore, of creating a proper
public sentiment, and of giving that senti
uaent an intelligent direction, is to get
the pupils, teachers, parents, people and
superintendent together, and talk the
whole subject over in all its beariogs
Let it be shown then and there, by actual
illustration, what the teachers are doing
in their school rooms. Let various
methods be presented and their merits
discussed. Let the difference between
good and poor teachers appear. Let all
the complaints aod suggestions of parents,
teachers and citizens be considered
candidly. Let it be shown that good
schools increase the value of property ;
that an intelligent people is always more
prosperous than an ignorant people ; that
improvidence and want dog the heels of
ignorance; that intelligence, judging of
the future by the past, anticipates events,
and provides for them, and, knowing the
laws and possibilities of nature, makes
her minister to human well being. This
can be done by means of the local institute,
which should be made more a peoples
than a teachers' institute. The local
institute is needed to supplement the
county iostitute, which few of the direc
tors and citizens can attend. NVben teach
ers return from the county institute,
whera they have been giving attention
for a week to the science of education and
methods of instruction, listening to the
best thoughts of the most accomplished
lecturers, it is often to find their pupils
somewhat demoralized, and the directors
and patrons annoyed, by the week's vaca
tion. If, animated by higher purposes
and renewed zeal, they attempt to in
troduce new topics and methods, they
frequently fiod that neither the pupils
nor the parents are in sympathy with the
moremeut. The local institute is needed
to call out the parents, children and
teachers; to make them acquainted with
each other; to allow an interchange of
ideas, and to open the way for iuch
chauges and improvements as, when
understood, will be generally approved.
Local institutes are now field in at least
fourteen counties of the State. But in
most of the counties they eootinue only
one or two days; sometimes beginning
Friday Dight and closing Saturday night,
so as not to interfere with the regular
sessions of the schools Of course but
little can be accomplished in one or two
dajs. It is simply the district institute
extended with the county superintendent
to direct ; and it is devoted, for the most
part, to the matter and the methods of
instruction. It does oot, to any great
extent, enlist the sympathies of the peo
ple ; is not felt to be a people's institute.
Id two counties, Bucka aod Chester, and
perhaps io lome others, local institutes
STROUDSBURG, MONROE
be gin on Monday afternoon, and continue
until Friday night, and are the most po
pular and best attended meetings held In
the county, unless the annual couuty fair
be an exception.
The idea ef holding institutes in all
parts of the county, each to continue for
a week, originated with Dr. Franklin
Taylor, in 1857, when he was superioten
dent of Chester county. He held some
twenty-five or thirty during his term of
oillce, and thus borught the local institute
within the reach of almost every citizen
of the county. His object was to make
the people acquainted with the school
system in its practical workings, and to
suggest and illustrate the importance of
better teachers, better houses and better
educatioual appliances. The doctor had
rare tact of mauaging a popular audience,
and the interest in the institute always
increased to the close. Local talent was
utilized, and a small fee at the door one
or two evenings, or sometimes voluntary
contributions by citizeus, met all expenses.
Those institutes are bearing fruit in
Chester county to day.
Dr. Taylor's successor held nine local
institutes during the war ; but the evening
sessions were sometimes given up to
patriotic speeches, and the enlisting of
military companies, and interest iu the
institute waned. The late superintendent,
Prof. Geo. L. Maris, revived it, organized
it more perfectly than it had ever been
before, and made it as attractive as ever.
With the teachers he brought in the
children, and had them give recitations
and readings, and appear in classes. This
proved au attractive feature.
The superintendent of Bucks county,
H. B. Eastburn, Esq , has within the last
two years, held eight local institutes, each
continuing a week. These have been
among the most attractive meetings ever
held in the county. In nearly every
instance no hall was found large enough
to hold the people who would cotne, in
sonic intaocas, eight or ten miles to
attend the institute. Once, on account
of the numbers in attendance, it was
found necessary to organize a second insti
tutc in another hall. Prof. F. A. Alleu,
of Mansfield, who has, probably, attended
more teachers' institutes than any other
man living, was employed at all these
institutes, and the people seemed never
tired of listening to him day or night.
The drill in vocal music, using the Music
Page Supplement of The School Journal,
proved one of the most attractive features
Among the lecturers and readers for the
evening exercises were Drs. Willetts and
Warren, Dsniel Dougherty, Esq , and
Piof. II. V. McCully, of Philadelphia.
The leading features of the Chester coun
ty plan, as originated by Dr. Taylor, and
systematized by Prof. Maris, were adopted
by Mr. Eastburn, with such modifications
as the new circumstances required. The
mode of procedure was substantially as
follows : The institutes were appoioted
on cousecutive weeks, and the time and
place of each announced in the county
papers some weeks in advance. The
superintendent then visited as many
schools as possible in the vicinity of the
localities where the institutes had been
appointed, arranging with teachers for
writing essays on specified or appropriate
topics, aod for preparing their scholars,
without interfering with the regular
routine of school duties to take part in
the exercises of the institute. He con
suited the directors, teachers and citizens,
and cither himself, or through them made
all the necessary local arrangements. The
consent of the board of directors had to
be obtained before the teachers and pupils
could adjourn to the institute. The effect
was, for a month or more previous to the
iostitute, to invest all the regular school
exercises with an unwonted interest and
attraction. The opening session of the
institute, Monday afternoon, was occupied
almost exclusively by the children in
readiug, reciting and singing. This
arrangement always secured a full house
at the beginning, without regard to the
weather ; as the children must attend.
They had been preparing for it, and
anxiously looking forward to it for long
weeks. The schools were in regular
session in the forenoon, and at noon the
parents and citizens took the children
and teachers from their school houses to
the iostitute in wagons or sleighs. The
greater the number of children in atten
dance the greater the number of parents
to hear them, until stauding room was at
a premium Everybody was surprised to
see everybody else there ; and all were
surprised and delighted to fiod the in
stitute at once so popular. 1 he superin
tendent embraced the opportunity to state
the clnracterof the local institute, aDd to
euumeratc the principal topics that would
be discussed. He spoke of defects and
ueeds, and of what he desired and hoped
to accomplish by means of the institute.
He invited all to come together for a
week, aud discuss with the most perfect
freedom all matters relating to the cduca
tiooal interests of the community. All
who had complaints or suggestions to
make in reference to the school system,
or its administration, or in reference to
modern modes of instuction, or of school
management, were promised a full aud
patient hearing. Some interesting subject
would be briefly discussed, but was
generally dropped, like Sam Welter's
valeuline, at just such a point as to make
the audience ''wish there was more."
The principal topics of interest con
sidered during the week were methods of
teaching the different braDchea of study,
illustrated by the teachers and pupils of
COUNTY, PA., APRIL
the different schools present ; uniformity
of school books ; mode of furnishing
books; furniture; apparatus; irregular
ity of attendance; truancy; parental
co operation ; studying at home ; classifica
tion of pupils ; longer school term ; local
supervision ; gradiog salaries ; care in
selecting teachers ; to what extent
arithmetic shall be taught; what new
xtudies are needed; school houses;
ornamenting school rooms, etc. On many
of these topics teachers or others had
prepared esays which were read as an
introduction to a discussion of the subject.
The discussion of these themes awakened
the greatest interest, which was sustained
and intensified to the end.
The evening lectures were upon more
general subjects; but all of the them
related more or less directly to the sub
jeet of education. This narration is here
given as a practical illustration of the only
way in which our school system can be
made efficient, viz : by showing the people
what a powerful instrumentality is :u their
hands, and teaching them how to use it.
Other methods may be better adapted to
oilier localities. But substantially, and
to a good degree, what has been done and
is now doing in the two couuties named,
can be done in many other counties of
the state, if not in all, with proper wisdom
and effort. It is the testimony of Prof.
Maris, and of the present superintendent
of Chester county, Mr. Pierce, that the
good effects of the local institutes are ap
parent io the schools of the vicinity where
they have been recently held. Among
theses they specify better houses, better
furniture, greater uniformity in books,
greater solicitude for good teachers, the
establishment of successful graded schools,
an increase of the professional spirit
among the teachers, and a better apprecia
tion of the school system.
The work in Bucks county is full of
promise, and some fruit has already ap
peared. But it must bo borne in mind
that Bucks has had but eight local in
stitutes, and they reach back only two
years, while Chester has had about sixty,
and they cover a period of nearly seven
teen years. Time is, of course, an element
in the question. Give the local institute
a fair opportunity and time, and then let
it be judged by the fruit.
If any apology is necessary for introduc
ing the uames of several county superin
tendents in this article, it is deemed
sufficient to soy that many of , the thoughts
expressed have been obtained from listen
ing to their elucidation, aud witnessing
their practical application in connection
with the official labors of the gentlemen
named. School Journal.
CLARA LOUISE KELLOGG'S SOLDIER
LOVER.
The following comes from a very grace
fully written sketch of the great Ameri
can prima donna, froai the pen of Lucy
Hamilton Hooper. A singular and mourn
ful little romance is connected with the
earlier portion of the fair singer's career.
During the last year of the war, and after
one of the last great battles, the chap
lain of one of the Massachusetts regi
ments, was rendering the last services to
the dyin, when he came across a young
lieutenant, lying by the roadside, and
evidently desperately wounded. The
chaplain proposed to summon medical aid,
but the young man declined the offer,
saying that he was dying, and that he
preferred to be left to pass away without
further suffering. After doing what he
could to make the sufferer more comfort
able in his last moments the chaplain ask
ed the dying man if ho wished to send
any messace to his relatives or friends.
"No, he had neither he was alone in
the world." "Was there no one," pre
sisted the chaplain, "to whom he would
like to send a word of farewell ?" The
young officer hesitated. "Yes," he an
swered, "there is one Miss Clara Louise
Kellogg. She does not know me, nor
have I ever met or seen her off tho stage.
But she is the one, the only woman that
I ever loved- I saw her in opera re
peatedly when I was last in Boston, and
the effect she produced on me was iu
stantancous aDd ineffaceable. And I
should die happier did I know that she
would one day learn that I had existed,
and that I had loved her." A few brief
lines were penciled by the failing hand
on a leaf of the chaplain's note book, a
single dark curl was severed from the
locks already growing damp with the
dews of death, a word or two of thanks
were faintly spoken, and then the dim
eyes closed, and, the brief romance aDd
the young soldier ended together. In
due course of time the letter and the lock
of hair were placed io Miss Kcllogg's
hand ; and if the spirit of the sender, at
the momeut of receiving them, was hover
ing near, he had at least the joy of know
ing that, though unknown to his fair lady
love, he had not died uowept by her.
Phoebe Couzine, the young St. Louis
lawyer, appears io court dressed io heavy
silk with a polonaise righly trimmed with
black lace, roses io her bosom, white
frills around her Deck, and a sparkling
aigrette iu her hair. While pleading she
wears a modest jacket, with black velvet
hat and plumes, which she often removes
when speaking.
.
It is pleasant to see a young, creature
come into a horse car, seat herself for ad
miration, look happy for five minutes,
and then wake up to the miserable con
sciousness that there is a rip iu the mid
die fioger of her right glove.
30, 1874.
hwji. mj.i mmj . n uhw-u'bl aj
A Righteous Judgement.
Last week a young German girl named
Amelia Donnerschlag, having a truthful
confidence in the laws of her country, es
pecially as expounded by Banyon, went
before that justice and began a suit for
200 against August Bchrens for breach
of promise. She would have sued for
more, but 200 is the limit of jurisdiction
of a justice, and that is the reason why
she stopped at that figure, not but what
she esteemed her lover worth a much
higher sum. A warrant was issued, and
the cause 9ame up yesterday. AU the
parties were in attendance.
The complainant stated that she had
known the defendant in Germany, and
had become engaged to him there. He
had emigrated to this country in order to
earn a home, and she had followed him
in the course of a year. Soon after her
arrival, finding him in good eircmstauces,
she pressed him to fulfill his promise but
he refused to do so Hence the suit.
The justice aaked the young man if he
had anything to say in his behalf, and he
stated he had.
Mr. Behrens As the young lady says,
your Honor I was engaged to her in Ger
many, where she was living with her
father. I came to Chicago and boarded
at the house of her sister and mother who
were living on Division street, and I liv
ed with them for nine months. During
that nine months I had many opportune
ties to watch the ways of this young lady's
mother, and I was Dot pleased with them
at all.
At this point the brow of the justice
unbent. His manner which had been
particularly gloomy, began to change, and
he looked with somethinti of friendliness
upon Mr. Behrens.
"Excuse me," said the judge, "I should
like to ask you a few questions : Did
this woman say that she intended to live
with you after you were married ? Did
she inform you that she was ready to take
all the care of the household off your
hands ? Did she ask you to let her save
up your money' Did she say that she
could take care of it a great deal better
than you could ?"
"Yes," said Mr. Behrens.
"Go on," said the judge.
Mr. Behrens When this youDg lady
came over here from Germany she did
ask nie to marry her, and I was rejdy to
and I told her I was. But she said that
her mother must live with us and keep
house for us. I told her 1 had watched
the ways of her mother, and that I was
not pleased with them ; that I loved her
very deeply and was ready to marry her,
but did not wish to marry her mother
also, who was a woman of lordly aud un
pleasaut habits, and insisted upon feed
ing me too much on cabbage, a vegetable
I have always had a dislike for. I am
ready, your Honor, to marry her now,
providing that she will leave her mother
out in the cold ; but I will not marry the
old woman. I have made up my mind to
that, no matter what comes.
The Justice Now, let met ask you,
my young friend, which would you rather
do pay down 8200 or marry the young
lady and have her mother live with you '!
Mr. Behrens (firmly) I will pay the
5200.
The Justice Allow me to shake hands
with you. I envy your firmness. There
was a period in the life of this Court,
when it was placed in circumstances some
what similar to your own. If it had had
the moral courage you possess, it would
have saved about twenty years of misery
and uuhappiuess. The alternative was
presented to this Court whether it would
marry a young lady and her mother, or
whether it would pay S125 in gold. The
Court was poor at the time. It was earn
ing an unsatifactory living at the restaur
ant businss. It yielded. It took the
young woman and the mother in law and
kept the jji-o. l or a quarter ot a ccn
tury this court regretted its hasty action.
It is glad to n)eet a mao who cheri.-hes
happiness more than lie does money. The
order of the Court is that the defendant
stands discharged, and the cottiplainuut,
who has been trying to bring a man into
slavery to a mother-in law be fined 10
and costs. Chicago Tribune.
Companionship and Health.
To be perfectly healthy and happy one
must have friends. They need not be in
large numbers but one, two or three kind
red spirits with whom one can commune,
frhapc joys and sorrows, thoughts aod
feelings. In choosing friends great care
is necessary. There must be some com
mon bond of sympathy. It may be mor
al, intellectual or social ; but even these
bonds are not sufficient. A weakly person,
an invalid, needs healthy friends ; u timid
one, brave friends. Those who are blessed
with good friends are healther and hap
pier than those who have none.
He Learned It.
A firm dealing largely in coal in one
of our Western cities had in their service
an Irishman named Barney. One day
the head of the firm, irritated beyond en
durance at one of BarDej's bluoders, told
him to go to the office and get his pay,
and added, "You are so thick headed I
can't teach you any thing." "Begorra,"
saik Barney, "I larnt wan thing since
I've been wid ye!" "What's ' that ?"
asked his employer. "That sivtnteeo
huodred make a ton " Birney was re
taiced.
50.
.aj "jrwvjM.ngt.'g. iVA."5tWj.ia xr.y .' t r m ni ar -tw
AN ACT
Relative to the issuing oj xcarrants to
survey vacant lands.
SECTfON 1. Be it enacted hy the Sen
ate and House of Representatives rf the
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in Gen
eral Assembly met, and it is hereby r?i
acted by the authority of the same, That
every applicant for a warrant to survey
aoy of the vacaut ltnds of this Common
wealth, shall produce to the Surveyor
General a particular description of the
land applied for, with an affidavit of a dis
interested witness, made before a justice
of the peace of the township or borough
in which the land applied for or the grea
ter portion of it is situate, or if there
be no justice of the peace in such town
chip or borough, before a justice of an
adjoining township or borough, specify
ing whether the land be improved or not,
and if improved how lornr since the said
improvement was made, that interest may
be charged as now provided by law. Tho
applicant for such warrant shall declare,
upon oath or affirmation, before a justice
of the township or borough in which tho
land or the greater portion of the same is
situate, or if there be no justice in such
township or borough, before a justice of
an adjoining township or borough, that
he verily believes that no warrant or other
office right has previously issued for such
land, has one issued, after giving full par
ticulars in relation thereto, shall deposo
that he verily believes it has been aband
oned ; aod if at any time thereafter it
shall appear that the person or persons
deposing as aforesaid, fcr any of them,
shall koowingly have sworn falsely, such
person or persons shall suffer all the paius
and penalties of perjury.
Section 2. No warrant shall issuo for
any tract or piece of land on which settle
ment is made, or which may be either in
whole or in part cleared and fenced, or
otherwise improved, used or occupied and
held by defined boundaries, unless to such
person or pe:sou3 respectively, who have
made the settlement, clearing, fencing or
improvement, their legal representatives
or assigns, upon proof of owner.-hip of
such settlement or improvement right,
aud if any warrant shall issue otherwise
than as aforesaid it shall be void : Pro
vided That this section shall not apply
to abandoned irr provements.
Section C. Every applicant for a war
rant to survey vacant land shall, after,
filing his or their application for such
warrant, and depositing the amount of
the purchase money and fee with the
Surveyor General, give at least thirty
days' notice of the filing of said applica
tion, with a full description of the land
as set forth in the application by publica
tion, once a week for three successive
weeks, in one or more newspapers of the
county in which the land is situate and
nearest its location, and shall furnish
proof that such notice h is been iziven be
fore a warrant shall issu : Pi ovided.
That if any caveats or cavcit dia!l have
been entered against issuing such war
rant, the same shall not issue until di
rected by the board of property ; and if
the board of property, after a hearing up
on a citation issued io pursuance of any
caveat shall decide against issuing the
warrant, the purchase money shall be re
turned to the applicant.
Section 4. This act shall not apply to
applications for warrants filed with the
Surveyor General before its passage.
II . II. M'COKMICK,
Speaker of the IIou?e of Representatives.
B B STRANG,
Speaker of the Senate.
ArpROVED The fourteenth day of
April, Anno Domini one thousand eight
hundred and seventy-four.
J. i IIARTRANFT.
ROWING FOR THE GIRL HE LOVED.
A young man of thid city, being at an
up river town a few days a;o, took a skiff
to row to the next town down stream.
About the time be put out, he noticed a
man and woman in a si in i liar boat on tho
opposite side of the Ohio, the mau pul
ling with all his might down stream. The
Evansville youth did not want to be beat
en by a man who had a load while he
had an empty skiff, so he oent himself to
his work with great energy. Bow as hard
as he might, the oarsman on the other
side kept ahead of him, until the young
man made up his mind there was some
thing wrong with the current, and ho
tried to cross.
This seemed to givo additional energy
to the other oarsman, whose "feath
ered oar" was plied with such a will that
he gained sensibly, and our Evansviller
dropped back, but still kept the couple
in sight.
After half a day's row the single oars
man stopped at a town, rested and did
such business at he found, and took tha
next steamer for home. On the way
down the steamer was hailed, and tha
couple from the skiff got aboard. The
young man, after a short time, approach
ed the chapion oarsman and remarked :
"Well, you beat me, didn't jou ; tut I
tried hard to get ahead."
"Thunderation !" exclaimed the man,
"Was that you a pullin' after in. I tho't
it was Lize's dad, an' I jest lit in with, all
my might, but it's no ue now ; we's mar
ried for good now, stranger, an' I wouldn't
row that hard even ef the old in an was to
heave iu sight." Pvansvilie Journal.
Is a man with corns eligibk to itenj
berchip at a GrjDgr ?
NO.
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