THE JEFFERS ONI AN-"
Bcuotcii to politic, itccotuw, flricnlturc, Science, illotnlitn, cm General 3ntcllia.cuce.
VOL. 32.
STROUDSBURG, MONROE COUNTY, PA., JUNE 11, 1874.
NO. 4.
PuSlislicd liy Theodore Schoch,
T ,,MTn-. ilnllnr-' a year in ndvanee and if not
1 M'.'re I'M'" '"1' of t,lc 'car tvro dollars and fiftj
r41' K--W iuiru"-i.
V i'J""r iliseontitW ntii all arrearages are
i i .vt-i.t at tin- pti'in of the ICditor.
'a : ': 'vlviTti-ii'iiirnts nf one square of (oictht lines) or
e ' '. ,.r I'll'''' insertions SI o. Each additional iu-
-r ecnis. whs" .mho r,v,v..I.,n.
JOI5 1'ItIXTIXG
OF ALL KIXPS,
utiJ in the highest style of the Art, aud on the
' 1 mast re:ucii:iMe terms.
Wickersham Normal School.
H-MIKAPSVILLE, MONROE COUNTY, PA.
p.f f ill ,1741 Term of this S-'hool will besrin in the
r u s ii""I Ho"-e, at l?rolheadsville, on the second
'- 'liv in Julv, 1S74, aud continue twelve weeks.
terms :
r.rMiti-'n. f-'T the term..
SS on
i" - i inn T 1 . , i -
, '.' .'i' K.apiir u. in private families, per mouth 12 00
' 7i'xtra liiar.' fr the higher branches.
'fl. Tli'e S-hHl lli'U.o has been enlarged and thor-
' "fi,'a::kitil I';ist patronage, I subscribe myself,
P. E. SCCEPLER, Principal.
;;n,.4.1-:i. 't-
DR. J.LANTZ,
SURGEON & MECHANICAL DENTIST.
i'i'i !': "t1'"0 on Main street, in the second story
,-' j,"r ' Wait.-ii's brick buildinir, nearlv opposite the
-r ,,.;,i'H!r H jti.se. and he rkiters himself that by eigh
, ..r V,..irM"ii-;a:it practice and the most earnest and
, , atti nrinti :o all matters pertaining tohispro-
....', n t!i;it He Is Hilly iii'ie lo h.titiii an oiirraiioii
ul line i:i the most tarcfnl and skillful man-
-ia! attention given to savins the Natural Teeth;
i
t.. :lic iiwHion of Artificial leeth on Kuhrjor,
i. r. r 'uitinuous Gums, and perfect fits in all
- in;:r-i.
r -ruiis know t lie ereat folly and danger of en
' t!i ;r w ick to the inexperienced, or to those liv-jiVuistaix-e.
' April 13, 174. tt
411
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11. EI. J. P.iTTLKSOY,
UFEIilTNG i.D XECUAMCAL DEMIST,
: . ! . ai. u i;i l:L-t Strondsleirg. Ta. annoiuices that
j.r-(-:i r.l to inx rl artificial teeth in the most
::i.l li!'. -like tnaniuT. Also, great attention
; aii 1 pnerving the natural teeth. Teeth
tui i: hoiu pain by tin; use of Nitrous Oxitje ias.
:'i rw ..k inriib iit to the prof-ssion done in the
-i: i::"..! :.ii'l approval style. All work attended to
;.:!v a i -. 1 warrant -d. Charges reasonable. I'at
: ! the p.ji lie solicited.
. iii A. L'-i- r's new building, opposite Analo-I!.,u-
. E.st Stroudsbiirg, 1'a. july 11, '73.
D
R. . I PECK,
.Surgeon Dentist.
l at havinj just returned from Pental
illy preparci to make artificial teeth in
ful and lif'-like manner, and to fill de-
riinir to the- most improved method,
"i witliout pain, when di-sired. by the
: ii-' Uas, which is entirely harmless,
kinds neatlv done. All work waranted.
aUe.
lk-r's now brick buildin?, Main street,
i. Aug. 31 '71-tf.
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t 'Hi.-
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Can you tell "why it is that when any
-mes to "troiidsbiirtr to buy Furniture, they al-iny.i--.
fr M-C'aitv' Furuiture .Store I
WILLIAM S. REES,
Surveyor, Conveyancer and
Real Estate Agent.
Fanss, Timber Lands and Town Lots
FOR SALE.
O'e neit door above S. Kees' news Depot
::d '1,1 door I.elow the Corner Store.
March 20. 7:)-iL
JR. HOW AKU I'ATTCRSOX,
Physician, Surgeon and Accoucheur,
'.Successor to Geo. " Seip.)
O.Tio? Main street. Strotidsbnr, Pa., in Dr.
li'Jii di'ig. resi.enre Sarah street, next
r n-tids new meeting house. Prompt attention
t: calk
C 7 to 9 a. m.
chotirs Vll " 2 p. m.
5 " 9 p. m.
April 0 li74.iv.
yi. i. 5. SIII'LL,
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON.
''"'II ' K A HII.KXCI AT ISt,US QCEKN HOTEL.
A.l eaes promptly attended to. OfEee
ifr-im 0 io 12 a. m., from 3 to 5 and
'u l'. M.
,,l'Efs laoderaie. ConsuHations free.
7 -L,-i-y
JjR. c;i;o. n. J itiisov
, SURGEON AND ACCOUCHEUR.
":e ol j office of Dr. A. Reeves Jackson,
n-w C(jrtu.r of .Sarah and Franklin street.
, STROUDSBURG, PA.
pHYSICIAN AND ACCOUCHEUR,
!'fc S!lu..,.:i . . i . f , II!. ,l..i
Ur.,,'.-;' t!l 1'ouse formal v kentbv Jacob
l-"d iia.-: . , .borough of iStroud.sburg, Pa.,
" ' r ''i rl'aintet' an(l refurnished the tame,
3i " j . entertain all who niav jiatronize
.ms, l"c oi the proprietor, to furn-
, '' tare no pains to p
I A liberal
sj2-if.
""'uaLiun jii iiiuuei a.LC i airs
promote the com-
ehare of public
D. L. PISLE.
HONESDALE, PA.
'wu-ml location of anv Hotel in town.
R. W. KIPLE SON.
am st
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Attorney at Law,
111
tile Luililitior fnrmnrl r Anti ri
i t nk,
on. aud opposite the Strouds-
sireet. ttroudsburg, 1'a. .
Acts of the Legislature.
The following are among the most pro
minent acts passed by the last Legislature
i. xo provide tor the submission of
civil eases by agreement of the parties to a
referee learned in the law.
2. Making Lincoln University an addi
tional Normal School, and appropriating
800,000 to the fourteen Normal schools in
the State.
3. To create a commission to propose
amendments to the Constitution.
4. To punish the sale and traffic in min
eral waterbottlcs, forbidding this when in
private hands.
5. Authorizing councils of all boroughs
to regulate the collections of taxes therein.
G. Regulating the publication of applica
tions for local or special legislation.
7. To authorize and require the auditors
to punish an annual statement of the re
ceipts and expenditures of the road commis
sioners, supervisors, overseers of the poor,
and school directors of the several town
ships and boroughs of this commonwealth.
8. Taxing coal 3 cents per ton, to raise
needed revenues.
0. To provide for submitting questions of
fact to the courts in the trial of civil cases.
10. To define the necessary and proper
expenses incident to the nomination and
election of Senators, Representatives, State,
Judicial and Company officers, and to au
thorize the payment thereof.
11. To provide for changes of venue in
civil and criminal cases.
12. To exempt from taxation public pro
perty used for public purposes and places
of religious worship, places of burial not
used and held fur forivate corporate profit ; it
gives these institutions the benefit of any
constitutoinal doubt.
13. For the suppression of the trade and
circulation of obscene literature, illustra
tions, advertisements, and articles of patent
medicines, and aritcles for producing
abortion.
14. For the annexation of boroughs and
townships and adjacent cities.
15. To carry into effect section eight of
article seventeen of the Constitution in re
lation to granting free passes or passes at a
discount by railroad or transportion com
panies. 10. To make Decoration Pay a legal
holiday.
17. To provide for the appointment of
inspectors of the State jienitentaries, as re
quired by the twenty-second section of ar
ticle fifth of the Constitution of this com
monwealth. 18. To secure to married women and
minors the control of money deposited by
them in savings banks.
10. Appropriating $23,000 to the Penn
sylvania Training School.
20. To provide for the education and
maintainance of the destitute orphans of
decead soldiers ; sailors, and the destitute
children of permanently disabled soldiers
and sailors of the State allowing the child
ren of disabled soldiers to enter the soldiers'
orphan schools.
Requiring every railroad or canal corpora
tion organized or doing business in this
State to maintain an office therein for the
transaction of its business.
22 Supplement to the act approved 'for
the organization, discipline and regulation
of the militia of the Commonwealth of
Pennsylvania, giving 8100 additional for
armories, and reducing the number of Ma
jor Generals from twenty to ten.
23. Authorizing married women who
own capital stock in any corporation to sell
or transfer.
24. Appropriation of 81,000,000 for the
erection of the Centennial memorial build
ing. 2.j. Several acts for the propagation of
fish, and stacking streams.
20. New election law.
27. Authorizing Board of State Chari
ties to appoint visiters and to transfer cer
tain insane persons from county institutions
to State hospitals.
28. To regulate the manner of increas
ing the indebtedness of municipalities, to
provide for the redemption of the same,
and to impose penalties for illegal increase
thereof. It limits the sale of bonds to their
par value.
20. To prevent corrupt attempts to in
fluence legislation.
30. Legislative and Judicial Apportion
ment bill,"also a general Appropriation bill.
31. To provide for the safe custody of
insane persons charged with, or convicted
of crime, giving them admission to State
hospitals.
32. Authorizing a geological survey of
the State.
33. Fixing salaries for county officers in
counties, having over 150,000 population.
34. To authorize counties, cities, towns
or townships to enter into contract with
railroad companies whose roads enter their
limits, whereby said companies may re
locate, change or elevate their railroads.
35. To allow county commissioners to
sell bridges to railroads.
A pretty young woman of Louisville,
named Pruliue Leszin.ky, noted for the
beauty of her hair, which had reached the
unusual length of five feet, a few weeks ago
was awakened about two o'clock in the
morning, experiencing a sensation as if some
one was combing her hair, which was loose
about her shoulders. As she awoke she
saw two men leave the room. When con
sciousness returned she aroused the family.
Her mother on entering smelt chloroform,
and found that her daughter's hair had
been cut from the right side of her head,
that on the left ade feeing neatly combed.
BURNING A MAJAVE CHIEF.
Cremation Among the Arizona Indians.
Mr. J. A. Tonner writes to the Wilming
ton Connner'cal from the Colorado River
Indian Reserve, Arizona, a brief account of
the burning of the body of Iretaba, the
Mojave war chief, on the 4th ult, lie
says : The preparations were made several
days before his death, and consisted of a
pit dug about three feet deep, filled with
brush, and covered with dry cotton-wood
logs, about eight feet long, built up at the
sides and forming a hollow space. In this
the body wa3 placed, then covered with
other logs, and the whole lighted. During
the preparation, a troop of their soldiers,
commanded by two mounted, gaily-equipped
warriors, marched to and from the
pyre, increasing in speed each time, and
finally, circling around, threw their decora
ted spears into the flames and dashed into
the river. Then, all Iretaba's personal pro
perty was thrown on, consisting of cloth
ing and old chests. He bequeathed to me
his son, a young lad, with an album and
medal given him in New York ten years
ago. These were his most valued posses
sions. His relatives next contributed their
mites, consisting of blankets, calico, and
one a tin wash basin. Why this last arti
cle, I cannot understand, as they believe
that everything buried is restored to the dead
in the spirit world, and since washing, ex
cept in the river, is never practiced, its
contribution at least suggests an advance in
civilization.
A hilst these proceedings were going on
an infant daughter of his died, and, load
ed with beads and trinkets was consumed
on another pile. About three hundred In
dians were assisting with the most dismal
cries and lamentations, describing in a high
key the virtues of the deceased, and ex
pressing love and friendship to each other.
Real, genuine grief was displayed in as true
tears as were ever shed. They are the
most affectionate and demonstrative tribe
I have met with. Iretaba's sister has been
a model nurse and relative, never having
left him but a few minutes during
his six week's illness. She appears heart
broken now.
The closing scene was killing the four
horses engaged in the parade, which were
eaten by the visitors, not the relatives.
The latter wash in the river four times a
day, for four. days, at sunrise, noon, sunset,
and midnight. Then all goes on as before,
and the departed are never mentioned.
Even upon the spot where they are burned,
all the trees are obliterated. It is truly
dust to dust ; ashes to ashes.
FORGERIES BY A FARMER.
His Capture After Two Year's Search
Remanded to Pennsylvania by Gover
nor Dix.
From the New York Times, 2d.
A United States Government Service
detective arrived here last week with a war
rant from Governor Hartranft, of Penn
sylvania, for Levi Saunders, a wealthy far
mer and cattle dealer at Waynesborough,
Franklin county, Pennsylvania, charged
with extensive forgeries on the Franklin
County bank, at Chambersburg. The offi
cers tracked him from this city to the Sus
pension Bridge, Niagara Falls, and found
him boarding on the Canada side, under
the name of Jarvis Stevens. The postmas
ter on the American side enticed him across
to get a letter, and he was arrested as he
was stepping off the Grand Truuk cars.
He was taken to Pennsylvania under the
requisition of Governor Dix, and after be
ing fully identified was locked up in the
Fjanklin county jail on Saturday. The pris
oner has been a fugitive since 1872. He
is charged, among other aetH, with having
forged the signatures of Simon Lecronc and
J. Nicodamus, two rich Pennsplvania stock
speculators, as indorsements on five checks
of 82,500 each, which he drew on the
Union bank of Philadelphia, where he had
an account. He passed four of the notes
on the Franklin County Bank, but on pre
senting the fifth one, Mr. Johnson, the
bank cashier, refused to discount it because
of some discrepancy in the figures. Sub
sequent investigation revealed all the for
geries, and also showed that Saunders had
personally sent all the checks, except the
four named, a day before they matured at
the Union Bank. Saunders is also accused
of stealing several thousand dollars belonging
to an estate for which he was assignee. De
tectives had been looking for him for two
years.
Curious Things to Know.
Besides the fact that ice is lighter than
water, there is another curious thing about
it which, perhaps, persons do not know,
namely ; its purity. A lump of ice melted
will always become purely distilled water.
When early navigators of the Arctic seas
got out of water, they melted fragments of
those vast mountains of ice called icebergs,
and they were astonished to find that they
yielded only fresh water. They thought
the ice was frozen salt-water, not knowing
that the icebergs were formed on land, and
in some way launched into the sea. The
fact is, the freezing turns out of it, all that
is not water, such as salt, air, coloring mat
ter and all other impurities. Frozen sea
water makes fresh ice. If you freeze a
basin of indigo water, it will make ice as
pure as that made from distilled water.
When the cold is very sudden these foreign
matters have no time to eseae, either by
rising or fcinking, and are thus entangle!
with the ice, butIon't form any part of it.
The Champion Corn Crop of Nebraska.
The soil and climate of Nebraska are
most favorable to farming. Indian corn
grows luxuriantly, and the smaller cereals
also thrive. The productions of Nebraska
do not appear in the U. S. census reports
before 1800 ; and then the wole corn pro
duction of the Territory which was much
larger than the State, its western limit be
ing the summit of the Rocky Mountains
was only 1,482,080 bushels. In 1S70 the
corn crop of the State of Nebraska the
western limits of which is the base of the
Rocky 3Iountains was 4,730,710 bushels ;
aud the Agricultural returns at the Depart
ment at Washington for 1873, give the corn
for that year, which was a bad year for
Indian corn, 21,000,000 bushels.
These figures exhibit the progress of
1 . lis
agriculture m Nebraska, lor what may be
said of com is equally true of other pro
ductions. In the fertile soil and genial
climate of the State, corn yields abun
dantly, and is a safe crop. There are
broken lands where year after year, the
produce has averaged 80 bushels to the
acre ; but this is outdone by the champion
corn crop of IS73.
The affidavits on which the 850 premi
um for 1873 was awarded, have just been
published by the State Board of Agricul
ture. The owner was Magnus M. Nelson,
of Cass county. His champion crop was
grown on a field of thirty-five acres the
second crop on the same ground, which
was prairie broken in 1871. The plowing
cost 81.25 per acre ; the planting 45 cents ;
the cultivating 81.80 ; the harvesting 81.25
total expense per acre 84.75. The yield
was an average of 01 i bushels per acre,
which was certainly worth not less than
40 cents per pushed on the farm. The
variety of the corn was the Mahogany ;
aud the weight 02 lbs. to the bushel.
One Dog Communicates Good News to
Another.
In the fall of 1SG1, my son, Sidney
G , entered the Federal army, leaving
behind him two favorite dogs, both of
whom greatly lamented his absence. He
was soon captured by the enemy and held
a prisoner until the spring of 1802, when
he was exchanged, and, on returning to
his command, came back to the old home
stead in the country, in Bellinger county,
Missouri. Both the dogs happened to be
about 200 yards from the house, barking
at a squirrel up a tree. After some time,
however, the smaller one became tired
and came to the house, the larger one
remaing at the tree. The little fellow
came bounding in the room where his
vountr master, who had been so long ah
sent, was sitting, and recognized him, 'and,
of course had quite a taking on over hini.
The pleasure once more meeting his kind
master was too great to be enjoyed all alone,
so he quickly turned his course in the direc
tion of his companion in the woods, and in
full speed made his way to the tree, and
communicated to the large dog the fact of
his young master s arrival home ; when, in
an instant, both dogs were making for the
house with all their might, the larger one,
who had remained at the tree taking the
lead, and not slacking his speed until he
bounded in the room where Sidney was.
The strange part of the story consists in the
fact that the small dog not only commu
nicated to the large one the fact that Sid
ney had come, but in some way told him
the identical room in which he would find
him, as he ran around the house, and in at
the very door where Sidney was sitting,
without ever halting or even turning his
head toward several other doors which he
had to pass in making the circuit. St.
Louis Glo.'e.
An Ohio Giant.
A Cleveland paper relates a number of
anecdotes illstrative of the strength and
size of Abner Mcllrath, whom it dubs a
giant. It appears that Mcllrath is sixty
one years of age, and is six feet seven and
a half-inches, standing in his boots, fairly
proportioned in form, without a pound of
waste flesh. He was and is a giant in
muscular strength as well as physically.
He has lifted 1,700 pounds of iron, and a
blow with his massive fist and long arm
was so powerful that on one occasion, when
some twelve or fifteen sailors went out to
his place to '"raise a muss," he thrashed
the whole lot and threw them one by one
out of the door, just as one could throw so
many babies, and during that operation he
dared not double his fist for fear his blows
might prove fatal to some of the rowdies.
t:Ab'' formerly carried on the business of a
cooper, and used to come to town with his
load of barrels. On one occasion, while at
the "Red Tavern," lately known as the
"Jackson House," and which Is now torn
down, a snob from town, who came out
there with his turnout in the shape of a livery
horse and buggy, got into a difficulty with
Ab, and, having insulted him in some way
or another, Ab resented it by lifting the
buggy right up and straddling it across the
fence, and then got on his wagon and drove
off to town, whistling as though nothing
was the matter, and leaving the luckless
dandy to get his buggy off the fence as best
he was able.
In the neighborhood of Morii-town, a
few days ago, as some men were engaged
in moving the body of a person who had
been dead ten years, from one burying place
to another, it was discovered that the pro
cess of petrifaction was going on, some por
tions of the body having already become
nearly as hard as stone, and the grave
clothes were as perfect and white as when
first buried.
Sudden Change in the Color of Hair.
Two sudden changes of color of hair from
black to white are reported in a foreign
medical magazine. It appears that a phy
sician of Berlin, a strong, healthy, and less
than middle-aged man, sent his wife and
one daughter to spend last summer at a
watering place. The day that he expected
a letter informing him of their arrival,
there came one saying that his daughter
had been taken sick very suddenly and was
already dead. The shock was terrible, and
instantly his hair became entirely gray. He
had to visit some patients that same after
noon, and they scarcely recognized him.
Their peculiar actions revealed the change
to him. The other case was of a, man o5
years old, living in the Netherlands. He
was one day passing the canal in Rotterdam,
when he saw a child struggling in the
water. He plunged in and brought it to
land, but it was already dead when he had
rescued its body. Bending over it to try
to restore life, he discovered that the dead
child was his own son. The blow, so sudden
and unexpected, and coming upon him when
he himself was so much exhausted, turned
his hair entirely gray, and left him scarcely
recognizable.
Welsh Rabbits.
It is a common habit of etymologists,
when a word is troublesome, to alter it a
little, so as to put sense into it. One of
these clever scholars (the great mistake of
philologists lies in being too clever was
puzzled that a Welsh rabbit should mean a
piece of toasted cheese, so he decided that
it must be a corruption of Welsh rare-bit.
The public believed him, and took to spel
ling it accordingly, so that even now the
best edition of Webster's Dictionary gives
it as "properly Welsh rare-bit." Now, the
whole of this is stuff and nonsense ; the
very name rare-bit is a fiction, and Welsh
rabbit is a genuine slang term, belonging
to a large group which describe in the same
humorous way the special dish, or product,
or peculiarity of a particular district. For
examples ; an Essex stile is a ditch, and an
Essex lion a calf ; a Fieldlane duck is a
baked sheep's head ; Glasgow magistrates,
or Gourock hams, or Norfolk capons, are
red herrings ; Irish Apricots, or Munster
plums, are potatoes ; Gravesend sweetmeats
are shrimps, and a Jerusalem pony is a
donkey.
Bots in Horses. j
The complete inefficacy of the various
popular panaceas for bots on horses may be
better understood when we come to know
something of the nature of these resident
paraites. The' are not worms, but larvie
of a fly, and are possessed of remarkable
powers of endurance under adversity. The
most insinuating substances are but as milk
and honey to them, and in an instance
recorded a colony of them attached to the
stomach of a dead horse were in no way
inconvenieccd by an hour's exposure to a
bath of spirits of turpentine." But when
whale oil was poured upon them they let
go their hold and died almost instantly.
Now, whale oil being thus indicated as an
effective dose, and being aperient in its
action upon the horse, would seem to be
the remedy that should be chosen before
any other. At least it might be well to
have some experiments and the results
carefully noitced and made note of.
Map Your Farm.
Every farmer should have a complete
map of his farm, with each field, pasture,
and wood lot, together with all the fences,
roads and ditches plainly drawn, and cither
numbered or named, so they can be readily
designated. Few farmers can appreciate
the real value of one until they have tried
the experiment, for with a map of the farm
before you, you can direct your workman
to any part of it without the least possibility
of making a mistake. You. can plan im
provements and estimate their cost at your
leisure, instead of spending half a day of
valuable time in surveying the land itself.
Any person with a little ingenuity and
patience can draw a map of his farm. It
should be about two feet square, or larger
if desired, and drawn upon thick card board
to prevent its being torn or defaced. Let
our farmers try the experiment, and they
will soon learn its vale.
Rude Dentistry.
A rude description is given of Japanese
dentistry. The dentil professor of Japan
does not sit in an ofiice ornamented with
dread inspiring instruments of polihed steel,
waiting for the unfortunate whom his
shgigle on the outer walls invites to come
into his parlor. He travels around with
a brass ornamented box in which are some
little mallets and wedges. And the way in
which he performs the function of his craft
is very simple, more simple than the civil
ized way, perhaps, but more severe. He
drives his wedges in between tooth and
gum, forcing them down with his mallet,
until the tooth is loosened sufficiently to be
taken out by the fingers. Sometimes a jaw
is broken and sometimes the patient dies.
We think we would be almost willing to
die.
A g(Hd white cement for broken china Is
a very thick solution of guni arabie, dis
solved in water, stirred in with plaster of
Paris until the mixture becomes a sticky
paste. Apply with a brush to the broken
edges, stick them togetfier, and in three
days the article cannot be broken in the
j-ume place.
MISCELLANEOUS.
There was a heavy frost at Cresson on
Monday night, 1st intt.
A large huckleberry crop is predicted"
by the mountaineers.
A Lehigh (Pa.) mini' trails a beard four
feet three inches lomr.
There were twenty two deaths in Har
risburg during the month of May.
Peter Starr, Sr., died in Rily township.
Schuylkill county, on the 31st ult., ated
ninety-nine years.
r A Georgia girl has been the cause of
three duels and ten fights, and she's a cross-"
eved srirl at that.
West Chester lias lost another "old land
mark." Ann Taylor, aged ninety-four
years, died on Monday!
Harrisburg has 141 Millers, and 125
Smiths, eighteen of them Johns, while the
Jones family numbers only seventy.'
William Small, a hostler, of Honesdalc,"
Pa., has fallen heir to 820.000 by the death
of an uncle, but he cannot be "found.
A Lancaster man walked a distance of
forty-five miles in ten hours and forty-five
minutes, a feat worthy of Weston himself.
West Lampeter, Lancaster county, comes
to the front with a calf having eight legs'
and two tails. The animal is alive and do
ing well.
The emigration to the west is-very heavy.'
From 2,000 to 3,000 emigrants pass through
Harrisburg weekly on the Pennsylvania
railroad.
The Board of Control of the borough of
Easton, Pa., levies 833,750 school tax to
meet current exjienses, and 832,000 for
building purpose.
"What are you doing there, you'rascal ?"
"3Icrely taking cold, sir." "It looks to
me as if you were stealing ice. "Well, yes,
perhaps it will bear that construction."
A Mrs. Strabaugh, of Indian.i. has pre
sented her husband with a healthy and in
teresting child, which, beside the head or
dinarily allotted by nature, has a second
one growing from the right hip.
A' wildcat shipped by 3Irs. General Cus
tar to Central . Park, New York, escaped
from its cage in the United States Express
office at St. Paul the other day.- A sponge
filled with chloroform subdued the beast
and it was secured.
A farmer sold a small load of hay in
Erie recentty for 810 on his way to un
load it, another man offered him 81 1, which
he accepted and went home. The first par
ty prosecuted hini! and it cost him just for
ty dollars to pay the damages and costs.
"Who hath woe ?"' inquires the Brooklyn5
Argus, to which the Detroit Fne Pn As
says : "Well, there's a compositor on this
paper who lives next door to an old maid'
with fi'ye parrots, ar.t a family with a bass
drum, harp aiid fiddle, lives across the way.'
Do you refor to him ?"'
An old negro "woman was arretted and
brought heft ire the Mayr of Moontgonierv,
Ala., for picking up some drift wood at the
edge of the river. Her defense was that
God sent the rain that raised the river that
brought the wood. The Mayor thought it
a good defense and discharged her.'
The Tudiana judges stand no nonsense
from the bar. A lawyer there lately in the
course of his argument used the word "dis
paragement." Stop using Latin woi'd-t,"
said the judge, "or sit down." The poor
lawyer, undertaking to explain, wis' ruth
lessly fined 820 for coutempt.
The skeleton of the whale caught at
Perth Amboy is to be presented to Rut
gers College. It took two yoke of oxen to
haul the whale's head to where it was buried,
and one j'oke had all they could do to drag
the snout. The owners expect to roaliz:
about 8000 from the oil, and about 8250
front the whalebone, which, added to the
8325 they have obtained as fees from spec
tators for seeing her whaleship, will m.ike:
a profitable day s fishing.
At Harrisfmrg, on Monday, a post
mortem examination was made of the lxdy
of George Cords, who died from the effect
of eating ham containing trichimo. By a
powerful microscope thousands of moving
trichime were visible, moving like snakes,
and resembliirg boa constrictors. In the
space of an eighth of an inch sixty-live
were counted. There were doubtless
millions of worms in the body of the
deceased, who suffered terribly before
death.
Vice-President Henry Wilson, who1 was
the guest of General Kilby Smith, at Tor
resdale, in this State,last week, is now at
home in Massachusetts. He intends soon
to make a trip to the Northwest. The im
pression is quite general that he will never
again be aide to occupy the chair and pre
side over the deliberations of the Senate.
He is nearly blind in bis left eye, and the
duties of presiding officer are such as to ag
gravate Ills ailment.
According to the Green Bay (Wis.)
Advocate, they have an improved method
of making responses in the- marriage cere
mony at Oconto. On a recent occasion a
man whose mind was somewhat ohfusticatcd
by an injur' he had received was married,
and in reply to the all-important question,
"Will you take this woman to be your law
fully wedded wife ?" replied, "Yes, and the
cow and the heifer, and they ought to be
fed." Tub answer Was regarded as fati?-factorv.
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