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VOL. 32.
published by Theodore Schoch.
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JOll PUIXTIXG
OF ALL KIXPS,
r ,jtej ia the highest style of the Art, and on the
Wickersham Normal School.
BRODnEADSVILLE, MONROE COUNTY, TA.
Ti e Fall (174 Term of this School will hepln in the
r, n';ff ii-ii.vil House, at Hrodlieadsville, on the second
TUC:
tubus :
r,r tuition, for the tern: S3 00
r.r,nr time less than the whole term, per week 1 00
y toli-s bearding, in private families, per month 12 00
' -?fr rhar-M for the higher branches.
' -The S hi-ol Houso haa been enlarged and thor-
-.rli!v rcpairetl.
flintfal for past patronage, I subscribe myself,
D. E. SCCEDLEK, Principal.
Jut,,' 4, 1ST4.-M.
D R. J.LANTZ,
SURGEON & MECHANICAL DENTIST.
tiH h"-s fl"'cc on Main street, in the second story
of'K Walton's Lri k building, nearly opposite the
Tnud')urs House, and he iiaters himself that hy ei;rh
In vars constant praetiee and the most earnest and
refill attention t.t all matters pertaining to his pro
f'v'on, that he is fully aMe to perform all operations
in the dental line in the most careful and skillful man-
ijycial attention given to savins; the Natural Teeth ;
tvfto the insertion ff Artificial Teeth on Rubber,
(rjii. Silver, or Continuous Hums, and perfect fits in all
insured.
Mt per":i know the preat folly and danger of en-t-iiia-'
tht-ir work to the inexperienced, or to those liv-ir-at
a"distanee. " April 13, lS74.tf.
D
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J.
PATTCRSO.V.
0FERATI5G AND MECHANICAL DEMIST,
IlaWr.z located in Fa.-t S'.roudsbur?, Pa, announces that
he i n-ifr I'Tej arod to insert artificial teeth in the most
bou:iful and lif'ike manner. Also, pf-at attention
-Ttn to liliitis and preserving the natural teeth. Teeth
tttrsctfd without pain by the vise of Nitrous Oxide Gas.
Alt other work incident to the profession done in the
BMt skillful and approved style. All work attended to
p:otnpi!y and warranti-d. Charges reasonable. Pat
ron;; of the public solicited.
Dice in A. Loder's new biiilJinsr,
mink II-ue, East Stroudsburg, Pa.
opposite Anaio
july 11, '73.
D
!t. . L. PECK,
burgeon EJmtlsl.
Asr.cnti-s that havii;; just returned from Dental
Cv.ktre, he is fulir ic-narixl to make artificial teeth in
;h au-t b'-STitiful and life-like manner, and to fill de-
en--i ::etn ac.".rd;n:r t-o the most improved method.
Tf'th txtra.-ted without pain, when desdred, bv the
m of Nitrons Oxide (ias, which is entirdr harmless,
Rewsrhiijof all kinds neatlvduuc All work w a ranted.
05co J. C. Keller's new brick building. Main street,
Flrouiiourg, 1'a, Aug. 61 l-tt
Can you teJl why it is that when any
one cooks to Ptroadsbnrtr to buy Furniture, they al
wivs in'V.itre fur McCarty'u Furniture Store !
WILLIAM S. REES,
Surveyor, Conveyancer and
Heal Estate Agent.
Fani3. Timber Lands and Town Lots
FOR SALE.
OSce next door above S. llees' news Depot
and 2d door below the Corner Store.
March 20, 1373-tf.
JR. HOWARD PATTERSOX,
Physician, Surgeon and Accoucheur,
Successor to Geo. "VY
Seip.)
Oisce Main Btreet, Stroudsburg, Pa.,
in Dr.
05 ps building, residence Sarah
aran street, next
xntBds new meeting house,
to calls.
Prompt attention
f 7 to 9 a. m.
i 12 " 2 p. m.
OSce hours
I 5 "9
p. m.
April 10 1 874-1 v.
D
R. J. II. SHLLL,,
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON.
iT INDIAX Ql'EES HOTEL.
All caes
ban from
promptly
9 to 12 A.
attended to. Office
M., from 3 to 5 and
' lu P. M.
Charges moderate
Mav 3 ;x.i
Consultations free.
jjR. tJEO. W. JACKS OX
WSimx, SURGEON AND ACCOITHEUR.
"e old office of Dr. A. Reeves Jackn,
iance corner of Sarah and Franklin street.
STROUDSBURG, PA.
gnt 8,'72-tf
J0IIX UHUWtR, 31. ID,
TSICIAN AND ACCOUCHEUR,
. MOUNTAIN HOME. PA.
IEsucax HOTEL.
It UiUWrIber W0l,u inform the public that
hott the house 'wmallv kept bv Jacob
Mi,?!!0 BorouSh ofSoubur"gf Pa.,
" P'en i rePai"ted and refurnished the same,
Mb. if- pertain all who may patronize
.ellorior 9m 1.' 1 1 ' . -
in me roprieujr, 10 iurir
' P OHM r,( L . "i . . - .
dill -vlui"Juanons at moaeriue rates
hp. r,f 'are no pains to promote the com
wi tiie srne.st a 1:1 1 i e i.t:
Vl 17, '72-tf.
'.ria?e solicits
K
D. L. PISLE.
("'Li:
noise,
HONESDALE, PA.
central location of any Hotel in town.
153 v.? W.
KIPLE & SON,
Proprietors.
yy, 1873. iy.
I. Wll.TflV
t '
0 . uriiey at ia
t VT: 11 th,
-7
building formerly occupied
BkniT so.n' an1 opposite the Strouds
kQ 13 ' IaiQ street, Stroudsburg, Pa.
"BANCO."
DESCRIPTION OF TIIE GAME BY AN EXPERI
ENCED OPERATOR.
When my friend the rjickrjookpf. rlnrin
a late interview, had narrated his experience
iu tiiut une 01 industry, lie next entertained
me witn an account ot his doings in what
he called the "bunker" business. That he
so called it was doubtless the fault of his
pronunciation, but it is barely possible that
11 ue naa Deen called upon to put it down
in black and white his orthography would
have been correct, and he would have
written "banco."' The word which describes
the game by which so many fools and their
luuucjr are parted, is variously pronounced
by its professors and their supposed enemies,
the police. Some say "bunko," others
"bunka ;" while others, like my friend the
pickpocket, get as far off as possible, and
declare it is "bunker." To the victim,
however, it makes little difference how it is
pronounced. He fares the same in either
case, and, being wholly ignorant of the
nature of the transaction in which he is
engaged until the conclusion is reached,
may be supposed to be indifferent in the
matter. "With him it is a clear case of a
rose smelling as sweet by any name whatso
ever. But there is a weakness anion"
honest and decent people for correct
orthography, and I shall stylo this little
game "banco," instead of "bunker," as my
friend the pickockct did when he trave me
a detailed account of the method of playing
it. jusc now it is the most popular device
f jr fleecing the stranger who ventures into
the metropolis, and the unsuspecting can be
best warned by giving the story as nearly
as possible in the pickpocket's own words.
" 1 ou see, sir," he betran, "it's a srood
deal safer and more profitable than pic-kin"-
pockets. If you are 'collared,' I mean
arrested, sir you are sure to get off with
something light, but the chances are ten to
one airainst vour beiivjr 'collaret!' Thn
w .f i -
sucker stands in with you, as it were, and
is almost certain not to 'soueal that is.
not to complain to the police. In this way
it's the panel game, which is the meanest
as it is the safest kind of robbery. Then
banco paj-s big profits. It don't take a big
'mob.' I explained to you a bit ago that
by 'mob' we mean any number of men
working a job together. There is only the
dealer, the 'steerer,' and his pal. These
three, with the sucker, make a quiet little
pary of four, and the sucker is skinned for
the equal benefit of the other three. Why
do we call the fellows we swindle suckers ?
Really, I don't know, unless it's because
they are so much like the fish of that name,
which swallows any bait that comes along.
We need a sort of an ofiice in playing this
game, but it's not expensive, for a dingy
back room, in a side street, that can be got
for 25 per month, is better than big apart
ments .on Broadway. Then we want a few
old drawings of the Havana Lottery, two
sets of dice, and a moderate supply of
money, say 6700 or SSOO.
"Having all these things fixed we go on
our 'graft.' We always go to one of the
first-class hotels to la for suckers, and we
never pick up the wrong man. I never
did, and I don't believe any of my 'pals'
ever did. There is no trouble in telling
strangers from city men. It isn't because
they stare at the store windows and signs,
for lots of city men do that ; nor is it always
their dress, for sometimes the countryman
swaggers along in the latest style. But
there is alwa3s something about him he
can't disguise which says he's a stranger,
and it's almost as certain that he shows
whether he's got money or not. Sometimes
we pick up a sucker who's broke, but it
Isn't often. Well, as I was saying, the big
hotels are our 'plant.' Now, suppose you
and I are on the 'graft.' Nobody, though,
sees us speak to each other or in any way
recognize one another, but for all that each
of us keeps a sharp watch on the other.
Maybe we'll hang around an hour or two
without finding a sucker. Sometimes we
don't find one at all. If we do find him I
give you the 'office,' that is, I give you a
signal you understand to watch sharp. I
then keep my eye on the sucker until he
goes into the street. I step briskly up in
front of him as if I had just turned up, and
hold out my hand with great cordiality say
ing : Oly dear Dr. Smith, I'm delighted
to see you. When did you come to town ?
How did you leave all the folks in Zanes
ville ? I say all this so quickly that the
sucker hasn't a chance to open his mouth
until I get through. Even then he isn t
usually very fast about it. You see I'm a
person 01 centiemaniy appearand aim
address, and the sucker don't know at first
exactly what to make of it all. hen He
from his astonishment of
course he says his name isn't Smith.
Generally, he is very stiff about it, and
says very grandly : 'Sir, you are mistaken ;
I am not Dr. Smith, sir.' Then comes the
finest point in our little game. It used to
be that the sucker would always follow this
up by giving his name and place of residence,
but lately they've got cursed 'fly, and it
has to be wormed out of them in most
cases. If he don't give it, why I say :
'Really, I beg your pardon, sir ; I would
have sworn you were Dr. Smith ; never
saw such a striking resemblance in my life.
Now, really, sir, if it's not asking too much,
I would like to know your name, so that I
may tell Dr. Smith, the next time I see
him, who his double is.' This always
fetches the sucker. He gets friendly all at
once, and says : 'Certainly, sir. I am
Mr. Thomas Brown, of Brownsville, Texas,'
or whatever it may be. That's all we
want to know. I beg pardon of the sucker,
and turn away, while be goes off, and, in a
minute, has probably forgotten about me
STROUJDSBUKG, MONROE COUxNTY, PA., JULY
and Dr. Smith. Now, you have been stand
ing near all the time, and heard him give
his name, or if you didn't you push against
me uy accident nice, and 1 throw it at you
in a soft whisper without attracting any
attention irom tne bystanders. Then you
go off in an ordinary way. If the sucker
has gone up street, you go down half
block or so, and then cross over. You've
taken particular notice of hi3 features and
dress, so that you can't mistake your man
As you go down, you look at a list of
national banks you always carry in vour
pocket, and get the name of the President
or t ashier of a bank m the sucker's town.
V hen you - get on the other side of the
street you walk up briskly, keeping your
eyes on the sucker all the time. You pass
him, and when you get about half a block
above him you cross over and walk down
street and meet him. When you come up
to him you stop all of a sudden ; then you
seize him by the hand, which you shake
like an old fried, and say : 'Why my dear
Brown, I'm delighted to see you. How
are all the folks in Brownsville?' You
must be particular about the last, for it's
that which alwas gets the sucker. But
you musn't give him a chance to speak yet,
for 3rou see he don't know you how could
he, when he never set eyes on you before
and you say : 'Now that's too bad ; I
see you don't know me. Why, I am Jones,
nephew of Ephraim Jones, Cashier of the
national bank in your town. Don't you
remember when I was at your place ? I
was a youngster then, but I remember you
perfectly.' All this goes to make you 'solid'
with the sucker ; if you are the nephew of
a bank Cashier you must be somebody, and
if 3ou have carried him in your mind so
long you must be a devilish clever fellew.
But he is forced to say that he don't re
member you, and you think it's too bad that
he should have forgotten you so entirelv.
But you are determined he shan't do "it
again, lor now you ve met him once more
you'll give him cause to remember you,
which you are pretty sure to do, but not
in the way he thinks. You ask him to
mf
take a drink and ten to one he docs it, for
these suckers are nearly always ready to
drink at somebody else's expense. If he
goes into a bar-room with you your 'graft'
is easy after that ; if he don't ycu propose
a cigar, and it he don t smoke you insist
it's your lunch-tiinc, you drag him off with
you. Wherever you take him you open
on him at once. 1 ou do all the talkin
for it won't do to give him a chance,
'01
ex-
cept to answer questions, so that you may
have the 'office' as to his business, family,
friends, and all that, so that in a little time
you know almost as much about him and
the place where he lives as he does himself.
Then you get to talking about yourself,
and you always make it appear that you've
been a wonderful lucky fellow. You have
always made money at everything you put
your hand to. You can't even buy a lot
tery ticket without drawing a prize. Then
a sudden thought strikes you. You say :
'By the by, I've got a ticket now that's
drawn a prize of some sort ; I must go down
to the office and see what it is and get the
money.' Then you draw out your pocket
book, which shows up well, and you draw
out the ticket and show it to the sucker.
His curiosity is excited, for he never saw
anj-thing of the kind before. Your ticket
i3 one in a past drawing in the Havana
Lottery, and not worth a cent, but the
sucker don't see the date and don't 'tumble
to it.' I never knew a case where one did.
Then you may say you must go to the office
and you ask him to go along with you, for
after you get your money you want to go
up town with him and show him the sights.
The sucker always goes. Sometimes he
makes one excuse after another, but you
insist and he always goes.
"Well, you get him to our office, which
is fixed up like all the lottery places in
town which have 'Exchange' on the show
windows. You lay your ticket down and
ask the man behind thc-counter, who is the
third 'pal,' I'll call him the dealer if that
has drawn a prize. The dealer says he'll
see, and he looks over a list of prizes pas
ted on the wall at the back of the room,
and of course behind the counter. He's
very careful about it, but at last he says :
'Yes, sir, you have drawn a prize of 8291.
If you want the money I'll give it to you,
although, as a rule, all prizes are cashed at
our main office in Wall street.' You say
that of course you will take the money,
and, opening a drawer, he takes out a big
'bunch of soft' and hands you over the
amount. Then he says, that as you are in
luck, you had better take another ticket for
the odd dollar, and determine it by the
dice. You agree to it, and of course you
win. By this time the sucker is generally
ready to bite, but if he don't you go through
the thing and win again. By that time he
is alwajs sure to bite. But by this time
the game requires a large sum of money,
and he puts it up. The dealer fixes the
amount by what he thinks the sucker has.
The first throw, no matter what it is, the
sucker wins. Sometimes, if we think he
has a big pile, we let him win a second
time, but its not often. Always the second
or third time we play him double or quits,
and 'ring the dice on him ;' that is, we ex
change the true dice which he has been
playing with for false ones, and, of course,
without; his knowing it. Then we say to
him that he has an excellent chance to win,
for he can close on no number but 28, and
it's almost impossible he can throw it. His
money is on the counter, and so is yours.
He throws, and he throwns 28, for
the false dice won't count anything
else, no matter how they fall. Then the
dealer sweeps his money into the drawer,
remarking it's very singular he should
have thrown 23, and pitying his bad luck.
Then he says : 'Now, gentlemen, I would
like to have your names. We always take
tne names or our patrons for reference, m
order that people may know that this little
gambling transaction is done on the square.'
He lays particular stress on 'gambling,' and
that settles the sucker. He is always in a
hurry to get out, and he never 'squeals.
Ulten he begs the steerer not to say any
thing about the affair, and he always pro
mises, of course, and, what s more, he keeps
it."
This, in brief, was the story my friend,
the banco-dealer, late pickpocket, told me
as we sat over our brandy and water, and
I wondered that it should be possible for
any one to he despoiled by so transparent
a swindle
But I had no reason to doubt that he
had been giving me a truthful account of
his transactions. As we went along he
had enlivened his narrative by practical il
lustrations, which gave ample proof of his
sincerity. He had not left me in any
doubt concerning the proper way of first
greeting a sucker, for we both rose from
our chairs, and he went through the inci
dent for my benefit. When he came to
describing the game itself he became really
enthusiastic, for he descended to minute
details, and actually dwelt upon them with
pleasure, as if he were describing the latest,
greatest, and most beneficent thing in use
ful art. I saw he was thoroughly prepared
to enter at that moment upon the came
had any genuine "Sucker" man been at
hand, for he had his money down to illus
trate how it could be won or lost, and I
saw that he must have at least $1000 about
him, probably it was more than double that
amount. Then from his coat pockets he
brought the two sets of dice, in the appear
ance of which the amateur could not detect
the slightest difference, but he speedily
showed me how easily it was to be mis
taken, for these false dice had .the same
numbers on all the sides, which invariably
made a total of twenty-eight, which, as I
have shown, was the only number which
would be fatal to the chances of the suck
er. After my friend the pickpocket had
been thus careful to enlighten me on every
point, I was forced to the conviction that
for once in his life at least he had been
honest ana hr.d iven me a truthful account
of some of the ways of the transgressors.
Nor was I without corroborative evi
dence in the matter. In outline I have
heard the same story before, and the fact
that banco has lately been played extensive
ly in this city is by no means a secret. Al
though the sucker soldom complains to the
police, the fact that this game has its daily
victims is well known. By arbitrary pro
ceedings the police might break it up, but
in very few cases could they get the evi
dence necessary to convict the offenders.
The surest way to put an end to it is to
give the game the widest possible publicity,
with a view of cutting off the supply of
suckers. Whenever a plausible, valuble
stranger forces himself upon your acquaint
ance as an old friend from your town whom
you have forgotten, resist his advances. If
he has drawn a prize in a lottery and wants
you to go with him to get the money, bid
him good day, and go off immediately about
your business. If strangers coming to the
metropolis would follow these simple direc
tions the outlaws would soon be put to the
necessity of inventing some new swindle.
It is pretty certain they would do it, so in
the long run the stranger who is too con
fiding would fare about the same. JYeio
York Times.
A TEXAS AST0R.
In South-western Texas there is
tie-raiser who has lived twenty
a cat-
years.
When he went there he picked up a dozen
cows and branded them. He owned no
land, but was the possessor of a wife, two
or three horses. He kept watch of his
cows and lived in a hand-to-mouth way for
several years, subsisting his family by the
car iture of game and sale of skins.
In May, 1873, he owned thirty thous
and head of cattle duly branded, ranging
over the plains. He has a family of nine
children, five of whom are boys. His eld
est child is a girl nineteen years of ago.
She trots around with bare feet, can rope
a steer, kill a wolf with a rifle, or strangle
a dog at arm's length.
In the man's house is a nail keg nearly
filled with gold coin, while in the pantry
is a flour barrel almost full of silver pieces.
When he sells cattle it is for coin, which
is dumped on the premises. He will not
take paper money at any rate, but is ilways
ready to sell steers for gold or silver.
His boys are all familiar with guns, horses,
and cattle. In a few years they will have
literally cart loads of money, providing rob
bers do not make a raid upon them, in
which case between man, wife, boys, girls,
dogs, and shot-guns the raiders would be
apt to get more bullet-holes than bullion.
The house occupied by this prosperous
family is low, built of logs, and contains
three rooms. The father and mother sleep
in the dining-room, the girls sleep in the
addition. The girls do not know much
about honiton lace or the opera, but they
can show a nice lot of calves, and skin a
veal as quick as Ohio women can get up
an open-air prayer-meeting.
There is the finest prospect for a cotton
crop that there has been at this period of
the year in three years ; and there is as
yet no appearance of lice or caterpillers.
Soldiers entitled to increased pensions
under the new law need only to furnish the
Pension Office with their certificate, and
the increase will be allowed without the
intervention of a second party.
16, 1874.
The New-Jersey Hurricane.
EXTENT OF TIIE DAMAGE IN BERGEN
COUNTT.
The hurricane on the afternoon of the
4th of July appears to have been unusually
severe in New-Jersey, and Bergen County
was, judging from all accounts, the greatest
sufferer. The details of the extent of the
storm in that locality only reached the city
Monday. They are replete with interest.
The morning was cloudless and beautiful,
and passed with a few sprinkling rain-drops.
Toward noon a freshening breeze sprang
up in the north, assuring a continuance of
the pleasant weather ; but about 5 o'clock
in the afternoon a huge thunder-cloud,
which for some hours bad lurked in the
horizon, drifted overhead, and then the
raia fell. The grounds on which celebra
tions were being were deserted by speakers
and listeners. Some ran to their carriages,
and others to the houses. After a moment's
suspense a peal of thunder rang overhead,
a flash of lightning followed, and the storm
from a sky almost cloudless before burst
with terrible fury. At first, as a sort of
prelude, some hail of about the size of
walnuts fell. With crash following crash
the hailstones pelted and rang against the
houses, and ripped their way through brush
and tree. The scene at this point was
terrific and grand. Those who had re
mained near their horses were forced to
leave them for the shelter of the buildings,
and the terrified animals, stung by the
repeated blows of the hail, broke their
fastenings and tore away. Not least in
danger were the windows. Those fortunate
enough to have an outer protection were
tempororily safe, though in several cases
the stones broke even the blinds, while
window panes left unguarded were shattered,
and an entry to the houses given to the
racing ice. In less than ten minutes the
storm abated, and in twenty minutes it
was over.
A peculiar sight was now presented.
Fruit trees which a few moments before
had waved their densely leaved branches,
were stripped of leaves and fruit, and were
as bare as in Winter. Many houses looked
as though they had passed through a siege
of war, the window-glass being shattered,
and roofs split and torn.
I he hailstones were a matter of some
curiosity, since their iize was unprecedented.
One, and it was not the largest, measured
a little over five inches in circumference.
This may seem incredible, but it is vouched
for by hundreds. The stone referred to
resembled common rock candy, being of an
ovate form, and bristling with cubical
crystals. This ice was very hard, and was
difficult to break. When broken, it
presented the appearance of the section of
an onion in its concentric rings or layers.
The blast first struck Nanuet, N. Y.,
and driven by a north-easterly wind, fol
lowed an exceedingly tortuous course down
the valley of the New-Jersey and New
York Railway as far as Paterson, where its
force seems to have been spent. At the
stations of Teare River and Park Ridge, on
the line of the above-mentioned road, the
damage was very heavy. The roof of the
station-house at the latter place was nearly
ruined, the slates composing it being broken
and shattered. A large factory standing
west of Tascack station had more than fifty
windows entirely demolished. Even the
sashes were broken. The roof of this
building was very badly damaged also.
Crops of standing grain fell under
the blast, and were frequently cut down
completely. Fruit crops of every kind will
be probably a complete loss. The farmers
in this vicinity will undoubtedly lose heavily,
since the storm has deprived them of nearly
all their Summer crops, upon which their
entire dependence rests. The actual loss it
would be difficult to estimate.
The hurricane visited Salem, unroofing
buildings, tearing up fruit trees, and
damaging the crops. Mulford's hay house
was entirely demolished ; Dana & Hunt's
oilcloth factory was unroofed ; the chimney
rof Starr & Mercuer's canning factory was
blown down, damaging the roof. After
the storm the streets were almost impassable
from the presence of broken tree limbs and
other debris.
Spending Money.
Money is hard to get and easy to spend.
There is peril in it, and there is blessed
ness in it. To the wise and good it is the
best of servants, to the weak and foolish it
is the most terrible of tyrants.
There arc those who think it a fine
thing for the young man to spend his money
with a careless, dashing freedom, and the
spendthrift is a character less despised
than the miser. But we think the weak
vanity which prompts the young man to
spend carelessly that with which he could
do so many noble and satisfying things, is
not more wise than that of the miser who
devotes all his time to getting, without any
definite plan of present or future use.
All things are
given that we may use
them for the general good
as well as per
sonal needs. Hence all who do their duty
must toil with head or hands. We should
take all the rest or recreation that the body
or mind requires, but while we can benefit
one person by precept or example, we have
no right to be careless or wasteful of time
or money.
Carelessness in all its forms is wrong,
but carelessness in the spending of money
is the surest to lead to misery and shame.
Frauglity and liberality should ho joined.
The first is leaving oft' useless expenses, the
last is bestowing our savings for the im
provement of others.
One hundred new
patents for
sewing
1 jnaehines have hwn
grantfd
witnm a yar.
NO. 8,
MISCELLANEOUS.
And now Reading has
rooster.
a four-legged
Wilkesbarre's assessed valuation isS3,
357,238, Common swamp cabbage will effectually
eradicate roaches.
These are the days in which green ap
ples grapple and gripe greedy boys.
A Downihgtown man shot thirty ground
hogs and cut three and a half cords of wood
in two days.
Cheap transit. Excursion tickets to
Europe and return are selling in New York
for thirty-five dollars.
During the month of June five hundred
and sixty postoffices were established and
ninety-eight re-established.
The Scranton Republican says as long
ago as 1775 coal was mined near Pittston,
and used in smith's forges.
The annual production of butter in this
country is estimated at 700,000,000 pounds,
and it is still spreading.
The exports of wheat from New York
for J une, exceeded those of any month in
the history of the trade.-
The July dividends payable, in Boston
will be $9,117,348, against 810,130,093 in
July, 1873. Not a bad showing.
The Board of Pardons will not hold a
session in July. The next meeting will
be on the first Tuesday in August.
At a church fair in South Bethlehem, a
gentleman's gold watch voted for put $1,
650 50 into the treasury; and a ladv's
watch, $725 25.
Delaware has raised about seven and a
half million quarts of strawberries this
season. There is a good deal of gold in
this kind of quartz.
William Shanks, of Ashley, Luzcrno
county, has departed for unknown climes,
taking with him 81,200, a watch and cloth
ing belonging to other parties.
Do you know that the leaves of the com
mon walnut tree placed over doors, win
dows, mantels, or in wreaths or bunches
about the house, will drive flics away ?
There will be a larger catch of mackerel
this season than for the past twenty years.
We shall nbt hear of the gudgeon catch un
till the watering place' season is over.
The beer trade is gradually increasing
over last year. The women's crusade
ceases, to effect it, except to make it livelier
in the degree in which the crusade dimin
ishes the whisky business.-
A Kansas boy earned a' nice' Bible by
committing three hundred verses to me
mory, and theii he traded his Bible for a
shot-gun and accidentslly shot his aunt in
the' leg-.
A. Philadelphia preacher went all tbe
way to Scranton for the purpose of lectur
ing on "fools." Many of this audience, no
doubt, could have considered his remarkfr
as entirely too personal.
During1 the past eighteen' months, there
has been expended in new buildings and
improvements in Tidioute, the sum of
8254,000. This is a good showing fur
that thriving little city.
Davis Eldridge, of East Goshen, Ches
ter county, has a hen' which has startled
the scientific world, by laying a double
shelled egg. The "white" and "yellow"
each have a separate and distinct shell.
A case begun under the old Bankrupt;
law, on the petition of a sirgle' creditor,
has already been brought uVidcr the' new
law in Philadelphia, by a petition and or
der of court to require one-fourth of the
creditors to join m; the application'.
One of the queerest establishments in
New York is a place where milk baths can
be had. The milk is Warranted pure, and
a bath costs five dollars. The' establish
ment is patronized largely by ladu-s, who
ibiagine that these baths improve the healt h
and beautify the complexion.
The Fulton county Republican Conven
tion on Saturday elected J. Z. Over dele
gate to the State Convention, with instruc
tions to support G-encral Bcath for Secre
tary of Internal affairs, Gen. Jacob M.
Campbell for Lieutenant Governor, Judgo
Hall for Supreme Judge, and General Al
len for Auditor General.
Hon. Leonard Myers has accepted th
nomination for Congress from the seceders
of the Republican Nominating Convention,
of the Third district, which nominated
Mr. Harzncr. Mr. Myers in accepting this,
nomination, claims that a majority of the
delegates were elected in his favor, but
that he was ruled out.
Adolphus and Angelina flutter into the
drug store, and she says she'll take- a little
lemon in hers. Then she watches Adolphus.
Adolphus is a shrewd cuss. He leans over
the counter, and, with a wink, says : "I'll
take a little of that same." lie has been
there before, and he gets it, but it costs
him 20 cents a glass. Ex.
Young gentlemen, when they take their
"duxies" buggy-riding, should pay cverv
attention possible to their safety and
welfare. We noticed a young man last
Sunday that seemed to understand the art.
of protecting his lady-love to perfection.
As they passed down Fifth street, she was
doing the driving, while he had both arms
around her, and we could tell by the wild
look in his eye that he was determined she
shouldn't fall out. This isas it should !vj
perhaps. S'f. PavFs IWa.