Scuotcit to po!itic0, fitcroturc, gricnituw, Science, illotolitii, awb (Scucral intelligence. VOL. 32. STROUDSBURG, MONROE COUNTY, PA., SEPTEMBER 3, 1874. NO. 15. paTjHsIictl by Theodore sclioeli. ,To (L'H.v.-s rear n stance and if not ffff",.? tin- on lof tl'ic year, two dollars and fitly f . iiiiwchsrz-d. . . ., v-. n-i-" Jiv-ontimu-d until nil arrearages are 7rt,t'Htthcop!in of thp Editor. dvr!i"'o,lt-' f "I, 1 r of (eiM linos) k r t'l'irf invrtin tt Ka-h aiMitionsl i n ce;i:s. Longer on.'s iu r-ro2ortion. or m- -r..ion, JOR PRIXTIXG OF ALL KINDS, t in the l:iliot style of the Art, and on the ruot reasonable tennii. DR. J. L A N T Z, tfRGEON & MECHANICAL DENTIST. v'l hi- 1'S on fain stroct, in tlie second story Waif"" I. rick bui Ming. nearly opposite the ' W.,r ll.iu' and lie flaters himself that bvei;!i- and tho mo-t earnest and t"1.-! :;..,;., . li matters rprtaiuinT to his rro- V.'i, th".t hi-is fully aUe to perlnrm all operations '"the dental line in the most careful and skillful man- 5V :1 a:i'-nti"ii civen to savins; tho Natural Teeth ; .rV,thf itiv.-rtion of Artificial T-tth on Ilubir. lh vlrer r Continuous Gums, and perfect fits in all .;r-h.ir work'to the inexperit-nc'ed. or to (hose liv-gtfdianca- ' Arril 13, 1S74 tf. .i .n,.Tiii,in to D R. II. J- 1MTTCRSOY, 0PER1THG AXD SILTIJAMCAL DLMISi ; j.v,otl in Ht F'.roudsLMr, r.a. annour.ct-s that ! 'Vo 'ir.pa"'ii !" i ii-si-rt artificial teeth in the most M 'i'iul 'id l:f-lilif manner. Also, great attention I,n"to fiiii2 ' pwrvin the natural tev th. Teeth 'i--j-rJ it hour v'.iin hy the use of N itrous Oxide tJas. V'itbtr t's i:n i '.ont V) the pr fe:on done in the t ikiilf'd an 1 r; 'pro vol style. All work attendi-l to ' v;r 'j:ni wsrraut-J. 'barges reaeuaLle. i'at-n-x-'ot the pu!'!:i- m!i.-ite.l. Oi'-tin A. l"i' t"s neir hutldinj, opposite Analo B ct li"'l,e- ?:rott-lsbar. Pa. (july 11, '73. D" i-r,o::n- thit having Jn-st rrturnd f.-ora Dental c-, hci fullf pr-par.i to mke artiCi iAl te"th in jiBKt h'2u:if;i'l and life-like inr.nner, and to fill dc-t.-th n.uiaiu to the niot imprnved met hud. i(:'B rxtra'-td wiihoui pain, w lmn desired, by the iMcf N:troi: -iide (ins. whiL-h isetitinly harmless, jjjiajof ;i ki:ids neatly d.ne. All work warantci. reasonaiile. J i'i. K'iJer's new bru-k buildint:. Main street, wi.i,S:irg. I'i- Au?. 31 '71-tf. Can yon tell why it is that when any ;rnd.Ojurs to b;iy Karniture, they al r Me'Jartv'a Furniture Store! iti iuiJ'ri- ji-pt. :"i,'S7. WILLIAM S. RSES, S'ir- iyor, Conveyancer and Real Estate Agent. ?Lss. Timber Lands and Tothi Lots FOR SALE. 05' e nt-Tt 'l".'-r nbovc S. Recs' news Dcpr t ii a zi. axr Visih 20, 1 v the Corner .Store. U. IIOW.tUD P.VTTX3KSOX. Physician, Surgeon and Acconcheur, (Ji!iec-fj-'..r io Geo. W. Scij.) OSre M:iin street. St roulb urgr, Pa., in Dr. S-"p b:jiiiir.. re-i.iei:re Sarah street, next fri?r.dnew meeting Iiuupc. Trompt attention to calk f 7 to 9 a. m. OCm hours - 12 " 2 p. m. I -" " 9 p. m. April 1G 174-lv. D R. GEO. J.tCKSO. puisini, susgecVaxd UTCLrKLUB. In the old nffi.-e of Dr. A.. Reeves J.icfcon, iae!)C. 'orncr of Sar.-.Ti -in.l FmnL-lIn f.1r.t STROUDSBURG, PA. A-SW S,'72-tf J 0:; nrii'ivrv?; ? r. .- PHYSICIAN AND ACCOUCHEUR, TY lT" VT A TV TTffl? T Jwn 2'J;74-Cra 3ICR2C.1. HOTEL. The fiKc.-.;v.. ..l J ;c .1 nr. 1T..1 " ha tK l0 r. ii.-1 . v... t t. "--l. in t If i'.nr,,,l, f Ki., Lk. HlVir. J renaitltPfl anil rcfnrnic'MBd tboGQino : ' t . l0 tertatn all who niny patronizi iij5., tile ai,n of l'ie proprieto'r, to furn '"P-nor accotmnoflatioris at m o! pratf raf e t. ' " V Ki w '1 , Jfareno paitn to promote the rom- of the p.;e,t. A liberal t-hare of public I t . ivu '.1 17 -o .n D. L. PISLE. K1 "'lc not. si: HONESDALE, PA. certrsl I-: t it , i . wuiwu ui any iiomm in town. j,u. R. W. KIPLE & SOX, Proprietors. 7 5, 1873. ly. ,J4cs ii. WAi;ro, Attctrney at Law, ir V "p th- buiMing formerly occupied 'tti ' . JM.n' 1,1,1 PP'ite the Stroudo- "'nil. lilln , ctroudsbur. Pa. U.:TEI)1D A. WILSON'S (of !"MPTTr!vbur?-X- V- Kct3r'e for C0X and ASTHMA carefully H0LLLTSHEAD'S DRUG STORE. ' ' Ik llflllll-Vlli'll D 3Mi KlIOU "i'in't:, ,"or3s ar; the only Under- t - .' " l''jt- atu-nd a Futieral managed cr iu towD, and you i i-ti l'(t I) r an,y th'R io le Furniture nr r.,".'le McCarty & Sons in the V f t i Mam street, Stroudsbarg, Wfffe tomtit. .4 Tf i . THE BLACK HILLS. A NEW ELDORADO FOUND. Return of General Custer's Expedition a full official report Food For a Xf.w Gold Fkveu A SFLEN'DID AGRICULTURAL REGro.Y The New York NW, publishes the fol lowing special despatch dated Bear Butte, Dakota, August 15 : ' Bear Butte, Dak.. August 15tli. The Black Hills expedition having with its ar rival at this point tenmuatcd the explora tion of the Black Hill, a brief review of the work performed may now be made. The discovery of gold no doubt at first be classed as the most important result at tained by the expedition, but the true value and importance of this discovery will only be made evident after a development of the gold. This development should not be ex pected from an expedition of this character, compelled from the vast scope of country included within its operations to mov'e rapidly and make but few and brief halts. Gold has been found at numerous points and of sufficient (juantities to justify a Irish estimate to be- placed upon this region asa rich mineral reirion. Tho minora wli.i r... ducted the prospecting estimate many of the places examined as'rich enough in this precious metal to yield ?H((J per day per man. Should anything like this prove true, it is easy to see that the longer ex clusive occupation of this valuable territory hv the Indians must cease at an early day. While the ultimate value of the newly-ex-piored country as a gold bearing rctrion re mains partly problematical, the real and perhaps its greatest value has been already determined, viz., its character and desir ability as an agricultural and ytock-raiintr country. The'i'ntorior of the Black Hills is divided into a succession of timbered i hill s and ojifii parks and valleys. . ! The vailevs are covered with .abi-r birrs. I Mint . . 1 , . , i - j ! jwuiuuigi., ii:.mc up vi a vanerv 01 the best grasses, and a different, but "not less valuable, quality of pasturace extends through the forests and covers the hillsides. So completely sheltered are these vailevs from the winter storms by the outer boun dary or belt of hills that the Indians who are familiar with this region sav most ex cellent grazing can be obtained f.r cattle throughout the entire winter. The soil U beyond all doubts of the most fertile and inexhaustible character, and will ricb.lv re pay the labor of the farmer or stock raiser. Almost every hill side has its never failing spring of pure water of almost any cold ness, and some of the springs are strong enoi'gh and have the requisite fall to ren der them available for water power. This country, al thou eh now in the r.rs session of the Indians, who seldom visited and never occupied it. is surely destined at a very early day to become the home of a dense, thrilty and industrious population. This is inevitable, and the sooner the gov ernment recognizes and acts upon this idea the belter. All the available troops with in the limits of this military department will not avail to keep out the enterprising frontiersman who is seeking a home for Hie. or the cmiaiiv enterprises: and inde featigable miner who is searching for old. The military occupation of the country will soon become a nerr.ity. In any event, should the government in tend to maintain the present title of the Indians to the Black Hills region, troops will be necssary to keep out the whites and should the country, as is to be hoped, be thrown open to settlement, the presence of troops will be necessary to prevent In dian hostilities and give safety and protec tion to the settlement. I no country ex plored by the Black Hills expedition is un doubtedly the most fertile and desirable portion of Dakota, next excepting even the famous Bed river valley. It is about two hundred end ten miles on a direct line from Bismark. the present terminus of the Nor them Pacific railroad, and about one hun dred and fifty miles from the nearest point on tne Missouri river. Among the civilian employees of the expedition, numbering over one hundred persons, companies have already been or ranizod. and claims in the gold district staked out looking to the future early de velopment of the mineral resorccs of the Black Hills. These men have seen the precious metal taken with but little labor and expense from the earth, aud, satisfied that it exists here in large quantities, they only wait the action of the government to fnrfhlp tbfm to lie!?in practical working of the mines. General Custer's official de spatch to liis department commander, has been mailed, a copy of which I send you in advance, from which it will be seen that I have not overstated facts. general custers official report. IIeadsquakteks Black Hill Ex pedition, Bear Butte, Dak., August 15. To Assistant Adjutant General, Depart ment of Dakota, St. Paul : My last de spatch was writtcu on the 2d and 3d inst., and sent from the south fork of the Cheyenne from a point on the latter near est to Fort Laramie. On the morning ot the 4th inst. I begau my return march to our main camp near Harney s 1 oak, ar riving there by a different route on the Cth. n On the morning of the 7th the ex pedition legan its march northward, Bear Butte being our next objective point. We advanced without serious obstacle until within the or twelve miles of Bear Butte, wdien we found our further progress barred by a high range of impassible hills. We attempt eo: toeneci a pasge inrougu some one of the many valleys where water courses ran directly through the hills in the desired direction, but in every instance we were led into deep, broken canyons, impassable even to horsemen. Through one of these I made my way on foot from a high point, and obtained a view of the plains outside. Retracing my steps, I placed the command in the camp in a fine valley in which it had halted, and con verted the remaiuder of the da' to a fur ther search for a practical route through the hills. The result decided me to follow down a water-course which led us first toward the south and afterward toward the etist. This stream proved to be Elk creek, the valley of which, as well as the stream it self, proved to be at least equal in beauty and extent to any parsed through during the march. We camped twice on this stream, aud as far as we proceeded down its course we had a most excellent road ; but finding that like nearly all other streams leaving the hills, its course .would take us into a canyon which could be barely made pratieable for wagons, I searched for aud discovered a narrow gap in the rocky wall, which forms the northern boundary of the valley, and which was large enough to al low our wagons to pass conveuiently through. A march of an hour up a gradual ascent and through a pine forest brought U3 to a beautiful park, containing thousands of tiercs, from which we obtained a fine view in the distance of our old acquaintance, "the plains." Here we pitched our tents for the last time in the Black Hills, nearly every one being loath to leave a region which had beeu found delightful in almost every respect. Behind us the grass and foliage were clothed iu green of the fresh ness of May. In front of us we cast eyes over the plains ; below we saw nothing but a comparatively parched, dried surface, the sunburnt pasturage of which offered a most uninviting prospect both for horse and rider when remembering the rich abundance we were leaving belling us. A march of twenty-six miles gradually bearing northwards brought us to the Bear Butte, at which point I concluded to remain one day before beginning our return march. I proposed to return by a different, although perhaps not shorter, route than that adopted in coming to the Black Hills. I am induced tn make this change in order to embrace a large tract of unexplored country within the limits of our explorations, and particularly to enable us to locate as much as possible of that portion of this Little Missouri, of which nothing is known. I expect the expedition to reach Fort Lincoln about the olst of Au- gvtst. and is The health of the command has been moi't excellent. This expedition entered the Black Hills from ihe west side, pa.-sed through the east ern and most southern ranges, explored the major portion of the interior, and passed out of the most eastern ranges, which form .1 1 1 t .1 Til l" ll'll 11 uie oouuuary oi me jjiactc jiiiis. rrom the fact that in all our principal marches through the black Hills we have taken without serious obstacle a heavily laden train of over one hundred wagons, it may be inferred that the Black Hills do not con stitute the impenetrable region heretofore represented. In entering the Black Hills from any direction the most serious if not the only obstacle we encountered at once near the outer base. This probably ac- counts for the story which lias so long existed regarding the character of th interior. Exploring parties have contented them selves with marching around the cxtertior base, and from the forbidding aspect of the hills, as viewed at a distance, inferred that an advance towards the interior would only encounter increased obstacles. In regard to the character of the country inclosed hy the Black Hills I can only repeat what 1 have stated in previous despatches. Xo portion -f the United States can boast of a richer or better pasturage or purer water, the natural temperature of which in midsummer, as it flows from the earth, is twelve degrees above the freezing point, and of greater advantages generally to the farmer or stock raiser than are to be found elsewhere. In the Black Hills building stone is found in inexhaustible quantities, and Avood, fuel and lumber sufficient for all time to comr Bains arc frequent, with no evidence of either drought or freshet. . The days arc perhaps too hort and the nights too cool fijr corn ; but I believe all other gain could be produced here in abundance. Wheat particularly would yield largely. There is no doubt as to the existence of various metals throughout the hills. As this subject has received the special attention of experts who accompanied the expedition, "and will be reported upon in detail, I will only mention the fact that iron and plumbago have been found, and beds of gypsum of apparently inexhaustible extent. I referred in a former despatch to the discovery of gold. Subsequent examinations at numerous points confirm and strengthen the fact of the existence of gold in the Black Hills. In some of the water courses, almost every panfull of earth produced gold in small yet paying quantities. Our brief halts and rapid marching prevented any thing but a very hasty examination of the country in this respect, but in one place, and the only one within my knowledge where so great a depth was reached, a hole was dug eight feet in depth, and the miners report that they lound gold among the roots of the grass, and from that point to the lowest point reached gold was found in paving quantities. It has not required ; an cqpert to find gold in the Black Hills, as men without former experience in mio- ing have discovered it at an expense of but little time or labor. As an evidence of the rich pasturage to be found in this region I can state the fact that my beef herd, after marching upward of six hundred miles, is in better condition than when I started, being now as fat as consistent with marching condition. The same may be said of the mules of the wagon train. The horses of the command are iu good working condition. I have never seen as many deer as in the Black Hills. Eik and bear have also been killed. We have had no collision with hostile Indians. G. A. Custer, BrevetMajor-Gcncral United States Army, commanding the expedition. Tb.9 Fish and Gams Law. A neat little pamphlet styled "a digest of the game laws of Pennsylvania," has just been issued by J. B. Speis, Esq., At torney at Law of Harrisburg. After con siderable labor the compiler believes he has after weeks of research finally succeeded in jdacing before the public a true and correct copy of the game laws as they stand on the statue books up to the first of July, 1S74-. A new consolidated game law is to be proposed next session of the Legislature, and all persons interested are invited to contribute suggestions. The following synopsis of the work is given, believing it to be the only reliable one published in this section for some time: Bait fi.sh may be taken at any time with hand nets for angling or scientific purposes. Black Bass may be taken from June 1 to March 1, with hook and line or scroll only to be used. Penalty for taking out of season, S25. Birds. Insectivorous birds are not al lowed to be taken or killed in any manner, except for preservation through the winter, or for scientific purposes, under penalty of 85 for each bird. This includes blue birds, bobolink, cat bird, cedar bird, dove, finch, lark, martin, night hawk, robin, sparrow, swallow, tanagrr, thrush, woodpecker and whippor will. The penalty for destroying nests is S10. Deer. Running deer with dogs, in' Cen tre, Fayette, Schuylkill and Wyoming counties not prohibited. Thev mav be takeu ft om Sept. 1 to Jan. 1 . Xo dogs. traps, salt liks or killing in waters if driven there by dogs. Penalty $50. Fishing is not allowed where water is drawn off, except for scientific or propagat ing purposes. Ducks, wild, mav be killed at any time, but no pout guns or swivels allowed, un der a rcnalty of 850. Xo fish to be taken during the spawn ing season. Wild gecie can be taken at any time, fi rouse to be taken between Sept. 1 and Jan. 1, under a penalty of 810. Hare or rabbit between October 1 and February 1. 810 fine to hunt with a ferret. Any person may inform within G months. and receive one half the fines. Fish nets not to be placed within one half mile of dams with shutes' unless meshes are 3 inches. Where there are trout or bass, penalty 100. Set nets are not to be set across canals, rivulets and creeks, except for progatiug purposes, un der a penalty of $25. Patridges to be taken between Nov. 1 and Jan. 1, not by traps, feeds, baits or blinds. Penalty $10. From Dec. 20 to Feb. 1, partridges may be trapped alive for preservation only. Pheasant or prairie chicken may be tak en between Sept. 1 and Jan 1. Same re strictions and penalty as patridges. Pike or perch may be taken by hook or line or scroll only between June 1, and March 1. Penalty $25. Wild pigeons at any time, but not to be killed or molested on their nesting or roost ing ground. Plover may be taken between Aug. 1 and Jan. 1. Rail or reed bird may be taken from Sept. 1 to Dec. 1 , but not to be killed or molested on roosting or nesting ground. Salmon may be taken from April 1 to Aug. l-l, under a penalty of $10. Shad, Delaware and other tributaries, from Aug. 10 to June 11 ; Susquehanna ami other tributaries Aug. 10 to June 10. Penalty $5. Snipe, Wilson or grey, may be taken at any time, but not to be molested or killed on nesting or roosting ground. Squirrels from Sept. 1 to Jan. 1. This applies to gray, black and fox squirrels. No hunting, fishing or shooting is al lowed on Sunday. Penalty $25. Trout, ppeckled, may be. taken from April 1 to Aug. 15 by hook and line only, except for propagation ; salmon or lake from March 1 to Sept. 30, hook and line only. Penalty $10. Wild turkey from Oct. 1 to Jan. 1, and woodcock from duly 4 to Jan. 1, former under a penalty of $25, latter $10; no feed, bait, blind or trap to be used. Do Snakus Swallow Their Young? One of the most interesting papers read before the Portland meeting of the Ameri can Association for tho Advancement of Science was in answer to the question "Do Snakes Swallow Their Young?" and was prepared by Mr. G. Brown. In order to elicit testimony relating to the disputed subject from all available quarters, Mr. Lrown inserted a letter in the American Agriculturist asking for a recital of the facts from any person who had ever wit nessed the phenomenon of a snake swallow ing its young. In response to this reqtiset lie received over eighty letters from cor respondents in twenty four States and Provinces, containing valuable evidence in tho case. A farmer in Mechaniesburg, Ohio, wrote "In 1S35 I saw on the bank of Deer Creek a large water-snake. I procured a pole for the purpose of killing her. One stroke slightly wounded her and she immediately made for the water ; after she had swam about her length, she wheeled, placing her underjaw just out of the edge of the water ; then, opening her mouth to the fullest extent, some dozen youug snakes, three to four iuches long seemed to run, or rather swim, down her throat ; after which she clumsily turned in search of a hiding place. I opened her and found about twenty living young snakes two or three seven or eight inches lone." A letter from Chesterfield, N. II., con tained the following: "I saw a striped snake on the hillside, and noticed some thing moving about her head, and counted twent' little snakes from one and a half to two inches long. I made a move, and the old one ojened her mouth, and they went in out of sight. I stepped back and waited, and iu a few moments they be gan to come out. Then I made for the old snake and killed her, and forced out several." A gentleman in Georgetown, S. C, wrote that while trying to capture a large moccasin, "she gave a shrill, whistling noise, and five young snakes ran from under a log, and ran down the throat of the old one. We cut off her head, and found the five young ones, which made efforts to get awav A farmer in Rosendale, N. Y., wrote : "I was one day mowing, and, coming close to a smooth, flat rock, I thought I saw as many as a dozen snakes on it. I ran for a fork which was standing within a few V'ards, and, when I came back, there was only one snake on the rock. I struck it back, and seven snakes ran out on of the the mouth." A farmer in Newburyport, Mass., wrote that he saw a large striped snake sunning itself on a rock. On making a movement. "The old snake opened her mouth wide, the little snakes ran down her throat, and then she disappeared iu the shelving rock. I repeated the experiment a number of days, to the same effect." Such is the tenor of the testimony which Mr. Brown secured from untrained ob servers. To confirm this evidence he re ceived concurrent statements from a number of naturalists and men of science. Prof. Sydney L. Smith, of the Sheffield Sc5l :une jhool, aw. a ribbon -snake aboi two feet long, accompanied by two young ones of three or four inches. On a hiss from the parent they disappeared down its throat. The parent was killed and two ran out of the mouth while a third was found alive in th.e body." Br. Edward Palmer, when iu Paragury with the "Water-witch" expedition, saw some seven young rattle snakes run into their parent's mouth. After it was killed thev all ran out. These snakes, parent and brood, are preserved in the United States Xational Musceum. Washington. A multitude of strong evi dence like this was accumulated by Mr. Brown and considered by him conclusive proof that certain spec ies of snckes are in the habit of swallowing their j'oung for their protection in ease of danger. Dr. Jeffries Wyman, Prof. Gill and other physiologists declare ther is no reason why the young snakes mav not live for a time It is is well feebly within the stomach of the parent, difficult to smother a reptile and it known that the trastric tissue acts upon living tissues. GOLDSMITH MAID. The Evansville Journn 7 gives the follow ing a?count of this famous mare : The "Maid" was a wayward child. From the date of her birth on the farm of John B. Decker, in Wantage township, Sussex county, X. Y., in the spring of 1857, to the age cf six years, she distinguished herself in many ways, but never as a trotter. She was undersized, nervous and fretful, and utterly refused heavy firm work. Mr. Decker, lier owner, sa3-s he never got any work out of her but twice, one-half day in plowing corn and one-half day in drawing stones. Once she was hitched to a har row, but after a short distance she reared backward and entangled both Iter hind legs in the cro.vs-piece of the harrow and so injured those members, that when she goes out for her morning walk, it is said she still shows signs of stiffness behind, caused by this fall in early life. From the time she was six mouths old until Mr. Decker sold her she was, used as a race horse, though without her owner's know ledge. The boys on the farm of course, as boys do, were anxious to know which was the speediest horse, and at an early day they found it was the "Maid." And so, after the "old man"' had gone to bed thev would take her out of the pasture or stable whenever a race could be made up, and run her on the road after night. She beat everything that could be brought to run with her, so that finally none but the uniformed from a distance could be found to bet against her. These races were made up at the country stores and lounging I 'laces in the evening, after farm work was over, and the race run the same night, af ter the "old man" had gone to bed. Xo training, no grooms, no jockeys, no weight for age. just a man or a boy in his bare feet, mounted bareback, with his toes hugging the mare's belley like a leech, was the style ; and the ".Mai 1" no doubt en joyed it more than she has some of her late races in the trotting ring. One day iu the summer of 1SG3, two men were out buying horses for the army, and stopped all nichtat Mr. Decker's, and in the morn- ing bought the "Maid" of him for $200r and started for home, leading the mare be hind them. On their way they met a Mr. Tompkins, who knew the little mare, and bought her of them for S300. The two men also knew her and believed that she could be made a trotter, but were willing to make $100 by their morning's bargain. The next day Tompkins sold her to Allen Goldsmith.au excellent judge of horse flesh, of Blooming Grove. Orange county, Xew York, for $000. From him she took the name of Goldsmith Maid. He kept her in pretty steady training under a driver named William Bodine, to whom, more than any other living man, should be award ed the credit of first bringing the mare out. The renowned Budd DoLle, who now drives her so liandsomely, had not then cither seen or heard of her. While in training for the trotting course she was so fretful and irritable, so determined to run at every opportunity intstead of trot ting, so hard to bring to a trot after break ing from that niit that 3Ir. Goldsmith many times determined to give up tho train ing and sell her at any price, but his patient driver maintained his abiding fi.ith in her, and assured his employer tlwt she was the fastest animal on his premises and would come out at last a great trotter, and finally persuaded him to keep her, which he did until this driver so brought cut her points that Mr. Goldsmith in November, 18GS, sold her to B. Jackman and Btidd Doble for $20,000. These gentlemen sold her to Mr. II. N. Smith for the sum of $37,000. Mr. Doble still drives her. She made her first appearance in public in August, 1SJ5. Little by Little. If you are gaining little by little, every day, be content. Are your expenses less than your income, so that, though it be little by little, you are yet constantly ac tumulating, and growing richer and richer every day ? Be content ; so far as concerns money, you are doing very well. Are you gaining knowledge every day ? Though it be little by little, "the aggregate of the accumulation, where no day is per mitted to pass without adding something to the stock, will be surprising to yourself. Solomon did not become the wisest man in the world in a minute. Little by little never omitting to learn something, even for a single day always reading," always stU'lyiiig a little between the time or rising up in the morning and lying down at night; this is the sure way to accumulate a'full storehouse of knowledge. Penally, are you daily improving in character ? Be not discouraged because it is little by little. The best of men fall far short of what they themselves would wish to be. It is something, it is mn.-li. if vrm keep your good resolutions better to-day than you did yesterday, better this week thau you did last, better this year than you did last 3'ear. Strive to be perfect, but do not become disheartened so long as you are approaching nearer and nearer to the high standard at which you aim. Little by little, fortunes are accumulated ; little Jby little, knowledge is gained ; little by little, character and reputation aro achieved. The State Debt: The State debt of Pennsylvania, under the system of gradual redemption, is being steadily reduced. The Sinking Fund Com missioners, who are the Auditor General, State Treasurer, and Secretory of State, re port that Aug. 1 the total debt was $24, 5JOD.7S5 37, and that at that time there was in the Sinking Fund $520,047 avail able for further reduction. The chief items of the debt are $400,000, bearing six per cent, interest in gold ; $18,S33" 050, bearing six per cent, in currency ; $3,393,500, bearing five ceut. in gold ; $007,200, bearing five per cent, in cur rency ; $S7,000, bearing- four and one-half per cent, in gold ; $141,133, of various loans, on which interest has ceased ; $100, 000 without interest : $83,032 of Cham bersburg certificates, at six per cent.; and the Agricultural College land scrip fund of $500,000. During July, $21,000 of debt was redeemed, and at the close of that month nearly $453,000 of the General Revenue Fund of the State was dejsited on call by the State with various banks and ' bankers, without collateral or interest. In the reduction of the debt the Constitution of the State requires that there shall be paid off annually a sum not less than $250, 000. Between Jan. 1 and July 31 the re duction has been $S00,OOO, and by the close of the year it will reach, it is "said. $1,200,000. An Unfortunate Rat. A venture-some rodent came to an un timely end yesterday at the Ocean House, under very peculiar circumstances. A basket of clams had been brought up from the cellar and left standing in a room, while ' the cook went to procure other materials for chowder, soup, etc. Some of the bi valves were open, as is their manner at times, when the hungry rat came along and resolved himself into a committee of inves tigation. Mounting the basket he selected the largest and fattest clam that lay open for proosals, and putting his paw in pro ceeded to carry it off. But "the best laid plans of "rats," etc., are not -always suc cessful, and in this case the result was dire ful indeed, for the open shell came toge ther like a vice and held his ratship tat. Like many other animals in similar circum stances, he "squealed," and brouirht xxv the i i. .... . . . cook, who dispatched him w.'th a cnam- pagne bottle. II
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