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STROUDSBURG, MONROE COUNTY, PA., SEPTEMBER 24, 1874.
NO. 18,
isSisI Theodore Schoch.
. ,j.;;..r :i yar in advance ami if not
, i iif tiiy y":ifi 'w" dollars and fifty
'.'r',li-. iiiit!:iii -l tint -I all arr.-ara;jo arc
,n . .... '' i--3it-r.
. "f !' s-piar.' if (Vtr.it lino0 or
,,,, ;Us .-ooi.s ?l ..'I. i'.:ich al litiolt.il in-
3011 rKSVTlXG
OK Al l. KIN1S,
lii-t s.vf i tin; Art. ami on trie
ill iV
1.1- t I-
.i-.i....li- terms.
dr. J.LANTZ,
jttoNt & MECHANICAL DENTIST.
...... ,,;;.,. ,.11 Main s'reit, in the .won't ftory
' u ' V- !'ii k l.uil lin, ni-arlv eplK'-it.; t.H
"j'j ,,',! . n jiii lie ilutorn httnch' that by clh
...!:.' :'-t j-jui I :' Jtnl tbo most earnest and
; ii I 1 '! iii:';,'1"" l'f'rtainiiicr to bis .n
'! ', ii ' e full Ue '" l'''''"i'"i all ojhm ati.nw
I:i the must i-.irc'.i-l nud skillful nian-
i -n -ivpn to savin? th Natural TVcth ;
''.i.!, jiV-'.r: jr. of Artificial Tooth ou Uuhln-r,
't I'.'mtiii'.i'Hi ilninn, nud jK-rfoct fits in till
,',', kn it the pr.at folly and danprr nf en
i'ii'if w.-rk t the iiu'xporii-i.tvd. or to thosu ':v-
-if.
n
's;aiT!S .tAB JSH'il.lMl'AL DENTIST,
' K S:roii'l''.rT. V&. ann'Mioo" that
..I !..i!i-' i t :irtitu i:d ttM-th 'm tin: liio.t
i in. i!" '' AN, ui at iittciit ion
' :u: I 'T r in i'i-"1 natural tc-tli. Ti'otli
,.; a lv ! h iir.- of N it rons Ox i.Ic Gas.
i- I.; i . prof-'-Mon li'.iu" in the
: I r vv.l ! All w..rk i.n-nM.-d t
i tt ,-m'i:: -1. i'liav,-fs rt-a-oti
i I, i! ii. l.iiildi n;, ojip.;tf Analu
"i;,t S;r Mmri. I'a. ijaly 11, '7:i.
THE "WAR OF RACES."
WILLIAM S. REES,
Surveyor, Conveyancer and
Real jusfcats Aeent.
us, Timber Lands and Town Lots
FOR SALE.
: v. t. t :i'iVf S. Ilees' news Depot j
! . ' 'v i .u- (. orner ?tore.
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i.. k n
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j-.-t r.' nrnM from lv-ntHl
-:'! ; ;., artificial to.-th in
!. i;v-':ke ni:iiinr. and to fill df
; i I !i i:i ! i.Mi.n.vid ux-tliod.
Ii .'it ; in, whcii o-'sirtl. hy the
wiii, li ist'w'ir-ly harmless.
!i-.!th di-in. All "rk warniiiird.
';Tic "War of raws" at Austin, in Mis
sissippi, wr;n, as usual, v an outran up
on the part of a reckless 'white man who
shot a colored man. Tho. fstimony of cx
j'oiienee is conclusive that the coloidl race
in this country is not Hircrressivc, lminler
ous. or tlisovtlcrlv, aii-lVhat. as in the mas
sacres at Xev Orleans and .Memphis, nmh
after the war, the first guilt of blood is. al
most without exception, upon the race that
calls itself superior. Indeed, the mildness
of the colored race has heen accounted its
weakness In 1S41. as many of our read
ers will remember, there was great pul.lic
excitement over the case of the hiij
Creole. ,She sailed from Uichmoud to New
Orleans with a cargo of slaves. Nineteen
of them rose, took possession (if the hriir.
iind carried her into Xassau. A slave
dealer was killed in the stnmirle, and several
of the crew wounded. The slaves had all
the whites in their power, hut they did only
what was necessary for their freedom. The
difference between their conduct and that
to which they had heen subjected to by
whites was sublime. Iut thev were de
nounced by Calhoun ami Benton and Web
fter as ''murderers and mutineers." If
they were st). what were Washington and
"W arren ? If thev were so. what were the
M-? raV- ! ln''n wrro rryiug them to the sham
bles in .New Orleans ?
Just before, in 1 830. occurred the ease
of the -1 mist. id. Against Spani.di law a
cargo of slaves stolen from Africa was land
ed in Havana, and was transhipped in the
Amiyfiul to Principle. The Africans rose,
as Americans would have risen, and took
possession of the vessel. During the fight
the captain and cook were killed ; but. hav
ing gamed their liberty, the slaves snared
V.r-.k lui:Mi:i;C. Main street,
Mz. "71-tf.
flucnco of opium do not generally reel down
the streets, but confine themselves to a
ejuiet. siesta in the solitary recesses of their
chamliers, or. like 51 r. John Jasper, visit
some priestess of the delightful art in the
recesses of a back alley, it is extremely dif
ficult to detect its presence, or organize a
crusade for its prevention.
A man or woman may go on using opium
without apparent injury to health il-r a
very long period, and it takes a very close
observer, indeed, to detect its hidden pre
sence, even in a habitual devotee. There
is, however, no slavery equal to it. Tt
binds the appetite, deiuondi.t-s the soul,
and destroys the body more than any pas
sion or taste known to the svnc mind.
Once a victim to its seductive influence, the
poor creature who lias permitted himself
to fill can no more regain his or her liber
ty than can the sufferer from nightmare
escape the yawning precipice.
The confessions of Quincy give some
fiint idea of its absorbing power, and even
his strong intellect was scarcely proof
against its tenacious clutcdj. The drunkard
may reform, the memory of the last de
bauch may sicken on his soul, but the
dreamer who fills the air with the tie
light fid phantoms of opium returns to his.
unhealthy rapture with new desire, al
though, in the end, with palsied pleasure.
The victim of this distressing disease, for
it is a disease, are now so numerous as to
occasion serious alarm for the future men
tal and physical strength of our people.
In its ranks are to be found men of note
and women of acknowledged charms and
ability clergymen, doctors, lawyers, liter
ary people, with men and women of all de
nominations and classes. The brilliant ser
mon, the thrilling story, the melting poem.
rr-M ij i ii i jihm
U2
2 you tell why it is that when any
tr...i.h
f-.r ! (
ii:r.' to I.mv I'urnitiirc, they al
;;.tv l'uiiiiuire ."Store.'
everybody else, including the slave-dealers j urc 'ir ftencr the results of opium than
who were carrvinsr them to market. The ! r,,lk are apt to suppose. And being so
victors knew nothing of navigation, and ! lar. a" intellectual stimulant rather than an
the vessel was brouirht into New London. ! ai,'m:'" OI1 "t the more difficult to reach
On the shores of the harbor of that town . a;,J to (lotc.t.
rises the monument of Ledvard. wh
dozen lashes from each ship. Boatswains'
mab's do your duty !'
'The strokes of the lash fell heavily, and
at what to me seemed long intervals (a
minute between each at least). The very
first brought blood ; the sufferer res! rained
his utterance till about the fifth or sixth ;
but then the pent up agoney had vent in a
shriek, enough to rend a heart of stone.
' At the end of the first instalment of a
dozen Iftshcs. the victim's back was one
mass of lacerated flesh and blood ; and over
this spread a blanket, which, we were as
sured, was steeped in vinegar and brine, as
some said to augment the suffering, as
others contended, to prevent mortification.
"The bout now all fell into line, each
towing the one next behind her at an in
terval of about a boat's length apart, and
the last having the launch with the prisoner
in tow, all pulling against a stiff head wind
to the ship next in order to windward ;
occupying from fifteen to twenty minutes.
"Here the same horrible scene was re
peated, and so onward till about ten or
twelve ships had been visited, there being
six or eight more to go to ; when the victim
hiving several times fainted, and his voice
ceased to give forth cither shrieks or groans,
he was reported by the surgeon to be in
capable of bearing any further infliction,
and was ordered to be rowed ashore to the
hospital, before reaching which he was
discovered to be dead ; and some declared
that he had received the last heavy lashes
ou his body after the spirit had quitted its
earthly tenement'
lieforo the fleet sailed 31 r. Buckingham
deserted, and was fortunate enough to
escape re-capture, and its consequent repeti
tion of this disgusting and disgraceful scene,
with himself for the principal actor.
Remarkable Affection of a Horse.
i i IS
Many instances have been u'iven by
travellers of the affection shown by. the
Arabian horses toward their masters : and
3 far.' confirmed opium eaters date their ! much also has been written to prove their
been made to produce ninety pounds per'
day.
The cow gave birth to a male calf a
month or two since. As a matter or fact,
it is stated that all her calves have been
males. The cow is ten years old, and we
should say her color is not very unlike that
of the celebrated white coat belonging to
the late Horace (irecley. She is not do
ing as well this season as she did last year,
for the grass is less nutritious, and still she
is now averaging her eighty pounds of milk
per day. She is milked three times a day,
and tiils two pails at a milking. Of course
she is an object of great curiosity, and is vi.i
ted by persons residing in all parts of the
country. The (teneral avers that he is
glad to see all such, for his statements ap
pear so much like exaggeration that he is
relieved when he can show tlem the cow.
She is a robust looking animal, and evident
ly relishes her f od and enjoys life. As
an evidence of her capacity, (.Jcncral Ilun
gerford stated that she alone supplied the
boarding house connected with the Hun
ger ford Collegiate Institute with milk dur
ing the entire term.
There are those who would like to pos
sess the animal, and have written the (ien
cral to ascertain his price for her Senator
Fentou among the number. But her
owner docs not care to sell. He values
her at $-u0(K, and would prefer to keep
her than to part with her even at those
high figures. We presume he thinks it
something to be able able, to say that he
owns the most extraordinary milker in the
World, or of which there is any record.
and could not look an honest man in the
face. Now it was oat, he could make a'
clean breast of it, which he did.-
The court, upon learning the facts in
the case, released the yointg clerk, and
arrested the red culprit, to whom was?
dealt the full rigor of the law. During
the year the swindling was goinr on,
S.',00! worth of goods were shipped tV
this receiver in Jersey City, and the triaf
further brought to light the fact that the'
same man had several other places where he
received goods, from clerks whom hii had
similarly entrapped. It is said, that the
amount of robbery going on in this way, i.s
almost incalculable. The defaulters who
swindle by the $.)iN).000 worth are general
ly discovered, if they are not punished, but
it seems almost impossible to stop the
peculation, which has nearly arrived at the
dignity of a fine art.
A NEW YORK "sHOEMAKOR SELLS
HIS DAUGHTER.
"he Cost of Coffins.
1. . ii k f i n i-i . I . -
jioiioica ny .Americans lor doing what the s:aei irom a medical prescription, and j sagacity, as to make one believe, at times.
Aniisfml captives did. But the Democratic there can be no doubt that the internal ad- j that they must be endued with an instinct
Administration of that day. Van Buren, I mini!ratioi: of this insidious drug is at all j which approaches nearly, if not quite, to
Forsyth, and Jrumly. with their legal u;i- 1 times attended with danger. It soothes j the reasoning faculty of a human beimr.
derstrappers in Connecticut, strained every p:in, it brings temporary relief, it lulls to ! Bo this as it may, we very much doubt if,
nerve to have the Africans sent back to j sleep and fills the imagination with unna- j among the feats narrated of the horses of
Cuba to be hung as pirates and assassins, j tural forms and shapes of beauty. It is a j the East, any can be found that exceeds in
Old John Quincy Adams opposed them, I strong stimulant, and under its influences affectionate devotion the following incident,
saved the honor of his country, and held ! the poet creates his fabrics of a vision, and which was told us a few days since by the
uji the tools of the slave power to the scorn j the orator his castles of airy rhetoric. j soldier to whom it occurred. The narra-
j The regular opium eater is generally of ; tor ls 11 young Irishman, and, like man;
of hostility ; a sallow complexion ; when animated the ! 'tbcrs of his nation, joined, shortly afte
i !n lViv. : 1 O ! l .1 , , ... i lii :irviY"v m VimovI.'O Si!i.7.ijl-iw I.im.v.i.-I.-i
! i if t v i ii hl
The same malignant spirit
If
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7si-::.Ti, S-ireon and Accoucheur,
.'Rv.-iir ti ho. V. Fed p.)
:. Sirou lsnarir, I'a., in Dr.
r--M.-!'.;v Sarli street, nrxt
...!:.ir house. I'rcnipt attention
and. like many
r
! shown to the unfortunate race in slavery ' ,.v.'s are brilliant the hmvi witLm ?,-n-l-- i his arrival in America. Sheridan's briiradi
pursues it to-day. When Dosiie was killed Ii:iLr, and the spirits unnaturallv hih ; when I I V;iS bi one of those forced marches,
at Xew Orleans, just after the war. in a I s-aff-rin from a reaction or a want of the ! 'ben they had driven back the enemy, and
disturbance due to white hatred of tl e favorite restorative th skin is vellow the ! 'i0C"n bi the saddle for several consecu-
eolorcd people, the servile Democratic pa- ! (.Vcs are sunken, with a dark shadow be- j tive days and nights that this trooper avail
ed himself of a temporary halt to slip from
his saddle and stretch himself noon the
tun Ins hoi-;
the immediate neighborhood
Was the name of an undertaker ever
seen in the lists of bankrupts? We have
never found patent caskets in any sche
dule of assets exhibited by an assignee.
Farmers are sold out. JJrokers break.
Companies coll. ipse. (Jovernments become
insolvent. But the fashionable undertaker
flourishes, and is never brought to grief,
except in a professional way. The dealers
in metallic cases arc unffacted by financial
panie-s.
Is it because burying is a steady, un
fluctuating trade, or is it that there is a
wider margin of profits in coffins than in
other merchandise '! They ought, as ne
ccs.sities of life, or, rather, of death, t
be, like other necessities, cheap. But
t".
TU.
'2 . in.
U . in.
pers tn the Northern States cal.e I the rmt a 1M.:ith the lower lids ; the general manner
radical massacre. The late events at A us- i moody and depressed, and no horror, it is
tin have been so rcprt-seuted as to deepen j said, can equal the gnawing hunger which
the pr -judiee against the colored race. A 1 longs fbr its accustomed dose. The vc
storv was circulated in the town that they ; tcran ooium eater L-er.erallv becomes a me-
were murdering white women and children j lam-holy wreck. His mind cannot be called ' enly awakenrd by the frantic pawing of
dose not the cost of a modern sarcophagus,
walnut i a- metallic, rank anit nig the luxuriers.
There is a growing inquiry whether this
peculiar kind of joiners work is not rated
much above the usual cabinet prices.
People pay funeral bins without a word
To hesitate at a sheje item i.
i
counted a
sign of an ignoble spirit, and to squabble
over the price of a coffin would entail a
disgrace upon children's children. In other i
meanwhile, browsing in i purchases men examine the goods and hear j
lie had ! the prices. J hey puss from shop to shop
.-.lept for some little time when he was sad-
I)
5i. (i;:. YJ . JAC'KSQX
; ' ' ' i :::i:v ,f Dr. A. Ib.eve Jackson,
- r -ifS.o-aii and Franklin street.
STROUDSBURG, PA.
w' n.rsc:iv;:is. ?i. e.
PHYSICIAN AND ACCOUCHEUR,
MOIWTA IN HOME. PA.
on the neigkwormg plantations. It was sine, because a distorted vision has sup-f.d.-e
; but. the white men left the town to planted truth and reality.
F' th thc cd"rcd men took With women, opium -nerally leads to
T " i .il ..i i i. iV ' '
possession ; our. uie repoit. -at me j ;l r.Mjc 2svlum. Men may stand its de-
last accounts they had committed no acts j lotei i..i;s effects for years, but sooner or la
of violence toward the few whites who were j tcr it (.hnis its 1)ri lt is an ovij wllj(.h
tiiiaoie to gcr aA ay.
The colored race is peaceful and docile,
and it? fh.-'re of ri-soonsibilitv for the s;r-
i
row that wt ighs upon the Southern States
is imwreciable. Ali maimer of horrors are
K
'I! lilt A saOTKfc,.
t s'il; 'Ti. H r would inform the public that
'- i t tie Ic.ii-c formally kc-pl hy .Jacob
;- in th,. I.oroiijrji of Stro'idr-burg, I'a.,
-' !'",imtei! a..l refurnished tlio same,
t-i ( t,ti-r!airi all who may patronize
ii'" aha of the proprietor, to furn--r
linijioihitions at moderate rates
"vh !in pains to promote the com
"lests. A liberal share of public
cited.
7--. I). L. PISLE.
:. ' It
::l 1
EONESDALE, PA.
':;-a liicatiou of any Hotel in town.
IT W K I ir t." c aiv
'Ul;' Street. Pi-.mrwors
uoi hcj al Iaiv,
I U 'o tll,; ',Un'bpg fortnorly occupied
' d'ii-son. a,d opposite the Strouds-
".V.;K- -I't'" street, Stroud.-burg, Pa.
' i ')-t i
t n--i,- -til -. A lL,.U- toi
bWAiU) A
.'1 Becine for CON-
l(b mid SiTII M .:.r,.fnlU-
EUNSHEAD"S DRUG STORE.
n-i iir j ,n!i ami purr.
W. IIOIiLINHEAD.
1 4 mm
Id nil..
KtJDW (IiUi .1. li.
ft
;v" y ,J'i ;ire the only Under
''v? '''i!:1''-1' w!' uriderstaud.s their
' . -I. f J'."1- attend a Funeral managed
n l -itakcr in town, and you
- J' f-tf
Z u?' 'my lii'"-K in the Furniture or
'ISowV1 VV: .V1 -y&.Sons in the
'' k ', "i Ull ,alri street, Stroudshurij,
. -J.e pje ;ty -ct iu
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1
anticipated by some of the whites from the
passacre of a bill securing the equal rights
of colored citizens b.'ibre the law. The
fear is a bugaboo. The same b ars were
expressed when it was proposed thirty-two
or three years ago iu Massachusetts to re
peal the law against the intermarriage of
the two roees. The proposition was de
nounced as an innovation, which would
inevitably be followed by another permit
ting the colored people to ride in the same
cars with the whites. One solemn gentle
man averred that he would rather see his
daughter buried than married to a black
mail the veteran argument jn this lofty
debate. And this simple act of common
sense was stigmatized as full of disasters to
society, and piteous appeals were made to
preserve the white race from the deteriora
tion of amalgamation. The furious follies
which have been uttered upon' this subject
of justice to the colored race would be in
credible if we did not hear them repeated
at every reasonable and just projxisition of
honorable conduct towards those whom the
white race of this country have so long and
cruel Iv oppressed. And we know nothing
that "would be so truly "conservative'' at
this moment as a little reflection and read
ing. The conduct of the slaves during the
war, and their entire freedom from any
thing that can be called social aggression,
since the war, should shield them from the
charge of evil intent towards the whites,
and from the suspicion of a desire of any
thing but their equal rights as men and
A mericans. Jfarprr Wrrhhj.
mf
GROWING OF OPIUM-EATING.
The importation of opium now amounts
in the United States to nearly 2.0.0M
pounds annual!', says the Juhr-Orrun ;
ten times more than it did thirty years ago.
It is estimated that one-third of this quan
tity is used for medical purjioses. There
fore, D)(0(0 pounds are now expended in
stimulating the people of the United .States.
Considering that a tato for opium-eating,
orice acquired, is about as difficult to throw
off as original sin, the evil is likely to in
crease rather than diminish.
()no is naturally led, therefore, to ask ;
Where does it alb go to, and who uses it ?
No one tan be found to answer the soft im
peachment, and as pervms under the in-
lus horse at his side. Fatigued by hi
long ride he did not rouse at once, but lay
in that partially conscious state which so
frequently attends great physical prostra
tion. Soon, however, the faithful animal
perceiving that its efforts had failed to ac-
to a naturally excittd people, is frau-ht ,' ',. " "
with consequences the most serious and I an'1 'U'!",- L,ls UK,Uth C,t Se to ,1,s 0:ir ut"
th" United 1 mioh. .a'hi i.torougnt
t bargains. tut
the cost of
liHium
alarming. It would seem iu the United
States that wo have a futualtv for pickimr
up the vices of foreign lands and reveling
in them. One of the worst is opuim. It
is time that a second crusade, more serious
than the first, was opened, and that this
vice shonid be dragged from its biding
place and shown forth in till its glittering
and mephistophciian light.
Flogging Round the Fleet.
A well-known English gentleman 31 r.
James Silk Buckingham lately deceased,
was about sixteen years old when he volun
teered on board an English ship of war.
where, however, he soon became disgusted
with the severity of the discipline, and
deserted. The scene which impelled him
to take this course was the "flogging round
the fleet"' of a desortcr.
The poor fellow had been impressed and
torn from his wife and children. He had
deserted, and, when recaptured, he struck
the officer who took him. The merciful
sentence of the court-martial was (hat he
should receive twelve lashes at each vessel
in the fleet. A boat from each vess-d tit
tended the execution, and Mr. Buckingham
was in one of these. He says: "Hi,,
prisoner was in the launch, one of the
largest boats of his own ship, i:i the center
of which was erected a triangular frame
work, made of handspikes or poles. To
this he was fastened, by the arms being
extended upward ami outward, and bis
wrists bound tightly to the framework by
cords, his body being perfectly naked to
the waist.
' In this boat there were about a dozen
of his own shipmates, the officer saperin
tending the punishment, a lieutenant of
his own ship, and surgeon of the same,
whose duty it was to see that the puni.di
ment was kept short of inflicting death.
"On reaching the leeward t-hip, the
launch hauled alongside ; and at lea.-t
twenty boats, in one of which 1 was station
ed at the bow, clustered round the vessel
on the starboard fide, a few yards only
from the launch, so we could see every lash
that fell, and 'hear every shriek and groan
of the sufferer,
"From the ship there defwended an
officer, with two biutswain.s' mates, and an
assistant surgeon. The naked body of the
victim was exposed, and we heard tlio order
awake, he sprang up, and as the horse
turned lor him to mount, he saw for the
first time, that his comrades had all disap
peared, and that the enemy were coming
down upon him at full gallop. Once
mounted the faithful boast bore him with
the speed of the wind safely from the dan
ger, and soon j .laced him among his com
panions. "Thus,'' he added, with emotion,
"the noble fellow saved me from captivity,
and perhaps from death."'
Cam there be found on record a more
beautiful example of affectionate devotion
on the part of a dumb brute for his master
than this? Undoubtedly similar examples
have occurred during the la(e European
and our own civil wars which will forever
be buried iu oblivion. Would that they
might be brought to light if their narra
tion could in any degree mitigate the
crucify to which the horse notwithstand
ing the efforts of Mr. Beruh is constant
ly subjected, especially in our large cities,
where many of the drivers are more brutal
than the beasts they have in charge. Cor.
A". Y. livening Post.
The "Boss" Milker.
The Boss Milker among cows is one
owned by lien. Hunger ford, of Adams, N.
V., according to the report of the Water
town Tinirs, who has interviewed the pro
prietor. He says: The cow came from
Canada, and the (Jcncral has owned her
something over a year. He came by her
iu this wise ; Some Canadian gentlemen
were telling him of a wonderful cow owned
in til 3 neighiwu hooil of the Bay of Qninto
Ontario, saying that she would give seventy-live
lbs. of milk per day. The (I. neral
was incredulous, and replied, "if you have
a cow that will yield that quantity of milk,
I will pay you fjfoOft fbr ber. Much to my
surprise, continued the General, "the cow
was landed t my door iu the course of a
day or two .and the J?."nH) paid over.'' Her
milking qualities were soon tested and in
stead of limiting herself to .seventy-five
pounds of milk per day, she gave eighty
seven pounds at almost the first tiial. From
these figures she went up to over one hun
dred pounds per day ! and established the
reputation of being the most extraordinary
milker iu the world. We were told by the
General that the greatest milkers ever
given
known were raied in Scotland, where, hy
'The prisoner was to receive a feeding the cows their own mi'k, they have
and buy only at the Iu
who has the heart to
the coffin that must receive the first. born
of your boyhood's friend, far less to haggle
over the price put on it by the maker.
The day of mourning is not a time to pass
from street to street comparing these sad
forms of polished wood, and setting the
price of one against the other.
'J here are many households iu lair condi
tion that cmu i'l afford to lose the head of
the family, and find that the Initial expenses
cut deeply into a year's income. Not to
have a fitting funeral equipment, such as
the fashion of the day requires, argues in
the public mind ignorant or unworthy
motives, and to yield to the full tax of
mode
rn mortuarv
11;
u puoisierv is a severe
pressure upon persons i f even not very
limited means.
We shall hail the day with pleasure
when the mode of sepulcher shall be
simple, and the laying of the dead iu the
earth will not heavily burden t he living.
When "dust to du.-t" is so expensive, is
it any wonder that the cieiuationists have
received countenance, when they offer, at
a trilling outlay and in the old classic
fashion, to turn "ashes? '
Whoever will inaugrate a "movement
against expensive funerals will be a bene
factor, it will be a Ceristiaii charity for
the churches to bctrin a crusade against
the cost of coffins.
How Merchants are Robbed.
Says the .New York correspondent of the
Ibillalo lis pre : Not long ago a young
man, a clerk in a shipping house in this
city, became acquainted with one of those
tempters. The clerk belonged to a most
excellent family, had been well brought up,
and no one thought him capable of doing a
dishonest deed. His tempter was also a
young man, and one of unusual graces of
manner and person. One day he got his
victim to ship a lot of goods to his address,
in Jersey City, and destroyed the receipt.
They sold the goods and shared the pro
ceeds, of the sale. The man who had been
tempted, felt the stings of conscience, and
when his friend asked him to do the deed
again, he refused. But it was of no use.
The "friend" told him if he did not do as
he wits bid, he would expt.se him. Any
thing rather tlian that! He destroyed
another and another, and for a whole year
kept up this system of peculation. He
never received a cent of the guilt money
aft r the first transaction, for the sharper
had him iu his power, and merely used him
as a tool. Finally, the clerk's dishouesty
was discovered, and he w..s brought to trial,
lie appeared to find relief iu his arrest, and
said that anything was belter than the
agony of suspense that he had been in for
the past year ; that he was ashamed to go
heme to hi? mother an S i uters at ldght,
Irom (lie Trilnint.
Patrolman MeDermott of the Twenty
seeond Precinct, while passing by the li
quor saloon of P. Mallinger, at Forty-seventh-st.
and Ninth-ave., on Tuesday
night, was informed by a citizen that there
was a German shoemaker drinking within
who was bargaining for the sale of his-
daughter, a child of V.) years of age, to the'
proprietor of a disreputable house. The
off, :er entered the saloon, and his informer
pointed out Chas. Dinser, of No. 70."
Ninth-ave., as the man. Near Dinser was
sitting Pet .r Ilallock, keeper of a di.-repu--table
house in Canal-st. The officer soon
discovered that Dinser and Hallock were
conversing in German, and not understand
ing that language, he left the salt on' anct
s trobed for officer CI a-s. B. ee'e, a Ger
man. Patrolman Beiek then entered the
saloon and sat down near the men. From
the scraps of conversation which he over
heard he believed that they were haggling
over the price to be paid for the child. At
last the bargain was made, and the officer
understood the seller to declare that the
girl was the third daughter he had sold in
that manner. Dinser and Hallock then
went to the former's residence. The offi
cers waited near by, and soon saw Hallock.
leivethe house, with Lena Dinser.-agetf
E. Hallock took the girl to Forty-ninth--st.
and Ninth-ave.. and there stopped to
wait ff r a car. The officers thereupon
went up to him and asked him whose child
it was that he had with him. Hallock- re
plied that the girl was his child, and that
lie was taking her to his home in Cana-st.
The officers then arrested him and took
him to the Twenty-second Precinct station
house in West Fortv-seventh-st. Other
officers were then sent to Dinser's house.
They found the man lying in bed insensible
from drunkenness. It is supposed that the
buyer of the girl intentionally gave Dinser
all the liquor he could drink in order to
make a cheap purchase and get the child
away easily, Dinser's wife died several
vears ago.
Bed Bugs.
A correspondent writes : After fighting
them eight years, 1 learned from a girl
who had served as chambermaid in a large
boarding house, that bugs could be entire
ly exterminated Ibr all time. I immedia
tely followed her directions, which was to
take grease that was melted out of salt
pork, to melt it, and to keep it melted (the'
vessel can be kept in a pan of coals), and
to put it with the feather end of a rpiill hi
every place where I could find a bug. It
is necessary to see that the bed cordd are
entirely free from the pests, and will war
rant there will be no more trouble.- It is
more that thirty years since a bug has been
seen in my house.
The Philadelphia market consumes, on
an average, 4,o00 head of beef cattle, 15,
i'XIO sheep, and 10,000 hogs per week.
The supply, of beef comes largely from
Texas, the sheep principally from Texasr
and the hogs mostly from Ohio and Wes
tean Pennsylvania. The hogs killed in
Philadelphia are said to be the best used
in any market and far superior to those
killed in New York, the Philadelphia cured
hams and bacon being the choicest sold in
the New York market.
A petrified ring dove has been found in
Beading, and the Times describes it thus ;
"The form of the body, head and neck are
well preserved. The. place- where the eves
were can even be noted. It is in a sitting
posture, half reclining on the right side,
much compressed in the middle of the body,
and the head turned to one side. The
ring round his neck is plainly discernible,
and there can be no mistaking it."
-V Chester man can smokes a cigar until
it is entirely cousuineil, without emitting
any smoke from his month or nose, can
follow this feat by eating a hearty meal,
and afterwards emit all the smoke of the
cigar through his nostrils. The A cks says
so.
The strawberry season along the Hud
son river, N. Y., lasted fifteen days. In
that time, 5-,50 bushels were shipped to
New York. Two thousand pickers re
ceived 00,000 for picking them ; the freight
tm them amounted to 21,000, and thev
were sold for 210,000.
-V largo deposit of white clay such as is
used in the manufacture of queensware,
has just been discovered near Hacketts
town, New Jersey. The only other known
deposit of this clay ui the country is at
Trenton.