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Ecuotcii to politics, Citctoturc, gricnlturc, Science, iJIoralitn, ant, (Scncral Intelligence.
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polished by Theodore Schocli.
Tv "l ,!I:,r :l '"ir 1,1 aIvanco atxt if not
T'!;y ti. cli l of the year, two dollars and liity
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. !,.-. r (li-.oiitinn.-l until all arrearages are
.' ' . '. . 1... .mi ion of tin1 IMitor.
I '- i iv. riiviin'iit- i !'iiar' i (ci-'iii lines) or
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up
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Karli a.l.litioiial in-
, vuviit. I.onrr oiu-s in iroportion
JOIZ IIXTl.Ci
OF A I I. KINDS,
, i the liiuhet style of the Art, ami ou the
1 mot reasonable terms.
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DR. J.LANTZ,
EON & MECHANICAL DENTIST.
.,. lii- nili.-e on Main street, in the se;oiil story
f'i , s H'a!i'jns hriek liuiiiiiii?, nearlv opposite the
'' ijnir' Hoiisi'. ami he Haters himself that by i-i-h-!
-.Vr t"nitant jinu-tiit anl the most earnest and
:"'V.i'.,it,iiiti.ti to :ll matters pertaining to hi pro
r,r "' 'that he i Ui? a'1'1-' perform all op.'ratioiis
-titai line in the ni'st careful and skillful inan-
; s :i1 sitenti"" -riven to Mviwr the Natural Teeth ;
the insertion of Artitieial Teeth on UuWier,
" Vi s'lver. r C.iiitiiiiious (iums, and perfect fits in all
' .-,i
'T tV''',; know the ereat folly and danger of on
'. "oiiii.'ir work to the iuexierieneel. or to those liv-
: jt a 1
b... s ri:cn,
Miigt'on Zcntist.
i..nnii'ii-" that havin: just returned from P.-ntal
:'!... i- l'i i U v prepared in make artificial teeth in
';'!r! I) aulil'il and lifs-like manner, and to fill de-
" t -tli a. rdiwr to tlie mot improved method.
V . !i i ;ra l- 'l " i'hoiit pain, when ilei nil, by the
. .."iir:iKide tias. which is entirely bannless.
'-I, "..."ill kind neat I v done. All work warantcd.
v'-.;.'. r".:,..,;a!l'.
.. 1 t. K -Il r's new brick building. Main street,
r..,Ti.;ir ra. rAu. ::i '71-tf.
mhhlMA S. REES,
surveyor, Conveyancer and
Agent.
Firms
Timber Lands and Town Lots
FOR SALE.
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xl il ir .tUove S. Recs' news Depot
.r li -JivA' ihe Corner
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2iin, Surgeon and Accoucheur,
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Miiti street. Strou:lbnr?, Pa., in Dr.
Pays
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f'-'i i-. iK-t', C'TrUT of
Dr. A. Keeves Jackson,
.srli an J Franklin .-treet.
STROUDSBURG, PA.
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PHYSICIAN
AND ACCOUCHEUR,
Mnr.XTAIX HOME. PA.
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wmiM inform t'le nuMic that
li i- h i-. (! ill-" li(iiisr f. irmnllv kriil tiv .Inro!
in tin- I'.or'niiih of Strinulbtirpr, P-
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I .i ivirvj rop.iir.tod and refurnished the same,
j-! :v; ir..-. ti entertain all who may patronize
It h the aim of tlie prf)jrietr, to furn
i -"r-ri-ir aot'otntno'latious at moderate rates
s') ! vv.
i ire no pain-: to promote tlie corn
A ilbel
ll .-hare of 1 Miblic
licit
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FX L. PISLE.
II 3NE3DALE, PA.
ion of any Hotel in town.
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I'roiirietors.
'' Attorney ;ii Ijiiv,
i.'l 'i' ' building formerly occupied
'!' " ' ,r!: and opposite the Strouds-
i- iiik. Main street, Stroud-Lurg, Pa.
'Mil i:;-tf
D'A. KDWARl) A. WILSON'S (of
U J iilia:nstmrr, X. Y.) ecij.e for COX
'HTIOX and ASTII.MA carefully
EOLUNSHEAD'S DRUG STORE.
M"ir in r f, exit and jmre.
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)fv ?r yo" Ii,,ow 111111 J; Ji
,;uti ' &ns are the only Uuler
Cf" I.tru l.vl)ur who understands their
!.. ' 11 "ot- attend a J-uneral managed
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y' want anv thin'? in tho Furniture or
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vjj v ,!',aI,1,,,,e McCarty & Sons in the
j, r nan, 31am street, Stroudsbur-,
I I'l-i'-e to iret it.
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Olade (lotliin-, (iuits Fur
th Goods, Hats & Caps,
Kcots & Shoes, &c.
Ktsr A' 77? 0 JDS ft UR G, PA.
(Xear the Depot.)
jPjlicare invitH to call and examine
"-'-s tr.oUcratc.
May 6,'69-tf i
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Another Phase of the Ross case Affi
davit made Yesterday by Christian
JL Loss before Alderman Beitler.
The following affidvait made yesterday
before Alderman David Beitler i.s a part of
the lcjrul record of a suit for libel which
Mr. Christian K. Ross, father of the ab
ducted child. Charley Ross, has be-un
against the editors of the Reading Dai!,
Lagle. J
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania City
and county of Philadelphia, ss. Christian
l. Loss, bemp: duly sworn according to
law, doth depose and say : I am a citizen
oi said lMiiIadolphia, and a member of the
firm of Rss, Shott k Co., wholesale cloth
dealers, at No. 'M Market street, in said
city. I am informed and believe that Wil
liam S. Pitter and Jesse (I. Hawley, of the
city of Reading and county of Perks, in
said Commonwealth, are the editors and
publishers of a certain newspaper entitled
the Reading Wty Eagle, and that on
Tuesday, September l., 1874, the said
editors and publishers printed and pub
lished in said newspaper the following
words :
THE ROSS CASE ALL A HUMBUG.
The History of the Family Who Mrs.
Ross is and Her Troubles Their
Friends' Theory of the Absence of the
Child Alleged Whereabouts of Little
Charley.
UKKMAXTmyx. Pa.. Sept. 1 4. TheRoss
case, like all thin-x transient, i.s p-adually
disappearin-- fiotn the puhlie mind, hut be
fore we o-ive it a liual ;oodby, allow me to
offer you a theory, which, thus far, I have
not .seen presented. I am a neighbor of
Christian K. Ross, and we neighbors have
our thoughts and opinions ou the subject
of the child's disappearance, which, I think,
should be presented to the world.
About ten years airo, when Christian
Ross was making his mark, and when his
business was in the most prosperous condi
tion, he married a Western lady of jiood
family, and very wealthy. He had two
children of the marriaire, Walter Ross-and
Charles Rrewster Ross. For a lmi time
this was one of the happiest families in
Philadelphia, but a few years ago Ross be
ir.ui to lead the life of a debaueheee : he
sought other com; :.nv than his wife's, his
business began to decrease, and ho .;oj,:".:uc
a bankrupt. To a ref.ncd and delicate wo
man like his wile this was a crushing blow,
and she fied from the man, leaving the
children in his care, and sought the pro
tection of her friends. To my knowledge
no divorce ever took place between the par-
ties, and a short time after the flight ol'the
wife anot'icr woman took her place in the
family, who still occupies it.
The following is the theory of those who
know tne family, Mid who are acquainted
with Ross personally : .Some months be
fore the kidnapping Mr. Ross received let
ters from his lirst and only wife, asking
and demanding the children. It will be
recollected that even up to this time he
had refused to show any of the letters he
reeeived. with the exception of the black
m.iling note, and it will also be borne in
mind that the attempt, was made to steal
both children. It was not until three days
after the kidnapping that the fact was
made public, and until that time the child
was safely in the hands of its mother or
her friends in the West. We think 31 r.
Ross knows now, and always, did know,
where his child is. but refrained from mak
ing it public, f jr family matters. As re
gards the advertisements, the blackmailing
note, &e., we think they are all forgeries,
written either by Ross himself or his
friends, intended to divert public attention
from the facts. (r.
On Wednesday. September lf. l!S7d.
and thereafter copies of said newspapers
containing the above recited words were
published bv said editors in the said city
of Philadelphia, the said Ritter & Hawley
sending them to said Philadelphia, and
there selling and distributing the same.
The said words, printed and published
as above recited, are utterly and completely
false and untrue, and are of a character to
injure inc in my said business and to black
en 1113- reputation.
At the age of 38 years, having been
theretofore unmarried, ou the 21th day of
July, 1SU2, I was married to Sarah Ann
Lewis, of Rrookfield, Mass. Of this mar-
rta'i'e mere nave oeen oorn 10 me. n 1:111,
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children, to wit William Lewis Ros.-
Augustus Stouditon Ross, IJenry Augutus
Ross, Sophia Lewis Ross, Walter Lewis
Ross. Charles Brewster Ross, Marion Kim
ball Ross and Annie Christine Ross, 111 the
order here stated, all of whom are living,
except William Lewis Ross, who died in
I8;:i.
My said wife has lived with me without
interruption from the date of my said mar
riage, and continues so to live, no difliculty
of any kind having ever arisen between us;
I have never had any other wife nor my
wife any other husband.
It is true that in April last my firm was
compelled to suspend payment of its. debts,
but this was wholly due to causes of a pure
ly business nature.
On the first day of July last my sons,
the said Walter Lewis Ross and Charles
Brewster Ross, were abducted from my
residence on Washington hne, in tlie
Twenty-second Ward, of said Philadelphia,
by two unknown men ; Walter was left at
the corner of Palmer and Richmond streets,
in said city ; but of Charles no clew nor
trace has since been found, nor have I nor
any of my family any knowledge ot lin
whereabouts since tlie ursc- nay 01 u j,
1874.
I do olemn!v swear that all the state-
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iusinutations and theories in me
STROUUSBURG, MONROE COUNTY, PA., OCTOBER
printing contained coneernin? mv
character and conduct, and concerning any
lctters alleged to have been by me received
prior to the said abduction, and as to any
difficulty in my family or domestic relations,
are absolutely untre in every particular.
CniasrrAK K. Ross.
Sworn and subscribed before me this 22d
day. of September, A. 1). 1S74.
David Beitlf.k, Alderman.
A Queer Race of Human Beings.
In the Journal of the Anthropological
Institute Lieutenant Swinton C. Holland,
R. X'., gives an exceedingly interesting pa
per upon the Ainos, or the supposed
aborigines of Yesso, Saghalien, Kunashir,
and the most of the Kurile Islands. Al
though in utter subjugation to the Japa
nese they are a distinct race in form, lang
uage, clothing, building, navigation, feasts,
and superstitions. The men are of middle
stature ; they carefully cultivate the beard
and moustache, never using knife or scis
sors upon them. Their bodies are also
covered with coarse hair, growing profusely
on the breast, arms and legs, and in some
cases over the backbone.
Th eir only method of computing time is
by great events, as, for example, the time
of the great snow storm, the catching of
the big fish, &c. They preserve a rough
record of their ancient history in songs
and talcs. The mode of saluting among
the men is to rub the hands together, raise
them to the forehead, palms up, and then
to.stroke the beard. Among the women
the custom is to draw the first finger of
the right hand between the first finger and
the thumb of the left ; then to raise both
hands to the forehead, palms up ; then to
rub the upper lip under the nose with the
first finder of the riirht hand. When a
1
man has been traveling and returns home
he and his friends lay their hands on each
other's shoulders ; the elder of the two then
places his hands upon the head of the
younger, and strokes it down, gradually
drawing his hands over the shoulders, down
the arms, and to the very tips of the fing
ers of the younger ; until this is done neith
er spt aks a wo; d.
When a pers n dies all mention of him
eca. es ; his hou.'e is cither burned or de
serted, and his utensils, however coveted
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tsi:-ei
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ii surviving nchrhbors. are
K ft untouched.
They worship the spirits of their ances
tors, of the elements, ami of natural ob
jects. The most sacred animal seems to be
the bear, the young of which arc caught
and suckled by women. When weaned
they are kept i;i sacred cages, and fed for
two or three years. They are then killed
and eaten with u;reat ceremony, while their
skulls go to adorn the tops of the posts of
the sacred stockade. llnijxcs jLtjazuie
Starting a Fire ou a Damp Morning.
Many persons have often noticed the cx
treaie difficulty encountered in lirhtimr the
lire in a stove, especially on a still, damp
morning. The stove at first won't draw ;
even vigorous blowing"' will not sullice ;
and then when it does start, it is with a
sort of explosion or outward rush of air
which fills the room with smoke and gas,
oftentimes puffing the unpleasant fumes in
the face of the operator. The trouble is
caused by the difficulty encountered in
overcoming the inertia of the long column
of air in the pipe or chimney, by tlie small
column of air that can be forced up, through
the interstices of the wood and coal, at the
bottom of which the fire is kindled. All this
may be remedied by simply putting a few
shavings or bits of dry paper on the top of
the wood or coal, and first lighting that. It
immediately bursts into a blaze, because
the air has pe-rfeetly free access to it from
all sides, the heated air forces its way into
the chimeny, and establishes there an up
ward current. The match can then be ap
plied to the kindling under the fuel, which
will readily light, and, if dry, burst into a
brisk flame.
Imparting Disease.
It is not often that dogs are instrumen
tal in the spreading of sinall-pox, but an
instance showing how the dreaded disease
was imparted in this manner has just come
to light at Yonkers, X. Y. Xot many hours
subsequent to the death of a man named
Van Ordeu from the loathsome malady,
and which occurred in that city a few days
since, a neighbor's dog found its way to the
bed from which the corpse had been re
moved, and indulged in a roll on the cover
ing. On returning home the brute, was
fondled by its mistress, the result being
that she soon afterwards developed unmis
takable symptoms of the contagion. The
infectious d g was then summarily shot,
and the patient has since recovered. An
other illustration of the facility with which
the pestilential disorder can be transmitted
may be cited in connection with the same
case. It seems that the wife of Van Or
tleii, fearing that the health officer would
order the clothing worn by her deceased
husband to be burned, concealed a bundle
of it in the house of a friend, and as a con
sequence the latter was attacked with a
mild type of small-pox, which ultimately
yielded, however to prompt medical treat
ment. A valuable Alderney cow, belonging to
Dr. Hines, of Doylestown, dropped dead in
the field last week, and a st mortem in
vestigation institu'ed by the doctor showed
that he.-death bad resulted from a needla-
death bad resulted lrom a needla
alxut two inches-long which had punctured !
the muscles of the heart.
said
It Out.
Judge Pitman's chimney has been foul
for some time, and when he mentioned the
fact at the drug store, Mr. Squills said he
could easily clean it out by exploding a lit
tle powder in the fire-place. The idea
seemed to Pitman to be a good one, and he
bought almost ten pounds of powder in
order to do the work thoroughly at the
first blast. The men were busy gravelling
his roof that day, and just as the Judge
was about to touch off the charge, a work
man named Snyder, leaned over tlie top of
the chimney to call to the man below to
send up more tar. Then the Judge lit the
slow match. The view which met the eye
of 3Ir. Snyder as he went up was a fine
one, embracing as it did, Cape May and
Omaha and Constantinople and Baltimore
and the Sand-whieh Islands, and when he
Kot enough of drinking in the Scenery, he
came down in the river, apparently with
the intention of exploring the bottom.
When he was fished out he was glad to
learn, not only that the Judge's chimney
was thoroughly clean, but that it would
need about four cart loads of bricks to re
pair damages. After this the Judge will
clean his Hues with a bursh fastened to a
clothes prop.
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Give Your Child a Paper.
A child beirinning
to read becomes de
lighted with a newspaper, beeaues he
reads of names and things which are
familiar, and he will progress accordingly.
A newspaper in one year is worth a quar
ter's schooling to a child. Every father
must consider that information is connected
with advancement. The mother of a family,
being one of its heads, and having a more
immediate charge of children, shouid herself
be instructed. A mind occupied becomes
fortified against the ills of life, and is braced
for emergency. Children amused by read
ing or study are, of course, more considerate
and easily governed. How many thought
less young men have spent their earnings
in a tavern or grop-shop who ought to have
been reading? How many parents who
have not spent twenty dollars for books for
their families, would have given thousands
to reclaim a son or daughter who had
ignorantly, thoughlessly, fallen into tempta
tion. Poisoned by Lead.
At Lennoxtown, in Scotland, recently, a
lady's death was caused by lead poison con
tained in soda water. She had been in de
licate health, and had been in consequence
ordered to drink freely of soda water. She
did so, and shortly afterward manifested
all the symptoms that would attach to a
patient suffering the effects of poison. Sus
picion eventually fell on the soda water. A
bottle was sent for analysis to Dr. Wallace,
(Jlasgow, with the result that the aerated
liquid was found to contain lead in the pro
portion of 9-l0ths of a grain in a gallon.
The effect of that is stated in the following
sentence in Dr. Wallace's report: '-Ordinary
drinking water is considered dan
gerous if it contains 1-lOof a grain of lead
per gallon, and some authorities consider
even 1-20 of a grain deleterious to health
if the water is used continuously for a series
of weeks or months." In the case refer
red to the patient drank this soda water to
the extent of six or seven bottles daily,
swallowing in the same time no less than
three-eighths of a grain of lead.
The Greatest Gun Ever Made.
The new eighty-ton gun is progressing
at Woolwich. When finished, this mon
ster piece of ordnance will be greater than
twice the size of the largest gun in ex
istence, and its destructive powers at fight
ing range proportionate. With a sixteen
inch projectile, weighing 1,1530 pounds, and
its maximum charge of 300 pounds of pow
der, it will pierce the best irom plates
twenty inches thick, at 500 yards, sixteeu
inch plates at 5,300 yards, and will pitch a
sixteen-ineli shell into a ship or fortress at
a distance of 10,300 yards. The steel block
forming the inner tube was the largest
ever cast, weighing over twelve tons, while
the trunnion-piece, about eighteen tons,
was the largest forging ever produced at
the arsenal. The actual cost of this fearful
engine of war will not fall far short of
81.000.
A Secret for Farmers.
It is worth knowing that every keeper
of cows may cause them to calve during
the day time, instead of. night or day as it
may happen, causing much watching and
want of sleep. The simple methed is this:
When the cow is in calf, and the milk be
ginning to fail, till she is about "yelled,"
let no milk be taken from her during the
day, or night, but milk her any time in the
morning, and let none be taken but in the
morning ; and when her time to calve has
come she will drop her young in the day
time. Two of our friends have tried this
simple method and have found it correct
in every ease. One who has eighteen cows
has tried it these two, years, and now they
never think of setting up at night. Fife
Journal.
The American conscience is becoming
too beautiful to last. A countrywoman
lately went into a store in Boston, and de
positing four dollars on the counter ob
served that fourteen years ago she had got
all that bads in change for a dollar bill.
"Taint no use. the remarked. "I aint
m- !.. .." 1 1 liT
agoing to keep it any longer, so there it is !
4 ami. 110 use, tue icuiai tveo, 1 anil
all back again.
Blowing
1, 1874.
Preparing For Death.
The West Chester RejniLUean says : A
pauper in the Delaware county Almshouse
is so averse to being buried at the county's
expense that for several years he has been
making skewers, whieh he sold to neigh
boring butchers. From means derived
from this source alone, he has purchased
a burial lot in a church yard, and a tomb
stone, with his name and other lettering
complete, save and except the date of death,
which hclias stipulated is to be filled in at
the proper time. I Ie has likewise deposited
sufficient money in the hands of a lady at
(jlen Riddle to purchase a coffin and pay
his other funeral expenses. Win. Wassoii
is the name of this singular individual.
Important Coal Oil Statistics.
TlTUSVILLE, Sept. 18. The Courier
published to-day an itemized and elaborate
report of the great Rutle oil district, cover
ing the entire production of the country
south and west of Pittsburg.
The figures have all been collected by
going over each farm and taking the
records of each well in detail. The sum
mary gives at present 5DG producing wells
and 81 wells now drilling. There are 1070
engineers employed. The working capital
invested i.s 81,859,000. The daily pro
duction of oil in this district is 15,318
barrels, which is a large decrease since the
1st of August.
A few days ago a very quiet, modest
young girl, with an eighth, or some such
imperceptible mixture of colored blood in
her veins, went into Trousdale count-,
Tennessee, to teach a negro school. A few
nights after she brgan, some masked men
went into her boarding house and called for
her. On her refusing to go out, they shot
her in bed, through a window. The shot
killed her. She was an utter stranger,
and could not positively have been guilty
of anything but teaching negroes. Rut
these persons shot her, and one of the same
kind, possibly one of the murderers, writes
to the Xashville Banner about it and the
character of the people in this way : -Out
of all the bright galaxy of counties that
form the proud old Commonwealth of
Tennessee none shine with a brighter lustre,
or are more distinguished for peace, mo
rality, order and law."
Xcw Orleans is just now of an electric
man one Major Cothell. He was paraly
zed in one arm. Suddenly, one night, the
arm became illuminated with phosphoric
light. '-Electric lights dropped from the
fingers," and the side of the face and neck
shone with lambent fire. He was a bat
tery fully charged. Feeling a mysterious
influence in his left eye, he called ujon his
friends to examine it. They found it to
be perfectly natural in appearance, except
that it emitted a bright illumination, which
cast a light on the wall sufficient 1- strong
in a darkened room to enable him to see
the figures on the wall paper. In a word,
the eye shone out like a lamp. What a
medium he would make ! And what a sav
ing of candle-light there is in him for any
careful woman who will marry him !
At length, and not a moment too soon,
the President has put his foot down with
regard to the horrible atrocities perpetrated
upon innocent ami unoffending Republi
cans by the murderous '-White Leagues"
of Louisiana and other Southern States.
The action taken by the Executive will
thoroughly commend itself to all honest
and law-abiding citizens of both parties
and sections, since the duties relating to
the establishment and security of human
rights are always supreme. The scoun
drelly cut-throats who have been keeping
up this hell's holiday in the South have
now reached the end of their tether.
The nomination of lion. Edward M. Pax
son for the Supreme Court, by the Repub
lican State Convention, gives much satisfac
tion to the Republicans of Bucks county,
among whom the Judge has many warm
personal friends. Thev are gratified that
this distinction has fallen upon the
shoulders of a son of Bucks county, and
they feel that his elevation to the court of
highest authority in the State will add to
that tribunal a member whose ability and
integrity are universally acknowleded.
.Judge Paxsoii will receive the hearty sup
port of the Republicans of his native coun
ty at the approaching election, and proba
bly that of numerous Democrats who know
and respect him
Dogleshftr 11 Jh nincn tt.
A good field of corn is describe! by the
Danville Ciii'ni, Indiana, whose editor says :
'We found upon actual measurement that
it would average; eleven feet or over, many
stalks being found thirteen feet high. We
had to stand on the top of a tenrail fence
to see over the field, and the tops of the
corn seemed as level almost as water. "We
have seen many fields of ce.rn this season,
but none better than this."
The combs of Spanish and Leghorn fowls
are utillied in some parts of Kurope as
choice delieaies for the palates of those who
sigh for fresh appetizers. Under the name
of -Cretes de Coq," a supply of these
morsels has been recently imported hither
from Paris. The combs are of large size,
both single and rose, and are put up in
white vinegar, in long tubular glass bottles,
holding about ' a pint, scaled with black
wax. When we say that these small bot
tles cost at wholesale in Paris more than a
dollar in gold each, the reflection is forced
that many a large combed rooster may in
future be sacrificed to mammon, as many
were offered up to hfcufapius.
NO. 19.
Fifteen new school houses are being'
erected in Rerks county.
Rutler county has nine hundred and forty-five
cases on the docket for trial.
An apple, weighing 20 i ounces, has
been grown by a Nebraska pomologist.-
A Xew York doctor figures it out that
an average woman sheds one barrel of tears;
in 40 years.
The oystermen of Atlantic county' say.
there will be an unusually large growth of
oysters this fall.
lion. John I. Rlair has just presented
the Blairstown M. E. Church with a fine'
bell weighing 1000 pounds.
Eight hundred tons of grapes, valued at
8125,000, have been shipped from Vincland'
during the present season.
According to the new city directory',
Pleading has 31 churches, 15G societies and
32 building associations.
It is said that the Louisiana sugar crop
will be splendid, probably fifty thousand'
hogsheads above an average.
Six hundred thousond tons will be the
maximum of merchantable wheat, for trans--'
portation from San Francisco, this j-ear.
Two persons were married in an Illinois
town last week, the groom being eight)'-'
two and the bride seventy-four years of
age.
Reuben Felk, of Longswamp township,
Rerks county, has acres of corn ten to
twelve feet high, ears two feet niiie inches
long.
Some time ago five sisters of the order'
of St. Benedictine, from Elizabeth, art tied?
111 i.aston, and now have a school of 200;
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scnolars.
There will be no more State elections
until October 13, when Ohio. West Vir-
ginia, Indiana, Iowa and Nebraska hold'
theirs.
The Forest county balcklierrv cron is;
estimated by the Tionesta JWs. at 100,--000
bushels, of which but lO.OUO buslielS"'
were gathered.
William Clark was compelled to pay
blU aild COSts ill thf Atl.mtii. ennrfg f.,r
cutting off the mane and tail of a horse
belonging to a neighbor.
About 1.000 Icelanders will soon' emi
grate to Wisconsin' and settle on a'; tract of
land purchased by agents whom they" sent
in advance a few mouths ago.
Shartelsville, Berks, county,, is excite
oyer an eight footed sow with a litter of
eight pigs, f bur of which have eight feet
a h. All alive and squealing.-
A New York merchant writes to the'
Attorney-General that large quantities of
arms and ammunition have' been sold there
to organized bodies in the Southern States:-
Some wealth. The Canadian banks;
boast of 8100,000,000 deposits, of which
ever 831,000,000 is on call,- 830,000,000'
after notice, and the balance permanently"
invested.
John Crown, a one-armed soldier, attemp--ted
to kill his wife in Paterson, N. J., on
Thursday, by stabbing her in several places.
He then cut his own throat and shortly
after died.
The forest fires in New Jersey pines"
drive the snakes into the houses ; if fireff
in the houses would only drive the snakes
of society out into the pines, such couflagra--tions
would be blessings in disguise.-
A stray balloon, with a lady and gehtle--nian
in it, is supposed to be floating about
in space. It started from Calais, France,,
on the 31st of August, and had not been
heard of since, at latest advices.-
A number of recent experiments prove
that wagons are most easily drawn on all
kinds of roads when the fore' and himl
wheels arc of the same size, and when the
pole lies lower than the axle.
The cheese made in Canada this -car
will closely approach 85.000,000 in value.
This looks remarkably like progress when
it is remembered that ten years ago there
was not such a thing as a "cheese factory '
in the country.
A large vein of. corundum has been
found near Unionville, in Chester county,
Pa. This mineral serves the purpose of
emery. It has hitherto been found in
limited quantities, but now the supply is
Nim 10 ue immense.
A Yankee poet thus breaks forth : ' Oh!
the snore, the beautiful snore, filling the
chamber from ceiling to floor ! Over th
coverlet, under the sheet, from her wee
dimpled chin to her pretty feet ! Now
rising aloft like a bee in June ; now fluet
like subsiding, then rising again, is the
beautiful snore of Elizabeth Jane.
You can patch j our rubber boots or over
shoes to make them water-proof, as follows :
Cut a patch out of rubber, and rub the
patch and the boot with sand-paper. Dis
solve a little pure rubber in turpentine, or
naptha, to the thickness of molasses ; smear
the patch and boot five time with this,
letting it dry each time ; then smear onco
more and press together.
This is- the way tlie people who lives on
the coast of Maine describe their weather :
Dirty days hath September,
April, June and November ;
From January up to May.
The rain it rainelh, every day.
All the rest have thirty-one,
Without a blessed gleam of sun;
And if any of them had two and thirty
They'd be jiM as wet and twice a-s dirty.
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