J XliDj J JDjjD J? HiXiolJli IAIN . tDcuotcfc to politics, Citcratuvc, Agriculture, Science, illoralitp, cinb (General Intelligence. 32. STR0UJJSJ3URG, MONROE COUNTY, PA., NOVEMBER 5, 1874. KO. 24. ; uVj hr Theodore Sc'ioch. i!,n i vear In aiivanrp and if not "1 r 11 ' . . . j it i r. i-. r.; en l f tho year. lw u ""j i,.fhar ,i until all arreara.-res' are fi" . ii th' f'l''',,n 0 i-'i"1-"-""v?l , n-nt f "l"ar" nf (0,7l,t 1 ,..rti:ins SI -r0. Each addui lino1 or additional in- l.miuor oni- in proportion. rtiir-' i OH V RI XT X G OF A 1.1. KIM'S, ( . i,; Vt stvlo of the Art, and on the lU, t 'riM-Soli'iiMe tv-rms. na. J. LANTZ, .toy & MECHANICAL DENTIST. v , 1,-e on Man street, in me secona su.rr 7, ,',' l.ri'k l.uil.Un- nwlr opj-osite tlie :r; ;,,.! In- l!ut,-rs liinwrlf that by t-iirh- ..i-? pr-v-tii'.' and tha lu-vit earnest and ..i'"!"":., initfrs p-rtainin:; to li is pro t;:',0,!;,"'; f l!'iv ti vvl'trin all operations a1' ' :.. ."i. . .l..f i-ur. f.il and skilUV.l niau- ...ntwn eien to savin? th( Natural Teeth; Kl riii f Artifu-ial Tectu ou Rul.b-.-r. " i'r orfoir.iuuous limns, and perfect fits ia all '''' know the Croat Mir and danger of en- April 13, 1S74. tf. U.X. I , i n-- t'ia at having iut returned from Dental ,,,n.-i i artificial tM-th in j en j. ... i i i:r. iiira ititnnor arid id 1:11 up . i..iMt;I.:i aii'ii'i- ------- voTtlin j to th? moist 'rtiprov nicthri k-Iioti Hi"iirpii hv the ii'V'irxidtJw. wl;Vh is entirely harml?s. f.Wall kiud m-atly doiic. All work waniuted. i.; "r s n" Ag. si '7i-tf. ' "WILLIAM S. REES, 5;:-eyor, Conveyancer and 31 TT-f-.n.tn Ap'fint. :jzi, Timb?r Lands and Town Lots FOR SALE. n e next door alxvc S. Kees' news Depot : I ,1 .or liclow the Corner Store. D P.. II OU AUO PATTLI1SOX, F:ysi:ian, Sareon and Accoucheur, (Successor to Geo. W. Seip.) neMi'n street. Stromlsbur, Pa., in Dr. itsdne meeting Ii-u.-e. ( 7 to 9 a i; hour , 1-: - I ( r " 0 p. m. Apr'.i ii' 1S7 1-ly. arah 6trett, next Prompt attention New Work for Agricultural Societies. Kds. Country G kxtlema.v. That much ;ood h accompliahcJ through asri eukural societies, there can be no cuestioti. The stimulus they give to improvement in farm products, the practical knowledge they disseminate, and the experiments thy cause to be made, undoubtedly result in real and permanent benefit. Uut the plans by which they seek to improve farming, though very good, are susceptible of im provement. They should seek to improve the fanners tlienmdccs, and then first-class products will naturrally follow. In the pemium lists we find scores of prizes for superior punmkins, squashes, potatoes, &c, but none fur superior men. The points of merit are considered with extreme nicctv in horses, cattle, swine and poultry, but the excellencies and accomplishments of our sons and daughters are never rewarded. Is a splendid ox more likely to improve agriculture than an industrious, skillful and temperate young farmer ? At fairs the premium b invariably awarded to the ox. A new feature should be added to the premium .list. A series of prizes should be offered for the intelligence, efficiency and morality of our young men and wo men who are to become farmers or farmer's wives. Let a premium be off -red to the tanner s son ana uaunter wi:o nave ac quired the most thorough education with out attending a high school ; to the far mer s son who can do the best piece of work, repairing an agricultural instrument in the shortest time : to the farmer's daugh ter who can make the best roll of butter, the best loaf of bread, do the best piece of sewing, play the best on the lnelodeon or piano, and has tho finest flower-bed, cared fur by herself. All accomplishments ne cessary in a farmer or a wife, might re ceive rewards from agricultural societies. Kvcry young farmer who has thoroughly acquired the rudiments of a good educa tion, who is industrious and energetic at his work, who uses uo strong drink, and ployed nine or ten hundred couriers and coach-drivers and station keepers, and more than one hundred Concord coaches. .Every day in the year one of the:?e stages started from the east end and one from the west end of the route, and often as many a? fifty were making the trip at the ?anie time. The coach stations were ten miles apart, and there were more than two hundred of them in all. The route led from Atchison, Mo., across the plains for five days to Den ver, Col.; then five days more up the llocky Mountains to Salt Lake City, Utah ; then seven days more down the mountains to Sacramento city. Cal. At one station the stage-coach reached a level of 5,000 feet above the plains, and in the summer mouths it was the custom of the drivers to stop there ten minutes, not for refreshments, but to allow the passengers the novel plea sure of snow-balling each other iu July. In these dreary mountains few persons were then to be met, other than members of the family of 31 r. (irizzly Bear, who, if he hapens to be hungry, is a very unpleas ant fellow to travel with. On the plains the enemy most dreaded was the red-skinned tribes, whose roving bands almost daily attacked the coaches. To repel such at tacks each passenger was required to carry a ritie as part ol his baggage. A "cracji driver" was one who could drive four horses at full speed with the reins in hi teeth and a rifle in his hands. Every sta tion was a fort, with soldiers to defend it. Often the coaches had to be guarded from station to station by the soldiers, who fid lowed on horse-back, and at times the sold iers, and passengers were forced to fortify themselves in the coach aud fight until help came by the approach of other coaches. Seventeen days of a trip like this would furnish almost enough adventure for a life time. But it was the swift mail-couriers of this line who ran risks and led adventurous lives full of daring and danger. They ran the gauntlet of the Indians all aloue at nb'ht as well as bv uav aud a rough time many of thcru had of it. Their stations were twenty-five miles apart, and the trip There a-re no bones and tough pieces that have to be laid aside. A good egg is made up of ten parts shell, fixty parts trhite and thirty parts yoiK. j.he white oi an cgs m. ni. D R. GEO. J ACKSON ISfEN. SURGEON AND AlCOlTUEUR. In o! 1 ofTu-e of Dr. A. Peeves Jackson, i;ieo, c rner of Snrah and Franklin street. STROUDSBURG, PA. S72-if PHYSICIAN AND ACCOUCHEUR, MOUNTAIN HOME. PA. Hir-:h :V74-flra who i3 wide awake to the principles and rcouirements of his caHimr. should have a i between them had to Imj made at a fall lmI- free life-membership conferred upon him loi and in two hours and a half, winter or summer, day or night, over plain or moun tains. The horses were hardy Indian ponies, swift and sure cf foot ; but the ser vice killed them very rapidly. The riders were old j ioncers. who knew the ways of the Indians and how to avoid them. Still many of them fell victims to their daring and their sense cf duty. The long trip of 2,000 miles occupied the r.uil-cariers eight days, at the rate of more than ten miles an hour ; but important election news was car ried at a still mere rapid rate. But at ine-memuersiiip by both his county and State society, as soon as he has reached the age of twenty. It is this class of men we keen on the farm if progress is to be made. So long as our most intelligent young men leave the farm and seek employment in other departments of industry, so long will agriculture de generate ; for the quality of any work de pend. on the qu.dity of the workman. Whatever influence sock-ties mny possess in m iking farming attractive to young men, should be ex.-rted without stint. Anither way iu which societies may aid j length the harnessed lightning and the iron contains eighty-six per cent, water ; the yolk fifiy-trro per cent. The average weight of an egg i about two ounces, practically an egg u animal focd, and vet there is none of the disagreeable work of the butcher ne eewirj to obtain it. The veteran of Eng land u:j eggs freely, and many of these men are eighty and ninety years old, and hare been remarkably free from illness. A g od egg is alive. The shell is poroiu and the osviren of the air roes through the shell and keeps i?p a kind of respiration. An egg soon becomes stale in bad air, or indry air charged with carbonic acid. Eggs may be dried and made to retain their goodness for a long time, or the shell may be varn ished, which excludes the air, when, if kept iu a moderate temperature they may be kfpt good for years. The French people produce more esrgs than any other, and ship millions of thviu to England annually. Fresh egs are more transparent at the centre, old ones on the top. Very old ones are i:ot transparent in cither place. In water in which one tenth of salt has been dissolved good eggs sink and indiffer ent ones swim. Bad eggs float in pure water. The best eggs are laid by young healthy liens. If they are property fed the eggs are better than if they are allowed to eat all sorts of food. Eggs are best when cooked four minutes. This takes away the aniiual taste, that is offensive to some, but does not harden the white or yolk as to make them hard to digest. An egg if cooked very hard is difficult of digestion, except by those with btout stomachs, such egu:s should be eaten with bread and masti cated very finely. An excellent sandwich can be made with eggs and brown bread. An cirg spread on toast is food fit lor a king, if kings deserve any better food than anyljody else, which is doubtful. Fried egirs are less wholesome than boiled ones. An egg dropped into hot water is not only a clean and handsome but a delicious mor sel. Most people spoil the taste of their eggs by adding pepper aud salt. A little sweet butter is the best dressing. Eggs contain much phosphorus, which is sup posed to be useful to those who use their brains much. 1'uiillry Ucvicic, Eng. fishing was precarious, and there were in tervals of famine ; for fortune does not al wavs smile on the hunter, and the beasts of the forest are net always equally numer ous. 'Die fiiod, tno, was uniform, and not altogether adapted for man, for the flesh of the wild animal lacks fat. The man of those times had not enough of the heat producers in his food ; and that he felt this waut we learn from his taste for the mar row of bones. All the long bones of ani mals that are found in cave-dwellings are cracked open lengthwise, in order to get out the marrow. Now this .insufficient, uniform food has its counterpart in t he low grade of culture which then prevailed, as evidenced by the mode of life, the weapons and the tools.- Man then lived isolated, without social organization ; he dwelt in caverns, and his only protection against the cold was the skins of animals and the fire cn the hearth. 1 lis tools were of stone, unpolished, unadorned ; ho rudely fashioned that only the rye of the connoisseur can recognize in them man's handiwork. Pt mular Science Monthly. How to Have Good Cider. A .MCRIC.i.f HOTEL. The jWri'itr would inform the public that hs -a: tho !io!i-e formally kepthv Jacob Kr."hr. in the l)oroul of .Strondsburg, Pa., f.i !i-iv;n rej-'ilnted and refurnished theaame. ;repirei to entertain all who may patronize i f-n. It U tlie aim of the proprietor, to furn- ''";rior aff-oiaaiodalion at moderate rates i epsre no pnin to promote the com- r " ih- g A liberal share of public ; :::-:;n;e elicited. VUi:, '72-if. D. L. riSLE. E0NE3DALE, PA. -ral location of any Hotel in tovrn. 11. W. KII'LE k SOX, i street. Proprietors. H73. Iv. join r. lisxisKiiorsE, V Counsellor at-Jaiv, 0Sce. Kresgeville, Pa. 'i''i) ;stif.t, in r,(.rl8n and Knlish. I-e-al bci , y-JtUt Libtls solicited aud lull eaiirfactioa jruaran- k-t. 15 71. iVI S. LLC, Attorney at Lair, D Jr.e tW above the "Stroudburg House," fcoudiirg, pa. '.'!'w:ti.r,i promptlv made. lr '22, 1S74. l)EV. KDWARD A. WILSON'S (of H Willi:.Bisburg, N. V.) Il.M;ipe for CON ''MI'TIOX and ASTHMA carefully rapoun'led at HOLLINSHEAD'S DRUG STORE. MtJieuie ftetli and jure, !fVC7. W. HOLLIXIIEAI). TVU'T I'OIIGLT that wlivn fr J'0" want anv thing in the Furniture or Su-T1 iit,e l'1:,t McCarty & Sons in the j," 1-tl W Hall, Main street, Stroudsburg, j' ls 'e Place to get it. June is, 74.tf KOCKAFELLOW, DEALER IN Eta5HIadcUol!iing,Gcu(sFur cishng Goods, Hats & Caps, Boots & Shoes, &c. EAST STROUDSBURG, PA. (Near the Depot.) t.V?PS'!ic are invited to call and examine C'.s moderate. May 6.'J9-tf agriculture is by encouraging the invention of improved machinery. The exj eriments necessary to demonstrate new ideas m mccbanks, iuvolve such great expenses that very few are willing to hazard them, how ever suund their ideas. But what are mountains to an individual, are mole hills to a wealthy society. Let it be made known that inventors can have their ideas carc fullv considered by a committee of honest men, thoroughly posted on past experi ments iu the sa-oe field, and prepared to cause new inventions to be practically tes ted, in cases where there seems to be suffi cient probability of success, and there would soon be a hundred heads grappling un solved problems, where there is now one. There is still ample room lor improvement in farm machinery, notwithstanding its pre sent trreat efficiency. The benefits which inventors have conferred upon agriculture during the last two decades, ought to make evervsociety of farmers their warmest f.k-nds. But still they are compelled, not only to bear the great cost of experiments, but if successful, they must often force their improvements through the most bit ter prejudices of the very class they are seeking to aid. A word of criticism concerning the management of fairs. If they cannot be madeprofitaWe without horse racing, we had better let them die. The same may be said of the tenth-class shows that so often infest these assemblies. An agricultural fair ought not to be a har bor for this kind of nuisance. Of course these suggestions as here given are very crude, but there is certainly a germ of practicability in them. The Old Way Crossing tli3 Plains. The most curious and perfect of nil the pony expresses was that which used to run across the plains. Of course you know what I mean by the plains. When I was a boy almost the whole country between the Mi:i skippi River aud the Faeific Ocean was called, on the maps, the -Great American desert," and in my geography it was de scribed as a wide, sandy plain In my mind it was not unlike the Desert of a ha ra, with fiercer tribes inhabiting it. JehooN boys nowa days have better maps and geo graphics, and know this country by the names of the great States of Kansas, X e braska, Colorado and Nevada, which have been formed of it. What was desert to us is prairie to you, boys ; what we thought barren, sand you know to be rich soil ; and you cross it by rail in three days vnere we, in stage-coached, u.?ed to make the trip ia Leventet'... The Pacific Railroad killed the pony express ; but in it days the Iat-U-r was a great institution, which would have r-ut to the blush the pony express of the Russians and Tartars, or our own army couriers. It was not a Government hue cither; private enterprise started and kept rr., n.r im a. irrauu scuic. r 1. horse dktaneed tue pony oa his track, ana he Ins gone farther west to pastures new. Prom ilT-ie Pony Pxrc$s" in St. Nicholas for S picmber. The Frost Kin Child Life ia Shakerdom. The Fittsfield (Mass.) E-'nle says that children placed with the Shakers nt Le hman are indentured to Benjamin Gate?, or some authority, until they '-become of he agreeing in the papers to provide A hey are then unuer the a -re, them food, clothing, &c. :ced in the 'cln.oren s enter, than a thousand i 4.v -..v.. r nun more horse and Indian ionics a year. It em- A few days ego, the first announcement of the probabilty of frost, was made by the weather telegrams, and now we are having a general invasion of the Frost King. So severely h:is he laid his hands upon mother earth, that at one time it looked as though he would have to give way to his foster brother, Winter. Farmers are most in terested in the first appearance of frost, and thev look cazerly for his firt foot prints, but with timely notice, thy have not so much to apprehend from his visita tion. It is important to agriculturists general ly, to know that the gateway of American autumn and winter, lies in that deep, broad furrow of the Continent, less than bUO feet above the sea, and stretch from Minnesota, northwestwardly, to the shores of the Arc tie Ocean. Through this k.ng channel, several hundred miles wide, the winter winds and boreal conditions of the frozen North seem to advance southward at this season with the steadiness of a tidal swell, until they exercise a controlling influence on the weather of the Uuited States. Tin's fact, which has been frequently overlooked, affords an insight into the meteorology of this country, the value of which cannot be overestimated by those whose rural tabor is dependent upon weather provisions. Af ter the passage eastward of the last storm of Friday lastTthe area of its low barometer appears to have been quickly filed up by indraught from the frosty regions of British America, and the indrawn masses of freez ing air to have inundated the Northwest and the country around the ur per lakes. The farmers iu these sections have, cf course, less premonition of severe frosts than those in the Central and Middle States, but enough for wariness aud energy to avert the destructive effects on outstand ing harvests. The present frost wave, if it does not close the growing season for to bacco and some of the vegetable crops, ouirht, at any rate, to warn grower iu the Middle and Eastern Stites not to delay harvesting everything that may be killed by frot. 'There is an old saying that the weather repeats itself, which has, perhaps, some foundation in fact. At any late, the present irruption of the Frost King will not improbably be repeated more vigorous ly and extensively within the next week or ten days. Lot our rural population, there fine, be well forewarned, and employ the interval in carefully harvesting and hus banding whatever is exposed in the field. charge of a sister designated to care for them, and she commences at once to instill into their minds the glories of the creel. In thr ir management never a blow is struck. Refractory ones arc punished by being laid flat upon the floor, face down. When they have been kept thus prostrate for a length of time, they arc taken up aud "talked to," fhe enormity (if their offences pointed out, and are exhorted to behave better in the future. Those from eight to a dozen years of age "go to confession'' every Saturday, and '-own up" (or are supposed to) the lit tle sins of the week that luve escaped the notice of their jruardiaa-?. And as they receive special approval for an apparent li very full confession, they early learn to con jure up mormous stories, knowing that they "gidl" their confessors into a deeper belief of their penitence. "Now don't you feel better after confessing all that ?" asks the ancient virgin who has heard the story. 'Yea. yea," saps the little miss, and tipping a wink to her companions she valks out as sedately as a spinster of seventy. Another method of punishment is to put the young ster iuto a large sack, tying it lightly round the neck. Should the child refuse to get into the bag it is drawn over the refractory one, and then, head, feet, an 1 ail enveloped, he or ?he is left to repent of the offensive disobedience. The children are sent to school four mouths cacli year the boys in the Winter and the girls in the Summer. Co-education has not the slightest support there. The girls and boys must not con verse together. If they happen to meet, and if a roguish youngster is bold enough to break the silence with some pretty maid en, the maiden must be deaf and dumb to him. "Isn't there some boy here that you are just a little fonder of than others?" is a standing question in the confi.ssi.jiul. The reply already is "nay," and the blind old iroodies believe it ! Professor ITorsford, of Harvard Univer sity, has published a recipe for improving and preserving cider, by means of which the progress of the vinous and acetic fer mentations may be arrested at pleasure, and the cider preserved in just such a state as may be desired. It is this : "Put the new cider into clean casks or barrels, and allow it to ferment from one to three weeks according as the weather is cool or warm. When it has attained to a lively fermenatiun, add to each gallon three-fourths of a pouu 1 of white sugar, and let the whole ferment again until it possesses nearly the brisk, pleasant taste which it is desirable should be permanent. Pour out a quart of the cider, and mix with it or.e quarter of an ounce of sulphite of lime for every gallon the cask contains. Stir it until it is intimately mixed, and pour the emulsion into the liquid. Agitate the contents of the cask thoroughly for a few moments, then let it rest that the cider may settle. Fermentation will be arrested at once, and will not be resumed. It may be bottled in the course of a few weeks, or it may be allowed to remain in the cask and used on draught. If bottled, it will become a sparkling cider of surpassing ex cellence." Professor ITorsford was the first to use the sulphite of lime for this purpose, and to him is due the credit of first calling at tention to its usefulness. It is in no re ?pect deleterious, as the sulphite into which the sulphite is changed by the liberation of sulphurous acid is entirely insoluble, and remains at the bottom of the vessel. Remember, it is the sulphite of lime, not sulphate, must be used. The quality of the cider will remain unchanged for years. - A FAMINE IN NEBRASKA. An Interesting Geological Discovery. The Virginia (Nevada) Enterprise de scribes it as follows : In the bottom of tho main shaft of the Virginia City Coal Com-' pany, Kl Dorado canon, Lyon county, has been encountered the trunk of a large tres four feet iu diameter a lone relic of an an cient and extinct forest. Where cut through by the shaft this old tree is found to bo perfectly carbonized, turned iuto coal. Outside the old log is completely crusted over with iron pyrites, many of which aror ?o bright that the crystals shne like diamonds. These crystals also extend into the body of the log, filling what were once cracks or windshakes, and even forming clusters about what once was the heart of the tree. This relic of an old time forest lies far below the two veins of coal tho company are about to open. The finding of this old trunk is evidence that the coun try was at some time, ages ago, covered by a forest of large trees ; though the native timber growth, when the country was first visited by the whites, and as far back as the traditions of the Indians extend, was but a scrubby species of nut pine. A few miles from the shaft in which this carbonized tree was found, are to be seen on the surface the petrified remains of many targe trees. Jne water, lines on the hills show that the whole country was filled with hikes, and the petrified trees lying here and there on the surface of the ground probably floated out on the extinct lake, and finally sank to the bottom iu the places where thev are now found. Tb.3 End of the Ross Case : Eggs vs. Heat. Would it not be wise to substitute more cT"S for meat in our daily diet ? About one third of an egg is solid nutriment. This is more than can be said of mnat. Th9 Food of Primitive 'Ian. carlieft In tlie rresent status of research, the uthentie traces ol man on carch go no further back than the age of ice, so called, and the accompanying or subquent formation of the diluvium or drift. The relics of man dating from an earlier epoch, the upper Miocene formation, that is, the middle of the Tertiary group, which are said to have been found in France, are at least very questionable. But there have been r reserved for us in caverns remains dating from the lee age, which tell us of the food used by man in those times. .Man then inhabited Central Euiope in company with the reindeer, the cave-bear and the mammoth, lie was exclusively a hunter and fisher, a3 is shown by tho bones of ani mals found in his cave-dwellings. The inioccne vegetation, which abounded in arbored fruits, had disappeared during the long period of the subsequent pliocene for mations, the climate of Central Euroj-c, meanwhile. havinr Gradually become colder. i fit Nature siioolied no fruits for the food if mn. What food he got by hunting and A TERUniLK STATE OF DESTITUTION' SEV ERAL DEATHS 1ROM STARVATION AL READY Ri:ro:tTF.D a relief commit tee A I'l'O I NT ED IN CIIICAOO. Chicago, Oct. 22. Death from starva tion for the actual want of food is a calamity that stares in the face 2.0iiv men, women and children, within IS hours' travel of Chicago, and in the heart if the grahi trro'.vimr region of the country. Gen. Ord commanding the Department of the Platte, and who is jvrsonally cognizant of the fiictr, addressed the Board of Trade to-day, telling in plain direct terms the sad story of the destitution in Western Nebraska, caused by the ravages of the grasshoppers. l rem the reports of his olaeers on the ground and among these people, he has trustworthy information as to the actual condition of affairs. He states that several cases of ai tual death have already taken place. Fathers have been compelled to abandon their families and seek work and food. In one house the coipse of a child was found that had perkhed for want of food and near it the mother, prostrate and dying from the same cause. He states that in Boone, Greeley, Sherman Howard, Buffalo, and all the other counties 50 miles wet of the Missouri River, two-thirds of the people are destitute of ail the neces saries of life. Incy have neither nor slioes, and food is impossih te..-. lor the relief of The search for the missing B.o:s child seems to be finally at an end, as detectives, parents and the public have at last been compelled to acknowledge their inability to find the child. The miseries of that house hold can better be imagined than described, but we read in the daily pipers that Mrs, En -s is completely broken down and threatened with insanity, while the condi tion of the father is but'little better. Tin? following report is from their attending physician published in the Philadelphia pa pers : ! know Mr. C. K. Ross, and am his physician. He is in a very prostrate condition. I saw him this morning. He is not able to leave his house or bed. He has been in that condition since Sunday, lie is in a condition of prostration in which he is unable to concentrate his thoughts or to express his meaning. His brain is af focted to that extent. He has no disease that I can recognize at prcscut. lie is very thin, and is falling away daily. He does not take his natural sleep. He is certainly seriously indisposed, and it will be a long time before he will begin to react from his present condition. I cannot speak of tho ultimate result." In commenting upon tlie above the Xcw York World says : "There is an intensity and yet a vagueness the inability "to con centrate thought and express meaning" in this that is terrible to think of. It looks very much as if, before long, we may have to read of two more deaths in that desola ted vicinage. How Soil was Made. .lothin: to get. A committee to take these poor people was appointed as follows: Messrs. Geo. Armour, L. Z. Letter, George C. Walker, John L. Hancock, C. M. Henderson. John B. Drake, X. R. Fair bank, Ed so n Keith, W. M. Egan, and C. G. Cooley. They will receive and forward contributions of flour, meal, joik or bacon, for food. They want shoes, shawls, blank ets, touts, pantoleons, -and stockings. Important Decision. The BLomburg Columbian published an important opinion recently given by Judge Elwell in the Common Picas of Columbia county, fixing the maximum rate of school tax at ten mills on real estate. By his construction placed on theoct of Fed. 2IJ, lSlio, exempting real estate from the three mills tax for State purposes, it also operated as a reduction id alike amount on that species of property for school purpose. This is a very important decision, as it conflicts with tho opinion of the School Department, which has assumed that thirteen mills, in stead often, was the maximum rate to le collected for school puiqoses, aud the form er amouut has been generally levied and collected throughout the State where oc casion required it. Professor Agassiz said that all the ma terials on which agricultural process de pends arc decomposed rocks, and not so much those that underlie the soil, but those on the surface, aud ground to powder by the gla ciers. Ice all over the continent is the agent that has ground out more soil than all other agencies put together. The penetration of water into the rocks, forests, running wa ter, and baking suns, have done something, but the glaciers more. In a former age the United States was covered with ice several thousand feet thick, and the ice moving from north to south, by the attrac tion of the tropical warmth or the pressing weight of the snow and ice behind, ground the rocks over which was called sod. These masses of ice can be tracked by the hunter. He has made a study of them as far south as Alabama, but he has observed the same phenomenon in Europe, parti cularly in Italy, where among the Aljis, glaciers are now in progress. The stones and rocks ground and polished by the glaciers can easily be distinguished from those scratched by running water. The angular boulders found in meadows and the terraces of ravines not reached by wa ter can be accounted for only in this way. The wet weather last week had a depress ing effect on the elephants in Barnum's Hippodroome, at Baltimore ; but it cleared on Friday, and they indulged in a lively frolic. The American says : "They frisked their ponderous bodies about, butted each other, and then the three smaller ones got tired of pushing and tumbling about in rough but good humored play, each seized with his trunk one of the legs of old Bensey, ami after the hardest kind of wrestling they upset the great, good humored old beast, who seemed to enjoy the fun as much aa any one of them." . The famine in the East Indies, or rather ili the province of Bengal, has so far aba ted that the British government has to feed only CoO.OUO unfortunates daily. The latest report from Calcutta is that heavy rain continued to fall, that the rainfall iu September was equal to that of ordinary years, that in the most doubtful Bengal districts there was no longer any apprehen sion either of a second famine or of serious distress, and that the fever which had raged fearfully had further abated, though it pos sibly miirht reanoer durin the. autumn. i j. - i- - , : and had been extrcineJv devastating
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