l)c Scfftvsouiau.
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 1874.
T ho result of the recent elections teach an
important lesson, which cannot but be of
.crtat benefit to the Republican party if the
leaders make up their minds to thoroughly
Lam it. We do not propose going into the
.11 . t 1 . , . . 1
merits ei me lessons tnemseives at tins
lime, but merely to touch them lightly by
way f hint to whom it may most concern.
leaving out tho lessons imparted by other
States, what Jo we learn by the lesson taught
hv the result herein Pennsylvania? And
what was that result? Look at it. From a
majority of seventy o ld thousaud for Gen.
)r:i:it two years ago, and with a majority of
but little less for Gen. Ilartrauft, with steady
jnajorlties ranging from eight thousand to
the maximum figure above named, year after
year tor the last fourteen years with a
legislature for the same time always strongly
.Republican with a congressional delegation
iu which the same stripe of politics always
strongly predominated, aud with the United
Stites Senatorhip always strongly in our
hold, we have dwindled dowu to a minority
in every thing. Literally, to-day Cuds us, as
a party, bankrupt in all save the good deeds
of the past and the manly spirit which
prompts us to be up arid doing for the future.
AnJ why is this the case ? Why are we so
surrounded with discouragements as to almost
make us as a party for swear the partizan
vr.test, and leave sublunary things generally
no go to the digs ! It needs no great stretch
itfmeajory no wrenching drafts upon the
imagination no mere guesses to arrive at a
e::clusion unmistakably pertinent to the
xpie.-tion, even though it may not be abso
lutely encouraging in its truth. There is a
reason au overwhelming reason for this
great change which has so worked to our dis
advantage ; aud though not pleasant it is
certainly right that we should look it squarely
ji the face and speak of it as it deserves.
Xotwkhstanding the many and potent
Treasons which have been already urged as the
aue for our defeat, we conceive that those
who promulgate them light upon them mere
ly because they, from providential motives,
considered it better to select these rather
ihan to go farther an J Sod otlK-rs still more
potent but very much less congenial. It
v.v.iu! 1 have been easier still, and just as
satisfactory, if they had arrived at the con
clusion that we failed to be successful because
we failed to get votes enough to secure suc
cess. But tueh reasoning would not satisfy
those among whom votes are gained audlott
we mean the people. Nor would it satisfy
u if W3 were compelled to depend upon this
.simple disk for an answer to the many question.-;
j ut to us from day to day by those
who, year after year, have put their shoulders
wi?h ours to the wheel and pushed hard to
to!: the party into power and to maintain it
there. There are other grand reasons, over
;n 1 a'iove any we have yet heard broached,
'r our defeat, and entertaining this belief
v-j deem it our duty as a faithful Republi
can partizan to lay them plainly before our
real rs. We conceive that a physicians
curative hold upon a disease can never be
Mire'y perfected iu a care, until he has
traced the effect, through all its ramifications,
to it- cause. As in medicine so is it in poli
tics; with this advantage iu favor of the lat
ter, that the proper remedj', which is always
.at hand and 's truly specific, properly applied,
is always sure to restore the vitality neces
sary to perfect health.
If we look for the causes of our defeat with
a desire to arrive at the exact truth, and
that only, we cannot dlve-t ourseif of the be
lief that we can only find those cause3 by
canvassing the doings of the leaders of our
party. From President Graut, down through
all the gradations occupied by our partizan
nabob?, we can find a continued and a continu
ing trace of the means by which we were de
feated. It was not because the masses tired
of KcDublican principles, but it was rather
because men, elected and sustained in ofnee
as Republicans, smothered the principles of
(he party under personal ideas, and thought
Jess of the demands of the people than they
Iil of a selfish exercise of their official
jower. President Grant is by no means
exempt from the weight of the charge, and
his uuderstrappers have delighted in nothing
uiore than in yielding him a kal following.
In all, or nearly all of the appointments of
the administration, every connection is
marked by f'avoriteism. From the prcmier
i hip in the office of Secretary of State, down
to the humblest watchman in the govern
ment employ all have been appointed, and
many in direct opposition of the will of the
people who were to be affected by their ap
pointment, because of relationship or for
mere personal and social connection with the
President, or because some Senator or
Representative on w hom he depends for sun
port had a debt to pay for services, often
disreputable, rendered in placing them in
position far above their deserts. Our own
little one horse post office is a case in point,
and the manner in which it was secured,
against the overwhelming wishes of our peo
ple, would furnish a rare aDd racy chapter in
the history of political geremandering. What
has been our experience, has been the exper
ience of the whole country; and the offices,
instead of being conferred upon worthy party
workers and voters, have been bestowed up
on womeu without the shadow of a claim,
and upon men whose courses have been so vas-f-alating
that the ycould hardly themselves
tell whether they were Republicans or Demo
crats or even good mormons in politics. There
is sound sense in the maxim "to the victors
belong the spoils," aud no administration
will disgrace it-self in its appointments that so
jives up to it, as that while all the appointees
shall have been fighting men in the great
grapple for success, all too should be capable
for the position for which the petition of the
people indicates them to be worthy.
We know that the President pretends to
ignore party, and politicians, and 3Tettoboth
he owes ail that he is, whether as general
in the field or as President, of the United
States. Indeed politics is the chief corner
stone of our Union ; and without politics and
politicians we should soon become the most
god-forsaken country in the world. Seperate
the gold of politics from its dross, and we
have the precise material upon which is
found not only American liberty, but the
christian religion as well. What folly then
to attempt to excuse ingratitude upon the
pretence of ignoring an evil which has no
cxistance, except in ignorance or unrelenting
mulishness. And right here we have the
very essence of the cause of our late overwhelm
ing defeat, in' that mulishness which led
President Grant to override people, law and
almost everything beside which failed to pan
dcr to his pride of independence.
Our article has already reached so great a
length, that we arc reluctantly compelled to
allow it to stand as introductory to some
thing more to be said ou a subject, in which
every true Republican has a deep and an
abiding interest.
JUDGING from the appearance of a head-
lino over the leading editorial in this week's
Democrat, Amandus Orevcs must contem
plate turning his lick-spittle organ into a
Molly Maguire sheet. We can't expect
much else from the great I am, but do pity
the poor, dear Aunt Mirani.
ffSF And pray, thou truly good and sober
Amandus Orevus, what kind of whiskey
did jonr right hand torch bearer indulge in
the night of your grand jollification, that it
should take him the whole of next day to re
cover from its effects.
33- Just hear the great Amandus
OrtEVUS talk about home guards. And
what brigade did he belong to? Echo
answers, the foreign brigade.
TiiANKFniviNO day will be generally
observed in this place. All places of business
will be closed and religious services held in
the various churches.
Much Reet. Mr. Jacob II. Fetherman,
of Stormsville, brought to our office on
Monday, a beet weighing thirteen pounds
and a half. If anybody can beat this beet,
let them trot it out.
TriE Stroudsburg Cornet Band under the
leadership of Spcering Shaffer we larn in
ten Is to put in an appearance at Rrodheads
ville on Friday next, on the occasion of a
Democratic pole raising, in jolification over
their recent victory.
Who will start the ball for tho establish
ment of a Normal School iu our midst. II
who does it will in after years earn the name
of havim: been a public benefactor. Come
Jerome bestir yourself. You did well last fall,
and we know of no one hereabouts better
calculated to take the initiative in, and secure
the success of the project now. Imperishable
honors await the accomplishment cf the fact
for some one.
Come boys, the time is now here when you
should be looked to your sleighs and buffalo
robes and sponrlulics. The snow will come
directly, and then the girls will be looking
for sleigh rides and sleighing parties and a
good time generally. Why not get together
and inaugurate sleigh rides to Tannersville,
or Bartonsville, or Snydersville, or Bossards
ville, or KeliersviHe, or Brodheadsville, or
Ssylorsburg, or the Gap, or all of them.
The landlords at all these places knows how
to take proper care of all guests who call up
on them and there is no better way to secure
a proper amount of fun for the outlay. Let
us think upon the thing, and practice upon
it, and be prepared to act upon it when the
snow comes.
On Thursday last, about -1 P. M., Mr.
G. A. Tranger, who resides near Mill
Brook, X. J., while engaged loading coal
at Experiment Mills, in this County, his
horses took fright at No. 22 down coal
train, and dashed off up the track, and in
attempting to cross the Railroad bridge,
the near horse got fast between the ties,
and in his struggles pulled down the other
horse. The near horse was badly injured.
The skin of the left foreleg was cut entirely
around the leg just above the knee joint,
and stripped down full six inches, laying
bare the bone and splitting one of the
tendons three inches in length. It took
about two hours to get the horses out of
the bridge. After the hordes were relieved,
the injured one was cared for, the skin
being replaced and ecwed up. Mr. T. has
hopes of his speedy recovery.
A DANCING school properly conducted,
would not be a bad thing here this winter.
In fact it would be a nice thing, ann many a
pleasant, sociable evening could be spent in
itidulgiug the ritual of Terpsichore. Y. M.
C. A's. and prayer meetings and all that sort
of thing, are well enough in their way, but
they do not fill the w hole demaud of lifesbill
of fare. We do not believe that the angels
spend all their time laying idle on clouds of a
zore and singing hozanuas. Nor do we be
lieve that the precepts of Christianity teach
the oerpetual indulgence of long faces, else
the creator would not have endowed us with
an appreciation of fun, and with heels that,
in spite of all efforts to the contrary, will keep
beatiug time to the behests of music. Let
us have the dancing school, and, if it be
necessary, let it be started under the auspices
of the Y. M. C. A. so that proper religious
watchfulness make keep saten from the fold
and secure to the euterprize a full measure
of pleasure uncontain noted by the allay of
wickedness.
Burr T. Wolf, aged 17 years,, son of
Edward L. Wolf, of Scranton, and formerly
resident here, was shot and severely injured
in that city a week ago last Monday. Many
rumors having got afloat here, and we have
been atsome pains to get at the exact facts of
the case. In response to our inquiry we learn
that Burr and his youngest brother, Duane,
were playing in the sitting room, just before
the supper hour, Burr laying on the floor.
In the roughness of the play the little one
was hurt, and stepping away seized a gun
standing in the bed room adjoiuing, and not
thinking it loaded, set the hammer and
pulled trigger. Unfortunately the gun
had been loaded to shoot rats, and the whole
charge went into the wrist, hand and neck
of the victim. Fortunately, too, Burr at the
time was laying on his stomach and resting
his neck between his hands, or his death
must have been instantaneous. Dr. Lect
who was called to the case pronounced it the
most lucky accident he ever heard of, the
wrist and hand serving as a protection to a
thoroughly vital part. As it was, three of
the shot entered the neck within
an eighth of an inch of the carotid
arterv. His rnanv young friends here
will bo pleased to learn that though
having some fifteen or twenty shot in his
wrist and hand and eight in his ueck, and
the skin being somewhat powder burnt,
Burr is getting along finely and will soon be
about his business again. From the position
of the boy the muzzle of tho gun could not
have been more than a foot from Burr's neck
when the shot was fired. Tho shootist is
not yet seven years of age. The father was
setting within six feet of the boys at the time
of the accident, aud as can readily be conjec
tured a big scare was the result.
TlIK SHORTEST WILL ON RECORD. The
Scracton Sunday Times gives the following
history of what is probably the shortest wil
on record. According to tho decision of the
Luzerne Court there is no need of having
lawyer and an overly quanity of lf uss and
feathers" wdien it comes our time to dispose
of our property, "gather up our feet in bed,
like the patriarchs of old, "and yield up the
ghost." The Times says: "Last sprin
there was a will filed in the register's office
which must take its place among the many
curious ones in the world, and is probably
the shortest one ever admitted to probate
anywhere. The following is. a copy :
"Emily R. Miner
is my heir.
Sarah K. Miner."
It was written on one sheet of note paper
with lead pencil, and on the envelope enclos
ing the same, written with lead pencil, were
the words, "Read this when I am dead." It
was not found, being mixed up with other
papers, until three or four months after her
death. After due deliberation it was admit
ted to probate and letters of administration
cum testamenlo annezo cranted. The writ
ing was in her own hand. She was an aged
maiden lady, aud daughter of Hon. Charles
Miner. She will be remembered as the blind
poetess, and is rpoken of in Peck's History
of Wyoming."
Vt'lmt We heard am5 Saw witliiu
the Wcefc.
Since the departure of "Fanchon the Crick
et," our friend "II," keeps late hours and Sirts
with the ease of a professional. " When the
cats are away, the mice play." "Ueantiful"
is no longer the watchword ; consequently the
verses are laid over. Exit Booth; enter
"Buckey," last Thursday night. The dulcet
voice of the "blonde," blending with the tones
of a piano accompaniment is charming in
"Silver threads among the gold." 'Stickem'
frequently exercises himself hunting for mice.
He generally starts out when the shades of
JTie-ning are lowering. "Bil'ey," the hand
pome cigar-maker, lias been testing the Emery
grinders of the Tanite Company. Wonder if
he will buy? We know of a young ladj
down town that has "sittins up" Feven nijjhts
in a week, and still she is not happy.
"Greely" savs, don't put me in this week. No,
we won't, but then you should not be so sweet
on that little "gal" at the quarry. Getting
up designs for barns, chicken coops, and other
out buildings, on Sunday, is out of order, my
christian friends. The buildings have been
completed and ''Sue" calls one a "chickery,"
but we never saw a "chickery" with a celler
and a cupalo. Those hits are perfectly
charming. So are the fair faces that sparkle
beneath them. The original John says the
"Sewing circle" are the most amiable young
ladies in town. So say we. If you want to
hear a good story, a regular side-splitter, ask
our esteemed friend "Sue" to relate the etory
of the "quince" or the "little black pigs" at
Waverly fair. Since the commencement of
Prof. Perkins tinging school, our friend Simon
is continually humming "do me ra fattle dol
lar." Prof. P. says he possesses a splendid
voice and with a little cultivation can ting
oysters and clamg. No wonder every thing
is so "beautiful" in Danbury, Conn. It is
the home of Baily, the funny man of the News
and "Fanchon the cricket." He arrived last
Saturday night and our fair friend in Hoboken
was happy. "Buttermilk Frank" and the
"blonde" were out airing themselves behind
a 2:40 nag last Monday. They looked charm
ing Young ladle's should see that their
bustles are properly adjusted before going to
church. Neglect in doing the same oftentimes
causes much embarrassment, as was the cae
last Sunday night. The helpmate of Adaiu
has "sifted" from the garden of Eden.
J. W. F., has returned from a cruise to Bing-
auiton. He is loud in his praises of the
"brunette" and two "blonds" at the fashionable
millinery establishment, No. 15 Court street.
From the description; we rather admire the
"chief engineer," especially her luxuriant
golden tresses. "Dawdle" is putting in all
ins Fpare lime on nis nine wagon. csince
birds have become a fashionable ornament on
ladies bonnet?, little sparrows fly high. A
new way to sweat stand along tide of
friend Simon when he is singing. Morey is
our authority. Our good natured friend got
her fingers burnt but she won't tell how. We
pity her and only hope 6he won't 6ay "cuss"
words in her eleep. Alas I poor "Oofty,"
"scoot" or buy a wig, for "hell hath no fury
like a woman corned."
TABLE OF OFFICIAL MAJORITIES.
OhnsteadL. Latta.
, 2.569 3,014
I3.0S9 15,704
3.S53 ; 3,523
2,877 2,434
2,624' 2,959
5,299 10,610
3,390 3,226
5,519 4,264
6,153 0,512
4,123 3.69S
2,233 3,379
479 419
2.060 2,420
2,113 3.0S3
. 0,152 4,554
1,951 3,251
1,532 3,055
1,481 2,436
1,123 2,956
4,821 4,721
3,083 4,378
5,397 4.177
3,599 2,207
404 1,127
5,037 4,618
32S
367 3,913
3,639 1,019
700 2,603
1,409 2,588
2,839
1,S96
2,043 2,161
1,029 1,536
10,538 6,171
1,4 59
3,431 2,293
'4,057 5,813
8,445, 10,322
3,433 4,485
915 918
1,3S3 ' 1,540
4,269 3,819
503 2,076
7,390 7,703
875 1,455
3,921 6,891
3,263 3,547
2,27 9 2,424
13,053
233 1,039
1,526 940
7,517 9,184
1,452 1.0S7
2,835 1.627
two
64S
1.S77
1,837 1,276
3,274 3,247
346
4,252 4,306
2,236 2,433
3,916 5,791
196
4,083 7,111
210,910 215,617
210,902
4,079
Adams,
Alleghany,
Armstrong,
Beaver,
Bedford,
Berks.
Blair,
Bradford,
Bucks,
Butler,
Cambria,
Cameron,
Carbon,
Centre,
Chester,
Clarion,
CiearGeld,
Clinton.
Columbia,
Crawford,
Cumberland,
Dauphin,
Delaware.
EJk,
Erie,
Favette,
Forest,
Franklin,
Fulton,
Greene,
Huntingdon,
Indiana,
Jefferson,
Juniata,
Lancaster,
Lawrence,
Lebanon,
Lehigh,
Luzerne,
Lycomiug,
McKean,
Mifflin,
Mercer,
Monroe,
Montgomery,
Montour,
Northampton,
Northumberland,
Perry,
Philadelphia,
Pike,
Potter,
Schuykill,
Snyder,
Somerset,
Sullivan,
Susqaehan&a,
Tioga,
Union,
Venango
Warren,
Washington,
Wayne,
West morel and,
Wyoming,
York,
Total.
Majority,
Estimated.
Temple's majority i,0S4 ; McCanJIes 4,625.
Thanksgiving Day.
IIarrisburo, November 7. A procla
mation of tlie President of the United
States designates Thursday, the 2th day
of November, as a day of thanksgiving,
and I recommend that the people of Penn
sylvania .reverently dedicate that day to
making acknowledgment to Almighty God
for the blessings vouchsafed to lis daring
the past year.
Given under iny hand and the grout ?eal
of the State, af; llarrisburg, thi3 seventh
day of November, in theyear of oir Lord
1874, and of the Commonwealth.
J. F. IIartraxft.
By the Governor :
31. S. Quay, Sec. of the Commonwealth.
A legal question has arisen jn regard to
the time when the newly-elected County
Commissioners should enter upon fheir
duties. The new Constitution provideJ
that all elective ofBcers shall bejrin their
tcrm3 of service on the first Monday of
January next after their election. The
matter has already beed judicially acted on
in Schuylkill county, where the newly
elected County Commissioner appeared to
take his place in the board. The Court
unanimously decided that the old incumbent
should remain in office until the 4th of
January, 1875. It also appears that the
new Constitution makes no provision for
electing Commissioners this year to serve
until 187G, when full boards are to be
chosen for a three-years term. But this
consideration will hardly be allowed to
afiect the status of the officers elected this
fall.
A well-dressed man in Chicago attracted
considerable attention the other day by sit
ting upon the edge of the sidewalk for some
time with his head between his hands, as
if in deep meditation. At last a sympathe
tic stranger approached him and said,
"Friend, you seem to be in trouble ; can 1
assist ou in any way ?" The man sprang
to his feet, and taking off his hat, parted
his hair carefully, and said, "Stranger do
you see that cut ? My wife did it this
morning with a flat-iron, and then sent me
down town to buy her a new bonnet, aud
I have been sitting here for an hour trying
to decide whether I will buy it or not, and
blame me, stranger, if I haven't almost de
cided to get it."
.
Here is a new game very popular in the
country just now : A young man takes a
chestnut, cuts around the hull with a sharp
knife, and then takes one-half the chest
nut in his mouth, and a pretty girl takes
the other half in her mouth ; and they pull
and the hull comes right off- There may
be quicker methods of hulling chestnuts,
but none more soothing to the feelings of
the young folks ; and they don't get mad
and dance wildly around if the hull doesn't
come off for five minutes or so. Country
games are not to be despised, after all.
The Cincinnati Gazette tells of a thrifty
woman named Mayhugh who, supposing
her husband, who had been absent eight
years, to.be dead, sold his farm to one Rob
inson. Five years after, Mayhugh
turned up, and liobinson had to buy his
interest to make the title good. After
ward Mayhugh died, and the widow sued
Robinson for her dower in the very land
she had conveyed to him. The court su
stained her claim, so that Robinson had to
pay for the farm three times.
The rolling mill of the Messrs. Litrht.
in Lebanon, has been closed on account of
linancial embarrassments. This throws
about one hundred men out of employment.
EXTRACT FROM MINUTES OF
Q UAR TERL Y CONFERENCE OF
STROUDSBURG METHODIST
EPISCOPAL CHURCH.
William Frank en fielt, a Class
Leader, Exhorter and Trustee of this
Thiirch.' a man of sin'rular earnestness
and Christian devotedncss, having passed
away from his earthly to his heavenly
home, very suddenly, on Wednesday
mornim:, the 2bth instant, at about nan past
8 o'clock; the members of this Quarterly
Conference desire m this minute, to record
their appreciation cf his great worth as an
unassuming sincere, irue man oi uwi,
whom we shall jrrcatly miss, but whose
influence will long survive him for good in
the Church, the home, aud community,
where all were compelled by the sanctity
and purity of his life to respect and
venerate him ; and we hereby direct that a
copy of tills paper he presented to the
bereaved family with the assurance of cur
tendcrcst sympathy, and published in the
County papers as an expression of our
estimate of the public loss we have sustained
WILLIAM B. WOOD, President.
John B. Storm, Secretary.
Stroudsburg, Pa., Oct. 30th, 1874.
WILLIAM FRANENFIELD.
When the announcement was wade a
few weeks since of the death of this worthy
citizen, unmistakable tokens of grief were
generally manifest. A large concourse assem
bled at his funeral to testify their respect
for his memory, and the general remark on
the lips of all who knew him was, 'a good
man has been taken from our midst.
This astimable and useful man was born
in Middle Smithfield township in this coun
ty, on the. 19th of September, 1818, and
died on the 28th of October 1874, in the
07th year of his age. His whole life was spent
in this community, and tor him to have
claimed as he has done, the respect and cs
teem of such of a wide circle of those who
have had an acquaintance with him more
or less intimate for a longer or shorter
period during thi3 more than a half a cen
turT is no small evidence of his great worth
He was brought m contact with men in
many Avays, during his entire life, fur the
he filled many positions and was never idle
but always industrious and so transparently
pure was his character, so thoroughly sin
cere and honest his goodness, that I have
vet to find the first person who would
whisper aught against his unsullied excel
lence.
In his domestic relations he was lovelv
and beloved. His widow mourns his loss
as one of the kindest and best husbands
his children as one of the very best fathers
The desolation which comes to the home o
such a man when he is smitten down, and
especially with such snddeness as in his
case, is intense. Few desolated hornet h.iv
more occasion for grief than William Frank-
enfield"s, because few lose so much in the
head of the family as they have done, and
yet few have so little, because he was so
certainly prepared for death, sudden as it
was, aud has entered by deatn ipon a
career of unmixed felicity and dignity.
Our departed brother has been for thir
ty five years a consistent and most worthy
mcJEoer of the Methodist Lpiscopal church
ami it rrrar be said of him that he adorned
the doctrine of God hb Saviour, in all
things. Ilia brethren honored him and
for years he was- an office-bearer in the
church, filling most scceptably the offices of
trustee, class-leader and exhorter. Hi.
piety was- joyous, steady and consistent.
The night before he died he met his class
and told them, he did not expect to- live
long, though he was then aln st in usual
health, but told them also of his full pre
paratioaof death, for said be, "Job nearly
tv thousand years- before Christ could
say, 'I knew that my redeemer liveth" and
so can 1 "nearly two thousand years since
tlr n.imino' f.c Christ. adort his words and
s;lvT know that my Redeemer liveth."
His last words on e:Tth were those of praise
and prayer, and his ceaseless language in the
bright world to which he iV'is gone is that
doubtless of exultations and tru'mpth.
John F. CiiaU-vix.
Stroudsburg, Nov. 1-lth, 1S7-1.
Chicago has raised ten thousand dollars
for the relief of the Nebraska homestead
ers who have been robbed by the grass
hoppers. Information from Texas says thirty days
of fine weather last month added sixty
thousand bales to the cotton crop of that
State, worth three million dollars.
A Reading man has an oyster shell that
weighs ninety-one pounds. It is two feet
and eight inches in length and twenty-one
inches in breadth. It came from the South
Sea Islands.
Loot out for Mi. Thompson, who is
pensively perambulating the country in
search of greensbacks. He says he has
lost his house by fire, and the Titusville
HcraM says he is a scalawag and never had
a house.
The largest and wealthiest village in the
country is Kalamazoo, Michigan, which has
1 1 ,350 inhabitants, five railroads, several
millions of manufactures, and half a dozen
banks and colleges. It has never applied
for a city charter.
Accounts from Virginia say that in al
most every direction in the Dismal Swamp
and its envirous the fires originated almost
a month ago by the drouth are burning
with alarming rapidity. Valuable timber
lands are a prey to the flames.
One of the buildings connected with tho
Hamilton Powder Company's Works, of
viiiummaum-, uiu, was partially destroyed
by an explosion on Saturday morning. For
tunately no person was injured.
On Saturdoy night the Roanke smoking
tobacco works, Rainey's machine shop and
box fietory, and Crews Rodenhesier's
flouring mills, at Danville, Va., were de
stroyed by fire. Total loss, 100,000. No
insurance.
The horse railway just opened in Paris
promises to be very popular and success
ful. The cars are small, being arranged
for twenty-eight passengers, ten of whom
stand on rtTe platform ; but (and here is a
suggestion for au improvement in our own
horse-car system) those who stand up are
counted as second-class passengers, and pay
a reduced fare. - J
Farmers and nlhprs 5nt
i ii r niiik are inv:tl tn .t.....i
.mi.: chilli
. y "uiu a iijcim;,,
the an Doran House. Wni,;.... 3 t
Friday, November 20th, at 11
November 12-2t.
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Tho Hessian fiy is ruining ta .i
the Eastern counties. Cat to
There were 2GG deaths in Pl,;i. i , .
last week. 'U JtlMiia
A Lehigh farmer swallowed l'u
cotl-
uocior gut em oat lor lnin.
Some of the iron workin mi!U f p t
caster county are resuming operations
The wages of the men ernplovp l ,
Oil City barrel factory have been rl T
,c ---v-Cl,
The poor people of Meadvillo
plaining of the high rents that WivT
demand. or(is
The puddle mills of the Valonti
Works, VY llliamsport, will start
few weaks.
UP in
A two-year-old daughter of Frank O"
han, of Bethlehem, ate the pVq,hor.ft
forty-two matches, the other day, anVdCij
The government, has brought suit ur,t
an Iowa whisky distiller for the trifl-niV
of 875,000 taxes fraudulently cvaded'som'
years ago. "J c
A San Francisco pnper snvs H,Pre
u ininese jramoiinir nouses in that-
carrying on business night and dav.
citv.
What's all that interminable Wasbin-,.
ton safe-burglary trial about? Did some
body steal something?
Gold ore, near Pahlonetra, Gforgn J,
said to bo yielding the enormous amount
of ten thousand dollars a ton.
The colored people of Alabama have K
twoen six and seven million dollars' worth
of property in their possession.
That animated cobweb, Bill Allf-n. sn!'
labors under the diduion tint he U ),t
the next President of the Unltel .v't,iti..
As the pot boils, the scum ri-s to tk
surface. They talk of Toombs f -r tli ri'Wt
United States Senator, down in OeiTm .
It is an actual fact that in B-'on.
v.'irh
a less population, and witli i'r.-n:S:trirv
law, there are more grog shops thau ;a
Chicago.
1 T . 1 - i -
Artificial butter is becoming q-iW an im
portant article in trad. L-irr-1 f -ytori. ?
are in operation in Hamilton, Canada, and
other places.
The citizens of New Jersey h.r,-o '
- ci n u , ili mi I 'i ill Hi ''I
That accounts for the recent
victory in that state.
D-Tiiocrati-1
The ox-slaveholders of th Suth nr fa
ginning to feel better. Th-y think tfair
chances for receiving pay fr (heir eman
cipated "property" are improvi'ag.
. .
The work devolving on the I'onvx-nti
party i. according to it? premiers, to zr-A?
everybody healthy, wealthy and wi-:o. with
out having it cost anybody a cent. Thcr?
must be no taxation, or it f gent- r.p.
.
If u person in a house cn fire La vvy.
presence of mind to apply a w.-t oT.-a rr
handkerchief to his mouth cr rr-rrVy.s
passage can be eflectcl thmu-ili tl;--.ir. t
! smoke without any serious moorivenicne.
A firm in Reading promises to ditrii.uf?
one hundred loaves of br-'ad p r week
among the poor of that city, during the
entire winter.
The Frio blast furnace has sJnrSM
afttT a rest of several month. This fur
nace ha.r been changed from the mnr.tlu
tura of comit'on pig iron 13 the best ov.a'i'y
of charcoal, or white iron.
A number of Titusville crirbs have f ra
ed themselves into a societv f.r the de
velopment of the muscular system.
of the exercises on their rro -raninio i-t
assemble in a
yard
with a
higr
l ieua-
areund it and kkk at a mark
Sill'-''
wicked young men have cut holes t
the fence
Old Commodore Vanderbilt, one of the
most successful business men in New lerk.
gave the following rules to men in
street during the panic last year
Never use what is not your own. '2. Vver
buy what you canont pay Ibr. ovor
sell what you have not got."
The Deposit Courier says that near N'ar
rowsburg, a short time since, a Mrs. Is'"
nor died aged one hundred and four yoai
She distinctly remembered lioaring tn-J
cannons roar at Bunker Hill, and seeing
tho rod coats of the Britishers pa a-r
father's door.
California has a curiosity called thrb-u--Sprincr.
It is among the mountains ;W
water is ice-cold, bubbling and foauj"1?'
but no living thing is found within an ln;
dred yards of it. If birds fiv over it ;t0
often fall dead. It is said t hat if a UI,1;! J
being inhales the gas it will kilH'"".11;
twenty minutes. Standing near tne
for live minutes will give one a d id, u-
sensation, tho res-iik of the carlM-ntf a"1
gas.
The following notice, irr'outii fl
Ik-rks
atim, was lonnd posted on a u t
rl
Li
count v ! ".Notice l nave iom
cant lmd her Mie is A nuo i r
or spotted cow her years shourt am r
ing and marked there I doa Ul!1 Via0
-Mark ther iz A hole in one year ths "
iiu uu wiuuu ycai it ia - . . . 1(ine
.. u : it s it
set cow in good fix and wasyei r - .iK,
little milk when she left She lus l,lir
10 days Any person noing of her i )
let it Bee none to .