A it nn;i.wimigun M 3 $ J Scuotcb to politics, Citemtuvc, Agriculture, Sricnrc, iHovnlitn, onb eneral Intelligence. VOL. 32. STROUDSBURG, MONROE COUNTY, PA., DECEMBER 24, 1874. NO. 31. pi!N!ipd !y Theodore Schoch. T- y , 1 i ' ' . . , . ... ........ tn it inn :.l ' inbM-.ir.r.-.'Hl. -.i.fV.-;!'t fjiii option ol the I'.'htor. r ii!-fn:imi"n uniii an arroararrvs arc i'irt NO- of on- sj jar or fciht lines) or '. oil. Each additional iti- !.' r t n I.:u;:r onrs in proportion. or ALL K1X1), -J i:i ill - Ui !iet siyli of the Art, and on the no-t .j3sjn:'.hlo term. l 413 & -115 77(;W Svc?, PHILADELPHIA. vT Reduced rates, $1 75 per day.-&3 HENRY SPAIIX, IWr. 1 :1. .vydk: CI- M'iC. Cm.1 t 1 c- I 1 i t. DR. J.LANTZ, -rrP GEO! & MECHANICAL DENTIST. lv ri'i'? on Main street, in the second $try ' a". '-ri. V btiiiitiu., nearly opposite tli- H. :i' a:il he flatcrs hiinscif that by ci.l-i-i2i.iiil pr.ic.ii-' and tiiu' mo.-t eai ii'-st and T'l'i'-' n.ittTs portaininir to hi"? pro : h i ',. !';:;; a'.i-; to p Tlonn all on;T;uioiis .. i.:: ; ia the niwst cart-fal and .ki!li"ul nan- 'i in civcn t snvin j tho Xatural Ti-otli ; ii: ; .i--l" AitiucUl T.fth on Uul'bi'r. . or Coutina-.as Ouias, and perfect &ts in all . .'is k': r thf? n-CRt folly and danger of t:n ir w.ck totliu iuexperioucitl, or to those liv- April 13, 1S74. tf. :;: h.TvIri" ;ut r."'.:'.rnd from Drnttl :- :'.i!:y pr.;virfl to wait artificial trcth in :'ii ! litV-like manner, and to nil de 1 .! o: til.; most iniprovml niftli l. :r;i i i "i:"io'.:t p-iia. slu-n doiwl, hy the w xH tias. which Is entirely harml '.-.s. kii.ds neatly done. All work waruted. , tC"ilw'.-' new brick lmihiinc;. Main street, -: !'.:. Auj. 51 "71-tf. 6 WILLIAM S. REES, lurvojor, Conveyancer and I instate Agent. 2lr L-iLds and Town Lots FOP- SALE. o ; :-xi il'jur .iiove S. lines' news Depot .r !.! .".v the Corner Store. J d.i i, i raj3:.:iin, Sarjean and Accoucheur, Main street, Strotid?- . iii the Iniiliiing formerly occniiicil 4. I-'rui'ijit aitentioii 7 to y a. m. ;rs - 1 " 3 p. ni. ( G " tS i. ui. !i;:nN". srssEas and accoucheur. " t'.ie o!.I oiTieo of Dr. A. Iteeves Jackson, .ie:n ?. fjriivr cf .Sarah and Franklin street. STROUDSBURG, PA. !': r v;.Ti!d inform the public that 1 th- iio'2-c? formally kept by Jacob ':. .i t:ic Ljr.i.i;h ot fcirouu.sutirg, n., ' !'. ':; j reoai-.ted and refurnished the same, '-; : to nUvrftiti ail who may patronize It i-i !:ie ai:n of the proprietor, to furn or ri"f..)!ntrn latiotis at moderate rates v'i .ire iv) pr.in to promote tlie com "' ' f- fT A liberal share of public --.li-itt-J. Tj-:f. D. L. riSLE. ho:je3dale, pa. j'.eat:;n oi any Hotel in town. R. V. KIPLE k SOX, tt-.-t. Proprictcrr. 1 v; 1 i i j . i . .rv OLice.Kresgcville, Pa. i; in 'it-rtnan and English. Ieal Lusi- aji;c;;.-d aad Jul! sati:a'tnn guarati- X.K t. 15 '7. Attorney at Law, r r.bovc the "Stroudsburg House,' )"!!' 1 ".'c;i cm I'Tornpt y rnaoc j:-j)war a. avilson'S (of il u ,;, ,,.i, v v rnv i . 'JnLOX and ASTHMA carefully :ur. I l tit HOLLIKSIIEAD'S drug store. wv 'I'.'ditii fresh dud pvre. ; r . 07. W. HOLLINHEA1). 0 vJU ;int any thin.sr in the Furniture or ."'iV':!'-1 he that McCarty& Sons j'-i-l...,ws' litdldain street, Stroud F-ltiee to net it. in the sburg, u:.o J:-V74 tf WK'KAPELLOW, DEALER IN Eca id v- 51 i A hiil e Uolliiusr, Gents Fiir- (ioods, Hals & Caps, Soots & Shoes, &c. UST STIIOUDSBURG, PA. (Near the Dt pot.) '- 1 uf. ic pre invitel to all nd examine May 6,'fO-tf : TWO BURGLARS SHOT NEAR NEW YORK. One Confesses that They Were the Ab ductors of Charley Ross. On moml;ty morning 14th, int.,"two burtrlars wore discovered in a summer res idence at Bay Ridge, near New York city, whose owner for the time was not occupy ing it, A gentleman who lives ?bout one hundred yards away ha a' burglar alarm in his residence connecting with the un tenanted house, and collecting his neigh bors he attempted to capture the robbers. The thieves made a desperate fight. One of them was shot and died almost instantly. The other attempted to escape and was also shot, but lived long enough to tell who he and his companion were, and that they were the abductors of Charley Ross, who was kidnapped in Philadelphia last July. The one who was killed instantly was named William M usher. The other" was Joseph Douglas. The confession of Douglass was as follows : 'We came from Xevr York. My name is Joseph Douglas. That man lying over there is William Moshcr. Nc lives in Philadelphia, and has a wife and six child ren. It' he had not been killed out-right he might have told you where that boy who was stolen from (icrntantown (Charley Ross) is to be found." '-Have you any re latives about here ?" inquired" Mr. Van Brunt. "I have," was the answer, ''two sisters living somewhere, but I have not seen them ibr more than ten years. You will find in my pocket 810, and all I ask of yen is to sec that I get a decent burial." Douglas lingered for upwards of two hours in agony, and expired about half past five o'clock. The police know the two men and the officers in Philadelphia say that all along they suspected that the pair were implicated in the stealing of the Ross child. We anxiouslv await farther devi h'- mcnts as th? detectives are working for the j reeoverv of the lost boy from the clue here obtained. Mosior and Clark, it would seem, were members of a gang of out-laws, who were river pirates and burglars, the first named being its captain. Police .Superintendent Walling, of New York, was the first to suspect the connection of Mosier and Clark with the abduction, and he put his own men to searching for them, and also notified Chief Ileitis, of Philadelphia, who started his force on the trail. It was ascertain :d that the two were in the habit of commk- i 1 1 ncr lurtrlanes alone: the shores ot Lone: Island Sound, and taking refuge on some sP. ..i t. . i : a i. t i i-danus in tint vieimt Superb ;dent Wallin- b. 'd a ! small tug-boat fitted up for a cruise amoncr thrse islands, up the Hudson and aloujr 1 the canal, and manned bv his keenest de- ! tive.- Twelve days and nights were the quest, forty different islands spent in bavins been visited and every house and piece of woodland thoroughly searched. Xot withstanding repeated disappointments, vigilance was unrelated, and the police were weaving a web around the abductors which must soon have resulted in their capture, had not death stepped in ahead of them. Clark, alu's Puglass, was not permitted by Mosier to know the place of the Ross child's secretion, but stated that Mosier had a wife and children, and the. Philadelphia child might be with them. Mosier, who has numerous aliuses. was a fugitive from justice, having escaped from jail at Huntington county, X J., where he was confined on a charge of burglary, before he went to live iu Philadel phia. Here he rented a house in Monroe street, where Clark, alias Douglass, lived with him part of the time. They pretend ed to be peddlers, t'u l, to keep up the ruse, had a horse and wagon with which to sell wares about the city. It was with this horse the child was driven away. Oneq, .-way from Philadelphia with Charlie Ross in their possession, thev drove tneir horse leisurely to X'eW York, hawking their wares bv the way. Airs, hosier remained in Philadelphia several days 1 - A. after their de- pariure, wueu sue iou .". yo Iter children. It was known to the Phila delphia officers that it was Mosier who wrote the anonymous letters to Mr. Ross, sending them on from New York to his wife in Philadelphia, who eauscd them to be delivered. It is also known that two other men were engaged in the abduction of the Ross boy, but if the police have any knowledge of their identity, they keep it to them selves. Of the prosjiccts of recovering the child, Detective Wood, of Philadelphia, who lias been engaged in working up the case from the beginning, saj-s : 'I don't think they can keep it out of the way. Either the"'two other men' have got it, or Mosicr's wife lias it. I don't think she can keep out of the road. She has no means neither have the other two nK.n fur we know that the whole gang were reduced so low that they had to make foravs into the town and commit house robberies. It was while upon euch an errand that last night Mosier and Clark were killed. They had to steal to live, and to steal to be able to hide the child." tl.r. ton went flW."V. takinc THIRTEEN SHOTS WITHIN TWO MINUTES. Jt'PfiE VAN URCXTii UATTLE WITH Till: ACCOUNT OF THE IJUKULAUS AT JUS COUNTRY-HOUSE. Judge Van Brunt gave a full statement of the attempted robbery of his house at Ray Ridge, L. T., and the death of the robbers. -'My house," he said, "is situated right on the shore road, about a mile below the steamboat landing, within ubout 400 or 500 f-et of the water M v brother's house ' is about 200 feet south of that. My house is always vacant in the Winter, l" have a burglar-alarm, which is attached to even door, every window, and all the blinds in the house. The wires are carried over to the other house, and the bell is there, in my brother's bedroom, so that the moment any door or window or blind is opened in my house, the bell rings instantly in his house. It was about 2 o'clock on Monday morning that that bell beiran to ring, und le supposed that, as the wind had beiruu to blow very hard, perhaps a blind had blown open, and had caused it to ling. He had been sick f..r a week or ten days very ill and didn't want to go out in the cold, and he called his son, to go and call my gardener, who lives in the barn, about 300 or 400 feet back of the house. lie went and called him and they went down to the house together, and just as they were put ting the key into the door, to go into the house, they saw a light in one of the windows, and then, of course, knew that somebody was there. Then my nephew went and got one of his father's men, and two or three guns, one for each, and came back. Tins light was seen moving in the house, these men going from room to room. They could uot tell how uiany men there were. Then my nephew went over for his fit her, and although he bed been sick, he pressed him to come, until he took his gun and went ovet. lie put his son and a man by the name of Frank in the front of the house, and he and William Scott, mv tr.irdener. stood in the rear. Thev saw th: t the cedar door had been forced, and that was the way by which they bad entered the house. They watched the men for a time, and then, as mv broths r was gettll);' Col'. and feared exposure, lie told the men to gt niem out. 1 le was staining by the dining-room window at that moment, and cue of the robbers walked through the room uot ten feet from him. The men then went i:;to the winy, :,n while they vrer tlu Joor was "icn The men inside immediately r-itt out their lie.!it. Bv liuhtkr' matches now and then those outside could see (hem i'e mg their way hick into the cellar. The besdogers waited a considerable timr, each of the watchers being hi the position first assigned him. The precaution had been taken that they should not leave their positions, so that if they se.w an' one mov ing it would be safe to fire. It was so dark at the tbue that unless the form cf a man was against semetintu white, it could uot ie seen at ail. A man nve leet a a might but it appear as some mc i,bjcctf could no: be distini'uished wkelh r it was feet you : fbrtnda- a man cr anything els; At ton k!1. Tr: ton! J not see anybody a tion of the house is dark, and when the uurgiars came I rum the eeller thev eoukl ,:,,t he seen ut i til the v raised thvtr lieaus to the white part of the house. As soon as my brother saw them he called to them to stand. At that very moment the burglars fired, snd Scott says thai one of the pistol palls whistled past his head. They then fired themselves. One load lodged in the &ill of the dining-room window. Of the other one no m irks can be found, and this is supposed to be the load that hit one man iu the bowels. One man fell, got up it was so dark that you could only sw) forms moving along, not what they were doing and ran with his companion toward the end of the house, and then my brother shot again. That shot struck them from be hind, but they had thick coats on, and it didn't iro throue.li them. The man who was shot fell at the corner of the house. The other man, who was evidently not in jured, went around the corner and there met my brother's son. He firod at him. but was so close that the shot passed him. lie fired twice. Then Frank shot at him. but did no execution. Then this old man, the burglar, drew a pistol and fired at my nephew twice, close to him, but didn't hit hiiu, and he was raising his arm to fire the third time, when m' nephew clubed his gun and struck him on the arm, breaking the gun. The man, then evidently disabled in his right arm, stooped down as if to pick up something, and then my nephew, who had drawn his pistol, shot him twice in the back as he was stooping. This man got up and at i?njptcd to run, getting over quite a dis tance, my nephew firing again. Just as he 'ot pafct the front corner of the house, he t the man who had been stationed , ,i . , r . i. - t witl l my brother in me rear ot u.c noi-.se. who bad come around d. The burglar said to him, 'Til give up," and fell dead. He had only spoken once before, am! that v.'tis to call my nephew by a vile epithet." When I got down there the men were lying on the piazza, dead. It was the man who was shot in the bowels who made this confession about the Ross boy. which was accurately stated iu some of the morning papers'; for it was taken down in writing, lie new he was dying at that time. Each man had a seven-shooter, and one, the old man, had a knife about six inches long, and as sharp as a razor. My brother's wife was looking out at the uIiVkv ; the could only see tnc nasnes ana near tnc rcporu: .i, .1 rt 1 11 ,! and f-houts, but it was so dark that she could not see any figures at id! ; thirteen shots were fired in about a minute or a minute and a half; the men had been through every room in the house, and had opened every bureau drawer ; only two doors in the house were looked, and that was only to secure their being latched. The key; were in the door, but on the other side from the burglars. These doors were forced. There was nothing displaced, except where anything happened to be cov ered up with paper, and that had been torn off. They had been through the wholo cf the house from garret to cellar. There was nothing in the house that they rotiM carry off. They had undoubtedly made an attempt to enter Mrs. White's house on the same night, because somebody was heard around the house, and a blind had been pried open. Mrs. White being sick, there were persons up in the house, which probably kept the burglars out, There was considerable excitement for a while, and I am only anxious that my brother shall not suffer from the expsure. The Value of Brains. The innumerable articles which appear continually on ''How to make the farm pay," is enough to make a lior.se sick. People should know by this time that fortuness do not grow, but are made. Once in a while one may stumble over a fortune, as lightn ing strikes a tree ; but these are Providen tal occurrences aud are not in the every day hands of man. A man may have the most fertile soil and raise the biggest kind of crops ; but if he has not brains enough to know how to go about selling what he has to the best advantage, somebody else will reap the best profit, not he. Or he may have the best knowledge in the world as to where the best market is, and the best knack of rinding out who will give the best prices; but if he has no judgment as to what crops to raise, cr how to grow them, he does not get along. How to make the farm pay is altogether a matter of brains. It is no more of a practical question than how to make the . store pay. Xot more than half the men in the world have any bran than s to pare. The other half have mere They spare a little for they need those who are short ; but charge a hi ln- terest tor the use thereof. A piece of public work is to be done, and, here arc a hundred men to do the work, but ninety-nine don't know how to go about doing it. They can work when directed, but who is to direct ? The one steps out, and some of his brain is loaned to the other ninety -nine. He makes twenty-five or per haps fifty cents a day on each clearing twenty-live or perhaps fifty dollars a dev. This is the percentage on the use of his brains. Without this the men could - noilang. Ihey count not earn their salt. Our dark skinned friend was not far wrong when he indignantly denied that he had charged one dollar for killing the calf. It was on'y fifty cents for killing the ether we.3 for the "knov; how." If there be net note money made at firming than there is. wc take it to bo for the want of spare brains. Brains to loan out as capital to other men who have none. There is a good deal of 'ruth in the popu lar saving that no man can set rich by hard work. But this large grain of truth io only no when it has to pay a large tax to the brain that directs it. The employer gen erally works harder than the one he em ploys. After he works at hard manual la bor for years, using his surplus brains to make a iittlo more than his daily needs, and to put that little away ; and when the time comes to loan his surplus brains, he has to work early and late to keep his busi ness together ; while the laborer knows just when his work is done. It is not that the employer has no hard work to do. It i not that he making money by hard work, lie is simply making money by the loan of his brains to those who have not enough of their own, or have not had time to lay by sufficient of their surplus brain earnings to loan to others in the same way. To make the farm pay, then, one must be :i capitalist have brains to lend. Yet how many ever think of this ? By one's own personal labor, a boy or man. or half a dozen horses only, how can one make much ? We never could see why a farm might not be carried on as any other busi ness is by the employment oi' large num bers of men who have no idea how to man age themselves ; or what is the same thing, the larger use of machinery so as to do farm ing work on a large scale. This is the basis of all the fortunes that are made. There is no other regular way to make them. We are perhaps a solitary man standing in his little office in a crowd ed city, handing bits of taper in somecom merie.il transaction, employing no one. Bat be really has hundreds of men in the back-ground paying their little tributes of a few cents only perhaps for the use of his brain?, doing for them what they are un able to do for themselves. And we arc quite f-ure that those far mers who have most money from their call ings arc those who have employed the most men, not recklessly and foolishly, but wisely and well. Business the farming business included is not a mere chance game. Jt is t'.n art nn art like the art of war ; and as in war Providence generally smiles on the heaviest battalions. We wan't first a general with an abundance of brains; then the more men he has to loan them to, the better for his cause. Ccnmnfoictt 2Ve gmph. . A gentle, husbandlcss creature in Iowa writes to a lawyer who advertised that he would provide companions Ibr unmarried persons: "3Iy Dear Mr. This is to certify that I am a widow with thirteen children born, have had three husbands, each cf v.hi h died in peace in hfs own way. I have a small larm, an i wouki taKC another husband yet, if I could find a young one ; no old, bull-headed sardine need apply, h! will not be taken in. Ten dollars will be given to you to produce the man-1 . The Elizabeth Sunday ordinance, which is so unpopular among the (Jerman saloon keepers, passed the City Council on Mon day night; 'The st.loous and liquor ltrs will now be closely watched on Sundays, and delinquents v.i 1 be, heavily fin d. i ii i ii.i .i Newspaper Postage. The following instructions have been ap proved by Postmaster General Jewell, iu relation to the prepayment of postage on newspapers and other printed matter, on and after January 1st, 1875, under the act of June 22d, 1S74: Section 5 of said act divides the matter therein described into two classes, and fixes the rate of postage on each, as follows : On all newspapers and periodicals issued weekly or ofteuer, two cents per pound or fraction thereof, and on all those issued less frequently, three cents per pound or frac tion thereof. Under section G, upon receipt of matter at the mailing office, properly assorted into the two classes, it must be prepaid, after deducting the weight of the sack, 'by spec ial adhesive stamps," furnished by the De partment for this purpose. Ordinary post age stamps cannot be used for this purpose, nor can these stamps be used for any other purpose. The Postmaster will make the following deductions for weight of sacks, viz, Xo. 1, jute sack. 2i "pounds ; Xo. 2, jute sack, 2 pound ; Xo. 1, cotton sack, 3 pound ; Xo. 2, cotton sack, J' pounds. On receipt of the postage the postmaster will give a receipt from a book of blank forms furnished by the Department. The stamps will then be affixed to the stub cf the receipt ; and cancelled by perforating them with a punch, and the blank in the stub be filled to correspond with the re ceipt. The' stub books are to be kept permanent ly in the o trice, to be ready to be produced whenever demanded by the Department. The postmaster will render promptly and at the end of each quarter, on blank forms lurni.neu tor the purpose, a postage collected fioia each statement of publisher or news agent, during the quarter. These special stamps will o ers and accounted fb cnargeu to postmast in the se.me manner as ordinary postage stamps. Xewspapers, periodicals and circulars deposited in a let ter carrier's office for delivery bv the of- i . . . hce or its carriers arc suoiect to posta at the following rates. On newspapers, regular cr transient not exceeding two ounces m we:c;nt, one cent each : on periodicals, ret Is, regular or transient, not exceeding two ounces in weight, two cents each ; periodicals, regular or transient, exceeding two ounces in weight, two cents each. Circulars unsealed, one cent each ; week ly newspapers to transient parties, one cent for each two ounces or fraction thereof. These rates must be prepaid by postage stamps aliixed. County papers Under this section coun ty papers pass by mail free to subscribers A -L A W actually residing within the county ; but when delivered at letter carriers' office or by letter carriers, they are subject to rates of postage fixed in laws and regulations; page (57, section 15S, namely ; On publica tions not exceeding four ounces in weight, iss.ivd less frequently than once a week one cent for each copy ; and when issued once a week, five cents per quarter, and live cents ad uitiona' per quarter lor i each issue more frequently than once a wetic An additional rate shall be ch urged for each additional ibur ounces or fraction there of. These rates must be paid quarterly,- be fore delivery ot' such matter, either at the office of mailing or delivery. When not so paid, postage must be collected on delivery of each copy at transient rates, viz ; 1 cent for each two ounces or fraction thereof. The foregoing instructions are to take effect on January 1st, 1S75, and to continue in force till ratified or suspended by the de partment. Legends cf the Apple. The apple, which, as well as we know, is the first fruit mentioned in the Bible, litis been the theme of various legends and supostilions. In Arabia it is believed to charm awa- disease, and produce health and prosperity. In some countries the custom remains of placing a rosy apple in the hand of the dead, that they may find it when they enter Paradise. The O reeks use it as a symbol of wealth and large pos sessions, thus attesting their esteem for the fullness and richness of its qualities. In northern mythology the apple is said to produce rejuvenating power. Germany, France and Switzerland have numerous legends regarding this fruit. In some it is celebrated as the harbinger of good for tune, causing one's most earnest desires to be fulfilled ; in others its beautiful proper ties are shown forth as bringing death and destruction ; others again speak of it a? an oracle in love affairs ; this is especially the case with (he Germans, not only hi their numerous tales, but in some surviving cus toms. In England, sis well as in our own country, is known among school girls the popular use of the apple seeds iu divining one's sweetheart. The peeling is also used a." a test in this delicate matter. Cribbics in Horses. Crib-biting or wind-tucking m horses is due to a derangement cf the stomach. Fil ing the incisor teeth apart, in the place of relieving pain, very often produces it ; and then fbre, whenever it is successful in pre venting the aii'iiti-dls front indulging in the htdjit which is but seldom it is on ac count of the soreness of the teeth occasioned by the operation. To enable a horse to swallow wind, it is necessary for the mus cles of the neck to contract, and the i nly object in applying the teeth or jaw. to the post or manger is to afford a fulcrum for iho ni'iseUs to act f.om. Nearness of Death. Wb ien we wa.k near powerful machinery wc know that one misstep and those mighty ongines will tear us to ribbons with their flying wheels, or grind us to powder in ponderous jaws. So when wc are thunder ing across the land in a railroad carriage and there is nothing but an iuch of iron flange to hold r.s on the line. So when we are in a ship and there is nothing but the thickness of a plank between us and eternity. We imagine, then that we seo how close we are to the edge of the preci pice. But vfc do not see it. Whether on the sea or on the land the partition that divides us from eternity is something less than the oak plank or a half-inch iron fhnge. The machinery of life and death is within us. The tissues that hold the beating pow ers in their places are often uot thicker than a sheet of paper, and if that thin par tition rupture it would be the same as if a cannon bail struck us. Death is insepar ably bound up with life iu the very struc ture of our bodies. Struggle as he may to widen the sjace, no man can at any time go further from death than the thickness of a sheet of paper. The Steves and Heaters. About this time heaic-rs and lurnaees ot all sorts are called into requisi tion far the comfort of the household. Ti e warmth is indeed grateful when the wintry blasts begin to blow. But unflrtunatc y in connection with the heat, poisonous gases chiefly carbonic acid and carbonic oxide are generated, and they pervad.j the house, vitiate the tar, and cause head aches an.l other miserable feeliuss. Clos ing the damper which is usually put across the entrance of the smoke fiue iu the heater or fume.ee does indeed check the fire, and it also checks the proper escape of gases. The fire should be controlled by shutting oil" the air from beneath it. Fre;,h air should be admitted also to farnacc-heateJ rootus at least twice a day until they aro thoroughly aired. If this were dune head of all aches and colds Would b less frciue.nt. Fi'fDarlnfl:. A San Jose (Cul.) pr.per ssys that ri prominent bachelor of that place had been noticed several evenings of late carefully examining the initial nd monograms on the ladies' underv.'car hung out to dry at the laundry near the depot. He says he wants a wife, but a woman doesn't "kcej her own clothing mended, what show is there for a husband's shirt buttons ? To Destroy Red-Bugs. Boil in one gallon of water one-half pound of alum ; wash the cord ; and af:er scouring the stains off the bedstead with ashes, wash, with hot alum water, the floors and all parts where there are any sius of icm. MISCELLANEOUS. Dauphin county spent $0000 on vagrants last year. The U. S. Senator will be elected on Jauuary 10th next. Competition has brought flour down to 5 a barrel in Waldboro, Me. ''French Rost Peenotes' Allentown peanut stands. tl le sign on Crawford county made $75,000 worth of cheese during the past season. Reading ships $50,000 worth of veal' calves to Xew York every winter. 1,4)00 barrels of apples were shipped on a single steamer to Europe last week. A seventy year old goose was one of tho attractions of the Doylestown poultry fair. There are four hundred and thirteen people in the Schuylkill county alms-house. A Stowe, Vt., man, weighing 12 onunees at birth, weighs 93 pounds at the aire of I u. A fee of $5,000 was paid to the officia ting bishop at a recent San Francisco wed- uim Uvcr seventeen thousand tons of ni iron arc in stock at the furnaces of the Al- lenton Iron Company. Last week a cat died in Hamburg which had reached the age of nearly twen ty 3-cars. Peyuies-cat, etc. According to the decision of Judo Allison, of I luladelphia, assessors have no light to assess election. voters for the Fcbruclry An infant found in the doorway of a X'ew York church, recently, was taken in to the building and baptized, and adopted by the congregation. Twenty million dollars of worn out bank notes have been delivered to the Comptrol ler of the Currency for destruction wiihi no the past sies. months. The Democratic Delaware Legislature has discontinued the practice of opening its daily sessions with prayer probably "be cause its members tire past praying for. The Germans of Chicago have just scut a car load 'of 'sauerkraut to their fellow countrymen, in.. Nebraska who have sufi'ereii from, the grasshopper -plague and scurvj Who would be a turkey hen, ; Fed and fattened in a pen, Killed ar.J eat by hungry men Oh ! w ho vttdd l a tiukev l.eu ? rr- r
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