H i H M H Qcuotci) to politics, Citerature, agriculture, Science, iflovalihj, cniii ettcral Sntdligciuc. VOL. 32. STROUDSBURG, MONROE COUNTY, PA., JANUARY 7, 1875. NO. 32. htti OTli (TA A1TT A "AT jo.iv pjiinl by Theodore Schoch. r,i"l ilrt year In alvano soul if not fj, f r ; tl:n en J df thc ?fttr l dollars tt.n.1 fifty "r:l n', pirr a;:iitit:iiml htMU all arrearages ire f 1. ,t s't thJ opti f the lluitor. "' v 1 ' --m n,s "'" !"i,,ar,; f f'u'"t llncO or "Vor'throo iin -rtions SI Sf. Kadi nd.litloual in '"1 "ic.nH. Longer ones in proportion. JO 32 IMftlXTlXG C'F ALL KINDS. the hu'nt ty? of th Art, ml on lh Stifil-' in nust ruasonahlo it-rms. M xbcssasts' not si:, 4 1:5 . 1I. W.'t Third Sstnxt, PHILADELPHIA. -UodufCil rates, $1 To per daj-.-XBa IIKNRY SPAHN, Prop'r. I P.. Snvpeu. Clerk. ,V. -In IS74. Cm. DR. J. L A N T 2, SURGEON MECHANICAL DENTIST. h!S t 11 01 -Vjiii !tr?ci, in tne second story . n- - W.iit.Mi i r-ricx nuivur.fr, nony jpsui mo v- , i.ir,' It 'll- '. aii he tlat.Ts himsilf that by vtgh- ..11 tn.tt . V. it. i . tn llK .1. 1. . : t'l.liv K lii l 'rt'iirm "ill iifwiritintw ( , ,j Jiit.ii 51., j in the mot careful and skillful mau- Lj- U .v.'t -nli n civen to saving th "surs.J Tn.h ; 1 "f in-'rsi,,n if Artificial Ttvth ou Uiilot-r. Vi s;ivi-r. or Coatitsiitjo (junta, anil f v-rfjet fits Ju ail ''j'.''p T-ms know tha sreat felly an-i ilai.-T of cn . . 11 - i!i ir wi.rk to til;., iuoxj'ertepctfl.or to thne liv--'A i'c.iuu. April 13, l$:4. tf. D u. . L. ra:t xi. SKtsoon Eiaust. fmnv'.nis tli:it having just rinnrnH from Dental ('," ' U i fi!lv ;irv'p:ir.'il to make arliti'.-ial t'tli in :i'V.iM H aaliiiil anil lifv-lik j liianuir, and to till dv fSr ! :.-ih a -Ji'il'i ; i tlif mo-t im;rovixl pil-Ii1. f .'i'l .-"xtra-.-t d without p-t;n. wliou fl 'sired, by the ..' "SUr .is '. txi'i . tia.H. which is i-ntir. lr narmlc.s. r. ' ... o.u , '.it .-1.1 siiids ncativ aoa... .mi wurs waranioa. ,va,;.iri!p". J. ;r. K.-ll.TS new ijnot nuiiainsr, .Main mrert, V. Auj. 21 '71-tf. WILLIAM S. REES, Srvovor, Conveyancer and E3?,l Ssta 4- A.g-ent. fi 3. Timber Lands ad Town Lots FOR SALE. 05 -e next l'r a'.ove S. Kees' new Depot 3tt i 2 ! J jr below the Corner I-toie. D - w - ? ?J75K in, Sirean and Accoucheur, OSre nn'l Re-ii'cn-c, Main istrect, Stronds Liir. in I lit fimnerl v occiijiicd Prompt attention given tocalU. 1 1 lo 9 a. ni. Ulce hours o j. m. ' b p. iu. I 6 A'-rii lo lS74-lv D l. GUI). JACKSO.V SUS5C35 AND ACCOUCHEUR. In the otfue of Dr. A. Reeves Jackson, fe.-iJrui-c, curnvr f Surah anJ Franklin .street. STROUDSBURG, PA. Aa-iis: K,72-if .'ILKIC.l.V liOTCL. The :il.--r!hor would inform the public that l e !e i-.-d !nuo fonr.ally kcjt by Jacob Kr!. !it, in the lioroiih of Stroudsbiujr, I'a., i ! 'i.ivi.', rep.iiiited and refuruislied tiic-anie, is prepare i to enter! tin all who may patronize jii 11. It in the aim of the proprietor, to furn- 1 intrior a -co iiniO'l itions at moderate rates ni - .ire no pains to promote the coni of t!:e -let-. A liberal bhare of public ys.rvvs.' -ilicited. A?r:i 17. '7J-tf D. L. I'ISLE. AUCTIONEER, Red E,tat3 Agent and Collector. k '"i'l r '--n -i li -;". c to ji-t';fy the puMic that ' i-r j, ,1 (, I) al fc,rt n-.ti.-e p'-rs.i!izl prM.rty - ' ;:, a il as l: al llilat.?, ut ui.lic of privat!.' "a- a: Thfimas, Stemnlj 's old ffre Hand, at llast lcc. 17, 1x74. ly. DENTISTRY. DR. HOLIER PATTERSON he at the office of Howard Patterson. M. J1- if iniurlv Dr. SeipV) Main M., Stromlsburg, J;'"' Dm-mU-r 24th to .January lid. 18773, (Jr !'s ) Jl Ik former patients, alw others wih-'I'-ntjil work done are reoueted to call. ii,.. 0 iiii'hiii.r will iu. reailv for extract- ' i- Those indebted are reqm inoted to Dec. 10, f74. 4t. J'I'L KIOL'SU, H0NE3DALE, PA. Mast ccatr&l location ot any Hotel in town. ,,.0r . U. W. KIPLE&SON, Proprietor?. Ja!lryy, IS73.-ly. D AKorncj at ff-:iv, Jne di,or above the "Stromlsburg Ilouse," -"i'U.ur, Pa. 0"lH-iiiw promptly made. K)tU;i:T ll;al ulitti j . - i ;uil anv tiiiux ii) tne runmure r (m'r;!1?:il t,l:,( McCarty Sons in the 1., f Hall, Main street, JStrouJsburg. IS ..' ...... fin ... .. . .1 .t 74-tt tt. .L" .'art.v t Sons are the only Unlcr ''ii.r! I".tr,H1'ls,'ur'r who understands tlieir IvV-1' "S l ,"t' at'?d a Funeral managed till c'y 0 , or ?,i-lertakr iu town, and you 'J'l'epK,r oft lie fact. June 18,'74-tf B LAXKs OF A IX KINDS for Sale at The Elephant Country. From the London Telegraph. tSomcyrfierc in the marvellous yarns which SinW the sailor contrived to spin for the benefit of the till puissant Ilaroun Alrasrhid, und GUfnr, liis vizier, is an ac count of the burial place of the elephants. Sinbad, surrounded by the monstrous brutes, has sealed a tree, in which he is be sieged for seven days und seven nights. On the eighth day, an old bull, the "rogue" of the herd, rends the tree up by its roots, and Sitibud, falling headlong to the ground, judges it i the safest course to feign death. The elephant, disdaining to wreak its racrc upon a lifeless enemy, picks the old sailor, up, and quietly carries hi ui to the great burial pluee of the tribe a high hill some miles in circuit, surrounded by impPntrable forest-s and thickly covered with the bones and tusks of generation after generation of "the brute which bears between its eyes the serpent for a hand. "Sinbad, with commendable prudence, continues to coun terfeit death fid not an elephant is in sight; and then, with an alacrity equally com mendable, loads a raft with picked tusks, makes his way with them to Bagdad, and so finds himself a rich man. Modern re search has gone far to rehabilitate the credit of Sinbad the sailor. We know that the long narrative of his seven voyages is no idle fairy tale, but that it embodies the genuine tradition of old navigators, such as Ilanno, and that its main facts are substantially accurate. The valley of the diamond actually exists in Ceylon ; the great rukh once built its nest iu Madagas car, and flapped its monstrous wings to and fro between the island and tho mainland, and there is good ground to believe that their tale of the great burial place of the elephant race is no mere fable, but that high upon the table land of Central Africa, on the farthest side of Nanganyika, ivory is as plentiful as the fossil beds of the Sibera, whence are dug up the huge mammoth tusks that furnished nine-tenths of the raw mateiial operated upon by our London ivory turners. Indeed, it would almost seem as if the energy of the Zanzibar mer chants had at length found a wav to Sin bad's charmed hill, for, within the last year, the importation of ivory has doubled; or doz'S each pair of tusks that finds its way to England represent a slaughtered cle phtnt, and is a war of extermination being wa.e 1, the ultimate e fleet of which must be to render the huge brute as extinct as the diuornis kseif. The latter, we fear, Is the true answer. The elvphant, like the whale is dying out. In India he is becoming almost as rare as is the red deer in England. The hunters have driven him farther and farther inland; unless something be done to protect him, l e vJ; before long become, ujon the main continent, at any rate, altogether extinct, and Sahib will have to import his elephants from Birjnad and Ceylon, much as we in England import our horses from Ireland, and our foxes from any country that will send them to us in sufficient number and of sufficient size and strength. In Africa, it is true, the evil is not yet past remedy. Over the vast table lands of that unknown continent the elephant still roves in count less droves, and still holds in undisputed possession vast tracts to which rum and glass beads, cast iron muskets and clay pijes, printed calico and coarse gun powder, have not yet found their way. The re spite, however, will probably be but brief. Almost daily caravans start from the Zanzi bar coast to the interior, carrying with them all the native heart needs to make it glad, and willing to take payment in ivory for all that they have to offer. For ten or a dozen large tusks the African chief can dress his wives out in beads aud striped calico, furnish himself and his ministers with rum and gun powder, and cau so af ford to wait patiently until next year's hunting season commences. The danger which the chase involves is exaggerated. The elephant is a dangerous beast to meet face to face, but he is easily circumvented by craft. He can be shot with poisoned arrows ; he can be frighetned by midnight fires and driven into pitfalls ; or, if the hunter have the requisite nerve and courage, he can be followed and hamstrung. Aud so the butchery goes on. Year by year Zanzibar sends inland a largo number of bales, and year by year a large number of tusks is carried down to the coast. We may" regret the idle waste, but we arc jKjwerless to stop it. Now is it, after all, easv to convince a native chief that it is his duty to allow the elephant to multiply in peace. We here iu England arc burn ing up our coal, and. leaving posterity to take care of itself and pay its own national debt ; and we can hardly expect the woolly headed African to display a virtue of which we ourselves are ignorant. What it is to him if in u century or so the elephant be altogether extinct, so long as in the inter val he is able to drink rum and to dress out his ebony charmer in gaudy yellow and red. But, after all, rapidly extinct as the great brute is becoming, it is Tet certain that we shall have supplied Lis place long before we begin to feel his loss. The tram way will supplant the elephant in India as surely as the train has supplanted the stage coach in England ; and science will discover srne material fully as elastic as ivory, and equally capable of doing service iu the shape of a billiard ball the one and only article of modem luxury for which at present ivory is absolutely indispensable. Indeed, it is not improbable that, long before the elephant is finally extinct, science may have taught us to 60 fuse glass as to impart to it aTl the elasticity of ivory exactly as it ! fca already taught u t upply the pfac of the bamboo with cast iron pillars and pipes, and that of the sponge with fibrous India rubber. The Ripening of Fruit. What we call the ripening of fruits is really but the beginning to decay. It is a chemical, not a vital act in the economy of plant life. In the case of the apple or pear, as soon as the seeds are black, the plant has completed its mission, and all that is left for it to care for is the dispersion of the seeds. It is one of the greatest proofs of a Divine Providence that these fruits have a fleshy covering fit for animals to eat. Materialism takes it for granted that there is in each living thing an innate power working for the individ mil's own good. The good of other individuals, or any good other than its own self, is inconsistent with a materialistic idea of inn ite action. But we see in many cases laws working with out any regard to the good of the indivi dual ; indeed, often against the individual good, and for the good of the race, for and which can only be accounted for on the theory that it is guided by an external, as well as an innate power. The ripening of fruits will illustrate this. The little black seed inside the apple and the pear is all the plant need care for. These are for the continuation of its species. The juicy, luscious flesh around the seeds are no man ner of use to the plants or the seeds. They could mature just as well in a dry capsule as in the apple or the pear. Thousands of seeds ripen in dry pods, and so could these. For what purpose then is the pulp about them ? Of late years it has been discovered that there are iu nature innumerable con trivances for dispersing seeds. It is a part of the ordinance of nature that organic be ing shall not only increase and multiply, but also inhabit the earth. The means given to seeds which make them spread over the earth are very varied and extreme ly interesting. The fleshy constitute one of tlusc designs. When we see a bird at a cherry, we are apt to think that the cherry was created for a bird. It is in one sense. It was for the bird to eat, not that natute in this instance had the bird's good so niu.-h at heart as to provide a means for the disp?rson of the cherry seed. While woiking for the flesh, to stone is carried to lot g distance, and in this way the cherry is dispersed. In like manner with the ap ple and pear. It is made good for us to cat; not the seed, but the fruit. We take away the fruit to distant places, cat the pulp, and throw away the seed, and thus the dis tribution in these cases is c fleeted. But the singular part of this process and this is the poiut we wish j ust now to make is, that the plant does not ripen its fruit so as to render it eatable, and so ca:i scar cely be a party to the distributing scheme. As soon as tiie vital jower ceases, chemi cal action begins, and it is chemical action which is the great power in ripening. Ripening is, indeed, only a phase of rotting. A persimmon is not food to cat till it has been frozen. The frost is not a vital jxwer. Quite the reverse. It is a disorganizing instead of a constructive force, as Jife is. The ripening generally goes on as well off" as on the tree, and tree life has nothing to do with it. Hence we sec that though fruits are made eatable in order to have the seeds dispersed, it is not by any innate power of the plant that they are made so, but rather b' another separate and distinct from it a power which has not the good of the plant bearing the fruit at heart a destructive power that would rather de stroy than build up, and yet a power which in a mysterious way is really working for the good of another, and yet quite unknown to itself. We often think that when excellent, scientific men like Tyndall declare that matter contains within stself the prepotency for its own development, there is not the slightest cause for fear that, even though proved to be true, any great strength to materialistic thought will result. There still remains the fact that all things arc working together for good, and with a pre potency that is not always in favor of the individual. These matters have, perhaps, little rela tion to practical agriculture, but we love to think that a farmer's life is not wholly for the grain that he raises or the meat that he eats. He has a mind as well as other men, and he lias advantages such as no other class has of living iu the midst of voices which he can always hear, and which tell him in plain language of secrets and mysteries which even some of the gifted in other walks of would gladly give all they have to known. Thomas Mcehau. A Slight Mistake. A wag walked into a saloon in New York lately where three men were sitting around a tireless stove. As he eutcred all eyes were turned toward him. Apparent ly taking a mental review of the number of people iu the room, the new comer step ed up to the bar, and blandly ordered four glasses of beer. The boots that had adorned the tow of the stove now sought the floor, three men cleared their mouths of tobacco, and all looked at the barkeeper as he filled the glasses and placed them in a row on the bar. When everything was ready, the three loungers arose, and the stranger paid for the beer. Then, stin ting with the glass farthest from the door, he emptied all the barkeeper had filled, und very quickly7 left the room. The three chiirs were then resumed. Within a fortnight a woman in Erie was divorced from her LusJmnd, courted aud m irried ano'.L .r. A DISSATISFIED MILLIONAIRE. An Unexpected and unwelcome Fortune The Unhappy Heir. We stated yesterday, on the authority of a street rumor, that an uncle of Michael Hogan, of West Troy, died recently in Pennsylvania, leaving coal lands valued at 33,000,000, to a portion of which Michael is heir. The rumor was correct. Forty years ago, Michael Hogan, then twenty-one j ears of age, and an uncle, the only survi vors of a once numerous family, came to this country and adopted it as their own. Michael, a hard working, industrious young man, finally took up his residence in West TrOy. The uncle went to Pottsville, Pa., or that vicinity, aud after laboring a num ber of years, purchased with his earnings a large tract of land. Michael also saved money, and iu the course of time laid by enough to start himself in the grocery busi ness, in which it can be truthfully said he has prospered. The venture of his uncle turned out to be a most profitable one. The lands purchased by him were found to contaiu an abundance of coal and by judi cious management he greatly increased his earthly store'until at the time of his death, which occurred a few weeks ego, he was worth about $5,000,000. Last week Michael received information from an at torney that his uncle, with whom he had not communicated for sixteen years, had died, and that he was his only surviving heir. Michael was not at all elated by this announcement, and appeared rather sorry, in fact, that such good fortune had come to him. He was getting old, he said, and would not want so much money, beside he had enough for himself, wife and daughter, and the possession of the immense amount mentioned above would only bring trouble and disgrace upon his family eventually, as young people now-a-days did not know how to spend money. As we have stated, Michael is a sober, industrious man, and is every way worthy of his fortune, which he intends to claim next week. If he is so sorry about this little matter he can turn it over to us and we'll cheerfully bear the burden for him. Troy (X. V.) Times. How to Pull Teeth. A peculiar dental operation has just come under our observation. A certain citizen had an upper tooth which was looe and troublesome, so he resolved to extract it by fastening a string iu it ; but alter a trial, finding the operation painful, he hadn't the grift to grin and bear it. He thought if the tooth could be extracted by some sud den mode the pain would be but transient ; and after mature deliberation he hit upon an ingenious plan to jerk it out in a jiffy. Procuring a heavy llat-iron he tied it to the other end of the cord attached to his tooth, then shutting boath eyes he let the iron drop, which descended plump center on his pet corn. After hopping about the room, wildly, on 003 foot, groaning for very anguish of spirit, and reciting choice passages from profane history, he finally calmed down sufficiently to hurl the flat iron over the fence and swarth the sore toe in cotton. But he pulled the tooth and with it a piece of gum. And the nun jived. A Spider in tha Stomach. A short time since a young lady, a resi dent at Brookvillc, Pa., experienced a creep ing sensation in her nose after she had re tired in the night, and all efforts to remove the annoyance were without the desired ef fect, the difficulty remaining for several days, merely changing to a location farther up in the nostril. At length it seemed to pass down into the throat, causing a chok ing sensation, liutucdiatly after its disap pearance the victim experienced acute pains in the stoamch, and called medical asstance iu vain, the only thing that gave her any relief being copious doses of brandy, which failed to produce any of the usual effects. Finally severe vomiting ensued, and after one whole night's suffering, and the patient giving up hopes of life, the cause of the trouble was removed, and an examination found it to bo a small particle of blood and matter, in the centre of which was a com mon sued black spider. Evidently the brandy saved the young lady's life. Important Decision. A Vr'itncss Cannot Le Compiihd to At trail Court Until His Costs Arc Paid The Centre Prjtorter says : "A witness, James Bell, had been subpoenaed to attend on an attachment, but was afterward taken by the deputy sheriff, Judge Mayer decided that the witness having demanded his costs at the time of service, and it haxiug been refused or not paid, he could not be held for the cost of attachment, nor had the court a right to issue an attachment in the cac. This settles the vexed question of compulsory attendance, and establishes the fact in law that no witness is obliged to at tend in a civil case until his costs are paid iu advance. In criminal cases the law may be different, as the Commonwealth is ku posed to be good for the costs." Some one with little to do has been at the pains of ascertaining how many birds are caged in the United States. Their number amounts to 000,000, of which iJOO,000 were imported hist year. Addi tions corao oidy from importation, since the nuutbei' yearly raised here only about equals the EUHrber hist from various causes. Of other cageci birds there are about 100,000, uud tho whole oou ime feed of various i Viode to- th? vaJuo. vf S'.'OO.W.OOO 8 ynr. Cleaning of Boilers. The furring or coating deposited on the inside of steam boilers may be easily re moved, making the surface appear like new iron, by placing a quantity of raw potatoes in the boiler and letting them boil to pieces. After two or three days open the manholes, and a sandy deposit will be found ; brush it out and the boilers will be as good as new. The worst cases of gravel may be cured, the deposit dissolved and passed away, by using the water in which potatoes have been boiled to pieces. Strain the water, sweeten to taste, and drink for two or three weeks. The Hardest Coal in America. The Mount Hope coal mine in Ports mouth, Rhode Island, contains the hardest anthracite in this country, if not in the TTorld. It is much lighter colored than the ordiuary anthracite, and in many places it strongly resembles plumbago. The mine yields about 10,000 tons a year, and is pretty good fuel, though when the beds were open, many years ago, it was thought to be next to worthless. It sells for from 82 ,"0 to 61 f0 per ton at the mine. Large quantities of this coal arc consumed at the mine in smelting copper from Chili. Juvenile Recklessness. A wee bit girl in Cusco, "Wisconsin, while at the breakfast-table a few mornings since, made loud and repeated calld for buttered toast. After disposing of a liberal quantity of that nourishing article, she was told that too much toast would make her sicl loosing wisuuuy at toe uiaii lor a mo ment, she thought she saw a way out of her difficulty, and exclaimed, 'Well, give mc anuzzer piece and send for the doctor.' A NEW and novel religious belief, prob ably an outgrowth of the spiritualistic idea of materialization, is gaining converts in the northern counties of Ohio. It involves, too, an elaborate principle of mehtempsychosis An outline of its teachings is as follows The soul is immortal, beginning with the original creation of the universe and last ing forever. In the course of it3 existence it occupies a varied succession of bodies on earth. When disembodied by the death of its corporal form, it hovers an unseen power in the air until, by a subtle process of mate rialization, it forms for itself a new infantile body; This body it builds up by what we regard as the natural process of growth, and occupies it until death again frees it, when the same thing takes place again. While disembodied, the soul understands this scheme of existence, but when clothed in a storm of flesh it loses the knowledge, except iu those vague glimpses which people are supposed to have at times of some pre vious and different condition. The follow ers of this new religion call themselves Eter nalists, and their number is increasing rap idly. They believe that souls may advance or depreciate in attainment, rising high en ough to take on the forms of men great in some particular, or falling low enough to animate drunkards, criminals, savages, or even animals. They do not believe the Bi ble or the Christian scheme of salvation : but they teach culture and morality as means of development for the soul, and as a training for a higher form of organization when the soul shall next materialize an earthly body. The Van Arnim case has at length reached a conclusion, and ostensibly the victory is with Bismark ; really it is with Von Arnim. The latter has been con vie ted of no crime, of nothing that impugns his personal or official honor ; the orignal charge of embezzlement could not be sus tained, and was abandoned, the conviction and sentence of three months to prison less the month in which Von Arnim was in duress are meet only as the penalty for the Ambassador's negligence in connec tion with the correspondence of his office. It is easily seen how this verdict was ar rived at. Something of the kind was ab solutely necessary, for an jicquittal of the Count would have been a airtual conviction of the Prince. Either Von Arnim was guilty of some offense, or the conduct of Bismark in sending the Diplomat to jail and invading the sacred rights' of domicile was inexcusably criminal. There was no middle course left to the court. It did the best it could, that is, Von Arnim was found guilty of and sentenced for negligence, with the understanding that the Emperor would remit tlw punishment. Possibly Bismark is satisfied with this conclusion, as techical ly it sustains his harshness and cruelty to an old member of the nobility, an honored official, but the moral victory is with his enemy, and must remain there. It was imposMblc for Von Arnim to hope for an acquittal while Bismark was Chancellor. That he got off so easily and honorably is a matter of surprise. Powell Bros., of Spring, Crawford coun ty, have just imported from (Jlasgow ten Clydesdale stall tous ranging from one to six years of age, and weighing from 1,000 to l,iS00 poands. This is a supperior breed of hordes, stud they have been selected from different parts of Scotland, where the Messrs. Powell have been engaged in col lecting as sound and fine specimens as could be found. These horses are noted for their weight, power, fine muscular development, broad shoulders, solid limbs, aud Sao Hues and graceful curves. A Ilarrisburg landlady eowhides tho;e of her loarders who foil ta pay promptly for tbeir "h.L." MISCELLANEOUS. Another attempt is being made in New York to get Tweed out of jail. Over SI ,000.000 in sjHtie went to Euro from New York on Thursday last. Peter Ilerdic, of WiHrai.-.portl has given S 1000 toward the building of a home for the friendless in that city. Philadelphia is said to be the great mar ket for catfish. Large quantities ara shipped thither from Maryland. J. Lenthal Sheffield, bookeeper for an insurance firm in Wiikesbarre. went offthej other day, afrd so did $300 of his employ ers' cash. The Bethlehem Iron1 Company's machine? shops are running double time. The Legigh Shovel Works will also run full time through the witcr.- In ten years no less than 12,000,000 acres of timber have been cut down and burned over in order to rended land fit for cultivation.- During the past year eighty-two new Lutheran churches have been built in the United States, costing all the way froia 81,000 to $125,000 each. A despatch from Mexico states that th -? Mormons are about to fouml colonies in that country, with a view of emigrating en masse from Utah. Some money. The Crown Point aud Belcher gold mines of California have yielded forty-six million dollars within the last four years. The total receipts of grain at seaboard ports from January 1 to December 5, this year, exceeded those of 1S73 by over fifteen million bn-fhel?. A farmer in the vicinity of Hamburg poisoned some rats in his cellar and found among them one rat as white as snow a decided curiosity. From IStS to 1 87-"5 the gold mines of California vielded $:)S3,00O.O0O. Other States and Territories $255,750 000. Toa!, SI. 210,750,000. A York constable, Weutzel Selak by name, went to a ball in Lancaster on Christ mas eve, and was set on by a crowd of rowdies and beaten nearly to death. Office seekers must be scarce in New Zealand. A late advertisement in a local paper calls for a man to fill a public office, the salary of which is 1,500 per year, iu gold. In 1751 Reading, Pa., contained 130 dwelling houses, 10G families and 378 in habitants, thotrgh two years before it existed in name only, having but two or three, houses. fwo boys named Ulrich and Buchanan, while skating on the river at Lewistown on the IGth inst., broke through and were droned. The bodies hate not been re covered. Fraudulent contractors have little mercy shown them in China. One was recently convicted of cheating by means of false es timates, and was punished by having his head cut off. A gentleman advertised for a wife and received answers from eighteen hundred and nincty.seven husbands, saying he could have theirs. This is given as an illustra tion of the value of advertising Commissioner Douglass estimates that the amount of tax paid into the Treasury by the national banks for the year 1874r closing, will aggregate $D,000,Ou0 ; which is S 1 ,500,000 more than was collected lost year. The jury appointed by the Court of Common Pleas of Ihiladclphia to examine and report upon the subject 6f opening streets through (lirard College grounds, has reported against the project. This set tles the question. Philadelphia sparrows hate met their match at last iu a caterpillar with hairs so stiff and bristly that they stick crosswise iu the little creatures' gullets, and send them, hopping and screeching about like a man with a fishbone in his throat. The eommisafofi appointed to inquire in to the mental condition of Heidenblut, the convicted Philadelphia murderer, has re ported him sane, and Governor Ilartranft has signed his death warrant. Heidenblut will bo hung January 20th. Constable Karcher, of Pottsville, claims that he bos arrested twenty murderers dur ing the last three years, but states that not a single one of them has been executed. He blames the bulk of crimes in the Schuyl kill district upon the Molly Maguires. If preparation for making a given claim is any evidence that the claim itself will bo made, then the demand for pay for tho emancipated slaves is pretty sure, sooner or later, to come. Iu Maryland, as well as iu other ex-slave States, agents are even now engaged in endeavoring to purchase, certificates of ownership of slave property. The gilded aristocracy of New York have devised a means of making even death fashionable. The only daughter of wealthy parents, a belle iu society, beautiful anil good, died suddenly of heart disease. Such a waste of clothes which the envious world had never seeu ! It was tot) bad, aud something must be done. The pretty corpse was rigged out in white satins aud laees looped with diamonds, bejewelled with the barbaric extravagauce of an Oriental despot, hands encased in six button kid gloves, aud the full uniform of the salon. With muio and refreshments tho exhibitiou was pre pared for the guests, who came iu answer to 1,500 invitations. What is bred in the bone must come out iu the flesh, aud one geueration cannot eliminate the ancestral I puetaon for "au illiuut wAu."
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