fci Vr- iJi,; h1ll.li.ii I f I, nit.nl, it.. if r t. t tDcuotcij to tJolitifS, Ciierat'nre, -tgtitnlture, Science, HlbraHia, nub euccal JlntelliQcure, " theTepfersonTan. VOL. 32. VH MJ. Ilfcll polished by Theodore Schoch. ... . t J.JUrt a var in ailvani-niul if unf ' hXri' thi' end of the year, two dollar and fifty '"3' s'.i paper disomtimie-l until all arreara; 2 ..t -It tin; i'i)iii f the I-jiitor. os arc r51"-. ,iv1.r!i-''r l,l;' i" nut' square of (citrM lins or . , , or ili T'-1 iinertiuus ?l .Vj. Eaeli additional in ' "itn ' .iNt. LfJrr onrs in proportion. j on ilVi.Tixc OF ALL KIM'S, ......Jin tlirt huh-"! MyYt of ths Art, aud on the fc: Mtt reusiinal.li term. EllCHAXTS' HEOISK, m m C. -! Uih Third Strcct, PHILADELPHIA. rJIeikccJ rates, fcl 75 per daj"3 HENRY SPAHN, Prop'r. i u Snvdku, Clerk. o'v. $, ISTi-Cin DR. J. LAN TZ, SURGEON & MECHANICAL DENTIST. YiXt fiiVi.'p on Main street, in the seonl story i iir s Waitmi's bi-irk building, nearly riK.-dt the c.il.ur' ll-msc. and lit: Haters h i him I f t iiu t by et;:li ' vivir-i nsta:it prmtiee and the mot earnest and ' "-'Vil tM.-nti 'ii tt all waiters jertaiinni; to his pro ili.it li i fully a!! to jierform all ntertin 'i r'i ttal It"." 'n t'" ,u"st careful and skillful m-n- '' vf'tiMon L'ivrn to saving the Natural Teeth : t' l'i-- i:i--r(i"ii of Artit'uial Tt:eth oti Il'ib'r.-r. f.i i silver, it (ntiuu'us tium., and jterteet tits in all ' m ,ll-n kn'w tlm srrcut follr and danjrrr of en- -, tie ir .:rk to tur iot xprrieneed. r t those lir iT' r.ii -'-.'' ' April n, Is.l.tf. D . . I.. i'LCU, Surgeon Dentist. i-3 :irr thv lavin: jMt rt:!arn;d froiu IV-ntal !- i- iii!v i'r.';i:ir'l to makt artifieiul to-th in ' --t -.ill': In"! and lifi'-like niaiiii'T, and to fill de ).i a' - 'Tlin-r to the niot improred mot li.nl. ; . ii . tr.i -t'tl itlenit p-iin, when d'-sired, by tbf r NItr xi-'. tas. n hieh isetttir dy harmless. I, ..iirini "fall kinds neatly dou.i. All work warajited. ,) 1 (. K 'll.r'i now brl' k KutldiNv;. Mun street, J r c lr- !'-. Au?. 31 '71-tf- WILLIAM S.EES, Surveyor, Conveyancer and Seal Estate Agent. Firms. Timber Lands and Town Lots FOR SALE. 0:?:ro mearly ojiposite American Hemes s-1 -J i d'fjT ie!.iv the Corner !Store. Mirch - lS7:e-tf. ?.i7si3iin, Sanson and Accoucheur, fi ne 1 Kt-idenco, Main street, tnMu.-I''-. i;i ti.e Ituildin.s: furmcrly occupied I . I':. S .!;'. I'roiuj't niiciition ivcti to culls. ( 7 li 0 a. m. iScc hurs - 1 44 3 p. ni. ( " 8 p. Ar-ril 17-i-lv. t. GEO. r. JACILSOX rSTSlClW. SURGEON AND .UTOITHEUR. In ih? -! 1 ofSve of Dr. A. Tleeves .Tack.on, ri- :Je:i(t, corner of Surah and Franklin street. STROUDSBURG, PA. A' The etib-rioer wonU inform tlie public that k t'i- ho;:e formally kept ly Jacob vv. lit. in the- lioratttfh of tromlsimrc, l'u., .-:i'l!i iwr,;rei..i!ite'.l and refitrnished lliceame, i icciorea tt cn'.'jrtuirj all who may patronize iii ti. !'. is t!ie :ii:n of tlie proprietor, to furn i"'i "''j'rior .-..vo;iit:iodation.s at nioderate rates 5i.l 'n::rei) pains to promote the coni fTtcfth.i -ot-. A liberal share of public April 17,'7i-:f.3 X)- l- VlUlAt. AUCTIONEER, Seal Ejta-te Agent and Collector. Tr, iinl. r-i.;rv d 'rs l-axe t- imtify the puUie that ' .r-ti 1.. ji Mi.irt nut te itersftuai domwh t Ill 'IS'- at Tiiomaf. . -it-mplo's old 'tore stand, at East "'u.;. ca. Llf-e. It, is, 4. y. DENTISTRY. DR. HOMER PATTERSON Will 1. ,! nr . r tr I i f It. fu.ri,...!.. T - ! ... C. I --. .il Lite tmiet' in i 1 ivt:irii x :tiiriMFii. 'MUllk.n!!.....)!.!. i.. I ".I Is:.', fl,n. -.'iiT.il, nr. .f :ir violin sl.. ..louvti'ut P,"ri...i.,l i i . I . II 1 l IS luniier I'tlllC HIS, cIIWJ Itllir-l r nine '"'u,.i wt,rK none are reqnesteii mean. r(b Latiliinj (Jas will be re.nl v for extract- l!7 I Tiiose indebted nre reo nested to Tll l u W ,t .1... .', ir.m.r " "'"lusijtir" J':i y "l!(.e(i.11,J r,,.,. ..,,! I., H0NE3DALB, PA. Most --"in ov:auuif oi aiu iiuui r.i wbh. It. W. KIPLK&SOX, t. I'rourtctar!' rocic;Brr that when .1,,,.. ', W" K lW)'T know that J. II. tk'n r, 1 lJ IV lUlfl MIC tOl- OU' u.e.v. ti.; frouasburp: nyIio umlerstamis tneir bv , 11 not- aend a runeral uianagea I . . w I'-ruurr iu ijviu, ouu ,; '.y Othae ITn !.,... .,n,l nm . w.c prooi OI l!ie IilCt. Jine 18,'74-tf S OP AT T. K-TYTIS for Salfl lit this Qfifioo. 'n;itw,.tA i i' ..I .,r. .i. 1 1 J i, ,, ' 'ej I 11.11. ,"IW UIIJ IV UWll--? Ill i, : vo.iws nan, .nam street, airouasours, -tie place to tret it. tr rrr KLA-AK THE REPUBLICAN PARTY. The Letter of the Vice President. Washington, January 1G, 1S75. To the Editor of the Sprhrjfidd Rrp. I find in your journal a statenieut that I asrree with you that the Republican party is dead. I beg leave to say I do not agree with the licpnbluan, or with any man or set of men, in the opinion that it is dead or hopelessly defeated. On the contrary, I believe that the Republican party has it in its power to recover what it has lot ami to elect the next President. Iu saying this I am not unmindful of the grave questions at issue aud which are pressing for solution, of the disasters that have faf len upon it, nor of the hopes expectations and strength of the Democratic party a party whose strength and power I "have never underrated. I believe it ean recover all it has lost?, win back its former prestige, and still retain its power in the Govern ment : and 1 be"i -ve this because I bolicve it to be a necessity of the country. The grand work of liberty and patriotism it has performed imperatively demands that it should continue to guide the policy of the nation. Liberty, law, order, protection and civilization cannot afford to have it permanently defeated. I saw quite as early as any one the pcrik of the Republican party, and more than thirteen months since I warned my political friends of the danger of losing the next House of Representatives. The party has made mistakes, and is now paying the penalty of those mistakes ; but its idea?, principles, and general policies have not been condemned. It has been taught by recent disasters that it is mortal, and if it is wise it will heud those lessors. It would seem that neither selfishness nor stupidity could f il to underst. nd them, or could misinterpret their import. If the Rej uMican party n sw dies, it will die by tl e an 1 of the suici le. for there is no arm other than its own p tcnt enough to strike it down. It cannot, I think, hope to re cover its lost pretig ; and power by a policy of rewards and punishments, or by party discipline. There are hundreds of thous ands in the Kepnb'iean party to-d;iy who spurned the bribes and frowns of power, and left the NVl.ig and Democratic parties for the sjke of principles deemed by them imj.ort.ant and sacre 1. Thi.se men cannot be seduced by the blandishments of power, nor greatly moved by threats of discipline. Mere politicians, v. ho think they can govern by the whip of party dis-.-ipliue, will find that they cannot thus reach or control the thoughtful anl independent men who struck the lash from thu hand of the slave masters. Nor tan we recover what is lo&t in Massachusetts or i i the country by the inmcrtincnt intermeddling of office-holders in nominations and elections. Office-holders should learn from the recent elections that they can serve the Republican party best by performing thcirofficial duties with scrupulous fidelity. The people should be left free to manage iu their own way, and without official interference, their primary meetings and elections, for, rightfully or wrongfully, they have been compelled to believe that there arc those holding office iu Massachus ,'tt., in the e ormtry, and espe cially at the .South, some cf them in import ant positions, who do not fitly represent the desires aud wishes of their localities, and who have not the public confidence. Th'j party burdened by such is not likely to be led to victory by their obtrusive in terference, cither in Massachusetts or in the c untry, North or .South. The disas trous division of the Republican party in 1872 was to ine a distressing event. It secn:e 1 to me to be the unnecessary separation f comrades who bad toiled together for so many years for noble purposses f.nd a glor ious cause. I did all I could by remon strance and appeal to prevent it, and have since sought to reunite what was then so disastrously and unnecessarily broken. And I would now throw the doors wide open for the return of those who voted for Mr. Greeley in 1872, and earnestly invite them to unite ajrsin with their old associates, Indeed, at any moment since that election, I would have pursued a generous and mag nanimous policy toward the men who then left us, and now, without the loss of a single hour, I would, in all sincerity, extend the hand of reconciliation. 1 would appeal to you, Sir, and to your associates of the press in that unfortunate division, to unite with the great party which, with all its errors, faults and mistakes, has made a glorious record f jr the country, freedom and progress. I do not ask you to refrain from criticism, nor to leave unnoticed its mistakes ; for a party that cannot tolerate that is already in its decadence. There has been, and now is, a class of men in the South, Douglas Democrats, and old-line National Whigs, who were dragged into the rebellion, but who have very little sympathy with the Democratic party. I have believed, and now believe that these men should be in vited to co-operate with the Republican party aud thare in its responsibilities and honors. I believe that peace in the South, the blotting out of divisions on the line of race, the advancement of real reconstruc tion, permanent Southern prosperity aud the fcuccesa of the Republican party de mand that all honorable effort should lie made to withdraw such men from associa tion with those whu led them into rebellion, brought wieh fearful and indescribable ruin upon them, and who still adhere to the -iobt cause." It seems to me that Repub licans everywhere, in office and out of office, should subordinate all personal desires, aspirations, and ambitions ; sacrifice their interests if need be. rally again for the par- ty, invite everybody to crowd its ranlt6, ( STROUDSBURG, MONROE COUNTY, PA., JANUARY and bring to the front, to the important positions of the Government, all the ex perience, ability, ability, and character they ean command. A broad, wise, and mag nanimous policy should be promptly inau gurated, and steadily and honestly pursued. When the country clearly sees, as it will see, the only alternative presented, the real issues involved, the polities aud men to be supported, their record in the past and their present affiliations, who and what shall prevail if the Republican party be set aside ? When the country sees where the loyal men of the land arc found and where they stand, who believe in the perfect equality of the races, and who, come vic tory or defeat, life or death, mean to main tain in its completeness the equal rights of American citizens of every race, nationality, and faith, then will the Republican masses rally again, achieve new victories, and give the party a new lease of power. Truly yours. (Signed) IIexrv Wilson. The Colosseum at Rome. The Colosseum deserves to stand for other than architectural reasons. It is the greatest monument of that wild thirst for blood and cruelty which distinguished Rome above all other nations of the world. There have been in every country times when atrocious and horrible punishments were devised, slow wa-s of tearing life bit by bit from the body, ingenious and fiendish devices for prolonging and intensifying pain till the sufferer could feel no more. Rut the punishment and the torture were meant to be regarded with horror. In Rome alone they became the favorite spectacle of the people, and it was through the debased rulers of the empire that a ferocious crav ing for the sight of suffering was cultivated and developed. On the arena of the Colos seum not only did gladiators fight with each other and prisoners with lions, but dramas were enacted the plots of which were taken from some well-known tale of antiquity. They were plays which required no libretto, because the story was known bj every one of the eighty thousand spectators. And they had the great and absorbing interest that nothing was acted all was . reality, and the catastrophe, eagerly expected, was not simulated. The hapless actor who had to wear the shirt of Ncssus knew that wheu he put it on, lined and smeared with pitch, it would be set fire to, so that he should represent in actual torture the agonies of the dying hero. Actieon knew that the dogs would be loosed upon him when the time came, aud would tear him to pieces amidtheapplau.se of the people. Medea stabbed her children coram popida ; Dircc acted her part knowing that she would be tied by the hair to the horns of the bull, who would drag her. till she died. This was the favorite spectacle of the Romans, gentle and simple. Such shrieks, such shouts of applause, have echoed from these walls as no other theatre has ever heard ; such tragedies have been enacted as no othpr play-goers hare ov er dreamed of ; the citizens were insatiate; the roads that led to Rome were thronged with prisoners coming to take part in the sports ; the old could at least be torn by the beasts the young could fight. And these sports con tinued for dUO years, until the Emperor llonorius stopped them. Later on they were partially revived, but only for combats of bexsts, by Theodoric ; and a bull fight was held in the old arena so late as 500 years ago, at which the noblest of the Ro uu ns fought. Since then the Colosseum has rested in ilence. A whole literature has grown up around tins great amphitheatre, the modern aspect of which has hither to presented insuper able difficulties in any attempt at under standing the old accounts. For, if it were true that the arrangements were such that wild beasts could be let loose by hundreds, and prisoners by thousands ; if, also, the arena could be flooded with water, so as to admit of the reprcsentrtion of a sea fight, in which all was real except the hostility of the combatants, by what means were the leasts kept ready and loosed upon their prey '( where were "the prisoners kept so as not to interfere with the audience ? and how was water drained oft" after every sea fiirht ? Partial excavations were commenced sixty years ago, but were discontinued af ter a short time. They made confusion more hopeless bv revealing a number of walls below the surface running aoout in several directions, and seem in- to answer no purpose Rut within the last few months Signor Rosa has commenced fresh excavations on a scientific plan on a large scale, and has already been enabled by his discovers to settle most of the disputed jioints. The proper level of the ground is twenty-one feet below the present surface. The arena itself has been found, with the original "herring bone" pavement, perhaps that laid by Titu.?. What has been hitherto supposed the front of the podium the lowest wall separating cprctators from ac tors is really, the back ; and, in clearing away the newly-found front, three great arch-ways were discovered, which have al ready so fir been cleared out as to show what was their original purpose. These were the entrances of the actors. Ry these avenues marched the morituri, sturdy pris oners of war or shrinking women ; by those their bodies were dragged away an hour or two later. And below the arena Signor Rosa has found the great drain, the cloaca which carried away the water used for the fea fights. In the corridors still stand the bronze sockets on which, perhaps, swung the doors which divided the animals into their various groups ; and there have been fouud marble slabs on which are lcprescntd the gl.idi.tori J contest mn i.h men, men with beasts, beasts with beasts. The engineer does more with his spade than the scholar with his books for archaeological research, and we congratulate Signor Rosa on his success. We can now realize more vividly the nccenes of the Roman amphithe atre, but while we wonder how ladies high ly born and delicately cultured could take delight in witnessing torture, we may re member that it is not many years since badger-drawing and bearbaiting were fa varite English sports, and you may see a bull worried and baited even now in Spain; and that school boys have never ceased to find their keenest pleasure in watching a fight. If Nero and Queen Elizabeth were to visit the .Costal Palace, while the for mer would miss the gladiators, the latter would deplore the abseuce of the bears. Ijondon Xeics. Having Moral Courage. Moral courage is a big thing. All the gtod papers advise everybody to have moral courage. All the almanacs wind up with a word about moral courage. The Rev. Murray, and the Rev. Collyer, and the Rev. Spurgeon, and lots of other reverends tell their congregations to exhibit moral courage in daily life. Moral courage doesn't cost a cent, everybody can fill up with it till it can't cut half a dinner after g ing with out breakfast. "Have the courage to discharge a debt while you have the money in your pocket," is one of the "moral paragraphs." Mr. Mower read this once, and deter mined to act upon it. One day his wife handed him five dollars, which she had been two years saving, and asked him to bring her up a parasol and a pair of gaiters. On the way down he met a creditor and had the courage to pay him. Returning home his wife called him 157,000 pet names, such .as "fool," "idiot,"," etc., and then struck him four times in the pit of the stomach with a flat iron. After that hedidn't have as much moral courage as would make a leaning post for a sick grasshopper, and his wife didn't forgiove him for thirteen years. "Have the courage to tell a man why you refuse to credit him," is another para graph. That means if you keep a store and old Mr. Putty comes in and wants a pound of tea charged you must promptly respond : "Mr. Putty, your credit at this store isn't worth the powder to blow a mosquito over a tow string. You are a fraud of the first water, Mr. Putty, and I wouldn't trust vou for a herrimr's head if herring were selling at a cent a box." Mr. Putty will never ask you for credit ngt'.'ui, and you will have the consciousness of having performed your duty. "In providing an entertainment have the courage not to go beyond your means," is another paragraph. If your daughter wants a juirty and you are short don't be lavish. Rorrow some chairs, make a bench of a board and two pails ; and some molasses and watermelon, and tell the crowd to gather around the festive board and partake. They will appreciate your moral courage if not your banquet. "Ilavo courage to show your respect for honesty," is another. That is, if you hear of anybody who picked up a five dollar bill and restored it to its owner, take him by the hand and say : "Mr. Rambo, let me compliment you on being an honest man. I didn't think it of you, and I am agrccbly disappointed. I always believed you were a lair, a rascal and a thief, and I am glad to think that you arc neither shake." "Have the courage to speak the truth," is a paragrrph always in use. I once knew a boy named Peter. One day when he was loafing around he heard some men talking about old Mr. Hangmoney. Their talk made a deep impression on Peter, and he spoke the truth. . lie said : "Mr. Hangmoney, when I was up-town to-da', I heard Raker say you were a re gular old hedgehog, with a tin ear." "What ?" roared the old gent. "And Clevis said that you were meaner than a dead dog rolled in tan bark," con tinued the truthful lad. "You imp you villain !" reared the old man. "And Kingston said that you were a bald-headed, cross-eyed, cheating, tying, stealing old skunk under the hen-coop ?" add el the loy. Then old Mr. Hangmoney fell upon the truthful Peter, and be mopjKjd the floor with him, knocked his heels against the wall, tore his collar off, and put his shoulder out of joint, all because that boy had the moral courage to tell the truth. And there was young Towboy it was the same with him. He had the moral courage to go over to an old maid and say : "Miss Fallsair, farther says he never saw such a withered-up old Hubbard squash as 3'ou are trying to taip a man !" "He did, eh ?" mused the old maid, ris ing up from her chair. "Yes, and mother says it's a burning shame that you call yourself twenty-four when you arc forty-seven, and she says your hair d-e costs more than our wood !" 'She said that, did she ?" murmurd the female. "Yes, and sister Jane says that if she had such a big mouth, such freckles, such big feet, and silly ways she'd want the lightning to strike her 1" And then the old maid picked up the rolling-pin and sought the house in which Towhoy resided, and knocked down and dragged out untii it was a hospital. Then Towboy 's father mauled him, his mother pounded him, and his sister denuded hiin of hair all because he had moral court ge in his diily lifa. Comic Monthly. 28, 1875. The Economy of Charity. The State Hoard of Public Charities in its annual reports to the Legislature has repeatedly urged the principle that the pre vention of crime, by the care of the desti tute and neglected children of the Com monwealth, is not only a high duty, but the very best economy. The cost of train ing a child in the way of virtuous living, as compared with the maintaining of a criminal in the penitentiary, or the insane pauper, who has destroyed his own dissipa tion, in the almshouse, is so trifling that the Commissioners of Public Charities have continued to press upon the Legislature the great importance of providing by law for the better care and education of these neglected classes ; and the wisdom of this policy is being rapidly recognized by intel ligent people. One of the most startling illustrations of the fearful cost which neglected crime in flicts upon the state, and the dreadful in heritance of wretchedness and pauperism thus entailed upon society, has recently been given by a most reputable physician of New York, Dr. Harris, who has recent ly stilted a case known to him, the truth of which, amazing as it is in its record of per petual crime, we have no reason to ques tion. Dr. Harris states that in a small village in a county on the Upper Hudson, about seventy 3'ears airo, a young girl was set adrift on the usual charity of the inhabit ants. She became the mother of a long race of criminals and paupers, aud her pro geny has cursed the country ever since. The county records show tico hundred of her descendants who have ben crimin tls. In one single generation of her unhappy line there were twenty children ; of these three died in infancy and seventeen survi ved to maturity. Of the seventeen, nine served in the State prisons for high crimes an aggregate term of fifty years, while the others were frequent inmates of jails and penitentiaries and almshouses ! Of the nine hundred descenkants, through six generations, from this unhappy girl who wxs left on the village streets and abandoned in her childhood, a great number have beeu idiots, imbeciles, drundards, lunatics, pau pers and prostitutes ; but two hundred of the more vigorous uro on record ao crimi nal. This neglected little child has thus cost the county authorities, in the effects she has transmitted, hundreds of thousands of dollars in the expense and care of criminals and paupers, besides the untold damage she has inflicted on property and public morals. Seventy years ago the people took small concern about such matters. They had lit tle appreciation either of the moral or econmical obligations which the State owed to itself and to its children. And out of this common indifference and ignorance have grown results such as these ; results whose inflences must project themseles into the future generations of this poor child of crime and neglect, for all time to come. And if from a single root, not only two hun dred criminals, but a long line of idiots, drunkards, lunatics, prostitutes and paupers have sprung to bo a burden' and scourge and cost upon society, how shall the aggre gate results of similar neglect in thousands of other cases be estimated ? Evening Bulletin. A Good Suggestion. A saving woman at the head of the family is the very best savings bank es tablished one receiving deposits daily and hourly, with no costly machinery to manage it. The idea of saving is a pleasant oue, and if the women would imbibe it at ouce, they would cultivate and adhere to it, and when they are not aware of it, would be laying the foundation of a security in a storm time and shcller iu a rainy day. The woman who sees to her own house has a large field to work in. The best way to make her comprehend it is to have an ac count kept of all current expenses. Proba bly not one woman in ten has an idea how much arc the expenditures of herself aud family. When from one to two thousand dollars are extended annually, there is a chanee to save something if the effort is made. Let the housewife take the idea, act upon it, and she will save many dollars perhaps hundreds where before she thought it impossible. This is a duty, yet not a prompting of avarice, but a moral obligation that rests upon the woman as well as upon the man. Novel way of Destroying Woodchucks. James J. Webb, of Haniden, Conn., who is a very thorough and intelligent farmer, being troubled with woodchucks, adopted a novel mode of destruction, which he af firms is a sure cure. In the first first place, make diligent search to discover if the bur row has more than one entrance ; if it has, thoroughly close all but the principal one by means of stone and earth. Having done this, fill a four ounce vial with powder, and insert into the same a coil of fuse, putting in a cork to prevent its beinir too easily pulled out t then put the vial as far into the hole as jiossible, and thoroughly ehsQ the entrance earth, cut off the fuse which has been imbedded in the earth, with a protrusion sufficient to bo easilv ignited then light the same, and alter the discharge of the powder, the woodchuck will iicvor bo heard ofnioro. The ground may be slightly lifted, but no injury is done ; but by means of the concussion aided bv the : suflliDtr effect of tho confined smoke. tViA w irk ii ucrfcijihcd. NO. 36T Tie4 0. L. & W. Railroad. VTrXSIVE I51PItOVF.MF.NTS AT Hf)iftKK5; The Delaware, Lackawanna and West ern railrad company have so im'proved their" termiuus at Hoboken that they will cease shipping coal to Elizabethport after March5 1, 1875, anil will then sell all of their pro perty at that point or will remove it lo Hoboken. By an agreement entered into between the two colossal corporation several years ago, the Delaware, Lacka wanna and Western railroad company wa.-f pledged to pay a certain percentage on' every ton of coal that passed over the rail.' of the Central railroad to Elizabethport from the junction of the two lines, forty eight miles from Hoboken. The agree ment had a proviso, giving the first nuuieiJ company the privilege of withdrawing from' the contract in case they gave six .months' notice. This has been1 complied with. The Delaware, Lackawanna and Western rail road company, by Juno, 1S75, expect to possess the most carpaious coal, iron and general merchandise docks resting on the North river. The vast marshy track of ground tying between Jerse' City ami Hoboken has been tilled in by mad dredged from the river, and the whole area will soon be covered with a network of tracks extending to the cral bins facing the river. The different bins will have a capacity of three hundred thousand tons, or just one half more than at present. Five of these coal docks cxteud into the river a distance of twelve hundred feet, and trains from the Lehigh coal regions discharged dnYhri tin past niac months 1 ,500.000 tons of cou?. The company is now also engaged i.i build ing an immense canal, which extends inland three thousand feet from the North river. It will be one hundred feet in width ami will have a depth of twenty-four feet, tha affording good anchorage for the largest class of vessels. Fire-proof warehoues will be erected along either side, and in the spring ground will be be broken for a new depot. These improvements arc based on "great expectatioijs" in the future of the? coal trade, and who can doubt that their expectations in this will be realized. This trade doubled iu the last ten years, and may again double in the present decade. The improvements of the Pennsylvania railroad company at Harsimus,- opposite New York, are even greater than those of the Delaware, Lackawanna and West ern company at Hoboken. PhihxddphUx Lcdyr. Profit of Rats. If bright eyes and smooth fur are the points of animal beauty, a rat should uot be an object of disgust and aversion ; but when the rat appears "in his thousands." he certainly inspires the greatest possible loathing m the human breast. Ihe notion of swarms of rats running over each other to reach some hapless victim, and forming a seething mass instinct with hunger and thirst, is one ever present to sufferers from nightmare or students of historical novels. These unfortunate persons avoid Paris, for, if we believe sonie statistics lately pub lished of the number of rats in that metro polis, the "joyous city" is a complete rat's nest. Thirty thousand were killed last year in the Central Ilalles, 190,000 in the Market Ilalles, 120,000 m the slaughter houses, 40,000 in the butchers' shops, i00,- 000 in the grocers shops, l'UO,000 in tha tanners' yards, 110.000 in the canals a total of 1,790,000, to which sum must be added about 3,000,000 rodents which eluded capture, so that Paris boasts of a standing army of something like 5,000,000 rats. Some idea may be formed of the maguitude of this loathsome host from the fact that if a procession of Parisian, rats, running ten abreast, were to start from Paris to Berlin, the vanguard, would reach the German capital while the rear guard was issuing from the gates of the French metropolis. But then there is a profit for all in them. Of the 4,790,000 killed per haps nearly all went to the glovers, where their skins arc turned into "prime kid.'! A Simple Disinfectant. One pound of green copperas, costing seven cents, dissolved in one quart of water and poured down a water-closet, will effectually concentrate and destroy the fouicst smells. On board ships and steam boats, about hotels and other public places, there is nothing so nice to purify the air. Simple green copperas, dissolved in any thing under the bed, will render a hospital or other places for the sick, free from un pleasant smells. In fish markets, slaughter houses, sinks, and wherever there arc offensive gases, dissolve copperas and, sprinkle it about, and in a few days the smell will pass away. If a wty Vat or mouse dies about the house aud sends oh? offensive gas, place some dissolved copperas, in an oien vessel near tho place- where tha nuisance is, and it will purity the air. Titer, keep deau. Crystalization ef Honey The action of light causes honey to crys talite. The difficulty may l obviated by keeping it in tho dark, tho change, it is said, being due to photographic actions : and that tho same agent that alters tho molecular arrangements of iodide of silvie on the excited eullodian plate causes the syrup honey to assume a crystallic form. It is to this action of light that scientists attribute tho workings of bees by night, and they are so careful to obscure the gl iss windows that are sometimes placed iu thir hives. Therefore, keep honoy away from x. ygrWWfTlJl'p'
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