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THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 4,1875.
CQ It is only two weeks and four days
to the commencerudnt of the February
terra of cur Court, and that event will
r.fFord our delinquent subscribers and
advertising and job customers an excellent
opportunity to show us whether they ap
preciate our in-earnest dun of a couple of
weeks ago. Wc hope they will take
advantage of the occasion, and come with
a ruth and "sock up," so as to enable U3 to
present them with one of those beautiful
receipts, of which we always manage to
have "a few more left" on hand. Don't be
bashful about coming, or afraid to come
under the supposition that we may be kept
too busy, or over worked. We like to be
kept busj' attending to such customers,
and really believe it would be a pleasure to
work for the accommodation of delin
qucnta from morning to night. Try it on,
slow coach, delinquent, friends. We will
cheerfully assume all the responsiblity o
the consuauences, and have no fears of
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their proving fatal.
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ES" Friends, Republicans, Democrats.
Tuesday a week is the day on which we are
choose borough fathers for another year,
Have you thought the matter over ? If not
begin to do so now, at once. We want good
jnen for the positions to be filled a good
Chief Burgess, six good Councilmen, a good
Ave.-sar, two good School Directors, one
cood Auditor, a good Judge of Election, two
ro,d Inspectors of Election, and last, but by
no means least, a good Constable. Nor do
t?e want them all men of one party. Not by
,iny means but we do want them as nearly
divided between all the great parties, Repub
li-'ans, Democrats and nothingarians as may
be. In looking around for candidates it is
only necessary to consider these requisites as
r( al'y cfseutial fearlessness, capacity, hones
ty. We have such here. Let us look them
up, and when found, let us meet in general
AmMy, nominate them, and, at the polls,
elect them. This is what we did last year,
and we cannot do better cow than in doing
just so again. Lot us not asek to secure snap
judgement against each other, but good, re
liable men to fill the ofaees. Trickery in such
a case is unmitigated knavery, and partizaa
politicians a down right humbug. These are
cur sentiments publij'y and freely expressed.
Our Legislature is not working with a
view to securing the best interests of the peo
ple. Speechifying, dilly-dallying, fixing up
matters for buncomb, is about all that has
been done thus far. As there is talk of draw
ing the $1,500 and going home in March,
we presume that soon coats will be thrown
off and work be begun in earnest. Let us
abide in patience, and probably we shall see
what we shall fee.
Blkssed is tb.2 man who never "cuts be
liiua." If there is one human being who
his a touch of heaven in his heart it is jast
that man. lie never forgets that he was a
boy once himself, and his very horses appear
t trot along as though their lives and labors
wore a joy, enriched by the thought of pos
ssirsg such a master. And the man is hap
py, and the laughter, and happiness and
chatter of the little chaps, who enjoy the
ban -ring cn anl ride so much, rings in his
ji trt like tha voices of angels come to cheer
S.::; jvjrasy through life.
The man who never cuts behind is never
touched with the blues, and may be marked
as a man prosperous in his undertakings as
lie i? prosperous ia his joys. Among his
neighbors he is always, with truth, accoun
ted forehanded. He looks at the bright side
of ih3 world in which he lives, and always
having the brilliant before him is enabled to
distinguish the right and pursue it honestly
and earnestly to success. If failure should
happen to meet his advance, his happy heart
will not permit him to brood over the fact,
as over a misfortune, but will prompt him to
op and at it again, until at last he comes of
conquering and to conquer.
The man who does not "cut behind,"
rould not if he would hide himself under a
bushel. His heart itoo large for that, and
bis body and soul are altogether too well pro
portioned to his heart to enable so insigni
ficant a measure to contain him. No 1 vou
know him reader at sight; every body know.-
him and, best of all, the boys know him like
z. bok. The moment they clap their eyes
n him, riding along on his sled, they know
him as purely and as well as they know their
own mothers. J ust watch them as he comes
along. There is no hesitation ia their move
ments : no stepping foward. and then stop
ping, and then stepping forward again, as
though they didn't know how about it, and
then snoaking up as though they wanted to
do something thay were almost afraid to let
anybody, and especially the man who owus
tho sled, see them do. No such thing. They
know their man and the moment they clap
thir eyes upon him, with a lustily "come on
fellows" they pile on as though they owned
both sled and owner, and had owned them
for years. And so they do, in the reality, for
eome thing it is not instinct, has taught
them to read this right of possession in the
very outline of the mans heaven illumined
countenance. Occasionally they make a
mistake, but not once in ninety-nine times
out of a hundred. They know them too,
well and they know the other chap just as
well the old curmudgeon who is vastly more
free with his lashes, and his "get outs,
than he is either with his honesty, his charity
or his prayers.
Ihe man who never "cuts behind" is al
ways, too, a good citizen, a free giver to the
poor, and a free administrator to the wants
of the sick and helpless, and blessed, indeed,
is that community in which the man who
never cuts behind preponderates.
Suicide. Alfred Mostcller, son of Mr.
Phillip Mosteller, residing about two miles
from Snydersville, on the piko leadiug to
Bartonsville, committed suicide by hanging,
on last Thursday night. So far as we can
learn, the particulars are about as follows :
His parents and other members of the family
retired about 8 o'clock on Thursday night,
he alono remaining up studying his lesson in
geography. His brother Samuel, on going
to the barn to feed the stock, about day light,
Friday morning, discovered a dark object
hanginrr in the hawk hole leading to the
mow. Upon returning to the house and
making inquiries as to his brothers where
abouts, he learned that he was not in the
house and again returned to the barn. He
then ascended the ladder and discovered that
the object hanging there was the dead body
of his brother, liefore committing the act
he had carefnlly dressed himself in clean
clothes laying his boots to one side. Ho had
taken the rope used on the hay fork adjusted
around his neck, then tied it securely to the
cross-beam and then jumped off the beam
falling a distance of four or five feet, his body
hanging through hawk hole. When found,
his body was stiff and must have hung
several hours. The alarm soon brought
large number of the neighbors to the spot
when he was cut down, an inquest held
and a verdict of suicide rendered. No cause
can be assigned for his destroying his own
life and the whole affair seems to bo shrowd-
ed in mystery.
We have no holidays, for a long time to
come, now save the 22d of February, and
that is both a legal and patriotic holiday,
How would it do, for us to make an effort to
celebrate that day. Certainly the name of
George Washington, the father of hi3 coun
try, is a name worthy of remembrance, and
his deeds worthy of more than an unnoted
passage. We could hardly evince our appre
ciation of the man and his invaluable service
better, cr so well as to get together and
soberly and rationally enioy a good time. It
is by keeping up and makiug more than a
note of the days, and events, and men which
furnished our past history, that we can best
keen ia remembrance the toils, trials and
tribulation through which we have progress
ed to our present exalted status as a nation.
And this too would tend to make us better
patriots and men. It is the neglect of these
that leads us to forget our duty as American
citizens, and led to the rebellion which came
so near destroying us. Our country was
never strong in the strength of its patriotism,
as when the people celebrated its holidays as
a matter of principle. Can we remember
the 22d of February ? Let U3 see.
Subscribe.
When ? Now.
Fob. what ? The Jeffersonian.
Why ? . That you may learn what is
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transpiring throughout tne ouniry auu
your neighborhood, and not be ignorant of
the important events of every day occur
ences.
Lent begins next Wednesday, the 10th.
TnE Snow Storm of the season fell on
Friday.
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We can now boast of a gas machine. J.
G. Keller is the proprietor.
Sunday a week is St. Valentines day.
D. R. Brown has the tender missies in
great variety.
Not a "show" here all this winter. Well
thank fortune, we have had the Y. M. C
A. to fall back on. That's some compensa
tion.
Rev. Wm. B. Wood The Frcsiding
Elder of Lehigh District, will preach, D
V. in the Methodist Church of Strouds
burg, on next Sabbath evening at 7 o'clock.
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And then the Normal School. Hadn't
something better be done about it too. It
cannot fail to render our gas works more
profitable, and to bring money here from
abroad to make us still more able than we
are now to build the cisterns, to hold the
water, to put out the fire which may at any
moment attack and destroy our possessions.
Keep that gas notion floating around.
It is something safe, something cheering,
something cheap and something we should
be preparing ourselves to work to completion
ct loose m tne
as soon
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Sermons on Heaven. Rev. D. E.
Schcedler, of Brodheadville, is preparing a
scries of English sermons on Heaven,
which he will preach to the congregations
and people at Tanncrsville. He will preach
the first "crmon on this subject, on Sunday
forenoon, February 14th, topic : Is Heaven
a place ? As this is a subject which inter
ests all, we trust that all will turn out, with
out regard to denominational preferences.
We observe in the Honesdu'e Citizen a
notice that our old friend Bob. Keiplc
killed the champion hog of that locality this
fall. The monster weished G90 bis. We
should be surprised at the announcement
but for the fact that Robert is a Monroe
County boy, where he learned the nack of i
the generous feeding and good care neces
sary to make big porkers. Bully for Bob.
Mountain Home, Pa., Feb. 1st, 1ST5
Editor Jeffersonian Dzir Sir The
second Lecture of the series to be delivered
under the auspicies of Mountain. Home
Lodge, No. C74, I. 0. O. F., will be deliver
cd in the Oakland M. K. Church, on Tues
day evening, Feb. 9th, by the lie v. I. D.
Falsom, of Canadensis. Subject "Temper
ance." Seats free. A general invitation is
hereby extended to all to be present oa the
occasion.
E. II . Heller,
C. W. Decker,
W. R. Stright,
Elisiia Dunbar,
Allen Price,
Committee of Arrangements
Donation. The friends of the Rev. II.
Daniel in Pleasant Valley and the vicinity,
will make him a donation visit at the
Salem's church in Pleasant Valley, on Wed
nesday, Feb. 10th. Come one, come all,
and welcome. Services will be held at 2
o'clock, p. m., of the same day, in the Ger
man language. Such as purpose donating
grain or anything else besides money, will
do us a favor by bringing or sending it to
he parsonaee in Fennersville if convenient,
if not convenient they can leave it at the
iboTe named church. 11. DANIEL.
We are indebted to Dr. S. S. Shultz,
of the State Hospital for the Insane, at Dan
ville, Pa., for a copy of annual report for
1873 1874. of the operations of the hospi
The Monroe County Association of the
Methodist Episcopal Church will meet,
Providence permitting, in the Lecture
Room of the Church in Stroudsbure: on
next Monday at 1 p. m. Besides the busi
ness usually claiming attention, there will
be an essay by Rev. John F. Chaplain and
a discussion of the question How may we
best secure and promote a Revival of Ileli
gion ? by R.ev. Messrs. Hobbs, Mac-lay
Martin, Dreher and perhaps others. A
prompt and full attendance of the members
is desired and the public are cordially in
vited.
Wm. B. Wood, President.
J. F. Raub, Sec'y.
About five inches of enow fell here on
Friday last and this, with the firm icy
bottom, the result of previous snowings
thawings and freezings, made most excellent
sleighing which was enjoyed by our lovers
of smooth riding and jingiiug bells. Lumber
men hereabouts are reaping a rich harvest
of logs for their saw-mills from the facilities
afforded by the abundance of snow in the
woods. We understand that cur towns
man, Mr. William Wallace has some fifty
teams at work, engaged in stocking his
mill near Sand Cut.
As Mrs Mariah Keyser, was crossing
the street from her home to the residence
of Peter Y. Baird, on Center street, on
Wednesday evening last, she had the
misfortune to slip on the ice and break he
left arm near the wrist. The fact was
learned with extreme regret by Mrs
Keyser's many friends hereabouts, and their
wishes were freely expressed for her speedy
recovery.
Mr. Jno. W. Forker, more familiarly
known as "Stickem," is around again with
his traveling fish market He can be seen
nearly every day on our streets with a fish in
each hand, looking for a purchaser, as happy
as a clam at high water. He has such a
winning way, too, that few can get rid o
him unless they purchase a few fish. Well
fish are a delicious article of food, "Stickem
is a good fellow, and every body should
We thought there was some-
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thins. Those cisterns, as preventatives to
tho destruction of our property and our
financial ruin by fire. Wc should be ia a
pretty fix now if a fire should break-out
with nothing but low and ice-bound creeks
and empty wells to depend upon. We have
been most gloriously favored thu3 far, but
there is no knowing how soon, a la Chicago,
Mrs. McGinuis's cow may kick over a kero
sene lamp here, and set the town in a blaze.
Wc shall prove criminally negligent if we
don't at once take precautionary measures
as a matter of safety.
I'igeon Shooting.
Tuesday afternoon another pigeon shoot
ing match took place on Robeson's flats.
It was a sweepstake, five birds each, twenty-
one yards rise, eighty yards bounds, 1$ oz.
shot, miss fire lost bird. The shooting was
better thau at the last match, some excel
lent shots being made. T. F. Halleck acted
as referee and Thomas Hanna as trapper.
Tho following score shows the result :
Wliat IV e heard and Saw within
Hie Weclt.
Ye John, of buff cochin fame, answered
thirty-eight questions at the review last Sun-
dav. See "Kiby's notes on Lack ot seat.
"Dawdle" is night clerk at hotel "T."
"Come-around" is trying hard for the posi
tion. "Buffalo" fought hard for a kiss
but was defeated. "Come-around" is about
to engage in the clock business. Queer, that
it stops at three o'clock. Novel post-office
that doctor shoo. But then it answered
evcrv rurnose. Every Sunday "Greely
can be seen airing himself, accompanied by a
blushing maiden, on the road to "Lagers,
behind the old gents sorrel team. How did
we find it out, "Greely," you certainly made
no such report to the club when last down.
Four handsome young ladies playing "hoop
la" over a snow bank at Matlacks crossing
It was fun to sec the blonde jump.
Our friend who shufiles left-handed gives
promises of making an excellent euchre play
er. Like the Arabs she has "folded her
tent and stolen silently away. Alas, poor
Yorick. J-E-M Krow was counducting
the street car last Monday evening. 'Greely'
attended the Y. M. C. A. meeting last Sun
day afternoon. While there is life, there is
hope. "Tempest" was reposing in the lap
of "Sunshine" last Sunday night, in the seat
next to the lamp-post. It is gratifying to
see them take such an interest in the Y. M
C. A. too. Frank would make an excel
lent Barber and no doubt could Gracefully
perform the duties of a knight of the brush
That sleghing party had a splendid time
Tuesday night, notwithstanding the slight
indisposition of Eugene and Charlie. Singu
lar that 225 should affect them both at the
same time. A short stop at Kunklctown
secured a handsome Rose for friend Will.
Eugene vacated his seat ir the rear sleigh
and took one in the sleigh ahead to the ex
treme mortification of who. Why our
Bark street friend should get mad when
about to start home, we are unuablc to say.
From the quack of short limbed fowls along
the road, we should judge Ed. to be partic
ularly fond of that species of fowls, at least
he tenderly cared for a Drake captured on the
wa The charming "hoop Ia" was disap
pointed, too, that his ideas should run in
that direction. In the absence of 'Sunshine'
"Tempest" stuck close to "Bushj" Well,
who had a better right? Strange that our
typographical friend should escape the
"Tempest" or be denied the sweet "Sun
shine" of the merry sleigh-riders. We
would advise the driver to be more choice in
his language. Report says the little
"brunette" washed dishes for Mrs. B., at
Craig Meadows, to' pay for the suppers while
out sleighing last Wednesday niht a week.
That young painter should be careful
when dressed in female attire, or he might
como to grief. "Taffie John" is about to
take stock in the hotel "T." Should he do
so there will be trouble over the creek-
State Agricultural Society
Harrisburo, Jan. 20. The Pennsyl-
vania isricuiiurui cuwviy, r
to-day, fixed upon the 2th, .bth, zytn
and 30th of September for their next
annual exhibition. A committee or eignt
was appointed to confer with the Lenten
nJ.il lin.ird to make arrangements for the
l.IVWI-n ill 1R76. Georire Scott, of
Catawissa, was elected president.
Presidential Electors.
Tn tha election for President, in 1876,
the thirty-seven States of the Union will
i hoose 306 electors. Those States in which
slavery lately existed will choose 13S of
- - - , -,.. . xl
them. The New England states, logeincr
with New York. Pennsylvania and New
Jersey, will choose 113, and the twelve
Suites lvinjr west of the Ohio, in which
slavery did not exist, will choose the re-
maming lio.
Feeding Hens in Winter.
In the first place give them plenty of
pure water. If you want to latten, give
corn ; if growth is what you want, oats are
"ood : but for laying hens, a variety ol looci
is necessary ; also plenty of shell timber
hens often die for want of it. Pound up
bones and crockery or glas3, give plenty of
ashes, lime, nlastcr and cravel. Wheat
bran is better than corn for laying hens
A warm mush of boiled potatoes and shorts
moistened with milk is good in the morn
insr. Sprinkle in a little cayenne pepper,
or throw in a shovel full of coals once in
awhile. Give dry grain at night. e
warm it in verv cold weather. A little
sulphur or chopped onions given occasional-
jy is lor ineir neaitn. uauc jrunui.
Is it Justifiable to Kill Burglars?
This i3 a question undergoing discussion
since the killing of the burglars Mosher
and Dondass by young Van Brunt. Mr
1 "it 1 J - nt SV1
unarics kj ioner was upeaiuu wu iui auum-
ion, on me subject., auu cviuoot-j
mnrmrr not to be misunderstood, lie
savs :
"No magistrate will commit the slayer
to prison, no grand jury will inok-t them
nor will any district attorney presecute or
petit jury convict. If, indeed, any oue in
this line of offtcial authorities could be found
to act adverselv. the next in succession
would be apt to repudiate his doings, or i
a concurrence of the whele could be im
agined, ending in a conviction, it is very
certain that no Governor would hesitate an
instant in awarding to the accused a safe
deliverance by his dispensing power."
It is hard to keep track of "Button."
"Sweety" occasionally takc3 a run over the
bill. One of the members of the Y. M.
C. A. will have h"i3 dance, uo matter what
tho majority say.
Boiled Csrn for Hogs.
I experimented five years in fattening
liorn three with meal, well scalded ana
cooked before feeding ; the other two id
fppdinT cfirn boiTJeiJ. I shelled the com
from the cob, and boiled it slowly in a boiler,
and fed eight q;xarts pe hog-daily, keeping
the boiler well covered aft the- time, so as
to havo all the heat possible. The hoT3
that I fed with bofieI corn fattened fully
one-furth faster than with meal, and the
pork was well joefced with leaf lard, and
was solid and delicious enough for the ranst
fastidious. One of nv neighbors has fat
tened his hoccs for several yeurs past on drv
meal, giving two- q-rrar. ts each beg three
times a da' ; for drin-k he gives ihera. cold
water. He claims this to- be the cheapest
and best way. Certainly there are no bet
ter than he raises, for their age, and no
cleaner, handsomer pork. Cor. The Peo-
Easter occurs on March 2oth
The famous Sinking SDriuo- p ,
ty, is entirely dried up. a-
Mr. Isaac Kutn, of Fni.-
Berks county, has a ewe thai lhvp
four lambs. b ebtto
And now Germany is aufferm. .i .
dustrial depression aud complied '""
sequent of a terrible war. " Caa-
Helena has been formallv cWu.-j .
capital of Montana, and the Wo Mr
with Virginia City is at an end.' e
In the woods of Kansas wild li0P3 ,
in the greatest profusion, said to le f
good a quality as any that are r.m,l ' j w
cultivation.
Letters destined
jjutteis uesuueu ior Uinada Villi
charged with three cents a single rt
stead of six cents, the present charge V&'
payment i3 obligatory. ' e
payment
igatory
The debt of the city of Wilkes.?-.
S185, 794.03 ; and its assets incladin ' , !
estate, uncollected taxes, cash &r cU,
324.64. 13"
, The destitution in New York city is- i
to be appalling. Never in the
that city has there been such a c-mXJ.
increasing army of homeless, unettclo-ei
ones
New lork city has 301 public ?W5
with 3,039 teachers, and an 'zvq"
251,545 pupils receiving instruetfjaf xj,'
sanitary accommodations affyrded are huw'
ever, totally inadequate. '
The prunning knife is being freely uscj
in the Treasury Department. Last wek
125 assistant weighers were disehar -.--i
from the New York Custom House, thUJ
affecting a saving of $200,000 a year.
An Oshkosh woman gave birth to fuv
children last week- When her husband
protested, she whimpered out : '-Shuc-rv
yoa know bow these reaper accidents a'
reducing the population of Wisconsin."
Mrs. Kate E. Clark, recently se;iTasrss
in the family of Senator Stewart, at Wash
ington, was arrested at Baltimore on Mon
day, charged with the robbery of Mr?.
Stewart, on Saturday, of bondsj diamonds
laces, &c, valued at cC,5U0.
The new stjde of weather bnlhtins ;
Cheycnae Bellyache slightly on the in
crease at thb Etatlon. Wind due wok.
Display paragoric Sag at Omaha, and or
der a cessation cf pound cake and boned
turkey for two days at Chicago and
Louis.
The highest average net produce rcr
cow, reported by the New York factrrit
this season, was 53.45, and the lowest $26.
This was for six montl:3 The first mo:;r.s
profit aod the last kss.. The difference is
attributable to the kind cf stock and the
care given thenr.
In Japan, wheat is sown ia Novon:
in drills sixteen inches apart, one and a
quarter bushels of eced to the a:-re. I.i
three or four weeks a row of pea1?, turnip?,,
onions, cabbage, or some other kind of ve
getable, i3 planted between the dri!L. z:A
then the wheat is regularly hoed and irrL' .-
ted with the vegetables.
Hiram Shiffer.
Abraham Azer,
Samuel Buckley
Harry Burnett,
John Rouch,
Joseph Shiffer,
Harry Shotwell,
C. II. Howenstine,
1 2 3 4 5
1 1 0 0 02
110 1 03
10 10 13
10 10 13
0 0 0 1 1
0 10 0 1
0 0 10 12
0 0 1113
The same party will shoot a match at Tan
ncrsville, next Saturday afternoon.
Our little puzzle last week brought the
following answers, all of which are correct:
Philadelphia, Jan. 29, 1875.
T. Schocii, Esq.
Dear Sir: In answer to your con. in
Jeff, of this week, would submit:
" If the great B . empty put colon (:)
If the great B . full-stop . putting colon."
Or, in fact,
"If the Grate be empty, put coal on.
If the Grate be full stop putting coal on."
lours truly,
G. W. McKEEVER.
T. Scuocn: Dear Sir:
The answer to your puzzle,
"If the B. m t put :
If the B. putting : " is
If the grate be empty put coal on,
If the grate be full, stop putting coal on.
Yours,
JAKE SIIOULS, Easton.
Tannersville, Pa., Jan. 30, 1875.
Editor 4 4 Jeff. ' Dmr Sir :
44 If the B. m t put : If the B. putting :
1 have rendered :
If the prate be empty put coal on. If the
grate be full, stop putting coal on.
Two minutes work brought this solution.
and as five more did not change it material
ly, it is respectfully submitted as being as
near correct as this out of the way place can
get it Kcpectfully yours:
A. F. KISTLER."
TUMULT IN THE PENNSYLVANIA LE
GISLATURE.
pic.
IIarrisburg, Pcnn., Feb. 1. A dis
graceful scene occurred in the Pennsylvania
House of Representatives to-night. Mr.
Talley, Democrat, of Delaware County,
made a motion to refer the petition of citi
zens of Lancaster City contesting the seat
of D. P. Rosenmillcr, a Republican, as mem
ber of the Legislature, to the Committee
on the Judiciary. The Republicans raised
the point of order that the petition was not
properly before the House, that body hav
ing not been legally organized when the
petition was originally introduced. Speaker
Patterson decided against the Republicans,
when an appeal was taken, and his decision
was sustained by a large majority. Wolf,
Republican, of Union county, raided the
further point of order that it required two
thirds of those present to take up the peti
tion under the suspension of the rules.
The Speaker rendered an adverse decision,
and entertained a motion to adjourn. Wolfe
sprang to his feet and insisted that he had
a right to be heard on his point. The
Speaker declared him out of order, as no
appeal had been taken from his decision,
and a motion to adjourn was not debatable.
Mr. Wolfe insisted that he was not out of
order, when the Speaker commanded him
to take his seat, and Wrolfe, refusing to
obey, he called into requisition the services
of the Sergeant-at-Arms, who proceeded to
execute the order of the Chair. The Re
publicans hissed the proceeding, and the
Democrats applauded it, Wolfe continuing
yelling at the top ot his voice until the Ser
geant-at-Arms bcized him. 1 lie Hall of
the House presented a scene of indescrib
able confusion and the Republican mem
bers rushed to tho defense of their colleague
and wrested him from the hands of the Ser
geant-at-Arms. In the midist of the com
motion the Speaker adjourned the House.
During the melee pistols were drawn, and
and for a time it was feared that blood
would be shed.
The Susquehanna Journal makes a trood
hit when it says : "The matter is of no
consequence, perhaps, still we thought we'd
just mention that if our churches could in
duce some of those fat and lazy South
Africans and other benighted heathen to
manifest a little self-sacrifice, by doinr with
out a few tracts and flannel petticoats for a
short time, the collections taken up to se
cure them might be used to advantage in
our lamine-stncken W estern States. It is
merely a suggestion, as we notice there are
people and churches that can look clear
over starving communities in the west, and
behold with pious horror that some Sand
wich Islander is out of tracts, ; or ehort an
In the Bank of France they have g-rt -
brick for which they paid 1,000 francs is
specie. It was taken from tly? ruins of a
burned house, and the image ami L-sr. S'.f
a note for 1,000 francs arc burned cu tb:
surface, transferred by the beat from a roa!
note. The brick the bank redeemod ca
presentation, as- f it were the note its.!:'.
Pennsylvania Scnocls.
The annual report of State Superinten
dent AVickcrsham has been prepared. It
j.;ow3 the growth of the common school
system o inis -" Ll-i auu jiuw
of much interest, We qtc the following:
The whole number ot children attending
the common schools last year Wao 850,. ?4.
and the averaire number o4d,0Jo.
cost for tuition amounted to $1,527,303 03 ;
for contingencies. $2,050,100 S7 ; for
buildings, $2,1H0,714 87. The aggregate
expenditures for all school purposes, $3,
847,039 83, and including the amount
expended for soldiers' orphans and Normal
schools we have the magnificent sum which
was devoted by the people to purely educa
tional purposes that year, of $9,40S,818 37.
At the end of his term the present State
Superintendent, Jame P. Wickersham, will
have drawn out of the State Treasury and
expended directly the sum of $7,000,000.
During the same time he will have examined
and passed the account of the school direc
tors in the several districts amounting to
$16,210,400 Such is the scale upon which
his quiet department of the Stata govern
ment does its work. The following figures
exhibit the enormous growth of our State
educational system within the last ten year ;
During that time graded schools have in
creased from 1,743 to 5,5S5 ; tho average
Balary of made teaehers $31.82 per month
to $42.!Jo ; the average palary of female
teachers lrom $24.21 to 3o.87 ; cost of
tuition from $2,515,528.G3 to $1,527,
303.03 ; the cost of school houses from
$405,038.88 to $2,160,374.87: expendi
tures of all kinds from $3,614,233.35 to
$7,837,939.88; number of teachers of
teachers institutes from 2,755 to 3,970 ;
normal schools from 4, with 1,706 students,
to 8, with 2.915. The number of orphan
children receiving support from the State.
was on the first day of September, 1874.
2,848, being a falling off of 215 durin- the
year ; the number of children admitted to
the schools during the year reached nearly
350. The system cost the past year $150..
379.40 against a cost of $167,131.83 in
lOTQ 'PI.. i. f .1 ,
aoiu. xue wnuiu l-usi 01 me system since
going into operation is S4.5Sa.556.14. It
will probably cost $1,200,000. more, and
will cease operations on the 1st of June,
1879, when the last orphan will bo of an
ago to go into the world fitted to battle for
a Jiving. Ihe origin of the Soldiers'
Orphan school is due to ex-Governor A. G.
Curtin, who made the sucrsrestion to th
Legislature of accepting a donation from
the Pennsylvania Railroad Company for
defensive purposes, and devote it to the use
of the orphans of those who died ffchtin"
f l. TT' mi .. "
iur iito union, inia suggestion was acteo
on, and by it Pennsylvania has n
abled to pay a debt of gratitude whfch could
not nave neen liquidated in any other man
An unsung heroine. WiuoT FL:';;
Lambert, of West Georgia Yt., fifty-;!
years old, has- for fifteen years- ssr-p'.'rte
eight children by laying stone invest
ing, and other heavy Lrrn wuik, zrA 1
not only made herself cvrcer of a hoes?
and a fjw acres of land, hue Las ct'.f
her children a good education.
The detective? searching tor Cnrtrlio Hoss
expended more than $20,000. Commissi it
ers have searched from ocean tc eceun r,? i
across ; priu"-S am? chotngraphirrg h":
cost $3,000 ; a corps w clerks .e bcc&
ployed in the correspondence about t'uo '
200 bands cf gypsies hnve been soartu?-1
one stray boy has been found and tuken
home to hi3 mourning parents ; COO Char;:.t
Rosses havo been reported t and a: lc-5i
500,000 persons at cue time or another hr-i
been on the search.
The Kansas lamer gives t Ti -
rience cf a jrood farmer who hau tried tu;-
in; hoirs on wheat as well as corn. He sa:J
that when wheat was cheap he f'ur.d l
profitable to feed his hogs on it. Ih: t-":
100 hogs, and put fifty in pens and iC'i cor..,
and fifty fed wheat, with the fi.-lIowin.J "-
suit : The fifty with corn maao ..-ve!i
pounds per bushel, the fifty with
made seventeen pounds cf good sol; J p-iu
per bushel of wheat. The wheat v:s
ground like meal, boiiing water pourea
over it, and then let stand forty-two nour..
Nine and one half million acres cf ru;'"
lie land have been sold, the past year. J' l
$2,469,933. This is nearly lour w "-
acres less than was sold in 1S73. Atv
one million acres have been taken by 1 -
law to encourage tha planting of tree i 1
rapid destruction of forests is a m.u.o
deep public concern, and it is encoura
to see so much land taken up ctu t
under the wise provision to promote u
culture. That law may solve thVoi
tant problem concerning timber ana u
in the West.
Charge of Embezzlement
WlLKESBARKE, lob. 1- ,.r.
bell, book-keeper in 11. C. Sf ueea
ance agency, was arrested this ' ,
for embezzlement, the amount bein?
$40,000. In the evening be shot I.
at the Luzerne House. The ba! U
above the heart, and passed t,'rolr. c,
body, lie is still alive, but there
prospect of his recovery
MARKUP-
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