Sl)c Scffcvsoman.
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 18.1875.
Tuere was another cold snap in Canada,
New England and the Northwestern States
ot Saturday, the thermometer ranging from
7.ero to lorry degrees below.
Go and see the grand Panorama of the
Messiah on exhibition in the M. E. Church,
East Stroudsburg, to-night. The most elab
orate pen description would fail to convey
the f aintest idea of the grandeur of the pain
tings. Friend Schoch. Please insert the follow
ing puzzle in your valuable paper.
One R, two O's, one J, one T, two U's,
one L, two F's, one Y, one II.
Place them in regular order and you will
have the answer. A. J. V.
No 1 we didn't get one of those valentines,
either good bad or inuinerent. We never
did get one we never expect to we never
want to. We are too old, and our mind has
run far a head of sublunary affairs of that
character.
Rfpouts from many points in Maine and
and iNew Hampshire give the mercury as
ranging from 20 to 25 degrees below zero
This was generally the coldest day of the sea
son. Many of the harbors along the coast
are closed with ice.
Mr. J. T. Carmer lost his pocket book,
containing between fifteen and sixteen dollar
currency, a check of Reuben Miller for
ten dollars and other notes and papers, last
Friday morning. On Saturday morn
iiig the pocket-book was fouud lying on the
pavement in front of Wm. Davis' office, con
t.iining all the papers but the money gone.
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Jji. L. Wolf, formerly with us, but now
ua attache of the Seranton Daily Times drop
ped iu upon us accidentally and suddenly on
Wednesday of last week, and spent several
'lays in town. It looked quite like old times
to seii him around again. He received,
what is always awaiting him here, a cordial
welcome to Stroudsburg.
If there is an icier town than Stroudsburg
aas boon for a week or two past, we would
like to have it trotted out for comparison.
Ours h tha handsomest town in the States
iu summer, but we really cannot brag much
over it in such a winter as this, though at all
times we confess to the tender impeachment
of having prettier girls and more of them, in
proportion to population, than any other
"burg" wo ever heard of.
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At a meeting of the stockholders of the
Monroe County Agricultural Society, held at
the Court House, on Saturday last, the follow
ing named gentlemen were elected Directors
fur the ensuing three years:
John Kern, John B. Storm,
Tl. rod Lre Schocb, Wm. S. Rees,
Win. S. Wintemute.
M. M. Burnett, Esq., wag elected for two
years, to C 11 the vacancy occasioned by the
ce.uh of lion. John De Young.
A meeting of the stockholders of the
Stroudsburg Library Association will be held
on Saturday next (20th inst) at the Library
at three o'clock, p. m., where officers fur the
ensuing year will be elected and other import
ant business transacted. A full attendance
is requested. Persons having books belong
tu the Library will please return them on or
before said meeting, by order of
ROBT. PITTS, Pres't
Jackson Lantz, See'y.
And now we have another argument in
shape of a narrow escape from fire in favor
of those cisterns which was the subject of so
much talk a year or more ago, and which we
have endeavored to keep before our people.
Tiiis time the Jeff, came near being scorched,
'it was saved the calamity by opportune
discovery. With the utmost care such things
will happen, and it therefore the more strong
ly behooves us to provide the means which an
emergency may at any moment demand.
Sr. Valentine had his day on Sunday
1 tt, and a very quiet day it was too. The
little chaps, and big ones too, both of the
h.'male and female persuasions, found other
days on which to send their tender missives,
feud on Monday and Tuesday, they went it
with a rush. And they were of all sorts and
t.'zcs, the etic, the thctic, the pathetic, the
Hin pathetic, and the burlesque, ranging from
the rcGned and more costly from the course
caricature retailed at a pennj', the latter as
usual predominating. And some were mad
and others glad as a matter of course.
The proprietor of the Stroudsburg House
i just the kind of property owner we have
needed here for years. Not content with
more than thribling the size of the Strouds
1 urg house, he has hardly got half through
with the one job before he conjures up
another. He is now gathering brick and
other material on the ground to make cxten
ive additions to the brick building which
forms the rear portiou of the hotel. We un
derstand that the improvement contemplates
.n addition of tweoty feet to the length of
the brick, and auother story over the whole
of that part. When completed, with its gas
and water connections the Stroudsburg House
will be one of the finest hotels in the country,
as it will be sure to be, under the manage
ment of friend Whitesell, ooe of the best.
In the suit of Susanna Lesher against
the city of Reading to recover damages for
the loss ot her liusbaaa, caused ly ins
wandering into the Schuylkill eanal at a
dangerous point and drowning, the jury on
Saturday morning rendered a verdict in
favor of the plaintiff for $5,000. Counsel
for the city filed a motion for a new trial.
Frof. J. A. Clemf.nt3 has accepted the po
sition of principal in the school near Brod-
headsville. The Prof, must have considerable
nerve to accept the position, for rumor says the
scholars have "licked'' out the two last teach
ers who have ventured in their midst to learn
the "young ideas how to shoot."
Our Y. M. C. A., we are proud to be
able, to say, is in a flourishirg condition, and
is largely attended, especially by the young
ladies. The ruaculine portion of its mem
bership arc not so prompt in attendance, but
this, probably, is owing to the fact that they
are allured by the excellent sleighing which
has prevailed for some time, and which af
fords opportunity for an occasional "trip of
the light fantastic," which is but another
argument in favor of the starting of that
dancing school which we have steadily sug
gested since the beginning of winter.
The communication from "Observer" was
duly received at this office. His disguised
chirography, filthy language and hypocritical
protestations of friendship for the Y. M. C. A.,
plainly shows the "cloven foot" without shoes
and indelibly stamps him as one of those "who
borrow the livery of Heaven to serve the devil
in." The language of his communication
plainly shows that he is a sycophantic misan
thropist and loves to revel in debauchery and
social filth. None but a moral and physical
coward could pen such a communication, and
well he knows it. We wish " Observer" to
distinctly understand that we want none of his
advice as to how we shall conduct our paper
Robbery. About 1 o'clock Wednesday
night February 10th, the residence of Mr.
Manassah Labar, Delaware Water Gap, was
entered by burglars and about $46 in cur
rency carried off by them. The gallant
knights of the jiinmT, it is supposed after
entering the house proceeded to the room in
which Mr. and Mrs. Labar were sleeping,
aduiiuistered chloroform and then took their
own time in "going through" the room. In
Mr. Labar's pants pockets they secured
$4 1,0 J and in the clock they captured
another "V" which had been put there the
eveninr before bv Mrs. Labar. No other
rooms were entered and the robbers departed
apparently satisfied.
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If the winter, thus far, has suggested any
one thing as a necessity for our borough, it
is that our streets or rather side walks need
a thoroueh overhauling. The icy condition
of both sidewalks and streets for a month
past and the same condition has each win
ter prevailed for years past are not only
disgraceful, but they majT any day become
the cause of great damage to us pecuniarily
and we may become mulct in thousands of
dollars payable for broken limbs, &e, grow
ing out of falls upon our slippery side walks.
The fact is that our streets arc either too
high for our side-walks, or the side-walks are
too low for our streets, and thus with our
miserable drainage, though wc hive every
facility afforded by the lay of the land for
most perfect drainage, in every accumula
tion of snow, followed by rain causes ooth
street and side-walks to become a continuous
sheet of slush, which, in turn becomes ice,
dangerous to locomotion iu whatever way
attempted.
It is not, however, practicable in view of
the present condition of our borough finances
to remedy the evil at once, but we can inau
gurate a plan which, in the course of a very
few years, would give us streets second to
those of no other town and city on the con
tinent, and at very little expense compara
tively with the benefit derived from the ac
complishment of the work. To secure this
end, it would be necessary to lay the founda
tion at once, by having our town plot run
out by a competent engineer, with a view of
ascertaining its elevations and depressions,
and the establishment of a regular system ol
grades, and these so arranged as that each
street should be made to carry off the water
accumulating, during a rain or thaw, on a
certain and fixed amount of territorial sur
face. This done, stringent ordinances strin
gently enforced, requiring each property
holder to do a certain quantity of work each
year the amount so fixed as not to be bur
deusome to any under the supervision of
an experienced road master, would find us in
condition to pass a winter with our streets
and sidewalks free from ice, and spring,
summer and fall with streets comparatively
free from mud. The cost of an Engineers
services would probably reach four hundred
dollar?, but then we would know precisely
what to do and how to go to work to do it,
which of itself would be worth a dozen times
the amount.
Some fifteen or sixteen years ago a gentle
man skilled by practice iu the science of
Engineering offered to do the whole thing
merely for the cost of the necessary instru
ments some thirty-five or forty dollars
with no compensation for his time. Then,
however, our borough fathers were carried
away with the dot and go one principle and
knew that the better plan was to fill up a
puddle, and then wait until a future rain re
vealed another puddle to fill up, accounting
nature as by far the best Engineer. They
did'nt believe in this thing on three legs, and
a man blinking through it, at another man
with a poll and a little red and white block
fastened on it, and another couple of men
measuring out the ground with wires linked
together. My 1 They could not thiuk of
paying the forty dollars for such nonsense,
whereas, if they had done so, and then pas
sed stringent ordinances for something more
than notoriety in thVir breach, to day
hundred dollars of benefit for each dollar
spent would have been, confessedly, a smal
estimate of the percentage gained from the
investment. And now this thiug is yet to be
done, and the sooner it is done, the tooner
we will learn, just what it is so necessary for
us to know how to go to work to get our
streets in such shape as will warrant the free
passage of water without tearing them all to
pieces, and enable us to walk our sidewalks
in winter without endangering life and limb
at every step we take.
We throw out these ideas suggestively
and may revert to the f uhject again.
Mr. Tiieo. J. Bcnrett, for the past five
years employed as head clerk in S. Fried'?
clothing and notion store, severed his con
nection with that establishment last Satur
day. Mr. B., is one of the most efficient
and accomplished clerks in town, and by
his erentlemanlv deportment won a host of
friends. In the spring he will take charge
of a clothing store, atTowanda, Pa., to be
opened by Mr. Johnson Bush, of this place.
Y. M. C. A. The Regular monthly
meeting of the Association will take place
in their rooms on Friday Feb. 19th at 7:30
P. M. The following Programme will be
observed.
An Essay Rev. J. F. Chaplain D. D.
Select Readings by the members of the
Association. Music by Amateurs.
A cordial invitation is extended to the
public. All young men desirous of pro
moting social enjoyment and intellectual
culture are invited to take part in the
formation of a Literary Society under the
auspicies of the Association. By order
of the Association. W. B. Bell, Sec.
Ilorougli Election.
The Election, for this Borough, held at
the Court House, on Tuesday last, passed off
very quietly. The agreement entered into
on Monday evening was ratified with a una
nimity rarely witnessed, and nearly every
man who went to the polls voted it fairly
and squarely.
The following are the names of the officers
elected :
Chief Burgess Theodore Schoch.
Town Council John Edinger, Darius
Dreher, Reuben Miller, Charles U. Warnick,
Garret G. Ramsey, Wilson Dreher.
Judge of Election John Kern.
Inspectors J. II. Butts, Samuel Hoff
man. School Directors Stroud Burson, Wm. II.
Garis.
Overseers of Toor P. II. Robesoa, Reu
ben Thomas.
Auditor B. S. Jacoby.
Assessor M. R. Brown.
Constable Edwin Fisher.
What Wc lieard and Saw vrithln
the IV celt.
Our corner, last Sunday afternoon was very
much crowded. There was a conglomeration
of characters that hemmed us in. Two repre
sentatives of the "Sewing Circle," "Hoop-la"
"Tempest" and other familiar faces reminded
us very much of being
"Down in a coal mine, underneath the ground,
Whre no ray of ' Sunshine" ever can be found."
The residents of "Iloboken" complain of
being annoyed very much by the hideous howls
of the button factory "Modocs" while passing
through their quiet village before the dawn of
day. "Scar-faced Charley" "Jersey Sniviling"
and "Captain Jack," are said to be particularly
noisy. The "Sewing Circle" is in ecstacies
over the arrival of friends. Hudnot has tele
graphed to them that should they contemplate
taking a soda-water "bust," he would reduce
the price to five cents in order to secure their
patronage. The "dark-eyed beauty on the
corner" Becm9 to have lost all charms for "Jim
Crow" since the advent of the fair face from
the city of Brotherly love. We hope she may
survive the losa. That sacred music on the
cornet, last Sunday, was splendid. Now let us
have a free and easy and Sunday desecration
will be complete. "Tempest" is the most
amiable person we know of, but she wont smile
worth a cent. Could'nt a portion of the
choir be induced to forego the pleasure of
a warm stove in the parlor with a "dolly var
den" image as the attractive feature, until after
the services are over? "Sittins" up seven
nights a week certainly ought to be fun enough
for one week. While the Fijee Islanders
are happy and content to dine upon fricassee
baby and roast man, would it not be christian-
ike instead of contributing large sums for the
purchase of tracts and dolly varden shirts for
these and other heathens, to look after our own
poor. We hope our friend enjoyed the her
ring last Friday night. The "M. L. K's"
were handsomely entertained at the residence
of original John, by J. N. Skinner, Grand
Worthy Apostle, from Port Jervis, N. Y. At
a late hour the club could have been seen Bor-
rowfully wending their way homeward "injin"
fashion. There is a new society in operation
at "Kautz's" corner. They are the smokers
and ten cents per week the admission fee.
Coconut ripes are not allowed in the rooms.
For further particulars apply to Josiah.
Have you seen king David ?" Is the latest
"Jim Crow" agonv. "Bushy" U "Tempest"
tossed and "Frank', is sighing for circus fame,
"Iloop-Ia !" The "Sewing Circle" brigade
are as amiable as Captain Jack's Modocs.
No wonder Ike looks so so sour, he empties
Phillips' vinegar bottles about three times a
week. An old soldier in passing Matlack's
hardware store a few days ago, saw a paste
board sign tacked on the door announcing the
fact that "creepers for sale here" could be
found inside. lie stood motionless for a few
moments with his eyes fixed upon the ominous
sign, then exclaimed. "Creepers. By gosh, I
guess that fellow never was in the army or he
would have had enough of the cussed para
sites," and quietly passed on.
Hast Stroudsburg Whisperings.
Mr. C. E. Durfee, is offering some desirable
building lots on easy terms, either side of the
borough line.
Mr. Barrier, of Hamilton, is building a neat
two-story house on the opposite side of the
Rail-road from Jesse R. Smith's.
Mr. Wm. Bush, who went to Laramie, W.
T., in the fall, has frozen his feet no severely
that the amputation of some of his toes was ne
cessary. Sleighing goes fine by keeping the hair and
ears tied on.
Business has been dull of late except with
candidates.
Mr. David Vanvliet returned with his bride
on Saturday last, and were serenaded by the
calithumpiaDs, who were satibfactorily remu
nerated by the groom.
Mr. John Loder was complimented in the
same manner.
If marrying continues as long as the cold
weather, we can expect continued tqualh.
Mr. C. E. Durfee broke a lamp chimney last
week that hd been in nst five
OBITUAIIY.
Samuel Hooper.
Hon. Samuel Hooper, member of Congress
from Massachusetts, who died at Washing
ton on Saturday night, had just completed
his C7th year, having been born in Marble
head, Mass., February 3, 1S03. After re
ceiving the education to be obtained at ordi
nary country schools, Mr. Hooper, at an early
age entered a counting house in Boston, that
of Wm. Appleton & Co., largely engaged in
china trade. Later, as business agent for
his father, who was engaged in European and
West India trade, he visited Russia and the
West Indies. In 1832 he became a partner
in the wealthy house of Bryant, Sturgas &
Co., of Boston. Ten 'ears later he became
a member of the firm of yVilliam Appleton
& Co. In 1851 he was elected to tho State
Legislature, serving three years as a member
of the House. In 1837 he was choosen to
represent his native State in the Senate, and
in 1861 was elected a member of the House
of Representatives, in which position ho re
mained until his death.
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In Chicago the daily newspapers have
been in dieted for publishing lottery adver
tisements.
The Adams Express Company has de
clared its usual quarterly dividend of two
dollars per share.
Among the new measures presented to
the Legislature is one to revise the assess
ment of property for purposes of taxation.
By its provisions assessors are required to
appraise real ana personal property at the
rate or amount for which it would sell at
public sale after due notice. This is for
State, county and local purposes. Power
is given to re-assess improved property be
tween the periods of the triennial assess
ment. The County Commissioners are
made a board of revision, as at present
The passage of an act of thb kind would
make the election of intelligent and capable
assessors an important object, and it would
remove much ot tho uissatisraetKm and m
justice caused by the inequality of the
partial assessments aow in vogtac in some
of the counties.
Those of our people who- thought that
the Democratic successes of last ktU might
possibly be followed by seme- reform in
public affairs must bo pretty thoroughly
undeceived by this tine lhai party wil
have a large maj&riiy in, the next House of
Representatives at ashington, aud what
the sourse ot that majority will be already
indicated. It will g tack as Bt-arly as it
can to the eorulition of things before the
war, when its coxzrse vas gureriied alto
gether by the radical Southern, men who
really possess the trams ot the orgauazatuon
It will do iKihing at ail te proisste the
material interests and increase taepwsDerttY
of the nationr bat it will do evervthirg it
can to binder aud hamper the Pres'uiertt
and the Senate- in fulfului existing laws
It will be in all respects a clog aud a load
upon the country and its material develop
ment. At HarribuF, where tLc Bobeo-
crats have obtained control of see bracc-h
of the Legislature, their conduct thus far
has been anything bu admirable- .Al
though the session has been running six
weeks tho House has actomplished abso
lutely nothing, but has used up the- time
in exhibiting the incompetence- &f the
Speaker and the inefficiency of the xcajciity
by whom he was chosen. Clea.-Iy no good
results are to be gathered from that source.
And in Philadelphia, in a smaller fic.'d, the
same enmify to a s;ood and decent admini
stration of the laws b manifested. Tho
ticket for police magistrates formed by the
Democratic convention is so bad that tlie
best men of the party are disgusted and
instinctively revolt from it. But the
central political authority will listen to no
change, and the city has the prospect be
fore it of a magistracy partly composed of
the lowest pot-house element, fcuch being
some of the fruits of Democracy when trust
ed with power, the people at large may well
hesitate before they yield again to its
deceitful professions of reform. Bucks G.
Intelligencer.
JURY LIST FEB. TERM-1875.
GRAND JURY FIRST WEEK.
ChtttnuthiU Felix Storm, Chas. Hufsmith,
Abraham Mengcl.
FJdred Paul Oower.
Jfnmillon Christopher Bittcnbendcr, John
II. Fenncr, Simon Storm, Geo. Green, Casper
Metzgar. t
Jackson John TIay.
M.Sm'dhjield Moses Strunk, Benj.S. Strunk,
Charles Trible, Andrew J. Fish, Hugh Labar.
Paradise John Storm.
Pocono Henry Miller, Charles Arnold.
J2oss Samuel Meckes, Reuben Hartzell.
Smithfield Martin Ye.ter, James Fenncr.
Slrotuhburg Hiram S. Wagner.
Tunhhannock Frederick Kecnhold.
TETIT JURY FIRST WEEK.
Barrett Geo. B. Williams, Geo. W. Ink.
Che&lnuthill Simon Trach, John Merwine,
R. Y ess. Joseph Heller, Charles liberie.
Kldred Charles Roth, Christ. Barleib, Jr.,
East Stroudnburq v m. L.. Henry.
Hamilton Stodgdel Lesh, Isreal Ilouser,
Linforu Hufsmith, Joseph A. hcatherman.
Jackson r rank AncrlemoYcr, Andrew Det
rick, Michel Miller, Joseph Green.
ill. Smithjieid John Primrose.
Paradise Jacob Learn, Jacob Reesecker.
Polk Paul Smale, Reuben Kresge.
Posa Jacob Schoch.
Smithjieid Edward Yetter, Andrew Albert,
Barnet Morgan, Samuel Casebeer, Harraan
Ivober.
Stroud Peter K. Edinger, Geo. Bush.
Stroudsburg John Conner, Jere. Frutchey
Joseph Matlack, Theodore Schoch.
Tobylianna Samuel betzer.
PETIT JURY SECOND WEEK.
Barrett Stephen II. Peters, Emery Price,
Eli Utt.
C hctnuthill James Everitt.
E. Stroudsburg Comodore Price, Jacob Bus
kirk, Wilson Pierson. Chas. E. Durfee.
Hamilton Abner Shoemaker, Geo. F. Ilel
ler, Jacob W. Bntz, Joseph Fellencer, Peter
Mosteller. Geo. hrdman, Jr., Jabez Kirkhun.
Jackson Philip McCluskey, John Dailev.
M. Smithjieid George Michael, George V
Labar, Philip M. Peters.
Paradise John J. Price.
Price Thomas Fish.
Smithjieid II. C. Kantz, John W. Custard
David Smith, Charles M. Iluiimnn, Isaac R
Transue, David letter, Manassah Labar.
Stroud Sydenham Lee, Charles Dennis,
Henry Dennis.
Stroudsburg Benj. Han n as, Robert Boys
James 1'ostens.
Tunkhannock Henry Keenhold.
Tno. M. McIihaney, rroth'y.
A fast xrress train on the leading
Railroad, recently ran twelve and a half
miles in twelve and a half minutes.
The bids for carrying the mails in the
several States and Territories will aggre
gate at least sixty thousand. Ihose trom
Texas alone, by actual count, reach four
thousand.
All ministers, of all denominations.
throujrhut the country, are requested to
present the subject of intemperance and its
remedies to their congregations on me aay
preceding the 22d of February.
Stoves to the value of 6200,000 were
turned out last year at the Pnaenix Stove
Works at Ouincv. 111. The average num-
bor of employees is about 110, and tho
weekly pay roll 1,400.
Typhoid fever is prevailing to a great
extent in the vicinity ot jicAustcrvuie,
Juniata county. At the Soldiers' Orphans'
School at that place there are twenty eight
pupils ill.
Hiram Ililes, engineer at the Stockton
.
breaker, near Hazleton, fell down an icy
stairway at tho engine house Monday and
was killed, his neck beimr broken. He
leaves a wife and two children.
Monday evenincr Patrick McETroy fell
from a bucket on shaft rio. 3, of the
Delaware, Lackawanna and Western rail
road tunnel, in Jersey City, and was killed
He is the fifteenth man killed la this twnnei
withm a few weeks.
Rex. Henry S. Miller r pastor of the
I'bscnixville Lutheran church, preached
his farewell sermon on the 7th. inst. He
is seventy -four years of ager and during his
ministration has attended 1,35.0 funerals,
and married 1,250- couples.
In consequence of the hard timc3, a Nor
ristown young man was compelled to toss
up a cent to decide whether to give up hb
pew in ehurch c stop smoking. Jrortuna
tely the nickel came down ia favor of retain
ing ctrars. It is thought he would have
tossed a soc3Q.d time if it had not.
One- of the apprentice boys in the Daily
Examiner office, Lancaster, seeing an ad
vertisement in a New York paper, stating
that any person who would send fbur post
ae stamp3 to such aa address would be
told, by return mail, how to make frora
SiiO to $40 per day, by remaining at home
during the evenings, sent the postage
stamps, aud by return mail received an
envelope containing four old fashioned
darning needles, with the words, '-knit
stockings ' r
It appears by letters embraced ib the
Penn manuscripts that anthracite coal wa3
found in the Wyoming region, and a speci
men sent to- England tsr 17Ctx Heretofore
it has bcea supposed that the disvovery
was fr:-t made abott 1772- In; 170!)
Thomas Peao. wrhl-ng from London, refer?
to crl hills Far Pktsb-sxgh. A map of
Pennsylvania, published in 1770, notes the
exfetecce of coal iu the vicinity ofPotts
ville. A license bill has been presented in the
Legblatsre which not only repeals all laws
now m force rr regard to the sale of liquors,
bo permits ay citizen "of temperate habits
and good moral character" tc engage iu the
hnsines or paying a stipulated sura to the
county treasurer. The- raie for ordinary
country taverns w fixed at -50 per annum,
and they aTe required to keep "good enter
tainment for raan and beast . fcuch an act
wocld practically open the Side of liquor
without restriction, and would hardly be
acceptable to those who are now engaged
in the business.
The measure known as the "little tariff
bill" having become a law, it is of some
importance to the business community gen
erally, to understand the change thereby
effected in the law for stamping enccts.
One of the sections of the law provides :
That the words "bank check, dralt or
order for the payment of any sum of money
whatsover drawn upon any bank, banker,
or trust company at sight or on demand,
two cents, in schedule B, of the act of June
30, 18t4," be and the same is hereby strick
en out, and the following paragraph inser
ted in lieu thereof : "Bank check, draft,
order, or voucher for the payment of any
sum whatsoever drawn upon any bank,
banker, or trust company, two cents.
The effect of this is to render liable to
stamp duty checks worded "one day after
date," which have been used to evade the
tax.
Piece by piece the Southern press is
throwning aside its flimsy pretenses of loy
alty to trie .National Government, and re
vealinjr its naked instincts of treason and
rebellion. This, for instance, is the method
which the Shreveport (La.) Times would
employ in order to bring about a settle
ment of the questions at issue in that
State :
"This policy of peace never had our in
dorsement. W c bclivcd, and we believe
now, that the protest of Louisiana against
the wrong upon her Constitution and lib
erty had better have been written in the
biood of ten thousand men than in the
speech of Speaker Wiltz : we believed, and
wc believe now, that the American people
snouia nave risen in their might and iorceu
the brute of the v nite House to reeede
from his infamous, illegal and tyrannical
mienerence wan tho legislature of
sovercinn State. Republics are born in
the midst of battles ; and evils, innovations
upon government, corruptions, and wronjrs
such as those established bv the present
Administration have seldom, if ever, been
corrected by the civil processes of tho law
they gradually engraft themselves upon the
laws and institutions of the couutry, and
only the fires of revolution can burn them
out. 1 he revolution must come, and we
believe it better that the American peopl
snouia contront Grant aud his twenty
X 1 1 11 . . . v
tnousana soiaiers in 1S70, than that they
should contront Grant and his three or
four hundred thousand soldiers in 1876.'
The people are gradually getting the evi
dence before them. We have little doubt
a to what their verdict will be in 187G
A WTilliainHnort LrlwTrrTrT Z
f J "tWU!llr five f
oner.
Millford has a suit oririnatin. :
mont campaign bet. fe-
The police department of Tn,,i:
that city S 48,000 last year. 3 Co
A Lehigh county lady has died of ,
mor, which was partly petrified tu-
A Cumberland county man ....
pound steer, and wont sell him for n0n
There is an old house in "Pj-
which George Washington onr 7 la
meal. i
A Baltimore girl, worth $45,000
tomarry some youg man who has learnoj
The Shamokin Times savs a ;u l
was shot on the Mahanoy mountain tv
other day. tbe
The Grant, Rogers & Danforth T.
live Works, in Paterson, N. J., haw!'
sumed work. " e"
Bishop Horan, late Roman r,tii-
uioinjy w lviuawu, vmuario, died thi
era
on iUonuay.
The mills in Cleveland
idle, and half the blast
vicinity are blowing.
furnaces in XQ
The price of admission to the Ccntcn
nial Exposition has been fixed at fifty nt
for a sirxrle admission.
A hard beverage. A New Ilaror.
farmer has five hundred barreld of cider
but not a drop of water. '
$11,284,524 72 is the sum now held by
the Philadelphia Savings Fund fur its depos
itors ; all are not spendthrifts.
Mrs. George Shearer, of Curarn, sold
3,50C pounds of butter in the West Read
ing market house during 1S74.
Vast deposits of iron ore are said to exist
in the vicinity of Jacksonville, alon tha
Reading and Lehigh Railroad.
It is all very well to say, "God help tW
poor." but the best plan is to do a Hide its
that line on your own account.
The California farmers are jubilant at
the splendid crop prospects. Plowing and
seeding are progressing finely.
A Maine farmer discovered a rat en
sconced in the fleece of one of hh sheep a
few moraj&gs since, nearly frozen to death..
Epiaooty h again, pr craning ts a consid
erable eitcut iiv tJie lower end of Berks
county and the "Jppcr end &f Chester
county.
The Eii git says the iron irad; in Read
ing, Pa., is gaining a little life. The priw
of bar iron, is quite as low a3 before the
war.
The James river is frozen ever at Rich
mond, Va., so as to prevent the arrival or
departure- tf ' yesseb a very rare occur
rence. A number of residents of Corry lave
formed a colny to settle ia California, and'
lea7e shortly for that fur -off laai sf go!
and silver:
One- hundred" thoar-ai- b affab hides
hare been fanned since last jprfng by the
Wileoa Tariflicg. Company, at W3c?2. Elk
cocmtyr Pu
TTiC cc-nrpuIscrT educatfim law which has
just passed the T5a;nc- liegishtture provides
for clothing the bodies of destitute children
as well as their minds.
Camels and dromedaries are becoming
so plentiful ia Nevada, that they are
rapidly supplanting horses, mules aud
oxen as beasts of burden.
The icemen have- done harvesting. Their
graneries arc chock fll, a&d now thc of
them who ever pray at all, are praying for
a good", long, hot summer.
John Jacob Astor tried to avoid paving
$37,000 of his taxes, but a cruel court last
wec-k .iccided him liable. I'ity the sor
row of a poor old maD.
A late private letter from Knsfandsavs:
"We have not had such storms in Great
Britain for forty vears as wc have had thus
iir this winter."
Just think of it I In California at this
time orange trees can be seen in the lud.
in the blossom, and with their golden frW
ust ready to fall the ground.
One of Columbia countv's wealth v citi
zen recently pleaded the statue c; bas
tions on a bill of one dollar which tai con
due for seven or cisrht vears.
The jury of inquest on the body of the
uirlar lately shot bv 15sh Lusgess,.
Richmond, a few days sire-, brought :n a
verdict of ''commendable I&ouiieidc..'
The champion undertaker of Montgom
ery county is Joseph- McGonagle, who has
had the quiet satisfaction oi layag awa
fourteen huadicu asa seventy -eight ytu-
pie.
The total anvnmt of anthracite coal
mined in this State last vear would form a
solid wall a hundred feet high, a hundred
feet widt, and nearly cloven miles ia
length.
A wnifThnrT N. Y.. man awoke hi
wife live c4her night, and in a startled tone
oi voice, iniormeu iht uia -lowed
a dose of strychnine. "Well, voa
fool," sasd she, "lie still, or it may
The Philadelphia Conference ot
Methodist Episcopal Church, wdUO
next annual meeting in Xorristown, w
mencinjr March 17th. Bishop Andre
. . ... ti- c..-.ff. aQ3
will preside, assisted by jwsnops
Simpson.
ru ,rrt nruw
Ma-
saw
a young lady plowing in . .
coupin county, Illinois. - i'nr?"
ask: "When do you Degm - -"Not
till heads are better filled than your
was tho sententious reply. I116
man passed musingly on.
mfff
was a sort of temporary i"1"!!? he ar05c
and then came upon him. "en . m t0
to take his leavo the pitying dam fiu
him, "If you ever feci any more su
coming on, you had better come nb
where your infirmity is known, a
talcs pare of you.
A Young fellow in San Francisco
denly snatched a kiss from a ladj .
, J i i.... v.v divine t"al
tin.
ana excuseu hh ivuuuv,-i v .-y-