r rag ibjuui Qcuotcb to floIiticB, Citcratitvc, Agriculture, Science illoralittj, nub (Scucral ihticliigcmc. VOL. 32. STROUJJSBURG, MONROE COUNTY, PA., APRIL 15, 1875. NO. 46. V Published by Theodore Schoch. fj-p-RM-i Two dollar a. rear in advnnee anl if not r ;,l lu fir? the end of the year, two dollars and liftv J.,'.nl.. be eharired. N' p:M,,r diseontiuned until all arrearages are mill, xfojit at the option of the Kditor. iii- Advertisements of one .)uare of (eiv'ht Hnesl or nni or three insertions Si '. Kneli Additional in i -rii ". 3' eeiit. I.onicer one in proportion. JoillKixTSXG" OF At.L KIN1JS, i;,v:utl in the hihnst style of the Art, and on the most reasoiuMe terms. Xorth Third Sstrcrt, PHILADELPHIA. Kedueed rates, $1 75 per day.&a IIEXBY SPAIIX, Prop'r. L. II. Snydkk. Clerk. "ov. 20, 1S74. Cm. WILLIAM S. REES, Surveyor, Conveyancer and Eeal Estate Agent. Farms, Timber Lands and Town Lots FOR SALE. Oiiii-e mertrly opposite American llouen 3l -l door below the Corner Slore. March 2'', lST.'Mf. D R. J L A N T Z, SURGEON & MECHANICAL DENTIST. Silil has his oiliee on Main street, in the seeond story f I'.. S. Walton's brick building, nearly oixite tli s;r'H!'i-iurE llmi.se. and he Haters himself t hnt hyeih t -ii .-:i,- constant praetiee and the most earnest and rr -I'll I attention to all matters pertniiiini; to lii.s pro- -s-i.Mi. 1 1 n t he is fully aide to perform all operations ;r. i ' i . di-uiul lint: in the most earelul and skillful inuii v. ". S;iovi:d attention siveu to savinj tlie Xatund Teeth; f-i, i thf- itiserii'in f .rtirieial Teeth on Kuhlier. 'm.1'1. -ih-er. or Continuous (inms, and perfifl fits in all ,-ases insured. M -t persons know the great folly and danger of en ruti:i;,' their work.to the inexiH'rirneed. or to thos( Hv :e, at a distance. April lit, 1S74. tf. D :i. a. i.. i::t:si, surgeon Oeaillst. Antiuii!fes that liaTinr just returned from TVntal i'.illi:e, lie is fully prepared to runke artifieial teth in ;iu most lieautjful and life-like manner, and to fill de- , 1 tv-th aeeonliii-j to the most improved method. T''ili extraeicl without pain, when desired, hy the u.-"f Nit,-"t:s Oxide ( i-.ts, whieh i entirely harmless. 1; ji.iirini.f all kinds neatly done. All work waranted. (Iiiir:re- ."( as:i:i:i'ilv. i::ir' .1. Keller's new brick building, Main street, Sti-uJs'.urir, l'a. Auc. 51 '71-tf. D' rilY.SICIAX. OHice nearly opposite Williams Drug Storc. Il-id-ne, formerly oeeiipisl ly K. T. Wolf, corner Su'-uh ai:d Walnut streets, Mroiid.sl")Urc, l'a. Murrli '.'i. I .-75. tf. JU. IIOIY U:! IMTTCUSOA, Physician, Surgeon and Accoucheur, O.iice anrl Ilesidence, Main street, Strond? Tirf Pa., in the building formerly occupied by br. St-ip. l'ron:pt attention given to calls. ( 7 lo 9 a. m. OJ:ce hours ' 1 " 3 p. ru. ( G " S p. ui. April 10 1 874-1 y. jyi. gs:o. xv. jacksox PilVSICIW, SUKCEOX AND AITOITIIEUB. In the old office of Dr. A. Keeves Jackson, ri.'iJt'ticc, corner of .Sarah and Franklin street. STROUDSBURG, PA. An?ut .72-tf AUCTIONEER, Raal Estate Agent and Collector. Tuc luel-Tsi-mil he's leave to notify the puUie that ; ir-r:iriil to w-ll at short imtiee T-onal proM-rty "I"-!! kuijs, as well as Ueal Kstate.at public or private ii:T.it r; Thomas Stcwple's old -luiv Matnl. at F-ist f.eiui,t.urir, 1'a. !f. J 7, lS7t. ly. Divjd s. i,s;e, One door alove the "StrotuL-burg House," roalshtirg, Pa. Collections prompt!' made. 'Woher 22, 1874. HONESDALE, PA. 'lost central locatiou ot any Hotel in town. II. W. KIPLE & SOX, !f -! Main street. . Proprietors. January 'j, 1R73. ly. ii()ckaFeLl()w, DEALER IX Ktadjr-Uade Clothing, Genls Ftir inshiug Goods, Hats &Caps, Boots & Shoes, &c. EAST STROUDSnUlld, PA. (Near the Deit.) T'ie public are invited to call and examine rls. p,ires moderate. Iay 6.'- TIt roti kiiov that J. II. tbr nnlv Under- ! t, - - lj IV " s.. j - IKlra lis - 1.1 . nrwt'im tliPtr , . m ;li wui.lS'UUIj; n uu uiiuvi'""-" 'ismess ? If not. attend a Funeral managed J'y other Undertaker in town, and you "ill seo the proof of the fact. June JS74-tf DOA'T FORGET tliat wlien , you want any thing in the Furniture or 'Mtitnontal line that Mclarty& Hons in the .''id-Fellows' Hall, Main street, Stroudsburg, a- is the place to get it. June 18,'74-tf B LAXKS OF ALL KIXDS ibr Sale at this Office. How to Keep the Children Pure. ''"W ill you not use j-our influence in try ing to deter large boys from contaminating the minds of smaller boys ? Things which should be told in a wholesome manner and as solemn truths are distorted into vile shaj.es, and permanent injury is done to children's minds. Would it not be better for the body to be poisned than the mind, that parents might see the harm done, and thereby be enabled to use cures and anti dotes ? But I am sorry to say that I think the trouble lies deeper than with the li boys. I have beeu looking around, aud am quite sure that it dose. A jury might acquit them with the verdict, more sinned against, than sinning. It is the men that I am coming at, for just so long a.s they meet in grooccries, on street corners, and in shops, telling stories unfit for the cars of their mothers, sisters, wives and daughters, just so long big boys will listen and think it cunning to emulate the fillthy example. Is it not a terrible thing to look into a young man's face and think of the impurities his mind must be loaded with unless he has had strength to cast off the unclean thing and be a noble man ?M X'o subject more vital in its bearing on the morals of the young could have place in this column, says the Xew York Tribune, in reply to the above letter. There are parents who recognize among the duties they owe their children that of instructing them with respect to the origin of life. This is left shrouded in impenetrable mystery, and all manner of lies are told in reply to the questions which at a very early age children will ask. The mother leaves this matter for her daughter to be told about by any chance schoolmate, who, with the iew grains of truth she may communicate, is mure than likely to sow tares that never can be weeded out. The iunocenthcarted boy learns from his rough companions what his own father or mother should have told him. with perfect simplicity and in genuousness, and learns a great deal that would never have had him know. Truth is sacred. truth is pure and never corrupts any one. It is the vile admixture of false hood with it that contaminates. Kvery fact in human physiology can be so com municated to a pure mind that its delicacy shall not be in the least offended. The time to make these facts known is when the desire to inquire into them manifests itself, and the best teacher is the parent. A.s between husband and wife, so between parent and child there is no place for shame. Where virtue reigus shame can not come. A child thus taken iuto tiacred intimacy with its parent will instinctively revolt from whatever is vulgar and base and ob scene. At ever' period in the develop ment of the young life the parent should be before everybody else in preparing and fortifying his son or daughter against the dangers which lie in his or her path. There is nothing that so strongly binds a child to virtue and honor and chastity, as perfect and unrestrained intimacy between it and the father and mother. We are careful about the sewage of our houses, about ventilating them, and see to it with diligence that every nook and corner is kept neat and sweet. Let its carry the same thing into character and open all the doors aud windows of the soul by total frankness and transparent simplicity, that the pure air aud sunshine of heaven may have access to them and keep them pure. One word more. If home is made so attractive that boys and men prefer it to the comer groceries, an ounce of preven tion will be found better than many pounds of cure. Great Bank Kobbery Attempted. The boldest and most successfully plan ned attempt to rob a bank ever made in this section of the country was discovered in the First Xational bank of Covington, Ky., across the Ohio river from Cincinua tia, Thursday morning. The bank is situa ted on the corner of Fifth and Madison streets, Odd Fellows' Hall, which occupies the entire second story of the building. The burglars forged keys to open the doors to the hall and removed the flooring above t.io bank vault, which was covered with a cc'i .'reteof bricks, cement and plates of of ooiler iron, in all over three feet thick. This work must have occupied several ni-dits, but the final plate was . not cut through till last night. The burglars used a owerful pneumatic cngiuc to drive the drills, of which they were supplied with several dozen, of all sizes, from those used by watchmakers and dentists to the largest calibre. They worked under the safeguard of a lookout man, wlio occupied ablation across the street from the bank and com municated with his "pals" by a cord laid like a telegraph wire between the ceiling and floor of the bank and the hall above. They had rope ladders prepared and at tached to the back windows of the hall to facilitate escape in case of being cut off at the front. They had finely tempered wed ges of all sizes aud leaden mallets to drive them between the doors of the safe, and af ter reaching the interior of the vault iu whieh the burglar proof safe containing the treasure was kept, they encountered the first serious opposition. Here their skill and ingenuity were put to the severest test, for they could not have commenced final operations till two or three o'clock this morning, as the hall occupied by the lodge until long after one o'clock. The drills and wedges were used on the safe, and four cans of powder containing one pound each were used in the effort to blow it open. The rivets were sprung and the scams all started. Terrific explosions were heard during the night, but the cause was not suspected, nor was any discovery made un til the bank was opened for business this morning. All the plaster had fallen from the ceiling by the force of the concussion, aud the entire outfit of the burglars was found, indicating a precipitate flight just on the verge of a tremendous success, for a few more blasts would have burst the safe, and the millions it contained would have beeu left bare to the eager clutch of the gang. The safe contained a large number of private deposits of bands and considerable specie, besides the large funds of the bank, which the officers will not enumerate now that they have escaped the tremendous loss. The treasure was only reached to night, by experts from the manufactories of this city, as the safe was so twisted by the blasts jus to defy opening by the lock. The burglars' outfit of tools and appartus is valued at 81,000. Butter in the United States. The committee on statistics of the Butter and I'gge Dealers' Association of Chicago reported in refereuce to the estimated con sumption of butter in the United States. The report stated that it was estimated that 5.000,000 of the population consumed one pound of butter each week ; 10,000,000 half a pound each; 10,000,000 a quarter of a pound each. This was for table-use alone, and it was estimated that one-third more might be added for culinary purposes. This would give a total of about 1,IS7, 000,000. The exports from Canada and the United States are about 15,000,000, making a total product accredited to the United States of $1,502,000,000, which at an average value of thirty cents per pound, gave the sum $120,000,000 as the aggre gate value of this product. In the manu facture of butter the milk is used of over fifty-four per cent, of the milch cows in the United States, which are estimated to number over 13,000,000. With regard to the quality of butter, there was less uni formity of grade than of State. But little butter from Western creameries sold on a level with State butter. The amount of Western butter sent to the Xew York market had been so small that it had been found necessary to quote it separately. "Western" butter ranged from three to five cents below creamery butter, and firsts, which formed a large proportion, but not the bulk, of the Western crop that found its way here, were still another five or six cents lower. The average quality of Western butter had been very much im proved during the past few years, and to what extent it was possible to further raise its standard was a question for the earnest and constant consideration of the dairy men of the great West. The committee recommended the adoption, so far as jtossi ble, of the Eastern creamery and dairy system, and suggested that measures should be taken to secure from the railroad com panies better facilities for the transporta tion of dairy products from the West. . A snow-slide from the roof of a church in Boise City, while the pastor was pray ing, gave the congregation a great fright. The mass of snow which had been accumu lating on the building gave way and star ted down the roof, making a noise like the falls of Xiagara, and alighting on the ground with the effect of an earthquake. Suddenly about one-half of the congrega tion found themselves standing bolt up right. One old lady, who would bear down about two hundred pounds,' and doubtless had just been meditating on past sins and the probability of a future punish ment, sprang to her feet with the agility of a lamb, seized her nearest companion by the arm and exclaimed : "My God ! He is after us ! let's run." The Economies of Life. The largest item in your table expenses is meat. Beef is high. In our city mar kets a good steak is worth from twenty to thirty cents per pound. Beef steak for your family alone would cost, for breakfast and supper, more than two dollars, and then if you had a roast of sirloin for dinner, that would cost nearly as much more. So if that's the right way to live, you are managing well to get on with that six hun dred dollars ycr year. But do you know that there are only about sixty pounds of the sirloin which is used for roast and steaks, in an ox weigh ing S00 pounds ? There are other parts of the animal good solid meat which sell for five cents a pound. Portions of the neck, which, when properly cooked, arc the most substantial and nourishing parts of the carcass, 'are sold for four or five cents a pound. One pound of this cut into small pieces and boiled two hours in three quarts of water, in a close vessel, with five cents worth of potatoes, turnips, parsnips and carrots, with salt and pepper, and some savory herb, would make a splendid dinner for all of you. Lay bits of toasted bread upon the platter, and then pour on your stew. That's a dinner fit for a king. Everybody likes variety. Well, purchase next day a knukle of veal, which will cost, you all told ten cents, and which your wife will treat in the same manner as the beef, except that she will leave out the carrots and parsnips and put in bits of toasted bread or dumplings. Then next try a bit of the fore-shoulder of a sheep, which is very cheap. When mutton chops were selling for twenty cents a pjund, I have seen mutton foreshoulder, of fair quality, selling for two cents. It is a part which is always very cheap. Cut up into bits, and cooked as above, a grand dinner for eight members of your family can be got up for a quarter of a dollar. Any of these stews may be made into a meat pie, by way of variety. I have given these by way of illustration. You needn't have the same dinner twice a month. Fish may be employed occasional ly, and some excellent sorts are very cheap. l)io Louis. Cost of Fences in the United States. In commenting upon this subject the Country Geutleman says : "Taking the returns of the Xational Agricultural De partment as our guide, we find some cu rious items in regard to fences and their cost. From these returns it would seem that the cost of our fences is about the same as the amount of our interest-bearing national debt; that for each one hundred dollars invested in live stock, we invest an other hundred iu fences, either to keep them in or out. The estimated annual cost of repairs, with interest upon capital invested in the fences, is estimated at $200, 000,000. In Pennsylvania the returns in dicate that each hundred acres of inclosed land has an average of 955 rods of fence, at a cost of $1.20 per rod, or $1,HG. This, it must be remembered, is only an average, and that in many portions of the State the amount is much greater. The cost per red various from 72 cents in Florida to $2.20 in Bhode Island. The amount to each 100 acres varies from -100 rods in Minnesota, Xcvada, and Louisiana, to 1, 000 in Bhode Island. In Pennsylvania it would seem that of the fences G7 per cent, were "Virginia" worm fence, 17 post and rail, 12 of board, and 4 per cent, of "other kinds." In the same States 24 per cent, of the openings are closed by gates, and 7G por eeut. by bars, and the average cost of the farmer is $4.55. The returns state : "The average proportion of bars iu the whole country is about 53 per cent., of gaps 43, leaving 7 per cent, of openings for slip-gaps, or other modes of entrance." The report very truly says, with regard to the sum total of the cost of fences : "Experi ment has proven that at least half this ex pense is unnecessary." The report furn ishes material for the careful consideration of farmers. The Preservation of Smoked Meat. Professor Xessler says that the keeping qualities of Kmoked meat do not depend upon the amount of smoking, but upon the uniform and proper drying of the meat. It is of considerable advantage also to roll the meat on its removal from the salt be sore smoking in sawdust or bran. By this means the crust formed in smoking will not be so thick, and if moisture condenses upon the meat it remains iu the bran, the brown coloring matter of the smoke not penetrating. The best place to keep the meat is in a smoke-house in which it re mains dry, without drying out entirely as it does when hung iu u chimney. Driving Fence Posts. A neighbor told me how to make a board fence rapidly and cheaply last j'car. He and his hired man went to the field where the fence-posts with ends slightly sharpeued were lying along the line of the proposed fence. One man stood on a platform two and a half feet high, and with heavy mal lets drove the posts as the other held them in position. Eighty posts were thus put down three feet deep in one afternoon. The ground was free from large stones, and the time selected was just after frost had left the ground in the Spring. The posts were white oak, and did not split by being driven. The ground was so soft that severe pounding was not necessary, and doubtless softer wood might have been used. The fence stood firmer than where holes had been dug and the posts regularly set. It is possible this method could be adopted on soils where there are some stoucs by working a crowbar down through the soft earth to the required depth, shov ing aside the stones before the post is driv en down. Two stakes driven down side by side, with room for rails between and wired at top, make an excellent and cheap tem porary fence, and a post driven or set three feet, with a stake beside and wired to it to hold the rails, make a fence both cheap and durable, by driving the stake into the ground twelve to fifteen inches, only one wire will be needed, and that at or near the top. Such a fence takes little room, and by using old rails and pieces of rails need cost but little money. It is less li able to sag than the ordinary board fence made in the usual way. Exchange. The Work of Insects. The following calculation shows the im mense value of tiny insects and worms. Great Britain pays annually one million dollars for the dried bodies of the insect known as the cochineal ; while another, peculiar to Indian-gum chellal, or rather its production is scarcely less valuable. More than fifteen hundred thousand hu man beings derive their sole support from the culture and manufacture of the fibres spun by the silk worm, of which the annual circulating medium is about two hundred millions of dollars. Iu England alone, to say nothing of the other parts of Europe, five hundred thousand dollars arc spent every year in the purchase of foreign honey, while the value of that which is native is not mentioned ; and this docs not include the ten thousand pounds of was imported aunually. Besides, there are the nut galls, used in making ink ; the cantharides, or Spanish fly, used in medicine. Xearly every insect knowu contributes, in some way, to swell commerieal profits. Even the dread ed Colorado potato bug may become use ful, as will be seen from the following note which we clip from an exchange : "An order just received from a chemi cal manufacturing firm of Indianapolis for one thousand pounds of potato bugs may be classed as one of the curiosities of com merce. It has been discovered that these insects possess qualities which make a good substitute for the Spanish fly." New Race in Africa. Dr. Gerhard Bohlfs, the African explo rer, recently delivered a lecture at Colog ne on the last part of his jonrney from Tripoli to the coast of Guinea which is of particular scientific interest. He treated iu detail the state of civilization of the Em pire of Bornu (situated near Lake Tsad) and its capital (Kuka), and it appears that the negro tribes that inhabit those parts highly civilized, in fact much more so than most other tribes in Xorthern Africa. From Kuka Dr. Bohlfs went to Maudara, which is situated south of Pornu, and then entered the districts of the Bullo (or Fulio) tribes ; he found the inhabitants to be of light yellow, almost white com plexion, and surpassing even Europeans with regard to beauty of form and growth. Dr. Bohlfs then descended the Tsdiaddu river down to where this joins the Xiger, and was hospitably received by the English colonists at Lokoja ; from here he visited a a negro country in a western direction, then passed the Kong Mountains, and suc cessfully traced his way through the thick tropical forests to the coast, which he reached near Lagos. "Arc we men, or are we jackasses ?" shrieked a member of the Xorth Carolina legislature. We answer emphatically, "You are." A man iu Chester county has been ar rested for refusing to pay road tax Prob ably the highways were not kept in such order as suited him. What is Gum Arabic. After the raury season iii Morocco, a gummy juice exudes spontaneously from the trunk and brandies of the' acacia. It gradually thickens in tne furrow dow'ii which it runs, and assumes the form of oval and round drops, about the size of a pigeon's eggs, of different colors, as it comes down from the red or white gum tret?; About the middle of December the Moors encamp on the border of the forest, and the harvest lasts a full month. The gum is packed in large leather sacks, and trans ported on the backs of camels and bullocks to seaports for shipment. The harvest OC' casion is one of great rejoicing, and the people for the time being almost live On the gum, which ismitritons and fattening! Philadelphia grows. The tnquircr says.' The issue of building permits, as reported for the month of March; shows the num ber for dwellings, stores and hotels to be 31G. The factories,- stables and other buildings of all classes number 1GG, thelisC including one chapel, but no church. TliH is a considerable falling off as compared with the same period last last year, but at the same time it is unquestionably a better showing than any other city in the Union cau make. Boston aud Chicago, while rebuilding after their respective fires, exceeded these fig ures, but to continue the work of putting up new structures at the rat cf $G,000 per annum, through seasons of depression and general stagnation is beyond the capacity of any community expect our own. . . On the Lehigh Valley Bailroad the ctst for running a coal train the round trip, from Mauch Chunk to Easton, and return the empty cars, one hundred miles, is stated thus : Engineer, $3 50 ; fireman, $2 jO; brakemen, $8 ; wiper, $1 50 ; oil, waste and packing, $3 GO ; wear and tear, $23 ; total, $42 19. The additional cost for run ning a passenger train of six ears the earner trip is $18 SO, making $G0 90. To these items is to be added the cost of three and a quarter tons of coal fur a ccul train afxl two and a half tons for a passenger train, wood, water, switch tenders, dispatchers, &c., amounting to about $2G, and raising the whole cost to $GS 19 for a coal train and $8G 99 for a passenger train; The Farmers and Mechanics' bank of Shippcnsburg suspended payment, last week . Its liabilities arc understood to be about $200,000. It was chartered twenty years ago, under the State laws, and was conduc ted as a bank of issue until the national banking laws went into effect, since which time it has been conducted as a bank of deposit only. The stockholders arc indivi dually liable, and depositors will lose noth ing. Large loans to favored borrowers on real estate security caused the sniension. There is a possibility that the concern will be able to settle in full and resume busi ness. A correspondent of the Xcicntlic Amer ican says : "The best simple' remedy I have found for surface wountL, such as cuts, abrasions of the skin, etc., Is char coal. Take a coal from the stove, pulver ize it, apply it to the womid, and then cov er the whole with a rag. The charcoal aU?orbs the fluids secreted by the wound, and lays the foundation of the scab ; it also prevents the rag from irritating the flesh, and it is antiseptic." Mrs. Elizabath , Talbot, of Honeybrook town-hip, Chester county, filled her ice house with Ice twenty-four inches thick, clear and solid, on the 25th of March, So uncommon an occurrence Is Worthy of re cord. Mrs. Oslen, of Salt Lake, makes a pub lic declaration that in her opinion polygamy is as good for men, and that hc should like three husbands one to live with ami love, and the other two to help support her. On Wednesday last a tumor was re moved from Mrs. Thomas Phillips, Uwch lan, Chester county, which weighed twen-f3r-nine pounds. A man in Ixnver Augusta, Northumber land county, caught S00 pigeous in one dav, last week. . Erie county has paid $18,000 to main tain poor and indigent persons during the past three months. In Arkansas, peach trees are in full bloom, and the forest trees arc bursting into leaft. Fruit as large as part rides eggs adonis the peach trees in Austin, Texas. Much of the wheat iu Erie county has I been winter killed. .eW-riic'l(. s!p .fnnwi