EI)C 3cfFcvsohtnri. THURSDAY, AUGUST 5. 1875. Ont public improvements are progressing slowly Lut surely. Thruk rouh looking tramps passed through litis place, on Tuesday last. Tukre will be a grand pic-nic held at Lake Popononming, Saturda-, August Nth. . . , . . i Mraw-iuuks ana pic-nic parties Have 1 ecu freely indulged in by our young folks. C. S. Coj.r.Fivr, !., and family, of Frank- fcjrd, arc stopping at Mrs. M. A. Lee's, in lliis place. Stnck constable Fi.-her's raid on the "mud t i talks down town. Tin: Indian Queen Hotel, under the pro prietorship of Nathan Shafer, son of the Sheriff, is doing a rushing business. ...... - Thk numerous rains of the past few days have done considerable damage to hay that lias been cut within the past week. Carriages and hacks going to the de pot loaded with city folks and their trunk?, arc the result of the late cool rains. Our County Commissioners are erecting a new bridge over the Pocouo creek at the upper end of town. A wise step, indeed. Thk chicken thieves that have been ma king their raids on various coops hereabouts are now turning their attention to the inves tigating of potatoe patches, . . The Union Camp Meeting, under the aus pices of the M. K. Church, to be held in Hinekle's woods, about three milts from this place, will commence August 18th. Ot'R citizens have realized the need of gas on our htrccts the past few dark, rainy nights. In their absence a grand harvest field is opened for the depredations of "foot-pads." . C. P. Mick, has erected a new sien in front of his scgar establishment, nearly op posite the M. E. Church. Charley's excel lent scgars arc appreciated by all lovers' of the weed. The Iuhkiii Falls free lovers, Messrs. Weeks. Sitmickson & Co., have had a little rumpus, and now .Sin nick son, to use his own expression, is kissing through the bars of the "Stone Hotel," Milford, Pa. 1 . Mr. Uobert Huston, has at last com menced laying a flag store pavement in front of his store and residence. The stone are irom his celebrated Pocono Blue Stone Quar iv and the finest we have ever seen. Reports from all parts of the County are in favor of a good crop of oats and corn. Wheat and rye could have been better, but the yield was fair. Fruit is not abundant yet there will be sufficient supply for home consumption. Mil. John Ulmer, has opened a fashion able tailoring establishment in rooms over J. S. Williams' billard hall. Mr. Ulmcr is a young man who thoroughly understands his business and will no doubt succeed, as he is a first class workman. There are seven candidates for the office of County Treasurer and four for the office f Prothonotaiy. There are also four aspi rants for the Judicial robe, four or five for County Commissioner, and three or four for the cilice of District Attorney. Camp Meeting. A Union Camp Meet ing will be held on the ISth of August, in -Mr. Hinkle's Woods. .Boarding will be provided on the ground at reasonable rates it. L. ScHAFEER, ) 4 J j. M. Hours, j I astors. DisTiNOLisiiEi) (J tests. The Hon. The odore liunyon and family, from Newark, N J., are stopping at the Indian Queen Hotel Mr. IS unyoii is one of the oldest legal light in New Jersey and occupies one of the high est positions in the State, that of Chancel lor. Mn. Jos. IIuntsberger, or Ccutreville, Northampton Co.; was in town on Tuesday 1.4 ... . 1 I ! , ji. tin uiiMijets ana oeiore leaving gave us a call. This is the first time in several years we. have had the pleasure of seeing Mr, HuuLsbcrger, and was pleased to see him looking so well. Call again, Joe. One of our most fashionabl young ladies who is so fearful lest her garments may be come soiled by the too near approach of .? tut ghk, should be more particular in her selection of gay chaperons. Though they be servant girls, they are modest, virtuous, in telligent, luuustrious aud sensible girls and no gaudy butter Uys. "Cix.xi.ia," has for some liaie past been so journing at Law Cottage, East Slnuidsburg. Jn j.cr letters to the Philadelphia Saiirfcnj Mer- anj she goes into testacies over the beauty of the surrounding scenery as neon from the Cot luge, ur.il bestows a liberal amount of praise, we; I UtrCi Ted too, upon the Host and Hostei Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Durfee. - Wm 31. Mosier and Mi Eton Frantz, will erect a boarding tent on the camp ground at liinklc s woods, where they whM furnish an ample supply of the best provisions for the accommodation of those who patronize them dnnug the contlnu;;ncc of the camp m.-eting which commences Wednesday', Au- r.it 18lh. Mes-re. Mosler & Frantz have assured m they will conduct their tent in first ord-v .ind p-ir r.o jviirH to a -com mi Heetiioven Cornet Band, was the re cipients of an elegant fruit cake, a gift from Miss Ida Postcn of Whitehaven, on Monday last. The bovs kindly remembered us with a good sized slice for which the' will accept our thanks. They also roauested us to retun their most hearty thanks to .Miss Posten for the elegant present, upon which they feasted their appetites Monday evening. The "Caldeno" base ball club of this place went to Pleasant valley last Thursday for the purpose of meeting the Lehighton club on the green sward and testing their qualities as base ballists, but were disappointed, as the Lehighton boys failed to put in their appear ance. A -"scrub" game was played on Fri day, resulting in a victory for the Caldeno's. The club were quartered at the Pleasant Valley House, Mr. Reuben Shupp, proprie tor, who entertained the boys in the most hospitable manner. Another PtonuERV. The Store house of B. F. Brodhcad, at the Delaware Water Gap, was entered last Thursday night by robbers and ten pieces of fine Cassimerc, a lot of Shoes, two black oil-cloth Satchels, several boxes of Silk Thread, several boxes of Ladies' Stockings, Kid Gloves, Zephyrs, Knives, Ribbons, Sec, stolen. A reward of S50,nf is offered for the recovery of the goods and $50.00 for the apprehension and conviction of the thieves. The real estate of the late Jacob Singmas tcr, of this place, will be offered at public sale on Tuesday, August 24th. The sale will no doubt be one of the most important that has ever taken place in this borough or county. His private residence, one of the most beautiful in architectural design and finished in the most "elaborate style, will be the attractive feature of the sale, and spirited bidding is anticipated by several who are anxious to become the owner of the beautiful villa. Several of the finest building lots in and around Stroudsburg, belongiug to the estate, will be offered for sale at the same time. See advertisement in another columu. Preparing' for Hie Centennial. Among the live things done by Philadelphia toward rendering the Centennial a success is the enlargement of the t. Cloud Hotel on Arch Street above Seventh. This popular house has always been a favorite with visitor from this part of the state, and we may say with sensible people generally, and the recent addition of rorae thirty new rooms, all beauti fully furnished, togeuier with a fine new Indies' Parlor on the fi. st floor, will make the M. I loud more attractive than ever. It lias a first-class elevator, and the table and accom modations throughout are not surpassed any where, while the charges arc but three dollars per day. The positions of ltoom clerk and Cashier, and respectively and admirably filled bv Mr. Ilarrv I)enni.on and Mr. J. T. iSkiles. The following letter, unsolicited by J. II. McCarty & Sons, speaks for itself in estab lishing their reputation as obliging and ac commodating undertakers. Philadelphia, July HO, 1S75. Messrs. J. II. McCarty & Sons. Gcntlenirn: ! herewith return to you my most sincere thanks for your unprecedented kindness, rendered by supplying my son with a Casket aud furnishing all necessary arti cles for my wife's Funeral. Being entire strangers to j'ou and away from home, and you not knowing myself or family or that you would ever be remunerated for your trouble and labor such a deed of kindness must have been prompted by a magnani mous and Christian heart. I cheerfully recommend you to all parties who may need anything in your line of busi ness. Our City undertakers could not be more accommodating and furnish a better class of goods and Coffins thau you supplied for luy wife, an entire stranger to you. You are at liberty to make such disposi tiou of this letter as you like. I am very trulv, vours. ROBERT SIN LEY. Lewis county West Yirginnn, has a twelve year old boy who weighs 153 pounds. A Reading man has been using the same pocket comb for fifty-five -ears. J. At wood Pyle, of West Nottingham township, Chester county, has a young four legged turkey. IJaii. stones nine inches in circumference fell in Lycoming county, the other day, doing much damage to the grain. The Luzerne County Agricultural Fair will be held at Wyoming, commencing Sept. 28th and continuing three da vs. A boy in Selinsgrove, Union county, picked one thousand quarts of strawberries from a patch of less than a fourth of an acre this ?aon. The Pittston Gazette aja ."an effort i be ing made to have Moody and Snkey, the revival ints, attend the camp . meeting at Wyoming grove in August." ' , Ix New York a spurious trade dollar is in circulation so perfect an imitation of the genuine in weight, ring, and general appearnce as to be received without question at the banks. A xkw motor has been discovered at Hamil ton, Canada. It is propelled or operated by the explosion of nine parts of air .and one of coal gas. The inventor challenges Keely to a tr;al. 1 here was a total a 110,450 tons of flour and wheat exported from Oregon, during the year ending June 30th. It is expected that the quantity for export during the ensuing year will be fully as large. Professok Janey 8.-iy$ that the future great wealth of the Black IlilU will be its grass lands farms and timber. The soil is deep and fertile, ami the rain greater and more regular than that of any other region west of the AHeghenies. 1 ' ' I . . The Scran ton JlepuUuwn says that it is rumored that W. F. Halstead, the present efficient Superintendent of the I). L. & W. RR., is also to be Sup' t of Lack. & Rlooms barg Division in plico of I): T. Round, pre- -nt jnMnibut. . . - Thk sun was so hot in Jacksonville, Florida, on Wednesday, July 28th, that people amused themselves cooking eggs in. the sand. One person buried two for i x minutes, and when taken out they were n hard as though they had been boiled for half an hour. A gentleman of New Castle owns a mule which, the other day, trotted a mile in 2:45. As this is the first time the animal's speed was ever tested, and this without traiuing, it is expected that niuch greater; speed can be attained. Six months ago one Ilelscl, of White town ship, Cambria county, sold his wife to one Dodson, for and in consideration of the sum of $100 by said Dodson to said Ilelsel to be paid. The money not being forthcoming, Ilelsel is now trying to get his wife back, but as she and her purchaser are in jail for selling liquor without license, present success is not possible. A monster suit against the United States has just been instituted in the United States Court of Western M issouri by the heirs of a certain Spanish ofEcer stationed at the poet of Arkansas in 1793, for the recovery of six million acres of land in Arkansas and Missouri, granted to him at that date. ' One-third of the contested lands have been owned by private citizens for seventy years, under the grant from the United States. Four million acres are still unentered. The inhabited part is filled with towns, intersected by railroads, built up in villages and laid out in farms. The claim is looked upon by the lawyers as being per fectly valid. The claimants are residents of Arkansas, and are nearly all of them poor poeple. The custon house statistics ' of Philadel phia for the last fiscal year have just been published. There was sent our during that time American productions to the value of $2S,5S8,019, while the foreign imports amounted to $24,708,353, leaving a balance on the right side of the ledger of nearly $1,000,000. Another point in favor of the port is that while during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1874, 'the -Philadelphia importations through New York were $1,073,842, fur the year ending June 30, 1875, they were but $561, 9CG, a falling off of nearly one-half. These importations came to an amount of a little less than two thirds in American vessels, and a little over one-third in foreign vessels. Telegraphic reports published on Satur day state that heavy rain had fallen during nearly the entire week in Ohio, Indiana, Kentucky and Missouri, doing immense damage to the crops of wheat, oats and hay. Corn was also much injured. It is not the general custom in that region to house the ripened crops in barns, but to thresh them as soon as possible after harvesting, and this practice has probably increased the loss. The streams have all been flooded and a good deal of produce carried off in that way. Still, when the storms are over and the clear sky appears again it will doubtless be found that the , destruction hits not been universal and that there is a fair amount of produce left. The worst news of a mis fortune generally comes first, and there are some points about the dispatches that look like an effort to put up the grain market. The joint committee of the Legislature appointed to investigate the affairs of the Reading Coal and Iron Company another name for the Reading Railroad closed its proceedings at Atlantic City on Saturday. During the sittings in Philadelphia a great deal of testimony was taken. The retail coal dealers complained of oppression and fraud on the part of the Company, and maintained that it exercised a practical monopoly" of i the coal trade irom the .Schuylkill region. President Gowen, in defending the Com pany, brought home to the dealers them selves some very unpleasant facts as to short weights and increased prices. His argu ment before the committee at Atlantic City was a comprehensive statement of the whole case, showing that the effect of that Com pany's operations had been to redu"ce the price of coal to consumers and to insure a regular supply. He also intimated that the strikes and outrages in the coal regions were to a large extent the result of hostility to the Company, and on the whole made out a case that will enable the committee to report without much difficulty. ' The facts concerning the massacre of a company of emigrants by the Mormons at Mountain Meadow, m Utah, in 187o, have at last been brought to light in the United States Court at Reaver, in the Territory. Several persons who were present and par ticipated in that bloody slaughter, eighteen years ago. have testified as to the circum stances. There were over one : " hundred emigrants, of all-ages, with about thirty wagons, on their way toward California, passing ' through the Mormon territory. The Mormons were at that time in a state of hostility to the Federal government, and endeavored to instigate the Indians to de stroy these emigrants, but for some reason it was not done, lhe Mormon leaders then undertook to doit themselves. Summon ing a number of armed men they followed the emigrant band to a suitable place and surrounded them, pretending that their object was to protect the wayfarers from Iudian attacks. When all the arrangements were made all the emigrants except the small chiktren were deliberately shot down in cold blood. ' Old and young, men and women, all were murdered alike and their bodies left to be devoured by wolves and vultures. Their bones were found there months afterward, revealing their awful fate. Only the - small children; too young to remember what had ' been done, were spread and placed in Mormon families to be reared in the true faith. Although it has always been believed that this massacre was perpetrated by the Mormons; and not by the Indians as they alleged, it is only recently that any positive evidence has been obtained. Not a single emigrant was left alive of sufficient age to tell the tale, and now the facts have come to light through some of the apostate Mormons, two of whom were bishops of the church. They appear to be. of an iiuqricstionahie character, and npen to us a new view of the despotic and hcrriSif) nature 'of the MorUon .oligarchy. There are 130 boys in the Maine state reform schooL - - The election in Kentucky on Monday resulted in the triumph of the. whole Demo- cratic ttcKct. , ; A dispatch was received by a gentleman in Milford, Pa., from Paris, that was only an hour and a half on the way. The Assistant Treasurer of the United States at New York has been directed to sell 5,000.000" in gold during August. - They have found the right remedy for "tramps" up in New Hampshire. It con sists -of a well-administered, docs of cold lead; ' ; v ' ; --It is thought at Washington that Gen cral Bates will be elected to fill the unex pired term of Andrew Johnson in the Senate. v Tho yield of wheat throughout Maryland this season lias been unusually large. In some favored localities the return is un precedentcd. ; . The sale' of the Northern Pacific Rail road, which was advertised to take place on Monday, has been postponed until Thurs day, August' 12. . i v 1 w i Benjamin Bannan, for many years the publisher ; and editor of the Pottsvillc Miners' 'Journal, died at Pottsville on Sa turday, aged G8 years. f , An Indiaua farmer named Murray, while pitching hay from his loft recently, pitched out $5,520 that some one had concealed, and he feels merry enough over it. Senator Andrew Johnson, ex-President of th$ United States,' died at ah early hour oh Saturday morning at his daughter's re sidence in Greenville, Tennessee. The Catasaucpia Manufacturing Company are now making plate steel. .The Lehigh Shovel Company, of that place,' uses this steel and pronounces it first-class.' ' An Oregon man has astonished the au thorities of the Agricultural Department at Washington by sending in a single ship ment 130 different kinds of insects. - I ! : i " M i I t Johnson j! won the championship k of the world and $2,000 in a swimming contest at Philadelphia on Thursday of last week. He swam '10 J inilcs Uiis opponent Coyle. about S3. The newly-elected dean of the law depart ment ' of Lafayette College, Hon. W. S. Kirkpatrick, will deliver an address at the inauguration of that branch of the college, October 0. A problem for physiologists is ! tho ease of a Chinaman and negro woman who mar ried in A'kansas,a year since. Their first child has light hair, and it3 complexion is white as snow. Judge -Morris, -counsel for Theodore Tilton, ou Monday served a notice on Mr. Reecher's attoriKs to be prepared to answer; in a new trial on' the first : Monday in September. An Altoona clergymen had his carpet bAg'stokn at the YVest Philadelphia depot on Tuesday night. It is supposed the thief - - committed suicide when lie discovered that it was full of sermons. k ; I i 1 t , -J , f . .n "A Berks county' boy has lost one of his pyes in a very singularT manner, lie was fcngagod in picking potato bugs,' when one of them flew in his eye, "blinding him, des pite the best medical aid. The public debt statement shows the decrease of debt since June 30 to be $1, 294,887.:, Coin balance, $GS,942,700.20 ; currency ' balance, $4,31 G,9G0.9G ; coin certificates, $22,725,100. j '' " ; On the north sides of some of the Maine mountains the snow is said to be still very deep. ;';Thc snovr banks appear in curious contrast with the trees all around them in their bright' green foliage. - - - fA;Medina (Pa.) physician, while peace fully engaged ; in robbing the crave of a dead negro, for 'scientific . purposes, had an eye shot out by. some. unfeeling person who s6ught to retard the march or science. . The damage by the great rains , in the West is beyond estimate. All t the crreat rivers are terribly swollen and many of them lave overflowed their banks. The crops in many1 sections arc almost a total failure. I M I ' Two hundred and fifty Irishmen of Mer cer county publish a card in the Sharon ?ra&, stating " Ihey " are disgusted with Democracy ; entirely withdrawing their sup port Irom and severing their connection with that party. Gen. F. E. Spinner, the honest old gen tleman who has just gone out of the posi tion of Treasurer of the United States, ak ter a service of fourteen years, is now pro posed as the llcpubhcan candidate for Trea surer of the State New York. They couldn't choose better. . ' . - . The Towanda Reporter says that Brad ford county will give Governor Hartranft this year a majority 1200 or 1500 larger than he received three years ago. People who were then influenced by the calumnies against him have learned better, and hun dreds who voted for Buckalew will be on the right side this time. Two weeks ago, in Scranton, James Nea lon atabbed Martin (Reason, inflicting a painful! wound. (Reason vowed a vow of vengenance, and since then has been "lay ing for" his enemy. On Saturday his wished ifor opportunity came; and he fired three shots into'Nealsons body, woundin him dangerously. The jail now holds Glca? son. , r ,vIt; is Reported from Saratoga' that a "slate" for the Pennsylvania Democrats has been made up there. Ex-Governor BHer is" down for Governor, and an ex-Republi-cau probably Eli Slifor for State TreaJ surer.- The Democrats of the various coun ties can now go on electing their delegates to carry out this nice little arrangement. There is some prospect that the musical ungle of -silver r coin will be r Wd in the land before long." Hie 'Treasury Depart ment hopes to be in readiness . to - issue sil ver by the first of September, if the con ditions remain favorable as is now promis ed. A very considerable nmnnnt ;a ng steadily mer: by tho monthly ccina-vs ml St If 3Iornionism is in its decline it certain ly docs not lack for., proselytes. Ou -Wednesday of last weck;740 Morman emigrants landed in New York. ; The number of girls between eighteen and twenty years" of age was quite large. The men were mostly far mers. They proceeded directly to Utah. A Galveston hen has distinguished her self by laying curious double egg, consist ing of ail1' outer 'and an inner body.. The former is larger than an ordinary goose's eg And. has,no yolk I- In, the place where the yolk ought to be lies the iuner egg, covered almost completely with a hard, shell, and perfectly (brined in every other particular. nM Attorney-General Picrrepont has decided against. the validity pf the famous Chorpcn ning claim 'on' the -'United States Postal De partment for $145,000. The Attorney (Jeneral is of opinion that the sum men tioned which, by the way, was "awarded." by the late ..Postmaster-General cannot be recovered in court, being void under the statute : of limitations. 'J' A census of the city of New York, by State authority, has just beeu made, which shows a total population of about 1,100.- 000. . This result is a great disappointment to the Democrats, who counted on 1,500, 000, which would materially enlarge their representation in the Legislature. Senators and Assemblymen are to be appointed next winter on the basis of the enumeration now HU M t f .Ml A Yicksburg boy got hold of a news paper the other day which said that hot drinks were tnore cooling to the system than cool beverages.. He emptied a hand ful of ground pepper into the coffee-pot in order to, test the experiment, and soon after breakfast he was heard confessing; to his father his disbelief in domestic recipes of any : kind whatever. ; The father used a barrel stave to aid his side of the argument. A wealthy farmer familiarly known as "Old Steffy," who lives near the Lehigh County Poor House, has a stack of hay standing in one of his fields which was placed there twenty years ago. "' "When the hay was cut and stacked the fanner could not get his price for it, and resolved that it might stand where it was until it would rot, and that is what it is doing, sinking perceptibly each year as it gets older. A few days ago a resident of Port Jcr vis, was taken sick and sent for a doctor, the doctor left a prescription, with the re quest that one of his' children should call at his office the next day and say how the pa tient was doing. 7 A little girl came, and, when questioned, she promptly answered : "Pleivse sir, father is getting better ; he's broke the stove all to pieces this morning, and been' a " fighting mother just like he used to !" " - The men who now. control Tammany Hall arc weeding out the insubordinate ele ments, and have expelled John Morrissey, Jimmy Hayes, Judge Ledwith and several other active leaders of the "short-hair" fac tion from.; the General Committee. The culprits were" not sufficiently obedient to party discipline. They have taken steps to form an organization of their own, and there is a very fair, prospect that Tammany will suffer a pretty bad twrcnclr before the tioubleblows .Hjver & jf 5 J ?;j Through tickets are now sold from New York to Australia, Japan, China and India, a distance exceeding 12,K)) miles. The route will bej by the way of the Erie rail way, and the Union and Central Pacific railways to Saii Francisco, and thence by steamer to the points idioatcd. Under this arrangement passengers can secure berths in San Francisco steamers at time of pur chasing tickets in New York. Two hun dred and fifty pounds of baggage are allowed each passenger free. i - Recent crop --reports from Europe indi cate that the harvest of grain is better than was supposed a few weeks ago. The wheat that was prostrated and badly damaged by heavy wind and-; mi u had partially recover ed, and it was hoped that if fine weather followed much of it would )o saved. The rise in the price had been equal to 12 cents per bushel in a single week, but at last ac counts it was rather lower. From Russia it is now reported that wbeat-wjll yiekl a Mr average.- The 'demand for shipments from this country, however, is still main tained. ' ' ij - In a recent case in Elk county, Judge Williams decided that a purchaser of land at a tax sale took no title at the time ; that the owner retained his legal title, and that the purchaser had no right under his tax deed until the expiration of the term for redemption,- and nq remedy in law or equity, although1 the owner "might remove all the timber and every thing else of value on the land before the two years expired-, and thus, if. tho land was of no value excent for timber, compel the unlucky purchaser at a tax sale to lose the money he had "paid the County Treasurer for the lands. V vi;i ' ,''! "' ' M About twenty-three years airo. Jeremiah l'crcc, a .well known .grocer ,of Providence, eloped with' the wife of Thomas Harring top,one,of his tenants, and,Tarlort time .hicj, .til,, juirrirrgion returned,1 pecm n- ly penitent, but soon disappeared again, with her five-year-bid daughter. Sim-a fe.VV1!1 -.Hns.becu .heard .from jinvtvf' the party, tin, a few days agoan ! adVer tiseiucut iu A, Providence Daner. sent tVnm Fort Scott, Kansas, bv the irirl. who is now m irncd and Jias :t family, was answered by e of herrelatifcsaiuUhc was restored to one v.,..v.uu.,. , uiiuus iacv aoouc tne case is that, after twenty-three years, every member of both the iamilics is , still living. Murder and' rftlier crimes are becom ing so lrc.iucnt and flagrant in V,w Yr,rt- that the. World, !u a double leaded editorial! xyi organization of a igilancc Comipittj,!iunless security lis given to a greater ctegrce than late. It says: "So: cunty of Rte-nd itfoiierty in broad d.iy ngut at icast; is the hrst essential condition of cvihzgd society. . If, these. are not to be obtained in New York without a Vigilance Committee, how. long ; wjll it bo. bSbro a lguance t'omniitteo goes to work in Vw lork o obtain them? . And what stands in the way of obtaining thorn W-day in New xui n. um ;i voruuess,, cowardly, corrupt and in every practical aspect contemptible V;r V . ,i r01l?v Jorce ,ia '.New i orx And Dom-Jcrath; at that.1,: A letter from Picrson, Mich., Gth . D " 1.1. -I' t '"St., w iiiuruiuau -ikapius. jiagie, conveys tl following: H)n Sunday last the fanii and relatives of Asa C. R. Fields n,et .' his residence in this village, and as h .l-l-" .1lT l 1 . uirourinoi duiy, cacn one had bruu4t something good to eat, calculating on a f'j dinner and a social visit. Among dle gR ilishps brnnrlit in "ru r Iim.i i " " 0..v ... ""ri MilCkctl and all who ate of it were taken sick. le, lr. II. S. Ilolden was called in.andfi. ,J!id tl.,.. all apparently suffering from a heavv tl,,, of poison. The doctor immediately apjJi0,j the usual remedies for poison with suopk and the parties (ten in number) are ail n,l to be mp, though so violent was tho atta,1' that at one time recovery seemed doubtful The provision has been thoroughly examj,, cd, and all agree that the poison origin' from the chicken pie, which had been 1,1, irom cnic-Kens wnicn had been fcedin potato bugs." , r ; , . 01! People who are puzzled at the teclnih-jj phrases used iu base,ball. reports arc com' mended to the perusal of the f jllowin uVfi nitions i Field The cow pasture where the leatl. er-hunt ing is performed. . Rase Salt bags scattered around in tle grass for the players to jump on. Nine The number of roosters in knec breeches that constitute a base ball deck Umpire The chief bailer he bawHoU "strike." His other duty is to sit on'U of the bats "and smell the ball as it goes It . Judgment The umpire's opinion afti taking such a smell. One ball What the umpire savs wL. the smell proves unsatisfactory. cj:u- r - - .1 y .. - ' .rr ""ue uy me natter. Put out The" fellow who tries to to get in without paying fifty cents Dead ball one that comes to life m 111! alter Deinr buried in the hands of the pitcher.' roul A ball that bounds just the x,-.w one is positive it will not. rair foul A little one for a cent. Balk "A breach- of promise" indu-1,-,1 in by the pitcher. Stealing u based tufiin;' a ba' in tl,.. car and walking off to the next, when tho catcher isn't looking. Beauty A ball so hot that the second baseman lies on his stomach to avoid it. Hot ball that singes tho short stop's head as it goes by. Plv A ball which Hcorns the earth. nnl, like the gentle horse fly, buzzes around in the elevated atmosphere. Wild throw Slinging at the third base man, and killing a small boy in the r'Ha field. Donaldson A StraBge Story. X'liK Aiio, August; S.-The 7W will publish an affidavit to-morrow, signed lv James . 31 c Affray, . ii workman in Sonrli Chicago, to the. effect that he yesterdav evening picked up on the lake shore, ncJr Hyde. Park, a bottle containing ..a card, cm which was written the following : "Julyl, 2 A. M. We cannot stay up more than an hour longer, as the gas' is rapidly escap ing. N. S. ;." This date is that of die night on jwhich Donaldson started on Lis trip. ? Cheap Way to KR1 Potato Bugs. A lady residing near Pughtown, Ches ter county, who attends the Pottstowu markets, states that her potato crops ar -entirely free from the ravages of the potato bugs, although they were vigorously at tacked by them early in tho .spring. The plan she adopted to get rid of them was to turn her .turkeys and chickens into the patch, occasionally throwing a few j:r:iii! of corn between the rows, to induce them to visit the place often. The conscience is that there is not a bug to be seen on tho entire patch. If this will do the work, every farmer has tho remedy at hand t. destroy these pests and drive them out of existence. How an" Ohio Constable Prepared for Duty. From (he Dayton Democrat. When Eph W. was elected constable up in Wayne township it was sensation to him. I and he coufd hardly realize it. It awakcno-1 f visions ot war and bloodshed, and he deter mined to put himself on a war foot in?. Wouldn't he have to command the peace? And wouldn't he have to bring the whole power, of the army to effect this pur pose if it were necessary? Then he pro cured a horse pistol, and securing a copy of a "wrrantV:be repaired ; to. the forest. took a position, under his vine and fig tree, as it were, whore none dare molest or mako him afraid, and selecting a beech trce; foot in diameter, he rend the document tj it in a loud; voice! which fairly made the forest tremble. "Hold! you scoundrel!'' he cried, "one foot more, and I'll blow your brains out !" vThen bangwent the horse pistol, buE.hc missed, the tree' every time. THE HONORED DEAD. Official Announcement by the President ixu ..of thUnited States; -; Wasuixutox, August 1. It become the, painful1 duty of the President to an nounce to the pcopla of the United Suu the death of Andrew Johnson, the lat sur vivor of his honored predecessors, which occurred in Carter county, East Tennessee, at an early hour on Saturday morni"? The solemnity of the occasion which cal'cJ him to the Presidency with the varied na ture aiid length of his public' service?, ill cause him to be long remembered, and casiou . inourniug for the death of a tingnisheil public servant. As a mark o respect ,ibr tho memory of tho debased- is ordered that the executive mansion ,a"1' tho several departments of the government at .Washington be. draped in lnourinng, til the close of the day designated tor h funeral, and that all public business be ponded on that day. It is further enlcntl that the War and Navy Departments suitapc liondrs' to W md oh the Cou'9 to' the. nioiuory of the illustrious dead. , Hy the President : V. S. G bant. John J.-Caita'aldsh,' lUi-y ot bratc. f i i
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