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Qcuotci to politics, Citcraturc, Agriculture, Science, iHoralitT), anb encral Suieiligeuce.
VOL. S3.
STROUDSBURG, MONROE COUNTY, PA., DECEMBER 23, 1875.
NO. 30.
TJff HI,rl-"'""''1--l-1- " --' "
ha
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n.uiojl bv Throdore Schoch
r--nal);iri Ter in alvanc and if not
Tf t" en'l of tils yr, two dollars and fifty
J .; bJ,r,i.-nt!aaM nntil all arrearage are
v 6iC;M 1 -.4 f miar? of fek-ht lincl or
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.U1'"' : .;.,, t S:- TVi additional in-
in'"-' - .
-"jOI5 lni.T2.G
Or ALL KINDS,
t'ie h:hi 'v," of tha Arl nd oa th
gif-jt: :3 ' M()',: reall)nble terms.
D
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RCCE JOHNSTONE,
Homeopathic Physician,
njsnec: Benjamin Dangan, Cherrj Valley,
V-.r 1". 1573. ly.
Ti. lcwis KiRiiai'pr,
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vsician, SargsoQ and Accoucheur,
Sand Cut, Watss Co., Pa.
.Ma!cnm3:!v attended, to day or night.
oJerko May 13, '73-tf.
LATLTPEt'K.
Stirscon Weniist.
, .,v r-ii that havinr jnt rct-irnct from l.-ntl
V,, fj' v pr.'i-ir'.sl to m.-'ic artii'-.ial tjeth in
' '"""' ,"sVi:i'"'"i aJ I manner, and lofiilds
' ' ',' .V-.j-'-'Ord.:f to the toast i:apr-vvd Method.
. Ji .ji'htir niri w'j ;u d -sired. bv til
N ;'-- . UiVit iii. whi.-h u entirely haru:le.
. V ' 'itiuis neatly 1uj. All work waranted.
" ; ' i; . n orii build: n;, !Iain tre-t,
. -V ' r Au;. 31 Tl-tf.
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SlO'.V AIli) IMTTEKSOX,
pajS;::1n. Sarjeon and Accoucheur,
,,".,,,;,! :!-:. L-w. f:lin street, Jrtroiid
. i-i t:sc lni:l'in formerly occupied
, ' m- ,.':., I'r0,.i:t a::e:itir.! jjiven tucills.
l l 9 i. m.
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o il.
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w. jacsvsox
nvsiruv siE3 asd accoucheur, i
I
I.: .'.e 0! i tv? of Dr. A. Ilc-eve Jackson,
r;'"je':iee. c .. r.;r of .Sarah and Frankliu trtftt.
3TR0UDS3URG. PA.
,TT;LS0X I'KIIISOA",
AUCTIONEER,
Eitit3 Agent and Collector.
' -. ) i e to r.oi'.fv- tbc puKie thai
; .: !".'"'-'- -nai property
ii-;., i. . ..' is V.:z Jliiiic.al puMio cr private
- V --:.- : i-S c!i i'--.'- !aal. at Et
. ..--.. (Dvc. 17. l"i. ly.
V it
Atii-:ey at Lau,
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0 :j c -r ab-ive the "tro:: J-ibarg House,"
JI -Sia Si 415
V:.-'.'i n.Vi .S.v:, PHILADELPHIA,
i'-r rates. $1 75 por Jay."S3
HENRI' SPAI1N, Prop'r.
' . .. i , -i. ou:.
WILLIAM S. REES,
urvevor, Convevancer and
Beal Estate AentJ
TiTz?. Tizjer Lands and To?rn Lots
FOR SALE.
r.i??.r!y c jijio-Ii American Houcm i
i fJ x.r !riow ;he Corner Slore.
D R. J.LANTZ,
SUHGEO:; MECHANICAL DENTIST.
,c; V cl'-? r Ma-a -.rcfft. iu the seeond tory
t r-'r. v -ri:s bjiriitjc. lifarly orp-jMt the
. r lio-:;-. ts d he 2ster huawlt that by t-igli-
rr ;:t:n !;.ra'-tiee icd ti.e i;u.-t earne-t and
, u i-j ;i n:!:',r'! p:-naiaitir to his pro-
:!. tr.a' rt i f-:i;y abij t- p-.-rfrai all o:era'.ions
' : Use in th.- iact carvfal and skillful inan-
t f '.
'i . a-f-rt: n ;irei t j Ktin? tlie Natural Teth;
t-.j; ni!i ...f A.thi'ud T.--!h on Uubber.
' ''' '' t.vjticu.u4 Ciuzus and irfct t In all
L,-'N"'r" H:mw th reat folly and danger of en
. rt -''r -rk t U; iiicxpferieisced.or ti thoae lir
1 : ; i: i:ii:-v. A pril 1 3, 1S7-L if.
PAPER EiAIViiEES.
GLAZIER AND PAINTER,
MONiiOE STREET,
-r!r op;os.le Eautz'g Blacksmith Slop,
t?TROCDSELRO, IA.
Tlie urdertijned would respecifull in
the citizens of Siro.idsb.irg and vicinity
be is i..,w luliy prepired io do all kinds
Vipr Hanin?. Glazing nJ Paintingr.
protnMlj and at thorl notice, and that he
keep coniantly on hind a fine ttock of
I'1 ngi?-" of all l1ccripion3 and at
. pries. paironage of the public
earnestly f.o!icid. May 16. 1672.
.'IcCarty A: Suns are the only Under-l-O
la.troildsbarg who understands their
i.'it&a ? If not. attend a Funera! managed
aiy other Un lert-iker iu towu, aud you
'jthe proof of the fact.
j874-tf
BLANK MORTGAGE
F'-r a! this Office.
MASON TOCK,
0. H. Dreher. E. B. Dreher
PHCENIX
(2 doors west of the "JefTersonian Office,")
ELIZABETH STREET,
Slroudsburgr, Ia.,
DREHER & BRO.,
DFVI.ESS IS
DrugrM, Medicines, Perfumery
ana Toilet Articles.
Paints,
OILS, VAKNISHES, GL.VSS &. PUTTY.
Abdominal Supporters and Shoulder
Braces.
Seeley's
Hard RICIJEU TRt'SSES Also
Kitter's
TRUSSES OF VARIOUS PATTERNS.
Lamps and Lanterns Burning
and Lubricating Oils.
Physicians Prescriptions carefully Com-
N. I. Too lik'lie-t C!h price paid for
OIL of WINTERGREEN.
niar-4tf.
UNDERTAKING.
ili-CARTY i SOXS Lave oa Land tie largest and best
abscrttuecl of
Mmx COFFINS
and
C2.wi'--rr"'Sb!!
-r h . ' y
TRIMMINGS
to -? ' and ontiids Neither c!ly (Kew YorV or Philadel
pLia tr.d ;11 n:ii e talk branch or their business a
:c:-:U.
COFFINS and CASKETS
if r,y hsp or style, can Ve fiimibrd ?t n hour's
lif-tluJ f'f ssilpni'-iit. at a charge of one-third than
s-.ny i!.'S iu .-iro-ii'iir,?. Iii no ra.o K'iil tLey charge
i jrc tiua tea p.;" cvi:i. abve attuil cci.
e:usax3ii.g
at?Ti-l .! to ?n 5iiy part of the County at the hortet
possii.Ie uoticfc. Junel!,"7i-tf
LEANDER EMERY,
MiNlTACTLTEE AD IEALB I ALL JilSJjS OT
Carriaffs and En?irs T'-vc-sestpd Carriages
for Livery stallcs and private Families,
Flalfcm Spring Wagons,
cf the !stt style and for ail klndu of use, kept on hand
cr wiic to odr.
SINGLE-SEATED CASEIAGES,
i;h tor or without top, ail tjlcs.
Delivery and Express Wagons,
tit different styl. hipr.d toordrr. All work warrant
ed in evtrv piirtic'Iar f-r one year. I wiil maketu or
dtr tnr ivli of Carriage or lijht Bugsy that mav
wanted. S'on but firt cla.s work leae my shop. I
uv? onlv firt cl.: t-'ck ar.d employ first cla. work
men, and tifl coLfident that I can eive entire atisfae
tion to ail who may purchase my work. All order by
mail fhall reCv-ie" prompt attention. Hoping that I
mar be able t- f jrnih the ciMreii of StrnJbur? and
vji iniy wph any thins that thf y may want in my line.
Address ail ordrr tu
I.EANDKP. EMFRV.
Marer-o, Caibuan County, Michigan.
April n, icrr-. ly.
SOMETHING NEW !
A SHOE MANUFACTORY.
Tb oaifH-nM woull rep"tfu"T notice that
ther bare tb!i.U-d at Wiliiam' Hll baiidin?. eor
ucr'cf Gore-e and Monroe itreets, Stroudsburj, Ia., a
SHOE MANUFACTORY,
fur ihemkinSof all kind, of Lady' and Gentlemen
and Children's livts and Shoa and Lppers. ParUcu
lar attention paid li
CUSTOM WORK.
Perou harin? deformed fet-t, bunions or corns, or
Lildren with aa'i ankln, cr crooks limb, can LaT
bera ofnr?t cIjiss material and at reasonable prioca
i-ht mad to -iit their cjf.
Havin bad a lurse -x)rienre in :e York w reel
confident that we cau .uit ouMuineri as to qualities and
nrk. all o!ur go-ids Ujth fr general and .pecial salo
r warranirl to be a rvpn-sented l'lra.e trive us a
eaiL txatnine .ur exj and material' coniiin- of
Sur 'es pi -l l'ren-h. fat aud i ren; h Calf Kid, Ion?
rrafn-d. iirueh and lobbied Goat Murwo, Frtncb and
Ainri-ari Calf and Kip hkius, ail of which will be
cbeerfullv shown to those ho may call. Intruding to
make a fir-1 rate wearing artu-ie we have nothing to
coueil. ei;har iu it-xk or make from th public, but
would i'nrite tbeir cloeft rutiuy.
July s, '75-tf P K. CROMMETT 4 CO.
Liver j& Exchange Stables.
fy& The undersirned having pur
TrpZrA chased the stock of Horses, Car
feft'Tf risges, &c, owned by A. V.
The undersirned having pur-
( V-.nrltpr. ripT leave to say to
the public they have horses and carriages to
nue ai au u1KnwoN & THOMPSON,
Office op;osite ILR. Depot,
East istroudsburg, Pa.
Stables immediately io rear.
Sept. 3, 1875. tf.
BLANKS OF ALL KINDS for Sale at
this Otnoe
A PANTHER HUNT.
An Exciting Chase by Sixteen Men In
Vermont.
From the Put land ( 17.) Herald.
Last Friday, as Mr. II. X. Fitts, of West
Wardsboro', and Mr. S. Perry were going
to their work, blasting lime rock from a
lede situated in the edc of Stratton, they
nctieod the tracks of a wild animal. Suppos
ing they belonged to a bear, they concluded
to follow thcui for a short distance to satisfy
their curiosity. These soon led into a piece of
woods about it mile southwest of the village
of West Wardsboro'. Here Mr. Fitts and
his coa:panion abandoned their search, in
ttndi.ig to secure help and follow it up the
mxt Dooming, Saturday morning the hun
te;s, about sixteen in all, armed with rifles,
shotguns and revolvers, and accorupauied
by several dogs, started for the animal.
Thoy first passed around the woods to make
sure that the supposed bear had not left
his lair, and then the whole was surrounded
by a ch tin of armed men to prevent his es
cape if he should make a break for the
mountains. Twelve of the hunters were
thus arranged, while Messrs. Fitts, Perry
end II. 13. Johnson, with two boys and four
dogs, entered the woods to stir up the beast.
The dogs were kept back by ropes until
the prtp?r time and place should be reach
ed, and the hunt commenced. The trail of
the previous evening was soon struck, and
in a few moments they came upon the half
devoured remains of a hedgehog. The bed
where some large animal had lain the night
before was discovered, and fresh tracks
were ar parent on all sides. The uneasi
ness cf the dogs as they struggled to free
themselves from their leashes also made
evident the near presence of the game.
When they were loosed, they darted
throt gh the brush, yelping and barking,
while th; hunters followed on as fast as pos
sible. Soon the barking ceased, aud the
ani i ab rushed hither and thither hunting
for the trail, evidently at a los3. Mr. Perry,
however, who was armed with a shot gun,
doubly loaded with shot and ball, discovered
a dark-looking object in the ton of a tall
hemlock. Without a moment's warning, he
raised his gun and fired and the dark object
came tumbling to the ground, disclosing to
the eyes of the astonished hunters a regular
American pauiher. Although shot through
the breast and with one of his forelegs
broken by the fall, the magnificent animal
was disabled but not conquered, and as the
dogs attacked him, clearing himself with
the uninjured jaw, he leaped into the air
over the heads cf the men, and landed in a
thicket a dozen or fifteen feet away. The
dog. however, were gritty and terribly in
earnest, and when he leaped again he car
ried one of them wilh him. clinging to his
flank. He attempted to climb a tree, but
this, in his disabled condition, was impossi
ble, s.i, dropping to the ground, he made a
dash for a dumb cf dead tree tops, a few
rods distant. Away went the panther and
the dogs, scratching, snarling and yelping,
while the men followed close behind urging
on the dogs. Hitherto the demonstrations
of the hunters had been more noisy than
effective, but as the panther was disappear
ing in a thicket of spruce trees, Johnson
seized him by the tail and called on Perry
to help in making the capture. Perry loy
ally responded, but just as he had got a
good hold the beast gave a leap, carrying
both of the men with him, and for a few
moments aerial navigation was nowhere.
The panther went over a tree-top, but the
men remained on the other side, still cling
ing to his tail. He tried to turn and fight
them, but the dogs were on hand. Just
at this moment Johnson bethought himself
of his revolver, and five bullets were lodged
in his head. Still the fight continued, and
Mr. Fitts, who had not been an idle specta
tor, managed to fasten a rope around the
panther's leg and fasten him to tree. Shot
guns and pistols were empty, but the pan
ther, though weakened, refused to die, and
the life of the '"king of the American for
ests" was brought to an ignominous close
by the use of a pocket-knife and cudgel.
He measured seven feet from tip to tip,
and weighed 105 pounds. Three toes were
gone from his fore foot, seeming to evince
an intimate acquaintance with a steel-trap
some time iu the past. Hunters and dogs
escaped unhurt a fact probably due to the
severe injuries sustained by the animal in
the early part of the fight. The carcass
was borne in triumph to the village and
exhibited to the wondering eyes of the in
habitants. Errors About Apoplexy.
In conversing with persons about Vice
President Wilson's death and its cause, I
have noticed that few have a right concep
tion of the symytoms of apoplexy. The
conditions constituting an attack are the
rupture of a cerebral blood vessel and con
sequent hemorrhage or extravasation of
blood into the brain. The effect of an ex
travasation of blood into the brain substance
is the fcame as compression by a depressed
portion of the skill, because the braiu is en
closed in a hard, unyielding bony case.
Under these circumstances the presure
caused by the extravasated blocd interrupts
the circulation in the substauce of the braiu,
aud the apoplectic phenomena, such as
stupor, insensibility, etc., are in fact due to
a deficiency of a proper supply of blood to
the nervous mass. The mechanism is prac
tically the same when apoplexy depends ou
eudden and intense congestion, or the plug
ging of a cerebral artery by a blood clot.
The symptoms of the disease and im
mediate causes of death are, therefore, due
to a lack of a proper supply of blood to the
brain, and not. as ia generally eupposed, to
an accumulation or "rush of blood to the
head." It may appear paradoxical that a
superfluous quantity of blood within the
cranium should destroy life by depriving
the mass of brain of a sufficient supply of
arterial blood, yet the fact is sufficiently
clear. The rupture of the cerebral blood
vessel is due to weakness of its coats, which
is the result of a general debility or pre
vious ill health. In the great majority of
cases there are no prcmonitary symptoms.
The attack mav be preceded in certain in
stances by a sense of fright or fullness, vcr
tigo, flushing of the face, etc., but these
symptoms are never of sufficient significance
to warrant the prediction of an attack.
Statistics show that of slity-three cases
analized, with reference to premonitary
symptoms, by Hocheaux, they were present
in only nine, less than fifteen per cent, on
the whole number. The liability of an at
tack increases progressively from the age
of twenty years upward, occurring most
frequently after sixty 3ears of age, which
is due to the increased weakness of the
coats of blood vessels in old age, and hence
their liability to rupture.
It is generally supposed that an attack is
usually preceded by strong mental excite
ment or violent physical exertion. This
does not seem to be the case. Although
attacks sometimes follows severe muscular
exercise or mental excitement, in the large
proportion of cases the affection is not in
duced by any obvious exciting cause. Gen
drin analyzed 170 cases, and found that
97 (over 55 per cent.) occurred during
sleep, and a large share of the others when
the patients were comparitively quiet. An
other popular error is the supposition that
a certain class of persons who have short
necks florid faces, with what is known as a
full habit wi:h considerable embonpoint,
are particularly liable to a so-called appo
pletic constitution. Recent rcseraches and
analysis of large numbers of cases have de
veloped the facts that no reliance is to be
placed on these or any other external char
acters as denoting a predisposition to apo
plexy, and that the majority of persons at
tacked are either spare or of ordinary habit
of body. After a patient has suffered oni
attack and partially recovered, the condi
tions which induced it are likely to remain
or to return, and hence there is considerable
liability to a recurrence. Physicians there
fore conclude that unless one attack has oc
curred there are but few if any phj-sieal
signs or premonitory symptoms which will
warrant the prediction of an attack in anv
case. M. D.
For Charity's Sake.
4'Xow you just skip out of this," said a
big burly deck hand in the ladies' cabin of
a Fulton ferry boat, as he caught a thinly
clad and shivering barefooted boy by the
ear and marched him toward the door.
'Get out on the deck lively now." The
little fellow had been asking the passengers
for cents and the man had caught him at
it. '"Oh, please don't screamed the child
as the deck hand twisted his ccr, "I'll go,
I will." A fashionable dressed woman
stepped ouicklv forward and her silks
rustled and her eyes snapped as she said.
"What has he done ; why do you treat the
child so harshly ?"
"He's a young beggar, mum ; and the
rules don't allow beggars on the boats,
mum."
"Let him stay in here," said she. "It's
cold outside. He is barefooted, and so
young, too why he can't be more than
five or six years old."
"He can stay here if he behaves himself,
lie mustn't beg its agin the rules, mum,"
and the big man let go the little one's ear
and stood watching him.
"Poor little fellow," mused the lady,
scanning the boy's pale, pinched face
closely." "You look tired and hungry.
I've a mind to give you something."
"It's for rum if you give him a cent,
mum ; his folks will take it all away from
him before his foot's put ashore three
minutes," answered the deck hand.
But the kind lady handed the shivering
child one of Uncle Sam's crisp fifty cent
promises to pay hereafter, saying, "lie cer
tainly needs shoes and something to eat."
"Mistaken charity," persisted the valiant
employee. "We know 'cm all he'll get
no good of the mone'."
"He's welcome to the little Igavohim,"
she answered, and noticing that the jtassen
gers were regarding he, with interest, she
added : "aud I believe every person in this
cabin believes I am right and that most
of them are willing to give the poor child
a peny or two."
The passengers did agree with her, and
they began dropping money into the little
fellow's hat until the episode proved his bo
nanza. The boat touched the planking. The
boy skipped to shore and across the street
to l ulton market. I he reporter lollowcd
him round into Beekman street, aud saw
him wait on the corner ; two mintes after
ward saw the well-dressed lady approach
from the other side of the market ;saw the
boy carfully empty the money into her
gloved palm, and passing the pair heard her
sav cheerfully, "Well, I)ick, I Kuess we'll
try the Roosevelt street boat."
At the request of a number of farmers
of Cumberland county, 2s. o., 1 rol. Look,
State Geologist, has made an analysis of
potatoes on which Pans Green had been
used at the rate of 10 pounds to an acre,
which destroyed the leaves, but the crop
came out pood. No trace of arsenic could
be found in either the peulings cr potatoes
in the test.
Gas For Iron.
A revolution in manufacturing and an
enormous development of our exports of
iron are not unlikely to be the results of
an experiment which has just been cjuijt
ly tnd successfully tried in Pittsburg. The
firms of Sprang, Chalfunt & Co. and Graff,
Bennett Co. have brough the gas flow
ing from a well 15 miles from Pittsburir,
through pipes to their furnaces, and have
successfully substituted it for coal in the
manufacture cf iron. The cost of their
experiment was SI 10,000, and each exfects
to save by this new fuel about $40,(JG0 a
year. The gas is almost pure hydro-carbon,
and come3 out of the ground with such
power as to force itself through 15 miles
of pipe. The fuel furnished by the gas
well is equal to about 100.000 bushels of
coal a day. It gives a saving of more than
20 per cent in making iron, and is, besides,
much cleaner, easier to handle, and more
rapid in heating, than coal. A puddling
furnace that it takes several hours to heit
by coal can be heated by this gas in three
quarters of an hour. A larger g.!S-wdl is
now flowing 3 miles further from Pittsburg,
with such force that the stream of gas is
thrown flames 150 fc-et into the air. Its
ownership is in litigation. When this set
tled, and the capitalists, who stand waiting,
are allowed to carry the gas to the city,
the well will furnish, it is calculated, fuel
enough to run all the manuficterics in
Pittsburg. It is easy to see what results
will follow from the treneral introduct ion
of this cheap, self-feeding, powerful fuel, j century, old Port Royal disappeared be
but it is impossible to measure them. The j neath the waves, in an earthquake, leaving
impo
control
of the
iron manufacture of the t
world would seem to be ine-vitublv ours with
such advantage.
Other manufactures will
seek
the oil and gas belt country. If the
supply of gas remains constant, the trian-
gutar district of which Pittsburg is the
apex and the Allegheaies are the base wil
become the greatest manufacturing district
in the world.
A Philadelphia Surgeon's Feat.
Prof. William II. Pancoast, of Jefferson
College, recently performed a surgical oper
ation, which was not enly a triumph of sur
gical skill, but the circumstances attending
it are so remarkable, as to render it memo
rable in the annals of surgery. The patient
was a boy from the Refvirra School, at
Janesburg, X. J. The lad had been suffer
ing from a mysterious affection of the face,
which appeared to assume the character of
a malformation cf the bone just above the
jaw, and about parallel with the nose. A
running sore was connected with this just
below the right eye, r.nd very painful.
Physicians had been balHed from time to
time to know what to do in the matter, and
to ascertain precisely the cause of his dis
tress. One of the officers of the institution
brought the boy to Jefferson Medical Col
lege where Prof. William II, Pancoast
went to work at the c:ise. The Professor
supposed, while he was operating, that he
was cutting against bone, but he soc n found
that the substance was iron. After con
siderable labor a breech-pin of a musket,
ro aud one.half inches long, and an inch
wide in the thickest part, was found im
bedded in the face. It was taken out in
the presence of nearly 3 JO students, and
when the operating was successfully per
formed, cheers went up from the wiioie
audience. It was then ascertained that
the boy was injured about fifteen months
ago by the explosion cf a musket, and,
strange to sa', nobody had ary knowledge
tl at the piece of the musket lock had been
imbedded in tne boy s face. The boy was
kept under medical treatment, but at last
accounts he was doing well.
A Rare Cattle Disease Appears in This
Mate.
The Grccncastle (Pa.) Echo contains the
following : "About ten day since :t valua
ble cow belonging to Dr. David L. Martin,
of Middleburg, was taken sick and acted in
such a curious manner as to attract the at
tention of himself and neighbors. On ex
amination it was discovered that the one
side of her lower jaw was bared of hair for
about two inches, caused by the rapid frie
tiou from rubbing on the fence, and that
her neck was very much swollen. The
cow acted as if crazy, and continued rub
bing her jaw on the fence for several days,
when she suddenly died. Mr. Martin at
ouce proceeded to haul her carcass to the
woods, and was followed by his watch dog,
who frequently smelled of the dead body,
and shortly after returning home the d.sg
was taken with the disease, acted in the
same manner as the cow, and died in few
hours. Mr. Martin became alarmed and
called in a veterinary surgeon to examine
the dead bodies, who pronounced the disc-jsc
4mad itch,' which is fatal to all animals that
coutract it. It is very rare in the United
States, aud these are the first cases that
have ever occurred iu this part of the coun
try, and we hope the disease will end with
the defunct animals."
An English farmer accidentally dropped
a grain of wheat among some seeds he was
sowing in his garden, and "having a cui i
osity to protect it, gave it every chance to
come to perfection." The result was sixty
three head (forty very large), containing
3,044 eouuted kernels, not including some
picked away by an enterprising hcu. lie
leaves the readers to draw their own conclu
sions, only adding that, as the result of fre
quent investigation, he never found more
than twenty-five ears to one root growing
in bis fields.
A Beris county cow weighs 1 ,150 pouacs.
A Sea Serpent in Conflict with a Whale.
The Zanzibar correspondent of the
Western Alorn'hj Veic$, writing under
date of October 20th, tays : '-The bark
Pauline has arrived at Zanzibar, with ccal
f.r hor MsijcMy's ships. When off Cape
St. Pioque, Sjuth America, a sight was
presented that made the crew aghast
nothing le.s than a groat sea serpent iu a
conflict with a v. hide. It had wcund itself
twice around the whale, and was twirling
it with tremendous velocity, lashing the
water into foam. The noise could be dis
tinctly heard ou board, and after batt'ling
fr trome tima both disappeared. The
serpent's length can be imagined. It had
two coils around a full sized s-'crm whal?,
with thirty feet clear at
each
. Its
diameter was from three to four f--et.
saw it twice aiicrwara. Unce it c-f.nic very
close to the ship, raised itself about sixty
feet out of the water, as if about to ottack
them. I have qaestioned men and officers
trying to find ny discrepancy between
their sratemento, but am a convert to the
belief that it w.;s seen." Another naval
officer writes to the II tttn Jfoi-nixj Ifacs
to precisely the same effect ; :;nd the officers
of licr Majesty's ships ct the station aro
said to be convinced of the truth of the
storv.
A City in the S
A correspondent from
Kingston
Ja-
maica, writes : -In th? latter
of the
no other memorial behind than these few
j patches of reefs. In calm and clear even
! ings, when there is not a ripple on the gias-
sy surlace ot the sc-a, you may looic aown
into the fifteen fathoms of water, aui sea
emerged houses, churches, and towers, with
emerged houses, churcnes, and towers, wit
j sharks swimming quietly in r.cd out of th
J open windows of their belfries. The wer
work
ol centuries was destroyed in a lew mo
ments by one single convulsive throb cf the
thin film on which mun has lived and specu
lated for ages pnst. An American diving
campary, instigated in their enterprise by
tales of untold wealth buried beneath the
sea by this sudden shock, rescued no treas
ures but the big bell suspended still in th
bell-tower, and donated the same to the
museum of the island, where it may have
been seen, with many puzzling inscriptions
upon it which nobody as yet has been able
to decipher."
A Snake Storr.
George M. Bali, a ycung man of eigh
teen j-ears. employed on the farm of Mr.
Perry, in West field, Mass.. has been accus
tomed to drink, while milking night and
morning, a quantity of warm milk. A few
mornings since, f-iling to take his accus
tomed draught, something came up in his
throat, choking him. and he fell over sense
less. A son of Mr. Perry was surprised to
see a snake's head protruding from Ball's
mouth, but on attempting to seize it the
serpent retreated down his throat. A
powerful emetic was administered, and in a
short time the young man vomited up a
"hooked adder" two feet eight inches long,
and about as thick as two fingers of a man's
hand. It lived only five minutes. Ball
probably carried the serpent for at least
twelve years, as he was accustomed to drink
from a small brook when a bov. Since
parting from his tenant his health has great
ly improved, and his appetite is a little more
reasonable. Sjirtuojlii-.! i'.Jon.
William AiJen, an Englishmen.
re
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in Cleveland, Ohio, chopped his wife's head
eff with un axe on Saturday, and then at
tacked his stepdaughter with an axe aud
hammer, and also severely injured a Mrs.
BcuUn. who interferred to save the step
daughter. Both the wounded women are
expecting to die from their wounds.
In Virginia, Mr. Alien Hannah has
married Miss Hannah Allen, and now Mis3
Hannah Allen is Mrs. II
and is, perhaps, the onlv
mnali liannau,
w(mn iu tha
world whose whole name can be scelled"
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the same as forward. That's
what 3 the UluttrT
York Coninitra'ul
w
ith
Hannah. AVic
At Norwich, Conn.
the
other dav a
tramp was given an old vest. He soon re
turned with a five d.-llar bill he found in
one of the pockets. The gciitlcman of the
house was so well plc.scd with his honesty
that he gave him u dollar, and the next
day discovered that the bill was a wretch cd
ly executed counterfeit.
The
short-horned
cattle sales m
Keu-
tucky this m mth will figure up over half a
million. Fifteen heud were sold for $G
ii72.H0 an average of 34 J l.tSS per head.
Oue herd cf 73 csttlo brought S12o,450,
an average of 01,001.09 per head.
A I v'estown Young la; v
can;
it a
tramp stealing things from her mother's
clothes line. She didn't faint, but she
cooly picked up a. broomstick, and that
tramp went away with a headache.
.
Iowa has a heifer which recently climb
ed up a ladder into a hay loft. She was
praVably looking for the cow that jumped
over the moon.
The town of Greeley, Colorado, wraps
itself up comfortable uver the rtilectiur
that ten thousand buffalo hides will be con
verted into robes there, this winter.
The corn crop of Missouri is enormous,
J seihrg m soae counties at 15 otnt a buibel.
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