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Denoted to Politics, Citcratutc, gricnltuuc, Science, ittovalihj, anb (Scncral Intelligence.
VOL. 33.
STROUDSBURG, MONROE COUNTY, PA., JANUARY 20, 1876.
NO. 33.
What Hampers Industry.
Published by Theodore Srhoch.
Tf rms ri J''llr a yir in vivanc" au.l if not
ri .f.r- t'i i"i I "f t!i" year, two loltar and fifty
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will !i . nar-.vn.
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t'i .Titian of i if K'lit..r.
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or I Ii'i' i !1.ti mum !". r-aru aiiuiuonai m-,-.:;'s.
l."iU'!r oii.-i in piortion.
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if t.t. KIND,
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rv.-l r?oHa'.iIy term.
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Surgeon Dcntlnl.
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Homeopathic Physician,
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MON'UOr. COL'VTT i'A.
Mr 13, 1S75. ly.
jpu. A. I,i:Wl FilltKSIL'Fr,
Ptysician, Surgeon and Accoucheur,
Sand t't.r, Waynk Co., Pa.
Ail ce promptly- attended, to day or nilit.
Charjrrn moderate" May 13. '75-lf.
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U. IIOV AICl l ITTEItSOV,
Piyiciin, Sarjeon and Accoucheur,
Office an 1 Ilesidence, Main street. Stroud -fcr'
Pa., in t tie builditiir f'-rmerlv oecnpied
fer Lr.
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I'romi.t attention given to calls.
( i lo 9 a. ru.
0.1ce hatT - 1 " 3 p. ni.
( 6 " S p. m.
ApdJ 1'5 174-ly.
ft. CJCO. Y. J.4CKSO.'
MTSICIU. SCSCEON AD AlTOlCIIElR.
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In the old office of Dr. A. Reeve JaoUon, j
reidetue, eornor of S.vrau and Y l ankliu street
STROUDSBURG, PA.
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Attorney at I.
it door ilmve the " Stroudsburg IIoue,"
roiid-ilmrjr. Pa.
CoIlecttona prmnptlv made.
Octeber -22, 1S74.
MCRCJllXTS' iioi si:,
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.V.rt Thirl Sstrtrt, PHILADELPHIA.
s3 Reduced rates. $1 75 per day.-tiia
IIKNRY SI'AIIX, Prop'r.
L. 1L. Swi.F.R. Clerk.
OT. (J,
1 ST4. Cm.
WILLIAM S. REES,
Surveyor, Conveyancer and
Eeal Estate Agent.
Fannt. Timber Lands and Town Lots
FOR SALE.
OfEce mirly opposite American
ajfl 2d dmr hflow tlie Corner Store.
Mr-.A '20, lf-7'5-tf.
Houe
DR. J.LANTZ,
SURGEON & MECHANICAL DENTIST.
fetill hai his o!TU- on Maiti itreet, In the Mori'l story
f Ir. S. Vkliou t.ri'j k lu:l lin?. nearly opposite tin!
Jtrodsiur House. anJ h- fl.it.-r liiniM-lf that by eigh
teen yearn mikUd! practice s.ul the rciovi eaniv-t and
earful ait-i.iiun !u aM matters pertain line to bi pro
fnioii. that h i fuliy ahh.- to perform nil operatioin
in tb dental lin- in the most careful and skillful mau
Br. Sp'ial attention ciien to carin; the Natural Te-th;
alio, to the iiivrli'-n of Artificial Teeth on UuMtcr.
ro' j. Silver, or (,'oiiti uuuui (juins, and perfect fits in all
uua i mured.
Moit p-TVjiij knw the preat folly ami danger of en
trust in j tlu:ir wort to the iDip;rirneed. or to tho liv
! at a distance. April 13, 174. tf.
DO'T you know fliat J. II.
McCarty iz Sons are the only Under
takers in Stroudsbur who understands thvir
LusineKs? If not. attend a Funeral managed
ly any other Un Jcrtaker in town, and you
m ill se the proof of the fact,
June I8.'74 tf
Aonii;it Tiioi'kiv iru
BT THE
ESTEY COTTAGE ORGANS!
Thenc mpertor and bea.itifully finislurd in
struments bo far eclipsed their rotii"titor in
volume, purity, sweetness and delicacy of tone,
a to carry off the first and only premium riv
en lo exliihitors of re-d Organs at the Monroe
County Fair, held Septemher 2o, 1874.
liuv onty the beet. For price list address
Oct l'-tf. J. Y. SIGAI CS,
MkSM TOOK
PAPER HANGER,
GLAZIER AND PAINTER,
MOMtOE STREET,
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Nearly opposite Kautz'a Blacksmith Shop,
SrROCDfeBLRG, Pa.
The undersigned would respect fully in
form the citizens of Sirotidsburg mid vicinity
that he in now fully prepned to do all kinds
of Paper Hanyiny, Glazing and Paintinjr,
promptly and at fhort notic", and that he
will kep constantly on hund a fine -tock ot
Paper Hangings of all dei-cripuoris and at
low prict-8. 'J'he paironae of the public;
) earnestly 8!ictpd. ':iy 6 1872.
MORMON HISTORY.
tV Horrible Story of Cold-Blooded Assas
sination.
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i i tie recent, attempted assassination
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j k.iuuiiii:i ii OMl Ol 1 llllilp lVllllJen MUltll,
I the Murmon hilltop, who participated iti
i the Mountain Meadow massacre and then
turned State's evidence, has brought to
! light a diabolical leed which was com
' mitted by Bingham's agents in Scptem
j ber, 1857. The following .story Is from the
i Truckle Republican of December 22, and
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, was reiatea to me editor ot tliat journal
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jiaonie assa.vms : "lite Aiken party,
j composed of the Aiken brothers, a man
j known as Colonel,' one named Huck and
J two others, started Ea.t from California
just, as .Jonnson s army was entering
Utah. They were wealthy gentleman of
an adventrous, speculative turn, and had
the finest outGt of mules, equipments,
uns, pitols, etc., ever seen in Salt Lake
City. They carried with them about
S-J'i,000 in gold. On the Humboldt they
fell in with a train sroing Kasf, and trav
eled with the emigrants until the' reach
ed the I tab settlement. Near Ojjcn thev
were arrestel as spies, brought to Salt Lake
City and closely confined. Utah was under
martial law, and this fact wss the pretext
1 for this outrage.
rIl la mil .rr- 1 t Ir-jlll illla
. along ana voucnei tor the men as being
g.od. bnest gentlemen, but without effect.
Thvir money was too tempting a prey.
I After being incarcerated some time, two
'. wot. I. .47 in ,.i...oi .i. 1 tl..-h ..it. . . , I. . j
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j an secort. The apparent fairness of this
i move vanishes when we learn that the
j escort was Porter Rockwell, John Lot and
One-eyed Miles, three of the blackest
l hearted villians that ever lived. When the
J party arrived at Nephi, a council was called
i anion
the .Mormons, ami sixteen men
j were appointed c j -use up' the Aiken party.
The few wlu opposed the cold-blooded plot
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V. I O i V MV. KJ J I ill. Hi UiHVIM 111 lib Ik
j (Joel's will exj-resseil through his prophet
j L5righ"-n:. At midnight a team was fitted
! out and driven on ahead of the Aiken party.
who were asleep at .Nephi. Ihcnext even-
ing just as the victims were camping at the
Sevier river, a party of men drove up from
the opposite direction and asked permission
to camp with them.
Til K n.OT OF THE MCUDrit
Was well planed. The Aiken party never
suspected that these men were assassins,
i who had been in Nephi the night before.
They were pleased to have company, and
the camp fires were built side by side. The
Mormons outnumbered their victims four
to one, yet were too cowardly to make the
attack until sleep rendered the oor victims
helpless; then they pouueed upon the sleep
ing, defenceless fellows and struck them on
the head with king-bolts, clubs and iron
bars. The Colonel bounded up, and bruised
and bleeding as he was, escaped in the
bushes. A second one of the Aiken boys
sprang to his feet, but was shot down.
The other two were brained where they
lav. The three lifeless bodies were thrown
I into the river, and the brother who was
j shot down revived when he come in con
tact with the cold stream. Poor fellow, a
tiiirht of horror awaited
hi in which was
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worse than a thousand deaths
a ttiousanu deaths. Lrawling
over the cruel pebbly botton of the river,
drenched, bleeding and half dead, the man
reached the willows near the camp. Here
he lay shivering with foar and heard the
murderers boast of the brutal deed. Sum
moning all his strength the wounded man
crawled away through the bushes
AND STAKTED BACK TO .NEPHI.
It snowed lightly during the previous
day, an 1 that night there was i bitter,
biting fro.'t. Aiken had on nothing but his
pauts and shirt. The crisp snow and the
sharp Btoiies cut his feet until he could
hardly endure the j-ain. Weak from loss
of blood, dazed and stunned by blows on
his head, cold, deserted and lonely, weary
and worn out, the man traveled all night
long. Naught but thoughts of a murder
ed brother lying mangled and unburied in
the black waters of the Sevier gave him
strength to press forward to where he
vainly hojed for assistance. Just at dawn
be completed his twenty-six mile journey,
and fell exhausted at the foot of the little
hiil in the outskirts of Nephi. He had
fallen in front of a house, and from the
inruates be learned that one of his com
rades had likewise cscajied and had ascended
th; hill only a few moments before. Wild
with the bojie that it was bis brother, he
btruggled to his feet and staggered onward.
In spite of all his efforts he fell heavily four
or five times, and could not rise until he
bad lain still and rested for a few moments.
When he reached the hotel he found the
Colonel instead of his brother. The poor,
half-murdered men uttered not a word, but
locked in each other's arms fell swooning
to the "round. Even the Mormons who
looked upon the scene were alfected to
tears.
COLD-BLOODED ASSASSINATION
Awaited these brave fellows after all
Thoughtlessly they told that they recog
nized some of nieir murderers, lhe hotel
was guarded day and night by the Mor
mons lest the victims should eticape. The
hotel-kewper was in league with the assas
sins. His team had hauled the murderers
ro thf Sfvi,r. When three weeks had
nassed. the wounded men had so far re
covered as to wish to return to Salt Lake
City. The hotel-keeper refused to let them
go until his bill was paid. I hey had cscap
ed with nothing but a Kold watch and j
s!lv.r-monnted Colt's revolver. Their
money and valuable property was laying in
the Xepul tithing office in CoJ's store
house. They offered the hotel-keeper the
watch worth S2;")0, for their bill, but he
demanded the revolver instead. As he
took the pistol, Aiken said : 'There goes
our last friend. We'll never leave this val
ley alive.' Disarmed, wounded and utterly
helpless, these men were put into a wagon
and driveu to an old stable a few miles out
of Nephi. The diiver backed his wagon
up close to this stable and unhitched the
horses, saying he wanted to feed them.
The hind end of the wagon had been taken
out before starting and as soon as the horses
were out of the way
A VOLLEY 01" IJUCKSIIOT
Fired from the stable fairly riddled the
bodies of -the two Californians. The party
of cowardly wretches concealed in the stable
continued to 6re until every muscle in the
victims' bodies ceased to quiver. Then
they stripped ofT the clothing and thew
the bodies into one of those round springs
or natural wells which seem to have no
bottom, and filled it in with large stones.
To this day the place is known as 'Murder
er's Spring.' Sufficient proof is in the
possession of the United States officials at
Salt Lake to convict the perpetrators of
this frightful crime if justice could be
obtained in Utah. Timothy B. Foot is the
hotel keeper's name ; Wolfe is the man who
drove the fatal wagon and Bishop Bryant
presided over the council at Nephi that
passed the sentence of death. Actual
participants in the crime have confessed,
and if protected would testify to all the
particulars. From one of the murders I
obtained my information. I have not
colored any portion of the narrative : the
bare facts are before you."
Seventeen Years Among Savges.
An Australian correspondent of the Lon
don Tioies writes : "An interesting case of
naturalization of a white man among sava-
res
has iust come to liht. Seventeen
years ago the rrench ship H. J aui, with
three hundred and twenty-seven Chinese
cooiies for Australia, was wrecked on a reef
off Piossel Island, in the Louisiade Archi
pelago, east of of New Guinea. The coolies
were landed on an island, where they were
left by the captain. The story of the China
men is a short one, for, as the natives hap
pened to be cannibals, it seemed good to
them to letch otl the fattest cver- day and
eat them, so that when at last a ship came
to fetch them away there were only seven
teen left. The boat containing the captain
and his crew of eight Frenchmen made the
coast of Australia near Cape Direction, on
the Cape lork Peninsula, and the captain
and crew landed in search of water. Among
them was a boy twelve years old, named
Narcisse Pellctier, of St. Giles, near Bor
deaux, who cut his feet bad!' in walking
over the rock, and unable to keep up with
the others ; consequently, when the boat
started on its course be was left behind,
and remained three days alone on the coast
lie was lying asleep umier a tree when a
gentle shaking made him aware that he was
in the pressenee of three black men and two
black women who made signs of surprise
and commiseration. Thev gave him some
food, and led him away without any vio
lence to their camp, where he was received
by others of the tribe in an equally friend
ly manner. He became one of the tribe
and adopted their way of living, which, as
he describes it, is, perhaps, as primitive as
any that can now be found. Shelter and
clothing are dispensed with altogether, ex
cept that the women wear a small lringed
girdle around the hips. Ihcir food con
sists of fish, which they take entirely by
spearing and harpooning, fruits, and a few
animals. They use fire for cooking, obtain
ing it by rubbing two pieces of dry wood
together. Their personal ornamentations
consists of a few scars made by cutting the
flesh with broken Dottles ana pinching up
the incision repeatedly until a cork-like ex
crescence is formed. Ihe design, as ex
emplificd in his i-crson, consists of two
straight cords across the lower part of the
chest, the longer of them about ten inches
in length, about a third of an iuch thick
in the middle, and taering off to the ends,
the other somewhat smaller ; four or five
short lines parallel to these and above them
on each side of the front of the chest all the
lines being about an inch apart ; some similar
short lines or 'crackling' in front of the right
shoulder, and a few slight ones in front of
the left : besides that he has a hole through
the lobe of the right ear large enough to
hold a piece of wood of the size of a five
franc piece when stretched, and finally a
hole through the division ot the nose to ad
mit a piece of bamboo as large as a common
lead pencil just below the nostrils. They
do not practice any other mutilation or
modification of any part of the body, but
they cut their hair (which is black and
straight not curled in the smallest degree
with broken bottles. The incisions applied
to the women differ only in pattern from
those of the men. When it rains heavily
they try to shelter themselves with pieces
of bark or branches, but they have not even
the rudiment of a hut. They seldom stay
long iu one place. They have no stone un
plcments in use ; their weapons and fish
spears are tipped with iron, obtained from
hoops of casks picked up on the beach
Their language, about a hundred words o
which have been written down from Pelle
tier's dictation, does not appear to have any
thing in common with Malay, or any Pa
puan dialects, of which vocabularies are at
hand. It abounds in nasal sounds. They
are wholly unable to count, and have no
words for numbers. Iheir relations between
the 6cxes arc 'those which obtain anion
snimn's other than rrmn. The strongest
take three or four women each, and fights
for their jxissession tire of frequent occur
rence. When a man for anv reason is dis
satisfied with or tired of his wife, he simp-
V
spears her ana there is an cnu ot it.
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)omestie troubles arc consequently of short
duration. Neither cannibalism or lnlanti-
cide is practised by this tribe ; on the con
trary, according to Pelletier s statement,
they are rather good-natured people, and
would be kind to any white man who came
among them unarmed. Of any religion, or
belief in the existence of any kind of un-
seen worm, they appear not to have the
slightest vestige. Pellctier is, of course, a
iving curiosity. He is to be handed over
to the French Consul at Sydney, who will
no doubt forward him to France. What
lis ultimate fate may be no one can sav,
jut it is certain that if he is to thrive as a
civilized man hc-will require a large amount
of discretion than his training up to this
point is likely to have given him."
A NEW CURE FOR PARALYSIS.
How a Young Women Restored Her Par
alyzed Arm to Action.
From the Virginia Enterpri.ie.
''About a year ago a curious thing hap
pened here," yesterday remarked a robust
and rosy-cheeked butcher, whom we had
been complimenting on his fresh and healthy
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appearance. i know, continued our
butcher acquaintance, "that, as a rule, men
engaged in my business enjoy good health,
and have a fresh, rosy look ; but whether
abbling in blood and breathing and ab
sorbing the fumes and vapors arising from
resh meats has nothing to do with this, as
you appear to believe, I cannot say ; neither
lave I seen any blood dunking, either by
butchers or others. Lut
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very curious
circumstance occurred here
about a year ago. I generally work in the
market so I must get my red cheeks
through what I absorb from the meats 1
landle but about a year ago one of our
butchers took sick, and I filled 1 is place in
the slaughther house for about six weeks.
"I had not been in the slaughter house
ong until one afternoon about two o'clock
our time to begin killing a carnage
drove up. Two ladies alighted ; one known
to me as the wife of the supenuU ndent of
one of our leading Comstock mines, and the
other a young lady from San Francisco, as
I afterward learned. I saw, almost as soon
as the ladies arrived, that the younger one
ad no use of her right arm. It was so
completely paralyzed that she was obliged
to move it about with her left hand. I ob
served that when she wanted to put her
deadhand into her muff she was obliged to
reach through with her left, get hold of the
land and then draw it to where she wanted
it, just as though it had been a skein of
yarn. Well, it appears there had been some
understanding about the young lady com
ing there, but what she did not a little sur
prised some of us the first day she came.
The ladies stood looking on while we hauled
up a bullock and knocked him on the head.
No sooner had the knife been withdrawn
from the animal's throat than the young
lady threw off the large mantle that she
wore, and, rushing forward, sat down upon
the floor just at the bullock's neck, where
a torrent of blood was gushing. She then
bared her right arm and thrust it into the
shoulder into the gaping and blood-spouting
throat of the animal, holding it there
until the blood had ceased to flow. We
were thou killing about thirty animals every
afternoon, and every day regularly the girl
came and thrust her dead arm into the
bleeding throat of one or more of them.
That girl had great courage, and was not
one of your over-nice kind, I can tell you.
She had a coarse dress of some neavy wool
len stuff that she wore for the purpose, and
when the bullock fell, and the knife had
done its work, she at once ran up and seated
herself on the floor, as regardless of the
blood as if it had been so much water.
There she would hang across the neck of
the beast until it ceased to bleed. She was
so brave that we were ail glad when she
got well. I remembered how happy she
was when she came one day and showed us
that she could begin to open and close her
fingers. From that time forward she im
proved rapidly. Soon she could move her
arm, and finally could grasp and lift things
with her hand. I think she came for about
three weeks before she was cured. The last
day she came she was quite bright and
merry more so than 1 had ever seen her.
Alter putting on her mantle she thanked
us all for our kindness to her and shook
hands with us, giving us the cured hand,
which, as she laughingly said, wc had 'some
right to. After the young lady went away
we thought we should see many persona
there to try the blood bath, but none
have ever come. The girl was the only
one, and I never saw anything like it be
fore or since."
Barnum, the philosophic showman, lec
tured in New York the other day on "The
World, and How to Live in it." We make
the following homely and sensible extract,
which deserves to be read and pondered
everywhere :
"The only real economy is to regulate
the outgo to the income, so that the latter
shall he greater than the former, and every
year we shall be worth more than the pre!
ceding one. The real comforts of life cost
but little ; it is the eyes of others, not our
own eyes, that rule us ; it is the fear that
Mrs. Grundy shall have something to say
that governs us. The real wants cost lit
tie iu comparison to what is earned, but it
is this outside show that is so unfortunate
for Americans. 'Pay as you go is the
philosopher's stone, nearer than auy al-
rhrrvnrt can ?et it.
The Hungry Ten Thousand.
Many amusing as well ns some sorrowful
stories are being related in connection with
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me unprecedented rani upon Washington
for the two hundred and odd subordinate
places m the house ot representatives rt the
uisposai ot the J'emoeratic party. .Among
others is that of the two ancient ex-members
of congress who years before the war
figured somewhat conspicuoously as pro
slavery leaders in the house of representa
tives. With the fall of slavery and rebel
lion these individuals sank out of sight,
but came to the surface again as soon as
the Democratic party had achieved its first
vcitory. They repaired to Washington on
the assembling of Congress, one seeking the
position of clerk of the bouse and the
other that of sergeant-at arms. Both
were defeated and they next sought
places of a lower grade, and so kept
going lower until they reached the fold
ing and pasting department of the docu
ment rooms, where thev were finally
successful in securing quarters at a salary of
tight hundred dollars a year, for the per
formance of the humblest drudgery. The
New York World's Washington corres
pondent asserts that the applicants for the
various laces in the gift of the house of
representatives, from clerk down to pasters
and folders, numbers not less than ten
thousand, representing every state from
Maine to California and from the northern
borders to the Gulf of Mexico. Hundreds
of these applicants are unable to reach their
homes again except by the assistance of the
members of congress who represent their
districts. A once rather conspicuous state
legislator of South Carolina has secured em
ployment to wheel the mails from the house
of representatives to the city post office.
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while others who held equally prominent j
positions in the south before "the war are j
happy in securing positions as assistant
door-keepers and similar unpretentious
places. The post master of the house of
representatives, Col. Stewart, has given
great offense by taking all his assistants
from among his own neighbors at Alex
andria, including all bis male relatives, while
Mr. Adams, the clerk of the house, com
mitted a like offense by giving all the best
places in his gift to members of his own
family including the chief clerkship to bis
uncle, Green Adams, formerly a member
of congress from Kentucky.
Notice Under the Exemption Law.
Judge Pearson, of Ilarrisburg, has de
cided a case involving the notice required
rom a debtor who elects to retain three
Kindred dollars under the act cf lb71, ex
empting personal property from levy and
sale and securing to the debtor the remain
der, cither in land or money, to make up
the deficiency. All the property ot Lphiram
Ney had been sold, on a Ji.Jti., ana the day
after the seizure Ney served a written no
tice on the sheriff that he claimed the bene
fit cf the exemption law. The appraisers
valued the personal property at $i4 70,
which was returned to Ney : reported that
the real estate could not be divided without
prejudice, and it was sold for S410. Mr.
ey made claim to '..) zi ot this fund,
which, with the appraised value of bis per
sonal estate. St4 7u", made S3Ul. The main
point raised was, whether the notice served
upon the sheriff was sufficient to entitle
tie Nay to claim a portion of the money in
Court to take out his fc.iUU of the real es
tate. Ihe Court held that, although it
was certainly itimated that the party must
express his determination to take land, if
capable of division, andean only get his
money from the necessity ot a sale, because
it will not divide, yet the exact form or no
tice is not prescribed by the f-tatutc, nor is
it clearly set forth in the cas -ited. lfit
had been we may probably suppose it would
have been adhered to on the principle of
stare decisis." More mature reflection
and the habit of society have caused a re
laxation of what we might infer was in
tended by those earlier cases, though in
reality they all turned on other points. As
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a general rule l thniK that old law, interna
wine, is better than new, in this instance
the new i preferable. By the notice served
in the present case the officer was fully up
prised of the defendant's demand, and what
he claimed and desired. e find bun ac
cordingly selecting appraisers ; they valu
ing the personal property selected by the
debtor, determining that the real estate
would not divide and fixing in value. Ihe
notice given was fully understood and its
work as proved by the result. Ihe corrt
directed the 235 24 to be paid to Ney as
claimed.
Curious surgery. A number of years
ago a young Iowa farmer dislocated his
limb, which was not properly reduced, ami
left his leg two inches short, which was
lengthened out with cork sole and heel. A
few days ago a woman ran against him, the
wheel-hub striking him on the defective
hip, and knocking him over. When he
arose his leg was two inches too long, and
he was obliged to remove his cork-extension,
the wheel having reduced the disloca
tion. He walked home immediately.
Leonard Kapp, of Marion township,
Berks county, raised this year, on a farm
of 105 ucres.l, 800 bushels of good wheat,
70 bushels of rye, 1,540 bushels of corn,
800 bushels of oats, 300 bushels of potatoes,
40 loads of hay, 80 loads ofstruw, besides
raising and pasturing 30 head of horned
cattle, 17 swine and 1) horses. The value of
the crops raised was 5,854, besides the
stock. Who says that farming docs uot
pay if managed right ?
reflect up'.'!
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one large sli
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HHiustrv i s:!ir:: :: i,v i n' prociigaiilv an
reeklesrness vf govcniinet.ts ; h.,w anoth--.-large
slice is siiorn off by th-.- criminal cla.--.-ls,
directly t support themselves, mid i:.
directly in .-upport those pers v.) by whoi.i
tln-y are watched mid guarded ; aunt!)-:
large sr..:.; by ilie drones-, who contribute
nothing ;: take much; and a fbiiith by
those habitual vices which rendur usttnl'p
for continuous and effective exert ijn, we
shall see one reason why tho lump that:-,
left to be distributed among rtctual worker.-.
and others entitled to it
The rats have nibbled
capital of the nation, v
dimi.iishe'!.
Th-
.niv
ings for future uso, i
t'
can be put to that u A v-sl crop
funguses impoverish '.he '!;: i!d L
otherwise drawn r.nmnd the roc- oi . l ole
some plant... It other words, t'
o wealth
of society, which
i is :-il it hoS t Jive upon
ii i
while creating ncv wealth, is diverted from
the process of creation to variou" destruc
tive processe". Beward of labor that would
have gone to the creators are S'lcked into
ihe remorseless jaws of the destroyer.1', :uid
they who deserve much are robbed by thosn
who deserve none. Iconomic.-d and iu t
governments, good habi
tion of the blood-sucker
aii'i the extirp-.t-are
the primary
conditions: of a better distribution of the
iiaitis of industrial cutei t rise. A tic lork
'Post.
The icport of the Superintendent of Pub
lic Instruction fbr the State of Pennsylvania
is ti document of considerable interest ut the
present time. There are U.nSS school dis
tricts iu the State ; 17.li'.li schools, an in-
crease : of 450 ; lo,b." school directors. t7
superintendents, P..80 teachers, 8'Ji,ii7:j
pupils in all, and 551 ,S4S average attend
ance, an increase of Average salary
of male teachers per month, 841.07, a de
crease of 81 ,8S from 167-1 ; average salary of
female teachers, 834 01). a decrease (,f Sl,
78. Average cost of tuition per pupil each
month, l2 cents ; cost of tuition for the
year, 84,74(J,S75 52. an increase of 8210,
5i;C.4U ; cost of buiidirgs, etc., S2.U51i.4G4
S3 total cost of tuition, fuel, buildings, and
contingencies, -SD.25 f.t;5U.13, an iinrc-aso
of 821)7, 15S. 70 over the past year. There
was also an increase of 8541,941.02 in tbvi
total expenditures fr school purposes dur
ing the year. The estimated value of the
school property is 824,200.760. Coiu-ern-ing
the question of retaining the Bible in
the public schools the report savs : "I
would like to have a copy of tlie Bible up
on the desk of every teacher, in the sight
of all the children in the land. The pain
ful alternative of discontinuing the use of
the Bible in the public schools is seldom
forced upon us. In 14.500 of our 17.0UO
schools it is now read without giving serious
offence to anybody. If tin: work of the
school be so arranged as to allow tlie Bible-
- T .. .1 l' .,1 1 . ! 1
reauing to rane place at me close ot the day
neither loss of time nor disorder need
re-
suit from a part of the pupils quietly leav
ing the room at a given signal.-'
A school house has been erected at Dan
ville which cost about 835.000.
The receipts of Berks county from taxes,
etc., in 1875 were 8204,403 03, and the
expenditures 81i'5,630 70.
There were fifty births and twenty-five
deaths in Aileutown during the months of
December. Forty-eight marriages were
recorded during the same period.
Ten convicts from Luzerne county were
taken to the Eastern Pentcntiary a few
days ago. Their aggregate sentences reach
ed sixty-five years five months. One of
the convicts received fourteen years and ten
months.
The Sunhury .' savs : Mini-tors evi
dently are plain spoken in Selinsgrove.
Not long since, whiie "tie of them was ser
monizing from the pulpit, the church door
opended and a young lark hesitatingly
stood in the doorway. The reverened gen
tleman gave him a withering look and
caused his sudden retreat by saving "Go
out, young man, she's not here !'
The annual report of Adjutant General
Latta shows that there are now in the ser
vice 871) officers and 0,273 enlisted men ;
104 company organizations, 10 cavalry, 0
artillery ai.d 17S infantry. But six infan
try companies are unattached. The rest
are attached to nineteen regiment organiza
tions. There is one provisional battalion
of four companies. Tin Adjutant General
speaks well of the different commands.
One of the most singular breach of
promise cases on record has just occurred
in New York. About twelve years ago
Mr. and Mrs. Saulspaugh were divorced,
in 1S74 they were reconciled, Mr. S. invit
ing his former wifo to become his house
keeper under a promise of remarriage.
Month after month passed, only to briug
about a postponement of the happy day.
Finally the woman's patience became ex
hausted, and she has just sued her former
husband for damages, as stated.
The suspension of work in the Wyom
ing coal region will not affect the Lack
awanna region. The Delaware, Lack
awanna and Western Railroad Company,
Delaware and Hudson Canal Company ami
Pennsylvania Coal Company, the principal
corporations operating in the Lackawanna
ValU-y, although having their yards stocked
at tide-water, command along their great
highways a sufficient inland trade to keep
their mines workiug during the winter sea
son at their present capacity, or a Uu!e
do?1 tban hsl: titn?.
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