j, l-"-- " ' " BMK1lwlWWtaCgaMHBrfaWKBgMBMaiB11JMlw IHIIMH I II j . T" i ...aJXWiJUaaWBniWJII JW"lWMIHI.W71rgr-MJJJM.mMJI-ial.llBJUJ IHIIHIIB.LI Ecuoteb ta politics, Citcrature, gvicniturc, Science, ittovalitij, aui cncral 3utcl!ig cure. 33 N0.4KL- VOL. STROUDSBURG, MONROE COUNTY, PA., MARCH 2, 1876. j.n'ilishc.1 ly Thfodnrc Sclioch, -t. . t. .iv-.i 'x rf;ir in advance ami If not . i of t'.ie year, two dollars nnd fifty r'vl v, r m "- (iis'ntinu'il until ail arrearages are & T " l ' ., ,,;,. ,,f t Kr l-Uitnr. 'ii"ii!s of "lie square of (cicrht lines) or " .'...r 1 1 re i inert ions 1 ,)i. l-.ach additional la vfi-.-u". l.tifcr mi"s in proportion st. "'jobs fEti.vrtxci OF At. I. KtNf, . ! in li"'-'ii"t styli- of the Art, and on the nv't riM-oii.i'de terms. U Public, ' K AST STKOUIXSUURG PA. , -nn;-ViJM',,' taken a,"i a'l business pertaining I'lLUSON fc THOMSON, i;al Estate Insurance Agents. K:-r'r'" f""" i'liilJiiicr near the Lepot. F" D Siirtrtoii I'iit!st. .. T i:.Tiecr's new huildinp.ncnrW opposite 'lit.-,' li.m t. das admniktcri-d fur cxtacting rjan.5,'7fi-tf. mivci: joiinstone, I) Homes opntliic Physician, KiJciu-c : lU ni tniin Darigan, Cherry Valley, MOXRoF. COUNTY PA. D Piysician, Sirgeon and Accoucheur, Sand Clt, Waysb Co., Pa a: ri-tfs :r mntly attended, to l:iy or night I t;t in infill. ri-,l- vi '-if L- . ''' I D iiov iui iMH s:nso., PsicU". 5irj3on ana accoucnear. I -i.I-vv, Main strict, Ktroiid-- :f ! ill.!;":;; formerly occupied J'runnt a;:-!Ui:in given lo calls. ( 7 l i' :i- in. h i ' o.li,' :l cir 1 i m. 1. in 1 J i D p;ivsi;ii:i. sruiiEox and AaoiniEix In tlie -M n.Iii'e of Dr. A. Peeves Jackson, r??iie:ic?, crncr ofriarah and Franklin street. STR0UD33URG-, PA. D t'lornoy at Ia'.r, One 'Stroud-lmrjj IIoiie,r . Pa. r-miptiy made. V 4ir S-t rr,t. PHILADELPHIA. 2 n.-Licel rite?, ftl 75 per day IIKNHY L u. .S.Nv;)t:i. (,,.?rk. PA UN. Prt;r. WILLIAM S. REES, Surveyor, Ccnvoyaricer and Rsal Estate Agent. Timber Lands and Town Lots . FOR SALE. IIotlCH r .! r.v tiie Corner Store. 1 -7:tf. D R. J.LANTZ, SURGEON c KECKANICAL DENTIST. : 'fTi'-f o.i Main rtrctt, in th ?n4 ntry .:-r.' i - k bu i!'! i ii-r. nearly ojipoiiti the II ;!'. and h flatt-r hiinsclf that by "ih-n-Utit pr;ii tiro and tbe most t ariipt and ': 'tn i j iili ;.i;.tf r- pertaiiiiii? to his pro ! f liy ubl'; to p' rform all operations i i : u -.- iu umtt carrlul aud kiilful uian- I r. .V t""3 Tl'lr. : In : b- -i i, : : t". :i n c;.ti!i tt 5viny th Natural Tr-cth ; II,- im ,ri ,,f Artificial Tith on Kiibifr, Niv.tr. or ( oiaiii'joii iiam, and p-rfwt fiu in nil M p r Vn.ivr the -rrfat f l!y and danger of m u' iiu : . r Wfiri liiijr innnfrit-nrcd orto t lios lir- i; Apnl 13, 1R4. u. A.OTii2:K "'SlOl'SSY 1VOX Y.T TI1K EST3Y COTTAGE ORGANS! IVse niprrior anl bpantifully finislicd in-,:niin'-Ms s.j far fc-Ijpsed their competitor in "iui!i. purity. Fweeines? ;md delicacy of tone, iis to ,:ttfry ,,,-,jie f;rt al)1j OI1v j,n.nliurn giv n t'i J hii.itor of reed Organs at the Monroe 0;,,"!y 'air, held S-,,temler -, 187-1. "'! oiitv iLf;icA?. Per price lit address ' J. Y. SIG ATI'S, PAP EH HANGER, GLAZIER AND PAINTER, MONKOE STREET. Nearly cprxjsite Kautz'e Blacksmith Shop, Stroudsbcrg, Pa. The undersigned would rercciftii!y in orm the citizens of Strondsburg and vicinity ue is now fully prepared lo do all kinds or FaFPr Hangina, Glazing and Painting. Promptly and at short notice, and that he Hi COfj!,lanty ot1 b.,n(j a fjne ock ot 'Per Hang-i,, of all decripiiona and at prices. The palronage of the public Mrneetly kio4. May 16, 1872. H S 0 J JOCK, ASTOUNDING DISCOVERY ! Extraordinary Advance in Science A Savant Makes an Egg, and Hatches There-from a Live Bird. (CIIUCII UNION.) The annexed account of a wonderful dis covery recently made in Germany i.s con densed from an article in a late number of a German paper, the Aljemeine Zcitunq, received by the Cambria. The editor, in his introductory, remarks that "It is with no ordinary feelings we fit down to make public the astonishing facts which follow, well knowing, at first, we shall but excite the smiles of the incredulous ; yet, as inde pendent journalists, we feel it our duty to lay before the public such matters of fact as may come within the scope of our own observation, and others may draw such con clusions from them as they may see fit. . "Some years since," he continues, "the whole world was thrown into a fever of excitement by the announcement that Mr. Cross, an Englishman, had read before the Royal Electrical Society of London a ine rt or in which he detailed a process by which he had succeeded in calling into life, by means of voltaic electricity, a minute insect of the wart species. The substance from which these insects were revived or created was the silica nf pnfassa, a perfectly color less and transparent liquid. "Mr. Cross' experiments were subsc- I quently tried by Mr. Walker, Secretary to the society, with entire success and with every precaution as to the introduction of x' I a ,i , i any joreurn substance that nucrht contain i. - ' : . it i i inu fggs oi uicsi; inecis. ue was also I . 1 1 1 ' . 1 l .v j t-iu;ui Miet:csKii wufn tnc experiment was : conducted in an atmosphere of pure oxygen j Las. These experiments have been certi j fed to by the most respectable authority : I ai.d yet there are persons obstinate and j igi orant enough to deny the possibility of ; the production of life from such a sub- stai ce as flint. i ''As what we are about to mention is of I a similar nature, we expect that the same j c-::?s of persons will be incredulous as to ! t! e truth of our statement. "But Truth is mighty and must prevail,' ard we trust soon give ocular demonstra tion of the facts detailed." We shall not follow the language of the peper, but give a brief outline of the facts i recorded. j It seems that, for more than fourteen ' yrars. Prof. Geifling, of IJruenbergh, a man v.e.l known in the literary and scientific wo ld, has had his attention directed to the i production of animal life by means of J galvanism. ! This was a darinir thoucrht : but the Pro- fessor, with the zeal and devotion worthy j tlie old alchemists in whose foot steps lie ; w: s following, persevered against obstacles j that would have discouraged an man leS3 i sanguine than himself; and at last has had j the satisfaction of seeing his patient labors ! crowned with success, that will place his ! n;.ni3 in the foremost rank of that galaxy j of bright tars who preceded him in the i gieat field of discoverv. ! The Professor's first experiment was to hutch chickens from the egg by the employ ment of artificial heat, after the manner of the Egyptians. In this he was entirely K . .. .. i i success! ul, and penecteu a simple ana com pact apparatus to maintain, by means of hot water, an equal temperature for any period of time. This being accomplished, he turned his attention to the production of (he ejg .' This was no easy matter ; but, after innu merable expermcnts, during a period often years, the details of which would fill a vol ume, he succeeded in making a correct analysis of an egg. One step was accom plished ; but the most difficult was yet to be taken the mysterious combination of the elements so as to form a compound similar to the natural article. Encouraged by his success, the Doctor set about his almost hopeless task with a determination to surmount every obstacle. He felt satisfied that it was only by means of galvanism that his object could be ac complished, and directed all his energies to the construction of a battery of constant, equal and moderate power. After trying nearly every kind of bat tery iu use, he had almost begun to de spire, when, by accident, he learned that a constant battery of moderate power had been constructed in England by placing a plate of zinc and a plate of copper in an or dinary flower-pot, and keeping the earth moistened with ammonia. He immediately constructed such a one. After various modifications, he succeeded in :id:ii)tin ' it to his purpose ; and had the satisfaction, after nearly fourteen years of almost constant experiment, of seeing his labors crowned with success, and produc ing from elements a substance similar in all respects to an egg. Now came tlie exciting period oF his la bors, to see whether this artificially-formed e-g could be hutched by heat. He placed it in his hatching-oven, and watched it through a glass door almost constantly, scarcely taking time to eat or sleep, until he had seen the success of his grand ex periment. . . Day after day he watched with patient .cuiitv the consumation of his daring scheme, and at least had the satisfaction ot witnessing the consummation oi ins uopu. On the twentieth day after placing his egg in t,a m..n n ma 1 hole was ouservcu in one -ide of it, and shortly alter tne um oi ird was thrust through. The Prefessor a bird mo nmnT. Willi mill ui""i . ...:u .L.K.rlif nnd several times was on the point of breaking the egg, cnn whifc kind of a bird he was going to i ii retrained himself, however, n.T mnrnintr bad the satisfaction of CLIIKA v 0 finding in the receiver a live bird, of some unknown species, perfect in its anatomy, but, strange to say, entirely without feath ers ! "This most astonishing result," remarks the paper from which we quote, "has al most upset our previous notions of natural, philosophy and the governing lawsofani mial organism. As we gazed upon the featherless bird hopping about, and feeding upon the seeds given it, we began to doubt the reality of our own existence, or that of anything about us !" The Professor, urged on by his success, has set about another analysis, and has no doubt of being able to produce perfect birds of every known species. The Aljemeine Zcitunj of the next dav remarks that the whole city is electrified with the devlopment. A HUSBAND EUCHRED. A Wife of Two Men a Stake at Cards. On Sunday afternoon and evening one of the most singular incidents in the history of the matrimonial lottery took place at No. 131 Johnson avenue, Williamsburg, it being the playing of a game at cards for the possession of a wife by her two living hus bands. The causes of this phenomenal incident, briefly told, are as follows : In the fall of 1871 Louis Lange, a barbar, married Annie Ilortsmann, of Hudson City. N. J.. after a courtship of two weeks. They lived to gether a very quarrelsome life for a few months, and then, in a fit of passion, he deserted her and went to Chicago. She, being left without means, went home to her parents ; but, having obtained a situa tion, returned to Williamsburg. Here she met the groomsman, Claus Doscher, who officiated at her wedding. After wait ing two years without hearing from Lange Mrs. Lange married Doscher iu 1S71. Last week Lange returned to Brooklyn, and, intent on being more happy in the future, sought his wife to make amends for his previous ill treatment and give promises for better treatment in the future. He was horrified to find her the wife of his grooms man, but after considerable self com munion he decided to arrange the affair amicably. So, with a mutual friend who was acquainted with all the parties, he called on her, in the rear of No. 154 John son ave:iue. He was made cordially wel come, and after a conversation of some half hour's duration the men adjourned to the saloon in the front building to settle the matter by a game of euchre. The room was a dingy one, the light of the one or two kerosene lamps casting only a faint glimmer on the interesting game which was heralded, accompanied and followed by copious draughts of lager. In the earlier part of the game fortune seemed to be in favor of Doscher and he speedily scored nine of ten points necessary to win, but there he stopped, and Lange, slowly and by "one," scored up to the same figure. Tlie woman, as the game progressed, left her scat and took a place by the side of her second husband. All those in the room gathered around the table, and as Lange took a trick an audible sih came from the woman, but as Doscher laid out trump after trump she seemed relieved, and when he had made the winning point she saluted him with a hearty kiss. Lange, for a moment, seemed angry, but said, "Well, Doscher, old boy, she ain't worth fighting over ; here is joy to you with her," and he quaffed a foming tankard of beer. The party then commenced urinkingj and kept it up till midnight, when they ,., n 1 I T IT separated the best oi menus. 1 K Her- aid, 'IZd. Habits of Insects. Many insects prove that their parental instinct is strongly developed by taking care of their young after they are hatched. Of this kind are several solitary insects, and those which live in societies, as bees, ants, and some wasps, etc. The mason wasp hurries a living caterpillar with its etrgs, but docs not leave it to take its chance. After the maggot is hatched and has devoured the first caterpillar, the wasp returns, opens the hole, pushes in another, and again closes the hole, and this is repeated till the young animal is able to get his own living. The field bug has", a family of thirty or forty young ones which she conducts about as a hen does her chick ens, beating her wings rapidly at any at tempt to disturb them. If you disturb a nest of ants by digging, you will perceive the inhabitants much less intently occupied with providing for their own saftety than the conveying of certain little white bodies to a place of security ; these are the young, and to effect this purpose the whole com munity are iu motion, and no danger can divert theiri from attempting its accomplis ment. A cruel observer having cut an ant in two, under these circumstances, the mutilated animal did not relax its affec tionate exertions ; with that half of the body to which the head was attached it contrived before expiring to carry off ten of these white masses into the interior of the nest. Insects seem to live especially for the nutritition of their young. When we consider the exertions of these little animals, apparently so disproportioned to their size, and the constant lab6r in which they are occupied, one might be apt to think the pleasures of their existance were outweighed by its pains. But what strikes us as wearisome toil is probably that delightful occupation, and, like human parents, they are never so happy as when actively engaged in advancing the interests of their young. THE CEDAR MINES OP NEW JERSEY. Among the strange productions of Cape May, says the Monmouth (N. J.) Demo crat, are the "cedar mines" swamps of dark miry stuff in which are buried im mense trees of the white cedar, Cyprcsstis thyoides of the botanists. These mines con tain enormous trees, buried to a depth varying from three to ten feet. The logs lie one across another, and there is abund ant evidences that they are the growing of different successive forests. Indeed, in these very swaiups forests of the same trees arc now growing. The miners have be come very skillful at their work. An iron rod is thrust into the soft mud, over which often the water lies. In strikiug a buried tree the workman will, by several sound ings, at last tell how it lies, which is its root eud, and how thick It is. He then manages to get a chip, of the tree, and by its smell determines at once whether it is worth the labor of mining, that is, the workmen will tell unerringly whether the tree be a windfall or a break down. If a breakdown, it was so because it was de cayed when standing ; if a windfall, the trees fell wheu found, and lias been pre served ever since by the antiseptic nature of the peat marsh in which it was buried. The soft earth is then removed. This makes a pit in the swamp. Into this the water soon flows and fills it up. This is rather an advantage. The saw is now introduced, and at regular intervals a cut is made through the trees, when the log floats to the surface. It is curious that the log of a sound tree will be sure to turn over wheu it floats up, the lower side thus becoming uppermost. Trees in this way are some times obtained which will yield 10,000 shingles, worth $20 per thousand ; thus one tree will yield $200. The age of such a tree, as the season rings have been counted, has been made out from 1,000 to 1,200 years, and even more. A layer of such trees is found covered by another layer, and these again by another, and even a third, while living trees may still be grow ing over all. It is evident, indeed that New Jersey has experienced what the geo logists call "oscillation." Cape May con tains abundant evidence of having been lift ed out of a modern sea. The recent oyster and clam are found iu natural beds, just as they died in the ocean, but now in posi tions many feet higher than the contiguous oyster beds ; while buried trees exist at depths lower than the beds of living mol lusks. Transfusion of Blood. The Buffalo Commercial thus describes an interesting experiment which was tried at the medical college in that city, one day last week :' "The 'subjects' were two doirs one considerably larger than the other which were placed under the influence of ether until both animals were utterly un conscious. An artery in the neck of the larger dog was opened. In this a tube was inserted, and the stop-cock of the tube turned off, thus preventing any blood from escaping until the proper time came. The small dog was then placed upon the table, the carotid artery opened," and the animal allowed to bleed to death. When the blood had ceased to run it was announced that the dog was absolutely dead. Artificial respira tion was applied, and then the tube in the neck of the large canine was inserted in that of his bloodless brother, the Professor mean while working upon the chest after the man ner used in restoring a drowning person. As soon as the stop-cock in the tube was turned the blood from the dog commenced flowing into the empty veins of the other, and in a very few minutes the creature was breathing again as naturally as ever. The students applauded loudly and the transfusion was complete. Neither of the dogs, we are assured, felt a particle of pain during the operation." What shall we Eat. An unhappy individual has discovered that there is nothing in the food or drink line actually healthful. He says potatoes pro duce flatulency, water distends the bowels, fruit relaxes them, bread sours the stomach, cake destroys its tone, rice depletes the blood, fish shrinks the muscles, fresh meat produces biliousness, and salt meat skin diseases. And so vou can go through the entire list without finding, according to the medical authorities, a single article but what is in sonic degree hurtful. It is dread ful to think of; and yet, somehow or other, there arc a great many people who manage to exist seventy years or more, and the average longevity of the human race is in creasing in all civilized couutries. A story is going the rounds of the Democrat-tic press to the effect that the late inauguration of Governor Ilartranft cost the State $30,000, and even a few Republican papers are foolishly reflecting upon the governor lor "permitting such unnecessary extravagance." The truth is that what expense falls upon the State, in consequence of the inauguration display, was authorized and incurred by the legis lature, as hae always been the case. This expense, instead of 830,000, is only about $1,000,' or about $700 less than three years ago. It should be borne in mind that the inauguration was entirely in the hands of a joint committee' of the two houses of the legislature composed of both parties. The Idaho Avalanehe asserts that with in a circuit of five miles around Silve City money enough might be extracted from the bowels of the earth to pay on the nationa debt twenty times over. Last October Judge Nites Taylor, a wealthy merchant of Smethport, McKean county, fell from the rear door of the resi dence, a distance of eighteen feet, breaking his back. It was thought he would die in a few days, but he is still living . and no fears are entertained of his speedy death. His spinal column was dislocated a little above the center of its length. Until Dr. Freeman ingeniously replaced it, he suffer ed great pain in the broken column. Since then the pain has ceased, but he has no feeling of any kiud below the fracture. His stomach ij curiously affected, a portion of its functions, or rather, its energies, has been destroyed so that even when acting on light food its operations are slow and, to a certain extent, uncertain. Whenever he partakes of stronger food than prepared milk or gruel, as his appetite frequently tempts him to do, despite of all previous experience, he suffers severe pain all round that portion of his body above a line across and intersecting the point of injury. In other words, so far as feeling and other sensation are concerned, he seems to have been literally broken iu two parts, and while one-third of his body is as thorough ly alive as ever, the lower two-thirds are as dead as though buried in the grave. His mental faculities as clear as ever. The r igues have devised a r.c v plan for swindling people, specially farmers. The rascals, who go in pairs, watch the adver tisements of stray horses or cows, and one of the follows goes to the advertiser and asks to see the animal. His request being granted, the scoundrel informs the adver tiser that it is not the one he is looking for. The fellow goes back to his 'pal,' gives him a description of the animal, and the" 'pal' then goes to the advertiser, describes the horse or cow accurately, and gets pos- rati - m m I session. Then the swindler tells the ad vcrtiser that he lives a long way oil and don't wan't to be troubled with taking the animal home and offers to sell it for half it is worth. The advertiser generally makes the purchase, and in nine cases out of ten subsequently has to return the animal to the possession of the rightful owner, losing the money that he paid the impostor. o A Troy (N. Y.) man has been trying to kill rats with bread covered with arsensic. The bread disappeared, but the rats didn't diminish, and finally he caught his thirteen YP.ir old rhiiK'hfpr p:itm-it. Sh f-nnfosspd j n ... . . nun. sue iiau uisponcu oi an oi il, luiu jiivuu il .i: 1 r.,o i .. uvut-i man un imiiLi siiu nau iumcu. It apnears that the mrl had fits n vpar nfm. . . J 7 ' viiicu tuo ki ijl uciinsr lor ur&eiuc, auu tut; , . . . . v' . ' ,. doctor, thinking she was going to die any way, gave her some, whereupon she got well. Since then she has been given the .1 ii : .i:rr .i.. ucuuiy poison ut uiaeieuL tiuies, uic oiuy eneet Doing to mate ner appear wen, urignt Mild fhnerPnl Til A P:i 1nfn lniil hr. " .1 , 11 II l l . I fore several scientific men, all of whom pro- nounce it one or tne most rcmarKaDie phenomena of the age. There seems to be a steady decline in the Order of Patrons of Husbandry, out West. The rural members are coming to the conclusion that somewhere and some how they are being sponged to death." It has just come to light, in Iowa, that one man and his wife have been paid for pre- tended services, by the estate and National Grangers, since lb J, nearly 9,000,' and tli. -it. nt. the s:imi time lie wns rlr.'iwiiiT n re-ular salary in other business. If theor- der will weed out the sidewalk farmers and bloodsuckers who infest it, and confine it- self to its ligitimatc province, keeping out oi t no snare s or politicians, it win acserve to thrive. But not else. r . i !".. ill i I he Democrats Iind little comfort any- wnerc. xiarpcr s y eeKiy , uuring uie past i .i !i . i :.i ,i. . i year nas recently unueu wuu ine opponents of the Republican party in finding fault with Grant, but in a recent issue of that paper, gives its estimate ot tne JJcmocratic party in the loiiowing terse paragraph : "Nothing should cause any man to lor- "ft, that the. Democratic nartv is now what r. his heen for venrs the nn t e:i nrmni. . . - .1 . . - i . zation of those who aimed to destroy the National Union and Government for the basest and most revolting purposes, and cH 1 .W-l-irn tli-it tlwir viere nvvnt tn. the practicability of secession, remain un changed. A gentleman and lady got off the Pan Handle train yesterday evening, and step ped out on the south side ot the depot They were quickly surrounded by a crowd r ii ot voracious hackmen. 1 unching away vigorously with his umbrella, the gentleman soon cleared a space around him, and hav- ing secured silence enough to be heard, he vociferatcd " i ouldn some of you like to go to the devil r Ihe tone or one of the hackmen was wickedly tirbartc as he quick ly replied : "Come right dong, sir ; I run the finest hack on that line." Indianapolis Sentinel.' Judge Orvis, at the recent Centre county court, rendered a decision which is impor- , . t i i i i .i i tant. His honor ruled that where a man ! -r i i - j i. gives his wife money, he having no debts at the time, nor in any way showing an in- U n J-7i i Vt . . . .ir ii. i i . t the Centenriial grounds. Moyainensin"- is tention to defraud, real estate which the nnn , K, AV ? " Cl SiUf, 1S i -.i i r i . good cnotign for them. Jiomstoicn Jler- wife may purchase with such funds cannot a afterward be niade liable for debt con tracted by the husband subsequent to such A clergyman of a country village church gift and purchase. desired to give notice that there would be The meanest man in the world resides at present in northern Ohio. Ho went on to Cincinnati to attend his brother's r i i .i n - i.;n a iunerai, anu men coony sent in a um to the executors for $47.50, itemized at travel- ing cxpenescs, hotel bills and $2.50 per day for "time" comsumed in attendance. Chester has twenty-five mile of side walks. All men should live on' fruit r the fruit of their industry. The value of the wares manufactured in the West Chester prison, last year, is set down at $11,000. Mr. Levi Bennet, for nearly a half cen tury a prominent citizen of Easton, died on the 19th ult. "The rich," said a Dutchman, "eat venison because it ish deer": I eat mutton because it ish sheep." New Orleans is bragging about her new; potatoes. That's all right ; but a good many cf them are mighty small. Forest planting is thriving in Minnesota." It is estimated that 20,0.00,000 trees havo" been planted on the prairie lands. Tennessee editors arc appreciated. One of them has just been presented with a pig having two tongues and eight legs. During the Centennial show it is said that Philadelphia hotels will charge three dollars a da board and lodging extra. Grindstones are considered safe property, to invest in ; because, if you cannot self them fur cash, you can always turn them. The late Auditor General Allen ban' struck "pay dirt" in. Colorado, assaying 4,340 10 in gold and 15 25 in silver per ton. , From November 1 to date Chicago has" slaughtered 1,489,850 hogs, against 1, 535,325 for the corresponding period last season. A . Rhode Island fisherman recently caught ten thousand pounds of codfish in four days" - He must have been a regular old salt. I. r. Dunham, of Northumberland, is the boss chicken raiser. He has six thick ." ens, hatched last May, which weigh 40' pounds. Nearly 200.000,000 feet of log? were put into the waters of Puget Sound, Oregon,' last year, and luO teams were engaged in the business. The public schools of New. York taught 232,440 children last year. In schools" of a charitable character 2S,000 more children Were instructed. nri a i , n t. . i l ix i . . . . 1 nttenfinn t int. rvmtera nn t ho mn n-hn i i i : ' i y blows his nose in church . . Jersey City has a population of 11G,000, and five per cent, of the population are . paupers, or one in. every twenty, mis 13 an astounding exhibit I JUrs. Jeremiah Cooper has been elected 1 --v . . a school director . m liart township. Lancaster county It is expected she will make a staving good officer. Do you know, that you can cure the tooth ache by dissolving half a drachm of bicarb-, onate of soda in an ouce of water, and holding the solution in your mouth ? The shipments of lumber from Lock Ha ven, Pa., up to February 5th show a total ot 1, 40,000 feet, an . increase over the same period last year of 830,000 I Th? rc.vival in the Presbyterian church, Huntingdon, has resulted in the admission of ,one hundred persons to membership, a ia,Se I,art w le numoer neing gentlemen A Memphis prisoner, who hated to see t-n i.,,.ora ri;, u i w MjViJ ui.'iuV llIVs ,UU1 II Will U V n t . 1 tt i i. i 1 j -. 1 oi since. Our aggregate hog exports since Novem- ber 1, 1S75, are 104,009,308 pounds, valued at "0,00o,037 ; and of beef pro- duct, 0,09j,o10 pounds, valued at S2 yOS,091. xiwm eru lauures in U1C united rri -in r M.., ;.. t tt . v I ri. . n i i . states m ioo,ot which the gross labilities Yre &-i,O0O,.j,Ki. lhis is nearly treble. iauun iu ion, anu ,uuu "iUlU mail 111 !D(-t. A bill to abolish the death penalty in Maine and substitute imprisonment at hard labor for life has passed the Senate by a vote oflStoll. The measure had pre viously passed the House. The pen with which President Grant signed the Centennial bill was made from the quill of an American eagle shot in the vicinity of Mount Hope, Oregon. The pen and eagle will be exhibited at the Centen- nial Mr. John Broker, of Pottstown, has on exhibition at Breidenbach's tavern near that place, a heifer. calf, three months old that is a curiosity. It is a mixture of the' Alderney and Holstcin breeds, moiisc col-' olred aud hairless. . -.-..V . . . edont suppose there is any truth in .i . ., j the report that the pickpockets have an- ,. , . . ., . no service in the afternoon, as he was co- ing to officiate for another clergyman The clerk; as soon as the sermoon was fin-; ished, rose up with all duo solemuitv and- . , . cneci out, "1 am requested to give notice that there will be no service this afternoou," as Mr. L., is going fishing with another clergyman;'
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