JJijjJ j JKdUja IAIN . t -. ' - . ; " ' , . ! : -TZ-'Zjrr: .. Z 1 "-f 1' H.K'lt ' : 'E?cioU&:t0; Politics, literature, agriculture, Science, iilornlitu, onb cncral 3utciii9cucc. VOL. 31. rnMished by Theodore Schoch. T::n'm' Two dollars a ycar in ndvstieo nntl if ,, l t-,oro the on 1 of thu year, two dollars tuxl fiftv rent- " i!l In! flurir'il. " i ,v No j:ir li"rtin?Pfl until nil arrearages are futi.l. x-;'i.t at tho i.itii!i of the Editor. r; A IvcrtNi-Micnls !' on.- sonari- f (eijrltt lines or 1 ..it? or thr.x in.-rtton SI 5-). Each additional in-t.-T iion, " ) (Viits. Longer ones in proportion. JOK PRIXTIXG OF ALU KIXJS, Ex"ti!.-d in tlic Inmost stylo of tit Art, and on tho nii.-t ras'inalle term. J. S-VDiid door 1k-1ov r.urnett House. Residence Ju.l il .r wost uf llitdoito Quaker Church. Oilice (,..n r s to 0 a. m., 1 to " p. m., U to J p. m. D u. s. 5111,1.1-: it. Physician and Surgeon, STR0UD8BURG, Pa. : 'r i i.Ti f irm. rly ocMip:i.1 liy Tr. SVip. Residorn,' 'w ith .1. 15. Miller, un.' door Idow th" j.-tTorsojiiail Olfice. ( !'..-: hour-. 7 10 9, Ti t ."! and K t It. M.iy II, 1n7o. If. . , DR. X. I.. 5KC'I, Surpreun 5)cntist. (i V: in .Ta. IMinprcr's itew htiihlta;.;, nearly-opposite t!f st ,'oi: N'.u:- - iiauk. Ja sulumistcivd for ex tact ins v n- ! ,1 - ir s. r .n.l-'.r.r--. Pa. Jan. G.'70-tf. r:ivsirnx. slTiGeox and .u'niiTiim. iMVi.v ;:i S.nnMcl ITo.hVs ii.-w ImiTolnjr, nfavly op ii - t'l.- ji it o;;i.-i-. Jii lice ii Sarah 5.tnet, :iii v,. i"ra:iiin. . ; . A'.J-.t. s,'7-tf k ast sTiiornsi'.rKd pa. A it-', slin. n:s t.i. n mil all Iwsiiness p.-rlainiu t-t ill o:.':. .' cari-;'!!' i-x -i-nt 1. l iKi.'SUN A THOMPSON, i:--al r.tat - l:i:iiii'i'.i' Au.-nts. t iili. c. K :-;l m'"s n ii o in ar t lu J cpot. 1'.::-: if-:.i;'U rj. I 'a., Jan. -7, 1 S7ii. ttonny at I.aiv, i!0 !nrr nh-ive the "'Siroiilburg House," f:riiui'It'irjr, I'a. (.'.li.viiuu? pr.nnptlv tanile. :o:)or '21, l-7 I. WILLIAM REES, Surveor, Conveyancer and Real Estate Agent. Fann?. Timber Lands and Tov7ii Lots FOR SALS. O.Ti '0 mcaily opposite Aniericnn Houes nil 1 '2 1 1 '.r lit-l.iw the Corner .Store. M i:vli -J i, H7.;-;f. DR. J. LANTZ, SURGEON & MECHANICAL DENTIST. .!.. !'; ( on Main str,,f-t,in t1i sf.-ond !-try 'f lr. . W;.!t.i:i' l.ri -1; l.u'idiris. m-arly ipjsitf tin Sir -i -; r ! n-.-. ai. i i. !i.::.r ! i ir.M-jf t iiat 1 y t.ii r v.r f"i:-;.int j ra. iui! and tli inoc artK-st and m r m i ! ; : : in to ;i,:i:tf's (wrtHiniiit; toliiisi.ro f ".'on. t .-it ti is t'nH v ahl. to pt-rlonn ail tratins i n t h.- !. i ! 1, :u- in i ino-t t-ar. I'til and skillful ma ti ll i r. i;l : f. ;iii in iv.-ti to avin t!i Natural Totrth : a: - ., t i i. -j-l i . iu oi' A: t ifu-ial Ti--th o-i IIhIjIkt. 1 I. ";1vt. or roiitinuous iunis, and pi-rlei-t fits in all as-s i !llir. 'l. M .-: p r !; the r"'"t folly ard danpf-r of n- t r ii ' i. t lu ir v.-..rk to the in:x jn'riti' !, nr to t hoe li v-ja.- at a d'..ii.-.-. April Ki, 1S74. tf. Cssositicn to Kumbuaasry! T'f ':'id rV-1''l hi'T'-'iy anro'inci's thst li" ha r -: ! i i i -n i-; ;.! ; if old t a nd. i: xt door to Knurr's ''-. hi i, . i..r. . Main Mr-t-t. St rottdlitir, I'a., and is f.ii." pr.-jiaic 1 to ;:. ron:iiioiii:to in aut of EOOTS and SHOES, i i:i'l.' in tin- lat -t :'' and f.f -io.Kl material. R-pair- i'n: i.ro.n;.: 1 v ut: n!-d to. (iivi- tin- a mil. lv. ;.. i-t7-r-l v.j C. J.FAVI." WAXEHS." A.OTEim TKOIMIY W'OX bv Tim ESTEY COTTAGE ORGANS! T!n.e stijierior ami heautifully finished in KniLtetHs so far ec-Iipsel their competitor in volume, purity, Fv.eetness and delicacy of tone, 'is to carry ofi'the lirst ami only premium giv to exhihitois of reed Orcrans at the Monroe County Fair, held September iM, 874. - JIu v onlv the lent. J'or rice list address Oct l-tf. " J. Y. S;IGAFLS, PAPER HANGER, GLAZIER AND PAINTER, MONROE STREET, Nearly opposite Kautz's Blacksmith Shop, Stkoi'dsburg, Pa. The ur.dersijrned would rcspecifully in form the citizens of St roudt-burg and vicinity llnit he is now tully prepared to do all kinds of Paper Hanin-, (Jlazing and Painting, promptly and at fdiort notice, and that 'he will keep constantly on hand a fine stock ot Paper Hangings of all descripl iona and at low prices, Tlie patronage of the public s earnestly solictod. May 16, 1872. Dwelling House for Sale. A very dsi rpl.lt' two story Pwillinc House, contain-A-n-A in.if .-even rootns, om of wliii-h i.s KtiitaliU; T'Jr 'or a Stoif Kooni, situate on Main btrft, Sill!'''' iu i''oron.ifh of Strondsljurs. Tlie JlifR?J tniUliiyrw nearly ievr, tiitd vt-ry jsrl gg5j,-of it in good condition. J'or "terms Ac, CJ'-1 at this oiiie... Iec. 9, l75-tf. BO'T swrTTnoiv" Uiat"-f. .If.' -McCarty & Sons are the only Under takers iu NtrouAsburg who understands their bu-siueea? If not, attend a Fdneral'mauaged hv any other Und?rtaker in town, aud you v i 1 see the nroof of the fact. June IV74-tf MiA&Um TOM, A BUGLE BLAST. SENATOR MORTON OPENS THE CAM PAIGN IN . INDIANA. : ARUAIrtXMKXT OF DEMOCUATIC SHAM RE FORM THE RECORDS -OF THE TWO PARTIES THKIR CANDIDATES AND PRIXCirLES. ' " - - r IxDiAXAroLis, Tiid., Aug." 11. Senator Morton yras to-night escorted by the Hayes Guards - in uniform from his hotel to the Academy of Music,' which M-as ; filled with people to overflowing. The Hon. -Albert G. Porter there presided and introduced the Senator, who opened the campaign iu Indiana with a speech which in given in abstract below. lie arraigned the IVnno cratio party for its "attidude :. toward the leading questions 4of the pa.st 2ft years; dwelt um the course they .have pursued in. the present; House of Representatives ; discussed the records of Governors Tiklen and Hendricks, and their letters of ac ceptance ; poke ot the; Southern outrages,' and concluded -with references to Gov. Hayes's record as a soldier and as a private citizen. , - ; THE SrEEv'II. Again the Republican and Democratic parties .'confront each other in a struggle for the control of the Government. The Republican party points with prido and satisfaction to its record of honorable deeds; to a Union preserved, slavery abolished, to establishment of equality before the lav,'to a government well administered, and to its principles replete with justice, humanity, and the advancing civilization of the age. In such a campaign, with slander as the chief weapon, Republicans must be excused if they speak pTabily of the political charac ter, history, and purpose of their antag onists. If the Old World should believe what is said by the leaders of the Democratic party, by sham reformers, and: the night ravens of politics, they would conclude that the people of the United States arc the most corrupt and degraded of all nations on earth claiming to be civilized. Mr. Tilden, the Governor of New York, was serenaded the other evening iu honor of his uominiation for President by the Democratic Conven tion, and i:i reply said What next do we find in the public administration ? Everywhere abuses, pecula tions, frauds, and corruptions, until we arc almost ashamed of the institutions of our country, and instead of holding them upas examples for the imitation of the oppressed people of other countries, we are confessing them as a scandal in the eyes of mankind. .We find the office-holding class have be come so numerous, powerful and un scrupulous that they assume to control the elections, and. if the people are indifferent or at all equally divided, are liable to exert a corrupt influence sufiicient to perpetuate their own power. . The fact that a candidate for President should have made such a speech is the strongest evidence that can be produced of our political degration. When he says that all business is ruined," that the wolf Is at the door of nearly every house in the land, gannt and hungry,- and that- our Centennial product is the evils, license and wrongs, to escape which our ancestry abandoned their homes in the Old World, he utters slanders thamelcss and cnonuons. The nearest approach to the condition of things he describes is to be found in the City of Xew York under his own administra tion in those Democratic purlieus and among the people who gave him his large majority. . OFFICIAL MORALS. , So far from official morals deteriorating, the public service becoming debauched, and the country standing on the brink of ruin, I pronounce this aud all kiudred statements, which make up the body and trimmiugs of Democratic platforms and speeches, to be Unmitigated bosh and demagogism, and that the very opposite is the truth. On the 9th of February ; last, the Senate, by a resolution, called upon the Secretary of the Treasury for a state ment of all the "balances due the United States from defalcations or failures to make settlement, beginning on the 1st of January, 1834. From the statement it appears that the losses during G rant's first four years were only 1-2G part on the 81,000 of what they were during the second administra tion of Gen. Jackson only 152. part of what they were during the administration of Van Ruren ;only 1-1S part of what they were during Buchanan's, the last Demo cratic administration. The losses during Grant's second term, now more' than three years gone, on the 1,000 are only 1-4 G part of what they were during the adminis tration of Jackson ; 1-18 part of what they were during Van Ruren 's administration, and 1-2G part of what! they were 'during Buchanan's administration. On the same day Mrl'Morrill, of Ver mont, laid before the Senate letters from the Assistant Secretary r pf , the. Treasury and from the Commissioner of Internal Revenue. These letters and figures over turn mountains of falsehood which ought to bury ..our .calumniators beneath them The truth is, that although defalcations and malfeasances sometimes occur, and always will,' there isr wore, official -integrity, the revenues are more faithfully collected, and the public service better performed than at .any former, period. During the last-fiscal year ending the 30th of June1876, the surplus revenue was 29,249,000, which was applied to the reduction of the national debt, i In the last ten years we have paid off $579,423,284 of the national debt. On the 30tb of June, lSGGthe d.fcbt was $2,- STROUJJSBURGr MONROE G40,34S,000 ; now it is, in round numbers, S2,OGO,925,000. In lSGG thc revenue derived from internal revenue taxes was 8309,220,813. 1V1S7G it was $116, OOOjOOO, a reduction of nearly two-thirds, or nearly $200,000,000 per annum. This does not look like national bankruptcy and paralysis. , 'Contrast this ' with the last imbecile slovenly, and venal administration of James Ruchauan. During his four years, in a time of profound peace, the revenues fell short of the ordinary expenditures $75, -217,119, which sum was made up br loans and added to the burden with which the Republican party received the Government in 1SG1. To enable the government to live from day to day during the last of these four years, the G per cent bonds of the United States were hawked about the markets of the world, and disposed of with difficulty at a discount of 17 per cent. The Democratic party made the rebellion, and the rebellion made the debt, heavy taxes, greenbacks and National banks a necessity ; and if its true, as we are con tantly told, that public and private demora lization and a long train of evils are the inevitable consequences of a civil war, it is the very insolence of falsehood to hold the Republican party responsible for them. It is possible the rebellion could have been put down at less cost. The rebels say it could, and that we ought to have whipped them at one-half the expense ; and they are profoundly indignant at our want of ecouomy and skill in performing the operatian. THE DEMOCRACY". In reviewing the action of the House in regard to appropriations and what they call retrenchment, no man can resist the impres sion that it has been taken in total disregard of the public interest. Nothing has been done because it ought to be done, or the public interest demanded it, but as far as we can see in every case for political capital or profit. To create the impression of retrenchment and economy it repudiated publie debt, stinted and crippled the army aud navy, left unfiuised public works, left navy yards to go out of repair and become useless, withheld from courts the means necessary to enforce the laws, and reduced salaries to starving rates.' Looking at the House from its legislation we should say that it is as unfriendly to the Government as we know the body of its members to have been a few years ago. , With a mnjority of nearly twe-thirds in the House they have wholly failed for eight months to produce any plan, scheme of relief, or policy upon the subject of cur rency, banking, tariff or any other economic question.- While abusing everyting that exists, they produce nothing, can suggest nothing. Among the Democratic members of the Houese there are G4 persons who were officers and soldiers in the Confederacy. Overthrown by the North and defeated, they arc soured and desperately in earnest, and with whom the Northern sj'mpathizers and doughfaces will be as clay in the hands of the potter. The Democratic platform at St. Louis may be described as an elaborate and extend ed falsehood, divided into sections. We ma- safely defy the most ingenious to find in it one honest and truthful statement. In the first section we have this declara tion : For the Democracy of the whole country we do here reaffirm our faith in the pcrma nency of the Federal Union, our devotiou to the Constitution of the United States, with its amendments universally accepted as a final settlement of, the controversies that engendered civil war, and do here record our steadfast confidence in the perpetuity of Republican self-government. When we reflect that nearly one half of the authors of this declaration had ; been engaged in armed rebellion to destroy the Union in which they had the sympathy of the other half, we know what they mean by reaffirming their "faith in the per mancy of the Federal Union," and when for more than four j'ears nearly the one half, with the sympathy of the other half, had waged a bloody war for the overthrow of -the constitution, - we know what they mean by "devotion to the constitution." That they love the Union and constitution as well now as they have ever done, we can all readily believe. Such declarations by the convention, in view of the personal history of the great masses of its members, are but hideous mockeries, and intend ed only for deception. Again the platform says : Reform is necessary to put an end to the profligate waste of public lands and their diversion from actual settlers by the party in power, which lias squandered 200,000, 000 acres upon railroads alone, and out of more than thrice that aggregate has dis posed of less than a sixth directly to tillers of the soil, . The merit of this resolution will be ap preciated when I refer to the fact that the candidate for t Vice-President, Governor Hendricks, was in the Senate six years, and during that period when most of the public lands were granted to railroads, and was distinguished for the general hearty support he gave to such grants and parti cularly for his earnest and repeated' advo cacy of the large share he had in the grant of about 54,000,000 acres to the Northern Pacific Railroad, the most stupendgift ever made to a. corporation. . r- 'TILPENMIENBPICKS. H , ' Of Mr. Hendricks, the Democratic can didate for Vice President, it" is not very important to speak in this community. You have Lnowu hira as member of Con gress, of the Legislature, of the Constitu tional Convention, us Commissioner of the COUNTY, PA., AUGUST tw.m lmih i.i. . . , n ii in General Land Office, as Senator of the United States, as Governor of the State for nearly thirty years, and during all that time he has suggested no policy, produced no measure, started no idea which any human being can remember, save and except one which we are asked to forget. Like Tilden, he will be the last of his line, and will leave no idea, measure or policy as a political con tribution to those coming after him. On the Sth of January, 18G2, at the State Convention of the Democratic patty, he made the most celebrated speech of his line. He arraigned the war party as the most in tolerant ever known, as corrupt, as the author of hard times and desolation, as wholly responsible for the war, and said that if the war should be so prosecuted as to abolish our market m the South by de stroying the peculiar system of labor in that section he would advise the North west to look out for itself. He has always exhibited an uncontrollable hatred of the negro, and in this represented the lowest, and most vulgar elements of his party. In the Senate he opposed the freedom of the salves escaping into our lines during the war. He bitterly opposed the repeal of the Fugitive Slave law long after the issue of the emancipation proclamat ion. -: With grand opportunities for usefulness, and connecting his name with the greatest reforms of the century, he was blind to the time and place and remained a bigoted ad herent to slavery. I lis political record, ex tending over a period of nearly 30 years, is a dull, monotonous page of wear' common place, diversified only with bolts, and re cording no act to which his friends can point with pride or pleasure. His unbrok en record of blunders, unredeemed by any good measure, presents the question wheth er he is promising material for a great re former. Mr. Kelly and other leading Democrats before the nomination, earnestly described Mr. Tilden as a railroad wrecker, a charac ter well known in New York and London, who deals in broken down railroads, and puts them on their feet again' in which pro cess the original stock and bondholders lose their investment and the assets pass chiefly into the wrecker's hands. They described him as a -lawyer who never appeared in court, and boldly affirmed that he had thus made a fortune of from $G,000,0()!) to $10. 000,000. It has occurred not unfrequeutly in the world's history that the greatest thieves and plunderers, after they had laid in a sufficient store of wealth, have turned reformers, and put the world to shame by their superior virtue. How many kings and robber barons, after lives of murder, rapine, and the sack of cities, have made attoncmcnt by founding churches and mon asteries, thus disgorging a small part of their blood-stained plunder, and then died in the odor of sanctity and took their places among the saints. Tweed when he was overtaken b' misfortune, was not so rich as Tilden, but it is an open secret that he had in contemplation, after continuing business fur a year or two longer, to turn reformer and become the regenerator of the public and private morals of New York. To me it seems highly improbable that a man who has for thirty years been the associate and counsel of the stock gamblers of Wall street, who for man' years lived with Tweed in sworn fraternity in Tam meny Hall, and was his co-operator in the foul politics of New York, and who has wrecked so many railroads, can be a con scientious and patriotic man. The letter of Governor Tilden treats chiefly of the finances, and cannot be read by any impar tial mind without the conviction that it was intended to satisfy men whose ideas arc exactly opposite to each other. He strug gles through half an hour's tedious reading to arraign the Republican party for not having forced specie payments long ago, and then argues that the law providing for resumption is a hindrance to resumption, and should be repealed. RESUMPTION". Rut when he comes to tell how resump tion can be brought about, what the Demo cratic party would do if it were in power, he has nothing better to offer than the fol lowing miserable platitudes : "The proper time for resumption is the time when wise preparations shall have ripened into a perfect ability to accomplish the object with a certainty and ease that inspire confidence and encourage the reviv ing of business. The earliest time in which such a result can be brought about is the best. Even when the preparations shall have been matured, the exact date would have to be chosen with reference to the existing state of trade and credit operations in our own country, the course of foreign commerce, and the conditiou of the exchange with other nations. The specific measures and actual date are matters of detail hav ing reference to ever-changing conditions. They belong to the domain of practical ad ministrative statemanship." , Who can read this without knowing that it is a disgraceful juggle of words, a string ing together of sentences intended to make an impression aud yet conveying no idea whatever. It suggests no measure, points out no remedy, and labors by mere volu bility to cover up the utter incapability of the author. 1 he Republican party has been,' and still is, in lavor ol a return to specie payments. It regards gold ami sil ver as the standards of value, and has look ed forward steadily and honestly to the time when the paper money of the country should bo at rar value. That there has been, and is to-day, a diversity of opinion in the ranks of the party in regard to the manner and the time of resumption is not to be denied ; but there has been a general concurrence as to the necessity of resump 24, 1876. ii i in i ii i i i m mi i i miinim n.. tion and the importance of adoption practi cal measures looking to that result. Rut what has been done was honestly intended to accomplish the great purpose ; and when the St. Louis Convention and Tilden and Hendricks pretend to be greatly in earnest about specie payments, and denounce the Republican party for not having brought them about before, and demand the repeal of the Resumption act because it is an ob stacle in the way of resumption, aud then fail utterly to point out any method of re sumption, and talk only in empty platitudes about resuming "by public economines," "wise finance" and "official retrenchment," we realize how utterly heartless, insincere and ignorant they are about the whole busi ness. SOUTHERN OUTRAOES. The prosperity of the country depends upon the continued administration of the government upon the true and tried princi ples of the Republican party. What has been done successfully in some of the Southern States they except to be done t;i all. Murder thus becomes a fixed politi cal element in the Democratic problem. Should they cany these States it will be by a bloody revolution which no more de serves the name of election than the mur der of the Christians by the Turks. Five, ten or twenty negroes are killed, and some times one white man is the common report, but every announcement is followed by the stereotyped lie that negroes began the at tack, and the whites were acting in self de fense. The murder a few days since of ten negroes in Hamburg, South Carolina, under circumstances of extraordinary atro city is but the opening of the Tilden cam paign in that State. It is openly proclaimed that the Republican majority of 35,000 in South Carolina is to be evcrcomc aud the State carried for Tilden ; and this can be done only by frightening the colored m.'n from the polls or compelling them by force to vote the Democratic ticket. It Missis sippi, since reconstruction in 1SG9, the average Republican majority has been over 30,000. In 1872 Grant carried it by 31. SS7 votes. Last year, alter a campain of horrors, the Democracy carried it by a ma jority of over 49,000, and so complete and abject was the terror that in tlie county of Yazoo, there the Republicans had a regis tered vote of 2,427, they polled but seven votes, and these were permitted only that it might be said that Kepnbhcans could vote. General Sheridan, while iu command in New Orleans, collected with great labor the evidence of violence in the State of Louisiana alone fur political purposes from 18GG to 1S74, and reported to the investi gating committee appointed by the House of Representatives as fellows ; Killed, 2,141 ; wounded, 2,1 lo ; total, 4,25G. It there is anything mure odious than these crimes, it is that reeking hypocrisy which affects to stand aghast at fraud, while attempting to cast its mantle of concealment and protec tion over deeds to the most dreadful and infamous. The Republican party have chosen as standard-bearers Messrs. Hayes and Wheeler. They arc able aud pure men, and have always been on the right side of the great ouestions of the day. Gov. Hayes was a brave soldier who commanded with distinction, and fell upon the field severely wounded. His name has long been inscribed upon the roll of heroes who offered their lives that their country might live. IMMENSE DEPOSITS OF ROCK SLAT. From tlic Pall Mall Gazette. The Trans-Tndus salt region has lately been explored and mapped out by the Geo logical Survey of India. The report of the officers engaged in that work, a brief notice of which is given in the Pioneer, shows the existence of enormous accumlations of pure rock salt over an area ol about a thousand square miles. Iu extent aud depth of stratum these accumlations equal, if they do not surpass, those in any other part of the known world. The Trans-Indus salt region consists of what is called the Kohat district, to the west of the Indus and the southwest of Pcshawer, with which it is connected by the Afi'ridi Pass, kept open by the payment of 12.000 rupees annually as "black-mail" to the AflVidis by the Ilritish Government. The general aspect of the country i.s wild, barren, and rocky, almost bare of vegeta tion ; low hills interject it, twisting and turning in strange confusion. Iu this wild country large exposures of tho purest rock salt occur. Quarrying has been going on in a desultory way for centuries, yet so fast are the saline deposits that, taking the depth of the rock salt at only one hundred feet, there is still provision for tho consumption of one thousand years. The probability is that the thickness of the stratum i.s very much above one hundred feet. In the quarries of Rahadar Knel the thickness of the salt layer cannot be less than one thous and feet, and may be much more. The ap pearance of this valley i.s one not easily forgotten. It seems clothed with salt. The road underneath the wayfarer's foot is of salt ; the brook which flows through the valley is of brine, and flows over a bottom of pure rock salt. The hills which have it in glisten with the same mineral, streaked with bands of greenish clay. The Eitffle has discovered a Reading damsel who, when she feels well, cats fit teen "fair apple dumplings'' at one sitting and she doseu't "sit" over half an hour, cither. The same patter also tells a story of a "pair of skulls appcariug on a lady's picture after it had been taken she scares and dies in two months. This is also in Reading. NO. 12. ' w mu .umm A Neat Trick. Sometime after dinner a stranger walked into one of the inns in Worcester, Kngland, a short time ago. He was genteelly dressed, and professed to be tired. Having taken re freshments, he said he would take a nap fur an hour. To sleep he went, in a very businesslike style, in his chair, and a long nap he appeared to enjoy. Before it ex pired the usual smoke-a-pipe company be gan to drop in, and among others two1 strangers made their appearance. One of the company remarked that it Was unpleas ant to have a m m sleeping in a public room' with valuable property about him, such as" the sleeper, who had a line lookin'ggold guard chain displayed on his waistcoat, and ap parently connected with a watch in one of his pockets. To this remark one of the strangers replied : "Pooh ! that's no gen tleman. I'm sure, he's more likely one uv them swell mob as is always of takiu' peo ple in. I dare say he has no. watch at all ; but I'll soon see." Suiting the action ty the word, the stranger drew forth out of the sleeping man's pocket at piece of wood, round and about the size of a watch." 1 "I thought so," said he, "that's: a pretty watch for you," holding it up that the com pany might see it ; and then returning it to tho owner's pocket. By and by the sleeper awjke, and called briskly fur a glass of brandy and water. He assumed quite a patronizing air among the farmers, which soon raised a desire to' put him down. Accordingly one of the" seniors desired to be informed of the time of day. "Why," said the gentleman, "I had a drop too much last night, and forgot to wind up my watch." "Just so !" ejaculated the senior, "you forgot to wind up, did you?"' You'd, be puzzled to do that, I dare say, wouldn't you now ? "Well, sir, you seem to take m tie notice of such a trifle than there is any call lor ; but the truth is, I have not a watch-key about me, and mine is rather a peculiar watch." Here a burst of laughter ensued, and a number of jokes were passed about the' ycry peculiar style ot the watch. At last one of the company roundly told him that he had no watch at all about him ; where upon the amazed individual hastily clapped his waistcoat pocket, after having previously declared that, unless the watch had been taken m the room, he had one. Satisfied, apparently by the external application to his pocket, he said: "It's all right ; my watch is here. I thought you had beet playing a trick upon ine." "I'll bet you o as you've no watch," bawled out one of his tormemt ors ; another offered to bet him .1110; and one of the strangers said he hadn't .i!5, but there were two sovereigns which he would like to1 double that Way. The' awakened sleeper looked at them' with astonishment, and asked them if they were serious ; they all stuck to it that he had no watch ; and then he took out his purse and produced live and ten pound notes equivalent to the bets offered against him. The stakes were posted ; and the then thorotrghly awakened sleeper coolly pulled out the piece of wood, at which a horse laugh rose against him, but the laugh ter was soon on the other side, when, touch ing a spring in the bit of wood, it flew open and displayed a very handsome gold watch snugly encased within it. The gentleman gave a plusible reason for preferring so odd looking a case fur his watch, with which his dupes might either feel satisfied or not. lie had received their money to the extent of .120 ; and they had bought a knowledge of "the time of day." Of course the very suggestive strangers lost nothing by the business they, in fact, were accomplices of this clever sharper. - Real estate in East on is cheaper than for many years past. In Turkey a young man must obey his parents till he's twenty five. Iaw is like a sieve ; you mav see through it, but you must be considerably reduced before you can get through. There are investments of $700,000,000 in the railroads of the United States that do not pay a dollar of income to the holders of tho stock and bond?. When the war of the Revolution began there was but one man in Massachusetts who was worth more than thirty thousand dollars ; there are now forty-five worth mere than a million. There has been discovered a mine of ex cellent bituminous coal on the middle fork of the Coquille river, Oregon, about four teen miles above tide water. One vein is seventeen feet thick. Some of the business firms in certain? towns iu Pennsylvania have adopted a credit check, which sjstcm, it is said, is working very well. The checks fur $5 aro sold for $4 75 cash, or five per cent, off, and are so arranged with figures that upon purchasing an article the amount is punched out, requiring no book keeping or store book. At the Alabama State election, last week, the Democratic ticket, headed by George S. Houston for Governor, succeeded by some 30,000 majority. The Legisla ture is very strongly Democratic. The Republicans in that State have wasted their strength in internal dissensions, and have no right to complain of their thorough de feat. The telegraphic reports assert that no violence was committed, aud that every man had a chance to vote as h? pleaded.
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