THE ' J EFFERSOx" "'"A. N" "
Bct)otci to politics, Cttcraturc, dgricnlturc, Science, illoraltttj, atih General Jniellig
ciicc.
VOL. 34.
Published by Theodore Schoch.
Te Two dollars a rear in a.Iranco and If not
p-id before the mad of the year, two d.jllan and fifty
cent will bo charirl.
N papr di.-untinul until all arrearages are
paid. Xi'pt at the option of the Editor.
tj AJertLienienta of on iwjuarw of feiht linn) or
lo. one or thr in-wrtjon Si M. Ea-h additional in
g ertion, 50 cent. Longer ones in proportion.
JOB PRIXTIXO
Or ALL KtP,
Executed in the hihft strle of the Art, and on the
most rrasonable terms.
JJR. NATHANIEL C. MILLER,
Physician and Surgeon,
Orfice and residence: Corner Mala and Pocono Straot,
Stroctxsbciig, Pa,
Office hoars from 7 to S a. m., 1 to 2 and 7
to 8 p. m.
Oct. 2t, 1876-tf.
J.
II. SlIl'Ll., 91. D.
fond 4.r bolow Burnett Uotne. Rsulnc
Cnl do.r wt of HiclcMte Qiaker i.'hurcb. Otfice
li.nir to 9 a. itx., 1 to J p. in., to S p. m.
May Jj, l.7-tf.
D
U. S. MILLER,
llivici;ui and Surgeon,
STROUDSBURG, Pa.
0;Ti.- f.-rTijrlr wnpi.vl by Dr. St-ip. Reidnee with
J. K. Miliar, on dvr bvlow the jetfertoniaD Office.
i5.-e hours, 7 to 9, 12 to 3 and 6 to 9.
31 a r 11. 170. tf.
H. A". I.. PECK,
Surgeon Dentist.
f.Ti."" in Ja. KlinifrN new building, nearly opposite
t!f inMi.lbur Bank. ia.-t adniniatcred for extaetin;;
w'lfti d-irri.
Si roud-!)(ir. Pa. Jan. 6,7tV-tf.
D
II. GEO. W. J.tt'KSOX
p;irsini. suacEax and .U'corcBEUR.
i.7i.-e in imu-l lipid's now htiiMing, nearly op-
j i-it.: thi vt u. Ui-aid -uof on Sara'j street,
n yv- Franklin.
A'l;.-lt s.'7-'-tf
Dirin s. les:,
Attorney at Law,
One door above the "Siroudsburg Ilou.e,'
Stroudbur;;, Pa.
Collections proraptlv made.
October 22, 1374.
i ls ox p i: i ii s o x ,
Xotarj- Public,
SjiI Estate and Insurance Agent and
CONVEYANCER.
Tit!' starched and Conveyancing in all its
branches carcfaJJtj and promptly attended to.
Achiowledjn-e-ntt taken for other States.
0.n,-e, Kistler's Brick Building, near theR.R.
Depot,
EAST STROUDSBURG, TA.
P. O. V.rtX 2'
September -i, 187(3. tf.
WILLIAM S. REES,
Surveyor, Conveyancer and
Real Sstate Agent.
Farxs, Timber Lands and Town Lots
FOR SALE.
0H.e nrrarly opposite American
an i 2d d xr belovr the Corner hrtore.
Mrch 2it. lS7:5-tf.
Houe
DR. J.LANTZ,
SURGEON & MECHANICAL DENTIST.
ti'.l hi? hi. offlce on Main street, in the seeond try
o' Dr. S. Walton brick building, nearly opposite the
S-r.uisl.ur? IIou. and he ttaters himself that by eijrh
t;n ysar "-onstiat prartire and thj mt earn-t and
Psrefui attenriun to all matters pertaining to bis jr
'"ion. that he is fully ahle f perform ail operationa
in t tie dental line in tl.e most careful and skillful man-
DT.
?pe ia.1 attention s"en to sarin;: the Natural Teeth ;
a'i. to the insertion of Artificial TMttl on Rubber,
O'vld. ilr, or Contiuuous ium., and perfect fits in all
ca.es inurd.
't persons know the preat folly and danger of cn
r ist in? tli'ir work,to the iuexp-rieneel, or to f host li-n-
at a disunoe. ' April 13, U74. tf.
Opposition to Humbuggsry!
The undersijne.1 hereby announces that be has re-af-4
buhiaesn at the old stand, next door to Rusters
lo'binjr St.-ri, Main street. Str'nidsbury, Pa and is
f:ly prepared to accommodate ail in want of
BOOTS and SHOES,
Bii'l! in the latest style and of jtood material. Eepair-
iT; promptly attcuted to. Give me a ea'I.
l'e.!, isrviy. C. LKWIS WATERS.
PAPER HAiGER,
GLAZIER AND PAINTER,
MONROE STREET,
Nearly opposite Kautz's Blacksmith Shop,
Strotdsbers, Pa.
The undersigned would respect fUjr in
form the citizens of Stroudsburg and vicinitj
that he is now f ully prepared to-do all kinds
f Paper Hanging, (blazing and Painting,
promptly and at short notice, and that he
will keep constantly on hand a fine stock oi
Paper Hangings of" all descriptors and t
low prices. The patronage of the poblic
i earnestly solicted. May 16, 1872.
Dwelling House for Sale.
-V ery desirable two tory Dwelling House, contain-
lu seven rooms, ofw or wnun is
fur a Store Room, situate oo M-ain street,
in the Korouerh o troudburjr. The
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L" 1 1 i
building i nearly rtcw, nd every part
i,fitia good concatii. i'or terni
CU at thi otfice. Dc. 9; 1S75-4X
JOB PRINTING, of all kind neat'y ex
'J ecuted at thia office.
MASON TOCK,
J. II. 31cCarty & Sons,
Practical Undertakers,
Beg herewith to offer to the pnblic an bn
wnew novelty and practical coovtenience the
following price list, of superior
COFFINS and CASKETS.
An examination of the list will at once reveal
the con of articles in thU line, whether metal
or wood, from the plainest to the most elabor
ate finished, so that parties at a distance or at
home, have but to read to find the precise ar
ticle wanted, at prices much lower than tier
ed by any other house in Citr or Countrv.
These good are all of the best 'qualitv, notliing
inferior being kept in stotk, and will bear the
closest inspection, which is cordial I v ' in. ited.
The list will be found to embrace all the more
recent and meritorious invention.
JYt LUt of Chjiis and Crukcts furnuutd by
J. II. McCarty Jc Stmt.
Xo. 1 Full size complete '$25 00
No. 2 Full ize O (i top and molded
base, complete HO 00
No. 3 Full size, double top and mould
ed base, Frenrh plate Glass, handles
plated. Satin or Merino lining 3o 00
No. 4 Full size, round corners, rich
mountings, Merino lining, Silk
fringe 40 CM)
No. o Full size, double top, full glasn
Octa, jon ends, Merino lining, com- .
plete 45 00
Imitation Coffins, full size f 9 to $13
do do all sizes, from 20
inches to 6 feet, in stock 1 50 per f.ot.
Children' CoCiin, Walnut $5 to $15
do White Caskets, complete,
from 2 ft. ; inch, to 4 ft. o inch. $12 to $1S.
Children's solid Rose Caskets, kept
in stock, from 2 ft. 10 inch, to 4
ft. 10 inch, trimmed and boxed $20 and up.
N. 1 Full size Casket, complete $3S UO
No. 2 do do polished, handles
and plate, complete 42 00
Xo. 3 Full size Casket, poii.-hed Wal
nut, handles, plate, thumb-screw
and richly trimmed, complete 45 00
No. 4 Full size beautiful Octagon or
bent ends, raised double top,"
full glass, heavy moulded, Me
rino or satin lined, complete 50 00
No. 5 Full size (icra Casket, in Wal
' nut or Rosewood only, no iizes
under 4 ft, (5 inch, price as trim
med, from S50 to $150 00
Style A Wrought metal Burial
Caskets, full size, weight
from 250 to 400 lbs, plain
finih, imitation of Iiose
wood or Walnut, single
glass, from $4S to $35 00
Style B Full size beautiful Cas
kets, boiler iron, weight
from 250 to :V0 lbs. double
thick plate-glass, beauti
fully trimmed with satin
or merino, from S75 to $150 00
Style C Full size wrought metal
Ca-ket, glass covering,
whole top, h inch thick,
bar, bandies, silver corner
pillar, weight from 350 to
450 lbs. price from S190 to $400 00
Children's Metalic Caskets, all sizes, from 3
ft. up. Prices in proportion.
No extra charges for attending Funerals.
September 23, 1H7(.
OPEN YOUE
TO THE
Oppression of high prices !
RELIEF HAS COME!!
Now you can get the benefit of your CASH in
purchasing
BOOTS and SHOES.
Prices lower than any in Town.
If you don't believe it call and be convinced.
The People's Cash Boot and Shoe Store.
Kg 3 doors above the Washington Hotel.-5a
E. K. WYCKOFF,
Formerlv with J. Wallace.
Stroudsburg, July 27, 1876-3m.
WOOD
C.G BLATCHLtY, Manuf r, 506 Commerce SL,rhil.
Sept. 28,76-601
CAUTION I
ATf nntnna are hereby ca.ntiooed wot to
trespass on any property of the undersigaed,
situate irr Stroud towBship, Moro coanly, Pa.
An v one violating thia notice will be proseeuiea
to the full extent of the la w.
JACOB If. BUTTS.
StrouAbury, July 20, 1675,
i IS ii
PUMPS
STROUDSBURG, MONROE COUxNTY, PA., NOVEMBER 9, 1876.
The Day After the Wedding.
It was only last evening that I heard,
through the thin partition of our hotel,
(and they are all just frail enough to sec
through them,) that which proved to me
that a moon which should have been sweet,
because it was evidently new the day be
fore, had reached its last-quarter inside of
twenty-four hours. A low, soprano voice
said :
" Freddy, dear ? you haven't told me how
you liked the arrangement of ray hair yes
terday. The new barber, who is just in
town, dressed it for me."
"Indeed ?" answered a bass voice. "Then
the new barber belongs to the I di ot
tribe ; for, to tell the plain truth, your hair
looked like the devil ! And my aunt all
the way from Newport, to see it, too ! I
wish she had stayed at home, and had sent
on her blessing and her teapots and her
berry-spoons by express, and had not looked
you over in such a scientific manner. I
know just what she thought of you by the
squint of her eyes. She said to herself;
'Case of puppy love ! Good figure, but a
trifle too plump. Color wants toning down
with powder. Pleasant eyes, good teeth,
voice so-so-ish, no style, and not very rich,
if ingrain carpets and dingy hair-cloth sofas
may be trusted to tell the story. Her hair
is really handsome, but it looks like an ani
mated mare"s nest ! When she visits me,
my maid shall overthrow that structure be
fore any of my "set" get a look at it. If a
girl belongs to the couutry, why don't she
have things that are natural to her locality
and position, and not put a matronly French
head upon a young Pennsylvania girl? If
I were Fred, I would tumble the intricate
thing down, and keep to simplicity. I am
sure he didn't fall in love with the girl
when she was topped off in that style ?'
Crying ? "Why, you poor little duck ? I
didn't mean to set you swimming so soon ;
and there was no need of my telling you at
all. But you asked me about the hair just
at the wrong time. That infernal Exhibi
tion is too big, and has too many things in
it that a fellow imagines he must see or die
inside of a week. I wish I had stayed at
home. Don't cry ! That's a dear girl !"
4'No-b-body wanted your stuck-up old
aunt to come to the wedding 1 I d-d-didu't
like her any m-m-more than she did me !
She 1-1-looked like an old sh-sh-she-pea-cock
so she did ! She p-p-pranced around
as if sh-sh-she owned the whole village ! I
d-d-don't want her plated teapots and be-be-berry-spoons
! I've got real silver ones,
which were my own mother's. I'll never
g-g-go to her house ; so she needn't w-w-wurry
about my hair. I didn't buy it !
That is one thiug that sh-sh-she can't say!"
"Why, you poor, tired, but plucky little
woman 1 I didn't know you had such a
temper. And I don't believe you did have
it until we worried ourselves all out trying
to see everything from.
tlrenkirwl's icy mountains
To India" coral straws
in one short day. Let us forgirc each
other. Don't cry,- and let us forget all
about the hair and my aunt that's a sweet
girl ! My head aches, my eyes ache, my
back aches, my feet are blistered, I am
hungry, and you are trying to make my
heart ache ; and only the second tlayr toot"
"You began it ! But if you want to for
give me, you cau do it just when you like."
"No, no, dear ! I didn't do qny such
thing. It was the Exposition that started
the quarrel. If you'll overlook what I
said, I'll promise to sit on the baleony of
the grand conservatory at least one-half the
time to-morrow, listen to the music and to
you, and look at the flowers, and the park,
and"
Where every prospect pleases, and only
man is vile," added the unpropitiated bride,
with a quickness that does not often be
long to the natives of her State. "My head
is in a . whirl of India rugs, furniture,
Japanese lacquer, Italian carvings, the little
boy in markble who didn't want to say his
prayers, acres of pictures, Corliss engine,
washing-machines, and an altorclievo head
of some woman or other moulded in butter
and kept on ice, a fogbell that sounds as if
there was a perpetual week-day prayer
meeting or an everlasting funeral, and now
your aunt has rushed into my mind to set
me quite crazy !"
I heard a kiss or two, a cropping and
soothing sort of sound from the bass voice,
a woman sobbing out her anger and weari
ness preparatory to resuming a smiling
good nature ; and I pitied the poor young
man because he couldn't cry and rest him
self after the wearisome day, just as the
bride was doing under his petting and com
forting love and compassing. By-and-by I
heard a gurgling little cough, and a half
hysterical and half-merry voico exclaim :
"If I was to marry again a hundred
times, I would never go to a Centennial
Exposition to spend the first week of mar
ried life 1"
Whereupon the bass voice mockingly
asked :
"Have you arranged any other plan ex
cept this for your next weddiDg ?"
I knew that lie wanted to inquire if she
had engaged the kiqc barber ; but he did
not. Ifer temper and her wit were too
much for hira to encointer when he was
all worn out with the Exhibition, and with
the scramble foi lilV to get anywhere and
return back agaiu. Possibly he may con
clude that this warfare of tongues will not
be too sufe at any time in the future, and
w31 look bck wpon Philadelphia as the
the Wessed plaee which opened his eyes,
th &ly path of safety through the hither
to unkfiowa- brambhsa of Matrimoay.
Sunday Dispatch
THE ORIGIN OF THE GREAT LAKES.
At the meeting of the Scientific Asso
ciation in Buffalo a paper was read by Prof.
J. S. Newberry, attempting to explain the
origin of the great Jakes of this country.
He states that the sequence of events in
the formation of the great lakes seems to
have been somewhat as follows :
1. The Laurentian belt north of the
great lakes, which has been a land-surface
since the beginning of the Pahvozoic era,
was formerly a high mountain range, the
degradation of which has supplied the me
chanical material which composes the sheets
of Palaeozoic rock that surround it. The
erosion of these highlands has continued
uninterruptedly till the present day, and
was especially rapid during the period.
2. Previous to the glacial period, the
elevation of this portio'n of the Continent
was considerably greater than now, and it
was drained by a river system which flows
at a much lower level than at present. At
that time our chain of lakes Ontario, Erie
and Huron apparently formed portions of
the valley of a river which subsequently
became the St. Lawrence, which then flowed
between the Adirondacks and Appalach
ians, in the line of the deeply-buried chan
nel of the Mohawk, passing through the
trough of the Hudson, and emptying into
the ocean eighty miles southeast of New
York. Lake Michigan was apparently
then a part of a river course which drained
Lake Superior and emptied into the Mis
sissippi, the straits of Mackinaw being not
yet opened.
3. With the approach of the cold period,
local glaciers formed on the Laurentian
Mountains, and, as they increased in size,
gradually crept down on to, and began to
excavate the plateau which bordered on the
west and south. The excavation of our
lake basins was begun, and perhaps in large
part effected, in this epoch.
4. As the cold increased and reached its
maximum degree, a great ice-sheet was
formed by the enormously increased and
partially -coalescing local glaciers of the for
mer epoch. The many-lobed ice-sheet, or
compound glacier, moved rapidly from the
south, southwest and western slopes of the
Canadian highlands ; its Ohio lobe reaching
as far south as Cincinnati. The effect of
this glacier upon Lake Erie and Lake Onta
rio would be to broaden their basins by
impinging against and grinding away, with
inconceivable power, its southern margins.
5. With the amelioration of the climate
the wide spread ice sheet of the period of
the intenacst cold became again local gla
ciers, which completed the already-begun
work of cutting out the lake basins. At
first the glacier, which had before flowed
over the water shed in Ohio, was so lar re
duced as to be unable to overtop its sum
mit, but, deflected by it, it flowed along its
base, spending its energies in cutting the
shallow basin in which Lake Erie now lies.
6. The melting of the glaciers was ac
companied, perhaps occasioned by a sink
ing of the Continent, which progressed un
til the waters of the Atlantic flowed up the
Valley of the St. Lawrence to Kingston,
and up the Ottawa to Arnprior. The Val
leys of the St. Lawrence and the Hudson
were connected by way ot Lake Champlain,
and thus the highlands of New England
were left as an island. It is also possible
that the sea-water penetrated to the lake
basin through the Valley of the Mohawk
and through that of the Mississippi, but of
this we have no evidence in tlie presence of
marine fossils in the surface-deposits. The
great area of excavation in which the lakes
lie, was probably filled to the brim at this
time with ice-cold fresh water ,
THE WHEAT SUPPLY IN ENGLAND.
The wheat crop this year is the conclu
sion of a history full of alarm and surpri
ses. Mr. Caird tell it very pleasantly in
all its bearings and consequences, and re
minds us, by the contrast, of the mysterious
and gloomy tone with which the staff of
life was always discussed as late as thirty
years ago. In some respect the present
state of things far surpasses the direst pre
dictions of that day. We are dependent
upon foreigners to an extent never then
imagined. While the average consump
tion is about 23,000,000 quarters, or, as
the customs returns state it, 100,000,000
hundred weights, during the last harvest
year we have imported happily, it seems,
somewhat iu excess of our wants 63,000,
000 hundred-weights, or not far from two
thirds of our whole consumption.
Half of this came from the United States,
and so much of our wheat supply depends,
therefore, not only on the good will of that
country, but still more immediately on her
commercial state, which is very variable.
The profit itself has to be nicely calculated,
and in Mr. Caird's opinion the priees which
have lately prevailed yield little or no pro
fit. Such a fact is slowly appreciated, but
when the American farmers have once
acted upon it and stopped supplies, it takes
time to reverse that movement and meet a
rising demand. Five per cent, of our
wheat imports come from Krrtrsh India,
where we have lately had to feed a famish
ed people. A good deal comes from Terr
key and Egypt, which 3Ir. Carrd, observes,
will have to send us wheat bee-arose they
both want money and can no longer get ft
by simply borrowing. He suggests, how
ever, that in its present circumstances Tur
key cannot be depended on for any con
siderable supplies. France is too much in
our own condition to be sure of sparing us
wheat when we happen to want it ; ra? fact,
if she hat no tf eompeCe with us in the
open market, that is about as much as can
now be expected She has had a poor
harvest f other grain and produce and
may want all her own wheat and more.
The wheat crop of Canada is much lower
than usual.
Here, then, i4.the very stage of things
which a generation ago was prophesied as
the last page of our national decline and
fall. When all the world, including our
jealous rivals, found us dependent on them
for more than half of our daily bread,
they had only to put their heads together
and destroy the proud nation that had so
oppressed and insulted them. The con
summation has come. It finds us year by
year growing less wheat, and the foreigner
growintr, if not absolutely more, at feast
more than pays him. London Times.
BULGARIAN" CRUELTIES.
The London Daily Aeirs correspondent,
who has been to the seat of the Bulgarian
atrocities, writes as follows : 'It is only in
the recital of the details accompanying the
butchery that the mind can grasp and un
derstand the fearful atrocity of the busi
ness. The Greek consul, who is not friend
ly to the Bulgarians, tells me of 12.H0O
wretched women and children marched into
Tartar Bazardjik, nearly all of whom suf
fered the vilest outrages. He tells me of
Bulgarian fathers who killed their wives
and children in order to put them out of
reach of the ferocity of the Bashi-Bazouks.
The German officials tell me of the bodies
of men cut up and flung to the dogs in vil
lages near their own railway stations ; of
little children of both sexes maltreated and
brutalized until they died ; of a priest,
whose wife and children were outraged and
slaughtered before his eyes, and who was
then put to death, after the most fearful
torture, the details of which arc too abomin
able to be retold. I have the story of a
young and beautiful girl, who, having found
means to obtain the rudiments of an educa
tion, opened a school in her native village,
and tried to do something tor the educa
tion of the poor people about her, who is
now lying in prison here, sick and broken
hearted, whose story is too sad for recital.
The French consul tells me of Bashi
Bazouks relating to circles of admiring
visitors how they cut off the heads of little
children, and how dismembered trunks
would leap and roll about like those of
chickens ; and I shut my ears and say
'This is enough ; I do not want to hear any
more ; I do not care to investigate any fur
ther." And this is Europe ! These horri
ble crimes inflicted on a Christian people
a people of progress by a set of barbarians,
who, saving in weapons of war, stay as they
were three hundred years I azo England,
politically, looks calmly on England, who
weeps so for the sufferings of "her frogs
that she passes a Vivisection Bill. Well,
if England has no more humanity to spare,
it is to be hoped that Europe has ; and that
Russia or Austria will take steps to drive
a power out of Christian Europe whose
presence there is not only iBarked with
blood, but with horrors such as the vLJest
nations of old could not have excelled
Once a Week.
A DISAPPOINTED WOMAN,
A down cast looking woman, about forty
years old, called at a lawyer's office on Gris
wold street yesterday, and asked the at
torney if he could see to a little business
for her. He replied that he could, and
she explained :
"My husband went to the Black Hills
over four months aero."
"Yes, I see. That is desertion, and good
ground for divorce," he briskly replied.
"I don't want my divorce, sir. WhaS 1
want is for him to send me some money."
"And he won't ?''
"Well, he hain't sent none yit."
"And what am I to do V asked the' law
yer. "Pat a Iawsu?t onto him, and scare hrm
into it 1" she answered.
He gloomily replied that the Court here
had no jurisdiction in such a case, and that
he corrld do nothing.
"Why, if I was a lawyer I could put a
suit onto him in an hour I know I could,'
she protested.
He shook his head.
"Well, all right," she said, as she rose to
go, "I thought lawyers had some git-up to
'em, and I alius held my breath when one
passed the house, but this thing has opened
my eyes. You don't know any more than
I do, sir. and I don't know nothing f Good
day sir !"
A Fonr Track Railroad to Philadelphia.
The Pennsylvania Central railroad com
pany appears to be following the example
of Commodore Vanderbilt in his manage
ment of the New York Central railroad by
building two additional tracks. The com
pany seems to- have conic to the conclusion
that without equal facilities, compared with
its New York rival, it will be at a material
disadvantage in its cpetkion for through
traffic to and from the west. An officer of
the road admits that a large amount of new
track has been laid between New York and
Philadelphia the past season, by which th
most important nations are now connected
by four conrplete tracis, whHe mile3 of four
track road have bees built where freight
trains can turn oat for the passengers to
pass without stopping on the sidings a be
fore. In this way a pretty earefat estimate
wou-ld place tme-third of the distance be
tween the two cities as already hid with
four tracks, while it is said that the inten
tion is to extend these "sidings" as they
are termed, from tiave to time as the busi
ness of the road shall demand, until in time
th whole distance will be four-tracked.
NO. 23.
DAY OF THANKSGIVING.
PROCLAMATION' BY" THE GOVERNOR. OF
PENNSYLVANIA.
The following proclamation- was issued
by Governor Ilartranft Tuesdaj-:
Haruisburg, Pa., October 31. In tho
name and by the authority of the common
wealth of Pennsylvania, I John F. Hart-
ranft, governor of the said commonwealth i
Notwithstanding the present depression
cf business and the accompanying distress,
the people of the cctnrtry corrthiue to enjoy
nianifold blessings, and the more especially
in the preservation of their institutions and
liberties through the vicissitudes of a cen
tury, and in the steadfast faith that the
light of (rod's favor is only tempoTWriiv
dimmed by the clouds that darken the
country ; now, therefore, I, John F. Ilart
ranft, governor of Pennsylvania, do recom
mend that Uie good people of this common
wealth, laying aside all secular occupations,
assemble together in their respective places
of worship on Thursday, the 30th day cf
November, 1S7C, being the tjt?c day set
apart therefore by the President of the
United State?, tv gie thanks to Almighty
God for His continued kindness, and to
merit by prayer and thankfulness the ful
fillment of all reasonable hopes and the gra
tification of all just desires.
Given nifJer my hand and the irrcat seal
of the state, at Harrisburg, thw, "the 31st
day of October, in the jenr of cur Lord
one thousand eight hundred and seventy
six, and of the commonwealth, the ono
hundred and first.
J. F. ILyrtranftv
A Valiant Express Messenger.
As the Weaverville stage wa? coming
down the mountaht abor:t thrrteen miles
north of Shasta, yesterday afterrrc-on, a
highwayman suddenly js'rspcd from behind
a bush, covering Wells, Fargo el Company's
messenger, John McNemer, with a shot
gun, before he could make any resistance,
and demanded the treasure box, which he
was f jrced to had over. The robber started
for the brrrdi with his booty, and ordered
the driver to drive on. As soon as they
were out of sight of the robber McNemer
jumped from the stage, ran back, got ort
the robber's track, followed him a short
distance, where he found him taking the
treasure from the box, which he had
already broken open wkh a pk-k. McNemer
fired at him", knocking him- over. The
robber jumped up and ran a short distance,
when McNemer gave him the contents of
the other barrel, killing him instantly. He
then recovered all the treasure and brought
it safely here. He left the dead body of
tie robber at the Tower House.
Francisco BuRttin, Oct. 2o.
CARE OF WINTER FRUIT.
First, carefully select the best fruitr
have good clean barrels and line them with
paper, sides and bottoms. Fill yotrr barrel
one-fourth full and cover with paper, fill in
so many more and cover again, and so on
until your barrel is full ; cover with paper
sri head up ; keep in as cool plaee as you
can and not have them freeze. To those
who have been in the habit of storing away
their winter apples just as it happened, in
boxes or bins or old barrels jusrt ready to
fall down, a trial of this plan with a barrel
or two will be amply repaid next winter
ami sj ring in the extra quality of fruit, to
say nothing ef the economy of'tfie thing,
for a few uwraent's extra time in putting
up in the fall k better than twice as long a
time spent in sorting over and carrying out
rotten apples next winter and spring. If
any one has ai better method that" is as
cheap and practical for the farmer, I would
like to see it in print. I have tried pack
ing in land-plaster, bufi like the paper best.
EFFECTS OFLIGHTNING.
The difference in the effects of lightning
in various countries is remarkable" It is
believed to be more dangerous in England
than in the United States. From statis
tics collected it appears that on an average
seventy seven people are killed by it each
year in France, and the annual list of killed
and wounded there by this cause amounts
to 250. The low laying departments are
less subject to it. Eighty were wounded
and nine killed in one thunderstorm at
Chateatfneaf -les-Montiers in 1861, and with
in one week, when the a:r was highly
charged with electricity, thirty-three fear
ful flashes of lightning were observed, each
bringing death to some victims. Twenty
two people are killed by lighting every
year in England, nino in Switzerland, and
three in Belgium.
The Susquehanna and Juniata tivers are
now yielding some fine speciments of the
finny tribe to the skill of anglers. A salmon
was recently cavtght m the former stream
weighing ten pounds, and black bass from
three to four pounds, while from the Juni
ata fine pike and bass have also been
basketed. This is one of the results of the
fishing Liws of this Commonwealth.
Colonel Bud Bate: of Lourel county,
Kentn-ky, and his wife, who are probably
the tallest married pair in the country, have
just started on a tour through the South
for the purpocje of exhibiting themselves
The Colonel is seven feet eleven inches
high and weighs about five hundred pounds,
and Mrs. Bates is eight feet and half an
mch high and weighs four hundred pounds.
At an auction iu Thomaston, Conn., the-'
other day, 700 bushels of potatoes w,-re
sold for 13, or a little over two and a halt'
cents per buchel.