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THURSDAY, MARCH 15, 1S77.
Its?" Who doesn't feel better now?
EST" Let us see, 8-2-7. All right b'hoys.
TgT Grant has gone out; Hayes has gone
in; and Tildcn has gone up.
2?-Col. Robert Ingersoll b;
through" the "haze." He says :
publican 'et."
rins to see
"Im a Re-
CS Ex-Gov. Hendricks is necking repose
and forgetfulness in California. He will re
main there for a month or two. He is said
to bo unwell.
0-Those Tildcn poles out in the west
end had letter be cut into stove-wood and
distributed among the poor. They would
be more beneficial.
K5"Thc Democrats say that Evnrts never
held an elective office ; but John Morrissey,
one of Mr. Til Jens reformers has and so has
G rover, and Cronin too.
22?- Two rival candidates for the Demo
critic nomination for Mayor of Galveston,
Texas, a few days ago settled their contest-
by the toss of a penny.
tsST" President Hayes' proverbial luck shows
no sign of deserting him. Obstacle after
obstacle melts away at his touch or wheels
into line and swells his forces.
r?Amandus Orcvus, the "funny man"
over the way is really too witty to live.
Our devil says he is too wicked to die.
We hope such is not the case.
5eT"In another column will be found a
very interesting sketch of the military and
political life of Hon. Chas. W. Buttz, who
was born in this place thirty-nine years ago.
CO The description of the republican
demonstration upon the inauguration of
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Il3ycs and Wheeler was all that could be
expected from the "Old Granny" over the
way.
iS? Sympathizing Democrats are thrown
ink) an agonizing sweat because, as the'
say, President Hayes' course will disrupt
the Republican party. How fearfully
charitable, O our enemy ?
55" President Hayes and wife have three
children with ther, in Washington a son of
32, a daughter of 8, and a son of 6 years.
The two eldest sons are away fropj home,
one at Cambridge Law School, and another
at Cornell University.
E-275 Mrs. Hayes is, by general report, a
very fine woman. The Cleveland Plain
Dealer, a rampant Democratic paper, says
that "Gov. Hayes lias a modest, estimable,
kind-hearted woman for a wife; a lady who
will adorn the White House into which her
husband has been forced by a conspiracy
cf politicians."
ESfHonest plain people arc trying to dis
cover wherein the policy of President Hayes,
pi far as it has been indicated, is a depar
ture from the party platform or from his own
pledges, and they are wondering whether his
Cabinet is not just such a one as was fore
shadowed by his letter accepting his nomina
tion for the Presidency.
A Veteran Senator Resigns.
The Hon. Simon Cameron has sent his
resignation of the office of IT. S. Senator
to Gov. llartranft, to take effect when his
puccessor shall be elected. He leaves the
Senate with two years more of his present
term to serve, and with a moral certainty
cf a re-election had he desired it. Resig
nations under such promising circumstances
are indeed rare. Probi.bly there is no
record when a Senator with influence un
impaired, has laid down his ofBce to volun
tarily retire to private life.
The venerable Senator states that he is
73 years old, and thinks that he has been
in public life long enough, and that he
would never find a better time than the
present to retire. That he is tired of the
care and worry of office, of having to turn
away good people whom he would be glad
to serve if he had the power, and of being
anno; cd by bad people seeking to make
use of him. That he is wealthy and need
not subject himself to all this annoyance.
He wishes to have it distinctly understood
that be docs not resign because cf any
vexation or anger at the new Administra
tion, for he should give President Hayes
his cordial support, and hoped he would
succeed in carrying out bis new policy but
feared he would not. lie had no objection
to any member of the new Cabinet, except
Schurz, who sneered at bis appointment to
the War Department in 18G1. He simply
objected to Sherman's immediate confirma
tion in order to pay him off in kind.
Senator Cameron is the oldest member
cf the Senate. His service in that body
long antedates that of any other Senator.
He was first elected Senator in 1815 to fill
out Ruchanan's unexpired term. In 1S37
he was again elected to the U. S. Senate.
He resigned his Senatorship to take the
position of Secretary of War in Mr.
Lincoln's Cabinet, which he subsequently
resigned and accepted the Russian Mission.
The furcign mission not proving to be
to his taste, he only remained a short time
abroad, whfin he returned home and was
xoon elected again to the United States
Senate, taking his seat in 18G7. In 1872
he was re-elected. The venerable Senator
has probably had Diore to do with making
and shaping our national legislation than
any othor living Senator ; and yet on retir
ing, he is remarkably vigorous both physi
cally and intellectually ; and after a short
season cf rest may again enter public life
with reneweu strength and energy
J. Don. Cameron, ex Secretary of War.
will hi ull probability be bis father's euc-
cctsor.
IS57The Democrat of last week, after
failing signally i.i its attempt at playing
the rele of "Reformer," makes a desperate
attempt at playing the part of a tcit. Rut
in this effort he is pitiably , awkward and
clumsy. He presents us in his first column
with a very accurate likeness of himself.
The likeness shows him in two moods.
The one indicating his present condition
since he realized that none of the public
spoils were to coine into his reforming
grasp. The other likeness shows our
Democratic reformer while in fond antici
pation of the golden fruits of reform. Rut
in order to see him in this latter mood, it
is necessary to stand hira on his head,
when a broad laugh will be seen to wreath
his classic countenance, every lineament of
which indicating his firm and fond expecta
tion of getting his full pound of reform
flesh. Wc could wish that our reformer
could bear his bitter disappointment with
calm, philosophic resignation. All know
that there is but a stop between the good
and bad, or between success and defeat.
We cannot doubt that the melancholly
depicted in the countenance of our contem
porary will soon render the following cut a
fixed fact :
But such is life; while one succeeds and
flourishes, it is the sad lot of another to
fail and dwindle into mother dust, and thus
fertilize the soil with muscle and phosphate
in order that others may
rrrfirv f-if onil
strong
Gone to tho
r FN TOM?,
ESL.A reporter of The Chicayo Tribune
interviewed cx Gov. Seymour in that city last
Thursday. He took a quiet view of the situa
tion, and discoursed philosophically of politics
and politicians. He said: '"The worst clas
of men in politics are thosii who do not claim
to be politician. Politicians as a rule, arc
not bad men. It is a man who does not claim
to be a politician, and who is in politics, that
generally docs the mischief. Parties arc
necessary to a country. They make men love
their country. They make them forget
elu.-diness, and inculcate patriotism. It is
political parties that make and sustain a
nation. Our system of government is pceu
liar, and political parties arc necessary. The
world looks upon us as a combative race. Rut
wc talk in our own exaggerated way f.-om
the stump and through the press, but mean
no harm. In parties men loarn the charac
ters of their opponents and "friend's pad sec
their faults, though they may not bo wining
to confess them as regards their own partisans.
They learn to be liberal in parties. We talk
of our political opponents in a Pickwickian
sense. Why, when I was Governor I was
never treated more chivalrously than by I he
Legislature oppo-xd to me. They differed
with me, but the difference was an open one,
and we knew it. They thought nothing cd'
abusing me in exaggerated speeches, calliiu
me traitor, &c, and coming to r.vi right after
and asking what they could do lor me.
There was no ill-Pjc-iinir, but it is our system
of doing things. I got over my defeat in
ahout two weeks. I was more interested
when I was running for the Assembly than
when I ran for President. When I was
defeated I knew it meant rest, and it took
me at least two years to get over an election
to office."
C- A correspondent sends the The
Chicago Tribune a letter he received from
ex-Senator Key of Tennessee, dated Nov. U,
1875. This was thortly after his appoint
ment -as Senator and when some of the most
influential of the Democratic journals of the
State were calling upon him to resign because
he opposed the greenbrack heresies of the
p.arty. Mr. Key says in the letter :
"I beg you to remember I am no diplomat,
no trimmer, no time server; I believe you
know that. My motto and my platform are,
'Honesty is the Lest policy.' If my party
adopts a platform ever3r tingle principle of
which I do not indorse, I think I may vote
for and support iis men if I choose.
When Col. P was Superintendent of
Public Instruction, we had a conversation at
the Maxwell House, in Nashville, in which
we both agreed that we were not and would
not be partisans, but should reserve to our
selves the right to do what we might think
riuh't. That is yet my platform, and always
shall be. If it takes me to the halter or the
stake I shall take that platform with me to
it. If my party and conscience go together I
shall go with my party, but if my conscience
go one way and my party the other, then I
perfer to go with my conscience and judg
ment. If the Democratic party doesn't want
a man with this sort of platform it had better
read me out. I stand by my utter
ances. They were sincerely given, and I
have no apologies to make for them. They
are the truth, and I shall stand or fall by th"
truth. You may file this letter and
use it against me if I fail in a jot or a tittle
of what I say." These sentiments show that
Mr. Key is not wanting in the old fashioned
virtues, and the selection of such a man
brings out in a clearer light Mr. Hayes's pur
poses in constructing his Cabinet.
A FINE assortment of notes, judgement
notes, leases deeds, marriage certificates,
and justices and constable' blanks, constant-
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ly on hand and for sale cheap, at this office.
i mm ii hi i in ittmii ii i
IVcw XZampsnirc election.
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In the election held in New Hampshire,
last Tuesday, the Republicans were victo
rious. They have elected their candidate
for Governor, Railroad Commissioner, two
members of Congress, sure ; one in doubt.
The Republicans will have from 50 to 75
majority in the House, and 8 of the 12
Senators, and 4 of the 5 Councillors".
All hail New Hampshire.
KSi-Mr. Tilden has been generally credited
with making some pretty heavy outlays dur
ing and since the Presidentinl campaign.
He can reimburse himself by disposing of
some of the useless wares left on his hands.
The Albany Journal attempts a catalogue
of these as follows : "One livery of Reform;
a large and varied assortment of campaign
lies done up in wrappers ; one bureau and
one cabinet. The bureau is rather the worse
for wear, but the cabinet which was made
early on the morning of Nov. 8, last has
never been used ; one verbal felicity entitled
'usufruct,' protected by patent and pro
nounced by Richard Grant White aud others
the mos; eminent word in the langu ige ;
coil of telegraph wire sufficient to connect
New-York City with central Oregon ; one
dictionary (very rare); one bunch of keys to
ciphers ; one bob o' link ; ouc nephew ; job
lot of nincompoops."
KJ-President Hayes seems to be the right
man iu the Presidential Chair. He appears
to have completely astounded his Democratic
opponents by simply acting according to his
letter of acceptance and inaugural address
The Democratic plan of reform is to reform be
fore election on paper and through the mouth
and forget their promises as soon a3 they get
into office. Rut President Hayes' method is
of quite another kind. He suits the deed to
the promise. He nominates a Cabinet com
posed of such men who by their past lives
give us an assurance that reform in earnest is
to commence with his administration. The
liberality and generosity cviuced by him in
the selection of his Cabinet was inaugurated
by Washington and died with General Jack
son, who adopted the demoralizing civil service
policy that, "to the victors belong the spoils."
President Hayes puts his foot square on this
hidra monster, which has been sapping the
nation's life for the last 4S years. It is true
that this promised reform is not yet fully ac
complished. Rut President Hayes has
hitherto been a success in whatever he has
undertaken. Ilis record for the past sixteen
years, hi admirable deportment elapsing
between his nomination and the final count
ing of the electoral votes, evince discretion,
practical wisdom an 1 sound s "nse which give
great reason to trust to him for a fi;:ul con
summation of the work which he has set
himself to do. No position has yet found
him unequal to its rcquirmCHts. He is a
thoroughly educated lawyer, a tried soldier,
with two terms in Congress, and three terms
as Governor of Ohio, which gave him an
experience in state affairs which in no small
degree fit him for a faithful di.-eharge of the
higher duties to which he has been called.
His inaugural addrcy is an admirable
document and fully comprehends tlsc de
mands of patriotism. It is short, modest,
and decisive, Lut hits with unerring aim
precisely the points that need attention from
the incoming administration and from the
country as well. With regard to the South
ern States he urges mutual patriotic forbear
ance, and promises to protect the rights of
all, be they black or white, by every constitu
tional means at his command. lie favors
universal education and suggests national aid
to state grants. He favors but a single
Presidential term which he would have
lengthened to six years. On the civil-service
reform he reminds both parties that they
arc pledged to it, and asks for their mutual
aid to lift it out of the arena of party politics.
We venture the assertion that no patriot can
oppose the spirit cr letter of the inaugural
address. Nor will any one who knows the
man doubt for a moment that ho means
every word of it.
UKSIGSATSO Or SEWTOR
CA.11CUGX.
IIakuisburg, March 12. The Senate
met at half-past seven, Lieutenant-Governor
Latta presiding.
Secretary of the Commonwealth Quay
presented a communication from Governor
Hartrauit announcing the resignation of
Senator Cameron.
''To the Senate and House of Representa
tives Gentlemen : I have the honor to
notify you that a vacancy exists in the re
presentation of the State of Pennsylvania
iu the Senate of the United States, by rea
son of the resignation of Hon. Simon
Cameron.
John F. Hartranft."
Mr. Iluhn offered a resolution, which
wa adopted, that the House proceed on
Tuesday, 20th of March, at i P. M., by
viva voce vote of each member, to elect a
Senator to fill the vacancy occasioned by
the resignation of Hon. Simon Cameron,
and that the Speaker appoint one teller on
the part of the House in joint meeting of
the two houses to convene on Wednesday,
21st of March. The House then adjourned.
Mr. A. V. A. Miller, the artistic tonsor,
will move his barbershop from the old stand
he now occupies (Albert's building) to
Walton's building opposite, one door below
Hunter's clothing store, where he will be
happy to meet his old customers and as
many new ones as may desire any thing done
io his line. Give him a call. f
Country roads are bad.
GYrsiES are on the march.
The grafting season has opened.
Young chicks are peeping forth.
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Our public schools have closed and all feel
'appy.
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How about base ball boys, are we to have
a "Nine?"
Whole suits for ladies will be fashionable
another year.
All fools day and eastcr come on the same
day this year.
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Gardening and seed sowing will soon be
the order of the day.
Who will help revive business by building
a new house this Spring?
Egos were sold last week at 14, 15, 16,
and IS cents per dozen.
Rt-TTEU is selling for 28 and 30 cents per
pound. According to quality.
Parsnips -sold at retail in this place, last
week, for three cents per pound.
Ten thousand men are at work on the
site of the Paris exposition of 1878.
Is there really a prospect that the Lehigh
and Eastern Railroad will be finished?
Look out for the dancing bear, boys, he
was seen in the streets of Rucks county.
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The first of April flitting has commenced
and movers are packing up for that day.
Rlack net veils with dots of cardinal
red are to be largely worn this season.
o-
Many of our merchants are cleaning up
preparatory to opening of their spring stock
Large flocks of black birds were seen
hovering along our small streams last week
Paints and Oils cheap for cash at
Ilollinshcad's Drug Store. March 1-1 mf
.
The lamb doth begin to gambol; other
"doubtful innocents" have been at it al
winter.
A vein of semi-bitu:ninou3 coal has been
discovered near La Grange. Wyomin
county.
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A KF.O factory is now in full operation
at Rristol, Rucks county. They are to be
used by the makers of white lead.
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Flour thrown on burning oil will
quench t lie flames instanter. Remember
this when your lamp explodes.
Since the 'blue-glas3-chimney" fever
is so rampant, would it not be well to style
the common chimney "pale faces?"
.o
It is estimated that the number of ladies
who cannot pass the mirror without glan
cing into it averages about twelve to every
dozen.
Seek not so much to know thy enemies
as friends ; for w here one man has fallen by
foes, a hundred have been ruined by acquain
tances. A BLACK SNAKE four feet long was killed
at Hope, Warren county, N. J., a few days
ago. This is something unusual for this
time of the year.
"Whether religion be true or false it
must be necessarily granted to be the only
wise principle and safe hypothesis fur a
man to live and die by.
. .
As the prospect of a breach among the
Republican Senators lessons, the dispair of
the reformers increases. Their despondency
almost equals that of the office-seekers.
Jumping rote on the street corner is the
way a certain young newly married woman
amused herself on Saturday last, while wait
ing for the street car. Striped stockings arc
still in fashion.
A good name h properly that reputa
tion of virtue that every man may challenge
as his right and due in the opinions of
others till he has made forfeit of it by the
piousness of his actions.
At the restaurant the guest called the
waiter to him and remarked : "This goose
with wine sauce would be most palatable
but for a slight mistake. The a-jre is iu the
goose and not in the wine."
Leo Rrokkn. Master Edgar VanVlict,
a son of Mr. Warren VanVHet, of Stroud
township broke his left leg above the ankle
joint, last Sunday. Dr. Lewis Rush, of East
Stroudsburg, set the facture.
A TACKAGE containing soma small
articles was found in front of Mr. Jesse
Albert's residence last Tuesday. The
owner can have tho same by calling at this
office and describing property.
The old sore-eye frame hou-e that was oc-
cupid at one time by Prof. J. II. Lee, as a
barber-shop, was torn down last Saturday a
week ago. We hope that the owner of the
property will erect a neat building on the old
spot or fence it in.
.
The wind and rain of Thursd iy evening
last, done some damage in this vicinity. A
iiuni'icr of panels of feuer, at the Fair
G round were prostrated. Tho bark shed at
Hull's tannery was blown down, and several
shutters were displaced around town.
On Monday morning list, a Pheasant
attempted to enter the Indian Queen Hotel,
on Main street, this Rorough, and in doinj;
so flew against the casin.z of the door and
lashed out its brains and tumbled to the
floor a dead bird. No business to bo look
ing fur whiskey !
An exchange says : The latest novelty
in the way of door mats is the invitation
to "wipe off your feet" or "shut the door,"
worked in bold cardinal upon tho face of
the mat. "Wipe off your chin" mid "blow
your nose" will bo the next iu handkerchiefs.
Personal.
Mrs. John Klecklcr, of Scranton, is in
town visiting friends.
Martin Scifert, of East Stroudsburg,
started for Kansas City, Mo., yesterday.
Moses E. Miller, son of R.euben Miller,
starts for Zanesville, Ohio, on Tuesday
next, on a visit to friends.
Mrs. Mary IsetJ, oldest daughter of Mr.
David Keller, arrived in town on Monday
evening last on a visit to her father.
Dr. Shull has moved his office into the
rooms formerly occupied by the Y. M. C. A.,
which apparently has been disbanded.
Mrs. Jane Melick, of this place, who has
been visiting relatives in Rrooklyn, and
Newburgh, N. Y., for the past six months,
will return home this week. We learn.
Mr. Simon Grubcr, esqr., of Poeono tsp.,
was in town on Taesdaj' evening last, on
business. Mr. G. has entered upon his 72d
year, enjojs good health and is in excellent
spirits.
Hon. Wm. Kistlcr, late Representative
from this county, passed through town
Monday evening, on his wa' to Great Rend,
Pa., where he is extensively engaged in the
tanning business.
Mrs. Jane Ilollinshead, who moved to Port
Jervis, N. Y., about two years ago, returned
to this place last Thursday. 31 rs. II. will
occupy the brick building known as the Dr.
Jackson residence, at the upper end of town.
Our townsman, Thomas C Walton, who
has been attending a course of lectures at the
University of Pennsylvania, returned borne
on Thursday evening last, well advanced in
his studies.
Mr. James S. White, better known as
"Windy White," will leave this place, for
Kansas, on Monday next, March 19th, where
he intends taking up land on a soldier's land
warrrant. We are sorry Jim is going to
leave us for that distant country, for he is
one of the most ingeuious chaps we ever
heard of. He can make a pair of pants,
build a carriage or wagon, or build a house
from the foundation up to the putting on
of the roof, or make a pair of boots or shoes;
in fact he can turn his hand to anything there
is to be done in the mechaniclal line. We
wish him great success and a safe journey.
The Rev. Dr. Carrow, of the M. E.
Church of this place, preached a very able
and eloquent discourse on last Sunday even
ing to a large and appreciative audience.
We regret, with many others, that it is pro
bably the last sermon he will preach as
pastor of this church, as the rules of his
church will not allow the Doctor to stay
another term. He left for conference on
Wednesday last. The Doctor's attainment,
eloquence and remarkable fund of informa
tion, fit him to grace any pulpit in country
or cit He and his family will bear with
them the kind wishes of a large circle of
friends to whatever field of labor he may be
assigned.
The blue glass mania has reached its
climax in the sad case of a Chicago man.
He went into an optician's and bought a
pair cf blue goggles to wear on his eyes.
He stepped into a hat store and ordered a
little round piece of blue glass put in the
top of his hat in the place of the usual ven
tilator. He then partook of a dinner of
blue fish, at a restaurant with a blue sky
light, dipped bis fingers in a blue glass
finger bowl, and refused to drink anything
until the waiter hunted him up a mug with
a blue glass bottom. The day was now
spent, and going home in a blue light street
ear, the blue glass man, meeting his child
ren at the door, refused to kiss any but
those having blue eyes, sat down in a blue
chair to read a copy of the blue laws of
Connecticut and got int" such a fit of blues,
that he took some blue ink and wiiting in
his will that at his death, the glass in his
coffin should be blue glass, and his monu
ment be made of blue granite, he grabbed
a revolver and "blue" out his brains. A
wise man was he.
Sad Accident. Last Monday morning
Mr. John Keller, son of Peter Keller, of
Cherry Valley, met with quite a serious acci
dent. So far as we can learn, himself and
his brother Charles went to the stable,
harnessed up a three-year old colt and while
in the act of hitching him to the wagon along
side of another horse the top strap on the
bames broke letting the harness fall off his
neck, which frightened him, and in his efforts
to free himself Mr. K., was struck by the
front feet of the colt and knocked about a
rod, breaking both arms between the elbow
and shoulder.
D.s. D. D. Walton and W. D. Walton,
and assisted by Thos. 0. Walton, were called
set the broken hmus. At fast accounts
Mr. K., was quite comfortable.
Samuel Postens of Price township, who
has been ill with the typhoid fever for a
couple of weeks, died last Saturday rather
unexpectedly, aged about 53 years.
Mr. Postens was one of our good and sub
stantial country neighbors noted for his many
kind and neighborly acts. lie was elected
County Commissioner six years ago last fall
and was re-elected three years ngolast fall, his
last term recently expiring. He will be much
missed y his township as well as by the
whole county.
Mrs. Perry Price dead. We regret to
learn of the death of this estimable lady
which took place at her residence in Price
township, ou Saturday last,
years.
Ago about 52
A sailor was recently brought before
a magistrate for beating his wife, when tho
magistrate attempted to reach his heart by
asking him if he did not know that his
wife was the "weaker vessel." "If she is,
she oughtn't to carry so much sail I" re
plied Jack.
A special meeting of the Grand Lodge
of Odd Fellows of Pennsylvania will be
held in Easton on Monday afternoon,
April ICt'i. The purpose is to admit past
grands to membership, and to impart in
struction iu the working of the order.
TJicy Bo Say,
that it was 8-2-7 that there were two
Republicans and one Democrat in the
Post Office Returning Board that two
heads are better than one that the best
lay sermon out is a hen's cackle that
Cronin's nose out of joint that our
steamer is ready at a moments notice
that our old friend Mason Tock has just
received a fine lot of wall paper that
the taking of fish out of the streams with
large nets ought to be stopped that Syd.
Walton makes small wagons that an or-
dinance prohibiting the throwing of ashes
in our streets does not amount to much .
that O. B. Gordon's subscription school
opens on the 2(th in the Ann street school
house that blue glass chimneys are for
sale in our stores '-that the wind played
havoc in and around orr borough last
week that the streams were very hih on
Saturday last that 8,200 fish were caught
in the Delaware river with scins last
week that Simon Barry is doing an excel
lent job at the bridge that umbrellas
have been in demand for the past week
that many children have the chicken-pox
that a number of houses are empty, all
OW1I12T to
high rents that corner loafers
ought to be routed that Dr. Cloud is to
erect water works at Rclviderc that Dr.
Shull lias moved his quarters and feels
happy that Mrs. Jane Ilollinshead has
moved back to Stroudsburg and is wel
comed home again that Rark street was
overflowed by water last week, all owin
to the caving in of a culvert that when
a man gets drunk and commences to cry
he ought to be carcd for by friends, if ho
has any that the Democrat of last week
contained the photograph of the editor,
Amandus O rev us, before and after the
draft of the late war that coal trains are
run by pale faces that there is b'gus coin
in circulation that the street lamp at
Main and Centre streets has been scalped
that the water pipes has not been on a
"bust" lately that Jake Wyekofi' is always
happy that Miss Lizzie Williams has an
excellent voice, and done her part to per
fection in "Coming Through the Rvc"
that SI 00 will not pay for damages done
by the late storm at the Pair Ground
that J. Y. Sigafus is agent fiir the Pstry
Organ that the music furnished by the
Beethoven Oven Orchestra for the benefit
of the Library Company was excellent
that the hole washed at the Iron bridge
wharf ought to be repaired immediately
that our street-crossings arc an eye-sore to
pedestrains that a new disease has broken
out among the hogs in this borough that,
the Cornet R ind played weii at the enter
tainment in Williams' Hall last Tuesday
night that there may be more news i.ext
week.
THE "Duke" and "Duchess" of Strouds
burg, three year old colts, and "Janette
Norton," a five year old, were taken to
Long Branch, N. J., yesterday where they
will be trained for the summer races. They
are the property of Col. E. lb Norton and
are entered for the Jerome Park, Saratoga
and Long Rranch races. They will be
handled by Mr. James B. Fay, a young
man who has a first class rerutation as a
horseman. Like the two broud mares sent
to Kentucky last week, they seem perfect
pictures of health and endurance.
There was a very plenssr.t deration
party the other evening, and the company
sang "We give up all for Heaven" with
deep feeling; but the next day the minister
expressed a desire to resign. He sai l that
three quarts of beans, a pillowcase of dried
apples, two pounds of headcheese, a pan of
twisted doughnuts and a calico dressing
gown were undoubtedly very valuable in
their way, but they seemed to form au
unnatural basis to preach sound theology
from.
Snow. On Monday last snow commenced
falling and lasted the entire day. The
weather was mild and the snow melted almost
as soon as it touched the ground. O;; Tues
day morning we were visited by another fall
of snow which continued until about 1 1 A. M.
when it ceased. At Stanhope, four miles
above Tannersville, on Tuesday morning the
suow measured 12 inches on the level.
The entertainment given by "homo talent"
on Monday evening and repeated on Tuesday
evening in Williams' Hall, for the hern f.t of
the Stroudsburg Library Association, acquit
ted themselves remarkably well. Large
audiences greeting them on both evenings.
The Beethoven Orchestra entertaining the
occasion with their felicitous selections which
ft has been our pleasure to listen to several
times before.
Notice of a reduction in the wages of all
the foremen and station agents in the
employ of the Delaware, Lackawanna and
Western Railroad Company has been given.
The pay of the foremen in the railroad
shops and at the mines will be cut down
ten dollars a month, dating from the 1st of
March, and that of the station agents five
dollars each.
In consequence of the heavy rain storm in
this vicinity, which commenced on Thursilay
evening and lasted until the middle of Friday
forenoon, there Was quite a freshest ia the
several streams around Stroudsburg. The
streams were higher on Friday, than they
were known to be since the flood in Oct. lSG'J.
Orders have been issued at the shops
of the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western
Railroad, in Scranton, reducing the work
ing force one-third and making a reduction
of 10 per cent, in the wages. One hun
dred and fifty-one men were discharged
from the car shops on Saturday.
. In the year 187 there were 1,151,027
births and G77,ii2S deaths registered in
great Britain aud Ireland. These numbers
aro equal to a birth rate of ot.Sanda
death rate of 20.4 per 1000 persons esti
mated to be living in tho middle of the
year.
o
AccoPvDixo to the New York papers
strawberries have arrived in the markets,
and sell at the very moderate price of 61
per quart. Wo don't think at that price,
Stroudsburg people will commence to hold
their Strawberry Festivals for some time
to come.