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The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1855-04-26
The Vote.

For the satisfaction of our readers we
sutioin the final vote in both branches of
the legislature, on the passage of the new
license bill. 1t will be seen that Mr..
Walton, our Senator, and Mr.. Edinger,
our Representative, voted against it.
II The Senate.
YEAs.-Messrs. Browne, Crabb, Oar
sic, Flenniken, Frazer, Hamlin, Hoge,
Jamison, Jordan, Lewis, Piatt, Price
Quiggle, Taggart and Wherry-l5.
NAYs.-Messrs. Buckalew, Crcsswell,
Fry, Goodwin, Haldeman, Hendricks
Kiiinger, MCliutock, Mellinger, Sager
Sellers, Shuman, Walton and Hester.
Spcaher-14.
In the House.
YEAs.-Messrs Allegood, Avery, Ba,
ker, Ball, Boal, Bowman, Caldwell
Chamberlip, Clapp, Glover, Criswell Cum
mings, (Phila. CO.. Downing, Eyster
Fearon, Fletcher, Foster, Foust, Guy
Gwinner, Harrison, Hodgson, Holcomb
Hubbs. kirkpatrick; krepps, Lane, La,
porte, Lathrop, Leas, Lott, MCalmont
Mclean, Mcconnell, Mccullough, Mad
dock, Magi!l, Morris, Morrison, Muse
Page, Palmer, Pennypacker, Powell
Ross, Simpson, Smith, (Allegheny Smith
tBlair.) Steele, Stewart, Sturdevant
Thompson, Thorn, Watcrhousc, Wood,
and Strong, Speakcr-5G.
NAYs.-Messrs. Barry, Bush, Carlisle
Christ, Craig, Crawford, Dansherty,
Donaldson, Dunning, Edinger, Frailey
Franklin, Free. Fry, Gross, Herr, Lind
erman, Mcngle, North, Orr, Reese, Rit-
tenhousc, Sallade, Sherer, Stehley, Wick
crsham, Wilmer and Wright-2S.
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Melancholy Suicide

Mrs. II. Y. Seller, wife of John Seller,
of Poughkeepsie, committed suicide on
Tuesday night, 10th inst, by swallowing
arsenic, which she purchased, saying that
she wanted it to kill rats. The following
letter was found after her death, from
which it would appear that she was driy-
en- to the act by the conduct of her hus-
bands relatives. 1t is a melancholy and
painful story
DEAR JOHN: I sit down to write to
you for the last time. John, | am down
hearted. l can't stand it no longer
Forgive me for what have done. Take
care of Josey, and don't think Of what /
have done. l loved you too well Oh,
God forgive me! After you went away
on Monday noon, your father and mother
commenced at me. This morning | said
I would give them a dollar week and
help to do the work, but they would not
do it. They said that fit had not been for
me, George would have been at Dietrich's,
and you would have been with them.--
John. [ can't stand it. | shall trouble
them no more Ny time is at an end
[ know that it will be hard for you, and
it's hard for me- | would like to see you,
but l cannot. SO good bye for ever, till
we meet hereafter. Ever yours-your
dear wife,
NJ. V. SELLER.
The following is the verdict Of the jury
in the case of Mrs. Seller:
awe, the undersigned, Jurors in the.
case of the death of Margaret V. Seller,
do find that the cause of her death was
arsenic, administered by herself; and futh
ermorc, We find from the evidence ad-
duced that the same was superinduced by
the unkind and brutal treatment from her
father-in-law and mother-in law"
The N. Y. Tribune says, the deceased,
Margaret V. Williams, before marriage,
| was an orphan from Hyde Park, at which
place, we understand, her parents died,
leaving their daughter alone in the world.
She came to Pougokeepsie, and by her
own industry managed to gain liveli-
hood and keep herself respectable. She
leaves little boy, the one mentioned in
the letter as Little Joscy." What
dreadful and undying remorse must gnaw
at the hearts of these wretches, if they
have hearts, whose conduct goaded her
to this desperate deed 1t is further as
serted, in evidence, that her husband was
also unkind to her. If so, no one can re-
gret that the poor hunted orphan is at
rest
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Notice 10 Tax Collectors

Tax Collectors are hereby notified to
pay unto the Treasury without delay, all
Taxes and Militia fines due upon Dupli-
Gates for the year 1854 and previous
years. If those duplicates are not settled
without delay, certificates of balance will
be filed in the Common Pleas, and exc
cution issued for their collection accord
ing to law.
JOHN c. STRUNK,
JACOB ALTEMOSE.
JOSEPH HICKMAN.
C0RMlSSi1lcyS.
April 90, 1855.
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A negro at Norfolk, on the 10th
inst, was struck on the top of the head
by barrel Of oats. which fell from the
third story. The negro was knocked
down by the conclusion, but was more
frightened than hurt, thus afording an
other remarkable instance of the solidity
of the negro's Uranium
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1855-04-26
Wheat three dollars a bushel.

We observe by the last number of the
" Bucks County Intelligcncer," that Mr..
s. S. Frankenfeld, of Spring Valley,
bought three hundred bushels Of wheat,
last week, for which he paid three dollars
72Cr JuSia.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1855-04-26

HAIL SToRM-0n Wednesday, Of last
week, Easton and vicinity was visited by
a severe hail storm The stones were de-
scribed as large as birds eggs, and they
fell with such pelting force that man and
beast had to seek shelter.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1855-04-26
GRAND Jurors.

CheSnuMU.-Michael Getz, and Peter
Gilbert
Hamilton, Jacob Hank, James Harman.
Siroud.-Charics Drake, John Huston, and
Adam Shater.
TO6yhanRa.-TlmotIy Miller.
~ Smithfeld.- George Tompkins, An
drew Frutchey, and Abraham V. Coolbaugh,
and John Clark.
Pocono.-Peter Edinger, & Jacob Angle
moyer.
ELdred.-Charlcs Corrcll.
Price-Samuel PostcnS.
SmitlfeH.-Petcr Yeisley, and Horace
Brodhead
Jackson john Ous;crhout.
Borough-Melchoir Spragle, Wm. Drcher,
Charles Smiley, and Alexander Fowler.
PoH-Aaron Heiney.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1855-04-26

A liquor seller in Pittsburg got severe
sentence on Saturday He was convicted
of selling to confirmed inebriate woman
though he had been repeatedly notified
not to do so. He was sentenced to pay a
hnc of $40 and costs, and be imprison-
ed in Jail sixty days.
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a9- No day has yet been fixed for the
The adjournment Of the Legislature. The
probability is that the two houses will not
he ready to adjourn before the middle of
Nav.
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JURY LIST.

April 90, 1855.
Eastern times., 1855-11-29
Your Neighbors.

Take care Of them. Don't let them stir
without watching. They may do something
wrong if you do. To be sure you never knew
them to do anything very bad, but it may be
on your account they have not. Perhaps if it
had not been for your kind care they might
have disgraced themselves and families long
time ago. Therefore. don't relax any effort
TO keep them where they ought to be; never
mind your own business, that will take care of
itself There is man passing along-there
he is looking over the fence into his neighbor's
garden-be suspicious of him, perhaps he con-
templates stealing something some of these
dark nights, there is no knowing what queer
fancies he may get into his head If you see
auy symptoms of any one passing out of the
path of rectitude, don't say anything to the
erring individual about it, but tell every one
else that you can see, and be particular to see
great many. 1t is good way to circulate
such things, and though it may not benefit
yourself, nor any one else in particular, it will
be something equally important about some
one else. Do keep something going, silence
is dreadful thing though it is said there
was silence in the Courts of Heaven for the
space of half an hour, don't let any such thing
occur on earth. it would be too much like
Heaven for the inhabitants of this mundane
sphere. If, after all your watchful care, you
can't see anything out Of the way in any one,
you may be sure it is not because they have
not done anything wrong, perhaps in an un-
guarded moment you lost sight OF them, throw
out hints they are no better than they should
be-that you should not wonder if people found
out what they were after awhile, and that they
may not always carry their heads so high
Keep it going. and some will take the
hint, and begin to help you after awhle-then
there will be music, and everything will work
TO charm.
Eastern times., 1855-11-29
BATH THURSDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 20, 1855.


then, and nobody knew it, and nobody bade US
be brave.
Well, years have passed, but we build cas-
ties as we did then, and feel just such great
cold shadows as used to lurk in the hall, and
people them with forms no eye has ever seen.
The memory should not be tomb, place for
ghosts to revisit the glimpses of the moon in,
but beautiful place, full of recoIlections of
sunshine and ioyeliness.
There should be something beautiful about
homestead beautiful picture, beautiful
brook, beautiful tree. A memory with glo-
rious naples in it, and running stream, and
an old well OF crystal water, and roof with
vine on it, and caves with birds in them, and
pasture full of daises-what lovely place
it must be, indeed, to think that in January
we can always have June in an Arabian
Petra, an 'Araby, the Blest.'
Mothers always look beautiful to children
they make picture for memory's cabinet that
'old masters never equalled. But then, they
should be in a beautiful setting Let there be
broad hearth and an ample fireplace in the
old homestead, fyou do shut up the fire in iron
boxes, or look at it through CRATE. Get
cord or two of old maple, and handful or two
of old beech for a feu de joie, and basket or
two of old fashioned chips, and keep them all
for winter birthdays and Christmas ewes, and
New Years nights and get an old fashioned
body to build an old fashioned fire, and blow
out the candles or turn Off the gas, and
gather within the circles of the hearth-light,
and tell pleasant tales, and smile pleasant
smiles. So you will give the children some
thing beautiful to remember, for, believe ms,
such picture in such ligh: will never fade
out from the God-woven canvass that hangs in
the heart.
Eastern times., 1855-11-29

village-so that the Professor did not dream
of disturbing any one, or being disturbed him
self. The fates, however, ordered otherwise.
He had not been on the spot five minutes, when
the watchmen, attracted by the light, and the
hammering about the cars, made rush upon
the unprotected Professor, dragged him into
the depot where they were for committing him
at once to durance vile, as a felon. 1t was
with the utmost difficulty that sold F-x,' as
the students irreverently call him, could per-
suade the watchmen that he was really Prot.
s.. He was at length, however, released,
with an admoniuon to be careful in future.
The Professor himself tells the story with
great gusto-and sundry shakings of his coat
collar, as is his wont. He declares it to be
almost equal to the We'll Adventure several
years since.-Sdte Of Name.
Eastern times., 1855-11-29

work; any increase in flesh or fat is a signal
to dip lighter hand into the meal bag-that
is, if you want to keep disease and death at
bay. 1t pays to fatten cattle, sheep and
swine, because the result is dollars and cents /;
but you may depend that it is losing spec to
fatten horses; for among such | have the most
practice, their disease being more difficult to
control than when occurring in others, in fair
working order. AS regards corn and cob
meal, think it operates injuriouslv on great
many horses. In the first place, they do not
always masticate it properly; it being soft
and easily salivated, they are apt TO bolt it, as
the saying is. In order 10 obviate the diff
Guilty, the meal ought to be mixed with cut
hay or straw,-artcles that must be masticated
ere swallowed. Should the digestive organs
be deranged, meal ferments very rapidly, in
ducing flatulency.
should not object 10 giving horse feed
of corn and cob meal occasionally, mixing it
with cut hay and little salt. Salt is a good
antiseptic prevents fermentation; affords, by
the decomposition in the stomach, muriatic
acid and soda; aids digestion and prevents the
generation of worms. The best remedies for
restoring digestive functions are powdered
salt, 3 ounces powdered ginger, IA ounce
powdered charcoal, ounce Mix, divide in
to eight parts, and give one, with the food,
night and morning. Western Agr7culturist.
Eastern times., 1855-11-29

To YoUNe CHEMISTS. When it is desired,
in the laboratory of the chemist, to divide glass
tubing accurately into pieces of a certain speci-
fled length, the following receipt will be found
invaluable. Having immersed small three
cornered file in spirits of turpentine, file the
tube in the direction desired with one of the
edges of the file, keeping the point of friction
constantly wet with the liquid. By using a
fat side of the file in the same manner, the rag
ged edges of broken Tubes may be rendered
perfectly smooth and even. Glass, in all
shapes. may be easily bored by using the point
o: the file, providing the point Of friction be
constantly moisIened with the same liquid as
above. This plan applies equally well 10 cut
ting all other articles Of glass, and is strongly
recommended for its rapidity and from the fact
that it auo,ds all danger Of cracking. 1t will
be found infinitely superior to The old method
of simply using the fle.-N. Y. Spectator
Eastern times., 1855-11-29

AMERICAN INGENUITY TRIUMPHANT. The
American Inventors, represented at the Paris
exhibition, have received about twenty gold
and silver medals, which gives medal to ev-
cry eighth exhibitor higher proportion of
first class medals than will be received by any
other nation. McCormick's reaping and Pitts
threshing machines, Blanchard's for bending
wood, Singers sewing machine, Goodyear's
vulcanized India rubber, Fowler & Preterre,
for artificial teeth, Richmond's machine for
cutting iron for steam boilers, and Maury's
maps and charts, are among the articles which
took the medals. Colts guns and pistols met
with great opposition, and had many competi-
tors from France and Belgium, and he, in con-
sequence, gets but third-class medal Fair
bairne, the celebrated engineer. before the
British Association, paid marked compli-
ment to the many new and useful inventions
which he found at the Paris exhibition by
American contributors.
Eastern times., 1855-11-29
Magazine under the Redan.

An extract of letter from Sebasropol pro-
fesses to show how the Redan escaped being
blown up by the Russians, like other forts -
A sapper who was exploring the batteries OF
the Redan just as the Russians were evacua-
ting the town, discovered large cable, which
he cut in two by blow of an axe, and then
called the attention of the officers to it. On
further examination, it was found to be thick
metallic wire, covered with thick coating of
guita percha. This wire led TO a very large
powder magazine, dug under the Redan, the
when they thought of the frighiful explosion
from which they had escaped. The wire came
from across the town as far as the sea, which
it crossed to the other shore, from whence the
electric spark was 10 be dispatched to sci fire
TO that volcano. 1t was discovered just at the
nick of lime, as the last soldiers had not evacu-
sied-lhe town when the forts blew up one after
another, filling the trenches with the ruins
The Careening Fort, the Flagstaff Battery, the
Central Baston, the forts Of the bay, the arse
mails, and all the principa edi6ces, crumbled TO
the ground beneath the combined action Of
shells, fire aud mines. The Redan and Mala-
koif alone remained outstanding, the former
saved by the sapper, as just mentioned, and the
latter saved by shell, which, directed by Prov
idence, had cut the electric wire in two
Eastern times., 1855-11-29

PRooF THAT THE Moon IS NOT INHABITED
DIR. Schorsbey, in an account that he has
given of some recent observations made with
the Earl of Rosse's telescope, says 3
With respect to the moon, every object on
its surface of 100 feet was now distinctly TO be
seen and he had no doubt that under favora-
BILE circumstances, il would Se so with objects
60 feet in height. On its surface were craters
of extinct volcanoes, rocks and masses of stones
almost innumerable. He had no doubt that if
such building as he was then in were upon
the surface of the moon, it would be rendered
distinctly visible BY these instruments. But
there were no signs of inhabitants such as ours,
no vestige of architecture remains to show
that the moon is or ever was inhabited bv a
race of mortals similar to ourselves. Ii pre-
sents no appearance which could lead to the
suppostion that it contained anything like the
green fields and verdure of this beautiful world
of ours. There was no water vsible-not a
sea or river, or even the measure Of a reservoir
for supplying town or factory; all seemed des-
olate'
Eastern times., 1855-11-29

SHOOTING HENs.--The Worcester Palladi-
um tells story of Mr.. Nazro, who, being
greatly annoyed by the depredations of hens in
his fine garden, one day said to a neghbor
Healey, if you don't keep your hens out of
my garden, I'll shoot them!"
Shoot just as many as you please, Mr..
Nazro only be sure and send them home af-
ter you have shot Them"
Accordingly every day or two Healey feasted
from fat hen which had paid the price Of her
temerity in venturing into Mr.. Nazro's culti-
waited premises. Nazro was excessively NOR
tilted at the discovery he at length made, that
Healey was not the owner of single hen (;
but that they belonged to good widow lady
who lived at the south side of his garden 3;
and as he was a man of gallantry, he rendered
her compensation more valuable than apollo
gies. AS for Healey, he did not fail to remind
Mazro, every summer afterwards, to send
home the hens he shot.
Eastern times., 1855-11-29
Remarkable Experiment.

A recent work of science gives the follow
ing novel experiment, which settles question
of some importance in philosophy. Two hun
dred pounds weight of earth was dried in an
oven, and afterwards put into wooden vessel
The earth was then moistened with rain water,
and willow tree, weighing FIVE pounds, was
placed therein. During the space of five
years the earth was carefully watered with
rain water, or pure water the willow grew
and fourished, and to prevent the earth being
mixed with fresh earth or dust blown TO it by
the winds, it was covered with a metal plate
perforated with great number Of small holes
suitable for the free admission of air only.
After growing in the air for FIVE years, the
tree was removed, and found TO weigh 169
pounds and about three ounces the leaves
which fell from the tree every autumn were
not included 10 this weight. The earth was
then removed from the vessel, again dried in
the oven, and afterwards weighed it was af-
terwards discovered to have lost only about
two ounces of its original weight thus 164
pounds of woody fibre, bark and roots, were
certainly produced, but from what source =
The air has been discovered TO be the source
Of solid element at least. This statement may
at first appear incredible, but on slight refec-
tion its truth is proved, because the atmos-
phere contains carbonic acid, which is the
compound of ia parts, by weight, of oxygen,
and 338 parts, by weight, of carbon.
Eastern times., 1855-11-29

A BEssING TO THE COUNTRY. A lady
now on visitto Paris, Tennessee, has written
to friend here some particulars OF remark
able and most exemplary matron Of that vi
cinity, which particulars have been communi-
Gated to us as worthy of a place in our COL
umns. The matron in question is Mrs. D.,
now eighty-seven years old. She had twen-
ty-three living children and prayed 10 the
good Lord TO give her one more, to make the
round and goodly number of two dozen. Be-
sides these, she has raised fourteen orphan
children- She has educated thirty children
her own and portion of the orphans-and for
many years sent nineteen children to school
in Paris, and their dinners with them. She
says that none of those she has reared and ed
ucated have ever disgraced her or themselves.
The girls have all married well, and are rich
The boys have all done well-one orphan has
been in congress, several others in the state
legislature there are sundry colonels, &c.,
among them, and all are highly respectable
We fully agree with the friend who commu-
nicated these particulars to US, that they are
worthy of Observation-Disclosures Journal
Eastern times., 1855-11-29
Nothing in 1t.


Last years birds nests and squirrel-quar-
ried flberts are not the only things in the
world of which it may be truly said nothing
in it, A coquette's heart, and bachelors
home, candidates cordiality, and Shy
locks smlle-of all these, may it safely be pre-
dicted, there's nothing in it,
Nothing in it, cries the banker, as he
glances over the columns of the daily, and secs
nothing of stocks or exchange-no hint where
by he can make cent per cent.-no competitor
bankrupt. o.
Nothing in it, exclaims the politician,
when he vainly seeks leader on the State
of the Country or the latest card or the new
est candidate.
Nothing in it, murmurs the maiden, when
the poets corner is filled up with the rhetoric
of pork and the marriage head is crowded
out by fancy goods at COST
Nothing in it, sighs the mourner, as she
looks over the pages so full Of life and human
interests-no tribute to Nelly who died yes
terday-no plant for Jenny who languishes
to day.
Nothing in it, laughs the bride, as her
eyes dance over the columns the capitals look
like bridesmaids, the italics are walters, the
paragraphs are pauses TO the tune, and she is
too happy 10 read.
So amid them all, the poor Editor has a
thankless time of it. Meme Tekel' is pro-
nounced against him by those he respects and
those he loves. IT'S an arrow al random-a
leap in the dark, and when the last proof is
read, and the sheets are futtering like autumn
leaves upon the press, and he reviews his Ia
Dor, he too, is constrained to say with the rest
of the world, there's nothing in it,
Eastern times., 1855-11-29


A gentleman employed in raising funds to-
wards the erection Of a new Episcopal church,
waited upon a member ofthe Society OF Friends,
of known philanthropy and iborality. Having
stated his object and presented his subscription
paper, the Friend, after pause very graveiy
said, Friend thee knows we cannot consistent
ly with the sentiments of FRIENDS, help to
build thy steeple houses The gentleman po-
liey expressed his regret, and was about TO
Withdraw, when the Quaker recalled him BY
saying, Friend, let me see thy paper again
doth it not state that there is an old steeple
house to be pulled down, The gentleman an
swered in the affirmative. All ! says our
Friend, then i have it here, / give thee
twenty pounds but observe-you carefully
mark, 1 give this, not to build the new stecple
house up-no, no but TO pull the old steePle
house down.