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The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1865-08-03
Sick-Headache.

Sick headache is sickness at the stomach.
a tendency to vomit, combined with pain
in some parts of the head, generally al
the left side. 1t is caused by there be-
ing two much bile in the system, from
the fact that this bile is manufactured
too rapidly, or is not worked out of the
system fast enough by steady, active ex-
ercise. Hence sedentary persons, those
who do not walk about great deal, but
are seated in the house nearly all the
time, are almost exclusively the victims
of this distressing malady. 1t usually
begins soon after waking up in the morn
ing, and lasts day or two more. There
are many causes; the most frequent is,
the arrangement of the stomach by late
and hearty suppers by eating too soon
after a regular meal-fve hours should
at least intervene-eating much of any
favorite dish; eating without an appetite;
forcing food eating after one is conscious
of having enough something which the
stomach cannot digest, or sour-stomach.
Any of these things may induce headache
of the most distressing character in an
hour; it is caused by indulgence in spiri-
tous liquors. When person has sick
headache, there is no appetite ; the very
sight of food is hateful the tongue is
furred, the feet and hands are cold, and
there is a feeling of universal discomfort,
with an utter indisposition to do any thing
whatever. A glass of warm water, into
which has been rapidly stirred beapiug
teaspoonful each Of salt and kitchen mus
tard, by causing instantaneous vomiting,
empties the stomach of the bile or undi-
gested sour food, and greatful relief is
often experienced on the spot and rest,
with few hours of sound, refreshing
sleep, completes the cure, especially if
the principal part of the next day or two
is spent in mental diversion and outdoor
activities, not eating an atom of food, but
drinking freely of cold water and hot
teas until you feel as if piece of cold
bread and butter would really taste good.
Nine times in ten the cause of sick-head-
ache is the fact that the stomach is not
able to digest the food last introduced in
to it, either from its having been unsui-
table or excessive in quantity. When
the stomach is week, spoonful of the
mildest, plainest food will cause an at
tack of sick headache, when ten times
the amount might have been taken in
health, not only with impunity, but with
positive advantage.
A diet of cold bread and butter, and
ripe fruits and berries, with moderate
continuous exercise in the open air, suf
fcient to keep up very gentle perspira-
ton. would, of themselves, cure almost
every case within thirty-six hours. Two
tablespoonfuls of putserized charcoal,
stirred in half a glass of water, drank,
generally gives relief.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1865-08-03

It is not generally understood how
clothing keeps the body cool in hot
weather, and warm in cold weather.
Clothes are generally composed of some
light substances, which do not conduct
heat: but WOODEN substances are worse
conductors then those made Of cotton or
linen. Thus flannel shirt more efectu-
ally intercepts or keeps out heat than lin
men or cotton one; and whether in warm
or cold climates, attains the end of cloth
ing more effectually. The exchange o.
wooden for cotton undershirts, in ho
weather, is, therefore, an error,
This is further proved by ice being
preserved from melting when it is wrap
ped in blankets, which retard, for a long
time, the approach of heat to it. These
considerations show the error of suppo
sing there is positive warmth in thC
materials Of clothing. "The thick cloal
which guards Spaniard against the colo
winter, is also, in summer, used by hin
as protection against the direct rays o
the sun and white flannel is cur warm
est article of dress, yet we cannot NOR
effectually preserve ice than by wrapping
the vessel containing it in many folds
the softest hanneE Black clothes ar
known to be very warm in the sun; bu
they are far from being SO in the shade
especially in cold weather, when the TEN
perature Of the air is below that OF tn
surface of the skin. We may thus gath
er the importance of attention to cm
dreu's clothing. 1t is an absurd Ide
that, to render young limbs hearty, tn
body must be exposed to the undue lnfiu
ences of our capricious climate.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1865-08-03
Hot and Cold.

Dan Marble was once strolling along the
wharvcs in Boston, where he met a tall
gaunt figure, "digger" from California,
and got into conversation with him.
"Healthy climate Il suppose ?"
"Healthy ? it amt anything else
Why, stranger, there you can choose any
climate you like, hot or cold, and that
without travelling more than fifteen
minutes. Just think O that the next
cold morning when you get out of bed
There's mountain there, with a valley
on each side of it, the one hot, and the
other cold. Well, get on top of the noun
tain, with double barrelled gun, and
you can, without moving, kill either sum-
mer or winter game, just as you will !"
"What, have you ever tried it ?"
"Iried it ! often and should have done
pretty well but for one thing. wanted
dog that would stand both climates =
The last dog I had froze off his tail while
pintin' on the summer side. He didu't
get entirely out of the winter side, you
see-trew as you live"
Marble.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1865-08-03
NO.22
A New Dodge of the New York Beggars


A newspaper correspondent writes
from New York as follows:
The beggars have lately created
sensation by dodge which is as anus
ing as cunning. Fulton Ferry is great
gate of the city. Hundreds of thousands
OF people pass to and from the city daily
by that route, and as natural conse-
quence beggars who 60 early where there
is surplus of wealth to be given away,
congregate on the Fulton ferry-boats.-.
The latest trick is performed by man.
and small child, the latter in rags and the
former in a well worn uniform of blue,
with one sleeve empty, the missing arm
being carefully hidden away under the.
coat. The plan of the operators is for
the man personating the soldiers to sit in
the ladies cabin of the boat In such a
way that the child, in its tour of begg-
ing, approaches him first, soliciting aims.
The false soldier listens to the brief tale
told in an undertone by the child, ques-
tioning him or her very loudly, and at
last, pulling a well-worn and wellflled
pocket-book from his pocket, hands it to
his nearest neighbor, and asks him (be-
ing himself unable to handle the pocket
book with his single handy to give the
child ten or twenty five cents. The beg
gars know enough of human nature to
know that this scene invariably excites
the sympathy Of the spectators, who are
ashamed not to give after seeing the
'poor soldier" do so, and the child gen.
orally manages to get quite respectable
sum OF postal currency. This repeated
once or twice day at each ferry about
the city gives to the rascally pair very
nice income. Some of these people make
from eight to ten dollars per day. The
newsboys and bootblacks of the streets
think they are doing badly if they do.
not make from three to four dollars per
day and often their receipts on Sunday
run up as high as five dollars.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1865-08-03

The manner in which Secretary Sew
ard came to know of the death of Presi-
dent Lincoln was singularly touching
A correspondent of the Philadelphia Bull
letin says.
He had been kept in ignorance of the
attack OF the President, his physicians
fearing that the shock would be too great
for him to bear, and all newspapers were
rigidly excluded from his room. On the
Sunday following the assassination, the
Secretary had his bed wheeled around SO
that he could see the tops of the trees in
the park opposite, just putting on the
Spring foliage, when his eye caught the
stars and stripes at half mast on the War
Department, on which he gazed awhile,
then turning to his attendant, said =
"The President is dead" The attend
ant stammered and changed color as he
tried to say nay, but the sagacious old
man said: "If he had been alive, he
would have been the first to call on me
but he has not been here, nor has he sent
to know how [ am, and there's the flag at
half-mast. The old statesman's inductiye
reasoning had told the truth, and he lay
in silence, the great tears coursing down
his gashed cheeks, and the dreadful truth
sunk into his mind.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1865-08-03
VOL. "a.
JOB PRINTING.
MERRY HEART.

'Tis well to have a merry heart,
However short we stay;
There's wisdom in merry heart,
Whate'er the world may say.
Philosophy may lift it's head,
And find out many a flaw;
But give me the philosophy
That's happy with a straw!
If life but brings US happiness,
1t brings US, we are told,
What's hard to buy. though rich ones try
With all their heaps of gold!
Then laugh away; let others say
Whate'er they Will of mirth,
Who laughs the most may truly boast
He's got the wealth of earth.
There's beauty in merry laugh,
A moral beauty too;
1t shows the hearts an honest heart,
That's paid each man his due,
And gave share of what's to spare,
Despite ofwisdom's fears;
And makes the cheekless sorrow speak,
The eye shed fewer tears.
The sun may shroud itself in cloud,
The tempest wrath begin;
1t finds spark to cheer the dark,
Its sunlight is within!
Then laugh away-let others say
Whate'er they Will of mirth;
who laughs the most may truly boast
lies got the wealth of earth!
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1865-08-03
Anti6ote for the Eydrophobia.

The following is said TO be one Of the most
successful anlidotes for the bite of a mad
dog. It was for sixteen years an exclusive
secret with Saxon forester, but who grow
ing old, unwilling 70 let it die with him,
and therefore procured its publication. He
is said to have used it for fifty years, and
rescued many human beings and cattle from
the fearful death Of hydroho5ia.
"THe Aatdote.-Take Immediately, warm
vinegar Or tepid water, wash the wound
clean herewith and then dry it then pour
upon the wound few drops of hydrochloric
acid. because mineral acids destroy the poison
Of the saliva, by which means the latter Is
neutralized.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1865-08-03
Last week Lieutenant Gen. Grant is

Last week Lieutenant Gen Grant is
sued general order to the various de-
partment commanders, authorizing them
to break up all the faro banks in the Uni
ted States. Maj. General Palmer, acting
under this authority, appointed Saturday
night for grand raid on all the faro
banks in Kentucky. Every bank in
Louisville was closed up and their stocks
confscated. Most the men engaged in
them got wind of the movement and left
the city. One at Frankfort was seized,
and the keeper and dealer arrested. All
others in the State have been shut up
This descent on the gambling houses, we
understand to be in the interest of the
soldiers, who have been swindled out Of
thousands Of dollars and left penniless by
them.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1865-08-03
FOR THE JEFFERSONIAN.
Western Items.

Missouri is situated in the heart of ou
vast National domain as we'll as the grea
garden of the world, the Mississippi Val
ley. Its prominent advantages are :
The unsurpassed fertility of its soil; it,
temperate and healthy climate its mex
haustible mineral wealth. particularly
Iron, Lead and Coal, and its CONNER
cial facilities. The meahderiug 'fathe1
of waters" for over 500 miles skirts its
Eastern bounds, and the turbid Missouri
for equal distance, winds through the in
terror, inviting her surplus produce to
take an easy transit by water, to supply
the markets of the world.
The Hannibal and St. Joseph Railroad
passes through the Northern part of the
State, making the fine healthy and active
star City of the North West, (the City of
St. Joseph visible and accessible to Eas-
tern Fogies, that once thought ST. Joseph
was "out west'-almost out of the world.
They can now see that it is the common
centre of that great radius, known as the
North West. The Pacific Railroad pass
ing through the State, East and Vest
The Northern Missouri connects the Han
nibal and St. Joseph Railroad, and st.
Louis and the Iron Mountain Railroad
are among the fixed facts. The great in
cubus-Slavery-so long curse to the
growth and interests ofthe State, is among
the things that were, And her damna-
bic FIRST born rebellion has given up the
ghost, and Free Missouri to-day, invites
the energy and capital of christendom to
assist in developing the Agricultural and
mineral wealth of her broad and fertile
plains. The State Emigration Society
recently established, has for its object,
the diffusion OF intelligence to the reading
world, of the advantages Missouri offers to
the hardy pioneer and the honest labor
ing man seeking permanent home.
I know not, but l presume that officers
of the State and subordinate societies,
will not overlook the great practical idea
of making arrangements with our leading
lines Of travel at reduced fare, to en-
courage the emigrant. Our leading cap
italists are men generally of enlarged
views and can easily realize the result Of
adding 100 Per cent. to the producing en
ergy and capital that will find its outlet
and communications over their lines in
future time. 4 hint TO the wise on this
subject is sufficient.
The people of Missouri are rather a
heterogeneous class, representing almost
every nation and State, and when We
bear in mind the fact that the most ener-
getic people migrate, it accounts for the
tact, talent, and energy, of the
West above mediocraty..
More anon.
r. W. HINCKLEY.
Richield, H., July q, 1865
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1865-08-03
Receipts that Never Fail.

To destroy rats catch them one by one, and
fatten there heads in lemon squeeZer. To
Kill cockroaches get a pair Of heavy boots,
then catch your reaches. put them in bar
rel, then getin yourself and dance. To kill
bed-bugs-chain their hind legs to tree
then 60 round in front and make mouths
To catch mice-on going to bed put crumbs
Of cheese into your mouth, and lie with II
open, ane when a mouse's whiskers tickle
your throat-bite. To prevent dogs from
going mad-cut their tails off just behind
their ears.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1865-08-03
John S. Wallace, a merchant Of Oh

John S. Wallace, merchant of Chi
cago, was arrested recently for using rev.
enue stamps two or three times over on
his warehouse receipts. His manner Of
doing it was to put a stamp on receipt,
and after it had been passed tear it off
and use it again on another receipt
Numbers of receipts were found in his
desk with the stamps off, and the stamps
in an envelope In this way he confess
es to having saved about $50, which will
probably cost him about S35, 900, the PEN
atty for each offence being $1,000, with
the addition of Imprisonment. Wallace
offered $4,000 to the man who arrested
him if, he would let him off,
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1865-08-03
Execution of Women.

The Philadelphia Ledger has the fol-
lowing from correspondent;
"Has any woman been capitally punish
ed for crime in this country ?" has been
repeatedly asked since the finding of the
Military Commission in the case of Mrs.
Surratt and the other conspirators. We
find in +'Watson's Historical Annals of
Pennsylvania" that in 1920, Edward
and Martha Hunt were sentenced to death
for making and passing counterfeit dol
lars said to be the first case in which
death was inflicted" and also in 1871,
in Newcastle, "Catharine Bevan was Or
dered to be burned alive for the murder
of her husband, aud Peter Murphy, her
servant, to be hanged 1t was designed
to strangle her to heath by previous hang
ing over the fire and before it could reach
her but the fire broke out in stream
directly on the rope round her neck, and
burnt it off instantly, SO that she fell
alive into the flames and was seen to
struggle therein-a shocking spectacle in
our country" Thus it seems that our
ancestors were not troubled with that
sensibility which now protrudes itself
among certain classes of our community" ("
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1865-08-03

A Philadelphia merchant sent cargo ol
goods to Constantinople. After the super
cargo had seen the bales and boxes had been
safely landed, he inquired where they should
be stored. Leave them here, 1t won't ram
70 night" was the reply,
"But dare not leave them exposed, some
of the goods may be stolen" said the super,
cargo The Mahomedan merchant laughed
as be replied:
Don't be alarmed, my friend. there is not
a Christian within a hundred miles of u.s.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1865-08-03

A country parish in Connecticut raised
their parsons salary from $500 to S400
per annum. The good man objected for
three reasons :-"First," said he, "be-
cause you cannot afford to pay more than
$500; second because my preaching is.
not worth more than that third, because
I have to collect my salary, which hereto
fore has been the hardest part of my la.
bors among you. If have to collect an.
additional hundred dollars it will kill me"
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1865-08-03

The duty of placing the manacIes up
on Mrs. Surratt, escorting her to the
gallows, and supporting her until the trap
fell, devolved upon Lieut.. Col w. H..
II. M'Call, of Lewisburg, Penna. When
placing the irons upon her wrists, she
told him he was no gentleman, or he
would not do SO. Colonel NC. told her
that it was his unpleasant duty, in obedi-
ence to orders, and not his choice. Her
parting salute to him was, fYou are a
scoundrel p which were about the last
audible words she uttered.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1865-08-03

A gentleman in New York has offered
to give $500, in prizes of $500, ,$l50,Sl00
and $50, to those soldiers who have either
lost their right arm, or have had it dis
abled, who will show the best specimen
of left hand penmanship-the design be-
ing to induce the men to become skillful
penmen, in order to fit themselves for
lucrative and honorable positions.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1865-08-03

In one of his terrible menaces JEFF Davis
declared that when all the men of the
South were put to death in battle, the women
would seize their weapons and beat back
the Northern vandals When captured, the
"President" evidently thought that the time
had come when the women must maintain
Southern chvalry. He would himself lead
them in pettlcoats.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1865-08-03

An employee in the Surgeon Generals of
fee at Washington has discovered new
use for petroleum. His invention consists
of simple process of adhering The debris of
dust of coal mines, of yards with petroleum
and in Jumps or blacked masses, which ig-
mite readily without use of soft Goals or kind
lings, lasts longer, and gives out more in
tense heat thar ordinary anthracites, and
costs about half as much.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1865-08-03
To Keep Butter in Warm Weather.

A simple mode of keeping butter IN warm
weather where ice is not handy. lnVert a
common flower pot over the butter with
some water in the dish in which the butter
is laid. The orifce at The bottom may be
eorked or not The porousness of the earth
ern-ware will keep the butter cool.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1865-08-03

Dysentery preyils to a considerable ex-
tent in Westchestor and Chester county,
Pa, both among adults and children
Many cases have proved fatal.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1865-08-03

II. d. Sherman, of the famous Sher-
man oil well, who five years ago was a
poor man, is now reported to be worth
over five million of dollars. He expects
soon to be rich
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1865-08-03

The rebellion was first kindled into a
fame by petticoats; it was famed through
its whole career by pettieeats; and 1t had its
final fall in petticoats.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1865-08-03

An American physician says that the
human pulse has quickened from seven
to ten throbs minute during the lash
fifty years.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1865-08-03

A merchant, advertising his goods, gave
notice that he would take IN payment all
kinds of country product except promise.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1865-08-03

-Four years ago Oil City numbered one
hundred inhabitants; now 1t contains
about ten thonsand.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1865-08-03

The whole number of Union troops
now in Texas is stated at l4,000, being
parts of the Thirteenth and Twenty-hfth
Army Crops.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1865-08-03

At what season were Adam and Eve
most unhappy in Eden? In the fall.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1865-08-03

excuse the freedom of the press" as the
editor said when he huggcd his neghbor''s
wife.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1865-08-03

Gov. Curtin's daughter has eloped witt
AMI married gay soldier boy.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1865-08-03
Woolsn Clothing

Richfeld, H., July q, 1865.
The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1865-01-19
POPULARITY.

A great many people at the present
day think more of obtaining publicity
and popularity, than of any other one
thing they could possibly be possessed of.
But, anxious as they may be to acquire
the vain glory of the popular voice, none
ever succeeded to SO great an extent as
has that world.renowned remedy known
as Goes Cough Balsam. There is scarce.
ly family in the land but what consider
a supply Of this article as necessary to the
household as their flour or provisions.-
Experience has taught the people that
no other remedy has ever been put before
the public that will cure coug CHS, colds,
Group, sore throat, and in fact all throat
and lung complaints, as quickly and
effectualIy as Goes Cough Ba!sam. In
the Eastern States, where it has been
long known and tested, it is considered
as the most reliable cough remedy extant,
and no one, either rich or poor, think of
being without it. We would suggest to
all our readers the necessity of keeping
on hand an article of this kind for imme.
date use. 1t costs but Acc. per bottle,
and is sold at all our drug stores, and is the
cheapest and best remedy in the world.
The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1865-01-19
IOWA NEWS.

A dog by some accident was locked up
in the First Presbyterian Church at Du.
buque; and to appease his hunger, he
devoured Watts Hymns, aud Bible
and Testament. He must be pretty we'll
posted by this time in theological studies.
The Board Of Supervisors of Clinton
county have proposition before them
to pay $500 bounty for recruits for one
year, and $500 for two years. The Her.
aid thinks it will be adopted.
A number of the men drafted at the
last supplemental draft in the Second
District, have thus far failed to report,
ana $50 reward each is offered for their
apprehension. The number of delinquents
for each county is as follows: Clinton
county, 7; Cedar county, l; jackson
county, II; Jones county, 8; Linn coun-
ty, l; Muscatine county, 2.
Scott county contributed, during the
year 1864, the sum Of s1;l96 80 for the
Orphans Home of Iowa.
A correspondent of the Washington
Press, writing from New Orleans, says
there are more than sixty Freedmens'
schools in that Department, over one
hundred teachers and as many as eighty
thousand scholars, "and," the writer adds,
"none of those teachers are at all discour.
aged"
Ann Hscker, who murdered her own
child With poison at Burlington, has
been sentenced to ten years in the peni-