The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1865-01-12

the trial OF suit for damages caused py
construction of railroad through GER
tain farm in Monroe county. William
Darlington, ESQ.,, of Chester county, and
Hon. Hendrick B. Wright, of Luzerne
county, were also among the counsel en-
ployed. Several days were passed very
pleasantly in the quiet and retired capi-
tai of Monroe. The population of that
region is sparsely distributed, and the a.
mount of law business required is not We
ry great. Whenever an important case
is to be tried, lawyers from abroad are u
sually employed.
The above which we copy from the do
calls" of the Bucks Co. "Intelligencer,"
is about as fair a specimen of egotism on
one hand and toadyism on the other as it
has been our fortune to witness for many
long day Mr.. Lear, Esq, lawyer of
very ordinary ability is, fortunately for
himself, employed to assist in cause
tried at this place. He comes here, and
is treated with every mark of respect =
The business in which he is engaged con
cluded he hastens home and furnishes the
Editor of one of the county papers with
s.local," in which his own trumpet is most
famously blown, and the section of coun-
try in which he secured his fee, most e.
gregiously be-littled. And Why is this
done For no other reason than to fill
the citizens of Doylestown and vicinity
with wonder at the greatness of Squire
Lear, and commisscration at the supposed
smallness of Monroe county, and It's capI
tol. Now we venture the assertion that
taking its age into consideration, Monroe
County is not a whit behind Bucks in its
thickly settled districts, nor ahead Of it in
its sparsely settled ones-that in point of
wealth we are rapidly approaching it
that if our law business is not up to Bucks:
it is because our people arc more peacea-
bly, disposed, and not because our lawyers
are behind those of Bucks in good solid
sense, in general intelligence, in legal ac-
quirements, or in urrightness Of dealing
with their fellow men they certainly do
; not pretend to come up to those Of Bucks
in love Of self praise OF newspaper adul
tation.
The capitol of Monroe has always been
self-supporting. With its tanncries, its
mills, its foupdries and the produce of a
growing agricultural country, which finds
through it a channel to market, it so holds
1.-THE balance of trade in abeyanee, as to
EhaYe, at the end of the year, considera-
BILE balance Of cash in it's favor, and yet a
sufEiciency of tbs nscessaries Of life left
to secure a most liberal comfort to it's in
habitants. Its prosperity is upward and
Fonward, and it's steady massb TO substan
tial improvement is certain as that the
sun of heaven shines upon it, and the wa
ters Of the earth lave its expanding
boundaries Excelsior, is the watchword
of its Inhabitants, and when the capitol OF
Bucks shall have passed into the stage OF
grass grown streets and tenantless houses
Stroudsburg will loom up most beautiful
lily and gloriously among the cities Of
the land.
The capitol Of Bucks has always been
a dependency, and always will be. The
mailing of shingle on roof within its
limits is marked az an era in it's age of
improvement, and the hanging of gate
is celebrated as a general jubilee. Like
its lawyers, Doylestown is always on the
qui vioe to grab at an outside chance, and
make the most of it, after it is secured
We well remember the bowling of its in
habitants when Mr. Shouse concluded to
stop his line of stages from running
through it. They thought their all was
gone when the stages stopped, and they
prayed and begged and swore by turns
at tremendous rate. But all would not
do; passengers positively refused to be
dragged through hamlet of dead men,
and Doylestown stood isolated and deser-
ted. The hearts of the inhabitants re-
viyed somewhat when the North Penn
Railroad company, out of pity, concluded,
as matter of charity, to build branch
railroad to Doylestown; but they are
down again. The Railroad built did not
build up Doylestown: it stands yet an
isolated spot-of no apparent consequence
to the outside world. An occasional
quart of watered milk is about all that
finds its way from its borders to market,
and no one cares to visit the place unless
compelled to by stern necessity. In moth
ing has Doylestown precedence over 9th