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Headquarters Reserve, N. C. !
ADJurANr GENERAL's 0EYIos, !
Raleigh, Dec. IA, 1854. J

.RseIgh, DEC Il, I5t4.
GENERAL oRDza,
r. MAJOR G. s. sTRTNGFELLOw ASSISTANT AD.
LIE jutant General c. s. P. A. will relieve Capt. Jno W.
Hndsdae Assistant Adjutant General Of Reserves Of N
c. and the latter officer will proceed to Join the Bird Rsg
eDt Reserves n c. its Colonial, he having been duly
The Lieutenant General Commanding, in taking leave
Of Colonel Hipdsdale tenders bis warm congratulations
his promotion, and Earnestly hopes that the intsl
xence zeal and qsantry which has characterized his
vice Staff officer may be mstured by experience into
greater usefulness in his and more extended sphere
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The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1865-10-26
DconomY of Keeping Rats.

The habits of yermin are almost If not
quite as important subjects of study as
those of more valued live stock and some
statements derived in part from pro-
fessional at-catcher, who has made life
business of studying the vulnerable points
of rats so that he can flank the enemy,
storm and take his strongholds, and econ
omically maintain his prisoners alive,
may be of much practical value to our
readers The common brown rat is the
Mus domesticus. 1t appeared in this
country about the time of the Revolu-
tionary war, and has increased with great
rapidity, having almost if not entirely
exterminated the black rat NJ rattus, }
which was common before, and which is
smaller and not so sharp fighter. The
brown is the only proper rat at the North,
but at the South two species are not un-
common--the Florida or white bellied
rat, and the cotton rat and In Mexico
and Texas we find the roof rat living in
thatch, ETC., and the Mexican or bush
rat. These all breed very rapidly, but
none more so than the common rat. They
begin to breed at two or three months
old, and will have-six to eight litters a
year, of eight young each on an average
under favorable circumstances, males and
females being about equally divided
Were there no natural hindrances to
their multiplication, single pair would
i6crease to no less than 5000 in single
year, and this, if they breed only once
in two months There is, however, one
way in which they are destroyed by whole
sale, for not only will rats devour the
sick of their companions as soon as they
are unable to take care of themselves, but
if very hard pressed, as they doubtles Of
ten are, they will eat their young. The
destruction by cats, dogs and men Is as
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1865-10-26
A Secret of Youth.

There are some women who cannot
grow old-women who, without any spe-
cial effort, remain always young and at
tractive. The number is smaller than it
should be, but there is still sufficient
number to mark the wide difference be-
tween this class and the other. The Sc
cret of this perpetual youth lies not in
beauty, for some women possess it who
are not at all handsome nor in dress, for
they are frequently careless in this res
pect, so far as the mere arbitrary dictates
of fashion are concerned; nor in having
nothing to do, for these ever young wo-
men are always as busy as bees, and it is
very we'll known that idleness will fret
people in old age and ugliness faster than
oyerwork.
The charm, we immagine, lies in a sun
ny temper-neither more nor less, the
blessed gift of always looking on the
bright side of life, and of stretching the
mantle of charity over every body's faults
and failings. 1t is not much of a secret
and we have watched such with great in.
terest, and a determination to report
truthfully for the benefit of the rest Of
the sex. 1t is very provoking that it is
something which cannot be corked up
and sold for fifty cents bottle but as
this is impossible, why, the most OF us
will have to keep on growing as ugly and
disagreeable as possible,
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1865-10-26
Don't Drive the Boys from Home.

Mothers who are disturbed by the noise
and untidiness Of boys at home, must be
careful, lest by their reproaches they
drive their children from home in search
of pleasure. The Transcript gives case
in point:
"There are those balusters all finger
marks again." said Mrs. Carey, as she
made haste with a soft linnen cloth to pol
ish down the shining oak again. George
she said, with flushed face, as she gave
the cloth decided wrench out of the ba
sin of suds, eff you go up these stairs a
gain before bedtime you shall be punish
ed"
II should like to know where I am tt
go 2" said George, angrily. Il can't stay
in the kitchen, am so in the way ; and
can't 60 in the parlor for fear will mus
that up; and now you say can't 60 up t.
my own room | know grand place
where l can go" he added to himself
"boys are never told they are in the way
there, and we can hove lots of fun. II
90 down to Niles's corner. | can smok'
cigar now as well as any body, if it die
make me awfu! sick the first time. They
shall not laugh at me again about it."
And so the careful housekeeper virtu
ally drove her son from her door, to han;
about the steps, and sit under the broad
inviting portico of the village grog shop
Do you think she gained or lost?
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1865-10-26
HGEE AID FRIENDS.

Oh!there's power TO make each hour
As sweet as Heaven designed it:
Nor need we roam to bring it home,
Tboush few there be that find it.
We seek too high for things close by,
And lose what Nature gave US;
Fer life hath here no charms so dear
As home and friends around us.
We Oft destroy the present JOY
For future hopes-and praise them;
Whilst flowers as sweet bloom at our feet,
Ifwe'd but staop to raise them.
For things altar still sweeter are
When youths bright spell hath bound us;
But soon we're taught that earth hath
naught
Like home and friends around US.
The friends that speed in time of need,
When hopes last reed is shaken,
Do show Us still that come what will,
We are no, quite sorsaken.
Though all were night, if but the light
From friendships alter crowned US,
'Twould prove the bliss of earth was
this
Our home and friends around US.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1865-10-26
STROUDSBURG MONROE COUNTY, PA OCTOBER &c, 1885,

general thing inconsiderable. The very
happy results often attributed to the use
of dogs and cats, are usually due to the
rats having multiplied so as to overstock
the premises at the time their foes are
introduced, when they scatter, emigrat-
ing as is their instinct, in families to 9th
er localities. The rat is eminently So
cial animal, and short commons, or any
cause of especial discomfort or strange
noises, as the cry of Guinea hens, per-
haps the discharge of firearms, or wide
awake terrier will cause stampede 1t
is this trait which makes the effect Of the
phosphorus paste so efficient. Com
paratively few rats are poisoned, but their
actions alarm the others, and when the
poisoned ones run away it brings on
general fight, so that often not single
rat is left. The least amount of food
which will sustain rats may be very ac-
curately estimated, but not SO all they
will eat if they can. In this city great
numbers of rats are kept for the purpose
of batting dogs in "pits," similar to those
used for cock and dogs fighting. These
are fed only just enough to keep them
from killing one another, and it is found
that 100 rats will live on one bushel Of
sound corn week, if it be fed with great
care at two feelings a day. A bushel
and half of corn, fed once day, will
bring them through. and wheat or rye
will 90 further than corn. When rats
have their "full swing" at corn in the bin
or grain in the NOW, then the quantity
they eat is limited by their capacity;
yet they will carry away great deal, be-
sides damaging and ghawing much more.
Suppose there are 1000 rats or farm
and this is no extravagant supposition
During the time they cannot get much
in the field, they will consume 10 bushel
of corn, or its equivalent, per week.
Calling this period four months, the
mount consumed is 170 bushel, which
even at 75c per bushel, comes to S1753.
This loss is not apparent it is not all
corn, but it is hay seed, buckwheat, oats,
pig feed, eggs, chickens, ETC., and thus
divided around it is overlooked. The
number Of rats in any single locality is
almost always underestimated. They
live in families and send out scouts and
spies, which are the only rats seen, unless
great pains be taken, and person remain
quietly upon the watch from early in the
evening, so that he is neither seen, nor
heard Then they are often seen in
scores, and often fierce battles are wit
messed. The rat does not see very well
by day, being nocturnal animal, but his
hearing and sense Of smell are very acute.
A rat will never jump higher than about
10 inches, but will climb rough walls,
posts, etc., easily.-American Agricul-
turist.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1865-10-26
NO.. s4s
q Curilns Story.

The following curious story appears in
the New Frankfort Gazette:
A few days before the Grand Duke con-
stantine's last visit to Berlin commissioner
of the Polish National Government arrived
there with Swedish passport from Stock
holm. On presenting him self to his fellow
commissioner in the capital of Prussia the lat
ter informed him that TWO Russian officers
who had formerly served in the insurrection
had determined to assasinate the Grand Duke
on his arrival, wishing to revenge them
selves upon him for having ordered three of
their comrades to be shot The two commits
sioners, feeling that such an act would only
bring disgrace on the Polish cause. deter
mined to prevent it, and at the same time
not to betray the officers in question. They
then began to search all over the town for
the office RS, and at last, alter wandering
about for four days. they met one of them in
cab. They followed him to the Russian
embassy, where he stopped, and asked the
porter when the Grand Duke was to arrive.
The porter told him, Tomorrow evening at
TO-"
The officers turned away and was about
W 20 iuto HIS CdO, WneH ne was stopped by
one of the Poles, who thus addressed him
"Slr you are Russian officer; you have
served in the Polish army, and you intend to
murder the Grand Duke Constantine Come
with me at once to the Polish Commissioner.
l will have you arrested by the Prussian
police" The officer. young man of27, then
allowed himself to be taken to a hotel, and
to be shut up in a room, where the two Poles
mounted Guard upon him in turn. The 9TH
er officer was captured by nine or ten Poles
resident in Berlin, who had proceeded to the
railway station for that purpose, and six
shooter was found on him. A quarter of an
hour afterwards the Grand Duke arrived at
the station, with the brother of the King of
Prussia, and the Prussian Ambassador. little
thinking that he owed his life to his most
determined of enemies, the Poles.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1865-10-26
Arming of the Fair Sex---Great Sale of
six Shooters" to the Ladies. Etc.

When Miss Harris took the life of her
lover in the Treasury Department at
Washington, she inaugurated a system of
feminine warfare previously unknown to
society. That lady being exculpated
by Washington jury, from the pun
ishment usually attendant on the COM
initial OF crime, a number of ''disap-
pointed maidens" in various parts of the
country became bold, and, revolver in
hand, determined to make their respec-
tive erring williams" tractable, by force
of arms, thus discarding their legitimate
method of warfare (the tongue)--a
terrible enough weapon, one would sup-
pose. As a consequence of these exam
pies, general arming Of the fair sex is
now everywhere taking place, and the
gunsmiths are doing brisk business.
Several pistol dealers in this city state
that during the past month they have
sold large number of deicately finished
six shooters to determined looking young
ladies, and in Chicago, Ill.,, apetition was
signed by large number Of respectable
citizens last week, which set forth the
danger incurred by allowing females In
that wideawake town to carry firearms,
which petition was presented to the Pol
ice Commissioners, with request that
they immediately disarm the puguacious
ladies'
On Monday, as a Sun reporter was
walking through the Washington Parade
ground, in this city, he saw two young
ladies on one of the seats busiiy engaged
in comparing and examining a brace of
pistols, one being revolver of minute
dimension, the stock of which appeared
to be completely encaSed with pearl, the
barrels being beautifully polished. The
other was single barrel, old fashioned
piece, stock of rosewood, Of rosewood,
mounted with silver. These deadly ms
truments in the hands of such innocent
looking creatures made our reporter trem@
bic, for in his minds eye he saw another
Harris, of Washington, Ould, of Rich
mond, or Beach, of Chicago Young
men henceforth must 'pop the question"
quickly, or make their wills At any
rate he must be bold indeed who would
attempt to "break off the engagement"
and thus take the chances of being the
victim Of an infuriated "lady shooter -
New York Sun.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1865-10-26
Best Method for Keeping Beef.

Cut up the meat in pieces as large as
you desire. Pack it in a barrel, or cask.
Then make a brine as follows; lbs.
salt to gallon water, OF, saltpetre to 100
lbs. beef, ! tablespoonful Of ground pep,
per to 100 lbs. beef Put in the salt and
saltpetre and heat it boiling hot, skim, it
then add the pepper. Pour it on the
beef boiling hot and cover closely. Your
meat will be good and fresh any time
The philosophy is this The hot brine
closes the pores OF the surface, preventing
decay, and the meat from getting too
salt. Try it If necessary scald the brine
over 10 the spring, or put Oh new brine.
Farmers can in this way have fresh meat
nearly all the time. The meat should
be taken as soon as it is cold, before it
has acquired any old taste by exposure to
the atmosphere.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1865-10-26

The extent to which gambling has be-
came passion with fashionable females
is illustrated by what is related in a New
York letter, the writer of which says that
in Fifth Avenue, and Fourteenth and
Twenty-third streets, there are parties of
ladies from which the opposite sex are
sternly excluded, when the fair gamesters
play until daylight for large stakes and
it not unfrequently happens that when
the purses are depleted, that they put up
their bracelets, necklaces and watches as
wagers. Some of the feminine games
ters Aose heavily, and the desperate
shilts-no illusions to their wardrobe
to which they are put to conceal
their losses and replace them, must be
fearfully demoralizing. a young wo-
man, the daughter of one of our most op-
uleut citizens, was pointed out to me last
Saturday in the Park, as a notorious gam
bier, by one of her own sex, who inform
ed me she had parted with nearly one
hundred thousand dollars since she went
to Saratoga, in July, and made her dot
ing parents believe she had expended it
in dress and charity The young woman
in question is very pretty, not more thav
twenty and no one regarding he's pa!e
spirituelle face her soft blue eyes and
gentle and reserved manner. would lima
gine she had fallen a victim 10 one og the
most dangerous Of vices
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1865-10-26

bravery of American officers, soldiers and
seamen amid the storm of battle Let all
good Union men continue to be faithful
and true to the cause of their country and
all will be we'll The nation, purged by
the fiery ordeal through which it has la
tely passed, will start upon a new era of
progress. The enemies of free Govern
ment will everywhere respect and fear
our greatness and power, and the down
trodden and opposed of every cline will
seek and find an asylum in our midst.
JOHN CESSNA,
Chairman Union State Central Committee
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1865-10-26
TIE NATIONS DEAD,

-Four hundred thousand men,
The brave, the good, the true,
In tangled wood, in mountain glen,
On battle plain, in prison pen,
Lie dead for me and you!
Four hundred thousand of the brave
Have made cur ransomed soil their graves,
For NE and you!
Good friends, for me and you!
In many fevrcd swamp,
BY many black bayou,
In many a cold and frozen camp,
The weary sentinel ceased his tramp,
And died for me and Youl
From western plain to ocean tide
Are stretched the graves of those who died
For me and you!
Good friends. FOR me and you!
On many bloody plain
Their ready swords they drew,
And poured their life-blood, like the rain,
A home, heritage to gain,
To gain for me and you!
Our brothers mustered by our side,
They marched. and fought, and bravely died
For me and you!
Good friends, for me and you!
Up many q fortress wall
They charged-those boys in blue:
Mid surging smoke and volly'd ball
The bravest were the first TO fall
To fall for me and you!
These noble mcn-the nations PRIDE
-Four hundred thousand men have died
For ne and you!
Good friends, for me and you.
In trcason's Prison-hold
Their martyr spirits grew
To stature HE tie saint Of old;
While amid agoaies untold,
They starved for me and you!
The good. the patient. and the tried,
-Four huntrea thousand men have died,
For a,e and yen!
Good friend for rae and you!
a debt we ne'er can pay
t. them i jastly due,
And to the nations latest day
Oar ch13ron's children still shall say,
They died for ne and you!''
-Four hundred thousand Of the brave
Made this, oar ransomcd sol, their grave,
For ne and ycu!
Good friends Tor me and you!
-TThe Round Tab le.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1865-10-26

A shoemaker was the other day fitting
customer with pair of boots, when the
buyer observed that he had but one obs
lection to them, which was that the soles
were little too thick IF that is all, ="
replied Crispen, "put on the boots, and
the objection will gradually wear away"
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e u r Q = e..
Arrival Of the Canada at Halifax, With
Three Days Later News.
Anglo-Rebel View Of Affairs
in Rebellion.
Tho South Never More Confident Of
Success than at Present.
THE sPANISH-PERUvIAN QUESTION.
STATE OF THE MARKETS,
de-, &C., &c.
STATE OF THE MARKETS,
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HALIFAX, Jan. q; 1895.
Tho steamship Canada, from Liverpool the 7th via
Queenstown the Sh arrived here ut half past eleven
to night
Her advioes three days later than those by the City
OF Baltimore Vt New York
The news by the Canada is not important
The Canada has had heavy westerly winds She leaves
for Boston a. about NJ wherc she will be duo Tues
day aternaon january 2i, latitude g. longitude 81,
passed the Asia Tho Canada has thirteen Halifax and
eleven Boston passengers
The political news Is unimportank
Frankfort adviccs say that the newly advertised United
States loan had made spectators tmid although Frank
fort prices remained beyond those Of New York. II
Is estimated that about $2s5 900 in United States
bonds had been sent, altogether TO Europe.
The North German Loyds' and Hamburg American
with view tho maintenance Of regular weekly line
between New York, Southampton, &c.
Another evidence Of Queen vctora's resumption Of
public functions tho fact that she has commanded all
the ships OF firing salates when pass
ing Osborne her stay there
II Is announced that Sir W. Mansfield n Com
mander-in Chief in india Sir Hugh Rose, who will
probably get command OF the forces In Ireland.
The Paris Bonrse very hrm on Saturday and the
rentes closed at 67f.
The Danish government proposes 10 open the coastng
trade of tina. country 10 all nations
The steamships City OF Limerick and City of Cork both
from New York. arrived at Queenstown the 6th and
reached Liverpool on the-e.h inst
Tho steamship Cuba, from New York, arrived at
Queenstown the 7th, and reached Liverpool the
sth inst